Bluba Lu, World Melancholy 2007, BNR Studio One
Beautiful and enchanting...
www.blubalu.net
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Децата на България
Дишането ми се забавя, в гърдите ми започва да се образува буца, плаче ми се.Но понякога наистина ми се плаче със сълзи.
В следващата минута, във Facebook виждам безбройните членове на групи от типа "Горд съм, че съм българин". Може би в тях трябва да се обсъждат действия, свързани с подобни неща, а не с това на колко морета сме били, колко народи имат писменост благодарение на нас и дали Византия ни е плащала рента. Може би в тях трябва да се обсъжда какво трябва да се направи за децата на България - застрашен и изчезващ вид, който след 10-20 години ще ни пита "Защо".
Photos by Robbie Veldwijk under by-nc-nd 2.0
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Melamine
(melamine at wikipedia)
dir.bg: Откриха отрова в наши вафли
в статията се казва: "Допустимата норма на съставката е 2,5 милиграма на килограм, докато в сладкиша тя е в пъти завишена".
Излиза, че е няколко пъти по 2,5 милиграма; да допуснем, че е 4 пъти за закръгляване. Това означава по 10 милиграма на килограм (телесно) тегло.
Щатската Food & Drug Administration е приела следната максимална употреба
The US FDA’s limit (for acceptable human consumption of melamine at 0.5 milligrams per kg of body mass) was put at 0.63 mg, but was later reduced to 0.063 mg daily. (тоест въпреки, че със сигурност е била подложена на лобиране от страна на индустрията, е имало достатъчно evidence, че с ефектите шега не бива).
Изводи:
(1) излиза, че това, което у нас се води за допустимо е 40 пъти повече от допустимото в САЩ (бъбреците на българските деца очевидно са по-издръжливи).
(2) ако във въпросните вафли е имало например 4 пъти повече от допустимите у нас (посред статията) 2.5 милиграма, т.е. да речем има 10 милиграма, това е 159 пъти повече от максимално допустимото, което може да приеме човешкото тяло според US Food & Drug Administration. ( FDA Melamine Risk Assessment Here: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/melamra4.html )
dir.bg: Откриха отрова в наши вафли
в статията се казва: "Допустимата норма на съставката е 2,5 милиграма на килограм, докато в сладкиша тя е в пъти завишена".
Излиза, че е няколко пъти по 2,5 милиграма; да допуснем, че е 4 пъти за закръгляване. Това означава по 10 милиграма на килограм (телесно) тегло.
Щатската Food & Drug Administration е приела следната максимална употреба
The US FDA’s limit (for acceptable human consumption of melamine at 0.5 milligrams per kg of body mass) was put at 0.63 mg, but was later reduced to 0.063 mg daily. (тоест въпреки, че със сигурност е била подложена на лобиране от страна на индустрията, е имало достатъчно evidence, че с ефектите шега не бива).
Изводи:
(1) излиза, че това, което у нас се води за допустимо е 40 пъти повече от допустимото в САЩ (бъбреците на българските деца очевидно са по-издръжливи).
(2) ако във въпросните вафли е имало например 4 пъти повече от допустимите у нас (посред статията) 2.5 милиграма, т.е. да речем има 10 милиграма, това е 159 пъти повече от максимално допустимото, което може да приеме човешкото тяло според US Food & Drug Administration. ( FDA Melamine Risk Assessment Here: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/melamra4.html )
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer. Priceless Video
It's a classic.
In case the Yahoo version gets deleted, you can always see the whole episode here.
I learned about this interview though this article by Thomas Frank at the WSJ:
In case the Yahoo version gets deleted, you can always see the whole episode here.
I learned about this interview though this article by Thomas Frank at the WSJ:
Financial Journalists Fail Upward
"Stewart wasn't rude enough to ask it, but over all his inquiries there hung the obvious question: Why do you still have a job, Mr. Cramer?"Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Crisis of Credit by Jonathan Jarvis
Naso gave me a link to the following video on YouTube and before I even had the time to watch it, I got positive responses from people I had forwarded it to. Then I watched it too. And while it's a huge oversimplification and representative of only the first things that said "boom", it's nice and cute and the author deserves a link to his site (and not just the YouTube version).
Visit CrisisOfCredit.com and the author's site at JonathanJarvis.com
And here, for your convenience is the Vimeo version*:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
* Tip: Press the full-screen button.
Visit CrisisOfCredit.com and the author's site at JonathanJarvis.com
And here, for your convenience is the Vimeo version*:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
* Tip: Press the full-screen button.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Jamie Dimon Speaks About Regulation
Bloomberg Video: Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JP Morgan Chase & Co., speaks at the Third Annual Capital Markets Summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, on March 11, 2009.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The New Financial Euphemisms - Telling It Like It Isn't *
You read an article and for the 50th time in the last several months you come across word combinations such as "quantitative easing" (here), effectively meaning printing money to purchase government bonds and other assets or words such as "conservatorship" (here) effectively meaning nationalization. It is not a "bankruptcy" anymore, it simply Chapter 11, or even simple - a "restructuring" you see...
As David Tice, CFA said in an interview that I posted yesterday - in the past when you wanted to compliment your wife, you'd sometimes say that she looks like a million bucks - you cannot say that anymore, you have to say "you look like a trillion dollars"...
I felt my financial vocabulary is somewhat outdated ("quantitative easing", geez) so here I gathered several GDII (Great Depression Two) vocabulay additions:
If you want to know what downgrowth, negative profit, negative equity, downvaluation, write downs, subprime and underbanked mean these days, visit this page at goodcopybadcopy.
"It's not about insolvency, it's a collateral crunch." Sean Kelly notes.
Layoffs, cutbacks and belt tightenings are now more gently called rightsizing, rationalizing, early retirement, furloughing, staff rebalancing, top grading, forced vacation, workforce reduction and downsizing or in Bitain Redundancy & Gardening leave. (enjoy the whole article here), "right-sizing", "raising the bar on talent", Krugman's favorite is "amortize the work force".
Don't you just love "synergy-related headcount adjustment"? What about "Head of Productivity"?
The credit crunch is... well...
"Severe contraction" is now used as an euphemism for depression and the word depression itself was once used as an euphemism for crisis.
Felix Salmon's favorite financial euphemism is the one for "doing nothing" – "preserving optionality", another euphemism found by the guys at Portfolio.com is for "getting stuck with a home you can't sell" – "promoting intergenerational wealth".
Kevin Maney thinks that there simply must be a Stanford MBA class titled "Euphemisms 101" which would be where future CEOs are taught what to say when the truth more or less sucks.
Well, there are many more and even more to come... like... "diet" for example... Feel free to contribute =)
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* a reference to the 1969 TIME article.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
David Tice, CFA Says Stocks in Breakdown & Will Keep Retreating
David Tice, CFA says stocks in "breakdown" and will keep retreating.
"We have not seen much selling yet..."
"There's a lot of hope and a lot of denial... de-nial is not a river in Egypt..."
"We have not seen much selling yet..."
"There's a lot of hope and a lot of denial... de-nial is not a river in Egypt..."
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thomas R. Keene, CFA on Eastern Europe
Thomas (Tom) R. Keene, CFA (born 1952), is an editor-at-large who provides economic and investment perspective to all of Bloomberg News - print, radio, and television. He writes the chart-of-the-day story, available on the Bloomberg Professional service, and also presents it on Bloomberg Television. Tom Keene is the host of the weekday program Bloomberg on the Economy and co-host of Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg Radio. (source: wikipedia)
Warren Buffett: Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas
Investment guru admits mistakes
- Buffett was candid about his failings, saying "the tennis crowd would call my mistakes 'unforced errors'.";
- "During 2008, I did some dumb things in investments," he said.
- "I in no way anticipated the dramatic fall in energy prices that occurred in the last half of the year," he added.
- Mr Buffett blamed the sub-prime mortgage debacle on salesmen, ratings agencies and investors who relied on complicated and flawed models.
- "Beware of geeks bearing formulas," he said.
No comment.
David Freedman's Farewell Gift
David Freedman was a Berkeley statistician and a critic of pseudoscience using statistics.
He recently passed away.
Here is an excerpt from one of his books.
On excuses...
About the harm thing...
Via NNT
He recently passed away.
Here is an excerpt from one of his books.
On excuses...
About the harm thing...
Via NNT
Friday, February 20, 2009
natalie
Name: natalie
City: Sydney
Hometown: Sydney
Country: Australia
Movies and Shows: Gone With The Wind, The Great Escape
Music: Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, The Cure, Dusty Springfield, Dean Martin, Bach, Al Green, Johnny Cash, Dionne Warwick
Books: Anything written by Oscar Wilde
http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel
http://www.myspace.com/communitychannel
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Dream Theater, Back in Bulgaria for 2009 Kaliakra Rock Fest (July 3rd)
Looks like I'll be seeing Dream Theater live for the second time (7 years or so passed already...)
http://www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.php#kaliakra
(If I'm alive and well that is...)
http://www.kaliakrarockfest.com/
Join the Last.FM groups:
http://www.last.fm/group/John+Petrucci
http://www.last.fm/group/Mike+Portnoy
http://www.last.fm/group/James+LaBrie
http://www.last.fm/group/Jordan+Rudess
http://www.last.fm/group/Kevin+Moore
And the side-project groups:
Mike & Kevin: http://www.last.fm/group/OSI
James: http://www.last.fm/group/Mullmuzzler
Jame': http://www.last.fm/group/Frameshift
Somebody's wearing a Dethklok T-Shirt =)
http://www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.php#kaliakra
(If I'm alive and well that is...)
http://www.kaliakrarockfest.com/
Join the Last.FM groups:
http://www.last.fm/group/John+Petrucci
http://www.last.fm/group/Mike+Portnoy
http://www.last.fm/group/James+LaBrie
http://www.last.fm/group/Jordan+Rudess
http://www.last.fm/group/Kevin+Moore
And the side-project groups:
Mike & Kevin: http://www.last.fm/group/OSI
James: http://www.last.fm/group/Mullmuzzler
Jame': http://www.last.fm/group/Frameshift
Somebody's wearing a Dethklok T-Shirt =)
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