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Downtown L.A. Streetcares May Make A Comeback
By Aaron Blevins, 10/27/2011
Welcome back, "yellow cars".
It may take until 2015, but streetcars are slated to return to Los Angeles, where the mode of transportation, coined "yellow cars", enjoyed high ridership in the 1950s.
Fueled by a public/private partnership, a more than $100 million project is in the works to bring the streetcars to downtown L.A. Planners are still determining the initial route, but have narrowed it down to two after starting with more than 60 possibilities. Regardless of where the route is, organizers expect it to bring hordes of economic development opportunities.
"It's a lot of new development, a lot of new jobs," said Eric Metz, an associate with Urban One, the project management company. "However you slice it, it's a big development downtown."
According to project documents, $1.1 billion in new development is expected, including $730 million in new residential construction, $210 million in new office construction and 9,300 new jobs.
The routes being studied include alignments on Figueroa Street, 11th Street, 9th Street, Olive Street, Grand Avenue and Broadway, among others. Metz said the project would likely use alignments that travel the historic streetcar lines.
He said the project has been in development for almost a decade, having spawned from the Bring Back Broadway initiative. Organizers with Bring Back Broadway cultivated the idea, Metz said, and downtown property owners formed LA Streetcar Inc. to facilitate the project.
"The streetcar is the main component of [Bring Back Broadway]," he said.
The cost of the project, which could range from $100 million to $125 million, depending on the route, will be paid through a public/private partnership, though that has yet to take form, Metz said. He said $10 million in redevelopment money will be used, and the federal government will also pitch in.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is conducting the environmental impact report, with help from consultant HDR Engineering. Metro project manager Laura Cornejo said the organization is looking at various criteria to determine a route. The next phase of the study will include more details as well as the benefits and challenges of building specific routes, she said, adding that Metro is pleased to be involved.
"It's a great opportunity to partner with the city of Los Angeles and bring back a transit mode that once very prevalent downtown," Cornejo said.
She said Metro is assuming that they will not be the operators once the system is up and running. Metz said organizers are not sure who will operate it, though it could be the city, Metro or a private entity.
He said the project has generated a lot of interest, and organizational meetings have been well-attended. Another update meeting has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 at Caltrans, 100 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Metz said additional interest could eventually spur an expansion of the project beyond downtown, and that could be good news for fans of the old Fairfax Trolley.
"The hard thing is building the first alignment," he added. "There's going to be a very strong desire and demand to expand it out."
Metz said there shouldn't be additional safety concerns with the streetcars on the road. He said the streetcars are basically big busses that don't move very fast, but they transport more people more efficiently. They will be connected to overhead catenary wires.
"It's very sleek and attractive," Metz said.
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Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O'Connor will topline Daniel Nettheim's adaptation of Julia Leigh's psychological thriller "The Hunter," which began production on location on the southern Australian island of Tasmania this week.
The novel centers around the Tasmanian Tiger, the largest known modern carnivorous marsupial which become extinct early in the 20th century but has often been subject to conspiracy theories regarding its continued existence. The film will follow the story of "Martin, a mercenary sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger."
The Amazon synopsis for Leigh's novel further details the story, noting that "a mysterious man who is identified to the reader only as M assumes the identity of "Martin David, naturalist" and arrives at the filthy, disheveled house of depressed Lucy Armstrong, whose husband, Jarrah, a naturalist and bioethics expert, recently disappeared on the plateau. Lucy's home becomes the base for M's treks into the wilderness, ostensibly to study the habits of Tasmanian devils. In fact, and in secret, M works for a biotech company. His mission: to secure genetic material from what may be the world's last remaining thylacine, reportedly sighted on the plateau. M must hide his true occupation from Lucy and her lonely children, Sass and Bike, as well as from the National Parks researchers and the suspicious local townspeople."
Alice Addison, who adapted Leigh's novel, herself recently finished lensing on her own writing and directing debut with sex-drama "Sleeping Beauty." The sure-to-be controversial film stars Emily Browning -- after Mia Wasikowska dropped out -- who plays a university student who earns money by allowing herself to be heavily drugged then spending the night with men in controlled conditions.
"The Hunter" is being produced by Vincent Sheehan in association with Porchlight Films, with Oscar-winning 'Lord Of The Rings' trilogy DoP Andrew Lesnie performing cinematography duties. Morgana Davies (Cannes closer "The Tree"), Sullivan Stapleton ("Animal Kingdom"), Jacek Koman, Dan Wyllie, John Brumpton, Callan Mulvey as well as newcomer Finn Woodlock round out the cast.
fan | November 22, 2010 12:59 AM
Actually it is Julia Leigh who directed (and wrote) Sleeping Beauty, not Alice Addison.
Mechanical Shark | November 1, 2010 10:00 AM
Aw yes, another film with Dafoe and Neill. Daybreakers was pretty good, and 90% of that was due to those two badasses. Plot synopsis sounds promising too, but also sounds like something that might never come to any theater near me. :(


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Posted by Tasha Weiss on July 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM.
The National Steel Bridge Alliance recently issued detailed statements outlining its objections to a New York Times article, "Bridge Comes to San Francisco With A Made-In-China Label," and related projects that plan to use federally provided funding to purchase foreign steel and off-shore fabrication. NSBA and AISC encourage the steel community to take action on this issue and contact their local representatives at www.aisc.org/action.
Read NSBA's Letter to the Editor submission in response to the article, in the July edition of NSBA's newsletter, here.
NSBA also recently issued a press release on Alaska Railroad Corporation's (ARRC) similar abuse of federal funds for the $190 million Tanana River crossing project, which you can access here.
NSBA's public statements have garnered significant feedback from those in the structural design and construction industry, supporting the organization's efforts to use U.S. steel and labor on domestic projects.
For example, NSBA recently received a letter from Roumen V. Mladjov, S.E., P.E., Louie International. Here are some excerpts from his letter [Note: The letter expresses the views of the author and are not the words of NSBA]:
…The decision to contract the suspension part of the new East Span of the Bay Bridge to China was wrong and cannot be excused. There is a passage in the article that deserves more attention – '"I do not think the U.S. fabrication industry could put a project like this together,' Brian A. Petersen, project director for American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises." I do not know if Mr. Petersen has made this statement, but when The New York Times publishes it, it is a very big offense for the American steel industry and for all our great predecessors in bridge design and construction.
The New East Span Bay Bridge (San Francisco-Oakland) is one of the worst projects in the country. It is not only the most expensive bridge in the world (the March 2011 report estimates the cost will reach $6.45 B), but is also one with the slowest construction. The current estimate is for completion at the end of 2013, or 12 years of construction.
In 1936 American Bridge Company built the original Bay Bridge (suspension spans, tunnel and east span) for three years and seven months, and today, in 2011, Caltrans needs 12 years to build one half of the easier part of the same bridge with all the benefits of the most advanced construction technology.
One of the secondary, but very dangerous, results from the Bay Bridge case is that engineers and builders are getting disinterested in working on bridges. Not only has a huge amount of money, time, human and equipment involvement been used for this bridge, but we have lost a golden opportunity to demonstrate to ourselves and to the world engineering community that Americans still are able and can build great bridges…


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Rated 3.7 out of 5 by 2047 reviewers.
Rated 4 out of 5 by tperry9697 great stay...then... Loved the stay all but two things. the Business charged me $10 buck to recieve a package for me!!! what !! plus I had to go and pick it up from them . this is stupid!! when I told the staff member about it she looked at me like I had a 3rd eye. I am sick and tired of being charged for crap like this that should be a service!!!!! January 14, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by mher77 So Far So Good The location of Sheraton New York is excellent, the common space are very good, not like the rooms, I thought could more space, for example avoid a bid coach in room, changing by two smaller. I think so the recognition for SPG should be better, I have to let reception know about to receive Internet Access or additional Mileages. January 31, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Greg89 Worthwhile, with room for improvement The hotel in general is very good: the staff is friendly and the lobby and general areas are clean and pleasant to be in. The location is, in my opinion, one of the best possible in Midtown New York City. It's near to all sorts of big points of interest and restaurants and bars as well as very close to a subwaystation that will take you anywhere you want to go. Room cleanliness was top notch. The room in itself (standard room) was not too spacious and our view wasn't that great, but it's certainly a nice room. We did however have a quite noisy room with the fan of the A/C and the waterpipes making a continous noise through the night. Some of the light did not work and some of the drawers in the cupboards were broken. The shower I found not to be so handy. The service upon mentioning these (minor) problems however was impeccable. The people at Sheraton and SPG helped me in an extremely quick, polite and correct manner. A service of the highest standards. June 20, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by DSAa Need to get act together on bag check I made the mistake of thinking that checking my bag for the day would be more convenient than lugging it to my meetings. What a mistake. When I returned at 2:20 pm there was a long line of people waiting to check and retrieve bags. It took 30 minutes to get my bag and caused me to mis my train. This was absolutely unacceptable. April 27, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by gbonanse NYE 2014 We stayed at Sheraton Times Square for the NYE 2014 - excellent location, affordable price, excellent staff and hotel in perfect conditions. The best location possible if you want to be in the pulsing heart of NYC NYE parties - distant enough from the big crowds and near enough to walk by. January 5, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by SYNTS Ok but scratchy sheets I like this hotel...the location, staff, cleanliness, however, the sheets are scratchy, rough and not soft. This is the second time I've stayed at this hotel and both times I was not able to sleep well because the sheets were not comfortable. The bed is fine but I don't know if they use too much bleach or detergent or what. September 28, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by PickyPickyTraveler Disappointing Be prepared for small rooms, weak water pressure, delays in getting an elevator in the mornings (if you're above the 28th floor), a dilapidated gym, and a dirty bar/lounge area. Housekeeping is not very thorough; my room did not appear to have been vacuumed from previous guests' use. This hotel is an embarrassment to Sheraton. January 31, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by Pizza Towels smell like vomit Location is great for theatre. Our stay was quite Sheraton average - but the towels smelled of vomit, and even when we requested replacements, they still smelled. Also, they used some sort of air freshener that was toxic - it permeated our lungs and caused us to cough and wheeze. I would not choose this Starwood hotel again... August 26, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by Joe11 This hotel nickles and dimes you. I knew the hotel was expensive and you would think most of what you needed would be included in the price but it was ridiculous for all the "extras" you have to pay. Way too long of lines for everything. Took almost an hour to check in; elevator waiting time was too excessive. Staff seemed tired and not interested in service. December 13, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Wilson Nice hotel! I am a Hotelier myself and this is the first time I've stayed at this property. I checked in after mid night and the gentleman at the front desk complimented me a late check out as well as complimentary breakfast! Great hospitality! The only thing, I don't think my bed was a 'sweet sleeper'? Other than that, great experience. February 6, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Madea31 Rooms better than standard of the lobby The room was very good and the staff (especially security) very attentive to my needs and helpful. Main entrance, admitting to the hotel lobby is somehow discouraging, given the huge traffic of people; open doors do not keep a good temperature inside. Lobby lacked in "coziness" to a tired and sick (as I was) foreign traveler. December 27, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by JMichael Great central location; fair accomodations Great location with lots of room downstairs. Great bar and lounge. Room was fair sized, but, constant drone of elevators and people in the hallway made sleeping difficult. Nothing wrong with this hotel, in fact its pretty nice, but might look for better options near by given the great selection of hotels within a few blocks. September 1, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Glenn123 Great location/staff in NYC Based on some reviews, I had some concerns about staying at this property for our family vacation. We are just back, and I felt it important to highlight that our stay was excellent. Daenous (sp?) pronounced Donnis, at check-in was really helpful and courteous as were both Concierge attendents who helped us book great meals. October 11, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by marsita This hotel is in a great location in NYC the hotel is near a subway stop, taxis are readily available, shopping and museums near by. It is a busy hotel due to its location. Room size is small by American standards and looks exactly like represented on website. The rooms don't seem to have insulation for sound - I was awakened by the phone ringing in a nearby room. July 21, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by Joan49 Need to alert guests in advance if the President is coming to the hotel! I would like to have been alerted to the fact that President Obama was going to be attending an event at this hotel during my stay. This caused a huge inconvenience to the guests trying to enter and exit the hotel as the streets and entrances were blocked off with NYPD for several hours. Also the TV reception was terrible. December 5, 2011
Rated 5 out of 5 by Adk14 Love the location of this hotel. Located in the heart of Times Square this hotel is the perfect spot for staying in New York and seeing a Broadway show and enjoying Times Square. February 28, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Rxch just avg even for premium guests poor front desk experience March 14, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by marley Staff is great Week ends have waited up to 30 minutes to get to lobby, takes at least 2 calls before service elevator is used. Staff makes up for extras not at hotel. Different and more food being offered in lounge would be nice.Microwave in room would be nice. My stay will be months and its nice to have staff as nice as you have. Thanks May 25, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by KJTL lack of customer service Our room was not available when check-in, I ask if they can contact me on my cell phone upon room available. Front desk lady said, we are busy and can not provide this service but you may call us to check. We had to pay $3.25/item to store our luggages for 3 hrs. This is a 4 star hotel yet it's definitely LACKING services. April 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by samakam Midtown Delight. This is a very big and busy hotel. Great location, just above broadway and just below central park. Convenient to everything. Rooms are not the smallest I've seen in new york. Actually, very comfortable. Quick elevator service. Never a wait. Very clean hotel. Newly renovated? Very pleasant staff. Doggy friendly. Thank You. June 15, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ron3422 My stay at the Sheraton Towers in NYC The hotel and service was first class in every respect. The club room breakfast as well as the evening cocktail hour far exceeded anything I've has in other Sheraton Hotels over the past several years. I can't wait to come in March of 2013. Congratulations for providing a superior experience. Ron R from MN and Scottsdale March 27, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Redheadedgypsy1 SPG award stay Spoke with a Sheraton rep to book my NY Sheraton stay. She went out of her way to find me a club room. The room was lovely, very clean, nicely appointed. Free breakfast and nightly hors d'ouvres. My only reservation was that the room and bathroom were quite small for two women. Still, overall the experience was excellent. October 30, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by DFM05 NY trip with Spouse I frequent this hotel when I come to NY, this last time I brought my Wife and she truly loved the room, the cleaniness and the feindliness of the staff. I can't say enough good things, since from the receptionist to the bar waitress(both) and the check out receptionist were extremly wonderful. December 20, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Chris Great service Room was comfortable and the staff recognized my specific requests: high floor, away from the elevator. The room was recently renovated, clean and comfortable. The staff left a welcome letter, a complimentary bottle of Saratoga water and apples. For the first time in a long while I felt like I was a valued guest. Kudos! April 27, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Randee Anniversary The hotel staff was excellent. One bellman gave us a recommendation for a restaurant. It was excellent. We were celebrating our parents 60th Anniversary. Also, because of Sandy, hurricane we were given concessions for our last night stay. We really appreciated it and have recommended the Sheraton to all of our friends. November 7, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Samlk HOTEL WAS GREAT/DINING ROOM PRICES WERE NOT Hotel was very nice as expected, short walk to Central Park and Times Square. We knew that prices were high in New York, but $30.00 for a slightly above average Breakfast Buffet!!! Of course you don't have to eat there, but you would think that they could afford their guests the convenience at a more reasonable price. August 15, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Tika2001 Tiny Room Overall the hotel is excellent and the staff are terrific. However, my room, which was on the Club level, was very small. I could barely squeeze between the bed and the credenza. I stayed at the hotel last year (on the Club level) and I don't remember the room being that small. Also the bathroom did not have a bathtub. October 31, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Bodo Almost upscale hotel The hotel has an excellent downtown location. The rooms are large and comfortable. My one complaint is that the small additional charges for services like in room wi fi, fitness center and bag check seemed out of place in a hotel trying to compete for the upscale market. January 12, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by George49 Inability to handle large no. Upon arrival at hotel for 4 day conference, hotel was not able to handle multiple registrants waiting in long lines to have access to rooms. After a 4 day stay, hotel did not have information of multiple guests staying in one room and therefore billing was only able to be delivered to one person doing the reservation. October 19, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Atlanta1 A regular at this hotel! My 20- and 22-yr-old daughters and I have stayed at the Sheraton Towers every visit we have made to NYC over the past 12 years or so! This hotel is centrally located to Times Square to the south and Central Park to the north, with an E line subway stop steps away from the door. I HIGHLY recommend the Sheraton Towers. July 29, 2012


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With the latest news on the New Orleans Saints, quarterback Drew Brees has to be more than disappointed and perhaps wanting out of the Saints organization all together. It is rumored that his agent, Tom Condon is "baffled" by how slowly long-term contract negotiations have been going with the Saints. The Saints slapped Brees with the franchise tag which concerned many fans, NFL analysts, and teammates. The contract not being extended will grow into a bigger and bigger distraction as the weeks pass by, and Drew Brees cannot be happy. He has been the best quarterback the last couple years by the numbers, he is a leader to his teammates, and a hero to his community yet the Saints organization cannot open the vault to the focal point of their entire team. In the process, the New Orlean Saints has lost a number of key free agents that put their team in contention, and besides that the organization has been distroyed by the 'Bounty Gate' scandal. Now another 'Spy Gate' scandal, which is embarassing to a quarterback who plays his heart out for the game he loves, a game his team is being labeled as 'cheaters', 'dirty', and 'disrespectful'. So the question is could Drew Brees be lured away from the city that he loves and the fans that adore him more than their own families?
Could Scott Pioli use Clark Hunt's money to acquire Drew Brees? We've heard the rumors that Tom Condon doesn't like Pioli during the Manning Free Agency Frenzy, but is it even financially possible that the Chiefs could bring Drew Brees to the Kansas City Chiefs? Would Condon allow Manning and Brees to square off in the same conference?
As part of this 'wishful thinking' exercise and to pass the time between now and Thursday, what legitimate trade can you put together to acquire Drew Brees and what kind of contract could you offer? Keep in mind that Peyton Manning set the bar with a 5-year, $96-million dollar deal, Matt Cassel is due $5.25-million in 2012, the Chiefs are around $18-million under the 2012 cap, Dorsey & Albert are in their finalcontract year, & we can still trade draft picks this year. Have fun!!! And GO CHIEFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Sports Business Journal reports that the Devils are upgrading the Prudential Center with the aim of giving the Newark arena a more Net-centric feel for NBA games. Most notable is the development of a new premium club reserved for the Nets' 250 courtside-seat holders, being built in an arena storage space. There's a new court, new signage and a new NBA-regulation locker room. The improvements cost $500,000, part of which the Nets paid.
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The New York Liberty will join the Nets at the Prudential Center next year, giving the state's largest city two professional basketball teams.
Who will help the Nets open the Prudential Center...and will they be among the teams playing on Christmas or Martin Luther King's birthday? The NBA will reveal its opening week Christmas and MLK...
It's Gary Sussman's job to portray the Nets as going places, making changes, coming BAAAACK!!!!!!!, as he puts it. But as he writes about the reception Avery Johnson got at Yankee Stadium last week--the second time in two weeks he's been there--you get the sense that even he is surprised by the level of the buzz--and we don't mean the vuvuzelas (which no doubt will be available at "The Rock" next season along with official borscht and vodka). The Suss lays it all out, naming names, even dropping a few, to support his case that the buzz is the result of the vibe. We cannot disagree.
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New Jersey's governor, Newark's mayor discuss plans to aggressively pursue a new NBA team to replace the Nets once they leave for Brooklyn...express optimism that won't happen for a while.
The Nets aren't getting a WNBA team, but Newark might. The Times is reporting that the New York Liberty is considering a temporary move to Newark's Prudential Center next summer. Madison Square Garden, home of the Cablevision-owned Liberty, is being renovated and the Liberty will need to find new digs starting in 2011 and perhaps extending through 2014. The 18,000-seat Rock is a leading candidate.
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Hello all you losers out there! Yes. YOU! LOU-SIR! It's the holidays again and if you're a loser than I know you're saying things like "FUCK!", "UGH!" Put away your fucks and ughs. I know how you losers feel because I too was once in your pathetic Payless-bought shoes. You're spending the holidays alone… again. Looks like you'll be cooking for one. Or two, depending if you have a cat.
All that whimsical music. The gift giving. That god-awful joyous spirit. The holidays symbolize the end of the world and there's not enough NyQuil that will allow you loser to hibernate through it.
Lucky for you it's your lucky day!
My Loner's Guide to Kicking the Holidays in the Pants will help YOU LIVE! My guide encourages the loser. The more insufferable you are, the better this guide will work for you! It should be because this program retails at $39.99 but is absolutely FREE for you, loner.
Before beginning my three-step program, you will need about 5-10K saved up. Since you don't have any gifts to buy for anyone and you certainly have no social life, this isn't a problem and well worth the investment. Sell off items if you need to or steal from a dying relative. You will also need to "unplug" and avoid Facebook, Twitter and delete any problem contacts in your phone. Heck! Throw out your phone!
Now let's begin…
The hardest time during the holidays is that Monday-Friday work week. Christmas fucking spirit will be all around you. People partaking in Secret Santa shit, baking fucking goods that suck and donning terrible sweaters everyone thinks are fucking HI-LARIOUS! We're going to get you through that work week with hardcore fun that will kill any pain, sorrow and, most importantly, brain cells.
1. Your Merry Non-Suicidal Flavored Breakfast:
Never eat breakfast at home and always start with bacon. Your kitchen in the morning is a sad place. You wake up alone. You pour yourself shit cereal or your eggs just don't matchup to restaurant quality. Every morning in December, turn the most important meal of the deal from depressing to enjoyable by going out and ordering bacon.
2. Holiday Morning Buzz:
Irish coffee. Make sure to have two strong cups of the stuff to start your day. The morning will be a blur. Lunch will be right around the corner. And an afternoon power nap will soon follow. Bacon and Irish coffee will get your work day started off hot.
3. Health — B12 Shot:
I can't stress this enough. Three times a week, this shot will help your depleting booze filled immune system from shutting down.
4. Your New Holiday Home:
The happy hour bar. The bar is your new residence for a month. After 10 drinks you won't even remember how big of a loner you are. You will be among people and you will forget all about your cat.
5. Your Second Home — The Strip Club:
Holy shit! You have a second home during the holidays! Three lap dances minimum, head home, beat off and hit the sack.
Repeat every work day EXACTLY as stated.
1. Your Weekend Home:
Get out of your pathetic space. Each weekend for three days and two nights, you are going to book a hotel. Make sure the hotel location is drivable. The hotel must have a: Pool, bar, and room service. Please… no Motel 6 or Super 8. Those type of hotels have claimed many losers lives during the holidays. Rest in peace, Preston Seton.
2. Your Gift:
Buy a high class escort to come on the trip with you. Make sure you can pay with an AmEx. Usually that means the quality and customer care is of better service. She will feel like your companion, your mate… your girlfriend. Believe in the lie.
3. Holiday Activity:
After all those visits to strip clubs, you're going to be horny as fuck. Fuck everywhere and anywhere you can. We've teased you all week and you're ready to explode over and over.
4. Holiday Meals:
During the weekend, you are strictly on a steak only diet. Breakfast: steak and eggs. Lunch: Steak sandwich: Dinner: Ribeye. This will keep you feeling more of a man which you clearly are not.
5. Liquid Health:
Margaritas all day. Tequila and margarita mix says how little you care about the Christmas spirit. While people are drinking holiday rum nog, you're sipping on a margarita while banging a high class escort sporting a sombrero. At night, vodka. Stay away from whiskey. You don't want to turn into Ike Turner. Stay positive and keep having sex.
6. Santa Songs — Karaoke:
Nothing is more relaxing and stress free than booze filled songs. Sing whatever you want, sad songs whatever; this is your time to shine lonely loser. No one will judge you. Your "girlfriend" is being paid to pretend she loves you.
Your body will feel like death come Sunday. Why kill yourself nursing your wounds when we can get you rejuvenated and ready to go at it Monday. Recovery Sunday is actually a really enjoyable, woozy, floaty day.
Yes. This will cost you probably around $400 bucks, but trust me, this is your first step to feeling fucking fantastic. Upon waking, make a trip to the emergency room where they will fill your body with every vital fluids, electrolytes and the IV bag your broken body needs. I'm telling you, once you complete this step, Recovery Sunday gets a whole lot more relaxing.
All you will have on Recovery Sunday is smoothies. Five of them. Detox all that steak and booze with nothing but vital nutrition and vitamins that nature's candy provides.
Spa treatment with a happy ending is in order in this step. If followed Step 2 correctly, you will be worn out from a large quantity of vigurous sex. What you really need is to relax.
Valium. Any anxiety and withdrawal left over in the day will be gone with this simple little miracle pill.
Eight o'clock. Sharp. Hit the sack early so you can get up and go at it come Monday. The valium will help and will most likely induce unicorn dreams.
THERE YOU HAVE IT, LOSER! Follow these steps. Do it all over again. Change escort partners. I promise YOU that if YOU follow THIS guide, you won't even remember the sadness, or HECK even the entire month of December!
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Imagine that, in the spring, Long Island City is transformed by the artists who have for decades called the neighborhood home.
Running down Broadway, one of the Long Island City's main axes, is a green lawn from curb to curb. It stretches from the shore to the elevated subway station three-quarters of a mile away. A High Line at street level, the refashioned road is traversable by cars and trucks, thanks to special pavers installed by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Occasionally, the east-west thoroughfare is closed, for movie nights and flea markets, all the hallmarks of a burgeoning post-bohemian neighborhood.
A few brave souls, rather than ambling along the new grassy causeway, fly over it, suspended in one of Natalie Jeremijenko's hang-glider like Flightpaths, a project she successfully installed two years ago in Toronto. There are mechanized duck decoys floating in the channel between here and Roosevelt Island, monitoring the biodiverCITY. Visitors take in the East River from a new waterfront esplanade designed by George Trakas, stretching from the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, along the old industrial waterfront and past Socrates Sculpture Park.
From the esplanade, visitors observe the new quality-of-life indicators installed by Mary Miss on the Big Allis stacks. The red-and-white striped chimneys have dominated the Ravenswood skyline since 1965, when the power plant, then the world's largest, opened. (As a name for the neighborhood, Ravenswood dates back almost two centuries. Ms. Miss and her collaborators are trying to revive it, setting the northern half of the neighborhood off from its condo-covered south.)
Farther inland, construction scaffolds do double duty as hanging gardens; there are tractor-trailer artists studios and design labs, and lamp posts painted red-and-white, which broadcast a new vision for the neighborhood Ms. Miss also likes to call CaLL, short for City as Living Laboratory.
If that sounds like a wild, artistic utopia on the left bank of the East River, it is. But that is how two of its first pioneers, Isamu Noguchi (who died in 1988) and Mark di Suvero, viewed the neighborhood when they moved in 50 years ago. Only now is it being realized on a scale that goes beyond their respective studios, which stood across Vernon Boulevard for decades. A Costco, not quite part of this idyllic vision, lies in between.
For its first show of contemporary artists, Long Island City's Noguchi Museum has decided to turn to the canvas its late founder and his friend and neighbor had so long explored personally and artistically. Rather than simply install works in the landscape or create ones inspired by it, the museum charged Mr. Tiravanija, Ms. Jeremijenko, Mr. Trakas and Ms. Miss with rethinking Long Island City itself. The artists, working with teams of architects, planners, historians and writers, created new ways of interpreting and enlivening the urban fabric. The goal is to embrace the community that already calls it home as well as those who might soon come—a horrendous 19-story condo tower a block north of the Socrates is the sort of thing the two institutions are guarding against.
"Isamu and Mark really cared about this place, they sought it out as a space apart from the rest of the city," Noguchi director Jenny Dixon told The Observer in October, at the opening of Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City. "We've watched the neighborhood change over the years, and we believed that the right group of artists would be able to continue to help shape its future, as they have in the past."
Yet the visions housed in the second floor galleries at the Noguchi will probably never get much further than the white walls and tables on which they are arrayed from now until the middle of April. There will be a companion exhibition this summer at Socrates, where, after some workshopping, pieces in the Noguchi show might be realized at full-scale, such as a geodesic shelter designed by Mr. Tiravanija to house one of his signature Community Kitchens. Alongside it might be one of Ms. Miss's tractor-trailer incubators or a "Multi-Species Crossing" road sign by Ms. Jeremijenko. But the odds that Broadway will go green or take flight seem slim.
"It could happen," Ms. Dixon countered.
And in many ways, it already has—in Long Island City, throughout New York and around the world. This is not simply an expression of the neighborly spirit embodied by Noguchi and Mr. di Suvero. This is also part of a fledging cultural movement taking root in institutions big and small, a movement The Observer likes to think of as Museum Urbanism.
You get the sense that these people are actually rather conservative when it comes to growth – I mean, god forbid someone wants to build a 19-story condo tower in the most transit-oriented part of Queens! – and actually just want NYC to stay exactly as it is, but with grassy surfaces. In any case, good article – I especially liked the critical quotes towards the end (grass roads?? really??).
But, one correction: it's Brunelleschi, not Brunalesci.
We love the idea of "Museum Urbanism!" Seeing the streets of Long Island City decorated by local artists.
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Annual Trends Reports
14 Trends for 2014
As the short-order trend observer becomes ubiquitous, trend master chef Marian Salzman, an award-winning trendspotter of two decades and CEO of Havas PR, provides her unique insights with a penetrating focus in 14 forecasts for 2014. Pope Francis' master branding, boomers rethinking the meaning of life to an unparalleled degree, the age of millennials being truly upon us—it's all in Salzman's annual trends report. Her methodology, pattern recognition, has been responsible for the launch or popularization of trends ranging from singletons and metrosexuality to hyperlocalization.
Here are previews of four predictions from the book:
1. #Artisanaleverything There's infinite scope for crafted products—more than ever, people are valuing authenticity over mass-produced blandness.
2. #Innerspace #NewFrontier Scientists are exploring effects of the body's microbiome—and it's becoming a solid approach to tackling myriad health issues.
3. #MINT #TheNewBRIC Growth in the BRIC countries is stalling; look to a new power group—Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey—to freshen a stale global economy.
4. #mPOS #ItsWhatsGlobal It has been almost two decades since online banking and e-commerce ascended in popularity—now it's mobile payment systems' turn.
What's Next? What to Expect in 2013
An aggregation of public and private forecasts from world-renowned trendspotter Marian Salzman, CEO of Havas PR North America, and her team, What's Next contains more than 150 predictions in 30 categories for 2013. The methodology Salzman employs—pattern recognition—has launched or popularized trends ranging from singletons and metrosexuality to food fear and globesity.
Here are previews of three predictions from the book:
For Education: Watch for a rethink on ages and education: an end of higher education at 18—and the beginning of life apprenticeships that take people from 19 to 29 and prepare them for lifelong reinvention. People will delay entering the workforce by staying in school, taking nonpaying internships or seasonal work, and using life as a classroom.
For Home Life: The recent couch-surfing fad has given birth to a bona fide trend as a business model: airbnb. Although no hotel chains are probably feeling the pinch from the success of local hosting in every city and town planetwide, this exchange program for adults is sizzling, and it marries two mini trends: Earn cash at home and collect experiences.
For Tomorrow's Money: Gift cards and PreCash cards seem to be overtaking stores as we become more comfortable giving people prepaid shopping as a thank you or to celebrate a milestone.
Click here to download a copy of the e-book What's Next? What to Expect in 2013.
The Big Little Book of Nexts: Trendspotting for 2012
What will make the world tick in 2012? And might that ticking sound more like a patient, plodding grandfather clock or a time bomb? According to Marian Salzman, it depends on whom you ask. Salzman, CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America, and one of the top five trendspotters in the world, digs deep to look for social patterns, then applies everything to where the future is headed, in cultural, political, technological and economic matters. For 2012, Salzman has created her biggest annual trends report ever, with more than 150 trends sighted in 32 categories, from Asia and Modern Life to Color and Grooming. Here is just a peek at what's in this year's report, which you can download with the button below:
The U.S. State of Mind. Politics will reach a boiling point with more protests, most likely organized and cross-promoted on social media.
Re-feathering the Empty Nest. Recent college grads, the biggest casualty of the dire job market, look for Mom and Dad to come to the rescue. Likewise, seniors will choose to move in with their grown children.
Double-Dip Frugality. Look for 2012 to be the year of essentials only. Pop-up stores will continue to soothe by offering one-off items without the sticker shock, and brands will look to co-produce products and lines.
Be Private, Be Present. Experiencing full-blown information overload, many will rediscover their need for privacy. We will still expect our leaders and businesses to be transparent, but in our personal lives look for a retreat en masse from TMI.
11 Trends for 2011
"More people are leaning toward political extremes than ever, and anger will continue to grow based on that sphere and others," said Marian Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America, when she released her annual list of trends. "But we've also seen many people react to this anger, segregation, and perceived or real loss of control by doing a 180 and becoming even more interested in relationships than possessions and learning how to be more self-sufficient." Below are four of the trends on her list, tweet-style because of the importance social media plays in many. Click here or on the button below to read her in-depth forecast of all 11 main trends and two dozen "Future Bytes."
Public Mycasting System. Broadcast news: dead. Mycasting emerges. People curate interactive content, expressing their worldview in images, shared links, tweets.
Yes, We Can…Reinvent Ourselves. "Change": Slogan no more, it's becoming a way of life 4 many. Volunteering or forced into it, boomers+ are tapping the U.S. can-do spirit.
Separated at Worth. Pay & compensation are now confused & big $$ smells rotten. Emo (emotional) bling—friends going the extra 10 miles—will replace cash wealth.
Gender Bender. Masters of all they survey no more, men will have 2 adjust 2 treatment women have long endured: shown as sex objects or selfless homemakers.
11 Trends for 2011
16 Social Media Trends for 2011
Teen Trends for 2011
Trends for 2010
Lines That Zig but Don't Zag. Hyperpolarization and the independents who will bridge the divide between political adversaries.
Beware the Mobmedia. The emergence of mob mentality and virtual bullying over pressing political and pop culture issues in the social media sphere.
A Children's Place. Children being exploited as prime-time props and brand trailblazers.
No Piggy in the Bank. The employment of creative fundraising tactics for nonprofits and startups as a result of the current economic climate.


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The Conjuring Is The Scariest Film Of The Year
I think it is safe to say that The Conjuring is quite possibly the scariest film that I have seen this year, and a definite improvement over James Wan's admirable, but overall disappointing, Insidious.
The film concerns the Perron Family – Carolyn and Roger, as well as their five daughters, Cynthia, Christine, Nancy, Andrea, and April – who have just moved into a farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island. Upon their arrival, they are somewhat pleased. The house is already furnished and has a vintage aesthetic, but from what we can see, it could definitely use some remodeling. The air conditioner is on the fritz and some of the plumbing is out of whack, but all things considered, it could be worse. And, as it turns out, it definitely is.
As the Perron family will quickly learn, they are not entirely alone in the house. Several strange and unsettling occurrences take place. Carolyn wakes up with dark bruises on her arms, chest, and neck. The girls begin to see apparitions lurking around their room. There are a few instances where an unseen entity grabs one of the girls by her ankle, and attempts to pull her off of the bed. Things get downright disturbing when Roger discovers a boarded up stairwell that leads to a basement full of old antiques, including an old piano. When Carolyn suspects that one of her girls is hiding in the cellar, something pushes her down the stairs and attempts to lock her inside. After one of the girls is attacked – in one of many horrifying scenes – Carolyn seeks the help of Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and devout Christians who have dedicated their lives to ridding houses of demonic spirits.
Once Ed and Lorraine arrive, they immediately sense that the family is in great danger, and that this is no ordinary spirit. They set out to uncover the history behind the farmhouse, and once they do, they prepare to force the evil out of the house by way of an exorcism.
To say anything more would spoil the film. It is best to enter this film with very little knowledge of the story. I'm not even going to delve into the ultra-creepy, nightmare inducing sub-plot involving a doll named Annabelle. With that being said, know this: if you are looking for a good fright, The Conjuring is the film for you. A sense of evil permeates every frame of this film. James Wan barely gives us a moment to breathe. Once the film gets going, it is relentless. There are no cheap scares. The characters are all believable and they all make smart decisions that are rooted in reality. If you believe in the existence of God and the Devil, demons and ghosts, this may turn out to be one of the most terrifying experiences that you will ever have in a theatre. Of course, you will need to suspend your disbelief from time to time, but not so much that it takes you out of the film. These characters feel all too real and so do the situations. The film is drenched in mood and atmosphere, and this is essential for any "haunted house" feature. You can really immerse yourself in the world that has been created here. And for those of you that remember Joseph Bishara's screeching strings in his score for Insidious, take note – the music that he provides here is just as blood-curdling and unforgettable.
The performances are all impressive. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga turn in two of their best performances as Ed and Lorraine Warren. This is a couple that the audience will immediately connect with. Farmiga is magnetic throughout. She loses herself in this character. Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston are equally memorable as the Parrons. Lili Taylor has a physically and emotionally demanding role, and she delivers.
James Wan was originally going for a PG-13 for The Conjuring, but the MPAA issued the R, insisting that the film was "too scary". And they were right. It's rated R for a reason. Not for excessive violence or torture-porn style gore, but because it succeeds in what it sets out to do – it scares the hell out of you.
Warner Brothers superb Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy release of The Conjuring should not disappoint fans. The special features are definitely worth the purchase, and include a sixteen minute retrospective on the lives of demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren; interviews with the Perron Family, and an eight minute piece, entitled "Scaring the @$*% Out Of You", in which James Wan describes his handle of mood and atmosphere, and the way he uses these two things to, well, scare the shit out of you. The transfer of The Conjuring looks amazing, almost as good as it did in theatres. The DTS-HD sound mix gives the film just the right punch it needs to send shivers down your spine. Watch this one with the lights down and the volume up for full effect!
The Conjuring is a must-own for fans of the genre!


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[First published in November 2009] I've received lovely notes from many of you inquiring after my absence here. First, let me thank you all for caring enough to ask. Second, let me explain why I'm reposting this. My husband and I have visited his Aunt Patti in the Houston Heights area the last couple years [Read On]
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[Bumped, and make sure to read through to Akron's fictional name.--AJ]
I downloaded a demo of a game from 2005 called "Bowl Bound College Football." I'm not promoting it, not getting money from it, in fact I haven't even played it. Why I'm posting is because of the rare opportunity to see farcical leagues and team names. Before EA Sports was wise enough to come to exclusive agreements with the NCAA and all of the professional sports leagues, video game companies had to invent team names that didn't violate licensing--which led to some ridiculous names for players and teams. With the licensing, gamers didn't have to spent hours setting up all of the names and teams to match reality. This is largely why there are almost no other companies that make sports games.
Not the folks behind Bowl Bound College Football -- they cast caution to the wind and put out this football manager-style game sans licensing agreement. The results remind me of the days playing basketball on the 8-bit Nintendo as the Los Angeles "Waves" against a friend who always picked the Boston "Greens."
Without further ado ladies and gentlemen, I present you the license infringement-bending MIDWEST TEN!
A true blend of wonderfulness from top to bottom. Beware the Indiana Heroes! Fear the Ohio State Dollah Dollah Bills (or perhaps they are forecasting Tressell's Buffalo Bills-like run in the BCS Championship Game?). Your underclassmen are no match for the Penn State Cougars! etc., etc.
The capstone, however, is easily "NW Illinois". Because just Northwestern wouldn't be descriptive enough. Add in "Wild Dogs" as a mascot (a nickname shared with NC State) and it sounds like the lame culmination of a mid-'90s sports marketing effort. Kudos to the folks at this company turning just another direction into a CFL expansion team: THE NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS WILD DOGS!
Other great names from around the "NCL"
- Syracuse Heat (umm... because the sun is orange, y'know)
- East Carolina Swashbucklers
- Akron Zaps
Source: image.guardian.co.uk
- Utah Runnin' Elk (doesn't even seem like they're trying at this point)
- and the Arizona State Flaming Beasts.


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You get extra points if you immediately know what this image is and what it means. Until a few weeks ago, I would have had no idea — A new kind of container for growing tomatoes? A techno-modern jewelry holder? An industrial-minimalist magazine organizer? Good guesses. But all wrong. The orange part depicts a basket (or "disc entrapment device") used in playing disc golf and, since this course was in the sandy wilds of north Florida, the arrows are directing you to the next hole so that you don't get lost and subsequently carried away/eaten by hordes of mosquitoes. Do you know anything about disc golf? I was completely clueless until I hung out with my 13-year-old nephew and his mom (my sister-in-law) and dad (my brother) during our recent family beach trip. Banish all thoughts of lazily playing Frisbee with your dog — which, by the way, is never as successful as it looks on TV — because the only thing that carefree activity has in common with competitive disc golf is you throwing something. A disc-golf family like my nephew's travels to courses and competitions the way other families take to the road for high-level baseball or softball games. When playing a course, competitors lug around backpacks filled with a couple of dozen discs and say things such as "This mid-range one is good for a hyzer flip, or should I use an overstable disc for a low-speed right backhand fade?" Since trees are the main challenge, my nephew suggested I make my first disc-golf attempt when we reached the one hole that was in the open — although you had to throw across a 700-foot-long ravine. Luckily, my brother volunteered to climb down and retrieve my discs that barely made it … well … I'd generously say 25 feet. This is serious stuff and much, much harder than it looks. I will never smile again when the subject of disc-golf at the summer Olympics comes up.
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Recently my whole family — all 15 of us — got together for a beach week on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Pensacola Beach is one of my favorite places: The sand is beautiful and it's the perfect vacation mix of fun-things-to-do versus nothing-to-d0-but-sit-on-the-sand-in-peace-and-quiet. My daughters and I spent many summer weeks here when they were younger, and in recent years we've
dragged coerced brought Husband JP and Older Daughter's Husband along, too. We loved introducing "our" spot to other folks in our family — Pensacola's blend of history, architecture, shopping, food, music and sports (baseball, surfing, paddleboarding, disc golf) as well as all things Blue Angels meant everybody in our group found something intriguing to explore. Of course, our three younger members — age 4, 2 and 8 months — were content to stay at Family HQ and chase crabs, dig sand and throw shells back in the surf (okay, our 8-month-old grandson wasn't too impressed with the surf and really only wanted to eat the sand, but still). We did all the Pensacola things — ate at Peg Leg Pete's Oyster Bar (where our 4-year-old grandson was slightly disappointed to find out that the pirates there were good pirates), McGuire's Irish Pub (home of the best fried potatoes anywhere. Anywhere.) and Native Cafe (which we feel paternal towards since we ate there when it first opened and have stuck with it through slow service, lackadaisical service and no service because the food is that good); visited the Naval Air Museum; watched the Blue Angels perform practically in our backyard; shopped at Joe Patti's Seafood; wandered through Fort Pickens and browsed up and down the happening Palafox Street and Palafox Market. But, of course, as with any family vacation, the highlights involved people more than places: Taking my mom to the World War II exhibit at the Naval Air Museum to see the full-sized recreated Pacific-theater camp similar to one her Seabee father lived in during the war; making sand cities with our 4-year-old grandson; teaching our 2-year-old nephew how to "dibble, dibble, shot," although since his parents are skilled and accomplished soccer players, he's much better than me; playing disc golf with-our nephew watching my 13-year-old nephew and his dad zip through a disc-golf course; learning how to-stand-up paddle board watching our two daughters conquer the surf on stand-up paddle boards; getting drenched in the rain at the outdoors Palafox Market with Younger Daughter yet still eating soggy almond croissants baked by an actual French person; and riding around in a golf cart with my husband and the king of Santa Rosa Island — Santa Rosa Island Authority executive director Buck Lee. Good times, good times.
"That's the Biggest Cat I've Ever Seen!" — So Long, Shadrach
Yikes! I haven't blogged for so long that WordPress was, like, "I'm sorry. Who are you again? Please identify." You know, in the same way that your iPhone's Siri (not to be confused with the unfortunate Suri, bless her heart, whom we all know will rebel against her mother at age 14 and run away to become queen of the Scientologists) gets annoyed when you ask her stupid questions. But I have good excuses: We were vacationing in sunny Florida and then came home to a sick cat. Sadly, Shadrach — our lone male out of the four — turned out to have unfixable kidney disease and so we wished him "safe journeys" and sent him on. He was big and fat and the feline equivalent of a grumpy old man, but he'd stuck with us for almost 16 years and we miss him. My tough sports-editor husband, who yells at AP and makes photographers tremble, practically is inconsolable — he's like that about pets. For me, Shadrach and his two sisters (we got the fourth one a couple of years after the first three) are a link to when my two 20-something daughters were younger and living at home and we had kids running in and out of the house all the time and all sorts of meetings and rehearsals and practices on our family calendar and I loved every minute of it. We got the cats sort of as a divorce present shortly after we became a single-parent family. I swear that one day in the privacy of our own kitchen, we said, "Oh, it'd be great to have a cat!" and within minutes we were deluged with offers. One of Older Daughter's friends let us pick from a barn cat's litter, and of course my firm commitment to ONE CAT ONLY turned into ONE CAT ONLY FOR EACH OF US and there we were. The girls rescued No. 4 from a pizza box at a local swimming pool but our hopes for one big happy cat family never materialized as the three incumbents immediately forged an alliance that's still impenetrable, even after all these years. With Shadrach gone, we're not sure how the new dynamic of two sisters versus one step-sister will play out. It's clear that he enforced some sort of order — possibly by simple virtue of being twice as big as the girls — so who knows what will happen now. I'd schedule them all for a cat-therapy session but they hate car rides and strangers, so that's not going to work. I'll keep you posted. Tomorrow we'll talk about all the cool places to go and things to do in Pensacola Beach, Fla., but right now I think I'm going to find those boxes of old photos and look for the ones of three little scrawny kittens, especially the orange tabby with the big green eyes.
Newspapers 'R' Us
Husband JP and I are newspaper geeks. We met at a newspaper — Sidelines, the student newspaper at Middle Tennessee State University, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. We work for newspapers — he's actually fortunate enough to get a regular paycheck from one. We talk and post and discuss and argue about newspapers (and also whose turn it is to clean out the cat boxes and which one of us forgot to buy beer). And we buy newspapers — you know, the old-fashioned kind made of paper — everywhere we go. When we travel, our hotel room is littered with newspapers. We take stacks into restaurants (although not the really good ones). We pile them in the back seat of the car and haul them home for additional perusal. In doing all this, we stumble across some fascinating things. Such as the fact that the May 27 edition of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press — the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend — weighed in at an incredible 2 pounds and, when folded, was 1 1/2 inches deep. This is, we calculated, about four times bigger than your average regular daily paper and seemed mainly due to an inordinately large amount of advertising inserts. Most papers, it seemed to us, had a lighter number of inserts for Memorial Day Sunday. Anyway, this is the sort of stuff that fascinates us. Just wait until you hear our discussion on Times Roman versus Times New Roman.
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If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Mardi Gras
Have fun letting your good times roll today — whether you're eating King Cake (watch out for that baby) or pancakes or paczki or your completely-bad-for-you pastry of choice. Of course, nothing goes better with eating rich fried sugary food than our other favorite activity: shopping. Younger Daughter and I spotted this could-be Mardi Gras wreath in Nellie Mae, an adorable boutique in downtown Tuscumbia, Ala., that's owned by classmates of Older Daughter. And that sort of threw me. I mean, I'm used to my children's friends being old enough to check my teeth and fill my prescriptions and give me speeding tickets, but buying clothes and jewelry from people I used to chaperon on field trips takes some getting used to. (Stay tuned for more Nellie Mae photos and other downtown-Tuscumbia finds — so cute!)
Because It Was There
Occupy Chattanooga — and Julie Darling Donuts
Normally I don't get in on nationally historical & happening-right-now political events — I'm generally more of the heard-it-on-NPR type — but earlier this week I got a close-up look at the headline-making Occupy (Fill-in-the-Blank) movement while I was in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Occupy Chattanooga folks have set up their tents on the lawn of the Hamilton County courthouse, and Younger Daughter and I, being the
nosy & curious journalistically inquiring people that we are, headed over to get the full story. And the full story, as far as I can tell, is that we should eat locally and not step on the pansies bravely trying to brighten the sparse wintry landscaping. I didn't pick up much political angst — it seemed more like a friendly campout where you borrow your neighbors' chocolate bars to make s'mores — but I wasn't surprised at that. See, the thing about Chattanooga is that it's a pretty cool & laidback town where Patagonia, stand-up paddleboarding and organic coffee shops trump pearls, pantyhose and pumps. So it's entirely fitting that Chattanooga's version of Occupy (Fill-in-the-Blank) is low-key. But, of course, it was difficult to get the full story since it was a weekday and the site was fairly empty because the protesters were at 1) work, 2) school or 3) back home taking showers, leaving Occupy Chattanooga in the hands of an address-less man who tends the fire and watches over the tents while everybody's gone. He happily filled Younger Daughter and I in on why the government was out to get us, augmented by comments from another talkative man on a bicycle who offered opinions as he cycled around the tents and whom we later saw riding around town, still commenting loudly to everybody and nobody. But I liked the whole Occupy Chattanooga vibe. I mean, when Imyself Occupy Chattanooga, I tend more toward Julie Darling Donuts and Good Dog beer & fries, but I'm glad there are other folks out there who are making me think about other things and reminding me that not everyone is so lucky — and not to step on the flowers.
I Already Miss 'Community'
When you look at this snowperson ornament — which, by the way, did not make the Christmas-tree cut this year — do you see a) a well-loved symbol of sweet childhood memories or b) a maniacal crazy-eyed snowcreature that makes you very very nervous? I guess it depends on whether you believe you're looking at a) mittens and a broom or b) hooves and an ax. There's no denying the crazy eyes, though. And, truthfully, I'm sure "Frosty the Zombie Snowman" will be the Next Big Thing. (Note to self: Ask always-zombie-alert husband if zombie snowpeople would actually carry axes. Or wear holly in their hats.) Before you scoff, know that I am extremely sensitive to the possibilities of Evil Toylike Objects because of the Tree Toys. Would you like to hear the story? Pour some eggnog, settle down by the fire and I'll tell you. See, when we lived in Alabama and my two now-mid-20s daughters were young, an elderly woman who lived down the street from us would celebrate the holidays by hanging stuffed animals and dolls from a tree in her front yard. With fishing line. Around their necks. People from surrounding states would drive over just to see this because nothing, obviously, says Christmas like a tree in a front yard with dozens of eerily silent teddy bears and Cabbage Patch Kids swaying in the breeze. The woman scoured yard sales and flea markets all year for her Tree Toy collection because, it was said, she wanted to do something "for the children." However, my children — and every other child around as well as most adults — were traumatized every year and refused to drive, walk, run, bike, skate or otherwise go anywhere near that house during the holidays. Younger Daughter later admitted she'd had nightmares about the Tree Toys coming to life and it was a long and dark time before she could pick up a teddy bear without shuddering. The Toy Tree appeared for several consecutive years … until one year, the tree was empty. Rumor had it that the woman had given in to public pressure and decided to give up her decorating scheme. But it seemed as if her spirit was broken, because no sign of the holidays ever showed up in her yard again. No wreaths. No inflatable snow globes. No Santa Claus standing at the manager along with the shepherds and the Three Wise Men. The crowds abandoned our neighborhood and started driving over to the five-acre light extravaganza in the next county. Our street was (relatively) safe again, and all we have left are memories of the Tree Toys … and maybe, with Crazy-Eyed Snowperson here, the start of a new tradition.
The New Baby is Here, the New Baby is Here!
I am a bad, bad blogger. I should have my three-year-old WordPress account ripped away and be forced to start all over for not posting in more than a week. That contravenes every piece of blogging advice ever written. But thanks to all who
nagged bugged poked reminded me that even though I was BUSY HELPING WITH MY NEW BABY GRANDSON, I could take the time to post photos and share thoughts. You were correct. I didn't do it, but you were correct. Anyway, I'm back in the decidedly adult home that my husband and I fill with the stuff of our grownup life: Newspapers, page proofs, espresso machines and stacks of to-be-read books along with deadlines, meetings and I-can't-read-that-right-now-'cause-I'm-late-but-email-it-and-I'll-take-a-look. That is pretty much my normal everyday life, but for a week I reveled in the precious & priceless world of newborn babies. Of course, you know that by "helping with my new baby grandson," I actually mean "endless hours of playing with 3 1/2-year-old incumbent grandson Capt. Adorable" — which, it's true, the new second-time parents (our daughter & son-in-law) considered a huge help. But I did get to sneak in a few rocking-chair moments with Baby Brother. I'm telling you, it was a grandmother's dream: When I wasn't playing Cars 2 Tokyo Spin-out Racetrack or building a Thomas train track or jumping on the bouncy thing at the indoor playground, I was holding that sweet days-old baby and breathing in that indefinable newborn smell. And you would be so proud of me. I pretty much almost always usually followed Mommy and Daddy's household rules, didn't say anything when they did something wrong chose alternate paths and offered advice only when asked — which, come to think of it, was never. But I was there to help my daughter over the weepy postpartum hump (she cried when she got home and unpacked her hospital bag — we've all been there) and when I left, she told my sincerely that she appreciated my being there more than I knew, so I must have done something right. Actually, I'm mindful of being on good behavior when I'm in grandma-mode since my husband has threatened to curtail my visiting rights if he gets any complaints from our daughter, so I rigorously keep to nap-time schedules and limit chocolate-chip cookies to only a couple (or three or four) at a time. And soak up all the grandbaby love I can get.


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Downtown South Bend is putting a new plaza on Jefferson street, across from the Key Bank. It will be called the Studebaker Plaza, because it's on the site where the old Studebaker blacksmith shop used to be.
The city hopes to include some traditional Studebaker designs to honor the company's history. The future plaza will be a new gathering area for many of downtown's favorite events like Art Beat and lunchtime concerts.
The area will be connected to a patio for a new bar called "The Exchange".
Jitin Kain, the Director of City Planning, is trying to accommodate the growing market.
"As we see more and more people wanting to live downtown, people working downtown, we need to create amenities for them," said Kain.
Studebaker Plaza should be finished by early November. There are plans to eventually paint a mural at the plaza as well.
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Nerd Herd 2014 in Camp Grek by Eve and Mona - about 1 month ago
"We ordered the shirts for all our friends in the "Nerd Herd" for our 8th grade graduation. We took this photo when we all met up to distribute the shirts and have fun. We called this "campsite" "Camp Grek", after an inside joke of ours. Custom Ink has been a great service in getting us these t-shirts. They are of high quality and has affordable prices."


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Anthony Davis - #76 - T
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|Piscataway, NJ
|Years played
|2010, 1st round, 11th pick by 49ers
Draft Dose: NFL coaching changes
Where will newly installed head coaches around the league go with their first pick with their new franchise?
Draft Dose: Who needs a quarterback?
Which teams in this year's draft could be in the market for a quarterback like Missouri's Blaine Gabbert or Auburn's Cam Newton?
49ers face critical quarterback decisions
49ers GM Trent Baalke said Thursday that this is a deep quarterback draft class and that the NFC West team that can solidify its quarterback situation will have a clear advantage next season.
49ers could be looking to diversify ground game
Don't be surprised if the 49ers utilize more of a multiback attack moving forward, even though new head coach Jim Harbaugh has acknowledged the likelihood that longtime featured back Frank Gore probably isn't too crazy about the idea.
49ers add assistant coach
The 49ers named Greg Jackson the team's assistant secondary coach on Thursday.
NFC West 2010 season-in-review team reports
Mike Williams emerged as one of the better stories of 2010, returning after two years out of the league to become the Seahawks' top receiver.
Top 10 stories of 2010 season
As players, owners and fans enter an offseason filled with uncertainty, Pro Football Weekly takes a look back at the 10 stories that shaped the 2010 season, both on the field and off.
49ers promote Gamble
The 49ers promoted Tom Gamble to director of player personnel on Friday.
49ers add two to staff
The 49ers have added Reggie Davis and Peter Hansen to their coaching staff.
Lord of the rings
Although Neal Dahlen is the only man with seven Super Bowl rings, his legacy has been forgotten. And it perhaps never was fully appreciated in the first place.
NFC West tired of being 'NFC Worst'
The NFC West has been acting with a sense of urgency to shed its image as the league's wasteland, making a number of impressive coaching hires.
49ers retain four coaches, hire Seely
The 49ers announced Friday that head coach Jim Harbaugh will retain four assistants from 2010 for his coaching staff.
49ers hire new receivers coach
Jim Harbaugh is close to filling in his entire staff with the 49ers, as the team hired John Morton Thursday as its wide receivers coach.
49ers add to coaching staff
The 49ers have added former Panthers TE coach Geep Chryst, former South Florida head coach Jim Leavitt and former Broncos assistant Ed Donatell to their coaching staff.
Singletary joins Vikings' staff
Former 49ers head coach Mike Singletary will join Leslie Frazier's staff in Minnesota as the Vikings' linebackers coach/assistant head coach.
A person with knowledge of the contract says Davis and the San Francisco 49ers have agreed on a five-year extension through the 2019 season worth more than $37 million.||||||| The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Friday because the team had yet to announce the deal. The contract totals $37.295 million, with $17 million guaranteed. The 23-year-old tackle has started 16 games in each of his first three years. He helped the 49ers win consecutive NFC West titles and reach the Super Bowl last season - a 34-31 loss to Baltimore.


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February 26, 2009
House Members Call for Anti-abortion Steps in Spending Bill
More than 180 House members sent a letter to House Democratic leaders on Wednesday , calling for upcoming spending bills to maintain longstanding anti-abortion provisions.
"These measures ... reflect the moral concerns of many Americans who do not wish to see their tax dollars used for any organization that provides abortion services," said the letter.
The letter asks House Democratic leaders to maintain provisions such as the Hyde Amendment, in effect since 1976, which prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions except in limited cases.
Often called "pro-life riders," these provisions are usually included in spending bills by congressional committees.
"We believe a failure to include all of the current policies with regard to the right to life will mark a radical departure from a policy a majority of Americans support," the letter said.
Most of the letter's signees are Republicans, including House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio and Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va.
There is nothing to debate here. The majority of Americans oppose this and our government should reflect us. The people they serve.
George, you forgot to finish your sentance -"...our government should reflect us ALL. The people they serve." In any event no one, not even the majority, should be allowed to exert control over women's bodies and certainly not the oppressive views and behaviour of christians. "There should be no debate," sounnds like the sentiment of a very oppressive person - a christian maybe?


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Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, established in 1967, is a provincial leader in polytechnic education, providing career-focused education and training that prepares students for success in the new knowledge economy and supports growing industry needs for a highly skilled labour force.
The institution's comprehensive range of programs – from apprenticeships through degrees – reflects the area's diverse and changing job market and local workplace skill requirements.
A mid-size college that serves one of Canada's fastest growing regions, Conestoga provides local and regional access to full-time, continuing education and apprenticeship students through campuses and training centres in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Stratford, Ingersoll and Brantford. The college is increasingly becoming a destination of choice for international students.
The region we serve is one of Ontario's economic engines, with a population predicted to grow to 1.1 million by 2031, much of the growth fuelled by immigration. The area's comprehensive economy features a range of industries with a variety of needs, from insurance and high tech to agriculture and advanced manufacturing.
Conestoga's student-focused, project-based learning model helps ensure that all students can reach their full potential. It provides learners with the skills and knowledge required for success in a variety of key industry sectors. A new Centre for Entrepreneurship supported by industry partners infuses an entrepreneurial focus across all programs and prepares graduates for the realities of the 21st century workplace.
Conestoga's enrolment in apprenticeship training and co-op programs is among the top three in the province, and among the top four in degree programming – the largest outside of the GTA. Employer satisfaction levels with the skills our graduates bring to the workplace are consistently among the very best in Ontario. Our graduates have higher employment and lower loan default rates than those from most other provincial colleges.
In his 2011 report, Adapting for Prosperity, economist Larry Smith describes Conestoga as "indispensable to local prosperity and the health and competitiveness of the labour force." Close to half of the adults in the local community have turned to Conestoga's training programs to build their careers and our graduates have established more than 3,300 businesses.
Conestoga is a member of Polytechnics Canada, committed to providing career-focused education that responds to learner, industry and community needs. Like our polytechnic partners, we provide a broad range of education opportunities, including four-year bachelor's degrees, post-graduate certificates, two- and three-year diplomas and apprenticeship training as well as continuing education and corporate training.
To learn more about the Polytechnic Advantage, visit Polytechnics Canada
Quick Facts:
- Full-time Students: 11,000
- Apprenticeship Seats: 3,300
- Part-time Enrolments: 30,000 +
- Alumni: 93,000
- Close to half of the adults in Waterloo Region population (47%) have participated in Conestoga training and education.
- Almost 90% of 2012 graduates were employed within six months of graduation.
- Conestoga graduates contribute more than $1 billion to the local economy each year.
- 53% of all health-care professionals (excluding physicians) in Waterloo Region received their training at Conestoga.
- Conestoga offers more than 120 full-time diploma programs, 26 apprenticeship programs, 9 four-year bachelor degree programs as well as 2 collaborative degrees, 23 graduate certificate programs and more than 130 part-time programs.
- Conestoga has campuses and training centres in Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Stratford, Cambridge, Brantford and Ingersoll.
- The Student Loan default rate of Conestoga's students is consistently among the the lowest in the province: we attribute this, at least partially, to the fact that so many of our students get excellent jobs after graduation.
- Dr. John Tibbits, who joined Conestoga in 1987, is the longest-serving president in the Ontario college system.


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We're kind of on the fence when it comes to strong women. On the one hand, strong women are intimidating; they have things like "muscles" and "willpower" and "opinions". But it is these very same qualities that are also undeniably attractive. It's troubling, for sure. We'll continue to think on this topic right after we get done looking at some online pornography.
Sasha rips a guy's heart out, and it only makes us want her more. Just like real life.
Does the formic acid mean that a blowie is out of the question?
It's always a turn-on to see a repressed housewife cut loose.
Lavona Succubosa
Don't you hate it when hot chicks in leather want to extract your loins? Yeah, us neither.
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Molotov pretty much satisfies every requirement for an ass-kicking babe. Well, except one.


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you crawled into your shell
with their demons
destiny wanted it
words ache at my tongue
when my day is done
in a different way
something I can't understand
from a distance
boy in a box
sent from my iPhone
of my ludicrous imagination
love's forgiveness eases
things I can never
it hte R Lv ?
spills out in radiant reds
but hiding from you
never really there, but then
I like you, most days
the bee's knees
emotion of euthanizing
new power into my veins
my worst nightmare
silently continue
your sadness
sung the song of mystery
what I love about you
the outside world was
if I let you in again
because on the inside
how to reach you
wrapped our arms and legs
pulling me up to you
real sweet shit
in equal parts
poetic words have failed
a fountain singing to
a succession of images
I don't need words
you had your reasons
inside of the truck
the angelic creature
I hardly get to see
even after so much trying
despite not actually knowing
never happiness
what lies ahead
your burned friend
talking and texting
unspoken between us
and nights like tonight
you love machinery
helped me out
to bless me with
Dear _____,
I know that you never would...
And I can understand why...
But I thought you should know that you make me happy.
And you make me want to get out their and live my life instead of just sitting here to rot.
And you make me feel like I can do anything.
Because when you're around me it doesn't even matter that I could never be with you.
Because I feel invincible.
And when you talk to me, it feels like you're breathing new power into my veins and I feel like I can move mountains.
And in that second....
That eternity....
When you look into my eyes...
In that way you don't even know you do...
It doesn't matter that we can't be together...
Because we're together right then and there.
And I know it's just a moment for you...
But _____ it's a lifetime for me.
I love you like I have never loved anyone before
And I love you more than anyone else ever will
I love you
I love you _____
And you will never know
From _____
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For those who love "Ice Age," Fox is also placing a new adventure of their animated Scrat character in front of "Robots."
"Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" will hit theaters on May 19, 2005. "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" will be released in March 2006.
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Mike really is too funny. He seems to be having a lot of fun taking the piss out of himself.
Check out this clip with Leonard Maltin:
It looks like he co-wrote it as well.
"The Funky Bunch were carrying him all along."
"Do you think would you be my friendster?"


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My daughter and I happened to be in NYC the weekend of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. In Battery Park, not far from Ground Zero, hundreds of flags emblazoned with the names of the 9/11 victims have been planted around a damaged sculpture that once resided between the twin towers. This is a moment of reflection during that visit.
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Enrollment Periods for Medicare Insurance Plans
Medicare has four parts (Part A, Part B, Part C / Medicare Advantage, and Part D).
Medicare Parts A & B
U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents (residing in the U.S. for five continuous years) who are within three months of their 65th birthday may enroll in Medicare Part A. If you already receive Social Security benefits or the Railroad Retirement benefits, you will be automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A the first day of the month in which you turn 65 years old. Your Medicare card will be mailed to you about three months before your 65th birthday. You are also eligible to enroll for Medicare Part B the month in which you turn 65.
If you are receiving neither Social Security nor Railroad Retirement pension or disability benefits, you are eligible to enroll in Medicare Part A and Part B up to three months before the month of your 65th birthday. This Initial Enrollment Period (IEP) continues through the three months after the month of your birthday. To enroll during this period, you must submit your Medicare application to the Social Security Administration.
Individuals under the age of 65 are eligible to enroll in Medicare Parts A and B if they meet one of the following conditions:
- You have a qualifying disability such as blindness or a qualifying medical condition
- You received disability payments from Social Security or the Railroad Retirement Board for the past 24 months
- You are a disabled widow or widower between age 50 and age 65 but have not applied for disability benefits because you're already getting another kind of Social Security benefit
- You have permanent kidney failure and you receive dialysis and/or have received a kidney transplant and you (or your spouse or parent if you are a dependent) meet certain work conditions
Medicare Advantage Health & Drug Plans
Individuals who have Medicare Part A and Part B may enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan during the 2013 Annual Election Period (AEP), which lasts from October 15 through December 7.
In addition, beneficiaries will have from January 1 through February 14 to disenroll from their plan and return to traditional Medicare. A Medicare Advantage enrollee, however, cannot switch from his or her existing Medicare Advantage plan to a different plan during this period.
As is the case for Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage plans allow for Special Election Periods (SEP) for qualifying individuals. Some of the conditions that can qualify you for a Special Election Period are:
- Your 65th birthday
- Any time you move to a new coverage area
- If you suffer from certain chronic medical conditions
- You are enrolled in the Extra Help from the government or qualify for this program
- You are enrolled in Medicaid
During a Special Election Period, an individual may enroll or disenroll from a Medicare Advantage plan.
Part D
In 2013, the Annual Election Period runs from October 15 through December 7. Individuals who were eligible for Medicare Part A or enrolled in Part B as of the effective date of coverage could have enrolled in a Part D plan or switched Part D plans during this time. Individuals could have also enrolled in a Part D plan if they had qualified for a Special Election Period (SEP). Part D has identical qualifications for a Special Election Period as those listed above in the Medicare Advantage section of this page.
Medicare Supplement
Anyone who has both Medicare Part A and Part B may enroll in a Medigap program at any time during the year. However, the optimal time in which to enroll in a Medigap plan is during the Open Enrollment Period (OEP). Your individual Medigap Open Enrollment Period is six months long and begins on the first day of the month in which you are at least 65 years old and enrolled in Medicare Part B. During this period you have a guaranteed issue right to buy a Medigap policy. This means the insurance company may not subject you to medical underwriting (a review of your medical history and the potential risk level it represents to the insurance company). However, outside of this Open Enrollment Period, your enrollment application to a Medigap plan would be subject to medical underwriting. In this scenario, you may be denied coverage or you may be charged more because of particular health problems.
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DENVER (AP) -- Authorities say two young children are dead following a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 50 east of Gunnison.
KMGH reports (<http://bitly.com/WUA1pT> ) the snowpacked roadway had been plowed and snow was falling when the crash occurred about 8 a.m. Saturday.
The Colorado State Patrol says a Chevrolet Cobalt traveling west went out of control and careened into the oncoming lane where it collided with another sedan.
The patrol says the two passengers in the Cobalt, a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, were killed. And the driver, 22-year-old Jamie Dowling of Irving, Texas, was seriously hurt. The driver of the other car, a 23-year-old man from Gunnison, had minor injuries.
The patrol says everyone but Dowling had been wearing restraints.
No charges were immediately filed against either driver
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Deaths from prescription painkiller overdose among women in the United States have risen sharply in recent years, said a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Between 1999 and 2010, the death toll from painkiller overdose increased more than 400 percent among U.S. women, compared to 265 percent in U.S. men, the report said.
A total of 48,000 U.S. women died from these drugs during that period, it said.
"Prescription painkiller deaths have skyrocketed in women," CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement. "Stopping this epidemic in women — and men — is everyone's business. Doctors need to be cautious about prescribing and patients about using these drugs."
The study included emergency department visits and deaths related to drug misuse/abuse and overdose, as well as analyses specific to prescription painkillers.
It found that more than 6,600 U.S. women died from prescription painkillers in 2010, which is four times as many as died from cocaine and heroin combined. The death rate was highest among women ages 45 to 54.
There were also more than 200,000 emergency department visits for opioid misuse or abuse among women during that year, said the CDC.
Research suggests that women are more likely to have chronic pain, be prescribed prescription painkillers, be given higher doses, and use them for longer time periods than men, the agency said.
Women may also become dependent on prescription painkillers more quickly than men, it said.
"The prescription painkiller problem affects women in different ways than men and all health care providers treating women should be aware of this," said Linda Degutis, director of CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
"Health care providers can help improve the way painkillers are prescribed while making sure women have access to safe and effective pain treatment," Degutis said.
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