Tuesday, October 31, 2017

@15:48, 10/31/17

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1
Food

Momofuku Ssam Bar Keeps Evolving Under a Singaporean Chef

David Chang’s second restaurant rewrote the rules. Now it’s on the move again under Max Ng.

As convenient.

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Well

When the Doctor’s Mother Has Cancer

I braced myself for what would come next: The beginning of every cancer story, when the seemingly innocent cough or dizziness takes a sinister turn.

I do not read minds.
I read other peoples words selected by you.
"I see
as through a glass
Darkly."

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Food

An Early David Chang Hit Changes Direction

After a decade in the East Village, Momofuku Ssam Bar has chairs with backs, a lower volume and a new chef from Singapore.

Drama.

4
Science

Corals May Have a Taste for Dangerous Plastic

In lab experiments, the organisms that make up reefs were observed nibbling on a confetti of broken down plastic fragments, and they seemed to be choosy.

Plastic floats or sinks.
It is just more mud.
if it floats it lands on a beach or is injested by a crature.
Fines could plug a coral polup or other filter feeder.
There are many of them. do the arithmetic.
I am not worried yet.

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Arts

Maria Bamford: The First Time Someone Loved Me for Who I Really Am

While hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, the comedian learned the truth about enduring relationships: They’re not reserved for a select few.

I will welcome your call.
Sooner is better.      As soon as you can is best.

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Food

Five Food Stories With Snacks

The next meeting of the Jewish Food Society will feature tales from chefs and bakers along with noshes that inspire them.

Let's try their version.

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Style

Alicia Silverstone’s Very Green Beauty Routine

The actress likes products that are completely natural and vegan. And “they also have to smell great and work great,” she says.

Hives are not good.

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N.Y. / Region

Chased Down by a Banana Man at the Marathon

A man dressed up as one kind of fruit comes through with pieces of another.

Surreal.

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Health

What Experts Know About Men Who Rape

Scientists once thought men who commit rape and sexual assault were so diverse that common factors could not be found. But patterns have begun to emerge in the research.

Donald Trump never thinks he is the problem.

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Food

Pasta Flyer, Mark Ladner’s Latest, Opens in Greenwich Village

Vegan with Latin American influences in the East Village, a Korean steakhouse in NoMad, and other restaurant news.

There is always another striver. 
I cannot say this one or that one.
On the day or the day before look at the list and find a good one that fits with the plan of the day.

+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh5rNF1nltY

Yes, we meddled.
I could not accept the alternative.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Food

Five Food Stories With Snacks


If you wish.

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Style

Alicia Silverstone’s Very Green Beauty Routine


3
Well

When the Doctor’s Mother Has Cancer


The present is enough.

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Arts

Maria Bamford: The First Time Someone Loved Me for Who I Really Am


 Yes

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Food

An Early David Chang Hit Changes Direction

After a decade in the East Village, Momofuku Ssam Bar has chairs with backs, a lower volume and a new chef from Singapore.

I am not a public person.

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Science

Corals May Have a Taste for Dangerous Plastic

In lab experiments, the organisms that make up reefs were observed nibbling on a confetti of broken down plastic fragments, and they seemed to be choosy.

Graduate students are paranoid by nature.

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Food

Momofuku Ssam Bar Keeps Evolving Under a Singaporean Chef

David Chang’s second restaurant rewrote the rules. Now it’s on the move again under Max Ng.

The set dressing evolves.

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Opinion

When the Kitchen Isn’t Safe for Women

Raunchy talk can pave the way for something more sinister. Yet such talk is celebrated in many chef memoirs.

Work for a woman chef.


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Health

What Experts Know About Men Who Rape


Not enough.

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N.Y. / Region

Chased Down by a Banana Man at the Marathon

A man dressed up as one kind of fruit comes through with pieces of another.

Random events.


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1
Food

Chicken Confit for Weeknight Experimentation

This chicken confit from D’Artagnan is a versatile ingredient for tacos, stir-fries and more.

Reasons for discussion.

Make it and freeze it.

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

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Food

Texas Flavor Heats Up Shake Shacks

Diners will be able to add a meaty chili in the Texas style to hot dogs, cheeseburgers and fries.

Good chili is worth a stop.

I have been known to make decent chili.

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Food

What to Cook Right Now

Make David Tanis’s recipe for a wild mushroom and winter squash curry, or if that’s not your jam, try Tejal Rao’s recipe for katsudon.

Foraging is the way I know to capture wild mushrooms.
I am not as brave to them as I have been.
I have a guide book and have used it carefully. 

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Food

A Chance to Catch Vegan Tuna

Whole foods is using Ahimi, from a San Francisco-based company, in vegan rolls and sushi.

Conceptually I approve of the ersatz.

There are other things to eat on cold rice than tuna.

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Food

Bars Are Putting On the Ritz With an Old Drink: The Tuxedo

The cocktail, a martini variation with two versions, is catching on in fancy bars across the country.

I will do without potable ethanol.

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Food

One of the World’s Best Chefs Talks Food Waste

Massimo Bottura will discuss the future of food at the 92nd Street Y.

The problem with using food waste to feed the hungry is that slander on Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
Everyone feels inferior taking charity.
Food waste for the poor will be resented.  If possible it will be refused.

A solution would be to serve everything edible to the front of the house.

Traditionally kitchen waste fed the animals.

The pig farms of Secaucus closed in the early fifties.

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Health

A Lesson From the Biggest Losers: Exercise Keeps Off the Weight

Physical activity made all the difference to participants who managed to keep the pounds from returning, a new study finds.

OK

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Well

For My Son With Disabilities, the Joy of Trick-or-Treating With a Buddy

After years of challenges in making friends, I cherish a ritual that other parents can take for granted.

Socialization is a vital part of independent life.
You figured that out.
I was weird enough not to realize it is required.

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The Learning Network

Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People?

How strong are your social relationships?

My social circle is counted on the fingers of one hand.

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Food

The Maccionis Plan to Close Osteria del Circo

A dispute with their landlord, along with plans to move Le Cirque, may leave them without any restaurants in New York for a while.

New York city is strangling itself.
A city must be more than bedrooms and bars.


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@12:49, 10/30/17

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1
Well

Managing the Storm of a Toddler’s Tantrum

Responding to a child’s anger with adult anger makes things worse, and misses the question of what is going on with the child.

Fred Trump needed help.

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

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Smarter Living

Feeling Groggy? Here’s How to Stop Robbing Yourself of Good Sleep

Welcome to the latest edition of the Smarter Living newsletter.

Good advice.

I am probably a morning person.
As a three year old I would rise at dawn.

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N.Y. / Region

Her Peers Made School Look Easy. Now, With Hard Work, She’s Catching Up.

After dropping out of high school, Wendy Genao went on to earn her equivalency diploma and to enroll in college. She finally feels like a scholar.

Dyslexia is sneaky.  It does not show.
Mine expressed as an extreme reluctance to write.

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Crosswords & Games

Things for a Witch

Jay Kaskel gets punny.

Just another craft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kCv10duFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7htnE1s4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmNgiEgPoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4NdxfWdvk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYlg_2ACl30

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Food

In Bouley at Home, a Chef’s Total Philosophy Under One Roof

David Bouley is opening a culinary center in the Flatiron District that embodies all his ideas on cooking, health and hospitality.

If you wish.

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Education

Opioids on the Quad

For one student, it began with a painkiller snorted in a friend’s basement. For another, it was speed, pushed by the boy in the next locker.

Some do recover completely. 
Most do not.
Many cannot.


Opinion

Sex, Love and the Aging Woman

The idea that older women must renounce the erotic life is a lie that keeps getting told.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/aging-thoughtfully-9780190600235?cc=us&lang=en&

Life should be like that.

It is worth the experiment.

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

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Travel

Drinks at High-End Hotel Bars — Hold the Booze

Creative nonalcoholic cocktails are catching on at hotel bars — most notably in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles.

I worry about triggers.

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Crosswords & Games

Going Off Script

Ross Trudeau feeds us our lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0

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Education

Learning French With Flashy, Sassy Christine

A textbook featuring a stylish student with the world on a string charmed a 12-year-old, and changed her life.

I wish I had enough French to use it.

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Monday, October 30, 2017

@23:00 the power is out.

@14:15, 10/29/17

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1
Food

What to Cook This Week

Prepare yourself for Halloween on Tuesday, and then indulge with a chickpea tagine or salmon with anchovy-garlic butter.

The time is there.
My attention is taken.

2
Travel

Outside Anchorage, a Chef Makes the Case for Local Alaskan Cuisine

Zachary Reid, who opened Froth & Forage in May, is serving up inventive comfort food that pops with color and flavor.

Try him in a year or three.

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Opinion

Too Many Colleges Flunk Trump 101

The 2016 election is forcing campuses to examine their dangerous estrangement.

Most conservatives are demonstrably wrong.

Inculcating error is evil.

As a democracy without inherited rank the population must advance together as a unit but not as a structure.
Some will do better than others.

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Opinion

No Profit in Betsy DeVos

What Donald Trump teaches us about higher education.

Betsy DeVos was appointed to oversee a disaster.

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Opinion

Who Deserves a Ticker-Tape Parade?

There are many heroes that merit this honor.

Ticker tape is no longer used.
Ticker tape parades, like stock prices, should be virtual.

Heroism is real and rare.

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N.Y. / Region

At School Where Student Died, Bullying Led to a Suicide Attempt

At Wildlife Conservation, where a teen who says he was bullied killed a fellow student, a boy says he was tormented and administrators failed to act.

It is not the specific school.
It is the nature of children.
Children self organize into tribes.
We call them gangs.

"What sticks up gets hammered down"

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Books

A Novel Set in the Amazon, Harking Back to Classic Survival Stories

In Katherine Rundell’s “The Explorer,” four kids must find their way out of the jungle after a plane crash, stoking young readers’ dreams and anxieties: What if there were no parents? Could I eat a grub if I had to?

I suppose there is always a need for another wild child story.

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

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

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

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Opinion

Yes, I Really Am in This Beauty Pageant

As an underdog in a contest with no talent portion, I knew I would have to work hard to stand out.

Adventure is where you find it.

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Style

Amazon Key Is a Lot Less Scary Than My Post-1-Click Remorse

The ghosts of the sneakers I didn’t buy are following me around the World Wide Web! An in-store purchase is more satisfying, studies confirm.

Use the product before you buy.
Shoe stores let one try them in the store.

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Crosswords & Games

Variety: Acrostic

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon make some noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE0nenGeW5A

"Why, this is hell nor am I out of it."

Scene III. Marlowe, Christopher. 1909-14. Doctor Faustus. The ...

www.bartleby.com › ... › Harvard Classics › Christopher Marlowe › Doctor Faustus
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God,, 75. And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,. Am not tormented with ten thousand ... 


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Sunday, October 29, 2017

@19:26, 10/28/17

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1
Opinion

Breast Cancer Is Serious. Pink Is Not.

It insults patients like me to conjoin our femininity and this frightening disease.

Breast cancer tends to poison relationships.

Yes.  It is more than pink ribband.


2
Science

The Stripes in a Cat’s Whiskers

Feline whiskers may have bands of color similar to those observed in fur, but experts aren’t sure why.

I have learned no cause for the changes in color.

3
U.S.

Trump Declares Journalists’ Children Cute, but He’s Still Wary of Their Parents

Handing out Halloween candy to children of the White House press corps, the president had more compliments for them than for the journalists he has denounced as purveyors of “fake news.”

Trump is a monster.

4
Business Day

After Witnessing Illness in India, She Seeks Ways to Fight It


Her backstory is not news.
Her successes are news but lack a "hook".

5
Crosswords & Games

When to Do Crosswords


Beatles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyclqo_AV2M&list=PLmo4pBukfRoN8SB5RKvfiY9CTl9pI_IFc

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

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Opinion

Trump’s Legacy: Damaged Brains

President Trump’s E.P.A. is fine with children eating food tainted by a pesticide derived from a nerve gas.

I could do without the Nazi nerve gas "hook".
Trump is a monster.

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U.S.

Two Women, and Their Dogs, Rescued After Nearly 5 Months Lost at Sea

After a sailing trip from Hawaii to Tahiti went awry, the friends were found by the Navy 5,000 miles off course. “I had tears in my eyes,’’ one woman said.

Intellectually  unprepared.

A  nice boat mishandled.

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Opinion

When You Are Replaceable and He Will Never Be

It can be risky to serve at the pleasure of powerful gatekeepers.

All true.

Power is almost never shared.
It is not a gender thing.

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Opinion

The Misery Filter

How our society screens out suffering and thereby makes it worse.

Ross Douthat has not looked within.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A3-5&version=KJV

The mote in Gods eye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye

People do not examine other's misery.

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Fashion & Style

A Sunday March, This One Down the Aisle

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the bride’s father, had advice: “You can start life in one place and end up in a better place if you work hard enough and believe in yourself.”

Call.

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


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