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Tag: our economy

fiscal embarassment

Here we are, New Year’s eve, staring the at the blank promise of a bright and prosperous 2013 right in the face. Today’s political antics regarding the looming ‘fiscal cliff’ are yet another stark reminder of our nation’s state of affairs. It seems that the issues are mounting – a housing market bubble, debt ceiling…

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the end of the Age of Aquarius

Being immersed in the ocean science community, many of this foresaw this inevitability, but there’s nothing like the national e-news to confirm things – Aquarius, the world’s last underwater laboratory dedicated for science is closed. The symbolism of this closing event is more discouraging than the close itself. From a business perspective, especially given the…

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the value of data

Just this week, I faced the unfortunate, though somewhat inevitable malfunction of my cellphone. With this misfortune came the loss 95% of the contacts in my address book. Like we all would be, I was frustrated, but then it dawned on me just how lucky I was to only lose the limited data on had…

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on budget crises, and gettin’ $#!T done

I’m generally incredibly hesitant to talk politics here on ‘a New Life’, but we are in a time and space where not one single person in this country can take for granted that the US is a great place to live and everything will be just fine…unfortunately we are as prone to the realities of life, injustice,…

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the abomination of the Obama nation

Tonight’s (1/25/2011) State of the Union marked a critical point in President Obama’s tenure in office, as the event would for any President. Obama came out of the gate while emphasizing free enterprise and innovation, suggesting that both are central to job creation and some relief from recession, and are the true drivers of our…

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shopping at ‘Price Rite’ | an illustration of where we are going wrong

After a leisurely holiday week spent relaxing with the fam, today marked the official start of getting back to the program. Among the many chores I assumed for the day was grocery shopping. For nearly a decade now, I have been quite favorably shopping at a chain of grocery stores called ‘Price Rite’. The store prides…

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the ‘odds’ in Vegas

I’m finding it somewhat ironic that I’ve travelled through two of the last places on Earth I’d ever consider experiencing in just the last two weeks. As I write here today, I’m on my way home from sin city…Las Vegas. While my purpose for being in Vegas was a great one – that is supporting…

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Plastic bags and reinventing the American dream

Among my most favorite reasons for travelling, particularly outside the US, is taking a deeper look into how things work. Earlier this week, I took a stroll to a local market while in the South of France to pick up some groceries for dinner. With pictures being worth more than a thousand words, and being…

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Hot, Flat, and CROWDED

Perhaps it is no coincidence that I wrapped up Thomas Friedman’s ‘Hot, Flat, and Crowded’ via audiobook while travelling last night. While en route to France from New York City, with the tools afforded by globalization at my fingertips, namely my iTouch, laptop, wi-fi on the plane, and my little fingers going blog-wild, I was…

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