The boy in three cities (a book being writen) + A persent History of Ian Rosmarin

The boy in three cities (a book being writen)

von Ianrosmarin am 03.06.2009 um 11:38:53 Uhr

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THE BOY IN THREE CITIES

CHAPTER ONE

The there was yellow sand on the beach and bright Sun light I could see her with. In the dream her curly blond hair her eyes were a light blue, her skin was a dark yellowish colour and her nose was flattish giving a hint of being far eastern. She was wearing a blue skirt with a white top it was a hot summer day on a desert island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
‘Have I ever told you that I love you?’
‘Only seven times a day!’ She replied,

I known long before this point that this had to be a dream as I had had it so many times before. I kept dreaming about the same girl.
The dream ended when my alarm ringed with the song Back in Time from the film back to the Future. I was a 24 years old in my bedroom was thinking about how it had been five years earlier before I had left for Manchester. The bedroom had not changed at all, the walls had yellow wallpaper and there was just about enough room to swing a cat in it. There was in the room the same large bookcase of my childhood and the old chest of drawers and of course and my notes from five years of university. As my eyes opened the first colour they could see was the creamy white of the ceiling. The dream was about Emma a girl I had know at University but not seen in over a year. I always remembered from my teenage years which she had apart from the time when we had both been 17 year olds and she had dyed it red it had looked awful it was time to return to reality.

There was no time for day dreaming what may have been, she was now married to a doctor like most attractive Jewish girls of her age. Unfortunately for her he was not in love with her he may have been handsome and may have towered over her but his eyes were on a woman who was already married. She was called Katie before and they had been lovers in Oxford he had even met her before Emma. They still sometimes met in Barnet where they would rent a room for a night their other half never known

I had actually overslept it was 9am I needed to get to the office by 10am so I took my legs right out of bed. I quickly got dressed doing everything apart from doing my tie. Quickly I had to run out of the house but my luck held it was a sunny day. Before I had to run down the road I could see the
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Little bit of green outside my house along with its misshaped trees. It was here eight years before in the middle of the night with a girl who was just barely my age but far more experienced than me I had lost my virginity. Of course I never thought about it these days and especially now I needed to join the world of work.

As I rushed down the road I quickly bumped into other people who seemed to be wearing the same black suit and tie as me. Within 10 minutes I had wrecked reached the station by now it was 9.29 am only half an hour to get to the office. Luckily the fast train into London appeared immediately however unluckily for me that same train was completely and utterly bursting with people. We will all trying to get to London unfortunately none of us had thought would we have enough breathing space to survive the trip.

In this packed train were commuters became sardines I literally had to hold my breath for 20 minutes. However like most days on the train I was lucky in one respect there were two barristers talking about a recent case. It turned out Mr Inglefield five days earlier had found Mrs Inglefield in the kitchen with a Mr Smith an old family Friend. Mrs Inglefield and Mr Smith were on the table with Mrs Inglefield's hands around Mr Smith's naked bum. As a result Mr Inglefield had decided to start divorce proceedings as it turned out the two barristers represented respectively Mr Inglefield and Mrs Inglefield. They were discussing how the case was progressing it turned out that Mr Inglefield was a bit tubby and the judge was a bit of an alcoholic. Before I could hear how the two barristers one an old man in his 50s the other a younger woman in her 40s were planning on using the money from the case to have a dirty weekend in Paris I reached Kings Cross and prepare for the crush of the London Underground.

It was certainly going to be a long day by this point I only had 20 minutes to get to my destination. I would be extremely lucky if I manage to get there within half an hour. As I got on to platform 10 at King's Cross as quickly as I could and managed to get to the end of the platform. However I still needed to navigate the oyster ticket machine.

I could not believe my luck! The machine was working but two upset red faced commuters fighting over the ticket machine. A few minutes later both men had been forced to get out of my way

By the time I got to my destination in the Docklands I was almost 20 minutes late however luckily for me that day the Waterloo and city line had been shut because of flooding. The rain by now was pouring down I was absolutely soaking and in fact I was starting to shiver. As I walked in I realised
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That between my dirty appearance and being late I was likely not to get a job, extolling for me my interviewers were over an hour late, I found myself sitting in a plush modernistic office on the 20th floor of Canary Wharf tower. The secretary was a teenager wearing a tight light grey suit in her late teens maybe 19 years old with tanned skin and a Whitechapel ring to it. When she was not answering phone calls she used the phone to speak to her boyfriend in Italy. The office was modernistic the chairs were hard to sit on one of the other visitors went to sit down and quickly fell on his back. Luckily for me the secretary on the phone by then knowing how late the people interviewing me were going to be had taken the liberty of putting my suit on the radiator. Each chairing the room was made out of a single piece of wood it was bent to look like a chair but in reality it was extremely uncomfortable.

It was 40 minutes later when the board walked in the leading man was a beast of a man who shape reminded me of the football light pale skin and 5.4 tall. However as it turned out he was the brains of the operation I had not checked my notes before that day of who was interviewing me. But the secretary quickly told me ‘Mr Inglefield and the rest of the board will be ready to see you in 10 minutes’.

After hearing the conversation on the train I was kind of shell shocked, could this be the same Mr Inglefield hitherto barristers were talking about? It was a fairly disturbing thought that the same man who is about to interview me had just started the process of divorcing his wife. Maybe because of the divorce he would decide to get out of the industry? Maybe he would not hire anyone this year?

As I walked into the room about to explain to the board the advantages of product X the product I had spent the entire weekend researching I looked at Mr Inglefield's colleagues. To the right of me was Darren Day a hotshot who had never been to university and he was two years younger than me. He had rapidly risen through the ranks of the company from a young age first starting out as a coffee boy and quickly progressing up the corporate ladder to sales manager till finally at the young age of 22 he was a member of the board of directors of a major company. He was even being headhunted by corporations like Sony and Toshiba and it was considered unlikely that he would remain at the company much longer. His parents had come from the Punjab he was a slim dark skinned man who was 6.1 tall and was wearing a pink shirt with a black suit. To the right of Mr Inglefield was Sam she was 34 years old a mother of three and a keen football fan and the head of the legal department of the company. She had brown eyes and was 4.11 tall but what she missed in side she more than made up with her present. She had a suit on and a bright bright red tie with Manchester United logo on it. Mr Inglefield I knew next to nothing about I only heard of him the day before. He held the rank within the company of chief executive officer and he was interviewing me to make sure I was up to the job of producing developing and manufacturing a new global product.

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I sat down in front of them they each had a forced smile the type you have when you’re as scared as hell. Mr Inglefield was playing with a pen like it was some baby’s toy in fact looking at his bald hairless fat head was like looking at a 50 year old baby. Mr Inglefield started to talk he had a public school accent with a voice that was both cut glass and a pronunciation that was perfect. Mr Inglefield could have come out of any of the number of public schools for example Eton, city of London boy’s school or Mill Hill. His tone was polite but firm he first asked me if I had headed any football team or rugby team at school. I sadly had to answer I had never been that good at sport and I had never be the competitive type. The three panel members looked at each other it quickly transpired that they had been expecting from my CV someone who had leadership qualities and who their underlings would never question.

Despite my lack of leadership skill and my obvious disadvantages I still got the job. It turned out my scientific background and qualifications made me an extremely good candidate. Afterwards I found out that Mr Inglefield and the other two people who had selected me in that room that day would not be my boss. His name was Keith Davenport he was a 37 years old a bachelor (who looked younger than me!) who had been married twice and in total had three children. Keith had been born in California in a suburb of Los Angeles tended to be extremely fashionable he had six Armani suits and expected those below him to look just as stylish. I on the other hand was the other extreme I had just about managed to buy an off-the-peg suit from John Lewis. Darren Day who by now I knew was not his real name suggested with my build we should go to Yeager in Oxford Street.

By the time I was due to see Keith I was suited and booted and I had also been unlikely to found out some more gossip. It turned out Darren was gay (which I guess meant that he could not help but bitch about other people!) that was why he had changed his name as his entire family had disapproved of his lifestyle. As a result ironically it was confirmed to me that Mr Inglefield was indeed involved in a bit of a divorce. I also found out that the nice cute 19-year-old secretary was a bit of a bike. That was one piece of information I really did not want to find out especially after she had been so nice to me in the first place at the beginning of the day. I tried to probe into see if there were any decent women in the office but for some reason I quickly realised he was trying to hit on me.

It was not the first time that a fellow male had tried to hit on me. I had been mistaken for being gay however after six lovers (all my lovers seemed busty and dominant but that was my type) I was hundred percent certain I was not. What Darren tried to do was put his hand in mine I politely said to him ‘sorry I don't bat for that side’. Darren six years later would invite me to his wedding in Sydney me and Jenny would bring our young daughter along.
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Two hours later back in the office I was finally introduced to Keith. Keith was an intimidating figure a former American football star who likes to keep in shape with an extremely white chest. In fact for the first five minutes all I could think of was chest and the fact that if we were in the bar and we were both looking for attractive women despite his age he was more likely to walk away with someone to spend the night with. Before we could talk he had to take a phone call so I looked around the somewhat spacious marble floored room.

The room was filled up with African art old Zulu shields carvings and a number of other artefacts which I can't describe which seemed to belong in a museum. Anything that was not traditional African art belong to the civil rights movement for example a signed photograph of John Luther King or a picture of Keith with Barack Obama at this point I could guess why he was my boss. Keith was keen to advertise is African-American heritage as well as pictures of his various children and his two ex wives.

He came back in the room with two large mugs of coffee, and started talking in his deep voice,
‘ I know you've only just got the job and I know you don't know what exactly you've been hired for but have you ever done much travelling?’
At this point I did not know what to make of what he had just said, as far as I knew the job was to be based in London. My job is simply to supervise and manage the marketing and distribution of product x.
‘Sure I can do some travelling up to Manchester every weekend’
The reason I had said Manchester was that was where their other main office was and I was sure that was where they were going to ask me to go to. Keith smiled again; I suddenly could see some of the wrinkles on his big face. It was the type of smile you made when you were a child and your hand was caught in the cookie jar.
‘It’s going to be a bit further than Manchester’
‘Glasgow?’
‘We thinking a bit further afield’
‘Eastern Europe’
‘Outside of Europe how about Asia and North American?’
‘Where in North America and Asia do you want to place me?’

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I smiled it was an awkward smile the ground split below my fit and I could have fallen in but at this second I would have not carried ‘what in hell did they have in mind?’ I had no idea what he was going to say next;

‘You know New York and the Mediterranean are nice this time of year’
‘I know this time last year I was in Greece’
‘Your CV says that you worked in the Weizmann Institute of Science and you said you had family in Greenwich’
‘So you want me to work in Israel and the States?’
‘No we are hoping that you will work for our new Produce X in New York, London and Tel Aviv, the plan is for you to be two weeks in each place. I have to say if you do well in this position you made that very far in the company is, if you don't then there is no job for you here.’ He said in a stern voice and then smiled again.
I had lived and worked in Israel for two weeks doing drug design research at the Weizmann. It had been a fun time but there was also a dark side. Beneath the lash green lawns of the park land and the state of the art modernistic buildings the facades, the lecture theatres and the impressive science and research as well as the impressive facilities there was a problem. All the time I was there at the Institute officially we were not allowed to talk about politics. However they were tantalising hints that not all was well in Israel the day before I left for home I talked to a group of Russia born Israelis. They talked about the possibility in the near future of another war but not about Iran but the Palestinians who lived in Israel itself as Israelis Arabs. I soon found out that not a single one was friendly with a single Israeli Arab it reminded me of when I was even younger when I visited the city of Leicester. Leicester had a large community which was Pakistani they never with the white community and even though they lived on the same streets they never went to the same schools or shops. A few years later in Leicester there was a race riot police with riot shields stopping crowds of demonstrators. After the event politicians saying that the local community needed to change a passive segregation never works and I known from my time in New York I would see even more of it there. All my time at the Weizmann I never saw a single Arab student. The country was in fact very much on the edge as well as most of the Middle East as a result Israel did remind me of Leicester that city in northern England more than a country in the Middle East.

Like Leicester where unemployment was ripe there were growing problems in the nearby regions but here they were entire countries. Jordan the King had been weakened and in Egypt the government had lost control of the Sinai. As a result in parts of the country including Tel Aviv people were restocking their bomb shelters. However on the other hand the country was one of the best at producing products like X so the company would want to make them there. New York on the other
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hand was a great city for me to live in I had friends and family in fact some of my Israeli friends had moved to New York. New York had everything I had ever wanted however I would have to go to Israel as well for a year.

‘Before you take the job you will have your costs paid we pay for your flying, flats and even food and your telephone bill.’
‘OK when do I start?’
‘David Gold you start Monday you fly out to New York you’re got four days find a flat in New York’
With that ‘Ok’ I started a very interesting year.

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von Ianrosmarin am 22.04.2009 um 01:19:46 Uhr

Satday this weekend I was fairly busy at 10 in the morning I went to the gym, at 1 I had a date at 5 I saw a film before heading off to a party at 10 at nigth before heading home at 4 in the moring? Can anyone ever be out and do too much in a single day?

It may sound like crazy questionto some people, because surely if you’ve got the time and money than you should be able to do an unlimited amount of things. I remember eight years ago when I was at university in Manchester I used to on a daily basis for far more in than I do now. In those days I was a member of the chess club, I had a much bigger social circle out I was doing one of the hardest degrees anyone can do chemistry. Today I have a part-time paralegal job, I’m training to be a lawyer and I live at home. The problem is that the older you get the less you feel you need to go out and socialize as much as you did when you were younger.

Of course for me sometimes socializing this much is not a good thing, as I’m a diabetic. These days I no longer just need to worry about taking my injections at the right time and eat at the rigth time, but I also need to take blood presure pill.

many of my friends now have the same problem, so much of our time is spent socializing which often acts as a cover for networking. In fact in recent years I’ve noticed how important networking has become,I’ve been told that my skills that I’ve developed over the last two years as a trainee lawyer will not be will get me a training contract it will be who I know. In this respect I am again fairly lucky the last two years I’ve met many solicitous even though none of them can give me a training contract they in turn of introduced me to other people who could help me.

However I do have suspicion if I did not have these contacts could I get a training contract and by extension are the people who are getting training contracts really the best people for the job…

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IAN’S WORLD aims to be Britain’s answer to The HUFFINGTON POST

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 11th, 2009

Recently I was reading the Media Guardian (Monday 6th,April 2009) and about the The Huffington. As I read the story it hit me that both Ian’s World and the Huffington have a lot in commion as we both blogs about both the writer and his friends and we both planning to become sources of news in our own rigth.

Both the Huffington and Ian’s World have New Papers in the real world they want to rival in our its the Guardian in the Huffington case its the New York Times. At this point in time I need more writes to make this idea more than just a pipe dream. However its not just what we have in common thats surpzing its what we don’t agree on!

The Huffington Post I think after seeing their website wants to be an on-line news paper we on the other hand want to be an on-magzine. I see the blog or the news blog as not being a replacment for the news papers after all has TV replaced flim? No I think we need to become a News form in our own rigth. Ian’s world is about our world in everday life sometimes we will talk about the but at our core we trying to tell you what is going on. Later on during this summer I plan not just to do a number of webcam interviews but also to travel to both Israel and Turkey. James will be reporting as he has been from Japan, Russal will be teling you about life in London and Kara about Jewish life in London. More bloggers will be joining the website in both Canada and America, as well as Israel and Turkey.

The other point is Huffington has been live for four years Ian’s World (which in its old form was live for one year 3 weeks) in its new form is less than three weeks old. If you want to see what Ian’s world hope’s to look like in a year I strongly suggest you look at the Huffington website. At this point in our history we have 4 bloggers but by Janury 2009 we hope too have between 20 to 25 writers.

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Age of Stupid?

Posted by admin in Me, Uncategorized on April 1st, 2009

Its the Age of Stupid, well its not the end of the world or mankind just the end of a civilization

The age of stupid http://www.ageofstupid.net/ which I not yet seen which is an four year in the making by director Franny Armstrong may very well be one of the most intelligent documentary done this decade. However before I have even seen it I can see it is not 100% right for example mankind is not heading towards extinction true between 4 to 8 billion in a world of 9 billion may died. It is true the present human civilization may be about to collapse this century but there will be people around to pick up the pieces. The fact is that many scientists and a growing number now think that global temperatures will go up by 2 degree in the near future and most think 5 to 6 degrees cannot be stopped. The fact is it may very well be that whatever we did now might not save this civilization. I am not saying we shouldn’t do anything at all for example I believe the law should be changed so wind farms can be built anywhere that they are needed however I am also aware that in order to produce our energy needs we would also need a lot more nuclear power. When you see how Green groups feel towards nuclear waste that would be very difficult to do. In my own opinion we need if we are to have any hope of saving this society to have the equivalent of the Manhattan project for fusion power. The other problem with the documentary was that it advocates a direct action unfortunately we know in this country that direct action is extremely ineffective it could not even stop the Iraq war. In fact it is about as effective as stopping the new runway for Heathrow Airport. I got news for the Green groups if stop the building of one Airport the result will be a new one either in the River Thames like London Mayor Boris Johnson has suggested or a new airport in mainland Europe! I know trains should take more air passages but the fact is they have their limits ever been by train to New York? Green groups should not be targeting the airports they should be targeting the airplane makers but of course they never will as they never targeted the rigth people. Other targets the Greens have gone after are genetically modified cropswhich could feed millions in the developing world. If we are in the age of Stupid then its a age with many faces from zombielike people who go to cults too the old women who spend their days watching what A to Z of reality stars are doing once their out of the Big Brother house! or even going to the next Michael Jackson show in the O2 (talk about bad taste maybe Gary Glinter should have a comeback!).

So if we can’t save this civilization what would be the result if you read Volume 201 of the New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com dated the 28th of February 2009 you would surely get a good idea. By 2099 it says the equator large dry areas which would be unliveable huge areas of land flooded. The good news for anyone living like me in Britain would be we would escape the worse unlike many of the southern European states. The world however would be a very different place most of southern India would be unliveable. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan would be unliveable as drought made them uninhabitable much of Bangladesh would be an abandoned. The same fate would be most of Africa and most of the Americans including anything south of the great lakes or North of the Patagonia (Western Antarctica by then would also be liveable). Both Canada and Northern Eurasia would be inhabitable and it’s quite possible that Russia and other countries with small populations like Greenland and Iceland would be inundated by refugees fleeing China and India. My other guess is that rich counties in the area like some Arab states, Israel and some Asia states would use technology to survive the new climate. The result as James Lovelock the writer of Gaia said was that our species would have a great cull this century. I think people living in more remote but habitable countries like Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand would not allow refugees into their borders once the population reached a certain number. I suspect and I hope I am wrong that we could end up with a form of global government as people mixed more than in any time in their history were remote islands refused to take refugees these places become a kind of global gated commuity) which would refuse to join the new goverment. My other suspicion is that democracy would not survive this era in Britain (I could even see a Britain with a seige mentaity taking over weaker states which are near by) and other places which are still liveable could end up controlled by the Army. If you look at islands off the coast of China, India, Africa you could see a governer ordering the local army to shot anyone coming to the coast. Its not hard seeing Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia having solders and sails really to shot anyone. In Britain if all the goverments in mainland Europe had fallen and there was near or even there was civil war I could see the army doing things that make my blood boil like blowing the channel tunnel. In Canada its likly that 100s of millions of Americans and Latin Americans would end up at the border living in conditions like in Gaza today. Many other Americans would end up in Alaska which then would be the bread basket of America. Many others would I guess try stay south but by then much of America would have drought. Technlogy could save many but it would by then be a hash lifestyle. In a world of boraders death will become more commion cities will be abandoned to be found by people centuries from now. It seems to me in 3 or 4 centuries those people and their great grand childern may very well want to leave this ruined world for the stars.

With much of the world uninhabitable and with the odds being unstoppable I think it’s time to give some good news. Every time a human civilization has died no matter how great a new one has replaced it that is how the West replaced the Romans (if they had not what would the world be like today? better or worse?) this is how the world goes on everything with a start has an end that is history. What I hope people reading this understand is that all they need to do is to survive the death of this Goble civilization if they can. If we could save it we should but the fact is that it is unlikly we can save it, I know the Scientists who know this I also know the sides on both sides of the climate debate but they are both wrong. The fact is Scientsts know that it is too late they just do not want to tell the world. Its wrong not to say it is happening as many people do but it is also wrong to say that this is the end of the world and mankind. The fact is we are at the end of a era started in the 1500s as time is going by it looks certain that we are in a age of spin may Scientist don’t want to tell the Greens the facts that they themselves cannot face. Someone with my training in both law and science has say that it may very well be too late too save the world we know it may very well be time to get really to live in a brave new world in a centuries time.

However if we could find a way too stop it, it would save billions!

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von Ianrosmarin am 28.03.2009 um 17:11:27 Uhr

Its the Age of Stupid, well its not the end of the world or mankind just the end of a civilization

The age of stupid http://www.ageofstupid.net/ which I not yet seen which is an four year in the making by director Franny Armstrong may very well be one of the most intelligent documentary done this decade. However before I have even seen it I can see it is not 100% right for example mankind is not heading towards extinction true between 4 to 8 billion in a world of 9 billion may died. It is true the present human civilization may be about to collapse this century but there will be people around to pick up the pieces. The fact is that many scientists and a growing number now think that global temperatures will go up by 2 degree in the near future and most think 5 to 6 degrees cannot be stopped. The fact is it may very well be that whatever we did now might not save this civilization. I am not saying we shouldn’t do anything at all for example I believe the law should be changed so wind farms can be built anywhere that they are needed however I am also aware that in order to produce our energy needs we would also need a lot more nuclear power. When you see how Green groups feel towards nuclear waste that would be very difficult to do. In my own opinion we need if we are to have any hope of saving this society to have the equivalent of the Manhattan project for fusion power. The other problem with the documentary was that it advocates a direct action unfortunately we know in this country that direct action is extremely ineffective it could not even stop the Iraq war. In fact it is about as effective as stopping the new runway for Heathrow Airport. I got news for the Green groups if stop the building of one Airport the result will be a new one either in the River Thames like London Mayor Boris Johnson has suggested or a new airport in mainland Europe! I know trains should take more air passages but the fact is they have their limits ever been by train to New York? Green groups should not be targeting the airports they should be targeting the airplane makers but of course they never will as they never targeted the rigth people. Other targets the Greens have gone after are genetically modified cropswhich could feed millions in the developing world. If we are in the age of Stupid then its a age with many faces from zombielike people who go to cults too the old women who spend their days watching what A to Z of reality stars are doing once their out of the Big Brother house! or even going to the next Michael Jackson show in the O2 (talk about bad taste maybe Gary Glinter should have a comeback!).

So if we can’t save this civilization what would be the result if you read Volume 201 of the New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com dated the 28th of February 2009 you would surely get a good idea. By 2099 it says the equator large dry areas which would be unliveable huge areas of land flooded. The good news for anyone living like me in Britain would be we would escape the worse unlike many of the southern European states. The world however would be a very different place most of southern India would be unliveable. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan would be unliveable as drought made them uninhabitable much of Bangladesh would be an abandoned. The same fate would be most of Africa and most of the Americans including anything south of the great lakes or North of the Patagonia (Western Antarctica by then would also be liveable). Both Canada and Northern Eurasia would be inhabitable and it’s quite possible that Russia and other countries with small populations like Greenland and Iceland would be inundated by refugees fleeing China and India. My other guess is that rich counties in the area like some Arab states, Israel and some Asia states would use technology to survive the new climate. The result as James Lovelock the writer of Gaia said was that our species would have a great cull this century. I think people living in more remote but habitable countries like Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand would not allow refugees into their borders once the population reached a certain number. I suspect and I hope I am wrong that we could end up with a form of global government as people mixed more than in any time in their history were remote islands refused to take refugees these places become a kind of global gated commuity) which would refuse to join the new goverment. My other suspicion is that democracy would not survive this era in Britain (I could even see a Britain with a seige mentaity taking over weaker states which are near by) and other places which are still liveable could end up controlled by the Army. If you look at islands off the coast of China, India, Africa you could see a governer ordering the local army to shot anyone coming to the coast. Its not hard seeing Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia having solders and sails really to shot anyone. In Britain if all the goverments in mainland Europe had fallen and there was near or even there was civil war I could see the army doing things that make my blood boil like blowing the channel tunnel. In Canada its likly that 100s of millions of Americans and Latin Americans would end up at the border living in conditions like in Gaza today. Many other Americans would end up in Alaska which then would be the bread basket of America. Many others would I guess try stay south but by then much of America would have drought. Technlogy could save many but it would by then be a hash lifestyle. In a world of boraders death will become more commion cities will be abandoned to be found by people centuries from now. It seems to me in 3 or 4 centuries those people and their great grand childern may very well want to leave this ruined world for the stars.

With much of the world uninhabitable and with the odds being unstoppable I think it’s time to give some good news. Every time a human civilization has died no matter how great a new one has replaced it that is how the West replaced the Romans (if they had not what would the world be like today? better or worse?) this is how the world goes on everything with a start has an end that is history. What I hope people reading this understand is that all they need to do is to survive the death of this Goble civilization if they can. If we could save it we should but the fact is that it is unlikly we can save it, I know the Scientists who know this I also know the sides on both sides of the climate debate but they are both wrong. The fact is Scientsts know that it is too late they just do not want to tell the world. Its wrong not to say it is happening as many people do but it is also wrong to say that this is the end of the world and mankind. The fact is we are at the end of a era started in the 1500s as time is going by it looks certain that we are in a age of spin may Scientist don’t want to tell the Greens the facts that they themselves cannot face. Someone with my training in both law and science has say that it may very well be too late too save the world we know it may very well be time to get really to live in a brave new world in a centuries time.

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von Ianrosmarin am 16.03.2009 um 02:25:57 Uhr

Right over the next few weeks this blog is moving (and the posts are moving there but your still be able to read old ones here!). The address is http://www.ians-world.com/blog/ hope everthing's ok welcome to Ian's World the Magzine. There be a number of new writers (5 have signed up 20 are joining) so I hope your there too see the new website!

What to do with Pakistan?

von Ianrosmarin am 09.03.2009 um 19:36:55 Uhr

What to do with Pakistan?

When is a state not a state that is surly by now a question of these times, we so far had states, failed states, virtual states, terrorist states and drug states. Some states are recognized and in reality many are not. In my opinion there are even some states that have ceased to exist in almost every single meaning of the word just the governmentshave not yet realized it yet like in the case Pakistan.

When I hear the word Pakistan I think of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and both states seem to have a lot in commion. Both are complex mixtures of different ethnic groups with different religious beliefs. But the major difference between them is that Yugoslavia was not a nuclear weapons state. The historic similarities seem to be clear pakistan a lost cause even if the army takes back control of the state in time if still needs to give control back to civil goverment. The problem is that everything about Pakistan is divided unlike India which is united with its Hindu culture that does not seem to be any think unifying Pakistan anymore, one commentator said yesterday Urdu and cricket united the country. After the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team the country now and he has one thing uniting it a common language And if you look at the country itself to even areas where that is not true as well.

With all the problems in Afghanistan along the tribal belt surnly by now it is dawning on the west by now a radical solution is needed. If it was me I divide the country into two the East and the West, in the East I keep the a rump of Pakistan the rest I would guess including Balochistan (which would in my view best be put under UN Trustship) the rest of the West of Pakistan I would put under NATO and my plan would be to make the North West areas part of Afghanistan.

The rump of Pakistan would be made up of Sindh, Punjab and Kashmir the hope would be this would stop Pakistan's nuclear weapons getting into the wrong hands. The smaller state . The plan would for this state which would be to try and stop it from just being like Russia after the USSR or Turky after the Ottoman Empire. The West would have to invest a huge amounts of money but this smaller state should be more stable then what it is now and like Russa and Turky it would be a good idea to give it a new name. Of course the cost of the project will be similar to the cost of rebuilding both Germany and Japan after world war two and in addition like with the latter their will need to be major structural changes to the societies in the region. We need to get rid off politically ambitious religious leaders and we need to find a way to separate the church from state a bit like Turkey after world war one but unlike Turkey we are going to need to find a way of not of just persecuting religion for religion's sake but bringing under control the ideologies.

However I would be lying if I said the solution was only in Southern Asia its also in another area of world the Middle East for years Saudi Arabia and other goverments have been funding Madrasahs where many of the religious fundamentalists have been produced. So also is probably needed to is a recognition in the West that we need to force these societies to changebecause I'm now of the opinion that till we do more bomb attacks could could happen.

My feeling is as a Wester is something needs to be done we now have in South East Asia a state that seems to be failling and becoming a non functioning entity. they have a president held up in his ivory tower, an army that's proving to be impotent. Most of the country seems be run by people who seem to be as bad as the Islamic fundamentalists who most peopele like myself in the wish hope are captured soon.

I think I should say I never step foot in South Asia in my life I Jewish and I a rank outsider, I know that in Eastern Pakistan that their is a history of religious tolerance and my instinct are that in the West we need to help it, but I must stress thats what I think from a distance I could be wrong!

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von Ianrosmarin am 08.03.2009 um 16:20:10 Uhr

PS what to do with Pakistan will be finished in the next few days! PS glad I in Britain see whats happening in American!

Ians-word.com

von Ianrosmarin am 08.03.2009 um 16:08:37 Uhr

Over the next few months we will be changing to the magzine formate with a new website Ians-world.com. In the mean time U-Tube will be used in the next few weeks on the website below is an example (not made by me or the team who will be joining me soon)of one of the hard hiting subjects in this case climate change! Enjoy!

Love and Hate

von Ianrosmarin am 28.02.2009 um 03:56:52 Uhr

Why do people fall in love, I know it's a hard question I've been in love only twice in my entire life. Both times the women have been disappointments so much so I wonder if I would fall in love again afterwards. One woman fell for at university who always seemed to be on every committee I now know has married a Jewish gay doctor, and I know that as one of her 'friends' who got married told her lover (not her husband) after a bit on the side!

I'm rapidly finding myself asking weird and wonderful questions many of them seem really unimportant but some of them sometimes seem to hit the nail on the head. Like why does Will always tell me about his sex life or why I so busy these days I find it hard ever to switched off or when I am switched off to go out! Here I amwriting a post at 3.30 in the morningon the outskirts of one of the greatest cities in the worldand all I can do is think about sex and life.

The fact is the over the last few yearsmy life has been in the slow lane its only in the last few months since I took up law that things have speeded up.Many of my friends are worried that they are going to lose their jobs now and only three of my friends have married ( and out of the 3 only one has had a child but he got married 4 years before the other two!).I'm halfway to 28 years old, in three days my blog http://ian-s-world-today.blog.co.uk/ is going to be just a year old itself. When I think of all the women I kissed, slept with I realize that's not for women in love with a single one of them really. The only one I not slept with is married to a gay man and most of her so called friends would knife her in the back if they through it would give them any advantage.

Meanwhile if I don't meet someone in the next two years I risk the fate that she will have,I have to say that first loves are people that you never forget about the only problem is even if they are single you know you must never go back. Both men and women know one thing about the dating game or the mating like I like to call it! The Mr Big of sex and the city is just a pipe dream the fact is you should never go back and I suspect I never will.The other issue is that I keep having this recurring dreamI've been having it since the first year of university it's really a nightmare.In the dream I wearing a black suit in New York or London the object of my affectionis walking towards me and she hasa six-year-old little girl I too busy on so I don't notice her but she goes straight into me. I then realize that it's hershe starts telling me about how she's getting divorcedbut I'm in a rush for some unknown reasonso I don't really talk to her.I wake up in a hot sweatat university I get some water from the sinkat home I tend to go down to the kitchen.The fact ismy dream seems to predicted the futureI am indeed working in a job or are likely to have to wear a suit she is married to a man she will at some point have to divorce.There's nothing really nightmarish in the dream upon from one thingthe fact that I'm so busy that I don't care to ask if she is ok?

At the end of the day we are all in the same race to find the right person, and I know with a certain amount of satisfaction that I tried my best to stop the mess before it happened but I had to move on with my life.I've never try to work out what dreams mean but this dream keeps on repeating itself.Based on what I know about his situation and based on what I know about my lifeit's almost certain that I'll meet her one-day she'll be upsetI'll and I will have to make a decision on whether to help her or not.I hope I'm not the person in the dream but I don't hope it for me but for her!

Is the European Union Finished?

von Ianrosmarin am 27.02.2009 um 20:00:00 Uhr

recently people have been asking me why do I not write about the European Union, after all I am very pro-EU myself?the reason I've not written much about the European Union recently is that it seems to never fail especially recently to make an absolute joke of itself. One example the especially surprised me was social dumping.

Social dumping is when a company based in one part of the EU sends workers to another part of the European Union as in the part the European Union that they are based the and they earn less than in the part of the European Union are being sent to. The result is you end up with Portuguese workers in northern England and British workers somewhere in Italy. I myself last year actually learn legislation in detail, apart from the legislation being really complex the whole idea was to give Europeans a chance to work in any member state they wanted but I felt if they were only going to work in another member state as they were cheaper would it not only be unfair for the local workers but also the foreign workers who were being sent to that country.

It turns out that many of these workers are sent for many months at a time to work in foreign countries away from their families and friends. To me it would be a great deal fairer if the salary all over the European Union was the same. But the way things now stand with the economy in a bad state is that social dumping is becoming more common.

the other problem seems to be the euro, it turns out many of the poor countries like for example Greece are having huge problems. The fact is their industrie's are in trouble and their governments cannot take action over their monetary policy.the result is it seems likely that over the next few years a number of countries are going to have to leave the euro and I suspect if this downtime becomes a full on depression and European Union rules don't chang to understand every country is different than we could see many states just leaving work all together.

It reminds me of the old saying if you own someone £100 pounds and you can't pay you're in trouble. On the other hand if you own someone £100 million then its not you in trouble but them. In a way what is going on in the European Union emphasizes this point!

Gordon its time to go...

von Ianrosmarin am 27.02.2009 um 01:34:34 Uhr

Unlike Jeremy Clarkson I would not call Gordon Brown 'a one eyed Scot who lied about the financial industry', I would however suggest that maybe it's time for him to apologize. It may also be time for him to update his CV like so many other people here in Great Britain have already done. I read in the paper for example, that a loop hole in the VAT laws was about to be closed usually I would not care about this I don't mind the odd fat cat losing there rigth to defraud the rest of us but what upset me in this case was the fact that most people who would be affected were not the well off but many who have it hard or impossible to get a permanent job.

At this point I feel like it's time to the minute that I've actually been in that position before, when I left University at 24 years old I found myself for a good year and a half doing temp jobs in fact my invigilator was also a temp. As I spoke to her I soon found out the market had got even harder than what it was like when I was out of work. I've been reading the newspapers as well and now I'm even more worried than before you see one of the main reasons I made up my mind to do law was that I wanted a career and I believed with a profession I would find it much easier to get a job.

However it's not worked out like that it turns out that many of the people who used to work in banking are now rushing into the legal profession as quickly as they can. I'm hoping the fact that I got into law before them will give me a advantage when it comes to the legal profession but I'm not so sure...

I can any hope that things change but as my invigilator said they only needed £300 or £400 a week but as it was impossible to get a permanent job it seemed likely that they would avoid spending more money. Mr Brown I believe you really need to tender an apology and maybe even a resignation and if I was you I would update my CV you really need to fairly soon in my opinion as most of your 65 million bosses have had enough.

Just two days

von Ianrosmarin am 18.02.2009 um 20:03:14 Uhr

In less than 48 hours I due to do my first exams in the LPC property! For all of the other students (or slaves as that is how we sometimes feel!) good luck and good nigth!

Isreal going to the Rigth ? er I could have told you that 4 years ago!

von Ianrosmarin am 12.02.2009 um 19:42:47 Uhr

I read Jonathan Freedland article in the Guardian today, about the Israeli election. First I not going to talk about the election result as far as I can see thats the really borning bit. Second Jonathan you should really stop talking about into a kind of Isreali/Palestinians, Switzerland it won't happen you only need to talk to a small section of the Isreali public or the Palestinians. I could see the result coming a mile away years before. I talked to Isrealis born in the fomrer USSR many of them seemed to hate the Arabs. I not surpized at all at the election. To Alex Stein who I used to know at Manchester University sorry but I told before you moved to Isreal. As I get older I see a that Isreal seems to look in on herself more and more. In fact like I never be a Little Englander I would find it hard to be a little Isreali like many Isrealis want many Jewish people to become. Today Isreali Arabs are being seen in Isreal as a kind of 5th column this is no surprise to me at all I saw it for myself at the Weitzman Institute.

If you want me to suggest what Isreal will look in 10 or 20 years I think its certain that the country would have left most of the West Bank behind but I would not be surpized if Isreal only kept the Jordan valley if fact I be surpized if they did not. Whatever the parties say I think Gaza will be in effect part of Iran I see Hamas still being in effect the goverment of Gaza. I have read recently about Egypt becoming like Iran in 1979 With an elderly 80 year old leader. What worries me is that the Isrealis worry to much about Arabs who live in Isreal the fact is there is a growing chance of something much worse then the rockets in Gaza or some local problems in the West Bank (where they know they should not be!) is the very real possibility that one of the neighboring governments could collapse and this could lead to a much bigger Tragedy then the wars of the last 3 years.

The result is that I worry not that the Isrealis and the Palestinians will never each get the two state solution (I hope both they will and it will happen soon) but the real nigthmare that myself and many Western writers worry about but how the the two sides would get there. This is why as a fan of the Western system of goverment the reason why I would never settle in Israel. As a fan Western European system of goverment I could not see how I could live in Isreal in the long term in any rate. At the Weitzman Institute I learned this lesson it was talking to a group of students who were all Isrealis who had been born in the fomer USSR. What they said was the same as the rigth wring parties that now seem likly to take control of Isreal today. They seemed nice people but as I talked to them I soon found out that they were worried about the growing numbers of Isreali Arabs in Isreal. They too suggested that they may need to swear allegiance to the state of Isreal, that they should also be limted to the number of child they should have I first through of the bed police or China's one child policy. When you are someone like myself who believes the only way to defuse the demographic time bomb is to integrate these people into mainstream society in Isreal you soon find out that like Jonathan Freedland's idea that even that idea it will never happen. As a result of talking to these students I heard constant fantasists of how the situation could be sorted out. I think I should point out that the Weitzman is not some two bit college in Isreal. The Weitzman is in fact the equivalent of Oxford or Cambridge here or Harvard University in America,if that's what people think in the main teaching institutions think you have to ask what does the Isreali think in the street think. It seems to me that the West needs to stop seeing Isreal as part of the West and Jewish people themselves need to ask questions. I agree the Isrealis have seen things from only their side in a little bubble, that is the reason I would never live there. Secondly and more importantly both to myself and to the Isrealis I believe if I did live there I could not help the situation or myself. When you see the election result it seems to me that this is the new face of Isreal coming out and it seem to me to show the best reason for not moving there permanently for people like myself.

The net result is a country that I would never want to live in and many other Jewish people would feel the same way about. There is a growing nagging worry that the Jewish state could become something that would worry many of us. As I sat in that student kitchin and heard what they said a jigsaw started to form in my mind, since I had worked in the Weitzman I had not met a single Arab student. I think Isreal's largest problem is the split between Arabs and Isrealis who live in effect they alreally live in two counties. I would not be surpized at all if there is a short civil war in only one or two years time. What worries me more in the major towns and cities where they live side by side the lifes that will be ruined. At the end of the day its not up to me or anyone else Jewish, Arab or Western to bring or not bring peace its up to the Palestinians and Isrealis, I don't think America or Britain or even the rest of the world can bring peace and I do not think its up too us but what I will say is that it does not look good...

Both sides seem to be bend on carrying on figthing each other forever, being Jewish I glad Isreal is around but the country needs to change. Isreal is a young country but its people like myself come from a old people in terms of history what I cannot stand is when they say we not had a country 2000 years so we can mistakes Isreal is over 60 years old in my view it needs to grow up and see the world for what it really is. For me my life is in London the Greatest city in the world, all the women I have dated and slept with live in this city, all my family are here my mother, my father, my uncle, my autes mybe I move to New York or Down Under I just think its a waste of my life doing what so many of my peers have done. I live in a city of 8 million people why would I want to move to a country with just 7 million poeple? To me thats just alien I do not speck the language,I hate it when people put their national flag outside their homes (I must say I did not like it when I saw it in both Canada and America I seem to be allergic to nationalism). I find it hypocritical and a pit in my stomach seems to develop, I don't need to feel part of something greater to to be me. I am my own person a island in my own rigth and I friends with a great many other islands. The people who I have known who have moved to Isreal I never understood why they moved there? One person I had not seen in years said on a BBC program that Isreal was home I find myself thinking like many other Jewish people world wide why do you think that? I thinking after the LPC spending some time in Isreal from what I have heard the country however has not changed much the people have not grown up yet. I am a child of the West The West seems to me to be starting to fall apart in every meaning of the word as it falls apart I see the former Western states becoming like Russia and the coutnries of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. They talk about being purn states and soon they target anyone who is not like them. At the end of the day this is not just Isreal's problem this is the West's problem but I always seen Isreal and to an extent America as the Canaries in the mine when something happens in these countries and you can bet your bottom dollar that it will eventually happen here in Britain and the rest of Europe just not in the same way as it happened in these places. For me London has and will always be home I like it here it maybe borning sometimes but I think myself that I perfer reading about Gordan Brown and the banks as well as the Local problems my home country has.

My rebirth every year is 14th of February Valentine's Day!

von Ianrosmarin am 03.02.2009 um 03:31:52 Uhr

Since the bomb shell of the changes coming to my blog I not really had any time to write a new post.

So here on the third day of February, for me February is the middle of my year (Augest the 28th is my birthday), the time of when I think of rebirth. Today I had a talk with a friend (or should I say a former friend now).Just before new year we had just finished our mocks me and a few class went into a pub called the White Hart which is near by the college in Waterloo.

I saw a friend I had not seen in ages and we talked (no I not giving the name of the former friend!). I sat down and talked when one of the friend's class mate's invited to a party. The friend told me I could not come (and this is what I would not have said) as an acquaintance who was a close friend was coming I naggied about it and they sent a text. They then rudly shouted the reply to the rest of the room. This greatly embarrassed as well as upsetting me I told them what I through of their friend and they said they did not want to get involved in the dispute.

I told one of their friends who had not been there at the time what happened. Me and this 'friend' did not talk for two months till to nigth. When they in capital letters insulted me online and told me that I had made them look bad in front of their 'friends'.

After shutting down my MSN to get ride of them they then at three o'clock in the morning sent me a text message which was even ruder than the messages they had on MSN my simple reply was 'I feel the same way'.

Maybe my behavior was terrible maybe I am a 'bitch' like they said or 'not cool' but those facts don't matter its how they acted. The one thing I am not is someone who does not speck their mind! I found that day that in fact they had never been a real friend they just cared how they looked and how people saw them as they could not answer a simple question? How does the other person feel.

And there is an additional point in the legal profession we will often have clients you can't tell everything to because it's not in their interest. I know for a fact my 'friend' cannot do that therefore their is a very slim chance of them being a successful lawayer as half of being a lawayer is being a people person and sometime you cannot and should not tell someone in other words you need to be able to you need to be able to empathize in other words you need to be up to understand how the other person feels. I have realized that this is one thing my friend missed and that is why so few of their own friends were mates they had had for more than two years, I know the within the rules the solicitor conduct booklet there are limits most notably rule two tells us that we need to tell our client about anything to do with their case but I still think that being a good lawyer being able to empathize with your client is extremely important and these are the three points I would always ask the solicitor to consider if they possibly can,(a) something they do not need to know, (b) something that will upset them and (c) something that will make them do somthing they reget!

And thats why I call February my rebirth every year the date is the 14th of February Valentine's Day!

Setting up a Magzine

von Ianrosmarin am 30.01.2009 um 19:47:40 Uhr

The last few days I have discussed with my friend James, developing a website for my blog. In fact in a few weeks if all goes well Ian's World or (a persent history of Ian Rosmarin), will effectively become an online magazine. The plan is simple and number of my friends again to seeing the writing on a variety of issues. From Middle East peace to football (and yes the gunners), the first stage in the change from blog to website will happen in late between February too Augest this year when my mate gets back from Thailand and we start redesigning the website. My intention is eventually to go and live at some point in the next few months. By that point they'll probably be five to six other writers, who at the time of writing I am in discussions with. My blog will have to work hand-in-hand with my legal career which by 2010 should have started. If you want to be one of those first writers, you need to meet me in person in the meantime enjoy this blog when the new website to starts up the plan is to have a separate website, or the articles a you've read over the last year on the blog will be transferred it you'll still be able to read Ian's world but the chances are over time most of the submissions will only be on the new website not here. It's extremely early days now my business models essentially on the hope I can get people to the advertise on the website. If I don't succeed at least I tried...

1929 again?

von Ianrosmarin am 29.01.2009 um 01:52:05 Uhr

Is my generation seeing a repeat of the 1929 crash?, That is the question I ended up asking myself today?could it be that I'm in for a once in a century catastrophe which is only second to a war?

I must sound like the prophet of doom when I come out with lines like the one above. But the enormity of the financial bubble that has happened in the last 16 years means that I am not very optimistic. It seems very likely that best I have a long recession ahead of me at worse there is going to be depression. It seems to me that such a depression could even lead to a major global conflict just like World War II.

All the signs are there, large numbers the world's population now live in places where they want to get rid of the government. The world economy today has a bolimited global financial sector. The people who work in it now look not so much like masters of the universe but lambs to the slaughter.Lehman Brothers is now no more, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch may actually go the same way as well in many of the other financial institutions worldwide including the new Lloyds banking group are effectively nationalized enterprises.

Before I say capitalism is dead which it is not ( if you don't agree see USSR) I am well aware that the world goes in stages but that does not help me, or my family what this world needs is a Hero!

Why say bunny?

von Ianrosmarin am 28.01.2009 um 14:52:22 Uhr

I just want to say that the last post for a bit of a in joke between me and a friend! I not always the type of person who writes hard nose blogs about, sex, the law, BPP, Polites every time.

I do sometimes like to make fun of everything!

bunny love?

von Ianrosmarin am 27.01.2009 um 22:38:38 Uhr

bunny love you?

bunny I want you?

bunny where ru?

bunny what do you think?

bunny don't do that?

bunny R' us?

bunny love?

bunny don't do that?

bunny what's up?

bunny don't go mad!

bunny be a carefull!

bunny know what I talking about?

Bunny is Ian being funny?

Slowly going mad...

von Ianrosmarin am 27.01.2009 um 19:34:37 Uhr

over the last few days is suddenly dawned on me, that's the next few weeks I'm simply not going to have a life. I first realized about this new phenomena, when I was invited out on Friday, Satday and Sunday I failed to make a single one of the nights out that I agreed to go on. The fact is within the next month I got three legal exams,litigation, business and property!

Like most people who were doing the LPC I'm trying to apply for jobs and revise for the exams it's a nightmare. I read other friends on the LPC and class mates from last year on the what your doing on facebook I can clearly see we are all in the same boat. lines like 'Law kills sleep', 'I hate crime' seem commonplace. We all know it's not the fault of the college or our teachers or even the Law firms I think the low society should set severe guidelines on how many exams students should take and they should be a debate about what really is realistic for us to do. At the end of the day giving us so many exams means that many of us will find it impossible to get training contracts as they simply will not have the time or they'll have to wait a couple of years. I'm lucky in one respect that I actually have contacts now in a fuel funds but I know most people are not in my position. However I have a number of problems I have only got a 2.2 and there my nagging worry to at 27 I may still find it hard to get the training contract.

The LPC is in fact much easer then the GDL the only problem with it is that in most students opinion its too jam packed. All I can say is if I was planning the course I would spread out the exams more the result of not sprending exams out is that many students are exhausted. In my own time working for law firms I have found that I have never worked as hard as I have on the LPC.

Meanwhile both my social life and my love life are now suffering...

What am I going to do?

Hot Hot Hot!

von Ianrosmarin am 26.01.2009 um 22:52:50 Uhr

I was thinking about the weather today, I know it's a boring subject, but here in Britain we often were on the phone we can't think of anything else to say we talk about the weather. For a country which is smaller than most American states it may seem like a boring subject, but here in Great Britain every day the weather can be slightly different Even with climate change I imagine that in a few hundred years one day it will be boiling the next day it will be freezing.

not go go back to my civil litigation and mediation...

goodbye Columbus

von Ianrosmarin am 26.01.2009 um 10:53:53 Uhr

Once long ago (I think in the 1970s) there was a flim about being Jewish in American.it was called Goodbye Columbus.The main plot line was between two young lovers he was an outsider she was a member of the American upper class of with issues of sex and race in 1970s America. The scenes I remember the most are the ones of the father stuffing his face during a but mitzvah ( or was it a wedding)but the one I most remember is when the Male lead leaves his ex-friend, her father tells him he is lucky and he wished he had done the same.

Today Jewish life in London is dominated by people like this, they believed that only they and their friends can run Jewish institutions. The result is they've been heavily run badly, I remember trying to join a committee of one organization last year and being told the as I haven't gone to school with the chair people I couldn't join. The result is a rapidly we have a Jewish secenes in this country that is absolutely awful, apart from smingle and a few other get togather we seem to have a very badly run very corrupt community.

This is also having a number of the side effects, for example Goodbye Columbus is now a term used by lawayers to describe the higher than average divorce rates among Jewish couples in Britain. An acquaintance told me that their 20% higher than the average divorce rates seen across Britain in any area or among any other ethnic group. It's generally believed that the problem is rooted in the youth movements and the actual structure of the society. The result is people getting married to early after they had children. Just the other week I was at a Jewish do and I found out half the people in the room with mehad divorced parents most of their parents were doctors, lawayers or accountants. The other factor that stood out was mostly got married between the ages of 18 to 26 by the time the children were forced by their parents had split up or the marriage had collapsed effectively.another friend of mine is now a teacher at Manchesters Jewish secondly school has told me that as a growing amount of poverty among the Jewish community in this country. The reasons for this is obvious it seems clearly to me that we have a highly divided community. It's very hard to meet other Jewish people which can be seen in our higher than average single numbers. The reality is if the society doesn't change what is today's mainstream Jewish community were within 20 years be outnumbered by the ultra-Orthodox (which to a degree is not surepizing) they have much lower divorce rates and are generally happyer). To me the best solution in this corroding mess is to change the way we operate as a community. However I did see change coming soon enough! and sometimes like the male lead its better to leave it.

How the world changes?

von Ianrosmarin am 25.01.2009 um 04:09:04 Uhr

I was watching BBC News 24 and the front cover of the Jewish Chronicle (the main Jewish News paper in Britain) when it hit me that a number of my predictions that I have made in the past are starting to come true. Isrealis are starting to realize that the Egyption state is losing control of the Sinaiand the newly anointed 44th president of the United States is explaining the Congress is going to have to spend a vast amount of money to stop the entire country going down the drain!

In fact I believe that I have been thinking this for sometime. For the last few yearsI quickly found out that the society I lived in along with most of the rest of the West had ceased to manufactured goods. In the end we were just doing services banking, finance, fashion consultants, IT designers,magazines industry and Media.

You have to ask the question can a society that makes the best such a designs and risk not being able to make the items the designers design?we produce such great artists like Norman Foster but if you want a plumber he has to be Polish or if you want a decent car it has to be German or Japanese. However even when you look at Japan and Germany you quickly noticed that even these countries are moving alway from making things and have eventually moved into service heavy industries.

It seems to me that societies, countries and civilizations go through phases They start by building themselves up in inventing new inventions that mean they progress to the dizzying heights. However once they reach the top of their game they eventually become lazy they stop fighting wars, developing or inventing new ways of thinking the result is a rapid decline. It's my belief that the West has reached that stage and I for one believe that it will never recover. The reason it will never recover is that the West is actually now being replaced or to put it more accurately it is becoming something else.

If the period between the 15th century and the 20th century mocked the rise of the West the 21st century seems to mark the West's rapid decline. In fact if you look at the rest of the world, Indian and Chinese to be disappearing in many respect sculture seems to be rapidly merging with their neighbors,in Africa the Chinese are rapidly taking over and in North America the societies that are rapidly becoming a mixture of European, Latin American and Asian culture which is slowly mergerying with mainland asai. It seems to me likely that within a few centries we will have a global civilization. States will rapidly look like just provinces of the world. It seems certain to me that eventually languages will also standardize themselves the more interconnected the world becomes the more homogeneous it becomes. The more homogeneous it becomes the more likely that you one bit to tell the difference between Lebanon or California or Eastern China based on culture. It will be a lot like when you walk into a old European town and they tell you that a tribe used to live there. The tribe didn't die out what they usually do is they married into the local population I believe that's the future for the people of many countries. in fact even if genetic engineering becomes extremely commonI suspect people will genetically engineer for the same traits.

They will want strength, power and intelligence the result will be people who will be incredible however as everyone else is then they will want to be even greater. Welcome to a brave new world it may however be very boring!

It may be decades and centuries into the future but it's still our future...

Life?

von Ianrosmarin am 25.01.2009 um 00:20:09 Uhr

The last few weeks I had 100 people a day reading my blog why has the number fallen so fast?

Bush, the plant that history will call W?

von Ianrosmarin am 24.01.2009 um 02:50:19 Uhr

I spend the last hourromancing about the last week, thinking about what the most important event of the last seven days that historians may remember. First I am sure new US President Barack Obamawill not only be remembered for being the first African American President ( in fact he should be remembered as a mixture of half Kenyan and Irish, English)but as a great president. However I do believe that unfortunately he may be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

A good idea I think is to compair him to the 43rd president (I know one of them is a dim wit but we don't know if Obama is going to be better than in we should not base his goodness on the colour of his skin but on if he can do the job!). As I have written in previous blogs I think that Obama may find himself spending most of his time re-building America! in fact it wouldn't shock me at all if within 3 or 4 years America has gone from being a Super Power to being a Great Power and that could be one of the resons that America voted in this true American. When I say the words True American I mean it by the 2050s America will be a melting point. Most Americans will not be of European/British descent but will be a mixture. In fact even now most African Americans and White American as well as Chinese American in fact are mixtures of different immigrant groups. Come to mention when you think of virtually every country in the world most of its people are mixtures (and if you think thats not good i.e. your a memeber of the far you only need to go to Japan to know thats its a lot more boring when everyone looks the same!) however this point I'm getting away from the main point. At points that I realize as I watched the BBC last nigth on a week in politics. One of the presents said Obama was the first person who looked like the majority of the world and not just a European, my question is what does a European look like?

The first answer you will give is a pale skin individual but in reality the last few decades this is changed. In the next few hundred years the world's population will mix and merge like never before. What we call European will still be around as genes never completely disappear in a population but I get the feeling that as the world becomes more divests it will at the same time become more homogeneous. If you want a brief snapshot of what the world's population will probably look like in a century or two you only need to go to Latin America, USA, China or Isreal these all countries where people have married traditionly people from other ethnic groups if you visit these countries you rapidly see that people are race blind and that I believe is the future.what worries me is that the world could also go to like one country that is at the crossroads of Asia, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is known to be one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world it is also one of the most divided societies in the world and for those people who believe in their country staying pure ( as they're racists) I would strongly suggest that you visit Afghanistan for this could be the world's best model of what would happen on a Goble scale to a divided world which brings it back to the main subject of debate George W. Bush. George W. Bush however, represents the past in my opinion he is a white foolish individual. He started two wars upset most of the world and speeded up America's already rapid decline.the new president inherits a country where there is a growing risk if he has international ambitions that he could send it into its own suis crisis!

What worries me about America's future or the American future as one commentator called it is that America has to be get used to no longer being a superpower. I believe I have seen the future even if many of the other people have been commentating on that feature.

A mad life

von Ianrosmarin am 21.01.2009 um 14:02:57 Uhr

on a Wednesday I usually go into Law school on a wedesday.however today I discovered that I any had a 35 minute lecture for the entire day n616645323_9193 (the Photo of myself is a test image soon I am going to have photos on most blogs!), I ended up thinking what is the point, why is it at BPPthat some weeks we have five lectures other weeks we only have one?

I got so little time left!

von Ianrosmarin am 20.01.2009 um 01:40:37 Uhr

Today I found out unless I have retake at the end of my LPC in 16 weeks I am due to finish!

I have a confession to make just under five months ago when I started the LPC I believed that it was longer than the GDL. I have since been proved wrong, it turns out to be about the same length the result is that I'm just realizing how many law firms I will have to apply to over the next few weeks!

The economic situation in the United Kingdom is terrible I am more ready hearing about law firms laying people off and in this job market I now find myself feeling the breach. The other night I talked with a French girl who was a fully trained lawyer. For the last two years she has been a paralegal and now even she can't and you would not believe that if you met her.

For starters she is intelligent and I believe in a normal market she would be snapped up immediately.however we don't live in normal times companies rapidly go to the wall without warning, for every Woolworths I suspect there will be a Lehman Brothers a company that looked sound and stable before it is engulfed by lack of credit.

After watching the Prime Minister atempt his second bail out of the banks I can only hope things get back to. I'm glad my parents don't have a mortgage and that would pretty well off at some measure I can have some true independence after the LPC finishes

http://www.schmingle.co.uk/

von Ianrosmarin am 20.01.2009 um 01:27:45 Uhr

Yes I spend anyother nigth on the Jewish scene I would wholeheartedly recommend Schmongle, if you want a relaxed Jewish experience without religion then it's definitely the best night you can go out in London if your Jewish!

I wish I could talk more about this subject but I'm so busy with work recently that I have to be up to write much for my blog. That's where the good news comes over the next few weeks I'm going to be appointing a number of new co-wirters!

on a knife edge...

von Ianrosmarin am 16.01.2009 um 20:18:04 Uhr

Today I got my results for my first assessed work. It had happened months ago and was know by the suitably cudily name 'practical legal research' PLR overwise known as PLR1. It was what was called a library card and was 6 pages law. I spent the best part of a month doing it and preparing the course work. After two and a hour nail bitting hours between 10 am and noon I finally found out if I was competent (C) or not yet competent (NYC). I soon found out that PLR1 was competent and I had successfully completed the next stage of the LPC.

As I got those results I could not help but start thinking why did we need to do so many exams. The GDL was really hard but the LCP has proved to be easy I could switch off my brain for the course and I suspect I would still past whilst the GDL was not so much work but the work we did do we had to think about all the time.

So the net result is today is I am sitting here about to get to grips with another stage in my vocational career as a lawyer. I'm sorry to make this blog so short but I've got to press on and do some revision.

why does the world change?

von Ianrosmarin am 15.01.2009 um 00:58:57 Uhr

out of all of Bushs press conferences I would say he's last one is the only one I've truly ever enjoyed watch back home on television. This ape of a man has miss run the world for almost 8 years and what have we come to expect! in his last press conference as president he seemed a fairly chippy chap, maybe it was because it was less frightening the biggest fool ever to hold the highest office in the world since Nero. He has reduced the power of the world's most powerful country started at two major wars which seem to be reducing the West to a group of satellite states compact with their Asian rivals.

He slowly talked about each one of his mistakes, for example putting the words Mission accomplished on an aircraft carrier. Or flying over New Orleans after Katrina had hit, watching him was like watching a funny kind fool. Unfortunately this man have been in control of an entire country, looking back at the last eight years I am actually quite surprised that we did not end up having nuclear war.

When you think about it we've actually been quite lucky in the last few years. Each of the countries which could have caused a major war with America warm peace and want their people to prosper, if America's rival had been a country like the Soviet Union I could imagine the entire world being a graveyard.

Today I also saw one of the new programs in the city season on BBCis the TV presenter explained how we ended up in this mass. I realized it could have been so much worse, then I remembered my one really good American friend. He works for a company that advises on risk to third world counties he's lived most of his life in London and Manchester University. I remembered a conversation we had roughly 18 months ago and then I realized Americans have not yet realized they'd no longer rule the world. With that information I realized that the next president will have an even bigger challenge than even President Bush could ever had...

what's wrong with a third runway at Heathrow?

von Ianrosmarin am 14.01.2009 um 18:58:45 Uhr

Two nigths agoI was watching Newsnight when they had this really boring debate about whether to have a third runway at Heathrow. One was a youngish looking man who I suspect in a few years will be running as a Tony candidate for a seat in parliament the was a trade union man who is trying to give the case for building a third runway. As I watched the two men will went through my mind which was cynical. That if the tonys were in power and not Labour they would probably still built the runway. The reason of causes economics you only have to go to Heathrow Airport on a busy day to realize why we need the new runway. The place is chockablockwith thousands upon thousands a weary travelers trying to get their destination. I agree yes when it comes to short journeys to Manchester, York,Scotland and even across the Irish Sea as well as the English channel then it's probably best to try and stop air travelers from getting off the planes. The problem of course comes from this country's history and that's why I suspect we will need this runaway.

My family is the average British family, like most British families many of our numbers are descended from people not from the United Kingdom. My ancestors came from Eastern Europe Poland, Russia and Canada to name a few places. I can understand taking the Eurstar to see a friend in Paris but to see any of my famly Canada, Israel, Australia, America but I would tell you would have to be mad. I do understand the environmental arguments but I also understand that technology development means that within 20 years at crustal probably amid much less Co2. I fully understand what they mean by climate emergency but by the time that runaways built then it would've either been sorted out or be effectively to late. that's why will not be buying parcels of land I do know is other ways of getting to other parts of the world apart from planebut like most people I didn't have 20 days to board a ship till I reach my destination. That is where Greenpeace and other pressure groups like plain stupid are wrong the result is even the and delicates use planes to get around.

So what is my answer?my first answer to those critics of the Heathrow expansion is unless you have a proper alternative. For example not answers that that mean people have to go to Manchester airport to get a plane to New York than what I have to say to you is get a life. I know one person who has obtained a parcel of land they are a nice person but a bit like the man on Newsnight the other night they are not realistic. In the 20th century the plane was invented in whatever they think of aircrafts resume our normal jumbo jets of today or airships of the early 20th century they are here to stay.my of families spread around the four corners of the world I'm sorry but to even figure out a way that I can get to New York within five hours other then by airplane then I think you can be stopping the expansion. After all most people who do these journeys who are not going on holiday are normal people of all classes. The rich and the upper classes were willing to say that we shouldn't fly or genetically engineered crops are badeven if they will save millions in the third world as well as help in the fight with global warming it also reminds me of the argument against nuclear power what a load of hypocrites!I have noticed many upper and upper middle-class families will say that more people should recycle but they never cost can these people afford to live with these changes. It's like designing the perfect vintage for the environmentally friendly technologies where each house costs and million pounds and then suggesting that someone who works in a factory should buy it when they cannot afford to buy even half of it. I've come to the conclusion that it's their way of saying they're better than the rest of us but they can be smog in their belief that they are saving the world well I got news for you you may be the loudest voices but you are not the majority and if I'm being honest I don't think the majority wants or has the money or time for what you have in mind

My phone my problem?

von Ianrosmarin am 13.01.2009 um 17:50:13 Uhr

a few weeks ago I switched from the carphone warehouse to O2 the network is much better.however recently I've been trying to get online a fully itemized bill I have found the last few months that I've been unable to access the bill. I already spoken to them a number of times and I still can't get the dam bill.

I would of by now through in the 21st century!

Luckly I just talked to the phone people who I guess are in a some place in Liverpool but it is really annoying

Why learn French and German when everyone specks English?

von Ianrosmarin am 13.01.2009 um 02:28:23 Uhr

Have you ever been on holiday and noticed how everyone seems to be speaking English. I've noticed it's especially when I met a local girl, I remembered two of my exes and who I both met on holiday one French the other Israeli as well as a close friend from Athens. I never seem to learn their language I always seem to expect they know mine.

It seems to be the main problem for anyone who is from Britain ( as well as other English-speaking countries), Spain, India or China.so many people understand our native tongues we often don't bother to learn their languages. The result is once we have a Japanese born girlfriend or Latin American girl friend when we meet their parentsthere are almost immediate communication problems.

I remember my Israeli ex parents could speak both Russian and Hebrew be any problem was they could not speak English and I could not speck their languages. The result of was almost constant confusion and constant confusion led to funny situations. It is recently got me thinking if I do meet a girl whose family doesn't speak English how will I cope?

And that's how I end my post

the new president? a new world?

von Ianrosmarin am 12.01.2009 um 16:41:25 Uhr

I have to confess I don't know much about the new president of the United States Barack Obama,is in many ways a transformation president. For one thing the country in days heinherits from Bush is in many ways a shadow of its former self. Every time I watch TV I can see the cracks in the United States its foreign policy seems to have reducing ambitions I know for a fact when I was in America in 1998 that its infrastructure is clearly in a bad way.I remember watching TV when Katrina hit New Orleans clearly the richest country in the world should of had its flood defenses in order. It turned out the poor was the victim of budget cuts. Even now New Orleans still has not recovered I saw top gear the other day they were going to sell their cars in New Orleans but they can find anyone to buy them. Then there was the 25 year old shuttle Columbuswhich broke up when it reentered the atmosphere a close friend told me one of the fact is that NASA would have had to kept in mind was the age of the craft. The space shuttle is actually not the oldest American air craft that should be replaced B 52 has been around since 1955 that means they've been in use for more than 50 years. A close friend has told me they really needed replacing more than 10 years ago the design is out of date and in reality it's believed that within 10 years it will prove easy targets on the battlefield.

It goes to prove one thing I've always suspected I can't tell you the number of friends who told me that the service industry, industries like banking I hope the faily of Lehman Brothers has somehow told the world the banking cannot replace manufacturing. We will remember Iceland for example with the biggest industry was finances and now they returning to fishing and using their local resources. I hope the credit crunch has changed those people. Even as I trained as a lawyer I'm well aware that's not true to me even if you have a large service industry you still need to get to manufacture stuff. America has seen this to its cost its car industry and its route network of both be underinvested in the last 50 years. As America has brought freedom to much of the world it is failed to look after itself. Now America needs to retire from the world as a superpower it may very well recover its old status one day but I suspect wouldn't be waiting for at least three or four decades before America dominates the world as much as it did between 1945 to 2008. To me and I suspectAmerica is on the long march to rebuild itself a reinvent itself.America has already decided it will lose its superpower status by 2020. I suspect it may come 10 years before that. America's declining in my eyes be much quicker than even Britain's declining during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. China, India, Russia and the Arab states all seem to be developing much quicker. They building new infrastructure while America tries to rebuild what already constructed.

In 1998 when I was in New York I remember heading into New York and seeing the number of road works as well as the state of the Cars other road vehicles. What struck me was how old they where even when I was North of the bordering in Canada they had trains which what is 50 years old. Even the London underground the oldest trains date back from the 70s. In fact it was not just the cars that looked old it was also many of the buildings including the late World trade center. I can understand Obama saying thatAmerica needs to rebuild its infrastructure but I get the feeling the need to rebuild the infrastructure will result in American foreign policy being scaled down.

It's true the United States of America does have the biggest defense budgetand the decline in its internal infrastructure is a symptom in the world but it's also true its one of the many countries in the world where the gap between the rich and poor is the largest.this is the obvious reason why believe America in the coming decades during a Obama presidency and after the will be a much smaller player on the world stageIt seems obvious to me that if at home things are in a mess then you will have to spend time putting everything right. I suspect that fairly soon America after its retreat from Iraq will soon find they will need retreat from Afghanistan. It will be because it is not the political will it will be because there is not the money. That is the key problem with everyone who says America will save them on the world stage. America has done so much in the last few decades first against the Soviet Union then more recently against the former Yugoslavia wear there was ethnic cleansing and Iraq I suspect the next few years will all be able rebuilding America. The country is a damaged state roads need rebuilding, railways need to be built. It's surprising when you find out how few high-speed rail links there are in North America.American healthcare needs to recover. American motor industrie needs to be rebuilt. The new president may want to act on the world stagebut I believe he simply will not have the money. It's ironic Bush started his presidency wanting to concentrate on domestic matters but ended up invading in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he did not want to get involved in the Middle East the last couple of years he has. I suspect Obama wants to get involved in international stage but will find that he simply does not have the money to stay in Afghanistan never mind help solve the Middle East between the Israelis and the Arabs. What I see is the president who ends up having to dismantle the American global cooperative called by some the American soft empire. The world now belongs to both China and India who I suspect will reshape it in ways we have not yet realized. I suspect for example that both nations will drive into Africa as well as much of Asia. I would not be surprised if within a few decades Indonesia is split up by China and India as well as in southeast Maritime Asia. Because these of the places where most the resources which have not yet been untapped by the world are smaller countries are easier to deal with then bigger countries. I would also not be surprised if China and India did not get involved in hard Empirebut these are only my predictions for the future I hope they do not all come true.

However it seems to me my native Britain along with other European countries will soon have to change the foreign policy. They need to understand that America very soon will not be the worlds greatest superpower and as a result they have to do what the Australians did in the 1960s with Britain they have to stay friendly with what will be a continuing great power was that the same time stay close to the emerging superpowers. I very much doubt for example Europe will be one of those powers Europe is after all hobnob giant like the American intelligence agencies said. What worries me is as America retreats from the world the result will be that the European Union will collapse as local European states become rivals. Global warming seems to me to be any one salsa problems for Europe may face as well as lack of resources were already seeing the results of this with the problems between the Ukraine and Russia and with the war in Georgia between Russia and Georgia both of those two small provinces.

Easy

von Ianrosmarin am 11.01.2009 um 15:48:13 Uhr

Me and an acquaintance with talking in London yesterday we were talking about London nights out for Jewish people. It turns out the most them these days are religious and the people who do do unreligious ones are not really up to a good standard so I'm just asking if anyone who reads this blog who is Jewish would like to set up Jewish events in London. If they want to I would be more than willing to accommodate them on this website!

Up and Down

von Ianrosmarin am 09.01.2009 um 01:42:51 Uhr

I'm sorry I did not write a blog yesterday or the day before but the last 48 hours I have few truly revised to within an inch of my life. But even after such detail and exact study I'm still not sure if I pass one of the two exams I have today. My personal teacher told me that every Lawayer in the country she known once they left law school forgot how to do Solicitor's accounts, if I have to retake the exam that will mean I won't pass till September which means no Turkey in Augest! bomber!

Holocaust in Gaza I do not think so...

von Ianrosmarin am 06.01.2009 um 22:33:04 Uhr

Today I was listening to the radio and I heard an Arab commentate say that 'for the Gazas a Holocaust was taking place'. Firstly I do think the Israeli have gone too far its a bit like at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland in my opinion sending in a full scale invasion. When Britain did take action that was similar to what the Israelis did the resuolt was that the troubles were not worked out in Northern Ireland till the late 90s and they were completely concluded till 07. The attacked in Gaza is certainly in my opinion going to far the Israelis are reacting like a Jewish mother being overprotective mind you as is often been pointed out the last few days any other country would have acted the same. But for Arab commentators to use the word 'Holocaust' is completely wrong. The first point is that in the a few hundred Palestinians have actually died in the a confession so far. In addition I belive in order for the H word to be used there needs to be a real genocide like for example in the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda the during the 1990s. In my opinion to use H-word to describe a state which was partly formed due to the event that happened in the 1930s and 40s is completely wrong. The Israelis have gone to far that I am sure but what mitigates it to an extent in my opinion is the fact that Hamas launched its rockets first on innocent civilians.

A Growing Blog

von Ianrosmarin am 06.01.2009 um 21:12:20 Uhr

This blog is almost 9 months old that's right I started in late March 2008. I've gone from having between four to 10 people a day reading this blog to 87 to 95 people a day reading this blog. As a result I'm doing two things first I am planning in the very near future introducing a number of Co-Authors.

The result is in the near future this blog is going to be a lot more commercial. You will no longer just have me talking giving you my views and opinions on a variety of issues. I am planning on approaching a number of my friends including one who's moving to Japan to Co-write the blog. My objective by the end of this year is to have 1000 to 10,000 people a day reading this blog I hope you enjoy the new changes. But I have to warn you at this stage nothing is set in stone the people reading this blog may decline in number, no one may click on the Banners as well a dozen things could fail out and no one could volunteer to become co-authors.

So far today 87 people have viewed this blog!

Love, life, sex, woollies

von Ianrosmarin am 06.01.2009 um 04:13:29 Uhr

Only yesterday (or the day before yeserday) after 99 years the high street store affectionately known as woollies to many of its customers shuts its final store. I have read in a number of News papers that the brand should returned in some form or another in the near future. However I suspect that even if it is reincarnate in will be as part of a larger group of brands and the chances are woolworths will not be anything like it used to be.

In fact when I come to think of it I do not know what the chain was like? They never sold anything I wanted when I was young I never used pick and mix when I was older I used the internet or WH smith to get CDs and films. It is only now I realize how big the store was in Potters Bar seeing its empty shelves I found out from a friend they owned entire building which had five floors. The problem was after the 60s they never any of the floors in the store to sell things. The first, second, Third and fourth where used for staff rooms and offices. Now that shop is empty it's clear that Waitrose could fit an entire store, Tesco's could have a large supermarket and Boots would still have space for a middle sized supermarket!

When you realize how they misuse the Potters bar site you realize why this well known brand was doomed to fail. It was not just that they misused to buildings they used to store stock but they also sold an amazing array of items. In the dying days of the popular chain my mother got herself a great and Alanding cave of gadgets I've never seen before. Her like millions of other British shoppers rushed into Woolworths some even asking if they could take back their half price bargins to soon to be unemployed staff. I would see many of the staff members as I walk down the road crying as they were asked that question. What the barging hurters did not seem to understand was when the shop went bust the shop assistants lost their jobs. The real with the store from what people people said after they had finished shopping at the soon to be extinguished stores was 'I did not know they sold this here?' or 'they sold good products but you never known if you could find them! Which really suggests that the shop did sell what people wanted but they simply did not present it rightly.

Mind you with Wedgwood going into administration pretty soon the bargain Hunters will be able to move on to their next target. Woolworths rest your dead soul you will not be the last the credit crunch still bites!

Just don't ask if you can bring it back...

Cold wet Windy...

von Ianrosmarin am 05.01.2009 um 17:19:43 Uhr

Whenever you read the papers in Britain even they are the Guardian which is a left wing paper or the evening standard which is a conservative paper (and London's only local paper that you need to pay for.) when the News is thin on the ground or they only have terrible news they will always reamark about the weather.

During a sum as they say the weather is the hottest it has ever been in during the winter they will say it's too cold. Today I woke up too find that it was snowing here in Potters Bar. Well all I can say is I wish the papers would get over it. The way they sound these days they may as well been writen by a load of foreigners. I've lived in this country all my life even if I was an immigrant after a few months I would have realized that this country's weather is so changable. On the phone when you do have much to talk about or as a ice breaker talking about the weather is fine but unless there is going to be a serious disaster I really wish the newspapers would just leave it!

Not the Middle East Again?

von Ianrosmarin am 04.01.2009 um 17:39:18 Uhr

Last nigth I watched the BBC News channel the interviewer was interviewing an expert on Middle East politics. I have to say after hearing him talk it made me realize the tragedy going on in Israel for both the 800,000 Israeli in Southern Israel and the 1.5 million Arabs in Gaza.

The tragedy is not that there is rocket attacks going on on the Israeli or that Israeli F 16 are bombing Gaza the tragedy is the international community's response as well as America foreign Policy. The two sides seem to take their cues from the international community not from common sense. Hamas seems to be controlled from Tehran and Damascus not from Gaza and Jerusalem seems to have little control over its own policy it does what it pleases till the US till the US tells it to stop. The result seems to be a kind of mad war let me give you some examples...

The settlements in the West Bank are clearly going to need to be dismantled if a two state solution is to be started. Yet the Israelis like morons now have half million settlers in the West Bank. True a large percentage of the settlers will be inside of Israel because of land swaps but you really have to ask yourself is it in Israel's interest? Another example of a bad policy is Hamas rocket attacks on Israel they may spread fear among the civil population but the result of their actions mean a few Israelis a sympathetic to Gaza's plight. To me the key problem is that both sides seem to have a pathological determination to carry on fighting. I don't believe the new president in America can do anything about the Middle East. Clearly he will be too busy trying to rebuild American industry. I belive we are seeing the beginning of a American retreat from the Middle East. As American leaves many of the regime's they put in place or helpped strengthen will probably collapse. If I was a betting man I would look at the two Arab states which share borders with Israel which are at peace with Israel to give two conflicting examples.

I start with the state I believe thats heading in the rigth direction Jordan on Isreal's Eastern boarder. Recently there have been free elections at it looks to me that the regime is heading to becoming a democracy. I've got friends who have lived in Jordan are from what I've heard it looks likly that it will hopefully become a stable democracy.

The second more worrying example which is much more typical of how America is leaving the Middle East is Egypt. Here you have the corrupt national Democratic Party which seems every day I read about than to be losing more power. In a crisis group report from 2006 'Egypt's Sinai question' crisis group reported how Egypt was losing control of the Sinai rapidly. The report now is only two years old but already it's predictions are coming true within a year of being written Hamas were in power in Gaza. Most Egyptians are trying to leave for the big cities like Alexandria and Cairo. It seems to me that within ten years the NPD is likely to be out of power and the Islamic brotherhood (Hamas wing in Egypt) is likely to be in power. The result in my opinion would be to make an already unstable situation worse. Egypt to some extent has already lost control of a number of eastern areas on the Israeli border. If this carries on it seems likely the Sinai will end up like southern Lebanon.

So what is my vision of Israel in ten years if this carries on? To use a well used saying Israel will be one of those places where 'It is nice to visit not to live'. I see the Israelis fighting in Gaza to stop rocket attacks for the foreseeable future when Egypt finally does destabilize I see the figthing moving to first part of then all of the Sinai which I think eventually Israel would need to Annex in order to stabilize. Even if Israeli brings Sinai under control they then have the problem of Gaza this area of land in my mind now has little in common with the West Bank its too small to form a stable state actor I just see the Israelis fighing the people in that area if there some agree on what to do? Whatever happens it seems to me West Israel will not be a safe place to live. In addition I do not believe that Israel will be able to control the West Bank. I see most of the settlers in the East of the West Bank and around the Jordan valley turning against Israel much like the Rhodesian in Africa finally turned against the British. The two mini states which would be the result of this conflict would be extremely unstable at best the Israelis could end up policing a frozen conflict. At worst the West Bank could end up like Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s. Jonathan Freeland suggested that the Jewish entity came into existence in the West Bank it would be called Judea it would probably be a fundamentalist entity. On top of these small regional complex would be a long term cold war between Israel and Iran in short I maybe pro-Israel but I would never live there till they (the Israelis and Arabs) finally realize that most of their actions are not only terrible but also counterproductive to both their interests.

Harold Pinter does famous equal good?

von Ianrosmarin am 03.01.2009 um 16:03:00 Uhr

This week the great Nobel prize winner and French Légion d'honneur, Pinter received 19 honorary degrees and numerous other prizes and awards. A number of Academic institutions and performing arts organizations have also devoted symposia, festivals, and celebrations to him and his work, in recognition of his cultural influence and achievements across genres and media.playwright Harold Pinter died aged 78(10 October 1930 ? 24 December 2008). He was famous for writing a number of plays including 'The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film, and his screenplay adaptations of others' works, such as The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He directed almost 50 stage, television and film productions.

Even with his failing health since 2001, he continued to act on stage and screen, performing the title role in a critically-acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006'.

All of this is known in the media in addition was a sharp criticism of both George Bush and Tony Blair for their invasion of Iraq. I remember watching him on Channel four describing America as the world's greatest salesman whilst bringing destruction to small states that did not agree with its ideology. But it will not be my lasting memory of Harold Pinter to be honest I'm not sure if I've ever even watched one of his plays or TV productions to me he belongs to my grandparents generation I am 27 years old both my parnets are 13 years younger than Pinter but I always remember what my my mother told me as she used to work in the office when she was my age with one of his relatives. It turned outthat he would often not go to family functions?

I've got no idea about the man I've never met him his work is not really my taste from what I know but all I can say is that it does not matter how controversial you are at all it is how you treat your friends and family he may of been a good man but as I never knew him I'm not sure if it's such a good idea to say that he was a great man even if he had a Nobel Prize everything we do in life is eventually forgotten the people we love will eventually die off

DJ Dan the best nigth in London

von Ianrosmarin am 03.01.2009 um 00:57:17 Uhr

If you're looking first for a good nigth out during the first full nigth of 2009 then you could have done a lot worse then 'THE CREDIT CRUNCH NEW YEARS DAY PARTY' at the The Adelaide. I should know I went there to meet up with a girl (she stood me up!). However the night was not wasted!

The music was good a very contemporary mixture of Dance music,
R&B, Electro, Old Skool classics. The venue was of a very high standard in what could only be called a mini-club above the pub 'The Adelaide'. This event like the previous one of Dan's events it was just the right size of number of people for the event. For me it was the first time in almost 2 weeks (apart from meeting up with friends) I had been out. It was an easy walk to both chalk Farm station and Camden town tube station. It only cost £7 (and the drinks were not overpriced) so for the fraction of the money you would gain the atmosphere that was a lot better then many clubs in the West End or even New York and a number of European and Israeli clubs. The music was a mixture and some of the people there that night were songwriters and singers but they were not performing they were there to have a good time.

I have to confess however that is not the first time I been to DJ Dan-H event I had been a few weeks previously they always seem to choose good venues and is always a good crowd of people around. I would strongly recommend going to one of these club nights. If you're ever see a DJ Dan-H event posted on facebook or see his website I would definitely go to one of his gigs.

Happy New Year!

von Ianrosmarin am 01.01.2009 um 14:21:01 Uhr

I just wanted to say happy new year to all my readers, over the next 12 months I plan to increase the size of my blog. I also want to point out that I had this month just under a thousand people read this blog. Since I started this blog I have had between 300 to 400 people every month read it. So this is a massive increase on the usual number of people reading my blog.

Here I am at home revising for major exam hoping that at the end of my legal practice course that actually have a job. My plan is if I do not have a job by then to work for my friend in Turkey for a few months and spend some time at Israel.

I hope that you have a happy new year and the recession doesn't bite you. I'm planning on going out tonight getting some partying done before I have an exam on the 8th of January. The next year looks to be a very hard year for many people in both Great Britain and around the world we can only hope it does not last long.

On the bright side if you're not one of the bankers who made an obscene amount of money you may actually be a very happy person. In addition if you did not get a mortgage then it might be a year to be happy as well were like myself you may not even got a property...

Another Life

von Ianrosmarin am 30.12.2008 um 19:56:08 Uhr

I spent the last two weeks doing the mental equivalent of watching paint dry otherwise known as solicitor accounts. And yes this point with a knee eight days to guide it seems that I've mastered everything for January the eighth. I find myself reflecting on the last years events and being glad that I live in the West and not some terrible place in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

I see the Israelis and Gazans have started what seems to be a new New Year's tradition. The Gazans will fire a few homemade rockets from their refugee camp in West Israel laughably described as a territory (in reality it is effectively the world's biggest prison). Yes I do know the Palestinians of Gaze cannot live in Israel (in fact being pro Israel I am completely against it). But I also know that an area of land 350 square miles large which is basically desert cannot hold 2 million plus people. As a result then now seem to be some worrying consequences of what may happen next.

In the Guardian they talked about Islamic extremists attacking their pro-Western governments and among these governments was Egypt. If you've read my blog before or read the report by crisis group Egypt's Sinia question then you will know that Gaza is basically the fuse to what could become Egypt's civil war. If you want to know what I'm talking about just get a map of the world with a boarder of every country. Your soon find out that the Sinai sits rigth next to Egypt and recently the Sinai has had a few problems!

The problems pointed out by the crisis group report a rapidly now coming true. Not only are we seeing an appalling loss of life in Gaza but we'll also rapidly seeing the de-stabilize of Egypt. The other opinion of crisis group was that the Sinai would trigger a crisis in this nearby country. As I watched the events unfolding in the Middle East I can only hope my own goverment in Britian would not be as stupid as the one in Jerusalem. The longer the conflict goes on the more likely the region will destabilize as a whole. Crisis groups last and the most serious prediction was that Egypt could end up lossing the Sinai if the situation continued as well the country being destabilized. I know the situation is not completely the Israeli's fault the fools in Gaze have a large amount of the responsibility as well as the government of Egypt who have miss run the Sinai for decades. But you have to realize there was a big golf of difference between flying an F-16 over a heavily populated area and firing a few rockets. Yes I know the intention the people who fly the rockets is to wipe Israel off the map but I think virtually everyone I life today notice a have no chance of doing this most the zealots attacking Israel uneducated poor and quite frankly desperate we know from history that people stop doing destructive things when they have hope. The Israeli's with their West-like democracy seemed to not understand the concept of proportionality. Unfortunately till they do understand the concept or a UN peacekeeping force is sent to Gaza it seems to me that we are going to gain a new New Year's tradition what with the Gaza fence breacking last January.

Its time for Israel to grow up or unfortunately if they carry on like this they going to end up needing to occupy Gaza if they want to remove the insane regime in Gaza or they may need to learn how to live with them. The problem is the longer this conflict carries on the more likely the Egyptian government could collapse as well I'm pretty sure most Israelis do not want Islamic brotherhood being the next government in Cairo the result if that happeened would result in Israel needing to take over the Sinai Peninsula as well.

Happy new Year! x

There are times...

von Ianrosmarin am 29.12.2008 um 01:47:55 Uhr

Yes the year is almost over in three days my blog will be almost 9 months old. Suddenly like the Americans in Iraq I have seen a sudden and complete increase in people reading my blog. I'm not sure if it's a seasonal thing usually roughly 30 people a day read my blog in the last month that numbers increase to roughly 60 people a day. Oh well maybe I'm doing something right for a change!

There not really much to report my cousin is pregnant again in two months child number three will turn out. My cousin Jonathan looks as exhausted as ever in fact he seems to be the one person in the world who has skin that is closer to white than me!

My mum was moaning again about my uncle Michael's family off the time I think she's jealous!

As for me I have an accountancy exam eight days often New Year's Day. I'm struggling to master Solicitor's accounts with luck I pass the exam and I have no retakes this September.

I especially want to pass the exam as a mate of mine in Turkey wants to give me a summer job with her in Istanbul. I hope this will be my first of many adventures during a year (2009) that most commentators are saying is going to be very hard in Britain. I still want to be a writer but I never seem to have the time to write these blogs.

What have a happy new year all my Love Ian xxx

New Year, New World?

von Ianrosmarin am 24.12.2008 um 23:54:55 Uhr

ARE WE entering a new age? This was the question I asked myself today? The reason I watched the episode of The Simpsons where Homer says to a Jordanian couple who Bart has become friends with the son of 'only because our country will be the most powerful for the next few years'.

With the months we have had of economic decline you could be forgiven for thinking that the makers of The Simpsons are correct. In fact I believe myself the decline of America is so rapid that it could be judged on the terms of the rapid collapse of the USSR. However unlike the USSR I believe America's fall will not be total. Don't get me wrong I do believe that America's days telling Isreal what to do in the Middle East are over as well as any chance America use to have of Gun boat diplomacy in Latin America. The World's power base is now shifting to southern Asia to the two giants who are China and India.

These two great nations rise maybe characterize as time of peace and progress but there are great risks. Both countries rivals of each other one is a one party state the other is a complex mix. In many respects it is the world's biggest democracy but though also questions hanging over its future.

I hope to write more blogs before the year ends in the next few days in less than seven minutes it will be Christmas.

So I finished this blog by wishing you a happy chanukkah a Merry Christmas and a good New Year. x

In three months it will be year since I started blogging! x

life and exams

von Ianrosmarin am 09.12.2008 um 19:37:44 Uhr

It's the season which usually only comes once a year and no I not talking about Christmas or New Year. I talking about exams! Over the next month I have three exams one is called solicitous accounts, business accounts and last but not least coming in less than a week interviewing and advising.

Nine months ago when I started this blog I was studying for my GDL. The reason I started this blog was to escape from the madness of my bedroom and the waves of revision that laped at my mind.

In the legal practice course is much easer then the GDL in most ways apart from the fact that from now on I will be examined roughly from now onwards once a month!

That's right my exam season is going to be six months long, a constant string of work. The other day I talked to a man who will I hope in a few months be my Kick boxing teacher he said without wasting a second 'solicitous I have talked to in the past have told me that the LPC takes over their life!'. As I listen to what he said I couldn only dread the next six months of my life.

However the biggest pain seems to be some of the exams that went being asked to do. One of the members of staff at BPP actually told me the chances of us using the skills in solicitor Accounts was remote. So why we being examined on the subject? The biggest problem I having with the course I am doing seems to be that we have too many exams and the many the subjects that we are doing seem to be anything but practical!

Again I'm finding it hard to fit my life around a legal course friends and a future girlfriend will probably have to take a back seat over the next few months. Mind you it could be wores I could be working in the banking industry!

And who wants to be doing that!

Schmingle and other things!

von Ianrosmarin am 07.12.2008 um 04:14:58 Uhr

The last few weeks I have been very busy I write a blog torrow!

finding a new flat...

von Ianrosmarin am 17.11.2008 um 13:24:43 Uhr

For the last two weeks I have been looking for flat to move into. Previously when I've looked I always ended up making my mind up to leave it a bit longer. However due to the time it now takes for me to get to Waterloo from Potters bar roughly 1 1/2 hours one way (3 hours each day) it has now become absolutely imperative I leave home.

So last week I took a look at a flat in Kilbourn, if that was great at it was at a reasonable price £560 a month. However the flatmate I quickly found with someone that could very easily be described as a used car salesman. He had lived everywhere according to him Australia, Israel, America and Thailand and he worked in property. I soon found out that he was planning on going into business for himself which I took as meeting that he had just been made redundant.

Apart from him seeming a bit rude he quickly told me that he had three other people looking at the flat. He then told me he would ring me next week to tell me if I had the flat or not somehow I'm not going to hold my breath and I would really be surprised if I heard back from him.

Sunday afternoon I noticed in the Jewish Chronicle an advert for a flate share. I have not yet met the inhabitants of potentially the place I could move into however I already have a feeling that they are much more suitable. For stocks as one is training to be a doctor the other works for a hedge fund. It's in the area of London I really want to live as well as being a stone's throw from West Hampstead tube station there is only one problem it will cost £760 a month after speaking to my parents it looks like he may have to get a loan.

Busy, Busy, Busy...

von Ianrosmarin am 08.11.2008 um 12:42:15 Uhr

I have been so busy recently that I have had no time to write new posts for my blog. So after almost a month I thought it was time to write something. In that time I've had another placement for a law firm, I've been running around constantly and I have had a mock exam.

We also have a the first black American president voted for, which many would argue would be a watershed in American politics. First it is a watershed in American politics but as I said before in my last blog I do not think it would make a difference which candidate won the US presidential election. The reason being that Bush has ruined America in such a way that it's no longer a superpower but declining great power. A commentator in the Guardian seemed to agree saying that in many respects America was like China in the 1880s before it too lost superpower status.

However what I didn't say in my previous blog was that I believed the debate focused on the wrong issues. The biggest Jewish community in the world today is in the United States of America which is roughly 7 million strong is on the other hand of the population of just over 5 million. In addition America's Jewish community is growing faster than Israel's Jewish community which seems to suggest the next US president is more important in his domestic politics and his International politics.

However what is more important is that he does prove to be a role model to African-Americans disadvantaged ethnic minority in the United States. However if we don't look at the colour of his skin which I personally believe is actually very unimportant than everyone absolutely does not know what his long-term plans. He has spent the last two years doing a lot of talking the real question will be what does he do now....

Melanie and Jonathan your both wrong...

von Ianrosmarin am 13.10.2008 um 18:59:24 Uhr

I am going to start this blog with a question, the question is a relatively straightforward one I asked last night to both Melanie Phillips and Jonathan Freedland. The quesstion was as follows 'Do you think due to the credit crunch America could be in the same position as Britain was in 1946'. Melanie in a somewhat disastrous attempt completely missed the point of the question (you could say that she had lost the plot she did after all call me an American!) could America not be able to help Israel had all? After the debate I briefly spoke to Jonathan who had actually immediately realised what the point is the question really was.

The debate was being run by the Jewish community centre for London it was a particularly live debate full of people from various backgrounds and stages in their lives. Most of the questions were aimed at asking not who would make the best President for Jewish people in general or Jewish people living in America but who was most likely to build peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. As I sat there I immediately realised something which I now believe most of the people in the room have not realised. American after presidential elections may very well want to help Israel but it may no longer be in a position to actually bring about change.

After the Chinese Olympics which most of us have seen on TV and its build up of the rapid growth of both India and China and the resurgence of Russia could a faltering America be on the brink of losing its superpower status? From what I've read and heard I believe that could very well be the case the problem is this the American state is effectively trying to save it own banking system. Every day we hear on the BBC another crisis and what we heard from both Brown and Cameron is that America is the centre of the banking world. Only today in the Guardian I read how America had lost the ability to choose the head of the IMF. The only comparison is I can think of is Britain in Suez or the Berlin Wall for the Soviet Union. I believe the end of the American global co-operative which has founded the United Nations, The World Bank and the IMF which have all been extremely important organisations was the day that Northern Rock went under.

You could ask why the American bail out of $700 billion that was reluctantly voted by Congress could be the end of the road for America in the middle East or why they have actually today nationalised their own banks. I believe these are examples of a severe shift in American policy we are going to see more partly government owned companies in the Chinese style from now on.

The reason I think it's the end of America's involvement in the middle East is that not only has it had a total disaster in Iraq when they found no weapons of mass destruction but there's also a step change going on. Most of the G7 countries in recent months have come cab in hand to China to prop up their faltering banking industries. Eventually I believe China like with Britain after the Second World War will only give money to these states if they act within its national interest. My instinct is that China will probably want America to be less active in the middle East as if America does not agree like with the late British Empire they may very well say that they wish to cut funding them.

Then there's factors which are not linked to America at all but a link to prosperous Gulf Arab nations...

If you look at Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait you see rich prosperous countries. All these countries have one thing in common with Norway they all have sovereign funds. In my opinion eventually as America rebuilds they will own a large amount of American industry and commerce.

Then there is Iran is true that Iran is next door and I personally believe Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons. However unlike Melanie I do believe that it will even if it did unfortunately develop nuclear weapons launched an attack on Israel. The reason as far as I am concerned is obvious Israel itself has nuclear weapons if Iran launched even a major non-nuclear attack some commentators believe Israel could even launch a first strike. I however believe that there won't be any direct conflict between the two countries it's more likely the Israel/Iran conflict will follow the same path in my opinion as the US-USSR cold war of the last century. But I think that there is a much more serious danger to Israel than the Iranians...

If the American economy was to collapse like it almost did a few weeks ago in the short to medium term America would probably cut off its aid not just to Israel but other governments in the region. In my opinion the most important government which sits next to Israel in the middle East is Egypt. I won't bore you with figures but from what I've read both Egypt and Israel received huge amounts of aid from America. If the American bubble had actually burst the first concern has to be if the government America supported with American aid could survive. I'm not suggesting for a moment that Israel is going to be in danger of being overrun or collaping if America collapsed what I think is more likely is a domino effect with a few states like including Jordan goverment carrying on as other goverments fail. In Egypt the opposition party is the Islamic brotherhood there is a fairly good chance if the national democratic party was forced into having free elections the Islamic brotherhood would be Egypt's next government. At this stage even with American support the government in Egypt is clearly getting weaker you only need to read the BBC website to know this. My nightmare is that there is a collapse which is sudden and unexpected in Cairo of their government resulting in either a civil war or in a pro-Iranian government.

You only need to read the crisis group report which was published almost 2 years ago now ' Egypt's Sinai a question' to know the opinion of most people in the field. It is generally agreed that Egypt is losing control of the Sinai peninsula even if the new regime was pro-Israeli the result could still be Israeli troops would be sent into the Sinai. The idea that the Israelis could build a fence stopping Islamic extremists going into the southern Israel is unrealistic for another 14 years unless the fence was solid. I have a close friend who went to University with me in Manchester University he used to work for the MoD and he's told me it would take at least 10 years for electronic fences to be efficient enough to be used on the American Mexican border. So the real nightmare in my opinion is not will America vote for Obama or McCain but can it avoid a complete collapse...

My long-term opinion is that Israel needs to stop relying on America and other superpowers or great powers and become far more independent minded. Sitting in that room I felt like I was watching a group of British-born Australians in the 1960-70s discussing if the home countrie's prime minister would have an effect on their country's future (I had in mind the period between 1945 to 1974 when Australia was often called the Commonwealth's California). The whole idea of Israel is that it would be an independent homeland it does seem that independent me if we have to rely on America? At the same time other countries (which happened to be Arab states) in the same region as Israel are rapidly buying land outside the middle East in both Pakistan and Africa.

There is a reason for this not only is the price of oil going up at the same time climate change is making farming in the middle East much harder. Maybe it would be a good idea for middle sized Jewish communities in partnership with Israel should start land banking in stable foreign countries with medium-sized Jewish communities (probably in Australia, South Africa and South America) where there was good grade agricultural land with th JNF investing the money in new international divisions. They had this discussion 3 and half years ago the conclusion was the best sites when Argentina, South Africa and Australia. Such a project would be similar to what Saudi Arabia and Dubai have done a number of other countries in Africa the areas of land involved would have been vast but again they could have been used to help the local communities and they could have had duel purposes. In addition Israeli farming methods could be exported to these states and in the case of a few of these countries like Argentina which still has a large Jewish farming community they could be used to reinvigorate these communities.

Even if Israel can stay completely self-sufficient in food roughly half the Jewish people living globally still don't live within its borders. Most of us live in stable democratic states and we don't need to worry about their own safety the problem is this however in the long term we've got no idea what changes are going to happen in the world today. Political extremism like for example Fascism and Communism usually become more powerful during economic downturns what is to say there won't be a disaster that put strains on both Israel and the global Jewish community. The land banks would act both as long-term investments which could be sold if they were no longer needed and as important resources when there was instability in the world or even in a worst-case scenario (and I'm being extremely pessimistic) as safe havens in their own right.

In my opinion it won't just be Jewish society there will be thinking about food, water and energy security but as we have seen recently the world will be considering it. The problem is the Jewish world has not been building the infrastructure that I believe may very well be necessary to safeguard its own future.

This issue nicely links to what I believe is the major issue it is that not all Jewish people believed that Israel was the begin all and end all of being Jewish. Many of the people who came to the same meeting as myself found themselves asking questions and have it to say but can we talk about other things apart from Israel. Most of these people were maybe two or three years younger than me yet their opinions were close to the ones I had. Questions like about American supreme judges or about individual freedoms.

As they asked the question many of the people in the crowd were covering their eyes I for one was smiling. As far as I am concerned Isreal will remain a key part of Jewish life globally but if the founding fathers of Israel believed that it would be the only part they were much mistaken.

By the end of the debate most the people were like at the start of the debate willing to vote for the Democratic candidate and the minority were willing to vote for the Republican what can I say it was an exercise in the older generation showing how pro-Zionist it was whilst the younger generation looked on hoping for change...

Both Melanie and Jonathan were great speakers the problem was essentially we were discussing an issue which effectively will only affect people in mainland America not in the middle East...

On this I hope I am wrong

Then as I got home I started thinking about Europe you may ask why? The last 17 years since the USSR we have when American could of changed the world (including enforcing the two state solution in Israel between the Israelis and the Palestinians). But it failed today what worries me immediately is the effects on Europe the recent credit crunch as well as Russia's actions in Georgia has exposed the weakness of the union.

What is so startling however is none of these happenings but the fact the European leaders have not replaced the coal and steel union which helped set up these key European institutions in the face of Russia's growing power. The result is Germany believes the coal is the future, France believes that nuclear power is the future. If you take into account EON Frances nuclear power provider took over British Nuclear then it seems fairly certain that we will go the same way.

Europe seems far more divided than it did three years ago European states have lived through a time where they believed the rules the jungle of international politics no longer apply to them. The George crisis has proved that this is not true and furthermore the results of this crisis seemed to me to be more serious to the immediate future them both to credit crisis and climate change.

Russia's gaining power would not matter if the European Union was totally united. But the fact is the Europeans seem more hopelessly divided. The Germans want to build a pipeline missing out Poland whilst Britain wants to help isolate Russia. To me it suggests that storm clouds are now brewing.

Melanie and Jonathan it is interesting to talk about who will next run America the problem here is I believe that within three or four years we will realise discussing about America is a bit like Australians discussing about Britain in 1973 before we joined the EU or saying in 1946-48 that Britain should stay in Isreal they may want to stay but they won't be able too.

It may be an interesting subject to talk about but unfortunately the superpower we are discussing is well past its heyday both China, Russia and India seem like the states that will eventually take over from America the key now for all countries in both continental Europe and in the Mediterranean basin is to adapt to the radical changes. The future is in our hands it is not in some far away powers hands there would be the message I would give the Israelis...

...and if I had to chose a side in the datebate I would be with Jonathan, Melanie may be right about some of the problems in the middle but in many ways we now have two states already we just need the settlers to leave! There was also something that troubled me about Melanie style when I was at the Weitzman I remember one night talking to a group of five Russian born Israelis. These were particularly intelligent people after all the Weitzman Institute is Israel's equivalent of Oxford and Cambridge. They gave me much the same message but in a chilling twist they suggested just over three years ago but they eventually force saw an extremely bloody civil war which would result in the Palestinians being forced out of Israel. I totally agree with Jonathan and I consider there to be an extremely high risk that if the current situation was to carry on the result would be much bloodshed on both sides. I just don't believe that the Americans have the ability even now and I'm certain that in the medium to long term they will not have the ability to bring peace to this troubled part of the world.

At the same time I was shocked by the lack of infrastructure that many communities have outside of Israel even in Britain if you look at Jewish care it seems to lack the rigth number of places for old peoples homes. I believe this is an example of what makes us a lot more weaker than other ethnic minorities globally in our host countries (apart from America where we've taken advantage of everthing and shown a lot more ambition).

Even if you don't agree with this blog entry and I have to admit in the last three days have amended it and number of times you have to agree that the two state solution has to be the final conclusion the only realistic alternative would be one group forcing the other out of the country which I believe would be totally and utterly unacceptable. At the same time the as we still call ourselves 'the diaspora' a term I believe we should drop in the modern age. I believe we should replace the word disaspora with the word Goble which I believe would make a lot more commonsense.

I'm well aware that there's a whole array of organisations that at the time of writing do help Jewish communities worldwide but I believe they now need to be strengthened and I also believe that needs to be moved was better infrastructure which would include better education, better housing associations and overall more efficient organisations. Mostly the issues that people in the diaspora will want taken seriously issues that most of the general public would also want taken seriously and I believe on that count our leaders are really failing us. I believe that this point it's best to leave you with one thought. I have a number of friends who have decided to move to Israel over the last few years. They've all done it the same reason they believe the country is their home. I believe that the generation of people born for five years before me is far less Zionist than my generation. More of us want to live in our home countries and their view on the world is more like Israelis who have left Israel. I have noticed as I talk to more of my friends especially the younger ones there now seems to be a growing annoyance during the debate on Sunday nigth I could not help but notice that most people wanted to talk about the issues that would affect American Jews not Israeli Jews. It is obvious to me that Jewish organisations now need to move away from constantly debating about Israel to debating about the communities they serve. We all agree Israel will be a key part of our future globally and I believe that even those who were a little in the way during the debate are pro Israel but there seems to be a gaping hole in what these communities want and what they had been given.

And that it is among other things our most immediate challenge as communities.

None of my business? Who are you?

von Ianrosmarin am 10.10.2008 um 20:36:23 Uhr

When you are a blogger there is one thing that worries you the most will you have someone who adds comments that maybe to an extent true but which are liable?

In the last few weeks I have been extremely busy so I have not been able to write at all. The blogs I have written are true blogs about my life in London. Virtually none of them have been about my social life at BPP recently as to be direct to my unwelcome contributor most of my social life takes place outside of law school. What is not surprising is that I now have an unwelcome guest who is constantly and quite deliberately trying to undermine my blogs.

So who is this unwelcome visiter who can easily criticise my blogs but unfortunately not reveal their secret identity? All I will say to my somewhat self obsessed critic is this and lets face it its a blog I'm not making money out of it I don't really care if no one ever read as ever again on this website so why you making such a big deal of it? Unless you're jealous?. If I'm such an awful person in my blogs are so bad why is it you don't write your own blogs? At least am ready to put my head on the chopping board no matter what my problems are I'm brave enough to take ridicule I don't really care what you've got to write about I don't really care if people believe my blogs or not.

Who ever you are I have only one promise every time you write have rooted in disgusting comment remove them. I don't care what you think about me I do believe in freedom of speech but in this instance you are writing a comment on my website attacking me quite frankly I don't know care who you are? It sounds to me that you have some chip on your shoulder? As far as I concerned I don't give a shit.

Have a good weekend not just you None of my business but everyone else who reads my blog. I know my blogs are becoming rarer I'm just too busy these days to just sit around. I've got two part-time jobs one is selling printing the other is working as a film extra and sometimes I work for a solicitors in Fleet Street when I got time. At the end of October I've got my second placement which I hope to do well in.

I'm hoping to carry on writing blogs once a week at the legal practice course even if it's not as hard as a graduate diploma in law is still a hard course...

Have a good weekend.

PS by the way 'None of my business' the fact you write on my posts means you care about what I write think about why are you wasting your time...

It seems like I am finally grown up...

von Ianrosmarin am 01.10.2008 um 19:40:18 Uhr

The last few weeks I have been a little bit busy. So busy in fact I was so busy I've only just realised how long it's been since my last entry.

I've been to a few parties. Met a few nice people but unlike my GDL there does not seem much to talk about. This weekend I'm due to play a game of footie at Richmond. Its part of my move to increase the size of my social circle in London.

It's funny last year I had little of a social life but I had much to talk about. This year I have a much busyer social life but I'm finding it hard to find any issues to debate.

I have read about the credit crunch in the newspapers and the media. I'm sure over the next coming months I will have rich material to talk about. But this point in time all I can talk about is very depressing news.

Old friends losing their jobs friends of friends having their houses repossessed...

It seems like I am finally grown up...

Gone out...

von Ianrosmarin am 17.09.2008 um 00:30:10 Uhr

That Satday was a brilliant party I had a lot of fun and managed to get back around 2 in the moring...

Here is a message I sent to an acquaintance a few days later...

'hope like me you find this story as funny as I did...

The women we were talking about actually went on a date with in January. She seemed lovely at the time and I really wanted a second date. However there was a problem and as it turned out it was the undoing of any potential relationship. She could not stop going on about her life in the States (especially her ex-boyfriend who had cheated on her) and her previous life in Norway. As well as her grand parents leaving Poland during the war often it seems she was obsessed with both subjects.

Next time I saw or heard from her was at the party on Saturday night. She introduced me to the former ex boyfriend who she described as having an on and off relationship with. The boyfriend she seemed shy he was just standing around.

After I sent you the previous message I went out to meet a girl who recently I've been seeing in south London. As I got off the district line and headed towards the exit at Richmond station I was on the phone with this girl finding out where we were meeting. I was heading out of the station when someones Achilles' heel literally stabed my foot! It turned out to be the girl from last night the Norwegian as I limped to meet my date who was 20 minutes late in pizza express I told of the story we both laughed.

and that in a nut shell is what happened the Norwegian girl did not even notice she steped on my foot we said hello and I told her I was hopping to meet my date i the tea box which is a tea room in Richmond where ironically I met the Norwegian girl in the first place and were me and the other girl have met a number of times

The problem I have got is that I am between girlfriends me and the person I seeing now are not working we live too far away and she not suitable long term at all. The girl's love interest said the same thing to me about him and the girl. I looking for someone like myself I don't think the Norwigan girl would give me a chance but I got a feeling in a few months someone else will be having a date with the Norwigan hearing the same story as me!

Have you got anymore parties in mind just hope none of my exs are there! I love to go to something with you thats less loud I going to cocktails in the city on the 25th.'

Since this message was sent I become single but that is another story...

I about to go out!

von Ianrosmarin am 13.09.2008 um 19:27:06 Uhr

You spend two years after university working in various jobs then you spend a year or law school. The three years after University you find out that a girl you once cared about had married a man who she believes she could spend the rest of her life with and he has cheated on her. Well that happened to me as I listened from various acquaintances and former friends they told me the story.

A few weeks before I was being told by another acquaintance that Britain had one of the highest divorce rates in the world. Another acquaintance had told me that Britain's Jewish community actually had the highest divorce rates in Britain. It is not surprise me at all many of my Jewish friends got married before my non-Jewish friends. The result is always the same they get married between 21 too 26 happily married for between four to 10 years and then you hear that they've divorced.

The early signs are there I'm hearing about acquaintances marriages now on the block. It would be funny if I didn't quote one acquaintance who told me how she fought her friends husband was a wonderful man. The fact is no one should get married before the 26 at the very least ideally I believe that someone shouldn't get married till their 30. In the last few months I've ended up hearing about my cousin friends she had leased has four friends who are now in the early stages of separated from their husbands. I believe the problem rests with the youth movements they tend to encourage Jewish people to get married in their early 20s. The idea is to increase the number Jewish people because when you get married early you have children earlier. The result is were starting to get generation of children will ball into young families (and apart from the ultraorthodox who quite frankly could have come from another planet) ordinary middle-class Jewish people seem to be getting divorced much more often than their non-Jewish friends.

And that my friends is my second blog I'm going to send one off tomorrow in joy and have a happy Jewish New Year...

Its been some time in coming!

von Ianrosmarin am 13.09.2008 um 00:11:32 Uhr

So its taken me a bit of time to write a blog entry but here my new blog entry rests. Between the two blogs I've turned from being 26 years old to 27 and I've just started the legal practice course otherwise known as the LPC. Apart from that I don't have very much to report I've simply been too busy however tomorrow I go to a Jewish New Year's Eve party.

With that the silver of information my second blog from September is due in just under a day...

Happy new Jewish New Year X

Young Jamie NU

von Ianrosmarin am 25.08.2008 um 13:38:57 Uhr

Last night I went to another to yet another Jewish event this time round it was young Jamie's NU. It was a good party and I met some people I hadn't seen in a fairly long time other was talking to various acquaintances as most of my mates live in Israel and or married. The women look great and on the surface it should have been a pulling market but if you talk to most of them they already had boyfriends. There were a few of us who were single in fact one of the girls I met there I had seen on dating direct a very good non-Jewish dating website and Jdate you would think looking at her that she was perfect for some guy. For a start she is a musician she is witty and funny unfortunately she isn't really my type (but I would not say no to snogging). Even if you do manage to meet a Jewish girl fall in love and have children. Very few people realise the Jewish community (non Orthodox mainstream) in this country has the highest divorce rates of any Jewish community in the World outside America or any community for that matter in Britain.

The disasters are easily seen in statistics most people agree that their is a problem (but most seem to worry more about marrying out!). The problem seems to be its so hard to marry in! I can give you five or six examples of couples who should never have got together but only did as they had the same friends. At the same time people like my friend who is very good looking and should not be single cannot find anyone. I know four people who have married and within a year they are signing the divorce papers. The only one who had lasted more than a year had been was pregnant at the time and wanted the child to be born in wedlock. It is not only me who is experienced this I talked to the cabbie who is telling me that he had two friends who had got married a few months later they had started getting divorced. The result of all this divorce we now have a generation of kids with parents living in more than one home. Family breakdown since be fairly common in the Jewish community in the UK I don't know if I'm being frank if this is getting worse in other parts of Britain society but as we are more educated we are seeing this first in our community.

What if you do find the perfect Jewish girl? But you have yet to ask her out? Any Jewish man will tell you if he has tried to marry into the Jewish community you have to get past her friends. If the friends do not like you do not have a hope in hell. I have had four girlfriends in the last two years. Three non-Jewish am one of them was Jewish honestly have to say that the non-Jewish ones are easier to date than the Jewish one. The only reason I ended the three non-Jewish relationships was that one went back with her ex-boyfriend the other two moved back home and they lived in North America. The Jewish ones friends and family adviser not to carry on the relationship they believed trainee lawyer was not the real lawyer and I was not financially viable. That's the crap the Jewish men now have to put up with when trying to meet a Jewish girl. No wonder so many Jewish men are now trying to marry out rather than stay within a community that they feel that they will never meet a partner.

I walked around the dance floor I noticed the attractive women I chatted a few more up and I had a good time but I couldn't help but think the music was not what most of us were there for and the reality was we weren't getting any...

a blog a day keeps the docter away?

von Ianrosmarin am 22.08.2008 um 15:57:04 Uhr

In the last few weeks I been playing with the idea of writing a blog a day. In fact it was my original plan for ths blog that I would do one a day. Unfortunately I have not found any time at all to do that so as I can guess as my reader you may be wondering why you may sometimes read more than one blog a day at and other times you might wait weeks and weeks for my next blog. I am so busy often I don't have any time at all other times I am time rich and at these times there are multiple blogs a day!

Gordon Brown must die!

von Ianrosmarin am 19.08.2008 um 22:43:04 Uhr

First I am going to say it Gordon Brown must quit, I know the title says he must die but I want you to read this article! First I'm going to say I don't think Gordon Brown is a bad leader to the contrary he was a great chancellor the problem is he can't do his job. The other members of his cabinet don't seem to be even scared of him any more. The foreign office minister is now even declaring that he wants Brown's job. It no longer matters even if he is a good leader we know that he had potential the early disasters of his premiership he was able to deal one at a time. Early on we called him Stalin now we have to call on Mr Bean so sorry Brown thanks for the fish and thanks for being a good chancellor but I think it's time he left the job to someone who can do it and someone who understands

Party on the beach next to the Thames

von Ianrosmarin am 17.08.2008 um 00:07:34 Uhr

Today I spent my time seeing in the walkabout at Temple South Africa's rugby team being thrashed 0-12 by New Zealand. However this was not the highlight of my day the highlight of my day would come later on.

I was invited to a beach party with the difference the beach party was on the River Thames. No your not misreading what I am saying we were partying outside the National Festival Hall. From the start the party seemed to have some fairly surreal qualities for example before the party me and the other people I went with won't even sure if there would be a party. The reason for this was the beach was under the River Thames but as the River Thames is tired locked we had to wait for the river to disappear.

From the start it was a great party I am not going into any details but if you ever hear that the church of trance is having a party trust me go to the party...

Busy, Busy Bee...

von Ianrosmarin am 13.08.2008 um 20:18:25 Uhr

Ever slept and thought you were awake?

I know its the question from the matrix but here I am asking the question the reason being that of the last six weeks I have had an average of around about four hours sleep a night. In fact I been so busy I don't think I've had a single rest I've been running around delivering court papers doing changes to my CV and when I've had a few minutes off in my spare time having sex! Okay that's not really something I should mention of the fact is I've had almost no free time this summer.

And it suddenly hit me this is the first time it ever happened. I mean I've worked hard before but I've actually worked hard during the summer holidays. So after all I've been through I now finally have my freedom. However now I need to do my pre-course work which is another nightmare.

Chemistry was much harder than law that is a fact but law is just a load of work. We have such a heavy workload that I know these 10 students who fail their exams and three who left before they even did them. As I sit here in my room trying to relax I can take comfort in one fact the LPC otherwise known as the legal practice course I have been told is much easier than GDL I hope to God they are right or I will go into the insane asylum before I'm even finished.

Brick Lane markets...

von Ianrosmarin am 03.08.2008 um 18:06:28 Uhr

In east London in my opinion there are four markets today I saw two of them. The one I didn't see was the Cuban flower market which usually closes about 12 hiding I did not manage to get to algate east till about two o'clock. The three markets I saw I start with the two in Old Truman Brewery which likes to call itself ‘the creative hub of the East End’. First I'm going to start with the bad points the website is totally wrong not only is it not new the place is 11 years old creative hub of London or that part of London (Hoxton is where it's really going on) but it's also not self-contained as I'm about to explain it is too small to have two markets it would be better if they would just one market. The two markets the upmarket and Backyard markets are wonderful they remind me of the market I went to five years ago when my grandmother was dying of cancer. As me and my mother looked after her I would sometimes spend a few hours in Spitalfields. In those days it hadn't yet been redeveloped it was a wonderful place to go. It was messy dirty and you could buy almost anything there from a new book to a dodgy pair of shoes. The upmarket in the backyard markets are full of weird and wonderful artistic gems. They're also full of entrepreneurs selling off new T-shirts and various other trinkets. You can buy earrings there records and if like a lot of people you like Chinese and Thai food then it's heaven. Myself have never been an adventurous when it comes to food I hate Eastern food I tend over the European Middle Eastern food. As I walked round both markets the first thing that struck me was their size. In Camden and the old Spitalfields is a vast markets with often hundreds maybe a thousand stalls. It was often hard to walk around here it was easy to walk around. It was only after two o'clock the market started to fill up. Both markets are great they're noisy they're full of variety and a great places to be. If I was on entrepreneur I'd go to either market and these days are not just open on a Sunday that also open on satday.

I then walked out of the markets and crossed a busy road. It'd be many years since I'd been to Spitalfields I walked into the brick facade and I managed to get a shock. I guess I feel like people did when the old Euston station was knocked down and the so-called modernistic masterpiece replaced it. All I can hope is that within 20 years unlike Euston station which took 40 years they will knock down the grey boxes. The first shock I got was that the atmosphere had completely changed to Spitalfields. It no longer felt like a market it felt clinical boring and soul less. It reminded me of some public school girl who I chatted up at university.She looked the part but the minute you went deeper beyond the facade you find that it's clean and not the sort of place you'd want to go today.

I talked to the stall owners they agreed most from the old Spitalfields have now left. Some have gone to the markets in the Truman Brewery others have retired others still have gone to markets outside the area. The redesign of Spitalfields has been a disaster everyone knows it's a disaster. As a trainee lawyer who was sweet irony to find out that half of Spitalfields had been knocked down for a building that would hold 3000 lawyers. If it was me I would have moved Spitalfields brick by brick to another part of London it would have been better sense. Instead they have ruined the building they ruin the whole idea of a market in London and all we have left is a shell a corpse a dead body another ghost of London's past and its lost forever...

The two markets upmarket and backyard market at the Truman Brewery are great they have energy however I don't see them lasting long unless something is done about Spitalfields. The two markets are simply too small to maintain their own existence with out a new market being founded nearby. I walked around and unlike the old Spitalfields site which would have taken maybe 20 minutes to get round or if you were looking at the products an hour the two markets in my opinion were less then 10 minutes to get through. For me it was a shock I love the part of London both Truman and Spitalfields are in I consider it my home borough and my home neighbourhood. However I've not being to go to algate in a very long time in my GDL and my friends and my job I've not been there in almost 5 years. Before that I was working as a temp and before that I was at university in Manchester I was lucky if I could ever see a member of my family who lives in the area let alone visit the markets. When I finally did get to east London I found a shell of a place I once loved. Soon crossrail will also be coming to the area in 2017 I hope that it does not ruin this village of London even more than the redevelopment of Spitalfields has.

And that really is my thought for the day...

Life, Love and Sex...

von Ianrosmarin am 02.08.2008 um 19:39:32 Uhr

Yes it's true these are my three most favourite things. I'm not going out any details why the first thing I loved because of taste food and meeting new people in general I love travelling and experiencing life. I love I love someone falling for me and all the little things that go with them and I love the last thing well it's a good way of passing the time llol.

Meanwhile as I write I can't help but think about the last four years they have for the most part been pretty boring. The first year I was doing a master in enterprise which was an absolute disaster and did not come to anything and took up all my time. I spent the next half the year finishing and trying to grab something from the disaster of that year. Then the remaining 18 months before I started my GDL I spent mostly unemployed being a temp. Actually the last six months before I started my GDL I was hardly unemployed and all I was going from one marketing job to the other. Then I come to the fourth year my law conversion course itself the decision to do it was last minute there was plenty of discussion. But the downturn with recession now pretty much start it don't regret the decision at all. The only regret I have got is that they do make the decision right after I left university.

But that is the thing with life you cannot change it you can only learn from it...

Life and Training contracts!

von Ianrosmarin am 02.08.2008 um 12:14:33 Uhr

After four weeks in a three-week placement (the law firm I was working with extended it) I am finally free. I woke up this morning without thinking about the work I was doing the following week. I have decided today to have a rest tonight I'm going out with a close friend to celebrate a good month. It seems to me that it's been a busy time as I have met new people snogged a few women and generally had fun.

The last month and every day I have worn a suit I soon found out that wearing a suit is in fact a very good way of finding girls to take out on a date. Due to the suit I have managed to go out with for women and that's not all I've done...

When writing is hard...

von Ianrosmarin am 20.07.2008 um 02:44:22 Uhr

The last few days i found it hard to write I don't know being the emotional pressure of getting my exam results (or the two days when I didn't have my exam results) but it's true to say that if but I did have writer's block. Over the next two weeks I need to apply for training contracts. The result is my blogs are going to get shorter and shorter as I prepare for the next stage of my life. I survived the boat that you could not leave now I have to survive the easer year (e.g. not the GDL)

The boat you can never leave...

von Ianrosmarin am 18.07.2008 um 23:14:48 Uhr

First the good news I passed my exams!

Then the bad last night I spent three hours on a Thames riverboat with some absolute strangers. It was a JNF (Jewish National fund) fundraiser. As I sat there in finally hit me what is wrong with Britain's Jewish community. Most of the people seem to have known each other from the age of nine. I talked to a field worker who worked for the charity according to her it was a growing problem.

Speaking from personal experience I happen to know that Britain's Jewish community is now famous as some think it shouldn't be famous for. Among nonreligious Jews like myself we have the highest divorce rates of any community. Many reasons are given but the one that stands in my mind and many psychologists believe is absolutely true is that we married too young. Among other middle-class people most people don't get married to their early 30s among Britain's Jewish community we now get married in our early 20s.

Now I got to go...

Waiting...

von Ianrosmarin am 14.07.2008 um 22:40:25 Uhr

Today I should have got to my GDL however I did not...

The reason was a strange one I had not given them my locker key and I have just found out that College policy is not to give results out till your paid for it. I did pay for the dam key however due to a technical glitch I will not get my results till midday tomorrow.

I found myself pacing around my work placement I will not know whether I passed or not till midday tomorrow. Meanwhile like yesterday I have to look forward too anther sleepless night of worry and pain.

How to lose a friend...

von Ianrosmarin am 06.07.2008 um 12:37:00 Uhr

How to lose Friends...

It all really started a week ago I was going on a date with a girl at the was in two minds to move out with this friend of mine. They had offered to let me move out with them for a reduced rent and I was really tempted. I'm not sure what that out of the following finally sank our friendship and I'm not really sure if they'll really aware that they have upset me. Anyway we needed to talk about moving out and I wanted to be extremely careful. When I went to go out and see this friend of mine they asked me to cancel my date (which had looked forward to that entire week) and go out with them and their family (an idea which really I was 100% sure I did not want) this was the first issue that started getting me thinking they were they a real friend?

A week later they started moaning at me that I haven't spoken to their family in the car as we discuss my plans for moving out. In retrospect this was the reason along with their insistence cancelled my date (which I have to say no to). What really infuriated me over the next two weeks was how they kept asking me if we really were friends. We were mates I would have classed up until two weeks ago this person as a good friend. I was polite and patient bit by bit they infuriated me. Yesterday I found out just how rude they could be. They had invited me a fews days ago to a lunch appointment a workmate they spent almost an hour and a half moaning about a workmate. This in itself would not have killed our friendship it was what they talked about next. Over the entire afternoon I was polite and I listened they said how I was invited to the birthday party in a few weeks (they had in fact invited me two weeks earlier). No the final destruction of our friendship came this morning with a text message. I've only got a limited number of places on the party this summer I think there's been a misunderstanding I smiled to myself. One word in my mind struck me 'Whatever' the word Alex Sten used to use when he was finally fed up with someone. It summed up how I felt and what I was trying to say was it was your decision you can change your mind if you want I don't really care. I'm not sure if a text message me back again and said to me you've come to the party if I would even bother going now. This friend seemed upset when they found out I was in a relationship (in the past). When I had a good job. when I gave one of their friends business card when they asked how they could contact me this friend seemed jealous. When I come to think of it they spent most the time of the last few weeks criticising me I don't need it and I don't want it.

Also its not just me they upset I can think of three of us who won't speck to them as well over things they said! I'm not sure if I'm going to rebuild this friendship but at the moment I really can't be asked...

The Changing price of Commodities

von Ianrosmarin am 04.07.2008 um 10:00:57 Uhr

The changing price of Commodities

A few weeks ago the price of crude oil hit, $139 which is the highest crude oil has ever been. Today the price of is $135 but very soon the price of oil may be due to go up again! In ‘What's Driving the Oil Bull and How Much Further It Will Go?’ on the ‘Money Morning’ website they said the price per a barrel could hit $225 a barrel within next year. I know from my father who used to work from BP oil and Shell that the price of oil is like a yo-yo going up and down. The oil market is decided by the commodities market the result is if you look at any website looking at the price of oil over the last few years it will look something like this:

Oil is the fuel of modern society its price fluctuates if you look at the price of the over the last two years it even more confusing...
As you can see from January 2006 to October 2006 the price was between $65 and $55! Before it went right up!

As my father has always told me it's about supply and demand and today were entering a period where there will always be more demand than supply (source information New York Mercantile Exchange). An organisation which is an exchange commodities like for example crude oil. The result is you have hundreds of people in the room betting on how much of oil will cost and they work out how much we are going to pay (they also ask how much the oil price will change by guessing if their going to be a war causing a shortage of Oil an example is the First Golf war and the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s). When you look on the New York Mercantile Exchange website http://www.nymex.com the prices are shown in black-and-white the problem is what are the results of these actions? Why and how do the prices affect the world live and work in today.

Well if you ask Saudi Arabia the World’s biggest oil exporter then they’ll give this is the reason why the oil price has gone up. In the business section of the daily telegraph on Monday, June 23, 2008 they talked about this issue on the front page. Later on in this blog there is a map where Oil is found. What most other places have in common like for example Nigeria were local people upset that they don’t have their fair share of the oil revenues attack the pipelines is conflict. It does seem that it only takes a spark that the oil price to leap up, if it does then life over the next decade could become very hard. As I read this article I quickly found out that there is also split in OPEC where Venezuela, Libya, Algeria, Iran and Qatar do not want to see an increase in oil production. First I asked myself is political reasons why these states act the way they do? Maybe the stated reason however is that this is more due to short term speculative investment in the financial markets and knowing how is priced does not surprise me.

I am going to start with why? The first issue I am going to come to is that it is not just oil. Recently in the news it was widely reported that China had obtained a mountain in Peru see http://www.mining-technology.com/news/news5317.html and the BBC website. The reason the Chinese obtained this property is that Mount Tormocho is made up of two billion tonnes of copper ore. This sets the Chinese government back $3 Billion Chinalco (the name of the company buying the mountain through) will be getting the copper ore for $410 per a ton (today London’s metal Exchange is selling the copper for $8,255. China is going to use the copper ore for wiring in its factories.

If you look on the mining technology website and you see dozens of stories about resources. Another example of a report from the same website is entitled ‘Rio Opposes Sharing Oz Railways’ again China crops up they mention that the rival firms because of interest in China and a growing need for iron ore want to use existing lines rather than have to build new ones. You may ask what has this got to do with Oil? Both metals and oils are considered as commodities as I explained before their price fluctuates and it now seems that the world is a race to obtain his resources as quickly as possible.

It’s not just mining in the Guardian’s G2 section on Wednesday the 25th of June 2008 there was an article about ‘Who had stolen all the copper?’. The fact is China’s thirst for resources and so big now that bridges between Germany and the Czech Republic are now being stolen. Church roofs have mysteriously disappeared as they contain copper. In fact the good old Guardian made a list of how much metal objects are worth! Examples are as follows Cast-iron from manhole covers scrap value £210-230 tonne, Lead from a church roof £275 tonne, Copper piping £2,500, Aluminium from Road signs £590-640, Iron from railway bridges £145 to 190 a tonne, Platinum from cars catalytic convertors £30,71 a gramme and Bronze from a ships value is £2,070-2,090. The result is China is acting like a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the resource they are looking for all the commodities. The problem with oil however is not only is the price of oil decided by the commodity markets but also where the actual oil is...
Just in case you think that you're reading the map wrongly you're not! The biggest reserves of oil in the world today are in Saudi Arabia 260 X 10 X9 bbI the country has reserves that should last for another 81 years. Canada which is one of the few stable countries on the list of large oil producers has reserves should last 182 years. The United States and Mexico are both near the bottom there reserves will last just over 10 years so you can see where the problem is and China is not even on the list. I have to say as a scientist and a trainee lawyer with a small amount of knowledge of international politics that most of the countries on the list I would not want to be buying oil from.

Most of the countries on the list are either in the Middle East (for examples Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Kuwait) all they are run by governments which are despotic example potentially Venezuela or in all but name are despotic like Russia. In the United Kingdom with often talked about the energy infrastructure the example of the recent problems is a clear indication of why we need to change the fuel we use. Just to make my findings clearing here is a table from last year.
Summary of Reserve Data as of 2007
Country Reserves 1 Production 2 Reserve life 3
109 bbl 109 m3 106 bbl/d 103 m3/d years
Saudi Arabia
260 41 8.8 1,400 81
Canada
179 28.5 2.7 430 182
Iran
136 21.6 3.9 620 74
Iraq
115 18.3 3.7 590 101
Kuwait
99 15.7 2.5 400 108
United Arab Emirates
97 15.4 2.5 400 107
Venezuela
80 13 2.4 380 91
Russia
60 9.5 9.5 1,510 17
Libya
41.5 6.60 1.8 290 63
Nigeria
36.2 5.76 2.3 370 43
United States
21 3.3 4.9 780 12
Mexico
12 1.9 3.2 510 10
Notes:
1 Claimed or estimated reserves in billions (109) of barrels (converted to billions of cubic metres). (Source: Oil & Gas Journal, January, 2007)
2 Production rate in millions (106) of barrels per day (converted to thousands of cubic metres per day) (Source: US Energy Information Authority, September, 2007)
3 Reserve life in years, calculated as reserves / annual production. (from above)

Meanwhile in other parts of the world like in South and Maritime Asia businessmen are rapidly turning fast swathes of rainforest into palm oil plantations. A good report to read is ‘Need for cheap palm oil drives deforestation’ By Paul Eccleston in the telegraph newspaper this report written late last year was before the present energy crisis but it shows just how desperate the problem could become. Another example is Athabasca Oil Sands just put those words into Google and you see a huge number of results. I would suggest if you want to know more you could not do worse than look at a two year old article from the BBC website ‘The great Alberta oil rush’ by Peter day. If you read the report explains that all oil needs to do is go above $60 and the oil Sands become worth exploiting well in a world where the average oil prices is $135 I think it is now safe to say that at least someone is making a killing on the commodity markets.

The result of the increase in the price of oil is both causing local and global. Recently I started thinking of moving out a friend recently offered to let him moving with them for a low rent. The reason being the price of living has been going up their gas prices for cooking and heating mean that they need to. On the Goble level the price of oil could destabilise many of the world’s states. One example is Egypt a state that in a few short years could be at war with herself. The BBC have a story called ‘Egypt Islamists' wait for power’ by Yolande Knell, BBC News, Cairoit talks about how Islamic brotherhood is the most popular party in Egyptian politics ( they are technically illegal) there have been waiting for decades to grab power from the ruling NDP. The increase in oil prices is now endangering the Egyptian state the government. One other article also from the BBC ‘Voter turnout low in tense Egypt’ from the 8th of April shows how unstable the country is most Egyptians are earning less than two dollars a day. If the Islamic brotherhood was to gain power in Egypt however the results would be disastrous. The Sinai peninsula is part of Egypt and backs straight on to Israel and Gaza (where due to Israel’s blockade of the territory weapons and oil are now being smuggled in) the result is the Sinai like predicted in the recent Egypt’s Sinai Question Middle East/North Africa, Report N°61, 30 January 2007 by the International by the renowned think tank Crisis Group . The result is that what in the developed world hard to control increases in the cost of living could cause international disasters in the developing world.
By Ian Rosmarin 24/5/2008

Oh brave new world...hail the new revolution the .com arms trader.

von Ianrosmarin am 03.07.2008 um 20:37:01 Uhr

Today we live in a world where at the touched of a button you can get revenge...

How easy it is with technology, in Afghanistan with a touch of another button they can blow up a helicopter.

In the film Lord of War which I watched a few days ago they talked about child soldiers. I come from a scientific background (even though I'm studying to do law). I hope the weapons designers of the future do not develop weapons that can be used by children. What with the knife crime in London you do not need a civil war in the country the children to kill each other.

The one disturbing point however of the film was the idea that an arms trader could be protected by his own government. However what we have seen with the Iraq war with hundreds if not thousands of private contractors is anything to go by it is a growth industry. Would the shortages of the necessities like oil and water I can see it becoming an even greater industry. Oh brave new world hail the new revolution the .com arms trader.

Hancock a good flim

von Ianrosmarin am 03.07.2008 um 00:01:46 Uhr

Today I saw a film with Will Smith which was actually very good. It was called Hancock it was about a superhero with problems. Unlike other superhero films I've seen the main character was deeply uneasy about himself. He had problems with alcohol and often children would see him with very few clothes on. Hancock was truly not your average superhero he spent much of his time sleeping on park benches and when there was an emergency he needed to be woken up. Added to that most people did not even really like him. The result was deeply flawed superhero in many ways he was almost an anti-hero.

Then Hancock saves the life of a PR man and on the advice of the PR man he agrees to go to prison for all the criminal damage to Hancock has done. In one scene he throws a basketball be on the perimeter fence he flies out of the prison just to get the ball but causes an alert then goes back.

It later on transpires one of the main character's problems is that he does not even know who he is. Sure enough later on he finds out but us the audience this is unfortunately never fully explained all I will say is that he's not the only one of he's kind and his immortal and guessing at this point that there will be a sequel and I'm fairly sure that there are more than just two of them...

yours Ian Rosmarin

Industry

von Ianrosmarin am 02.07.2008 um 13:10:58 Uhr

Life...
The last three or so weeks I have been working for a printing company called FC Print. I've been trying to do their sales in Potters bar but yesterday was the most eventful day so far. It started off by me going down the high Street in Potters bar (actually we've got two high Streets in Potters bar but that's another story). I went into each shop that was not a chain, chains always print their own cards apparently. Till I reached this industrial estate on the far side of town.

It did not look much a few old buildings some with rusty roofs most made out of steel. Its a hilly area of town concrete streets where if you fell you could injure yourself badly. Most British businesses like these have fewer than 20 people working for them. There are estimated to be over 43 million British businesses most of them based at home or in industrial estates like this one. Most of the boss’s are old man or women who know the industry like the back of their hand this is the UK today. Other people working knowledge industry or the financial services as a credit crunch has demonstrated these industries are more susceptible to recession. Napoleon called Britain a country of shopkeepers today I would not call Britain a country of shopkeepers but a nation of entrepreneurs. Most of the buildings actually look like glorified warehouses in the air you could smell a mixture of oil and wood chip. It was what they actually did say in the industrial estate that interested me as I gave out each one of my business cards. I'm not going name the companies my last entry in this blog almost got me into trouble for naming people.

They tended to fix cars one sold spares for minis and the other was repairing vintage cars another was repairing racing cars. One of the small companies are walked into I went to see the boss and he had a mean black violent dog. My uncle has a company in Sheffield that make mouth guards all these firms reminded me of them. I don't think today were in a post-industrial Britain it's just our industry has scaled down and when you want to see industrial Britain life you have to go to the industrial estate at the small businesses. Maybe we don’t have mines, ships yards or car factories but we still have industry.

Ian Rosmarin

Industry in Britain today...

von Ianrosmarin am 02.07.2008 um 12:19:05 Uhr

The last three or so weeks I have been working for a printing company called FC Print. I've been trying to do their sales in Potters bar but yesterday was the most eventful day so far. It started off by me going down the high Street in Potters bar (actually we've got two high Streets in Potters bar but that's another story). I went into each shop that was not a chain, chains always print their own cards apparently. Till I reached this industrial estate on the far side of town.

It did not look much a few old buildings some with rusty roofs most made out of steel. Most buildings actually look like glorified warehouses in the air you could smell a mixture of oil and wood chip. It was what they actually did say in the industrial estate that interested me as I gave out each one of my business cards. I'm not going name the companies my last entry in this blog almost got me into trouble for naming people.

They tended to fix cars one sold spares for minis and the other was repairing vintage cars another was repairing racing cars. One of the small companies are walked into I went to see the boss and he had a mean black violent dog. My uncle has a company in Sheffield that make mouth guards all these firms reminded me of them. I don't think today were in a post-industrial Britain it's just our industry has scaled down and when you want to see industrial Britain life you have to go to the industrial estate at the small businesses.

Ian Rosmarin

The Next Few Blogs

von Ianrosmarin am 27.06.2008 um 20:33:20 Uhr

I just got my work placement! Which is the good news the bad news? I can't talk about my work!

One of the problems with being a lawyer is that you cannot talk about your work. I am being serious my Tort lecturer once told me ' that lawyers in this area are above clergy, psychiatrists and doctors'. Unlike these other three categories lawyers i.e. solicitors and barristers have to keep what they know about their clients to themselves.

I guess that for some people it must be annoying I don't really mind. The other thing about law is that it's never boring at all all I will say what they were discussing seemed interesting. There's always someone having babies with someone else they shouldn't be or in one old case from my GDL a Mr laws brought a case against a sex shop in a residential area. They said that they won against the business of a sex shop they were against the type of customers the sex shop bought in.

I will never ever when I write my blogs talk about my work but like Mr laws I do feel I do not mind the restriction I just mind the fact I can never talk about the cases...

Sex and the city light (or Sex and the City the Move)

von Ianrosmarin am 24.06.2008 um 02:18:50 Uhr

Once upon a time long age in a small town just outside of London called Potters Bar a boy of 16 was watching a New TV program from the states. All that young teenager could think was ‘what great sex scenes’,as I got older Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbes became guides to sexual behaviour. I spent most of my time doing A-levels and much of my university life watching Sex and the City. It was any fitting at the end of my university life the series came to an end. In fact it was ironic the film version came out just as I restarted education doing the GDL. So I was very much looking forward to seeing the film version of sex and the city.

However as Samantha Jones would say ‘ where is the beef?’. I have to confess at this point from series 3 onwards I've always believed that sex and the city was downhill all the way. I was always a fan of the earlier series they were edgier they even had aside when Carrie would say monologue form what she was really thinking. However by the start of the third series this had been dropped. After seeing the film two thoughts crossed my mind almost instantly one why did I spend (and I will be fairly soon as I've got a date this weekend) my own money watching this film. It reminded me of Notting Hill on steroids but set in New York. The film almost looked like a chocolate box of New York but as my recollections of the original series came into play I remembered that near the end that sex and the city had also become like some vivid dream. I love the edgy idea of a city of strangers where it's hard to meet someone. The original character who Carrie was based on was an English born reporter living in New York. The very first episode has character who is in fact very much like.
How I miss the four main characters just talking about their sex lives and not love I've always been a strong believer that the main characters should never age. Like James Bond looking his own age if James Bond was portrayed in the films his own realistic age he would now be in his mid-80s maybe late 90s. It seems that the actresses who play the four leading characters have like the inmates of an asylum taken over. The result is the characters age like the people playing them you find that there is no enjoyable experience. The basic problem is all people age like some bad TV film in 20 years I imagine maybe two or three sequels later it will be remade like a TV film it will be like when you see Cagney and Alesi. I've always hated tripe like this unlike Star Trek which was done fairly well as a film version (on second thoughts I can think of that least three Star Trek films which were awful so maybe that was not a good example). I've read that the columns were darker and more cynical" than the "gentler" series that Star produced. To me it seems obvious that there's an opportunity here why not do a real sex and the city take the source material and make a more closely based series.

Personally there was one good thing about the later series of sex and the city and I can describe it in one word ‘Harry’. You may ask why? I'm not gay (I am actually as straight as they come) and I certainly didn't plan to become a lawyer till around a year ago. Well Harry Goldenblatt is in many ways the character that is closest to me in personality. It's not actually that we both Jewish or we are both very challenged in the hair department but its our personalities. We are both very tolerant very romantic and as his lover soon found out we are not people who will take fools gladly. There is however one other thing about both of us and we don't mind wearing good clothes.

So what do I recommend? is sex and the city a good film to see this weekend? Well if you never see Notting Hill it is almost certainly will be a great movie to see! But if you see in other films in this area then all I can say is put your arm around your other half and hope you get a good snog...

a persent history

von Ianrosmarin am 10.06.2008 um 00:35:39 Uhr

Today I quit my job the one I called priceless in my last entry...
It had only been five days my sales were going well most the time I was getting between three to five sales an hour. At the weekend I been told by one of our supervisors to do some changes it was then for of first-time and managed to top the five cells in our which is at CCA International the Holy Grail. We were told from the very first day that we had to make five sales an hour and most of the time I was actually successful in this task. The story about to tell you it's about how one call centre tries to sell BT customers broadband packages that last another year. It was a good summer job I say was that I left it today but luckily I've got a new job on the horizon.
However today I had an awful cold and I also had the senior supervisor to content with a man who reminds me of the football. He has applied to have the shape that could be a football on two short legs he has dark hair. He had the classic London accent but the one thing that really drove me mad about him was that he kept groaning on. I found him near the end very obnoxious and I have to say he was really the only reason why I quite. I came into work that lunchtime with a terrible headache my eyes kept in crossing over and I was coughing all over the place. I sat down at my terminal at one o'clock and the first thing I was asked to do was change my seat. I was sat down as the only outgoing handler in a row of incoming handlers. In the call centre I work for (or used to work for) there were two types of call handlers. There were those who made phone calls i.e. contacted the customer was what I did and there were those who were the incoming call handlers who did work like customer service. I was sat next to a bunch of incoming call handlers at all they could do was start asking me in my entire life history. Along with my computer not logging on properly for the first half an hour I was in for a very short day of comical disasters.
After half an hour and three failed attempts to get the system to logon not only on my computer but a number of other computers (they asked as to log in five at a time) things only got worse. I had roughly 25 answer phone messages and as I listen to each answer phone message I could hear breathing in the background. It was my senior supervisor the customer asked on the phone or why it was hard to hear me talk. I couldn't say to her even though was in our standard terms and conditions that often to maintain standards and the training purposes these phone calls were listened to by third parties but half of me really wanted to grab a keyboard the senior supervisor. However my self-control and one year studying law told me that I would be charged probably for GBH or murder. I would not be shocking you if I said that this was the only day in my tired time at CCA where I did not get a single sale. I would usually get between three to five sales with my head cold and with the fourth out of a hundred and one questions I was being asked by my next door neighbours this really was not my day.
Two hours later I had my first half an hour break the first thing I did was head off to the loos and become violently sick on the toilet. By then I wanted to escape from what was going on our unlike the window and head off to bed which is why I'm writing this entry. But before I could leave the ball shaped supervisor stopped me from going and told me I would be in serious trouble.
One hour later but a lot more deep breathing sense by my supervisor we both arrived at a fairly different conclusions. If you have an agent (I would call them a salesman) and there unwell and in the past they've managed to have a fairly good sales and they get sales which then go down to 0 then obviously something is wrong. With me there was a serious cold a faulty computer a supervisor who couldn't stop breathing on the line he then told me I had till five o'clock to get a sale or otherwise I'd be out on my ear. Instead the senior supervisor came to the conclusion that I had not made any good sales that day I was not committed enough furthermore I did not have the right attitude. The question has to be how can you have the right attitude when you feel like you're going to be sick right in front to the other person? I had really had enough I did not feel I could stay there past five o'clock left alone stay on for the end at nine at night.

That was the other thing I hated about the job we all had to stay till nine in the evening the no matter what time we started. We were selling BT broadband and I had found on the Saturday on more than one occasion that many of the customers we were trying to sell two were ex-directory. In fact there were 25 ex-directory numbers which were found from my station alone it was quite shocking how rude customers could be. Then again they had told BT they shouldn't be contacted. Saturday was really the worst day most of the people I talked too could not stand being contacted yet a small minority would agree over the phone to sign a contract that may as I well knew not be in their best interests.
As I sat there listening to the news I was not worried at all. For one thing it was only a summer job hence it was not that important that I lost it all. The second reason I was not worried at all was that FC printing had offered me a job as well so I decided as I sat there was only one thing to do ‘ I resign’ but those two words he could make any threats against me it was a rather bemusing moment. I took my possessions out of my desk. I left with the last of few words ‘I may not be a good salesman but you are an awful manager you did not even notice that I was unwell’.
So what does this little story to tell you? First that I do not value summer jobs an awful lot. I can also tell you that in the modern world when the job is all for you should all is being prepared to leave. The word salary comes from the Egyptian for salt, the Pharaoh used to pay his workers in salt and I think that today this is still the case. In fact I know people a lot of them accountants who hate their job and really want to change. However they can't as it's the only job that pays well I'm lucky with the law I really enjoy what I'm doing. .

The job was not so priceless...

von Ianrosmarin am 09.06.2008 um 22:27:01 Uhr

Today I quit my job the one I called priceless in my last entry...
It had only been five days my sales were going well most the time I was getting between three to five sales an hour. At the weekend I been told by one of our supervisors to do some changes it was then for of first-time and managed to top the five cells in our which is at CCA International the Holy Grail. We were told from the very first day that we had to make five sales an hour and most of the time I was actually successful in this task. The story about to tell you it's about how one call centre tries to sell BT customers broadband packages that last another year. It was a good summer job I say was that I left it today but luckily I've got a new job on the horizon.
However today I had an awful cold and I also had the senior supervisor to content with a man who reminds me of the football. He has applied to have the shape that could be a football on two short legs he has dark hair. He had the classic London accent but the one thing that really drove me mad about him was that he kept groaning on. I found him near the end very obnoxious and I have to say he was really the only reason why I quite. I came into work that lunchtime with a terrible headache my eyes kept in crossing over and I was coughing all over the place. I sat down at my terminal at one o'clock and the first thing I was asked to do was change my seat. I was sat down as the only outgoing handler in a row of incoming handlers. In the call centre I work for (or used to work for) there were two types of call handlers. There were those who made phone calls i.e. contacted the customer was what I did and there were those who were the incoming call handlers who did work like customer service. I was sat next to a bunch of incoming call handlers at all they could do was start asking me in my entire life history. Along with my computer not logging on properly for the first half an hour I was in for a very short day of comical disasters.
After half an hour and three failed attempts to get the system to logon not only on my computer but a number of other computers (they asked as to log in five at a time) things only got worse. I had roughly 25 answer phone messages and as I listen to each answer phone message I could hear breathing in the background. It was my senior supervisor the customer asked on the phone or why it was hard to hear me talk. I couldn't say to her even though was in our standard terms and conditions that often to maintain standards and the training purposes these phone calls were listened to by third parties but half of me really wanted to grab a keyboard the senior supervisor. However my self-control and one year studying law told me that I would be charged probably for GBH or murder. I would not be shocking you if I said that this was the only day in my tired time at CCA where I did not get a single sale. I would usually get between three to five sales with my head cold and with the fourth out of a hundred and one questions I was being asked by my next door neighbours this really was not my day.
Two hours later I had my first half an hour break the first thing I did was head off to the loos and become violently sick on the toilet. By then I wanted to escape from what was going on our unlike the window and head off to bed which is why I'm writing this entry. But before I could leave the ball shaped supervisor stopped me from going and told me I would be in serious trouble.
One hour later but a lot more deep breathing sense by my supervisor we both arrived at a fairly different conclusions. If you have an agent (I would call them a salesman) and there unwell and in the past they've managed to have a fairly good sales and they get sales which then go down to 0 then obviously something is wrong. With me there was a serious cold a faulty computer a supervisor who couldn't stop breathing on the line he then told me I had till five o'clock to get a sale or otherwise I'd be out on my ear. Instead the senior supervisor came to the conclusion that I had not made any good sales that day I was not committed enough furthermore I did not have the right attitude. The question has to be how can you have the right attitude when you feel like you're going to be sick right in front to the other person? I had really had enough I did not feel I could stay there past five o'clock left alone stay on for the end at nine at night.

That was the other thing I hated about the job we all had to stay till nine in the evening the no matter what time we started. We were selling BT broadband and I had found on the Saturday on more than one occasion that many of the customers we were trying to sell two were ex-directory. In fact there were 25 ex-directory numbers which were found from my station alone it was quite shocking how rude customers could be. Then again they had told BT they shouldn't be contacted. Saturday was really the worst day most of the people I talked too could not stand being contacted yet a small minority would agree over the phone to sign a contract that may as I well knew not be in their best interests.
As I sat there listening to the news I was not worried at all. For one thing it was only a summer job hence it was not that important that I lost it all. The second reason I was not worried at all was that FC printing had offered me a job as well so I decided as I sat there was only one thing to do ‘ I resign’ but those two words he could make any threats against me it was a rather bemusing moment. I took my possessions out of my desk. I left with the last of few words ‘I may not be a good salesman but you are an awful manager you did not even notice that I was unwell’.
So what does this little story to tell you? First that I do not value summer jobs an awful lot. I can also tell you that in the modern world when the job is all for you should all is being prepared to leave. The word salary comes from the Egyptian for salt, the Pharaoh used to pay his workers in salt and I think that today this is still the case. In fact I know people a lot of them accountants who hate their job and really want to change. However they can't as it's the only job that pays well I'm lucky with the law I really enjoy what I'm doing. .

A new job priceless!

von Ianrosmarin am 05.06.2008 um 11:39:19 Uhr

I've just started a new job and have been working for them for just over a week. Its working in a call centre for BT helping people upgrade their broadband package. The pay is not brilliant but it's a good job and most of the people friendly. Apart from that I start writing blogs for another website called new Jewish through http://kkahnharris.typepad.com/new_jewish_thought/ done a number of posts for them. In the next fortnight or so I plan to upgrade this blog to make it more commercial. I will be getting a pro account but for the time being this is still an amateur blog. Apart from that there is not much more to say.

By the way of anyone knows a rugby coach I really need one! And a rugby team!

what has the blog got to do with it?

von Ianrosmarin am 29.05.2008 um 00:13:35 Uhr

I write this blog with in the background a fair amount of noise. The last few days have been fairly manic started a job on Tuesday on Sunday I have training. It's funny when I was temping last year I was really scared each time I had to start a new job. This time however I was fairly relaxed I even managed to take it in my stride! As a sit down and trying to relax I know the next few months going to be challenging.

I've kept that writing for new Jewish thought my newst articles actually quite controversial. I soon found myself needing to defend the article I'm not go go into any detail apart from to say that I feel that I am now sharpening my sharp arrow head so to speak as I prepared to plunge a new article on the website.

I just about remember that I haven't written in here for four days I'm still feeling absolutely exhausted from GDL exams. As I get ready to chill out I soon realised that I'm rapidly not sure who I am any more. My life is so complex and full of so many mirrors at the moment there is nothing I can be sure of. Even when I get my exam results I won't be absolutely sure what I'm up to.

So here I am writing you entry hopefully make them longer soon.

Life in the slow lane?

von Ianrosmarin am 25.05.2008 um 15:49:27 Uhr

It is only in the last few days i.e. since Friday that I've realised what it really is like when you're living life in the slow lane. On Friday night I spent all my time up to four in the morning partying. Since then I started to apply to seven training contracts talk to a few friends and gone to the gym four times. It may sound a very productive weekend but now for me it seems a bit slow. When I did my GDL I used to do a number of street law sessions where I told vulnerable groups about their rights and civil society. I also did a load of mooting as well I actually was very good I got to the second round.

Also recently I've found that if I'm not doing four or five things I get very bored!

I don't know if it's me but I find the day-to-day chores of life extremely boring. I often think back to my days at Manchester that was what Friday reminded me of. My misspent youth going around Canal Street or one of the other inner Manchester clubs partying like mad. Now many of my friends again married the single life no longer looks at all attractive. Weeks ago I talked about my family about how it seemed that I was the only single person in the room apart from my cousin Jonathan. After the last 48 hours I've come to the conclusion that by the end of this summer I should meet someone. This time however I'm not going to just take them for a couple of months I am going to see if I can go the whole 9 yards!

blog resurrection!

von Ianrosmarin am 24.05.2008 um 14:21:57 Uhr

I've just woken up after getting back at four in the morning from my post exams party it was a good party. Plenty of booze plenty of women and plenty of boobs! llol we were all sitting round asking ourselves what we were going to do this summer. Lastly and not least we were also asking ourselves (if we had not got it yet) have we got a training contract? It's a well-known fact that roughly half the law students who make their second year do not have a training contract. The LPC costs £11,000 that's right that more than half a year's salary for the average person. So that money we get the chance to have a career in law. I have got friends who had done the barrister form of the course and found that all their £14,000 investment has brought them is a far longer time waiting for a training contract. The fact is that only 40% of the people who do the barrister course will become barristers. There is a growing problem which has recently got better but is still serious there are too many people doing law degrees and too few jobs to go around. Many the people from my first year have no intention of doing the section you now their plan is to try and get a decently well-paid job and in the circumstances of a fuel crisis you can understand.

The ladies wore tight dresses often showing quite a bit of their cleavage they looked sexy and they look cute and they look confident. I'm also sure that a number of them got laid something I would have wanted if I hadn't been thinking about a few other things. One of the problems of BPP is that there are so many attractive women who have a boyfriend and two in a few examples are lesbians. I met a woman last night I rather liked she was fairly short nice eyes nice dark hair and nice personality we had a fair amount in common. She will not be at BPP next year as she is going to the college of law but I'm hoping to meet in the next week or so.

Yesterday was also the day when oil prices went further up on that day than in any day in the last 20 years. It is an ominous sign along with the fall of chartered airlines and gain ready for can only be called a depression but my aim is this summer to get my training contract and also decent travelling before it costs a bomb to go to foreign countries.

Each time the oil price goes up there is a war with that sad fact in mind I end my second blog since my exams finished.

I'm back!

von Ianrosmarin am 23.05.2008 um 20:17:54 Uhr

I know I said I would be 24 hours but unfortunately the last three weeks have seen me need deep in past exam papers. It is only now with the carcass of BPP exam season body still being warm that I can write my first new blog weeks. And no I have not been in some black hole for last three weeks I have been doing my exams.

But what a bloody three-weeks that has been the price of oil today shut up more than it has done at any other time in the last 20 years. There have been major riots in Jakarta, Cairo and a number of other third world cites. Is it the end of the world or am I just overreacting.

Well I don't think it's the end of the world civilisation will still be here in the a centure's time. But it is high time we did something about oil half the reason why we are in this crisis is not the crude oil is about to run out but that palm seed oil is definitely not the answer.

Well I'm sorry the last three weeks I have hardly said anything but then again my life's kind of been in the freezer. As I sit here I contemplate the next three weeks where I will just be doing one thing applying for training contracts and doing part-time work. I've already got a small job lined up for the next few weeks and I intend by the end of this summer to have moved out of home finally.

see you!

Causation

von Ianrosmarin am 05.05.2008 um 03:58:07 Uhr

Sorry have not put a message on blog for over a week the fact is I've got an exam in just over 24 hours. Now I'm about to head off to bed speak later...

Why one blog a week?

von Ianrosmarin am 26.04.2008 um 10:08:02 Uhr

You may want to ask, why in the last few weeks I've written so few blogs. The fact is Law is hard, like the old seaman used to say ' the sea is a Harsh mistress' Law is an equally demanding mistress. The GDL is a degree in one year and as a result don't really have ever that much time, but as I checked that found that I haven't written in a week so I thought was time to write something, so here I was sitting at five minutes to 10 now four minutes to 10 composing a quick blog.

The last week or so I've really just been doing one thing revising law, I think this week is the first week I've understood most of my legal work. I've also got seven exams to look forward to, apart from that my social life seems to have died.

I was seeing the new news reports, about Syria's nuclear reactor at not sure what was more shocking. The fact the Israelis were talking about peace with Syria after it tried to develop a nuclear bomb or the Americans revealing to the world what they were doing, it shows we are now living in an extremely dangerous world. I also watched a documentary on China in Congo without it now seems like we're living in the world is more and more like the one that the Victorian era was about. The Chinese are basically buying the Congo like the Belgians before them they're not teaching the Congolese how to make infrastructure I guess the world goes around cycles. Apart from that I don't really have anything else to say its been passover and I guess add more to the blocg after the exams really.

Yours Ian Rosmarin

Life, love and Food!

von Ianrosmarin am 19.04.2008 um 01:25:48 Uhr

Dear all,

I know recently I have undone by many blogs the fact is that had a massive amount of work, the revision has been crazy. But I have noticed a few things first been eating more than I usually do second outing to be thinking more about women that are used to date at any time before. It's funny as I revise more the more I end up thinking not just about my exams but about my personal life. What really made me feel old a few days ago was when I noticed that a girl I had known had just got engaged.

She is less than a year younger than me 25 and I have to say as I head towards my 27th year it makes me feel really old. So apart from that I don't really have an awful lot to say I'm just working.

Another issue thats been in the media has been China effectively buying up Congo. It made me think along with the money programme special last night what will the world be like in 20 years. My feeling years we could end up with most of the people living today living under one-party states. I'm not kidding I am looking at the way society is going, every year we read that few and few people vote could it be that eventually the entire government is subcontracted out. When you read about the way China deals with African states you have to wonder if they're not starting to think why don't we get our system of government replicated in the in the rest of the world. It would not be so different from what American has tried to do the decades China is no longer really a Communist state any more. In reality it is effectively a mixture of a one-party right-wing state and capitalism.

When I think really worries people who live in America and Western Europe is this may be the way the world ends up being run. In the democratic world it's now becoming more and more common of the children wives or brothers i.e. family members of people who were in power takeover. Clinton's wife may very well not be the next president of the United States but it is a pattern that is growing. If you look at how China treats smaller countries and how countries which are established democracies are acting it seems to me certain that eventually democracy will start becoming rarer. A man on the money programme said that America and Europe would today's Romans and Greeks their days as this great global superpowers will over. That could be very true I think we are heading for the preindustrial situation where China and India dominate the world and the people living in the rest of the world have to trade with them.

It is a world of increasing uncertainty a world of rival superpowers and I don't think one of the superpowers will be the United States of America. It seems to me that it will be a world is split between India and China that will be their ideas not ours that dominate the new era. The European Union may be the first ever superpower that is not a state and I would not be surprised. I think we are truly heading and I could truly be fearful or fears me even more is people who don't understand this.

To give them their short name their little Englanders, they talk like Britain still a fully sovereign state. We are now part of the European Union and my feeling is we the European Union more than we need sovereignty because as a sovereign state we are just a middle sized country which can hardly affect global affairs but is part of Europe we are a major member which is in the driving seat and which can change the world.

And hopefully I'm going to so more blogs before my exam...

I've just got back...

von Ianrosmarin am 13.04.2008 um 01:19:31 Uhr

Tonight I went too two birthday parties, I don't know why but these days every birthday party go to makes me feel older. The only reason I went to both parties was that they were literally 10 minutes walk between them. With my exam system three weeks away however I couldn't stay in either one very long but I still only got back after one o'clock due to the bloody train. It also made me feel like Cinderella I needed to be back before midnight.

I think these days I got to the age where people going to start getting married soon. Example to night at Miles's party there was one girl pregnant (roughly 8 months getting ready to pop) and another couple who were now engaged. It would not of been a sore issue in my mind had it not been my uncles retirement party two weeks before. There his sister was with her children out of the four of them three married with one expecting in a few months her first grandchild or did she already have grandchildren? I can't really remember it so strange how quickly time figths. What else struck me about the party of my non-Jewish friends was how how little they had changed and aged. You get used to life being the same, I saw Megan the first time in over a year she had once been a close friend of mine. Nowadays she likes to scan through people, she was saying how she had moved on I couldn't help but think isn't that a bit sad. On the other hand me wanting to keep the same friends maybe that was sad as well? It didn't really matter most to my non-Jewish friends by the time I had left their party were fairly drunk I saw Miles and met a few of his other mates. There was a psychiatric nurse she seemed quite cute but I was not sure if she was too young for me. Mile's is mate is due to have a party in a few weeks I hope I see again but who knows by the time I do see again maybe she'll be engaged.

One of those days...

von Ianrosmarin am 08.04.2008 um 19:25:26 Uhr

It's been one of those days, I been running around doing lots of work, and to top it all off I got exams starting in exactly a month. I'm not really got a lot to say in this blog so I'm going to keep it short. I am just going to say a few things before I go off and do some more revision. It's been one of those days went I have seen lots of people I haven't seen in ages. Unlike me they seem to be panicking like mad with their revision, and I've also talked to a couple of tutors about my work. One I knew the question I'd done him was substandard, it was on offer and acceptance which I studied now in a lot greater depth the other was on Parliamentary Law which I just need to work on my structure for. Overall it's been a fairly dull day I woke up late got into class and I just had a full day of studying like mad.

I'm sorry but all I can really put into todays blog I may do more later on but for now that's me.

How many rosmarin is does it take to fit a lightbulb?

von Ianrosmarin am 07.04.2008 um 02:39:27 Uhr

I know it's a funny question, but I wanted to grab your attention it's been a few days since I put in my last block (well actually had only been two days but a very long time for me). I just wanted to rule your attention to my long rare surname, in English rosmarin means Rosemary but I'm guessing my great grandfather when he left Poland decided not to change the old family name. The result is that 136 years later his descendants have a surname which is extremely rare and where there are only two places in the world I'm likely to meet people with that surname. One is New York the other is Israel, it's funny but I've never actually met someone who has my surname but who is on a member of my family. I been told there's loads of us rosmarins we live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, Europe, Argentina, Brazil and the North in Manchester (I never met any in Manchester or Leeds guess I don't socialise in the same places). But as I've got older I've read about rosmarins I wouldn't mind meeting so more people with my surname but as his life and so busy I never had the time.

My intention for the next few weeks is to work like crazy, after may the 23rd I intend to go mad. The first thing I'm going to do is go up north and see a friend of mine I haven't seen in ages I went out with her to Athens last year. My next great crazy adventure will probably be visiting some friends of mine in Isreal before near the end of August going off to Canada for a few weeks and then the state's where probably hit 27. Success died writing this blog I had my first offer to do writing but I kind of found hard to understand why so few people have read my blog. So far according to the system only 300 people read my blog and none of them have subscribed. Mind you may be more people start subscribing once they start reading my work on a new website called new Jewish thought. At this point I'm too busy revising and trying to do my best but it seems as good a time as ever to write a new blog before I go to bed.

I spent the weekend reading through my notes doing revision and not much else I've been thinking what will I do with these exams are over I intend carry blog when I'm in Israel and Canada. I'm going to use this as a showcase of my writing talents, and I have overtime more people read this blog and start understanding why the guy behind Ian's world is a good reporter. On the other hand they may think I'm awful and think I'm not worthy of subscribing to and then the people who have been reading my blogs or been offering me a job is to write articles in newspapers may stop.

So here I am your lone blogger looking at my computer screen at 2.30am in the morning GMT in two minds to go straight to bed or what another episode of Doctor Who on BBC I player. I was starting to feel like one of these computer geeks I don't have anything interesting to tell you today and probably not have anything interesting to tell you to the 23rd of May for all I know. I could tell you about my exams I could tell you about my past and boy have I had some interesting chapters I can tell you about women I've met one springs to mind but I'm not there mention her name just yet. In fact I think I may very well see other fairly soon the reason being that we both have some very mutual friends here in London. However I've not yet made up my mind how I'm going to reintroduce myself ' I'm studying law now and I've become a blogger' or should I just say I'm a student and I'm likely to be that the next year or so and I am really need to get a training contract.

Whatever my needs and wants all I can think of is the world is starting to look like a very dangerous place. I also have a scientific background as it is I know a fair bit about some of the disasters we might be in for this century. It looks to me the entrepreneurs like Richard Branson may very well lead the way helping human beings leave Earth. The irony really is that people like Richard Branson are probably the people who have done the most to make this planet hard to live on and now they're going to in some mad irony save the human race. I did a master of enterprise at Manchester University in my last year, I found it very disappointing that fact was we spent 95% of our time either talk about how we would actually get investment into the business or talking about how we would do marketing. But I can't think of a single one of my friends who set up the business in three years on have a successful business. I myself am still thinking of maybe one day I could develop my idea I spoken to a few friends of mine recently who'd like to see if my idea could work. So as I sit here and it's gaining on from three o'clock in the morning I thinking of my life is about to take one of these full circle moments. I spent the last two and a bit years getting out of science, it looks likely about to start my own career and at some point in the future I will properly have a fairly well paying job and be fairly independent. But that's not all I want I want a good job, I won a sexy intelligent woman to wake up with in the morning. I won't have great sex, with that great woman, I want her to be considerate, I don't want get married till I am at least over 30. Then I want by the time I'm 35 to have at least three children all driving me crazy as I take them to primary school in Belsize Park.

That's really my only dream don't want to be rich I just want be happy contented and loved. I think below most men's crazy ideas that's really all we want a partner who is our equal not slave and who understands how we feel. I can only think of one woman I've met so far who I could think in that respect she was both Swedish and Jewish she was 5.7 tall with a lovely pair of eyes. We met in Richmond the other day at the party is talking about and met a Dutch friend of hers. The Dutch friend told me to ring her as soon as possible, I did so but she hasn't said anything back and now I'm feeling fairly disheartened with the world. I know warring again and again is up Robbie seem like some sort stalker but not sure what to do.

All I can say at the end of this blog I guess is what will be will be...

Human rights

von Ianrosmarin am 04.04.2008 um 14:37:50 Uhr

I'm at the point in my revision where I'm now looking at the human rights act. The human rights act is a list of provisions built originally put together by the Council of Europe, which is not the same as the European Union. The human rights act has had a major effect on the United Kingdom (in fact even before we adopted the actor was having a major effect on us by not they get into that here). I was thinking about the time I was on the London Underground at King's Cross station I was in a rush to get to a tutorial when the friendly policemen and his sniffer dog stopped me in the station. I was told under the prevention of terrorism act they had to check a set number of people. The friendly dog sniffed my bag and my diabetic equipment. All I had to show for it at the end was a copy of the act on yellow paper. As I left the policeman and his dog I saw him stop an old woman in the same station. It made me not only think of how much time I had wasted I was in fact in a rush to a tutorial in also made me think of life in Blair's and now Brown's Britain. We are the most photographed society on earth, Adam all the democracies were the most checked and even with all these checks terrorist attacks can't be completely stopped. The other day I saw a programme on TV called the last terrorist it emphasised the point even more. As British society gone too far? I suspect it as as long as we have a good government it doesn't really matter. It only matters if the machinery of government is replaced by government like the one now in Zimbabwe. I can only imagine the sort of power a British Robert Mugabe would have. I read somewhere else at the amount of spying and now takes place on British citizens and residents is even greater than the amount of spying at the formerly East Germany did on its citizens. You no longer need an army of spies to spy on your citizens you just need a technology. CCTV, flying drones, increased judicial legislation all help turn us into one of the greatest surveillance societies in the world. Even in Israel you don't have as much surveillance as you do in this country and in Israel you can understand why they really need it. So what can we do? I read the newspapers and they hardly ever talk about this they used to be used to ask if we were entering a surveillance society now all they seem to do is advertise the newest singing sensation or the new Doctor Who series, films, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, or some other foreign disaster.

The actual issues of what's going on in this country are constantly being put under the carpet. The result is we hardly know what goes on in Manchester it is only when the police chief commits suicide there we know that something was wrong. Our society is in a detrimental position, it never seems to understand what is wrong and it always the first society i.e. todays modern day aristocracy, the politicians, the TV presenter, the filmmaker, the media person who seems to be the person who makes the decisions. Style over substance is truly has in today's modern society truly won, doctors and lawyers solicitors soldiers you will not read about the newspaper unless they've done something wrong. And everyone is chasing can I be rich can I star in a West End show. Our society is truly a nightmare we no longer have a real sense of purpose. And if it is in one of the above were talking about the environment I agree environment is getting worse but very few people actually do what is needed. We would have to cut 80% of our emissions to make a difference and even then there is no guarantee that anything could change. People who do do green things could be the ones who travel by airline they ruin the environment yet they're also hypocritical enough to say I'm doing this at the environment. But I hate most is the middle-class, they recycle yet they go on foreign holidays may travel the world. They will put details of their trips on Facebook, a kind of reminds me of the mad Emperor Nino who watched Rome burned and played the harp.

Strange life of a dyspraxia...

von Ianrosmarin am 02.04.2008 um 23:25:44 Uhr

You may have noticed if you've been reading this blog for last week I got awful spelling. I've had it for all my life I've managed to go through school, then university are now law school with two very important tools one was an amanuensis the other very recently now was voice recognition software. I use Dragon to compose these blogs and I used it for a bit when I was at university. In fact as I've been writing this I just switch computers and with the new computer it seems now that it's much easier to write these extracts.

I don't really have very much to report revisions a bit crazy about to get to grips again with Tort. It seems from now to the 23rd of May I am not going to have a life. I'll keep on writing these extracts as often as I can which I'm guessing will be once every day but they are not going be long I really don't have a lot of time signing a sign off to night and hopefully beard to say more later.

A busy day.

von Ianrosmarin am 01.04.2008 um 02:52:57 Uhr

Today I had an extremely busy day, even by my standards are seen to have worked flat out. So there was an awful lot I could talk about. From the bar the cost £27 for just three shots. To the rush to give in our projects but the fact is even a party I went to did not seem to be that important in the scheme of things to me anyway. I have spent the last hour going through a land law lecture on getting my head ready for the next five weeks.

I think the biggest thing I will take back from the last day was one of the last things I saw out. On the tube just after I got onto the train at Tottenham Court Rd on the Central line I saw a couple. They were both French and so some reason it didn't register in my mind. It should have immediately I saw it loads of times in both Manchester and Tel Aviv. They were two men talking in French and English one looking at the other. At this point I was thinking I why the heck are they looking at each other in that way? What gave them away was when I looked at the hands. They both had rings on their middle finger in any doubt of the rings looked exactly the same. I am so silly I was thinking their married. They were a married gay couple something that many in the United States, Europe and certainly Eastern Europe going into Russia would have something wrong with. Even an enlightened soul like myself who does not mind to gay people ought to have anything getting married it was a bit of a shock. At the end of the day however I do think that anyone should be allowed to marry anyone (and within reason anything) they want. I sat there looking at the two gay men thinking well at least they're happy.

What about me when I go date tomorrow with this nice Irish girl and failing that got blonde girl's phone number tonight I just going to have to play it by ear. Anyway I'm very sleepy it almost 3 in the morning I am going to head off...

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