Saturday 19 November 2011
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Surviving Being Single: Your New Best Friend ...: Ladies, as we all know it's not easy being single in today's society ... our parents expect us to find a rich prince, our friends smugly re...
Monday 14 November 2011
Pink, Carey, And Willow Do The Red Carpet!
Starting 'em young!
Pink and Carey Hart brought their adorable 5-month-old daughter Willow to the Happy Feet 2 premiere over the weekend.
The family of three walked the red carpet - actually, it was really blue - where Willow seemed to be showing off for the cameras.
When asked about whether or not she serenades her daughter, Pink replied:
"She stops crying when I sing. My dogs leave the room and she stops crying."
Ha! She's definitely momma's girl. Pink seems like a while new woman now that she's a mother. It's definitely changed her.
P.S. What's with the guy giving the stink eye in the background??
[Image via WENN.]
Herman Cain's Wife Says He Must Have A Split Personality If Sexual Harassment Claims Are True
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has endured a number of claims accusing him of countless sexual harassment acts.
But his wife, Gloria Cain, is seeing through her rose-colored glasses defends her husband by insisting he "totally respects women."
Woman Fights Bear To Save Her Dog
A woman in Pennsylvania let her dog out one night to go do his business.
She then noticed he was acting strangely.
She said:
"It was dark and at first I couldn't see what it was. Then, I saw two black bears, what looked like a cub and an adult."
She said she saw her 11-year-old dog running at the full grown bear and "swatting at him."
She ran to help her dog, when the adult bear attacked!
She said:
"I was screaming at it to get out of my yard, trying to scare it away. I was so concerned about Otto I didn't even know I was hurt."
She was bleeding from the head from multiple claw wounds.
By the time her husband got outside the bears were gone.
Her injuries are minor.
The dog was taken to the vet and treated for his wounds.
Good thing his brave mama was there to save him.
[Image via AP Images.]
Jay-Z Wont Let His Daughter Grow Up To Be One Of These 'Rich Socialites'
Jay-Z is seriously determined to be a good father!
The rapper says he plans to be there for he and Beyonce's baby girl, to give her love, attention and not just his money.
The expectant father explained that he wants to provide for his little girl in a way his father never did. She says:
"Providing -- that's not love. Being there -- that's more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They're crying out for attention; they're hurting for love. I'm not being judgmental -- I'm just making an observation. They're crying out for the love that maybe they didn't get at home, and they got everything. All the material things that they need and want. So we know that's not the key."
Too true!
We're sure we have no what socialites he could possibly be talking about (wink), but "those girls" do need some kind of attention they're not getting at home.
If Jay is planing on being a hands on daddy, does that mean the mogul will be on diaper dutty?
"Of course, of course [I'll change my baby's diapers]. One hundred percent."
LOVE IT!!!
[image via GQ]
Thousands Rally to Resist Occupy Portland Evictions
10,000 filled the areas around the Occupy Portland encampments last night as the deadline approached for eviction. 12:01 am came and went but the cops could do nothing: too many supporters blocked their path. It was peaceful.
The cops waited it out and are clearing out the Chapman and Lownsdale Park camps this morning, tearing down the remaining tents. There is a General Assembly meeting at Pioneer Square at noon today. Occupy Portland will continue. The whole world is watching!
Lady Gaga’s tears for Kitty Brucknell
Gaga then stunned the show's judges by leading Kitty back to her dressing room to give her a cup of tea and some advice on how to launch her career.
A show insider said: "Gaga couldn't believe Kitty had been axed and thought she was one of the most talented and exciting acts in the competition.
"She thought that Kitty had been misunderstood and it reminded her of her own struggles to be accepted."
Kitty, 27, was axed when the judges voted her off following a sing-off with Misha B.
But as their verdict sank in, sobbing Kitty snatched the microphone from host Dermot O'Leary and sang an unaccompanied chorus of Gaga's hit Born This Way.
Gaga — who earlier performed her single Marry The Night after emerging from a mausoleum dressed as a decapitated corpse — responded by dashing onstage.
Who's she kissing now? Caroline Flack gets cosy with One Direction's Niall but Harry keeps a close eye on them
Who's she kissing now? Caroline Flack gets cosy with One Direction's Niall but Harry keeps a close eye on them
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She may have a thing for younger guys but it seems that Caroline Flack actually has a thing for boy bands.
After her much publicised kiss with One Direction's Harry Styles, the 31-year-old Xtra Factor presenter appeared to be moving on to band mate Niall Horan, 18.
Following the group's performance on X Factor last night, the Xtra factor host was pictured saying goodbye to the youngsters and enjoyed a lingering hug with the teenage singer.
But it certainly didn't go unnoticed as 17-year-old Harry kept a watchful eye on the pair.
Baring her tanned legs and wearing a black winter coat with towering nude stilettos, Caroline looked rather happy as she left the London studios.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Heavy D dead at 44: Rap legend collapsed Tuesday inside his Beverly Hills home
Rapper was raised in Westchester County
BY Bill Hutchinson
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 8 2011, 6:02 PM
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/heavy-dead-44-rap-legend-collapsed-tuesday-beverly-hills-home-article-1.974691#ixzz1dECIBXEB
The Westchester County-raised entertainer was taken by ambulance to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles about 11:25 a.m. and died 90 minutes later, cops told the Daily News.
Heavy D was conscious and talking when officers responded to a 911 call from his Beverly Hills condo, said Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills Police Department.
IN MEMORIAM: STARS WHO LEFT US TOO SOON
Rosen said the portly rapper, whose real name was Dwight Arrington Myers, was having difficulty breathing as paramedics rushed him to the hospital.
The performer had just returned from Europe and was battling pneumonia, KTLA news in Los Angeles reported.
Rosen said Heavy D had come home from a shopping trip Tuesday and began laboring for breath as he walked into his condo building.
“He collapsed in an exterior hallway,” Rosen said. “There doesn’t appear to be any foul play. We believe it was medically related.”
The actual cause of death is pending an autopsy.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Mount Vernon, Heavy D rose to stardom in the 1990s as the frontman for Heavy D & the Boys.
Along with band mates G-Whiz, Trouble T. Roy and Eddie F., he made hip-hop history with hit songs like “Now That We Found Love” and “Nuttin But Love.” They also performed the theme song for the 1990s comedy TV series “In Living Color.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/heavy-dead-44-rap-legend-collapsed-tuesday-beverly-hills-home-article-1.974691#ixzz1dECaPN9L
Heavy D last performed in October at the BET Awards.
In recent years, he had ventured into acting, scoring small movie roles, including one in the 1999 film “The Cider House Rules.”
He won a cameo role as a security guard in the just-released film “Tower Heist,” starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller.
“I’m definitely saddened by the loss of Heavy. He was a really good person,” said Damon Williams, vice president of programming for Music Choice, the multi-platform video and music network.
With catchy dance tunes that included R&B riffs, Heavy D was one of the first rappers to cross over to mainstream popularity, Damon Williams" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Damon+Williams" >Williams said.
“But I don’t think he ever lost his credibility with the hard-core rap audience,” said Williams.
Other friends took to Twitter to express condolences.
“I am deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Heavy D. A longtime friend and a beautiful person,” wrote Russell Simmons.
LL Cool J tweeted, “May GOD embrace the soul of Heavy D and Bless his family. I respected you Heavy and I always will.”
whutchinson@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/heavy-dead-44-rap-legend-collapsed-tuesday-beverly-hills-home-article-1.974691#ixzz1dECh6aCs
BY Bill Hutchinson
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 8 2011, 6:02 PM
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/heavy-dead-44-rap-legend-collapsed-tuesday-beverly-hills-home-article-1.974691#ixzz1dECIBXEB
The Westchester County-raised entertainer was taken by ambulance to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles about 11:25 a.m. and died 90 minutes later, cops told the Daily News.
Heavy D was conscious and talking when officers responded to a 911 call from his Beverly Hills condo, said Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills Police Department.
IN MEMORIAM: STARS WHO LEFT US TOO SOON
Rosen said the portly rapper, whose real name was Dwight Arrington Myers, was having difficulty breathing as paramedics rushed him to the hospital.
The performer had just returned from Europe and was battling pneumonia, KTLA news in Los Angeles reported.
Rosen said Heavy D had come home from a shopping trip Tuesday and began laboring for breath as he walked into his condo building.
“He collapsed in an exterior hallway,” Rosen said. “There doesn’t appear to be any foul play. We believe it was medically related.”
The actual cause of death is pending an autopsy.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Mount Vernon, Heavy D rose to stardom in the 1990s as the frontman for Heavy D & the Boys.
Along with band mates G-Whiz, Trouble T. Roy and Eddie F., he made hip-hop history with hit songs like “Now That We Found Love” and “Nuttin But Love.” They also performed the theme song for the 1990s comedy TV series “In Living Color.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/heavy-dead-44-rap-legend-collapsed-tuesday-beverly-hills-home-article-1.974691#ixzz1dECaPN9L
Heavy D last performed in October at the BET Awards.
In recent years, he had ventured into acting, scoring small movie roles, including one in the 1999 film “The Cider House Rules.”
He won a cameo role as a security guard in the just-released film “Tower Heist,” starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller.
“I’m definitely saddened by the loss of Heavy. He was a really good person,” said Damon Williams, vice president of programming for Music Choice, the multi-platform video and music network.
With catchy dance tunes that included R&B riffs, Heavy D was one of the first rappers to cross over to mainstream popularity, Damon Williams" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Damon+Williams" >Williams said.
“But I don’t think he ever lost his credibility with the hard-core rap audience,” said Williams.
Other friends took to Twitter to express condolences.
“I am deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Heavy D. A longtime friend and a beautiful person,” wrote Russell Simmons.
LL Cool J tweeted, “May GOD embrace the soul of Heavy D and Bless his family. I respected you Heavy and I always will.”
whutchinson@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/heavy-dead-44-rap-legend-collapsed-tuesday-beverly-hills-home-article-1.974691#ixzz1dECh6aCs
Monday 19 September 2011
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Government moves towards new monthly benefit system
Many benefits are to be paid less frequently, it was announced today, in a move ministers say will better prepare jobless claimants for the world of work.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith wants the new Universal Credit to be delivered monthly, replacing mainly fortnightly payments.
The change is part of a raft of extra detail about the implementation of a major shake-up of the system being unveiled as the House of Lords starts to examine the legislation.
It is likely to further inflame opposition to the cost-cutting crackdown being planned by the coalition in an effort to slash £5.5 billion from the welfare bill in real terms over four years.
The legislation's centrepiece is the creation of a new universal credit to replace a complex range of existing payments such as child tax credit, housing benefit and income support.
It also imposes tougher sanctions on people who refuse work and replaces the disability living allowance with a new personal independence payment.
Serious opposition
Parts of the package have sparked serious opposition from disability groups, childcare campaigners and anti-poverty experts who claim many vulnerable people will be among the worst hit.
The Children's Society warned recently that a planned cap on the total benefits households can claim could make more than 80,000 children homeless and push many thousands more into poverty.
That came after evidence emerged of concern at a very senior level within the Department of Communities and Local Government that the move risked making 40,000 families homeless.
The Government says the aim of the Welfare Reform Bill is to "make work pay" and clamp down hard on benefit cheats, a cause Prime Minister David Cameron has personally championed.
He highlighted the changes as one of the means to tackle the causes of the recent riots in London and other English cities, suggesting they could be furthered toughened.
"With 75% of people in work being paid monthly, ministers believe it is sensible that benefits are paid in the same manner, helping claimants to get used to managing their money and bills over a four week basis to smooth the transition into work," a DWP spokesman says.
The change is likely to prove unpopular however, with experts suggesting many people are paid weekly or fortnightly and questioning whether low-income families will cope.
Writing in the Guardian last week Ruth Lister, emeritus professor of social policy at Loughborough University, said: "Research shows that many low-income families already struggle to manage inadequate budgets. To be required to do so on a monthly basis will only make it harder."
Written by the Press Association
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith wants the new Universal Credit to be delivered monthly, replacing mainly fortnightly payments.
The change is part of a raft of extra detail about the implementation of a major shake-up of the system being unveiled as the House of Lords starts to examine the legislation.
It is likely to further inflame opposition to the cost-cutting crackdown being planned by the coalition in an effort to slash £5.5 billion from the welfare bill in real terms over four years.
The legislation's centrepiece is the creation of a new universal credit to replace a complex range of existing payments such as child tax credit, housing benefit and income support.
It also imposes tougher sanctions on people who refuse work and replaces the disability living allowance with a new personal independence payment.
Serious opposition
Parts of the package have sparked serious opposition from disability groups, childcare campaigners and anti-poverty experts who claim many vulnerable people will be among the worst hit.
The Children's Society warned recently that a planned cap on the total benefits households can claim could make more than 80,000 children homeless and push many thousands more into poverty.
That came after evidence emerged of concern at a very senior level within the Department of Communities and Local Government that the move risked making 40,000 families homeless.
The Government says the aim of the Welfare Reform Bill is to "make work pay" and clamp down hard on benefit cheats, a cause Prime Minister David Cameron has personally championed.
He highlighted the changes as one of the means to tackle the causes of the recent riots in London and other English cities, suggesting they could be furthered toughened.
"With 75% of people in work being paid monthly, ministers believe it is sensible that benefits are paid in the same manner, helping claimants to get used to managing their money and bills over a four week basis to smooth the transition into work," a DWP spokesman says.
The change is likely to prove unpopular however, with experts suggesting many people are paid weekly or fortnightly and questioning whether low-income families will cope.
Writing in the Guardian last week Ruth Lister, emeritus professor of social policy at Loughborough University, said: "Research shows that many low-income families already struggle to manage inadequate budgets. To be required to do so on a monthly basis will only make it harder."
Written by the Press Association
Thursday 8 September 2011
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis
When the world’s financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system. The solution is the problem, that’s why we had a problem in the first place. For Economics Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, the Catch 22 is self-evident. But interest rates have been at rock bottom for years, and governments are running out of fuel to feed the economy. The governments can save the banks, but who can save the governments? Forecasts predict all countries’ debt will reach 100% of GDP by next year. Greece and Iceland have already crumbled, who will be next?
The storm that would rock the world, began brewing in the US when congress pushed the idea of home ownership for all, propping up those who couldn’t make the down payments. The Market even coined a term, NINA loans: “No Income, No Assets, No Problem!” Enter FannieMae and FreddieMac, privately owned, government sponsored. Want that vacation? Wanna buy some new clothes? Use your house as a piggie bank! Why earn money to pay for your home when you can make money just living in it? With the government covering all losses, you’d have been a fool not to borrow.
The years of growth had been a continuous party. But when the punchbowl ran dry, instead of letting investors go home to nurse their hangovers as usual, the Federal Reserve just filled it up again with phoney money. For analyst Peter Schiff, the consequence of the spending binge was crystal clear: we’re in so much trouble now because we got drunk on all that Fed alcohol. Yet along with other worried experts, he was mocked and derided during the boom.
Have you taken out a mortgage, invested capital or bought shares? If you have, likelihood is you lost out in the latest bust. Governments promised decisive action, the biggest financial stimulus packages in history, gargantuan bailouts: but what crazed logic is this, propping up debt with…more debt? This documentary brings an entirely fresh voice to the hottest topic of
today.
The storm that would rock the world, began brewing in the US when congress pushed the idea of home ownership for all, propping up those who couldn’t make the down payments. The Market even coined a term, NINA loans: “No Income, No Assets, No Problem!” Enter FannieMae and FreddieMac, privately owned, government sponsored. Want that vacation? Wanna buy some new clothes? Use your house as a piggie bank! Why earn money to pay for your home when you can make money just living in it? With the government covering all losses, you’d have been a fool not to borrow.
The years of growth had been a continuous party. But when the punchbowl ran dry, instead of letting investors go home to nurse their hangovers as usual, the Federal Reserve just filled it up again with phoney money. For analyst Peter Schiff, the consequence of the spending binge was crystal clear: we’re in so much trouble now because we got drunk on all that Fed alcohol. Yet along with other worried experts, he was mocked and derided during the boom.
Have you taken out a mortgage, invested capital or bought shares? If you have, likelihood is you lost out in the latest bust. Governments promised decisive action, the biggest financial stimulus packages in history, gargantuan bailouts: but what crazed logic is this, propping up debt with…more debt? This documentary brings an entirely fresh voice to the hottest topic of
today.
Saturday 27 August 2011
Irene begins to batter New York as the city is reduced to a ghost town and hours of torrential rain fuel fears of severe flooding
Hurricane Irene began to batter New York City in the early hours of Sunday morning as heavy rain caused fears of severe flooding after the city had been reduced to a ghost town.
As the city nervously awaited Irene's powerful winds, power outages were reported across the city and authorities shut down the Port of New York and the Port for Long Island Sound.
The Palisades Interstate Parkway entrance to the George Washington Bridge was closed due to the terrible weather conditions, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
By 2am Sunday, more than 36,000 customers in the city were without power,most of them on Staten Island, Queens and outer suburbs, Con-Ed said.
In his final address on Saturday night at 10.30pm, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a tornado warning was in effect for New York and that the time for evacuation was over. People now had to leave the streets, he said. Mr Bloomberg warned that could be a storm surge in the area at 8am which could lead to power outages across the city.
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030977/Hurricane-Irene-path-2011-Flooding-fears-Irene-begins-batter-New-York.html#ixzz1WEO8gix9
'The edge of the hurricane has finally got upon us,' New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the more than eight million people who live in New York as he warned that tropical storm-force winds would hit the city.
Times Square, often called the crossroads of the world, was sparsely populated, mostly with visitors, as Irene rolled into the city with full force.
'We just came to see how few people are in Times Square and then we're going back,' said Cheryl Gibson, who was vacationing in the city and had planned to go to the other side of the Hudson River on Sunday.
Splish splash: A taxi speeds by on 42nd Street at Times Square in New York as rains fall before Hurricane Irene hits
'We can't get to New Jersey and I'm not sure it's any better there,' she said.
Mayor Bloomberg warned New Yorkers Irene was a life-threatening storm and urged them to stay indoors to avoid flying debris, flooding or the risk of being electrocuted by downed power lines.
'It is dangerous out there,' he said, but added: 'New York is the greatest city in the world and we will weather this storm.'
Some 370,000 city residents were ordered to leave their homes in low-lying areas, many of them in parts of the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
Unbelievable sight: Two men push a cart through a normally bustling Grand Central Terminal
But many were unwilling to evacuate. Nicholas Vigliotti, 24, an auditor who lives in a high-rise building along the Brooklyn waterfront, said he saw no point.
'Even if there was a flood, I live on the fifth floor,' he said.
Flood waters forced officials in Hoboken, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, to evacuate a storm shelter, the mayor of Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer, said on Twitter.
'Hoboken faces the worst case scenario. Flooding has begun. Moving Wallace Shelter residents to state shelter in east Rutherford," the mayor's tweet said.
Completely soaked: A Hasidic Jew makes his way home as heavy rain falls in Brooklyn, New York, late Saturday night
Hours earlier, the normally bustling streets had emptied out and the rumble of the subways came to a stop.
New York buttoned up Saturday against Hurricane Irene, which threatened to paralyze Wall Street and give the big city its worst thrashing from a storm since at least the 1980s.
City officials cautioned that if Irene stayed on track, it could bring gusts of 85 mph overnight that could shatter skyscraper windows. They said there was an outside chance that a storm surge in Lower Manhattan could send seawater streaming into the maze of underground vaults that hold the city's cables and pipes, knocking out power to thousands and crippling the nation's financial capital.
Late night grocery run: A man braves torrential rain to get some supplies in Brooklyn on Saturday night
Earlier in the day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the first mandatory evacuation ever in New York. More than 370,000 people were told to be out by 5 pm from low-lying areas on the fringes of the city, mostly in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Many New Yorkers seemed to take it in stride, staying off the streets and hunkering down. Some planned hurricane get-togethers and hot tub parties.
'We already have the wine and beer, and now we're getting the vodka,' said Martin Murphy, a video artist who was shopping at a liquor store near Central Park with his girlfriend
Never before seen: Times Square subway station, with no one there
'If it lasts, we have dozens of movies ready, and we'll play charades and we're going to make cards that say, "We survived Irene,'" he said.
All subway service was suspended because of the threat of flooding in the tunnels — the first time the nation's biggest transit system has shut down because of a natural disaster. Sandbags and tarps were placed on or around subway grates.
'Heed the warnings,' Bloomberg said, his shirt getting soaked as the rain fell in Coney Island. 'It isn't cute to say, "I'm tougher than any storm." I hope this is not necessary, but it's certainly prudent.'
No snarl ups here: The normally crowded entrance to the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan
Bridge to nowhere: The Brooklyn Bridge, normally one of the busiest in the world
People arrived in a trickle at a shelter set up at a high school in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Some carried garbage bags filled with clothing; others pushed carts loaded with their belongings.
They were evacuated from a public housing project in Brooklyn's Red Hook section. Tenants said management got them to leave by telling them the water and power would be shut off at 5 p.m.
'For us, it's him,' said Victor Valderrama, pointing to his 3-year-old son. 'I didn't want to take a chance with my son.'
Lights are on but no one's there: A spooky view inside the Midtown Tunnel West Bound
As the city nervously awaited Irene's powerful winds, power outages were reported across the city and authorities shut down the Port of New York and the Port for Long Island Sound.
The Palisades Interstate Parkway entrance to the George Washington Bridge was closed due to the terrible weather conditions, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
By 2am Sunday, more than 36,000 customers in the city were without power,most of them on Staten Island, Queens and outer suburbs, Con-Ed said.
In his final address on Saturday night at 10.30pm, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a tornado warning was in effect for New York and that the time for evacuation was over. People now had to leave the streets, he said. Mr Bloomberg warned that could be a storm surge in the area at 8am which could lead to power outages across the city.
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030977/Hurricane-Irene-path-2011-Flooding-fears-Irene-begins-batter-New-York.html#ixzz1WEO8gix9
'The edge of the hurricane has finally got upon us,' New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the more than eight million people who live in New York as he warned that tropical storm-force winds would hit the city.
Times Square, often called the crossroads of the world, was sparsely populated, mostly with visitors, as Irene rolled into the city with full force.
'We just came to see how few people are in Times Square and then we're going back,' said Cheryl Gibson, who was vacationing in the city and had planned to go to the other side of the Hudson River on Sunday.
'We can't get to New Jersey and I'm not sure it's any better there,' she said.
Mayor Bloomberg warned New Yorkers Irene was a life-threatening storm and urged them to stay indoors to avoid flying debris, flooding or the risk of being electrocuted by downed power lines.
'It is dangerous out there,' he said, but added: 'New York is the greatest city in the world and we will weather this storm.'
Some 370,000 city residents were ordered to leave their homes in low-lying areas, many of them in parts of the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
But many were unwilling to evacuate. Nicholas Vigliotti, 24, an auditor who lives in a high-rise building along the Brooklyn waterfront, said he saw no point.
'Even if there was a flood, I live on the fifth floor,' he said.
Flood waters forced officials in Hoboken, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, to evacuate a storm shelter, the mayor of Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer, said on Twitter.
'Hoboken faces the worst case scenario. Flooding has begun. Moving Wallace Shelter residents to state shelter in east Rutherford," the mayor's tweet said.
Hours earlier, the normally bustling streets had emptied out and the rumble of the subways came to a stop.
New York buttoned up Saturday against Hurricane Irene, which threatened to paralyze Wall Street and give the big city its worst thrashing from a storm since at least the 1980s.
City officials cautioned that if Irene stayed on track, it could bring gusts of 85 mph overnight that could shatter skyscraper windows. They said there was an outside chance that a storm surge in Lower Manhattan could send seawater streaming into the maze of underground vaults that hold the city's cables and pipes, knocking out power to thousands and crippling the nation's financial capital.
Earlier in the day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the first mandatory evacuation ever in New York. More than 370,000 people were told to be out by 5 pm from low-lying areas on the fringes of the city, mostly in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Many New Yorkers seemed to take it in stride, staying off the streets and hunkering down. Some planned hurricane get-togethers and hot tub parties.
'We already have the wine and beer, and now we're getting the vodka,' said Martin Murphy, a video artist who was shopping at a liquor store near Central Park with his girlfriend
'If it lasts, we have dozens of movies ready, and we'll play charades and we're going to make cards that say, "We survived Irene,'" he said.
All subway service was suspended because of the threat of flooding in the tunnels — the first time the nation's biggest transit system has shut down because of a natural disaster. Sandbags and tarps were placed on or around subway grates.
'Heed the warnings,' Bloomberg said, his shirt getting soaked as the rain fell in Coney Island. 'It isn't cute to say, "I'm tougher than any storm." I hope this is not necessary, but it's certainly prudent.'
People arrived in a trickle at a shelter set up at a high school in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Some carried garbage bags filled with clothing; others pushed carts loaded with their belongings.
They were evacuated from a public housing project in Brooklyn's Red Hook section. Tenants said management got them to leave by telling them the water and power would be shut off at 5 p.m.
'For us, it's him,' said Victor Valderrama, pointing to his 3-year-old son. 'I didn't want to take a chance with my son.'
Friday 12 August 2011
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Thursday 27 January 2011
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