Wednesday, October 5, 2016

@9:35, 10/4/16

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Times Insider

The Time I Found Donald Trump’s Tax Records in My Mailbox

A manila envelope led to old-style investigative journalism involving a meeting in a bagel shop and an IBM typewriter.

You can send me paper mail.
My address has not changed
If you send me an address I will send you paper mail.

2
Books

Who Is Elena Ferrante? Supporters Say NOYB

Writers and critics from many quarters responded quickly to an Italian journalist’s excavation of financial records in an effort to identify the author who writes as Elena Ferrante.

I don't need to know.


3
Opinion

Elena Ferrante and the Power of Appropriation

It seems you can, in fact, imagine the lives of people unlike yourself.

People believe her stories.

4
U.S.

Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades

The Republican nominee reported nearly $1 billion in losses in 1995, opening the door to tax avoidance in subsequent years.

The way to not pay income taxes is to not have income.

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U.S.

Video: Trump’s Tax Records

The New York Times obtained records from 1995 showing that Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss. The figure is so substantial that it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income tax for 18 years.

Most people cannot avoid income for 18 years.
Offsetting losses must be real.


6
Opinion

The F.B.I. Crime Report

A former Times reporter writes that “research shows that reported property crime is in many cases very different from actual crime.”

Yes.  crime statistics are not very meaningful.

7
Science

America’s Gray Ghosts: The Disappearing Caribou

A herd in the Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border is down to about a dozen, threatened by wolves and a larger problem, development.

End development or lose the heard.

8
World

Need to Land a Plane? In Australia, They Break Out the Toilet Paper

For the Royal Flying Doctor Service to arrive and land on a remote runway at night, about 30 cans with flaming rolls sometimes have to be lined up.

Cute story.

Australian sheep stations continue.

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Food

Chicken Potpie for the Modern Cook

This updated version is simpler and better, ditching the gummy white filling and frozen vegetables.

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018330-modern-chicken-potpie

An audience and a freezer.

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U.S.

After Stanford Case, California Governor Signs Bill Toughening Penalties for Sexual Assault

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the measure, which imposes a mandatory minimum sentence, in response to the jailing for only three months of Brock Turner.

When a mob forms a politician runs to the front and points the way.

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N.Y. / Region

In Aftermath of Train Crash, Wary New Jersey Commuters Make the Best of It

Thursday’s disaster called upon commuters to be sympathetic and realistic regarding the altered routines on Friday.

The search for answers is producing noise.

Trains are massive.
It looks like a brake failure due to bad maintenance.

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N.Y. / Region

N.J. Transit Engineer Has No Memory of Fatal Train Crash, Officials Say

The engineer, Thomas Gallagher, also told investigators that the train was traveling about 10 miles an hour when it entered Hoboken Terminal, contradicting initial reports that it was moving faster.

It still looks like brake failure.

13
Style

How I Created My Very First Garden From Scratch

I had gardened for years, but never planned an entire project. New York’s High Line was one inspiration for the yard around my California cottage.

Start with a blank slate.

I would grade, rake and cut the grass.
Then identify the plants and begin to think.

One does not buy garden by the yard or from a catalog.

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Business Day

How Donald Trump Turned the Tax Code Into a Giant Tax Shelter

If Mr. Trump’s pattern of generating losses and using them to offset other income has continued, as seems likely, it’s obvious why he has not released his tax returns: because he hasn’t paid any taxes.

His tax position will not improve his respectability.

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Corrections

Quotation of the Day

Quotation of the day for Monday, October 3, 2016.

"Yes.  What is the news?"

16
Fashion & Style

Patricia DeSantis, Trevor Belton

The couple both went to Cornell. They met in 2014, on the dating app Hinge.

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

17
Fashion & Style

Morgan Jacobs, Bradley Friedman

The couple were introduced through the dating app Hinge.

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

18
Opinion

Green the World and Grow the Economy?

“Economic growth is the planet’s most pressing environmental challenge,” a reader writes. Another says resources need to be managed locally.

The world is over populated and over developed.
More is not better.

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Real Estate

The Serial Subletter

Susannah Vila lives in a large studio on the parlor floor of a townhouse in the East Village, but who’s to say how long she’ll be there.

A nice way to live for a time.
It is not for me.

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Fashion & Style

Hilary Keefe, Christopher Schuville

The couple met at Georgetown University, from which they graduated.

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



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1
Style

The Art of Condolence

The rules of expressing sympathy have become muddied at best, and concealed in an onslaught of emoji at worst.

Good advice.

2
Real Estate

The Serial Subletter


A small world to be a traveler in.

3
Science

America’s Gray Ghosts: The Disappearing Caribou


Stop the development or lose the herd.

4
Food

Chicken Potpie for the Modern Cook


yes.

5
Opinion

A Farming Revolution, Minus Factories

Readers take issue with an article about the virtues of industrial farms.

Farming is an industry with industrial problems.

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N.Y. / Region

A Very Fair Exchange

A woman needing a watchband fixed has just what she needs to persuade the repairman to get to work.

Something of value.

7
Well

A Flu Season Without FluMist? Making Shots Less Painful for Children

Distractions like blowing bubbles or counting backward from 10 can help, experts say.

I will get a flu shot.

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Fashion & Style

Bianca Lee, Richardo Blake

The bride owns a marketing consultancy; the groom is a director for an environmental remediation contracting firm.

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

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Fashion & Style

Caroline Bonin, Nicholas Bayer

The couple first saw each other in adjoining pews in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.

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

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Fashion & Style

Helen Jiang, Dustin Lee

The couple met at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where each received a medical degree.

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

11
Magazine

Judge John Hodgman Rules on Diet Mountain Dew

Every adult human is allowed an indulgence or two. But not four to six per day.

Yes.

12
Books

The Case for Shirley Jackson

Ruth Franklin’s new biography views Shirley Jackson as a writer in the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James.

The works must remain accessible.
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Shirley%20Jackson&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20

I have not found a need to read her.

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N.Y. / Region

After Acquittal in Boy’s Killing, Potsdam Sighs With Relief and Resignation

After the prosecution presented an overwhelmingly circumstantial case, a judge cleared Oral Nicholas Hillary of second-degree murder charges in the death of a 12-year-old boy.

There is an end to the prosecution though not of the persecution.

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N.Y. / Region

On Fire Island, a Scar From Hurricane Sandy Is Seen as a Good Thing


It is a good thing.

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Opinion

Green the World and Grow the Economy?


Economic growth means more global warming.

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N.Y. / Region

Men Who Found Bomb Were Following a New York Tradition

Two men who took a rolling bag on West 27th Street in Chelsea, possibly disabling the bomb inside, were following a long tradition of repurposing items discarded on city streets.

Enough.

17
World

Need to Land a Plane? In Australia, They Break Out the Toilet Paper


Cute story.

18
Fashion & Style

Kathleen Donovan, Justin Polselli

The bride is an architect; the groom is a banker.

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

19
The Learning Network

Questions for: ‘A Peek at the Secret English Farm Where Amazon Tests Its Drones’


No information.

20
Books

A New Novel About Marital Distress, a Depressed Mother and a Move to Australia

Stephanie Bishop’s “The Other Side of the World” is an exquisite meditation on motherhood, marriage and the meaning of home.

All intelligent action starts with memory.
Ones future does not exist until it becomes ones past.
A present has no duration.
A past has no change.
If we are to exist we must continue.

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