Monday, May 4, 2015

@15:00, 5/2/15

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Opinion

A Path to Citizenship for Immigrants

May 1st 2015
Jeanne M. Atkinson of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network writes that “we must not delay further” on immigration reform.
Illegal Immigration; Immigration and Emigration; Deportation 

The minimum wage is below subsistence. 
They come because it is better here.

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Business Day

Senators Propose Fees for Shipping Oil by Rail Car

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Apr 30th 2015
The proposal would be paired with tax breaks for companies that use new tank cars built to better withstand derailments.
Railroad Accidents and Safety; Tax Credits, Deductions and Exemptions; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline 

The railroads are common carriers.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
Cargo risk is an insurance problem.
The proposed legislation will die in committee.

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Business Day

Avian Flu Infections Are Found at Five More Iowa Poultry Farms

By REUTERS | Apr 30th 2015
If the bird flu virus is confirmed at all five farms, the number of sites where H5 has been found in Iowa during this outbreak would rise to 17.
Agriculture and Farming; Avian Influenza 

A disaster perhaps.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster

It is a veterinary problem. 

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

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

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

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Travel

Video: 36 Hours in Key West, Fla.

Fritzie Andrade, Louie Alfaro, Jessey Dearing, Andrew Hida and Will Lloyd | Apr 29th 2015
Ernest Hemingway’s favorite pastimes — catching big fish, eating well and drinking hard — still define the island’s appeal, with the added attractions of countless water sports and gorgeous sunsets.
Travel and Vacations 

I do not love the place. 

I prefer Stock Island.  
 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stock+Island,+Florida+33040/@24.5715685,-81.7400766,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88d1b17a26c22dff:0x7a9917185af3ffe9

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U.S.

House Passes G.O.P. Budget Aiming to Repeal Health Law

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Apr 30th 2015
The joint House-Senate nonbinding budget plan promises to balance the budget in nine years through more than $5 trillion in spending cuts.
Federal Budget (US); Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Medicaid 

A pointless act.

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Business Day

U.S. Sets New Rules for Oil Shipments by Rail

By JAD MOUAWAD | May 1st 2015
The regulations will phase out older tank cars and mandate new braking technology, but some critics called them inadequate.
Railroad Accidents and Safety; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline 

I hope they endure the corporate opposition.

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

By MICHELLE HIGGINS | May 1st 2015
This week’s properties include co-ops in Carnegie Hill and on the Upper West Side, and a townhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_New_York

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kingston,+NY/@41.9258631,-74.003237,9018m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89dd0f012dc98127:0x41d7895a5832c913

If we get uphill of the Ashokan Reservoir we will have a composting toilet and hand wash the dishes.  People do commute.

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Fashion & Style

High Season Over, Now Is the Time for Beach Getaways

By JENNIFER CONLIN | May 1st 2015
Beach destinations around the world are offering big savings without the crowds of winter — good reasons to book a trip and get a jump on summer.
Travel and Vacations; Hotels and Travel Lodgings

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Key+West,+FL+33040/@24.55906,-81.7755331,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88d1b134ad952377:0x3fcee92f77463b5e

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dry+Tortugas+National+Park/@24.627765,-82.8696679,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88ce55d10406f657:0x5bb10efd57331da1

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Sports

Video: The 1990 N.F.L. Draft: Rodney Hampton

Kassie Bracken and Jessica Naudziunas | Apr 29th 2015
Selected by the Giants in the first round, Rodney Hampton won a Super Bowl ring as a rookie and has credited his family with helping him avoid the pitfalls of instant success.
Football

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/sports/football/1990-nfl-draft-class-some-thrive-but-just-as-many-struggle.html

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Business Day

Hospitals Provide a Pulse in Struggling Rural Towns

By DIONNE SEARCEY | Apr 29th 2015
With little economic vitality amid the decline in manufacturing, small towns can be helped enormously by a well-run hospital.
Rural Areas; Labor and Jobs; Hospitals

Living on medicare.
"Still, there are plenty of remaining hurdles. The county’s population has been shrinking since its peak in 1910, and the community cannot rely on health care alone to sustain its economic base.
“We can help drive the economy here in Gage County, but one of the things that has to happen is the economy has to pick up,” Mr. Sommers said. “If it doesn’t pick up, we can’t drive it forever.”"

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Business Day

Slightly Higher Percentage of Law School Graduates Landed Legal Jobs, Report Says

By ELIZABETH OLSON | Apr 29th 2015
The four percentage point increase from 2013 appears to be a result of fewer law school graduates in 2014 rather than a better hiring market.
Legal Profession; Law Schools

She has spent the time and the money to get to sit the exam.
Get the license. 
The public defenders always need help.

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Opinion

Enlisting Bystanders to Fight Online Abuse

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | May 1st 2015
Third-party tools can be used to help combat harassment on social networks.
Social Media; Cyberharassment

Anonymous is such a third party tool.

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Business Day

Iowa Declares Emergency as Bird Flu Spreads

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 1st 2015
Nearly 17 million chickens and turkeys in the state are dead, dying or scheduled to be killed because of the disease.
Avian Influenza

Denial does not help.

The Blue Jays have driven off the local hawk.

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World

Video: Reaction to South Korea Ferry Verdict

AP | Apr 28th 2015
Relatives of the victims in South Korea’s ferry disaster expressed discontent on Tuesday after an appeals court sentenced the captain to life in prison and issued a reduced sentence for the crew.
Maritime Accidents and Safety; Sentences (Criminal); Ferries; Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides; Decisions and Verdicts

Politics is a rough game in South Korea.

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World

Lithuania: A Protest to Moscow

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 1st 2015
Lithuania said Friday that it had summoned the Russian ambassador to complain about repeated Russian naval activities.
Defense and Military Forces

Putin has no friends.

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Opinion

Money for the National Institutes of Health

May 1st 2015
Wendy Luftig, chairwoman of the Bioethical Issues Committee of the New York City Bar Association, calls on Congress to seize the moment and act.
United States Politics and Government; Federal Budget (US)

I don't pretend to know how big the grant budget should be.
It has nothing to do with the money spent on treatment.
Medicare and Medicaid are insurance programs paid for with  pay role taxes. 

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U.S.

Walking a Fine Line in Promoting a Trade Deal

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | May 1st 2015
Even as President Obama sought support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership by acknowledging the downside of free-trade pacts, a report from his economic team cited their benefits.
International Trade and World Market; Trans-Pacific Partnership; Labor and Jobs; North American Free Trade Agreement; Outsourcing

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/this-is-not-a-trade-agreement/

"Personally, I’m a lukewarm opponent of the deal, but I don’t see it as the end of the Republic and can even see some reasons (mainly strategic) to support it. One thing that should be totally obvious, however, is that it’s off-point and insulting to offer an off-the-shelf lecture on how trade is good because of comparative advantage, and protectionists are dumb. For this is not a trade agreement. It’s about intellectual property and dispute settlement; the big beneficiaries are likely to be pharma companies and firms that want to sue governments.
Those are the issues that need to be argued. David Ricardo is irrelevant."

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/17/8438995/why-obamas-new-trade-deal-is-so-controversial

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World

3 Ways Nepalis Are Using Crowdsourcing to Aid in Quake Relief

By SHREEYA SINHA | May 1st 2015
Nepalis at home and abroad are leading initiatives that harness digital technologies and social platforms to assist their countrymen in relief efforts.
Crowdfunding (Internet); Humanitarian Aid; Volunteers and Community Service; Earthquakes; Computers and the Internet; Social Media

People use the tools they have.

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World

Colombia: Officials Urge End to Herbicide’s Use on Coca

By WILLIAM NEUMAN | Apr 28th 2015
Colombia’s Health Ministry has recommended halting the spraying of an herbicide widely used in an American-funded campaign to eradicate crops of coca.
Defoliants and Herbicides; Cocoa

Columbia is addicted to cocaine.

The World Health Organization did no original research on glyphosate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
 
"Human toxicity Human acute toxicity is dose-related. Acute fatal toxicity has been reported in deliberate overdose.[47][48] Early epidemiological studies did not find associations between long-term low-level exposure to glyphosate and any disease.[49][50][51] In 2013 the European commission reviewed a 2002 finding that had concluded equivocal evidence existed of a relationship between glyphosate exposure during pregnancy and cardiovascular malformations and found the evidence "fails to support a potential risk for increased cardiovascular defects as a result of glyphosate exposure during pregnancy."[52] A 2013 review found that neither glyphosate nor typical glyphosate-based formulations (GBFs) pose a genotoxicity risk in humans under normal conditions of human or environmental exposures.[53]"

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World

Chinese and Russian Navies to Hold Joint Drills in Mediterranean

By JANE PERLEZ | Apr 30th 2015
The announcement of joint military exercises was a further sign of deepening ties between China and Russia, and of the Chinese Navy’s increasing ambitions.
Defense and Military Forces

"“The Chinese fleet has never made any exercises in the Mediterranean, and moreover, this is with Russia,” said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.
“The two countries want to show they have escalated their strategic partnership.”"

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@15:30

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Magazine

The Amazing New Thing

By TOM GAULD | May 1st 2015
A never-ending cycle of wanting the latest gadgets.

Far too real.

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The Upshot

Speedy Drug Approvals Have Become the Rule, Not the Exception

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ | May 1st 2015
Most recent drug development in the U.S. has been done through specially approved pathways, and two more may be added.
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); Law and Legislation

Everybody likes a subsidy.
The programs give extended patent protection.
This keeps the price high longer by preventing generic versions.

3
Opinion

Lymphoma Research

Apr 29th 2015
Meghan E. Gutierrez of the Lymphoma Research Foundation writes, “The tremendous progress made in lymphoma and diagnostics research holds the potential to accelerate the era of personalized medicine.”
Research; Tests (Medical); Cancer

yes

4
Travel

Video: 36 Hours in Key West, Fla.

Fritzie Andrade, Louie Alfaro, Jessey Dearing, Andrew Hida and Will Lloyd | Apr 29th 2015
Ernest Hemingway’s favorite pastimes — catching big fish, eating well and drinking hard — still define the island’s appeal, with the added attractions of countless water sports and gorgeous sunsets.
Travel and Vacations

http://www.drytortugasinfo.com/dry-tortugas-camping/

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Business Day

Avian Flu Infections Are Found at Five More Iowa Poultry Farms

By REUTERS | Apr 30th 2015

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World

Times Journalist Ellen Barry Answers Readers’ Questions on Nepal

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | May 1st 2015
Ellen Barry, the South Asia bureau chief for The Times, answers questions on Facebook on the situation on the ground in Nepal almost a week after an earthquake killed thousands.
Earthquakes; Deaths (Fatalities)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-maps.html

Nepal is still counting.

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Health

Injection Offers Option to Slim Down Double Chin Without Surgery

By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS | Apr 30th 2015
The Food and Drug Administration approved on Wednesday the new treatment, whose active ingredient, deoxycholic acid, dissolves fat.
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); Plastic Surgery; Biotechnology and Bioengineering; Neck; Obesity

I will love you as you are.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Opinion

Concerns About Dr. Oz: A Clash at Columbia

May 1st 2015
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, writes that Dr. Mehmet Oz “has strayed from the strict standards characteristic of the medical field.”

yes

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Opinion

Eat, Drink and Be Merry, Like the French?

May 1st 2015
Readers recount different experiences of food and food restrictions in France, America and elsewhere.
Food; Diet and Nutrition; Social Conditions and Trends; Celiac Disease; Gluten; Allergies

Allergies are real.
They can be deadly.

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Opinion

The End of California?

By TIMOTHY EGAN | May 1st 2015
Ingenuity created an Eden, and despite those who relish the notion of its failure, it will find a solution.
Drought; Water; Shortages; Conservation of Resources; Agriculture and Farming

Old water, that in rivers, reservoirs and aquifers is rationed.
increased use should not be permitted.
Increased use includes deeper and newly drilled wells.
New water can be had at full cost.

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Fashion & Style

High Season Over, Now Is the Time for Beach Getaways

By JENNIFER CONLIN | May 1st 2015

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

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Business Day

Cleveland Indians Have Home-Field Advantage on Recycling

By DIANE CARDWELL | May 1st 2015
Progressive Field’s concessions adopt a system that converts food waste to energy.
Waste Materials and Disposal; Alternative and Renewable Energy; Methane; Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This system does not sequester carbon.
It is better than landfill.
The effluent is feedstock for agriculture.
It is unclear to me that it is carbon neutral. 
Systems must become carbon negative.

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U.S.

House Passes G.O.P. Budget Aiming to Repeal Health Law

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Apr 30th 2015

Noise.

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Opinion

Enlisting Bystanders to Fight Online Abuse

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | May 1st 2015
Third-party tools can be used to help combat harassment on social networks.
Social Media; Cyberharassment

Anonymous is such an organization.
 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/anonymous_internet_group/index.html
It appears they have changed their designation.

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Your Money

Health Insurance Deadline Passes for Most, but There Are Exceptions

By ANN CARRNS | May 1st 2015
The Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period for health insurance expired on April 30, but people with special circumstances can still get coverage.
Health Insurance and Managed Care; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

I am covered by Medicare.

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World

3 Ways Nepalis Are Using Crowdsourcing to Aid in Quake Relief

By SHREEYA SINHA | May 1st 2015

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N.Y. / Region

Jury Finds Mistakes, Not Widespread Fraud, at Seedco Job Agency

By MARC SANTORA | Apr 30th 2015

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Your Money

Last Chance to Sign Up Under Affordable Care Act Is Thursday

By ANN CARRNS | Apr 29th 2015

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U.S.

Massachusetts: Witnesses Recall a Young Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

By JESS BIDGOOD | Apr 29th 2015
Defense lawyers at the penalty phase in the trial of the man convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing called as witnesses Wednesday a series of his teachers and friends, some of whom offered glowing accounts about his young life.
Boston Marathon Bombings (2013)

I wish his defense well.

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Opinion

A Path to Citizenship for Immigrants

May 1st 2015
Jeanne M. Atkinson of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network writes that “we must not delay further” on immigration reform.
Illegal Immigration; Immigration and Emigration; Deportation

Yes


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