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Senate Dems would strip officials of their pensions in corruption convictions
By JOSEFA VELASQUEZ
Sen. Neil Breslin said elected officials who betray the public trust and are convicted of felonies due to their unethical, corrupt actions do not deserve pension benefits.
April 16, 2013
The Senate Democratic Conference unveiled its legislative ethics package Monday afternoon, designed to reform New York State government and fight the constant corruption issues facing the state.
The series of bills would limit the use of campaign money and strip any convicted state or local official of their pensions if found guilty of violating the public trust.
Under current New York election law, candidates are allowed to spend funds for "any lawful purpose," which has a very loose meaning.
"For too long unethical politicians have used their campaign accounts as personal ATMs and defrauded the public as a result," said bill sponsor Sen. Terry Gipson, D-Rhinebeck. "Closing the current loopholes in legislation governing campaign funds is a common sense way to ensure these accounts are no longer utilized for non-campaign related payments. The public has a right to know how every dollar is spent on political campaigns and I urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation."
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The bill would strip pension benefits from officials convicted of a felony involving the violation of public trust. Current law only regulates elected officials that have joined the pension system after 2011, after the last ethics reform package was passed. Under the new bill, all members in the pension system would be affected.
"Elected officials who betray the public trust and are convicted of felonies due to their unethical, corrupt actions do not deserve any pension benefits," said Sen. Neil Breslin, D-Albany said, To expect the hard working taxpayers of New York State to continue to support these corrupt individuals is ludicrous. That is why I have sponsored legislation to amend the State Constitution to close this loophole and ensure that those who betray the public trust no longer receive benefits long after they have been punished for their crimes."
Since the proposed bills would affect elected official's pensions, a constitutional amendment has also been introduced.
The ethics reform package also seeks to require that all campaign contributions be disclosed in reports to the State Board of Elections whether or not the contributor is a lobbyist and would require elected officials to post campaign donations on their websites.
The legislation also establishes a public financing system for state campaigns and would require greater transparency regarding campaign donations.
Bill sponsor Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, said, "For decades, our ethics and campaign finance laws have been defined by maddening loopholes and byzantine opaqueness. A strong small-donor matching funds system to empower everyday New Yorkers is essential to any reform package that's serious about ending the pay-to-play culture, but it's just as important that we make the lines between right and wrong crystal clear in our laws."
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- Awesome four player action.
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Two Philippine universities made the list of the top 50 English-teaching universities in the world, vaulting over some highly-regarded institutions in the United States, Europe and Asia.
The University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University were declared among the world's top English teachers under the QS World University Rankings, which recently released the results of a survey of the best teaching institutions by subject.
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Revisit the week that was on the ATP Challenger Tour as we applaud the achievements of those on the rise and look ahead to who's in action in the week to come.
All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships (Kyoto, Japan): Eighth-seed Martin Fischer won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in four years, rallying from an early deficit to upset home favourite and 2012 champion Tatsuma Ito 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the Kyoto final. The 27-year-old Austrian, previously a champion in Oberstaufen, Germany in 2010, fired 10 aces and converted on five of nine break point opportunities for the win. It was the second Challenger title for Austria in three weeks, after Gerald Melzer won in Cuernavaca, Mexico.What the Players are Saying
Fischer: "This was another one of those weeks where everything just fits together...It is the second Challenger title in my career and I am really happy.
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Favors growing up as Jazz battle for playoff spot
Now the Jazz coach has so much confidence in Derrick Favors he wasn't afraid to unleash him with Utah's playoff hopes on the line.
The 6-foot-10 Favors delivered Sunday night, blocking a shot with 40.9 seconds left to preserve Utah's 97-90 road victory over Golden State. The win, coupled with the Lakers' loss to the Clippers, allowed Utah (41-37) to reclaim the Western Conference's final playoff spot.
If the Jazz go 3-1 over their remaining four games (Oklahoma City on Tuesday, Minnesota home/away, then Memphis), the Lakers (40-37) would have to win their last five because Utah owns the tiebreaker.
Favors, all grown up, looks forward to that crunch-time pressure.
Actually, Favors said Monday, "There's no pressure. We know what we got to do, win these games."
It's that confidence that comes from feeling at home and wanted — a stark contrast to the power forward Corbin first saw in a Jazz uniform.
"He was a scared 19-year-old man that was surprised he got traded and didn't know what to think of it, what to think of us, or where to go next," Corbin said of Favors after the February 2011 deal with the New Jersey Nets, who eight months earlier had made the Georgia Tech standout the No. 3 overall pick of the 2010 draft. "I think he's just relaxed and comfortable now because he feels wanted here and has a role in how good we do or how bad we do."
Many wondered how Utah would do after losing one of its big men, 6-11 Enes Kanter, to a dislocated left shoulder against Phoenix on March 27.
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Sunday night he played nearly 30 minutes, finishing with 12 points, a team-high 13 rebounds and three blocks — none bigger than the one as Draymond Green drove strong to the rim with Utah leading 93-90.
Five seconds earlier, Corbin had subbed in Favors for starting center Al Jefferson.
"When coach subbed me out and put him back in, I couldn't be no happier than if he were putting me in the game," Jefferson said. "I feel like that was the right move, and he made a big defensive stop there. Derrick Favors really is the key reason why our defense is great, especially in the key, in the crunch time of the game."
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I just read this brilliant little reflection by Lewis in The Joyful Christian, a collection of 127 readings from his various nonfiction works, including Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. This really does not need much by way of introduction, I think. Enjoy, and perhaps more importantly, allow yourself to be challenged if you've found yourself thinking of God in these terms!
"The Russians, I am told, report that they have not found God in outer space. On the other hand, a good many people in many different times and countries claim to have found God, or been found by God, here on earth.
"The conclusion some want us to draw from these data is that God does not exist. As a corollary, those who think they have met Him on earth were suffering from a delusion.
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1. We have not yet gone far enough in space. There had been ships in the Atlantic for a good time before America was discovered.
2. God does exist but is locally confined to this planet.
3. The Russians did find God in space without knowing it because they lacked the requisite apparatus for detecting Him.
4. God does exist but is not an object either located in a particular part of space nor diffused, as we once thought 'ether' was, throughout space.
"The first two conclusions do not interest me. The sort of religion for which they could be a defense would be a religion for savages: the belief in a local deity who can be contained in a particular temple, island, or grove. That, in fact, seems to be the sort of religion about which the Russians – or some Russians, and a good many people in the West – are being irreligious. It is not in the least disquieting that no astronauts have discovered a god of that sort. The really disquieting thing would be if they had.
"Space travel really has nothing to do with the matter. To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere. Those who do not find Him on earth are unlikely to find Him in space. (Hang it all, we're in space already; every year we go a huge circular tour in space.) But send a saint up in a spaceship and he'll find God in space as he found God on earth. Much depends on the seeing eye" (5-6).
"He can only woo": C.S. Lewis on Why God Doesn't Simply "Show Himself" to Us
Wouldn't it be much easier if God simply showed himself to us? Wouldn't that make it easier for us to believe in him and trust him and maybe even love him?
Writing from the perspective of Screwtape, the senior demon instructing his nephew on how to tempt a man, C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters (Time Life, 1942) offers a very helpful explanation for why God (called the "Enemy" below) does not simply show himself to human beings:
"You must have often wondered why the Enemy does not make more use of His power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree He chooses and at any moment. But you now see that the Irresistible and the Indisputable are the two weapons which the very nature of His scheme forbids Him to use. Merely to override a human will (as His felt presence in any but the faintest and most mitigated degree would certainly do) would be for Him useless. He cannot ravish. He can only woo" (24-25).
The question is often sincere: if God is real, why doesn't he simply show himself to us? It's a good question that deserves a good answer. None of us can know God's mind and pretend to adequately answer for him, but we have clues, and I believe part of the answer lies in the fact of God having created us as free beings. This faculty of freedom is closely related to the faculty of love, in that only a free person is capable of exercising genuine love. Such love cannot be coerced, but is rather a very real choice that a person makes with full (or sufficient) knowledge of the object of his love – both the good and the bad (it was Plato who said that to truly love something is to love not just a part, but all of it). Moreover, the true lover understands that he cannot force the love of the other; nor would he want this, for it would be a cheap and shallow submission having nothing of the glad and trusting self-giving that is the mark of true love. For this reason the true lover works for the love of the other: he thinks and plans and knows and does, and through these happy efforts earns the affection and love of the other. And how amazing to think that the best lovers are only small shadows of the Ultimate Lover – the One who stepped down from His throne and served and loved and gave His life that we who are undeserving might have life and have it abundantly!
Screwtape: Why it's not a bad thing to be acquainted with mortality
Screwtape writes to his apprentice devil, on one of the spiritual "perils" of war:
"And how disastrous for us is the continual remembrance of death which war enforces. One of our best weapons, contented worldliness, is rendered useless. In wartime not even a human can believe that he is going to live forever" (16).
As Lewis writes, the "Enemy" here would have us stupidly holding onto the illusion that death is something abstract and remote, nowhere to be seen or many years down the road. Thus war – or at least such a war as World War II, which provided the backdrop for Lewis's classic work – can offer a healthy dose of reality to "contented" human beings who live as if death will never come. It forces one to become acquainted (one prays in a healthy and not traumatic way) with the cold fact of death, and in so doing provides a necessary and more complete perspective of life. Indeed, many philosophers and thinkers have said something similar – that it is a wise thing to hold the prospect of death before one.
C.S. Lewis's "Screwtape Letters": On the Value of Asking the Big Questions
Do you ever ask such things as, "What is real?", or "What is truth?", or "What does it all mean?" These shouldn't be questions asked only by fresh-faced college students or airy philosophers. Each of us should at some time or another grapple with the truly big questions of life, the ones that seek to uncover the meaning, the truths, behind the reality we experience day to day.
This is C.S. Lewis's point at the outset of his acclaimed fictional work, The Screwtape Letters (Time Life, 1942). Lewis's brilliance is on full display in a series of letters from a senior demon (named Screwtape) instructing a junior demon (named Wormwood) on the "best practices" for leading a man astray from God and into eternal damnation. Wickedly funny while at the same time instructive, Screwtape demonstrates Lewis's keen grasp of human nature and moral psychology. Whether or not you are religious, I heartily recommend you pick up a copy and read this smart, entertainingly serious book.
"Your man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily 'true' or 'false,' but as 'academic' or 'practical,' 'outworn' or 'contemporary,' 'conventional' or 'ruthless'… The trouble with argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy's [the "Enemy" here is God] own ground… By the very act of arguing, you awaken the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?… Your business is to fix his attention on the stream [of immediate sense experiences]. Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real' (2)."


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The new species, Myzopoda schliemanni, occurs only in the dry western forests of Madagascar, while the previously known species, Myzopoda aurita, occurs only in the humid eastern forests of Madagascar, according to new research recently published online in the journal Mammalian Biology. The new species is obviously different from the known species based on pelage coloration, external measurements and cranial characteristics, according to the researchers.
Myzopoda are often found in association with broad-leaf plants, most notably Ravenala madagascariensis or the Travelers' Palm, a plant that is endemic to Madagascar but has been introduced to numerous tropical countries. Myzopoda are found in association with such plants because they can use their suckers to climb and adhere to the leaves' flat, slick surface. They are presumed to roost in the leaves during the day.
Myzopoda were considered endangered because of their limited distribution and the notion that the family included only one species. The new research, however, modifies both of these ideas.
The researchers determined that Myzopoda is not endangered by the loss of the moist tropical forests because the bat appears to have adapted very well to the large broad-leaf Ravenala that are often pioneering plants in zones where the original forests have been cleared and burned.
"For now, we do not have to worry as much about the future of Myzopoda," said Steven M. Goodman, Field Museum field biologist and lead author of the study. "We can put conservation efforts on behalf of this bat on the backburner because it is able to live in areas that have been completely degra
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Fuck this new Doom game, and fuck id. One little thing tipped me off on how this new Doom game will shape out - the AI "problem". What he's trying to say is that he wants the game to be exactly like the old Doom, but in a newer engine.
Half-Life had excellent AI by most anyone's standards. Thief 2 had great AI. Deus Ex had some good AI. I don't buy that technology is preventing Carmack from making the Doom 3 enemies more than mindless drones - it sounds more like he's afraid to change the original Doom at all.
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HMM WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT? Quake1, 2, 3
If Romero weren't so busy getting those $900 chairs in his office, maybe he could've actually played the game and realized that save gems aren't any fun in an FPS. Anachronox just kicks ass and is probably the only recent console-style RPG to hit the computer screen since FF7/8 for PC were released.
1) id proves me to be a moron.
Well, for one thing, whoever wrote that toppic is an asshole, a complete FUCKING ASSHOLE
HMM WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT? Quake1, 2, 3Uhm NONE of them look or act alike.
THE A.I. PROBLEMDude, FAGGOT, your up against BRAINLESS ZOMBIES, and blood thirty DEMONS.. SO THEY NEED TO BE INTELLIGENT!? Should we care if a zombie walks into a fucking wall becuase he's suppose to be SO SMART NECUAE HE HAS NO FUCKING BRAIN?
Last time I checked, that was A GOOD THING. Apparently this MORON ASS MUNCHER did not see how good the DOOM3 Engine is!
FUCK ID, FUCK DOOM3...Who the hell does he think he IS!? A gelouse co-executive of 3-D Realms!? id Software is the #1 FPS company. If it was not for id Software, FPS would be WAY different to this day, probably suckier {ie untexured ceiling and floors, LOL} and probably a lot later into the 90's. They pretty much started it all, and Doom is STILL rated #1 game of ALL TIME.
Well, no wonder, this stupid bitch [Romero] needs to leave the fucking FPS community and go back to playing his gay RPGS!!! God, what a stupid mother fucker!
1) id proves me to be a moron. And that IS what will happen becuase so far, he is the ONLY ONE to complain about Doom3. Everyone else is to shocked and amazed by the GFX. Oh, BTW, TAKE OF CAPS LOCK ASSHOLE!
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Hey Prower, why don�t you take the time and answer to the reasonable posts as well? Looks like you are just waiting for insults.
Becuase he's a stupid asshole that needs to leave the FPS community. And if all he does is enjoy degrading Doom, he should, or his post, be kicked.
Ok, by what you last said Prower, I see you as very fucking stupid. Ok, None of the Quakes look alike. Quake1, its Gothic. QuakeII, its alien. QuakeIII, its a fighting arena.
So what the fuck to you want? DoomIII to be a fuckin' RPG or somthing? Uh, I dont think so. And none of the other shit you replied to makes any sence at all. You need to leave. Doom is Doom, and its not going to change. Zombies are not smart. Demons want to kill you.
And, Half-Life and D-X out beat Doom.. HAHAHA! There are many people here who can disagree with you on this one. Perhaps half-life is a good game, but Doom, BY GAMESPY, is still #1 of all time. And as for D-X, that game was shit, it was fucking horrible, probably worse than the Thundra demo.
If you hate id Software, and Doom, and want RPGs and FlightSimulators, go somewhere else and fuck off.
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Thanks for assuming that I am gay because of my opinion on the AI, it really makes you look intelligent.
If you thought Deus Ex was bad, you are officially a moron, and deserve to die a horrible, horrible death.
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The building from the outside is beautiful and worth a walk past. I did not go inside as I didn't have the time, plus there was a heavy security presence.
Very user friendly train station after a long train ride from Moscow. The station is also close to the city centre
e arrived at the beautiful Volgagrad Station to be met by our guide. Unfortunately we didn't get to see inside as it was closed for repair following the bombing. The locals seem to have taken the whole thing very personally and were relieved the central ceiling mural had not been damaged. It will be well worth a visit when repaired.
Though with a feel of smaller stations still very interesting to look at, especially from the inside. Very interesting decorations and paintings worth having a stop to take a photo on your way to the town. Some of the parts were closed when we were there and we were ushered through an alternative exit.
This is where you catch the train to go back to Moscow or wherever you are going to. It has been completely rebuilt in Stalin's neo-classic style with the usual heroic statues and friezes depicting scenes in the Battle and the usual workers and peasants etc etc. But what do you expect ??? The fighting was so intense here, the...
Trains, Trains, Trains. You are definitely in a different world here and I loved it. See as much as you can in Volgograd. I highly recommend a guided tour.
not very big,and nothing much for a train station. the place is a little dirty and not many seats, with bad ventilation. it isn't very tourist friendly too, especially with those who can't speak russian.
All that's best about the Soviet era. Where else would you have amazing ceiling paintings and statues in a small station? Make sure you visit, and take pictures when the security guards are looking the other way...
The Railway station is situated in the beautiful city center. But the building is quite ordinary for the railway stations in the big Russian cities.
I must say it will be one of the most iconic structure/attraction in Volgograd. Located just next to the alley of heroes. Check out the magnificent painting on the ceiling in the building which depicts the glory of socialism back in those soviet days. Kind of a busy spot as it serves as land transportation hub for the city. It...
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Immune Response BioPharma, Inc. announced today that it has received United States Patent Number 8,053,197 expanding coverage relating to its immune-based therapy for Treatment of Auto-Immune Diseases.
The recently issued patent has specific claims covering immunization utilizing TCR vaccines for Auto-Immune Diseases that are designed to synthesize the T cell receptor (TCR) Vbeta specific peptides and restore deficient FOXP3+ T cells in regards to immunizing patients directly with the TCR peptides. The patent also includes specific claims for Multiple Sclerosis including FOXP3+ Expression Technology which restores deficient pathogenic T-Regs in patients suffering from MS. The Company believes that vaccination with NeuroVax may inhibit & treat the disease-associated T cells that cause Multiple Sclerosis and prevent further damage in patients suffering from the disease with our proprietary vaccine formulation NeuroVax.
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Saw this picture on the internet and I was really wanting to find out what part of Red Dead Redemption this is in. I have beaten the game so I already know what happens in the end. Thanks in advanced.
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CINCINNATI -- A new feature is coming to Great American Ball Park that will allow Reds fans to see home run balls both coming and going.
In a special three-year partnership announced Friday during the opening of Redsfest, the Reds and Cincinnati Bell revealed plans for a new and improved party area above the center-field batter's eye.
Called the Cincinnati Bell Technology Pavilion, a new two-story riverboat will be built while the existing lower pavilion is slated to undergo a renovation.
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Since the ballpark opened in 2003, several home runs have entered or cleared the batter's eye area. It could offer fans on the rooftop deck and interesting perspective of the game.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Alternative Treatments
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Is neurofeedback or working memory training effective alternative treatments for ADHD? continued...
Neurofeedback treatment involves teaching the patient how to increase his or her arousal levels. The patient's brain activity is monitored through electrodes attached to the head. When the brain waves reach a desired frequency, a signal informs the patient. Through training, the patient can ultimately learn how to increase arousal on his or her own.
While there has been some promising research in this area, more research is needed to determine the efficacy of neurofeedback on ADHD symptoms. Some drawbacks involve the high cost of the treatment due to expensive equipment, requirement of specialists to perform the treatment, and multiple treatment sessions.
Working Memory Training (COGMED)
Many people with ADHD have difficulty with working memory. Training of working memory using computer programs appears to help individuals improve their ability to concentrate, control impulsive behaviors, and improve problem solving skills. Analyses of several studies indicated that the programs produced reliable short-term improvements in working memory skills. Follow-up studies indicate that results might only be sustained long-term for visual memory skills.
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WASHINGTON -- Facebook and Yahoo are asking a secret court to allow them to disclose data on national security orders the companies have received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The two tech companies filed separate, similar motions Monday with the secret court that oversees that law. Two other companies, Google and Microsoft, have similar motions pending with the court.
All four companies were among several U.S. Internet businesses identified as giving the National Security Agency access to customer data under the program known as PRISM. Facebook and Yahoo say they want to correct false claims and reports about what they provide to the government. They argue they have a free-speech right to publish aggregate data on national security orders.
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BOISE -- A bill to block lawmakers from serving in other elected posts like school boards and highway districts is headed for a House vote after proponents said it will help protect the public from officials with a conflict of interest.
The bill passed the House State Affairs Committee Wednesday morning over objections that it takes the decision away from voters and creates hardship for smaller districts.
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I just caught that more exquisite Broadway creation, James Joyce's The DeadI never miss a Christopher Walken musicalbut most nights, I stay home and tune in to the barely living Joycean entity known as Roseanne's talk show. The once ballyhooed chatfest is apparently only still being taped because of contractual obligations, but if you get Channel 55 and have no car accidents to watch out your window, you should give it a whirl. The decidedly nonconformist Roseanne will devote two whole segments to some third-billed star of Veronica's Closet, who makes all sorts of bizarre sexual come-ons to her, with annoyingly fake homeboy mannerisms yet. To fill out the rest of the time, Rosie phone-interviews the mayor of Des Moines, learns about "hand yoga," engages in borderline homophobic remarks with Angie Everhart, and brings up audience members to act out "Trailer Park Shakespeare"a promising idea that fails because, though the audience members (who generally look like convicts) are fine, Roseanne has to keep asking off-camera help where she should be and what she should be doing. The show is so cuckoo that it verges on the wackily inspired, but usually Roseanne seems alternately belligerent and Zen-like, like a spiritual person on a plane whose engine has just died. Oh, well, at least crap is honest.
My off-camera help told me to take a sneak peak at Roxy owner Gene DiNino's not-yet-named upcoming restaurant-club, and I found it très snazzy in its own Stork Club crossed with the Delano Hotel via a Christopher Walken musical kind of way. A daring attempt to bring a '30s Parisian boîte to 24th Street, the joint is expensively done with quilted walls, light-up onyx tables, and columns wrapped in taffeta. All that's missing is a baby grand on which I can drape myself and sing "They Call Me Wicked Lola."
Stopping by the current Parisian-style restaurant du jourPastisat a peak hour on a Saturday night, I was promptly swept into the heaven and hell of such a victimy situation, along with everyone from the White Plains phone book. At the door, a throng of wannabe patrons was being told there'd be a mere two-hour wait, while in the main room, the chosen hordes chowed down as dazed dozens stood around them, waiting for their chance like vultures who weren't hugged enough as children. It's all very Frenchy-wenchy, with long tables, ceiling fans, and menu items written on a big mirror so that, even when deciding what to eat, you can look at your fabulous self. I have no reflection, of course, but I did see Molly Ringwald, Ben Stiller, the gay hairdresser from Rosie O'Donnell, and Damian Loeb, no doubt making his entrée even more artful. I also spotted owner Keith McNally busily running around the place, at one point chewing out a waiter even harder than I ultimately gnawed on my poussin. Yes, after pushing, cajoling, and taking advantage of priority seating (there are no reservations after a certain hour), I got a place in the better room, and didn't even have to pull out inducement money the way I'd seen one overly moussed smarmball do. I'd been so miserable until then, but suddenly was overjoyed, grabbing at the so-so food with hand yoga techniques learned from Roseanne. But enough of these trendathons where you pay to eat status for dinnerit's back to KFC.
Dripping with extra-crispy, I went to the premiere of Down on YouI mean Down to Youa teenie- oriented event where they truly did chicken right. The film is a slowish but sweetish young love story marred mainly by the scene in which a male character reveals that his girlfriend put her finger in his ass, then wonders, "Does this mean I'm gay?" No, honey, you'll know when it's a penis up there. Anyway, before the screening started, the stars of the movieFreddie Prinze Jr. (a dreamy heartthrob), Selma Blair (so good in Cruel Intentions), and Ashton Kutcher (the hottie from That '70s Show)were acting all cute and personable, so I, like, hung with them for a few marvy minutes. My idol Prinze said he really meant his Seventeen remarks that "girls don't have to be thin to be hot"but how far, I wondered, will he take this? Would he date, say the lusciously large Camryn Manheim? "Sure," he said. "As long as a girl is cool, that's what matters!" Yaya teenie star who doesn't promote eating disorders!
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The article, "The battle for toilets and minds" (June 9), brings out some astonishing facts and things about toilet use in rural India in addition to highlighting the need for proactive initiatives to change mindsets. It is also a reflection of government-sponsored sanitation programmes, where the result is measured only in terms of quantity (number of latrines). While coverage and numbers are important, what is more important is what happens before and after construction. Before construction commences, there should be an initiative to educate the target population. After construction, there should be follow-up measures to assess if utilisation is on target.
Another important factor is adaptability. Some years ago there was a drive to build dry latrines in Kerala, which did not succeed. This is because water forms an integral part of sanitation habits in Kerala.
Finally, the article deals with the "front end" of the toilet problem. There is also a "back end" — how sewage is treated and disposed of. Without scientific treatment of sewage, there is not much difference between using a toilet and practising open defecation. Unfortunately, septic tanks or centralised treatment facilities are nowhere in the scheme of things. Government-sponsored schemes usually use pit latrines, which in turn pollute water sources.
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The State government is accountable too for its failure to address the issue. As an immediate measure, the government should use the services of NGOs to propagate and create awareness about the need for safe sanitation and the resultant health benefits.
The authorities should also examine the evolution of relatively better sanitation in South India, which took years to take shape. At the outset, households began putting up pit models with wooden planks across the pits — where each pit had an open roof and fencing using palm leaves for walls. It was a capital- saving method but required periodic renovation. Later, the local administration initiated assistance in having septic tank-based models. In North India, these methods can be adopted with changes like plastic boards for side walls.
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John Keay, in his extremely readable Into India, describes a train journey through the lush countryside of Punjab where he was shocked and disgusted to see "a row of bare ******* lining the track and crouching figures deep in the corn fields. With the regularity of clockwork the bowels of the nation are on the move." Keay observes it is more to do with the mindset and habit of many an Indian. "If there was a lavatory, no one would use it. It is more pleasant and more correct to squat with your friends as the sun rises and the train rumbles by."
The Prime Minister could well succeed in his stupendous promise of providing a toilet for every household in the nation. But can he bring out an emotional change in the habitual mindset? It could be easy to take the horse to the water, but not so to make it drink.
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By this time in her history, the formerly warlike Romans could do little more than cringe and beg for mercy against any invader. The once proud Roman Republic had degenerated over the centuries to little more than a totalitarian shadow of her glory.
The rulers of Rome during 455 A.D. seemed far more intent in sticking swords into each other than in rallying the city for its defense. The year started out with Valentinian III, scion of a long time sleazy political family, in charge. Yet, having murdered another political well-connected one named Aetius he would soon be murdered himself by a follower of his victim, and served him right.
Petronius Maximus ascended to the imperial purple and, as the story goes, forced Eudoxia, the former emperor's widow, to marry him, or maybe to his son, depending on what source you consult. Little matter who she was forced to marry because her marrying anyone at all seemed to anger Gaiseric, who may have had a funny name but had a large Vandal army and fleet at his disposal. He sailed for Rome to show his displeasure.
Emperor Maximus more than likely loved to wear the emperor's purple, but not enough to fight to keep it. He attempted to flee from the city as the Vandal army approached and the Roman people, embarrassed that this poltroon was their leader, stoned him to death, thus ending his reign after a glorious, very eventful 70 days.
As barbarian sackings go, history records this one as rather tame. Legend tells that Pope Leo I had far more courage than Maximus, and he personally pleaded with Gaiseric to spare the city a bloodbath. Gaiseric consented, under the provision that he and his men could steal anything that wasn't nailed down. Having lived under a long line of Roman Emperors who did the same, the cowering citizens of Rome were thrilled with the bargain.
The Vandals looted for two weeks, than sailed back home with ships groaning under the weight of their stolen treasure. Back home, they ever after told all their friends, "Oh, you're going to Italy this summer?!? Do make sure to sack Rome……….
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Umm... No. Product Updates refer to different versions (11.0.4202, 11.0.5002, 11.0.6000, etc) and they are not replicated and you certainly cannot update one SEPM with a second SEPM. First off, you can *only* replicate between two SEPMs that have the same version.
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It doesn't get much more convenient than this 19-story, downtown, waterfront hotel within walking distance of Jacksonville Landing, EverBank Field, Florida Theatre, Times-Union Center, corporate office towers, and the county courthouse. The property on the north bank of the St. Johns River has casual dining at Trellises as well as the Jaxx Sports Bar, an on-site Starbucks, and a bagel shop. Rooms have Florida-style decor, triple-sheeted beds, pillow-top mattresses, and sliding-glass doors. Since northeast Florida's largest hotel encompasses 110,000 square feet of meeting space, chances are pretty good you'll share an elevator with someone wearing a name tag (if you're not wearing one yourself).
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A behind-the-scenes film that shows Michael Jackson getting ready for his would-be London O2 shows released on October 28, 2009.< read all 18 reviews
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Parents, except for Michael's crotch grabbing there's not much to object to here. Recommended for ages 6 and up.
He hadn't been on stage in years and he felt it was time. Some said he was crazy, that he didn't have it anymore. They told him to not bother. Never-the-less he went forward. It was to be his final curtain call. Sadly, that curtain call came too soon, when Michael Jackson suddenly died and his "This Is It" concert series was never to be seen. Or was it? Like most performers with big egos Michael taped everything he did. Therefor we had hundreds of hours worth of rehearsal footage of which an editor could splice together and give us an idea of what those concerts would have been like. After watching "This Is It" I'm under the impression that the concert would have been one hell of a show, but that the stuff could have been edited better.
Rarely has a movie failed so heavily because of terrible editing. To listen to Sony Pictures talk it sounded like hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage was filmed. This I can believe. So why is it so many of the flubs, goof ups, and technical difficulties make it into the film? I'm not expecting perfection, but there should be enough here for a little bit of consistency. Take the opening performance as an example: Michael is performing "Wanna Be Startin' Something." This is to be his opening. In this performance alone Michael changes costumes during the song, the background goes from decently lit to extremely dark, and the quality jumps from high definition to blurry home video quality.
Many of the performances are like this. On the IMAX where I saw it this was particularly distracting. With all the hundreds of hours they got are they telling me they couldn't get the performance to be in full HD with the same costume? I think they could have. The only thing is they likely would have had to view the performance from just a couple of angles. But with an average of eight different angles there are many moments where the picture will shrink and the film will be practically unwatchable. It feels like a shame because I'm questioning whether this jump in quality was necessary. I personally don't think it is. It's also very distracting to have so many interruptions during the songs. There has to have been enough footage for them to be able to make these performances feel seamless.
In fact, that's what I was hoping this movie would be: As close as a recreation of what the "This Is It" concert would have been like. With computer graphics and careful editing I think this could have been a reality, and it would have made for a far more interesting movie. Instead we have a weird hybrid of a concert and documentary. Does the documentary have any deep insights to Michael? Not really. The biggest surprise is to see him energetic and full of life. If he was on drugs it wasn't apparent here. He does, however, seem to have difficulty in letting the sound man know that the sound in his earpiece is too loud. Oh, and his dancers and musicians love him. Really love him. When they say working with Michael is the greatest thing in the world I didn't doubt them for one minute.
It's hard to figure out exactly what everyone's reaction to this movie is going to be. Will they be frustrated by it's complete lack of focus and purpose? Will they soak up every minute of it because it's Michael's last footage? Personally the film did nothing for me because it felt like a gimmick. With a couple more months to think up a way to edit and sell this it likely could have been an event movie. Right now the only thing that's truly good about this movie are the songs, and those are readily available on CD and iTunes. If they do make a sequel out of this somehow I'd like them to take my idea from paragraph four and title is "This Is It: The Real Concert Experience." Or they could just remaster one of his popular concerts for IMAX next time. Even that would have been more interesting and fun then this was.
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While it is true that some old IOR boats make acceptable cruising boats, having actually owned a Northstar 500, what I found is that the sail plan, which had a very low SA/D and a miniscule mainsail, depended very heavily on carrying very large inventory of the precisely right sized overlapping headsail for the conditions. When you add that the boat was very sensitive to larger heel angle (like most IOR boats of that era- cavitating the rudder and wiping out moderately easily) the boat was easiest to handle with just the right sail on the stay.
The way we used the boat, even cruising the boat would hardly sail in winds under 4-5 knots without using the 170% genoa or the Drifter. By 8 knots of wind, the 170% was over-powered and the drifter was so round that you could not point at all. We typically tried to get by with the #1 (155%) from around 5 knots up to about 10 knots, but around 12 knots with the #1 you were wiping out, even with a reef in the mainsail. In winds above 10 knots but below 15 knots, I peeled down to the #2 (135%), which at the upper end was nicely balanced with a reef but around 15 knots the boat again got pretty squirely so we would peel down to the #3 often with a reef to balance the helm.
I usually used the 155% or 135% daysailing in winds around 5-15 knots. My boat had a track in the foredeck for a removable storm jib, but the boat had a huge amount of weather helm when the storm jib was used without a double reef in the mainsail. The individual sails had a wider wind range when racing with 3-4 guys on the rail.
Back to Puddinglegs point, the reason that I say that roller furling will not help was that the boat was very sensitive to fullness. My boat had a full cut #1 and a flat cut #1. (It also had similar #2's) The full cut was next to useless because the boat would heel too quickly greatly shortening the range of the use of the sail. The same was true of the full cut #2. Since roller furling a sail makes the furled sail fuller, this would not be a good way to go on the Northstar 500.
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Ex-TV journalist Ali Reynolds is trying to get her house remodeled in time for her son's wedding. But her contractor has been framed for his wife's murder by a serial killer who runs an Internet dating service for the unhappily married (thus providing him with adulterous victims). What's a homeowner to do but join forces with a hacker to find the killer? This dubious plot line isn't helped by several unconvincing elements (e.g., a car rental employee spots a tiny bloodstain on the carpet of a returned vehicle; Ali's elderly mom has just bought a taser). Broadway musical comedy star Karen Ziemba adds an upbeat vitality to her narration that underlines Jance's long suits-her smoothly flowing style and smart pacing-while breezing past the book's less than stellar sections. She most effectively catches the mood of the novel's most thrilling moments when, inevitably, Ali becomes a captive of the madman. A Touchstone hardcover (Reviews, Sept. 29). (Dec.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.