https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArErdaiOW0
I consider him the best writer of the 20th century. One volume of his history of the 20th century is on my bedside table—still unread.
http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2015/01/gilberts-history-of-twentieth-century-v.html
This speech was given in 2001. Sir Martin Gilbert died February 3 at age 79.
This information is appearing in difficult to understand science journals, but here’s a fairly easy to understand “translation.”
Abnormal tau protein collecting in the brain may be the main cause of Alzheimer's disease, a new study claims.
Another protein called amyloid accumulates as Alzheimer's progresses, but is not the primary culprit behind the devastating memory loss that is the hallmark of the disease, Mayo Clinic researchers report.
They said their findings suggest that targeting tau should be the new focus of efforts to find treatments for Alzheimer's.
“The U.N. now reports that more than 17,700 innocent Afghans have died in the past five years of fighting, the majority of them killed by the Taliban or other groups fighting the Afghan government and coalition forces.”
Condolence payments from the military
“According to the data we received, in fiscal years 2011 through 2013, the military made 953 condolence payments totaling $2.7 million. $1.8 million of those were for deaths, and the average payment for a death was $3,426. Payments for injuries averaged $1,557.”
“The total for Iraq that year [2009] was over $18 million; overall, Afghanistan saw fewer and smaller claims than Iraq, because of remote geography and fewer U.S. troops deployed. Prices for replacement goods or lost wages were generally lower, Dribben said.”
Making money from it.
One part of Bush's business was a lucrative seat on the board of directors of the hospital giant Tenet Healthcare. Bush joined the company after leaving the governor's office and was paid more than $2 million for his services between 2007 and last year, when he resigned to run for president. Tenet strongly supported the passage of Obamacare and has profited enormously from it. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-did-jeb-bush-do-to-fight-obamacare/article/2561928?
Dr. Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist and Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, has provided an intriguing look at love and marriage from the viewpoint of over 700 married adults, 65 and older, representing a total of 25,000 years of married life. His five-chapter book, neatly divided into six lessons per chapter, is the result of a carefully designed in-depth interview study named the Marriage Advice Project, which he outlines in the Appendix. Here he details the need of such a study, his research methods, ways he found a diverse and appropriate sample of interviewees, how he determined the questions and conducted the interviews, and how he analyzed the enormous amount of data collected. His goal was to ask these older experts, married 30 years or more, “directly and in detail about the kinds of advice they would offer younger people about getting and staying married in a complex and difficult world.”
Though the study was quite academic in nature, the book itself is written for a popular audience—more personal, few end notes, no index or bibliography—with many quotes. Excerpts from the many interviews are used freely and engagingly; a reader senses that both men and women responded thoughtfully, even eagerly to the questions for which they had much experience and definite ideas. Some of these persons were widowed, some divorced, some had multiple marriages, some were same-sex, but the overwhelming cohort was 70-90 year-old couples in traditional one-time marriages.
The elders agreed on a number of important issues: love is necessary in marrying, but so is common sense. Sharing similar core values and interests, especially in such areas as money, religion, child rearing, careers, sex, friends is essential. Additional values, often repeatedly mentioned, were sense of humor, honesty, trust, ability to listen and communicate, courtesy and respect, being good friends—a team, accepting partners as they are without trying to change them, and making time for each other. The final lesson from all these experts: “treat marriage, at every stage, as a lifelong commitment.” Marriage then is a discipline, “a path where you get better at something by mindfully attending to it and by continual practice.”
Most of these ideas are found in the multitude of advice books available to readers today. This one, however, is unique because of the large sample group of older adults with views from the end of life; their experiences, both positive and negative, represent the full gamut of joys and problems inherent in love, relationships, and marriage. They have earned a right to be heard, and the author has provided an amazing amount of useful information by listening to these many “grandparents,” then arranging their responses in a pleasing format. This is a book you will enjoy reading and recommending to your friends and relatives!
30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer, Hudson Street Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-59463-154-2, $25.95. For more information, visit http://marriagelegacy.org. Dr. Pillemer blogs at Huffington Post and has been interviewed by a number of news sources and media outlets. He has also written 30 lessons for Living, and is thinking about his next book which may be about finding one’s purpose in life, also based on the advice of older people. (I think he likes us!)
Yes. You’ve read about them at this blog. Although I don’t recognize any of the crazy toppings, I have fond memories of the little shop in Urbana, Illinois when I was at the University of Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s.
Spudnuts Donuts
8225 Topanga Canyon Blvd
Canoga Park, CA 91304
818.348.5054
www.spudnutsdonuts.com
“Made with real potato flour, Spudnuts are lighter and fluffier than normally raised donuts. You won’t be disappointed with the flour change and will most likely make this your new donut shop. Order up their crazy Cronut, their famous pastry that keeps people coming back for more.” http://localemagazine.com/best-donuts-los-angeles/
As I recall one of the worst storms we had in Columbus was April 4, 1987—we got over 12 inches and we were at a wedding. The pastor couldn’t get there; someone else had to stand in. But they are still married. We’ve also had March blizzards—one of the worst in 2008.
We’ve purchased some of these brands, but not necessarily the specific wine. I don’t see any red merlots.
It’s not like we weren’t told from the beginning.
“The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child” (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]).
“The way of light, then, is as follows. If anyone desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking in this way, is the following. . . . Thou shalt not slay the child by procuring abortion; nor, again, shalt thou destroy it after it is born” (Letter of Barnabas 19 [A.D. 74]).
“And near that place I saw another strait place . . . and there sat women. . . . And over against them many children who were born to them out of due time sat crying. And there came forth from them rays of fire and smote the women in the eyes. And these were the accursed who conceived and caused abortion” (The Apocalypse of Peter 25 [A.D. 137]).
“What man of sound mind, therefore, will affirm, while such is our character, that we are murderers? . . . [W]hen we say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion, on what principle should we commit murder? For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very fetus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God’s care, and when it has passed into life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it” (A Plea for the Christians 35 [A.D. 177]).
And others, Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Hippolytus, Council of Ancyra, Basil the Great, etc.
http://lifeissues.net/writers/bra/bra_02christiansandabor.html
On Saturday a house about a mile from us exploded, damaging 7 others and dropping debris for miles even in adjoining suburbs. It continues to be on the news—it’s pretty unusual, not only from the damage but because no one was hurt. It was a lovely day, and there didn’t appear to be anyone outside in the area. The owners are visiting relatives in Japan, and even their dog had been boarded out. But everything in the house and garage, including their car, is all over the neighborhood. People are finding scraps of personal effects for miles, like pages from a Japanese cookbook. One interview last night reported that neighbors had been complaining for over year to the gas company about the “rotten egg” smell, but were always told nothing was found. And I think it is still there—makes it a bit scary.
http://www.nbc4i.com/story/28593258/6-homes-deemed-not-safe-after-upper-arlington-house-explosion
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/21/House_explosion.html
I’ve now cycled over 440 miles since Christmas and am still in Virginia according to “Tools to Keep You Active” chart. This photo is near Cedar Springs, VA, in Wythe County. The health sites say your waist needs to be at least one half your height measurement, and exercise should be 30 minutes a day. At least for certain health problems. I’ve lost 22 pounds. No more leg pain. Well, that was easy. Medicare has spent thousands on tests in 2014 for me for blood clots and poor circulation all of which were negative, and all I needed to do was stop snacking, eat more healthy meals and exercise more. Nothing like lugging 40 extra pounds around to make your legs hurt. While I exercise on the bike I also use a finger strengthener. I always had to ask for help to open detergent bottles or olives or even juice. I think plastic bottles are sometimes the worst because it’s hard to get a grip. Hand strength is coming a bit more slowly; not sure I’ve seen improvement.
“Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is demanding that lawmakers report income they make from outside jobs as part of an ethics overhaul. In response, Republican lawmakers say it's only fair to require officials to file disclosures including the finances of domestic partners such as Lee, a successful TV chef and author.”
http://news.yahoo.com/tv-celeb-sandra-lee-pulled-ny-legislative-ethics-225547313.html
From my bookshelves.
“About 40 percent of the United States food supply (1,500 calories/ person/day) goes uneaten. Discarded food in homes and foodservice accounts for 60 percent of this total food loss and is mostly avoidable. The remaining portion is lost or wasted during food production.” Food Reflections. I’ve been subscribing to this newsletter for over 15 years. It’s from Extension at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
I looked at the list of 14 things we can do at home, and have been doing 13 of them (I don’t compost ) and I’m sure I still waste food.
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I’m a little mixed on this message. Any business should be responsive to the stockholders. If the company can’t earn a profit in a black neighborhood, it shouldn’t be there. However, the CEO should stop being such a hypocrite about race.
Police were called to a home by a family. While the officer was taking the report about their being threatened, the perp showed up with a gun and tried to shoot the officer. The intruder was shot and killed. Race of either hasn’t been released. If the criminal was black and the officer white, we’ll hear more. If not, we’ll have to search for more information on the outcome. If Al Sharpton shows up with a busload of Soros sponsored trouble makers, that should tell us something.
http://www.nbc4i.com/story/28581173/officer-involved-shooting-on-citys-north-side
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/22/officer-kills-man-on-north-side.html
This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama magazine interview conducted with the fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, wherein Domenico Dolce proclaimed, “You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that’s how it should be. I call children of chemistry, synthetic children.” Immediately, Elton John advocated a boycott of the designers’ products in retaliation for the perceived offense against his two sons, who were conceived via an egg donor and surrogate mother.” http://www.npr.org/2015/03/16/393403211/elton-john-declares-boycott-against-dolce-gabbana
In another story a young woman named Heather wrote about how much she loved her mother and her partner (a lesbian couple), yet longed for her father. On the internet you would think she had suggested lynching them even though she wrote of fond memories with her mother’s lesbian friends and gay sponsored events. Children of other disrupted families are allowed to grieve, why not children of gay couples, she wonders. http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/dear-gay-community-your-kids-are-hurting/
A black liberal media personality, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capeheart, in an op-ed apologized this past week for reporting on the Ferguson story before he had all the facts—particularly the “Hands up don’t shoot,” and I’d be surprised if he isn’t fired by Monday. It’s rare for any news journalist to sincerely apologize, liberal or conservative. He should be commended, not condemned. Just ask Juan Williams of Fox who was fired by NPR. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/19/hands-up-dont-shoot-did-not-happen-in-ferguson/
And my goodness, don’t even get started on the high STD and HIV rates among transgendered male to female persons. They are really messing with the stats for women. I’d be surprised if studies will continue to be reported in JAMA. It’s a tiny segment of the population with a huge problem. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/transgender/
And if you point out the high abortion rate for black women (about 38% of black pregnancies in NYC are aborted), then you are a racist—even if the government reports on it first. I know this from personal experience when I posted the information on Facebook and was dropped by a liberal for being racist. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_07.pdf
Truth is a casualty when ideology is the goal. There was a time, even in my life time, when liberal was a proud word—stood for being open and tolerant to new ideas and exchange of information. Now it means one must desire and vote for more government control and concede to the current culture or be called a hater.
The original copyright for my Singer Sewing Book is 1953. It has similar pithy words of wisdom.
“UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio - At least seven homes were destroyed or damaged Saturday when a house exploded in Upper Arlington. The explosion was reported around 2:45 p.m. at a home on Sunningdale Way in Upper Arlington.
According to firefighters, a Columbia Gas employee was investigating an earlier report of a gas smell at the home at the time of the explosion.
A mail carrier told NBC4's Dan Pearlman that he reported smelling natural gas in the area around 11:30 a.m.
Tremont Road is closed near the OSU Golf course. NBC4 crews reported seeing debris from the explosion as far away as West North Broadway.” NBC TV local
We heard the boom, but had no idea what had happened until it was reported on the news. It could be felt as far south as Grandview and all the way into Clintonville.
Columbus Dispatch photo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELXynhbS84
This is what a leader in our times sounds like. If you search his name in the upper left search window, you can find quite a few entries about him over the last few years.
I’m listening to a lecture (while riding my exercycle) on how the pagans were evangelized in the early church. Now that Christians are being killed for the faith in larger numbers than the first century, it’s a good message to hear. It wasn’t Facebook, Twitter and rock concerts, for sure. In some ways it is more difficult today. He mentioned how many popes were killed. Tough job! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_MsGUzN_I#t=1547 Don’t miss the final minutes of the talk where Steve Ray meets his neighbor in the judgment. Story of Steve Ray.
“The full list of popes from Peter up through John Paul II, including many mentioned as martyrs, is found in I Sommi Pontifici Romani, Annuario Pontificio, and the iconography of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. A secondary source, Liber Pontificalis or "Book of the Popes", adds "crowned with martyrdom" for half a dozen of the first 33 popes not specifically identified as martyrs in the primary sources. Several other popes are traditionally said to have been martyred, according to the Acts of the Martyrs and other sources of unknown authenticity.
Someone please tell our president. Someone please give him a map.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192865#!
Of course, he misread the Arab Spring and thought Yemen was our big success. He’s got Muslim Brotherhood advisors in the White House. He pulled our troops out of Iraq allowing ISIS to rush in. He drew lines in the sand and did nothing. He never says anything about the most persecuted group in the world—the Christians, and didn’t see any anti-Semitism in the Jewish deli incident in Paris.
Shelby Steele’s book, Shame. Reviewed by Joseph Epstein
“Liberalism in the twenty-first century,” Mr. Steele writes, “is, for the most part, a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs.” This liberalism, which is not your Aunt Bessie’s liberalism but the liberalism that came into play at the 1972 Democratic convention that nominated George McGovern, “is invested in an overstatement of America’s present sinfulness based on the nation’s past sins.”
Mr. Steele argues that liberalism’s efforts to alleviate the past injustices done to blacks in America have amounted to another botched project of that famously failed political construction firm, the Good Intentions Paving Co. “Liberalism,” Mr. Steele writes, “expresses its inborn racism in the way it overlooks the full human complexity of blacks—the fact that they are more than mere victims—in order to distill and harden the idea of their victimization into a currency of liberal power.”
Liberals, Mr. Steele holds, deal in what he calls “poetic truth.” This is a kind of truth “conceived in reaction to the great shames of America’s past—racism, sexism, territorial conquest (manifest destiny), corporate greed, militarism, and so on.” In poetic truth, the world is reduced to victims and victimizers, with liberals alone innocent of evil and thus excluded, by self-dissociation, from the role of victimizers. Under the realm of poetic truth, Mr. Steele explains, the race riots of the late 1960s could find justification and the feminist slogan “woman as nigger” could be taken seriously, while “fifty years of real moral evolution in America” can be entirely ignored.”
No one wants to be someone else’s “good deed project,” whether in a 3rd world country or urban non-profit.
FOIA says otherwise. He goes against the law set up for presidents, then claims to be transparent. Even his supporters know he is lying, but they don’t care.
The most divisive president in the U.S. history calls another world leader “divisive.” Blinders. Ear plugs. Give the man some duct tape for his mouth.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/obama-netanyahu-israel-election-white-house
Richard (far right) and his siblings Karen, David and Julie
Kids don’t “need” designer clothes, Etsy outfits, brand new everything, more shoes than they can wear before they grow out of them, and 8 thousand of whatever the latest toy craze is. (I believe it’s currently Shopkins, but I might be a week behind the times. It’s so hard to keep up.) Kids don’t need a play room full of more toys than they know what to do with. (I’ll go one step further with this one. They don’t even want it. It’s stressful and overwhelming for them. But anyways.) Kids don’t “need” to be signed up for a different so-called enrichment class every night of the week. They need sunshine, fresh air, freedom to move, and space to create.
Truth. http://thishouseisourhome.net/2015/02/25/kids-arent-expensive-but-that-other-thing-sure-is/
I was going to leave a comment at her blog—great photos and thoughts—but she already had about 600, so she doesn’t need encouragement. She’s a really good “mommy blogger.”
Today adult adoptees born between 1964 and 1996 were able to legally apply for their accurate birth records. It took much too long.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/20/adoptees-line-up-birth-records.html
Starting today, thousands of Ohio adoptees whose birth records had been sealed by law are now free to request the files that contain their original birth certificates.
Applications were being submitted in droves this morning at the Ohio Department of Health Vital Statistics Office.
“Washington spent $25 billion to re-create and arm Iraq’s security forces after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion [under Bush and a large coalition], only to see the Iraqi army easily defeated last year by a ragtag collection of Islamic State fighters who took control of large parts of the country [after Obama pulled out the troops and left them defenseless]. Just last year, President Obama touted Yemen as a successful example of his approach to combating terrorism.”
WaPo is an Obama apologist—so you won’t find outright condemnation. Obama pulled out and left Iraqis defenseless. Our losses in Afghanistan are triple what they were under Bush, and that war—the one Obama said was “good,”--was virtually won before he took office. Gave armaments to a country not strong enough to handle them.
Even with the Benghazi scandal, there were rumors of American arms being part of the story and then it appeared in a report not released to the public at the time. ‘The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms,’ the former intelligence official, who has read the annex, said. ‘It had no real political role.’ Many of those arms probably ended up in the hands of ISIS who are now killing our allies and Christians. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/real-benghazi-story.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/covert-cia-mission-to-arm-syrian-rebels-goes-awry-1422329582
“By the end of the Bush Years Iran not only had sanctions but had US Ground forces to their west (Iraq), US Ground forces to the East (Afghanistan) of Iran and the US navy to the south.
With twenty months to the election of his replacement Barack Obama has withdrawn troops from the west of Iran, is in the process of withdrawing US troops from the east of Iran, has loosened sanctions and is moving forward with a deal for removing those sanctions that his own state department and Secretary of State publicly declares is “Not legally Binding”.
Given these facts which of these men would you logically conclude has the goal to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons?”
“The American nonprofit OneVoice Movement – under scrutiny by a U.S. Senate panel over possible links to a campaign to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – quietly filed paperwork that would allow it to engage in political activism after two leading Republican lawmakers questioned its use of government funds, FoxNews.com has learned.”
Well, no wonder Obama thought his appearance 2 weeks ago would be in conflict with election standards—he was working against BiBi in his own country!
Contamination of produce accounted for 46% of all foodborne illness in the U.S. between 1998-2008. Attribution to non-plant foods was as follows: meat and poultry 22%; dairy and eggs 20%; and fish and shellfish 6%. Stats from CDC via George Mateljan’s WH Foods Weekly Newsletter, March 16, 2015.
As a general rule, cooked foods are safer, however, salad bars continue to a problem—especially sprouts.
The Fathers of the Church are a swath of history all Christians-- Catholic, Orthodox and Protestants—can share. As a Lutheran, I’m often distressed that our church history seems to begin in the 16th century, and not with the first century Christians. This instructor is a layman, Charles Craigmile, a Chicago businessman with seminary training, and I know nothing about him, even after search Google, but he’s very good. This series was given in the summer of 2014 at St. Mary’s Church, Lake Forest, IL. Now, it is given from a Catholic point of view, as you notice, when he suggests responses Catholics can provide for their friends of other denominations. This is the first lecture, then by searching you YouTube or looking to the right hand column of your screen, you can find the other seven.
Update: Checked Mr. Craigmile's LinkedIn page: DePaul University, MA, Philosophy, 1987 – 1989; University of St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas, BA, Philosophy, Latin and Greek, 1981 – 1985. He's currently President and Chief Executive Officer at Revenova LLC of Chicago.“The Institute for Energy Research released a new study titled Assessing Emerging Policy Threats to the U.S. Power Grid as a continuation of the Story of Electricity initiative. The report finds that the greatest threats to our power grid are not physical or cyber attacks, but rather existing and upcoming Federal and State policies including subsidies, mandates, and regulations.”
From the executive summary: “Reliable, affordable electricity is critical to our well-being and essential to modern life. But today, threats to the reliability of the power grid are numerous: cyber-attacks, weather, and accidents. Fortunately, the most significant threat is also the most avoidable—bad policy. Federal and state policies are already increasing electricity bills around the country, and the worst effects are yet to come. The federal government, and particularly the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is
promulgating regulations that will reduce the reliability of the power grid with little thought of the consequences. In fact, these policies threaten to take offline 130 gigawatts of reliable electricity generation sources—enough to meet the electricity needs of more than 105 million Americans, or one-third of the population of the entire United States. Reforming policies that threaten grid reliability should be a top priority for policymakers.”
Excellent bibliography, most sources are hot linked.
“Workplace stress — such as long hours, job insecurity and lack of work-life balance — contributes to at least 120,000 deaths each year and accounts for up to $190 billion in health care costs, according to new research by two Stanford professors and a former Stanford doctoral student now at Harvard Business School.”
I would have guessed that irritation with supervisor or co-workers would have been the biggest cause of stress. I remember how stressful it was when my supervisor threw the phone through the window when she was mad at something (not me), then pulled it back in by the cord and threw it through a second window. The windows were closed. Now that’s stressful. These days, the light weight phones couldn’t break a sweat, let alone a window.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-your-workplace-might-be-killing-you
“Private industry employers spent an average of $31.32 per hour worked for total employee compensation in December 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries
averaged $21.72 per hour worked and accounted for 69.4 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $9.60 and accounted for the remaining 30.6 percent.
Total compensation costs for state and local government workers averaged $43.95 per hour worked in December 2014. Total employer compensation costs for civilian workers, which include private industry and state and local government workers, averaged $33.13 per hour worked in December 2014.
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC), a product of the National Compensation Survey, measures employer costs for wages, salaries, and employee benefits for nonfarm private and state and local government workers. Private industry employer costs for paid leave benefits averaged $2.16 per hour worked in December 2014. Private industry costs for paid leave include vacation leave which averaged $1.13 per hour worked, holiday leave which averaged 66 cents, sick leave which averaged 26 cents, and personal leave which averaged 12 cents in December 2014. Paid leave benefit costs are often directly linked to wages; therefore, higher paid occupations or industries will typically show higher estimates for this compensation component. Private industry paid leave benefit costs were highest for management, professional, and related occupations at $4.67 per hour worked, or 8.4 percent of total compensation, in December 2014. Costs were lowest among service occupations at 56 cents, or 3.9 percent of total compensation. Included in this amount were employer costs for vacations, holidays, sick leave, and personal leave.”
“Since the 1990s, advanced sunscreens that counter the UV-A rays that contribute to carcinomas have been widely sold in Europe, Canada and Asia. Americans must rely on an older generation that merely prevents sunburn, because since 2002 the FDA has refused to provide up-or-down answers for eight pending applications to approve the superior compounds. . . ”
“The FDA is demanding more studies and safety data from manufacturers, despite decades of world-wide experience. The latest batch of rejections is particularly notable because one of the ingredients, ecamsule, has been approved by the FDA since 2006 as a prescription drug. Sunscreen makers simply want FDA permission to use it in over-the-counter products.”
The only photo of the Lauren Jeans Co. Capri pants I bought yesterday for $3.00 at VOA with all the tags still on was in navy, so I color filled. Doesn’t look too great in the photo, but the price was good. Originally about $70 at Macy’s. Who would pay that? A little snug, but should fit nicely by June, and it goes with several of my summer shirts. Looking forward to walks along the Lakefront this coming summer. Last summer I could barely walk. Physical therapy and weight loss have helped a lot. Now I’m working on my breathing.
“Comparisons and conclusions were difficult to evaluate as treatment interventions and outcome measurements from the seven trials varied considerably. At present therefore no reliable conclusions can be drawn concerning the use of breathing exercises for asthma in clinical practice. However trends for improvement, notably in quality of life measurements, are encouraging and further studies including full descriptions of treatment methods and outcome measurements are required.” Source
“Speaking to the program “Noticieros Televisa,” Francis displays his usual candor, dishing details about the secret conclave that elected him, talking about how he senses his papacy will be short, how the church must get tough on sexual abuse, and how all he really wants “is to go out one day, without being recognized, and go to a pizzeria for a pizza.” “ Religion News ServiceYesterday I had a chance to visit with Annabelle who lives in San Antonio and was in town visiting her 96 year old mother. When she was a senior in high school she was our babysitter and now has a 13 year old grand daughter although she’s just as pretty as she was then. She asked about our daughter whom she babysat for in 1968. She claims there are no good pizza places in her city, and they were all looking forward to going to Tommy’s last night for pizza. That’s where our family went for years, always calling the order in ahead of time because our little guy was a bit impatient and didn’t like to wait for his food. But I must say, our children were always the best behaved in restaurants.
Some time in the late 1990s, I bought several pair of summer sandals, all costing about $5 each at K-Mart. I think I still have one pair. Over the years I’ve tried several different styles, sizes, but have never found any summer foot wear that worked for me. I’ve had some luck with Clark brand, and occasionally can find an 8.5 narrow (usually I have to settle for an 8 medium). So today I ordered this, not my preferred color (white), but the only one in my size.
Clarks call this style Saylie Medway. I’m hoping those buckles are real, and not just Velcro. I had sandals like this in the 70s and 80s, as I recall, and they seemed to last forever (or because they are summer only shoes just seem that way. I would have preferred a beige or denim, but we’ll see how this works and how many hours I can actually wear them.
As someone wise once said, take care of your feet and they’ll take care of you. And I actually found a blog that says that.
Since the feet are the foundation of the body, they have a direct affect on most aspects of your health, particularly if you are a diabetic of have Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). But even without these chronic ailments, your feet play an important role in your everyday life and health. They are on the front lines of everything you do and your feet’s skin is the first line of defense.
“The natural gas boom that transformed the energy picture in the United States in the last decade is still in its infancy, says John Shaw, chair of Harvard’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. . .
Fracking is probably not a direct cause of associated earthquakes, Shaw said, noting that the pressure to fracture the rock is applied for only minutes and is followed by the gas flowing from the rock into the borehole, which actually lowers the pressure in the surrounding rock. Instead, Shaw said, it is the disposal, by injection into the earth, of the ample waste liquid the process generates that is largely responsible for generating quakes. Some firms are now looking at recycling wastewater as an alternative.”
There are those who see fracking as a threat to renewable energy sources where they are either financially or emotionally invested. In my opinion, that is behind many of the scare stories.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/03/staying-power-for-shale-gas/
I don’t know why Eric Holder criticizes the Ferguson police when the Secret Service can’t even keep the President out of harm’s way and act like the Keystone Cops (silent film comedies).
“Learning that top-ranking Secret Service officials — including the second-in-charge of President Obama's own personal detail — went out drinking, then plowed their government car into a barrier at the White House, would ordinarily ignite shock among administration officials and lawmakers.
Instead, that news Wednesday led only to disappointed head-shaking in Washington, where scandals involving the agency now seem to appear regularly.” CNN report
Interfered with a crime scene, and a supervisor wouldn’t allow them to be tested for blood alcohol for sobriety. Then the story wasn’t released for over a week.
“[Joseph P.] Clancy has told lawmakers he learned of the allegations Monday, according to people familiar with the discussions. That is five days after the incident, which involved two of his most senior agents, including a top member of President Obama’s protective detail.
Lawmakers did not learn of the episode, however, until it was reported by The Post on Wednesday.” Bomb investigation
http://oig.state.gov/system/files/isp-i-15-15.pdf
OIG made seven recommendations to improve the use of record emails by Department of State employees and mission staff members.
The last two days I decided I’d try for my fruits at breakfast. Usually I have either an apple or an orange, and maybe nuts. But this was really good.
In a blender:
One small banana
Two really large strawberries (or several small)
One slice of fresh pineapple
Frozen blueberries (not sure, maybe 1/3 cup)
¼ cup of orange juice
Some orange peel (cooked and sugared)
About two tablespoons of almond meal
This made about 2 1/4 cups of a very pretty purple drink (red and blue make purple) with some texture. Really good. I have no idea what the nutritional value is.
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Pierogies are pasta filled with whipped potatoes, and this product includes spinach and feta. Some ethic groups like to make these, but I think it looks like a lot of work. I drop 3 in boiling water for about 7 minutes, and about 3 minutes in drop in some fresh baby spinach. Makes a great lunch. This package costs about $2.00.
Ron Christie, a black Republican, has a different take than the main stream media, many Obama lap dogs—and it was actually published in The Daily Beast, a left wing, on-line news source. Rare.
“. . . most Americans never should have even heard about a shooting involving Michael Brown and police officer Darren Wilson. Every day in communities large and small, criminals commit crimes that elicit interaction from the police. In the instant case, it is a fact that Michael Brown committed a crime in a small town on August 9, 2014, failed to heed Officer Wilson’s instructions, and was shot to death when the officer thought his life was in danger. The shooting never should have happened—a young man never should have committed a crime and never should have rushed at a police officer. . .”
“. . . On matters of race involving local police investigations, President Obama has not been shy about injecting himself into the narrative while shaping the desired outcomes. In 2009 when Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates had a disagreement with a Cambridge police officer outside of his home leading to his arrest, the president opined that the officer “acted stupidly.” Never mind that Mr. Gates didn’t have his keys and was thought to be breaking into a home by the police officer in question. What I found revealing at the time is that the president offered the Gates incident as showing how “race remains a factor in this society today” when the facts revealed race had nothing to do with the interaction between a professor and a police officer.”
Ron Christie is CEO of Christie Strategies LLC. He previously served as special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2004. He has written three books on race and politics in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xq_iCMgP2Q
It will take about an hour to watch this lecture by Annette Lareau as she follows up her original research (early 2000s) on children in middle class and working class families, with how they did as young adults. I’d noticed in stores how differently some parents talk to their children (who may be in the shopping cart). Although these days, they may be talking on the phone! Often I wish they’d just shut up. My goodness, they talk and talk and talk. But some don’t. Low income parents talk much less to their children, and by the time kids get to school there is an enormous gap in vocabulary. But her research goes a lot deeper—about how middle class families “untie knots,” research ways to do things better, get the better school, or teacher, or activity. They have different social networks, they marry different people, and live in different neighborhoods which have different schools.
It’s worth watching. But I don’t buy any government solution for this which we’ll hear from the academics. The common complaint will increasingly be “white privilege,” but Lareau found similar attitudes in black and white families who are in the same socio-economic class. Fathers are more likely to be present in the middle class families; parents have more education; more sibling rivalry in middle class families; more talking; more boredom among middle class kids; and middle class kids stay “younger” longer with fewer responsibilities. Race was not as big an issue as values and attitudes. Many middle class teaching approaches are the opposite of what works with low income kids. Drilling and memorization work well for them—just not for the teachers. Immigrant parents seem to have stronger academic standards for their children which may be lost by the 3rd generation.
How big is this state, anyway? I’ve ridden my exercycle, Gold’s Gym Power 210 Spin, 380 miles since Christmas using an online program called “Tools to Keep you Active” into which you can log your biking, running or walking, and it will show you a photo of where you are. And I’m still in Virginia!
When asked to compare his city to the Selma of 50 years ago, Mayor George Evans said there was less crime then. There’s more unemployment now and although there are jobs, the population doesn’t have the skills to fill them.
Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal says, “Liberalism, moreover, tends to ignore or play down the black advancement that took place prior to the major civil-rights triumphs of the 1960s and instead credits government interventions that at best continued trends already in place. Black poverty fell 40 percentage points between 1940 and 1960—a drop that no Great Society antipoverty program has ever come close to matching. Blacks were also increasing their years of schooling and entering the white-collar workforce at a faster rate prior to the affirmative-action schemes of the 1970s than they were after those programs were put in place to help them.”
“European nations with the highest minimum wages have unemployment rates that are twice as high, on average, as those with no minimum wages. Especially hard hit by minimum wages is youth employment, which averages more than 25% in these countries.
Compare this to those countries in Europe with no federally mandated minimum wages. Most instead have wages that are privately negotiated between workers, unions, and employers. It's an infinitely better system than a one-size-fit...s-all federal minimum wage. Wages are determined by workers and companies, raised when both parties agree, applied to specific jobs, and do not apply to the whole country. In other words, they are market wages.
National minimum wages, on the other hand, are an arbitrary number, determined by politicians, manipulated through a political process, and applied to every sector, industry, and job in the entire country, regardless of skill, merit, or productivity. It is the economic equivalent of 'intelligent design.'
And it harms the poor, the uneducated, and the disadvantaged. The people who desperately need entry level work experience to begin a career. They are denied the opportunity, because the government tells companies they're not allowed to hire such people unless they do so at an economic loss.” Unbiased America
SOURCE: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/cou…/youth-unemployment-rate
http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=36324
https://cambridgesustainability739.wordpress.com/…/singapo…/
http://www.thelocal.it/…/…/italy-plans-national-minimum-wage
More riots and 2 seriously wounded policemen. Now actually, the rioters and Holder and Sharpton would have been happier with dead cops, because removing the police chief was never what this was about. Ferguson’s ticket writing for minorities? That’s a laugh. It’s below the national average. And if a community is predominately minority, why wouldn’t the majority of traffic stops be for minorities. Should white police be fired as the community demographics change?
The Democratic party can’t survive if Americans--black, white, Asian, male and female, gay and transgendered, young and old-- all get along because the “diversity” meme, which actually means little tight boxes, is essential for their votes.
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=702An estimated 17.7 million persons age 16 or older indicated that their most recent contact with the police in 2008 was as a driver pulled over in a traffic stop. These drivers represented 8.4% of the nation’s 209 million drivers. A greater percentage of male drivers (9.9%) than female drivers (7.0%) were stopped by police during 2008. White (8.4%), black (8.8%), and Hispanic (9.1%) drivers were stopped by police at similar rates in 2008. Stopped drivers reported speeding as the most common reason for being pulled over in 2008. Approximately 85% of drivers pulled over by police in 2008 felt they had been stopped for a legitimate reason. In 2008, about 74% of black drivers believed police had a legitimate reason for stopping them compared to 86% of white and 82% of Hispanic drivers.
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4780
All systems are made of people who fail, and some of those people are evil. But capitalism is the best of the bad, and offers the world the most loving system. This article was originally published in 1953, and the author Clarence Philbrook (1909–1978) contends that interventionism and extensive government serve the rule of love less well than capitalism does: “capitalism does less violence to the rule of love than would any other system so far conceived.” This is important for liberal Christians of the 21st century to know—pushing our responsibility off on to government is not loving, especially when it does such a poor job.
The link is to a descriptive abstract, but the full article will open in pdf. http://econjwatch.org/articles/capitalism-and-the-rule-of-love?ref=articles
“Capitalism is capable of giving us a much better society than we have known. Even apart from its fabulous tendency toward increased production, immense change expressive of the rule of love is available in that depression can be largely eliminated and inequality of income mitigated, both of these by methods quite in keeping with the logic of the system. Moreover, fantastically more brotherly love than has ever been exercised can be given expression through individual attitude, decision, and action in a capitalistic society. But if we repudiate that system by making changes which conflict with its essential mechanism, we give up one of the few protections we have against the evil that is in us.” ECON JOURNAL WATCH 11(3)
September 2014: 326-337.
Where do we get these data managers who work for the federal government? Are they like school children who get passed along to the next grade level, only for step increases? Maybe we should hire some known hackers to straighten it out. Millions of Social Security card holders don’t exist—or if they do they are using someone else’s record.
The review found that one individual opened bank accounts using Social Security numbers for individuals born in 1869 and 1893.
The official database of active Social Security numbers showed that both beneficiaries were alive, meaning they would be older than 145 and 121 years, respectively.
I have two e-mail addresses (my faculty address at Ohio State, and my Road Runner). I used to have three (Medscape) so I could access and send e-mail when not at my own computer. If you have a Medscape in your address book, just delete it. I don’t use it. I don’t use my phone for e-mail, although do occasionally text.
I have never had a problem “carrying around 2 devices.” Does anyone believe anything a Clinton says? She doesn’t lie as well as Bill, but Democrats haven’t changed. They believe the lies. And I don’t think the Obama Administration is being her friend. Remember, during the 2008 campaign it was not the Republicans who leaked all that dirty laundry about Obama—it was the Clinton campaign.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/10/hillary-clinton-emails-blackberry/24725993/
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/03/egyptian-president-crushes-jihadists-while-obama-coddles-them/
Trevor Loudon a conservative writer and political activist from New Zealand was interviewed about the world situation on the Glenn Beck show Monday night. Links many of the world problems back to Putin. This story is from The Blaze and was posted at his blog, New Zeal.
“While President Sisi’s Ministry of Religious Endowments has granted 400 preaching permits to Salafist leaders, his move to close down 27,000 mosques — in the world’s most populous Arab country — is as dramatic as it is telling.
Consideration of such a policy would be unthinkable in America, as it would be seen as a violation of religious freedom, even if the facilities in question were to house those espousing anti-social and anti-American acts bordering on treason.
In fact, under President Obama America has taken a diametrically opposed approach: Actively seeking to partner with mosques, and creating significantly tougher standards for surveilling them.”
President Sisi of Egypt sees the Muslim Brotherhood as the root of ISIS and Islamic jihad and has banned the organization. Obama welcomes the Brotherhood at the White House. Obama attempts to embrace Iran and reject Israel.
Here’s a interview which ran on Fox News; and he was very careful about what he said about Obama—nothing negative. It’s well worth watching.
Another Arab at MEMRI opines on Obama’s strange anti-Israel, pro-Iran behavior.
"I will conclude by saying the following: Since Obama is the godfather of the prefabricated revolutions in the Arab world, and since he is the ally of political Islam, [which is] the caring mother of [all] the terrorist organizations, and since he is working to sign an agreement with Iran that will come at the expense of the U.S.'s longtime allies in the Gulf, I am very glad of Netanyahu's firm stance and [his decision] to speak against the nuclear agreement at the American Congress despite the Obama administration's anger and fury. I believe that Netanyahu's conduct will serve our interests, the people of the Gulf, much more than the foolish behavior of one of the worst American presidents. “ Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, columnist Dr. Ahmad Al-Faraj http://www.memri.org/
In slightly more than a year, the Americas have seen more than 1.24 million cases of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne disease that causes high fever and debilitating joint pain.
But there are hopes for a vaccine. http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/Vaccines/50288
was apparently yesterday, to help you gain back that hour you lost due to the crazy, useless thing called Daylight Savings Time. It doesn’t save daylight. There will always be the same number. But here’s some interesting factoids about naps. http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-3423/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-Napping-Infographic.html
I have a black belt in napping.
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