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Who hasn't stunk up a bathroom and blamed it on their spouse once in their life? But to do it live on-air?
Sen. Joe Lieberman was on WPLR's Chaz & AJ morning show this week shilling for John McCain when all of a sudden - FLUSH! - a toilet goes off in the background. (See attached audio, fast forward to minute 5:49).
The clip was first posted by blogger CTBob and made the rounds to Firedoglake and AlterNet, complete with accompanying hand-flushing video and and great poo-related comments like "gives a whole new meaning to 'sitting senator'" and "that's what a lot of Democrats think of his policies anyway" and "multi-tasking." Hilarious. But right after the flush, the clip cuts off...
.....The gist:
Joe's talking up McCain when you can hear (quiety, to be sure) a toilet flush in the background. After a bunch of hullabaloo from the hosts, Lieberman says, "You're hallucinating." Then Joe blames the wife.
Joe: "Sweetheart, I hate to tell you this, sweetheart, they just heard the toilet flush."
Chaz: "Blame it on your wife -- real nice Senator!"
Joe: "It's not me....I'm sitting at the desk in her bedroom. There's another member of my family, who I will not mention but we're very close. Apparently she is using the facility....Now she just said to me, the next sound you will hear is the shower. This is not an enormous place we have in Stamford, but it's nice."
Bet John McCain wouldn't flush the toilet while Lieberman was on the phone. Maybe it's time to trade up, eh, Senator?
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Financial crises occur. Personal trainers need their access. The All-Star Game can run late.
"I had some, uh, mixed feelings, Seth, about your missing our last appointment," said Rabbi Stuart Shiff, sitting one morning the other week across the table in a midtown Manhattan office from one of his private students, Seth Horowitz, executive vice president of Modell's, the sporting goods company .Like many such sessions, this one began with an apology: Horowitz explained that he had been at the 15-inning All-Star Game with clients until 2:30 the morning of the last session, and on top of that his infant son had hurt himself - not seriously, but still ...
The rabbi thumbed the pages of the Torah on the table. "I hurried back from a weekend trip with my family to be with you," he said.
Shiff is one of five rabbis employed by an international Orthodox Jewish organization known as Aish HaTorah, which offers many services to regular people at its Upper West Side center, but offers some special attention to those whom its managing director, Rabbi Adam Jacobs, refers to as "very significant people."
To participate in its Executive Learning Program, one makes a very significant contribution - $10,000 a year, more or less - and in return, a rabbi comes to one's corner office about once a week to offer Bible study, Talmudic exegesis, personal counseling or just an hour of intellectual jousting...
... Some new sign-ups, in fact, are recently unemployed - but still significantly affluent - "guys who suddenly have time on their hands," Jacobs said. One rabbi has been traveling to Greenwich, Conn., to meet with a man he used to visit at an office at Bear Stearns, and who was laid off after the troubled firm was acquired by JPMorgan Chase this spring...
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Located next to New Lebanon School on Mead Avenue, the finished library was supposed to be open next month for the start of classes.
Those who have been monitoring the project said there is no way the building will be done on time, however.
"The community is p----d off," said Michael Bocchino, president of the Byram Neighborhood Association.
Bocchino said the pace of the construction, which has been going on for a year-and-a-half, is unacceptable; he placed the blame on the library's board of trustees for its management of the project.
"This is one of the most mismanaged projects in the history of the town. It's pathetic," Bocchino said. "I would be surprised and shocked if they're done before Thanksgiving break."
At the construction site Tuesday, several exterior walls on the building were still waiting to be put up, in addition to most of the windows.
Jason Cea of Marco Martelli Associates Inc., the New Rochelle, N.Y., manager of the construction project, declined to comment and referred all questions to the library's board of trustees.
Roberta Denning, president of the library's board of trustees, attributed the delay on the unavailability of certain building materials, such as windows, which she said are taking longer than expected to arrive.
"We're rying to get it done by the end of September. It looks like we're going to miss that by a few weeks," Denning said.
The board, she said, has been very good about keeping Byram residents up to speed on the progress of the work and sends out monthly status reports to neighborhood leaders.
"We want it to be done just as much as they do," Denning said.
Denning would not respond to Bocchino's criticism of the board and its handling of the project.
Alan Monelli, the town's building superintendent, said his department has no oversight over library construction projects, other than offering technical advice that may be needed. No requests have been made for the town's assistance, he said.
When the project is finished, the library will be nearly double in size thanks to the estimated 5,000-square-foot addition. The 33-year-old facility, a branch of Greenwich Library, has seen a higher volume of visitors in recent years.
Since late last year, the Byram Shubert Library has been renting space at St. Paul Lutheran Church, across the street from the construction site.
"It would be good to have the full-service library back," said Stan Olszewski, 55, who uses Byram Shubert about once a week.
Olszewski looked skepticalwhen told that the project had been scheduled to finish in time for the start of school.
"Maybe next school year," he said.
Rebecca O'Neill, 43, who was on her way into the library with her two daughters, said she can't wait for the project to finish.
"It's just an inconvenience because sometimes they don't have the books here," O'Neill said.
Neighborhood leaders said the library plays a key role in after-class activities for students of nearby New Lebanon School.
"The kids down here are suffering," said Joseph Kantorski, a Byram Neighborhood Association member who has been monitoring the project. "It was a vital center of the community."
The project's original price tag was estimated at $2.7 million. That figure has grown to $4.8 million,
with the town contributing $1.3 million, a state grant accounting for $500,000, a Community Development Block Grant paying $650,000, and private donations totaling $2.2 million.
A regular commuter during his days working in New York City, Mr. Himes, a Cos Cob resident seeking the Democratic nomination in the state’s fourth district, laughed as he recalled how he once had the train schedule memorized as he sought to catch the 7:45 a.m. to Grand Central Station out of Cos Cob. But Mr. Himes wasn’t there just to think back to past commutes.
Mr. Himes doesn’t officially have the party’s nomination, but he is the convention-endorsed candidate in the primary election against petition candidate Lee Whitnum. The primary is Tuesday, Aug. 12. With a potential race against 21-year incumbent Republican 4th District U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays this November, Mr. Himes talked to morning commuters and passed out campaign literature in a quest for votes this November.
“The YWCA appreciates the Fairfield County Community Foundation for honoring us with a grant and for recognizing the importance of our YNet Program for teens,” said Adrianne Singer, president and chief executive officer of the YWCA. “This grant will permit us not only to continue our program that trains high school volunteers how to recognize dating violence, but enables us to increase awareness campaigns that include participation in the Greenwich High School homecoming parade, Valentine’s Day events and silent vigils.”
For 12 years, the YWCA of Greenwich YNet leadership program has trained more than 200 high school volunteers to educate thousands of high school students on identifying and preventing dating violence....
As information services manager, Ms. Delmhorst will head a team of 40 librarians and staff in providing the latest formats including electronic databases, audio books and eBooks. Focus areas include health, business, music, local history, children and young adults. The team provides a range of programs throughout the year from the Shakespeare series with Bob Smith to the Foreign Affairs Book Club. Classes offered for public and staff in the Technology Training Center are a major component of information services. A new summer series, Spotlight Online, offers an in-depth look into popular Internet tools such as Facebook, Flickr, RSS feeds and Podcasts.
Ms. Delmhorst has more than 30 years of library experience. She started her library career in children’s services at The New York Public Library. She also worked at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn College Libraries, Thomas J. Watson Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art before moving to Greenwich.
Her first involvement with Greenwich Library was as secretary of the Friends. She held various positions such as part-time cataloger and eventually became the first Peterson Business Services librarian, a position she held for 10 years. The Peterson Foundation provides enhancements to an already outstanding business collection. The most visible are programming, a community outreach to small businesses, nonprofit organizations, investors and women’s leadership. Many business databases, such as Morningstar Library edition, Value Line and Vault Career were added to the collection under Ms. Delmhorst’s direction....
Hundreds of Connecticut and New York revelers gathered at the Coveleigh Club in Rye, N.Y., for a festive night of dancing, dining, auctions and games of chance. The event took place July 11.
Guests walked around the grounds, decorated in pink and green, playing gambling favorites, bidding in silent auctions and shopping at a boutique with exquisite jewelry, handbags, scarves and other accessories. A live auction featured sports events, an airplane ride, sailing on a vintage ketch and other items.
Proceeds support the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, which cares for more than 300 premature and sick newborns a year. The NICU recently moved into new quarters to accommodate the growing number of babies needing specialized care.
Quinton Frieson, chief operating officer at Greenwich Hospital, thanked the event chairs and Monte Carlo committee members for helping to make the evening such a success. The event was sponsored by Families for Greenwich Hospital, a voluntary group of parents working to enhance pediatric and adolescent care in the community.
Event chair Elizabeth Handler, a NICU nurse whose two children also stayed in the NICU, thanked the audience.....
Chung is foiling the competitionBut that was before a number of key players decided not to return this year for one reason or another and the promise of a successful season quickly dissipated.
No wonder after winning only seven games, Post 29 was probably glad to put the 2008 season in its rearview mirror.
Chivalry lives
Hearst Corp. has taken over management of Greenwich Time and The Advocate and purchased the Connecticut Post and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews Group Inc., the companies announced Friday.
"I think it's terrific. Hearst is an outstanding newspaper and media company," said John Dunster, publisher of Greenwich Time and The Advocate. "They still think the future of newspapers is bright and demonstrated it by buying the Connecticut Post. I think they (employees) are excited about the opportunity to work for the Hearst Corp."
Dunster said he did not anticipate immediate changes to daily operations of Greenwich Time and The Advocate or the appearances of the newspapers.
MNG Chief Executive Officer Dean Singleton said Friday the sale of the Connecticut properties, in which Hearst already owned a 40 percent stake, was to shore up MNG's balance sheet.
Dunster said Frank Bennack Jr., vice chairman and chief executive officer of Hearst, lives in New Canaan and is familiar with Greenwich Time and The Advocate....
....Brooks Community Newspapers' six weeklies, the Darien News-Review, Greenwich Citizen, Fairfield Citizen-News, New Canaan News-Review, Norwalk Citizen-News and Westport News, are part of the deal.
Bennack returned to the helm of Hearst after a brief retirement. He has led the privately held company for more than 23 years. He said the Post is joining a strong company that doesn't have much debt. He also said Hearst will continue to be a partner and investor in MNG.
George Irish, president of Hearst Newspapers, said the value of the deal to buy out MNG's interest in the Connecticut newspapers would not be disclosed.....
Comment:
A person with direct knowledge of the deal, reported the purchase price was $155 million — less than the $205 million that MediaNews reportedly paid to buy the Connecticut Post in 2000.
Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story
This might explain why the Greenwich Time Website might be stuck on stupid....
We Hate To Say We Told You So,
05/13/08 - Heard it Through The Grapevine - Local Newspaper May Be Living On Borrowed Time
The Money Losing And Subscriber Losing Greenwich Time May Became A Local News Bureau Of A Bridgeport News Paper.
Hearst is already printing The Stamford Advocate, The Norwalk Advocate and the The Greenwich Time at the Connecticut Post plant in Bridgeport.
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The weeklies Hearst acquired are the Darien News-Review, Greenwich Citizen, Fairfield Citizen-News, New Canaan News-Review, New Milford Spectrum, Norwalk Citizen-News and Westport News. Hearst also assumed management of The News-Times, a daily newspaper in Danbury....
...Hearst bought The Advocate and Greenwich Time in November for $62.4 million. Since the buildings were not part of the deal, both newspapers, along with The Advocate's Norwalk office, relocated earlier this year. The Connecticut Post was owned by MediaNews....
Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story
We Hate To Say We Told You So,
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05/13/08 - Heard it Through The Grapevine - Local Newspaper May Be Living On Borrowed Time
The Money Losing And Subscriber Losing Greenwich Time May Became A Local News Bureau Of A Bridgeport News Paper.
Hearst is already printing The Stamford Advocate, The Norwalk Advocate and the The Greenwich Time at the Connecticut Post plant in Bridgeport.
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BRIDGEPORT - Hearst Corp. announced Friday it has bought the Connecticut Post and seven non-daily newspapers from Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. for an undisclosed amount. MNG Chief Executive Officer Dean Singleton made the announcement to Post staff in the newsroom. It was eight years after Singleton's privately held company bought the Post and five non-dailies from Thomson Newspapers Inc. Hearst is also taking control of The Advocate of Stamford, Greenwich Time, The News-Times of Danbury and the New Milford Spectrum, which MNG had been managing, through a joint operating agreement. The combined circulation of Hearst's Connecticut properties is 137,000 daily, 151,000 on Sunday and 53,000 non-daily. Brooks Community Newspapers' seven weeklies, the Darien News-Review, Greenwich Citizen, Fairfield Citizen-News, New Canaan News-Review, Norwalk Citizen-News and Westport News are part of the deal. The Post and the Brooks newspapers employ 350 people. Singleton said Friday the sale of the Connecticut properties, which Hearst already owned a 40 percent stake in, was to shore up MNG's balance sheet. "We are selling the Connecticut Post to Hearst and paying down a lot of debt," Singleton said. New Canaan resident Frank Bennack Jr., Hearst vice chairman and chief executive officer, welcomed staffers of the Post and non-dailies to Hearst. Bennack has returned to the helm of Hearst after a brief retirement. He has led the privately held company for more than 23 years. He said the Post is joining a strong company that doesn't have much debt. He also said Hearst will continue to be a partner and investor in MNG. George Irish, president of Hearst Newspapers, said the value of the deal to buy out MNG's interest in the Connecticut newspapers would not be disclosed. Both companies are private. The Hearst Corp. traces its beginning to 1887, but George Hearst won much of the fortunes that founded the future media empire in western mines, including the Comstock Lode of Nevada. His son, William Randolph Hearst, took over the family's newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, from which the family built a large media business. Today, Hearst is a more diversified company with ownership of 16 daily and 49 weekly newspapers as well as interest in 43 daily and 72 non-daily newspapers. It is the publisher of magazines, including Cosmopolitan¸ and the company's Hearst-Argyle Television company has 29 TV stations and an interest in ESPN. Bennack said he is familiar with the Post and despite the tough environment insisted "newspapers will be viable as far as the eye can see." He said they are too important to the country to be allowed to go extinct, as some industry pundits suggest. "Newspapers play a vital role in American society," he said. "We're not about to give up on that. Who will watch city hall?" Robert L. Laska, president and publisher of the Post, said the Hearst Corp. will add "an exciting new dimension to the Connecticut Post family of publications and media Web sites. "We look forward to continuing the success that the Connecticut group has achieved in its long history, as we confidently face the challenges of the future," Laska said. The Connecticut Post was established in 1883 as the Bridgeport Post. It was family owned for years until the Pfriem and Flicker families sold it to Thomson in 1988. Thomson changed the name to Connecticut Post in 1992 and sold it to MNG in 2000. MNG, the nation's fourth-largest newspaper company, has been struggling with debt accumulated from acquisitions of a few years ago. One deal in particular was valued by some media sources at $1 billion for MNG to acquire several newspapers in California, including the Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News. Standard & Poor's had recently downgraded MNG's rating to CCC. But Singleton and Hearst executives also noted this is a difficult time for the entire newspaper industry. Newspapers across the nation are grappling with lower ad revenues and circulation from its print editions while revenues from Web editions have not been able to make up that gap as competition in the digital world heats up and newspapers go online. "The newspaper industry has gone through some tough times," Singleton said. "We believe the future of newspapering is bright, but the transition will continue to be painful." Other newspapers have announced cuts in staff and other cost savings maneuvers in recent months. Singleton pledged to continue to read the Post and he complimented the work of all departments of the newspaper. "We have been so proud," he said.
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MediaNews Group, owner of The Denver Post, has sold a daily newspaper and several weeklies it owns in Connecticut in a deal that the Denver-based newspaper chain says will help it “manage its balance sheet” at a time when the newspaper industry is struggling.
The Bridgeport, Conn.-based Connecticut Post and seven weekly papers in that state were sold to New York-based Hearst Corp., a national media company that owns a minority share of privately held MediaNews, the two companies announced in a statement Friday.
Hearst also will assume management of three other dailies it already owns, in Stamford, Greenwich and Danbury, Conn., that were previously run by MediaNews.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the Associated Press, citing “a person with direct knowledge of the deal,” reported the purchase price was $155 million — less than the $205 million that MediaNews reportedly paid to buy the Connecticut Post in 2000.....
The U.S. Commerce Department released two reports today tracking the fortunes in money and people of the nation's counties.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis said the Bridgeport-Stamford area had per capita income of $80,192 in 2007, the highest in the United States.
Per capita income is the total amount of income earned by all residents divided by the region's total number of residents.
The BEA said residents in the Stamford-Bridgeport region, which includes Greenwich, earned more than $71 billion in 2007. That's up from $66 billion earned in 2006.
The Naples, Fla., region ranked a distant second in 2007, with per capita income of $61,788.
The Hartford region ranked 17th with per capita income of $47,641 and the New Haven-Milford area ranked 33rd with $43,820.
The BEA ranks only the metropolitan areas with population of more than 100,000.
While money flowed into Fairfield County in 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau said residents flowed from the region. Fairfield County was the state's only county to have more people move out than in since the 2000 Census.
The Census Bureau said between 2000 and 2007, 19,938 people moved out of Fairfield County. The only reason the county gained population was due to births during that period. There were 86,025 babies born in the county since 2000.
Fairfield County remained the most populous county in the state, with 895,015 residents in 2007. It ranked 53rd nationally. Hartford County, with a population of 876,824, ranked 54th in the nation and New Haven, with a population of 845,494 ranked 58th.
Source: Connecticut Post
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You may have wondered why some people feel moved to put whales and lobsters all over their clothing, why for them a certain faded shade of raspberry sherbet seems an all-purpose palette for shirts, shorts, jackets and ball caps, why Top-Siders and Patagonias are de rigueur, just as socks in almost any weather are not. And if that’s what you’ve wondered, you’ve come to the right avenue to make some observations.
Start humming the fight song of Choate or Deerfield or any other of America’s most elite prep schools, and there’s a good chance that someone on Greenwich Avenue will start humming it, too. We’re not really recommending that; we just want you to know that if you wish to immerse yourself in a preppy Promised Land, everything you need is here.
To call it a “bedroom” community of New York (a 37-minute train ride away) is an understatement; Greenwich is more of a bastion of Old Money and lots of New—more than $120 billion of the world’s hedge funds are managed here.
And it would be easy to write Greenwich off as stuffy; after all, this was the filming location for the remake of The Stepford Wives. But the village boasts charm and tradition among the grand homes and estates, with a thriving cultural scene, camera-ready countryside and four pristine beaches on Long Island Sound.
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Comment:
Stepford Wives was filed where?
Would someone please tell Ms. Mary Alice Kellogg that Mary Alice Kellogg that the film was shot in Darien And New Canaan.
What makes Ms. Mary Alice Kellogg in Greenwich in noway wants to be associated with this remake flop.
This film was notorious for the numerous production problems that occurred throughout its shooting schedule. The tension started when both John Cusack and Joan Cusack, originally slated to star in supporting roles, pulled out of the project and were replaced by Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler, respectively. After filming was initially completed, several changes were made to the new script, which created a number of plot holes, and the cast was called back for reshoots. Reports of problems onset between director Frank Oz and stars Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler were rampant in the press. Kidman was reportedly so dissatisfied with the new screenplay that she considered pulling out of the project. In recent interviews, Kidman, Matthew Broderick and producer Scott Rudin have all expressed regret for participating in this project.
In an interview with Ain't It Cool, Frank Oz's take on the film was "I f**ked up... I had too much money, and I was too responsible and concerned for Paramount. I was too concerned for the producers. And I didn't follow my instincts."
Anyway, if you have some free time you can launch Delta's interactive map, and hope that it is more accurate than their feature story.
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