How Sleep Apnea May Contribute to Normal-Tension Glaucoma Risk | Glaucoma Research Foundation

How Sleep Apnea May Contribute to Normal-Tension Glaucoma Risk | Glaucoma Research Foundation

The Predatory Lending Machine Crushing Small Businesses Across America

The Predatory Lending Machine Crushing Small Businesses Across America



Must read.

Monsanto finds it way into the American diet in more way than we realize

Grim reaping: Many food crops sprayed with weed killer before harvest | The Organic & Non-GMO Report

7 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Medishare Insurance: A Medishare Review

We hear their radio spots every weekend.



A scam in sheep's clothing.



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7 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Medishare Insurance: A Medishare Review

Can't transfer music files to your Android smartphone? Here's the fix

Windows just wasn't reading the folders on our Moto X4.  Chat said be sure you have the driver.  OK fine, we had it before because we transferred music to the phone before.  Maybe it got corrupted, so we reinstalled as per these instructions:

Angela: Here is the link for you to download Motorola device manager, John:
https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS79106
 Angela: Please download it first.
 john.: ok
 Angela: Would there be anything else aside from this?
 john.: Dl to PC right?
 Angela: Yes.
 john.: That page doesn't have the driver on it.
 Angela: Sorry.
Here:

https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS88481


and try this:
https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS87731
 john.: OK the first one is the driver. Do I need to reboot?
 Angela: Yes, and the second link is the instructions.

So we dl'd the driver and still not able to read the phone. 

Duh.

So this time, we CALLED tech support.  Much better result:

The drill-down for Moto X4:

Settings
System
About
Build no.
(Stand on your head)
Tap 7 time on build no. till you see:
"You are a developer"
(Do 25 push-ups)
Go back
Developer options
Turn on USB debugging
(Twirl 3 times clockwise, then 3 times counterclockwise.)
Then:  Notifications when plugged in offers options for
Charging or file transfer
Done.
(Apply cold cloth to forehead.)

Parentheticals optional.

Rabbi Warns New Israel-Palestine Conflict Could be Start of Biblical War

Rabbi Warns New Israel-Palestine Conflict Could be Start of Biblical War

How Long Should I Wait After the Flu or a Cold to Hang Out with People Again?

How Long Am I Contagious? - Health

So you want to be my attorney: Portrait of Two Prominent Attorneys as Middle-Aged Men

Michael Avenatti's Past Won't Stop Him From Running in 2020 | Time

Avenatti and his most prominent client, Trump accuser,
Stormy Daniels.

Avenatti drinks approximately 15 shots of espresso each day–and makes sure everyone around him knows it. His chiseled jaw seems perpetually jutted forward, his wiry frame coiled. Veins bulge on the temples of his egg-shaped head. ....

Filings in a related bankruptcy case show that Avenatti’s firm had tax troubles. Court documents dated January 2018 reveal that Avenatti had paid $1.5 million of an outstanding $2.4 million tax liability but that the firm still owed the IRS approximately $880,000. Federal attorneys claimed in May that Avenatti had missed the first installment of that payment. Avenatti says his firm has “fully satisfied” all of its tax liabilities. The U.S. attorney’s office in L.A. declined to comment.

It wasn’t just fellow lawyers with whom Avenatti had troubles. In 2013 Avenatti teamed up with the actor Patrick Dempsey to buy the Seattle-based coffee chain Tully’s. But just two months after they finalized the deal, Dempsey sued to get out of the partnership, claiming in court that Avenatti had borrowed $2 million to help buy the company without telling him. Avenatti had purchased the Tully’s chain through a company he established in December 2012 called Global Baristas. In 2017 the IRS claimed Global Baristas owed $5 million in federal taxes. In March 2018 Tully’s closed all its stores.

New York magazine piece on David Boies

Weinstein, left, his counsel, Boies right

To those outside this professional circle, though, the Black Cube operation was appalling. In response, Boies issued a carefully worded email to his firm. He wrote that Weinstein’s “request to contract with investigators seemed at the time, like a reasonable accommodation for a longtime client,” but acknowledged it was “not thought through” and conceded that it “was a mistake to contract with, and pay on behalf of a client, investigators who we did not select and did not control.” He tried to rationalize away the conflict-of-interest issue by saying he thought he was actually serving the interests of the Times by testing the reliability of its sources. But beyond that, Boies sought to assign most responsibility to Weinstein and “his other counsel,” who he said were more closely involved in overseeing Black Cube. “Had I known at the time that this contract would have been used for the services that I now understand it was used for, I would never have signed it,” he wrote. “I would never knowingly participate in an effort to intimidate or silence women or anyone else … That is not who I am.”

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The takeaway, at least from these two vignettes:  surgeons get blood on their hands, lawyers....criminality.....hard not to get soiled from one or the other if you're in medicine or law....

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship - Areo

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship - Areo



What if we write a paper saying we should train men like we do dogs—to prevent rape culture? Hence came the “Dog Park” paper. What if we write a paper claiming that when a guy privately masturbates while thinking about a woman (without her consent—in fact, without her ever finding out about it) that he’s committing sexual violence against her? That gave us the “Masturbation” paper. What if we argue that the reason superintelligent AI is potentially dangerous is because it is being programmed to be masculinist and imperialist using Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Lacanian psychoanalysis? That’s our “Feminist AI” paper. What if we argued that “a fat body is a legitimately built body” as a foundation for introducing a category for fat bodybuilding into the sport of professional bodybuilding? You can read how that went in Fat Studies.

NPR, CBC, ABC and the worldwide work of the NWO

CBC: An Exquisitely Canadian Form of Torture - henrymakow.com

Henry Makow's column just nails it here.  To which we would add:  Don't you just hate that fake stutter the on-air "males" employ to sound "sensitive" and "caring?"

We don't just bring you problems, we bring you the antidote:   Fred and Carrie skewer public media perfectly in Portlandia.....

NPR Podcast | Portlandia | Season 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsufMtUOXtI

A must watch.....

Twin Cities Woman Undergoes Arm Surgery After Flu Shot « WCCO | CBS Minnesota

Twin Cities Woman Undergoes Arm Surgery After Flu Shot « WCCO | CBS Minnesota

Illusion v Reality: Trump and the Myth of the Self-Made Man

Donald Trump’s grotesque fraud - The Washington Post

Timeline of Jason Van Dyke shooting of Laquan McDonald - Chicago Tribune

Timeline of Jason Van Dyke shooting of Laquan McDonald - Chicago Tribune

Illusion v Reality: Fit to be Justice of the Supreme Court?

My sinister battle with Brett Kavanaugh over the truth - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Thirty-something attorney from privileged background engages in witness tampering, and cover-up to advance his career.  For spectators of the Ford v Kavanaugh main bout, this is a must read.

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Conclusion:

Mr Kavanaugh went on to write the Starr Report on the Foster death. But Mr Knowlton got the last word, literally. He filed a 511-page report at the US Federal Court with evidence alleging a pattern of skullduggery, and asked that it be attached to the Starr Report.

The three top judges did not agree but they ordered that a shorter 20-page version be attached at the end, despite vehement protest from the Starr office. This had never happened before in the history of the office of the independent council.

This summary asserts that the FBI had “concealed the true facts”, that there had been witness tampering, and that the report had willfully ignored facts that refuted its own conclusions. There it sits in perpetuity, a strange rebuke for Mr Kavanaugh by his own fellow judges on the federal bench.

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So here we have (the suppressed) evidence of Vince Foster shot in the neck not in the mouth, as per suicide.

Marvelous government deception redolent of the Warren Report.  The reality behind the illusion.  There is always a "reality behind the illusion" it would seem...

Kill them, castrate them, feed them to swine

The White Heterosexual Male Has Been Renditioned To The Punishment Hole - PaulCraigRoberts.org

Trump: An Assessment - PaulCraigRoberts.org

Trump: An Assessment - PaulCraigRoberts.org



Brilliant analysis, must read.

Debt Rises: The Government Will Soon Spend More On Interest Than on The Military

Debt Rises: The Government Will Soon Spend More On Interest Than on The Military

Bach and this matter of heaven

I have loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for years, decades, a near lifetime.

Among my prized CDs (millennials please google the term), is my box set of his entire works (155 CDs, Brilliant Classics).  I have attended a Bach Marathon (Ravinia), organized and attended by the late Edward Gordon and executed by the brilliant Anthony Newman, more than 30 years ago, yet still fresh in the memory:

Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Prelude, fugue Eb, BWV 552 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Wachet Auf Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Toccata, Adagio, Fugue, C, BMW 564 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Three Pieces from Clavier Book Teil III Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Prelude, Toccata and Fugue BWV 540 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, g, BWV 659 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Fugue g BMW 578 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Fugue G BWV 577 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 F Orchestral Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Harpsichord Concerto No. 5, f, BWV 1056 Orchestral Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 Orchestral Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049 Orchestral Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048 Orchestral Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050 Orchestral Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047 Orchestral Anthony Newman

I have myself played Bach:  Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions, Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations.  I have listened to his works for countless hours on classical radio, and in concert halls across America.  I wrote a book about his cantatas.  I had a vague sense I had pretty much 'heard it all,' knew all his works, major ones at least.

Then, one day, turning on classical WFMT Chicago in the car, I found myself midway among passages that I thought might be Scarlatti, but no, there was something more going on here ... that something turned out to be Bach.  It was his Aria variata (alla maniera italiana) in A Minor, Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) 989.  In the Italian manner, indeed.  I was not familiar with the work.

It appears on a new DG recording by Vikingur Olaffson, an Icelander.  Another new discovery, two in one day. Not bad.

Olaffson's record label introduces him as follows:  "For his new Deutsche Grammophon album, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the wellspring of Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard music, delivering experimental, innovative and timeless performances.

"Víkingur Ólafsson is a musical free spirit with a mission. He first made the classical world sit up and listen in early 2017 with his recording of solo piano works by Philip Glass – a fascinating journey through the time and space of their minimalist structures. Glass is now followed by Bach. Set for release in September, Ólafsson’s second Deutsche Grammophon album, the pithily entitled Bach, contains a mixture of original works and transcriptions, which the pianist has woven together in intriguing style."

Quite so.  Additionally, the sonic clarity, warmth and brilliance of his tone was absolutely stunning, as were his interpretations, by turns, joyful, playful, profound, tragic, and everything else that comes to us as "Bach."

As I listened, the 989 dispersed my workaday concerns.  It elevated, ennobled, encouraged, uplifted, and transported. Indeed, for these moments, I found myself in another part of the galaxy, teleported by Bach to a better place, a perfect place.

The experience prompted the wonderment (prompted by several recent deaths in the family):  where has Bach himself been since his departure from this terra firma July 28, 1750?  In heaven, the subject of so many of his sonic meditations, developing his art?

We think so.  Bach's personal motto was Symbolum: Christus Coronabit Crucigeros, which translates, “Symbol: Christ will crown those who carry His cross,” or “Christ will crown the Cross-Bearers.”

There are some 1126 BWV opus numbers (Even this large number is incomplete as many of Bach's works have been lost, e.g., he wrote some 300 cantatas, of which we still have 200 sacred cantatas and another 16 secular cantatas5). Most of this production came about in a 50-year period.  Let's do the math.  Nearly 270 years have passed since Bach himself passed.  Five productive lifetimes.  If he has been in heaven, composing, could he have added another 5,630 works (5 x 1126)?

The mind boggles.  What would these impart, what would be their magnificence of expression, their power, glory, majesty, "sound?"

For those of us who think it near just compensation for all the ills, insults, and injustices of life to have heard the works of J.S. Bach, it might be heaven to find out.

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John A. Sarkett wrote Bach and Heaven:  The Promise of Afterlife in the Text of the Cantatas.  Other titles include Classical Music Saved My Life, Obscure Composers (1, 2, and 3), and Death in classical music:  making friends with the unfriendly.  See sarkett.com

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Is Hungary the Last Remaining European Country? - PaulCraigRoberts.org

Is Hungary the Last Remaining European Country? - PaulCraigRoberts.org

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wears $3,500 Outfit For Photo-op With Construction Workers

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wears $3,500 Outfit For Photo-op With Construction Workers