NEW THINGS: August 2011

@16:54, 08/31/11

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I need to get to the store.

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Rodi Reich
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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.
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Aug 30, 2011

Shotgun Weddings vs. Cohabitating Parents - Room for Debate
Maybe marriage contributes to a stable environment. Or maybe it's just that couples in stable environments tend to get married.
A contract for mutual support. Child support is not optional in N.Y.
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Aug 30, 2011

Cohabitation Doesn't Cause Bad Parenting - Room for Debate
Encouraging couples who are in a rocky relationship to marry is no panacea.
Rational. Proper.
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Aug 30, 2011

Essential Summer Dishes: - The New York Times
Let me think. Fresh Sweet corn. Bring to a boil. salt lightly, butter optional.
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Aug 30, 2011

Cohabitation Is a Shaky Foundation - Room for Debate
Cohabitation is harmful because it does not institutionalize commitment in a way that is easily understood and honored by romantic partners and their friends and family.
Nah. Just let them suffer.
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China India Buy Buy
"We will all go together when we go." Tom Lehrer
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jodikantor
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  Apr 24, 2011
  
  The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
  “"The fiscal afterlife": David Stockman's stinging op ed about the budget wars is really well written. http://nyti.ms/h3BW4M”
  Even the mad know others' madness.
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Aug 30, 2011

Research Papers Need Argument and Evidence - Room for Debate
Any good research paper must have an argument, and any good essay must support its argument with evidence.
An essay can be all opinion.
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Aug 30, 2011

What Did We Learn From Irene? - Room for Debate
Most residents of New York City's flood-prone areas defied evacuation orders. Were they prepared anyway?
Not much.
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Aug 30, 2011

Thine Is the Kingdom
Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus” (1601).
I am an Agnostic Atheist. Christian in culture but no kind of a believer.
We can come back and back to this. The Unitarians had my religious education.

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Lydia Polgreen
- Lydia Polgreen posted to Twitter an article:
  Jul 25, 2011
  
  To Reach Simple Life at Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets
  “What recession? To Reach Simple Life at Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets - http://nyti.ms/o2bANK”
  Some people have more money than is good.
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John Markoff
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  Pressure for a Climate Draft Accord Grows
  Participants in the United Nations climate change conference walked in front of a display of pictures on Wenesday in the Bella Center in Copenhagen.More Photos >
  Republicans.
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TPP
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  Dec 9, 2009
  
  Pressure for a Climate Draft Accord Grows
  Participants in the United Nations climate change conference walked in front of a display of pictures on Wenesday in the Bella Center in Copenhagen.More Photos >
  Sooner is better. AS SOON AS YOU CAN IS BEST.
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Jenna Wortham
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  Aug 4, 2011
  
  Can New York Rival Silicon Valley for Start-Ups? - Room for Debate
  “Can New York Rival Silicon Valley for Start-Ups? - Room for Debate - http://nyti.ms/nVgbJ9”
  No.
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Aug 30, 2011

College Doesn't Create Success - Room for Debate
Before long, spending four years in a lecture hall with a hangover will be revealed as an antiquated debt-fueled luxury good.
Education is good. Training is useless unless applied.
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Andrew Rosenthal
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  Jul 27, 2011
  
  In Norway, the Past Is a Foreign Country
  “Jo Nesbo, a Norwegian novelist, on his nation's lost past. NYT Op-Ed - http://nyti.ms/rdMEqL”
  Education failure.
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Adam Nagourney
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  General McChrystal’s Twitters
  How the American commander might have Twittered his way across Europe, Bud Light Lime in hand.
  Doing just fine in retirement.
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JoinTheFlock
- JoinTheFlock posted to Twitter an article:
  Apr 26, 2010
  
  Just Give Him 5 Sentences, Not ‘War and Peace’
  “Guy Kawasaki on hiring "Good people hire people better than themselves" http://nyti.ms/di5fpl”
  OK
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Gretchen Morgenson
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  Jan 18, 2011
  
  Amy Chua Is a Wimp
  “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” may denounce soft American-style parenting, but its author shelters her children from the truly arduous experiences necessary to achieve.
  Sadist.
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Peter Baker
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  Mar 29, 2011
  
  Battle for Libya
  The latest images after Western intervention in Libya.
  This is a revolution. Any aid is requested.
  It is all their fight and they own it.
  We should send medical help and food if asked.

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By this We have been sitting in the economic noise.

July.

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The index declined to 99.7 in July (above 100 indicates expansion).

Unfortunately the data for this index only goes back to 2002.

This is a minor report, but still interesting (barely "D-List" data).

@12:15, 08/31/11

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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/martin-wolf-gets-it/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/079ff1c6-d2f0-11e0-9aae-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F079ff1c6-d2f0-11e0-9aae-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fkrugman.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F08%2F31%2Fmartin-wolf-gets-it%2F#axzz1WY82yxu8 Pay wall.

""Mr Obama wishes to be president of a country that does not exist. In his fantasy US, politicians bury differences in bipartisan harmony. In fact, he faces an opposition that would prefer their country to fail than their president to succeed. Ms Merkel, similarly, seeks a non-existent middle way between the German desire for its partners to abide by its disciplines and their inability to do any such thing.

Quite. And yes, this was what worried me about Obama from the beginning, way back in 2007-2008, when I got huge grief from progressives for criticizing him.
Well, let’s see what the jobs plan looks like — and more important, since the GOP will block everything, how (and if) he makes a political issue of that obstruction." P.K.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-abortion-idaho-idUSTRE77U2JP20110831

I am still working from the library in GC. Power and phone are out at home.

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Kare Anderson
- davidnour posted to Twitter an article:
  Jun 30, 2011
  
  In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns
  “Obama to Republicans: "need to do their job" in raising taxes to cut deficit - http://nyti.ms/j0oImO”
  I see the announcement. Nothing from congress.
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Aug 30, 2011

Are Research Papers a Waste of Time? - Room for Debate
Has the Internet made research papers a useless exercise for college students? Is there a better way to assess knowledge?
They drive understanding. Actions show knowledge every time.
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Aug 30, 2011

Hurricane Irene's Hidden Costs, Still Piling Up - Room for Debate
Our population’s relentless march to the coast is putting more people and their built environment in harm’s way.
Forbid it.
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Up and Down From Ground Zero
Technical interest only.
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The 'Cry Wolf' Effect After Hurricane Irene - Room for Debate
Everyone working in emergency preparedness need to counter the complacency that will surely arise after the hurricane.
A useless effort. Concentrate on cleaning up.
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Aug 30, 2011

Manufacturing as a Driver of Employment Is Wishful Thinking - Room for Debate
Manufacturing will always add a lot of value to our economy, but as a share of the labor market it has declined for several decades.
Productivity gains contract the economy.
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Aug 30, 2011

What Did We Learn From Irene? - Room for Debate
Most residents of New York City's flood-prone areas defied evacuation orders. Were they prepared anyway?
No.
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Aug 30, 2011

Exxon Reaches Arctic Oil Deal With Russians
Not a good deal.
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Aug 30, 2011

Shotgun Weddings vs. Cohabitating Parents - Room for Debate
Maybe marriage contributes to a stable environment. Or maybe it's just that couples in stable environments tend to get married.
Marriage is a contract for mutual support.
If it acquires children it includes unconditional child support. Signing a birth certificate does the same.
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davidnour
- davidnour posted to Twitter an article:
  Jun 30, 2011
  
  In Deficit Plan, Taxes Must Rise, President Warns
  “Obama to Republicans: "need to do their job" in raising taxes to cut deficit - http://nyti.ms/j0oImO”
  No progress from congress.

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Gerd Leonhard
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  Jul 5, 2011
  
  Twitter Co-Founders Start (or Restart) a Company
  Two of Twitter’s co-founders and its former product chief have joined forces to work on a new start-up, the Obvious Corporation, they said on Tuesday.
  Product without production. Virtual objects only.
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Aug 30, 2011

Germany's Non-Nuclear Future
Germany is playing "Beggar thy neighbor" .
They are doing the same thing in banking.
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Shiv Singh
- Shiv Singh posted to Twitter an article:
  Jul 23, 2011
  
  Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow’s TV, Looks Boxed In Today
  “Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow’s TV, Looks Boxed In Today - http://nyti.ms/nHEW7i”
  It will not stay that way.
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Aug 30, 2011

Cohabitation Doesn't Cause Bad Parenting - Room for Debate
Encouraging couples who are in a rocky relationship to marry is no panacea.

A reasonable view.
We have to add in the current rules on child support.
The contract helps with the medical establishment and there are tax advantages.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Let me think. Fresh Sweet corn. Bring to a boil. salt lightly, butter optional.

"We will all go together when we go." Tom Lehrer

Technical interest only.

Not a good deal.