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Forget About Crunches. Here’s How to Protect Your Back.
Adopting an exercise routine that improves posture and strengthens back muscles can go a long way toward preventing pain.I don't ordinarily have pain. I just need to get up and move. -
Obama Stops Short of Backing Gay Marriage
The president has gone pretty much as far as he can go on thIs issue, both publicly and more importantly politically. I think he has "winked" at the GLBT community and I believe that he supports the notion of marriage equality. But what does that do for him politically? It would alienate a conservative/religious segment of his base that will be necessary for his re-election which in modern times is only minutes away. Isn't it obvious? Obama is a very good man.Agree.The DOMA is still the law of the land. That will not change soon. -
A New Investment Strategy: Preparing for End Times
Investment professionals have a new pitch: The sky could soon be falling.I am sure these birds are wrong. The details of disaster are important.Look carefully at what is going on.Think.I keep getting bought out of my defensive positions as others value them more than their boards.Texas instruments bought National Semi. I own some of both.I wonder if the deal is stock or cash. -
Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
The tendency to see shyness as an illness does society a disservice, because being shy has benefits.I LOVE YOU. -
5 Reported Detained as Saudi Women Drive
Five women were arrested for defying a religious fatwa in Saudi Arabia forbidding women to drive cars.The morals police have to try. "The writing is on the wall."
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
The new service is intended to make it easy to share with groups, instead of all of one’s friends or the entire Web.Google may have found a hole in the service provided.If they can "not be evil" They will get users. We will see if they can resist more add money. -
When Fashion Meets Fishing, the Feathers Fly
The newest trend in hair accessories is posing a big problem for, of all people, fly fishermen.You grow your own. Here is yet another source of income from fancy fowl. Let them moult. -
Turtles Force Runway Closing at JFK Airport
Runway 4 Left at Kennedy International Airport was closed for more than an hour this morning. The cause: turtles on the runway.I have not seen a diamond back for years. They are well worth a half hour delay for other people. -
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Metropolitan Museum Raising Suggested Admission Fee
“Metropolitan Museum Raising Suggested Admission Fee - http://nyti.ms/mPQiZw A fan of suggest admiss. Prob adds to loyalty”"– who can decide to contribute as little as a penny if they want – has been lower recently. “Since the average cost to the museum of each visitor is $40""Figures don't lie but liars shur do figure!"I have been giving them $.50.
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Obama: Republican Leaders Must Bend on Taxes
3:45 p.m. | Updated President Obama said Wednesday that he believed Republicans would concede to tax increases as part of a deficit reduction package in time to avoid a default on the nation’s debt, and voiced exasperation at the lack of progress ...Temper tantrums do not go with mature years.I am betting against default here. -
News Corp. Sells MySpace to Specific Media for $35 Million
2:35 p.m. | Updated MySpace, the long-suffering Web site that was bought by the News Corporation six years ago for $580 million, was sold on Wednesday to the advertising targeting firm Specific Media for roughly $35 million.People just won't be bothered.This reads as an obituary. Died of selling. -
Greek Parliament Approves Austerity Plan
The Greek Parliament voted Wednesday to back a bitterly contested package of austerity measures, clearing the way for crucial international lending to stave off default.This just "kicks the can down the road". The Greeks can't pay the debt.It is not a matter of won't but of no income. When they show us income to cover these payments I may consider a short term Greek bond fund.In the mean time I remember a shipping line I bet on. Wiped out. -
Food Trucks Shooed From Midtown
Police officers have told food truck vendors to move away from their usual Midtown Manhattan spots.This is another opportunity to collect a fee.Mayor Mike can't raise taxes to run the city. Republicans would complain. It will get straightened out in the mayor's last days.Or maybe the trucks will have to sell without parking. -
Moleskine’s Campaign Features Its Fans - Advertising
When Moleskine unveiled its new collection of writing tools and accessories in the United States this year, it decided to let its admirers do the talking.This is definitely not the kind of design I want to do. -
Bank of America to Set Aside $14 Billion in Mortgage Deal
The charge, which will drive the company to a multibillion-dollar loss in the second quarter, is the biggest single settlement tied to the subprime mortgage boom.This started smaller when first reported.The bleeding is far from over.
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Appeals Court Upholds Obama’s Health Care Law
The ruling, the first by a federal appeals court on the health care overhaul, affirmed a Michigan ruling that Congress can require that Americans obtain health insurance.Perhapse Obama really did teach constitutional law. -
Homeowners Doubt House Is Good Investment, Poll Says
Nearly nine in 10 Americans see owning a home as part of the American dream, even as many doubt their home is a good investment, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.These things are all true. What it means is we need a much more nuanced view than this provides.People would like to be earning.people object to being foreclosed.People would like the government to pay their debts.People object to paying the neighbours debts.People object to losing their equity.People are their short sighted selves. -
Utopia on the Hudson
Told by his dad to get off the canvas, Andrew Cuomo learned what the big picture really means.Maureen Dowd had some space.The state of New York is not under interdict. -
Cuomo Emphasizes Aim to Close Indian Point Plant
Alternatives to the Indian Point nuclear plant have become more feasible, and one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s top advisers told its owner that the governor planned to close it.The level of fear does not seem to be much higher than it has been. I expect we will see a reactor at Ravenswood before Indian point is closed. Andrew may live to see it happen.We will see how the wind projects do the next two years. A gas plant is becoming more and more doubtful as shale gas gets real.Watch the price of oil. It will fall as the world shuts down but not that much. -
Sketching the Mets’ Season (in Color When They Win)
Joe Petruccio, a 52-year-old creative art director at a Manhattan advertising agency, is a dyed-in-the-wool Mets fan who wears his heart on his blog My Mets Journal.I would have to look at the box score to know the standings. -
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Showing Gay Teens a Happy Future
A new online video channel is reaching out to teenagers who are bullied at school for being gay. The message: life really does get better after high school.Sooner is better. - - - - - - As soon as you can is best.I will be back here on the evening of the tenth so my sister can be at work on the twelfth. I expect her tomorrow evening about nine.I still have not formed a detailed trip plan. The weather looks very day to day. Attention will be spotty.
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Administration Halts Survey of Making Doctor Visits
The government shelved plans for a survey in which “mystery shoppers” would have seen how difficult it was to get appointments.It is the doctors privacy they are worried about. This would be a large club to beat the Republican opposition. I expect it will happen quite soon. -
In Red Hook, Filipino Cruise Ship Staffs Find Taste of Home
Some crew members flock to a makeshift food stand in Red Hook serving pork blood stew and other delicacies from the Philippines.Cheap rent implies establishing communities and their food. Medical services are Philipino the last few years.I thought the Port of New York dead. The Cruise ships were coming in to Miami the last time I looked. The Hudson Piers were shut down about twenty years back. A cruise ship seems to me a miserable way to spend time. Travel by ship appeals but the time aboard is down time. -
Car Clash: Europe vs. the U.S. - Room for Debate
European planners work hard to discourage drivers, cars and parking. Why is American city planning different?My problem with this is not that I don't know but rather that I know a great deal and have not compressed it.The difference is one of fashion, sanitation, the trajectory of industrial wages, gas light and rail roads, electric light and automobiles.Rustication as a punishment, hermits seeking solitude, the compact farm, the city wall. More recently Frank Lloyd Wright and Robert Moses, F.D.R. and Al Smith and Dwight Eisenhower. Henry Ford, Edison, and Tesla get in there. Much is Voltaire, Rouseau and Thomas Jefferson.
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Leaderless in Europe
The list of crises in Europe is frightening, as is the lack of vision of its leaders."Who will bell the cat?" Do not bet on the Euro.
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Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
The tendency to see shyness as an illness does society a disservice, because being shy has benefits.Maybe. We do know it well. I LOVE YOU.
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Seniors Volunteer at Japan’s Crippled Daiichi Nuclear Plant
Older engineers say that their age puts them at less risk when exposed to radiation.Certainly they are not growing. They are not reproducing. Damage will be more durable. They do not heal quickly. Their families will miss them. Their pensions will not need to be paid. They are familiar with the old equipment. Let them work but stop them from taking excessive risks.
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Hurdle Cleared for Trade Agreements with 3 Countries
A deal with Congress will allow a vote on free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.These things are not great ideas right now. Cheap labour is a problem.
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Isayah Muller Killed Hours After Truman High School Graduation
The victim, Isayah Muller, was stabbed during an argument in a parking lot over missing property, the police said.Reads as a real tragedy.
"This is why, for me, it was quite literally a breath of fresh air when I recently was introduced to Steve Edwards, CEO of Edwards Educational Services. Edwards, who speaks so passionately about education that there is no doubting his sincerity, has built a model consulting practice on the premise that leadership skills are of paramount importance, safety, lowering dropout rates and student achievement go hand in hand, and building a relationship of “trust” between students, administrators and educators is key."
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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I need to sleep. The first list is not that different. I will try to deal with it in the morning.
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Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
The new service is intended for sharing with small groups, instead of all of one’s friends or the entire Web.I have no idea. Join and invite me. The way we have been going works for the moment. -
Teacher Evaluation System Examines Classroom Performance
A job evaluation system that places significant emphasis on classroom observations is disliked by unionized teachers but has become a model for many educators.There is too much of the political in the system. Pay the teachers well.Some children are not teachable at some times. Measure the children as well. I have no clever solution. -
U.S. Endorses France’s Lagarde as New I.M.F. Chief
The French finance minister Christine Lagarde was expected to be named Tuesday, with the American endorsement all but sealing her victory.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/world/europe/29greece.html?ref=globalhttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/the-mystery-of-lagarde/ -
Judge Recounts His Thoughts in Madoff Sentencing
The sentencing of Bernard L. Madoff required balancing the law against the public anger his fraud had inspired.Really not important. The money was redistributed for the most part.He will not repeat and some have learned. Too good to be true is not true. -
New Prostate Cancer Drugs Extend Lives, but Raise Costs
The drugs, mainly for men with late-stage prostate cancer, can extend lives for additional months, but some cost more than $90,000 for a course of treatment.I had a psa about six years ago. It was clean. I expect I have no problems there but will check into it. -
Many Variables in a New York Math Museum
Glen Whitney’s museum in New York aims to shape cultural attitudes and dispel the bad rap that most people give math.I wish them all the luck there is. It is a wonderful project. I have no idea how to go about it. I can do bits but the nut escapes me. -
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ - Movie Review
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is among Michael Bay’s best movies and by far the best 3-D sequel ever made about gigantic toys from outer space.I would rather study ( http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104 ) -
New Saddles Can Help Release Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
New noseless saddles can save cyclists from soreness and numbness in the genital region, but their popularity is lagging.Agreed I found that adjusting the angle of the saddle to bring the weight on the ischial tuberosityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberosity_of_the_ischiumdid the job. Noseless saddles are a great idea. I will buy you one posthaste if you have not bought one already.
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The First Amendment, Upside Down
The Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling is a loss for fair and open electoral politics."Justice Elena Kagan, writing in dissent, dissects the court’s willful misunderstanding of the result. Rather than a restriction on speech, she says, the trigger mechanism is a subsidy with the opposite effect: “It subsidizes and produces more political speech.” Those challenging the law, she wrote, demanded — and have now won — the right to “quash others’ speech” so they could have “the field to themselves.” She explained that the matching funds program — unlike a lump sum grant to candidates — sensibly adjusted the amount disbursed so that it was neither too little money to attract candidates nor too large a drain on public coffers."The press is free to the man who owns one. -
An Alternative to Online Ads That Distract - Advertising
The company AdKeeper has created a button for viewers can click to save online ads for viewing at a later time."In March, About.com, the company Mr. Kurnit founded, announced the winners of its 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards, and in the category of Best Overall (Non-Security) Add-On, the winner for the second consecutive year: Adblock Plus. "
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Microsoft Takes Action to Ward Off Competition
Google’s Web alternatives to Microsoft Office are pulling business away from the company’s biggest money maker.www.openoffice.org/ - CachedOpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
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Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
The tendency to see shyness as an illness does society a disservice, because being shy has benefits.There is money to be made from illness.We are very familiar with shyness. I LOVE YOU.Sooner is better. - - - - - - As soon as you can is best. -
Seniors Volunteer at Japan’s Crippled Daiichi Nuclear Plant
Older engineers are stepping up to help at the damaged Daiichi power plant, saying that their age puts them at less risk when exposed to radiation.Different risk. Less risk to future generations. -
Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score
Companies are scouring social networks, looking for the new “influencers.”If you can sell to the leaders at any price the followers will buy at your price. -
America, Awaken
The U.S. economic crisis is not a temporary blip. An energy and an industrial policy are urgently needed.We are going to have to break the Republican block. That will not be easy or cheap. Leave the morality out of this. It just confuses people. -
Norma Lyon, the ‘Butter-Cow Lady,’ Dies at 81
Ms. Lyon won fame for sculpturing tons of U.S. Grade AA salted butter each year into life-size figures of cows, famous people and, once, a diorama of the Last Supper.The standard for butter sculpture.What will butter cows look like next? -
Convener in Chief
What sort of leader can get things done in an age of austerity? A comparison of three management styles sheds some light.
David Brooks builds this column around a false premise, That we are in debt trouble as New Jersey is in debt trouble. The two organizations are fundamentally different. New Jersey is not a nation. It is required to have a balanced budget. It has failed to raise taxes to cover operating costs for many years. It finds itself in the situation where it must either raise taxes to cover the services demanded by its population or it must cram down those costs. Governor Christi won election on the promise that he would not raise taxes. He must reduce costs. This will be very costly for the residents. California is learning about that.Our nation is not required to have a balanced budget. It can borrow for operating expenses. It can inflate the currency in lieu of taxes. It can do a great many things that a state cannot. It has done some of them.Congress passed a rule that the amount of debt the nation could carry is limited. The Republican Party finds the rule very convenient. With the aid of the debt limit it can try to force the nation to make the oligarchy that uses it for a mask happy. Making the oligarchy happy will not please anyone for long. Most of us are already very unhappy.Many of us do not know why. Learning is not going to be pleasant.Our nation is not broke. It is not in debt trouble. It must borrow for immediate expenses and raise taxes to pay down the long term debt.There is no rush about that pay down.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/debt-limit-stakes/Barack Obama is not being allowed to do what he must do.
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Across Europe, Irking Drivers Is Urban Policy
It was always a question. I have found no better solution. Here, living as I do, I want a car. In the city a car is an impossible burden. There are great stretches of Queens that are designed around cars. Brooklyn is mostly pre car. The Bronx is also pre car.
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Florida Congressman Defies Critics on Rail Project
Representative John L. Mica has spent years badgering federal agencies, bullying state officials, blocking Amtrak naysayers and trying to bypass federal restrictions to build support for the so-called SunRail project.If it broke the Disney monopoly or relieved traffic in other ways I could feel much more enthusiastic. As explained it is a toy train at public expense. -
Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children
The Supreme Court agreed with a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying the law violated minors’ rights.The court really had no choice but to strike down the simple ban.I am trying to think of other measures that could be taken and having a hard time. Other grounds might serve such as the addictive nature of the things but that is rather thin.I can think of no game based on empathy though that is our main tool against interpersonal violence.
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