Travis In Austin

Great first lady. Mother, not so much. Switched her views on stem cell research. It has slid since she left, the astrologer who told her to cut deals with Tip is gone, and we are in a quagmire.

Julie https://youtu.be/SwheXIa8Cl0

Grace https://youtu.be/R_raXzIRgsA

Linda https://youtu.be/__qtkWwqbJw

Here is the Link to the compensation act that pays downwinders and uranium workers. Congress passed this compensation plan right before the downwinders case was getting ready to go to trial.

Let me know when you do.

He was so great, RIP

'More skeptical than ever': Experts respond to the government's warning letter to Theranos About blood testing, very scary. http://flip.it/9f1Sn

'More skeptical than ever': Experts respond to the government's warning letter to Theranos About blood testing, very scary. http://flip.it/9f1Sn

New York judge blocks bid to free upstate chimp Kiko http://flip.it/LvZ3V

I was in the news again, this time about how license plate readers could turn police into bill collectors. http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/82916323-story In 2015, Texas lawmakers passed a bill allowing police officers to install credit and debit card readers in their vehicles. "That's a win-win for the court in collecting revenue, for the officer not being off the street and for the individual that's stopped. They don't have to miss work, go to jail, etc., etc.," said law enforcement attorney Travis Williamson The point was to allow officers to collect court fines on the spot instead of taking every person with a fine-related warrant to jail.Williamson said putting officers in the position to find outstanding warrants or risk losing Vigilant's services could be a conflict of interest. "We invest way too much money in training our police officers to detect crime, make arrests, prevent crime where possible, they don't need to be in the bill collecting business," said Williamson.

Some legal news for this week Bill Cosby's court defeat: How it happened, and what happens next http://flip.it/D9--P

Watch out for the overnight mail of a check. They will say they will wait untill it clears your bank. Limiting to face to face will solve 99 percent of the BS.

Well again, as you well know, these things arenthe subject of negoiation and influence. Here is a recent article from Time about sugar, and how to reduce it. 10 Easy Ways to Stop Eating So Much Sugar http://flip.it/5f2hc The new guidelines are the first time ever where they recommend limiting added sugar. And the number is probabky way too high, 10% of total calories.

Did you get there?

Actually, I guess it changed in 2015. They are making progress: Is caffeine okay to include in my day? Much of the available scientific studies on caffeine focuses on coffee intake, thus the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines provides guidance that centers around coffee. According to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines, moderate coffee consumption — up to three to five 8-oz cups/day or providing up to 400 mg/day of caffeine — can be incorporated into healthy eating styles since it is not associated with an increased risk of major chronic diseases (e.g., cancer) or premature death, especially from cardiovascular disease. However, the Dietary Guidelines notes that people who currently do not consume caffeinated coffee or other caffeinated beverages are not encouraged to start. The Dietary Guidelines also includes an important note that some coffee or other caffeinated beverages may include calories from added sugars and/or saturated fat (such as cream, whole or 2% milk, and creamer), both of which should be limited. - See more at: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/2015-2020-dietary-guidelines-answers-your-questions#sthash.DmdRmiCh.dpuf

Did you see they just completely changed the food pyramid? I think it has up to 4 cups of coffee a day is ok, which may be, but I thought that was still unsettled. I cannot recall what else was on there, I was going to ignore it because of what a joke the one we had growing up was. The four food groups are: The milk lobby, the cheese lobby The Beef lobby The Wheat growers, (breads and cereals) and last but not least, fruits and vegetables I am not sure what NY ended up with, I just remember all the news about NYC banning Big Gulps, or supersize soft drinks and I thought they were whacky. I hate to keep bringing up the South, but we were raised on sun tea in CA, the brand was Sport Tea, made in Napa, doesn't require sugar, here you have "regular" and "sweet." Everywhere, you want an iced tea, the response is "regular or sweet" and in some places you get sweet if you don't specify. It is viewed as a good alternative to a softdrink, but the "sweet" here has as much sugar, or more, than a soft drink.

A virus that kills you before you have time to become obese. A reduction in health insurance premiums for voluntary blood sugar screenings. Taxing, like cigs, processed sugar, in all forms, at the wholesale/production level. Taxing carbonated soft drinks beverages. Require warning labels The problem is, as it was with cigs, is it is a legal product. Having just one (of whatever, bag of chips, coke, etc.) is not going to hurt you. In order for legal system to help, you have to show an unsafe/defective product. Very difficult. Not to mention, you are talking about food. I don't think you can tackle it from an availability standpoint, you probably can't ban Coke for example. You would have to go at it from a demand standpoint. So you up the price of items that are high concentration in sugar. You ban supersize drinks (wait, I have heard that somewhere before). The issue is further complicated by a lack of consensus of what is "bad" and how much. I have seen some well respected people say that milk, and any of it's by products is worse then anything you can eat and the only one who should be consuming it is baby cows. Milk, cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. They argue, given a choice between a Coke and a glass of milk, or a slice of cheese, you are much better off with the Coke. There are a number of ways the trend can be bucked, but it is not promising. Even with cigs were known to be bad, worse than sugar, worse than fat, that there was no question they would shorten your life, we got up to 40% smokers. Now of course there is an addiction component to cigs, but from a documentary I saw yesterday, sugar is addictive, just a lot less so than nicotine. We dropped from 40 to 25%. There are a lot of special interests at work that it would be difficult to do anything on a national level. I have seen moms get soda machines removed from schools, change nutrition at schools, etc. So we are talking generation probably.

Thanks, I am going to pick it up this afternoon. Here is an article you reminded me of re: the translation of the Russians, including Garnett and your reccomendation. Back when I read it I suspected that I had missed out on a lot of what both Tolstoy and Karamazov were trying to say. I think you will enjoy it. Now I will find out. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/the-translation-wars

"Those findings overlap with the troubling results of a study published in November. It reported a startling rise in recent years in the death rate of white, middle-aged men in the U.S. The study’s authors attributed that increase to three main factors: substance abuse (from alcohol, prescription opioids and heroin), suicide and chronic liver disease." https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2015/12/us-life-expectancy-remains-unchanged-infant-mortality-declines-says-cdc

This article, citing CDC, said there has been a 3 year stall, but says the reasons can vary. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_56684965e4b080eddf565098

I agree with all of that, it does look at today. It combines too many factors and lags way far behind what is already known about what may be healthy, and harmful. It also looks at age segments, like what is LE for people at age 65, which is currently about 20. There are hugh lags in the South, and Hawaii being the best. They can sometimes attribute specific things to the reason for LE being lower, like the murder rate when down and accounted for a certain percentage. (You can also get a bump in LE from decreasing the death rate, fewer suicides, murders, accidents etc.) What cannot be done from LE tables is link any particular behavior, diet, or cause. They are broken down into general catagories, heart disease, alzhimer's, respiratory, etc. Your hypothesis is probably correct, however, it may not result in shorter overall LE. The reason for this is, I think, is that we have not reached the peak LE we can expect from the assault on tobacco. What I think we are seeing in the LE is the after effects of smoking (which never would have have been disfavored if any "group" could "control" the US economy. (The group could be bankers, special interests, the money elites, corporations/ceos, it doesn't matter). Groups most definitely exert influence over outcomes, but the wild card in the US is the court system. The lawsuits brought down big tobacco, because the political system was too ineffective to do so. Now in other countries financial interests can have much greater control, allow kids to smoke, etc. I don't rember when cigarette smoking peaked in US. Late 70s about 40% of adults and that dropoed to 25 percent of adults by 2000s and has remained flat since then. That 15% that didn't start smoking is going to keep factoring into LE and cause a rise, if the 25 percent who still smoke starts falling again that is going to kick up LE. I'm afraid the poison (my personal exaggeration) they put in processed food will not see an impact on LE for 30 or 40 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-continues-to-climb/2014/12/05/9edb2ffe-4fc2-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_story.html

I just want to clarify that my assertions about "dark wealth" has nothing to do with these "dark pools" which are very common. In other words, my "$33T/$35T" is not related to "dark pools" a common investment source. Carry on. I just didn't want to see any confusion pop up. Glad you did, it wasn't my point, only the same bank in the LIBOR scandal was caught again.

Anything has to be better than Garnett, who did both, would like to read a better translation of Brothers.

Barclays settles dark pool suit. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0V90UE