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To: TobagoJack who wrote (94901)9/23/2012 8:34:50 AM
From: dvdw©  Respond to of 217546
 
Great post, for the first time ever my seeing the script in these layers...arrived at holistic view.

You said; (4) the time to train-up the fat jack in mineral sciences and develop his natural inclinations to explore by digging is fast closing

Or, you may wish to begin exploring the great nano revolution underway in some minds, which is an evolutionary counter program, away from current assumptions. Rice Univ. is an excellent New Material science school.

May send note.....phase change is complex, not simple, as in wrapping tungston with gold skin...for expedient slight of hand.

HM4E holds exponential potential.



To: TobagoJack who wrote (94901)9/23/2012 8:50:42 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217546
 
Mines grad starting salaries higher than Harvard

graduates of the Colorado School of Mines earn a starting median salary of $63,400. And they didn't have to dig themselves into a hole to get it: The cost of tuition and fees is only $17,718 for in-staters; $32,748 for out-of-staters. Sure, maybe they'll have to wield a pickaxe now and then, but, after work, they'll be the ones graciously picking up the tab for Harvard grads who forgot to wire home for money. Graduates of the State of New York Maritime College in Throggs Neck, New York, may get awfully tired of having to explain what a Neck is; but they'll be compensated by a salty starting salary of $57,300. Even more so than the School of Mines, the Maritime College is a steal for in-staters ($6,782), and only somewhat less so for out-of-staters ($16,032).
abcnews.go.com



To: TobagoJack who wrote (94901)9/23/2012 9:08:19 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217546
 
“All Europe is on sale. Europe is a bargain,” Al-Sabah, a board member of Kuwaiti premier property developer Tamdeen Group, said at the presentation of his TFK fragrance collection ahead of the Milan fashion week on Tuesday.

Investors from emerging countries are hunting for cheaper luxury brands in Europe as the economic turmoil pushes valuations down, Kuwaiti luxury retailer Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah told Reuters. As concerns about the economy spread to the resilient luxury industry, analysts expect the price of luxury assets to go down. “All Europe is on sale. Europe is a bargain,” Al-Sabah, a board member of Kuwaiti premier property developer Tamdeen Group, said at the presentation of his TFK fragrance collection ahead of the Milan fashion week on Tuesday.

The July sale of private equity firm Permira’s fashion house Valentino to the Qatari royal family was valued at around 700 million euros ($909 million), or 2.2 times historical sales, in line with the luxury sector’s average.

In 2001, LVMH bought Prada’s stake in Fendi for 1.2 billion euros, or 4 times historical sales.

“Those times are over,” Al-Sabah said, adding investors were looking for real estate opportunities such as luxury resorts. As consumers become more affluent they move from accumulating goods to buying experiences, international luxury market specialists Ledbury Research said in a report.

Experiential luxury makes up over half of luxury spending in most countries, including emerging nations, according to Boston Consulting Group.

Individuals with over $1 million in investable assets put 37 percent of their wealth in property, 18 percent in cash, and only 17 percent in stocks this year, Ledbury said. However, lower valuations may prompt independent European brands to keep investors waiting.

Family-run groups Roberto Cavalli and Versace have said they would consider a sale only at the right time and conditions. Designers are also afraid of losing their independence.

“I would like a partner, but the right one,” Italian designer Antonio Berardi, who shows his collections in London, told Reuters at the Milan fashion week on Friday.

Al-Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family and the first to bring American brands Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren to Kuwait in the early 90s, said he was not looking for acquisitions but preferred to develop local brands in the Middle East.

He said he was working on a luxury department store concept in Kuwait City called.

“The Exhibition Hall” to launch in 2014 were arts and fashion would share the same space.

The project involves former Gucci brand chief executive Giacomo Santucci and architect Rem Koolhas, who have already worked for Prada.

nation.com.pk



To: TobagoJack who wrote (94901)9/23/2012 3:30:11 PM
From: Kona  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217546
 
More Tungsten filled bars showing up in the land of the free.

nypost.com

Much like cockroaches, when you see one ...



To: TobagoJack who wrote (94901)9/23/2012 9:20:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Respond to of 217546
 
Plus ca change... < "The new and conquering Nationalist Government of South China continued last week the slow encirclement by its armies of the great international city of Shanghai.

The Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, issued a proclamation: "A great and impressive fact must be grasped by all: the Chinese question now is not what Great Britain and other powers may wish to grant China to meet 'the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese'; but the question is what China may justly grant to Great Britain and the other powers."

As the Chinese Dragon thus breathed defiance to the world, the British Lion wavered almost ludicrously irresolute last week..."
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Similarly, and a generation later, the great international city of Hong Kong is surrounded and occupied by the conquering Nationalist Government armies of China. Interestingly, Japan in the time of Shanghai was active in Manchuria not far away, and similarly now is not a shrinking violet in discussions about just exactly precisely where the border should be.

The question might be what China may justly grant to the various powers and individuals of Hong Kong and here and there. But the individuals and sundry powers also do some granting of their own. The "We are the most glorious powerful" mindset is seductive and lethal.

Such a defiant heroic stance from the Chinese Dragon back in the day, with the British Lion busily and sensibly evaluating the mania from afar with the carnage of WWII not long before, and the need to have a sustainably sustainable geopolitically doable global community. The Chinese Dragon was perhaps very heroic but ... ooops a daisy, the Japanese military expansion was not so concerned about the wondrous defiance by Eugene of his educational establishment and nurturing English antecedents. It became quite a mess for half a century. With Britain and foreign devils pushed aside in Shanghai, the way was open for Japan to take over. Which they did, until they bit off more than they could chew with the USA when the USA blockaded them.

Like sons and daughters of over-bearing fathers, the educated local yokels [Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Eugene Chen, and many others] are more interested in power and their own emotionally entrapped Oedipus complex than actually ending up with a really good transition to peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love. They invariably dress it up as "the legitimate aspirations of we the local yokels" which is code for "I want the money, the power, the girls the perks and big noting high class boss man status". Of course they don't say that. They say the revolution is for the people, but normally, the people end up with the yoke on their backs while their glorious saviours live high on the hog. I don't recall Chairman Mao attending his own re-education in the hutongs of China. He had a great life being big boss man.

Oedipus here:
Background




The psychologist Sigmund Freud (ca. 1921)

As a Freudian psychological metaphor describing son–father psychosexual competition for possession of mother, the Oedipus complex derives from the 5th-century BC Greek mythologic character Oedipus, who unwittingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta, (cf. Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, ca. 429 BC). As a psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud(1856–1939) proposed that the Oedipus complex is a universal, psychological phenomenon innate ( phylogenetic) to human beings, and the cause of much unconscious guilt; Freud thus described the man Oedipus:

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