13-May-11 News -- Immigration crisis strikes at EU's heart

[John]

13-May-11 News -- Europe's immigration crisis strikes at heart of European Union


Thousands of African migrants head for Italy

** 13-May-11 News -- Europe's immigration crisis strikes at heart of European Union
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... b#e110513b


** 12-May-11 News -- Raj Rajaratnam conviction raises hopes of Pecora Commission revival
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... b#e110512b




Contents:
"Europe's immigration crisis strikes at heart of European Union"
"Security threat: Flood of migrants from Africa"
"The end of the European project?"

### World View - U.S. was prepared to fight Pakistani forces
"U.S. was prepared to fight Pakistani forces"
"Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and Pakistan"
"South Korea chooses between the U.S. and China"
"Egypt's Muslims may donate money instead of going to Mecca"
"Palestinians may keep Fayyad as prime minister"
"Hizbollah's leader Nasrallah caught in a vortex of confusion over Arab uprisings"
"Questioning the numbers of China's harvests"
"Russia's defense industry faces deep crisis"
"Man jumps from world's tallest skyscraper"
"Russian sect believes Putin is the reincarnation of St. Paul"


Keys: Generational Dynamics, immigration, Denmark, France, Italy, Xenophobia, Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterand, Ahmet Davutoglu

-- Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, South Korea, China, Salam Fayyad, Mahmoud Abbas, Hizbollah, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, China, Russia, Dubai, suicide, Vladimir Putin, St. Paul

[OLD1953]

The Arab uprisings have everyone confused.

Look at the Kurds, they've essentially seceded from Iraq and are running their "autonomous zone" as if it were an independant country. They are just as "uprisen" as the rest, they just managed it under US control and didn't have to fight Saddam on their own.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribun ... _05_06.asp

(Last paragraph in this one)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/ ... HC20110505

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/ma ... key-kurds/

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wo ... kurdistan/

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/Nou ... /id/395923

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/ ... ing_kirkuk

That's really a random sampling to show the kind of stories coming out of there. Just MHO, if the US military does actually leave Iraq, the Turks will invade the Kurdish area.

Another note:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/10/2 ... ceman.html

Some of that's just down the road from me. Literally.

[OLD1953]

Lampedusa has some serious problems with refugees, they've had more come in one day than the normal population of the island.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... tants.html

And an article/obituary on one of the last of the WWII generation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Audus.html

Both are well worth a read.

[Higgenbotham]

And an article/obituary on one of the last of the WWII generation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Audus.html

Interesting comment after the article. I had noted a few days ago that Das estimated that only about 2000 people in the world really understand derivates. Very similar comment here.

I worked for a very brief time on the sorts of radio technology now used in mobile phones. The mathematical analysis is ghastly. Turning that maths into functional hardware, pushed the limits of what we could do on the 70's, an yet by the 90's it was all understood, and there was a chip for it, and we could spit these things out in billions.
I dare say that not beyond a couple of thousand people in the world really understand how a mobile phone works, and not beyond 100 could actually design the chips that go in them. But that is enough.

[OLD1953]

It's not that the math is that bad, understanding the implications of the math is the tricky part. But digital PCM upset a lot of folks when it was introduced.

Simple.

http://telemetry-products.com/sites/def ... torial.pdf

More complete.

http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/c ... ure_4.html

And "do you really want the theory"?

http://www.wireless.ece.ufl.edu/twong/N ... mm/ch3.pdf

A copy of MathCad helps a lot in understanding these types of papers, as you have to graph the equations to begin to understand the real meaning of them. (Some like Mathmetica, I like MathCad, it's a choice.) As I've said before, you do better to just read the summary at the end, unless it really is of direct interest to you. Honestly, the derivative equations are simpler IMHO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%8 ... derivation

And I'll confess that it's been quite a while since I solved any partials, though I still remember them. If you don't use them, they'll slip away from you.

When that mess was first derived, there was a massive raid on the physics and math departments of universities and the national science labs. A debate on the social purpose/meaning of research vs making money was pretty hot at the time.