Friday, July 31, 2015

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Hotel Review: The Ludlow in New York City

By SHIVANI VORA | Jul 31st 2015
The hotel wins high marks for its neighborhood feel and is a smart choice for travelers looking for an authentic sense of place away from the crowds.

Market rate, down town.

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U.S.

Bail Set at $1 Million for Ex-University of Cincinnati Officer Charged With Murder

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Jul 30th 2015
The former officer, Ray Tensing, who is charged in the killing of Samuel Dubose on July 19, appeared in court for less than three minutes and entered a plea of not guilty.

He would be foolish to plead guilty.
He was foolish to shoot a man for lip.

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Sports

Filthy Rio de Janeiro Water a Threat at 2016 Olympics

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 30th 2015
An investigation found dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from sewage in venues where athletes will compete in the 2016 water events.

There is a problem.

I suspect the I.O.C. is corrupt.

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The Upshot

Taking Questions: Artificial Sweeteners

By AARON E. CARROLL | Jul 31st 2015
A recent column generated many reader comments and questions. Here are some answers.

It is not sugars but one sugar, fructose, that is the problem.

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Sports

Video: Patriots Owner Criticizes N.F.L.

The Associated Press | Jul 29th 2015
Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, said on Wednesday that he had been wrong to believe the N.F.L. would exonerate Tom Brady in the scandal over deflated footballs.

The NFL is wrong.

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Opinion

On Raising the Minimum Wage

Jul 31st 2015
A column by David Brooks provokes arguments for and against an increase.

I don't need the noise.
The higher wage will help.

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Science

Importing Both Salamanders and Their Potential Destruction

By CARL ZIMMER | Jul 30th 2015
A recently discovered fungus is killing salamanders in Europe and could spread to North America, carried by the pet trade.

Congress should listen to the scientists.
The bankers speak more loudly.

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N.Y. / Region

Review: Burgers (and Seafood) at Shad Row in Rocky Hill

By RAND RICHARDS COOPER | Jul 30th 2015
With outdoor-only seating, Shad Row offers a funky ambience and a beachfront vibe in a serene setting.

Another place to stop.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rocky+Hill,+CT/@41.657899,-72.6387693,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e64daa0a8761f5:0x1da7b07078065034

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World

Zimbabwean Official Urges Extradition of Dentist Who Killed Cecil the Lion

By DAN BILEFSKY | Jul 31st 2015
Oppah Muchinguri, the country’s environment minister, said Dr. Walter J. Palmer, a 55-year-old dentist and big-game hunter from Minnesota, had broken Zimbabwe’s laws.

Better to hunt the guide.

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N.Y. / Region

Judge Hears Arguments on an Exxon Settlement

By JASON GRANT and BENJAMIN WEISER | Jul 30th 2015
On Thursday, lawyers for New Jersey and environmental groups argued their case about an environmental contamination settlement between the state and Exxon.

The environmental groups should have a very skilled lawyer.

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World

Réunion Debris Probably From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian Officials Say

By MICHELLE INNIS | Jul 31st 2015
They cautioned that final confirmation about the part found on the remote French island of Réunion would not come from Australia.

Nothing to add.

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Food

Your Next Lesson: White Bordeaux

By ERIC ASIMOV | Jul 30th 2015
Historically passed over for its red sibling, white Bordeaux deserves recognition for its own beauty and complexity.

I don't need to go there.

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U.S.

St. Louis County Biased Against Black Juveniles, Justice Department Finds

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Jul 31st 2015
A report says that the county’s Family Court denied fundamental due process rights to thousands of people and treated blacks far more harshly than whites.

Missouri was a slave state. 

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Sports

Tom Brady Suit to Be Heard in New York

By KEN BELSON | Jul 30th 2015
Brady and the players’ union filed their suit in Minnesota. But the N.F.L. already had filed papers in New York,

The court will be as neutral as possible.

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Food

Smoky, Juicy Mussels and Clams Pop on the Grill

By MELISSA CLARK | Jul 31st 2015
Shellfish deserve a turn during grilling season, and the leftover juice is a delicious bonus when soaked up with grilled bread. (Article plus video.)

Steamed is good.  The broth is more plentiful.

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World

3 Former Executives to Be Prosecuted in Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

By JONATHAN SOBLE | Jul 31st 2015
The decision to proceed with criminal cases, the first to arise from the 2011 meltdowns, marked a victory for citizens’ groups.

The prosecution is political but probably correct.

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Science

Rosetta’s Philae Lander Discovers a Comet’s Organic Molecules

By KENNETH CHANG | Jul 30th 2015
Analysis of data from the Philae lander has provided insight into the composition, structure and properties of Comet 67P/Churyumov-–Gerasimenko.

As designed.

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U.S.

Video: Cincinnati Police Discuss Indictment

WXIX, via Associated Press | Jul 29th 2015
Joe Deters, the Hamilton County prosecutor, said on Wednesday that a grand jury indicted Officer Ray Tensing for murder in the shooting of 43-year-old Samuel DuBose.

In the presence of the video evidence they had no choice.

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U.S.

Water Use in California Down 27% in June, Beating Goal

By ADAM NAGOURNEY | Jul 30th 2015
June was the first month in which a mandatory 25 percent cutback was ordered, and officials called the reductions an encouraging development for the drought-stricken state.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.aspx?west

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Magazine

How to Cure a Cat’s Anxiety

By MALIA WOLLAN | Jul 31st 2015
Install a fish tank. Acknowledge the animal’s enigmatic nature.

Get a dog instead.
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N.Y. / Region

New York Judge Denies Request to Extend Legal Rights to 2 Chimps

By JESSE McKINLEY | Jul 30th 2015
The Nonhuman Rights Project had sought to free a pair of research animals from a university on Long Island, in the group’s latest attempt to establish apes as “legal persons."

"But while Justice Jaffe took the case seriously — her 33-page decision cited the long history of habeas corpus and included references to discrimination against women and African-American slaves — she could not quite see Hercules and Leo as people in the eyes of the law.
“For the purpose of establishing rights, the law presently categorizes entities in a simple, binary, ‘all or nothing,’ fashion,” the justice wrote, noting: “Persons have rights, duties, and obligations. Things do not.”"

The case moves to federal courts as a fourteenth amendment argument.
The apes are slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The apes have the rights of minor children.

Additionally:
The political and religious rights of corporations 
lie in ruins.

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World

Dominican Resort’s Fate at Center of Debate Over Haitians and Immigration

By AZAM AHMED | Jul 30th 2015
Haitians, who had brought new life to an abandoned seaside hotel, face ejection under new laws and conflict with their island neighbors.

Neither Haiti or Dominica has developed effective politics.
As a result the people war all against all.
I am not an anarchist.

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N.Y. / Region

Using DNA to Fight Dog Owners’ Discourtesy in Brooklyn

By GINIA BELLAFANTE | Jul 30th 2015
Appeals to decency have failed, so the operators of a condominium in Brooklyn Heights turned to science to combat dog waste in the halls and elevators.

Do what works.
There is no special entitlement, "no royal road".

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World

Debris Alone May Not Solve Mystery of Malaysia Flight 370, Experts Caution

By NICOLA CLARK and WILLIAM J. BROAD | Jul 30th 2015
Even if the debris is authenticated as coming from the Malaysia Airlines jet, it may not help in locating the plane’s wreckage, experts said.

Finding some wreckage resolves most of the mystery.

The plane ended up in the depths of the Indian Ocean.
There are no survivors.
The plane ended there by a pilots intention.

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Travel

On Prince Edward Island, a Seafood-Dining Excursion

By SHIVANI VORA | Jul 30th 2015
Catching, cooking and eating all that the province’s surrounding waters have to offer, including oysters, clams, cod, lobster and mussels.

I liked PEI when I visited thirty years ago.
I will happily visit again.

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Fashion & Style

Fashion World Reacts to the Killing of Cecil

By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA | Jul 30th 2015
Outrage at Dr. Walter J. Palmer’s hunt and its tragic conclusion spread to models, editors and others in the industry.

Hunters and guides have no special entitlement to animals in the wild or semi-wild.

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World

Myanmar Frees Loggers From China Amid a Broader Amnesty

By WAI MOE | Jul 30th 2015
After a strong pushback from Beijing, more than 150 citizens who were sentenced to life in prison were suddenly released.

"U Mong Gwang, a liaison officer with the Kachin Independence Organization, which controls part of the State, said on Thursday that the Chinese had been freed and deported. “People in the town are surprised at the news,” Mr. Mong Gwang said. “They were just sentenced eight days ago.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/opinion/paul-krugman-chinas-naked-emperors.html

China’s Naked Emperors


"Politicians who preside over economic booms often develop delusions of competence. You can see this domestically: Jeb Bush imagines that he knows the secrets of economic growth because he happened to be governor when Florida was experiencing a giant housing bubble, and he had the good luck to leave office just before it burst. We’ve seen it in many countries: I still remember the omniscience and omnipotence ascribed to Japanese bureaucrats in the 1980s, before the long stagnation set in.
This is the context in which you need to understand the strange goings-on in China’s stock market. In and of itself, the price of Chinese equities shouldn’t matter all that much. But the authorities have chosen to put their credibility on the line by trying to control that market — and are in the process of demonstrating that, China’s remarkable success over the past 25 years notwithstanding, the nation’s rulers have no idea what they’re doing.
Start with the fundamentals. China is at the end of an era — the era of superfast growth, made possible in large part by a vast migration of underemployed peasants from the countryside to coastal cities. This reserve of surplus labor is now dwindling, which means that growth must slow.
But China’s economic structure is built around the presumption of very rapid growth. Enterprises, many of them state-owned, hoard their earnings rather than return them to the public, which has stunted family incomes; at the same time, individual savings are high, in part because the social safety net is weak, so families accumulate cash just in case. As a result, Chinese spending is lopsided, with very high rates of investment but a very low share of consumer demand in gross domestic product.
This structure was workable as long as torrid economic growth offered sufficient investment opportunities. But now investment is running into rapidly decreasing returns. The result is a nasty transition problem: What happens if investment drops off but consumption doesn’t rise fast enough to fill the gap?
What China needs are reforms that spread the purchasing power — and it has, to be fair, been making efforts in that direction. But by all accounts these efforts have fallen short. For example, it has introduced what is supposed to be a national health care system, but in practice many workers fall through the cracks.
Meanwhile, China’s leaders appear to be terrified — probably for political reasons — by the prospect of even a brief recession. So they’ve been pumping up demand by, in effect, force-feeding the system with credit, including fostering a stock market boom. Such measures can work for a while, and all might have been well if the big reforms were moving fast enough. But they aren’t, and the result is a bubble that wants to burst.
China’s response has been an all-out effort to prop up stock prices. Large shareholders have been blocked from selling; state-run institutions have been told to buy shares; many companies with falling prices have been allowed to suspend trading. These are things you might do for a couple of days to contain an obviously unjustified panic, but they’re being applied on a sustained basis to a market that is still far above its level not long ago.
In part, they may be worried about financial fallout. It seems that a number of players in China borrowed large sums with stocks as security, so that the market’s plunge could lead to defaults. This is especially troubling because China has a huge “shadow banking” sector that is essentially unregulated and could easily experience a wave of bank runs.
But it also looks as if the Chinese government, having encouraged citizens to buy stocks, now feels that it must defend stock prices to preserve its reputation. And what it’s ending up doing, of course, is shredding that reputation at record speed.
Indeed, every time you think the authorities have done everything possible to destroy their credibility, they top themselves. Lately state-run media have been assigning blame for the stock plunge to, you guessed it, a foreign conspiracy against China, which is even less plausible than you may think: China has long maintained controls that effectively shut foreigners out of its stock market, and it’s hard to sell off assets you were never allowed to own in the first place.
So what have we just learned? China’s incredible growth wasn’t a mirage, and its economy remains a productive powerhouse. The problems of transition to lower growth are obviously major, but we’ve known that for a while. The big news here isn’t about the Chinese economy; it’s about China’s leaders. Forget everything you’ve heard about their brilliance and foresightedness. Judging by their current flailing, they have no clue what they’re doing."

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N.Y. / Region

Report Reveals New York City Paid $138 Million in Settlements Related to Potholes on Roadways

By JOSHUA JAMERSON | Jul 30th 2015
The highest number of incidents caused by potholes happened in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the Grand Central Parkway and the Belt Parkway.

Keeping up the pavement is a city responsibility.
The city is cheaping out.

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Sports

Donald Trump Drops In on Women’s British Open; Hyo-Joo Kim Leads

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 30th 2015
Kim was compiling a 65 in the first round when Trump, a presidential candidate, landed in a helicopter to begin a two-day visit at his Turnberry resort in Scotland.

Donald Trump will never be elected president.

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U.S.

Bail Set at $1 Million for Ex-University of Cincinnati Officer Charged With Murder

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Jul 30th 2015 

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N.Y. / Region

Long Sleeves and Pants for Some Immigrants Despite the Wilting Heat

By ILEANA NAJARRO | Jul 30th 2015 

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U.S.

Cleveland: Transit Officer on Desk Duty After Pepper Spray Was Used

By ASHLEY SOUTHALL | Jul 28th 2015
A transit police sergeant who deployed pepper-spray into a crowd in Cleveland has been placed on administrative duty until an investigation of the incident is completed, officials said.

The officer was probably doing his duty.
The arrest was impolitic.

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N.Y. / Region

Award in Lead Paint Lawsuit Can’t Be Tied to Ethnicity, Judge Rules

By ASHLEY SOUTHALL | Jul 29th 2015
A landlord’s lawyer argued that a Hispanic child’s higher education chances were low, so the damages awarded to his family should be reduced.

The landlord’s lawyer made an impermissible argument.
The appeal was properly denied. 

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Education

The Real Skinny on Freshman Year

By MICHELLE SLATALLA | Jul 30th 2015
The stuff you’ve been told all summer about the first year of college is well intentioned. But there’s a huge amount of misinformation out there. Here’s some of it.

"This article is for college freshmen. If you are not a freshman, kindly read something else."
Happily. 

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N.Y. / Region

Families of 2008 Crane Collapse Victims Are Awarded $48 Million

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and LIAM STACK | Jul 30th 2015
A jury found James F. Lomma, the owner of a crane company, responsible for the deaths of two people killed when a tower crane collapsed in Manhattan seven years ago.

I have nothing to contribute.

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World

Debris in Réunion Is Met Warily Amid Speculation It’s From Malaysia Flight

By MICHELLE INNIS | Jul 30th 2015 

The French will tell us.

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U.S.

Through Lens of Video, a Transformed View of Police

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Jul 30th 2015
The recording of encounters between the police and the public have begun to alter public views of the use of force and race relations, experts and police officials say.

As was our intention. 

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N.Y. / Region

4 N.J. Transit Conductors Sold Stolen Tickets, Prosecutors Say

By BENJAMIN MUELLER | Jul 30th 2015
The suspects are accused of turning the monotony of the commute on New Jersey Transit trains into a windfall.

This is why there are trials.

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Business Day

Chinese Trade Rules Put South Korea’s Kimchi Industry in a Pickle

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON | Jul 29th 2015
South Korea is not permitted to export Kimchi, fermented cabbage, to China, but cheaper Chinese kimchi flows freely into South Korea, competing with the domestic product.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/opinion/paul-krugman-chinas-naked-emperors.html

China’s Naked Emperors


"Politicians who preside over economic booms often develop delusions of competence. You can see this domestically: Jeb Bush imagines that he knows the secrets of economic growth because he happened to be governor when Florida was experiencing a giant housing bubble, and he had the good luck to leave office just before it burst. We’ve seen it in many countries: I still remember the omniscience and omnipotence ascribed to Japanese bureaucrats in the 1980s, before the long stagnation set in.
This is the context in which you need to understand the strange goings-on in China’s stock market. In and of itself, the price of Chinese equities shouldn’t matter all that much. But the authorities have chosen to put their credibility on the line by trying to control that market — and are in the process of demonstrating that, China’s remarkable success over the past 25 years notwithstanding, the nation’s rulers have no idea what they’re doing.
Start with the fundamentals. China is at the end of an era — the era of superfast growth, made possible in large part by a vast migration of underemployed peasants from the countryside to coastal cities. This reserve of surplus labor is now dwindling, which means that growth must slow.
But China’s economic structure is built around the presumption of very rapid growth. Enterprises, many of them state-owned, hoard their earnings rather than return them to the public, which has stunted family incomes; at the same time, individual savings are high, in part because the social safety net is weak, so families accumulate cash just in case. As a result, Chinese spending is lopsided, with very high rates of investment but a very low share of consumer demand in gross domestic product.
This structure was workable as long as torrid economic growth offered sufficient investment opportunities. But now investment is running into rapidly decreasing returns. The result is a nasty transition problem: What happens if investment drops off but consumption doesn’t rise fast enough to fill the gap?
What China needs are reforms that spread the purchasing power — and it has, to be fair, been making efforts in that direction. But by all accounts these efforts have fallen short. For example, it has introduced what is supposed to be a national health care system, but in practice many workers fall through the cracks.
Meanwhile, China’s leaders appear to be terrified — probably for political reasons — by the prospect of even a brief recession. So they’ve been pumping up demand by, in effect, force-feeding the system with credit, including fostering a stock market boom. Such measures can work for a while, and all might have been well if the big reforms were moving fast enough. But they aren’t, and the result is a bubble that wants to burst.
China’s response has been an all-out effort to prop up stock prices. Large shareholders have been blocked from selling; state-run institutions have been told to buy shares; many companies with falling prices have been allowed to suspend trading. These are things you might do for a couple of days to contain an obviously unjustified panic, but they’re being applied on a sustained basis to a market that is still far above its level not long ago.
In part, they may be worried about financial fallout. It seems that a number of players in China borrowed large sums with stocks as security, so that the market’s plunge could lead to defaults. This is especially troubling because China has a huge “shadow banking” sector that is essentially unregulated and could easily experience a wave of bank runs.
But it also looks as if the Chinese government, having encouraged citizens to buy stocks, now feels that it must defend stock prices to preserve its reputation. And what it’s ending up doing, of course, is shredding that reputation at record speed.
Indeed, every time you think the authorities have done everything possible to destroy their credibility, they top themselves. Lately state-run media have been assigning blame for the stock plunge to, you guessed it, a foreign conspiracy against China, which is even less plausible than you may think: China has long maintained controls that effectively shut foreigners out of its stock market, and it’s hard to sell off assets you were never allowed to own in the first place.
So what have we just learned? China’s incredible growth wasn’t a mirage, and its economy remains a productive powerhouse. The problems of transition to lower growth are obviously major, but we’ve known that for a while. The big news here isn’t about the Chinese economy; it’s about China’s leaders. Forget everything you’ve heard about their brilliance and foresightedness. Judging by their current flailing, they have no clue what they’re doing."

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U.S.

Greenpeace Activists Dangle From Oregon Bridge for 2nd Day to Protest Arctic Drilling

By CHRISTINE HAUSER | Jul 30th 2015
Thirteen activists have been swaying beneath the St. Johns Bridge in Portland for more than 24 hours in a bid to prevent the departure of an ice-breaker leased by Shell.

They can do that until Green Peace goes broke or Shell gives up.
I hope they get tired before either happens.
They are doing good work against great power.
Green Peace must "get a bigger hammer".

Time for work.


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Opinion

Video: Wage Justice Is on the Menu

University of California | Jul 28th 2015
Mark Bittman talks with a leader of the food labor movement, Saru Jayaraman, about how far the movement has come, and where it still has to go.

People should be paid for their time and trouble.
$15/hour is not too much.

It will cost us in the front of the house no more to have skilled and happy people in the back.

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Real Estate

Condo to House: Same Town, More Room

By JOYCE COHEN | Jul 30th 2015
Debra and Darren Moss wanted to buy a house in Larchmont, N.Y.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Larchmont,+NY/@40.9362829,-73.7573553,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c2920389b19c15:0xf27cc2513fd164fa

Expensive for what they are.
I would as soon be inland.

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Fashion & Style

Saint Laurent Is Creating a Line Even More Exclusive Than Couture

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN | Jul 28th 2015
The brand is redefining what couture means and limiting who can access their line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_%28brand%29

At thirteen years without a couture presence the brand is probably getting tired.
I have missed leadership among the couture houses.
We will see if the high end of fashion coalesces around a formality.
I understand rule breaking.
I find breaking nonexistent rules difficult. 

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U.S.

N.S.A. Will Not Be Allowed to Keep Old Phone Records

By CHARLIE SAVAGE | Jul 27th 2015
Legislation in June directed the agency to stop collecting Americans’ calling data after 180 days, but did not say what would happen to the data already collected.

It appears that the NSA reports results.
Its internal actions are not reported.
How is the public to know what they have done if the director does not know?
I can see no way to know.

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N.Y. / Region

Prison Worker Who Aided Escape Tells of Sex, Saw Blades and Deception

By JESSE McKINLEY | Jul 28th 2015
Joyce E. Mitchell detailed to investigators how she helped convicted killers Richard W. Matt and David Sweat break out of a New York prison.

She may yet wish she had let the escapees kill her.

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Science

Review: ‘Do No Harm,’ a Neurosurgeon’s Tales

By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. | Jul 27th 2015
In a complex and evocative memoir, the British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh confronts uncertainty, bureaucracy and his own mistakes.

There is no way to guess right every time.
His peers let him cut.
He must be doing much better than random chance.

Read and learn.

Miss Umbridge has many models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Magic#Dolores_Umbridge

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Real Estate

House Hunting in ... Britain

By PETER SIGAL | Jul 29th 2015
Prices and sales of country properties in Yorkshire fell sharply after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and have only just begun to approach prerecession peaks.

I expect the market to be better for buyers later though I can be easily mistaken.
I am not anxious to own property there for the same reasons my ancestors left in the seventeenth century.
If your girl wants to be there she is welcome to all she can afford.
See she has airfare.

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U.S.

Florida: Gun Store Sued Over Muslim-Free Zone

By REUTERS | Jul 29th 2015
The state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against a gun store that had proclaimed itself a Muslim-free zone.

The store deserves to lose the suit.
Under our present gun laws the Muslims should be their best customers.

The gun laws should change.

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U.S.

Illinois: Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 17 Years Is Killed

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 29th 2015
A Chicago man who was released nearly three years ago from prison, where he had spent 17 years for a murder he did not commit, was shot and killed, the police said Wednesday.

I do not know enough to comment.
I expect I will learn.

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U.S.

Video: Video of Officer Shooting Driver in Ohio

Hamilton County Prosecutor | Jul 29th 2015
Officer Ray Tensing’s body camera captured the moment when he shot Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop. Officer Tensing has been charged with murder.

Our country is late in filing such charges.

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U.S.

Albuquerque 911 Dispatcher Who Hung Up on Caller Quits

By JONAH BROMWICH | Jul 29th 2015
“Deal with this yourself” the dispatcher told a teenage girl who cursed at him while calling to say a friend had been shot. The young man died.

We have not heard the end of the matter.

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U.S.

University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Fatal Shooting of Samuel DuBose

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Jul 29th 2015
The officer, Ray Tensing, is accused of killing Mr. DuBose during a traffic stop near the campus on July 19.

With the video and audio the incident can't be buried.

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Business Day

Tsipras Seeks to Avert Party Split as Greece’s Creditors Arrive for Talks

By NIKI KITSANTONIS | Jul 29th 2015
As dissenters pushed for a congress of his Syriza party, the premier said that sealing an agreement on a bailout was the current priority.

Greece is leaving the euro.
If that requires leaving the European Union they will do that too.
The Greek Parliament did not believe how bad the deal was.
It is learning.

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U.S.

F.D.A. Approves Balloon for Stomach to Treat Obesity

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 28th 2015
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved an inflatable medical balloon that helps patients lose weight by filling up space in the stomach.

The fact checkers need to wake up.
A burst balloon in the gut can't block arteries.

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Sports

Rory McIlroy Will Sit Out Bridgestone

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 30th 2015
McIlroy has told the PGA Tour he will not play the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, next week as he recovers from a left ankle injury he sustained while playing soccer in early July.

http://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/scoreboard.asp

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Chi White Sox2 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
270
Boston1 0 0
0 2 4
1 0 x
8130

  W: S. Wright (4-4)   L: C. Sale (9-6)
  CWS HR: J. Abreu (17)
  Bos HR: R. Castillo (2)
Preview | Box | Gameview | Recap

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U.S.

A Psychologist as Warden? Jail and Mental Illness Intersect in Chicago

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Jul 30th 2015
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, a clinical psychologist, was chosen to run Cook County Jail, underscoring how much the nation’s prisons have become holding centers for the mentally ill.

It looks like a good idea to me.
Asylums would be cheaper but were so mismanaged we will have to build support for them.
The asylum must be more than a warehouse for the unacceptable.

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Opinion

‘Sandorkraut: A Pickle Maker’

By ANN HUSAINI and EMILY LOBSENZ | Jul 29th 2015
This short documentary profiles the food writer Sandor Katz, whose work in culinary fermentation transformed his relationship with life and death.

I am fond of fermented foods.
I will watch the video.
Just not at this time.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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N.Y. / Region

A Prize for the Books That Capture Brooklyn’s Spirit, Whatever That May Be

By VIVIAN YEE | Jul 28th 2015
The Brooklyn Public Library will recognize fiction and nonfiction from the past year that speak to the themes of Brooklyn’s values.
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"Sandbaggers" were a competitive class of racing sailboats in New York harbor and the western sound in the nineteenth century.
Crews were blue collar and the prize was beer.
Penny Bridge was a harbor for them.

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Opinion

Another Fight for Fair Pay in New York

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 28th 2015
State Labor Department rules would limit fees on debit cards used to pay workers, but they need the governor’s push to get past lawmakers.

Cuomo should provide the push.

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World

British House of Lords Member Resigns Posts Amid Drug Allegations

By STEPHEN CASTLE | Jul 26th 2015
John Sewel, who was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords, faced a police investigation into accusations that he had taken cocaine with two prostitutes.

Good Bye to him.

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World

Debris in Réunion Is Met Warily Amid Speculation It’s From Malaysia Flight

By MICHELLE INNIS | Jul 30th 2015
Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, whose country has led the search for the missing plane, said only that the discovery was “a major lead.”

The French will issue a report.
Food

Your Next Lesson: White Bordeaux

By ERIC ASIMOV | Jul 30th 2015
Historically passed over for its red sibling, white Bordeaux deserves recognition for its own beauty and complexity.

I find I am incurious.

Education

You Get What You Pay For, Sometimes

By VIVIAN YEE | Jul 29th 2015
Room and board rates tend to reflect housing quality, but not always.

You always pay for what you get.
Sometimes you pay more.
Opinion

Sleep Needs of Students

Jul 30th 2015
A reader writes that too many school districts “persist in working against the physical needs of their students.”

Yes.   My parents tried to have me fit better.
U.S.

Bail Set at $1 Million for Ex-University of Cincinnati Officer Charged With Murder

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Jul 30th 2015
The former officer, Ray Tensing, who is charged in the killing of Samuel Dubose on July 19, appeared in court for less than three minutes and entered a plea of not guilty.

The bail is not unreasonable.
N.Y. / Region

Long Sleeves and Pants for Some Immigrants Despite the Wilting Heat

By ILEANA NAJARRO | Jul 30th 2015
Fashion, religion and tradition are a few of the reasons that immigrants from Latin America and West Africa are staying covered up during New York’s stifling heat.

Yes.
Science

Rosetta’s Philae Lander Discovers a Comet’s Organic Molecules

By KENNETH CHANG | Jul 30th 2015
Analysis of data from the Philae lander has provided insight into the composition, structure and properties of Comet 67P/Churyumov-–Gerasimenko.

We continue to learn.
The Upshot

Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Thought They’d Be

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Jul 30th 2015
Young men who aspire to be hands-on fathers shift to a more traditional role once they have children, studies show. Workplace policies may be partly responsible.

More information would be better.
World

American Hunter Is Accused of Killing Cecil, a Beloved Lion in Zimbabwe

By KATIE ROGERS | Jul 28th 2015
A dentist from Minnesota killed Cecil, a lion who was a favorite among visitors at a national park, after the animal was lured out of the sanctuary, the authorities say.

He has confessed.
Business Day

Former University of Virginia Fraternity Members Sue Rolling Stone

By DANIEL VICTOR | Jul 29th 2015
Three former students said a discredited article about a brutal gang rape had a “devastating effect” on their reputations.

I doubt it will kill the magazine.
Sports

Golfer Charlie Sifford’s Relatives Indicted

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 28th 2015
His son and former daughter-in-law were accused of stealing more than $1 million from the golf pioneer.

Heredity is not a powerful direct influence on behavior.
Education

Advice for New Students From Those Who Know (Old Students)

Jul 30th 2015
New supplies, new clothes, new start. How will you manage your first year of college? Upperclassmen and recent graduates from around the country offer words of wisdom.

Now to get the freshmen to read.
U.S.

Video: Cincinnati Police Discuss Indictment

WXIX, via Associated Press | Jul 29th 2015
Joe Deters, the Hamilton County prosecutor, said on Wednesday that a grand jury indicted Officer Ray Tensing for murder in the shooting of 43-year-old Samuel DuBose.

Words are not enough.
Travel

On Prince Edward Island, a Seafood-Dining Excursion

By SHIVANI VORA | Jul 30th 2015
Catching, cooking and eating all that the province’s surrounding waters have to offer, including oysters, clams, cod, lobster and mussels.

Yes, visits.
U.S.

Louisiana: Bp Given 30 Days to Pay $1 Billion in Settlements

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 27th 2015
BP has 30 days to make nearly $1 billion in settlements to local governments across the Gulf Coast for lost tax revenue and other economic damages they blame on the company’s April 2010 oil spill.

Foot dragging will cost BP more.

Real Estate

Condo to House: Same Town, More Room

By JOYCE COHEN | Jul 30th 2015

Not Larchmont please.

Automobiles

As Americans Figure Out the Roundabout, It Spreads Across the U.S.

By ERIC A. TAUB | Jul 30th 2015
Navigating roundabouts can be confusing, but they tend to reduce congestion and accidents at intersections. One is coming to the Bronx.

"Everything old is new again"
Sports

Tom Brady Declares Innocence on Facebook and Explains Phone Destruction

By KEN BELSON | Jul 29th 2015
The Patriots quarterback reiterated his innocence, a day after N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld his four game suspension for deflation of footballs.

I am sorry Roger Goodell lost his bet.
I believe Tom Brady is innocent of deflating footballs.
World

Video: Video of Plane Debris on Remote Island

Agence France-Presse | Jul 30th 2015
Aviation officials inspected the wreckage of a plane on Wednesday that washed up on the island of Réunion, off the coast of Madagascar.

There is nothing further I can learn from the video.
Food

Chicks To Go Serves Chicken and Peruvian Pride in the Rockaways

By LIGAYA MISHAN | Jul 30th 2015
At the takeout shop, spicy, smoky pollo à la brasa is best chased by gulps of sweet lemon-verbena soda.

An easy lunch.





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