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The Chilean mine rescue: “The profit = innovation dynamic was everywhere at the mine rescue site.”
Last Thursday daniel henninger's column had what i thought was a stupid title (see below) and I wasn't going to bother reading it. But I did read it – and it was great! Capitalism Saved the Miners The president of the U.S. is campaigning across the country making this statement at nearly every stop: "The basic…
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Some of the rescued miners have “entanglements”
Brigid must have watched six or eight hours of the coverage in the last couple of days. It certainly was compelling. Anyway, I suppose it's difficult to plan for this – At least five wives have found themselves dealing with mistresses at the rescue site, The Daily Telegraph said. This isn't just a cause for…
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Tim – football and haircut
Wel it is football season and Tim is playing super-well in the football Little League. As an eighth grader he’s on the Ossining 7th and 8th grade team. Has to play on the line due to the weight restrictions – he’s about 167 lb’s. Sunday they played Hillcrest (in Yonkers) and won, 22-0. The second win…
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Another posthumous Medal of Honor awarded.
Sgt. Robert Miller, a Green Beret, in Afghanistan Survivors of the ambush say the 24-year-old was shot two times but continued to throw grenades and fire his weapon to help save the lives of those he fought with, according to The Associated Press. The situation was tense. "We were fish in a barrel," Sgt. James…
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New exercise regimen for people over fifty
This was sent to me by my friend Karen, the wife of my college roommate Mike. Here she is – the young woman without the wine in her hand. The wine drinker is Marissa (formerly) Novotny, at her own wedding this past spring. Here’s Karen’s breakthrough workout: Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where…
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A quick Tim football video
Against White Plains a couple of weeks ago. Here's what I wrote in the description on youtube – Tim posted this very short vid (which I shot), AND added the music. He clotheslines the WP tailback in the backfield. Game played September 12th. It was the first game of the season, Ossining vs White Plains…
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George Blanda
One of my idols. At 83, "after a brief illness." And he didn't just play football. He had 11 children. Got married in 1949, only had one wife. Blanda was known as the Ageless Wonder because he didn't retire until he was just short of his 49th birthday. And some of his best work came…
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Posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to air force sergeant – 42 years after his heroism
President Barack Obama today awarded the Medal of Honor to an Air Force chief master sergeant who died saving three fellow airmen in Laos, his heroism kept under wraps for more than 40 years because the Vietnam-era mission was secret.
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Today is “Pray for Christopher Hitchens Day”
The British, atheist, author, with cancer. It's that third group — people who are asking God for Hitchens' healing — that causes Hitchens to choose his words even more carefully than normal. Are those prayers OK? Are they helpful?
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9/11. Nine years.
Hard to believe. I lifted this from last year's 9/11 date. Tom, I miss you. I knew seven people who died eight years ago today. And one of them Tommy Knox, I knew quite well My friend, Tom Knox, having coached him for more than five years at the North Jersey Rugby club.