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"Lose Yourself" was one of the biggest hits of the 2000's, and now the song could become a hit for a second time around…albeit an alternate version of the original track.
"Lose Yourself" was one of the biggest hits of the 2000's, and now the song could become a hit for a second time around…albeit an alternate version of the original track.
Eminem's one of the most gift rappers the world has ever known, and his freestyling skills are what enabled him to ascend to his status today.
In what's been a several month hiatus during Season 4, Epic Rap Battles Of History is finally back, and they seem to be trying to tap into the Internet's love of all things nerd.
This large breasted chick will huff and she'll puff and she'll spit raw rhymes on the bus.
It's too bad that Amy Poehler (lesbian porn aficionado) and Tina Fey aren't going to be hosting the Golden Globes anymore after this next one because Poehler, as evidenced by this tremendous supercut of her freestyle rapping on Comedy Bang.
Jeopardy is one of my guilty television pleasures because I like the ego trip I get when I answer the questions correctly ahead of the contestants.
If you're talking about your ex boyfriend while on a date and describe him as: "This dude name Michael used to ride motorcycles, dick bigger than a tower I ain't talkin' bout Eiffel's," You're going to have an awful, awful date.
On The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Harry Potter himself (Daniel Radcliffe) busted out 'Alphabet Aerobics' by Blackalicious, after talking about his affinity towards extremely fast and intricate rap songs.
Rap videos are well-known for featuring the fine derrieres of many sexy ladies over the years so it only makes sense that someone, XXL in this case, finally pulled a bunch of them together into one mind-blowing supercut.
If I could hire this entire school of British kids to do the reactions at my next rap battle, I would.
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text: INFORM NEWSLETTER OF THE CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST SUMMER / AUTUMN 2008 Information Management Edition This edition of INFORM contains information about data generated by the activities of the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist (OCP). The OCP structures its Inside this issue: activities around three program areas that enable the Chief Psychiatrist to meet his *statutory responsibilities under the West Australian Mental Health Act 1996. These three program areas are Monitoring Activities; Legislative Duties and Liaison; and Clinical Support. These programs and sub programs can be Information 1 viewed in detail on the Chief Psychiatrist's website at Management Edition www.chiefpsychiatrist.health.wa.gov.au. Complaints Managed 1 Mental Health Act (1996): by the OCP *Section 9 (1) The Chief Psychiatrist has a responsibility for the medical care and welfare of all involuntary patients Chief Psychiatrist's 2 Section 9 (2) In respect of other patients, the Chief Psychiatrist is required to Clinical Governance monitor the standards of psychiatric care provided throughout the State. Reviews Matters Reported 4 Why does the Chief Psychiatrist require information and data? to the Chief Psychiatrist The Chief Psychiatrist collects data for the primary purpose of informing him as to what actions are required for the: Education Provided 5 by the OCP 'SAFETY, QUALITY AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO CONSUMERS' Sexual Vulnerability / 6 Intimacy in Licensed A further purpose is to support the accountability of the Chief Psychiatrist to Psychiatric Hostels the Director General of Health. Legal Advice 7 How 'robust' is the data? Federal and State 7 Data collected is only as robust as the level and comprehensiveness of the Initiatives in Regard to reporting by the various stakeholders and their compliance with the systems Seclusion and Restraint that collect and maintain the data. Data is meaningful in the context for which it is collected. Not Enacting Mental 8 Health Forms The Chief Psychiatrist does not rely on a single source of monitoring information or a single set of data but rather integrates all sources of information generated AMHP Corner 8 by the OCP activities and reporting in order to make decisions about the type of interventions required by the mental health services which will influence the Safety, Quality and Continuous Improvement of Mental Health Services to Consumers'. Contact Details: Complaints Managed by the OCP For any further 477 complaints were managed by the OCP 2006/2007. The majority were information, please lodged by patients (46.9%) and the next largest by relatives (22.9%). while 12.1% contact the Office of the were lodged by 'concerned others'. 33.3% of complaints were about Quality of Chief Psychiatrist on Clinical Care; 27.5% about Rights/Respect; 16.3% about Access and 14.4% about communication plus 8.6% other issues. All complaints are investigated and the Phone: (08) 9222 4462 complainant advised of the outcome. Or visit our website: www.chiefpsychiatrist. health.wa.gov.au Chief Psychiatrist's Clinical Governance Reviews The Chief Psychiatrist has conducted clinical reviews of mental health services since 1999 in order to monitor the standards of psychiatric care provided throughout the State of Western Australia. In 2003 the clinical review methodology was modified to reflect the Department of Health Clinical Governance Framework. The current methodology also allows for the unique aspects of mental health service provision. The Chief Psychiatrist's Clinical Governance Framework consists of four pillars and eight areas of inquiry. Each of the areas of inquiry are examined during a Clinical Governance Review. The framework can be accessed at – http://www.chiefpsychiatrist.health.wa.gov.au/monitoring/clinicalgovernance.cfm Pillar Area of Inquiry Leadership and Organisational Capability Consumer Value Consultation and Consumer / Carer Involvement Clinical Performance and Evaluation Clinical Audit Research and Effectiveness Use of Information to Support Health Care Delivery Clinical Risk Clinical Risk Management Professional Development and Management Staffing and Staff Management Education, Training and Professional Development Information about how a mental health service is performing in relation to the implementation of Clinical Governance is obtained through a variety of sources and involves the collection of data prior to and during a site visit. The type of information collected prior to the site visit includes complaint/compliments data, incident data, operational and strategic plans, annual reports and monthly data reports. The site visit is conducted by a multidisciplinary team and includes a consumer and carer reviewer. During the site visit data is collected from staff, consumer, carer and stakeholder interviews, clinical records, policies and procedures and via observations. Following the site visit the Chief Psychiatrist will make a series of recommendations that relate to areas within the mental health service where improvement in clinical care and service provision can be made in order to improve outcomes for patients. The mental health service is to ensure that all recommendations are addressed and actioned over an audit period. Recommendations by Area of Inquiry During the period September 2003 – July 2006, ten clinical governance reviews were conducted, with a total of 300 recommendations made. The figure below shows the number of recommendations made within each area of inquiry. Figure: Total Number of Recommendations by Area of Inquiry 80 74 70 L e a d e r s h ip a n d O r g a n is a t io n a l C a p a b ilit y 59 60 C o n s u lt a t io n a n d C o n s u m e r Number of Recommendations Made P a r t icip a t io n C lin ica l A u d it 50 47 R e s e a r c h a n d E f f e ct iv e n e s s 40 U s e o f In f o r m a t io n t o S u p p o r t H e a lt h C a r e D e liv e r y 30 C lin ica l R is k M a n a g e m e n t 27 25 26 22 S t a f f in g a n d S t a f f M a n a g e m e n t 20 20 E d u ca t io n , T r a in in g a n d P r o f e s s io n a l D e v e lo p m e n t 10 0 A re a o f In q u iry Chief Psychiatrist's Clinical Governance Reviews Assessment of the Status of Clinical Governance Recommendations The table below is a snapshot as of February 2008 of the status of all recommendations for services that have either completed the Clinical Governance Review cycle or are currently undergoing progress audits. This includes three services having completed a final audit, and four services having undergone progress audits. The current status of recommendations from the Clinical Governance Reviews is represented in the table below. Table: Current Assessment - Recommendation Status by Area of Inquiry – All Services Audited Partially Not Achieved Total Achieved Achieved Leadership and Organisational Capability 20 21 8 49 Consumer Value 19 17 2 38 Clinical Audit 5 11 0 16 Research and Effectiveness 6 8 4 18* Use of Information to Support Health Care Delivery 23 22 2 47 Clinical Risk Management 6 15 0 21 Staffing and Staff Management 8 11 0 19 Education, Training and Professional Development 9 9 0 18 Total 95 115 16 226 The table demonstrates that 42% of all Clinical Governance recommendations made as a result of the Chief Psychiatrist's reviews have been achieved, with another 51% being actively addressed by mental health services. The Chief Psychiatrist will continue to engage with the mental health services by a series of progress visits until all recommendations have been achieved. The aim of the visits is to work collaboratively with the service to identify and address any challenges that the service may encounter in relation to the recommendations. Feedback from the mental health services indicate a strong support for this collaborative approach to facilitating the implementation of the recommendations. Clinical Governance Review Timetable The timetable of the Chief Psychiatrist's Clinical Governance Review is available on the OCP website. Services will be formally advised by letter of an upcoming review by the Chief Psychiatrist. Standards Monitoring by the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist The Coordinator, Standards Monitoring in the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist is Dr Theresa Marshall who is available on 9222 4462. Dr Marshall, as well as coordinating the Clinical Governance Reviews, coordinates the monitoring of care standards for Licensed Psychiatric Hostels and the standards for Non Government Mental Health Services. Peter Bachelard-Lammas has contributed significantly to the 'roll out' of the monitoring of the standards for Non Government Mental Health Services. The Administration Officer Standards Monitoring is Andrea Kersten available on 9222 4462. Matters Reported to the Chief Psychiatrist The Chief Psychiatrist (CP) is informed as a matter of first priority of any death of patients and serious incidents in any mental health service (Operational Circular 2061/06). The Chief Psychiatrist also collects reported information on patients whose events or death may have a relationship to mental health issues but have had no contact with mental health services. Serious Incidents may include, but are not confined to, serious assaults on or by staff, other patients or visitors, absconding of any forensic or detained involuntary patient or serious medication error in regard to a mental health patient. Use of the Reported Information The information the CP receives about deaths and serious incidents is used to prepare data and reports in order to gain an overview of events in WA that may relate to standards of mental health care. The data and reports are used in a number of ways: To examine specific incidents or deaths individually as they are reported and where necessary take immediate action; To inform the Clinical Governance monitoring processes which will result in recommendations to the service; To inform the Director of General of Health/ the Minister for Health and to assist with responses to Parliamentary Questions; Examine the data gathered over months, years or on a geographical basis to identify trends and where appropriate take action. Important Qualifications of Reportable Matters Data It is important that certain qualifications are understood in relation to the reportable information in regards to its collection, use and interpretation. Applying styles in Word document templates 1. The information collected, data and reports generated by the Chief Psychiatrist are not for the purpose of demographic reporting. 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The CP will be seeking to improve the system further over the coming months by introducing an online reporting system in which individuals log onto the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist website and report directly by completing the standardised form. The Office of the Chief Psychiatrist will be notifying services when the new system is in operation. In the meantime the forms can be obtained by emailing the Manager firstname.lastname@example.com Janet Peacock, Manager Office of the Chief Psychiatrist coordinates the Reportable Matters for the Chief Psychiatrist and is supported with the data management by Chris Hepworth, Information Management Officer. Education Provided by the OCP Staff at the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist provides education and training for mental health clinicians, students and other government and non-government agencies. These education and training sessions are in relation to activities of the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist and the Mental Health Act 1996. They can be requested by any department or service and are usually conducted at no cost to the department or service A variety of By conducting education sessions the Office of styles for quick, consistent and flexible requesting them. styles are available in the Use the Chief Psychiatrist ensures that clinicians others are and templates informed and educated about lawful procedures and best practice. formatting Specifically, education and training is provided in 2 main areas: Custom styles or pre-defined styles include: If you want to achieve consistency of the • The Mental Health Act 1996 and other legislative issues; communication documents, open the templates • Clinical Governance Reviews of Mental Health Services. Body Copy created and use the custom styles. Bullet The Mental Health Act 1996 Education Styles are a quick and effective way to ensure Heading formatting of text appears consistent throughout a document. Act, is responsible text size, font Tim Rolfe, having been involved with the implementation of the 1996 Formatting refers to for the continuing Text heading education about the Act. type, colour, paragraph spacing, indenting, bullets Text sub heading and numbering. For the six months July 2007 to December 2007 there were 22 education sessions on the Mental Health Act 1996 Pre-defined aimed at a different information so (the 'Act') to over 400 individuals. There are a number of programs, eachstyles store all of this audience, which Page Headline that at anytime in the document creation a style range from a one-hour overview of the act to more specific aspects of the legislation such as referral issues and Page sub heading and many others. can be applied to selected text. police powers. A summary of these course are provided below: Styles names may be slightly different in each • Overview of the Mental Health Act; Styles incorporate the colour systems outlined in template. However, where possible the Act; • Detailed Exploration of the Mental Healthsame the Communication Style guide on page 12 and 13. naming Issues and Police been used • Referral conventions have Powers; for common The visual identity of each colour palette is styles in for Non-Authorised Facilities; • Overview each of the templates. available in individual templates. • Background to Legislation and Brief Overview of the Mental Health Act; • The Review of the Mental Health Act (1996) and Government response to the Review; • Community Treatment Orders. In addition to the sessions given in these main areas, Tim Rolfe provided 5 sessions on the Use of Seclusion attended by over 120 mental health staff. Sessions on other specific topics are also given based upon requests from a department or service for the OCP to provide education or training in a particular area. The OCP also provided sessions on Confidentiality, Mental State Examination and the 'Role of the Chief Psychiatrist' There was also an Authorised Mental Health Practitioner Training Course over three days during the same period. Public presentations for the information of consumers, carers and the general public are given around topics such as the Review of the Mental Health Act. Helpdesk The Office of the Chief Psychiatrist provides a telephone 'Helpdesk' on questions about the Mental Health Act 1996. Tim Rolfe as the Clinical Consultant takes most helpdesk calls but other staff will also provide assistance. From July 2007 to December 2007 the OCP received 228 calls. The previous year 2006 to 2007 totalled 411 calls. Clinical Governance Education In 2007 (January to December) Dr Theresa Marshall provided 12 education sessions to mental health services in relation to the Clinical Governance Framework and the Chief Psychiatrist's Clinical Governance Review Program. This includes three 2-day training sessions for Clinical Governance Reviewers. NGO Standards Monitoring Education Towards the end of 2007 the self-assessment pilot project in relation to the monitoring of the Service Standards for Non Government Providers of Community Mental Health Services commenced. Thirteen education sessions were provided to Non Government Organisations in relation to the Chief Psychiatrist's new NGO standards monitoring program. Sexual Vulnerability / Intimacy in Licensed Psychiatric Hostels The management of issues of sexual vulnerability/intimacy for residents of Licensed Psychiatric Hostels came to the attention of the Chief Psychiatrist. He determined that action should be taken to ensure that each Licensed Psychiatric Hostel (LPH) had implemented policies and procedures that identified and protected residents who are sexually vulnerable and who have diminished capacity to consent to a sexual relationship. Custom Process styles Why use styles? 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The hospital, if refusing access to the police even for good reasons, should be aware that they may be exposed to criticism if an incident occurs and the perception is that it could have been prevented if the Restraining Order had been served. It should also be noted that those seeking to effect service may be under an obligation to continue to attempt to serve the Restraining Order and that refusing access at one point in time will not necessarily be the end of the matter. The bottom line is that before deciding to refuse police access to serve a Restraining Order a thorough assessment of potential risks to the patient, staff, hospital and others should be made by the treating team. Clinicians also need to be aware of patient confidentiality if providing information to the police. Federal and State Initiatives in Regard to Seclusion and Restraint Beacon Demonstration Sites were established in all Federal states and territories and they now have funding In 2005 and as part of the Commonwealth Mental agreements in place with the Australian Government. Health Strategy a national plan for safety and quality Work on a manual for the national projects, National in mental health with four national priorities was Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project Manual released. One of the four priority areas was 'Reducing is being finalised use of and where possible eliminating restraint and seclusion'. State As part of the National Projects for the Reduction of In 2006 the Mental Health Division in noting a variety Restraint and Seclusion a committee was convened and of policies and procedures in services in WA related to Dr Rowan Davidson, Chief Psychiatrist, is the WA seclusion and Time Out, convened a committee to member. In 2007 the National Documentation Project consider guidelines for policy and procedure in WA. included the establishment of a seclusion and restraint community of practice (CoP) and the development and When published by the Mental Health Division a policy pilot of data standards and indicators. and procedure document will guide the further development of policies and protocols. Not Enacting Mental Health Forms It was brought to the attention of the Chief Psychiatrist by an AMHP that in some cases referrers (Medical Practitioners or AMHPs) are being asked not to enact Forms 1 (and 3) until there is a bed available. The AMHP felt that this was inappropriate as referral implied a degree of non-cooperation and urgency. The view of the Chief Psychiatrist is that a service should not be requesting that legal Forms not be enacted. Following the completion of a Form 1 (and where necessary a Form 3), steps should be taken to enact the Forms. There may be bed availability problems but that should not curtail the enactment of the Forms. It is recognised that due to bed availability the receival of the person in an authorised hospital may require prioritisation and this could delay the actual receival of the referred person but that does not mean the service should advise the referrer to delay enacting the Forms. In line with the advice in the Supplement to the Clinicians' Guide when there is a delay in receival the referrer should ensure regular assessment of the referred person to indicate whether there is a change in the person's mental state. This could indicate that the referred person is becoming more unwell and having a higher acuity raise the person in the priority list. Alternatively the change of mental state could indicate that the person is becoming less acutely unwell and may not require to be referred. The important issue is the safe clinical management of the person through the referral and receival process which cannot be guaranteed through a policy of not enacting the Forms. AMHP Corner The number of AMHPs in Western Australia on the Sixty plus AMHPs also attended the AMHP Forum 1 January 2008 was 472. The Office of the Chief which was held in November 2007. The Clinical Psychiatrist conducted 3 further 'Review of Skills' Consultant at the OCP will continue to offer programmes in 2007 and trained 60 mental health education and training programmes through 2008 practitioners in the role. A number of AMHPs also and is also able to attend AMHP meetings at resigned because they were no longer doing the services on request. sort of clinical work that required them to be AMHPs and a few due to retirement. The new Mental Health Act may be passed some time in 2008 and the role of the AMHP will The 6 monthly reports to the Chief Psychiatrist undergo some change. The new Mental Health Act indicated that in 2007 AMHPs conducted 2189 Implementation Committee will consider changes assessments resulting in the completion of 185 to the education and training of AMHPs in the Form 1's and 144 Form 3's. However this may be future. However if you have any ideas and an under-estimate, as despite a number of comments regarding a new AMHP training course reminders many AMHPs did not submit their please e-mail Tim Rolfe with the information on reports as requested. This was disappointing and email@example.com. the Chief Psychiatrist would like to re-stress the importance of this data in order to make clear that the AMHP role has relevance. For further information, please visit our website – www.chiefpsychiatrist.health.wa.gov.au


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Strike A Pose! Challenge 1 Winner!
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Congratulations to Fab reader twiggychic3, winner of Strike A Pose! Challenge 1! This petite fashionista stepped right up to the plate and gave the challenging pose a shot. And as you can see, she nailed it! To thank her for bending backwards for us, she'll be receiving a Fab tee to pose everyday in.
All you other aspiring models, stay tuned for another Strike A Pose! challenge soon...
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mrspiven 7 years
wow... what a pose!
mrspiven 7 years
wow... what a pose!
Pepper 7 years
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PinkNC 7 years
Good job, and nice blue.
PinkNC 7 years
Good job, and nice blue.
Lala77 7 years
congrats you did a great job :)
Karla-Sugar 7 years
dang, that is really good.
Hollisterbabe01 7 years
CONGRADULATIONS TWIGGY! You deserved it!
littlemissvixen 7 years
congrats! i agree with sugarbecky
Fashion 7 years
Hey babes! While a big congrats are in order don't be afraid to share your attempts. The point is that these poses are difficult to do and we can all have fun with them. ;) xo
sugarbecky 7 years
I actually think twiggy pulls it off better than the model!!
AngelGrl135 7 years
mommie 7 years
Very nice, I didn't even try it.
flowidme 7 years
congrats! great job!
flowidme 7 years
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WhatTheFrockBlog 7 years
I think the pose in general is pretty awkward, but you look ADORABLE! Congrats!
SarahwithanH 7 years
Love it! Very cute.
SarahwithanH 7 years
Love it! Very cute.
shoeaholic 7 years
Well done! I also tried, and failed miserably!
JBlondie 7 years
LOVE your shoes!!!!!
JBlondie 7 years
LOVE your shoes!!!!!
syako 7 years
Yay. Congrats. I attempted the pose, but it was so off that I didn't even think of posting it here. Lol. I'm impressed.
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Recently, I came across a Philip Whalen poem that offered an amusing example of interspecies communication. Check it out:The TurnWalking along Elm RoadHandful of nasturtiums, butter, some kind of bread75¢ the loaf no advertising includedBread and air and a price tag wrapped in plasticThe dogs come out as usual to roar at meI find myself screeching wildly in replyFed up with suppressing my rage and fearI bellow and roarThe dogs are scared and their people scandalized"What are you trying to do? HAY! What are you trying to do?"I had nothing to tell them; I was talking to their dogs.One of the charms of this poem, for me, is its ordinariness, even banality. Who hasn't, out of sheer frustration with being barked at (by angry dogs or other beings), lost it, and barked back? I know I have, though, unlike Whalen, the last time I remember barking at a dog (a Doberman in my case), I don't think I was able to silence him.But paradoxically, it's the very unexceptional quality of the event narrated here that makes it unusual. For there's a rich, imaginative tradition, spanning culture high and low, that paints the talent for "talking to animals" as a mysterious, nearly superhuman power.In fact, in psychic/new age jargon, this talent has got a name --"zoolingualism" -- and it's a power possessed by everyone from Tarzan, Dr. Dolittle and St. Francis, to horse whisperers, like the one Scarlett Johansson once portrayed. Or like the shaman, in Elizabeth Bishop's great poem, "The Riverman," which begins:I got up in the nightfor the Dolphin spoke to me.He grunted beneath my window,hid by the river mist,but I glimpsed him -- a man like myself.When it comes to the mythologies surrounding poets and the act of writing poetry, the tradition of zoolingualism becomes (excuse the pun) even more pronounced. Orpheus, the archetypal poet, could understand the language of birds. And his song tamed even the fiercest beasts, as celebrated in this medieval mosaic (in which you'll notice a few wild dogs).Whalen himself, for that matter, wasn't averse to this more mythic type of interspecies communication. Here's his poem "Never Apologize; Never Explain":A pair of strange new birds in the maple treePeer through the windowsMother and father visiting me: "You are unmarried, No child begot Now we are birds, now you've forgotten us Although in dreams we visit you in human shape"They speak Homer's languageSing like AeschylusThe life of a poet: less than 2/3rds of a second.The Language of BarkingWhat's especially interesting, though, when it comes to a poem like "The Turn," is that the down-to-earth way it portrays such communications suggests how the sounds we emit as natural, rather than supernatural, beings actually can resemble the language of dogs, or other (nonhuman) species. Alva Noe, a philosopher grounded in cognitive science, comments:"One of the very many false ideas about language is that its primary function is to express information or communicate thoughts. Speech has many functions, but surely a large part of it is more like the grooming behavior of chimpanzees or the shepherding behavior of dogs than it is like reasoned discourse among parliamentarians. We bark so that our kids get out the door in time to get on their bus and so that they feel safe and loved...The bulk of what we do and say each day is more like the grunts and signals baseball players use to indicate who'll catch the pop fly than it is like genuine conversation."All of which is to say that language involves the performance of acts as much as it does the transmission of ideas. The dogs bark to chase Whalen away. He barks back to stand his ground. You could say at this moment -- one animal communicating with other animals -- he's "one with nature," as a Romantic might put it. But this doesn't mean, in the poem's realist version of this idea, that man and beast are necessarily going to get along.Then again, to complicate matters a bit more, perhaps the language the dogs and the poet speak here has nothing to do whatsoever with anything the least bit "natural." For aren't the dogs stand-ins for their owners, speaking a social message for which they've been trained, one that can simply be translated as "no trespassing"?And by answering the dogs, rather than their owners, perhaps the poet implies that such social aggression, unleashed on whoever's in the mere vicinity of a private property, doesn't deserve a civil reply. Thoughts?
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In an interview the philosopher Martin Heidegger gave later in life, he spoke about how our technology had uprooted us, not only from tradition, but the very earth itself. He added that this alienation had reached such an advanced state that "only a god can save us."I found it amusing, and a bit surprising, that in the recent summer blockbuster Godzilla, when this "god" finally arrives, he takes the the form of a giant, fire-breathing dragon.If you've seen the film, you know that due to our experiments with dangerous technologies (in this case, nuclear energy), great beasts arise from the depths to torment humanity. Our main persecutor comes in the form of a giant, moth-like creature. Godzilla follows this "MUTO" ("Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism") up from wherever such beings live, to hunt down and destroy it. A battle ensues and God(zilla) is on our side all the way.When I say Godzilla is a god, I mean that literally. As Director Gareth Edwards put it in The Daily Beast, the MUTO represents "man's abuse of nature," and Godzilla "is a god, really. He's at the top of the food chain and probably King of the World." Godzilla is also called a god by characters in the film.The mission of this godly being is to restore the balance of nature (that the MUTO throws out of whack), saving humanity in the process, as a sort of fortuitous side-effect. At the end of the film, as Godzilla leaves the ravaged city where his battle with the evil MUTO took place, the crowd watching breaks out in a cheer.This means, though, that even with its happy ending, the film has a pessimistic, somber mood -- not unlike Heidegger's later philosophy. Humanity seems helpless. Most of the action takes place between the behemoths. All the military/scientific team that gathers in the crisis can do ultimately, is "let them fight," as one character mutters reverently.This dark mood certainly reflects the zeitgeist concerning ecological issues. Washington still debates the reality of global warming, while environmental scientists such as James Lovelock (who invented the Gaia hypothesis), advise us to "enjoy life while [we] can," as "humans are too stupid to prevent climate change."And yet, despite the reality of the issues the movie alludes to, I found it hard to take the messenger entirely seriously. A popcorn movie, where a couple of monsters jam it out, after all, can't help but seem more fun and silly than profound.As a result, I found myself reading into the movie in more mundane ways. And I thought about Godzilla being a savior of something less grand than the earth itself. Recently I've been reading a fascinating book about the entertainment industry by Anita Elberse titled Blockbusters. In it, she shows that the main vehicle the movie business now favors is the big-budget, special-effects flick. As a result, it follows a strategy in which it sinks most of its investment dollars into such blockbusters, in search of giant wins. She also shows that the rest of the entertainment industry is pretty much following suit.Elberse tells us that this industry increasingly relies on blockbusters, in part, to avoid the need to place its bets on smaller, riskier properties, aimed at niche markets -- an approach often associated with the fragmentation of audiences that came about because of the web and the digital age. Instead, the blockbuster makes old-school mass-marketing to a mass audience still possible.You could say, then, that Godzilla saves not only the earth, but, on a more trivial level, the movie studio that produced the film he stars in, by offering the promise of the kind of big profits that will keep it afloat.And blockbusters don't just save the movie industry from being at the mercy of niche tastes. Elberse doesn't talk about this so directly in her book, but another aspect of entertainment in the digital age is that lots of it is free. Blockbusters, designed for big, 3-D screens, are one of the entertainment products for which people are still willing to pay.In this light, Godzilla isn't only saving the earth; he's also helping the paid entertainment economy fight off the increasingly powerful free one -- or what Jeremy Rifkin has recently termed the "collaborative commons."And in this regard, perhaps this economic message is related to the ecological pessimism you see in the film. For the same, clumsy, old school, big-time capitalism that survives by producing blockbusters, is, according to Rifkin, incapable of dealing with ecological crises. What he predicts, instead (in The Zero Marginal Cost Society), is the coming of "Collaboratism," a new economic paradigm that transcends both capitalism and socialism.Until then, I suppose, one might have to agree with Heidegger, that only a god -- or perhaps a Godzilla -- can save us.
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Recently I've had the pleasure of reading a manuscript of poems by Joanna Fuhrman titled The Year of Yellow Butterflies (forthcoming this Spring, from Hanging Loose Press). At the center of this jazzy collection is a sequence of prose poems (by the same name) that drew my mind into them, with a kind of magnetic charge. Each poem starts with the phrase "It was the year..." What follows are often surreal, sometimes allegorical, takes on our culture's obsession with trends, satirizing our strange customs or jarring them out of their conventionality by infusing a healthy dose of wonder. "It was the year Goth, rockabilly manicurists applied mini-wigs to women's nails," one poem begins; another, "It was the year hipsters started using coffins as coffee tables..."; and another: "It was the year us geezers wore digital masks."One of the ways this sequence achieves its poetically satiric effects is by fusing realities you usually think of as opposed, such as business and poetry ("It was the year no one could tell the difference between a poem and a resume..."), to natural and mechanical ("They'd hook you up in a gizmo that looked like a cross between a beauty salon chair dryer and a futuristic orange squid"). The following poem from the sequence is a particularly good example such fusion:"It was the year everyone decorated the outside of their houses to look like the inside, and the inside to look like the outside.You liked to wear a jumpsuit with an x-ray of a skeleton silk-screened on it. I liked to wear an earring shaped like a decaying liver.Once I crashed into a friend's wall because I thought it was the sky.We placed our teacups on a tree trunk ottoman and rested our heads on waterfall pillows. You were wearing an ocean on your mouth, and I was dressed like the sun."This poem (which contains an echo of Kenneth Koch's "You Were Wearing") not only offers satire and humor, but, as I mentioned earlier, a charge of wonder. This is the result, I think, of what cognitively-oriented literary critics would term its "conceptual blending." In it, you find that images of the "natural" and the "cultural", as well as the "inside" and "outside" become integrated, like one of those reversible jackets they used to sell. Such blending made me think of a painter like Magritte. In a work like "The Memoirs of a Saint," for example, what's usually outside (the sky) is contained inside a stage curtain. As in the Fuhrman poem, natural and cultural images are blended into each other -- in this case, in a sort of playful riff off the idea that "the whole world is a stage." (Or, is staged.)I came across an even more pertinent example of all this in an essay about Emily Dickinson's famous poem beginning "I dwell in Possibility -/a fairer House than Prose", by cognitive lit scholar Margaret H. Freeman.You might remember that in this poem, Dickinson offers a metaphorical argument as to why poetry is richer than prose. Here's part of her description of the "house of poetry":Of chambers as the Cedars --Impregnable of eye --And for an everlastingRoofThe Gambrels [Gabels] of the sky --As Freeman points out, the suggestion of poetry's expansive possibilities as a genre is communicated here by the blending of the semantic concepts such as the "inside" (rooms of a house), with those of the "outside." In contrast to the conventional abode of prose, poetry's "house" is one whose roof is the very sky itself.What's especially valuable about Freeman's essay is that it suggests how such blending offers a way to think about the act of writing poetry as a form of cultural politics. By drawing attention to a more integrated way of perceiving things, poems throw light on the impoverished quality of our normal, day-to-day existence. Along these lines, she quotes poet John Burnside, who defines surrealist Paul Eluard's autremonde as:"that nonfactual truth of being: the missed world, and by extension, the missed self who sees and imagines and is fully alive outside the bounds of socially-engineered expectations -- not some rational process (or not as the term is usually understood) but by a kind of radical illumination, a re-attunement to the continuum of objects and weather and other lives we inhabit."Such a comment clarifies for me what I find so appealing about the satiric qualities of writing like Fuhrman's. It doesn't just poke fun at the everyday, reified banality we are all party to in our world of total commerce.It also offers a glimpse of what we're missing: a cooler, richer reality just outside of our conventional boundaries.
Continuing to think about our habit of reading into facial expressions (see last post), brought to mind an experience I had once viewing an exhibit of visual art.I was at MOMA a few years back, checking out the Chuck Close retrospective. In the room that housed his early works from the 60s, I came across the giant, photorealistic portraits for which he is well known.I had an odd experience viewing these huge "heads" together in one place. Close has made it clear that his portraits are paintings of photographs -- not studies from "real life." Because of this fact, you'd think you were several steps away from attributing psychological presence to these works. In fact, I'm told that if you view them up close, you can actually see the grid of tiny boxes through which they're created; it's as if you're looking at a mosaic made of hundreds of tiles, each with a miniature abstract painting inside.Yet, oddly, the paintings also seemed to carry symbolic messages. In the portrait of Philip Glass, for example, the swirling patterns of Glass's hair and skin rhymed, for me, with the epic, circular movement of his music. It seemed as if his face were some sort of medieval emblem, in which the spirit of his inner creativity manifested in the flesh.What I found striking was how this inner spirit fought its way through the artificial quality that Close foregrounds. It was as if a certain presence would not be denied -- even if the artist telegraphed this was a simulation of a simulation; even if you knew the painting's effect was the result of Close's own "smoke and mirrors."It was almost as if the artificial aspect of the work was precisely what made it more absorbing.Charles Bernstein's "Artifice of Absorption"An especially lucid analysis of the phenomena I've just described is found in a piece I alluded to in the last post: Charles Bernstein's essay-in-verse titled "Artifice of Absorption." Toward its end, Bernstein describes the experience of watching Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.In this play, the character "Krapp" listens to autobiographical diary entries he made via tape recordings during earlier periods of his life. But just as he, and we, as audience, begin to be absorbed in these accounts, Krapp reminds himself and us of their artifice. He frequently switches off the tape, interupting the narrative flow, fast forwarding at times, stopping at others to make sarcastic comments on his own youthful naivete.But our heightened awareness of the mechanical device through which Krapp's "heartfelt" confessions are communicated, rather than make us more distanced, draws us in. Bernstein comments:"Indeed, the very jagged moments when the tape isabruptly turned off -- moments in which the listener's absorption may seem to beruptured -- only serve to heighten the dramatic powerof the play. Beckett's incisively spliceddislocations have a spellbindingtheatrical effect..."The emotional content of the performance seems more real, then, precisely because the work refuses to become "absorbed" in the "vain hopes" of the stories the character once told himself. It's as if a higher degree of honesty -- and hence authenticity -- results from the very acknowledgement of the ephemeral quality of the stories Krapp tells himself.And the presence of a tape machine in the play underlines the fact that even our most basic sense of our lives and identities is unavoidably mediated -- that an immaculate perception of ourselves is impossible.Video RealismBoth Close and Beckett come from the realm of high art, but I've also seen forms of popular culture that achieve "realism effects" by doing something similar.Recently I watched an indie horror film titled Alien Abduction (about so-called true events involving disappearances and "strange lights" that occurred in the Brown Mountains of North Carolina).
The story, of course, was far-fetched. But what made it gripping, nonetheless, was the technique through which it was told. As we watch this tale of alien abduction involving a small family, we are constantly reminded, by its shaky, hand-held quality (and occasional blackouts) that we are watching a homemade video (in this case, one filmed by an autistic boy). The camera, in fact, is as much a character in the movie as the people.As such, the movie is the latest in a low-budget genre that began with the Blair Witch Project, in which outlandish tales gain a degree of realism by seeming to be filmed by "real" people on poor quality equipment.All of which leads me to wonder whether if, today, in order to achieve a "suspension of disbelief," it helps to have a recording device somewhere nearby. Thoughts?Also of Interest:My new book of poems, The Cheapskates, from Lunar Chandelier Press, is now available from Small Press Distribution. Click here.Review of The Cheapskates by David Lehman, click here, and another by Michael Lally (with my poem on Chuck Close), click here.
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Belvedere Court Hotel Apartments - Dubai
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Unwind with designer toiletries in the guest rooms at this family-friendly aparthotel in Dubai which also offers an outdoor pool and is in the entertainment district in the area of Bur Dubai. Belvedere Court Hotel Apartments also has free parking.
This Dubai aparthotel offers a health club, dry cleaning/laundry services and an elevator (lift). You can find a sauna and a steam room on site so you will be able to take some time out to relax. Multilingual staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out.
The TV in the lobby area can keep you occupied while you're waiting. Wi-Fi is available for a fee. Planning a meeting? This aparthotel has a meeting room, as well as a business center. Other amenities include laundry facilities.
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Distances from Belvedere Court Hotel ApartmentsBurJuman Mall - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
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Textile Souk - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Dubai Museum - 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
Grand Mosque - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
Bastakiya - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
Lamcy Plaza - 2 km / 1.2 mi
Spice Souk - 2.2 km / 1.3 mi
Dubai Cruise Terminal - 2.2 km / 1.3 mi
Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum House - 2.2 km / 1.3 mi
The Dubai Heritage Village - 2.3 km / 1.5 mi
Gold Souk - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
Perfume Souq - 2.5 km / 1.5 mi
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Emeril's New York City Cosmopolitan
- Total Time:
- 5 min
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- 5 min
- Yield:
- 2 servings
- Level:
- Easy
- 4 ounces citron-flavored vodka
- 2 ounces cranberry juice
- 1/2 ounce orange liqueur
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- 2 thin twists lime, for garnish
Combine the vodka, cranberry juice, orange liqueur, and lime juice with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake to combine and chill. Pour into 2 glasses filled with ice, and garnish each with 1 twist of lime. Serve immediately.
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2002
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Find yourself running back whenever you try to end it with a significant other, in full knowledge you're bound to get hurt again? You may be suffering from Troubled Lovers Syndrome. For an illustration of the key symptoms, we turn to unsigned soul songstress Raffinae, making her DJBooth debut with the latest single off her next street release. ThemPeople handle production duties, flipping Mayer Hawthorne's cover of James Pants' Thin Moon into a dreamy backdrop for the singer's lyrical portrait of romantic ambivalence. Throughout the cut, Raffinae showcases an impressive array of vocal tricks and techniques, from shimmering, overdubbed harmonies to staccato "flows." This joint is part of a forthcoming, as yet-untitled project, tentatively scheduled for release this summer.
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Former Texas Chief Accused of Using Dept. Funds at Casino
Aug. 30--A former fire chief of the Crystal Beach Volunteer Fire Department was indicted for allegedly using the department's credit card at a Louisiana race track and casino.
A Galveston County grand jury returned two indictments on the past fire chief of the Crystal Beach Volunteer Fire Department, David Miles Loop, 56. He was indicted on the charges of theft second degree felony, by a public servant and misapplication of fiduciary property, a third degree felony, according to a press release from the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.
The indictments are the result of a nine month investigation by a Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Detectives, the District Attorney's Fraud Examiner and the Public Integrity Prosecutor.
It was learned that Loop used the Crystal Beach Volunteer Fire Department's credit card at a Louisiana race track and casino to the amount of over $25,000. He also reportedly misappropriated over $45,000 of the department's money. Loop's bonds are set at $10,000 for the theft charge and $5,000 for the misapplication of fiduciary property charge.
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2 Bedrooms + 2 Full Baths, Sleeps 4
This condo is Pet Friendly* and has a large patio facing the courtyard containing with pool and hot tub. Just a few steps from the Patio to the Pool and Hot Tub. There are grills and tables available so you can enjoy an outside BBQ. The condo is located on the first floor with open access to the Courtyard. There is free assigned parking, free Wifi, Cable TV, full kitchen, washer and dryer. Master has a king bed, Spare Bedroom has two twin beds. All linens are provided.
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It is an ancient tradition for the Chatan Torah and Chatan Bereshit (the bridegrooms of the law), who are called up for the last and first aliyot of the annual Torah reading cycle, to give a kiddush. The earlier custom was to provide a whole feast and to do it on Simchat Torah. Now it is generally done on Shabbat Bereshit.
Succot lasts seven days. But only the first day is a Yomtov (or the first two days in the diaspora) and carries the prohibition against doing any labour, with the exception of cooking and carrying. The subsequent five or six days are Chol Hamo'ed —the everyday days of the festival.
The sermons in shul over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are usually the longest and hopefully the most inspiring of the year. Week in, week out, however we are used to regular derashot, and, based on the amount of post-match analysis that the rabbi's sermon receives, you would think that this is the most important part of the service.
Having a scribe (sofer) inspect the parchment of the mezuzah before Rosh Hashanah is a common custom (even though, according to most rabbis, mezuzot need checking only once every three and half years).
Sending Rosh Hashanah cards is a much-loved custom that crosses religious-secular lines. The first cards that we know of were sent in 14th century Germany. The custom really took off in Eastern Europe and the United States with the development of the postage stamp there around 1860-70.
Aufruf, meaning "calling up" in Yiddish, is the custom of calling a bridegroom (chatan) up to the Torah on the Shabbat before his wedding. After he has finished the blessings, people shout "Mazeltov" and throw sweets. Children rush to gather armfuls of them. Often the bride has a Shabbat Kallah at the same time, which is an informal send-off by her friends into married life.
To someone beginning a journey we say, "Leich l'shalom", "Go toward peace". The Talmud finds biblical endorsement for this phrase: Jethro told Moses "Leich l'shalom" when Moses set off for Egypt. And we all know that his trip was a success.
Judaism places great value in communal prayer or tefillah b'tzibbur. The rabbis quote many biblical verses to show that praying as a group is more powerful than praying alone.
The Shabbat after Tishah b'Av is called Shabbat Nachamu, meaning the Shabbat of comfort. It is named after the first words of the haftarah from Isaiah 40, "Comfort, comfort my people".
After reciting havdalah at the end of Shabbat, many people sing "Eliyahu Hanavi", a song about the prophet Elijah and our hope that he may arrive soon to herald of the coming of the Messiah. (As Malachi prophesies, in the haftarah read before Pesach, Elijah will be sent before the "great and awesome day of the Lord".)


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The Truth About Vitamin D
The Supplement Question
But there is one big difference between the D your body produces in response to sunlight and the kind that comes from a bottle. Sun-activated D lasts twice as long in your body, which is why you only need sun exposure a few days a week, notes Dr. Holick. If you or your child avoid the sun and don't drink enough milk or eat lots of D-rich foods, a daily supplement or a multivitamin can help you meet AAP and IOM guidelines. (The D3 form is more effective at raising blood levels than D2.) Both pregnant and nursing women need a prenatal vitamin containing 400 IU of D per day.
Anyone who's found to have low D levels will be given supplements. Erin Danner's treatment consisted of two over-the-counter D-fortified calcium chews a day -- a total of 1,000 IU of D -- and more milk. Within four months, her levels had risen from 20.3 to 34.8. "Erin was doing cartwheels at summer camp and hasn't complained about pain for months," says her dad. Still, her doctor wants her to continue taking the calcium chews to boost her D levels above 40 and keep them there.
Depending on whom you talk to, vitamin D is either the best thing since sliced bread -- or a story that's still unfolding. The ideal amount is still the great unknown. The government says that the safe upper limit for D is 1,000 IU for babies younger than 1, and 2,000 IU for everyone else, but some experts maintain that higher doses are fine. In fact, the Vitamin D Council, a nonprofit that educates people about D deficiency, advises that everyone over age 1 take 1,000 IU for every 25 pounds they weigh. "With most adults, 5,000 IU per day is adequate to maintain optimal D levels," says John Cannell, M.D., president of the council.
Many experts think it's best to wait for more studies before jumping on the vitamin-D bandwagon. "While it makes sense to keep D levels in the normal range, we need clinical trials before we make public health recommendations that everyone take a D supplement," says Judith Wylie-Rosett, Ed.D., R.D., a spokesperson for the American Heart Association.
Dr. Gordon is among those who are firm believers in its potential. "More studies are coming to the same conclusions about D's promising effects throughout the body. This is very exciting and something we must pay attention to," she says. "But we need more research about D's risks and benefits, especially when it comes to children. Hopefully, that day won't be too far off."


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2yClaude Julien told reporters Tuesday nothing has changed in regards to injured defenseman Adam McQuad
2yAll eyes in Washington are on Nicklas Backstrom, Steven Stamkos getting more impressive everyday, and news on the Big Tuna
2yNow that the regular season is through, Bruins Insider Joe Haggerty can finally hand out his superlatives for 2011-12.
2yBruins defenseman Adam McQuaid was absent from practice again, while goalie Tuukka Rask was on hand.
2yThe Tim Thomas-boycotting-the-White-House incident is rearing its head again with the Bruins playing Washington, but Andrew Ference says it's 'laughable' to think the issue is a distraction to the B's.
2yIt's easy to say that Tim Thomas is clearly better than Capitals rookie keeper Braden Holtby, but don't expect anyone on the B's to say that. They know that inexperience could actually be a good thing for Holtby.
2yBruins captain Zdeno Chara gets up for every game but when he's going against the best in the world, he takes it up to another level. He and the B's will be ready for Alex Ovechkin and the Caps.


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- Comment on Canadiens given two days off; Nathan Beaulieu sent to Hamilton (2014-11-25 02:36:12)
You might want to add Andy Hopkins to that list of luminaries. Best running back I ever saw back in the day.
- Comment on Mike Weaver listed as day-to-day as Canadiens prepare to face Blues (2014-11-19 17:05:50)
Just looking at the stat columns on the TSN website. Interesting that our 9 mil man leads the squad with 24 giveaways followed by the rest of the D-corps and Pleky in the mid to high teens. Food for thought on the ability of the team to clear the d-zone in an organized possession manner rather than chucking the rubber to centre ice or icing.
- Comment on Episode 7: Chris Nilan and the panel weigh in on Habs' humbling loss to Penguins, Hall of Famer Pat Burns and more (2014-11-19 17:04:15)
Just looking at the stat columns on the TSN website. Interesting that our 9 mil man leads the squad with 24 giveaways followed by the rest of the D-corps and Pleky in the mid to high teens. Food for thought on the ability of the team to clear the d-zone in an organized possession manner rather than chucking the rubber to centre ice or icing.
- Comment on Canadiens' Beaulieu says he's ready for anything; Tinordi sent down to Hamilton (2014-11-06 23:13:45)
Just watched Jets/Pens. Best game of the year so far. Here's a trade idea. Everyone trades jerseys except for Price and Pavelic. We get rid of the $9 mil millstone and the rest of the soft so called talent Love those Jets, big, fast and tough, all they need is Price.
- Comment on (AUDIO) Subban signs eight-year deal with Habs averaging $9 million a season (2014-08-02 16:28:36)
Jeez, I love what PK brings to the team but 9 mil per, there are other D out there who play a higher level 2 way game and I get it's the new celery cap. I guess Doughty would merit 10 to 11 mil if he had signed today. Big dough locked in for a very long time and he has still got a ways to go to improve his overall play. Hope it works out.
- Comment on Habs development camp underway in Brossard (VIDEO) (2014-07-07 17:48:25)
In a heartbeat. Subban is nowhere close to Weber now in his overall game and given his performance last year he does not project to be. He looked slow, was caught out of position frequently and I just loved the flailing sticks and body twirls. If he can get more speed in his game and play better positional hockey, he's got a shot. No way he ever achieves parity in the toughness game. God forbid he gets 8 years. 4 max at 6.5 to 7.5.
- Comment on Habs' Subban already in gym training for next season; Gorges could be on way out (2014-06-30 13:35:07)
Gorges, the flopping Harpy seal who is consistently giving up pucks in his own Dzone and then blocking his own screw ups. The guy is not a leader just based on his play, let alone Captain material. Take your 3.9 and get out of town. His ship has long since sailed.
- Comment on Habs' Bergevin beaten out for NHL's GM of the Year Award (2014-06-25 16:11:47)
Sorry, you lost me at offensive instincts. His best pass is to no one in particular up the boards. No puck possession skills whatsoever. He does block shots (credit for dat) but only because he is a turnover machine in his own end. In the end I blame the brass for ponying up 3.9 when you get the same thing for an old fart like Weaver who plays with more grit. At best a number 6 or 7 D as far as rah rah Josh is concerned.
- Comment on Markov looking for three-year, $18-million deal: report (2014-06-16 15:27:11)
3.9 a year for a guy whose best pass is icing along the boards and flopping around like a stuck harpy seal. Positional play my a##! He is a turnover machine. Move him out for a forward. Markov, max 2 years at 3.5 to 4mil. The kids are coming !!
- Comment on Bourque 'a force out there' in Habs 7-4 victory over Rangers (Video) (2014-05-28 01:23:33)
3.9 million for a guy whose best move is a pass up the boards to no one, flops like a baby harp seal, always gets caught out of position and manages to score or assist on more goals against the Habs than any other D we've had in recent memory, but yeah he's great in the room. Rah rah rah.


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Canto-pop singer sues over Mercedes
Posted Sep 08th 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter
... Loretta Fong Canto-pop singer Ronald Cheng Chun-kei, 37, is suing car sales agent Eddy Wong Pak-wing for a HK$160,000 deposit on a Mercedes Benz that he ordered in 2004 but never received. Cheng filed the lawsuit through his Gabia Company Limited. The hearing continues today in the District Court. ...http://www.scmp.com/article/691873/canto-pop-singer-sues-over-mercedes
Canto-pop star sued by managers
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... Loretta Fong Canto-pop idol Theresa Fu Wing is being sued by her management companies for allegedly breaching her contracts. Talent Bang, Gold Label Management and Gold Typhoon Entertainment are seeking a declaration that Fu breached agreements dated June 2002 and are claiming unspecified damages, according to a writ filed in the District Court. ...http://www.scmp.com/article/697401/canto-pop-star-sued-managers
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... Danny Mok A 36-year-old man was arrested yesterday for indecently assaulting Canto-pop singer Stephanie Cheng Yung, 24, after a publicity event in a Tseung Kwan O mall. The man, surnamed Choi, was seen emerging from a crowd and touched Cheng's chest when she was leaving the Edge. He was immediately detained by security guards, who called police. ...http://www.scmp.com/article/688014/man-arrested-assault-canto-pop-star
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... Denise Tsang Cantopop singers, celebrities, egg tarts and milk tea will be promoted as Hong Kong's hallmark consumer products in an unprecedented trade show in Beijing next month designed to spur the slowing economies of both cities. Lowering entry barriers to the domestic consumer market, Beijing for the first time will host an eight-day show featuring about 300 Hong Kong ...http://www.scmp.com/article/693256/hk-put-best-egg-tarts-and-cantopop-forward
Easy access to Canto-pop hits
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... Zoe Mak If you love a couple of songs by an artist, but don't want to buy the whole album, Love Best Volume 2 is tailor-made for you. The three CDs and a DVD feature best-selling songs from the past few years by longtime Canto-pop favourites such as Leo Ku Kui-kei, Eason Chan Yik-shun and Kelly Chen Wai-lam, and newer idols like Hins Cheung and Kay Tse On-kay. Not every ...http://www.scmp.com/article/678148/easy-access-canto-pop-hits
Canto-pop star sues Next Magazine for libel
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... Yvonne Tsui Canto-pop singer Joey Yung Cho-yee and her manager, Emperor Entertainment Group, yesterday filed a writ in the High Court against Next Magazine and its editor, Lee Fo-yee, over an allegedly libellous article- published on April 9 in print and online- about the singer's advertisement fee. The singer and Emperor Entertainment are seeking damages from the magazine ...http://www.scmp.com/article/676990/canto-pop-star-sues-next-magazine-libel
MJ credited with shaping Canto-pop
Posted Jun 27th 2009, 12:00am by Vivienne Chow
... Vivienne Chow and Vidya Viswanathan Hong Kong fans and the music industry mourned the death of Michael Jackson, crediting the late King of Pop's phenomenal musical influence with shaping the city's Canto-pop scene. Many local singers grieved over the death of their beloved idol. Aaron Kwok Fu-shing, whose dance moves and stage flair were said to have been deeply ...http://www.scmp.com/article/685014/mj-credited-shaping-canto-pop
Father arrives for trial of Canto-pop singer
Posted Apr 23rd 2009, 12:00am by Vivienne Chow
... Vivienne Chow, Phyllis Tsang and Clara Mak The father and manager of Canto-pop singer Jill Vidal, who will face drug charges at Tokyo District Court tomorrow, arrived in the Japanese capital early yesterday to visit her and prepare for the trial. Vidal's father, Joey Vidal, met his daughter for the time since February 24, when she and fellow singer Kelvin Kwan Chor-yiu ...http://www.scmp.com/article/677700/father-arrives-trial-canto-pop-singer
Canto-pop stars do their bit to draw attention to mood disorders
Posted Feb 04th 2009, 12:00am by Annemarie Evans, Fiona Ng
... with Annemarie Evans. Additional reporting by Clara Mak and Fiona Ng. A crowd gathered at Harbour City on Monday to catch a glimpse of Canto-pop and TV stars, who were there to perform a series of traditional Japanese 'courting rituals' ahead of Valentine's Day. In Japanese tradition, the female declares her affection in the form of a box of chocolates on February ...http://www.scmp.com/article/668834/canto-pop-stars-do-their-bit-draw-attention-mood-disorders
Wedding bells ring for Canto-pop sweetheart and her wayward man
Posted Jan 06th 2009, 12:00am by Vivienne Chow
... Vivienne Chow Canto-pop sweetheart Vivian Chow Wai-man tied the knot with her long-term boyfriend, author Joe Nieh, at a low-key home wedding yesterday- a month after he was caught kissing 21-year-old City University student Miffty Zhang. Three photos depicting Chow in a simple wedding dress and Nieh in a black suit were sent to the media in the early evening, accompanied by a brief ...http://www.scmp.com/article/665997/wedding-bells-ring-canto-pop-sweetheart-and-her-wayward-man
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Sure, cupcakes are significantly less manly than regular cakes, what with their dainty size and tendency towards soft pastels. But that doesn't mean there isn't a gentlemanly way to devour one. Don't just shove the whole thing in your mouth, friend... there's an art to this stuff.