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iPad mini
When Apple unveiled its smaller-sized iPad mini in October, we were blasé and unimpressed. After all, it's hardly the new kid on the block in this category – Samsung's Galaxy Tab and the Asus Nexus 7 have been out for months – and it's not as if its innards are bleeding-edge. The iPad mini doesn't have a retina display, the processor is just the A5 (the same one in the iPad 2), and it won't take new micro-SIM cards (so you can't double up your old iPad's data plan and use it in this one). To boot, it's pricey at $349 for the base Wi-Fi-only version with only a measly 16-gigabytes (GB) of memory, which is barely enough to store a dozen or so apps, a couple of videos, and, if you're lucky, about 2,000 songs. Anyone who wants to watch a handful of movies on a long plane ride, bring along a decent selection of their favorite tunes, and run a few apps, is going to want the 64GB version with built-in Wi-Fi and superfast LTE 4G mobile broadband capability, which will jack the price up to $559.
Despite these seemingly significant reasons to steer clear of Apple's new, reduced-size tablet, we broke down one recent afternoon and took the plunge, opting for the 64GB, Wi-Fi-only version ($529) with the optional red Smart Cover ($39). We felt overcharged for about 10 minutes – such an impulsive purchase. Then, a quick charge and a connection to our Wi-Fi network and we were sold pretty much immediately. Here's why.
First off, it's light. At .68 pounds (.69 if you opt for the Wi-Fi + Cellular version), the iPad mini is noticeably lighter than the Nexus 7 and the Galaxy Tab 7 (both of which weigh approximately .75 pounds). These may sound like minuscule differences, but we noticed the lighter weight right away while reading. Propping up or holding the iPad mini while you're flipping through, say, the latest potboiler on the Kindle app or our favorite magazines on the iPad Zinio app is more effortless than with an actual printed book, and our arms didn't get tired (as they do with the standard-sized, 1.46-pound iPad).
Second, despite its unparalleled lightness, the iPad mini has a screen that is actually 7.9-inches, versus the 7-inch screens found on the comparable Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tab 7 tablets. Again, everything from surfing the Web and reading newspapers to watching 'Homeland' or videochatting on Facetime is an iPad-mini-fied, just-big-enough delight. It may not be the Retina display, but at this smaller screen size, we can't tell the difference, so we're fine with iPad 2-quality.
Also, the built-in speaker is a revelation. We're accustomed to having to attach external Bluetooth speakers or headphones so we can hear dialogue on movies, but the tiny stereo speakers on the bottom of the iPad mini can blast powerful and focused sound that's completely clear and easy to hear. No, you won't be blown away by any thumping bass – external speakers are still preferable for impromptu iPad-powered dance parties – but we had no problems making out dialogue while catching up on 'Boardwalk Empire' episodes.
Lastly, the iPad just has a certain je ne sais quoi factor that will satisfy anyone with gadget-lust. The lightness combined with the metallic finish and slightly wider screen than we're used to make it a pleasure to hold in your hand. We spent the first week up until 3 a.m. every night playing around with it, something we've only done when the first iPhone and first iPads came out. And we haven't used our old iPad since we bought the iPad mini a month ago, making Apple's little tablet the best new reason not to get the latest standard-size iPad in years. As Sony once did with its Walkman and Trinitron TVs, Apple knows how to make iconic gadgets that consumers just want for as many rational reasons as for irrational reasons, and the iPad mini falls comfortably into that category. [From $349; apple.com]
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Evil Eye Amulet RingRegular price $ 58.00
Evil Eye Amulet | For protection and wellbeing.
This ancient symbol has origins going all the way to 3000 BCE and it is believed when a person wears or carries an evil eye with them, it guards against misfortune happening in one's life and bring good luck and protection from any ill-will that could otherwise have a negative effect on a persons well-being in general.
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The show, as they say, must go on.
As family, friends and millions of fans around the world continue to grieve the death of "Dallas" star Larry Hagman, production on the TNT drama is scheduled to resume on Tuesday, according to a source.
The cast was in the midst of filming the sixth episode of the show's upcoming 15-episode second season when Hagman passed away Friday at age 81 after a battle with cancer. It remains unclear how much of that episode the actor had been able to complete before his death. But Hagman, who reprised his iconic role as devilish oil tycoon J.R. Ewing for the cable update of the classic soap, will appear in at least the first five episodes when the series returns on January 28.
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Producers are expected to give J.R.--and by extension, Hagman--a proper send-off later in the season, and those storyline details are still being worked out, according to the source.
On Friday evening, executive producers Cynthia Cidre and Michael M. Robin issued a statement, characterizing Hagman as "a giant, larger-than-life personality whose performance as J.R. Ewing will endure as one of the most indelible in entertainment history. He truly loved portraying this globally recognized character, and he leaves a legacy of entertainment, generosity and grace."


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The Hope College Great Performance Series will present Rennie Harris Puremovement on Thursday-Friday, Oct. 11-12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM) has emerged as an international hip-hop dance ambassador. In a society where hip-hop is often portrayed as a violent, undisciplined counterculture, RHPM deconstructs popular perception of this medium, expanding and challenging the boundaries and definitions of hip-hop in general.
"The New York Times" has said that Rennie Harris "knows how to move bodies in space, how to layer his phrases and, above all, how to make dancers look good."
The goal of the company is to provide audiences with a sincere view of the essence and spirit of hip-hop, rather than the commercially exploited stereotypes most often presented by the media.
Harris, a North Philadelphia native, founded RHPM based on the belief that hip-hop is the most important original expression of a new generation, with the unique ability to express universal themes that extend beyond racial, religious, and economic boundaries.
Hope College faculty member Crystal Frazier is a long-time member of RHPM. Frazier has been seen in "DANCE Magazine" and has appeared in the movie "Beloved," the VH1 VOGUE Fashion Awards with Macy Grey and the television series "Monk." She is both a choreographer and dancer.
Individual tickets are $18 for regular admission, $13 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under. Individual and season tickets are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.
Additional information may be obtained online at hope.edu/gps.
The concerts by Rennie Harris Puremovement are among several activities that will be taking place during the college's Homecoming Weekend, which runs Friday-Sunday, Oct. 12-14. Additional information about the weekend, which includes a variety of lectures, arts events and athletic competitions open to the community, as well as reunion activities for graduates from 1984 through 2012, is available online at hope.edu/homecoming.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - A top Republican senator warned Tuesday that if Democrats try to overhaul health care without Republican support, "it will wreck our health care system and wreck the Democratic Party."
"The intensity on this issue across the country is like nothing I"ve seen in a long, long time," said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate.
After a month of town halls back home, Alexander said it's clear to him and other Republicans that Americans are "scared to death" about the sweeping policy changes coming from Washington this year and the massive debt they are creating.
Alexander warned there would be "a minor revolution in this country" if Democrats try to "ram" a health care overhaul using a legislative tool called reconciliation, which would allow a bill to pass with 50 votes instead of 60.
Alexander also complained the White House has cut Republicans out of talks.
"Either they don't know how to operate in a bipartisan way or they don't want to operate in a bipartisan way," he said.
As to the ongoing talks among the bipartisan Gang of Six senators on the Finance Committee, Alexander said he is confident voter angst is resonating with the GOP members of the negotiations.
He also predicted the three Republican senators won't sign onto a deal unless "they think they have substantial support" for it from other Republican senators.
Sick of health care. Sick of the party of NO. We need SINGLE PAYER. It is our only hope.
Now republicans...ur butt is in the open square for all to see..... you are all a bunch of hypocrites who truely... truely don't care about the poor. Dems will ram this bill through your throat and get it passed,if you like it or not.iam out!!!....lol!!


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Music superstar Lady Gaga will share a peace prize in memory of John Lennon to honor her work campaigning for equality for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
The American singer has been chosen along with four others — including Russian punk band Pussy Riot and the late writer Christopher Hitchens — to receive the biennial LennonOno Grant For Peace.
Gaga is expected to accept the award and a donation from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Oct. 9 — the birthday of John Lennon and his son, Sean.
Ono said in a statement Friday that while Gaga is "one of the biggest living artists of our time" she is also an activist whose album "Born This Way" altered "the mental map of the world."


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Don Bugito introducing insects to American diet
Monica Martinez, 37, never thought she would welcome bugs into her home. But now she's the creator of Don Bugito Prehispanic Snackeria, an edible-insect food cart working to introduce such creations as Chocolate Covered Salted Crickets and Spicy Superworms into San Francisco's food markets.
Born in Mexico City, where edible insects were on the shelves of the local grocery, Martinez came to the United States to study sculpture and industrial design, but she was always interested in food.
Not long after she created a portable mealworm farm called the Wormhaus, Don Bugito was born.
I now have two menus. One is for street food, which is a dish with two wax moth larvae tacos, and then the ice cream with mealworms. Then there's another menu for the sit-down dinner, which is a five-course dinner that's super fancy. For the sit-down, I may bring insects from Mexico. In general I use three to four different types of insects, because these are insects that are already being cultivated and farmed in the United States. Don Bugito doesn't use any insects that come from Asia or any exotic insects. We don't use scorpions or spiders.
On Mondays, I place my orders with my providers and then we get them on Wednesday. The preparatory work is a lot. I start cleaning the bugs on Wednesday. By Thursday and Friday, I will prepare and cook the food. Right now, Don Bugito is not selling on the weekends on a regular basis, but we usually cater private and sometimes public events.
Live, fresh bugs
I have to get the bugs alive, so that way I know my bugs are good and looking good. I freeze them, I clean them, and then I cook with them. Crickets jump all over the place. Some of them come with a little bit of sawdust so you just have to separate them. If one or two die, you just separate the ones that are dead from the ones that are alive. I clean them with chopsticks sometimes.
Don is what you call an old man for respect, an Italian thing. Bugito is a play of 'bug' and 'eat'-o, Spanish-English. "Prehispanic" is because I want to focus on the type of cuisine that existed before the Spaniards came to Mexico. We are trying to keep it with Native American ingredients. It's very personal, these flavors. I choose to work with blue corn as opposed to yellow corn, and that's just a personal flavor thing. All these peppers that I know from my childhood, they come to be mixed together.
The business plan was based on introducing edible insects into the American food market. That's the goal, to challenge, and to push the idea of what is ecological and sustainable food, because edible insects have these amazing qualities to be very sustainable, very ecological.
Sustainable, easy to raise
To raise edible insects, you barely need any space. Insects by nature like to be close to be each other. They don't use many resources. They don't use any water, they get water from vegetables. The waste production is minimal. You compare this to cattle farming. You compare this to the amount of protein you can generate compared to meat, there's no question about what's best. Crickets are the highest in protein. For a hundred grams of crickets compared with a hundred grams of beef, I believe you get 50 percent protein, whereas with beef you only get 25 percent. Because they are so far genetically from humans, there is no chance to transfer any types of diseases.
There's been this stigma about edible insects and the developing world. A lot of people who are interested in entomology, they also preach about how it's for Third World countries, to develop protein for them. But I think Don Bugito is actually rejecting that idea, and it's more about changing the idea of the Western culture and the diet and introducing a new type of protein into this diet.
I don't snack on them when I'm watching TV, but if I have leftovers from cooking, of course I am eating them. They are super healthy and they taste really good - once you try one! It wasn't easy for me, even though I grew up in Mexico and was exposed to edible insects.
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When a lot of people think about bugs, you think about dirt. There's some cultural and psychological aspect of it, but when I started raising them, I realized all these guys do is eat organic bran and organic carrots. I was like, I can eat that. I can totally eat that. It definitely helped me to see and understand the life cycle. And then it wasn't anything grotesque, like I was cutting off heads. I thought, 'Wow, this is really easy and friendly.' I would freeze them so they'd die. I have some in my fridge right now. It's easy and simple compared to having a cow in my backyard. I'd have to sacrifice the cow, kill the cow, blood all over, organs all over. What am I going to do with that?
It's just getting used to it. In all the recipes I try to have the bugs really crispy and crunchy because texture has a lot to do with acceptance. You don't want to put something that's soft and juicy - no. No way.
I would say 99 percent of people who have tried something from Don Bugito are surprised and they repeat. They try it again. It's normal to be grossed out, it's kind of weird. It's a new thing. That's why I think education has a lot to do with this, because once you learn about all these amazing things and then at the end you try something that tastes really good, it's like, why not?
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Monica Martinez's packaged creations can be found at La Cocina's stand at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. For more details visit: www.donbugito.com.
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The STS-132 mission will be the 32nd flight of the space shuttle Atlantis. The primary STS-132 mission objective is to deliver the Russian-made MRM-1 (Mini Research Module) to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis will also deliver a new communications antenna and a new set of batteries for one of the ISS solar arrays. The STS-132 mission patch features Atlantis flying off into the sunset as the end of the Space Shuttle Program approaches. However the sun is also heralding the promise of a new day as it rises for the first time on a new ISS module, the MRM-1, which is also named "Rassvet," the Russian word for dawn. The NASA insignia design for shuttle and space station flights is reserved for use by the astronauts and for other official use as the NASA Administrator may authorize. Public availability has been approved only in the form of illustrations by the various news media. When and if there is any change in this policy, which is not anticipated, it will be publicly announced.


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WWE's WrestleMania is the Super Bowl of sports entertainment
The Rock triumphantly stood on the turnbuckles, his right arm stretched toward the Miami sky in victory as 78,000 wrestling fans went wild for their returning action star in his WrestleMania homecoming.
John Cena sat crestfallen on the ramp, nodding his head at his opponent, as the face of World Wrestling Entertainment faced the music -- or at least listened to it as The Rock's theme song blared in the stadium -- that he was pinned in the biggest match of his career.
WrestleMania 28's final emotional scene may as well have been ripped from the pages of a Hollywood script.
Well, you know what we mean.
Just like in Hollywood, there must be a rematch. It's time to break out the pyro and do it again.
For three decades, the WWE has billed WrestleMania as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment. For now, the annual extravaganza will at least take place at the site of next year's Super Bowl.
Toss away the brackets. Who says only college basketball has a bear hug on March Madness?
Much like the NCAA tournament is advertised as the road to the national championship, the WWE has billed the last month as the Road to WrestleMania, but instead of slam dunks and Final Fours, it's body slams and figure fours.
It all leads to WrestleMania 29 on Sunday and a sold-out crowd of 75,000-plus at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Don't expect to find WWE champion Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson vs. John Cena on too many office pools, even if it's the No. 1 seed -- make that, the main event -- at World Wrestling Entertainment's showcase event.
"It's the biggest market in the world," Johnson said, "and it's the biggest WrestleMania of all time."
Those are some 24-inch-python-sized expectations from an event known for Hulk Hogan's bodyslam of Andre the Giant, Shawn Michaels superkicking Ric Flair into retirement, Randy Savage holding open the ropes for Miss Elizabeth, Mike Tyson counting the 1-2-3 for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
The current crop of good guys and anti-heroes try and top it Sunday.
"Does it get old for me? Absolutely not," 7-foot-1, 450-pound WrestleMania veteran The Big Show said. "I still get butterflies in my stomach every time my music hits."
Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar returns to WrestleMania for the first time since 2004 when he wrestles "Triple H" Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Helmsley must retire with a loss. Performing in tribute following the recent death of William "Paul Bearer" Moody, The Undertaker puts his 20-0 undefeated streak at WrestleMania on the line against C.M. Punk. Punk, the Chicago-made superstar, is arguably the WWE's biggest star and was the longest-reigning WWE champion of the last 20 years before he lost the belt to The Rock at the Royal Rumble in January.
WrestleMania isn't the wildest spectacle going simply because of the super-sized matches. Sean "Diddy" Combs will perform a medley of songs and the band Living Colour will play their hit, and Punk's theme song, "Cult of Personality," for his ring entrance. Donald Trump, Snooki and Jimmy Fallon are among the celebrities serving as WrestleMania social media ambassadors.
Trump, the reality show star and billionaire businessman, has WrestleMania roots back to the 1980s. The Donald had front-row seats when Trump Plaza hosted the fourth and fifth Wrestlemania. Trump helped shave McMahon's head in a "Battle of the Billionaires" scrum in 2007. For all his support -- and for once taking a Stone Cold Stunner as punishment -- Trump will be inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame.
C'mon, you didn't think the WWE wouldn't have a Hall of Fame, right?
There's no physical structure or bronzed plaques of giants and junkyard dogs, but some of the company's greatest stars will be honored Saturday night at a sold-out Madison Square Garden. Hardcore legend Mick Foley, who launched off a steel cage while helping launch the WWE into a mainstream phenomenon in the late 1990s, headlines a class that includes 1970s champs Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund. The ceremony will air Tuesday night on the USA Network.
With WWE saluting its past, and relying on part-timers like Undertaker and Lesnar to headline the card, Johnson hoped a touch of that greatness rubbed off on today's future stars.
"For the guys in the locker room, it has to be more than just, 'I'm ready to carry the company,' " Johnson said. "It has to be, 'I'm ready to carry the company and then I'm ready to carry the company to places it's never been.' That's hard to do considering the precedent that's already been set."
It's no wonder cities now bid for WrestleMania the same way they would for other major sporting events.
Ron VanDeVeen, the senior vice president for events and guest experiences for MetLife Stadium, said stadium officials made a WrestleMania pitch to WWE officials in 2009.
"We always want to see if the economics can work, if the stadium can make money, and see what it means to the region," he said. "This one's up there with the best of them."
The stadium ditched the Giants and Jets apparel and converted its main merchandise store to WWE gear. He said about 230 fans were in line when the store opened Thursday.
"Every seat that's available sold out," he said. "Every seat available for the Super Bowl will sell out. It think it's a huge economic impact."
After holding last year's event in Miami, the WWE has the same weather concerns as the NFL does about its winter Super Bowl. Fans better bundle up in their 'Mania hoodies. Temperatures are expected to dip into the low 40s late into the card.
"I want snow. I want Lambeau Field conditions so we can get that weird voiceover and everything's in slow motion," Cena said. "That would be a hell of a day. It would be cold and tough for everybody, but I think it would make it fantastic. The fans will stay warm. Shirtless Cena freezes."
Like the Final Four, the event has outgrown arenas and WWE made the full-time shift to football stadiums in 2007.
WrestleMania Sunday has blown into a full week of festivities.
WWE joined with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes to launch Superstars for Sandy Relief. Joe Buck led an auction Thursday night with all proceeds benefiting the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
There were military meet-and-greets, anti-bullying rallies, a public news conference at Radio City Music Hall, and four days of autograph signings at the Izod Center.
It all culminates with Rock-Cena II.
For a Hollywood heavyweight who always comes out on top when the credits roll, WrestleMania has been cruel to Johnson. He lost the WWE title twice before, at WrestleMania 15 and 17, both times to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
While Johnson played coy about a return for WrestleMania next season, it's hard to imagine he'd pass up the limited schedule, hefty paydays, and main events as long as his bustling movie schedule was clear.
"I'm WWE for life. I look at it like that," he said. "I'm always looking for just opportunities and ways that I can give back."


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Dick Van Dyke encountered a scary ordeal while driving his car in Los Angeles Monday.
The 87-year-old was behind the wheel of his Jaguar sedan when it caught flames while going eastbound on the 101 Freeway.
The CHP Southern Division tells E! News, "around 2 p.m. today we received a call that a car was on fire...there were reports that the person behind the wheel of the Jaguar was slumped over the wheel."
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"We were told that there were nurses on the scene helping him. CHP and the Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to the call," they added.
As the fire was being put out, several lanes were temporarily shut down on the freeway but were later opened.
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"At no point did we call for an ambulance," the CHP further explained.
Erik Scott, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, confirmed that they responded to an automobile fire and hypothesized that "it is possible that a flat tire may have ignited and the car went up in flames."
No definite cause of the fire has been determined yet, however. But one thing is certain, the veteran actor and longtime Hollywood star was unharmed during the terrifying incident.
Shortly after arriving on the scene, firefighters assessed the driver and deemed that there were no injuries.
We're sure glad that he is okay!
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Squirrels are a very diverse group of rodents. This little Bornean tree squirrel is among the smallest while the American groundhog is among the largest. The groundhog (Marmota monax)can be found through most of the country and consequently have many names like woodchuck and whistlepig. Here is a groundhog skin from the Academy's collection next to North America's smallest squirrel, the Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)—not to be confused with the Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), which is pretty big compared to a red squirrel.
Borneo Tree Squirrel Groundhog and Red Squirrel
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An architectural milestone and masterpiece rolled into one, the Weissenhof estate was built in Stuttgart in 1927 as an international building exhibition.
Here, 17 avant-garde architects, among them Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun, designed cutting-edge solutions for living spaces. Today, Le Corbusier's 'double house' is the site of the Weissenhof Museum, which contains an exhibition on the estate's history alongside original living quarters preserved just as they were in 1927.
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Adrian Peterson undergoes successful groin surgery
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson underwent groin surgery Thursday.
The surgery was performed by Philadelphia-based specialist William Meyers.
In a statement Thursday afternoon, the Vikings confirmed Meyers "was able to successfully repair Adrian's adductor muscle while also doing a compartmental release" in the surgery at the Vincera Institute.
Peterson is expected to make a full recovery in approximately six weeks, the team said.
The adductor release is minimally invasive and cuts an irritated tendon. Meyers also performed Peterson's sports hernia surgery after last season.
Peterson, 28, missed two of the Vikings' last three games because of the groin as well as a foot injury and dropped out of the Pro Bowl last week.
The groin was an issue since at least mid-November, most notably hobbling Peterson in a Nov. 17 loss at Seattle. He finished the season with 1,266 rushing yards in 14 games, one year after winning the MVP and rushing for 2,097.
Peterson has four years and $57 million in non-guaranteed salary and bonuses remaining on the contract extension he signed in September 2011. His scheduled compensation for 2014 in $12 million.
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In Praise of Our Volunteers
Even at that, the only way the game industry survives is by the hard labor of unpaid volunteers who (for honor, glory, and rarely some free games) provide no end of valuable services to game publishers.
Mike West answers rules questions on Federation Commander. Mike Curtis does the same thing for Federation & Empire, Jonathan Thompson and Jean Sexton for Prime Directive PD20 and PD20M, Gary Plana for GURPS Prime Directive, Richard Sherman for Star Fleet Battle Force, and Andy Vancil for Star Fleet Battles.
Frank Brooks runs the play-by-email system as a volunteer. Paul Franz charges barely enough for the online game system (for SFB and FC) to pay the server costs. Tenneshington Decals does made-to-order decals for our Starline miniatures and is run by two of our fans: Will McCammon and Tony Thomas.
Federation & Empire would not exist without Chuck Strong (a retired real-world colonel from Space Command) in charge of the overall game system. He keeps his staff (Mike Curtis, Ryan Opel, Scott Tenhoff, Thomas Mathews, and Stew Frazier) busy moving projects forward.
Very little would get done on any of our games except for the Playtest Battle Labs run by Scott Moellmer in Colorado and by Mike Curtis and Tony Thomas in Tennessee. And all of the other playtesters are invaluable to us.
We have other staffers and volunteers who do specific things (and sometimes a wide variety of things) for us including Jean Sexton (Vice President of Proofreading and Product Professionalization); John Berg, Howard Bampton, and Mike Incavo (Galactic Conquest Campaign); Daniel Kast (Klingon Armada); and John Sickels, Tony Thomas, James Goodrich, Mike West, James Kerr, and Loren Knight (Prime Directive). Some vital part of the product line would grind to a halt without each one of them.
Added to this list are hundreds of others who, during any given month, by email or BBS or Forum or our page on Facebook, contribute in some way to the company and its product line. They may report a glitch in an existing product, playtest a product in development, suggest a new product, point out something another company is doing what we may want to take a look at emulating, look up a rules reference for another player, report on somebody who using our property improperly, comment on a posted draft of a new rule, or simply ask a question nobody else ever dared to ask.
Many years ago, we began awarding medals, ribbons, and other "decorations" to staffers and others who contributed to each product, and some other projects. These awards not only recognize those who contributed to the various projects, but encouraged others to begin making their contributions to future projects. We have created the Wall of Honor at http://starfleetgames.com/ArtGallery/Wall%20of%20Honor.shtml. This is a tribute to over 30 years of volunteer work. We hope you visit it to say thanks to all the volunteers and their efforts.


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University of Vermont
Rev. Calvin Pease (1855 - 1861)
When the corporation elected Calvin Pease president on November 27, 1855, he was the first alumnus of the university to serve in this capacity. Pease was born in Canaan, Connecticut, on August 12, 1813. In 1826 he moved to Charlotte, Vermont, and he graduated from UVM first in his class in 1838 before receiving an A.M. degree in 1841. In 1842 he was designated professor of classics at the university, and he later married Martha Howes of Montpelier. They had a family of five daughters, one of whom, Jane, married an 1880 UVM classmate, James R. Wheeler, the son of President John Wheeler.
Calvin Pease was deeply dedicated to public service. In 1856 he was elected president of the Vermont Teachers' Association and appointed to the first State Board of Education. He was committed to improving the public schools, and he gave generously to this cause.
His work at the university, however, was limited by the same financial constraints that had strapped his predecessors. In 1857 UVM ran a deficit of almost $1,000, and within four years this had increased to more than $2,300. Despite this, trustees voted to raise funds for a new library building. However, the financial situation deteriorated as a result of the panic of 1857, and by 1861 it was so serious that the corporation agreed on a plan to reduce both the salaries and the size of the faculty. This development coincided with news of the surrender of Fort Sumter and the outbreak of the Civil War. After President Lincoln's call for troops reached Vermont in April 1861, a military company was formed at the university.
Unfortunately, Pease faced increasingly difficult health problems, and he resigned from the presidency on February 4, 1862. That same winter he accepted a call to serve as minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, but in the following year he returned to Burlington where he died on September 17, 1863, at the age of fifty.
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The cradle of civilizations, desert, river and sea, the place I call home is awakening to the rumble of my identity. Whatever woes unfolded over the last few centuries are ripples on the surface of my perpetuity. The rise and fall of empires, the demise of the orient, the ascendancy of the northern tribes, the holocausts that laid the trail westward are only blemishes on my olive skin.
I'm not a king, nor was meant to be. I'm the humble, proud, complacent, fierce, forgiving, fanatic man who's been through it before. I was there from the very beginning and will remain when all are gone.
The breeze fondles my short bang. I close my eyes and breathe your eternity, your absoluteness, your omneity. The air around gathers its strength. It turns into a wind without direction and ineffectually assails me. I stand still still and wait like I've always done. Someday, the Shmali* will carry you this way. I'll wade into the water, lift you up from the beaten raft then bring you to my down to earth level and kiss the hunger off your lips. Let it blow, the wind. It'll come to pass if you stand your ground long enough... at land's end.
*Shmali: A northwesterly wind that blows over the Levantine coastline.


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We caught our first glimpse of the 2010 Nissan 370Z Roadster earlier today, but now we get another look giving us a better idea of the profile on Nissan's new convertible.
The 370Z Roadster will be hitting the stands at this week's New York Auto Show, but it's doing a little burlesque today to get everyone's interest piqued. The Roadster, along with the NISMO 370Z, are supposed to be unveiled later this evening to a phalanx of slobbering journalists, still stuffed from today's GM Segway PUMA feeding frenzy. We'll be bringing you complete details and images as soon as possible. [Carscoop]


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Good Bread: Brooklyn Bread House, New York's Only Armenian Bakery
Stories about the loaves we love.
Armenians have come to the United States in waves over the last 150 years. Many of the early immigrants settled in New York City, but since the break-up of the Soviet Union the real magnet has been the Los Angeles area, now home to about 70,000 Armenian-born Americans. Today, New York is home to a few thousand Armenians, mostly in Queens and Brooklyn, enough to support one restaurant (Sevan in Queens) and one bakery. Wherever the Armenian diaspora travels, it brings its baking traditions, particularly the flatbread staple called lavash.
"Everybody that's Armenian eats lavash," says Samson Badalyan.
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Samson and his father (who's also his business partner) weren't bakers before they came to New York. When they arrived here, the only lavash they could find was the industrially-baked product that had been shipped here frozen from the big Armenian bakeries of Southern California. They missed the taste of fresh-baked lavash, which Samson's grandmother had baked in her brick oven back in Armenia. In their Brooklyn backyard, they built an oven and experimented until they'd perfected their technique. In 2010, they opened Brooklyn Bread House on Jerome Avenue, a few blocks from the Sheepshead Bay subway station.
Brooklyn Bread House produces a few Russian loaves and also the suddenly-trendy Georgian shoti and khachapuri. But the real star of the store is lavash. This is a large, paper-thin sheet of bread shaped something like a football that's been run over with a steamroller. The ingredients are simply white flour, water, and salt. After it's rolled out, the sheets of dough are slapped against the wall of a brick tandoor and baked for 30 or 40 seconds, until the surface is ever so slightly blistered. You can either eat it fresh or dried out, so it breaks into crisp crumbs. In either case, it's so delicate that it almost melts in your mouth, with a faint flour flavor. According to Samson, lavash is the staple of nearly every Armenian meal, perfect for wrapping meat, cheese, and vegetables or just eating by itself.
Beyond lavash, Brooklyn Bread House makes Russian-style layer cakes, Armenian-style baklava and other sweets, and lahmajun ($1.50), which is a kind of thin Armenian pizza. From a similar dough as the lavash, the bakers make a round flatbread and spread it with a paste made from ground beef, onion, tomato, and spices. You can either it as an appetizer or a not-too-filling snack.
In addition to the retail bakery, the Badalyans also own a commercial bakery where they produce lavash under the "Samson" brand name for sale through many South Brooklyn markets, including Brighton Bazaar.
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Don't Count on Apple to Slice Through TV's Gordian Knot
Aug 30, 2012 5:00 AM PT
I've been an Apple product enthusiast and watcher for years, and if there's one product that I lusted after two years ago, it was a real Apple TV -- a cool HDTV with a big screen and a kickass Apple navigation system with live content and content on demand. Since then my ardor has cooled considerably, and it's not because Apple executives apparently briefed an analyst and basically told him, "not so fast." That's just the icing on a collapsed cake.
So why am I not all hot and bothered by an Apple HDTV anymore? Because I'm starting to believe that Apple is not up to the job at hand. Blasphemy for an Apple fan, right? I know. It's painful to write. So I'll start at the beginning.
First, even if Apple rethinks and recreates a wonderful new HDTV design, it won't matter so much because you can't touch it. The absolutely best and most successful Apple products of all time are the ones that either get held, get carried or invite you to touch it in close proximity. The iPhones feel great in the hand. iPads feel solid. The MacBook Air reminds you how great it is every time you open it.
The only people who regularly touch TVs are small children with grubby fingers who smack the screen to show Dora the Explorer where Swiper the Fox is sneaking around. Consequently, a major element of Apple's success is essentially rendered irrelevant. If your Apple TV is attached to your wall, the build quality is less important. Samsung might be a smartphone copycat, but you must admit, the company knows how to produce a decent-looking and quite serviceable TV at a competitive price.
Why is the physical form factor important? It means that shelling out for a big Apple HDTV unit is just a little bit harder because the form is less critical to the usage, and it's one less thing that can tip an everyday consumer into an irrational buying decision. And it also means that the weight of the buying decision will lean toward the navigation method, the user interface, and the services that it will deliver.
TV Is All About the Content
What's the point of having a TV? Consuming video content. For that, you need television shows and movies. Apps and the Internet and email and such? Nice, but you really need core content, and that's TV and movies. The problem is that Apple doesn't offer live TV like you can get from cable, satellite and services like FiOS -- or even broadcast over the air. You can buy some TV shows after the fact, but watch them all? Hardly. For sports, news, special events or even in-the-moment shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice," you just need a live TV service.
Can Apple come up with a way to make finding, watching and recording any cable, satellite, Internet, or over-the-air TV broadcast service easy, cool and fun? Yes. But will Apple be able to do it on a 50-inch scale at a competitive price? Doubtful. The only way is with a set-top box -- a la a more power Apple TV puck.
So heading into this fall, I've already resigned myself to the fact that my rational brain won't likely be able to shell out enough cash for a real Apple HDTV that would be compelling to justify the cost. We are, of course, still trudging through one of the most challenging economic environments that has ever occurred in my lifetime.
Enter EPIX
Then I saw this Reuters report that says Apple is courting EPIX for an upcoming television. EPIX is a group video effort created by Lions Gate Entertainment, MGM, and Viacom's Paramount Pictures. Sounds cool, right? If I could get all my movies from one place for a decent price with a great interface, across multiple mobile devices, OK, I'm interested. Then I found EPIX's Frequently Asked Questions page. First, it's not immediately clear if you can even get movies via EPIX at the same time DVDs are released. Still, how much does it cost?
It's this question that made me realize that current television delivery is so messed up that not even Apple can fix it any time soon. Let me explain. Here's the EPIX FAQ answer to how much it costs: "EPIX is available from different television providers at different prices. We're bundled with some partners in some great packages or available 'ala carte.' Call your television provider and ask for EPIX today ..."
Really? The consumer pricing of the service is so difficult to explain that you can't even offer up a basic pay range? Examples? The year 2012 is half-way over! The method of delivery is so ingrained that it must be bundled with the very television services that are already mediocre or outright broken. And Apple wants to create an app (I'm assuming) to let us subscribe to EPIX in some unknown way?
Belly Up to the Nightmare Buffet
And this is just EPIX.
We've also got Netflix available on the Apple TV as well as on iOS, and we've got Amazon Instant Video available on the iPad ... but not on Apple TV. We've got ABC, CBS and NBC iPad apps, but not on Apple TV. There's Hulu, but that is yet again another service consumers have to subscribe to and figure out ... and ultimately find that it won't even come close to fulfilling all their TV and video needs.
Now, there are many guys smarter about the challenges of the TV and movie video licensing and business cases than I am. I'm just a consumer who pays attention. And what I'm seeing is a nightmare buffet. Your choice is to pay a lot of money (cable and satellite service) to get almost every show and the ability to record it via a DVR. But to get desert (Hollywood movies), you've got to wait for them to be released in some way and pay extra for them. So you go to the buffet, get a great, if expensive meal, then pay extra for desert.
With Internet and mobile, we have many new buffet lines, but instead of any sort of organization that makes sense -- say, meat here, main dishes here, vegetables here, dessert here ... we have a branded maze. ABC chicken here (Castle), CBS pork here (NCIS), and NBC beef here (The Office). But all the interfaces are different, and each line has arbitrary rules and closes unexpectedly, as in, "Sorry, that episode is no longer available for streaming." Then there are some services that offer bundles of similar sorts of things, like fast food.
Obviously, though, none of these are good enough on their own, and taken together, they are such a mess of consumer pain and wasted effort that I believe the whole TV industry is in serious danger of ruining its audience. It's destroying potential watching habits. Instead of creating great habits with cues and rewards, the television and video industry is essentially offering up a lot of disappointment.
Can Apple Clean Up the Mess?
I don't think so. I tend to believe that all of these players are just dying to have their own brands succeed only through the channels that they can control, but the problem is they are driving away viewers. By futzing around, TV is becoming less and less a shared experience and more and more just a random diversion.
There are a couple of things that I see. First, some people are happy paying a boatload for HD channels via their traditional cable providers and don't care at all about what they watch. I saw a guy watch back-to-back-to-back episodes of "Storage Wars" from his chair during a birthday party for his nieces and nephews, and it got me thinking: a) I didn't know "Storage Wars" even existed -- apparently it's a show about professionals who scour through repossessed storage units; and b) Holy crap, it doesn't matter what Apple can come up with because nothing is easier than shelling out a high monthly bill to get a gazillion channels of garbage. How can Apple create something better than "Storage Wars" if a good portion of our population is willing to waste their lives watching whatever happens to be on a channel in bright and vivid HD?
I'm sorry, I just don't see how this content is good for anyone. People who watch "Storage Wars" ... just don't seem like good consumers of anything, and how can you sell content (advertise) to people who will sit on their couch for three hours watching really repetitive reality content drummed up with fancy editing to make it seem oh-so important?
OK, so I'm seeing a lazy portion of our population set the bar for content really low and yet seem to pay for it via high monthly subscriptions. But I don't think these buyers are the active demographics that advertisers are looking for. So they're not really supporting the industry that well.
What about youngsters? All the teenagers I see these days don't seem to be watching much traditional TV at all. They're watching YouTube video clips, streaming things willy nilly as media omnivores, and they seem to be generally disengaged with traditional television. It's all computer, phone and Xbox, all the time. If the television industry can't connect all these things to get kids engaged as watchers, I don't know that it's really going to matter much. The TV industry will futz itself into irrelevancy within another generation.
At my house, we watch things via the Apple TV, Xbox 360, various apps on iPhones and iPads and iPods, and some via Macs and some satellite TV ... and it all sucks. It all has drawbacks. Every method is a constant process of pros and cons. Consequently, I'm watching less and less TV these days. My DVR shows are limited to my living room and bedroom TVs, so that's not very mobile/. And the mobile stuff on iOS via streaming is limited -- I have to use multiple apps to get TV shows, and even then there is a lot of restrictions. Apple TV movie rentals require planning ahead to download on my home DSL, then they aren't very portable and are gone way too fast, forcing me to rent them again when I start a movie but am unable to finish it within my allotted time. Netflix is limited, Amazon is limited, Crackle is limited, Hulu is limited, EPIX can't even tell you how much it costs.
A World of Chaos
So ... can a new Apple TV save us from TV entropy?
I doubt it. Our audiences are getting fractured, the demands are fractured, and all players are fighting for the crumbs of the pie. I'm starting to think that any new Apple TV announcements -- a big one or a little one -- are going to be one huge disappointment.
But hey, I've been hoping that maybe I'm wrong -- until I read the aforementioned article about an Apple briefing with Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves, who reportedly sent a note to his investors basically saying that an Apple television appears to be extremely unlikely in the short-term. According to the CNNMoney report, Hargreaves noted that Apple will enter markets where it feels it can create great customers experiences and fix problems.
"The key problems in the television market are the poor quality of the user interface and the forced bundling of pay TV content, in our view," Hargreaves reportedly wrote, adding, "While Apple could almost certainly create a better user interface, Mr. Cue's commentary suggested that this would be an incomplete solution from Apple's perspective unless it could deliver content in a way that is different from the current multichannel pay TV model."
Plus, Hargreaves also noted that "acquiring rights for traditional broadcast and cable network content outside of the current bundled model is virtually impossible."
So I'm not the only guy who sees a knot of television services strangling the possibility of a near-term Apple HDTV.


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The cable box can make channel serfs of us all. It's big, it's bulky, it has an interface an Excel spreadsheet might salute, and it sucks down too much electricity. It's one reason why cable TV bottom-feeds in customer-satisfaction surveys--only airlines and newspapers score lower in the University of Michigan's research.
But for a still-sizable majority of American viewers, the cable box is How They Get TV, and nobody can fix it except for their cable operators.
The industry's just-finished Cable Show in Boston featured exhibits by dozens of networks hoping to see new channels added to cable lineups, plus a few starry-eyed demos of technology we may not get for years. (Disclosure: A freelance client, Discovery Communications, owns quite a few channels.) But it also revealed modest hope for "clunky set-top boxes"--to quote an acknowledgment of subscriber gripes in National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Michael Powell's opening speech. Read the rest


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Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you're craving.
What would it look like if James Gunn, writer of such so-wrong-they're-great movies as Slither and Super, wrote a zombie-centric version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Wonder no longer. The first trailer is out for Lollipop Chainsaw, a game about a cheerleader who kills zombies.
And yes, it's very wrong. There is cuteness mixed with weird sexiness. There are upskirts. There are lots and lots of zombies. And there are lots of lollipops and chainsaws. This is a project made for James Gunn, basically.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The policy debate over hydraulic fracturing in Ohio doesn't end with Gov. John Kasich's signing of new drilling rules Monday.
A fellow Republican in the Ohio House said Monday that he and some GOP colleagues plan to revisit the governor's proposed tax increase on the industry before the session ends in December, setting up a likely fight between lawmakers, the governor and the oil and gas industry.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves blasting millions of gallons of chemically laced water into the earth to fracture shale formations and release oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids such as propane.
The energy measure signed by Kasich lays out rules for disclosing the chemicals that are used in the process, construction of wells and reporting of water sources and amounts used as the developing Utica and Marcellus shale formations running under parts of Ohio are explored.
The legislation also makes changes to Ohio's clean energy standard, affecting the types and percentages of renewable energy that are being phased in by utility companies.
But lawmakers chose to leave out the governor's plan to raise severance taxes on high-producing oil and gas wells tapped using high-pressure fracking.
Kasich wants to funnel proceeds from his proposed tax increase into modest statewide income-tax relief in two or three years, after a grace period in collections that would allow well operators time to recover their startup costs.
Studies have diverged on the tax's economic impact on the growing industry, but polls show voters support Kasich's proposal.
Ohio Oil and Gas Association executive vice president Tom Stewart said his organization of energy producers is largely supportive of the sweeping energy bill that Kasich signed Monday at Echogen Power Systems in Akron.
But Stewart said he believes Kasich's proposal to increase the tax to 4 percent singles out large oil and gas producers over smaller ones, raising a potential legal question.
"I think there could be some problems when you start singling out by (shale) formations, or certain sized businesses," he said. "You have problems regarding equal treatment under the law."
Stewart said the industry continues to fight the tax hike, and they have some support in the Republican-dominated state Legislature to make adjustments.
"I don't think the conversation's dead," Stewart said. "John Kasich is trying to do his best for the welfare of Ohio, I know that. He wants good things to happen for Ohio. But I don't think he has a good handle on oil and gas right now. What we're seeing is a lot of caution out there in the oil field."
Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said there's been no evidence the governor's tax hike would deter drilling.
"The industry is growing, it's growing in terms of (permit) applications, in terms of permits, in terms of number of wells — and this occurring long after the governor's plan for the severance tax was known publicly," he said. "At the end of the day, Ohio remains a very high tax state and this is about driving down the income tax to make us more competitive to put Ohioans back to work."
GOP State Rep. Lynn Wachtmann, of Napoleon in northwest Ohio, is among those who believe the issue needs more study. He said he believes an agreeable compromise could be reached by December or January.
"My end goal is to have a severance tax that encourages further investment as well as development of these natural resources," he said.
Mike Dittoe, a spokesman for Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder, said a bill to address the Kasich tax proposal has not yet been introduced — and won't likely surface until after the November election.
"It's my understanding that our caucus will work closely with the governor and all interested parties on the issue throughout the summer recess with possible action at a later date that has yet to be determined," he said.


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To Avalon:
Please please please go bankrupt and end your reign of atrocities...
Updated On 08/13/08 at 01:41PM
LES apartment complex allegedly violated Fair Housing Act
The developers and architects of the Lower East Side residential complex Avalon Chrystie Place are being sued for violating the Fair Housing Act. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael Garcia, announced a U.S. civil rights lawsuit against CVP I LLC, Downtown Manhattan Residential LLC, Chrystie Venture Partners, Avalon Bay Communities and SLCE Architects LLP on Monday. The suit claims the building at the building at 229 Chrystie Place discriminates against people with disabilities because it isn't accessible to disable people. This is the government's first lawsuit in Manhattan alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act in the design and construction of a multi-family building. TRD
To Avalon:
Please please please go bankrupt and end your reign of atrocities...
Y'all ain't seen nothin' yet ...
Lower East Side Residents Protest Rezoning
Protestors were out in force before a City Planning Commission hearing in Greenwich Village on Wednesday, to show their opposition to the rezoning of Lower Manhattan.
"Chinatown? Not for sale. Lower East Side? Not for sale," chanted the crowds.
The rezoning proposal before the CPC covers 111 blocks, running north of Delancey Street to East 13th Street and east of the Bowery to Avenue D.
For the first time, height limits would be put on buildings within the zone, which has recently become home to several luxury high-rises.
But residents outside that zone fear that plan would leave their neighborhood defenseless, with many at risk of losing their homes to over-development.
"They're pushing for it, our rezoning plan for Chinatown and the Lower East Side, said Jei Fong of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and Lower East Side, that's basically going to cut out and up-zone all the areas of people of color and create massive displacement."
Protestors say they have been left out of the planning process, but the commission insists there were many opportunities for people to speak up.
"We've had meetings that were open and publicized and advertised to everybody. Anyone was welcome to come, said City Planning Commissioner Edith Hsu-Chen. So frankly, those allegations that we've had closed meetings are absolutely baseless."
But the residents who went from protesting outside in Washington Square Park to yelling at the commissioners in the meeting described their review process as a charade.
We know that you have no intention of listening to us, said Josephine Lee of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown. We know that you will pass this plan regardless of how many people it displaces, regardless of how many people speak out against it.
"Proponents ask us to wait our turn, that we will get our protection under a new plan one to three years from now, said Malcolm Lam of Coalition to Protect Chinatown. I say that you [commissioners] should wait. You should wait to ensure equality and fair representation for all people."
Some neighborhood residents favor the proposal, flaws and all.
"Do we wait for the perfect plan? Do we wait until we get absolutely everything? Or do we take some opportunities right now to serve our community?" said Damaris Reyes of Good Old Lower East Side.
The CPC has 60 days to approve or modify the rezoning plan, before it goes to the City Council for a review and another public hearing before a final vote.
Morphing on East Houston
By C. J. HUGHES
Published: August 22, 2008
MONTHS may pass before the city's planning commission decides on a 111-block rezoning of the East Village and the Lower East Side. That rezoning could allow for larger buildings on the neighborhoods' major streets.
Kiss & Cathcart Architects
HOUSTON AT PITT STREET A rendering of the Lee, which plans mostly studios.
But the connective tissue between the neighborhoods, East Houston Street, is already showing signs of change, as for-sale signs go up and buildings fall — whether because of the proposed rezoning or despite it.
The Lee, for example, is a 12-story glass-and-masonry tower rising at Pitt Street on the site of a former boys' club. Its nearly 100,000 square feet of space will hold 263 rental units, almost all studios.
In recent years, rentals on East Houston, like the hulking Avalon Chrystie Place and the Ludlow, have catered to the luxury market. But even if the Lee does have similarly large dimensions, as an "affordable" complex it is intended for quite different tenants.
For 105 of the units, the rent will be about $700 a month if the renter moves in from a nearby location and earns no more than 60 percent of the median income, or about $30,000, said David Beer, a director of Common Ground, a nonprofit group based in Manhattan and the Lee's developer. Applications will be accepted starting in January.
There are also 104 apartments reserved for homeless people struggling with mental illnesses. Rents will most likely be a few hundred dollars a month, or 30 percent of a tenants' income, Mr. Beer said. The remaining 54 units will go to young adults transitioning out of foster homes, he said.
The $59 million cost of the project, which will be completed next spring, is being borne mostly by the city and state, according to Mr. Beer.
Common Ground has never in its 17-year history built a new facility in Manhattan, but the opportunity comes not a moment too soon, Mr. Beer said. "Most affordable housing is created in outer boroughs, but there's a critical need in affluent areas as well," he said.
Because the Lee offers on-site substance-abuse counseling and job training, it earned zoning leeway to be larger than a typical new building. That leeway would mostly be preserved for buildings that go up under the new zoning. There would also be a similar stipulation allowing bigger-than-normal buildings for developers who created affordable housing under the same roof, or close by.
The developers of a proposed 12-story 160-unit apartment at the corner of Avenue D, which was in the demolition phase last week, also hope to avail themselves of this zoning stipulation.
Tony Labozzetta, a spokesman for the as-yet-unnamed project and a principal at Wall Street Realty Capital, which is lining up financing, expressed willingness to include more affordable units than the 20 percent that the new zoning would require — in part to improve the chances of buying an adjacent lot owned by the city. He added that without the rezoning, the project would most likely be dead.
While affordable-housing incentives may read well on paper, they are often ineffectual, critics say, especially when they're not required but optional, as is the case here. "There's no guarantee it will be built," said Susan Howard, an activist with the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
Ms. Howard said that similar incentives had produced only 600 affordable units in New York in the last 20 years, far fewer than in comparably sized cities. "It hasn't worked," she said.
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
Tom Robbins
The Shame of Speaker Shelly Silver's Resistance to Seward Park Redevelopment
A stretch of the Lower East Side stands desolate and empty after 'urban renewal,' thanks to the Assembly Speaker
By Tom Robbins
Tuesday, August 12th 2008
Exiled: Nilda and Lillian Rivera
Just south of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, near the bustling entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, lies that rarest Manhattan commodity: vacant land.
This is not just a few buildable lots, but a huge swath of property, some five acres in all, every square inch of it owned by the City of New York. It is a fabulous parcel, the kind that developers—like those building theswanky new towers rising on the other side of Delancey Street—only dream about. The site is in that perfect pre-development stage, with parking lots covering most of its blocks. As the building boom has taught every New Yorker, this is the normal holding pattern for soon-to-be-developed urban land.
But not here. These weed-strewn lots have stood for more than a generation, their grim chain-link fencing, topped with barbed wire, all that passes for a streetscape. No one has dared break ground here in decades. Every promise to do so, every initiative that might bring new construction, has been buried by the political masters who control this barren turf.
Even today, as Mayor Bloomberg insists that he must add 65,000 affordable homes to meet the city's housing crisis, this stretch of land—the largest chunk of vacant city-owned property south of 96th Street and the most logical spot to build low-cost dwellings—remains off the table, a political untouchable.
Who has such clout? Who tells a mayor, an entire city, to simply buzz off?
Who else but that wily old pol, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. This strip—carried on zoning maps as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area—is the northern edge of Silver's lower Manhattan district. And while he rarely leaves fingerprints, nothing moves here without his approval. In Albany, where he is the state's second-most-powerful figure, Silver is notorious for his often-obstructionist ways. On Seward Park, he has outdone himself. Under his watch, this territory has remained desolate and empty for more than 30 years, held hostage to stubborn prejudice and fear of change.
Silver declined to discuss his role. But he issued a statement insisting that he's blameless and calling for "a locally driven process" to develop plans for the site with all "stakeholders" participating. He also praised his own record of promoting affordable housing. Classic Silver.
Consider the facts: In 1967, the city cleared the last of some 2,000 residents and nearly 400 small businesses from the site. This was urban renewal at its destructive peak, demolishing tenements and evicting longtime residents with the feeble pledge that public good and betterment would result. Once new housing was constructed, residents were assured, they'd be first in line. Like most inner-city urban-renewal sites, minorities got the bulk of the eviction notices: Two-thirds of those moved off the land were black and Latino; one-third were white.
"We lived right over there," Nilda Rivera, 69, was saying the other day, standing in the shade of a lone tree on Broome Street and pointing east toward Attorney Street. "There was me, my four cousins, my aunt, and my uncle who was in the Merchant Marine." That was 1952, when Rivera's family in Puerto Rico sent her to live with relatives.
When her mother and four siblings arrived a couple of years later, they took an apartment on nearby Norfolk Street. It was a fourth-floor walk-up without hot water. The tub was in the kitchen, the toilet in the hall. Was there a tiny balky refrigerator or just an old-fashioned icebox? The memories of Rivera and her sister Lillian Rivera, 58, standing beside her, differ. But both recall a mixed neighborhood of Jews, Poles, Irish, blacks, and Hispanics where people looked out for each other. "One day I played hooky, went to the park," said Nilda Rivera. "I came home, my mother says: 'So, how was the park?' This old Jewish lady next-door had seen me and told my mother."
Lillian Rivera pointed to a spot on Norfolk Street adjacent to a closed synagogue where Harry's candy and soda store had stood. "There was a Polish grocery, a wedding hall, a Romanian restaurant, Mr. Brown's bar.
We lived here so many years. It's where I made my friends. I shopped in la marqueta," she said, gesturing toward the Essex Street Market a block away.
Initially, they were told the land was needed for a new expressway, one of Robert Moses's schemes. When that failed, the city said it would rebuild on the site. The Riveras, with nowhere else to go, were the last out of their building. While they waited, the streets became a drug mart, dealers hawking their wares as customers cruised past.
It wasn't all desolation. To the south, along Grand Street, rows of new high-rises sprung up, built by unions and nonprofit groups. The buildings were middle-income co-ops, with low purchase prices. Those apartments were quickly taken by garment workers and others, many of them Jewish.
Blacks and Latinos somehow didn't make the cut. "My mother was a single parent working in a factory," said Lillian Rivera. "Whatever it cost to get in the co-ops, she didn't have it. We were excluded."
A lawsuit alleging discrimination by the co-ops lingered in federal court for years before a settlement opened the rolls in the late 1980s. The Riveras and other former residents kept waiting. "We always had that dream that the neighborhood would come back," said Lillian Rivera.
Every city administration has made a stab at resolving the situation. Back in April 1980, Ed Koch proposed a shopping center, 150 units of housing for senior citizens, and a modest 100 apartments for low-income families. A near-riot ensued at the old Board of Estimate. Residents of Grand Street shouted down speakers from north of Delancey. Taunts of "racist" and "criminal" flew. Andrew Stein, then Manhattan borough president, shot down the plan: "Every experience with low-income housing," he said, playing to opponents, "shows it creates crime and social problems."
Silver was then a two-term assemblyman from the co-ops. The Rivera sisters recall him as a bright young lawyer. Nilda Rivera, a social worker at Gouverneur Hospital on Madison Street, found him "very helpful with our clients." But he went stony deaf when the subject of Seward Park arose.
"I am so disappointed in him," said Lillian Rivera. A couple years ago, the Bloomberg administration floated its own modest proposal, calling for a mix of low- and middle-income housing, along with more units for senior citizens. This one never made it to City Hall. Administration officials quietly dropped the plan after another raucous hearing, this one at a local community-board meeting. Lillian Rivera, a retired public-school teacher, tried to speak over the shouting: "These people were saying the new housing would devalue their property. I said, 'I was here before you were.
I was your neighbor, remember? You'd see me in the supermarket? Now, all of a sudden, I'm not good enough to come back to my own neighborhood?' They booed me off the stage, but at least I got my say."
These days, the Bloomberg administration lapses into cautious bureaucrat-speak when pressed about the site: "There is a long history of underdevelopment, with great community interest," says a spokeswoman.
"The city is interested in re-engaging and discussion about future uses. The community will be fully involved in any dialogue."
Pushing hardest for that discussion is a group calling itself the Seward Park Area Redevelopment Coalition. A year ago, Harriet Cohen, the group's chairwoman, wrote Silver requesting a meeting. "We never heard back," says Cohen.
Copyright © 2008 Village Voice LLC •
A lot of accusation in that article -- but no hard info regarding who and what Silver has actually influenced.
I thought that too, but something is holding it up.
Is this the site in question?
Photo from Midtown Guy in October 2007 when he asked,
"Why don't they develop this godforsaken expanse of parking lots near the Williamsburg Bridge. Hard to believe this is Manhattan".
It's Silver. His acolytes in the coops behind the lots have blocked anything with a below-market component.
The affordable housing advocates have also been at fault, with demands that the site be filled with mostly moderate and lower income folks.
HPD needs to get both sides in a room and hammer out an agreement.
Eventually, I think something will be built that resembles the Cooper Square/Avalon Bay site. It had a similar set of issues that were eventually resolved to at least an acceptable compromise for all sides.
If it's going to be more like that Avalon Chrystie, then I say let it remain parking lots.
At least with parking lots, it can always be redeveloped in the future when there's better vision and design enlightened mindset in the city.
I fear you'll be waiting an awful long time for that to happen.
Another Hotel for Orchard Street? YES.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, by Joey
Orchard Streetproud, history-laden Orchard Streetshould seriously consider having its tubes tied. The block still hasn't healed from birthing the Thompson LES luxury boutique hotel, and across the street, the Orchard Street Hell Building continues to ravage its surroundings. And while the Lower East Side has many other hotels in various stages of planning, it's safe to say that Orchard Street probably doesn't need any more of them. Oh well! The building at 163 Orchard Street, between Stanton and Rivington, was recently torn down, and Department of Buildings records show that a 10-story, 32-room hotel is planned for the site. We're not sure how the 107' height of the building meshes with the pending LES rezoning, but the developers might not be concerned: architect Ramy Isaac, a guy who knows a thing or two about massaging building codes, is named on an application. As you'll see after the jump, construction is in its early stages, but neighbors are already on edge. A pair of complaints logged on July 22 stated that construction activity was causing neighboring buildings to "wobble and vibrate." One person even felt the need to tell the 311 operator that his clock had fallen off his wall. Hey, time flies when you're having fun!
Russian Orthodox Church Going Into Construction
by Dana Rubinstein | September 16, 2008
The Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, a Russian Orthodox congregation on the Lower East Side, finds itself, like many churches before it, in money troubles. Indeed, such troubles were the lead topic in the church's July newsletter:
"Money is a part of life, even in the life of the church. ... This summers recession with sharp increases in food, fuel and other needs is shaping up to be one of the worst I can remember. Despite the governments attempt to bolster the economy by sending us all economic incentive checks in the form of tax-rebates, tithes and donations are still very low. One person did send a special donation from their rebate check in addition to their regular tithe to the Cathedraljust one person so far."The newsletter goes on to discuss the history of the church's financial woes and ends the discussion with a note of hope:
"We are currently working on an opportunity that could provide us with a clear way out of the morass of financial problems that have plagued the Cathedral for decades. This plan has a purpose, a sense of duty to the past and future of the Church, and an eye toward future preservation while taking into account the best interests for our parishioners. Should this opportunity develop beyond the exploratory phase our pledging members will be asked to approve it."We think we may know what that opportunity is. The church today filed plans with the Buildings Department to erect an eight-story, 34-unit residential building at 59 East Second Street, the address of the church, which, while quite pretty, does not appear to be landmarked. It's unclear at this point whether the apartment building would rise atop the church, behind it, or in place of it.
Church representatives were not immediately reachable, but we'll keep you posted.
© 2008 Observer Media Group,
If it were an addition wouldn't it be an A1 permit and not a NB.
However the permit says 8 stories and 141', so something is unique about the project. Perhaps they are saving the facade and constructing the new building behind.


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The broadcaster struck a six-year deal to broadcast every F1 race in the summer of last year and signed up Santander as the launch partner for its coverage.
Santander has confirmed it has ended discussions about extending its one-year sponsorship deal, which it struck in order to promote its 123 current account.
A Sky spokesperson said: "We have just reached the conclusion of Santander's successful one-year sponsorship of Sky Sports' F1 coverage. Several brands have already approached us about sponsoring next season's coverage, and discussions are ongoing."
Santander claims it will continue to support F1 through its other sponsorship assets. A spokesman cited its existing "multi-year" deals, which span its corporate partnership with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and sponsorship of Scuderia Ferrari.
The bank will also continue to sponsor individual F1 races next year, including the British, Chinese, German and Spanish Grand Prix.
A Santander spokesman hinted that the UK-based business will continue to use McLaren driver Jenson Button in upcoming advertising campaigns, because the bank "has a track record of using sponsorship assets in advertising and that will continue".
Sky has claimed its F1 coverage had a reach of more than nine million people in the UK last season.


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When his single-handed effort resulted in the launch of the first university-level media education in Kerala three decades ago, Professor Maxwell Fernandez's students could not call him anything but the 'Father of Journalism Education' in Kerala.
The youthful professor left the world in the prime of his life — at the age of 40, but his efforts paid off.
This year, when his colleagues and students thought about commemorating him differently, they came up with something unique — a media fest, the first one of its kind for students in the State.
The event christened 'Take One Fest,' organised by the Communication Club and the Alumni Association of Kerala University's Department of Journalism, is aiming to provide a platform to appraise the skills and potential of media students across Kerala's colleges.
Scheduled to be held on 6, 7 and 8 July, the organisers claim that this is the first ever all-Kerala media fest, which will blend the academic benefits of events that hone the communication skills of students, in the atmosphere of a students' camp.
"Mediapersons, who are alumni of Kerala University, will interact with the participants. So far, 100 students have registered online. We're expecting about 250 students in total," said Gokul Prasannan, event coordinator.
The organisers have lined up about 19 competition items for the participants, who would be at the degree and PG level of their education. "However, it is more of a platform for students to interact with media persons, than compete," Gokul added. Registration is on till July 5, and the programmes will be from 10 am to 8 pm on all days.
"We are also providing accommodation facilities for students from districts other than Thiruvananthapuram,'' said the organisers.(courtesy: Deepa Soman, Kochi for Deccan Herald)
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Does Leaf Filter gutter guard work? Perhaps, but I will never recommend you buy it. Here's why. To me the measure of a good product lies both in its quality and its credibility. The truth about Leaf Filter is that while it seems to be a well-made and functional product — but if you want to buy it, get ready to be "sold."
At a recent community festival, I stopped a Leaf Filter promotional booth. I asked the representative the question I always ask guys like this: what is the approximate cost of the product? Unbelievably, the rep claimed he "had no idea." Nope, not a clue, he says. More than $10 per foot, less than $100 I asked? Just don't know – he says. He went on to explain all the variables that impact price, roof height, etc. So, I said how about if I have a ranch, one story tall that has two gutters 50 feet long for each side with a total of 4 spouts (figuring that this was about the simplest example I could offer). But once again, sorry, no idea, he'd really have to have an estimator come look at the job.
So why does a company offer such clueless responses? Well, in my view they are not clueless at all – but they may hope you are. You see companies like this want to get in your living room where they can SELL-SELL-SELL you. In one instance, the company reported even refused to provide a Leaf Filter estimate unless the prospect's wife was present (hard sales tactic 101: they want both "decision makers" in the room!).
In my view, refusing to offer even a range of costs for a very simple product like this until they see your house is a tactic to hopefully get them in the door, where they can really push for the sale.
After speaking with the rep for a while and not getting any credible answer to my question, I did explain that I was a home improvement radio host and really wanted to get a range because we are asked that question all the time on our show. Finally, the truth came out when the exasperated rep uttered in pure sales-speak, "well, am I going to close you right now?
No, you're not. And with that attitude, you never will.
As consumers, we may be ready to buy. But no one wants to be sold.


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Portland Parks Division is in the early stages of planning an expansion to the much-used and overcrowded skate park at Dougherty Field. The current skatepark, 8,350 sq feet, expansion will be 6,500 sq feet, for a total of 14,850 sq feet.
This summer, the Parks Division held two public forums to get input on conceptual design for expansion of the existing Portland Skatepark at Dougherty Field. Each meeting attracted numerous Skatepark enthusiasts with many creative ideas for the expansion which is visible in the preliminary concept design in the slideshow below.
As we get closer to construction (1-3 years away), we will keep neighborhood involved and informed.


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cry out for
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Related to cry out for: follow suit, call on, catch a glimpse, bring down, set forth, sort out, stave off, holding up
cry out for (someone or something)
1. To express a want or need (which is typically stated after "for"). I've been rocking the baby for an hour, but she's still crying out for her mother.
2. To be in need of something. My hair is just crying out for a trim—it's been too long since my last trip to the salon.
3. To encourage someone or something. The singer's fans cried out for him to take the stage.
cry out for someone or something
1. to shout praise or encouragement for someone or something. Everyone in the street cried out for the mayor to make an appearance.
2. to shout out demands for someone or something. The children cried out for ice cream. The mob was crying out for justice when they heard the unpopular sentences of the judge.


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Katy Perry has no problem showing off her figure on tour in a variety of creative costumes, and it appears she'll be showcasing her shape on "Saturday Night Live" too, when she hosts the show for the first time this weekend.
"There were a lot of [skit] pitches about my boobs," Katy told Access Hollywood on Thursday. "I was cool about that, but I'm not sure all of it [got] in. So we'll see."
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The singer, who recently provided the voice for Smurfette in the animated feature "The Smurfs" has been enjoying the change of pace – from concert performer to comedy actor for "SNL," but she's not ready to commit to a dual career.
"I love doing the animation and the voice-overs," she said. "It would really take something I could not live without to be in [for me to pursue acting]. It takes so much more discipline than being a musician. I can sing a song on tour and I sing it once… and actors have to sing it 75 different ways from 75 different angles."
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Katy said there is actually one impetus to get her into acting.
"I love Kristen [Wiig], and if she ever asked me to do anything, I would totally do it," Katy said.
Right now, Katy is happy singing, and taking on this rare outing as an "SNL" host and she's been getting good advice too — from husband Russell Brand, who helmed the show once during last season.
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"Of course my husband [has given me advice]. Every day I'm checking in with him and he's giving me the next day move on what I should do or what's gonna go on or how I should act," she said.
Beyond checking out her acting and comedy chops, when fans see Katy on "SNL" this Saturday, they'll get a chance to examine her recently debuted new look – a cropped blond 'do.
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"I got off a tour and I wanted to try something new, so I cut it off," she explained. "And I went blond. I feel like I'm 16 all over again, because this is the same haircut I had when I was 15 and 16, so everyone's calling me [by my real name], Katy Hudson right now — my family at least."
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