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I have a confession to make: I am dating a cosplayer. You'll never know exactly which one, because I am a secret boyfriend. And because I am a secret boyfriend, I can't tell you my name or hers.
This is probably an issue that most of you know nothing about because—like me—it's a secret. Yet it's an unavoidable fact that there are cosplayers out there who say and act like they are single, but in reality have boyfriends.
There are a lot of reasons why this might be. Just because a cosplayer likes to share her costume work and photographs online doesn't mean that she wants absolute strangers to know her relationship status. It could be that the boyfriend doesn't want to be included in his cosplay girlfriend's tweets and blog posts to protect his own privacy. Or it might be because some cosplayers think that being perceived as single—and therefore available—will help them gain notoriety and 'fame.'
Now before you chop my head off and exclaim that cosplayers don't in fact view being single as a way to get ahead, before dating a cosplayer I knew nothing about the world within. Many different types of people cosplay and they all have different opinions and goals. There are cosplayers who are openly dating someone or married. There are coplayers who are single. But there are also cosplayers who are in secret relationships.
I am a secret boyfriend and I'm ok with that. One, I don't really want to be included in all of her tweets and blog posts, so I like it that she doesn't talk about our private life online. Two, in our real lives I am not secret. Her family and friends know about me, and mine know about her. But, when it comes to her online cosplay presence...I might as well not exist.
I am a secret boyfriend and I'm ok with that.
After following my girlfriend from con-to-con and getting to know a lot of her cosplay friends, I noticed that even your favorite cosplaying heroine (I don't want to 'out' anyone so I will omit names) had secret boyfriends and husbands. Often, I was surprised to find out which ones!
I was also surprised to see how each relationship between cosplayer and boyfriend differed. There were the cosplayers who were obviously there to have fun and hang out with their boyfriends/girlfriends and were even doing couples cosplay. There were the boyfriends tagging along on purse duty. Sometimes a cosplayer would introduce the guy as her boyfriend…and sometimes the cosplayer would introduce her boyfriend as just 'her friend.'
Now, before you think this is a rant, I must make it clear that this is just an opinion piece, not an angry character assassination. My significant other was a cosplayer well before I met her, talked to her, dated her, and hooked up with her (not necessarily in that order). So I knew the rules of the game before I entered them. As with all relationships, ours involves compromise. It is 50/50; give and take. I may not exactly always agree with being her hush-hush boyfriend, but at the same time I understand, accept it, and support her decisions out of love, the way she puts up with my snoring or excessive video game playing.
At the same time, I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't bother me when a guy hits on my girlfriend at a convention right in front of me. It can be enraging to read some of the comments her pictures receive online. I don't always like it that she wears skimpy bikini costumes to conventions and lets guys pose for photos with her. Dude, that's my girlfriend!
Perhaps the one things that makes it all bearable for me is when she isn't dressed up as your favorite anime girl, she is dressed in normal clothes, and we go out to eat at normal restaurants holding hands, holding normal conversation (barely!), kissing, and letting the public know we are indeed together. She is smart enough to separate the two and know that the person I entered into a relationship with isn't the girl dressed up as a videogame character, but the REAL her. That is the person I want to grow old with, etc. etc., NOT the cosplayer.
Another thing that makes it bearable is that I trust my girlfriend. She also doesn't flirt with other guys...in real life, at conventions, or online. Keeping a relationship on the DL doesn't give her license to flirt or lead on other guys...which is something that I have unfortunately witnessed some cosplay girls doing.
Is it really necessary for cosplayers to keep their boyfriends secret? I'm not sure.
But...is it really necessary for cosplayers to keep their boyfriends secret? I'm not sure. When Justin Beiber announced he had a girlfriend, there probably weren't too many girls so distraught they stopped being a fan. Hugh Jackman is married and possibly gay, but that doesn't stop girls from having a crush on him. So, if a cosplayer says she has a boyfriend, would it REALLY make a bit of difference? Why the secret? Why make a big deal about it at all?
At the same time, I admit that there were times over the years that I lost interest in following a cosplay girl online because she had a boyfriend or a husband.
Do we, as guys, have a habit of viewing cosplayers in a way similar to strippers? [And I'm really not comparing cosplayers to strippers here!! Cosplayers aren't strippers!] Let me explain the metaphor: If you are a man and you get a lap dance from a stripper, the possibility that she might actually start liking you can attract you to spend more money and pay more attention to her. If that stripper revealed she has a boyfriend or a husband and five kids, would she still be attractive? Do cosplayers need the attention and pandering of fanboys in order to feed into their fame? Is it necessary for cosplayers to hide their personal relationships in hopes it won't shatter the hearts and minds of her dorky minionship?
Let's be honest folks, celebrities don't date fans. Cosplayers don't date fanboys. I could go into some deep rant 'Barney Stinson style' about the rules of the universe, but that is just the way it is. A guy going to a cosplayer's Facebook page and commenting about how sexy she is and oogling at her boobs is the same as going to a strip club and throwing money on the stage. It is just an illusion. I support my girlfriend's hobby because it is something she is passionate about and it is something I enjoy seeing her excel in. If I am a member of the secret boyfriend club, well...so be it. I can either be in a department store like Macy's or Neiman Marcus holding her purse, or I can be at a convention watching her dressed up in a skintight Catwoman suit holding her purse. The choice is fairly obvious. Besides, I'm the one who gets to take her home in that suit.
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This story originally appeared on cosplay site Takopop.
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Greek planetary names [for the days of the week] ... are attested for the early centuries of our era, but their use was apparently restricted to certain circles; at any rate they never became popular. In Rome, on the other hand, the planetary names became the established popular terms, too strongly intrenched to be displaced by the eccl[esiastical] names, and spreading through most of western Europe. [Buck]Phrase a week, as in eight days a week recorded by 1540s; see a- (1).
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Accompanying Ricky was his zany redheaded wife, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and their best friends Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) and Fred Mertz (William Frawley). The ship's first stop was Southampton, England (in reality the real ship went nowhere near England).
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The first half of Nancy Hasty's "Bobbi Boland" crackles with the same exuberant suspense that distinguished her thriller from last season, "The Director," about a power-mad stage genius. The subject here is a power-mad ex-beauty queen determined to hang on to her rhinestone crown at all costs.
The first half of Nancy Hasty's "Bobbi Boland" crackles with the same exuberant suspense that distinguished her thriller from last season, "The Director," about a power-mad stage genius. The subject here is a power-mad ex-beauty queen determined to hang on to her rhinestone crown at all costs. When she goes into overdrive to decimate her opponents — roughly everyone within a two-block radius of her lovely suburban home — so does the play. If only the former Miss Florida could rid herself of the soggy comeuppance that ultimately befalls her.
The materialistic bitch has been something of a film favorite. As recently as "American Beauty," Annette Bening worried that an overly ardent Kevin Spacey would spill his red wine on the new sofa. In "Ordinary People," Mary Tyler Moore preferred her house to her husband, as did Joan Crawford in "Harriet Craig" (1952), a remake of the Rosalind Russell starrer "Craig's Wife" (1936), which had been adapted from George Kelly's 1925 Broadway play of the same name. The theater hasn't seen the likes of Bobbi Boland for some time, and it is to Hasty's credit that she is able to revive the bitch-goddess archetype with such purposeful zest, both on the page and the stage: The playwright also plays the title role. Director Evan Bergman gears the performances to such an extraordinarily high pitch that the production achieves a hyper-reality that suggests David Lynch as revisited by John Waters. Everyone onstage gives the impression of performing in drag, including the three male actors as well as the young and exceedingly short actress Holiday Segal, who plays the adolescent Susan Johnson, the Bolands' neighbor who suffers nobly through Bobbi's endless rounds of charm classes. Bobbi's perfectly ordered world is epitomized by the monochromatic living room designed by John Farrell. Into this pristine universe comes a much younger woman, Kim (Tanya Clarke), the new wife of George McGowan (David Little), who is about to offer Bobbi's husband, Roger (Gregg Henry), a very big promotion. Bobbi's aversion to Kim is instant and instinctive. It's cemented when Kim nonchalantly tells her hostess to lay off the charm-school tactics that she says are turning little Susan into a "robot." All-out war is declared, with Bobbi the first at her battle station. Unfortunately, Hasty concludes the play by reducing her heroine to a pitiful receptacle for everyone's moralistic beratement, even as other more intriguing elements are dropped. It's disheartening to hear Henry's Mr. Boland complain that it's all Bobbi's fault that they never had kids. The arch Byron Loyd, who plays Bobbi's gay-doormat neighbor, is shuttled back across the street after suggesting promising triangles with the Bolands in act one. No wonder bitch goddesses in the movies usually turned to drink. The nice thing about the theater is that the final reel isn't locked in the can. Hasty should give "Bobbi Boland" a new sendoff worthy of her monster sacre.Bobbi Boland
Arclight Theater, New York; 99 seats; $45
A Laine Valentino presentation, in association with MakePeace Theater, of a play in two acts by Nancy Hasty. Directed by Evan Bergman.
Set, John Farrell; costumes, Jill Kliber; lighting, Steve Rust; sound, Cynthia Tuohy; stage manager, Jim Ring. Opened March 1, 2001. Reviewed Feb. 24. Running time: 2 HOURS.
Bobbi Boland - Nancy Hasty
Susan Johnson - Holiday Segal
Roger Boland - Gregg Henry
Sam White - Byron Loyd
George McGowan - David Little
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Clif Bar & Co. Joins Ceres Network of Companies
BOSTON - Citing the company's long-time commitment to environmental and sustainable business practices, the Ceres board of directors has selected Clif Bar & Co. as its newest company member.
Clif Bar is among more than 65 companies – including nearly a dozen Fortune 500 companies – to be accepted into the Ceres network of companies. Boston-based Ceres is a 17-year-old coalition of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies to address pressing environmental and social challenges.
Based in Berkeley, CA, Clif Bar is a leading maker of energy and nutrition foods. Since founding the company in 1992, owners Gary Erickson and his wife Kit Crawford have remained committed to an "earth friendly" culture and value system, launching the company's formal sustainability program on Earth Day 2001.
"Clif Bar is a national leader in incorporating environmental and social issues into its day-to-day business practices," said Ceres President Mindy S. Lubber. "We commend the company's bold actions to tackle critical issues such as packaging reduction, global warming pollution and sustainable agriculture. We look forward to developing a strong working relationship with Clif Bar to expand and broaden its overall commitment to sustainability."
By joining Ceres, Clif Bar has committed to releasing a report that publicly discloses its sustainability mission and corporate responsibility performance. Clif Bar will also undergo a rigorous stakeholder engagement process with the Ceres coalition and other stakeholders to evaluate the company's current and future strategies to increase business value through enhanced sustainability performance.
"We're looking forward to a long-lasting, productive collaboration with Ceres," said Clif Bar's Executive Vice-President Kevin Cleary.
Since launching its sustainability program in 2001, Clif Bar has taken steps to address numerous critical environmental issues. For example, in 2003, the company switched to 100 percent recycled paperboard for the cartons used to package its bars. Clif Bar partners with NativeEnergy to purchase wind energy credits that serve to offset carbon dioxide produced through office and bakery energy use. In 2005, Clif Bar purchased an estimated 12 million pounds of organic ingredients to support sustainable agriculture.
Clif Bar has also launched a new "Cool Tags" program to support renewable energy. All proceeds from every "Cool Tag" sold at Clif Bar events support the NativeEnergy's WindBuilder's program to support the construction of new sources of renewable energy.
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Antique cars and antiques appraisals will be highlighted during a special event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in Whitehouse.
The appraisal event is being held in conjunction with the weekly Farmer's Market.
Visitors may bring antiques to be appraised by Rob Palicki from Mill Race Antiques Mall, a member of the International Society of Appraisers. There is no fee.
Mr. Palicki specializes in guns, military items, and Indian artifacts, but can appraise other items as well.
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NRSC Chairman Cornyn's Statement On Delaware Senate Race
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), released the following statement regarding the Delaware Senate race:
"Let there be no mistake: The National Republican Senatorial Committee - and I personally as the committee's chairman - strongly stand by all of our Republican nominees, including Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.
"I reached out to Christine this morning, and as I have conveyed to all of our nominees, I offered her my personal congratulations and let her know that she has our support. This support includes a check for $42,000 - the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees - which the NRSC will send to her campaign today.
"We remain committed to holding Democrat nominee New Castle County Executive Chris Coons accountable this November, as we inform voters about his record of driving his county to the brink of bankruptcy and supporting his party's reckless spending policies in Washington.
"In the weeks ahead, we will decide where to best allocate additional financial resources among the large number of competitive races at stake this November. While it's not in Republicans' interest to advertise our spending strategy to our opponents, it's worth noting that just yesterday, the NRSC's first independent expenditure ad aired in support of Dr. Rand Paul's campaign in Kentucky, where we firmly believe that he will win in November.
"It remains to be seen whether national Democrats will provide a similar level of support for many of their nominees, including in key battleground states like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Arkansas, Illinois, and New Hampshire, among others. The Democrats' indecision reflects the fact that Republicans are on offense in at least 12 Democrat-held states and we are leading in the polls in seven of those 12 states.
"Finally, on the matter of the New Hampshire Senate race, while the results remain outstanding, we continue to monitor the Republican primary race, and we stand ready to fully support whichever candidate is chosen as the nominee."


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Less than 24 hours after dozens of Russian medallists were presented with BMW cars at the Kremlin, an ad appeared online offering one of them for sale
Led by a plump tomato named after a tank, Russia refocuses economy on agriculture
A study found that Putin and his senior officials all walk in a manner consistent with KGB training — holding the right arm close to the body while leading with the left
The tracksuit clad leader met with the Russian Prime Minister to work out, have breakfast, and discuss, as the Kremlin says, "a number of current issues"
Threatening a return to the days when Russia was hemmed in by NATO distrust and shunned by investors seems an ill-starred way for President Vladimir Putin to win his confrontation with the West.
In his state of the nation address, Vladimir Putin served notice on corrupt bureaucrats who enrich themselves at the public expense. But there are signs they can safely ignore him as he no longer controls the agenda
Medvedev, who was president for four years until May, appeared to be trying to disassociate himself from the jail terms which were condemned as excessive by the West
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday issued a veiled warning about China's rising influence in Russia's resource-rich Far East, saying it was essential to defend the area against "excessive expansion by bordering states."
Support for President Vladimir Putin is sliding across Russia
Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed former president Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister on Tuesday, completing a job swap with Vladimir Putin that has sparked protests against the two leaders' grip on power.


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Servo technology meets mechanical presses
Figure 1 Complex drive system |
Stampers are looking to achieve higher productivity, better component quality, longer die life, and increased flexibility. While these capabilities are essential to maintaining an edge in today's competitive environment, they come at a price. New technology now offers one solution that can provide these benefits while minimizing the need for large capital equipment investments.
Evolution of Servo Technology
To better understand the impact servo technology will have on mechanical presses, it's important to look at some factors that contributed to its development.
Stampers know the ability to adjust a mechanical press's operating speed, change stroke length, and alter the slide motion can enhance operations, improve part quality, and increase press and tooling productivity. While such adjustments were possible many years ago, press builders found it wasn't cost- effective because of the rigid design platform upon which the mechanical press drive is based.
However, over the last 20 years, adjustable features for mechanical presses have evolved. Speed adjustment is now standard on most new presses, but modified slide motions and stroke length adjustment are less common on mechanical presses. Although link- and knuckle-drive systems provide modified slide motions, stroke length adjustment is limited primarily to high-speed (200-strokes-per-minute [SPM] and higher) presses.
Early generations of servo technology used high-speed, low-torque servomotors initially developed for the plastic injection molding industry. While they were suitable for embossing or blanking, their limited torque and energy capability made them impractical for normal presswork.
High-revolutions-per-minute (RPM), low-torque motors presented a challenge. Difficult to maintain, these complex drive systems added to the cost of the equipment (see Figure 1). Operation costs also were high because of the large amount of power these drive systems consumed. The high-RPM drives' limitations and the fragility of their ball screws prompted one press builder to develop a servo-driven Press for general pressworking using low-RPM, high-torque motors.
Benefits of New Servo Technology
Figure 2 ServoPro™ is mounted directly to the press driveshaft, which eliminates the flywheel, clutch, and drive motor found on standard mechanical presses. |
AIDA's new servo technology mounts its proprietary servomotors directly to the press driveshaft, eliminating the flywheel, clutch, and drive motor found on standard mechanical presses (see Figure 2). This direct drive also removes the need for mechanisms to multiply the torque of a standard servomotor.
In addition, stampers can run a multipress transfer line in continuous mode instead of in single-stroke mode. In continuous mode, productivity can be increased by as much as 50 percent.
ServoPro™ capacitors store energy in the nonworking portion of the stroke, making power consumption comparable to that of a standard mechanical press.
This technology also gives stampers the flexibility to optimize press operations by providing a fully programmable slide motion and adjustable stroke length with numerous combinations. Possible combinations include crank motion, slowdown at the top of the stroke for automation, intermittent run mode, and continuous run mode. For a blanking operation, stampers can set the minimum stroke length to match the work, allowing a shorter working cycle time as well as a blanking mode that is designed to reduce shock vibrations and noise. Dwell at bottom dead center and knuckle motion also are options.
The technology is also suitable for forming exotic materials such as titanium-magnesium alloys and high-strength steels (see Figure 3). A hand-crank option allows stampers to progress through the slide motion manually. This makes it possible for stampers to actually see what is happening and ensure that die setup and synchronization of ancillary equipment are correct before initiating a production run. This capability helps protect dies and reduces the production of bad parts.
Limitations of Servo Technology
Although ServoForming™ is suitable for most stamping applications, certain job requirements may present limitations. Currently operating speeds peak at 150 SPM or less depending on the stroke length and tonnage capacity. In the production of deep-drawn components, for example, high power consumption is required for a large portion of the stroke, making this type of production process unsuitable for this technology.
Figure 3 A bracket formed from high-strength, low-alloy steel with 140 K strength is an example of what can be produced with ServoForming technology. |
Improving part quality, productivity, die life, and the flexibility of manufacturing cells is critical to surviving today's competitive pressures. Servo technology offers stampers a way to achieve these improvements and expand their profit-generating capabilities.
Dennis Boerger
AIDA-America Corp.
Dayton, OH 45424
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STAMPING Journal is the only industrial publication dedicated solely to serving the needs of the metal stamping market. In 1987 the American Metal Stamping Association broadened its horizons and renamed itself and its publication, known then as Metal Stamping.


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Russell Crowe insists he has nothing to do with Sienna Miller's exit from movie 'Robin Hood', saying that they need someone 'who was going to be resilient.'
Russell Crowe has spoken out about Sienna Miller's dismissal from new movie "Robin Hood" - insisting he had nothing to do with the decision. Miller was originally signed on to play Maid Marian, but she mysteriously left the project in 2009 amid rumors she had been dropped because she was too young to play 45-year-old Crowe's love interest.
Cate Blanchett, 40, was later drafted in to take her place in the film, which is due for release later this year, in May. Now the film's star Crowe insists he played no part in axing Miller, while defending Blanchett's performance in the upcoming film.
He says, "It wasn't my call, actually, it's more that I'm too old and fat! But Cate brings something else. The way we changed the character, we needed somebody who was going to be resilient. And Cate is superb in this film. She was excellent to work with and a great partner in crime."


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Prices for We Energies customers will rise again in January, but not as much as the utility proposed, state regulators decided Thursday.
The three-member state Public Service Commission approved a $90 million price increase that will raise bills for the typical customer by about $6 a month.
That customer, using 600 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month, now pays $74.39 a month. Under the utility's proposal, residential customers would have seen price increases of at least $8.41 a month, We Energies said.
Robert Norcross, administrator of the gas and energy division at the PSC, estimated the increase would be just under 4% for both residential and commercial customers combined, compared with the utility's proposal to raise electric rates by 7.5% from current levels. Residential customers alone will see an increase of about 8%.
The new rates will go into effect Jan. 1 for the utility's 1.1 million electricity customers. The commission may make additional minor changes in the rate plan when it formalizes its decision next month.
In a three-hour meeting, commissioners rejected proposals from customer groups to put off raising prices to future years because of the recession.
Manufacturers had called on the commission to cut $50 million from the utility's proposal to raise rates because of lower electricity use by factories during the recession.
But bills will be rising in the future as the nation moves to regulate emissions linked to global warming, commissioner Lauren Azar said, so the commission shouldn't be saddling customers with other costs at that time.
"Carbon emission costs must be considered today," she said. "I worry we compound our problems if we don't deal with today's costs."
Other key drivers of the increase are costs to build power plants, transmission line costs and employee pension costs.
"We must allow the utility to recover those costs while ensuring the utility is working on cost containment similar to every other company in Wisconsin in this economy," said commission chairman Eric Callisto.
Commissioners reduced the utility's maximum profit level to 10.4% for the electric utility and 10.5% for its Wisconsin Gas subsidiary, down from 10.75% this year.
Charlie Higley, executive director of the Wisconsin Citizens' Utility Board, praised the move, saying the commission has been moving steadily in recent years to reduce the profit earned by electric utilities.
Higley also praised the commission for agreeing to launch a study into whether Wisconsin has too many power plants given sagging demand for electricity.
The customer group said the state is awash in power, particularly with new coal plants coming online in Oak Creek, and that the state needs to explore whether it would be cheaper for customers to stop running aging coal-fired power plants.
The commissioners also voted to impose a 2% cut on the utility's operations and maintenance budget, in line with the cuts experienced by state government agencies and other businesses in the private sector during the recession.
The commissioners also authorized no price increase for the utility's management in 2010 and urged the utility to reopen union contracts to bring down wage increases for hourly workers.
The 2% cut was proposed as a furlough by the agency's staff, but the utility will be given flexibility in how it imposes the cut.
Azar said company executives also should share the pain of reduced salaries or no salary increases.
"I would like to send the strongest message possible that everybody - and I mean everybody all the way up - needs to take hits," she said. "And I would ask the executives at (Wisconsin Energy) to consider that to the extent that there are folks that are getting reductions in pay or to the extent that people are having to take furloughs, that the executives do precisely the same thing."
In other moves designed to bring down costs, the commission said updated forecasts of natural gas prices show it won't cost the utility or its customers as much to pay for fuel for its power plants as the utility had forecast.
The commission decided that manufacturers would see a lower-than-average price increase and that residential customers would see a larger-than-average price increase resulting from the decision.
"The high volume of public participation in this case is both a reflection of the involvement of ratepayers and where we all find ourselves in this current economy," said commissioner Mark Meyer. "We are all doing everything we can to defray costs and expenses."
Todd Stuart, executive director of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, said he was still sorting through what Thursday's decisions would mean for large energy users.
"There are still some very large shoes to drop, in particular pending climate change legislation as well as the expiration of the Point Beach credits, which will create significant rate pressure," he said.
The PSC also made slight changes to local natural gas charges for 1 million customers served by We Energies' two natural gas utilities:
• For natural gas customers of Wisconsin Electric, rates were reduced by about $1.4 million, which should translate to a drop of 9 cents a month for a typical customer, the PSC said.
• For Wisconsin Gas customers, rates were increased by $6.2 million, or about 84 cents a month for a typical residential customer.


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Kristen Stewart says she is very shy
During a recent interview she said: "My mother was so excited when I got the 'Twilight" gig. The actress also said "before 'Twilight" they were like, 'why are you doing all these Sundance movies that no one will see?" "
The 20-year old actress said that sometimes she has to struggle to deal with the fame that has come her way since 'Twilight". Right now Kirsten is said to be dating her co-star Robert Pattinson. During an interview Stewart said, "It is weird with the paparazzi. We are not on the top of the paparazzi list, but it is definitely tougher for Rob."
The actress also refuted the recent claims from the media person that marked her as an aloof and uptight person. Kirsten said that she is not 'stuck up", in fact she is very shy and that"s why she might seem aloof from time to time. The actress said that she does not feel comfortable speaking about herself at all and tries to stay away from the media glare as much as she can.


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The day after "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson was suspended from the hit A&E reality series, fans and nonfans of the series took to social media to either express their outrage at A&E for removing Robertson from the show or for airing the show in the first place.
Robertson was put on an indefinite filming hiatus after the publication of an interview in the January issue of GQ magazine in which he made controversial remarks about gay people and civil rights that drew heat from GLAAD, among others.
Sarah Palin posted a picture on her Facebook page of her with the reality show clan with the message, "Free Speech is an endangered species." And Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal also lamented the suspension on free speech terms.
"It's a messed-up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended," said the governor in a statement Thursday (the show is filmed in his state).
Whether they were fans of the show or not, many conservative Christians took great offense that Robertson was removed from the show for expressing his beliefs.
Self-described independent Baptist and Reagan conservative Pam Besteder wrote, "Whenever culture disagrees with the Word of God — CULTURE is wrong — not God. God is ALWAYS RIGHT!"
Jake Smith, a volleyball champion from Lawton, Okla., wrote, "Phil Robertson is the man! Finally someone with a voice spoke some truth. If your persecuted, then you are blessed."
Clay Guerry of Myrtle Beach, S.C., seems to think Robertson's thoughts were par for the course, writing, "If you watch a show about rednecks being rednecks, eventually they will say something a bigot would say."
Kyle Collins, a college student from Akron, Ohio, took a more down-the-middle stance, writing, "Don't necessarily agree with #PhilRobertson comments. But I still love #DuckDynasty. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions."
New York Times political reporter Nick Confessore took note that all the discussion of Robertson's thoughts on gay people was overshadowing his positive remembrance of the Jim Crow South. "Phil Robertson lucked out: The furor over his comments on gays is overshadowing his comments on black people."
Never one to shy away from controversy, CNN host Piers Morgan tweeted, "Phil Robertson is not a 'victim of political correctness.' He's a victim of his own repulsively racist, homophobic bigotry."
YouTube videomaker Pia Glenn wrote, "You Fundamentalist Christians spewing hate make me so sad, but I still pray for you every Sunday at church with my gay priest."
While the hashtag #StandWithPhil became a thing, the "Duck Dynasty" stars also found support in the form of an offer from Glenn Beck to bring their show to his own network, the Blaze.
"We would be proud to have you," Beck said Thursday on his online TV network.
Several online petitions have been started to show support for the "Duck Dynasty" star, including one on Change.org that has amassed more than 50,000 signatures and a website IStandWithPhil.com, which had gathered more than 22,000 signatures.
The new season of "Duck Dynasty," the top-rated nonfiction show in cable history, will premiere Jan. 15. Robertson will appear in a few of the new episodes since they were already finished at the time of his suspension.


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Diana's crashed car. After the cancer story which led the CBS Evening
News, Dan Rather announced: "President Clinton is going after another
leading killer of Americans, the drunken driver...." Eric Engberg then launched a less than balanced look at the grand jury system, a look that portrayed prosecutors as the bad guys who hurt innocent people: "It is now the one invitation in Washington no one wants, a call to testify before Ken Starr's grand jury. It left some [video of Marcia Lewis] near emotional collapse, others [video of Sidney Blumenthal] raging about police state tactics. And nearly all the witnesses, it is safe to say, felt the ominous chill that comes with the arrival of a grand jury subpoena. [video of Betty Currie hounded by press] Bob Weiner: "The fear starts when you are outside the grand jury room, actually it starts days before when you start losing sleep wondering what's going on." Engberg: "Bob Weiner, a press spokesman in the White House drug policy office doesn't know Monica Lewinsky but he did call some friends to support an effort to start a Maryland state investigation of Linda Tripp for taping Lewinsky's phone calls. Starr hauled him before the grand jury to ask if his bosses ordered him to make the calls as a way to hinder Starr." Weiner: "It was a very nerve racking experience. You walk in there not knowing what he's really after." Engberg then explained that as an information gathering tool a grand jury is not like a trial, so the "tools of impartiality" like a judge are missing. It's just the witness, grand jurors and prosecutors. CBS was not allowed to see room being used by Starr, Engberg complained, but CBS learned "the witnesses are ushered by a prosecutor into a windowless, rose pink carpeted room with eggshell colored walls..." Engberg painted a dire picture of prosecutorial abuse: "Front and center at a large table are the prosecutors, who may try to shake the witness by acting as a pack. When Lewinsky's mother Marcia Lewis testified, five different prosecutors, some ranked among the toughest in the nation, pelted her with questions until she couldn't continue." A former prosecutor confirmed Engberg's theme, calling it a "threatening environment" for a witness before Engberg concluded: "And always the witness must consider that any untruth uttered in this secret room may be considered perjury, a crime that has brought dozens of scandal figures to the doorsteps of federal prisons." Earlier, Rather had delivered this short item on the upcoming Thompson committee report: "CBS News reporter/producer Mary Hagar and correspondent Phil Jones have obtained a final copy of the report due this week by the Senate committee looking illegal contributions to the 1996 presidential campaign. CBS can now report that the committee will say, quote 'it cannot conclusively determine whether the Chinese government directed or encouraged illegal contributions,' unquote. Committee Republican claim there is, quote now 'strong circumstantial evidence China's government was involved,' unquote."
Kevin Newman: "Good morning everybody. The Kenneth Starr investigation is starting to get as much as it gives. For the last couple of weeks most politicians on Capitol Hill have been keeping their distance from Starr and the allegations he's investigating. But now some leading Republicans are joining Democrats in saying Starr is out of line. ABC's Michel McQueen is at the White House for us this morning with more on this. Good morning Michel." McQueen: "Good morning Kevin. The President returned from several days down time in Utah to slightly more favorable political terrain here in Washington as the debate has finally shifted from his conduct to that of independent counsel Kenneth Starr." Sen. Patrick Leahy, (D) Judiciary Cmte: "The fact of the matter is Kenneth Starr has gotten totally out of control. He has this fixation with trying to topple the President of the United States and he's doing everything possible to do it." Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R) Judiciary Cmte: "It looks to me like he's getting pretty close to getting to the bottom of this. And I suspect before it's all said and done the President is going to be in some degree of trouble." McQueen, moving on, oblivious to how her story so far has made no sense: "Now the grand jury reconvenes tomorrow...." Three observations: -- The CNN ad making fun of the banality of Today and GMA isn't that far off: Newman and McQueen say "good morning" three times in a mere 17 seconds. -- "The debate has finally shifted from his conduct to that of independent counsel Kenneth Starr." Welcome back to Earth Michel. "Has finally shifted"?? It shifted to Starr weeks ago in the media. -- "But now some leading Republicans are joining Democrats in saying Starr is out of line." Leading Republicans like Patrick Leahy, a Democrat? The above transcript identifies the Senators just how they were correctly labeled on screen, Leahy from Meet the Press and Hatch afterwards outside NBC's DC building. The Republican soundbite from Hatch says Clinton, not Starr, "is going to be in some degree of trouble." On Sunday Republican Senators John McCain and Arlen Specter did criticize Starr, so this part of ABC's thesis might have worked if they had bothered to coordinate soundbites with their text.
-- On Marcia Lewis being forced to testify: "On a human level I think the image of Mrs. Lewis emerging from that courthouse, looking distraught, and when we have to remind ourselves what this is all about. That Ken Starr is trying to get from her corroborating evidence that her daughter allegedly had an affair with the President you have to ask yourself, what century are we living in? I don't recall Timothy McVeigh's mother having to testify against him. And that was a bit more serious crime." -- On Ken Starr, to co-host Bay Buchanan: "Bay, I'm not gonna let that just slide by. Portraying Mr. Starr as this innocent. I mean he has flaunted his right wing connections. He's the one who wired a woman. He's the one who is now taking subpoenas from the Paula Jones case from women who've signed affidavits that they did not have a physical relationship with Bill Clinton. And going to check all those women out and see if they are lying. If that isn't a witch-hunt I don't know what is." -- If Congress gets Clinton, we in the media will get those Republicans who dare bring down our great President: Bay Buchanan: "Eleanor, George Stephanapolous has said that basically if there is a movement to bring down this President that he will then go after, all his goons, will go after all the people on the Hill, anybody in the press, their personal lives, expose them. Do you approve of this strategy?" Clift: "I don't speak for George Stephanapolous but...may I finish? If in fact the House committee investigates the President's private life after Ken Starr has investigated the President's private life the news media will then investigate the people who are investigating the private life the same way they investigated the campaign funding donations of people who inquired into the campaign funding habits of the Democrats. It's how the game is played. White House isn't going to have to do that. We're gonna do that and it's called doing our job."
Here are Lauer's February 24 questions to Gates, joining Today from Selma, Alabama, where he was promoting Internet use in schools, as transcribed by MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens: Lauer's new credo for journalism: Don't give the public "too much information" -- at least not about Presidents who are doing great things policy-wise for our country. -- Brent Baker >>>
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T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) Chief Executive John Legere just got a little cooler. Known for his big personality and unfiltered mouth, the big man at T-Mobile has been lauded as one of the most exciting and unabashed CEOs, and he perpetuated that reputation on Monday night, when he attempted to crash AT&T's (NYSE:T) party for developers in Las Vegas.
On the night before the official kickoff to the Consumer Electronics Show, Re/code reports that Legere, outfitted in his typical magenta T-Mobile logo shirt under a leather jacket, tried to work his way into a party AT&T was throwing but was — unsurprisingly — denied. AT&T, one of T-Mobile's biggest rivals, quickly had the hotel's security remove Legere, and he was reportedly escorted from the premises.
It's not surprising that Legere's presence was unwelcome at the AT&T event, as AT&T and T-Mobile are bitter competitors. Legere has been none too shy about blasting AT&T on social media, but following the event, Legere still voiced surprise that he was escorted out of the party Monday night. He told Re/code, "I just wanted to hear Macklemore."


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Of course. But that was HIS choice. He could have played out the tender year and become an UFA. He CHOSE not to. No one held a gun to his head.
But as I said, he was asked a leading question and has shown recently that he needs a little more training in "media savvy".


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BAGHDAD - Resistance to occupation seems to have risen after the assassination last month of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, head of the al-Bu Risha tribe. Abu Risha had begun to cooperate actively with US forces.
Abu Risha was killed Sep. 13 when a bomb exploded outside his house in the restive al-Anbar province to the west of Baghdad. His tribe is a branch of the powerful al-Dulaim tribe in al-Anbar.
The Bush administration used Abu Risha to send messages to many parties and groups in Iraq. The week before Abu Risha was killed, US President George W. Bush met with him in Iraq, and claimed that al-Anbar province now suggested "what the future of Iraq can look like."
"Bush kept his mouth shut when his little collaborator was killed despite all the protection he had," a young man from Ramadi, capital of al-Anbar province, told IPS. "This was and will be the end of all those who take the path of collaborating with the occupation."
Abu Risha, who had been arrested by Saddam Hussein, became the centerpiece of Bush administration efforts to show that its troops surge in Iraq had been a success.
Many Iraqis, even one of Abu Risha's distant cousins, think differently.
"Sattar was a common thief, and we all knew him to be chief of a highway robbers gang," Salim Abu Risha told IPS in Baghdad. "He and his gang brought shame to our tribe and the whole province, but the Americans tried to make a hero of him."
It is no secret in Anbar province that Abu Risha's activities were not legal either before or after the US-led invasion of Iraq. When the US government began to support the "Awakening of Anbar" led by Sattar Abu Risha, which operated under the flag of fighting al-Qaeda, some people did begin to think differently.
"Americans always choose the worst of their collaborators to be leaders of their campaigns," Sheikh Ahmed Ali of the Muslim Scholars Association told IPS in Baghdad. "Look at the governments and councils they chose to lead Iraq. This Sattar Abu Risha only provoked a division among the people of Anbar, and that was exactly what the Americans wanted."
But many saw in Abu Risha an answer to their endless suffering. "We know what Sattar was, but what could we do but support him," Ali Farhan, who worked as a captain in Abu Risha's US-backed militia told IPS.
"Those sectarian officials in Baghdad have destroyed our cities and deprived us of life for over four years, and someone had to do something about it," said Farhan, who operated in an Iraqi police uniform. "It is only cooperation with Americans that could solve the problem."
Other Iraqis say the US strategy of arming and backing certain Sunni militias has been a huge mistake.
"Americans applied a strategy that has affected some weak brains and hearts," former Iraqi Army colonel Jabbar Saed from Fallujah told IPS. "They starved people, arrested those who opposed their occupation, killed a million Iraqis, supported sectarian militias and death squads, destroyed infrastructure to increase the rate of unemployment, and divided Iraqis into sects and now into tribes, just to make us feel that life would not be possible unless we work for them."
Just Foreign Policy, a US-based independent group, says more than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the US-led invasion and occupation. The group is "dedicated to reforming US foreign policy to serve the interests and reflect the values of the broad majority of Americans, rather than those of special interests both inside and outside of government."
An Iraqi policeman who referred to himself as Colonel Saed spoke with IPS about US policy in the siege of Fallujah during 2004 which left thousands dead, and destroyed much of the city. The crimes committed were not mistakes as US officials claim, but a well organized and conducted strategy, he said.
"The only factor they did not calculate well was that Iraqis prefer starving to death to living under the dirty flag of occupiers," Saed said.
(Inter Press Service)
Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail write for Inter Press Service.
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[Intro: Styles P] + (Funk Flex)
My niggas say murder I'mma murderer
L.O.X nigga (Funk Flex, L.O.X, Who You Mad At?)
{Jahlil Beats, holla at me}
[Styles P]
Death comes in threes, you know that it's three of us
Money I ain't see enough, weight when im re-ing up (hahaha)
I won't even kick it with a nigga he ain't G enough
I let the Glock block you if you violate
Homie you a hostile, that's a pig that don't fly straight
Big willy shit will make a nigga eyes dilate (dilate)
Cocaine and heroin spots throughout the tri state
Bitch ass nigga bet a bullet would make you gyrate (bitch)
My homies ate whenever I ate (word)
I'm the crooked nigga, never could I fly straight (never)
Living hella proper, dinner in a helicopter (yep)
Playing Big papa, chilling with the knickerbockers
You talking business, you can talk to me
You talking bullshit, you could talk to him
Back to talking to me, you want to put a hawk in em
Food on the menu, he's done, put a fork in him
[Hook: Styles P] + (Jadakiss)
Nigga, who you mad at, me or yourself?
(Sixteen in the ratchet, tucked in the belt)
Nigga, who you mad at, me or yourself?
(Be sure your woman got a job if you needed the help)
Nigga, who you mad at, me or yourself?
(We're just dope boy, D boy, acquiring wealth)
Nigga, who you mad at? Nigga, who you mad at?
Nigga, who you mad at? (Me or yourself?)
[Sheek Louch]
Ayo, my heart is broken, this ain't hip hop no more
This vegetables, mastered the artichokin (hahaha)
Your lame ass songs, I mastered the art of smoking (uh-huh)
Used to take a train to get pussy in Hoboken
Now I'm in that coup, we all on fire by ourselves
But we could sell to God now with the group (LOX)
Jim star razor, still got it locked in the streets
If my album was on Koch or a major (got 'em)
Rose, dutch in the dub
Jeezy for a spin, I just kill the club
You fucking with the truth, I'm nice in a booth
Thirty plus still I relate to the youth (gyeah)
I stay +Coke Boy+ fresh like French
Niggas know LOX don't mention them (what)
Wash machine, final spin, rinsing them
Wash machine, final spin, rinsing them
Yeah, AH-HAAEEEH, uh..
When you become accustomed to winning, you know it's not luck (uh-uh)
Google the word loyalty, L-O-X a pop up
I done fell in love with a Columbian
Now they got me running out of space to put the money in (haha)
Where I'm from, nigga ain't eating he ain't hungry then (uh)
You already know if they spitting I'm lungying
For the record, if he ain't dead, it ain't a hit
If it's less than 1000 grams then it ain't a brick (no)
If it ain't got a tax ID, it ain't legit
If a niggas asks about me, tell him I'm on my shit
Let's get it, walk ups, drive bys, head shots, high fives
I could do the time, I just need a cell with Wi-Fi (haha)
Big hole, exit wound, shotguns, my side
Same adrenaline rush you get when you skydive (whoo)
I'mma roll something up 'cause I wanna blow (uh)
But before I go, dog, I just wanna know
Track №2 of Funkmaster Flex mixtape!
Who You Mad At, the latest track from The Lox, which dropped on Friday, April 19th, 2013.
The Lox's movement grows stronger with each new release, and Who You Mad At has further strengthened that fact. It's a solid addition to the commendable body of work The Lox has been creating since stepping foot in the rap game, and we're definitely looking forward to what The Lox has on deck.


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Do fads have echo booms? Common thought would have the garage rock revival of the last decade dead and buried for some time now. Yet here comes Black Box Revelation, two infectiously enthusiastic childhood friends bearing twin fists of sludgy, dive-bar rhythm and blues reminiscent of once-breathlessly hyped, would-be rock 'n' roll saviors the Hives and Von Bondies. If nothing else, Jan Paternoster and Dries Van Dijck, the Belgian young guns that comprise Black Box Revelation, are certainly some of the biggest fans of vintage, grimy rock prowling the streets today. Going by their musical output alone, the boys live and breathe in labored gasps the sweat-stained, live-wire variety best exemplified by the Rolling Stones' legendary Exile on Main Street. They're a young outfit, and their exuberance for this particular strain of rock 'n' roll is evident on nearly every track of their third effort, My Perception.
There's a fine line between original music that reveals overt influences and shameless pastiche, and Black Box Revelation are tap dancing all over it. That's understandable, after all: A natural aspect of any artist's progression is replicating the music that speaks most indelibly to him or her. So My Perception then showcases a nascent band in a transitory state, searching for its own voice and borrowing Mick Jagger's to tide it over in the meantime. Which is not to say the songs on display here are uninspired or cheap knock-offs; there's enough blood and guts on the opening track alone to sate a whole hoard of ravenous vampires. "High on a Wire", cemented by a bluesy, pulsing riff that stops just short of lifting ZZ Top's "La Grange" wholesale and dooming the lads to a lifetime of paying out royalties to Billy Gibbons, sets the tone for the following twelve tracks: a no-nonsense rocker with Paternoster's grizzled growl espousing perfunctory, self-aggrandizing lyrics. One could chalk up the innocuous lyrics and their afterthought-nature to the duo being native French speakers, but buried underneath the propulsive riffs and booming drums, it doesn't really matter what they're saying, so much as how.
What sets My Perception apart from its forebearers or even its early-aughts garage-rock revivalist-brethren like Jet and The White Stripes are the little touches here and there that serve to punch up their tunes—the chirpy keyboard solo that spirals out of control on "High on a Wire", the bongo back-beat of the title track, the snotty whistling on "Good Swimmer"; these admittedly peripheral flourishes not only make their respective songs appreciably better, but they also display a certain degree of thoughtfulness and musical creativity that is otherwise not immediately evident.
The parade of white-knuckled rock songs comes to an abrupt end late in the disc, when the boys indulge their psychedelic predilections with a pair of plodding dirges, "2 Young Boys" and "Lonely Hearts". If the vast majority of My Perception calls to mind golden-age Stones, these two missteps unfortunately reflect the infamous Their Satanic Majesties Request. Psychedelia is a difficult genre to dip one's toes in; it presents a musical landscape fraught with plodding rhythms, indulgent excess, and a labyrinthine structure, with no clear end in sight when the going gets bad. When done right, it provides a mesmerizing auditory experience, but Black Box Revelation's initial forays into the genre are marked by drudgery and a bleak outlook that seems incongruent with the rest of the band's material. The best thing that can be said about these two tracks is that they serve to highlight just how good Black Box Revelation can be when the boys stick with what works. Thankfully, they do just at on the final track, "My Girl", righting the ship as they lay on the howling guitars and guttural vocals to send the album out on a sweaty sea of sleaze.
It's difficult to fault Black Box Revelation for so brazenly and shamelessly showcasing their influences, not when the riff-pinching is done so lovingly and the results are this thunderous. Make no mistake, these boys are good at what they do, and they truly, whole-heartedly fucking mean it. An older, burned-out band could take this same material, built around boozy grooves and sing-along melodies, and churn out a lifeless hunk of vinyl (Oasis's detached, inert, and unintentionally ironically-named swan song, Dig Out Your Soul comes to mind), but Jan and Dries's enthusiasm and vigor bolster their tunes. Songs that could have easily meandered and sputtered along, instead rollick with gleeful bombast. Although we've all heard these songs a thousand times before, even as recently as five years ago, when the seedy, barroom rock is done this well and pounds away so relentlessly, sometimes you've just got to smile and go along for the ride.
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"Philip Glass, the artistic director of the Tibet House benefits, celebrated his 80th birthday at this year's annual benefit with performances from Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Brittany Howard, Sufjan Stevens and more.
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