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Is it disputable that television news, primarily ABC, CBS, and particularly NBC, has been dominated by liberal bias for decades? Anecdotally, probably not. While cable network the Fox News Channel has raised more than a few hackles due to their apparent right-leaning coverage, FNC does attempt, not always successfully, to live up to their motto, "Fair and Balanced" by consistently presenting both conservative and liberal commentators and their respective views on just about every program on the network. "Fair and Balanced" is not an aphorism adopted by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, and it tends to show. Why do so many liberals become incensed when the "F-word" Network is even mentioned? Mostly because they do tend to lean right most of the time–something radically new for a television audience that has been pummeled with left-leaning media bias for decades, so much so that most people don't even notice anymore.
But what about the radio? While the supposed "common" knowledge of the liberal blogosphere trouncing the conservative alternative is a bit specious at best, in the world of talk radio, the truth is quite telling–conservative radio is simply thumping the liberal option. This isn't necessarily surprising news considering the abject failure Air America Radio has been, so much so the progressive station was forced to file for bankruptcy in October of 2006 (despite previous refutations that the rumors of AAR's demise were unfounded–spin.)
It's obvious people prefer not to listen to liberal radio. Perhaps they get too much of that in their evening television news broadcasts, which could also stand as another indication as to FNC's meteoric success–the people, having grown tired with liberal TV bias usually lacking balance, have opted instead for conservative bias with regular, moderate liberal balance. Whereas TV is almost entirely a liberal news medium, radio, which tends to offer greater honesty and less politically corrected pretense, is almost entirely a moderate to right-leaning news alternative, as was shown this week by the Center for American Progress (who apparently played a little fast and loose with their numbers–further down), much to their consternation.
First, the anemic Crooks and Liars perspective…
The (conservative) spirit of the radio
By: Steve Benen on Thursday, June 21st, 2007 at 9:45 AM – PDT
I knew talk radio in this country skewed heavily to the far-right, but I had no idea it was this bad.
While progressive talk is making inroads on commercial stations, right-wing talk reigns supreme on America's airwaves. Some key findings:
* In the spring of 2007, of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming was conservative, and only 9 percent was progressive.
* Each weekday, 2,570 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk are broadcast on these stations compared to 254 hours of progressive talk — 10 times as much conservative talk as progressive talk.
* 76 percent of the news/talk programming in the top 10 radio markets is conservative, while 24 percent is progressive.
That's astounding. America embraces progressive ideas on almost every issue of national significance, but according to this report (.pdf), prepared by the Center for American Progress and Free Press, progressive ideas have practically been wiped from the radio dials.
Now for the more expansive Newsbusters view…
Group Led By Clinton's John Podesta Outlines Assault of Conservative Radio
Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 21, 2007 – 13:52.
The supposedly "free speech" left are out in force trying to silence all voices in the media with views different than their own just in time for the 2008 presidential campaign.
Potentially more worrisome, one liberal advocate in the middle of this debate has close ties to the Clintons, although it is quite unlikely the press will convey such when its recommendations are disseminated with their predictable stamp of approval.
*****Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this.
With that in mind, the left-leaning Center for American Progress published a report Thursday detailing how conservatives dominate the talk radio dial, and exactly what needs to be done legislatively for liberals to wrest control over this medium (emphasis added throughout):
- Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
- Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.
- Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.
Imagine that.
For those unfamiliar with the Center, its President and CEO is none other than John Podesta, the former Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton. And:
- The Executive Vice President for Management is Sarah Rosen, who was also a member of the Clinton administration.
- Senior Vice President for Development Debbie Goldberg worked for the Clinton campaign.
- Senior Vice President and Director David Halperin was a speech writer for President Clinton.
- Vice President of Communications Jennifer Palmieri was Clinton's White House Deputy Press Secretary.
- Senior Vice President for External Affairs Winnie Stachelberg worked at the Office of Management and Budget under Clinton.
- Vice President of Finance and Operations Brad Kiley worked for the Clinton administration.
- Ditto Peter Rundlet, Anna Soellner, Debbie Fine, and Michelle Jolin.
In reality, the staff and Senior Fellows listing of this Center reads like a Clinton administration Who's Who.
Starting to get the picture? As you can imagine, this is why this group is so concerned with the following statistics it shared with its readers:
- 91 percent of the political talk radio programming on the stations owned by the top five commercial station owners is conservative, and 9 percent is progressive.
- 2,570 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk radio are broadcast each weekday on these stations compared to 254 hours of progressive talk.
- 92 percent of these stations (236 stations out of 257) do not broadcast a single minute of progressive talk radio programming.
Picture becoming clearer? Yet, there was more:
- 76 percent of the total talk radio programming on the 65 stations in the top 10 markets is conservative, and 24 percent is progressive.
- 423 hours and 40 minutes of conservative talk are broadcast in the top 10 markets each weekday compared to 135 hours of progressive talk.
- More conservative talk is broadcast than progressive talk in each of the top 10 markets, although the disparity is less than five hours of total airtime in New York (18 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk vs.16 hours of progressive talk) and Chicago (33 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk vs. 29 hours of progressive talk).
- In four of the top 10 markets, progressive talk is broadcast only two hours or less each weekday (Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, and Atlanta).
Understand why these folks are unhappy?
Of course, as you would imagine, these folks don't believe these statistics are at all a function of market forces. Instead:
Our view is that the imbalance in talk radio programming today is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast regulation resulting from pro-forma licensing policies,17 longer license terms (to eight years from three years previously),18 the elimination of clear public interest requirements such as local public affairs programming,19 and the relaxation of ownership rules, including the requirement of local participation in management.
Color me unsurprised. As is typical, whenever a liberal is unhappy about something, it must be because government regulations aren't tight enough.
Yet, what is truly fascinating is that one of the "problems" concerning under-regulation of this industry was deliciously implemented during the – wait for it – Clinton years:
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 removed the national limit on the number of radio stations that one company could own. This resulted in the wave of consolidation that carried Clear Channel from 40 stations to over 1,200, and many other conglomerates to several hundred stations apiece.
The economics of radio station ownership changed in this period as a result of consolidation. Large, non-local owners aired syndicated programming on a wider scale across their national holdings. Advertising on local stations was marketed and sold by national firms, undermining the ability of local owners to compete. Many sold their stations. The number of locally-owned, minority-owned, and female-owned stations was constrained—and the very different programming decisions these owners make were less visible in the market.
In short, the removal of ownership limits created artificial economies of scale for syndicated programming (dominated by conservative talk). Because of the size of corporate radio holdings, this business model was profitable even if localism declined and local tastes and needs were not suitably matched.
Isn't that marvelous? So, on the one hand, these folks – most of them members of the Clinton administration – believe that the "problem" of conservative domination over the airwaves was signed into law by – wait for it! – their previous boss, likely with some of their blessings at the time.
Yet, eleven years later, recognizing that this didn't work out well for them, they want to enact new laws to fix the problem they created.
Isn't that special?
Without further ado, here are their recommendations:
- National radio ownership by any one entity should not exceed 5 percent of the total number of AM and FM broadcast stations.
- In terms of local ownership, no one entity should control more than 10 percent of the total commercial radio stations in a given market, or specifi cally, more than:
- Four commercial stations in large markets (a radio market with 45 or more commercial radio stations).
- Three stations in mid-markets (between 30 and 44 total commercial radio stations).
- Two stations in smaller markets (between 15 and 29 total commercial radio stations).
- One station in the smallest markets (14 or fewer total commercial radio stations).
We recommend the following steps the FCC should take to ensure local needs are being met:
- Provide a license to radio broadcasters for a term no longer than three years.
- Require radio broadcast licensees to regularly show that they are operating on behalf of the public interest and provide public documentation and viewing of how they are meeting these obligations.
- Demand that the radio broadcast licensee announce when its license is about to expire and demonstrate how the public can participate in the process to determine whether the licenseshould be extended. In addition, the FCC should be required to maintain a website to conduct on-line discussions and facilitate interaction with the public about licensee conduct.
And finally (fasten your seatbelts!):
Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting
If commercial radio broadcasters are unwilling to abide by these regulatory standards or the FCC is unable to effectively regulate in the public interest, a spectrum use fee should be levied on owners to directly support local, regional, and national public broadcasting.
A fee based on a sliding scale (1 percent for small markets, 5 percent for the largest markets) would be distributed directly to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with clear mandates to support local news and public affairs programming and to cover controversial and political issues in a fair and balanced manner.
We estimate that such a fee would net between $100 million and $250 million and would not overly burden commercial radio broadcasters.
As you might imagine, the first set of recommendations are a total perversion of the free-market system.
Yet, what's potentially more amusing about all this is the final category concerning violators paying a fine to support public broadcasting.
Think about it: if the plan is to get more liberal points of view on the airwaves, and these folks are looking to get more money to public broadcasting, aren't they basically admitting that PBS is INDEED a disseminator of liberal opinions?
Somehow they missed this delicious irony…or did they?
Of course, if a left-leaning group composed largely of Clintonistas are willing to admit the liberal bias at PBS, maybe the discussion should be whether or not government funding to this organization should be immediately halted.
Barring that, it seems logical given this group's concern for balance in media that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, the Associated Press, Reuters et al should have to pay moneys to Fox News, the Washington Times, the National Review, and the Weekly Standard to compensate for liberal bias in print and on television.
Now that's a cockamamie scheme I might be able to get behind.
As for Crooks and Liars claim that "America embraces progressive ideas on almost every issue of national significance," different polls provide different results, as evidenced in the sourced link from their quote. One can find almost any information to back up their personal beliefs–in this instance, the left-leaning organization, Media Matters.
It looks like the Center for American Progress, while attempting to dampen free speech, were a bit deceptive in their number crunching with their original report (surprise!)
Again, from Newsbusters…
Conservative Radio Dominance Not as Grave as Liberals Proclaim
Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 22, 2007 – 15:37.
Update (Ken Shepherd): Maloney tells me he'll be on the John Gibson radio program on Fox News radio shortly after 6:20 p.m. to discuss this.
As NewsBusters reported here and here, liberals around the country are carping and whining about conservatives having too much control of AM radio.
In fact, just yesterday, the Center for American Progress issued an outline as to what needs to be done to counter what it views as an unfair dominance of the airwaves by conservatives.
With that in mind, Brian Maloney has taken a look at the data collected by the Center to identify just how bad things really are for those poor liberals trying to compete with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al.
What Maloney found – not surprisingly – was that the Center fudged the numbers a bit to make it look like things were much worse than they actually are (emphasis added throughout):
[A] quick glance at the study reveals something else: they've greatly downplayed the amount of lefty talk actually airing.
In fact, the mistakes are so obvious, they shatter the study's credibility. According to the methodology cited on page seven, "hosts were categorized as conservative, progressive/ liberal, or indeterminate/ neither based on self- identification, show descriptions, and listings in Talkers Magazine. Only hosts with evident and near- indisputable leanings were categorized."
That's where the survey's clear bias is exposed: they clearly have a much easier time labelling a "conservative" host than a "progressive" one.
No surprise there, right? After all, anybody slightly right of center to liberals is a conservative. Yet, to be classified as a liberal by a liberal, you practically have to have a hammer and sickle on your lapel.
To prove the point, Maloney offered some examples:
- San Francisco's KGO is listed as featuring only three hours of daily liberal talk! If this refers to Bernie Ward, what about the four hours of hyper- lefty Ray Taliaferro (shown in top- left photo)? Or two hours of liberal- leaning Pete Wilson? Finally, why don't the 17 hours or more of "progressive" weekend programming count?
- The report lists KABC / Los Angeles as featuring no liberal talk, but morning host Doug McIntyre's four- hour show fits the study's "progressive" criteria, having sat on the "left" side of the Talk Radio Rumble panel at the recent New York City convention organized by Talkers.
- In New York City, why weren't WOR- AM afternoon hosts Hennican & White listed in the "progressive" column? Ellis Hennican is not shy when it comes to promoting a leftist viewpoint.
- In Washington, why isn't urban talker WOL listed on the liberal side as well? Take a look at the schedule: is there anything unclear about Al Sharpton's leanings? The same goes for the stations with this format in Detroit, Philly, Chicago and elsewhere.
As always, I am never shocked when statistics collated and presented by a liberal establishment don't pass the smell test. After all, as I've written about for years, to these folks, one plus one can equal zero, one, two, or three depending on what answer best fits the agenda being advanced.
Great catch, Brian.


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St. Louis Fed President, Jim Bullard, was the replacement for Mr. Poole to head the St. Louis Fed. If you've ever wondered why the Fed doesn't seem to know what's going on with much of anything, look no further. I can conclusively say that I disagree with almost every utterance from his lips – as in the exact opposite. Someone who obviously hasn't learned the real lessons of the crisis, he believes that it's his job to "get credit flowing again." He has no idea why a "jobless recovery might just be the new standard" because he has not figured out the decelerating effects that debt has on the economy, on the velocity of money, and on unemployment. Despite having a Ph.D in economics, and being a Fed research writer (have you read many of those reports?), I think it's safe to say that he's never put together a chart of debt levels on the same page as a chart with unemployment or anything else. It's almost as if being submersed in the myth and misinformation kills off one's common sense… sigh. Not a bright future to look forward to - he becomes a voting FOMC member soon.
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It would be great to see SI's waterfront developed. It's a massive dump with gigantic potential. It could be (and hopefully, will be) beautiful.
New York Times
September 27, 2012
World's Tallest Ferris Wheel Planned for Staten Island
By James Barron
Clockwise from top, a rendering of the proposed Staten Island wheel; the Ferris wheel in Toys R Us, Times Square; the Wonder Wheel on Coney Island; the original Ferris wheel at the 1893 Worlds Fair, Chicago; the London Eye; and the Singapore Flyer, (not shown exactly to scale).
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Thursday that the worlds tallest Ferris wheel would rise above the Staten Island waterfront. The 625-foot-tall ride will displace the Singapore Flyer, at 541 feet the record-holder of the moment.
And what about the High Roller wheel planned for Las Vegas? The New York wheel will reach 75 feet farther into the sky. It will dwarf the 13-year-old London Eye by 182 feet and the original Ferris wheel, built for the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, by 361 feet.
As if those statistics were not enough, here are more: The Staten Island wheel will be almost three times the height of the largest Ferris wheel in the United States, the 212-foot machine at the Texas State Fair. As it happens, the Texas wheel is the same size as the Riesenrad in Vienna, which figured in movies like The Third Man (1949) and Scorpio (1973).
Locally, the new wheel will be more than 10 times the height of the 60-foot one at the Toys R Us store in Times Square. Never mind that that wheel is indoors.
The Staten Island wheel on which construction is expected to begin in two years, with an opening goal of 2015 will be big in other ways. It will carry 1,440 people at once, 10 times as many as the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island (which, for the record, was originally called the Dip-the-Dip). The Singapore Flyer can accommodate only 840 at a time, the London Eye 800 (the passenger load of 11 double-decker buses, according to the London Eyes Web site).
Still, the race is on. Norman D. Anderson, the author of Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History (Popular Press, 1992), wondered how long the new New York wheel would reign as No. 1. Everybody has to have something a little bigger, he said. Its just a matter of time before we go to 1,000 feet.
© 2012 The New York Times Company
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It would be great to see SI's waterfront developed. It's a massive dump with gigantic potential. It could be (and hopefully, will be) beautiful.
please goddess no, please goddess no, please goddess no...
(to the wheel - not redevelopment)
It's about time they've added another one to Staten Island's List of Joke Superlatives since they've closed down the World's Largest Landfill.
If they built it in Coney Island, I might see the merit, and even then at a stretch. At least it would be where it belongs, if this thing can even be said to belong anywhere in the city. But north of the Narrows, facing Lady Liberty... come on.
Really? We're supposed to believe this will happen...I read it in the Post first and thought it was just another Bloomberg seed story but I see it's on all the news outlets now.
I love the north end of SI...running the half marathons in the Bay Blvd area is a privilege IMHO but a 65 story carnival ride? Please.
Welcome to Staten Eye-Land: Worlds Tallest Ferris Wheel to Anchor New Waterfront Development
by Branden Klayko
The planned New York Wheel development includes the worlds tallest Ferris wheel.
(Courtesy NYC Mayors Office)
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Today, thousands of tourists and residents make a loop on the Staten Island Ferry between the borough and Manhattan, but as soon as 2016, they can also make a vertical loop on the worlds tallest Ferris wheel, anchoring a new mixed-use waterfront project on the North Shore waterfront in St. George. Mayor Bloomberg today unveiled plans for Harbor Commons, which includes 350,000 square feet of retail space for 100 outlet mall stores, a 200-room, 120,000 square foot hotel, and a massive green-roofed parking structure, but all eyes were on the projects signature element, the 625-foot-tall New York Wheel will offer stunning views of New York City and Harbor to an estimated 4.5 million people per year.
The planned Harbor Commons Development includes a hotel and 100 outlet mall stores.
(Courtesy NYC Mayors Office)
The Harbor Commons and New York Wheel developments flank the Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home of the minor league Staten Island Yankees, and rise from the site of two large surface parking lots at the ferry landing. SHoP Architects with Lee Weintraub Landscape Architects designed the $230 million mixed-use outlet mall-entertainment-hotel complex at Harbor Commons to relate to the surrounding Staten Island community while still providing a monumental presence on the waterfront and ferry landing. At SHoP, we like taking typilogies traditionally considered suburban or car-dominated and turning them inside out, making them urban in their experience said Vishaan Chakrabarti, principal at SHoP. Its not a mall in the traditional sense.
A series of undulating ribbon-like green roof structures are arrayed at Harbor Commons that define three open-air pedestrian corridors through the site. Each ribbon is punctuated by grids skylights where north-south passages connect the corridors. Its about organizing pedestrian corridors, said Chakrabarti. We looked to create a contemporary version of an Italian hill town.
The great hill towns have interesting spines. Floor plates gradually shift as the site negotiates a 25-foot grade change.
Facade treatments and materials are still being determined, but will reflect the industrial waterfront site. Chakrabarti said SHoP is exploring a signage and art program that will enliven the waterfront facade. As day turns to night, the ribbons presence on the waterfront is elevated as they start to glow. Chakrabarti said. Whatever the final design, however, it needs to be respectful of the waterfront.
The Ferris wheel on the north side of the ballpark will take the worlds tallest title, topping the Singapore Flyer by 84 feet and dwarfing other iconic wheels like the London Eye which stands just over 440 feet tall. The $250 million wheel will contain 36 football-shaped pods carrying 40 passengers each for the 38 minute ride. The NYC Economic Development Corporation estimated that at peak season the wheel will spin up to 30,000 visitors a day. The New York Wheels resemblance to its London equivalent is more than passing, its being designed by Starneth, whose team includes members who built the Eye. Surrounding the New York Wheel, a 100,000 square foot commercial terminal building continues the theme of green ribbons roofs, adding an array of wind turbines and solar panels. The structure will include restaurant, retail, theater, and exhibition space over a nearly 1,000-car parking structure.
This wheel is a game changer for Staten Island, said Staten Island borough president James Molinaro in a statement. Going forward, Staten Island will be known as the Borough with the largest wheel in the world.
New York Wheel and BFC Partners will sign a 99-year lease for the two development sites and plan to begin construction in early 2014 with an anticipated opening in 2016.
(Courtesy NYC Mayors Office)
(Courtesy NYC Mayors Office)
(Courtesy NYC Mayors Office)
I think I'll wait & see how it does on an exceptionally windy day with other people on it before I give it a try. Will have awesome views for miles around, though.
The one on the Wildwood boardwalk still ran unless it was raining, even with the wind howling it up.
Everyone seems to have London Eye envy. Really, I don't find ferris wheels particularly interesting.
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Make it 1000ft, then we'll talk.
Staten Eye-land. Har har.
The overall plan with the retail is atrocious. I think this will become a dump quite quickly (it already is, but I'm sure it'll do well for a year or two once it opens). I would turn the SI landfill into a world-class airport (shut down Newark), then run a train with stops at St. George, Fulton, 34th, and 42nd Streets. Like Hong Kong's, but even better--St. George could be massively redeveloped as well.
Unfortunately we have this terrible plan that lacks any ambition. The Ferris Wheel is kind of cool, but the retail podium is ABOMINABLE. It's completely anti-urban and they're expanding parking for an OUTLET MALL of all things. St. George is the only place in SI that could eventually become a walk-able urban hub, and it's a shame that prime real estate has been wasted on a baseball field and this load of crap.
The SI Yankees are a big draw, it's not like it's a little league field. They will never shut down Newark just to put an airport in SI. There's no motivation for them to b/c EWR is too conveniently located to major highways and NYC. They'll just tell people use the Goethals Bridge. Retail I'm up in the air about, at least it will keep people from coming to NJ.
I hope they have a better plan for the base of that wheel than what is basically pieces from an erector set. I'm no engineer, but a wheel that size needs solid legs and wider footprints.
Looks like a giant bicycle wheel. They're actually incredible structures.


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(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama encouraged supporters on Monday to be "obsessive" about working for his re-election in the final weeks of the campaign, declaring himself confident that he would win on November 6.
Polls have narrowed in the race between the Democratic incumbent and Republican rival Mitt Romney since their debate last week, which most observers said the former Massachusetts governor won handily.
During a fundraising trip in California, the president sought to reassure his supporters about his chances, despite his debate performance.
"I am pretty competitive, and I very much intend to win this election," he said at a fundraising dinner that roughly 100 people paid $20,000 a ticket to attend.
"We're only going to do it if everybody is almost obsessive for the next 29 days," Obama said, noting that even though those in the room had donated money, there was more they could do to help the campaign.
At another fundraiser later in the evening with roughly 6,000 people, Obama ripped Romney for his promise during the debate to cut funding for public television and the popular children's program character Big Bird.
In an apparent reference to disgraced former sports start O.J. Simpson, who infamously fled police in a white Bronco after his ex-wife and a friend were found murdered, Obama said another popular children's character was making an escape as well.
"Elmo … has been seen in a white … suburban. He's driving for the border," Obama said to some laughter from the crowd.
Simpson was acquitted in the double murder trial in a case that was a flashpoint for race relations in the United States. A civil jury in 1997 found him liable for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the murder victims' families.
Obama, the first black U.S. president, rarely discusses race or makes reference to racially-sensitive topics.
During the fundraiser, for which ticket prices started at $200, Obama also took aim at Romney's tax proposals and mocked the Republican for suggesting his proposals would not increase the U.S. deficit or hurt the middle class.
After finishing his western fundraising swing, Obama heads to Ohio on Tuesday to shore up support in a political battleground state that could be crucial for a second White House win.
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This ain't your grandma's "Sleeping Beauty."
Jason Momoa has been signed to star in Marcus Nispel's upcoming reimagining of "Conan The Barbarian".While I am excited that a new Conan flick is on the horizon, don't you think he should look more like a Boris Vallejo painting and less like a dreadlocked hippie douchebag playing guitar while selling vegan burritos outside a Widespread Panic concert?
It looks like "Ghostbusters 3" is going to be in 3-D. Well, that's disheartening! Is sad to think that a movie of this legendary comedic pedigree, in order to sell it to idiotic audiences in this day and age, needs to resort to this irritatingly faddy 3-D upsurge. What's next? Justin Beiber as the newest recruit? A ghost who Tweets? Slimer relaxing with a Kindle??
Sam Jackson and Josh Duhamel are supposed to star in the next big angels vs. demons horror-thriller "Sympathy for the Devil". In other news, Asylum has started rolling on the similarly-themed "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" starring Mario Van Peebles and Chad Lowe.
The big news today? That the much jizzed-on "Paranormal Activity" goes wide, and all thanks to the 1,000,000 of you that took the time to vote online! Sure, we're in the middle of two wars, the dollar is becoming useless and we are on the verge of eating our pets, but, hey, entertainment reigns supreme! The best thing about this massive hype? I can't wait for the sure-to-come backlash now that everyone can see the movie without having to resort to midnight movie theatrics. For more info, click here. To join the Army, click here.
What's the other big news on every single Goddamned horror movie site? In a just posted Twitter, Wes Craven thinks that Kevin Williamson's "Scream 4" script "sounds fantastic". In other Craven/Twitter news that hasn't made it to the news sites yet, today he's eating "tomato soup for lunch...again", "hates traffic on the 405" and wants to know if you've heard about "that krazy balloon boy in Colorado".
According to Variety, "Universal Pictures has set Chris Messina to star in "Devil," a horror-thriller based on an M. Night Shyamalan story that will be directed by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle." I have no idea who Chris Messina or the Dowdles are, but if M. Night Shyamalan has something to do with it I AM THERE. That man is a cinematic genius. Just like Rob Zombie.


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Today my sweet Eli turns seven years old. I could seriously use all the cliche sayings in the mothering handbook about how fast time has flown, but I'll hold myself back. I could also go on and on about what he means to me and to Eric and about how great we think he is, but I doubt anyone wants to read that except for me. :) I'll try instead to summarize Eli in just a short paragraph or two, as a tribute to him on his seventh birthday.
Eli is sweet and gentle, but also determined and tough. He is a hard worker and faithful to do what he is asked. He is funny and goofy and fun, but only to those around whom he is comfortable. When he is with new people, he is shy and quiet. He is coordinated and quick and loves to play sports and games, and he's a good sport about winning and losing both. He loves animals and the outdoors, climbing and building and using his imagination. He is dependable and careful and neat. He is a fantastic reader, reading far beyond his grade level, even though he would much rather be outside playing. He is super easy to get along with and goes with the flow easily.
He has a tender heart that loves Jesus, and he loves to talk about Heaven. He asked Jesus to come live in his heart last November, by himself, in the quiet of his bed in a cabin in the woods, on a family camping trip. We have seen such wisdom and integrity develop in Eli in the past months. He is wise in choosing friends and activities and even conversations, removing himself when he knows something isn't right. He quietly does the right thing, even when others do not. His teacher tells us again and again that Eli is always helpful, and always a good friend.
I tell Eli every single day that I think he is the best boy in the whole entire world, and if I ever forget, he'll quietly ask me, "Do you think I'm the best boy?" My heart overflows with love and like for this boy that has been given to me to shepherd. It is my greatest joy to be his mom, and I hope that his birthday is filled with so many reminders of how loved he is.


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text: Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present "Room for Play", a group exhibition featuring works by Ellen Carey, Deborah Kass, Robert Sagerman and Andres Schiavo. The show will be held through January 5th and there will be a reception for the artists on November 30th to coincide with New Canaan's Holiday Stroll. The artists in this exhibition are working with imaginative and distinct processes to create colorful and engaging visual experiences. Ellen Carey has been a groundbreaking experimental photographer for decades and the show features her innovative one-of-a-kind photograms she makes in light-tight rooms.


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Some of you know that my mother-in-law died several weeks ago, a month shy of her 90th birthday. Along with everything else a loved one's death entails, we had her mail deliveries transferred to our house.
And we are we getting some interesting mail. In addition to magazines touting beautiful home decor, better living and creative garden recipes, we're getting letters that promise the earth, moon, stars — and cash! — in return for some "verification," various kinds of personal information that I wouldn't share with strangers.
It seems some older people are even more vulnerable to get-rich-quick schemes than the naive middle-aged folks who convert all their assets to gold because ads on right-wing radio talk radio convinced them "Obama" is willfully destroying the economy.
I don't believe anything without verifying it. I observe the old Rule One of Journalism: If your mother says she loves you, check it out.
My mother-in-law was an inveterate sweepstakes entrant. She entered every possible contest she could find. And although she did win a freezer once, Ed McMahon never came to her door with the Big Prize.
All this meant her name and address were on a lot of you've-got-to-be-mad-at-your-money lists. Here's an example. It's a piece of mail that came in an official-looking envelope. It purports to be from "SSP Corporation," which is explained as "Serving Professional Consultancy And Advisory Specialization." Alrighty, then.
I typed "SSP Corporation" into Google and found a manufacturer in Twinsburg, Ohio. The company website explains, "SSP manufactures stainless steel tube fittings, pipe fittings, valves for instrumentation, utility, control and process applications." I called the firm and left a message.
Back to the letter. The letterhead says the company is located in the "Castellar Building," but there's no city or country.
On Google, I found a "Castelar Building," (one "l") in Madrid, Spain. The letter was signed by one "William B. Huntridge of SSP Corp." Couldn't find him, either.
"Huntridge" says he's writing to my mother-in-law regarding the contents of "your package you've just received."
"Often times winners of contests and sweepstakes as this do not always realize the changes and even some new responsibilities that can come along with new monies," the writer says in awkward English.
"In particular it is a necessity to know of your income taxation base for end of year accounting."
The letter ends, "I am enclosing in Your parcel, a valuable award folio which provides you special directions and advisement for making your entries properly completed and submitted to be sure you are always entered for all levels of prizes and awards to receive all that is there for You."
Well, this made no sense to me, and I'm of reasonably sound mind — unless you ask certain politicians.
Now, on to the page of official-looking documents, which says, "Payment issued, check amount due, apportioned from grand prize, account deposit of: $25,000."
Then you're asked to send in the provided envelope, the "Award Receiver File: Form" which will cost you $20.
Inside, in the small print written in English, German, French and Chinese (I think), it says: When you return your order with payment you will receive jewelry from our sponsors' exclusive gallery."
The cash prizes, the fine print explains, range from $1 to $25,000, and the odds of winning are: $1; one in one; $100, one in 250,000; $1,000, one in 500,000. To win that $25,000 you've got a one-in-a-million chance.
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Unfortunately, most people don't read the details of these kinds of letters.
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Pro Bowlers hit the gridiron one last time Saturday after a few days of "practice" before the schoolyard, pickup-style game between Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders' hand-selected squads.
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Rafael Nadal to end six months of injury-enforced absence in Abu Dhabi later this month
The 11-time Grand Slam champion has not played since the Wimbledon championships in June
Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams named ITF World Champions of 2012
Former world number one Rafael Nadal will end a six-month absence from tennis when he competes in an Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament later this month, the Spaniard has revealed.
Nadal has been sidelined by knee problems following June's shock second-round exit at Wimbledon to 100th-ranked Czech Lukas Rosol.
"Can't wait to get back on court in Abu Dhabi at the end of the month," he wrote on his Twitter and Facebook pages. "I won the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in 2010 and 2011 – would love to get my hands on the trophy again this year."
After his Wimbledon exit, the 11-time grand slam champion was diagnosed with Hoffa's syndrome, an inflammation of the fatty tissue in his left knee that has sidelined him on numerous occasions over the years.
The injury meant Nadal was unable to defend his Olympic title at London 2012, with the 26-year-old dropping to fourth in the rankings after also missing out on the U.S. Open and Spain's Davis Cup final defeat to the Czech Republic in November.
Having started training again late last month, Nadal will make his return in Abu Dhabi on December 28, 17 days before the first grand slam of 2013 – the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Earlier this month, he said it would be difficult to win the Australian Open after such a lengthy period off court, warning fans not to expect "miracles."
Nadal has a first-round bye in Abu Dhabi, then plays the winner of the match between U.S. Open and Olympic champion Andy Murray and ninth-ranked Serbian Janko Tipsarevic.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic will also line up in the six-man, three-day event. He will play either world No. 5 David Ferrer or Czech Davis Cup winner Tomas Berdych on the second day.
Meanwhile, the International Tennis Federation has named Djokovic and third-ranked woman Serena Williams as its 2012 world champions.
Djokovic received the honor for the second year running, as the Serbian retained the Australian Open and won the season-ending ATP championship but suffered the disappointment of losing the final at both Roland Garros and Flushing Meadows.
"I am proud to have been named ITF World Champion for the second successive year," said the 25-year-old.
"It was very difficult to follow up such a successful season in 2011, but it was extremely satisfying to win another grand slam title, reach two other major finals and finish the year at No. 1."
Meanwhile, Williams was in vintage form in 2012 as the 31-year-old tasted Olympic singles gold for the first time in addition to taking her grand slam collection to 15 titles, following this year's triumphs at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
"It means a lot to be named ITF World Champion for the third time," said Williams, who finished the season with a WTA Tour-best seven titles.
"It has been such an amazing experience this year to win the Olympics and two grand slam tournaments, and I look forward to having an awesome 2013."
It is the second year in a row that the top-ranked woman has missed out on the ITF award – last year Petra Kvitova headed off Caroline Wozniacki.
This time Victoria Azarenka missed out despite leading the earnings list with more than $7 million in prize money and winning her first grand slam in Melbourne.
The ITF World Champions will receive their awards at a dinner during the French Open in Paris next June.


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What do you think of when you think of archaeology? For the majority of people the answer is simple- 'musketballs'. If that wasn't the first thing in your head, there's no need to fret; 'fragmented portion of a 17th century grenade' is also a perfectly acceptable answer. Ok, none of the above is true. But for me it is objects such as these that make up my Day of Archaeology.
I work as Operations Manager for a commercial company, Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd. The majority of my work involves overseeing all the projects we undertake and making sure they run smoothly, are carried out to a high standard and progress as efficiently as possible. However, I also specialise in 'Conflict Archaeology', a field of study which explores evidence for the forms and effects of conflict on past populations. Today is a 'Conflict Archaeology' day.
The material I work with the most relates to conflict in 16th and 17th century Ireland. This was an exceptionally bloody period in Irish history. The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland took place in the second half of the 16th century, while the 1640s witnessed eleven years of war, culminating in the Cromwellian intervention on the island. Later still the War of the Two Kings was fought between William III and James II's forces. The conflict artefacts and conflict architecture left behind on sites from this period can tell us much about the personal experience of individuals during these troubled times. What was it like to be a soldier in one of these armies? How did they operate? What affect did the wars have on the civilian populace?
Today I am working on an assemblage of military artefacts from a Castle site which was besieged in 1653, when Parliamentarian forces bombarded the site and forced the Irish defenders' surrender. Although there are some historical accounts of the siege, many details of the engagement remain unknown. This is where the artefacts come in. It becomes quickly apparent to me as I trawl through nearly 200 iron ball fragments that the castle was extremely heavily bombarded. The sheer number of fragments is unusual in Irish archaeology- it is the highest concentration of artillery projectiles from a conflict site I have yet come across in the country.
What can they tell us? They are all heavily damaged, with only one complete spherical ball surviving. This suggests that the projectiles shattered as they struck masonry, or split into deadly shrapnel as they exploded. Their form tells us that the Parliamentarians used at least two main types of projectile; solid iron balls and mortars. The solid shot was intended to break down the walls of the castle, while the mortars (hollow iron spheres filled with powder) would explode and fragment as they rained down on the defenders.
I am currently analysing the size of the fragments to try and tell what type of artillery piece fired them. Although most iron balls are today usually called 'cannonballs', in the 17th century a 'Cannon' was a specific type of gun which fired a particular size of ball. Many other types existed, with names like 'Culverins' 'Sakers' and 'Falcons'. These fired different sizes of ball over varying distances. Identifying the type of gun can help us identify how far away the besiegers may have been from the castle, and also tell us how difficult it was to get them into position. For example, some of these guns required dozens of oxen to haul them around the countryside.
And what of the defenders? The majority survived this siege and were able to surrender, but the castle was destroyed in the bombardment. Among the military artefacts that relate to them are lead musketballs (also called lead shot) and weapon fragments recovered from the rubble. The size, shape and weight of the musketballs can tell us what types of gun they were used in, provide information about how they were manufactured and also suggest if they have been fired or not. The examples from this site appear unfired, so they may have been dropped or lost by the defenders. This site is unusual in that it has also produced part of the firing mechanisms from some of the defender's weapons, most likely destroyed during the bombardment. These fragments are from matchlock muskets, a type of gun that used a lit piece of cord to fire the musketball.
When I have finished the technical analysis of the material (a process which will take a few days) it will be possible to build a picture of the siege. I will be addressing what types of artillery the Parliamentarians brought with them, how this was used and transported and where it might have been fired from. From the defenders viewpoint it should be possible to suggest how the bombardment was experienced by the men within the castle, as well as talk about how they were prepared to meet the onslaught. This is all in the future, however, and for now I am immersed in the technical analysis of each of the artefacts.
So, this is how I am spending my Day of Archaeology, 29th July 2011! Every object I am handling was deposited over a handful of days 358 years ago, in what must have been an extremely dramatic and traumatic event in the lives of all those who were present. For some these objects represent their final moments. It is an honour and privilege to deal with these artefacts, as by doing so you are literally 'touching history'; the results of the analysis itself helps bring this history to life. It is certainly one of the most fascinating ways to spend a day that I can think of!


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The modern tablet computer is the perfect tool in the hands of a pastor. Gadgets like Apple's iPad offer great flexibility in carrying out the wide range of responsibilities that come along with the ministry. Here are 10 apps that a pastor should consider installing as soon as he gets an iPad.
Dropbox. There's a good chance you already have this installed on your computer at home and/or in the office. Dropbox allows you to seamlessly share files across platforms. Once installed on your iPad, you have access to all your sermons, Bible studies, administrative resources and more. No need to remember to sync files before you leave the office. (iTunes store)
Evernote. Similar to Dropbox in that it also synchronizes files across devices and between computers, but Evernote is much more convenient for taking quick notes and sorting them into useful categories. See my review here. (iTunes store) (my review)
Accordance. This is currently my "go to" Bible app when I'm away from my desk. Other programs may have a more extensive library of books available, but I like Accordance's agility and speed when it comes to things like Greek or Hebrew word searches. (iTunes store)
Pastoral Care. A wonderfully handy collection of devotions, prayers and Bible readings for a multitude of ministry situations. With this app on your iPad or iPhone, you'll never be caught unprepared to share words of comfort, no matter what the circumstance. (iTunes store)
QuickOffice Pro. Although the glass screen of a tablet is not optimized for touch typing, there are times you simply need to work with documents while away from your main computer. QuickOffice helps you get the job done whether you're working with Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. (But do consider purchasing a wireless keyboard for the best experience!) (iTunes store)
GoodReader. I do a lot of reading on my iPad. Not just books (for which I prefer Amazon's Kindle app), but especially PDFs from a variety of sources. Although there are a number of PDF readers (including Dropbox, Evernote, and QuickOffice listed above), GoodReader offers many more options for managing, reading and highlighting those files. (iTunes store)
Keynote. Apple's Keynote application is seen by many as superior to Microsoft's PowerPoint in ease of use, flexibility and beautiful templates. This iOS version is only slightly pared down from the full computer app, but just as breath taking in design. You'll have an impressive presentation put together and ready to show in no time, importing photos directly from your iPad or the internet. All you need to do is plug in to a projector — or hand the tablet around the room. (iTunes store)
PrayNow. Pastors know how vital it is to feed their own souls with God's Word even as they are called to nourish the faith of others. This app will dole out just enough Scripture each day to give a busy pastor plenty to chew on for his daily devotion time. Daily prayers and Bible readings from both Testaments are linked with selections from Christian writers of the past. (iTunes store)
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To be sure, there are many other apps available on the iTunes store, but I have found these to be among the most useful in my ministry.


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OTTAWA — A threat by a B.C. First Nation to shut down a B.C. mine is a small sign of a potentially "catastrophic" uprising in Canada if Aboriginal Peoples don't become full participants in natural resource extraction, a prominent think-tank warned Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the Wet'suwe'ten First Nation threatened to shut down the $455-million expansion of the Huckleberry Mines Ltd. copper/molybdenum operation, 123 kilometres southwest of Houston, in northern B.C.
Wet'suwet'en Chief Karen Ogen said Wednesday the mine's access road and power transmission line crosses her band's reserve near Owen Lake.
She said the Wet'suwet'en would likely start by charging a toll on mine workers and contractors using the road. But if the band's demand for jobs for its members are not met, she threatened more drastic action.
"If we have to the hydro lines will come down," she vowed.
The warning of possible violence across Canada comes from Douglas Bland, a professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston. Bland, in one of two reports on resource development and First Nations published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, argued Canadians should take heed of the Idle No More movement that held protests across Canada against federal inaction on key issues.
"An idea that most Canadians would have seen as preposterous a year ago ... is now very real," he wrote. "The possibility of a catastrophic confrontation between Canada's settler and aboriginal communities, spurred not by yesterday's grievances but by the central features and consequences of our national policies, have the potential to make such an uprising feasible, if not ... inevitable."
Ogen said none of the 230 full-time and 30 contract positions at the Huckleberry mine nor any of the 70 jobs to be created by the expansion go to members of her community, despite numerous meetings with the company.
"The Wet'suwet'en chief and council were instructed by their members to take whatever action is necessary, including direct action and legal action, to stop further mine expansion," a news release stated.
Huckleberry Mines Ltd. is 50-50 joint venture of Vancouver-based Imperial Metals Ltd. and a consortium of Japanese firms. Huckleberry vice-president Randall Thompson said if the access road were blocked, the mine would likely have to shut down.
Huckleberry vice-president Randall Thompson said 15 to 18 per cent of the mine's workforce are aboriginal, but are primarily members of first nations communities nearer the mine. However, he said, one recent contract involved Wet'suwet'en members.
He said company talks broke down after the Wet'suwet'en demanded "first right of refusal" on all future contracts.
"The problem is, we have five First Nations we have to deal with," Thompson said.
Brian Lee Crowley, executive-director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, said the threatened blockade in B.C. is a wake-up call for Canadians.
"We think there are lots of examples of rail and road blockades, for example, that are potentially forerunners of much larger conflict if we do not get our act together," he said in an interview Wednesday.
Bland, a retired lieutenant-colonel and author of a 2009 book about a fictional armed aboriginal insurgency in Canada, wrote that determined young "warriors" could cause huge economic damage by targeting pipelines, ports and key arteries.
"Unfortunately for Canada, the interwoven economic/national resources/transportation matrix is irreversibly vulnerable, as it presents targets that cannot be fully protected."
In B.C., Bland suggested, ports, oil and gas pipelines, pumping stations, refineries and BC Hydro facilities are potential targets.
Bland argued that a revolt, either "armed or unarmed," could be far more organized and national in scope than the sporadic and localized acts of violent resistance such as the armed standoff at Oka, Que., in 1990, the confrontation at Gustafsen Lake in B.C. in 1995, a clash between non-native lobster fishermen and the Burnt Church First Nation in New Brunswick in 1999, and the land dispute involving the Six Nations Confederacy in Caledonia, Ont., in 2006.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo welcomed as "timely" the two reports, but chose to focus on the second paper that stressed the need for First Nations to get better access to training, jobs and profit-sharing arrangements.
"I certainly welcome these reflections, it really helps put some focus and attention on the requirement for some bold and transformative action," Atleo said in an interview.
"We should be learning from what happened in Oka, learning from what happened in Burnt Church, in Gustafsen Lake, in Caledonia."
Despite the tension this week at the Huckleberry mine, the think-tank's authors portrayed B.C. as a model for the country because of Victoria's efforts to ensure that first nations share in forestry and mining revenues.
But if more significant progress isn't made, Bland argued, key infrastructure from coast to coast is vulnerable.
Vulnerable to protests — Potential targets across the country:
Alberta: Oil and gas pipelines, pumping stations, refineries, and coal-carrying railway systems.
Saskatchewan: Pipelines, railways, and key Trans-Canada Highway intersections.
Manitoba: Any road and railway intersections would be vulnerable in Canada's historic transportation hub, as well as hydroelectric facilities, transmission lines, and the pipeline that supplies Winnipeg's entire fresh water supply.
Ontario: The province's major highways, including roads and bridges to the U.S.
Quebec: Hydro-Quebec power generating facilities and transmission lines, bridges near Montreal and Quebec City, highways along the St. Lawrence River, and highways to the U.S. border.
Atlantic Canada: Road and railway approaches to key ports as well as hydroelectric transmission lines from Quebec.
(Source: Macdonald-Laurier Institute)
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Police searching for suspect in NYC crash that killed expectant parents, baby; reward offered
NEW YORK – Police worked through the night searching for a man suspected of driving the car that killed a pregnant woman, her husband and ultimately their child in a wreckage-strewn crash as members of their community offered a $15,000 reward.
Police on Tuesday said they'd had no contact with Julio Acevedo, 44, and early Wednesday he'd still not turned himself in although a friend said he planned to surrender.
"We are still looking to apprehend him," police spokesman Paul Browne said. "We have no information that he is going to surrender."
Acevedo told the Daily News of New York Tuesday that he was speeding away from a gunman who was trying to shoot at him early Sunday when the accident with a hired car happened in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
The car was carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21. They died Sunday and their premature son died on Monday.
Members of the couple's Hasidic Jewish community have offered a $15,000 reward for information leading to Acevedo's capture and called for murder charges to be filed.
Acevedo told the Daily News that he fled the scene because he was worried he'd be killed and didn't know the couple had died until he saw it in newspapers.
"My heart goes out to them," Acevedo told the newspaper Tuesday in a phone call arranged by a friend, Derrick Hamilton. "I didn't know they died until I saw the news."
Hamilton said Acevedo was running for his life after the crash, and called it a terrible accident. He told The Associated Press that Acevedo was meeting with a lawyer and that they were going to arrange for Acevedo to turn himself in.
Police said Acevedo was in a BMW going at least 60 mph when he crashed. The hired car had a stop sign; it's not clear if the driver stopped.
Acevedo was arrested last month on a charge of driving while under the influence, and the case is pending. He was stopped by police after they said he was driving erratically around 3 a.m. Feb. 17. He had a blood-alcohol level of .13, over the limit of .08, police said.
Acevedo served about a decade in prison in the 1990s for manslaughter after he was convicted of shooting Kelvin Martin, a Brooklyn criminal whose moniker "50 Cent" was the inspiration for rapper Curtis Jackson's current stage name. Neighbors said his mother lived in the same building, but she did not answer her door.
Shortly after midnight Sunday, Raizy Glauber, who was seven months pregnant, wasn't feeling well, so the couple decided to go to the hospital, said Sara Glauber, Nachman Glauber's cousin. They called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
The crash with the BMW reduced the cab to a crumpled heap, and Raizy Glauber was thrown from the wreck. The engine ended up in the back seat. The driver of the livery cab was knocked unconscious but was not seriously hurt.
The couple belonged to a close-knit ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, which is home to the largest community of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250,000. They were members of the Satmar Hasidic sect. Raizy Glauber grew up in a prominent rabbinical family. Her husband was studying at a rabbinical college; his family founded a line of clothing for Orthodox Jews.
The child was delivered by cesarean section after his parents were killed. The baby weighed only about 4 pounds when he was delivered, neighbors and friends said. He died of extreme prematurity, the city medical examiner's office said.
The baby was buried Monday near his parents' graves, according to Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the Hasidic Jewish community. About a thousand community members turned out for the young couple's funeral a day earlier.
How Acevedo came to possess the BMW is under investigation. The registered owner, Takia Walker, was arrested Sunday on insurance fraud charges in a scam involving the car, police said, but the Bronx district attorney's office said Tuesday that the case was deferred. Walker was not involved in the crash. A telephone number listed for her rang unanswered.


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posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 4:12 pm
I'm attempting to run growth models (a total of 7 time points) with siblings and the siblings are clustered within families. There are 389 clusters and the cluster sizes range from 1 to 5. Over half of the clusters have a cluster size of 1. Is this contributing to high standard errors? If so, would it be better to randomly select one sibling per family?
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So you are saying that of the 389 families, more than half have only 1 sibling in them? If so, no this should not cause problem - it does not cause high SEs as far as I can see. The 1-sibling families might, however, be somewhat different from the multi-sibling families, but that is a matter of whether or not to assume the same model for all families.
posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 7:51 am
Thanks for the quick thought.
I guess there are additional layers that could play a role and it appears that the sample weight is playing a role. When the model is run with the sampling weight, the SEs for the between level intercept and slope variances are 469.5 and 394.6; however, when the model is run without the sampling weight, the SEs are 5.903 and 2.562.
Would there be an impact of sampling weight and cluster size?
Again, many thanks.
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If you send your output and data to
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posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 8:57 am
I was wondering if the nature of the sampling weights are producing the hangup. The sampling weights are based on the higher level, not the lower level.
I've come across the Web Notes #8 and it discusses the MPML estimator, however, I am having difficulty in using this as the estimator as an analysis option.
Thanks again.
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The best thing is to send your output and data to
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I am conducting analyses using data from a survey that utilises a sampling weight. I have read several articles on complex survey designs on the MPlus website. I conclude from these papers that when a study involves a weighting variable, one should use the pseudo maximum likelihood (PML) estimator. Am I correct? Furthermore, I was wondering if you could explain to me how to compute this command in MPlus Version 4.1? I have been unable to find this command from the MPlus manual.
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PML is obtained using Type=Complex and Estimator=MLR. You will also need to give cluster, weight, and stratum information - see User's Guide.
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Police are investigating a fight at a gatecrashed party in Sydney's west that left a man in hospital - the second such incident in as many days.
An 18-year-old man was struck in the head by a glass bottle at an 18th birthday party in Seven Hills.
Acting Superintendent Bob Fitzgerald says the party was gatecrashed by about 20 uninvited guests and a fight broke out.
"It's my understanding at this stage that the person who's thrown the glass bottle were part of the gatecrashers," he said.
He says his officers were surprised to be called to the party, given it was held at a community centre.
"If anyone wants to hold a party at any of the Blacktown Council community centres, there's a joint process with Blacktown Council," he said.
"We do a risk assessment [and] provide them with information on how to hold a safe party.
"This one occurred a little early in the evening - 9.15pm, which, in summer, is a little early for this sort of incident."
The uninvited guests left the party a short time later. The victim received stitches in hospital and has since returned home.
The incident comes just one day after a 17-year-old boy was hit with an iron bar by gatecrashers at another 18th birthday party on Sydney's northern beaches.
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While you were sleeping, Paris Fashion Week was sashaying along, and Brit designer Stella McCartney presented her fall/winter 2013 collection earlier today. Reuters describes the clothes as having a "structured, masculine feel in line with McCartney's tomboy sensibility." I'd call them ugly, droopy, cavernous and bleak. Oversized Talking Heads coats, fucked up hobble skirt-ish dresses, pin-striped swaths of fabric masquerading as strapless dresses. Hated it! But Reuters reports that Stella's dad thought it was great:
The show was delayed for 30 minutes by the tardy arrival of Paul McCartney, the designer's father.
"Walk, walk, walk like a model," the former Beatle was overheard saying to his wife Nancy Shevell as they walked down the runway to take their seat.
After the show, he called his daughter "the best".
"I thought it was beautiful. Very strong, very clean," he told Reuters TV.
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