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What About This…? 10.8.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano Like everyone else around here I understand that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) some­times goes overboard in its efforts to keep our land, air and water clean.  And, just like everyone else, I may disagree with their methods from time to time but I certainly agree with their objectives. I remember…

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What About This…? 10.1.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano The paralysis we note in our Federal Government is taken by many as an example of the failure of our system to operate.  But, they are wrong.  The often-frustrating inabil­ity of our government to act because unified action cannot be delivered (except in matters of Congressional pay increases) is a demonstration…

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What About This…? 9.24.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano Germany is showing the world how to handle the refugees spilling out of the Middle East, especially Syria.  Germans are bravely facing the many problems such refugees may bring: pressure upon the lowest levels of salaried positions, potential for terrorists to hide among the refu­gees, greater needs for education, healthcare, housing…

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What About This…? 9.17.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano You have to be careful when you shop at one of those $1 stores.  What a great idea (and easy on the sales staff) to have everything in the place going for a dollar.  Of course, some things are good buys at one dollar, and some are not. Some items are…

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What About This…? 9.10.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano When I was in school, part of my training required several courses in statistics.  (I was always the joker who asked, “Will there be any math?”)  I used statistics quite a bit afterward. Statistics can be a very useful way to look at large groups of individual values, sort of combining…

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What About This…? 9.3.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano When was your last tetanus shot?  I have been told they last about ten years between booster shots, but I have no idea if that is correct.  You never know if information of this type is given to us for our physical health or for the providers’ financial health. I doubt…

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What About This…? 8.27.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano What are the two once-most-powerful political / financial figures in the United States of America, now totally irrelevant on the national scene, doing with all that free time?  They are engaged in pursuing the Guinness World Record for the longest-running cribbage game of all time. There they sit, day after day,…

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What About This…? 8.20.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano I saw a news story on television the other night that snapped up my attention. You know how you some­times gel out in front of the screen and then your short-term memory plays something back to you that you just heard and you say, “Wha…?” This story was about injuries suffered…

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What About This…? 8.13.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano We went to Springfield last week, which is a pretty big deal for homebodies such as we are.  We prepared an itinerary, loaded up what we needed for the trip, and took off commenting every mile on the beauty of the roadway’s extravagant vegetation (in the middle of July!), the courteous…

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What About This…? 8.6.2015

By Wayne William Cipriano We need to stop calling these deranged, murdering terrorists Lone Wolves. I may be off base here but it seems to me that in our culture it is just as easy to visualize a Lone Wolf as an independent, proud, strong, laudable individual going his (or her) own way unencumbered by…

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