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high schools in many places need to be doing a better job of teaching people the skills needed for the modern work place.

I thought ranking WAS done by votes.

This was the same time that Cassiodorus in Europe was reporting strange weather, a blue sun, a dim moon even when full no fruitful summer and no extremely cold winter. Just no change and no growth. A large boloid crash? A major volcanic event? But it did also seem to drive the steppe peoples out of central Asia, conquering or invading both East and West

What is the status of Mercury re molten core and magnetic field?

I was surprised to hear Newt speaking today about his support for ending Aparteit (sp ?) and freeing Mandela all those years ago.

Separate from ice melting is the fact that when sea water is warmer, it expands. We must moniter world wide sea temps.

Well, one effect it says is that oil producers want to start exporting again. So is this why we want the XL Pipeline, so big oil can start exporting again? I thought it was supposed to be used here?

I wonder if they were demonstrating in sub zero f or C. Sub zero f is much colder.

Another illustration of the mind set that has caused the gun kill rate to more than double in those states that have “stand your ground laws”.

When you say scammed, do you mean someone talking me into doing something stupid with my money, or something else. Will never happen, too tight with my money.

Here is another really interesting and very long article focusing on the Denisovans and their tine and distance relationship to Neanderthals, modern humans, Chimpanzees, etc.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7327/full/nature09710.html

I hope this is the right one, it is really late and I am too tired to check. Maybe tomorrow.

I heard a report this evening that some people who ran into trouble were asked to call in later when it was not so busy and were offered the option of being reminded at a good time. About half the people who marked that option did call back.

Health care hypocracy ping

Knockout game ping

Well, this was 3 Republican governors. Wish I could tell you the names. I think the moderator was Scarborough or something like that.

Future fixes? Tort reform. Program to help medical students who will work in problem areas—rural, inner city, etc.—in exchange for financial help. Companies that will enter the field who do not feel their CEO needs a $20,000,000 salary. Better self care education in schools. I had a dynamite home nursing class in high school. It meant I was not intimidated by caring for my mother and my husband while they were dying at home as they had requested. Probably more, but it is late and I am sleepy.

Time will tell. Meanwhile Hamas is systematically taking away all rights from women.

With 5 Catholics on the Supreme Court, perhaps they are avoiding having to vote on this issue.

My boyfriend feels I am silly not to do banking and bill paying on line. I don’t mind writing checks and figure I am safer that way. Who is correct?

And how many people who knew they were dying have begged YOU to care for them at home so they don’t end up dying in a hospital.

Believe it or not, today ChristianPost/news.com reported that a “New ‘Christian Swingers’ dating site offers faithful couples chance to ‘hook up’”. What is the world come too!! Site is Christianswingers.com.

Yah think??

Yah think??

I just listened to an hour long discussion among 3 Republican governors and a moderator on what is wrong with the Republican Party and how it can be saved. They pointed out that when working people with a half way decent job are paying 26% or higher taxes, and the GOP puts up a guy who won’t even show much of his taxes and the most recent has him paying 14%, this tends to make many potential Republicans of middle income angry. How do you feel on this issue?

Nice maps, but what do the colors mean?

Yes, what were we thinking has some merit. I have a son 44 in Special Forces. When he was 16 my late husband from farm country in the middle west, where they used it to blow up stumps, gave him a bottle of black powder. Son had fun making little bombs. Never used them to hurt anything, unlike some kids I knew 65 years ago who used cherry bombs to blow up frogs and fish.

One night my son came into the kitchen wearing his ROTC BDUs and face make up. I asked him about it. He said he and his ROTC Rangers buddies were going to camp out in the nearby forest/park. I said, “but isn’t it illegal to be there at night?” “True,” he said, “but the point is not to get caught.” I sighed, and thought, boys have to do something a bit wild, at least he is not out selling drugs.” Almost 30 years, after Iraq, Afghanistan and Afghanistan tours, he is still in one piece. Hope that lasts.

My mother had a pig valve replacement of her mitral valve at 78. By age 88 it was failing and she died at 89 of congestive heart failure. These valves often fail after about 10 years, but she was too frail for another surgery.

I doubt that a pig chased the chimp. It was probably the chimp chased the female pig. Note: on Borneo or somewhere near there the cannibals call humans “long pig”.

Scaled to a population of over 300,000,000, then 750,000 or 7.5 to 3,000 annually sounds like a normal or low death rate, not euthanazia.

I cared for my 89 year old mother when she was dying of congestive heart failure as the pig valve she received 10 years earlier began to fail. She was too frail for another surgery. I also cared for my husband who died of Alzheimers. The last 3 years were 24/7/365. Neither wanted to die in a hospital hooked up to IV and stomach tubes and they signed advanced directives years earlier when they were lucid. My mother knew she was dying and suffered from anxiety. My cousin, a doctor who knew and cared about my mother, suggested a mild tranquilizer which was a big help. When my husband finally collapsed and could not walk any more, the doctors who had seen him 3 months earlier sent me home hospice care (a nurse visited daily to check on him and give me advice). After a few days he did not want to eat. My son and I talked with the doctors. They said, feed him if he wants food, give water if he wants it. He did not, he died 5 days later at home in our bed. There is a time when dying is normal, we must learn to accept that and help the way the loved one wants us to. The Red Cross and others should offer classes on home care of the dying. Many want to die at home, but family do not feel able to do this—fear and ignorance.

I decided to check out the Liverpool Care Pathway. There are many links. Here is one about comparative testing, and an important comment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2461376/Liverpool-Care-Pathway-little-benefit-study-finds.html

Actually, dying people don’t feel thirst. The dying person follows their body cues just like a living one does. Their body is shutting down and doesn’t want food or fluid. Trying to force that into their body is cruel and causes them to become ill and vomit, and that usually ends up in their lungs. Fluids cause overload and create pain and breathing difficulties. There seems to be a lack of knowledge about the dying process. It is part of the life cycle. When your body is done so are you. We can keep you free of pain and other symptoms if you have them. But we can’t change the course you are on. The ethical solution is to maintain comfort only.

Because we are all forced to pay for more costly emergency room visits? Why should I be forced to pay for someone elses Viagra?

I think the Hiroshima and Nagasaki decisions were based on the probably correct calcualtion that a land invasion of Japan would cost a million lives or more. Probably far more Japanese would have died then than from the bomb, not to mention our own troops. On the other hand, what was accomplished by Iraq 2003?

So far the only Republican health care plan I’ve see is Romneycare in Mass.

Birth control is not a great idea? So you like paying for more poor kids welfare, emergency room visits, etc?

Nice graph. I don’t have conjectures about the Maunder Minimum, but do about the Dalton Minimum and the next milder dip to the right which I believe is the Sporer Minimum. Here are dates for major volcanic events which may be involved. In 1783 the Laki Fissure event (Iceland) caused crop failures in Europe and perhaps the French Revolution. The low point of the Dalton was around 1815 and the huge Tambora volcano which cause the 1816 “year with no Summer” in New England. In 1835 Cosiguina, Central America, may have cause the second dip on the upside of the Dalton. In 1884 Krakatao blew sky high. Pelee on the island of Marginique blew sky high, as did 4 other volcanoes around the Caribbean Plate the same year. Katmai blew up in 1911.
I have a 1950s volcano book which showed a correlation between movement of magma in Hawaii and sun spots.

yOU ARE right about the Amazon, see my comment below yours. I suspect you are wrong about the Chicago. There had been an intense drought at the time, and although far more deadly, close to 2,000 dead, the great Peshtigo fire storm did not get the coverage the famous Chicago fire received. Interesting tidbit, the wife of the Governor, did a valiant job getting relief to the people in the Peshtigo area. I forget why he was not available. Some quotes from “The Great Fire’ by Jim Murphy, 1995. "It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for Oct. 8th....The wind coming off the prarie had been strong all day, sometimes gusting wildly....The [Leary's] barn's loft held over three tons of timothy hay, delivered earlier that day.” Since the fire started in the barn was spontaneous combustion a possibility, a smoldering ember from the delivery men's smoke? Buildings in Chicago were mostly of wood, including major public buildings. neighborhoods were connected with 600 miles of wooden sidewalks. "Between July and October only a few scattered showers had taken place and these did not produce much water at all. Trees drooped in the unrelenting summer sun....By October as many as six fires were breaking out every day." So, I declare the meteors innocent!!

There was a major burst above the Amazon in the 1930s or 40s which affected an area about 1/3rd that of the Tungusku burst. A catholic priest had to persuade a native tribe not to commit suicide because the Gods were angry.

The Egyptian pharaoh(s?) Sesostris had settlements along the east end of the Black Sea around 2,000 BC. There are apparently some people still living there with dark curly hair and/or? skin which might be descendents.

Just finished reading two books about Atilla the Hun (400s AD). Populations ranged back and forth across the great Eurasian plains over the centuries and millenia, depending on weather conditions and population growth among other things. My son had his 6 wisdom teeth removed and the dentist asked if he had Esquimo blood. His father was 1/16th Cree Indian (a Canadian tribe) The rest was northern European from Scotland, Prussia, and Wales. I think his father had visible traces of Neanderthal blood as well.

Great pictures, thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Since hearing the humans have several % of Neanderthal genes, and it is particulary common among northern blue eyed redheads I have given careful thought to my late husband. He was of Scottish decent, 6’, 200 lbs, heavy bones, clear blue eyes, red head, heavy brow ridges, massive skull, long torso, short legs,early adolescence, insensitive to cold, quick temper, killer instinct, and very hairy. Had dense curly hair from chest to legs, across one shoulder and on back, also grew a great beard. I’ll bet he was at least 4% Neanderthal genes and perhaps more.

If I remember right, I was picking cherry tomatoes off the vines in my patio on Dec. 3rd. (mid Atlantic area) This has not been the case much since then. Had the first killing frost about the 22nd of Nov. this year.

The SUV fossils are probably buried with the dinsaurs wearing saddles fossils.

I don’t know if someone at CSI Miami was reading Free Republic back in 2004, But that program did use a Canary caused tsunami in a story with a 20 or 30 foot wave several years ago.

The true filabuster is probably still available. That is where a person actually stands up for hours and hours and talks about the issue (and lots of other stuff), but in recent years all they did was threaten a filabuster and then the other side would fold.

Why do we keep hearing that it is working really well in California which is handling its own sign up?

There also has been a big one at the beginning of what appears to be about a 30 year period. Laki Fissure event in Iceland 1783 to Tambora 1815. Krakatoa 1884 to Katmai 1912. New Madrid earthquakes and others 1811-12. My brain cells are going to sleep, and I can’t think of the others that fit. Good Night.

I don’t remember the exact figures for the 4 big ash falls, but the Yellowstones were around 2 million years ago, probably the largest, 1.3 million years ago, and 640,000 years ago. The Long Valley was a bit more than 700,000 years ago. Would be interesting to check correlation of Long Valley and most recent Yellowstone with start of Ice Ages back then.

For the past several hundred years I have noticed a pattern of about 30 year increased volcanic activity and earthquakes, ending with a large volcano, and then a more quiescent period for the next 70 years. Perhaps we will have a big volcano like Tambora (1815), and Katmai (1912) very soon??

An area in Texas has had six small earthquakes in the past week. They are of the opinion that is due to fracking. Never had a bunch like that before. Wonder if New Madrid is about to blow?

Are you joking, or did you NOT understand that Lisbon, Madrid, Prague and Rio were the worst at returning wallets. Helsinki was the best returning 11 out of 12, followed by Mumbai, Budapest, and New York. In NY, 8 of 12 were returned, but in Rio only 4 of 12.