Saturday, December 13, 2014

@20:20, 12/11/14

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U.S.

Kentucky: No Tax Break for Site of a New Noah’s Ark


2
Opinion

Release the Guantánamo Force-Feeding Videos



3
Business Day

Federal Report Highlights the Effects of Medical Debts on Credit

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the report before a hearing on the subject in Oklahoma City.
Personal Finances; Credit Scores; Health Insurance and Managed Care 

Medical billing is in chaos.

4
World

Washington Post Reporter Held in Iran Phoned Mother on Thanksgiving

Mary Rezaian, mother of Jason Rezaian, said that she was gratified to hear her son’s voice but that both knew the conversation was monitored.
Iranian-Americans; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations 

Jason Rezaian is a hostage.

5
Opinion

Teacher Preparation


First understand the learning process.
Early on, fund learning.

6
U.S.

Louisiana: Education Waiver Renewed

Federal officials have again granted Louisiana a waiver from compliance with the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law.
Education (K-12); No Child Left Behind Act; Law and Legislation 

No child left behind is a poisoned pill.  
Its requirements cannot be met.

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Business Day

Ruling Lets Work Email Be Used to Organize Unions

The National Labor Relations Board overturned a 2007 decision prohibiting employees from using company email to engage in union organizing on their own time.
E-Mail; Organized Labor; Decisions and Verdicts 

Interesting.

8
Sports

N.F.L. Sets Strict Rules for Actions Off Field


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U.S.

Police Face a Long and Complex Task to Mend Distrust Deepened by Killings

After killings in New York, Ferguson, Mo., and Cleveland, some analysts say a broad shift in training is needed, along with changes in officers’ behavior and attitudes.
Police; Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings; Blacks; Racial Profiling; Race and Ethnicity; Demonstrations, Protests and Riots; Minorities 

The population must vote in every election.

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World

Liu Xiaobo, Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident, Is Said to Send Message From Prison

A Berlin-based friend of Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence in Beijing, said he had a received a message from him through contacts in China.
Political Prisoners 

The Chinese are working on their governance problem.

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Business Day

Nurturing Start-Up Culture in the Lower-Cost Balkans


A better thing to do than many.

This group is following.
The computer toy business looks complete.
Housekeeper does not appear amenable to automation.
Employment opportunities would have to be very limited to bring the service in financial reach.

14
Sports

Giant-Killer N.J.I.T. Stands Alone, Without a Conference

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html?action=click&region=TopBar&pgtype=SectionFront&module=SectionsNav&version=BrowseTree&contentCollection=Sports%2FBasketball%3A%20College&contentPlacement=2&t=qry888
http://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/scoreboard.asp
http://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/scoreboard.asp?day=20141214&conf=000
 
http://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/standings.asp?conf=182&clientdir=
American Athletic Conference
 ConferenceOverallvs
  W-L Pct Hm Rd W-L Pct Hm Rd Nt  Top 25
Tulane 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 7-1 .875 3-0 3-0 1-1 0-0
2 Connecticut 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 6-1 .857 1-0 2-1 3-0 1-1
East Carolina 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 8-2 .800 3-0 3-1 2-1 0-1
South Florida 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 6-3 .667 2-1 1-1 3-1 0-2
Tulsa 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 4-4 .500 1-2 2-2 1-0 0-0
UCF 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 4-4 .500 4-1 0-3 0-0 0-0
Memphis 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 4-4 .500 4-2 0-2 0-0 0-0
SMU 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 4-5 .444 4-3 0-2 0-0 0-1
Houston 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 3-4 .429 1-2 2-0 0-2 0-0
Temple 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 3-6 .333 1-3 0-2 2-1 0-1
Cincinnati 0-0 - 0-0 0-0 1-6 .143 1-0 0-4 0-2 0-0

Conference W-L - conference win-loss record
Conference Pct - conference winning percentage
Conference Hm - conference home record
Conference Rd - conference away record
Conference Nt - conference neutral site record

Overall W-L - overall win-loss record
Overall Pct - overall winning percentage
Overall Hm - overall home record
Overall Rd - overall road record
Overall Nt - overall neutral site record
vs Top 25 - record vs. Top 25 teams

15
Style

A Hairstylist Provides Free Cuts to the Homeless


Haircuts help.
 
16
Krugman:"

Is Our Economic Commentators Learning?

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Credit

We are now in our seventh year at the zero lower bound. Over that period we’ve seen massive deficits rise and fall, aggressive monetary expansion and ill-advised monetary tightening, extreme fiscal austerity, and more. At this point we should therefore have a pretty good idea of how things work in this environment. And as I’ve often pointed out, everything has been more or less exactly what you would have expected from IS-LM (with the central bank controlling the monetary base, but not the endogenous money supply).
It’s remarkable, then, how much commentary in the media involves assertions that are completely at odds with everything we’ve seen since the financial crisis. I made fun of belief in invisible bond vigilantes and the confidence fairy in mid-2010, and sure enough, there have been no sightings of either in all the years since. Yet you’d never know that from the media commentary.
Simon Wren-Lewis offers a depressing example: he finds Robert Peston of the BBC continuing to talk about interest rates by invoking the invisible bond vigilantes – when as Wren-Lewis notes, France now pays much lower interest rates on its debt than the UK, and as he doesn’t note, so does Japan, with its very large debt and aging population. Worse still, however, Peston describes his fantasies – OK, I guess you could call them “speculations”, but anyway there is no evidence that they are driven by anything outside his own imagination – as the message being conveyed by “Mr. Market.” Through telepathy?
But belief in the invisible bond vigilantes and the confidence fairy isn’t the only faith that seems oddly impervious to evidence. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in an otherwise coherent description of Europe’s deflation risk, approvingly quotes Tim Congdon blithely declaring that monetary reflation in a liquidity trap is no problem:
The interest rate is totally irrelevant. What matters is the quantity of money. Large scale money creation is a very powerful weapon and can always create inflation.
Sure. Just look, in the accompanying chart, at the rate of M1 growth in the US versus the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation. Feel the power! Seriously, how can an alleged expert be talking straight monetarism at this point in history?
You have to wonder, where does conventional wisdom about how the economy works come from? Not from economic models, which actually don’t lead to the popular stories about bond vigilantes and confidence fairies, or say that the money supply is decisive when you’re at the zero lower bound. Not from experience, which has been utterly at odds with “mediamacro” for years. Apparently it comes from the gut – or maybe from some other anatomical feature in the same general vicinity. And then these gut feelings are reported as facts."

17
Great Homes & Destinations

In Berlin, New Spaces With Historic Echoes

A new boutique luxury development features access to Berlin's most-storied department store and concierge service.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Luxury Goods and Services; Real Estate (Commercial) 

The space is easy.
The address is expensive.

18
World

Despite U.S. Warnings, Iraqis Push for Winter Offensive in Mosul

Iraq still needs a culture adjustment.
As the culture is Islamic that adjustment is difficult to impossible.

19
Fashion & Style

Zhu Zhu’s Easy Beauty Regime


She is a pretty girl.
She is not you.
What you use is your choice.
I will be pleased.
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Real Estate

What You Get for ... $1,800,000

This week’s properties include a waterfront house in Florida, a contemporary in Louisiana and a lodge in Montana.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential) 

We should talk about houses.
These will require staffing. 



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