LINKS TO WORLDS LARGEST THINGS
Wednesday 30 November 2011 at 12:59 pm
HERE ARE A BUNCH OF LINKS TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST THINGS; see more on next page Read MoreTOP JOBS 2011
Wednesday 30 November 2011 at 02:17 am
The 10 Best Jobs of 2011
By Andrew Strieber
The geeks strike back: despite enduring an industry bubble and the threat of outsourcing, Software Engineer ranks as the Best Job of 2011.
In recent years, the job market has increasingly rewarded math whizzes at the expense of less technical professionals. Actuary, Mathematician and Accountant have all ranked among the best jobs in America by offering a pleasant work environment, good salary and healthy job security. But in 2011, as the emergence of specialized technologies creates new industries, landing the year's best job requires not just skill with numbers, but a strong knowledge of computers too.
Read MoreObama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's
Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 11:49 am
WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND POLLS
work in progress: do these polls mean anything?
November 29, 2011 RSS Feed PrintPresident Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.
MATH PUZZLE # 01
Monday 28 November 2011 at 10:36 pm
ARITHMETIC PUZZLE:
using only mathematical symbols: =, +, -, x or * for multiplication, division n/m, square root √¯, exponent ^ or using superscripts, parens (...), brackets {...}, iverson brakets [...], the absolute value of n as in |n|, ≠, ≤, ≈, ≡, ≥, factorial or ! of n or ∟n all of which means n x (n-1) x (n-2),....., 1,
and using the four digits: 5, 5, 5, and 1 , each only once
construct an equation that sums to the number 24
answers below:
Read MoreALASKA HALLELUJAH!!!!!
Sunday 27 November 2011 at 5:34 pm
HOW THE HRCC (Catholic Church) GOT STARTED
Sunday 27 November 2011 at 10:05 am
How did the HRCC (Holy Roman Catholic Church) get from the Cross on Calvary to Rome?
work in progress, near completion
I took a course: the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Adventures in Learning, Colby Sawyer College, given by Art Rosen, a retired business executive, who indeed is a scholar as well. I finally found the pieces showing where the seeds of Catholicism came from, as well as the trail of events leading from Calvary to Rome. I was sold on the theory of the existence of God from the get-go; I was into astronomy at a very young age. I had lots of questions for the nuns that were never answered. But it didn't matter since i was sold on the Jesus story in the first grade.
I now believe that there is a prime mover. St. Anselm's proslogium finally convinced me. I know that the famed mathematician, logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, an atheist, was stuck on the proslogium. Earlier in 2011I took a course on the Philosophy (Metaphysics) of God at Dartmouth Adventures in Learning.
Read MoreOBAMA - THE THRILL IS GONE - MATTHEWS
Monday 21 November 2011 at 10:39 am
MOTHER GOOSE PARADE
Sunday 20 November 2011 at 9:26 pm
OWS - an analysis of the movement
Sunday 20 November 2011 at 11:42 am
NEWT GINGRICH - COMMENTS ON THE ECONOMY -WHOOOOAA
Saturday 19 November 2011 at 10:47 pm
OBAMA: i do not want to take sides
Saturday 19 November 2011 at 6:18 pm
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press."From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008, 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" the then Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn, USAF (ret.), asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention, facing the flag, with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".
NOW GET THIS !! Read More
PATERNO, SANDUSKY, PENN STATE - THOUGHTS
Saturday 19 November 2011 at 03:15 am
tom, i wish i had the patience and skill to write a response as thought provoking as yours, but i need to tell you that i disagree totally and absolutely with your sentiments.1. our jurist system is badly broken, particularly when it comes to delivering justice to victims. TG we have grand juries. Read More
TEA PARTY vs OWS - wow!!
Thursday 17 November 2011 at 5:32 pm
TEA PARTY vs OCCUPIERS: OCCUPY WALL STREET
The OWC movement sounded like a good idea at the outset; but now they look like disgruntled people
On the other hand, my negative feelings about the TEA PARTY folks have been negated.
Of course, two negatives leads to a positive feeling about the TEA PARTY
and a few pictures are worth a million words.
Read MoreOBAMA's FIRST FOUR YEARS
Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 1:06 pm
THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION
Sunday 13 November 2011 at 8:29 pm
Inside the entitlement generation
This an interesting article. When i was a trustee of St. Joseph College, CT we noticed in the application review process that 40%of the students recieved an A average. Apparently this was true across the country. So we had to continue to rely on the SAT scores toparse students.
Read MoreMURMERATION OF STARLINGS
Thursday 10 November 2011 at 10:25 am
IF YOU ARE A NATURE LOVER; THIS MURMURATION WILL DELIGHT - WATCH UNTIL THE END OF THE VIDEO FOR A SPECTACULAR DISPLAY.
ASTEROID; ANOTHER NEAR MISS - A BIGGIE
Tuesday 08 November 2011 at 2:25 pm
I believe that there are about 5000 unidentified asteroids (or at least the orbits have not been identified). I have three great worry bubbles; an unexpected asteroid hits the earth; the eruption (every 600,000 years) of the caldera in Yellowstone which would kill millions [and yes it has been active], and ahe canary island tsunami which would take out about 25 kilometers of shoreline from Maine to Florida, caused by the completion of the mountain that partially occurred 50 years ago.
This new asteroid passed inside the moon; it was discovered just a couple of years ago.
According to CDC, the entire radiation emitted from the three nuclear facilities in Japan as a result of the recent quake, were equal to one catscan: yes, yes, yes, believe it or not.
Our radiation standards are ridiculously stringent. There are a number of locations around the world, e.g. in Iran and in India where the normal radiation levels are 100,000 times greater than our dumb standard, and people have lived in these areas for at 2000 years.
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Tuesday 08 November 2011 at 1:01 pm
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Tuesday 08 November 2011 at 12:38 pm
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Read MoreOLD POSTER MAP LAKE SUNAPEE NH - CIRCA 1975
Monday 07 November 2011 at 10:06 pm
POSTER OF LAKE SUNAPEE CIRCA 1975
click image for larger size.
(NOTE: For firefox users, the ImageZoom Add-on is recommended, to zoom in and out of the image with ease.)
CHURCH GOERS
Monday 07 November 2011 at 10:00 pm
A Majority of Democrats Seldom or Never Go to Church, Says Gallup
Read MoreRONALD REAGAN
Sunday 06 November 2011 at 12:31 pm
'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:We win, they lose.'
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ONCE UPON A CAR
Sunday 06 November 2011 at 12:17 pm
i tape all the booktv interviews. it is good to listen to authors who apologize for the political correctness that gets in the way of their reporting.I watched Bill Vlasic being interviewed by x Blunt on "Once Upon a Car." Vlasic convinced me that it was the right thing to save our automotive industry, which we apparently did. Our automotive industry is no longer co-opted by the unions, and is free to compete worldwide on cost and quality, and apparently is doing so.
I always believed that we had the technology to compete worldwide. And I always blamed union leaders for getting in the way. Now the union leaders are co-opted; they have too much at stake financially to get in the way of technology.
Everyone blames Obama for everything. But this is a clear case where Obama deserves most of the credit.
try to catch Vlasic on TV, he is a good story teller; attached is a book review from Amazon Books. Read More
Consciousness: The Black Hole of Neuroscience
Sunday 06 November 2011 at 08:46 am
Consciousness: The Black Hole of Neuroscience
this article contains a lot of youtube links to interesting articles on consciousness.
“By the word ‘thought’ (‘pensée’) I understand all that of which we are conscious as operating in us.” –Renee Descartes
The simplest description of a black hole is a region of space-time from which no light is reflected and nothing escapes. The simplest description of consciousness is a mind that absorbs many things and attends to a few of them. Neither of these concepts can be captured quantitatively. Together they suggest the appealing possibility that endlessness surrounds us and infinity is within.
But our inability to grasp the immaterial means we’re stuck making inferences, free-associating, if we want any insight into the unknown. Which is why we talk obscurely and metaphorically about "pinning down" perception and “hunting for dark matter” (possibly a sort of primordial black hole). The existence of black holes was first hypothesized a decade after Einstein laid the theoretical groundwork for them in the theory of relativity, and the phrase "black hole" was not coined until 1968.
Read MoreBill Clinton has advice, and some criticism, for President Obama
Friday 04 November 2011 at 9:29 pm
Bill Clinton has advice, and some criticism, for President Obama in new book
By Anne E. Kornblut,
President Obama and his Democratic allies made two key political missteps in recent years, according to former president Bill Clinton in a new book to be released Tuesday.
First was not raising the federal debt ceiling in the first two years of the president’s term, when Democrats still had a majority in Congress, and then failing to devise an effective national campaign message during the midterm elections of 2010.
Obama Overrated
Friday 04 November 2011 at 11:58 am
Overrated: Rumors of Barack Obama’s political skill have been greatly exaggerated.Oct 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 • By NOEMIE EMERY
For a success, Barack Obama is a very bad politician, the worst politician to win the presidency by an electoral landslide, to never lose a major election, or to rise to the presidency from a state legislature in little more than four years. He has gone from sterling campaigner to put-upon leader; from the new FDR to the next Jimmy Carter; from being the orator who could hold millions spellbound to the man who moves no one at all. The man who promised everything is delivering nothing. Journalists who wept when he won the election now grind their teeth in despair. Maureen Dowd admits he isn’t the one for whom even he had been waiting. The gap between sizzle and steak never seemed so large or alarming, and inquiring minds want to know what went wrong.
AP
Did the prince (assuming he was one) turn into a frog? Did he use all his luck up in winning his office? Did he, once in power, see his governing skills fade away? The answers to these things are no, yes, and no. The record suggests that he was never a prince (merely a fantasy); that his luck went away once his free ride had ended; and that he had few political, that is, governing, skills to begin with, a fact that is now more than clear. In three areas at least, he appears to be lacking. Let us walk back and see what they are.
60 MINUTES AMBUSHES NANCY PELOSI
Thursday 03 November 2011 at 10:05 pm
Obamas Flunking Economy: The Real Cause
Thursday 03 November 2011 at 4:33 pm
here are two book reviews of "Confidence Men" by Ron Suskind, a heavy weight investigative reporter. Check him out on Wikipedia: Ron Suskind. If you are conservative you might like the review from Amazon directly below. If you are a liberal, you probably prefer the second review by Ezra Klein, a savvy liberal blogger reporting for the Washington Post. If you read both reviews twice like i did, you seem to get to the same place;
Obama is a con man. And, Obamaism failed. joe ps: no, no, no, no one blames BUSH.
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in “a new era of responsibility.” It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, and offers the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency.
Wall Street found that straying from long-standing principles of transparency, accountability, and fair dealing opened a path to stunning profits. Obama’s determination to reverse that trend was essential to his ascendance, especially when Wall Street collapsed during the fall of an election year and the two candidates could audition for the presidency by responding to a national crisis. But as he stood on the stage in Grant Park, a shudder went through Barack Obama. He would now have to command Washington, tame New York, and rescue the economy in the first real management job of his life.
The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a rudderless White House. Bitter disputes—between men and women, policy and politics—ruled the day. The result was an administration that found itself overtaken by events as, year to year, Obama struggled to grow into the world’s toughest job and, in desperation, take control of his own administration.
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind introduces readers to an ensemble cast, from the titans of high finance to a new generation of reformers, from petulant congressmen and acerbic lobbyists to a tight circle of White House advisers—and, ultimately, to the president himself, as you’ve never before seen him. Based on hundreds of interviews and filled with piercing insights and startling disclosures, Confidence Men brings into focus the collusion and conflict between the nation’s two capitals—New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of public purpose—in defining confidence and, thereby, charting America’s future.
Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause Ezra Klein
Alex Wong/Getty Images
Lawrence Summers, then director of the National Economic Council, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Washington, D.C., December 2010
Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men is not a calm first draft of history. It is not an impartial or unbiased look at the Obama administration’s first two years. Rather, it is an investigation. The crime is homicide, and the victim is the promise of Barack Obama’s presidency. But this isn’t a suspenseful whodunit. Suskind tips his hand in the first pages.
8 perfect summer lake towns
Wednesday 02 November 2011 at 11:42 am
8 perfect summer lake towns
try pictures 13, 14, and 15 which were taken by joe brophy at lake Sunapee, NH.
picture #4 is on Flathead lake Montana looking towards a property owned by my cousin tom Mitchell MD.
picture #13 shows my home (dead center) on lake Sunapee NH. If you look carefully (with a magnifying glass), you can see my astronomical observatory.
picture #14 shows the dinner boat on lake Sunapee while i was playing the bagpipes for the dinner boat.
picture #15 shows one of three lighthouses on lake Sunapee that i actually took and put on wikipedia.
small world
one of my daughters MaryKay found this site while searching the internet.
joe brophy
NASA SATELLITE FALLS TO EARTH
Wednesday 02 November 2011 at 10:43 am
GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER, SAYS EXPERT
Tuesday 01 November 2011 at 8:15 pm
GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER, SAYS EXPERT
Professors Judith Curry and Richard Muller don’t agree over the same set of results on climate chang
Tuesday November 1,2011
IT'S one of the hottest feuds in science - climate chance zealots insist that we're still destroying the planet but now another scientist has warned the cast-iron evidence just isn't there.
FOR a minute there it seemed the global warming debate had finally been resolved.
While for years scientists and sceptics have raged against each other on the crucial topic, new research hailed “the most definitive study into temperature data gathered by weather stations over the past half-century” seemed to come to an authoritative conclusion.
Global warming IS real it said, strengthening the need for us all to reduce carbon emissions and boost efforts to try to save the planet.
And this research was headed by a physicist who had previously been a sceptic of global warming and an outspoken critic of the science underpinning it, lending the results even greater credibility.