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Words in Thai

2014-07-20T08:51:00.002-07:00

This post is my attempt to write out my pronunciation of a few Thai words in English.
I begin with my present understanding of the meaning of each. Each meaning is followed by my idea of its (phonetic) pronunciation.

a medium(like the one who helps you to communicate with your dead uncle Slim)
* khon song

house, home
* ban (a bit like a New England barn)

elephant
* Cha-ang

water
* nam (as in Viet nam)

665 - Argentina v. Netherlands: Does Size Matter? | Strange Maps | Big Think

2014-07-09T15:43:00.001-07:00

665 - Argentina v. Netherlands: Does Size Matter? | Strange Maps | Big Think

Polar Bear - POV Cams (Spring 2014)

2014-06-09T16:10:00.001-07:00

Breaking News from Havana: Joint Declaration of Principles on Victims | COLOMBIA CALLS

2014-06-09T11:20:00.001-07:00

Breaking News from Havana: Joint Declaration of Principles on Victims | COLOMBIA CALLS

Gerry's Genealogy Blog

2014-06-05T10:16:00.001-07:00

Gerry's Genealogy Blog

This Blog is an interesting read especially for those interested in genealogy. It refers to many surnames including mine: Sheehan

Sunever Farms | Joshua Tree, California

2014-05-24T17:44:00.000-07:00

Sunever Farms | Joshua Tree, California

Living Through a Coup in Thailand |

2014-05-22T10:23:00.001-07:00

Living Through a Coup in Thailand |

Where Do Babies Come From? A Sweet and Honest Primer on How Reproduction Works by Illustrator Sophie Blackall | Brain Pickings

2014-05-14T15:45:00.001-07:00

Where Do Babies Come From? A Sweet and Honest Primer on How Reproduction Works by Illustrator Sophie Blackall | Brain Pickings

Big Banks Started Laundering Massive Sums of Drug Money In the 1980s ... And Are Still Doing It Today Washington's Blog

2014-05-12T20:37:00.001-07:00

Big Banks Started Laundering Massive Sums of Drug Money In the 1980s ... And Are Still Doing It Today Washington's Blog

Wealth Creation and Rural Livelihoods - A National Community of Practice

2014-05-12T11:28:00.001-07:00

Wealth Creation and Rural Livelihoods - A National Community of Practice

Community-Wealth.org: Wealth-Building Strategies for America's Communities

2014-05-12T11:12:00.001-07:00

Community-Wealth.org: Wealth-Building Strategies for America's Communities

Community Wealth Creation / Retention and the Path out of Southern Bondage | Southern Grassroots Economies Project

2014-05-12T11:08:00.001-07:00

Community Wealth Creation / Retention and the Path out of Southern Bondage | Southern Grassroots Economies Project

What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers | Brain Pickings

2014-04-27T09:58:00.001-07:00

What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers | Brain Pickings

The Math That Predicted the Revolutions Sweeping the Globe Right Now | Motherboard

2014-02-27T18:09:00.001-08:00

The Math That Predicted the Revolutions Sweeping the Globe Right Now | Motherboard

Doesn't look like math to me. It doesn't seem surprising that the more food prices rise the more upset people get. It is a bit surprising that we can set a number at which we will revolt. Check out the predictions.

The Math That Predicted the Revolutions Sweeping the Globe Right Now | Motherboard

2014-02-27T17:51:00.002-08:00

The Math That Predicted the Revolutions Sweeping the Globe Right Now | Motherboard

It doesn't look much like math to me, but that people get more upset as the cost of food goes up doesn't seem surprising. Check out the predictions.

Generational Ill Effects of Social Inequality: Hints About the Possible, Even Probable, Long Lasting Ill Effects of Income Inequality

2014-02-27T15:14:00.000-08:00

I believe that a mother's stress and distress
(good stuff too)pass to her unborn baby. I believe that in womb process and also experiences very early in life may switch on and off certain long term patterns of development. I suspect that such processes evolve to help us to survive. Survival is vital, but to us quality of life is also very important.

Effects of early experience are long lasting

The effects of widening income differences in a society are, I believe, very long lasting.

A significant number of sociologists are more and more convinced That inequality has led to long term deterioration of a variety of kinds of personal relationships.

The statistics that inequality leads to ill health are convincing (check some of my earlier tweets). The evidence that early ill health leads to long term developmental changes in children is strengthening.

Start checking out the available literature. Let me know what you find.

Richard

Sonsón Antioquia - 70 años de la I.E.BRAULIO MEJIA- 3-5/11/2012

2014-02-14T11:00:00.000-08:00

Deadly Inequaity

2013-12-01T06:28:00.000-08:00

Japan and Norway have very low homicide rates and are among the rich countries with the lowest income equality.
Portugal and the U.S. have high homicide rates and high rates of income inequality.
Statistics show that notable among the richer countries that in general the greater the income inequality the higher the homicide rates.
Our United States the highest income inequality among the richer countries and by far the highest homicide rates.

The Three Anglo-Burmese Wars

2013-11-30T07:43:00.000-08:00

A benefit claimed by some for the Second Anglo-Burmese War which took place mostly in Thailand(1852)was the doubling of Bangkok sea trade.

One of the keys to an understanding of these Wars is an understanding of the British East India Company. The Company was the major tool of British Capital.

The British were most actively dominating Burmese trade and that of the Siamese by force of arms and control of the seas from about 1820 to nearly the turn of the century.

AngloGold Ashanti: Gold Mining and Marketing - Press releases

2013-11-14T11:35:00.001-08:00

AngloGold Ashanti: Gold Mining and Marketing - Press releases

Gold is still important.
Check activity in Colombia.

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back

2013-11-13T09:25:00.001-08:00

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back

Click above for good article.

About us | The Equality Trust

2013-11-02T11:38:00.001-07:00

About us | The Equality Trust

Check out Equality Trust by clicking on the line above.

How divisive is social inequality?

13 Tenets to Seeing and Understanding the World as a Scholar « To Entertain a Thought

2013-10-29T05:13:00.001-07:00

13 Tenets to Seeing and Understanding the World as a Scholar « To Entertain a Thought

Infant Mortality

2013-10-27T10:34:00.001-07:00

Of 21 of the richest countries on earth the U. S. has the highest infant mortality rate and the greatest wealth inequality.

Pressing Issues: We're NOT Number One--Or Number Fifteen, Even

2013-10-08T17:37:00.001-07:00

Pressing Issues: We're NOT Number One--Or Number Fifteen, Even: AP with report on new global survey of adults in various countries and their level of reading, math skills and problem solving. We see a l...