I read, well couldn't actually read the names, but went thru the entire article about the deaths in Gaza... sure wish Oct 7th hadn't happened. Sure wish the hostages would have been released immediately.... Sure wish Hamas hadn't been the so-called 'elected' officials back in 2007 & most of the young people in Palestine hadn't grown up in the propaganda of hating Jews, & wipe the Jews off of the face of the earth...
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Kiss Cam --- lots of talk, funny business, haha talk, however also people behind the scenes - yep, the spouses & the kids ...
& AI might be affecting the job market for college grads, however a recent article that I believe you posted also talked about how grads are wanting to have it all right away, & that's no longer how the job market works... plus there are numerous articles about how many grads haven't read a book/can't read at all, so would you want to hire a person like that?
10:03 am Live Updates: Markets Fall on Weak Jobs Data and Trump’s New Tariffs
Financial markets around the world were rattled as investors grappled with signs of cracks in the U.S. economy and the implications of President Trump’s escalating trade war.
A recent federal bill set aside $2 billion for a National Defense Stockpile of critical minerals essential to defense. The government is working with mineral startup M2i Global to establish a Strategic Mineral Reserve, and investors are already taking advantage.
South Korea agreed to invest $350 billion in the U.S. under a new trade agreement that will reduce its tariff to 15%, down from the planned 25%
Microsoft on Thursday morning became only the second publicly traded company ever to reach a total market capitalization of more than $4 trillion. Chip giant Nvidia is the other
Big Stock Move: Carvana stock jumped nearly 17% Thursday after the online used car seller posted a record quarter for sales and profit per unit sold
President Trump is expected to approve a new humanitarian aid plan for Gaza on Friday following a visit to Gaza by envoy Steve Witkoff and Ambassador Mike Huckabee, the White House said.
The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a $1 billion defense package Wednesday, including $800 million in direct military aid to Ukraine and $225 million for the Baltics
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Researchers at the University of Florida have developed an mRNA-based “off-the-shelf” cancer vaccine that could one day work across many tumor types without the long wait for a personalized treatment.
In mice, the vaccine supercharged the body’s innate immune system by boosting type-I interferons, key molecules that help detect and destroy cancer cells.
It also enhanced the effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors, slowing or stopping tumor growth in aggressive cancers like melanoma, glioma, and osteosarcoma.
Now, in early human trials, scientists hope the vaccine could offer a faster, more flexible tool in the fight against cancer, especially for hard-to-treat “cold” tumors that often evade current therapies.
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White House Revives Presidential Fitness Test
President Trump signed an order Thursday to revive the Presidential Fitness Test, once a gym-class staple, as part of a broader push to promote youth athleticism and “a culture of strength and excellence.”
The test, phased out under the Obama administration, will return alongside a reestablished President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, now led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The test includes a one-mile run, pull-ups, and a sit-and-reach flexibility test.
Critics recall it as a source of stress for kids, but supporters say it’s a throwback to national standards of strength and discipline first set by President Eisenhower in 1956.
3:39 pm Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump implied that Erika McEntarfer manipulated the data for political reasons. He didn’t offer any evidence to support his claim.
He and his top aides have made a habit of attacking government agencies, researchers and watchdogs when they have produced findings that the president personally does not like. That has led to concerns that he could seek to interfere with the operations of the bureau and other statistical agencies, particularly if the economy begins to take a turn for the worse.
I remember doing fitness tests in elementary and middle school. I could do sit ups and run like the wind but pull ups were far beyond my capability. One of my best friends was small and light and could do pull ups forever but forget about running. Different activities suit different kinds of bodies. Now in my 60s, I still can't do pull ups.
One son who became an Eagle Scout struggled with the stretching part of the fitness badge —- part of his genes … then right after he passed & got his badge, they changed the required distance for stretching to improving…
We could both climb ropes, do sit ups, pushups, win runs, broad jumps, but once I hit middle school could never sit “Indian style”
I imagine individualization will be applied…
In the long run, it’s a lot better than the obesity, diabetes, etc. that is the atrocity that’s hitting our children in the nation these days.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
While I cannot imagine the anguish people in Gaza are going through, I think they need to accept their responsibility in where the conflict is today. I know there is a long history of antagonism in that region, but surely it would be better to come to some kind of agreement rather than killing each other.
While I feel for the grads who can't find jobs, they have to accept responsibility for their field of choice. Did they do any kind of investigation to see what the job prospects were going to be? Seems to me the country is screaming for construction workers to build housing far more than they are looking for programmers or engineers. I took a course in secretarial skills way back in the early 1980's when they still had secretaries and it served me well for 40 years, was never unemployed. Would I do the same now? I don't know, it was never really supposed to be my career but it served me well.
And I always thought it was polite to tell someone you were breaking up with them. Won't comment as to the length of the message, but it has to better than being ghosted.
I’m on my phone right now so I don’t have the links that provide how many have saved NPR. That is how it should be. Just think of how all the people on the left would feel if federal dollars were going to the biased right broadcasters. They would be screaming. Before anybody says NPR provides things like weather reports, NPR was eight hours late in reporting the flood forecast for Texas. I provide dollars to my local PBS station. I do not provide my own dollars to any other PBS stations nationwide. That’s how it should be. No state dollars no federal dollars just my personal dollars go to my local PBS station. Your dollars don’t support my local PBS station. anyone who wants to support national PBS national NPR biased stations of their choice can certainly support those.
NPR is not suffering, philanthropists have come out and supported them. They are surviving. That is exactly how things are supposed to work.
I again repeat I'm not a fan of how Trump does things, however, I'm never surprised how Trump haters take things to nitpick about everything he does while ignoring what has taken place in the past:
Last year, following the Department of Labor’s annual benchmark revisions, which found that U.S. job creation was overstated by 818,000, GOP lawmakers stated that the administration had been “seemingly cooking the books to boost public support” ahead of the election.
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation
A new disclosure shows how corporations and individuals, including many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president.
Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side
The president had been on something of a winning streak. But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn’t bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.
States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.
Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud.
After a Lag, Consumers Begin to Feel the Pinch of Tariffs
There are growing signs that President Trump’s levies are filtering through to consumer prices, as companies exhaust options for keeping them stable.
Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda
An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.
On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing that employers added only 73,000 new jobs in July. It also notably revised data for the previous two months, reducing the number of jobs created by 258,000. While revisions to previous months are common, it was an unusually high number that came as a surprise. It suggested the labor market was not as resilient as it had seemed earlier this summer.
Shortly after the numbers were released, Stephen Miran, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, offered an explanation for the jobs revision that was much different from Mr. Trump’s.
On CNBC, he said much of the change was the result of “quirks in the seasonal adjustment process” and even the president’s own policies, particularly on immigration, potentially affecting hiring numbers for May and June. He made no mention of any concerns about manipulated data as he sought to recast the slowdown in July as a “pretty decent” jobs report.
________________________
Erika McEntarfer, the fired B.L.S. commissioner, is a highly respected economist with extensive experience in the production and analysis of government data. But she does not make policy in the way that someone like Powell does. Nor does the commissioner traditionally even make the particular numbers that the B.L.S. releases. Instead those numbers are produced by the 2,000 nonpartisan career staff members who work in the agency, in this case compiling the survey responses from the more than 100,000 businesses that report their employment to the B.L.S. every month. The numbers are finalized before they get to the commissioner, a political appointee but one who often serves across administrations. The role is much more about managing and overseeing the agency and making long-term decisions.
But revisions are a normal part of the statistical process and, in fact, one of its strengths in balancing timeliness and accuracy of data. About one-third of the sampled businesses do not return their survey responses on time, so the initial numbers have to make imputations for the missing data. As more survey responses arrive at the B.L.S., the numbers are revised. In addition, the B.L.S. is constantly using an algorithm to do updated seasonal adjustment of its data (e.g., the normal pattern of hiring a lot of retail workers in November and December and laying them off in January); this algorithm was a major factor in the latest revision.
I read, well couldn't actually read the names, but went thru the entire article about the deaths in Gaza... sure wish Oct 7th hadn't happened. Sure wish the hostages would have been released immediately.... Sure wish Hamas hadn't been the so-called 'elected' officials back in 2007 & most of the young people in Palestine hadn't grown up in the propaganda of hating Jews, & wipe the Jews off of the face of the earth...
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Kiss Cam --- lots of talk, funny business, haha talk, however also people behind the scenes - yep, the spouses & the kids ...
Rob Henderson is someone I read a lot:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/12bff291-4177-4d51-802b-8b6887e43043
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/sex-relationships/article/illicit-sex-secret-affairs-the-truth-about-our-infidelity-506d0hj57
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& AI might be affecting the job market for college grads, however a recent article that I believe you posted also talked about how grads are wanting to have it all right away, & that's no longer how the job market works... plus there are numerous articles about how many grads haven't read a book/can't read at all, so would you want to hire a person like that?
10:03 am Live Updates: Markets Fall on Weak Jobs Data and Trump’s New Tariffs
Financial markets around the world were rattled as investors grappled with signs of cracks in the U.S. economy and the implications of President Trump’s escalating trade war.
A recent federal bill set aside $2 billion for a National Defense Stockpile of critical minerals essential to defense. The government is working with mineral startup M2i Global to establish a Strategic Mineral Reserve, and investors are already taking advantage.
South Korea agreed to invest $350 billion in the U.S. under a new trade agreement that will reduce its tariff to 15%, down from the planned 25%
Microsoft on Thursday morning became only the second publicly traded company ever to reach a total market capitalization of more than $4 trillion. Chip giant Nvidia is the other
Big Stock Move: Carvana stock jumped nearly 17% Thursday after the online used car seller posted a record quarter for sales and profit per unit sold
President Trump is expected to approve a new humanitarian aid plan for Gaza on Friday following a visit to Gaza by envoy Steve Witkoff and Ambassador Mike Huckabee, the White House said.
The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a $1 billion defense package Wednesday, including $800 million in direct military aid to Ukraine and $225 million for the Baltics
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Researchers at the University of Florida have developed an mRNA-based “off-the-shelf” cancer vaccine that could one day work across many tumor types without the long wait for a personalized treatment.
In mice, the vaccine supercharged the body’s innate immune system by boosting type-I interferons, key molecules that help detect and destroy cancer cells.
It also enhanced the effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors, slowing or stopping tumor growth in aggressive cancers like melanoma, glioma, and osteosarcoma.
Now, in early human trials, scientists hope the vaccine could offer a faster, more flexible tool in the fight against cancer, especially for hard-to-treat “cold” tumors that often evade current therapies.
---
White House Revives Presidential Fitness Test
President Trump signed an order Thursday to revive the Presidential Fitness Test, once a gym-class staple, as part of a broader push to promote youth athleticism and “a culture of strength and excellence.”
The test, phased out under the Obama administration, will return alongside a reestablished President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, now led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The test includes a one-mile run, pull-ups, and a sit-and-reach flexibility test.
Critics recall it as a source of stress for kids, but supporters say it’s a throwback to national standards of strength and discipline first set by President Eisenhower in 1956.
3:39 pm Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump implied that Erika McEntarfer manipulated the data for political reasons. He didn’t offer any evidence to support his claim.
He and his top aides have made a habit of attacking government agencies, researchers and watchdogs when they have produced findings that the president personally does not like. That has led to concerns that he could seek to interfere with the operations of the bureau and other statistical agencies, particularly if the economy begins to take a turn for the worse.
— NYT
I remember doing fitness tests in elementary and middle school. I could do sit ups and run like the wind but pull ups were far beyond my capability. One of my best friends was small and light and could do pull ups forever but forget about running. Different activities suit different kinds of bodies. Now in my 60s, I still can't do pull ups.
One son who became an Eagle Scout struggled with the stretching part of the fitness badge —- part of his genes … then right after he passed & got his badge, they changed the required distance for stretching to improving…
We could both climb ropes, do sit ups, pushups, win runs, broad jumps, but once I hit middle school could never sit “Indian style”
I imagine individualization will be applied…
In the long run, it’s a lot better than the obesity, diabetes, etc. that is the atrocity that’s hitting our children in the nation these days.
Kermit the Frog, RIP
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
While I cannot imagine the anguish people in Gaza are going through, I think they need to accept their responsibility in where the conflict is today. I know there is a long history of antagonism in that region, but surely it would be better to come to some kind of agreement rather than killing each other.
While I feel for the grads who can't find jobs, they have to accept responsibility for their field of choice. Did they do any kind of investigation to see what the job prospects were going to be? Seems to me the country is screaming for construction workers to build housing far more than they are looking for programmers or engineers. I took a course in secretarial skills way back in the early 1980's when they still had secretaries and it served me well for 40 years, was never unemployed. Would I do the same now? I don't know, it was never really supposed to be my career but it served me well.
And I always thought it was polite to tell someone you were breaking up with them. Won't comment as to the length of the message, but it has to better than being ghosted.
I’m on my phone right now so I don’t have the links that provide how many have saved NPR. That is how it should be. Just think of how all the people on the left would feel if federal dollars were going to the biased right broadcasters. They would be screaming. Before anybody says NPR provides things like weather reports, NPR was eight hours late in reporting the flood forecast for Texas. I provide dollars to my local PBS station. I do not provide my own dollars to any other PBS stations nationwide. That’s how it should be. No state dollars no federal dollars just my personal dollars go to my local PBS station. Your dollars don’t support my local PBS station. anyone who wants to support national PBS national NPR biased stations of their choice can certainly support those.
NPR is not suffering, philanthropists have come out and supported them. They are surviving. That is exactly how things are supposed to work.
I again repeat I'm not a fan of how Trump does things, however, I'm never surprised how Trump haters take things to nitpick about everything he does while ignoring what has taken place in the past:
Last year, following the Department of Labor’s annual benchmark revisions, which found that U.S. job creation was overstated by 818,000, GOP lawmakers stated that the administration had been “seemingly cooking the books to boost public support” ahead of the election.
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation
A new disclosure shows how corporations and individuals, including many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president.
Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side
The president had been on something of a winning streak. But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn’t bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.
States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.
Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud.
After a Lag, Consumers Begin to Feel the Pinch of Tariffs
There are growing signs that President Trump’s levies are filtering through to consumer prices, as companies exhaust options for keeping them stable.
Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda
An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.
On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing that employers added only 73,000 new jobs in July. It also notably revised data for the previous two months, reducing the number of jobs created by 258,000. While revisions to previous months are common, it was an unusually high number that came as a surprise. It suggested the labor market was not as resilient as it had seemed earlier this summer.
Shortly after the numbers were released, Stephen Miran, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, offered an explanation for the jobs revision that was much different from Mr. Trump’s.
On CNBC, he said much of the change was the result of “quirks in the seasonal adjustment process” and even the president’s own policies, particularly on immigration, potentially affecting hiring numbers for May and June. He made no mention of any concerns about manipulated data as he sought to recast the slowdown in July as a “pretty decent” jobs report.
________________________
Erika McEntarfer, the fired B.L.S. commissioner, is a highly respected economist with extensive experience in the production and analysis of government data. But she does not make policy in the way that someone like Powell does. Nor does the commissioner traditionally even make the particular numbers that the B.L.S. releases. Instead those numbers are produced by the 2,000 nonpartisan career staff members who work in the agency, in this case compiling the survey responses from the more than 100,000 businesses that report their employment to the B.L.S. every month. The numbers are finalized before they get to the commissioner, a political appointee but one who often serves across administrations. The role is much more about managing and overseeing the agency and making long-term decisions.
But revisions are a normal part of the statistical process and, in fact, one of its strengths in balancing timeliness and accuracy of data. About one-third of the sampled businesses do not return their survey responses on time, so the initial numbers have to make imputations for the missing data. As more survey responses arrive at the B.L.S., the numbers are revised. In addition, the B.L.S. is constantly using an algorithm to do updated seasonal adjustment of its data (e.g., the normal pattern of hiring a lot of retail workers in November and December and laying them off in January); this algorithm was a major factor in the latest revision.