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In his final State of the City address, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced measures to continue moving aggressively on his sustainablity goals for the city.
During his 11 years as mayor, his PlaNYC cut the city's greenhouse emissions 15% (from 2005 levels).
After successfully banning transfats and very large sizes of soft drinks in the city, he's taking on styrofoam.
"One product that is virtually impossible to recycle and never biodegrades" is plastic foam, he says. "Something that we know is environmentally destructive and that may be hazardous to our health, that is costing taxpayers money and that we can easily do without, and is something that should go the way of lead paint."
He's also focused on increasing the city's pathetic recycling rate, creating an infrastructure for electric vehicles, and a resiliency plan that protects against extreme weather events.
Sharper Focus on Recycling
While San Francisco has achieved a recycling rate of 80%, and Seattle and Portland, OR hover around 60%, NYC recycles only about 15%. Bloomberg wants to double that by 2017.
Back in 2001, NYC recycled 23%, but it was Bloomberg that stopped collecting many materials to save money. Since then, he's become convinced about the value of recycling.
As of 2010, the US had a 34.1% recycling rate and California passed a bill to recycle 75% of waste by 2020.
To make recycling easier for people, he will double the recycling bins in all five boroughs to 2000, and finalize a plastics recycling plant in Brooklyn that will accept all kinds of plastics. One of the city's biggest solar systems will be on the roof and the center will service as a state-of-the-art education center to teach children about recycling.
Importantly, the city will start recycling food waste - one of the biggest and most unnecessary parts of the waste stream. In NYC, it accounts for nearly 200,000 tons of waste a year - at a cost of nearly $80 per ton, adding up to millions of dollars a year to dispose of.
20,000 tons mixed in that food waste is styrofoam. The plan is to ban the ubiquitous packaging from use in restaurants, stores and schools. Banning it would make food recycling much cleaner, reducing those costs too.
The City Council has to approve the ban, and speaker Christine Quinn seems to favor it. "It lives forever," she told the New York Times. "It's worse than cockroaches."
Besides being toxic and non-biodegradable, plastic foam is very brittle and breaks into tiny pieces. "Getting rid of it means our parks, our streets, our waterways, will all be cleaner," Eric Goldstein, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the NY Times.
San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon have all banned styrofoam.
Expanded Use of Electric Vehicles
He wants the City Council to amend building codes so that 20% of all new public parking spaces are wired to charge electric vehicles, creating about 10,000 EV charging spaces within seven years. Right now, there are about 100 public charging spots, and another 120 for the city's EV fleet.
NYC has the third biggest EV fleet in the country. After adding 50 more EVs this year, it will have over 500 EVs. And the first six Nissan Leaf EV taxis will go into service this year.
Create A More Resilient City
NYC is already addressing this through PlaNYC, which includes $2.4 billion for stormwater management that uses green infrastructure to capture rainwater before it can flood. The city requires climate risk assessments for new developments in vulnerable areas, and is restoring 127 acres of wetlands that serve as a natural storm barrier.
Bloomberg promises that beaches and boardwalks battered by Sandy will re-open by Memorial Day weekend, when he will also deliver a resiliency plan that protects the city's critical infrastructure, that builds on a climate adaptation plan issued in 2010.
The long-term plan will include measures to quickly return power, and make sure hospitals, gas stations and transportation systems stay open. He plans to work with the state to preserving and protect more vital wetlands.
"After the storm passed, it was clear that the houses and businesses most damaged by Hurricane Sandy were built decades ago, while those that were built in the last few years or are now being built held up pretty well," says Bloomberg. "That was no accident. Our administration has fundamentally changed the way we conduct waterfront development. But Sandy raised the bar - and now we must rise to the occasion."
Watch Mayor Bloomberg's "State of the City" address:
Among the many accomplishments during his tenure, the city added record acreage to waterfront partks, planted 650,000 trees since 2007, expanded the subway system for the first time in 50 years and began ferry service, converted the entire city to heating fuel blended with biodiesel, and invested $10 billion in cleaning up New York Harbor.
Zone Green amends the city's zoning regulations to foster green buildings and all buildings must measure and report on emissions. The city has a cool roofs program and a sweeping green buildings program. Other measures include making it easy for people who use car-sharing services to park on city streets, requiring new buildings to have bicycle parking, and requiring tree-planting for new developments.
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I have not had coffee in styrofoam in over 20 years u can see it melt into your coffee. I think Mayor Bloomberg is the smartest and best politician out there and I am a Republican.
I believe in hard work as I have always done . Machine or assault weapons r ridiculous unless fighting enemies in the hands of trained military and all that Bloomberg stands for in gun control. I have many friends who hunt in the beautiful hiss of nj they do it with single shot rifles that is all that is needed on that front. Glad that he banned huge sodas. So smart. Worse thing for us . Recycling so important or like some countries no more plastic. My grown kids so cute talking about recycling. Drinking out of Poland spring water bottle growing up we took a glass and filled it up with water our parents were a lot less wasteful than my kids will ever be. Just was a way of life . Also as a corporate department store buyer Iuse to laugh that my Dad when I gave him a present eg watch had to be American made now I understand we let it get away from us .. Almost all of it to China and overseas very very sad! Anyway I love. Bloomberg!
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Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe how women experience vaginal mesh complications after optimized tertiary care level treatment.
Methods: We conducted telephone interviews in 2012 with women at least 6 months after presentation to our tertiary care clinic between 2006 and 2011 for complications related to vaginal mesh and transcribed verbatim responses to 2 open-ended questions about their experiences surrounding vaginal mesh complications. We analyzed data using qualitative description with low-inference interpretation in a team-based setting followed by consensus meetings to arrive at descriptive trajectories of their experiences.
Results: Of 111 women, we successfully contacted 88, and 84 agreed to the interview. The mean duration from index mesh surgery to interview was 4.5 years, and the mean duration from presentation to our clinic for complications to the interview was 2.3 years. The effects of mesh complications caused both physical and emotional pain, in addition to the discomfort of the original pelvic floor dysfunction. The women's experiences followed 1 of 3 recovery trajectories. In "cascading health problems," the women experienced a spiral of health problems, anxiety, and desperation. In "settling for a new normal," the women who once considered themselves healthy now believed that they are unhealthy and worked to adjust to their degraded health status. In "returning to health," the women described a return to health. The women still symptomatic discharged from tertiary care clinic expressed hopelessness and abandonment.
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Ricky Romero, 74, of Amarillo died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006.
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Mr. Romero was born May 24, 1931, in San Bernardino, Calif., was raised there and moved to Amarillo in 1958. He married Stella Marrujo on Dec. 17, 1949, in Fontana, Calif. He played AAA baseball for the San Francisco Giants. He was a professional wrestler for more than 50 years. He was not only loved by fans in Texas, but all over the world.
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Deep time paleo modelers are responsible for creating new surface data forcing as well as a directional runoff map on the River Transport Model (RTM) grid.
CLM3 does not require an initial condition file and can be initialized with arbitrary initialization (Section 6.3.1). Typically, for deep time, the researcher does not know the land model initial state with enough accuracy to improve upon the arbitrary initialization option. CLM3 will spin up its own variables at runtime. If the modeler does wish to use an initial condition file, refer back to Section 3.1 for ideas and strategies. An initial condition procedure for deep time is not supported.
Changing the land/sea mask for deep time model experiments requires that the modeler create a new land surface dataset. The surface dataset is created offline by the CLM4 tool mksurfdat.F90 [/models/lnd/clm/tools/mksurfdata]. This process differs from CCSM3, where the surface dataset was created at runtime. The surface dataset is constructed from a series of seven 'raw' datafiles, created by paleo_mkraw.csh.
HINT: It is highly recommended that the modeler review the newly created surface_data_[resolution].ncfor accuracy. When creating this dataset, CLM3/CCSM uses the ocean grid to compute the land/ocean mask and create the respective variables onto atm/lnd grid. When this initial mapping is done, there are often mismatches between the ocean grid and the atmosphere grid. If the ocean model views a grid point as land, and the land model has no information on that grid point (because on the atmosphere grid it was considered ocean), then CLM3 assigns this point to be wetland. This typically occurs along the coastlines and may not be desired. The modeler will need to modify the surface_data_[resolution].nc file to correct for these erroneous wetland points. We provide an NCL script in the setup_tools tar file to correct surface_data_resolution.ncif necessary.
You may want to change the generic name of the new surface dataset to something more descriptive by adding your case ID and/or a date.
Hint: Once your surface_data_myrun.nc file is corrected, all model submissions should point this file.
The script paleo_mkraw.csh uses LSM vegetation types from your time period (user-provided, i.e. vegetation.nc) and current day soil texture profiles (mksrf_soitex.10level.nc) to create the seven 'raw' land surface datafiles required by CCSM3. These datasets are named 'mksrf_[].nc' and include surface data information for PFTs (plant functional types), soil color, soil texture, leaf/stem areas and heights (LAI), land water (lakes and wetlands), glaciers, and urban areas (Table 9). From these 'raw' datasets, a single land surface data file, tailored to your land and ocean grids, will be created at model runtime (Section 184.108.40.206).
HINT: To create the mksrf files required for the surface dataset, you must specify the resolution of your incoming LSM vegetation dataset by setting longitude/latitude in paleo_mkraw_sed.F90. For example, if your LSM vegetation map is at 2x2 degree resolution, then nlon=180 and nlat=90, and your mksrf_<>.nc files will also be 2x2 degree. If your vegetation file has 0.5 degree resolution, nlon=720 and nlat=360 and your mksrf_[].nc files will also be at 0.5 degree resolution.
The scriptpaleo_mkraw.csh assumes that glaciers=urban=lakes=wetlands=0, soil texture =loam and soil color=4. If this does not suit your needs, you will need to alter paleo_mkraw_sed.F90 to make any desired changes.
For example, if you would like to specify glaciers, you will need to edit the subroutine create_mksrf_glacier and add code to test for LSM type 1 (land ice). For each point equal to 1, assign pct_glacier values from 0 to 100%. See the Near-modern section for a discussion on adding glaciers to near-modern simulations.
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The CLM4 land model defines the physiology of each plant functional type (PFT) in an ASCII text files, called pft-physiology. The default pft-physiology definitions are generally used for paleo experiments. However, if you wish to change the characteristic of a specific CLM PFT, and you cannot accomplish your goal by modifying paleo_mkraw_sed.F90, you may need to edit this dataset. Please read the CLM documentation before altering this file and/or contact a CCSM paleo liaison for a consultation.
Model dynamics parameters tend to be resolution dependent and can be controlled in the model namelist. There are several source code modifications the modeler may need to make.
In the default CLM3 source code, the Ross Ice Shelf is hardwired into the mksrfdatMod.F90 code. If you wish to remove the Ross Ice Shelf, copy mksrfdatMod.F90 to your SourceMods/src.clm directory and search for 'Ross Ice Shelf'. Comment out the entire section referring to setting LAND values on the Ross Ice Shelf to glacier. This modification is recommended for all users.
pctwet(i,j) = 100. - pctlak(i,j)
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Additionally, if you have lowered sea level and exposed new land along the continental shelf, CLM will automatically define that new land as 'wetland'. If you desire another vegetation designation for these newly created land areas you can modify mksrfdatMod.F90 to fill in these areas (e.g., with nearest neighbor land cover).
If your RTM forcing data set (produced by rdirc.csh) is NOT 0.5 degrees, the modeler will need to edit this code to specify the correct latitudes and longitudes. Search for rtmlon and rtmlat.
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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Initial Efficacy of an Online Sexual Health Promotion Program for LGBT Youth: The Queer Sex Ed Intervention
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Youth in same-sex relationships were recruited into a 5-module, online sexual health intervention. Initial efficacy is described.
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MSM who engage in high-risk sex use the Internet to meet sexual partners; meeting partners online doesn't necessarily cause high-risk sex.
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After any harrowing struggle, it is nice to consider checking into a hotel for a rest. In fact, this might be just the break Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire could use after their wearying deep-sea adventure.
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Please keep Bucky and the gang in our lives, Darby…they are better than tax deductions and sweet butter. Happy New Year to you, your loved ones, and all your fellow/lady artists.
Second that. :o)
Oh no, dont get him started….HELP ME…HELP ME….
Doesn't look like Rob's having happy new years and Satchel might wet on the couch?
Miss Buttinsky I would be happy to second your request
Haha…great comic for the New Year!
Wait, no one is supposed to know about the teleportation machine. How did he find out?
My question seeing you are tallking about clifford . I know when I take my dog for a walk Icarry a plastic bag. Iwould think you would see a dump truck and a scoop folling him around ?
maintenance on clifford would be higher than maintaining a fleet of jets. the amount of food that dog eats, the waste that he generates, the water consumption oy. not to mention, the shots, meds, and the grooming. ….bucky and fox news, perfect match. it will make sean and bill seem a little bit sane compared to bucky.
Satchel's going to have bad dreams now…
'Aardvark Contaminated Teleportation Machine' is FOUR words… Bucky is having a hard time counting! By the way, what Cold War experiment were Bucky and Satchel the result of?
The Buckster knows all.
Don't think he's talking about that "The Fly"
I think Bucky is either the result of a nuclear reactor or a collision with a car.
More 2010 Bucky. I wonder when Bucky will get back to messing with Fungo.
This is a good one from 2010. Bucky marches to the beat of his own drummer. That drummer is playing "They're Coming to Take Me Away," ha!
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This week, to finish off my 5 Weeks of Cookies Gift Guide, I am sharing the recipe for my favorite holiday Butter Cashew Brittle. This crisp, buttery, melt in your mouth brittle will be the crowning jewel in this year's cookie gift tins. What!? Candy making is like…hard and stuff. Pssshhaaa! Follow my steps and you'll be surprised at just how easy this brittle is to make. No candy thermometers or strings attached! And if you happen to have a few pieces left over after the gift tins have been filled, crumble it over vanilla ice cream for an indulgent treat. You can thank me later.
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Butter Cashew Brittle– adapted from Everyday Food
Non-stick cooking spray
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 tsp course salt
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 lb roasted and lightly salted cashews
Rimmed baking sheet
Silicone mat
Wooden spoon
Heavy bottomed pan (I use this All-Clad stainless steel pan)
1. Measure out all ingredients and have them ready and in reach of your stove top as this recipe comes together quickly!
2. Line a rimmed baking sheet with a silicone mat (I use this Silpat liner) and lightly coat with cooking spray.
3. Spray a spatula with non-stick spray and have it ready next to your prepared baking sheet.
3. In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, salt and water. Stir to combine with a wooden spoon, (This is the only time you will stir the sugar until step 4), clean and dry spoon. Next, bring sugar mixture to a rapid simmer over medium-high and cook watching closely until it turns a deep golden color, about 20 minutes so be patient. *While the sugar cooks, do not walk away…once it turns a deep golden brown you need to immediately remove from heat and move to step 4.
4. Remove pan from heat. Stir in butter, baking soda and cashews (mixture with foam). Rapidly stir with wooden spoon until mixture is no longer bubbling and caramel is smooth, about 1 minute.
5. Transfer to prepared sheet pan and work quickly to spread out evenly with lightly greased spatula. Let cool until firm, 15 minutes.
6. Break into pieces (Store brittle in an airtight container at room temp for up to 3 weeks)
*Note: Please use caution when working with hot sugar and make sure your "little elves" stay out of the kitchen during this process. Enjoy!
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Oh man, crumbling these over vanilla ice cream sounds divine…!
December 20, 2011
Yuuuummmmmm!! Brittle is def my fave. Love that you've done cashew 😀
Lane Culpepper permalinkDecember 21, 2011
Ooooweee!!! I want to crunch on that 🙂
Cindy permalinkNovember 3, 2014
Hi Leah, I hope you can help me. I made your recipe of brittle but it definitely did not come out. In the written instructions it said to combine Sugar, Syrup, Salt and Water. Which is what I did, but now that I look at the ingredients it doesn't show any water needed. My brittle came out clear and gooey. It doesn't want to harden. Is water needed or not needed? I've never made brittle before and didn't know what to be looking for and am so disappointed this didn't turn out.


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|Aug 8 2011, 04:19 PM Post #21
Ok! Thoughts on today's (Monday) Show..... actually, I found today watchable. Here's what comes to mind, first the negative: Im a huge Ari Zucker fan and I'd never FF her, unless she is in scenes with the horrific Taylor. I watched most of their scenes but it is utterly ridiculous for Nicole to stand before that hyprocritical slut and try to explain herself. Neither Nicole or Taylor needs any explanations, nor should Nic feel the need to stay in the same room with that tramp of a sister. Blah blah blah!
How about some positive news!? I am not a Molly Burnett fan but I thought she did fairly well with her scenes today. She really has toned it down. Melanie views Maggie as a motherly figure so, sure, she should be devastated about the shooting. I'm still not a fan....but I appreciated her not so over the top performance.
Quinn and Carly.....man, what couldve and shouldve been. Both are really great actors and I enjoyed their scenes today. What's up with Quinn tho? We know he will be sticking around. He is so great with Carly.....and has a redemptive factor behind Chloe's back. I'm still not sure what his deal is but I really enjoy him with Carly. Too bad that won't last much longer
I enjoyed the talk between EJ and Brady with Chad and Sonny in the background. Also liked how Chad chimed in and EJ was quick to tell him to calm down. The scene in the pub between the two was fun and cool as well....they slapped around at each other like brothers would do. I have a brother and we fake fight all the time. I like the idea of them becoming like brothers....not just in name but in action and conversation. I love Sonny....love him!!!!.....it's a tad odd seeing such a worldly confident young man (Sonny) looking like a child standing next to the giant that is Casey D! Lol. I'm only 5ft 4 so I can relate. Gotta say, The more I see those two in a scene together, the more I'm thinking about SAD (Sonny/Chad). Hmmmm
is it just me or is Arianna Hernandez the most mentioned dead person in Days history? Hell, she is mentioned more than Alice Horton!
All in all, today was better than usual so I guess that means we get some real crapola later this week. Another week closer to rewritten scripts and new material folks! Yay. I give today a B+....minus Taylor :)
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|Aug 8 2011, 04:44 PM Post #23
It's glaringly obvious that Higley was on a mission to promote Taylor as the heroine of the show. Higley's ill-conceived strategy was to practically ruin any character within Tayho's radius. EJ, Nicole, and Brady have all suffered drastically from their interactions with this trick. It's time for this cancer to stop spreading and harming these characters.
Just hearing Taylor talk is as irksome as someone scraping their nails across the blackboard. Uggh! I really dislike this character. Like one of Ben Affleck movie titles suggests: I can't wait till you're 'gone, baby gone'.
I truly believe that Higley was planning a Brady/Taylor/EJ triangle with Nicole hovering fretfully on the fringes while her 'sweet, innocent' (super sarcasm alert! :sarcasm: ) is torn between two lovers. I pass! Apparently, so do a lot of other people.
In her pursuit, Higgs only served to have viewers turn away in frustration.
And now MacPherson & Thomas have the huge task of overcoming Higley's destruction. Good luck, new writers, you're going to need it. But, with good story, I know that EJ/Nicole/Brady will all be restored.
|Aug 8 2011, 04:44 PM Post #24
OMG! Sonny looked like a wee toddler in the forest scenes with Chad, EJ, and Brady. Storyline wise, I'd be OK with a Sonny/Chad pairing, but height wise, I'd find the disparity too distracting. LOL!
|Aug 8 2011, 04:56 PM Post #25
I totally agree!!! Don't forget Hagley made LEXIE completely unlikeable with her pimping of infidelity and Taywhore. Given Lexie's history, she should have been the last person to support Ejaylor's disgusting affair.
|Aug 8 2011, 05:10 PM Post #26
Oh yeah, I had forgotten that Lexie had gotten chopped by the Taylor axle. Taylor claimed yet another victim. Don't worry, Lexie, help is soon on the way! :hail:
And it really ruffles my feathers that Hackley was going to have the audacity to explore Taylor's past. Evidently, Higgs missed the memo that viewers don't give a damn about her.
And why they are dragging her storyline all the way to Sept.23rd is just mindboggling to me.
Just get rid of her.
|Aug 8 2011, 05:11 PM Post #27
There's no way in hell I'd believe that the REAL Nicole would make excuses for anyone - let alone her disgusting slut of a sister - for sleeping with her husband!! The REAL Nicole would not be sitting at a bar buying her drinks! She would be kicking her ass!! Their entire scenes skeeved me out, because Nicole would have NEVER forgiven her. She would make that bitch's life a living hell!
I did enjoy the EJ/Stefano/Chad and the Brady/Victor/Sonny scenes.
|Aug 8 2011, 06:09 PM Post #28
|Is it safe to say we've seen the last of DiMera lackey Marco?
|Aug 8 2011, 06:32 PM Post #29
I'm baffled about how people found the show watchable today. I hated it, but granted I am only 3 days into trying to get back into it.
-Nicole drinking a martini in a dive like that? Really? Where's The Blue note. Her dialogue with Taylor was crappy - like Nicole would really be so civil to anyone that bonked her husband, not least of all her sister.
-The Carly/Quinn stuff was ok. What drugs are Carly doing? Does it involve hair loss because her hairline is receding?
- Brady/EJ in the forest with their cheerleaders Sonny and Chad : dumb dumb dumb and bad dialogue.
- Stefano so blase about Maggie being shot. Yeah, I know she means nothing to him, but he didn't seem to fazed either.
- If Daniel saves Maggie, will he dump Jennifer and start a new triangle with her and Victor? :p
Ok, I'm still adjusting to the show and am still sensitive to shit. Soon I will be numb and carry on regardless lol.
|Aug 8 2011, 06:44 PM Post #30
|Its sad Stefano doesn't seem to remember when he targeted Mickey and especially Maggie during the 80s.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:18 PM Post #31
something tells me it might be Marco that shoots Chad, Marco looked awfully pissed. And btw, first time, loved Quinn...just wanted to plant a big wet one.
Sonny/EJ/Chad/Brady were off the charts.
Nicole was overshadowed by the black hole eclipse that is Taylor.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:19 PM Post #32
Ooh, good point about Marco shooting Chad.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:22 PM Post #33
can I disagree with everything in this post excluding Dr. Feelgood? Victor wasn't balling, that's not him he was shocked--
|Aug 8 2011, 07:26 PM Post #34
this is why I think it might be Marco. I mean yes maybe Victor is setting him up this time, but something tells me it maybe an angered third party trying to stoke the fire.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:27 PM Post #35
That would be a little better than the typical back and forth.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:36 PM Post #36
I watched Marco's face and thought, I know Stefano thinks he's the godfather, but is it really a good ideal to piss off a hired killer.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:38 PM Post #37
|It was interesting, because when I watched Marco wasn't clearly pissed. There was a flash of anger across his face, but he seemed mostly focused on doing what he was told.
|Aug 8 2011, 07:42 PM Post #38
Much prefers sweevil, snarky EJ over Father Figure Fucktard Eejiot.
Okay..so watching today's show and I'm just floored at how bad the shooting played out. All three actors seemed like they were sleep walking thru those scenes. And WTH would Victor just sit there cuddling Maggie instead of trying to call for help himself? It was almost like Stefano calling was an afterthought. :unsure: And the reactions of the people in the hospital when Maggie was brought in? Why isn't Jennifer raging - or at least seemingly upset? Why does it seem like Melanie is the only one having a strong reaction? Holy cow - this whole thing was just awful. Amidst the weeks and weeks of awful stuff...this pretty much is icing on the cake.
The Nicole/Taylor stuff was just painful to watch. Partially because Taylor looks so damn bad. Seriously...how can anyone who knows TB not be concerned about her health? I will say that I thought Ari Z looked good in the scenes - I like her hair style.
The Brady/EJ and little bros stuff was okay...but the dialogue was uber cheesy. And how many times does EJ need to go over and over that he thinks they should do this to protect their families? I get Brady not trusting him...but making him repeat himself over and over isn't likely going to increase the probability that he's being honest. It just makes them both redundant.
I do see a spark between Carly and Quinn. But knowing CC is on her way out - who the hell cares?
Yikes...probably the worst episode I can recall in a very long time. Like...maybe forever. :facepalm:
|Aug 8 2011, 07:48 PM Post #39
I don't know, excited for EJ to stand up and finally let it be known, this is his life and he's taking charge. Goody goody... EJ's got his balls back, can he not let Taylor lead him around by them? Watch out for the Taylor eclipse...beware...beware...
And can I say it again.. Vic was in shock. Victor is not a sobber, he's not a man that screams "Help help" it would be out of character. Victor was so not expecting it, and it showed. John Aniston is a soap opera god!!!
|Aug 8 2011, 08:03 PM Post #40
|i think TB has an eating disorder.
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More than 50 older drivers in the Western Bay have been referred by their doctors to sit on-road safety tests this year - with half failing.
Figures released under the Official Information Act show 52 on-road safety tests were carried out this year for drivers aged 74 or older in Tauranga City and two in the Western Bay of Plenty district - with 48 per cent and 50 per cent respective pass rates.
Age Concern chairperson Angela Scott said the fact these older divers were referred to take a test showed there "probably was a problem" with their driving ability.
"For a doctor to make that call is a very sensible choice because it means older people and other drivers remain safe on the road.
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Currently, drivers must renew their licence at age 75, 80, and then every two years after that. To renew their licence, drivers must obtain a medical certificate from their GP following a health and vision check.
Following this, they are classified into one of five categories: medically fit to drive without restrictions; medically fit to drive with conditions; medically fit to drive subject to passing an on-road safety test; medically fit to drive subject to confirmation by a specialist; and not fit to drive - in which case the driver's licence expires on their next birthday.
Coastal Bay of Plenty and Districts Grey Power president Ruth Dekker said current testing for older drivers was adequate.
She said most older drivers were safe on the roads, and those who weren't usually stopped driving voluntarily.
As well as the on-road safety tests, Age Concern hosts driver refresher courses where they go over the road rules and offer tips to keep older drivers safe and avoid situations that compromised their safety, Mrs Scott said.
Nationally, more than 5000 licensed drivers on New Zealand roads are currently in their 90s, with 11 aged over 100. New Zealand's oldest motorist is an impressive 104.
Around the country, nearly half the 699 drivers who underwent on-road safety tests this year have failed.
Automobile Association spokesman Mike Noon said it was desirable to keep older motorists driving as long as they could do so safely. He said that some conditions could be imposed on older drivers, which might include only driving within a certain distance of their home, or between certain hours - to keep them away from heavy traffic.
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Orange barber's daughters are NFL cheerleaders
Those visiting Roy Freitas for a haircut at his old-school barbershop in Old Towne Orange can spot a calendar of the Sea Gals, the cheerleaders for the Seattle Seahawks, hanging on the wall behind his line of red-leather barber chairs.
This is a prized treasure for Freitas. It's signed by his daughter, Krystal Freitas, who has cheered for the team for two years. When prompted, Freitas proudly boasts she is not the only NFL cheerleader in the family. Her older sister, Jessica Freitas, is a member of the Flight Crew, which cheers for the New York Jets.
Both were born and grew up in Orange. They attended Orange Lutheran High and took very different paths to the NFL, each following their love of dance.
"It really puts us on the same level, and we completely understand each other," Krystal Freitas said.
Krystal Freitas tried out for the Sea Gals with 300 other women and made the cut after a grueling series of auditions. Making the cut once doesn't guarantee a spot the next year – veterans have to try out every April.
"It's pretty stressful, because you have a great thing and you had that experience, (and) you don't want to let that go," she said.
The idea of trying out for an NFL cheer squad didn't come to Jessica Freitas – professionally trained as a ballerina – until her sister had been with the Seahawks for a year. She had cheered for professional teams before and decided to give it another go. As a ballerina, Jessica Freitas performed for audiences in major theater houses but said there is no comparison to performing in front of tens of thousands.
"Being on the field at MetLife Stadium is a whole other ball game," she said. "When you're standing there representing the NFL, it's a really cool feeling."
The tight uniform tops that NFL cheerleaders wear might be tough for some dads. But Roy Freitas said he doesn't worry.
"I'm still a dad," he said. "Onstage, I don't look at them as my daughters anymore, they're cheerleaders."
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