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World
Japan Compensates Worker Who Got Cancer After Fukushima Cleanup
The move by the government amounts to the first official acknowledgment that exposure to radiation at the disaster site may have caused cancer.The probabilities are not zero.
The government wants to justify their panic.
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N.Y. / Region
New York State Hires Monitor for City’s Foster Care System
The state will hire a monitor and a research expert to oversee the New York City system, which a lawsuit claimed irreparably harmed children who went too long without permanent families.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care#United_States
"In the United States, foster care started as a result of the efforts of Charles Loring Brace. “In the mid 19th Century, some 30,000 homeless or neglected children lived in the New York City streets and slums.”[13] Brace took these children off the streets and placed them with families in most states in the country. Brace believed the children would do best with a Christian farm family. He did this to save them from “a lifetime of suffering” [14] He sent these children to families by train, which gave the name The Orphan Train Movement. "[This] lasted from 1853 to the early 1890s [1929?] and transported more than 120,000 [250,000?] children to new lives."[15] When Brace died in 1890, his sons took over his work of the Children’s Aid Society until they retired.[14] The Children’s Aid Society created “a foster care approach that became the basis for the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997” called Concurrent Planning."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care_in_the_United_States
The problem is a church - state conflict.
Some think:
Government should not do charity, the work of Christianity.
Government does charity.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Officer Dies After Being Shot in East Harlem
The officer was shot in the head around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday near Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and 120th Street, the police said.Death is never a good thing.
There should not be shots fired in the parks.
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Food
Not Enough Cooks in the Restaurant Kitchen
As the industry booms, jobs go unfilled, as young chefs seek a less arduous path to success.Pay a living wage for livable hours.
Cooking is another craft.
It can be learned quickly.
It must be practiced to develop speed and precision.
The craft includes presentation.
It can be art by my definition.
Art is worth the price asked.
Mostly I want to eat.
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Health
American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms
I want you to live as long as you desire to live.
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N.Y. / Region
New York City Tests Post-Disaster Housing That Stacks Up
The stackable apartment pods, complete with stainless-steel appliances and private balconies, could shelter thousands of New Yorkers as they await reconstruction of their homes after a disaster."There is nothing so permanent as a temporary structure." Frank Dean
These structures will not be temporary.
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U.S.
A Fragile Baltimore Struggles to Heal Itself
Six months since the death of Freddie Gray after a police encounter, the city is on edge as it seeks new leadership and the trials of six police officers approach.Baltimore is a zombi city.
It died about 1950.
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U.S.
St. Louis Officials Believe Arsons at 6 Black Churches Are Linked
The fires have occurred at churches with mostly black memberships and in mostly black neighborhoods, but the authorities said they did not know whether race played a role.The attacks are on Black organization.
If the attacks are not by one author they still point to one goal.
They are linked either before the arsons or after the arsons.
The ineffectualality of the attacks indicate an ammature origin.
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N.Y. / Region
Girl Struck by Stray Bullet on Long Island Dies
The 12-year-old girl, Dejah Joyner, died at the hospital after she had been struck in the head by a bullet fired outside her home last week. No arrests have been made.Hempstead has been Black since Levittown.
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Sports
The Patriots, Once a Jets Obsession, Are Now Just an Obstruction
Under the former coach Rex Ryan, the Jets worried about New England to the point of exhaustion. With their new coach, Todd Bowles, the team is taking a more measured approach to their rival.http://www.patriots.com/
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http://www.theguardian.com/football
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World
Winter Poses New Danger for Migrants
Cold weather and closing borders are complicating the arduous path from Syria and other war-torn nations into the heart of Western Europe.The winter is always harsh.
T.E. Laurence informed the High Command in 1915.
Aleppo : Coordinates: 36°13′N 37°10′E Nashville Tenn.
36°10′00″N 86°47′00″W
There is no good solution to the flow of people.
Locally the southern Europe can ship migrants to Germany as fast as they can fill the trains.
I assume the trunk line from Athens to Berlin is double. If it is not, there is work for the able bodied. Turkey to Berlin has made Britain nervous for about two hundred years.
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U.S.
For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time
Amid efforts to generate revenue by imposing fines for minor offenses that have attracted attention in recent months, a judge in Alabama recently all but ordered offenders to give blood in lieu of payment, or face jail time.A poor idea that did not work out.
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Opinion
Crimes Without Punishment?
The liberal Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. provides a test case in the national debate over high incarceration rates.Policy has only recently changed.
Minimally we should wait for a rearrest rate before we judge the policy.
Ideally we will wait for a second derivative of the rearrest rate.
There is always statistical noise.
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Opinion
Wind Energy’s True Costs
A study’s co-author defends its finding that “the true cost of wind energy is being masked by taxpayer subsidies.”http://www.strata.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Full-Report-True-Cost-of-Wind1.pdf
The only problem I have with subsidies is I am not a recipient.
The wind subsidies were applied for politically accepted reasons.
I do not trust that they will endure success.
The use of fossil carbon must end now.
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U.S.
Kevin Davis Is Sworn In as Chief of Baltimore Police
The Baltimore City Council voted on Monday to appoint Kevin Davis, the city’s interim police commissioner, to lead the department on a permanent basis as the city contends with sharply rising crime rates and a Justice Department investigation.Squabbling over the bones.
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Real Estate
Woodhaven, Queens: Subway Stops and Hiking Trails
Residents are attracted to this working-class neighborhood in central Queens for its affordability, easy access to the subway and Forest park and its lively business district.Visit the area.
I am mildly negative.
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U.S.
Arizona: Man Gets 27 Years in Border Agent’s Death
A man who pleaded guilty to killing a Border Patrol agent whose death exposed a botched federal gun-smuggling operation was sentenced on Monday to 27 years in prison.Rosario Rafael Burboa-Alvarez took the best plea bargain he could get.
The prosecutor had a weak case and a determined judge and jury pool.
There will be an appeal in a few years.
His attorney is probably skilled.
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Sports
Colleges Cut to the Chase, Holding Practices Just for N.B.A. Scouts
Some men’s basketball programs, like L.S.U.’s and Kentucky’s, are dedicating a preseason practice or two to N.B.A. scouts and gearing them toward their needs.It is a tactical action.
Interest from the pros will help the program hold their best players through their college eligibility.
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The Upshot
New Screening Guidelines Won’t Assure Fewer Mammograms
Many studies show that once physicians become conditioned to be more invasive, it’s hard for them to reverse course.If it is a problem get a different doctor.
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U.S.
Police Leaders Join Call to Cut Prison Rosters
The group includes the police chiefs of New York and Chicago and prosecutors who want alternatives to arrests, to reduce the number of criminal laws, and an end to mandatory minimum prison sentences.Change the rules and watch the numbers change.
What is being done now is not working.
Fewer ruined lives will be worth a great deal.
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