Saturday, May 3, 2014

@9:30, 5/1/14

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Fashion & Style

Video: Bill Cunningham | On the Right Foot

Elaborately decorated sneakers are playing a starring role.
Shoes and Boots; Sneakers

I am well seasoned.
Social men, like social women, love fashion.
It is the cast mark and binder of their communal lives.

Even in its infinite variety it is the uniform of organization.

There is no escape.   Observe.

2
Business Day

Video: Vapor Boomtown

With little regulation, Oklahoma City has become an e-cigarette boomtown where “vapers” flock to vapor shops to buy the smoking alternative products, which include nicotine liquids.
E-Cigarettes; Smoking and Tobacco; Nicotine; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Consumer Protection; Smoking - tips on how to quit

I do not expose myself to nicotine.
A short discussion in person on finances is in order.
 
3
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

The civil and religious faiths of previous centuries are inherited.
They rule our minds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism  --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening#Burned-over_district
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
My mothers intention to proof her children against faith worked well in me.

4
Sports

Video: N.B.A. Bars Clippers Owner for Life

The league commissioner, Adam Silver, called remarks by the Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, “deeply offensive and harmful.”
Basketball

Excommunication.
A fashionable act.
It would have been better to allow the franchise to fail by lack of recruits and continuing players.
I would have been satisfied to see the resulting squad get destroyed on the playing court.

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Fashion & Style

Video: Vows: Orchestrating a Proposal

Peter Chan proposed to Kate Hubert with a musical flourish just nine months after they met.
Vows (Times Column); Weddings and Engagements

What kind of theater would you like?
I will do it your way.
The registry office equivalent will do for me.
 
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Business Day

Two Giant Banks, Seen as Immune, Become Targets

Prosecutors, in seeking guilty pleas from Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas, are looking to address public outrage and alter the belief that Wall Street institutions are “too big to jail.”
Banking and Financial Institutions; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry

Justice is seen to be done. 
A null result.

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U.S.

Justices Back Rule Limiting Coal Pollution

The Supreme Court upheld the E.P.A.’s authority to regulate coal-plant pollution that drifts from more than two dozen Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East Coast.
Coal; Air Pollution; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Clean Air Act; States (US)

Some of the Justices are crazier than others.
Enough did the right thing.
 
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Health

F.D.A. Will Propose New Regulations for E-Cigarettes

The proposed rules would extend the federal government’s regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, cigars and tobacco pipes.
E-Cigarettes; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Law and Legislation; Smoking and Tobacco; Pipes, Smoking; Nicotine; Cigars

Good.
 
9
Science

Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe

A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Nuclear Energy

Only time will heal the damaged soil.
Only extraction will end the threat of the damaged reactor.
This is a stopgap.   It is inherently temporary.
 
10
World

F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad

While it is unclear whether the F.B.I. ordered the attacks by Hector Xavier Monsegur, the agency may have used hackers to gather intelligence even as investigators were trying to dismantle hacking groups.
Cyberattacks and Hackers; Cyberwarfare; Espionage and Intelligence Services

Governments use what tools they can find.
They pay what they must.
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U.S.

‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby

A handgun that can identify its user so no one else can fire it has met with the same uproar that has stopped many seeking tougher weapons laws.
Gun Control; Firearms

The fuss is about regulation in general.
The gun is just a mark to shoot at.

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Opinion

Video: Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?

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

The literal mind is a problem.
 
13
Sports

At Northwestern, a Blitz to Defeat an Effort to Unionize

As soon as a National Labor Relations Board official ruled that scholarship football players had the right to unionize, the university began a wide-ranging campaign to defeat a vote.
Football (College); Organized Labor; Colleges and Universities; College Athletics

I hope for a union.
 
14
U.S.

Storms Carve Deadly Path Through South and Midwest

For Vilonia, Ark., the tornado that touched down on Sunday was a nightmare revisited: Nearly three years ago to the day, another twister swept through the city.
Tornadoes

It was bad.  It could have been far worse.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2674

Any body count is excessive.   The numbers are not big.
15
World

Ending Asia Trip, Obama Defends His Foreign Policy

President Obama said his policies were based on a workmanlike attention to American priorities that might lack the high drama of a wartime presidency but also avoids ruinous mistakes.
United States International Relations

Let the president and his state department work.
Congress cannot do the job.
 
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U.S.

White House to Press Colleges to Do More to Combat Rape

Reacting to a series of highly publicized rapes, the White House is increasing the pressure on universities to more aggressively combat sexual assaults on campus.
Colleges and Universities; Sex Crimes; United States Politics and Government

I wish the effort success.
 
17
U.S.

Rancher’s Views on Race Send Supporters Fleeing

Senator Rand Paul joined a line of Republican and Democratic leaders in denouncing Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher at the center of a standoff with the federal government over land use.
Race and Ethnicity; Blacks; Cattle; Discrimination; Land Use Policies

Good.
 
18
World

U.S. Expands Sanctions, Adding Holdings of Russians in Putin’s Financial Circle

The Obama administration ordered travel bans and asset freezes for seven Russian officials, including two said to be in Mr. Putin’s inner circle, and froze assets for 17 companies.
Embargoes and Sanctions

The war drums are very loud.
The UN general assembly should try to take action.
Russia has a veto in the Security Council.
 
19
Science

Video: Shell Game for Animals

Intelligence is hard to test, but one aspect of being smart is self-control, and a version of the old shell game that works for many species suggests that brain size is very important.
Animals; Intelligence and Intelligence Tests (IQ)

We have not learned enough to stop learning.
 
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The Upshot

A Map of Baseball Nation

Facebook data reveals the most popular team in every ZIP code.Right

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html

I am not passionate enough for this to be other than fun.

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