Anyone know a source for this data? It would be much appreciated. Every source I find goes on about how increased cancer rates are largely because “we live longer”. That’s clearly part of it, but how much? Same thing with heart disease, anyone have that data?
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I’ve decided, after some prompting, to put together an anthology of my writings. Unfortunately they’re scattered over multiple blogs and some of those blogs don’t exist any more. I had assumed this would be relatively easy, using the Wayback machine, but they seem to have made some changes.
Going to a later bopnews front page works fine. However, what no longer works is the drop down author box, which goes to Wayback machine’s own “bopnews” site. It would probably be possible to find most articles by going through the archive day by day, but I’d really rather not.
Suggestions and/or solutions?
Sorry folks, but the amount of registration spam is out of control and one of the things slowing down the blog. I’m going to purge everyone who doesn’t have at least editor level access tomorrow, and you’ll have to re-register with the new captcha system. Sorry about this, it’s not elegant, but I’m hoping it makes the site run faster, and cuts down on my admin overhead.
On edit: to clarify, this shouldn’t effect people who an email subscription, just people who log in at the website proper, usually to comment. That’s very few people compared to the overall audience.
I’m getting more and more questions, and Stirling was a public figure, albeit a minor one, so here is the basic news.
Stirling had a stroke a little over two weeks ago. It was very severe. As of the latest news he cannot talk, cannot walk, etc… He was in a coma for quite some time after surgery to relieve the pressure.
It is unlikely he will ever fully recovery. If you believe in prayer and feel so inclined, including him in your prayers couldn’t hurt.
The post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used Employment survey #s. Ouch. I am officially embarrassed. At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all know.
Anyway, for those who read it, the numbers are approximately correct, the percentage #s are off, and the current population survey showed 873,000 jobs gained last month as opposed to 114K on the employment survey (this is why I don’t use the CPS. Anyone who believes the economy actually added 873K jobs is delusional. That doesn’t mean they’re cooked, but they are a statistical artifact.) I’d recalculate, but it’s 3:36 in the morning and my brain is fried. Some day soon, probably. My apologies.
The tl;dr version is this. 114 thousand is not a good jobs report and to regain all jobs in any time frame short of 10 years to a generation, you need steady reports over 200K, and ideally over 300K. From the employment survey, not the population survey. 😉
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for a week, in a couple weeks. This will be the first time I’ve visited England, since, oh, about 1978. What I remember about that trip: Southampton row houses, a nice open air book market, and Trafalgar square.
So, for those of you who have been to London more recently, or lived (or live) there, thoughts and recommendations?
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