03 week “action” blog bucket #2 begins 2023 January 15 —  curation from Susan to www, blood draw GFR38, chip at spiff, 271#, chronic back pain, sleep sweat, wander/wonder publish, 

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Comment 23w03:  Less noisy park-places (more-peaceful) have developed. Will one-meal-daily survive the past weekend success of coldest-winter-spell 32F? Put on another 10# over holidays — no more MM peanuts but licorice hangs on. Attention span does not carry to 3:30 COA exit. Bob advises that my expectations are too high — rather “I see possibilities” but that could be my lifelong dreamworld of what my life really is. My life is … peacespan/healthspan. Afternoon naps all week Miller Lake Park. 

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Health non-routine: 

03 - U-M Sakura T blood draw 8am back get continues have cold nights affected eyes began waist belt for backache rip on last week W 271# R 270# shed winter sleepwear no candy post Wendy’s both heat pads continued at night F feeling better but back feels like mush belt continues V8 crackers A one sleep sweat period 

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Niceties non-routine: 

03 - latched unto by diner Ken T Charles hired not-COA housekeeper W R carded Nel? (she has circuit of non-COA friends) finished three seasons of True Detective stream F Jennifer remembers past COA free wifi will email similar friends COA as retirement office ends the week on a high note A  

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As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) non-routine:  

03 - U 32 F 41 in cabin, pet pad on seat for feet/legs W COA computers charge becomes daily with decaf mug delivery F west stat 72 cool on actual 72 with fan cycling east stat 75 EMER heat on actual 74 set for 73, A curation changed from Commentary to Priority Events.

2022jan18. A snowy owl, not native to Southern California, has captured the imagination of many residents. (Courtesy of Brett Banditelli)

Harv remembers another visit by an arctic resident while in Fond du Lac WI in the 1970s.

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=63cb0f29ef9bf67b2368966b&linknum=4&linktot=50   The court’s statement says that it has “been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.” A preponderance of evidence is a pretty low legal standard — basically requiring something to be more likely than not. So they haven’t isolated the potential culprit even to that low standard of proof, yet they’re convinced this was a protest? They don’t even have a bona fide suspect, but they’ve settled on at least a broad motive?   ...the court, through its opacity and its conspicuous choice of words, has arguably left the matter more shrouded in mystery than before.

Harv says, "So much for transparency!"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/supreme-court-credibility-dobbs-roe-leak/index.html   In a momentous case involving a half century of precedent protecting women’s privacy rights, routine office precautions were absent. And when the breach was discovered – a breach that the court itself deemed “a grave assault” – it was all but impossible to re-trace internal operations.    In the days immediately after Politico published the draft, some conservative activists had accused liberal clerks of the disclosure. Liberal advocates, meanwhile, targeted the court’s conservatives who might have been trying cement the 5-4 split to overturn Roe v. Wade. The partisan acrimony only increased once the decision upending reproductive rights nationwide was issued.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/20/supreme-court-leak-mystery/   ...it’s not as if the justices are above suspicion. Like others at the court, they had both motive and opportunity to leak. Indeed, it has never made much sense to me that a law clerk, without direction from a justice or at least tacit approval, would have taken that extraordinary step. After all, clerks are among the most careful, deliberate practitioners in the art of climbing the ladder of academic and professional achievement. They aren’t big risk-takers.   Chertoff is an experienced investigator. He also has close ties to some justices — including the author of Dobbs, the abortion ruling. Chertoff served from 1987-1990 as first assistant to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. when Alito was the U.S. attorney for New Jersey. Chertoff succeeded Alito in that job, and the two served together as federal appeals court judges from 2003 to 2005. I don’t doubt Chertoff’s professionalism, but that’s uncomfortably close.

2023jan18. Asia populations. In 1961, the Mao famine had maybe six million deaths. In 2022, covid took less than a million.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64329890 The number of Chinese people fell by 850,000 from the previous year to 1.4118 billion, the statistics showed. Its birth rate had been slowing for years, prompting a range of policies to try to slow this trend, including scrapping the country's infamous one-child policy seven years ago.   While ageing populations have posed a challenge to economies around the world, the greater concern for China is the rapid pace at which this has been unfolding in the midst of its middle-income transition.   In short, China is getting old before it gets rich.    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64373950    In 2020, researchers projected Japan's population to fall from a peak of 128 million in 2017 ... The population is currently just under 125 million, according to official data.