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December 2008 Archives
10:21 AM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Given that whale-watching has become a good business out of Provincetown and Boston, you might want to look at this: The Northeast Fisheries Science Center reports on the large number of North Atlantic right whales that have been seen......
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8:14 AM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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A New Year's celebration over the Thames in London. xxx Here's a way of making lemonade out of a lemon, or wine from milk during a snowstorm: Consider this message from downtown Providence's French restaurant, Pot au Feu, run......
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2:07 PM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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The latest big media story hereabouts, reported in the Boston Herald and the Financial Times: That Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. might buy The Boston Globe, merge it with News Corp.'s Ottaway chain (The Cape Cod Times, et al.), then......
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6:29 PM Mon, Dec 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Globe commendably raised this issue in a recent editorial, citing the damage-repair record after the recent ice storm in interior Massachusetts. The state should do what it can to encourage the creation of more municipally owned electric......
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11:00 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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"Evening Winterscape,'' by Maxfield Parrish (Courtesty National Museum of American Illustration, Bellevue Avenue, Newport.)......
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2:21 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Adrian Walker of The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, unlike his predecessors going back to at least Michael Dukakis's time, doesn't have plans to soon seek other employment. Indeed, I construe from Mr. Walker's column that......
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4:05 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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"Santa With Elves,'' by Norman Rockwell, at the National Museum of American Illustration, Bellevue Avenue, Newport. To me, the museum is the most entertaining attraction in attraction-rich Newport. "It's nothing new," Col. Dave Gill, a U.S. Army recruiter, in......
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8:50 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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(The words at the lower left are: "We feed Mother Earth one million bags every minute. She needs one thousand years to digest each one.'') This poster was designed by Eliza Fitzhugh for a class at RISD taught by......
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6:22 PM Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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From James Surowiecki's recent piece in The New Yorker: The real problem for newspapers, in other words, isn't the Internet; it's us. We want access to everything, we want it now, and we want it for free. That's a......
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5:41 PM Thu, Dec 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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The New York Times Co. could presumably make more from the sale of its 17 percent of the Boston Red Sox than it could from unloading The Times's money-losing Boston Globe. Analysts think that the Gray Lady could get......
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6:14 PM Wed, Dec 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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That Aetna, the Hartford-based insurance company, has just announced that it will cut 3 percent of its work force is a small signal of the decay of the U.S. health-insurance "system'' in the recession. Aetna is cutting back because......
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6:37 PM Tue, Dec 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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UNH scientists find that New England gets less snow these days because it has become on average about a half degree warmer. So, they say, the number of days with snow on the ground in the region has fallen......
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2:28 PM Tue, Dec 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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On Wednesday Dec. 17, stations in the Providence-New Bedford market area will help prepare viewers for the transition to digital TV. WJAR, WLNE, WNAC, WPRI & WSBE will simultaneously run five half-hour educational programs during the following times: 11......
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1:44 PM Tue, Dec 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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This looks like a lot of fun in a recession!......
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5:22 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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The rise and fall of investment mogul Bernard Madoff, and his destruction of many private fortunes of gullible clients, make a good case for the return of the stodgy old bank trust officer, who would tend to steer people......
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9:08 AM Sat, Dec 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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See the May 7, 2001 issue of Barron's for a warning article about Bernard Madoff, now charged in a $50 billion fraud (huge even by the increasingly ingenious and corrupt standards of Wall Street). Many New Englanders and their......
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1:12 PM Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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This recalls corrupt U.S. Sen Ted Stevens's effort to derail the regulatory review process for Cape Wind and kill the project, with the aid of Alaska Congressman Don Young, whose ethics are also well known. With Congress so corrupted......
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1:12 PM Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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This recalls corrupt U.S. Sen Ted Stevens's effort to derail the regulatory review process for Cape Wind and kill the project, with the aid of Alaska Congressman Don Young, whose ethics are also well known. With Congress so corrupted......
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6:15 PM Thu, Dec 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Readers please note the Dec. 6 New York Times story "Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer,'' by John Markoff. Now that you're warned -- the news... Maine Media Investment LLC seems well along in efforts to......
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6:37 PM Mon, Dec 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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This is something that many southeastern New Englanders would want to attend, especially now that President-elect Obama backs a huge national infrastructure program that he likens to starting the Interstate Highway System back in the late '50s. Presumably they'll......
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2:12 PM Sun, Dec 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Wouldn't it be nice if the rather thin commuter rail service between New Haven and New London (run by the State of Connecticut and called Shore Line East) were ramped up so as to offer more alternatives to Amtrak......
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9:30 AM Sat, Dec 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Are fearful Americans placing too much hope in Barack Obama? Herewith revelers on Election Night in St. Marks Place, in Manhattan's East Village. Government can't just snap its fingers and start spending money on new roads, tunnels, bridges and......
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5:53 PM Thu, Dec 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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(Currier & Ives print) New England has a lot of small towns, and a lot of colleges. So maybe a Middlebury College class called "Portrait of a Vermont Town'' will be replicated elsewhere in the region. As a story......
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4:15 PM Wed, Dec 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Kudos to Tom Sgouros for his fact-filled and very thoughtful commentaries on Ocean State matters in Rhode Island Policy Reporter. I especially like his comparative stuff with the rest of the country. The state looks at itself in a......
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1:30 PM Wed, Dec 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Two works from the NetWorks 2008 show. Above, "Fizzy Laughter #5,'' graphite, gouache on paper, by Jacqueline Ott. Below, "Pig,'' engraved copper, by Jonathan Bonner. The show has three venues: 1) The Newport Art Museum -- http://www.newportartmuseum.org 2) AS220......
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5:38 PM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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That Patrick Purcell, who runs the Boston Herald, is taking over as head honcho of Rupert Murdoch's Ottaway newspaper chain, which runs the dailies on Cape Cod and in New Bedford, might presage some kind of advertising deal and......
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1:37 PM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Here's a nice piece of work by my acquaintance Christopher Foss, a New Yorker 'State of Play' By Christopher Foss A year of this and that, and before we know it, lines streak our faces. Telling the artfully arranged mask......
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6:53 PM Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Conflict of interest to the Nth power. Astra-Zenecar, the maker of the statin drug Crestor, paid for a study hyping the very expensive, high-profit-margin drug (which has severe side-effects in some people). Findings appear in the (gullible?) New England Journal......
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