Thursday, May 1, 2014

@8:10, 4/30/14

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I will look here with a Windows system.

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Technology

Video: App Smart: Selfies

Kit Eaton dives into three apps that can take selfies to the next level.
Mobile Applications; Photography

We can play with portraiture.
Selfies have not satisfied. 
We may have to find a painter of portraits.
I am not up to a "Picture of Dorian Grey".

2
U.S.

Video: Hot Spots: The Early Buzz

Only a quarter of the way into the 2014 election cycle, a variety of political ads are making waves not just for their effectiveness, but also for their zaniness.
Political Advertising; United States Politics and Government

The G.O.P. noise machine is deaf and willfully blind.
 
3
Science

Video: CreatureCast: Cuttlefish Camouflage

Cuttlefish can alter their color, texture, and apparent shape. This extraordinary camouflage allows them to hide in plain sight against many different backgrounds.
Camouflage; Fish and Other Marine Life

Seawater is a very effective blue-green filter. 
No other sunlight penetrates more than a few fathoms.
Notice that the chromatophores are in the red portion of the spectrum.
They behave as shades of grey in a monochromatic world. 
Shades, texture and disruption hide the cuttlefish.
It is a living example of dazzle paint.

4
Movies

Video: Anatomy of a Scene: ‘Blue Ruin’

The writer and director Jeremy Saulnier narrates a sequence from his film featuring Macon Blair.
Movies

I enjoy violent movies.
The fantasy satisfies some need in me.
"Pulp Fiction" will remain fiction.
"Chinatown" is too close to our reality.

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Multimedia/Photos

Video: This Weekend: Two Warhol Exhibitions

This weekend in New York: two Andy Warhol exhibitions, Neil Patrick Harris playing a transgender rock star and Ballet Preljocaj’s “Snow White.”
Art; Theater; Dancing; Culture (Arts)
I saw the film:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch_%28film%29
I did not need to do it again.
Andy Warhol:  On the wall he did not get into my head. 
                       I met the man and was unimpressed.

Ballet does not tell stories worth a damn.
Enjoy it for the spectacle it is. 
Music and motion in costume with lighting and stage dressing is plenty.

6
Movies

Video: This Week’s Movies: April 25, 2014

The New York Times film critics review “Brick Mansions,” “The German Doctor” and “For No Good Reason.”
Movies

I would watch "Brick Mansions" on a quiet night. "The German Doctor" I would need to be dragged to.
If the alternative were "For No Good Reason" the effort would not be large.

This is not an "A" list group.

7
Opinion

High Plains Moochers

At the heart of the Cliven Bundy standoff was a perversion of the concept of freedom.
Conservatism (US Politics); Land Use Policies; Ranches; United States Politics and Government

Yes,  No external costs.
 
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Opinion

No Accounting Skills? No Moral Reckoning

Our financial illiteracy is costing us much more than we realize.
Accounting and Accountants; Banking and Financial Institutions; Frauds and Swindling

Wrong because incomplete.
THE VALUE OF THINGS IS A VARIABLE.
It depends on supply, demand and location.
The value of acts is similarly variable.
Nothing is simple or straightforward.
Willful innumeracy is intolerable.
Moral calculations I would avoid.
I do not have omniscience.
Gnosticism is self deception.
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9
Dining & Wine

Video: Steamed Clams With Spring Herbs

Melissa Clark makes steamed clams with fresh tarragon and minced chives.
Seafood; Clams; Cooking and Cookbooks; Herbs; Garlic; Olive Oil

Yes, Clams, steamers, oysters, muscles, squid, shrimp and lobster. Hot or cold.

10
World

On Whiteboards, in Black Ink, Grim Descriptions of Those Lost as Ferry Sank

The descriptions, some rendered in forensic detail, are the only evidence that many parents of the teenagers who died on South Korea’s doomed ferry have of their children’s fate.
Maritime Accidents and Safety; Deaths (Fatalities); Ferries

Such accidents are allowed to happen only once.
     The second time it is criminal.
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Business Day

One Therapist, $4 Million in 2012 Medicare Billing

Physical therapy is a big recipient of national Medicare dollars — and physical therapists in Brooklyn are among the biggest billers of all, government data indicates.
Physical Therapy; Medicare; Frauds and Swindling; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Doctors

Time for a better audit.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Film at 9/11 Museum Sets Off Clash Over Reference to Islam

An advisory group of religious leaders said a documentary at the soon-to-open National September 11 Memorial Museum was offensive to Muslims and could generate prejudice against them.
Muslims and Islam; World Trade Center (Manhattan, NY); September 11 (2001); Museums; Terrorism; Documentary Films and Programs; Movies

I do not have an answer.
I expect the film is inflammatory.
It would not be acceptable to the right wing if it were not.
Any film would raise screams from the Salafi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement

Lay the incident to the individuals.  Leave Islam out of the film.

13
Technology

F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic

Planned new rules would allow an Internet provider to negotiate separately with content companies like Disney or Google and charge for priority service.
Net Neutrality; Computers and the Internet; Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming; Movies; Television; Music

Common carrier rules seem like the only way.
Here we go back to regulated monopoly.

14
Sports

Video: Camping by Night, Riding by Day

In order to ride a steep face that received minimal sunlight, Jeremy Jones and Ryland Bell spent an evening nestled on a ledge thousands of feet above their base camp in Alaska’s Fairweather Range.
Snowboarding

I will see the movie.
"An adventure is someone else  having a hard time far away from me."
15
Opinion

‘Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?’

In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a lawyer becomes embroiled in an absurd argument.
Recording Equipment; Supreme Courts (State); Workplace Environment; Law and Legislation

Maddening. 
It feels like programing.
"Do what I mean, not what I say."

16
U.S.

A Deadly Fungus and Questions at a Hospital

A medical journal that cited the handling of linens in the outbreak of a flesh-eating fungus at a New Orleans hospital has caused new pain for the families of five children who died.
Mucormycosis; Hospitals; Hygiene and Cleanliness; Fungi; Infections

Bad practice.
This is a damning report of a housekeeping failure.
 
17
U.S.

A Defiant Rancher Savors the Audience That Rallied to His Side

For now, Cliven Bundy appears to have won his standoff with the federal government over cattle grazing in Nevada. But if the authorities have moved on, Mr. Bundy has not.
Land Use Policies; Ranches; Cattle

I understand the federal government's reluctance to fight a repeat of the civil war at any scale.
Revolting tax payers regularly lose in court.  Getting Cliven Bundy to court seems to be the problem.
I expect the federalized national guard could cut the Gordian Knot.
No private group is stronger than the government.
 
18
World

Video: Slovyansk Mourns 3 Killed at Checkpoint

Anger and questions swirled as residents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk buried three men killed in a gunfight at a roadblock on Sunday.
Deaths (Fatalities); Funerals and Memorials

I have no desire to be suddenly dead.
If sanctions will not stop these Russian actions Russia can be broken.
Putin should know this.
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World

Korea Confronts Tendency to Overlook Safety as Toll in Ferry Sinking Grows

Amid a list of errors that appeared to have contributed to the disaster, South Koreans are expressing shame and anger at how far their country still has to go to address inadequate safety measures and lax regulation.
Maritime Accidents and Safety; Deaths (Fatalities); Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Ferries

Let there be no repeat of this accident.
 
20
Sports

N.B.A. Bars Clippers Owner Donald Sterling for Life

Adam Silver, the league’s commissioner, also said he would try to force Donald Sterling to sell the team in the aftermath of racist remarks by Sterling that became public.
Basketball

OK.   He was caught.

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