I'm not sure I'm ready to have fun yet.--child at tennis camp
The Thompsons had a party last night celebrating the announcement of their becoming American citizens. It was a very nice, optimistic event in the midst of all the nonsense of the country and citizenship. Nice party, too.
We had dinner at Sensi. Good.
Today is the dreaded Pig Roast.
Dunkin' raised their prices again.
University of Michigan student Kathy Zhu is worth googling. I have no idea if the story about her Miss Michigan disqualification is true but it is certainly idiotic if it is.
There is 24 trillion dollars in IRAs. The Secure Act will get about 18 trillion of it. This is a tax of astonishing size. (And anonymity. There is almost no discussion on it.)
The raccoons and marsh rabbits and opossums and other small, warmblooded animals are gone from the Florida Everglades, or almost gone, because Burmese pythons seem to have eaten them. A 2013 study found that, of a group of marsh rabbits fitted with radio transmitters and released into python territory, 77 percent of those that died within a year had been eaten by pythons. Scientists say that the snakes are responsible for a recent 90 to 99 percent drop in the small mammal population in the national park.No one knows how many pythons are out there now. Estimates run from 10,000 to perhaps hundreds of thousands.
The average life of an EFT is 3.5 years. Thirty percent of broad ETFs are invested in companies that have earned no money in the last five years.
Reuters recently reported, “Chinese productivity growth has gone into reverse for the first time since the Cultural Revolution tore the country apart in the 1970s, according to a new study, highlighting the failure of recent reforms to set China on a sustainable development path.” And it that really surprising? Scissors has noted, “Beijing has long abandoned the pro-market path and shows no true interest in returning to it.”
On this day in the year 365, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Greece caused a tsunami that devastated the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Although there were no measuring tools at the time, scientists now estimate that the quake was actually two tremors in succession, the largest of which is thought to have had a magnitude of 8.0.
Mary and Martha
In the Old Testament, Moses invites Pharaoh to the Wilderness for a time of contemplation. Pharaoh condemns him as idle. Even the ancient Egyptians had a lot to do.
Today's gospel is the Mary and Martha gospel, another take on the constant battle in the gospel between the practical and the spiritual. Mary has the better part.
But it is a "part," a portion of life. Christ recognizes the dichotomy, indeed the very need for it. Somebody has to feed Mary. No less a mind than Cardinal Newman, in explaining his defection from the Anglican church to the Catholic, said that the practical infrastructure of the Church allowed and enhanced its contemplative nature.
"Sabbath" means "stop."
The Thompsons had a party last night celebrating the announcement of their becoming American citizens. It was a very nice, optimistic event in the midst of all the nonsense of the country and citizenship. Nice party, too.
We had dinner at Sensi. Good.
Today is the dreaded Pig Roast.
Dunkin' raised their prices again.
University of Michigan student Kathy Zhu is worth googling. I have no idea if the story about her Miss Michigan disqualification is true but it is certainly idiotic if it is.
There is 24 trillion dollars in IRAs. The Secure Act will get about 18 trillion of it. This is a tax of astonishing size. (And anonymity. There is almost no discussion on it.)
The raccoons and marsh rabbits and opossums and other small, warmblooded animals are gone from the Florida Everglades, or almost gone, because Burmese pythons seem to have eaten them. A 2013 study found that, of a group of marsh rabbits fitted with radio transmitters and released into python territory, 77 percent of those that died within a year had been eaten by pythons. Scientists say that the snakes are responsible for a recent 90 to 99 percent drop in the small mammal population in the national park.No one knows how many pythons are out there now. Estimates run from 10,000 to perhaps hundreds of thousands.
The average life of an EFT is 3.5 years. Thirty percent of broad ETFs are invested in companies that have earned no money in the last five years.
Reuters recently reported, “Chinese productivity growth has gone into reverse for the first time since the Cultural Revolution tore the country apart in the 1970s, according to a new study, highlighting the failure of recent reforms to set China on a sustainable development path.” And it that really surprising? Scissors has noted, “Beijing has long abandoned the pro-market path and shows no true interest in returning to it.”
On this day in the year 365, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Greece caused a tsunami that devastated the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Although there were no measuring tools at the time, scientists now estimate that the quake was actually two tremors in succession, the largest of which is thought to have had a magnitude of 8.0.
Mary and Martha
In the Old Testament, Moses invites Pharaoh to the Wilderness for a time of contemplation. Pharaoh condemns him as idle. Even the ancient Egyptians had a lot to do.
Today's gospel is the Mary and Martha gospel, another take on the constant battle in the gospel between the practical and the spiritual. Mary has the better part.
But it is a "part," a portion of life. Christ recognizes the dichotomy, indeed the very need for it. Somebody has to feed Mary. No less a mind than Cardinal Newman, in explaining his defection from the Anglican church to the Catholic, said that the practical infrastructure of the Church allowed and enhanced its contemplative nature.
"Sabbath" means "stop."
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