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The California couple and high school sweethearts, who were both born on the same day and celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary this year, died one day apart: Helen passed away on July 16, and Les died the next day. They were 94.
"It was a real love match, wasn't it?" their oldest son, Les Jr., told the Long Beach Press-Telegram. "They were together every day for 75 years."
The Long Beach lovebirds eloped on Sept. 19, 1937, and were married against their own parents' wishes, according to their sons. Helen was from a working-class family, while Les was from a wealthier one. Both sides believed the love would never last, but the two embodied the meaning of their wedding vows "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part."
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The Browns moved to Long Beach in 1963, where Helen was a housewife with a knack for buying and selling area properties while Les owned a photography studio, serving as a photographer for the Navy.
Despite being born the same day, the Browns were two different people, according to their sons, who said Mom was strict while Dad was more laid-back. Like all couples, their children said they had issues to work through during their years together but that the two constantly reaffirmed their love, a special bond that was always on display.
Zach Henderson, owner of the Ma N'Pa Grocery, a corner store near the Brown's home in Long Beach, said he saw the couple almost daily.
"About a year ago, [Helen] had her hand on his face and they were cheek to cheek," Henderson told ABC News. "She said, 'Isn't he the most handsome man you've ever seen?' "
At the time of their deaths, Les was suffering from Parkinson's and Helen had stomach cancer, according to the Press-Telegram.
The Brown's youngest son, Daniel, summed up his parents' life and death.
"My mom often said she didn't want to see my father die, and he didn't want to live without her."


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The idea that dating predominately revolves around subtle manipulation and power plays. A term often employed by the socially immature that have yet to understand that: treating your date like an intelligent human being turns out to be an overwhelmingly good idea when it comes to forming meaningful relationships with other human beings
Ultimately, nobody ever wins the dating game
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A game in which you form an artificial relationship with a computer. A more clear example can be understood in the manga "The world God Only Knows."
I was playing my dating game and I asked the computer to marry me
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To be of the same school of thought as another person, thinking in the same area.
"You think so too? So we're on the same page."
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MDCC TechTalk - Classes, Jim, but not as we know them
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by Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Haskell is now quite widely used, but its most important contributions are the ideas that it embodies. In this talk Simon focuses on one of these ideas, namely type classes, with a few anecdotes and reflections along the way about the process of developing the language.
Type classes are probably Haskell's most distinctive feature. The original idea is very neat and, better still, it led to a long series of subsequent generalizations and innovations. Indeed, although the language is now nineteen years old, Haskell's type system is still in a state of furious development. For example, Simon is involved in adding type-level functions to Haskell, as he briefly describes.
Simon explains what type classes are, how they differ from the classes of mainstream object oriented languages, why he thinks they are so cool, and what the hot topics are.
About Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to Microsoft Research (Cambridge) in 1998.
His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.
More generally, he is interested in language design, rich type systems, software component architectures, compiler technology, code generation, runtime systems, virtual machines, and garbage collection. He is particularly motivated by direct use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation -- that's one reason he loves functional programming so much.
His home page is at
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Great talk! Is Part 2 on the way?
Absolutely brilliant talk. I finally understand why type classes are such a big deal. More please!
part 2 i can be found here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Fun-with-type-functions
I think this should also have the Functional Programming tag.
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The act of cracking an egg in to womens vagina, then fuking it. Remove from said vagina and fry that s**t. Enjoy.
I wanted a Puerto Rican Breakfast, but we were out of F**cking eggs!
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The vomit of someone who has been drinking too much, usually big and in a round shape. (Used in the Netherlands as 'vloerpizza', usually by students.)
Aww man, did you make that floorpizza over there?
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When someone or something falls from a high structure and lands on flat ground.
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Pizza that was left in the box on the floor during a night of drinking, usually found by a near by passed out guest laying next to it the following day.
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Graduate School Fair to be held on October 22
Penn State Shenango will host a Graduate School Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 22 in the campus' Lecture Hall art gallery (located directly across from the Admissions office). Representatives from various colleges and universities, including Carlow University, Gannon University, Geneva College, Mercyhurst College, Penn State World Campus, Slippery Rock University, University of Pittsburgh, Westminster College and Youngstown State University, will be on hand to display and discuss graduate studies program that complement the Shenango campus' undergraduate degree programs in Human Development and Family Studies, Administration of Justice, and Nursing. The event is open to students, alumni and the public.
Graduate admissions applications deadlines for the 2013-2014 academic year normally range from December 2 to February depending on the institution, so it is important for students to begin the process early.
For more information, contact the Penn State Shenango Career Services office at 724-983-2969.
1. Research the schools and programs represented ahead of time.
2. Rank the schools according to your preference. Visit the schools you are most interested in first.
3. Prepare questions to ask the representative ahead of time.
4. Prepare answers for questions representatives might ask of you, i.e.
• Why do you want to attend graduate school? When? What would you like to do with this degree?
5. Dress in business casual. Remember, you will want to make a good first impression.
6. Take notes and ask for business cards.
1. What are the admission requirements (GPA, undergraduate coursework, entrance exams, experiences, interview, etc.)?
2. What are the average entrance exam score(s) and GPA of students who are accepted?
3. When is the application deadline?
4. What is the application process/timeline (application materials/references/interview)?
5. Are students admitted in both the fall and spring semesters?
6. How much does the program cost (tuition, student fees, housing)?
7. What types of financial aid are available (fellowships, assistantships, scholarships, loans)?
8. How long is the program? Does this include summers?
9. Will I gain clinical/field experience or complete an internship as part of the program?
10. How much choice will I have when it comes to choosing my internship/field experience?
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Solar power plants often are located behind fences, on rooftops or in hard-to-reach places.
UB's Solar Strand, believed to be the nation's most publicly accessible photovoltaic power station, is an exception. As the world observes Earth Day on Monday, UB and the Western New York Environmental Alliance will introduce the public to the one-of-a-kind facility with a 90-minute event highlighting how environmental initiatives are redefining our economy and improving our quality of life.
"The Solar Strand is one of the most unique renewable energy parks in the world," says Ryan McPherson, UB's chief sustainability officer. "We want to make sure that people in Western New York and beyond know they are welcome to visit it.
"Not only does it produce enough renewable energy to power hundreds of student apartments, it will serve as an outdoor classroom inspiring and educating students and our community for years to come," he says.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will run from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Solar Strand on the North Campus.
Attendees are asked to register here. Parking is available in the Center for Tomorrow lot.
The event will include a series of short speeches from regional leaders who are working to create a more sustainable future in Western New York. Among them will be Samina Raja, UB associate professor of urban and regional planning; Jill Jedlick, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper; Kenneth Shockley, UB associate professor of philosophy; Justin Booth, executive director of GObike Buffalo; and Aaron Bartley, executive director and co-founder of PUSH Buffalo.
The Western New York Environmental Alliance is an umbrella organization representing more than 100 environmental organizations and supporting groups in the region. Robert E. Knoer, an attorney who serves as the alliance's chairman, said teaming with UB for the event was a natural fit.
"The alliance represents more than 100 groups focusing on environmental, social, political and other issues," he says. "The event will be an opportunity for them to build on existing connections with UB and to tap into the human energy that the university's students represent."
The event also will include tours of the Solar Strand, music and an awards ceremony presented by Ecology and Environment Inc.
The opening of the Solar Strand to the Western New York
community is one of 25 events being held on campus to celebrate
Earth Day; most are sponsored and organized by students. Click
here to view the entire calendar of events.
Designed by celebrated landscape artist Walter Hood, the Solar Strand is a ground-level, open-air power station that generates up to 750 kilowatts of power. It contains 3,200 solar panels laid out in the pattern of a DNA fingerprint.
Since UB flipped the switch a year ago, it has generated more than 875,000 kilowatts of clean, renewable electricity. That equates to nearly 71,000 gallons of gasoline saved or the abatement of 628 tons of carbon dioxide. For more information, visit UB's sustainability website.
From helping investigate toxic chemicals in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls in the 1970s to committing to be climate neutral by 2030, UB has a long history of environmental leadership. The Earth Day event is another example of the university's commitment to educate, inspire and enable people both on and off campus to create a more sustainable world. For more information, visit the sustainability website.


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Doctor Who: Water of Mars Clips (Video)
The Guardian.co.uk has posted 3 clips (in one video) from the upcoming Doctor Who: Waters of Mars today on their site. The upcoming special starring David Tennant is scheduled for transmission on BBC One at 7pm on the 15th of November in the UK.
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One who dons more than one article of clothing sporting the "Ed Hardy" logo. This person may also refer to you as "guy" or prematurely assume that you agree with them by asking "Am I right?" immediately following a crass, poorly-constructed opinion.
I bumped into that douche-chill with fake diamond earrings up at the bar while I was getting a drink. He spilled his tequila-redbull on me and called me "guy". What an Ed Hard-On! Am I right?
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When you have a badazzled dick and get an erection
My Ed hard-on stunned her in more than one way.
She asked me where i got my penis designed, and i replied it's an Ed Hard-on.
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Office of the Executive Secretariat
A properly established and well managed Office of the Executive Secretariat (OES) is a valuable resource within a Department, not just for the Secretary and immediate staff, but for the whole Department.
This office ensures that all Department officials are included in the correspondence drafting and policy making process through a managed clearance and control system. Keeping policy officials informed of executive documents enhances the Secretary's ability to review sound and thought out policy recommendations before making final decisions.
Files maintained by the Office of the Executive Secretariat are also a valuable historical resource. When properly filed and archived, they will serve as the historical evidence of the Department's organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures and operations.
OES is led by Sally Liska, Director of the Executive Secretariat and Maureen Wood, Deputy Director and can be reached at 202-720-7100.


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DeLand, Fla. - The Stetson women's golf team, fresh off its third consecutive Atlantic Sun Conference championship and 8 days away from making its third straight NCAA East Regional appearance, once again received the lion's share of All-Conference awards as the voting results were announced Wednesday. Sophomore Alexandria Buelow (Palm City, Fla.), the A-Sun tournament champion, picked up her second straight A-Sun Player of the Year trophy while Head Coach Floyd Kerr was named A-Sun Coach of the Year for the third season in a row.
Buelow, who has played to a 73.3 stroke average as a sophomore, has found the winner's circle three times in 2010-11 already, picking up victories at the UNCG Starmount Fall Classic, Siena Homewood Suites Invitational and most notably the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship earlier this month at Victoria Hills Golf Club. Overall, the September 2010 A-Sun Golfer of the Month has recorded nine top 10 finishes in 10 starts, adding four other top five placings to her three victories. Buelow shot 71-74-71 to win the A-Sun title by five strokes and lead her team to a 12-shot victory.
Kerr has been the architect of Stetson's recent dynasty, assembling one top-notch recruiting class after the other. Four times in the last five seasons at least one of his players has landed on the A-Sun All-Freshman Team; three straight league championships, two individual champions, a back-to-back Player of the Year and two Freshmen of the Year are all on his resume. For all this, Kerr has become just the second coach in conference history to claim three A-Sun Coach of the Year awards (all in just six and a half seasons) and joins Campbell's John Crooks (1996-98) as the only ones to win three years in a row.
Junior Lauren Cate (St. Augustine, Fla.) and freshman Mallory Viera (Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.) got in on the action as well with Second Team All-Atlantic Sun honors for the both and All-Freshman Team mention for Viera in the bargain. Cate has played to a 75.6 stroke average and was named A-Sun Women's Golfer of the Week for April 6 following a second-place finish at the World Golf Village Intercollegiate. Cate owns four top five finishes this season and earned A-Sun All-Tournament Team honors by tying for fifth in the conference championships. Previously, Cate has been honored as 2009 A-Sun Freshman of the Year and All-Atlantic Sun First Team.
Viera gives Stetson an All-Freshman Team honoree for the third year in a row and has played to a 76.0 stroke average in her rookie campaign. She recorded her first career top 10 finish at the best possible time, tying for seventh in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships with a clutch final round 73 to help the Hatters make up a three-stroke deficit and outdistance the field. Her low round of the year was a two-under par 70 in the final round of the FIU Pat Bradley Invitational last fall; six times in eight starts Viera has shot 74 or better in the final round of tournaments.
Stetson takes on a brutally tough field of 24 teams and six individuals at the NCAA East Regionals next weekend, May 5-7 at LPGA International in Daytona Beach. Stetson and the Central Florida Sports Commission are co-hosting the event. Live Scoring will be available at GolfStatResults.com with a link through GoHatters.com.
-First Team-
Alexandria Buelow (Stetson) - Player of the Year; Nina Muehl (ETSU); Ket Preamchuen (Kennesaw State); Briana Carlson (FGCU); Sian Evans (ETSU)
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Lauren Cate (Stetson); Mallory Viera (Stetson); Michelle Koh (Campbell); Sarah Bejgrowicz (Campbell); Hayley Clinning (Kennesaw State)
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Sian Evans (ETSU) - Freshman of the Year; Mallory Viera (Stetson); Hayley Clinning (Kennesaw State); Mary Alice Murphy (Mercer); Kaylin Yost (Campbell)


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Firefighters are being credited with saving a family's cat from a burning home.
The cat was rescued from inside the home on Chestnut Run in Ocala. The rescuers employed a pet oxygen mask to revive the smoke-stunned pet.
No one was home when the fire broke out, but the homeowners arrived back to see flames shooting from structure. They called 911 and firefighters rushed to the scene.
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In an October 2012 radio interview on Sway in the Morning that has recently resurfaced and gone viral, Conrad was asked by host Sway Calloway to pull a random question from the "mystery sack."
"What's your favorite position?" Conrad, now 28, read from the slip of paper.
"CEO," the Paper Crown designer and bestselling author answered demurely after a brief pause, before flashing a sly smile.
The quick and unexpected response prompted Calloway to yell, "CEO! I like that. Yes. Yes."
The two then exchanged high-fives.
Although the love life of the former The Hills star has been media fodder for years, Conrad became engaged to law student William Tell in October.
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More than two decades into Post and Courier college baseball projecting fun and picking out the top two teams for the NCAA Tournament has never been easier.
Vanderbilt and North Carolina, or vice versa, look like locks when the 64-team field is set on May 27.
Sorting out the other six national seeds and Regional hosts?
Not so simple.
A shaky snapshot prediction with two weeks left:
National seeds
North Carolina
Florida State
Oregon State
N.C. State
South Carolina
Oregon State, Cal State Fullerton and Mississippi State are ahead of the Gamecocks on the new Ratings Percentage Index charts.
But South Carolina can take two of three at Mississippi State this weekend, and have its statisticians convince the selection committee that injuries impacted some of the loses. Caveats: Mississippi State is one of the toughest places to win in college baseball and the injury argument works a lot better with the basketball committee.
The Oregon State-Oregon series this weekend is huge for both teams, and South Carolina is hoping one sweeps the other.
Regional hosts
The eight national seeds.
And …
Mississippi State
Oregon State
Cal State Fullerton
South Alabama
Virginia Tech
Clemson with two wins at Florida State this weekend vaults into the national seed discussion, depending on what happens elsewhere.
The committee loves to spread college baseball interest, and Bloomington, Ind., might get a deserved Regional hug.
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While the major deals of the MLB offseason have long since had all their i's dotted and their t's crossed, there are still some last rounds of spring cleaning that need to take place before everything is set.
A bit of moving the furniture around, if you would. Contract extensions to be signed, arbitration hearings to be avoided, and few free agent stragglers here and there.
So without further ado, here's a rundown of the latest news of the day in baseball.


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When federal authorities said Alice Boland threatened to kill the president, she avoided a felony conviction because she claimed insanity — precisely the reason she managed to buy a gun seven years later.
It's an irony that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham pointed to Wednesday as a flaw in gun laws — it's an "outrage," he said — that allowed the 28-year-old from Beaufort to legally obtain a pistol and use it to threaten Ashley Hall school officials in downtown Charleston.
During remarks in Washington, the South Carolina senator echoed what his Republican colleagues have repeated in the weeks since 26 people were slain at a Connecticut elementary school. He asked Democrats to focus on strengthening rules already on the books, but also called for firearms prohibitions against people who use claims of mental illness to skirt criminal convictions.
Boland's plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, he said, should have raised flags when she bought the .22-caliber Taurus PT22. Graham said he plans to draft legislation to ensure that "people like her" can't buy a gun in a store.
"To me, this is Exhibit A of a broken system," Graham said. "How can it be that the background check would allow her to buy a gun?
"Alice Boland getting a gun is a failure of the current system."
As Boland's history of mental illness has become known since Feb. 4, the Ashley Hall episode has garnered attention in gun-control debates nationwide. The emerging details also have prodded those affected by the incident to speak out.
This week, 56 parents of students at the all-girls private school signed a letter sent to Graham and 11 other state and federal legislators.
The two-page letter described the parents as bipartisan voters uninterested in dismantling the Second Amendment.
Rather, it bemoaned the state for not submitting mental health disqualifiers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
"Please do something to prevent the Alice Bolands of the world from buying guns in South Carolina," Michel Faliero wrote on the parents' behalf.
Faliero said Wednesday that the parents were "encouraged" by Graham's comments. She expressed hope that legislation would require states to enter records of "potentially violent mentally ill people" into the national database.
As news of Boland's case has spread, more lawmakers also have addressed it — though, in some cases, cursorily.
Gov. Nikki Haley's spokesman last week said it exposed a need to further funding of mental health care.
Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott was restrained in his remarks this week during a visit to Medical University Hospital.
"If she purchased it legally, then she did," he said. "I can't tell you whether she should have or shouldn't have been able to."
Boland remains in jail.
She is accused of pointing a pistol at an Ashley Hall official and pulling the trigger. The weapon was loaded, but it didn't fire because no cartridge was in the chamber. Boland thought it was defective.
The gun is equipped with a built-in locking mechanism, but it was not engaged at the time, police said. The gun was fully functional.
On Wednesday, Boland's mother said "wow" when she learned that Graham had addressed her daughter's case.
Dellann Boland said she has been instructed by her daughter's public defender not to speak publicly.
In an interview with The Post and Courier this week, the mother described her family's decade-long struggle to find and pay for proper care.
"I'm not making any comments about this right now," she said Wednesday.
Her daughter's booking photo was enlarged and emblazoned on one of the two posters flanking Graham as he spoke.
The boards highlighted Boland's federal court history since 2005, when the Secret Service said she repeatedly threatened to shoot President George W. Bush, and her forced treatment for schizophrenia.
Graham repeated many of Boland's alleged comments.
"One bullet in the hands of Ms. Boland is one too many," Graham said.
"I intend to introduce legislation so that the Alice Bolands of the future do not pass a background check."
Part of his proposal, he said, will include provisions to prosecute people who use deception in trying to buy a gun. He showed a poster illustrating that only 44 of the 80,000 people who failed background checks in one year were prosecuted.
If someone doesn't disclose a mental health history that prohibits a gun purchase, for example, that person would be prosecuted under Graham's plan. It's a felony to lie on the federal transaction questionnaire.
The senator referred to a plan that President Barack Obama mentioned in his State of the Union Address the night before as only a "marginal" threat to gun violence.
Obama concluded his speech with an emotional plea for a law that keeps firearms out of criminals' hands by, in part, limiting private sales.
Graham asked the president to stop being a "cheerleader" for gun laws. He also mentioned that he owns an AR-15 rifle and enjoys Quentin Tarantino movies.
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WASHINGTON – One of the biggest moments of Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul's congressional career will likely turn out to be one of her last.
Early Wednesday, after pushing the nation back from the brink of the "fiscal cliff," and only 36 hours before Hochul will leave Congress, the House gave final approval to her first free-standing bill: a measure calling on the Transportation Security Administration to turn over clothing left at airport checkpoints to organizations that help homeless veterans.
Less than two months after losing her seat in a close battle against Rep.-elect Chris Collins, R-Clarence, and with no plans to run for Congress again, Hochul took pleasure in the passage of a bipartisan measure that, she said, should have become law months earlier.
"I'm just glad it happened at all, particularly in the holiday season," said Hochul, D-Hamburg. "It's a statement of our priorities that Republicans and Democrats, the House and the Senate, can come together around something we agree on."
The bill also seems symbolic, in a way, of Hochul's 19-month career as a member of the House.
After winning a May 2011 special election in a conservative suburban-and-rural district that moved only farther to the right after redistricting, Hochul tried to drive in the middle of the political road throughout her tenure.
But again and again, she found herself facing incoming traffic from the right side of the road, as Republicans viewed her as someone they rightly should run over in the 2012 general election.
That being the case, Hochul's "Clothe a Homeless Hero Act" seemed destined, at times, to become roadkill.
Hochul originally tried to get the measure tacked on as an amendment to another bill that would have given cash left at airports to the nonprofit United Service Organizations, but that measure went nowhere.
Hochul then introduced the measure for homeless veterans as a stand-alone bill, only to see it face delay after inexplicable delay in the Republican-controlled House.
Asked if the delays may have been politically motivated, Hochul said: "I can only imagine," and called the delays "a very sad commentary on the priorities of the people in charge of Congress."
Defeated in November, Hochul was undeterred. Left without an office since Thanksgiving, she said she largely worked out of the nearby Library of Congress, returning to the House floor to cajole members into pushing her veterans legislation.
The measure finally passed the House on Nov. 27, but the Senate changed the bill, making it clear that airports with pre-existing relationships with charities won't have to end those relationships to give lost items to homeless veterans.
That meant the House had to approve the bill again, which it did in a voice vote at the turn of the new year.
It's very likely to be the last bill that Hochul will ever get passed.
Asked if she might ever run for Congress again, Hochul said: "It is highly unlikely." New York's new, heavily Republican 27th District, she said, "is going to be a tough district for a long time."
It will be Collins' district as of noon today, but Hochul said she took pride in her brief work in Congress – including the veterans clothing bill, which she introduced after losing a scarf at Buffalo Niagara International Airport and learning that many airports don't have a good way of redistributing lost clothing.
Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who pushed the bill to passage in the Senate, said the measure will have a lasting legacy.
"Too many veterans who bravely served our country are getting left out in the cold, and we need to do everything we can to be there for them," Gillibrand said. "This is a small step that will help keep more struggling veterans and their families warm this winter."
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quote: why, given that the Android market space is now bigger than the iOS market, do developers make nearly four times as much money from the iOS space?
quote: on the whole it is a poor way to analyse the world
quote: Things seem to be different now but working out how they are different requires nuanced and new thinking
quote: Your own prejudices against this "bad" (for Apple) piece of history do not change the fact that now things are very similar to those in 1990s. You just afraid to admit this because you are afraid of this particular "bad" piece of history.
quote: For the same reasons developers made less money with Windows than with Apple back in those early PC days. This did not prevent Windows from winning in the end though.
quote: then why are developers feverishly porting their once exclusive iOS apps to Android, and Android Market almost at the same number of available apps...Simple marketshare.
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The laws made by the government in a democracy. This area of the government is known as the "Parliament."
The new legislation has today passed and it will be effective immediately.
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The law making party that works for lobbyists. Often times, citizens need to fight this party in an attempt to keep some of our most basic freedoms.
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It's one thing – and an important one – to keep the Buffalo Bills in Western New York, a goal that seems to have been accomplished with the proposed new lease for the team. It is equally important, however, to keep Western New Yorkers, and others, in Ralph Wilson Stadium. As popular as the Bills are here, the behavior of some fans makes that no sure thing.
Fortunately, that critical part of the equation is also being dealt with in a proposed agreement being added to the new lease. In it, the Bills and Erie County have agreed to double the presence of county police inside and outside the stadium. The price of misbehavior is about to rise, and it's about time.
The Bills are looking to add 128 more Erie County sheriff's deputies or officers from other agencies to patrol Ralph Wilson Stadium when the team plays. The Bills would bear the cost.
The point is to beef up security inside and around the stadium to make game day more family friendly. Uniformed officers would supplement security employed by the team and sheriff's deputies who already provide traffic patrols.
The plan is to more than double the 85 to 90 deputies who already work the games in Orchard Park, and the need is painfully obvious. Drunkenness is only the start of the catalog of repulsive behavior that has occurred at the stadium, but it's bad enough – especially when those football fans pour themselves into their cars after the game.
The Bills have tried other strategies, including providing easier ways for fans to report misbehavior; creating a more visible security presence; offering free cab rides to some ejected fans and encouraging the use of designated drivers; opening stadium lots later, to reduce pregame drinking; and requiring ejected fans to complete a four-hour online course before they can attend another game.
It has not been enough. Abusive behavior continues at rates that should be intolerable, especially given the price of tickets. Many families already have to struggle to attend a game. Why should they bother if the drunks and other rowdies are going to spoil the day?
The beefed-up police presence stands to make a real difference. Doubling the force on duty counts as a serious effort to combat a festering problem. The Bills have taken an important step to regain control of their stadium and, just as important, to ensure that fans who dig deep to enjoy the thrill of a professional football game get to do that. Here's hoping the free-for-all is over.


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on July 14, 2013 - 9:05 AM
James "Macky" Moberly was born in Burlington, Vt., but the West Side of Buffalo is in his blood.
As owner of Macky's Essex Street Pub, Moberly, 41, has invested much of his life in the tavern on Rhode Island Street. He started working there at age 14 as a dishwasher learning the business from former owner Peter Goretti.
Moberly's pub, located in an 1883 building, originally housed a Gerhard Lang saloon. Inside, his craftsmanship can be seen in the pub's rich black walnut sandwich counter, welded metal detail and a giant meat smoker he calls Count Smoke-U-La.
This weekend, Moberly marks two years of ownership with a celebration he called the Mactillion. His new food motto? "Eat barbecue so you don't have to."
Married 11 years, Moberly and his wife, Liz, a tattoo artist, reside on the West Side with their son Aiden, who is 9.
People Talk: You're such a hard worker.
James "Macky" Moberly: I pretty much had at least one job since I was 10, whether it was one or two paper routes or a Pennysaver route or working here since I was 14. I started out washing dishes and cleaning the bar on weekends and being a porter doing the bottles. I learned a lot about saving money from my boss. When I was 18, I worked the door for a couple years. When I was 20, everybody got too drunk at a Bills game and I started tending bar. When my boss opened Showplace Theater in '95, I started being the manager here. I never finished college because of the late hours.
PT: How do you unwind?
JM: Chill with my family. Sundays we do whatever we want to do – sit around the pool, ride bikes. I'm a real hands-on father. I go to all his practices, and spend as much time in school as they'll let me. Kindergarten you could go every day, but every year it's less and less. The past few years I've been the room mom, which makes me and my wife room parents. One of us is always available for the field trip.
PT: Do you want your son to take over the business some day?
JM: I've thought about it, and I would like it but I'm too worried that he might get caught up in the other things like drinking. It's not that I don't drink but I definitely like to keep the hangovers to a minimum. It's a fine line. Things seem to go pretty smooth with my wife as long as there's not too many late nights.
PT: Buffalo has this drinking reputation.
JM: We're a drinking town with a football problem. That's an old expression from the '70s. I'm reading "Nickel City Drafts: A Drinking History of Buffalo." It's pretty much the first book I read since "The Red Badge of Courage" in high school.
PT: Describe your clientele.
JM: The atmosphere is very eclectic. We get all kinds of people. You know what we have a lot of here? I hate to say this, but we get the hipsters. A lot of people don't understand that there are different levels of hipsterism. There's the hipsters who don't wash ever and ride rusty bikes. There's the hipsters who work at Record Theater or LocalEdge. Each level has like a nicer bike. The hipsters have been here since 1986.
PT: What's the West Side all about?
JM: There is definitely a sense of community, and there might be a little self-entitlement type of thing. Our block club is the Essex Corners Neighborhood Association. I'm the president. On top of keeping the bar safe for my customers, we don't let anything happen on the block, either. Ask anybody what the block looked like five years ago. I pretty much put a year's profit into this building.
PT: When did you buy the bar?
JM: Me and Pete had this understanding that even if he got his dream and built a log cabin out in the woods that he would always sell me the bar no matter what. The day before he died he was having lunch with his daughter and she asked him, and he told her that. It took like three years after he passed away before they did the right thing and sold me the bar.
PT: Is there a log cabin in your future?
JM: One time me and my wife visited family in Barefoot Bay, Florida. We got stuck on this intercoastal where there were all these five- and six-room motels right on the water. I think I'd like to own something like that, fix up a vacation destination for people from here or anywhere.
PT: You are a skilled handyman.
JM: I'm constantly fixing things, and when I'm done with a project I say it's Mackt Out. One summer I installed replacement windows on people's homes just to make some extra money. One time I paid someone to build a gate in my driveway, and they didn't, so I learned how to weld. I started a metal business and called it Mackt Out Metals.
PT: Is the pub your social life, too?
JM: Pretty much. I'm not here all the time, but I am here more early in the morning. Even when I'm not here I'm here because there's somebody with eyes for me.
PT: Do you cook?
JM: I don't cook now for the restaurant, but the whole menu I've worked on over the past five years. The kitchen was in such disrepair you couldn't do too much cooking but because I had my own metal fabricating business, I had built a smoker. It's a double-barrel wood stove built out of 55-gallon drums. To try and drum up some business here I put it out front on Sundays, filled it with meat. People would ask me, "How much?" I told them just to bring beer money. So the $80 overhead was just another way to ring up a bunch at the bar.
PT: Does marketing come naturally to you?
JM: I think I sneak it in. Look at the menu. There's Macky's Grand Champion Chili, the Mac-Attack Burger, the Macky Joe.
PT: How did you get the name Macky?
JM: Macky came from my grandfather James McBurney. He was Mack. I was Macky. He pretty much lost his family to fishing. Nobody would fish with him. First he got divorced, then he would yell at his kids because they wouldn't go fishing. I didn't see him for half my life, until I was old enough to drive over to see him on my own.
PT: When did people start calling you Macky?
JM: My first day in kindergarten they asked me my name. I said Macky Doodle James Foley Moberly. My dad had me convinced that was my real name.


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However, MOBIA, as the museum is familiarly known, has come up with another beautiful and inspiring show, this time examining the religious art of African Americans and its relationship to Sacred Scripture. The exhibit is called "From Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery" and will be open until May 26. The term ashe is a Yoruba word from Nigeria and is familiar to Africans and African Americans; it means inspiration. However, someone else used an even more descriptive definition: an inner eye. Amen, of course, means "so be it."
The exhibit features about 60 pieces, among which are some that especially fascinated me. Horace Pippin's "The Holy Mountain" appears at first to be a depiction of the peaceable kingdom in a lush green forest. A closer examination reveals that hidden in the trees are tanks and other symbols of war and violence against people. It is startling and disturbing. Pippin, a World War I veteran, painted this in 1945 at the close of the Second World War.
Clementine Hunter's "Baby Jesus and the Three Wisemen" re-imagines the Magi's visit in Louisiana. Another piece, a magnificently carved door, also features the Magi, who are carrying gifts of a more practical nature than gold, frankincense and myrrh, but also inspired by Scripture.
Joan M.E. Graham's "My Spiritual Family" contains over a hundred small portraits on a mixed media quilt. Charles Alston's "Midnight Vigil," painted in 1936, is a deathbed scene with a community raising prayers to heaven for the dying person.
The pieces and media, including video, are so varied that it would be hard to pick a favorite but, if pressed, I might opt for a beautiful fan, the mainstay of women in the days before churches were air conditioned. The fan features the face of the great jazz singer and song writer, Billie Holiday.
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Kelly Ritchey grew up on a farm but didn't want to be a farmer. However, he did want to be part of the agriculture community.
Ritchey, 56, of Duncansville will be he 24th recipient of the Agricultural Community Excellence award Tuesday at the Blair County Chamber of Commerce Farm-City Dinner at The Park at Morrisons Cove in Martinsburg.
The award was started as a continuation and expansion of the Chamber's Farm Family of the Year Award, initiated in 1970. It is an effort by the chamber to recognize all facets that make agriculture a primary industry in the county.
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Kelly Ritchey (left) and David Smith work on David's taxes on Tuesday at his farm in Martinsburg. Kelly has been named an Agricultural Community Excellence Award winner by the Blair County Chamber of Commerce.
Ritchey was humbled by the recognition.
"I am sure there are more people who deserve it more than I do. It is an honor. I appreciate everything the chamber does for agriculture," Ritchey said. "I was surprised; I didn't expect it."
Ritchey enjoyed growing up on a farm in Woodbury Township, Bedford County.
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Education: Northern Bedford County High School, 1974; Penn State University with a bachelor's degree in agriculture education, 1978
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"I remember getting up and milking the cows, it was a good experience. It teaches you responsibility and work ethic," Ritchey said.
The 1974 graduate of Northern Bedford County High School thought about following in the footsteps of his uncle Robert Sell, vocational-agriculture teacher at Northern Bedford.
After Ritchey graduated from Penn State in 1978 with a degree in agriculture education, a job opened at the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.
"This job came up and it gave me the opportunity to work with farmers," Ritchey said.
Ritchey has been with the farm bureau, where he works in the Farm Management Services Division as an account supervisor and farm consultant, ever since.
Ritchey covers Blair and Cambria counties, and his responsibilities range from providing financial consulting, tax management and farm analysis to farm supplies. He also travels to different parts of the state for special projects such as farm management succession planning.
He said his uncle was a big help in his career choice.
"He pointed me in the right direction and made me aware of the different opportunities rather than being a physical farmer," Ritchey said.
Ritchey, who works out of his home on his wife's family farm in Duncansville, enjoys his work.
"I spend every day outside. If they put me in an office I would go crazy," Ritchey said. "It is always a different challenge every day; it is not boring. I enjoy just dealing with the people. It is better than just crunching numbers."
Ritchey has been a past leader of the Woodbury Dairy 4-H and a member of the Holstein Club of Blair County. He was a partner in Martinsburg Milling Co. for 10 years before the business was sold to Pennfield Feeds in 1996.
Members of the chamber's Farm-City committee said Ritchey is a worthy recipient of the ACE Award.
He was selected because of all of his years of dedication and service to the agricultural community, said Joe Diamond, committee member and regional organizational director for Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.
"Like any trusted employee, he is always there when there are questions. As there have been transitions at farms around the area, he has always been there to make sure the transition went well," Diamond said. "He is always willing to listen and help and he is there when you need him."
Committee member Sarrah Biddle said Ritchey has had a major impact on the agricultural community.
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Bishop England coach Mike Darnell spent much of the regular season trying to figure out which buttons to push with his baseball team.
Now that the playoffs are here, Darnell has decided to lay off the buttons a bit, and the Bishops seem to be responding.
Sophomore pitcher Gunnar Finneseth shut down Wade Hampton over the final two innings, and Bishop England took a 6-3 victory over the Red Devils on Saturday at Father Kelly Field on Daniel Island.
The Bishops (14-13) will travel Monday to Loris, a 6-1 winner over Dillon on Saturday night in the Class AA Lower State tournament.
Bishop England played a much cleaner game against Wade Hampton, committing no errors, than it did in last week's district title games against Academic Magnet.
"We've changed our lineup eight million times and moved people all over the place," said Darnell, who led the Bishops to the state finals last year. "I was on people's behind non-stop, and our kids didn't respond. Then the playoffs came and I decided to back off some, and they've played a little bit looser. We tightened up a little bit today at times, but in general, we are having more fun."
Finneseth (3-3) pitched the final four innings in relief of starter Edward Bolchoz, giving up two runs. Wade Hampton got the potential tying run to the plate in the seventh before Finneseth got the final out on a come-backer to the mound.
"We told Edward and Gunnar earlier in the week, it's the two of them," Darnell said. "They are backing each other up and if one struggles, the other one is coming in. We are struggling out of the pen right now, but those two have been pretty good."
The Bishops scored twice in the first inning, on an RBI grounder by Harrison Boals and a sacrifice fly by Ryan McManus. After Chandler Sambets singled in the second, pinch-runner Lucas Windham stole second and third and scored on Reed Fosberry's grounder for a 3-1 lead.
Wade Hampton cut it to 3-2 in the fourth, but the Bishops got the run back in the bottom of the inning. They loaded the bases on a single by Griffin Herbert, a walk and an error, and a walk to Jonathan Browning forced in a run for a 4-2 lead.
Wade Hampton scored in the fifth to get to within 4-3, but BE iced the game with two runs in the sixth. Paul Provost singled, was bunted to second by Browning and scored on an error, and Jeffrey Brown's RBI single made it 6-3.
The Bishops are two wins away from a return trip to the state finals, but it won't be easy, Darnell said.
"We worked really hard today -- on the base paths, in the dugout, we really worked hard," he said. "And that gives you a chance all the time."
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6 Movie Special Effects That Have Gotten Worse Over Time
Remakes are a tricky business. If you make a bad one, everyone will hate you, and if you make a good one, the fans of the original film will still hate you. I'm not personally against the good ones, because I was under the impression that movies are not real life and thus aren't going to damage me emotionally with all of their remake sacrilege.
I am against bad filmmaking in general, though. I feel that technological development has given us a lot of chances to improve movies, and when someone squanders it all, we have every right to tell them that they have ruined something. In the case of these six remakes, the filmmakers definitely had the tools to assemble visually inspiring creations. But with great power comes no real responsibility, and these films are examples of what happens when you take years of progress and decide that you'd be better off without them.
#6. King Kong (1976)
The original King Kong is a masterpiece. It manages to be emotionally provoking, as well as full of dinosaurs, and has earned its place in adventure cinema history. The remake, released in 1976, shits on everything in that last sentence.
Let's all take one last hit of competent filmmaking before we inhale the vapors of Hollywood's jenkem.
The easiest way to get something done right is to know how to do it. That sounds like simple advice, but special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi and the people behind the misfire that was the 1976 King Kong remake decided to create a 40-foot-tall mechanical gorilla. That idea immediately hits the special part of a person's brain that senses when something feels like a plan could, and probably will, go awry. It sounds ludicrous, since that robot would have to match up with Kong actor Rick Baker's man-in-a-suit giant ape, but these guys never took knowing how to do anything correctly into consideration with Kong. It would all be fine.
Nah, those look basically the same.
The film, overall, cost about $24 million, and the mechanical ape, which weighed 3.5 tons and was filled with 4,500 feet of wiring, cost $1.7 million to make. That is one-twelfth of the entire budget dedicated to "Fuck it. We're doing this." That's like if George Lucas had spent half the budget of Star Wars hoping that his set designers would complete a full-size, fully operational Death Star in time for the film's release. It seems like a fool's gamble to even consider thinking of something like that, but if you've ever seen this King Kong, which takes the original Kong's excitement away and replaces it with the dad from Beethoven telling Jessica Lange that Kong wanted to rape her, you won't be able to even consider logic when it comes to this movie.
The mechanical Kong comes into play in the third act as he's about to be showcased to a crowd. After the weird, artsy touch of having Kong arrive covered in what looks like a giant gas pump, he does the usual "get fucking pissed" routine and starts to break loose. During the film's most kinetic scene, the filmmakers thought that it would be the perfect time to bust out the most non-kinetic thing related to the movie. You see, earlier in the film, Kong was a man in a suit, and a human being has the ability to move like he's not filled with 4,500 feet of cable. If Rick Baker had suddenly been pumped full of tons of cords, I could see why it looked so terrible and would start wondering why King Kong wasn't dedicated to the memory of Rick Baker. But it isn't. It's just something that works like the universe was delivering karmic debt that day and had knocked on the door labeled "Impossible Dreams."
Sometimes the answer isn't "build the largest robot you possibly can." That might be the most depressing sentence I've ever typed.
It's only used for a few seconds, and you'll notice its insertion when the film suddenly shifts from an angry, walking Kong to a weird action-figure-looking Kong with a blank stare on its face. At 40 feet tall, it is the largest mechanical creature ever designed for a movie, and by far the one that sucks the most. Take that, Guinness Book.
#5. The Lost World (1960)
Willis O'Brien was the creator of the special effects in the original King Kong, and he also worked on 1925's The Lost World. Now, this film takes a few liberties with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original novel. For instance, every part where you might have seen a character moment was replaced with clay dinosaurs hating the shit out of each other. But for every loss of what was on the page, there is a gain with what you see on screen. The Lost World is a special effects landmark, from start to apatosaurus-fucking-up-London finish.
This was the Jurassic Park of the "still dying from polio" generation.
However, stop-motion is a long, expensive process, as you have to slowly adjust the models frame by frame to get the desired movement. In the hands of someone unskilled in it, you might have your fantasy film finished with just enough time left over in your life to remember that you once had a painfully neglected wife and some kids. Willis O'Brien ruled at it, but as time went on, the amount of people good at it decreased, and so did the amount of studios willing to invest the time in it.
Shooting this scene took six and a half years.
So, when you need to remake The Lost World and don't want to hire Ray Harryhausen, what do you do? Well, for starters, you don't spend time attempting to make your dinosaurs look passable. Instead, you hope that your audience is unaware of what baby alligators look like and you just use those. It's the weirdest form of animal cruelty I've ever seen.
Huh. It turns out lizards can feel shame.
A reptile's first instinct when put into limited space with a different reptile is to violently clean out its terrarium. I'm not sure if that's a biological fact, but from The Lost World, you'd assume that reptiles were put on this earth simply to exterminate their own class. The leading cause of death in reptiles is just that.
Glue poisoning is a close #2.
None of the reptiles in The Lost World match up to what they're supposed to represent, so the film becomes an exploitation film where the tyrannosaur is a monitor lizard with very untyrannosaurlike horns and fins. The triceratops is a baby iguana with sort-of-triceratops-like horns and unexplained fins. The only saving grace for paleontology is the giant spider, played by an unassuming tarantula. Otherwise, the modus operandi seems to be guessing wrong about what dinosaurs look like and also hoping that audiences won't notice the ridiculousness of someone cowering in fear from the remnants of a surplus sale at a pet store.
He was crushed by the key grip's foot immediately after this scene.
#4. The Thing (2011)
I hate this trend of pretending that computer-created special effects look realistic. Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule, as there are a huge number of hard-working, talented people in the industry who can create great-looking cityscapes, monsters, etc. However, we're fooling ourselves a lot of the time and selling ourselves short with the excuse "Well, it didn't look THAT bad." Fuck that. Even if your main goal in the movie isn't to mock the Sharknado, you shouldn't settle for mediocre CGI. It's never not distracting when actual people are on screen and suddenly something from Resident Evil 2 is pasted into frame.
Half of you just reached for a controller.
I know I sound like someone's awful hypothetical grandfather who has ditched all responsibility for his family in order to craft arguments against horror films, but I would take animatronics, even bad ones, over CGI any day. At least with a robot or a man in a suit in the same shot as a human, you get the idea that there are two things in there, operating against one another, sharing the same physical space and properties, rather than being edited in later. In the case of this particular film, the 2011 remake of John Carpenter's The Thing, the crew had spent months creating flexible animatronics to give the actors something to work with and react to. Also, I'm very aware that 2011's The Thing is supposed to be a "prequel" to the 1982 film, a claim that would work a lot better if they weren't primarily the same fucking movie.
With only minor differences in the volume of dogsplosions.
Sadly, with only a short time to go before the film's release, most of these animatronics were painted over with CGI. I'm not sure whose decision it was to say "Things seem to be going quite well. No time for that!" but whoever did sabotaged any feeling, whether it be fear or morbid curiosity, that The Thing could've produced. Instead of the awful stretch that a person's skin makes before it reveals his tendril-filled insides (you know that stretch, right? Elementary school was insane), we got body parts that just slid away. Everything became far too fluid to be a part of a natural, tearing human form.
Sweet fluffy Jesus, the Thing can clone-stamp.
If your job was to design Boiled Pudding! (a game I just made up based entirely on what pudding looks like when you boil it) for the original PlayStation, you'd have a better idea of how the human body is supposed to deteriorate into homicidal alien life than the people who flailed at their CGI controls until 2011's The Thing was aborted into existence.
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text: When You're HIV-Positive: What to SayLearning that you are HIV-positive can be traumatic and intensely stressful, although the diagnosis is not as terrifying as it used to be thanks to new and better drugs to treat it. Besides coping with your own reaction, you will need to decide whom to tell and how you'll tell them about your HIV status. In some cases, it will be better for you to share the information. In other cases, you may be required to tell, and sometimes it may be best to keep it to yourself. These are big decisions, and there are few hard-and-fast rules.People you need to tellIn many states you are required to tell any current, past, and future sexual partners and anyone you may have shared needles with about your HIV status. You may also be required to tell medical caregivers. Telling doctors and dentists is a good idea in any case, because it means better medical care for you.It's best to tell a current or future sexual partner about your HIV status in person. But if you are too uncomfortable contacting all the people you shared sex or needles with in the past, you can fulfill this obligation by having your local health department help you. The agency can disclose this information while keeping your identity confidential. Check with your local health department about your state's legal requirements.Telling friends and loved onesNot all friends and loved ones need to know. Since the main benefit for you is their understanding and support, you need to think about which trusted friends and family members are most likely to offer the support you need.Here are tips that can help you in this process:Be prepared emotionally. Before you disclose your HIV status, get some support and feedback from a trusted friend or counselor. Make sure you are ready to accept all the possible reactions to the news.Be prepared with information. Loved ones may have lots of questions, so try to be prepared to answer them. Anticipate that people you tell may need time to adjust. They may also need support themselves, so be prepared to offer them resources.Pick the right place and time. Make sure you share this information when you have enough time and privacy. Once you are ready, don't put it off. That only makes talking about it more difficult.Telling your employerIf you are applying for a new job, the only thing your potential employer has the right to ask is if you are healthy enough to do the job. If you are already employed, you do not need to tell anybody at work about your HIV status, but there are some advantages to it that you might consider, especially if HIV illness or treatment interferes with work.Here's what you need to know:You are protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. As long as you can do your job, your employer must make reasonable accommodations to help you.Get a letter from your doctor explaining what kind of help you need. This could be extra rest or a change in your schedule or work assignments.Tell your employer you want to keep working. Let him or her know if you want to keep your HIV status confidential.If in doubt about your legal rights, talk to a benefits counselor or a legal expert.If you are having a hard time telling anyone, Project Inform, an advocacy organization for people living with HIV/AIDS, suggests calling an HIV hotline and practicing by telling the trained and supportive people there. You can reach them at 800-822-7422 or online. Telling people about your HIV status can be extremely difficult, but once you have told the people who need to know, it can be a tremendous relief. You won't need to hide or be afraid any longer, and the relationships that really count should get closer and stronger. Health Encyclopedia A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Search Health Library


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A "spectacular" hotel with views of Lake Erie and a lantern feature that will beckon visitors are two of the elements of the development plans for the Webster Block that were discussed Tuesday in City Hall.
The transformation of one of Buffalo's prime pieces of real estate along the Erie Canal Harbor from a surface parking lot into a destination for hockey lovers is moving on schedule, and environmental testing has uncovered no surprises, representatives from the Buffalo Sabres said.
A groundbreaking is planned for March. The retail components are scheduled to be finished in July 2014, and skaters are expected to take the ice in September 2014. The hotel is expected to open in May 2015.
The Sabres' lead architect, Wayne London of Populous, gave a preliminary presentation of the new development to the Planning Board and will return in a few weeks with a more detailed site plan and to seek the board's approval.
The $123 million HARBORCenter project calls for two National Hockey League-sized rinks, which will sit atop a parking deck, and also will include a large fitness center, a hotel, a 12,000-square-foot sports bar and retail space.
The bar will be on the corner of Washington and Scott streets, and will feature a lantern-like light on the corner, "an icon" that will be visible to people traveling south on Washington once the street is narrowed to two lanes, London said.
The hotel's profile from north to south will be slim, to give as many rooms as possible a lake view. The size of the hotel and who would run it are still under consideration.
"The hotel is going to be a pretty spectacular entity, as is the sports bar, so I don't think we're overly concerned about having partners," said Cliff Benson, chief development officer for the Sabres.
One rink will have seating for 1,800 people, the other will have 200 seats. Both will have enough locker rooms to accommodate simultaneous tournaments, London said.
"Certainly what we saw this morning is on the right track in terms of reflecting the heritage of the area and yet still building a contemporary building," Planning Board member Cynthia Schwartz said Tuesday.
The 1.7-acre parcel, just north of First Niagara Center and bounded by Main, Scott, Washington and Perry streets, has not been sold by the city yet, as a purchase price is still being negotiated.
Also Tuesday:
• The Planning Board approved plans from Savarino Cos. to redevelop 500 Seneca St., the former headquarters of F.N. Burt Co., into a multiuse development for office, retail and cultural institutions. The project has been granted historic tax credits, and the building will be renovated according to state historic preservation standards, said Samuel J. Savarino, company president and CEO.
• Plans for a new school in South Buffalo were approved, and the school is scheduled to be open by fall of 2014. South Buffalo Charter School is planning to build a new school at 154 S. Ogden St., on a brownfield.
• The board approved plans to construct a brewery at Gene McCarthy's, a bar at 73 Hamburg St. in the Old First Ward.
• Plans for an addition at the Annunciation Convent for the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, 245 Lafayette Ave., were approved by the board.
• Plans for a one-story addition at Karma Salon & Spa, at 731 Elmwood Ave., were approved.
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Hi readers, and welcome to the summer! Glad that you are all checking back – from my last post update you know that recently I have been busy assisting our Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan with his weekly radio broadcast "JustLove" on the work of the Church in the world on the Catholic Channel on Sirius/XM Radio. Over the past couple of weeks we've done some terrific shows on both the tragedy of the continuing oil spill in the Gulf, as well as a different kind of tragedy – a moral one – in the continued use of the practice of torture for last week's observance of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. I'll have more to say on both these topics in posts to come, but for now I'd like to share with you a bit about what we discussed on this week's show which we dedicated to the observance of Independence Day. On this week's show we had two guest – the eminent Federal Senior Circuit Judge John Noonan, who sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as Dr. Patrick Griffin, Professor of American History at the University of Notre Dame. Judge Noonan spoke eloquently of what he referred to as "the luster of our Country" – the legacy of religious liberty that we American's enjoy as a consequence of the First Amendment of our Federal Constitution – and Professor Griffin discussed some little known facts regarding the American Revolution – including the contribution of Catholics to the cause of American Independence.
While doing some of the background research for the show, I have to be honest and admit how astonished I was at the level of bigotry that existed against Catholics among the population of what was then the 13 colonies of the nascent United States: at the time of the Revolutionary War, only three of the original 13 colonies allowed Catholics to vote; all New England Colonies except Rhode Island and the Carolinas prohibited Catholics from holding office; Virginia would have Catholic priests arrested for entering the colony; and Catholic schools were banned in every state save Pennsylvania. In the late 1760s and early 1770s, colonists routinely celebrated "anti-Pope days", an anti-Catholic festival derived from the English Guy Fawkes Day (named for a Catholic who attempted to assassinate King James I and blow up the entire British Parliament http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes) – and these "festivals" included mock hangings and burnings of effigies of the Pope, as well as cartoons and orations linking the Pope to the devil and his minions. In fact, a little known action of the British Parliament in 1774 helped fuel some of this anti-Catholic sentiment and caused tremendous anxiety in the populace of the 13 colonies: in that year, the Parliament passed the Quebec Act – an enlightened law that let the Catholic Church remain the official Church of Quebec. This action on the part of Parliament appalled and terrified many American colonists, who assumed that this was a British attempt to subjugate them religiously by allowing the loathsome Catholics to expand into their colonies. In fact, no less of an American patriot then Alexander Hamilton said of this action of Parliament that "Does not your blood run cold to think that an English Parliament should pass an Act for the establishment of arbitrary power and Popery in such an extensive country?…Your loves, your property, your religion are all at stake!"
Thankfully, the great man George Washington rejected this Catholic bashing – though mostly for practical, not philosophical, reasons: he was one of the first to recognize that a revolution based upon "liberty" would need to encompass a new approach to religious freedom. In addition, as Commander in Chief, Washington had to contend with the fact that Catholics were among the volunteers who were members of the Continental Army. Because of this fact, on September 14, 1775 Washington banned the burning of effigies of the Pope on "Pope Day"; and in fact, the practice of burning the Pope in effigies disappeared as a result of this decree. As a result of this tolerance, Catholic soldiers shed blood for the American cause: the Maryland militia was brimming with Catholics who helped thwart British raids from Virginia, and among the soldiers who had gone to aid Boston in its hour of need were Catholics from Maryland and Pennsylvania.
In considering this little known but critical part of our own Nation's history, I thought of how funny it was that despite how much some things change, other things remain the same. Folks who may be reading this in other parts of the country may not be aware, but in the past few months there has been a lot of intense opposition to the Muslim community here in New York City building houses of worship for their members – both in the Brooklyn Diocese as well as here in the Archdiocese of New York in lower Manhattan and in Staten Island. In voicing opposition to these plans, some opponents have cited traffic concerns, but the overwhelming amount of objections have focused on more intangible and frankly volatile issues including: fear of terrorism, a distrust of Islam generally and a linkage between these two concerns in protesters minds. The recent case of the Times Square bomber has only exacerbated the situation. In response to these situations and the concerns that they raise, Archbishop Dolan wisely wrote in his blog that there are "legitimate and understandable concerns…about security, safety, the background and history of the groups hoping to build…(but) what is not acceptable is to prejudge any group, or to let fear and bias trump the towering American (and for us Catholics, the religious) virtues of hospitality, welcome and religious freedom". http://blog.archny.org/?p=725
I have to be honest that on reflecting on these situations, I have a personal history that very much effects my position on these matters. Frequent readers may recall that I have several Muslims among that great community of people that I call my friends; in fact there is a particular person in that community whom I consider one of my closest friends. I have mentioned him in a previous posting here before http://blog.archny.org/onearth/?p=75 , and in fact – coincidentally – it was at a party on the Fourth of July I first met him. As with every human relationship be it at home in our families, at work or at play, our friendship has had its ups and downs. In fact – right at the moment – our friendship is going through a rough patch, the roots of which are – as with disagreements between friends – poorly chosen words, misunderstood actions, and hurt feelings. Added to that are some particular challenges and difficulties that come from being from two different places with different languages, cultures and customs. Still, difficult and challenging does not equal impossible. When it comes to arguments with family and friends, its always been my belief that the best thing to do is to extend to the other person "the benefit of the doubt" – for me, the relationship is almost always more valuable then the conflict that threatens it.
In a funny kind of way, this is exactly I think where some of the difficulties I discussed above have both their origin and at least some possible solution. I am almost certain that many of the people who oppose the Muslim community building a mosque in their neighborhood do so out of a place of fear and unfamiliarity, many – if not most – I'm sure do so with vivid memories of the horrors that our city endured on September 11, 2001 fresh in their minds. I share those memories as well. I also however share other memories: memories of good times shared with good friends – friends who are good people who may pray differently then I do, but who share a belief in a God who is Father to us all. I am mindful that the same prejudice that my good friends must endure today because of the unconscionable actions of 19 young men who were raised in the same faith that they were is of a kind with the prejudice that my ancestors in colonial New York may have encountered because of their faith as well. We should not forget that much of the prejudice that the non-Catholic, mostly Protestant population of the 13 colonies felt towards Catholics was born out of memories of religious persecution and wars that raged all over Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion – at the hands of both Protestant and Catholic forces. There is a reason that the Rolling Stones, in their Rock and Roll anthem "Sympathy for the Devil" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX7pINBoXRc, put the line "I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made" in the voice of Satan; no theologians they, Mick Jagger and his band knew that God – the loving Father of the whole human race – would never countenance killing in his name.
As regards my friend and the difficulty that we recently encountered in our friendship; it is this day one of my sincerest hopes that he and I can extend to one another the "benefit of the doubt", mend the fences that were broken, and resume to enjoy the great times, conversations and laughs that we enjoyed in the past; in a similar way, I believe it would be a wonderful thing if we collectively could – in this season of Independence Day – follow in the footsteps of George Washington, and in the spirit of the "Father of Our Country" extend to another community that worships God a bit differently then ourselves the "benefit of the doubt", mindful of the wonderful spirit of religious liberty and tolerance that truly gives a "luster to our Country".
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MARTINSBURG — For Martinsburg, the old sports axiom of "next man up" when a player gets injured doesn't really apply. It's the next, and the next and the next....
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The Federal work-study program makes awards based on financial need. Students are given the opportunity to work part-time, on-campus, while attending school. They can work full-time during the summer and other vacation periods. Under this program, the college pays a portion of the student wages and the government pays the remainder.
Students with Federal work study eligibility have the opportunity to select from a listing of job openings on campus for interviews and hiring. Students are paid every two weeks for work performed until they have earned the total amount of their Federal work study award for the academic year. There are also positions available for summer work.