Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

But of course, nothing really ever changes, because humans are central to the equation.

Today's Tids Issue 3,130
Opening Stuff:
 
Get used to it. Things, stuff you love that are part of the fabric of your life, are going to disappear. I love nostalgia and my days as a kid growing up were, well, as great anybody. But, changes always occur and those making the change have no idea of what we missed before because they weren’t there. But, someday, they will too miss what they had, and wonder who took away their past.
 
Harry Potter is back and he is married. How can that be? I wonder what kind of magic he performs now.
 
The Question:
The Wall Street Journal was first published 125 years ago yesterday. What is the only stock still listed today that was on the first list published in 1889? Bonus: There are 38,000 items on supermarket shelves. 10 companies own almost all of the processed food items in food markets. Name them (No, not the 38,000 items).
 
The Headlines:
--Israel Ups Attacks On Hamas; Israel Rockets Intercept Enemy Missiles; Hamas Hits Many Targets deep Within Israel.
--Alcoa Opens Earnings Reporting With Target beating Numbers; Markets Respond favorably; EuroMarkets Down for 4th day
--Afghan Presidential Politics Could Split Country In Two.
--Repubs Ready To Rock n’ Roll In Cleveland.
--Germany Opens Probe On Second Spying Case Reportedly Involving USA.
--Sarah Palin Joins Chorus Calling For Impeachment.
--Upper NY State Storms May have Spawned Tornadoes That Killed Five.
--Hot Dog contest Eater In South Dakota, Walter Eagle Tail, Sophocates To Death In Midst  Of Competition.
 
I’ve heard this song before, Department:
March 6, 1935: “Social reform, which the country welcomed and still demands, seems to have been perverted by lesser members of the New Deal general staff to the purposes of making war upon the existing social and economic order, a war inspired by nothing so much as bitter malice against any measure of personal success.”
 
Yesterday the ISIS Army captured a former storehouse of Sadaam’s chemical weapons. How can that be? There were no weapons of mass destruction.
 
The Islamist forces now have finally solved for President Clinton the mystery of what IS IS.
 
The NY Times reports that there is more and more evidence that young people today will grow up to be conservative. Now, that is change I could understand.
 
I could probably endure any change except perhaps a giant meteor hitting the earth.
 
What! The end of “24” is already near! I have been held captive and the 2 hour finale on Monday at 8:00 promises to solve several plot lines, including which woman captures the heart of Jack – Audrey, Morgan or Chloe. On the business side, the ratings appear down a bit from the previous season four years ago, But, a lot has changed, especially the use of the DVR which definitely contributes to lower real time ratings. It appears from the numbers I analyzed that the core 24 lovers are still as rabid as ever. Including me. Currently it is the only show on the tube I look forward to this summer. I’m psyched for Monday.
 
Don’t politicians ever read history?, Department:
WSJ July 1939 – “Recovery has yet to be achieved after the expenditure of some $25,000,000,000 of borrowed money. The conclusion is that what we have done so far in our attempts to secure itnot having succeeded, the only recourse is to change the policies that have dictated those attempts. Those policies. . .have in general relied upon expenditure of government funds as distinguished from private capital directed by private initiative.”
 
Of course, the  point of much Tids Day Wednesday is that all the technology in the universe cannot change the innate inadequacies of humans. 
 
The Answer:
General Electric was Listed in the WSJ in 1889 and still is the only company left. Bonus: The big 10 are Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, General Mills, Kellogg, Associated British Foods, Mondelez Int, Mars, Danone and Unilever. Remember Kraft (Mondelez), General Foods, Nabisco– big isn’t everything. If you have time and are interested, checkout this in-depth report on the Big Ten that sell $1.1 Billion per day.
 
Mapmaker Rand-McNally started out in 1856 printing Railroad timetables and tickets. I wonder if *Karen Jacobson  has ever heard of them, or maps in general.
*Karen is the Australian singer actress who’s voice is the basis for Garmin GPS.
 
Actually, I don’t go anywhere before I look at a big map. I like the big picture to get a sense of where I’m being directed.
 
I have about two and a half more weeks of thinking that the Red Sox can make it back to the World Series. Then it’s over.

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