Sunday, June 14, 2015

@16:00, 6/14/15

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1
Technology

EBay and PayPal Revise Their User Agreements, and Hit a Nerve

New York law enforcement officials wrote the companies’ general counsels this week that the new policy, allowing phone calls for polls or marketing, “raises issues” under consumer protection laws.

Their sales effort is not the reason we call them.
I will use a disposable phone number if I need them.

2
Technology

Sidewalk Labs, a Start-Up Created by Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living

Google’s Sidewalk Labs will pursue technologies to cut pollution, curb energy use, streamline transportation and reduce the cost of city living.

It looks as though thirty thousand dollars per year is a minimum wage in the city of New York

3
U.S.

Sheriff’s Report Provides New Details on Tamir Rice’s Death, but Leaves Questions

A lengthy report by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department does not answer whether a Cleveland police officer issued a warning before firing on the 12-year-old boy.

Police departments believe in twelve year old gang executioners.
Boys with replica guns will continue to die as long as that faith persists.
The police can be repopulated.  The faith will not change.
Boys can be forbidden replica guns.  That has been tried.
The faux news can be regulated.
The community can inform on the gangs. 
                      That is probably what happened in Cleveland.
The police can be disarmed in general. 
We will continue to need SWAT teams called in by patrol officers.
Sometimes the danger is real.

4
U.S.

Cleveland Judge Finds Probable Cause to Charge Officers in Tamir Rice Death

The judge, Ronald B. Adrine, also said he did not have the power to order the arrest of the two officers without a complaint being filed by a prosecutor.

Sometimes the danger is real.
Find out first.

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Job Market

Support for Holocaust Survivors

Temmi Merlis, 27, tells of being a social worker with the Blue Card, a New York-based organization that assists Holocaust survivors.

What will she do next?

It is seventy years since the camps were emptied.
There are the children of survivors.
There are other survivors of other genocides.
Has she learned Khmer?
A law license would be useful.

6
Business Day

Bird Flu Will Force Egg Prices to a Record, U.S. Says

The Agriculture Department says the average price of a dozen eggs in the United States will climb to a record this year because of the nation’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu in poultry.

My supermarket is more profitable than I had thought.

7
World

400 Million Lack Basic Health Services, Report Finds

The study by the World Health Organization and World Bank examined access to health services like prenatal care, child immunization and access to clean water.

It is easy to state the obvious.
I am surprised the number is so small.

8
N.Y. / Region

Video: Finding Escapees Is Top Priority

The authorities are following every significant lead in their search for the two inmates who escaped from a New York prison, Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/nyregion/escaped-convicts-richard-matt-david-sweat-clinton-correctional-facility-dannemora-search.html

15/06/15/nyregion/-2015-06-15-nyregion-as-lockdown-continues-wives-of-clinton-correctional-facility-prison-inmates-share-fears.html

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World

Zhou Yongkang, Former Security Chief in China, Gets Life Sentence for Corruption

Mr. Zhou, the highest-ranking official felled in China’s antigraft campaign, was tried in secret in the city of Tianjin, the state media reported Thursday.

A policy statement from the empire.

10
World

Myanmar’s Missing Rohingya

Some 140,000 Rohingya Muslims, a persecuted ethnic group in Myanmar, are confined to a squalid government encampment in Sittwe. Tens of thousands have fled, setting out on a risky sea voyage. Many are still missing.

 I was not paying attention.
 http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/rohingya/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/oldest/
  1. Even Bleak Bangladesh Is a Haven to Muslims Fleeing the Burmese Arm

    Muslim. 'This Land of Peace' "This began right after the start of January 1991," explained Rafiqul Islam, the director of the Rohingya Muslim Welfare Association, a small group of Bangladeshis trying to provide assistance. "Suddenly
  2. Friends of the Slorc

    into hostile fire as military porters, bludgeoned Buddhist monks into submission and driven a quarter-million Muslims of the Rohingya minority from their homes by rape and terror. Decisively repudiated in elections three years ago,
  3. Bangladesh Rains Kill 100

    officials warned today that the toll could go higher. A majority of the dead and hundreds of others injured were Burmese Rohingya refugees living in camps near Cox's Bazar sea resort and in Teknaf, officials said. Bangladesh's
  4. Stateless, With Borders All Around

    include some 200,000 Urdu-speaking Bihari in scores of refugee settlements in Bangladesh. Also, there are members of the Rohingya, an oppressed Muslim ethnic minority from western Myanmar. More than 100,000 have fled in recent
  5. Thailand Accused of Returning Migrants to Sea, Where Many Are Missing

    are members of the ethnic Rohingya minority, mostly stateless people who live in a cycle of poverty, repression, escape, capture and exploitation. The expulsions reverse a policy in which Thailand has allowed thousands of

11
U.S.

A Hard Road to Health Insurance

Times Documentaries presents the story of a Kentucky man’s path to health insurance in the age of the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/us/kentucky-health-plan-is-flooded-with-the-poorest-and-sickest.html

He will live another year and then he may do more.

12
Magazine

The 5.31.15 Issue

Readers react.

There is no good resolution. 
Sometimes the world stinks.

13
World

Iranian President Expects Sanctions to Lift Within Months of Deal

As the June 30 deadline for the agreement approaches, Hassan Rouhani and other Iranian leaders say talks should continue longer if necessary.

I would like to see the sanctions on Iran lifted.

14
Food

Tapping Into the Potential of Falanghina

The best bottles from the two genetically distinct grapes from Campania are resonant wines that you’d want to come back to again and again over the course of a meal.

I worry.  I remember.

15
World

Germany Drops Inquiry Into Claims U.S. Tapped Merkel’s Phone

The investigation over allegations of eavesdropping by the N.S.A. was ended because of a lack of concrete evidence, a federal prosecutor said.

A resolution of small value.

16
Business Day

Video: App Smart: Instant Photo Collages

Several new apps make it easy and quick to create collages with your photographs.

I see and understand.
It does not do what I want a picture to do.
https://www.google.com/search?q=henri+cartier-bresson&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCkQsARqFQoTCKr098zKkMYCFQYJkgodUosAVQ&biw=1024&bih=635

17
Technology

F.T.C. Reaches Settlement in a Kickstarter Scheme

The agency said that a man who raised over $120,000 to create a board game spent the money instead on personal expenses.

I will treat Kickstarter with care.  It is development money.

18
The Upshot

Red vs. Blue America on Marriage

Liberal states have more two-parent families than conservative ones. But it’s a more complicated story than many people believe.

Marriage is a good idea.
Life is too complicated to deal with alone.

19
World

Chinese Ebola Drug Brings American Objections

The production of an experimental Ebola treatment by a small Chinese company has led to patent infringement claims by American officials and disagreements among doctors.

Sometimes randomized trials are called early on humanitarian grounds.

We only need safe and effective. 
It looks very effective. 
Safe we can know in a few weeks.
If the vaccine recipients do not get Ebola and the controls do the controls can be treated after they sicken.

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World

Video: China’s Ex-Security Chief Sentenced

Zhou Yongkang, China’s former domestic security chief, spoke after he was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for accepting bribes, abusing power and revealing state secrets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/asia/zhou-yongkang-former-security-chief-in-china-gets-life-sentence-for-corruption.html

 An official talking head.


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