1
Food
The Best Roast Chickens
Sam’s chicken picks, scampi, lamb burgers and more.http://sidneymintz.net/
http://sidneymintz.net/sugar.php
I want to read "Sweetness and Power".
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World
Australia Bushfires Strike Popular Tourist Area
The fires have burned down more than 100 homes, and officials predicted more blazes to come.Another hot dry summer.
Another season of burning.
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N.Y. / Region
New York State Standardizes Its Oversight of Lawyers
New rules will make lawyers subject to a uniform disciplinary process, putting an end to regional differences in the handling of complaints.The concern is opiate addiction among members of the bar.
This will be another failed attempt to fix addiction.
There is no cure for addicts.
Systems must be adjusted to be addiction tolerant.
This will mean that some professions are closed to some minds.
Addiction is not a moral or ethical problem.
The attempt to externally control addiction is an ethical problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
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U.S.
More Police Officers Facing Charges, but Few See Jail
This year, 18 officers were charged in fatal shootings, research shows. But despite heavy sanctions, like millions paid out in settlements over mistakes, police departments have resisted change.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_court
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor#United_States
Trying a police officer implies a conflict of interest.
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U.S.
Death Toll Rises in Dallas as Storms Sweep South
At least 11 people were killed in the Dallas area Saturday night when several tornadoes swept North Texas, officials said.http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/historic-unseasonable-flood-begins-on-mississippi-river-928-mb-low-hi
"On January 20, the flood crest is expected to arrive in New Orleans, bringing the Mississippi River to its 17-foot flood stage in the city, just 3 feet below the tops of the levees. In past years, though, when the river has been forecast to rise to 17 feet in the city, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened up the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish, which diverts water into Lake Pontchartrain and keeps the river from reaching flood stage in New Orleans. The Corps may also be forced to open the Morganza Floodway in Pointe Coupee Parish, which would divert water down the Atchafalaya River. Opening this spillway has a considerably higher cost than opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway, due to the large amount of agricultural lands that would be flooded below the Morganza Floodway. The Corps also has the option of increasing the flow of Mississippi River water into the Atchafalaya at the Old River Control Structure in Concordia Parish. Operating the Old River Control Structure in this way, though, puts stress on the structure, as I explained in my 2011 blog post, America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure. The Tuesday evening forecast from the NWS River Forecast Center predicted that the Mississippi River would crest at Red River Landing, where the Old River Control Structure is located, on January 19. The predicted crest of 62.5' is just 0.9' below the all-time record crest of 63.39' set on May 18, 2011. A water level this high has a good chance of forcing the Army Corps to open the Morganza Floodway in order to relieve pressure on the Old River Control Structure. Both the Bonnet Carré Spillway and Morganza Floodway were opened in May 2011, when the highest flood crests ever observed on the Lower Mississippi arrived. This flood cost approximately $3 billion; $1 billion was required just to repair the damage done to the levee system and various other components of the flood control system damaged by the flood, according to Charles Camillo's book, Divine Providence: The 2011 Flood in the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project. I expect the damage from the December 2015 - January 2016 Mississippi River flood will run into the hundreds of millions. According to a Wednesday news story in The Advocate, the Army Corps will make a decision by January 9 on whether or not to open the Bonnet Carré Spillway. The last time the spillway was opened in January was back in 1937, its first year of operation. In a Wednesday morning Press Release, the Army Corps of Engineers indicated that they are mobilizing people, barges and operational equipment to open a third floodway on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Ohio River--the Birds Point - New Madrid floodway. Opening up this floodway would help relieve pressure on the levees near Cairo, Illinois, something the Corps was forced to do in May 2011. However, the Corps said that they do not anticipate operating the floodway during the current flood, if current flood height predictions hold."
"Incredibly warm air flowing to the North Pole
The counter-clockwise flow of air in advance of Wednesday's Icelandic low is pumping relatively warm air all the way to the North Pole, where temperatures near freezing may be occurring--though I doubt there are any instruments there to measure the temperature this winter. The warm air is following an unusually contorted kink in the jet stream. Bob Henson tweeted this fact on Tuesday: reanalysis maps dating back to 1948 (courtesy Steven Cavallo, University of Oklahoma) show only three cases where the North Pole Temperature reached the freezing mark or above in December (and no cases in January - March.) Andrew Freedman of Mashable has more on this freak Arctic warm wave in a Tuesday post."
Faith does not influence nature.
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U.S.
Puerto Rican Police Officer Held in Fatal Shooting of 3 Colleagues
A police spokeswoman said that the officer held a female lieutenant, a male commander and a policewoman hostage at a station before he killed them.Some are legally insane.
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World
Aide to Kim Jong-un Dies in Car Accident
Kim Yang-gon, 73, head of the United Front Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea, was a key foreign policy aide for the country’s young and relatively inexperienced leader.Auto accidents are rare in North Korea.
I can't read the political tealeaves.
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U.S.
As Flooding Continues, Missouri Asks Residents to Move to Safety
The death toll attributed to the flooding has continued to rise, to 13 dead as of Tuesday from six people killed over the weekend, officials said.http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/historic-unseasonable-flood-begins-on-mississippi-river-928-mb-low-hi
Look at the pictures.
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Opinion
A Maid’s Peaceful Rebellion in Colombia
How domestic workers in Colombia achieved success in demanding better wages and treatment.There should be no exploitable bottom.
Unions limit the supply of labor.
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Sports
Reliever Aroldis Chapman Acquired by Yankees
The Yankees traded four minor leaguers to the Cincinnati Reds for Chapman, who had 33 saves last season.No recent news of the Boston Red Sox
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection=Baseball®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=article#/Boston+red+sox/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/
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N.Y. / Region
New York Faces Struggle in Curbing Flophouse Schemes That Victimize Addicts
The city formed a task force to crack down on so-called three-quarter houses, but none of them have been closed, despite evidence of continued exploitation and poor conditions."The city faces a dilemma: The homes may be bad, but they still fill a need. Many single homeless people would rather stay in a three-quarter house than in a homeless shelter. Shut them down, and the city risks putting more people on the street at a time when the homeless population has reached record levels."
Ewer, basin and chamber pot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_%28container%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_pot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightstand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightstand
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U.S.
Severe Weather Aims for New Targets After Pummeling Texas, Midwest and Mississippi
Storms have led to reports of at least 43 deaths across several states. Here’s what you need to know as the harsh weather continues into the week.It was not that bad where I encountered it.
http://www.weather.gov/
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Science
The Residents of Vanuatu, Then and Now
Skull analysis suggests the earliest inhabitants may have had Asian and Polynesian roots, while modern residents are more similar to Melanesians."“The only time that Melanesian migrants could have come and ‘outmarried’ the original Polynesians would have been during the couple of hundred years during Lapita times,” he said. He and his colleagues reported their findings in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapita_culture
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World
The E.U. Migrant Crisis, Told in 2 Startling Numbers
More than one million migrants have made their way to Europe this year, but only 190 of them have been formally relocated.The U.S. must solve the "Syrian" problem in Syria or deal with Texas.
We will not "Kill them all. Let God sort them out."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
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Sports
Thunder Rally Past Nuggets
Russell Westbrook had 30 points, 12 assists and 9 rebounds, and Oklahoma City allied from an 11-point second-half deficit to beat visiting Denver, 122-112.| 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/TWSN/NBAt | ||||
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N.Y. / Region
Legacy of New York’s Chief Judge: A Focus on Social Justice
Throughout his seven years on the State Court of Appeals, Judge Jonathan Lippman said, his goal was to make it the policy of the state that poverty should never bar a person from a fair hearing.His is a laudable project.
It may pay the rent.
It will not make the partners wealthy.
It has improved the world
And should continue to improve the world.
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U.S.
Missouri: Rising Waters Imperil River Towns
A rare winter flood shut parts of two interstates, threatened hundreds of homes and caused sewage to flow into waterways.http://www.nws.noaa.gov/outlook_tab.php
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Figure 2. Existing flood stage on December 28, 2015 (inner colored square) and predicted maximum flood stage (outer colored square region around the inner colored square) for the Lower Mississippi River and two tributaries (the Arkansas and Ohio Rivers) near where they join the Mississippi. I've added numerical ranking on the right side of the squares to indicate where a top-ten flood crest in recorded history is expected. Two gauges are expecting their highest floods on record (Cape Girardeau and Thebes), and most of the Lower Mississippi is expecting a top-five highest flood crest on record. Where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, the Ohio River is forecast to crest on January 5 at the third highest level on record; downstream from Little Rock, Arkansas, the Arkansas River is predicted to crest on Friday at the third highest level on record near its confluence with the Mississippi. Image credit: NWS River Forecast Center."
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lmrfc/?n=lowerohio,lowermississippi,andlowerarkansasrivers
There may be clear weather for at least a week.
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U.S.
Families of 2 Fatally Shot by Chicago Police Question Officers’ Training
Grieving relatives on Sunday demanded changes to the way the police interact with black residents and more training for officers in how to de-escalate tense situations involving possible mental health issues.A proper action.
My hope is that it will bring proper changes.
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U.S.
Texas Urges Supreme Court to Reject Appeal on Obama’s Immigration Program
In a brief filed Tuesday, the state’s attorney general argued that lower courts had properly rejected an “unprecedented assertion of executive authority.”Texas is wrong.
Immigration policy is a constitutional federal prerogative.
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Sports
Concussion Report Highlights Field Maintenance
The Concussion Legacy Foundation called attention to the link between head injuries and poorly maintained fields, especially those of synthetic turf.The differences are small.
At a guess the amortized cost of an artificial surface is about the same as a natural turf surface.
Further, the concussion risk is about the same.
Ending the game of football is the cheapest option.
People learned in 1968 that Roman Imperial crowd control is better than any modern method.
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