Monday, August 5, 2013

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Opinion

Sunday Dialogue: Can Suburbs Help Cities?

Readers discuss taking a regional approach to reviving Detroit.
Suburbs; Local Government; Urban Areas; Bankruptcies; Economic Conditions and Trends; 

Been there, done that.
No, the suburbs can't help.
 
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Real Estate

Real Estate Q & A

This week’s subjects include a rent-stabilized tenant being urged to buy; a proposal by co-op shareholders to renovate outdoor space; and a lawsuit over building flaws.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Renting and Leasing (Real Estate); Rent Control and Stabilization; Insurance; Suits and Litigation (Civil); 

Go ahead and fix the building.  
The builder pays.  
Liability is covered by standard insurance.  
It is the hit on income.
 
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Magazine

T.M.B. (Too Much Baby)

Facebook and free will.
Babies and Infants; Ethics (Personal); Privacy; 

Here is an opportunity to make use of copy right.
The family album is the property of the individuals pictured.
control goes to the individuals on their majority.
The blackmail pictures are not usable.
"Publish and be damned".
 
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Arts

A Star Philosopher Falls, and a Debate Over Sexism Is Set Off

The case of Colin McGinn, who had agreed to leave his post at the University of Miami after allegations of sexual harassment, has drawn scrutiny to the field.
Philosophy; Women and Girls; Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; 

Possibly Colin McGinn is unskilled in listening.

His world is now limited to his keyboard and his monitor.

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U.S.

G.O.P. Push to Slash Food Stamps Puts Farm Bill in Jeopardy

A plan by House leaders to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program threatens to derail efforts by the House and Senate to complete a farm bill before agriculture programs expire on Sept. 30.
Farm Bill (US); Food Stamps; Law and Legislation; United States Politics and Government; 

The farm bill is old compost.  Another win for the GOP.
 
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Sunday Review

Life in a Toxic Country

My wife and I worry about how China’s bad air and food will affect our child.
Air Pollution; Food Contamination and Poisoning; Infant Formulas; Melamine; Toothbrushes and Toothpaste; 

Edward Wong is a very frightened man.  He has good reason to be.

As a child the neighborhood heated with coal.  The area burned anthracite.

It was nearly odorless.  Bituminous stinks.  Lignite stinks more.

Coking coal is bituminous.  China burns bituminous with forced draft.

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Sunday Review

A Washington Riddle: What Is ‘Top Secret’?

The government is stumbling in its efforts to protects its secrets in the Internet age.
Classified Information and State Secrets; United States Defense and Military Forces; Cyberwarfare; United States Politics and Government; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Drones (Pilotless Planes); Computers and the Internet; 

I am emotionally opposed to secrecy.
In practice secrecy is very useful.
Most secrets have limited, often very limited, useful lives.
Perhaps secrets should be reviewed and renewed annually.

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Opinion

Public Pensions After Detroit

State and local governments should make prudent financial decisions without gutting retirement benefits.
Pensions and Retirement Plans; Subprime Mortgage Crisis; Budgets and Budgeting; Local Government; 

Pensions have been considered a continuing current expense.  Benefits are paid out of each years budget for state and municipal employees. Pension funds are an industrial union feature.  They have become a negotiating ploy.
A benefit for labor peace that need not be paid off this years account.
This article assumes a change in the accounting rules that places the pension burden on the retiring employee rather than the employer.
A pension has been differed compensation.  It is supposed to become a paid up annuity.  This looks like fraud to me.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Office Tower’s Owners May Profit From Plan to Allow Sale of Landmarks’ Air Rights

A Bloomberg administration plan to help pay for the preservation of aging structures also could be a boon to property developers.
Real Estate (Commercial); Grand Central Terminal (NYC); Historic Buildings and Sites; Zoning; 

A payoff by the Bloomberg administration.
 
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Autos

Wheelies: The Natural Gas Pickups Edition

Ford announced that it would offer natural gas-powered F-150s in 2014 and would also pay $17.4 million in federal fines over its recall for the Ford Escape.
Automobile Safety Features and Defects; Automobiles; Natural Gas; 

The units are incomparable.
How big is a gallon of compressed gas?

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Fashion & Style

Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll

She could rescue him from a dead-end life. But was that a good reason to marry him?
Love (Emotion); Marriages; Cold War Era; Americans Abroad; Dating and Courtship; 

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.
 
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Technology

From North Korea With Love: a Tablet With No Internet Access

A tourist bought a North Korean tablet computing device and found it similar to other tablets, except for a lack of real Internet access. But it has “Angry Birds.”
Android (Operating System); Computers and the Internet; Tablet Computers; 

If I had one I would have to try to hack it.  
They make no mention of a USB port or a memory  card slot.  They may be internal.  Getting the case open would be the first thing after a careful visual inspection. 
Walled gardens deserve ladders.  
Android operating systems are open source.  Downloadable from the net.
That does make it hard from inside the walls.
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Opinion

Apes Need Vaccines, Too

Research on captive chimps can help save the lives not just of humans but also of wild chimps.
Monkeys and Apes; Cruelty to Animals; Vaccination and Immunization; Research; 

When the Chimps develop medicine they can treat themselves.
Until then any treatment that is done will be done by humans.
We owe the chimps compensation for their involuntary servitude.
Part of the compensation is their liberty and protected status.
They are themselves and not disposable persons or food.
We can and should treat them as best we can discover.
The model is us.  They are not for victimization. 
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Opinion

Addicted to Prayer

Prayer seems to have health benefits for people, even for atheists. But should everyone drop to their knees and pray?
Prayers and Prayer Books; Atheism; Psychology and Psychologists; Religion and Belief; 

A foreign world to me.
 
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Business Day

TransCanada Plans Pipeline to East Coast

The $12 billion pipeline could move as many as 1.1 million barrels a day to New Brunswick, to serve a region that relies on imported crude oil for most of its supply.
Pipelines; Keystone Pipeline System; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; 

Reality comes to the oil business.  They are still dreaming.

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=St.+John,+New+Brunswick&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x4ca7c50d1ef9f977:0xf08156072617d267,St+John,+NB,+Canada&gl=us&ei=68T_Ud-yFpWj4APSjICYCQ&ved=0CMoBELYD

http://www.omg.unb.ca/~haigh/port_sj.html
St. John is not a deep harbor.
 
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U.S.

Why Must Voting Be Be So Hard?

Despite the encouragement of those in politics and government, the act of registering and voting in Texas is no easy matter.
Voter Registration and Requirements; Voting and Voters; 

Vote suppression is not a light topic.
It is hoped the results of open elections would be different.
 
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Opinion

The Trauma of Being Alive

An undercurrent of injury and disaster runs through ordinary life.
Grief (Emotion); Therapy and Rehabilitation; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Death and Dying; 

And so the concept of the immortal soul developed.
 
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Magazine

What’s an Idea Worth?

Why the billable hour no longer makes economic sense.
United States Economy; Accounting and Accountants; Productivity; Labor and Jobs; 

Things are worth what people will pay for them.
Ideas are things.
The product of creative people (artists) often does not find a value until much later.
Business only values money machines.
 
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Business Day

Skyrocketing Numbers of Federal Workers on Forced Leave

This number of “involuntary part-timers” in the federal government jumped in July, to 199,000, nearly four times the number in recent years.
Government Employees; Labor and Jobs; Layoffs and Job Reductions; Working Hours; 

As was known when the sequester was imposed.
Our nation should not starve quietly.
 
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Real Estate

Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue

The Upper East Side building, completed in 1910, is whitening its soiled terra-cotta base.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Historic Buildings and Sites; Cooperatives; Restoration and Renovation; 

Terra-cotta was a new building material in 1907.  We did not learn to match differential expansion and prevent crazing for about twenty years.
Just replace the tile.

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Real Estate

Real Estate Q & A


Student housing.  Try International House.

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Magazine

T.M.B. (Too Much Baby)


Copy Right problem.
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Arts

A Star Philosopher Falls, and a Debate Over Sexism Is Set Off


He is ostracized.

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Which endangers the party.

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Sunday Review

Life in a Toxic Country

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Sunday Review

A Washington Riddle: What Is ‘Top Secret’?

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Opinion

Public Pensions After Detroit


The same group who want to end Social Security want to steal the pension money.

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Style

IVF, Embryos and Choices

When my daughter asked if I chose whether to make her and her sister siblings, or twins, I lied before I thought. Because along with a lot of other choices I never thought I’d have, that was a choice.
In Vitro Fertilization; Infertility; Multiple Births; Parenting; Pregnancy and Childbirth; Twins; 

ok
 
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Autos

Wheelies: The Natural Gas Pickups Edition

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Technology

From North Korea With Love: A Tablet With No Internet Access

12
Fashion & Style

Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll

13
Opinion

Apes Need Vaccines, Too

14
Opinion

Addicted to Prayer

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Business Day

TransCanada Plans Pipeline to East Coast

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U.S.

Why Must Voting Be Be So Hard?


Opinion

The Trauma of Being Alive

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U.S.

Finally, Thousands of Old Rape-Evidence Kits Are to Be Tested

Thanks to an $11 million budget appropriation, thousands of evidence kits collected from sexual-assault victims in Texas can now be analyzed.
Budgets and Budgeting; Sex Crimes; Forensic Science; State Legislatures; Law and Legislation; 

The police in Texas must have big families and many inlaws.
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Magazine

What’s an Idea Worth?

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Real Estate

Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue

The Upper East Side building, completed in 1910, is whitening its soiled terra-cotta base.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Historic Buildings and Sites; Cooperatives; Restoration and Renovation; 

Just replace the Terra-cotta.


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Technology

Disruptions: Rather Than Time, Computers Might Become Panacea to Hurt

We might not be far away from a day when scientists can use computer-manipulation of the mind for a host of different things.
Brain; Computers and the Internet; Memory; Research; Science and Technology; 

Not a good idea.

I would rather find you with me.
 
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Real Estate

Real Estate Q & A

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Style

IVF, Embryos and Choices

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Autos

Wheelies: The Natural Gas Pickups Edition

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Fashion & Style

Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll

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Technology

From North Korea With Love: A Tablet With No Internet Access

9
Opinion

Addicted to Prayer

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Business Day

TransCanada Plans Pipeline to East Coast

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Health

In Nursing Homes, an Epidemic of Poor Dental Hygiene

The lack of daily oral care in nursing facilities is almost universally overlooked, experts say, and studies suggest that it may contribute to pneumonia, a leading killer of institutionalized older people.
Elder Care; Hygiene and Cleanliness; Nursing Homes; Pneumonia; Teeth and Dentistry; 

It is time for her to see her dentist.  
I see mine regularly.

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U.S.

Why Must Voting Be Be So Hard?

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Opinion

The Trauma of Being Alive

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Magazine

What’s an Idea Worth?

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Real Estate

Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue

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World

A Day’s Toil in the Suicide Bombers’ Graveyard

Khwaja Naqib Ahmad lays claim to one of the toughest jobs in the Afghan capital — burying the unclaimed dead, including suicide bombers.
Cemeteries; Afghanistan War (2001- ); Muslims and Islam; 

There are so many dead.  Nathan Hale many times over.
 
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Magazine

It’s a Buyer’s Market!

At farmers’ markets everywhere, now is the time to spend on whatever looks good.
Cooking and Cookbooks; Agriculture and Farming; Vegetables; Recipes; Farmers' Markets; 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/02/magazine/bittman-farmers-market-recipe-generator.html#/?id=strawberry-orange-soup_0-0-0

All easy.   Probably good.  
I have been using sour cream regularly.  Trying Greek yogurt.
 
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N.Y. / Region

More Complaints Than Proposed Solutions at Trial Over Police Searches

In the case considering the legality of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactic, lawyers who brought the suit were sure of the problem, but less sure about how to fix it.
Search and Seizure; Police; 

The judge has no duty to apply an alternative.
She has only a duty to order a halt to the practice.
 
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Technology

New Habits Transform Software

An increasing focus on office collaboration is creating opportunities for software giants like Microsoft and Google and start-ups like Quip.
Software; Word Processing; Mobile Applications;

Creation does not happen in groups.

 



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