Angela Clarke

Check out my new cooking blog

angelaclarke — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:53:48 +0000

If you enjoy cooking and want to keep the pounds at bay by cutting fat and carbs from your diet, then check out my new cooking blog, Lo Carb Life on www.locarblife.com.

You’ll get regular updates on my culinary experiments that will spice up your daily cuisine!

Steve Jobs: technology married with humanities and arts makes our hearts sing

angelaclarke — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:14:59 +0000

This is a great article in the Harvard Business Review – about Steve Job’s philosophy and business principles. I love this quote, taken from a speech he made after announcing his resination: “Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.

What’s happening to the Euro zone?

angelaclarke — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:31:29 +0000

According to Nigel Farage, the recent bailout of the Euro Zone countries by Euro funding is creating debt-ridden countries that are stripped of their democracy and trapped inside an ‘economic prison’. Why? Because countries that have been bailed out are now largely ‘owned’ by the European Union, which has bought up their debt.

Do you want to be a social entrepreneur?

angelaclarke — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:25:45 +0000

Social impact venture capital firms have seen an increase in support since the economic downturn, and more and more entrepreneurs are wanting to build self-sustaining social ventures than ever before. Exciting times are ahead…read this guide to creating a new social venture and join the growing band of successful social entrepreneurs…Read More

The Web: exposing our lives to the world

angelaclarke — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:17:49 +0000

Many of us will say that it doesn’t matter, “I have nothing to hide!” But one day, it may matter. Read More

An authentically green way of life

angelaclarke — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:28:57 +0000

MANY urban Americans idealize “green living” and “slow food.” But few realize that one of the most promising models for sustainable living is not to be found on organic farms in the United States, but in Afghanistan. A majority of its 30 million citizens still grow and process most of the food they consume. They are the ultimate locavores. Read More

Recession? What recession…

angelaclarke — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:26:04 +0000

The Core club. This private, members-only club on East 55th Street was created six years ago to serve as place where, The New York Times reported before it opened in 2005, a geographically and socially diverse set of wealthy people might “gather and meet others of the same disparate tribe.”

When It Comes to Scandal, Girls Won’t Be Boys

angelaclarke — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:08:50 +0000

WASHINGTON — There was a collective rolling of the eyes and a distinct sense of “Here we go again” among the women of the House of Representatives last week when yet another male politician, Representative Anthony D. Weiner, confessed his “terrible mistakes” and declared himself “deeply sorry for the pain” he had caused in sexual escapades so adolescent as to almost seem laughable. Read More

Why have regulators in France cracked down on references to ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’?

angelaclarke — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:10:51 +0000

Still an Asterix Village

Updated June 6, 2011, 10:12 PM

Pierre Haski, a former deputy editor of the daily Libération, is the co-founder and chief executive of the French independent news Web site Rue89.com.

France’s broadcasting authority is applying the law by calling on the country’s TV and radio broadcasters to stop using the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” on the air unless the news story justifies it. French law bans hidden advertising, and Facebook and Twitter are not (yet) generic names.

But this narrow legalistic approach gives France an Asterix village outlook, as in the popular cartoon when the whole of Gaul was under Roman occupation except for a tiny Breton village still resisting the globalization of the time. Read More

International cost of living ranking 2011

angelaclarke — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:21:42 +0000

Rising grocery and oil prices are impacting the low income earners most severely, but are also likely to impact expatriate purchasing power.

Lower income earners spend a larger percentage of their income on groceries and transport. The world’s poorest consumers spend a large proportion of their income, around 50 to 70 percent, on food and have limited capacity to adjust quickly to rapid price increases. In places like Egypt, Tunisia and Libya this has contributed to political unrest. At the expatriate level the impact will also be felt as up to 16% of their income is spent on groceries and 18% on transport.

http://www.xpatulator.com/outside.cfm?aid=267