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December 3, 2016 by Linda Gasparello Leave a Comment

Christmas Is Coming — I Know Because There’s a Cake!

Christmas is coming. I know this because of indelible evidence in my own home. My wife, Linda Gasparello, has just baked a Christmas cake. If I doubt that this is the month of Christmas, I just have to look at it, cooling on the kitchen counter, declaring itself, in its way, the harbinger of the […]

Christmas in Europe Coming Under Leaden Skies

Llewellyn King

AGRINIO, Greece — There is not a dark cloud hanging over Europe. There are a bunch of them. Taken together they account for a sense of foreboding, not quite despair, but a definite feeling that things are unraveling and, worse, that there is no leadership — second-raters at all the national helms. That was the […]

Time for a Little Trumpish Positive Non-Believing

Llewellyn King

I’d like to introduce you to the power of not believing. There is, as President Trump has pointed out, too much believing going on and it is time for a national re-evaluation. Take, for example, all this erroneous believing about sea-level rise. Guru Trump doesn’t believe in that, so it’s not happening. Billions of dollars […]

Blockchain, Smart Cities and the Urban Revolution

Llewellyn King

Blockchain, the decentralized, open-ledger system which can record permanently multiple transactions, is about to come into its own as the world’s cities move towards digitalization. It portends the kind of urban revolution that cities haven’t seen since water-borne sewage enhanced city livability. These “smart cities” of the future, big and small, will compete to be […]

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