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Marriage Impossible III: The Tomkatastrophe
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Director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg consider where to take 'Twilight' past 'Breaking Dawn.'
By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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Photo: MTV News
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1697590/twilight-breaking-dawn-part-two-where-next.jhtml
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NEW YORK (AP) - Gazing at her bungalow, swept from its foundation and tossed across the street, Janice Clarkin wondered if help would ever come to this battered island off the coast of Manhattan.
"Do you see anybody here?" she asked, resignation etched on her face. "On the news, the mayor's congratulating the governor and the governor's congratulating the mayor. On what? People died."
Staten Island was devastated beyond recognition by Superstorm Sandy and suffered the highest death toll of all of New York City's boroughs, including two young brothers who were swept from their mother's arms by the swirling sea and drowned. Yet days after the waters receded, residents feel ignored and forgotten.
That sense of isolation is deeply rooted on Staten Island, a tight-knit community that has long felt cut off from the bright lights of Manhattan - the city from which the island once tried to secede.
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"It's always been that way. We're a forgotten little island," said Catherine Friscia, who stood with tear-filled eyes across the street from the Atlantic Ocean in front of homes filled with water and where the air smelled like garbage and rotting fish.
"Nobody pays attention to any of us over here. Nobody."
In the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, dazed survivors roamed Staten Island's sand-covered streets this week amid ruined bungalows sagging under the weight of water that rose to the rooftops. Their contents lay flung in the street: Mud-soaked couches, stuffed animals and mattresses formed towering piles of wreckage. Boats were tossed like toys into roadways.
Aside from a few fire trucks scattered along the shore, there were no emergency or relief workers in sight. Residents washed their muddy hands with bottled water and handed out sandwiches to neighbors as they sifted through the soggy wreckage of their homes, searching for anything that could be salvaged.
Spray-painted on the plywood that covered the first floor of one flooded home were the words: "FEMA CALL ME."
Sticking together in the aftermath of the storm has kept Staten Islanders who lost everything from completely falling apart. Self-reliance is in their blood just as the island's very geography lends itself to a feeling of isolation from the mainland: the only way to get on or off is by car, bus or ferry.
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After the storm, residents who had evacuated had to wait until Wednesday to return, when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge finally reopened to the public.
Most of the deaths were clustered in beachfront neighborhoods exposed to the Atlantic Ocean along the island's southeastern shore, an area of cinderblock bungalows and condominiums. Many of these homes were built decades ago - originally as summer cottages - and were not constructed to withstand the power of a major storm.
Diane Fieros wept as she recalled how she and her family survived by huddling on the third floor of their home across the street from the ocean, watching as the waves slammed into the house and the water rose higher and higher, shooting through cracks in the floor. A few blocks away, several people drowned.
"The deck was moving, the house was moving," she said. "We thought we were going to die. We prayed. We all prayed."
Fieros rode out the storm with her two sons, her parents and other extended family members. She pointed to a black line on the house that marked where the water rose: at least 12 feet above the ground.
"I told them, 'We die, we die together,'" she said, her voice cracking. "You saw the waves coming. Oh my God."
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The storm has reopened old frictions among local officials who maintain Staten Island's infrastructure remains inadequate and that it has little sway on City Council compared to the other, bigger boroughs. In 1997, Staten Islanders voted in favor of seceding from New York City and incorporating on its own, buoyed by a belief that the borough pays more in taxes than it receives in return and that it's typically put last on the list for city services.
Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro suggested this week that people should not donate money to the American Red Cross because that relief agency had neglected his borough.
"We have hundreds of people in shelters throughout Staten Island," he said. "Many of them, when the shelters close, have nowhere to go because their homes are destroyed. These are not homeless people. They're homeless now."
The controversy surrounding this weekend's New York City Marathon, which was cancelled Friday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had special resonance among Staten Islanders. The lucrative race begins on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and would have brought nearly 50,000 runners to an area not far from the Staten Island neighborhoods where people died.
Resident George Rosado, 52, who spent two days scrubbing a thick layer of sludge from his tiled floors and was preparing to demolish the water-logged walls of his home, found the idea repulsive. Except for a lone hospital van offering bottled water and power bars, Rosado had seen no federal, state or local agencies in his neighborhood, which sits about a block from the ocean.
"Nothing, nothing," he said, choking back tears. "We're hit hard. Homes are washed away. People are dying. Look around. You hear anything? It's quiet."
The city's tourism officials have long complained that Staten Island is the one borough that nobody wants to visit. But that has never bothered the half-million people who reside in this community, which is more suburban than urban and has a high concentration of police officers and firefighters.
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It's a place families are drawn to by the allure of having their own backyard and raising their children in a small-town atmosphere.
"We were all around family, you know what I'm saying?" said 68-year-old Joseph Miley, Clarkin's cousin. "A person went away and there was always somebody here to watch their house, watch their animals."
In fact, so many relatives lived on the same street that they jokingly referred to it as "The Compound."
That's all been wiped out now. The family's mud-spattered possessions lie dumped on the street; their homes will be bulldozed.
Billy Hague, 30, described paddling around the neighborhood looking for his missing 85-year-old uncle, James Rossi, who refused to evacuate before the storm.
"I kayaked back to the house and broke the windows and got in the house trying to find him," he said. "I found the dog, but I didn't find him until the next day until the waters subsided."
Rossi was among the 19 Staten Islanders claimed by the storm. His dog also drowned.
Hague, Clarkin and other now-homeless family members are bunking with relatives who live on higher ground, just beyond the reach of the devastating ocean waves. They have no idea where they will live. They do not have the money to rebuild their homes.
But they have each other. Amid the debris and the broken glass and the uprooted trees, an American flag blew in the breeze. Clarkin waved a dismissive hand at the scene of destruction. She considers herself one of the lucky ones.
"People perished," she said. "This is stuff. That's all."
RELATED ON SKYE: Photos - Before and After Superstorm Sandy
Source: http://weather.aol.com/2012/11/02/isolated-nyc-borough-says-help-is-slow-after-sandy/
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Undoubtedly this is one of the most conflicted pieces of writing I?ve ever done. I care?passionately?about my hobby and I want to see this kind of behaviour go away?permanently, but I?m also acutely aware that this is a tricky subject to talk about, and I?m not sure whether I have the skill to do it justice.?Nevertheless,?I feel I have to write this?piece, if only for my own sanity. I have to figure out whether things are getting worse, or if age is making me more sensitive to these kind of things. Is this a?generational?thing? In today?s?interconnected?world anyone can start up a gaming blog or podcast and air their views to the rest of the planet.
Do I, as a pre-internet gamer just need to harden up and accept there are some unpleasant people out there, and some of them will be gamers? I wouldn?t tolerate hate speech from?colleagues?in the workplace, so why should I?tolerate?it over Xbox Live or anywhere else my hobby takes me? Everything I mention in this?piece is something I have experienced personally. When I refer to something said in a lobby or over voice chat, I heard it personally. When I refer to something I heard on a podcast, it?s because I downloaded and listened to it. If I reference a Tweet or blog, I actually read it. So before I move on I?d like to make it clear, everything written here is my opinion, and mine alone, and I write this I because I care about where gaming is heading. I?m not looking for page hits or?controversy, so please bear that in mind as you read.
Verbally abusing your?opponent?whilst playing Street Fighter for example, could?very?well lead to an actual real life fight. There was no?anonymity?involved, and you couldn?t get away with saying vile things about his or her mother, or the colour of their skin.
Once upon a time gaming was putting a ten pence coin in an arcade cabinet, and multi-player?gaming was putting a ten pence piece into an arcade cab whilst standing next to the person you were playing. Verbally abusing your?opponent?whilst playing Street Fighter for example, could?very?well lead to an actual real life fight. There was no?anonymity?involved, and you couldn?t get away with saying vile things about his or her mother, or the colour of their skin. Not long after, consoles came along. With no internet,?multi-player?still involved being in the same room as the person you were playing, only this time you were at home and playing with friends. The risk element of a total stranger reacting badly to some smack talk had gone, but racial abuse still wasn?t acceptable, even amongst people you knew well. Gradually console gaming changed.
Graphics got better, games got more complex, the number of people who could play together at the same time grew. Console makers began to explore just what the internet meant for gaming. No longer did my friends and I have to be in the same room to game together. The internet enabled me to not only game with my friends without leaving the house, but to talk to them too, at the same time. And it wasn?t confined to friends living in the same street either, for the first time ever, I could game with and talk to anyone from around the world, all thanks to the this new thing called the world-wide web.
No doubt that last paragraph just went over a whole load of things you already knew, but if you look carefully there?s one thing that?s missing; the moment at which society decided that hate speech was perfectly acceptable when it?s said?on-line.?The reason it?s not there is because it never?happened. Not one single class during my education taught me that racism or homophobia was?OK?if done?through?a headset?whilst?playing Halo. My parents never taught me that anti-Semitism was?acceptable when said to total strangers?in another country. Throughout my childhood and into adulthood, society had rightfully decided that hate speech was not acceptable. And so as I look back through my gaming memories, going over all the changes I?ve seen in the technology, and what developers have been able to do with it, I find myself unable to pinpoint a moment in society, outside of gaming, when our attitudes towards racial equality changed for the worse.
And yet I find myself reflecting on some disturbing things. I?ve been in Rainbow Six lobbies and heard racial abuse from one member of the team to another; in that case they were all total strangers. I?ve been in Call of Duty games when former fellow clan members sang songs about??hanging n******??or??the Jew in the gas chamber?. He genuinely thought he was just being funny, obviously?spurred?on by other clan member?s laughter. This year I?ve un-subscribed from to two different gaming podcasts because I found the humour?contained?within quite offensive. The first podcast contained a ?joke? about??getting gay men to have sex with women?, and the second a had a line about how they could tell?which?guest had written something because??it had a picture of a Jew being strangled underneath?.
I?ve read Tweets from gamers defending a friend?s vile comment about a black British?Olympian because somehow it?s a matter of free speech. One guy even tried arguing it was in fact patriotic to have disgusting opinions on?immigration. General homophobic slurs are increasingly common, as is the use of the word rape, (something I think most users would be reluctant to say if they actually knew a rape victim personally). I am perhaps willing to concede that a large portion of the hate speech used is less about genuinely held racist views, and more about shock value, but that doesn?t explain why they feel it?s?OK?to say it?on-line?in the first place, or why right thinking gamers don?t stand up and say something at the time.
Is there really a generation of gamers who don?t understand that hate speech is never OK, even if it?s directed towards that one camping so-and-so that?s killed you six times?already in a game of Call of Duty?
Right at the start of this piece I said I was writing this for my own sanity. I look at the generation of gamers younger than me and I?despair. Why wasn?t the friends of the guy on Twitter telling him to apologise and move on? Why weren?t my former fellow clan mates taking the song-singer aside and telling him in no uncertain terms that his behaviour was unacceptable. In fact, why were they even laughing? Why did the people editing the podcasts not realise that some of what was said was highly?offensive and cut it out? Are twenty-something gamers really so ignorant of what?s right and wrong? Are they just?desensitized?to it all now? Or am I just getting worked up over nothing? In my experience, things are getting worse. No longer is the hate speech confined to the gaming lobbies, people are taking it with them to their Twitter feeds, to their blogs, and to their podcasts. Whilst writing this piece I?ve been unable to conclude whether I really am right. I need your help to put my mind at rest. Is there really a generation of gamers who don?t understand that hate speech is never OK, even if it?s directed towards that one camping so-and-so that?s killed you six times?already in a game of Call of Duty?
If you are a twenty-something gamer, the chances are you?ve not enjoyed any of this article. You probably feel that I?ve?unfairly?tarred you all with the same brush. I apologise for that, I really tried hard not to. The problem is I don?t hear this kind of thing from?my?circle of gaming friends. We?re all around the same age, we?ve started to settle down and have families. The only time we hear this talk is when we game with people of?your?generation, and we?ve heard it a lot. But I don?t want to finish off on a negative, the use of racism?certainly?isn?t exclusive to those under thirty, and no doubt you could fill the comments box with examples of gamers older than you saying some pretty nasty?language? Put me right, tell me that you don?t?tolerate?these kind of things, even from your friends. Please, restore my faith in gamers.
Source: http://www.thegamejar.com/2012/11/hate-speech-anonymity-of-online-gaming/
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The Galaxy start its MLS playoffs tonight with a must-win against Vancouver, and although LA can beat the Whitecaps without David Beckham at his best, it would be a mistake to assume he can?t get there anymore.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/49648983#49648983
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Cooking at home is the best way to save cash, but it?s nice to go out sometimes, too. Check out Frugal Foodie on Fridays for a selection of the latest coupons for casual and fancy fare.
This week: dinner-and-a-movie coupons, lunch specials and free chocolate croissants, among other deals.
Buy a beverage, and get a lunch entr?e for just $7.99 with a print coupon from the company?s website. Participating locations only. Deal ends Nov. 12.
From Nov. 12-18, participating restaurants are offering specially priced meals.
Buy one premium chicken sandwich, and get a second one free with a print out coupon from the company?s website. Participating locations only. Expires Nov. 10.
Through Nov. 3, participating restaurants near the Fall River, Mass., arts center are offering 10% off to concertgoers, as well as $2 coupons toward a future Narrows ticket.
Get a free chocolate croissant at locations that serve Sunday brunch with a Facebook offer. Participating locations only. Deal ends Nov. 16.
For Happy Hour, the Minnetonka, Minn., restaurant offers menu selections for $5 apiece, until 6 p.m.
Claim a Facebook offer to get $10 off two entrees and $5 off Fandango movie tickets. Participating locations in North Carolina, Ohio and Florida only. Good through Nov. 30.
The Los Angeles restaurant now offers a rotating Sashimi Special for $15 at lunch and $26 at dinner.
With the ?4 for $40? coupon, get garlic bread, salad and pasta for four people. Expires Nov. 11.
Frugal Foodie is a journalist based in New York City who spends her days writing about personal finance and obsessing about what she?ll have for dinner. Chat with her on Twitter through @MintFoodie.
Source: http://www.mint.com/blog/consumer-iq/frugal-foodies-friday-meal-deals-4/
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