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From the Gothamist Newsmap: Armed commercial robbery on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, power outage at 171st Place and 46th Avenue in Queens, and an officer assist at 3rd Place and Henry Street in Brooklyn.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that AT&T and AOL will remove child porn Internet groups. Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable have already agreed to do so.
Mata Amritanandamayi has been holding 3-day hug-a-thon (it ends today) in Manhattan; the Indian guru (here's her website) has hugged an estimated 27 million people.
South Bronx residents are going to court over the noxious smells in their neighborhood.
A Queens man was charged with stomping on his 7-month-old Persian cat repeatedly while wearing cowboy boots.
Hal Steinbrenner doesn't think the Yankees will be making any big deals before the trade deadline.
The Tats Cru tagged up Lord & Taylor's windows--with permission! The department store is trying to appeal to younger shoppers.

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By Jen Chung in News on July 10, 2008 12:14 PM

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djwerdna

swone, it must something beyond my understanding then. i'm glad that it was a good experience for you, and i hope it will be again tonight!

swone

djwerdna, you think you know, but you have no idea. ^_^

i went two years ago and have talked about it incessantly ever since and am going back tonight. when i first went, i was totally like, "this is going to be nothing, a hug, whatever" and then i had my mind blown. blown. seriously. i am a smart, educated, no bullshit type person and amma (as she is called) operates on another level. there's parts of it that are a little out there, but the hug is nothing short of magical and well worth the wait.

Spirit of 76

Verizon and Roadrunner didn't remove child porn newsgroups. Roadrunner removed ALL newsgroups and Verizon and Sprint all binaries newsgroups. All ISPs have wanted to be rid of binaries newsgroups, claiming limited interest and excessive bandwidth usage. Roadrunner also is owned by Time Warner, so they wanted to get rid of their own content being pirated. Cuomo just gave them the excuse to finally dump Usenet. Premium NSPs are lining up to provide special plans to customers of these ISPs, so their bandwidth usage isn't going down at all.

djwerdna

Hug-a-thon? Unconditional love? How does being embraced by a complete stranger after waiting in line to be embraced show make someone feel unconditional love? 27 million people could have been doing something more worthwhile.