Wednesday, October 29, 2014

@10:30, 10/28/14

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1
Opinion

Why London’s Not for the Likes of Us

A real-estate bubble puts the old East End beyond ordinary people’s means.
Renting and Leasing (Real Estate); Gentrification; Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Evictions; Landlords; Income Inequality; Public and Subsidized Housing; Affordable Housing; Rent Control and Stabilization; Wages and Salaries 

Jane Jacobs  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_urban_studies_articles

London is transitioning to a "Financial Center" only.

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Automobiles

Monday Motorsports: Earnhardt Wins at Martinsville and Claims the Grandfather Clock

Dale Earhardt Jr. won his first race at Martinsville Speedway; Marc Márquez won the penultimate race in the 2014 MotoGP season.
Automobile Racing; Nascar Sprint Cup Series 

More time on the road.

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Steering the Climate Change Coverage

Adam Bryant recently became editor of The Times’s expanded team covering the environment. We asked him how he is approaching the position.
Air Pollution; Alternative and Renewable Energy; Fuel Efficiency; Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Solar Energy; Wind Power 

He knows climate change is real and action is necessary.
That will reduce the noise.

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Automobiles

Complaints About In-Car Electronic Systems on Rise, Consumer Reports Says

The magazine’s latest auto reliability report, which covered 1.1 million new vehicles, found that dashboard electronic systems caused many problems.
Automobiles 

The current crop of trucks look to be design failures.

“We reanalyzed how these cars would do if we ignored those systems,” Mr. Fisher said. “What we found is that for the vast majority, the unreliable cars stay unreliable. It’s not a case of ‘these cars are fine and it’s just this system that’s the problem.' ”

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Automobiles

Rare 1966 Ferrari GTB Competizione Headed to Scottsdale Auction

Bonhams announced Monday that the car – a Le Mans winner and one of just 12 built – will cross the block at its Scottsdale, Ariz., auction in January.
Automobiles; Le Mans Auto Race; Antique and Classic Cars; Auctions; Collectors and Collections; Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance (Car Show) 

Pretty car.
 The V-twelve has most of the problems of the straight eight.
Dry sump oiling has never been favored in production cars.
It costs more.

6
Opinion

For Congress in New York

The Times’s editorial board makes recommendations in a few select races.
Endorsements; Elections, House of Representatives 

OK

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U.S.

Peace Prize Laureates Urge Disclosure on U.S. Torture

Twelve of President Obama’s fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipients are pushing him to release a Senate report about the C.I.A.'s use of torture after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Torture; Classified Information and State Secrets; Nobel Prizes; Detainees; September 11 (2001); Extraordinary Rendition 

Bernadette Meehan, a National Security Council spokeswoman, said Mr. Obama agrees that the C.I.A.’s rendition, detention and interrogation program of the George W. Bush era “was inconsistent with our values as a nation, and that public scrutiny, debate and transparency will help to inform the public’s understanding of the program to ensure that such a program will never be used again.” 

President Obama is doing what he can in the face of political opposition.

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Opinion

A Town Shouldn’t Fight the Islamic State Alone

A commander of the resistance in Kobani, Syria, on what the town needs in order to fend off an assault by militants.
Kurds; Women and Girls; Defense and Military Forces; International Relations

"Turkey, a NATO member, should have been an ally in this conflict. It could easily have helped us by allowing access between different Syrian Kurdish areas, so as to let fighters and supplies move back and forth through Turkish territory.
Instead, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has several times publicly equated our fighters, who are defending a diverse and democratic society, with the murderous Islamic State, evidently because of the controversy surrounding Turkey’s Kurdish minority."

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N.Y. / Region

Top New York Correction Official, Under Fire Over Rikers Violence, to Step Down

William Clemons, who has been with the department for 29 years, had been criticized over underreporting of violence at a juvenile facility at Rikers Island.

Before he falls or is pushed.
The project is pension preservation.

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Business Day

Food Scores, a New Web Service, Ranks Grocery Items on Ingredients and Nutrition

The database assigns a score to 80,000 products based on factors like how nutritious and processed they are.
Food; Diet and Nutrition; Supermarkets and Grocery Stores; Labeling and Labels; Gluten; Genetic Engineering

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Food Scores has a good point.
They are short on science and long on emotion.
When listing sugars they could specify the sugar
When listing residues they could list level above background.

11
Opinion

The Last Train

Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmentalists may have the best model for Middle East peace.
Palestinians; Water

There will be no peace in the Levant.

Jordan expelled the Palestinian refugees.

12
World

Ford Family Loses Hold on City Hall in Toronto

John Tory, a center-right candidate for mayor, defeated Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, who had replaced him on the ballot.
Elections, Mayors

Toronto will be quieter. 

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Business Day

Business Travelers Pick Starbucks on the Go

A report shows that the restaurant is the most often expensed food and beverage brand, partly because of the number of millennials among travelers.
Business Travel; Budgets and Budgeting; Fast Food Industry

Baby food.

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N.Y. / Region

Car Kills a Girl Outside a Bronx School

A woman drove onto a busy sidewalk in front of an elementary school in the Bronx on Friday, hitting and killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring five other people, the authorities said.
Traffic Accidents and Safety; Deaths (Fatalities)

A bare report of the incident.

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Opinion

Afghanistan’s Unending Addiction

The opium production problem seems to be getting worse. What went wrong with the multiyear, multibillion-dollar narcotics program?
Opium; Drug Abuse and Traffic; Editorials; Afghanistan War (2001- ); Poppies; United States International Relations

Opium works as well as oil to gather wealth.
It takes even less capital equipment.

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World

Alaa Abd El Fattah, Dissident Blogger, Is Re-Arrested in Egypt

Alaa Abd El Fattah, who had been free on bail, was arrested in court on Monday as he appealed a 15-year sentence for violating a ban on unsanctioned protests.
Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ); Political Prisoners; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Demonstrations, Protests and Riots

He will get himself killed.  We will miss him.

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N.Y. / Region

3 New York Colleges to Drop Crime Queries for Applicants

Under an agreement with the attorney general’s office, St. John’s and two smaller colleges will no longer ask potential students if they have ever been arrested or convicted of a felony.
Admissions Standards; Colleges and Universities; Discrimination; Crime and Criminals; Race and Ethnicity

It would be more convincing if we had some confirming numbers.

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Business Day

Living Wages, Rarity for U.S. Fast-Food Workers, Served Up in Denmark

Some economists point to Denmark, where fast-food workers make more than twice what they would in the United States, in discussions about American wages.
Fast Food Industry; Collective Bargaining; Wages and Salaries; Franchises

Yes.

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Opinion

In Georgia, a Democrat Appeals to the Distant Hope of Compromise


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Opinion

How We Misread Renée’s Face

The actress's new look has received merciless scrutiny. But beauty resides in charm, not physical features.
Plastic Surgery; Women and Girls; Social Conditions and Trends; Beauty (Concept)

I agree.


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