Today's Tids Issue 4.625
Ingenuity comes from anywhere:
The light at the end of
the tunnel is all of those smiles of friends and family who are thinking of us,
and waiting with wide open arms to hug when we emerge from our caves.
Well, thus begins the
week of salvation. Maybe it’s an omen. Passover begins on Wednesday and
goes through Thursday April 16. It celebrates God’s protection of the Hebrew peoples.
And the liberation from the bonds. The finality of Easter Sunday builds all week
long. The journey to rebirth, new beginnings. The journey of ultimate hope.
What a better week to focus on positive outcomes.
The key to staying young
is reaching out beyond where you think you can, physically and mentally.
Somewhere deep inside this old body
of mine I’m feeling that this trial is starting to loosen its grip on our lives;
that there is real hope that new data will begin easing the tensions. Turning
on that switch for that light we hope to see in this tunnel we are in.
Whether or not they know it,
People always adapt well. And when there is pressure, people adapt faster and
better.
Caesar Salad:
She notices her food.
The Question:
What are the Ten Largest Family Owned Companies?
The Headlines:
--Markets Zoom Upward; Dow +794 At Open; Some Feel
Bottom Has Been Met.
--US Hospitals Wafting For Serious Crunch Expected
To Occur Tis we and Next.
--Britain’s PM Johnson Admitted To Hospital
--Global Case Count Growth Seems Slower; Italy Curve
Falling; NY Reports First Decrease In
New Cases; Cuomo Says We May Be St Plateau,
But Warns About Letting Go Of Regimen That Got Them There..
--Sales Of Webcams, Monitors, Laptops And Printers
Are Booming.
--Saudi Arabia Delays Setting May Oil Prices; Will
Wait For OPEC meeting.
--Discharged Captain Of USS Roosevelt Found To Have
CV.
Harry and Meghan said
they were leaving London and England to get away from the pressuring press. So now
we hear that they have moved to Los Angeles, the global center of predator paparazzi.
Confounding, or characteristically celebrity
The continuous massive
reporting on Covid to the dismissal of just about everything else, just shows
how insignificant most daily news is.
The British seemed quite moved
by Queen Elizabeth’s address on Covid yesterday. Even ex-Daughter-in-Law Sarah Ferguson
said, “Her words touched me to my core and inspired us to never give up.” Queen
Elizabeth should know as she was there for Britain’s people as they rallied together
during the Blitzkriegs of WWII. At the age of 14, Elizabeth made her first
radio address appealing to the young people of Britain “to stay strong and to
stay hopeful”, during the daily devastation.
Fergie added:
“Mother nature has sent us to our rooms as the spoilt children we are.
I think
I’m going blind from reading too much.
Do you think
after this mess we may drift back from a services economy to a more stable and intrinsic manufacturing
economy?
You gotta hope that Trump’s comments
about ZPacs Saturday don’t begin a maniacal run on this antibiotic which millions
need as essential help with other diseases and life threatening ailments.
Diversion Excursion:
--A Florida reader sent in an interesting idea. Check
out your favorite Painter/Artist form Leonardo to Monet to Dali, to wherever
you would go. Then create a facsimile using people in the family or animals or
food or wherever your creativity takes you. Take a pic and send it to your
family or your friends.
--Another of our fellow Tidsters suggests we develop
“Playlist for Pandemics”. Songs may be just plain soothing to ease the
apprehensions from confinement, to escape the maelstrom. Or you might look for
lyrics that relate to the situation, serious or humorous. Send them in and I’ll
put the list together, while also adding links to the music. Maybe vote on
those you like. “One Day More” from Friday’s Tids certainly fits.
Cartoon of the day:
Re-captioned WWII poster – “Rosie the Registered Nurse”.
It was nice to hear the sounds
of baseball last week when the local Red Sox radio station broadcast a game from
2019 between the beloveds and dreaded you-know-who’s. Yeah, it was nice to hear
those familiar voices of summer, but it was tough to stay interested.
They say everybody
is talking about “Tiger King”. Who is everybody, the show’s and Netflix publicists?
It seems like an extended “48 Hours” to me, and not that good. It reminds me of
all the talk about “Gotta see ‘Twin Peaks”. And millions of Americans watched and,
if like me, were betwixed, or were embarrassed to admit in public that they
didn’t get it, or found it disrupting their body’s operating system. Tiger King
is a bore, I don’t care if any of he characters live or die.
I think everybody
would be better off if we just stopped the panic reactions, lightened the hysterics
of every new case. I really don’t watch the first half of nightly news
broadcasts anymore.
When the case numbers
go down, the criticisms of Trump will go up.
A lot of take-out
restaurants have developed some pretty great hands-off pick up systems.
Ingenuity will be the savior of us all.
Whenever this health disaster
winds down, expect to be overwhelmed with the blame game.
You may or may not remember
that a couple of weeks ago I was distraught when the President or our Governor,
I forgot which, interrupted the last 10 minutes of “The Price is Right”. Don’t
they know better, I thought. But yesterday I read that “The Price is Right” and
sister quiz show “Let’s Make a Deal” are right now experiencing their highest
ratings ever in their long history. Don’t mess with the only things people have
left in their isolation.
Some people live
to find fault. I feel for them.
The Answer:
Novartis, the huge pharmaceutical company is #1. The
Sandoz family is the owner. The next in order are Roche (Health Care): Family
Hoffman-Oeri; Walmart: Walton; Facebook: Zuckerberg; Anheiuser-Busch In-Bev:
Leman, Sicupira, Telles; Oracle: Ellison; Samsung Electronics: Lee; Volkswagen:
Piech-Porsche; Kinder Morgan: Kinder; Nike: Knight. Number eleven is Tata
Consultancy Services (Range Rover and Jaguar): Tata. I was also interested to
see that Phillips 66 (#18) is still owned by the Phillips family and that the
wealthiest person in India also owns a family business – The Ambani family owns
Reliance Industries. India’s Tata family is not as wealthy as the Ambani family
but Tata goes back to 1868 and founder Jamshedji Tata. I also found interesting
that the Richemont company (#16) owned by the Rupert family is the world’s
second largest luxury goods company with brands like Montblanc, Cartier, Van
Cleef & Arpels and IWC (Swiss Luxury Watches). Note: Largest Luxury Goods
company LVMH headquartered in Paris has 75 brands including Moet, Hennessey,
Louis Vuitton, Dior and Tiffany.
On to The Price is
Right!
I thought this
was a nice, pleasant song for today:
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