Sunday, July 08, 2012
Transfer of health
President Bush is in Zambia this week. The photos of him and Laura with adorable babies are very touching. Not sure, but I think they are there to support a cervical cancer clinic. PEPFAR, a Bush program to save people with AIDS, was probably the single most successful program for Africa since the days of DDT. When Obama came to office he decided to tweak it by expanding it to TB and malaria, which are bigger killers than AIDS, but with not enough funding to do all 3 major killers. And now even the modest increase it got from the U.S. in the early Obama regime has been frozen for 2013. Even JAMA, or at least its writer on global issues, is calling it a crisis. Diseases, researchers, doctors, nurses, clinics, medications, etc. are not mix and match. Each is very special. By spreading the wealth, he didn't spread the health.
Saturday, July 07, 2012
Diet and exercise myths and studies
Diet and exercise. Everyone seems to be over weight these days, including me. If you pick up a consumer magazine or health journal, obesity (or obesity links to poverty and crime) seems to be the meal ticket (pardon the pun) for social workers, nutritionists and medical writers.
Losing weight is no problem. Maintenance is. Most medical reports only go to 18 months for “success” stories. I lost 20 lbs. In October 2006-March 2007. Travel is broadening, and in 2006 we went to Finland, Russia, California, an architectural tour, and to Michigan. We ate a lot of good food. I gained a few pounds back in Ireland that fall, a few pounds in Italy the next year, and a few in our Holy Land tour in 2009. Since 2010 it’s been a hopeless climb back to my 2006 weight. In fact, I’d be happy to weigh what I did in 2009.
The June 27 issue of JAMA has another comparison of plans, and STEP, or a stepped care weight loss program does better than the standard behavior mod plan. However, “The findings do not answer the question of how to achieve weight loss in a manner that will be appealing enough to the participants in long term sustained weight loss." (p. 2641). Really? Who knew?
Eat less, move more. It always works.
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Losing weight is no problem. Maintenance is. Most medical reports only go to 18 months for “success” stories. I lost 20 lbs. In October 2006-March 2007. Travel is broadening, and in 2006 we went to Finland, Russia, California, an architectural tour, and to Michigan. We ate a lot of good food. I gained a few pounds back in Ireland that fall, a few pounds in Italy the next year, and a few in our Holy Land tour in 2009. Since 2010 it’s been a hopeless climb back to my 2006 weight. In fact, I’d be happy to weigh what I did in 2009.
The June 27 issue of JAMA has another comparison of plans, and STEP, or a stepped care weight loss program does better than the standard behavior mod plan. However, “The findings do not answer the question of how to achieve weight loss in a manner that will be appealing enough to the participants in long term sustained weight loss." (p. 2641). Really? Who knew?
Eat less, move more. It always works.
.
Diet and exercise myths and studies
Diet and exercise. Everyone seems to be over weight these days, including me. If you pick up a consumer magazine or health journal, obesity (or obesity links to poverty and crime) seems to be the meal ticket (pardon the pun) for social workers, nutritionists and medical writers.
Losing weight is no problem. Maintenance is. Most medical reports only go to 18 months for “success” stories. I lost 20 lbs. In October 2006-March 2007. Travel is broadening, and in 2006 we went to Finland, Russia, California, an architectural tour, and to Michigan. We ate a lot of good food. I gained a few pounds back in Ireland that fall, a few pounds in Italy the next year, and a few in our Holy Land tour in 2009. Since 2010 it’s been a hopeless climb back to my 2006 weight. In fact, I’d be happy to weigh what I did in 2009.
The June 27 issue of JAMA has another comparison of plans, and STEP, or a stepped care weight loss program does better than the standard behavior mod plan. However, “The findings do not answer the question of how to achieve weight loss in a manner that will be appealing enough to the participants in long term sustained weight loss." (p. 2641). Really? Who knew?
Eat less, move more. It always works.
.
Losing weight is no problem. Maintenance is. Most medical reports only go to 18 months for “success” stories. I lost 20 lbs. In October 2006-March 2007. Travel is broadening, and in 2006 we went to Finland, Russia, California, an architectural tour, and to Michigan. We ate a lot of good food. I gained a few pounds back in Ireland that fall, a few pounds in Italy the next year, and a few in our Holy Land tour in 2009. Since 2010 it’s been a hopeless climb back to my 2006 weight. In fact, I’d be happy to weigh what I did in 2009.
The June 27 issue of JAMA has another comparison of plans, and STEP, or a stepped care weight loss program does better than the standard behavior mod plan. However, “The findings do not answer the question of how to achieve weight loss in a manner that will be appealing enough to the participants in long term sustained weight loss." (p. 2641). Really? Who knew?
Eat less, move more. It always works.
.
Friday, July 06, 2012
Week 2 at Lakeside--hot in so many ways
The storm that blew through the mid-west to the Atlantic coast leaving millions without power on June 29, missed Lakeside. Our daughter called us from our Columbus home describing the downed trees and wind where she took refuge in our basement. Saturday evening Lakeside hosted the Coasters, Drifters and the Platters, but the lead singer for the Platters didn't get to the airport until 5;15 because all flights out of DC had been grounded. Fortunately, he had time to change clothes and make it to Hoover Auditorium for a great Show. Many years ago my nephew David was in the band that travelled with the Platters. Of course, the performers in these groups change and evolve depending on age and abilities.
We left early Sunday morning for Illinois, arriving in time for our family reunion, so I can't speak to the programing on Monday and Tuesday except it was on art and literature. I know on Monday night there was a lovely theater production at the hotel because Bev, who was attending our cat, said it was great. Thursday night's Hoover program was "The Magic of John Denver" performed by Rick Schuler. In the middle, he told us about archealogy digs in Israel he's participated in, and sang the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew.
Tuesday and Friday are farmer's market, so I'd better hurry. Saturday (week 3) is the Osmond Brothers--the real thing.
Update: Friday's program, Rhythmic Circus, a group of tap dancers and ensemble musical group, was outstanding. I've never seen anything like it--although they were here last year (I must have not attended, because you'd remember these folks). My feet, knees and calves were aching in sympathy after the first number, yet they continued until 10:30! Hoover was packed--unusual for a non-name group, so they must have a following. The new "cooling" system, huge ceiling fans, couldn't make a dent in the heat, and at intermission many left to go get ice cream. But, oh my, they were fabulous.
We left early Sunday morning for Illinois, arriving in time for our family reunion, so I can't speak to the programing on Monday and Tuesday except it was on art and literature. I know on Monday night there was a lovely theater production at the hotel because Bev, who was attending our cat, said it was great. Thursday night's Hoover program was "The Magic of John Denver" performed by Rick Schuler. In the middle, he told us about archealogy digs in Israel he's participated in, and sang the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew.
Tuesday and Friday are farmer's market, so I'd better hurry. Saturday (week 3) is the Osmond Brothers--the real thing.
Update: Friday's program, Rhythmic Circus, a group of tap dancers and ensemble musical group, was outstanding. I've never seen anything like it--although they were here last year (I must have not attended, because you'd remember these folks). My feet, knees and calves were aching in sympathy after the first number, yet they continued until 10:30! Hoover was packed--unusual for a non-name group, so they must have a following. The new "cooling" system, huge ceiling fans, couldn't make a dent in the heat, and at intermission many left to go get ice cream. But, oh my, they were fabulous.
Small business waits . . .and so do we
Fox News is running a series on how small businesses (both under 50 and over 50 employees) are responding to the SCOTUS decision that Obamacare is a legal tax. Doubt. Uncertainty. Fear. Not a good attitude for recovery. No one wants to expand; some are considering dropping their excellent health care plan and opting for the $2,000 penalty which is cheaper. However, no matter who is in charge, the federal government can always change the rules.
Meanwhile in Ohio, a swing, critical state, we are inundated with 2 Obama ads; 1) Romney outsourced jobs, 2) Bain Capital (when he was no longer an owner) which created thousands of jobs and businesses (Staples, 92,000 alone) caused a woman to lose her job. How about the government EPA requiring us to buy energy efficient light bulbs made in China. How about those wind towers that dot the Illinois prairies which are made in China? What about Obama off-shoring our oil wells to the waters outside Brazil? These ads are so easy to refute, where are the Romney writers? They are certainly collecting enough money--it's time to call out Obama on his lies.
John Stossel's new book points out he made $11/hr, tax free, begging on the streets, and found 40 jobs in 2 hours in an area where the unemployed, collecting benefits, said there were no jobs.
Driving back to Ohio on July 4 we made record time getting around Chicago--it was a breeze. But. Oh. My. The radio talk shows. Really in the tank for Obama, plus we had to listen to an interview with Elizabeth Warren pleading for money (wampum?). Remember she's the one who has been sliding buy as a Native American, based on a family story that great great great granny or someone was an Indian. Well, who doesn't have that in their family genealogy/tree, especially if you are from an area where Indians were forceably remove. A nice gig, but isn't she smart enough and female enough to make it on some thing else.?
Allen West: "When you go back and you read the documents, the Declaration of Independence, the full declaration, the full Constitution, you’ll understand limited government, you’ll understand fiscal responsibility, you’ll understand individual sovereignty, free markets … strong national defense.
But there are people on the other side, and you can call them whatever you wish, you can call it Communism, Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, or Statism …They believe in creating and expanding an entitlement or welfare state."
Meanwhile in Ohio, a swing, critical state, we are inundated with 2 Obama ads; 1) Romney outsourced jobs, 2) Bain Capital (when he was no longer an owner) which created thousands of jobs and businesses (Staples, 92,000 alone) caused a woman to lose her job. How about the government EPA requiring us to buy energy efficient light bulbs made in China. How about those wind towers that dot the Illinois prairies which are made in China? What about Obama off-shoring our oil wells to the waters outside Brazil? These ads are so easy to refute, where are the Romney writers? They are certainly collecting enough money--it's time to call out Obama on his lies.
John Stossel's new book points out he made $11/hr, tax free, begging on the streets, and found 40 jobs in 2 hours in an area where the unemployed, collecting benefits, said there were no jobs.
Driving back to Ohio on July 4 we made record time getting around Chicago--it was a breeze. But. Oh. My. The radio talk shows. Really in the tank for Obama, plus we had to listen to an interview with Elizabeth Warren pleading for money (wampum?). Remember she's the one who has been sliding buy as a Native American, based on a family story that great great great granny or someone was an Indian. Well, who doesn't have that in their family genealogy/tree, especially if you are from an area where Indians were forceably remove. A nice gig, but isn't she smart enough and female enough to make it on some thing else.?
Allen West: "When you go back and you read the documents, the Declaration of Independence, the full declaration, the full Constitution, you’ll understand limited government, you’ll understand fiscal responsibility, you’ll understand individual sovereignty, free markets … strong national defense.
But there are people on the other side, and you can call them whatever you wish, you can call it Communism, Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, or Statism …They believe in creating and expanding an entitlement or welfare state."
Monday, July 02, 2012
Monday Memories--Very fresh, Blogging from Illinois
We're in Illinois for two reunions, high school and family. My sister prepared a wonderful buffet meal for a variety of relatives--my siblings, aunt and uncle (father's younger siblings), cousins from both sides of the family, niece, nephew, great nephew, and assorted favorite in-laws. I think there were over 20 of us. The recipes were all from the Corbett Family Reunion Cookbook 1993, which I had prepared. The occasion was my mother's 100th birthday (in May). She died in 2000. For "entertainment" we all took turns telling favorite "Olive" stories, and the general opinion was she was a remarkable woman. Another source of fun was a large bag of photos and mementoes from my mother's sister (died in 2011) who had saved birthday, Christmas, and get well cards, wedding announcements, graduation announcements (including my mother's 1926 8th grade commencement), newspaper stories, post cards, etc. for many years. Each family member took items precious to their own family, and I'll mail some to the Florida niece and nephew.
The ladies of the class meet this evening and then the class reunion is at the Pines State Park tomorrow evening. However, classmate Phil Egan died Saturday, and the funeral will be tomorrow, so I expect to see some classmates at the services or visitation.
Very hot here. Instead of a cool walk along the lakefront, it was 77 degrees on a country road.
The ladies of the class meet this evening and then the class reunion is at the Pines State Park tomorrow evening. However, classmate Phil Egan died Saturday, and the funeral will be tomorrow, so I expect to see some classmates at the services or visitation.
Very hot here. Instead of a cool walk along the lakefront, it was 77 degrees on a country road.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Friday family photo
I found a cute pillow sham with 2 cats at Volunteers of America for 26 cents. She looked so cute on it I went back and got the other one.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
The Supreme Court's Decision
The Supreme Court gets it wrong, sometimes. And then it's really big. And hurtful. Like in 1857 when it declared blacks weren't citizens (Dredd Scott) and therefore didn't have a right to sue in the courts and in 1973 when it decided the unborn baby wasn't either a human or a citizen and didn't have a right to life.. Justice Roberts (paraphrased) said it's not the court's responsibility to protect the American people from bad laws--we need to do that at the ballot box.
I doubt that the USSR could have fallen without Pope John Paul II and his inspiration for the Polish people to fight for their freedom. Looks like the limp, spineless evangelicals need to get behind the Catholics in their battle against the HHS Mandate. It's the only power we've got who can stand up to Big Brother Barack.
"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." --Thomas Sowell
I doubt that the USSR could have fallen without Pope John Paul II and his inspiration for the Polish people to fight for their freedom. Looks like the limp, spineless evangelicals need to get behind the Catholics in their battle against the HHS Mandate. It's the only power we've got who can stand up to Big Brother Barack.
"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." --Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Week One at Lakeside 2012
Week 1 at Lakeside, Dr. Paul Beck of OSU was a featured speaker talking about the 2012 elections. Excellent speaker, and very informative. I had 2 take-aways after 4 sessions. This year will be a record for money spent on campaigning--$4-5 billion. But McDonald's will spend $20 billion advertising its products. Most of that goes to convince the "undecided, non-party" voter, and only a low percentage of them vote. The rest of us know who we are voting for so the ads don't affect us. Also, Columbus, OH will have more money spent on it than any other market because Ohio is a swing state. And I think Cleveland is #2. Most of you won't see what we see.
Sunday evening we went down to the park to hear a fiddle player, Krista Solars. But the weather report looked like rain, so it was moved to Hoover Auditorium She was excellent, but lost some of her audience in the shift--the people carrying lawn chairs, food and leading dogs. On Tuesday evening at Hoover a group called Blue Lunch from Cleveland played. Very interesting mix of R & B, soul, jazz, gospel and good old rock n roll. Saturday night was Mike Albert and his Big E Band (Elvis impersonator), in his 14th appearance. I think we've probably seen at least 10 of those. He always puts on a great show. Elvis and a classic car show go well together--lots of visitors of a certain age in town!
On Tuesday I also made a quick trip to Sandusky for a new pair of athletic shoes. My legs were starting to hurt, and I know that's a sign I've gone too long. I don't want to miss out on the morning walks along the lake. I noticed this morning the sun popped up at 6:01 which means the days are getting shorter!
Sunday evening we went down to the park to hear a fiddle player, Krista Solars. But the weather report looked like rain, so it was moved to Hoover Auditorium She was excellent, but lost some of her audience in the shift--the people carrying lawn chairs, food and leading dogs. On Tuesday evening at Hoover a group called Blue Lunch from Cleveland played. Very interesting mix of R & B, soul, jazz, gospel and good old rock n roll. Saturday night was Mike Albert and his Big E Band (Elvis impersonator), in his 14th appearance. I think we've probably seen at least 10 of those. He always puts on a great show. Elvis and a classic car show go well together--lots of visitors of a certain age in town!
On Tuesday I also made a quick trip to Sandusky for a new pair of athletic shoes. My legs were starting to hurt, and I know that's a sign I've gone too long. I don't want to miss out on the morning walks along the lake. I noticed this morning the sun popped up at 6:01 which means the days are getting shorter!
Monday, June 25, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
ACORN’S Joe McGaven gets $445 million in Illinois
“ACORN, the supposedly defunct organization defunded by Congress in the aftermath of James O’Keefe’s video exposing ACORN employees’ willingness to help out pimps and prostitutes attain government benefits, is back. As Judicial Watch has uncovered, the Obama administration offered $445 million to a former ACORN official as part of a $7.6 billion government program designed to help “unemployed or substantially underemployed” Americans make their mortgage payments.
The ACORN official, Joe McGavin, is director of Hardest Hit, an Illinois program that received that massive Treasury infusion. Prior to his time at Hardest Hit, McGaven was director of counseling for ACORN Housing in Chicago, and the operations manager for Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA), an ACORN affiliate.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/08/ACORN-official-gets-payoff
“Until two years ago AHCOA was called ACORN Housing. The nonprofit corporation renamed itself Affordable Housing Centers for America after undercover activists caught ACORN employees offering helpful advice about starting a brothel for pedophiles and committing other crimes on video in 2009. Soon after, popular revulsion prompted Congress to ban funding of ACORN and groups related to it.
ACORN Housing, which had been the largest affiliate in ACORN’s corrupt, taxpayer-subsidized empire of activism, grew out of crime: squatting. It emerged from a 1982 action in which ACORN built a squatters’ tent city behind the White House.”
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/12/obama-gives-446-million-to-acorn-veteran/
Give a wedding gift that will last
I'm still using some of our wedding gifts. We were married in 1960. President Obama wants couples to give that up so he can raise more money for his campaign. No president in history has ever run up a debt like he has or spent more time on the golf course. I don't think I'd trust him with my wedding gift money or my tax money. http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/06/22/obama_to_couples_why_dont_you_forgo_wedding_gifts_and_ask_your_guests_to_donate_to_me_instead
Still using my silverplate received as a gift from my husband’s aunts and uncles.
Conservatives complain too much about welfare—except where it counts
Welfare comes to many, not just the poor. Princeton University is highly invested in the success of capitalism with an endowment of $17 billion, or about $2 million per student. Even so, it received approximately $54,000 per student in 2011 from the federal government--you and me. Richard Vedder, Bloomberg.com, Mar. 18, 2012.
"In 2002, Meg Whitman, now the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a former CEO of EBay Inc., made a $30 million gift for what is essentially a luxury dorm (Whitman College) at Princeton that probably netted her a tax break of $10 million or so. Less opulent residences at the College of New Jersey lack such rich private funding. One could argue that this is the equivalent of building public housing for the rich. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-18/princeton-reaps-tax-breaks-as-state-colleges-beg.html
“It's unlikely that more money has ever been lavished on the education of so few. Even as Ivy Plus budgets have spiraled upward, the schools' enrollments have barely budged. From the 1997-98 academic year through 2006-07, graduate enrollment at the 10 institutions inched up by 10%, to 55,708, while the number of undergraduates actually fell by 1.4%, to 68,492.
Meanwhile [2007], the wealth gap between the Ivies and everyone else has never been wider. The $5.7 billion in investment gains generated by Harvard's endowment for the year that ended June 30 exceeded the total endowment assets of all but six U.S. universities, five of which were Ivy Plus: Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, and Columbia. Ivy dominance extends to fund-raising. A mere 10 schools accounted for half the growth in donations to all U.S. colleges and universities last year. All of the top five on the list were Ivies, led by Stanford, which set a record for higher education in 2006, collecting $911 million in gifts.”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_50/b4062038784589.htm
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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