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A Return to the Cash & Carry Economy

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:05:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fascinating article in Slate.

The Death of the Credit Card EconomyCar leases, student loans, no-money-down mortgages, and high credit limits are vanishing.

The most revolutionary notion in commerce today is one of the oldest. If you want to buy something, you may actually have to pay for it. We are reverting from a "borrow and buy" economy to the "cash and carry" model of our grandparents.

Tags: credit, cash, economy, money, finance

Audrey Hepburn Photo Gallery

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:06:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Style inspiration. I love her.

Clip Source: www.audreyhepburn.com

Tags: audrey hepburn, gallery, photos

Hospitals deporting immigrants

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:05:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This just reminds of a video they have in LA of a hospital dropping off a woman at the homeless shelter because she did not have health insure. She was still in her hospital gown & they just dropped her off on the corner in downtown LA. Something is really wrong with our health care system. Seriously seriously wrong.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals

JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.

Mr. Jiménez’s benchmark case exposes a little-known but apparently widespread practice. Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. Medicaid does not cover long-term care for illegal immigrants, or for newly arrived legal immigrants, creating a quandary for hospitals, which are obligated by federal regulation to arrange post-hospital care for patients who need it.

Tags: healthcare, health, hospitals, deportation, immigrants

Where are these troops going to come from?

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:09:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yeah. Shocking - we don't have enough troops ; the troops in Fort Bragg live in a literal cess pool ; there is not enough health care (physical or mental) for the troops coming back ; enlistment is down (even though I've heard otherwise) - yes, there is a problem and we are already over-working the troops in Iraq & Afganistan and in turn, destroying families. I don't get it and this just pisses me off.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

The Army's Math ProblemWe don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless we take some out of Iraq.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wants to send 7,000 more U.S. troops—about two brigades—to Afghanistan, according to the May 3 New York Times. But there's a problem, which the story underplays: We don't have any more troops to send. The Army is in a zero-sum state: No more soldiers can be sent to Afghanistan without a one-for-one reduction of soldiers in Iraq.

Let's look at the numbers.

Tags: war, iraq, increase, troops, afganistan, slate

The Cans Festival - check it out if you are in London

Mon, 05 May 2008 02:38:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I read about this a couple of days ago and thought I would look it up. How could would it be to witness this? My brother used to do a lot of graffiti art when he was younger and now is getting back into it. When I was in San Diego last, we went and checked out a park that is set aside for graffiti artists. It was pretty amazing some of the stuff out there. Better to have the kids hanging out there then getting arrested or getting into other kinds of trouble.

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Tags: graffiti, cans, festival, london, 2008

The Anasazi mystery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:32:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising

Some 700 years ago, as part of a vast migration, a people called the Anasazi, driven by God knows what, wandered from the north to form settlements like these, stamping the land with their own unique style

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These Anasazi newcomers

were distinctive in other ways. They liked to build with stone

Why, in the late 13th century, did thousands of Anasazi abandon Kayenta, Mesa Verde and the other magnificent settlements of the Colorado Plateau and move south into Arizona and New Mexico?

Looking beyond climate change, some archaeologists are studying the effects of warfare and the increasing complexity of Anasazi society. They are looking deeper into ancient artifacts and finding hints of an ideological struggle, clues to what was going through the Anasazi mind.

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The meaning of the eyeglass push-up

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:22:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I pretty much do the Clark Kent way - method number 3. It's easy and efficient. I don't know, I also think it looks pretty nerdy but that's just me. I'm a nerd. I found this site using Stumbleupon and now I think I am hooked!

Clip Source: www.ironicsans.com

Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof

I’ve noticed lately that there seem to be ~~three~~ four distinct ways that people push up their glasses, and yet not a single study has been done about this. “10 Things You Can Tell About Your Man By How He Pushes Up His Glasses” seems like a perfect headline for a women’s magazine in the supermarket checkout line, and yet nobody is doing this important research. So here’s an overview:

Tags: ironicsans, david friedman, eyeglasses, adjusting, meaning

Eric Heuvel's "The Search"

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:27:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I want to order this graphic novel for our library. I think, that it will present the Holocaust in another medium that some students will find more accessible, similar to how they viewed the 9/11 report graphic novel.
I am actually having trouble finding out where to order it so maybe someone out there can help with that.
It is an interesting review in the NYT and also another interesting example of how the graphic novel is changing. Though, I do questions some things like the graphic novel version of Beowulf or the Odyssey but maybe it's not that much different from the abridged children's version of the Iliad or Alice In Wonderland.
I am also fascinated by the fact that it is considered a textbook.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real

Among other things, the book, building on the obvious precedent of Art Spiegelman's "Maus," shows how far comics have come as a cultural medium taken seriously here, but also that the Holocaust has come a long way too, as a topic to be freshly considered by a new generation of German teenagers.

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The visual style of “The Search” is clear, simple, pastel-colored, in a classic Belgian-Franco comic tradition. “Less is more,” Mr. Heuvel, the artist, said in a recent telephone conversation, acknowledging that he pilfered liberally from Tintin’s inventor, Hergé. “We spent endless hours making sure that the Nazi costumes were kept to a minimum because boys can glorify these things.”

She added: “More and more young German students do too. They are sensitive to the idea that the subject is not just about Germans and Jews. It’s about people and life.”

Tags: graphic novel, germany, holocaust, eric heuvel, "the search", nyt

Daniel Pink interviews Thomas Friedman

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:15:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yesterday, Alan November visited the school and held a workshop. He talked about global learning and how students need to be prepared for the future and need a world view. He discussed ways to incorporate web tools so that students can use these tools in a new context, not just a social one. At one point, he talked about Thomas Friedman's books and that triggered Daniel Pink in my head. Then Karl Fisch posted this link on his blog, The Fischbowl. I thought it would be a good one to share.

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Tom Friedman on Education in the ‘Flat World’

A discussion with author Daniel Pink on curiosity, passion and the politics of school reform in the global marketplace

We sent Daniel Pink — himself the author of another best-selling book that’s been embraced by educators, A Whole New Mind — to talk with Friedman in his office at the Times’ Washington bureau. What followed was a wide-ranging conversation about schools, parents, mash-ups, horizontal thinking and the value of “yes, but” teaching.

Tags: education, technology, global learning, interview, school administrator