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US acquisition bolsters Jain Irrigation
The counter witnessed a decent rally from the close of Rs 205 on 12 January 2006, to close at Rs 245.35 on 02 February 2006.
NuCedar Mills is a custom home-building industry and Jain Irrigation will release the investment in phases spread over the calendar year 2006. NuCedar Mills is a start-up firm addressing building industry needs through products made from PVC sheets.
Jain Irrigation-members approved the scheme of amalgamation of Coimbatore based, Terra Agro Technologies, with effect from 01 April 2005.
Jain Irrigation has reported 150% surge in its Q3 December net profit to Rs 15.25 crore (Rs 6.09 crore). Net sales increased to Rs 220.48 crore (Rs 144.28 crore). Domestic business grew by 78% to Rs 149.79 crore and exports by 18% to Rs 69.60 crore.
Jain Irrigation Systems manufactures plastic pipes, micro-irrigation systems, plastic sheets, high-tech agriculture, processed fruits and vegetables. It is a leading player in the micro-irrigation market, and enjoys about 50% of the market share.


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There appears to be a deliberate strategy in place to make everything lean more contemporary rather than designer. It's really killing it for me. I hope the sales are worth it.
Buncha old Raf on ebay
Someone do it
edit: also, interesting Undercover canvas jacket in a V (but looks like a 40 to me) for a good price:
Ann Demeulemeester - Vitello Black Lace up Creeper Boots - size EU41 / US9 - 700USD

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Other videos put out by Thrasher:
There are so many goddamn Thrasher videos that we had to make a link for em.
This video finds itself playable in your VCR thanks to Thrasher magazine. The skating is varied, with street spots galore and emptied pools ripe for the skating. In accordance with its affiliation with no team, there are also a variety of skaters, each with distinct parts. While there are certainly fewer and lesser known skaters than a Transworld video might have, the format is entirely different, which may excite some of you looking for something new.
I had no idea what to expect upon watching Jaded. I have been pretty enthralled by the Transworld videos, for their top-notch skaters and top of the line production quality, and so I had low expectations for this Thrasher show. However, I was pleasantly blown away. This video is fun! Simply fun. If you're going to be an asshole about it and expect the best trick you've ever seen every time you sit down to watch a movie, then maybe Jaded isn't for you. But if you enjoy seeing one skater perform a tailslide, and then having his friend ollie over the extended part of his sliding deck, and other sorts of laidback shenanigans, then this is for you. You might not be inspired to go hit handrails, but you'll definitely be looking to just go out and try some stupid, yet hilarious stunts with your friends.
Featured Skaters:Louie Barletta
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Teaks North gets Nevin's career going; Regalo Mia along in time
Teaks North broke sharply for John Velazquez and set up shop on the front end, getting away with splits of :25 3/5, :52 and 1:16 3/5 on the yielding turf. Meanwhile, 1-2 favorite Doubles Partner was unhurried well off the pace. By the time Doubles Partner kicked into gear at the head of the lane, the front runner was long gone.
Still full of run down the stretch, Teaks North kept on relentlessly to spring the 2 1/2-length upset. The six-year-old gelding posted a final time of 1:52 4/5 for 1 1/8 grassy miles, and his loyal supporters reaped returns of $19.80, $6.20 and $4.60.
"We wanted to be close to the lead, and everyone began slowing down in front," Velazquez recapped. "It was perfect. I couldn't ask for a better trip. They let me go slow and I took it."
Doubles Partner cost himself valuable position right at the start, according to jockey Javier Castellano.
"We had bad luck out of the gate," Castellano said. "Usually he breaks great, although today he hesitated after we broke and wasn't as sharp. Unfortunately the pace was slow, we ended up too far back and it was too hard to catch up. Teaks North and John Velazquez went to the lead wire to wire and we lost the race out of the gate."
Doubles Partner was a clear second by 2 1/4 lengths. Shkspeare Shaliyah nabbed Bad Debt by a neck for third, with Slews Answer the same margin back in fifth. Next came Picou, Roman Tiger and Duke of Mischief.
With this sixth career stakes victory to his credit, Teaks North sports a mark of 23-8-1-2, $1,096,464. The son of Northern Afleet had won a pair of Monmouth stakes at three, the Restoration on the turf and the Big Brown on dirt -- an ironic success considering his later switch to Dutrow and Nevin -- and he ended the 2010 season with thirds in both the Grade 3 Discovery Handicap and the Cosmic Bob at Aqueduct.
Teaks North was bred by Brylynn Farm in Florida. Out of the unraced High Honors mare Teaksberry Road, he is a full brother to the stakes-winning Teak Totem, the dam of Grade 2 scorer Adios Charlie and black-type placed Streakin' Mohican. Teaks North is also a half-brother to multiple Grade 2 hero and Grade 1-placed Wooden Phone.
Swinging into the stretch, Hooh Why delivered her challenge and surged past Romacaca, bringing back memories of last year's edition. The two threatened to reprise their respective one-two roles, until Regalo Mia began to lengthen stride. Their younger rival looked stronger the farther she went, completing 1 1/8 soggy miles in 1:52 1/5 and paying $7.20, $3.80 and $2.40.
"I handicapped the race," Castellano said, "and I didn't see much speed, and was afraid Hooh Why and Romacaca would control the race. I expected to be closer to the pace, but my horse was off the bridle in the beginning while getting used to the soft ground, but she loved the surface. Turning for home when I asked for more she responded very well. It was a great performance from her. This was her first time on the soft ground and she handled it wonderfully."
Hooh Why's rider, Ronald Allen Jr., was also sizing up the pace scenario.
"I knew Romacaca and Refining showed speed, so I was going to try to let them go ahead and hook up," Allen said. "When Refining backed off and didn't want to hook Romacaca, I knew Romacaca got too easy of a lead so she might be hard to catch. I saw jockey Francisco Torres was out of horse (on Romacaca) around the turn and knew I had them, all that was left was to hold off Regalo Mia, but we couldn't do it. We just ran out of gas."
Hooh Why took the runner-up spot by three-quarters of a length from Romacaca. Millennia, Callmethesqueeze and Refining rounded out the order under the wire. Speak Easy Gal was scratched in favor of the Distaff, where she finished second.
Regalo Mia's new career highlight improved her scorecard to 9-2-3-3, $237,721, compiled exclusively on turf. The Sligo Bay filly's prior victory had also come over the Gulfstream turf, in a maiden in late 2011.
Pitched straight into stakes company, Regalo Mia was beaten all of a neck when third to Dixie Strike in the Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs. She was edged by Dayatthespa by the same margin in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride over this course and distance, and checked in a distant third to her in the Grade 3 Appalachian at Keeneland.
Her closest call came in the Grade 2 Sands Point at Belmont, failing to catch Better Lucky by a nose. Regalo Mia flew to California for the Grade 1 American Oaks last summer, only to spike a fever and ultimately came down with pneumonia. Unraced for five months, she returned with a solid third in the October 27 Banner Gala at Belmont, before her uncharacteristic flop in the November 17 Mrs. Revere.
"There was never any question that we had a good filly since she came to us as a two-year-old," Nihei said. "Her only bad race in the Mrs. Revere at Churchill...it just wasn't her day. It was at night in the freezing cold, raining and the ground was slippery on top. Other than that she has run her race every time.
"We do have to allow for her (small) size in her training, but she more than makes up for it. I've always thought she would like a distance, and a three-turn race is the obvious next step."
Bred by Juvenal Diaz in Florida, Regalo Mia is out of the Red Bullet mare Shake It Up, who is in turn a half-sister to 2002 Wonder Where heroine, Hot Talent.
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In today's TV Picks, check back into "Bates Motel," "Bachelor" women spill secrets, "Archer" enters the danger zone and Chloe Sevigny goes absolutely nuts in a new serial-killer procedural.
Let's go to the bullets:
- "How I Met Your Mother" (7 p.m. on CBS, cable channel 12): Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) can't figure out which suit to wear to the wedding (as if he'd go that long without making that particular decision), and Lily and Robin (Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders) get into a pre-wedding fight.
- "Almost Human" (7 p.m. on FOX, cable channel 13): In the season finale, Kennex and Dorian (Karl Urban and Michael Ealy) look into a serial killer whose methods are similar to one put away by Kennex's father (John Diehl).
- "The Bachelor: The Women Tell All" (7 p.m. on ABC, cable channel 8): Seventeen of the season's most memorable women reunite to dish the dirt on Juan Pablo and each other.
- "The Voice" (7 p.m. on NBC, cable channel 5): Blind auditions continue.
- "Switched at Birth" (7 p.m. on ABC Family, cable channel 28): Bay (Vanessa Marano) has trouble dealing with the impact of her hand injury on her art, and Daphney (Katie Leclerc) ponders a medical career.
- "2 Broke Girls" (7:30 p.m. on CBS): Caroline (Beth Behrs) flips out when Nicolas (Gilles Marini) tells her he's leaving his wife for her.
- "Bates Motel" (8 p.m. on A&E, cable channel 31): The delightfully creepy show returns for a second season with Norman (Freddie Highmore) still obsessed about his teacher's death and Norma (Vera Farmiga) fights City Hall to save her hotel.
- "Dallas" (8 p.m. on TNT, cable channel 42): Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) starts to doubt her alliance with John Ross (Josh Henderson) thanks to his J.R.-like penchant for infidelity, and Emma (Emma Bell) looks for a dangerous new partner following her father's (Mitch Pileggi) release from jail.
- "The Fosters" (8 p.m. on ABC Family): Callie (Maia Mitchell) is torn between helping Brandon (David Lambert) and clearing Daphne's (Daffany McGaray Clark) name.
- "Mike & Molly" (8 p.m. on CBS): Molly (Melissa McCarthy), feeling suddenly more confident, starts handing out advice right and left.
- "The Following" (8 p.m. on FOX): Max (Jessica Stroup) deals with a new threat that affects the search for Lily Gray (Connie Nielsen).
- "Worst Cooks in America" (8 p.m. on Food Network, cable channel 65): The chefs get a chance to experiment in the kitchen, with likely disastrous results.
- "Mom" (8:30 p.m. on CBS): Violet (Sadie Calvano) is growing more anxious about becoming a mom, so Christy (Anna Faris) throws her a baby shower.
- "Archer" (9 p.m. on FX, cable channel 43): Kenny Loggins guest-voices as himself when Archer forces him to duet with Cherlene at Lana's baby shower.
- "Those Who Kill" (9 p.m. on A&E): Chloe Sevigny brings some flair to this otherwise grim new serial-killer procedural (that such a thing is its own genre is a bit disheartening). Sevigny stars as a new Pittsburgh homicide detective who uses her history to serial killers to fuel her drive to track them down. Thomas D'Arcy co-stars as a psychologist with an equally fetish-like attraction to the killers.
- "Castle" (9 p.m. on ABC): Beckett (Stana Katic) finds herself in daner when she goes undercover for a narcotics investigation in an episode that brings back big elements from her past.
- "Intelligence" (9 p.m. on CBS): Gabriel (Josh Holloway) finds himself turning on the team when his chip is hacked.
- "Beat Bobby Flay" (9 p.m. on Food Network): This new series pits Flay against top chefs who get to challenge him with their signature dishes.
- "The Blacklist" (9 p.m. on NBC): Red (James Spader) sends the team after "The Judge" (Dianne Wiest) who runs a criminal appeals process that punishes those who have wrongfully imprisoned others.
- "Chozen" (9:30 p.m. on FX): Chozen decides to launch a criminal enterprise.
- "Inside Comedy" (10 p.m. on Showtime, cable channel 711): Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Dick Van Dyke are interviewed.
- "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (10:35 p.m. on ABC): Kimmel hosts Toronto mayor Rob Ford and Gonzo the Muppet.
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Comments: At the <$25.00 closeout price on these, you can buy several pair and simply throw them away. I run obstacle races that are hard on shoes. If I ruin a pair of these, I don't feel bad about it at all.
Fit-wise, they're a little narrow but not bad. I would recommend ordering a half-size larger than your typical shoes.
They take a little longer to break in than some, more expensive shoes that I've purchased. I ended up with a blister on one foot in my first outing without socks.
I don't have a lot of pavement miles on them but the tread seems to be wearing fairly well.
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John Travolta Once Banned From Posh NYC Spa For Inappropriate Behavior
Another day, another accusation against John Travolta: A former masseur at the Peninsula Hotel in New York says the actor was put on the hotel spa's blacklist for three years because of sexual misconduct.
Michael Caputo tells the New York Daily News that Travolta, 58, "would always request a man for his massage, but after a while no one would take him. It got to the point where they couldn't find any men to take him, and they had to ban him."
According to Caputo the Pulp Fiction star would slide his towel down, start humping the massage table and hoist his butt in the air. "These are signs to a massage therapist he was trying to see how much he could get away with," he says. The masseuse who witness this behavior went to management and Travolta was barred from returning to the Peninsula's spa until someone from Travolta's team complained and the ban was eventually lifted.
Travolta's attorney, Marty Singer—who's been working overtime putting out fires lately—denies the actor was ever blacklisted to begin with: "If he was banned, do you think he'd ever go back? He's never been banned, I guarantee you—The hotel never told John he was banned, and John never acted improperly," Singer argued.
Singer accused Caputo of being a "disgruntled employee" looking for his fifteen minutes of fame—the same accusation Singer's lobbed at the other three men who have come forward.
Meanwhile Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, is staying incommunicado while John's scandal unfurls. According to Fox411.com, the actress has been instructed to be silent and stay away from the public eye until further notice. "It's a means of damage control and will protect her from any public scrutiny," said a source.
Preston told People magazine last month that she's relishing being a new mom at 50, even going so far as to breastfeeding baby Ben. "When I stop, it's going to be really hard on me," she said.
Breastfeeding at 50? We can't say if these new sex-scandal allegations are true or not, but there's something not right in the Travolta-Preston house.
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The church of Scientology must be on it's last legs. The internet has hurt it so much that they couldn't even stop these accusations from coming forward.
Really? If he was banned, there must be some kind of paperwork…and this is called Proof not heresay.
@Way2Go not necessarily. Several years ago I managed a gym here in CA and when we would get repeat masturbators that needed to be banned, we would just print out a copy of their gym id and post it behind the receptionist's desk so they can escort them out should they decide to show their faces (or privates) back at the gym. Not everything has a paper trail…
MassEUR. MassEUR. MassEUR.
The whole point of the article is that he always requested a man, so why use the feminine form of the word if you're not talking about a woman?
Jeez, can't a guy be married and secretly bisexual any more? I mean, really. Admit it: most of you would love to get it on with a good-looking movie star, marital status be damned. And doesn't the B in LGBT stand for "bisexual"? If that doesn't include us frustrated married guys, I don't know what does.
That isn't true at all. Businesses all the time ban people. They don't file paperwork.
@Bi-Latteral: Gross.
Ah ha. That would apply to the average citizen, but really, you don't think in the 30 odd years SOMEONE wouldn't have the smarts to take a picture, catch him in the act? At some point, you gotta give the guy the benefit of the doubt. I am not suggesting these are false rumours, but what is Travolta, a UFO? This all harkens back to a time when the insinuation that someone was gay could destroy a career. I thought the model for "outing" was IF someone did things that hurt the gay movement or were hypocritical. While he is part of a church that resembles crazy, is there some evidence that Travolta has done anything to harm the gay community other than wear bad dresses? What is reason for everyone wanting him outed so badly? That's a question.
Protect her from public scrutiny? She and her closet case husband are public figures – they invite scrutiny. Breast feeding at 50, ye gods. something is indeed not right at the Travolta house!
I like Travolta and I don't care who he fucks or fucks around with. His life, his privacy, let the guy alone.
Scientology seems to be having trouble keeping the closet door closed with regard to its most famous closet case.
Outing someone who's not hurting the community is just as disgusting as his alleged behavior. This is between him & his wife & anyone he may have harassed. Period. Not our business. Unless it goes to court & then all bets are off.
@abel: Thank you. They deserve our apathy, not our scrutiny.
This is not about outing someone, which apparently was done back in 1990 by Porn actor Paul Barresi who claimed he & John Travolta had a 2 year love affair. If John Travolta is actually a predator and a sexual harasser as the lawsuits claim, then I think all bets are off and he should be named everywhere and it's no longer between just he & his wife. Otherwise, he continues this behavior.
@EdWoody: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
No one outed him. He outed himself with the way he conducted his personal life. Thanks for playing.
Watch for all these cases to be settle out of court and simply fade away. They won't be thrown out of court because they simply won't get there. Now, the downside of that is many wealthy people (and businesses) choose to settle, even when innocent, because of the time and publicity involved in going to court and regardless of their innocence there is always the chance of the court not ruling in your favor. I don't know, and actually don't care, if Travolta is guilty or not just saying that he, and his attorney, might decide that making these situations disappear is the better overall strategy.
Are there still people who care or are titillated by the notion a senior citizen is gay? I personally don't care at all, and the less I know about Travolta's sex life the better. If he is a hypocrite so be it, but at least he is not the type that denounces gays, and only denies being one himself, which is his business really.
Does no one in the media know the difference between masseur and masseuse anymore?
I don't believe any of these claims.
Since both homosexuals and heterosexuals engage in sexual and erotic behavior with the same sex, a distinction must be made between homosexual persons and homosexual activity. Sexual orientation expression is of two types:
1. Natural. Gender/sex neurology established during fetal development or through post-natal brain trauma, determines sexual orientation.
2. Pseudo. Psychosocial trauma and inadequate coping skills interfere with the expression of the individual's underlying gender/sex neurology and can cause unexpected sex and gender behavior. In clinical practice, there are many pseudoheterosexuals and few pseudohomosexuals. Pseudohomosexuals seeking treatment to establish or increase heterosexual adaptation find psychotherapy useful. In a society that condemns homosexuality and encourages heterosexuality, pseudo-heterosexuality may be common.
Despite underlying sex or gender orientation, humans are diverse in sexual behavior and selectively respond to expectation, setting, and object. Homosexual behavior arises in three basic contexts:
1. Natural. The behavior is normal for cross-gendered/sexed individuals naturally attracted to members of the same sex.
2. Institutional. This behavior occurs in prison, same-sexed hospitals, military service, and boarding schools where the opposite sex is unavailable. Heterosexuals do not become homosexual because of these experiences.
3. Opportunistic. This behavior occurs in the general community–where the opposite sex is available for sexual relations. It is most often an adjunct to an overt heterosexual lifestyle. Many sexually opportunistic men marry and become established community members who do not identify themselves as either Gay or homosexual.
Differentiating Gays and Homosexuals.
Although many have come to believe that Gay is synonymous with homosexual, there are some homosexuals who do not identify as Gay and some Gays are not homosexual. Persons socialize into the Gay community. Being part of a support community with mutual interests is an important part of life for many homosexuals, some pseudohomosexuals, cross-dressing heterosexual transvestites, pseudo and real hermaphrodites, and the transgendered–particularly those who feel stigmatized by society. Research studies have used widely differing definitions of homosexuals, bisexuals, and heterosexuals. Gay community organizations stress positive images for Gays, education, personal achievement, and service to community. Through positive social and political action, Gay organizations increase self-esteem, self-acceptance, and reduce depression, suicide, promiscuity, unsafe sex, and alienation.
I read it more as he is a cheap bastard not willing to pay his whores a good price. Otherwise, there'd be no banning.
what's the deal with scientolgy and gays? do they attempt to 'cure'? do the entrap them and then threaten to out them? be much more interested in finding out dirt on tom cruise than revolta. the idea of him humping the massage table, wiggling his fat daddy ass. ugh!
@Spike: No, Tommy Cruise is their most famous closet case!
@JohnnyMorales: Can't wait until you are a "senior citizen," if you ever get there.
Good looking movie star? When was the last time you looked at John Travolta?
@Dr. Norman C. Murphy: Wow, Dr. Norman (Kinsey) Murphy that was a mouthful. In short, everybody should be allowed to do and enjoy everything. So why doesn't Johnny call me when he is horny? I'll blow him good, closing my eyes and remembering his hot young self. Some older guys have more going for them then a lot of the vapid youngins who think they are all so gl or vgl! LOL The "god's gift" attitude wears thin very quickly and they usually have little technique and even less depth.
I honestly do not care whether John is gay, bi, whatever. The rumors have circulated for years. I applaud Kelly for her decision to breast feed – it's best for the baby. I can't see that the Travoltas have done anything to warrant this intense scrutiny of their private lives. I do not agree that entertainers are fair game for the press. I think everyone has a right to privacy. If John is charged with a sexual assault, that is a criminal matter for the courts. Any alleged victim who chooses to pursue the matter by suing automatically gets my BS detector going. At that point it seems more about publicity and monetary gain, than unwelcome and unlawful behaviour. At this point it is all heresay and blah, blah, blah. Show me a conviction, and I will rethink my opinion of John.
I agree with several writers here that, since Travolta does not appear to be one of those hypocrits who condemn gays and lesbians, his personal sexual orientation/balance is only relevant to himself, his wife, and any other sexual partners he may or may not have. I also wonder, what is the deal with attacking his wife for breast feeding their baby at age fifty! Who the hell's business is that? I am no fan of scientology, but Travolta and family doesn't deserve this intrusion into their personal lives. Also we call both male and female actors "actors" these days instead of actors and actresses, so what's the big deal with masseur and masseuse? Finally, to "peter", who is so offended by Travolta allegedly "humping the massage table, wiggling his fat daddy ass. ugh!", – "what you say goes, but only for you". When you are older and have a fat or sagging ass, I hope some stupid unfeeling young one, like you, calls your ass fat and says ugh! What goes round comes round. That's the thing for ageist individuals, unless they die young, all of their bigotry will come back to reflect on them. Get some compassion in life – people!
this is typical oif Queerty, I really dont know why I follow it. Queerty consistently objectifies people. Queerty to me is no better then the cooky cutting gutter media trying to pass its self of as a real GLBT site.
Already had words with the editor here about objectifying trans people. I see Queerty has learned nothing about common decency. Not surprised at all.
Gee, lets see, the guy is a member of a rabidly anti-gay church, and is outed and shown to be a hypocrite.
Give me a break, you are no doubt one of the folkds who pretty much never ISN'T complaining.
A lot of tying to basically say that he is a closet case.
Re No 3 & 4: while there may not be a useful paper trail, some manager must have agreed to banning Travolta if that in fact happened. Normally people are expected to keep such client information private, but there is no reason to do that if Travolta grants explicit permission to release such information as long as what is released is factual.
If a manager (current or former) corroborates what Caputo claims, we can be fairly sure it happened. If someone who was in a position to know claimed it never happened, that would get Travolta off the hook or at least provide an indication in that direction.
Regardless, if there was a blacklist sitting at a receptionist's desk, surely the receptionist would recognize John Travolta's name if he were on it, so if Caputo's story is true, others who were working at the same place should be able to verify his story.
Of course, if the whole flap gets its 15 minutes of fame and sinks into oblivion, I could care less – allegations on actors' private lives really are not the sort of thing I care about (I care more about how much cross-checking is done before publicizing accusations in general).
@Dr. Norman C. Murphy who wrote: "( Homosexualiy) 1. Natural. Gender/sex neurology established during fetal development or through post-natal brain trauma, determines sexual orientation."
Really, does that mean heterosexuality is the result of "post-natal brain trauma" too…or are just the Gays brain-damaged? What a crock of pseudo-scientific shit.
That is almost as stupid as trying to dissect the human brain to find where the seat of the soul lies. Leave it alone until you can be more definitive and use more reliable scientific "evidence" to back up your "theories" — otherwise, they do more harm than good and the "now let's cure the homos" mob will latch onto your unwise speculations with dire consequences for all sexual minorities.
I'm happy with being born this way — don't look for a broken gear in my clock, mine works just fine.
Thank you! If you have a baby at 50…you breast feed at 50!!!
@M @mc: Yes, exactly–thank you! This is NOT about "outing" Travolta, it's about him finally getting called out for unwelcome, predatory behavior. He may not make movies of the caliber of "Pulp Fiction" or "Get Shorty" anymore but he's still a major celebrity (and an obviously frustrated closet case) who has long been accustomed to being protected from censure or public scrutiny when he steps over the line with ordinary people. And I'm sick of the attitude that because a celeb is gay we're all supposed to cut them slack when they do wrong. Using your fame, influence and money to get away with sexually harassing others is just another form of bullying and shame on anyone here who refuses to see that.
I don't believe that totally straight men massage other men. I have had massages at hotels all over the world. If I wanted a "happy ending" it would happen.
Travolta is notorious at bath houses in LA since the late '90's.
@David Myers: You, my friend, have a refreshingly clear mind. I stand with you on everything.
@David Myers: Well said, my friend.
It's a cult. But not exactly in the sense usually meant. The Roman church has its confessional; Scientology, e-meters. Both require human manipulation to bind the sucker into the con. If you spill your guts to a priest he has something on you that he can use. Ditto trying to "clear" on an e-meter. This is nothing but a skin galvinometer, i.e. lie detector test. During his dabblings in the occult with Aleister Crowley follower Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard figured out a mind-blowing scenario used to convince people that their neuroses are programs from space aliens and the only way you can self-realize is to become clear. (Clever play on words, as the e-meter tapes would register no spikes; it would be clear of them.) Wouldn't you like to see the secret files on Travolta. I would. The pattern of the "church" in punishing former members probably suggests they did not have much to confess and were mostly just bad-rapping Scientology as a cult. Travolta is an idiot if the stories are true, and there are too many of them now. He should come out. Obama said it was OK, Travolta can marry a guy.
Travolta isn't good-looking and hasn't been for over a decade.
Travolta isn't their most famous closet case. That would be Tom Cruise.
I stayed at the Ritz in key biscayne last year and I heard the same rumors at the spa there.. he owns an apt at that hotel.
I just don't understand why he doesn't just hire escorts???? is he stupid???
Kayo-he probably does, or else he's one of those guys who really like the baths/sex clubs.
It's not surprising about Revolta.
@Philip: Thanks for your comment and agreement.
The truth is, I don't care: with or without the closet-case question, for their creepy representation of Scientology alone, I never intended to watch another Travolta or Cruise movie again.
Just as his unmasking as a drunken anti-Semitic gay-basher has put me off that degenerating former hunk Gibson too.
Exactly! It isn't the gay thing I have a problem with, its the harrassment. Massage therapy has medical purposes. If I shoved my erect penis at my Ear Nose and Throat doctor, well then please sue me. And put me in jail.
@Jonathonz: Absolutely.!!! WTF Queerty.? Sounding like a bitchy queen, not cool.
"Breastfeeding at 50? We can't say if these new sex-scandal allegations are true or not, but there's something not right in the Travolta-Preston house."
What an awful thing to say. Her autistic son died of a seizure in 2009 and 3 Bahamian creeps tried to extort money from her, a senator and Parliament member. In 2010, the woman had a pregnancy, delivered a baby and is feeding him, FFS. She was 48. Weaning at 16 months is NOT unusual. Especially if you already had one autistic kid, dumb asses. They even find PFCs in baby's umbilical cords. For you unenlightened geniuses, PFCs come from crap like TEFLON.
If you don't approve of women breastfeeding, then don't breastfeed and MYOB. Sound familiar?
Ageist AND Misogynist. WTF is your problem? Oh that's right. She's not the "Pregnant Trans Man, Thomas Beatie" fame hoaring freak that Queerty has followed with accolades and supported all this time.
And you WONDER why John Q Hetero Public continually votes against EQUALITY?
@Way2Go: Thank you. I hate this practice of outing supposedly gay or bi celebrities, like they are somehow obliged to come out just because they are public figures. I personally don't believe anything until we have actual evidence, like photos, videos, phone calls etc.
Sure, it would be screwed up if he was on the down low while being married to K. Preston. However, it's still his business and responsibility to come out, no one should push him.
OMG, 50! I guess, at FIFTY, one is supposed to don black crepe, a silver bun, and chase that mean ol' kitty away from the sweet tweety bird.
@ScaryRussianHeather: You had me all the way down, cheering you on … until you get to
"Ageist AND Misogynist. WTF is your problem? Oh that's right. She's not the "Pregnant Trans Man, Thomas Beatie" fame hoaring freak that Queerty has followed with accolades and supported all this time. "
and then you suddenly became guilty of the same kind of unnecessary character attack that you are accusing others of perpetrating. If you have a problem with Thomas Beatie than maybe you should take your own advice and MYOB. It's easy enough to avoid the topics on Queerty that you find distasteful.
Understood why you think that. But my criticism of Beatie is based on his complete lack of common sense not his gender status. This dope got pregnant in the middle of transitioning, via sperm donations while being allegedly on welfare, from what I remember, while having 2 other kids they can't afford, complaining about having a 500K mortgage and other instability problems, drinking and violence for "years" ….which I posted about on the last Beatie thread here. I think it was the one about him cheating on his wife and being abused by her in retaliation.
And MYOB doesn't apply to posters commenting on a blog post about a pop culture topic or person seeking fame. And it's true that Queerty had no problems with Beatie's instability even though other posters do. They asked "Are you sad to see a high-profile transgender man fail prey to the same old problems "traditional" marriages encounter?"
My reply was:
"Are you sad to see a high-profile transgender man fail prey to the same old problems "traditional" marriages encounter?"
No, what makes me sad is that these two crack pot fame hoars are allegedly living on welfare, have a $5000.00 a month mortgage payment and going to extreme measures like sperm donations to crank out more kids that we're paying for. I couldn't care less about either one's sexual identity or equipment.
If you're a man trapped in a woman's body go take care of it yourself THEN start your life over. Who the hell decides to get pregnant with a THIRD kid, in the middle of hormone therapy, surgeries, and postponing SRS . It's also reported he's been cheating on his wife. He's lucky he didn't get the Bobbit treatment after all that money spent. Oh wait. He probably didn't pay for any of it anyway.
I'd post the link but sometimes that triggers a spam flag here.
Kelly Preston, OTOH, was just some woman having a baby and feeding him, jacked up husband not withstanding. She may be famous but I don't know a single thing about her and don't think she's what I'd consider a fame hoar asking for hypercriticism. HTH :)
One more time– how exactly did this become a debate about "outing" John Travolta? Is that a criticism of those who have come forward with complaints about his having harassed them? Are they not allowed to do that, or are we all that cynically disposed not to believe them just because Travolta is famous? The thing about celebrities–yeah, they become targets of opportunists BUT just as often their fame permits them to get away with murder (and until the OJ trial I used to mean that phrase metaphorically).
To paraphrase Barney Frank, public people are entitled to privacy but not to hypocrisy. Travolta's alleged behavior has done the outing for him, don't you think? Would we be talking about him this way otherwise? That's the thing about the closeted famous, they want it both ways; we're supposed to respect their right not to come out. But then they do reckless things that make it impossible to ignore the double lives they lead.
I think John Travolta is sick unto death of the closet but can't find the guts to do his own coming out, so he's forcing the rest of the world to do it for him. Then when it's finally all out in the open, he can wear his brave "victim" face and the rest of us are expected to feel either sympathy for his "ordeal" or guilt for having participated in it through open discussions on forums like this.
AllI can say is that KP's is way past the expiration day. Yuck, stale baby's milk.
@Gerry Myers: You just outed yourself as a bigoted misogynistic low life troll. Go troll some place where people care what you think. It certainly isn't here.
There's nothing wrong with breastfeeding at 50. Do you have a clue at all? You disappoint your readership.
@Cam: Chances are that maybe John is showing signs of leaving the c o s. they're known for doing these sort of things to they're former members or sps. I wouldn't doubt that he's been questioning the cult since the death of his son…….which was the reason for the death of his son, btw.
@Andrew: He can't come out AND be a scientologist. It's against their rules. I really suspect he's "coming out" of Scientology and this is an attack on his charactar from them. His child died from a direct cause of being in that cult, when a parent experiences such a huge loss, it seems reasonable that he would begin to question the church. ESP. When the child would not have died if he didn't belong it.
Regardless, it's sad..
@James M. Martin: I've never seen a priest record all of a persons confessions or any for that matter. What other purpose is there to record such things except to have them available for use later against the person.
There's no comparison between that cult and the Roman church.


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No matter how long it takes, I will fight for equality. The best system for taxation equality is providing a flat tax above a certain poverty level or income level so that everybody pays something to support our country. If the poverty level is $20,000 for a family of four, let's keep federal taxes low to nothing since there are already state taxes, social security taxes, and medicare taxes to pay. However, we should probably encourage further education on why it's probably not a good idea to have any more children if one is having difficulty taking care of themselves, despite the misplaced policy of a $1,000 child tax credit for certain income earners and below.
Perhaps the flat tax income threshold is at $33,000, the halfway point between the top and bottom 50%. After $33,000, everybody pays a flat tax rate of 20% on all income, which includes investment, dividend, and interest income. No loopholes, no deductions, 20% is 20%. If you're making under $33,000, your tax rate is lower.
Or perhaps the income threshold is above $106,800, where social security and medicare taxes disappear. We tax people progressively up to $106,800 and then a flat tax afterward. One of the big arguments some have against a flat tax is that it's regressive, since the rich don't pay any more social security and medicare taxes after $106,800. Well guess what? Although you don't have to pay those taxes above $106,800, you also don't get any benefits either! Do you really think there is a free ride with our government of waste? Of course not. Please understand this point.
With a flat tax system after a certain amount of minimum income, the person who makes 10X more, pays 10X more in absolute dollars. Nobody can logically argue against equality. But, for those of you who feel that discrimination is the way to go, here's a story of Bar Stool Economics which I stumbled across on online that hopefully sheds some light.
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beers by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.'
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
With the new system:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before and the first four continued to drink for free, but once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got TEN times more than I!" "That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something very important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. This is called, "No shit Sherlock". Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
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The Curing Epilepsy: Focus on the Future conference held in March 2000 changed the course of epilepsy research from treating symptoms to curing epilepsy. The goals were to prevent epilepsy in those at risk and to provide treatment for individuals who develop the disorder with no seizures and no side effects. Benchmarks were established to judge progress in epilepsy research resulting from the conference. The benchmarks covered three areas: basic research on prevention of epilepsy, clinical research on prevention of epilepsy after identification of susceptible brain regions, and treatments for epilepsy. One of the benchmarks - Benchmark I.A.3: Establish a collaborative network that enables investigators to compare results of gene-chip analyses arising from different models of epileptogenesis and epilepsy - was created to encourage epilepsy researchers to use DNA microarrays and to be able to compare their results. The study of epilepsy could benefit from identification of genes whose expression levels are altered in the disease versus the normative state. This could provide epilepsy researchers with diagnostic markers of the epilepsies. To support research using DNA microarrays, the NINDS and NIMH have sponsored three centers, which came on line on June 1, 2002. The three centers are integrated into a consortium and RNA samples can be sent to any one of the centers for processing, labeling of arrays, and incorporation of the results into a center consortium-specific database.
The goal of the workshop was to 1) identify technical and experimental issues involved in using DNA microarrays for epilepsy research, 2) come up with recommendations for how to circumvent potential problems, and 3) involve each of the three microarray centers funded by NINDS and NIMH in the design, implementation and analysis of experiments. A major goal was to encourage gene expression profiling in epilepsy research. To do this NINDS brought together experts in Epilepsy, DNA microarrays, statistics and computer databases for microarrays to devise a strategy for implementing the use of microarrays in the study of epilepsy. The topics for discussion included sample preparation, tissue heterogeneity, statistical analysis, data sharing, and cross-platform data comparisons and selection of animal models.
The recently established DNA Microarray centers were able to address the discussion topics of sample handling, data storage, statistical analysis and experimental design. Dietrich Stephan's group at the Research Center for Genetic Medicine, which is part of the Children's Research Institute, will provide collaborative advice on experimental design. Thus, samples generated from the initial set of experiments by epilepsy researchers will be sent to the Microarray Consortium for processing. After much discussion on what initial experiments could be done by participants at the workshop and by epilepsy researchers worldwide, Dr. Ray Dingledine, who chaired the workshop, volunteered to write and distribute a detailed proposal of experiments designed to shed light on the genesis of epilepsy in mouse models of the disorder.
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Finding a Fair Compromise
Learn how to improve your negotiation skills and reach mutually acceptable compromises.
Do you feel that someone is continually taking advantage of you? Do you seem to have to fight your corner aggressively, or ally with others, to win the resources you need? Or do you struggle to get what you want from people whose help you need, but over whom you have little direct authority? If so, you may need to brush up your win-win negotiation skills.
Effective negotiation helps you to resolve situations where what you want conflicts with what someone else wants. The aim of win-win negotiation is to find a solution that is acceptable to both parties, and leaves both parties feeling that they've won, in some way, after the event.
There are different styles of negotiation, depending on circumstances.
Where you do not expect to deal with people ever again and you do not need their goodwill, then it may be appropriate to "play hardball", seeking to win a negotiation while the other person loses out. Many people go through this when they buy or sell a house – this is why house-buying can be such a confrontational and unpleasant experience.
Similarly, where there is a great deal at stake in a negotiation, then it may be appropriate to prepare in detail and legitimate "gamesmanship" to gain advantage. Anyone who has been involved with large sales negotiations will be familiar with this.
Neither of these approaches is usually much good for resolving disputes with people with whom you have an ongoing relationship: If one person plays hardball, then this disadvantages the other person – this may, quite fairly, lead to reprisal later. Similarly, using tricks and manipulation during a negotiation can undermine trust and damage teamwork. While a manipulative person may not get caught out if negotiation is infrequent, this is not the case when people work together routinely. Here, honesty and openness are almost always the best policies.
Preparing for a Successful Negotiation
Depending on the scale of the disagreement, some preparation may be appropriate for conducting a successful negotiation.
For small disagreements, excessive preparation can be counter-productive because it takes time that is better used elsewhere. It can also be seen as manipulative because, just as it strengthens your position, it can weaken the other person's.
However, if you need to resolve a major disagreement, then make sure you prepare thoroughly. Using our free worksheet, think through the following points before you start negotiating:
- Goals: what do you want to get out of the negotiation? What do you think the other person wants?
- Trades: What do you and the other person have that you can trade? What do you each have that the other wants? What are you each comfortable giving away?
- Alternatives: if you don't reach agreement with the other person, what alternatives do you have? Are these good or bad? How much does it matter if you do not reach agreement? Does failure to reach an agreement cut you out of future opportunities? And what alternatives might the other person have?
- Relationships: what is the history of the relationship? Could or should this history impact the negotiation? Will there be any hidden issues that may influence the negotiation? How will you handle these?
- Expected outcomes: what outcome will people be expecting from this negotiation? What has the outcome been in the past, and what precedents have been set?
- The consequences: what are the consequences for you of winning or losing this negotiation? What are the consequences for the other person?
- Power: who has what power in the relationship? Who controls resources? Who stands to lose the most if agreement isn't reached? What power does the other person have to deliver what you hope for?
- Possible solutions: based on all of the considerations, what possible compromises might there be?
Style is Critical
For a negotiation to be 'win-win', both parties should feel positive about the negotiation once it's over. This helps people keep good working relationships afterwards. This governs the style of the negotiation – histrionics and displays of emotion are clearly inappropriate because they undermine the rational basis of the negotiation and because they bring a manipulative aspect to them.
Despite this, emotion can be an important subject of discussion because people's emotional needs must fairly be met. If emotion is not discussed where it needs to be, then the agreement reached can be unsatisfactory and temporary. Be as detached as possible when discussing your own emotions – perhaps discuss them as if they belong to someone else.
Negotiating Successfully
The negotiation itself is a careful exploration of your position and the other person's position, with the goal of finding a mutually acceptable compromise that gives you both as much of what you want as possible. People's positions are rarely as fundamentally opposed as they may initially appear – the other person may have very different goals from the ones you expect!
In an ideal situation, you will find that the other person wants what you are prepared to trade, and that you are prepared to give what the other person wants.
If this is not the case and one person must give way, then it is fair for this person to try to negotiate some form of compensation for doing so – the scale of this compensation will often depend on the many of the factors we discussed above. Ultimately, both sides should feel comfortable with the final solution if the agreement is to be considered win-win.
Only consider win-lose negotiation if you don't need to have an ongoing relationship with the other party as, having lost, they are unlikely to want to work with you again. Equally, you should expect that if they need to fulfill some part of a deal in which you have "won," they may be uncooperative and legalistic about the way they do this.
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Over a month agoI've also learnt to ask 'why, why and why' again in order to get to what it is someone really wants from a negotiation situation. I even do it with myself at times when I want to do do or buy something that is expensive to try and see if my goal really is what I think it is or if I have another goal deep down inside that may be satisfied in another manner.
Kind regards
Over a month agoEver since I read Ury and Fisher's Getting to Yes some 20 years ago, I have never ceased to be amazed by the effectiveness of the win-win negotiation. The two aspects that I find myself re-emphasising all the time in mentoring sessions are:
a) The absolute need to have a BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) explicitly identified. Without one, you have no means to assess whether your are conceding too much in the negotiation or missing on a good deal opportunity because you are more rigid than you should be.
b) asking why, why, and why again in order to identify one's and the other party's real goals. In most cases people will present a negotiating position as their goal, but the real goal is actually hidden, sometimes without people realising. Especially when people want the same thing, understanding why they want it can lead to surprisingly different answers, from which a creative win-win solution naturally emerges.
Example: two kids both want an orange. They could settleon cutting it in two halves and both of them would only be half-satisfied (and this may indeed be the BATNA). But asking why they want the orange, they discover that he first kid wants to eat the pulp, while the second kid wants to peel it in a spiral to make a decoration. The win-win becomes obvious.


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ROCKLIN, Calif. — Police say two California teenagers used a prescription sleeping medication to spike the milkshakes of too-strict parents so they could log onto the Internet.
The parents called police and the 15-year-old Rocklin girl and a 16-year-old friend were taken to Juvenile Hall. Rocklin is 20 miles northeast of Sacramento.
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Fisher Engineering Business Unit Manager Greg Tedford said the challenge for the company right now is finding enough employees with the right mix of skills to manufacture snowplows and sand/salt spreaders. The company already employs 290 people, with some commuting from as far as Old Town and Skowhegan.
He said the goal is to increase production to meet demand.
Primarily, the company needs welders and machine operators, preferably with some experience or education in the field, but the company can provide training. He said not all new employees need to have technical school or technical college training.
Starting wages at the plant are between $14 and $16 per hour plus benefits for skilled welders.
Tedford said there are some misconceptions in the community about the employer. Fisher is not a seasonal company, despite the seasonal use of its products. The company continues to manufacture and ship plows year-round.
In addition, he said the company is not only interested in hiring men. He said it has 30 female employees, including women working on the production line on the factory floor, and it welcomes more.
He added the company has not had a layoff since 2006, so it is one of the most stable employers in the area.
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What is it with Democrats and waiters? Less than 60 days after Hillary Clinton sparked tabloid headlines and tonight show guffaws by exiting an upstate diner without leaving a tip, the Democratic-led New York State assembly passed a bill cutting back a minimum-wage increase for tipped workers in restaurants and bars. The bill was quickly approved by the Republican-dominated State Senate and signed by Governor George Pataki on March 31, leaving labor activists steaming. "Talk about getting stiffed!" exclaimed professor Michael Wishnie of NYU Law School's Immigrant Rights Clinic. "In this economy, this rollback is outrageous."
The restaurant workers won the raise last December when the legislature prospectively upped the state minimum wage from $4.25where it had been stuck for nine years and had fallen to 37th in the nationto the federal rate of $5.15. The move was intended to address the plight of the state's 45,000 migrant farmworkers, who, along with several hundred thousand other New Yorkersmostly seasonal workersare subject to state, not federal, minimums. But it turns out that the state rate group also includes tipped "hospitality industry" employeessome 111,000 waitresses, busboys, and bartenders whose minimum wage was pegged by state law at about two-thirds of the general minimum. Accordingly, the state minimum for waiters was set to jump from $2.90 to $3.50 on April 1.
Enter the state's powerful $14.2 billion restaurant industry, which launched an intense lobbying campaign that culminated in the last-minute assembly bill. The legislation, shepherded through the assembly by speaker Sheldon Silver and labor committee chair Catherine Nolan, capped the tipped workers' minimum at $3.30. Mario Cilento, a spokesperson for the state AFL-CIO, says, "It's unfathomable that they would go to all this trouble to deny these low-wage earners 20 cents an hour." Worse, adds the Immigrant Rights Clinic's Chakshu Patel, the bill unhooked the tipped workers' minimum from the general minimum, meaning, she says, that "if other workers get a raise in their minimum wage, restaurant workers won't. Instead, they'll have to fight a new and separate battle to increase their wages every time the general minimum is increased in the future."
Restaurant owners applauded the legislation, arguing that it prevented an unnecessary windfall for waiters. "Most waiters and waitresses are making well over the minimum wage," says Holly Cargill-Cramer of the New York State Restaurant Association. "In fact, given the economy, a good waiter or waitress is going to be able to name their price in New York. It may be different out in Plattsburgh or out in Oneonta."
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You don't have to tell that to Tricia Trupo. She's the waitress in Albion, New York (pop: 6000), who got nil from Hillary in February after serving the newly minted Senate candidate a breakfast of scrambled eggs, home fries, and rye toast. Actually, the circumstances of that meal are a bit more ambiguous than the tabs would have it: The owner of Albion's Village House restaurant had put Clinton's meal on the houseand HRC later sent Trupo a $100 savings bond in recompense. But the 31-year-old Trupo's economic difficulties are pretty unambiguous. A single mom with an 11-year-old, Trupo still makes the minimum wage after 11 years as a waitress. Neither she nor her son has health insurance. Last week, she said she was exhausted after getting up at 5:15 a.m. to work an early shift, which she chose since "I don't have to pay day care when my son's in school. But I just have to do it. My son doesn't go without anything. I make sure of that."
A State Department of Labor survey conducted in 1997 found the average wage for waiters and waitresses was $6.34 an hour with tips, slightly more than $13,000 a year for a 40-hour work week. The migrant farmhands, whose grim working lives prompted a Daily News editorial crusade last year and an unusually active campaign by organized laborwhich represents no farmworkers and a small fraction of waitersmade an average of $7.87 an hour last year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. The farmworkers, of course, also endure squalid housing and, because of arcane labor law exemptions, are effectively denied the right to unionize.
Waiters in New York City averaged more than their upstate counterparts, $7.01 an hour, or about $14,500 per year, but especially in immigrant pockets of the city like Chinatownwhose restaurant industry is notorious for low wages and labor-law violationsmany make considerably less. Indeed, in an effort to stave off the assembly's scaling back of the minimum-wage raise, longtime Chinatown labor organizer Wing Lam of Chinese Staff and Workers Association led a small group of restaurant workers up to Albany two weeks ago. They hoped to make a case for abolishing the two-tieredminimum-wage systemas California did 25 years ago (there, waitersand all othersearn a state minimum of $5.75 plus tips).
The workers returned embittered by what they say was a cold shoulder from speaker Silver, whose district includes Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Says Lam, "Silver rushed this bill through just a couple days before the increase was supposed to take effect. It's ridiculous what he did. He wouldn't meet with us directly. There should at least have been a hearing." Silver did not return calls for comment. The assembly approved the bill by a vote of 119 to 21.
Queens assemblymember Nolan says she too was disappointed by the cutback, but defends it as "the best possible bill we could get. The Republicans control the senateand they wanted to freeze the wage. There's a Republican governor. You have all these restaurant owners, especially upstate, complaining that they can't afford it, and it's not like we have anybody comparable we can partner with." (At least one upstate Republican assemblymember voted against the billbecause it gave workers too much.) And, says Nolan, had the assembly not acted, Pataki might have tried to administratively roll back the wage to $2.90, and "I just didn't want to go there."
But labor advocates say the assembly's cutback was unnecessary. "If the assembly had just done nothing, the full increase would have taken effect on April 1," says NYU's Wishnie. "In this case, there was no need for a compromise with Republicans." Lam claims that during his lobbying day, Republican legislators whispered to him that fighting the minimum increase was not high on their agenda. And last week, a spokesperson for the governor told the Times that predictions of an administrative rollback were "complete and total nonsense." In any case, argues West Side assemblymember Scott Stringer, who voted against the bill, the assembly should have forced Pataki to play villain. "My rationale is, you put the heat on them to justify gypping some of the absolute lowest wage earners in the state. And besides, you don't promise workers somethingand then take their raise away."
Meanwhile, Lam and other activists are vowing to put the heat on Silver. Last Tuesday, a group of about 20 waiters and their allies held an angry picket outside the speaker's lower Broadway district office. Guo Chang Liang, a 56-year-old who said he had worked as a waiter in Chinatown for a dozen years, held up a sign reading "Sheldon Silver, Dog of the Year." His complaints were echoed by Alex, a 33-year-old aspiring actor who works in a "small, hip" Lower East Side restaurant. "I like the fact that I don't have to work five days a week. But waiting tables is really hard work, and I have trouble making a living, period. I feel like the restaurant industry is making a lot of money, and this is bullshit." Lam vowed to hound Silver "until he's gone. This guy sold out restaurant workers, working people. We're in his district, and he sold us out."
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Pointing out that gross tax collections would register a 20 per cent growth for the third year in a row, the government on Monday said the Budget 2006-07 allocated resources within fiscal deficit targets to boost agriculture and manufacturing.
"The bias, if any, in this budget is in favour of agriculture and manufacturing within industry," Finance Minister P Chidamaram said at a CII function in New Delhi.
He said the target of reducing fiscal deficit to 3.8 per cent of GDP worked as a bottomline for making of the budget.
However, gross tax revenue is also expected to increase by 20 per cent for three years in a row next fiscal, which has never happened before, he said.
The budget has taken an unprecedented step of crediting two percentage points of interest liability of all farmers for the current year and in the next year agriculturists would be given short term credit at 7 per cent, he said.
"It will impose a burden on the Budget. But I think we will find ways to carry that burden," Chidambaram said.
Budget provision on Accelerated Irrigation Development Programme, and the government proposal to approach the World Bank with a Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) programme in April to restore water bodies are aimed at bringing cultivable land under assured irrigation, he said.
The other sector, which got encouragement in the Budget, is manufacturing, Chidambaram said, adding that the country has a capacity to become leader in manufacturing.
Citing 8 per cent excise duty reduction on small cars, Chidambaram said, "We will become, mark my word, we will become the world leaders in small car industry."
On effects of fiscal concessions on man-made fibre, Chidambaram said, "I am confident that man-made textile industry would show sharp spurt in this year and the year after."
Pointing out that the budget also reduced excise duty on leather, he said if any other sector is identified where the country could become world leader, necessary steps would be taken to give a fillip to it.
"We are among top nations in many sectors -- steel, petroleum products, textiles, and we have the capacity to acquire leadership in many other sectors. Can we not make kind of toys that China make, can we not make kinds of footwear that China makes, surely we can," he said.
The finance minister said there is no point in moaning about infrastructure, as this is an opportunity to invest. "Who is going to build infrastructure -- CPWD? Infrastructure must be built by Indian industry," he said.
Chidambaram also justified the budget move to remove the tax exemption for infrastructure companies under section 10 (23G), saying the concession was revisited in the light of moderate interest rates.
On five super critical power projects of 4,000 mw each, he said, "We will give contracts by December 31, 2006."
He said after Knowledge Commission's report, a long-term policy would be considered to support science and technology.
Chidambaram said he was also waiting for the Knowledge Commission's report on supporting higher education.
"Meanwhile, what I am doing is, looking at select institutes. Last year, we chose IIC, Bangalore, this year we have chosen Punjab Agriculture University. We also made special grants for three oldest universities -- Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai."
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An Important Message about Safe Sleep for Babies & Infants
Despite continuing progress in reducing infant mortality and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in South Carolina, sleep-related deaths continue to be a significant problem.
Statewide efforts promoting Safe Sleep have started making inroads into sleep-related deaths.
To keep those numbers going in the right direction and your baby healthy, follow the ABC's of safe sleep. Your baby should sleep Alone on his/her Back in a Crib.
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Remove pillows, stuffed animals, bumpers, wedges, quilts, comforters and blankets from the crib. Also,
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Blame Boise State's smurf turf if you must, but for some reason there has been a recent trend in collegiate athletics where traditional is not good enough.
Whether it is Oregon dressing up like Granny Smith apples that a kid drew on with a highlighter on Saturday, Maryland draping its state flag all over every jersey it can find or Eastern Washington using red field turf, the days of classic jerseys and regular playing surfaces are gradually becoming a thing of the past.
While it is not as guilty of a perpetrator as college football, college basketball is not innocent when it comes to these transgressions against convention.
With that in mind, here are some of the worst court designs in the recent history of college hoops. I'm sure many of you will disagree with me, so feel free to let me know in the comments.


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Krosmaster Arena – Rules #5: Summons, Bombs and Traps Info - 2012-09-27 15:00Back to list
Fifth and last video of our series about the rules of Kromaster Arena, today Izmar and Troyle tell you about the various tokens that can be used in the game.
Time to wrap it up! In this last video, we'll tell you about a very useful tool to achieve victory, the tokens! Summons, traps and bombs, so many useful things that can be used against your opponent. Watch our new video and learn how to best use them. And who knows, you might also witness the Return of the GG Button…
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emilioo98 27 September 2012 15:25
I can't watch the video it says its Private...?
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[Troyle] 27 September 2012 15:26
Should be fixed now.
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Sting-Shotter 27 September 2012 15:56
I always learn something of this videos and i can laugh about it, keep going on izmar and troyle i love you and your videos about krosmaster, cant wait to play it.
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S48GSII 27 September 2012 16:05
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We just need a GG Button event ingame, then we can we all get a GG button emote!!!! plz? c:
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Kikuihimonji 02 October 2012 22:19
And again Troyle failed to say something about GG button
p.s. You said there are summons of osamodas. What about dolls of sadida? There's none?
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Each issue will address a specific subject and will provide an overview of the current surgical techniques available to treat the given pathology by calling on the first-hand experience of various international experts.
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All of the foster care agencies in Wisconsin are under scrutiny.
The joint Legislative Audit Committee has unanimously agreed to ask for an audit of all foster care agencies operating in Wisconsin.
It's fallout from the alleged fraud of about $6 million at a Middleton company called Middleton's Community Care Resources Inc.
The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families said an audit showed the state was billed by CCR for lavish lunches, luxury vehicles and pricey travel.
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Hole drummer Patty Schemel lets loose in new documentary
Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel is a cinematic rollercoaster that reveals the story behind the famed lesbian drummer's struggles with addiction.
Schemel is best known as the hard-hitting, barefooted drummer of Hole, who played with Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf Der Maur and Kristen Pfaff from 1992 to 1998.
Schemel was asked by a friend about a dusty box of old Hi8 tapes she noticed sitting in the closet. On those tapes, Schemel rediscovered more than 40 hours of personally shot footage of her tours with Hole—as well as the evidence of her worsening drug addiction.
Ebersole detected a 'really great story of survival' within the tapes. Schemel suggested they turn the material into a film in 2007 with assistance from Ebersole's husband, the filmmaker Todd Hughes, and Schemel's then-girlfriend (now wife) Christina Soletti, a TV producer.
This year they sought to finish financing the film so they could take it to film festivals with a $15,000 Kickstarter campaign. As they approached their goal, pop super-producer Linda Perry heard about the campaign—and kicked in the balance, plus an extra few grand.
In addition to masterfully edited highlights from Schemel's tapes, Hit So Hard offers candid interviews from family, friends and former band members; quirky musicians like the lesbian icon Phranc; and legendary female drummers like Gina Schock, Kate Schellenbach and Debbi Peterson.
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The Raga Guide, A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas
Hindustani music of North India is among the most sublime and complex examples of classical traditions the world over, with an elaborate system of rules and improvisational structures with centuries-old roots. Its heady backdrop doesn't keep new listeners from sinking into meditative admiration of the music's naturally sensuous and spiritual allures, as its popularity in the west over the past few decades has proven. But learning about the fundamentals of the venerable tradition can only enrich one's appreciation of the music.
To that end, proceed to the fascinating and valuable new package, The Raga Guide, A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas (Nimbus 5536; 78:36, 79:08, 79:21, 77:06), a concept album that serves an educational end, while also soothing the ear and mind. All this in a tidy yet comprehensive package that includes 4 CDs (roughly five hours of music), a 196-page booklet with explanation of terms, transcriptions in both Western and Indian notations, and an exotic set of 17th century paintings in the Rajasthani tradition.
The goal here is a primer in the rudiments of the music, played by masters: flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia, sarod player Buddhadev DasGupta, vocalists Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar and Vidyadhar Vyas, and a host of tabla players. By its piecemeal nature, this sampler of raga forms fails to go very deep in terms of improvisational expansion of the basic materials, but still, its sonorities resonate and its generous spirit prevails. It can be taken as a lesson, or medicine for the soul.


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As the United States continues to grieve in the wake of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we at Chief Executive take our place among the nation's and the world's mourners.
Our readers have been personally affected; some have lost family members, others mourn friends and employees. Their businesses have suffered unquantifiable damage. At least 60 companies headquartered in the World Trade Center, and the others with offices there, have been displaced both physically and emotionally. Whole industries are struggling in the aftermath. The airline business, for one, faces massive layoffs, cutbacks in schedules, and consolidation.
In some cases, devastation reached the senior ranks, snatching CEOs and other executives. Their companies are going about the task of rebuilding without them.
Boston-based Internet infrastructure company Akamai Technologies lost its co-founder and chief technology officer Daniel Lewin, who was on board one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. Judy Larocque, founder and CEO of research firm Market Perspectives, was on that same flight, as was Sun Microsystems' Philip Rosenzweig, a director in the software organization, who had been with the company for 10 years. BCT Technology AG lost three senior officers: President and CEO Heinrich Kimmig, Director of Development Klaus Bothe, and Director of Human Resources Wolfgang Menzel. Medical device maker Thoratec's COO Thomas E. Burnett Jr. was killed in the Pennsylvania crash. And Metrocall, an Alexandria, VA-based paging and wireless messaging service, mourns the loss of its COO, Steven "Jake" Jacoby, who was killed in the Pentagon crash.
The cover story-Grief in the Corner Office-that follows was not written about the September 11th tragedies. In fact, it was complete in advance of the hijackings. As such, it does not seek to address devastation wrought by the attacks on our country. But insofar as the story deals with the tragic consequences of sudden death and loss in the executive suite, it now has, sadly, even more relevance than it did at its inception. The companies who unexpectedly lost their leaders will have to find able successors to lead them through this time of chaos. And surviving CEOs-like Cantor Fitzgerald's Howard Lutnick, who wept openly over the loss of 700 out of 1,000 employees at his bond trading firm-will be asked to put aside their own grief and go on.
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