Start-ups are pushing to see how much data consumers are willing to give up in exchange for getting a deal.
I would rather pay retail. I do pay retail rather than get on more lists.
“At Least 10 Are Killed as Israel Halts Flotilla With Gaza Aid - http://nyti.ms/dBrAHY - Israel's dirty little secret - Gaza is a Gulag.”
No secret about that. The residents are volunteers? They can leave if they can find a place and a way to live. I think there is help available.
Think of it as a siege.
“How can I rid processed foods from my life? Reading: The Hard Sell on Salt - http://nyti.ms/9BLbrp”
Food from scratch is no slower. Use little water. Steam rather than boil.
cook ahead and freeze. Microwave, more power is better. Learn eggs.
Bake with minimal salt. Lemon Juice. Vinegar. Refrigerate.
Read labels with care. Watch the serving size. Mustard. Herbs.
Butter from cows on grass. Extra virgin Olive oil at the finish. Canola for frying.
Put salt on the table, not on the food. Skip soy sauce. Cook your beans yourself.
Mostly do not buy food ready to eat.
Obama administration officials acknowledged the possibility that tens of thousands of gallons of oil might continue pouring into the gulf until August.
The accident happened. No amount of yelling will make it unhappen.
That is what would be required to stop the oil instantly.
A better mud pump could be designed. a stronger connection to the well made. With a riser pipe we could recirculate the "Mud". months. crash program? month.do the second hole and the bottom kill and the replacement riser. That much more oil will make no significant difference. do capture on the endangered species.
“very sad. Louise Bourgeois, Artist and Sculptor, Is Dead - http://nyti.ms/chLUpf”
98? Better stuff than most. A real loss.
Viewing the effects of dispersants alongside the fish.
Continued.
The only way I can see to get oil down in the water column is to load the oil with bits of minerals. "Mud", cement, drill chips.
If the dispersant is discontinued, the oil will form a slick which will suppress evaporation and increase adsorption of sun light. A change in the weather.
a hotter gulf stream. oil on the coast of Europe.
Let's hope that North Korea's ally, China, is not behind this, luring the U.S. deeper into the pit.
The Chinese must hate the thought of a reignited Korean war. Either the leadership is nuts [likely] or there is some problem that war looks likely to resolve.there was never a peace treaty. Only an armistice. The Korean peninsula is dead in any war. The north has nukes and will be destroyed. They will destroy the south. Yuck.
“The Pain Caucus - http://nyti.ms/cWVhMW How bout NOT helping the poor and unemployed? Fuck that.” Silly troll.
Less than a year into a weak recovery from the worst slump since World War II, there is a dangerous urge to stop helping the jobless and start inflicting pain.
Anyone who has done any reading about the Great Depression is aware that Franklin Roosevelt, after making a good start on attacking the crisis, succumbed to pressure to reduce the deficits and, thereby, erased most of the progress made at the beginning of his administration. Knowing that historical lesson is one thing, but not until one has witnessed the daily political pressure to cut spending is it possible to understand how easy it is to make the same mistake F.D.R. made. It is vital that we support a continued effort to create jobs, even though that effort will entail running a federal deficit for the next two years.Two? Try ten. The deficit spending must continue until domestic industry is rebuilt. We can tax uninvested funds. Inflation or the threat of it is the tool of choice.
Start-ups are pushing to see how much data consumers are willing to give up in exchange for getting a deal.
Add clicks followed by sales are the whole game.
The combination of growing foreclosures and rising unemployment have destroyed black wealth and income and erased two decades of slow progress.
Ten years ago, wasn't this newspaper leading the clamor that banks approved a lower proportion of home loans to blacks compared to whites because of racial discrimination? And that the banks were hiding behind "rules" that were antiquated? I believe "creative" solutions were called for. Make up your minds already!
What kind of "Creative"? Cheaper for the buyer was intended. Blame the mortgage "industry".
How is impending bankruptcy a gain? The "crash" was built in from the start.
The combination of growing foreclosures and rising unemployment have destroyed black wealth and income and erased two decades of slow progress.
It is the presumption of wealth that bothers me.
Ten years ago, wasn't this newspaper leading the clamor that banks approved a lower proportion of home loans to blacks compared to whites because of racial discrimination? And that the banks were hiding behind "rules" that were antiquated? I believe "creative" solutions were called for. Make up your minds already!
You know this is a troll. 0% Highlights.
"In a recent regulatory filing, Wells Fargo hinted that its legal troubles could multiply. “Certain government entities are conducting investigations into the mortgage lending practices of various Wells Fargo affiliated entities, including whether borrowers were steered to more costly mortgage products,” the bank stated."
Properly so.
“CHICAGO – Some days, White House “pool duty” can be more interesting than others, even when you don’t get to see POTUS.”
Eri Yoshida, a 18-year-old woman from Japan with a sidearm knuckleball, made her debut in American professional baseball this weekend, the first appearance by a woman since 2000.
Do it more. The best players should play.
Not long ago, I walked in on a group of medical residents inserting a central line catheter into a patient in the intensive care unit. They were gowned and gloved, working quietly over the patient’s neck, exposed through a small hole in a sterile ...
“Louise Bourgeois, Artist and Sculptor, Is Dead - http://nyti.ms/chLUpf”
She was not a name for me. ----------------- Looking.
Many questions for potential priests are aimed at deciding whether gay applicants should be denied admission.
"Father Sweeney said the new rules were not the order of battle for a witch hunt. “We do not say that homosexuals are bad people,” he said. “And sure, homosexuals have been good priests.”
“But it has to do with our view of marriage,” he said. “A priest can only give his life to the church in the sense that a man gives his life to a female spouse. A homosexual man cannot have the same relationship. It’s not about condemning anybody. It’s about our world view.”"
It sure looks like a witch hunt to me.
Mr Douthat, The study you are referring to in 'The Birds and the Bees' can hardly be called scientific, and the Institute of American Values' credentials are dubious at best. The chairman on the IAV website states, in regard gay marriage "Christianity - as the wellspring of ‘animus’ against homosexual activity - is being attacked as full of bigotry, but empty of factual content... Yet 99% of the empirical evidence regarding homosexual activity supports the Christian appraisal of it." How would one make 'empirical' such suposed "evidence"? The motivations of this organization are clear, and if you wish to highlight the activities and 'studies' promulgated by this organization, a clear statement addressing the organizations' mission would better inform your reader audience of possible biases, particularly ones that spew propaganda such as (in the same article) that 'homosexual promiscuity' makes the spread of AIDs virus "more efficient" and paedophilia "more likely". I have enjoyed your columns in the past and hope that your column advertsing the IAV's findings with regard IVF was published with an ignorance of their unscientific biases and bigoted values. Faithfully Stevie Modern
I imagine that Ross Douthat Had to work quite a bit for his shocked tone.
No child has any input into their existence. Orthodox Judaism contends that a Jew by birth is the child of a Jewish mother. Is it not better that there are no accidental assisted pregnancies? A child made to order is a very desired child.
There are no questions of force or accident.
I think Mr. Douthat's problem is with Catholic Doctrine not with the psychology of the children in question.
If they actually do this, it is the very definition of throwing down.
Wow.
Does Israel want a war with Turkey? They can’t win it, short of using nukes, and Turkey is a NATO member, if Israel attacks NATO ships, Turkey can invoke Article V (in fact, they can invoke it already, since the ships were attacked by a non NATO power on the high seas.) If Turkey does so, of course NATO nations will refuse, but doing so will break NATO.
This is high stakes.
Update: I might add that in the case of a war between Turkey and Israel, if Turkey is serious, unless Israel uses nukes, my money is on the Turks. They have a huge armored corp, and the nations between Israel and Turkey aren’t going to say no if Turkey asks for access (because if they do, Turkey will just roll right through them.) Also if Turkey and Israel goes to war, it’s at least 50/50 the Egypt jumps in as well.
Israel is really playing with fire on this one.
Viewing the effects of dispersants alongside the fish.
President Obama is still learning to emote, five weeks into the heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico.
President Obama’s next task? Shaping the public reaction to the gulf spill so that we can use it to generate the will to break our addiction to oil.
Obama administration officials acknowledged the possibility that tens of thousands of gallons of oil might continue pouring into the gulf until August.
The president’s credibility as a champion of reformed, competent government is held hostage by video from the gulf.
Whether or not BP and the government are successful in stopping the flow of oil is a moot point. But how did we get here? While many scream for alternative energy sources have they thought those out? More nuclear reactors? Where do we put the spent fuel rods? Seems Yucca Mtn. is still a point of contestation. What is clear is our dependence on oil will continue for some time. The question is do we import it or try and get it domestically? We are stuck with deepwater rigs for the same reason that opposition to wind turbines upset the people in Massachusessetts and Martha's Vineyard. The fear of rigs close to the coasts resulted in huge outrage as dangerous and unsightly. But perhaps more manageable? Then we have those opposed to Alaskan drilling because of caribou and other animals. And every one comes back to cite the Exxon Valdez incident. Has everyone forgotten that the skipper was drunk? So we have wells drilled at a mile or more underwater. Incredible pressure generated at those depths, but how is it that many sea creatures thrive at those depths or sustain life in superheated plumes at even deeper levels? Where is science in understanding these things. I'd sooner see beaucoup dollars spent on oceanic research than dumping monies into a space stace or going back to the moon, because I don't think moon rocks are edible.
Whether or not BP and the government are successful in stopping the flow of oil is a moot point. But how did we get here? While many scream for alternative energy sources have they thought those out? More nuclear reactors? Where do we put the spent fuel rods? Seems Yucca Mtn. is still a point of contestation. What is clear is our dependence on oil will continue for some time. The question is do we import it or try and get it domestically? We are stuck with deepwater rigs for the same reason that opposition to wind turbines upset the people in Massachusessetts and Martha's Vineyard. The fear of rigs close to the coasts resulted in huge outrage as dangerous and unsightly. But perhaps more manageable? Then we have those opposed to Alaskan drilling because of caribou and other animals. And every one comes back to cite the Exxon Valdez incident. Has everyone forgotten that the skipper was drunk? So we have wells drilled at a mile or more underwater. Incredible pressure generated at those depths, but how is it that many sea creatures thrive at those depths or sustain life in superheated plumes at even deeper levels? Where is science in understanding these things. I'd sooner see beaucoup dollars spent on oceanic research than dumping monies into a space stace or going back to the moon, because I don't think moon rocks are edible.
Anyone who has done any reading about the Great Depression is aware that Franklin Roosevelt, after making a good start on attacking the crisis, succumbed to pressure to reduce the deficits and, thereby, erased most of the progress made at the beginning of his administration. Knowing that historical lesson is one thing, but not until one has witnessed the daily political pressure to cut spending is it possible to understand how easy it is to make the same mistake F.D.R. made. It is vital that we support a continued effort to create jobs, even though that effort will entail running a federal deficit for the next two years.
Ten years ago, wasn't this newspaper leading the clamor that banks approved a lower proportion of home loans to blacks compared to whites because of racial discrimination? And that the banks were hiding behind "rules" that were antiquated? I believe "creative" solutions were called for. Make up your minds already!
Less than a year into a weak recovery from the worst slump since World War II, there is a dangerous urge to stop helping the jobless and start inflicting pain.
The Israeli Navy attacked a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and supplies for Gaza on Monday morning, news agencies reported.
Let's hope that North Korea's ally, China, is not behind this, luring the U.S. deeper into the pit.
“The Pain Caucus - http://nyti.ms/cWVhMW How bout NOT helping the poor and unemployed? Fuck that.”
Start-ups are pushing to see how much data consumers are willing to give up in exchange for getting a deal.
The combination of growing foreclosures and rising unemployment have destroyed black wealth and income and erased two decades of slow progress.
Mr Douthat, The study you are referring to in 'The Birds and the Bees' can hardly be called scientific, and the Institute of American Values' credentials are dubious at best. The chairman on the IAV website states, in regard gay marriage "Christianity - as the wellspring of ‘animus’ against homosexual activity - is being attacked as full of bigotry, but empty of factual content... Yet 99% of the empirical evidence regarding homosexual activity supports the Christian appraisal of it." How would one make 'empirical' such suposed "evidence"? The motivations of this organization are clear, and if you wish to highlight the activities and 'studies' promulgated by this organization, a clear statement addressing the organizations' mission would better inform your reader audience of possible biases, particularly ones that spew propaganda such as (in the same article) that 'homosexual promiscuity' makes the spread of AIDs virus "more efficient" and paedophilia "more likely". I have enjoyed your columns in the past and hope that your column advertsing the IAV's findings with regard IVF was published with an ignorance of their unscientific biases and bigoted values. Faithfully Stevie Modern
The president’s credibility as a champion of reformed, competent government is held hostage by video from the gulf.
Obama administration officials acknowledged the possibility that tens of thousands of gallons of oil might continue pouring into the gulf until August.
“CHICAGO – Some days, White House “pool duty” can be more interesting than others, even when you don’t get to see POTUS.”
President Obama’s next task? Shaping the public reaction to the gulf spill so that we can use it to generate the will to break our addiction to oil.
Eri Yoshida, a 18-year-old woman from Japan with a sidearm knuckleball, made her debut in American professional baseball this weekend, the first appearance by a woman since 2000.
Not long ago, I walked in on a group of medical residents inserting a central line catheter into a patient in the intensive care unit. They were gowned and gloved, working quietly over the patient’s neck, exposed through a small hole in a sterile ...
President Obama is still learning to emote, five weeks into the heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Many questions for potential priests are aimed at deciding whether gay applicants should be denied admission.
Viewing the effects of dispersants alongside the fish.
“A Long, Lean Backlash to the Mini - http://nyti.ms/9xuRfp”
"Today the fluid but rigorously plain maxis reflect a subtly shifting cultural climate born in the wake of the Dow’s collapse."
A long standing market indicator.
Dean and Laura Franks are among thousands of people who enter the United States on visas that allow them to invest and work. But extensions on those visas are now being denied.
The shrub was very toxic for a long time.
After the failure of an effort to seal off an oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, an Obama administration official said the government was prepared in case new attempts do not succeed.
To quote the grandmother I only barely knew:"Don't do it then, I WILL BE OBEYED."
Viewing the effects of dispersants alongside the fish.
Not good.
stop the dispersants. They are biocides.
How do you sink oil? it does not make sense.
everything is positively or neutrally buoyant. adding water to oil will not make it sink. it will break it in bits.
A rapid temperature change layer could allow cold oil to float on cold water under warmer water.
Female Marines in Helmand Province have the daunting mission of winning over the Afghan women who are culturally off limits to American men.
Jaw jaw over war war. Winning counts.
Dear Wall Street: here’s a plan to shape financial reform to your advantage.
Far too close to the facts. Let the financial disaster come soon. From the ruins may rise a real structure. They took half a century to destroy the last one.
Advances in video technology and a need to reduce medical costs have made interactive telemedicine a growing business.
If it works, use it. I have a preference. I would just as soon not put things on the web.
“Iran and Russia Exchange Acerbic Barbs on Sanctions http://nyti.ms/bhhsvP”
International politics is a mystery to me. Two people trying to talk by playing to different crowds. Chaos.
The struggle to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico challenges an American belief that technology can solve any problem.
"This is a paid political announcement"
Must precede and follow such stories.
Green is paint.
“When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects? - http://nyti.ms/bWIlrW @myen”
"A drug on the market" Stay away if you want to be employed.
Or go under false colours.
The salt industry is working overtly and behind the scenes to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar efforts for 30 years.
Gandhi lead a "Salt March" in India as part of the independence effort.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha) Some is vital. More is deadly.
Yes, profit is the commandment of industry.
President Obama is still learning to emote, five weeks into the heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico.
No one or place will do well by emoting but the TEA PARTY.
President Obama’s next task? Shaping the public reaction to the gulf spill so that we can use it to generate the will to break our addiction to oil.
We are addicted to oil like we are addicted to air, water and food.
Just another troll with a column.
The President is showing a lack of leadership that's very disappointing. For the Governor of LA to have to get on television and beg for resources is insulting beyond imagination. Over the last year and a half the President gave a couple of trillion public dollars to private business. Now it's time for one these agents of evil to pay the public. BP has enormous resources. For them to be telling us they will honor all legitimate claims is bizarre. We should be telling them. The President should collect the money in advance (start with a 20 billion down payment) and assure LA and the other gulf states and all the injured parties that money is in hand and is being disbursed efficiently. We made you and you work for us, not big oil, Barack. Stop the usual political bs. Get off your butt, show some moxie, and get the money. NOW! Just ignore this troll.
The governor of Louisiana is a Republican. His interests are his party's. The troll wants to hear the screams from business about NEW TAXES.
There are far too many bloody shirts in these pages. Screams and riot will not stop the well.
let me throw a few numbers at this mess. water is incompressible. it is as dense at the surface as it is a mile deep. the pressure at 5000 feet down is about 2000psi
I would not expect to see bubbles.
The well is a further 13,000 feet deep. Water pressure at the bottom of the well would be 8000 psi. 5000 psi higher than the pressure on the well head.
"Mud" pressure would about twice water pressure. 16000 psi plus pump pressure in a full pipe mud to the bottom of the well situation. maybe 17000 psi. I gathered from the comment stream at "the oil drum" that the hydrocarbon pressure at the well head, 5000 feet down, is about 13,000 psi. This will not be countered by 5000 psi mud. There was never any hope of top kill working. They did manage to suppress the hydrocarbon flow so they did get more than 12, 000 psi mud pressure at the well head. Those are some hoses. The pumps were way over redline. Valiant effort, no prise.
The oil business must learn. BP is the walking dead.
The president’s credibility as a champion of reformed, competent government is held hostage by video from the gulf.
Frank Ritch finds a soap box. It is a big one.
Maybe the average American isn't all that excited about it and Obama is reflecting that. Unlike the layabouts who can spend all day watching some stupid webcam at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Wish I had a job like that!--------------- Amen.
Obama's played corporatist for far too long. This is going to cost him big time.
The president’s credibility as a champion of reformed, competent government is held hostage by video from the gulf.
President Obama is still learning to emote, five weeks into the heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico.
President Obama’s next task? Shaping the public reaction to the gulf spill so that we can use it to generate the will to break our addiction to oil.
According to the Denver Post article dated 9/10/2008, " Government workers in Denver engaged in secret sex and drug abuse with oil company employees and accepted thousand of dollars in gifts while handling billions of dollars worth of energy contracts, federal investigators said". Interior Dept. scandal: Sex, drugs, energy deals probed at Denver office http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10428441
The salt industry is working overtly and behind the scenes to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar efforts for 30 years.
“An Urban Farming Pioneer Sows His Own Legacy - http://nyti.ms/akZhTu”
He was New York City’s first extension agent focused on farming, and now probably its last one. Mr. Ameroso formally retired in March and will spend the 2010 growing season removing himself from the daily work of city farms and making sure his colleagues — many of whom he’s trained — can carry on without him.
“Anybody doing urban agriculture today should thank him personally,” said Michael Hurwitz, director of Greenmarket, the system of farmers’ markets that began the same year that Mr. Ameroso started tilling Brooklyn soil. As a founder of Added Value, a group that has coordinated an urban farm in Red Hook since 2003, Mr. Hurwitz got advice from Mr. Ameroso about crop plans and starting a farm stand. “If there hadn’t been a John Ameroso,” Mr. Hurwitz said, “they wouldn’t be doing what they are today.”
BP engineers said that their latest attempt to stop the oil leak was unsuccessful, and, after consultation with government officials, they had decided to move on to another strategy.
Dennis Hopper, who was part of a new generation of Hollywood rebels in portrayals of drug-addled misfits in the landmark films “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Blue Velvet” and then went on to great success as a prolific character actor, died o...
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest disaster to result from an unholy alliance of government and giant corporations.
Dean and Laura Franks found that after nine years of running a restaurant in Maine, they could not renew their visa, forcing them to close and leave the country.
“The Doctor Will See You Now. Please Log On. - http://nyti.ms/dtY4Te”
Art and artists can go where government cannot. And they cost far less than sophisticated weapons. Mostly true. Islam is a problem.
Is it really worth $100,000 in debt to graduate from a top school? And is it responsible?
Internal documents show that BP had safety concerns with Deepwater Horizon far earlier than was described in its preliminary findings presented to Congress.
Viewing the effects of dispersants alongside the fish.
Dear Wall Street: here’s a plan to shape financial reform to your advantage.
Philadelphia ace Roy Halladay has thrown the 20th perfect game in major league history, delivering the marquee performance of his career in a 1-0 win over the Florida Marlins on Saturday night.
This has been a peculiar political year even for Alabama, where viral campaign videos are turning heads.
Dennis Hopper, whose portrayals of drug-addled, often deranged misfits in the landmark films “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Blue Velvet” drew on his early out-of-control experiences as part of a new generation of Hollywood rebel, died Saturda...
This is a sad loss. Dennis Hopper was One of a Kind and Hollywood and the Film World needs more unique people like Mr Hopper .. these days they are just interchangeable Barbie Dolls and Kens. I met him once, over 30 years ago, and he was a charming gentleman and I always had a soft spot in my heart for him after. He will be missed.
I enjoyed his films I saw.
Forty-five years after his report on black America, Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s analysis is just as pressing.
Nation building is difficult.
The salt industry is working overtly and behind the scenes to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar efforts for 30 years.
I fight the salt battle every day. It is medically required. 2 grams a day is the limit.
I do it.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest disaster to result from an unholy alliance of government and giant corporations.
BP's indifference to safety is beginning to sound depraved.
Ain't it about money? How much do politicians get? I would like to think there were mostly Republicans who have hemmed and hawed about the debacle in the Gulf, but the Dems can't be ignored as beneficiaries as well. And let's not forget the Supreme Court and it's decision to treat corporations as human beings in regards to free speech. Are we all from Alabama? Thank you Mr. Herbert for your column today, but I fear that it will hardly be noticed in the halls of the White House or the Congress. The Louisiana congressman caught with $90,000 in his refrigerator has nothing on the above.
When it comes to the BP oil spill, President Obama should show more emotion and less reserve.
Equating reserve with incompetence is ludicrous. It is reserve that allows an individual to maintain focus on the task at hand. Visceral emotion however normally indicates a going-off-half-cocked response. It would be this observer's guess therefore that you, Mr. Blow, are not as intelligent as you present yourself.
“Effort to Plug Well Faces Another Setback - New York Times http://nyti.ms/ctRevK”
BP said that its latest attempt to stop the oil well was unsuccessful, and the effort was being scrapped in favor of yet another maneuver to stem the flow spreading into gulf waters.
Internal documents show that BP had serious problems and safety concerns with Deepwater Horizon far earlier than was described in its preliminary findings presented to Congress.
There is nothing further the president can or should do about the run away well.
There is a great deal to be done about the MMS.
