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Saturday, September 12, 2015

New 'zaa' for Austin Chamber of Commerce





By


Sampson I.M Onwuka



Using the history of Wall Street in New York, the rise of MERC - Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Overnight lending for Banks (LIBOR), the origination of the CURB and Mid-Western, the political consequences of daily rates at the U.S Treasury, the U.S Federal Reserve System, the NFA and the FINRA, the American Trade Union, etc., which are trade and financial institutions that host financial statement and literature or Indexing; Nikkei, Hang seng, FTSE All world, Dow Jones Industrial, S & P TSX composite, Ibex 35, Xetra Dax, IPC Mexico City, Bovespa (Mexico City), FTSE MIB (Milan), BSE Sensex (Mumbai), Shanghai Composite, CAC 40 Paris, to name some of the popular listings in the world. It may sound like an overstatement that the world closer than we think, but the listing for stock markets differ - to a point that the market reflect the history of these independent Cities. It is the Chamber of Commerce and Mercantile Exchange or World Financial Centers that create the environment for cheap negotiation affecting long term view of the Stock markets and the general performance of business groups interested in breaking new grounds. Growth is the destiny of any market in the world and a capital-city like Austin is not different. Austin's short term advantage is based on any number of its competitive price advantage and offer (not the same) which raises the question of long term and more fundamental view of its market. How well this happens especially in the vibrant but discreet environment such as Austin is a factor of counter price advantage which international stock and external economies of scale can determine.  

A case for Austin's trading place (market place) can be made with some consideration of the attitude of other Cities in the State of Texas to Austin, secondly, how some of the market-places around the world will engage the Capital-City pursuant to due diligence operators, auctioneers and third party representatives and activity (inactivity) of the judges. It is not wrong to suggest that a City Hall that organize bond announcement cannot offer the rest of the State and Capitol City some advantage in breaking market information and raising it's international reach. It is how well any of the agencies in the State or the City can settle its accord with the listing families and how well it conform to other rate of returns is the chief ingredient in helping investor confidence. A third consideration is the role of Austin's fractured Chamber of Commerce - as compared to African American Chamber of Commerce, it seems that the idea of districts and the penultimate employment of City resources pale in comparison to what an organization can do a City such as Austin Texas. African American Chamber of Commerce or Black Chamber of Commerce is a huge advantage in corporate governance of the Capital-City, whereas personal interest do not dissociate from Charity organization, the higher chances of accounting for the wealth of the City's resources and resources allocation is a trial of price and advantage which open market or stock can offer the City of Austin.   

Given the conditional influence of the house of Representative and the placement of State house which wield more power than we know, there are hardly any rungs of understating a market place in Austin or Stock market will compote easily with the rest of State or gyrate from Austin to Houston without challenge. It is also an understatement to doubt that artificial laid back situation of the City of Austin is indicative of its fire power and rapid trading. Majority of the trading these days is done from the primacy of your own trade station and the like New York - the Stock market is no longer an affair to the house the bear and the bull built on Broadway. This is an error with Austin, for at least the better angels of our trade experience points to Houston - but there are many similar Houston(s) in the United States and perhaps the world - perhaps none - but in Austin, we encounter the realities of day to day breaking and how some new entente can take official position with the City that is loosely concerned with any influences over the State of Texas. A rapier induction to Austin is the market wroth of the City, perhaps functioning at a rate that is higher than most - cleaner perhaps than some - but will succumb to age if there are no price to pay for hosting the rest of the world. It is in this respect that all the good that a Chamber of Commerce can offer assume a position with City management, to an enabled degree that a future holds a degree of statement that a City of Austin shift from organ of local investment to host the market place in the interest of price and profit which a noisy and short term memory of its citizens can offer.  

There other issues of housing and dipole logical social and cultural miasma which ended recently, but o organize a similar trading place in Austin saving for a line of reason that defines Austin's landscape and perhaps Chamber of Commerce. A market place is not new in Austin or in any City Capitol or the need for up to date economic index lacking in the City. A Capitol-City has means of supporting itself, but the dissent over the local problems of manufacturing and industries, over announcement of new IPOs and stocks options for total Texas and new announcement for government bonds is perhaps one of the better problems of the Capitol – when upon a credit line, we are discussing the issue of ETF which has earned recent exposure in recent years. There are casualties of ETF just as we have serious questions of stock market collapse or draw down for bonds and the long and tedious complications with FTC and Federal Income Requirement for new IPOs. If this concern raises the issue of monopoly with bonds and financial estimate for a year end, many citizens may not have genuine concerns of taxes and rent issue or high price in the least affordable of luxuries.

In , it is Albany New York that serves its purpose as an example. Albany, New York, like Austin Texas, is a Capital-City held with fortitude by residents and their descendants and since the turn of the 20th century and to some degree today, bonds, market news and information are subject to monopoly which in turn affect City of New York and performance of several financial institutions at , a monopoly that the business man Bloomberg tried like many others to break in New York in 1980 with the need for informed system (Internet) - Bloomberg terminal. We are beyond this cycle of financial comptroller and beyond poor accountability resulting from citizens unaware of the rules of engagement and law and levels of discredit. Austin needs to consider a career in trading place/s other than City Hall which is quite small for a City approaching one million demographic. In essence, the City of Austin may be appropriate for a stock market in view of Houston or in spite of Houston and International Crude Oil market, part of the reason is the leverage it provides for America West of Texas and perhaps the City of Mexico and understated import and tariff ennui. The Capitol-City may seem bullish on housing, may lack stadiums that generate a specie income for a professional class, may have a reasonable pool on retiring and retired IRA accounts, but the future is not housing - it is market place. 









Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Raising questions on James Watson and The Nobel Prize




By

Sampson I.M Onwuka 

 James Watson and The Nobel Prize

Am confident that James Watson did not discover the Double Helix in the way he explained it with actual graph and illustration. I think Him and Maurice Wilkins must have gotten into Roselyn Franklin's office and took the picture of her latest work on the Cystography of the protein structure. 

The idea to possibly steal the negative from her may have started perhaps with the visit of Ms. Franklin the wife of Wilkins where according to Judson she brought her latest pictures from the office she is under the employment of these scientists. There are however some questions on the nature of this visit, to the extent that a consensus was perhaps arrived at in the early months of 1953.

Here's what I think happened, that after she showed the picture which emerged differently from the negative treated in water, she probably began to doubt if the Alpha Helix story was actually accurate in describing the DNA. The Story is not exhausted but the extent to which the discoveries made science into a different lifestyle is an article of history. 

It reaches meaning to discuss some of its impact on study on medicine and in dealing with HIV. It is not a position that needs to be defended but it looks terrible to ignore the lessons of HIV and the latest knowledge on DNA do not combine very well. 

To that clear scientific understanding, we may add that James Watson as one of the intellectual auteurs of the last century on the same rank as perhaps William (Bill) Gates Jr, and compeers Steve Jobs, or perhaps the Polio magicians of John Enders, Albert Sabin, and Jonas Salk. Of course intellectual stars are the rue of all discussions on sciences and its breakthrough ; Albert Einstein, Steve Hawking for a start, and the course of HIV. 

In this discipleship, the intellectual breakthrough of the last century especially on DNA may explicate on HIV and may grant us some knowledge of why we fail and why succeed in the study of sciences.   

The negative showed a double Helix Intertwined on its axle, but Ms. Franklin probably did not know what it meant either did Wilkins' wife. But it is clear that these two women suspected something leading me to consider that Wilkin's wife betrayed the information to her Husband who may or may not recognized what it meant. 

Later on, these two men, Watson and Wilkins were said to have visited Franklin's office and after she found out and began to lock it, they found a way to break into the office. As suspected from the story, Ms. Franklin had to be fired, and from several sources, a tantrum broke up between Watson and Franklin leading to her dismissal. 

She must have recognized that the negative was missing for it seems to me that the scientific accuracy of Watson's drawing which a friend of his Francis Crick who was a major in the field did not recognize, was based on what Watson and Wilkins took from Franklin's office. 

I think it was the first and original negative of the new pictures of the DNA which appeared differently and clearly when treated like normal pictures in Water. 

Put it together, there is a chance that either Watson or Franklin didn't see eye to eye, that Watson suspected Franklin of hoarding information, though by agreement she was not a scientist involved in the same process as was Wilkins, Watson, and Crick, but was at least from all accounts a scientist in her own department. Sharing information was to the process but these men probably did not see her as a fellow scientist or a scientist in their field.

Put it differently, the transfer of academic search for the DNA may have started with Bragg and Cavendish, may have shifted to US through Linus Pauling and his work on Alpha Helix, but the final puzzle on the structure of the Helix and DNA which since Oswald Avery was a confirmation that Erwin Schrodinger's 'Script code' suggesting DNA or Amino Acid was the stricture and building (genetic) blocks of life and not protein, scientist struggled to decode the DNA. 

The picture of the Code was made possible through these picture which WATSON, WILKINS AND CRICK, probably did not tell us was possible through a wet process of putting the negative in water. 

It will be stupid to fail to recognize the efforts of Watson, Crick and Wilkins in transforming molecular biology, a statement of fact confirmed by one my favorite Biologist, Jacque Monod on Crick and Watson, with Wilkins as the most astute of the living biologist despite the suspicion of his role as an English spy, but then there are tons of others of the same category. 

The exceptional quality and greatness of Watson and Wilkins breakthrough was in the scientific process which they purportedly in discovery a Double Helix or Double Headed Helix, may explain Franklin's objection or at least suspicion of the Alpha Helix theory applicable at such level, but from all information at the period seemed to the rest of world that scientific and even prophetic intelligent of Watson to have manufactured the picture which after several picture was made possible there was prove of their scientific breakthrough which I think was perhaps based no such on the grasp of the sciences involved but on the pictures and photo-graphs made Ms. Franklin.   
     
Some of the papers she shared online have gaps in its synthesis. For instance, she pointed to somewhere in West Africa as the probably origins of human beings and the beginning of human diaspora/dispersion. 

It is not impossible to argue against her thesis or assumptions but she may have borrowed the theory of African human dispersion to compensate the basis for Africa as the formative of languages of the world. But you have look at the different angle of language origins as a form of evolving and evolved abstract representation, that letters began not ad nova but as a deliberate representation of many elements of the human thinking. 

For instance humans are said by anthropologist to consider what is front of them, besides them, covering the four cardinal relational in local, geospatial local, geospatial global, transduction, degrees of motion; rotation, by comparison, by additional, transition, etc. 

But the chief forms of Art which is closer writings and then language is Abstractions, which are Art forms primary based on existing Arts then either as a repeat of these natural imitations of human Art provoke human reason to attempt a symbol.