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The kind of beauty a guy only sees once. You know? Once. ''Omg...omg...that's, that's...that's perfection.''
''That's a Miriam.'' |
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The Greek word for a hot and sexy person . Used very commonly for a God or Goddess during the time of the renaissance Joe : " she is such a miriam "
John : " Her friend is a miriam too " |
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An ancient goddess of beauty, who is also amazingly strong and sexy. All the elements are hers. A girl named Miriam will take on the characteristics of strength, intelligence, and beauty, plus other unique characteristics. Woahh, that new girl is so hot....
She reminds me of Miriam. |
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That girl who is just so fucking perfect in every way. Every guy falls in love with her from the minute they see her, with her long straight chocolate brown hair and gorgeous bright blue eyes. This girl is UNFORGETTABLE. She's the reason you're failing school - the reason you can't focus in anything you do. You know you'll never be with a Miriam. She's just too fucking perfect for you. No, she's not a slut - but she's not prude either. She's just waiting for the right guy. Her standards are high so you know she'd never go for you - and it hurts. Once you get to know Miriam, you see she's not only gorgeous - she's insanely smart, creative, and funny. She has the best personality ever. Pure amazingness. This girl is the shit. John: Ugh, we have Math next.
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A cool, preety, short girl. She's funny and very outgoing. Always hyper and fun to be with. She keeps converstions going. She always seems to go for the wrong type of guys, and tends to want to give up at the end. Hispanice chik, skinny, slim with preety curly hair . She makes friends with evryone and she loves everyone. She's trutsworthy and you can come to her with anything, especially boys. You'll always love her and get long with her . she's like no other person in the world . "Damn look at that Miriam! Gotta love her!"


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Hey guys! My name is Alicia and i will be the new owner of the site. I feel so excited to have taken over as ive been a Britney fan since day one and have such big plans for the site. Stay tuned for tons of great stuff.
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FEMME FATALE is out in stores NOW, y'all! Go and grab your copies today!
BritneySpears.com is also rocking out a new Femme Fatale-based layout, so be sure to check that out as well.
1:24 pm by alicia with 0 Comments
That was quick! GMA recently tweeted:
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Tickets didn't go on sale too long ago, either. I'm pretty sure it sold out it…about a minute. Behold the power of Godney!
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E! News recently revealed some shots from Britney's V Magazine spread! Check out the video above.
"The bitch is back and better than ever!"
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Looks like kkblumush-2020top30blondeswhov.buzznet.com recently compiled a list of the top "50 Blondes Who Rock The World," and our Queen B lands in the #2 spot, right below Madonna.
Hey, we're happy with that. Congrats, Britney!!
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"Kevin Federline was spotted on daddy duty when he and son Jayden James rooted for Sean during a Little League game in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 13. That sound you just heard was the world letting out a collective "Aww!"
The slugger-in-training Sean warmed up with a bat before changing into his Westhills Yankees Little League uniform to play ball. Papa Kevin wore a matching jersey, proving that there is nothing sexier than a man who takes care of his kids."
Check out the rest of the photos HERE, courtesy of celebuzz.com!
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New York, NY – Britney Spears announces her seventh studio album is titled Femme Fatale. The iconic global superstar's title Femme Fatale is a tribute to bold, empowered, confident, elusive, fun, flirty women and men. It's not a conceptual album, Spears is letting the music speak for itself. She's worked hard on it for two years and she considers it to be her "best album to date," true to where she is now personally and professionally.
Femme Fatale (Jive Records) is executive produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke.
Spears is peerless among her contemporaries. Throughout the years, Britney has consistently released hit after hit for over a decade, selling close to 70 million albums cumulatively worldwide.
Few artists have earned the distinction of having five No.1 debut albums, and 24 Top 40 hits. She most recently set a new one-day precedent for single sales with her current No. 1 hit song, "Hold It Against Me." Jonas Åkerlund shot the video for the song.
Details on the video premiere and album release date are forthcoming.
SHAKING CRYING DYINGGGG. It's so fierce. Loves it!
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5:35 pm by alicia with 0 Comments
Queen B was a bridesmaid at her assistant Brett Miller's wedding last Saturday in Miami. Check out a video above!
Awww, Britney looks so happy and cute!
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As the wait for the dance-heavy video for "Hold It Against Me" continues, details regarding Britney Spears' new album have surfaced. Based on a sales-solicitation sheet, which was confirmed as accurate by a label rep to MTV News, the pop superstar's still-untitled LP is set to drop March 15.
With the rocket success of the album's lead single, it's no surprise that the singer's seventh studio album will feature "multiple songs" from pop masterminds Max Martin and Dr. Luke. Additional production credits include Rodney Jerkins, Stargate, Fraser T. Smith, Bloodshy & Avant and more. Fans can choose between a standard (soft pack/wallet packaging) version of the album and the deluxe (expanded soft pack with additional booklet pages), which will feature three or four additional tracks.
Spears has been hitting the dance studio hard, as the notice describes the forthcoming "Hold It Against Me" video as "a sexy, edgy dance piece directed by Jonas Åkerlund and showing Britney at peak form and ability." Earlier this week, MTV News took the liberty of mashing together some of the singer's most-iconic music-video dance scenes to give fans an idea of what Brit's new clip might look like.
In terms of Spears' press plans, the follow-up to 2008?s Circus will be met with "a major TV event to launch the album" and a TV campaign, which will feature a variation of spots before the LP hits stores. The promotional rollout will extend to advertisements on everything from the Internet to the side of taxicabs. Other marketing schemes include a "LGBT/Lifestyle campaign," worldwide online fan contests and routine tweets from Brit.
Adam Leber, the singer's manager, took to Twitter to dish details on Brit's latest photo shoot and to remind them to keep their patience.
"Britney Spears did a photoshoot for her album package yesterday," he wrote. "Photos are nothing less than spectacular. We'll share some soon." He later tweeted: "So many good things coming down the pipeline. Britney fans should be excited. Album is incredible, video is fire, photoshoot is pure glam. Patience isn't just a great song by Guns N' Roses. All good things to those who wait."
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Ted Nugent makes no apologies for being "a huge, unstoppable fan" of his own music.
Heck, Nugent doesn't apologize for much of anything, does he?
But it's that love for the songs, Nugent says, that has brought Derek St. Holmes, the singer on his first three studio albums, back into the fold for the current I Still Believe Tour.
"Derek is in a great place in life," says the 62-year-old Motor City Madman, who these days resides near Crawford, Texas. "His vocals are the best they've ever been. His spirit is the best it's ever been. When you get him singing 'Stranglehold' and 'Hey Baby,' all of a sudden it has that original identity of the first (Nugent) record. They're my lyrics, my baby, but I wrote them inspired by Derek being in the band at the time.
"So that's been the deciding factor. Instead of having him come up and jam like he does every year at a few shows, he's with us full-time now. It really kicks it in the ass a notch."
The tour, meanwhile, draws its name from "I Still Believe," Nugent's first new release since 2007's "Love Grenade" album. He says the song, which is available for download at Nugent's web site, was inspired by the charity work he does with children and injured military personnel — "people who are stronger than me," he notes.
A new album, meanwhile, is also in the offing, with a batch of song written that include "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead" and "Never Stop Dreamin'."
"It's monster stuff," promises Nugent, who's also working on a "tell-all" memoir to be called "Stranglehold" and continues to host his popular Outdoor Channel show "Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild." "The challenge is to find that one hour's worth of 10, 12 songs that are the baddest ... of all. We're so on fire with this band that we keep coming up with another, then another, then another. ...
"At some point you gotta say, 'Stop with the new ones! Let's stick with what we've got here.' But there's such a growing fury in my music that it's hard to stop, so I'll keep going till they make me." Continued...
Ted Nugent with Derek St. Holmes, Brent James & the Contraband and Lisa Bouchelle perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, at the DTE Energy Music Theatre, Sashabaw Road east of I-75, Independence Township. Tickets are $20-$55 pavilion and $10 lawn. Call 248-377-0200 or visit www.palacenet.com.
Big & Rich
When Big & Rich went on hiatus in 2008, after three albums and four Top 20 country hits, there were rumblings that the split would be for good. But John Rich says that was never the country duo's intent.
"It was a break from Big & Rich, not an ending of Big & Rich," explains Rich, 37. "I think a lot of people spun it into, 'Oh no, Big & Rich is over.'
We didn't say that. There wasn't, like, a Brooks & Dunn farewell tour. There never was a concern about whether we would want to come back and do it; our concern was whether the fans would still be there. And sure enough they are."
Both Rich and Big Kenny Alphin were busy during the interim. Rich released a solo album (which included the hit "Shutting Detroit Down") and a pair of EPs and won "Celebrity Apprentice." Big Kenny, meanwhile, also released a solo album, and both men appeared on TV talent reality shows.
Big & Rich have been back together in May, and their first new recording in nearly three years is "Fake I.D.," which also features Gretchen Wilson and will be used in this fall's remake of "Footloose." Rich says the duo recorded the song, which is already climbing the country charts, "about the same time" as the "Footloose" team was looking for material, and the timing was fortuitous.
"We had recorded this song but hadn't decided to put it out yet," Rich recalls. "The 'Footloose' people heard it and said, 'We want this song in the movie. We want to play the whole song in the movie," and it really is used that way, in this really cool bar scene.
"So we said, 'What the hell. Let's put it out,' and now we kick off our shows with 'Fake I.D.' "
Big & Rich headline the Xtreme Muzik Tour with Gretchen Wilson, Dwight Yoakam, Bradley Gaskin, Tommy Steele, Josh Thompson and Cowboy Troy at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, at the Pontiac Silverdome, 1200 Featherstone Road at Opdyke. Tickets are $25-$55. Call 248-338-2500 or visit www.silverdometickets.com. Continued...
Bret Michaels
When he comes to the Detroit area, Bret Michaels apparently has nothing but a good time — which is why he keeps coming back.
Michaels has already been through town twice this year with his band, Poison, opening for Motley Crue and then headlining a Seats For Soldiers benefit a few weeks later, both at the DTE Energy Music Theatre. His headlining slot at Arts, Beats & Eats, then, completes a summer triple-play.
"It was so awesome to be there not only with Poison and Motley, but then three weeks later where we could come back and (headline)," says Michaels, 48 (nee Sychak). And for them both to not only be fun but successful, it was great.
"So now I'm just really excited to come back solo and play new Bret Michaels stuff and obviously Poison stuff and really make a party out of it. It says a lot about the relationship I have with" Detroit.
If all goes according to plan, folks all over will be seeing much more of Michaels in the coming year. He's working on a new solo album called "Get Your Rock On," which he hopes will feature guest performances by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, Stevie Nicks, possibly members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and younger groups such as Pop Evil and My Darkest Days. Poison will also hit the road again next summer, he says, possibly with Def Leppard.
The star of VH1's "Rock of Love" series and past winner of "Celebrity Apprentice" has a pair of new reality shows in development, one for network TV and another for cable. And he promises that his long-awaited autobiography "Roses and Thorns: The Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy to My Reality" will finally be published in summer 2012.
"It's going to be about the roses and thorns of situations in my life — what was happening, the good, the bad, the ugly and the solution," Michaels explains. "It won't be one of those books that, 'I was born here, I moved here, this happened here ... ' I wanted to give the book more of an identity.
"And it's been tough, because every time I think I'm finished, something new happens. Simon & Schuster finally said, 'You can't keep writing this book. It's 16 books long!' But now it's closer to how I always wanted it to be, so it's going to get out there." Continued...
Bret Michaels performs at 10:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, on the Michigan Lottery Main Stage at Arts, Beats & Eats in downtown Royal Oak. Admission is $3. Visit www.artsbeatseats.com.
Vince Gill
For country veteran Vince Gill, there's no place like home — especially for his new album, "Guitar Slinger."
Gill recorded the set, his first new release in five years, at the studio he built in the Nashville home he shares with his wife, fellow artist Amy Grant, and their children. But, Gill says, home and studio became interchangeable terms during the sessions.
"It was just a great environment," says Gill, 54, who also guests on Alice Cooper's upcoming "Welcome 2 My Nightmare."
"When things come from home, they just feel different. I'm in there barefoot most of the time, maybe in a pair of gym shorts. I don't have to doll up and leave town, so to speak. You walk down the hall and there's the kitchen and Amy's in there knockin' up some brownie or making some cookies or whatever the heck. ...
"The musicians who played on this record loved the vibe that went on in the process of recording these songs and spending time in the house. It doesn't feel like work, in a really neat kind of way. There were times where I didn't know if we were really working or just screwing off."
"Guitar Slinger" isn't due out until Oct. 24, and Gill is well aware of the time that's passed since 2006's four-CD set "These Days." He's already released the first single, "Threaten Me With Heaven," whose co-writers included Grant and Will Owsley — who tragically committed suicide in April of 2010.
"(The song) has a totally different impact on me now that he's gone," Gill acknowledges. "I've never confronted something quite like that in my life, write a song with somebody and have them do that before it came to fruition and all that. So it's already had a profound impact on me.
"As bad as Will struggled in his personal life, I didn't think he would ever do that. In my heart, I just wish he could've hung on and seen this (song) have an opportunity to have an impact on people's lives. Maybe it would've changed things for him."
Vince Gill performs at 10:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4, on the Michigan Lottery Main Stage at Arts, Beats & Eats in downtown Royal Oak. Admission is $3. Visit www.artsbeatseats.com.
Charlie Wilson
Much of the music world knows Charlie Wilson as Snoop Dogg's uncle. Or at least they think that's the case.
The truth is that the former Gap Band singer is actually a close friend of the rapper's, although he was certainly happy to play along with idea of being a blood relative.
"It wasn't that odd because I was always with Snoop and in his family business or whatever was happening in his home," says the Oklahoma-born Wilson, 58, who's still touring to promote 2010's "Just Charlie," his fifth solo album. "My wife and I have played a very big role in his life, just trying to keep him steered in the right direction as a married man and a father.
"And he was telling everybody, 'That's my Uncle Charlie. That's my mama's brother. He kept going on about it, but then everybody kept asking, 'Well, how are you related to Snoop?' We finally said, 'Not by blood but by love.' We had to finally start letting people know, because it was really getting too complicated to try to explain all that."
Wilson says he carries credibility with Snoop and other younger artists because of his own life experiences, which included being homeless and addicted to drugs for a time after he left the Gap Band in 1992.
"He's seen me in the streets and at the low point of my life — sleeping in some really weird places and roaming the streets at night and all of that," Wilson recalls. "It was a crazy situation. But I just hung in there because I believed that I had something else to do other than just be a guy that was doing drugs and alcohol and had nowhere else to go. I knew there was something else after the Gap Band.
"So because (Snoop) saw me like that and saw me come through it and out of it, I can talk to him about anything, which makes our relationship really special."
Charlie Wilson and Loose Ends perform at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4 at the Chene Park Amphitheatre, 2600 Atwater St. at Chene, Detroit. Tickets are $75 and $55 pavilion, $32 lawn. Call 313-393-7128 or visit www.cheneparkdetroit.com.
Tom Tom Club
When Chris Frantz and his wife, Tina Weymouth, formed Tom Tom Club 30 years ago as an adjunct to their "day job" with Talking Heads, they never would have guessed that it would still be going three decades later.
Nor, Frantz adds, "that 30 years later Tom Tom Club would still be going and Talking Heads is not."
"It's been a good run," the drummer says of Tom Tom Club's five albums and defining 1981 hits "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love."
"We still have very fond feelings and ... fantastic memories about our humble beginnings and how much fun we had making those records. And we continue."
Frantz and Weymouth, both 60, are, in fact, working on new music for Tom Tom Club — including a remake of "Love Tape" by the Spanish electronica group the Pinker Tones, which was recorded for a tribute album — which they expect to have out in late fall. But Frantz says a few tracks for an EP are more likely rather than a full album.
"We're not really thinking in terms of albums anymore," he explains. "We're thinking in terms of singles and EPs, and if we have enough EPs that sound good, then we'll put them together for an album. It seems like most people are just interested in hearing a good song these days."
And, he adds, there are other songs that might surface under another name that he and Weymouth, "haven't rally figured out, exactly, although we're thinking of calling it Chris Und Tina. Not everything we do is appropriate for Tom Tom Club. When people think of Tom Tom Club, they expect something dancey and bright, and some of our stuff is darker than that."
Tom Tom Club performs at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4, on the Michigan Lottery Main Stage at Arts, Beats & Eats in downtown Royal Oak. Admission is $3. Visit www.artsbeatseats.com.
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel isn't releasing his "New Blood Live in London" DVD until Oct. 23, but fans can check it out — in 3-D — on Tuesday, Sept. 6, and on Sept. 12 at 125 theaters across the U.S.
The film documents the former Genesis frontman's performance at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo earlier this year, where he and an orchestra delivered specialized arrangements of Gabriel favorites such as "Solsbury Hill," "In Your Eyes," "Don't Give Up," "Mercy Street," "San Jacinto" and more, as well as covers from his 2010 album "Scratch My Black." Information on theaters and showtimes can be found at www.fathomevents.com.
In addition to the home video — which will be available on DVD, Blu-ray and in home 3-D — Gabriel's next album, "New Blood," drops on Oct. 11, featuring fresh, orchestral versions of his songs with guests such as his daughter, Melanie Gabriel, and Ane Brun.
Grace Potter
Grace Potter and her band, the Nocturnals, haven't had a platinum album or a big hit yet. But as far as the Vermont singer-songwriter is considered, her career since 2004 has been "perfect."
"Everything has happened exactly as it should," explains Potter, who's promoting the Nocturnals' third album, a self-titled set that came out last year and debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 chart. "I'm glad the record didn't pop straight to the top of the charts for a bunch of weeks. Things just climbed and gradually stuck in a really beautiful place.
"So it wasn't an uncomfortable sort of jolt of attention, and that's the way we've been doing it for all this time we've been a band. It's just continually gradual, and it's good to see the record grow and evolve."
The album has taken Potter and company to the Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza festivals, as well as holding its own Grand Point North Festival last month in Vermont. The group will also play at New York's Central Park later this month.
And it's not just the rock world that's catching on to Potter. Country fans have become converts, too, thanks to "You and Tequila," a duet with Kenny Chesney for his most recent album, which was a Top 10 country hit and even reached No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"It's a real good fit, dude; you wouldn't believe how comfortable I am out in front of the country crowd," says Potter, who guested on a few shows with Chesney this summer. "That song I did with him is perfection, for me, in songwriting. And Kenny, he's great. I'm not sure what it takes to bring that kind of light to the stage; he just makes so many people happy, and that's all you can hope to do in life.
"So for me that's the joy of the job. And if the music somehow can align itself, it's a beautiful fit, and that's what happened with that song."
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals perform Thursday, Sept. 8, at Saint Andrews Hall, 431 E. Congress St., Detroit. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20. Call 313-961-8137 or visit www.livenation.com.
Gary Graff writes about music for the Oakland Press. His work can also be found at www.goanddomichigan.com, www.twitter.com/GraffonMusic and in the Facebook group Gary Graff on Music, while his Classic Rock Insider reports appear at www.wcsx.com. Graff appears Sunday, Sept. 4, on "Ann Delisi's Essential Music" on WDET-FM (101.9); the show begins at 11 a.m.
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mine 2 Tsunayoshi & Naruto the greatest double team ever
mine 2 Tsunayoshi & Naruto the greatest double team ever
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My two most favorite animes are Naruto and Death Note. I really like the story of Death Note. Too sad because I've already finished watching the anime. I miss the days when I watch it after my social media marketing work.
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Falling in love online is easy. Fall in love on Zoosk.
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Very cute. I like how you separate the 2 spheres of connecting online from when internet dating singles actually meet in person "offline".
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- We could have Robert Bloch (1917) write the screenplay. Mr. Bloch's novel PSYCHO has been filmed twice and there have been several sequels (one real good one).
- Roger Corman (1926) could direct. Mr. Corman's film adaptations of the tales of Edgar Allen Poe were quite gripping to this young movie-goer.
- Our cast could be stellar; Melvyn Douglas (1901), Spencer Tracy (1900), Gregory Peck (1916), and Bette Davis (1908) were all born today.
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Temples & TigersOther travellers prefer to see Nepal at a more gentle pace, admiring the peaks over a gin and tonic from a Himalayan viewpoint, strolling through the temple-lined medieval city squares of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, and joining Buddhist pilgrims on a spiritual stroll around the centuries-old stupas and temples that lie scattered across the Kathmandu Valley.
Further south lie Nepal's wild and woolly national parks, where nature buffs scan the treetops for exotic bird species and comb the jungles for rhinos and tigers from the backs of lumbering Indian elephants. Whether you cross the country by mountain bike, motorbike, raft or tourist bus, Nepal offers an astonishingly diverse array of attractions and landscapes.
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As of now, there are 53 Democratic/Democratic-caucusing Senators. In 2012, there will be 23 Democratic and 10 Republican Senate seats up for grabs. In addition, many of the Democrats are in red states. Here's how I see the probabilities:
Democrats certain to lose
Kent Conrads old seat after he retired
Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Democrats likely to lose
John Tester of Montana
Claire McCaskill of Missouri
Democrats in trouble
Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
Democrats in Tossup Races
Bill Nelson of Florida
Sherrod Brown of Ohio
Republicans in Trouble
John Ensign of Nevada (although he could get taken out in a Republican primary anyway)
I'd have to do some research on how Tester is faring, but for now I think that he and McCaskill are in trouble and likely to lose. I think it will be hard for McCaskill and Tester to run away from their votes on the stimulus, the bailouts and healthcare. They may not get away, and thus they may get taken down in those red states. So, not counting tossups, Dems are -4, which puts them at 49 seats against 51 Republicans. Democrats will need to face low quality Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell in order to be competitive. This could help Democrats a lot in all of these races in addition to Tea Partiers launching primary campaigns against established Republicans in Maine (Olympia Snowe) and Indiana (Dick Lugar). For the record, while many of the GOP Senators are scumbags, I think it is somewhat tragic that in order for Democrats to keep control of the Senate, respectable senators like Lugar would have to be defeated.
We could be looking at a second Bill Clinton scenario of 1996 with a Democrat in the White House and Republicans owning the Congress, or with a very low chance, the Democrats could take the House back, but not the Senate, or the Republicans could run the whole board and take everything back.
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Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., Mr. Farmer graduated from Clearwater High School and then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He flew internationally for Delta Air Lines for 35 years.
He was a member of the Longboat Key Club since 1996.
Mr. Farmer is survived by his wife, Sharon; brother, Ben; children, Chad, Cindy, Cara and Darrin; and three grandchildren.
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Ordinance To Ban Downtown Bars
January 31, 2013
Tuesday, Feb. 5 the
City Council is scheduled to vote on a proposed ordinance that will affect all of the property in the Central Business District. But on Tuesday, Jan. 29, if downtown property owners wanted to take a look at the ordinance to see how it would affect their property, it was not available on the city website. In two calls to the Department of Housing and Community Development, no one available in that department could find a copy. I was told that I had to wait for Zoning Administrator Mike Kirkman to get back because he knew where the ordinance was.
The city manager's office kindly directed me to the city clerk's office where I was told the city was depending on Downtown
Inc. (DGI) to publicize the proposed ordinance. It may be on the DGI website somewhere, but I couldn't find it and neither could City Councilmember Nancy Vaughan.
Thanks to Vaughan it is now available on the city website.
Downtown property owners I have talked to have not been informed of this ordinance. If they had, it seems councilmembers would be hearing from them. It's all about aesthetics, and it is the aesthetics of Mayor Robbie Perkins and the city Planning and Community Development Department that count. The proposed ordinance states repeatedly that the planning and community development director makes the determination on whether a building is in compliance with the ordinance or not.
Some people like quirky old buildings that are not perfect. Perkins who recently moved his own company out of the downtown because of the expense and inconvenience mainly caused by difficulties parking doesn't appear to have much use for old buildings. What Perkins promotes are new buildings and strip shopping centers. It is his often-stated goal to have the downtown run like a shopping center. The planning department has in the past tried to do the same thing.
As always with ordinances, the devil is in the details, and this one has a whole bunch of details. Peeling paint, cracked windows and loose bricks not repaired by the property owner can be fixed by the city and the bill sent to the property owner.
Vaughan questioned whether the city would repair buildings up to historic standards. She noted that if an original window is removed and replaced it can destroy the historic significance of a structure and make the building ineligible for historic tax credits.
Another note, the city charges homeowners $500 and more to cut their yards if the grass is overgrown. How much would the city charge property owners to fix a cracked window or to repaint a building?
A great number of buildings in the downtown are out of compliance because this ordinance makes having boarded up or barred windows illegal. One building the city might want to take a look at is the new police headquarters. It appears to be out of compliance with this ordinance because of the bars on the basement windows. However, Assistant City Attorney Tom Carruthers, who wrote the ordinance, said that in his opinion the new police headquarters would not be out of compliance because the barred windows face the police parking lot. But he agreed that the city attorney's office is not going out in the field to make the determination of whether buildings are in compliance or not. You can bet that whoever makes that decision for the city will find that the new police headquarters are in compliance. Some of the more notable buildings downtown are clearly out of compliance, but it doesn't matter because the law
doesn't apply to them. They include the L. Richardson Preyer Federal Courthouse, the Old Guilford County Court House, and the new Guilford County jail. The AT&T building on Eugene Street appears to be out of compliance and the ordinance could be interpreted so that even West Market Street United Methodist Church, which has bars across its entrance, is out of compliance. But, of course, the city is not going to find West Market Street United Methodist Church out of compliance. However, walking around the downtown there are countless small businesses and office buildings that are out of compliance.
On Commerce Street between West Market Street and West Friendly Avenue there are two office buildings one with boarded up windows and one with barred windows that are out of compliance, and that is one small block. Until I walked around looking for them I had no idea how many boarded up and barred windows there were in the downtown. It is so common to with basement windows have some kind of covering or bars that I hadn't noticed. The
Police Department, as well as dealing with their own building, might want to weigh in on taking all the bars off windows in the downtown.
DGI is supporting this ordinance because DGI's vision of the downtown appears to fall right in line with Perkins' vision of a strip shopping center. Will DGI start reimbursing downtown property owners when the bars and boards are removed and their buildings are repeatedly broken into?
It might shock the Planning and Community Development Department and DGI to learn that the bars are there for a reason. A bunch of downtown property owners didn't wake up one morning and say, "Wow, wouldn't bars look great on basement windows?" Bars to keep people from breaking in are not only common in downtown
, but are common throughout the world. In Norway and Sweden, where basement windows are covered up with snow nine months out of the year, bars might not be so common. But in some countries they can be found on virtually every window.
Many windows are boarded up for the same reason. It makes it more difficult to break into the building. The regulation which is totally about how things look not about functionality is based on the opinion that bricked up windows are beautiful and boarded up windows are ugly. There are actually some attractive boarded up windows in the downtown and some ugly bricked up windows, but bricks are good and boards are bad according to this proposed ordinance. If a property owner decided to fill the window space in a brick building with a solid slab of marble, or lapis lazuli, or with hand painted ceramic tile despite the fact that some people consider these materials to be beautiful it would be illegal in downtown
if the proposed ordinance passes. Diamond-studded gold and silver bars on a basement window would also be illegal, regardless of the cost.
What everybody knows but is not saying publicly is this is all got started because of two buildings that drive Perkins and his buddies crazy. One is the building that houses Glitters at the corner of West Washington and South Elm streets that has boarded up windows on the second floor. The building is owned by Sidney Gray, and he has been a thorn in the side of people who seem to think it is their place in life to tell downtown property owners what to do with their property. Gray doesn't like being told what to do and is one of the many downtown property owners trying to figure out how to get out of DGI, or at least how to quite paying for it.
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The other building is the old Cascade Saloon building between the railroad tracks on South Elm Street. This building is owned by the family of Ross Strange, who is an attorney, and so far through legal maneuvering and good fortune he has managed to keep this building from being torn down. The city is determined to tear down the building and this ordinance will give them even more clout. The problem is that it is a historic building and nothing can be rebuilt on that site if it is torn down because it is between the railroad tracks and reportedly doesn't meet the setbacks on either side. The city has been threatening to tear it down for years, but this is a case where if the city wanted to spend a little economic development money it could buy the building and sell it to someone who will renovate it. The city would not make money on the building, but when has the city ever made money on property? The city bought the Coliseum Inn and has done nothing with the property. The city bought the Canada Dry building for far more than its appraised value, but the wife of the News & Record editor owned a big portion of it, so the city councilmembers didn't consider it a total loss. They thought they were buying good will, or better said good press, with taxpayer dollars.
The city bought the old YWCA at above asking price because Perkins wanted the land for the
Performing Arts Center.
has plenty of money, and it would make far more sense to go ahead and buy the Cascade building than to punish every downtown property owner with these oppressive new regulations or to tear down a historic building on property where nothing could be built.
Also the city staff doesn't seem to be aware of the current economic situation, although Perkins, whose home is being foreclosed on and who ran up a tremendous debt to the Internal Revenue Service, should understand. In this economy some buildings have cracked windows and peeling paint, not because the owners are deadbeats or don't care about their buildings, but because they are short of cash. Being fined by the city is not going to help get the building repaired or help the owner pay for fixing up the building.
Because of the drop in real estate values many property owners are upside down on their buildings, meaning they owe more than the current value, so selling is really not an option. In other words, a lot of small businesses are just struggling to keep their doors open, and their buildings don't look as good as they might because they don't have any spare cash lying around to fix them up.
But if it is a good idea to have property owners fix every cracked window and have everything freshly painted, why is this ordinance only for the downtown. If Perkins thinks this ordinance is such a good idea for property values, it seems only fair that the strip shopping centers and buildings that he owns all over the city should have to comply, as well as every other building in the city.
Why should only the downtown benefit from this helpful ordinance?
This City Council, in part because of a lack of business experience on the council, is on the path to turn downtown
back into the ghost town it was 20 years ago. At The Rhino our sales people used to park out in front of the building on a regular basis because they don't stay in the office long and The Rhino Times parking lot on two one-way streets is ridiculously hard to get to from the west. But nobody from our office parks on the street anymore, even to run in the office for a minute, because the parking police are much more diligent and tickets are $15. It makes doing business downtown really difficult. If your business is anywhere else in the city you don't have to worry about parking tickets, but downtown you do. I talk to people all the time who do not want to come downtown because they don't want to get another ticket. A $15 ticket is not just a real deterrent for improper parking, it is a deterrent for coming downtown. When I started The Rhino 21 years ago, a parking ticket was $3. Now it has increased by 500 percent. Even gas hasn't gone up 500 percent.
Finally, this ordinance is simply part of the Downtown Design & Compatibility Manual that the city tried to force on downtown property owners a couple of years ago. The design manual would have codified in law the aesthetic tastes of the city planning department. A number of downtown property owners got together, hired attorney Henry Isaacson to represent us and defeated the manual. Now the planning department, with the support of a new mayor, is trying to bring back the design manual one piece at a time. If this passes there is no telling what part of the design manual will be dredged up next by the staff at the bequest of Perkins or some councilmember. The staff is only too happy to put regulation on top of regulation. The only protection property owners have is the City Council, and in this case it may turn out to be no protection at all.
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Clicked Greensboro on Yahoo news and Rhino Times article popped up. Lived in Gboro 30 plus years,moved away 12 yrs. ago, but still interested in area. This is just the kind of news I want. Compliments on well researched and very interesting article. I will check in to Rhino on a regular basis from now on. Thanks!
Mary B Rand
January 31, 2013 | 08:45 AM
are dilapidated head shops with boarded up windows really what we want to see in our downtown historic district? Has the Rhino reached the point where it will push back on anything and everything the City does, simply for the sake of opposing government, even when it's a good idea?
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January 31, 2013 | 09:21 AM
With all due respect folks, when are you going to man-up and get rid of these foolish tyrants?
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January 31, 2013 | 10:43 AM
Banding security bars on windows is simply poor legislation. It doesn't make any sense and displays a total lack of both foresight and attention to detail regarding the current buildings downtown. I can't believe that any sane person would defend such an obviously illogical ordinance. Beautification ordinances aren't NECESSARILY bad, but the devil is in the details and this POS reeks of brimstone.
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I am part of the customers that got moved from HSBC to First Niagara. It was supposed to be smooth without glitches. It is not. First of all I am a mac user and quicken user. None works; I have to use a windows computer and internet explorer to use their online service !!! No download of activities and reconciliation of account with Quicken Essentials for Mac. Their credit card service does not provide also any online link to Quicken. Basically all what I was doing with HSBC online, I can't anymore. I went to HSBC because it was an international bank; not anymore. You have to go through Mellon Bank to handle any type of international transfer you may have; very inconvenient when you have family members overseas. By the way, I am still waiting for an answer to my emails from their customer support; actually to be fair I got one reply 48 hours later to one of my complaint: credit card: we do not support quicken download.
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codergrrl reviewed First Niagara Bank
May 8th 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"Just Like the "BIG" Banks"
I decided to give First Niagara a chance to get my business after being a loyal customer to Citibank for 7 years and they didn't even last 6 months with me! The best thing about the bank was the ATM rebates but the customer service is awful and I was charged over $200 in NSF fees because they allowed a company keep resubmitting the same transaction over and over. At least Citibank would have given me a heads-up! Instead I had some jerk named Ryan call me up and tell me, "Do you know how many customers we have? We don't have time to monitor your transactions!". Well, Ryan now you have one less customer due to your nasty attitude. Nice way to enter a new market.
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May 8th 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"Does anyone here care about their Customers?"
My account with HSBC (who I was very happy with) was bought out by First Niagara and it has been non-stop problems and fees ever since. I'd advise anyone not to do business with First Niagara, and if you are a member, consider switching... believe me the grass is greener.
ljcjic11 reviewed First Niagara Bank
May 5th 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"Leave feeling belittled"
My Dad and I were in the drive thru. The teller was not paying attenion and 5 $20 bills blew out of the box. Although she was outside looking for them. Another teller said very rudely to my elderly father "Don't you think you should be out there helping her?!" Had the teller not been trying to have a conversation inside the bank it could have been avoided. They found 2 of the bills and basically said tough luck.
Also, if I don't specify "This is a payroll check" they credit it like a personal check. Who can afford that??
They are very demeaning. Treat you like you are bothering them. And there's always some hoop to jump through or "new rule" you didn't even know existed.
I'm 33 and have been using that back since I was 15. I'm taking my money and heading somewhere else
Vmace55 reviewed First Niagara Bank
Apr 18th 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"This bank is the worse I have ever done business with. "
They transferred money from my "credit card" (one I had never applied for or used) to my checking account and charged me huge interest. I was never overdrawn (in fact I had a very large balance with them), never needed any loan and never OKed the transfer. They would not return the interest charge and basically ignored by complaint. The manager was unbelievably rude. I closed my account and even that was a problem-- for no reason. Be forewarned.
elliejay reviewed First Niagara Bank
Apr 3rd 2013
4 out of 5 marks
"Very satisfied"
I am amazed to read all the unhappy reviews about this bank. My husband and I have nothing but positive experiences since they bought out NewAlliance Bank and took over our accounts.
Their rates are lower than some other banks, but I don't deposit cash in banks for big returns.
Customer service has been excellent in all my dealings with them. They have been pro-active in getting us to change our accounts for better rates and/or lower fees.
redoct10 reviewed First Niagara Bank
Mar 30th 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"Worst customer service ever!"
Over the past year, I have had the worst ever experience dealing with First Niagara, both over the telephone, on-line, and in-person at multiple locations in the Capital Region (Albany,NY area). Many horror stories, from being untruthful, unauthorized charging me fees without my knowledge on both personal and business accounts, to the latest today - not able to pay a bill (I previously was able to pay a bill without physical statement, just wrote account, bill info etc on check). I simply asked then if they needed the bill, to print one from Internet from their location. They said no. I could go on, however, after 1 year, it's time to move on and go with a bank that understands, listens, and actually serves the customer.
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Mar 2nd 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"Horrible Bank, Horrible customer service."
You would think that a Direct Deposit would post to your account overnight, right? Nooo, not with First Niagara. They post their Direct Deposits at 9:30 IN THE MORNING!, SOMETIMES 10:00! Really? Wow. And of course, when you DO call customer service, the "wait" to speak wit one is 30 minutes.
Is ANYONE from First Niagara reading these reviews? ANYONE??
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Mar 1st 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"Horrible! Online? Where@!!!!!"
6 hours and still can't get online to do my banking! Called customer service 3 times and they can't fix it, they told me it was "ie9" so i rolled back to "ie8" and yet still i can get everywhere else but their site! Huge merge causes a damn mess, fix your site first then merge! Monopoly??? Bunch of bs is what i say!
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Jan 28th 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"AWFUL!! Stay away!!"
I have been with this bank for 18 years, formerly known as Lockport Savings Bank. They do not care about their customers in the least bit. They are only concerned about collecting fees and "raping" their customers financially. I have had a home equity line of credit with them and multiple accounts throughout the years. My husband and I moved out of state and decided to close the accounts because it was impossible to manage our accounts with their lack of technology and inability to make deposits other than in person. Upon closing our accounts, we had a line of credit on both accounts. They sent us a check for our remaining deposit money and then claimed we were late on our line of credit (overdraft account). They charged us $25 for each account and proceeded to send us a bill for the delinquency after 3 weeks of the accounts being closed. We never even received a statement to make a payment. I called the bank and I was informed that statements are a courtesy and they refused to reverse the charges. They said it was not a bank error but an error on behalf of the person who closed our accounts when we sent our request by mail. Last time I checked, bank employees would be responsible for bank errors... Not too mention they willl charge you &37 for an NSF fee and then if you do not deposit money into the account within 7 days they will charge you another 35 on top of that... THE WORST BANK EVER!!! BEWARE!! PUT YOUR MONEY SOME WHERE ELSE!! They only want to collect fees from you and will go to all lengths and random charges to collect it from you!
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Jan 23rd 2013
1 out of 5 marks
"The Worst Banking Experience Ever"
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