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The most essential figures which Beethoven employs are built upon the scale and the arpeggio.
The study ends with the arpeggio passage as at the beginning.
There can never be too much practice of a scale or arpeggio exercise.
This noise was not repeated, and by a treble rap I mean the sound was like an arpeggio chord.
Scale and arpeggio passages were absolutely clean and without a flaw.
If due attention be given to the intonation of the arpeggio, the scale should not be, as it too often is, all out of tune.
Or, to lessen fatigue, is an occasional rise and fall of the wrist permissible in a long passage of scale or arpeggio?
He was unequaled in producing pizzicatos with the left hand, arpeggio passages, the tremolo, and the gettato.
I amused myself by playing an arpeggio when Schikaneder came to a pause.
Begin by making the class sing them in arpeggio, and in a definite rhythm, so as to get precision.
1742, from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare "to play upon the harp," from arpa "harp," which is of Germanic origin (see harp (n.)). Related: Arpeggiated; arpeggiation.


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Silk Red Pants - Vintage via thrift, Check Shirt - Forever21, Blazer - Nordstrom Boy's; Vintage, Chain Flats - Gap, Hat - Vintage
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Up and at 'em bright and early. Someone get me another coffee...
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Fuel Stabilizer: Fair or Foul?
The U.K. government's introduction of measures to tackle rising fuel prices will go some way to help ease the pressure on consumers at the pump, but oil and gas producers are unlikely to be jumping for joy.
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in a budget speech to Parliament Wednesday that a government has to "listen and respond" when oil prices rise. To do this, the government is unexpectedly cutting fuel duty, and partially funding the cost with an increase in North Sea taxation.
Mr. Osborne said a "fair fuel stabilizer" will be introduced from Thursday, which will raise an extra £2 billion. The money will be used to delay the duty rise–originally slated to rise by 1 pence per litre above inflation next week–until next year.
He said:
"From tomorrow the supplementary charge levied on oil and gas production will increase from 20% to 32%. Even after this, profits on a barrel of oil are forecast to be higher in the next five years than in the last five years."
The idea of a fair fuel stabilizer was included in the Conservative party's manifesto during the last general election campaign, but the proposal appeared to have stalled earlier this year when Robert Chote, head of economic watchdog the Office of Budget Responsibility, said it would lead to a hike in other taxes to recoup the revenue.
Looks like, to the chagrin of the oil majors, that Mr. Chote was right.
Angelos Damaskos, CEO of Sector Investment Managers and fund adviser to its Junior Oils Trust, said oil companies operating in the North Sea are "likely to see a negative impact on their profitability which would, nevertheless, be reduced if the oil price dropped. In many cases, the incremental taxation can be deferred through exploration expenditure tax losses," he added.
But Mr. Osborne is wary of losing investment in the North Sea…
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Two cows walked up to each other, and one said, Mooooooooo, and the other one said, damn l was going to say that!
Shane :0}
DaniMun said
Funny indeed!
Here's mine:
Q: What do you call a monkey in a minefield?A: A baboom!
Okay you look hot so…. OMG THATS SOOOOOOOOOO FUNNNNY HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
This is a recent one i heard…
Two men walks into a bar. The first man says, "I want some H2O" The second man says, "Give me some H2O too"
The second man died
One day in the forest, 3 guys were just hiking along a trail when all of a sudden, a huge pack of indians attaked them and knocked them out. When they woke up, they were at the leader of the tribe's throne.The chief then said "All of your lives may be ... spared if you can find ten of one fruit and bring them back to me."So after a while the first man returned with 10 apples.
The cheif then ordered him to stick all ten of them up his butt without making any expression at all on his face. He had a little bit of trouble with the first one and started crying while trying to put the next one in. He was soon killed. Later, the next guy came in with 10 grapes. The cheif soon ordered him to do the same as the first guy.
After to the 9th grape, the man started laughing so hard for no apperant reason, and was killed.The first two guys soon met in heaven and the first guy ask the second, "Why did you start laughing? You only needed one more grape and you'd have gotten away!" The second guy answered while still laughing, "I couldn't help it. I saw the third guy walking in with pineapples.
1. What do you call a psychic dwarf who escapes from prison?
2. Why did Collis fall down?
- His shoes were not Ta'eed.
Ok back to work….
hahaha. A small medium at large. I love that Adrien. complete with drum/crash. Going to use that in future
Ok – here's one of the funniest ones I've heard recently…http://jetpackmedia.typepad.com/old_jews_telling_jokes/2009/02/malcolm-busch-drobkin.html
(apologies for the unavoidable commercial that launches before playing, but joke is worth hearing)Also you gotta watch this… For every fan of movie trailer voice over guys…
my friend calls and tells: 'Dude you've got 10 sales!' it is the best and smiley given one!
I've got a very dirty joke, can I share it here? lol.


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Futurism was first announced on Feb. 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. (q.v.). The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant See the Manifesto of Futurism.) Marinetti coined the word Futurism to reflect his goal of discarding the art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Marinetti's manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted Exalting violence and conflict and , he called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. The manifesto's rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its aggressive tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.
With the support of Marinetti, the painters Marinetti's manifesto inspired a group of young painters in Milan to apply Futurist ideas to the visual arts. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini published several manifestos on painting in 1910. Like Marinetti, they glorified originality for its own sake and despised inherited traditions of artand expressed their disdain for inherited artistic traditions.
Although they were not as yet working in what was to become the Futurist style, they began to emphasize the group called for artists to have an emotional involvement in the dynamics of modern life, and toward this end they called for rendering . They wanted to depict visually the perception of movement and communicating to the viewer the sensations of speed , speed, and change. To achieve this, the Futurist painters adopted the Cubist technique of depicting several sides and views of an object simultaneously by means of using fragmented and interpenetrating intersecting plane surfaces and outlines to show several simultaneous views of an object. But the Futurists additionally sought to portray the object's movement in space, and they tried to achieve this goal by , so their works typically include rhythmic spatial repetitions of the an object's outlines during its transit, producing an effect akin to that obtained by making multiple and sequential . The effect resembles multiple photographic exposures of a moving object. An example is Balla's painting Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912), in which a trotting dachshund's legs are depicted as a blur of multiple images. The Futurist paintings differed from Cubist ones work in other important ways. While the Cubists favoured still life and portraiture, the Futurists preferred subjects such subjects as speeding automobiles and trains, racing cyclists, dancers, animals, and urban crowds in movement. The resulting Futurist paintings had have brighter and more vibrant colours than Cubist works, and revealed they reveal dynamic, agitated compositions in which rhythmically swirling forms reached reach crescendos of violent movement.
Boccioni also became interested in sculpture, publishing a manifesto on the subject in the spring of 1912. Soon afterward, he began working in this medium, creating the highly original "Development He is considered to have most fully realized his theories in two sculptures, Development of a Bottle in Space" Space (1912) and "Unique , in which he represented both the inner and outer contours of a bottle, and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" Space (1913), in which a human figure is not portrayed as one solid form but is instead composed of the multiple planes in space through which the figure moves.
Futurist principles extended to architecture as well. Antonio Sant'Elia formulated a Futurist manifesto on architecture in 1914. His visionary drawings of highly mechanized cities and boldly modern skyscrapers of the future prefigure some of the most imaginative 20th-century architectural planning. Sant'Elia was killed in action in 1916 during World War I.
Boccioni, who had been the most talented artist in the group, also and Sant'Elia both died during military service in 1916. This eventBoccioni's death, combined with dilution expansion of the group's daring as a result of expansion of its personnel and the coming of war, sobering realities of the devastation caused by World War I, effectively brought an end to the Futurist movement as an important historical force in the visual arts.
After his initial broad manifesto of 1909, Marinetti wrote or had a hand in creating a whole series of manifestos dealing with poetry, the theatre, architecture, and other arts. He founded the journal Poesia at Paris in 1905, and he later founded a press with the same name to publish Futurist works. On proselytizing visits to England, France, Germany, and Russia, Marinetti influenced the work of the English founder of Vorticism, Wyndham Lewis, and the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
In Russia the Marinetti visit took root in a kind of Russian Futurism that went beyond its Italian model in a revolutionary social and political outlook. Marinetti influenced the two Russian writers considered the founders of Russian Futurism, Velimir Khlebnikov (q.v.), who remained a poet and a mystic, and the younger Vladimir Mayakovsky (q.v.), who became "the poet of the Revolution" and the popular spokesman of his generation. The Russians published their own manifesto in December 1912, entitled Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu (Not content with merely taking over the urban and modernist themes of Futurist painting, the writers who embraced Italian literary Futurism sought to develop a language appropriate for what they perceived to be the speed and ruthlessness of the early 20th century. They established new genres, the most significant being parole in libertà ("words-in-freedom"), also referred to as free-word poetry; this was poetry liberated from the constraints of linear typography and conventional syntax and spelling. A brief extract from Marinetti's war poem Battaglia peso + odore (1912; "Battle Weight + Smell") was appended to one of the Futurists' manifestos as an example of words-in-freedom:
Arterial-roads bulging heat fermenting hair armpits drum blinding blondness breathing + rucksack 18 kilograms common sense = seesaw metal moneybox weakness: 3 shudders commands stones anger enemy magnet lightness glory heroism Vanguards: 100 meters machine guns rifle-fire explosion violins brass pim pum pac pac tim tum machine guns tataratatarata
"Designed analogies" (pictograms where shape analogically mimics meaning), dipinti paroliberi (literary collages combining graphic elements with free-word poetry), and sintesi (minimalist plays) were among other new genres. New forms of dissemination were favoured, including Futurist evenings, mixed-media events, and the use of manifesto leaflets, poster poems, and broadsheet-format journals containing a mixture of literature, painting, and theoretical pronouncements. Until 1914, however, output fell far short of the movement's declared program, and Futurist poets—in contrast to Marinetti—remained largely traditionalist in their subject matter and idiom, as was demonstrated by the movement's debut anthology I poeti futuristi (1912; "The Futurist Poets").
Marinetti was for some time primarily associated with his "African" Mafarka le futuriste (1910; Mafarka the Futurist), a tale of rape, pillage, and battle set in North Africa. Apart from its misogyny, racism, and glorification of a cult of violence, the novel is remembered for its hero's creation of a machine brought to life as a superman destined to inherit the future. Only when Marinetti started grounding his avant-garde poetry in the realities of his combat experiences as a war reporter during World War I, however, did a distinctly innovative Futurist idiom emerge, one that represented a significant break from past poetic practices.
The title of literary Futurism's most important manifesto, Distruzione della sintassi–immaginazione senza fili–parole in libertà (1913; "Destruction of Syntax–Wireless Imagination–Words-in-Freedom"), represented Marinetti's demands for a pared-down elliptical language, stripped of adjectives and adverbs, with verbs in the infinitive and mathematical signs and word pairings used to convey information more economically and more boldly. The resultant "telegraphic lyricism" is most effective in Marinetti's war poetry, especially Zang tumb tumb and Dunes (both 1914). A desire to make language more intensive led to a pronounced use of onomatopoeia in poems dealing with machines and war—as in the title of Zang tumb tumb, intended to mimic the sound of artillery fire—and to a departure from uniform, horizontal typography. A number of Futurist painter-poets blurred the distinction between literature and visual art, as Severini did in Danza serpentina (1914; "Serpentine Dance"). While Marinetti's poetic experiments revealed an indebtedness to Cubism, he elevated Italian literary collage, often created for the purpose of pro-war propaganda, to a distinctively Futurist art form. The culmination of this tendency came with Carrà's Festa patriottica (1914; "Patriotic Celebration") and Marinetti's Les Mots en liberté futuristes (1919; "Futurist Words-in-Freedom").
A "typographical revolution" was also proclaimed in the Futurists' 1913 manifesto; it grew out of both a desire to make form visually dynamic and a perceived need for visual effects in type that were capable of reflecting—through size and boldness—the noise of modern warfare and urban life. A diverse series of shaped poetic layouts depicted speeding cars, trains, and airplanes, exploding bombs, and the confusions of battle. Apart from Marinetti's work, the most accomplished typographical experiments are to be found in the poetry of Francesco Cangiullo and Fortunato Depero.
During its first decade, Italian literary Futurism remained a largely homogeneous movement. By contrast, Russian Futurism was fragmented into a number of splinter groups (Ego-Futurists, Cubo-Futurists, Hylaea) associated with a large number of anthologies representing continually regrouping artistic factions. While there was an urbanist strand to Russian Futurism, especially in the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Elena Guro, Russian writers were less preoccupied with machines, speed, and violence than their Italian counterparts. The dominant strain of primitivism in Russian Futurism led some to conclude that the two movements have little in common apart from the word Futurism. While there was a shared interest in the renewal of language, the Italians' innovations were invariably designed to express an ultramodern sensibility, whereas Russian Futurist poets and playwrights confined their attentions to "The Word as Such" (the title of one of their most famous manifestos, Slovo kak takovoye, published in 1913). A number of these writers, most impressively Velimir Khlebnikov, explored the archaic roots of language and drew on primitive folk culture for their inspiration.
As was the case in Italy, the main achievements of Russian Futurism lie in poetry and drama. As it did in Italy, neologism played a large role in Russian attempts to renew language, which in turn aimed at the destruction of syntax. The most famous Futurist poem, Khlebnikov's Zaklyatiye smekhom (1910; "Incantation by Laughter"), generates a series of permutations built on the root -smekh ("laughter") by adding impossible prefixes and suffixes. The result is a typical (for Russian Futurism) concern with etymology and word creation. Khlebnikov's and Alexey Kruchenykh's radical forays into linguistic poetry went hand in hand with an interest in the word as pure sound. Their invented Zaum—the largely untranslatable name given to their "transrational" language—was intended to take language beyond logical meanings in the direction of a new visionary mysticism. Kruchenykh's opera Pobeda nad solncem (1913; "Victory over the Sun") and Khlebnikov's play Zangezi (1922) are two of the most important examples of the Futurist blend of transrationalism with the cult of the primitive. Mayakovsky, the greatest Russian poet to have gone through a Futurist phase, was coauthor of the manifesto Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu (1912; "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste"), which echoed the Italian manifesto of the previous May. The Russian Futurists repudiated Aleksandr Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy and the then-current Russian symbolist verse and called for the creation of new techniques of writing poetry. Both the Russian and the Italian Futurist poets discarded logical sentence construction and traditional grammar and syntax; they frequently presented an incoherent string of words stripped of their meaning and used for their sound alone. As the first group of artists to identify wholeheartedly with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Russian Futurists sought to dominate post-Revolutionary culture and create a new art that would be integrated into all aspects of daily life of a revolutionary culture. They were favoured by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Soviet commissar of education, and given important cultural posts. But the Russian Futurists' challenging literary techniques and their theoretical premises of revolt and innovation proved too unstable a foundation upon which to build a broader literary movement. The Futurists' influence was negligible by the time of Mayakovsky's death in 1930and his poems figure in many of the movement's key anthologies. While sharing an Italian-influenced Futurist sensibility with the Ego-Futurists and belonging more, on account of their concern with verbal innovation, to the body of works by the Cubo-Futurist painter-poets, his poetry and plays are, above all, Futurist in their provocative rejection of the past and their subjectivist approach to the renewal of poetic language.
During the 1920s, Marinetti and those around him gravitated toward fascism, whereas the Soviet communist regime became increasingly intolerant of what it dismissed as avant-garde Formalism. While relations between Italian and Russian Futurism were, on the whole, strained, the Italian Futurists exercised a strong influence on German Expressionism, English Vorticism, and international Dada.


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Intl Investment Analysis
This course covers theory and instruments used in developing international investment portfolios. Students gain an understanding of international capital and money markets through the development and management of their own portfolios. The course also covers the use of hedging strategies, asset pricing models and management of exchange risk.
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Let's all give one collective "Awwwwww" for the newspaper industry that seems destined to go the way of the Dodo bird. As reported by The New York Times on Friday, the first quarter was another bad period for an industry which continues to see ad revenues decline as America's readers increasingly lose interest in their content:
"The newspaper industry continues to flag financially, with three companies — The New York Times, Tribune and McClatchy — reporting sharply lower first-quarter earnings yesterday.
"Executives of all of the newspaper companies said they were hurt by stagnant advertising, particularly in the automotive and entertainment categories, and a continuing rise in the cost of newsprint. The Times Company and Tribune also cited the cost of severance packages after cutting hundreds of jobs."
Nobody seemed immune to the contagion that continues to devastate the industry:
- "At The New York Times Company, profit fell 69 percent, to $35 million, or 24 cents a share, down from $111 million, or 76 cents a share, in the first quarter of last year."
- "The Tribune company, whose newspapers include The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and Newsday, reported yesterday that its first-quarter earnings fell 28 percent. Income fell to $103 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with $143 million, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier. Overall revenue declined 1.3 percent, to $1.3 billion. Advertising revenue was flat. Last year, the company cut 1,200 jobs."
- "At McClatchy, net income fell to $27.7 million, or 59 cents a share. That compares with $32.3 million, or 69 cents a share, a year before."
- "The results yesterday follow a report on Wednesday from Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper company and one of its most profitable, that its earnings had fallen by 11 percent. Gannett also said that ad sales at USA Today, its largest newspaper, had fallen 4.2 percent."
Just keep doing what you're doing, folks, and I'll likely be telling my grandchildren tales about the bygone days when folks actually waited until a paperboy brought them the "news" 24 hours after it happened.
Ah, the bad old days.


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Environmental groups have gone to court again to stop the export of liquefied natural gas from the Port of Coos Bay.
Coos Waterkeeper, the Sierra Club and other groups filed a petition with Oregon's Court of Appeals Tuesday. They're asking the court to reverse a judge's decision last month to allow the port to dredge a waterway deep enough for large vessels that could haul LNG and bulk commodities like coal.
Earthjustice attorney Janette Brimmer filed the appeal.
Brimmer: "They have the obligation to look at the impacts of the project as a whole particular to the things that the Legislature has said are really, really important to Oregon, like fishing, like shellfish, like use of our waters for recreation."
This spring, investors in an export terminal withdrew their plan to ship coal from Coos Bay.
Port officials say they will continue to consider import and export opportunities as they seek federal and state permits to develop its terminal.
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Highway 140 from Merced/Mariposa Update
Looks like the road is going to be closed until atleast Tuesday because of the rockslide. If you were planning on entering the park this way it is recommended you take either the 41 entrance from the south or Highway 120 from San Francisco or the west.
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Yes, I read all of the 50 Shades Books. Every poorly written, smutty word of them, yes I did. Hate it, love it or pretend you never read it – 50 Shades of Grey got your motor running. Suburban moms are eating this up and we want more. It's not shameful to fill your kindle with little pieces of smutty crack reading. It is filling a need. Mommy Porn is necessary in the suburbs because our reality is not sexy. Let' be honest, without a vodka tonic, sex would be extinct out here in the country. Sex in the suburbs is a lot less Christian Grey and a hell of a lot more Nantucket Grey, the historical paint collection. Let's compare and contrast shall we?
Lip Biting
Book: Ana has an issue biting her lip, which sends Christian into a full-on sex frenzy.
Suburban Sex: If I bite my lip in a seductive way it's to get chocolate cake off my lip, now that shit is sexy.
Laters Baby
Book: For some reason a highly educated, successful man signs e-mails "laters baby" and it's suppose to be hot. I skipped this crap to find the sex scenes.
Suburban Sex: If my husband said "Laters Baby" I would be convinced he had taken up smoking the wacky weed on the way to the train. He's a 45 year-old man who wears embroidered belts. Leave "Laters Baby" for the punks, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue of a preppy suburban Dad.
Tied up in knots
Book: Ana gets tied up with Christian's tie and a few other bits of hardware store finery.
Suburban Sex: Suburban husbands wouldn't waste a good tie, or god forbid need to send it for dry cleaning, to tie up their woman. The only and I mean ONLY reason a suburban man ties up a suburban woman is to restrain her credit card hand at an outlet mall. Truth. Sidenote: I am pretty sure Vineyard Vines ties aren't dirty enough for playing a game of tie me up tie me down. Is my husband's bow tie dirty enough for cocktails at the club with Buffy and Biff?
Ooooh, yes that whale tie is extra dirty for dry martinis.
Twitchy Palms
Book: Christian likes to give a good spanking.
Suburban Sex: Our men get twitchy palms now and again too, it's called wanting to punish the kid after they break the husband's expensive electronic gadget. (no children were harmed in the writing of this post)
The Drawer of Magical Delights
Book: Christian has a special room and in that special room is a drawer full of magical delights he likes to share with Ana.
Suburban Sex: There isn't a drawer, there is a box and that box is in the way back of the closet and there is NO sharing. The Magical Delights box is only for that special alone time when you are reading 50 Shades of Grey.
Crazy Ex Girlfriends
Book: Poor Christian has a mentally unstable ex and Dungeon Mentor Cougar ex. His list is long and all have legal documentation.
Suburban Sex: We don't have a crazy exes problem in the suburbs. We have a "let's have sex with our pool boy, trainer, lawn guy" problem. From what I can tell most husbands are a-ok with this arrangement since they work late a lot or maybe they have a trainer too.
Book: Ana, a college graduate, is a virgin and only has sex with Christian.
Suburban Sex: 21 Year-Old Virgin = Unicorns
Inner Goddess
Book: Ana has an inner goddess that helps her get ready for sexy time. Think "devil on my shoulder"
Suburban Sex: Suburban chicks killed their inner goddess after she recommended one of the following: "that sexy short haircut during the last month of pregnancy" or "permanent tattoo eyeliner, because that will never go out of style". Yeah, we cut the bitch in our twenties.
How Does A Uterus Work?
Book: Ana can't figure out where babies come from, ends up pregnant and gets married.
Suburban Sex: We all know where babies come from, the fancy doctor in the city of course.
A closet full of clothes
Book: Christian gives Ana her own room and a closet full of designer, perfectly sized clothes. She complains that she can't sleep in his room and wants to buy her own clothes.
Suburban Sex: This girl is a MORON. I would give my right arm for my own room and clothes I didn't have to buy myself at Target.
Back to my own room, that would be the sexiest thing a Suburban Man could do for his lady… so hot… so restful… just a Suburban woman, her pile of Mommy porn and a fresh pack of double a batteries. A girl can dream can't she?
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NEW YORK, NY -- There comes a point -- in every hockey season -- when
a team needs to fully evaluate its roster, team health and general
direction of the franchise to decide whether or not they can seriously
And almost important as that first debate comes a second question, at
what cost does contending come?
With divisional realignment, teams will be much more confident in
their ability to contend throughout a full season. After all, in the
last full NHL season, an eight seed and a six seed squared-off for the
sport's ultimate prize. Last year, two of the top teams in the NHL won
their conferences and the right to play in the Stanley Cup Final, but
it seems, consistently, there's a mentality of "just getting in," and
starting a second season from that point.
There are a two teams that should be focuses all of their energy
entirely on the future, rather than the present and have already fired
their coaches this season.
Through 33 games, the Buffalo Sabres have managed to get a meager 17
points. That would put them on pace for 42 points. The last team to
finish under the 50 point mark in a full, regular season was the
1999-2000 expansion Atlanta Thrashers. That was almost 15 years and
two lockouts ago, when teams could still finish a game in a tie. A man
named Norm Maracle -- a player that, when you Google, the first
autofill is "Norm Maracle fat" -- got the bulk of the work in between
the pipes for the Thrashers that season.
The rebuild effort truly began last year, when the Sabres shipped
Jason Pominville to Minnesota and continued in grand fashion this
season, when they traded Tomas Vanek to the New York Islanders. After
their general manager and coach were both let go in one fell swoop,
the Sabres have already begun to look to the future.
Pat LaFontaine, one of the franchise's great players took the reins of
the hockey operation department.
"My job is to build this hockey department for a championship caliber
team in the future," Lafontaine explained, which highlights the
franchise's willingness to move forward.
A true rebuild starts from the top and once the organizational
structure is in place, the rest can follow.
Examining the roster, there are still several extremely tradable
pieces left, the first one being the man acquired as part of the Vanek
trade, Moulson.
The 30-year-old winger had been a consistent offensive force since
joining the Islanders, scoring 30 goals in every single full year that
he played. Now, he had the obvious benefit of playing alongside John
Tavares, one of the better players in the game, but he still has an
unmistakable ability to put the puck into the back of the net. Moulson
will probably command a decent-sized raise in the off-season, when he
is set to become an unrestricted free agent, but could certainly
warrant a first-round pick from a team looking to add a little offense
on the wings.
Ryan Miller is another player that has been discussed at length, but
trading him isn't as obvious and won't be as easy as finding a trade
partner for Moulson. Contending teams are usually comfortable with
their goaltending. Teams with no answer in net are usually teams
picking in the lottery. On top of that, you can win with a
replacement-level goaltender, so it doesn't necessarily make a ton of
sense to give up assets if Miller is just a slight upgrade in net.
Trading Miller this past off-season would have been a much brighter
move, but hindsight is 20/20 and the Sabres must have believed they
had a chance to compete this year. Still, it will be difficult to find
the right fit and right value for Miller.
Another team that has struggled this year, and seems to be in an
endless rebuild, is the Florida Panthers. The Panthers have made the
playoff just once since seasons began in the new millennium, and have
only made it past the first round once their franchise history. This
year, with a young roster, their struggles continue.
Johnathan Huberdeau has already begun to establish himself as a
supremely talented NHL player and with some of the other young forward
talent on the team, like Nick Bjugstad and Aleksander Barkov, it seems
the future may be bright for the Sunrise, Fla. based hockey club,
after all.
The team has some players with very tradable contracts -- Brad Boyes
won't set your franchise up for the future but his low-cost and
expiring deal could bring back a third round pick, perhaps.
The issue with the Panthers is that next season or the off-season may
be the best time to trade away a lot of their assets, because Tomas
Fleischman, Scottie Upshall, Tomas Kopecky and Sean Bergenheim are all
forwards who could complement contending teams extremely well and will
be free agents at the end of the 2014-15 season.
For now, they are saddled with an over-35 contract for the injured Ed
Jovanovski and still have Brian Campbell's massive contract --
although, with the right situation and the salary cap going up,
Campbell may turn into a tradable asset in the near future.
For Florida, their best bet is that teams will be interested in
acquiring players with two-years left on their deals, in exchange for
restocking the cupboard with young, promising talent and draft picks.
For fans, it's tough to let go of a season, to spend money supporting
a team that has a very miniscule chance of making a run through their
division into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. But with a clear vision of the
future and an immense amount of belief in the team's hockey operations
department, the future is not so grim. At least your team hasn't be
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Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Henry Hewle(i)tt OSBORNE born Geelong 18/11/1856
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:30:07 +1100
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Hi Listers
My gr.grandfather and siblings were born in Geelong.
Henry's wife Mary Ann nee BARTON is listed on documents I currently have as
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A friend of mine, Daniel, said, recently, a group of men and women in his neighborhood bar for a parade approached him "looking for some kind of fight." A woman in the group, he said, "started some shit with me" and "at one point said, 'What would you do if I threw this drink on you?'" Daniel said he ignored the woman's threat and directed his attention to the men in the group; after verbal exchanges, the whole group "slinked away" out of the bar. He said the confrontation made him think about what he would have done if the woman had thrown her drink at him. He wrote to me in an email:
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Unity Township's Heritage Festival 'very family-oriented event'
John Mylant has noticed an increase in children playing on the playground near the Unity Township municipal building over the past year and has a theory for the equipment's increased popularity -- people now know that it's there.
Mylant, a township supervisor, said the playground and other amenities that surround the municipal building at 154 Beatty County Road -- including a lake, a pavilion and a large playing field -- have all received added attention from visitors in the past year thanks to the second annual Unity Township Heritage Festival held at the site last year.
"We wanted to get residents involved with the township to come down and see the pavilion, the lake, the playgrounds, because a lot of people have never been here," Mylant said. "Some people might not even know where it is."
The third installment of the Heritage Festival will be held Saturday. Events, which include hay rides, face painting, inflatables, pony rides, food vendors and live music, will kick off at noon and last until about 7 p.m.
"This is a very family-oriented event," Mylant said. "We just want to get people to come here and enjoy their afternoon."
Mylant said the event was started three years ago to showcase the township's amenities. The festival grew in its second year and Mylant said he hopes to see attendance numbers rise once again.
"We want the event to grow," Mylant said. "We want to have a one-day big blast and for families to come out and enjoy themselves."
Mylant said anyone wishing to volunteer or get involved may call the township building at 724-539-2546.
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Marko polka live broadcast -- Noon - 3 p.m.
Battle of the barrel -- 1 p.m.
Story time with Unity library -- 1 p.m.
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Re: Mayoral poll shows tight early race, Feb. 26
So John Tory is in along with Karen Stintz and, from what we're told, Olivia Chow isn't far behind. All I can say is this is going to be good, better than the Olympics, better than the Super Bowl, better than the Stanley Cup finals, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, hang on to your hats, and not just because it's been consistently cold, the Toronto mayoral race of 2014 is going to be stuff of legend, they are going to be talking about this one for years to come.
John Tory, perennial nice guy that can't win, blue blooded with a blue collar approach to public service vs Rob (maybe you're perfect but I'm not diatribe) Ford, daddy's little darling, living off of daddy's hard earned name and wealth, he and his brothers, well documented by Robyn Doolittle, high school drug sellers, neighbourhood bullies that got the keys to the Cadillac and are now running the show.
I'm sure during the debates the candidates will take the high road and not mention the Ford personal follies. But you know it has to come up and I'm willing to bet crack to donuts that something embarrassing about Ford will surface during the race the question is who is holding that card right now that has yet to be played.
Stephen Carbonaro, Toronto
It's very disappointing so far to see all the mayoral candidates advocating "low taxes" as a campaign plank. No one likes to pay more taxes, but someone needs to have the courage to speak the truth to the people.
The refusal to consider even the most modest increases is literally killing our city. Social housing is underfunded and in a poor state of repair. Transit is underfunded (by all levels of government) and suffers in so many ways because of it. City programs and services become more skeletal with each passing year.
Drive or walk along just about any street - sidewalks are cracked and uneven, roads are a mishmash of utility cuts, potholes, collapsing sewers and manholes. And it just keeps getting worse.
Mayor Ford is the current cheerleader of cheap, but nearly all of council follows along in cowardly fashion, refusing to stop starving the city and bring taxes into better alignment with surrounding areas of the GTA.
Will there be any candidates that are willing to stand up for Toronto and say, yes, we need to spend wisely, but we do need to spend?
Terry Kushnier, Scarborough
What Toronto needs is good leadership. What is good leadership? It is the ability to bring together disparate ideas and individuals and work toward a common goal. Aside from Rob Ford's other obvious failings, he has been the exact opposite of this definition.
He thrives on conflict and confrontation rather than co-operative and consensus leadership. With the two new aspirants entering the race we finally have intelligent and dependable people seeking the job of chief magistrate. If and when Olivia Chow throws her name into the hat, we will have some ideological choice as well.
Ford's failures are not just his outrageous and unforgivable behaviours (I guess too many are able to forgive them) but his inability to lead and his simplistic approach to the issues of the city ("subways, subways, subways"). Ford gave us no vision of the city. His is the politics of negativity. Let's get down to a real debate with people who have a philosophy as well as a pathway to the future.
Stephen L. Bloom, Toronto
Wasn't John Tory the CFL commissioner that organized the league's disastorous expansion into the United States? Maybe if he becomes mayor he can expand the city to the Turks and Caicos Islands. In that case I would consider moving back to The Big Smoke.
Bob Larocque, Carrying Place
I was thrilled to see that John Tory is filing papers to run for mayor of Toronto. It may seem as naive to some people, however, the only way to guarantee the removal of our disgraceful mayor is for it to be a two-way race. I suggest all the other candidates get together and decide who has the best chance of beating Ford. The rest should then drop out.
My vote is for John Tory who would no doubt in my mind win. Toronto is the laughing stock of the world because of Ford. We need to restore our dignity. We cannot take a chance of Ford winning again due to the stupidity of Ford Nation.
Eve Jones, Markham
What if all the Toronto media agree to stop reporting on the mayor? There's lots of other people in the city who deserve more coverage.
Elizabeth (Beth) Guthrie, Toronto
Mayoral poll shows tight early race, Feb. 26
This article on the Toronto mayoral contest had a grossly misleading headline. There is no actual "survey" being reported, but rather an unscientific exercise where those who happened to be on your website could self-select and respond to a pseudo-polling question. This sort of exercise has no sampling basis and is statistically meaningless when projected to the voting population. It is misleading to your readers to use this information to imply any momentum or support for any candidate.
Among other weaknesses, exercises like this are subject to "freeping," a practice whereby a campaign team of one of the candidates could have voted a thousand times in order to "create news." Professional pollsters employ techniques to avoid such manipulation.
We strongly advocate rigorous standards among our members to ensure the most accurate polling results possible and urge all media to respect these standards. It is inappropriate to give voice to illegitimate efforts passed off as polling that ultimately act against the public interest.
Kara Mitchelmore, CEO, Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA), and Derek M. Leebosh, vice president - public affairs, Environics Research Group
Crowded race gains full steam, Feb. 25
Royson James: No need to hyperventilate. Your lefty candidate Olivia Chow will be in the race soon. The siren call of three simultaneous pensions will be too much for her to resist.
Oh right and social justice for all! Then all the Star drones can be happy.
Greg Hills, Toronto
Has Rob Ford really saved Toronto millions? If Mr. Ford has not made full disclosure about his substance abuse, has he made full disclosure about his expenses and the city budget? Why when he was divested of his powers did they not call in an outside auditor? Is it that no one asked Mr. Ford the right question about the city of Toronto budget? He has stated that the media did not ask him the right questions about substance abuse, does the same go for the budget.
Nancy Tobis North York
John Tory for mayor? Not so fast.
Unlike Rob Ford, Tory is civilized and carries no scandals in his baggage. However, as far as policy goes he is made from the same cloth as as Ford, Harper and Hudak. He thinks he can ride into city hall like the white knight with his greedy private sector proponents in tow, promising low taxes and at the same time hoping that enough money will somehow magically fall from trees.
It is precisely this scenario that has brought this city to the brink of collapse on every file: lack of climate change protection, infrastructure, public affordable housing etc. In order to salvage Toronto, we need someone with a bold vision courageous enough to make even the most unpopular decisions.
Also, no self respecting woman will vote for a city leader who tells women that the only way they can climb up the corporate ladder is by learning how to play a good golf game. How utterly chauvinistic.
Finally, we like to go back to the days when our previous mayors respectfully addressed us as "citizens" rather than taxpayers. Fellow voters, there will be better choices out there.
Renate Gasber, Etobicoke
Mr. Ford has staked his claim on the mayoralty based on "subways, subways, subways" and saving taxpayers' money. Subways cost money, money, money and Mr. Ford had a steady source of that from all the cars, cars, cars that choke the streets of Toronto. But not anymore. Now he's squeezed for cash. He has run cap in hand to both the provincial and federal governments to support repairs from last summer's flood, the December ice storm and for subways.
Here's some news for Mr. Ford. The federal and provincial money he's begging for comes from taxpayers, taxpayers, taxpayers. So much for that argument.
Joe Bezubiak, Brougham
Rob Ford went to the mayors' conference in Ottawa. He sat through the morning session but opted to skip the afternoon session to visit a football field. Are we paying for this trip? Should he not have to refund half of the expenses?
Ron Demers, Toronto
I was born in Toronto and lived there for over 65 years and had many friends and relatives who lived in Toronto Community Housing. Mr. Ford's comment on why he is attending the Canadian mayors' meeting in Ottawa was "I realize we need this funding to help the poor people who live in Toronto Community Housing."
What an insult to the people who live in this type of housing. The definition of "poor" is "having little money or few possessions" and also means "not skilful" or "low quality."
Using the definition of poor to define the tenants is an absolute insult to them as most are hard working individuals and families trying to live as best they can on limited income or social services benefits.
The description "poor" would be better applied to the conditions of the various units controlled by Toronto Community Housing. If the issue of help for the repair backlogs is "very close to my heart" (quoted by Rob Ford) than perhaps he should redirect his expensive subway ideas to more reasonable light rail, one way downtown streets, etc. Any extra dollars saved here could be redirected to helping with the repair backlog.
The repair backlog should be one of his first priorities. The people living in this type of housing are entitled to decent living conditions and I am sure if they were given a choice between a subway and affordable decent living they would make their living conditions a priority and endure the wait times and crowds on their local buses, etc.
Alison Herrington, Oshawa
Ford tough: If Toronto's mayoral race was held today, the incumbent mayor could find himself near the top, GT2
There is a photo with this lead-in that features Stintz, Ford, Chow and Tory. There is no photo of Soknaki but Chow, so far undeclared, is represented. Soknacki has engaged my interest and I would like to see his efforts fairly reported by the Star. I believe that the Star just has to be reminded that balanced presentations matter during a campaign, and that you will ensure that this unfairness will not recur.
Stephen Shore, Toronto
Rob Ford indicates to Toronto reporters his pride that they are "jealous because I do an interview with an American station." Has it never occurred to him that their interest in him is because they see the whole sordid affair as a freak show?
Charles King, Toronto
Once again the Ford family never fails to amaze.
The mayor of Toronto a self confessed liar, illegal drug user, drunken ill mannered embarrassment to the city is concerned that the chief of police stated he was disappointed by the mayors crack video (who wasn't) and that the chief had the nerve to go on a fishing trip with Andrew Pringle. Oh my god the chief is obviously running wild, what next: a coffee with Karen Stintz. Once again the Ford brothers continue to show everyone their lack of class and reinforce the fact that they are both completely out of touch with reality.
Rod Perrin, Mississauga
Once again we hear Rob Ford's tired excuse, "I'm not perfect. Maybe you're perfect, but I'm not perfect." Other versions of this include, "Everybody lies. At least I admit it," "Everybody drinks and drives, but I admit it." These are well-known excuses heard daily by lawyers, judges and police officers when they nab a crook. Of course, this is nonsense.
What others do or do not do does not excuse our own behaviour, for one thing. But, more importantly, very few people drink and drive. As for lying, calling in sick when you're not sick, for example, is not the same as saying lying about a DUI. One is a crime; the other is not. Nor is it the same for an everyday citizen to break the law and lie about it as it is for the chief magistrate of the city. It's surprising that no one has challenged him on these pathetic, juvenile and petty-criminal excuses.
Soooooo, Rob Ford would rather do interviews with foreign U.S than hometown Canadian media. Sounds like the kind of statement one might expect from a snobbish "blue-blood." Perhaps the Fords, trying to speak out of both sides of their mouths at the same time, are just 'blue-collar blue-bloods' after all, EH?!
Liz Stonard, Port Alberni, B.C.


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One lucky girl even got a kiss!
The end came far too soon - I didn't want to leave!
As we left everyone was smiling.. they all enjoyed it too. I can safely say that was the best concert I've been to!"
Eve, 14, Falkirk
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Bloomers wants to maintain tries run
Date published: 05 June 2014
DAMAGED thumb or not, Dale Bloomfield will be desperate to play at Hemel Stags on Sunday to maintain his scoring run on Oldham's left wing.
Like Mo Agoro on the right flank, 'Bloomers' is seeing a lot more of the ball this season as a direct result of the Roughyeds' more expansive style of play.
Both wingers are scoring freely and playing with a smile on their face as the men on the inside work to orders and use the full width of the pitch. Bloomfield has scored in each of Oldham's last three games and lies joint second in the Championship One score list.
"So far, so good, but I'd like to double the number of tries I scored last year and that's my target," said the former Rochdale winger.
Agoro, also in a rich vein of form, has scored six tries in the last five games and has seven in total.
"I like to think I'm coming to terms with senior rugby now," said the former Leeds Rhinos academy player. If I keep helping my team mates to win matches that will do me."
Oldham go to Hemel seeking their fifth win in a row.
LIFELONG fan John McAndrew is the new chairman of the Oldham Roughyeds Supporters' Association (ORSA), succeeding Nigel Marland, who died in January.
Aged 71, John lives in Royton and is closely associated with the parent club, Oldham RLFC, as its Club Cash lottery co-ordinator.
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The ANNOTICO Report
Beyond the LIES that are used to justify the US Imperialistic Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, it seems that our Government is incapable of telling the truth. This goes beyond, "Advancing an Agenda", or CYA (Cover your Buttocks), its more Pathological!
This Calipari-Sgrena incident as Tragic as it was, if it was a mere mistake, rather than intentional, the slightest degree of common sense would demand an immediate acceptance of responsibility by the US, and a heart felt, sincere apology that would have placated most Italians, and put this matter to rest (aside from reviewing procedures).
But 'Lie and Deny' has worked so well, and so long on gullible Americans, the temptation is always there. More sophisticated Europeans however, who correctly doubted the WMD scare tactics, are not so easy to "hornswoggle".
So now it has become a "cause celebre", with confidence in America being Further Eroded.
The Joint US-Italian Committee Report has not been released yet, because the Italian participants disagree with the findings that seem to "white wash" the incident.
There are several possible scenarios:.
Three weeks after being shot by US forces in Iraq, veteran Italian war correspondent Giuliana Sgrena is released from a military hospital. New details are emerging about the killing of the Italian agent who saved her life. Naomi Klein, award-winning independent journalist and author of "Fences and Windows: Dispatches From the Front Lines" of the "Globalization Debate and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies." just with Giuliana Sgrena in Rome last month.
From Sgrena's version, several serious questions arise.
Friday, March 25th, 2005
Naomi Klein Reveals New Details About U.S. Military Shooting of Italian War Correspondent in Iraq
In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the car bringing her to freedom after a month being held hostage in Iraq. The head of Italy's Foreign Military Intelligence Nicola Calipari was killed in the attack when he shielded Sgrena from the bullets.
Yesterday, Italian newspapers reported that the justice minister has asked U.S. authorities to release the car so it can be examined by Italian ballistics experts. The papers said the request came after the U.S. command in Iraq reportedly blocked two Italian policemen from examining the car.
AMY GOODMAN: : We're joined in Washington, D.C. by journalist Naomi Klein, who has just met with Giuliana Sgrena in Rome. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Naomi.
NAOMI KLEIN: Thanks, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: : Can you talk about what she told you?
NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah. At first I want to say that I know Giuliana really would have liked to have been on the show herself to talk to your listeners and viewers, but one of the things that surprised me when I met with Giuliana is that she was quite a bit sicker than I think we have been led to believe. Her injuries were described as fairly minor; she was shot in the shoulder. But when I met with her, she was clearly very, very ill, and that's why she's not on the show this morning. She was fired on by a gun at the top of a tank, which means that the artillery was very, very large. It was a four-inch bullet that entered her body and broke apart. And it didn't just injure her shoulder, it punctured her lung. And her lung continues to fill with fluid, and there continues to be complications stemming from that fairly serious injury. So that was one of the details.
"She told me a lot about the incident that I had not fully understood from the reports in the press.
One of the most - and at first, the other thing I want to be really clear about is that Giuliana is not saying that she's certain in any way that the attack on the car was intentional. She is simply saying that she has many, many unanswered questions, and there are many parts of her direct experience that simply don't coincide with the official U.S. version of the story.
One of the things that we keep hearing is that she was fired on on the road to the airport, which is a notoriously dangerous road. In fact, it's often described as the most dangerous road in the world. So this is treated as a fairly common and understandable incident that there would be a shooting like this on that road. And I was on that road myself, and it is a really treacherous place with explosions going off all the time and a lot of checkpoints. What Giuliana told me that I had not realized before is that she wasn't on that road at all. She was on a completely different road that I actually didn't know existed. It's a secured road that you can only enter through the Green Zone and is reserved exclusively for ambassadors and top military officials. So, when Calipari, the Italian security intelligence officer, released her from captivity, they drove directly to the Green Zone, went through the elaborate checkpoint process which everyone must go through to enter the Green Zone, which involves checking in obviously with U.S. forces, and then they drove onto this secured road.
And the other thing that Giuliana told me that she's quite frustrated about is the description of the vehicle that fired on her as being part of a checkpoint. She says it wasn't a checkpoint at all. It was simply a tank that was parked on the side of the road that opened fire on them. There was no process of trying to stop the car, she said, or any signals. From her perspective, they were just -- it was just opening fire by a tank.
The other thing she told me that was surprising to me was that they were fired on from behind. Because I think part of what we're hearing is that the U.S. soldiers opened fire on their car, because they didn't know who they were, and they were afraid. It was self-defense, they were afraid. The fear, of course, is that their car might blow up or that they might come under attack themselves. And what Giuliana Sgrena really stressed with me was that she -- the bullet that injured her so badly and that killed Calipari, came from behind, entered the back seat of the car. And the only person who was not severely injured in the car was the driver, and she said that this is because the shots weren't coming from the front or even from the side. They were coming from behind, i.e. they were driving away. So, the idea that this was an act of self-defense, I think becomes much more questionable. And that detail may explain why there's some reticence to give up the vehicle for inspection. Because if indeed the majority of the gunfire is coming from behind, then clearly, they were firing from -- they were firing at a car that was driving away from them."


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TBS has long been a haven for programming
genius. With groundbreaking segments including the Man Made Movie,
Dinner & a Movie and Movies for Guys Who Like Movies, it's hard
to imagine a more innovative station. But in the station's ongoing
mission to appeal to the entire male audience, programmers realized
they were ignoring a significant percentage of the population, the
gay man. In an effort to correct this oversight, the Superstation
is considering the upcoming series, Movies for Guys Who Like Guys.
Through intensive investigative efforts, the ApeSheet has obtained
the proposed fall lineup along with executive programming notes.
The Wizard of Oz - August 27,2002
Rainbows, scarecrows, tinmen, midgets, flying monkeys, ruby red
slippers: it's like going to a Studio 54 after-party at the
Factory with Andy Warhol. Other than Liza, what could be more appealing
to the homosexual man? Plus, there seems to be this whole Judy Garland
fascination among the gay community. Maybe it's the pigtails.
Who wouldn't want to travel down that "yellow brick road"
to the magical land of Oz?
Top Gun - September 3, 2002
There's more homoerotic content in this flick than most gay
porn. You've got young studs flying phallic fighter planes and
towel slapping in the shower. The shirtless volleyball alone is
enough to fuel most men's masturbation fantasies. Older authoritarian
figures Tom Skerritt and Michael Ironside provide release for boys
searching for a daddy. As an added bonus, a young Anthony Edwards
may lure fans to the nonstop ER reruns, and the Val Kilmer
connection could entice viewers to watch the Doors/Island of
Dr. Moreau/Thunderheart triple feature scheduled for Columbus
Interview with the Vampire - September 10, 2002
There's nothing that can top this film's abundance of sweet
gay vampire love between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. There's more
than blood being sucked with these two. And don't forget those
gorgeous costumes. There's something so sexy about a man in
a ruffled shirt and top hat. Toss in Antonio Banderas for boys harboring
a Latino fetish and, to cover all the bases, add a cute, tiny little
vampire girl. New Orleans is just so sinful.
City Slickers - September 17, 2002
Three middle-age men frustrated with their lives leave the wives
and kids to get in touch with their manhood by spending a vacation
"riding horses" and "driving cattle" at a "dude
ranch." The whole time the men are guided on their journey by
hunky bull macho Jack Palance. Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby and Daniel
Stern probably don't inspire much lust in anyone, but the saddles
and chaps should be enough to excite the gay community.
Steel Magnolias - September 24, 2002
Barely a boy in site, but the gays are sure to adore a movie revolving
around beauty parlor gossip. It makes you laugh, and it makes you
cry! And, that Shirley MacClaine is so catty and crazy. Plus, that
Dolly Parton justs tells it like it is. And, although extensive
research has yet to discover why, gay men love Julia Roberts. Consider
Pretty Woman for next season's schedule. Keep in mind
the possible backlash over that whole gerbil thing.
Broken Hearts Club - October 1, 2002
This could be a little risky since it's actual gay cinema,
but these boys play softball. Sure, softball is mainly a lesbian
sport, but gay men can play too. Focus heavily on the Dean Cain
character in order to attract more viewers to Ripley's Believe
it or Not. Even with the addition of Kelly Packard and the feature
on strip skiing, the ratings continue to slump. Only the gay man's
Superman fantasies can save this show.
Fight Club - October 8, 2002
This movie has something for everyone. Angry young men love it,
women love it, and gay men simply can't get enough of a shirtless
Brad Pitt. The whole manlove tension between Brad Pitt and Ed Norton
is at first astounding. And, the addition of Jared Leto for a possible
threesome turns things up a notch. Of course, that wouldn't
really work because of the whole plot twist thing, but scantily
clad men secretly pounding each other's flesh in underground
clubs everywhere is mostly a metaphor for gay dens across the country.


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The South African scored his third half century of the tournament to help the defending champions chase down the Royals victory target of 147.
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Dear tms,
Your broker is correct. Because you have already taken the benefit there is no way to shield it or reduce the tax exposure.
Done before hand,the annuity could have been set up a number of ways to reduce the tax exposure. You can not avoid the tax altogether; but for example: it could have passed to a special needs trust to which you were the custodian and executor. You could then withdraw as you needed to and pay taxes on the amount of withdrawal.
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As of the fifth inning, the Mets are leading the Phillies 10-0 tonight. They've hit four home runs (two by Cameron), giving them 27 in their last ten games, a new team record. Over the last twenty games, the Mets lead the NL with 31 homers.
With all their regular players healthy, the Mets do have a strong lineup. Floyd, Cameron and a rejuvenated Hidalgo are in the outfield, plus Phillips, Piazza, Reyes, Matsui and Wigginton in the infield. Lately, Wigginton has been sending David Wright a message: "Not yet, rookie."


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The figure of £103.7m for the last financial year was up 25% on 2006, while operating profits rocketed by 73% to £28.1m.
The RFU said it would continue to invest the profits in growing the game in England.
Chief executive Francis Baron said the results have given the RFU a "very solid foundation".
The RFU's coffers will receive a further boost thanks to England's unexpected progress to the final of the World Cup in France last month.
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By Duane Pemberton
Winery website: www.ceretto.com/
Arneis is an Italian white grape that's mostly grown up in the Piedmont region, not too far from the Alps mountain range. It's a super-light, not too acidic grape that finishes super clean and has some nice tropical flavors that tend to marry well with seafood.
Ceretto, located in Alba Italy, had its start back in the second half of the 1930's and continue now to produce high quality wines which showcase the terroir of the distinct vineyards they source from.
Technical Data:
- Location: Vezza d'Alba, Castellinaldo and Castagnito
- Grape-variety: 100% Arneis
- Hectares (estate-owned): 70
- Altitude m: 210 – 290
- Stock: 1103 paulsen, SO4
- Plants per hectare: 4.300 ceppi/Ha
- Years of planting: 1982, 1987, 1996
- First year of production: 1985
- Bottles produced: 600.000
- Soil: 51% Clay, 31% silt and 18% sand
- Composition: 100% Arneis
- Alcohol: 12.5%
- Production: 50,000 cases
- Price: $28
Nose: River rock, slighty muted aromas of apricot, green apple, pears, peaches and unsalted almonds.
Taste: A very crisp white wine that has a very nice touch of "spritz" to it – very clean flavors of green apples, bartlett pears, kiwi, lemon zest and oyster shell. The mid palate has very good acidiity and the finish is long and clean.


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Samsung (SSNLF) is the dominant force in the Android camp, accounting for 63% of all Android mobile devices sold in the world.
The company also makes everything from refrigerators to cameras and has a well-earned reputation for trying just about anything in search of a new niche to exploit. It was largely because of SSNLF and its habit of pushing the envelope that phablets have become so popular.
So it came as no big shock when Samsung announced its biggest tablet yet, a super-sized Android beast that dwarfs Apple's (AAPL) full-sized iPad Air and flies in the face of the current tablet market where small, less expensive tablets — 8 inches and smaller — are outselling full-sized models.
In this Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 review, I'll have a close look at the $749.99 behemoth to see if it's worth the hefty price of admission.
Has Samsung found a new market to exploit in prosumers who feel the current crop of full-sized tablets are too small? There have been rumors that Apple is working on a 12-inch iPad of its own, targeting the enterprise market, so this could be the start of a growing trend.
I've had a week to spend with the big new SSNLF flagship tablet, and our Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 review has all the details.


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West Sacramento Bans Outdoor Pot Farming
Following the lead of many California cities and counties, West Sacramento is taking a stand against marijuana growing.
Outdoor pot farming has been nixed in West Sacramento because of a doubling in the amount of complaints between 2012 and 2013.
Mayor Christopher Cabaldon says outdoor grows are magnets for crime, leading to a rise in break-ins and theft overall.
Cabaldon told a local TV station his city is taking a reasonable approach to marijuana and doing what it can to keep it out of the hands of kids.
Residents are worried the ban may actually increase crime as criminals will just start breaking into homes where they suspect residents are growing it.
Sacramento, Roseville and Elk Grove already have the same laws on the books.


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Project DescriptionTifereth Israel Synagogue remodel is a comprehensive renovation of approximately 20,000 square feet of interior space, as well as exterior courtyards and site work. The synagogue site originally consisted of a traditional chapel (circa 1930) and small school wing (circa 1950). For nearly a decade, the congregation labored over the decision to remove the school and chapel wings. Due to declining membership over the past 30 years (-60%), rapidly increasing utility costs, looming maintenance costs deferred over twenty years, and changing worship methodology, the congregation determined demolition and adaptive "rejuvenation" of the most modern wing would best equip future generations with a lasting, functional synagogue.
Once the decision was made to remodel, the primary challenge became how to combine the spirit of a worship space within the practical needs of the multi-purpose wing built in 1969. The congregation wanted a modern worship facility to meet their needs, yet also desired a synagogue to speak to the Jewish and greater community as a whole. This remodel works, looks, and feels like it isn't a "compromised solution" due to no other affordable option.
Primary spaces in the remodeled core had to accommodate many uses. The original multi-purpose event space became a worship space in the east half of the room and a meeting/social space in the west half, expandable on either side for holy day worship or for large events. The ark, the heart of the synagogue worship space housing the Torah scrolls, must be located on the east facing wall of the worship space for religious symbolism. Some congregation members desired the ark, particularly the eternal light (a lantern salvaged from the old chapel) to be concealed during social events in the space. To facilitate this, 10-foot tall cedar panels sequentially slide over the inner ark cabinet to conceal both the ark doors and the eternal light. The bimah (elevated platform in front of the ark) is demountable in six strips and can be stored in the adjacent storage room, or relocated as a stage. New dimmable compact fluorescent and LED lighting provides the capability to create different scenes according to programmatic requirements. Closing the ark panels and removing the bimah stage effectively transforms the sanctuary from a worship space to large multi-purpose event space.
Additional spaces in the synagogue are a classroom, youth lounge, staff offices, conference room, library, gift shop, and lobby/pre-event lounge. The remodeled building also features an updated, efficient mechanical system, efficient lighting, new roof, and many replaced windows. Monthly utility costs are now reduced more than 50% from corresponding monthly costs prior to the remodel.
The exterior of the main façade, along a major residential Des Moines boulevard, faced a multi-faceted challenge of "filling in the holes" left by the demolition of the old chapel while also creating a new image of the Synagogue to the community. Since the remodeled worship space now [appropriately] faces east towards the boulevard (it inappropriately faced west in the old chapel), the play of light on the views from the worship space became a key design element. A glass panel system provides a screen used to create two outdoor spaces and results in a new image for the synagogue along Polk Boulevard. The glass screen walls consist of twenty, 4' x 10' sheets of glass laminated together with an inner layer containing a white pigment screen pattern. The overall glass pattern is derived from historic geometric plaster patterns from the demolished chapel. A committee made up of the design team, congregation members, as well as the Rabbi and Cantor, developed the idea of one "private" courtyard space being mostly translucent glass, while the other larger event space panels would invert the pattern to contain mostly transparent glass. The courtyard space, surrounded by the library and Rabbi/Cantor offices, contains one pane printed with a significant prayer from Deuteronomy in both English and Hebrew. This courtyard space is intended to be a more private outdoor room for the congregation. The event space, directly outside the social hall/sanctuary room, contains one panel printed with traditional Jewish phrases and words of celebration and gathering.
The Tifereth Israel Synagogue remodel meets the needs and exceeds the expectations of the congregation. Membership is again increasing and both religious and operational staff continually note positive comments from congregation members and visiting guests.


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A very fortunate 95 bankers at Goldman Sachs's London office shared a total of £169 ($263 million) million for their work in 2011, averaging about $2.8 million each in cash and in shares, regulatory filings show.
The filings required under European Union rules show that 45 per cent of the compensation was in cash and the rest in a type of shares. The EU rules oblige banks to disclose how many code staff – those deemed to be responsible for taking and managing risks – they employ and how much they have been paid.
The disclosures for financial 2011 come as the company and its rivals in the City – London's financial district – prepare to hand out bonuses for 2012 in the early weeks of the new year.
Bankers' bonuses have been the subject of intense scrutiny since the 2008 financial crisis, and the EU rules were introduced to try to lift the lid on the way bankers are paid. The 2011 disclosures are only the second time bankers' pay has been revealed in such detail.
The code staff's £1.8 million average is considerably higher than Goldman's company-wide average, but substantially down on the previous year, when it averaged £4 million. Identities of the staff are not disclosed.
In 2011 Goldman slumped to a loss in the third quarter, only the second time it had failed to report a quarterly profit since becoming a public company in 1999. The losses were caused by writedowns on the value of investments, and by the end of the financial year the firm was back in profit. At the time it said its compensation and benefits pool had fallen by 21 per cent to $US12.2 billion, reducing the average for all Goldman employees to $US367,057.
The regulatory filing is for Goldman Sachs Group Holdings (UK), the main London arm of the group, and requires calculations to be made about the value of what are known as restricted stock units, which pay out in five years' time. The firm awarded 1.4 million of these to code staff in 2011, at a share price of $US107, valuing the total at around £92 million. The code staff also received cash of £76 million.
Comparisons with other banks are difficult as definitions of code staff require some interpretation. Barclays, for instance, said in 2011 that it had 238 code staff who received an average of £1.2 million, while RBS had 386 code staff who received average pay of £820,000. Both had more code staff than Goldman because their head offices are in London.
Goldman will publish full-year results next month. Its most recent set of figures, for the third quarter of 2012, showed profits of £930 million.
In its filing for 2011 Goldman disclosed that it used the remuneration consultants Semler Brossy, whose job includes assessing the pay of 430 partners.
"Variable remuneration is based on multiple factors and is not set as a fixed percentage of revenue or by reference of any other formula. Firmwide performance is a key factor in determining variable remuneration," the filing said.
While "forfeiture and recapture" provisions exist to claw back bonuses, they do not appear to have been used in 2011. No signing-on fees or payoffs were made.
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