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The Rudd plan that's now in the bin
- From: News Corp Australia Network
- March 22, 2013
A DETAILED action plan to "hit the ground running" had been drawn up by Kevin Rudd's closest supporters, as recriminations flowed in the wake of yesterday's aborted leadership coup.
Supporters of the former Prime Minister had mapped out plans for him to tour western Sydney as early as next week, and potentially make a significant infrastructure announcement if the Caucus numbers had fallen his way.
But the chances of Mr Rudd being restored to the helm of the Labor Party now appear slim, even though he remains far and away Labor's most popular figure among marginal seat voters.
Mr Rudd's dispirited supporters were last night reeling after their plan for him to return to the leadership blew up in their faces. Key backers were last night lamenting their failure to secure hopeful votes from Labor MPs who face an election trouncing in September.
Last Sunday, as he played in the annual cricket match between the Canberra Press Gallery and Federal MPs, Alan Griffin was musing that the chances of a leadership challenge were evenly balanced.
Mr Griffin, a former Veterans Affairs Minister, and several other key Caucus figures had been crunching numbers for Mr Rudd, expecting vulnerable and nervous backbenchers to shift their support away from Julia Gillard.
Along with Government Whip Joel Fitzgibbon, who resigned last night, and Human Services Minister Kim Carr, Mr Griffin had been charged with counting the numbers to determine whether Mr Rudd had sufficient support to oust Ms Gillard.
Critics of Mr Rudd last night were pointing at his decision not to run for the leadership as proof he had hung his supporters "out to dry" when they had tried to help restore him.
The biggest casualty from the aborted coup was Regional Development Minister Simon Crean, who was sacked from Cabinet after moving to trigger the leadership spill - in what he said was a necessary "circuit-breaker".
Defence Minister Stephen Smith last night said the day's events were the death knell for Mr Rudd or any other leadership contender.
Mr Smith argued that Mr Rudd had been comprehensively defeated 13 months ago 71 to 31 and Ms Gillard had been unanimously backed yesterday after Mr Rudd did not contest the ballott.
"It's over," Mr Smith said. "That's it. Finished."
Only hours after urging Mr Rudd to run, outgoing parliamentary secretary Richard Marles last night said the leadership issue was "conclusively determined" and was now united behind the PM.
"The caucus has very clearly spoken. The idea of a Rudd prime ministership is now over," Mr Marles said.
But one Labor MP, who supports Mr Rudd, said the former PM had made a smart move not to contest because two failed attempts would have made it harder.
"We're still alive," the MP said.
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Maury Chokes Posted at 9:04 AM March 22, 2013
Is Kevin just waiting for after the election when there are only a few Labour people left and he can then walk back into the top job without having to worry about people stabbing him in the back? Were Simon Crean and a few of the others trying to flush Rudd out to get rid of him once and for all or was he trying to save his job at the next election? Either way I somehow think that all the posturing about getting behind Julia will come to naught if the polls show that Labour are still losing votes.
Captn K of Melbourne Posted at 8:16 AM March 22, 2013
Well Chicken Kiev should probably now call it quits and resign his seat. His actions have left alot of people who supported him in a difficult situation. His hopes of a comeback are over
Paul R of adl Posted at 8:15 AM March 22, 2013
Rudd didnt have the numbers. Plain and simple. It would have been stupid for him to nominate again. He is also showing he is a man of integrity and a man of his word, as he said he would not challenge (unless nominated, which he wasn't). This paves the way for him, as Gillard looks certain to lose the election and it will all fall squarely on her and Swan. It's actually a very smart move when you think about it. He would not have had the time to restore the faith in Labor in such a short time.

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- Vol. 13
- No. 10
Where There's Smokey, There's Miracles, and Robinson Is 'cruisin' for a Comeback at 40
Robinson, of course, already had enough hits for one lifetime before leaving the Motown quartet in 1972. As one of the smoothest tenors in soul music, Smokey and his Miracles bagged gold records like Shop Around, I Second That Emotion and Tears of a Clown—selling more than 60 million altogether—and helped turn Motown into the largest black-owned corporation in the world. A prolific songsmith, Robinson has created tunes for Marvin Gaye, the Temptations and Diana Ross' Supremes and is revered by no less than Dylan as "America's greatest living poet."
But Smokey "took a hiatus" from music after leaving the Miracles to produce a movie comedy, Big Time ("the biggest financial mistake I ever made"), and try acting (NBC's Police Woman). When he did cut records, they were more personal—like 1975's jazz-oriented A Quiet Storm—but less successful. "I was disappointed," he reflects. So, understandably, his current resurgence has left him feeling "vibrant," though Smokey finds "there are other things in life that make me as happy as a hit record does."
With a six-figure yearly income from royalties alone, he is free to pursue them. They include re-launching wife Claudette's career (she was once a Miracle); producing albums for nephew Keith's soul act and Smokey's own band, Quiet Storm, and holding down the Motown vice-presidency he assumed 17 years ago (he also owns an undisclosed percentage of the company). Then last month he began a 34-city U.S. tour, his first in the States in four years.
Smokey grew up in Brewster, the Detroit ghetto that also sprouted Ross, two of the Temptations, Aretha Franklin and all Four Tops. "It was paradise but poor," remembers Robinson, who was raised by Geraldine, the older of his two sisters, along with her 10 children. (Smokey's mother died when he was 10; his father, Bill Sr., now 82 and a retired truck driver, lives with him in L.A.) Nicknamed Smokey Joe by his uncle, Robinson began his singing career in a first-grade play (Uncle Remus), but made his mark on the football field in high school. "In my neighborhood," he recalls, "you were either in a group or a gang—or both." By 13, he had formed the Miracles—then called the Matadors. Claudette, Smokey's girlfriend from the time he was 14, was in the Matadorettes, their sister doo-wop group.
At an audition in 1957 for Jackie Wilson's manager, a young songwriter named Berry Gordy Jr. came over to Robinson. "By then I was getting ready to go to college to become an electrical engineer and work for the phone company," Smokey recalls. But Gordy encouraged him to record Got a Job, and Smokey in turn urged Gordy to start an all-black label. By 1960 Robinson's Shop Around became the label's first gold hit, opening the way for Motown's historic "crossover" into white mass markets. But Robinson had one gnawing gripe about his soaring success: "We were always on the road." In 1968, after six miscarriages, Claudette gave birth to Berry, now 11, and Smokey realized "I wanted my kids to know me." (Tamla, 9, is named after another Motown-owned label.)
Careful to choose "a house where there were kids playing on the street," the Robinsons followed Motown's relocation to L.A. in 1972. "Claudette is just now beginning to make the adjustment," says Smokey. "It's been hard for her to make friends because people mistakenly believe we're beyond approach."
Smokey jogs (up to eight miles a day), does yoga and golfs (handicap 12) to keep his 6-foot frame down to 148 pounds. He gave up meat eight years ago, preferring oatmeal with vegetable strips and honey-laced Red Zinger tea. "I never eat a meal without thanking the Lord," he says, though the lapsed Baptist doesn't go to church ("There's too much falling down and smelling salts"). He won't touch liquor or cigarettes, but says he doesn't care if people know he smokes pot. "I've told my kids if they want to try something when they come of age, we'll do it together."
They all may do music together too, someday. Berry and Tamla are both studying. "The one drawback is being black," Smokey points out angrily. "Even coming off a monster hit, I'd better hope and pray the black stations play my next single immediately. If they don't, the white stations probably won't. I've been in this business years, and it's horrible and a drag." Which is not to say Smokey is bitter. "I consider my life beautiful and blessed. I've had lots of setbacks, but they don't mean as much as the good times."
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The hardcore CCM supergroup Stavesacre formed in 1995, with vocalist Mark Solomon (the Crucified, Native Son), guitarist Jeff Bellew (Crucified, CHATTERBoX), drummer Jeremy Moffat (the Blamed) and bassist Dirk Lemmenes. Heavy and leaning towards hardcore metal and thrash, their original sound had more in common with Die Happy or Tourniquet. The group released their debut album in early 1996, followed a year later by Absolutes. In that time, Scaterd Few drummer Sam West had replaced Moffat. Stavesacre returned in 1999 with Speakeasy with a new second guitarist, Ryan Dennee. Bellew left very soon after to get married, so Stairwell guitarist Neil Samoy took his place. A collection summed up their period on Tooth & Nail, chronicling their slow transition from heavy metal to emo rock. By the time of their Nitro Records debut, (stavz'a'ker), the band had fully transitioned into an emo band. John Bush
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By Los Angeles County's own admission, that's how much "extra" tax money the residents and businesses of West Ranch, Castaic and Tesoro del Valle are sending to downtown Los Angeles that isn't coming back to them in the form of services.
That's not how much money they're taxed. It's how much more they're taxed every year than they are getting back.
Again by the county's own admission, the county spent just $22 million on services to West Ranch, Castaic and Tesoro - over the past two years combined.
Give back the $11 million "excess" that West Ranch and Tesoro are paying for services, and the figure would be $22 million per year.
Maybe $22 million sounds like a lot of money, and considering the timing of some recent government mailers to westside and Tesoro residents, maybe it's supposed to sound like a lot.
But think of it this way. This year's city of Santa Clarita budget is $172 million.
One hundred percent of it gets spent on services and "stuff" like roads and bridges for the people of Santa Clarita.
We're in a down economy. The prior year's city budget was $241 million, all of which got spent in Santa Clarita.
In rough terms, the city of Santa Clarita is spending 10 times more on its residents than the county is spending on West Ranch, Castaic and Tesoro.
Is the city 10 times bigger than those communities? No. It's about three times bigger.
Why isn't the westside and Tesoro residents' "extra" $11 million being spent on them?
Because they aren't in a city.
Cities get to keep the "local" tax dollars that are generated within their walls. Unincorporated communities don't.
Taxes from unincorporated communities get thrown into a giant cauldron and stirred around and funneled out where they're needed.
If you studied political science in college, the concept might ring a bell: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
Los Angeles County is a great, big cauldron with some really serious needs.
The county uses tax money from the westside and Tesoro to subsidize services to other parts of the county with even bigger needs.
It has always been that way, and depending on the decision westside and Tesoro residents make Nov. 3, it either will or won't always be that way.
For me personally, the current debate is déjà vu all over again.
A look back
I met Baxter Ward just once. It was in my backyard in Valencia. It was 1980. I was 17.
Ward had been a TV anchorman. Now, in 1980, he was our county supervisor, and he was running for reelection. My mom - well, she might murder me for reminding anybody about this, but my mom was holding a backyard garden-party fundraiser for him.
She had to do it.
It's an unwritten rule - although I suppose it is hereby written - that when you're a community leader and a politician holds the purse strings to your community chest, you don't go against him at election time.
Thumb your nose at him, and if he wins, he'll go spend the government money in some other community.
Or so it says in the unwritten rulebook.
At the time, my mom and some other great community volunteers like retired CHP Officer J.J. O'Brien - I suppose we'd call them "community organizers" today - were the leaders of the SCV Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee.
That might not seem like much in 2009, but in 1980 it was everything.
We had no city. The Transportation Committee was our valley's quasi-government. Its function was virtually identical to the town councils we have today for West Ranch, Castaic, Agua Dulce and certain other parts of Antonovich's vast 5th District.
Everybody with any sort of official title attended Transportation Committee meetings - county, state and even federal officials. It's where the community spelled out its needs for roads, parks, business centers - and the government officials either complied or they didn't.
It was funny to consider Baxter Ward standing in my backyard in 1980. Just four years earlier, my mom and some other great people like Dan Hon and Ruth Newhall led the effort to break off from Los Angeles County and form "Canyon County."
Our valley voted yes. The rest of the county voted no - because they couldn't afford to lose us. Just like the westside and Tesoro today, the entire unincorporated SCV was subsidizing other parts of Los Angeles County.
I absolutely and completely understand if some current community leaders in West Ranch and Tesoro feel an obligation to support a ballot measure to remain in the unincorporated county.
My mom had to support Baxter Ward in 1980.
Doing the right thing
At 17, I was under no such pressure.
I also met Mike Antonovich in 1980. It was at rally for Ronald Reagan at California State University, Northridge. I liked him. Both of them.
I was glad both were elected - and disappointed that the election came a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday so I couldn't vote for them.
I did vote for them at every subsequent opportunity.
It was a generational election that came at an impressionable time in my life. We had 53 hostages in Iran. We had double-digit inflation. Time magazine and nearly everybody else was crying out for leadership.
Ronald Reagan offered hope, prosperity and a stronger America.
At 17, I was a full-on Reaganite.
In many ways, I still am. Ronald Reagan was a big believer in smaller government. The closer the government is to the people, the better.
A generation later, I can understand the sort of connection today's high school and college students must feel with Barack Obama, offering hope and promise for a brighter future.
As for me, I voted for Mike Antonovich. Again.
It is no stretch for me to say that Mike Antonovich is the best supervisor I have known. It's not merely because he is the only supervisor I have known as an adult. It's not merely because he appointed both my mom and, later, me, to county commissions and task forces.
Somebody please correct me, but I can't think of anything Baxter Ward did for us. His deputy was Joan Pinchuk, and I think most people around here wanted to chuck her under a bus.
Before Ward we had Warren Dorn. We look on him affectionately in hindsight, but I certainly remember the stories about Placerita Canyon residents hanging him in effigy (literally) when he proposed to mow down their oak trees and turn Placerita Canyon Road into a county highway.
Right out of the box, Antonovich made a brilliant choice for his local deputy.
JoAnne Darcy was the executive director of the SCV Chamber of Commerce (of late the Newhall-Saugus-Valencia Chamber.) Before that, she and her husband ran the saloon in Acton.
Importantly to Antonovich, JoAnne was a respected community leader who hadn't made the - for sake of argument, let's call it a mistake - of supporting Baxter Ward.
Everybody loved JoAnne. When I became conscious of local politics, I grew to love her, too. I still do. It was wonderful to see her again the other day at a get-together of Santa Clarita's city founders.
You see, JoAnne - along with my mom, Carl Boyer, Howard "Buck" McKeon, Jan Heidt, Lou Garasi, Art Donnelly and all sorts of wonderful people - never gave up. They might have been defeated at the ballot box in 1976 and again in 1978 when they gave county formation one last shot - but it didn't defeat them.
They grew stronger and more determined. They stuck together.
It was a horrible, gut-wrenching thing when the evil Ruth Benell and her Local Agency Formation Commission shut Castaic out of the new city in 1987.
Signal editors Ruth and Scott Newhall were livid.
Benell had plunged her knife straight through the heart of our community.
I can still feel it. It still hurts.
By the numbers, Castaic wanted cityhood even more than other parts of town.
Make no mistake, those other parts of town didn't exactly see eye-to-eye.
They had fought for decades. Saugus hated Newhall, Canyon Country hated Valencia and vice versa. It was ugly. Why?
Because. Like junkyard dogs fighting for table scraps, our communities had to fight for scraps from the county. A new road in Valencia meant Saugus wouldn't get one. A new park in Newhall meant Canyon Country wouldn't get one.
All of that ended in 1987. We overcame our differences and kept our eye on the ball.
Pulling together, we would be so incredibly stronger than the sum of our parts - especially since cityhood meant we could keep all of the "extra" millions we had been sending to other parts of the county.
We are one valley
Over the past 22 years, we haven't always done everything right. In fact, we've done some pretty stupid things and elected some real bozos to the City Council. So what? They were our decisions and ours alone. Nobody made them for us.
Importantly, we can, and did, and do, correct our mistakes. All by ourselves. We don't have to convince four other county supervisors whom we don't elect to make changes for us.
We have our smaller government, closer to home.
Deep down, as a fellow Reaganite, I must believe that Mike Antonovich thinks smaller, closer government is the right thing, too.
Look out over the landscape. Look at what we have built with the money we were able to spend on ourselves. Roads the county never built. Recreation programs the county refused to fund. Activity centers and cross-town connectors and cops on scooters.
Above all, representatives we can hire and fire at will - and roll out of bed and scream at.
As an observer and second-generation participant in the remarkable, lifelong struggle for self-government for our valley, I look forward to welcoming West Ranch, Castaic and Tesoro as co-equal partners.
We are one valley.
When we are one city, this storied chapter will close and a new future will begin.
It will be whatever we residents of the Santa Clarita Valley - and we alone - make of it.
Leon Worden is president of SCVTV and former editor of The Signal. His column reflects his own views and not necessarily those of The Signal.


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The victim, not immediately identified, was shot in the arm about 2:15 a.m. on the 900 block of Filbert Street, police said.
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Vegetarian Slow-Cooker Baked Beans
All the goodness of seasoned, simmered old-fashioned New England baked beans, without the salt pork plus the added convenience of the slow cooker! Both bean traditionalists and vegetarians will gobble these up.
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Yield: 8-10 Servings
- 1 lb. dried beans (such as Great Northern)
- 1 large onion, diced fine (around 1 3/4 cups) — save the end
- 1 cup water
- 1 6 oz. can tomato paste
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 4 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp. vinegar
- 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce (a vegetarian version)
- 1 1/2 Tbsp. kosher salt
- 1 tsp. ground mustard
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1/8 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp. nutmeg
- 8 whole cloves
InstructionsThe night before, pick through the beans to remove any stones, then place in a bowl and cover with enough water to cover the beans by two inches. Soak overnight.
In the morning, mix together all ingredients except the beans, onion, and cloves in a large bowl.
In the bottom of minimum 4-quart slow cooker, layer the diced onion, then add the beans*.
Pour the liquid mixture over the beans, then add up to an additional 3 cups of water until the tops of the beans are just submerged.
For extra flavor, take the reserved onion end and press 8 cloves into it in a circle. I used a skewer to make the holes before inserting the cloves. (I also used more than 8 cloves, which I think overpowered the beans a bit, so in the future I will be using less!) Place the onion end into the center of the beans. Remove before eating.
Cook the beans on high for 6-8 hours, or on low for 8-10 hours. I left mine in the pot on low for around 12 hours (it was a long day), and as you might expect, they taste better the longer they sit.


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Forgiving yourself is another way of giving yourself permission to get out of your own way. To see the truth for what it is, rather than hide behind it. If we take self-forgiveness moments, it changes our perspective, and therefore our approach to life. Our mood lifts, and we return to feeling happy and having that inner calm again.
My son has a rule of sevens to overcome sadness: seven hours, seven days and seven weeks. He allows himself to get sad or angry for a certain period of time. For him, it can be seven hours, seven days or seven weeks. When the time is up, he tells himself that he needs to move on and stops dwelling on situations that he can no longer change.


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10 New Ways to Cook ChickenBrooke McLay
Bored of baking chicken into the same-old recipes? We hear ya, darlin'. It's time to tuck away those traditional recipes in favor of a few of these new, delicious, totally trendy chicken dishes. No more cream of chicken soup casserole. No more chicken tenders or nuggets or boring grilled chicken breasts. These 10 new recipes are sure to liven up your palate and your senses!
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HAMMOND: Will Glenn Close Be Challenging Meryl Streep At Next Year's Oscars?
Glenn Close-Starrer 'Albert Nobbs' Picked Up By Liddell Entertainment & Roadside Attractions
EXCLUSIVE: It appears Glenn Close may be shaking up the Best Actress Oscar race this year. Today's announcement that Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment have acquired all U.S. rights to Albert Nobbs, in which Close plays a woman passing as a man in order to survive in 19th century Dublin, and plan a fall release and likely Oscar campaign adds a bit of drama to 2011's budding Academy race. Meryl Streep, a two-time winner and 16-time nominee, is the presumed front-runner as Margaret Thatcher in the Weinstein Company's The Iron Lady. Streep hasn't won since 1982, and many think (sight unseen) that Thatcher could be her ticket back to the winner's circle. Ironically, that was also the year Close received the first of her five nominations (for her first film, The World According To Garp) in a remarkable run between 1982 and 1988 when she received her last nod for Dangerous Liaisons. Of course she's won Tonys and Emmys, but the Oscar has famously eluded her.
In fact, 1982 was also the year she first played Albert Nobbs in an off-Broadway production of the play and won an Obie Award for it. Even though that was near the beginning of her career, she's had her eye on it as a possible film ever since and has been actively trying to get it produced for the past 15 years. In addition to starring, she also co-produced and co-wrote the screenplay, enlisting her Nine Lives and Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her director Rodrigo Garcia to helm.
When I caught up with her today on the phone from her Maine vacation spot, she still couldn't believe this dream project was finally going to be seen this year. "I'm kind of pinching myself. It's a story I never ever forgot and an extraordinary character. It's a simple story that has huge resonance," she said, adding that ultimately this is a very human tale dealing in part with the power of secrets that people hide about themselves.
She offered words of praise for Roadside, which had a very big year in 2010 with Oscar contenders Winter's Bone and Biutiful, saying the film got wonderful response from other potential distributors but that Roadside was the most passionate. "They got it to the depths of the story. No one has been a part of this project without bringing committment and passion to it, so they just extended all that, which was thrilling for all of us," she said.
Close hopes the film will be prominent on the fall festival circuit, which might include Telluride, Toronto, New York or others. Of course, that would mean freeing herself from her Damages shooting schedule. That series, for which she has won two Emmys (it's not eligible this year, though), returns to the air via DirecTV on July 13 and will be in production for a fifth season just around the time of those fests. "That's our dream. We would like to go to festivals very much. We haven't heard back from everyone yet, but we're waiting to see when I have to get down on my knees to my Damages writers to break me out so I can go to a couple of fests."
Of course with any fall entry like this, particularly one with a challenging, transformative type of role for an actor who persevered for years to bring it to the screen, the word Oscar is bound to creep into the conversation. Close, who hasn't been nominated in more than two decades, doesn't shy away from the subject. "I think it's tremendously important, very very important. The thing I've always believed is, I never was offended if somebody didn't get the vision for this movie. I think a lot of the movies that have acutally ended up being honored at the Oscars are films that almost didn't get made. We're in that grand tradition of independent film, and I think a lot of that is because it's different and different can make a lot of people feel insecure," she says. As for her many previous nominations, all in the '80s, she says it has been awhile. "All the prints of my movies are getting a little yellowed, " she laughed.
Although she hasn't had many choice feature film roles in the past decade, concentrating instead on TV projects like Damages and The Shield, there was talk about turning her Tony-winning triumph as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard into a big movie musical. Although Barbra Streisand was also mentioned for the movie version, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber reportedly wanted to do it only with Glenn. But after lukewarm response to the film version of The Phantom of the Opera, Paramount (which released Billy Wilder's 1950 classic film original) seemed to get cold feet.
"It would have been fabulous. It still would be fabulous. That part is a classic, and you can play it until you're practically dead. Why it hasn't happened, who knows what the politics are?" Close said.
Perhaps Oscar attention for Albert Nobbs could help her revive interest in it. At any rate, just getting this one made is a win for Close. "It feels wonderful, and I'm deeply grateful we will be seen by real audiences now," she says.
I still wish Andrew Lloyd Webber would bring the musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" to the big screen. I still go to You Tube to watch Glenn Close's mesmerizing performances from "Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration."
No challenge. Close has been absent from film from the last 80's while Streep has been cranking out consistent film work for decades. If it comes down to these two, Streep will win.
Oh thanks for the verdict, guess i don't need to see the performances.. thanks sean.
Sean's entitled to his opinion. Stop being stupid.
Chad, of those two I don't think the person you replied to is the one being stupid.
That's exactly the reason why Close would be much more likely to win. Streep's been deserving many times, but people take her for granted at this point. It's a given that she'll always give an Oscar-worthy performance, so people give her the requisite nomination, but never seriously consider her for the actual award anymore. Close would be a great comeback story, a la Paul Newman, Jack Palance, Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, et al.
This is why I hate Awards; you can't honestly say one is better than the other. My guess is both women will be extradordinary and deserving the praise they will recieve. But to say one is better than the other is ridiculous. It will come down to Close "she lost so many times in the past and is due" and Streep "she hasn't won in over 30 years, has proven her durability and has become box office gold in her early 60's". I'll let the performances speak for themselves and will ignore what Oscar thinks.
Actually, you CAN say one is better than the other. It's called an opinion.
No, you can say which one you THINK is better – THAT'S an opinion.
Stating it as if it were fact is stupid.
Now go back to whatever bridge you crawled out from under.
Dustin for "Tootsie"…Hilary for "Boys Don't Cry"…Gywneth for "Shakespeare in Love"…Hollywood loves this and often rewards it.
But, I would not bet against The Iron Lady. Of course, we have not seen either performance, but Meryl as Thatcher will be at the peak of her game.
Dustin Hoffman didn't win the Oscar for Tootsie.
I greatly admire Streep but I have to say that if there is any American actress with the artistic range and talent to "compete" with her it's without question Glenn Close.
There is no reason to think that Streep somehow has been or will be the favorite. 2nd lead Oscar wins nearly always come from best picture nominees (mostly when there were five of these) and directed by top of the line, also Oscar recognized directors.
Why would Streep be any more of a favorite than would, say, Tom Hanks for playing Ronald Reagan, another right-wing icon?
The Academy if they have any opinion at all about Streep beyond any other actor knows she has won two Oscars, and may give her a third at some point, including possibly for The Iron Lady. But the thought that somehow this year will be the one is not supported by any evidence that I am aware of, and some actual evidence to the contrary.
And before we are through Michelle Williams, Rooney Mara and any number of other viable contenders could emerge.
There's something creepy about her Albert Nobbs look. Don't you think she looks like the gay kid from Glee?
Actually, Close as Nobbs looks far more masculine…..
Close as Albert looks more like Strictly Come Dancing's bad boy Brendan Cole or Top Gear's loudmouth Jeremy Clarkson thrown in.
Type in Brendan Cole or Jeremy Clarkson on Google and see what I mean.
Damages doesn't have a show without Glenn Close, so I hope they don't let her outright miss episodes of it, but they SHOULD alter the shooting schedule as nessescary to accomidate her fest attendance when nessescary. It is her show and she is brilliant in it. I am looking forward to seeing the movie she feels so passionately about, too.
not much of a stretch
While I have yet to see either performance, my feeling is that Glenn Close will have the much better performance. Sorry M. Streep lovers … she has been turning out extended SNL sketches of late … Julie & Julia … that wasn't acting, that was sketch work … Mamma Mia seemed like take the money and run … It's Complicated was terrible … in Doubt she got acted off the screen … yeah, she's been around, but it's been quite some time since Sophie's Choice.
Should have won for "Fatal Attraction".
I was rooting for Glenn Close ( Fatal Attraction ) & Holly Hunter ( Broadcast News ) to win the Oscar that Cher undeservedly won, also I wanted Glenn to win the Oscar for Dangerous Liaisons. It just proves that awards doesn't mean crap in the end- as long as you have a long career. Ms. Close fits that example. But, it would be nice if she finally wins the Gold Guy.
Memo to young actresses in the Megan Fox vein: You want the skill of a Streep or a Close? Get the hell out of Los Angeles, quit plastic surgery and try some stage work. LA does not breed enduring actresses.
Oh please. Living in Los Angeles has nothing to do with one's caliber of acting talent. LA has a very deep pool of top notch actors.
No doubt there's a deep pool of talent in Hollywood, but the actors/actresses in the shallow end get the majority of the work and are extremely over-paid for it, too.
Just look at Forbes lists of highest paid talent in Hollywood and you can't dispute there's NO correlation between talent and salary. There are valet attendants and waitresses with more talent than some of the people on that list. Hollywood rewards mediocrity. A truly talented actor is more likely to get stage work than a feature film.
Wow! The idiots on this site are making the comments on Aint It Cool News look genius.
Glenn Close is overrated and scary to look at even at the best of times. Plus I enjoyed this plot back when it was called Yentl. This new movie is supposed to entertain which demographic exactly?
Glenn Close and Meryl Streep are incredible. I think this could be Streep's third oscar! Can't wait to see The Iron Lady!
It would be awesome to see her as George W. Bush. Way better actor than J. Brolin.
If a fake nose can do it for Kidman. (Who should of won for The Others) playing a man (like it did for Linda Hunt) should get her across the line.
Streep has been snubbed way too many times by the Academy,next year is going to be her year.It doesn't matter that she already has two Oscars,she's the greatest actress ever and she deserves way more than just two.Close is a great actress but I feel like Streep's time has finally come again after all these years of losing when she should have won.
She should've won for Dangerous Liasions.
Hey, Glenn! Call Patti LuPone!
Holy crap. Had to actually read the article to figure out that was Close in the accompanying photo; it looked like the dude from Dr. Who at first glance. I'd bet on Close in this race.
Close in Dangerous Liaisons was pitch-perfect… and she's just as brilliant as Patty Hewes in DAMAGES (applaud DirecTv for financing the upcoming 4th season).
But seeing the performances should actually mean something… doesn't mean that it will.
I'm tired of seeing Streep show up on the red carpet only to lose what? 14x in a row? Kind of robs other actresses of an opportunity, and doesn't bolster Streep's career to have nomination 10, 12, 15+ Is she good, more than good, but still… kind of cheapens the whole affair (which has been the case the last decade).
Meryl doesn't "rob" any other performer of an opportunity. She puts out excellent work year after year, and earns her spot when the nominations are announced. It's not her fault no other actress have been able to reach her level of critical success.
I've never understood why Glenn Close's movie career feel apart 20 years ago and never regained traction. She has given truly iconic performances for which her particular talent made her uniquely qualified above all others. Streep would never have been as effective in "Fatal Attraction" or "Liaisons Dangereuses". Streep can't do 'evil'. Close should have gotten Streep's part in the "Manchurian Candidate" remake. Still, when Streep can channel a character through an accent and lots of makeup, and the material is good – as she did so remarkably in "Julie and Julia" and especially in the TV version of "Angels in America" – there's no touching her. When the roles are less showy, as in "Doubt", she's less effective. We don't know where the Thatcher portrayal will fall, and we don't know what else Close will bring to "Albert Nobbs" apart from the gender impersonation. In any case, the 2011 Best Actress Oscar race could be the most exciting in years with these two powerhouse actors in play.
Hey, Glenn! Do us a favor and call Patti LuPone!
I think Meryl Streep has a far better role coming up in her career: the lead in August: Osage County. The role of Violet Weston is one for the ages (and of course won its lead Steppenwolf Chicago actress Deanna Dunagan a well-deserved Tony Award on Broadway). NY critics couldn't stop falling over themselves about this Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play and that infamous role when it stream-rolled through Broadway.
Break a leg, Glenn! We can't wait to see this movie and we'll be rooting for you in any and all competitions.
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text: Rambling while watching a long slow database load: I got a strange call last night. Seems a pager company, that bought a pager company.. that bought a pager company... that bought a local pager company that was the dregs from another local pager company that somewhere in the late 1990's I wrote an SMTP mail server in Perl that gatewayed to alphanumeric pagers via the TAP protocol.. had a server issue. It's the only production C code I ever wrote, and it was munged from someone else's example code. Once upon a time it made a lot of money as e-pageme.com (I used to charge $1 a month for the service, per pager..) I SSH'd in.. rebooted it.. and its magically working again. Seems pagers have become the medical worlds secret communications layer.. it's the one way to always contact a doctor, no matter what, because pagers are still allowed where cell phones are not. That project taught me several things, including that most "magic" is best performed as a service for a small fee. It also reminds me that some things never ever die, even when you want them to, and that I should do a better job of making sure what I do is the right thing to do, and done well. I'm a big hypocrite on that point, most of what I do for a living barely qualifies as duct tape and zip-ties, although time has proven most of my kludges to be enduring. It also reminded me, talking to the technical guys at the latest owners of this abortion... that few people understand the lowest levels of anything.. the "magic" that is a protocal like TAP (Telecommunicator/Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telelocator_Alphanumeric_Protocol is a bare stub. Much of what we do online is hidden far below layers and laters of abstraction, modules, libraries and MVC frameworks.. and that "magic" layer is lost on the masses (as it should be). But we need magicians to keep the world running. Not spikey haired facesplat wannabe's with MLM-ish get rich schemes reinventing social networking again... but a combination of "janitors" capable of keeping the world running and visionaries addressing the core / root issues of that merger of technology and society we have become. That realm of relative "magic" to the rest of the world needs more magicians, not charlatans. rant over..


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Some things have changed since Jordan Colbert, a lifelong UGA fan, committed to Auburn over Florida State, Clemson and the Bulldogs last April.
First of all, there's the hair: Colbert's signature locks have been trimmed, and he explains why.
Secondly, UGA will have to do some catching up to land an official visit from the safety-linebacker from Griffin High School.
Right now, UGA is battling it out with UNC for the fifth and final visit. Griffin said he plans to take recruiting trips to Auburn, Tennessee, Florida State and Texas A&M.
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The only way MS allows update of MDAC under Windows XP and Windows 2003 is
via Service Patches to the OS.
So, there is no need to update MDAC to 2.8 RTM under XP if it has the most
recent Service Pack applied.
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> MDAC 2.8 RTM is incompatible with this version of Windows. All of its
> features are currently part of Windows.
> The above message appears when I try to load MDAC 2.8 onto my desktop,
> and MDAC 2.8 fails to load.
> Windows version = XP Pro v2002 SP2 (with 100% latest updates as @ 24/7/06)
> My question is:- Do I need to load it at all if "all of its features are
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> I have been asked to load it, along with Microsoft .Net Framework, in
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I know stating the entire semantics of caching compiled JS in a single line is oversimplification, but I ain't a JS engine developer either. So, let's hear it from those who are themselves.
Charles, next time you meet them can you ask them why they do not cache the native code once the JS method has been codegen'ed and run the cached code for future visits to the site, as long as the method stays the same?
We need you to take us deep inside the JS engine.
Does it work with the code contracts feature in .net 4.0?
Setting a web page outside the browser in a separate widget on the desktop! Wow, what an original idea!


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Many lawyers find themselves beginning this New Year being thrust unexpectedly into the job market. While some employers publicly acknowledge such layoffs are economically driven, others are less straightforward. Either way, the affected lawyers likely feel angry and betrayed or befuddled and confused. The good news is, while no one would choose to be laid off, most people end up happier after a transition. The challenge is living through it.
The best strategy to manage the emotional rollercoaster accompanying a layoff is to embrace the job hunt in a well thought out, systematic way. Make a New Year's resolution to follow the seven steps outlined below to structure your job search and take control of the process.
Step 1: CONFIRM FIRM TERMINATION POLICIES and GUIDELINES
Firms vary widely in how they manage layoffs so be prepared to clarify the necessary details. If you have received a termination date, be sure everyone is clear about:
- The length of time you'll be paid through and covered by benefits . The timeframe can vary by seniority and/or length of service. Be clear about whether or not you are permitted to use any outstanding vacation time to extend your time on payroll and if not, how you will be compensated for that earned time. While you may not be in a position to negotiate for more, you are entitled to know the parameters so that you can plan accordingly.
- Billable hour expectations. This must be discussed openly to avoid confusion. As a professional, you have an obligation to transition any open projects to the appropriate people, but beyond that you should ask what the firm expects of you. Are you to take on new projects? Are you expected to come into the office daily? Who knows that you will be leaving? Typically, in an attempt to be discreet, the Firm does not inform everyone when an attorney has been given a departure date. It is up to you to share the information with others in a way that is most comfortable for you. Be careful to avoid the trap of thinking "if I work really hard, they will change their mind" or being kept too busy to look for a new job. Once a departure date has been discussed, it is in your best interest to focus on getting a new job.
- Office Space and secretarial support . Understand the parameters. How long can you remain in your current office? Are you free to conduct a job search using Firm resources? Can you have access to an office, voicemail or e-mail after your termination date? How long will your information remain on the Firm website? If the Firm does not articulate this information, it is completely acceptable for you to ask.
- Professional Outplacement Services. It is in the firm's best interest to engage terminated associates in the job search process quickly and the easiest way to do that is with a career counselor. An effective counselor can help both the Firm and associates avoid common pitfalls in the termination and job search processes and shorten the transition period between positions. Some Firms make outplacement available to all lawyers while others set limits based on seniority or length of service. Be sure to ask and take advantage of the resource if it is provided.
It is important to maintain a professional demeanor throughout this process. While it is understandable to feel a range of emotions, keep them in check as you make your inquiries and attempt to clarify the details of your departure.
Step 2 TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
While you may think self-assessment is a luxury you can't afford in a tight economy, it is more important than ever to be able to articulate your strengths, passions, preferred work style, goals, enthusiasms, values, contributions, potential, ideals, interest areas, temperament, accomplishments, special areas of knowledge and motivations. Remember, the basic questions in every interview are:
- What needs to be done?
- What can you do?
The better you are able to address those issues in an employer-centric manner, the more likely you will be to find a new position even in a tough economy.
Step 3: ALLOCATE A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF TIME
To get yourself started, you must decide how much time you are willing to devote to your search. If you are currently working, consider 2-3 hours per week; if you are unemployed, consider 5-6 hours a day. Maintaining a steady and consistent effort throughout your search will be one of the most important elements in determining your success. A "start and stop" approach almost always leads you back to square one at each juncture. Working in bursts of activity will ensure failure.
During those reserved hours, your job search must be your primary focus. This is the time committed to self-assessment exercises, making job related phone calls, conducting library/internet research, etc. By adhering to a schedule, you will reduce the insecurity most job seekers feel because you will be in control. You will also be able to chart your progress.
Step 4: SELECT A SYSTEM TO RECORD YOUR ACTIVITIES
Whether you opt for a notebook and pen or an elaborate computer based system, you must develop a system for recording your activities in order to easily retrieve important data and to ensure appropriate follow-up actions in a timely manner.
Date of Initial Contact
Results of Meeting
Follow-up Action Required
Personal Info
Step 5: FIND A CAREER COUNSELOR
As with any endeavor, enlisting the help of a professional can save you valuable time. A career counselor can assist you in evaluating your transferable skills, drafting resumes and cover letters and suggest helpful resources. If your Firm provides outplacement services, take advantage of that benefit. If not, consider hiring a career counselor yourself. Shop around to find a counselor willing to customize services around your needs. If cost is an issue, consider contacting your law school or undergraduate institution first. Most offer individual appointments with a counselor which can help get the process started. Also, every Law school's Office of Career Services contains a mini library for graduates complete with directories, books and periodicals relevant to job search and career change activities. By utilizing your career library, you can save a lot of expensive subscription costs and have access to a multitude of resources. You may also try contacting the agency your organization has employed to provide Employee Assistance Programs to see if they offer any resources which might be helpful. Finally, contact local bar associations to learn what resources they provide.
Step 6: RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH
Do your own homework. While headhunters may be helpful to you, they are only one of a plethora of resources available to you. Use the internet to learn about other careers and compile lists of target companies. Visit web pages; read press releases; know what career opportunities exist (even if they are not at your level.) At the same time, begin to compile lists of people who might be able to help you. Consider family members, former classmates and colleagues as well as people "on the other side" of deals or projects you have met throughout your career. Ask partners and others at your current organization for assistance. Strategize how people might be helpful. You must be prepare to say more than "if you hear of any job openings, let me know." Can they introduce you to someone on your target list? Can they help you expand your target list? Perhaps they can offer feedback on your resume or approach tactics. Be prepared to ask people for something specific they can do to be helpful.
Step 7: STAY POSITIVE
It is a tough economy and the job hunt is likely to move slowly. The proper mental attitude is key to your success. If you believe there are no jobs and you will never work again--you will be correct. If however, you believe that you will find an opportunity and are prepared to put a great deal of energy into the job search process, you will also be right. Resolve to stay positive and focused and 2009 will turn out just fine.


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Detroit Tigers?righty reliever?Evan Reed?is facing a sexual assault complaint in Detroit, according to Associated Press. Police say the accuser is being interviewed and Reed has not been charged at this time.
?The organization is aware of the very serious allegation that has been made against pitcher Evan Reed," said the team in a statement. "This allegation is concerning and we are aware of an on-going investigation. It would be inappropriate for the ballclub to comment further at this time.?
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Girls who grow up reading—and adoring—Frances Hodgson Burnett generally have fierce loyalties about her oeuvre. They are passionate about A Little Princess and have no truck with The Secret Garden, or they venerate The Secret Garden and shrug off A Little Princess. Those who regard valiant "princess" Sara Crewe as a kindred spirit and were hoping for something more authentic than the 1939 Shirley Temple version of the children's classic will be gnashing their teeth to nubs at this new adaptation. It's Annie by way of Isabel Allende.
Matthews is a fanciful little girl living in India at the start of World War I with her adoring widower father (Cunningham). But when Cunningham, an army captain, is called to battle he decides to deposit his daughter at the New York City boarding school his late wife attended. Matthews is exasperated by the rigidity of the headmistress (Eleanor Bron) and lonely for her father, but quickly wins over the other students with her good fellowship and her ability to conjure marvelous bedtime stories. Matthews's inner resources are put to the test when she is told that her father has died in battle, leaving her penniless—and dependent on Bron. The movie takes pointless liberties with Burnett's story in period (1914 rather than the late 1800s), setting (New York rather than London), characters, dialogue, plot twists and theme, in the process obliterating the novel's Victorian charm. What is left is a sometimes mystical tale of identically dressed girls skittering down corridors and scheming against a comic-strip martinet. (G)
Kadeem Hardison, Marcus Chong
What are the obligations of a moviemaker dealing with a historical subject? Should fact be allowed to stick out its big, unshined shoe and trip up those values we vaguely define as "entertainment"? Are pop culture and narrative truth bound to be at each other's throats, if they do indeed possess throats?
Shut up, you.
Mario Van Peebles, working from a script by his father, Melvin, directed this docudrama about the controversial career of the Black Panthers, the revolutionary group that started in Oakland, Calif., in the '60s. The story, unwisely, takes two tacks. One involves a fictional character, a Vietnam vet (Hardison) who joins the Panthers and, at the request of leader Huey Newton (Chong), poses as a police informant. The other consists of largely flattering, two-dimensional portraits of the Panther power players, including Newton, Eldridge Cleaver (Anthony Griffith) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance).
Historical or not, this is a lot of material to cram into 2 hours. Ultimately the narrative stress is too great, and Panther breaks down. Its concluding minutes include a murdered French poodle, an exploding warehouse and, just before the credits roll, a solemn statement about the drug problem. (R)
Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadia Mikhalkov
At the start of this year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film it's easy to suspect that the projectionist has mixed up the reels. In the opening scene, a man empties a gun of bullets and then squeezes the trigger while pointing the muzzle at his head. In quick succession, soldiers in tanks storm a wheat field, a flustered woman downs medical potions, and an attractive husband, wife and child bathe together in a hothouse sauna. Who are these people?
Hang in there, because the answers become painfully clear. For this is Russia in 1936, the start of Stalin's great terror, when a few words of denunciation were enough to send someone away forever. After its initial scenes, Burnt by the Sun settles into what appears to be Chekhov territory, with several generations of a bourgeois family gathering at their summer home. They picnic, sing and recall the good times before the revolution, and they do all this under the protectorship of a family member by marriage, Colonel Kotov (Mikhalkov), a hero of 1917 who still truly believes. Into their midst comes Mitia (Oleg Menchikov), the ex-lover of Kotov's young wife (Ingeborga Dapkounaite), who has been mysteriously absent for about 10 years and isn't volunteering why he has come back.
Much of this film is comically elegiac, depicting swimming trips that are disrupted by the civil defense volunteers, who insist on putting gas masks on the bathing-suited masses, and lazy afternoons spent making love. But each scene has a sense of underlying menace. When the movie comes to its tragic end, all that has preceded it takes on a deeper meaning, and the sadness grows. (R)
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olivia d'Abo
Mueller-Stahl is a courtly widower living out some very quiet sunset years in a Brooklyn apartment. He makes a daily note in his journal about what to wear the next day. He stands by the window at night and plays his violin. And he does everything he can to avoid having to talk to his garrulous old neighbor (Maureen Stapleton, who has one great head of hair). This lonely placidity is interrupted by d'Abo, who lives upstairs with a thuggy, abusive boyfriend. Very gingerly, Mueller-Stahl offers his protection to this battered young woman, who is rude, foul-mouthed and usually hunched over in a filthy leather coat. But she, also gingerly, responds to his decency.
The best that can be said about The Last Good Time, the third feature directed by actor Bob Balaban, is that the acting is all good. D'Abo, still perhaps best known as Karen Arnold on TV's The Wonder Years, is especially touching. Considering how little her character is given to say, the performance is a small miracle of economy. Other than that, the movie feels tiny tiny tiny, underlit and emotionally remote. (Not Rated)
Chuck Norris, Reno the dog
Except for an unhappy coincidence in timing—the villains are white supremacists who bomb public buildings—this is an innocuously entertaining Norris action film, with a standard ration of punch-ups, a relatively tasteful, if uninspired, script and a few neat surprises thanks to Reno, a shaggily likable French briard that plays an explosive-and drug-sniffing K-9 corpsdog given to San Diego cop Norris as a partner.
Norris has become a comfortable actor who effectively kids himself and who doesn't mind being upstaged by children and animals. (PG-13)
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At the beginning of Gossip, author Beth Gutcheon tells us that the word gossip comes from god-sibling:
It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.
Lovie French attends boarding school as a young girl, and there she meets two women who will remain in her life for years to come. Dinah is wealthier and more popular, but takes Lovie under her wing. Avis is 2 years older than Lovie and Dinah, thrust together due to the school's desire to teach "young ladies to converse graciously with companions they had no interest in." A small slight gets under Dinah's skin, with consequences that would be felt for years to come.
After graduation Lovie and Dinah remain close friends. Lovie works in the fashion industry, first as an apprentice and eventually going on to own her own high-end boutique, and becomes godmother to Dinah's youngest son, Nick. Lovie and Avis meet again years after their school days and also become friends. While the story is told by Lovie, the focus of the novel is really Dinah and Avis's antagonistic relationship and a tragedy that affects both of their families. As a writer, Dinah becomes famous for her column dishing on Manhattan's upper class, while Avis is well-known and quietly respected in the art world. Their worlds are brought together when Nick becomes involved with Avis's daughter Grace.
Lovie's close working relationship with socialites and other prominent Manhattan women puts her in the position of knowing much of what goes on in people's lives, and she often overhears gossip involving Dinah. While Lovie is part of Dinah's inner circle while they are young, as they grow older and their lives diverge, Lovie finds herself more on the outside and growing closer to Avis.
On reflection, Gossip is a novel with multiple layers. Dinah dishes through her column but is also herself the subject of much scuttlebutt. Lovie's own life isn't free from scandal as she's involved with a man she refers to has her friend, and her method of relaying the events of the book often feel like she's dishing and enjoying it. Gutcheon's writing pulls you in and drags you along for the ride, whether you like it or not.
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Started playing and enjoying music at a young age. Third grade learned to play the recorder. In fourth grade, learned to play violin. By the time Linda was in 10th grade, she had started to play the guitar. From there, various other instruments followed – – always finding the fun in the music. Open mikes, local performances, school programs became a part of Linda's musical life.


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FLINT, MI -- After almost four years in downtown Flint, WizeGuys Pizza has closed.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas!
Take a few minutes out of your Christmas, sit down with the hot beverage of your choice, start the video, and reflect on the meaning of the day.
Posted by Michelle Griep
Labels: Christmas, Michelle Griep, Piano Guys
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☆ * :: *: ☆ Merry Christmas ☆: * :: * ☆
For the lady, I give thanks to God.
I was a very fulfilling year in 2012 to volunteer.
From Japan.
Ryoma Sakamoto.
Beautiful, Michelle, thank you.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! There's nothing more melodious than a piano and cello duet, especially when representing "God with us!" Thank you so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
Had trouble with the audio, but will track it down directly because I'm familiar with these guys and they play wonderfully.ReplyDelete
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Is it better to eat dinner at 6 p.m., wait 1 hour & work out -Or- before dinner and eat late like 8 p.m.? -Bailey
It's best to fuel your brain and muscles ahead of time rather than play catch-up. So as long as your stomach's not uncomfortable, I'd prefer your first choice of eating then working out. However, a big meal is not advisable too soon before intense physical activity. A sandwich and fruit are sufficient if you had a small snack, say at 3 PM.
You can always have something light such as a V-8, glass of milk or salad after your workout. Waiting to workout first, then eating late may mean you'd be out of time to fix something healthy or too famished to make good meal choices. – Debbie J., MS, RD
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