Today’s Weather The Ghiorse Factor
the bass line of a pavana touched from a distance.
Michael calls my name, suggests a car. And then
we went down River Road in my old convertible. ”
– From “The Last Night of August”, through Aleda Shirley (1955-2008)
“Quinnipeague in August, a lush green position where thumbworms hung from trees whose leaves were so full that portions of meals were a little overlooked. The mornings meant a ‘thick fog’ that accumulated on the roofs and dripped with altered and diffuse grey shingles while attenuating the dark pink rose of the rose of the rose or the blue of hydrangea, the wood smoke filled the air on rainy days, the sap of the pines on sunny days , and floated through it all the brackled smell of the sea.
– Barbara Delinsky of Sweet Salt Air, a novel set on the Coast of Maine
“The tech giants were not physically powerful germs, however, they would be treated with degrees of delicacy like the princess and the pea, thanks to superstitious concern that everything would be ruined, for example, forcing corporations with billions of dollars sharing a price to tolerate a workers’ union, offering a minimum wage good enough for a decent life, or paying taxes combing their dependence on public goods.
– Thomas Greene, in “Why Trump is more likely to win again,” in Medium. Click this link:
The slightly dim light, rather than the slowdown in temperatures, suggests that summer is fading. The same goes for the arrival of the asters, the colorful flowers overcome in summer and early autumn (some funerals) whose maximum visual member is the golden stick in the fields and on the roads. The golden stick, by the way, would have fitness benefits.
Of course, especially with young people returning to school so late, if they do, this year, the season is unconventional and unpredictable.
The biggest challenge in the Ocean State aspect is to get verification effects within 72 hours, in time to get out of the crowded, crowded criminal mobile known as Rhode Island. Most effects are not yet in this context, which makes them dead for many people, such as those who have to attend a business meeting that has just been scheduled.
It is economically urgent that the ocean state accelerates notification of the results of the controls. Rhode Island and Massachusetts are heavily incorporated economically. Their separation through COVID is a disaster. I have a pretty clear idea of the complexity, difficulty and strain of all this for public servants, but there is an urgent desire to reconnect the two states as soon as possible.
Well, there’s Connecticut!
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In any case, I won the (negative) report on Saturday morning. So within 48 hours. Progress!
This may be the ultimate life story here lately. Synapse Energy Economics, based in Cambridge, conducted a study, commissioned across the state of Rhode Island, which concluded that new solar panels on land evolved in the past, such as car parks and abandoned land, can force many homes in Rhode Island. With the closure of grocery shopping malls and some large independent stores, there will be more and more space available in desert car parks. And, of course, there are many flat roofs. It is best to cut down more trees or build in old agricultural fields to make room for more rural solar fields.
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As for my friend Will Morgan’s recent GoLocal essay on the new ugly, mundane, barren and too giant buildings in Providence that spoil the sense of comfort, intimacy and long history of the old quarters: I wonder if the buildings he denounces, some of which are horrible, will be among the last of those structures in a long time because the economic arrangement that had already faced primary obstacles (for example , industry wars, booming corporate debt) before COVID-19, it is very likely that it will remain slow for years to come.
Anyway, I wonder why so many new buildings are so ugly when at prices they can be presentable.
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The war between Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, a Democrat, and Republican Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung for the House seat in Cranston now through the president, remains the state’s most entertaining political struggle. Consider Ms. Fenton-Fung’s ever-inventive game board, Candyland, where some of Mr. Mattiello’s alleged misdeeds appear!
And there were exciting speeches, such as Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s effort to nominate Adlai Stevenson at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Barry Goldwater’s speech on “extremism in the defense of freedom” and even the denunciation of Nelson Rockefeller’s extremism, also at the 1964 Republican Party convention, as the galleries tried to shout it. Then there was Ronald Reagan’s poignant speech at the 1976 Republican Convention.
Things online are not a very exciting spectacle. But the state and territory video call to the Dems conference last week was very entertaining. Many were shot outside, to give a concept of the geography/geology/meteorology highlighted from some of those places. And we’re not going to forget about Rhode Island squid fishing for long. Some of the videos looked like amateur movies, but this added to their charm.
In any case, the audience had a colorful and attractive look at the geographical and human diversity of the country (economic, social, racial, professional and costume). The list pass may have been a production disaster, but even if assembling it was a nightmare, the end product was a success.
We’ll see how the GoP will handle its online conference next week. I would be surprised if you included delegates holding weapons with pride, key detail of “The Base”! Trump, as a former reality show star, will do everything in his power to publicize him.
The Boston Globe reports that 17 seconds at Mass General Brigham, the Boston-based “non-profit” hospital organization formerly known as Partners HealthCare, earned more than $1 million in 2018, according to the company’s most recent public presentation, led by David Torchiana, MD, who resigned as leader the following year.
He is the winner, with a total refund of just under $4 million, up from $6.1 million in 2017.
The United States has one of the worst health care systems in the world evolved, that is, if you need to call our chaotic federal-public, public-private agreements a “system.” democracies (if it is necessary to call the United States a democracy) and it is essentially or almost. It will have to be said, of course, that because the United States is such a massive and hyper-diversified federation, its health care outcomes can only be very more or less compared to those of other nations.
The leaders of their “non-profit” and for-profit health care organizations are by far paid by their tribe in the world. That says something about America in those days.
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Newport Trees
At the Heritage Tree Center in Newport there is a “Ginkgo biloba Green Legacy Hiroshima” tree, a descendant of one of the few ginkgo that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. This and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 led to Japan’s surfinisher and the end of World War II. My father, a naval officer, was in the Western Pacific on a destroyer at the time as a component of the arrangements to invade the islands of Japanese origin, an invasion that would probably have been very bloody. Like his army colleagues, he was very relieved to have avoided this while acknowledging the nuclear horror.
He discovered himself in the occupying force on the gigantic northern island of Hokkaido, which he said “looked a bit like New Hampshire with volcanoes.” The leaves were spinning.
Newport has many trees, favored by its temperate climate, but my favorites are beech trees.
Real offices probably wouldn’t die
The one where you leave your house to paint will not die and a return will be set up when the COVID crisis subsides. Many types of paintings are much more productive when other people can collaborate in the same physical area. The sharing area encourages the exchange of concepts and the spirit of the heart. The delight of recent months has evidently shown the strengths and weaknesses of Zooming and Skyping’s paintings.
The Kremlin’s “Antifa” ploy
Antifa (for “anti-fascist”) is the call given to a left-wing war party organization that limits what they take into account America’s transition to fascism (a motion for which there is considerable evidence). There is no official organization called Antifa. And Biden is not a left-wing extremist; rather, he’s some other moderate Democrat, like Harry Truman, who has crossed the aisle to succeed in successful agreements with the Republican Party. In fact, a lot of “progressives” don’t like it for that.
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In the meantime, I see that Putin’s other people have poisoned Putin’s former defender of Russian democracy and Putin’s enemy, Alexei Navalny. At the time of writing, I was in a coma. Putin is an experienced killer.
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While voting for Trump is not smart for middle and poor elegance (his policies overwhelmingly favor him and his rich friends), he is feeding him specifically by provoking resentment and hatred among his electorate towards an “elite” nebula that the Trump tribe believes is by hunting them. (Think of Hillary Clinton’s silly comments about the “deplorable” in 2016.
That’s even though Trump’s Republican Party represents what is by far the ultimate “elite” hard in the United States: the politically compromised right-wing plutocracy that it possesses many politicians.
While the socioeconomic interest of many Trump supporters may lie with Democrats, their social resentments may outweigh that.
Democrats have long been pathetic at pressing green with buttons of envy that would allow their future electorate to go to the polls.
But voting for Trump through some big investors and entrepreneurs is great and rational: he cut his taxes and cut his regulations (some of which needed a reduction) and will do so even more if it stays in effect through hooks and crooks.
Speaking of regulation, I remember a quote, attributed to Robert Frost, but supposedly a paraphrase of John F.Kennedy’s words about the Conservative English editor (especially as a very entertaining essayist) G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936):
“Never dismantle a fence until you know why it was erected.”
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In the meantime, I’m quoting a prominent lawyer and instructor who is part of a personal messaging organization that has worried me from time to time. It was caused by the unforgivable (for me) recent stain of a statue in San Francisco by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), that of Don Quixote, which can be considered as the first novel. My correspondent writes:
“Trump, his supporters and his left-wing protesters have much more in anything unusual than any of them would like to admit. They are not informed and, worse, appreciate their ignorance. I suspect this is possibly the hidden key to political polarization today. Previous generations had to know how to read and compose to expose themselves and exchange views. Today, all you have to do is turn on a TV to locate your favorite fulminating taste. If you can master a computer keyboard, you can be any fraud and manipulate any truth you want. And if you can enter an illiterate diatribe with a limited number of characters on your mobile phone, you can be president.’
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric, through Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann, memorably describes how one of America’s oldest, largest and most prominent corporations began to pass under the leadership of its charismatic (and probably overrated) CEO Jack Welch and his successor, Jeff Immelt, ended up having far less success. Smaller and weaker array.
It’s a wonderful corporate story, with the right combination of ancient context and general and anecdote things that spice up the story of very intelligent but very tricky and arrogant leaders, who make disastrous mistakes and, to be fair, unexpected successes. Overrated acquisitions and mountains of debt played a vital role in the conglomerate’s fledgling problems, as well as in questionable artistic accounting, which some said bordered fraud.
It’s a kind of mysterious story: how can such a giant and diversified company have such problems?
By the way, from all the negative news about GE in the investor network in recent years, you may not know that it is still a very giant company. Last year, GE ranked among Fortune’s 500th rankings 21st in the largest U.S. companies in terms of gross revenue.
New Englanders will want to know more about the very human reasons why the company moved its headquarters to Boston after many years in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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