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There's still time to donate if you like.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Time 7 April 2014: Vol 183, No 13
Features:
Shifting Sands: The US and Saudi Arabia's special relationship has become less sure-footed, but it remains indispensable
Enter the Rift: The inside story of how Facebook bought what many think is the next big thing in entertainment
The conquest of Cool: With its Subtlety, style and obsessional attention to detail, Mad Men ushered in the era of TV drama as literature.
Briefings
Devastating mudslide in Washington state
Seeking closure on flight 370
the Pope takes on the Mafia
US sanctions against Russia get personal
The Redskins' name game
Building the snoop proof inbox
A new dwarf planet
Return of the mumps
Hatemonger Fred Phelps dies
Charlotte Alter on young women's need for speed
Rana Foroohar on the glbal trade retreat
The Culture
How the Hunger Games and Divergent have sparked heroine chic in Hollywood
A timely bopic of Latino laborhero Cesar Chavez
Can the Red's base-stealing rookie Billy Hamilton help speed up baseball
Game of Thrones Kit Harrington
Crowdfunding celebs
Obama's Dutch treat
Joel Stein pitches a new Final Four finale
10 questions
Farm animal activist Gene Baur
Shifting Sands: The US and Saudi Arabia's special relationship has become less sure-footed, but it remains indispensable
Enter the Rift: The inside story of how Facebook bought what many think is the next big thing in entertainment
The conquest of Cool: With its Subtlety, style and obsessional attention to detail, Mad Men ushered in the era of TV drama as literature.
Briefings
Devastating mudslide in Washington state
Seeking closure on flight 370
the Pope takes on the Mafia
US sanctions against Russia get personal
The Redskins' name game
Building the snoop proof inbox
A new dwarf planet
Return of the mumps
Hatemonger Fred Phelps dies
Charlotte Alter on young women's need for speed
Rana Foroohar on the glbal trade retreat
The Culture
How the Hunger Games and Divergent have sparked heroine chic in Hollywood
A timely bopic of Latino laborhero Cesar Chavez
Can the Red's base-stealing rookie Billy Hamilton help speed up baseball
Game of Thrones Kit Harrington
Crowdfunding celebs
Obama's Dutch treat
Joel Stein pitches a new Final Four finale
10 questions
Farm animal activist Gene Baur
Time: 31 March 2014, vol 183, No 12
I got an offer to get Time Magazine, 2 years worth, at 25 cents an issue, so I jumped at it.
I think it's important to know what's going on on a daily basis - but I don't have time to post daily news articles anymore, so I'll go with weekly and concentrate on what Time thinks is worth reporting.
Features:
Maps and Legends: Technology is no match for geography in charting the future of global conflicts
The Disappearance of Flight 370: How the Malaysia Airlines jet slipped through the world's web of surveillance
A Place in the Sun: To fix Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti may have to reinvent everything but the weather
Small Engines: A high-end watch factory is helping drive a change in fortunes for Detroit manufacturing
Briefing:
Venezuela's national guard blasts back against protesters
Turmoil in Libya, Nigerians dying for work, web domains for cities
Russia's imperial hubris in Crimea
Reducting immigrant detention quotas
Regulating the ride-sharing business
Ibn-store beacons to track shopper's phones
New evidence for the Big Ba\ng
Farewell to comedian David Brenner
Commentary
The Curious Capitalist: Rana Foroohar on GMs recall crisis
Culture
The markerter who helps Hollywood find religion
What to see at the Whitney Biennial
Divergent converges on a YA trend
Vintage Cash
the neotiv Nymphomaniax
Alyson Hannigan
Sprucing up Scrabble
the ice cream cleanse
Joel Stein on being miscast as himself
10 questions: pop musician Becki
I think it's important to know what's going on on a daily basis - but I don't have time to post daily news articles anymore, so I'll go with weekly and concentrate on what Time thinks is worth reporting.
Features:
Maps and Legends: Technology is no match for geography in charting the future of global conflicts
The Disappearance of Flight 370: How the Malaysia Airlines jet slipped through the world's web of surveillance
A Place in the Sun: To fix Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti may have to reinvent everything but the weather
Small Engines: A high-end watch factory is helping drive a change in fortunes for Detroit manufacturing
Briefing:
Venezuela's national guard blasts back against protesters
Turmoil in Libya, Nigerians dying for work, web domains for cities
Russia's imperial hubris in Crimea
Reducting immigrant detention quotas
Regulating the ride-sharing business
Ibn-store beacons to track shopper's phones
New evidence for the Big Ba\ng
Farewell to comedian David Brenner
Commentary
The Curious Capitalist: Rana Foroohar on GMs recall crisis
Culture
The markerter who helps Hollywood find religion
What to see at the Whitney Biennial
Divergent converges on a YA trend
Vintage Cash
the neotiv Nymphomaniax
Alyson Hannigan
Sprucing up Scrabble
the ice cream cleanse
Joel Stein on being miscast as himself
10 questions: pop musician Becki
Friday, March 28, 2014
Rush Revere...
I've got this book...and my days are freeing up now so I should be able to get my girdle in gear and get back to work on this blog...
So I'll be reviewing this book shortly.
So I'll be reviewing this book shortly.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Anyone been watching the Olympics
I've sloughed off in my posting here, and once again I apologize.
What can I say, it's winter. I wonder if I have seasonal (something) disorder? I look out at the grey skies and the snow and dread going out into the cold, and what is more awful, the wind.
Then I cocoon in my house and don't do anytihng...
Well, Olympics are over, the United States lost the medal battle (I think we finished with a medal count that puts us in third place, because of the failure of any of our speed skaters to live up to expectations...)
The meltdown (ha, hah, is that a pun?) of our speed skaters could perhaps have been anticipated - they trained on hard ice and the ice at Sochi was soft...so it had nothing to do with their suits, after all!
What can I say, it's winter. I wonder if I have seasonal (something) disorder? I look out at the grey skies and the snow and dread going out into the cold, and what is more awful, the wind.
Then I cocoon in my house and don't do anytihng...
Well, Olympics are over, the United States lost the medal battle (I think we finished with a medal count that puts us in third place, because of the failure of any of our speed skaters to live up to expectations...)
The meltdown (ha, hah, is that a pun?) of our speed skaters could perhaps have been anticipated - they trained on hard ice and the ice at Sochi was soft...so it had nothing to do with their suits, after all!
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
‘Endangered’ Mouse Could Delay Flood Recovery
It's like we're living in the Twilight Zone. I admit I'd prefer NEW construction to stop to protect the habitats of wild animals - but when you've got an already existing town that needs to repair itself and it can't because of a mouse - not a wolf or a lion or a tiger or a bear but a mouse - not as bad as a fish, buts still, it's ridiculous.
FEMA's going to pay for the litigation? And where are they going to get the money for that? OUR TAX DOLLARS!
From: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/02/04/endangered-mouse-could-delay-flood-recovery/
WELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency is warning that many flood repair projects could be delayed because they are in an endangered mouse’s habitat.
The Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is listed as a threatened species, which means it and its habitat are protected by federal law. Its habitat lies along rivers and stream beds where flood repairs are underway.
The news upset Colorado State Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, who represents many of the flooded communities. He sent a letter to Colorado’s congressional delegation asking it to intervene saying the federal government has put a mouse ahead of Colorado families.
“We’re holding up the ability to redo safe drinking water, to rebuild sewage treatment facilities so we can keep sewage out of the rivers, trying to have a safe environment because of a mouse,” said Sonnenberg.
According to him, communities have to delay repairs after FEMA issued a warning that local governments could lose federal funding if they violate the Endangered Species Act.
The mouse is causing controversy with some Colorado scientists, saying it isn’t even endangered.
“This mouse has cost millions of dollars to Colorado taxpayers already. It threatens the livelihood of agriculture and now it’s threatening flood recovery efforts. This is absolutely incredible,” said United States Rep. Cory Gardner.
Gardner, whose district was hit hard by the floods, wrote a letter to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service asking for a waiver from the Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife said that so far projects have only been delayed a couple days. However, Gardner said flooded communities can’t afford any delay as they race to make repairs before the spring runoff.
“The fact that so many people were impacted, thousands of people lost their homes or had their homes damaged, and here we are having federal relief dollars held up by a mouse that may not even be endangered. It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Gardner.
Gardner said that if Fish and Wildlife doesn’t grant a waiver quickly he will draft legislation.
A Weld County commissioner said he asked FEMA two months ago about the mouse and was told it wouldn’t be a problem.
FEMA said that it is simply following federal law and that it has added staff to expedite the process and will pay for any mitigation necessary to accommodate the mouse habitat.
FEMA's going to pay for the litigation? And where are they going to get the money for that? OUR TAX DOLLARS!
From: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/02/04/endangered-mouse-could-delay-flood-recovery/
WELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency is warning that many flood repair projects could be delayed because they are in an endangered mouse’s habitat.
The Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is listed as a threatened species, which means it and its habitat are protected by federal law. Its habitat lies along rivers and stream beds where flood repairs are underway.
The news upset Colorado State Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, who represents many of the flooded communities. He sent a letter to Colorado’s congressional delegation asking it to intervene saying the federal government has put a mouse ahead of Colorado families.
“We’re holding up the ability to redo safe drinking water, to rebuild sewage treatment facilities so we can keep sewage out of the rivers, trying to have a safe environment because of a mouse,” said Sonnenberg.
According to him, communities have to delay repairs after FEMA issued a warning that local governments could lose federal funding if they violate the Endangered Species Act.
The mouse is causing controversy with some Colorado scientists, saying it isn’t even endangered.
“This mouse has cost millions of dollars to Colorado taxpayers already. It threatens the livelihood of agriculture and now it’s threatening flood recovery efforts. This is absolutely incredible,” said United States Rep. Cory Gardner.
Gardner, whose district was hit hard by the floods, wrote a letter to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service asking for a waiver from the Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife said that so far projects have only been delayed a couple days. However, Gardner said flooded communities can’t afford any delay as they race to make repairs before the spring runoff.
“The fact that so many people were impacted, thousands of people lost their homes or had their homes damaged, and here we are having federal relief dollars held up by a mouse that may not even be endangered. It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Gardner.
Gardner said that if Fish and Wildlife doesn’t grant a waiver quickly he will draft legislation.
A Weld County commissioner said he asked FEMA two months ago about the mouse and was told it wouldn’t be a problem.
FEMA said that it is simply following federal law and that it has added staff to expedite the process and will pay for any mitigation necessary to accommodate the mouse habitat.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
New blog: Collecting Amelia Earhart
I've started a new blog called Collecting Amelia Earhart.
http://collectingameliaearhart.blogspot.com/ is the URL.
If you're interested in women in aviation or Amelia Earhart, check it out.
http://collectingameliaearhart.blogspot.com/ is the URL.
If you're interested in women in aviation or Amelia Earhart, check it out.
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