LAReader48

I'm not an Apple fan but I do have a lot of respect for their products and Steve Jobs I'll just say a few things about him I think should get more attention After the original Apple, his first great business success was Pixar, that was what made him a billionaire. The Mac was a great design but not a great business success. The most important reason for which I think is that he didn't market to business, he showed his contempt for business buyers with the commercial of businessmen marching off a cliff. His first great  business success at Apple was the iPod, and then the huge, huge , huge success of the iPhone. All his successes had in common that they were striking visually --that must go to his core abilities. They had good visual user interfaces but even more they were things people wanted because of their looks. Even when they sacrificed some usability- you can't control an iPod by feel, for example. One element of their visual appeal was that they had a higher sc...

'Where is the sense of urgency? We need somebody to take charge. We’ve had an earthquake followed by fire, then a tsunami, then radiation, and now snow. It’s everything. 'There is nothing left. The world needs to step in. Where are the Americans? The Japanese are too proud to ask, but we need help and we need it now.' In one of the shelters for the evacuated, Motoko was worried for her daughter Yukiko, a teacher missing with her class of children. She told the Standard there is still no official list of those who have been evacuated: 'For all I know my daughter thinks I’m dead and I have no way of knowing if she is alive because mobile phones here don’t work here. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366934/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-10k-missing-Ishinomaki-death-toll-set-hit-25k.html#ixzz1Guq1M64t

Boreal Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "Until a few million years ago, the global climate was warmer than at present, especially at higher latitudes, and many temperate-climate species were distributed across North America and Eurasia via Alaska and Siberia. The sharply cooler climate of the past few million years [the ice ages] eliminated a temperate-zone connection between North America and Eurasia, but common Laurasian origins and a long history of temperate-climate land bridges account for the botanical similarities between the temperate floras on the two continents. So a global warming would be a return to the usual global temperature?

Matriarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "There are no known societies that are unambiguously matriarchal,[1][2][3][4][5][6] although there are attested matrilinear, matrilocal, and avunculocal societies, especially among indigenous peoples of Asia and Africa,[7] ... In 19th century Western scholarship, the hypothesis of matriarchy representing an early stage of human development—now mostly lost in prehistory, with the exception of some 'primitive' societies—enjoyed popularity. The hypothesis survived into the 20th century and was notably advanced in the context of feminism and especially second wave feminism, but this hypothesis of matriarchy as having been an early stage of human development is mostly discredited today, most experts saying that it never existed.[10]"