FEMINIST/EDITOR DIES IN MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT-68--WHAT?

 


CNN) --" Journalist Mary Thom, a prominent feminist who was an editor of Ms. magazine in its early years, has died. She was 68.

Thom was killed Friday when she crashed her motorcycle on a highway in Yonkers, New York.

She helped found Ms., an influential feminist magazine, and served as an editor there for 20 years.

After leaving in 1992, she worked as editor in chief of the features section of the non-profit Women's Media Center, which works to raise women's visibility in the media.

"Mary was and will always be our moral compass and steady heart," said the center's co-founders Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda in a statement.

"Wherever her friends and colleagues gather, we will always ask the guiding question: What would Mary do?"

Thom had picked up her 1996 Honda Magna 750 from winter storage when she veered into traffic upon entering a highway in Yonkers, north of New York City.

She struck a vehicle and was struck by another, according to her nephew Thom Loubet.

The Westchester County police said it could not make the incident report available until later Sunday.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Thom spent all but 20 years of her life in Manhattan. As a result, her interests straddled the two.

She was an avid fan of comedian Jon Stewart, and she rooted for the Cleveland Indians.

In addition to her work with the magazine and the Women's Media Center, she consulted for several nonprofit women's organizations, including the National Council for Research on Women.

Among the books she authored was one on the history of Ms. Among those she edited was a history of feminist leader Bella Abzug..."

MENINGITIS OUTBREAK IN NYC AMONG MEN--GET YOUR SHOTS NOW !!!!

Meningitis Outbreak Accelerates (read the "VILLAGE VOICE" article)

GET YOUR SHOTS TODAY--REALLY!

It is a gruesome and painful illness. The disease can race from headache and fever to rampant rash and then to death within hours. Health officials are afraid that it could claim many more lives—both in the gay community as well as among straight people. '

But thus far, the disease, for reasons the health department can’t explain, has remained solely in the gay and bisexual community. “We don’t actually know why it’s only occurring in men who have sex with men,” says Dr. Jay Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control at the health department. “If you look at the subset that is this population, it is occurring at a rate 20 times higher than the overall population and 40 times higher than men who aren’t gay or bisexual. It’s frightening. We’re fearful that if we don’t stop it, it’s going to get worse.”

On March 6, the health department issued the latest in a series of dire alerts, warning the public and healthcare professionals of the danger. Doctors had not promptly reported some of the recent fatal infections to the department; some waited days until a lab had made a positive diagnosis. “That can make a difference in treatment and containment,” says Varma.

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The outbreak of meningitis among gay men has sickened four people already this year, increasing the number of cases to 17 since 2012, according to city health officials. Seven fatalities have been reported in the city since 2010...

JANE FONDA ADOPTED AN AFRICAN AMERICAN DAUGHTER-COOL !

 

 For the first time, Mary Williams shares her story of growing up the daughter of Jane Fonda after being rescued from the mean streets of Oakland, California. This is her story of triumph over adversity and an example of what can  happen when a child receives love and hope. Williams’s book, The Lost Daughter leads our Hit List this week.

 Watch Oprah's latest interview with Jane Fonda and her adopted daughter, Mary Williams, on Oprah's Next Chapter, airing Sunday, April 7, at 9/8c. (they do repeat the episodes on OWN--btw, watch  the Alicia Keys "Master Class" on OWN too--great!)

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Jane-Fondas-Daughter-Visits-Her-Biological-Family#ixzz2QVMU2y5z

The interview was fascinating with Oprah!

Mary met Jane at a summer camp that was run by she and her ex-husband Tom Hayden.   Fonda says that she knew Mary was special from the very beginning.

“When she showed up at camp … you could tell that she was a special person. And she came back for several years.  And then she didn’t come back …,” Fonda said on“Good Morning America.”

Williams lived in Oakland, in a tough neighborhood. She was the victim of sexual assault at the age of 14, which led Fonda to make an offer for her to come and live with her.  But there was a condition, she had to get her grades up.

She was the child of parents who were big leaders of The Black Panthers.

CABLE FOR $8 A MONTH --" TELEVISION QUAKING"

 

 

 

Queens entrepreneur has broadcast television quaking...

The next big thing?

(from "PHILLY.COM")

Bob Fernandez, Inquirer Staff Writer

Posted: Sunday, April 14, 2013, 6:30 AM
 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. - Chet Kanojia, slurping takeout Thai in a rehabbed electric-motor factory with an urban farm on its roof.

It didn't look like ground zero in a potential economic revolution in the TV business, with a used-car dealership across the street and the Tequila Sunrise Mexican restaurant down the block.
But it could be.

"Resorting to name-calling is a sign of desperation," said Kanojia, a supremely confident native of Bhopal, India, casual in jeans and an open-collar blue-striped shirt. "They are focused on this because it is real. It is credible. There is not anyone in these industries who can say with a straight face that consumers are getting a good deal."

His Aereo Corp. online TV service has few subscribers, is available only in the New York metro area, and faces significant legal challenges. Kanojia, though, plans to take it to the nation's TV markets this year and has millions of dollars in venture capital to do it.

From the Business Desk

And that has the broadcast-TV executives very twitchy. The New York Times reported that morning that TV bosses were "circling the wagons" with talk of converting broadcast-TV networks - free American institutions for decades via rabbit-ear antennas - into cable channels because of Aereo.

Two days earlier, News Corp.'s Chase Carey had blasted Aereo for "stealing" Fox's TV signals during a speech at the National Broadcasters Association convention in Las Vegas.

If Aereo is successful and ultimately deemed legal, subscribers could drop Comcast Corp. and other pay-TV systems for Aereo's $8-a-month streaming service to TVs, smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
Billions of dollars in retransmission fees paid to CBS, ABC, Fox, and NBC by cable and satellite operators for their stations could be threatened as TV viewers switch to Aereo or a service like it. TV insiders say these fees are modern economic pillars of broadcast-TV stations and help pay for sports and local news...."

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130414_Queens_entrepreneur_has_broadcast_television_quaking.html#ixzz2QUk5O951
Watch sports videos you won't find anywhere else

WHERE DID THE EXPRESSION "OK" COME FROM?

"It's amazing that we ever got along without it at all. But we did until 1839

"OK" is the all-purpose American expression that became an all-purpose English expression that became an all-purpose expression in dozens of other languages. It can be an enthusiastic cheer (A parking spot! OK!), an unenthusiastic "meh" (How was the movie? It was…OK.), a way to draw attention to a topic shift (OK. Here's the next thing we need to do), or a number of other really useful things. It's amazing that we ever got along without it at all. But we did. Until 1839.

There may be more stories about the origin of "OK" than there are uses for it: it comes from the Haitian port "Aux Cayes," from Louisiana French au quai, from a Puerto Rican rum labeled "Aux Quais," from German alles korrekt or Ober-Kommando, from Chocktaw okeh, from Scots och aye, from Wolof waw kay, from Greek olla kalla, from Latin omnes korrecta. Other stories attribute it to bakers stamping their initials on biscuits, or shipbuilders marking wood for "outer keel," or Civil War soldiers carrying signs for "zero killed."

The truth about OK, as Allan Metcalf, the author of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, puts it, is that it was "born as a lame joke perpetrated by a newspaper editor in 1839." This is not just Metcalf's opinion or a half remembered story he once heard, as most OK stories are. His book is based in the thorough scholarship of Allen Walker Read, a Columbia professor who for years scoured historical sources for evidence about OK, and published his findings in a series of journal articles in 1963 to 1964.

IT STARTED WITH A JOKE

OK, here's the story. On Saturday, March 23, 1839, the editor of the Boston Morning Post published a humorous article about a satirical organization called the "Anti-Bell Ringing Society..."
(more on YAHOO online)

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(LOLOL--EVEN TO CLICK THE LINK BUTTON RIGHT NOW I HAD TO PRESS "OK"--USEFUL IT IS-NO MATTER WHERE IT REALLY CAME FROM)

SIDEBAR: I HAD A BRAZILIAN FRIEND WHO SAID NEVER TO MAKE THE "OK" GESTURE WITH MY HANDS IF I WAS EVER IN BRAZIL--APPARENTLY IT MEANS "YOUR MAMA"--OUCH!

NJ TICK TOCK DINER -NJ, RT 3 --MURDER? WTF?

Diner Manager Accused of Trying to Have Uncle Killed

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 10, 2013

"The nephew, Georgios Spyropoulos, 45 and manager of the Tick Tock Diner on Route 3 in Clifton, asked an undercover trooper posing as a hit man to kill Alexandros Sgourdos, 57, and to dispose of the body, the authorities said.

Mr. Sgourdos also manages the Tick Tock Diner in Manhattan, a popular tourist spot at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, near Pennsylvania Station. 

Officials said Mr. Spyropoulos resented the control his uncle exerted over the New Jersey restaurant, which was featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” They said he also felt his uncle was taking an unfair share of the profits from the classic chrome diner, a popular spot among fans attending Jets and Giants games at the stadium in the Meadowlands a few miles away. 

“I think it’s an understatement to say they weren’t close,” Jeffrey S. Chiesa, the state attorney general, said in a news conference here. 

Mr. Spyropoulos, of Clifton, was being held on $1 million bail on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a message.."

ANOTHER BRUTAL GAY BASHING---WHO SAYS WE'RE EQUAL?

Applebee’s employee gay-bashed by husband of co-worker says he was told not to return to work due to bad publicity

Timothy Phares in the hospital following the attack. -Photo: Courtesy Tim Phares

UPDATED 8 p.m. April 1

 Written by Louis Weisberg, Staff writer of "THE WISCONSIN GAZETTE" ("THE WISCONSIN GAZE")
Mar 31, 2013

"A gay employee of Applebee’s in Rice Lake was brutally bashed by the husband of a co-worker, then told by the restaurant’s manager he could not return to his job due to publicity surrounding the incident, he said.

Timothy Phares subsequently did return to his job as a server after Greg Flynn, CEO of Apple American Group franchise, intervened on his behalf.

According to Phares and his sister Krista katherine, they were getting out of his car in the parking lot of a Perkins restaurant at about 6 a.m. on March 17 when Rien Hendricks and his wife Shannon Hendricks pulled up behind them in an SUV.

“(Hendricks) was getting out of his vehicle, and he said, ‘Fucking faggot, I’m going to kill you,’” Phares said.

At that point Phares said Hendricks struck him in the head with great force using a 2 x 4 piece of lumber. In a written statement, Krista katherine said she heard her brother’s head smack the pavement, but Tim Phares lost consciousness and doesn’t remember anything else before waking up in the hospital.

Phares suffered head and facial abrasions as well as multiple facial fractures that will ultimately require surgery to implant metal plates, he said.

Earlier in the evening, Phares and his sister had attended a party at the Hendricks’ home, but said they left because the couple had treated them rudely, they said.

According to a criminal complaint filed by the Barron County District Attorney’s office, a patron seated in Perkins at the time of the alleged attack was a witness to what occurred both immediately before and after the incident.

Hendricks, 36, who lives at 527 Phipps Ave. in Rice Lake, was taken into custody and charged with substantial battery intended to inflict bodily harm, a Class 1 felony. He faces a $10,000 and a much as three and a half years in prison..."

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TWICE "APPLEBEES RESTAURANT" MISSES THE MARK AND CHOOSES THE WRONG SIDE IN AN INCIDENT.
FIRST: FIRING THE EMPLOYEE WHO POSTED ONLINE  A CUSTOMERS BILL: THE CHEAP PASTORS INSULTING TIP AND WISE-ASS COMMENT ON HER BILL
NOW: FIRING THE EMPLOYEE  WHO ALMOST GOT KILLED TO AVAOID BAD PUBLICITY
REALLY??????????WTF?????????????? GROW SOME BALLS APPLEBEES !!!!!

"BUCKWILD" STAR FOUND DEAD-21 YRS OLD--R I P

 



UPDATE (APRIL 13, 2013)--THE SHOW IS OFFICIALLY CANCELLED.



"Shain Gandee (MTV)MTV's controversial reality show "Buckwild" just took a sad turn south. One of its stars, Shain Gandee, was found dead on Monday morning.

The 21-year-old's body was discovered in his Ford Bronco in Sissonville, West Virginia, around 11:30 a.m., alongside the dead bodies of his uncle, David Gandee, and a third unidentified person, according to a Kanawha County official.

Dispatchers received a 911 call around 11:30 a.m. that the missing vehicle had been found. Officers used all-terrain vehicles to access the Bronco, which was found about a mile up a dirt road, the Charleston Daily Mail reports.

The reality star and his uncle David, 48, were last seen leaving Larry's Bar in the neighborhood around 3 a.m. and claiming that they were going to go four-wheeling. The pair's family reportedly searched for them on Sunday before calling 911 to declare them missing.
The younger Gandee was still a trash collector for the city of South Charleston when "Buckwild" first began shooting. The show followed a handful of college-aged West Virginians partying – kind of like "Jersey Shore" with a gritty, Southern flair.

Needless to say, there seems to be more drama off-camera than on for its stars. Since the show's premiere in early January, star Salwa Amin has been arrested twice and sent to jail for possession and intent to distribute heroin and OxyContin, while Michael Burford was arrested for a DUI.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) reportedly sent a letter to MTV urging the network to put a stop to the show. "As a U.S. Senator, I am repulsed at this business venture, where some Americans are making money off of the poor decisions of our youth,” he said. "I cannot imagine that anyone who loves this country would feel proud profiting off of ‘Buckwild.’ Instead of showcasing the beauty of our people and our state, you preyed on young people, coaxed them into displaying shameful behavior — and now you are profiting from it. That is just wrong."

Still, the show has been renewed for a second season. The show's executive producer, John Stevens, once told Entertainment Weekly that it was Gandee – and the fact that he was a trash collector and had no cell phone – who made him think the show could be interesting..."