"There is unprecedented, I believe, influence on the
media, not just the news, but the images you see everywhere, by
well-orchestrated and financed campaign of special interests, political
interests and corporations."--investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson
In past outbreaks, the Ebola death rate has been as high as 90 percent. In Guinea so far, about 60 percent of the 157 suspected cases have died. No one is sure why the survival rate is so much better but this area has been more accessible than other sites so prompt medical response, particularly volume maintenance, might be a factor. One creepy side note: The virus, after the victim survives, persists for months in semen and mother's milk so the victim might become a reservoir after his cure.
In past outbreaks, the Ebola death rate has been as high as 90 percent. In Guinea so far, about 60 percent of the 157 suspected cases have died. No one is sure why the survival rate is so much better but this area has been more accessible than other sites so prompt medical response, particularly volume maintenance, might be a factor. One creepy side note: The virus, after the victim survives, persists for months in semen and mother's milk so the victim might become a reservoir after his cure.
A charge of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby was dropped during a court hearing in Pakistan.
Anthony
Podesta made $13 million in lobbying income last year from clients like
Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo, U.S. Airways, Wal-Mart and the National
Biodiesel Board. His wife Heather's lobbying firm made $4 million from
health companies, the American Beverage Association, and Brookfield
Power. Podesta's brother, John Podesta, currently holds the high-ranking
position of counselor to the president, and was White House chief of
staff during Bill Clinton's second term.
Who is....Pamela Lyndon Travers?
The
world's largest salt flats, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, is also the
world's biggest
single deposit of lithium, accounting for perhaps a third of the world's
resources of this alkaline metal. Third after the gases hydrogen and
helium on the periodic table, lithium contains just three protons each,
making the lightest of all metals. And like its near kin, sodium and
potassium, it will react spontaneously to water. It is tremendously
energy dense, thus a terrific element for a battery.
Corporate
tax rates in the U.S. are the highest among the developed nations. The
average rate in America in 2013 was 39.13%; for all of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development nations is 28.2%. Senate
Finance Committee chief Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, reported U.S.
corporations now hold $2.1 trillion in earnings in overseas
accounts, close to 12% of the U.S. gross domestic product. Returning
that money would be quite a transfusion of money into the economy. Real
money not newly created Fed debt. But there is a feeling against doing
that, a belief that those companies should, somehow, pay.
In
the dreaded gender income gap, the biggest disparity in incomes is
between fathers and mothers. Is that a surprise? Is that the result of
some subtle bigotry? In medicine, young male doctors earned much higher
incomes than young female doctors. But young male doctors worked over
500 hours more per year than young female doctors. So.....should we
mandate that the women make the same amount even if they work less?
Or..should we make the men work less?
But this is the way one must think when all people are seen, not as equals, but as the same.
A
routine inventory check at Paris' Pasteur Institute revealed that 2,349
tubes containing fragments of the virus responsible for the deaths of
774 people in 2002 were missing.
There
is a movie out, made in India, called "The Lunchbox," about lunchbox
delivery men in Mumbai called dabbawallahs who run arguably India's
most efficient and trusted business. Every working day, for more than
125 years, they have transported hundreds of thousands of midday
lunches back and forth from home kitchens and restaurants to office
workers in the world's fourth most densely populated city. Harvard Business School commissioned a six-month study into the service in 2010 that showed only one in a million deliveries go awry.
Golden oldie:
Karlan
and Wood used variable solicitation techniques at Freedom from Hunger
in a test of its direct marketing. This is from their abstract. First,
larger gift amounts, holding education and income constant, is a proxy
for altruism giving (as it is associated with giving more to fewer
charities) versus warm glow giving (giving less to more charities).
Second, those motivated by altruism will respond positively to appeals
based on evidence, whereas those motivated by warm glow may respond
negatively to appeals based on evidence as it turns off the emotional
trigger for giving, or highlights uncertainty in aid effectiveness.
Andreas Georgiou was assigned by the EU and the IMF to become the head of Elstat, Greece's new official statistical agency, to try to make sense out of the Greek economic statistics. He soon was accused of betraying the national interest, a crime that in theory carries a potential life sentence. 'I am being prosecuted for not cooking the books.' he said.
Andreas Georgiou was assigned by the EU and the IMF to become the head of Elstat, Greece's new official statistical agency, to try to make sense out of the Greek economic statistics. He soon was accused of betraying the national interest, a crime that in theory carries a potential life sentence. 'I am being prosecuted for not cooking the books.' he said.
Ginny
Weasley, the freckly redhead who later marries Harry Potter, grows up
to be a sports journalist for the Daily Phophet, according to new
writing from J.K. Rowling on the website Pottermore.
Ms.
Sebelius is considering running against Senator Pat Roberts, Republican
of Kansas. This is proof positive that politics is an isolated sport
with no connection to ability, prior performance or reality. That the
architect of the ACA could be seriously considered as a possibility for
the Senate must mean something really bad.
CUNY
intends to pay Paul Krugman $225,000, or $25,000 per month (over two
semesters), to “play a modest role in our public events” and “contribute
to the build-up” of a new “inequality initiative.” It is not clear, and
neither CUNY nor Krugman was able to explain, what “contribute to the
build-up” entails.
“You will not be expected to teach or supervise students,” the letter informs Professor Krugman, who replies: “I admit that I had to read it several times to be clear ... it’s remarkably generous.”
According
to the U.S. Census website, in 2012 there were 103,087,000 full-time,
year-round workers; of them, 16,606,000 worked for the government. Of
the 86,429,000 Americans who worked full-time, year-round in the
private sector, 77,392,000 were employed as wage and salary workers for
private-sector. Approximately 52,000 worked full-time, year-round
without pay in a family enterprise. 49,901,000 people received Social
Security in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 46,440,000 received
Medicare. There were also 5,098,000 received unemployment compensation.
3,178,000 veterans received benefits and 34,000 veterans got
educational assistance. 108,592,000 people in the fourth quarter of 2011
lived in a household that included people benefiting from "one or
more means-tested program."
Around 270 BC, the Greek astronomer Aristarchus measured the duration of lunar eclipses and, using geometry, he devised a simple and impressively accurate way to calculate the Moon's distance, in terms of the radius of planet Earth, from the eclipse duration.
Around 270 BC, the Greek astronomer Aristarchus measured the duration of lunar eclipses and, using geometry, he devised a simple and impressively accurate way to calculate the Moon's distance, in terms of the radius of planet Earth, from the eclipse duration.
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaannnnnddddd.....a picture of P.L. Travers:
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