Headline August03, 2014

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Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora,  have the same people, culture and geography.

Why is one rich and one so damn poor?

Why did the great people and students of Egypt filled Tahrir Square to bring down Hosni Mubarak and what does it mean for !WOW!'s understanding of the causes of survival, prosperity and poverty.

Thousands and thousands of you,  and others, keep posing this question.

So, !WOW!  will address the issue by researching and writing  ''regularly''  on this critical subject 

IN 1583  William Lee returned from his studies at the University of Cambridge to be come a local priest  in Calverton, England.

Elizabeth 1   -1558- 1603-  had recently issued a ruling that her people should always wear a knitted cap.

Lee recoded that  "knitters were the only means of producing such garments but it took so long to finish the article. I began to think. I watched my mother and my sisters sitting in the evening twilight plying their needles.

If garment were made by two needles and one line of thread, why not several needles to take up the thread."

This momentous thought was the beginning of the mechanization of textile production. Lee became obsessed with making a machine that would free people up from endless hand-knitting. 

He recalled , "my duties to Church and family I began to neglect. The idea of my machine and the creating of it ate into my heart and brain."

Finally, in 1589,  his  "stocking frame"  knitting machine was ready. He travelled to London with excitement to seek an interview with Elizabeth 1 to show her how useful the machine would be and to ask her for a patent that would stop other people from copying the design.

He rented a building to set up the machine up and, with the help of his local member of the Parliament Richard Parkyns, met Henry Carey, Lord Hundson, a member of the Queen's Privy Council.

Carey arranged for the Queen Elizabeth to come see the machine, but the reaction was devastating. She refused to grant Lee a patent, instead observing.

"Thou aimest big, Master Lee. Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects. It would assuredly bring them ruin by depriving them of employment, thus making them beggars."

Crushed, Lee moved to France to try his luck there; when he failed there, too, he returned to England, where he asked James I,   1603-1625 , Elizabeth's successor, for a patent.

James I also refused. on the same grounds as Elizabeth. Both feared that mechanization of stocking production would be politically destabilizing. It would throw people out of work, create unemployment and political instability, and threaten royal power.

The stocking frame was an innovation that promised huge productivity increases, but it also promised creative destruction.

This historic happening, illustrates a key idea: The fear of creative destruction is the main reason there was no sustained increase in living standards between the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions.

Technological innovation makes human societies prosperous, but also involves the replacement of old with the new, and the destruction of the economic privileges and political power of certain people.

For sustained economic growth we need new technologies, new ways of doing things, and more often than not they come from newcomers  such as Lee. It may make society prosperous, but the process of creative destruction that it initiates threatens the livelihood of those who work with old technologies:

Such as the hand-knitters who would have found themselves unemployed by Lee's technology.

More important, major innovations such as Lee's stocking frame machine also threaten to reshape political power.

Ultimately it was not concern about the fate of those who might become unemployed as a result of Lee's machine that led Elizabeth 1 and James 1 to oppose his patent-

It was their fear that they would become political losers   -their concern that those displaced by the invention would create political instability and threaten their own paper.

As History knows, as was the case with the Luddites,  it is often possible to bypass the resistance of workers such as  hand-knitters.

But the elite, especially when their political power is threatened,  from a more formidable barrier to innovation.

The fact that they have much to lose from creative destruction means not only that they will not be the ones introducing new innovations but also that they will often resist  and try to stop such innovations.

Thus society need newcomers to introduce the most radical  innovations, and these newcomers and the creative destruction they wreak must often overcome several sources of resistance:

Including that from powerful rulers and elite.

With respectful and most caring dedication to all the poor Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See ya all on !WOW!  -the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless:

With prayers for Five humans of  ''very high class'',  now in their heavenly abodes: M Nawaz Khan, Zahoor Malik, M Arshad, Jamila Iqbal, Rubina Iqbal.

With respectful dedication to two personal friends, -scientist M Reza, Syed Salman Ahmed, and   Dr M Jawaid Khan, Imran Basit, Fahim Khan, Shami, Tanvir Iqbal Querishi,  Naveed Iqbal Querishi, Naeem Khan, Kaleem, Zafar Sami, Amin Malik, Naeem Malk, Hammad Khan, Imran Khan, Hashir Jan, Shahid Shakoor,

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Good night and God bless!

SAM Daily Times - The Voice of the Voiceless

Otzi The Iceman Had Heart Disease Genes, New Study Of Mummy Shows

Ötzi the Iceman, a well-preserved mummy discovered in the Alps, may have had a genetic predisposition to heart disease, new research suggests.

The new finding may explain why the man — who lived 5,300 years ago, stayed active and certainly didn't smoke or wolf down processed food in front of the TV — nevertheless had hardened arteries when he was felled by an arrow and bled to death on an alpine glacier.

"We were very surprised that he had a very strong disposition for cardiovascular disease," said study co-author Albert Zink, a paleopathologist at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano in Italy. "We didn't expect that people who lived so long ago already had the genetic setup for getting such kinds of diseases."

Otzi was discovered in 1991, when two hikers stumbled upon the well-preserved mummy in the Ötztal Alps, near the border between Austria and Italy. Since then, every detail of the iceman has been scrutinized, from his last meal and moments (Ötzi was bashed on the head before being pierced by the deadly arrow blow), to where he grew up, to his fashion sense. [Top 9 Secrets About Ötzi the Iceman]

Past research has revealed that Ötzi likely suffered from joint pain, Lyme disease and tooth decay, and computed tomography (CT) scanning revealed calcium buildups, a sign of atherosclerosis, in his arteries.

Initially, the atherosclerosis was a bit of a surprise, because much research has linked heart disease to the couch-potato lifestyle and calorie-rich foods of the modern world, Zink said. But in recent research, as scientists conducted CT scans on mummies from the Aleutian Islands to ancient Egypt, they realized that heart disease and atherosclerosis were prevalent throughout antiquity, in people who had dramatically different diets and lifestyles, he said.

"It really looks like the disease was already frequent in ancient times, so it's not a pure civilizational disease," Zink told Live Science.

- www.huffingtonpost.com

Americans can legally unlock their phones

Here comes good-bye to the fears of lawsuits when it comes to unlocking your cellphone.

The official online petition collecting 100,000 signs elicited response of White House to reinstate cellphone unlocking. President Obama will legalize customers' rights to modify the firmware, freeing them from restrictions put by most carriers on their phones. Whether the rule will continue to apply after 3 years will be decided by Librarian of Congress. LOC's Copyright Office reviews the rules as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which means that this law is just temporary.

Until last year, phone unlocking was legal but in Oct 2012 Copyright Office's review suggested that there were ample alternatives to circumvention and that customers had a wide array of unlocked phone options available in the market. That's when LOC allowed customers a 3-month window to update their cells, finally revoking the rights in January.

The Senate and the House have cleared the way for President's signature by approving the bill. Petition representative Sina Khanifar of OpenSignal stated : "With such a strong signal from Congress, it's very unlikely that the Librarian will remove the unlocking exemption."

Taking issue with DMCA laws, Khanifer said: "The fact that public advocacy organizations have to make a fresh case every three years is a perfect example of why the underlying copyright law, Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is in dire need of an update."

Headline August02, 2014

''' IF THE GIRLS CAN DO IT 

- SO WHY CAN'T THE BOYS? '''

RESPECT for women's sport is not just politically correct. Administrators and media bosses are also spotting a commercial opportunity with male  fans.

More men than women watch female football matches;  55%  of American men in a survey last year said they preferred watching women's tennis to men's.

America's main sports network, ESPN, has agreed to extend coverage of professional women's basketball until  2022.

That is good for sponsors: Coca Cola, American Express, and addicts are just some of the partners of the Women's National Basketball Association  (WNBA). Some female teams are reaping benefits too  -though the men's game still subsidises the league.

Patriotism can play a part. A liquor company in Qingdao in eastern China is trying to lure Hsieh Su-Wei, the first  Taiwanese to win a Grand Slam title after her women's doubles in victory at Wimbledon.

It has offered her $1.6m a year in sponsorship, almost 36 times what she currently receives, if she taken Chinese citizenship.

Outside Tennis and a handful of other sports, the inequalities in pay are still striking.

A player with six or more years of service in the  WNBA  in America could earn maximum salary of  $107, 500    last season, whereas Kobe Bryant alone recived more than  $30, from the LA Lakers.

Last year the male Indian cricketers were paid the equivalent of $10,500  per test match; their female counterparts earned only  $ 1,500  for entire international series.

Differing public appeal may explain some of the gap, but not all of it.

Brian Cookson, president of the British Cycling, who at the time was campaigning to head the sport's governing body:

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) wants professional women participants to receive a minimum wage from their teams, as men already do.

An easy change to make would be in sports where women can compete alongside men, albeit for different prizes.

A petition for a women to be allowed to ride in the  Tour de France  has attracted 93,000  signatures.

Oxford and Cambridge Universities will from  2015  hold the women's boat race on the same day and same course as the men's event.

Ellie Piggot, a former Oxford rower and Olympic hopeful, said in 2013, that oars women are only now getting the kit and training perks that their male counterparts have been enjoying for years.

Female forays into new areas of sporting achievement are not a one-way street.

Men are also taking up activities once dominated by women.

Kentrell Collins leads Prancing Elites, an all male cheer leading squad from Mobile, Alabama.

He also makes their skimpy costumes. ''The girls do it, so why can't we?'' he says.

But all in all, what stands truly obvious, is the fact that  "sportswomen" are beginning to score more commercial goals but they still have-

A lot of ground to make up.

The World Students Society  -wishes them every success!

With respectful dedication to all the female Students, Professors and Teachers in the world. See Ya all  on !WOW!   -the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless:

"' Good To Great "'

Good night and God bless!

SAM Daily Times - The Voice of the Voiceless