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POPSChange or Die? I think so - I've seen too much already When I first went to Los Angeles, 1948, from 20 miles inland and up in the mountains in La Cresenta, you could look out and see Catalina Island - more than 20 miles from shore. In 1966, I worked in a little factory in South El Monte. In the morning, looking out of the loading dock, I could see some hills three miles away. By 3 PM, I could not see the hills because of the smog. That kind of change has taken place all over the world in all metropolitan areas. Guess what? The wind needs no passport. As we have fouled our nest, we have also done the same to those downwind.
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POPSA Jug, Some Bungee, a Chair Back - You Got Wi-Fi! Amazing! Create two miles of Wi-Fi with hardware supplies. The possibilities are endless for those who want to bypass the big companies. Reminds me of crystal radios made out of Oatmeal boxes, some wire and a quartz crystal.
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POPSAOL Heading for Corral? Too bad they could not reinvent themselves but it's move on or get along. Expect they will sign off or just be swallowed up like so many of the banks have. They still have a ton of e-mail users who would probably go with whoever takes them over.
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POPSOpps! There's E. coli - maybe in my beef! A week later, the same firm recalled some more beef - not much but, I wonder why they are not shut down until they do a mass clean up and retraining. And then there is the fact that 6this did not get caught until people got sick - so where were the inspectors and inspection?
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POPSQuality Goes In (not) Before Product Is Shipped Sorry for those injured but sometimes the way these recalls are unintentionally ironic. A gas grill that causes fires. Yo can go to this web site and sign up for a variety of email notifications on product, food, and healthcare/drug recalls. http://www.recalls.gov/
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POPSChange? Yes We Can! The Cuban Prison may take a little longer than expected but the CIA found something even more effective than waterboarding could ever have been thought to be. Hmmm? Maybe this is too much too
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POPSSuicides in US Army Up - Nearly 5 Times Higher Than Civilian Population Separating news and spin designed to sell advertising and policy is not always easy but this only took 2 minutes of googling to find that 11 people per 100,000 is the average suicide rate. There are 548 thousand or so people in the US Army. If 200 suicides occur in the Army before year's end that will be 4-5 times higher than overall civilian population. It is still higher than expected if you look at high stress jobs and it is higher than it was a few years ago, as reported by the US Army. Could it be that they are facing two additional stresses that when combined drive more to depression and suicide? 1. Having to return to duty in Iraq or Afghanistan quicker and more often. 2. A recession that seems to say no civilian job is likely as an alternative to continued service.
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POPSHumanizing Globalized Work Stopping the export of work may not be on the radar screen but getting fairness and humaneness into the exported work just got a bit easier. Your college sports teams have jobbed out the player and fan jerseys but supporting work exploitation no longer has to be part of that equation.
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POPSTraditional Diet and Culture Can Help Oneidas Defeat Diabetes Their plan was simply to use corn as central part of their culture. They will find that traditional food combined with traditional amount of exercise will give them and their children a healthier life. Traditional peoples around the world "adapted" to ways of living that kept them healthy. When they shift to a modern diet and much lower level of physical activity, the amount of diabetes and heart disease skyrockets.
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POPSThe Geezer Flu Advantage - Finally an advantage of being a boomer geezer!
Recent studies find that baby boomers over 55 who had earlier flus may/probably have some immunity to current H1N1. Smile - all they needed ot do was do a survey in the age group and ask who got the big Hong Kong or Asian flu in 1957-58, or 1967-68. Then ask those who said yes, how often they ever got the flu afterward. When you survive 3-6 weeks of fevers, dry heaves, etc, its seems you get a boat load of anitbodies and antibody memory. My bet is that those who survived the 1917-1918 flu had the same immunities. However... I still get the flu shots because when you get millions upon millions of ducks. geese, chickens and pigs together in live markets leading up to Lunar New Year (Jan/Feb) in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Korea - you have a live lab to create an entirely new version of flu. And now that there is a truly global poultry market, new versions of flu will no longer be limited to Asian starts. That is what was most novel about H1N1, it started in Northern H
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POPSNovel way to save world's forest "lungs" Poverty and lack of government infrastructure contribute to deforestation in many less-developed nations. This story is abot Guyana but the plight of poor farmers in Tanzania, is one of the reasons that soon, there will be no snow cap at all on Mt. Kilimanjaro. They cut down trees to plant harvest, land wears out, more forest is cut down and eventually less rainfall, less snow.
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POPSDo your teeth resemble those of a cat, dog, or shark? If you want to eat "some" meat - go ahead. If you want to eat meat two or three times a day, then you are a fast-food junkie and will have more than enough health problems and you may be immune to hearing anything without a five-meat sub in your hand - grin. If more reasonable, look in the mirror - smile big or say yowie! Does you mouth look like a dog's, or cat's set of teeth? A Great White Shark? Get the point? You are not designed to eat meat two or three times a day. Eatiing stuff - regularly - that you are not designed for can't be good for you or the planet, can it?
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POPSBeing a Mother a Precondition for Abuse by Army? Seems that way. Threaten to woman with a court-martial, take her child away and put in custody!? This is the US Army? Someone needs to get a hold on reality and treat her and her child right. The dumbest part is how well do they think she will perform in Afghanistan after this type of treatment? Sounds like old East German military not the US Army that usually does us proud without thinking about it. Fit it now!
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POPSHelp Save The World with Your Computer - Interested? Long ago, I participated in a global network doing computations for the genome project. Now you can lend your down time on your computer to fight AIDS, MS and work on clean energy. IBM is hosting. Window, Linux and Mac systems welcome!
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POPSUS Health Tech for Licensing - Interested? Our tax dollars pay for all sorts of inventions, research, etc. All of it may be licensed and sold for a profit and/or improved upon. These are healthcare related - so there is one on a different treatment for AIDS and another for a different way to isolate viruses for vaccine production. Not exactly money for nothing but one of the users reading this might be in the market - eh?
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POPSGoogle World now includes cool way to translate fast Not saying that the translations will be perfect but faster than copying and pasting into a translator. If you want to read a lot of Arabic or Spanish... whatever,,, you can add a book mark to your menu bar or add a widget tto each of your web pages. Extend your Amplification of the web!
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POPSUS 49% fish toxic - what do you think global toxicity is? We do not protect our water as well as we should but we do a better job than most of the areas we are importing fish from, I believe. Wonder if they sell portable kits so you could test your meal before ordering at Red Lobster is you still kill fish - er eat fish. Sorry, I am a vegan - grin.
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POPSGreed+Palm Oil = Global Deforestation and Gasp... The saddest part of this is that greed is also associated with the self-delusion that they are not really harming the planet and if they are - they have enough money to save themselves. Maybe, we should just call it lunacy since buying a self-contained cabin on Luna (aka: the moon) would be the only way to buy their way out ot eh consequences of their greed and stupidity.
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POPSWe Owe Veterans and Active Duty Warriors Better Than This Cheney's old firm let their sub-contractors expose US soldiers and Iraqi's to a burning toxic waste pit that will cause years worth of injuries and illness. Cotracting out is good for profiteers like the former- Vice President and his buddies but an evil brew for our troops.
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POPSGood Boat Rocking in the Bronx - Home Run! Full cycle learning comes when you can teach someone else what you have learned. Here is young people in the city learning there is nothing they cannot do, if they put their minds and bodies to it. Even building a boat for the Hudson River from tree up!
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