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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – Despite trailing by one point with 1:32 remaining in regulation, MIT was unable to claim the lead as Smith College held on for a 55-51 victory in a NEWMAC women's basketball game on Wednesday night. Sophomore Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) led all scorers with 16 points, including an 8-of-10 performance from the charity stripe, to go along with seven rebounds, two steals, and a block for the Engineers (7-4, 3-2 NEWMAC).
With score knotted at five, the Pioneers mounted a 19-8 run that resulted in its largest advantage of the night (24-13) with nine minutes on the clock. Three-pointers by sophomores Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.) and Margo Batie (Los Angeles, Calif.) quickly closed the gap to five. Both squads went on to trade baskets as a Hunt layup coupled with a jumper from freshman Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) brought MIT within 29-25 at 4:50.
Smith ended its four-minute scoring drought courtesy of a put-back, but freshman Alexxis Isaac (San Antonio, Texas) responded with a layup while Hunt drained a pair of free throws cutting the deficit to two with one minute to go in the half. The Pioneers replied with a three pointer, helping them enter the locker room with a 34-29 edge.
The early stages of the second half were a defensive battle as Smith scored the first basket after 3:37 elapsed. Hunt kept the Engineers close with a free throw and a layup later on that made the score 36-32. After a steal and layup by Smith, Kordell buried a trey on MIT's next trip down the court. The Pioneers tacked on a pair of free throws; however, another Hunt lay-in trimmed the deficit to three (40:37) at the 12:29 mark.
After two minutes of scoreless play, another scoring flurry ensued beginning with a Smith layup. Sophomore Tamara Pena (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) connected on a three-pointer while two baskets by the hosts sandwiched a Kordell jumper, increasing the score to 46-42 with 8:08 on the clock. Free throws over the course of the next minute and a half extended the Pioneers' lead to seven, but a Hao three-pointer and Hunt free throw brought the Engineers within two (50-48) with 3:18 left to play.
Smith fended off the Cardinal and Gray with a layup 30 seconds later; however, Hunt converted the first of two free throws and added a layup to cut MIT's deficit to one (52-51) with 1:32 on the clock. Following their own timeout, Ellie Giles hit a jumper with 58 seconds remaining to give the Pioneers some breathing room.
MIT turned the ball over on its next possession, but received a second chance to extend the game when Isaac grabbed the rebound of Devon Quattrochi missed shot with 19 seconds to go. Hopes of forcing overtime were dashed when Quattrochi came up with a steal and after being fouled she hit the second of two free throws to wrap up the game.
Isaac finished with a game-high nine rebounds in addition to six points, three steals, and one block. Kordell posted nine points, five rebounds, and five assists while Hao totaled seven points and four boards. Pena snagged three steals as junior Anna Merrifield (Honolulu, Hawaii) tacked on four rebounds.
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A treatment based on the combination of an antibody and a bacterial toxin has successfully reduced HIV-infected cells in mice modified to have a human immune system and undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART). In the future, the technique could be part of a strategy to eliminate reservoirs of latent virus from HIV-infected individuals, according to results published on Jan. 9 in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
ART is an effective way to control HIV infection, however, it requires a constant adherence to the medications to prevent rebounds in viral load and the emergence of drug-resistant mutations. This viral persistence makes ART a lifelong commitment. That is why researchers are looking for HIV eradication therapies called "kick and kill," which induce cellular reservoirs to express latent HIV (the kick) and then kill these cells.
J. Victor Garcia, Ph.D., from the Center of AIDS Research at the University of North Carolina, and his group decided to test the effectiveness of an immunotoxin as a viable candidate for the "kill" step of the strategy. Called 3B3-PE38, this compound combines an antibody fragment (3B3 scFv) that recognizes the gp120 HIV envelope protein and the active part of the Pseudomonas bacteria exotoxin A (PE38). Thus, the immunotoxin can recognize and kill infected cells by identifying the fragments of gp120 they present on their membranes.
The BLT mice were treated with a triple antiretroviral drug combination that included tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada) and raltegravir (Isentress). Garcia and his group found that the drugs were able to penetrate all the tissues analyzed and reach the mice organs, where they reduced the cells producing viral RNA (vRNA). However, vRNA-producing cells were still detectable during therapy in all tissues analyzed, making them potential targets for HIV-specific immunotherapies such as 3B3-PE38.
Beginning on day 28 of ART, when vRNA reduction reached a plateau, the researchers added the immunotoxin by means of seven intraperitoneal injections given on alternate days. Compared to antiretroviral treatment alone, ART plus 3B3-PE38 reduced cell-associated vRNA (those produced in infected cells) by more than a thousand fold (3.2 log, where 1 log is equal to 10) in the bone marrow and from around 3 to 30 fold (0.4 to 1.5 log) in the human thymic organoid, spleen, lymph nodes, liver, lung, intestines and peripheral blood cells.
"When you take all the analyzed samples from all the tissues and combine them, the difference in vRNA levels is almost 10-fold, or 0.8 log exactly," says Garcia.
The study further showed that ART plus the immunotoxin resulted in an approximately 60-fold reduction of vRNA-producing cells throughout the mice's bodies. According to the researchers, the immunotoxin kills these cells and the extreme decrease in their numbers is the explanation for the reduced amount of cell-associated vRNA in the tissues, when compared with the mice that received only ART.
It is important to note that the study did not target the latent HIV reservoir. For the immunotoxin to identify the infected cell, the latter needs to present pieces of HIV proteins in its membrane and this can only happen if the virus is being produced inside it. In the latent reservoirs, HIV is transcriptionally silent, meaning it is not being replicated. Still, the immunotoxin approach is a valid "kill" system for "kick and kill" strategies.
Garcia states the plan now is to test 3B3-PE38 with the mechanisms being studied to function as the "kick." "We just have not settled on which strategy yet," he states, adding, "At this point, there is no date yet for when the immunotoxin would be available for treatment in humans."
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Nefas, literally "unspeakable," is a Latin word for evil. It is a heavy word, weightier than malum, the term for a garden-variety moral wrongdoing. It is an offense against the sacred, sacrilege, in the sense of a ritual violation, but even more in the sense of a violation of the divine, an offense against Goodness Itself. It was in this sense that Thomas Merton wrote in Raids on the Unspeakable of the crimes of the national security state. James Douglass, a scholar and friend of Merton, also applied the concept in his JFK and the Unspeakable, a provocative view of the Kennedy assassination, to the American national security state. His latest book, Gandhi and the Unspeakable, centers around the Mahatma's 1948 assassination. But its true focus is the hostility of the violent Hindu nationalist movement, the Organization of National Volunteers, known in the West by the Hindi initials, which for 40 years opposed Gandhi's nonviolence and, before it finally succeeded, attempted to assassinate him numerous times, even as it penetrated the nascent Indian state.
When we think of Gandhi's adversaries, we can name the South African colonials whose mistreatment of Indians he first opposed, certainly the British Raj against which he campaigned for 30 years, and perhaps Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the Muslim leader who forced the partition of Pakistan and India; but we seldom think of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the ideologue, political strategist and intellectual author of Gandhi's murder. As early as 1906, after Savarkar organized the assassination of a British official, William Curzon Wyllie, Gandhi outed the militant, charging that the assassin was "mad" with the idea of liberation by assassination Savarkar had fomented. The assassin, he chided, "was egged on to do this thing by the half-digested reading of worthless writings."
Three years later Gandhi debated Savarkar with the Indian epic The Ramayana as a common text. Gandhi saw the story as "a vision of suffering for the truth." In nonviolence, he professed, Indians were already free of the domination of empire. For his part, Savarkar drew from the epic the lesson of victory through violence. Rama, he argued, established his ideal kingdom only after slaying Ravana, the oppressor. For forty years Savarkar and Gandhi sparred. At the same time, Savarkar schemed to eliminate the Mahatma, because he regarded Gandhi's satyagraha as corrupting Hindu India's martial spirit, weakening it for its conflict with Islam.
The Unspeakable, however, held in its power not just Savarkar and the RSS. It included the police and security apparatus, who failed to protect Gandhi despite ample, advance evidence of a plot, the courts which let Savarkar go free, members of the government sympathetic to the RSS, and even leading disciples, like Nehru and Patel, compromised by their ascent to political power. The ultimate betrayal, of course, came later, with India's rise as a nuclear power with its own national security state. Douglass assembles the record of weakness, malignity and treachery with the help of a late (1970) judicial re-investigation of the murder and voluminous studies prepared by Gandhi's heirs in recent years.
Even in the darkest hours, there are moments of light, above all the conversion of Shaheed Suhrawardy, the Muslim chief minister of Bengal, who had abetted his co-religionists in expulsions and massacres of Hindus in Calcutta during the riots surrounding partition. When the minister sought Gandhi's help in returning peace to the city, Gandhi challenged him, "The old Suhrawrdy will have to die," he told him, for the two to work side by side so that Muslims and Hindus to live together in peace.
In the months remaining before Gandhi's death, he and Suhrawdry labored together to still the rioting in the rest of India; and, Suhrawardy served as an intermediary to Jinnah, attempting to reconcile the Pakistani leader to the idea of a united India. In a long speech at his trial, the assassin Godse cited the wrongness of Gandhi's "befriending an enemy such as Suhrwardy," as a justification for the assassination. "The enemy," he pleaded, "should be killed."
Gandhi and the Unspeakable is a short book, but it carries a profound lesson about the evil which feeds the politics of violence, reaching from rioting crowds in the streets to the councils of leaders preparing for war. But it offers a deeper lesson still about the godly power to love the enemy as children of the one God. Douglass, who in The Nonviolent Cross first celebrated the Second Vatican Council's critique of war and its message of peace, here, by making evil so palpable, argues the case for religiously-inspired nonviolence as persuasively as he ever has.
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Mei certainly has her unique charms despite her cynicism, and Yamato doesn't seem to revel in the fact that he is a player despite it being know to him. I don't think it's intentional though because of his popular and obvious Mr. Nice Guy personality.
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Perfect! I absolutely enjoyed the first episode. Romance will definitely be present throughout the series. The drawings were done nicely.
As for the plot, I have learnt a lot about the characters. The series will most likely give us a more realistic feeling. The first kiss really made it dramatic and makes me want more. >_< Who knows what's going to happen next?
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While nothing in this premiere was as startling as some of the stuff in Tonari and the animation from ZEXCS can't touch the lovely art of Brains Base, it still worked for me because of authenticity and emotional depth. Those are two good qualities to build a show around, and the latter was especially surprising.
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I never really excited about shoujo manga adaptation and after gave this show a try, my first opinion is.............boring and too typical old type shoujo story. It's the same old story when a super popular dude falls for super unpopular girl (just reverse it already, you dummy trope!), and the dude is always depicted as overly aggressive hormonal male that have no qualm to steal kiss from the girl (He must be restricting his libido all this time). Meh, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is far better than this show even though both of them are fellow shoujo adaptation. I'm out.
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Wow ... I was really, really impressed by ep 1. A very, very good (and faithful!) adaptation of the manga source material. For me this was more enjoyable than Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, which is saying a lot, as the latter series is also quite good.
This one and Little Busters! are, for the moment, at the top of the "B ranking slot" for me, but they would be in the middle ground between an A- and a B+ grade. Tonari Kaibutsu is "behind" them at a solid B rank.
Seeing as I like the Shoujo genre in general I am happy to see Sukitte and Tonari Kaibutsu both got a "good shake" ... at least so far.
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But this is no more than I expected from director/writer Satou Takuya, who did two totally different great anime, Ichigo Mashimaro and Steins;Gate. He's just a terrific director, and can apparently handle any genre.
And Kayano Ai and Sakurai Takahiro play the leads. You just can't do any better than that, in my opinion.
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Episode two was really awkward since it combined chapter 2-3, and rearranged somethings to possibly add to the development of Mei and the other supporting characters. It was nice to see the Nakanishi and Asami scene being animated and they kept his poor choice of words and proof of his love and awkwardness regarding how he feels about Asami intact, which was good. More exploration of Yamato's character was present especially since it partakes to his "Mr. Nice Guy" and "Ally of All Woman" kind of mentally and how it puts the cloud of doubt onto Mei and how it frustrates her at the same time. Makes sense concerning his position as the most popular guy who kissed many girls and the issues regarding an old crush he had. Which of course will cause Mei to feel threatened and somewhat intimidated by that fact.
What I really liked about this episode were the questions of whether Yamato's intentions of him kissing Mei were out of love, interest, or him being the nice guy that he is, and it came out as much as the latter. Mei struggling with her feelings about the kiss and Yamato in general was an interesting take as well, considering as I previously stated that she feels awkward and somewhat threatened due to him being friendly with other girls and even knowing the existence of a crush he had. I wonder if there's more to his popular that meets the eye... who knows? Those traits however truly define in what we see in his character, for now.
At the end it seems that her heart is in the right place when comes to her feelings about Yamato. Her frustrations when it comes to him kissing her without knowing his intention truly came into play in a good way, and that's good, since it adds a bit more "realism" to her character and a slight big departure from her cynical nature that can be present at times.
It makes me wonder if the pace of development was great or felt lacking, but didn't feel either of the two. Despite that the overall episode was truly enjoyable despite a few things being rearranged. The development between Mei and Yamato is going smoothly like the original chapters/medium, but am interested to see where this will go in the next episode or two.
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I came for the op and pretty impressed with the content so far. I liked the fact it's just a plain shoujo very grounded and down-to-earth. The characters feel quite deeper than you can expect. On the one hand, I watched it with low expectation to see full of archetypes, I'm glad that's not the case. When it comes to romance, at least it's quite straightforward and actually take its time.
There are something I don't like about like shoujo style drawing or typical setting of a high school girl meeting a boy. They are all minor niggles and from here, its quality will depend on how the original source continues. Although, I'm not too fond of the casts here, there's really nothing to complain about their performance, maybe a little about the character called 'Oikawa', way too high-pitched for me, it will take a bit of time to get used to her voice.
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well give seem more develop on a go give mei seem now bit more defrost slowly to fallen for yamato.
even describe kiss like a taste of fried chicken?
more bit develop on hmm asami-kenji as well?
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Mei and lingering feelings about the kiss.
Those two really make a nice couple.
She's totally fallen for Yamato...
Mei was a bit worried about him playing around.
Judging by his behavior it's not easy to figure out if he's serious or not.
Asami doesn't have it easy either.. those mean girls were just nasty.
In the ends it seems like he likes her for real.
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ahhhh!! i wasn't expecting the episode to end like that. i thought it would be a series of unfortunate events first. the first half of the episode reminded me greatly of kimi no todoke, but i enjoy the faster pace of this series more. Asami has wonderful character design and Mei with glasses and that hat looked amazing. a surprise show for the season.
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I don't think is nearly as good as Tonari no Kaibutsu but I have been enjoying it and Mei already feels like a pretty solid character. I'm not big on Yamato just yet though. I hope there's more to his character than just being the typical shoujo bait: Mr Perfect Popular who decides to pay attention to the quiet girl in the corner.
I did like how the show was also willing to focus on the side characters. That was an enjoyable moment.
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Y was the mother of two daughters, one of whom was in University with the other still in high school. Consequently she was at a bit of a loose end since they no longer needed so much attention. When I asked her why she didn't think of taking a job, even part-time, she indicated that married women in Japan did not work outside the home on the whole. Don't forget this was 16 years ago, so this may have changed. She seemed very surprised that I worked full time. Her eldest daughter was studying physics so I wondered if she would continue to work after she married, since it seemed that she was on the path to graduate school. I didn't like to press this point too much.
She also rather wistfully asked me if I travelled much with my husband when he went to conferences. I told her that I did if the destination was interesting and that I certainly never considered not coming on this trip to Japan. She said she never went with K and in fact she did not accompany him, when he came to Vancouver for the exchange. I don't know if it was a money issue, since, although my husband had travel money for conferences, I always had to pay my own way on these jaunts.
We saw several elderly people, both men and women, wearing the ordinary everday kimono of blue cotton over the course of the day. So I asked her about wearing a kimono. She said everyone now wore Western dress or yofuku. She told me that she only owned one kimono, which she wore on special occasions, however her two daughters did not have one and she told me that it was unlikely they ever would since the cost was so prohibitive. I talked about the cost of a kimomo in the previous post about the Yokohma Silk Museum so it was interesting to have it confirmed.
So where did we travel on this day? First of all we visited the area Asakusa, to the north east of Tokyo. Formerly this was the district which contained the notorious Yoshiwara or licensed pleasure centre as well as the kabuki theatres. But today visitors flock there to see the famous Buddhist temple, the Sensoji. The oldest temple in Japan, it was completed in 645 AD, however with the bombing of Tokyo during the Second World War, all the temple buildings were reconstructed in the late 1950s and 1960s.
There are several gates to the temple and between the first and second gate is a street called Nakamise, which is lined with shops selling typical Japanese souvenirs and snacks. This merchant area has existed for over two hundred years and above you can see Y standing in front of a display outside one of the stores.
Above you see the Hozomon Gate, with its giant lanterns -- this is the main gate to the temple itself
A five-storeyed Pagoda which is next to the main temple. The original purpose of a Pagoda was to house relics and sacred writings in the Buddhist religion
A statue grouping in the grounds of the temple
This collection of outdoor shrines appealed to me but I know nothing about them
When we arrived at the Pier we were not too far from the Ginza shopping area, so we set off to explore a little. Everything in Japan was very expensive, but the Ginza was the epitome of expensive, with many exclusive Japanese department stores as well as stores for the well-known brands like Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, Gucci, and others which the Japanese are so fond of. We did go into one of these large stores but after looking around for a time we decided to go for coffee and cake in their tearoom. As I recall, we paid the equivalent of $6 for a cup of coffee with no refill and I was totally shocked, since that was incredibly expensive by North American standards at the time. After that we caught the train back to Yokohama and the lovely day was over.
I hope Y enjoyed that day as much as I did. I still have wonderful memories of our trip to Asakusa and looking through my photos brought back the pleasure of the day.
This post is rather long I'm afraid, but I couldn't quite see where to break it without disrupting the story of this day for you.
I'm sure that you are getting temple and shrine overload, but when our time in Yokohama was over we took the shinkansen or high speed train to Kyoto, so the next part of my Japan story will feature some of the best-known temples in Japan.


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acevic wrote:Glad you like it.
Something irrelevant to this post: I have been on the forums for a few days in a go. I can see that it is not in the best of conditions (in terms of activity and some technical aspects). I'm working on a long post for the suggestions forum for reviving HTS. Do you think it would be possible to discuss certain aspects of this organization in private with the heads concerned? I am very eager on contributing to this organization ever since performing some deep research on it and estimating it's potential to reach for the stars.
Activity and site features are topics we discuss regularly, although we often don't have the power to implement what we want to get done.
acevic wrote:Activity and site features are topics we discuss regularly, although we often don't have the power to implement what we want to get done.
That is exactly what I am afraid of. I believe your site was passed down to Kage for overall administration and making choices. I'd liked to have proposed major changes where I would not just provide suggestions, but financial backing and resource provision to some extent. This site had an impact on the world in the past and now its sadly becoming a tomb day by day. We have 46318 users as of the time of this post. With such "active" and "helpful" users, how would such a forum run? I'm sorry I just had to say that. I can go on all day stating problems with this site. What makes me any different from anyone else is that I am seriously interested in providing a helping hand in financial terms and resources. I have read through fashizzlepop's thread "HTS needs to stop sucking" and I was terribly disappointed to see conflict on such a level. HTS is just not any site. It was one of THE best training grounds.
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The Mets will be trying to get their offense on track tonight against the Washington Nationals as they seek to break a two-game home losing streak.
Jon Niese (1-1, 3.60) goes against the Nationals' Scott Olson in a duel of left-handers. Niese coming off a no-decision in his last start when he gave up four runs and a career-high 12 hits in six innings last Wednesday in an extra-inning loss at Cincinnati.
Niese is 0-2 with a 3.79 ERA in seven starts at Citi Field, but has never faced Washington.
The Mets have given Niese 28 runs in his six starts, but 15 came in two of them so they've been all or nothing with him.
The Mets' stagnant offense of late will try to get it going against a familiar patsy in Olson, who after his first career win against them has lost six straight with a 5.22 ERA in nine starts.
Here's tonight's line-up
Angel Pagan, CF
Luis Castillo, 2B
Jose Reyes, SS
Jason Bay, LF
David Wright, 3B
Ike Davis, 1B
Jeff Francoeur, RF
Rod Barajas, C
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At Monday's council meeting, Ward 4 Councilman Joseph Solomon passed out copies of a letter from the city's actuaries, Gabriel Roder Smith Company, addressed to city Finance Director Ernie Zmyslinski informing him that the Warwick Firefighters/Police I Pension Fund meets the definition of "critical status" pursuant to state law.
According to Rhode Island General law 45-65, "critical status" is used to describe a pension plan that is severely underfunded.
Further, the letter stated that the Police/Fire I pension plan is 22.3 percent funded and had a liability of $242,127,650 as of June 30, 2011. To be determined as "critical status," the funded ratio must be less than 60 percent.
Solomon is peeved because he feels Mayor Scott Avedisian "misled" Governor Lincoln Chafee of the city's financial stability last week. Chafee praised Avedisian for leading a well-managed city when he appeared before the council last week to present his municipal aid package.
"There is nothing new here," Avedisian said yesterday, "we all knew about it. I don't see how anyone could say we misled anyone."
At the meeting Monday, Solomon said he would have voted differently on a resolution endorsing Chafee's legislative package had he seen the letter first. The resolution passed with an 8-1 vote. Ward 3 Councilwoman Camille Vella-Wilkinson voted in opposition.
"Was someone being disingenuous?" Solomon said. "Whether they were or they weren't, it's a personal decision on their part, however, to try to sweep a problem under the rug and keep it undercover so that people can be misled that they are in healthy financial status is terrible. This is not a personal issue. This is a public issue that needs addressing."
The mayor's chief of staff, Mark Carruolo, attended the meeting and spoke on behalf of Avedisian. He said the information is readily available online and was not a secret of any kind.
"There's no deceit here," said Carruolo. "The statute addresses the report. If you read the report, it should come to no surprise that Police and Fire 1 is underfunded. The letter is a certification letter that's required so the city can notify participants of the plan that the plan is in critical condition. In 180 days ... the city appears before the review board and presents the plan at the appropriate time."
Carruolo also stated that the city has been working with the treasurer, governor and auditor general on the plan for some time and that they are all aware of the plan's status. But, Solomon didn't want to hear it.
"I'm not going to point the finger at Mayor Avedisian, but shame on him for not sharing the information with us, the governor and the people of the city and state," he said. "We've got a significant problem here. Someone has to make some decisions and it has to be done now. We have to be proactive, not reactive, to this issue."
Moreover, Ward 9 Councilman Steven Merolla questioned why Avedisian is yet to sign a resolution the council recently approved that would allow actuaries to come before the council. From his point of view, the mayor doesn't support it.
Again, Carruolo spoke on behalf of the mayor at Monday's meeting. He said that he and other members of the mayor's administration were looking into possible dates, as well as costs, related to the visit from actuaries.
"I think the councilman is making an assumption," said Carruolo. "Just because it's not signed yet doesn't mean he won't follow through."
With that, Merolla said, "It could also mean he doesn't support the resolution. If he didn't sign it, I think a reasonable assumption would be that he doesn't support it," to which Carruolo replied, "That's exactly right – it's an assumption."
I dont know what rock Solomon is living under here. Its damn near plain knowledge that Police and Fire I is underfunded and the city is in the 18th year of a 40 year plan to rectify it...
I was at the meeting. It was clear to all that Mr. Solomon's complaint was mainly about the timing of the release of the 180 day notice. It was made so late that the 180th day falls after the November election. This notice was clearly available for release earlier and several of us asked for the same. It should have been released in April and discussed by the mayor at the meeting with the governor at the city council meeting.


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Do Fewer Americans Support Taxing the Rich?
Poll after poll shows that a majority of Americans support higher taxes on the wealthy. A number of millionaires – aka The Friends of Warren – also believe in paying more.
Yet a new Gallup poll shows that American support for higher taxes on the wealthy may actually be declining. Fully 62% of Americans say the wealthy pay too little. That's the lowest number in a decade, with the single exception of 2010, when 55% of Americans supported higher taxes on the wealthy. (Click here to see a chart of perceptions of taxes paid by the wealthy over the years.)
If you look at the larger trend over the past decade, American support for taxing the wealthy has been declining. In 1992, 77% of respondents said the wealthy paid too little. After the Clinton tax hikes on the wealthy in 1993, support for taxing the wealthy still remained high at 68%.
At the same time, the percentage of voters who think the wealthy pay their fair share has increased – from 16% in 1992 to 25% in 2012. And the percentage of people who think the rich pay too much has held fairly steady at around 10% over the past decade – though it's lower today than the 15% reported in 2010.
This is not to obscure the overall message: a majority of Americans support taxing the wealthy. As Gallup states: "As Republicans continue to resist any plan that would raise taxes on wealthy Americans, they face not only opposition from the Democrats and Obama, but the pressure of public opinion."
But it's worth noting that at a time of heightened coverage of the low taxes paid by some of the rich, there is no accompanying increase in public outrage over "fairness" in the tax code.
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A letter that will be sent to the two East Hampton Town justices asking them to do more to crack down on problems at the Surf Lodge restaurant was unanimously approved by the Montauk citizens advisory committee at a meeting on Monday.
Written by Jay Fruin, a committee member, the letter asks Justices Lisa R. Rana and Catherine A. Cahill to take on the Surf Lodge, which, according to Pat Gunn, an assistant town attorney and the administrator of the town's Public Safety Division, has been cited some 640 times since June for alleged code violations. The citations are for an outdoor bar and a food wagon that is parked outside the business.
Lisa Grenci, the committee chairwoman, said she met with Rob McKinley, who runs the Surf Lodge, and told him he should remove the offending items. "If it's an awning, get rid of it. If it's a food truck, get rid of it. We've had enough, and we're fed up with it," she said she told him.
In an e-mail message on Tuesday, Mr. McKinley disputed what Ms. Grenci said. He accused her of playing both sides of the fence. "Lisa also has no problem taking our money for rentals," he said.
Ms. Grenci, a real estate agent, explained that she has a client who has rented employee housing to Surf Lodge. "I can't discriminate."
Mr. McKinley said the restaurant had not removed the awning or food truck as they did not believe they were in violation. "That's what our lawyer and East Hampton court will decide," he wrote.
"And frankly I feel no matter what we do the 'committees' will find bogus claims against us because we aren't what they want in town. But guess what? We are doing a lot more that is right than wrong," he wrote.
In its letter to the justices, the committee wrote, "This is to alert you about a critical issue before you which has negatively compromised the quality of life in the hamlet of Montauk. For the third summer, the business known as Surf Lodge has flagrantly and repeatedly abused the privilege to conduct business." The letter will also be sent to the town attorney's office.
It goes on to say that "at the peak of the season their ongoing flagrant disregard for the law has consumed valuable code and law enforcement resources from other important duties. Their pattern of behavior negatively impacts the community while hundreds of other businesses are able to successfully operate without violating the same town codes and regulations."
The committee asked that the justices not consolidate all violations into a single or reduced fine, nor rearrange their court calendar for the convenience of the defense attorney. It also requested them to apply the maximum penalty for each individual violation.
Committee members charged that the Surf Lodge, which is owned by King and Grove, a corporate group that includes Jayma Cardoso and Rob McKinley, is gaming the system by delaying the charges until after its liquor license is renewed, reportedly in January.
Members suggested letting the State Liquor Authority know about the number of violations against the club, which opened in May 2009 and has drawn huge crowds and popular musical acts to the lakefront establishment ever since, on the theory that the license might not be renewed.
At the meeting, the town's code enforcement office was hit with accusations that code enforcement in Montauk is questionable. Members said they have been complaining about the 7-Eleven sign, which is on a state right of way in front of the establishment, for over a year with no results. "We don't have code enforcement," said Linda Barnds, the committee's secretary.
"We need the guys from East Hampton Village. They get things done," said Ray Cortell, a committee member.
Mr. Gunn of the Public Safety Division took issue with those comments on Tuesday. In an e-mail message he rejected that assertion and wondered where such "unfounded information" came from. "It's an insult to the hard-working men and women in the ordinance enforcement department for anyone to make a reckless comment like that," he wrote.
"Surf Lodge is an ongoing litigation and cannot be discussed by the town while charges are pending," he said.
Since January, the ordinance department has opened 191 cases in Montauk, a number that represents 20 percent of cases townwide, he said.
Mr. Gunn said the 7-Eleven sign was out of his jurisdiction because it is in a state right of way, but noted that the convenience store had been charged for failure to obtain permission for the sign from the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board. He referred further questions to the town attorney's office.
Rob Connelly, an assistant town attorney, said yesterday that there were three charges against the Montauk 7-Eleven that were recently adjudicated in court, including the sidewalk sign. The store was found guilty, he said, and told to remove the sign.


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CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora previously suggested Harvin could command $12 million annually, which would make him the league's third-highest paid receiver behind Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald. PFT's Mike Florio confirms Harvin's deal "won't be close" to Megatron and Fitz. The bottom line is Harvin isn't a one-year rental in Seattle. They're locking up the 24-year-old long term.
I know this is kind of meaningless since we'll know the details a few hours from now, but it sounds like Harvin's contract may not be quite the albatross as was initially feared.


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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Delaware State University has suspended all activities of the school's bands amid an investigation of alleged hazing.
The suspension announced Thursday involves all band performances, including those of the DSU Approaching Storm marching band, the DSU Jazz Ensembles, the concert band and pep bands. A spokesman said roughly 150 students participate in the bands.
Officials at the historically black institution said the suspension covers the rest of the semester, including the final home football game Nov. 23. They did not provide details of the alleged hazing but said the university takes such allegations very seriously.
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An impressive crop this month, as DiS has found it tough whittling a wide selection down to a top ten, and then a top five from that shortlist (oooh, slightly revised format).
To be honest, we're amazed any listening got done what with the Euros on the telly and certain staffers involved in an office sweepstake. The editor – hello – didn't win, and is now grumpy as his team ended up beaten finalists. Rubbish.
Anyway, records: here are the best of the best from June 2008, each worth your pennies and pounds.
Wooden Shjips
Singles Compilation Vol 1
(Holy Mountain)
Says Him Tall: "Wooden Shjips buck the trend of your typical West Coast psych band, holding seemingly little truck with the Californian sun-drenched blessed-out stylings of their historical predecessors, or indeed modern garage contemporaries (hello Warlocks, Modey Lemon, Brian Jonestown Massacre et al); they reference everything from serious heavy duty late 20th Century composers such as Terry Riley to the primal rock therapy of everything from the late lamented Bo Diddley to one-note synth abusers Suicide…"
Read the full DiS review HERE
Wild Beasts
Limbo, Panto
Says Alex Denney: "A thrillingly uneven listen, but what's important is that, like toddlers taking their first teetering steps, Wild Beasts are reeling in the instinctive knowledge they've set in motion an idea that's been in their genes from birth, coursing fearless through learning limbs that seek out trauma as their cue to pick up the pen, the guitar or the microphone. As such, Limbo, Panto is shocking, funny, and above all irrevocable. Expect this lot to be around for the long haul…"
Read the full DiS review HERE
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
(Bella Union)
Says Tony Robert Whyte: "The door may have been more than slightly ajar for Fleet Foxes prior to this release, courtesy of peers such as Band of Horses and Bon Iver having the decency to attract plaudits aplenty, but even if it were locked tight there's enough magic within the eleven tracks of their self-titled debut to prise any bolts clean from the timber. On they stroll, through into the light of a thousand hand-claps and audiences always on the grow, always keeping up with only themselves. Seems to have worked well so far…"
Read the full DiS review HERE
Johnny Foreigner
Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
(Best Before)
Says Tony Robert Whyte: "Waited Up 'Til It Was Light is an album of escapism, of sorts: sweat your troubles away, guys, because tomorrow's another day and we can all deal with that shit then. It's no 10/10 as Johnny Foreigner's first EP was rated on DiS – to award such a mark for a debut album would be to ask the band to call it quits, as they're unlikely to ever trump it – but it is a definite contender, alongside Los Campesinos!'s Hold On Now, Youngster, Foals' Antidotes and Wild Beasts' forthcoming Limbo, Panto, for home-grown debut of the year…"
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Flying Lotus
Los Angeles
Says Kenn Taylor: "Los Angeles is almost as seamless as it is engaging, and it subtly commands your attention from start to finish. That groovy, glitchy sound of Flying Lotus's earlier work is toned down in favour of far more complex, multi-layered orchestrations of crackling, strings, hiss and water. It's a mess of sounds, but controlled with some precision. You can feel that every note is in its exact right place. The album is most definitely a journey – not through sound specifically, but certainly powered by it…"
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Sigur Rós
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(EMI; read the full DiS review HERE)
The War On Drugs
Wagonwheel Blues
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The Notwist
The Devil, You + Me
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It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
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Sons of Noel & Adrian
Sons of Noel & Adrian
Says Rachel Kellehar: "Supporting a total of nine songs and clocking in at over an hour in length, each inspirational, frequently brooding composition speaks in intricate tongues of simpler times, evocative instrumental breakdowns speaking the words the lips cannot. An intensely vivid journey into a discordantly beautiful world, Sons Of Noel And Adrian have liberated themselves from the constraints of society's sonic status quo, and in doing so, have created something truly inspirational…"
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DiScuss: There really were a lot of great releases in June – ones we couldn't fit here include Alexander Tucker's Portal, Russian Circles' Station, Down I Go's Tyrant, Daedelus' Love To Make Music To and Joan As Police Woman's To Survive. What's been your favourite album of the last month?


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LaFlorecita wrote:I disagree, Alberto at 100% [color="Red"]>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> x 100 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>[/color] Andy at 100%
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Build it and they will come.
That's a motto that permeates most things in the lives of Stan and Sarah Starr. The couple are building their professional practices -- Stan is a licensed massage therapist, Sarah an art therapist. They're building their dream of living and working in Hood River. And most recently, they've built something tangible that helps on both those fronts: an addition to their house that provides studio space for both of their practices.
"We had this dream," Sarah said, "of a home business where we're both working out of home doing our respective trades." The Starrs have been working toward their goals since they moved to Hood River nearly 8 years ago. That's when they fell in love with the place -- both the community and the lifestlye it offered. Since then they have been making ends meet with a variety of jobs, some related to their professions and others not.
But the completion of their new home studio brings them closer to their ultimate goal of a successful home business. It also provides their clients with a unique -- and, in their view -- more beneficial experience.
"The end result is that people feel more comfortable and more relaxed," Stan said, referring to the home setting. The couple juggle time in the studio, which is big enough for Stan's massage table and for Sarah to spread out some of her art implements.
"We schedule our clients at different times," Sarah said. The studio is situated to offer added benefits for both Stan and Sarah's practices. It opens through French doors into the dining room, which Sarah uses when she needs more space. On the other side, it opens onto a garden -- the inspiration behind the name of Stan's business, Moon Garden Massage.
"Stan's a Master Gardener," Sarah explained. Among the prolific flowers and plants outside the studio door are a variety of herbs that Stan infuses into oils he uses in his massage practice.
Stan has been a licensed massage therapist for seven years and specializes in deep tissue Swedish massage.
"The basis of the technique is to increase circulation," Stan said. "I do that through long, flowing strokes and lots of intricate movement with the fingers." The goal is to relax muscles by applying deep, penetrating pressure and to increase the flow of blood from the extremities to the heart.
"If you do it correctly and long enough," Stan said, "you create hyper-circulation."
Stan has worked for salons that offer massage (and continues to see clients at A Salon on Oak Street) but feels that his home studio allows him more flexibility.
"My massages focus on being thorough," he said. "It's important for me to only do three or four massages a day." The homey, garden setting of his studio also provides a "less clinical" feel for his clients.
"I'm certainly more in control of the environment here," he said. "I feel like -- for both Sarah and I -- we're more connected working out of home. I like to share that sort of creative home energy with my clients."
Sarah, too, finds that melding her practice into her home studio has been beneficial to her and her clients. She was trained as an art educator at Boston University, then received her master's in art therapy from Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego. But finding work in the fledgling field of art therapy was often frustrating.
"Most of the programs I was involved in were always dependent on funding," she said. "It was hard to get consistent work."
When she and Stan decided to build the studio, she felt it would be a perfect place for her to pursue her practice on her own terms.
Sarah -- one of only a handful of certified art therapists in the Gorge -- works with both adults and children in what she calls "healing art."
"My approach is to first understand the client's concerns and situation while learning what their strengths and motivation for growth are," she said. "Then we work together on goals and course of action through art and discussion."
Art therapy has been more widely used and accepted in Europe and Australia, according to Sarah. But it's slowly gaining recognition in the U.S. as a viable form of therapy.
"Many of my clients are people who maybe want to make a change in their life but they don't know how," Sarah said. Often, she added, they are in a stage of transition -- going through a divorce, perhaps, or facing an empty nest.
"They remember that their artistic side is what helped them through something before, or maybe they always had an interest in art but never got to pursue it." Sarah's goal, through art and discussion, is to get people to look at themselves and their lives more closely.
"I encourage people to use their creativity as a way of bringing meaning to their lives," she said. She also helps cultivate clients' creativity as a tool.
"Along with healing, it's a preventive measure," she said. "Once you get in touch with that -- once you have some of those tools -- you tend to use them. It helps people to look within and realize that they are the ones who have the answers."
Since having her first child five years ago (she and Stan now have two children, Miranda, 5, and Isabelle, 1) Sarah has found herself a "natural" in doing art therapy with children.
"Art therapy is amazing with kids," she said. "You start doing some art with them and before you know it (issues) are out there but they're not threatening." She hopes to increase her work with children as she builds her practice. "It's very empowering," she said.
In addition to seeing clients on an individual basis, Sarah teaches a weekly "open studio" class for adults and a children's art class one afternoon a week.
"My classes focus on personal expression and encouraging creativity and spontaneity, not on skills," she said. "As a result, students realize which media they prefer to work with and develop skills naturally, through exploration."
Having her art therapy practice and art classes at home also has allowed Sarah the time -- and studio space -- to pursue more of her own art and interact with the growing artists' community in Hood River.
"It's been a synergistic sort of experience," she said.
The Starrs plan to continue their individual pursuits of their alternative healing practices, but feel that massage therapy and art therapy complement each other.
"Stan and I hope to integrate some of our treatments and classes for clients and students," Sarah said, adding that their individual therapies focus on the mind/body connection.
"My work is more dependent on the student or client channeling energy within themselves," she said. "It complements what Stan does and vice versa."
For his part, Stan feels that Hood River is the perfect place for their studio -- and the burgeoning field of alternative medicine and therapies in general.
"Hood River has a population of people who are athletic, sports- and health-minded -- and forward-thinking," he said. "We're all looking for a feeling of connectedness that a small town environment can provide. It might be easier for us to make a living in a city, but the whole putting together of a healthy lifestyle is harder."
Sarah agreed. "As healers, you have to live that example," she said. And that's exactly what the Starrs are doing.
"The more you integrate your life into healing, and into helping others," Stan said, "the more people who need that are drawn to you."
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Fresh intercommunity dialogue is needed to resolve the difficulties surrounding controversial parades in Northern Ireland, said a Catholic priest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, following the most serious outbreak of sectarian rioting in many years. Dozens of police officers were injured during rioting as nationalists, mainly Catholics, protested a decision by the Independent Parades Commission to allow Protestants to march through the Catholic enclave of Ardoyne on their way back to North Belfast from parades in the city center. Police, political and community leaders claimed that the violence was organized by dissident Republicans, still unhappy with the provisions of the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement. Police video footage showed that the rioting was well organized: Youths had stones, bricks and bottles stored in rolling garbage bins and were armed with petrol bombs. "There were people here yesterday and the day before whom I had never seen in Ardoyne before, and I have been living here for 10 years—they must have been bused in," Passionist Father Gary Donegan of Holy Cross Catholic Church said.
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