Friday, October 20, 2017
Each other...
According to the Harvard Business Review, 40 percent of U.S. adults report feeling lonely. This attributed to the record numbers of people who live alone.
Technology can help or hurt, it's simply a tool but for too many people technology has led to substituting online connections for offline in-person connections.
Masculinity is tied to being self-sufficient and not expressing your emotions and certainly not admitting to feelings of loneliness. But many men do feel lonely especially after they get married or have children where their social circles narrow.
Loneliness is associated with a reduction in your lifespan that is as severe as the lifespan you see with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We evolve to be social creatures and thousands of years ago if you were connected to other people you were more likely to have a stable food supply and to be protected from predators. So when you're disconnected, you're in a stress state.
We have for years thought about ourselves as an individualistic society that champions individual achievement but we're truly interdependent creatures and ultimately we need each other.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
On Time...
The Subway System is deteriorating big time in NYC. People are packed in like sardines.
The Mayor finally wants to tax the rich to fix the subway. Too late, we need someone who can pay attention to the transportation system, the engine for NY city's business.
الزمن الجميل
الي كل الاحباء والاصدقاء والعاءله . تحيه طيبه للجميع. شكرا جزيلا لكل منكم علي مشاركتكم الغاليه لي. ذكرتني بايام السنتر الشبيبه الجامعه الخريجين و العام ْ الزمن الجميل ٌ زي ما البعض سماه.
ُ ليت الشباب يعود يوما ُ امنيه طيبه بشرط ان يكون معها نفس ُ الزمن الرابطه المحبه و المجموعه ُ.
اخيرا... خش علي الفيس .حتي يسهل الاتصال.
To all my friends and family. Thank you so much for all your wishes, posts and comments. I truly enjoyed it to the max. It brings back memories, great memories of our time.
I enjoyed following the various posts on F B and learn and be happy to hear your good news, progress and success. Please join if you can, it facilitates the communication.
I choose this song because it is as close as it can be.
Thanks again to all.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Sedatives...
Investigators say the pilot of a Texas hot air balloon that crashed and killed 16 people flew with enough Benadryl in his system to have the equivalent blood-alcohol level of a drunken driver.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators at a hearing in Washington that pilot Alfred "Skip" Nichols also took sedatives and opioids that likely affected his decision-making during the July 2016 flight.
Nichols had at least four convictions for drunken driving and twice spent time in prison.
A Texas lawmaker expects hot air balloon pilots to obtain medical certificates following a crash similar to last year that killed 16 people.
The July 2016 crash in a pasture near Austin, Texas, was the worst hot air balloon disaster in U.S. history.
The National Transportation Safety Board could recommend new safety regulations. Medical experts have said the pilot of the Texas balloon should have been grounded because of medical ailments and drug use.
MockingBird...
The public school district in Biloxi, Miss., did not specify which words, exactly, in “To Kill a Mockingbird” are so objectionable that the book was yanked from an eighth-grade reading list last week, 57 years after it published.
“There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable,” school board vice president Kenny Holloway vaguely told the Sun Herald.
That is: the n-word, which Harper Lee pointedly did not when she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racism in the United States.
The n-word appears nearly 50 other times throughout “Mockingbird” almost always in dialogue. The novel won its author a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and “made the values of the civil rights movement particularly a feeling for the god-awful unfairness of segregation real for millions.
Many would be unhappy with that.
Monday, October 16, 2017
Prices
President Donald Trump tweeted that he is "working on a new system where there will be competition" in the drug sector and that "pricing for the American people will come way down."
President Trump railed against "outrageous" drug prices Monday, sending biotech and pharma stocks reeling midday. Today he said the same thing.
This will get him a second term. Just a thought.
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