Sunday, June 23, 2013

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Dining & Wine

For Restaurants, Composting Is a Welcome but Complex Task

Even some restaurateurs who are committed to recycling say that finding ways to fit more bins, more staff time and more expense into their routines will be a struggle.
Waste Materials and Disposal; Recycling of Waste Materials; Compost; Restaurants; 

Mostly whining.  Replace the bin used now with two smaller bins.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Lawmakers Act to Free Retired Officers of a Gun Rule

Among bills passed Friday, the New York Senate gave final legislative approval to let retired law enforcement officers keep their high-capacity firearms.
Gun Control; Women's Rights; State Legislatures; Gambling; 

No real product.
 
3
Opinion

Choices on Health, Depending on Where You Live

Readers discuss how Americans in different states will have varying insurance options.
Health Insurance and Managed Care; States (US); Medicare; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); 

Stop blowing smoke and treat the sick.
 
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Business Day

Dolce and Gabbana Fined in Italian Tax Case

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were handed a suspended sentence and a fine that could reach 10 million euros for hiding income from authorities.
Fines (Penalties); Corporate Taxes; Sentences (Criminal); Tax Evasion; 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%26G
Type Società a responsabilità limitata
Industry Retail
Founded Milan, Italy (1985)
Founder(s)
  • Domenico Dolce
  • Stefano Gabbana
Headquarters Milan, Italy
Area served Worldwide
Key people
  • Alfonso Dolce, CEO
  • Cristiana Ruella, COO
Products Clothing, footwear, handbags, sunglasses, watches
Employees 3,150
Parent Dolce & Gabbana Luxembourg S.à.r.l.
Website www.dolcegabbana.it

About $500,000,000. a year in sales.  
This is a pin prick.

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U.S.

Justices Say U.S. Cannot Impose Antiprostitution Condition on AIDS Grants

Groups receiving federal financing to combat AIDS abroad may not be required to adopt policies opposing prostitution, the Supreme Court ruled.
Freedom of Speech and Expression; Human Trafficking; First Amendment (US Constitution); 

Promising.  
Let us have more of these decisions.
 
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Flooding Inundates Part of Canadian Province

Heavy rain fell in the past 48 hours, in some places as much as normally falls in six months in the affected area in southern Alberta.
Disasters and Emergencies; Floods; Rain; 

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-alberta-floods

Nasty enough.  Still local.
 
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World

Flooding Damages Lourdes, French Holy Site

Visited by nearly six million Christian pilgrims every year, the site is turning to the faithful for financial relief after storms inundated the celebrated grotto and vast subterranean church.
Floods; Pilgrimages; Rivers; 

Placebos are often effective.  
Faith does provide comfort.
Depression can kill.
 
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Health

Komen Chooses New Leader

The breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that a physician, Judith A. Salerno, would become its new president and chief executive.
Breast Cancer; Philanthropy; Appointments and Executive Changes; 

One problem resolved.
 
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Fashion & Style

Her Madgesty Arrives Fashionably Late

Madonna screens “Madonna: The MDNA Tour,” a concert film, in Manhattan, and is fashionably late.
Rock Music; Music; Parties (Social); Movies; 

The Blue Angel is not a nice movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Angel
The Blue Angel
Derblaueengel.jpg
film poster
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Produced by Erich Pommer
Written by Heinrich Mann
(also novel)
Carl Zuckmayer
Karl Vollmöller
Robert Liebmann
Josef von Sternberg
Starring Emil Jannings
Marlene Dietrich
Kurt Gerron
Music by Friedrich Hollaender (music)
Robert Liebmann (lyrics)
Franz Waxman (orchestrations)
Cinematography Günther Rittau
Editing by Walter Klee
Sam Winston
Distributed by UFA
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
  • 1 April 1930 (Germany)
  • 5 December 1930 (US premiere)
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Running time 99 minutes
Country Weimar Republic
Language German/English
Box office $77,982 (2001 re-release)[1]

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Opinion

Developing Drugs for Rare Diseases

The New York Stem Cell Foundation and Research!America discuss the problem of developing drugs that help only a relative few patients.
Clinical Trials; Stem Cells; Research; Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); 

If the sufferers of rare diseases are solidly insured, as they will be under the ACA, there will be money to pay for these drugs.
Stop whimpering and get the work done.
 
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World

Convictions in Morocco Based on Coerced Confessions, Rights Group Says

In a report, Human Rights Watch accused Moroccan judges of convicting defendants based on confessions obtained through torture and of ignoring evidence like DNA tests.
False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Sentences (Criminal); Courts and the Judiciary; 

Show trials.  Political theater.
 
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Opinion

A Pledge of Allegiance to Partisan Policy

The Supreme Court properly struck down a federal demand for an anti-prostitution vow that would have violated the First Amendment.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Prostitution; Decisions and Verdicts; 

as they said.
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U.S.

California: Plastic Bags on Way Out

The Los Angeles City Council gave initial approval Tuesday to an ordinance banning stores from providing customers single-use plastic bags.
Shopping Bags; Plastics; Waste Materials and Disposal; 

These will be better places.
 
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Opinion

Homeless in the Hospital

Dr. Jeffrey B. Freedman, a hospital psychiatrist, says the need is to reduce costly hospitalizations.
Emergency Medical Treatment; Homeless Persons; Hospitals; Mental Health and Disorders; 

The homeless are separated from family and institutional support.
Hospitals are institutions. 
They do not want to be there.
Desperation may drive them in.

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Sports

Spain Crushes Tahiti in Confederations Cup

Spain, the World Cup winner, routed Tahiti on Thursday in the Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro.
Soccer; Taxation; Frauds and Swindling;

Brazil has been rioting by report.  
 
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Fashion & Style

The Calorie-Packed Perk

Small, high-growth tech companies have a reputation for showering employees with perks, many of them calorie-packed.
Labor and Jobs; Start-ups; Food; Weight; 

This stage will not last.
 
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Opinion

Checking Out

The main factor in workplace discontent is not wages, benefits or hours, but the boss. And the grumpiest, least happy workers are college graduates and baby boomers.
Labor and Jobs; Wages and Salaries; Workplace Environment; 

A big part of it is the employed have difficulty getting another job.
They stick with the one they have long after it does not please them.
 
18
Technology

Smartphone Tools Have Their Place in the Wild

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N.Y. / Region

Freed by Bronx Legal Logjam, and Adding to List of Victims

Many of the people who are arrested in the Bronx are arrested again — and again — before the courts get around to meting out justice in the original case.
Courts and the Judiciary; Crime and Criminals; Prisons and Prisoners; Sentences (Criminal); 

The article claims the Bronx courts are underfunded.
Where does the funding come from and why is it limited?
The county courts are funded by the county taxes, a property tax.
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Opinion

Breaking Medicine's Color Barrier

The forgotten story of the Civil War’s black surgeons and nurses.
Blacks; Civil War (US) (1861-65); Nursing and Nurses; Slavery; Surgery and Surgeons; 

The barrier was not broken.


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U.S.

F.D.A. Clears Way for Contraceptive

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved unrestricted sales of Plan B One-Step, lifting all age limits on the emergency contraceptive.
Plan B (Contraceptive); Birth Control and Family Planning;

It will help.   It is the wrong tool for the problem.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Action on Expanded Gambling as Albany’s Legislative Session Sputters to End

This year’s session began in January with a burst of activity — the passage of strict new gun laws — but ended with more of a thud.
Gun Control; Women's Rights; State Legislatures; Gambling; 

Needs a state constitutional amendment for expanded gambling.
 
4
Science

Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants

The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one sure to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Coal; Global Warming; Clean Air Act; United States Politics and Government; Factories and Manufacturing; Electric Light and Power; Carbon Dioxide; 

Cracking the whip.   I want to see it happen.  This may be the end for coal.

5
Business Day

Dolce and Gabbana Fined in Italian Tax Case

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Flooding Inundates Part of Canadian Province

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Health

Komen Chooses New Leader

10
Fashion & Style

Her Madgesty Arrives Fashionably Late

11
Opinion

Developing Drugs for Rare Diseases

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N.Y. / Region

Lawmakers Approve Use of Lever Voting Machines for Fall’s Mayoral Voting

As part of the legislation, lawmakers also agreed to delay a runoff, which will occur if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote in the primary, by one week.
Voting Machines; State Legislatures; Elections, Mayors; Women's Rights;

Incompetence is everywhere.
 
13
Opinion

A Pledge of Allegiance to Partisan Policy

14
U.S.

California: Plastic Bags on Way Out

15
Opinion

Homeless in the Hospital

16
World

Flooding Damages Lourdes, French Holy Site

17
Technology

Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet

Internet companies were just the start. Virtually every field, from science to sports to public health, is being transformed by data-driven discovery and decision-making.
Computers and the Internet; Research; Science and Technology; Social Networking (Internet); 

Statisticians.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Freed by Bronx Legal Logjam, and Adding to List of Victims

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Fashion & Style

The Calorie-Packed Perk

Small, high-growth tech companies have a reputation for showering employees with perks, many of them calorie-packed.
Labor and Jobs; Start-ups; Food; Weight; 

Fat.
 
20
Opinion

Checking Out




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1
U.S.

F.D.A. Clears Way for Contraceptive

2
Science

Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants

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N.Y. / Region

Lawmakers Approve Use of Lever Voting Machines for Fall’s Mayoral Voting

5
U.S.

California: Plastic Bags on Way Out

6
Opinion

Homeless in the Hospital

7
Technology

Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet

8
N.Y. / Region

Freed by Bronx Legal Logjam, and Adding to List of Victims

9
Sports

Spain Crushes Tahiti in Confederations Cup

10
Fashion & Style

The Calorie-Packed Perk

11
Opinion

Checking Out

12
World

Muffling of a Voice Provokes an Outcry in Greece

Since the state broadcaster was shut down last week and its 2,600 employees fired, there has been an outpouring of solidarity, despite its long history of mismanagement and patronage.
European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- ); Layoffs and Job Reductions; News and News Media; Shutdowns (Institutional); 

Reopened? Noise to that effect.
 
13
Opinion

A Pledge of Allegiance to Partisan Policy

14
Business Day

Justices Support Corporate Arbitration

The Supreme Court reinforced the ability of corporations to impose arbitration on customers, ruling that merchants could not bring a class-action suit against American Express.
Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation; Decisions and Verdicts; Corporations; Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues; 

Not good.
 
15
Opinion

Breaking Medicine's Color Barrier

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Opinion

The Sandy Imperative

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s successor will have to build on his plan for a more resilient city against natural disasters.
Disasters and Emergencies; Weather; Infrastructure (Public Works); Mayors;

Yes, the city is now committed to a future disaster. 
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World

Raw Scenes, Unspeakable Violations

The artists at Zajia Lab in Beijing used their second annual “Bald Girls” feminist art show to highlight the problem of sexual violence against women and girls.
Women's Rights; Sex Crimes; Sexual Harassment; Performance Art; 

Women are no longer in surplus.  Chinese society will change.
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Opinion

Competition and Jobs

James J. Florio, a former Democratic governor of New Jersey, discusses global competition and the American job market.
Labor and Jobs; Population; Economic Conditions and Trends; Editorials; 

Just wrong.
Goods in surplus means low demand.
 
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Booming

A Lifetime of Changes, From ‘Roommate’ to ‘Spouse’

A Mariel boat lift refugee and a hairdresser find each other and maintain their relationship for 33 years.
Love (Emotion); Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships; Baby Boomers; Homosexuality; 

For as long as we can.
 
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Opinion

Prying Private Eyes

Congress has to end excessive reliance on government contractors for intelligence work.
Defense Contracts; Classified Information and State Secrets; United States Politics and Government; Editorials; Outsourcing; 

Government employees have rules.  
Contract employees do not have those rules.

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1
Opinion

Privacy and the Threat to the Self

The concept of privacy is not just a political issue. It is also intimately connected to what it means to be an autonomous person.
Espionage and Intelligence Services; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Philosophy; Privacy; Psychology and Psychologists; 

No.
 
3
Science

Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants

4
N.Y. / Region

Lawmakers Approve Use of Lever Voting Machines for Fall’s Mayoral Voting

5
U.S.

California: Plastic Bags on Way Out

6
Opinion

Homeless in the Hospital

7
Technology

Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet

8
N.Y. / Region

Freed by Bronx Legal Logjam, and Adding to List of Victims

9
Sports

Spain Crushes Tahiti in Confederations Cup

10
Fashion & Style

The Calorie-Packed Perk

11
Opinion

Checking Out

12
World

Muffling of a Voice Provokes an Outcry in Greece

13
Opinion

A Pledge of Allegiance to Partisan Policy

14
Business Day

Justices Support Corporate Arbitration

15
Opinion

Breaking Medicine's Color Barrier

16
Opinion

The Sandy Imperative

17
World

Raw Scenes, Unspeakable Violations

18
Opinion

Competition and Jobs

19
Booming

A Lifetime of Changes, From ‘Roommate’ to ‘Spouse’

20
Opinion

Prying Private Eyes













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