Friday, March 22, 2019

Apple and Health

The American Constitution is, as far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.~Gladstone



Brian rescued the blog yesterday.
Solstice yesterday.
Chris says the downtown area looks tribal with all the wrestling families in town with their school colors, eating together, sitting together, walking together.

After years of watching journalists "embedded" in active units in the Middle East, now that it looks as if the U.S. appears to have been successful, at least for the present, I have not seen a single report from the Middle East in months.

Trout's contract is "game changing."

For those of you wondering how the thought processes of people can seem so contrary to logic and science, consider this definition of "Critical theory" in the Britannica: Critical theory, Marxist inspired movement in social and political philosophy originally associated with the work of the Frankfurt school. Drawing particularly on the thought of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, critical theorists maintain that a primary goal of philosophy is to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed. Believing that science, like other forms of knowledge, has been used as an instrument of oppression, they caution against a blind faith in scientific progress, arguing that scientific knowledge must not be pursued as an end in itself without reference to the goal of human emancipation. 

Ichiro has retired at 45. A 10-time All-Star in the majors, Ichiro got 3,089 hits over a 19-year career in the big leagues after getting 1,278 while starring for nine seasons in Japan. His combined total of 4,367 is a professional record.

There is a story going around that Ocasio-Cortez was “cast” by the group Justice Democrats into the “role” of congresswoman, and that she is merely a figurehead (or “puppet congresswoman”) pushing the group’s agenda. Alexandra Rojas. Executive Director Justice Democrats, said: "Back in 2016, we put out a call for nominations. We got over 10,000 nominations, out of those 10,000 nominations we found Alexandria." This is interesting. It was so pointed that Snopes responded.


Over the most recent 15-year investment horizon, 91.62% of large-cap managers, 92.71% of mid-cap managers, and 96.73% of small-cap managers failed to outperform their benchmarks on a relative basis. 



In a 2013 column for Salon a Sanders staffer, David Sirota, credited Venezuela's Chavez's "full-throated advocacy of socialism" with achieving an economic miracle. "As shown by some of the most significant indicators, Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving," he wrote.


About 80 percent of Americans are “angry” or “frustrated” by the federal government, according to Pew. Americans have grown less fond of the government even as the number of programs ostensibly created to help them has increased.




At the recent Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event, legendary journalist Ted Koppel shared his thoughts on the New York Times' and Washington Post's coverage of President Trump. Koppel said he feels the newspapers 'decided as organizations' that President Trump is bad for America, and that Trump's perception that 'the establishment press is out to get him' is indeed accurate.

"This is, in essence, the fallacy that socialists commit in their definition of real socialism. They define ‘real’ socialism in terms of outcomes they would like to see. When a socialist experiment does not produce those outcomes, it retroactively becomes unreal. Since socialism never produces those outcomes, all socialist experiments sooner or later become unreal. This is the deeper meaning behind the old adage that ‘real socialism has never been tried’."--Niemietz

In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passed the Stamp Act on this day in 1765. 

                                    Apple and Health     

Every one was trying to figure out what Cook meant when he said that Apple would be remembered mainly for its contribution in health care. Digital watches?

Maybe it's this:

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