tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186878302024-03-06T21:21:38.972-08:00Andrys tripping the worldEvery day, something surprises, delights, or appalls.<br><br>
Below is some of that, though most of it leaves me speechless, as you can see.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-17638672498024284322010-03-28T01:21:00.000-07:002017-08-25T03:54:07.449-07:00Health Care Providers on the Health Care overhaul<!---->
Health Providers and the Health Care overhaul
Photo by Michael O’Leary for The Herald <!----> <!--(click on picture to enlarge)--> "Family nurse practioner Cheryl LaFlore provides an ear exam for 6-month-old Malyki King-Perez at the Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic."
What can I say? I just love this picture! A robust baby just as weirded-out as I am by what it's likeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-81027547331004898962009-04-24T21:56:00.000-07:002009-05-08T17:47:53.405-07:00EARTH, Disney presents - for Earth DayWent to see this beautifully filmed movie today, literally awe-inspiring. Caution: sometimes the predators win, as we know, and it's not super sugar-coated. If you're on fast Internet, click on "HD" at lower right of video for higher-definition video.Opened at theaters on EARTH DAY April 22nd 2009At Youtube, when clicking on "(more info)" button, you'll see the following text and a bit more: 'Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-19448804701948858142009-04-03T20:45:00.000-07:002009-04-03T20:50:03.594-07:00Desperately seeking Leonardo da VinciPossible newly discovered Leonardo self-portrait< in the Basilicata region of southern Italy, near Potenza, goes on display there in April and May.Experts say it's not a self-portrait by da Vinci while others point to the da Vinci trademark carving on the back, in Latin, "Painted by" -- written in reverse as was his wont. Not ultra convincing, as anyone could do that. Strangely Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-42238854119558180062009-04-01T13:45:00.000-07:002009-04-03T20:24:34.532-07:00Queen Nefertiti and Facial InterpretationAfter seeing the Yahoo news article on this, I went to see Scientific America's uniquely large images of the scans being distributed today of the inner limestone layer of this famous sculpture, which is a more detailed rendering of the Queen's head, overlaid by the stucco representation we have known all these years. The Scientific American image captions struck me as strange in their Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-83033898398665620872009-03-30T22:55:00.000-07:002009-04-03T20:26:08.323-07:00"Polypill" made from 5 drugs may cut heart & stroke diseaseThe WebMD article I just read is upbeat about a new 5-in-1 pill that may be effective without costing much. Is that even thinkable in today's world? WebMD's Charlene Raimo writes:A "polypill" combining five heart drugs -- three blood-pressure-lowering drugs, a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, and aspirin -- is safe and works as well as any of the medications alone, researchers Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-70778169031023250372009-01-05T04:40:00.000-08:002009-01-05T05:05:12.534-08:00Some of us can all get along ...From sajha.com"Neilingding Island, China. Three months ago, the macaque was born on the island, but strayed from its mother. Luckily, it was taken in by work staff in the protective station and made the acquaintance of the pigeon. More than 2,000 macaques live on the island.""Dema, a 26-day-old male endangered Sumatran tiger cub, cuddles up to 5-month-old female orangutan Irma at the Taman SafariAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-36696946285370091752009-01-05T02:51:00.000-08:002009-04-03T20:35:47.517-07:00Yosuke, the lost parrot, knows his placeI've noted a lot of oddities for the blog but haven't gotten to them for months, having been overwhelmed by political oddities, so here's one to start.Wandering Yosuke (to the left) gave up his ID and street address to a probably kindly vetinarian. "I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to [local policeman Shinjiro] Uemura. The parrot also provided his full Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-70958829849937616822008-09-04T15:02:00.000-07:002013-04-06T16:13:25.169-07:00Anne Kilkenny's letter about Sarah Palin This points to a copy of a letter about Palin that details her political history, as viewed by a city council attendee since 1992, who has negative feelings about Palin's tenure but balances the letter with some positive info also. There are almost no cites in the letter.<---- Logo at left is used with consent of Warrior Librarian, but that site and its staff have NO association with Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-20415396035202518622008-08-12T09:43:00.000-07:002008-08-23T03:25:14.971-07:00Recent updates to existing entries with no date-changeAugust 6 - The Bigger Donors - NYT. "Behind those larger donations is a phalanx of more than 500 Obama 'bundlers,' fund-raisers who have each collected contributions totaling $50,000 or more. Many of the bundlers come from industries with critical interests in Washington. Nearly three dozen of the bundlers have raised more than $500,000 each, including more than a half-dozen who have passedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-90457084362720225032008-03-10T19:16:00.001-07:002008-09-04T16:10:36.982-07:00That Iraq War Vote and the Judgment Factor Who do we know who would have said this about Hillary ?"She’s one of the toughest. She’s got an extraordinary intelligence. And she is, she’s somebody who’s in this stuff for the right reasons. She’s passionate about moving the country forward on issues like health care and children. So it’s not clear to me what differences we’ve had since I’ve been in the Senate. "I think Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-47637194907443719972008-02-28T20:57:00.000-08:002015-04-17T00:25:05.582-07:00Matt Gonzalez on Change we should avoid: Obama's voting recordA progressive's closer look at Obama's voting record. Matt Gonzalez is a former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and will be the running mate for Ralph Nader's quixotic quest for quadrennial attention but has some values common to a lot of us. " He reminds us again and again that he had the foresight to oppose the war in Iraq. And he seems to have a genuine Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-76203462551447303762008-02-27T02:46:00.001-08:002008-09-04T17:27:23.013-07:00Source of Obama photo from Kenya The Obama photo from Kenya (in Somali-elder garb) was posted on the Free Republic site on February 23, 2008 and is apparently scanned from a periodical titled "Examiner," dated February 4, 2008. This posting was made to the highly traffic'd, conservative Republican forum two days before Drudge ran the photo on Monday, February 25, and claimed he'd "obtained" it from a Clinton staffer Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-47166324111514261732008-02-23T08:35:00.000-08:002014-06-06T23:59:33.852-07:00Realities of corporate financing in any presidential electionUpdated Mar. 9, 2008 Obama Reference Set
The realities of corporate financing in any presidential election: (updated August, 2008)
The Bigger Donors - NYT. "Behind those larger donations is a phalanx of more than 500 Obama 'bundlers,' fund-raisers who have each collected contributions totaling $50,000 or more. Many of the bundlers come from industries with critical interests in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-75728244428590369102008-02-18T15:11:00.001-08:002008-02-23T09:09:05.270-08:00"We are the ones we have been waiting for"Subtitle: Giving Credit Where DueWith the brouhaha today re recycling a major portion of someone else's speech (but delivering it better), I remembered being struck when listening to Obama the other day when he said, "We are the ones we have been waiting for" and thought 'THAT was a great line' and very well delivered.That turned out to be the title of an Alice Walker book.I wondered why he Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-69747674935734139352008-02-18T15:05:00.001-08:002009-06-24T23:21:44.889-07:00Obama's Familiar QuotationsWith apologies to Bartlett's. <!-- Subtitle: Echos from Obama.-->Video removed after the 2008 primariesThis set of videoclip comparisons begins with words used often by Obama when he's speaking in the South, including in Mississippi, where Obama explained his understandable reactions to the premature but strategically superdelegate-targeted idea of a duo-run, when Clinton said that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-27232236957163416452008-02-18T15:05:00.000-08:002013-04-06T16:14:57.056-07:00'New' concepts of Hope and Change? I recently heard Barack Obama speak in bleak terms about the temptation of building a bridge back to the 20th Century by nominating Hillary Clinton.Today I also saw complaints from Obama enthusiasts that Clinton has taken from her opponent the concepts of 'change' and 'hope.'Then, on the same day, I see the Michelle Obama videoclip and text excerpt titled "For the First Time in My Adult LifetimeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-2798339242874470232007-10-29T06:10:00.000-07:002007-10-29T06:21:16.018-07:00Da Vinci's The Last Supper Up Close at HomeDa Vinci's The Last Supper in Detail - described here. Per the AP, Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.The high resolution will allow experts to examine details of the 15th century wall painting that they otherwise could not — including traces of drawings Leonardo put Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-70626512757025461582007-10-20T17:31:00.000-07:002009-01-05T03:41:33.782-08:00I WANT Snowball the Cockatoo ! or his dancing lessonsI just love this rockin' cockatoo parrot and his steps! He loves that beat! Choreography's tricky too. Snowball's taught himself (per the video description) to dance to the Back Street Boy's "Everybody" and he, sorta, sings too :-) Simon, don't miss this one!There's even a mohawk.Per the videoclip, he's "a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo living at the Bird Lovers OnlyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-81408857380903247022007-08-30T03:27:00.000-07:002007-08-30T03:34:23.780-07:00"Healthiest packaged foods" (for women, but ...)"100 Best Foods list" per Women's Health Magazine. While the magazine's target crowd is non-males, I imagine the products listed as tasty, disease-fighting and lean-mean recommendations here might work for men too. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-66072174799863800002007-08-06T01:14:00.000-07:002007-08-06T02:46:55.662-07:00Verbier Festival videos online until Aug 31The VERBIER Festival 2007 concerts are being made available for viewing, free, in high-definition video on the Net, on-demand, accessible only until August 31, 2007. Fast Internet access (cablemodem, DSL, etc) is required to access the streams though. medici-arts.tv is providing the technology. The pairing of Martha Argerich and Lang Lang is the most unusual item.  Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-7943101247460516252007-07-11T17:14:00.000-07:002007-07-11T17:31:53.108-07:00I'm in loveDog with a heart, well, two.This adorable pup is likely to be worth a lot of $$ but I bet he won't be sold, at least not for a few days. Emiko Sakurada and Heartkun live in northern Japan, where Emiko has bred a thousand chihuahuas. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-74077931645871107102007-06-26T17:59:00.000-07:002007-08-12T03:09:35.335-07:00Does the iPhone meet expectations?{UPDATE 8/12/07 - User reviews at CNET (652 today): Avg rating 6.4}{UPDATES 7/24/07 - (1) Apple shares down 6% after disappointing iPhone sales numbers. (2) iPhone is seriously hackable per a story in The Guardian today. They've advised Apple, who needs to plug that up.}6/26/07 - Well, I haven't been following this, not being very trendy, but saw the NY Times writeup and video todayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-11548529758058165712007-06-02T07:42:00.000-07:002007-06-02T10:52:58.851-07:00Videos from Cliburn Competition at YouTubeThe Van Cliburn Foundation is now offering, on YouTube, content from its DVD, Encore! - in six 9-minute chunks (YouTube 10 min. max).James Conlon explores the relationship between the concert pianist's internal world and the composer's score - with the finalists of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as his examples - and examines what makes one Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-91812787417830653132007-06-01T22:55:00.000-07:002007-06-01T22:57:45.795-07:00Lucy in the Sky and She's Leaving HomeWho were they? Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds wasn't (just) about LSD? From the many leaving homes (the most poignant song by the Beatles alongside Eleanor Rigby, for me), who was the one whose story inspired She's Leaving Home?Meet Lucy Richardson Vodden and Melanie Coe via The Times, UK.Lucy, now a 43-year-old housewife from Surrey, was a classmate of John’s son, Julian, at Heath Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18687830.post-84662295752580449672007-06-01T22:53:00.000-07:002007-06-01T22:56:29.778-07:00Piano: Cats on the keysNora I & II, plusProkofiev and the Love of One OrangeWarning to the Lang Lang averse, go watch something else after Nora does her sensitive thing with the keys. These are for fun for those so inclined.Nora cats around</> on the piano. I love this video.Nora does chamber music and actually listens to her partner Lang's Prokofiev as street fighter with fancy footwork Lang and his Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com0