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John J. Phelan Jr., a former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange who introduced computer technology to the Big Board in the 1980s and was widely praised for his calming response to the stock market crash of October 1987, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 81. After the 1987 crash, which shook investors' confidence in financial markets, Mr. Phelan coolly resisted calls to close the exchange, fearing that it would breed further panic. He rang the closing bell himself. "He deserves eternal credit for that,"Felix G. Rohatyn, a longtime investment banker who helped save New York from bankruptcy...

<p>"Not fit to be used to clean up after your dog" - or something like that. That's my opinion of Rolling Stone magazine.</p> <p>However, the picture of Jimi Hendrix on the cover (not the best picture, either) did get my attention at the checkout stand last night. And lo, the cover was peppered with tantalizing bits of guitar talk. But what got me to actually pick it up and thumb through it was this: "Pete Townsend on Jimi Hendrix....Eddie Van Halen on Eric Clapton..."</p>

I must my filters set to "climate change only", because I think that's the only kind of article I can see.

JUNE 1, 2012 Never Respectable: An Interview with Jason Jones by Stephen Herreid GK Chesterton once wrote of the Catholic Church as a “wild” and “untamed” force and warned against falling into the “foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe.” He wrote about orthodoxy in a time rife with heresies. He wrote about the human person as created in the image and likeness of God while ideologies that violated human dignity were just coming to fruition, threatening human life on a massive scale. But the inhuman ideologies that were spawning like spiders in Chesterton’s day...

Since 1970, the annual march down the lavender line painted along Fifth Avenue blah blah blah

The bishops of the United States have called for daily prayer leading up to the 4th of July to safeguard freedom of religion in our country. That freedom is tenuous these days. There seems to be a conscious attempt by the federal government, in speech after speech, to replace freedom of religion with freedom of worship. That is not as subtle as it seems, for while permitting ritual acts of devotion within the walls of a building, it would limit the right to express one's religious beliefs in public discourse. This applies to everything from displaying religious symbols to preaching...

Well, I'm clearly approaching desperation, or I wouldn't be posting something like this. OTOH, if help doesn't appear on FR, it might not be had anywhere. So here's the situation: I installed a brandy-new Cisco router (E1200) for a client who uses an ancient Macbook. Many pages load fine but Google -- the one that matters for her because she uses Gmail -- times out or takes many minutes to load. It's not unheard of -- I've found it brought up on different help forums but there seems to be no consensus on the fix and, disappointingly, no accountability whatsoever...

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The world has to stop because the magic Negro is putting the hustle on the upper east side again.we ate trapped on a stopped bus, not allowed to get off. FUBO.

It has been said that “the road to Hell is paved with religious exemptions.” There are always those who are willing to cut a deal with the devil to avoid having to confront a thorny moral issue. This is certainly the case of the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate which would now force employers to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth control, tubal ligation, and morning-after abortifacients. There are those who hope to avoid the whole issue by rallying around the idea of a religious exemption. In fact, the whole debate is even being framed by...

  LONDON (AFP) - The doctor of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb on Sunday hailed his "quite incredible" recovery, a day after the star woke from a coma and responded to members of his family. Gibb, 62, contracted pneumonia and fell into the coma last week. He is suffering from colon and liver cancer. Doctor Andrew Thillainayagam, of Imperial College Healthcare, said he had warned Robin's wife, Dwina, son, Robin John and brother, Barry, three days ago to expect the worst. "The prognosis was very grave, given that Robin had brain swelling from liver failure, a severe pneumonia and a...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQmaIqJEQb0

Down 0-9 in the sixth. Up 10-1 in the eighth.That's what I'm talkin' about.

Common sense bump.

BRIDGEPORT — The stepfather of a 5-year-old boy who brought 50 packets of heroin to show-and-tell was arrested after going to the school in search of the drugs, police say. The student went to kindergarten Monday with his stepfather's jacket and pulled out the drugs in 10 small plastic bags when it came time for his presentation to the class, Bridgeport police told the Connecticut Post (http://bit.ly/HYhtzj ). The teacher grabbed the bags away from the boy, and the principal called police. The boy's stepfather, Santos Roman, 35, was arrested after arriving at the school. Roman was searching the school...

What could possibly have gone wrong with a thread like that?

"I will closely monitor this situation to assure that the market can continue to accommodate a reduction in purchases of petroleum and petroleum products from Iran," he said in a statement.