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Sports
Rafael Nadal to Face Fognini in Final in Hamburg
The top-seeded Nadal defeated Andreas Seppi, 6-1, 6-2, on Saturday to set up a final against Fabio Fognini in the Hamburg Open in Germany.
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The Thirty Years War ended in an armistice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
The conservatives won the English Civil War so it has not ended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
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Opinion
Why the Economy Is Not Ready for an Interest Rate Increase
The Fed’s misplaced optimism sends the wrong message to Americans who are still not getting ahead.Janet Yellen is aware of these facts.
Notice that interest rates have not been raised despite the constant yammer from the banks and other rent seekers.
Read Piketty or Krugman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/opinion/paul-krugman-the-mit-gang.html
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Sports
Inbee Park Wins Women’s British Open for 7th Major Title
The top-ranked Park picked up seven shots in her last 12 holes to pass her fellow South Korean Jin-Young Ko at Turnberry.I hope your girl is studying for her bar exam.
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Education
Borrowing Blind
What students don’t know about what they owe.You are right to worry.
Diana Spencer escaped her debt.
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Opinion
Teenagers, Medication and Suicide
Wariness of drug treatment after an F.D.A. warning.Religion is usually not considered a psychiatric condition.
Treating the symptoms is not a cure.
"Richard A. Friedman is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a contributing opinion writer."
Psychoactive prescription drugs are better than self medication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjQYQ5p2Ko
Dr. Friedman has not properly analyzed the children's problem.
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Travel
In Indonesia, a Region Where Death Is a Lure
The death rituals of the Torajan people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, are unusual and elaborate, and seeing the Torajan culture close-up is affordable.Our ancestors are present in our lives through memory.
Memory cannot be erased. I have tried.
When it dies we call it Alzheimer's disease, brain death of the personality.
We remember or we die.
Short term memory loss is a blackout.
Exhaustion causes them as do drugs.
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Food
Chicks To Go Serves Chicken and Peruvian Pride in the Rockaways
I have not explored the work of Jane Austen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen#List_of_works
I am more ignorant of those aspects of personality than I should be.
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N.Y. / Region
New York City to Reroute Garbage Truck Ramp Planned on East Side
Following an aggressive campaign by activists, a new $30 million ramp will be built to avoid bisecting playgrounds.Urban garbage stinks.
So does sewage.
Composting is a proper approach but it does not work well at large scale.
Trash is another problem.
We can spend all the time there is on recycling.
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Education
Confederate Symbols, Swastikas and Student Sensibilities
The visibility of iconography associated with bias and oppression has been a volatile issue on campuses this year.A definition of civilized behavior I was taught:
"A gentleman never offends unintentionally."
It seems a reasonable approach
though if rigorously applied there would be far more casual death.
I know of no way short of that to teach the ignorant caution.
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World
Zimbabwe Says Another American Took Part in Illegal Hunting
Officials said a Pennsylvania gynecologist took part in a hunt in April outside Hwange National Park, where a lion, Cecil, was killed by an American dentist last month.Start with the professional guides and outfitters.
It is popular and easy to blame the victim.
We should try to protect the stupid and the trusting though they should not be encouraged to continue in that state.
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Health
New Meningitis Strain in Africa Brings Call for More Vaccines
An international consortium is seeking five million doses of the vaccine against Type C meningitis and says they must arrive by January to be effective.Despite "rational expectations" I do care.
I can find few alternatives to United Nations action.
It means a loss of some sovereignty to all members.
An alternative is for a sovereign state or states to pay the price demanded.
Another is to allow the disease to run its course.
The nations of our world have not allowed intentional international biological warfare
recently.
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Business Day
Video: Love Letters to the Gravity Boss
Dan Price, chief of Gravity Payments, raised the annual salary floor for his employees to $70,000. Most responses were positive, but Mr. Price says that even the negative letters were valuable.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Payments
"Gravity Payments is a credit card processing company with the philosophy of reducing the costs and headaches associated with accepting credit card payments by charging as little as possible while supporting independent businesses 24/7. The company was Co-founded in February 2004 by Lucas Price and Dan Price out of their Seattle Pacific University dorm room after he witnessed thousands of small business owners being treated unfairly by their credit card processor. Today, Gravity Payments is the largest merchant services provider in Washington and serves over 12,000 clients across the nation. Not only does the company provide merchant processing services, but also a robust business suite including a Working Capital program, POS and mobile payment solutions, business analytics and more to clients nationally with the most concentrated client bases in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, California, Oklahoma, and Hawaii. It is headquartered in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington and employs over 100 team members."
I do not choose to work in debt collection.
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World
Huge Rally Over Killing of Mexican Journalist
Ruben Espinosa, who worked for the prominent magazine Proceso, and four other people were found bound and tortured in an apartment in Mexico City.The death is just an incident on the way to revolution.
Mexico has learned better but necessity can overcome all such learning.
The killing will start when there is hope of better times.
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World
Migrants Wait in Calais for a Chance to Cross the Channel
Each night in France, they try to scale fences or climb onto trains in an attempt to make it to England, a place that for many represents safety.They will not wait long.
They will die rather than be returned.
Stealing the use of a ferry might be effective.
The machine guns have not been sent to the docks.
Some will die but most will live.
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Business Day
Jacob Fugger and the Renaissance Superrich
A new biography of a German banker who lived at the turn of the 16th century draws parallels with the wealthy and powerful of our time.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
Try www.exurbe.com Start at the beginning.
The process goes to the modern world we know.
Some of us know the price paid for riches.
Thomas Piketty
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World
Man Attacks Gay Pride Marchers in Jerusalem for Second Time, Police Say
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, who had carried out a similar attack in 2005, stabbed six participants in the annual parade on Thursday, the police said.We do not deal well with faith.
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N.Y. / Region
Officials Seek Source of Legionnaires’ Outbreak in the Bronx
Health officials are confident that the disease spread from one of five cooling towers that have tested positive for Legionella bacteria.The outbreak is understood and control is being attempted.
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Travel
Foreign Language Smart Phone Apps for Your Vacation Abroad
Gone are the days when tourists wander around clutching guidebooks with an index of handy phrases. Today there are more convenient ways to facilitate communication.Effective communication does not happen with a translator.
Communication is limited to requests and commands.
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Sports
Rafael Nadal Advances in Hamburg
The top-seeded Nadal advanced to the semifinals of the Hamburg Open in Germany by beating fifth-seeded Pablo Cuevas, 6-3, 6-2. Nadal’s semifinal opponent will be Andreas Seppi.The Red Sox are not playing today.
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Food
Assyrtiko, Now an American Treat
The Greek wine, a relatively recent international arrival, has the creaminess and minerality that make it worth the search.Alcohol:
A useful and relatively non-toxic polar solvent externally.
Internally it has a different repute.
My experience is limited.
You know it better than I know it.
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