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Business Day

Reno Rolls the Dice on High-Tech

By DIONNE SEARCEY | Jul 6th 2014

The Nevada city is looking to shed its casino-town image and become a hub of e-commerce ventures, an Apple data center and a drone testing ground.

Start-ups; Casinos; Relocation of Business; Corporate Taxes; Recession and Depression; Science and Technology

In the age of same day delivery and internet ordering
craft technology is better than joining Detroit as a zombie city.
There is no pile of junk as a place to start.

The manufacture of "one of a kind" was the only entry to work
my cohort in school could find.

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Opinion

On Construction: Buy American

Jul 4th 2014

Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing responds to an Op-Ed article.

Infrastructure (Public Works); Factories and Manufacturing; Bridges and Tunnels; Government Contracts and Procurement; Building (Construction)

In the last four hundred years the Americans have learned that specifications are written for good reasons.
The Chinese do not currently believe it to be true.

This is the song "Give me that old time religion" as presented by Joseph Campbell.
I can't find that one.  Try:  "Old Time Religion (Filk) - Tony Provencher"
Filk is what happens to song when copyright is ignored.
There are many versions.

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Automobiles

G.M. Resists Recalling Trucks Over Brake Line Problem

By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN | Jul 7th 2014

Amid about 1,000 complaints and a years-long government investigation, G.M. has not recalled 1.8 million trucks with a brake line corrosion problem.

Automobile Safety Features and Defects; Brakes; Trucks and Trucking

G.M. has a case. Brake lines have been required to be steel.
Steel rusts with exposure and time.

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World

Chinese Leader, Underlining Ties to South Korea, Cites Japan as Onetime Mutual Enemy

By CHOE SANG-HUN | Jul 4th 2014

President Xi Jinping reminded South Koreans on Friday that their two countries had fought “shoulder to shoulder” against Japan more than four centuries ago.

International Relations

China joins the diplomatic game.
It is far better that they do.
They will know when they commit to war.

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Science

New Field Tests May Curb Kissing Bug Disease

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. | Jul 7th 2014

Rapid and accurate tests could speed up diagnosis of Chagas disease, which has few symptoms at first but can be fatal.

Tests (Medical); Chagas Disease; Parasites

Another tropical disease is threatened with extinction.
The story said nothing about an animal carrier.

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U.S.

Taking Oil Industry Cue, Environmentalists Drew Emissions Blueprint

By CORAL DAVENPORT | Jul 6th 2014

To influence carbon policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council followed a strategy used by the oil industry during the Bush administration.

Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Air Pollution; Coal; Clean Air Act; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Lobbying and Lobbyists

I am glad to know the N.R.D.C. did its job.

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Opinion

Reining In the Drones

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 6th 2014

The grave problems raised by this lethal technology need to be addressed by the Obama administration, as a bipartisan panel has just made clear.

Drones (Pilotless Planes); Targeted Killings; United States Defense and Military Forces; Editorials; Terrorism

The act is assassination, a business of the C.I.A.
Enthusiastic Islam finds it useful to report assassinations when their partisans end up dead.
I would be interested to know what proportion of the reported deaths are not on the C.I.A. killed list.
   More deaths are easy.  Fewer is harder.

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World

Tensions High in Jerusalem as Palestinian Teenager Is Given a Martyr’s Burial

By JODI RUDOREN | Jul 4th 2014

The funeral for Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, widely presumed to have been killed in an act of retaliation, was seen as a potential flash point.

Palestinians; Funerals and Memorials; Murders and Attempted Murders; Kidnapping

The war drums are getting much louder.
It is a good time to leave the area.

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Opinion

A Company Liberals Could Love

By ROSS DOUTHAT | Jul 5th 2014

Hobby Lobby and religious organizations serve the common good. So why not encourage, rather than obstruct, them?

Christians and Christianity; Plan B (Contraceptive); Birth Control and Family Planning; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Liberalism (US Politics)

I do not wish to further empower corporations.
A corporation can hold no faith. It does not think or feel.
A corporation can have no soul in a culture that believes in such things.
It limits the liability of the owners to the financial investment.
Corporate law is silent on morality.
Humanity is said to have free will.
One cannot be moral for another.

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Sports

Sterling Case Will Examine Role of a Doctor Who Evaluated Him

By BILLY WITZ | Jul 6th 2014

A neurologist involved in assessing Donald Sterling’s competency socialized with Sterling and his wife, Rochelle, hours later.

Basketball

There will be no change.

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Business Day

A Deluge of New Summer Programs Has TV Marketers Scrambling

By STUART ELLIOTT | Jul 6th 2014

New broadcast and cable shows and new episodes of streaming video series have made the summer a busy time for advertisers on traditional and social media.

Advertising and Marketing; Television; Online Advertising; Cable Television

The doing is much better than the watching.

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World

Academic Scandal Shakes Japan

By DAVID MCNEILL | THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Jul 6th 2014

Accusations of fabricating data and plagiarism by a researcher have prompted questions about the quality of science in a country that still punches below its international weight in cutting-edge research.

Falsification of Data; Plagiarism; Research

I do not know the politics of her situation.
I do know that politics were involved.
Sabotage is not unknown in science.
Faith is also known.
 

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Arts

London Auctions Cap a Go-Go Season

By SCOTT REYBURN | Jul 6th 2014

Extremely wealthy collectors focus their investments on low-risk, big-name artists.

Art; Auctions

Fashion and demand.

I will have to produce work for publication to join the fray.
 

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Opinion

Beliefs, Facts and Money

By PAUL KRUGMAN | Jul 6th 2014

How Republicans ignore the evidence and cling to that old-time economic religion.

Inflation (Economics); United States Economy; United States Politics and Government; Economics (Theory and Philosophy); Religion and Belief; Psychology and Psychologists

Krugman notes that faith trumps facts.
 

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World

It’s Tasty and Political: Britain Presses U.S. on Haggis

By STEVEN ERLANGER | Jul 4th 2014

With a Scottish vote on independence two months away, Britain is lobbying America to allow imports of the delicacy made from sheep’s innards, which the United States banned for consumption in 1971.

Sheep; Meat; Referendums; United States International Relations

Scrapie was the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie 

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Opinion

Two Approaches to Tidal Politics

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 6th 2014

North Carolina is in foolhardy denial about the severity of rising seas, while Virginia’s leaders are forthrightly talking about the problem.

Global Warming; State Legislatures; United States Politics and Government; Editorials; Coastal Areas

The days of the Republican party are numbered.
What is will not solve the next problem.
 

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U.S.

Creating a Safe Harbor for a Village Heritage

By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN | Jul 6th 2014

Fishermen in Morro Bay, Calif., have joined forces with scientists and civic leaders to give small-scale fishermen a chance against big-time operators.

Fishing, Commercial; Ports; United States Economy; Fish Farming; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Boats and Boating

Regulation is absolutely necessary.
Helping the local operators keep going seems a good thing.
The quota is too big if the big boys can keep going.
"Out of fish" kills all the fishermen.

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Sports

Lawyers for N.C.A.A. Show Support for Northwestern

By STEVE EDER | Jul 4th 2014

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Automobiles

Monday Motorsports: Hamilton Benefits From Rosberg’s Hard Luck

By JERRY GARRETT | Jul 7th 2014

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World

Poised to Gain in Iraq Crisis, Kurds Face New Barriers to Autonomy

By TIM ARANGO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Jul 4th 2014

Always.

They did not talk to Gertrude Bell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bell

We lost power for twelve hours. I crewed my brother's boat to the far eastern corner of Connecticut in twelve hours.  Recovery was much slower.