Thursday, October 13, 2016

@10:00, 10/12/16

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U.S.

As Tensions Rise, Tribes Protesting Pipeline Dig In: ‘We’re Staying’

As dozens more protesters were arrested, Native Americans in North Dakota prepared for a long fight over the Dakota Access pipeline.

The Sioux are doing what they can.

2
Food

First a Room, and Now a Book of Chocolate

This new cookbook from a small Brooklyn cafe is chockablock chocolate.

I would put it on the shelf with other desert cookbooks.

3
World

A Haitian City Was Finally Prospering. Then Came Hurricane Matthew.

Along with hundreds of lives, the storm wiped out much of the progress that the isolated city, Jérémie, had been making.

Yes

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N.Y. / Region

Lawyer Says Ex-Aide and Christie Spoke of Bridge Plot Beforehand

The lawyer, Michael Critchley, did not elaborate on his statement, which came as he questioned a witness in the trial of his client, Bridget Anne Kelly, and another former aide to Gov. Chris Christie.

The Lawyer is correct.
However the governor is not indited.

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N.Y. / Region

Police Arrest Three Boys in Sexual Assault at a Brooklyn School

During the Oct. 6 attack, the police said, the boys pulled down the girl’s pants and touched her.

The justice system will take action.

6
Fashion & Style

Rebecca Beland, John McNaught

The bride is an aide to Senator Barbara Boxer, and the groom works at the Treasury Department.

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

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Opinion

L.A.’s Quest to Cut Fossil Fuels

Los Angeles has the potential to serve as an especially powerful role model for other cities.

The quest has just begun.

I want more than a pep rally.

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Crosswords & Games

Variety Puzzle: Split Decisions

Fred Piscop urges us to make two from one.

The times wants a premium.

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N.Y. / Region

Ken Thompson, Brooklyn’s First Black District Attorney, Dies at 50

Mr. Thompson, who took over the job in 2014, had announced five days ago that he had cancer and would take leave from work.

I hope Ken Thompson was not unique.
Brooklyn needs another like him.

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Opinion

At a Christian College, Student Journalism Gets Religious

Administrators at Wheaton urge students to live righteously from an academic pulpit. We students hold them to high spiritual standards, as well.

"Just as a judge is expected to follow the law, and politicians are supposed to vote according to the values they were elected on, administrators at Christian colleges are held to the highest spiritual standards, especially because they urge us to live righteously from an academic pulpit.
And yet if we balance our cynicism with empathy and common sense, it’s easy to see that a blunder on the part of the faithful doesn’t mean the faith isn’t worth following. Our administrators are only human."

Politicians are representatives. 
They are not exemplars.


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N.Y. / Region

Despite Ken Thompson’s Short Stint as Brooklyn Prosecutor, Agenda May Endure

Mr. Thompson, who died on Sunday of cancer, embraced and advanced the shifting roles that district attorneys play in the criminal justice system.

Yes

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Opinion

My Lesson From White America

How this Latino teacher has been schooled by his students.

"These days, economic forces are conspiring to make the stories of many of my white Oregon students more similar to those of my Latino students. Both tell tales of small towns and overworked parents, about feeling like outsiders and battling class discrimination. I’ve found the same themes in other student writing from Central California, upstate New York and rural Wisconsin.
If social mobility isn’t what it used to be, it may be a reality that Latino people have adapted to more readily. In my humble, nonwhite opinion, white America has not yet found a constructive language to talk about this shared experience of the 21st century. I find hope, however, in the young people in my classes who roundly reject the idea that nonwhite people are to blame for their struggles."


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U.S.

Arizona Sheriff to Be Charged Over Immigration Patrols

Prosecutors announced in federal court that they would charge Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County with criminal contempt of court for defying a judge’s order.

It will be enough if Sheriff Arpaio is not reelected.


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U.S.

Mistrial for 2 Ex-Officers in Albuquerque Killing of Mentally Ill Man

A jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of two former officers, Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez, who had each faced a second-degree murder charge.

The jury may have decided correctly.

The proper tool was a butterfly net.

15
Food

Pondicheri Makes Indian Flavors an All-Day Affair

A Manhattan cafe imported from Houston works for many occasions.

As convenient.

16
Opinion

Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election

He understood how a great country could wind up being governed by a sociopath.

Yes

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N.Y. / Region

For New York City’s Homeless Children, Getting to School Is the Hard Part

A new report that draws largely on data from the 2013-14 school year vividly maps out just how difficult it is for students who live in homeless shelters to get an education.

More self sabotage by the City of New York.

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N.Y. / Region

33 Injured in Collision of L.I.R.R. Trains

‘When you look at the actual damage of the situation, the silver lining is we’re fortunate that more people weren’t severely hurt,’ Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.

The roadbed engineers did not do their job.
Why they did not is not yet known.

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Opinion

Diabetes, Diet and Shame

My disease carries an extra burden — the perception that I’ve brought it on myself.

The specific sugar fructose is toxic.
Diabetic sweets substitute pure fructose for sucrose, which is half fructose, because fructose does not spike blood glucose.

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Opinion

‘Schizophrenia Is Not a Romantic Disease’

Psychiatrists write to emphasize the serious symptoms of psychosis.

The commenters are missing the authors dilemma. 

Personal fantasy had a "higher quality of life" than reality.

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