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SpiderMan 3 [2007]
April 30, 2007, 09:33:05 AM »
Thought I'd get the jump on this sucker early with my off the cuff review.
Thanks to the glory of myspace, a free screening of Spiderman 3 was shown in the city of Melbourne tonight [yes Myspace DOES have it's advantages!] And luckily for me I had hired goons to wait in line for me while I rushed over from work to get there on time.
I'll split it into two sections. The short summary, and the part with a little bit of my thoughts and stuff that happened etc. So yes there will be some spoilers. I'll keep em small though.
Short Summary:
First part kind of drags, but is ok. Middle is very funny and entertaining. End is good, but could've been much better.
Too many 'that's kind of stupid' moments to make it a perfect film, but boy does Sam Raimi really know how to play with the smaller moments, which were just great.
The Film:
So everyone would have probably seen the trailer for this bad boy. By bad boy, I mean the one and only Emo-Spiderman, a character who, funnily enough, would have related well with the 400 odd myspace slaves who watched the film with me [there were a LOT of emo-types]
Basically the film starts off with Spiderman at the top of his game. He's becoming more and more popular with New York, his girl troubles are over and he's even thinking of marrying MJ, who seems to be doing well for herself as she lands a role as lead in a broadway play. Shame Harry Osborn has been giving him cold stares and angry jaw-jutting moments, such as their 'tense moment' after MJs play.
By tense, I mean not really, but you get the idea that things aren't really right between them. Something about that evil look in Harry's eyes is telling us something is up. Really...
Of course, all doesn't turn out to be well, and in true oddball fashion, a new villain hits the screens in the form of Flint Marko, the Sandman, who we find out has just escaped from prison, and shock of all shocks, was also the killer of good ol' Uncle Ben.
This of course is all setting up Spiderman 3's theme of vengeance, and we can all guess where that leads, what with the anger-intensifying goo that attaches itself to ol' Spidey one lonely night. Harry starts messing with Peter's life, Peter hunts for Flint Marko, everyone starts hating everyone, especially the snippy Topher Grace as Eddie Brock Jnr [who is patchy, but overall great in the role]
I won't go into much more detail on the storyline, mainly because I don't want to ruin it, but that gives you the basic idea of how it all goes. But my god, the audience was hilarious.
Obviously seeing a comic book film in a packed cinema of myspace-crazies [myself included] where you see the occasional Venom T-shirt, there is always going to be some very fun moments.
People calling MJ a b***h or slut as she gets up to no good on screen [not that it was a crucial moment] or the random cheering at special moments, the audience made this film even more fun. And it was fun anyways.
Once again Bruce Campbell steals the show. I won't say how, I won't say why, all I will say is that he got the biggest cheer out of all of them, and his character was just genius.
The film itself suffers under it's own granduer: there's too many sentimental points here, and they hit with all the subtlety of a jack-hammer. There's also some rocky camera work at times, which got to me every-now and then, but they are few and far between and paled in comparison to the bigger moments which could have been handled better.
But like I mentioned, it's the little moments where Sam Raimi shines. Tobey Maguire's perfomance of nerdy ol Peter Parker has you laughing from the get go. His darker Emo moments are also compounded by the hilarity of his situation: The symbiote which later becomes Venom makes him arrogant and leads him down some dark moments of petty stupidity, but also some truly funny moments as he struts down the street thinking he is a god among men, checking out the ladies. This despite him still being the dorky kid on the outside.
I enjoyed it quite alot, despite some of the more apparent flaws in the film. Venom was criminally under-used, and realistically they could have found a way to not use Sandman at all [his character was by and large fairly useless] But all in all the Spidey-nerd inside me tells me that it was a hell of a lot of fun, despite not living up to my own Spiderman fanboy wishes [which the other two never did anyways, so I was used to it]
Some points and thoughts worth mentioning:
Since when did Spiderman know the piano?
Ted Raimi and Bruce Campbell are pure comedy genius in this.
Since when did Mary-Jane sing?
I like to conduct giant experiments on sand in a giant pit at night with no real safety precautions [well none I pay attention to anyways]
Venom would make a good nagging house-wife...
Who thought sand could fly?
Overall I give it an 8/10 based on my own Spiderman-love, but that's being generous. So far it's my favourite out of the three, which is great, and the standard hasn't dropped at all. If they cleaned up the plot holes and layed it a little less thick, this would have been a 10 easy.
So, in sum: GO SEE IT!!! It's easily 120% better than most crap out at the cinemas, and if you're a comic book fan, you'll love it if you can supress the 'that didn't happen in the comics' gene...
Oh and to go with the theme of emo-spiderman:
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Re: SpiderMan 3 [2007]
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April 30, 2007, 05:18:04 PM »
That Emo-Spiderman thing is hilarious.
Anyway, I (along with the rest of America) will be seeing Spiderman 3 this weekend.
The thing that I'm worried about is that it looks like they've tried to cram way too much into one movie and I don't really see how you can do the whole Venom storyline justice in just one film.
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April 30, 2007, 05:51:00 PM »
Yeah, that's pretty spot on Torgo, I felt the same way really.
*Light Spoiler*
Sandman's character really only serves a purpose to get Peter angry, since he's the one who apparently kills his Uncle, but beyond that he was kind of pointless. The fnial showdown was good to watch, but for some reason seemed a bit out of place. You'll know what I mean...
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May 03, 2007, 05:22:04 PM »
Hopefully Dean will respond to this before I leave work tonight.
Spiderman 3 is playing at a theater very near my place of employment. I leave work tonight at 11 and it plays at midnight. I know my wife will be p**sed if I go see it without her, but it would be nice to see it at a midnight showing and I would have enough time to grab a bite to eat at a diner.
Is it worth my wife's anger to see this tonight without her, or should I wait a week or so and see it then?
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May 03, 2007, 05:43:20 PM »
Quote from: Skaboi on May 03, 2007, 05:22:04 PM
Is it worth my wife's anger to see this tonight without her, or should I wait a week or so and see it then?
Yes...it's worth it.
I haven't seen it yet but dude...it's Spider-Man 3!
Go see it at the midnight showing.
You can always see it again with her at a later date.
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May 03, 2007, 07:03:02 PM »
My fear is that they are gonna make the same mistake they made with x-men 3: Adding too many new charecters and not making the movie long enough to give each noobie enough screen time. Beast got a deacent sized role, but Angel and Jugrunaut got next to no time at all. Same thing with haveing 3 villians in spiderman 3, 2 being completely new. I detect dissipointment tommorow....
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May 04, 2007, 07:17:48 AM »
I went to the midnight showing this morning, not expecting a whole lot and I enjoyed it; I'll be going back to see it tonight. I'm not a fanboy (well for Batman maybe...but just a casual spidey fan) and I thought the action was great. Sure Gwen
I personally liked it better than the other two (great for a 3rd act as it has the most action). I think they balanced things about as well as they could - didn't need too much more story about the Sandman IMO (Save that for the Silver Sable & The Wild Pack movie lol -ok maybe I am a fanboy). I really liked the whole revenge and forgiveness theme - ties up the 3 really good too I think.
JJ was the bomb - laughed my ass off in every one of his scenes. Campbell, as usual, was also the bomb. And Stan Lee's cameo had the whole audience giddy.
Overall, it was pretty damned entertaining - not a masterpiece in storytelling or anything, but a great way to kick off the summer blockbuster season.
Ok, I hope that was coherent - I'm on 2 hours sleep here :)
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May 04, 2007, 03:53:50 PM »
I'll be seeing it on Saturday (5/5/07) at 4:00 in the afternoon.
The theater I'm going to has something like 12 screens and I think that they've got Spidey 3 showing on 8 of them
There's literally a showing of it starting every 20 minutes so I don't think that tickets shall be a problem.
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May 05, 2007, 02:32:50 AM »
Sorry Skaboi, no reply in time, but in short, if you liked the other two, you'll love this one, and if you're a hardcore Spiderman fanboy who survived the first two, then you'll very much like it, but might get annoyed at how it all set out.
Oh and Clockwork, I think you missed part of your post in your sleep deprived state: Gwen is missing from your post.
But on that, her character was a pretty good choice for me personally.
JJ and Bruce Campbell easily had the best scenes of the movie, and the whole audience babbled and cheered when Stan Lee showed up, as minimal as it was.
The story was strong, but I just wished for more development of the 'bad-guys'. Alot of what Sandman did, especially near the end, didn't make too much sense [it's almost like they couldn't figure out if he was more of a bad guy or not], and Venom could have been much more menacing if they wanted him to be.
But the main 'moral' feel to the story, that is the relationship between Harry and Peter, was a great one.
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Re: SpiderMan 3 [2007]
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May 05, 2007, 09:36:02 AM »
Like spiderman 2, it was not without its cheesy parts. Like when he jumps infront of the american flag before the final showdown, and when he looks himself in the mirror after he gets the simbyote and makes his hair all emo-ish. (uhg...)
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May 05, 2007, 04:49:51 PM »
I saw this today and found it to be extremely entertaining.
(I posted some remarks in the bad movie forum before I saw this thread . . . but it really belongs in the good movie section anyway).
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May 05, 2007, 09:58:50 PM »
I love it, Spidey-2 is still my favorite of the three.
Spider-Man 1: 3.5/5 (it's grown on me)
Spider-Man 2: 4.5/5
Spider-Man 3: 4/5 (who'd a thought they could have so many plot thread work that well?)
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June 09, 2007, 04:34:14 PM »
Shame on me, I just saw this gem for the third time, and it was at the regularly priced cienema.
As much as I wish we got more Venom, they did a really good job of balancing the three villains out. Okay I admit Sandman is kind of pointless, however I love the character, I over Church's performance, and I love the fights we got out of him. (But I will VERY painfully admit I would have snipped out this character)
In fact I would say the three actors who played the villains were the best. Grace was great, and who would have thought Franco could play a villain so well?
Spider-Man 2 felt like the best presentaion of comic book characters being put in a movie. While Spidey 3 seems like they made a movie as close to a comic book as possible. I think that summarizes the movie best.
Loved the final battle too, didn't feel out of place to me. Cannot wait for this on DVD.
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June 15, 2007, 02:16:22 PM »
I have not seen a MARVEL movie since XIII.
And I will not, until I get a formal apology for it.
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June 15, 2007, 03:42:36 PM »
**1/2 out of ****.
I will admit that they balance way too many storylines/characters much better than I thought that they would.
I've seen it twice now and as a whole, while entertaining, it just didn't do nearly as much for me as the other 2 did.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — As a student at a top preparatory school in China, Li Wan learned early on about the Ivy League and state universities in the United States.
Most of her classmates who planned to pursue their undergraduate careers abroad had their sights set on those larger, well-known schools. But Wan had a different idea of what was best for her.
"I realized a small, liberal arts school would suit me more, because there is more individual attention," Wan, now a Bucknell University senior, recalled. "You don't get that in a big school."
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A mathematics and economics double major, Wan has co-authored a book with two other students - Yongfang Chen, a senior at Bowdoin College, and Lin Nie, a senior at Franklin and Marshall College - about their experiences attending top liberal arts institutions. About 10,000 copies have sold in China since the book was released in July under the title Bo Yi Mei Guo Ben Ke, which literally means "The Game Theory of American Liberal Arts Education." The book has been featured in articles in Inside Higher Ed and The New York Times.
Chen, who secured the book contract for A True Liberal Arts Education (China Publishing Group, 2009), as it is titled in English, invited Wan to join the project after reading her blog about her life as a Bucknell student. The book is written almost entirely in Chinese and includes autobiographical accounts as well as reflective essays about the students' experiences at their respective schools.
In her section, "Crossing the International Dateline," Wan discusses her adjustment to American culture, her academic experiences, her first visit to the United States and how the college admissions process differs from that in China.
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Survey Finds Most Americans Believe Games Cause Violence
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Thank you, other person who understands selection bias in statistics. Hell, the fact that a mere 1000 people is supposed to represent all of America is insulting as well
In addition, while wording is claimed to be neutral, a simple look at the questions will change that.
"2* Do violent video games lead to more violence in our society? "
Notice the fact that they worded it so that "violent" was almost repeated with "violence," a subtle trick to connect the two. In addition, it wasn't using a more passive wording, such as 'video games containing violence (which is a word that needs to be changed anyways)' but rather "violent video games."
Fair enough.
I will agree to that.
It's not ideal, but it works surprisingly well. Take a stats class.
I actually did consider this. But no information was given on how exactly it was collected. So just assume the worst.
Take a statistics class. You'll be surprised.
Rule of thumb: the reliability of a survey can be estimated by dividing 1 by the square root of the number of people you've surveyed. In this case, that's a relibility of about 3%.
Please note that reliable surveys are not the same as unbaised surveys, as noted by the post I quoted in my next post: there's quite a few blatant non-random sampling errors in their process, in my opinion.
Oh dear. Only 1000 adults? That's a pretty small data pool when compared to the whole country. Oy.
Personally, I don't agree. I mean, I'm not always all "Yay, a violent video game AGAIN! Oh boy!" but I also realize that video games don't CAUSE violence. They can trigger it, but the person has to already be predisposed to violence themselves. So really, video games, movies, TV, comics, books, anything could cause them to be violent.
I missed that. Thanks for sinking another ill-planned survey's usefulness. Although a confirming link would be nice. [Edit] Found that link.
Methodology page points out all this (other than the wording, that was just the questions page). They even brag that they have single tone answering machines.
You need to look more around you then just at the video games....
Im sure there is more violence in Hollywood then in lil Johnny's 360...PS3...w/e
Given the methodology, this survey says absolutely nothing.
I must have missed it the first time around.
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only person who read that. Once I read that, I saw the survey as saying "People have opinions, but parents realize that they'll look after their child and let you look after yours."
Am I alone in this interpretation?
That right there is the problem; this is Rasmussen we're dealing with, they're notorious for questionable methodology and a right wing bias. I wouldn't pay this particular survey any attention.
What do you want me to do? Fire him? Or is this the "If you don't have anything nice to say" talk?
Besides, I'm not passive aggressive. I'm aggressive aggressive.
lol no if we win the court case get ready to hear "THEY BRIBED THE JUDGES THE CORPORATIONS USED DIRTY BRIBES TO POISON THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN WITH VIOLENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS ANYONE THINKING OF THE CHILDREN"
edit: I am curious on how California could think that its a good idea to posibly elimate even more of their tax revnue through regulation when their deeper in the hole then any other state in the U.S. maby they just get a hard on about the prospect of being forced to pay the defenses legal costs...again
No, survey finds that most people surveyed believe video games cause violence. Not that most Americans believe that.
1,000 people is hardly an accurate representation of the millions of people who live in this country. I wish these people and their dumb surveys would fuck off already.
Damn it...
Get some common sense people!
Survey finds that most Americans believe everything the media tells them.
The last time I checked 1000 people is not the population of America. And all these sorts of things have loads of inherent bias, just think only those with enough time to do the survey would be able to actually do it. I
I don't think we should be too worried
Sorry didn't see that this lovely individual had beaten me to this.
Heh. Look at the video section, and the number of times the founder has been on Fox News. Enough said, I think.
That is the most epic way to describe how I'm feeling right now.
"Oh, officer, it's terrible, my son was murdered in a bar fight!"
Because I'm above Hyperbole. :D
Anyways. In conclusion, people are stupid, have a fucking facepalm.
So the people that shouldn't worry about video game violence are the ones that do.
I give up.
What some people forget is that these people/parents/mental patient are the same people who banned the word "flip knife" in comic books in case children would say "Look he's got a f**k knife".
No, I expect you to say why the article is ill-informed.
i think it's funny how you put statistical and evidence in the same sentence.
Were the respondents screened as to weather or not they have actually played a video game in the past 15-20 years? Concern over something that you have no experience with pretty much invalidates your opinion. It's why something like a Constitution tries to protect minorities. Overwhelming ignorance is no excuse for public policy.
I have. Many times throughout this thread. Though I agree that I neglected to be precise about it in my first post, and for that I accept your criticism.
Well, that certainly was edgy! Oh noes, i'm going to be sued for using that :L
Somehow I think that was the point.
OT: Look at the questions, then realise that they used overly vague and broad terms.
Well, this may be biased (Stats Class, you will not stop haunting me), but it still suggests that most people are uninformed and/or stupid.
Yeah, most people are dumb and/or ignorant ... what else is new?
I love how it says "the majority of the country's population believe this" and yet the survey was only for 1000 people.
Now, I could make a gross generalization about how Americans are not so intelligent compared to the rest of us, but what's the point?
Survey shows most people will believe anything because the media told them to with question.
But does this take into account that most Americans are idiots and parents now are too lazy to raise their children?
Big deal; most Americans believe the universe was created by a big invisible man who lives in the sky, too.
Duh. So long Fox News has an audience, I am not surprised really.
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With 2008 drawing to close, Microsoft is at a crossroads between its past and the cloud computing future. But that doesn't mean that the software giant's most traditional products won't continue to impact us in the year ahead. Today, I'd like to take a short side trip and look both back at 2008 and ahead to the year that's coming.
2008: A look back
First, let's reflect a bit on the year that's now coming to a close. I primarily cover Microsoft, of course, so I will focus on what I consider to be the top 10 most important Microsoft product releases of the year. Here they are, in alphabetical order.
Live Mesh
Microsoft is often criticized for milking its traditionally packaged software products in an era when the rest of the industry is moving as quickly as possible to cloud (i.e. Web-based) computing. And while there's some truth to that opinion, the first two Microsoft products I'd like to highlight refute the notion that Microsoft is ignoring the cloud. Indeed, the first of these products, Live Mesh, is arguably one of the most innovative and useful cloud computing services available from any company.
Live Mesh is hard to categorize at this early point because it's evolving rapidly and continuously, but the simplest way to describe it is as a new synchronization platform that bridges the gap between PCs, the Web, and mobile devices. You can use Live Mesh to synchronize documents and other files between your PCs, and between your PCs and a special Web-based desktop. It also works with Macs and Windows Mobile devices. PC users also get a special additional bit of functionality: The ability to remotely access their PC desktop from any Web-enabled PC. These capabilities are all aimed at providing anywhere/anytime access to your data. So even if you're in an Internet caf? in, say, Istanbul, you can still touch up that r?sum?, find a password, or do any other number of things that might otherwise have been impossible.=
What makes Live Mesh most exciting, however, is that it's evolving into a platform that will include applications that, like those documents, can be synchronized between all of the computing end points that access the service. So it will be theoretically possible to sync a word processor or image editor, or any other kind of application between the various devices on your Mesh and then access them from anywhere in the world as well. If Live Mesh is as successful as I think it will be, it could prove to be the breakthrough technology that enables Microsoft to bridge the gap between the floppies of the past and the cloud of the future.
Live Mesh is free. Read more about Live Mesh...
Microsoft Online Services (MOS)
In the same vein as Live Mesh, Microsoft Online Services (MOS) bucks the software giant's traditions and bundles its most popular server applications--Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint, and a few others--as hosted online services that businesses of all sizes can subscribe to in various ways. This is a major change that has many industry ramifications. First, Microsoft's partners--many of whom were already offering hosted services themselves--will have to either compete with Microsoft's pricing model or find new businesses to exploit. And second, Microsoft's customers now have a far less expensive and complex way to utilize the software giant's most popular servers.
MOS is perhaps Microsoft's purest cloud computing offering at this time, and I fully expect that most Exchange users worldwide, especially, will soon be accessing the server via hosted services and not locally installed servers.
Exchange access via MOS starts at $10 per user per month. Read more about Microsoft Online Services...
Response Point with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Microsoft's most underappreciated product of 2008 is also the one that most obviously delivers on the software giant's promise to make software solutions simpler , less inexpensive, and more accessible for its customers. Response Point is essentially a small business PBX replacement in a box. It consists of an XP Embedded-based base station and five or more satellite phones, connects to one or two traditional phone lines, and uses Ethernet-based network cabling internally for connecting it all together. The product targets businesses with 50 or fewer users and assumes that those users don't include a single IT pro among them.
There are a number of exciting aspects to Response Point. First, it's simple enough that any small business can be up and running very quickly. Second, it's not based on any expansive and complicated Microsoft platform, so it's not bogged down by the need to be an enterprise product that's been shoehorned for a different market.
But the most obvious reason to love Response Point is that the functionality is incredible. You can easily set up automatic forwarding to cell phones and other numbers, auto forward to others in the office under certain conditions, and use an incredible voice recognition system that's accessible both from within the local system (i.e., at the office) and when calling in from the road. That way, any phone number that's in your corporate directory is available to you at all times, even when you're not at the office. There's an impressive e automated receptionist that provides a professional front-end to your business and ensuring that the phone is always answered, no matter what the time is.
Response Point systems start at about $1500. Read more about Response Point with Service Pack 1...
Windows 7 Beta
OK, Windows 7 isn't publicly available yet, and even the official Beta version won't ship to customers until early 2009. But this currently-in-limbo product still deserves a place on the 2008 list because of the profound way it has impacted the Microsoft ecosystem this past year. Windows 7 is the culmination of a year-long attempt by the software giant to reverse the fortunes of Windows, which, senseless or not, has been tarnished ever since the release of Windows Vista in 2006. But unlike its predecessor, Windows 7 is widely viewed as a hugely positive release, one that many Windows users are--get this--eagerly waiting to install.
That fact alone makes Windows 7 notable. But what's most impressive here, to me at least, is that Windows 7 really is just a shinier, slightly-better version of Windows Vista. That Microsoft is able to generate this much excitement for a product that is essentially Windows Vista 1.5 is both humorous and telling, and it demonstrates what I've always thought: Windows Vista isn't as bad as the pundits would have you believe. And by calling it something different--be it "Mojave" or Windows 7--Microsoft has removed the stigma from the previous version.
The Windows 7 Beta will be publicly available in January. Read more about the Windows 7 Beta...
Windows Home Server (WHS) Power Pack 1 (PP1)
I've been using Windows Home Server (WHS) since late last year, and this wonderful product has revolutionized the way I backup, share media, and remotely access my entire data store from the road. But there were a few minor problems with the initial release, and they were all fixed with the free Power Pack 1 (PP1) upgrade. This nifty update added x64 client support, server backup functionality, remote access improvements, and a number of other changes. It also fixed a data corruption bug that didn't actually appear to affect many customers (it certainly didn't affect me) but was widely reported.
WHS is one of those stealth products that I think will have a profound impact on networked homes going forward. Microsoft likes to compare it to PCs and home networking, which were niche products in the 1980's and 1990's, respectively. And like those products, it believes, WHS will one day be a common and accepted part of our everyday computing environments. That's already true in my household.
Windows Home Server starts at $99 for an OEM software install, but it's typically purchased with new server hardware for about $500 and up. Read more about Windows Home Server Power Pack 1...
Windows Live Essentials 2009
Over the past three years, Microsoft has quietly evolved its Messenger instant messaging product into a suite of applications that now spans quite a gamut of functionality. Now called Windows Live Essentials, the suite includes Windows Live Mail (calendar, contacts, and email management), Windows Live Messenger (IM), Windows Live Movie Maker Beta (video and photo slideshow editing and publishing), Windows Live Photo Gallery (photo and home movie management), Windows Live Toolbar (for IE), Windows Live Writer (blog posting and management), Windows Live Family Safety (multi-PC parental controls), Office Outlook Connector (for access Windows Live calendar, contacts, and email from Outlook), and some other tools.
It's an impressive suite of applications, but the cherry on top of all this is the way in which these tools integrate with each other, with numerous Windows Live Wave 3 services (see below), and with various third party services. Windows Live Essentials is the first thing I install after installing Windows, and I suspect it will be a must-have install for hundreds of millions of Windows users going forward as well.
Windows Live Essentials is free. Read more about Windows Live Essentials 2009...
Windows Live Wave 3
In tandem with the release of Windows Live Essentials, Microsoft also unveiled a sweeping set of new Windows Live services, which it has dubbed its Wave 3 release. Windows Live Wave 3 is a huge and impressive set of services, so much so that it's actually hard to keep track of it all.
Among the services are Windows Live Calendar (calendaring, to-do), Windows Live Events (online event invitation and sharing), Windows Live FrameIt (digital photo frame content delivery), Windows Live Groups (online group collaboration), Windows Live Home (Web portal), Windows Live Hotmail (email), Windows Live People (contacts), Windows Live Photos (photos), Windows Live Profile (online persona management), Windows Live SkyDrive (online storage), Windows Live Spaces (blog), and Windows Live Sync (peer-to-peer document sharing).
Aside from the sheer number of these services, what makes Windows Live so impressive is how the various bits and pieces integrate not just with each and with Windows Live Essentials applications, but also with third party services like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and many, many others.
Windows Live Wave 3 is free, and offers nearly unlimited storage capacity. Read more about Windows Live Wave 3...
Windows Server 2008
The latest version of Microsoft's enterprise server is the best yet and with the completion of its Hyper-V virtualization platform, Windows Server 2008 is now prepared for the future as well. This release has so many new features it's hard to keep track of them all, but I'd highlight the new Server Manager dashboard, the stripped-down Server Core install type, BitLocker Full-Drive Encryption, Read-Only Doman Controller (RODC), IIS 7, Network Access Protection (NAP), PowerShell, and of course Hyper-V as being among the top reasons to upgrade.
There's even a free, standalone version of Hyper-V Server if you just want to dip your toes into the virtualization world for the first time.
Windows Server 2008 starts at $469 for the Web Server Edition and comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants. (For now; the R2 update due next year drops the 32-bit versions.) Read more about Windows Server 2008...
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
While Windows 7 will be a godsend when it arrives in 2009, Windows Vista users got an early Christmas present in 2008 when Microsoft released the Service Pack 1 (SP1) update. This seemingly innocuous update basically fixed everything that was wrong with the initial release of Vista, and if you're still harboring a weird grudge against this OS for its compatibility or performance issues, it's time to take another look.
With SP1, Windows Vista picks up important device and software compatibility, bringing it up to par with Windows XP. You get important performance and reliability improvements, including much better battery life on portable computers. BitLocker has been enhanced to work with any fixed disk in the system, and not just the system drive. There are important changes to Windows Search, Disk Defragmenter, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and other components.
Put simply, SP1 is like getting a brand new version of Vista, one that works much better than the original.
Windows Vista SP1 is free. Read more about Windows Vista Service Pack 1...
Zune 3
Microsoft's widely derided Zune digital media platform got a major update a year ago but really came into its own with the Zune 3 release in late 2008. This time around, the hardware hasn't changed much--Microsoft still sells the same basic flash- and hard drive-based players it launched a year earlier--but the software and services are better than ever. Much better. In fact, they're so good, you should consider using them even if you don't have a Zune device and never plan to own one.
What you get here is a superior digital media player, the Zune PC software, and a set of interesting and useful online services. The Zune PC software is the real star, and it's only a million times nicer than rivals like Windows Media Player and Apple iTunes. The UI is simple and serene, and the Zune 3 update provides much-needed music discovery functionality.
On the services end, Microsoft provides an excellent online music store, the Zune Marketplace, that will soon be selling only 100 percent DRM-free MP3 files, as well as providing an inexpensive subscription service that lets you access the entire library of several million tracks, all while getting 10 free songs to keep each month. A Zune Social service lets you share musical preferences with your friends, and discover new music. Taken together, it's the best platform out there for music lovers especially.
The Zune PC software and Zune Social are free; the Zune Pass subscription is $15 a month, but comes with 10 free songs, a $10 value. Read more about Zune 3...
2009: A look ahead
For all the talk about cloud computing this past year--and believe me, I'm a huge proponent of this emerging computing paradigm--as I look forward to 2009, the biggest product I see impacting IT is in fact the most classic and traditional Microsoft product of all, Windows. More specifically, I'm referring to Windows 7, which in 2009 will appear in both client and server form, the latter branded as Windows Server 2008 R2. These products will together define what kind of year the software giant and its customers will have. And I have to tell you, I think they're both going to be excellent products, and ones that will finally signal the death knell to their aging predecessors, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
The New Year will begin with the first public beta of Windows 7. This is the time for businesses of all sizes to begin evaluating this release, because I believe that Microsoft intends to ship only one major beta version of the product, followed by a single release candidate, and then the final version. If this schedule unfolds as expected, Microsoft will be able to finalize Windows 7 in April and then ship it to customers by mid-year at the latest. That means, unlike with Vista, you're not going to have a lot of time to get ready.
Speaking of Vista, your first impression of Windows 7 will vary wildly, depending on your opinions about Vista. Windows 7 looks and acts a lot like Vista, and that can be off-putting. But you don't have to look too far to see minor but important UI tweaks. I've been using an early version of the official beta since last week, and it's pretty clear that no corner of this OS has been left untouched. The taskbar, Start Menu, tray notification area, desktop, and Windows Explorer have all been given much-needed usability improvements.
As for performance, I think Microsoft is going to surprise people. And if you're working for an enterprise that hasn't upgraded to Vista because it won't run acceptably on your existing PCs, you'll want to look again at Windows 7. It may look like Vista, but it boots and runs appreciably faster than its predecessor, and can even run acceptably on low-end netbook-class machines, something that is simply impossible with Vista. (My only performance complaint regards file copies, which often work as slowly as they do in Vista, especially network-based file copies.)
Microsoft is making quite an effort to push a "better together" story with Windows 7 and Server 08 R2, but these products won't make the same splash as did Windows 2000 Professional and Server, the last Windows versions to be co-developed. That's not Microsoft's fault, per se, as the Windows platform doesn't require the same deep level of improvements that was needed back then. But if the company is hoping to inspire businesses to co-deploy both Windows 7 and Server 08 R2, it's going to have to do better than Direct Access, Branch Cache, and BitLocker To Go.
That said, R2 is still a pretty impressive product, but then I've discussed that at length already in my Windows Server 2008 R2 Preview. But here's some news you probably haven't heard yet: Microsoft will be selling a new R2 version, called Windows Foundation Server, that it will target at emerging markets and, if it's smart, small businesses and enthusiasts. Foundation Server will support all the key Windows Server roles except for Hyper-V virtualization, and it will reportedly sell for just $200. Now that's what I call power to the people.
See you next year! --Paul
Edited portions of this article appeared in the December 30, 2008 issue of Windows IT Pro UPDATE and the December 31, 2008 issue of WinInfo Daily News. --Paul


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The UFC 172 main card on April 26 is likely to get off to a rousing start, as always-exciting lightweights Jim Miller and Bobby "King" Green have verbally agreed to meet in Baltimore.
New Jersey's Miller has won two of his last three bouts, defeating Joe Lauzon and Fabricio Camoes. Green has been on a nearly unstoppable hot streak, winning seven straight, including UFC victories over Jacob Volkmann, James Krause, and Pat Healy.
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Portland, part 2 of 3
I met Nita, whose blood sugar dropped 100 points a week after starting her 3-pint-a-day green smoothie habit in September. Her A1C test dropped 3 points, which is HUGE. She'd had bypass surgery, and thanks to 12 Steps habits, she got her energy back. She said the week she bought 12 Steps, she was looking at a program that cost twice as much, to guide her in choosing clothes, hairstyle and jewelry. She said to herself, deciding between the two: "Do I want to spend my money on getting well, or looking good on my deathbed?" Nita, if you're reading this, you're beautiful already.
I met Mary, who drove 3.5 hours from Seattle, wearing pink in the photo below with me and her friend. Starting green smoothies, she had no headaches getting off Diet Coke, her depression decreased, she lost 20 lbs., and she stopped retaining water.
I took tons of photos with young moms (see photo on yesterday's blog entry, and they are popping up on facebook). I guess they got the message loud and clear that THEY ARE MY HEROES….especially when they buck popular trends to do right by their kids. They may feel powerless some days, but they actually wield tremendous power to turn the ship around before it wrecks.
(I am going to do some videos this week, with my 10-year old, showing you how I talk to him about nutrition and health. Stay tuned.)
One of favorite college roommates came to my Sandy class, where I was whisked away to make the drive to Corvallis without getting to chill with her. So she came to my hotel the morning I left (see photo below) with a lovely green smoothie breakfast sendoff. XOXO Paula, I heart you! And Debbie, the green smoothie you made me was HARD. CORE, woohoo!
Back from Portland now, where possibly because I've been speaking so much (10 classes in the past 2 weeks), my voice completely quit and I spoke in a squeak the last two classes. I want to move to Portland because you have it so good with health food and composting and organic everything, oh, and the BLUEBERRIES! (I'd miss sunshine, though.)
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Robyn–Thanks for coming to Oregon. I was at your Sandy event, and didn't have a chance to ask you some questions. Mainly, I was curious to find out what do you eat, when you eat animal products? Also, as a cheese substitute, I know you suggest staying away from soy. Have you tried any nut cheeses? I'm looking for something to throw on a pizza or bean dip…and cashews and nutritional yeast just don't seem to cut it. I'd love your thoughts on cheese replacement. Thanks. you are very inspirational.


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In 2013, forex trading was linked intimately to expectations regarding changes in the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing policy. Certainly, in 2014 market expectations will continue to focus on the future of tapering policy. While the era of exceptional stimulus may be at an end, or at least nearing its end, here are three general outcomes for tapering policy that will shape market moves.
First, better economic data may cause the acceleration of tapering to offset inflation headwinds. On the other hand, worse economic data, evidencing a slowdown in the recovery, may cause a suspension of tapering, or even invite renewed aggressive monetary accommodation. The third path is the current consensus, wherein the Fed will proceed with a consistent $10 billion reduction in its bond purchases and systematically wind down QE3 without any sudden moves or expectation disruptions. In any case, what we know is that key economic data releases in the coming year will impact price action in underlying markets. We also know that central bank decisions on monetary policy in 2014 will remain the critical factor in shaping currency prices. The Japanese yen, in particular, has a great sensitivity to inflation expectations.
The yen's behavior against the dollar has proven to be a reliable surrogate measure of market risk-appetite, or risk-aversion. In 2013 the bullish market sentiment for U.S. equities, driven by QE3, made it attractive to sell yen vs. dollars. If U.S. markets continue to be bullish, USD/JPY price action will likely remain in sync with S&P direction. Buying the USD/JPY will be a logical response to this condition.
In 2014, however, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is likely to remain aggressive in its commitment to inflate the Japanese economy to the 2% target. Most recent evidence confirms that its policy is working. The Japanese inflation rate was recorded to be 1.61% in November 2013 (see "Japanese inflation rate," right). This is a five-year high and is a phenomenal surge in inflation from the January 2013 levels of –0.7%. The BoJ is more than half-way to its target. The rise of USD/JPY during this same period is not a coincidence. In 2014 traders will be wise to focus on Japanese inflation data. They can use this factor as an indicator that the USD/JPY likely will be much weaker with 2% inflation than at the current level. How much weaker is hard to say because surely the current price reflects a modicum of expectations that the BoJ will reach its targets. But how fast it gets there is a guess. A disruptive factor may be the increase in the sales tax from 5% to 8% in April. Such an increase has a negative impact on growth — but it actually may be the spark for further BoJ monetary accommodation to offset this impact. Traders should keep track of what BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has to say as the year unfolds.
Beyond the fundamental force of inflation, an interesting bullish technical pattern in the currency pair is developing. USD/JPY is currently (Jan. 7, 2014) probing the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level (105.58) of the move from the June 2007 high of 124.15 to the October 2011 low of 75.57 (see "Yen nears key level," right). It has taken seven years to reach this critical point and a break-out of this key level presents a rare confluence of technical and fundamental conditions. The inflation scenario in Japan translates to the strategy of buying USD/JPY after any significant sell-off and if the 61.8% Fibonacci level is breached, don't be surprised if the USD/JPY tests the 2008 high just above 110.
Abe Cofnas is author of Sentiment Indicators and Trading Binary Options: Strategies and Tactics (Bloomberg Press). He is editor of binarydimensions.com newsletter and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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We present to you: the incredible shrinking moon!
(via Things Organized Neatly.)
Now that jailbreaking is legal, Apple is working on ways to disable your jail-broken phone. The Big Bad Blog is starting to think that Apple does not think very highly of its customers — they seem to be out to break our shit.
Stats-heads: Here is an interactive graph about Lonodn's cycle-hire scheme, looking at the time, weather, and number of bicycles in use.


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04-30-2013 - Airport Police Earn International Certification
Reno - NV, Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority Police Department has earned one of the highest accreditations in the nation. Airport Police completed the Law Enforcement Accreditation Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).
With this achievement, the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority Police join an elite group of law enforcement officers and become only the third CALEA certified Police Department in all of Nevada. The CALEA certification is also recognized nationally as a high achievement, with only 580 other accredited police departments out of 18,000 in the nation.
"Earning the CALEA credential demonstrates that the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority Police Department holds itself to the highest standards of law enforcement professionalism," said Krys Bart, President/CEO of Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
CALEA represents a Gold Standard in Public Safety and sets management practices that run through all aspects of the operation. The CALEA certification resulted from a three-year process that began with a detailed review of every department policy, practice and facility. Auditors reviewed each process and the Airport Police passed a rigorous certification assessment.
"The traveling community can be reassured that they are flying through a safe and secure facility with highly trained and dedicated law enforcement officers to serve and protect the Reno-Tahoe International Airport," continued Bart.
The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority is the owner and operator of the Reno-Tahoe International and Reno-Stead Airports. Governed by a nine member Board of Trustees, the airport operates as a business, and receives no local tax dollars.
The Reno-Tahoe International is the 62nd busiest commercial airport in the nation, serving approximately 3.8 million passengers per year. With its own Police and Fire Departments, Reno-Tahoe International functions like a small city with over 2,400 employees working for a variety of companies. The airport is an important asset to the region, generating a total annual economic impact of $2 billion.


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Learning Index >> Hand-blockprinted Textiles: Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher
Although the three blocks for Peach were cut by Barron specifically to be used together in various combinations, this was exceptional. (No. 1, 2, 3, 4) Instead Barron and Larcher preferred to marry blocks together instinctively. They might use a French block to overprint one of their own designs such as Eagle, and enjoyed experimenting with the numerous different effects that could be achieved by using blocks creatively. (No 5, 6)


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Mar. 21, 2011
BOSTON — Japan's frantic effort to cool down a damaged nuclear facility has thrust nuclear power reactors back into the public's imagination here in the United States. That's bringing attention to New England's Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee plants — but also to a little-noticed reactor in Massachusetts.
The MIT Nuclear Research Laboratory is a building in Cambridge with a blue-domed cylinder. It's the second-largest of the country's 26 university-based research reactors, but many passersby aren't familiar with it.
"I've never noticed that. That's scary," said Patrick Jean Baptiste, as he walks home from work.
He's one of several people walking through Kendall Square who don't know about the reactor. But some of them aren't the least concerned after learning what it is, like a tall, lanky man named David.
"What I've heard is that MIT does a pretty good job of keeping a close eye on it and using it for certain types of experiments that aren't so threatening," David said.
The reactor is a tank-type reactor. Cooled by light water, it uses heavy water as a reflector. It should not be compared with the Fukushima reactor in Japan. It's considerably smaller and has a fuel inventory about 1,000 times less than that of a commercial nuclear power plant.
The facility was the subject of an ABC News investigation in 2005. At that time, reporter Brian Ross concluded that because there are no metal detectors or searches or significant guard presence, the facility is vulnerable.
The director of the lab, Dr. David Moncton, says that should not be a safety concern.
"Workers at this facility wear badges to detect radiation levels. The fact that outside this building, there is no visible armed guard presence should not concern anyone," Moncton said.
Moncton said he wasn't comfortable detailing exactly how the laboratory is safe-guarded.
"It's not a good idea to advertise the ways in which you're secure. We don't have armed guards but we've got a lot of guards close by if we need them," Moncton said.
He said the facility is secured in other ways, too.
"Whether it's a truck bomb or an airplane that falls out of the sky and hits our containment shell, we've studied all of those potential calamities, we're pretty comfortable, and the nuclear regulators commission is comfortable that this is a safe operation and presents no risk," Moncton said.
The MIT nuclear reactor is closely associated with Cambridge's emergency planning authorities, including fire and police departments. And the Cambridge City Council periodically looks at the safety measures surrounding the MIT reactor.
Still, Cambridge City Councilor Sam Siedel, a staunch defender of the city's academic institutions, is concerned about the lab's presence in a full, urban area.
"It's obviously a wonderful opportunity from the academic perspective about things you can do in terms of learning and studying," Siedel said. "But the idea that these things exist right in the middle of a very dense population here in Cambridge and of course, right across the river is Boston, you know, I think we really ought to look at that," Siedel said.
Siedel says he will pursue a Council resolution directing the Cambridge City manager "to confer with the universities to get a full report on all the activities and the safety precautions and measures they have in place to deal with all types of unintended outcomes that might happen around a nuclear reactor," Siedel said.
On the streets of Cambridge, local designer Enrita Siegal is happy to hear that. "With everything going on in Japan, I have been more concerned about nuclear power and hoping that everything is being well taken care of here," Siegal said.
But the MIT reactor should be put into perspective, counters Christine Jesstrup, a masseuse passing through Central Square.
"I know that MIT has a reactor. I mean, they've got nuclear physicists over there. I think the track record on nuclear is not that bad. And I wonder if paper cuts by a thousand coal plants and oil is maybe worse," Jesstrup said.
Among other advances, the MIT facility has a track record of helping to develop methods of fighting brain cancer with radiation. But some Cambridge residents, like Baptiste, remain skeptical.
"You can't trust these people. They tell you you're safe. But you can't believe what they're saying. You know, anything can happen," Baptiste said.
All parties concerned hope that a new safety audit by the Cambridge City Council might help assuage doubts and fears about the nuclear facility in their midst.
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MacNN reports that development of the 64bit version of VLC for Mac OS X has already been halted. VLC being a volunteer project, you can already guess the problem: a lack of developers. If new developers do not come to the rescue, VLC 1.1.0 will be the last Mac OS X version of VLC. Apparently, the project no longer has any Mac developers at all.
VLC is an important application on the Mac, as I don't know any Mac user who does not have it installed. QuickTime Player is relatively limited in its coded support, and despite the fact that 'codec packs' exist for QT, VLC is a very popular alternative.
The project is asking for more developers, and as a Mac and VLC user myself, I felt it was important to use OSNews to possibly get people interested in helping out the VLC project. I'd hate to see VLC for the Mac disappear due to a lack of developers. And yes, I just used the word developers
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U.S. Equal Employment
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Meeting of July 15, 2009 – Age Discrimination in the 21st Century-Barriers to the Employment of Older Workers
My name is Dennis Halfhill. I am 67 years old and live in Fort Wright Kentucky. I worked for more than 20 years for National Distillers Products Company as an Assistant Division Traffic Manager until the distribution department was moved to Clermont Kentucky, about two and a half hours away. I then obtained a position with the Kenton County Sheriff on December 23, 1991. I worked there first as an office deputy (for one year), then as court bailiff for almost a year and I then went through the police academy and became a road deputy after graduation in February 1994. As a road deputy, I performed general police duties including traffic stops, traffic accident investigations, serving warrants, transporting prisoners and backing up police agencies in Northern Kentucky. I was classified as a hazardous service employee for purposes of benefits through the Kentucky Retirement System.
In December 1997 I was injured in the course of duty. I was 56 years old. I was delivering a trial subpoena and my cruiser was hit by another motorist. The other car ran through a red light and broadsided me. The driver's side door of my cruiser was hit and my cruiser was knocked into a pedestrian sign post. When my cruiser was hit on left side, it threw me against the pointy heavy metal chrome handle of the cruiser's side spotlight. The handle jabbed into my shoulder and it felt like I was hit with a baseball bat in the shoulder. I suffered rotor cuff, neck and tendon damage. At the time of the incident, I was in perfect health, ran about a mile a day and had no plans to retire from the sheriff's department. My performance appraisals were always excellent and approximately two months prior to the incident, I had been told that there were plans to make me a supervisor. At the time of the accident, I was earning around $34-35,000 and received health insurance benefits at no cost. I had two sons, age 26 and 28 living at home and attending school.
After the accident, I had to take off for 1-2 days due to the pain but I expected to fully recover. I continued working on regular duty for the Sheriff's department but was in pain and experienced numbness. After one year of therapy there was little improvement so I had an operation in June 1999 to correct the rotor cuff damage and was placed on light duty after the operation. After three months, I was sent for testing and they determined that I still could not perform all of the regular job duties and my doctor was unable to tell me exactly how long it would take to recover. He said that it could take 3-4 years. Because I needed 100% use of both arms in order to be permitted to perform my job, the Sheriff and the Chief Deputy told me in September 1999, that I needed to apply for disability retirement because they could not keep me on light duty any longer.
I applied for disability retirement on September 22, 1999 when I was 57 yeas old. I received a letter back from Kentucky Retirement Systems on September 29, 1999 stating that I was ineligible for disability retirement because I was over 55 years old, too old to qualify. I was told that I needed to take regular retirement. Because I wanted to keep working, I searched for other county and state jobs but none were available at the time. I had to take regular retirement, which based on my 8 years of service, amounts to approximately $550 a month. If I had received disability retirement, I would have gotten up to 8 additional years of imputed service which would have doubled my monthly pension to about $1100 a month and I would have been allowed to hold a non-hazardous position, if one became available, while receiving hazardous disability benefits.
Also, if I had received disability retirement, because I was a hazardous employee injured in the course of duty, my health insurance benefits would be paid in full. Because I was not allowed to take disability retirement, it would cost me 75% of the cost of health insurance premiums or $400 per month if I wanted to continue to get health insurance through the state. At age 57 I was 8 years away from eligibility for Medicare. Compared to some I was lucky because I could get health insurance benefits through my wife's employer. That insurance cost less than the $400 I would have had to pay for coverage through the state, but it was still costly. My wife had been paying $125 a month for individual coverage and when we switched to family coverage there was an increase of $225 per month for a total monthly premium of $350 per month. As you can see, more than half of my monthly retirement benefit from KRS is used to by health insurance.
I searched for alternate employment and after being told many times that I was either underqualified or overqualified, got a part time job in July 2000 at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Kentucky as a security officer. This job was to fill in for other employees and I received $15 an hour with no benefits. I now work at St. Elizabeth's at the information desk, approximately 7 to 14 hours a week earning almost $17 an hour with no benefits.
After I was denied disability retirement, I spoke with a member of the KRS Board. He said that it was not right that I had been denied disability retirement and that age should be eliminated as a requirement. He told me that he had argued in my favor before the board but that they disagreed. I retained a lawyer who filed suit for me in state court in October 1999. I lost at the trial court level on summary judgment, won in the state appellate court but lost in the state supreme court. The Judge there ruled that I was discriminated against but it wasn't intentional and they were following the federal court. It cost me about $20,000. My lawyer said if I wanted to do anything further, such as petition the Supreme Court, it would cost an additional $25,000 which I did not have and my chances were 50% at best.
At that point I was aware that the EEOC had filed a suit against Kentucky Retirement Systems in Federal Court and that I was a class member and I hoped that the EEOC might be able to get relief on my behalf. After many years of litigation, it's my understanding that the Supreme Court said that I wasn't discriminated against based on age. All I know is that if I had been younger than 55 when I applied for disability retirement, I'd be much better off than I am today. I hope that something can be done which will correct the injustice that I and other older workers suffered and will continue to suffer.
I don't see how it can be anything but age discrimination when you are told that you are ineligible for benefits solely based on your age. It is especially concerning when your disability is the result of an injury in the line of duty.


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Jennifer Lawrence: Bikini Babe in Hawaii!
Jennifer Lawrence wears a blue bikini top while spending time with her shirtless brother Blaine on Wednesday (November 21) in Maui, Hawaii.
The 22-year-old actress is spending Thanksgiving with her family in the Aloha State while she works on her highly anticipated film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. She was later spotted taking a stroll with her mom Karen.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jennifer Lawrence
Earlier in the day, Jennifer wore a black maxi dress and a pair of glasses while going to a local market with her family.
FYI: Jennifer is wearing a Roxy bikini.
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The Uruguay international made no secret of his desire to leave Anfield over the summer, with Arsenal seeing two bids for the striker rejected, and Ayre recently claimed the player had damaged Liverpool's brand.
Suarez returned to Brendan Rodgers' starting line-up for Wednesday's Capital One Cup defeat to Manchester United after serving a 10-game ban and Ayre is determined to retain his services for the foreseeable future.
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"We'll do the same with everyone and at the right time we'll have the discussion with Luis and his advisors."
Rodgers accused Arsenal of "lacking class" after submitting a controversial £40,000,001 bid for the striker in the hope of triggering a supposed buy-out clause in his contract, but Ayre insists he holds no grudges against the Gunners or counterpart Ivan Gazidis.
"That's the transfer market," he continued. "I have huge respect for Arsenal, they're a great football club, with some great people. I'm good friends with Ivan. Trying to get players, making offers for players, it's all part of the game.
"Anyone who says it isn't and makes a big noise is not really being honest. Everybody does the same thing in football, everybody's trying to achieve the same thing, we're all trying our best to buy the best players for the best price."