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Both players will be suspended without pay, a significant punishment in both cases, but more so for Arenas who is in the second year of a six year, $111 million contract and stands to lose roughly $10 million while serving out the suspension.
Arenas and Crittenton’s suspensions rank as the third and fourth longest handed down in league history, behind those of Ron Artest, who was suspended following the infamous player and fan brawl at the Palace in Auburn Hills when he charged into the stands during a game between the Pacers and Pistons and the suspension of former NBA player Latrell Sprewell who was suspended for attempting to choke his head coach PJ Carlesimo during a practice session.  The length of the suspensions exceed, by far, the longest handed down for any weapons violation – a seven game suspension received by then-Pacer guard Stephen Jackson following his plead to a felony criminal recklessness count after discharging a gun outside a strip club in Indianapolis.

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Wednesday, the Wizards, now in the hands of the family of late owner Abe Pollin, suggested they’re considering it.
“We’re still exploring all our options,” said team President Ernie Grunfeld. “We haven’t made any decisions up to this point.”
The team issued a statement, saying it supports Stern’s decision, noting the players’ “poor judgment has also violated the trust of our fans and stands in contrast to everything Abe Pollin stood for throughout his life.”
Nevertheless, league and union officials agree the Wizards would have a high bar to clear before an arbitrator and no precedent for voiding a contract in similar cases.
In 2007, Stephen Jackson was suspended for seven games after pleading guilty to felony recklessness after firing his gun in the air to break up a fight outside an Indianapolis strip club.

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The perennial cougar split with her long-time partner and father of her two sons Tim Robbins recently, only to be linked to a 31-year-old ping-pong aficionado in the news. Susan’s publicist quickly quashed rumors of her romance with the paddle champ, but still, it’s a nice change of pace when the media posits that a 63-year-old woman is dating a man half her age.
In an interview on David Letterman’s show promoting The Lovely Bones, Susan said she’d taken pole-dancing lessons with her daughter, Eva Amurri, who disclosed her assets often as a stripper with David Duchovny on Californication. But Eva’s mom, who ran around in her undies once-upon-a-time for half of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has got even more verve in her. Clad in hot school marm garb and glasses, Susan turned up at indie rock band Of Montreal’s show in New York City, stepped on stage and spanked grown men in pig suits.

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Physically, the iPad resembles a large iPod touch, with a 9.7-inch multi-touch screen that, curiously, offers a 4:3 standard aspect ratio rather than the expected widescreen display. (It runs at 1024 x 768 resolution.) The device is also oddly ugly, for an Apple product, with a very wide bezel around all four sides of the display.
Apple is offering a whopping six different versions of the device, at prices that range from $499 for a stripper model with a lowly 16 GB of storage and no 3G wireless connection (all iPads do offer 802.11n connectivity however) to a more Apple-esque $829 model with 64 GB of storage and 3G. Of course, 3G connectivity is not included in the price (as is the case with Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader), though Apple is offering some affordable pay-as-you-go plans, including 250 MB of data for $15 per month and unlimited data for $30 per month. These plans can be started up and stopped at any time, and do not require a contract. Sadly, they are available through AT&T only.

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Almost universally, newspapers have struggled with online subscriptions, with the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, a News Corp (NWS) property, the only two that have really delivered results better than awful. Whether the New York Times can operate at that level is in doubt, particularly given the stunning realization about Long Island daily newspaper Newsday.
Late last October, Newsday put its content behind a pay wall, making it the first non-business newspaper to do this, according to the New York Observer (which isn’t exactly true — several newspapers have played with this, though mostly in part). Three months later, its results are telling: 35 people. are willing to pay up to $5 a week to read Newsday on the Web.
Imagine going to a strip club at 3:00 in the afternoon. That’s how many people pay for Newsday on the Web.

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FLUSHING (WPIX) – New York City Police have identified Qian Wu, 46, as the woman found stabbed to death Tuesday night in a Flushing, Queens apartment building hallway.
According to published reports police have the alleged killer in custody, though no official word on an arrest has come from the NYPD.
At about 7:35 p.m. Tuesday police responded to the second floor hallway of the 40th Road building, one floor above a chinese restaurant and foot massage parlor, official said.
Wu was found to be the victim of multiple stab wounds to the torso and was pronounced dead at the scene, said police.
It is believed there was a dispute with the suspect inside the building where she lived which led to the fatal stabbing.

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In the early and middle part of the decade, when the economy was thriving, this just meant that Broadway had money to lend. Giannoulias says that it was able to aid countless small businesses and enable important development projects to get off the ground. “We’ve taken enormous pride in helping people,” he says, naming a neighborhood health store and a nail salon. “We have people who’ve had checking accounts for 25 or 30 years.”
But experts and community leaders say Broadway developed a reputation for giving out loans to just about anyone who walked in the door. Among the recipients of loans while Alexi worked full-time at the bank were: Michael Giorango, a Florida developer who’s been convicted of running bookmaking and prostitution rings; Boris and Lev Stratievsky, a father-son team later convicted of laundering money for Ukrainian drug dealers; and Tony Rezko, the developer-businessman-political fixer who was eventually convicted of fraud and money laundering for his role in pay-to-play schemes during the administration of Governor Blagojevich. Giannoulias and current bank officials have said all of them were creditworthy when the loans were issued….

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Caption: Kevin Kline (Picture) 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival – Premiere of ‘Queen to Play’ at the School of Visual Arts – Arrivals New York City, USA ….
KLINE RELATES TO ESCORT CHARACTER
Playing a gigolo in upcoming movie THE EXTRA MAN came easy to KEVIN KLINE – because he finds acting similar to prostitution.
Kline portrays a failed-playwright-turned-high-class-escort in the film, starring Katie Holmes and Paul Dano.
And he insists wooing women for cash is the same as entertaining theatregoers in exchange for a paycheck.
He tells the New York Daily News, “It was easy, because that is me! When I was on Broadway, that’s pretty much what I did – entertain (rich people) in exchange for their money.”

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Investing in basic human needs, such as housing, yields untold rewards
By Dane Smith | Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
In New York, there’s a stretch of 8th Avenue north of 42nd Street once known as “the Minnesota Strip,” because that’s where, in the 1980s, young Midwestern women were imported to work as prostitutes.
Today, in a building just a half block off that strip of 8th Avenue near Times Square, 642 single adults live in clean and cozy rooms, no longer panhandling or sleeping on the streets outside.
Creased and weathered faces betray hard lives as the residents come and go from the renovated Times Square Hotel, a 1920s vintage hostelry that long ago catered to a middle-class tourist trade.
Most of these current occupants have battled addictions and mental illness and have endured rough permutations of bad luck and personal failure. But many now are working at least part-time in the cleaned-up entertainment-and-arts industry in this formerly seedy neighborhood.

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Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly promoted a Hispanic and an Asian to the highest rankings in Police Department history Tuesday. [Daily News]
A Queens mother burned her 3-year-old son in scalding water because the toddler soiled himself, the authorities said Tuesday. The woman, Regina Owens, 30, of Rockaway Park, held her son in a tub of hot water while he screamed in agony, said the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown. [New York Post]
Nearly 1,200 guns — handguns, semiautomatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns — were swapped for $200 each on Saturday as part of the latest gun buyback program run by the Police Department and the Bronx district attorney’s office. [Daily News]
A 46-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Tuesday night after a dispute in a Queens building, the police said. She was in an establishment that neighbors described as a foot-massage parlor, above a Chinese restaurant. [NYT]

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