Four personal space zones

1. Intimate distance 0 to 15cm
2. Personal distance 45 to 120cm
3. Social distance 1.2 to 3.5m
4. Public distance 3.5m

Autism

Mentioned in news today - what!

Plain english please

http://www.autism.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2493

"Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around them. People with autism have difficulties with everyday social interaction" Newspapers, 24hr rolling news - Report events and quote people , then there is comment and analysis. So is David Cameron and his party Autistic - The world is becoming sloppy

On Clauswitz

Quote

"War is a continuation of politics by another means"

So think of a war and consider the politics of it all - what are we fighting for ?

e.g. Afghanistan - when more troops killed (Particularly by afghan police) then all the chat and reports why can't there be one place where the reasons can be written down - then some mediation - I know I am a hopelessly romantic idealistic fool - I suppose that's history

I think I need to have a dictionary definition of Politics handy as well.

UK - Parliamentary expenses row

Rules, rules and bloody rules - There needs to be rules BUT not ones that encourage job's worth bureaucracy.

Definition

Expenses are simply a re-imbursment of money expended in connection with performing

ones job (sadly there seems to be no allowance for personal administration time expended)

So, should be principle based

1) Least cost (A mortgage could be least cost)

2) Capital appreciation should accrue to the employer

3) Only essential expenses are allowable

Chinese Proverbs (very old)

Here are some Chinese Proverbs created a long time ago which seems to support the idea that human nature does not change only the times, its passage and the tools we use in our existence!

• Take care of the small things.
• The violent man shall die a violent death.
• Sending untrained recruits into battle is sending them to their graves.
• Heroes are made by the times. (are you ready)
• A wise ruler must supress his personal hatreds
• Do not steal the words of others, nor repeat them as an echo does the thunder.

Here are some fragmentary thoughts oh thinking one (Alan Jones).

Of course the world is full of data and metadata - those who collect it(assemble it) then those who co-ordinate it and those who turn it into knowledge for their nefarious purposes.

Traditional hierarchy has been (are we in transition)

Operator/supervisor/Manager

Slave/slave driver/King

Now of course we have Teams and team players

Religion is the opium of the people someone claimed (I think it could be the big brother house X factor etc Now)

I liked the words "fluffy" and "Notions" - Of course Tony Blair said Education, Education, Education, - turned out to be Training, Training, Training, - so where did that get us -

given that you can train and/or educate some humans (how many?)

but only train monkeys (Greg would disagree!)

Then there are peoples motives (see Maslow hierarchy of needs)

The more thinking that is encouraged the more values have to be shared - thats where the Fuffy notions cause problems - So what is education - Now unsurprisingly Tony Blair never defined Education - he left that to our individual fluffily trained educated notions - So

1) What level of education does one aspire to and what is it

2) What level of training does one aspire to and what is it

Of course that leaves us all very much in need of a drink quote "Paddy Hirsh" see you tube below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wdg9__Oq9w

In chemistry there was the distinction between Quantatative analysis and qualitative analysis

Its 11111 herz in the visible spectrum or pantone 134 Yellow Bs4800 (no checking done just dummy values)

Its Yellow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8257673.stm Well its a start - But employers will need to respond (But avoid getting bogged down -tricky task) i.e. become even more responsible in how they do business (internally and externally)... put even more effort in (maybe leading by example by major companies - supply chain passing the parcel during quality audits etc....... so look forward to more "real" reality programmes. I suppose drawing from my experience in commerce/business/supplychain/IT/Education - I guess the supply chain will eventually pass more than contractual supply goods and information about those contractual goods - if you get my drift. So the purchasing manager becomes a seminal guy - Back to the Input/output model - exercise great care with System creation/input/origination and the greater the predictability of the output - what society wants does not just Happen! it takes effort and committment