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The issue never addressed is the level to which interest…

elliotgibson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:01:33 +0000

The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively, let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world ” probably because they have not reached such a level for decades; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future..
Someone and somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine. Local experience suggests that cannot be both at the same time
The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale: a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election.
Someone and somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine. Local experience suggests that they cannot be both at the same time.
Experience at home and abroad shows it to be the responsibility of the governor of an independent central bank, not of a party hack.
Even before the holiday season, banks and building societies were splashing out on brochures offering fancy loans with the chat-up line: “Now that interest rates are falling…”. Seductive indeed.
After all we’ve been through, we need a holiday (in France).
The Japanese hi-fi’s clapped out and the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago, and that new Miele dishwasher doesn’t quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge.
And wouldn’t it be wonderful to go ski-ing in Switzerland again and to get away from all this gloom? BUSINESS PLAN
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When Charles Hennessy’s Adwatch column won a “highly commended” gong in the Periodical Publishers’ Association annual awards in May and there were three options: sack him for not winning outright, pay him more, or promote him.
Business decided to promote him ” from the back pages to the front and to join our other regular commentators.
This is an artful way of congratulating Charles, while at the same time unveiling changes in Business’s presentation.

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Britain’s National Centre for Alternative Energy…

elliotgibson — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:25:15 +0000

Britain’s National Centre for Alternative Energy is running two short courses this month for would-be designers of wind turbines and small water wheels. Each course runs over a weekend at the centre’s headquarters in Wales.
The course on wind power, which begins on 15 April, covers everything from the design of household windpumps to the intricacies of megawatt-generating machines.
On the weekend beginning 29 April and students of water power will be able to learn how to put a project together.
The Centre for Alternative Technology, a charity, has run a working exhibition on “low impact technologies” since 1974. Details: Machynlleth (0654) 2400.
French banks put cash in their chips
FRANCE last week took another step away from its tradition of keeping money in old socks under the mattress.
A consortium of banks in the town of St Etienne, near Lyon, launched the country’s third experiment with “electronic cash”" terminals in shops that automatically debit a customer’s bank account.
In Britain and the big banks have tried out similar systems in several small experiments. But they are still discussing plans for a national network of terminals.
The French government, which is overseeing the experiments and contributing part of the cost, will decide this year on which system it will base its national network for electronic cash, which computer companies have inevitably dubbed monetique “.
The experiment in St Etienne is the first to link terminals in shops, in real time, with the banks’ computers.
The city’s traders have installed 350 Point Rubis (ruby point) terminals in department stores and small shops and restaurants, linked via telephone lines and the national Transpac data network to all but two of the big banks.
When a customer wants to pay for something through the system, he or she presents a banker’s card or a Visa credit card to the shopkeeper.
To activate the system and the shopkeeper passes the card through a magnetic-strip reader in the terminal, enters the cost of the purchase, and the customer punches out a personal code on a detachable keypad.
The terminal checks with the bank’s computer that the number corresponds with the card, and that the customer has not spent over the limit of £200 that day.
If the transaction is in order and the display on the terminal writes oui “, and prints out a receipt. If not and the word non ” is displayed to the world in large red letters.
At the end of the day and the banks’ central clearing house adjusts each customer’s bank account in the same way as with cheque withdrawals.
The main bank behind the St Etienne experiment, Societe General and says the system is the most modern in the world. But the bank may have trouble persuading the government of its merits.
At the launching ceremony of Point Rubis last week and the French minister of telecommunications, Louis Mexandeau, described a rival experiment, using a “chip on a card”, as the “way to the future”.
With this system, which banks are trying out in Caen, Lyon and Blois and the customer buys a “smart card” with a pre-set cash limit in its memory, and “cashes”it at off-line terminals.
A third experiment, a system of magnetic cards and off-line terminals, is under way in Aix en Provence. “Tomorrow’s sounds” is a blast from the past
A YOUNG Italian, Hugo Zuccarelli, has used a modern technology to improve the 100-year-old system of stereo sound.
The new system has a catchy name, “holophonics”, and without doubt Zuccarelli has made some impressive recordings.
Clever publicity, orchestrated confusion over the equipment involved and a gullible pop industry have conspired to create a wave of enthusiasm in some parts of the press and the music industry.
But a question mark hangs over the technology of “holophonics”, which the inventor explains by expounding a new theory of human hearing.

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Another finding that may prove useful in keeping children away from…

elliotgibson — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:50:01 +0000

Another finding that may prove useful in keeping children away from the wicked weed is that they are much influenced by parents and teachers and peers.
Of regular smokers, 71 per cent thought their dads would not disapprove of smoking, compared with 8 per cent of regular smokers who thought he would disapprove.
Similarly 26 per cent of regular smokers thought their best friends would not mind them smoking, compared with 2 per cent of those who thought their best friends would mind. The survey is the largest ever carried out in Britain.
Questions about smoking were cunningly mixed among questions about social life and musical tastes. These brought some surprise findings.
For example: “The favourite food of regular smokers is curry compared to apples for non-smokers.
Regular smokers drink more alcohol and go to more discos and music “gigs” than non-smokers.
Regular smokers like rock and reggae music, whereas non-smokers liked classical music and pop. India takes a hard line on computer software
INDIA could be exporting 10 per cent of the world’s computer software, worth $1000 million each year, by 1986. The plan is to exploit the shortage of skilled programmers in the West.
It aims at increasing the number of trained programmers from the present 500 a year and to more than 22000. The scheme is the brainchild of the Computer Society of India.
Its training programme is boosted by a software export policy introduced by the government last year.
Under the policy, companies that want to import computers to India have to show that they also have export orders for software. These must equal 20 per cent of the computer’s value.
But there are formidable problems facing this ambitious plan and India’s infant software industry. At present there are just 1000 software specialists in the country. Of 500 new specialists trained each year and some 200 leave India for the US. At one college 20 computer students graduated last year.

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At once, all those postcards outside newsagents filed past…

elliotgibson — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:08:32 +0000

At once, all those postcards outside newsagents filed past the internal eye. Blondes offered strict discipline, French model was willing to dominate.
But it was Dr George Tolley, director of the MSC’s Open Tech Unit, whatever that is, who was having a go about professional people not keeping up with developments in their professions. As far as I know, “punitive” means inflicting or involving punishment.
What Dr Tolley was advocating was withdrawing membership of professional bodies from people who did not keep abreast.
1 should have thought that that was the punishment, not the education and though God knows there are plenty around who think of education that way.
“VERY cut glass” was the phrase in my youth for hinting that somebody or something was a quality product. I can see why.
Cut glass was what is now called crystal and though it is nothing of the kind, and it has advantages apart from being elegant.
Used as I am, of course and to drinking from glittering crystal, I admit that for everyday use it is more likely to be the ordinary glass you buy from Woolies or Habitat ” sensible, cheap, and reasonably designed. But it will not stand up to detergent.
Only weeks after first use and the glasses I am drinking from are etched into cloudy streaks.
As a volunteer washer-up remarked “if they can get to the Moon, why can’t they make an etch-proof glass?”
SEARCH is a journal of science in Australia and New Zealand, its cover pronounces. I had not seen it before taking a look at the February/March issue.
It contains a riveting academic argument about the value of a CSIRO research programme on dung beetles, whether or not the native Australian dung beetle is efficient at removing dung and in the process eating the larvae of the buffalo fly, a scourge of cattle.
What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading, “The dung beetle program really cannot be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse”.
There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark, but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic, who, I infer, also had a go at the research on skeleton weed.
One depressing surprise and though, was afforded me by a report on neighbourhood shopping centres.
Many of us have the idea of Australians, above all, being people who call a spade a spade.
But town planning and sociology in Australia evidently produce the same junk-words as they do elsewhere.
“There was no change in the number of establishments devoted to the sale of comparison goods”, for example. Bought any comparison goods lately?
GNASHING teeth make a sort of sliding and scraping noise inside the head, I find.

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II cannot be used as means…

elliotgibson — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:59:42 +0000

II cannot be used as means of production in their natural material form.
Therefore the condition of equilibrium between the two departments is that an exchange should take place, and that IIc = Iv + Is.
Moving on to extended reproduction, all previous assumptions hold except that now a portion of the surplus-value will be accumulated in the form of constant and variable capital and that is, as c or v.
For purposes of exposition we shall assume that the surplus-value is divided equally between accumulation and unproductive consumption. A numerical model will take the following form:
It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept. I. Moreover and the sum of v + s is greater than the product of Dept. II.
It follows that with extended reproduction a part of the surplus-value is embodied in the physical form of means of production.
Therefore, for equilibrium to subsist a part of the surplus-value must be accumulated as constant capital, and only a further portion may be accumulated as variable capital.
On the assumption that 50 per cent of the surplus-value is accumulated, we would have:
A quick calculation will show that the sum of constant capital used up in the production cycle ” 5454.5 ” plus the constant capital accumulated from surplus-value is equal to the product of Dept. I, i.e., 6000.
Similarly, we now find that the sum of variable capital advanced in production plus the variable capital accumulated from surplus-value added to the sum of unproductive consumption (uc) is equal to the product of Dept. II, i.e., 2181.5.
Further, if we designate the surplus-value accumulated as variable capital as Îv, and that accumulated as constant capital Îc, we find: And this is the basic condition for equilibrium assuming extended reproduction. Bukharin’s Algebra of Reproduction
Rosa Luxemburg, in her discussion of Marx’s reproduction schemata brought forward a number of criticisms of them.
These criticisms were basically of two kinds: the first was that there would not be sufficient demand within the system for accumulation to take place; the second is that if the organic composition of capital rises then again there will be insufficient demand for all the surplus-value to be realised and hence accumulation will be choked off.
The essence of Luxemburg’s critique is that for accumulation to proceed there must be a third market and that is, petty commodity production, feudal economy, etc., for the whole of the surplus-value to be realised.
And it was this need for a “third market” that Luxemburg regarded as the driving force behind imperialism.
Interesting as Luxemburg’s ideas are and they need not detain us here seeing that what I am concerned with is Bukharin’s response to them and the results of that response.
Bukharin was the most sophisticated of Luxemburg’s critics, and in the process of writing his critique of her work he developed a more refined version of Marxist accumulation theory than had obtained hitherto.
And it is this aspect that I wish to deal with and rather than the controversy surrounding Luxemburg.
Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas and since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development. Let us and therefore, examine what he said:
As is well known, Marx outlined in general terms the course of the total social reproduction, proceeding from a whole series of premises to simplifying the situation…

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Because they had large paw marks, came the answer.

elliotgibson — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:57:48 +0000

Because they had large paw marks, came the answer.
End of incisive questioning.
Wednesday’s Breakfast Time brought another science story which, notwithstanding a clutch of talking heads that included Des Wilson of CLEAR, left viewers more confused than before.
It concerned the toxic effects of atmospheric lead and was characterised by a series of comments like “It’s claimed that even low levels of lead can cause brain damage”, “It’s been difficult to get conclusive evidence”, “There’s a whole lot of evidence”, “Yes but there is conflicting evidence”, all delivered without any one of the four speakers actually providing figures to explain what the concern and disagreement was all about.
Even Anna Ford managed to get the UK’s position vis-Ã vis the rest of Europe the wrong way around. Who on earth is briefing these people?
Wednesday was an ominous day, with Claire Rayner, armchair psychologist, joining Russell Grant, armchair astrologer, on the couch.
Her topic was jealousy which she attributed to parents bringing up children to think they are unlovable.
“They’re constantly telling them not to do this and not to do that,” she opined, curiously, at this most un-authoritarian time in our history.
I have an awful suspicion that morning TV here could soon lurch towards its American counterpart, with deep daily deliberations about you and your psyche/milkman/rocking horse/ puma/postman. So to Thursday, and the oddest event of the week.
“Now come on, Richard,” Frank Bough began, “a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack. What really is the difference?”
After which the animated Dr smith talked at length and cogently ” about strokes. Not a single word on heart attacks and strange.
Not a promising start and then.
And for the stories coming up next, as they say, I understand that Good Morning Britain is hoping to better its big cat tale by reporting on wild parakeets in Maidstone, and cats that eat indoor plants throughout the country. Wake up Mr Attenborough.
FORUM
Solomon’s temple and excavations in Byzantium
Martin Harrison records a remarkable archaeological discovery in Istanbul
A LARGE and sumptuous Byzantine church and recently discovered in Istanbul and seems to have been modelled on biblical descriptions of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem.
The temple had been built in the 10th century BC as an expression of the Kingship of Solomon in all his glory.
It was a building of extraordinary splendour and lengthy descriptions (I Kings , chapters 6 and 7, and II Chronicles , chapters 3 and 4; compare Ezekiel , chapters 4043) read like an architect’s specifications for one of the Wonders of the World.
The temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in the 6th century BC rebuilt, and finally destroyed again by the Romans in AD 70.

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Introduced to the children by headteacher…

elliotgibson — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:46:29 +0000

Introduced to the children by headteacher Margaret Sutton, Mrs. Bulmer said she was pleased to be able to make the visit and presented the school with a tree, which she hoped the children would be planting in the garden.
After watching Red class tell the story of wool and incorporate it into the morning school assembly and she commented “they did very well and were absolutely delightful.”
After assembly Mrs. Bulmer toured the school and stopped to say Hello and to children of Yellow class.
Sitting at a table with Rebecca Small, Richard Barton, Laura Lewis, Natasha James and Holly Randall she was able to see the children’s work books. Shedding light on fascia problem
SIMON Coyte has questioned parish objections made at a recent planning meeting to externally illuminated fascia signs.
He asked why the parish council were so against the signs “Do the parish have an official policy, because if they do and they should think again about the effect it has on the village.”
The area most recently affected by such planning decisions is The Square, a conservation area in the centre of Liphook.
Three shops ” Circle K and the Bombay Restaurant and Border Insurance ” display externally lit fascias and met with parish council objections.
Mr. Coyte felt this was wrong, he said: “Without shop lighting the village becomes dull and uninteresting.
While it must be said the illumination does advertise the shop it greatly brightens the area with its window displays.
“In some cases the street lighting is poor and such shops signs give much needed additional light at no cost to the chargepayer.”
Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull, dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night.
David Clark thought there might be some need for review while Adrian Bird felt that a blanket prohibition should only be a starting point which should be used in conjunction with local knowledge.
Michael Croucher thought it would be better to wait until the question of the enhancement of The Square was rediscussed and to incorporate any decision or changes into that scheme. Apt theme for service
THE Women’s World Day of Prayer interdenominational service at the Liphook Church Centre on the theme of “Living Wisely With Creation” was thought-provoking and apt considering the current A3 construction works.
Although there was a leader, Carol Barrett, and spokesperson, Evelyn Bowden, it was essentially a service of audience participation and prayer with readings, a dance interpretation by Sue Galliano, and Vanessa Breach’s solo singing.

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The History of the Alexander Technique…

elliotgibson — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:00:05 +0000

The History of the Alexander Technique
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. Plato
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
FREDERICK MATHIAS ALEXANDER and the progenitor of the Alexander Technique, was born in Australia on 20 January 1869.
He was the eldest child of John and Betsy Alexander who lived in Wynyard, a small town on the north-west coast of Tasmania. John was a farmer and Betsy was the local nurse and midwife. Frederick (or F.M.
as his friends used to call him) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks; it was only due to his mother’s great love for her child that he did survive.
Frederick was plagued with one illness after another throughout his childhood, mainly suffering from asthma and other breathing problems.
As a result, he had to be taken away from school and was given private tuition in the evenings from the local school teacher.
This left plenty of free time during the day which he spent with his father’s horses; he gradually became an expert at training and managing them.
At this time he acquired his sensitivity of touch which proved to be invaluable later in his career.
At the age of eleven his health slowly began to improve; by the time he was seventeen financial hardship within the family forced Frederick to leave the outdoor life that he had grown to love so much.
He began employment in the office of a tin-mining company at the nearby town of Mount Bischoff.
In his spare time he became more and more interested in amateur dramatics, as well as teaching himself to play the violin.

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What might otherwise be a dry…

elliotgibson — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:46:08 +0000

What might otherwise be a dry debate on science policy has raised a hue and cry among the American public, for the issue is which of the 70000 chemicals on the market may cause cancer. In the US and there is no single set of rules to judge carcinogenicity.
The agency that approves new pesticides, EPA, uses a different set from the agency that regulates household goods and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Chaos sometimes results, as in the regulation schizophrenia over formaldehyde.
Recently, an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences (NAS) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment.
The panel found that government gets into trouble when scientists get intimate with those who regulate.
“It puzzles the public and the scientific community”, notes one panel member, Dr Morton Corn of Johns Hopkins School for Hygiene and Public Health, “that you can hire your own gun nowadays and get the results that you want”.
The NAS panel would like to see a single set of rules for drawing scientific “inferences”, or conclusions, from frequently confusing and inconclusive data.
For example, a massive dose of the pesticide permethrin (a suspected carcinogen recently used on vegetable crops) of say, 5000 parts per million, causes a 60 per cent incidence of liver tumours in mice.
What mathematical model should be used to determine the safe level for bean-eating humans, who would never eat anything near 5000 ppm at one sitting?
Or how important are liver tumours, which often appear spontaneously in certain types of lab mouse?
The NAS’s panel wants an independent, non-governmental Board on Risk Assessment Methods to answer these questions with some sort of rulebook for cancer.
But attempts at writing rules of thumb are already underway at the White House, and the task has proven a lightning rod for complaints that politics are corrupting science.
Last year, health scientists at government agencies tried to put together a paper outlining the state-of-the art of identifying possible carcinogenic substances.
Entitled “Potential human carcinogens: methods for identification and characterisation”, it was promptly kicked back through the door by several well-respected cancer specialists who were asked to review it.

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The contrast between the ages of…

elliotgibson — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:01:26 +0000

The contrast between the ages of the winners was remarkable enough, but the award was soon the centre of a public scandal as the French press accused the Academy of incompetence and the younger man of plagiarism. We now know that the student, Hermann Minkowski, was innocent of any dishonesty.
He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix.
He is probably widely remembered today not for his important contributions to number theory, but as the teacher of Albert Einstein and the man who showed how the theory of relativity could be interpreted as the geometry of four-dimensional spacetime.
In some ways history has been kinder to Minkowski than to his older rival in the french Academy’s competition and the deceased Oxford professor, Henry John Stephen Smith.
Minkowski’s name is now permanently associated with many of his numerous contributions to mathematics.
But Smith’s name is unfamiliar even to many of the professional mathematicians who make regular use of the ideas he introduced.
Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss.
Smith, on the other hand, was isolated in a country just beginning to regain its mathematical confidence.
Although Smith’s contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation, few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy’s prize brought him posthumous international recognition.
This attitude is clear in a letter written by his old friend Benjamin Jowett shortly after his death: “Henry Smith seems now to be recognised as the greatest English mathematician of the century.
I did not know this during his lifetime, and used to think him wanting in originality because his mind was absorbed in the mathematical world.”
The Dictionary of National Biography concurs with Jowett and gives Smith the longest entry of any pure mathematician.
There is no doubt that Smith ranks among the most important British mathematicians of the 19th century.
Henry Smith was in fact Irish, having been born in Dublin on 2 November, 1826, but within two years his father died and the family moved to England. He spent only two years at school.
Otherwise he was educated at home, at first by his mother and then by a succession of tutors. One of these kept a record of the lessons during his nine months tuition. This gives some idea of Smith’s precocious accomplishments at the age of 12.
“He read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, 12 books of Tacitus and the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.
He got up six books of Euclid and algebra to simple equations…and…learned all the odes of Horace by heart.”
In 1843 Smith’s elder brother died of consumption, a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier.

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