Saturday, March 31, 2018

@14:00, 4/1/18

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Style

Bobbi Brown Is Ready to Slay the Wellness Industry. Nicely.

When you’ve done the makeup of basically everyone in the world except the queen of England, what else could be next?

She has done that.
Early in her career she moved the industry from the porcelain doll look to the no makeup look.
Popular pressure shifted back to artifice but seems moving toward simple appearance.

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Admin

Our 10 Most Popular Recipes Right Now

Three-cup chicken, pasta frittata, and more recipes for the weekend.

More rice and beans with soy.
Amazingly I am not bored.
Heavy antibiotics supress flatulence.
I will have to go to yogurt soon. 


Obituaries

Andrew Balducci, Who Turned a Market Into a Food Mecca, Dies at 92

From his father’s pushcart, he and his family built Balducci’s into an emporium that dominated the specialty-foods business in New York for decades.

I have been aware of Balducci's but have not been there.

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N.Y. / Region

At El Quijote, One Last Helping of Charm, Kitsch and Memories

As word spread that the 88-year-old restaurant in the storied Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan was closing for renovations, crowds gathered for a final meal.

Redecorating El Quijoti is probably a mistake.
The hotel went for condos twenty years ago.
If the kitchen is well designed the cooks like the tools they know.

We may try it after the renovation.

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Food

A Kitchen Duo for Decades, Now With Their Own Place

A sneak peek at Frenchette in TriBeCa, where Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson will give their Gallic training a fresh spin.

As convenient.

They know and trust their suppliers.

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Real Estate

New York City’s Best Buyer’s and Seller’s Neighborhoods

Buyers have it easier if they are shopping the high end. Sellers have a smoother path if their listings are more affordable.

Kew Gardens earns its low price.  It is isolated by the highways.
Medium sized houses on small planted lots.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kew+Gardens,+Queens,+NY/@40.7078217,-73.8438045,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c260bb88e18069:0xcd1ba2e8ae45316a!
8m2!3d40.705695!4d-73.8272029

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Well

Patient Voices: Restless Leg Syndrome

Creepy-crawly, itchy, tingly, aching legs — while different people may describe restless leg syndrome differently the results are the same: sleepless nights and restless days. What is it like to be diagnosed with R.L.S.? Six men and women speak about their experiences. (Join the discussion here.)

I don't  believe I have the problem.
The symptoms are real.
The causal research needs to be done.



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U.S.

Do You Know Anyone in These Civil Rights Photos?

As we sorted through photographs for our coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we encountered many people who had gone unnamed. We want to know: Who were they?

I knew of the civil rights movement.
I did not personally know the people.
I grew with racism.  I learned it was wrong.  I have tried to shed it with varying success.

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N.Y. / Region

Ribbons of Hope and Prayer Fill a Manhattan Sidewalk

Thousands have tied purple ribbons ‘round the short birch trees and handrails outside of a church, in a public display of love and loss.

A fine idea. 
I hope to hear from you when you can speak.

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

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Opinion

A Reminder of a Simpler Life, The Ripton Country Store

A Vermont country store that’s the heart and soul of the community goes up for sale.

I dream of leaving the city.  I can't do that yet.


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@9:00, 4/1/19

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Real Estate

A Surge of High-Priced Closings, Including a Sale by Harvey Weinstein

Three properties sold for over $30 million in March, and Harvey Weinstein‘s West Village townhouse sold for nearly $26 million.

Out of this world.

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Real Estate

Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York City.

Roebling street would have done.

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Food

What to Cook This Weekend

For many, this will be a big weekend for cooking, with Passover and Easter. But you don’t need to cook out of the paschal playbook, if you don’t want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ADhRwwMJI

Invalid diet here.

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N.Y. / Region

The Neighbors are Renovating. The End Date Is Never.

For a New York apartment to be successfully updated, the neighbors must suffer.

We would be looking at a double bed in a dorm room.

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Travel

At City Mouse in Chicago, It Starts With Cheese (of Course)

The new restaurant in the Ace Hotel focuses on big flavors, from salty to sweet.

As convenient.

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Travel

What Tyra Banks Can’t Travel Without

Spare nails, a Fendi tote and candy lips (it’s the sugar).

Cute bag.

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N.Y. / Region

68th Street Surprise

Somebody up there likes him.

Nice story.

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Food

Your Next Lesson: Etna Bianco

These whites from the foothills of an active volcano in Sicily are among Italy’s most compelling, and unlike any other whites.

I am not buying it.
Delightful stuff.

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N.Y. / Region

How Majora Carter, South Bronx Booster, Spends Her Sundays

Ms. Carter, who lives in Hunts Point, stays in her neighborhood for church, cycling class and coffee shop hang time.

I still don't like the South Bronx.  I know it is different than it was when grandmother Dean lived there in 1908.  I would pass through on the way to City Island.
I remember the odor of bug killer in cheap quarters.

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Food

Ideal Ripeness Varies by Opinion, Not by the Moment

Three bottles of Rosso di Montalcino, delicious sangiovese wines from Tuscany, each illustrate a different notion of ripeness.

I always want to drink more when the wine is good.
I try hard not to start.

@ 20:00, 3/30/18

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Opinion

Video: Ann Coulter Says President Trump Is ‘Failing’

The conservative author says that Donald Trump is in danger of losing his most loyal supporters, including her, if he doesn’t build the wall.
Books

After a Camping Trip, Five Girls’ Lives Are No Longer the Same

In Kim Fu’s novel, “The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore,” an overnight kayaking expedition reverberates in unexpected ways.
Fashion & Style

On Craigslist, 3BR Unfinished, Future Husband Upstairs

Nicole Basile wasn’t looking for a husband when she moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 2010, but that’s exactly what she found.
Food

The Simple Lemon Cake That Helped Create a Legend

A golden Bundt, scented with lemon zest and painted with a lemon-sugar syrup, Maida Heatter’s East 62nd Street Lemon Cake is a favorite among Times readers.
Style

More of Your 13-Word Love Stories

Last fall, we shared readers’ very short stories of romance, obsession and heartbreak. Here are more of the thousands we received.
Opinion

How Looser Emissions Standards Hurt the Auto Industry

Consumers, states and other countries demand cleaner cars. Weaker federal rules will fracture the car market.
Opinion

Ann Coulter to Donald Trump: Beware the Former Trumpers

Hell hath no fury like a conservative firebrand without her border wall.
Technology

Facebook Employees in an Uproar Over Executive’s Leaked Memo

The social network’s employees were abuzz on Friday over a 2016 memo from a top executive, in which the executive defended Facebook’s growth at any cost.
Business Day

Video: Baffled by Bitcoin? Here’s How Cryptocurrency Works.

From Bitcoin to Litecoin to Ethereum, we explain how cryptocurrency transactions work.
Real Estate

When a Mega-Mansion Runs Over Budget

Renovation disasters almost always involve missed deadlines and cost overruns — and when you’re building a mansion, the problems are magnified.

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@22:00 3/30/18

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Opinion

Video: Ann Coulter Says President Trump Is ‘Failing’

The conservative author says that Donald Trump is in danger of losing his most loyal supporters, including her, if he doesn’t build the wall.

Not reactionary enough.
Paul Krugman is shrill.  He is not shrill enough.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman

10 hours ago
So officials at the EPA need to be squeaky clean -- even more than officials in general. But Trump has set the standard for his administration, and we're well on our way to third-world-level corruption everywhere 7/


Go down 24 posts.

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Books

After a Camping Trip, Five Girls’ Lives Are No Longer the Same

In Kim Fu’s novel, “The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore,” an overnight kayaking expedition reverberates in unexpected ways.

I wish I could provide the real adventures I dreamed of then.

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Food

The Simple Lemon Cake That Helped Create a Legend

A golden Bundt, scented with lemon zest and painted with a lemon-sugar syrup, Maida Heatter’s East 62nd Street Lemon Cake is a favorite among Times readers.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019169-east-62nd-street-lemon-cake

Worth the sugar rush.

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Fashion & Style

On Craigslist, 3BR Unfinished, Future Husband Upstairs

Nicole Basile wasn’t looking for a husband when she moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 2010, but that’s exactly what she found.

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

South side of Myrtle, east of Hall, New building.
Still at 18.

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Opinion

Trump Is President. April Fool! (A Holiday Quiz)

Are you paying attention? Time for a holiday quiz.

12/14
Missed Betsy  DeVos & Eric Trump.

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Style

More of Your 13-Word Love Stories

Last fall, we shared readers’ very short stories of romance, obsession and heartbreak. Here are more of the thousands we received.

"Waiter, please set the table for three: my girlfriend, her anxiety and me"
                Marek Piechowicz

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

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Real Estate

When a Mega-Mansion Runs Over Budget

Renovation disasters almost always involve missed deadlines and cost overruns — and when you’re building a mansion, the problems are magnified.

I agree.

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Opinion

Ann Coulter to Donald Trump: Beware the Former Trumpers

Hell hath no fury like a conservative firebrand without her border wall.

Ann Coulter does not sleep.

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Health

Bologna Blamed in Worst Listeria Outbreak in History

It took officials 12 months to identify the source of the outbreak, which has led to nearly 200 deaths in South Africa.

Poison the poor.
Yuck

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Business Day

When Small Steps Can Change Your Life

Readers offer advice and reactions to a recent column on whether to make a late-career change: Is it better to find ways to reshape an existing job, even modestly, or to make a major move?

Test things out.   

Friday, March 30, 2018

@0:12

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Times Insider

A Wealthy Suburban Community’s Disturbing Open Secrets

Emily Flitter’s reporting in Lake Oswego, Ore., revealed that a perfect-looking town can give cover to a campaign of intimidation and fear.

It takes more than a town; it takes a nation and a Wing.
Eventually denial fails.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard
I did not think.
I did not know the time required.
I did not know.
I heard you.

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

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Style

Must I Visit My Dying and Dangerously Facebook-Active Uncle?

A reader wonders whether it’s advisable to “leave politics at the door” and say goodbye to a xenophobic relative in hospice.

"No, the only reason to make a pilgrimage to see this problematic relative is if the man ever treated you with love and kindness — even as a child. If he did, you have at least one thing to weigh against the hate-mongering of his later days. It may not be enough for you, and I would respect that too, but it’s something to keep in mind.
The other consideration is the suffering of his immediate kin. If you have a tender impulse toward them, in what is surely a terrible time, I can envision a farewell visit that is made for their sake and not for the dying man’s. There are a few moving pieces here, even putting aside your relatives’ sillier claims. Think about it, and wherever you land is the right answer (for you)."

Possibly leaving husband and child at the door with your politics would satisfy the living and please the dying.

Hospice goes surprisingly quickly.
Mother never spoke beyond "I want to go home."
I assured she was home.  She relaxed.  Ann stayed a few days and ran.  Jim came down and spent the time I could not hold her hand. 

She passed into unconsciousness and death in about two weeks a few weeks shy of her 96th birthday.

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Obituaries

Deborah Carrington, 58, Dies; Actress and Stuntwoman

Her dwarfism allowed her to play Ewoks and Geex, and she was admired as a stunt double, but she was happiest to get work as a character actress.

I did not know her name.

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The Upshot

The Ivy League Students Least Likely to Get Married

At Princeton, and in the American higher education system as a whole, there remains a strong correlation between marriage and economic class.

We kept going broke and becoming more asocial.
Madness was a constant threat.

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Business Day

Laura Ingraham, Facing Boycott, Apologizes for Taunting Parkland Survivor David Hogg

Ms. Ingraham, a Fox News host, had mocked Mr. Hogg over his college rejections. “She only apologized after we went after her advertisers,” he said. “It kind of speaks for itself.”

The Second Amendment must be modified.
It should be Replaced.
Retail death at a distance must be enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_%28poem%29
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/charge-light-brigade

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Real Estate

Family of Christine Beshar, Trailblazing Lawyer, Selling Co-op

The estate of Christine Beshar, one of the first female partners of a Wall Street law firm, is selling the East End Avenue home where she lived for 47 years.

I wish.
I dream.

Lawyers make money.  Her husband was earning.

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Books

Brainy and Benighted, Lost in the Books of Bolaño and Borges

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel “Call Me Zebra” charts a young Iranian émigré’s quest to honor her family’s devotion to literature.

https://fleursdumal.org/poem/151
A translation is below the French.
https://fleursdumal.org/poem/151
Oloomi's version has power Milay's lacks.

"Vengeance is a poor dish best eaten cold"
In 2000 I thought I would not suffer.
  My error.
Marla Suffered.  She wanted to know why.  I told her.
I suffered happily.  I wondered about masochism.
It did not fit.  Neither did sadism.
I did not intend that you suffer.

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Style

For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never

A young woman facing a health crisis decides to have sex for the first time, while fearing it may be her last time.

I never cared about virginity.  I still don't.  It shocks and confuses believers of all kinds.
Dyslexia is a cruel disability.  It is invisible. 
Art does not fix it.
I was eating the rent and the phone bill.
Rail fair meant going with less food. 
I was not a truly skilled cook.
Most artists starve.

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn

This week’s properties are in Washington Heights, Murray Hill and Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Of these Washington Heights is my favorite.
Probate Would make me comfortable. 
Meanwhile I am in straightened circumstances.

Green County and madness beckon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene_County,_New_York

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Well

Utah Passes ‘Free-Range’ Parenting Law

A new law in Utah is the first in the nation written to protect parents who allow children to walk to school alone or play unsupervised.

"Free Range Parenting" is correct.
There will be disasters but there are always disasters.
The Pied Piper of Hamlin is probably a remnant of the Children's Crusade.
Measels, Mumps, German measels, whooping cough, scarlet fever, and polio are now preventable.  Work is being done on the genetic diseases and birth defects.
People alive today are survivors of natural selection.  They and their ancestors were incredibly lucky to live, breed and raise another generation to do the same.  The children must learn to prosper.  Parents can help teach but the children must learn or die young.  We can teach and shelter some.
We cannot do for all. 
We must not act to speed the death of others.

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