Tuesday, August 27, 2013

@9:18, 8/25/13

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Automobiles

A Well-Traveled Concours Winner

From Puerto Rico to New Jersey to Best of Show in California, a Packard has had quite a journey.
Automobiles; Antique and Classic Cars; Restoration and Renovation; Auctions; Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance (Car Show); 

A very strange madness.  
A car is an asset at risk and so must be disposable.
These have become car shaped art (sculpture).
 
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Business Day

Platinum Card and Text Alert, via Pawnshop

As banks zero in on more affluent customers and close branches in poor areas, pawnshops are stepping into the void to offer an array of services.
Banking and Financial Institutions; Consumer Protection; Credit and Debt; Credit Scores; Pawnbroking; Personal Finances; 

We look to be regrowing consumer banking.
 
3
Opinion

How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class

Technology is creating jobs — but at the upper and lower ends of the spectrum. The outlook for the middle class may rely on “new artisans” who combine technical and interpersonal skills.
Income Inequality; Labor and Jobs; Productivity; Wages and Salaries; 

Small business is finally services to the wealthy.  
A real but limited market.
 
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Real Estate

Q & A

Proxy voting and appliance ownership are two of the topics addressed this week.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Renting and Leasing (Real Estate); Landlords; Condominiums;

Bike storage is an important feature.  If it is ridden to class one must get a very solid lock and chain.  The good ones in combination weigh about ten pounds and lock both wheels and the frame to a solid anchorage.
 
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Opinion

Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing?

There is now consensus that exposure to media violence is linked to actual violent behavior.
Violence (Media and Entertainment); Smoking and Tobacco; School Shootings; Psychology and Psychologists; Mental Health and Disorders; 

Eventually this article points out that the link is far from demonstrated.
Rather than study studies a historical review of violence in media graphed against arrests for violence would be evidence.
 
6
Technology

The Pentagon as Silicon Valley’s Incubator

Government experts on computer vulnerabilities are heading to Silicon Valley to create technology start-ups specializing in tools aimed at thwarting online threats.
Cyberattacks and Hackers; Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Cyberwarfare; 

The military and the black budget are the deepest of pockets.
They have been since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

7
Business Day

Public Policies, Made to Fit People

A new White House initiative is intended to involve social and behavioral scientists in policy making.
United States Economy; Consumer Behavior; Research; Children and Childhood; Domestic Violence; 

Coalition building.
 
8
Books

Speaking Freely

Oliver Wendell Holmes’s evolution as a First Amendment hero.
Books and Literature; First Amendment (US Constitution); Freedom of Speech and Expression; 

The strict constructionists are wrong in their assumptions and thus in their conclusions.
Logic is a tool not a faith.  
Axioms are easily mistaken for truths.

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U.S.

Georgia: Suspect in School Scare Was Heavily Armed, Police Say

Michael B. Hill, accused of firing shots outside a Decatur elementary school, was carrying 498 rounds of ammunition and a stolen AK-47, the police said.
Firearms; Assaults; School Shootings; 

Another crazy.
 
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U.S.

Pennsylvania: Mistaken Identity at Funeral

A Philadelphia woman has turned up alive nearly two weeks after her family held a funeral and burial for her.
Funerals and Memorials; Death and Dying; 

The details are important.
 
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World

5 Days After Closing Border, Egypt Opens Crossing to Gaza

The sealed-off territory shut down travel but also hundreds of smuggling tunnels that Gaza relies on for building materials, cheaper fuel, weapons and other products restricted by Israel.
Bridges and Tunnels; Smuggling; 

Egypt is still in chaos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marches
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez

A one state solution.
 
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Technology

To Build a Better Lego Robot

Lego updated its Mindstorms robotics platform with a kit that includes features like Bluetooth compatibility and a remote control app.
Robots and Robotics; Toys; 

I have no real interest in teleoperation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleoperation
I am interested in automation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
 
13
World

Fighting Education Overhaul, Thousands of Teachers Disrupt Mexico City

A radical teachers’ group mobilized thousands of members in Mexico City last week, threatening to bring an already congested city to a halt in the coming days.
Teachers and School Employees; Education (K-12); Performance Evaluations (Labor); Seniority Systems; Law and Legislation; Demonstrations, Protests, and Riots; 

Teaching is a profession and a privilege.   The union is right to try to keep
political agendas out of employment practices.  The government is right to 
insist on intellectually competent students.
Resolution should be possible.

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Business Day

The Audacious Pragmatist

Ben Bernanke was a shy, methodical academic. But he turned out to be one of the most daring leaders in the Fed’s history — even if his goals have not been fully realized.
United States Economy; Quantitative Easing; Interest Rates; Subprime Mortgage Crisis; Unemployment; 

He would be more audacious if the reactionaries did not fight his every move.
 
15
Opinion

What’s Ailing the Airlines, and Us

Readers discuss the Justice Department’s opposition to a proposed merger between American Airlines and USAirways.
Airlines and Airplanes; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Bankruptcies; 

Low profitability. 
 
16
Booming

For a Chef, 41 Years in the Kitchen Takes Its Toll

Being a chef, like being an elite athlete, tends to be a young person’s game, with crazy hours and injury-inducing physical strain. For midlife chefs, the challenge is finding ways to adjust to the pace.
Chefs; Restaurants; Cooking and Cookbooks; Working Hours; Baby Boomers; Careers and Professions; 

I have no ambition to cook professionally.
 
17
Fashion & Style

Picking Up the Scent on the Road to Bliss

Life lessons that only a four-footed friend can teach.
Dogs; Love (Emotion); Dating and Courtship; 

Get a dog that pleases you.  I will learn to be pleased.
If you can stand it I would like to be involved in the selection.

Sooner is better,  As soon as you can is best.
 
18
Opinion

The Common Core and the Common Good

American schools need rigorous standards to make kids competitive in a global job market.
Education (K-12); Tests and Examinations; Teachers and School Employees; 

Implement the Common Core as a minimum standard.
Teach tools first and early.  It is much easier to teach thought if if the students are able to do the exercises in reasonable time.
 
19
U.S.

Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay

Amid calls from some liberals that she step down in time for President Obama to name her successor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was fully engaged in her work.
Voting Rights Act (1965); Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships; Women's Rights; Affirmative Action; Abortion; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); United States Politics and Government; 

I agree that the next president will not be a Republican.
The congressional deadlock will probably continue.
 
20
Movies

What Happens When You’re Repeatedly Hit in the Head

The documentary “The United States of Football” follows retired players dealing with dementia and depression after a career of hard knocks.
Movies; Documentary Films and Programs; Football; Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy; Dementia; 

Do not ask that a work of art be different than it is.
If Miriam Bale wants a different film she should make it.

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1
Real Estate

Q & A

2
Opinion

Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing?

3
Technology

The Pentagon as Silicon Valley’s Incubator

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4
Business Day

Public Policies, Made to Fit People

5
Books

Speaking Freely

7
U.S.

Pennsylvania: Mistaken Identity at Funeral

8
Technology

To Build a Better Lego Robot

9
World

5 Days After Closing Border, Egypt Opens Crossing to Gaza

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Booming

For a Chef, 41 Years in the Kitchen Takes Its Toll

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Fashion & Style

Picking Up the Scent on the Road to Bliss

16
Opinion

The Common Core and the Common Good

17
Movies

What Happens When You’re Repeatedly Hit in the Head

18
U.S.

Under a New Law, the Police Can Act as Gun Dealers

A new Texas law will allow the state’s law enforcement agencies to bolster their budgets by selling confiscated guns to licensed weapons dealers.
Gun Control; Police; Law and Legislation; Search and Seizure; 

Working toward an armed society, the Texas Legislature.
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Your Money

Taking an Invention From Idea to the Store Shelf

Building a better mousetrap may be the easy part. After that comes patent, production and marketing, and missteps along the way can be costly.
Inventions and Patents; Small Business; 

I know that invention is a non trivial act. 
I have seen it done and I have done it.
 
20
Health

Faster Assistance for Medicare Patients

More on what Medicare quality improvement organizations can do for older patients and their caregivers.
Elder Care; Medicare;

So far it is not required here. 
Our main problem has been to get the medical establishment to let go.




Earlier to bed this night.

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