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Next Friday in Los Angeles NHL teams will gather for the entry draft. As you no doubt already know, Atlanta has nine picks in the seven-round draft…two in the first round as well as two in the fifth.
Boston, Phoenix and Anaheim also have a pair of first-round picks.
Here is a quick recap of where and when the Thrashers will take their turn claiming new prospects for the organization.
In the first round, Atlanta has the 8th overall pick based on their position in the standings last year. Edmonton, Boston, Florida, Columbus, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay and Carolina will pick one through seven prior to the Thrashers first pick.
As for whom the Thrashers might select with that number eight pick… well, if certain stories and studies on the matter are to be believed, we might hear Rick Dudley announce somebody like Ryan Johansen or possibly Nino Niederreiter. Both play for the Portland Winterhawks of the WHL.
If the draft plays out in the order NHL.com's Central Scouting Rankings place these prospects, Medicine Hat's Emerson Etem will be the player taken.
Atlanta also has the 24th overall pick during the first round. It was obtained from New Jersey in the Kovalchuk deal last February. The two teams also swapped second round picks and so the Thrashers third turn comes in the second round with the 54th overall selection. The Devils will then use the Thrashers 38th overall selection in the second round to make their first pick of the draft.
The Buffalo Sabres have Atlanta's eighth pick in the third round and fourth rounds, (#s 68 and 98 overall), by way of the trade that sent Clarke MacArthur our way in March. The Thrashers do have the 87th overall in the third round, obtained when Mathieu Schnider was dealt to the Canadiens near the trade deadline in 2009.
In round number four, the Thrashers received the 101st overall from the Stars when Kari Lehtonen was sent packing to Dallas.
Dudley and Co. will then have two picks in the fifth round…the eighth in that round, 128th overall, as well as the final pick of that round, which is the 150th overall. That selection comes from the Chicago Blackhawks who traded it away in exchange for San Jose's 6th round pick last year which had been previously obtained by the Thrashers.
Finally, rounds six and seven have Atlanta picking with the eighth selections of those rounds…158th and 188th overall.
A couple of other quick notes on the draft…Carolina will have 11 overall draft picks, three in the second round alone, while Edmonton and the Islanders each have 10. San Jose and Dallas only have 4 picks.
Due to the Phil Kessel trade with Boston, Toronto does not pick until the 62nd overall in the third round. The Calgary Flames and Philadelphia Flyers will also have to wait until the third round to make their initial selections…Calgary with the 64th overall and Philly with the 89th, making them the team that waits the longest before making their first selection.
The Chicago Blackhawks are slated to have the final pick of the draft, number 210 in the seventh round.
June 17th, 2010
10:05 pm
Don't think the Thrashers will use that #24 pick, I think it will be used as trade bait. That #24 pick should translate into a player we can use now, instead of waiting 3+ years for them to develop.
Still can't believe the Habs traded Halak, for 2 young guys with potential. Blues just got their starting goaltender, assuming they can sign Halak to a long term deal. Carey Price has some sleepless nights ahead of him.
June 17th, 2010
11:31 pm
WBF, definitely AGREE. This is a stunning trade. We all knew either Halak or Price was going to go, but it seemed CLEAR that it would be Price who got dealt. At least, to me, it did. I saw Carey Price as a 'holdover' from the Gainey Administration. Something that helped Mr. Gainey out of the GM seat. But now this??? In John McEnroe-like fashion, "You CANNOT be serious."
Okay, fine. Yes. There are financial aspects to this trade, which help to explain it a bit. But really, GM's get paid to assemble the best possible roster, to win playoff games, to make money for their ownership. The guy who took them from #8 to the Conference Finals … is the guy the Habs GM says, "See ya!," to? "Buh-bye, Jaro??? Thanks for the memories!!! Ya money's on da counter, I'm done witchu." C'mon. That's bad management. If Montreal wanted to shed payroll, they should have tried to move Scott Gomez. I thought Gionta had a great playoffs, but moving him would have fetched better than Lars Eller and Ian Scultz, while freeing up cap space.
Sigh. Look, I like Eller. I think he's got a lot of potential. He went 13th overall in draft year. That should tell you something. Schultz is just "sweetener." But, really, this is a bad trade. The only way this one works for Montreal … is if Eller wins the Calder Trophy, while young Carey Price blossoms into the 5th overall pick he was projected to be. Thus far, the returns on Price don't show that. And Montreal's media is unforgiving. I'm not a Habs fan, so … this doesn't bother me. As a Thrashers fan, I'm delighted that Carey Price is staying and Jaroslav Halak is leaving. How often do we play the Blues? I mean the team, not the sentiment of futility. I say, "Good for St. Louis!" This might just be what they need to get back into playoff revenues. Good luck, Blues. You gave to get, but I think got more. What do they say? "The team that winds up with the best player, wins the trade."
June 18th, 2010
12:22 am
Does Alex Bourret have a younger brother with a propensity to eat donuts?
June 18th, 2010
5:36 am
Brendan, the Habs knew they had to sign both guys last summer when the signed a bunch of free agents and chewed up their space for this summer. They set themselves up. My issue with price is that he can't handle the Montreal fans and media. I know he's only 22, but Toews and Crosby won Cups at 22 and Carey is barely done with his snit of losing the starting job before playoffs. Doesn't matter how much talent you have, if you can't handle the pressure of the position and being who you are, then it's no good.
We can all dislike Patrick Roy for his arrogent ways, but he had the swagger it took to be a winner. Price has the talent, but he has to grow up alot in the next 3 monthes.
June 18th, 2010
7:53 am
Patrick Roy was arrogant?
June 18th, 2010
8:07 am
After the Halak trade, the Habs should be renamed the Homers.
Do the Thrashers have any untalented, undersized French Canadian kids that can be traded to Montreal for a talented non-Canadian prospect?
June 18th, 2010
8:12 am
June 18th, 2010
8:16 am
Niederreiter is more of what we need. Good around the net creating chances.Hope he's still available at eight and we have the smarts to pick him.
June 18th, 2010
8:19 am
Emerson Etem!!
June 18th, 2010
8:28 am
Stroz… Angelo Esposito?
June 18th, 2010
8:32 am
I'll take Mike Kramer's draft any day of the week… very smart choices across the board (not just Atlanta).
I could see Detroit landing a guy like Pysyk and I like how he has both California kids going to Anaheim (Etem and Bennett). Couldn't imagine the Anaheim fire power if they added those two to Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan.
Howden and Johansen would be very solid picks for Atlanta.
June 18th, 2010
8:52 am
I'm leaning toward Niederreiter as the first pick, unless we are sure we have a #1 center in Johansen. Some mock drafts have Atlanta taking Jack Campbell at #8…if Waddell were running the show I might worry about that, but no way Dudley takes a goalie with that pick (or anywhere in the first 3 rounds hopefully).
I doubt that Montreal would would have been dumb enough (or more dumber) to trade Halak to an Eastern Conference team. Could you imagine the lynching if Halak would have led an eastern team to the playoffs and les Habs missed out?
June 18th, 2010
9:07 am
oh god, Brendon, this line is priceless…I'm delighted that Carey Price is staying and Jaroslav Halak is leaving. How often do we play the Blues? I mean the team, not the sentiment of futility.
I gotta think the frogs could've gotten more for Halak, a team like philly who hasn't had a true number since maybe hextall would've given something more than two prospects???
June 18th, 2010
9:12 am
Since last year's All-Star Game, Price's record is 20-32-10 and he has lost his last nine playoff games. Enter Marty Biron as the back-up?
Draft wants: Ryan Johansen, Emerson Etem, Jarred Tinordi (son of former NHLer Mark) is 6-6, 205 and apparently can skate, and Quinton Howden.
June 18th, 2010
9:22 am
how old was etem when that picture was taken….10??
June 18th, 2010
10:01 am
Red Light//Marty will end up in Montreal or Buffalo. He'll have to take $1M or less to go to the Habs.
Dwayne-I was thinking the same thing! We're drafting Mites now!
spud-trading a proven goaltender for promise is a dicey thing at best. Sabres fans must be grinning too!
June 18th, 2010
10:12 am
i hope we get Johansen or Neiderreiter at 8th. followed by taking a chance on Kabanov at 24. Kabanov is easily a top 5-10 talent but has had some character issues in the past. I think the risk is worth it with our 2nd first rounder
June 18th, 2010
10:19 am
@Spud Webb – Philly couldn't have taken Halak with their cap issues still unresolved.
Given the prospect depth we have a goal, I'd be very surprised if Dudley looked in that direction. There's already issues with finding places for all of them to play. I still want to see Moose re-signed. He's probably the closest thing we have to a true captain on this team right now.
We need a top six winger badly, especially if Max isn't coming back. Next year's draft isn't supposed to be spectacular and since we have 2 1st rounders this year, might be worth looking into trading next year's pick.
June 18th, 2010
10:44 am
The Halak trade was a big mistake. #1, Halak is good. A lot better than Price. His Sv% is 9.24 compared to 9.12. He is 26-13 compared to 13-20. #2, now that Halak is gone, Price is alone. They'll probabaly call someone up, but they won't have the goalie staff they used to have, unless the person they call up is better, which I doubt.
Thrashers will probably trade the #24 pick and hopefully will get something with it.
June 18th, 2010
11:08 am
Interesting thought, jen, about trading a 2011 pick if next year's crop is indeed weak.
June 18th, 2010
11:49 am
Is anyone else getting concerned about the rate at which next year's team is being built?
So far, we have seven forwards, well six if you remove Charmin, under contract from last year's team, five defensemen, and no goalies.
None of the RFA's have been locked up longer term.
Waddell used to be known for his procrastination. Is Dudley a procrastinator as well, or is Waddell still in control?
June 18th, 2010
11:51 am
I won't trade next year's no. 1 so early. Not to be negative, but we have no idea where we will finish next season. I'd hate to be like Toronto, sitting here watching someone take my pick, the second overall. everyone else knows next year is a shallow pool too, so the value of a #1 pick next season will not be as great as we would expect.
June 18th, 2010
12:04 pm
just read in the NY Post that the Thrashers are up for sale, so are the Hawks but the sale of the basketball team is tied to Phillips and paying off a lease; Thrashers sale isn"t. Doesn't sound good.
June 18th, 2010
12:07 pm
Here's the link:
I particularly don't like the sound of the Thrashers being sold 'seperately' which I read as 'can be moved out of Atlanta'.
June 18th, 2010
12:08 pm
NY Post is wrong. By a country mile.
Stroz – only two teams, Tampa and DET I think have tendered their RFA's. I reckon most teams will do it on Monday of next week.
June 18th, 2010
12:13 pm
Just shows you how the media can screw up just about anything, except for this blog of course.
June 18th, 2010
12:23 pm
glad to hear some comment on the situation from them.
June 18th, 2010
12:24 pm
Hence why Atlanta radio sucks big YE Yang.
June 18th, 2010
12:44 pm
Does this mean Sage is going to be bidding to become an owner?
Minority owner Sage Bluesland-now those are some board meeting I'd like to attend!
June 18th, 2010
12:54 pm
"Michael Russo reports Minnesota Wild GM Chuck Fletcher isn't ruling out going the trade route rather than free agency this summer to address his roster needs. Fletcher seeks a top-six forward and could be forced to use either Brent Burns, Nick Schultz or Cam Barker from his defense corps as trade bait. The Wild GM has also been shopping backup goalie Josh Harding but is having trouble finding a market for him. Fletcher offered Harding to the St. Louis Blues prior to their acquisition yesterday of Jaroslav Halak."
If Halak is only worth two prospects, then perhaps the Wild would be interested in a prospect + our 24th overall pick for Josh Harding. A Pavs & Harding tandem is quite attractive in my estimation. However, I'm not sure if it would be worth giving up Morin or Klingberg if that's what they are looking for. Can't hurt to offer something like Cormier and the 24th pick.
June 18th, 2010
1:14 pm
Smoothie-Wild are also concerened somebody might hit Harding with an offer sheet.
June 18th, 2010
1:17 pm
WBF – I was thinking more of next year's 2nd or 3rd, which I should have made clear. For an impact player that Duds wants tho, pull the trigger involving the 2011 #1.
Stroz – Duds has been changing the drapes arranging his new furniture.
Eklund has Little on his list of Eight Players and Their Rumors of Offer Sheets.
#6 Bryan Little
He is an RFA and a huge chip. The Thrashers have cap space according to the NHL, but their self-imposed space may mean they have to actually make space. Little is a potential star.
Teams rumored to have interest…Montreal and Detroit
June 18th, 2010
1:26 pm
kracker-I saw that Eklund post too, I was bored this morning!
Offer sheets are pricey, not sure Little has shown enough to warrant the steep price of an offer sheet but we will see. I always said Buffalo should have let Thomas Vanek walk and take the 5 first round picks. I am cool with trading a 2nd or 3rd round pick in 2011 too for the right guy.
June 18th, 2010
1:46 pm
An offer sheet for Bryan Little is like saying Waddell will replace Gary Bettman as commissioner — although both are equal in competence and stature!
June 18th, 2010
2:09 pm
While I didn't like seeing the elbow Cormier threw….I am hoping someone can get him to think before he acts. We need a nasty guy who can play too. That will make Bolts more expendable.
June 18th, 2010
2:29 pm
Why does it grate my nerves when people quote Eklund? It's almost uncontrollable.
June 18th, 2010
2:59 pm
Alan R-sorry, I will not be so foolish again.
Actually, it is a good thing becuase if Eklund predicts it will happen you know it won't!
June 18th, 2010
3:19 pm
It's not you, WBF. It's me.
And really, I'm just against giving that guy any sort of "publicity" at all.
June 18th, 2010
3:43 pm
Folks, something always stuck me as odd, re: the Spirit's "claims" of financial losses. Over on Jeff Schultz' blog, there's some estimation of $30 million lost by the Spirit over the past 12 months or so.
How can this possibly be true? Look at the Thrashers actual payroll. Then add rougly $14 million (instead $17 million, because of lower attendance) in revenue-sharing dollars from the NHL to offset those losses, and what do you get? It can't add up to $30 million in losses. It just CAN'T. The Thrashers did sell tickets this year. They didn't play to an empty house. And even when the house looked empty, those seats were sold to people who didn't show up.
Supposing for the very moment that it's true that the Spirit had operating losses of $30 million, wouldn't that have triggered them to race towards accountability, YEARS AGO, for playoff revenues? Nope. They stood pat with Waddell, even after the disasterous 2007 sweep by the NY Rangers. And what followed? Three (3) more years of no playoff-revenue. Folks, if the Spirit were actually losing money at the rate and amount they claim, they would have been forced to sell or improve. So, I'm not buyin' it. I think the Thrashers somewhat "break even." I say that, including the NHL provided revenue sharing dollars. Payroll for this club isn't that high, nor has it been, for the past three seasons. The CAP HIT was bigger, because of the POTENTIAL for Kane and Bogosian to hit bonuses, along with Alexei Zhitnik's buyout money. (Think Todd White-don't let another buyout happen again!!) In Commissioner Bettman's shoes, I'd have long since hauled these guys into my office to have a SIT DOWN, 3-hour long discussion about how things are gonna be run in Atlanta. Folks, there is NO REASON this market … should struggle in hockey … except for ineptitude in icing a roster. That's it. There are enough Northern transplants to make a playoff-ready club very successful here. And that will translate, also, into playoff revenue, for the owners. I'm sure Bettman thought, back in 1999, that Atlanta would be a SURPLUS market, rather than a $14-17 million drain on his revenue-sharing program.
June 18th, 2010
3:47 pm
Seek help, Alan
Actually I admire the guy for going from a relative nobody to someone everybody in hockey knows. He saw a need during the lockout and set up a page discussing lockout related rumors and then parlayed it into a full time rumor mill gig, including appearances on hockey TV and radio shows, podcasts, live webcam on draft days, etc. Anyway, I go over now and then, it's as good a place to read about hockey and I don't take his rumors any more or any less serious than any other blogger. Even you will have to admit, Alan, there is a pretty impressive group of team and fan bloggers assembled on hockeybuzz.
Actually, I think there is a need for a Thrashers blogger on HB. Perhaps you would be interested in helping them out over there?
June 18th, 2010
3:56 pm
My blue vuvuzelas were just delivered.
June 18th, 2010
4:00 pm
Brendan – It's easy. The Atlanta Thrashers pay Philips Arena Operations an exorbitant management fee for management the arena.
It's a shell game between the three wholly owned subsidiaries, the Thrashers, the Hawks, and Philips Arena Operations.
June 18th, 2010
4:10 pm
Good thing I moved a couple of sections to my right!
June 18th, 2010
4:31 pm
"A couple sections" to the right won't help. You'll be able to hear those things outside the arena!
June 18th, 2010
4:36 pm
I'm really looking forward to the Pittsburgh and Buffalo games this season.
It's about time the opposing teams' fans felt a little "uncomfortable."
June 18th, 2010
4:40 pm
That's probably true, Alan. If they're that loud they will be baned pretty quickly…maybe Stroz with them! Not that we want that, I mean Stroz is buying tickets and other stuff! And we like him in spite of all his faults
June 18th, 2010
4:44 pm
When did loud, short, fat, and ugly become faults?
Myopic and deaf are underrated.
June 18th, 2010
5:13 pm
Man USA ties it up! They should've won, but the referee was horrible….
June 18th, 2010
5:23 pm
Those are your good traits
C Viv has posted a new article on the Thrashers off-season and Dudleys to-do list.


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Mason, neighbors said, lived just a few houses away at the corner of South Carey and Carroll streets in a basement apartment. He has prior addresses in Sykesville, court records show.
Evelyn Lawson, Mason's grandmother, said he is a churchgoing, married man and a good father to his 1-year-old daughter. She said she could not believe the allegations.
"This is all news to me about what happened," she said. "His family all loves him. We all love him. This is a terrible tragedy."
Police have not released specifics of the charges, and Mason does not have a lawyer listed in online court records on these allegations. Online court records show multiple arrests and assault and drug convictions.
Several residents knew Mason as "P.J.," and said he often parked his four vehicles — two Trans Ams, a Subaru Outback and a blue pickup truck — on the street next to his house, taking up every nearby space.
Henry Ott, 67, lived next door and said he often argued with Mason. The two had feuded because Ott kept watch of Mason's comings and goings.
"He tried to rule the neighborhood and tell the people how to live," Ott said.
Melissa Borck, who grew up in the neighborhood, said Mason could be standoffish. His treasured cars were "all he talked about," she said.
She said she was headed to the store at about 5 a.m. on Tuesday when she saw Mason sitting in one of his black sports cars across from his home. He motioned for her to come over, Brock said, but she refused.
"Happened right after that," she said. "I'm shocked. Maybe I'll cry later when I see it [on the news]. I'm still shocked."
As detectives overheard neighbors talk openly about Mason, police cordoned off his home and knocked on the door. No one answered, and police soon summoned a red tow truck with flames on the hood to tow away one of Mason's cars parked on Carroll Street.
In addition to Mason's arrest, police said they had charged a 16-year-old, Nazir Williams, in a fatal stabbing that occurred downtown after the Super Bowl parade in February.
Baltimore Sun reporter Kevin Rector contributed to this article.

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Does society need more interdisciplinary work? Or more well-rounded individuals working together?
This week in my Bioelectricity class there was an emphasis on learning about muscle physiology. One facet of the musculoskeletal system which I find especially interesting is the notion of having specialized muscle tissue for certain actions or scenarios in life. Muscle is composed of individual fibers called myocytes, each containing protein strands which grab and pull on each other to induce muscle contractions. Muscle fibers can further be broken down into two types, namely Slow Twitch (Type 1) and Fast Twitch (Type 2). The Slow Twitch fibers are extremely efficient at converting oxygen into usable energy and allowing athletes to perform tasks for extended periods before they fatigue, such as running a marathon. The Fast Twitch fibers, on the other hand, don't use oxygen to create fuel and can recruit motor neurons for a short but powerful burst, which can be useful in a sprint. Each muscle may contain any combination of each of these fibers in order to perform an activity.
In this case, specialization proves to be an imperative characteristic to the completion of a task. In today's world, people immerse themselves in a vast array of fields in order to help the society advance. So I ask the TED community: Is it more beneficial to society to consist of people who are experts in one field, or those who have a well-rounded background in many fields?
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Ovi FicleApr 3 2012: I think we need both specialists and generalists in our society, and i also think there are not enough generalists. Also a group of generalists has better problem solving power than a group of specialists in diverse fields, simply because they can communicate and understand each other more easily.
In my opinion a generalist also has a better understanding of the world he lives in and probably a more flexible thinking.
Harnsowl Ko 50+Apr 3 2012: Moving forward with this line of thinking, I feel that it is a matter of finding a balance between the two. I feel that now, as we become more specialized, we become less aware of anything outside this specialty. This really is a shame. To me, it is very gratifying to be able to discuss various topics outside of a chosen, specific field. Although it is great that people are becoming more specialized and more cutting-edge work is done, it is very difficult for me to entertain the idea that our world becomes so specialized that we lose the ability to understand the world from various perspectives. This is why what we need is balance, so that we can blend together the specialists and the generalists.
Simon Khuvis 50+Apr 4 2012: I definitely agree with your opinion that there has to be a balance between specialists and generalists. While specialists are immensely important to our society in their function as experts in a given field, generalists are necessary to synthesize the specialists' expertise. I firmly believe, however, that even specialists should have a wide range of experience outside of their chosen industry if only to be well-informed citizens.
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I grew up in Logan Square on the North side of Chicago. I drew, painted and made LEGO creations from an early age. I thank my parents for sending me to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for non-degree courses from age 11 until 18.
In high school I was the kid with an SLR (Olympus OM-10) around his neck everyday. If it were a DSLR I would have used it more: film was too expensive and the lag time between shutter press and printed photo made it too abstract for me. I needed more immediate results. So at the end of high school, when I took a darkroom course at SAIC, it finally…well, "clicked".
But it didn't stick. I went the English route in college. I continued with painting and drawing courses, and kept my SLR close, but didn't pursue an education in visual art seriously.
In 2006, eight years after graduating, I got sick of not being creative. I hired models to pose nude in my apartment while I sketched them in charcoal. I soon bought a Canon A540 to preserve their poses for in-depth figure studies and began re-teaching myself everything I know about photography. It wasn't long before put the charcoal away and tried walking in the footsteps of Weston, Newton, and Richardson as a photographer of the artistic nude.
Every digital photographer should start with a cheap digital camera that has fully manual settings. I now have a Canon EOS Rebel T1i and a pair of A540′s that I use for stereo-photography. My film cameras are a Canon EOS Rebel Xs, a Canon EF-M and a Polaroid One Step 600.
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QB Jay Cutler will start for the Chicago Bears, as reported Saturday after he was cleared to play following a concussion two weeks ago.
The Vikings weren't as fortunate with their injury news Saturday, as they officially declared Percy Harvin out with a sprained ankle. Harvin was among the inactives for the Vikings Sunday.
Also inactive for the Vikings were QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson, CB Brandon Burton, LB Audie Cole, OL Mark Asper, TE Allen Reisner and DE D'Aundrae Reed
The Bears also declared WR Alshon Jeffery out last week. Joining him on Chicago's inactive list were QB Josh McCown, WR Dane Sanzenbacher, DT Matt Toeaina, DT Amobi Okoye, DE Cheta Ozougwu and OL James Brown.
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Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), and the Cello Concerto in B flat major (G 482). The latter work was long known in the heavily altered version by German cellist and prolific arranger Friedrich Grützmacher, but has recently been restored to its original version. Boccherini composed several guitar quintets including the "Fandango" which was influenced by Spanish music. His biographer Elisabeth Le Guin noted among Boccherini's musical qualities "an astonishing repetitiveness, an affection for extended passages with fascinating textures but virtually no melodic line, an obsession with soft dynamics, a unique ear for sonority, and an unusually rich palette of introverted and mournful affects."
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
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- Sibling of Giovanni Gastone Boccherini
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We got to visit our friends at Bloom yesterday & preview all of their new items! We love the new Retro Crib and Dresser, 100% hardwood, available all in white or in walnut. They'll be on the floor soon to see in person.
We got to visit our friends at Bloom yesterday & preview all of their new items! We love the new Retro Crib and Dresser, 100% hardwood, available all in white or in walnut. They'll be on the floor soon to see in person.
I'm an avid subway rider – it's the easiest way to get around this city (and I don't totally understand the bus system). When I read in NY Mag about one intrepid creative's (none other than LCD Soundstystem's former frontman, James Murphy) concept of adding some music to the turnstile, I got excited. I remember seeing the piano stairs in the past and other such concepts, and love the idea of bringing a little fun and something unexpected to a rote ride uptown. Like wind chimes for people…Come on MTA, lighten up & let the music play! Read about James Murphy & the musical subway in NY Mag.
We've been touting Bugaboo's collab with the Andy Warhol Foundation, and it's not only strollers that have gotten a art makeover! Bugaboo's So Many Stars app introduces baby to the pop artist with the artist's iconic images and others that have never been seen! Download the App. if you're a traditionalist, check out the Warhol goods at the shop! Andy Warhol Strollers, books, socks and more: Shop all Andy Warhol at Babesta!
We're psyched that the newest Rowdy Sprout tees and onesies have hit the shop! Dylan, Beatles, Springsteen, Sublime - so many awesome bands. Awesome vintage feel & made in L.A. Time to crank it up!
Anarchy has left the U.K. and it's relocated to Philly. The Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia shows off a collection of punk era artwork and ephemera, celebrating the rage against the machine, safety pins, combat boots, studs and grommets that symbolized the period. "Pretty Vacant, The Graphic Language of Punk" brings together works by Peter Saville, Gee Vaucher and more collected by Andrew Krivine, on view until March 15. Via Huffington Post.
**If you make it to Philly, you can join Robert Drake, host of "Land of the Lost" on WXPN, for a reception celebrating "Pretty Vacant: The Graphic Language of Punk" with a LOTL Music Mix by Robert Drake and libations donated by the show's friends at Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street. Free to the public.
Dyed coffee filters made the perfect backdrop for our new jungle themed window to match the amazing Mini Rodini and Munster Kids collections for Spring/Summer 2014.
A moment of distraction, an instant with my eyes elsewhere and my beautiful sofa had become an impromptu art project for my two girls. Sheer horror. I quickly looked up every chemical compound known to man, additional covers, and anything else to cover up this call to creativity. (Lesson: Never take your eyes off a 2 year old!). Now, years later, I've come across (albeit and old article) from the New York Times of a mother who decided to embrace the chaos and celebrate it in her house. And, it works! Check it out!
We're mad about the new Munster Kids collection that has just hit the store. It's always an amazing brand for boys, and we thought we'd remix up a few outfits for vacation time! Here's our fave gold tooth tee with the pineapple skull board shorts and a floral skull hat. Sort of a Rocking the Tropix ensemble….
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We love the new Mini Rodini collection – and the giraffe print is totally off the hook. If you're not going away for the school holiday right now, we've remixed an ensemble that will have you dreaming of Africa! Between the jaguar sunglasses and the giraffe print skirt, it's a style safari.
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New Terrain Opening Friday!
Now that Sun Valley has been officially open for a full seven days, the community continues to be amped for the 2009/2010 ski season. Rumors of snow for the weekend are flying. New skis are getting waxed. There are smiles ear-to-ear has Sun Valley can currently boast some of the most open vertical in the country. Apple's Bar and Grill at Warm Springs is packed each afternoon. The sun in shining and the skiing is good. Fondue at Averell's in the Roundhouse is a big hit. The Crist Brothers showed off their sweet new trailer and new Eddie Bauer gear. Quads are burning as skiers and boarders carve turns on favorites like Lower Warm Springs and Flying Squirrel. The gondola proves to be a savior of freezing fingers and toes on cold days like Wednesday. Irving's hot dogs are being served hot. Ski and snowboard team kids are heading up the hill in the afternoons. Competitions are being held for the most Upper College laps. And starting Friday, Sun Valley is opening more terrain.
Friday, December 4th, Roundhouse Slope and Canyon will open on the River Run Side. This doubles your options, joining Mid and Lower River as trails to get you down to River Run Plaza. Roundhouse Slope also gives you the ability to take off straight from Averell's Bar.
Saturday, Warm Springs top to bottom will open. This also allows more space for the masses who will undoubtedly hit the slopes this weekend, taking advantage of Mt. Baldy's massive amount of open vertical.
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Capcom has just released the finalized package artwork for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. This normally wouldn't get a post from us here on Gaming on Nintendo but well, considering how popular the Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate games have been for us just shows, there are a ton of fans […]
Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge Wii U Screens That Will Make You Buy It
Tecmo are a company that has proven they are not scared to reboot their original IP's and try new things with them. Gamers have proven they will support the cooler stuff (how many Rygar games did we get in the last 15 years?). Here we have the third in the series of newer, 3D, Ninja Gaiden […]
Marvel's Avengers Battle for Earth Slams onto the Nintendo Wii U
Battling the skrull invasion is never a boring proposition, not for Earth's Mightiest Heroes with a few extras (last time I checked, Wolverine was never an Avenger). Being based on the Secret Invasion storyline, the Wii U game uses the Wii U pad in unique ways such as shooting arrows with Hawkeye. Check the shots […]
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The original Wii system by Nintendo launched on November 19th, 2006 as a direct competitor to the Xbox 360 and PS3. It touted move integration with the use of its Nunchuk, Wii Remote, and sensor bar to get gamers to feel more like a part of the games they were playing. While still successful and […]
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Trine 2 Directors Cut Hits Nintendo Wii U eShop (We Have Exclusive Shots)
Frozenbyte, an indie developer/publisher from Finland, have just released Trine 2 Directors Cut onto the Nintendo Wii U eShop at an awesome price and a file size that is just under two gigabytes. Enough reading, just check out the shots and enjoy.
Wii U Initial Impressions
The Wii U is out and we have one at our GON headquarters. Is it worth your time and hard earned money? Is it too late to the HD market to make an impact? Should you stay away until all the bugs are worked out? Find out within!
Batman Arkham City Armored Edition Exclusive Screens on the Wii U
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Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle in Jezebel
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Bainter was the first person to be nominated for Academy Awards in both the acting (for her performance in White Banners) and supporting acting categories in the same year. She won the supporting actress award for her role in Jezebel (AAN) but lost the lead actress award to her Jezebel costar, Bette Davis. A popular character actress usually cast in films as a gentle, sympathetic aunt or mother figure, Bainter began her career as a child actress on the stage. She made her Broadway debut in 1912 and made her first movie, This Side of Heaven, in 1934. Her last film was The Children's Hour (1962), for which she earned another best supporting actress nomination by playing against type as the ruthless dowager who destroys the careers and reputations of her granddaughter's schoolteachers.
Fay Bainter (b. Dec. 7, 1892, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.d. April 16, 1968, Hollywood, Calif.)


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Women's Ski Racing
- Rocky's Svedberg wins national GS title; teammate Julliand is 2nd
- LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Freshman skier Frida Svedberg is on a historic run for Rocky Mountain College. Svedberg and sophomore teammate Eloise Julliand placed 1-2 on Tuesday afternoon in the women's giant slalom during the opening day of competition at the 36th United States Collegiate Ski Association national championships on Whiteface Mountain. With her latest victory at the site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, the 21-year-old Svedberg, who is from Sweden, became the first Rocky woman to ski to a national title in the GS. She has now won a school-record 11 races overall this winter -- and five in a row. For complete story from the Billings Gazette: Read more
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- Rocky Mountain College's Frida Svedberg will ski into the national spotlight this week at the 36th annual United States Collegiate Ski Association championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. It has been a swift ascent this winter for the 21-year-old freshman from Ostersund, Sweden, who will take a four-race winning streak into Tuesday's giant slalom competition on Whiteface Mountain, which was the site of the 1980 Winter Olympics. For complete story from the Billings Gazette: Read more


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Immigration Reform
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On June 15, 2012, President Obama announced a new government program that would give deportation relief to young undocumented immigrants who met certain qualifications. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program offered DREAMers -- young people born abroad, but raised here -- a reprieve from deportation and a chance to get a work permit. More than 365,000 people have been approved to date, and more than half a million have applied, with lots of applications still being processed. DACA was a Band Aid, not a solution, however. The program isn't a law, it's the Obama administration using its authority to say that these deportations are not a priority. Another president could end it. On the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the program, we asked DREAMers who have been approved how it has changed their lives and what they think the next steps should be. Here's what they said: Note: Entries have been lightly edited for publication. Thanks to fellow Fusionistas Romina Puga and Emily DeRuy, who helped put this package together.


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Stonington - For Jonathan Duncklee, the upcoming 40th anniversary of a second-generation heating and cooling business is all about embracing new technology.
"We have had to keep up with technology over time," Duncklee said.
Duncklee was among the first to embrace ductless heating and cooling, and the company is looking to install a solar-electric system in its own 6,400-square-foot facility off Taugwonk Road.
Duncklee Cooling & Heating, which was known as L.H. Duncklee Refrigeration Inc. in 1973 when Jonathan's father Les launched his own company, has seen its share of changes over the years. Originally focused mostly on commercial installation, with a staff that once numbered close to 40, the family-run business now includes only about a dozen employees while being devoted mostly to residential customers, though Duncklee does have a fair share of commercial and industrial work as well.
When long-time manufacturers started to leave the region in the 1980s and 1990s, the family had to make a dramatic shift in its business, Duncklee said.
Duncklee, vice president of the company, worked with his father on weekends, during school vacations and over the summer learning the trade from the ground up. He said there was no official handoff of the ownership mantle, but he slowly took the reins over the years and Les, who still works at the company, seemed happy to let go.
"He allowed me to make changes," Duncklee said. "I would make decisions, and he would support it."
Some of the changes were difficult. A major downsizing that followed the financial collapse of 2008 was particularly painful, when he had to let go a whole layer of middle management.
"It was a scary time," he said. "My phone wasn't ringing at all."
Using what he calls a drama-free calm and assertive method of management, Duncklee effected a full turnaround by last year, when he was named Employer of the Year by the Greater Mystic Chamber of Commerce. In Duncklee's citation, the chamber noted that he gives longtime employees special recognition that includes cash, computers and even ocean cruises.
Duncklee credits the turnaround on the caliber of his employees and his strong connection to the community. He has been involved on a variety of boards such as Big Brothers-Big Sisters and with projects such as the Hygienic Art Park in New London and Coogan Farm in Mystic.
"I try to be very visible," Duncklee said. "It does pay dividends when you're slow."
Duncklee's ability to quickly incorporate new technology into his heating and cooling business has paid dividends as well. At the invitation of suppliers, he visited Japan in April 2012 and Korea in October 2012, coming home with a new respect for the graciousness of his hosts.
Duncklee said he always seeks out American products first, but some technological advances are coming from overseas these days, and he must keep up with them to stay competitive and provide customers the best products available.
"If you don't change, you're out of business - no doubt about it," he said.
One change Duncklee has noted in his business is the emphasis, particularly in high-end homes, on air conditioning. While central air was almost unheard of in the 1970s, it has become a must-have today, he said, and installations occur year-round, not just in the warmer months.
Another big change has been the Internet, and Duncklee has been ahead of the curve there as well, having recently developed a mobile-friendly site in recognition that many people find heating and cooling technicians through their iPhones and other similar devices.
"We get a tremendous amount of business through the Internet," Duncklee said.
And while the Internet has been seen as a negative for some types of businesses, Duncklee said it has made his job easier.
"I love an educated buyer," he said. "It's a relief."
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Hello everyone,
Haven't wrote a blog in about a year, been busy. Anyway, I'm reading breaking dawn now and it's one of the best. I Love It. Eclipse was so boring in the middle, it just dragged and dragged. Does anyone agree? I liked the first few chapters and i liked the battle and everything after. The Eclipse trailor looks phanominal. Its was good but my least favorite. what do you guys think?
I'm excited to see the next 2 movies, how the wolves talk back and forth with the other wolves, the battle scene, the engagement, I mean the way Bella decribles the wedding, the honey moon, the baby inside here. I thought it was a little interesting too on how they went to jacobs point of view. It also left me hanging too on what happened to Bella. I mean the last part of her view was when she called Rosalie and asked her for help. That's crazy. I liked the chapter when she just wakes up from getting the venom that Edward shot into her veins, she's decribing his apperence and how clean it is. The "first hunt" was so amazing. I wonder what the movie is going to be like. I'm currently on the chapter when Bella just figures out Jacob Imprinted on her daughter. Crazy!
Thats all i know really for now. But when i finished ill be back to talk about. Take care.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thieves have been targeting homes in the Highlands, on a street where public figures such as Mayor Greg Fischer and Priscilla Barnstable Brown live.
There have been six burglaries in the past week. Police tell us the burglaries are taking place during the day, in what they believe to be crimes of opportunity.
On Saturday, thieves emptied out a home while the owner was doing yard work.
"Everything was gone up into the drawers. (They) took all jewelry any kind of box with memorabilia in it. Just everything was gone they weren't discriminating as long as it was small," said Highland resident Jodie Morgan.
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Where the Peacocks Sing
A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home
Alison Singh Gee
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Fear of Flying
I never knew peacocks could
I never knew they could do much of anything. As a child growing up in Northeast Los Angeles, I only ever saw them at the botanical gardens in Pasadena or roaming the zoo. They were stunning birds, with their built-in tiaras and show-off coloring. But let's face it: They seemed pretty useless. Waddling across manicured lawns, admiring flowers, plopping their fat stomachs onto grassy patches in the shade, these pampered birds only broke a sweat when the garden groundskeeper rang the dinner bell. Peacocks were charming but relatively pointless, flashing their plumage like a socialite working her best fur and jewels, and that's all.
Or so I thought.
My understanding of peacocks was about to take a quantum leap.
I was sitting on the terrace of a palace in India. This was not some trussed-up five-star hotel in a commercialized Indian city, lousy with Patagonia-clad tourists. This was the ancestral home that had belonged to my fiancé Ajay's family for the past century, and it was the kind of regal spread you'd find in a Merchant Ivory film—huge, awe-inspiring, and vibrating with legacy. The house stood like a porcelain deity in the middle of a lush and flowering village called Mokimpur, which is also the name the Singh family gave the house. Ajay had spent much of his childhood at this magnificent residence, playing hide-and-seek in its hundred rooms, racing his village friends along the river, and jumping into the deep, cool reservoir when the summer heat became unbearable.
With its fragrant mango groves, silent skies, and choruses of songbirds and screeching parrots, Mokimpur was about as different from my hometown as the moon. Later, when I looked at a globe and placed my finger on Northern India, I realized that Ajay's tiny village sat almost literally on the opposite side of the sphere from where I grew up. But it's not like I needed a map to tell me what I already knew in my heart.
As an American journalist based in Hong Kong, my life was anything but placid, predictable, or comforting. My cell phone buzzed every two minutes; I had a half-dozen deadlines to meet every day, and a whirling social world that included lots of good friends (most of whose last names I somehow never quite learned). Hong Kong, the futuristic gateway to the East, had skyscrapers instead of trees, subway platforms instead of terraces, daredevil taxis instead of slow-moving yaks. Lunch was often a bowl of noodles eaten standing up; dinner, cocktail party hors d'oeuvres and a lethal gin and tonic. (Breakfast wasn't actually in my vocabulary—I usually jumped out of bed at the blast of the alarm clock, wriggled into a dress, strapped on some heels, and dashed out the door.) In this insanely built-up, inhumanly crowded place, where apartment towers seemingly sprang up overnight like bamboo, the locals liked to say that the national bird was the jackhammer.
Not so in Mokimpur.
It was my first week in India. Ajay and I were idling over steaming cups of chai and plates heaped with mouthwatering veg
deep-fried cauliflower, onions, potatoes, and carrots with a spiced, crispy coating. Three servants dressed in kurtas and loose cotton pants ferried about filling teacups and delivering fresh chutney and hot
. As Ajay and I lounged on the veranda, I watched dozens of wild peacocks, shrieking with glee as they glided from mango tree to neem tree, streaking the sky with their over-the-top rainbow colors.
Peacocks, not jackhammers, are the national bird of India. Here they were almost unrecognizable to me, not at all like their L.A. cousins. Indian peacocks were tenacious and fierce, agile and vocal. Roaming wild in the villages, these birds were just like the people—warriors in the primordial battle for survival. I watched them in the middle distance and shook my head. "All this time I thought they were ground dwellers," I said to Ajay. "Who knew these humongous things could jet through the trees like that?"
"This is India," Ajay said. "We do whatever we need to do to survive—if that means flying, we fly." He took a sip of his chai and tilted his head. "An Indian peacock can kill a baby cobra in thirty seconds flat. Their beaks are laser sharp. Before the snake knows what's happened, it's been sliced into a pile of sashimi." He looked dashing in his white kurta pajama suit, and worlds apart from any man I'd ever dated.
Suddenly, we heard a great flapping of wings and a thud so loud it caused us to turn in our chairs. Two peahens and a peacock had landed on the veranda ledge, a few feet from where we sat. They jumped down and, like plump gymnasts, bounded over and pranced around us. Their giant bodies wobbled on sinewy legs that looked like they'd done their share of kicking other pheasant ass. The birds turned their faces to the sky and let out a series of shrieks. I covered my ears and winced.
"What in God's name are they doing?" I asked.
"They're dancing in the sun to keep themselves warm," Ajay explained, wrapping a shatoosh around his neck. "They move around all day in packs foraging for seeds in the fields, searching for rain."
"But why are they crying like that?" I asked.
"They're not crying," Ajay said. "They're singing. They're excited because they think they hear thunder, and thunder means rain. You should hear them go at it when a jet flies overhead. They scream as if an apocalypse has come to the village."
I couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor birds, because the modern world had confused their primal instincts so much. It wasn't rain that was coming whenever they heard a boom in the sky; it was just another planeload of tourists, hoping to find cheap handicrafts and an unspoiled stretch of beach on the Subcontinent. I also felt a little disheartened at my own warped intuition: What sounded to me like cries of sadness were actually shrieks of glee. Maybe modern life in the big city had confused me, too. In Hong Kong, some nights I lay awake wondering if there was any escape in the world from flashing neon signs and construction rubble.
Just as quickly as they had landed, the peacocks took off into the sky, rising swiftly above the trees, over the palace wall and into the farmland beyond. I sprang up to watch them as they flapped out of sight. Indian peacocks did not just fly. They soared.
* * *
All my life, I had
been a bona fide city girl, a creature of the first world at its commercial finest. After college in California, I had gone to graduate school in London, and now I lived in Hong Kong, the Orient's Manhattan, only four times as fast. I worked as a journalist for Time Inc., jetting throughout Asia on assignment. My days began with
New York Times
and a latte from the Pacific Coffee Company in Wanchai, and often ended at a crowded cocktail party in the city or at a catered dinner fete on a Chinese junk, cruising Victoria Harbour.
India was never part of my life plan. After all, it sat on the other side of the world, some nine thousand miles from Los Angeles—the chaotic, dusty, and painfully poor side, I was sure. But since I'd met Ajay, everything in my life had changed. He not only loved his native land, he belonged to it. He had an almost primal attachment to his home village and the family palace that rose from the wheat fields.
"No matter where I go, where I live, or what I become, when I come back to Mokimpur, it's home like no other place," he explained to me. "I get an inexplicable feeling of peace here. If I ever reached a breaking point in our life in Hong Kong or America I know I could return to Mokimpur and recover. I wouldn't need to do anything or talk to anyone. I would just need to stay here and reestablish my connection with the land."
I had never felt that way about any place before. Home for me was always a backdrop for chaos and pain. A place to run from, not to. Part of me admired, or maybe I should say envied, Ajay's unshakable attachment to his village. Another part of me lusted after the palace's hundred rooms and the fabulous makeover I knew I could give it. And the deepest part of me wondered if this could be my home, too.
In the days to come, I would learn that life here was about hours of silence, sipping chai and contemplating the clouds. The main events of the day were family meals, three-hour lunches that broke up only when it was time for tea. We would take afternoon ambles along the village river and eat our dinners by kerosene lamp. While the servants tidied up the kitchen, we were free to sit around talking with the family for hours or read stacks of books by candlelight, stretched out in the big four-poster wooden bed that once belonged to Ajay's great-grandfather.
While all this might sound idyllic, I truly did not know if this was what I wanted, if this could ever be what I wanted. Life here was just so drastically different from the overscheduled, underexamined existence I had gotten accustomed to living. In Mokimpur, my motor shifted to idle. In my normal life my brain threatened to explode with ideas and details and the more-than-occasional anxiety attack; here it seemed to go on strike. Now on my fourth cup of chai, I took in the scene in the fields—a row of villagers sheathed in saffron- and ruby-colored saris plucking mangoes from a shady grove. Then I turned and suddenly caught sight of my image in one of the haveli windows. Mokimpur's all-day dress code was homespun cotton kurta pajamas, but I had put on a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress, suede platforms, and Kate Spade sunglasses. I laughed at my reflection. I looked like a wannabe starlet cast in the wrong destiny. My mind knew me as corporate girl, first-world chick, habitué of Philippe Starck–designed bars.
But my soul seemed to be opening itself up to some other identity. "Holy cow," I whispered to myself. My heart raced. I took off my shades and ran my hands through my shoulder-length hair.
If I were Alice falling through the looking glass, Mokimpur is where I would land. A frisson of panic coursed through me. "What exactly am I doing in this Indian village?" I muttered to Ajay.
He laughed and reached for my hand. "You're here to learn to milk cows and collect eggs from underneath hens in the coop. To wake to the chatter of wild parrots, not CNN. To taste a mango plucked straight from the tree. To learn that real meals take hours to make, not thirty seconds in the microwave." He was on a roll and he knew it. "You're here to forget about your cell phone and your Mac laptop," he continued. "Maybe you're here to learn the real rhythm of the earth. It's not staying out dancing until five in the morning, you know. That's actually when most of the villagers get up." Right on cue, a peacock landed on the terrace, shook his feathers, lifted his head, and shrieked, as if echoing Ajay's soliloquy.
I looked at Ajay quizzically, but he hadn't even registered the bird. His face was as calm and content as I'd ever seen it. So I allowed myself to wonder what Mokimpur could mean to me.
My heart told me I had arrived here for a reason. Maybe I could bring new life to the palace. And I had the feeling that Mokimpur could offer me something essential and precious in exchange. An escape from the twenty-first century? A place to call home? Or maybe the palace could send earthbound me into flight.
Copyright © 2013 by Alison Singh Gee
ALISON SINGH GEE is an award-winning international journalist whose work has been translated into eight languages and has appeared in
People, Vanity Fair, In Style, Marie Claire, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles Times
. For eight years, she was a staff features writer/correspondent for
magazine. She won the 1997 Amnesty International Award for Feature Writing for her Asiaweek cover story about child prostitution in Southeast Asia. Alison lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
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Being one of the leading consumer electronics and IT companies in the world, they always make sure that technology never leaves them behind. They make innovations and advancements for better offerings and do so at a consistent manner. Toshiba also considers the designs of the products they release as this is where consumers usually base their first impressions. They come up with sleek, elegant designs but at the same time equip their products with outstanding features.
If you are looking for quality computers – may it be a desktop computer, or a laptop – Toshiba is your best bet as they ensure to give their consumers the ultimate value for their money with their great features and innovations. Their latest laptop having 17 inches of screen display and equipped with an i7 Processor that makes the response like no other, all their laptops are installed with a Windows operating system that is user friendly. Not only this, but they also have premium computer accessories such as flash drives and external hard disks that have a storage capacity of up to 32 gigabytes and 1 terabyte respectively.
Toshiba also manufactures TVs that come in different sizes of display for a great viewing experience. Your options are endless with Toshiba! You can go for big-scale LED TVs with a whopping size of 58 inches if space is not an issue. However, if you're working with a limited area, you can select from the range of TVs that start from 24 inches.


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