Monday, September 5, 2016

@13:25, 9/5/16

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1
N.Y. / Region

This Street Is the Whole World

A woman tallies up the features of a familiar place.

Small worlds.

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U.S.

Hermine Gains Strength Off East Coast, Threatening Flooding

The storm, expected to return to hurricane-strength winds, prompted emergency declarations and wide disruptions of the holiday weekend.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/025816.shtml?5-daynl#contents

Monday morning the storm is moving north west.  It is out to sea.
Cape Cod may see some rain at Chatham.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/051530.shtml

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N.Y. / Region

Labor Unions, Waning Nationwide, Stay Robust in New York

New York City and New York State, where the Fight for $15 movement began, have higher rates of union membership than any other city or state.

Industry has run from unions for a century.
What is left in the cities are industries that could not run.

4
Fashion & Style

Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Samuel Purdy

The couple, who met in a history seminar at Yale, are to be married in New Haven.

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

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Fashion & Style

Mitzi Avanzado, Ian Cohen

She graduated from Rutgers, he from Michigan. They met four years ago at a bar in New York.

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

6
Opinion

Clemency in New York State

New York’s governor has made scant use of his power to grant clemency.

Andrew Cuomo is not a priest to grant absolution.

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Opinion

Keep Bikes Off Our Wilderness Trails

There are plenty of other places to go cycling.

Roads were a mistake.

8
Business Day

A Plea for Plain English in Financial Documents


Plain English will not be used.
It is vague and unstable.
Consider the strict interpretation of the constitution.

9
World

Kolkata Testifies to the Grace of Mother Teresa, Its New Saint

In an Indian city that has expressed ambivalence about the work of a missionary who made it her home, praise carried the day of her canonization by Pope Francis.

"It is the duty of every believing Christian to spread the Gospel."
Definitions continue to be problematic.
The Hindu pantheon is expanded.

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N.Y. / Region

Oysters Are Nearly Extinct in New York Waters. Meet the Team Trying to Coax Them Back.

The city’s Environmental Protection Department and the Billion Oyster Project are placing tens thousands of oysters in Jamaica Bay to renew their population.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43914

An hundred years ago it was decided that New York oysters were a source of infection.  The fishery was closed and an attempt was made to drive the oyster to extinction.   

11
U.S.

Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan Muse Over a Cookie-Cutter Supreme Court

The justices discussed diversity on a Supreme Court drawn solely from Ivy League law schools and almost entirely from the East and West Coasts.

The Supreme Court is supposed to form an opinion.
For recent years it has had an opinion that it imposed.
It must think again.

12 
Fashion & Style

Brittany Piehl, Adam Miller

The bride manages fund-raising for a television production company, and the groom is a NASA Hubble fellow.

I want a contract.

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

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World

‘The Way People Look at Us Has Changed’: Muslim Women on Life in Europe

An outpouring from Times readers described their daily experiences in parts of Europe that are most tense because of recent terror attacks.

France will figure it out or it will expel the foreigners.
I don't know how to bet.

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N.Y. / Region

New York City Will Change Lead Testing Methods at Its Schools


yes

15
Books

5 New Novels Make Fiction Out of Eco-Disaster

New novels set against earthquakes, the Dust Bowl, the desolation of Antarctica and more.

Observation is not a substitute for thought.

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Business Day

Jared Fogle Blames Parents of One of His Victims for Her Distress

The former Subway pitchman, who pleaded guilty to sex acts with minors and distribution of child pornography, made the claim in a response to the parents’ lawsuit against him.

Jared Fogle is a psychopath.
Vulnerability does not lead to exploitation.

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Business Day

The Future of Wealth

Readers respond to “Inequality Today, Catastrophe Tomorrow” (Aug. 28).

Prerevolutionary France developed over about three hundred years.
We probably need both a graduated tax structure and a survival income.
Starvation should not happen without a major effort in that direction.
People should have to work at starving.

18
Books

Understanding Recent Deaths at the Hands of the Police

Marc Lamont Hill’s “Nobody” explores the details and history behind the litany of recent police killings.

Wrong.  The targets are not nobodies.  Nobodies would pass without comment. 
These people are threats to the social order in the minds of the killers.

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Fashion & Style

Nadine Chalmers, Erica Colligan

The couple met in 2011 during a trip sponsored by Birthright Israel.

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

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N.Y. / Region

Stolen, Sold and Savored: Ice Cream Is a Hot Commodity in Manhattan

Since November, the police say, thieves have taken more than 1,200 cartons or bars of ice cream from chain stores, then hawked them to smaller businesses.

The small businesses have freezers.

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