Monday, August 31, 2015

@10:20, 8/30/15

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1
Opinion

Gender Identity: A Complex Question

Readers react to an article arguing that gender identity is on a spectrum and urging restraint in allowing children to transition.

Let us not further confuse ourselves.

People pair off.


N.Y. / Region

Three Facing Gun Charges in Inquiry That Turned Deadly

The three pleaded not guilty to drug and weapons counts after a bystander was killed by an undercover police officer in a botched firearms investigation.

Lawyers advise clients to never plead guilty.

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World

Jozef Wesolowski, Ex-Archbishop Accused of Sexual Abuse, Dies

He would have been the first high-level prelate to stand before a Vatican tribunal on such charges, but illness prevented the trial from proceeding.

The Roman Church is patient and diplomatic.
One spectacular scandal is now moot.

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World

Video: Vatican Envoy Dies While Awaiting Trial

A spokesman for the Vatican announced that Jozef Wesolowski, a former Vatican envoy who had been charged with child sex abuse, was found dead in his apartment on Friday morning.

Just the bald facts.

5
Opinion

How Much Water Should We Drink Every Day?

Readers discuss a doctor’s column debunking the “myth” that we should drink eight glasses a day.

Stay hydrated.

6
Opinion

Protecting the Great Lakes

A Wisconsin resident cautions, “Water cannot be taken for granted.”

Yes.

7
Magazine

On Patrol With the Black Mambas

Portraits of a majority-female South African anti-poaching squad.

Do what works.

8
Opinion

When Bad Doctors Happen to Good Patients

If hospitals and the medical community won’t police incompetent physicians, who will?

There is symmetry.
Bad patients happen to good doctors.

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U.S.

Virginia Shooting Spotlights Riddle of Workplace Safety

What to do with a volatile, aggrieved worker like Vester Lee Flanagan II, who killed two television employees during a live broadcast Wednesday, can be a nightmare for employers.

Insanities endanger everyone.

I do not know how to enforce thought.

10
Sports

Team New Zealand Wins Stop in America’s Cup World Series

The team won the second stop of the year in Sweden.

I have not been paying attention.

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U.S.

As Homicide Rate Rises, Washington Mayor Pledges Action

Two men were fatally shot on Friday in Washington, bringing this year’s homicide count to 105, a more than 40 percent increase over the same period a year ago, the police said.

Handguns do not decrease the death rate.

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Business Day

Video: Serena Williams Sings Karaoke

The tennis star sang “Under the Sea” during a karaoke session at the 2nd Annual Delta Open Mic event.

7:10 PM ET  ESPN/YES/NESN 
NY Yankees (72-57, 35-31 Road)
Boston (60-70, 33-32 Home)

 NYY: I. Nova  (5-6, 4.50 ERA)
 Bos: E. Rodriguez  (7-5, 4.39 ERA)
Preview


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T Magazine

Video: How To | Max and Eli Sussman

The N.Y.C.-based chefs wrap up their summer residency at Ruschmeyer’s in Montauk with a lobster boil. Their secrets? The freshest seafood and lots of Old Bay seasoning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/t-magazine/lobster-boil-ceviche-recipe-max-eli-sussman.html

Yes.

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Sports

Chelsea Falters at Home; Manchester City Breaks Club Record

Chelsea sustained a rare loss at home, falling to Crystal Palace, while Manchester City won its 10th straight league match to break a 103-year-old club record.

Noted.
It is a different game.

15
Opinion

Rethinking Work

Is it human nature to hate your job? On the contrary.

Fiduciary responsibility controls management.
Work enables the rest of life.
It is managements responsibility to keep it as unrewarded as possible.

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Business Day

Challenged on Left and Right, the Fed Faces a Decision on Rates

An approaching action on interest rates is being closely watched as a broader debate divides liberals and conservatives over the management of the American economy.

The economy has not recovered.
Until it has there should be no rate rise.

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N.Y. / Region

Builders and Brewers Look to Tap Into Brooklyn’s Beer Heritage

In the 20th century, Brooklyn breweries dominated the industry. Now, developers are paying tribute to the borough’s heritage, and new breweries are seeking to revive its stature.

After prohibition industrial beer was good enough.
Economies of scale made cheap standard beer.
Craft beer could not get started.
Armature brewers have taught us that better beer is possible. 

18
Sports

Belgian in Coma After Crash at Vuelta

The Belgian rider Kris Boeckmans was in an induced coma after sustaining a concussion and facial fractures in a crash during the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España.

Competition is dangerous.

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Sports

Lucrative Catch for a Tennessee Man

A Wartburg, Tenn., man who chose fishing over a pharmacy career won the biggest prize in bass fishing, the $500,000 Forrest Wood Cup, which was held on Lake Ouachita in Arkansas.

His daughter will get a cheap education.

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N.Y. / Region

Restaurant Review: Lost & Found in Long Beach Has a Chef Who Goes for the Flavor Bomb

This culinary hideaway is tucked among the rowdy bars in this seaside town. It can be tough to find, and the regulars like it that way.

Get  reservations.
951 West Beech Street, Long Beach
516-442-2606
facebook.com/LostandFoundLBNY

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

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I will go sailing. 
I will be back late.

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@22:00, 8/30/15

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1
Sports

Playoff-Bound Liberty Collect 20th Win

Epiphanny Prince had 18 points and 4 steals, and Tina Charles added 15 points and 5 assists to help the Liberty beat the Connecticut Sun.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html

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Sports

U.S. Open Qualifiers Brave a Gantlet Into the Main Draw

Kateryna Bondarenko, a quarterfinalist at the United States Open in 2009, made a return to the main draw, and she was joined by a group of teenagers on the men’s side.

http://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/scoreboard.asp?meta=true

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston0 0 0
0 0 2
2 0 0
491
NY Mets0 1 0
0 0 3
1 0 x
5110

  W: T. Clippard (2-0)   L: R. Ross Jr. (0-2)   S: J. Familia (35)
  Bos HR: D. Ortiz (28)
Preview | Box | Gameview | Recap

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Sports

Usain Bolt Wins Again in Relay; Bad Handoff Disqualifies U.S. Team at World Championships

Jamaica won the 4x100-meter relay at the world championships, American decathlete Ashton Eaton bettered his world record and Mo Farah of Britain easily won the 5,000 meters.

ok

4
Sports

Kevin Anderson Captures Title and Ends Long Drought

Anderson, the South African second seed, knocked off the Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Winston-Salem Open to win his first ATP Tour event since 2012.

American League
East
TeamWLPctGBHomeRoadEastCentralWestLast 10Streak
Toronto 7456.569-43 - 2331 - 3327 - 2318 - 1319 - 138 - 2W 3
NY Yankees 7257.5581.537 - 2635 - 3128 - 2218 - 1117 - 165 - 5W 3
Tampa Bay 6466.4921033 - 3531 - 3124 - 2612 - 1717 - 175 - 5W 1
Baltimore 6367.4851137 - 2526 - 4226 - 2413 - 1715 - 181 - 9L 4
Boston 6070.4621433 - 3227 - 3820 - 3015 - 1515 - 186 - 4L 1
Central
TeamWLPctGBHomeRoadEastCentralWestLast 10Streak
Kansas City 8050.615-45 - 2135 - 2917 - 1432 - 1918 - 117 - 3L 1
Minnesota 6763.5151340 - 2527 - 3819 - 1426 - 2514 - 128 - 2W 1
Cleveland 6366.48816.529 - 3434 - 3214 - 1318 - 3119 - 148 - 2W 5
Chi White Sox 6168.47318.533 - 3228 - 3613 - 1620 - 3119 - 105 - 5W 1
Detroit 6070.4622030 - 3530 - 3510 - 1930 - 2011 - 201 - 9L 4
West
TeamWLPctGBHomeRoadEastCentralWestLast 10Streak
Houston 7259.550-45 - 2127 - 3818 - 1612 - 1728 - 236 - 4L 1
Texas 6861.527332 - 3236 - 2923 - 1116 - 1320 - 297 - 3W 4
LA Angels 6565.5006.539 - 2726 - 3816 - 1614 - 1628 - 232 - 8L 3
Seattle 6170.4661129 - 3632 - 3415 - 1713 - 1826 - 255 - 5L 1
Oakland 5774.4351530 - 3627 - 3810 - 2312 - 1725 - 275 - 5W 2

National League
East
TeamWLPctGBHomeRoadEastCentralWestLast 10Streak
NY Mets 7258.554-43 - 2329 - 3534 - 179 - 2021 - 128 - 2W 1
Washington 6663.5125.537 - 2629 - 3729 - 2112 - 1717 - 166 - 4W 2
Atlanta 5476.4151833 - 2921 - 4725 - 2512 - 1812 - 211 - 9L 5
Miami 5279.39720.530 - 3622 - 4318 - 3311 - 1816 - 182 - 8L 2
Philadelphia 5279.39720.530 - 3522 - 4421 - 319 - 2114 - 185 - 5L 1
Central
TeamWLPctGBHomeRoadEastCentralWestLast 10Streak
St. Louis 8446.646-46 - 1938 - 2718 - 832 - 1823 - 117 - 3W 2
Pittsburgh 7950.6124.546 - 2133 - 2924 - 921 - 2921 - 57 - 3L 1
Chi Cubs 7355.5701039 - 2634 - 2920 - 1029 - 2215 - 136 - 4L 4
Milwaukee 5575.4232930 - 3925 - 3616 - 1421 - 2910 - 204 - 6W 1
Cincinnati 5376.41130.529 - 3524 - 4116 - 1223 - 287 - 232 - 8L 1
West
TeamWLPctGBHomeRoadEastCentralWestLast 10Streak
LA Dodgers 7256.563-44 - 2028 - 3619 - 1316 - 1429 - 205 - 5W 5
San Francisco 6961.531438 - 2731 - 3418 - 1513 - 1727 - 234 - 6L 2
Arizona 6367.4851031 - 3532 - 3215 - 1814 - 1624 - 264 - 6L 2
San Diego 6367.4851031 - 3032 - 3717 - 1614 - 1626 - 245 - 5W 1
Colorado 5276.4062027 - 3625 - 4016 - 1815 - 1318 - 314 - 6W 1

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Sports

Days Before Kidney Transplant, Aries Merritt Wins Bronze in Hurdles

Merritt, the reigning Olympic champion, has been unable to break 13 seconds since 2012 in the 110-meter hurdles, but his 13.04 on Friday was impressive in light of his health.

There is always another fast person.

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Opinion

The Cold Cases of the Jim Crow Era

Hundreds of African-Americans were killed from 1930 to 1960. Time is running out to solve these cold cases.

yes, we must not hide from the past.

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U.S.

Mississippi’s Recovery After Katrina Holds Lessons for Policy Makers

Mississippi, which was directly hit by the hurricane, has proved a test case for officials trying to determine how to split up resources and whom to give government help.

Most of the examples are negative.

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U.S.

California Death Penalty, Struck Down Over Delays, Faces Next Test

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will review a ruling last year that found the state’s capital punishment system to be dysfunctional.

Killing moots the problem.

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Sports

Sailor Falls Ill After Rio Event

Organizers of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics said they were “extremely concerned” after the German sailor Erik Heil became ill after his third-place finish at a test event there.

Brazil must move the aquatic events.

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U.S.

New Mexico: Secretary of State Is Accused of Corruption

The attorney general’s complaint accuses Dianna Duran of embezzlement, money laundering and campaign finance violations.

It is time for a trial.

11
Opinion

A Ruling With a Bonus for Fast-Food Workers

Corporate parents may have to take responsibility for franchise workers, giving a big lift to the Fight for $15 movement.

The unions have a just cause.

12
Sports

4x400 Relay Gives U.S. a Gold but Doesn’t Change Bottom Line

The Americans finished third in the gold medal count, their lowest ranking at a track and field world championships in history, and had quite a drop in their overall medal count.

Golds are not a national matter.

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Business Day

Labor Board Ruling on Joint Employers Leaves Some Companies Scratching Their Heads

Some fear the decision, which is likely to face legal challenges, could threaten the business model of staffing agencies, subcontractors and franchise operators.

The change would not be a bad thing.

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Sports

Usain Bolt Wins Easily but Is Run Down by Cameraman

Usain Bolt maintained his perch at the top of the world of sprinting for another year. Allyson Felix won the women’s 400.

Some run faster than others.

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U.S.

Food Truck Controversy Hits a Missouri Town Seeking Growth

A familiar debate over food trucks has revealed underlying tensions in North Kansas City, which wants to add urban cool while preserving its small-town intimacy.

The food trucks are lunch wagons with engines.
They exist because a fixed address is prohibitively expensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_truck
 "(Redirected from Lunch wagon)" 

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Opinion

Rethinking Warren G. Harding

A president usually ranked among the worst had a lot going for him, including being ahead of his time on race.

President Harding's economic policy was disastrous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition#United_States

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Opinion

Rethinking Mass Transit in the New York Region

Readers respond to an Op-Ed article on mass transit problems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/opinion/can-our-transit-system-get-any-worse.html

The U.S. has spent the best part of a century limiting the power of the railroads.
It is now surprised at its success.

18
Health

New Alternatives to Statins Add to a Quandary on Cholesterol

Doctors find it difficult to ignore patients’ complaints about statins, which are much cheaper, even though clinical trials have found that they have minimal side effects.

Demand that Medicare bargain with the drug companies.

19
Sports

Playoff Race Lacks Some of the Best

Rory McIlroy, Sergio García and Martin Kaymer are among the highly ranked players passing on the first round of the PGA Tour’s version of the postseason, which begins Thursday.

It is professional golf.

20
Travel

Inventive Menus at Soho House Berlin’s New Restaurant

The Store Kitchen, off the lobby of Soho House in Mitte, is drawing a stylish crowd with its creative takes on ambitious, vegetable-focused dishes.

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

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."

Sometimes the food is good.


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Sunday, August 30, 2015

@9:00, 8/29/15

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1
Travel

Resort and Tour News: Nighttime Climbing in Canada, Birding in Costa Rica

What you need to know if you’re on a trip or planning one soon, including multi-sport trips from Classic Journeys and a scuba festival in the Cayman Islands.

I can find dark skies closer than the Canadian rockies.

2
Opinion

Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger

Researchers say, cut calories. But they don’t take into account what that means over the long term.

There is more to learn about dieting and nutrition.
I have known anorexics.

3
Opinion

Homeland Security’s Peculiar Prosecution of Rentboy.com

It is baffling that a website for male escorts would be considered a priority for an agency that is supposed to be protecting the country from terrorists.

There is a section of the population that believes homosexuality is contagious.
Rentboys are actively evil to that group.


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N.Y. / Region

The History of the Sweeney Building in Brooklyn

The Sweeney Building, once home to the W.H. Sweeney Manufacturing Company in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, is now a residential property.

Mildly interesting.
I am more interested in the development of the city than the individual buildings.
The physical artifacts are fun.
It is more interesting to know how and why they were and are made.

5
Real Estate

Dear Landlord: Where’s Our Building Canopy?

This week’s subjects include a missing building canopy; jointly inherited property; and rules governing security deposits.

Though we all desire our parents house none of us can buy the others out.
We know the the situation.

6
World

Death of Knut the Polar Bear Is Explained at Last

The beloved star of the Berlin Zoo drowned in 2011 in his enclosure after a seizure caused by a treatable form of encephalitis thought to affect only humans.

Another treatable disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-NMDA_receptor_encephalitis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-NMDA_receptor_encephalitis#Recovery

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Times Insider

Loving Queens: Reporter’s Notebook

The reporter Kirk Semple describes his great affection for the borough of Queens, New York.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Queens,+NY/@40.6874747,-73.9110174,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c24369470a592b:0x4109d18b6c5c7b05

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N.Y. / Region

Girl, 8, Dies After Being Hit by an S.U.V.

An 8-year-old girl died on Wednesday after being hit by a sport utility vehicle as she crossed a Brooklyn street, the police said.

Accident.

9
U.S.

Tribe Takes Lead in Saving Reindeer Herd in Rocky Mountains

The Kootenai Indians will present a plan to the government to restore the Selkirk caribou near the border of the United States and Canada.

The Endangered Species Act is the dominant player.
The indians have the right idea.


10
Sports

Esteban Chaves Wins and Moves Into Lead of Vuelta a España

Chaves of Colombia timed his final charge perfectly to win the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España.

Still racing.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/international/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/sports/keen-ice-defeats-american-pharoah-at-travers-stakes.html

Keen Ice (7), with Javier Castellano, moved past American Pharoah, with Victor Espinoza, to win the Travers Stakes on Saturday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Credit Hans Pennink/Associated Press
Picture caption.

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N.Y. / Region

Bystander’s Death Shows Risks in Gun-Buy Stings

Hazards of undercover police work were made clear when an investigation into illegal firearms sales in the Bronx quickly turned into a deadly shooting in Mount Vernon.

There was no need to shoot the thief with the money.
The police appear "trigger happy".

12 
U.S.

Texas: Sheriff’s Deputy Is Fatally Shot at Gas Station

A uniformed Harris County deputy was fatally shot in suburban Houston late Friday as he was pumping gas, the sheriff’s office said.

Another nut in Texas.

13
World

Video: Officials on Bodies in Truck Near Vienna

Chancellors Werner Faymann of Austria and Angela Merkel of Germany expressed sorrow on Thursday after police discovered at least 20 bodies of presumed migrants piled in a truck east of Vienna.

Words will not help.
Keeping up appearances will not help the refugees.

14
U.S.

St. Paul’s Student Not Guilty of Main Rape Charge

The verdict came after a trial revealed the backslapping sexual culture among some students at one of the nation’s most exclusive boarding schools.

St. Paul's School will not get another chance.
Its culture must change.

15
World

Grim Findings in Austria and at Sea Push Migrant Crisis Into Public View

The discovery of 71 bodies in a truck in Austria, and the drowning of more than 150 people off the Libyan coast have led to new calls to focus on human trafficking.

The deaths demand public attention.

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N.Y. / Region

Man Is Fatally Shot and 3 Others Are Injured at Brooklyn Hookah Bar

The police have yet to publicly identify the assailant in a shooting that unfolded at the Buda Hookah Lounge on Flatbush Avenue on Friday morning.

We just don't know.
There should be good pictures on the security cameras.
The cameras presence speaks to the culture of the establishment.

17
Science

Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work

To some, the news that most studies do not hold up when retested came as a relief, like the field had “come clean,” one expert said.

Progress is made.
We must not freeze theories in advance of knowledge.

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Times Insider

1959-75 | The Rise and Fall of the West (Side)

The reporter David W. Dunlap looks at the West Side printing plant that was meant to be the foundation for The New York Times’s headquarters.

The demise of the New York Central Rail Road doomed the plant.
It was not designed  for tractor trailer trucks.

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World

Video: Germany Urges Sharing of Migrant Burden

While offering aid to Balkan countries hit by the recent wave of migrants, Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called on European Union states to cooperate to solve the crisis.

Germany does not control the refugee flow or its borders.

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Magazine

The 8.16.15 Issue

Readers react.

https://books.google.com/books?id=P-QCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=republic+of+montmartre&source=bl&ots=I1NzJX2aDD&sig=83gpOei-dwQ2fiq40RY1ovYvqB8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCGoVChMIiuPi78HRxwIVQh0-Ch0G0wd2#v=onepage&q=republic%20of%20montmartre&f=false

It was a practical joke that grew.

The bail system is not a joke.
It ruins lives.


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@13:00, 8/29/15

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1
Opinion

How Common Core Can Help in the Battle of Skills vs. Knowledge

High-stakes testing isn’t the only problem, and it’s time for schools to change their approach.

The tests in grade school are not high stakes as far as I can tell.
Knowledge is skill and skill is knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
Pushing individual development is dangerous. 
It interferes with peer group formation.
Important steps get skipped.

2
Times Insider

Sept. 13, 2005 | The Hard Road to the Big Easy


The story I want was not in the city.
The decisions appear to have been made in Batonrouge.


3
N.Y. / Region

Raid of Rentboy, an Escort Website, Angers Gay Activists

Several activists and sex workers said federal authorities had unfairly targeted the website, whose chief executive and several employees are facing prostitution charges.

The name of the site states its business.

The prosecutors will have a tough time with this case.

4
Opinion

Time to Fix the Fafsa


It will not happen with a Republican  congress

5
Sports

Yani Tseng Leads by One in Alabama

Tseng closed with an eagle and a birdie for an eight-under-par 64 and a one-stroke lead in the Yokohama Tire L.P.G.A. Classic in Prattville.

6
Sports

Liberty Clinch a Playoff Berth

Epiphanny Prince scored 22 points, and the Liberty clinched their first playoff berth in three seasons with an 81-68 victory over the Minnesota Lynx at Madison Square Garden.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html

Women's College Basketball
No games scheduled for
Aug 29, 2015

7
Real Estate

In Flushing: Upscale Condos and Retail

Sales begin soon at a mixed-use complex that will add 600 condos to the neighborhood.

It will be a sad day.

8
U.S.

Video: Rape Acquittal in Prep School Trial

Owen Labrie, the prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at St. Paul’s School, was found not guilty on the main sexual assault charge. He was convicted of several lesser charges.

Owen Labrie is not "getting away with it".

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U.S.

West Virginia: Boy, 14, Is Arrested After High School Hostage-Taking

A prosecutor said she would pursue charges against a 14-year-old boy who was apprehended in what the authorities say was a hostage-taking on Tuesday at a high school in Philippi.

Some people are too stupid to live.
Discover who convinced this boy his problems could be solved with a gun and charge them with reckless endangerment.

10
Business Day

Suspect in Insider Trading Case Granted Bail

A federal judge decided that Vitaly Korchevsky was unlikely to flee the country because his family lives here and he is a pastor at his church.

He will stand trial.
Beyond that I do not much care.

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Business Day

Labor Board Says Contractors’ Workers Can Bargain With Parent Company

A ruling by the National Labor Relations Board made it substantially easier for unions to bargain for higher wages and benefits.

Labor is entitled to fair wages and fair practices.

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan



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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey

This week’s properties include a waterfront home in Bayville, N.Y., and a carriage house in Highlands, N.J.

Beach front is prohibitive.
Yes, I remember.

14
Travel

For Loyal Guests, Hotels Bring Back the House Call

Sending makeup artists, tennis pros and even chefs to the homes of loyal guests for a personal connection.

This is not a good thing. 
The hotels are trying for brand loyalty.

15
Real Estate

Upper East Side Makeshift Bedrooms Need Not Apply


Shockingly high rents.

16
U.S.

Ruling Limits Protests Outside Supreme Court


The court is not a democratic institution.

17
Real Estate

Finding a Little Greenery in New York for $500,000 or Less


Why compete?

18
World

Bangladesh: 2 Held in Blogger Case

The police have arrested two more people suspected of being members of a banned militant group and thought to have been behind the killing of a secular blogger.

Bangladesh may have decided to be secular.

19
Health

School Lunches Becoming Healthier, Statistics Indicate


Healthier students are the goal.

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U.S.

Nebraska: Vote Sought on Death Penalty

An organization campaigning to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty after lawmakers repealed it in May said Wednesday it has collected more than enough signatures to place the issue before voters in 2016.

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

There will be no executions soon.

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