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This year's draft is deep. So deep, in fact, that we could have easily made a top-16 forwards list. It was tough to whittle this list down, but below are the best 10 prospects of the 2013 NHL draft.
1. Nathan MacKinnon 6-0/182 Center
MacKinnon is a first-line center with top-line ability. He has great vision and he's an above-average passer. He also can speed through the neutral zone like few others can. He has the soft hands of a scorer and never loses focus. He has been getting more feisty in offensive zone and has been showing more toughness. Under the right circumstances, he could play in the NHL next year - he might soon be looking at Halifax in the rear view mirror.
2. Aleksander Barkov 6-3/209 Center
This pivot is a flashy skater and an excellent passer. He already has a pro one-timer, and he uses it as a power-play point man. He knows how to use his size, too. Barkov is a solid defensive player who gets to loose pucks quickly, and can find a small area and score. As a young man, he was the second leading scorer on his team of professionals in the Finnish Elite League. He's the best European player in the draft.
3. Jonathan Drouin 5-11/186 Left wing
Drouin has NHL speed already. He's improved dramatically since last year, making the Halifax Mooseheads a powerhouse in the QMJHL. He has great elusiveness and a scorer's touch. He's a patient, passer in 5-on-5 and power play situations. He has elite vision and great hockey sense, and plays a solid two-way game. He was named the CHL Player of the Year.
4. Valerie Nichushkin 6-4/202 Right wing
This Russian is a terrific skater who can go end-to-end. He has a great compete level in the offensive zone and has lots of tools in his toolbox. He can grow into an elite NHL player if his good all-around game becomes great. He already has a pro shot, and with his big frame he can fight through defenders to dish or score. He won't give up on plays and can sniff out fat rebounds. He will train in North America, and that will help him get used to North American culture. The caveat is, he doesn't play a full 60 minutes.
5. Sean Monahan 6-2/193 Center
Monahan is a big part of a very potent power play for the Ottawa 67's. He has good wheels, good vision, and can score down low. He has a lightning fast pro wrist shot. This center has a nose for the net. Knowing how to use his size, he will defend his teammates when necessary. He's a very good passer and he can setup a goal just as easily as he can score goals.
6. Elias Lindholm 6-0/192 Center
Lindholm was money in international play playing for Team Sweden. He plays against men in the Swedish Elite League and he was third on his team in scoring with 30 points in 48 games. He trails the play well and finds open spaces on International ice, and that should translate to North America. Father Mikael played 18 games with the Kings. This centerman is a solid two-way player and he's strong on the puck.
7. Max Domi 5-9/197 Center/Left wing
Tie's son is fast and relentless going after the puck. He's a shifty skater who can rifle off a fast shot on the rush. He's deadly on the power play. If you don't play this speedy forward tight, he will go past you and get to the net. He can score in small spaces the goalie gives him. This versatile forward gets through the neutral zone quickly, but can be knocked off the puck. The London Knights star has an average slap shot, but he will play defensive and block shots.
8. Bo Horvat 6-0/206 Center
He was one of the London Knights' best players, but he's not the fastest skater. However, his desire and excellent stick and puck control serve him well. He seems to score many 1-on-1 goals. Horvat is an effective power-play scorer. He tallied some big game-winners in his team's Memorial Cup run showing that he is a clutch player. He plays a solid brand of defense, blocks shots and plays on the penalty kill, as well.
9. Adam Erne 6-0/205 Left wing
This Connecticut native knows where to go with or without the puck. His superb wrister is a weapon, and he can bury that from anywhere on the sheet. He closes well on the net making him hard to handle at that point. He's good on the power play. This winger lays big hits and that will translate at the next level.
10. Anthony Mantha 6-4/200 Right wing
He had a four-goal game for Val D'Or this season. His long stick enables him to get a lot of torque on his wrist shot. For a big kid, he has good speed and he gets his stick to the corners of the net quickly. He has a big frame that can add more bulk down the road.
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Eurovision 2013 final
Farid Mammadov of Azerbaijan performs the song Hold Me during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Thank you
That's it from me as far as this year's Eurovision is concerned. Thanks for playing along. Let us know what you thought of the result.
Oh and go Arsenal.
It's bad news for a Jedward-free Ireland as they pick up the wooden spoon.
The final scoreboard looks a little something like this:
|Emmelie de Forest
|Farid Mammadov
|Zlata Ognevich
|Margaret Berger
|Dina Garipova
|Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis
|Marco Mengoni
|Aliona Moon
|Roberto Bellarosa
|Robin Stjernberg
|Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani
|Alyona Lanskaya
|Eythor Ingi
|United Kingdom
|Bonnie Tyler
|Andrius Pojavis
|Amandine Bourgeois
|Krista Siegfrids
|Ryan Dolan
An incredibly long credits list comes to an end, so as far as SBS is concerned her song is finished as well.
Well I guess we know how it goes. Or we will once we've heard it a thousand or so times in the next week.
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest performs her winning title Only Teardrops after winning the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmoe, Sweden. Photo: AFP
Whoever Emmelie is texting / tweeting regarding the fact that she has won, could someone point out to her THEY ARE WATCHING.
She picks up the trophy and the big bouquet of flowers and is veritably man-handled on to stage for a reprise.
Winner of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Emmelie de Forest of Denmark celebrates with the trophy. Photo: AP
The last and well actually least.
8 Georgia
10 Ukraine
12 Azerbaijan
That locks the second place for Azerbaijan.
Even talking in French at this point is pointless.
8 Greece
10 Hungary
12 Italy
Something something gimme the numbers
8 Italy
10 Denmark
12 Ukraine
Ukraine 12 off second. Won't happen.
I'm sorry did you say something?
8 Azerbaijan
10 Ukraine
12 Greece
Our MC has ANOTHER dress on. She announces the winner as Denmark.
The remaining countries will be allowed to speak but no one will listen.
F.Y.R. Macedonia
He also speaks in Swedish. It gets a cheer.
8 Norway
10 Italy
12 Denmark
That. Is. It.
8 Ukraine
10 Armenia
12 Azerbaijan
They're trying to help their neighbours, but nope. 46 points with four remaining. It's over.
Novelty shirt! Novelty shirt! He has an LED message on his shirt pocket.
8 Italy
10 Russia
12 Denmark
There it is. You can call it now Sam and Julia. Julia is trying to. 51 point margin. Five results left.
The presenter is surrounded by a blue haze thanks to her blue screen, and also stands before a fountain. They control the water in Montenegro.
8 Greece
10 Denmark
12 Azerbaijan
Those two points aren't enough. 42 points with six countries to go.
Well they can't give themselves points. This is Azerbaijan's chance.
8 Sweden
10 Netherlands
12 Norway
Or Denmark could give nothing to Azerbaijan. Scandinavians stick together.
A dapper Dan in Dublin wins hearts and hormones around Europe
8 Ukraine
10 Russia
12 Denmark
The UK got 7 there by the way. Power. Block.
Tragically the Greek presenter has spilled oil all down her lovely lemon dress.
8 Ukraine
10 Romania
12 Azerbaijan
They try to keep it tight, but ...
It's in French. It's not in a river. Yay.
8 Azerbaijan
10 Italy
12 Denmark
Denmark have a 39 point lead over Azerbaijan with 10 countries to go.
8 Netherlands
10 Norway
12 Denmark
Julia and Sam are admitting the Ukrainian commentators are unhappy.
The ever practical Germans have an umbrella. I bet there is a life preserver around somewhere as well.
8 Iceland
10 Norway
"I mean 10 Denmark". She gets it wrong!!!
12 Hungary
She looks a little upset that she did that. She should be. Eurovision voting results are SERIOUS.
The man from Estonia appears to be in the middle of a freaking harbour. Is there a flood?
8 Denmark
10 Ukraine
12 Russia
He actually admits they were giving top points to "our neighbours". And that is how Eurovision works.
The musical medical capital of Europe hands out
8 Italy
10 Ukraine
12 Azerbaijan
One point separates second from third.
Third river victim. Please, someone do something.
8 Belgium
10 Greece
12 Azerbaijan
Greece do NOT want to win remember!
It's extraordinary that the introduction in French is slightly MORE interesting.
8 Ukraine
10 Denmark
12 Netherlands
Apparently its controversial that they didn't give France a lot there.
Magnificent gets an extra syllable or nine and numbers also go to:
8 Armenia
10 Ukraine
12 Azerbaijan
It's getting a bit closer now.
135 Denmark
113 Ukraine
100 Azerbaijan
And at the bottom
8 Spain
7 Finland
3 Ireland
Offering an entirely empty gesture of a bouquet of flowers, Latvia also offer
8 Norway
10 Estonia
12 Russia
Out of curiousity Ireland are on 3 at the bottom right now.
Another host tragically standing in a river. Honestly, it's a bad place to set up a camera.
8 Russia
10 Azerbaijan
12 Ukraine
Denmark have a very handy 25 point lead at this point.
The outfit has to be seen to be believed but I don't have a pic. "Morning TV host" Julia tells me. Wow.
8 Denmark
10 Ukraine
12 Italy
Julia is desperately hoping for an Italian win here. It. Won't. Happen.
The "land of ding dong" have real people in the background and give:
8 The Netherlands
10 Hungary
12 Norway
Not so Scandinavian there.
In a shocking turn of events, the Italian official is standing in front of the colosseum ...
8 Norway
10 Malta
12 Denmark
This is now a race in one ... ish.
What the actual? He's got a bow tie, a yellow cardigan and he's singing. Then he's silent. THEN the votes.
8 Greece
10 George
12 Ukraine
Azerbaijan missing out again. Boo Armenia - though mostly for your vote guy.
First tuxedo of the results.
8 Netherlands
10 Malta
12 Sweden
Nothing for Azerbaijan. Harsh.
Sadly none of the Baku hosts have got the gig. They were shot. They also handed over "Eurovision Euphoria" ... give us the bleeding votes already.
8 Malta
10 Georgia
12 Ukraine
She bled that for all it was worth. Azerbaijan trying to host again this year.
Will they return the favour?
8 Azerbaijan
10 Romania
12 Ukraine
85 Denmark lead 80 Azerbaijan, Norway 55 in third.
The Romanians chose a model to represent them. Good call.
8 Norway
10 Azerbaijan
12 Moldova
Tragically the Hungarian host is standing in the middle of a river.
8 Malta
10 Denmark
12 Azerbaijan
It's a race in two it seems.
A 12 year old amateur magician presents Ukraine's votes as follows:
8 Moldova
10 Azerbaijan
12 Belarus
Belarus and Ukraine may have something geographic in common.
Maya in Belgrade has a lovely conversational style.
8 Russia
10 Ukraine
12 Denmark
Wow, Denmark breaks the big voting block there. For the geographically challenged, Serbia is not in Scandinavia.
The show off in Jerusalem does his introduction in Swedish.
8 Denmark
10 Ukraine
12 Azerbaijan
United Kingdom
8 Greece
10 Russia
12 Denmark
Ireland will be a bit upset that their massive voting block of two countries just collapsed.
Towering over Vienna a 60 foot woman in red gives:
8 Netherlands
10 Italy
12 Azerbaijan
Are we heading back to Baku?
The Netherlands
Standing in front of a green screen with a tram on it is a blue suit wearing a tan wearing a man.
8 Malta
10 Denmark
12 Belgium
Remember that the Danish entry is good, but Belgium is a neighbour.
Albania wears a hat.
8 Hungary
10 Greece
12 Italy
Regional affiliations help out there.
Sweden's votes are being given out by a blonde man who lost a fight with a pink highlighter.
8 Netherlands
10 Denmark
12 Norway
That's very Scandinavian of them.
San Marino
Here we go. Eurovision's smallest country gives:
8 points to France
10 points to Malta
12 points to Greece
Proving that San Marino likes free alcohol.
And now, the votes!
It wouldn't be Eurovision in Sweden with ABBA, but we are without ABBA, so instead we get a stirring rendition of The Winner Takes It All as sung by Lynda Woodruff.
Standing among the detritus of her last song, MC Petra introduces a video history of Eurovision.
Inter-cut with some skits ... and a really freaky bit where Petra is digitally inserted into ABBA's Waterloo.
Bonnie Tyler is now begging us to vote for her. That's a bit depressing. Particularly as votes have closed even in the twelve hour delayed universe.
Petra's Swede-deprecating number is fun and enlightening as we discover how Sweden perceive themselves.
"Though men don't have titties they can still stay at home to raise the kids"
Queues for no reason. Gay marriage. Recycling.
These are a few of my favourite Swede-things.
And now a quick Swedish David Attenborough style documentary skit sees soldiers deciding attack options through democracy and the prime minister doing the dishes.
That's fun.
Now for a sentence you don't get to say very often:
Eurovision just got weird.
MC Petra is now doing her Sweden burlesque-meets-Stomp number.
Eurovision TV host Petra Mede performs during the dress rehearsal for the final in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
A shortened version of Euphoria brings us to the end of Loreen and the end of voting.
It seemed a short break yet our MC has had time to get changed.
She's now dressed as a major character from Swedish Mad Men.
Back in the day the Eurovision winner turned into ABBA.
Now they get three songs at the following Eurovision while Europe votes.
We welcome back Loreen who appears to have attracted the unwanted attention of an oversized pigeon while she was getting dressed tonight.
As we wander back down memory lane, I find myself still fond of:
Finland's crazy bride wannabe
Belarus' crazy disco egg girl
Malta's smiling surgeon (well doctor)
Netherland's West End girl Anouk (though I have no belief she'll get the votes)
Iceland's besuited viking ...
... and Azerbaijan's boxed shadow
Plus a drink for Greece's alcoholics not-so-anonymous
And yes, the Denmark earworm
I am also reminded that Cezar rhymes with bizarre.
Host Petra Mede presents the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. Photo: AFP
It's a ballsy move to interview Graham Norton, the host of the UK Eurovision coverage. I love Sam and Julia's coverage but this is the sort of interview that could make a man question his allegiances.
Now we cross back to the Musk of Ceremonies.
So who are you tipping to win? Send through your favourites.
And now to put you in the mood for an hour and a half of people reading numbers out, an ad for Snowtown.
So if you were asking yourself what you could do to *ahem* kill the time between now and the results ...
Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives
Jedward have done something strange to me. I'm somehow disappointed that this young Irishman has a sensible haircut and a voice that is actually suited to singing.
Ryan's doing a great job here with a reasonable song. Lots of high notes (in a non Cezar style). He's not being upstaged by his shirtless tattooed drummer boys. There's a poppy beat. Lots of use of the word "love" and celtic patterns in the heart behind Ryan.
Yet as he finishes on a quite Jon Bon Jovi note, I'm with Sam.
Somehow I miss Jedward.
This has to be something doctors can help me with right?
Ireland's Ryan Dolan performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. Photo: AFP
Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani - Waterfall
It's a duet! The only one tonight.
Sadly they clearly didn't get much rehearsal time as they've started out facing away from each other.
Now THIS sounds like a Disney number.
Remember how earlier we had a song that star-crossed lovers would stare out rainy windows to? Well when they start running through crowded airports / across flower flecked meadows / futuristic hunting game arenas towards each other, this is the song they will play.
The key change sparks the sparks which fall from the ceiling.
Just when I was coming around a bit to this song, the simile "like sailing on a sea of dreams" was used.
That's just an automatic red card.
Georgia's Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani perform during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
She looks like the product of Asher Keddie and Yvonne Strahovsky, and she sings like Bjork. I give you Margaret Berger.
In fact that really sums this up. Electronic music mixed with a strings section. Static blasted on to the background screen. A pure voice being stretched to breaking point.
I wonder what she'd look like in a swan.
Norway's Margaret Berger performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. Photo: AFP
Italy: Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale (The essential)
A man stands on a stage. He has a microphone on a stand in front of him. He wears a suit in the elegant fashion of an Italian gentleman.
He sings.
And ... err ... that's it.
He's got some pretty impressive sideburn action going on.
The camera is doing some big sweeping moves to try and give movement to this otherwise static performance.
Marco is relying on his voice and to be fair, his pipes merit some reliance.
Julia tells us she yelped like an animal. It had some passion. The song that is. I can't comment on the yelp.
Italy's Marco Mengoni performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich, Gravity
Zlata enters the stage carried by an eight foot tall Ukrainian ... err viking. Perhaps you'd believe an eight foot tall Ukrainian male Valkyrie?
The song starts out sounding like Wild Rose by Kylie and Nick Cave but soon it ... well Sam called it a Disney song and he has a point ... but actually this sounds like Bonnie Tyler when she was Bonnie Tyler! At least in the chorus.
So yes, Valkyrie Nick Cave intro, Disney verse, Bonnie Tyler chorus.
It's surprising no one has done it before.
Oh and she's standing atop a fibreglass boulder.
KEY CHANGE!!! This song has it all.
No idea what it had to do with gravity, though she did say it a lot.
Don't hate me, but I liked it.
Ukraine's Zlata Ognevich (L) performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. Photo: AFP
Greece: Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis - Alcohol Is Free
From the Russian Babushka Granny school of 30 seconds of traditional music followed by Euro-pop hyper-beat, we get the Greek "Alcohol is Free" chorus.
Greece of course don't want to win this as they can't afford to host the event next year, but they're making a good fist of it. This is catchy, fun, different.
I freaking love it.
Pop this on in night clubs and it'll work ... pop this on at a wedding and the dance floor is going to get mobbed. Yes, this is the perfect song for drunk people who suddenly think they can dance.
Now that I say that the song title makes sense.
As if to prove my point, the song ends with the band members can-can dancing up the front.
It IS a wedding!
Koza Mostra featuring Agathon Iakovidis of Greece performs the song "Alcohol is Free? during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Sam is talking to an Irish drummer.
It sounds like the set up for a joke ... and this interview ... is.
Julia is talking to the French entrant and the team in the edit suite just leave them to it.
To put that in context, Sam is talking to the drummer about doing weights.
When THAT is the content choice, what do you tell your host?
Azerbaijan: Farid Mammadov - Hold Me
They do mime differently in Azerbaijan. You want to see a man trapped in a glass box. They TRAP A MAN IN A GLASS BOX.
Only SBS do their best to cover up THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOX who is standing on his head.
It would seem that he is here to, literally, shadow Farid as he blasts out his ballad.
Just when this staging looked like it couldn't get more impressive a girl dressed in red with a three thousand metre long train walks on.
I'm taking it that she is the girlfriend of the man trapped in the glass box, who is getting upset because this seems a little excessive in terms of contraception.
Now Farid is flirting with Glass Box Boy's girlfriend.
Torturing a MAN IN A GLASS BOX. Now that's what I call Eurovision!!!
Azerbaijan's Farid Mammadoy (R) performs during a dress rehearsal for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Iceland: Eythor Ingi - Ég á líf (I am alive)
A viking has taken to the stage to perform for Iceland.
He's a very sharp viking though, wearing a three piece dinner suit.
Behind him is the set for a kindergarten nativity play which makes me wonder if there is a kindergarten class performing in front of a neon ten foot disco ball somewhere in Iceland right now.
As for Eythor? He's written a number for the Ten Tenors. Big ballsy male aria. Soaring notes. Marching rhythms.
Great eye candy for the viking lovers. Great tune. Won't win, but it won me over as it went.
Iceland's Eythor Ingi performs during the second semi-final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops
A tin whistle can only mean one thing - it's time for the favourite.
The book makers love Emmelie and it's not just because she doesn't wear shoes.
She is surrounded by massive drums. And men with slightly smaller drums. And she circles her piper singing to him.
This is a poppy earworm, and as such exactly the sort of song that Eurovision loves.
"What comes between us? Only teardrops" that's the philosophy here ... if you can understand it.
There are sparks falling on the performers and confetti falling on the crowd. This is a big crowd pleaser and it's easy to see why this is liked by the bookmakers.
It's also vote-bait in that Scandinavia will vote together and she's half Swedish.
Might be worth a flutter. If you can find a book-maker taking bets on historical activities.
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. Photo: AFP
Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem - Zoohacker Remix (My darling)
Hungary have sent their best hipster toe-tapping duo who are probably very glad to hear that Zach Braff has a new film coming as this is perfect for one of his soundtracks.
Oh no it might be a trio. There's a blonde female back up singer who is definitely part of the song, but she also appears to be happy which is right out of theme with the bands look.
There are also some cool animations on the back screen.
All in all this is very enjoyable, in a background soundtrack kind of way.
ByeAlex of Hungary performs the song "Kedvesem" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Sweden: Robin Stjernberg - You
It must be hard representing the champion country.
Did you know there was a Swedish version of Capoeira dancing? Because that is the best description I can give to what the back up dancers are delivering.
Oh, wow, that was definitely a body pop.
Robin sings "it's all because of you" presumably to the songwriter who gave him this bland pop ballad that can't wrestle attention away from the far more interesting dancers.
Fireworks go off and Robin hits a note that would have been described as high had we not recently heard from Cezar.
While the crowd. The Swedish crowd. Love it. It doesn't sound like a winner to me. It looked like one, but that's not enough.
Sweden's Robin Stjernberg (C) performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
United Kingdom: Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me
Turn around bright eyes, it's Bonnie and it's a ballad.
"That's just fine if the way you want it to be," sings Bonnie and, well, I don't. But my alternative is to believe in Bonnie who is responsible for it.
One day someone will have to explain this "where old musicians go to die" selection policy Great Britain have adopted of late. It's reached a point where you'd be offended if they asked you.
Them: "We'd like you to represent Great Britain at Eurovision"
You: "Bugger off, I have a career! I sang for nine people in a pub last Friday."
Bonnie is still ballading. It's on key. She's on a raised disc of stage. It's ... blah.
She gave it her all but the song just isn't a winner.
Britain's Bonnie Tyler performs during the finals of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Romania: Cezar - It's My Life
And continuing the wrong genre theme, Cezar has arrived from a dinner theatre engagement.
Cezar is surrounded by a massive red parachute with seemingly naked men writhing underneath it.
Cezar is singing in falsetto surrounded by red vertical crystals that he stole from the set of Superman 2.
Cezar is the poster child for Eurovision.
"Like a mountain in the sky" sings Cezar. Which would be a slightly more explicable phenomenon than Cezar's soprano aria.
And now a seemlingly naked woman who was attacked by Goldfinger but survived has emerged from the red parachute.
Cezar has raised on a black plinth to finish up and he thanks us all.
No Cezar. Thank you. For whatever that was.
Wow. Just wow.
Really not sure whether to give that a thumb up or down. Is there a thumb confused? Very, very thumb confused.
Cezar of Romania performs the song "It's My Life" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Netherlands: Anouk - Birds
Apparently Sam hates this and Julia loves it. To me it sounds like a big West End musical number. Think maudlin heroine just after her life has fallen apart. Note not Broadway but West End, this is musicals-to-slash-your-wrists-to stuff.
Anouk has a great voice and is giving this her all. If she was on stage in a - and I can't believe I'm about to say this - MORE theatrical environment this would be a show stopper.
Here it's not going to win anything, merely for being a big tuneful wet blanket on proceedings, but I'm with Julia, I like this a lot.
"That's why birds don't fly/cry"
"Go Anouk!" says Julia.
Go to musical theatre!
Anouk of The Netherlands performs the song "Birds? during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
The walking musk stick is back trying to warm the crowd up after the green-but-yawnful Armenian effort.
We get another dig at the camp nature of the Eurovision and we're back underway with 14 songs to go.
Armenia: Dorians - Lonely Planet
"Who can save you? Who can start it?"
I really didn't expect Dorians, with a song written by Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath to be singing an environmental ballad.
This isn't even a power ballad. It belongs in the "play this song at charity arena festivals early in the day" genre. That's a genre right?
It does have a key change. And this is definitely the most denim that we've seen on stage. Plus there are flames shooting out of the stage.
But no.
"Armenian for double denim" says Sam. Bang on.
Armenia's Dorians performs during a dress rehearsal for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. Photo: AFP
Germany: Cascada - Glorious
Clearly the good people of Germany remember 2012 well. This is a German, stair-mounted re-make of Euphoria if ever I heard one.
Glorious is even being sung with the same emphasis Euphoria got last year.
Glo-o-o-orious sings Cascada.
Loreen is of course on site as the reiging champ, can she serve a writ on stage for intellectual property infringement?
This is good and poppy but it's first and foremost Deutchly derivative.
Cascada of Germany performs the song "Glorious" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
"If you enjoy a blonde woman screaming on top of ... stairs"
That was a VERY awkward pause there Sam!
Russia: Dina Garipova - What If
Dina won The Voice in Russia say Sam and Julia, rubbing in the absence to the addicts taking refuge from male parent drama on Nine.
"What if I could make you all believe?" sings Dina.
Then you'd win.
Oh balls. Dina is surrounded by balls. Big glowing balls behind her, in front of her, all making her look like she's a planet. It's not that flattering but it certainly gives her gravitas. Or maybe just gravity.
This has a real We Are The World feel to it. If the four poorly lit back-up singers who just stepped up to join Dina were say, major celebrities, then this would be doing a lot of good work for Africa.
The audience, ALL of them, have LED light up bracelets, which they are swaying in time with this very Eurovision anthem. It even has a key change.
Good Eurovision song. Great save-the-world song. Please don't play it on the radio.
Dina Garipova of Russia performs the song "What If" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Malta: Gianluca - Tomorrow
Gianluca is a real life doctor and Sam and Julia promise Frente and a sing along.
"His name is Jere-my, he's working in I.T."
I think I love this song.
It's more like Jack Johnson than Frente to my mind.
If Gianluca is the face of Maltese Medicine then it's got a great bedside manner. He's got an amazing smile and this, while not musically complicated by any stretch, is a real toe-tapper.
In fact we're going a little bit Young Talent Time now (the original) as everyone is asked to sing along with this giddy smile-fest.
How doesn't love the story of a Maltese I.T. worker finding love. Or possibly stalking it. "It's time to follow her tomorrow."
Ok, that smile is getting a little concerning.
Malta's Gianluca (C) performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. Photo: AFP
Alyona of Belarus steps out of the disco ball - which sounds like the opposite of coming out of the closet, but is actually a literal statement regarding her entrance on stage at Eurovision. Photo: AFP
For those wanting to revisit that disco egg moment, here you go.
Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya, Solayoh
Alyona arrives on stage in a giant disco ball and in fact this girl is the Belarusian Kylie Minogue.
The giant disco ball sits behind her while two men with massive oversized white waistcoats gyrate around her.
"Beautiful people ayayayayayayah"
That's the only lyric I've really got so far. Whether Alyona is claiming to be singing on behalf of beautiful people or complaining about them it's hard to tell.
Belarusian Celebrity Splash cannot WAIT for Alyona to get home. She's athletic, enthusiastic and really, really wants to be a Belarusian Kylie Minogue ... singing Ricky Martin.
If Belarus ever host the world cup, keep an eye out for Ms Lanskaya.
Belarus' Alyona Lanskaya performs during the finals of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Estonia: Birgit - Et uus saaks alguse (So there can be a new beginning)
It's really hard to believe the audience were important to Birgit as she demands her song start in black and white. An effect achieved by the Technical Director while jabbing himself in the forehead with his car keys.
However she has colourful make up and a tan, so the crowd surrounding her got none of that.
This song sits firmly in the blah-blah ballad category, though Birgit blasts one note to try and wake us up.
Imagine if you will the scene in a film (not a good one) where the two star-crossed lovers stare out a rainy window at the moon from a world apart. This is the song that would play if they couldn't get the rights to a good one.
Perhaps it could have started in silence instead?
Estonia's Birgit performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. Photo: AFP
Belgium: Roberto Bellarosa - Love Kills
Oooh, Roberto has a raspy quality to his voice and scary serial killer puppy dog eyes.
And he has back up dancers HIDING BEHIND HIM.
"Love kills, over and over" sings the man who auditioned for both The Following and Hannibal just so he could claim he was only method acting.
There is an intensity to Roberto that I like and that I also like knowing is a few thousand kilometres away.
His dancers are performing a routine that I will call "Robot does the Sydney to Hobart yacht race"
Now they've just been silhouetted so they can power shoulder the rest of the number while Roberto tells us over and over that love kills over and over.
For some reason I quite like this ... it rubs the lotion on the skin.
Belgium's Roberto Bellarosa performs during a dress rehearsal for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Spain: ESDM - Contigo hasta el final (With you until the end)
Errr ... Spanish bagpipes?
Oh and Dear. The acronym formerly known as Raquel (thank you internet) has a slight pitch problem. And a song writer problem. This song wants to be in Rock of Ages but is really just Off Key of Anguish.
The bow tied guitarist is loving it, but then he would.
What is the Spanish for tone deaf hipster?
Spain's ESDM performs during the finals of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
Here's that kiss. Just. You know. In case you were curious.
Finland's Krista Siegfrids (L) performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo Photo: AFP
Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me
"Where is my proposal" sings Krista who may be releasing her album Jagged Ljittle Pjill this year.
Her back up singers are wearing red PVC aprons. Her dancers are in purple plush tails. She is wearing Bjork's swan as a train.
Then there is her pink shoes. Which match her knee strap. Which matches her single fingerless glove.
Gjirls Just Wjant to Hjave Fjun?
Cue the tempo change and the massive wind machine assisted veil.
"I do it for you"
You know if you did it for him you might not have to demand the proposal.
"I take your name, I do the walk of shame"
And I kiss my back up singer. Female.
Celebrating same sex marriage, or promoting 1950s sexual politics. Why not both?!
Finland's Krista Siegfrids performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. Photo: AFP
Ooooh... it's a crazy-off in Malmo.
Julia's talking to Bonnie Tyler who is cackling but sane, Sam's interviewing Krista Siegfrids of Finland who is enthusiastic and clearly bonkers.
"I can kiss anybody I want to" says Krista, who recently explained that her song was designed to make her boyfriend propose.
He hasn't.
Go figure.
Moldova: Aliona Moon - O mie (A Thousand)
This is more like it! We have a girl in a dress that is also a projection screen. We have white-clad interpretive dancers. We have a man who can play piano but can't afford sleeves.
Loving this on the visuals. Aliona's got a good voice too ... and she's got lots of arms (thanks to the dancers) and she is now approximately twenty feet tall.
Aliona is on fire. And I do not mean that figuratively. Her home theatre turned outfit has flames creeping up it and she's got what sounds like an Aussie accent too (based on her "thank you very much" at the end)
Aliona Moon of Moldova performs the song "O Mie" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something
When the lyrics explain one man's love "because of his shoes" you know you've found a song you can get behind.
Sadly no one will accuse Andrius of having a particularly musical voice, but he has maintained the black leather theme so far.
"One is called love, the other is:
(a) Spain
(b) Fame
(c) Pain"
I couldn't make it out.
Let me know what you thought it was. Don't google, that's cheating.
Andrius Pojavis of Lithuania performs the song "Something" during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters
Julia did just give that 12 points. But that's because it was France. If you were confused because you didn't understand why the French cat was rated so highly.
France: Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer et moi (Hell and Me)
She's wearing black leather tassels - no not leather with tassels. Just tassels - and Amandine is going fr a slow rock with silhouetted back up singers.
The song is so interesting that I'm focusing on the silhouetted afro behind her. It's not bad, but this has B side written all over it. B side to a song that never cracks the charts.
Halfway through the song has reduced to wailing and wild camera moves to add excitement.
France's Amandine Bourgeois performs during the finals of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: AFP
The postcards this year are not brought to you by a cute camera trick that makes everything look like architects models. Instead its that backpacking butterfly travelling over Europe.
"To all you dancing queens in the audience, welcome"
Oh the musk stick has got game! Turns her "We have A-B-B" ABBA gag into a decent line.
And Australia gets a mention - and it's a gag as well. We cross "live to Australia" to see a family asleep on a sofa.
Something tells me that was Malmo, Australia.
And now a walking musk stick welcomes us to Eurovision 2013.
Petra Mede is the musk's moniker.
For those hoping for a running order, you can either take notes as the artists walk in, or you can just scroll to the bottom of this liveblog.
DENIM! We have a denim national costume. You know it's somehow started properly now.
We made it seven whole minutes before Julia Zemiro suggested France could win. That's ... not really surprising at all. For those wondering what that means - it means Julia always tips France without any real objective rationale.
Sam chooses to provide an informed commentary on the euphemistic bridge and quite frankly that's just out of place at Eurovision. We prefer wildly creative and utterly spurious interpretation thank you very much.
For those of us who had forgotten about football and the all important final round games happening in the Premier League later tonight, Zlatan Ibrahimovic (of PSG but also of Sweden) welcomes us to Eurovision.
Hopefully I can forget the nervous football hours ahead for a few hours now.
(Go Arsenal)
And the Mardi Gras butterfly takes flight ... wait what?
There aren't any chairs to spin around but there are voting blocks to be commented upon and conspiracy theories to be woven as Europe attempts to provide a methadone program for Voice addicts who have just discovered that House Husbands doesn't involve any singing.
And welcome to the 2013 Eurovision caterpillar. It may well be an Australian backpacker by the looks of things. It's covering Europe faster than a Contiki tour.
And we're away! Welcome back Julia and Sam.
Weird claymation had me panicking I was on the wrong SBS there for a second!
Good work SBS World News, dog parade the perfect introduction to Eurovision!
Giles: I'm sorry did SBS seriously just compare Victoria Beckham to Mona Lisa? Or even rebroadcast an ABC America video that did so? Wow, Eurovision madness is spreading!
Giles: Five minutes out. Really hoping SBS news doesn't decide to end with an announcement of the winner or a montage of the ceremony including trophy presentation!
Giles: Fifteen minutes away and I'm genuinely excited. Of course, I'm also preparing all the photos so I'm getting a preview of the sideburns, and the costumes, and the looks of plaintive, emotional, extreme sincerity.
Anyone had to go to any great lengths to avoid spoilers today? Or been spoiled in an unusual way?
Are you at a Eurovision party? What are the rules for your drinking game?
You know, I'm sad that Croatia didn't make it through to the final. Any combination of boy band and Gregorian chant (well, it sounds like it to me) that is recognised by UNESCO deserves SOME love.
Time for one of our rare informed posts. Here is the order of ceremonies for tonight. France kicks us off, Ireland brings us home - but sadly Jedward free. So here's a photo of them.
|Amandine Bourgeois
|L'enfer et moi (Hell and Me)
|Andrius Pojavis
|Aliona Moon
|O mie (A Thousand)
|Krista Siegfrids
|Marry Me
|Contigo hasta el final (With you until the end)
|Roberto Bellarosa
|Love Kills
|Et uus saaks alguse (So there can be a new beginning)
|Alyona Lanskaya
|Dina Garipova
|What If
|Lonely Planet
|It's My Life
|United Kingdom
|Bonnie Tyler
|Believe in Me
|Robin Stjernberg
|Kedvesem - Zoohacker Remix (My darling)
|Emmelie de Forest
|Only Teardrops
|Eythor Ingi
|Ég á líf (I am alive)
|Farid Mammadov
|Hold Me
|Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis
|Alcohol Is Free
|Zlata Ognevich
|Marco Mengoni
|L'essenziale (The essential)
|Margaret Berger
|I Feed You My Love
|Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani
|Ryan Dolan
|Only Love Survives
Jedward of Ireland perform their song 'Lipstick' during the Eurovision Song Contest final in Duesseldorf May 14, 2011. Photo: Reuters
Welcome to the Eurovision live blog for 2013! This is a "live blog" but is timed to coincide with the SBS Broadcast on Sunday night, not the live grand final which happened at some ungodly hour this morning. So we are all partaking in a group suspension of timezone. That said, we are coinciding our blog with the Eastern States. Sorry South Australia and Western Australia!
So please join us to watch the television, stare agog at the performers and revel in our tongue-in-cheek observations and your far-more-clever comments.
Don't you just love Eurovision? And don't you just love how Australia loves to avoid the internet for 12 hours one day a year?
Spaceman sadly not performing tonight: Montenegro's Who See feat. Nina Zizic perform during the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest. They did not go through to the grand final. Photo: Reuters


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Susan is mortified but tries her best to comply when her art teacher, Andre Zeller, asks the students to show up to class in the nude in order to help them create from a point of honesty; Bree serves up some delicious, homemade soup for the homeless at the local shelter, but ends up enticing the local hipsters and pushing out those in need.
Gaby finds herself without a staff to help set up a school event when her lackadaisical approach to her new job as president of the PTA insults the parent volunteers; Renee helps a reluctant Lynette get back into the dating pool by taking her to a singles bar; and Carlos finds himself hitting rock bottom when the guilt over murdering Gaby's stepfather begins to engulf him.
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We went to the Dutch Wooden Shoe Cafe for the first time this morning, and will definitely be going back. It's got a very cool, homemade style of decor inside, and that just adds to the charm - photos all over the walls of past diners, a huge collection of beer glasses and mugs from around the world, and lots of posters of Holland and the like. It's certainly not boring! The server was a dream, too - genuinely friendly and happy to be there, and did an amazing job, especially considering the place was half-full and he was on his own. Coffee came fast and often, and he checked up on us three times over the course of the meal (not counting the initial food delivery and the bill drop-off). The food itself was excellent - great quality, lots of flavour. I had one of the eggs 'n ' hash combos and my other half had the apple and cheese pannekoek - we'll definitely be going back to sample other items on the expansive menu. Overall, we're extremely pleased with our experience, and will definitely return.
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Zillow says: 40 percent of mortgages in Monroe MI are underwater
Posted on August 14th, 2012 in Mortgages
Zillow has a nifty interactive map feature in which you can type in a location or zip code to find out how many homes in that area have mortgages whose amounts are more than the house is currently worth – the so-called "underwater" situation.
The chart is based on Zillow's first quarter 2012 data.
The following zip codes of interest to my local readers check in at among the highest 10 percent in the nation:
- Toledo OH 43611 zip code (this area includes Point Place): 54 percent.
- Brownstown Township MI 48173 zip code: 53 percent.
- Milan MI 48160 zip code: 49 percent.
The following zip codes check in at among the highest 20 percent in the nation:
- Monroe MI / Monroe Township 48161 zip code: 40 percent.
- Monroe MI / Frenchtown Township 48162 zip code: 42 percent.
- Maybee MI 48159 zip code: 44 percent.
- Dundee MI 48131 zip code: 41 percent.
Other random zip code checks of interest:
- Carleton MI 48117 zip code: 37 percent.
- LaSalle MI 48145 zip code: 35 percent.
- Temperance MI 48182 zip code: 26 percent.
- Ottawa Lake MI 49268 zip code: 20 percent.


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Fox Johnston Architects' Balmoral Home Responds to its Surroundings
Posted By Designhunter On October 12, 2012 @ 2:40 pm In Architecture,Green Building,Reader Submitted Content | No Comments
This home in Balmoral was designed by Sydney-based Fox Johnston Architects [2] as a series of platforms that respond to the rhythm and topography of the site. A long linear form to the west contains sleeping areas and bathrooms on the lower level while the upper level accomodates living areas and a media room. The upper level roof flips up to the north and opens completely onto a northeast-facing deck. Sliding external walls and screens can open and close to provide privacy or sun control. The home's long, narrow profile and orientation allows good cross ventilation and sun filtration throughout.
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We wanted to go somewhere special for our honeymoon and people had recommended Madeira as we didnt want a long haul flight. What people didnt tell us was it was very hilly! The hotel itself is a bit dated and seemed to be stuck in a time wharp! However, our room was fantastic, it was the top room with a bedroom, lounge area and a double large balcony with sunbeds and table chairs, our only gripe was the bed which was really hard and we did have a small infestation for a cople of days. But in saying that, the hotel did sort the problem out for us very quickly. The staff were very friendly and courteous and kept the place looking nice and clean. The Thomson staff were also very friendly, sometimes a little crazy, but again the entertainment although very good, was stuck in a time wharp. The outside entertainment brought in could have been a bit better. We did do a couple of trips, the Enchanting East and the West and we also did the cable car and toboggans, which is a must, not as scary as they look!! The weather was a little poor when we first arrived, but then had a heatwave which was lovely. Although the hotel is situated on a hill, it wasnt a bad location, as you could walk 10 mins down to the larger hotels and some shops and bars and if you walked the other direction down it took you about 15-20 mins to walk into Funchal and the harbour. All in all we had a lovely time, with some nice memories, but because of all the hills, very much doubt we will go again.
food was fantastic at this hotel which included a full english breakfast which we didnt expect .we stayed on the 5th floor. .bedroom was smaller than we are used to..going down into madiera from hotel was a pleasant walk but coming back was a grualling uphill struggle.excursions to the east coast was a great day out with a smashing lunch and a bottle of wine included.. will return in future to the same hotel.
Very good couples only hotel. rooms have a mini fridge and kettle (take your own tea & coffee). Beds Hugh. The roof terrace has a large hot tub, the only downside is there are no umbrellas or shade so be careful ( we had bad sunburn). Large pool with plenty of sun beds. The area is very hilly so if you walk into town you will need a taxi back. (5-8 euros). Thompson staff very helpful. Take the four wheel drive tours, they are good value and a great time. The island is small but beautiful. Beaches none unless you like rocks. Overall a good holiday, we would return to the Savoy gardens.
Hotel has great facilities and very friendly helpful staff. Restaurant very well run and food excellent, great choice at both breakfast and dinner. Entertainment very good, the team are very motivated and friendly. Position on steep hill could be a slight problem but buses run frequently close to the hotel and taxi's in abundance and reasonable. Went to 'The Fort' restaurant in the old town for special meal and can certainly recommend, very memorable meal in lovely surroundings.
Funchal is a lovely city and scenery in the hills is stunning, a lovely place for a holiday.
My partner and I had a weeks holiday in june. Being a young couple in our 20's many people commented on the strange choice of destination as its normally associated with the more mature travellers. However, it totally depends on what you want from a holiday. If you want beach, buzzing nightlife and lazing about its not for you. We love to sightsee and explore and this was the best holiday for this. So much to see and do, scenery is stunning, weather great, friendly people, great food and fab hotel. Very painful on the legs as wherever you go there are very steep hills!! Would definitely go for another holiday and stay at this hotel, couldnt fault it. To top it off my partner proposed at the end of the holiday, perfect!
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Cap-to-Cap to celebrate Earth Day with carbon offsets
With Earth Day's 40th celebration just days away, the Sacramento Metro Chamber proudly announces that 300 delegates travel for the Capitol-to-Capitol advocacy program is "green."
Metro Chamber member Sacramento Municipal Utility District has once again provided carbon offsets for the official travel portion of each Cap-to-Cap delegate. This is the third year in a row that SMUD has sponsored reduction of the delegation's carbon footprint.
"SMUD's carbon offset program is retiring 295 tonnes of greenhouse gas offsets on behalf of our delegation," said Metro Chamber President & CEO Matt Mahood. "For each delegate, that would be .93 tons of CO2 for a roundtrip flight Sacramento to Washington D.C. The Metro Chamber appreciates this gesture by SMUD."
The carbon offsets are third-party verified and registered with the Climate Action Reserve.
"Our delegation is here in the nation's capital working on priorities to reasonably address global warming issues," Mahood said. "From a typical chamber's perspective, we have taken a progressive policy position on climate change. Additionally, we have made adoption of clean technology and energy efficiency policies as an opportunity to create jobs and business growth in our region. Sacramento is uniquely positioned to lead the state in this new and emerging industry sector."
Interestingly, both the Metro Chamber's Cap-to-Cap and Earth Day were both founded in 1970, Mahood noted, but the chamber has a long history of working on environmental issues. "In the 1980s, we advocated for improving air quality. In 2003, we vigorously advocated to get SMOG Check II implemented in the Bay Area to improve our air quality—that was a Cap-to-Cap success."
The Metro Chamber delegation is in D.C. until April 21; and the 300 participants will hold nearly 250 meetings with elected and administration officials. Of those meetings, 23 are dedicated to appointments advocating for the Sacramento region's clean energy and green technology priorities. A few of the key projects throughout the region are:
• Zero-emission power plant research in Rancho Cordova
• Solar-powered processing at Sacramento county wastewater treatment plant
• Increased biogas production from wastewater treatment to generate electric power
• Roseville-based processing station to turn restaurant waste into electric power
Monday, the delegation will meet with U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu, former chief of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Dr. Chu is charged with helping implement President Obama's ambitious agenda to invest in clean and renewable energy, end reliance on foreign oil, address the global climate crisis and create millions of new jobs. To that end, he is expected to comment during his address to the Cap-to-Cap delegation on the Sacramento region's bold strategy to be the Green Capital of California
A top Cap-to-Cap priority is supporting the Lawrence Berkeley Lab-led proposal to establish in Northern California a cluster of institutions and organizations developing and getting to market energy efficient building systems. These would include UC Davis, the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA), the Los Rios Community College District, PG&E, SMUD and Sacramento State University.
The Department of Energy has $127 million available for this proposal called the Energy Efficiency Building Systems Regional Innovation Cluster, E-RIC.
"Our region's commitment to leadership in clean and green energy has provided us a strong foundation to be an active partner in the important E-RIC opportunity, which will be a game changer," said Meg Arnold, SARTA CEO.
The Northern California proposal brings unmatched assets to the challenge of developing new energy efficiency technologies, commercializing them, and developing new business and jobs to bring new technologies to market, including:
• Applied Research: UC Davis' Energy Efficiency Center has a core focus on building systems and is already testing new energy efficient technologies in real world applications.
• Policy Leadership: California leads the nation in establishing policy goals and regulatory standards to improve energy efficiency so much that California's per capita energy use is about what it was 30 years ago, despite expansion of energy using technologies throughout homes and businesses
• Technology Transfer/Business Development: Northern California leads the world in venture capitalists who invest in new technologies, business development organizations such as SARTA which facilitate commercialization of innovation emerging out of research institutions and the Los Rios Community College Small Business Development Center which supports the viability of small businesses
• Jobs/Technical Training: Community colleges, Workforce Investment Boards, and apprentice-training programs have all created green job training programs which are already producing the workers needed in all aspects of energy efficient building, new construction and retrofits.
• Utilities: The major utilities in Northern California, PG&E, SMUD, and Roseville Electric are leaders in early adoption and deployment of efficiency measures and offer both investor-owned and municipal business models to demonstrate integration of energy efficiency in a variety of utility governance. Already, SMUD is partnering with Sacramento State University on one of the nation's largest deployments of "smart grid" technology.
• Business climate: California's leadership role in policy and standards has created a market for energy efficiency that is attracting new business investment from throughout the world from companies who want to be at the center of the policy action and who want to leverage the resulting market demand into tangible businesses and jobs.


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IATSE Cartoonist Local 839 Ratifies Contract With BKN
After a four-year organizing drive, the membership of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, Local 839 IATSE (M.P.S.C. Local 839) has unanimously ratified a collective bargaining agreement with BKN Studios, Inc. (BKN). "The BKN contract marks the successful end of one of the longest organizing drives in the union's history," business representative Steve Hulett said after the vote at the local's membership meeting on November 27, 2001. M.P.S.C. Local 839 began meeting with company employees in late 1998 and collected representation cards and filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in early 1999. A hearing and election were held, but the NLRB sealed the ballot box for thirteen months. The results are now known. "My hat is off to Steve Hulett and president emeritus Tom Sito for their tenacity in getting this contract signed," said Kevin Koch, who succeeded the retiring Sito as Local 839's president in early November. "As we showed here, Local 839 continues to do whatever it takes to defend the interests of all animation professionals." The BKN agreement marks the local's first successful organizing drive since Fox Animation and Adelaide Productions signed agreements in 1998. The union is in ongoing negotiations with other cartoon studios. Most recently, the union has voiced support for the Writers Guild of America west's campaign to organize animation writers at Viacom's Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank.
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Mourning in Mosul
Everybody leads with the attack on a base in Mosul that killed about 25 people, including as many as 19 GIs. (There's confusion about the exact numbers.) About 60 soldiers and contractors were wounded in the explosion, which hit a cafeteria during mealtime. It was the deadliest single attack since the war began.
It's not clear what caused the explosion. The Wall Street Journal cites military officials saying it was a rocket. But a militant Web site claimed responsibility and asserted it was a suicide operation. The base has thousands of people on it, including foreign contractors and Iraqi security forces. And even if it was a rocket or mortar, the attack could have been aided by insiders. As USA Todaynotices, the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq said a few weeks ago that insurgents "probably know about when meal times are and [when] there is a concentration of people. The rest of the day, folks are scattered."
It also could have been a "lucky" hit. The Washington Postsays, "Mortar rounds fall frequently on the post—sometimes a half-dozen a day." The Richmond Times-Dispatch's Jeremy Redmon, who was there during the explosion, writes that the mess hall itself has been targeted "more than 30 times this year."
The Los Angeles Times and WP run Redmon's dispatch. "A fireball enveloped the top of the tent, and shrapnel sprayed into the men," he wrote. The NYT quotes from it but declines to run the second-hand copy.
As USAT mentions, the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald had a reporter on the scene a couple of minutes after the blast.
Elsewhere in Iraq, two French journalists were released after being held hostage for four months. And British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Baghdad.
The LAT alone has word that a major contractor has decided to pull out of Iraq because of the security situation and the sky-rocketing costs of dealing with it. Contrack International, Inc. is abandoning a $325 million contract to rebuild Iraq's transportation system.
The Journal's Iraq catchall flags some Pentagon officials saying the White House is wrong: The U.S. needs fewer troops in Iraq. The fewer number of troops, the less the resentment from Iraqis. "What you get with a smaller force is an ink-blot approach," one "senior defense official" said. "You work on one small, manageable area at a time and spread out from there."
The ACLU has unleashed another batch of detainee abuse/torture docs, and the papers have different tacks. The Post goes Page One with it, saying in its lead that the docs, which were culled from military investigation files, suggest the mistreatment was "more widespread, varied and grave in the past three years than the Defense Department has long maintained." It happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gitmo, of course, and included "shocking detainees with electric guns [and] shackling them without food."*
The LAT and New York Timesstuff the ACLU docs, with both suggesting the memos indicate the military has been slack in investigating alleged abuse and torture. In one case, a doc states, some evidence was "not collected" even though "probable cause existed for a murder charge." As the LAT says, and others have suggested before, part of the problem is that investigators seemed to have been overwhelmed by the number of abuse cases.


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JOPLIN, MO.--- Governor Jay Nixon signed Senate Bill 754 covering the Missouri RX Program. At a cost of $20 million a year, it helps about 207,000 patients by paying 50% of the out of pocket costs of prescriptions. Advocates for seniors say there was some serious concern whether state officials would allow the program to run out this August.
"This is something we deal with on a daily basis. And we do know how many seniors rely on this program," said Allison Riddle, Area Agency on Aging.
Missouri RX helps patients already enrolled in Medicare who make less than $29,000 a year.
That wasn't the only bill the Missouri governor addressed this week. Nixon also approved Senate Bill 567. That will provide additional training and resources for adult day care operations. Senate Bill 606 was also approved. The new law will increase regulation of the sale of pre-paid legal services.
Governor Nixon also vetoed Senate Bill 675. The measure would have allowed local governments to transfer administration for first responder retirement plans without a prior vote. Decision-making time is running out for the governor. State law gives him until next week, or any bills left undecided automatically become law.
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Chassis: TT-01 type E composite chassis-compatible with a variety of
Tamiya Option Parts
Drive: Four wheel shaft drive
Electronic Speed Control: Tamiya TEU-104BK with reverse
Motor: 540 motor with pre-attached leads
Ball Bearings: Installed in differentials, bushings in wheel hubs
Shocks: Friction, plastic body
Gearbox: Sealed, front and rear
Differentials: Bevel gear, bushing equipped
Transmission: Single speed
Body: Clear untrimmed, with window mask and body trim decals
Tires: Treaded 1.0" (26mm) wide, 2.6" (65.5mm) diameter
Wheels: 5-spoke silver 2.0" (52mm) outer diameter, 1.0" (26mm) wide
Bumper: Front foam
Suspension: Independent double wishbone
Camber: Non-adjustable, camber refers to the angle of the tops of the
tires from vertical when viewed from front or behind vehicle
Caster: Non-adjustable, caster/toe-in refers to the angle of the
front suspension when viewed from the side of the car in relation
to the chassis
Steering: Bell-crank type with servo saver
Ford SVT F-150 On-Road Pickup Truck kit, 540 motor, ESC, clear body,
tires, foam bumper, 19 tooth pinion gear, 61 tooth spur gear,
window mask, decals, one set of wheels and instruction manual
Radio: 2-channel with one standard servo
Radio Batteries: 8 AA size (for transmitter)
Battery: 6-cell stick pack with standard connector
Charger: AC/DC timed or peak for 6-cell battery
Misc. Items: Building and track equipment
Length: 15.7" (400mm)
Width: 7.2" (183mm)
Height: 5.5" (140mm)
Wheelbase: 9.9" (251mm)
Length: 18.3" (464mm)
Width: 7.7" (195mm)
Height: 5" (127mm)
For replacement, or to upgrade to Ball Bearings use:
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2 5x11mm Front Hubs 1 DTXC1547
2 5x11mm Rear Hubs 1 DTXC1547
2 8x12mm Front Diff 1 DTXC1581
2 8x12mm Rear Diff 1 DTXC1581
2 5x11mm Fr Driveshaft Joint 1 DTXC1547
2 5x11mm Rear Driveshaft Joint 1 DTXC1547
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The Neelin Spartans varsity boys and Virden Golden Bears varsity girls are each one win away from advancing to the provincial AAA high school basketball championships.
Andrew Paul scored 21 points as the Spartan boys, ranked fourth in the province, bounced the unranked Golden Bears 73-28 in an interzone game on Thursday at Neelin. Noah Patton added 12 points for the Spartans, while Matt Trussler led the Golden Bears with eight points.
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Introduction to Pro A. Cluentio Habito
I. The Story Unfolded in Cicero's Speech
II. The Scamander Incident
III. The Trial of Oppianicus Before Junius
IV. The Lex Cornelia de Sicariis et Veneficis
This introduction is reproduced in its entirety (with
the exception of the introductory opening found on the previous
page, which appeared before the material below) from Introduction
to M. Tulli Ciceronis: Pro A. Cluentio Oratio, ed. W. Peterson,
Macmillian and Co., Ltd.: London, 1920.
The Story Unfolded in Cicero's Speech
A. Cluentius Habitus, the defendant,
had lost his father in the year B.C. 88, when he was a boy of fifteen.
His sister Cluentia married her cousin, A. Aurius Melinus; and the
first stage in the rupture between Cluentius and his mother was
brought about by the circumstances which destroyed this marriage.
Sassia, falling in love with her son-in-law, induced him to divorce
Cluentia, and marry her instead.
The averment of the prosecution was that
it was Cluentius who had procured the death of Oppianicus (as well
as of two other persons) by poison.
The Scamander Incident
The conviction of Scamander, the freedman
of the Fabricii, formed one of the praeiudicia or 'previous
decisions' recorded against Oppianicus, on which Cicero largely
relied for the success of his present defence. When Scamander was
prosecuted for having been a party to the alleged attempt on the
life of Cluentius, Cicero had appeared on his behalf; and one of
his main difficulties in defending Cluentius now was that he had
previously committed himself to a quite different version of the
facts and circumstances involved in the case. P. Cannutius, the
counsel for the prosecution at the trial of Scamander, is represented
(§ 52) as having proved more than a match for Cicero. As the guilt
or innocence of Oppianicus turns greatly on the incident in which
Scamander figures, and as that incident has generally been misrepresented
by commentators, it may be worth while to restate it here.
The Trial of Oppianicus Before Junius
(Iudicium Iunianum)
The following is the
account which, in the speech before us, Cicero gives of the circumstances
of this trial. Oppianicus felt that his case was hopeless, in view
of the judgments previously recorded against Scamander and Fabricius.
Having decided to endeavour to influence the jury he approached
Staienus, who was known to have given the solitary vote in favour
of Scamander; and, finding Staienus a willing instrument, he placed
in his hands the sum of 640,000 sesterces [about
$160,000 1996 dollars--Webmaster] with which to
bribe sixteen members of the bench, whose votes, together with his
own, would secure a majority of the whole thirty-two. Staienus made
promises to certain venal jurors, but secretly determined to keep
all the money to himself, calculating that the conviction of Oppianicus
would save him from all risk of being called to account for his
intromissions. So he pretends that Oppianicus has played him false,
and will not pay; and he advises his venal colleagues that the best
thing they could do would be to follow his example and vote for
a conviction.
The Lex Cornelia de Sicariis et Veneficis
After all that has been said, it may
appear strange that there should still remain for discussion the
question whether the alleged conduct of Cluentius at the trial of
the elder Oppianicus was really put forward as a count in the present
indictment against him. Nearly seven-eighths of Cicero's speech
are taken up with this aspect of the case; but it has been held
that Cicero misrepresented the indictment, and that the only charges
directly preferred against Cluentius were the charges of poisoning.
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In its annual long-term forecast for Canadian crude production, the industry trade group said crude oil production will reach 6.7 million bpd by 2030, up from 3.2 million bpd in 2012. CAPP said its forecast includes oil-sands production of 5.2 million bpd by 2030, up from 1.8 million last year.
By JUDY McKINNON
Canadian crude oil production will more than double by 2030,
and while oil sands will continue to account for most of the
growth, a resurgence of conventional crude oil production is
expected, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said
In its annual long-term forecast for Canadian crude
production, the industry trade group said crude oil production
will reach 6.7 million bpd by 2030, up from 3.2 million
bpd in 2012.
CAPP said its forecast includes oil-sands production of 5.2
million bpd by 2030, up from 1.8 million last year.
The group said the overall trend is similar to its forecast
last year, but noted that conventional production forecasts are
up 300,000 bpd and oil-sands production is up by
200,000 bpd by 2030.
CAPP said advancements in drilling technologies have helped
reverse the decline in conventional production over the last
many decades.
"Stronger performance for conventional tight oil in Canada
and the United States, coupled with oil sands growth from
Canada, enables greater North American energy security," Greg
Stringham, CAPP vice-president, markets and oil sands, said in
a statement.
Still, the group acknowledged that its outlook assumes
transportation capacity expands to accommodate the projected increases in supply.
Canadian crude sells at a discount to other oils, given the
relative difficulties of getting it out of the country.
There are a number of proposed pipeline projects in the works and seeking
approvals to move landlocked western-Canadian supply to
markets. Producers are also increasingly looking to rail
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2 20gal tanks need extreme cleaning "help"
Okay here it is, today I procured 2 20 gallon aquariums for free with all the equipment and accessories to get them up and running. But I have a problem, they where severely neglected and need to be cleaned extremely well. (they set 1/2 empty for almost 4 years) with everything still in them. They are in bad shape and I really want to try and save both of them I will reseal if needed but from what I can tell the seals are fine. What I'm looking for is some real good ideas on how to clean them including the equipment (gravel under gravel filters, plants pumps heater)
I know the basic ways to clean and maintain tanks, but these are bad they even smell like dog pee?!
here is a couple pictures
Any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
these pictures look better then the tank do in person
no that's not a crack at the bottom and the tank is empty
P.S. only if the pictures where scratch and sniff
take it all out back take out any thing usable out the tanks mixe up a vinger/lemon juice/water mix in a spray bottle spray the tanks down heavly with it and let it soak for awhile and hose down rinse and repeat until clean but dont use any chemicals
it really doeant look bad at all. soap and a green scrubbie should do the trick. just make sure the tank is clean of substrate and debris before you do it. if you get a piece of gravel or sand between the scrubber and the glass, you will have a big problem on your hands
I would not use any kind of soap inside an aquarium. Soap will kill your fish.
I don't see any problem using soap, since bleach is a common thing used to clean aquariums. The main thing is to rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse,rinse....... and so on. Just don't use it on the rocks.
soap will only kill your fish if you dont rinse your tank properly.
Were it me,, I would fill the tanks half full of water and then put a half gal of vinegar in each one and let soak for a day. Then I would use NEW sponge with green srubby on one side and scrub and scrub.
I would do the same as 1077. Vinegar is great for breaking down the hard water stains. Its to cold here for outside cleaning, I have been cleaning out my qt tank in the bathtub. The shower head is good for giving it a good rinse.
Thank you all for the quick replies. They all where very helpful I have the first tank cleaned and am starting to cycle it. The second tank will be awhile (it was in alot worse sharpe)
Twistermom, I agree cleaning outside was out of the question (I'm form Indiana, we're neighbors). I ended up taking over the bathroom for most of the day.
Heres a picture of the first tank all cleaned up.
(im running it low on water to try and be safe in case it leaks, even though all of the silicone looked good)
I'm using the over the bank to start the cycle then i'll be switching to undergravel when I get the new air pump.
I appreciate the cleaning tips too. I'm in the process of cleaning a tank that was given to me and wanted a safe way to clean.
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