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  Katyia15 August 2012 12:19PM

  The national brain seems stuck on a narcotic high.

  original idea there ?
  

  Cameron attributes Olympic success to two things, competitive spirit and volunteering, which he now declares must change the country for good. “We have imbibed deeply of the Olympic spirit ... in throwing timidity to the winds we have rediscovered a spirit that is our own”. Reading the few newspaper pages not devoted to the Olympics last week, I tried to transfer “inspiration” into real life.

  sounds painfully difficult ...
  

  Could Cameron’s volunteering spirit deploy sports stars to enforce asbos?

  no
  

  Could the army take up beat-policing, at which they seem adept Ethnic diversity and the status of women have been given a boost. The competitive spirit may not need emphasis in financial services, but there is no harm in sharpening the nation’s edge  if Cameron could only say how.

  you’ll be lucky mate  I see this article is full of transference queries  such syncronicity with me just working on that last week I even did a post about it !
  

  The idea that the world’s importers would suddenly buy neglected British goods and services because they saw London on television must be facile. Cameron said British companies could somehow win �13bn worth of contracts for future Olympics. But they won few for this one. He seems unaware that the 2012 venues were largely the work of the American firm, CH2M Hill, who have already won the
  Qatar World Cup and, on the strength of London, should also dominate Rio.

  the money is locked away in savings bonds. It represents the money that it would take to execute them  approaching it in this way has always worked previously which is why people are so resentful of bonkers 
  

  Blair declared that a unique feature of the London games was their “playing unsafe”, their eccentric daring. While the closing ceremony was dreadful, like a tired pop industry video, the opening was superb. It was�daredevil, inventive, funny and self-mocking. Like the draconian training of the cyclists, the real stars of Britain’s performance, it was a gamble that paid off

  draconian training? eh? what using footage of the closing ceremony ? me no compreni .. .
  

  British economic policy is like the Olympic Park without the athletes. It is sitting in a bank vault.

  I thought the problem was that there was too much transience and movement in the economy with businesses upping sticks and leaving their communities .
  

  With the economy deep in a liquidity trap, it needs an inventive genius like Boyle, who can blow �60m in just three hours of happiness.

  no links for that one 
  

  “unconventional monetarism” is now gaining traction. It would require the printing of some �20bn of new money

  yes unconventional and progressive like the work of Deepak Chopra, Richard Branson and Richard Carlson where you gain hyperbolically by incorporating and assimilating the positives of your rivals once you’ve seen new age business models you just can’t stomach anything else 

  
  
  
  
  14 August 2012 11:55PM
  

  
  
  Suggestion - Rail
  It seems to be growing unlikely that Labour is actually going to take up the policy it floated of not renewing the rail franchises and setting up a nationalised company (apparently concerns that the "Red Ed" headlines will re-appear).
  It seems a shame because I actually think the time is ripe for a change. Even some conservatives seem to think it's a stupid situation. How about an article on the variousCo-operative models that have arisen to see if they float? There have been a few developed such as this one?
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• Katyia15 August 2012 12:08AM
  
  

  Response to , 14 August 2012 11:55PM

  Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann. Von Neumann’s original proof used Brouwer’s fixed-point theorem on continuous mappings into compact convex sets, which became a standard method in game theory and mathematical economics. His paper was followed by his 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, with Oskar Morgenstern, which considered cooperative games of several players. The second edition of this book provided an axiomatic theory of expected utility. In economics, the marginal utility of a good or service is the gain (or loss) from an increase (or decrease) in the consumption of that good or service.
  Conflict management involves implementing strategies to limit the negative aspects of conflict and to increase the positive aspects of conflict at a level equal to or higher than where the conflict is taking place. Furthermore, the aim of conflict management is to enhance learning and group outcomes (effectiveness or performance in organizational setting) (Rahim, 2002, p. 208). It is not concerned with eliminating all conflict or avoiding conflict. Conflict can be valuable to groups and organizations. It has been shown to increase group outcomes when managed properly (e.g. Alper, Tjosvold, & Law, 2000; Bodtker & Jameson, 2001; Rahim & Bonoma, 1979; Khun & Poole, 2000; DeChurch & Marks, 2001).
  Often coopetition takes place when companies that are in the same market work together in the exploration of knowledge and research of new products, at the same time that they compete for market-share of their products and in the exploitation of the knowledge created. In this case, the interactions occur simultaneously and in different levels in the value chain. This is the case of the arrangement between PSA Peugeot Citro�n and Toyota to share components for a new city car – simultaneously sold as the Peugeot 107, the Toyota Aygo, and the Citro�n C1, where companies save money on shared costs while remaining fiercely competitive in other areas. Several advantages can be foreseen, as cost reductions, resources complementarity and technological transfer. Some difficulties also exist, as distribution of control, equity in risk, complementary needs and trust. Not only two companies can interact within a coopetitive environment, but several partnerships among competitors are possible.
  Coopetition or Co-opetition (sometimes spelled “coopertition” or “co-opertition”) is a neologism coined to describe cooperative competition. Coopetition is a portmanteau of cooperation and competition.Basic principles of co-opetitive structures have been described in game theory, a scientific field that received more attention with the book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the works of John Forbes Nash on Non-cooperative games. Coopetition occurs when companies interact with partial congruence of interests. They cooperate with each other to reach a higher value creation if compared to the value created without interaction, and struggle to achieve competitive advantage

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coopetition

  
  this reply was turned down ... it is a highly pertinent relevant and important response ....
  
  
  and this one as well ... in response to her identity theft of me ... 
  
  
  

  Katyia15 August 2012 1:01AM

  
  

  Dr Verguts was thrilled to discover that when women are at their most fertile, between the ages of 16 and 20, the ratio of length to width of a uterus is 1.6 ? a very good approximation to the golden ratio.
  “This is the first time anyone has looked at this, so I am pleased it turned out so nicely,” he said.

  what all women of fertile ages ? have the same proportions ? pull the other one ? no wonder the reference is in German. Does Alex Bellos ( lot of names with Bell in them here ) a poetic licence for this ? ?
  

  The ratio of consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence converges to 1.618. For example 8/5 = 1.6 and a few terms down the line 89/55 = 1.618.

  yes that ratio is applicable and rational in mathematics ? it doesnt apply in biology
  

  Since the Fibonacci sequence grows by adding on to itself in an organic way, it has been argued that one should expect to see Fibonacci numbers and the ratios between them in living forms.

  er no that doesnt follow at all ? my idea is that the organic is a contrast to the numerical ?
  

  Looking for the golden ratio in nature, in fact, is a hobby for many. And none more so than the celebrated recreational mathematician Caspar Schwabe, who has gone one better than the traditional three-pronged “golden claw” and made a four-pronged one.

  is that some sort of of scissors to dissect the organic ….