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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- An MTA bus driver and his wife tried to take the government for a ride when they attempted to steal $94,000 in housing subsidies and Medicaid and food stamp benefits, authorities allege.
David Vale, 55, and Maria Almanzar, 41, both of Elizabeth Street in West Brighton, posed as a landlord and tenant to scam the benefits, the city Department of Investigation charged on Friday.
Vale, who owns the two-family home and lives on the second floor, collects rent from three tenants on the first floor and listed his wife as a tenant in the house -- but he failed to mention his presence and income, authorities allege.
In 2006, Vale applied to participate in the Section 8 program as Ms. Almanzar's landlord, the DOI said. Section 8's mission is to assist very low-income families to afford decent and sanitary housing in the public and private market through the provision of housing assistance in the form of rent subsidy.
He listed his Elizabeth Street address on his driver's license, tax returns and other records, according to the DOI.
"The defendants fraudulently arranged for the government to pay them to live in their own home, according to the complaint," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. "The scarce public housing funds they are charged with stealing should have been helping a needy family, not subsidizing their real estate investment."
With Vale's $104,000-a-year gig as a bus driver and separate rental income, the couple in no way qualified for these government benefits, authorities say.
An immediate neighbor, who only identified herself as Delores, claimed to not even know the pair was married.
"I knew (Vale) was the owner, but I didn't know he married her," said Delores
Multiple neighbors described the suspects as "normal people" who would leave in the day for work and return after 5 p.m.
Although neighbors said the suspects worked, it was unclear what kind of a job Ms. Almanzar had, since neighbors only knew they were both gone during the day, and nobody the Advance spoke with seemed to know they were married.
A neighbor, Cinthia, said the pair has lived at that address for more than eight years.
They were both charged with theft of government funds, a federal felony, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Vale and Ms. Almanzar are also charged with one count each relating to the $60,000 in Section 8 subsidies, and Ms. Almanzar was charged with two additional counts for receiving $25,000 from Medicaid and $9,000 of food stamp benefits between October 2007 and October 2011.
"These defendants are examples of the worst kind of 'double-dipping' from the public's wallet: Taking public assistance benefits to which they were not entitled while collecting, and concealing, a public servant's salary and generous benefits," said NYS Welfare Inspector General Sean Courtney.
Attempts to reach the suspects at their home were unsuccessful Friday afternoon.


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The Hoboken Historical Museum will host "Tootsie Tales from Candy Land," this Sunday, April 10th at 4 p.m.
The talk will feature Rutgers University professor, Samira Kawash, who studies the origins and history of candy in America. Kawash will share her findings about Tootsie Rolls, Necco wafers, and other candy bars.
Admission to the talk is free for museum members. The museum suggests a $5 donation for non-members.

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Kill and maim as many innocent people as members of the New Orleans Police Department have, kidnap and sexually assault and menace women with guns, beat up civilians and generally run roughshod over the Constitution, and the people living amidst such corruption might come to believe they're the only ones dealing with crooked cops.
That's never been the case, of course. From Cincinnati to New York, from Oakland to Chicago, residents have complained about unchecked police aggression. Zoom out and look at police misconduct from a national perspective, and one sees that New Orleans has never stood alone.
Zoom in to our metro area, however, and it may have seemed that other police forces are innocuous compared to the sometimes predatory corruption in New Orleans.
No more. There's a troubling accusation that last year a multi-agency task force put the squeeze on a local drug suspect and stole his money. That suggests that the New Orleans Police Department isn't the only local jurisdiction that ought to cause us concern. The problem seems more pervasive than that.
There are those who cannot handle the power, who can't be given unsupervised access to the bounty they might encounter during routine police work without yielding to the temptation to help themselves. How do we figure out who those people are? Is it possible to root them out before they begin preying on the public?
Special Agent Sheila Thorne confirmed Wednesday that the FBI has opened an investigation into the West Bank Major Crimes Task Force, a multi-jurisdictional collaboration that includes officers from the New Orleans Police Department, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office, the Gretna Police Department and the Westwego Police Department.
In January 2011 members of that task force arrested 25-year-old Stefen Daigle on the suspicion of several drug charges outside the ArtEgg studios near Broad Street. But the relevant news now isn't what those police say Daigle did but what Daigle and his attorney say police did to him: rip him off to the tune of $3,500.
The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office was pressing a case against Daigle for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and Ecstasy and possession of GHB, which is often described as a date-rape drug. But prosecutors dropped their case against Daigle right before a scheduled trial last month. Their decision to drop those charges came after Daigle's attorney says he showed prosecutors footage of two police officers walking Daigle into a French Quarter apartment and carrying a bag with them on their way out.
The bag, defense attorney Roger Kitchens said, contained $3,500, money that apparently none of the officers reported as they booked his client on the drug charges. Kitchens said that one of the officers involved, Detective Ray Veit, had previously denied under oath even going to the St. Peter Street apartment, and an incident report makes no mention of a visit to the French Quarter.
None of the officers from the task force has been charged with a crime, but multiple agencies are reportedly looking into the allegations: the Public Integrity Bureau of the New Orleans Police Department, the Gretna Police Department, the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office and now the FBI.
Assuming the video footage does in fact capture police corruption, one is forced to ask how such crookedness coalesces across jurisdictional boundaries. If corruption emerges from a single department, we might blame the culture of that department, but when it comes about as part of a collaboration, one becomes even more worried and might ask if there's something about the job itself that makes such abuses inevitable.
And just how often does it happen? It's doubtful that anybody would have believed Daigle's story if he didn't have corroborating video evidence, but he does. That's reason enough for us to question how the task force has behaved when arresting people who weren't able to record them in action.
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[U.S. Debt Clock] The federal debt is at $17 trillion and counting and counting and counting!
This chart (see the embedded JPEG file) very simply shows how the federal debt has grown by leaps and bounds since 1993.
Consumerism, materialism, stock markets, and corporate favoritism do not define "Capitalism". Leftists try to portray "Capitalism" and "Capitalists" as the embodiment of "greed", and the cause of everyone's problems. But what is Capitalism? Let's start from the basics.
CAPITAL is simply the means of production of goods and services. It is the material, creative energy, and physical exertion that people apply toward realizing their aspirations through their own efforts and labor.
CAPITALISM states that every individual has the right to own, control, prosper from, and compete using the capital which he creates on his own or duly purchases from others.
You have the right to own and control the fruits of your own labor and creativity. That includes your hard work, your intellectual property, your property, and your talent. HUMAN BEINGS ARE CAPITALISTS BY NATURE!
"I am very interested in social developments in America. I believe that President Roosevelt has chosen the right path. We are dealing with the greatest social problems ever known. Millions of unemployed must get their jobs back and this cannot be left to private initiative. It is the government that must tackle the problem." " Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany, describing FDR's policies in 1934.
(The paper itself is here: http://www.expresspros.com/subsites/americaemployed/documents/The-Great-Shift.pdf )
1. Changing ObamaCare on the fly without congressional action
2. Implementing the DREAM Act by executive fiat
3. Making "recess appointments" while the Senate was in session 4. Waiving welfare work requirements
5. Encouraging federal contractors to violate the law
"I would like to tell you a little more of my story so you can hopefully see why the law needs to be changed.
"In 1997, I searched all over for a house and finally found this perfect little Victorian cottage with beautiful views of the water. I was working then as a paramedic and was overjoyed that I was able to find a beautiful little place I could afford on my salary. I spent every spare moment fixing it up and creating the kind of home I always dreamed of. I painted salmon pink, because that is my favorite color.
"In 1998, a real estate agent came by and made me an offer on the house on behalf of an unnamed buyer. I explained to her that I was not interested in selling, but she said that my home would be taken by eminent domain if I refused to sell. She told me stories of her relatives who had lost their homes to eminent domain. Her advice? Give up. The government always wins.
"So why did the City and the New London Development Corporation (NLDC) want to kick us out? To make way for a luxury hotel, up-scale condos, and other private developments that could bring in more taxes to the City and possibly create more jobs. The poor and middle class had to make way for the rich and politically connected. As quickly as the NLDC acquired homes in my neighborhood, they came in and demolished them, with no regard for the remaining residents who lived there, most of whom were elderly.
"My neighborhood was not blighted. It was a nice neighborhood where rope were close. We didn't want to leave.
"All of these was for nothing. After spending close to $80 million in taxpayer money, there has been no construction whatsoever and the neighborhood to this day remains a barren field, home to weeds and feral cats. And in 2009, Pfizer - the lynchpin of the plan - announced that it was closing its research and development headquarters and leaving New London for good, just as its tax breaks were about to expire.
"None of us asked for any of this. We were simply living our lives, working, taking care of our families and paying out taxes.
"This battle against eminent domain abuse may have started as a way for me to save my little pink cottage, but it has rightfully grown into something much larger - the fight to restore the American Dream and the sacredness and security of each one of our homes."
- Testimony of Susette Kelo, before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution & Civil Justice Hearing on the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2013, April 18, 2013
That includes 94 workers at 16 precincts that will be completely restaffed because of a high number of errors.
The others failed to vote themselves and/or performed poorly on Election Day.
Those 163 poll workers represent about 5.6 percent of poll workers " the most ever who aren't being asked back.
The move comes as board of elections officials continue to work to find the 2,905 poll workers needed to staff the county's 545 polling locations.
The Enquirer obtained the list of problem poll workers and found that 94of them who worked at 16 polling locations won't be asked back because they allowed 15 or more votes to be cast at the wrong precinct or in the wrong location.
As a conservative, this is what I stand for, fight for, and believe in with all my heart:
I. CONFIDENCE in every person's ability to achieve his or her fullest potential in life.
II. Liberty, security, and LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITY for all, by defending the rights of the individual, supporting entrepreneurship, and getting rid of every political obstacle to your personal success.
III. Abolishing all legal and political distinctions between ethnicities, colors, and creeds " which poses a major threat to the Tribalistic divisionary agenda of the Left and the Right.
IV. A society in which all people abide by the same laws, enjoy the same rights, and are "not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." " Martin Luther King, Jr.
V. Civic Virtue, equal justice, and the hard-won lessons of human history.
* According to the 10th Amendment of our Constitution, anything that's not in the Constitution is automatically the domain of the states or the people. Marriage (and other social issues) is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. Thus, it's a state issue, and the people of every state have the right to address it in their own ways " without interference from the federal government or other states. That's how we accommodate a wide diversity of opinions while remaining a single, united country.
* Having said that, the federal government has no constitutional authority to control, define, redefine, promote, or undermine the institution of marriage. It has no right to practice social engineering by giving special tax breaks to those who are married. Past generations of Americans never should have accepted this unequal federal policy which benefits some but not others. Therefore, as a Constitutionalist and a supporter of republican values, I believe all federal privileges given to married people but not to others should be abolished. That would end the controversy regarding same-sex marriage.
* The real issue before each state is how to define "marriage". If same-sex marriage is allowed, then why should any definition of marriage be banned? Why not also legally recognize polygamists and people who marry their pets? Exactly where should it end?
"Resolved, That Congress has no power to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states that all efforts by abolitionists made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery are calculated to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union." " Official Democrat Party platform, 1840
"If you desire negro citizenshipthen support Mr. Lincoln and the Black Republican party. For one, I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of conferring it upon negroes, Indians and other inferior races." - Democrat Stephen Douglas
In contrast, the Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln (who later became our 16th president) said this:
"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles " right and wrong " throughout the world.... The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same spirit that says, 'You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." - Republican Abraham Lincoln
Democrats in the Senate filibustered the following civil rights laws which the Republicans overwhelmingly supported:
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Black American educator, Republican leader, and advisor to three Republican presidents
More from C.L. Bryant here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZVCJwgUnyw
Therefore, even researchers opposed to gun rights could not find any evidence for the Leftist assertion that gun ownership increases violence in society.
As a conservative, I whole-heartedly believe in the two big ideas that gave birth to our American republic: (i) INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY and (i) CIVIC VIRTUE.
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY comes from your sacred and natural right to freely speak your mind, believe, express yourself, and prosper from your own perseverance, ideas, and hard work. I believe that you, me and every single person, whether rich or poor, has a right to enjoy both civil liberty and economic liberty. That is the philosophy of CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, which is what our Founding Fathers passionately believed in.
Then there is CIVIC VIRTUE, which means that people should be free, able, and encouraged to voluntarily help their fellow human beings who are in need, in any and every way that they feel they best can. President John F. Kennedy summed up what civic virtue is about when he said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." Like Kennedy, I believe that it's far better for citizens to help their fellow citizens, than for the government to devalue and disregard the liberty, responsibilities, and untapped potential of the very people it claims to be helping.
The Republican Party is just a political party which, like any party, tends to do what it thinks it needs to in order to survive the next election. I don't believe in parties, I believe in what our country was founded upon. As a conservative, this is what I stand for, fight for, and believe in with all my heart:
I. CONFIDENCE in every person's ability to achieve his or her fullest potential in life.
II. Liberty, security, and LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITY for everyone, by defending the rights of the individual, supporting entrepreneurship, and getting rid of every political obstacle to your personal success.
III. Abolishing all legal and political distinctions between ethnicities, colors, and creeds " which poses a major threat to the Tribalistic divisionary agenda of the Left.
IV. A society in which all people abide by the same laws, enjoy the same rights, and are "not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." " Martin Luther King, Jr.
V. Moralism, civic virtue, equal justice, and the hard-won lessons of human history.
In short, American Conservatism stands for CONSERVING the Founding Fathers' CLASSICAL LIBERAL and REPUBLICAN vision for every single person.
In the original sense of each term, "Leftist" and "Liberal" are opposites!
LEFTIST vs. LIBERAL:
Command and Control vs. Individual Liberty and Responsibility
"Liberal" is derived from the Latin word liber, meaning "free". As declared and codified by the Founding Fathers, the philosophy of CLASSICAL LIBERALISM proclaims liberty to be the God-given right of everyone:
"According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to; three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it, or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice; and, thirdly, the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works, and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals to erect and maintain though it may frequently do much more than repay [its costs] to a great society. The proper performance of those several duties necessarily supposes a certain expense [which] necessarily requires a certain revenue to support it." " Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations" (Book IV, Ch. 9), 1776
As a conservative, I believe that the federal government must do only those things and excercise only those powers which are granted to it by the Constitution. The federal government should do nothing beyond that, because THE BIGGER THE GOVERNMENT, THE SMALLER THE CITIZEN. All other activities, concerns, and causes which are not mentioned in the Constitution belong to the states and to WE THE PEOPLE (according to the 10th Amendment).
We as conservatives do not believe in "no government" or "no taxes". (The idea that we do is a propagandish lie by the Democrats and the Leftists who run the Democrat Party.) "No government" would mean "anarchy", and anarchy almost always leads to dictatorship, which is why our Founding Fathers gave us a free republic wherein the role of the government is clearly defined, outlined, and limited by our Constitution.
From the CLASSICAL LIBERAL standpoint of our Founding Fathers, what is the proper and necessary role of the federal government? The proper and necessary role of the federal government is to uphold, protect, defend, and guarantee the CIVIL LIBERTIES and ECONOMIC LIBERTIES of every single human being. That's the central and legitimate purpose of any government - to secure the freedoms, liberties, and rights of WE THE PEOPLE.
AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IS THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN WAY: THE WAY OF LIBERTY FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON. This is what destroyed slavery; fought for and achieved equality of the races and sexes; and uplifted untold millions of oppressed people from around the world who came here to live lives of dignity, prosperity, and freedom.
Consumerism, materialism, stock markets, and corporate favoritism do not define "Capitalism". Leftists try to portray "capitalism" and "capitalists" as the embodiment of "greed", and the cause of everyone's problems. But what is Capitalism? Let's start from the basics.
CAPITAL is simply the means of production of goods and services. It is the material, creative energy, and physical exertion that people apply toward realizing their aspirations through their own efforts and labor.
CAPITALISM states that every individual has the right to own, control, prosper from, and compete using the capital which he creates on his own or duly purchases from others.
You have the right to own and control the fruits of your own labor and creativity. That includes your hard work, your intellectual property, your property, and your talent. HUMAN BEINGS ARE CAPITALISTS BY NATURE!
Seeking solutions where there's 100% understanding and 100% incentive - rather than where there's 0% knowledge and 0% incentive - is THE major consideration in how I, as an American Conservative, approach solving people's problems and making our society a better place for all of us.


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BLUE EARTH - February is National Kindness Month, so Blue Earth Area Middle School students are having fun with it.
"It's always good to teach kids to be kind and to think of what they can do to be kind to others; really think about it," said Tami Armstrong, school social worker.
This week has been Random Acts of Kindness Week, with each day designated differently:
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CRAZY?FOR KINDNESS?— Cooper Amundson, Jack Frundt, Madison Glanzman and Rachel Goette get into Crazy for Kindness Day, when students could wear mismatched clothes at Blue Earth Area Middle School. This week is Random Acts of Kindness Week and February is National Kindness Month.
o Dream of Kindness Day: the students could come to school in their pajamas.
o Powered by Kindness: dress up like your favorite teacher.
o Peace, Love and Kindness: hippy day.
o Crazy for Kindness: kids could wear crazy, mismatched clothes.
Students aren't in school for Valentine's Day.
"This week, we challenged the kids: how many random acts of kindness can you do," Armstrong said.
In Morning Meeting, they have a tally sheet. As students perform each act of kindness, they can check it off.
"It can be as simple as smiling at someone, instead of walking by," Armstrong said. "The more that you do those things, the more it will become a natural reaction."
Staff is putting a special emphasis on communicating with students this month "about bullying and how to stand up to bullying and why it's important to be kind," Armstrong said.
But it's not the only time they try to get the kids to think about kindness. Students are reminded throughout the year to work together as a team, respect each other and take part in activities, such as Service Learning Day each spring, that reinforce the message.
"Character-building through the whole year," Armstrong called it.
Practice cements the message and Armstrong said parents can remind kids at home to keep up the good work.
"It's easy for them to say the same thing," she said. "'What did you do that was nice, did you remember to say 'Thank you?' Re-enforce those things; that would be helpful.
"Just have a conversation with your kid about it," she added. "What does it mean to be kind and how would you feel if that was done to you?"
Being kind is about more than minding your manners, Armstrong pointed out.
"[Students] take away that helping people matters. It could change someone's life. If they're really down, they can realize, 'I have a friend.' Lots of things can make a big difference," Armstrong said.
She showed students a clip of the movie "Pay It Forward" to illustrate the impact.
"He set a goal to pay it forward to three people," Armstrong said. "All they had to do was pay it forward to three people. How kinder would this world be if everyone would pay it forward."


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Grass Lake native Taryn Goodge was thrilled to win American Photo magazine's "Go Pro" student photography contest, which came with a brand-new Canon EOS 60D camera with a 70-200mm zoom lens.
There was just one small problem, however. Goodge is a Nikon girl.
Goodge, 18, a 2011 Grass Lake High School graduate, just started her third semester at Harrington College of Design in Chicago. Her photo of a Lake Michigan beach from atop the John Hancock Center was named the winning shot out of 3,352 entries in the contest. She called it "Boating and Bumming."
"I was really lucky because I took that the day they unveiled that 29-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe, which recently was taken down," Goodge said. "They wanted Chicago to look pretty, so they had just washed the inside and outside of the windows on the Hancock building.
"Ironically, I'm not really a fan of taking landscape shots."
Goodge, who became a full-time Chicago resident prior to her 18th birthday, is adjusting to life in the Windy City just fine. She's already completed enough credits to be classified as a sophomore and is currently taking five "demanding" classes while working part-time for the college.
"I love living in Chicago," she said. "I love being able to wake up at 4 a.m. and walk across the street to a Greek restaurant."
A longtime fan of visual art – Goodge originally wanted to become an animator – she only began focusing on photography within the past couple of years. She's still not sure exactly which kind of photography career she'll pursue but is having a great time in figuring it out.
"Two months ago, I would have told you that I want to work in the police department as a forensic photographer," Goodge told American Photo. "However, now I am getting much more interested in product and tabletop photography, so I'm considering looking further into that as a career choice."
Goodge knew she wanted to move to Chicago after her high school graduate and looked at several design schools. She chose Harrington because of the professors.
"Pretty much all of the professors work in the field in some way, so most of them only teach part-time," she said. "One of them works a lot with McDonald's and others have worked in fashion in New York.
"To learn from people with that kind of experience was very appealing."
Goodge primarily likes to focus on taking portraits and abstract and detail photography. One of her favorite subjects is cars.
"Probably my favorite event is the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance," she said.
As for the new Canon, she's hoping to sell it in order to get a new Nikon.
"I already have so much Nikon equipment," she said, "it would be hard to switch now."
Goodge's work can be seen on several websites, including modelmayhem.com and artistswanted.org.


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I am only 29 and have noticeable glabellar lines that are present even when I don't furrow my brow. I also have thin skin. I am headed for a botox consultation in a couple weeks, but am wondering - will botox take care of these lines? They're not extremely deep, but more noticeable than most before/after photos I've seen of others with "problems" in this area. I'm just wondering what to expect.
Will Botox Take Care of Glabellar Lines with Thin Skin?
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Filling Your Glabellar Lines
Botox is the trade name of Botulinum Toxin Type A, a purified neurotoxin complex manufactured by Allergan. It's most common use is to reduce wrinkle lines caused by overactive muscle movement. By relaxing the muscle the appearance of the wrinkle will be less. A general rule is after treatment the appearance of the wrinkle will be the same as when you are not contracting the muscle and it is at rest. As for your glabellar lines you would be a ideal candidate for Botox between your brows. Keepin mind, Botox takes 3-5 days to see early affects and is maximal by 7-14 days. If the effect does not meet your needs the simple addition of a soft tissue filler can often soften the line further and prolong the clinical effectiveness of the Botox. Remember to ask your physician what realistic expectations you should see following treatment.
All the best,
Dean Johnston, MD FACS
Probably be even more attractive than the photo demonstrates if you get rid
of the wrinkles...botox is a perfect solution...the idea of thin skin doesn't matter...but don't drink too much...causes problems with the skin over time...
Botox for glabellar lines
Botox will soften glabellar lines and prevent them from deepening. There is no problem if your skin is thin. If you continue to have the lines even after your Botox injections, you may need some filler for plumping. They complement each other, especially in this area.
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Botox is excellent for glabellar wrinkles
Botox is the treatment of choice for glabellar lines. Thin skin is not an issue. It's rare that people have thin skin in the glabellar area. These frown lines are there because the muscle of the glabella has contracted for years and the skin overlying the muscles acts like an accordion. Then the creases stay. Once the Botox relaxes the muscles and they no longer conrtract, the skin becomes smoother.
Web reference: http://www.thenyac.com/botox/index.html
Botox treatment of Glabellar Lines
Based on your description you should have a nice improvement with Botox treatment. If you have lines present at rest you may also benefit from the use of fillers.
Best wishes.
Web reference: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_botoxinjection.htm
Botox for thin skin - Fort Lauderdale
Botox is ok for use in patients with thin skin as the product is injected in the deep muscles of facial expression curtailing any concern for thickness of the epidermis.
Web reference: http://www.naturadermatology.com/botox-cosmetic/
Botox can help to prevent those fine lines from getting deeper
If you start to treat the fines lines now with Botox it can smooth them out by relaxing the muscle under the skin. Botox at regular intervals is also a good option to help prevent those lines from deepening over time. Your Botox results are not related to the thickness of your skin but to the muscle strenth, units used, and to the depth of the wrinkle. Fair caucasian skin that is thin is more prone to developing wrinkles earlier in life, so Botox may be a good wrinkle prevention in your case. You can locate a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon by checking the websites of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery or the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Web reference: http://www.danmillsmd.com/medical-spa/botox-cosmetic-laguna-beach-ca/
Botox is only part of the solution.
Botox is used to reduce the appearance of dynamic or motion-induced wrinkling. With time, skin overlying areas of facial motion like the forehead, glabella, crow's foot, and mouth areas shows fixed wrinkles. This is due to multiple factors including collagen loss and sun damage. In my practice botox is used in combination with resurfacing procedures such as chemical peels and laser to address both the mobile and fixed components of skin lines. Additionally if volume loss is making the wrinkles worse, injectible filler can be used to counteract this. Here in Denver, we have a young population, but with our sun exposure and low humidity, we see skin aging earlier than other parts of the country. 29 is not too young to be proactive!
Warmest regards,
Dr. Shah
Smoothing Base of Nose (Glabellar) Frown Lines
Botox will not smooth base of nose (Glabellar) lines present at rest but will improve them. The fact that you have thin skin works in your favor as such lines CAN be flattened nicely by the addition of a syringe of either Restylane or Juvederm to the treatment with Botox. Combination treatment not only works better but the results will last longer.
Botox for Frown Lines and Thin Skin
Hi afisher1,
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From the beginning of time, God gave men commandments they were to follow. Prophets emphasized the importance of these commandments for those who want to follow God and Jesus Christ.
However, commandments were only one portion of God's plan for us. He always intended for each of us to have the opportunity to return home to Him, but justice and mercy had to be balanced in order for this to happen.
In order for a person to return to God without mercy, he or she would have to live a sinless life. That would prove to be impossible for anyone but Jesus Christ, who could do so only because His Father was God. For the rest of us, mistakes and bad choices were inevitable. If it were impossible for us to return to God, there would be no purpose in having us come to Earth. In fact, it would be a great unkindness and unfairness, and God is neither unkind nor unfair.
For this reason, God provided a balance of mercy. While mercy does not take away the need for obedience, it tempers it so that we can choose to repent and return to God someday. This mercy came through the voluntary sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He offered to come to Earth, live here to adulthood, and then to atone for our sins. In order to atone for us, He had to live a sinless life, so He came as the son of Mary and of God the Father. Mary's heritage gave Him a mortal body that could suffer and die. God's heritage allowed Him to overcome death and to live a perfect life.
As His ministry drew to a close, He took our sins onto Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane. This experience was very painful and very much an individual and personal gift to every person who ever lived or would live on Earth. He took on each sin individually, suffering so much He sweated blood.
He then died on the cross, and three days later, was resurrected, overcoming death. These actions brought to the world grace and salvation.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who are sometimes referred to as Mormons, believe in grace. However, they assign a different meaning to it than do some other Christians, making the argument about whether or not Mormons believe in grace one of semantics, in most cases.
Mormons believe that grace and the atonement allow everyone to be resurrected and to live forever. It also gives us the right to repent of our sins and align ourselves with God—but that is a choice. Mormons, at baptism, take the name of Jesus Christ onto the themselves and accept Him as their Savior. However, they believe that true salvation involves more than just living forever—it is living forever with God. To that end, baptism is the first step, not the last.
In the Book of Mormon, which is used with the Bible as official scripture, says this about grace:
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved. (2 Nephi 10:24)
This means that we cannot save ourselves. Had Jesus Christ not come to earth and atoned for our sins, we would be forever kept away from God's presence. Nothing we could do ourselves could allow us to overcome death and sin alone.
Paul talked about this in Romans 10:9-10:
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Taken alone, this verse might seem to suggest that accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior is all that is required and that once done, we can do anything we want with the rest of our lives. Of course, we must read the entire Bible in order to understand the complete teachings on the subject of grace and salvation. The teachings must be examined in context of the whole book, and not through isolated verses.
The Book of Mormon says, "For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do. (See 2 Nephi 25:23)
Suggesting that we are saved by grace after all we can do leads some to ignore the section about grace and to suggest Mormons believe they are saved by their works. Clearly, when the entire scripture is read, this is not true. Faith without works is dead, the Bible tells us, and the reverse is also true.
Grace and works go together to provide a complete understanding of how God's compassionate gospel functions. Let's look at several Bible verses which elaborate on the things we are required to do in order to be able to return to God's presence.
First, the Bible says we must have faith and to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. We encountered this in the above-discussed verse in Romans. These are both actions, and therefore, we see that Christians who believe in grace alone actually do believe in works—it comes down to a discussion of how many works are required, not whether they are required. Stating our faith in Christ is most certainly an act.
It is not, however, the only act outlined in the Bible as being required in order to be saved. Acts 2:38 says: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Repentance, then, is another act required for salvation.
Mark 16:16 adds still another requirement in order to be saved: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Baptism is an act required of those who want to be saved.
When we turn to the Sermon on the Mount, we discover Jesus Christ personally taught that obedience to the commandments was not an optional part of the gospel: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (See Matthew 7:21.) This verse leaves no question that merely saying the words is not enough—one must also obey the commandments. This teaching is repeated throughout the Bible.
Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." This verse is often used to justify a faith-only doctrine, but the teaching was not offered to suggest people can live any way they choose. It teaches, as we discussed earlier, that we cannot save ourselves without Jesus Christ. If Jesus had not atoned for our sins, no amount of good works would save us. However, Jesus did say we are required to keep the commandments in order to be saved.
How do we reconcile these verses and the others that emphasize the need for obedience to commandments?
Our righteous decisions are a manifestation of our love for God, and of our willingness to put His teachings first before our own selfish desires. Our actions result from our choices. If we do a thousand good works, but do them for selfish reasons or only to get a reward, we are not demonstrating faith in God. If, however, we do these good works for no reason other than love for God, they are a manifestation of our faith.
Someone who verbally accepts Jesus Christ as His Savior and then heads out to rob and murder someone was never really converted. His actions contradict his profession of faith. While no one is perfect, our continued efforts to align our lives and our hearts with the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ are an outward manifestation of our faith.
Understanding this we see that the issue of faith and works is really not controversial at all. Atonement is a gift of Jesus Christ and cannot be bought or earned. Salvation, however—the right to live not just forever, but with God, is conditional on righteousness. Faith and works must come together in complete unity within our hearts in order for us to receive everything God wants us to have.
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its shameful
arggh again with the picture!!!!!!!
Yeah, they should show his face instead- he's a goodlooking guy. Shallow, moi? What man would have him now though? He's got more baggage than a departure lounge during a BA strike.
Haha, like the baggage analogy.
I can't even think where his mind is to inflict such harm on oneself.
One thing that does ring out though is the university's LGBT alliance's support and acceptance of him going back.
It's funny in a way that we look at protests from groups like those seen recently in London. Whole groups Violent, aggressive and doing millions of pounds worth of damage.
Though when it is a LGBT protest, apart from an isolated incident that those extremists here only focus on to tarnish our good names, they are generally peaceful, good humoured and just as effective. We clearly show that the LGBT should be proud of the fact we are far more forgiving and accepting that our counterparts. Especially those bigots would only ever know the word hate.
Is any else worried why he felt the need to do this??
He deserves all he gets.
that's heartless.
Its not heartless its the truth, if I pick up my phone and falsely report a fire or any other crime I would deserve to be prosecuted too.
I feel sorry for the person who genuinely reports a hate crime at this university and its treated with suspicion because of this twerp.
The problem is you're viewing the sequence of events in reverse.
He didn't just 'falsely report a hate crime', what he did was inflict harm on himself, then once questioned about it he was too embarrassed to tell the truth, and claimed someone else did it to him. When you're in that state of mind you think up all sorts of stories in an attempt to sound more convincing, and the homophobic method obviously seemed the best bet at the time. Unfortunately he didn't contemplate the repercussions.
Yeah, that's called flasely reporting a hate crime.
I just hope he gets his head together. Life's too short. I know it's wrong that he lied, but being charged and appearing in court when his mental state is obviously already in a bad place seems crazy. He's not hurt anyone else. I hope he's got support from some loving friends and relatives.
If we're going to have to keep seeing that 'painful' image, it'd be nice if the journalists would tell us what he used to make it? And how and why he did what he did? More info please…
LOL. So you can repeat the process?
Uhm… no. What a bizarre suggestion. I, and many others, are curious over just what figure-8 shaped object was used to create such a unique pattern. And if the object had some significance to the poor kid. Where he got it? Why he did it? What set this whole sad business in motion? The whole thing is still very mysterious, particularly the way it's been reported.
Consensus seems to be he tried to do one of those stupid branding tattoos on himself and burnt himself too much. Maybe his false report was to fool the medical insurers or his parents?
Are you kidding us? It looks like he's into a bit of self harm and possibly attention seeking, I feel sorry and embarrassed for him, as for trying to dig his way out of it and save some face with the medical insurance company and his folks- that's a stretch.
It looks like an AA size battery, heated to buggery on both ends probably with a cigarette lighter and he branded himself three times hence the shape. I'd be more concerned about his motivations actually rather than what he used.
One question that's still in my mind is whether he did lie or if the uni is just trying to cover it up. Somehow I find it hard that a person can do this to himself.
You could ask the same question of people who self harm but they still manage to inflict horrendous wounds on themselves- much worse than what's in this picture. As for a uni cover-up; yeah right.
Pain is not that much about the physical or is that similar between people, it's more how your own mind interprets it. I remember one lecture being told about people unable to take anaesthetics but being given drugs that reduce anxiety to undergo surgery. Anxiety is not a type of damage or pain so it shouldn't affect it but just by reducing the patient's anxiety and worry over the pain, the pain appeared to be reduced. The point I'm trying to make, anyway is that how you feel about the pain can affect the pain, if you think a particular pain isn't that strong or could even help how you feel better then it can be greatly reduced. I don't know whether this is a similar mechanism or something but it also appears that if you have a very strong lingering, almost unbearable pain then to cause a second pain helps to reduce that pain.
You've never burned yourself with anything really hot, have you?
I have (by accident).
They need to get him psychiatric help not charge him. This was an obvious cry for help. Maybe he cannot deal with sexuality. I would rather see him cry wolf about an alledged attack than do some real harm to himself.
No..they need to get him Psychiatric help AND charge him.
How will one ever learn from mistakes, especially this severe if there's no penalty for them, or responsibility as an adult?
Everyone today wants to understand what's wrong and explain it as a cry for help… So get him help, but help the people and public harmed by the action and file charges where they should be filed. Quinn Matney needs help — Learning mistakes have consequences and facing them as an adult responsibly is not a disposable part of that process. It is in fact, essential to it.
"…but police soon determined he had injured himself and made up the incident."
I'm skeptical of their claim. Anyone who's ever singed themselves with a soldering iron understands the level of agony a burn that severe would produce.
I suspect that the young man in question has been coerced (by his attacker's associates perhaps) into recanting his initial report to the police.
I look forward to reviewing the evidence in this case.
I can believe that and have thought about the same in this case, I have to admit.
It's been almost a month…Hows that review?
Coerced by whom exactly? For what reason?
What I'm skeptical of, is unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.
What benefit would it be for ANYONE to coerce Quinn Matney of anything?
Explain, just with basic physics how someone had a fire going, heating a red-hot branding iron, then met him on a bridge, grabbed him and positioned that long enoufgh to HOLD IT TO A STRUGGLING "victims" skin, (A 2-hand process!) and kept it there long enough while Quinn finally "punched them full in the face"
Explain again how he claims to have seen this person on campus, but they where not a student or recorded on a single frame of video from the security camera's all over.
Explain further, where the branding iron fire was…or did the assaulting "Go to hell" branding fanatic take the fire and burnt wood with them?
Explain what you base your conspiracy theory on, because you and Quinn might be able to save money by getting a group-rate with a therapist.
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|By Fissionman (Fissionman) on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 02:49 pm: Edit
I have a few questions
1.) Are SAT2s required?
2.) What are the admissions stats? #applied/#accepted
3.) If I didn't have great grades in H.S.(88) or great AP scores, but a great first year of college do I stand a chance?
4.) How many essays are on the Stern app? Is it different from the CAS app?
5.) What are some tips for someone in my situation to maximizre my chances?
6.) How big is the class size?
7.) Are there interviews?
|By Fissionman (Fissionman) on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 05:36 pm: Edit
|By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 06:29 pm: Edit
What's your GPA at Michigan? That's going to be the most important factor.
|By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 05:39 am: Edit
At any rate, I don't think Stern accepts transfers. I don't think you can ever trasnfer into NYU in general and then trasnfer to Stern. You really should call NYU and get information. I have attached a link below that takes you to NYU's trasnfer application page.
What I want to know is why do you wish to transfer? After 2 years in one school, most people have settled down, made friends and gotten accustomed to the sdchool they are at. Those who trasnfer to another school never feel that connected to any university because it takes a full 4 years to really develop a connection to a university. I'd understand if you were aiming for a far superior program, but there isn't a far superior BBA program to Michigan's.
|By Fissionman (Fissionman) on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 02:15 pm: Edit
I plan on transfering after 1/2 -1 full year not years, Also NYU is the school I want to go to, dur to the city, wall st is close by, greater internship oppourtunities and stern IS a superior program
|By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 03:28 pm: Edit
Fissionman, who told you Stern is superior to Michigan? Whoever it is, that is not accurate.
All the rankings suggest that Michigan is just as good as Stern, if not better. I assume you want to work in Investment Banking/Finance. One of the key misconceptions out there is that if you aren't in NYC, Wall Street is out of reach. That is not true. The top 2 Finance departments in the US are Wharton and Chicago, not Columbia and NYU. Obviously that's at the graduate level. At the undergraduate level, the top 3 Finance departments are Wharton, Stern and Michigan. I don't see how #2 Stern can be superior to #3 Michigan, especially when as a Business School (Michigan is #3, Stern is #5) and as a university in general (Michigan is a top 15 university in the nation, NYU is not even a top 30 university in the nation), Michigan is ranked ahead. Actually, according to Business Week and the Wall Street Journall, Stern does not even come close to Michigan and according to corporate recruiters, Michigan is better at producing Finance specialists. According to Business Week, recruiters rank Michigan's MBA program #5 in Finance compared to Stern's #8.
As for internship opportunities again, I have no idea who told you that Stern has more opportunities. Here's a link to the companies who recruit at Michigan:
That's not a small list. It includes every major company in the World.
The link below details the companies that took 3 or more interns from our undergraduate program. Keep in mind that Michigan's undergraduate Business school only has 300 students going for internships, so the numbers won't be as lofty as Wharton's (which has over 600 students per class) or Stern's (which has 700 students per class).
13 to JP Morgan, 11 to UBS, 8 to Merrill Lynch, 6 to Goldman Sachs, 6 to American Express, 6 to Bear Sterns, 4 to Morgan Stanley, 4 to ABN Amro and 4 to Citigroup. That's 62 (20% of the class) to top financial institutions. You can be sure most students at Michigan don't even focus on Finance. That's impressive.
In short, I hope you think seriously before leaving Michigan for the wrong reasons. If you dislike Ann Arbor and love NYC, then your reasons would be justified. But if you wish to leave because you think Stern is better or because you think you will have better internship opportunties at Stern, look closely and you will see that Stern is no better than Michigan.
At any rate, I don't even think Stern accepts transfers. Better contact them directly to check.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS -- A teenage runaway who fled Ohio with the alleged help of Christian pastors, claiming she'd be harmed for converting from Islam to Christianity, says a reconciliation with her Muslim parents is no longer possible.
Efforts by Ohio and Florida courts to reunify Rifqa Bary with her family have failed and she continues to fear being hurt by her parents, according to a court filing by Bary's attorneys.
"Bary continues to refuse any contact with her parents and has made clear that she does not foresee a time when she will agree to have any contact with her parents," Bary's attorneys said in the Monday filing in Franklin County Juvenile Court.
Bary, 17, wants Judge Elizabeth Gill to rule that a reunion is impossible and that it's not in Bary's best interest to be returned to her native Sri Lanka. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.


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First Look: Dropbox's Carousel Is Beautiful, But Limited
If you use Dropbox and have an iPhone or an Android phone, there's a new app you'll want to download called Carousel. The reason? It's a far better way to look at the photos and video you have stored in your Dropbox account.
Storing photos and video in Dropbox (by way of the Web or a mobile app) has always been a breeze. Actually looking at what you've got stored is far less easy or enjoyable. Thankfully, over the last year, Dropbox has been building Carousel, which landed in Apple's App Store and Google Play today. Unlike viewing and sharing photos in Dropbox's namesake apps, perusing your photos and video in Carousel is a delight.
As soon as you log into Carousel, using your Dropbox account, every image and video you already have stored in your Dropbox folder is ingested into the app. You can then view everything in descending chronological order. Scroll down to view the newest items you have, or scroll up to see the older files. Along the bottom is a horizontal scrubber that you can use to move even faster through time by month and year. I tried the app on Google's Nexus 5 and an iPhone 5S and on both devices, my gigabytes of photos couldn't slow down Carousel: Scrolling through, sharing photos and uploading my camera roll were all blazing fast.
Your photos are organized by time and location, and for each event you see a grid of up to nine thumbnails of your media. If you have more than nine, the ninth image displays the number other images you have tied to that event—just tap the number to show all the photos and video you have.
To see a photo or video in its entirety, tap it. A swipe down "hides" an item, resulting in it no longer showing up in the app's main gallery, although the hidden photos and video will remain in your Dropbox folder. A swipe up on an item allows you to share it—moving the shot to a tray at the top of your screen. Next to that, you'll see the word "share." Tap that and then you can send these files to any phone number or email address, including contacts stored in your phone. Sharing a photo starts a messenger-like conversation thread where other Carousel users can respond with photos, video and text of their own.
You can share hundreds of items at a time, but the people you share with can only see and download things if they have the Carousel app. If they don't yet have the app, they get an email or text message showing them thumbnails, and encouraging them to install the app.
This, of course, is a huge limitation. There isn't even a link to view shared photos via Dropbox, and there's no way to do anything on your computer. You either download the mobile app, or you're left out. Those who do install Carousel can download your shared photos into their Dropbox with just one tap.
There are other limitations to Carousel, too. You can't edit any images (no cropping or filters or anything like that), and you can't pull images in from any other apps aside from your phone's built-in camera roll. The app also ingests in every image found in your Dropbox folder, so anything you store (desktop wallpapers, screenshots, a random meme or Web graphic) will show up here, too. It's easy to hide these images, but you'll may have some cleaning up at first.
Another gripe: Events are auto-sorted and you can't edit them. Say you take a vacation in a faraway land for a week, and have a few hundred photos that are automatically uploaded from your phone to Carousel. You can't go into the app after the fact and consolidate all those photos into an album or singular event of any sort. Sure, organizing is easy when an app does it for you, but the lack of manual input here is frustrating for those who have their own way of organizing their photos.
While Carousel is terribly narrow in its feature set, it's unquestionably the best way to look at the photos and video you have stored in Dropbox. If you already use Dropbox, you'd be missing out greatly by not downloading Carousel. Still, the app likely won't be enough to attract many new users to Dropbox. It's not a tool for sharing your photos with the public, a la Facebook, Flickr or Google+. And it's not for editing images either, as Instagram and the new Lightroom app are.
Gentry Underwood, one of the lead designers who built Carousel, told me that the app will eventually grow to include editing features, to connect with other photo sharing apps, and to have a desktop counterpart. But none of that is available upon launch. Until any of that happens—if any of it happens—Carousel is simply a beautiful Dropbox picture viewer, and a means to share stuff with other Dropbox users.


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GREENFIELD – State police arrested two New York men on drug charges Thursday during an Interstate 91 traffic stop, and then arrest a third man on fugitive charges a few hours when he came to the barracks to post bail, police said.
State police with the Shelburne barracks said Trooper T.J. Tudren stopped a car heading north near Exit 26 at about 5 p.m.and arrested the driver for having a suspended license.
A search of the car revealed 29 bags of marijuana, police said.
The driver, Christopher Bodisher, 29, of Carmel, N.Y. and passenger Dylan T. Babstock, 29, of Peekskill, N.Y., were charged with possession of marijuana, possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws. Bodisher was also charged with driving without a license.
At about 11 p.m., Edwin Ramirez Jr. of Peekskill, N.Y. arrived at the barracks to post bail for Babstock. He was taken into custody when he was found to be wanted out of New York on felony drug charges, police said.
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Simon Cowell met his "mini-me" in Newark, he said yesterday – a 14 year old boy who rapped on stage at the Prudential Center.
The boy had a crowd of 3,000 in the palm of his hand while he rapped for the judges, Cowell said.
"He was the most unbelievably arrogant, obnoxious, talented 14 year old I've ever met," said Cowell Thursday, during Day Two of taping for "The X-Factor," which will air this fall on Fox.
The 'X-Factor' is indescribable until you see it, but this kid had it, Cowell said.
Crowds returned to the Prudential Center for round two of "The X-Factor" auditions Thursday. They had endured rain and cold weather from six weeks, and for this go-round the show's fans (and supporters of the contestants inside the arena) had to wait in scorching heat. This round was the contestants' first opportunity to perform for the show's celebrity judges -- and the first step to the programs' $5 million grand prize.
Joining Cowell at the judge's table is former "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul, recording-executive L.A. Reid and former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger.
"There's a lot of differences from 'Idol,' 'The X-Factor' is a big show and the audience plays a part," Abdul said. She also took a jab at Cowell, with whom she famously has a love-hate relationships. "Working here with seasoned veterans, everything seems to be going great. I'm really grateful -- but I don't want to say it -- but I'm grateful to be sitting next to him (Cowell)."
Reid and Scherzinger, the first judges to arrive Thursday, joked together about their attempt to find the person who has the 'X-Factor.' Reid said he's "gotten soft" during this phase of the competition; the cheers of the audience members, he said, influenced him to let more contestants than he planned go on to the next round of the show.
Many of the younger contestants sang songs of the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, he said. Reid, who helped propel Justin Bieber to stardom, also said he's seen about five acts impersonating the teen star.
But if you're really looking for what the 'X-Factor' is, Reid says look no further than Scherzinger.
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BATON ROUGE -- New Orleans suffered a setback this week when the state Legislature refused to consider an amendment to a truck-driving bill that would have allowed the state to help the city police its taxi industry.
Without objection, the House voted late Wednesday to delete from House Bill 174 by Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton, a proposed amendment that would have allowed the state Office of Motor Vehicles to issue identification cards and hang tags to cabbies after checking their arrest and conviction records.
Although Burns said earlier in the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works that he was glad to help the city -- and all government entities in the state that regulate taxis -- he asked the full House to strip the amendment before advancing his bill for floor debate, now scheduled for Monday.
Burns said House officials told him the amendment was not germane to his original bill and could have jeopardized it. Laws that are adopted can have only one intended purpose.
Burns' original bill would allow truck drivers with reduced vision to haul non-hazardous loads, but they could not haul oil, gasoline, chemicals or hazardous wastes.
The bill states that the driver must have 20/40 vision in at least one eye without a corrective lens, be able to discern traffic signal colors, have previous commercial driving experience and a 70-degree field of vision in one direction and 35 in the other.
The amendment helping the cities police their taxis was sought by former Sen. Ann Duplessis, now New Orleans' deputy chief administrative officer whose office is reviewing problems in the city's taxi bureau, the local agency that grants permits and licenses to cabbies.
She said the change in the bill would have helped city officials monitor the status of cabbies, using state computers to search those who may be arrested or get tickets. The searches could also reveal arrest and conviction records of applicants before the city issues licenses and permits.
Duplessis said she was disappointed but not surprised by the House action. She said House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Algiers, told her in advance that he would rule that the amendments were not germane to the original bill.
"We may try to find a stronger instrument" to amend, Duplessis said, since Wednesday was the last date to file fiscal and local bills.
Duplessis said she is confident another bill can be found that will allow the state to do background checks of the drivers, authorize state IDs and tags, and tie the license plate of the cab to the city permit so it cannot be transferred or sold improperly.
House Clerk Alfred "Butch" Speer said that any amendments a committee makes to a bill are mainly recommendations until the House ratifies them and advances the bill to full floor debate. In rare cases, the amendments are stripped from a bill before debate in a procedural vote.
Speer said Tucker asked him to be on the lookout for amendments that could create a second purpose and jeopardize the original bill, and he recommended to the speaker that the taxi amendment be removed.
The House used similar reasoning Thursday to strip a New Orleans amendment from House Bill 125 by Rep. Franklin Foil, R-Baton Rouge, that set a formula for divvying up revenues from a new Baton Rouge riverboat that is projected to open in 2012. The amendment added to the bill in the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice by Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans would have made permanent a $3.6 million annual state allocation to the city of New Orleans for police, fire and emergency services in the area around Harrah's casino.
Leger has a separate bill to do the same thing pending before the House Appropriations Committee. A similar bill passed last year but was vetoed by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Leger said he realized the amendment to Foil's bill was a "hitchhiker," legislative parlance for an amendment to possibly expand the scope of the original bill. "I thought this one would jump in the back of the truck" but was taken off by the full House at Foil's request, Leger said.
Foil's bill now heads to the House Appropriations Committee where Leger is a member.