Today's Tids Issue 4,912
Tightrope Walking:
As I walk among fallen petals everywhere, pink and white and yellow too; as bright blossoms give way to shady greens, the world evolves to changing scenes. The petals strewn across our earth, beautiful remnants of our rebirth. It’s time now to move on and let the days flow, and enjoy the warmth before the snow.
There will be rising movements to add jobs regardless of whether or not they can be replaced effectively by Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning. It could be a significant national problem, but that’s why occupational retraining should become one of the more important merging industries. In the meantime, Unions and activist movements will rally the workers, create to a perception that it is essential for the economy to have people who aren’t needed working. Some work rule like every AI machine will need two people sanding by at all times, will be proposed. Remember featherbedding? That was a RR union bargained demand for railroads which has had a lot to do why the USA is lagging other countries in advanced rail service. Featherbedding has come to mean retaining unnecessary workers to keep union membership high is derived from the actual meaning of the word: “Sleeping on the Job.”
“I learned a fundamental lesson: that we cannot and must not lose our sense of history and our memory, for they constitute our identity. We cannot be prisoners of the present and wander out of history. For a society without a deep historical memory, the future ceases to exist and the present becomes a meaningless cacophony.' — Vartan Gregorian, Brown University president 1989-1997
Menu readers see the word lobster in dish description and assume it must be good. But a word does not chef make. Take, for instance, take Lobster ravioli. I have had LR that is entirely bland and meaningless and a few that have been the best dish I have ever had. Beware of the perceived meaning of words.
It is fundamentally wrong to pay people not to work.
Never trust an electrician with no eyebrows.
The Question:
I was thinking about how Clara Barton fought so hard for the establishment of the Red Cross. So I have this question which I doubt that there will be many answers, but I just thought we should recognize the ten most influential women medical pioneers. Who do you think they are? Bonus: what does “Hubba-Hubba” mean?
The Headlines:
--Markets Open Strong;
How come one of the happiest words is spelled so weirdly? Kind of makes you want to L-a-u-g-h!
The rash of no-hitters is proving that once spectacular achievements can be reduced to ho-hum. In today’s society it happens every day now when even major human events are reduced to tedium on cable news.
A reader sends this advice from Robert Dindal: “Now is the time to select stocks in the same way a porcupine makes love; very carefully!”
Neutral experts say that Iran is very happy over the uprising by Hamas in Israe. The Iran powers that be like the idea that Israel is on the edge. And Iran is doubly happy that US Prez Joe Biden is walking the tightrope supporting Israel in the Iran backed Hamas assault, and all-in supporting the Nuke Deal that will give Iran big bucks.
Phil Mickelson was fun to watch wining the PGA at age 50. It just proves tat no age is really old if you don’t let the mere mention of it get you down. Despite the media focus on the age thing, it was one gutsy win on a very tough golf course.
Everybody is ruining crazily into beautiful grassy fields after a Covud-19 year closed in at home, only to meet a bumper crop of lime disease carrying deer ticks. There’s always something.
People I appreciate as much as any are those who have seen the depths of human despair and find a way to work themselves back up to receptivity and success. Without government assistance or enabling excuses.
The Yacht delivery freighter has arrived from Florida and points south. In a week the harbor will begin to look full again, and I’ll be enjoying the view of masts form my window.
Suddenly I see this notion creeping in that is saying it’s OK for people to be disruptive and generally uncivilized because, after all, they are coming out of year of mask wearing and confinemaent
After analyzing the past few years or so, the reason we may be seeing more violence in the big cities is because of multi thousands of prisoners being released early to protect them from Covid.
BTW, Hamas followers in Palestine have gotten stronger as it appears many Palestinians were impressed that Hamas had access to 4,000 more sophisticated rockets compared to their car bomb past, and they had new hope that the militant group might finally get them their freedom and their land. You know how populaces can be fooled.
The Answer:
The Ten are Metrodora who in the 200-400AD era wrote the the oldest medical textbook, “On the Diseases and Cures of Women”. The others are British born Elizabeth Blackwell -- first female Medical Degree (1847), Marie Cure, Gerty Cori (Nobel), Virginia Apgar, Gertrude Belle Elion (Rational Drug Design), Rosalind Franklin (DNA), Rosalyn Yalow (RIA), Patricia Goldman-Rakic (Brain, Memory) and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (Discovered HIV as cause of Aids). But to this list you have to include a couple of Nurses who understood serios needs from actual hands-on frustration’s, the aforementioned Clara Barton, who in addition to founding the RC, earlier she was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” for her work treating and helping wounded Civil War soldiers, and Florence Nightingale who fought for cleanliness and antiseptic environments and also challenged the establishment in her effort assure a higher calling for nurses. Bonus: Hubba, Hubba -- used to express approval, excitement, or enthusiasm, especially with regard to a person's appearance; A pretty girl.
How to survive Zoom meetings. Fill a mug with wine and continually blow into it on it so people think you are drinking tea.
Steven Wright: “I was once walking through a forest, alone, and a tree fell right in front of me. I didn't hear it."
(That was from Tids Issue 2,266 on December 31 2010)
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