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2013-09-22T21:21:00.001+02:00

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Вишиванка. Вишиванки Ручної Роботи: Зацікавлення вишиванками. Чи варто купити собі вишиванку?

2013-09-05T18:20:00.001+02:00

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2013-07-12T07:39:00.001+02:00

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2013-05-09T19:26:00.001+02:00

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Вишиванка. Вишивка Ручної Роботи: КАРТА САЙТА

2013-04-18T23:52:00.001+02:00

Вишиванка. Вишивка Ручної Роботи: КАРТА САЙТА

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2013-04-09T08:50:00.001+02:00

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Вишиванка. Вишивка Ручної Роботи: Вишиті Сорочки Вишиванки

2013-03-17T08:30:00.003+01:00

Вишиванка. Вишивка Ручної Роботи: Вишиті Сорочки Вишиванки

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Вишиванка. Вишивка Ручної Роботи: Вишиті Сорочки Вишиванки

2013-03-17T08:30:00.001+01:00

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2013-02-20T10:04:00.001+01:00

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2013-02-10T22:41:00.001+01:00

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NY KNICKS 102, INDIANA PACERS 88

2012-03-18T06:55:00.001+01:00

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NY KNICKS 102, INDIANA PACERS 88
INDIANAPOLIS – As recently as a week ago, Danny Granger would have been right on target to gloat that a home-and-home set against the Knicks this weekend represented little more than two “winnable games” for the Pacers.
But the Knicks under Mike Woodson suddenly are anything but the disjointed pushovers they’d been at the end of Mike D’Antoni’s tenure with the team, and they broke away in the fourth quarter to post their third straight win under their new coach – and second in as many nights over Indiana – Saturday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
The green-clad Knicks’ balanced 102-88 victory was considerably tighter than the previous night’s coast-to-coast rout in Manhattan, but it completed the two-game sweep and moved them a half-game ahead of idle Milwaukee for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Linsanity was alive and well in the land of the Hoosiers with backup Baron Davis nursing a hamstring injury, as Jeremy Lin pumped a team-high 19 points, with six assists and seven rebounds in 30 controlled minutes. Amar’e Stoudemire added 16 points and eight boards, Carmelo Anthony also had 16 points and J.R. Smith kicked in 11 off the bench.

The Knicks (21-24) led by as many as 14 points in the third quarter, but All-Star center Roy Hibbert (game-high 24 points) drew the Pacers back within 82-79 with barely eight minutes remaining in the fourth.
Lin scored eight of the Knicks’ next nine points to push the lead back to 11 at the 5:15 mark, and the Pacers never got within 10 again.
Woodson, an Indiana native, enjoyed the comforts of home Saturday with a few of his siblings in attendance. He also reunited with long-time mentor Bill Smith, his old high-school coach at Broad Ripple High School who will serve the Knicks as an adviser to Woodson.
Jim Todd, a member of Woodson’s staff in Atlanta and also a former assistant with four other NBA teams, and ex-Knick Darrell Walker -- previously a head coach with Washington and Toronto – also officially joined Woodson on the bench for the first time.
Still, Woodson expected “a hostile environment” and got it after his team used an active defensive effort one night earlier at the Garden to build a 30-point lead en route to a comfortable 15-point win, including holding the Pacers to 31 points in the first half.
But Indiana got to the basket with greater ease inside their house, and reached that number Saturday with 1:35 left in building a 35-33 lead through one quarter.
But Woodson continued to rely more on his deep bench and admitted he’s “somewhat changed (D’Antoni’s) rotation patterns” with the intention of resting Anthony more – specifically taking Carmelo out around the 9-minute mark instead of leaving him on the court for the entire first quarter.
Led mostly by the reserves – including two threes from Steve Novak – the Knicks opened the second quarter on a 20-6 run. They hit intermission with a 60-51 lead, with Lin taking only three shots but hitting all of them, including two drives right at the 7-foot-2 Hibbert to close out the half.
In all, eight players had at least five points, led by Anthony and Stoudemire with 10 apiece and five for Mike Bibby, who got back into the rotation with Davis back in New York.
“Our bench has been great,” Woodson said. “(The starters) can’t play the whole game…I just feel good about my bench. I’ve said it since I’ve taken over the job, our bench is just as important as the guys that start the game. We mean that.”

CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Davis remained in New York after tweaking his hamstring Friday night and remains day-to-day, but his injury is “not as severe as we thought,” according to Woodson…Little-used guard Toney Douglas (personal reasons) is due to rejoin the team Monday.

Physicists from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., say they have found a bump in their data that might be the long-sought Higgs boson, a hypothesized particle that is responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass.

2012-03-07T14:02:00.000+01:00

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Physicists from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., say they have found a bump in their data that might be the long-sought Higgs boson, a hypothesized particle that is responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass.

After 40 years, more evidence is being reported Wednesday that the end of the biggest manhunt in the history of physics might finally be in sight.

The signal, in data collected over the last several years at Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator, agrees roughly with results announced last December from two independent experimental groups working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, outside Geneva.

“Based on the current Tevatron data and results compiled through December 2011 by other experiments, this is the strongest hint of the existence of a Higgs boson,” said the report, which will be presented on Wednesday by Wade Fisher of Michigan State University to a physics conference in La Thuile, Italy.

None of these results, either singly or collectively, are strong enough for scientists to claim victory. But the recent run of reports has encouraged them to think that the elusive particle, which is the key to mass and diversity in the universe, is within sight, perhaps as soon as this summer.

Beate Heinemann, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been deeply involved in analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider, said recently of the CERN results, “This very much smells like the Higgs boson.” But, she noted, the signal could also go away when more data is obtained.

The Higgs boson is the key piece of the Standard Model, an ambitious suite of equations that has ruled the universe of high-energy physics for the last few decades, explaining how three of the four fundamental forces of nature work. But the boson itself has never been observed. The theory describes how it should work and behave but does not predict one of its key attributes, namely its mass.

Last December, two groups, which run giant particle detectors named Atlas and C.M.S. from the CERN collider, reported that they had found promising bumps in their data at masses of 124 billion electron volts and 126 billion electron volts, respectively, those being the units of mass or energy preferred by particle physicists. (By comparison, a proton is about a billion electron volts, and an electron is about half a million.)

The Fermilab physicists have found a broad hump in their data in the same region, between 115 billion and 135 billion electron volts. Those results came from combining the data from two detectors operated on the Tevatron: the Collider Detector at Fermilab, and DZero. The chances of this signal being the result of a random fluctuation in the data were only about 1 in 100, the group said.

Dmitri Denisov, a leader of the Fermilab effort, wrote in an e-mail on the way to La Thuile, “It is clearly not the answer to crossword, but an important piece of the puzzle!”

Rumors of sightings of the Higgs boson have come and gone at both CERN and Fermilab in the last few years, but invariably where one group saw a bump, another saw a dip in the data, and with more data the bumps went away.

This is the first time in the long search for the particle that different groups, indeed different colliders, are in vague agreement.

It has led to a joke in physics circles now: The Higgs boson has not been discovered yet, but its mass is 125 billion electron volts.

The Atlas and C.M.S. groups will be trying to combine and reconcile their data in the coming weeks. The Hadron collider, now on winter break, will start up again in April, with protons colliding at four trillion electron volts apiece. CERN has said that the collider will gather enough data this year either to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson or to rule it out forever.

Either outcome, physicists say, will be exciting. If the Higgs does not exist, they will have to come up with a new model of how the universe works. If they do find the Higgs, studying it might give them clues to deeper mysteries the Standard Model does not solve.

The Tevatron, which was the most powerful accelerator in the world for 20 years, shut down last September.

A Heart Helper May Come at a Price for the Brain - NYTimes.com

2012-03-07T10:20:00.001+01:00

After a heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery in 2010, Steve Colburn of Portland, Ore., began taking a cholesterol-lowering statin at the maximum dose. Soon, he began experiencing memory problems.
“Thinking and remembering became so laborious that I could not even recall my three-digit telephone extension or computer password at work,” said Mr. Colburn, 62, a sales representative and product developer. “All day, every day, I felt like my brain was mush.”
His doctor suggested a “drug vacation,” and when Mr. Colburn stopped taking the statin for six weeks, the problems disappeared. Then he tried a different statin at a high dose, but the cognitive difficulties returned. His doctor has since lowered his dose by more than half, and while the memory lapses have not disappeared, he has learned to cope.
“I felt like I didn’t have a choice to give up the drug,” Mr. Colburn said. “But I wanted to work with a dose that kept my numbers in an acceptable range and at the same time hopefully provided enough clarity of thinking that I could live with it.”
Statins are the most prescribed drugs in the world, and there is no doubt that for people at high risk of cardiovascular problems, the drugs lower not only cholesterol but also the risk of heart attack and stroke. But for years doctors have been fielding reports from patients that the drugs leave them feeling “fuzzy,” and unable to remember small and big things, like where they left the car, a favorite poem or a recently memorized presentation. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration finally acknowledged what many patients and doctors have believed for a long time: Statin drugs carry a risk of cognitive side effects. The agency also warned users about diabetes risk and muscle pain.
Nearly 21 million patients in the United States were prescribed statins last year, but nobody knows how many of them have experienced cognitive side effects. Dr. Beatrice Golomb, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has collected more than 3,000 reports of side effects related to statin use. She said doctors have too often dismissed the complaints, writing off the memory lapses and muscle pain, in particular, as a normal sign of getting older.
Many patients on statins also take medications for other health problems, which has made it difficult to discern whether statins are always to blame. For six years, Bill Moseley of Towson, Md., tried taking statins to lower his cholesterol; he also began taking medications for hypertension and high blood sugar. He found the drugs to be mind-numbing.
“I felt like a zombie in the afternoons,” he said.

While taking the cocktail of drugs, he began making driving errors. “I’d feel spacey and wouldn’t be in the right lane in enough time to make a turn,” he said. “Or I wouldn’t see someone I should be seeing. It was a feeling of detached, suppressed mental capability that should be there.”
Against his doctor’s advice, Mr. Moseley in 2006 stopped all of the drugs and began focusing on healthful eating and exercise, meeting regularly with a personal trainer and lifting weights. Four months later, the cognitive problems disappeared. Today, he is 69, his cholesterol has dropped from 225 to about 125, and his blood pressure and blood sugar are under control.
“I’m back to normal, and the more I work out over time, the better and better I get,” he said.
To be sure, millions of patients taking statins never experience cognitive side effects. John Hannon, 60, of Oceanside, N.Y., began taking a statin 20 years ago to lower his total cholesterol, which was about 270. Now his total cholesterol is in the 135 to 150 range.
“I’ve had no side effects that I’m aware of,” he said. “For me, it has been a wonder drug.”
Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic noted that cognitive side effects have not been detected in randomized controlled trials of statin therapy. And even the warnings about muscle aches and diabetes need to be weighed against the fact that the drugs are proven to lower risk for heart attack and stroke, he said.
“For most physicians, and certainly for me, these warnings haven’t changed the decision-making process about who gets a statin and who doesn’t,” Dr. Nissen said.
Robert F. Hickey of Eagle, Colo., started taking statins in 2008 to lower his cholesterol, which was above 300. He also takes a myriad of other medications as a result of a kidney transplant. Last September, he began noticing memory problems and would sometimes go blank in the middle of memorized presentations.
“I began to notice, for a split second, difficulty with word recall,” said Mr. Hickey, a clinical psychologist and lecturer. “It was vocabulary that I use every day and had used for decades.”
His doctor put him through a battery of tests for early-onset dementia but found no signs of it. Instead, he suggested cutting the statin dose in half. Mr. Hickey said he hasn’t noticed any meaningful improvement yet, but the real test will come this week during a lecture in Las Vegas.
“I’ll have my hard copy with me, just in case,” he said.

Black Students Face More Harsh Discipline, Data Shows - NYTimes.com

2012-03-07T10:19:00.000+01:00

Black Students Face More Harsh Discipline, Data Shows - NYTimes.com

Although black students made up only 18 percent of those enrolled in the schools sampled, they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once, 46 percent of those suspended more than once and 39 percent of all expulsions, according to the Civil Rights Data Collection’s 2009-10 statistics from 72,000 schools in 7,000 districts, serving about 85 percent of the nation’s students. The data covered students from kindergarten age through high school.

One in five black boys and more than one in 10 black girls received an out-of-school suspension. Over all, black students were three and a half times as likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers.

And in districts that reported expulsions under zero-tolerance policies, Hispanic and black students represent 45 percent of the student body, but 56 percent of those expelled under such policies.

“Education is the civil rights of our generation,” said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in a telephone briefing with reporters on Monday. “The undeniable truth is that the everyday education experience for too many students of color violates the principle of equity at the heart of the American promise.”

The department began gathering data on civil rights and education in 1968, but the project was suspended by the Bush administration in 2006. It has been reinstated and expanded to examine a broader range of information, including, for the first time, referrals to law enforcement, an area of increasing concern to civil rights advocates who see the emergence of a school-to-prison pipeline for a growing number of students of color.

According to the schools’ reports, over 70 percent of the students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or black.

Black and Hispanic students — particularly those with disabilities — are also disproportionately subject to seclusion or restraints. Students with disabilities make up 12 percent of the student body, but 70 percent of those subject to physical restraints. Black students with disabilities constituted 21 percent of the total, but 44 percent of those with disabilities subject to mechanical restraints, like being strapped down. And while Hispanics made up 21 percent of the students without disabilities, they accounted for 42 percent of those without disabilities who were placed in seclusion.

“Those are extremely dramatic numbers, and show the importance of reinstating the civil rights data collection and expanding the categories of information collected,” said Deborah J. Vagins, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office. “The harsh punishments, especially expulsion under zero tolerance and referrals to law enforcement, show that students of color and students with disabilities are increasingly being pushed out of schools, oftentimes into the criminal justice system.”

While the disciplinary data was probably the most startling, the data showed a wide range of other racial and ethnic disparities. For while 55 percent of the high schools with low black and Hispanic enrollment offered calculus, only 29 percent of the high-minority high schools did so — and even in schools offering calculus, Hispanics made up 20 percent of the student body but only 10 percent of those enrolled in calculus.

And while black and Hispanic students made up 44 percent of the students in the survey, they were only 26 percent of the students in gifted and talented programs.

The data also showed that schools with a lot of black and Hispanic students were likely to have relatively inexperienced, and low-paid, teachers. On average, teachers in high-minority schools were paid $2,251 less per year than their colleagues elsewhere. In New York high schools, though, the discrepancy was more than $8,000, and in Philadelphia, more than $14,000.

Many of the nation’s largest districts had very different disciplinary rates for students of different races. In Los Angeles, for example, black students made up 9 percent of those enrolled, but 26 percent of those suspended; in Chicago, they made up 45 percent of the students, but 76 percent of the suspensions.

In recent decades, as more districts and states have adopted zero-tolerance policies, imposing mandatory suspension for a wide range of behavioral misdeeds, more and more students have been sent away from school for at least a few days, an approach that is often questioned as paving the way for students to fall behind and drop out.

A previous study of the federal data from the years before 2006, published in 2010 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization, found that suspension rates in the nation’s public schools, kindergarten through high school, had nearly doubled from the early 1970s through 2006 — from 3.7 percent of public school students in 1973 to 6.9 percent in 2006 — in part because of the rise of zero-tolerance school discipline policies.

But because the Department of Education has not yet posted most of the data from the most recent collection, it is not yet possible to extend those findings. On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Duncan will announce the results at Howard Univerity, and from then on the data will become publicly available, at ocrdata.ed.gov.

Cato Institute and Koch in Rift Over Independence - NYTimes.com

2012-03-07T10:15:00.000+01:00

Cato Institute and Koch in Rift Over Independence - NYTimes.com

Now, however, a rift with one of its founding members — the billionaire conservative Charles Koch — is threatening the institute’s identity and independence, its leaders say, and is exposing fault lines over Mr. Koch’s aggressive and well-financed brand of Republican politics.

The rift has its roots, Cato officials said, in a long-simmering feud over efforts by Mr. Koch and his brother David Koch to install their own people on the institute’s 16-member board and to establish a more direct pipeline between Cato and the family’s Republican political outlets, including groups that Democrats complain have mounted a multimillion-dollar assault on President Obama. Tensions reached a new level with a lawsuit filed last week by the Kochs against Cato over its governing structure.

“We can’t be perceived as a mouthpiece of special interests,” Robert A. Levy, chairman of Cato’s board, said in an interview. “The Cato Institute as we know it would be destroyed.”

At a tense meeting in November at Dulles Airport outside Washington, David Koch and two family emissaries laid out what they described as the “intellectual ammunition” they envisioned that Cato could provide by supplying its brand-name research and scholars to Koch-financed political advocacy groups, according to Mr. Levy.

The one Koch-financed group mentioned by name at the meeting was Americans for Prosperity, which played a major role in the Republicans’ 2010 takeover of the House and is now preparing for the November election. Structured as a nonprofit, the group does not have to disclose its donors. It has backed Tea Party groups, organized rallies and paid for negative advertisements, drawing criticism from campaign finance watchdogs and Democrats over the flow of secret money to political causes.

Charles Koch, chief executive of Koch Industries, a chemical and refining company in Kansas, said he had no intention of taking over the institute. “We support Cato and its work,” Mr. Koch said in a statement. “We are not acting in a partisan manner, we seek no ‘takeover,’ and this is not a hostile action.”

But Mr. Levy said he balked at tightening ties between Cato and the Kochs’ advocacy groups, expressing concern that the brothers might try to select Cato’s research topics and the timing of its studies. Any perception of political influence could compromise Cato’s nonprofit status and stain its credibility, he said in an interview.

Over the years, Cato has successfully injected libertarian views into Washington policy and political debates, and given them mainstream respectability.

While leaders at Cato said the dispute has been years in the making, it broke into the open last week after the Koch brothers brought a lawsuit in federal court in Kansas against the institute.

The lawsuit, first reported on the Web site of the Washington Post, seeks to establish control of the four-person “shareholder group” that governs Cato. Charles and David Koch hold two of the four “shareholder” seats, but the lawsuit seeks to establish control of a third seat, vacated by the death of another founder.

The dispute goes deeper than mere seats on a board, Cato administrators argued.

“This is an effort by the Kochs to turn the Cato Institute into some sort of auxiliary for the G.O.P.,” said Edward H. Crane, who is president of Cato and co-founded it with Charles Koch. “What he is doing now is detrimental to Cato, it’s detrimental to Koch Industries, it’s detrimental to the libertarian movement.”

Tensions between such research organizations and the donors who finance them are nothing new in Washington. But the public nature of the spat and the big names involved — Cato is one of the country’s most widely cited research organizations, while the Koch brothers are perhaps the biggest benefactors of the conservative movement — has caused considerable buzz in Washington and on the Internet.

While its focus on libertarianism and individual liberties has often aligned the Cato Institute with conservatives on issues like gun rights and financial regulation, it has also staked out a number of positions closely tied to liberals. It generally supports same-sex marriage and guest immigrant-worker programs, for instance, while opposing the Patriot Act’s sweeping counterterrorism powers, aggressive use of American military intervention, and the criminalization of drugs.

Mr. Levy, the board chairman, said the dispute was already chipping away at the center’s reputation for independence as it seeks to raise money. Unlike many nonprofit research institutions, Cato does not have an endowment but continually raises money for its operations, with a budget last year of about $23 million. It is now in the midst of a major capital drive.

“We already have major contributors who will say we are not contributing another dollar until we are sure that the Kochs are not calling the shots,” Mr. Levy said. “It is a fund-raising nightmare.”

Romney Appears the Ohio Winner - Santorum Strong - NYTimes.com

2012-03-07T08:31:00.001+01:00

Romney Appears the Ohio Winner - Santorum Strong - NYTimes.com

The result came at the end of a long night that put Mr. Romney that much farther ahead in the race for the nomination, but dashed any hopes he had of using the day to assert himself as the inevitable nominee.

Far from bringing more clarity to the race as some in the party had hoped, Tuesday’s elections gave every candidate cause to keep driving forward — including Newt Gingrich, who won a definitive victory in Georgia.

Mr. Romney won in Massachusetts, where he served as governor; in Virginia, where neither Mr. Gingrich nor Mr. Santorum qualified for the ballot; and in Vermont and Idaho. Mr. Santorum won in Tennessee, North Dakota and Oklahoma.

But all eyes were on Ohio, which The Associated Press called for Mr. Romney early Wednesday morning, capping a turbulent night in which the results see-sawed both ways within a very tight range. Even around 1 a.m., Mr. Santorum’s campaign manager said he was still awaiting an assessment of provisional ballots that had not been counted before deciding to concede.

Speaking in Steubenville, Ohio, earlier in the evening, Mr. Santorum declared: “We’ve won the West, the Midwest and the South, and we’re ready to win across this country.”

When the result in Ohio was still pending, Mr. Romney assured supporters in Boston, “I’m going to get this nomination.” But acknowledging the mode that his campaign has now entered, he added: “Tonight we’re doing some counting. We’re counting up delegates.”

Seemingly noting some of his own mistakes over the past couple of weeks, Mr. Romney struck a chastened note, saying: “I’ve listened, and I’ve learned. I hope I’m a better candidate for it.”

Mr. Romney was poised to wake up Wednesday far ahead of his rivals in the delegate count, and about a third of the way to the 1,144 needed to cinch the nomination. As of midnight, he had 332 delegates to Mr. Santorum’s 139. Mr. Gingrich had 73 and Representative Ron Paul 35.

Yet the close race in Ohio, a state where he had far outspent Mr. Santorum, and his defeats elsewhere showed continuing vulnerabilities for Mr. Romney on both geographic and ideological grounds.

With the party as well as President Obama’s re-election campaign operating under the assumption that Mr. Romney remains the most likely Republican nominee, he has nonetheless lost states across several regions of the nation.

Only about 2 in 10 voters in Ohio and Tennessee who were asked on Tuesday which candidate best understands the problems of average Americans named Mr. Romney; one-third said Mr. Santorum did.

Yet the Romney campaign could point to the squeaker in Ohio and the delegate math, which fell so squarely in its favor, to argue it was winning where it mattered.

It was the most eventful day of the Republican race so far, with 10 states holding contests. And again voters upended the expectations set in campaign war rooms and New York newsrooms, splitting their preferences in ways that exposed continued divisions within the restive party between pragmatism and passion, political expediency and ideological purity.

Surveys of voters in Ohio on Tuesday showed the election revolved around the debate that has resonated within the restive party all year: whether to choose Mr. Romney as the presumed strongest challenger to Mr. Obama in the fall or Mr. Santorum as the more reliable champion of conservative causes.

The battle for Ohio was viewed as the most critical to determining whether Mr. Romney could finally emerge solidly on his way to winning his party’s nomination or was heading into an even longer fight.

Like Michigan last week, Ohio became a test of strength for Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney among the middle-class, middle-income Republicans who have become a swing group for Republicans this year, and voter surveys showed the two competed neck and neck for this group, with the slight edge going to Mr. Santorum. In Tennessee, Mr. Santorum benefited from a strong edge among the evangelical voters so critical in deciding Republican elections there.

Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Gov. Christie and shock jocks make you look at who’s cheering - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:55:00.000+01:00

Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Gov. Christie and shock jocks make you look at who’s cheering - NY Daily News

Rush Limbaugh calls a Georgetown law student a “slut.”
Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin two vulgar words for parts of the female anatomy.
A Los Angeles radio team does a bit referring to the late Whitney Houston as a “crack ho.”
Some days you just wonder where civility and a basic sense of decency have gone.
Except we know exactly where it’s gone and exactly where to find it, which is in the mirror.
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That truth doesn’t excuse any of these gentlemen, or mean they should not acknowledge they have done their small part in making us a little coarser, a little colder and a little meaner.
John, Ken and Rush, in fact, have done so, sort of.
But it’s doubtful that none of them made their comments because they grew up aspiring to become verbal bullies.
They did it because we pay them to. They did it because they learned the fast track to a high-profile media gig these days is not to be academic, balanced and reasoned, but to say something a little more outrageous than the next guy, or gal, has already said.
That isn’t to say we all view demeaning other people as high sport. For most of us, even if we agree with the sentiment, the tone makes us uncomfortable.
But a modest percentage of the population can create a profitable niche audience today, and one of those niches loves shows built on things neither they nor the hosts would say to anyone’s face.
So we’re pounded with this stuff day and night, and to assume we only breach civility with an occasional random vile word would be, at best, naive.
Part of what has elevated Limbaugh and Maher is their ability to express disdain in ever-more-creative ways.
If you call someone “lame” today, you need a harsher word tomorrow, and one of these days you’ll say something that feels clever and right, but isn’t.
Sure, language standards are a moving target and hardly just for talk shows. Watch a night of reality TV and you’d assume rude comments and constant insults are the way America talks.
They aren’t. But because some folks find them entertaining, they’re out there.
Then there’s real life. A few weeks ago, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called a Democratic legislator a “numb nuts.”
He’ll do that. And people will ask about it, and he’ll shrug and say that’s why they like me, because I call it like I see it.
Or forget the governor. Listen to a couple of random teenagers in a supermarket checkout line.
So are we a coarser country than we’ve ever been?
Nah, we’re not. We used to lynch black people and work 8-year-olds in sweatshops and not care if men beat their wives.
We had a Civil War that killed 600,000 people.
We can survive bad words.
But we also might remember that if no one were in the stands cheering, they wouldn’t be playing the game.

Paparazzi mix up Lindsay Lohan and Debbie Harry; Both stars were photographed outside same hotel in NYC - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:53:00.000+01:00

Paparazzi mix up Lindsay Lohan and Debbie Harry; Both stars were photographed outside same hotel in NYC - NY Daily News

Is that you, Linsday Lohan?
Paparazzi bombarded Blondie rocker Debbie Harry on Sunday morning, mistaking her for the 25-year-old actress.
The stars are separated by 41 years – Harry is 66.
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Harry was snapped wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a pair of aviator sunglasses nearly identical to a pair Lohan was spotted in two days earlier.
Both stars had been seen leaving the Mercer Hotel in New York during the week, further throwing off stumped photographers, one who said “Debbie bore a striking resemblance, albeit older, to the young starlet,” according to E! News.
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Lohan hosted “Saturday Night Live” the night before the paps confused her for Harry.
rmurray@nydailynews.com

Paula Deen, brother accused of racial, sexual harassment in former restaurant manager's lawsuit - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:51:00.002+01:00

Paula Deen, brother accused of racial, sexual harassment in former restaurant manager's lawsuit - NY Daily News

The former general manager of a Savannah restaurant co-owned by Paula Deen claimed in a lawsuit filed Monday she was sexually harassed and subjected to a hostile work environment rife with sexual innuendo, physical intimidation and racial slurs.
Lisa Jackson said in the lawsuit, filed in Chatham County Superior Court, her physician encouraged her to quit working at Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House because she suffered from panic attacks and other stress from working there. The restaurant is owned by Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers.
Jackson said in the lawsuit that Hiers routinely made inappropriate sexual and racial remarks and that she heard both Hiers and Deen use racial slurs. She also said in the lawsuit she saw Hiers violently shake a black employee and that he fostered an environment of intimidation.
A spokesman for Deen declined to comment on the pending litigation, and Hiers didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.
Jackson, who is white, was hired at the restaurant in February 2005 and within months was promoted to general manager with a mandate from Deen to turn it into a success.
Hiers soon began targeting her with unwanted advances, she said, and he watched pornography in the small office the two shared. He also distributed pictures of two women having sex at an office meeting and complained about heavier staff members, the complaint said.
She said Hiers made racially insensitive remarks and that his restaurant required black staff members to use the back entrance and banned them from using a customer restroom that white staffers were allowed to use.
During one meeting in July 2010, she said Hiers violently shook a black male kitchen worker. Deen later decided to invite the man to her mansion to smooth things over rather than to address her brother's conduct, the lawsuit said. In another incident, Hiers challenged his staffers to a fight, she said.
Jackson said she routinely suffered from panic attacks that often began when Hiers came to work each morning. The situation came to a head in August 2010 when Jackson said Hiers grabbed her face during a dinner for vendors at the restaurant and declared "I love you," then later screamed at her and spit in her face.
Jackson said she left her job days later after her doctor suggested quitting her job would improve her health. She said in the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, that she "continues to endure immense pain and has suffered greatly at the hands of Defendants' outrageous and intolerable conduct."

2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: Introducing Angel contest winner Kylie Bisutti - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:51:00.001+01:00

2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: Introducing Angel contest winner Kylie Bisutti - NY Daily News The stunning models of Victoria's Secret take the stage to show off the latest in lingerie during the 2009 NYC fashion show. Hosted by none other than Heidi Klum - who gave birth to her third child a mere six weeks ago - the show, set to air Dec. 1 on CBS, features a bevy of lingerie-clad beauties, as well as performances by the Black Eyed Peas. This year's theme is "romantic travel," and features fantastical categories like Enchanted Forest, Star Trooper, and All Aboard.

Fashion faux-pas or sheer PR brilliance? - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:51:00.000+01:00

Fashion faux-pas or sheer PR brilliance? - NY Daily News

Celebrity sexcapades caught on tape - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:50:00.000+01:00

Celebrity sexcapades caught on tape - NY Daily News

Obama: I was thinking about Sasha, Malia when I called Sandra Fluke - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:49:00.000+01:00

Obama: I was thinking about Sasha, Malia when I called Sandra Fluke - NY Daily News

President Obama said Tuesday that concern for his two young daughters drove him to reach out and comfort Sandra Fluke, who was labeled a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh.

"One of the things I want them to do as they get older is engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on,” the President said of his daughters, Malia and Sasha, at a news conference on Tuesday.

“I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way. And I don't want them attacked or called horrible names because they're being good citizens.”

Obama said he also wanted Fluke, a third-year Georgetown law student who previously lived on the upper West Side, to know that her parents should be “proud of her.”

He explained he was trying to promote a civilized discourse about the contentious issue of contraceptives.

"We want to send a message to all our young people that being part of a democracy involves argument and disagreements and debate,” Obama said. “And we want you to be engaged, and there's a way to do it in a way that doesn't involve you being demeaned and insulted.”

Obama, touching on whether Limbaugh’s apology was genuine, said he could not address what was in the radio host’s heart when he launched into the verbal assault – and then backed it up with another controversial comment the next day.

Limbaugh again apologized to Fluke on Monday as some of his advertisers threatened to jump ship.

Fluke has said his apology doesn’t quite cut it because she will always be associated with the firestorm his comments caused.

“I don’t think that a statement like this, issued saying that his ‘choice of words was not the best,’ changes anything,” she said on ABC’s “The View” on Monday.

The flap began last Wednesday when Limbaugh attacked Fluke on his radio show after she testified before a Congressional panel in favor of the Obama administration’s initiatives to have insurers cover birth control for women – an issue that has prompted a backlash from some parts of the religious community. After calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute,” he then said that women should have to have sex on video if they want the coverage.

After Obama’s phone call on Friday, Fluke said she was most touched by the President's statements about her family.

"He encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women. And what was really personal for me, was that he said to tell my parents that they should be proud," she said last week.

On Tuesday, Sarah Palin weighed in on the debate and the President's comments with a sharp retort on her Facebook account.

She implied that Team Obama should return campaign contributions from talk-show host Bill Maher, who has reportedly used sexist language to attack the former Alaska governor.

"Pres. Obama says he called Sandra Fluke because of his daughters. For the sake of everyone's daughter, why doesn't his super PAC return the $1 million he got from a rabid misogynist?"

Super Tuesday: Mitt Romney captures Ohio primary in nailbiter over Rick Santorum - NY Daily News

2012-03-07T07:48:00.000+01:00

Super Tuesday: Mitt Romney captures Ohio primary in nailbiter over Rick Santorum - NY Daily News