Examples of advanced technology

Invasive biosensor device developed with the use of novel nanotechnology for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

A battery operated, remote controlled, prototype device that can stream video and audio data to other platforms over multiple networks through an Android application.  The Android application will be used to control and operate the device.

Something difficult to overcome in modern society:

Something difficult to overcome in modern society:

Usually who wants to help has no authority, and who has authority doesn't want to help.

Productivity in the United States

Productivity in the United States decreased to 106.12 Index Points in the first quarter of 2014 from 107.06 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2013. Productivity in the United States averaged 64.10 Index Points from 1959 until 2014, reaching an all time high of 107.06 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2013 and a record low of 31.67 Index Points in the first quarter of 1959. Productivity in the United States is reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How to alienate friends?

How to alienate  friends?

Sending a spy to spy on a committee set up to investigate whether you have sent spies to spy on your friends.

And your spy got caught.

The real inequality.

The real inequality.

Dow Jones closes above 17,000 for first time on July 3rd  2014

U.S. gross domestic product shrank by 2.9% in the first quarter of 2014.

What is a sophism?

A sophism is a false argument intended to mislead. A sophist is a person who reasons with clever but fallacious and deceptive arguments.

The new tool to win presidential, state and federal elections.

The new tool to win presidential, state and federal elections.

Using technology  to influence  the way people express their emotions  and how likely they are to vote.
 

How to manipulate share prices?

How to manipulate share prices?

Buybacking shares and reducing the number of shares the company has, it will make earnings per share to rise no matter if the total earnings go nowhere.

What is the first national-security matter?

What is the first national-security matter?

Obesity, the single biggest reason for failing to qualify for military service.

Why central-bank policies do not boost growth?

Why central-bank policies do not boost growth?

Because decision makers in larger companies do not have a clue regarding what is going on with technology.

Current job in demand:

Current job in demand:

Programming  multi-turret Okuma lathes using 3D models in NX software

Global warming and river pollution

Global warming and river pollution
 It is difficult to clean a river if you are in the river mouth

U.S. Government cooking numbers

U.S. Government cooking numbers:

 The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domestic product fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worst performance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace it had reported last month.

How many people vote in the United States?

How many people vote in the United States?

57.5 percent of registered voters (197,828,022)  in the U.S. showed up during the 2012 presidential election.

Voting-Age Population:239,405,657
Voter Registration:197,828,022
Voter Turnout:126,000,000
Turnout of Voting-Age Population:57.5 % *Estimate
In 1960 the Turnout was 63.1 % and 49.1 % in 1996.

Source: Associated Press Election Research Group, George Mason University

The difference among venture capital, private equity and mutual funds .

The difference among venture capital, private equity and mutual funds .

In 2013, venture capital firms raised $16.9 billion according to a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters.
The private equity industry raised $216.56 billion in the same time period according to DJX LP Source.
In May, conventional mutual funds had net inflows of $30 billion in capital.
 In the first quarter of 2014, venture funds raised about $8.9 billion in new capital, or double the amount of the same quarter last year.

What does government teach people?

What does government teach people?

Government teaches people don't choose because you will choose wrong, let government to choose for you.

The new economy created by the entitlements.

The new economy created by the entitlements.

The Asset-Rich, Income-Poor Economy

In whom people trust

In whom people trust


Military 69%
High-technology industry 53%
President Obama 41%
The federal government 16%.
Internal Revenue Service  15%
Financial and health insurance industries 13%

Association between incompetence and convenience

Association between incompetence and convenience

 The Internal Revenue Service says it has lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner.

How to be aggressive and ambitious.

How to be aggressive and ambitious.

 Being undisciplined, rigid, volatil and extreme risk-taking.

Government reduction by attrition.

 Government reduction by attrition.

About 45% of the federal workforce was more than 50 years old in 2013, and by September 2016, nearly a quarter of all federal employees will be eligible to retire, according to the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human-resources department.

The relationship between the FBI and the IRS.

The relationship between the FBI and the IRS.
According to the Justice Department in October of 2010, apparently without a court order, the IRS sent 21 computer disks containing 1.1 million pages of tax-return documents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Why Young People Can't Find Work?

Because old people have entitlements

What to do in front of two inviolable principles that are in direct contradiction?

What to do in front of two inviolable principles that are in direct contradiction?

Make the tough choice that is located always in a third way.

How to create a product or service that identifies the necessary job skills to predict success?

How to create a product or service that identifies the necessary job skills to predict success?

Creating an education system that doesn't prepare workers to be successful on the job but creating an education system that prepares workers to be successful being self-employed.

How many prodigious children are in the U.S.?

How many prodigious children are in the U.S.?

322.080

How many prodigious children get a PhD?

How many prodigious children get a PhD?

44% of them get doctoral degrees (only 2% of the general population does)

Persevere to the next level

"It's whether you find a way around it or through it to persevere to the next level that makes a difference"

 Hamish Bond

When consumer spending is not enough.

The Commerce Department on Thursday revised down its growth estimate to show gross domestic product shrinking at a 1.0 percent annual rate.

 Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, increased at a 3.1 percent rate.

 Spending was boosted by the Affordable Healthcare Act.

Be your very best in the darkest moment.

Be your very best in the darkest moment.


Measure a person by the size of their heart.
Find someone to help you paddle.
Be your very best in the darkest moment.
Don’t back down from the sharks.
Slide down the obstacle head first.
Don’t be afraid of the circuses.
You were never going to have a perfect uniform.


Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S.Special Operations Command

University-Wide Commencement

The University of Texas at Austin, May 17, 2014.

President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. Congratulations on your achievement.

It’s been almost 37 years to the day that I graduated from UT.

I remember a lot of things about that day.

I remember I had throbbing headache from a party the night before. I remember I had a serious girlfriend, whom I later married—that’s important to remember by the way– and I remember that I was getting commissioned in the Navy that day.

But of all the things I remember, I don’t have a clue who the commencement speaker was that evening and I certainly don’t remember anything they said.

McRaven's Tips for Changing the World

So…acknowledging that fact—if I can’t make this commencement speech memorable— I will at least try to make it short.

The University’s slogan is,

“What starts here changes the world.”

I have to admit–I kinda like it.

“What starts here changes the world.”

Tonight there are almost 8000 students graduating from UT.

That great paragon of analytical rigor, Ask.Com says that the average American will meet 10,000 people in their life time.

That’s a lot of folks.

But, if every one of you changed the lives of just ten people– and each one of those folks changed the lives of another ten people—just ten—then in five generations—125 years—the class of 2014 will have changed the lives of 800 million people.

800 million people—think of it—over twice the population of the United States. Go one more generation and you can change the entire population of the world—8 billion people.

If you think it’s hard to change the lives of ten people—change their lives forever—you’re wrong.

I saw it happen every day in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A young Army officer makes a decision to go left instead of right down a road in Baghdad and the ten soldiers in his squad are saved from close-in ambush.

In Kandahar province, Afghanistan, a non-commissioned officer from the Female Engagement Team senses something isn’t right and directs the infantry platoon away from a 500 pound IED, saving the lives of a dozen soldiers.

But, if you think about it, not only were these soldiers saved by the decisions of one person, but their children yet unborn– were also saved. And their children’s children— were saved.

Generations were saved by one decision—by one person.

But changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it.

So, what starts here can indeed change the world, but the question is…what will the world look like after you change it?

Well, I am confident that it will look much, much better, but if you will humor this old sailor for just a moment, I have a few suggestions that may help you on your way to a better a world.

And while these lessons were learned during my time in the military, I can assure you that it matters not whether you ever served a day in uniform.

It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status.

Our struggles in this world are similar and the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward—changing ourselves and the world around us—will apply equally to all.

I have been a Navy SEAL for 36 years. But it all began when I left UT for Basic SEAL training in Coronado, California.

Basic SEAL training is six months of long torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

It is six months of being constantly harassed by professionally trained warriors who seek to find the weak of mind and body and eliminate them from ever becoming a Navy SEAL.

But, the training also seeks to find those students who can lead in an environment of constant stress, chaos, failure and hardships.

To me basic SEAL training was a life time of challenges crammed into six months.

So, here are the ten lesson’s I learned from basic SEAL training that hopefully will be of value to you as you move forward in life.

Every morning in basic SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Viet Nam veterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they would inspect was your bed.

If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack—rack—that’s Navy talk for bed.

It was a simple task–mundane at best. But every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that were aspiring to be real warriors, tough battle hardened SEALs–but the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over.

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.

By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.

If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

During SEAL training the students are broken down into boat crews. Each crew is seven students–three on each side of a small rubber boat and one coxswain to help guide the dingy.

Every day your boat crew forms up on the beach and is instructed to get through the surfzone and paddle several miles down the coast.

In the winter, the surf off San Diego can get to be 8 to 10 feet high and it is exceedingly difficult to paddle through the plunging surf unless everyone digs in.

Every paddle must be synchronized to the stroke count of the coxswain. Everyone must exert equal effort or the boat will turn against the wave and be unceremoniously tossed back on the beach.

For the boat to make it to its destination, everyone must paddle.

You can’t change the world alone—you will need some help– and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

Over a few weeks of difficult training my SEAL class which started with 150 men was down to just 35. There were now six boat crews of seven men each.

I was in the boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew we had was made up of the the little guys—the munchkin crew we called them–no one was over about 5 foot five.

The munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American, one Polish America, one Greek American, one Italian American, and two tough kids from the mid-west.

They out paddled, out-ran, and out swam all the other boat crews.

The big men in the other boat crews would always make good natured fun of the tiny little flippers the munchkins put on their tiny little feet prior to every swim.

But somehow these little guys, from every corner of the Nation and the world, always had the last laugh– swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

Several times a week, the instructors would line up the class and do a uniform inspection. It was exceptionally thorough.

Your hat had to be perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed and your belt buckle shiny and void of any smudges.

But it seemed that no matter how much effort you put into starching your hat, or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle— it just wasn’t good enough.

The instructors would fine “something” wrong.

For failing the uniform inspection, the student had to run, fully clothed into the surfzone and then, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand.

The effect was known as a “sugar cookie.” You stayed in that uniform the rest of the day—cold, wet and sandy.

There were many a student who just couldn’t accept the fact that all their effort was in vain. That no matter how hard they tried to get the uniform right—it was unappreciated.

Those students didn’t make it through training.

Those students didn’t understand the purpose of the drill. You were never going to succeed. You were never going to have a perfect uniform.

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie.

It’s just the way life is sometimes.

If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

Every day during training you were challenged with multiple physical events– long runs, long swims, obstacle courses, hours of calisthenics—something designed to test your mettle.

Every event had standards—times you had to meet. If you failed to meet those standards your name was posted on a list and at the end of the day those on the list were invited to—a “circus.”

A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics—designed to wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you to quit.

No one wanted a circus.

A circus meant that for that day you didn’t measure up. A circus meant more fatigue– and more fatigue meant that the following day would be more difficult–and more circuses were likely.

But at some time during SEAL training, everyone—everyone– made the circus list.

But an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly on the list. Overtime those students— who did two hours of extra calisthenics– got stronger and stronger.

The pain of the circuses built inner strength-built physical resiliency.

Life is filled with circuses.

You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

At least twice a week, the trainees were required to run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained 25 obstacles including a ten foot high wall, a 30 foot cargo net, and a barbed wire crawl to name a few.

But the most challenging obstacle was the slide for life. It had a three level 30 foot tower at one end and a one level tower at the other. In between was a 200 foot long rope.

You had to climb the three tiered tower and once at the top, you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end.

The record for the obstacle course had stood for years when my class began training in 1977.

The record seemed unbeatable, until one day, a student decided to go down the slide for life– head first.

Instead of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching his way down, he bravely mounted the TOP of the rope and thrust himself forward.

It was a dangerous move–seemingly foolish, and fraught with risk. Failure could mean injury and being dropped from the training.

Without hesitation– the student slid down the rope– perilously fast, instead of several minutes, it only took him half that time and by the end of the course he had broken the record.

If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

During the land warfare phase of training, the students are flown out to San Clemente Island which lies off the coast of San Diego.

The waters off San Clemente are a breeding ground for the great white sharks. To pass SEAL training there are a series of long swims that must be completed. One– is the night swim.

Before the swim the instructors joyfully brief the trainees on all the species of sharks that inhabit the waters off San Clemente.

They assure you, however, that no student has ever been eaten by a shark—at least not recently.

But, you are also taught that if a shark begins to circle your position—stand your ground. Do not swim away. Do not act afraid.

And if the shark, hungry for a midnight snack, darts towards you—then summons up all your strength and punch him in the snout and he will turn and swim away.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.

So, If you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.

As Navy SEALs one of our jobs is to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping. We practiced this technique extensively during basic training.

The ship attack mission is where a pair of SEAL divers is dropped off outside an enemy harbor and then swims well over two miles—underwater– using nothing but a depth gauge and a compass to get to their target.

During the entire swim, even well below the surface there is some light that comes through. It is comforting to know that there is open water above you.

But as you approach the ship, which is tied to a pier, the light begins to fade. The steel structure of the ship blocks the moonlight–it blocks the surrounding street lamps–it blocks all ambient light.

To be successful in your mission, you have to swim under the ship and find the keel—the centerline and the deepest part of the ship.

This is your objective. But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship—where you cannot see your hand in front of your face, where the noise from the ship’s machinery is deafening and where it is easy to get disoriented and fail.

Every SEAL knows that under the keel, at the darkest moment of the mission– is the time when you must be calm, composed—when all your tactical skills, your physical power and all your inner strength must be brought to bare.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

The ninth week of training is referred to as “Hell Week.” It is six days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment and– one special day at the Mud Flats—the Mud Flats are area between San Diego and Tijuana where the water runs off and creates the Tijuana slue’s—a swampy patch of terrain where the mud will engulf you.

It is on Wednesday of Hell Week that you paddle down to the mud flats and spend the next 15 hours trying to survive the freezing cold mud, the howling wind and the incessant pressure to quit from the instructors.

As the sun began to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having committed some “egregious infraction of the rules” was ordered into the mud.

The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible but our heads. The instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit—just five men and we could get out of the oppressive cold.

Looking around the mud flat it was apparent that some students were about to give up. It was still over 8 hours till the sun came up–eight more hours of bone chilling cold.

The chattering teeth and shivering moans of the trainees were so loud it was hard to hear anything– and then, one voice began to echo through the night—one voice raised in song.

The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiastic.

One voice became two and two became three and before long everyone in the class was singing.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singing—but the singing persisted.

And somehow– the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little tamer and the dawn not so far away.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope. The power of one person—Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandella and even a young girl from Pakistan—Mallah—one person can change the world by giving people hope.

So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

Finally, in SEAL training there is a bell. A brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see.

All you have to do to quit– is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o’clock. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the freezing cold swims.

Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT– and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training.

Just ring the bell.

If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

To the graduating class of 2014, you are moments away from graduating. Moments away from beginning your journey through life. Moments away starting to change the world—for the better.

It will not be easy.

But, YOU are the class of 2014—the class that can affect the lives of 800 million people in the next century.

Start each day with a task completed.

Find someone to help you through life.

Respect everyone.

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often, but if take you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden and never, ever give up–if you do these things, then next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today and— what started here will indeed have changed the world—for the better.

Paying congressmen vehicles with tax payer money

Paying congressmen vehicles with tax payer money.

An amendment to end the practice of members of Congress being able to lease vehicles with their official office funds got voted down (196-221).

Over the years, there have been a number of cases where members of the House have leased luxury vehicles like Lexuses and Cadillacs.

The words more difficult to believe

The words more difficult to believe:

“Everything is fine and the issues are being addressed.”

How much slack remains in the U.S. economy?

How much slack (the amount of unused capacity and idle labor) remains in the U.S. economy?

Developers Turn Former Office Buildings Into High-End Apartments.

The share of the workforce that is working part time but would prefer to work full time remains quite high by historical standards.

Which is and where is the America’s richest county?

Which is and where is the America’s richest county ?

Virginia's Loudoun County.

Black or African American     7.7%
Asian           16.0%
Hispanic or Latino 12.8%

Foreign born persons, percent, 2008-2012 :22.4%

High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25+, 2008-2012   : 93.4%   

Median household income, 2008-2012  :$122,068   


Metropolitan or Micropolitan Statistical Area:
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria.

U.S. gross domestic product in first quarter of 2014

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis announced Wednesday that the economy grew at a paltry, seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

What is Europe today?

What is Europe today?

A struggle against entrenched interests and hardened habits.

Why progressive taxation and investment in everyone's education doesn't help to level the playing field?

Why progressive taxation and investment in everyone's education doesn't help to level the playing field?
Because the playing field is economic efficiency.

Millionaires versus poor

Millionaires versus poor

According to consultancy firm WealthInsight, the number of high net worth individuals (with assets of $1 million U.S. or more) in Canada grew to 422,000 in 2012, accounting for about 1.2 per cent of the population.

The U.S. was in first place, with 5.2 million millionaires compared to Canada’s 422,000.

According to  the Luxembourg Income Study Database a family at the 20th percentile of the income distribution in the U.S. makes significantly less money than a similar family in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland or the Netherlands.
There are  60,900 millionaires  in Sweden.
There are 54,810 dollar-millionaires in Norway.
Statistics show there are 45000 millionaires in Finland.
The Netherlands had 152 millionaire households at the end of 2011.

How to increase your chances of being poor.

How to increase your chances of being poor.

Being born to an unmarried couple.
More than 20% of children in single-parent families live in poverty long-term, compared with 2% of those raised in two-parent families, according to education-policy analyst Mitch Pearlstein's 2011 book "From Family Collapse to America's Decline."
 70% of blacks, 30% of whites and  50% of Hispanics  are born to an unmarried couple.

Americans savings rate versus U.S government savings rate

Americans  savings rate  versus U.S government savings rate

Americans boosted their savings rate to 6.1% in 2009. But as the economy has mended, our inclination to save has waned, reaching just 4.5% last year.
The CBO, a nonpartisan agency that advises Congress on budget policy, forecast deficit for the 2014  is $492 billion, or $23 billion less than it estimated two months ago. That's equivalent to 2.8% of gross domestic product, marking the smallest deficit since 2007. Since 1980, the deficit has averaged roughly 3.2% of GDP.

How to spot an inflated price

How to spot an inflated price

Observing the Fed and hedge funds movements. 

The progressive view of economy

The progressive view of economy


 The total annual GDP in America (or the measure of U.S. total economy) is  $14 trillion.

Over the next ten years, the “Better Off Budget” calls for tax increases totaling $6.6 trillion.

The "Better Off Budget" was produced by the House Progressive Caucus as an alternative to the budgets proposed by the Obama administration and by Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's chief budget architect in the House.

Why numbers don't matter arguing?

Why numbers don't matter arguing?

Because they are usually fake in an argument.
The "correct" math  answer is usually incorrect in the real world.

Why Small Business Are in Big Trouble.

Why Small Business Are in Big Trouble.

Because Corporate Cash Doesn't Alter Federal Reserve Policies

Why nobody wants to work anymore.

Why nobody wants to work anymore.

Because of slower-moving demographic factors.

Because of poor work incentives created by public policies.

Because of inadequate schooling and training.

Because it is much easier to receive federal disability payments.

Because of globalization and technological change.

Because of slow wage growth for low-skilled workers.

Because of a decrease in aggregate demand.

Because of the Federal Reserve is using an aggressive "quantitative easing" monetary policy.

Because of the extension of unemployment insurance.

Because of the Social Security payroll tax on older workers.

How many Americans don't have health insurance in 2014?

How many Americans don't have health insurance in 2014?

According Sherry Glied, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health, Columbia University  44 million people in this country have no health insurance.

According the government seven point one million people have signed up on ObamaCare and the government doesn't know how many of the 7.1 million have paid.

Why the government doesn't know what it's doing?

Why the government  doesn't know what it's doing?

Because the bureaucratic density and complexity of the system incapacitates to know the cost of anything.

What is the the permanent goal of the government?

What is the the permanent goal of the government?

The  permanent goal of the government is to run your  life for you.

Why does "new GM" put (as did old GM) costs below safety ?

Why does "new GM"  put (as did old GM) costs below safety ?

Because labor union philosophy puts  individual below group

How to rig the market with a scam entirely legal.

How to rig the market with a scam entirely legal.

With High-frequency trading (HFT)