Friday, January 25, 2013

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I will sleep and see the other lists in the morning.





1
Opinion

For Obama’s New Term, Start Here

The president said equality for all is a main goal of his second term. He could begin by helping to make sure a child’s potential for success isn’t limited by a ZIP code.
Children and Childhood; Poverty; Income Inequality; Education (Pre-School); Education (K-12); Parenting;

Politically impossible.
I would like to see it happen.
2
U.S.

Kansas’ Governor and G.O.P. Seek to Eliminate Income Tax

Kansas provides perhaps the starkest view of the crimson ideology that could challenge President Obama’s Inauguration Day rallying cry for an expansive liberal agenda.
Income Tax; Conservatism (US Politics); Budgets and Budgeting; State Legislatures;

Peonage.
 
3
U.S.

Part 6: Answers to Your Questions About the Fafsa

Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on financial aid, answers select reader questions about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Part 6.
Admissions Standards; Colleges and Universities; Financial Aid (Education); Student Loans; 

I have no thoughts.  
 
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Opinion

Meanings of ‘Collaborate’

A history professor ruminates on a word’s positive and negative connotations.
World War II (1939-45); Holocaust and the Nazi Era; 

To the GOP collaborate means unconditional surrender.
5
U.S.

Louisiana: Hospice Cuts Rescinded

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration on Wednesday scrapped plans to shutter the state’s Medicaid hospice program in February, meaning it will continue to provide end-of-life care to people who cannot afford private insurance.
Medicaid; Hospice Care; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Demonstrations, Protests, and Riots; 

The Jindal administration could fall on such an action.
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Opinion

When Paying It Forward Pays Us Back

Social programs are often the target of conservative budget cuts, but they often save us money. Investing in the best of them will save even more.
Federal Budget (US); Health Insurance and Managed Care; Nursing and Nurses; Reform and Reorganization; Taxation; 

Yes
 
7
Style

Protecting Teenagers From High School's 'Big Box'

Is high school an "almost sadistically unhealthy" place to send an adolescent?
Fear (Emotion); Labeling and Labels; Parenting; Teenagers and Adolescence; 

This woman does not understand high school as an introduction to the greater world.
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Business Day

Can a Web Site Get Visitors to 'Feel' the Cotton?

Can American Giant, a start-up clothing maker, convince people to buy sweatshirts they can't touch or try on? Will people buy based on images and word of mouth alone?
Advertising and Marketing; E-Commerce; Photography; Small Business; Start-ups; 

Cotton is a very poor choice.
 
9
Opinion

Amgen Gets a Gift From Congress

Senate aides inserted a giveaway into the “fiscal cliff” bill that will benefit the drug maker, but will cost Medicare $500 million.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); Lobbying and Lobbyists; Campaign Finance; United States Politics and Government; Law and Legislation; 

Fire the staffers.  Probably fire their employers.
 
10
Opinion

Medicare Spending

Joe Baker, the president of the Medicare Rights Center, responds to a column by David Brooks.
Health Insurance and Managed Care; Medicare; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Federal Budget (US); 

"Medicare spending is actually slowing faster than private health plans, a trend partly attributed to reforms passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. As a testing ground for these reforms, Medicare is a solution to rising health care costs — the opposite of the “vise” Mr. Brooks describes."
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Health

Many Medicaid Patients Could Face Higher Fees Under a Proposed Federal Policy

Millions of low-income people could be required to pay more for health care under a proposed federal policy that would give states more freedom to impose additional charges on Medicaid patients.
Health Insurance and Managed Care; Law and Legislation; Medicaid; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); States (US); 

Whine . . .
12
World

Bomb Attacks in Greece Raise Fear of Radicalism

The government, which just secured $60 billion in aid from its international creditors, says it is determined to crack down on lawless behavior and to press a safety agenda.
European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- ); Economic Conditions and Trends; Demonstrations, Protests, and Riots; Bombs and Explosives; News and News Media;
Just noise still.  Not even a serious riot.
13
Opinion

The School Bus Mess

Mayor Bloomberg needs to hold his ground on the bus strike in order to bring runaway costs under control and genuine competition to the bidding process.
Buses; Organized Labor; Education (K-12); 

Union busting. 
 
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U.S.

Redistricting in Virginia Hurts Blacks, Democrats Say

With one Democratic senator absent, Republicans in the Virginia State Senate pushed through a redistricting bill by one vote that Democrats say dilutes blacks’ votes.
Redistricting and Reapportionment; Blacks; Voting Rights Act (1965); State Legislatures; 

As it was intended to do.  
 
15
World

Rape Trial Challenges a Jam in India’s Justice System

It remains an open question whether a fast track for a high-profile case, with arguments starting Thursday, can lead to relief for an overburdened system.
Sex Crimes; Women's Rights; Police Brutality and Misconduct; Sexual Harassment; 

This is going to be a steep learning curve.
 
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Business Day

Wal-Mart Toughens Fire Safety Rules for Suppliers After Bangladesh Blaze

The giant retailer said suppliers must “fully and accurately disclose” in advance any factories they or any of their subcontractors plan to use.
Factories and Manufacturing; Shopping and Retail; Fires and Firefighters;

Wal-Mart is a problem.  
This squeezes their suppliers further.
17
Opinion

Future of Catholic Schools

Student Sponsor Partners, a nonprofit, responds to a news article about Catholic school closings in New York.
Private and Sectarian Schools; Education (K-12); Nonprofit Organizations; 

I saw it in my high school classes.
The Catholic schools would send the difficult students to the public system.
The process is known as skimming the cream from a population.
 
18
Style

Children Are Not Our Friends (Until They Are)

My qualifications for friendship are high. I don't tell you when to go to bed. You don't tell me when you're done pooping. So my children were not my friends - until now.
Children and Childhood; Friendship; Parenting; 

agreed
 
19
Science

Sea Level and the Limits of the Bathtub Analogy

No matter how fast it happens, the global rise in sea levels will vary from region to region.
Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Mid-Atlantic States (US); Oceans and Seas; 

Sea level will rise.  
People in power will continue to deny the obvious until their feet get wet or they get hungry.  
The noise in the system does not matter.  
It will not save the coasts.

20
Science

Raising Devils in Seclusion

Australian officials are racing to save the fierce doglike marsupials from a rare infectious cancer and as a backup have set up a tumor-free population on another island.
Tasmanian Devils (Marsupials); Endangered and Extinct Species; Viruses; Cancer; 

My compliments.  I thought the Tasmanian Devil was a lost cause.


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1
Opinion

For Obama’s New Term, Start Here

The president said equality for all is a main goal of his second term. He could begin by helping to make sure a child’s potential for success isn’t limited by a ZIP code.
Children and Childhood; Poverty; Income Inequality; Education (Pre-School); Education (K-12); Parenting; 

Politically impossible.  
The military spending is not available to the general budget.  
We will have a hard time finding the funds to reintegrate returning troops. 
 
2
Opinion

The School Bus Mess

Mayor Bloomberg needs to hold his ground on the bus strike in order to bring runaway costs under control and genuine competition to the bidding process.
Buses; Organized Labor; Education (K-12); Strikes; Editorials; 

If Mayor Bloomberg gets his bidding process the drivers union is broken.
This is going to be a long strike. 
There will be blood in the streets if scabs are hired.

3
U.S.

Republican Governors Open New Front in Tax Debate

Republican governors in a range of states are starting to act aggressively on taxes, setting up limited but politically ambitious and potentially telling experiments in what might be possible nationwide.
Corporate Taxes; Federal Taxes (US); Governors (US); Income Tax; Sales and Excise Taxes; States (US); 

This program must not be allowed to succeed.  It is peonage.
 
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Opinion

Meanings of ‘Collaborate’

A history professor ruminates on a word’s positive and negative connotations.
World War II (1939-45); Holocaust and the Nazi Era; 

It appears that the GOP has defined collaborate as unconditional surrender.
That has been tried.  The result was unacceptable.

5
Opinion

When Paying It Forward Pays Us Back

Social programs are often the target of conservative budget cuts, but they often save us money. Investing in the best of them will save even more.
Federal Budget (US); Health Insurance and Managed Care; Nursing and Nurses; Reform and Reorganization; Taxation; 

Agreed.
 
6
U.S.

Kansas’ Governor and G.O.P. Seek to Eliminate Income Tax

Kansas provides perhaps the starkest view of the crimson ideology that could challenge President Obama’s Inauguration Day rallying cry for an expansive liberal agenda.
Income Tax; Conservatism (US Politics); Budgets and Budgeting; State Legislatures; 

This means it is not possible to be young or poor or unlucky in Kansas.
I would like the Potters Field contract.  It will be lucrative.
 
7
Science

How High Could the Tide Go?

Researchers are studying ancient rock formations in search of clues from records of past climate change to help predict sea level rises from global warming.
Oceans and Seas; Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Series; Geology; Paleontology; 

Most of Florida was a coral reef.  So were the Bahamas and Bermuda
During the continental glaciations sea level was about three hundred feet lower.  The continental shelf is a wave cut terrace.
I have heard that the beach terrace around Champlain is 150 feet higher on the north end than on the south due to glacial rebound.
I have also been told that at the center of Greenland the bed rock is below sea level because of the loading from the ice cap.

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U.S.

Louisiana: Hospice Cuts Rescinded

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration on Wednesday scrapped plans to shutter the state’s Medicaid hospice program in February, meaning it will continue to provide end-of-life care to people who cannot afford private insurance.
Medicaid; Hospice Care; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Demonstrations, Protests, and Riots; 

I wonder how Oklahoma gets by.  Gov. Jindal's administration  would not survive such an extractive action.

9
Health

Grief Over New Depression Diagnosis

The DSM 5, to be published in May, has generated an unusual amount of heat. Two changes, in particular, could have considerable impact on older people and their families.
Depression (Mental); Elderly; Grief (Emotion); Mental Health and Disorders; 

Not ready for prime time.

I do not know the "shape" of the human mind.  
I think it can be known.
Poets work at it.

10
Style

Protecting Teenagers From High School's 'Big Box'

Is high school an "almost sadistically unhealthy" place to send an adolescent?
Fear (Emotion); Labeling and Labels; Parenting; Teenagers and Adolescence;

If I understand this writer 
she has no grasp of high school as introduction to public life.
 
11
Business Day

A Downsized Boston Globe Opens Its Space for Community Uses

As newspaper staffs and revenues shrink, executives are seeking creative ways to use unoccupied office space.
Newspapers; Real Estate (Commercial); Renting and Leasing (Real Estate);

Low to no rent is precious.
The editorial filter and reporters with time to dig and write are the benefit of a newspaper. 
I am not sure what the optimum size is for a digital paper.  There is no physical production cost.  Advertising pays the cost.  Though it does not properly pass through the editors filter it is part of the news.

What I want from a paper is a finite review of the events of the day that will
keep me, a reader with a life, a part of the larger communities.
 
12
Opinion

Medicare Spending

Joe Baker, the president of the Medicare Rights Center, responds to a column by David Brooks.
Health Insurance and Managed Care; Medicare; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Federal Budget (US); 

David Brooks is not entitled to his own facts.
 
13
Opinion

Amgen Gets a Gift From Congress

Senate aides inserted a giveaway into the “fiscal cliff” bill that will benefit the drug maker, but will cost Medicare $500 million.
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); Lobbying and Lobbyists; United States Politics and Government; Law and Legislation; Editorials; Health Insurance and Managed Care; 

This is the best excuse for a signing statement I have seen.
 
14
N.Y. / Region

Therapist Sentenced to 103 Years for Child Sexual Abuse

Nechemya Weberman, a respected member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, abused a young woman for three years during therapy sessions.
Child Abuse and Neglect; Sex Crimes; Sentences (Criminal); Jews and Judaism; 

He will not do well in prison.
 
15
Business Day

Japan’s Bond-Buying Plan Quickly Meets Criticism

The Bank of Japan set an ambitious 2 percent inflation target and pledged to ease monetary policy but there are doubts about just how much of an effect the moves will have.
Deflation (Economics); Quantitative Easing; Inflation (Economics); 

The bond buying is not going to fix Japan.
Japan is at the zero bound.  They are caught in a liquidity trap.  The banks will just hold cash or cash equivalents.  
The heavy stimulus will help by putting low wealth people to work thus placing money where it will be spent on goods.

16
U.S.

Redistricting in Virginia Hurts Blacks, Democrats Say

With one Democratic senator absent, Republicans in the Virginia State Senate pushed through a redistricting bill by one vote that Democrats say dilutes blacks’ votes.
Redistricting and Reapportionment; Blacks; Voting Rights Act (1965); State Legislatures; 

Winning the war means getting the other side to surrender.
The GOP thinks this is a war.
 
17
Business Day

Wal-Mart Toughens Fire Safety Rules for Suppliers After Bangladesh Blaze

The giant retailer said suppliers must “fully and accurately disclose” in advance any factories they or any of their subcontractors plan to use.
Factories and Manufacturing; Shopping and Retail; Fires and Firefighters; 

Another turn of the screws on off shore manufacturing.
The Wal-Mart monopoly on retail should be broken.
 
18
Health

Many Medicaid Patients Could Face Higher Fees Under a Proposed Federal Policy

Millions of low-income people could be required to pay more for health care under a proposed federal policy that would give states more freedom to impose additional charges on Medicaid patients.
Health Insurance and Managed Care; Law and Legislation; Medicaid; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); States (US); 

This reads like the red states are whinging about paying anything for medical care.
 
19
Science

Sea Level and the Limits of the Bathtub Analogy

No matter how fast it happens, the global rise in sea levels will vary from region to region.
Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Mid-Atlantic States (US); Oceans and Seas; 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/science/earth/seeking-clues-about-sea-level-from-fossil-beaches.html?hp&_r=0

Justin Gillis has a real point.  He is just a bit shrill.
Mass concentration effects are generally credited to 
Colonel Sir George Everest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometric_Survey
I would guess that wind effects are of the same order as salinity effects and are small compared with temperature effects on the volume and specific gravity of water.
 
20
Style

Children Are Not Our Friends (Until They Are)

My qualifications for friendship are high. I don't tell you when to go to bed. You don't tell me when you're done pooping. So my children were not my friends - until now.
Children and Childhood; Friendship; Parenting; 

She has claimed adulthood.  You can only advise.




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