Making Thoughtful Plans For a Retirement Home
Some states have superior regulatory laws, some have few. Where we live in North Carolina, the Department of Insurance oversees the long-term care communities, thanks in large part to the work of an attorney who retired here and saw the need for oversight. If residents have legitimate conflicts with management, it's a good thing to have a place to turn. There is a National Continuing Care Residents Association (NaCCRA).
Frontline's The Card Game; An Examination of Credit Card Practices
President Obama and his team pushed through a credit card reform bill in May, and they're now looking to establish a new Consumer Finance Protection Agency. But the banking and financial services industries contribute huge amounts of money to Congress - and the jury is still out on whether the new regulations can pass. From a Frontline press release about the upcoming PBS program about the consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile economy.
Wet With Blood; The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak
The Chicago History Museum has a number of sources online for the viewer. This booklet, Wet With Blood, is one of them. "Being a full and graphic account from a reliable authority of the Bloody Evidence of President Lincoln's assassination ..."
A New Museum Destination: Cafesjian Center for the Arts
From a mural by Armenian painter Grigor Khanjyan; an exhibit of photographs by Patti Boyd, the ex-wife of Beatle George Harrison and guitarist Eric Clapton; an installation of installation of 24 Swarovski light socks; and Dale Chihuly's Ikebana installation, the newly opened Cafesjian Center for the Arts is a new travel destination.
Does Exercise Contribute to Arthritis? Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care
The Harvard Medical School: If you’re putting off getting into a regular exercise routine because you’re worried that exercise contributes to arthritis, think again. An Institute of Medicine Workshop Summary report can be read online: Assessing and Improving Cancer Care
Shopping for Children: Mahar Drygoods
On Mahar Drygoods' site, there's a quote from the Phantom Tollbooth which might sum shopping for children that's inexpensive but charming:"So many things are possible,just as long as you don't know they're impossible."- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Current Reading, Screen Memories from The New York Times
"Devotion to playthings and playmates, a fascination with bodily fluids and a queasy obsession with sex — these were what defined a movie hero not preoccupied with killing bad guys. Traditional romances and sex farces were supplanted by comedies of arres…
Mrs. Delany and her Circle, at the Yale Center for British Art
At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland, embarked on a series of one thousand botanical collages, or “paper mosaics.” These were the crowning achievement of a life defined by creative accomplishment.
New Recommendations about Pap Tests and Mammography Screenings
Following on the heels of the AHRG's new guidelines for mammography screening, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynocologists recommend that the first cervical cancer screening be delayed until age 21 as well as a recommendation for less freque…
The New Brown-Baggers
Doris O'Brien: As America increasingly divides along economic lines, the rich have become targets of disdain and envy. Not that they haven't always been, but now there are rumblings of an egalitarian movement in America to bring the wealthy down several…
Movers and Shakers of Garden Design
Many garden but few gardeners have the power to reach into the future to shape landscape style and fashion. Gertrude Jekyll, Mien Ruys, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Max, and Edwin Lutyens are just some of the extraordinary gardeners from the last century who influence today’s garden design.
Interesting Garden Shopping Web Sites
Please refer to Linda Coyner's articles for many more links Blue Poppy Garden - The store and B&B is located in Sedgwick, Maine, overlooking the Benjamin River…
Pursuit of the Perfect Purse
Of course it would also be nice if it came with some sort of niche for a small flashlight, because I am forever squinting down into lint-filled depths, looking for little items that have a way of hiding themselves. It would also need to be sturdy, because I have a bad habit of hastily flinging my purse into the backseat or onto the closet shelf, and have even been known to swing it angrily against the wall when the key to my front door jams and sticks in the lock yet again.
Shopping by Culture, Ancient Egypt
"The Ancient Egyptians were highly skilled in the use of herbs and spices for medicines, cooking, cosmetics, perfumes and many other purposes. Drawing on texts written by the Egyptians and their neighbours, and on works by classical authors and the Copts, Lise Manniche has reconstructed an herbal of 94 species of plants and trees used from before the pharaohs to the Coptic period.
The O’Keeffe show at the Whitney is the first to study, and celebrate, her abstract works
Nearly a dozen of these sexually charged photo-portraits are on display in a separate room at the Whitney. The walls are brown and echo the sepia tones of the prints, which are soft, and in the case of the nudes, hazy. Much to O’Keeffe’s chagrin, the nudes confirmed the nature of her relationship with Stieglitz (she was 34-years-old, and he was, shockingly, married and 57-years-old) and prompted the critics to respond to her paintings as “emblems of female sexuality,” the catalogue states.
Wordsmiths: By a Teen's Pen
"ADULTS DON'T UNDERSTAND THE LOVE WE HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER THEY THINK WHAT WE HAVE IS JUS' A FAZE BUT I'M SURE WE'LL STAY TOGTHER STRONGER THAN EVER FOR THE REST OF OUR DAYS."
Shop for Yourself and Family: Sublet Clothing
The clothes are shapely, well-styled, very feminine, inexpensive and made in the USA. They're made from sustainable materials.
Social Isolation and New Technology
When the internet is used as a medium for neighborhood social contact, such as a neighborhood email list or community forum (e.g., i-neighbors.org), participants tend to have very high levels of local engagement.
The H1N1 Flu Epidemic Surveilled and Film Noir Referenced: Panic in the Streets
Convening an emergency meeting with the local authorities, Reed warns that they have only 48 hours to track down the killers and probable plague carriers who threaten to spark an epidemic that could reach far beyond the city of New Orleans. Thus unfolds the drama of Panic in the Streets (1950), a film noir.
Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?
Most married men claim Social Security benefits at age 62 or 63, well short of both Social Security’s Full Retirement Age and the age that maximizes the household’s expected present value of benefits (EPVB). This results in a loss of less than 4 percent in household EPBV. But essentially the entire loss is borne by the survivor benefit, falls nearly 20 percent. As many elderly widows have very low incomes, early claiming by married men is a major social problem.
The Famed and Controversial Sargent Murals at the Boston Public Library
"The painting that sparked the outrage was Sargent's 1919 work 'Synagogue,' in which the subject is depicted as a blindfolded old woman fallen to the floor, her crown toppled, the structure around her in ruins."
Closely Examined in Current Reading, The First Couple's Marriage
From the Times: But the Obamas mix politics and romance in a way that no first couple quite have before. Almost 10 months ago, they swept into Washington with inauguration festivities that struck distinctly wedding-like notes: he strode down an aisle and took a vow, she wore a long white dress, the youthful-looking couple swayed to a love song in a ceremonial first dance and then settled into a new house.From Slate: "I remember him saying his wife thought he could do more,'' says his friend Denny Jacobs, who served alongside him. "I think she thought he was—I don't want to say twiddling his thumbs, but she thought he should either do something to move up, or he should get the hell out. She's his prod." And from the first moment, his mentor.
Investor Alert: Just What Are Dark Pools?
When dark pools share information about their trading interest with other dark pools, they can function like private networks that exclude the public investor.
Chicago Celebrity and Style: Bertha Honore Palmer
Mrs. Palmer was the undeniable queen of Chicago society in the late-nineteenth century and into the twentieth, but her renown reached well beyond this city. This was a woman who entertained three American presidents at her home. She was the only woman in the United States’ official envoy at the Paris Exposition of 1900. She was related to European royalty, she golfed with King Edward, she dominated Paris and London’s elite social circles. An American leading London society?! She was in no uncertain terms a celebrity.
Woman of Note: Sheila Bair, head of the FDIC
Robert Frost liked to say that a banker is someone who gives you an umbrella when the sun is shining and takes it away when it starts to rain. Well, we set out to prove that adage wrong at IndyMac bank. During the time we were conservator, we restructured loans for over 13,000 families to keep them in their homes.
