“Harry Markowitz, 81, who won the Nobel Prize for eco­nom­ics in 1990 for his work on port­fo­lio the­ory, says that last year’s col­lapse rein­forces his view that even the most unlikely out­comes are pos­si­ble in any year. “The thun­der­ing herd is still with us,” said Markowitz, a pro­fes­sor of finance at the Rady School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego. “Nature draws into a bushel bas­ket full of returns and finds a next return every year, and I believe there’s another 1929 some­where in that bushel bas­ket. 2008 was not a refu­ta­tion, it was a confirmation.””

There have got to be a thou­sand ways to use genetic pro­gram­ming in this space. “StudioGPU’s Mach­Stu­dio Pro rein­vents the 3D visu­al­iza­tion pro­duc­tion pipeline by putting the power of real-​​time graph­ics pro­cess­ing at your fingertips.

“The propo­si­tion of the paper is that a direct rela­tion held between the spa­tial shape of the church, its ded­i­ca­tion and the cul­tural and polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in the region. These churches inspire fur­ther stud­ies of the use of the equi­lat­eral tri­an­gle plan in archi­tec­ture, par­tic­u­larly for sacred build­ings. In the future such stud­ies should result in a more com­plete review and per­haps a full cat­a­logue of build­ings estab­lished on such a plan.”

“I find it humor­ous to watch as IT orga­ni­za­tions debate the mer­its of iPhone in the enter­prise. CIOs and CTOs of major com­pa­nies cite a plethora of rea­sons why iPhone isn’t ready for the enter­prise; they bat these notions about like a piñata at a Cinco de Mayo cel­e­bra­tion. But few of these uptight C-​​level naysay­ers seem con­cerned about hun­gry com­peti­tors and orga­ni­za­tions with dis­rup­tive prod­ucts and busi­ness philoso­phies who will adopt iPhone as if their future depends on it. In fact, for many, their future does depend on tech­no­log­i­cal alchemies sur­round­ing the iPhone as a mobile appli­ca­tion platform.”

“The pre­ced­ing is such an impor­tant point. We became indebted, in large part, because of a struc­tural imbal­ance in soci­ety, one that skewed incomes, redi­rected wealth, and encour­aged com­pa­nies and indi­vid­u­als to lever up instead of seek­ing out and earn­ing higher incomes. At the same time, our unwill­ing­ness to say no to great soci­ety pro­grams, with­out rais­ing taxes to pay for them, meant that we became beholden to the bond mar­ket for fund­ing ongo­ing oper­a­tions, this cre­at­ing an ele­vated base of required income to ser­vice our ris­ing debt.”

“We asked the city of Ann Arbor for all the elec­tronic deliv­er­ables from Davey. And we pro­vide the fol­low­ing data with a caveat: On Mon­day evening, city staff stressed that they were still doing some qual­ity con­trol work on the ini­tial data set – so the data pro­vided to The Chron­i­cle is a snap­shot of the city’s trees as assessed by the Davey Resource Group. The city’s inven­tory will pre­sum­ably be main­tained as a fre­quently updated data set that changes as trees are pruned, removed, or planted.”

““The obser­va­tion that more than 40 per­cent of healthy vol­un­teers, who have never been both­ered by heart­burn, acid regur­gi­ta­tion or dys­pep­sia, develop such symp­toms in the weeks after ces­sa­tion of PPIs is remark­able and has poten­tially impor­tant clin­i­cal and eco­nomic impli­ca­tions,” said Christina Reimer, MD, of Copen­hagen Uni­ver­sity and lead author of the study. “This study indi­cates unrec­og­nized aspects of PPI with­drawal and is a very strong indi­ca­tion of a clin­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant acid rebound phe­nom­e­non that needs to be inves­ti­gated in proper patient populations.””

““So, Ringo Starr, you con­tinue to defy me?” hissed evil Nazi Ober­grup­pen­fuhrer Blind Jack of Knares­bor­ough to his quail­ing cap­tive. Sud­denly, a res­cue party led by dar­ing trio Nova Pil­beam, Ivy Compton-​​Burnett, and Thomas De Quincey crashed in to the cham­ber. The Nazi hell­hound spun on his heels, but was swiftly grap­pled to the floor by David Miliband.

Later, as the gung ho heroes sat in the heli­copter tak­ing them back to Blighty, they were moved to receive con­grat­u­la­tory radio mes­sages from both Richard Mil­hous Nixon and Ayn Rand.”

“The for­mer Com­mu­nist coun­tries gen­er­ally turned, after the dis­mal fail­ure of their post­war sys­tem, to mar­ket cap­i­tal­ism, replac­ing Karl Marx with Mil­ton Fried­man as their god. The new reli­gion has not served them well. Many coun­tries may con­clude not sim­ply that unfet­tered cap­i­tal­ism, American-​​style, has failed but that the very con­cept of a mar­ket econ­omy … is … unwork­able under any cir­cum­stances. Old-​​style Com­mu­nism won’t be back, but a vari­ety of forms of exces­sive mar­ket inter­ven­tion will return. And these will fail. The poor suf­fered under mar­ket fundamentalism—we had trickle-​​up eco­nom­ics, not trickle-​​down eco­nom­ics. But … these new regimes … will not deliver growth. With­out growth there can­not be sus­tain­able poverty reduc­tion. There has been no suc­cess­ful econ­omy that has not relied heav­ily on mar­kets. … The … gov­ern­ments brought to power on the basis of rage against American-​​style cap­i­tal­ism … will lead to more poverty. …”