Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Spiritual Technology: Getting Unstuck on Yom Kippur

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Well, the pleasant reflections of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, that usher in the Days of Awe are over and it is time to get down to b...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Bounty in Brooklyn Heights: King Harvest Shall Surely Come

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An amazing day in Brooklyn Heights. The graceful rays of the autumn sun, the air temperature just perfect, brought out the lunchtime crowds ...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Into the Abyss: Global Economy = Terra Incognito

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This is edgy stuff. The Financial crisis moved into the Wall Street crisis and now, It is morphing into a global economic crisis. What does ...
Saturday, October 4, 2008

Brooklyn Party Cake, Telltale Signs, and Tales of Absolute Zero

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Brooklyn Beat turned 54 yesterday . Yep, 54 years ago in Samaritan Hospital on President Street between 6th and seventh avenues, which is n...
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Friday, October 3, 2008

American Syzygy

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photo by Brooklyn Beat/TN 2008 syz·y·gy a pair of related things that are either similar or opposite If the Democratic Party could muster t...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Able Danger: Conspiracy Noir

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I enjoyed watching and can highly recommend "Able Danger" a film by Paul Krik aka David Herman, that is an entertaining concoctio...

Reflections: Who by Falling Stocks

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Happy New Year, Y'all. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and the prelude to the Days of Awe, where, if you are so accustomed or co-rel...
Monday, September 22, 2008

'Not in Our Stars: Large Hadron Collider Incident Results in Multi-Month Shutdown

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OK, it wasn't a black hole, or at least no one is saying, but Something Happened to require a shut down of the Large Hadron Collider at ...

Bob Dylan: 'Mississippi' Redux

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The Guardian (UK) has released an outtake of "Mississippi" which was recorded during the sessions for Bob Dylan's 1997 album T...

Frank Vincent Zappa & Nicolas Slonimsky: American Tunes

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We are doing some reorganizing around our home, and I came across this while packing and moving some books. I never tire of reading this pie...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Brooklyn Bridge 9-19-2008: 'The German Parade' aka Steuben Day in NYC

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Photo by Gabrielle Napoli 2008 Photo by Ilana Napoli 2008 Our younger daughters, in the 8th grade, are on a class field trip to the Brooklyn...

"May You Live in Interesting Times": The US and global economy - A Watershed for the Free Markets; the Beginning of a New Phase ?

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The economy continues to roll on a rocky road. Economic surges on world stock markets. Russian stock market suspended due to market turmoil....
Thursday, September 18, 2008

'The World As We Know It Is Going Under': The Financial Crisis

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Complex does not describe it. The current financial crisis continues to unfurl with apparently no end it sight. The New York Times devotes ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

2008 BROOKLYN SCHOOL REPORT CARDS ARE IN

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Well, despite the hue and cry about grades and tests, whether it is due to schadenfreude, or disagreement, or satisfaction, we find the res...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Art in Free Fall Opens at BWAC

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Art in Free Fall opened today at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition at the organization's gallery space at 499 Van Brunt in Red H...