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desperately in love asks: "I was just on vacation in Mexico. There was this guy…but he's a complete stranger…that I'm desperately in love with. All I know is his first name and that he's from Canada. I'm in America. Help me, please." Back to Article
if u r lucky there is a 5% u will see him again.....but just find someone else
If he was a complete stranger, ur probably not in love with him, it just seems like it, soon u'll forget about him!
This sound's alot like the movie grease. Your never going to see him again and if you do you are really luck.
omg last week i went camping with my cousin it was his birthday and he brought his really really HOT friend and we started hanging out and he and stuff and he lives 3 hours away i miss him so much
DUDE! ur profile pic is the CUTEST thing i have EVERRR seeen!!! is that a rabbit??? or a baby guinea pig??? yeahhhh its a guinea pig isnt it??? i have guinea pigs and one of them looks just like that but bigger and not quite as cute..... i will upload a pic of her right now!!! check her out when you get the chance!!!
ewww i think long distance relationships are pointless.... you will never see him and you will never really get to know him 100% as well as you would in real life. and the biggest thing is: if he may be your first love... you will never be able to kiss him.
i had a crush and we talked alot at the entertainmeant bit at the resort but we were both england dooses
i never had a crush before but when me and my friend helena went to the fair we ran into our friend deandre and then we both sorta fell in love with him
I went to California with my Crush, He ended up being a Jerk >


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RockLove founder Allison Hourcade channels the Victorian era, the Gothic period, and rock music's most stylish subcultures to create her stunning jewelry. Handcrafted from precious metals and gemstones, RockLove's distinctive collections (Galaxy, Viking Hoard, Victorian, Chess, Nautical, and others) include tentacle-shaped earrings, axe blade pendant necklaces, woven cuff bracelets, skeleton key charms and unisex industrial bangles. Hourcade also incorporates untraditional materials such as vintage glass, Lucite and rubber into her work, which is eco-friendly and fair-trade. A favorite among Halle Berry, Vanessa Hudgens and many other celebs, RockLove has collaborated with author/film director/artist Clive Barker on Convergences, a limited-edition collection of jewelry inspired by Barker's designs.


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My girlfriend is accustomed to having exotic and obscure cars materialize in our driveway. But she doesn't know what to make of the tiny, impossibly low-slung kazoo-on-wheels that thunders to a stop in front of our house and improbably disgorges not one but two full-size human beings. "It looks," she says uncertainly, "like a toy."
Caterham Cars technical director Jez Coates thinks this over while stretching his limbs after two hours of slogging through rush-hour traffic. "Actually," he says, "it is."
The Caterham CSR260-the first of the new CSRs to arrive in the States-is a roadworthy plaything designed for the sole purpose of making even the most ham-fisted driver feel like two-time world champion driver Jimmy Clark. As such, it's the latest and greatest iteration of the bare-bones Lotus Seven conceived in 1957 by Clark's mentor, Colin Chapman. With 260 hp conveying a scant 1315 pounds, the CSR reportedly scats from 0 to 60 mph in a mere 3.1 seconds. And that, Coates tells me, handing me the keys, is where the fun begins.
With the spindly top laboriously unsnapped and stowed in the trunk, I climb-literally-into the confining cockpit with straight legs splayed on either side of the Momo steering wheel and lever myself carefully into the seat. Sighting down the long, louvered hood-painted in a rich French blue, with a headlight orb adorning each aluminum flank and otherwise open wheels dressed with cycle fenders-I find myself thinking that this is the modern British take on the classic Bugatti Type 35. Part thoroughbred racer, part sports car, and all engineering marvel, the Bugatti set the standard for dual-purpose design. How, I wonder, will the CSR260 measure up against that lofty yardstick?
I crank the ignition and whack the throttle, and the Cosworth-tuned engine-a 2.3-liter Ford Duratec in-line four-sends a full-throated bellow out the side pipe. "It's all warmed up, so you can give it the full chocolates," Coates tells me. I'm not sure what that means, but I suspect it's an invitation to dump the racing-style clutch and indulge my heretofore sublimated Nigel Mansell fantasies.
Although 200 lb-ft of torque may not sound like much, the Caterham has so little mass to accelerate that it goes from parked to hyperspace in a heartbeat. The engine pulls belligerently from 3000 rpm, enabling the car to scoot around town like an overgrown go-kart. At five grand, the engine note intensifies from a satisfying growl to a serious shriek. By the time I trip the rev limiter at 7800 rpm in second gear, I'm obliterating the speed limit. The top of third, meanwhile, puts me into go-directly-to-jail territory. In the interest of driver's license preservation, I point the nose north and head for Willow Springs International Raceway, billed as "The Fastest Road in the West."
During the '50s and '60s, Southern California was the epicenter of the American road-racing scene. Riverside International Raceway was the nation's first great purpose-built road course, and there were big-time races on temporary circuits in Palm Springs, Pomona, Santa Barbara, Torrey Pines, Del Mar, the parking lot of Dodger Stadium, and even Paramount Ranch, recognizable as the cinematic backdrop for countless Western movies. Back in those days, it wasn't uncommon for guys to drive cars such as the Lotus Seven to these tracks, race them for a weekend and-with any luck-drive them back home again.
"In those days, we raced the cars pretty much unmodified," says SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield, the last survivor of the four drivers who competed in the first race at Riverside in 1957 and the final one in 1988. "My first race was at Santa Barbara in a '57 Corvette, and it was completely stock except that I took off the windshield and bought a set of Firestone 170T race tires. As I recall, I ran against 300SL Mercedes-Benzes, XK120 Jags, Corvettes, and even a couple of T-Birds."


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Slate reading 'Olympic Games British victories in Berlin'. Various shots of men taking part in the men's 50km walk, then close up of official marking down results. Great Britain's Harold Whitlock walking, then various athletes taking on water. Whitlock takes the lead, Switzerland's Arthur Tell Schwab trying to catch him. Brief shot Whitlock entering the stadium, then spectators look on as he crosses the line to take the gold medal in an Olympic record time, with Schwab, unseen, taking silver.
Start of men's 1500 metres final, spectators watching on, and various shots of race. Nice close up of New Zealand's Jack Lovelock as he powers away from the field to take the gold medal. Close up Lovelock receiving his gold medal and laurel during medal ceremony, with USA's Glenn Cunningham taking the silver, and Italy's Luigi Beccali the bronze.


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Jax had phoned Tara to tell her he was safe. (I assume Bobby and Happy were there to protect her and the kids, but it was fun to see Happy playing with Abel.) I wonder if Jax broke the news about Opie to her then or will wait until he can tell everyone in-person… Tara had already had a crap day. She's back at the hospital, where Gemma found out Tara hadn't put her name down as someone who could visit the two boys at daycare. Gemma confronted Tara, who wouldn't budge. I'd actually side with Gemma here — assuming Tara could have specified that Gemma can see the boys but not sign them out. So it'd be like supervised visitation. Still, I think Gemma going to see Wendy and telling her that Tara is self-medicating with Oxy because of her hand and Jax's murder charge was a bit drastic.
Did Gemma really want Wendy to get custody of Abel, or was she just setting Wendy up (Tara would turn to Gemma for help and all would be well between them again)? I'm thinking the latter, since Gemma knew that Tara and Jax are now married, which would make it tougher in court. Also, Tara would, you know, pass a drug test. Wendy saw through Gemma, but still, with Jax inside, it's a good time to argue that she deserves to see her kid. Wendy went to see Tara. Tara quickly pieced together what Gemma had done, and even though Wendy was playing relatively nice, Tara didn't. "What truth? That I'm a surgeon, and you're some ex-junkie biker whore?" Tara said. "You want to come after me and my family. Bring it on, darlin'. I'm not afraid of you or your bulls— custody threat."
I know some fans hate it when people say that Tara is the new Gemma (she's her own woman, yes), but can we all agree that the use of "darlin'" at least sounds like Gemma?
Tara found Gemma and told her she loved her. Then, she put her in her place.
Tara: Don't ever try to hurt me or my family again.
Gemma: Or what, doctor? You gonna kill me?
Tara: No. But my husband might.
Reminding Gemma that Jax would choose her over his mother = knife twisting. Tara is turning steely, too.
Gemma's day wasn't any better than Tara's. It had started with Nero's "Whore Friday" Carla interrupting her morning pillow talk with Nero. After Tara's verbal throwdown, Gemma got a call that Clay and Juice had shown up at Nero's. Clay had guilted Juice into telling him where Gemma was spending her time since she's all he has left now. (He's lost half a lung and his seat at the head of the table. He could lose his vote if he doesn't ride in a month.) Clay promised Juice he wouldn't cause trouble. Of course Juice shouldn't have taken him, but then we wouldn't have gotten our much-needed comic relief. Clay and Nero had a civilized conversation, then Clay saddled up to "freelancer" Emma Jean (guest star Ashley Tisdale), who's been brought in from Indiana because, in Nero's words, "depravity craves innocence." (That's why you cast a former Disney star.) Nero wasn't the only one who questioned whether Clay's heart could take it.
Juice: Come on, Clay.
Clay: Shut up.
Juice: Okay.
An even better Juice moment: Carla took him to a room in the back.
Carla: Come on, baby. It's time to graduate.
Juice: Really?
Carla: Really.
Nero: What are you doin'?
Carla: You think you're the only one who gets to play with white trash?
Juice: [To Nero] Actually, I'm Puerto Rican.
Carla: Stop talking, honey.
Juice: Okay. [Off-camera] Is he chargin' me?
When Gemma arrived, Nero tried to tell her Clay and Juice had left. When Juice came out, putting back on his shirt, Carla was happy to tell Gemma which room Clay was in. When Gemma blew through the door, Clay was sitting there alone, calm and clothed. I thought maybe that was his plan all along — not to cheat, but to show Gemma she got jealous, so she must still care about him. All was well until Emma Jean came out adjusting her shirt. "What's goin' on?" she asked sweetly. Gemma then attacked her. She slammed her head against the door, tossed her to the floor by way of the couch, and tried to strangle her. I howled. And rewound. It was awesome. Clay chuckled, too. On second viewing, I realized Clay was sitting there barefoot. Do you think Emma Jean gave him a happy ending or just a foot rub while wearing lingerie? (Okay, I don't think Sutter would take a page from The Client List.)
Nero wondered if Gemma had love for Clay on the other side of that hate. "I got nothin' good left for Clay," she assured him. Believe her? I do. Especially if Clay is the one who later called in the cops and had them raid Nero's brothel and put everyone, including Gemma, in cuffs. Though Carla had another theory. "It had to be Emma Jean," she said. Emma Jean had left without talking to Nero and went to another escort service. We'll see her again…
Your turn. Sound off on the episode below. Are you angry that Opie died, or do you understand why he's the one who had to fall? Sutter has long said this season is about seeing what kind of a leader Jax is, and whether he can be president without becoming Clay or suffering the same fate as his father. Who knows which direction Opie's death will send Jax careening. Sutter is doing a conference call with reporters at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday. If you have questions about what went down, put them in the comments as well. (I'm curious if Tara will still be doing some gratis work at the prison now that Jax is out. That's one way they can find out the guard's name and perhaps get to Otto…)
I'll leave you with this exchange:
Opie: Aren't you gettin' tired of this?
Jax: Lockup or being confused by your vague questions?
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To put the most generous of spins on it, since the first of the year, Denver's alternative spaces have been somnolent. There have been a handful of interesting shows, but none have generated much excitement or positive word of mouth. That's all changed now with the five--count 'em--shows wowing the scene at Pirate, the flagship of the city's alternative world.
Since its facelift last year, the main gallery at Pirate has become one of the best and the brightest of the city's art spaces. And this delightful and airy front room is the perfect setting for Linde Schlumbohm and J. Hadley Hooper, a display from a pair of local artists known for their sophisticated and contemporary work.
Autobiographical allusions are a specialty in Schlumbohm's multimedia world, though precisely what we're supposed to draw from them is sometimes hard to tell. In the murky and dark "Grandma's Funeral," an acrylic and collage on board, a ghostly black dress seems to float in a sea of red and orange. Schlumbohm's use of dark yet hot colors makes the collage elements, which include fragments of McCall's dress patterns, recede into the background. But one thing is guaranteed to catch the viewer's eye: the luminous string of pearls that have been placed at top center, as if they were still around Grandma's neck.
Over the past five years or so, Schlumbohm has developed a series of symbolic icons meant to add feminist commentary to her work. The icons include advertisements for food, clothing or makeup, as well as dressmakers' measuring tapes and dresses. They represent her long-held interest in the intersection of society's pervasive sexist messages with the individual--who in this case is Schlumbohm herself.
Schlumbohm's most artistically ambitious efforts are the three paintings of wedding gowns that take charge of the entire show--"Bride I," "Bride II" and "Bride III." These graphite, acrylic and collage works are hybrids of paintings and installations, composed of long vertical pieces of unstretched canvas that hang from gilt valances. They spill onto the floor like draperies, and while they're stunning, they're displayed awkwardly. The paintings would have been more successful if Schlumbohm had simply tacked them to the wall and left out the valances.
Always a strong suit for Schlumbohm is traditional drawing, which is prominently featured in the "Brides." The gowns that dominate each of the works have been exquisitely rendered in glowing, white-on-dark recessive backgrounds. Though Schlumbohm can lay her own claim to using fashion as a subject, the "Brides" bring to mind the paintings of dresses by Steve Batura that were seen last year at both Pirate and the Arvada Center. Are we witnessing a nascent costume-portrait school centered on Navajo Street? Nah--more likely a school devoted to taking frivolous things to the nth degree of solemnity, a trait that Schlumbohm's exhibition mate Hooper has honed well.
For this show, Hooper has added three striking new paintings to a reprise of the enigmatic works on paper she premiered earlier this year at the O'Sullivan Arts Center. And as ridiculous as her combination of silly and straight themes may seem at first, the results are quite intriguing.
The first of the new paintings is "Spell," a portrait of a man with devil's horns. The other two, "Serpent" and "A.," suggest a radical change in Hooper's stylistic aims, from the lyrical tone of her works on paper to a more brutal approach to painting. In "A.," a much more abstract rendition of a man holds a hand puppet of a deer. Despite the goofy-sounding subject matter, "A." has an unnerving effect. In "Serpent," Hooper has troweled a clunky-looking muddy-siena machine onto an off-white ground.
Two exhibits share Pirate's awkwardly shaped Associates Gallery: A self-titled show from longtime Denver painter Nancy Bohm is on display in the tall, narrow space, and another one-woman show hangs in the room under the loft. The pieces in the Bohm show continue the artist's highly idiosyncratic approach, which refers cogently to traditional art while also stretching it to the breaking point.
For this series of paintings of flowers and seeds, Bohm has created large and overwhelming integral frames. "Sunflower Moon," a cast-plaster and oil on board, is a tiny, blurry rendering of a group of sunflowers at night under a full moon. No matter how hard we try, the details will not snap into focus. Surrounding the small painting is an extremely wide and heavily modeled plaster frame, a gloppy melange of twigs, seed heads and faces in deep relief. All of Bohm's paintings are engaging, especially "Old One," which is also the biggest. In it, a delicate drawing of a dead sunflower stalk is set on a soft, multi-toned gray field, its different shades creating a gorgeous illusion of pictorial depth.


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Beer & Bacon Mac and Cheese
September 18, 2012 in Uncategorized
Not much needs to be said for this Mac & Cheese. Crispy bacon, beer and cheese all in one dish? Yes please!
This might seem like it's 'bloke-only' food but I have to say, I loved this so much I had seconds and found myself picking at the left-overs all night. I like to make a huge amount of this as there never seems to be enough but also because I love (LOVE) left-over Mac & cheese the next day. Re-heated with tons of chilli sauce, it's one of my guilty pleasures in life.
Serve the Mac & cheese with a zesty side salad and cold beers for a weeknight favourite revisited!


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I use this in fleets. We all just get on a target and pople gawp at the massive damage the Atron has put on when the killmail comes up! It's quite funny actually.
With my current skills, which are not all maxed out, I am getting nearly 180dps on this thing. It's gank fit anyway. If I die then I die. I found even slapping a DCII on the thing, if somebody looks at you in the atron it dies. So I say just gank it and lol at the killboards at your stupid damage! Try it, I find nobody bothers targeting the atron in fleet either as they think, "It's just an Atron" little do they realise the massive dps (for a low tier T1 frig) your raining on them. This is a kind of jokey fit of course. Don't fir this if you have no cash! lol |
is there any way to get ions or neutrons on it?There are two ways to get nuetrons onto this:
DC2 is worth it imho.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0b-ACgE4Os [/youtube]
Good Fit +1 Will be trying it out fully soon. Can i ask though, what is your opinion on swapping the hobgoblin II for a Hornet EC-300 so that your target is unable to target you more or less?


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- Convenient automatic cord reel and air turbine pet tool on board
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Separates the dust and air via centrifugal force and a unique hour glass dust container construction, allowing for no loss of suction.The hour glass dust cup shape forces large debris towards the bottom of the cup, due to pressure difference in the middle and bottom of the cup, and away from the filter to prevent clogging and to reduce filter maintenance.
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"I hope it's not bad luck," joked Bush after Hilfiger took her and fellow spokesmodels Jason Shaw and Jeremy Bloom for a spin in the harbor. Hilfiger plans to enter the 50-foot boat in the 2002-03 "Around Alone" yacht race, a 27,000-mile, nine-month sailing race that circumnavigates the globe.
Although Bush spends her summers in the sailing paradise of Maine, she said that motorboats and their accompanying watersports are really more her thing.
"Ultimate tubing and wakeboarding," vouched Bush. "And even just jumping in the water.""


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Yesterday, I received this email from Jarkko Arjatsalo, web master of LeonardCohenFiles and LeonardCohenForum and a reliable liaison between Leonard Cohen's fans and his management,
Dear Allan,
Leonard confirms that his new studio album is finished.
The title will be "Old Ideas". All songs are brand new except "Darkness", the only song from the recent concert tour.
The album will be released in Spring 2012, but the exact date has not yet been fixed.
There are no decisions about a new tour.
The remainder of this post deals with information and speculation about that new album.
"Old Ideas" Is An Old Idea
"Old Ideas" was the original name of the most recent Leonard Cohen studio album, "Dear Heather," released in 2004. According to Wikipedia, "Cohen changed the title as he was assured it would mislead people to believe that it was a compilation or Best Of."
Tom Sakic, writing at LeonardCohenForum in October 2009, explained the contextual connotations of the phrase, "old ideas" as Cohen used it in conjunction with "Dear Heather:"
... Mr. Cohen did say later in an interview that the original idea was to release new album very soon after Dear Heather, and Dear Heather (originally titled Old Ideas) was supposed to be an inter-album "without the song structure" (his words quoted by Sharon in an interview for dearheather.com) with which he finally wanted to finish his "old ideas" – covers (Byron, F.R. Scott), tributes (Layton, McClelland, A.M. Klein), recitations, spoken poetry recordings of other poets (Scott) and his own (To a Teacher), outtakes (The Faith), previously unfinished pieces (Undertow, Morning Glory), duets (Letters, Undertow), live versions (Tennessee waltz) etc. Dear Heather is, imho, like Book of Longing, it contains jokes and doodles (Because Of, Dear Heather), sketches (Morning Glory, Dear Heather), paraphrases of other poets, diary entries (Morning Glory), serious long poems (Letters) etc. Some kind of scrapbook, only in musical way. That's why there are so many styles, approaches etc. on Dear Heather, and you can hear the traces and echoes of Leonard's previous work in every song. Even "Morning Glory" resembles the melody of instrumental piece "Tahoma Trailer" from The Future CD. I think that he really wanted to empty his head of half-finished songs, "old ideas". And I really do miss *that* title, more appropriate and true to this "Zen" CD made of little forms.
"Old Ideas" Is Also A Corporate Structure
Old Ideas, LLC (Limited Liability Company) is the publishing company of record for Leonard Cohen's music since the release of "Dear Heather." Previously, Cohen's music was published by his own company, Stranger Music, which was sold to Sony BMG.
Old Ideas, LLC also holds the trademark "LEONARD COHEN."1
A Change In Plans To "Old Ideas"
Previous Heck Of A Guy posts (such as The New Leonard Cohen Album – "Forthcoming") have carried Tom Sakic's well-informed, scholarly summaries, based on interviews with and statements by Leonard Cohen, of the Canadian singer-songwriter's works-in-progress as a likely track list for the new album. Tom – along with the rest of us who fancy ourselves knowledgeable Cohen followers – routinely included the new songs from the Leonard Cohen World Tour, "Feels So Good," "Lullaby," "Darkness," and "Born In Chains," as probable inclusions on the new album.
From the bulletin issued yesterday, however, via Jarkko Arjatsalo, web master of LeonardCohenFiles and LeonardCohenForum, it appears only one of those songs first presented during the World Tour will be found in the new album:
All songs are brand new except "Darkness", the only song from the recent concert tour.
We do know about some new songs. For example, according to Leonard Cohen delays Europe tour after back injury by Dean Goodman (Reuters, 06 February 2010),
Cohen, who is known to take years to craft a new song, has just finished writing a tune called "Different Sides," his musical collaborator, Sharon Robinson, told Reuters at the Grammy event. It was not known when the song would be released.
Of course, the fact that a Cohen song is new does not necessarily mean is is one of the new songs on the new album.
A significant part of the confusion is generated by the fact that Leonard Cohen has been responding to questions about the new album for at least the last five years.
In a June 24, 2006 interview broadcast on KCRW, for example, Cohen played recordings of two songs, "Puppets" and "Book Of Longing," that were presented as demos for a "forthcoming" album being developed then (i.e., June 2006), during the same time Cohen was writing Book Of Longing and producing Anjani's Blue Alert. (In the interview, Cohen describes the album as "forthcoming," but, no doubt hearkening to previous problems with record companies, wisely declines the host's request that he predict when the album will come out, noting only "It's hard to say.") As Cohen put it, "… I have dozens of lyrics I'm setting to music now."2
Over the past five years, Leonard Cohen may have changed his mind a time or two.
After all, Cohen is the guy who once completed, along with John Lissauer, one side of an album, "Songs For Rebecca,"3 but then abandoned it, with five of the songs showing up later on in concerts during the November 1975 North American tour; two ended up on 1977's "Death of a Ladies' Man" and the other three were released on Recent Songs in 1979.4
Leonard Cohen is not the sort of chap who is plagued by those infamous hobgoblins of foolish consistency.
"Old Ideas" As A Leonard Cohen Album Title
Leonard Cohen has a taste for open-ended, if not irredeemably ambiguous album titles. His first albums, for example, were called "Songs Of Leonard Cohen" and "Songs From A Room." These are not the type of names that impose significant restriction on an album's range of content.
Cohen himself notes
I like to have very neutral titles. My last album was called " Recent Songs " and that was the most perfect title I've ever come up with. But " Various Positions " is okay. My next one is going to be called " Songs in English."5
Heck, within the universe of Leonard Cohen album titles, "Old Ideas" comes off as startlingly specific.
New Speculations On "Old Ideas"
So, what should one expect from a Leonard Cohen album titled "Old Ideas" that is filled, one is told, with "brand new" songs (other than 'Darkness")?
Beats me. It would seem that the definition of "brand new" as used in "All the songs are brand new except 'Darkness"' is key. Given Cohen's self-professed song-writing methodology of repetitive revising and rewriting, sometimes over a period of several years, it is difficult to conceive of an album of Cohen songs, save one, that originated since the World Tour ended in December 2010.
How about this – "brand new" songs means songs that never previously published, and "Old Ideas" means "old ideas?" Maybe someone told Leonard Cohen that he is 76 (77 next month), causing him to realize that if he's going to do anything with all those blackened pages of all those notebooks he's collected over the years, now is the time to do so. In any case, it is easy to imagine Leonard Cohen, motivated by a vision of posterity rather than prosperity (as was true for the World Tour) deciding to return to unrealized conceits, unfinished lyrics, and uncompleted projects that reflect his oldest musical and poetic themes rather than breaking new ground.6
There are, for example, Cohen songs that seem to have disappeared. In Sincerely, L. Cohen by Brian Cullman (Details for Men, January, 1993), Leonard Cohen spoke about a song called "Love Is The Item:"
After my novel Beautiful Losers was published, I thought maybe I'd be able to make a living as a writer. The reviews were really encouraging, but I don't think it sold but three thousand copies between the U.S. and Canada, so I had to do something. I felt I could go to Nashville and make a record there. I was familiar with that music and liked it, and I had written some songs–"Love is the Item" and "Tonight Will Be Fine"–and I borrowed money to go there. On my way to Nashville I stopped through New York and heard Judy Collins, Phil Ochs and Tim Buckley, Bob Dylan. I'd never heard these singers before, and of course they spoke to my heart. [emphasis mine]
That song title, along with some other unfamiliar titles, reappeared in a 2003 LeonardCohenForum post titled Please help identify this acetate master. The pertient discussion is repeated and expanded in a second thread, The Leonard Cohen '60s acetate:
… I have since played the acetate, here's what I found:
It is Leonard Cohen, on both sides of the record (side two is simply marked "n/g" in grease pencil on the label area. I believe this is the sound engineer's shorthand for "no good"). Despite one skip (which may have had to do with some movement near the turntable) and a fair bit of crackle, the mono sound is rich and all there. Just LC, closely miked, with guitar. The vocals sound much deeper and more resonant than the early lp's—possibly this was helped along by my turntable running slow. In many cases he announces the titles of the songs before playing them.
As I'm not expert in Leonard Cohen's catalogue, I'm basing some of my conclusions below on lyric searches that I did using the Leonard Cohen concordance online. I suspect that some of the familiar songs may have different lyrics from the eventually recorded versions, but I haven't been able to compare in most cases.
SIDE 1 (labeled "side four" and "Asylum Records")
1. "It's My Own World Now" Unreleased song
It's my own world now/ It's my own world now/I don't know where/I don't know why/ and I don't know how/you say you are my friend/well let me travel to the end…
2. "Nancy" This seems to be an unreleased song, though part of the chorus was used in "Diamonds in the Mine."
Nancy, where have you been sleeping?/Your doctor phones me everyday/And your mother wants to see you in safekeeping/and your mother wants your father to pay/oh there are no letters in the mailbox/and there are no grapes upon the vine/and there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore/there are no diamonds in the mine…
3. "Love is the Item" (Cohen first announces this as "You can't give your pain away," a line from later in the song). Unreleased song.
Love is the item that is moving fast in the fire sales all over town/ and darling I regret/this offer's got to last/no payments and nothing down…
4. "Works of Charity" Unreleased song.
Explaining to me why you're late/That's just another way to wait/I don't care about your works of charity/reading all the telegrams you get/from all the fishes in your net…
5. "The Storeroom"—Unreleased song that appears at least one concert bootleg. I don't know whether there are any differences between this version and that one.
SIDE 2 (no label. "n/g" is written in grease pencil)
1. "The Stranger Song"
2. "Last Year's Man"
3. "Suzanne"
4. "Everybody's Child" (unreleased song)
5. "Master Song"
6. "Tonight Will be Fine" (Substantially different lyrics from released versions.)
In an entry in the same threads, Jarkko wrote
I have some new information directly from Leonard. This is what he says:
"It's My Own World Now" became "The Butcher".
"Love Is The Item" and "Works of Charity" were some of the first songs he wrote (they have not been released)
According to Leonard these songs (and several others) exist on a demo tape he did for Polygram in the early sixties.
Could updated versions of "Love is the Item" or "Works of Charity" – or similar revitalized artifacts of Cohen's past – be on "Old Ideas?" Again, I dunno. But it is an intriguing idea, eh?
And, of course, ongoing readers will not be surprised to learn that the "old idea" that DrHGuy most wants to see on an album is The Best Leonard Cohen Song You've Never Heard (Probably), aka Do I Have To Dance All Night."
Update 23 August 2011:
New Songs, Including Born In Chains, Will Be On Later Album
Jarkko Arjatsalo, who broke the news of Leonard Cohen's new album "Old Ideas" being released in Spring 2012, today posted this additional statement at LeonardCohenFiles:
Leonard's comment about the "missing" songs:
"The next album" refers here to a subsequent album after Old Ideas!
- According to Trademarkia,the trademark "LEONARD COHEN" is used in these contexts:
Downloadable musical sound recordings; Musical sound recordings; Visual recordings and audio visual recordings featuring music and animation; Downloadable MP3 files, MP3 recordings, online discussion boards, webcasts and podcasts featuring music, audio books and news broadcasts; Phonograph records featuring music; Pre-recorded CDs, video tapes, laser disks and DVDs featuring music; Audio cassettes featuring music; Audio tapes featuring music
Posters; Event programs; Lithographic works of art; Prints in the nature of lithographs, paintings, drawings
Entertainment services in the nature of live musical performances; Entertainment services, namely, live, televised and movie appearances by a professional entertainer [↩]
- See Two Very Raw, Unreleased Leonard Cohen Songs "Puppets" And "Book Of Longing" [↩]
- Yep, that's "Rebecca" as in "Rebecca De Mornay." [↩]
- Wikipedia [↩]
- Leonard Cohen as interviewed by Robert Sward, Montreal, Quebec – 1984 [↩]
- There is a precedent. Such a methodology accounted for the songs of the "Blue Alert" album. Anjani salvaged poems and lyrics Leonard Cohen had set aside or abandoned to create, with further assistance from Cohen, the tracks on that album. [↩]


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Proteins - structure and function
Proteins - structure and function
Can the variation in protein types simply be due to different sequences of amino acids? Discover that there is more to the story and find out about the importance of molecular shape and structure.
Proteins - structure and function
Can the variation in protein types simply be due to different sequences of amino acids? Discover that there is more to the story and find out about the importance of molecular shape and structure.
Source : ABC Atoms of Fire
Learning area: Science
Secondary: Year 10
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Have you ever heard of the concepts 'form and function' or 'structure and function'? How might these concepts relate to proteins and their properties?
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What is the difference between a peptide and a protein?
How does the shape of the protein that makes up human hair differ from the protein that makes silk? How does this explain why hair has more 'stretch' than silk?
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What happens when a protein denatures? How do examples of denaturation provide evidence of the relationship between the shape of a protein and the way it behaves?
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Explain to someone why the albumin in egg white changes when it is whisked or heated. Try to use the term 'denature' or 'denaturation' in your description. Check how well you've done by asking to the person to describe back to you what happens when a protein denatures.
MAN:There's a huge difference between chemicals like these and a living thing. But it turns out the difference is not one of kind but of complexity. Here's a 3-D model of glycine. Here's the carboxylic acid group, and here is the blue nitrogen with its two hydrogens, the amino group, but it's here, in the place of one of these central hydrogens that all the other side groups attach. The 19 other variations go on here. But that's simple compared to when you start linking them up. I've just made up a basic model of a chain. Here's the spine and these bonds where the 20 variations go. For instance, you could have a glycine here, an alanine here, a cysteine here, a leucine here and so on. Now, this is only seven units long so it doesn't qualify as a protein. Proteins are much larger. This is referred to as a peptide. But you're starting to get the picture. The number of possible proteins is literally endless. Take a tiny little peptide, let's say four amino acids in a chain. With 20 varieties to choose from, that's 20 raised to the power of four ways to combine them. 160,000 ways to assemble a four-unit peptide. When you get to a largish protein, say 500 amino acids in a chain, the number has 600 zeros in it and every one is a possible protein. Of course, we know that they can't all exist because that number is larger than the number of atoms in the universe. As if sequence isn't enough, there's also shape. Take silk, which is the protein fibroin. Silk is a straight chain, mostly made up of glycine, alanine, glycine, alanine, and so on. These long strands link up alongside one another to form a strong fibrous sheet. Compare this to hair, which is the protein keratin. Keratin, a completely different amino acid sequence, is coiled in a helix. This gives hair more stretch than silk. And these are just two shapes out of an amazing array that proteins can have.NARRATOR:Coils can coil around coils. Coils can coil over themselves Chains may weave to and fro and cross link to make sheets. Chains and coils may clump together in confusing tangles. Entirely different chains may associate in special interlinked relationships. In each case, they lock into position as a unique, stable chemical compound - sometimes with molecular weights in the millions.MAN:Everything about a particular protein is important. For example, change its shape, even a little bit and it simply won't behave the same. And some are quite fragile, too. Take the albumen in egg white. Straight out of an egg, it's clear because it's in solution, but all you've got to do is whisk it or heat it, or put a drop of alcohol in it... And it comes right out of solution. This is an example of denaturing a protein. You've changed the shape of this amazing molecule and now it behaves quite differently.
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Could a law that so swiftly deflated public unions' power in Wisconsin become the pattern for Florida? It's labor's worst fear.
Three years ago, a labor leader named Marty Beil was one of the loudest opponents of Gov. Scott Walker's "budget repair bill," a proposal that brought tens of thousands of union protesters out to the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison in frigid February weather. Beil warned that the bill would cripple the state's government employee unions. It would also bring to light the pension balloon that has surfaced with cities in bankruptcy, like Detroit.
Since the law was passed, membership in his union, which represents state government employees, has fallen 60 percent; its annual budget has plunged to $2 million from $6 million.
The Feb. 23, 2014 New York Times carries the story on Act 10, Governor Walker's landmark law. It severely restricted the power of state employee unions to bargain collectively, and that provision, among others, has given social workers, nurses, road crews, and others, little reason to pay dues to a union that can no longer do much for them.
"It's had a devastating effect on our union," Mr. Beil, it's executive director, said of Act 10. He was sitting in his state office, inside the headquarters that his collective, hard up for cash, may be forced to sell. The building is underused anyway, as staff reductions have left many offices empty.
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Gov. Walker's tough stance toward accountability has steeled governors and mayors grappling with large unfunded pension obligations. And his criticisms of pensions have been reinforced by the turmoil in Detroit, where the often-generous and sometimes scandal-ridden pension system played a substantial role in the city's bankruptcy.
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I received a request for a gender reveal cake. The client only needed 12 servings. I talked her into a 6" square cake instead of a 1/4 sheet based on how many servings she needed. She wanted white cake with buttercream, a pink or blue colored cake, a fondant bow, pink and blue dots all over and the phrase, "Emma or Isaac?" written on the cake board.
My basic cake price is 3.25/slice for buttercream cakes. I quoted her 4.00/slice since this was a level 2 cake (fondant bow, colored cake). This made the price $72.00 + tax. She turned this down even though I explained that this cake was twice as tall as the sheet cake.
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Would like to get Fen(g) Dan Bai--locally if I can. I probably need a replacement for Kao. The Yachiotsubaki that I bought at the same time from the same place has settled in beautifully. Kao's leaves have gradually browned until there is only one spot of green on one leaf. I plan to leave it in place and hope that it has enough reserve in the graft to leaf out again next spring. Meanwhile, I feel so demoralized that I want a tree peony that has the reputation of being vigorous and easy to grow! Have some herbaceous peonies coming from Wild. One of them is Sea Shell and Red Charm, I think, plus some others. All are old standards but will be new to me! |
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If you've spent any amount of time in London, chances are you've spent a portion of that time eating chicken tikka masala, or at least smelling chicken tikka masala on every corner. If you've lived in London, no doubt you have a favorite Indian restaurant—or two, or seven. The curry house has replaced the chip shop as England's canteen, a humble yet beloved neighborhood icon. Tandooris, biryanis, and samosas are sold at every Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's. Indian food now accounts for two-thirds of all meals eaten out in the U.K., feeding 2.5 million people per week. Virgin Atlantic and British Airways even serve fragrant curries on flights—much to the chagrin of those who neglected to order them.
London alone is home to 800,000 southern Asians, and one could compare the role of Indian food in the city to that of Cuban food in Miami or Moroccan in Paris. But that would understate how popular the cuisine has become among non-Indians. Like McVitie's biscuits and Earl Grey tea, Indian food is now a byword for "British." The theme for England's 1998 World Cup team was a rousing anthem called "Vindaloo," in honor of the vinegar-and-garlic curry cherished by football fans. ("We're off to Waterloo/Me and me mum and me dad and me gran / And a bucket of vindaloo!"). Would French fans have countered with an ode to tagine?Likely not.
Curry was only the beginning. The U.K. has lately been swept by a fascination with all things Indian—from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, a Bollywood-style musical, to The Kumars at Number 42, a brilliant BBC2 sitcom about an Indian family in Wembley, to films such as Bend It Like Beckham, Lagaan, and Monsoon Wedding. In 2002, Selfridges transformed its Oxford Street flagship into a Bollywood fantasia, with fashion shows by Indian designers and a "spice market" set up in the Food Hall. Even the stodgy Victoria and Albert Museum held an exhibition last fall titled "Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood."
There are now some 8,000 Indian restaurants throughout the U.K., most of them indistinguishable from one another: flocked wallpaper, chutney-stained menus, waitstaff describing dishes as "spicy" or "not so spicy," all-purpose gravies added to lamb, chicken, or vegetables—a one-sauce-fits-all approach that would scandalize any trained Indian chef.
Lately, however, a new wave is redefining what an Indian restaurant can be, with inspired interiors (designers finally got the flock out), smooth service (did you ever expect a sommelier?), and imaginative cooking that emphasizes clean textures and clear flavors. Entrées arrive individually plated, in contrast to the old family-style service, wherein diners piled a bit of everything on their plates—like mixing coq au vin with coquilles St. Jacques, chefs say. In lieu of a 40-ounce bottle of Kingfisher, you're offered a $40 Cab Sauvignon. Rather than a tinny sitar sound track, you hear the tabla-trance beats of Talvin Singh.
The haute-Indian newcomers have had to struggle against type. "Indian food carries a lot of baggage in England," says Namita Panjabi, founder of London's Chutney Mary. "For decades, it was the cheap, quick nosh you had after the pub. You might take your mother-in-law, but never your bank manager." Yet Londoners are increasingly willing to spend more time and money on a top-grade Indian meal. And the cuisine is finally gaining due respect. In 2001, London's Zaika and Tamarind became the first Indian kitchens in the world to earn Michelin stars. Cyrus Todiwala, chef at the Parsee, was short-listed for an Academy of Excellence prize at last year's London Restaurant Awards, and the Painted Heron in Chelsea was nominated for Best New Restaurant.
Vineet Bhatia, head chef at Zaika, works on a broader canvas than the typical Indian cook, conjuring dishes out of the "bet-you-never-had-this" school: "black chicken" marinated in squid ink; sea bass with raw mango over a creamy, polenta-like "Indian couscous." I doubt you'd find a grilled lobster and curry leaf risotto in Calcutta or Madras, but here it was—not necessarily Indian, but deliciously exotic, given a tableside dusting of unsweetened cocoa. And with vibrant sari colors glowing against mahogany walls and brocade curtains tumbling from 40-foot ceilings, the soaring space is as dramatic as the food.
The look couldn't be more different at the Cinnamon Club, a sober marble-and-stone, leather-paneled dining room housed in a former library. What's striking is the lack of Indian details, except for a few photos of Rajasthan. Founder Iqbal Wahhab, a former editor of Tandoori Magazine—yes, there's a Tandoori Magazine—seems determined to transcend the "Indian" label at every opportunity. He's hired a French consulting chef, along with two French managers. No desultory baskets of pappadums here; instead you get an amuse-bouche of white-lentil fritters. Chef Vivek Singh works best with seafood, coaxing subtle flavors from tandoor-seared tuna with mango and tamarind, and giving nice, smoky undertones to the Parsi-style stir-fried squid. His cooking is clear and focused, never a barrage of spices. I found myself missing the fire associated with Indian food, though the restraint of the dishes fit the surroundings. Despite its subdued interior, the Cinnamon Club (and its sleek downstairs bar) is red-hot these days. It's even open for breakfast now, serving potato parathas along with your scrambled eggs.
As upstarts move in, the old guard is also sprucing up. Soho's Red Fort was part of the first upscale Indian wave, in the mid eighties. After a $2.5 million overhaul in 2001, it has been reinvented as an ultra-chic club-restaurant. Red sandstone, brass urns, and Moghul archways set the Eastern tone. The menu now includes more creative dishes, such as a starter of tandoor-roasted pears, nectarines, green apples, and star fruit, paired with some knockout chutneys. Lightly smoked monkfish tikka is outstanding, as are grilled lamb chops finished in a star anise and pomegranate jus. And, unlike most nouvelle Indian, the food packs serious heat. So does the sexy cellar lounge, Akbar, with intimate podlike booths, Indian hors d'oeuvres, and exotic drinks such as lemongrass vodka and holy basil-infused gin.
The Panjabi sisters are the doyennes of London's Indian scene: Camellia founded Bombay Brasserie in 1982, making tandoori acceptable for celebs and Jaguar owners; Namita followed in 1990 with Chutney Mary on Kings Road. A 2002 renovation ditched the old Raj-nostalgia theme for a contemporary but still sumptuous look: teak paneling, wall mirrors, glass candelabra. There's now a sommelier, an impressive wine list, and a much improved menu. Seven chefs, each from a different region of India, head up their own kitchen teams to focus on a specific style. Loch Fyne oysters, paired with a lime-and-chile salsa, are a takeoff on a roadside bite in Goa. Slow-roasted cod is prepared in the Hyderabad manner, in a saffron, poppy seed, and yogurt sauce. Tandoori crabs, all the rage in Bombay at the moment, are cracked and baked in a spicy marinade.
Meanwhile, stylish new arrivals keep coming. The Painted Heron took up residence on Chelsea's posh Cheyne Walk—hardly a bastion of curry houses—in a whitewashed dining room outfitted with abstract art. Chef Yogesh Datta breaks the mold by serving departures like haddock in pumpkin sauce along with the more familiar chicken tikka and minced-lamb kebabs.
Cyrus Todiwala put Goan food on the map at the renowned Café Spice Namaste in the nineties. He has opened a new place in North London, the Parsee, where he delves into his native Parsi cuisine—it's less fiery than most Indian food and is instead centered on fresh herbs like mint and coriander. Atul Kochhar, who earned a Michelin star for the more traditional Tamarind in Mayfair, recently left to open Benares, another haute-Indian temple, on Berkeley Square.
Creative Indian food isn't limited to expense-account dining rooms. The Panjabi sisters' latest, Masala Zone, is an Indian answer to the Wagamama noodle-shop chain—a sleek, modern cafeteria dedicated to light dishes and snacks. Soho office workers pack in at lunchtime for southern Indian specialties like pau bhaji (a spicy potato-and-vegetable mash that's a street-stall favorite in Bombay) as well as chicken tikka sandwiches on ciabatta. The result has been so popular that the Panjabis have added a second outpost, in Islington.


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Among the seven Star Power shows that inaugurated the new Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver last fall, David Altmejd is one of the few that are still open. A young Canadian artist, Altmejd covered the walls of the Family of Natasha Congdon Large Works Gallery with sheets of mirror, then created a series of anthropomorphic figures clad in mirrors as well. All that reflective material made the eponymous installation nothing short of an eye-dazzler. Selected by MCA curator and director Cydney Payton, this magical work was hands-down the best pick for the opening of the new building.


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I know it was the good vibes.
When I wrote on Saturday about dreading my trip to San Diego, explained why, and asked for your positive thoughts, prayers, and good vibes, you, my dear readers, were quick to respond. You commented on my post, replied on facebook, tweeted your support.
Wow @LivefromLQ: Read your blog I'm Dreading Tomorrow from @womenbikeblogs tweet. Good luck. You are ALL in my thoughts.
— Ellen K. Butler (@ellenkbutler) October 14, 2012
It made me feel stronger.
I met my sister at her friend's house in Carlsbad. Our uncertainty (dread? fear? uneasiness? So many word choices.) about our upcoming meeting with Aunt Lois almost, but not quite, took the joy out of our reunion. I haven't seen Lisa since last Christmas, so we were really happy to see each other. It was the circumstances that were bringing us down.
On our drive toward San Diego, we discussed what we wanted to accomplish. First and foremost, we wanted to get into the room without Lois getting very upset. screaming, and kicking us out. I asked Lisa what the plan was if that happened. "Wait her out," she said, "she'll have to stop eventually."
We arrived at the rehab center, which seemed a reasonably nice nursing home close to downtown (and not too far from Lois' apartment). It was clean, the people seemed nice and caring, and it smelled like food, not, well not some of the bad things you could imagine.
Without going into details, I will say that of all the things that Lisa and I imagined happening during our visit, what actually happened was not among them. After warning the on-duty nurse that there might be some "issues," Lisa and I warily entered Aunt Lois' room and…nothing.. She greeted us like it had been a week since we'd seen her. She was excited and happy to see us. She even told me that she'd expected to see me on the 19th. Huh?
As the saying goes, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. We had a nice visit. As I mentioned in my last post, Lois is smart and funny, and can be a joy to be around. It is that damn brain injury that gets in the way. You never know what you're going to get, wonderful, funny Lois, or angry, sad, disturbed Lois. We spent several hours with her and were able to discuss some of the issues, including long term care, with her. No decisions yet, but we've made a start.
She'd be happiest if we could move her back to Los Angeles. She'd lived for a long time in Encino, in the San Fernando Valley, and she'd love to be back there. So Lisa and I will look into it. We also have to learn about Medi-Cal, Medicare, nursing homes, and a lot more.
But, we'll be doing it with Lois's blessing and cooperation. At least for now. She's trying to focus on putting on some weight and getting stronger (to that end, we picked her up some vegan chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joe's. Sometimes calories are calories.)
I feel like we've opened a door of communication, a path back to our old relationship, a chance to help her without her fighting us all the way.
And it's all because of your good vibes. Thank you.


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Persons looking to be sponsored as a new spouse or partner to migrate to Canada will have a much longer wait and face a few new regulations following the introduction of new screening measures.
Last Friday, March 2, immigration minister, Jason Kenney annouced a bar on sponsorship as part of what he says is an ongoing effort to deter people from using a marriage of convenience to come to Canada.
I held town hall meetings across the country to hear from victims of marriage fraud, said Minister Kenney. In addition to the heartbreak and pain that came from being lied to and deceived, these people were angry. They felt they had been used as a way to get to Canada. Were taking action because immigration to Canada should not be built upon deceit.
The regulatory changes now in force mean sponsored spouses or partners will have to wait five years from the day they are granted permanent residence status in Canada to sponsor a new spouse or partner.
Until now, a sponsored spouse or partner arriving in Canada as a permanent resident could leave their sponsor and sponsor another spouse or partner themselves, while their original sponsor was still financially responsible for them for up to three years.
Kenney says the decision follows a recent online poll and consultation with local interest groups. The proposal for a five-year sponsorship bar was prepublished in the Canada Gazette on April 2, 2011, and was open for a 30-day public comment period.
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In addition to the sponsorship bar, further public consultations are also expected to begin in the coming weeks on a proposed conditional permanent residence measure. The measure aims to deter people in newer relationships from using their relationship to gain quick entry to Canada as permanent residents when they have no intention of staying with their sponsor.
The moves are the latest in a series by the CIC to curb the growing trend of marriage fraud which has become particularly worrying for immgration officials.
Legislation to crack down on crooked consultants came into force in June 2011 and last spring, CIC launched an anti-fraud campaign, which will be relaunched this month.
Kenney was joined by representatives of Canadians Against Immigration Fraud (CAIF) at Fridays announcement.
We welcome the steps taken by the Honourable Jason Kenney to stop marriage fraud, said Sam S. Benet, president of CAIF. These measures will definitely protect the integrity of our immigration system.
Barring such sponsorships is consistent with similar restrictions imposed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Fridays changes are posted on Citizenship and Immigration Canadas website


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I've heard a lot of talk about the Zach Parise-to-Travis Zajac goal today, and for the most part, Michael Del Zotto has been assigned the lion's share of the blame. He did get flat roasted at the blueline, after all.
But the more I watch it, the more I attribute the goal to the terrific, disciplined neutral zone forecheck of the Devils (with two men up, no less!). Yes, you can beat any forecheck, and Del Zotto could have been better, but that he sat for half the game (apparently as a result) made the goal worth far more for New Jersey than just a point on the board. I'd say too much, if I were a New York Ranger.
Here's the goal, then I'll break down what I'm talking about with screenshots.
As you can see here in the opening frame, Michael Del Zotto has the puck on the near-side. Travis Zajac is pressuring it (he was just over center a moment ago), and Zach Parise is coming over to take the center lane in his place. It's a simple rotation, but well executed.
Artem Anisimov is doing the right thing as a winger, getting back to the boards to provide Del Zotto an option. He should probably be either closer to Del Zotto (to allow himself gap from the d-man), or farther up (to allow Del Zotto room to skate it), but overall, he's not in a bad spot.
Del Zotto tries to move the puck up to him so he can either tip it in or make a play, but the Devils' neutral zone defense is spot on – Danius Zubrus steps up and causes a turnover. Maybe Del Zotto should have seen that Anisimov wasn't going to have time and done something else with the puck, but these days it's common to fire it to a forward under pressure so the guy can just get a piece of it and get it deep.
I've said this a number of times today, but the Devils forecheck is relentless. While Zubrus is stealing the puck, Travis Zajac could easily…easily just go for a little fly-by. It wouldn't even be a fly-by, it'd just be a turn to face the play. But, he carries on and takes the strides he's allowed to finish his check on Del Zotto. Here's a terrible screenshot to prove it:
Zach Parise is in such great position – he's where a coach would draw the "X" on the board to demonstrate perfection.
So Zubrus pinches up and gets the puck, while Zajac is just circling back from his hit on Del Zotto, seeing that his team has recovered possession. Del Zotto is just coming up from the Rangers zone too.
Here's why this is such a tough play for Del Zotto: Parise has supported the puck, and Zubrus has managed to get it up to him before taking a check from Big Brian Boyle.
What is Del Zotto supposed to do here? Well, he's been taught to get up to the blue, pivot to the middle, get a tight gap and play the attacker with his outside shoulder lined up to his inside. But how? Parise has a head of steam and the puck, and Del Zotto is essentially flat-footed. His other option would be to immediately start back-pedaling and risk giving a creative guy like Parise a huge gap to work with inside the zone (which it turns out may have been the right choice, but not one many d-men will make).
Or…or he could get aggressive, pinch, and hope to nip this thing in the bud right here and now. If he misses, well…the Rangers are screwed.
He misses.
I've frozen it at this screen for a reason – I feel like everyone missed the nifty move Parise made with the puck here. You see where Parise's stick is, on the backhand, without the puck? Well, he pulled the chip move on Del Zotto. The chip move is when you're bringing the puck across mid-stickhandle from forehand-to-backhand. As a defender, you see where the puck is moving towards, and you do your best to try to poke it loose. You extend your stick in the process.
With the chip, you push the puck forward (with your backhand) before you get all the way across, right when you know the d-man is going for the poke check, putting it under his triangle (or in some cases, through his legs). It's like a spot-pass to yourself. Parise shifts with his body, makes Del Zotto miss with the chip move, and now we're here.
So now the situation is pretty clear. 2-on-1, Zach Parise and Travis Zajac versus Dan Girardi and Henrik Lundqvist.
At first, Girardi takes away the easy pass.
Parise's entry into the zone had him way out wide, so he has to start coming in tighter if they hope to have an effective 2-on-1.
Knowing this, Girardi commits early. The perfect slide would be timed with the forwards' speed and off the net (preferably puck-side post). I thought he committed to this way too early (he made the first move, something talented players can deal with), and I don't think the slide was very good. He only gets his stick in the lane, not his body.
So, Parise makes the pass to Zajac, who's faded off and opened-up.
Here's the thing: it's a nice pass, sure – he saucered it over Girardi's stick – but it's so, so slow. It allowed Lundqvist so much time to get over, I thought "There's no way this is going in." I'm sure goalies will crucify me for this, but I think he should've made this save.
But anway, Zajac gets ALL of it, and (I'm pretty sure) it beats Lundqvist armpit hole. I'm "pretty sure," because I don't believe that Lundqvist couldn't go post-to-post in that time. Watch it again at the bottom of the post in real time.
Put it on the board…..yes.
The hustle from Parise to get to Zajac after the goal was downright adorable.
Del Zotto has taken the blame for the goal, but he was in a tough situation due to a perfect neutral zone defense and up against some awfully skilled players.


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