text: June 11-22, 2018New Orleans, LouisianaThe Public Law Center (TPLC) launched the International Legislative Drafting Institute in 1995 in response to increasing global demand for training of legislative drafters and in 2014 celebrated its 20th anniversary. The Institute is a two-week summer program that responds to the worldwide demand on legislative drafters for new laws to support the emergence of free market economies and democratic forms of government. The Institute draws together diverse domestic and international faculty members experienced in the legislative process.Global economic development and new trading networks among nations have created a need for more sophisticated and technically proficient legislative research and drafting. Countries entering the global marketplace and adapting to democratic influences at home and abroad need new laws regulating the environment, economic development, labor relations, and other aspects of the free trade regime. The Institute meets these needs with a curriculum of lectures, readings, drafting exercises, site visits, computer research, instruction in the use of word processors, "roundtable" discussions, and individual student conferences with faculty.The training, intended for both lawyer and non-lawyer drafters, emphasizes pragmatic learning—not theory but practice. Participants will "learn by doing" through drafting exercises, research assignments, and preparation of a formulary for use in their own drafting offices. Afternoon roundtable discussions will enable participants to share ideas and information with each other, learning "how we did it" in response to numerous common problems of interest to drafters.Guest lecturers drawn from among the ranks of legislative drafters, lobbyists, academia, agency personnel, and legislators instruct participants in the preparation of a variety of legislative instruments - bills and resolutions, constitutional amendments, ordinances, appropriations, agency regulations ("subordinate legislation" in many jurisdictions), committee and floor amendments. Lecture topics include the ethics of drafting, confidentiality, matters of style (gender-neutral language, grammar, and punctuation), agency rulemaking, constitutional revision, international trade agreements, and codification agencies.The training also emphasizes the importance of public participation and describes an appropriate role for interest groups and individuals in the legislative process.Follow us on Facebook for more information: http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Legislative-Drafting-Institute/133150063384055. By clicking on the "like" button you will receive notices when we upload new content to our page.


text: Conrad Classic 63 represents another model of Conrad Classic motor yachts of truly traditional style designed exclusively for Conrad Shipyard. Thanks to her length of 63 feet she is even more comfortable and more luxurious version of Conrad Classic 58 model, yet still remaining easy to manoeuvre. She has steel hull and superstructure richly decorated with teak elements. Traditional stainless and chromed fittings add for a classic image of the yacht. Rich equipment and arrangements make her a comfortable yacht for a true gentleman and provide a touch of luxury on board.

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Jeffrey A. Norris is a partner with Norris, Tysse, Lampley & Lakis, LLP, a Washington, D.C. management labor and employment law firm with a unique practice. Like other management firms, it represents corporate clients in all phases of employment law, from providing routine advice and counsel in day-to-day human resources administration, to litigating complex cases in the federal courts.
Norris, Tysse, Lampley & Lakis, LLP also represents and staffs the Equal Employment Advisory Council ("EEAC"), the nation's leading employer association specializing in equal employment opportunity and affirmative action compliance. Through their work for EEAC, the firm's attorneys and non-attorney professionals regularly monitor, analyze, and report on significant developments affecting corporate human resources compliance programs, and they maintain close working relationships with key government officials responsible for the development, interpretation, and enforcement of federal labor and employment law policy. Mr. Norris has served as President of EEAC since 1988. Under his leadership, EEAC has more than doubled in membership, instituted a widely respected curriculum of training programs, and has expanded greatly the scope of services provided to members.
Prior to joining Norris, Tysse, Lampley & Lakis, LLP, Mr. Norris spent more than six years with the NLRB. While at the Board, he served as Chief Legal Counsel to one of the Board Members. Mr. Norris is a graduate of Bucknell University and the Cornell University Law School.


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Getting your users to adhere to your security policies is one of the most difficult parts of an IT administrator's job. Passwords are an especially big issue: Users choose passwords that are easy to remember, they jot them on sticky notes attached to their monitors, and they seldom change them. To address this security risk, Large Software offers the following 5 tips for creating and maintaining safe passwords.
- Keep 'em Guessing: Never use personal information to create a username, login, or password (i.e., names of pets, relatives, nicknames, dates of birth, birth location). In this day and age where information is often finding its way onto the web and identity theft experts have become ever-savvy at ferreting out these details, it is crucial to choose usernames and passwords that are disassociated from your personal history. Does it make it harder to remember? Yes, but you'll be thankful when you're spared the potentially hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars it often costs to fix a stolen identity.
- Keep it Fresh--Diversify: Avoid using the same login and password across multiple sites and/or cards and accounts. If a thief gains access to one, it will be like a house of cards, allowing them to quickly wreak havoc across your entire financial portfolio. Are you the type that says, "I never share my PIN?" It's amazing how often those "unshared" digits are misused by a jilted lover or nosy housecleaner.
- Bigger is Better! Cliché but true. Studies have consistently shown that a large fraction of all user-chosen passwords are readily guessed automatically. Shorter passwords are more susceptible to commercially available password recovery tools. Such software is capable of testing 200,000 passwords per second. To improve the cipher strength of your password, longer passwords are better. Include a minimum of 8 characters--using both upper and lower case letters and a mix of letters, numerals, and symbols. Do not use words found in the English dictionary.
- Think Like a Thief--Don't Make it Easy on Them: Put yourself into a thief's shoes--don't even think about using an overly simplified password such as "12345678," "222222," "abcdefg." Avoid sequential passwords or using passwords derived from the use of adjacent letters on your keyboard; this will not make your password secure. Also, avoid using only look-alike substitutions of numbers or symbols. Criminals and other malicious users who know enough to try and crack your password will not be fooled by common look-alike replacements, such as replacing an 'i' with a '1' or an 'a' with '@' as in "[email protected]@re" or "[email protected]". But these substitutions can be effective when combined with other measures, such as length, misspellings, or variations in case, to improve the strength of your password.
- Consider a Password Manager: There are many decent applications on the market that will digitally safeguard your various passwords. Avoid using the free ones "built-in" to browsers as these have been widely exposed for their security flaws. Consider software that memorizes and securely stores each username and password that you enter on a website.
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Justin Timberlake arrived at the Staples Center for the 55th Grammy Awards.
Grammy nominees Mumford & Sons arrived on the red carpet.
Beyonce switched it up wearing a pant suit.
Nominee for best pop solo performance, Rihanna.
Jennifer Lopez strutted on the carpet.
Country power couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
Redfoo, of the band LMFAO, goofed around.
Ashanti showed off her dress.
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smallmax needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 68 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Looking for unique and funny design for a t-shirt intended for US and International military members stationed in Basrah, Iraq. We don't have strict parameters...please keep designs to 6 colors or less for easy screen printing, and try to give us something that will appeal to a diverse demographic. Humor is most welcome. Actually, funny is required.
We are a group of US Military members stationed in Basrah, Iraq. We are looking for a funny t-shirt to sell on base that might give people something to smile about, in a place where one generally finds few reasons to smile. Our ideas include the following:
1. "Basrah. Clean as the Shatt al-Arab". (the Shatt al-Arab is a filthy river near the base).
2. "Spring Break Basrah"
3. "Venice of the Middle East" (from Wikipedia)
These are just ideas...you don't necessarily have to use these. We're not married to any one of them.
- Must say "Basrah, Iraq" somewhere on the design
- Must say "2009" somewhere on the design
- Must be funny
- Must be 6-color design or less
- Must not be vulgar. Funny, but not vulgar.
- Must not be TOO complicated or it will be too expensive to print.


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René Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sénégal (Paris, 1814), vol. 3, facing p. 170. (Copy in Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)
Caption, "Negre Manding" (Mandingo Black), showing clothing style (including sandals), wearing amulets and beads. Villeneuve lived in the Senegal region for about two years in the mid-to-late 1780s. The engravings in his book, he writes, were made from drawings that were mostly done on the spot during his African residence (vol. 1, pp. v-vi). The same illustration appears in color in the English translation of Villeneuve; see Frederic Shoberl (ed.), Africa; containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara . . . (London, 1821), vol. 2, facing p. 114.


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BOSTON, Mass. – In one of its steadier outings of the campaign, the MIT sailing team finished fourth out of 15 teams at the George Morris Trophy hosted by Boston University this past weekend. Both the 'A' and 'B' divisions each scored a 45 to land safely ahead of Brown University, which totaled a 112 overall.
Freshmen stars David Alfonso and Kelden Pehr won the first and third tilts of the nine rounds and placed in the top five in three other races. The "B' team of Andrew Sommer and Charles Field won two rounds and finished in the top five among the first six races. Steven Drapcho and Claire DeRosa also competed, placing eighth in the last round.
Glistening sunshine adorned the Charles River as the teams battled in mostly east-to-northeast winds of 3-8 knots. Temperatures ranged in the low 70's on the first day and grew warmer on Sunday.
With a score of 68, The U.S. Coast Guard Academy won the event by a point over BU, as Roger Williams University rounded out the top three.
MIT will compete in the New England Team Racing Championship at Salve Regina University next weekend.


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Salvete Omnes,
Well at the ripe old age of 37 I've decided to undertake a long-held ambition of learning Latin and I've decided to use the Wheelock text to guide me in my efforts.
I've just written a program to generate flashcards to assist me in my vocabulary aquisition but I'm a little uncertain whether some of the text should be placed on the front or back of the card. Take the following vocabulary entries from Wheelock:
nomen, nominis, n., name
Should the gender identification "n." be with the Latin or with the English translation on the reverse side?
in, prep. + acc., into, toward, against
Which side should the "prep. + acc." phrase be, with the Latin or English?
enim, postpositive conj., for, in fact, truly
Same question again but this time for the "postpositive conj."
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - The university of Alabama says that former athletic director Mal Moore has died.
The school says the 73-year-old Moore died on Saturday at Duke University Medical Center. Moore had been in the Durham, N.C., hospital since March 13 with pulmonary problems.
He had been part of 10 football national championships as a Crimson Tide player, coach or administrator. Moore was athletic director since 1999 before stepping down March 20 because of the health problems.
The football and athletic administration building bears his name, but his biggest claim to fame might have been hiring Nick Saban as football coach. Saban has led the Tide to three titles in four years.
Moore was an assistant coach under Bear Bryant and Gene Stallings, and played on Bryant's 1961 national championship team.


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By Belen Febres-Cordero in Vancouver
Upon arrival, immigrant populations in Canada tend to present less allergies than their Canadian-born counterparts, but prevalence increases with time, a national study finds. However, exposing them to ethnic foods and cultural practices that they were accustomed to may help reduce allergies in this population, according to the researchers.
"There is no definitive answer as to the cause(s) of the definitely noted increase in allergies in immigrant populations when they move to Western countries such as Canada. However, the pattern is real and needs to be analyzed", says Dr. David Fischer, President of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI).
As first-generation immigrants to Canada, Dr. Hind Sbihi (picture below), Research Associate at the University of British Columbia, and Jiayun Angela Yao, PhD candidate at the same institution, became intrigued by allergy rates among newcomers and conducted a study to understand the role that genetics and environmental factors play in the development of non-food allergies, such as hay fever.
The researchers explain that in the past decade, the media, public and researchers have mainly focused on food allergies "It's critical to raise awareness for non-food allergies given their high prevalence in our population, and posing a big burden to our health care system," they add.
Canada has some of the highest allergy rates
This is particularly true because Canada has some of the highest allergy rates in the world. According to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, approximately 10-30% of the global population has hay fever. While in the United States roughly 7.8% of people 18 and over has this allergy, almost 20% of the population in Canada is affected by it. Considering these statistics, Sbihi and Yao wanted to understand if immigrants in the country would also display an increase in allergies.
"Our study highlighted the unique opportunity to investigate allergies in migrant populations, who are going through a natural experiment, in which the environment around them changes dramatically in a relatively short period of time," they explain.
To conduct the study, the scholars used the data collected in the Canadian Community Health Survey, which gathered information about the health status, lifestyle habits and basic demographics of a large and representative sample of Canadians. In the survey, respondents were asked whether they had non-food allergies – diagnosed by a physician-, and whether they were immigrants to Canada and if so, their time since arrival. "We took the responses to these questions, and assessed the statistical association between non-food allergies and immigration status", they say.
Following this method, the study found that only 14.3% immigrants who had lived in Canada for less than 10 years had non-food allergies, while the rates for immigrants over 10 years and non-immigrants were 23.9% and 29.6%, respectively.
These results suggest that environmental factors, such as pollution, levels of sanitization and dietary choices, carry more weight in the development of allergic conditions in Canada, Dr. Fischer explains, while Dr. Sbihi and Yao add that more research is needed to pinpoint what those factors are, and to better understand how allergies arise by country of origin.
They also highlight the need for undertaking multicultural strategies to improve newcomers' health.
Ethnic foods may help
Dr. Sbihi and Yao add that it is also important to understand that allergies are symptoms of a loss of internal balance that results from a dysfunction of the immune system. "Providing immigrants with means to access food or cultural practice that are ethnically-friendly may help them transition smoothly into the new environment without perturbing their natural balance," they suggest.
"Our best hope to curb the increasing trend in allergic disorders is to prevent it. Prevention can only happen when there is a good understanding of risk factors that come to play in the development of these disorders." For these reasons, they suggest that raising awareness among health practitioners about the link between immigration, environment and allergies might help in their patients' management.
"The main role for medical practitioners is to work with patients to recognize if they have allergies, to manage them acutely with their patients and if necessary refer them allergist if there is some doubt about the diagnosis or for more definitive management," says Dr. Fischer.
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Sports has the ability to unite Canada, show the recently released findings of an Association for Canadian Studies survey.
"A majority of Canadians agree that sports break down linguistic and cultural barriers to unite people," the report states.
In Canada, immigrants from different countries and origins also bring with them some of their own favourite sports.
Dr. John Shields, interim academic director at Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS), highlights the growing popularity of cricket in Canada as an example.
"[There are a] lot of people coming from South Africa, Pakistan and India who are avid fans of cricket," says Shields.
Sports history important to know
University of Toronto vice-president Bruce Kidd says including sports history in the country's narrative is an important step in telling a complete story.
"If you don't understand the role of sports in Canadian history, you missed an important part and your sense of Canadian history will be incomplete."
For instance, Canadian national sports like lacrosse and hockey were part of the nation's culture even before confederation. They were the outdoor games played by First Nations. Curling and golf arrived with Scottish immigrants in the 1600s.
Canadians also played important roles in the early beginnings of popular sports like football and basketball.
Kidd explains that when sports are adopted in Canada they are infused with Canadian values, skills and narratives.
"I would say that Canadians have put their own stamp on the games that we play."
Sports as a unifying force
Today, hockey alone can ignite patriotism throughout the country.
Jennifer Anderson, historian at the Canadian Museum of History, says hockey is often reflected in Canadian popular culture. Even those who are not enormous hockey fans come across cultural references to the game in everyday life through TV shows, books and children stories.
"Somewhere there is a link between the game and our culture, and I think it demonstrates the relationship that Canadians have to the game," she explains.
While sports can be a unifying force, like other aspects of Canadian culture, it can also be divisive, says Kidd.
"During those times when Canadian teams made up of Anglophone and Francophone athletes lead internationally, it forges bilingualism and commonality," he says.
However, he adds, "When you have the Canada games, which put efforts from each of the different provinces against each other, it may create rivalries on linguistic ground."
Exclusion also part of sports history
While Shields says that sport "tends to bring people together in terms of common cause," he points out there certainly has been a history of exclusion and racism in Canadian sports, too.
"Historically it was very hard for Aboriginal people to get into the professional hockey leagues, as was for Black people," Shields says.
Anderson explains that it's not that First Nations people are dissatisfied with the way games like hockey and lacrosse have evolved; it's more about the acknowledgement of their participation.
"They would like to be acknowledged as having participated in the game over an extended period of time," she states. "Not just the beginning perhaps, not just the origin, but they continued to participate in the sport."
Similarly, women have always been engaged in Canadian sports, but pre-Confederation, they were often barred from sports and had to participate informally.
Kidd says that women have gradually succeeded in winning opportunities for themselves in this area.
"I would say since the First World War, they played every sport that men played and today are an important, proud part of Canadian sports," he adds.
Anderson emphasizes that "this hasn't always been acknowledged in the same way as men sports has."
Increasing the media's coverage of women's sports has been a long-fought battle, and there have been movements and conversations about ensuring equality.
"Currently [women's sport is] still underperforming in the kind of media coverage it gets," Anderson says. "But I think social media has changed this to some degree and to some extent has shifted the way women sports is being covered."
Sports have long been an important part of the Canadian economy, culture and education system, but experts like Anderson suggest that more efforts are required to promote equality in Canadian sports.
Specifically, they suggest we need to counter the growing cost of playing sports, ensure greater exposure of women's sports and include more First Nations people in the national sports arena.
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IN recognition of Lilian To's lifetime commitment in promoting multicultural harmony in the community and supporting the newcomers in Vancouver, the City of Vancouver has designated Shanghai Alley as Lilian To Way, the very first street moniker in Vancouver named after a Chinese Canadian. Lilian To Way is marked by two street monikers and a bi-lingual […]
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by Rosanna Haroutounian in Quebec City
The recent death of Abdirahman Abdi after his violent arrest in Ottawa and the 2015 police shooting of Andrew Loku in Toronto challenge the "meanwhile in Canada" dichotomy that says racial profiling only happens in America.
Racial profiling by police is not a new phenomenon. The ability to now document aggression by law enforcement against Black Canadians and Americans and other visible minorities and broadcast the footage around the world makes this long-standing injustice hard to ignore.
At the same time, we meet a younger cohort that is forcing down those walls in order to be heard.
More story needed
Short stories go well with short attention spans, delivering the main elements of a good story in one quick dose.
At the same time, they can leave many questions unanswered. To sum them all into one: "What happens next?"
Most of the stories in All My Fallen Angelas fall into the latter category.
Just as we are on the cusp of getting to know the characters, and finding our way around the intricacies of their lives, we are abruptly halted and told to move on.
This is a sign of Patriarca's ability as an engaging storyteller, but also begs whether some endings could be more convincing.
After much pondering, it is hard to determine whether it's better for the author to provide more finality to her stories, or to allow readers to explore the possibilities on their own.
Alice Munro, arguably Canada's most well-known short story writer, also gives readers much to think about through her writing.
On writing short stories, Munro told The New York Times 30 years ago, "I don't really understand a novel. I don't understand where the excitement is supposed to come in a novel, and I do in a story . . . I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that."
Historical roots to popular images
Like Patriarca, Munro also writes about women; she has been called a feminist writer. While her stories focus mostly on women in Southwestern Ontario, Patriarca's reside in Toronto, from the 1960s onward.
We are introduced to characters that bear resemblance to the stereotypical Italian nonna — the grandmother who is the family's cook, religious authority and resident matchmaker. The classic image of the Italian male with slicked back hair and leather shoes also makes an appearance.
Though these characters seem caricatured in most other settings, Patriarca's stories provide a glimpse into their historical roots.
We learn about some of the traditions that Italian immigrants brought with them to Canada and their cultural importance.
While traditional interests, such as prayer and homemaking, persuade many older characters, the younger ones express the desire to break away from old customs by becoming entrepreneurs, refusing arranged marriages and deciding not to have families.
"Do I tell her that a man is not what I want?" ponders the narrator in "My Grandmother is Normal."
"Rather, marriage to a man is not what I want. My time, this place, allows me that choice. How do I make her understand that the world has changed?"
What was vs. what is
The stories also show us how some predominantly Italian neighbourhoods in Toronto have evolved as immigration to Canada has expanded.
"The new residents in the neighbourhood, whose long braids are often covered by lovely scarves, seem reluctant to come into her shop although on occasion Vicky is challenged by the requests of a new customer who will bare her head to reveal black torrents of lustrous hair," writes Patriarca about Vicky's salon in the story "Blonde Forever."
The older characters also note the way they see their neighbourhood changing as a result of gentrification, technology and new social norms.
In "Anna at the Window," Anna laments the declining attendance at her church, the long distances she must travel for her groceries, and the fact that young gentlemen no longer tip their hats and open doors for her.
"The area now catered to a different crowd, a different way of life, and although she understood that time had moved and that was the natural way of the world, it did not make her feel any better. Time is about loss, she thought, and loss is never a good thing."
The contrast between young and old, between what was and what is now, is explored throughout All My Fallen Angelas and asks the reader to reflect on whether all change is really for the better, or whether as Anna suggests, it represents some loss.
These contrasts also suggest that while men have historically done most of the decision making in politics and business, it is women who witness and bear the brunt of how these choices affect society at large.
While women today may be better positioned to have an impact on the world around us, Patriarca's stories are a reminder to never dismiss the sacrifices of our nonnas and other women that brought us here.
Rosanna Haroutounian is a freelance writer and the assignment editor at New Canadian Media. She studied journalism and political science at Carleton University and now splits her time between Quebec City and Peterborough, ON.
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by Shan Qiao in Toronto
Without saying anything, Farrah Khan hands out a clipboard with a piece of paper on it to each person in the room.
"Now, I want each of you start to draw what was in your head at 9 a.m. this morning," she says. "When time is due, you'll hand the clipboard to the person next to you and continue on another person's drawing." Khan then plays a song by Beyoncé on her iPhone.
Several participants, including Khan, finish drawing different parts of each other's pictures before they are returned to the original artist. The result is a joint effort made by each member of the group to explore their fellow participants' mindsets.
Politics in comics
It is the starting point for The Panel Is Political, a discussion on how to use comic books for social change, at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood.
The discussion is also led by Seemi Jamil, a youth group coordinator at the Afghan Women's Organization in Mississauga, and Nicole Marie Burton, a comic book illustrator and founder and co-owner of Ad Astra Comix – North America's first publisher dedicated to comics about social justice themes.
Jamil and Burton worked together early this year to develop a youth program that teaches immigrant and activist youth to draw and express their feelings. The program involved one-and-a-half hour sessions, held once a week for eight weeks.
"Nicole [Burton] comes by and does workshops with the youth groups and teaches them how to do graphic-novel style storytelling," Jamil explains.
"We wrote a paragraph about a challenge we had to deal with in anonymity," begins Burton, describing one of the group's activities. She says the written paragraphs were ripped into pieces, folded, and mixed in a hat.
"Everybody drew out a story and had to tell it in a comic form," she adds. "It was incredible to me how much could have been done with that," says Burton about the activity.
Other activities focused on character design, practising different dimensions and shapes, and drawing about current events. She adds that there never seemed to be enough time in each session to meet the youth's high level of interest in each activity.
Visual storytelling
"I was trying to get low-income youth groups to have some art form where they can talk about their own stories," Jamil says. "They are interested in talking about what it is like to be low-income in Canada but also assimilated within society."
An example of a political comic book that helps youth understand global events, says Jamil, is Persepolis – a graphic novel about the revolution in Iran.
"We've seen a large trend in youth groups trying to express themselves through different art forms as opposed to just writing," she continues.
She says the program's young female participants are of Afghani and Pakistani descent, and that the workshops focus on minority voices, people of colour, women of colour, and political situations all over the world.
Graphic novels, Jamil says, not only help immigrant and refugee youth to understand, but also to be able to learn how to tell, their own story. She stresses that for marginalized groups who do not have the same vocabulary or English proficiency as other Canadians, art can help them understand and share ideas.
Political comics gaining momentum
Burton started Ad Astra Comix in 2013 in Toronto. She says she is passionate about social justice and wants to see more political comics that touch on topics such as sexism, racism, colonialism, homophobia and transphobia.
Ad Astra Comix not only publishes, but also creates its own graphic novels, including its first full-length graphic novel Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back, a collection of stories by Indian women about topics including harassment, race, class and political struggle.
Khan, the inaugural Sexual Violence Support and Education Coordinator at Ryerson University, has more than a decade of experience speaking about violence against women.
As a trauma counsellor, she has led several educational programs, including comic book projects, to help women express their feelings and fears through drawing.
In 2012, Khan put together a program to run a comic book workshop specifically for South Asian women. She says white comic book artists often portray South Asian women stereotypically.
The project resulted in a comic book called Heartbeats: The IZZAT Project, featuring stories and illustrations by South Asian women about violence and resilience in their lives.
The book was chosen by the Tahirih Justice Centre to be part of a tour to raise awareness about forced marriage in the United States.
One of the stories the book features, titled "Cage," resulted in the escape of one of the program's participants from her abusive family. Khan says the young woman was able to find help at a women's shelter two cities away from her home during the project.
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Ciommmentary by Norma Baumel Joseph
"Immigrants get the job done!" These were the strong words of Lin Manuel-Miranda at the recent University of Pennsylvania commencement ceremony. (I was there to proudly watch my son receive his doctorate!)
What message was Lin sending to the thousands in the stadium? How was this idea being received by the many watching the live stream of the address? After all, this incredible man who just received an honorary doctorate, and whose Broadway play, Hamilton, was nominated for more Tony awards (16) than any other play in history, was telling the world something important, and his words carry weight. In fact, he told us that he chose Alexander Hamilton as his topic because this man was the only immigrant amongst the founding fathers. So in the context of an American election year that's so full of anti-foreigner sentiments colliding with a global refugee crisis, how shall we approach this topic of immigration?
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by Beatrice Paez in Toronto
As a child, it wasn't unusual for Ann Y.K. Choi to be at work behind the counter of her family's convenience store in Toronto. She and her two brothers were expected to help their parents when they finished school.
Choi's teenage daughter, a third-generation Korean-Canadian, isn't familiar with the ins-and-outs of running a variety store – no more stocking shelves with instant noodles, no more keeping a wary eye out for shoplifters.
But Choi says the children of immigrants shouldn't be spared from learning about the sacrifices their parents made to ensure their children would not undergo the same hardships they endured.
It's one of the reasons she wrote Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, a fictional, yet deeply personal, account of life in a downtown Toronto convenience store. Mary, the novel's headstrong, yet conflicted, protagonist, is a composite of Choi and other young Korean women she knew whose stories had yet to be told to a wider audience.
Preserving Canadian history
Choi says she wasn't ready to pen a memoir for her debut as a writer, but wanted her daughter and other young Canadians to be aware of the Korean-Canadian experience.
"Nobody has gone on to inherit the store, and if I [didn't] write this story, this whole history would be lost," says Choi. "This is a part of Canadian history."
The Choi family moved to Toronto from South Korea in 1975. Choi's parents worked miscellaneous jobs before saving enough money to buy a variety store on Queen Street West.
What distinguishes the immigrant experience of Koreans, says Choi, is that they had to bounce from neighbourhood to neighbourhood to compete in the convenience store market. Owning a mom-and-pop shop was unlike having a restaurant, which could exist alongside others on the same block.
"We were scattered all over Toronto. We got to experience and live in every pocket," says Choi. "It gave us insight into Toronto on a bigger level . . . And in some ways, it helped us integrate."
They led a somewhat "nomadic" life. Moving was dictated by the rising and falling fortunes of the family business.
Mixing family and business
The store demanded so much of the family that Choi says it was like their "baby."
Looking after the store barely gave them time to unwind together. There were no family dinners and no socializing until after the convenience store closed at midnight.
"We were all very aware that we needed the baby to thrive because our success depended on it," she says.
It was only when she became a mother herself that Choi says she fully appreciated the courage and nerve it took her mother to run a store that was always at risk of being robbed.
"It's hard not to be resentful [growing up], but looking back, I realize she must have been so afraid, but she didn't show it," says Choi.
Taking on taboo topics
At a Toronto Public Library event organized as part of its eh List Author series, Choi recalls how she came to write the book, which explores the relationship between mother and daughter.
It took a little nudging from a former student back in 2007, says Choi, who works as a high-school guidance counsellor. She explains how he flipped the question about his ambitions back at her and persuaded her to fulfill her dreams.
"I told him I wanted to write a book, and he challenged me to do that," she says.
For five years, she would write after her family went to bed at night. "It seemed safer to delve into the Korean psyche when it was quiet," she says.
She took several writing courses, eventually graduating from the University of Toronto's creative writing program in 2012. Her final project, Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, was presented before a literary panel and earned the attention of renowned editor Phyllis Bruce, who acquired the novel for Simon & Schuster.
What struck her editor, Choi explains, was that the book tackled themes of depression and anxiety from the perspective of a Korean-Canadian.
As universal as people's struggles with mental health issues are, for Choi and other Korean women she interviewed, such anxieties were rooted in a deep resentment toward their mothers. They were seen as an "obstacle" to their desire to be Canadian.
Although aspects of Korean culture have become mainstream, literature still lags behind K-Pop and kimchi in popularity.
This is what partly led Wai, a Chinese-Canadian immigrant, to Choi's library reading.
"I'm interested in literary diversity," she says. "I'd like to hear about the Korean experience. Most of it is a universal theme, but it would be nice to hear different perspectives."
Choi hopes her book will open up the space for other Korean writers who are reluctant to share their experiences.
"There's a little bit of fear," she says, adding there are things that Korean Canadians as a cultural group do not discuss.
"We're very guarded about sharing pain. It's one thing to share music, food, but stories are so intensely personal."
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by Melissa Shaw in Vancouver
A new novel reflects on the experiences of Filipino Canadians through the story of one family, and aims to inspire newcomers to achieve their dreams.
Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell's novel, Stumbling Through Paradise: A Feast of Mercy for Manuel del Mundo, is a work of fiction inspired by the author's experiences working with immigrants.
"Home – one's identity – is not geographic-based, it's not culture-based, it's not age-based. It's who you love and who loves you and who you care about and who cares about you," says Guerrero-Campbell, who co-founded the non-profit organization Multicultural Helping House Society to assist newcomers with settlement, education, housing and employment in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"This is our home and we will never be torn when we think of home this way."
The story follows Josie and Manuel del Mundo's journey from the Philippines to Vancouver with their children.
Manuel is a proud engineer who has trouble adjusting to his new work environment in Canada. Josie has a teaching background, but finds work as a cook and eventually becomes the chief executive officer of a catering company.
Manuel later helps a caregiver in distress, which leads to an affair. His son Bobby discovers his father's secret, resulting in the family's separation.
After a confrontation between father and son, Manuel has a heart attack. The next section of the novel focuses on the lives of the older del Mundo children: Sonia, who faces racial discrimination, and Bobby, who becomes involved in a Filipino gang.
The third section of the book focuses on the youngest child, Manolita, who becomes involved in politics.
Familiar stories
"When I was reading the book, I had to stop for a little bit and wipe my tears. It really resonated with me as a newcomer in Canada," says Irene Querubin, who was born in the Philippines and now hosts the Vancouver radio program The Filipino Edition.
Querubin was emcee at the book's launch at the Creekside Community Centre in Vancouver. The event featured dramatic readings by members of Anyone Can Act Theatre, which sponsored the launch.
Vancouver-Kensington New Democratic Party member of legislative assembly (MLA), Mable Elmore, B.C.'s first MLA of Filipino descent, read Manolita's political campaign speech from the book. Elmore says the novel captures the challenges and struggles immigrants face in Canada, including racial tensions and underemployment.
She says although the Filipino community in B.C. is relatively young, she has noticed increasing participation of Filipino immigrants in their community through literary work, council presentations and musical performances.
Challenges for Filipino youth
Among those using the arts to promote inter-cultural dialogue are members of DALOY-PUSO, a mentorship and arts program for Filipino newcomers in high school. The group, whose name means "flowing from the heart" in Tagalog, benefitted from proceeds collected at the launch.
"The mom and the dad are working three jobs and they don't have a lot of supervision at home," Vancouver School Board youth settlement worker Adrian Bontuyan says of young newcomers.
He explains that many mothers come to Canada from the Philippines through the Caregiver Program, through which they provide childcare in Canadian homes. After working for 24 months or 3,900 hours, they can apply to become permanent residents and bring their family members to Canada if their application is approved.
Bontuyan says he will read Stumbling Through Paradise to learn about how he can further support immigrant youth and start discussions to help them understand their parents' experiences.
"The aspect of mentorship that [Guerrero-Campbell] mentioned is very important, because the youth need someone to look up to as an example of success and basically someone that the youth can be comfortable with sharing his or her struggles of being a newcomer," he says.
Guerrero-Campbell also explores the idea of home through her young characters. The del Mundos' daughter Sonia finds belonging through the satisfying relationships she builds with people in the Philippines and in Canada.
Empowering other newcomers
Guerrero-Campbell says she hopes people who have read her book will discuss it with others and start a dialogue about the challenges immigrants face.
"The one message I really want to convey is empowerment – for our newcomers to feel empowered," she says. "They came all the way to achieve something and I want them to know that they can achieve their dreams."
Guerrero-Campbell came to Canada in the late 1970s with a master's degree in urban planning and regional planning from the Philippines. She was a planner for the City of Edmonton, Alberta, and continued to work in planning in Surrey, B.C. and Richmond, B.C.
She helped author Hiring and Retaining Skilled Immigrants: A Cultural Competence Toolkit for B.C. human resources managers. Guerrero-Campbell was the CEO of the Minerva Foundation for BC Women and a co-convenor for the Vancouver Immigrant Partnership's Access to Services strategy group. Stumbling Through Paradise is her first novel.
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by Tazeen Inam in Mississauga
Canadian book publishers and literature supporters say diverse stories written by emerging writers can increase readership and are vital for enhancing Canada's publishing industry.
Five industry experts led a panel discussion during a session titled "Publishing (More) Diverse Stories," held at Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives as part of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD).
The discussion focused on ways to improve access to diverse Canadian stories both here and abroad.
Barbara Howson, Vice President of Sales and Licensing at House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books, says diversity in the industry means getting young people interested in publishing and widening readership by publishing books with different voices.
"To do that, we need to reach communities and have editorial staff that does that," she says.
Support emerging publishers
Howson says that expensive college and university publishing programs and editing courses can make it difficult for people from low socio-economic backgrounds to get into the publishing industry.
"I do think you have to have a certain amount of money or your parents' support to help you get into the industry," she says. "People can't afford to be lowly paid interns for three or four internships in order to get a job."
She says the high cost of education and training needs to change if the industry aims to be more inclusive.
Bianca Spence from the Ontario Media Development Corporation agrees that the cost of going through very low-paid internships bars access to the industry for people of different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
She says she would like to see a publishing degree considered as a pre-requisite, rather than unpaid internships. That way, she says, "we can get some interesting thinkers into the industry."
Léonicka Valcius, the panel moderator and chair of The FOLD Foundation, applauds the idea of hiring more people of colour in the publishing industry, as well as people of different sexual orientations, abilities, and other backgrounds.
Diversify the eco-system
Panellist Anita Chong, a senior editor at McClelland & Stewart, described publishing as an "eco-system" made up of writers, people involved in the publishing process, and ultimately readers.
She says that the system needs a greater push for change from within publishing itself.
She referred to a 2015 BookNet Canada survey that outlines what constitutes a typical Canadian book buyer. The buyer is a female between 40 and 60 years of age, with a college or university education.
"I think it's important to recognize that we need a wider pool of readers," Chong says. "We need diversity in this massive eco-system we are in."
Publishing a wider variety of literature that reflects Canadian diversity can help attract more readers.
Susan Travis, a sales representative for children's book publisher Scholastic Canada in British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Alberta, says that the variety of books offered to children looks "narrow right now."
"You cannot colour a child's face tan on a book and call that a diverse book." She says books should better identify children of all backgrounds.
She adds that as a salesperson, she notices that customers are more willing to buy literature from a store or publisher that has diverse images and stories in its books.
Economic pressures for publishers
"It's one of the things we struggle with, to highlight these books," says Howson about diverse literature.
She explains that marketing can go a long way in giving readers access to different stories, and that the media plays a role in showcasing diversity.
"It's really important to develop that whole eco-system of getting those books out to libraries, buying those books from stores, and duly making sure that your voice is heard, because you want diverse books, and the only way is to take them out to the library," she tells fellow publishers. "You tell your schools that they have got to have them in their library."
Howson says she is concerned that public libraries are given money by municipal governments to buy only those books that are considered profitable.
Spence adds that diversifying the eco-system could help emerging publishers.
"If more people buy books and publishers make more money, they could pay entry-level employees a bit more." She says this would incentivize more diverse populations to stay in publishing and establish an inclusive industry.
"They have to be welcomed and they have to stay to bring rise to that change," she adds.
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The destinations for most Cambodia bound travelers are spread all across this country. From the capital city of Phnom Penh there are countless buses by larger corporations plus a number of smaller ones. The ones we tested ourselves and have used in the past are GST, Neak Krorhorm, Virak Buntham and Soriya Bus Company. We never took a Rith Mony bus, because their ticket vendors are crooks at every location we did encounter them. The company itself seems not to care about its reputation and let Mafiosi style hawkers feed them the passengers.
Phnom Penh Soriya operates air-conditioned buses to a variety of destinations, their terminal is near the southwestern corner of Psar Thmai (Central Market). Buses were always reasonably well cleaned and never broke down on us. Here is their original timetable and destination chart as was pictured in September of 2013 by us:
Prices are quoted in Riels, the counter sells tickets in advance and accepts US-$ at 4.000 Riels per Dollar. No point anywhere outside Cambodia can be reached without a change of vehicle. It is recommended to purchase tickets only up to the border as you save a lot by not buying so called joint tickets and have much more flexibility in choice of ongoing transport.
The so called "Giant Ibis" buses charge fantasy prices for luxury nighttime travel on certain routes. Prepare to be disappointed when your luxury bus is a really ordinary looking one and you just got taken by some transport service running in the night, when no person in its clear state of mind would use any Cambodian road! Fly domestic, if you're in a hurry, but never ever consider a night bus for at least another few years.
GST operates from their small terminal, which is somewhere hidden from plain view, only steps behind the huge Phnom Penh Soriya terminal. They are a good choice for Sihanoukville bound travelers and ply a few other routes too. Pricing is very reasonable on this line, but get your tickets at their office and depart from there.
Virak Buntham Buses seem to be the best choice for Thailand bound travelers. Below picture shows their main ticket office counter near the riverside from Street 106 opposite of the Night Market. This company doesn't drop you where all others do (e.g. Koh Kong Bus Terminal 10 km from the border), they drop you right at the border. Their prices also include your pickup at any hotel or guesthouse within the city! The pickup may be organized via a hired TukTuk, but all charges are included already. This if you purchase your tickets from their office and pre-book your pickup the day ahead. The price for a ride is 9 $ (Koh Kong border), hotels charge you always a commission on top of that!
The friendly sales lady at Virak Buntham is English speaking, you pay here upon reserving a seat on a trip. If you go in the evening time, their office is a bit obscured by Night Market traffic, the entrance to that attraction is on the other side of the road. Buy your ticket to the border here, the joint tickets to Koh Chang, Pattaya or Bangkok are inflated.
Tickets have specific seat numbers and correspond with reclining seats on the bus. We recommend their early departure as that one leaves you the time to clear the borders and check out ongoing transport best.
Their first stop on the way out of Phnom Penh is on the way to the Highway Number 4, just before the airport Pochentong. Here is a great place to shop for your breakfast items and munchies/drinks for the ride. The bakery is exceptionally well assorted and the quality very good. Upcoming pit stops lack a minimum quality and selection, there is a planned stop for 20-30 minutes in Sre Ambel on the highway side with pre-historic simple toilets and a small selection of Khmer foods.
The buses all follow the tollway to Sihanoukville (Road 4), the one with Koh Kong as a destination veers off when Highway 48 meets that junction. Sre Ambel, the old weapon dealers and smugglers village will be reached in about 20 km after the road forks. Here is your scheduled pit-stop. Grab your camera as you will never have seen places like this before and do not forget to bring your own toilet paper in case any needs arise!
Since the completion of Road 48 to Koh Kong, the road conditions do change with the seasons. Two mountain ranges (the Cardamom-Range and the Elephant Mountains) will be crossed and four road bridges have replaced the ferries. To those travelers with an interest in the past – here is our report with videos from earlier years, when we drove this road with our car and used ferries to cross the rivers.
Koh Kong's bus terminal is the end of the journey for all bus lines, except the one of Virak Buntham. You are about 2 km from the city and at least 10 km plus a toll-bridge away from the Thai border. This toll-bridge connects Koh Kong with Cham Yeam, the Cambodian side of the border with Thailand. A few more remarks on the touts and the tourist scams here:
Be aware that every passenger is being viewed as a potential victim. The muddy field is a shadeless march of several hours with your luggage away from the border. Knowing this, everyone needs ongoing transport from here. The motodups (local name for motorcycle-taxis) and TukTuks here are regular dudes, but they all obey to the Mafia honchos that control this place. A ride on a TukTuk with up to 4 passengers will be charged anything those folks can grab from you. The usual fee for that distance would never exceed 5$ or 150 THB for a TukTuk and 3$ or 90 THB for a motodup. Negotiating skills won't help you here, as the chauffeurs are having their balls squeezed by the Mafia dudes, just to offer their services on site. As soon as the bus swings its door open, the chauffeurs and touts completely jam the opening. You more or less may have to elbow your way out in order to claim your luggage from the buses underbelly compartment. The local Head-Mafiosis control the pack from the back meanwhile. Pickpockets use this opportunity and the mayhem to swipe wallets, phones or cameras from you, be warned! Koh Kong is only a close second to Poipet, when it comes to the nastiest touts in Cambodia. Avoid this scam by choosing the only bus-line that has one more stop at the border to follow (Virak Buntham).
We exited the bus here for a few minutes to shoot these pictures for you and to make sure that our luggage remains inside the luggage compartment. We arrived on a sunny and dry day, normally this terminal is covered with ankle deep mud after or during rains.
The final stop for us was at the border with 50 m left to get the exit stamps in Cambodia and leave our fingerprints again on their scanner. We hired a push cart service for 1$ for our heavy luggage and our youngster enjoyed the ride too. These push carts are very cheap and practical, especially if you have to carry a load of luggage. We shopped quite a lot in Phnom Penh and were happy they are around. Between the Cambodian and the Thai border posts, you have to walk across the No-Man's-Land for about 400 m, uphill on a badly surfaced road.
The push cart service covers all distances and drops your cargo at the ongoing transport vehicle. Minibuses to Trat have their ticket office now under an umbrella on the Thai side, about 50 m past the stamping office to your left. A ride costs 120 Baht per person, they drop you in Trat at the main bus terminal with ongoing bus connections to Bangkok (at regular fees) or another shuttle to the Koh Chang ferry piers (50 THB).


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|2009-06-11, 12:42
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U Mad?
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Brooklyn NY
|2009-06-11, 14:45
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Srsly ?
Join Date: Apr 2008
Age: 31
Oh I just realized I didn't even post properly to celebrate this achievment, so here I go.
First of all, we shall remember that this thread reached such an ammount of page thanks to everyone. YES everyone. Be they Kallen fans or not, we have to be thankful to everyone.
Of course we have to be thankful to non Kallen lovers bringing there some interesting convos.
Of course we have to be thankful to faithful Kallen lovers who kept believing in her, no matter what.
Of course we have to be thankful to shallow Kallen lovers who saw their faith being put on the line many times during the show (Oooh Turn 24) but kept having faith in her despite barriers.
Of course we have to be thankful to Hard debaters who fought for her with all of their might.
Of course we have to thankful to casual people...casually posting in this thread.
BUT, we have to be thankful as well...to trolls. Cause if this thread unleashed passions and saw the birth of awesome posts, it is as well thanks to them.
Yes, many thanks to you, Babanagush, Hasaki, and others gabbytay or Train samurai, cause it's thanks to you our love for this character ended up rising always more, and who knows, if people didn't have to reply to some of your trollish comments, maybe we'll have never overanalyzed some scenes hiding some truth, and maybe we'll have been kept in the dark like many others people, until Ô so wished, staff release.
And for posts like those above, for all the fun we got while being a part of the Kalulu Empire, for all those wars, episode after episode, for this even funnier after serie effect, for those amazing staff release, for those awesome debate about the meaning of the word «mutual» for those debate about Lelouch's pseudo lack of interest in her (or the reverse actually) for all of those things, I think we have to be proud about this celebration.
....So now we can finally start the party à la Yvj ?*starts grabbing Sky*
Edit : AWESOME KOS, THAT is a song !
Edit2 : Sky I used the "georgia font" for the "we love you kallen" Hehehe, isn't it awesome ? 8P
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|2009-06-11, 15:08
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Awesome awesome post Loli. You summed up everything perfectly and you were very fair and formal about it. Kudos (BTW, that Arkard has some pretty strong opinions, doesn't he? )
Oh, and LOL, I wasn't sure what you meant by "KOS" at first, but I assume you were referring to me? (Knight of Shirley) Glad you liked the long. And as I said before, as the self-appointed DJ (unless someone else wants that position. Or we can have more than ) I'll be bringing some of the best movie love songs to the party. So I hope you'll all enjoy this little number.
|2009-06-11, 15:16
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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|2009-06-11, 15:26
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U Mad?
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Brooklyn NY
Reps for the epic post Loli
Mr. Deejay allow me to throw a song into the rotation. Dim the lights a little folks. We're going back in the day. This is an old school and soulful version of Kallen's poem/song.
If you can find a song that mixes fits her poem and song better than this.....post it
And we need some pics as well.
Spoiler for Initial pics!:
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|2009-06-11, 15:51
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: U.S.A.
Age: 30
Yep, we've all known and stuck by the girl for the good times
Spoiler for size:
The bad times
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And the really good times
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So here's to the red-haired beauty.
Spoiler for size:
And another song
|2009-06-11, 16:34
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So ok, this page requires the bit of Kalulu-ish history and its fans. Of course in comparison with the epicness of Lagann because...i can. 8DD
Anyway, let us start: **somehow, spoiler tags do not work, wtf? anyway, it is not that big, but gomen before hand guys. :x
So yeah, in the first episodes, Kalulu fans were just a shy bunch of people searching for something, that could probably upgrade their couple, into something more than just "ahhh, that is totally fantasy".
When they were trying to do that though, they were probably chased a bit from well..something-something. 8D
As episodes progressed, the faith-loyalty started to kick-in again.
Step by step, Kalulu fans started drilling the scenes that Kalulu interacted and started to find something.
Right, that something became bigger and bigger as R2 was kicking into the ending.
When the series ended, there were left some bittersweet feelings.
Then, certain materials started to get into the surface, explaining more and more. The drill was back and kicking like to high heavens.
Finally, after this long journey, Kalulu fans, upgraded to Kalulu-Dai. Probably, the best kind of rank, a gang team of fans can get.
And everything is all right with the world, cause when you know the truth well....ah, you know it. Duh. 8D
So yes, Kalulu fans must be proud for being Kalulu fans. They should tell everyone they are Kalulu fans actually, cause that automatically upgrades them and make them the best thing in the milky way. Being Kalulu means being a sexy gar. And we all know, that Gar and Sexy does not collide, but fuck yeah, only Kalulu does this. So yeah, Kalulu fans are the most epic thing in this dark world right now, and now brb, i am gonna shout this on my roof, so the neighbors will think i am the best thing in my little crappy town. And oh right, you should do the same too. 8D
|2009-06-11, 16:46
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Ahaha, i will take it, you agree with me then? 8D
We should refer to this post, for our history, fits us so much guys. Cause you know, we are awesome like this. 8)
Coming a long x 4830493 way and being epic like this, requires a lot of strength, ain't that right? 8D
|2009-06-11, 16:58
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: at GNR, bringing you the truth, no matter how bad it hurts
Age: 34
the kallen thread is by FAR the longest character thread on animesuki
far more then C.C,lacus,haruhi and any other female lead thread
which means that, like her or not, kallen gets more attention then any other characters
not bad for a character who some (extremely THICK) people dont even consider one of the main characters
|2009-06-11, 16:59
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Age: 30
Wow. I knew you guys weren't modest but....DAMN!
Ah, I guess you guys deserve it. After all, it's not so much about the ship, but the long and perilous journey in the face of adversity that you all have made up to this point. So three cheers for Kalulu-Dai!
Hip-hip Hooray!
Hip-hip Hooray!
Hip-hip Hooray!
|2009-06-11, 17:00
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Well, statistically, that does not mean there are a million person around it, meaning that a few people post on a regular basis, but even that, is admirable on its own. Such faith and loyalty, come to think of it, Kallen fans are like Kallen when it comes down to these qualities, fuck yeah. 8D
eta: modesty is overrated people, especially when you are Kalulu-Dai. ||DD
|2009-06-11, 17:05
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Srsly ?
Join Date: Apr 2008
Age: 31
Because a party for Kallen isn't a party without a parade from the CG female hottie aka Kallen ; So here is a parade of most if not all of her outfits, for you guys, and for you girls, cause kallen fangirls knows pretty things, and Kallen is one
So here is an Ashford uniform once wore by Kallen, the frail sicky, most popular lady, in the Ashford Academy; You will notice the sweet look fitting perfectly to her uniform class; She was born to wear this Britannian (aaah irony) uniform
Spoiler for The Ashford Lady:
In a less classy way but most nature style, her terrorist uniform. You'll notice the fitting around...her nice assets, and how her shorts is tied to her upper shirt, to avoid any sort of rape, cause this kind of outfit is well known to be a turn off
Spoiler for Rawr:
In a really stylish fashion, we can discover now Kallen's black Knight uniform. Designed by Zero himself (Cause Zero is of course, a genius when it comes to designing clothes) , the tight high boots and the short compliments perfectly Kallen's good shape. Now for the question to one million dollar, aka, How did Lelouch knew of her 3 sizes...we'll let Kallen's cute look help you to make your mind.
Spoiler for Black Knight:
This one is a kind of exclusivity, cause it's a well known fact it's really hard to see a lot of Kallen's skin, but thanks to Lelouch's hotness, which forced Kallen to take off the upper vest to not die of lack of breath, we have here a nice view of one of Kallen's undergarnments. You'll notice the loose yellow vest, designed to underline a pink pale top covering Kallen's modesty, and her fitting Tigh High.
Such hotness even convinced Cheese Kun to betray the well knows C.C., and we understand him, very well.
Spoiler for Undergarnments:
This one is an exclusivity as well. To avoid some R rated scene right after Lelouch saw in her nice outfit above, writers thought it would be smarter to make of Kallen a prisonner.
BIG mistake there, cause Had Lelouch saw her in this bondage outfit, only God knows what would have happened (No, You don't wanna know, really)
Spoiler for Prisonner:
Since we are full in Kallen's hotness (yeah yeah we know, everything is hot in her but still) let's talk about her outfit while using Tabatacchi. Those were simply loose black Undergarnments to avoid dying for lack of air inside of the plush. Really simple but still, really hot (Heh, this is Kallen)
Spoiler for Black Undergarnments:
Ok you were dying for that so here is the outfit which caused a major Breakdown in Lelouch, back in Turn 7. A tiny mini dress, in an adorable pink, wore with a sportswear vest. Maybe Kallen isn't the Anna Wintour of Code geass, but she is clearly the Monica Belluci of Hormones when it comes to her clothes, cause this unlikely outfit caused Lelouch to forget his near asexuality to turn as a total hetero. For Kallen of course.
Spoiler for MiniDress:
And yeah, of course, we couldn't avoid this one, the well known Bunny outfit. Here is the jacket version, and the jacketless version. Outfit certainly choose by C.C. (Cause YA know she gots the hots for kallen as well) which, one more time, breakdown Lelouch's asexuality, thanks to a cleavage which might make cry in fear, the most well endowed, and make cry, the cutest loli ever
Spoiler for BUNNY:
Because this dress caused many fear, hope, and deception, we shall not forget it.
Designed to outline, once again, Kallen's assets (Nunally is her brother's sister, no doubt about that), it was as well a death weapon, killing Kallen episode after episode, because of it shrinkage system meant to suffocate Kallen at the very end (her boobs weren't bigger. The dress was more and more tight) Thanks God, Zero saved her, and killed Nunally for dare trying killing her.
Spoiler for KillerDress:
The model was kinda different but the spirit is the same, so we'll use this dress as the dress used for Kallen and Lelouch dance in this awesome Picture Drama.
Designed by Shirley, in a pale pink shade, this dress is classy and fitted perfectly the sweet Kallen.
(And no, you don't wanna see Kallen's outfit between two dances, when she was all lone with Lelouch.)
Spoiler for DancewithMe:
Kallen was a person taking care of herself. And who talks about taking care of herself, talk about HYGIEN. So yeah, Kallen enjoyed showers. Alone, with Lelouch, with Suzaku, with C.C. and Li, or alone, she enjoyed her towel (Ahaha you thought she'll be naked ne ? DREAM !) and the towel enjoyed her, of course
Spoiler for Towel:
Kallen was a pilot. With a tight fligsuit. Or two actually, but one will be enough to help uo getting the mode. An ace pilot needs to stay fashion, and hot, while saving her man's ass. That is Kallen for you
Spoiler for Pilotstyle:
She was once an oriental dancer. With a really, sexy outfit. And she was beautiful in it. No need to wonder why Lelouch choose for her the more revealing outfit. Lelouch sure knows how to pick his girl's clothes.
Spoiler for Orientaldancer:
The last outfit Kallen wore in the anime was a simple pink dress. No cleavage, no tight things, no miniskirt, Kallen is once again a good girl. heh, lelouch was dead, he wasn't there anymore to pick her outfit. And an eternal widow to be has to avoid showing her assets to male animals.
Spoiler for marriageDress:
Conclusion ? To be a Kallen's fangirl you have to not have any complex, or you'll end up emtionally dead.
To be a Kallen's fanboy you have to be...well. A boy. Cause if Lelouch can fall for that, even Elton John can !
And for KOS :
This should fit better
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The not-so-innocent game of 'kick-knock' ends with 3 juveniles being charged
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) – If your child tells you they're playing a game called "kick-knock," it's not an innocent game of fun, but one that centers around disturbing others. According to police, it involves kicking open doors to homes, not to steal anything, but just for the thrill of it. Now, they've arrested three juveniles in connection to the act.
Around 5:15 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to an apartment building in the area of Westbridge Dr. by West St. for a report of several juveniles kicking doors open. After they kicked open the door to one resident's home, they were detained by the occupant until police arrived. They allegedly said they were playing a game of "kick-knock," with no intention to steal.
Three Annapolis juveniles were charged including a 15-year-old, a 13-year-old, an 11-year-old boy; they were later released to their guardians after being charged with destruction of property.


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Delle Donne shines as Blue Hens head for uncharted territory
Newark, DE – Behind a home-crowd Elena Delle Donne poured in 33 points as the sixth-seed Delaware Blue Hens earned their first trip to the Sweet 16 with a 78-69 win over the North Carolina Tar Heels in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the Bob Carpenter Center.
Delle Donne reached the 3,000-point plateau in the win and also collected eight rebounds for Delaware (32-3) which takes on second-seed Kentucky in the next round. Trumae Lucas tallied 20 points off the bench and Danielle Parker hung up a double-double of 14 points and 13 rebounds as well.
Waltiea Rolle scored 23 points and blocked six shots, Megan Buckland put in 17 points off the bench, Brittany Rountree added 10 points and Tierra Ruffin- Pratt handed out nine assists for the third-seed Tar Heels (29-7).
At the half North Carolina led, 43-35, after shooting 48.4 percent from the floor while hitting 6-of-10 shots from beyond the arc. Delaware shot a less efficient 35.5 percent and managed just a pair of 3-pointers.
The Tar Heels went cold in the second half totaling just nine field goals on 30 percent shooting. Delaware missed all four of its shots from beyond the arc but shot 50 percent from the floor to come back for the win.
The Blue Hens had 12 more free-throw attempts than the Tar Heels and outscored them from the stripe, 26-14. Delaware also had a 43-35 edge in rebounds.


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The road tour of the Broadway musical "Catch Me if You Can" arrives at the Kravis Center with quite the pedigree.
Terrence McNally ("Love! Valour! Compassion!," "Ragtime") wrote the book. The tune-team of Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman ("Hairspray") wrote the score. In fact, much of the creative team from the mega-hit musical "Hairspray" returned for this splash-and-dash version of the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie, including the designers and choreographer — each and every one of them a Tony Award magnet, so there is nothing aleatory about it.
And their work is so slick that as the cast members take their well-deserved bows, and you glance at the time, you are a little surprised that two hours and 30 minutes have passed. Really? Yeah, yeah … But you just can't shake the feeling that in that amount of time, a musical comedy should have made you tap your foot a little more and laugh a lot more. "Catch" needs less cool and more crazy.
If you saw the film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, then you know the plot is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenage con artist in the Swingin' '60s who charms his way into jobs as a teacher, pilot, doctor and lawyer. His foil is dry, by-the-book FBI agent Carl Hanratty, a huffing and puffing Javert to Frank's lean, sheen Jean Valjean.
Early on, the cat-and-mouse game is framed as a 1960s-era variety TV show — think "Hullabaloo," "Shindig" and "Hollywood Palace," complete with leggy dancers twisting, jerking and ponying their hearts out. But all that seems to slip away five or six songs in, leaving a more-traditional book.
You can't blame Stephen Anthony as Frank. The Miamian conducts himself with polish, ramps up nicely for the emotional climax and sings with a Bobby Darin-like swing. Similarly, Merritt David Janes as Hanratty is great at the slow simmer and comes as close as anyone to stopping the show with his explosive "Don't Break the Rules" number. They are both supported by a nail-it-to-the-floor cast, especially Dominic Fortuna as Frank's father and Aubrey Mae Davis as Brenda, the criminally underwritten love interest for Frank.
Even though the chorus dances with plenty of pep, and the sets slip and slide with fluidity into place (the show makes clever use of projected scenery), the musical comes off a bit static in a strangely fast-paced way. It may be the script, which tries to do too much from family dysfunction and criminal forgery to "Mad Men" cultural vibes and budding bromance.
This cute show — and that is the word for it — just never quite builds up enough fun, frenzy and fizz to spill over the footlights and into the audience.
Catch Me if You Can
When: Through Nov. 18; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. matinee Sunday
Where: Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach
Cost: Tickets start at $25.
Contact: 561-832-7469 or Kravis.org/catchmeifyoucan


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Christina Loukas of Riverwoods still is in good position to make her second straight Olympic team going into Saturday afternoon's 3-meter springboard finals in the U.S. trials at Federal Way, Wash.
But she was crushed by a close defeat in Thursday night's sychronized synchro final.
Loukas, who now trains in Woodlands, Tex, stands second going into the final six dives of the individual event. The top two make the Olympic team.
After the semifinals, Cassidy Krug of Corapolis, Pa., built a 39.2-point lead over Loukas, who, in turn, leads Kassidy Cook of Woodlands by 26.4.
Loukas, who finished ninth in individual springboard at the 2008 OIympics, teamed with Cook to finish second in synchro springboard. Only the synchro winners, Abby Johnston and two-time Olympian Kelci Bryant of Chatham, Ill., go to the London Summer Games.
Loukas and Cook outscored the winners on every dive in the finals but wound up losing by a nearly infinitesimal margin of less than one point of totals that were near 1,000. The final score was 956.40 to 9:55.98.
"We're devastated," Loukas said in a statement to USA Diving. "Kass and I fought to the end and I'm happy we could put the pressure on them. They handled it well and they deserve to go."
Bryant, 23, and former partner Ariel Rittenhouse finished fourth in synchro at the 2008 Olympics.
Loukas, 26, of Deerfield High School, was a three-time Big Ten diver of the year at Indiana.


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Justin Bieber may have declared his retirement from music, but that doesn't mean the Biebs will ever take a day off from bringing his own unique brand of style to the world. The star stepped out at the world premiere of Justin Bieber's Believe in a red Balmain suit and white tasseled Del Toro smoking slippers — a look that his stylist tells PEOPLE was inspired by another singer that made ladies swoon: Frank Sinatra.
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"I was told he'd be introducing his new artists to the world on the red carpet, so I instantly thought 'Rat Pack' — Justin Bieber as Frank Sinatra of course," says his stylist Ugo Mozie. And though Bieber initially had asked for a white suit with red accents, Mozie steered things in a different direction: "As I put his look together, the red just took over. Red is powerful, sexy and masculine."
Powerful, sexy and masculine? Is our little Biebs growing up? "Absolutely. You don't have to see him to know that," Mozie said. "Justin is showing the world his evolution through his music, and I'm making sure he's showing the world his evolution through his style."
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text: May 3, 2010 - Fisher Has 20-Point Lead In Ohio Dem Senate Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Many Still Undecided Or Might Change Mind Word format Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher holds a 43 - 23 percent likely voter lead over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in Tuesday's Democratic primary race for the U.S. Senate, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 32 percent are undecided and 44 percent of Democrats who name a candidate say they might change their minds. This compares to a 41 - 24 percent Fisher lead in an April 28 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. "Lt. Gov. Fisher started the campaign better known and raised more money to keep him better known and able to get out his message. On the eve of the primary, he is in very strong shape to win," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Ms. Brunner would need to hold all of those who say they are voting for her and win most of the undecided voters in order to prevail. Brunner voters are just as likely to change their minds as Fisher voters." Likely primary voters view Fisher favorably 44 - 8 percent. Ms. Brunner gets a 26 - 7 percent favorability, but 65 percent still don't know enough about her to form an opinion. From April 28 - May 2, Quinnipiac University surveyed 980 Ohio likely Democratic primary voters, with a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points. The sample was drawn from registered voter lists based on people who have voted in recent elections. The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio and the nation as a public service and for research. For more data or RSS feed- http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling.xml, call (203) 582-5201, or follow us on Twitter. 1. If the Democratic primary for United States Senator were being held today, would you vote for Lee Fisher or Jennifer Brunner? (If undecided q1) As of today, would you say that you lean a little more toward Fisher or Brunner? (This table includes "Leaners".) LIKELY DEM PRIMARY VOTERS Tot Men Wom Fisher 43% 49% 40% Brunner 23 24 23 SMONE ELSE(VOL) 1 1 2 WLDN'T VOTE(VOL) - - - DK/NA 32 26 35 1a. (If express choice q1) Is your mind made up, or do you think you might change your mind before the primary? LIKELY DEM PRIMARY VOTERS CAND CHOICE GIVEN Q1. CAND CHOICE Q1 Tot Fisher Brunner Made up 53% 53% 52% Might change 44 43 45 DK/NA 3 3 3 2. Is your opinion of - Lee Fisher favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him? LIKELY DEM PRIMARY VOTERS Tot Men Wom Favorable 44% 50% 40% Unfavorable 8 13 5 Hvn't hrd enough 45 33 52 REFUSED 3 3 3 3. Is your opinion of - Jennifer Brunner favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about her? LIKELY DEM PRIMARY VOTERS Tot Men Wom Favorable 26% 30% 24% Unfavorable 7 9 6 Hvn't hrd enough 65 59 68 REFUSED 2 2 2


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The principles of sustainable development play an integral role in making development assistance work at the level of policies, plans and programmes. In response to the Paris Declaration call to "… develop and apply common approaches for 'Strategic Environmental Assessment' at sector and national levels" among donors and partners, the Guidance on Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment was endorsed in 2006 by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, representatives of developing countries receiving aid, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank and many other agencies. Since then, a growing number of countries at all levels of development have legislation or regulations prescribing the application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and many more are introducing it as part of their policy tools. This is creating unique opportunities for better policy making and planning by incorporating environmental considerations into high-level decision-making and opening new mechanisms to build consensus on development priorities within governments themselves and between governments and societies.
Many development co-operation agencies and their partners are already making good
progress in applying SEA. This publication presents the nine most interesting case
studies of SEA in progress, selected from a total 100. These nine cases highlight
that SEA can:
• Safeguard environmental assets for sustainable poverty reduction and development;
• Build public engagement in decision making;
• Prevent costly mistakes by alerting decision-makers to potentially unsustainable development options at an early stage in the decision-making process;
• Speed up implementation of projects and programmes;
• Facilitate co-operation around shared environmental resources and contribute to conflict prevention.
|Foreword and Acknowledgements
|Executive summary
|Policy Statement on Strategic Environmental Assessment
|SEA in developing countries
|Vietnam: Strategic Environmental Assessment on the Quang Nam Hydropower Plan
|Bhutan: Strategic Environmental Assessment and environmental mainstreaming
|Namibia: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Millennium Challenge Programme
|Mauritius: Strategic Environmental Assessment on the sugar cane sector
|Benin: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
|Ghana: Strategic Environmental Assessment and its evolution
|Sierra Leone: Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the mining sector
|Honduras: Strategic Environmental Assessment on Municipal Development Plans
|Montenegro: Strategic Environmental Assessment on the National Spatial Plan
|Annex A: Capacity development for Strategic Environmental Assessment
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Bolt Prospects
> Taxonomy term
Contract Status
Event tag that describes a prospect being signed, re-signed, or denied a qualifying offer.
Kvapil to Be Offered Contract
Submitted by pete on August 1, 2005 - 17:17
Contract Status
Kvapil, Marek
Boltprospects has learned that, true to speculation, the Tampa Bay Lightning do intend to extend 2005 6th round pick
Marek Kvapil
a contract offer. Kvapil, who turned 20 in January, is a talented Czech forward who put up solid numbers on a woeful Saginaw team in the OHL this season. Expect him to be given every opportunity to make the Springfield Falcons given the team's unfortunate lack of speed and skill up front last season.
More Prospect Signings Coming?
Submitted by pete on August 1, 2005 - 16:58
Contract Status
Femenella, Arthur
Greco, Brady
Lynch, Paul
Toffey, John
Rosehill, Jay
Smaby, Matt
Erik Erlensson of the Tribune [url=http://sports.tbo.com/sports/MGBGE7D5UBE.html]suggests the Lightning may move to sign some of their college prospects like
Matt Smaby
Brady Greco
Jay Rosehill
[/url]to build up their minor league depth at the position. Lightning GM Jay Feaster has made it known he thinks the NCAA ranks are too soft for his taste and [url=http://www.nhl.com/futures/features/prospects_tam040705.html]hinted strongly to NHL.com a Smaby signing may be in the offing.[/url] When
Andreas Holmqvist
's return to Linkopings in Sweden freed up a roster spot in Springfield it all but sealed the deal that the Lightning would attempt to get Smaby to go pro.
Boutin/Hrdel Sign
Submitted by pete on July 28, 2005 - 19:02
Contract Status
Boutin, Jonathan
Hrdel, Zbynek
As expected, [url=http://www.tampabaylightning.com/prdetail.cfm?pressreleaseID=1099&category=3]the Lightning have announced the signing of G
Jonathan Boutin
and LW/C
Zbynek Hrdel
to three year standard entry level deals.[/url] Boutin will now battle with [url=http://www.boltprospects.com/node/145]yesterday's signee
Gerald Coleman
[/url] to see which prospect be next in line behind
Brian Eklund
. Hrdel adds some desperately needed potential scoring punch to a Lightning organization which is extremely threadbare for skill at the forward position at the minor and junior level.
Coleman Signs
Submitted by pete on July 27, 2005 - 20:50
Contract Status
Coleman, Gerald
[url=http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/3833156] The Associated Press and FoxSports.com are reporting the Lightning have signed prospect goaltender
Gerald Coleman
[/url] to a standard three year entry-level contract. The Lightning have yet to issue a press release on Coleman's signing. Given the Lightning generally like to announce the signings of multiple prospects jointly and the deadline for signings is 5pm tomorrow, expect a press release some time tomorrow announcing Coleman's signing along with Boutin and/or Hrdel.
Feaster Hopes to Sign Three by Thursday
Submitted by pete on July 26, 2005 - 21:54
Contract Status
Boutin, Jonathan
Coleman, Gerald
Hrdel, Zbynek
A quick blurb from the Sunday paper: [url=http://bolts.tbo.com/lightning/MGBBW98RIBE.html]Jay Feaster intends to sign three of the team's 2003 draft picks by Thursday[/url]: G
Jonathan Boutin
Gerald Coleman
and LW/C
Zbynek Hrdel
. All would be elligible to re-enter the draft if not signed by that time, although the new CBA will be less favorable economically for prospects if they choose to go that route. Speaking about the goaltending prospect situation earlier this season, Feaster had hinted only one of the prospects might sign. But Boutin and Coleman both showed the ability to dominate their respective junior leagues at times last season and with the Lightning becoming part owners of the Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL there should be plenty of room for new arrivals.
Glukhov Signs With ECHL Club
Submitted by pete on January 15, 2005 - 11:21
Contract Status
Glukhov, Alexei
Lightning prospect
Alexei Glukhov
, who was selected in the 9th round (286th overall) of the 2002 entry draft [url=http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.cgi?action=show_news&cat=1&id=3665]has signed with the Victoria Salmon Kings of the ECHL[/url] The 20 year old Glukhov has spent much of the past two seasons with Khimik of the Russian Superleague notching 0 points and 16 penalty minutes in 38 games. The 6'3" 176 lb RW/C made his ECHL debut last night going scoreless in Victoria's 3-2 loss to Las Vegas. The Salmon Kings will be back in action tonight at 10pm ET against Long Beach.
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