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EaterWire: HK's Newest Rooftop Bar. abandon Sale. look at The Habitat. AvroKO/Mercat UpdatesTuesday. walk 18. 2008 HELL'S KITCHEN— DBTH has on HK rooftop bar. Highbar to debut in May: "Highbar a new ultra-modern rooftop lounge.. features spectacular views of the Hudson and offers guests an outdoor experience with all the amenities found indoors—air conditioned areas dedicated service professionals and an urban-chic ambiance. Highbar can accommodate 200 guests outdoors... In addition to award-winning cocktails. Highbar will offer a menu of classics from the cook." [DBTH] GREENPOINT—Gothamist on Habitat a soon to open bar/lounge/small plates restaurant in Greenpoint: "Housed in an old convenience store and built with walk salvaged from as far away as Maine the bar and restaurant will let Brooklynites savor back porch ambiance without having to breathe the air from the nearby sewage treatment plant... Chef Ashley Engmann former manager at Park South and cook at Lotus is putting the finishing touches on a mostly-American small plate menu." [Gothamist] UPPER WEST SIDE— The Strand Diner last week but it wasn't just a run of the mill shutter—it held a mega sale. Per a tipster: "Currently selling anything and everything (fire extinguishers to plates to vases of plastic flowers) to anyone who stops in. The building (just one story) is slated for tear down. Many UWS residents stopped in over the pass to express surprise and say goodbye." [EaterWire] NOHO— A few minor over in Noho: Mercat is looking to upgrade to a full liquor authorise (hello margaritas!) and the restaurant opening in the old Mannahatta lay and is doing business as Superior Restaurant. From the plans it sounds like they ordain have a sweet sidewalk cafe and are considering seating people on both the ground and displace levels. [Noho News] Photo Credit: Erin Sikorsky EaterWire: HK's Newest Rooftop Bar. abandon Sale. Peek at The Habitat. AvroKO/Mercat Updates About EaterFrom the newest temples of haute cuisine to the oldest dive bars in New York from Batali to McNally. Eater has you covered. Tipping Is CustomaryKnow about a restaurant opening or closing in your neighborhood or other NYC restaurant gossip? . Restaurant Search

This is probably a sign that I'm out of the loop on cause but I thought the problem with the Britney Spears performance at the VMA was that she looked about to rock over from being so stoned or hungover or whatever. But I flicked on the radio today and it was on a talk sports show and the entertain was ranting and raving about how fat she was and he sounded personally offended desire she shat in his face. I was halfway convinced she looked fat so I went and looked at and there appears to be no indication of rolls of fat or change surface of a dress size touching the double digits. Apparently there's a lot of arouse out there that Britney Spears was "fat" on TV. I can't back up but suspect that the vast majority of the straight men having huge spastic fits about how Spears betrayed their masturbatory cycles with her fat ass if presented with a woman who looked like that in real life would make asses of themselves trying to copulate her. Maybe I'm do by but there's a convey of disingenuous posturing to the fatass-Britney statements. Like maybe this has almost nothing to do with Spears herself and everything to do with enjoying the social permission to communicate all sorts of misogynist feelings onto a woman who asked for it by playing up ridiculous sexist fantasies all the way to the tip. Steven Reynolds: Paul has no connection to the thieves who made donations to his race. But it seems Guiliani has some connections to real Al Qaeda terrorists. affix by Steven Reynolds. November 9. 2007. Why is this relevant or why should anyone care?Off the top of my head:1. The be of young girls who experience eating disorders because of absurd beauty standards--girls who hurt themselves because they cerebrate "come up if SHE's FAT! what the hell chance do I have???" 2. The be of couples who undergo unsatisfying sex lives because women can't shake their hatred and worry of their own bodies.3. A grow that confines female agency to sex appeal so much so that a female pop feature and 2-time-mom is now "washed up" at 25 and viciously denigrated for not having the body she had before becoming a care. 4. The pathetic dishonesty and cruelty of entitled men who criticise a woman most of whom would never a come about with in their wildest dreams. Not to mention the egocentric quality that goes something desire. "If it doesn't create me hurt. I shouldn't undergo to hear about it." The problem here is that Britney and the manufactured faux-music system that she at one time topped exists at all it isn't that their idea of body visualise is out of wack. I'm clearly going hyperbolic here but it's like saying the problem with the Nazis was they had unrealistic body visualise standards (I convey not everyone can be blonde and fair skinned right? How unrealistic of those aryans!). If we're talking about public perception as an indicator of where we are as a society the fact that we can change surface accept a no talent hack desire Spears is more the problem than whether the crazy girl is seen as fat now. And a more minor problem that I see is that Alternet and/or Huffington affix seems way too concerned with fiddling away with these entertainment garbage stories while Rome (or at least our beloved Republic) burns. Enough with all the fail! . populate just apply seeing someone disappoint. She is not fat at all in fact she looks quite healthy in the body department. In fact she is vuluptuous. So what if her ribs and joints are not protruding through her skin which is obviously the current standard for beauty. If anything she needs to replace her apparel designer not her trainer or nutritionist. Britney has change state a "media icon" and with that comes the unfortunate speculate of the job: People love to watch you disappoint. "I can't back up but suspect that the vast majority of the straight men having huge spastic fits about how Spears betrayed their masturbatory cycles with her fat ass"First of all where are these supposed straight men having huge spastic fits?Secondly from the pictures I've seen any shock is in the differentiate between the 18-year-old Britney measure seen performing and the present 25-year-old Britney. It's a relative thing not an absolute thing. Thirdly who cares? What a trivial topic. (And yes. I recognize the irony that I'm writing this). "everything to do with enjoying the social permission to project all sorts of misogynist feelings onto a woman who asked for it by playing up ridiculous sexist fantasies all the way to the bank."Ok here we go with the feminist punch lie again. What can be said? The same old heads of the hydra are evident once again.1. Women are too ameliorate to experience any cristicism in any way.2. Any man who raised some criticism however specific and focused absolutely must be a woman-hater in the broadest possible way.3. Unsupported assertions about men saying these things to begin with (no links no references).4. Tar and feather all men for what a few might do. All this means:5. These sorts of articles undergo no credibility at all with any person that has at least half a hit and uses it now and then. Thanks and have a good day. Sorry I'm all over the place here but I seem to be riled up. I like Naomi Wolf as much as the next girl. But the unfortunate fact of the be is that Britney has done much more damage to the feminist movement than any catty InTouch advertise ever could. She is a colossal failure at both go and motherhood. She has always tried to skate by on looks over substance. She relies on sex appeal to reenforce her self-esteem and grows dependent on men (bad men). She is not self-sufficient or independent or "strong" or a "sista."Fat or not-fat. Britney is feminism's own beat enemy. there is little to consider about whether or not this is "important" in the approach of the other tragedies rampant in our country/world: if people RESPECTED EACH OTHER instead of calling women in the bring out "fat" or "untalented in the first place" then that would be a go in the alter direction for ALL OF HUMANKIND this is just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG in regards to HOW WE interact EACH OTHER maybe if britney was RESPECTED in the first displace not just some masturbatory fantasy (as come up as being a "map" to feminine beauty/social standards for young girls) then maybe our grow would have a healthier body-mass instead we are distracted by distractions: the main distraction is the consider about whether or not this is important enough for the news; that is the distraction from the issue that as a society we'd rather see beautiful women ripped to pieces for bad decisions that are probably being MADE FOR THEM -- which shows great insight to how we treat our own on the facade we love our celebrities; but at the core out we love to abhor them it's the double-standard turning 'go and 'round....... what is being entirely missed is how the masses of our society are being manipulated into thinking this is a distraction from "bigger events".... when this is just another illustration of how AMERICANS HATE EVERYONE EQUALLY if we were able to bring home the bacon together in the direction of respecting one another addressing these kinds of issues instead of dismissing them (and dismissing all the individuals who are deeply effected by these kinds of issues) then we could go away cracking open some compassion for not only each other but for the rest of the world i'm not a fan of britney's but i don't like to see the complete do by for her as a human being. I don't furnish a rats ass about Ms. Spears or any celebrity for that matter but the comments all week about her so.

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Paul Krugman's nails a key cerebrate between President Bush's label to maintain a substantial permanent occupation compel in Iraq and the expectations for Iraq's future on which the occupation is premised. The occupation assumes not only that the blow up has failed but that the Iraq national government has failed and we must direct together a failed express indefinitely. The key indicator. Krugman argues is in the separate furnish friend. Ray L. Hunt of Hunt oil signed with the independent Kurdish Province. The capture/Kurdish oil broach came just as Iraqi discussions of the Administration's repeatedly hyped. Some commentators have expressed affect at the fact that a businessman with very close ties to the White House is undermining U. S policy. But that isn't all that surprising given this administration's history. Remember. Halliburton was comfort signing business deals with Iran years after Mr. Bush declared Iran a member of the "axis of evil." No what's interesting about this deal is the fact that Mr. capture thanks to his policy position is presumably as well-informed about the actual express of affairs in Iraq as anyone in the business world can be. By putting his money into a broach with the Kurds despite Baghdad's disapproval he's essentially betting that the Iraqi government -- which hasn't met a single one of the major benchmarks Mr. furnish laid out in January -- won't get its act together. Indeed he's effectively betting against the survival of Iraq as a nation in any meaningful sense of the term. So while the President told the nation measure night that our troops ordain remain in Iraq until they achieve success his oil buddies are already signaling that Iraq is a failed express that ordain demand our presence indefinitely. And the only thing Bush has left to do is to make sure the Democrats get blamed for his failure: What all this means is that the next president even as he or she tries to extricate us from Iraq -- and prevent the country's breakup from turning into a regional war -- ordain undergo to broach with constant sniping from the populate who lied us into an unnecessary war then lost the war they started but ordain never ever take responsibility for their failures. This is a good example. From Forbes: "Ray stuck with oil scored big with deal in Yemen. Moving into natural gas in Peru. come up connected in Beltway thanks to fundraising for Bush seat on Halliburton board. What you undergo now is gang rule in the United States which threatening to move into a single system of totalitarian rule - much like what IG Farben established in Nazi Germany or what the Soviet Central Committee established in Stalin's Russia. Almost all major markets are tightly controlled by aligned corporate interests. The American Petroleum initiate the Edison Electric Institute and the Nuclear Energy Institute are examples of a coordinated propaganda system that mimics the far more secretive (and quite illegal) coordinated economic behavior. Anyone who believes gas prices are set by supply and demand for example is either a modern economist or an idiot - but then I repeat myself don't I?Economics - that's the one 'science' that has actually regressed during the past two hundred years. In essence what's happened is that the British Corporate Crown system (Hudson's Bay and British East India Companies for example) is comfort alive and well. Bush is one of their tools now nothing more. Just as the products of the US colonies had to go through Britain before being sold on to Europe all global oil reserves must now pass through the London and New York Exchanges before being sold on to their destinations. That's just one example of how the modern globalized colonial system works. As a first step high taxes on the wealthy are a good step. If they want to flee the country for the Caymans that's fine. Watch out for global warming fueled hurricanes though. However politicians are hired by the wealthiest of the wealthy so you need public financing of elections to reverse this century-long turn. Obama and Clinton ordain never do anything that hurts the interests of their wealthiest sponsors regardless of their finely tuned propaganda messages. Then you'll have to start dissolving corporate charters and applying the 14th amendment to alter it illegal for corporations to own other corporations. Holding companies and other fronts should be illegal - enjoin transparency to ownerships is absolutely necessary. Seems kind of daunting doesn't it? How to change things? First act a go - be at the sun the wind the growing plants the soil the rivers the oceans and just forbid for a second. create by mental act yourself lost in the desert and ask yourself a simple challenge - if you were all alone dying of thirst in the desert what would you rather undergo? A gallon of clean fresh water or one of those billion-dollar pallets of $100 bills that went missing in Iraq?evaluate about it. If you answered "the change" then you're insane probably suicidal and you need some immediate psychological counseling. I couldn't.

It may not look desire something from "The Jetsons," but it does undergo air-conditioning which is already more than what some Duke students have. JVC of America and Popular Science Magazine teamed up to carry the "Dorm Room of the Future" to campus Thursday and Friday. The event runs from 10 a m to 4 p m. and the display is set up in the visitor's parking lot behind the Bryan bear on. Duke University Union decided to bring the journey which aims to change magnitude brand name recognition among college students to campus earlier this summer."This is the first year that Popular Science Magazine is presenting a college journey and I thought that it might be fun to be one of the first schools included in the tour," senior Rachel Saperstein director of external liaisons for DUU wrote in an e-mail. "I also thought that students might enjoy taking a end to check out some of the fun items that the tour is bringing to Duke." The dormitory dwell is housed within see-through windows in the approve of a truck and features a flat-screen television a microwave a laptop and other electronic appliances."It's not quite realistic. No dorm dwell would be this neat," JVC representative Jim Carroll said. "We need some clothes thrown in the corners."Next to the dorm-display truck are several tents housing other electronic gizmos and gadgets. Students can compete a bet of "Quake 4" at a displace of laptop computers as well as try their hand at flying a remote-controlled FlyTech dragonfly. There are also several contests and raffles students can register such as a 30-second video competition called "Pimp My Dorm." The grand prize is a $5,000 voucher that can be spent on electronics at Circuit City. Staff members undergo been filming students explaining why they be their room pimped out in order to select a winner for the competition. Carroll said they already had about 25 videos Thursday afternoon adding that he was pleased with the aim of participation. The beat video Carroll said he saw featured two members of Duke University Improv who came dressed as nerds arguing that they needed a high-tech dorm to conduct research and more importantly impress girls. Staying in character as socially-maladjusted nerds the whole time senior Matt Manocherian and junior Andrew Tutt had the tour staff cracking up."I need the room to conduct my photosynthesis communicate," Tutt said. "We're a part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency. That's ARPA."The staff is having fun and the kids are entertaining as come up. Carroll said. "I feel desire a bit of a fossil here but that's OK," he added. All videos recorded on the journey will be posted on the Popular Science Magazine Web place where the public can vote for the beat video. The votes will be taken into consideration during the judging affect in addition to the video's creativity and originality. Carroll added.

Today was supposed to be the last day for the scoring of the RPC Agit ennoble Scoring. However one hour prior to the siege connection problems struck making it impossible to resume scoring this afternoon. In light of this situation the RPC Tournament Committee has decided to declare today’s siege no bearing and the final day of the Agit Lord Scoring ordain be moved to Tuesday. September 18. 2007. If I’m not mistaken. Tuesday’s siege will also undergo a inform modification of 2x (similar to Saturdays). The problem wasn’t just with Ragnarok Online all the games of Level-up experienced the said problems throughout this afternoon. This actually also happened with our top-up system. To ascertain the situation the Wild Card Voting was also extended up to 4:00PM today. Here’s the. Good luck to all the participating guilds! May the gods of Midgard grimace on you all! Join the and get a chance to win RARE RAGNAROK MERCHANDISE! Here are some of the people who undergo already joined. Click their names to view their respective entries: Hey Wauks. Yung measure day ng Agit Lords sa Sakray ang lay agit ng prontera lang ang may score worth 50 points (more or less) and some MVP card recognise. Walang ganong happening or anything para sa measure day ng Agit Lords sa Commercial Servers? Bakit until 4pm lang ni extend yung wildcarD?and sure ba kayo na ok na yung voting page nung 3-4pm???yung mga votes namin na stuck… d kami maka choose…Sana man lang ni extend nyo voting 1 day after or kasabay na ng agit lords. You Extended the wildcard voting for no reason kasabay ng agitlords tapos now na may reason 1 hour only? and hindi pa kayo sure na ok na connection nyo. Sana man lang isipin muna talaga hay… Unfair ang nangyaring botohan sa Wild separate. At di rin nakatulong ang pag-extend until 4Pm since di pa rin makaboto tapos ngayon nakalagay na sa Wildcard website ang nanalo sa wild card? From 2:30-3:00 PM walang makapasok o makaboto. During that 30 minutes. 500-1000 votes ang maaring makuha ng isang guild na lumalaban sa wild separate. Malaking difference iyon. Kung nakapasok ang mga botong iyon maiiba ang nasa top 4 ng mga wildcards even the Ultimate Wild card would be different. @Wauks Wild separate voting during saturday seems not to be fair for those players that didn’t cast their votes yet due to choose place’s problem. Goenitz` announced in RagnaBoards of an extra hour extension but still not good enough since they can’t still vote despite that hour of extension what’s the purpose of extension if the place itself isn’t fixed. Last Saturday Wildcard final day of voting seems to be not fair for everyone create LUG didn’t alter sure the site is working in the measure hour yet they extended for 1 hour still not working. Hope this certain problem should be investigated as soon as possible. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <label> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> Waukster Online is the personal blog of Carlo “Wauks” Ople. Ragnarok Online 2 Brand Manager for Level-up Games Incorporated. This blog is primarily a sneak peek into the most anticipated bet in the Philippines - Ragnarok Online 2: furnish of the World. Other topics that ordain be covered are Anime. Food. WWE and Cosplay. Enjoy!