Library

There are so many benefits to living downtown in any city, everything could be so close-by if you chose your spot right. I got it right when I moved to Minneapolis. Bars, cafes, Twins/Vikings stadium, my office, running trail and the library are all within ten blocks.

With this new setting came new habits. One being the frequency of my visits to the library – probably more than I have in my entire lifetime. I get books, dvds, audiotapes, magazines and all sorts of old newspapers to read whenever I can. But one thing I do so consistently is to borrow a dvd whenever I visit the library. This rich and unrestrained collection of history and stories has become quite fun to peruse.

My dvd choice varies; I am not confined to the sort of framework analysis that comes into to play when I buy a dvd for my collection (which I hardly do), or rent from a video rental store. I go crazy like a kid in the candy store – anything that peaks my interest. And I must say that I have learnt a lot about myself in the process. I make better dvd choice when I freewill and do not analyze a lot (can’t do without a little bit☺).

Some of the dvds I got recently are documentaries on past famous figures like Mary Cassat - the only American to exhibit with the Impressionist group (Paris Salon) in late 19th century Paris, which members included the likes of Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro. In 1868 the selection jury for the Paris Salon accepted one of her paintings, A Mandoline Player, for the first time – check it out, it’s lovely. The feminist would like her – she represented everything a modern day feminist would aspire to…

I have also seen Ray Charles - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (2002). Filmed in 1997, the 18-song, approx. 1hr show features Charles on the keyboard and at the tail end with his band. I saw the movie RAY, seeing this performance at the Montreux unravels the man to me. He was quite an “act”

Growing up in Nigeria I always wanted to go see Fela Anikulapo Kuti – the Afrobeat King and legendary Nigerian musician, at his music Shrine, but it never happened. Today, I watched a live recording of his son Femi Kuti (Femi Kuti, live at the Shrine) - an explosive blend fusing jazz, funk, and traditional African music. Live At The Shrine takes place in the Kuti family’s hometown of Lagos at the Africa Shrine, where every Sunday Femi plays to a packed house of revelers. I have to check it out on my next trip.

I’ve got “This is ELVIS” A film biography of Elvis Priestly for my next project. Mary, Ray, Fela, Femi and Elvis all had one thing in common – ability to build stage presence.

Nationalization?, I mean "Receivership and Restructuring"

I think most people would agree that moving some banks to “receivership for restructuring” an appropriate euphemism for nationalization is what we need to do if we don’t want to delay the inevitable. The sooner we turn this around, the more and lasting impact the stimulus package will have. Imagine a scenario where the stimulus package does not work because the economy’s transmission mechanisms, in which bank is a huge part, did not work.

Another thing is that in a country like the US where political correctness has become an indispensable condition for legislative success, we tend not to and usually can not swallow too much at one time. That is why we only asked for $750B in TARP money even when experts know that it would not be enough. That is why we asked for $789B in stimulus package even when we knew Treasury dept. would come back for more. And that is exactly why we have to throw some money away at bad assets first (something we could have avoided in the first place) before we move on to Nationalization, sorry we can’t use that word, I mean “receivership and restructuring”

On the other hand, you can’t blame the process totally. It is often a wise idea not to give too much money to any agency at one time – look at what happened to Katrina money, the Iraq reconstruction money. And finally, maybe if those who came asking for money provided clear details on how it was going to be used and on how TARP and other expenses would be paid back, the public’s anxiety over the excessive debt government is taking on would have been soften.

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pg 442, vol.1 of level-11 2009 curriculum.
writing -> dev of mathematics -> extension of knowledge about physical forces and chemical and biological processes.
Then comes the need to have people who can see thro the whole human activities chain - all the way from how 'nuclear family unit activities' to 'extended' and village' group activities and the building blocks of a community affects total output growth per person.