Monday, July 11, 2016

@23:30, 7/10/16

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1
Business Day

Fatal Tesla Crash Draws In Transportation Safety Board

In addition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the N.T.S.B. will investigate a Florida crash involving a Tesla operating in Autopilot mode.


The system did not work.
Fix it or remove it.

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Job Market

At the Grand Canyon, a Mechanic’s Love Affair With Locomotives

Eric Hadder turned a childhood fascination with trains into a career maintaining a vegetable-oil-powered steam engine for the Grand Canyon Railway.

A romantic job.
Steam is a wonderful hobby.
Reciprocating steam is skill and labor intensive.
India and China have retired it.

3
U.S.

Details Emerge of Philando Castile Shooting, and Minnesota Protests Carry Into Morning

Investigators identified the officer who shot Mr. Castile as Jeronimo Yanez of the St. Anthony Police Department amid demonstrations near the Minnesota governor’s mansion.

Mob rule will not happen.

Let the civilian fire the first shot.

4
Fashion & Style

Meredith Melnick, James Breitinger

The bride is the editor of health and science at The Huffington Post, and the groom works for an advertising agency.

A U.U. would be fine with me.

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

5
N.Y. / Region

How Newfound Freedom Feels

Sara Bennett quit the law to become a photographer and learned how little she knew about the lives of prisoners.

This set of photographs does not work.
Sara Bennett could try a tighter frame and a higher camera.
The black & white is good. Try a bigger f stop to isolate the foreground.

"The best picture is the one you have"

6
Fashion & Style

Jenna Adams, Andrew Kalloch

The bride drafts laws for the New York City Department of Transportation, and the groom works on rental laws for Airbnb.

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

7
Fashion & Style

Amelia Kiely, Evan Libby

In 2007, the couple worked at a grocery store in Maine. She is now a teacher, and he is a bank examiner.

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

8
Opinion

Who Benefits From the Income Tax Credit?

Readers take issue with the notion that expanding the earned-income tax credit program is better than raising the minimum wage.

Have strong unions.

9
NYT Now

‘I’m Tired of Having to Argue My Humanity to You’

Our top 10 comments of the week: Readers debate the shootings in Dallas, Minnesota and Louisiana, as well as Hillary Clinton’s emails and Kevin Durant’s loyalty.

Stop.
There is no argument.
Now what?

10
U.S.

A Struggle for Common Ground, Amid Fears of a National Fracture

People in interviews across the United States said the nation increasingly felt mired in bloodshed and blame, and was fracturing along racial and ideological lines.

Ideology is no argument.

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Fashion & Style

After a Suicide, a Security Guard for the Heart

A shocking discovery following the loss of a sister becomes an unlikely source of solace.

Mutual support.

12
Fashion & Style

Reshma Narula, Samit Shah

The couple met at an orientation for new residents at the Yale School of Medicine.

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

13
N.Y. / Region

Gods of a Fish-Eat-Fish World

An aquarium service technician is part plumber, part veterinarian, and part ringmaster of a world where things aren’t meant to live in harmony.

I will let other people play with the fish.

14
N.Y. / Region

Dispute as Westchester Housing Pact Nears End: Did the County Honor It?

A federal monitor overseeing a desegregation agreement requiring Westchester County to build 750 units of affordable housing wants outside analysis.

Probably not

15
Fashion & Style

Jennifer Kwok, Vincent Chen

The couple met as M.I.T. students. She’s now a doctoral candidate in economics and he analyzes biotech companies.

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

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N.Y. / Region

Westchester Must Hire Consultant for Fair-Housing Study, Judge Rules

Following disputes over zoning, a federal judge called the county’s efforts to analyze barriers to fair housing a “failed process.”


OK

There is no local constituency for affordable housing.

17
N.Y. / Region

Bustling Village Apothecary, Unchained by Time

C.O. Bigelow has a loyal following in the West Village in Manhattan and is considered by some to be the oldest pharmacy in the United States, opening in 1838.

An institution.

18
Automobiles

Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature

The difficulty of getting drivers to take control of automated cars when necessary has prompted many automakers to take people out of the equation.

Probably it is not possible to get the human to take control.

19
U.S.

Video: Protests Break Out After Shootings

After the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in Minnesota, protesters gathered on the streets of New York City. That death came in the same week as a similar shooting in Baton Rouge, La.

Keep trying.
U.S.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown, a Reformer, Becomes Face of Nation’s Shock

As Chief Brown sorted through a jumble of reports, some of them wrong, publicly narrating the standoff between his officers and the gunman, he also offered simple, emotional words.

He had the podium.

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