Back in January 2017, a racehorse by the name of Ypsilanti demonstrated the issue clearly. It would seem as though the steeplechase hurdles have become soft. The horses run through them rather than jump over them.
Maybe that is why Americans prefer horse racing without the hurdles. Less cheating.
Ypsilanti won that race, too. It is all physics. If one runs touching the ground one covers more ground. Ypsilanti seems to have figured that out. Ypsilanti just wants to get back to the barn. Oats, hay, comfort.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Socially known in The Sawth as "Poor White Trash."
When I worked in health care in North Carolina there were basically two type of male personalities for the under-educated, the holy man and the tragic man.
The holy man would live a far longer life even into his eighties and nineties. The tragic man would live to his mid-forties or early fifties. The categories were both extreme personas.
Quality of life for both were supported by poor wages and long hours. The holy man would work hard, often 2 to 3 jobs, no sacrifice was too much for his family because his rewards lie after his death in heaven. He doesn't drink alcohol, it is evil, eats what is prepared by his spouse, his children are to do well in school IF THEY WERE SMART ENOUGH. If the child could not achieve in school it was expected they would fall in to a deeply religious lifestyle of their father because he was blessed with a good woman who loved her children.
The tragic man lived "wide open." He drinks alcohol, frequently an alcoholic, eats fried food, "What is organic?", has sex with pretty women and is an absent father. He pays child support and drinks to forget he misses them. He smokes tobacco, chews tobacco, doesn't attend church, can be homeless from time to time because holding down a job is sometimes difficult, he is considered a man unable to cope with his own reality by his family. His friends, if he has any, are alcoholics that has sustained loss repeatedly. They are Caucasian.
These are the angry people. There are two sides as you can see. One is tried of lazy bums and their welfare and food stamps getting women pregnant without responsibility. The others are tired of being called bums and supporting programs they will never receive a benefit. They voted. They voted with abandon for a Human Molotov Cocktail. Both of these stereotypes have been harnessed for politics out of hate and fear; both extreme feelings; and for the differences in their lifestyles they vote the same and primarily for Republicans. Both lifestyles are of misery, toned by prayer or altered consciousness. I don't believe it will ever change. It is too far gone. The state governments are highly corrupt and the people vote out of empathy or indifference so long as they maintain the status quo.
There is no moral content in either lifestyle. There is no quality of life. There is just life and suffering with a choice of coping. These people are suffering from human rights abuse, but, are too self-righteous (pride) to see it for themselves and fight those who try to bring about reality or the truth. It is too much for them. It's been generations.
If anyone thinks there will be sympathy for these folks and health care will be left in place by Republicans, you would be wrong. Republican dogma states, these people have the liberty to live the life they want and die as they will. They don't care if they bring the country down with them.
The holy man would live a far longer life even into his eighties and nineties. The tragic man would live to his mid-forties or early fifties. The categories were both extreme personas.
Quality of life for both were supported by poor wages and long hours. The holy man would work hard, often 2 to 3 jobs, no sacrifice was too much for his family because his rewards lie after his death in heaven. He doesn't drink alcohol, it is evil, eats what is prepared by his spouse, his children are to do well in school IF THEY WERE SMART ENOUGH. If the child could not achieve in school it was expected they would fall in to a deeply religious lifestyle of their father because he was blessed with a good woman who loved her children.
The tragic man lived "wide open." He drinks alcohol, frequently an alcoholic, eats fried food, "What is organic?", has sex with pretty women and is an absent father. He pays child support and drinks to forget he misses them. He smokes tobacco, chews tobacco, doesn't attend church, can be homeless from time to time because holding down a job is sometimes difficult, he is considered a man unable to cope with his own reality by his family. His friends, if he has any, are alcoholics that has sustained loss repeatedly. They are Caucasian.
These are the angry people. There are two sides as you can see. One is tried of lazy bums and their welfare and food stamps getting women pregnant without responsibility. The others are tired of being called bums and supporting programs they will never receive a benefit. They voted. They voted with abandon for a Human Molotov Cocktail. Both of these stereotypes have been harnessed for politics out of hate and fear; both extreme feelings; and for the differences in their lifestyles they vote the same and primarily for Republicans. Both lifestyles are of misery, toned by prayer or altered consciousness. I don't believe it will ever change. It is too far gone. The state governments are highly corrupt and the people vote out of empathy or indifference so long as they maintain the status quo.
There is no moral content in either lifestyle. There is no quality of life. There is just life and suffering with a choice of coping. These people are suffering from human rights abuse, but, are too self-righteous (pride) to see it for themselves and fight those who try to bring about reality or the truth. It is too much for them. It's been generations.
If anyone thinks there will be sympathy for these folks and health care will be left in place by Republicans, you would be wrong. Republican dogma states, these people have the liberty to live the life they want and die as they will. They don't care if they bring the country down with them.
...According to the 2015 edition (click here) of America’s Health Rankings, North Carolina ranked 31st in the nation.
The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries.
The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
March 24, 2017
By Christopher S. Rugabeer
A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans (click here) emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" - suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases.
The new paper by two Princeton University economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, concludes that the trend is driven by the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with a high school diploma or less.
The economists also argue that dwindling job opportunities have triggered broader problems for this group. They are more likely than their college-educated counterparts, for example, to be unemployed, unmarried or suffering from poor health.
"This is a story of the collapse of the white working class," Deaton said in an interview. "The labor market has very much turned against them."
Those dynamics helped fuel the rise of President Donald Trump, who won widespread support among whites with only a high school diploma....
The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries.
The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
children are noted as strengths.
The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries.
The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
children are noted as strengths....
March 24, 2017By Christopher S. Rugabeer
A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans (click here) emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" - suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases.
The new paper by two Princeton University economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, concludes that the trend is driven by the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with a high school diploma or less.
The economists also argue that dwindling job opportunities have triggered broader problems for this group. They are more likely than their college-educated counterparts, for example, to be unemployed, unmarried or suffering from poor health.
"This is a story of the collapse of the white working class," Deaton said in an interview. "The labor market has very much turned against them."
Those dynamics helped fuel the rise of President Donald Trump, who won widespread support among whites with only a high school diploma....
This is a global charasmatic movement that government has not been completely effective in ending the attacks. People have a right to save their own lives.
March 24, 2017
The British man (click here) who killed four and injured 40 in Westminster yesterday was a middle-aged career criminal called Khalid Masood.
The 52-year-old "lone-wolf" attacker, who was living in the Birmingham area, has a series of convictions for assault and other crimes but police insist no intelligence suggested he was about to unleash a terror attack.
Kent-born Masood has never been convicted of terror offences, although Theresa May revealed this morning that he had been on MI5's radar a number of years ago.
Masood was a married father-of-three, an English teacher and a religious convert who was into bodybuilding, according to Sky News.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said this afternoon: "Masood was also known by a number of aliases. He was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack....
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
I don't have a document to read.
By Kyle Cheney, Rachael Bade and John Bresnahan
House conservatives (click here) say they have the votes to bring down a Republican plan to replace Obamacare, threatening a core piece of President Donald Trump's agenda and sparking a frantic, 11th-hour pressure campaign by the president and House GOP leaders.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus, claimed Wednesday that 25 of his colleagues would reject the House's health care plan, exceeding the 22 Republican "no" votes necessary to block the legislation. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has scheduled a Thursday vote on the bill, but several Freedom Caucus members and their Senate allies urged him to postpone the vote and go back to the negotiating table....
Thank you. The country thanks you. The best person to speak to ANY weakness in the ACA is President Obama. Ask him.
No one said the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was perfect. No one claimed that. However, IT WAS NECESSARY.
Hold a closed session and allow President Obama speak to his observations and frustrations with the ACA. He was challenged by some of the provisions. I am confident he has a critique no one expects. Minority Leader Pelosi should set up a closed session of the US House to invite President Obama to speak regarding the ACA. I am confident he holds no malice to any member of Congress and would be willing to do such a presentation.
Thank you. The country thanks you. The best person to speak to ANY weakness in the ACA is President Obama. Ask him.
No one said the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was perfect. No one claimed that. However, IT WAS NECESSARY.
Hold a closed session and allow President Obama speak to his observations and frustrations with the ACA. He was challenged by some of the provisions. I am confident he has a critique no one expects. Minority Leader Pelosi should set up a closed session of the US House to invite President Obama to speak regarding the ACA. I am confident he holds no malice to any member of Congress and would be willing to do such a presentation.
Therefore, what?
March 22, 2017
..."My wife told me I'm supposed to do this." (click here)
In the wide-ranging interview, Mr Tillerson said he had been due to retire this month after spending more than 40 years at oil giant Exxon Mobil. He turns 65
on Thursday.
"I was going to go to the ranch to be with my grandkids," he added in the interview, as he returned to the US from Beijing....
Below is the sea surface temperatures of 1998. June 6, 1998 to be exact. So many media folks look to the red color to determine talking points. Le Nino, La Nina and all that mess.
Below is the sea surface temperatures from 2017. Kindly look not so much the red color, but, the blue and purple colors. In the southern hemisphere where there is an ice continent, Antarctica, differences of both images are discernible. Now mind you this is not one hundred years, not a millennium, but, simply 19 years, nearly two decades.
To the lower right in both images is the "Peninsula." The Antarctic Peninsula has lost considerable ice during that period of time. The loss of the Larsen Icesheets have been alarming during that period of time. The reason for the loss of those ice sheets is obvious to me. The WATERS of the circumpolar circulation caused the loss of the ice sheets. The waters in 19 years obviously have gotten warmer.
Warmer circumpolar water. The entire circumpolar is freezing. Make no doubt the waters are freezing, especially in an Austral winter. YET, in 19 years the waters have warmed enough to cause destruction of significant and important icesheets. That is serious. Very serious.
I want to look to the Arctic Ocean. The North Pole. Antarctica is the South Pole.
The frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean is descending to lower latitudes. Why? The ice of the ice ocean is melting and being carried further south. The ice of the Arctic Ocean is KNOWN to be melting. MELTING means there is a release of temperature. The Arctic Ocean is warmer today despite it being at the top of the world. The air water interface between the ICE CAPS and the tropospheric gases are resulting in far warmer waters. A warmer Pacific and a warmer Atlantic also contribute to the warmer circumpolar waters, however, the air is just as instrumental in melting the ice thermostat of Earth.
As a Secretary of State I fully expect, not his wife, but himself to bring about an end to the anthropogenic warming of Earth, "OUR COMMON HOME."
on Thursday.
"I was going to go to the ranch to be with my grandkids," he added in the interview, as he returned to the US from Beijing....
Below is the sea surface temperatures of 1998. June 6, 1998 to be exact. So many media folks look to the red color to determine talking points. Le Nino, La Nina and all that mess.
Below is the sea surface temperatures from 2017. Kindly look not so much the red color, but, the blue and purple colors. In the southern hemisphere where there is an ice continent, Antarctica, differences of both images are discernible. Now mind you this is not one hundred years, not a millennium, but, simply 19 years, nearly two decades.
To the lower right in both images is the "Peninsula." The Antarctic Peninsula has lost considerable ice during that period of time. The loss of the Larsen Icesheets have been alarming during that period of time. The reason for the loss of those ice sheets is obvious to me. The WATERS of the circumpolar circulation caused the loss of the ice sheets. The waters in 19 years obviously have gotten warmer.
Warmer circumpolar water. The entire circumpolar is freezing. Make no doubt the waters are freezing, especially in an Austral winter. YET, in 19 years the waters have warmed enough to cause destruction of significant and important icesheets. That is serious. Very serious.
I want to look to the Arctic Ocean. The North Pole. Antarctica is the South Pole.
The frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean is descending to lower latitudes. Why? The ice of the ice ocean is melting and being carried further south. The ice of the Arctic Ocean is KNOWN to be melting. MELTING means there is a release of temperature. The Arctic Ocean is warmer today despite it being at the top of the world. The air water interface between the ICE CAPS and the tropospheric gases are resulting in far warmer waters. A warmer Pacific and a warmer Atlantic also contribute to the warmer circumpolar waters, however, the air is just as instrumental in melting the ice thermostat of Earth.
As a Secretary of State I fully expect, not his wife, but himself to bring about an end to the anthropogenic warming of Earth, "OUR COMMON HOME."
There is a charasmatic movement around the globe to empower radicals. It is dangerous and citizens need the tools to save their own lives.
To the left is a splint to hold a leg still while transporting to care. The point is bandanas are invaluable in FIRST AID (click here - this distributor sells them for 80 cents. I don't know the strength of the cloth - gender was not a consideration).
In the picture to the left is a good method of SECURING A TOURNIQUET. Once the bleeding is stopped the tourniquet has to be secured. The picture illustrates a way of securing a tourniquet TO SAVE A LIFE and stop the loss of fluid.
One of the things noted in "First Aid Courses" (click here) is that tourniquets need to be opened to allow some circulation DEPENDING on the wound. It allows oxygenated blood to flow to the NORMAL TISSUES.
...One precursor to the tourniquet (click here) was the use of tight bandages placed proximal to the point of surgical amputation. Most commercially manufactured tourniquets are designed for quick application, usually within 60 seconds. A tourniquet replaces the need for direct pressure, additional bandages or a second care provider during transport....
AED's look differently depending on the manufacture. Like candy bars. Marathon Energy Bar (click here) look different than a Hersey's Shareables (click here). No different with AEDs. They work the same but they look different depending on the manufacturer. The buttons that have to be pushed by laypersons should be standardized by manufacturers, but, that would require legislation and the current DC administration and congress haven't got a clue. Besides there are these invisible political rules that dictate no interference in private industry. Not that standardization would save lives or anything, right?
There are large vessels in all extremities (legs and arms), the neck and groin. Pressure on the neck and groin is needed to stop bleeding to facilitate a rescue. That pressure has to be significant enough to stop the bleeding.
It all depends on where the wound is and how much fluid is leaking out because of a hole in the body's "integrity." A fully intact body has 100 percent integrity. Burns and wounds changes that integrity. Wounds' leaking of fluid should be stopped as close to the wound as possible.
Civilized citizens of any country will recognize their need to be SMART about violence and/or tragedy in day to day life.
Learning online or through a book is the beginning. Hands on application of SKILLS are best if time and money is available to citizens. Basic First Aid used to be taught in health classes in school. It is a good idea to bring that back. AEDs for high school students is now part of everyday life. They should be familiar with such devices. Younger people in primary school understands very well the human body is not perfect and can be injured when they fall or bump themselves in play. They will understand CARE can be applied SO THEY FEEL BETTER and THOSE AROUND THEM.
Civilized people are not stupid. They can learn laypersons' knowledge to save their life and the life of others.
Defeat attackers by ending the deaths.
March 22, 2017
By Katrin Benhold and Stephen Castle
Tobias Ellwood, (click here) a minister in the Foreign Office, tried to save the life of the stabbed police officer by giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but the officer died.
Attackers act out violence against society because it accomplishes deaths. These injections should be available to the public as well as emergency personnel. Gun shots kill because of blood loss. CPR does not work when there is massive blood loss.
The average response time of emergency medical services are not instantaneous and fluid loss is vital to stop. If severe bleeding is occurring it has to be stopped first by tourniquet or such a device as this. The people know CPR and they know how to use AEDs, at least some of them do, but, on one focuses attention on fluid loss. CPR and AEDs will fail if there is severe blood loss.
By Katrin Benhold and Stephen Castle
Tobias Ellwood, (click here) a minister in the Foreign Office, tried to save the life of the stabbed police officer by giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but the officer died.
Attackers act out violence against society because it accomplishes deaths. These injections should be available to the public as well as emergency personnel. Gun shots kill because of blood loss. CPR does not work when there is massive blood loss.
The average response time of emergency medical services are not instantaneous and fluid loss is vital to stop. If severe bleeding is occurring it has to be stopped first by tourniquet or such a device as this. The people know CPR and they know how to use AEDs, at least some of them do, but, on one focuses attention on fluid loss. CPR and AEDs will fail if there is severe blood loss.
Day 2
Humor laced theory is not a Supreme Court Justice.
I still don't know who "What's his name?" Is.
His past is what brought to this point. His past is how he is measured. The Supreme Court is not a reform movement. Gorsuck is being omterviewed for a promotion not a new country; although with Trump administration that is questionable.
I still don't know who "What's his name?" Is.
His past is what brought to this point. His past is how he is measured. The Supreme Court is not a reform movement. Gorsuck is being omterviewed for a promotion not a new country; although with Trump administration that is questionable.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
There must be some intelligence leading to this precaution.
I never really liked the electronics on board aircraft. I still don't. The use of cell phones and electronic devices is known. I don't see the sense in leaving a laptop in a luggage compartment with free and open use of cell phones. That seems a lack of insight.
March 21, 2017
By Rick Noack, Luz Lazo and Lori Aratani
London — Britain joined the United States (click here) on Tuesday in banning passengers traveling from airports in several Muslim-majority countries from bringing laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices on board with them when they fly.
The U.K. ban applies to six countries, while the U.S. ban applies to 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries.
Fliers can still travel with these items, but they must be packed in their checked baggage on U.S.- and U.K.-bound flights from airports across the countries, including busy transit hubs in Istanbul, Dubai and Doha, Qatar.
The British ban also includes some cellphones and is expected to apply to all airports in the six nations. The countries included in the British ban are Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.
“Direct flights to the U.K. from these destinations can continue to operate to the U.K. subject to these new measures being in place,” a government spokesman said.
It’s unclear when the ban will take effect. “The affected airlines have already been informed, and we expect the measures to be in place in the next couple of days,” the spokesman said....
September 18, 2016
March 21, 2017
By Rick Noack, Luz Lazo and Lori Aratani
London — Britain joined the United States (click here) on Tuesday in banning passengers traveling from airports in several Muslim-majority countries from bringing laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices on board with them when they fly.
The U.K. ban applies to six countries, while the U.S. ban applies to 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries.
Fliers can still travel with these items, but they must be packed in their checked baggage on U.S.- and U.K.-bound flights from airports across the countries, including busy transit hubs in Istanbul, Dubai and Doha, Qatar.
The British ban also includes some cellphones and is expected to apply to all airports in the six nations. The countries included in the British ban are Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.
“Direct flights to the U.K. from these destinations can continue to operate to the U.K. subject to these new measures being in place,” a government spokesman said.
It’s unclear when the ban will take effect. “The affected airlines have already been informed, and we expect the measures to be in place in the next couple of days,” the spokesman said....
...The discovery of Tannerite (click here) in materials recovered from the Saturday night explosion that injured 29 people may be important as authorities probe whether the blast was connected to an unexploded pressure-cooker device found by state troopers just blocks away, as well as a pipe bomb blast in a New Jersey shore town earlier in the day.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, touring the site of the blast in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, said there didn’t appear to be any link to international terrorism. He said the second device appeared “similar in design” to the first, but did not provide details....
...“We’re going to be very careful and patient to get to the full truth here,” New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said Sunday. “We have more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this. Was it a political motivation? A personal motivation? What was it? We do not know that yet.”
Cell phones were discovered at the site of both bombings, but no Tannerite (click here) residue was identified in the New Jersey bomb remnants, in which a black powder was detected, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to comment on an ongoing investigation.
Authorities said the Manhattan bombing and the blast 11 hours earlier at the site of a 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors in Seaside Park, New Jersey, didn’t appear to be connected, though they weren’t ruling anything out. The New Jersey race was cancelled and no one was injured....
Tannerite® (click here) is here to serve you. We will do anything with in our power to assist in making any transaction with you fast, affordable and righteous. Binary Reactive Targets were invented and patented by Daniel J. Tanner (shooting long range in above video), of Pleasant Hill, Oregon. This is the home of Tannerite®, the only legitimate company to successfully patent the Binary Reactive Target. The only companies, besides us, that can legally sell our invention are these authorized retail dealers near you....
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That might be a Kick-Ass misstatement.
Tannerite® (click here) is here to serve you. We will do anything with in our power to assist in making any transaction with you fast, affordable and righteous. Binary Reactive Targets were invented and patented by Daniel J. Tanner (shooting long range in above video), of Pleasant Hill, Oregon. This is the home of Tannerite®, the only legitimate company to successfully patent the Binary Reactive Target. The only companies, besides us, that can legally sell our invention are these authorized retail dealers near you....Our KICK-ASS invention is specifically designed to be safe. Tannerite® Brand targets can not be initiated by any method other than a center fire rifle, and we hold a valid patent on Binary Reactive Targets. We have spent many years perfecting our product....
That might be a Kick-Ass misstatement.
Monday, March 20, 2017
March 13, 2017
By Steve LaBlanc
Boston (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker (click here) says he wants to make sure Massachusetts continues to maintain a health care system that has delivered insurance to about 97 percent of its residents.
The Republican governor made his comments Monday after the release of a Congressional Budget Office report that found 14 million Americans would lose coverage next year under legislation proposed by House Republicans. The number could jump to 24 million by 2026.
The GOP proposal relies in part on cuts to the federal-state Medicaid program, forcing states to pick up the tab.
Baker, a former health care executive, says federal Medicaid dollars are critical to helping insure Massachusetts residents. He says the state receives about $10.5 billion in federal Medicaid reimbursement each year, a little more than half of the state’s total $19 billion in Medicaid spending....
Bermuda is caught in a whirlwind. Literally.
There is small craft warnings through Wednesday. I have a feeling it might develop into more than that.
If the winds sustain the surface ocean in the middle of the Atlantic will not behave. The energy in the wind will be transmitted to the ocean surface.
March 20, 2017
1530.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)
There is no sense in reading a bill that changes by the second.
Tax credits. Really? Senior citizens are going to be able to pay for their expenses long enough for tax credits to kick in? Republicans are idiots. We will be seeing Senior Citizens escorted to prison for not filing their taxes, bankruptcy for not paying medical bills and loss of their homes. Republicans are stupid people.
March 20, 2017
By Susan Cornwell and Valerie Volcovici
U.S. House Republicans (click here) are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday.
Ryan said Republican leaders still planned to bring the healthcare bill to a vote on the House of Representatives floor on Thursday. Speaking on the "Fox News Sunday" television program, he said leaders were working to address concerns that had been raised by rank-and-file Republicans to the legislation.
Republicans remain deeply divided over the healthcare overhaul, which is President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative. It aims to fulfill his campaign pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, the signature healthcare program of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.
Democrats say the Republican plan could throw millions off health insurance and hurt the elderly, poor and working families while giving tax cuts to the rich.
"We think we should be offering even more assistance than the bill currently does" for lower-income people age 50 to 64, Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, said of the tax credits for health insurance that are proposed in the legislation....
March 20, 2017
By Susan Cornwell and Valerie Volcovici
U.S. House Republicans (click here) are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday.
Ryan said Republican leaders still planned to bring the healthcare bill to a vote on the House of Representatives floor on Thursday. Speaking on the "Fox News Sunday" television program, he said leaders were working to address concerns that had been raised by rank-and-file Republicans to the legislation.
Republicans remain deeply divided over the healthcare overhaul, which is President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative. It aims to fulfill his campaign pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, the signature healthcare program of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.
Democrats say the Republican plan could throw millions off health insurance and hurt the elderly, poor and working families while giving tax cuts to the rich.
"We think we should be offering even more assistance than the bill currently does" for lower-income people age 50 to 64, Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, said of the tax credits for health insurance that are proposed in the legislation....
Prime Minister Theresa May will introduce Brexit next week.
By Jon Clifton
Another metric, however, showed something different happening in the U.K. ― “happiness.” In the two years leading up to Brexit, Gallup found that the percentage of people who were “happy” (or “thriving”) was in dramatic decline. In fact, the 15-percentage-point decline in the percentage of people rating their lives positively enough to be considered thriving was so dramatic that it remains among the largest two-year drops in Gallup’s history of global tracking....
The reality on the street has been very different for those in the UK than the propaganda of the government. In 2013 the reality of 'the street' became more and more apparent. While the GDP was suppose to indicate the country was doing well enough, the reality was "the money was flowing in one direction, to the top 10 percent.
17 March 2016
By Graham Vanbergen
Forty years after Margaret Thatcher came to power the true extent of neoliberal market reforms are still unravelling and inequality, as we are now hearing almost daily, has inexhorably taken a grip and harming society much more widely as a direct result with evidence of rising poverty its consequence.
The Equality Trust and High Pay Centre has average pay for UK workers calculated as £26,500. However, average pay conceals the reality for millions.
For instance, the top 0.1% are earning a few pounds over £1 million a year and the top 1% are earning an average £271,888. What this figure hides is the fact that the top FTSE chief executives are earning an average of £4.3 million and it takes them just 2.5 days to earn the average annual workers pay. These statistics do not include other successful groups such as self employed entrepreneurs.
The top 10% of UK workers earn £79,196. But the truth here is that this also includes the earnings of the top 1%, meaning the next 9% don’t really earn that figure.
What is grotesque is the next number that should shock everyone. The average pay of the next 90%, (by stripping out all earnings of the top 10%, including the 1% and 0.1% groups) leaves an annual income of just £12,969. Yes, you read that right. Stripping out the top 10% of average pay, leaves just £12,969 average pay for the remaining 90% of the population.
What is interesting about the figures collated by the Inequality Trust is that the data is about two years old (not their fault – it’s what is available), so things will actually be slightly worse as all analysts agree that inequality is getting worse, not better.
That statistic itself is shocking enough on its own but many people in that 90% category earn considerably more than £12,969, leaving the bottom 20% earning around £5,500 per annum....
The idea the British 'finally got it' is not a new phenomena. People are people and their physiology hasn't changed from the beginnings of existence. People of any nationality, any country understand oppression of their well being and have within them the need for hope. Hope is an important thing, HOWEVER, when hope turns to despair because the anticipation becomes a different reality there is a change in their survival and unrest sets in.
It has been the case through the beginning of time, the people, the masses if you will begin to look through the same lens and see their foolishness and the threat to their children's well being and all hell breaks loose. It is fact, it will never change. Get used to that idea. The lowest income individual has a friend and they another friend and they others and the masses begin to care about each other because "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford," witnessing so called criminals being lead to the scaffolding for hanging.
As Bradford, an evangelical preacher realized in 1555, witnessed men and women being put to death by rules of law; the law can serve a master of ill intent upon their subjects. Bradford eventually was burned at the stake without a change in his demeanor. Poor fool.
The idea the British 'finally got it' is not a new phenomena. People are people and their physiology hasn't changed from the beginnings of existence. People of any nationality, any country understand oppression of their well being and have within them the need for hope. Hope is an important thing, HOWEVER, when hope turns to despair because the anticipation becomes a different reality there is a change in their survival and unrest sets in.
It has been the case through the beginning of time, the people, the masses if you will begin to look through the same lens and see their foolishness and the threat to their children's well being and all hell breaks loose. It is fact, it will never change. Get used to that idea. The lowest income individual has a friend and they another friend and they others and the masses begin to care about each other because "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford," witnessing so called criminals being lead to the scaffolding for hanging.
As Bradford, an evangelical preacher realized in 1555, witnessed men and women being put to death by rules of law; the law can serve a master of ill intent upon their subjects. Bradford eventually was burned at the stake without a change in his demeanor. Poor fool.
The modern day 'stake' is homelessness, impoverishment and now in the USA obstruction to a quality education resulting in impoverishment, homelessness, etc. In the USA it is disguised through racism and the stereotype of laziness. The reality is setting in and the American people are finally seeing their foolishness in allowing anger rule their decisions. But, there is the popular vote and the Russians, too.
This is paranoia and oppression.
March 19, 2017
By Lisa Rein and Juliet Eilperin
The political appointee (click here) charged with keeping watch over Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his aides has offered unsolicited advice so often that after just four weeks on the job, Pruitt has shut him out of many staff meetings, according to two senior administration officials.
At the Pentagon, they’re privately calling the former Marine officer and fighter pilot who’s supposed to keep his eye on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “the commissar,” according to a high-ranking defense official with knowledge of the situation. It’s a reference to Soviet-era Communist Party officials who were assigned to military units to ensure their commanders remained loyal.
Most members of President Trump’s Cabinet do not yet have leadership teams in place or even nominees for top deputies. But they do have an influential coterie of senior aides installed by the White House who are charged — above all — with monitoring the secretaries’ loyalty, according to eight officials in and outside the administration....
This level of paranoia is definitely something that should not be tolerated. It will interfere with smooth running of the government. It will slow things down and cause second guessing by decision makers.
Donald Trump needs to be impeached. This is ILLNESS and not function. It is deploying the SS into the government structure.
I fully expect the "LOYALIST MONITORS" to patrol the agencies seeking federal employees to fire. When that occurs it will most likely be racism.
By Lisa Rein and Juliet Eilperin
The political appointee (click here) charged with keeping watch over Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his aides has offered unsolicited advice so often that after just four weeks on the job, Pruitt has shut him out of many staff meetings, according to two senior administration officials.
At the Pentagon, they’re privately calling the former Marine officer and fighter pilot who’s supposed to keep his eye on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “the commissar,” according to a high-ranking defense official with knowledge of the situation. It’s a reference to Soviet-era Communist Party officials who were assigned to military units to ensure their commanders remained loyal.
Most members of President Trump’s Cabinet do not yet have leadership teams in place or even nominees for top deputies. But they do have an influential coterie of senior aides installed by the White House who are charged — above all — with monitoring the secretaries’ loyalty, according to eight officials in and outside the administration....
This level of paranoia is definitely something that should not be tolerated. It will interfere with smooth running of the government. It will slow things down and cause second guessing by decision makers.
Donald Trump needs to be impeached. This is ILLNESS and not function. It is deploying the SS into the government structure.
I fully expect the "LOYALIST MONITORS" to patrol the agencies seeking federal employees to fire. When that occurs it will most likely be racism.
Each result is based on a three-day rolling average. (click here)
Spring Equinox 2017 in Northern Hemisphere was at 6:28 AM
March 19, 2017
Just to add some perspective to Earth's rotation around Sol, our sun's name, the orbit is not always equal distance.
Below the folks in New Jersey have brought more facts to the surface of those interested.
The Cherry Blossoms in DC had to have their peak season revised to later because of the harsh cold.
UPDATE: (click here) The National Park Service posted on March 17 that about half of the cherry blossoms survived the cold and that they expect those to bloom late next week....
...In the meantime, we’re seeing a stretch of very cold weather with temperatures that are damaging the blossoms that are in the later stages of their development. It is not yet clear how much damage they will have sustained when all is said and done.
On March 15, the NPS put out a press release that said, in part: “With temperatures moderating after the current cold snap, peak bloom of the Yoshino variety of cherry trees is still expected to occur within the projected March 19-22 window. However, the number of cherry trees that reach the blossom stage may be reduced as a result of the recent cold temperatures.”
2017 Cherry Blossom Watch (click here)
By Steve Raleigh
Spring officially arrived at 6:28 Monday morning. Of course, that's when the sun (direct solar rays) was directly over the equator and the vernal equinox arrived.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the word equinox is derived from two Latin words: aequus (equal) and nox (night)....
Below the folks in New Jersey have brought more facts to the surface of those interested.
UPDATE: (click here) The National Park Service posted on March 17 that about half of the cherry blossoms survived the cold and that they expect those to bloom late next week....
...In the meantime, we’re seeing a stretch of very cold weather with temperatures that are damaging the blossoms that are in the later stages of their development. It is not yet clear how much damage they will have sustained when all is said and done.
On March 15, the NPS put out a press release that said, in part: “With temperatures moderating after the current cold snap, peak bloom of the Yoshino variety of cherry trees is still expected to occur within the projected March 19-22 window. However, the number of cherry trees that reach the blossom stage may be reduced as a result of the recent cold temperatures.”
2017 Cherry Blossom Watch (click here)
"Good Night, Moon"
21.7 days old
55.3 percent lit
March 19, 2017
By Joe Rao
If you have a telescope, (click here) you might want to consider setting your alarm on Monday (March 20) for around 5 a.m. local daylight time (4 a.m. standard time if you live in Hawaii, Arizona or Puerto Rico, which do not observe daylight time). If you step outside at that hour and look southeast, you'll see what are probably the two most popular celestial objects to look at through a telescope: Earth's moon and the planet Saturn.
On Monday, which is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon will be just hours away from officially arriving at its last quarter (or half-moon) phase. And hovering about 2 and a half degrees below the moon will be Saturn, the "Lord of the Rings."...
Sunday, March 19, 2017
The word out of Alaska, is man-up and stop passing the climate buck to the kids!
March 18, 2017
By Phillip Martin
Photo Plate. (click here) Series of photographs of the terminus of Portage Glacier. 1914 and 1939 taken from Turnagain Shoulder NW to SE view; 1972 and 1984 oblique aerial view NW to SE; 1999 and 2006 oblique aerial view NE to SW toward Portage Glacier. Photo credits: 1914, Strough 1939, Barnes 1943, Plate 17B; 1972, USGS photograph; 1984, Aeromap U.S.; 1999 and 2006, USGS photographs.
When I began gardening in Fairbanks in the 1980s, (click here) killing frosts commonly occurred in August. But in recent years, I have been able to harvest well into mid-September. Climatologists tell us that Alaska is warming at twice the global average rate, and gardeners are not the only ones who have noticed. Native elders observe that natural seasonal patterns that have guided subsistence practices for centuries are no longer reliable. Glaciers popular with sightseers (Columbia, Mendenhall and Portage, for example) have receded far from their former scenic viewpoints. Seeing is believing, and perhaps that is why most Alaska residents accept climate warming as fact....
...What is perfectly clear, however, is a history of congressional inaction on the issue of climate change, and our delegation has been complicit. With so much at stake for Alaska, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young should instead be outspoken leaders in a political alliance for sensible climate policies. These include:
• a robust multi-agency climate science program to better define risks and probable trajectories of environmental change, including a focus on arctic systems;
• vigorous support for adherence to the 2016 Paris Climate Treaty, our best opportunity to influence actions by other nations which affect us significantly; and
• strong incentives for development and adoption of energy conservation and renewable energy technologies that will reduce global carbon emissions, create new jobs and lower the staggering energy costs that currently afflict our communities and families.
We are at a critical political juncture, with Washington. D.C., politicians charting a course that threatens our economy and natural resources. Doing nothing is not without cost. It is time for Alaska’s political leaders to stop passing the buck to our children and grandchildren.
Future changes of the terminus of Portage Glacier will depend on a variety of factors. However, present scientific theory (Meier and Post, 1987, Trabant and others, 2003) suggests that calving glaciers cycle between advance and retreat patterns; with rapid retreats, followed by stable retracted positions, slow advances, and then stable extended positions that are not directly related to climate change. Thus, based on its history to date, and if such a pattern holds for Portage Glacier, the glacier may now be in its stable retracted position and could eventually begin a slow advance. However, for a glacier to advance, annual net balance—the amount of new snow and ice added to the glacier minus the amount of glacier melt—must be positive. As a rule of thumb for valley glaciers, net balance is positive when annual snow and ice accumulation occurs over more than 60–70 percent of the entire glacier area. Such accumulation occurs on the glacier above the end-of-summer snow-line altitude, recently measured by USGS at 1,000 meters in altitude. Only 50 percent (not the rule-of-thumb 60–70 percent) of Portage Glacier is more than 1,000 meters in altitude, thus, Portage Glacier may slowly thin and recede rather than experience a slow advance.
It is called the climate crisis. It is real and it is happening. Earth needs it's ice to mitigate climate and keep Earth cool.
In industry and government President Obama saw the final stage take place of Green Chemistry.
November 29, 2016
By Sam Lemonick
In May Congress (click here) amended the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 40-year old law intended to ensure the safety of the growing array of new chemicals being created, like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The original law was written with an eye toward balancing the EPA’s regulatory responsibilities against the financial interests of the chemical industry.
Over time it became clear that the law didn’t give the EPA sufficient power to protect Americans. The amended law, which had broad support, directs the EPA to be more proactive, judging chemicals’ potential for harm before they reach the market. It also requires the EPA to start reviewing substances already out in the world, asking for a list of 10 chemicals thought to be most harmful by mid-December.
The agency turned its work in early, releasing that list today. It now has three years to evaluate their risks. If the EPA decides any pose an unreasonable threat to human health or the environment, it has two years to do something about it, like banning the chemical....
The EPA is doing vital work and must complete their findings to submit to Congress.
...How People Are Exposed to DDT (click here)
By Sam Lemonick
In May Congress (click here) amended the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 40-year old law intended to ensure the safety of the growing array of new chemicals being created, like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The original law was written with an eye toward balancing the EPA’s regulatory responsibilities against the financial interests of the chemical industry.
Over time it became clear that the law didn’t give the EPA sufficient power to protect Americans. The amended law, which had broad support, directs the EPA to be more proactive, judging chemicals’ potential for harm before they reach the market. It also requires the EPA to start reviewing substances already out in the world, asking for a list of 10 chemicals thought to be most harmful by mid-December.
The agency turned its work in early, releasing that list today. It now has three years to evaluate their risks. If the EPA decides any pose an unreasonable threat to human health or the environment, it has two years to do something about it, like banning the chemical....
The EPA is doing vital work and must complete their findings to submit to Congress.
...How People Are Exposed to DDT (click here)
C14 H9 Cl5
It isn't so much the carbons and the carbon rings that are the problem, it is the single Hydrogen and the chlorine that interact with the body. You know choline. NACL. NaCl. Sodium Chloride. Chlorine is highly reactive. Chlorine gas killed many in Syria. (click here) It is highly reactive.
People are most likely to be exposed to DDT from foods, including meat, fish, and dairy
products. DDT can be absorbed by eating, breathing, or touching products contaminated
with DDT. In the body, DDT is converted into several breakdown products called
metabolites, including the metabolite dichlorodiphenyldichloroethene (DDE). DDT and
DDE are stored in the body’s fatty tissues. In pregnant women, DDT and DDE can be
passed to the fetus. Both chemicals are found in breast milk, resulting in exposure to
nursing infants....
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