See my posting from Friday here – Tom Faranda's Folly: The financial panic – my musings and also this where I quote money manager Ken Heebner. Tom Faranda's Folly: A savvy prediction by a money manager: "You're going to see the biggest short term rally in my lifetime" Kenneth Fisher runs the biggest investment advisory firm in … Read more
FURTHER UPDATE Tom Faranda's Folly: Investment Advisor Ken Fisher on missing calling the bear market. UPDATE: Quote from Ken Heebner, very successful fund manager: Tom Faranda's Folly: A savvy prediction by a money manager: "You're going to see the biggest short term rally in my lifetime" The current panic, which MAY have ended today, has seen … Read more
This is cool – 94 and going strong. Fastest Grandpa on the Planet | The Daily Dose | The Gear Junkie Indeed, running multiple events in the Senior Olympics Hammond has won more than a dozen gold medals since 2001. He has set records for his age class, running 100 meters in 18.09 seconds and … Read more
both of these articles are from the NY Times health and finess section in the last week. The first one is by NYT reporter Gina Kolata, writing about her preparation for the NY Marathon, as she struggles with a stress fracture. Coping (or Not) With Injuries in Training for Marathon – NYTimes.com And this … Read more
His team defeated Ardsley, 22-0. Tim played very well – he is really consistent. His number is 77 – they accidentally sewed his name onto 77, rather then 70, so that settled that. And one more
A very nice article. Go here for link to the whole thing. LifeNet: HVCL co-director Judith Anderson featured in current issue of Catholic New York
At 47. After leading a “noble life” (my brother Jim’s phrase) filled with illness. Here’s the posting I put up about him a few days after he died. I had just started my chemotherapy a few days earlier. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005 And here’s a picture I’ve posted before, of Paul with Brigid and I … Read more
From the NY Times health section: Shorter Radiation for Cancer of the Breast – NYTimes.com Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years. The results, … Read more
Here is a really neat article with pictures, that I set aside meaning to post awhile ago. There are four pictures in the article. BBC NEWS | Health | Ovulation moment caught on camera A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a … Read more
Yesterday I posted about this Tom Faranda's Folly: Yankees last game at the (old) Stadium tonight Here's the NY Times coverage as the Yankees won, 7-3. Jose Molina will go down as the last person to hit a home run at the stadium – and it was only his third of the season! Yankees 7, Orioles … Read more