VYNIL RECORDS ARE BACK

AARP (2/2010) 52-55

We were told that CD's were better than baked bread. Start a CD collection.

Now we find out that CD's don't last and well we are back to records or

vynils By the late 80's, Record stores became CD stores or music stores.

It will take awhile to convert back to vynils or SOMETHING ELSE. In the mean time,

you spent a lot of money on CDs and the promise was that you now had the latest

and greatest technology that implied they would last forever. Vynils have a warmer

sound, but what to do until there is record stores again?

You can get CD's online through E-Bay and the like. Further, there are

Thrift stores, Used-Record stores, and Yard Sales. Then some new music

should come out on vynil unless you download your music.

By the way, you can save CD's by downloading them or putting them on tape.

BLOOMBERG'S BUSINESSWEEK (2009) 12/21

GOLDSMITH/ 92

In a new study, after looking at work variables, the highest correlation is

that between being happy at home and at work. Both put triggered the other.

So, all the feel good strategies are not the answer. It is meaning.

AARP/ BULLETIN (2009) 12/KIRCHEMIER

WHEN HEALTH INSURANCE IS PHONY

1) Insurance that promises full benefits and it "unbelievably" low.

2. Easy sign up without any medical information given on your part.

3.Agent will come to your home, but company will not send out

contracts by mail.

4. Sales presentation that needs your social security number and

bank account number.

5. A sales pitch that offers that states everything but the word insurance.

THE ECONOMIST (2009) 12/19/ 37-40

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS

THE ECONOMIST is trying to persuade you that things are getting better. They use a number

of sources to support their position. However, financially, the median household income

in adjusted dollars in 1970 has dropped from $70,000 to $ 40,000.

Yetr, there are number of things that have improved. So, if this growth is

not overall growth that hits the masses it is not Progress. Progress theory is

one of the fundamental tenets of Modernism and generally Capitalism.

Rather than argue the above, post-Modernism which is market oriented in nature

believes that the way to describe social change is that future will mean there is

CHANGE. It may be overall good, or bad or somewhere in between. It doesn't mean

society is always going to improve and who defines that? Pre-modernism is

based on the belief that the future is cyclical. We will have good times followed by

bad times and so forth. However, unlike MODERNISM the future is not the Golden

age or PRE-MODERNISM is that the Golden Age is past and we want to go back, by heading

to the future. POST MODERNISM indicates that there will be change in the future that's all.

What it is exactly going to be or how we will feel is beyond us.

THE ECONOMIST wants to restore your faith in the future. So do I, but it does not

mean that it will happen. It may mean that some will like it and others will not.

It does not mean that the future is absolutely bad for most of us and that is a

certainty, rather it could be bad and then imp rove.