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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.
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