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Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
The new service is intended for sharing with small groups, instead of all of one’s friends or the entire Web.I have no idea. Join and invite me. The way we have been going works for the moment. -
Teacher Evaluation System Examines Classroom Performance
A job evaluation system that places significant emphasis on classroom observations is disliked by unionized teachers but has become a model for many educators.There is too much of the political in the system. Pay the teachers well.Some children are not teachable at some times. Measure the children as well. I have no clever solution. -
U.S. Endorses France’s Lagarde as New I.M.F. Chief
The French finance minister Christine Lagarde was expected to be named Tuesday, with the American endorsement all but sealing her victory.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/world/europe/29greece.html?ref=globalhttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/the-mystery-of-lagarde/ -
Judge Recounts His Thoughts in Madoff Sentencing
The sentencing of Bernard L. Madoff required balancing the law against the public anger his fraud had inspired.Really not important. The money was redistributed for the most part.He will not repeat and some have learned. Too good to be true is not true. -
New Prostate Cancer Drugs Extend Lives, but Raise Costs
The drugs, mainly for men with late-stage prostate cancer, can extend lives for additional months, but some cost more than $90,000 for a course of treatment.I had a psa about six years ago. It was clean. I expect I have no problems there but will check into it. -
Many Variables in a New York Math Museum
Glen Whitney’s museum in New York aims to shape cultural attitudes and dispel the bad rap that most people give math.I wish them all the luck there is. It is a wonderful project. I have no idea how to go about it. I can do bits but the nut escapes me. -
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ - Movie Review
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is among Michael Bay’s best movies and by far the best 3-D sequel ever made about gigantic toys from outer space.I would rather study ( http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104 ) -
New Saddles Can Help Release Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
New noseless saddles can save cyclists from soreness and numbness in the genital region, but their popularity is lagging.Agreed I found that adjusting the angle of the saddle to bring the weight on the ischial tuberosityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberosity_of_the_ischiumdid the job. Noseless saddles are a great idea. I will buy you one posthaste if you have not bought one already.
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The First Amendment, Upside Down
The Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling is a loss for fair and open electoral politics."Justice Elena Kagan, writing in dissent, dissects the court’s willful misunderstanding of the result. Rather than a restriction on speech, she says, the trigger mechanism is a subsidy with the opposite effect: “It subsidizes and produces more political speech.” Those challenging the law, she wrote, demanded — and have now won — the right to “quash others’ speech” so they could have “the field to themselves.” She explained that the matching funds program — unlike a lump sum grant to candidates — sensibly adjusted the amount disbursed so that it was neither too little money to attract candidates nor too large a drain on public coffers."The press is free to the man who owns one. -
An Alternative to Online Ads That Distract - Advertising
The company AdKeeper has created a button for viewers can click to save online ads for viewing at a later time."In March, About.com, the company Mr. Kurnit founded, announced the winners of its 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards, and in the category of Best Overall (Non-Security) Add-On, the winner for the second consecutive year: Adblock Plus. "
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Microsoft Takes Action to Ward Off Competition
Google’s Web alternatives to Microsoft Office are pulling business away from the company’s biggest money maker.www.openoffice.org/ - CachedOpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
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Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
The tendency to see shyness as an illness does society a disservice, because being shy has benefits.There is money to be made from illness.We are very familiar with shyness. I LOVE YOU.Sooner is better. - - - - - - As soon as you can is best. -
Seniors Volunteer at Japan’s Crippled Daiichi Nuclear Plant
Older engineers are stepping up to help at the damaged Daiichi power plant, saying that their age puts them at less risk when exposed to radiation.Different risk. Less risk to future generations. -
Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score
Companies are scouring social networks, looking for the new “influencers.”If you can sell to the leaders at any price the followers will buy at your price. -
America, Awaken
The U.S. economic crisis is not a temporary blip. An energy and an industrial policy are urgently needed.We are going to have to break the Republican block. That will not be easy or cheap. Leave the morality out of this. It just confuses people. -
Norma Lyon, the ‘Butter-Cow Lady,’ Dies at 81
Ms. Lyon won fame for sculpturing tons of U.S. Grade AA salted butter each year into life-size figures of cows, famous people and, once, a diorama of the Last Supper.The standard for butter sculpture.What will butter cows look like next? -
Convener in Chief
What sort of leader can get things done in an age of austerity? A comparison of three management styles sheds some light.
David Brooks builds this column around a false premise, That we are in debt trouble as New Jersey is in debt trouble. The two organizations are fundamentally different. New Jersey is not a nation. It is required to have a balanced budget. It has failed to raise taxes to cover operating costs for many years. It finds itself in the situation where it must either raise taxes to cover the services demanded by its population or it must cram down those costs. Governor Christi won election on the promise that he would not raise taxes. He must reduce costs. This will be very costly for the residents. California is learning about that.Our nation is not required to have a balanced budget. It can borrow for operating expenses. It can inflate the currency in lieu of taxes. It can do a great many things that a state cannot. It has done some of them.Congress passed a rule that the amount of debt the nation could carry is limited. The Republican Party finds the rule very convenient. With the aid of the debt limit it can try to force the nation to make the oligarchy that uses it for a mask happy. Making the oligarchy happy will not please anyone for long. Most of us are already very unhappy.Many of us do not know why. Learning is not going to be pleasant.Our nation is not broke. It is not in debt trouble. It must borrow for immediate expenses and raise taxes to pay down the long term debt.There is no rush about that pay down.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/debt-limit-stakes/Barack Obama is not being allowed to do what he must do.
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Across Europe, Irking Drivers Is Urban Policy
It was always a question. I have found no better solution. Here, living as I do, I want a car. In the city a car is an impossible burden. There are great stretches of Queens that are designed around cars. Brooklyn is mostly pre car. The Bronx is also pre car.
I expect it will be very hard to convince the rest of the world that the car is a really bad idea.
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Florida Congressman Defies Critics on Rail Project
Representative John L. Mica has spent years badgering federal agencies, bullying state officials, blocking Amtrak naysayers and trying to bypass federal restrictions to build support for the so-called SunRail project.If it broke the Disney monopoly or relieved traffic in other ways I could feel much more enthusiastic. As explained it is a toy train at public expense. -
Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children
The Supreme Court agreed with a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying the law violated minors’ rights.The court really had no choice but to strike down the simple ban.I am trying to think of other measures that could be taken and having a hard time. Other grounds might serve such as the addictive nature of the things but that is rather thin.I can think of no game based on empathy though that is our main tool against interpersonal violence.
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