A Harvard scholar has written a soon to be published book which asserts that Hollywood did not just collaborate with Nazi Germany, it aided Adolf Hitler directly. Ben Urwand, currently at Harvard's Society of Fellows has written the book "The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler," to be released in October. According to press reports (I have not read the book yet), he draws from German and American archives that studio bosses, many of them Jewish immigrants cut films scene by scene to suit Nazi officials so that the films could be re-purposed into Nazi propaganda films. In the book, he ...
By Jeff Newman Hempel watched the scrawny girl fish off the skiff in the late afternoon sun. The thought of leaving her cut into his heart. “Grampa, can we work on the table later on?” she asked. “Sure, if you want. Then homework. It’s important.” “I know. Mom said it’s important but I like workin’ in the shop better.” “School is more important,” he said. “Will I always be with you grampa?” “Not always. You’ll be grown up one day.” “But that’s not for a long time, right grampa?” “Right. Not for a long time.” They caught two big catfish and cooked them for dinner. The man stood by the girl ...
Posted on June 19, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health assessed rice consumption and diabetes risk of 39,765 men and 157,463 women and concluded that those who consume two or more servings of brown rice per week were associated with an 11% reduced risk of developing type 2 diabates. Brown rice, a whole grain is […]
Posted on June 9, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
Found some old photos of my dad Jackson Newman including a few of his World War II photos of him over in England, where he was a mechanic in the Army Air Corps. My father died about seven years ago, at the age of 93. He worked up until a few weeks before he got […]
Posted on June 5, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
Low levels of the male sex hormone testosterone in older men has now been associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. This was the finding of a team of researchers at Saint Louis University in a co-investigative study with Queen Mary Hospital at the University of Hong Kong. The study will be published in the […]
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
Before the year 2020, according to experts, the following changes will occur relating to the net: *The mobile device will be the main connection too to the net *Voice recognition will be prevalent, usable and used *Personal and work time will not be divided off as more connections to the net will be commonplace and […]
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
The BP oil slick could hit the east coast in a matter of weeks and will probably spread across thousands of miles of Atlantic shorelines, government scientists have reported. A computer model analysis from the National Center for Atmospheric research shows oil winding around Key West moving up to North Carolina and then spreading east […]
Posted on May 29, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
I write this directly upon BP’s announcement that “top kill” has failed to stop the flow of oil from the well and it is moving on to another approach. Given the fact that the spill is the largest disaster of its kind and the economic impact growing daily, some consideration should be given to the […]
Posted on May 28, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
Top Rated Shows: 1) Lost; 2) NCIS; 3) Criminal Minds; 4) Grey’s Anatomy; 5) American Idol; 6) House; 7) Glee; 8) FlashForward; 9) 24; 10) Bones; 11) Fringe; 12) Desperate Housewives; 13) CSI: NY; 14) Supernatural; 15) Gossip Girl; 16) Smallville; 17) The Mentalist; 18) One Treet Hill; 19) The Big Bang Theory; 20) How […]
Posted on May 24, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
Here is information that we should worry about from a new study by the U.S. Geological survey and written about in ScienceDaily. More than 20% of untreated water samples from 932 public wells around the country contain at least one contaminant dangerous to human health. In some instances, the contaminants included radon and arsenic but […]