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January 9, 2009
January 7, 2009
History of butterfly effect
In this new year, after nearly two writing this column, I offer a very personal reflection that has to do (or maybe not) with science and history. We are experiencing a serious global crisis from which nobody is sure how to leave.. Macroeconomic figures are analyzed and plans are designed to stabilize the system, but nothing works if you do not take into account the main factor behind all of a crisis: the human factor, a factor at the same time stabilizing and destabilizing.
Butterfly Effect
In physics there are systems that are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. However well known variables will influence its development, no matter how sophisticated they become instruments that measure, there will always be a minimum uncertainty influence crucial in the further development of the system. One result will be minimal capable of great consequences. This effect is known popularly, as the “butterfly effect”. So exaggerated, but very graphic, explained that the simple flight of a butterfly in Africa, can lead, in time, a hurricane in China. The first such systems to be studied back in the sixties, was the time weather.
Butterfly effect and history
From the first moment that I learned about this peculiar kind of physical systems, I recalled the very future of the story. We know thousands of small stories that influenced, decisively, in the further development of very important events. Any of these causes tiny, andalusia developed differently, would have changed the destiny of any country or the world. History has passed over thousands of years, full of millions of events more or less meaning, intertwined in a random or not. In many ways, could be considered as a “very sensitive to initial conditions, a nonlinear system and with plenty of feedback. Fortunately, the handlers who try, try and change the destiny of nations, it is difficult, may take into account all the variables necessary to achieve their purpose. In the very short term may be correct that his calculations, but the medium and long term were right. Small miscalculation, as events unfold, they have greater influence on the results until you get to disfiguring. The performances were well encounter in principle with the same problems with the multiplier effect of small errors on the system. More now that the effect of globalization transforms the world into a more sensitive and volatile.
Billionaire College Dropouts
Bill Gates
Are college dropouts more successful than people with good education? It would seem so if you consider that many billionaires are people who dumped college. However, what this hides is the fact that although millions quit studies before completing them, very few of them go on to become rich.
What the list of the super-rich dropouts signifies is that in business, a top degree is not as important as having the right aptitude, attitude, determination and vision.
Here are some dropouts who went on to become billionaires:
William Henry Gates III (1955-), along with Paul Allen, co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest software maker. Bill Gates, the wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $480 crores (Rs 211,200 crore!), is probably the best-known college dropout.
Gates attended an exclusive prep school in Seattle, went on to study at Harvard University, then dropped out to pursue software development. As students in the mid-70s, he and Paul Allen wrote the original Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800, the first commercially successful PC.
In 1975, Micro-Soft - later Microsoft Corporation - was born. Three decades on, Gates has been Number One on the Forbes 400 for over a dozen years. And here’s something you probably didn′t know: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation currently provides 90 per cent of the world budget for the attempted eradication of polio.
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944-), co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, founded his company in 1977 with a sum of $2,000. Once a school dropout, he is now, according to Forbes , one of the richest people in America with a net worth of around $184 crores. The figure also makes him the ninth richest in the world.
As a young man, Ellison worked for the Ampex Corporation, where one of his projects was a database for the CIA. He called it Oracle, a name he was to reuse years later for the company that made him famous.
Interestingly, the organisation′ s initial release was Oracle 2. The number supposedly implied that all bugs had been eliminated from an earlier version.
Ellison is quite a colourful man, and has long dabbled in all kinds of things. Want to learn more? Try his biography, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (1932-2002) was born into the family of a schoolteacher. It was a family of modest means. When he turned 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, working first as a gas-station attendant, then as a clerk in an oil company.
He returned to India at 26, starting a business with a meagre capital of $375. By the time of his demise, his company - Reliance Industries Ltd - had grown to become an empire, with an estimated annual turnover of $120 crores!
Dhirubhai was, in his lifetime, conferred the Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century Award by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. A Times of India poll in the year 2000 also voted him one of the biggest creators of wealth in this century.
Dhirubhai’s is not just the usual rags-to-riches story. He will be remembered as the one who rewrote Indian corporate history and built a truly global corporate group. He is also credited with having single-handedly breathed life into the Indian stock markets and bringing in thousands of investors to the bourses.
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (1955-) and Apple Computer are names that have long gone together.
Born in the United States to an unknown Egyptian-Arab father, Jobs was adopted soon after birth. After graduating high school, he enrolled in Reed College, dropping out after one semester.
In 1976, 21-year-old Jobs and 26-year old Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer Co. in the family garage. Jobs revolutionised the industry by popularising the concept of home computers.
By 1984, the Macintosh was introduced. He had an influential role in the building of the World-Wide Web, and also happens to be Chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.
Today, with the iPod, Apple is bigger than ever. Incidentally, Jobs worked for several years at an annual salary of $1. It got him a listing in the Guinness Book as `Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer.’ He was once gifted a $9 crores jet by the company though. And his net worth? Moer than $3 billion.
Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell (1965- ) joined the University of Texas at Austin with the intention of becoming a physician. While studying there, he started a computer company in his dormitory, calling it PC’s Limited. By the time he turned 19, it had notched up enough success to prompt Dell to dropout.
In 1987, PC’s Limited changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation. By 2003, Dell, Inc. was the world’s most profitable PC manufacturer.
Dell has won more than his fair share of accolades, including Man of the Year from PC Magazine and EM>CEO of the Year from Financial World . Forbes , in 2005, lists him as the 18th richest in the world with a net worth of around $1600 Crores. Not bad for just another dropout.
Subhash Chandra Goel
Here’s something not many people know about Subhash Chandra Goel : The Zee chairman dropped out after standard 12.
Subhash Chandra started his own vegetable oils unit at 19. It was, in a manner of speaking, his first job. Years later, a casual visit to a friend at Doordarshan gave him the idea of starting his own broadcasting company. We all know how that story ran.
Chandra knew nothing about programming, distribution or film rights. What he did understand quite well was the Indian sensibility though. Funded by UK businessmen, Zee came into being as India’s first satellite TV network.
Today, it reaches 320 lakhs homes, connecting with 20 crores people in South Asia alone.
January 6, 2009
A true love story
A love story
The year 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome and Cleopatra takes over the kingdom of Egypt, after poisoning her brother Ptolemy XIII. The death of Julius Caesar, the rule creates anarchy and potential heirs, Octavius Caesar and Marco Antonio, to agree to divide the empire and bring peace to Rome.
Octavio gets the west and Marco Antonio with the rest of the Empire. Egypt is one of the main cities that were under the command of Marco Antonio. This needs money and goes to conquer Alexandria, capital of Egypt. But I never imagined that it would be conquered his heart. Upon arrival at Alexandria is received by the Pharaoh Cleopatra. A woman 28 years of exuberant, which attracted the lowest instincts in Marco Antonio.
Passions and interests to set this relationship, Marco Antonio wanted total control of the empire and Cleopatra, too. But they would not Octavio.
Marco Antonio spent long time in Egypt. Cleopatra had twins who drew with Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Celene. Aun cuando While Marco Antonio was married in Rome, sent a letter to divorce his wife, sister of Octavius.
The feast day of excess and filled the lives of Marco Antonio, and while its troops remained in oblivion, Octavio took the time to seize control and take Egypt to Cleopatra and Marco Antonio.After a long battle, Octavio reached Egypt and sends you a letter saying that if Cleopatra killed Marco Antonio it would keep full control of Egypt.
A hearing for Marco Antonio came the news that Cleopatra had committed suicide, so we ran to his arms, as they had promised that the death of another one must die immediately. Then he drank a strong poison, but when he realized that Cleopatra had not died, it was too late and died.
Cleopatra t Before he came and killed the Pharaoh’s beautiful, she was killed by the bite of an asp (snake).. Thus ended one of the most tragic love story of ancient history.
January 5, 2009
A friendship poem by me
The good friend is one who makes you face the truth.
Is one that is close to you, both good and in bad.
Is one that will help you in a time of illness.
Is that you will earn money without interest.
Is one who will defend you when others speak ill of you.
Is one who will believe in your innocence until you admit guilt.
Is one that will do for you, without expecting anything in return.
A good friend is one that comes when all are gone.
If you have someone, then it is a good friend ..
So you have a treasure …
January 4, 2009
How to maintain a friendship
Friendship, like love, you need daily care and details. Let us not forget that, like any plant, grows slowly into a large tree. Thus, to maintain a lifelong friendship, we must cultivate the following virtues:
* The sincerity and frankness. The friend is someone you can always trust. The lies and betrayal just instantly with any friendship, which has been signed by.
* Respect the friend as it is.Let you have full freedom of action and no claim of its own and never will. No form of love while respecting the freedom of others as friends.
* The generosity. It is a virtue that, in friendship, occurs naturally and spontaneously. This generosity with friends, sharing everything, requires a needed dose of mutual respect and sensitivity.
* Acceptance of bugs, defects and limitations, knowing apologize in the same way that a desire to be forgiven and apologized for his friend. It does not help to maintain a friendship, lecturing or displayed as an example to emulate.
* Friendship is a form of love that requires reciprocity and is constructed of different meetings, which are moments of intense happiness and life. At these meetings, friends complement each other and see the same reality, the same way.
* To cultivate a true friendship, we should note that we chose for a friend who behaves well with us, whom we also understand the others appreciate it as such.We, at the same time, we behave in an exemplary manner with the friend, if we follow the advice of Jesus Christ.
What is friendship?
Friendship is a kind of unity that is based on emotional communication, mutual support, understanding, love and the absolute harmony between two people.
Friendship encourages the soul and stimulates the heart. We know its health benefits: enables new areas of the brain and hormonal releases substances which promote relaxation and wellness. . Moreover, it is like a mirror reflecting our enlarged image. We grow and mature, helping to shape our personalities and our relationships with those around us.
A deep feeling of friendship active areas very specific, usually utilized in the brain, which secrete a special blend of biochemical substances. Collaboration, sharing, recognition of another step close to the aggressive, or mistrust of the land. Emotional support and friendship that carries all the joy shared trigger the immune system.
We have friends where it serves as a refuge, if necessary, we can find help and comfort without having to give anything back. The friendship is not the possession or requirements or obligations, but freedom and mutual support. If not, perhaps not a true friendship we have.
Love is a feeling intimately linked to friendship. We all need to give and receive love, is a superior kind of capacity for which the man is amply endowed, while a necessity, since it implies a life without love is a gap in a lot of our mental life.
Throughout life we established numerous relationships in which turning our affection, in a more or less intense, depending on the affinity that we feel for these people, the intensity and frequency of the relationship and emotional reciprocity warn them. In more or less unconscious, we fondly hope that it gets a certain resonance in the person loved, so that this person we love to give us, which is a recognition, reciprocity and the establishment of a bond as friendship.
. The meaning of friendship and having friends is something that is established in these early childhood and acquisitions influence its further development. At first the boy is related primarily to its more intimate family (parents, siblings …), but slowly, especially through the school, the child begins to engage emotional socialization outside the home. Discover other children his age, with other features, some other different and equal to him. Learn to share, trust and love people of the same age. There is a double bond so that the child’s personality clearly influenced the development of their friends and they, in turn, so do their personaliti It is easier for a child to have friends in a family that are valued and enhance the bonds of friendship.
Friendship, as the couple’s relationship is an intimate relationship of giving and receiving. Responds to human needs for security, approval of others, and be accompanied feel understood and loved. Friendship is a form of personal enrichment, we learn to give and receive affection, to be more generous, but we can learn from the experiences of others, their knowledge and experiences. nner with the friend, if we follow the advice of god.
January 3, 2009
People Do not know
The problem is that people can not cook, says Jamie Oliver, a cook at a hearing before the British parliament about childhood obesity. “In the fifth richest country in the world (…) there is a new kind of poverty that I have not ever seen before. These are not sneakers or mobile phones, TVs or plasma. . Poverty is not being able to feed your family, no matter what kind of you to come. ” I do not know if this kitchen well, nor have I seen any of its programs, but I have no doubt now that it’s intelligent. Not so clever and amoral practice that say that whoever wins money, scam, or who, or who steals your wallet or your kitchen for a ride, it’s smart. No. This guy says that ignorance is poverty, and there seems to be read and responded to when the French sociologist Bourdieu explained that now no longer accuse the poor of being lazy, but being uneducated. If only to cooking and food, which I do not think Oliver is right.
The problem is that people do not know and do not want to know. Rather chuletones snorted, live well at the expense of wealth (knowledge) of their children, debt beyond any reasonable limit because they can simply because they are, literally, money, and then download their anger against the first thing that happens your child is fat, because your child does not approve the secondary because the institute is unbreathable atmosphere and invites all but the study and knowledge, or because you have seized the floor. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. And because the land is of those who know.
Extreme Tubercolosis
A patient with advanced pulmonary TB in a tuberculosis hospital in Mumbai, India receives a daily injection as well as oxygen. Photojournalist James Nachtwey brought us (through photography) a story this year of a new, dangerous type of tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. Tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but inadequate treatment has been driving the emergence of XDR-TB, especially in developing nations. For more information about XDR-TB, please visit xdrtb.org.
January 2, 2009
Does Fiction can set us free?
The book is described Fiction Sets You Free, Russell A. Berman. Berman, whose aim is to demonstrate that literary fiction is inherently capitalist presupposes that literature, and therefore helps to create a capitalist mentality in the reader. The contrafactum with the words of the Gospel of John (8.32: “the truth shall make you free”), clearly puts us on track for a reading of capitalism as mystical Gnostic secret of human salvation, as a form of knowledge of the truths transcendent redemption that produce both earthly and spiritual, on the altar of the god Market (free, of course).[the market economy is] most definitely a precondition of artistic freedom”. The collection of happy moments that one can draw out of the review are worth reading in the original English: I think someone should tell this man that the fact that the Iliad and the Odyssey were sung by the Greek markets during the first millennium before Christ, we can not assume that the economy of classical Greece was capitalist. Or, wait, wait a minute, you might want to say that if the literature assumes a capitalist mentality in the reader, this means that any company that has created a literature worthy of the name must be considered a capitalist society. Ergo demonstrates the need possible, the priority of the will on reality. It’s doubly amazing!
although it should make us consider the fact that the Eco imbeciles incapable of writing. Belbo does say: “But we are not interested, is never creative works rendered, so that no manuscripts in publishing.” It may be true in 1988, but the fact remains that, twenty years later, not only manuscripts sent to publishers, and are published, it is highly unlikely that the hurricane hits us that the economic drag, because in the end the truth will not let them ruin your fiction of the omnipotence of the free market.