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Bruins blitz Penguins early, take Game 2
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A night after scoring eight times against the AHL's stingiest defense, the Providence Bruins were at it again on Saturday.
The line of Jamie Tardif, Chris Bourque and Ryan Spooner produced four first-period goals and the Bruins took a 2-0 series lead with a 4-2 victory over Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.
Warren Peters gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead with a shorthanded goal 4:40 into the first period, but Tardif began the Bruins' attack with a 5-on-3 power-play goal just 68 seconds later, tying the game at 1-1.
Spooner's goal at 11:24 gave Providence the lead for good, and Tardif and Bourque scored late in the period to give the B's a 4-1 lead at the first intermission.
Brian Gibbons scored for Wilkes-Barre on a second-period power play, but Niklas Svedberg (5-2) made 19 of his 38 saves in the third period to preserve Providence's fifth straight win.
Tardif finished the night with two goals and two assists and Bourque had a goal and two assists to lead the Bruins' offense.
Jeff Zatkoff, who led the AHL with a 1.93 goals-against average in the regular season, allowed four goals on 13 shots in the first period before being replaced by Brad Thiessen (16 saves). Zatkoff has allowed 12 goals in four periods of work during the series.
Game 3 of the series is set for Wednesday in Wilkes-Barre.
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WISN 12 News has learned that Milwaukee Bucks' point guard Monta Ellis will opt out of the final year of his contract.
Bucks coach Larry Drew confirmed to WISN 12 News that Ellis will not return with the team next year and will enter the free agent market.
The Bucks reportedly offered a two-year extension to Ellis earlier this month, however that deal was contingent on Ellis not opting out of the final year on his current contract.
Ellis led the Bucks with 19.2 points per game in the regular season, his eighth in the NBA after being drafted by the Warriors 40th overall in 2005.
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Actress Madhuri Dixit has come up with a signature step as a part of initiative "What step will you take today" for diabetic patients.
The step is aimed at instilling solidarity for patients with diabetes.
"My step to challenge diabetes is through the way I know best - dance; which I believe truly unites people. Creating awareness about its (diabetes') prevention and management is critical," Madhuri said in a statement.
"I call on my fans to join this movement with this dance step, as India is stepping up to prevent and control diabetes. Show us 'What step will you take today'," she added.
The initiative is by pharmaceutical company Sanofi India Limited to mark World Diabetes Day Nov 14.
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Yesterday my 3 yr.old asked if I could give her $20 dollars, whatever happen to kids asking for a quarter lol..
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Sadly they know that anything worth buying these days cost at LEAST 25 bucks with tax!! My 3 yr old (4 now) asked for a kindle for her bday... and yes she got it! LOL Daddy is a pleaser ;)
Oh yes, I've heard that. Lately around here it's been "Can I have a dollar to get a Polar Pop down at Circle K, please?". Polar Pops are 44 oz drinks for 89¢…best deal ever when you're us, lol.
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We have vegan friends that we are careful NOT to have indepth food discussions with, and when we have shared meals it's always fruit and vegetable platters with dips. If it was for myself I'd add various cheeses, salamis and smoked salmon to the mix, but out of respect for them I don't.
Having said that, I *hate* to feel controlled, so in the 'restaurant with friends' example I would have absolutely ordered the steak. If a 'friend' chose to chastise me, I'd try to find a non-confrontational way to ask them if they were wanting to have a discussion about healthy food options, because I'd be happy to discuss that.
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Guyanese AIDS-service and human-rights organisations join with our regional partners in the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition to commend leaders of marginalized groups. These groups carry a disproportionate burden of the AIDS epidemic and yet they are often not given adequate attention in national AIDS programmes. As World AIDS Day 2008 is observed under the theme of "Leadership," we recognize the invaluable contributions of our 'everyday leaders' from across the Caribbean who represent and serve these vulnerable populations, even in the face of stigma and discrimination. We salute them for their vigour and valour as they work tirelessly to protect the human rights of those infected and affected by HIV. They are true promise keepers to stop AIDS in Guyana , the rest of the Caribbean and the world.
Local Co-Sponsoring Organisations:
Juncata Juvant Friendly Society (JJFS)
Guyana Rainbow Foundation (Guybow)
Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)
The Network of Guyanese Living with and Affected by HIV and AIDS (G+)
World AIDS Day Celebration of Community Leadership
"Lead – Deliver – Empower"
IN keeping with the World AIDS Day theme of "Leadership," we are celebrating the
leadership by members of vulnerable communities who are part of the Caribbean
Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) family. Mindful that it is ideal that leadership
comes from the groups we work with, in our context this is not easy and means the leaders
risk stigma and discrimination by taking a stand for their community. This World AIDS Day
we are therefore commending their bravery and commitment to a world without AIDS and a
Caribbean where social justice is a reality.
Elias Ramos – Leadership for Youth
Addressing their vulnerability is not easy for young people, but especially for young people
from marginalised groups. In the Dominican Republic, 24-year old Elias Ramos is a leader of
a new youth strategy by and for young people. "Jovenes de la Vida Real" (in English,
YurWorld or Youth in the Real World) is a project by COIN in the Dominican Republic that
targets marginalized youth to increase their resilience to HIV.
Elias explains how the young people at YurWorld are finding solutions:
Marginalized youth are a vulnerable population with complex needs. In light of this,
sustainable prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS amongst marginalized youth
requires empowering them to act and bring about change in their own terms at the
individual as well as the collective level.
He believes that an effective response takes more than disease specific interventions and
includes broader development strategies. This approach is championed by YurWorld which
encourages change through employment and cultural values, ownership of assets, and
political and civil opportunities that empower marginalized youth.
Ionie Whorms – Leadership for Drug Users
It is an early morning and the film crew is setting up their equipment in the neighbourhood
of Fletcher's Land, Kingston, Jamaica. Residents come out to hail and support a woman who
has become their heroine doing yet another television interview. She has become Jamaica's
leading advocate for crack cocaine users, herself in recovery for the past 15 years. This time
she is on set for the filming of Complex Problems, Simple Solutions, the documentary on
access to HIV treatment for women and men who are homeless substance users. Complex
Problems, Simple Solutions, a collaboration between CVC and the Caribbean Treatment
Action Group produced by the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC),
is also released as part of the broadcast media package for World AIDS Week, distributed
throughout the region by the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership. This is yet another
one of her avenues for advocating for the rights of this vulnerable community.
She is Ionie Whorms, whose work is built on the conviction that she would not want anyone
else to go through what she went through when she was on crack cocaine.
"It really bothers me to see lives been wasted away in this manner" she confesses
"and so I must do anything possible to stop it."
That "anything" about which she speaks ranges from taking a meal to those who are
homeless to transporting others to health centres, being part of a civil society response to
substance use and advocating for policy change. She considers these to be simple solutions
to complex things.
Nigel Mathlin – Leadership for Gay Men
Men who have sex with men in the Caribbean region are said to be invisible and hard to
reach for HIV interventions. Nigel Mathlin has engaged the response to HIV in a manner that
proves that does not have to be the case.
He is engaged in arranging activities for the gay, lesbian and bisexual population in his home
county of Grenada through GrenCHAP, the local AIDS-prevention community-based
organisation of which he is a co-founder. But his work has not stopped at home. He is also
integrally involved in the sub-regional and regional movements through the OECS-based
Caribbean HIV/AIDS Partnership (CHAPS) and CVC respectively. No longer can it be said that
leaders for this community cannot be found neither can it be said that this population is not
taking its own action.
Miriam Edwards – Leadership for Sex Workers
"This is our profession, we must stand up and protect our rights" boomed the
confident voice from across the room to the applause of the thirty other male and
female sex workers gathered for a national consultation of sex workers in
Georgetown, Guyana.
The speaker is Miriam, sex worker organiser and a leader in the Caribbean sex work
After seeing many persons die from HIV infection and nursing her own sister on her death
bed, Miriam is intent that HIV awareness among sex workers must be heightened in the
region. That led her to found a local Guyana organisation called "One Love" and later to co-
found the regionally-based Caribbean Sex Work Coalition and then Guyana's national
organisation of sex workers, Guyana Sex Work Coalition. At any given time Miriam can be
seen in training session for sex workers, distributing condoms and safer sex material, visiting
those living with HIV in the hospitals or their homes and advocating at the national, regional
and international levels for the rights of sex workers and other marginalised groups in the Caribbean.
Donna Snagg – Leadership for Involuntary Remigrants
Throughout the Caribbean there is a profound misconception of members of our societies
who have experienced deportation, to the point of them now being labelled and
depersonalised as "deportees." This label overshadows who these persons really are and
their potential to contribute to society. Often lost in a system that is unaccommodating and
hostile, the associations with the label "deportee" in many respects deflects attention from
the violations of their basic human rights that are commonplace.
Human rights activist and stalwart Mrs. Donna Snagg had the experience of being deported
from the USA approximately ten years ago but has used that encounter to mobilize other
persons with similar experiences in her home country of Guyana. So important are these
issues to her that she founded the Juncata Juvant Friendly Society, an NGO that caters for
the needs of involuntary remigrants. The organisation's focus is also to assist this population
to reintegrate into Guyanese society and empowering them to be self sufficient. Added to
that, Donna and the other members of Juncata Juvant recognize the challenges this group of
persons encounter and their vulnerability to HIV. This inspires their activities and the
conviction that with the right support they can overcome these hurdles with dignity and
Nicholas Morgan – Leadership for Vulnerable Children
For Nicholas Morgan the maxim "we are all living in a world with HIV" has a new and
different meaning. From as young as 11 years old he accompanied his mother on her
volunteer efforts with a Jamaican AIDS organisation. What he saw then was so deeply
imprinted on his young mind that he immediately busied himself with providing support to
orphans and other children living with HIV.
Defying the age barrier, his early efforts were centred on baby-sitting children living with the
virus. He helped them with their homework and with such ordinary tasks as learning to ride
a bicycle, playing computer games and just general things that children like to do. It is those
"ordinary" tasks that gave way to extraordinary ones such as becoming one of the Panos
Caribbean youth journalists and being editor of their newsletter called "Our Own Voices."
His voice is stamped on their public service announcements for radio and he is also one of
the mentors to other children in the programme. All this is in determined fulfilment of his
desire to make lives better for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV. To
Nicholas, we are all equal, we are all affected. He believes firmly that:
it is up to those who have the power, the influence to make a difference in the lives
of young people, to help not only those who are infected or affected but to those
who we can help to remain aware and to make informed decisions.


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Haas Nails Down 16th Champions Tour Victory
Jay Haas continued his fine play this week in the Principal Charity Classic. The 58-year-old closed with a 5-under 66 at Glen Oaks Country Club in West Des Moines, Iowa, to win the $1.75 million Champions Tour event by five strokes.
Haas, who posted rounds of 66, 65 and 66 in the 54-hole tournament, posted six birdies - including three straight on hole Nos. 14-16 - against one bogey to finish at 16-under 197, five clear of Larry Mize (68) and Kirk Triplett, who set a new course record with a 9-under 62. Fred Funk (66) and Tom Lehman (68) shared fourth at 203.
"(Saturday) I really played well, but (Sunday) was a special round," Haas told reporters. "And to kind of take hold of it and not give them a chance . . . that was pretty special."
The win was Haas's third in the Principal Charity Classic; his prior victories came in 2007 and 2008. It was also his 16th title on the over-50 circuit. "There was no smoke and mirrors. It was good solid golf, and hopefully it will boost me for the rest of the year," he added.
After opening with a 67, Triplett, a rookie on the Champions Tour, shot a 73 Saturday that pushed him down the leaderboard. Though he went very low in the final round, he couldn't overcome Haas, who entered Sunday with a three-stroke cushion over the field.
"I'm still kind of in shock I guess. I hadn't really been playing that well," said Triplett, who tied his personal best score as a touring pro. He also put up 9-under scores at the Greater Hartford Open and the John Deere Classic, both in 2000. "Every time I made a mistake it came up par, birdie, and then all of a sudden I felt like if I could get a couple more I might shake those leaders up a little bit."
But the story of the day was Haas. It's pretty obvious he has an affinity for the Glen Oaks course, and he confirmed as much following his latest win in Iowa. "Every hole just kind of looks good to me. When I stand up on the tee, I see where I'm supposed to hit it.
"I'm not really uncomfortable on any hole out here, and the greens were at a really good pace this week. This course just seems to suit me. I don't know what it is. I just feel comfortable here."
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Nigeria's 2011 Elections: Obstacles and Opportunities
Where do preparations for Nigeria's 2011 elections stand?
As chair of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Maurice Iwu oversaw one of Nigeria's worst elections in decades. The Domestic Election Observation Group said after the elections in 2007, "We do not believe that any outcome of the elections can represent the will of the people.В A democratic arrangement founded on such fraud can have no legitimacy."В The international observers, including NDI, IRI, and the EU, offered similarly strong commentary on the elections.
The firing of Iwu and the subsequent appointment this summer of Attahiru Jega, an accomplished political scientist thus offered hope for Nigeria's next round of elections.В Jega is the author of Democracy, Good Governance and
Development in Nigeria (Spectrum Books, 2007),В an evaluation of the Fourth Republic's performance.В As a former university vice chancellor, he brings potentially useful experience in running a large organization.В Jega is also serious about electoral reform; this week INEC fired all 774 electoral officers serving in the country's local government areas.
Nigeria's New Electoral Law
The legal environment for the 2011 elections is framed by the 2010 Electoral Act, harmonized (similar to a U.S. conference report) several weeks ago by the National Assembly.В It is also the culmination of a process of electoral reform begun long before Jega took over, and discussed in a report by the Electoral Reform Commission.В This new electoral law contains important new provisions, including a requirement for party primaries and various steps to improve the efficiency of election result appeals.В Significantly, it also requires electoral results to be declared at the polling unit and at the ward level; this makes good on President Jonathan's promise to audiences in Washington, D.C. and in Nigeria when he said this reform is necessary to improve the integrity of the elections. В For a more complete analysis, see the side-by-side comparison of the 2006 and 2010 electoral laws, which I completed with lawyer Amarachi Utah.В (We plan to update this document as necessary.)
Unfortunately, Dr. Jega appears to have backed himself into a corner, which puts him at a distinct political advantage at a time when INEC needs to unequivocally demonstrate its neutrality and its commitment to fairness.В His predecessor spent his final weeks arguing that the 2011 elections should be moved up from April to January.В The idea was that this would allow enough time for electoral disputes to be resolved in the courts before candidates are sworn in in May; it also of course assumed that many election results would be challenged.В However given the poor state of preparations, this would have also had the effect of increasing Iwu's influence by creating an "electoral emergency" of sorts.В When Jega took over he went along with the January date.В He now therefore looks like he's calling for a delay of the elections, when in reality it would have been difficult logistically and otherwise to hold them in January.В Moving the date back to April now requires consultations with a National Assembly constitutional reform committee, which apparently supported the January date, as well as possible modifications to the electoral law.
Follow this page in the coming months for additional analysis, news, and primary source documents from Nigeria.
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Nengak Daniel - October 13, 2010
The 2010 Electoral Act is a good law; but in Nigeria, while we need the good laws, we still need to find a way to make ourselves obey the laws we have. I think the 2011 polls would have been a major improvement to those of 2007, thanks to the Act as well as a few other reforms in the system.
Unfortunately, time is threatening to derail the whole process. It has become clear that nothing short of terrible elections would be conducted in 2011 if the elections were to be held in January as envisaged in the Electoral Act and the (Amended) Constitution. The request for time extension to conduct the elections in April 2011 has opened the 2010 Electoral Act to amendments; therefore, Nigerians are not as yet sure when they will be going to vote.
Also, some of the proposal outline in the Bill for an Act to Amend the Electoral Act No. of 2010 sent by the President and currently before the National Assembly is worrisome. For example, the bill proposes that Section 87(7) "A political party that adopts the system of indirect primaries for the choice of its candidate shall clearly outline in its constitution and rules the procedure for the democratic election of delegates to vote at the convention, congress or meeting" should now read "A political party that adopts the system of indirect primaries for the choice of its candidates shall outline in its constitution or guideline:
i. Who shall be a delegate at the congress or convention;
ii. in the case of democratically elected delegates, the procedure for the election of such delegates"
I guess the difference is stark.
While we are yet wondering what the Act would look like, now it seems INEC Chair crossed the line by making some comments that the National Assembly didn't like!
Carl LeVan - October 19, 2010
NDI Report on Nigerian Election Preparations
The National Democratic Institute has just released a pre-election assessment report for Nigeria. Though the mission was unfortunately very brief (October 11 – 15), it identified key concerns for political reform, as well as possible opportunities for deepening democracy.
Troublesome areas include:
— the legal framework for the election, security and policing throughout the electoral process;
— concerns regarding the overall efficiency of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) organs at the local government, constituency and ward levels;
— the fact that registration, which will include upwards of 70 million voters, has yet to begin;
— no consensus for when the election itself will even take place. The last two federal electoral cycles took place in April, but as noted in earlier blog posts, politicians and administrators moved the date to January in order to allow for resolution of electoral disputes before swearing in takes place. With so few electoral preparations under way, that decision now seems both improvident and impractical.
The mission's recommendations call for:
• Nigeria's leadership to re-affirm its commitment to free, fair and credible elections;
• Clear declarations that electoral misconduct by public officials and others will not be tolerated;
• State and Federal legislative action to change the election date;
• Early and comprehensive accreditation of election observers;
• The security services to require that all officers remain neutral, avoid intimidating voters and to protect civilians;
• Political parties to consider measures to reduce politically motivated violence. (Presumably this would include a joint declaration co-signed by the parties.)
Having participated previously in a NDI/Carter Center election assessment mission in Nigeria — and followed developments closely since — these measures sound like a solid start. But clearly a sense of urgency is needed. Another round of electoral amendments are pending in the National Assembly, and one issue they likely need to address is the process for appealing electoral disputes. Just a few days ago, courts ruled in favor of Kayode Fayemi's petition, giving him the green light to assume the governorship of Ekiti State after a legal fight that dragged on for three years. Another issue concerns the legal framework governing the role of the security services in the elections. Typically private sector forces are employed, but without a clear chain of command at the polling station and with limited (if any) training on their role on election day.
You can read the complete NDI report, dated October 15, here. Come back here for other updates.
Carl LeVan - December 31, 2010
New USIP report on Election Violence in Nigeria
The United States Institute of Peace has just issued a report which raises concerns about pre-electoral violence in Nigeria. The report arrived as Nigeria experienced a new string of killings with political implications this week, including a bombing in Jos and new attacks by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. This is potentially important for scholars because violence after elections rather than before has until recently been the dominant pattern in Africa's democratizing countries. Indeed this was a key observation of a 2009 USAID workshop in Kenya entitled, "Elections and Stability in Africa: Conflict, Peace and Political Processes."
The USIP report shares my view that the new INEC director, Attahiru Jega, offers the best hope Nigeria has had for fair elections in a long time. But the authors also note that timetable changes damaged the credibility of the electoral process, and that disagreements over political "zoning" could still pose a risk of instability since a southerner took over when Yar'Adua passed away in office.
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But it's not just about marriage. It's about one group of society telling the much smaller and isolated group that they are not equal. That because of one characteristic, they can't do something.
How would you feel if the subject was interracial marriage? Sure, marriage might not be important to you, but it's obviously important to other people, so the fact that these ******* dickmouths are holding them back matters.
What "other people" find important is not what I am discussing here. This "debate" is about our opinions, not the opinions of many others. In MY opinion, anything related to marriage is absolutely ridiculous and I couldn't care less. If a group can't get married, I don't care, if they can, I also don't care. I'm not "against" anything nore and I "for" anything, I don't care. Marriage in general is ridiculous and anything related to it is as ridiculous the subject itself.
Straight people don't need parades because, unlike gays, they haven't been oppressed for pretty much all of modern history.
Whether straight people need them or not is not the point. The point is, straight people don't do that. Why do gay people need to parade around without shirts and yell "I'm gay and I'm proud!"? It's a spectacle in many eyes and definitely in the eyes of the state. This does not help their cause of being serious and trying to get it where they can be married. Stop parading around and showing off the fact that you're gay, and start taking is serious. At the end of the day, it has no effect whatsoever on my life, nore do I care about marriage. My opinion, FOR THEM, is that they stop parading around and acting silly, take it seriously, and maybe something might change.
It's much more than a part of it.
Note that even when right wing politics are accounted for, religion correlates strongly with homophobia.
I don't even need to click on the link, religion causes many "problems" and this is one of them. I do not disagree at all.
That doesn't make it right.
Right or wrong that's how it is. Histroy repeats itself often, that's what happens. With religion, with putting themselves out there so much, with being the minority, it'll take a long, long, long time for things to change, especially with how they are handling it.
You have it backwards. They aren't singled out because of the way they act. They act the way they do because they are singled out.
Really? Because I can go for a long duration of time and not once think about the gay community, yet if I slap on the TV I can catch a parade with a bunch of people marching and yelling "I'm gay and I'm proud!". How exactly are they singled out by us when THEY are the ones marching down the street screaming that they are gay? I bet if all these parades stopped, if they lived normally and stopped this whole gay rights act, eventually enough gay people would naturally come out and states might consider letting them marry more, since it looks a lot less like a fad when they aren't marching the streets.
Black people didn't stop acting black in the 1960s. They got in white people's faces. They didn't allow whites to ignore them. Gays (some of them. Again, most of them act no different than me or you) are doing the same thing.
Well, that's fine, and how is that working out for them? See, the difference here is, we didn't put shackles on gays and make them work for us. Gays are just a group of people that have naturally risen. As such, if they keep making a spectacle of themselves and keep "getting in our faces", they should not expect to be treated as being serious.
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This. I feel exactly the same way. I know I came off brash in my first post but I'm really getting annoyed by this new gay fad or whatever it is.
People are gonna generalize me and you and call us "bigots" just like everyone generalizes everything including us about the gays.
Every kind of person has a group of them that ruins it for the rest of them. Gays are no different. I feel the same way about EVERY group, but they are not the topic right now, so I don't mention them. If blacks wanna be taken seriously they should act normal too. They ruin it for all the black people that try to be taken seriously. Same with whites. Same with Latinos. Same with midgets. It doesn't matter though because we are talking about gays here.
I seriously don't give 2 shits about whether someone is gay or not, or if they wanna get married. I really really really don't. But that doesn't mean I have to like the ones that make it blatantly over the top obvious every single day. I'm entitled to my opinion just like everyone else. It's not like I TRY to think this way. This is how I am. (sound familiar?)If you guys like gay people flaunting their personal sexual preferences then that's you. I don't understand it but whatever that your opinion. I don't go out of my way to show my disgust for gay people and they shouldn't go out of their way to show me how flaming gay they can possibly be.
And yes I realize that *** is slanderous. It was supposed to be. I was specifically talking about the ***s on TV who flaunt it excessively and make it seem cool to be gay. Once again, I don't care if your gay. But if your gonna act like a fool about it, then I don't care about what I call you. Just like I don't care about calling a black guy who sells crack and robs people to pay for his ice and shit, a dumb n*gger. That's what he is. Even a black guy will tell you this.
If your gonna go out of your way to represent yourself and your community in a stereotypical way, then expect to be called a stereotypical name. I probably sound like a bigot to alot of you because we have different opinions, so I expect some of you to call me a bigot. I'm not gonna cry about it though.
Obviously I am in the majority on this one. Most people don't like gay people flaunting their gayness. And it's not just straight people. Ask the majority of gays (that don't make it obvious) if they like how the gays on TV portray their community and they will tell you "hell no". So all you guys acting like elitists who think you're better then everyone else that doesn't agree with you need to step back. Just because you personally can tolerate blatantly flaming gay over the top queens, doesn't mean that you're way of thinking is the only way. Everyone has different opinions and ways of thinking. I'm not going to tell the gay community that they can't get married, but I will tell them to stop shoving their gayness in my face every time I wanna watch TV. Keep that shit to yourself. Simple as that. Maybe not completely on topic but hey I'm just venting
I agree completely.
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"Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he will miss the Wells Fargo Championship because of a minor injury.
"Woods suffered a Grade 1 mild medial collateral ligament sprain to his left knee and a mild strain to his left Achilles tendon while hitting a difficult and awkward second shot from the pine straw under the Eisenhower tree left of the fairway at No. 17 during the third round of the Masters. Woods was able to continue playing at Augusta and then later decided to seek a medical evaluation.
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When I went off to college, I had yet to see a Buster Keaton movie, though I was already a huge Charlie Chaplin fan. A hallmate of mine found this out and we made arrangements to see The General (1927) at the library. We arrived and discovered that we needed to squeeze into a tiny viewing booth. There were headphones, but the film -- shown, I think, on a 16mm print -- did not have any soundtrack, so we discarded the headphones. Goodness only knows if it was shown at the correct speed; I tend to doubt it. But even under those lowly conditions, I remember being as blown away as if I were sitting in a huge, air-conditioned movie house watching a state-of-the-art summer blockbuster.
Now Kino Video has released two new Keaton titles. One is a remastered DVD and Blu-Ray of Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), and the other is Lost Keaton, a DVD with sixteen short films from the 1930s. Of the four great Silent Clowns, which included Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Harry Langdon, Keaton was perhaps the best director. He seemed to have an innate understanding of the possibilities of the medium, including its rhythms and spaces. He grasped how a lone figure, juxtaposed against a huge train or a huge, bizarre house, or a huge ship, could result in untold comic possibilities. He was also perhaps the unluckiest of the four in terms of his career.
He grew up in showbiz, and was named "Buster" by none other than Harry Houdini. He performed on stage as a child, doing slapstick with his parents as "The Three Keatons." In 1917, at around age 22, he made his film debut along with Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, and he directed his first short in 1920. Keaton enjoyed success as an independent filmmaker, especially with his extraordinarily detailed and complex two-reel comedies. In 1923, after Chaplin and Lloyd had seen success with feature-length films, Keaton wanted to try as well, but at the behest of his financiers, he had a back-up plan. Three Ages (1923) was designed to tell one story over three time periods, but if the film failed, it could be chopped up into three two-reel shorts. It did not fail.
Over the 1920s, Keaton directed an amazing series of feature comedies with some of the most beautiful and astonishing set-pieces ever produced. Our Hospitality (1923) was about two rural feuding families, with an incredible train sequence that forecasted The General. Sherlock Jr. (1924) was his first full-fledged masterpiece; Keaton plays a projectionist who falls asleep and dreams that he's a great detective. In one amazing sequence, he gets stuck inside a movie, and each time the scene "cuts," he finds himself in new trouble. The Navigator (1924) was another work of genius, with a cream-puff rich boy and a girl stranded alone and adrift on a huge ocean liner.
In Seven Chances (1925) Keaton plays a ne'er-do-well who must get married by the end of the day to inherit a fortune. (It was ineffectually remade as The Bachelor in 1999.) It's one of his frantic chase comedies, with ever more complex scrapes and escapes, a more expanded version of his short film Cops (1922). Go West (1925) is a surprisingly touching tale as a city slicker called "Friendless" goes west and befriends a sweet cow called "Brown Eyes." In one sequence, Keaton designed a chase sequence with the camera providing the POV of a bull (complete with horns).
Most fans and critics agree that the boxing picture Battling Butler (1926) is probably Keaton's least successful picture, but The General (1927) quickly followed, and even though it was an expensive flop for its day, it is now regarded as Keaton's greatest. It consists of two train chases, as Southerner Johnnie Gray (Keaton) chases his stolen train into Northern territory, steals it -- and his girl (Marion Mack) -- back, and races home with the bad guys on his trail. This one featured some gorgeous cinematography modeled after Matthew Brady's famous Civil War photographs, and a very pricey "exploding bridge" stunt.
After losing money, Keaton retreated back to safer material with College (1928), but it was no match for Harold Lloyd's very similar The Freshman (1925). Then came his final independent production, Steamboat Bill Jr., which is one of his best. It's one of the only times Keaton gave a significant role to another actor, Ernest Torrence, as his father. In the film, the effete William Canfield Jr. (Keaton) returns from the city to work with his tough, grizzled father on their riverboat. Keaton effectively sets the tone when Willie accidentally knocks a life preserver in the water and it sinks!
Willie strikes up a romance with a girl (Marion Byron), who happens to be the daughter of Willie's father's greatest rival, John James King (Tom McGuire). This causes an even greater rift between father and son, which eventually gets mended when a hurricane strikes, and it's up to Willie to save the day. In the movie's most famous sequence, the entire front of a building falls on top of Keaton, while he passes safely through a small window. The stunt is absolutely real, and if Keaton had miscalculated just an inch or two to one side, he'd have been a goner.
In a bad move, and against his own judgment, Keaton signed a contract with MGM, a studio that demanded control over all its players; Keaton no longer had the freedom to experiment or improvise. He managed to make one great film there, The Cameraman (1928), but his final silent feature, Spite Marriage (1929) is more of a whimper than a bang. From there, he served out the rest of his contract in a series of lowbrow talkies, sometimes paired with Jimmy Durante. Despite that series of 16 great short films made between 1934 and 1937 for Educational Pictures, and released this week on the Lost Keaton DVD, Keaton's career was more or less over.
For the next several decades, he made small appearances in things like In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Chaplin's Limelight (1952), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). Fortunately, during this time, James Mason -- who had bought Keaton's old mansion -- discovered a cache of "lost" films and started the process of getting them restored. In 1957, an ill-fated biopic of Keaton, The Buster Keaton Story, was released, with Donald O'Connor in the lead. But it at least drew more attention to the master comedian.
Perhaps further headway was made with the release of Film (1965), a twenty-minute quasi-experimental short written by Samuel Beckett. Intellectuals of the time discovered Keaton for the first time, and he appeared at film festivals and gave interviews. All this helped to bring Keaton back into the limelight. But then something weird happened. At this same time, Charlie Chaplin had stirred up some controversy. Persecuted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was denied re-entry into the United States and was forced to live in exile. What's more, his final films, A King in New York (1956) and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) met with less than enthusiastic receptions.
And so it became a film buff's game to compare Keaton to Chaplin and find Chaplin wanting. Keaton was the underdog who had been rescued from obscurity, and the ever-popular Chaplin represented the mainstream star that had abused his privileges. I, too, fell into this trap and began to appreciate Keaton more than Chaplin. Eventually a truce was called and film buffs could agree that "Keaton was the better director and Chaplin was the better actor." But now I have come to love both filmmakers unreservedly. Both found a certain poetry in comedy that has never been replicated.
Keaton was called the "Great stone face," but he could find awesome depths of loneliness, affection, disgust, and even rage within the tiny fraction of a centimeter that he allowed his form to move. Chaplin may have been a great actor and a master of pathos, but there's nothing quite like the scene in The General in which Keaton sits down on the coupling rods on his great steam engine. His girl has just dumped him, and he does not know why. Suddenly, the train begins moving, and the oblivious Buster begins bobbing up and down, face unwavering. Or in Steamboat Bill Jr., when Buster tries to walk down the street into the force of the hurricane, and, though walking, makes no headway at all.
These are sublime moments of sadness and comedy, the great poetry of the human form and his place in the world. No other director has ever come anywhere close to him, and this is why I love Buster Keaton.
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Team A gets Spezza and Kovalchuk
Team B gets Marleau and Setoguchi
please let me know what you guys think...Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Its just like this, its not like writing articles or anything, its just talking about teams and players and issues. But if you dont want to thats okay!
Thanks for all the input and I am happy to see the stir this trade caused. FYI I went with Kovalchuk and Spezza. My reasoning was that Kovalchuk has four straight 40+ goal seasons and every year Atlanta sucked. Setoguchi is tough to let go but without Thornton we would not even dispute this trade and in my mind San jose can throw three other guys on his line in his spot and not see a drop in production.Marleau has only topped 80+ points once in his career while Spezza has ability to hit at least that if Ottawa turns around their locker room situation around in time.
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lol it's not a locker room issue in ottawa, that was their b.s. excuse last year, they just aren't a very good team and don't ahve the players to be able to turn it around
san jose will probably finish the year with as many points as ottawa and atlanta combined
I Agree with PUB
fair trade id say its close. Start of the season trade wouldn't of even made sense, but team a is struggling and team b is flourishing so i would have to go with team b winning this trade. But it could easily go either way. Only risk team b is taking is Setoguchi isn't proven player well the rest of the three are. But you got to take some risks if your going to win i guess.
Team B wins this, and jesse, I completely agree with you, you showed brad, what a nutcase he is LOL
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Setoguchi and Marleau, don't have straight up talent like Kovalchuk and Spezza, they're on the worst teams in the League, and still Kovalchuk almost has as much as Marleau, and Setoguchi. Marleau and Setoguchi have other players to supprt them, unlike Kovalchuk, Kovalchuk is better. WAY BETTER!!!!!!! lol Spezza is having a BIG slump but still I know has more talent for sure!!
thats a no brainer,take team A
Buddy.... Ive given you advice plenty of times, so im pretty sure i know more shit than you do. Who comes on here asking advice when they are smart enough to do it themselves. Unless your one of those jackasses that think they got a steal and want to show it off... although most of the time its something like Datsyuk for Marleau. Marleau's career was going downhill up until now, he had all of two good seasons in his entire career. Blake was all but retired and yes is a hall of famer but at his prime...., wow Boyle is one other player you can mention. Clowe, Pavelski, Setoguchi all just random guys that somehow produce though no one knows who the shit they are because they sprung outta nowhere and GUARANTEED they wont continue this joke of a season. Cheechoo is a one year wonder enough said about that... the playoffs tell all and that team is going to get beat down as they did last year and as they did a couple days back in Detroit. Joke. STFU. Check out last years stats, understand the chances of production versus luck of the draw players like Seto and Marleau. They were nobodies at the start of the season and will be nobodies by the end.
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A Yahoo! User Dec 26, 2008 1:15 AM Flag
In regards to this trade, you have to look at how the players are performing during the regular season right now when deciding if its fair or not. Marleau and Setoguchi are going to continue having the productive regular season in which they have been enjoying. Spezza and Kovalchuk will continue to have a sub par season. Both players have been in trade talks and Kovalchuk will most likely be the guy who gets traded because Atlanta is trying to rebuild and a new face like Gaborik would be a great way to start. Spezza most likely not go anywhere because Ottawa can't let a young star like that get away. Moral of the story is, Kovalchuk will most likely not jump to a new team and start scoring like he used to, it will probably be the opposite cause he will need time to adjust. Spezza will continue having a lousy year because of all the turmoil in Ottawa. Don't base you decision on popularity, base it off of performance and right now Marleau and Setoguchi are the better players. That may change once the post season starts because thats when San Jose will fall and fall hard as usual, however fantasy hockey operates during the regular season and San Jose is on pace to have one of the best regular seasons ever.
bahaha firstly im not a sharks fan im a hockey fan, secondly, you've given me adice plenty of times?!?!?!?! i challenge you to search through all my posts and find ONE time where i've asked anyone for advice on anything and you'll find that i NEVER have... marleau's career was not going downhill, last year he jsut had a terrible terrible year, this is what is known as a back bounce year. and if you dont know who clowe, pavelski and setoguchi are then you have never seen the sharks play because u are too busy watching the wings, pavelski and clowe were 2 of the better palyers for the sharks in the playoffs last year and pavelski is one of the smartest players int he league, and luck of the draw player? what the hell does that mean?? setoguchi was a first rounder that the sharks traded up to draft 8th overall, theres a reason i drafted clowe and pavelski in my leagues and the ONLY reason i didnt draft setoguchi was because i was unsure of what mcclellans lines would be and didnt want to draft setoguchi if he would be on the fourth line but the second i saw in the first game that he was a top 6 forward i immediately picked him up in 3 leagues, im sorry brad that you were not smart enough to pick him up and are clearly bitter about it... and i also bet that last year you would have said the exact same thing about someone like mike richards or jeff carter, you wouldve called them "random guys" who were "nobodies at the start of the seaosn and will be nobodies by the end"
and you're going to base the sharks season on ONE bad game against the wings? they were exhausted after their road trip and about getting stoned by a couple of goalies and from having the best start to a season EVER for ANY team, not to mention that every team literally tries their hardest against the sharks now... playoffs say it all? well then i'll just have to wait until early june to bring this post up agina to make you look stupid
and you are a red wings fan talking about springing out of nowhere? zetterberg, datsyuk, franzen are guys who sprung out of nowhere so i dont know why that would be an argument for you... setoguchi didnt spring out of nowhere, this is what is called his first full year in the league
Two capable of big numbers, and two players less capable though getting it done. The question is consistency... do you feel Kovalchuk (i wouldnt say hes doing bad as most seem to think)... will go to a contender and help your team out? do you think Spezza will play like he should and has in the past? will the sharks ever slow down? YES! the one answer we know is the cool down of the red hot sharks. We cant really expect a team to go an entire season at the pace they are with a bunch of no name players along with Thornton and Nabby. It just cant last, but since i cant tell the future i wont count it out and anything can happen.... just not LIKELY. I honestly think Kovalchuk wants out of Atlanta and isnt playing with any heart, though some may argue he never did.... he is as skilled as ovechkin but obviously the heart isnt there so a change in scenery and a drive for the cup could bring ilya back to his old form. So DO IT!
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nobodyfamous nobodyfamous Dec 26, 2008 11:21 AM Flag
i totally agree
brad taht was the dumbest post ive ever read, for one thing spezza is more likely to get traded this year than kovalchuk, the thrashers are going to do whatever they can to resign kovalchuk so if they trade him it wont be until next year when he becomes a UFA, and saying the sharks have a bunch of no name players?? are you out of your mind?? boyle?? (going to win the norris), blake (hall of famer), marleau?? setoguchi?? (maybe you've never heard of him because u obviously dont know anything about hockey but there is a reason the sharks traded up to draft him), rocket richard winner cheechoo?? milan michalek?? high draft pick from the best draft ever, joe pavelski? one of the smarter palyers in the game, roenick (hall of famer), etc
Team B wins by a mile. Kovalchuck is not going to produce like he usually does on the sub-par atlanta team and spezza just isn' t playing like he should be. Marleau is back to form and the skys the limit for setoguchi. He's amzing.
A Yahoo! User Dec 22, 2008 11:30 PM Flag
No way, Team B wins by far, Marleau has 37 points, and Setoguchi is right behind him. Spezza has like what, 22 maybe?
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