PR 13 Ep 7: Chopard Showdown

September 5, 2014, 1:00 pm

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So, we start off with the remaining designtestants mourning Char’s Aufing, so, yeah, you know that’s a twist waiting to happen. But first, the designers are taken to the runway, where they meet Tim and Chopard jewelers’ co-president and artistic director Caroline Scheufele. Behind them are displays of over a million dollars in jewels, upon which their next challenge is based. They will be tasked with creating an evening gown — yes, another gown challenge — that is inspired by whichever Chopard jewel the designer gets to select. They will have one day and just $250 to make a gown worthy of hundreds of thousands of dollars of gems. Before we get started, though, Tim is a little verklempt. He wanders into the workroom to call the designtestants around and, out pops Char. Tim has decided that maybe he should have saved her last week, so now she’s back and everyone is happy … until they realize that The Save is gone for the season. Uh huh and uh oh. After the sketching, but before Mood, Tim takes the designers on see the Charles James exhibit at the Met which showcases the couturier's ball gowns and gala dresses, and even shows how some of the gowns were constructed. I would think that would be an amazing, eye-opening, instructive trip that might help some of the less, shall we say, gown-worthy designers … Samantha, Korina? But, let’s rip ….

THE SAFES

CHAR  After last week’s Yellow Disaster — which, I think, should have sent Sandhya packing since she railroaded Char into the color — Char is playing it safe … with peplums and cutouts. Tim worries that it seems bridal and prim, but I think Char just wants to make it to another week. It’s cute, though a bit short, and, well, that’s it. EMILY  At the critique she asks Tim if he’s worried about the ‘point’ on the draped back of her dress and he says, “I don’t see a point.” I thought, as in, ‘it’s pointless.’ It’s sad and droopy from the model’s hair on down, and the bottom hem is uneven. I don’t know how this didn’t go Bottom Three. FADE  Tim thought the original neckline, with a thick gray strap, looked like an Ace bandage, so Fade fixed that. But what he gave us wasn’t an evening gown, but pretty little dress a woman could wear to the country club. I like his designs, but he seems to have missed the point of the challenge. SANDHYA  I don’t get it. To me a gown is floor length and stunning. This is just a dress in a weird — even though I like it — fabric. It bears no resemblance to a gown or to any of the creativity of the Charles James dresses. This could have gone in the Bottom as well.

THE TOP TWO

KORINA She doesn’t ‘do’ gowns; we get it. But she does do ethnic, Native American prints, and so she chose what seems like a Native American blanket — turned out to be upholstery fabric — and wants to make a coat over a dress. Tim points out that her seams are off, ruining the print, and warns that Nina has bitchslapped a designer for awkward seams, so Korina takes it apart and fixes it, leaving her little time for the actual dress. I’m worried that she’ll just make some stapled and glued and pinned black tube dress and hope hope hope the judges don’t want the model to remove the coat! WHAT SHE SAID My look is so dramatic. She just completely commands the room. WHAT I SAID Wow. Show-effing-stopper. I guess this is what happens when Korina merges her style and design sense into the challenge perfectly. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Nina loved it; she said the ethnicity of the fabric made her dream, and she loved the way the coat and dress truly showed off the jewels. The Adorable Zac Posen™ adored the dress, calling it Korina’s best work, even with it being kind of spectacular Dracula. And when he asked the model to remove the coat, well, he was as stunned as I with how gorgeous, yet simple and chic the dress was. Heidi, of course, wants the dress in every color, and guest judge Caroline Scheufele said Korina’s entire look really showcased the jewels. WHAT HAPPENED Korina gets her first win; and deservedly so. SEAN Riding high off of two wins — and apparently forgetting the two weeks he very nearly went home — Sean is very confident he’ll be best in show again, even though he and Samantha chose the exact same fabric. Still, one look at Samantha’s dress and Sean could have sent down a model in a blue sack carrying the jewels in a Duane Reade bag and still beaten Samantha; just saying. However, he also very nearly made a terrible mistake. When Tim popped in for a visit, Sean was playing with the idea of shoulder pads … on the model’s hips. Tim nearly did a Nina Garcia Bitchslap and reminded Sean that no woman really wants bigger hips. Bullet dodged. WHAT HE SAID She looks so beautiful and stunning. It looks expensive. WHAT I SAID It’s a really simple dress, but since the jewels are so much, it really works. And the back is gorgeous. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Nina called it stunning, too, and added that the velvet trim was a smart choice to showcase the jewels; good color, great back, elegant. Caroline Scheufele thought the dress would be perfect for the Chopard catalogue and also called it elegant. Heidi loved the design, and the amazing fit, and was pleased that Sean was really stepping up his game; she actually said Wowza.  The Adorable Zac Posen™ offered congratulations, calling it good work, regal and impressive. It also probably helped that his model loved the dress and really showed it off. Even during the UP Close section. WHAT HAPPENED Sean gets Second Place and seems almost miffed by it; please do not become Kini and think you should win every week.

THE MIDDLE TWO

AMANDA Okay, it’s a gown challenge and in what universe does gown mean jumpsuit? Sure, if they said Red Carpet look a jumpsuit might work, but again … GOWN!!! Amanda decided to create a sheer dress  worn over a jumpsuit, and she was creating all these heart designs — she picked her jewels because they were hearts and her last name is Valentine … excuse me while I wipe the vomit off my chin — that Tim just thought were awful; she scrapped them, but, for me, it didn’t help. Her fabric choice didn’t help, either, in that it was difficult to work with and cased her all kinds of tsouris; sheer nightgown? Superhero? Hot mess? WHAT SHE SAID You see the ‘floatiness,’ but then you can see the jumpsuit. She looks like a badass. WHAT I SAID She looks like a hot mess and not at all what the criteria of the challenge asked for, i.e. a gown It looks like something a 50s movie star would wear in a bad film noir. A really bad film noir. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi asks if Amanda thinks she’s in the top, and Amanda replies ‘Yes.’ Heidi agrees, and I passed out; seriously, I wanted a 3D version of the PR so I could pretend to slap the dumbass out of Heidi. But, she said she liked that Amanda takes risks — in this case, that means not fulfilling the challenge. Nina loved it and called it editorial; I would call it editorial pages of the newspaper and line a birdcage with it. Caroline Scheufele said it was a great look. Only The Adorable Zac Posen™ voiced his concern that it wasn’t good — he called the fabric choice torturous — and said it would land on a Worst Dressed list. WHAT HAPPENED While the women seemed to love her look, everyone admitted that Amanda was not in consideration for a win, so she gets a Safe. KINI He’s starting to wear on me because of his I should win and everyone else sucks attitude. And so, naturally, I was pleased to see him stumble into a pair of unruly breast cups this week that seemed to be his undoing. His chose neoprene because in his world, I guess, neoprene is a gown choice, and added chiffon, so he could showcase both the structure and the flowy. The flowy worked, but even Tim wasn’t pleased with the Breast Bullets he saw during the critique. And I wasn’t pleased with his dogging out of every single other designer, while pushing his pudgy paw over his back side to compliment himself. We all know where that kind of snarky over-confidence leads … WHAT HE SAID She’s gliding, the flow of the chiffon in the back … perfect. WHAT I SAID It’s really kind of bland and, I think, kind of Las Vegas bride. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi liked the sheer over the structure, and wished the skirt were shorter—in the critique Tim told Kini the skirt should be longer proving that Tim always wants chic and Heidi always want shorter—and pointed out the messy cups; she also liked that it was different. The Adorable Zac Posen™ agreed about the length and the ‘boob darts’ — he called them an eyesore — and said the neoprene was a bad choice. Nina liked the styling, and she liked the dress, though from the waist down she found it all to be too much; a mistake and not very well executed. Caroline Scheufele thought the color was a good choice to show off the diamond hoops. WHAT HAPPENED Kini wasn’t really bad enough to be considered for the Aufing, so I placed him with Amanda in The Middle.

THE BOTTOM TWO

ALEXANDER He picks the giant red stone necklace which is a showpiece all by itself. He could have sent the model down in a strapless bra and panties and that gem would have stolen the show. But, alas, Alexander was too drawn to the Charles James exhibit and so he opted to go for a draped and structured and twisted and creased gown in a sad looking gray. During the critique Tim wisely suggested that the crew neck was a bad choice for highlighting the necklace and wondered what Alexander would say if the judges called it a ‘lava flow’ dress? But he wasn’t having it, and he was going to pin and hand sew that gown if it killed him; which it might have if he’d had enough time to finish and didn’t have to sew his model into it, and leave a punch of pins holding it together. WHAT HE SAID Just the way that it’s moving and the way the crinkled silk taffeta is shimmering … everything is on point. WHAT I SAID It’s very structural, but so structural that it seems kinda stiff. And the back? It’s like a hodgepodge of messy idea and pins and bumps. I’m thinking topographic map of southeastern Wyoming. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi hated that the model’s figure seemed hidden and pointed out how bad the back of the dress was, as though it was a last minute afterthought not very thought out, and noted how, up close, it was even messier. The Adorable Zac Posen™ made kind of a side-eye OMG at Nina and then pointed out that he can't see the jewelry because it's hidden underneath the gown's rising neckline — you could clearly see the jewels on the runway. Nina said it reminded her of "Princess Grace stuck in the spin cycle of the washing machine." That can’t be good. The Adorable Zac Posen™ chimed in with the seeing of the pins, the tortured fabric, but said it was an ‘Ok’ dress; Nina shot back, “It’s a terrible dress” and said she couldn’t understand how he could pick that jewel and then pick that fabric. Caroline Scheufele simply said the jewel needs a different dress. WHAT HAPPENED Even though Alexander’s been renting a space in the Bottom for a while now, because he at least tried, he’s safe. SAMANTHA She doesn’t do gowns; she’s never been to a wedding; she does separates, and casual wear and never anything fancy. M’kay, then why audition for a design show and not a Casual Urban Wear Show? I‘m over that whole, This isn’t my thing excuse. But then, obviously, this isn’t her thing because when Tim comes by she tells him how she’s pushing herself and then shows him a simple — so simple I could probably do it … with a glue gun — sweetheart neckline. Tim dubs it boring and says it’s just a pretty dress. Pretty mess. WHAT SHE SAID It’s clean, it’s polished. The side flaps have been pushed down, but I really pushed myself. WHAT I SAID Side flaps? Is it an airplane or a gown? And by pushing herself does she mean Auf the show? WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi hates it; there’s no design, and contrary to what Samantha keeps saying, she didn’t push herself. The Adorable Zac Posen™ frowns at first, then said he thought it was interesting at first, then says at second thought it’s drab and there wasn’t much to it so he would say no more. Nina called it boring; she said it was the dress a star's assistant would wear, but never a star; she then said it was "like the white t-shirt of long dresses." She shoots! She scores!  Caroline Scheufele called it a bad color and a bad dress for the jeweled watch and ring. WHAT HAPPENED Boring always gets you Auf’d on the PR. Buh-bye.

MY TAKE

Another evening wear challenge? I love a good gown, but the Heidi Red Carpet look followed by at least half the designers making a wedding gown, and this week another gown? Enough already. Where are the female wrestlers of yore? How about a porn star challenge? Female dogs? Something new? And Chopard? I mean, I liked the idea of a jewel challenge, but, seriously, wouldn’t Claire's have been the better choice over the luxurious Chopard line? Is Chopard so desperate for publicity that they’ll showcase their jewels ion the PR? It seemed like a mismatch. And the Tim Gunn Save for Char? I like Char, but she hasn’t one won challenge, or even been in the Top Three or Bottom Three. She’s a safe, and a safe shouldn’t be saved.  And after the judges, well, at least the women, raved about Amanda’s jumpsuit-not-a-gown it’s very clear that they want her at The Tents. When you completely avoid the challenge and do your own thing — even dubbing it a ‘risk’ — you should fail. I mean, what if she’d sent down a swimsuit because she really thought that would be risky? I loathe her and don’t see why she’s still here. She’s Gretchen 2.0; bohemian crapfest. But anyway … what did YOU think?

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September 6, 2014, 6:00 am

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Mariah’s getting wackier by the minute … and more so since her marriage bombed bigger than her latest album. See, Mimi was being interviewed and was asked about other female singers and she said this about Nicki Minaj … “Who?” And this about Beyoncé’s Drunk in Love… “I haven’t heard it” and then she said this about little Mariah, er, Ariana Grande…  “I wish everybody all the best of luck and if this is the career path they choose, hope that they can achieve longevity.”  But maybe Mariah’s on to something because Little Mariah, er, Ariana, is quickly getting the Diva Handle, what with her obsession with only allowing photographs of the left side of her face — I remember when Mimi did that — and her own hatred, or just  dislike, of Original Mariah. While filming a TV special in mid-August, Ariana Grande was impossible to work with according to a source — perhaps Dina Lohan looking for a second income now that Lindsay’s across the pond and only making ‘;theater’ money — says: “She was a total nightmare. She demanded to be shot only on her left side and told the lighting crew that if they used red light, she would ‘kill herself’.” Even producers at the venue were disgusted with Toddler Diva, saying she “is, hands down, the most difficult person they have ever had to work with.” But never EVER compare Ariana to Mimi because then that little girl will go off. Ariana is fuming about what Mimi said of her in that interview and she cannot, will not hear Mariah’s name mentioned in her presence.  And never, ever, on her left side! Or in a red light.

And speaking of Beyoncé … she’s done it again. A few years back, when she was with Destiny’s Child, they released a Christmas album, and recorded their version of Silent Night on it. Well, Beyoncé  added a few words to the song, a few hip thrusts to the melody, and a couple of hair tosses on the high notes, so in the liner noted she actually gave herself credit for being one of the writers of Silent $%&#ing Night. And now she’s shot some pics and co-written a poem about her favorite subject … Beyoncé … for CR Fashion Book. In her ode to herself, “Bey The Light” the poem is credited to Beyoncé with the words being “remixed” by poet Forrest Gander which means that basically, she took his poem, threw her name in it, and gave herself credit for it. Now that’s sad and pathetic and egomaniacal and totally Beyoncé, but there’s a funny twist to the story. The pictures that go along with the words seem to prove that Kanye really does hate Beyoncé because his BFF, Riccardo Tisci styled this shoot and in one photo Tisci actually covered up Bey’s face! He also had her wear stretch pants and do battle with a Mickey Mouse doll. Kanye and Ricardo are tee-heeing themselves into a Giddy Boy Crazy Frenzy, I imagine.

Way back in April, Katherine Heigl  slapped NYC drugstore chain Duane Reade with a lawsuit after they tweeted a picture of her leaving one of their stores carrying one of their bags, because Heigl was pissed they’d use her “image” without her permission, or a check at the very least. She demanded restitution to the tune of $6 million but now it’s been revealed that she and Duane Reade have reached a settlement and she’s dropped her suit, AKA the demand for cash. Heigl’s people — her mother, actually — says both parties are keeping mum about the deal, but apparently Duane Reade is making a donation to the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation in exchange for making the lawsuit disappear. While I like that some money went to charity and not to Heigl’s ciggie fund, I still would have liked to see that courtroom drama on TV: Highly Respected Actress Shamed By Photo of Her Carrying Duane Reade Bag! It was sure to have been better than her craptastic new TV show … or so I’m told.

Kristen Stewart. I’ve missed her since she shined in both Twilight and as The Other Woman in Rupert Sanders’ Divorce. Thank god she’s back and talking because this stuff is precious. … In a Vanity Fair interview, Stewart seems to suggest that she’s an incredible actress and not just a piece of driftwood that washed ashore on Malibu Beach in a teddy and a thong. And she actually blames any and all bad acting from her past — including the time she acted like she wasn’t the trick of a married director — on her costars. RPats? Is this your fault? She claims to go into “default” mode when working with someone less talented than she: “Oh yeah. Absolutely. I’m not the type of actor who can perform without wearing a mirror on my face. Everyone knows that you’re better with other actors who are really present, who you are having the same experience with, but I am made or broken on it. If I’m working with someone who I’m not vibing with, or who I have to fake anything with, then it’s sad for me and it’s bad acting.” So, she’s saying that every single film role she’s ever done, has been done opposite a bad actor? Cuz this bitch sucks in everything.

Britney Britney Britney. Love ain’t your thang, mama, because you’re single again now that former boyfriend David Lucado was caught with his hand on someone else’s Cheetos in a video! Neither party had any comment on the breakup but Britney did lip-sync a little something while onstage “performing” in Las Vegas.  “So I know you know my boyfriend cheated on me,” she told the crowd during her Piece of Me show in Las Vegas [on Sunday night], PEOPLE confirms. “But the best thing about being cheated on is I get to go on more first dates.” And she ALLEGEDLY added: “I need a hot guy. Where are the hot guys here tonight?” I think the hot guys are staying away from Cheetos singers.

We all know that Lady Gaga copies Madonna, but Madonna copies Cher and Cher copies, well, no one was really here before Cher so maybe Cher is the original? Anyway. Gaga’s music sounds like Madonna’s music. Gaga looks like Madonna. Gaga dresses like Madonna and, except for the British accent, sounds as full of herself as Madonna. And, over the years she’s thrown shade at Madge and Madge has doubled down subtly on Ga — I know her so well, it’s just Ga — but now she’s turned up the digs and has taken aim and the Little Monster Queen in a new song all about Gaga. In a leaked track from her new album, Two Steps Behind Me — it already sounds like a Gaga dig — Madge calls Gaga a ‘copycat’: ‘You’re a copycat, Where is my royalty? You’re a pretty girl, I’ll give you that. But stealing my recipe, it’s an ugly look Did you study me hard enough? You’re never gonna be, you’re just a wannabe me. Like a sister all messed-up, who’s gonna help you out? In your fantasy, you can try it all. But you can’t be me. You can walk the walk, even talk the talk. But you’ll always be two steps behind me.’ No word on if the song has made the cut, and no word on when Gaga will rip it off and sing it herself.

The Biebs is at it again. A few weeks ago, he was caught driving on a sidewalk and endangering a disabled woman, and the last week he caused a traffic accident by slamming on his brakes in front of a paparazzo. But his latest case of offensive driving came this past Labor Day weekend when he was arrested — again … who does he think he is … Lohan? — in his hometown, Stratford, Ontario for dangerous driving and assault after ALLEGEDLY slamming his ATV into a minivan driven by a paparazzo. Naturally, right after these two paparazzi crashes, he Tweeted about how he’s just like Princess Diana in how the photographers follow him, but I still, for the life of me, cannot find the footage of Diana ramming a photographer with her car. Bieber could be in some serious sizzurp with this latest kerfuffle because he’s still on probation — for the next two years — for Egg Gate. This arrest could trigger a violation and more pictures of Justin crying in a holding cell. That would almost be worth it.

So Sherri Shepherd has apparently got the nastiest divorce going … which is no surprise because it was the nastiest marriage going for all of the ten minutes that it lasted. Sherri used to coo on The View about her boo … how poetic. She was in love, y’all, and they were gonna have a baby via surrogate and life was good. Then the Fifteen Minutes of Marriage to Sherri Clock struck time and the whole shebang was off. Except then soon-to-be-ex-husband Lamar Sally sued for custody of the as-yet unborn child and Sherri, the good Christian that she is, declared the baby wasn’t hers because they used a surrogate so Lamar could have ‘it’ but she wasn’t paying for ‘it.’ Now, though, it seems Sherri, fired from The View no matter how she spins it, and desperate to start a new career as a cashier at the Dollar General, has offered Lamar $100,000 and $3,000 a month for the baby she doesn’t want any more. And he said, Uh huh, open up the bank vault because Daddy has a pickup. Lovely, the way straight people can marry and divorce as though it means nothing, and then treat a child as a dollar sign, or act as if they don’t even want it.

So, the other night, over there to London town, GQ Magazine had their Men of the Year Awards during which they honored Kim Kardastrophe … wait, she’s a man? Well, that explains why Kanye’s so hot for her, or him. Anyway, even though they had the biggest fame whore in town, the good folks at GQ wanted to hedge their bets and so their invited perennial starlet-drug-addict-criminal Lindsay Lohan to the party and she turned up like white trash in a Hefty bag. With one request. It seems that Lohan’s people—who we all know is Dina, sucking the last drops from a box of Franzia chardonnay before drifting off into an Ambien sleep—told the good folks at GQ that Lindsay would be delighted to attend their little soiree if only they would guarantee that there would be no other women at Lohan’s table. That hooker works alone, y’all. ”Lohan’s people were clear that she wanted to be on a table during the lengthy awards surrounded by men. She gets on better with guys and had spent time putting together a sexy look [that’s it up there and, yeah, not so much sexy as Eva Gabor Grandma] so she wanted to be admired.” If Lindsay really wanted to be admired she should have winged it over to Los Angeles and attended the LA County Jail Talent Show. She could ‘a been the star at that shindig.

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Recently Carols and I sat down to watch The Butler. We hadn’t seen it in theaters last year because, well, Oprah; I can’t with Oprah. I’m sorry, I know that sounds shallow, but I just can’t with Oprah. And it didn’t help that when we saw it on cable, how director Lee Daniels really played up Oprah’s, what should have been, what really was, minor roll. The camera lingered on her in scenes that really had nothing to do with her; at times, when Forrest Whitaker, The Butler, was talking, we saw shots of Oprah. I.Can’t.With.Oprah. But that’s neither here nor there. I was thinking about a scene in a church where, right about the altar was a blazing sign made of those big globe-type light bulbs that spelled out the words: God Is Love. Y’all know I am not a religious man, at least of the organized religious persuasion, but my thoughts on God, or that being or power, are as follows: she is love. Simple; direct. And everything that follows, everything that is done in the name of ‘God,’ should be done in the name of love. Sadly, however, that is not the case, and it seems that more and more these days, God’s name is used in conjunction with hate and intolerance, division and bigotry, and She would not be happy about that, y’all. And She would especially not be happy with this so-called ‘man of God.’ Robby Gallaty, the pastor at Brainerd Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was preaching his gospel earlier this week and told the gathering of Christians that they should never repent for discriminating against The Gays, like they had done for discriminating against the blacks because blacks can’t change their skin color. “God said that the sins of the people had infected the very land in which they live. So what happens to people who engage in this activity, this sexual immoral activity? Go to Leviticus 20, God gives us the punishment for engaging in these sins… ‘If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death. And their blood is on their own hands.’” Without dwelling too much on it, though, “Pastor” Robby omitted the parts of Leviticus about shellfish and pigskin and long hair and tattoos because, well, let some things slide through if it works to your advantage to persecute The Gays. But, Robby does want you to discriminate against the Gays because, in the long run, the God of people like Robby Gallaty will kill The Gays. God is Love, in Robby’s world, unless you’re gay, then God will kill you. So, is it any wonder at all that membership in these types of religions is falling? People are tired of using religion as a weapon of hate. People are tired of hearing that God, God, wants anyone dead; that God smites Haiti because of AIDS; that God sends hurricanes to destroy New Orleans because of a party; that God would hurt anyone at all. Of course, Robby Gallaty wasn’t done; after telling his people that God will kill The Gays, he also said that God would change us; you know, She would de-gay us, I guess. “[The Bible says] some of you used to act like this, but now you’ve changed by the grace of God. You were washed! You have been sanctified! You have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of God.” Honey, which one is your God? The one who kills us. Or the one who washes The Gay outta our hair? Seriously, if God could change us, and if God called us all kinds of sin, and if God Hates Fags, then she would ‘a been changing us from birth so that none of us would exist, m’kay? So, save that hate speech wrapped up as gospel with the nice Christian bow, because it’s not a gift anyone really wants or needs. But Robby isn’t done spreading the hate about The Gays and continued to warn Christians not to accept us, not to believe, as that sign said, that God is Love. “Here’s the problem with the argument that you closed-minded Christians, one day you’re going to come full circle, and you’re going to realize that you’re being judgmental just like racism was 50 years ago …. [Now] you guys have repented and come full circle, and you’re going to realize that you’re as foolish as we were with the movement of racism. It’s not the same… A black man can’t change his race, a white man can’t change his race, a homosexual can stop engaging in homosexual acts. See, sexuality is a choice. Gender and race are not.” And therein comes the lie as gospel, and people will believe because this so-called man of God said it. Like a black man, I was born gay; born that way. I have been gay since my earliest memory, and if I were to try and live my life any other way, it would not be a life at all; it would be a death. And, if God Is Love, Robby, would she really want that for me? Or is that just you?

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Ariana Grande. Is it me or does she dress like a modern day Jodie Foster teenage whore from Taxi Driver? Is it me or is her head way to big for her body? Is it me or is her hair nearly half as tall as she is? Is it me or is she wearing a skirt ... a pair of plaid shorts backwards ... a plaid diaper? Is it me or is this a giant WTF?

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After this morning’s post about the alleged pastor who thinks that God wants to kill The Gays, or, at the very least, wash the gay right out of us, I decided I needed to be cleansed from that kind of story and sop this is the perfect solution. Vivian Boyack and Alice "Nonie" Dubes were married last week in Davenport, Iowa, surrounded by family and friends. The two women held hands while the Reverend Linda Hunsaker told the gathering: “This is a celebration of something that should have happened a very long time ago.” The two women met while attending Yale, and then moved to Davenport, Iowa together so Vivian could teach elementary school, while Nonie worked in the payroll department of a couple of local papers. They spent time travelling, both here — they’ve been to each of the fifty states— and abroad, but back home in Iowa, with marriage equality legal, they decided it was time to get married. After being together for seventy-two years. Seventy-two years, if that isn’t love, if that isn’t worthy of recognition, if that isn’t tradition, then I may have this whole thing wrong. Congratulations, Vivian and Nonie!

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I never wanted to join the military, even though I come from a military family. My father served twenty-plus years in the Air Force and even my sister enlisted. But I never had the inkling to join up, probably because I am staunchly anti-gun, anti-violence, anti-war; yeah, maybe that had something to do with it. But I am grateful for the men and women who do join up, in any branch of the military, and I respect and value their service, and their desire to serve. Sadly, though, the Air Force doesn’t seem so keen on some enlistees, especially someone who wants to reenlist. At a time when the Air Force, and any branch of service, should be holding the door open to anyone who wants to serve, and is capable of serving, they have decided not to allow one man to reenlist because he crossed out the words "so help me God" at the end of the Air Force oath of allegiance. His attorney, Monica Miller, with the Apignani Humanist Legal Center, says her client was informed the Air Force would not accept his reenlistment contract because he had crossed out the ‘God’ and that he had just two options: say the oath as written, or leave the Air Force. In a letter to the inspectors general of the Air Force, Miller said the airman should be allowed to reenlist under a secular oath, and not have to swear to ‘God’ and added that the airman is set to sue the Air Force if he is not allowed to reenlist. What’s odd is that, up until last October, you were allowed to omit the words ‘so help me God’ from the oath, but for some reason the rules were changed and now this man, who has served his country already, and wants to continue his service, won’t be allowed to because, well, God. An Air Force spokeswoman confirmed the new policy: "Reciting ‘So help me God’ in the reenlistment and commissioning oaths is a statutory requirement under Title 10 USC 502. (AFI 36-2606) is consistent with the language mandated in 10 USC 502. Paragraph 5.6 [and] was changed in October 2013 to reflect the aforementioned statutory requirement and airmen are no longer authorized to omit the words ‘So help me God'.” Basically, the Air Force cannot change its instructions to make “so help me God” optional unless Congress — oh lordy, now the Do-Nothing-Congress is involved — changes the law requiring it. Never mind the fact that to an airman, an atheist airman, swearing to God would be a lie, and never mind that, according to Miller, Article VI of the Constitution prohibits religious tests, and therefore In fact, in the trumps the Air Force Instruction. In fact, in the 1961 case Torcaso v. Watkins, the Supreme Court ruled that “neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person ‘to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.’” You know, that whole Freedom of Religion thing we thought we had going on in this country. As I was saying, I never wanted to be part of the military, and yet here we have someone who has served, and wants to continue serving, but will not be allowed to reenlist because he refuses to swear to God. This is really getting ridiculous, y’all.

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I Wish We Weren't That Country

September 9, 2014, 1:00 pm

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Panera has become the latest corporation to "respectfully" ask its customers not to bring guns into their stores after the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America persuaded them toward the direction of sanity. The new Panera policy became effective last Monday at all 1,818 Panera locations. Panera CEO Ron Shaich released this statement: "We recognize everyone's rights, but we also recognize that we are building communities in our cafes and are where people come to catch a breath." Catch a breath; not a bullet. Moms Demand Action celebrated Panera's decision on their Facebook page by asking people to "Tweet @PaneraBread today say thank you for having #gunsense".  "We applaud Panera for working with us to proactively develop its new policy, and for standing up for the safety of its customers and employees." said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. "Until our leaders finally require background checks on every gun sale in this country, we demand that businesses act to protect their customers when lawmakers do not.” Still, Panera has indicated it would continue to follow local gun carry laws, but is asking its customers to voluntarily leave their guns outside the restaurant while dining in or getting take-out. Panera is the latest addition to a list of successes for the Moms Demand Action campaign; Chipotle, Target,  Chili's, Jack In The Box and Sonic Drive-In have all asked their customers to come unarmed. When did we become that country? Look, I am not a gun person, but I understand the right to bear arms, though the right to bear assault weapons I don’t understand at all. But that’s not the purpose of this argument. When did we become the country that says it’s okay to carry a loaded weapon into a restaurant just because you can? I still believe that, if I’m in Panera, or Chipotle, or wherever, and I see a person carrying a gun into the building, that there will be some sort of robbery or attack, or violence. You don’t need a gun to buy a sandwich. Why are we that country? Own a gun, go ahead; shoot a gun at a practice range; feel that you’re protecting what’s yours. But when you go out into the public, why not leave the weapon at home? Why do you need a gun when you're having a sandwich? Why carry an assault weapon while looking for towels at Targe? Why let us become that country, the one that puts guns everywhere? The country that has to ask folks not to come out shopping with their guns?

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Fox News: To Avoid Getting Beaten In An Elevator, "Take The Stairs"

September 10, 2014, 7:00 am

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I’m going to shock you … I.Don’t.Watch.Fox.News. … There; I said it. Whoosh. Now, y’all can calm down for a minute; no need to gather the pitchforks and the angry townspeople and come after me. It’s just that, well, we all know that Fox News wouldn’t know the truth if it was tattooed on Megyn Kelly’s breasts or painted onto the Mama Grizzly Bore’s™ five-head, but this week, even Fox News has gone too far. The hosts of Fox & Friends — Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Anna Kooiman — aired the video of fired professional football player Ray Rice beating his then-girlfriend, now wife, Janay Palmer, into unconsciousness in an elevator and, well, they appeared to find it all quite amusing. In the video, which I’m sure most people have seen once, because seeing it more than once is sickening, Rice punches Janay, and her head hits the elevator wall before she falls to the floor unconscious. Rice then stands over her, seemingly admiring his handiwork, and then casually drags her body off the elevator. This is funny, y’all, to Fox News; and not a big deal, at all. One host, Steve Doocy acted as though the whole episode is nothing to get worked up about because, after the beating, Janay Palmer became Janay Rice, marrying the man who beat her unconscious, so let’s not make a big deal about it. If a woman gets beaten that severely and then marries her abuser, well, it must be fine so let’s move along to more important issues.  Say? Is that Obama playing golf? But, fellow host Brian Kilmeade had to throw in his two-cents — proving he is highly overpaid because his commentary isn’t worth a penny— adding that the same thing happened after Chris Brown beat the crap out of Rihanna. Again, it must be okay, because Chris Brown did it, so, yeah, Ray Rice should be able to do it, too. Neither one of these men apparently has a sister, mother, wife, girlfriend, because if they did, if they weren’t a couple of goose-stepping asshatted, batshit crazy, FoxNews wingnuts, maybe they’d take a moment and realize that they are making light of the physical beating or a woman by her professional athlete boyfriend. Kilmeade then says, the lesson to be learned is to “take the stairs” while Doocy adds that the “message is, when you’re in an elevator, there’s a camera.” Avoid the beat down. Take the stairs; and if you’re gonna beat your wife or girlfriend in an elevator, remember there’s a camera; learn to take the beating into your private room because then no one would see it and it would be okay. The actual message here, that that Doocy and Kilmeade, and fellow host Anna Kooiman — and I’ll get to that moron in a moment — fail to acknowledge is that domestic violence is wrong; always. And with their lighthearted reporting of the beating, they missed the opportunity to help other women who are in abusive, or potentially abusive, relationships, by turning this into some kind of a joke. I cannot fathom how these so-called news people — and, yes, I know it’s Fox News so they’re not real new people — think that domestic violence, physical abuse, of any kind, is something to make light of; take the stairs? Really? Think about the camera filming you before you throw that first punch. Really? When men — and I use the term loosely when referring to Doocy and Kilmeade — make light of domestic abuse, they’re basically siding with the abusers; they’re saying it’s not such a big deal. And when Doocy and Kilmeade, representing Fox News, and therefore representing the GOP and the conservative movement in this country, it’s not much of a stretch to say that others of their ilk feel the same way about abuse. Especially when you hear so little from the GOP and its kin demanding an apology from Doocy, Kilmeade and Kooiman Take the stairs, honey. And now let’s talk about co-host Anna Kooiman, who basically sat there while these men made light of the beating, and then had the nerve to say that this incident is “unfortunate for football [and] gives a black eye} to the sport. Where’s her compassion for the black eye and bruises given to Janay [Palmer] Rice? Better yet, where’s her compassion period? After this little bit of ridiculousness went live and viral, a sliver of what they call compassion was shown by the powers that be at Fox News when they gave a thirteen-second disclaimer about how they don’t condone physical violence. Thirteen seconds; that’s all it’s worth. Proving its okay to laugh at physical violence and keep your job at Fox News.

Architecture Wednesday: The Green Lantern Residence

September 10, 2014, 1:00 pm

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I don’t know why they call it the Green lantern House because I don’t think a superhero — from a film that bombed — has ever lived in it. I’d have called it the Earth, Wind and Fire plus Steel, Wood, Glass and Water House because that’s what it looks like to me. Located in San Antonio, the house sits on a large corner lot of the Alamo Heights neighborhood overlooking the downtown area. The house was conceived, designed and built based upon both the architect and the client’s respect for the environment with an eye toward sustainability. A single-story ranch house once sat on this lot until the new client came along and one goal was to reuse the original foundation of the old home — and some of the original wood — upon which to build the new house with single- and two-story public spaces. In addition, the house incorporates systems such as photovoltaic panels, a green roof system, grey-water harvesting, and LED lighting. Passive systems such as arbors and overhangs were used to produce shading and reduce solar gain, while the entire project was sited to protect the number of existing heritage oak trees on the site. At the entry, you step up and over the pool along the main entry bridge and then step back down again from the kitchen to the living area, though both spaces, and both floors, are open to one another. Additionally, wall-to-wall glass sliding doors open up to expand the room out into the pool and yard. This rhythm is mirrored at the second floor as a series of folding doors in the ‘party room’ open to a large out-door terrace in the tree canopies, which again steps down to its own ‘landscape’ green roof garden with hot tub that takes in distance vistas of downtown San Antonio. These ideas and designs not only provide elegant spaces for entertaining, but also provide a stage for discussion and promotion of the core principle of sustainability that produced it. The Green lantern House meets and exceeds local standards for green certifications; such as Energy Star – Gold, NAHB Green Building – Emerald, Build SA Green – Level 3, and LEED – Platinum. It’s green and Earth-friendly, with wind and fire and water and glass and steel.

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September 11, 2014, 5:47 am

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World Trade Center Victims:
Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr., Edelmiro Abad, Maria Rose Abad, Andrew Anthony Abate, Vincent Abate, Laurence Christopher Abel, William F. Abrahamson, Richard Anthony Aceto, Jesus Acevedo Rescand, Heinrich Bernhard Ackermann, Paul Acquaviva, Donald LaRoy Adams, Patrick Adams, Shannon Lewis Adams, Stephen George Adams, Ignatius Udo Adanga, Christy A. Addamo, Terence E. Adderley, Jr., Sophia Buruwad Addo, Lee Allan Adler, Daniel Thomas Afflitto, Emmanuel Akwasi Afuakwah, Alok Agarwal, Mukul Kumar Agarwala, Joseph Agnello, David Scott Agnes, Brian G. Ahearn, Jeremiah Joseph Ahern, Joanne Marie Ahladiotis, Shabbir Ahmed, Terrance Andre Aiken, Godwin Ajala, Gertrude M. Alagero, Andrew Alameno , Margaret Ann Alario, Gary M. Albero, Jon Leslie Albert, Peter Alderman, Jacquelyn Delaine Aldridge, David D. Alger, Sarah Ali-Escarcega, Ernest Alikakos, Edward L. Allegretto, Eric Allen, Joseph Ryan Allen, Richard Dennis Allen, Richard Lanard Allen, Christopher E. Allingham, Janet M. Alonso, Arturo Alva-Moreno, Anthony Alvarado, Antonio Javier Alvarez, Victoria Alvarez-Brito, Telmo E. Alvear, Cesar Amoranto Alviar, Tariq Amanullah, Angelo Amaranto, James M. Amato Joseph Amatuccio, Christopher Charles Amoroso, Kazuhiro Anai, Calixto Anaya, Jr., Joseph Anchundia, Kermit Charles Anderson, Yvette Constance Anderson, John Andreacchio, Michael Rourke Andrews, Jean Ann Andrucki, Siew-Nya Ang, Joseph Angelini, Jr., Joseph Angelini, Sr., Laura Angilletta, Doreen J. Angrisani, Lorraine Antigua, Peter Paul Apollo, Faustino Apostol, Jr., Frank Thomas Aquilino, Patrick Michael Aranyos, David Arce, Michael George Arczynski , Louis Arena, Adam P. Arias, Michael Armstrong, Jack Charles Aron, Joshua Aron, Richard Avery Aronow, Japhet Jesse Aryee, Patrick Asante, Carl Asaro, Michael Asciak, Michael Edward Asher, Janice Marie Ashley, Thomas J. Ashton, Manuel O. Asitimbay, Gregg Arthur Atlas, Gerald T. Atwood, James Audiffred, Louis Frank Aversano, Jr., Ezra Aviles, Sandy Ayala

Arlene T. Babakitis, Eustace P. Bacchus, John J. Badagliacca, Jane Ellen Baeszler, Robert J. Baierwalter, Andrew J. Bailey, , Brett T. Bailey, Tatyana Bakalinskaya, Michael S. Baksh, Sharon M. Balkcom, Michael Andrew Bane, Katherine Bantis, Gerard Baptiste, Walter Baran, Gerard A. Barbara, Paul Vincent Barbaro, James William Barbella, Ivan Kyrillos F. Barbosa, Victor Daniel Barbosa, Colleen Ann Barkow, David Michael Barkway, Matthew Barnes, Sheila Patricia Barnes, Evan J. Baron, Renee Barrett-Arjune, Nathaly Barrios La Cruz, Arthur Thaddeus Barry, Diane G. Barry, Maurice Vincent Barry, Scott D. Bart, Carlton W. Bartels, Guy Barzvi, Inna B. Basina, Alysia Basmajian, Kenneth William Basnicki, Steven Bates, Paul James Battaglia, Walter David Bauer, Jr., Marlyn Capito Bautista, Jasper Baxter, Michele Beale, Paul Frederick Beatini, Jane S. Beatty, Lawrence Ira Beck, Manette Marie Beckles, Carl John Bedigian, Michael Earnest Beekman, Maria A. Behr, Yelena Belilovsky, Nina Patrice Bell, Debbie Bellows, Stephen Elliot Belson, Paul M. Benedetti, Denise Lenore Benedetto, Maria Bengochea, Bryan Craig Bennett, Eric L. Bennett, Oliver Duncan Bennett, Margaret L. Benson, Dominick J. Berardi, James Patrick Berger, Steven Howard Berger, John P. Bergin, Alvin Bergsohn, Daniel Bergstein, Michael J. Berkeley, Donna M. Bernaerts, David W. Bernard, William Bernstein, David M. Berray, David S. Berry, Joseph J. Berry, William Reed Bethke, Timothy Betterly, Edward Frank Beyea, Paul Beyer, Anil Tahilram Bharvaney, Bella J. Bhukhan, Shimmy D. Biegeleisen, Peter Alexander Bielfeld, William G. Biggart, Brian Bilcher, Carl Vincent Bini, Gary Eugene Bird, Joshua David Birnbaum, George John Bishop, Jeffrey Donald Bittner, Albert Balewa Blackman, Jr., Christopher Joseph Blackwell, Susan Leigh Blair, Harry Blanding, Jr., Janice Lee Blaney, Craig Michael Blass, Rita Blau, Richard Middleton Blood, Jr., Michael Andrew Boccardi, John P. Bocchi, Michael Leopoldo Bocchino, Susan M. Bochino, Bruce D. Boehm, Mary Catherine Boffa, Nicholas Andrew Bogdan, Darren Christopher Bohan, Lawrence Francis Boisseau, Vincent M. Boland, Jr., Alan Bondarenko, Andre Bonheur, Jr., Colin Arthur Bonnett, Frank Bonomo, Yvonne Lucia Bonomo, Genieve Bonsignore, Seaon Booker, Sherry Ann Bordeaux, Krystine Bordenabe, Martin Boryczewski, Richard Edward Bosco, John H. Boulton, Francisco Eligio Bourdier, Thomas Harold Bowden, Jr., Kimberly S. Bowers, Veronique Nicole Bowers, Larry Bowman, Shawn Edward Bowman, Jr., Kevin L. Bowser, Gary R. Box, Gennady Boyarsky, Pamela Boyce, Michael Boyle, Alfred Braca, Kevin Bracken, David Brian Brady, Alexander Braginsky, Nicholas W. Brandemarti, Michelle Renee Bratton, Patrice Braut, Lydia E. Bravo, Ronald Michael Breitweiser, Edward A. Brennan III, Francis Henry Brennan, Michael E. Brennan, Peter Brennan, Thomas M. Brennan, Daniel J. Brethel, Gary Lee Bright, Jonathan Briley, Mark A. Brisman, Paul Gary Bristow, Mark Francis Broderick, Herman Charles Broghammer, Keith A. Broomfield, Ethel Brown Janice, Juloise Brown, Lloyd Stanford Brown, Patrick J. Brown, Bettina Browne, Mark Bruce, Richard George Bruehert, Andrew Brunn, Vincent Brunton, Ronald Paul Bucca, Brandon J. Buchanan, Gregory Joseph Buck, Dennis Buckley, Nancy Clare Bueche, Patrick Joseph Buhse, John Edwards Bulaga, Jr., Stephen Bunin, Matthew J. Burke, Thomas Daniel Burke, William Francis Burke, Jr., Donald J. Burns, Kathleen Anne Burns, Keith James Burns, John Patrick Burnside, Irina Buslo, Milton G. Bustillo, Thomas M. Butler, Patrick Byrne, Timothy G. Byrne

Jesus Neptali Cabezas, Lillian Caceres, Brian Joseph Cachia, Steven Dennis Cafiero, Jr., Richard M. Caggiano, Cecile Marella Caguicla, Michael John Cahill, Scott Walter Cahill, Thomas Joseph Cahill, George Cain, Salvatore B. Calabro, Joseph Calandrillo, Philip V. Calcagno, Edward Calderon, Kenneth Marcus Caldwell, Dominick Enrico Calia, Felix Calixte, Frank Callahan, Liam Callahan, Luigi Calvi, Roko Camaj, Michael F. Cammarata, David Otey Campbell, Geoffrey Thomas Campbell, Jill Marie Campbell, Robert Arthur Campbell, Sandra Patricia Campbell, Sean Thomas Canavan, John A. Candela, Vincent Cangelosi, Stephen J. Cangialosi, Lisa Bella Cannava, Brian Cannizzaro, Michael Canty, Louis Anthony Caporicci, Jonathan Neff Cappello, James Christopher Cappers, Richard Michael Caproni, Jose Manuel Cardona, Dennis M. Carey, Steve Carey, Edward Carlino, Michael Scott Carlo, David G. Carlone, Rosemarie C. Carlson, Mark Stephen Carney, Joyce Ann Carpeneto, Ivhan Luis Carpio Bautista, Jeremy M. Carrington, Michael Carroll, Peter Carroll, James Joseph Carson, Jr., Marcia Cecil Carter, James Marcel Cartier, Vivian Casalduc, John Francis Casazza, Paul R. Cascio, Margarito Casillas, Thomas Anthony Casoria, William Otto Caspar, Alejandro Castano, Arcelia Castillo, Germaan Castillo Garcia, Leonard M. Castrianno, Jose Ramon Castro, Richard G. Catarelli, Christopher Sean Caton, Robert John Caufield, Mary Teresa Caulfield, Judson Cavalier, Michael Joseph Cawley, Jason David Cayne, Juan Armando Ceballos, Jason Michael Cefalu, Thomas Joseph Celic, Ana Mercedes Centeno, Joni Cesta, Jeffrey Marc Chairnoff, Swarna Chalasani, William Chalcoff, Eli Chalouh, Charles Lawrence Chan, Mandy Chang, Mark Lawrence Charette, Gregorio Manuel Chavez, Delrose E. Cheatham, Pedro Francisco Checo, Douglas MacMillan Cherry, Stephen Patrick Cherry, Vernon Paul Cherry, Nester Julio Chevalier, Swede Chevalier, Alexander H. Chiang, Dorothy J. Chiarchiaro, Luis Alfonso Chimbo, Robert Chin, Wing Wai Ching, Nicholas Paul Chiofalo, John Chipura, Peter A. Chirchirillo, Catherine Chirls, Kyung Hee Cho,  Abul K. Chowdhury, Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury, Kirsten L. Christophe, Pamela Chu, Steven Chucknick, Wai Chung, Christopher Ciafardini, Alex F. Ciccone, Frances Ann Cilente, Elaine Cillo, Edna Cintron, Nestor Andre Cintron III, Robert Dominick Cirri, Juan Pablo Cisneros-Alvarez, Benjamin Keefe Clark, Eugene Clark, Gregory Alan Clark, Mannie Leroy Clark, Thomas R. Clark, Christopher Robert Clarke, Donna Marie Clarke, Michael J. Clarke, Suria Rachel Emma Clarke, Kevin Francis Cleary, James D. Cleere, Geoffrey W. Cloud, Susan Marie Clyne, Steven Coakley, Jeffrey Alan Coale, Patricia A. Cody, Daniel Michael Coffey, Jason M. Coffey, Florence G. Cohen, Kevin Sanford Cohen, Anthony Joseph Coladonato, Mark Joseph Colaio, Stephen Colaio, Christopher M. Colasanti, Kevin Nathaniel Colbert, Michel P. Colbert, Keith E. Coleman, Scott Thomas Coleman, Tarel Coleman, Liam Joseph Colhoun, Robert D. Colin, Robert J. Coll, Jean Collin, John Michael Collins, Michael L. Collins, Thomas J. Collins, Joseph Collison, Patricia Malia Colodner, Linda M. Colon, Sol E. Colon, Ronald Edward Comer, Sandra Jolane Conaty Brace, Jaime Concepcion, Albert Conde, Denease Conley, Susan P. Conlon, Margaret Mary Conner, Cynthia Marie Lise Connolly, John E. Connolly,Jr., James Lee Connor, Jonathan M. Connors, Kevin Patrick Connors, Kevin F. Conroy, Jose Manuel Contreras-Fernandez, Brenda E. Conway, Dennis Michael Cook, Helen D. Cook, John A. Cooper, Joseph John Coppo, Jr., Gerard J. Coppola, Joseph Albert Corbett, Alejandro Cordero, Robert Cordice, Ruben D. Correa, Danny A. Correa-Gutierrez, James J. Corrigan, Carlos Cortes, Kevin Cosgrove, Dolores Marie Costa, Digna Alexandra Costanza, Charles Gregory Costello, Jr., Michael S. Costello, Conrod K. Cottoy, Martin John Coughlan, John Gerard Coughlin, Timothy J. Coughlin, James E. Cove, Andre Cox, Frederick John Cox, James Raymond Coyle, Michele Coyle-Eulau, Anne Marie Cramer, Christopher S. , Cramer, Denise Elizabeth Crant, James Leslie Crawford, Jr., Robert James Crawford, Joanne Mary Cregan, Lucy Crifasi, John A. Crisci, Daniel Hal Crisman, Dennis Cross, Kevin Raymond Crotty, Thomas G. Crotty, John Crowe, Welles Remy Crowther, Robert L. Cruikshank, John Robert Cruz, Grace Yu Cua, Kenneth John Cubas, Francisco Cruz Cubero, Richard J. Cudina, Neil James Cudmore, Thomas Patrick Cullen lll, Joyce Cummings, Brian Thomas Cummins, Michael Cunningham, Robert Curatolo, Laurence Damian Curia, Paul Dario Curioli, Beverly Curry, Michael S. Curtin, Gavin Cushny

John D'Allara, Vincent Gerard D'Amadeo, Jack D'Ambrosi, Mary D'Antonio, Edward A. D'Atri, Michael D. D'Auria, Michael Jude D'Esposito, Manuel John Da Mota, Caleb Arron Dack, Carlos S. DaCosta, Joao Alberto DaFonseca Aguiar, Jr., Thomas A. Damaskinos, Jeannine Marie Damiani-Jones, Patrick W. Danahy, Nana Danso, Vincent Danz, Dwight Donald Darcy, Elizabeth Ann Darling, Annette Andrea Dataram, Lawrence Davidson, Michael Allen Davidson, Scott Matthew Davidson, Titus Davidson, Niurka Davila, Clinton Davis, Wayne Terrial Davis, Anthony Richard Dawson, Calvin Dawson, Edward James Day, Jayceryll de Chavez, Jennifer De Jesus, Monique E. De Jesus, Nereida De Jesus, Emerita De La Pena, Azucena Maria de la Torre, David Paul De Rubbio, Jemal Legesse De Santis, Christian Louis De Simone, Melanie Louise De Vere, William Thomas Dean, Robert J. DeAngelis, Jr., Thomas Patrick DeAngelis, Tara E. Debek, Anna Marjia DeBin, James V. Deblase, Paul DeCola, Simon Marash Dedvukaj, Jason Defazio, David A. DeFeo, Manuel Del Valle, Jr., Donald Arthur Delapenha, Vito Joseph DeLeol, Danielle Anne Delie, Joseph A. Della Pietra, Andrea DellaBella, Palmina DelliGatti, Colleen Ann Deloughery, Francis Albert DeMartini, Anthony Demas, Martin N. DeMeo, Francis Deming, Carol K. Demitz, Kevin Dennis, Thomas F. Dennis, Jean DePalma, Jose Depena, Robert John Deraney, Michael DeRienzo, Edward DeSimone III, Andrew Desperito, Cindy Ann Deuel, Jerry DeVito, Robert P. Devitt, Jr., Dennis Lawrence Devlin, Gerard Dewan, Sulemanali Kassamali Dhanani, Patricia Florence Di Chiaro, Debra Ann Di Martino, Michael Louis Diagostino, Matthew Diaz, Nancy Diaz, Rafael Arturo Diaz, Michael A. Diaz-Piedra III, Judith Berquis Diaz-Sierra, Joseph Dermot Dickey, Jr., Lawrence Patrick Dickinson, Michael D. Diehl, John Difato, Vincent Difazio, Carl Anthony DiFranco, Donald Difranco, Stephen Patrick Dimino, William John Dimmling, Marisa DiNardo Schorpp, Christopher M. Dincuff, Jeffrey Mark Dingle, Anthony Dionisio, George DiPasquale, Joseph Dipilato, Douglas Frank DiStefano, Ramzi A. Doany, John Joseph Doherty, Melissa C. Doi, Brendan Dolan, Neil Matthew Dollard, James Joseph Domanico, Benilda Pascua Domingo, Carlos Dominguez, Jerome Mark Patrick Dominguez, Kevin W. Donnelly, Jacqueline Donovan, Stephen Scott Dorf, Thomas Dowd, Kevin Dowdell, Mary Yolanda Dowling, Raymond Mathew Downey, Frank Joseph Doyle, Joseph Michael Doyle, Stephen Patrick Driscoll, Mirna A. Duarte, Michelle Beale Duberry, Luke A. Dudek, Christopher Michael Duffy, Gerard Duffy, Michael Joseph Duffy, Thomas W. Duffy, Antoinette Duger, Sareve Dukat, Christopher Joseph Dunne, Richard Anthony Dunstan, Patrick Thomas Dwyer

Joseph Anthony Eacobacci, John Bruce Eaglesonl, Robert Douglas Eaton, Dean Phillip Eberling, Margaret Ruth Echtermann, Paul Robert Eckna, Constantine Economos, Dennis Michael Edwards, Michael Hardy Edwards, Christine Egan, Lisa Egan, Martin J. Egan, Jr., Michael Egan, Samantha Martin Egan, Carole Eggert, Lisa Caren Ehrlich, John Ernst Eichler, Eric Adam Eisenberg, Daphne Ferlinda Elder, Michael J. Elferis, Mark Joseph Ellis, Valerie Silver Ellis, Albert Alfy William Elmarry, Edgar Hendricks Emery, Jr., Doris Suk-Yuen Eng, Christopher Epps, Ulf Ramm Ericson, Erwin L. Erker, William John Erwin, Jose Espinal, Fanny Espinoza, Bridget Ann Esposito, Francis Esposito, Michael Esposito, William Esposito, Ruben Esquilin, Jr., Sadie Ette, Barbara G. Etzold, Eric Brian Evans, Robert Evans, Meredith Emily June Ewart

Catherine K. Fagan, Patricia Mary Fagan, Keith George Fairben, Sandra Fajardo-Smith, William F. Fallon, William Lawrence Fallon, Jr., Anthony J. Fallone, Jr., Dolores Brigitte Fanelli, John Joseph Fanning, Kathleen Anne Faragher, Thomas Farino, Nancy Carole Farley, Elizabeth Ann Farmer, Douglas Jon Farnum, John G. Farrell, John W. Farrell, Terrence Patrick Farrell, Joseph D. Farrelly, Thomas Patrick Farrelly, Syed Abdul Fatha, Christopher Edward Faughnan, Wendy R. Faulkner, Shannon Marie Fava, Bernard D. Favuzza, Robert Fazio, Jr., Ronald Carl Fazio, William Feehan, Francis Jude Feely, Garth Erin Feeney, Sean B. Fegan, Lee S. Fehling, Peter Adam Feidelberg, Alan D. Feinberg, Rosa Maria Feliciano, Edward Thomas Fergus, Jr., George Ferguson, Henry Fernandez, Judy Hazel Fernandez, Julio Fernandez, Elisa Giselle Ferraina, Anne Marie Sallerin Ferreira, Robert John Ferris, David Francis Ferrugio, Louis V. Fersini, Michael David Ferugio, Bradley James Fetchet, Jennifer Louise Fialko, Kristen Nicole Fiedel, Samuel Fields, Michael Bradley Finnegan, Timothy J. Finnerty, Michael Curtis Fiore, Stephen S R Fiorelli, Sr., Paul M. Fiori, John B. Fiorito, John R. Fischer, Andrew Fisher, Bennett Lawson Fisher, John Roger Fisher, Thomas J. Fisher, Lucy A. Fishman, Ryan D. Fitzgerald, Thomas James Fitzpatrick, Richard P. Fitzsimons, Salvatore Fiumefreddo, Christina Donovan Flannery, Eileen Flecha, Andre G. Fletcher, Carl M. Flickinger, John Joseph Florio, Joseph Walken Flounders, David Fodor, Michael N. Fodor, Stephen Mark Fogel, Thomas Foley, David J. , Fontana, Chih Min Foo, Godwin Forde, Donald A. Foreman, Christopher Hugh Forsythe, Claudia Alicia Foster, Noel John Foster, Ana Fosteris, Robert Joseph Foti, Jeffrey Fox, Virginia Fox, Pauline Francis, Virgin Francis, Gary Jay Frank, Morton H. Frank, Peter Christopher Frank, Richard K. Fraser, Kevin J. , Frawley, Clyde Frazier, Jr., Lillian Inez Frederick, Andrew Fredricks, Tamitha Freeman, Brett Owen Freiman, Peter L. Freund, Arlene Eva Fried, Alan Wayne Friedlander, Andrew Keith Friedman, Gregg J. Froehner, Peter Christian Fry, Clement A. Fumando, Steven Elliot Furman, Paul Furmato

Fredric Neal Gabler, Richard Samuel Federick Gabrielle, James Andrew Gadiel, Pamela Lee Gaff, Ervin Vincent Gailliard, Deanna Lynn Galante, Grace Catherine Galante, Anthony Edward Gallagher, Daniel James Gallagher, John Patrick Gallagher, Lourdes Galletti, Cono E. Gallo, Vincenzo Gallucci, Thomas E. Galvin, Giovanna Galletta Gambale, Thomas Gambino, Jr., Giann Franco Gamboa,, Peter Ganci, Ladkat K. Ganesh, Claude Michael Gann, Osseni Garba, Charles William Garbarini, Ceasar Garcia, David Garcia, Juan Garcia, Marlyn Del Carmen Garcia, Christopher S. Gardner, Douglas Benjamin Gardner, Harvey J. Gardner III, Jeffrey Brian Gardner, Thomas Gardner, William Arthur Gardner, Francesco Garfi, Rocco Nino Gargano, James M. Gartenberg, Matthew David Garvey, Bruce Gary, Boyd Alan Gatton, Donald Richard Gavagan,,Jr., Terence D. Gazzani, Gary Geidel, Paul Hamilton Geier, Julie M. Geis, Peter G. Gelinas, Steven Paul Geller, Howard G. Gelling, Peter Victor Genco, Jr., Steven Gregory Genovese, Alayne Gentul, Edward F. Geraghty, Suzanne Geraty, Ralph Gerhardt, Robert Gerlich, Denis P. Germain, Marina Romanovna Gertsberg. Susan M. Getzendanner. James G. Geyer. Joseph M. Giaccone. Vincent Francis Giammona. Debra Lynn Gibbon, James Andrew Giberson, Craig Neil Gibson, Ronnie E. Gies, Laura A. Giglio, Andrew Clive Gilbert, Timothy Paul Gilbert, Paul Stuart Gilbey, Paul John Gill, Mark Y. Gilles, Evan Gillette, Ronald Lawrence Gilligan, Rodney C. Gillis, Laura Gilly, John F. Ginley, Donna Marie Giordano, Jeffrey John Giordano, John Giordano, Steven A. Giorgetti, Martin Giovinazzo, Kum-Kum Girolamo, Salvatore Gitto, Cynthia Giugliano, Mon Gjonbalaj, Dianne Gladstone, Keith Glascoe, Thomas Irwin Glasser, Harry Glenn, Barry H. Glick, Steven Glick, John T. Gnazzo, William Robert Godshalk, Michael Gogliormella, Brian Fredric Goldberg, Jeffrey Grant Goldflam, Michelle Goldstein, Monica Goldstein, Steven Goldstein, Andrew H. Golkin, Dennis James Gomes, Enrique Antonio Gomez, Jose Bienvenido Gomez, Manuel Gomez, Jr., Wilder Alfredo Gomez, Jenine Nicole Gonzalez, Mauricio Gonzalez, Rosa Gonzalez, Calvin J. Gooding, Harry Goody, Kiran Reddy Gopu, Catherine C. Gorayeb, Kerene Gordon, Sebastian Gorki, Kieran Joseph Gorman, Thomas Edward Gorman, Michael Edward Gould, Yuji Goya, Jon Richard Grabowski, Christopher Michael Grady, Edwin J. Graf III, David Martin Graifman, Gilbert Franco Granados, Elvira Granitto, Winston Arthur Grant, Christopher S. Gray, James Michael Gray, Tara McCloud Gray, Linda Catherine Grayling, John M. Grazioso, Timothy George Grazioso, Derrick Auther Green, Wade B. Green, Elaine Myra Greenberg, Gayle R. Greene, James Arthur Greenleaf, Jr., Eileen Marsha Greenstein, Elizabeth Martin Gregg, Denise Gregory, Donald H. Gregory, Florence Moran Gregory, Pedro Grehan, John Michael Griffin, Tawanna Sherry Griffin, Joan Donna Griffith, Warren Grifka, Ramon Grijalvo, Joseph F. Grillo, David Joseph Grimner, Kenneth George Grouzalis, Joseph Grzelak, Matthew James Grzymalski, Robert Joseph Gschaar, Liming Gu, Jose Guadalupe, Cindy Yan Zhu Guan, Joel Guevara Gonzalez, Geoffrey E. Guja, Joseph Gullickson, Babita Girjamatie Guman, Douglas Brian Gurian, Janet Ruth Gustafson, Philip T. Guza, Barbara Guzzardo, Peter M. Gyulavary

Gary Robert Haag, Andrea Lyn Haberman, Barbara Mary Habib, Philip Haentzler, Nezam A. Hafiz, Karen Elizabeth Hagerty, Steven Michael Hagis, Mary Lou Hague, David Halderman, Maile Rachel Hale, Richard B. Hall, Vaswald George Hall, Robert J. Halligan, Vincent Gerard Halloran, James Douglas Halvorson, Mohammad Salman Hamdani, Felicia Hamilton, Robert Hamilton, Frederic K. Han, Christopher J. Hanley, Sean S. Hanley, Valerie Joan Hanna, Thomas Hannafin, Kevin James Hannaford, Michael Lawrence Hannan, Dana R Hannon, Vassilios G. Haramis, James A. Haran, Jeffrey Pike Hardy, Timothy John Hargrave, Daniel Edward Harlin, Frances Haros, Harvey Harrell, Stephen G. Harrell, Melissa Marie Harrington, Aisha Anne Harris, Stewart Dennis Harris, John Patrick Hart, John Clinton Hartz, Emeric Harvey, Thomas Theodore Haskell, Jr., Timothy Haskell, Joseph John Hasson III, Leonard W. Hatton, Terence S. Hatton, Michael Haub, Timothy Aaron Haviland, Donald G. Havlish, Jr., Anthony Hawkins, Nobuhiro Hayatsu, Philip Hayes, William Ward Haynes, Scott Jordan Hazelcorn, Michael K. Healey, Roberta B. Heber, Charles Francis , Xavier Heeran, John F. Heffernan, H. Joseph Heller, Jr., Joann L. Heltibridle, Mark F. Hemschoot, Ronnie Lee Henderson, Brian Hennessey, Michelle Marie Henrique, Joseph Henry, William Henry, John Christopher Henwood, Robert Allan Hepburn, Mary Herencia, Lindsay C. Herkness III, Harvey Robert Hermer, Claribel Hernandez, Eduardo Hernandez, Nuberto Hernandez, Raul Hernandez, Gary Herold, Jeffrey A. Hersch, Thomas Hetzel, Brian Hickey, Ysidro Hidalgo, Timothy Higgins, Robert D. W. Higley II, Todd Russell Hill, Clara Victorine Hinds, Neal O. Hinds, Mark D. Hindy, Katsuyuki Hirai, Heather Malia Ho, Tara Yvette Hobbs, Thomas Anderson Hobbs, James J. Hobin, Robert Wayne Hobson, DaJuan Hodges, Ronald George Hoerner, Patrick A. Hoey, Marcia Hoffman, Stephen G. Hoffman, Frederick Joseph Hoffmann, Michele L. Hoffmann, Judith Florence Hofmiller, Thomas Warren Hohlweck, Jr., Jonathan R. Hohmann, John Holland, Joseph F. Holland, Elizabeth Holmes, Thomas Holohan, Bradley Hoorn, James P. Hopper, Montgomery McCullough Hord, Michael Horn, Matthew Douglas Horning, Robert L. Horohoe, Jr., Aaron Horwitz, Charles Houston, Uhuru G. Houston, George Howard, Michael C. Howell, Steven Leon Howell, Jennifer L. Howley, Milagros Hromada, Marian R. Hrycak, Stephen Huczko, Jr., Kris Robert Hughes, Paul Rexford Hughes, Robert Thomas Hughes, Thomas Hughes, Timothy Robert Hughes, Susan Huie, Lamar Hulse, William Christopher Hunt, Kathleen Anne Hunt-Casey, Joseph Hunter, Robert R. Hussa, Abid Hussain, Thomas Edward Hynes, Walter G. Hynes

Joseph Anthony Ianelli, Zuhtu Ibis, Jonathan Lee Ielpi, Michael Iken, Daniel Ilkanayev, Frederick Ill, Jr., Abraham Nethanel Ilowitz, Anthony P. Infante, Jr., Louis S. Inghilterra, Jr., Christopher Noble Ingrassia, Paul Innella, Stephanie Veronica Irby, Douglas Irgang, Kristin A. Irvine Ryan, Todd Antione Isaac, Erik Isbrandtsen, Taizo Ishikawa, Aram Iskenderian, Jr., John F. Iskyan, Kazushige Ito, Aleksandr Valeryevich Ivantsov

Virginia May Jablonski, Brooke Alexandra Jackman, Aaron Jeremy Jacobs, Ariel Louis Jacobs, Jason Kyle Jacobs, Michael Grady Jacobs, Steven A. Jacobson, Ricknauth Jaggernauth, Jake Denis Jagoda, Yudh Vir Singh Jain, Maria Jakubiak, Ernest James, Gricelda E. James, Priscilla James, Mark Steven Jardim, Muhammadou Jawara, Francois Jean-Pierre, Maxima Jean-Pierre, Paul Edward Jeffers, Alva Cynthia Jeffries Sanchez, Joseph Jenkins, Jr., Alan Keith Jensen, Prem N. Jerath, Farah Jeudy, Hweidar Jian, Eliezer Jimenez, Jr., Luis Jimenez, Jr., Fernando Jimenez-Molina, Charles Gregory John, Nicholas John, LaShawna Johnson, Scott Michael Johnson, William R. Johnston, Allison Horstmann Jones, Arthur Joseph Jones, Brian Leander Jones, Christopher D. Jones, Donald T. Jones, Donald W. Jones, Linda Jones, Mary S. Jones, Andrew Jordan, Robert Thomas Jordan, Albert Gunnia Joseph, Guylene Joseph, Ingeborg Joseph, Karl Henry Joseph, Stephen Joseph, Jane Eileen Josiah, Anthony Jovic, Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., Karen Sue Juday, Mychal F. Judge, Paul William Jurgens, Thomas Edward Jurgens

Kacinga Kabeya, Shashikiran Lakshmikantha Kadaba, Gavkharoy Kamardinova, Shari Kandell, Howard Lee Kane, Jennifer Lynn Kane, Vincent D. Kane, Joon Koo Kang, Sheldon Robert Kanter, Deborah H. Kaplan, Alvin Peter Kappelmann, Jr., Charles Karczewski, William A. Karnes, Douglas Gene Karpiloff, Charles L. Kasper, Andrew K. Kates, John Katsimatides, Robert Michael Kaulfers, Don Jerome Kauth, Jr., Hideya Kawauchi, Edward T. Keane, Richard M. Keane, Lisa Yvonne Kearney-Griffin, Karol Ann Keasler, Paul Hanlon Keating, Leo Russell Keene III, Joseph John Keller, Peter R. Kellerman, Joseph P. Kellett, Frederick H. Kelley, Jr., James Joseph Kelly, Joseph A. Kelly, Maurice P. Kelly, Richard John Kelly, Jr., Thomas Michael Kelly, Thomas Richard Kelly, Thomas W. Kelly, Timothy Colin Kelly, William Hill Kelly, Jr., Robert Clinton Kennedy, Thomas J. Kennedy, John R. Keohane, Ronald T. Kerwin, Howard L. Kestenbaum, Douglas D. Ketcham, Ruth Ellen Ketler, Boris Khalif, Sarah Khan, Taimour Firaz Khan, Rajesh Khandelwal, Oliva Khemrat, SeiLai Khoo, Michael Kiefer, Satoshi Kikuchihara, Andrew Jay-Hoon , Kim, Lawrence D. Kim, Mary Jo Kimelman, Andrew M. King, Lucille Teresa King, Robert King, Jr., Lisa King-Johnson, Takashi Kinoshita, Chris Michael Kirby, Howard Barry Kirschbaum, Glenn Davis Kirwin, Helen Crossin Kittle, Richard Joseph Klares, Peter Anton Klein, Alan David Kleinberg, Karen Joyce Klitzman, Ronald Philip Kloepfer, Evgueni Kniazev, Andrew Knox, Thomas Patrick Knox, Rebecca Lee Koborie, Deborah A. Kobus, Gary Edward Koecheler, Frank J. Koestner, Ryan Kohart, Vanessa Kolpak, Irina Kolpakova, Suzanne Kondratenko, Abdoulaye Kone, Bon-Seok Koo, Dorota Kopiczko, Scott Kopytko, Bojan Kostic, Danielle Kousoulis, John J. Kren, William E. Krukowski, Lyudmila Ksido, Shekhar Kumar, Kenneth Kumpel, Frederick Kuo, Jr., Patricia Kuras, Nauka Kushitani, Thomas Kuveikis, Victor Kwarkye, Kui Fai Kwok, Angela Reed Kyte

Andrew La Corte, Amarnauth Lachhman, James Patrick Ladley, Joseph A. LaFalce, Jeanette Louise Lafond-Menichino, David Laforge, Michael Laforte, Alan Charles LaFrance, Juan Lafuente, Neil Kwong-Wah Lai, Vincent Anthony Laieta, William David Lake, Franco Lalama, Chow Kwan Lam, Stephen LaMantia, Amy Hope Lamonsoff, Nickola Lampley, Robert Lane, Brendan Mark Lang, Rosanne P. Lang, Vanessa Langer, Mary Louise Langley, Peter J. Langone, Thomas Michael Langone, Michele Bernadette Lanza, Ruth Sheila Lapin, Carol Ann LaPlante, Ingeborg Lariby, Robin Blair Larkey, Christopher Randall Larrabee, Hamidou S. Larry, Scott Larsen, John Adam Larson, Gary Edward Lasko, Nicholas Craig Lassman, Paul Laszczynski, Jeffrey G. LaTouche, Charles Laurencin, Stephen James Lauria, Maria LaVache, Denis Francis Lavelle, Jeannine Mary LaVerde, Anna A. Laverty, Steven Lawn, Robert Lawrence, Nathaniel Lawson, Eugen Gabriel Lazar, James Patrick Leahy, Joseph Gerard Leavey, Neil Joseph Leavy, Leon Lebor, Kenneth Charles Ledee, Alan J. Lederman, Elena F. Ledesma, Alexis Leduc, David S. Lee, Gary H. Lee, Hyun Joon Lee, Juanita Lee, Kathryn Blair Lee, Linda C. Lee, Lorraine Mary Lee, Myoung Woo Lee, Richard Y. Lee, Stuart Soo-Jin Lee, Yang Der Lee, Stephen Paul Lefkowitz, Adriana Legro, Edward Joseph Lehman, Eric Andrew Lehrfeld, David Leistman, David Prudencio Lemagne, Joseph Anthony Lenihan, John Joseph Lennon, Jr., John Robinson Lenoir, Jorge Luis Leon, Matthew Gerard Leonard, Michael Lepore, Charles A. Lesperance, Jeff Leveen, John Dennis Levi, Alisha Caren Levin, Neil David Levin, Robert Levine, Robert Michael Levine, Shai Levinhar, Adam Jay Lewis, Margaret Susan Lewis, Ye Wei Liang, Orasri Liangthanasarn, Daniel F. Libretti, Ralph Licciardi, Edward Lichtschein, Steven Barry Lillianthal, Carlos R. Lillo, Craig Damian Lilore, Arnold A. Lim, Darya Lin, Wei Rong Lin, Nickie L. Lindo, Thomas V. Linehan,Jr., Robert Thomas Linnane, Alan P. Linton, Jr., Diane Theresa Lipari, Kenneth Lira, Francisco Alberto Liriano, Lorraine Lisi, Paul Lisson, Vincent M. Litto, Ming-Hao Liu, Nancy Liz, Harold Lizcano, Martin Lizzul., George A. Llanes, Elizabeth C. Logler, Catherine Lisa Loguidice, Jerome Robert Lohez, Michael William Lomax, Laura Maria Longing, Salvatore Lopes, Daniel Lopez, George Lopez, Luis Manuel Lopez, Manuel L. Lopez, Joseph Lostrangio, Chet Dek Louie, Stuart Seid Louis, Joseph Lovero, Jenny Seu Kueng Low Wong, Michael W. Lowe, Garry W. Lozier, John Peter Lozowsky, Charles Peter Lucania, Edward Hobbs Luckett, Mark Gavin Ludvigsen, Lee Charles Ludwig, Sean Thomas Lugano, Daniel Lugo, Marie Lukas, William Lum, Jr., Michael P. Lunden, Christopher Lunder, Anthony Luparello, Gary Frederick Lutnick, William Lutz, Linda Anne Luzzicone, Alexander Lygin, Farrell Peter Lynch, James Francis Lynch, Louise A. Lynch, Michael Cameron Lynch, Michael F. Lynch, Michael Francis Lynch, Richard D. Lynch, Jr.,  Robert Henry Lynch, Jr., Sean P. Lynch, Sean Patrick Lynch, Michael J. Lyons, Monica Anne Lyons, Patrick Lyons

Robert Francis Mace, Jan Maciejewski, Catherine Fairfax Macrae, Richard Blaine Madden, Simon Maddison Noell Maerz, Jennieann Maffeo, Joseph Maffeo, Jay Robert Magazine, Brian Magee, Charles Wilson Magee, Joseph V. Maggitti, , Ronald Magnuson, Daniel L. Maher, Thomas Anthony Mahon, William J. Mahoney, Joseph Daniel Maio, Takashi Makimoto, Abdu Ali Malahi, Debora I. Maldonado, Myrna T. Maldonado-Agosto, Alfred Russell Maler, Gregory James Malone, Edward Francis Maloney III, Joseph Maloney, Gene Edward Maloy, Christian Maltby, Francisco Miguel Mancini, Joseph Mangano, Sara Elizabeth Manley, Debra Mannetta, Marion Victoria Manning, Terence John Manning, James Maounis, Joseph Ross Marchbanks, Jr., Peter Edward Mardikian, Edward Joseph Mardovich, Charles Joseph Margiotta, Kenneth Joseph Marino, Lester V. Marino, Vita Marino, Kevin Marlo, Jose Marrero, John Marshall, James Martello, Michael A. Marti, Peter C. Martin, William J. Martin, Jr., Brian E. Martineau, Betsy Martinez, Edward Martinez, Jose Angel Martinez, Jr., Robert Gabriel Martinez, Victor Martinez Pastrana, Lizie D. Martinez-Calderon, Paul Richard Martini, Joseph A. Mascali, Bernard Mascarenhas, Stephen Frank Masi, Nicholas George Massa, Patricia Ann Massari, Michael Massaroli, Philip William Mastrandrea, Jr., Rudolph Mastrocinque, Joseph Mathai, Charles Mathers, William A. Mathesen, Marcello Matricciano, Margaret Elaine Mattic, Robert D. Mattson, Walter Matuza, Charles A. Mauro, Jr., Charles J. Mauro, Dorothy Mauro, Nancy T. Mauro, Tyrone May, Keithroy Marcellus Maynard, Robert J. Mayo, Kathy Nancy Mazza, Edward Mazzella, Jr., Jennifer Lynn Mazzotta, Kaaria Mbaya, James Joseph McAlary, Brian McAleese, Patricia Ann McAneney, Colin Robert McArthur, John Kevin McAvoy, Kenneth M. McBrayer, Brendan McCabe, Micheal McCabe, Thomas McCann, Justin McCarthy, Kevin M. McCarthy, Michael McCarthy, Robert McCarthy, Stanley McCaskill, Katie Marie McCloskey, Joan McConnell-Cullinan, Charles Austin McCrann, Tonyell F. McDay, Matthew T. McDermott, Joseph P. McDonald, Brian Grady McDonnell, Michael P. McDonnell, John McDowell, Jr., Eamon J. McEneaney, John Thomas McErlean, Jr., Daniel Francis McGinley, Mark Ryan McGinly, William E. McGinn, Thomas Henry McGinnis, Michael Gregory , McGinty, Ann McGovern, Scott Martin McGovern, William McGovern, Stacey Sennas McGowan, Francis Noel McGuinn, Patrick McGuire, Thomas M. McHale, Keith McHeffey, Ann M. McHugh, Denis J. McHugh III, Dennis McHugh, Michael E. McHugh, Robert G. McIlvaine, Donald James McIntyre, Stephanie Marie McKenna, Barry J. McKeon, Evelyn C. McKinnedy, Darryl Leron McKinney, George Patrick McLaughlin, Jr., Robert C. McLaughlin, Jr., Gavin McMahon, Robert D. McMahon, Edmund McNally, Daniel W. McNeal, Walter Arthur McNeil, Jisley McNish, Christine Sheila McNulty, Sean Peter McNulty, Robert McPadden, Terence A. McShane, Timothy Patrick McSweeney, Martin E. McWilliams, Rocco A. Medaglia, Abigail Cales Medina, Ana Iris Medina, Deborah Louise Medwig, Damian Meehan, William J. Meehan, Alok Mehta, Raymond Meisenheimer, Manuel Emilio Mejia, Eskedar Melaku, Antonio Melendez, Mary Melendez, Yelena Melnichenko, Stuart Todd Meltzer, Diarelia Jovanah Mena, Charles Mendez, Lizette Mendoza, Shevonne Olicia Mentis, Steven Mercado, Westly Mercer, Ralph Joseph Mercurio, Alan Harvey Merdinger, George L. Merino, Yamel Merino, George Merkouris, Deborah Merrick, Raymond Joseph Metz III, Jill Ann Metzler, David Robert Meyer, Nurul H. Miah, William Edward Micciulli, Martin Paul Michelstein, Peter Teague Milano, Gregory Milanowycz, Lukasz Tomasz Milewski, Sharon Christina Millan, Corey Peter Miller, Craig James Miller, Douglas Charles Miller, Henry Alfred Miller, Jr., Joel Miller, Michael Matthew Miller, Philip D. Miller, Robert Alan Miller, Robert Cromwell Miller, Jr., Benjamin Millman, Charles Morris Mills, Ronald Keith Milstein, Robert Minara, William George Minardi, Diakite Minata, Louis Joseph Minervino, Thomas Mingione, Wilbert Miraille, Dominick N. Mircovich, Rajesh Arjan Mirpuri, Joseph Mistrulli, Susan J. Miszkowicz, Paul Thomas Mitchell, Richard P. Miuccio, Frank V. Moccia, Sr., Louis Joseph Modafferi, Boyie Mohammed, Dennis Mojica, Manuel Mojica, Kleber Molina, Manuel De Jesus Molina, Carl Molinaro, Justin Molisani, Brian Monaghan, Franklin Monahan, John Monahan, Kristen Montanaro, Craig Montano, Michael Montesi, Jeffrey Montgomery, Peter Montoulieu, Cheryl Ann Monyak, Thomas Moody, Sharon Moore, Krishna Moorthy, Abner Morales, Carlos Manuel Morales, Luis Morales, Paula E. Morales John Moran, John Chrisopher Moran, Kathleen Moran, Lindsay Stapleton Morehouse, George Morell, Steven P. Morello, Vincent S. Morello, Yvette Nicole Moreno, Dorothy Morgan, Richard Morgan, Nancy Morgenstern, Sanae Mori, Blanca Robertina Morocho, Leonel Geronimo Morocho, Dennis Gerard Moroney, Lynne Irene Morris, Seth Allan Morris, Stephen Philip Morris, Christopher Martel Morrison, Jorge Luis Morron  Garcia, Ferdinand V. Morrone, William David Moskal, Marco Motroni, Cynthia Motus-Wilson, Iouri A. Mouchinski, Jude Joseph Moussa, Peter Moutos, Damion O'Neil Mowatt, Christopher Mozzillo, Stephen Vincent Mulderry, Richard Muldowney Jr, Michael D. Mullan, Dennis Michael Mulligan, Peter James Mulligan, Michael Joseph Mullin, James Donald Munhall, Nancy Muniz, Carlos Munoz, Frank Munoz, Theresa Munson, Robert M. Murach, Cesar Augusto Murillo, Marc A. Murolo, Brian Joseph Murphy, Charles Anthony Murphy, Christopher W. Murphy, Edward Charles Murphy, James F. Murphy IV, James Thomas Murphy, Kevin James Murphy, Patrick Sean Murphy, Raymond E. Murphy, Robert Eddie Murphy, Jr., John Joseph ,Murray, John Joseph Murray, Jr., Susan D. Murray, Valerie Victoria Murray, Richard Todd Myhre

Robert B. Nagel, Takuya Nakamura, Alexander Napier, Frank Joseph Naples III, John Napolitano, Catherine Ann Nardella, Mario Nardone, Jr., Manika K. Narula, Mehmood Naseem, Narender Nath, Karen Susan Navarro, Joseph Micheal Navas, Francis Joseph Nazario, Glenroy I. Neblett, Rayman Marcus Neblett, Jerome O. Nedd, Laurence Nedell, Luke G. Nee, Pete Negron, Ann N. Nelson, David William Nelson, James Nelson, Michele Ann Nelson, Peter Allen Nelson, Oscar Francis Nesbitt, Gerard Terence Nevins, Christopher Newton-Carter, Kapinga Ngalula, Nancy Yuen Ngo, Jody Nichilo, Martin S. Niederer, Alfonse Joseph Niedermeyer, Frank John Niestadt, Jr., Gloria Nieves, Juan Nieves, Jr., Troy Edward Nilsen, Paul Nimbley, John B. Niven, Katherine Marie Noack, Curtis Terrance Noel, Daniel R. Nolan, Robert Noonan, Daniela R. Notaro, Brian Christopher Novotny, Soichi Numata, Brian Felix Nunez, Jose Nunez, Jeffrey Roger Nussbaum

Dennis O'Berg, James P. O'Brien, Jr., Michael P. O'Brien, Scott J. O'Brien, Timothy Michael O'Brien, Daniel O'Callaghan, Dennis James O'Connor, Jr., Diana J. O'Connor, Keith Kevin Connor, Richard J. O'Connor, Amy O'Doherty, Marni Pont O'Doherty, James Andrew O'Grady, Thomas O'Hagan, Patrick J. O'Keefe, William O'Keefe, Gerald O'leary, Matthew Timothy O'Mahony, Peter J. O'Neill, Jr., Sean Gordon O'Neill, Kevin O'Rourke, Patrick J. O'Shea, Robert William O'Shea, Timothy F. O'Sullivan, James A. Oakley, Douglas E. Oelschlager, Takashi Ogawa, Albert Ogletree, Philip Paul Ognibene, Joseph J. Ogren, Samuel Oitice, Gerald Michael Olcott, Christine Anne Olender, Linda Mary Oliva, Edward Kraft Oliver, Leah E. Oliver, Eric T. Olsen, Jeffrey James Olsen, Maureen Lyons Olson, Steven John Olson, Toshihiro Onda, Seamus L. O'Neal, John P. Oneill, Frank Oni, Michael C. Opperman, Christopher Orgielewicz, Margaret Orloske, Virginia Anne Ormiston, Ronald Orsini, Peter Ortale, Juan Ortega-Campos, Alexander Ortiz, David Ortiz, Emilio Ortiz, Jr., Pablo Ortiz, Paul Ortiz,Jr., Sonia Ortiz, Masaru Ose, Elsy C. Osorio, James R. Ostrowski, Jason Douglas Oswald, Michael Otten, Isidro D. Ottenwalder, Michael Chung Ou, Todd Joseph Ouida, Jesus Ovalles, Peter J. Owens, Jr., Adianes Oyola

Angel M. Pabon, Israel Pabon, Jr., Roland Pacheco, Michael Benjamin Packer, Rene Padilla-Chavarria, Deepa Pakkala, Jeffrey Matthew Palazzo, Thomas Palazzo, Richard Palazzolo, Orio J. Palmer, Frank Anthony Palombo, Alan N. Palumbo, Christopher Matthew Panatier, Dominique Lisa Pandolfo, Paul J. Pansini, John M. Paolillo, Edward Joseph Papa, Salvatore T. Papasso, James Nicholas Pappageorge, Vinod Kumar Parakat, Vijayashanker Paramsothy, Nitin Parandkar, Hardai Parbhu, James Wendell Parham, Debra Marie Paris, George Paris, Gye Hyong Park, Philip Lacey Parker, Michael Alaine Parkes, Robert E. Parks, Jr., Hashmukhrai C. Parmar, Robert Parro, Diane Marie Parsons, Leobardo Lopez Pascual, Michael Pascuma, Jerrold Paskins, Horace Robert Passananti, Suzanne H. Passaro, Avnish Ramanbhai Patel, ipti Patel, Manish Patel, Steven Bennett Paterson, James Matthew Patrick, Manuel D. Patrocino, Bernard E. Patterson, Cira Marie Patti, Robert E. Pattison, James Robert Paul, Patrice Paz, Victor Paz-Gutierrez, Stacey Lynn Peak, Richard Allen Pearlman, Durrell V. Pearsall, Thomas Pedicini, Todd Douglas Pelino, Michel Adrian Pelletier, Anthony G. Peluso, Angel Ramon Pena, Richard Al Penny, Salvatore F. Pepe, Carl Peralta, Robert David Peraza, Jon A. Perconti, Alejo Perez, Angel Perez, Jr., Angela Susan Perez, Anthony Perez, Ivan Perez, Nancy E. Perez, Joseph John Perroncino, Edward J. Perrotta, Emelda H. Perry, Glenn C. Perry, John William Perry, Franklin Allan Pershep, Danny Pesce, Michael John Pescherine, Davin Peterson, William Russell Peterson, Mark Petrocelli, Philip Scott Petti, Glen Kerrin Pettit, Dominick Pezzulo, Kaleen Elizabeth Pezzuti, Kevin Pfeifer, Tu-Anh Pham, Kenneth Phelan, Sneha Ann Philips, Gerard Phillips, Suzette Eugenia Piantieri, Ludwig John Picarro, Matthew M. Picerno, Joseph Oswald Pick, Christopher Pickford, Dennis J. Pierce, Bernard Pietronico, Nicholas P. Pietrunti, Theodoros Pigis, Susan Elizabeth Pinto, Joseph Piskadlo, Christopher Todd Pitman, Joshua Piver, Joseph Plumitallo, John Pocher, William Howard Pohlmann, Laurence Polatsch, Thomas H. Polhemus, Steve Pollicino, Susan M. Pollio, Joshua Iousa Poptean, Giovanna Porras, Anthony Portillo, James Edward Potorti, Daphne Pouletsos, Richard N. Poulos, Stephen Emanual Poulos, Brandon Jerome Powell, Shawn Edward Powell, Antonio Pratt, Gregory M. Preziose, Wanda Ivelisse Prince, Vincent Princiotta, Kevin Prior, Everett Martin Proctor III, Carrie Beth Progen, Sarah Prothero-Redheffer, David Lee Pruim, Richard Prunty, John Foster Puckett, Robert David Pugliese, Edward F. Pullis, Patricia Ann Puma, Hemanth Kumar Puttur, Edward R. Pykon

Christopher Quackenbush, Lars Peter Qualben, Lincoln Quappe, Beth Ann Quigley, Michael Quilty, James Francis Quinn, Ricardo J. Quinn, Carlos Quishpe-Cuaman

Carol Millicent Rabalais, Christopher Peter A. Racaniello, Leonard J. Ragaglia, Eugene Raggio, Laura Marie Ragonese-Snik, Michael Ragusa, Peter Frank Raimondi, Harry A. Raines, Ehtesham Raja, Valsa Raju, Edward Rall, Lukas Rambousek, Maria Ramirez, Harry Ramos, Vishnoo Ramsaroop, Lorenzo E. Ramzey, Alfred Todd Rancke, Adam David Rand, Jonathan C. Randall, Srinivasa Shreyas Ranganath, Anne T. Ransom, Faina Aronovna Rapoport, Robert A. Rasmussen, Amenia Rasool, Roger Mark Rasweiler, David Alan Rathkey, William Ralph Raub, Gerard P. Rauzi, Alexey Razuvaev, Gregory Reda, Michele Reed, Judith Ann Reese, Donald J. Regan, Robert M. Regan, Thomas Michael Regan, Christian Michael Otto Regenhard, Howard Reich, Gregg Reidy, James Brian Reilly, Kevin O. Reilly, Timothy E. Reilly, Joseph Reina, Jr., Thomas Barnes Reinig, Frank Bennett Reisman, Joshua Scott Reiss, Karen Renda, John Armand Reo, Richard Cyril Rescorla, John Thomas Resta, Luis Clodoaldo Revilla, Eduvigis Reyes, Jr., Bruce Albert Reynolds, John Frederick Rhodes, Francis Saverio Riccardelli, Rudolph N. Riccio, Ann Marie Riccoboni, David H. Rice, Eileen Mary Rice, Kenneth Frederick , Rice III, Vernon Allan Richard, Claude Daniel Richards, Gregory David Richards, Michael Richards, Venesha Orintia Richards, James C. Riches, Alan Jay Richman, John M. Rigo, Theresa Risco, Rose Mary Riso, Moises N. Rivas, Joseph Rivelli, Carmen Alicia Rivera, Isaias Rivera, Juan William Rivera, Linda Ivelisse Rivera, David E. Rivers, Joseph R. Riverso, Paul V. Rizza, John Frank Rizzo, Stephen Louis Roach, Joseph Roberto, Leo Arthur , Roberts, Michael Roberts, Michael Edward Roberts, Donald Walter Robertson, Jr., Catherina Robinson, Jeffery Robinson, Michell Lee Jean Robotham, Donald A. Robson, Antonio A. Rocha, Raymond James Rocha, Laura Rockefeller, John Rodak, Antonio J. Rodrigues, Anthony Rodriguez, Carmen Milagros Rodriguez, Gregory Ernesto Rodriguez, Marsha A. Rodriguez, Mayra Valdes , Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, David Bartolo Rodriguez-Vargas, Matthew Rogan, Karlie Barbara Rogers, Scott Williams Rohner, Keith Roma, Joseph M. Romagnolo, Efrain Romero, Sr., Elvin Romero, Juan Romero, Orozco James A. Romito, Sean Paul Rooney, Eric Thomas Ropiteau, Aida Rosario, Angela Rosario, Wendy Alice Rosario Wakeford, Mark Rosen, Brooke David Rosenbaum, Linda Rosenbaum, Sheryl Lynn Rosenbaum, Lloyd Daniel Rosenberg, Mark Louis Rosenberg, Andrew Ira Rosenblum, Joshua M. Rosenblum, Joshua Alan Rosenthal, Richard David Rosenthal, Daniel Rosetti, Norman S. Rossinow, Nicholas P. Rossomando, Michael Craig Rothberg, Donna Marie Rothenberg, Nicholas Rowe, Timothy Alan Roy, Sr., Paul G. Ruback, Ronald J. Ruben, Joanne Rubino, David M. Ruddle, Bart Joseph Ruggiere, Susan A. Ruggiero, Adam Keith Ruhalter, Gilbert Ruiz, Obdulio Ruiz Diaz, Stephen P. Russell, Steven Harris Russin, Michael Thomas Russo, Sr., Wayne Alan Russo, Edward Ryan, John Joseph Ryan, Jr., Jonathan Stephan Ryan, Matthew Lancelot Ryan, Tatiana Ryjova, Christina Sunga Ryook

Thierry Saada, Jason Elazar Sabbag, Thomas E. Sabella, Scott Saber, Joseph Francis Sacerdote, Neeraha Sadaranghgani, Mohammad Ali Sadeque, Francis John Sadocha, Jude Safi, Brock Joel Safronoff, Edward Saiya, John Patrick Salamone, Hernando Salas, Juan G. Salas, Esmerlin Antonio Salcedo, John Salvatore Salerno, Jr., Richard L. Salinardi, Jr., Wayne John Saloman, Nolbert Salomon, Catherine Patricia Salter, Frank Salvaterra, Paul Richard Salvio, Samuel Robert Salvo, Jr., Rena Sam-Dinnoo, ,Carlos Alberto Samaniego, James Kenneth Samuel, Jr., Michael San Phillip, Sylvia San Pio, Hugo M. Sanay, Erick Sanchez, Jacquelyn Patrice Sanchez, Eric M. Sand, Stacey Leigh Sanders, Herman S. Sandler, James Sands, Jr., Ayleen J. Santiago, Kirsten Santiago, Maria Theresa Santillan, Susan Gayle Santo, Christopher Santora, John A. Santore, Mario L. Santoro, Rafael Humberto Santos, Rufino Conrado Flores Santos III, Jorge Octavio Santos Anaya, Kalyan Sarkar, Chapelle R. Sarker, Paul F. Sarle, Deepika Kumar Sattaluri, Gregory Thomas Saucedo, Susan M. Sauer, Anthony Savas, Vladimir Savinkin, Jackie Sayegh, John Michael Sbarbaro, Robert L. Scandole, Jr., Michelle Scarpitta, Dennis Scauso, John Albert Schardt, John G. Scharf, Frederick Claude Scheffold, Jr., Angela Susan Scheinberg, Scott Mitchell Schertzer, Sean Schielke, Steven Francis Schlag, Jon Schlissel, Karen Helene Schmidt, Ian Schneider, Thomas G. Schoales, Frank G. Schott, Jr., Gerard Patrick Schrang, Jeffrey H. Schreier, John T. Schroeder, Susan Lee Schuler, Edward William Schunk, Mark E. Schurmeier, Clarin Shellie Schwartz, John Burkhart Schwartz, Mark Schwartz, Adriane Victoria Scibetta, Raphael Scorca, Randolph Scott, Sheila Scott, Christopher Jay Scudder, Arthur Warren Scullin, Michael Herman Seaman, Margaret M. Seeliger, Anthony Segarra, Carlos Segarra, Jason Sekzer, Matthew Carmen Sellitto, Howard Selwyn, Larry John Senko, Arturo Angelo Sereno, Frankie Serrano, Alena Sesinova, Adele Christine Sessa, Sita Nermalla Sewnarine, Karen Lynn Seymour, Davis Sezna, Thomas Joseph Sgroi, Jayesh S. Shah, Khalid M. Shahid, Mohammed Shajahan, Gary Shamay, Earl Richard Shanahan, Neil Shastri, Kathryn Anne Shatzoff, Barbara A. Shaw, Jeffrey James Shaw, Robert John Shay, Jr., Daniel James Shea, Joseph Patrick Shea, Linda Sheehan, Hagay Shefi, John Anthony Sherry, Atsushi Shiratori, Thomas Joseph Shubert, Mark Shulman, See Wong Shum, Allan Abraham Shwartzstein, Johanna Sigmund, Dianne T. Signer, Gregory Sikorsky, Stephen Gerard Siller, David Silver, Craig A. Silverstein, Nasima Hameed Simjee, Bruce Edward Simmons, Arthur Simon, Kenneth Alan Simon, Michael J. Simon, Paul Joseph Simon, Marianne Teresa Simone, Barry Simowitz, Jeff Lyal Simpson, Khamladai Singh, Kulwant Singh, Roshan Ramesh Singh, Thomas E. Sinton III, Peter A. Siracuse, Muriel Fay , Siskopoulos, Joseph Michael Sisolak, John P. Skala, Francis Joseph Skidmore, Jr., Toyena Skinner, Paul A. Skrzypek, Christopher Paul Slattery, Vincent Robert Slavin, Robert F. Sliwak, Paul K. Sloan, Stanley S. Smagala,Jr., Wendy L. Small, Catherine Smith, Daniel Laurence Smith, George Eric Smith, James Gregory Smith, Jeffrey R. Smith, Joyce Patricia Smith, Karl T. Smith, Keisha Smith, Kevin Joseph Smith, Leon Smith, Jr., Moira Ann Smith, Rosemary A. Smith, Bonnie Jeanne Smithwick, Rochelle Monique Snell, Leonard J. Snyder, Jr., Astrid Elizabeth Sohan, Sushil S. Solanki, Ruben Solares, Naomi Leah Solomon, Daniel W. Song, Michael Charles Sorresse, Fabian Soto, Timothy Patrick Soulas, Gregory Spagnoletti, Donald F. Spampinato, Jr., Thomas Sparacio, John Anthony Spataro, Robert W. Spear, Jr., Maynard S. Spence, Jr., George Edward Spencer III, Robert Andrew Spencer, Mary Rubina Sperando, Tina Spicer, Frank Spinelli, William E. Spitz, Joseph Spor, Jr., Klaus Johannes Sprockamp, Saranya Srinuan, Fitzroy St. Rose, Michael F. Stabile, Lawrence T. Stack, Timothy M. Stackpole, Richard James Stadelberger, Eric Stahlman, Gregory Stajk, Alexandru Liviu Stan, Corina Stan, Mary Domenica Stanley, Anthony Starita, Jeffrey Stark, Derek James Statkevicus, Craig William Staub, William V. Steckman, Eric Thomas Steen, William R. Steiner, Alexander Steinman, Andrew Stergiopoulos, Andrew Stern, Martha Stevens, Michael James Stewart, Richard H. Stewart, Jr., Sanford M. Stoller, Lonny Jay Stone, Jimmy Nevill Storey, Timothy Stout, Thomas Strada, James J. Straine, Jr., Edward W. Straub,George J. Strauch,Jr., Edward T. Strauss, Steven R. Strauss, Steven F. Strobert, Walwyn W. Stuart, Jr., Benjamin Suarez, David Scott Suarez, Ramon Suarez, Yoichi Sugiyama, William Christopher Sugra, Daniel Suhr, David Marc Sullins, Christopher P. Sullivan, Patrick Sullivan, Thomas Sullivan, Hilario Soriano Sumaya, Jr., James Joseph Suozzo, Colleen Supinski, Robert Sutcliffe, Seline Sutter, Claudia Suzette Sutton, John Francis Swaine, Kristine M. Swearson, Brian Edward Sweeney, Kenneth J. Swenson, Thomas Swift, Derek Ogilvie Sword, Kevin Thomas Szocik, Gina Sztejnberg, Norbert P. Szurkowski

Harry Taback, Joann Tabeek, Norma C. Taddei, Michael Taddonio, Keiichiro Takahashi, Keiji Takahashi, Phyllis Gail Talbot, Robert Talhami, Sean Patrick Tallon, Paul Talty, Maurita Tam, Rachel Tamares, Hector Tamayo, Michael Andrew Tamuccio, Kenichiro Tanaka, Rhondelle Cheri Tankard, Michael Anthony Tanner, Dennis Gerard Taormina, Jr., Kenneth Joseph Tarantino, Allan Tarasiewicz, Ronald Tartaro, Darryl Anthony Taylor, Donnie Brooks Taylor, Lorisa Ceylon Taylor, Michael Morgan Taylor, Paul A. Tegtmeier, Yeshauant Tembe, Anthony Tempesta, Dorothy Pearl Temple, Stanley Temple, David Tengelin, Brian John Terrenzi, Lisa M. Terry, Shell Tester, Goumatie T. Thackurdeen, Sumati Thakur, Harshad Sham Thatte, Thomas F. Theurkauf, Jr., Lesley Anne Thomas, Brian Thomas Thompson, Clive Thompson, Glenn Thompson, Nigel Bruce Thompson, Perry A. Thompson, Vanavah Alexei Thompson, William H. Thompson, Eric Raymond Thorpe, Nichola Angela Thorpe, Sal Edward Tieri, Jr., John P. Tierney, Mary Ellen Tiesi, William R. Tieste, Kenneth Francis Tietjen, Stephen Edward Tighe, Scott Charles Timmes, Michael E. Tinley, Jennifer M. Tino, Robert Frank Tipaldi, John James Tipping II, David Tirado, Hector Luis Tirado, Jr., Michelle Lee Titolo, John J. Tobin, Richard Todisco, Vladimir Tomasevic, Stephen Kevin Tompsett, Thomas Tong, Doris Torres, Luis Eduardo Torres, Amy Elizabeth Toyen, Christopher Michael Traina, Daniel Patrick Trant, Abdoul Karim Traore, Glenn J. Travers, Walter Philip Travers, Felicia Y. Traylor-Bass, Lisa L. Trerotola, Karamo Trerra, Michael Angel Trinidad, Francis Joseph Trombino, Gregory James Trost, William P. Tselepis, Zhanetta Valentinovna Tsoy, Michael Tucker, Lance Richard Tumulty, Ching Ping Tung, Simon James Turner, Donald Joseph Tuzio, Robert T. Twomey, Jennifer Tzemis

John G. Ueltzhoeffer, Tyler V. Ugolyn, Michael A. Uliano, Jonathan J. Uman, Anil Shivhari Umarkar, Allen V. Upton, Diane Marie Urban

John Damien Vaccacio, Bradley Hodges Vadas, Renuta Vaidea, William Valcarcel, Felix Antonio Vale, Ivan Vale, Benito Valentin, Santos Valentin, Jr., Carlton Francis Valvo II, Erica H. Van Acker, Kenneth W. Van Auken, Richard B. Van Hine, Daniel M. Van Laere, Edward Raymond Vanacore, Jon C. Vandevander, Barrett Vanvelzer, Edward Vanvelzer, Paul Herman Vanvelzer, Frederick Thomas Varacchi, Gopalakrishnan Varadhan, David Vargas, Scott C. Vasel, Azael Ismael Vasquez, Arcangel Vazquez, Santos Vazquez, Peter Anthony Vega, Sankara S. Velamuri, Jorge Velazquez, Lawrence G. Veling, Anthony Mark Ventura, David Vera, Loretta Ann Vero, Christopher James Vialonga, Matthew Gilbert Vianna, Robert Anthony Vicario, Celeste Torres Victoria, Joanna Vidal, John T. Vigiano II, Joseph Vincent Vigiano, Frank J. Vignola, Jr., Joseph Barry Vilardo, Sergio Villanueva, Chantal Vincelli, Melissa Vincent, Francine Ann Virgilio, Lawrence Virgilio, Joseph Gerard Visciano, Joshua S. Vitale, Maria Percoco Vola, Lynette D. Vosges, Garo H. Voskerijian, Alfred Vukosa

Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler, Gabriela Waisman, Courtney Wainsworth , Walcott, Victor Wald, Benjamin James Walker, Glen Wall, Mitchel Scott Wallace, Peter Guyder Wallace, Robert Francis Wallace, Roy Michael Wallace, Jeanmarie Wallendorf, Matthew Blake Wallens, John Wallice, Jr., Barbara P. Walsh, James Henry Walsh, Jeffrey P. Walz, Ching Wang, Weibin Wang, Michael Warchola, Stephen Gordon Ward, James Arthur Waring, Brian G. Warner, Derrick Washington, Charles Waters, James Thomas Waters, Jr., Patrick J. Waters, Kenneth Thomas Watson, Michael Henry Waye, Todd Christopher Weaver, Walter Edward Weaver, Nathaniel Webb, Dinah Webster, Joanne Flora Weil, Michael T. Weinberg, Steven Weinberg, Scott Jeffrey Weingard, Steven George Weinstein, Simon Weiser, David M. Weiss, David Thomas Weiss, Vincent Michael Wells, Timothy Matthew Welty, Christian Hans Rudolf Wemmers, Ssu-Hui Wen, Oleh D. Wengerchuk, Peter M. West, Whitfield West, Jr., Meredith Lynn Whalen, Eugene Whelan, Adam S. White, Edward James White III, James Patrick White, John Sylvester White, Kenneth Wilburn White, Jr., Leonard Anthony White, Malissa Y. White, Wayne White, Leanne Marie Whiteside, Mark P. Whitford, Michael T. Wholey, Mary Catherine Wieman, Jeffrey David Wiener, Wilham J. Wik, Alison Marie Wildman, Glenn E. Wilkenson, John C. Willett, Brian Patrick Williams, Crossley Richard Williams, Jr., David J. Williams, Deborah Lynn Williams, Kevin Michael Williams, Louie Anthony Williams, Louis Calvin Williams III, John P. Williamson, Donna Ann Wilson, William Wilson, David Harold Winton, Glenn J. Winuk, Thomas Francis Wise, Alan L. Wisniewski, Frank Thomas Wisniewski, David Wiswall, Sigrid Wiswe, Michael Wittenstein, Christopher W. Wodenshek, Martin P. Wohlforth, Katherine Susan Wolf, Jennifer Yen Wong, Siu Cheung Wong, Yin Ping Wong, Yuk Ping Wong, Brent James Woodall, James John Woods, Patrick J. Woods, Richard Herron Woodwell, David Terence Wooley, John Bentley Works, Martin Michael Wortley, Rodney James Wotton, William Wren, John Wayne Wright, Neil Robin Wright, Sandra Lee Wright

Jupiter Yambem, Suresh Yanamadala, Matthew David Yarnell, Myrna Yaskulka, Shakila Yasmin, Olabisi Shadie Layeni Yee, William Yemele, Edward P. York, Kevin Patrick York, Raymond R. York, Suzanne Youmans, Barrington Young, Jacqueline Young, Elkin Yuen

Joseph C. Zaccoli, Adel Agayby Zakhary, Arkady Zaltsman, Edwin J. Zambrana, Jr., Robert Alan Zampieri, Mark Zangrilli, Ira Zaslow, Kenneth Albert Zelman, Abraham J. Zelmanowitz, Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl, Zhe Zeng, Marc Scott Zeplin, Jie Yao Justin Zhao, Ivelin Ziminski, Michael Joseph Zinzi, Charles A. Zion, Julie Lynne Zipper, Salvatore Zisa, Prokopios Paul Zois, Joseph J. Zuccala, Andrew S. Zucker, Igor Zukelman

American Airlines Flight 11
Anna Allison, David Lawrence Angell, Lynn Edwards Angell, Seima Aoyama, Barbara Jean Arestegui, Myra Joy AronsonChristine Barbuto, Carolyn Beug, Kelly Ann Booms, Carol Marie Bouchard, Robin Lynne Kaplan, Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, Jeffrey Dwayne Collman, Jeffrey W. Coombs, Tara Kathleen Creamer, Thelma Cuccinello, Patrick Currivan, Brian Paul Dale, David Dimeglio, Donald Americo Ditullio, Alberto Dominguez, Paige Marie Farley-Hackel, Alexander Milan Filipov, Carol Ann Flyzik, Paul J. Friedman, Karleton D.B. Fyfe, Peter Alan Gay, Linda M. George, Edmund Glazer, Lisa Reinhart  Gordenstein, Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green, Peter Paul Hashem, Robert Jay Hayes, Edward R. Hennessy, Jr., John A. Hofer, Cora Hidalgo Holland, John Nicholas Humber, Jr., Waleed Joseph Iskandar, John Charles Jenkins, Charles Edward Jones, Barbara A. Keating, David P. Kovalcin, Judith Camilla Larocque, Natalie Janis Lasden, Daniel John Lee, Daniel M. Lewin, Sara Elizabeth Low, Susan A. Mackay, Karen Ann Martin, Thomas F. McGuinness,Jr., Christopher D. Mello, Jeffrey Peter Mladenik, Carlos Alberto Montoya, Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, Laura Lee Morabito, Mildred Naiman, Laurie Ann Neira, Renee Lucille Newell, Kathleen Ann Nicosia, Jacqueline June Norton, Robert Grant Norton, John Ogonowski, Betty Ann Ong, Jane M. Orth, Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli, Berinthia B. Perkins, Sonia M. Puopolo, David E. Retik, Jean Destrehan Roger, Philip Martin Rosenzweig, Richard Barry Ross, Jessica Leigh Sachs, Rahma Salie, Heather Lee Smith, Dianne Bullis Snyder, Douglas Joel Stone, Xavier Suarez, Madeline Amy Sweeney, Michael Theodoridis, James Anthony Trentini, Mary Barbara Trentini, Pendyala Vamsikrishna, Mary Alice Wahlstrom, Kenneth Waldie, John Joseph Wenckus, Candace Lee Williams, Christopher Rudolph Zarba, Jr.

List of Victims on United Airlines Flight 175

Alona Abraham , Garnet Edward Bailey, Mark Lawrence Bavis, Graham Andrew Berkeley, Touri Bolourchi, Klaus Bothe, Daniel Raymond Brandhorst, David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst, John Brett Cahill, Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen, John J. Corcoran III, Dorothy Alma de Araujo, Ana Gloria Pocasangre Debarrera, Robert John Fangman, Lisa Anne Frost, Ronald Gamboa, Lynn Catherine Goodchild, Peter M. Goodrich, Douglas Alan Gowell, Francis Edward Grogan, Carl Max Hammond, Jr., Christine Lee Hanson, Peter Burton Hanson, Susan Kim Hanson, Gerald Francis Hardacre, Eric Hartono, James Edward Hayden, Herbert Wilson Homer, Michael Robert Horrocks, Robert Adrien Jalbert, Amy N. Jarret, Ralph Kershaw, Heinrich Kimmig, Amy R. King, Brian Kinney, Kathryn L. LaBorie, Robert G. Leblanc Maclovio Lopez, Jr., Marianne Macfarlane, Alfred Gilles Marchand, Louis Mariani, Juliana McCourt, Ruth Magdaline McCourt, Wolfgang Peter Menzel, Shawn M. Nassaney,
Marie Pappalardo, Patrick J. Quigley IV, Frederick Charles Rimmele III, James Roux, Jesus Sanchez, Victor J. Saracini, Mary Kathleen Shearer, Robert M. Shearer, Jane Louise Simpkin, Brian David Sweeney, Michael C. Tarrou, Alicia N. Titus, Timothy Ray Ward, William Michael Weems

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Victims at the Pentagon
Note: USA - United Stated Army; USN - United States Navy

SPC Craig S. Amundson, USA

YN3 Melissa Rose Barnes, USN, MSG Max J. Beilke, Retired, IT2 Kris Romeo Bishundat, USN Carrie R. Blagburn, COL Canfield D. Boone, ARNG, Donna M. Bowen, Allen P. Boyle, ET3 Christopher L. Burford, USN

ET3 Daniel M. Caballero, USN, SFC Jose O. Calderon-Olmedo, USA,Angelene C. Carter, Sharon A. Carver, SFC John J. Chada, USA, Retired,Rosa Maria Chapa, Julian T. Cooper, LCDR Eric A. Cranford, USN

Ada M. Davis, CAPT Gerald F. DeConto, USN, LTC Jerry D. Dickerson, USA,IT1 Johnnie Doctor, Jr., USN, CAPT Robert E. Dolan, Jr., USN, CDR William H. Donovan, USN, CDR Patrick Dunn, USN

AG1 Edward T. Earhart, USN, LCDR Robert R. Elseth, USNR, SK3 Jamie L. Fallon, USN, Amelia V. Fields, Gerald P. Fisher, AG2 Matthew M. Flocco, USN, Sandra N. Foster

CAPT Lawrence D. Getzfred, USN, Cortez Ghee, Brenda C. Gibson, COL Ronald F. Golinski, USA, Retired

Diane Hale-McKinzy, Carolyn B. Halmon, Sheila M.S. Hein, ET1 Ronald J. Hemenway, USN, MAJ Wallace Cole Hogan, Jr., USA, SSG Jimmie I. Holley, USA, Retired, Angela M. Houtz, Brady Kay Howell, Peggie M. Hurt, LTC Stephen N. Hyland, Jr., USA, Lt Col Robert J. Hymel, USAF, Retired

SGM Lacey B. Ivory, USA

LTC Dennis M. Johnson, USA, Judith L. Jones

Brenda Kegler

LT Michael S. Lamana, USN, David W. Laychak, Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen, MAJ Stephen V. Long, USA, James T. Lynch, Jr., Terence M. Lynch,OS2 Nehamon Lyons IV, USN

Shelley A. Marshall, Teresa M. Martin, Ada L. Mason-Acker, LTC Dean E. Mattson, USA, LTG Timothy J. Maude, USA, Robert J. Maxwell, Molly L. McKenzie, Patricia E. Mickley, MAJ Ronald D. Milam, USA, Gerard P. Moran, Jr., Odessa V. Morris, ET1 Brian A. Moss, USN, Teddington H. Moy,LCDR Patrick J. Murphy, USNR

Khang Ngoc Nguyen, DM2 Michael A. Noeth, USN, 

Ruben S. Ornedo

Diana B. Padro, LT Jonas M. Panik, USNR, MAJ Clifford L. Patterson, Jr., USA, LT Darin H. Pontell, USNR, Scott Powell, CAPT Jack D. Punches, USN, Retired, AW1 Joseph J. Pycior, Jr., USN

Deborah A. Ramsaur, Rhonda Sue Rasmussen , IT1 Marsha D. Ratchford, USN, Martha M. Reszke, Cecelia E. (Lawson) Richard, Edward V. Rowenhorst, Judy Rowlett, SGM Robert E. Russell, USA, Retired, CW4 William R. Ruth, ARNG

Charles E. Sabin, Sr., Marjorie C. Salamone, COL David M. Scales, USA,CDR Robert A. Schlegel, USN, Janice M. Scott, LTC Michael L. Selves, USA, Retired, Marian H. Serva, CDR Dan F. Shanower, USN, Antionette M. Sherman, Diane M. Simmons, Cheryle D. Sincock, ITC Gregg H. Smallwood, USN, LTC Gary F. Smith, USA, Retired, Patricia J. Statz, Edna L. Stephens,SGM Larry L. Strickland, USA

LTC Kip P. Taylor, USA, Sandra C. Taylor, LTC Karl W. Teepe, USA, Retired, SGT Tamara C. Thurman, USA, LCDR Otis V. Tolbert, USN, SSG Willie Q. Troy, USA, Retired

LCDR Ronald J. Vauk, USNR

LTC Karen J. Wagner, USA, Meta L. (Fuller) Waller, SPC Chin Sun Pak Wells, USA, SSG Maudlyn A. White, USA, Sandra L. White, Ernest M. Willcher, LCDR David L. Williams, USN, MAJ Dwayne Williams, USA, RMC Marvin Roger Woods, USN, Retired

IT2 Kevin W. Yokum, USN, ITC Donald M. Young, USN, Edmond G. Young, Jr., Lisa L. Young

Victims on American Airlines Flight 77

Paul W. Ambrose

Yeneneh Betru, Mary Jane Booth, Bernard C. Brown, II, CAPT Charles F. Burlingame III, USNR, Retired

Suzanne M. Calley, William E. Caswell, David M. Charlebois, Sarah M. Clark, Asia S. Cottom

James D. Debeuneure, Rodney Dickens, Eddie A. Dillard, LCDR Charles A. Droz III, USN, Retired

Barbara G. Edwards

Charles S. Falkenberg, Dana Falkenberg, Zoe Falkenberg, J. Joseph Ferguson, Darlene E. Flagg, RADM Wilson F. Flagg, USNR, Retired

1stLt Richard P. Gabriel, USMC, Retired, Ian J. Gray

Stanley R. Hall, Michele M. Heidenberger

Bryan C. Jack, Steven D. Jacoby, Ann C. Judge

Chandler R. Keller, Yvonne E. Kennedy, Norma Cruz Khan, Karen Ann Kincaid

Dong Chul Lee, Jennifer Lewis, Kenneth E. Lewis

Renee A. May, Dora Marie Menchaca

Christopher C. Newton

Barbara K. Olson, Ruben S. Ornedo

Robert Penninger, Robert R. Ploger III, Zandra F. Ploger 

Lisa J. Raines, Todd H. Reuben

John P. Sammartino, George W. Simmons, Donald D. Simmons, Mari-Rae Sopper, Robert Speisman, Norma Lang Steuerle

Hilda E. Taylor, Leonard E. Taylor, Sandra D. Teague

Leslie A. Whittington

CAPT John D. Yamnicky, Sr., USN, Retired, Vicki Yancey, Shuyin Yang

Yuguag Zheng

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Christian Adams

Lorraine G. Bay, Todd Beamer, Alan Beaven, Mark K. Bingham, Deora Frances Bodley, Sandra W. Bradshaw, Marion Britton, Thomas E. Burnett Jr.

William Cashman, Georgine Rose Corrigan, Patricia Cushing

Jason Dahl, Joseph Deluca, Patrick Driscoll

Edward Porter Felt, Jane C. Folger, Colleen Fraser

Andrew Garcia, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Wanda A. Green, Donald F. Greene, Linda Gronlund, Richard Guadagno

Toshiya Kuge

CeeCee Lyles

Hilda Marcin, Waleska Martinez , Nicole Miller

Louis J. Nacke II

Donald Arthur Peterson, Jean Hoadley Peterson

Mark Rothenberg

Christine Snyder

John Talignani

Honor Elizabeth Wainio, Deborah Ann Jacobs Welsh, Kristin Gould White

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Howard Stern, eulogizing Joan Rivers at her memorial service last Sunday: "Joan Rivers had a dry pussy ... Joan's pussy was so dry it was like a sponge -- so that when she got in the bathtub -- whooooosh -- all the water would get absorbed in there! Joan said that if Whitney Houston had as dry a pussy as Joan's, she would still be alive today..." I imagine Joan would have had it not other way.

Benedict Cumberbatch, on ex-gay therapy [Cumberbatch will be playing gay icon Alan Turing in an upcoming film]: "It's still going on in North America with the Christian far right! There are courses and doctors and meds handed out to 'cure' people of their homosexuality, and it's shocking that it still goes on. It's also shocking that any time there's any kind of hardship, the minorities are immediately scapegoated – and that includes homosexuals in Russia … " I’ve always said that as we get closer to equality for LGBT citizens of the world, things will get uglier for us, and this is just another example, that folks think they can turn a gay man straight. Ain’t happening, and anyone who says it is, is fooling themselves.

Chris Kluwe, on the NFL, Ray Rice and that tape: "Of course, I believe, the NFL, and by extension, Roger Goodell, watched that video. The tape never lies; that’s the mantra of the League, at every level. The NFL employs many people, who are very good at their jobs, to make sure they have access to that information, to get that tape, and the truly chilling part of all of this, is that the people in charge, almost exclusively men, saw that video and made a conscious decision to do nothing about it until their hand was forced by public opinion." It’s another example of corporate greed; trying to downplay the beating so that it doesn’t affect “the game.” And by “the game” I mean the money.

Margaret Cho, on Joan's funeral: "We all wept – like professional mourners. We should have gotten paid! Tears fell as we listened to the dulcet tones of the Gay Men’s Chorus with their rendition of “Hey Big Spender”. It was bittersweet and perfect. It is still hard for me to see women comics sad, no matter how many adorable men are singing in harmony. I can’t take it – that is too terrible – and all the funny people, not only us, the female comics who marched so faithfully to the tune of Joan’s stiletto footfalls, but all her friends and family and mighty legions of producers and writers who helped her create the industry that was Joan Rivers – none of us could stop crying. ... In the morose silence Howard Stern said, ‘Joan Rivers had a dry pussy.’ At first, the words just hung there, as no one knew exactly what to do. Of course I started laughing hysterically, and everyone else, remembering who we were there to honor, followed suit. ... It was so wrong but so right at the same time. So Joan. So great. RIP my friend." Cho also called Joan her own personal Kim Jong Il, a tiny little dictator of comedy. But her stilettos will leave a mark that won’t ever go away because every female comic, every shock comic, every comic who struggled, has benefited from Joan Rivers.

Nicki Minaj, on her VMA’s “wardrobe malfunction”: “I had I don’t know about 40-50 seconds to change from the “Anaconda” outfit into the “Bang Bang” outfit. Originally I was just going to have a skirt that just wrapped around the green but then I realized that Jessie [J] and Ariana [Grande] were wearing black and white I didn’t want ruin the shot with me wearing a green bra and them wearing black and white. I was like I have to put on a black dress really quickly and sure enough we didn’t have a real quick-change right there. So it was literally my whole team just standing there holding curtains around me and it was pitch black. I couldn’t see anything and right before it was time for me to walk out they went to zip it up… And right there I thought I died. I didn’t have any underwear on. No underwear. No bra, because I had just taken off the Anaconda outfit. So I was butt ass naked…I don’t know.” Oh honey, you know. You did this same bit in rehearsal, too, coming out half-naked. If you couldn’t make the change during the practice run, you knew you couldn’t do it during the show. Plus, it was a sly, not so subtle way, to upstage Jesse and Ariana. Quit tripping that it was just an accident.

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Dan Stevens. A British actor, he was Matthew on Downton Abbey and he was so dreamy. But then Dan wanted to try something new and, as happens on soap operas on either side of the pond, his character was killed off ... right after Lady Mary gave birth to their child. Dan can be seen in the upcoming The Guest where he plays a soldier who introduces himself to a family as the friend of their son who dies in action. But, yeah, that's not true and all kinds of crazy happens afterwards. But we aren't here for that, we're here to ask a question ... Would.You.Hit.It? Yes or No.

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So, it looks like we’ve come to the non-evening gown part of the season, thankfully, because now is the time for something new; real new. As we start the show — forgetting about everyone bemoaning the loss of forgettable Samantha from last week — Heidi and Tim appear on the catwalk alongside the Samsung Curved Ultra HD TV and inform the designers that this will be the avant-garde challenge. Take the TV apart and make a dress on which you can watch your favorite show? No …because: Avant-garde - noun, 1. new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them; 2. favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas The designtestants must create an avant-garde look as “innovative” as the TV and one that wows the judges from every angle. In addition to the curvy wow factor — and here comes the real new part — is the addition of water as this week’s show takes place not on a runway, but a rainway! I see slipping sliding models … could be fun! The designtestants have a $300 budget and two days to complete the task so let’s rip ….

THE SAFES

ALEXANDER  Let’s face it; it’s a poncho, a see-thru vinyl poncho with some pretty purple vinyl flowers on it. Meh. AMANDA  Talk about a stretch of an idea: Cleopatra watching the Nile flood her beloved Egypt and her eye makeup runs. And that ridiculousness translated into a dress made of eyes … that started to fall off in the rain. It was cringe-worthy. CHAR I liked the hat. The rest? Not so much.

THE TOP TWO

SEAN Gosh, he’s just so adorable and then, to top that off, he really, really, thinks outside the rain bonnet. He wants to make a dress with dye in the seams that, when it gets wet, it will change colors. Very cool; very Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games. Very daring. Tim, like the other designers, and most of the TV audience, is dubious that the idea will work, especially when Sean doesn’t even try it out first. But then, what was he supposed to do, run out onto 5th Avenue, hoping it’s raining, with a mock-up dress lined with dye? This could be bad. WHAT HE SAID She immediately begins to change color when she spins. Wow. WHAT I SAID What could you say? I replayed this catwalk several times, and each time marveling at the way the colors began to run. Gorgeous. Wow. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi loved it. She said it was like the dress came alive on the rainway, and called it a unique, special moment. Guest Judge Caitlin Fitzgerald called it an exciting fairy tale and would have loved to wear it during a summer rain.  The Adorable Zac Posen™ said he thought it was bland at first — it was, after all, just a pretty white dress — and said the colors running could have been a gimmick, but that the risk totally paid off. He called it exceptional.  Nina Garcia said the dress took her breath away; she loves the way Sean thinks, and how he thought about using the rain tin his design; she called the whole thing a “performance” and loved the vinyl crinoline under the dress that kept the dyes off the model’s skin. WHAT HAPPENED While Heidi and Caitlin think Kini should take the top, Nina and The Adorable Zac Posen™ think Sean should win.  And so, on a roll after a few bad weeks, Sean once again takes Top Honors … with a caveat named Kini. KINI I like Kini, but I’m getting tired of his I should win attitude. I mean, sure, you want to win, but he thinks every week he should win, even when he’s a Bottom Skimmer like last week. So, yeah, this week he steps it up and decides to create an upside-down umbrella skirt; he shows a wild, wide hat in his design, as well. Tim, while loving the concept, steers Kini away from a gimmicky embellishment idea about the handle of the umbrella running up the model’s back; good work, Mr. Gunn. WHAT HE SAID I feel like my design really steps out of the box. I feel like I took it to the next level. WHAT I SAID It’s like the Wicked Witch of the West in a New Oz. It’s kind of fetish-looking, but cool. I wished, though, that he’d used his original idea for the hat. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi called it avant-garde, and a clever idea; and she was amazed by the sleeve-gloves. Caitlin said it was dominatrix-esque, but could also be a great Red Carpet look if it was toned down a bit; she also, thought the hat seemed more like an accident. The Adorable Zac Posen™ called it a Smurf hat but also just gushed about the look … You are so talented. You have such a skillful hand. You have great technique. It's a combination of Michelle Harper, a little McQueen in there -- it was so impactful when it came out … You brought it today. Big time. Settle, Zac, settle.  Nina called the look both sublime and dramatic, and said Kini also used the rain well; she liked the hat, especially since it kept the rain off the model’s face—Nina doesn’t want a model to drown on the catwalk unless she makes it happen! WHAT HAPPENED Kini finally got his win, even though he shared it with Sean.

THE TOP MEH

SANDHYA  She wants a dress based on the old TV color test pattern, so she buys bright fabrics, makes strips of them, and then sews them together to make a striped jumpsuit. On top of that she puts a clear vinyl coat-vest-poncho covered with silver pinwheels of varying sizes that will, hopefully, spin in the rain. Lastly, she dangles some shiny pieces along the bottom. Can you say It’s a bit much? Tim worries that it is, and Sandhya just smiles and carries on. I don’t think she ever really listens to critiques and that can be a good thing ... because then the look is all in her own voice ... or a bad thing ... because then the look is all in her own voice. WHAT SHE SAID It’s a little brighter than I thought it would be and the pinwheels are not moving as much. WHAT I SAID It’s a costume. A clown costume. I do like the front of the coat-vest-poncho … just the front, and just the top half. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi said it was happy and fun and totally Sandhya — to which Sandhya responded that she only wants to show her style, her brand. The Adorable Zac Posen™ likes that she has a strong signature style — but is that good or bad, Zac?  Caitlin wished the jumpsuit had been better constructed but she loved the texture of the pinwheels, though not the “dangly bits.” Nina liked it, but also called it Children Circus and wished that Sandhya would heed the advice of Coco Chanel and, before letting it loose on the runway, take at least one thing off. WHAT HAPPENED She’s just safe, and only because she definitely has her own POV. Weird as that may be.

THE LUCKY SHE HAS IMMUNITY

KORINA She’s riding high after last week’s well-deserved win, and has a grand idea of creating a look inspired by the Thunderbird character: a mythical creature whose wings were so large, they clapped like thunder when the bird flew. It’s a great idea, and right in her Native American wheelhouse, but then … she second guesses the look, probably because it’s a two day challenge, and scales it back dramatically; and badly. WHAT SHE SAID The lights bring out all the brightness in the vinyl and the silver and gold are popping. WHAT I SAID It’s an LBD [Little Black Dress] with a silver harness and grasshopper wings. #epicfail WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Heidi is not impressed, calling the LBD just a random choice, and calling the top flimsy. Caitlin wondered if it would have been better to use actual metal, and rivets, rather than the vinyl; it would look stronger, she said As it stands, it’s just a Halloween costume.  Nina said it had the potential to be great but it’s unfinished and the bottom half looks like some fabric is missing. The Adorable Zac Posen™ summed it up with this: You’re lucky you have immunity. WHAT HAPPENED She dodged a bullet; an actual bullet, I think, because this was a mess.

THE BOTTOM TWO

EMILY  She begins thinking of armor to protect the girl from the rain, but then she switches to cat-suit armor, and ends up with bustier armor and a skull cap with a pony tail sticking through it. Seriously. Tim worried that it mike look a little too R2D2 … 2 R2D2? … or fetish-y, though he had no such complaints about Kini’s much more fetish-y look. WHAT SHE SAID You can really see a lot of … like … curves and cool shapes. It’s clear and it’s really well-made. WHAT I SAID It’s Madonna on the Like A Virgin Tour. It looks like a bustier wearing, armored bug … or Madonna. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID :::crickets:::  Finally Heidi tosses it to The Adorable Zac Posen™ who says it isn’t successful; it’s a cliché of a fashion show; it’s not well-sculpted; it’s flimsy. Then he handed it off to Caitlin who loved the way the rain played on the shoulder pads, but thought the wide open boob cups looked water catchers; she added that the whole look didn’t seem cohesive and had far too many ideas, like the gloves!  Nina said it looked modern, if this was 2004 … or 1984 Madonna? She also called it cliché and predictable. We ended back at Heidi who offered this high praise: I didn’t hate it as much as the others. WHAT HAPPENED A close call, but Emily gets saved to make another outdated look next week. FADE He gets the Cry Edit this week; the I’m Lonely Edit; and the I Don’t Know What To Do Edit. So, it was fairly clear what was about to happen. Fade struggles to come up with an unexpected avant-garde design, but nothing's working; he says avant-garde doesn’t have to be loud or big or crazy, but Tim reminds him that it does have to be good and well-executed. But what needed executing was his dress. He riffed off the Samsung and put an actual Play Button on the model’s chest and then ran yellow stripes down and around like a circuit board. And then he got the cringe-inducing call home where he was crying so much he could hardly speak, and ended the call saying he’d be home soon. He knew what was about to happen. WHAT HE SAID My look holds up well under the water. I am proud of it. WHAT I SAID WTF is this? It’s like a t-shirt dress you can buy on a beach boardwalk and then, when you get home, throw away because it wasn’t worth $19.95. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Nina pointed out that the Play Button wasn’t modern or techie, and called the look a pajama; like she calls pants a ‘pant,’ she calls pajamas a ‘pajama’. She also thought it was too gimmicky.  Heidi said it wasn’t a strong look, and agreed with Fade that avant-garde doesn’t need to be loud, but should be better constructed; she said the circuit board looked like a subway map, called it a snooze and hated the silhouette.  Caitlin liked the graphic nature of the look but said it didn’t jibe with the rain motif at all. The Adorable Zac Posen™ said it was neither electric nor new. WHAT HAPPENED Fade out. See what I did there?

MY TAKE

I loved this challenge because it really separated the great designers — Sean and Kini — from the crap designers — Korina and Fade; and it proved that Amanda has no reason to be there. And I loved that they tried something new, with the rainway; next up: The Jell-O-way? The Spaghetti-way? Speaking of Amanda, I get so tired of her saying every single mother%ing week that each look is Very me. Um, it’s supposed to be that way so you don’t get extra points. Plus, you aren’t creative, you just speak creatively … make that egotistically. Alexander keeps getting voted the Fan Favorite and I keep wondering why. His designs aren’t really that great — though he does, occasionally have a good idea. And, Alexander? Close your mouth. That gaping maw annoys me and makes me wonder if you suffer from PDS … Puff Daddy Syndrome, AKA P Diddy Syndrome, AKA close your mouth. Sean took a huge risk this week and I cannot think of the last time I was truly wowed watching the runway. Sure it was a gimmick, but it totally rocked the challenge. Plus I loved the idea that it first looked like a pretty [boring] white dress and then BAM!! Apparently this episode sets up the next round of Sandhya hate. The show played out the other designers hating on her, after many were accused of being too McQueen … not Steve, but Alexander … and she said she never, ever references other designers because she has her own voice. And she does, and she said so on the runway before the backstage drama began But, we get next week of Sandhya crying into her pillow begging for compassion so … yeah ...the Hatefest begins again. That said, I'm now thinking Sean and Kini at The Tents, with Sandhya, too, because she'd put on a show. The Adorable Zac Posen™’s ‘fake’ fight with Heidi was the gayest thing ever. I didn’t know if he was pretending to punch her or ask her to a dance-off. I’d never heard of Caitlin Fitzgerald, and I am a Proud Gay Man™ but, damn, she was hot in that Jessica-Lange-Could-Be-Crazy kinda way. Plus, her critiques were good and snarky and, yes, spot on. What did YOU think?

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Oh, this is effing rich. The Palin clan, including Mama Grizzly Bore™ herself, was ALLEGEDLY involved in a huge verbal and physical fight when they all got drunk at a friend’s house over the weekend. Fists flew, lips bloodied, and the MGB™ was ALLEGEDLY heard shrieking, “Don’t you know who I am?” at the people telling her to calm the eff down! Here’s the gist: The Palins were at a party when Track Palin — the eldest son of Mammy and Pappy Palin, and ALLEGEDLY raging drunk, got in the face of some random guy who used to date one of his sisters … the Facebook homophobe Willow Palin. It got hot, then another sister, Trick Palin … I kid, it was Blister … still kidding it was Bristol … began throwing punches because she’s a lady and a mother and all kinds of class. Soon, the entire Palin Klan was involved in the brawl. That’s when MGB™ played the Reese Witherspoon, Don’t-you-know-who-I-am card and someone in the crowd ALLEGEDLY shouted back “This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!” Oh, but it is, because you see, had things gone differently back in ’08, and had the MGB™ become the Veep, and had Gramps McCain dropped dead, then the Plain’s would have been living in the White House. And turning it into the White Trash House. UPDATE: The MGB™ high-lariously claimed on her Facebook page that she had been traveling on Saturday, and she made no mention of her brawling drunken children. But, one person who claimed to be a witness to The Thrilla from Wasilla said, on that post, that MGB™’s traveling claim was a load of moose manure: “Interesting. Pretty sure you were not traveling and you and family were on the Southside causing chaos. Saw it happen. Don’t fib.” Mama Grizzly Bore™? Lie? Uh huh..

Oh for the love of the Baby Jeebus ... Lindsay Lohan is getting sued again, and now she's taking her younger brother, the sadly named Michael Lohan Jr., down with her. On the heels of being released from Rehab #7 last year, and just before heading into Rehab #8, AKA the Oprah Cure, the two Lohans started working with techie Fima Potik on an app called Spotted Friend, which would basically allow people to poke around Lohan’s closet and see what she wears … or where she hides her drugs … something.  Lindsay even began promoting the app on Twitter last Spring, after being sprung from Oprah-hab, but then, like steps 2 through 12 of her Twelve Step Program, she quickly lost interest and began focusing on something shiny ... possibly an airplane bottle of Ketel One in a gutter somewhere. So, Michael Jr. decided to try his hand at the app game one more time and launched a virtual shopping app called Vigme; he described it as a “social shopping community” where people can look in his sister’s virtual closet — my eyes — and and buy the kinds of high end hooker things Lindsay sports around town and under bars. But, um, Fima Potik realized that Vigme is really just Spotted Friend with a new name and so a cease-and-desist letter was sent to Lindsay and Junior informing them to knock it off or else. And, of course, Lindsay responded to the cease-and-desist by getting her attorney, Mark Heller — the same guy she fired a couple of years ago because he couldn’t keep her out of jail — who said this: “Allegations of any impropriety in Lindsay Lohan’s business relationship concerning this Web site are inaccurate and clearly designed to capitalize on her worldwide recognition as a fashion icon.” Okay, first off, it sounds like Junior came up with the new copycat app, and Lindsay had nothing to do with it, so she may be in the clear … this time. But, seriously. Her.Worldwide.Recognition.As.A.Fashion.Icon? Note to Lohan and her team of ambulance-chasers: leggings and side boob are not fashion. Check every street corner, look at every prostitute, and you'll see leggings and side boob.

How would we live without Paltrow? I mean, according to her favorite news source, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwyneth Paltrow is the best at everything. Every.Thing. I mean, her divorce is a sweet little conscious uncoupling; she’s the best friend ever and now, yes, friends, Gwyneth Paltrow is staking a claim as the best at … wait for it … making the bed. Seriously. Paltrow recently turned Goop.com a step-by-step tutorial called “Making The Perfect Bed” and, well, here it is: 1. Fitted sheet first, preferably out of a medium-heat dryer. Don’t let them sit or they’ll just become more wrinkled. Start with top corners and move down to the bottom, pressing out the wrinkles with your hands as you go. Try to buy fitted sheets where the elastic wraps around the whole base of the mattress, not just the corners. 2. Place the flat sheet on next, squaring it evenly to give yourself enough slack for whatever cuff size you prefer. (If you like a modern look, make a wider, 10″-16″ cuff on the turn-down fold. If you like a more traditional look, 6″-10″ is the perfect cuff width.) If you don’t want your sheets too tight, lay two to three pillows down the midline before placing the sheet. 3. Place whatever blanket you are going to use over the fitted sheet and square it. I like to tuck the end of the bed under first. It makes for a neater view when approaching the bed on entrance. Then, pull the sides taught and fold them under. Otherwise, if you fold the base last and have a thicker blanket it can create havoc for the sides. 4. For a duvet, place the cover on right out of the dryer and shake it out. Pull all four corners taut. If you want your down comforter to look fluffier, go down a size for the duvet cover, i.e., place a king duvet in a queen-sized cover. Wow. I mean, how have I been making beds all these years without The Paltrow Method? How has anyone been able to look at a freshly made bed and not want to tear it to shreds because it had gone horribly wrong? Thank you, Gwyneth, thank you. Next up, she’ll teach us how to wipe our asses …. On 3,000-thread count Egyptian cotton toilet paper.

So, after Matt Lauer pushed Ann Curry in front of a cross-town bus a couple of years ago so he could get his ALLEGED side-piece a gig on the Today Show, how does NBC handle him? NBC treats him to a helicopter ride to and from his home in the Hamptons to the Today show set up to three times a week because they’re afraid he’ll quit. I know! A source — and it might be Dina trying to score a gig as Kathie Lee Gifford’s permanent drunken replacement during The Fourth Hour — says that after Ann Curry’s messy departure in 2012, NBC was terrified that Darling Matt might take his man-whoring to another network so they basically handed him a blank check and some yellow legal pads upon which to write his demands. Like a $20 million a year paycheck and a helicopter to transport his ever-balding head into the office a few times each week even though he has an apartment in Manhattan that he could stay at. A rep for Today — hoping to keep the show from looking like Matt’s pimp — says: “On rare occasions, Matt will fly home, but most of the time you’ll find him stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway with everyone else.” Like everyone else, he sometimes takes the LIE, though when he’s not in the mood, they whisk him upstairs in the Matt Lauer Express Elevator™ to the Matt Lauer Helipad™ where he boards The Matt Lauer Helicopter™, piloted by Trixie Von Layme, and is flown home.

Taylor Swift loves to write songs about her life; she’s written about the boyfriend who dumped … I kid … the boyfriends who’ve dumped her; the kitten that scratched her; the hair ribbon that just wouldn’t stay tied. You know highly personal stuff.  And now she’s done it again with “Bad Blood” about a female singer that’s mean to her. Rumors swirled that it was Demi Lovato or Rihanna, but now it seems quite clear it’s Katy Perry. Of the backstabbing bitch, er, bad friend, Swifty told Rolling Stone: “For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ [Then last year] she did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.” True story: in 2012, Katy Perry hired a bunch of dancers away from Taylor Swift, so that’s the feud; that’s the horrible thing. Katy Perry saw some dancers and said, Hey, you wanna come dance for me and they did and then TayTay got her grannies panties twisted and suddenly it’s a song. And for her part, Katy Perry is now playing along, Tweeting this: ‘Watch out for the Regina George [from Mean Girls] in sheep’s clothing.’ Which implies that Tay’s the Mean Girl, eh? But, and this seems more plausible, maybe the feud isn’t over dancers, but over that singing STD, John Mayer, who schtupped dated both girls. TayTay and Mayer had a love affair in 2010 before he dumped her and she released the song “Dear John”.  In 2012, KayKay started dating Mayer, who said he was “really humiliated” by Swift’s song and that was when Perry started making digs at Taylor … until DancerGate. And that really seems to have put the nail in the coffin of these pop diva-lite’s friendship because one of the dancer’s, Lockhart Brownlie, confirms that it was Katy who tried to sabotage TayTay’s Red tour. Brownlie says he first toured with Perry on her Part of Me tour and when that gig ended he and two other dancers auditioned for the Red job: “I was with Taylor for the first six months. It was a great experience and she’s a great person to work with, but then Katy contacted us. … Obviously we were with Katy for 2 1/2 years, she’s like family to us, so we were, like, absolutely.” Hell hath no fury like an auto-tuned-pop-star-whose-dancers-are-stolen-away’s fury.

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Today, Carlos and I are off to Raleigh, North Carolina because we, and by we, I mean he — and a plus one, which would be me — have been invited to attend a cocktail party given by the Mexican Consulate in honor of Hispanic History Month. Though his job Carlos met, and worked with, several members of the consulate and helped get some of the undocumented immigrants in South Carolina started on the path to citizenship. And so, as sweet and as nice as I am, I have ordered Carlos to work the room tonight and secure himself a job with the Mexican Consulate … somewhere … anywhere. Europe, America, I don’t care. He asked what I might be doing if he was offered, and accepted, a job with the consulate, and I politely responded that I would play the part of consulate wife, and have lunches with other consulate wives and have an affair with our pool boy. Duh. Oh ... and I'll be back Wednesday.

We are now just a little more than a month from Carlos and me getting married. We're going to keep it simple, with a couple of witnesses — my father being one — and a courthouse wedding. But I think we'll have some sort of reception after we get back home to celebrate with friends. A new person started working with me this week, and was standing by my side when I was speaking to a friend of mine who was asking about the wedding. My friend and I talked about marriage and rings and all that jazz, and then this new co-worker chimed in that she was getting married, too, but that she wasn't a girly-girl so she wasn't into all the gowns and hoo-haw of a fancy wedding. She asked me, Is your fiancée a girly girl? I replied, Well, sometimes he is, and sometimes he isn't. Asked and answered I guess.

Also on the news of wedding and dame-sex marriage, The Will of the People Fund will be marching in SC Pride this weekend in Columbia, so Carlos and I have our walking shoes lined up. We'll also have a tent at the festival and will be raising money for the lawsuit filed by Katie Bradacs and her wife Tracie Goodwin-Bradacs to have South Carolina recognize their marriage.

And so, on that note, I'll once again remind you all that The Will of the People Fund was created by fifteen gay men and women — including Carlos and myself, and some of our closest, gayest friends — to raise money for the non-attorney costs of the Bradacs lawsuit. If you'd like to donate toward making South Carolina a marriage equality state, you can mail a tax-deductible donation, check payable to The Will of the People Fund, to: The Will of the People Fund P.O. Box 5006 Columbia, SC, 29250

And, on that note, a special thank you, and shout out to, The Dog's Mother, for the donation she and her husband, The Engineer,  sent, in Carlos' and my name, to the Will of the People Fund. A lovely surprise, a grand gesture, a great gift. ThankyouThankyouThankyou!