Saturday, March 1, 2014

@9:40, 2/28/14

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1
Automobiles

Consumer Reports: Lexus Is No. 1

Japanese brands take seven of the top 10 slots, joined by three German manufacturers; American automakers take the bottom five.
Automobiles 

Luxury wins in depressed times.  
 
2
Business Day

Euro Zone Inflation Stays Low; Joblessness Remains High

The figures come ahead of a meeting next week by the European Central Bank, which is still weighing whether any further stimulus moves are needed.
Interest Rates; Unemployment; Inflation (Economics) 

Depressed . . .

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/02/26/dont-try-this-at-home-greek-austerity-by-jeffrey-sommers-and-yanis-varoufakis/

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/02/27/austerity-as-a-destabilising-assault-on-the-new-deal-institutions-a-joint-presentation-by-j-k-galbraith-y-varoufakis-audio/

3
World

Dead Guards on Freighter Are Identified as Former Navy SEAL Members

The two men, who had been hired to protect a ship that was attacked by Somali pirates in 2009, were found dead while the ship was docked in the Seychelles.
Murders and Attempted Murders; Piracy at Sea 

Accidental deaths.
 
4
Opinion

No Big Deal

Talks are stalled on an international trade deal, thanks to negotiating difficulties abroad and bipartisan skepticism at home. But that’s O.K.
International Trade and World Market; United States Politics and Government; Customs (Tariff); Copyrights and Copyright Violations; Protectionism (Trade); United States Economy 

Yes, no big deal and not a winner politically.
 
5
N.Y. / Region

A Yellow Beverage

Metropolitan Diary: A shopper was being very choosy about the soft drink she was buying, but for a bizarre reason.
Color; Drugstores; Shopping and Retail; Soft Drinks; Theater 

Dehydration gives the color.  
She would do better to mix a color with food coloring under the stage lights.
 
6
U.S.

A Call to Arms on a Vermont Heroin Epidemic

Rutland has begun an effort to attack a drug problem with social services, as well as with law enforcement.
Drug Abuse and Traffic; Heroin; Police 

Addiction is one result of economic depression.
The fix starts with income and hope.
Laboring Rutland needs both.
7
Opinion

Women’s Progress

Luisa Cabal of the Center for Reproductive Rights seeks a broad effort to remove the inequalities women face.
Women and Girls; Birth Control and Family Planning; Third World and Developing Countries 

There is a limit to fertility.  There is no real fix for that as yet.
Nobody lives past ~ 120.

Human life is finite.

 
8
World

Reversing Course, Japan Makes Push to Restart Dormant Nuclear Plants

The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reversed course on a promise made by a previous government to phase out the country’s atomic power plants.
Nuclear Energy; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Japan) 

Japan will build more nuclear plants.
 
9
Technology

British Spies Said to Intercept Yahoo Webcam Images

Accounts based on documents supplied by Edward J. Snowden say images — many sexually explicit — were collected from Yahoo users, even those not suspected of illegal activity.
Surveillance of Citizens by Government; Xbox (Video Game System) 

Privacy and equal protection conflict.
Privacy and sales conflict.

We have a dilemma.
 
10
Health

A Shortage of Caregivers

Recent estimates suggest that demand for paid caregivers will far outstrip supply over the next decade.
Elder Care; Labor and Jobs; Medicare; Nursing Homes; Wages and Salaries 

"What can't happen wont happen."
Or we can spend the necessary money.
Judith Graham assumes that the progressive tax rates can't rise.
 
11
Fashion & Style

Balmain: A Journey Into the Soul

The designer Olivier Rousteing said the military-turned-tribal clothes were a celebration of his youth.
Paris Fashion Week 

I will have to look more.  I think I should hate it.
It is art of a kind.
 
12
U.S.

Tea Party Group, Celebrating Its Fifth Anniversary, Is Happy but Restless

Internal differences in the movement were on display as Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee addressed the Tea Party Patriots in Washington.
Tea Party Movement; United States Politics and Government 

The group is AstroTurf; political mercenaries and dupes.
 
13
Fashion & Style

Boldface Gems

Jewelry designers competing for red-carpet exposure on Oscar night in hope of raising their profile are training their sights on a handful of stars with a strong fashion presence.
Jewels and Jewelry; Fashion and Apparel; Academy Awards (Oscars); Celebrities 

I am not the lapidary I want to be.
At some point all public art is business.
The problem is business tends to smother art.
I try to know art is desired and business is the worlds path to art.
 
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You could get the doctorate.
I want to make objects of desire.

15
World

For Teenage Girls, Video Takes Fear Out of a Shunned Topic

“Mythri,” an animated video that teaches girls about their changing bodies, has found success in schools in the Indian state of Karnataka and is set to expand to the rest of the country.
Education (K-12); Menstruation; Parenting; Sex Education; Video Recordings and Downloads; Women and Girls 

It is good that the task gets done.  
Often it is not done.
Cervical cancer is thought to be viral.  
My knowledge is incomplete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer


 
16
N.Y. / Region

Fresh Produce Comes to the Bronx via a Veggie Mart on Wheels

The leader of a South Bronx nonprofit group is filling an old school bus with a cornucopia of locally and organically grown vegetables and fruit and taking it to the streets.
Buses; Vegetables; Food; Nonprofit Organizations; Fruit; Agriculture and Farming 

Push carts were the way.
Making a nut of four hundred dollars a day is a project.
 
17
U.S.

Outrage Over Sexist Remarks Turns Into a Political Fund-Raising Tool

With a record number of women in Congress and dozens more on the ballot, attacks on figures like Wendy Davis, Claire McCaskill and Hillary Rodham Clinton can instantly generate contributions.
United States Politics and Government; Campaign Finance; Women and Girls; Sexual Harassment; Political Action Committees; Presidential Election of 2016 

Keep swinging.  The G.O.P. will keep pitching.
18
U.S.

Massachusetts: Revere Voters Approve Casino Proposal by Mohegan Sun

Voters in Revere on Tuesday approved Mohegan Sun’s proposal to build a resort casino on land owned by Suffolk Downs.
Casinos; Gambling 

I would rather see the Mohegan tribe get the contract.
 
19
Automobiles

Wheelies: The Happy Birthday to Ute Edition

Ford celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Australian Ute; Toyota names design chief to run the Lexus division.
Automobiles 

I like the '34 UTE.  It is too much car and not enough truck, like its descendants.
The rest of the automotive news is depression.

20
Opinion

Global Warming Basics from the U.S. and British Science Academies

More basics from the leading science academies on what we know and don’t know about greenhouse gases and global warming.
Carbon Dioxide; Environment; Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions

We also know what is to be done.

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