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"It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity:
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"China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity with a firm commitment to advancing human rights."
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"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."
"We have made no changes to our long-standing policy aimed at promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. The United States does not support Taiwan independence and opposes unilateral changes to the status quo by either Taiwan or Beijing."
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1. Electrical Panel – Just prior to sale, you are not likely to be doing any major upgrading on your electrical system, but you will need to locate your main electrical panel and give it a good cleaning. Brush out all the cobwebs, dead spiders, and dust and wipe off any rust or mildew.
2. Plumbing and Sewage – Make sure each and every sink and tub in the house is draining properly and that the drain lines are clear. Flush them all, but don't stop there. Your buyer's inspector won't. He will run water in several sinks and flush several toilets at the same time. This is a great test of the house's main drain line. So, if your house doesn't flow with the flush, get that plumber over now!
3. Water Pressure – Another revealing plumbing trick is to run the dishwasher and washing machine along with a sink and shower. How's the water pressure? Do you need a bigger hot water tank? Is it big enough to handle a small family? Find out now and plan on doing some re-piping if necessary.
4. Hot Water Heater – Look under the water heater to check for rust or leaks. If you find any, replace it now, and save some money and negotiating. A rusty or leaking water heater will be an immediate request for replacement to your buyers from their inspector.
5. Septic Tank – If your house is on a septic tank system, schedule it to be emptied at least two weeks prior to sale. The last thing you want to do is empty that tank during showings.
6. Leaks – Most pipe and faucet leaks are an easy and inexpensive fix, but a real turn off for buyers. Inspect each and every faucet and hose bib inside and outside the house—both above and below countertops.
7. Heating and Cooling – Test your heating and air conditioning systems. If the systems are eight years of age or older there may be a problem about to happen, or you may have to replace something before you sell. And some buyers don't care how small a problem is; they will often ask for a credit for a whole new system. So make sure yours works. Also, this is the time to change your filters, and make sure the units and visible ducts are sparkling clean.
8. Thermostats – Test your thermostats. If they are broken, replace them now!
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Andrea Galvani: A Few Invisible Sculptures
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Born in Italy and based in Brooklyn for the past three years, Andrea Galvani brings a seductive streak of surrealism and rugged masculinity to his interdisciplinary practice. Galvani's first solo show with Meulensteen opened on February 23rd and is on view through April 21st. A Few Invisible Sculptures combines sound sculpture, drawings, text-based works, collages and photographs collectively exploring what Galvani describes as "an architecture of the invisible."
Galvani transports us somewhere fantastically beautiful between reality and miracle. Strange things occur in his stark and mysterious landscapes – like a polar bear lured to the scent of human pheromones emanating from a spherical sculpture Galvani positioned on a flat expanse of snow in the North Pole. These documents of phenomena shot on various formats of film use science and strategy rather than digital technology to capture the incredible – making them even more remarkable and mystifying.
A Few Invisible Sculptures includes a series of collages Galvani produced from fragments of photographs of oceans and icebergs between Norway and Russia, as well as drawings of stalactites from caves and an audio installation of the ultrasonic sounds of bats flying around suspended sculptures in an acoustic laboratory. It is as though Werner Herzog meets David Lynch for a journey into the wilderness that is bold and ambitious – physically, psychologically and spiritually. Galvani creates a space that is at once otherworldly and firmly rooted in this world.


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The Causes of Japan's 'Lost Decade': The Role of Household Consumption
AbstractIn this paper, I analyze the causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy in the 1990s and find that the stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s and find that the stagnation of household disposable income, the decline in household wealth, and increased uncertainty about the future are among the contributing factors. Finally, I consider whether demand side factors or supply side factors were more important as causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy in the 1990s and conclude that the former (especially misguided government policies) were probably more important.
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- Horioka, Charles Yuji, 2006. "The causes of Japan's `lost decade': The role of household consumption," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 18(4), pages 378-400, December.
- Charles Yuji Horioka, 2006. "The Causes of Japan's "Lost Decade": The Role of Household Consumption," NBER Working Papers 12142, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
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4- She Lives In A Fairytale1 Reviews
The clock struck twelve.
I wondered numbly if Frank would even show up to pick me up for school. Maybe it was all a huge joke that I just didn't understand. "You can't do this." I whispered to myself. "You can't let yourself get down again." I couldn't. Last time I became depressed... I almost took my own life.
As the thoughts began to build I'd finally found the strength to stop myself from attempting anything stupid. This time around would be different. This time I wouldn't let myself feel like that. This time... Well, this time I would be strong. People could hate me. People could make fun of me. My father could hit me... I wouldn't let it bring me down. I wasn't that girl anymore.
Slowly as I stretched my legs I realized I hadn't changed nor had I showered. I'd still look like a mess. I felt next to my bedside table, feeling the time. I had five minutes to be downstairs, just to see if Frank would show up.
I made it downstairs, pausing at the door. My parents weren't home but... could I really handle Frank not showing up? Despite any show of being strong I really wasn't. I was just like every other girl. Rejection hurt. I breathed out, pulling the door open.
The voice I'd thought of all night greeted my ears, making me jump in shock. "I was just about to knock." Frank said.
"Oh." I said, caught off guard.
"You-" Frank giggled, "Going to school like that?"
"I forgot to shower last night and I slept in late." I admitted, biting my lip.
"And I'm guessing being caught at home instead of at school would be a bad thing?" Frank asked.
"Yeah." I admitted. "Let's just go get this day over with."
"Oh! So there is a little bit of despair underneath all that cheer!" Frank said, laughing again.
"I guess." I bit my lip harder.
"Let's go to my house. You can shower there." Frank said, "As for clothes... my mom probably has something. She's about your size, I think." He sounded slightly confused. "If not then I can just wash your clothes the old fashioned way and throw them in the dryer."
I smiled at his attempt to make today a little better for me. "Thanks."
Together we walked to his car. I stopped as Frank grabbed my wrist. He opened the door for me but then stopped me in place, "There's something..." I felt a little pressure around my eye and winced as he tried to wipe what he must have thought was cookie batter away.
"Ow." I pushed him away, "Don't do that."
"What happened?" Frank's tone had gotten serious, losing all of it's previous joy.
"I don't know?" I formed the statement as a question, wondering what he was seeing.
"You have a bruise. It wasn't there when I dropped you off last night." Frank said, sounding suspicious.
"Oh." I smiled, pretending nothing bad had happened. "I'm not really used to the new house yet." I admitted, making myself sound stupid on purpose. "I walked in to a wall on my way to my bedroom."
"Were you running?" Frank asked, doubting my explanation.
"Um, no." I said. "Are we going or what?"
"Come on Bella, don't lie to me." Frank begged. "It takes a lot of speed to walk in to a wall and get a bruise like that."
"Have you tried it before or something?" I asked, testing him.
"No, but I could. Just to prove you wrong." Frank replied.
"I'm a klutz sometimes Frank. I'm sorry, it's a terrible side effect of not seeing things that are right in front of my face. It's not the first bruise I've gotten and it certainly won't be the last." Just let it go! Why'd he have to be such a good guy?
"Sorry." Frank mumbled, "Fine, let's go." But he still didn't sound completely convinced.
(Frank's POV)
I was sitting on the couch in the living room when I heard Isabella call my name, "Frank!" She didn't sound panicked but that didn't stop me from rushing to the bathroom door.
"I'm right here." I told her, wondering what she needed. It really didn't matter. Whatever it was; I'd help her.
Isabella laughed, "Can you tell me if it's all out? I think chocolate chips melted in my hair over night."
I laughed as well, "Okay, I'm coming in."
I opened the bathroom door, feeling my heart thud as I reached for the curtain which kept Isabella's body hidden from my view. What was wrong with me? I'd seen plenty of naked girls. "Is it okay if I open the curtain now?" I asked, pausing.
Isabella responded in a cheery tone, "Sure."
She was standing under the water, letting it run through her hair. I watched as beads of water ran down her pale, toned body. I couldn't help but stare and found myself extremely grateful that she couldn't see me basically drooling over her. "So, is it all out?" She asked, breaking me from my thoughts.
"I don't know. Let me check." I said, hoping my voice came out normal.
I ran my fingers through Isabella's hair, brushing out a little more flour. "I'm going to wash it again. It does seem to be... blended in with your hair." I admitted. "I'm sorry. I didn't expect it to be such a pain for you."
Isabella laughed, "I liked it though so don't apologize."
I poured a small amount of conditioner on to my hand before working it through her hair, washing out the ingredients we'd been using to make cookies. "That feels good." Isabella commented.
"Having your hair washed?" I asked.
"By you, yeah." Isabella replied.
I smiled, "Would you like me to get your back as well?"
"I'd love that." Isabella responded, relaxing at my touch.
"So, why aren't you nervous?" I asked, curious. Most girls freaked out at the idea of a guy seeing them naked. Isabella wasn't even trying to cover her body. Everything was within view... She was beautiful but... so calm about the entire situation.
"About missing more classes?" Isabella asked.
"About being naked in front of me." I replied.
"You said you'd already slept with girls before." Isabella responded, carelessly.
"So, you've already seen plenty of girls naked before. What makes me any different from them? It's not like I have any alien parts. Everything should be fairly similiar." She responded, wrinkling her nose. "I'd hope. Well there, now you've gone and made me nervous!" She joked, grinning.
I laughed, nervous as well. "Not every girl is the same." I choked out, unsure as to how I'd explain that to her. "But... no, don't be nervous." I pleaded, not wanting to be banned from seeing her body again.
Isabella laughed, "Okay, I guess." I began lathering her back with soap, washing her already clean skin.
Once I was done I wished I had more to do. Instead I dropped the soap and made sure she was rinsed off, "I'll grab you a towel."
"When does your mom come home?" She asked, seemingly randomly.
"Not until 5:30."
"So, after school?" She asked.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Do they call and say you skipped if you missed the whole day?" Isabella inquired.
"Nope, only if you skip after you're accounted for." Did she want to skip again?
"Did you want to go to school today?" She asked.
"Not really. I'd much rather stay at home with you..." I trailed a finger down her back, feeling her shiver.
"I- I wasn't proposing sex." Isabella said, sounding nervous.
"Neither was I." I laughed. "You have to stop thinking that I'm such a pervert." I informed her, "Though we could at least lay in bed and hang out. It's a comfortable place to be."
"I'm down for that." Isabella said.
I grinned, wrapping a towel around her body. "Good."
I kept stealing glances at Isabella as she dried off while I put her clothing in the washing machine, "So, what time do I have to have you home by?"
"3:30." She said, sighing heavily.
"Plans with the family?" I asked.
"I guess." She replied.
"Do you have a cell phone?" I asked, not wanting to lose contact with her once 3:30 hit.
"Yeah. Should be in my pants."
I laughed, "Great thing to tell me as I'm about to throw them in to the washing machine." I informed her, checking her pockets. I placed her wallet and phone on the dryer as I threw her pants in, starting the machine.
"Sorry, didn't think about it." Isabella said, color staining her cheeks.
"I just wanted to put my number in. I- bad question but, can you text?"
"Yeah." Isabella smiled, "I have a program for it. I'll text you later tonight."
"Good, I'll hold you to it." I replied, leading her from the bathroom after I'd put my phone number in her cell phone. "Now, let's get you some clothes!" I preferred her naked though.
Damn teenage hormones.
(Isabella's POV)
"These are your mom's clothes?" I asked, biting my lip.
They felt... different from my usual clothing, which I knew despite being unable to see it, was fairly conservative for my age. My mother picked out my clothing so it was to be expected that my clothing didn't match that of my peers. Currently I was wearing a pair of shorts which wouldn't even be allowed at school... I'd think. They were much too short! And the shirt! It felt like it tied where my breasts were, revealing cleavage.
Frank laughed, "Okay, so they don't belong to my mom..." he admitted.
"Frank!" I yelled his name, "Whose clothing am I wearing?"
Frank was still laughing as he answered, "Amy's old clothing. She left it here. I offered to give it back but she didn't want it. Guess it's yours now."
"This- this isn't very PG." I said, wrinkling my nose.
"Well, you look like a normal teenager."
I bit my lip, "Does your mom have make up?"
"Of course. What girl doesn't?" Frank asked, pausing. "You don't, do you?" Then he cursed softly, under his breath.
I laughed, "I don't. Wanna apply some? Make me pretty." I pleaded, wanting to look... like other girls, despite how wrong it felt. Just this once, while in Frank's house. What would the harm be?
"You're already pretty." Frank responded, making me smile.
"Humor me, please?" I asked.
"Okay." Frank faked an accent suddenly, "But I'm no fashionista."
I laughed, "You're an artist. Think of me as your project. Free rein."
I could hear the smile in Frank's voice as he agreed, "Okay."
It turned out that I didn't like being 'made pretty' very much. There was a lot of poking around the eyes, which made me uncomfortable. "How do I look?" I asked, extremely grateful to be done with the act.
"Fucking hot." Frank replied, shamelessly.
I felt a warm heat spread across my cheeks, "Really?" I asked, surprised with the reaction.
"Do you not believe me?" Frank asked.
"Well, I just..." I trailed off, not knowing what to say.
"We could always get someone else's opinion." Frank stated.
"I don't think I want to go to school like this!" I said, horrified with the idea.
Frank laughed, "Oh come on, it'll be fun."
"You think it'll be fun because teachers will probably see me and think I've changed in to a major slut at your hand."
Frank laughed, "True but we will know that's a lie so what's the problem?"
I felt a smile tug at my lips as I nodded, "Okay... fine. Let's go."
I heard Frank's keys jingle, "Come on love. Let's blow some minds." Love. Him calling me that sent tingles up my spine as I walked beside him, conscious of each step I took because the shorts seemed to ride up a little more each time.
(Frank's POV)
"I try not to think of what might happen, when your reality, it finally cuts through..." I smiled as I listened to Isabella sing to a Paramore song which was currently blasting through my speakers. I slowly turned the song down, wanting to hear Isabella's voice instead.
Much to my dislike she immediately stopped singing, "Keep going." I commented, wanting to hear her.
Isabella shook her head, blushing again. I frowned but turned the music back up, listening to the original artist instead. It wasn't working for me so I changed the song, hoping to bait her in to singing again. It didn't happen and unfortunately I was pulling in to a parking spot at the school moments later.
"Ready to make everyone here jealous?" I whispered in to Isabella's ear.
Isabella giggled, "If you're so sure that we can..." I'd build that confidence up so fast...
I jumped out of my car, happy to find that it was close to lunch time. "Just follow my lead." I told her, grabbing her hand as she stepped from my car.
I watched the shorts bunch up slightly, revealing more of her toned legs.
-You make me feel so alive...-
Each step next to Isabella made me feel stronger. I knew I wouldn't let anyone bring her down. The bell rang, signifying that we'd soon be drowned in students.
-I've got purpose once again...-
Isabella's hand tightened around mine and I wished I could see inside of her head. I wanted to know what made her nervous so that I could smash any fears she had in to pieces. "You look beautiful." I whispered, just as we stepped on to campus.
I glanced around, seeing that students were staring at us in confusion. I just smiled. "Frank!" Someone called my name, causing me to turn around. Isabella turned with me, still holding on to my hand. "Hey dude, didn't see you at all yesterday..."
"Yeah. Hey Gerard, I was a little busy yesterday. Isabella and I were hanging out. By the way, this is Isabella. Isabella, meet Gerard Way." I introduced them.
"Hey Isabella!" Gerard greeted her, a smile upon his lips.
"Hi, nice to meet you." Isabella responded, smiling warmly.
"Newest conquest?" A new voice whispered, a little too loudly to be discreet.
I rolled my eyes, "Hey Mikey. Isabella, this is Gerard's younger brother. Meet Mikey Way. And no Mikey, Isabella and I are just friends."
"Oh, do we hold hands with friends now?" Mikey asked, rolling his eyes as he grinned.
"Shut up Mikes." I said, smacking him in the shoulder with my free hand.
Isabella hadn't said anything so I nudged her, "He's just joking around love." I informed her, "Usually he's not such a dick."
"Yeah, sorry." Mikey apologized. "Just thought you were some tramp."
"Lovely apology." Isabella said, blushing. "I suppose I must look like a tramp."
Uh-oh. I shot Mikey a quick glare and he put his hands up in defeat, "No! No! Definitely not... You look fantastic." Mikey quickly said.
"I think you look hot." I said, squeezing her hand. "Stop getting nervous. I applied the make up perfectly... and the outfit looks gorgeous on you."
Both Mikey and Gerard gave me looks of utter confusion.
"Thanks." Isabella said, smiling weakly.
"You do look hot. Where the fuck did you come from though? I don't remember ever seeing you before now." Gerard said.
"She's new." I informed Gerard.
"And you've become a make up artist?" Mikey asked, jaw hanging open slightly.
Isabella let go of my hand, stepping forward. She poked the direction in which Mikey was standing, poking him in the chest. "It would be kind of hard for me to do it." She replied, swatting at him. "Especially since that was supposed to be your arm and I think I got- well, I'm not really sure what I hit... making me have terrible prospects when it comes to applying make up."
Mikey looked startled so I decided to tell him, "Isabella is blind." Before he made a stupid assumption. Knowing Mikey... he could come up with anything.
"Shit." Mikey breathed out.
Isabella stepped back, running in to someone before I could stop her.
The guy stopped, setting his eyes on Isabella, "Hello there beautiful. You must have fallen from heaven because-" He tried out a line, making me roll my eyes.
"She's not interested Bob." I snapped, cutting him off.
Bob sighed, "Are you sure?" He stared at Isabella, "I'm Bob. Nice to meet you."
Isabella smiled, not shaking the hand he had outstretched since she couldn't see it. "Hello, I'm Isabella but Frank is right. I'm probably not interested in whatever you want..." Then she blushed. "Oh god, that sounds terrible. I mean, I am okay with being friends but I don't want to have sex and I know some guys call girls beautiful so that they can sleep with them..." She stopped, her face fiery red. "Frank?"
I laughed and stepped closer, grabbing her hand. "She just means she's taken." I told him, lying.
Bob nodded, "No problem. Friendship works for me. See you around Isabella!" And with that he wandered off.
Isabella groaned, "God, I suck at talking."
"It could have been worse." I informed her, amused.
"Taken?" Mikey repeated, grinning.
"Taken?" Isabella asked, confused.
"It's just easier when you want guys around here to back off." I replied, blushing. Why had I said that she was taken? It just... slipped out.
"Oh." Isabella replied. I didn't even see the frown on her face and if I had... I wouldn't have questioned it since she was tugging her shorts down, looking uncomfortable with her appearance.
"So, do you guys want to hang out later?" Gerard asked.
"I'm down. Isabella can't though."
Isabella's frown became more prominent. "What time?"
"Around 7:30." Gerard replied.
"I'll see if I can." Isabella said, smiling again.
The bell rang, sending students in all different directions.
(Isabella's POV)
"Frank." I whispered, leaning closer to him.
"Yeah?" He whispered back, holding me against him.
I was sure I'd gotten plenty of dirty looks from the teachers in each class we'd been to but I didn't care. "We have to go soon. I have to be home by 3:30." I told him, hoping I wouldn't be late. "And I still have to go to your place to change and take this make up off."
Frank nodded, "No problem. Now, I want you to pretend to have a stomach ache."
I groaned loudly, grabbing on to my stomach.
"Isabella, is something wrong?" The teacher asked, concerned.
"I don't feel so well." I replied, groaning again.
"Mm, perhaps you should see the school nurse." She replied.
"I'd be more than happy to take her." Frank commented.
"Oh, would you?" I asked, pretending to be surprised.
"Alright but be quick Mr. Iero." The teacher said, going back to her lesson plan.
Frank's hand pressed around mine and I stood with him, exiting the classroom.
Once outside I smiled, "Thanks. I didn't mean we had to leave now but- now is good."
"Gives us about an hour and a half alone." Frank replied, "Not nearly enough time but we'll make it work."
Frank had thoroughly wiped my face clean of any make up. It felt... refreshing to have all of the make up removed. "I'm putting your clothes in the dryer." Frank notified me. "Shouldn't take too long then you'll be good to go."
"Am I?" I asked, seemingly randomly to Frank but it wasn't random as far as I was concerned.
"What?" Frank asked, sitting beside me on his bed.
"Am I your newest conquest?" I asked, referring to Mikey's earlier words.
Frank paused, running his fingers along my jawline. "Do you want to be?"
The question should have been easily answerable but at the moment... It wasn't.


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These fun rice balls are like sushi for beginners. Stuff them with any veggies you like, but I prefer the cool crunch of cucumber with the richness of avocado. They are great to serve at parties, but easy enough to make to pack into lunches or serve as an after school snack. Gomasio, a Japanese condiment, is found in most natural food markets near the sesame seeds, but is easily made by mixing toasted sesame seeds with a pinch or two of salt.
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Rinse rice until water runs clear. Drain well. Bring 1 1/2 cups of water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add rice and salt, cover and cook on low for 15 minutes. Take off the heat and let sit for 10 minutes longer. Fluff with a fork and let it sit until it is cool enough to handle.
Place the Gomasio and black sesame seeds in separate bowls. Using wet hands, form the rice into balls about the size of a walnut. Make an indention with your index finger and stuff the balls with a few pieces each of cucumber and avocado. Form rice around the filling and roll half of the balls in the Gomasio and half in the black sesame seeds.
Stir the ingredients for the dipping sauce together in a small bowl. Serve balls with the dipping sauce at room temperature, or chilled. These can be made in advance and stored, covered, in the refrigerator.


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Have I utterly romanticised something that was dangerous and should be fixed? Has my European, drink-when-you're-thirteen, Skins UK-esque adolescence absolutely blinkered me? Or am I right to feel like everyone is overreacting about the omg!£@!!@alc0hol on Glee? Because I trust my friends, and they all seem concerned about it, but for me… in the first place they shouldn't have to have a stupid alcohol awareness week thing to even include alcohol on the show but the whole thing in general seems to satire the obsessive moralism in television narratives. The thing that kept springing to my mind was Jessie's *drugs* episode from Saved By The Bell. I'm glad we're at a stage where we don't have to pretend alcohol is something else to talk about it.
I just… it's been a long day and I can't really phrase why this pisses me off. Selfishly, I think it's that I hate feeling like I'm being passively criticised for my society's drinking culture. And I also hate the idea that Glee has to be some pure little show. Bullshit. It started out as a comedy. Let's get some of that satire, however conscious, however well delivered back please. Oh, and the Blaine ~bisexual~ storyline was a little contrived in how quickly it was fixed and how it was dealt with, but for everyone kicking up shit about that, a lot of people seem to be forgetting that Brittany and Santana are bisexual characters and I think the programme has done a tremendous job in not making a big deal out of that. Or do girl and girl sexual experiences not count in the same way?
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'The Silence of the Lambs" continues to have a following among TV producers. This dark, fast-moving new Fox series, "The Following," could easily be named after them.
Serial-killing-obsessed series such as "CSI" and "Criminal Minds" still borrow from that landmark 1991 movie, which was a rapt study of Hannibal Lecter's obsessions, his logic, his amorality, and his charisma. A series directly based on novelist Thomas Harris's character, "Hannibal," is coming to NBC in the spring or summer.


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The current buzz about Chrysler's hottest property . . .
If you have ordered, or plan to order, a PT Cruiser that will be built after July 24, expect to pay more than current MSRP.
The company's assembly complex in Toluca, Mexico, is the only place where PT Cruisers are built. But DaimlerChrysler is working on equipment and supplies to begin production at a second assembly plant in Graz, Austria, starting in summer 2001. That facility will help bring annual Cruiser production to 230,000.
Dateline: June 23, 2000
If buyers in 14 major metropolitan markets were any indication, nearly half of the early Chrysler PT Cruiser owners were paying cash for their hot new vehicles.
Auto industry researcher J.D. Power and Associates said the large percentage of buyers paying cash for the PT Cruisers that moved off dealer lots in the major markets it monitored in the early days of sales—from Feb. 1, 2000, through May 21, 2000,—is twice the rate of other Chrysler products.
Few PT Cruisers were leased, Power said, adding that two-thirds of the early PT Cruiser buyers were in their 40s and 50s, and just one in 20 was under age 30. Typically, older buyers are better able to pay cash than younger buyers are.
Power's figures come from its point-of-sale information system that receives daily dealer transaction data from such markets as Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix and Seattle.
Dateline: May 26, 2000
Do you have your heart set on a PT Cruiser?
Get ready to reach deeper into your wallet to get one.
DaimlerChrysler, which makes the Cruiser, started informing dealers about a new-model-year price increase of up to $690 just two months after the hot-selling vehicle went on sale. The company said it was forced to announce the increase so quickly—more than two months before the price hike would take effect—because orders for the Cruiser already extended to models that would be built after the traditional start of new-model-year production.
"It's our fall price increase," a DaimlerChrysler spokesman said. "But because of the extraordinary sales of the PT Cruiser, it's fall in May."
He explained that DaimlerChrysler planned a price increase with the traditional start of the model year, even though the PT Cruiser debuted in spring 2000 as an early 2001 model. By May of 2000, DaimlerChrysler had some 80,000 PT Cruiser orders, meaning orders already extended to July 24—the date for the auto industry's new-model-year changeover and for the new price increase.
So, the automaker wanted dealers to know—and start telling would-be PT Cruiser owners—about the price hike. The spokesman, Dominick Infante, said the new models built after July 24 will get some added equipment. For example, the PT Cruiser Limited being built after July 24 includes heated leather seats and lumbar support, DaimlerChrysler said.
But judging by reaction posted at a PT Cruiser enthusiast Web site, the new manufacturer suggested retail prices—which go from $16,000 to $16,500 for a base Cruiser and from $19,995 to $20,685 for the top-of-the-line Limited—were going over like a lead balloon.
Several PT Cruiser buyers wrote they were upset because they hadn't been told about the price increase when they put in their order in early May. A few said if they were forced to pay more when their model arrived, they wouldn't buy the Cruiser or any another Chrysler product.
DaimlerChrysler has been struggling to increase production of the hot-selling PT Cruiser since the vehicle launched in spring 2000. Only one assembly plant—in Toluca, Mexico—builds the vehicle now, and 19 percent of PT Cruisers built there are slated for overseas markets.
DaimlerChrysler plans to add PT Cruiser production to an Austrian assembly plant, but that won't happen until 2001.
Dateline: May 19, 2000
Hollywood has long been the land of Mercedes and BMW.
But these days, if you're really hip, you're driving a $16,000 car to the movie studio. Not just any low-priced car, mind you. You're driving the new Chrysler PT Cruiser.
"It's the hottest car in Hollywood," said a company source. "They don't care what it costs. It's all about style."
Indeed, since the retro-styled PT Cruiser went on sale this spring with a starting manufacturer's suggested retail price plus destination charge of $16,000, Hollywood celebrities have been lining up to get one.
Among the new PT Cruiser fans are award-winning actor Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile) and movie director Barry Levinson (Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Wag the Dog).
Actor-comedian Robin Williams didn't catch the PT Cruiser "bug" until he saw Levinson's Cruiser at a party. Then Williams had to have one, too, the company source said.
And after singer-actress Cher and son Elijah Blue ordered a Cruiser, daughter Chastity took a test drive to see if she wanted one, too.
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Mooseheads owner Bobby Smith confirmed to TSN on Friday that the team has been notified, while a spokesman for the group said it will be the, "first of many."
The Globe and Mail and QMI Agency reported Thursday and Friday that the group, led in part by former NHLer Georges Laraque, sent CHL president David Branch, Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson and every Canadian Hockey League team a six-page letter regarding, "blatant disregard for the bare minimum working standards that have been set for employees."
"In reality, the players don't want to fight in court against the owners to have minimum wage," Laraque told QMI Agency on Friday. "They simply want the best possible conditions."
The letter charges that the players are not paid minimum wage and are not given overtime or vacation pay, among several allegations that junior hockey breaches the Employment Standards Act in Ontario.
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"The CHL vehemently disagrees with the recent allegations made by Georges Laraque on behalf of the Canadian Hockey League Player's Association (CHLPA)," the statement said. "Mr. Laraque, knows better than anyone, the investment that we make in each of our players and our commitment to ensuring that the player's amateur hockey experience is maximized."
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President Barack Obama is not letting the failure of his administration to secure passage of the multi-trillion dollar cap-and-trade legislation before the Congress broke for its election recess, slow his effort to impose "green" mandates on businesses and consumers.
Just last week, it was reported that the Administration was preparing to intervene yet again in the marketplace; this time by placing a host of new energy regulatory mandates on producers of household and commercial appliances, and threatening fines for failing to comply.
In addition to these restrictive mandates, the administration will offer loans and tax breaks to companies producing these "green" alternatives. Incentives would be offered to consumers to buy these appliances, which they would not otherwise be inclined to purchase because of their higher cost and less desirable performance.
Any incentives, whether offered to the consumer or the business gaining an unfair advantage in the market, will of course be funded on the backs of taxpayers. Given that we currently face trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, it is hard to grasp why we are engaging in costly programs that otherwise would fail.
The answer, of course, is that liberals like Obama believe so strongly in the benefits of "going green" that virtually any cost to push the American consumer in that direction, regardless of how strongly they resist, is a small price to pay for a greener world. And, if the Congress will not for whatever reason go along, then like a parent forcing an unruly child to eat their vegetables, the President will just have to do so by regulatory fiat.
October 8th, 2010
8:12 am
I could not figure out what clothes to wear this morning. Maybe Mr. Obama will develop a list of government guidelines for how we should dress each day.
October 8th, 2010
8:18 am
The goal of cap and trade is to limit the rise in global temperatures to 3.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2050 by reducing carbon dioxide and other emissions from companies as part of a larger plan for curbing global warming.
To achieve this goal the U.S. government should stadily tighten the cap until emissions are reduced to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
To finance the plan the government would sell permits to companies that would allow them to emit so many metric tons of pollutants into the air, gradually reducing it over time. This would generate income for the government of 50 billion dollars going up to as high as 300 billion dollars.
Soooo, as I understand it, the populance would benefit by having cleaner air to breathe and the government would benefit by making a profit.
October 8th, 2010
8:48 am
Mr Barr
Your either reincarnated from a previous century or you still have political aspirations and are therefore pandering to your uneducated base.
I believe you are too intelligent to ignore the leaders of modern science; but, I could be wrong.
October 8th, 2010
8:51 am
this must've taken a whole minute to think of and type…bob must have a breakfast date today.
October 8th, 2010
9:03 am
We had a webnar meeting last week with the White House on this very subject. It was presented on Facebook ( what a joke). This program of grants and loans involve BILLIONS of dollars and this event was their effort to explain the semantics of it. It lasted less than an hour and was the single most non-professional presentation I have ever seen. The vast amount of the live responses were" just what the hell was that" !!
You could have given the script to a ten year old and they could have made more sense of it. The people of this country have no idea that we are asleep at the wheel and if we don't do something next month I am truly afraid we may not be able to survive without some form of collapse and painful restructuring.
October 8th, 2010
9:26 am
Common Man; buy grey — it looks morose and fits the Big Gov mystique.
October 8th, 2010
9:28 am
Meanwhile, another awful report on unemployment today: Only 65,000 private jobs created, a total of 95,000 jobs lost due to census jobs going away, no change in the unemployment rate. Great job, Barry! Oh, I forgot, it's Bush's fault.
October 8th, 2010
9:29 am
You have not been name jacked. Clearly I have a different name than you. I assume your literary prowess includes spelling as well?
This is nothing new. The Feds love to employ regulations that they cannot manage or truly monitor.
October 8th, 2010
9:29 am
What is the use of having a job and having our economy improve if we cannot breathe the air or drink the water?
We cannot sacrifice one for the other. We use the Earth and it resources to survive. We cannot neglect them or abuse them. Otherwise we will not survive. Will a job help us when we are dead?
October 8th, 2010
9:55 am
Never mind the tax incentives that big oil and coal have been getting for years "on the backs of taxpayer". These just leave us with wars in the Middle East and air quality that kills more Americans than terrorists ever have. Wake up Bob.
October 8th, 2010
10:04 am
Too bad someone didn't intervene to stop the Bush.
October 8th, 2010
10:22 am
The goal is to rid the world of Muslims. And who better to to do that than a bunch of faceless fatcat bureaucrats.
If you'd like to substitute Jews or plastic beer rings or oil exploration or big macs or reefer or large waistlines go right ahead, you're a good citizen.
You are a good citizen, aren't you? Hard to tell, since that definition is changing by the day.
October 8th, 2010
10:24 am
First of all Mr. Barr its President Obama for you and all these un Americans that do not want to respect the office.
Second, when will you people come in the 21st centuary? Its amazing we finally have a young President who cares about the world and the things we do to it. What has Bob Barr ever done for America?
Thanks President Obama for being a true leader around the world but continue to have to fight these old 1955 20th century idiots who are not going to be here any way.
October 8th, 2010
10:27 am
For Common Man:
Uncle Daddy Guvmint is going to tell you what to wear. Shoes are made from leather. Leather comes from cows. Cows fart and cause climate change.
Wear hemp… you can smoke if you run out of Cali medication.
October 8th, 2010
10:28 am
So, because President Obama is young, that makes him a good president? Interesting
October 8th, 2010
10:29 am
Once again, Obama proves himself an intelligent fool who is clueless.
October 8th, 2010
10:30 am
Centuary? Do you worship at Obozo's centuary?
October 8th, 2010
10:34 am
The air smells fine to me, and the water tastes fine. Maybe if the "sky is falling" crowd didn't have such a poor history of getting it right, we'd find it easier to believe them. It also doesn't look good when the main repository of data for the global warming fanatics is run by people who admit in email correspondence that much of what they've been saying is either A.) made up or B.) wildly exaggerated.
October 8th, 2010
10:35 am
The problem you and most liberals DON"T see is they REALLY don't care at all about what you hold dear. I have been in and around DC in the field of energy for 30 years. The ones in the 'Know" can tell you pretty quick they have done no homework on real issues and played to the lowest common denominator, your fears…all the while playing the old shell game to gain more political ground.
October 8th, 2010
11:01 am
funny how without these additional regulations the air and water in america is cleaner now than it was 40 years ago. Also funny is how the water in air in other countries that invoke similar regulations is worse now than 40 years ago.
yeah, obobo is great, obobo is good, he will save us, we do not need to think or get off the couch, because the god almighty obobo will provide.
October 8th, 2010
11:06 am
and to the person that referenced the scientists, you mean the same people that were lambasted for putting out the IPCC report, the one that used improper sources, manipulated data, and had incorrect conclusions. the same report that was given a failing grade by a peer review journal. yeah, if anyone believes that scientists hold good works and the truth above the lure of billions of dollars of research grants, you are an idiot and this whole discussion is a waste of time.
October 8th, 2010
11:12 am
nelson: By definition, the government cannot "make a profit" in a business sense. If and when the Federal Government becomes a for-profit entity it will no longer be our Constitutional government.
October 8th, 2010
11:17 am
Nelso wrote: "Soooo, as I understand it, the populance would benefit by having cleaner air to breathe and the government would benefit by making a profit."
Nelson, do you not understand that the businesses being taxed will make up the difference by either raising prices, cutting employess, or both?
Whether the government takes the money out of your paycheck or raises taxes on companies you buy products from, the money is going to be taken out of YOUR pocket either way.
I'm wasting my time. Liberals will never understand economics.
October 8th, 2010
11:19 am
Is it impossible for liberals to think for themselves?
October 8th, 2010
11:40 am
Liberals are the three monkeys "Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil" about all things Obama. The truth is that America has waken up to the sham that is the Obama administration. His hard push straight to the arms of socialism continues. wouldn't be surprised if he authors an ammendment in 2012 where he cannot be voted out of office. He is truly a blind gopher looking for his shadow. The Libs follow him blindly while failing to see that the rest of us are waking up to Obama. We are coming…and we will clean him out. In two years, Obama has solidified himself as the worst president…eclipsing even Jimmy Carter. And that's saying something……
October 8th, 2010
11:41 am
Lot:: Is it possibe for you conservatives to think for your self? You never heard the world Socialist being thrown around untill fear tactic Beck and college drop out Sean Hannity.
October 8th, 2010
11:42 am
He is without a doubt the WORST President ever!
October 8th, 2010
11:43 am
BS Real American. Explain to me why you like Obama!
October 8th, 2010
11:44 am
Not my Real Name
What a great idea. Truly revolutionary
October 8th, 2010
11:46 am
Real American
Funny that you don't recognized the propaganda tactics used by Michael Moore, Rachel Maddow, and Bill Maher. I thought you libs weren't hypocrites
October 8th, 2010
11:46 am
Dave: where was this new found Love for your country under Bush? No the worst President honor goes to George W.
President Obama, dispite you impatient bigots will go down as the President that saved America from going under. When he took office Stock market had crashed, auto industrial had crashed.
George W lost over 5 million jobs under his admistration but you conseratives have a blind eye on the mess this man created.
October 8th, 2010
11:48 am
Real American…you forgot to mention all of Obama's accomplishments that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize before he started his rule. Maybe Obama will get an invitation to Augusta when he is done polishing up his golf game.
October 8th, 2010
11:54 am
And you conservatives, please stop using Ronald Reagan name, people under 35 could care less what he did 30 years ago, this is a new century.
I noticed most conservatives skip over George W accomplishment and always go back 30 years ago.
Ronald is dead and not comming back.
October 8th, 2010
11:56 am
Real American, the term Socialist has been used to describe Obama even in his campaign days and follows through to the truth still. Don't stand there with your head in the sand. In Novemeber, the first Liberal yard sale begins and then we cut the head off the snake in 2012. You had your chance and all the Democrats did was hit dirt and begin to dig. Look at the polls and the election results, then gnash your teeth all you want. Read it, learn it, live with it.
October 8th, 2010
11:59 am
"President Barack Obama is not letting the failure of his administration to secure passage of the multi-trillion dollar cap-and-trade legislation…"
I wouldn't make that call just yet. There's a lame-duck session coming up and I'm sure cap-and-tax, amnesty for all illegals, more tax hikes (i.e. "economic equality"), and the rest of the socialist excrement will be revisited.
October 8th, 2010
12:03 pm
Real American
You need to learn how to spell.
October 8th, 2010
12:19 pm
Read my posts on CT's blog.
I prefer men
October 8th, 2010
12:32 pm
Dave: who cares about the polls? We are comming out in large numbers? Before you call President Obama a socialist look up the meaning, Bush was the biggest Socialist ever.
Dave continue to get your news from Anti Obama Fox news and Rep are going to be in for a shock.
Paleo: find a real name
October 8th, 2010
12:42 pm
Real American
1) Don't hate. Its not liberal.
2) If the new liberal talking point is that Fox is funding the GOP. Then why not be honest about ALL other news channels that are liberal? You people are crying over 1 channel – on cable nonetheless. Must be worried about something?
October 8th, 2010
12:45 pm
Meanwhile, California grossly miscalculated pollution levels in a scientific analysis used to toughen the state's clean-air standards, and scientists have spent the past several months revising data and planning a significant weakening of the landmark regulation.
The pollution estimate in question was too high – by 340 percent, according to the California Air Resources Board, the state agency charged with researching and adopting air quality standards. The estimate was a key part in the creation of a regulation adopted by the Air Resources Board in 2007, a rule that forces businesses to cut diesel emissions by replacing or making costly upgrades to heavy-duty, diesel-fueled off-road vehicles used in construction and other industries.
Yep, let's trust these scientist. I'm sure they have NO idealogical reason to manipulate the data. Liberal and scientist – two words that should never be combined.
October 8th, 2010
12:50 pm
Children should eat their vegetables.
October 8th, 2010
12:57 pm
Paleo: Lets look at these people back ground on Fox, Sean Hannity 3 times college drop out, Glen Beck never went to college ex drug user, Oh lets not forget, Rush L. never finish high school. There is a real concern when millions of people follow these idiots who promote Anti Present of the United States.
October 8th, 2010
12:58 pm
It will be interesting to watch the conservatives suffering from smog and the other effects of a decreasing ozone while they vote . I imagine if Bob and his cohorts had their way, there would be no federal laws enacted to help and protect the citizens of this country. First we could start with the elimination of HHS and the FDA. Why fund these agencies when people do not want the help. I am sure there are many other agencies that watch out for the general public, we can get rid of.
October 8th, 2010
12:59 pm
Anyone that believes that man can destroy something that God has created, is just plain dumb. (All you liberal, unsaved, agnostics, don't bother replying). You'll acknowledge the name of God soon enough.
October 8th, 2010
1:01 pm
*To Real American: "Lets look at these people back ground on Fox, Sean Hannity 3 times college drop out, Glen Beck never went to college ex drug user, Oh lets not forget, Rush L. never finish high school. There is a real concern when millions of people follow these idiots who promote Anti Present of the United States."
Real: How about you check the background on Obama?? lol Oh wait…………..he won't release his educational records. I forgot.
October 8th, 2010
1:03 pm
Mike: Do you mean the same FDA who approves drugs and then recalls them as "dangerous" a couple years later? Thereby funding all the attorneys suing the company? That FDA?
October 8th, 2010
1:05 pm
At the root of every government tax or spending policy is the criminal Federal Reserve. All of this money comes from their very existence. If you want to reign in government you MUST END THE FED. Sound money inherently restricts the growth and power of government. Elections certainly aren't going to do it. The constitution certainly isn't (the Fed is of course unconstitutional, like so many other government agencies, programs, etc.).
October 8th, 2010
1:22 pm
Patriot: I totally agree.
October 8th, 2010
1:26 pm
"like a parent forcing an unruly child to eat their vegetables"
You could not have made a better analogy, Mr. Barr. Open up. It's good for you.
October 8th, 2010
2:05 pm
If Obama cures cancer, will Bob come out in favor of cancer?


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San Jose Sharks GM Doug Wilson announced Thursday that he has re-signed restricted free agent winger Devin Setoguchi to a three-year deal. While the Sharks organization always "fails" to disclose monetary terms when they announce signings (as per club policy), sources have confirmed the deal to be worth nine million dollars, an annual cap hit of three million per season.
After a second straight inconsistent season from Setoguchi this past year, one might have expected the Sharks to take a wait and see approach on their restricted right wing. During 2010-11, the eighth overall pick from the 2005 NHL draft earned $1.8 million after seeing his point total fall from 65 in 2008-09 to 36 in 2009-10.
While Setoguchi did have a strong second half and playoff, it is hard to say that he "rebounded" with just 41 points in the regular season.
Setoguchi did add seven goals in the playoffs in 18 games, three came in one game against Detroit leaving just four spread over the remaining 17. Just another example of some inconsistent performance from the speedy right wing.
This offseason was Setoguchi's last as restricted free agent and the signing shows Wilson did not want to let his young forward test the unrestricted pool after this upcoming season.
Had the Sharks held of on coming to terms with Setoguchi, it would have been highly unlikely that any one team would have offered a deal over $3.1 million annually which would require a first and third round draft pick in compensation. Not only that, but it would have still been unlikely to see any team offer a deal between $1.8 and $3.1 million, which would require a second round pick in compensation.
Signing restricted free agents away from teams simply isn't a popular move to make. When you consider Setoguchi's track record, a second round draft choice is about of equal value.
No question Setoguchi has the potential to be a consistent 25 goal plus, 50 point plus player in this league but potential is a key word and it has yet to be reached in this case. Now that Setoguchi has a multi-year deal in place, the natural incentive to perform at a career-year level is gone. While that doesn't mean he won't have a year equal to or better than his contract, it is no secret that plenty of the better statistical seasons for professional athletes come during campaigns when they are due for a new contract.
Obviously it depends on the individual's preference to positive and negative reinforcement. Season to season Setoguchi did not vastly out play his previous contract to deserve $1.2 million more annually.
The thinking on San Jose's end has to be that by signing Setoguchi to a long term deal while his stock is low, inevitably they will get more bang for their puck when Setoguchi reaches his potential.
However, that "when" really should read "if" because the track record doesn't indicate an upward trend.
Think of it this way: Going into this past season Setoguchi had point totals of 65 and 36 in his previous two seasons and while they won't admit it, the Sharks obviously benefited from Setoguchi having another season much closer to that latter number.
Had Setoguchi put up another 65 point season, you can guarantee he would have earned a much fatter pay raise. Most likely into the 4-4.5 million range, an amount that would cause the Sharks much more of headache on whether or not to keep the winger in teal.
Yet with another point total far short of his career year, the Sharks now have Setoguchi under contract at a reasonable price for a 40-50 point winger. Looking around the league at wingers with a similar cap hit for next season, the Setoguchi deal fits right around the middle.
Chris Stewart (St. Louis): 59 point average last two years
Dustin Brown (Los Angeles): 55 point average last three years
Matt Moulson (N. Y. Islanders): 51 point average last two years
Patric Hornqvist (Nashville): 50 point average last two years
Kris Versteeg (Philadelphia): 48 point average last three years
Devin Setoguchi (San Jose): 47 point average last three years
Andrei Kostitsyn (Montreal): 40 point average last three years
Dan Cleary (Detroit): 40 point average last three years
Colby Armstrong (Toronto): 31 point average last three years
In a sense, even if Setoguchi doesn't reach his 50 plus point potential over the course of his new contract, the deal isn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination. Let's say Setoguchi were to finish with 47 points each year for the next two seasons. The Sharks would no question be getting their monies worth in terms of offensive numbers.
But do the Sharks win the Stanley Cup with that level of production from Setoguchi?
Of course one player's performance does not guarantee losing or guarantee winning. The point to ponder is whether or not another one year deal between $2-2.5 million would best push Setoguchi to have another career year. With unrestricted free agency coming up for a player who has had an inconsistent track record, that very well could push him to a career year that ends up in a fantastic playoff performance and a Stanley Cup ring.
In that outcome, Setoguchi would hit the jackpot as an unrestricted free agent and would most likely earn a deal in the $5 million range, a contract which would be extremely difficult for the Shark to swallow and one they would probably pass on.
And maybe without Setoguchi the following year the Sharks would struggle but they would still be Stanley Cup champions and that's all that really matters for an organization. That one-year where it all comes together.
The Sharks' core is getting older and the big three of Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton, and Dany Heatley would all gladly play through any pain, even a pain so bad that it forces each of them to retire prematurely, if it meant hoisting the Stanley Cup in 2011-12.
In any case, there is a good chance the Sharks get their monies worth on the contract they signed Setoguchi to on Thursday, but was it the right move at this point in time as San Jose continues to push for that ever elusive first Stanley Cup again next season?
You could say only time will tell, but it is a question that realistically will never have a true black and white answer. Regardless of whether or not the Sharks win the Cup in either one of the next two seasons (or in both, as Sharks fans would prefer), we won't be able to look back at this one specific question and say yes they were right or no they were wrong.
It's simply a gut feeling on how the future will turn out based on a particular choice. And if the choice that's taken is successful, that doesn't necessarily mean the other choice wouldn't have been successful. It boils down to which way do you lean?
Personally, I would lean towards going with the "tough love, prove me your worth signing long term" approach by re-signing the player with Setoguchi's track record to another cheap one-year deal. I've always preferred that style where an authoritative figure doesn't reward a subordinate until they max out their potential.
I can just picture a GM going up to a player before a season and telling him "I want more! Because I know for a fact that you can bring more" and then that player ends up having a career year.
To me, that style of reinforcement in this scenario would have given the Sharks the best chance to win the Stanley Cup both this season and in the years that follow.
But then again, I'm just a columnist, so what do I know, right?


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The Descendants (2011)
Average Rating: 8.1/10
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Funny, moving, and beautifully acted, The Descendants captures the unpredictable messiness of life with eloquence and uncommon grace.
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Critic Reviews: 49
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 4
Funny, moving, and beautifully acted, The Descendants captures the unpredictable messiness of life with eloquence and uncommon grace.
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From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning Sideways, set in Hawaii, The Descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty
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Cousin Hugh
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Payne is an unobtrusive director, a filmmaker who lets the script do the walking - in this case, perhaps too much.
One of the year's best films, a bubbly meditation on family and responsibility that weighs just enough to matter.
In the hands of writer-director Alexander Payne, Clooney has rarely seemed so much at home.
In playing an everyman stranded between anger and duty, Clooney earns an emotional payoff that a lesser actor would simply demand.
With so many balls in the air the temptation is to rush from one plot strand to another, but Payne takes the opposite approach. He also captures the complexity of emotional reactions that grief stirs.
The Descendants is an exercise in why women are such horrible, despicable shrews. When this film isn't demonising its female characters for daring to be unhappy in their marriage, it's condescending them for showing too much emotion...
A truthful, warm-hearted, deeply moving film about loss, about death, about legacies and, yeah, family.
People looking for a good lei would be wise to say aloha to 'The Descendants,' Alexander Payne's Hawaiian-set luau in which laughter and tears combine for a cinematic feast.
A beautifully touching, tragic and amusing follow-up film from the director of Sideways.
The Descendants manages to even surpass those stratospheric expectations most fans will have walking into the theatre.
Like "Sideways" and "About Schmidt," "The Descendants" lets Alexander Payne show us the Other America and the Other Americans - little lives caught up in small but epic problems far away from the La La Land of Hollywood hype, sex and violence.
Each year there are usually one or two films that don't deserve all of the insane praise they get (last year's The Fighter is a prime example) and it looks like "The Descendants" is one for this year.
Understandable when dealing with Payne's typically directionless protagonists, The Descendants occasionally feels like it is unsure of where it's going, yet it still always ambles along at a pleasant pace regardless.
A thoroughly rewarding assembled-for-adults dramedy that benefits immensely from both its island locale and one of George Clooney's finest performances.
There's some pretty tricky material for Payne and crew to navigate, but anchored by a terrific cast it's a journey of hurt and healing that lingers.
"The Descendants" goes on too long, but that's its only flaw. And frankly, I can see why Payne and his editor decided to go with this print instead of making some awfully tough decisions.
George Clooney gives a wonderful lead performance in his new film The Descendants but Clooney has always been more than just a handsome face, he's a proper movie star and in that old Hollywood tradition, he's also an everyman, one of us.
No doubt the awards hype around the film will get people into cinemas but it doesn't warrant the attention considering Payne's previous work and Clooney has put in much better performances.
Payne manages to give the film a lightness that makes it uplifting or at the least fulfilling, rather than depressing.
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And, like his other films, it's a blend of humor and sadness, though I think this one might be the least funny, and the most emotionally stirring. It's rather depressing, but it's also quite real, which is what I love and hate about his films, since they can be really hard to watch at times, yet they are films that are must-sees.
The story here revolves around Matt King, a disillusioned workaholic lawyer in Hawaii who is forced to re-examine his life after his wife becomes comatose following a boating accident. Even before the accident he already had a lot on his plate: work consumes him, and, even more pressing, he has been wrestling with the decision to sell his family's land which had been handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. That, and as he puts it, "I was the understudy parent", so his relations with his 10 and 17 year-old daughters isn't exactly wonderful.
Like I said, despite the heavy plot, which is one heck of an emotional roller coaster, there are some wonderfully funny and wry moments, and some really finely observed moments in general. That, and Payne has one tremendous cast to work with. Clooney takes the lead and really sells the complexities of the situations that Matt finds himself dealing with. Amara Miller and especially Shailene Woodley are wonderful as his daughters, and I feel like this film will be to Woodley what Winter's Bone was for Jennifer Lawrence. And we can't forget the great supproting roles from familiar faces like Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, and Matthew Lillard, who surprisingly really nails a more dramatic role. I was amazed by his work. Nick Krause is also by far the primary comic relief here, though he also pulls off a really profound and poignant scene with Clooney, that, even though I kinda expected it, was still great when it happened.
When the end credits began to roll, I was stunned. I really wasn't sure I had felt about this movie, as it was a lot to take in. I was initially thinking that I would give it somewhere between a 4 and 5, but was honestly unsure about what it really deserved. Well, I slept on it, gave it some more thought, and, even though I gave this same grade to two other Payne films, it gets a 4.5 from me. I feel okay about this, but at the same time, I have a lingering thought in my mind that, while Payne's films do deserve this type of praise, I think I might be falling into that rut where, like other directors, I find it almost impossible to get too negative or grant that low of a score. I hope I'm wrong though, and that Alexander Payne really is one of the greatest directors of his time, and of all time.
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- Matt King: Hey, I'm doing you a favor. I could go out there and fuck you up, so get a better attitude!
- Matt King: My friends on the mainland think just because I live in Hawaii, I live in paradise. Like a permanent vacation. We're all just out here sipping Mai Tais, shaking our hips, and catching waves. Are they insane?
- Alexandra King: Hey, Scottie! Raina's a fucked-up hoe-bag and you need to stay away from her! And she's going to be a meth-head and she's gonna get used by stupid guys! She's a twat! Say it!
- Matt King: I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.
- Matt King: Come after me if you want. It will just make us closer.
- Matt King: You give your children enough money to do something, but not enough to do nothing.
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L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel finally presents you with its outlook for weddings in 2012.
A wedding is an event full of emotions. During this occasion, the bride and groom's families and friends are gathered for the celebration of the union and the reception.
L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel has been organizing hundreds of wedding unions within its quarters for several years. For 2012, the wedding planning team decided to enchant and inspire you for your own wedding. Therefore, we organized the creative wedding photo shoot that we've already talked about: "Welcome to Elizabeth & Jay's wedding" and "Behind the scenes of Elizabeth & Jay's wedding".
Here is the final video… We hope it will make you want to "say yes!"
You will also visually enjoy the dishes prepared by Eric Gonzalez.
L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel | Themed Shoot from Robert Cato on Vimeo.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you wish to celebrate your wedding at L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel.
The wedding planning team.
Film © Ioan Films
Filming location: L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel
Production: TELEGRAPHE
Concept & Design: Vanessa Sicotte – Damask et Dentelle
Culinary design: Leslie Passerino – Kréavie
Assortment of hot and cold canapés, Foie gras St-Gabriel 's style with chutney of the moment and truffle oil brioche, Smoked salmon « Balik » with blinis and Vodka and caviar sour cream, Beef tenderloin and jumbo shrimps and shellfsh bisque, Black cod in cepe crust with port wine sauce, Madagascar vanilla mousse with raspberry and lime: L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel
Sweet Love Marshmallows, Cigarettes Russes, Raspberry Candy, Chocolate Pearls, Panna Cotta, Lemon and Meringue: Kréavie
Lime Cookies: Biscuits Sug'Art
Bird & Charleston: G&G Pâtisserie Gourmande
Wedding Cake, vanilla & red velvet mini-cupcakes: Simply Sweet
Stationery: BlueBerry Invitations + Kréavie
Flowers: Mimosa Fleurs
Dishes, silverware, glasses and photo frames: Linen Chest
Accessories and synthetic flowers: Philippe Dagenais Mobilier
Rugs and chairs: Ludovik
Recycled furs: Harricana par Mariouche
Bridal gown: Anne Jean-Michel
Groom's tuxedo and accessories: Waxman
Jewelry: Birks
Hair and make-up artist: Amal Afoussi
Photography: CandleWax Studio
Filmography: Ioan Films | Lifestyle Cinema
A big thank you to our bride and groom: Cindy Laverdière and Alexandre Lapointe