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- pseudonym is a 63 year old guy from Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
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- Member since Mar 16, 2005
Forever curious and likes good explanations. A lifelong learner. Constantly seeking answers to life's many mysteries and happy to share all knowledge thus gleaned. On my favorite literary form: "Poetry to me is a vibration from the soul of a writer, the many oscillations of which will hopefully cause the "tuning fork" in the reader's soul to vibrate with some of the same intensity as the poet feels in her own."
[Avatar photo, entitled The last piece, is by Al Magnus; his fine galleries are located at almagnus.com.]
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Background TV harms tots’ attention spans - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
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Jul 15, 8:42pm
1 review
health, kids, tv, parenting, child-development
•http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25691604/
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From the page: "Background TV, as an ever-changing audiovisual distractor, disrupts children's efforts to sustain attention to ongoing play behaviors," Schmidt said in a press statement.
"Even though the effects of background television on play behavior found in this study are small, they may have a cumulative impact through large amounts of exposure at home," the investigators wrote. "These may include poorer cognitive and language development and attention deficit symptoms."
"Background TV is potentially a chronic environmental risk factor affecting most American children. Parents should limit their young children's exposure to background television," Schmidt concludes."
Turn off that background TV!
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When teen years hit, sluggishness sets in - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
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Jul 15, 8:32pm
2 reviews
health, education, kids, parenting, exercise
•http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25692068/
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From the page: "Bigger health problems may loom ahead: Inactivity is linked with greater risks for many health problems, including heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The new findings come just a week after an influential pediatricians group recommended that more children have their cholesterol checked and that some as young as 8 should be given cholesterol-lowering drugs. That advice was partly out of concern over future levels of heart disease and other ailments linked to rising rates of childhood obesity.
The latest study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, tracked about 1,000 U.S. children at various ages, from 2000 until 2006.
Special gadgets were used to record their activity. Average levels of moderate-to-vigorous activity fell from three hours a day at age 9 to less than an hour at age 15.
Nader said he was "surprised by how dramatic the decline was," and cited schools dropping recess and gym classes and kids' increasing use of video games and computers as possible reasons.
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funded the research, calling it one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of its kind to date."
Laziness.
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Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
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Jul 15, 8:12pm
1 review
business, investing, economy, finance, stock-market
•http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi...
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From the page: "July 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks dropped, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to the lowest since 2005, as a plunge in oil dragged down energy shares and investors lost confidence in the government's plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Exxon Mobil Corp. slid the most since March as crude fell more than $6 a barrel on concern a slower economy will curtail demand. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest U.S. mortgage- finance companies, tumbled more than 26 percent. The S&P 500 Financials Index dropped 3 percent, capping its steepest-ever five-day retreat and giving the industry a smaller market value than health care for the first time since 1992, S&P data show.
The S&P 500 slipped 13.39 points, or 1.1 percent, to 1,214.91. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 92.65, or 0.8 percent, to 10,962.54, its first close below 11,000 in two years. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 2.84, or 0.1 percent, to 2,215.71. Two stocks fell for each that rose on the New York Stock Exchange."
The sky may be falling sure enough . . .
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Shorpy :: History in HD | The 100-Year-Old High-Resolution Photo Blog
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Jul 15, 7:46pm
133 reviews
photography, photoblogs
•http://www.shorpy.com/
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The 100-year-old photo blog.
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US faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch - Telegraph
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Jul 15, 7:40pm
2 reviews
business, investing, economy, finance, funding-crisis
•http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main...
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From the page: "The US Treasury may have just days to act before foreign patience snaps, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard"
Cash is king (assuming cash is worth anything when all this is over) . . .
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Jul 15, 3:27am
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Back to work . . .
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http://photobucket.com/albums/y266/zschmidt?action=view¤t=In_Prayer.jpg
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Jun 30, 6:54pm
1 review
nature, photography, insects, pseudonym, in-prayer
•http://photobucket.com/albums/y266/zs...
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In Prayer; photo by pseudonym.
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The Hidden Victims of 9/11 by Allan Tannenbaum - The Digital Journalist (Septemb…
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Jun 27, 3:04am
3 reviews
photography, heroes, 9-11, hidden-victims
•http://digitaljournalist.org/issue070...
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From the page: "They're sick, they're dying, and they're dead. They are the firefighters, police officers and paramedics who raced, without a thought to their own personal safety, to the World Trade Center when the towers were attacked and destroyed by Arab Islamist terrorists on September 11, 2001. They are the iron workers, sanitation men, and cleaners who helped get Lower Manhattan back on its feet. They are the residents who remained downtown despite the fact that it was a war zone, with the smell of acrid smoke that lingered for three months. They are the returning office workers who got the financial center up and running. They never imagined that they would succumb to acute chronic illnesses from their exposure to the dust, debris and gases from Ground Zero on 9/11 and the following months. They never imagined that, having once been hailed as heroes for selflessly helping others, they would be forgotten, neglected and ignored when they themselves needed help. They find it hard to believe that their government, after promising billions of dollars to rebuild New York, would actually take that money back and make them fight for their rights."
It's tough to go through this article without being deeply moved...all those photos of the dead, dying, and ill--many depicting the victim alongside the huge amount of medication that he/she is still taking! This article tells of the hidden victims of 9/11, the vast majority of whom are indeed heroes for the great sacrifices they made that day, and in the weeks and months of the cleanup that followed.
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[Last posted on October 4, 2007.]
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TheHill.com - More congressional computers hacked from China
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Jun 22, 5:50am
4 reviews
hacking, china, national-security, cyber-attacks, high-tech-crimes
•http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/m...
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From the page: ""Computer systems control all critical infrastructures, and nearly all of these systems are linked together through the Internet," Wolf said on the House floor. "This means that nearly all infrastructures in the United States are vulnerable to being attacked, hijacked or destroyed by cyber means...The potential for massive and coordinated cyber attacks against the United States is no longer a futuristic problem. [emphasis added]""
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