Wednesday, May 23, 2018

@10:46, 5/23/18

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1
World

Body of Pakistani Girl Killed in Texas School Shooting Is Returned Home

Just days before she was to go home to Pakistan after her time as a foreign exchange student, Sabika Sheikh, 17, was killed in the shooting at Santa Fe High School.

This bit of a mass shooting has little additional meaning in the U.S.
The Government of Pakistan attaches great importance to it.
Pakistan is seeking more reasons to be hostile to the U.S.
The State Department should be making an apologetic fuss and pulling in Trump for a formal apology.

2
Podcasts

Listen to ‘The Daily’: A Crossroads for the Democratic Party

In Georgia, two women were locked in a close race to become the Democratic nominee for governor. What does this election tell us about the future of the party?

The states are learning that there is no center.

3
Travel

Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town

A novice fossil hunter immerses himself in the local pastime in the town of Lyme Regis in southwest England, an area that sits on a 95-mile stretch of shoreline known as the Jurassic Coast, a Unesco World Heritage site.

I would happily walk that beach.

4
New York

New Transit Chief’s Rapid Plan: Faster, Better, Cheaper

Andy Byford proposes to do quickly over the next five to 10 years what was originally expected to take a half-century.

The state owns and subsidizes the subways.
It is time it recognized it's responsibilities again.
Good luck to him.
Automobiles will kill the city.  

https://metroexplorer.planning.nyc.gov/welcome/intro#7.09/40.857/-73.528

All the places I am considering are off this metropolitan map.

Try:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alfred,+NY/@42.2381451,-77.8230451,11800m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89d18d1ce221c92b:
0x7e65a90eea8a9516!8m2!3d42.2278258!4d-77.7680952

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Livingstonville,+NY+12469/@42.4875752,-74.2859837,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89dc339f0d6c7643:
0x6bbe2aefd5af2e1e!8m2!3d42.4875771!4d-74.2684741


5
Books

The Mystery Buffs in the White House

Our presidents’ love of detective fiction has an august history. Craig Fehrman follows the clues.

Read the book before condemning the author.

I read these escapes more than I should.

6
New York

Beers, Bras and Fried Seafood

Jeremy’s Ale House was a South Street Seaport pioneer in the 1980s, when the area was desolate. In 2018, the bar still seems to be where the party is.

The Fulton Fish Market closed at Four A.M. and dominated the area.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/remembering-new-yorks-famous-sloppy-louies

7
Real Estate

What You Get for $1.3 Million

A 1933 Tudor revival home in Beaverton, Ore.; a hillside condominium in Sea Ranch, Calif.; and a one-bedroom co-op in New York City.

All have their charms.
All are budget busters.
What features do you want?

8

World

‘Wrath of Coastal Erosion’ Is Devouring a Senegal Fishing Hub

Saint-Louis, on Senegal’s Atlantic coast, has Unesco-protected architecture and a bustling fishing community. But coastal erosion threatens, and is accelerating.

"Mr. Diagne used to live in Doun Baba Dièye, a village of fishermen, cattle breeders and farmers just south of Saint-Louis. But in 2003, scrambling to evacuate floodwaters swelling around the city, the Senegalese authorities hastily dug a channel in the Langue de Barbarie."

A very bad error.  The channel directs the sand offshore.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/St+Louis,+Senegal/@16.0140636,-16.5093755,477m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xe955655141ee805:
0xe91d1d12f36a7e64!8m2!3d16.0326307!4d-16.4818167

9
World

First Cuba, Now China? An American Falls Ill After ‘Abnormal’ Sounds

The State Department said a U.S. government employee posted in Guangzhou had signs of possible brain injury. But it has not identified a cause.

I suspect it is not a weapon.

10
Real Estate

$1.3 Million Homes in Oregon, California and New York

A 1933 Tudor revival home in Beaverton, a hillside condominium in Sea Ranch and a one-bedroom co-op in Manhattan near Central Park.

Ok,
 What features appeal to you?


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1
Technology

Getting a Flood of Privacy Policy Updates? Read Them.

To comply with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect on May 25, internet companies have been updating their data policies. Here’s how you can benefit.

A good idea.

2
Theater

Finding Drama in Solitary Confinement

The journalist Can Dundar wrote the book “We Are Arrested” while imprisoned in Turkey. Now, Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company has turned it into a play.

Madness can be dramatic.

9h9 hours ago
Are we gonna party like it's 1997? Stuff is happening in emerging markets, with at least a whiff of an old-style currency/financial crisis. Turkey is in impressive free fall 1/

3
Magazine

Letter of Recommendation: Drinking at Lunch

A pleasant protest against the tyranny of workplace productivity.

Ethanol is a trap.

4
New York

License to Interfere

Annoyed with other people’s behavior, pets, and the way they look on the subway? Train now for your certificate to set everyone straight.

Ignore the person behind the curtain.

5
World

Body of Pakistani Girl Killed in Texas School Shooting Is Returned Home


6
U.S.

California Today: Experts on Fire Season 2018 Discuss the ‘New Normal’

Wednesday: A battle for second place in the governor’s race, a death in Yosemite and Golden State comes up short.

California will burn.

7
Crosswords & Games

Drunk Before Dinner

David Steinberg expands our horizons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w

8
The Learning Network

Under the Flag

What do you think this image is saying?

The republic is diverse.

9
Style

I’m 70, and I Want to Still Want Sex

A woman grapples with a relationship that is sometimes sexual, sometimes emotionally intimate, but never really both at once.

I do not read minds.
Talk Helps.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

10
New York

Beers, Bras and Fried Seafood

Jeremy’s Ale House was a South Street Seaport pioneer in the 1980s, when the area was desolate. In 2018, the bar still seems to be where the party is.

Alcohol does not help.

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