Friday, December 6, 2013

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1
Opinion

No Way Out: ‘12 Years a Slave’

The film, unlike the memoir on which it is based, withholds from the audience an outlet for either its hope or its sympathy.
Slavery; Movies 

"And, most tellingly, he adds a detail. At a particularly low moment, Northup smashes his violin, the instrument that had brought him whatever diversion and solace he managed to have in those long years. In pastoral poetry, the breaking of the pastoral pipe (as in Spenser’s “January” Eclogue) signifies a loss of faith in the moral intelligibility of the universe. What’s the use? Why bother? Why go on? “What boots it with incessant care to tend the homely, slighted shepherd’s trade and meditate the thankless muse?” (Milton, “Lycidas.”) These are the questions McQueen’s movie poses in another vocabulary and the question Patsey flings at the world when she begs Northup to kill her. Hers is the perspective that rules the film even after its hero is returned to middle class life, where he is again denied justice when those who captured him, sold him and tortured him go free. Compared with “12 Years a Slave,” the darkest of the Coen brothers’ movies is a walk in the park."

People who have become property must free themselves.  
They cannot be released from their own minds.

I will have no master.

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Business Day

Vestas Hopes to Bring Wind Power to World

A project called Wind for Prosperity aims to start supplying low-cost power to rural populations around the globe.
Wind Power; Alternative and Renewable Energy; Energy and Power; Tax Credits, Deductions and Exemptions 

Wind power does not scale well.
The marginal cost of capacity does not fall as the capacity increases.
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Your Money

Individuals Find Ideas in the Institutional Investment World

Some wealthy investors are exploring investment policy statements, which are used by foundations to create parameters for how securities are bought and sold.
Stocks and Bonds; High Net Worth Individuals; Endowments; Financial Planners 

No.  
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U.S.

Inquiry in Cover-Up of Ohio Rape Yields Indictment of Four Adults

The superintendent in the school system of Steubenville, Ohio, was among those indicted on Monday by a grand jury investigating the cover-up of a 2012 rape.
Sex Crimes; Education (K-12); Principals (School); Child Abuse and Neglect 

A can of worms . . .
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N.Y. / Region

Group to Promote Revised Plan for Tolls on East River Bridges

A cadre of New York City’s transit minds are fine-tuning a pricing model to reduce congestion that might be more palatable to residents outside Manhattan.
Tolls; Transit Systems; Roads and Traffic; Bridges and Tunnels 

Almost no possibility of this event.
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Science

Video: ScienceTake: Sea Slug Love

In the mating game, males and females can have different agendas even when they inhabit the same body.
Fish and Other Marine Life; Biology and Biochemistry; Reproduction (Biological) 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/science/a-different-kind-of-mating-dance.html

Yes.

Any kind of mating dance that works.
7
Opinion

A Glimmer of Sense on Guantánamo

The Senate defeated an amendment that would have extended the existing transfer restrictions of the detainees.
Detainees; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations

The prison at Guantánamo is still a bad idea.
Let us end it.

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World

Parents Receive Life Sentences in Murders of Daughter and Domestic Worker

A court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, handed down life sentences to Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the murders of their teenage daughter and domestic worker.
Children and Childhood; Domestic Service; Murders and Attempted Murders; Police; Sentences (Criminal); Sex Crimes

I would guess justice was done.
Some circumstantial evidence is better than others.
 
9
Technology

A Graphic Novel With Teeth (and Claws)

“Shifter,” a graphic novel from Anomaly Productions, uses augmented reality to make prehistoric creatures spring to life.
Comic Books and Strips; 3-D Devices and Effects

This is not an idea.
 
10
Science

A Historical Elephant’s New Identity

A 255-year-old elephant fetus on which Carl Linnaeus based his taxonomy of Asian elephants was actually African, new research shows.
Elephants

sad.
11
Sports

Bolt Laments Testing Costs

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13
World

The Two Lucknows During Muslim Holy Month

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Health

Lifesaving Flu Drugs Fall in Use in Children

Prompt use of antiviral medications can save the lives of flu-stricken children — yet the drugs are being used less frequently than they once were, a study finds.
Babies and Infants; Children and Childhood; Influenza; Preventive Medicine; Relenza (Drug); Tamiflu (Drug)

Get a flu shot.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Gunman Scare at Yale Believed to Be a Hoax


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Crosswords/Games

Gold Bars

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Business Day

Standard & Poor's Ratings Names New President

19
Opinion

Adults With Asperger’s

20
Real Estate

Island Park: Sandy as Mother of Reinvention

An affordable Nassau County enclave rebounding from the ravages of Hurricane Sandy, thanks to a network of close-knit, multigenerational families.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Hurricane Sandy (2012)

If you insist.
The town will always be wet. 

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1
Business Day

‘Leave of Absence’ for Lara Logan After Flawed Benghazi Report


2
Business Day

Barnes & Noble Reports Profit, but Sales Fall

3
Business Day

Vestas Hopes to Bring Wind Power to World

4
Your Money

Individuals Find Ideas in the Institutional Investment World

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U.S.

Inquiry in Cover-Up of Ohio Rape Yields Indictment of Four Adults

The superintendent in the school system of Steubenville, Ohio, was among those indicted on Monday by a grand jury investigating the cover-up of a 2012 rape.
Sex Crimes; Education (K-12); Principals (School); Child Abuse and Neglect

Searching for a witch.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Group to Promote Revised Plan for Tolls on East River Bridges

A cadre of New York City’s transit minds are fine-tuning a pricing model to reduce congestion that might be more palatable to residents outside Manhattan.
Tolls; Roads and Traffic; Bridges and Tunnels

Just impose a toll to operate a motor vehicle on Manhattan.
 
7
World

Militia in Benghazi Flees After Deadly Gun Battle

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Science

Video: ScienceTake: Sea Slug Love

9
Opinion

A Glimmer of Sense on Guantánamo

10
Dining & Wine

A School Where Cooks Learn to Be Farmers, a Project for White Corn and More

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World

Syrian Rebel Group Skeptical of Talks

The planned international conference on ending Syria’s civil war encountered its first obstacles, a day after it was announced in Geneva.

Religious war.

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Honor killing.

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U.S.

In a Time of Need, a Vice President Talking, as Ever

Following Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for a week shows how much he is talking to discouraged Democrats and covering the distracted president’s bases.
United States Politics and Government

Yes.
 
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Technology

A Graphic Novel With Teeth (and Claws)

15
Science

A Historical Elephant’s New Identity

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Sports

Bolt Laments Testing Costs

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World

The Two Lucknows During Muslim Holy Month

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N.Y. / Region

Gunman Scare at Yale Believed to Be a Hoax







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