Saturday, October 29, 2011

@22:30, 10/28/11, 4

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A good few hours on the water.

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  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Obama's student Debt Plan Is a Good First Step - Room for Debate
    The strength of the anti-student-loan movement and the number of students defaulting suggest a serious lack of awareness of repayment protections already in place.


  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Will Amazon Kill Off Book Publishers? - Room for Debate
    What happens when more writers have the option of a one-stop shop: agent, publisher and bookseller.
    Really not much.  
    There will be many more bad and boring books.  Books that never should have had a second reader will become more prevalent.  The pot boiler has never left us.  The reviewer will grow in importance.  First editions  will be collected.  Second editions will be for reading.  eBooks never have errata sheets. 

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    The Worst Lesson We Could Teach - Room for Debate
    If freeing grads from their debts would help them spend, spend, spend, who picks up the bill?



  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    José Muñiz

    • culturebotNYC is following a user:
      Feb 2, 2011
      jenny8lee

      For the A-Cup Crowd, Minimal Assets Are a Plus
       
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  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Student Debt Plan Compounds the Suffering - Room for Debate
    Predatory lenders are still allowed to victimize borrowers with ever rising costs and penalties.
    This is a different view.  There are facts,  Let us have them.
    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch.xpd?q=365
    All I find is radical noise.  
    Grandstanding is not going to win but it may keep the seat.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Obama's Inadequate Response on Student Debt - Room for Debate
    Tinkering with the student loan program does nothing to address the underlying issue: the soaring cost of college.
    The president has no control of the cost of college.

  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    culturebotNYC

    • culturebotNYC is following a user:
      Feb 2, 2011
      jenny8lee

      For the A-Cup Crowd, Minimal Assets Are a Plus
       
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    • culturebotNYC posted to Twitter a blog post:
      Feb 2, 2011
      Public Theater's Executive Director Is Departing
      “Public Theater's Executive Director Is Departing - http://nyti.ms/gNMMNZ” 
      The next time I go to a performance I must do my preparation.
      I am not of the time and place and have trouble tracking the subthemes.

  • TimesPeople recommended a video:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Show and Tell: iPhone 4S
    Very cute.
    Upstaged by a hamster.
    "Never follow an animal act."  C.W. Fields

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Should College Grads Get a Break on Their Loans? - Room for Debate
    The Obama administration has eased the terms on student debt. What impact will the new rules have?
    Less than they should.  Financial advisors should be much more knowledgeable.

  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    tonygbaker

    • JehanWatson posted to Twitter an interactive graphic:
      Jul 6, 2011

      Asians in New York City
      “Maps, Info and Asians, what more could you want? - Asians in New York City - http://nyti.ms/iGorvc” 
      I know something of them.  Enough to know something of my ignorance.  
      The upper level north east quadrant of the central structure of the Metropolitan Museum of art is devoted to them.  I have not spent enough time there.  I have yet to get to the Noguchi Museum in L.I. City.  Almost in Raven's Wood.

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  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    JehanWatson

    • JehanWatson posted to Twitter an interactive graphic:
      Jul 6, 2011

      Asians in New York City
      “Maps, Info and Asians, what more could you want? - Asians in New York City - http://nyti.ms/iGorvc” 
      It is an inflation problem.  Money chasing realestate driven by the
      "inhuman" nature of the bedroom suburb.  We seek contact on line because we find none among the neighbors.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Subsidizing the College Bubble - Room for Debate
    Will people be quicker to take on debt if they know the government will eventually make the terms easier for borrowers?
    The proposition that we reserve higher education to the already privileged runs counter to the American tradition. 
    Meritocracy is our tradition and though an early training purchased by family wealth often forms part of that merit it has not been a barrier for those with luck and pluck.  Land grant colleges offering tax supported education to future leaders have taught the professionals of our nation. Scholarships and grants have recruited talent to the elite schools.  The G.I. bill provided the first sufficiency of talent to the educated ranks. 
    Penurious legislatures and trust officers of no talent have faced a inflated cohort of  offspring of the G.I. bill.  They have raised prices to limit demand while employers have raised entry requirements because of limited demand.  We as a civilization are caught between what is required for life and what the "good life" requires. 

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