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Friday, April 28, 2017
Over 100 of our employees gathered together in an Earth Day clean up at Lincoln Park on April 28, 2017. Each year we give back to our community by engaging our greatest asset to accomplish this, our employees! Thank you to all who participated. Check out the story from News10: http://news10.com/2017/04/28/arbor-day-cleanup-in-albany/
Friday, April 29, 2016
This year Tri City Rentals has decided to give back to the community on Earth Day and use our greatest asset to accomplish this...our teams!
On Friday, April 29th, Tri City Rentals' employees volunteered their time to help clean up the Albany Pine Bush Preserve in honor of Earth Day. Volunteers helped clear trails, pick-up debris, and remove plants and bushes that were invasive to the Pine Bush. With our hard work and dedication to giving back to the community and The Albany Pine Bush Preserve, we were instrumental in doing the work of one month in just 2 hours. As an organization, we are committed to environmental stewardship and believe that it is the responsibility of our employees and business partners to be conscious of ways that we can improve our impact on the earth. Thank you to all of the volunteers who made this year's Employee Earth Day Clean Up at The Albany Pine Bush Preserve a success! We look forward to providing more volunteer opportunities for many worthy causes in the near future and for years to come.
The Albany Pine Bush Preserve is a globally rare ecosystem located in the heart of the Capital District with 3,200 acres of nature preserve and more than 18 miles of trails. Chosen as a National Natural Landmark for its extraordinary sand dunes, the Preserve is also a New York State Unique Area, Bird Conservation Area and a National Audubon Society Important Bird Area.
Visit www.albanypinebush.org to learn more.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Join Tri City Rentals and recycle your old and unwanted electronics in celebration of Earth Day!
Event details:
What: Free E-Waste Recycling Event
When: Saturday, April 18th from 10am-2pm
Where: Choose from one of six locations!
Guilderland: Woodlake Apartments – Woodlake Rd.
Clifton Park: Crescent Village – 800 Walnut Dr.
Colonie: Towers of Colonie – 420 Sand Creek Rd.
Brunswick: The Woods Apartments – 400 Brunswick Drive
Schenectady: Hampshire Apartments – 2150 Rosa Rd.
Queensbury: Regency Park North – 140 Cronin Rd.
Tri City
Rentals is teaming up with local nonprofit Capital Roots for their 5th
annual Electronic Waste Collection event in the Capital Region. This event
provides residents and the entire Capital Region the opportunity to recycle
electronic waste free of charge and close to home. Residents and the public can
rest easy knowing that any personal data on hard drives or similar data storage
devices will be safely destroyed and that community landfills will be saved
from the release of non-biodegradable and potentially hazardous materials. For
every 10 pounds e-waste recycled throughout the event, Tri City Rentals will
donate $1 to Capital Roots. Last year, Tri City Rentals recycled more than
45,000 pounds of e-waste.
January 1, 2015, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
issued an e-waste disposal ban on individuals and households as part of the
Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act signed into law in 2010. This ban
makes it illegal for individuals and households to dispose of certain types of
electronic equipment in landfills, the trash, waste-to-energy facilities, and
curbside trash pickup. This free recycling event gives residents an opportunity
to easily comply with the law.
accepted at the event include computer towers, laptops, servers, monitors,
keyboards, mice, speakers, cords, printers, projectors, fax machines,
microwaves, cellphones, pagers, televisions, desktop copiers, VCRs, DVD
players, stereos, turntables, clock radios, cameras, camera chargers, routers,
switches, hubs, telephones, and video gaming systems.
Tri City
Rentals has owned and
managed premier apartment communities throughout New York state for the past 50
years. Communities owned by the company are located in the three largest
regions of upstate New York. Tri City Rentals owns and operates 24 communities
in the Capital Region, including communities in Albany, Troy, Schenectady,
Saratoga and Warren counties. Learn more at tricityrentals.com.
Roots, formerly
Capital District Community Gardens, is a 40-year-old nonprofit organization
that nourishes healthy communities with 50 Community Gardens, The Veggie
Mobile® produce markets, Healthy Stores, The Produce Project, Squash Hunger and
more. Capital Roots recently opened the Urban Grow Center, a regional facility
focused on urban agriculture and produce distribution to four counties. Learn
more at capitalroots.org.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
On Sunday October 19th, The Tri City Rentals Walking Warriors participated in the American Cancer Society "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk at the Washington Park Parade Grounds in Albany, NY.
We had a wonderful team and many supporters that generously donated to the American Cancer Society through the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Event. With everyone involved, a total of $2,810 was raised for this event!
The efforts of everyone involved will help fund groundbreaking breast cancer research; provide free, comprehensive information and support to those affected by breast cancer; as well as ways to reduce their risk of breast cancer and encourage early detection.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Rochester, New York 14623
Tuesday, June 24th 2014. Tri City Rentals hosted a ribbon
cutting ceremony at the Rustic Village Apartment Community to announce the
opening of the Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging station. Rustic Village
featured a Leviton Ever-Green Level 2 public use charging station, which is able
to accommodate two vehicles at one time. A Level 2 charging station is
compatible with all electric vehicles and plug in electric hybrid vehicles.
Depending on the battery technology used in the vehicle, it generally takes
about 3-6 hours to completely charge a depleted battery. This station is part
of the ChargePoint Network, which will allow EV owners to locate, reserve, and
navigate unoccupied charging stations online and through mobile applications.
Tri City Rentals is proud to be a part of this exciting new improvement in
Rochester, NY.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
When: Saturday, April 26th from 10am-2pm
Where: Choose from one of five locations!
What Items Can I Drop Off?
- Computers (towers, laptops)
- Monitors
- Keyboards, mice, speakers, cords
- Televisions
- Printers
- Projectors
- Fax Machines
- VCR, DVD Players
Visit http://www.tcrgreenliving.com for a complete list of accepted items!
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Did you know that there are more than 2.9 million breast cancer survivors? It is common for most people to know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Yesterday, Sunday October 20th, the Tri City Rentals Walking Warriors, a group of Tri City Rentals employees along with family and friends participated in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event, a 3-mile walk in support of breast cancer awareness.
We had a wonderful team and many supporters that generously donated to the American Cancer Society through the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. Tri City Rentals generously matched all donations raised by our employees. We raised a total of $2,650. The efforts of everyone involved will help fund cancer research as well as support patients by allowing them to receive free information and services. These services may include transportation, wigs, support programs, financial aid, and more.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Orchard Park
On Wednesday, August 7th we partnered with UNYTS (Upstate New York Transplant Services) to sponsor a blood drive at Quakertowne Apartments in Buffalo. This was our first time sponsoring a blood drive and we were extremely pleased with the turnout! According to UNYTS, with the blood given from our residents, employees and the general public, we were able to help save 27 lives in the Western New York region.
Here are some photos from the event,
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Albany, NY 12203
We are excited to announce the opening of our Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Albany, NY! We have installed two Leviton Evr-Green Level 2 public use stations at our Woodlake Apartments in Guilderland. This station is compatible with all electric vehicles and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. The Level 2 charging stations will require about 3-6 hours to charge a fully depleted battery.
These stations are linked to the ChargePoint network, which is the largest online network of independently owned Electric Vehicle charging stations in the world. Users can access this network online and also through mobile applications on all Smart Phones. Users can use the ChargePoint network to map out convenient charging stations along their drive. They can also reserve time slots.
We chose Woodlake Apartments as the location for our first EV Charging Stations because of its proximity to area conveniences. We offer easy access to major roadways such as I-87, I-90, and Route 85. We are also located within walking distance to Stuyvesant Plaza, Crossgates Mall, and other area attractions.
There is no cost to charge your vehicle!
Check out this YouTube video! http://youtu.be/iWqRsJBmoAo
On Saturday, May 4th, the American Heart Association held its annual Heart Walk, benefiting those affected by heart disease. Tri City Rentals is proud to be a sponsor of the 2013 Capital Region Heart Walk! We had a great group of employees and their families that represented Tri City Rentals at this event! By being involved, each and every individual helped those that suffer from heart disease, stroke, or other cardiovascular disease.
On Saturday, April 20th, we hosted our 3rd Annual E-Waste Collection Event! We offered five convenient drop-off locations available throughout the Capital Region.
1. Woodlake Apartments (Woodlake Rd) in Guilderland, NY
2. Towers of Colonie (420 Sand Creek Rd) in Colonie, NY
3. Hampshire Apartments (2150 Rosa Rd) in Schenectady, NY
4. The Woods Apartments (400 Brunswick Drive) in Brunswick, NY
5. Regency Park North (140 Cronin Rd.) in Queensbury, NY
We have enjoyed hosting this event in celebration of Earth Day and we have been thrilled with the turnout and support. This year we collected over 60,000 pounds of E-Waste. With the help of our partners, CBS 6 News and eLot Electronics Recycling, we were able to have another successful event!
This event was open to the public and we accept a large variety of items including printers, scanners, computers, televisions, and more! For more details, please visit our website – www.tcrgreenliving.com
Friday, June 8, 2012
On Friday, June 8th Tri City Rentals Apartment Communities held the official Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at The Woods Apartments in Brunswick, NY. This is Tri City Rentals' newest luxury community in the Capital Region. The Grand Opening celebrates the completion of 84 new units. The apartment homes feature granite countertops and windowsills throughout, stainless steel GE appliances, natural gas fireplaces, and more. Time Warner Cable and Road Runner Internet is also included in the rent. There are one and two bedroom apartment homes available ranging from $1,270 – $1,790. Visit The Woods online, www.thewoodsbrunswick.com
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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The adenoids (lymphatic tissue in the back of the throat), along with the tonsils, comprise the Waldeyer ring.
Adenoidectomy may be recommended when enlarged adenoids are blocking the airway, which may be suspected if the child:
Adenoidectomy may be recommended if the child has chronic ear infections that:
Adenoidectomy may be recommended if the child has chronic or repeated bouts of tonsillitis.
The adenoids normally shrink as the child reaches adolescence and adenoidectomy is rarely needed after reaching the teenage years.
While the child is deep asleep and pain-free (using general anesthesia), a breathing tube is inserted into the child's mouth and throat. A small instrument is inserted into the mouth to prop it open. The adenoid tissue is removed and bleeding is controlled.
Adenoidectomy is usually done as an outpatient procedure. Complete recovery takes 1 to 2 weeks. While healing, the child may have a stuffy nose, nasal drainage, and a sore throat. Soft, cool foods and drinks may help relieve throat discomfort.


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AMITABH BACHCHAN IS THE MOST POPULAR movie actor in the world. And he can prove it: Back in 1999, he was voted the Star of the Millennium in a global poll conducted by the BBC. But if you've never heard of him, don't curse Entertainment Weekly. Bachchan is instantly recognizable only within the alternate universe known as Bollywood a slang term, popularly credited to a Bombay fan-magazine columnist writing in 1979, for the Indian movie capital that turns out more than 1,000 films per year.
Then again, Bollywood is not just an Indian, but a global, phenomenon. "Our films have reached half the world," declares the expat Indian director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). "The Middle East, all of Africa, all of Russia, the Far East, and the Indian diaspora everywhere the half of the world that Hollywood has not yet recognized." For many of those people, Amitabh Bachchan is Bollywood personified. He's their Robert Redford or Harrison Ford only bigger.
It's October 2001, and Bachchan is on location in downtown San Pedro to shoot Kaante (Thorns), an unabashed Hindi-language remake of Quentin Tarantino's career-launching 1992 indie hit, Reservoir Dogs an adaptation which, as it turns out, will open worldwide early in 2003 (and which plays next week at an L.A. Weekly-sponsored special event at the Directors Guild of America). Bachchan has signed on to this, the first Indian movie to be shot entirely in the U.S., to play the eldest of the criminals involved in Reservoir Dogs' famously bungled bank heist the Harvey Keitel role.
Unfortunately, on the day I meet Amitabh Bachchan, the great man has a toothache. I am informed by my contact on the set that my scheduled interview with the Big B will, with profuse apologies, have to be canceled. The idol of millions is about to be whisked off to Beverly Hills to undergo a root canal. 'A slo-mo walk, familiar to Tarantino fans...'
Bearing up stoically in the face of blinding physical discomfort, the 6-foot-3-inch, 59-year-old Bachchan, dapper in a floor-length black Armani overcoat, looks a great deal like the brooding poets and doctors he portrayed in his youth in middlebrow semi-art movies figures close to his own patrician upbringing as the son of a famous poet. He became a fixture of Bombay cinema only in the mid-1970s, when he went down-market in a string of popular action films, including Sholay (Flames, 1975), the industry-altering "curry Western" whose box-office grosses stood unchallenged in India for more than 15 years, and Mard (He-Man, 1985), in which he laid waste to hundreds of leering foes and could communicate with animals. But now, in the comeback projects of his middle years epic melodramas like Mohabbatein (Loves, 2000) and the gorgeously upholstered superhit Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Sometimes Happy Sometimes Sad, 2001) Amit-ji has regained all of his missing dignity, and then some, as the most imposing patriarch of the Hindi screen, reinventing himself yet again, this time as a monumental representative of Hindu family values. Twilight of the gods
Still, the brief snippets of ferocious action I witness on the set that afternoon in San Pedro suggest that Bachchan has undertaken a fairly ferocious, Mard-like role in Kaante. There is a pistol-whipping, a plate-glass-door-smashing and a brief gun battle, after which a half-dozen prop police cars are loudly detonated. A few days later, the crew repairs to Century City, where the principal cast of six tough-guy bank robbers does a slow-mo walk, familiar to Tarantino fans, across the pedestrian bridge spanning Century Park East.
Could we be talking crossover here? Stylistically, anyway, the signs and the signifiers all point in that direction. According to Sanjay Dutt, the droopy-eyed "Robert Mitchum of Bombay" who is Bachchan's co-star in Kaante and also one of its producers, "We guys have all grown up with Hollywood films. All the educated people in India stay up-to-date with the films made in the U.S., and we see the quality. It was always my dream to do this, to come here and work with an American crew, and shoot like they shoot here."
IF YOU'RE LIKE MOST AMERICANS, BOLLYWOOD IS at worst a tired Apu joke from The Simpsons, at best a faraway rumor, golden anklets jangling in the distance. If you've seen only a few grainy clips of Hindustani song and dance on TV shows like Namaste America, or in the opening-credit sequence of Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, or in the snide trailers for The Guru, you can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that Indian musicals (which, to judge from these glimpses, means all Indian movies) are badly crafted, garish orgies of joke-shop wigs and ill-fitting body shirts. The new faces, etc., of Bollywood
Such dismissive stereotypes, however, are at least a decade out of date. The typical Indian commercial movie today is probably handsomer than it has been at any time since the 1950s, the so-called Golden Age of Bollywood or, more precisely, the Expressionist Chiaroscuro heyday of noir-inflected auteur directors like Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt.
By the early 1970s, however, Bombay's great studios, and the giants who flourished there, had either passed on or were in steep decline. Financing had to be cobbled together from shady entrepreneurial sources (e.g., the mob got its hooks in), and a system developed known as the "heterogeneous mode of production," whereby each essential "attraction" in the standard mix of action, music, dance and comedy that defines the unique Indian format known as "the masala film" (from a culinary term for a combination of flavors) was farmed out to a semi-autonomous craft specialist. Budgets that were already small by Western standards were stretched paper thin, so that even major releases ended up looking like three-hour poverty-row B-movies into which stars and disco numbers had been unaccountably inserted. By the 1980s, when video piracy was becoming rampant and every Indian production was a long shot, actors had acquired the habit of attaching themselves to six or seven fly-by-night projects simultaneously, just to be on the safe side. Much to the detriment of continuity, the films were often shot piecemeal in two- or three-week chunks, whenever the actors happened to be available, over a period of up to two years. "In America," says Sanjay Dutt, "they plan for years and they shoot for weeks. In India they plan for weeks and shoot for years."
Then another shift took place, in the early '90s, when a group of gifted filmmakers from South India's Tamil-language cinema many of whom had cut their teeth on music videos and commercials helped set new visual standards for the medium. A younger generation of Westernized Bombay directors, including Mohabbatein's Aditya Chopra and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham's Karan Johar, took up the Southern challenge. Today, says Krutin Patel, the writer-director of the successful Indo-American indie ABCD (2001), "Bollywood movies have some of the highest technical standards in the world, second only to Hollywood."
Aamir Khan, who became a major star in 1989 and is now in his mid-30s, is at the forefront of Bollywood's "young Turks," commercially ambitious craftsmen who are vigorously pursuing the aesthetic and technical reforms synch-sound recording, unified production schedules that have helped make recent Indian films look more presentable to Western eyes. Today, more and more Bollywood movies (including Kaante) are being shot "Hollywood style," on a single production schedule, a condition Khan insisted on for both of his 2001 releases, the Oscar-nominated colonial-era cricket epic Lagaan (Land Tax) and the yuppie-buddy drama Dil Chahta Hai (The Heart Desires). This one-movie-at-a-time approach has obvious financial benefits, especially if you're borrowing money and sweating interest payments, but it can also pay creative dividends: Rather than sport a single generic hairstyle designed to be more or less appropriate for half a dozen disparate roles, Khan was able to change his appearance radically when he shed his peasant dhoti to move from Lagaan to Dil Chahta Hai, adopting for the latter a close-cropped, mini-bearded look that sparked a tonsorial fashion craze among Bombay teens.
Even more damaging to perceptions of Hindi cinema than various technical shortcomings are knee-jerk responses to the idiom itself, to characteristics that will seem inherently outlandish to most Westerners no matter how adroitly they are executed. Take the one thing that almost everybody knows about Bollywood movies: that by rigid convention they all contain five or six (or more) elaborate song-and-dance sequences. The split between native and tourist is especially wide on this issue. Indians regard the film song (and the decades-old tradition of the pre-recorded "playback singer") as the crowning glory of their cinema. For many Westerners, though, the songs are the deal-breakers which is why they are often the first element a Bollywood go-getter thinks about removing when plotting a crossover to the "mainstream" (read "white") audience in America or Europe.
The problem is, in well-integrated examples of the Bollywood style, major issues of plot and character development are worked out as often in the song lyrics as in action or dialogue the music, in other words, can't be skipped without gutting the narrative. (This would be much more obvious to Western viewers if the theatrical and DVD distributors of Hindi films dropped the frustrating practice of subtitling everything but the song lyrics.) Bollywood movies are "melodramas," and not only in the sense of heightened conflict between characters who are embodiments of social forces, but in the root sense of "music dramas," operas (or operettas) in a glossy pop format, achieving a range of emotional effects that, at their best, can be scalp-crawlingly effective.
To put it another way, Bollywood isn't just a random collection of inexplicable gestures that has accumulated over time. It is a form, an all-encompassing "supergenre," combining within itself all the possible permutations of story line and every possible kind of entertainment. That Hindi films all seem, one way or another, to be based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata; that the incorporation of ritual elements from village folk theater inevitably ends up favoring repetition over innovation; that the idiom is steeped in the conventions of British blood-and-thunder stage melodramas and Victorian fiction what all of this adds up to is an approach to storytelling that has always been, to a degree, stylized, and that continues to honor narrative conventions that haven't had much currency in the West since the early silent era.
STILL, IF YOU LISTEN TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE YOU could swear that a Hong Kong-style Bollywood-chic movie cult is even now gathering force to erupt into the mainstream. Supposedly there are hopeful signs everywhere: in that photo of Madonna sporting henna and a bindi at a Hollywood premiere; in Baz Luhrmann's famous nods to the genre in Moulin Rouge; and in the Bollywood-themed stage productions that have set their sights on Broadway the Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced London hit Bombay Dreams, and a full-dress musical adaptation of Mira Nair's art-house favorite Monsoon Wedding. The odd thing is that very little of this trendy talk has yet translated into bookings of films at venues outside the flourishing "four-wall" circuit where distributors rent space at your local multiplex that serves the NRI (non-resident Indian) community. Rarely has there been so much buzz in the U.S. about a species of cinema that so few "mainstream" Americans have ever actually experienced. The question is, can this buzz be transformed into a positive Need To See among the firangi (foreigners), and if so, how?
Some of the more delirious predictions of an imminent Bollywood incursion into Anglo consciousness have arisen in England, where Lagaan played to packed houses in central London, was well reviewed in the English press, and edged into the Top 10 at the British box office, attracting measurable numbers of non-Indians in the process. One reason for such success is Britain's Asian-oriented ethnic mix. There are roughly as many South Asians in the U.K. as in the U.S., around 1.5 million, but they constitute a much larger percentage of the overall British population.
Bollywood has a much longer row to hoe in the U.S., and the current ragtag NRI distribution system simply isn't up to the challenge. "Overseas," in general, is seen not as a true foreign territory, but simply as a segment of the larger Indian market. According to business and entertainment consultant Vipul Gupta, the growth of the U.S. theatrical and video markets for Hindi movies has been stifled by the limited outlook of the head men in Bombay: "They feel they're already getting enough business in the U.S. just from the Indian audience."
Another factor contributing to the insularity of the U.S. wing of the Indian market could be seen as psychological rather than institutional. For decades, Hindi film screenings have been important social events in NRI enclaves around the world, offering opportunities to reconnect with the home culture in a relaxed, all-Indian atmosphere. (Film Comment critic Maithili Rao refers to such screenings as "tribal celebrations.") Many desi ("homeboy") fans talk about their favorite movies with a peculiar mixture of pride and defensiveness; they are passionate but also wary, as if they can't quite set aside the suspicion that the films they love will inevitably fall short in the eyes of viewers house-trained by Hollywood.
THE FILM THAT SERVES AS A TOUCHSTONE FOR many newly minted crossover dreams, not just in India but throughout Asia, is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which with its strong showing at the 2001 Oscars established that foreign filmmakers, when they are working with the right basic ingredients, don't have to abandon their distinctive national specialties in order to seduce the infidels. Director Ang Lee's central innovation was actually quite subtle: a brush-stroke application of psychological nuance to characters that, on their home turf, were familiar heroic archetypes. A true Bollywood epic like Lagaan, which honors but also tastefully elides some of the core narrative conventions that Westerners find most off-putting, stood some chance even despite its nearly four-hour running time and its presumptions of familiarity with what goes into a cricket match to become the Indian Crouching Tiger. But although producer-star Aamir Khan says that he chose Sony Pictures Classics as his American distributor on the strength of its slow-build box-office triumph with the Chinese hit, in fact the company did not even attempt to duplicate that strategy with Lagaan, allowing it to dribble away in a handful of one-off bookings. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, bearing up in San Pedro
It's no wonder that Krutin Patel, the director of ABCD, chose to bypass the American indie distributors in favor of EROS, a company that in the past had handled only Bollywood releases on the NRI circuit. "EROS knows the Indian market," Patel says, "and many of the independents in Hollywood just don't. Either they don't know how to market to it, or they're not interested in it. They offer you a much smaller release, because they don't know how to capitalize on the Indian audience." In other words, Vipul Gupta's "two different audiences" argument cuts both ways: Four-walled Bollywood releases now turn up routinely on Variety's Top 50 domestic box-office chart, edging out many domestic productions, while U.S. distributors seem to be oblivious to a marketing opportunity that they should be pouncing on with a wolfish grin.
For the last two decades, domestic distributors have tried to woo the art-house audience with "transgressive" films like Takeshi Miike's Audition (or anything by Guy Ritchie). Such an approach is hopeless with Bollywood, which is a radically conservative cinema not of unease, but reassurance. Still, the very things that make it seem square could potentially attract the hipster audience that loves Gilligan's Island. Even more, one can easily imagine some of the more mild-mannered, family-oriented Bollywood films catching on with the older, My Big Fat Greek Wedding crowd (my parents love Indian musicals), or even with opera queens and Broadway-musical fans.
Indeed, one of the leading non-Indian voices and the best writer on the Usenet group rec.arts.movies.local.indian is Canadian drag artist Muffy St. Bernard, who performs in clubs in the Toronto area dressed up as Helen, the legendary dancing vamp of high-'60s Hindi cinema; his pièce de résistance is Helen's "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu" number from Vijay Anand's pop-art thriller Jewel Thief (1967). "I grew up on a constant diet of pessimism, cynicism and irony," says St. Bernard, "and quite frankly, that sort of thing turns my stomach now. I've seen too much of it. What I love about Bollywood movies is what makes them different from other types of films." (For further observations from this source, see the accompanying article "I Rejected Coronation Street".)
The 19th-century roots of many of Bollywood's signature narrative conventions are, naturally enough, echoed by the content and even the world-view of its most aesthetically coherent productions. That these British-influenced elements may also, in a sense, be the most distinctively Indian was brought home to me recently by the cross-cultural commentator Pico Iyer, in his review of Rohinton Mistry's wonderful new novel, Family Matters: "Visitors to India, even in the 21st century, are often surprised by how heavily the recent British past still weighs upon the present, with P.G. Wodehouse still dominating many a bookshop, and schoolchildren routinely [asked] to memorize Tennyson . . . Indian writers from the middle classes, writing in English, are naturally connected to a 19th-century tradition that has never been displaced in India (as it has been in almost every other English-speaking country) . . . People still carry on their lives as if religion had not been unsettled by science, and Nietzsche had not arrived to tell them about the death of God."
Much the same could be said of India's popular cinema, and this sense of a deeply embedded tradition may be at the heart of why at least a few of us find Bollywood movies so immediately, instinctively satisfying. It's easy to imagine a card-carrying cultural-studies academic waxing ä wroth about the "post-colonial nostalgia" of this suggestion. And how might a conservative Bollywood producer react to the kind of flagrant hijacking that Muffy St. Bernard is perpetrating to the fact that, even as we learn to stop worrying and love Bollywood, we are bound to understand the movies differently, to make something of them that their creators could never have anticipated?
Besides, appropriation is a two-way street. What critic Nasreen Munni Kabir has to say about Indian film music is also true of Bollywood cinema as a whole: It has "always been a magpie form, hungrily absorbing influences from all corners of the globe." From their beginnings, Bombay talkies latched on to imported Western technology, and to the conventions of the already-Westernized form of popular theater, and put them to work on stories drawn from the ancient Indian epics. One of the most famous of all Bollywood film songs, the opening "tramp on the road" number in Raj Kapoor's Shri 420 (Mr. 420/The Grifter, 1955), makes exactly this point:
Mera joota hai Japani My shoes are Japanese
Meh padloon EnglishstaniMy trousers (are) English
Sarpeh lal topi RussiOn top (a) red Russian hat
phir bi dil hai HindustaniStill my heart is Hindustani
"This song is a direct retort to globalization," says Mira Nair, who quoted it in her steamy diaspora romance, Mississippi Masala. "It accepts all these foreign goods but says that your soul remains Indian. A cinema that embraces everything, as Indian cinema does, without losing its heart that's the cinema that really does work for me." In the politically polarized climate surrounding issues of globalization, we feel all but obligated, now, to see any hint of Western influence upon a Third World society as a form of cultural imperialism, of alien forms imposed from abroad by a conspiracy of international conglomerates. But in so doing, we underestimate the force with which foreign cultural elements are often actively confiscated and put to use in new ways, the liberating freedom with which their meanings can be rejiggered and reassigned.
"YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY trashy shamelessness to enjoy old Hollywood," Pauline Kael once wrote. Much the same could be said of even some of the finest Bollywood melodramas.
Consider Devdas, the lavishly romantic literary adaptation that was India's unsuccessful candidate this year for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination. One of the clearest recent examples yet, along with Lagaan, of the emergence in Bombay of what could be called a neo-traditionalist movement, Devdas is something like the 10th film version of a classic 1917 novel about a weak and self-pitying rural Bengali aristocrat who exiles himself to the corrupt metropolis of Calcutta in order to drink himself to death in a miasma of unrequited love. The Devdas-style hero the type of the pampered male heir, the mama's boy writ large was supposed to have been supplanted once and for all in the 1970s by none other than Amitabh Bachchan, setting the standard of Bollywood masculinity for most of the subsequent two decades. So the attempt now to rehabilitate Devdas, updated for the new millennium by the ebullient '90s megastar Shahrukh Khan, is a gesture fraught with symbolic significance an attempt to revive, or reinvent, one of Bollywood cinema's foundational archetypes. If a smart American distributor were able to get on its florid wavelength, Devdas could prove to be an irresistible wallow for a certain kind of American movie geek.
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Unfortunately, indie-cinema gatekeepers in the U.S. will probably be a lot more comfortable with the synthetic Kaante, a conscious attempt to give a Bollywood gloss to the sort of cynical neo-noir crime film that American distributors already know how to sell to the fan-boy crowd that has already embraced animé and Hong Kong cinema. But while Kaante's $8 million dollar budget may have been huge by Bollywood standards, each dollar buys a lot less here than it does in India. The on-location footage often looks rushed and threadbare, and Kaante owes most of its visual flash to ex post facto digital-editing manipulation. It's odd, but I think also telling, that recent state-of-the-art films made entirely in India, like Lagaan and Devdas, end up looking much more "world class" than the self-consciously "global" Kaante.
"I really think that you cannot design a crossover film," says Lagaan director Ashutosh Gowariker, who did, in fact, manage to make a film with something like universal appeal from all the way inside the Bollywood idiom. "We cannot make movies by keeping an American or a European market in mind. Because then you will not be making a movie anymore. It will just be a package. Filmmakers should make what they want to make, and what they believe in, and if those films find an audience in America, then so be it."
This seems exactly right: Let Bollywood be Bollywood, and let the chips fall where they may. Ambitious entrepreneurs looking to expand into foreign markets may bristle at the following suggestion, but as a card-carrying xenophile I would have no problem with a future in which Bollywood remained irremediably a world apart, in which it absolutely failed to cross over. As a moviegoer, I really have no stake in these films bowling over Western audiences (beyond, that is, the thought that it would be nice to be able to see a few more of these films on the big screen with subtitles, at venues closer to my apartment). Their otherness is, if you will, part of their essence or at least, of the essence of their appeal to the xenophile. Bollywood really does depict a parallel universe of movies, just different enough from the mundane environments we're used to, to be exhilarating.
Working almost nonstop this year on Bollywood-related projects, for this publication and for Film Comment, tapping into the DVD mother lode and watching Hindi movies almost exclusively, I've begun telling people that I no longer think of myself as a tourist, but as a "resident alien" in Bollywood, increasingly comfortable and conversant with the local customs, even though I never expect to go native altogether, or to renounce my Hollywood citizenship. This assertion seems somewhat outlandish to some people, even to many Indians who claim to love their movies dearly. It elicits a wonderfully expressive variation of that all-purpose subcontinental gesture, the side-to-side head wobble, the exact desi equivalent of the French pout-'n'-shrug, which in this case unmistakably means: "If you are pleased to say so, sir, I have no response. I am much too polite a person to dispute this bizarre claim of yours."


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Miami-Dade County
Getting to the bottom of the Pickles Reef mystery
On shallow Pickles Reef, 3 ½ miles off the shore of Key Largo, the sun lit up a mishmash of metal, iron and barrel-shaped cement artifacts that have been commingling with colorful coral and tropical fish for a century or more.
As two curious spotted eagle rays cruised by, a group of divers from the Washington-based Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society surveyed the unidentified wreckage that hurricanes, tropical storms and strong currents have scattered over a site larger than a football field.
"Mother Nature has a way of mixing it up in a soup that is hard to sort out what we have," the society's president, Steven Anthony, said during a June trip to the Keys. "We are trying to put all that puzzle back together, like putting back together Humpty Dumpty, to solve the mystery."
Is the submerged debris field primarily a single wreck, perhaps one of the 23 ships with names that include Lion, Mimi, S.S. Oxford and Hope of London that Key West Admiralty court records document as sunk, abandoned, lost or wrecked on that reef in the 1800s? Or is it the remnants of several wrecks, from different eras?
And are the numerous cement cylinders even connected to the wreckage? Or was it cargo a boat's crew offloaded to lighten the load enough to get off the treacherous reef, which at some points is less than 10 feet deep?
"We don't know, but we have enthusiastically been trying to pin this wreck down for a number of years now," said Brenda S. Altmeier, program support specialist with the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary — in which the wreck site is located.
Over the last few decades, the prevailing story told to divers and snorkelers has been that the wreck is that of a Civil War-era ship or barge that was carrying cement destined to Key West for the construction of Fort Jefferson or the Martello Towers.
But that story was debunked in 2008 after a New York laboratory's analysis of the cement positively identified it as Portland cement, produced no earlier than 1890 and only until 1925.
"This information leads us down a different trail of bread crumbs," Altmeier said. "We can eliminate the Civil War era ships."
One of the new theories it that the vessel was carrying cement for construction of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. The maritime society located a 1908 picture of construction of a Henry Flagler railroad bridge that clearly shows neat rows of barrels that appear similar to the shape of the cement features at the bottom of Pickles Reef. Workers also appear to be pouring concrete next to the barrels. But so far, it's just a theory.
With so few government resources, and 68 priority shipwreck sites to identify just in the Upper Keys, Altmeier says the sanctuary welcomes the help of enthusiastic private groups like the Maritime Archeological and Historical Society, providing them with permits and previously gathered information.
The society began to investigate the site at Pickles Reef in 2010, at the request of Florida State Underwater Archaeologist Roger Smith. The group has returned each year since, gathering more clues both underwater and on land, working with local historians and combing through archives.
Originally, Anthony said, the group wasn't convinced it was the site of a shipwreck. "It looks like a big debris field and we thought it could be machinery and maybe offloaded salvage," he said.
The group, with no trained underwater archaeologists, asked the sanctuary for help in interpreting their photographs, drawings and maps created by their survey work.
Last September, underwater archaeologist Matthew Lawrence of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary looked over their work and dove the site. He concluded that there were lower hull remains of an iron or steel sailing vessel.
He also located two mast steps, which Anthony described as rectangular slots in which the masts were connected to the ship. "In the old days they put a coin in there to tell the date of the ship — and for good luck," he said.
The mast steps also indicate the wreck is either a sailboat or schooner.
On the first dive last week, Anthony easily found the first mast step. But he could not find the second one until the second dive. It was partially hidden under coral.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group laid a baseline of measuring tape down the center of the site and used the trilateration method to measure several of the site's metal features to later be placed to scale on a map.
They also tried to estimate the number of barrel-shaped cement features that were on the bottom. Archaeologist Dennis Knepper, vice president of the society, said he saw between 30 and 50.
"That does not seem like it is quite enough to be on a barge, unless a lot of it deteriorated," he said. "The only ones we're seeing are the barrels that remained intact long enough for the cement to harden before the wood deteriorated.
Knepper usually works on land sites slated for development. In one freeway project near the Watergate Hotel in Washington, he found prehistoric sites and plowed fields from tobacco farms buried under 14 feet of fill. "It was intriguing, but they still built the ramp over it," he said.
Part of the society's mission is to enhance the public's awareness and appreciation for historic shipwrecks. Anthony hopes this awareness will help encourage charter boat captains and divers and snorkelers to view these sites more as underwater museums than as treasures to be seized.
Anthony would like to see the Pickles Reef wreck site one day added to the Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail, which now includes nine wrecks with interesting tales to tell.
"It's a cultural resource we want to protect," Anthony said. "You can do that by capturing the imagination of the public by telling the story of how much terror and fight and struggle to survive there was for the people on that ship that smashed into the reef."


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Recidivism is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. It refers to a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime. Recidivism is measured by criminal acts that resulted in rearrest, reconviction or return to prison with or without a new sentence during a three-year period following the prisoner's release.
Bureau of Justice Statistics studies have found high rates of recidivism among released prisoners. One study tracked 404,638 prisoners in 30 states after their release from prison in 2005.[1] The researchers found that:
In an effort to build on what is currently known about desistance from crime, NIJ issued a directed solicitation in 2012. RTI International, in partnership with Pennsylvania State University's Justice Center for Research, was awarded funds to conduct research that builds on earlier work that examined the main effects of re-entry programming on recidivism.
The research team theorizes that although offender services and programs may have a direct effect on desistance, individuals must decide independently to transform themselves into ex-offenders. Programs and services may facilitate transformation, just as individual transformation — or the lack thereof — may moderate the effects of re-entry assistance.
To examine the cognitive transformation theory of desistance, the RTI-Penn State study involves a long-term follow-up of more than 700 individuals who were originally interviewed between 2004 and 2005 as participants in the Multisite Evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI).
The participants include 582 men, 79 of whom were juveniles at the time of the original interviews, and 168 women. These individuals have extensive criminal histories, and more than 80 percent of the men and 75 percent of the women experienced at least one arrest in the four-and-a-half-year period following their release from prison between 2004 and 2005. Researchers will conduct interviews with participants focusing on cognitive transformation. These interviews will take place about a decade after the participants were first interviewed as part of SVORI and an average of 20 to 25 years after they were first arrested. In addition to conducting interviews for their study, the RTI-Penn State researchers are using existing administrative and interview data from SVORI, as well as current official arrest and reincarceration data.
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[note 1] Durose, Matthew R., Alexia D. Cooper, and Howard N. Snyder,
Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 30 States in 2005: Patterns from 2005 to 2010 (pdf, 31 pages), Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, April 2014, NCJ 244205.
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Eastern Mennonite University's department of recreation sports and intramurals is issuing a challenge to students, faculty and staff and the local community.
On Saturday, Nov. 9, EMU will host the first-ever "Royal Challenge," designed to promote holistic development across campus and the community, said Phil Tieszen, event leader and assistant director of student programs.
The challenge consists of four events: President's Assistant 5K walk, Dean of Undergraduate Students 5K run, Vice President of Student Life 10K, and the Graduate Dean half marathon.
"Our goal is for the participants to gain a sound mind, body and spirit by working together to get in shape and reach their fitness goals," said Tieszen.
Participants can sign up as individuals or as a group. Registration is free for EMU students, $10 for ages 10-and-under, $15 for EMU faculty and staff, and $20 for public. Check-in is at 7 a.m., and the races begin at 8 a.m., in front of EMU's University Commons.
For more information or to register visit: emu.edu/studentlife/recsports/


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The City of Rochester
In 2010, USA Today named Rochester one of the the top-ten college towns among mid-sized metropolitan areas. A number of sources rate Rochester highly in terms of technological climate, including:
- Among top metro regions for number of patents (Brookings Institute, 2013)
- One of the"Ten Most Unexpected Cities for High-Tech Innovation" in U.S. (Techie.com, 2013)
- Named the 7th "brainiest" large metro in the nation (Lumosity, 2013)
|Driving Distances to Rochester
|390 miles
|6 hrs 15 min
|600 miles
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|260 miles
|4 hrs 10 min
|New York City
|330 miles
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|340 miles
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|170 miles
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|Washington, DC
|400 miles
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Snow is certainly a fact of life here; Rochester averages about 93 inches of snow a year. Winter sports enthusiasts can try their hand at cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, downhill skiing at Bristol Mountain, even curling. There are also plenty of places to escape from the winter weather: take shelter in the city's coffee shops, restaurants, book stores, movie theaters, and museums. For music lovers, Rochester is home to a surprising number of concert venues for a medium-sized city, from grand theaters to a thriving club scene.
Once the snow melts, Rochesterians head out to the city's parks and area lakes for some well-earned spring time recreation. Located on the historic Erie Canal and the Genesee River, and just five miles south of Lake Ontario, Rochester offers plenty of sailing, canoeing, and hiking opportunities.
During the spring and summer months, Rochester's neighborhoods come alive with festivals and arts fairs, including the Lilac Festival in Highland Park, the Park Avenue Festival, the Corn Hill Arts Festival, and the Clothesline Festival at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Rochester has professional baseball (Red Wings), hockey (Amerks), and soccer (Rhinos) teams. And did we mention—there's a waterfall in the heart of downtown. Regional Transit Service buses, the University shuttle bus, and the UR Special all serve the campus, making the City of Rochester—and all it has to offer—available for students to explore.
Greater Rochester Visitors Association
Includes detailed descriptions, maps, directions, and streaming videos of the Rochester area's experiences. Whether you're in the mood for museum hopping or antique shopping, cultural pleasures or sporting adventures, scenic cruising or bargain choosing, history, mystery, artistry...when you visit Rochester you'll discover an exceptional place to indulge all your senses!
Democrat & Chronicle
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Rochester's alternative news weekly offers coverage of local politics, film reviews, and guides and calendars for the local music and arts scene.
Your comprehensive Internet guide to food and entertainment for the Greater Rochester, NY area. You can browse restaurants, search for Clubs, Pubs, and Bars, find out what movies are playing around town and take a peek at the local events and happenings.
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A good teacher is an amazing thing
From the Editor
One of my favorite people stopped by the Star Gazette office to see me the other day — Don Stebbins. He was my high school guidance counselor at Moose Lake School.
Though at the time I didn't realize it, he would be one of those influential people in my life, one of those people that steer you in the right direction, that help to form you into the person you ultimately end up being.
I had started my high school years during a bit of a rough time in my life. The transition into high school was hard enough, add to that the passing of my dad, yikes. I soon found that Mr. Stebbins' door was always open, even if it was only for a quick hello. His support — the support of an adult who was there no matter what, whenever — was exactly what I needed. His lighthearted approach peppered with jokes helped, too.
"When are you going to write, that's what I'm waiting for," he said during his visit.
So, on that note, I'd like to start now, with this column.
"I don't like to just write about anything, I need to have it stewing in my head for a while first," I told him.
"A bit of a perfectionist?" he added with a smile and touch of sarcasm.
Yep, he knows me.
The truth is, the idea of a column like this, acknowledging those people that have meant so much to me, has worked it's way through my mind a few times. And, you might think in my position as editor it would just come to me, that I'd be able to whip out a few meaningful sentences. To me, the words I'd put together never quite grasped my true feelings.
I've had so many wonderful people in my life, a number of them teachers. A good teacher — the kind that can not only teach, but pick a child up when they're down, show them it's okay to not understand (whether it's school work or life lessons), or help a child to feel okay about being different, that unique is good, all in a supportive manner — is an amazing thing.
I wish for those kinds of people in the lives of my children, and every child out there.
So, Mr. Stebbins, thank you for the visit and for the motivation.


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Texas man receives lethal injection for strangling and stabbing a woman to death 21 years ago
Convicted killer Bobby Lee Hines was executed Wednesday for strangling and repeatedly stabbing a suburban Dallas woman at her apartment 21 years ago.
Hines, 40, was 19 and on probation for burglary when he stabbed 26-year-old Michelle Wendy Haupt 18 times and strangled her with a cord.
Asked by a warden to make a final statement, Hines repeatedly asked for forgiveness.
Gone: Bobby Lee Hines was convicted of killing 26-year-old Michelle Wendy Haupt in 1991 and was finally given a lethal injection by the state of Texas today for his crime
'I know that I took somebody special from y'all,' he said as Haupt's father stood a few feet away, watching through a window. 'I know it wasn't right, it was wrong. I wish I could give it back, but I know I can't.
'I wish there was something I could do.'
He said he loved his family, believed life in prison would be a worse punishment, and then declared that he was 'going home.'
As the lethal dose of pentobarbital was administered, he said he could feel it and was stopped in midsentence. He snored once, then slipped into unconsciousness. Twelve minutes later, at 6:28 p.m., he was pronounced dead.
'It's like a backache, it never goes away,' Harold Haupt said afterward about the pain of losing his daughter. 'It's always there.
Haupt had moved from the Pittsburgh area to Carrollton to work at a computer company in Dallas, and Hines was staying next door with a maintenance man for her apartment complex.
'On the upside of this, Bobby Hines paid the ultimate price, a life for a life, and that's the good news. The bad news is it took 21 years, a lot of taxpayer money and all he did was go to sleep. He didn't suffer like my daughter did. He got like a forever sleeping pill.'
Time of the crime: Bobby Lee Hine, now 40, was 19 and on probation for burglary when he stabbed Ms Haupt 18 times and strangled her with a cord in her own apartment in Carrollton, Texas
In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 20, 1991, a neighbor heard screaming and called police, but officers were unable to find the source.
When other residents told the apartment manager later that day about screams and loud noises that sounded like a bowling ball being dropped repeatedly, they persuaded him to open Haupt's door and found her dead.
Hines was arrested that day. Hines' older brother, a manager at the complex, told police he suspected his brother was involved, according to court records.
And witnesses said Hines had bragged about having a passkey that allowed him to enter anyone's apartment.
Police interviewed Hines, noticed he had scratches on his face and neck, and got consent from his roommate to search the apartment.
Detectives found Haupt's blood on Hines' clothing and several things that had belonged to her, including a distinctive gold charm she wore on a necklace.
Hines was tried and convicted in March 1992.
He initially was scheduled to die in 2003, but his execution was delayed for eight years until the courts resolved claims that he was mentally impaired and, thus, ineligible for capital punishment.
Death bed: The Texas death chamber where Bobby Lee Hines begged for forgiveness from his victims family before being put to sleep by lethal injection
He was scheduled to die in May and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case, but the Dallas County district attorney's office again delayed the execution so that new DNA testing could be conducted. Those tests confirmed Hines' guilt, and the punishment was reset.
Relatives and friends of Hines filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, top agency officials and prison wardens and 'all persons involved' in Hines' execution, contending their rights had been violated because Hines had been on death row more than two decades and that his lawyers had been misleading. A federal judge in Houston dismissed the suit Wednesday.
Last week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected an appeal from Hines, whose lawyer argued previous attorneys failed to investigate and show how Hines had been abused by his father.
William Hughey, who was one of Hines' trial lawyers and is now a state district judge in East Texas, recalled Hines' case as one 'where it was clear his childhood had significant impact as to who he was and how he ended up.'
Hines, who had declined to speak with reporters, first was arrested at age 12 for auto theft and had other arrests for assault and burglary. He was on 10 years' probation when the slaying occurred.
Hines' execution was the 11th this year in Texas. Another is set for next week.
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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced Continuous Availability Advisory Services : a comprehensive assessment, cost/benefit analysis, and roadmap development offering delivered by EMC Global Services in combination with EMC ® VPLEX ® virtual storage which enables an always-on-and-available IT infrastructure with reduced CAPEX and OPEX. As demonstrated in certain customer engagements conducted by EMC, Continuous Availability Advisory Services have been shown to enable organizations to reduce server count by up to 40% by combining existing production, high availability, and disaster recovery compute platforms into a single solution .
EMC Continuous Availability Advisory Services: Helping Customers Fully Realize the Benefits of VPLEX and Continuous Availability with Active/Active Data Centers and Applications
Delivered by EMC Global Services, the Continuous Availability Advisory Services' suite of offerings include: assessing the readiness of applications and existing infrastructure, and developing an architectural design, roadmap and cost benefit analysis for the technical deployment and transition.
EMC Continuous Availability Advisory Services provides organizations with a proven services methodology that is based on EMC VPLEX virtual storage. Previously, a continuous availability environment was either limited to be within a data center, or required complex systems integration that made it expensive to build and maintain. EMC VPLEX provides the critical foundation for continuous availability by presenting read/writable virtual volumes in two geographically separated data centers. It enables users to build "stretched data centers," permitting them to process data collaboratively, using server clustering technologies over distance, and to take a powerful new approach to business continuity design and execution. However, solutions built with EMC VPLEX and off-the-shelf clustering technologies can help organizations maximize information trust and availability.
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Organizations are increasingly reliant on uninterrupted active/active access to data and applications. Additionally, the rapid growth of Big Data and globalization, increasing regulatory pressures, more frequent planned outages, and the impact of natural disasters have reinforced the need for management to continue operations through any type of disruption. In response, many IT service organizations have created an expensive labyrinth of different solutions and techniques to eliminate single points of failure in their data centers.
In a recent study ¹ commissioned by EMC, Forrester Consulting found that the increased reliance on technology is the number one factor driving increased risk in business. Organizations require new IT delivery models, such as continuous availability that provide greater control and visibility of data. This establishes a foundation of trust that IT infrastructure will perform the way it should even in the event of business disruptions that may occur.
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If you're planning to get out and about on the region's roads between Monday, September 28th, and Sunday, October 4th, here's a list of planned and on-going roadworks you'll need to know about.
Highways England has issued the following summary of planned new and ongoing road improvements but stress it could be subject to change due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.
"All our improvement work is carried out with the aim of causing as little disruption as possible," said a spokesman.
M56 Junction 11 Daresbury
A major project is taking place to tackle congestion at junction 11 of the M56 near Daresbury. Signed diversions will be in place when roads are closed.
M6 Junction 24 and 25 Ashton and Bryn
A £945,000 scheme to resurface sections of the main carriageway and slip roads around these junctions has begun and will be completed by Tuesday, October 6th. All the work is overnight – between 9pm and 6am – involving single slip road closures (junction 24 slip roads and the junction 25 southbound entry slip road) and lane closures on the main carriageway.
M6 Junction 38 Brough to Junction 39 Shap
Work to resurface sections of the southbound carriageway near Tebay Services started last Monday. Contractors will also install new reflective road studs, replace road markings and carry out repairs to two bridges. Two lanes will be open to traffic during the day, between 6am and 8pm, and one lane overnight, between 8pm and 6am. The project is due to be completed by the end of October.
M60 Junction 8 Sale to M62 Junction 20 Rochdale
A major scheme is taking place to cut congestion and improve journey times on parts of the M60 and the M62 in Greater Manchester. The scheme will require some overnight closures affecting the full carriageway and slip roads, with a 50mph limit in place for the safety of workers and drivers. The project is due to be completed in autumn 2017
M62 Junction 10/M6 Junction 21a Croft Interchange
The exit slip roads from the westbound M62 onto the northbound M6, and from the eastbound M62 onto the southbound M6 will be closed overnight, between 8pm and 6am while repair work takes place on motorway bridges. Drivers will be able to follow signed diversion routes. Narrow lanes and a temporary 50mph speed limit will also be in place on the slip roads during the day. The scheme is due to be completed in December.
A5036 Litherland
A £1.7m. project to resurface the main road to the Port of Liverpool started in August. A 2.5 mile stretch of the A5036 is being resurfaced from the junction with the M57 and M58, known as Switch Island, to the junction with Hawthorne Road. All of the work will be carried out overnight to keep disruption to a minimum, and signed diversions will be in place when short stretches of the road are closed.
A55/A483 Roundabout, Chester
Work has now been largely completed with the junction fully-open to drivers. Some snagging work and installation of street lights remains, which will be carried out using overnight lane closures only.
A556 Knutsford to Bowdon
A £192m. project is being carried out to create a new dual carriageway linking the M56 to the M6 in Cheshire. A temporary 40mph speed limit is currently in place between Bucklow Hill and Bowdon, and the new dual carriageway is expected to open in winter 2016/17. The project entered a new phase of work last Monday with the following traffic management:
re of Cherry Tree Lane off the A556 for six months
Closure of junction 8 (a single slip road from the A556 onto the westbound M56) for four weeks for bridge works
Overnight closures of the A556 in both directions (week nights only) between Bucklow Hill and Bowdon View roundabout up to Friday (October 2nd.
A585 (Anchorsholme Lane)
Overnight work to resurface parts of the junction between the A585 and Anchorsholme Lane will be taking place between 9pm on Friday, October 2nd, and 6am on Saturday, October 3rd. New road markings will also be provided along with an additional speed limit sign to improve safety. Temporary traffic signals will be in place during the overnight work.
A585 Skippool to Singleton
Work begins on Monday, September 28th, on an 11 to 12-week scheme to improve drainage and paths along this section of the route. Work will take place around the clock but temporary traffic signals will only be used overnight. The project should be completed before December 18th.
A590 Lindal-in-Furness
Temporary traffic lights are in use on the A590, west of Lindal for maintenance work which should be completed by Monday, September 28th.
A595 (south of Workington)
Work to replace drainage and improve paths started at the beginning of September. between the junction with the A66 at Bridgefoot and further south at Winscales, and is due to be completed by Friday, October 16th. Work will be delivered using off-peak traffic signals between 9.30am and 3.30pm and 8pm and 6am each day.


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Hopefully it turns out to be a good race between our European and Russian friends. We are looking forward to the competition and seeing who can pull off the finish for World First.
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Justin Bieber Book: Belieber: Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber new Book, Belieber: Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber comes out September 27th 2011 and is already gaining critical acclaim. It is the story of the real Justin Bieber, a young man who is not only a superstar in the eyes of fans and teenage girls everywhere in the world but a talented performer who has stuck with his beliefs every step of the way.
How much does it cost? currently the book is sold at $11.43 via Amazon!
Note: This book is not written by Justin!
Buy or Pre-order Belieber: Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber
Book Description:
Justin Bieber's rise from "regular kid" to one of the most famous people on the planet has captivated a nation of devoted fans called 'Beliebers.' With hit records, 12 million followers on Twitter and the third-largest grossing documentary film of all time, the Canadian pop star dubbed 'Super Boy' on Rolling Stone's recent cover has countless fans who hang on his every word. But is there more to this pop idol's startling success than his legendary haircut and unusual talent?
'The success I've achieved comes … from God,' Bieber says "I feel I have an obligation to plant little seeds with my fans. I'm not going to tell them, 'You need Jesus,' but I will say at the end of my show, 'God loves you." The bold yet humble faith that grounds Bieber's worldview may just be the key to his extraordinary appeal. Recognizing that music and film are the language of this new generation, author and religion journalist Cathleen Falsani's hope is that this book will encourage faith leaders as well as parents to engage with popular culture in a different way so they can better talk to their kids about what matters most.
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Buy or Pre-order Belieber: Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber
About the author, CATHLEEN FALSANI:
Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning journalist and author who specialize in the intersection of spirituality and pop culture. Currently a columnist for Religion News Services in Washington D.C., she is best known for her personal interview profiles of President Barack Obama, U2's Bono, Hugh Hefner, Annie Lennox and many other notables.
What do you think beiebers? will you get this book?


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TITAN Escape the Tower Review
The original Titan on the Amiga was fairly innovative when it was released back in 1989. It took the brick-breaker genre's paddle and ball, and set them inside labyrinths which allowed the paddle much greater movement. This resulted in a new approach to the standard brick-breaking gameplay. Titan: Escape the Tower is both remake and homage. The question is, of course, whether this innovation is enough to create a great game - especially twenty four years later. When watching videos…Watch The Video Review
Fire & Forget The Final Assault Review
The original Fire & Forget was released on the Amiga in the late 80s. It took the 'at the time' visual fidelity and engagement of a racing game like Outrun, and added shooting. This obviously paid off as not only was there a sequel, but now Microids have rebooted the franchise on iOS with Fire & Forget: The Final Assault. You drive the 'Thunder Master III', a speedy tank chock full of fire-power... that also possesses the ability to fly! You'll need it if you're going to protec…Watch The Video Review
The Bluecoats - North vs South Review
The original game this remake is based on, 'North & South' was based on the Belgian comic book 'Les Tuniques Bleues', which was a humorous take on the American Civil War. The Bluecoats – North vs South takes the "turn based strategy laden with mini-games" concept, updates the graphics and smooths over the whole experience. With a fresh coat of paint and some tinkering, how does this gaming classic hold up? Well the game starts at the options screen in which you c…Watch The Video Review
XIII - Lost Identity Review
If you're not familiar with the comic series XIII, it's an intriguing story (not dissimilar to that of The Bourne Identity) and has been kicking around since the early 80s. The Franco-Belgian classic has been given a video game conversion already, but now iOS gamers can get a taste of this spy/conspiracy story for themselves with XIII - Lost Identity. Publisher Microids already has a history on the App Store, so it's no surprise to see the game taking on aspects of their earlier work…Watch The Video Review


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Il Bambino Gesù
Italian Figures of the Infant Jesus from Three Centuries
Long before Christmas cribs with their narrative scenes became popular, small figures of the Infant Jesus formed the centre of Christmas festivities. Since the late Middle Ages, the Infant Jesus has been depicted in numerous ways as a baby cradled in a manger during monastical plays, as a blessing small ruler standing on the altar, as a festively dressed Heavenly Bridegroom in the cell of a nun. Some figures of the Infant Jesus became venerated images due to miraculous events associated with them, such as the Bambino of Aracoeli in Rome, the Infant Jesus of Prague, or that from the Loreto Monastery in Salzburg.
In Italy and here particularly in the south many families since the 18th century have owned not only Christmas cribs comprising numerous figures but also a figure of the Infant Jesus, usually depicted standing and nude, the size of a boy aged about 18 months. These figures were given magnificent wigs with curly hair, precious clothes, jewellery, and crowns made of silver and gold; they were called "piccolo ré, small king, and were frequently displayed all year round.
Over a hundred such Italian figures of the Infant Jesus dating from the 18th to the early 20th century from the private Hiky Mayr Collection will be on show at the Palais Harrach. The exhibition is divided into different parts, each dedicated to a particular type: from the lying, helpless child in a manger, to the boy in his mothers arms, to the blessing small king. The richly decorated clothes of the Infant Jesus will be displayed in a special room; iconographical particularities such as the Passion Child or the Sleeping Infant Jesus will be explained. Attention will also be paid to the different materials used to make the figures: apart from wood, wax, terracotta and cartapesta (papermaché) were used. In connection with the exhibition, the Austrian Museum of Folklore will present a show dedicated to the "Blessed Small Jesus in Devotional Prints timed to run concurrently with this exhibition.
25 November 1998
to 31 January 1999
Palais Harrach
1010 Wien, Freyung 3
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Yup, or maybe by firing squad of a bunch of pellet rifles. I doubt his victim's death was quick and painless.
For me, I'm not worried about quick, painless, how stressful the method is etc...the death penalty is not about revenge. it's a legal consequence.The state should find the most cost, resource and time efficient method and go with it.this is why we are supposed to be a nation of laws.consequences for breaking the law are not about appealing to an emotional public.of course as a public we want the convicted to feel the suffering they inflicted on victims. because we can feel the pain as mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters and children as the family of the victims do. We can put ourselves emotionally in their place and feel the anger and the rage and the venom that builds up demanding not just justice, but retribution.the states are playing too much on the emotional grounds and mental state of the convicted while at the same time trying to make the point that as a nation of laws, there can't be allowed such things as lynching parties and such. I think they just need to find a that method I described above, regardless of how painful or stressful it may or may not be.if it's not about the public and the victims emotional position, then it shouldn't be about the convicted person's emotional position either.As Larry the Cable guy would say...let's get er done.
After raping and killing a 14 y/o girl, then letting him live 24 years before attempting an execution? They should have "injected" a straight razor around the front 50 % of his neck about 2 inches deep. Then they would have found the vein.


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