A group of young White House staff members live together and (more or less) have their lives taped.
To all those who like this article - you obviously don't have smart ass 20-somethings living next door to you. To all the smart ass 20 somethings - some day it will happen to you....FGZ
Clean for Gene goes MOD!
In 1860, Samuel Curtis, a Republican congressman of Iowa, sponsored a bill to create a transcontinental railroad. The debate over that public-private partnership was long and messy. Democrats said the proposal was unconstitutional. Others rightly ...
David Brooks breaks with precedent and comes down on the right side. Seven eleven ! one in 256
Given the limited options available to Greece by reason of being tied to the euro, the Greeks will need to be more imaginative to escape this crisis. Perhaps Greece could take a page out of the Goldman Sachs playbook and begin quietly shorting Greek bonds.
The problem is that deflation — falling wages and prices — is always and everywhere a deeply painful process. It invariably involves a prolonged slump with high unemployment. And it also aggravates debt problems, both public and private, because incomes fall while the debt burden doesn’t.
These canaries may be right. Last year, a study published in the health policy journal Health Affairs found that physicians in private practice on average spent nearly three weeks in time and $68,000 in staffing per year dealing with the particular administrative constraints of third-party payers. Doctors who were specialists could better afford to support these costs; but primary care physicians devoted as much as a third of their average yearly income (including benefits) to these interactions with the various health plans.
No wonder a lot of doctors are unhappy.
Through smartphones and social applications, retailers can track consumers and entice them with discounts.
"Rewards will be critical for getting more people to use Foursquare and similar applications, said Amy Manus, director of media at Nurun, a digital marketing firm that did not work on the campaign. “Offering something that is beneficial for consumers is going to be essential in mass adoption,” she said."
Yuck.
While for some the state has recently become a cartoon of intolerance, the reality is much more complex.
"Residents are unnerved by the violence in Mexico and the heavy drug trade and illegal immigrant trafficking in Arizona. Most studies have shown illegal immigrants do not commit crimes in a greater proportion than their share of the population, and Arizona’s violent crime rate has declined in recent years. But in this state any crime tied to illegal immigrants gets notice.
Half of the drugs seized along the United States-Mexico border are confiscated in Arizona, and it is a major hub for human smuggling. Last month, Robert Krentz, 58, a member of a prominent ranching family, was killed on his property 20 miles from the border, and the police said the gunman was probably connected to smuggling."
changes bring responses.
As primary elections approach across the land, the award for best bottom-feeding campaigner surely belongs to Tim James, an Alabama gubernatorial candidate who vows to put an end to that grave threat posed by driver’s license tests being conducted...
It is tea but might better be Kool-Aid. Party is over.
DOR, Sudan Tourism? Carter earns kudos.
I will hit the Sudanese religious war another day.
another eco system down the hatch from man and his greasy oil patch
Anyone who was paying attention knew this was coming. The question was when.
The nasty news is that B.P. left the blow-out valve off the well. Another really cheap company. Acquisition price $500,000 and the salt marshes. Bankruptcy.
More area to drill. what a mess. big jump in gas.
They know the delivery pressure of the well figure that the pipe broke at the first exposed joint. it would be a clean break so the full diameter of the pipe less losses in the string and back pressure of the delivery depth. not a hard problem. ignorance is easy to fake.
The new, far larger estimate of the leakage rate, he said, was within a range of estimates given the inexact science of determining the rate of a leak so far below the ocean’s surface. Bull.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/28/us/20100428-spill-map.html?ref=us
The oil spill from a deepwater well is threatening various birds and marine mammals along the Louisiana coast.
Out of sight must not be out of mind.
“The Temporary Vegetarian: Healthy Eggplant Parmigiana - http://nyti.ms/9DNwPC”
A great salad in season. If I cannot get local fresh tomatoes, I use canned. They are far better than anything that will stand shipping.
A report shows that family doctors, paid by the visit, perform many hours of uncompensated follow-up work.
Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration’s national coordinator for health information technology, said the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine was “full of important lessons for primary care and for the nation’s health system.”
In an e-mail message, Dr. Blumenthal said the study showed “the enormous strain” on family doctors, but also “a pathway toward escaping at least some of those burdens: the electronic health record combined with changes in workflow and payment.”
Pay them. They do the work.
A new project researches the remarkable trove of endangered tongues that have taken root in New York.
The Jews of Israel found that there was a critical mass in Hebrew. It was a dead language but came alive when enough people were using it. Daily life makes a living language.
The linguistic islands of New York are a wonder but they will fade. Daily life is in English of a sort. Even Spanish is a second language.
If it is not, our language must change.
As companies develop ways to pay for goods and services using cellphones, the wallet is looking old-fashioned.
TSA seems to have convinced themselves it is an improvement. I am not sold.
Anything digital can be duplicated and manipulated. Beyond that, why would a terrorist fake a ticket? Money is available and identities are often faked.
Officials said that oil might be leaking at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, not 1,000 as had been thought, and that the spill could reach the coast by Friday.
Initial reports from NOLA again!
Through smartphones and social applications, retailers can track consumers and entice them with discounts.
This is not a good thing. We need your attention.
There is more to life than . . .
Kansas City, Kan.
Shrubbery.
It is still his court so the decision can be guessed.
We are going to try the experiment with a pass law.
That did not work out well in Africa.
Timothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West.Tags:Arizona, immigrants, jan brewer, John McCain, Jon Stewart
I wish Eagan was correct. He is not.
Good news! The giant Palouse earthworm of the American plains is not extinct.
Thank You Gail Collins.
Why is the media avoiding the conclusion, "horrendous ecological disaster"? The coverage seems to be oddly muted.
NPR has it this morning. One word: OIL
Hmm... We shall see how this all pans out. Sorry to ruin your yacht trip..
My intention is to go south.
The plan is to get the turbines up where they will chop the migrating birds.
"There is always a bigger wave" These things do not float.
What happens when technology can calculate and analyze every quotidian thing that happened to you today-.
I have run across several of these self trackers. They were not appealing people.
I do not wish to increase their numbers either by joining them in their obsession or by easing the pain of it.
There is real knowledge to be gained by keeping records. Knowledge is records. It is only reasonable that self knowledge would be gained by keeping records of our selves as expressed in our actions.
This was what I did not see in psycology. When it becomes a dominant part of the field I will find that field fasinating.
At present I prefer to not distract myself with further distractions.
Fasinating article. I am glad I read it.
This is frustrating beyond belief. No, it is not right to harass and ask for papers. Why do we ignore solutions that have worked so well such as fining the employers? Republicans have estimated millions in the country costing billions, so fine the companies and private citizens who hire them. Fine a large corporations 10's of thousands, so it saves no money if workers are hired. Fine private citizens; a few thousand dollars if caught and their cleaning and lawn mowing workers will be chosen more carefully. Take away the incentive to hire.
This is really hard to do. The incentive is low front cost and no workmen's comp and no benefits. against this a fine. Even a steep fine would be worth it if it is a "when they catch me ". Dropping a dime on the neighbours does not make for good relations.
The interior secretary on Wednesday was headed to Boston to announce a decision on the Cape Wind project.
It is approved. I hope the grant money is good. The learning curve will be steep.
A small but vocal group is policing tweets for grammar and content.
None and small. Twitter is all thumbs. Cheaper than the telephone? perhaps.
Telegrams got there first.
PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of U.S. military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.
25 out of 700 in the opinion of the editors. six negative on the article.
PowerPoint goes down in flames.
Congressional Republicans have concluded that screaming foul about the banking bailout and blocking financial reform is a clever strategy for the fall elections.
Banks have been collapsing for the last year and a half. The moment the too big to fail did seems immaterial. The collapses were committed to for several months before the FDIC swept up the debris. The TARP mony began under the shrub.
The only group beyond the fanatical loyalists the Republicans are apewaling to is the Tea Party. 18% is not a winning edge.
China is having a good week in America. Yes it is. I’d even suggest that there is some high-fiving going on in Beijing. I mean, wouldn’t you if you saw America’s Democratic and Republican leaders conspiring to ensure that America cedes the next gr...
Considering that the policy that has lead to this result was established during the Reagan Administration I think Mr Friedman needs to examine his assumptions.
WASHINGTON
Maureen Dowd Is very good at being shocked.
She seems to be shocked that the actions of Goldman Sachs were not unlawful.
They were sleazy but they seem to have broken few if any laws.
Steeply graduated taxes seem to be in order along with solid regulation.
Emeril’s Delmonico restaurant on St. Charles Avenue in New OrleansMore Photos >
Sam Sifton really likes NOLA. I think I would too. I have a building project for the nineth ward.
Political conservatives are quarreling over charges of closed-mindedness in the movement.
This looks like a witch hunt.
I will welcome the implosion.
Doctors told Katherine Russell Rich 17 years ago that because of her Stage 4 breast cancer, she had a year or two left to live. Today, she’s still proving them wrong.
From the very beginning there was something uncanny about the cancer cells on Henrietta Lacks’s cervix. Even before killing Lacks herself in 1951, they took on a life of their own. Removed during a biopsy and cultured without her permission, the H...
But only for the cancer cells.
Tellomiers are real and do limit. There are some very clever experimental treatments for cancer along that line.
Her cancer was estrogen negative. Stage 4 was not even approached. The medication for the iatrogenic heart damage should be changed as it is causing memory problems.
At this point I am in no rush. I will respond to your direct and confirmed invitation.
My attention and time will be devoted to local projects for the next few days. Bloging will be limited at best.
“Existential Crisis of a Plastic Bag - http://nyti.ms/c6nMIi”
Incineration is not a favourite of mine but in this case it might be best.
The aesthetics of dog waste are a powerful argument in incineration's favour.
Prairie Home Companion had a bit while Tina Brown was editoor of The New Yorker. Garrison questioned the presence of a plastic bag on her hand. The response was: Of course! I am an editor.
The Pacific gyre looks to me to be a wonderful resource. plastic is mostly fossil carbon. There is a concentration in need of recovery. Trawling under sail is a neglected skill.
The series includes another environmentally themed film called “Seed,” about a future in which genetically modified seeds dominate the world and organic seeds are illegal.
Seed is an encroaching disaster. Genetic diversity is a necessity. Look at bananas.
“KFC's new breadless Double Down sandwich = a disgusting meal, a must-to-avoid :: http://nyti.ms/cYwrDo by @nytimesdining @nytimesfood”
No further comment is required. The author needs to study invective.
The Damns are only faint but very distinct.
David, you never take to task your party's amoral ideology and behavior. You always seem to be trying to minimize what no one will really talk about in the press and media: the right wing's ideology, the centerpiece of which is class warfare - elitism based on their skewed and twisted values, none of which are Christian, and their goal of creating a permanent ruling class - the very thing that our country was founded to fight against. The easiest way to accomplish that is to put most of the country's financial wealth into the hands of a very few, and that is the goal in the lying, cheating, manipulating, obfuscating behavior of our corporations, certain members of government and Wall Street. The only freedom they champion is their own and their goal is to make the rest of us financial slaves. They have succeeded. Many, many, many of us are truly struggling to pay bills and just keep afloat, and I don't mean just the ones with mortgage problems. Many of us are not making it - more than anyone cares to talk about. Your party spearheaded all of this in the 1980s and encouraged the irreponsible actions of Wall Street and the banks through the first 8 years of the 21st Century. They knew what they were doing, all the while so many ignorant people who purchased the homes they are defaulting on now didn't. The corruption of our morals and ethics started right at the top of our corporations and government and did "trickle down" to those of us at the bottom. We are living Ronald Reagan's legacy every day and they are dark days indeed.
There are a few nits to pick but the perspective is right.
Corporations have no minds. They are financial structures.Managers are people. Bankers are people. People can execute policy. Government is a body of law. Executives take actions. Bureaucrats execute laws, policies and rules.
Hereditary aristocracy and titles of nobility are unconstitutional but I have not checked.
Lost in the shuffle of university admission and graduation rates is a reality that those statistics often mask: about 1 in 3 students who enroll in either a four-year or two-year college will probably transfer at some point. This, to me, is ...
Most children do not know themselves.
I am reluctant to deal with a PDF Disertation. Last things will get it done.
My son was diagnosed with APD when he was in kindergarten. His teacher noticed that he could not take sitting in the noisy cafeteria with the other children. Since we were in public school, and after the special education dept. tested him, they determined the APD, but would not help with services because his verbal and auditory IQ were high numbers. I then hired a special education paralegal to represent us to the district in order to get the services I believed he needed. She was able to get a head set and microphone for the teacher and he to use - and that made a world of difference for him. As he got older, he no longer wanted to use it, but taught himself tricks to be able to keep up with the class. We also noted that he was a lip reader and made certain that he always sat in front of the teacher. In his junior and senior years of high school - as a gifted artist - he was accepted to pre-college at Cooper Union in NYC, became an AP Scholar and was then accepted to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a presidential scholar. He is currently in his junior year. My point being is that the frustration that parents can experience dealing with their child and the disorder and the dealings with the school in general can be disheartening and I can imagine how some people would want to give up. Not only did I not give up - nor did my son. In fact, in later years, the school district would ask my son to speak with young children who would then be getting the head sets to tell them about his experience and that it was cool to use the head set. We all grew from the experience.
Auditory processing disorder looks to be a real problem. I am glad it is so simply treated.LAST week, Pope Benedict XVI told victims of sexual abuse by priests in Malta that the Catholic Church was doing all it could to investigate abuse accusations and find ways to safeguard children in the future. With the pope’s pledge, and the resig...
Scapegoats. Let us see if there is anything further.
That was just warming up. Go get them Professor Lessing!
When a group of students at Riverdale Country School went a day without text messages, they rediscovered the freedom of youth.
It is very true. A leash deeply hinders development. Duties and curfew can be enough.
“We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint - http://nyti.ms/c8GATa”
The "bowl of spagetti"that opens this piece could not be presented at all without graphics. It needs detail drawings. As it stands it is intended to defeat the viewer without an actual lie. I suspect the lies lie outside the presentation. It is much more difficult to present false conclusions if the entire reasoning chain is explicit.
Marxism colapses when the premis that people are inherently good is exposed.
Among the Senate’s most important tasks this year are fashioning a rational, humane immigration policy and a rational, comprehensive energy policy to address climate change and oil dependency. Unless Lindsey Graham and Harry Reid can patch up a ne...
The author of this editorial supports Mr. Brooks.
Gawker Media suggested that the action, part of an apparent investigation into the sale of a next-generation iPhone, violated California’s shield law for journalists.
Picked this up several places last night. Macintosh Is out of line. They think they are Homeland Security. The suit will cost them. The settlement will cost more. California will spend money it does not have.
JERUSALEM — The U.S. Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, has come and gone, again, with peace talks still on hold and one Israeli commentator, Yossi Sarid, musing that “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a black hole that swallows up goodwill amb...
Cohen sees hope. I see tactical manoeuvre.
Being rich doesn't necessarily make people smart (maybe just the opposite, because they may think that being rich DOES mean they're smart). Anyhow, what with persistent intermarriage and a bunch of terrible eating habits they're pretty clearly headed toward oblivion. More natural gas for everyone else!
Native Qataris are suffering serious health problems that relate to a privileged lifestyle paid for with the nation’s oil wealth.
Volunteers to be rich are not hard to find.
“A Man Who Stopped Time To Set It in Motion Again - http://nyti.ms/dkIIdE”
I prefer Edgerton but Muybridge is good. I should get to "the Corcoran’s thorough and absorbing show,"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Eugene_Edgerton
“A Man Who Stopped Time To Set It in Motion Again - http://nyti.ms/dkIIdE”
TODAY, we will have the pleasure of watching outraged members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations fire questions at a half-dozen executives from Goldman Sachs. The firm first attracted anger for its return to making billions, an...
I feel little need to watch these malefactors plead self incrimination or be granted immunity for testimony. Lies will be flying back and forth.
This will kill any prospect of criminal prosecution if well handled.
Why is no one one this board asking why Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, voted "No" on this bill?
Nevada is a very strange place. Inland California without the rules. It is wild and west but the frontier closed.
Chairman of the Nevada State Gaming Commission 77 - 81 oligarch
Between 1997 and 2006, consumers, lenders and builders created a housing bubble, and pretty much the entire establishment missed it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the people who regulate them missed it. The big commercial banks and the people who...
David Brooks is dependably ideological.
"decentralized markets are often better at anticipating the future" Where, exactly, have you been for the past 2 years?
The problem is that they did and they acted on the prediction. Caveat Emptor is always the rule. This was a "Pig in a poke" And the cat is out of the bag.
Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal is not imparting information, as in briefings for reporters.
The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake. Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Hammes said, are known as “hypnotizing chickens.”
Not just reporters.
Beantownah gets it.
Right on the mark. A huge amount of time - huge - is wasted preparing power point slides for briefing senior officers. In my briefings I refuse to use power point, which forces everyone to (1) think (2) focus and (3) discuss. But I am part of a very small contrarian minority.
PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of U.S. military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.
seems every staff meeting i attend is nothing more than a printed version of a power point presentation, minus the applause and the swoosh factor mind you, and it's annoying. people have become lazy.
People are LAZY. People are annoying. There is no causality in the association.
I have not seen a slide projector outside of a formal lecture hall for years.
The prep time for slides is prohibative. I wont go into film stock and processing.
Digital has taken over and Powerpoint comes with the package. I spend far too much attention fighting Microsoft. OpenOffice is not compatible.
How I decided my psychiatry patients needed more from me than prescriptions.
Fits my experience. health care reform will do good things for this.
sleep.
ARCHITECTURAL IDEALISM Roland Reisley, below, lives in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Usonia, a development of 47 homes on 100 acres in Mount Pleasant.
Write had to pay the rent and keep his students busy. Just good design.
Immigration has always polarized the state. But the new law has widened the chasm in a way few can remember.
"Hooded robes and flaming crosses"or keeping out the drug war. It could be simple extortion. Zapata's ghost haunts that border. Probably just a "Bloody Shirt". It is all G.O.P. all the time.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/the-curious-politics-of-immigration/
Job losses sent ridership down in 2009, especially in Manhattan, but some lines experienced growth.
Williamsburg gentrifies.
“"that lone supermarket cart sitting forlornly on the ocean floor says it all" Oceans (2010) - http://nyti.ms/cKWpaa”
It should be a disaster film. Disney does not allow them.
actually this proves that the "terrorism" of the 9/11 attack worked. We have been continually giving up freedom for silly steps to protect us from a small group of radicals. Not just in issues like "south park" but in all phases of our lives, we have been dumping freedom for a false sense of security.
The radicals are a police matter and have been. The army is not a police force.
Islam dares not show a picture of it's profit? Cowardice indeed.
Officials worked to stop the leaks but said it could be months before they can stem the flow of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
A growing number of overseas Americans are renouncing their citizenship over taxation and banking problems.
It is called fleeing prosecution. They are not refugees under international law.
He should stay in Bermuda. He can probably change their Parliament laws just like he did New York's. It'll be like home to him. I'd just wish he keep his ignorant ass out of NYC.
He is a foreigner there and here. Here he has a job. There he is away from it.
I have no idea who would be better in his office. The volunteers do not appeal.
Some new studios are dispensing with the “rock star” instructors.
It is all in the attitude. The essence of zen is "Pay Attention".
I have been finding that commutation driving is much improved by a zen attitude.
If the republicans (or the democrats) allow themselves to be bought off again by the 'free market' fraudsters on Wall Street, they will have totally abrogated their responsibilities to the taxpayers of this nation. These Wall Street scammers have managed to skim billions and pass all risks to the taxpayers, if our elected representatives continue as tacit co-conspirators in this criminal behavior, the voters should purge Washington from top to bottom.
Bipartisanship is a red herring. Any "Republican bill" will be so eviscerated as to be worse than the status quo.
Let’s hear it for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Its work on the financial crisis is increasingly looking like the 21st-century version of the Pecora hearings, which helped usher in New Deal-era financial regulation. In th...
The rating agencies should be chosen, by lottery, by the SEC and paid for by the company needing the service. The repeat business and the fees that they get should depend on their accuracy. If a company wants to independently hire a rating company to help develop a business plan, fine, but when the information will be used to inform the investing public about the true value of a security, that service must be independent of the company needing the service. The investing public has a right to know the true nature of the risks they are taking. By the way, these rating agencies have been responsible for past scandals, like Enron for one (that one reduced my retirement income by 25%, thank you very much). Are there any honest analysts out there who might want to start a new rating agency to compete with these crooks?
The rating agencies should be chosen, by lottery, by the SEC and paid for by the company needing the service. The repeat business and the fees that they get should depend on their accuracy. If a company wants to independently hire a rating company to help develop a business plan, fine, but when the information will be used to inform the investing public about the true value of a security, that service must be independent of the company needing the service. The investing public has a right to know the true nature of the risks they are taking. By the way, these rating agencies have been responsible for past scandals, like Enron for one (that one reduced my retirement income by 25%, thank you very much). Are there any honest analysts out there who might want to start a new rating agency to compete with these crooks?
The rating agencies should be chosen, by lottery, by the SEC and paid for by the company needing the service. The repeat business and the fees that they get should depend on their accuracy. If a company wants to independently hire a rating company to help develop a business plan, fine, but when the information will be used to inform the investing public about the true value of a security, that service must be independent of the company needing the service. The investing public has a right to know the true nature of the risks they are taking. By the way, these rating agencies have been responsible for past scandals, like Enron for one (that one reduced my retirement income by 25%, thank you very much). Are there any honest analysts out there who might want to start a new rating agency to compete with these crooks?
The rating agencies should be chosen, by lottery, by the SEC and paid for by the company needing the service. The repeat business and the fees that they get should depend on their accuracy. If a company wants to independently hire a rating company to help develop a business plan, fine, but when the information will be used to inform the investing public about the true value of a security, that service must be independent of the company needing the service. The investing public has a right to know the true nature of the risks they are taking. By the way, these rating agencies have been responsible for past scandals, like Enron for one (that one reduced my retirement income by 25%, thank you very much). Are there any honest analysts out there who might want to start a new rating agency to compete with these crooks?
Have you never been conned? It has happened to me several times. Here it has happened to much of the nation or at least their representatives in local government and Labor unions.
In a con there is a person known as a shill. His function is too demonstrate the eas of play and the certainty of wining. In the financial con we are living through the G.O.P. has acted as the shill. The shill takes the heat and acts innocent as the artist goes off with the marks money. Later the con artist splits with the shill because they are in fact conspiritors.
I feel like I am a mark. As such my best move is passive resistance to the conspiracy. I will let my money rest in as much safety as I can devise and try to not be caught up in the riot that is sure to start soon. I hope that there are oporrtunities to profit in the chaos we are commited to.
Some very clever people have been working hard over the last 95 or so years to make our present fix a reality. I would not deny them the wages of their sin.
Arguing for or against what Republicans or Democrats want is just a diversion, both parties are puppets to wall street and the banksters. Just like the health care bill, both parties are puppets to the health insurance industries, the final bill will be so watered down that it will be a joke.
Happy libertarian. Just more poison. The GOP is not interested in any bill least of all their bills.
work for me. back about ten.
JUST like everyone else, I was overjoyed that a doorman strike was averted last week in New York. But as I read the articles leading up to the resolution — an arc as dramatic as that of the Cuban missile crisis — I found myself asking a disturbing...
Can you say concierge? Of course you can.
Two months before 9/11, Comedy Central aired an episode of “South Park” entitled “Super Best Friends,” in which the cartoon show’s foul-mouthed urchins sought assistance from an unusual team of superheroes. These particular superfriends were all r...
Cowardice...no other word for it. The practitioners of "The Religion of Peace" get offended over seeing ANY depiction of their deity, to the point of threatening violence. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy here?
Checking comments.
8out 0f 200. Douthat really must do better. cowardice is probably the right word.
Whose?
“‘Informed Consent’ and the Ethics of DNA Research - http://nyti.ms/c8iC5l”
Nice follow-up.
“Mr. Cinderella: From Rejection Notes to the Pulitzer - http://nyti.ms/cgrR3h - for those who missed it!”
The work is attractive enough to lure young people in developing countries to decipher tests known as captchas.
Spamers Fail Turing Test.---- Lack of intelligence Confirmed!
In an age of social networking, the company shifts the concept from a moment to be captured to a moment to be uploaded.
Eastman Kodack Management de-emphasised research about 1945. They have followed that broad and easy road since. I think they have not left it.
“The emotional aspects of the brand are what really set us apart from our competitors,” said Leslie Dance, vice president for brand marketing and communications at Kodak.
Pictures say much of their creators and their subjects.
When Barbara J. Peters began lecturing on sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh eight years ago, she felt like a foreigner. The daughter of a disabled railroad worker, Dr. Peters and her often homeless family moved nearly a dozen ...
In this area the Republican party has been treated as a cast marker. Eisenhower, A party of Lincoln Republican, and social climbing among the relocating established the FDR opposition.
Mrs. Astor knew what she was doing(400). I try to act with purpose.
Scholarship tries to be a meritocracy.
MAYBE Lloyd Blankfein was doing “God’s work” after all.
I had better read it.
Haleiwa, Hawaii
Scouting needs it. I was very unhappy with it. It was run by a bunch of cold-war survivalists. Republicans all.
Minneapolis
Sanger and McCormick anticipated how the pill would be a tool for women’s emancipation. And, indeed, the minute the F.D.A. announced it would be approved, millions of women rushed to their doctors for prescriptions. They would use the pill to gain control of not only their fertility, but also their lives. They could decide whether to have children, and when. They could take advantage of new opportunities for education, work and participation in public life that opened up in the years following the pill’s approval.
I think it a good idea still.
Henry David Thoreau got it right: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
5/329 notable comments. Glossy!
“Just Posted: United-Continental Talks Said to Snag Over Price - http://nyti.ms/9NiXYk”
Not something I own. Operating costs are fuel dominated.
A shrinking business.
Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate.But the units are far from being restful sanctuaries.
The military is not doing well by its people. it is the army mostly and these are pre- discharge.
A growing number of overseas Americans are renouncing their citizenship over taxation and banking problems.
Tea Partiers. Cannabis tea? Just tea party. I should check but forign taxes come off US taxes. Most foreign tax rates are higher. Check the rules.
The nation’s most important system for judging the clinical effectiveness of cancer treatments is approaching “a state of crisis.” That is the disturbing verdict of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences to review the performance of...
The 40% incomplete probably point to negative results. What happens to these untested products? I doubt that any are precipitously abandoned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/opinion/26krugman.html
Let’s hear it for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Its work on the financial crisis is increasingly looking like the 21st-century version of the Pecora hearings, which helped usher in New Deal-era financial regulation. In th...
"I’m not wedded to that particular proposal. But doing nothing isn’t an option. It’s comforting to pretend that the financial crisis was caused by nothing more than honest errors. But it wasn’t; it was, in large part, the result of a corrupt system. And the rating agencies were a big part of that corruption."
But not unlawful. Regulate and lock the revolving door.
The nation’s most important system for judging the clinical effectiveness of cancer treatments is approaching “a state of crisis.” That is the disturbing verdict of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences to review the performance of...
The costs of starting an Internet company have fallen sharply. The “lean start-up” formula adds management practices tailored to exploit the Web environment.
The said company has none but management employees. Skeletal. They are consultancies.
All the better to fly by night. There is no research after setup. No knowledge generation. no staff training.
Virtual but not virtuous.
Muzzling the media? Trying to prevent a revealing light on the centuries-long evils of the Catholic church when a responsible and free newspaper reports the facts? Call them liars? What manner of things is this from a church which claims to follow Christ? As an enlightened catholic,I was gratified to read Clark Hoyt's rebuttle to the accusations that Times reporters are liars. The church is aghast to realize that now anyone can publicly and correctly question its practices. To the Catholic Church I say. "You are not a shepherd. We are no longer your docile sheep." (Such an insulting metaphor) We don't trust your magical thinking: Limbo (where unbaptized babies are sent for eternity), Confessions to your clergy, Guardian Angels, Purgatory,(where you are sent to burn away your venial sins before you are admitted to heaven), Infallibility of Popes, Canonization of Saints and the demand of celebacy for priests. We are often embarrassed to remember how much of your doctrines we once swallowed. Now we think for ourselves Get used to it.
One out of 179 comments worth highlighting. How delightful.
A TOP Vatican official said The Times “lacks fairness in its coverage of Pope Benedict.” The archbishop of Brooklyn urged parishioners to “besiege” the paper and send a message that the Catholic Church will no longer be its “personal punching bag....
I’ve been trying to understand the Tea Party Movement. Sounds like a lot of angry people who want to get the government out of their lives and cut both taxes and the deficit. Nothing wrong with that — although one does wonder where they were in ...
My my only four highlight comments, none favorable.
------------------------------------ Tom Freidman gets paid for this.
It is comical that the radical left including Mr. Friedman continue to push this apocalyptic view of a climate crisis even in the face of mounting evidence of any real serious problem....The crying wolf crowds of decades ago that said the oceans will be dead in a decade plus new data and controversy coming out of the climate change cabal should give every American a healthy dose of skepticism about the notion of a planet heating up.....The only real heat is the widening gulf between the paranoid global warming sycophants and the believers of true science...One more thing Mr. Friedman....you underestimate the real Tea Party at you and your kinds peril........ http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/
I looked at Freidman today. I looked at cooperscopy some time ago and feel no need to re-examine the troll den. will read the comments.
“Rating Agency Data Aided Wall Street in Deals -http://nyti.ms/aDQQXX Moodys S&P Wall Street,Congress,Oops ShareHolders?? Nobody goes to JAIL”
"One answer is that Wall Street was given access to the formulas behind those magic ratings — and hired away some of the very people who had devised them.
In essence, banks started with the answers and worked backward, reverse-engineering top-flight ratings for investments that were, in some cases, riskier than ratings suggested, according to former agency employees."
They were all doing ok things under the rules except Goldman sold "bad" securities as good ones with full knowledge. The fraud was moving the securitied from assembly to sales without telling sales the securities purpose. All other actions were lawful under the regulations as they stand.
How I decided my psychiatry patients needed more from me than prescriptions.
“donation based yoga now available in L.A., SF, and NY.......from the NYT, A Yoga Manifesto - http://nyti.ms/bHw3JG”
I have noticed.
Unfortunately, seniority not only protects against the "whims of employers", it also protects against merit being used to retain teachers. I'd say our kids need protection from the whims of teachers and unions.
Haleiwa, Hawaii
“That Mighty Sorting Machine Is Certainly One for the Books - http://nyti.ms/a79lr7”
A splendidly bad idea. It needs a central stacks and then would slow things further.
“That Mighty Sorting Machine Is Certainly One for the Books - http://nyti.ms/a79lr7”
I’ve been trying to understand the Tea Party Movement. Sounds like a lot of angry people who want to get the government out of their lives and cut both taxes and the deficit. Nothing wrong with that — although one does wonder where they were in ...
Good luck with this, The wrong way to a good end.
I wondered where the tea partiers were; when tons of wealth and life were squandered away in Iraq? Where were they when focus was shifted from Afghanistan; without completing the job on hand? They only reason I believe they are active today is because there is an African American in the white house. Can we ask all of the Tea Partiers to pledge that they will not use Social Security, Unemployment benefits, Food vouchers, Public schools, etc as they are all built and managed by the Government that they hate so much? Just let them be at the mercy of the Wall St private free enterprise.
MAYBE Lloyd Blankfein was doing “God’s work” after all.
I heard the song.
With the help of their concubines in government, these economic terrorists have essentially managed to fulfill bin Ladin’s primary directive of destroying the United States. Imagine, you knowingly run an obscene and massively criminal enterprise that ruins the lives of millions and your only punishments are to endure a scolding by the president; tolerate inadequate proposed legislation chock full of loopholes; and possibly pay a fine imposed by a watchdog agency that amounts to chump change! Only a mother could ever justify this perverse lack of accountability. The rest of us—those not feeding off the criminals or related to them—probably feel a more appropriate punishment for these criminals would be to contain them in a special wing at Guantanamo. There they can reflect on their crimes, learn humility, atone, or even make deals with the guards for smokes...whatever gets them off the streets.
Pick a legal prison. Reactivate the quarry at Singsing? A start at paving the city streets.
“Positivity is in both your actions and your thoughts. Seeking a Cure for Optimism - http://nyti.ms/7ALrR0”
Read the Times.
Cassandra.
As for Ms. Ehrenreich, she believes that negative thinking is just as delusional as unquestioned positive thinking. She hopes to see a day when corporate employees “walk out when the motivational speakers start talking,” she said. “It’s all about control and money.” Her goal? To encourage realism, “trying to see the world not colored by our wishes or fears, but by reality.”
Barbara is admirable.
A TOP Vatican official said The Times “lacks fairness in its coverage of Pope Benedict.” The archbishop of Brooklyn urged parishioners to “besiege” the paper and send a message that the Catholic Church will no longer be its “personal punching bag....
BROOKS COMPLAINS ABOUT THIS WHEN BLACKS DO IT and THEY HAVE A CASE!
Chicago
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill’s central architects, issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.
Any excuse.
Damn the Republicans! Full speed ahead!
