Thursday 9/3
The battle for America is fascinating. Headline from nypost.com: “MapQuest surges to №1 in App Store after Google, Apple adopt Trump’s ‘Lake America’.” That’ll show ‘em.
Looking for a high-paying job? Here’s a list from an NYP article by Reda Wigle: The 13 fastest-growing jobs that pay over $100,000 a year. Good luck. Nurse practitioner — $132,300
Data scientists — $120,230
Medical and health services managers — $123,860
Computer and information research scientists — $140,300
Physician assistants — $135,880
Information security analysts — $129,180
Health specialties teachers, postsecondary — $107,310
Computer and information systems managers — $175,140
Occupational therapists — $100,330
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Medical scientists, except epidemiologists — $103,410
Industrial engineers — $102,440
Biochemists and biophysicists — $127,410
Physical therapists — $102,760
Kudos to the 53% of Iceland’s voters who rejected membership in the European Union, keeping the country sovereign.
Interesting fact from a foxnews.com article by Andrea Margolis: Since the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Nantucket in 1956, 18 scuba divers have died descending to the wreck, which is rapidly deteriorating.
RIP singer Cassandra Wilson, 70, cause of death not yet released. Born in the city made famous in song by Johnny Cash — Jackson, Mississippi — she was learning piano at six and taught herself guitar at twelve. She participated in high school theater, and earned a degree in Mass Communications from Jackson St., all the while doing gigs in local clubs. She moved to New York in 1982. Her first album was released in ’86. Her breakout came in ’95 with New Moon Daughter, which won her the 1996 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance and peaked at №1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. A friend, unable to relate to it, gave it to me. I was blown away by several tracks, especially the brooding, haunting ballad Love Is Blindness, which until this morning I had not known was written by Bono of U2, one of my favorite bands. In 2008 Wilson won a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Loverly. She was a primary vocalist on Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, Blood on the Fields. She was named “America’s Best Singer” by Time magazine in 2001. In all she released 17 studio albums and one live disc. She was a mom of one. Gone too soon. Thank you, Madam. Facts from Google AI Mode, photo from Google Images:
A refreshing breeze was blowing through the Anti-Inflation Book Shop, taking a bite out of the humidity. Anticipating rain, I brought out only half as many wares as usual. The weather kept improving steadily. My thanks to the woman who donated ten works of non-fiction, two of which sold immediately; and to the young man who bought Nothing’s Sacred by Louis Black and Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller; and to the woman who purchased Diana, a bio of the late Princess of Whales; and to Herbie, who chose Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman and By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman; and to the black woman who took home a book in Russian.
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