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joopen wrote:ExPatriatePen wrote:astro4k wrote:nocera wrote:Gaucho wrote:
Oh, I could think of a few.
Yeah. Jagr, Lemieux, Kovalev, Malkin, Crosby...
Coffey, Larouche
You all are right... All of those guys wore skates, used a stick, played on ice, and wore a Penguins sweater. DUH!
The question is was who to compare his very unique fluid style of play to.
Mikey got it 100% correct with the In-line skating point, I see a lot of Joey Mullen in him.
Kovy without the shot?
Yeah, outside of Mullen... I'd say the second closest resemblance would be Kovy. You're right.


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In recent enforcement news, an appeals court reinstated a suit against UBS subsidiaries by two Puerto Rico-based pension funds over a $757 million bond purchase.
Shareholder Suit Against UBS Reinstated by Appeals Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has reversed the 2011 decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in dismissing the shareholder lawsuit of two Puerto Rico-based pension funds, Unión de Empleados de Muelles de Puerto Rico AP Welfare Plan and Unión de Empleados de Muelles de Puerto Rico PRSSA Welfare Plan, against UBS subsidiaries over the purchase of $757 million in bonds.
In 2010, the two plans filed a shareholder derivative suit against UBS Trust Co. of Puerto Rico, advisor to the plans, and UBS Financial Services of Puerto Rico, underwriter of the bonds, which were issued by Puerto Rico's Employee Retirement Service (ERS).
The suit alleged that the UBS defendants manipulated trading by using the plans' four investment funds—the Puerto Rico Fixed Income Fund II Inc., the Puerto Rico Fixed Income Fund III Inc., the Puerto Rico Fixed Income Fund IV Inc., and the Tax-Free Puerto Rico Fund II Inc.—to engineer the appearance of market interest in the bonds, which in actuality sold very little elsewhere.
UBS Financial had to find buyers for the bonds in order to make money, and UBS Trust advised the funds to buy them. However, within a year of the purchase by the retirement plans' funds of $757 million worth of the bonds—a sufficient quantity to overweight the funds' exposure—the value of the bonds fell by 10%, "dragging down the worth of the funds," according to the court ruling.
At that point, the two plans filed their suit in the District of Puerto Rico. The suit named members of the funds' board of directors as defendants as well as the UBS subsidiaries, and said that "a presuit demand [to the boards of directors of the funds] would have been futile."
The complaint in shareholder actions is required to assert either that the corporation declined to protect its own interests after a suitable demand was made on the board of directors, or that such a demand would have been futile. The UBS subsidiaries moved to dismiss the derivative claims, saying that the two plans had inadequately pleaded demand futility in their suit. Their move was successful at first; the district court dismissed the plans' derivative claims without prejudice for failure to properly plead demand futility with regard to the funds' directors.
However, the appeals court looked at the pleadings "de novo" and found that, because of information provided on six of the eleven directors involved, there was indeed reasonable cause to believe that a presuit demand would have failed. The case was reinstated and may now proceed. FINRA Censures, Fines Firm $2.1 Million in Use of CDSs
GFI Securities LLC was censured by FINRA and fined $2,100,000, and two of its registered principals and two of its registered reps were suspended and fined for their actions in using credit default swaps (CDSs). Michael Scott Babcock and Donald Patrick Fewer, registered principals, were fined $100,000 each; Stephen Falletta and Lainee Dale Steinberg, registered representatives, were fined $200,000 and $125,000, respectively.
Without admitting or denying the allegations, the respondents consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that a client sought to reduce its brokerage costs by proposing that the broker it used to effect certain CDSs forgo charging the client commissions when it was the counterparty whose bid had been hit or whose offer had been lifted by the other counterparty.
The findings stated that through a series of communications, Steinberg and a broker at another member firm coordinated their respective firms' responses to the proposal and discussed an alternative fee schedule that might be proposed to the client. The broker convinced GFI to give the client aggressor-only terms on CDS index transactions and CDSs associated with a particular country, rather than the blanket concession the client requested.
The findings also stated that another client also sought aggressor-only terms on CDS transactions from GFI and other CDS brokers. Steinberg and Falletta coordinated GFI's response to the client with another broker's response on his firm's behalf, so the client did not get the blanket aggressor-only terms it had sought. The findings also included that other clients proposed a new fee schedule or reduction of fees on CDS transactions. The proposals precipitated a flurry of communications among brokers at affected firms, including Babcock and others at GFI, to collaborate with competitors to defeat the clients' proposals.
One client circulated a modified proposal that provided for higher commissions than its original proposal, which GFI and the other firms accepted. The other client agreed to accept price reductions that were smaller than it had originally proposed.
FINRA found that through these numerous communications, GFI sought to frustrate its customers' efforts to obtain brokerage services at rates reflecting a bona fide competitive market. FINRA also found that, through these same communications, Babcock, Fewer, Falletta and Steinberg sought to frustrate GFI's customers' efforts to obtain brokerage services at rates reflecting a bona fide competitive market.
FINRA also found that Babcock and Fewer knew, or ignored red flags indicating, that GFI's registered representatives under their supervision, including Steinberg and Falletta, were engaging in improper communication with firm competitors regarding CDS brokerage rates but failed to take adequate steps to prevent them from doing so. Babcock personally participated in such improper communications.
In addition, FINRA determined that GFI's WSPs were not reasonably designed to ensure compliance with Interpretative Material 2110-5 and other securities law requirements concerning anticompetitive conduct. The firm's WSP section concerning anticompetitive or collusive conduct lacked specificity and did not provide for ongoing systematic reviews of brokers' electronic and telephonic communications for that purpose. The firm failed to review employees' Bloomberg messages until a certain date and failed to document that it conducted any supervisory reviews of other instant messaging forms of communication. Two KPMG Auditors Charged by SEC in Failed Audit During Financial Crisis
The SEC announced that it has charged two KPMG auditors for their roles in a failed audit of TierOne, a Nebraska-based bank, which hid millions of dollars in loan losses from investors during the financial crisis and eventually was forced to file for bankruptcy. These actions come after previous charges against three former TierOne bank executives responsible for the scheme.
The new charges are against KPMG partner John Aesoph and senior manager Darren Bennett. The investigation found that they failed to appropriately scrutinize management's estimates of TierOne's allowance for loan and lease losses (known as ALLL).
According to the SEC's order instituting administrative proceedings against Aesoph, who lives in Omaha, and Bennett, who lives in Elkhorn, Neb., the auditors failed to comply with professional auditing standards in their substantive audit procedures over the bank's valuation of loan losses resulting from impaired loans. Instead they relied principally on stale appraisals and management's uncorroborated representations of current value, and ignored evidence that management's estimates were biased and inconsistent with independent market data.
According to the SEC's order, the internal controls identified and tested by the auditing engagement team did not effectively test management's use of stale and inadequate appraisals to value the collateral underlying the bank's troubled loan portfolio. For example, the auditors identified TierOne's Asset Classification Committee as a key ALLL control. But there was no reference in the audit work papers to whether or how the committee assessed the value of the collateral underlying individual loans evaluated for impairment, and the committee did not generate or review written documentation to support management's assumptions. Given the complete lack of documentation, Aesoph and Bennett had insufficient evidence from which to conclude that the bank's internal controls for valuation of collateral were effective.
The SEC's order alleges that Aesoph and Bennett engaged in improper professional conduct as defined in Section 4C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 102(e)(1)(ii) of the Commission's Rules of Practice. A hearing will be scheduled before an administrative law judge to determine whether the allegations contained in the order are true and what, if any, remedial sanctions are appropriate pursuant to Rule 102(e). The administrative law judge will issue an initial decision no later than 300 days from the date of service of the order. SEC Charges Three Former Bank Execs With Understating Loan Losses
The SEC announced that it has charged three former executives at Norfolk, Va.-based Bank of the Commonwealth for understating millions of dollars in losses and masking the true health of the bank's loan portfolio at the height of the financial crisis.
The SEC alleges that Edward Woodard, who was CEO, president, and chairman of the board, was responsible along with CFO Cynthia Sabol and executive vice president Stephen Fields for misrepresentations to investors by the bank's parent company, Commonwealth Bankshares. The consistent message in Commonwealth's public statements and SEC filings was that its portfolio of loans, comprising approximately 94% of the company's total assets in 2008, was conservatively managed according to strict underwriting standards aimed at keeping the bank's reserved losses low during a time of unprecedented economic turmoil.
In reality, the SEC alleges that internal practice deviated significantly from what the public was being told. According to the SEC's complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Commonwealth understated its allowance for loan and lease losses (known as ALLL) by approximately 17–25% from November 2008 to August 2010. This caused the bank to understate its reported loss before income taxes by approximately 64% for fiscal year 2008. Commonwealth also understated its losses on real estate repossessed by the bank (known as OREO) in two fiscal quarters, which caused the bank to understate its reported loss before income. For eight consecutive fiscal quarters, Commonwealth underreported its total nonperforming loans.
The SEC alleges that Woodard knew the true state of Commonwealth's rapidly deteriorating loan portfolio, yet he worked to hide the problems and engineer the misleading public statements, particularly those made in earnings releases. Sabol knew of the activity to mask the problems with the company's loan portfolio and the corresponding effect these masking practices had on the bank's financial statements and disclosures, yet she signed the disclosures and certified to the investing public that they were accurate. Fields oversaw the bank's largest portfolio of construction and development loans and was involved in the masking practices.
The SEC's complaint alleges that Commonwealth obtained an appraisal for its largest collateral-dependent loan that falsely inflated the value of the collateral. The bank executed hundreds of "change-in-terms agreements" at the end of the quarter to remove tens of millions of dollars of loans from its reported nonperforming loans.
Woodard, Sabol, and Fields helped enable the bank to artificially bring otherwise-delinquent loans current by permitting checking accounts associated with the guarantors of the delinquent loans to be overdrawn. The bank also disbursed loan proceeds without inspecting the property to confirm that the work requiring the disbursement had actually been performed.
The SEC's complaint charges Woodard, Sabol and Fields with violations of the antifraud, reporting, recordkeeping, internal controls, deceit of auditors and Sarbanes-Oxley certification provisions of the federal securities laws. The investigation is continuing.


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WAR HERO and May 17th at BODHI TREE etc., etc.
The good news just keeps on comin'! I just got word that the first 0DFx (Zero Defex) 7 inch vinyl EP is now available from GET REVENGE RECORDS. This record contains the demo we recorded in 1983 at a studio called The Island in North Royalton, Ohio. The guy who ran it was a total Neil-from-the-Young-Ones type hippie dude whose studio was decorated with all kinds of medieval swords and suits of armor and stuff. But the music is pure speedy thrashy hardcore in the style of Minor Threat and Negative Approach with a bit of psychedelia thrown in for good measure. For more about 0DFx as well as some samples of what's on the record GO HERE. It took 24 years to get it released. But here it is! Order yours today! In a month or so Get Revenge will bring out a second 7 incher containing another demo we did about 6 months prior to this one. And a couple months from now the contents of both 7 inch records plus a live show from 1982 and some recordings we did at our 2005 reunion will be available on a double CD.
And just so nobody forgets the stuff I posted yesterday, here it is again (thanks to Jinzang for help with the links):
I'll be doing a talk and book signing on MAY 17th, 2007 at the BODHI TREE BOOKSTORE which is located in West Hollywood, California (click for directions) at 7:30 PM. This will be the very first book signing event for SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!, my brand new book from New World Library. So show up, dammit! A good time will be had by all.
Also, there will be no Zazen class at Hill Street Center on Saturday May 12th cuz I will be in Japan.
AND, yesterday I got profiled for a story in the June issue of LA YOGA magazine. So look for that next month. They took loads of pictures and did a nice interview.
AND, an excerpt from SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! will appear in WHOLE LIFE TIMES magazine in June as well. WHOLE LIFE TIMES is an LA based mag. But they're also affiliated with CONSCIOUS CHOICE magazine in Chicago and Seattle, and with COMMON GROUND magazine in San Francisco. So I think the excerpt will appear in those magazines as well.
AND on Sunday May 20th at midnight I'll be a guest on the SUICIDE GIRLS RADIO SHOW on Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles. I'm pretty sure this is avialable on the Internets and as a Podcast as well if you're not in SoCal.
On May 3rd I was a guest on Scott Cluthe's show POSITIVELY INCORRECT on Sirius Radio. I think there's a Podacst of this. But I'll be dog-goned if I can find it. If anyone out there finds it, let me know.
AND on May 23rd I'll be a guest on a radio show called THE GOOD LIFE with host JESSE DYLAN at 10:15 Pacific Time/1:15 Eastern. That's also on Sirius Sattelite Radio. My dad's got one of those in his car. So I hope he listens.
AND Saturday June 2nd, 2007 at 7 PM I'll be in Phoenix at the ARIZONA ZEN BUDDHIST SOCIETY giving A TALK (click for details & location). So be there or be square! I'm doing two other book signings in Phoenix on that Sunday (June 3rd) and Monday (June 4th). But I can't seem to find the details. I'll either revise this post or put up a new one when I get that info.
AND I'll be all over the San Francisco Bay Area the following week. Here's what's lined up so far:
Tuesday June 12th at the VIRGIN MEGASTORE in San Francisco
Thursday June 14th, 7PM at GATEWAYS in Santa Cruz
Friday June 15th After Dinner Talk at the SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER
Saturday June 16th 7 PM at COPPERFIELD'S BOOKS 140 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA 94952
Sunday June 17th at San Quentin Prison (this isn't open to the public, but all inmates reading this are invited!)
AND on Wednesday July 25th, 2007, my movie CLEVELAND'S SCREAMING! will have its world premier at the EGYPTIAN THEATER in Hollywood. So mark your calendars!
I'll put up more details as I get them. Basically book signings tend to start at 7 PM, so I'm guessing that'll be the time for most of these. The After Dinner Talk is a regular thing at the SF Zen Center, so probably if you look on their website there'll be info.
I'm also working on possible gigs in Boulder, New York City, Akron and Montreal. So I'll let you know how that goes.
Rock on!


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The Fed's 100th Year Birthday [1]
Bernanke says: The yield on Fed assets in excess of their funding costs may fall in coming years [reducing profits[2]], but should not fall below zero.
Brynjolfsson says: This is insanely hopeful and extremely irresponsible.
By John Brynjolfsson[3]
A Chinese proverb, which could certainly be applied to the examination of monetary policy, advises: "if you want to know what the water is like, don't ask the fish."
I take this advice to heart, as it fit my approach to life—step back and look at the big picture from outside a system to gain an understanding of how it works. Not only is this more gratifying intellectually, I'd suggest it provides better insights into understanding how things may evolve given new circumstances, and allows one to be more attuned to what kinds of black swans might arise.
With this as a starting point, I look to illuminate the current state of affairs in interest rates, inflation and bond yields.
Central banking has long been well understood. Paper money, it is said, was invented in China, and dates back to the 10th Century. The oldest central bank, the central bank of Sweden, dates back 345 years to 1668. The Bank of England dates back to 1694, predating Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the US Declaration of Independence by about a century. In the following centuries, as the globe industrialized and economies transformed, modern central banking was introduced onto the landscape in 1913 when the Federal Reserve System, known colloquially as "the Fed" was created by the US Congress. It was a few months later, in early 2014, that its operations actually began.
Its creation was a reaction to the boom-and-bust cycle associated with the bubbles created by unbridled private credit creation and the panics that inevitably followed. The youngest of the major modern central banks, the ECB, was created by the Maastricht Treaty, and is a mere adolescent at 15 years old. Other major central banks are the Bank of Japan, the Peoples Bank of China and the Swiss National Bank. Coming back to the Fed, it is currently 99 years old, and on December 23, 2013 we can celebrate its 100th birthday!
In 2013 the concept of central banking will face its greatest test, starting with the Fed.


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- INTERPOL Willemstad
Member since :
31 October 2011
INTERPOL Willemstad
INTERPOL's National Central Bureau (NCB) in Willemstad is headed by Curaçao's Chief Inspector of Police who is assisted by the Deputy Head of NCB for day-to-day legal and policy activities. In addition to senior management, INTERPOL Curaçao is staffed by highly-trained specialized officers, criminal analysts, researchers, technical specialists and administrative personnel.
Under the command of the Minister of Justice and judicial supervision of the Attorney General, INTERPOL Curaçao is an independent government unit within the Ministry of Justice. It is the exclusive point of contact between domestic law enforcement agencies, including the National Police Force, and INTERPOL's international law enforcement community.
INTERPOL Willemstad is the designated contact point for the INTERPOL General Secretariat, regional bureaus and other NCBs requiring assistance with investigations and the apprehension of fugitives in Curaçao. It coordinates national law enforcement action and response, ensuring that it is consistent with national interests and law, as well as with INTERPOL policies, procedures, and regulations.
NCB objectives
- Operate as the national point of contact for domestic law enforcement agencies requiring help in overseas investigations;
- Facilitate cross-border police cooperation to prevent and fight international crime;
- Coordinate and facilitate the location and apprehension of international fugitives;
- Assist law enforcement agencies in all INTERPOL member countries to carry out investigations involving Curaçao.
NCB crime priorities
- Drugs and organized crime;
- Fugitive investigations;
- Public safety and terrorism;
- Human trafficking and people smuggling;
- Financial and high-tech crime;
- Corruption.
Staff duties
- Perform identity checks for suspects under investigation;
- Gather and share intelligence with a view to tracing and locating suspects, fugitives and wanted persons;
- Assist in the location and identification of missing persons;
- Assist in the seizure of stolen or smuggled property;
- Coordinate the extradition or deportation of fugitives;
- Obtain criminal records on individuals under international investigation;
- Verify the identity and obtain criminal records of suspects arrested in Curaçao;
- Relay intelligence and information to law enforcement agencies, and judicial authorities;
- Advise the Curaçao Minister of Justice on INTERPOL issues and other international related crime aspects.


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Employment conditions for contracted officials
All staff appointed under contract are subject to the INTERPOL Staff Regulations and Rules.
INTERPOL has four categories of posts: non-classified posts, senior management posts (Grades 1 and 2), executive posts (Grades 3 to 5) and administrative posts (Grades 6 to 10). There are different salary scales in effect in each of INTERPOL's duty stations.
Salaries paid to INTERPOL staff are not subject to income tax, but to an internal tax which is deducted by the Organization. Nevertheless, staff members should declare their INTERPOL income to the tax authorities of their duty station."Salary is determined taking into consideration the professional experience of the selected candidate.
For staff recruited to work in Lyon, participation in the French national health social security scheme and a complementary health insurance scheme are compulsory. Staff can further choose between participating in the French pension system or INTERPOL Interim Retirement Scheme.Staff recruited to work in other duty stations shall participate in the INTERPOL Interim Retirement Scheme. For health insurance, staff can either find coverage on their own and receive reimbursement for a portion of premiums or can join a scheme proposed by INTERPOL.
INTERPOL covers the costs of travel from the place of recruitment to the duty station for all new officials and their eligible dependants, as well as removal costs, provided that the official's last place of residence was more than 50 kilometers away from the new place of residence.
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Officials who are not nationals of the country in which their duty station is located and who have not been a resident of that country for more than three years, shall receive a monthly expatriation allowance (except for Short term contract), the amount of which depends on family situation and duty station. The allowance shall be paid for a maximum of six years.
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All Officials shall also be entitled to a transportation allowance.
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Maybe we could give up gasoline for lent. While gas prices have only gone up 32 days in a row, not 40, it feels as if we all are paying some penance. Gas prices have risen 43 cents a gallon according to Triple A and have not looked back since Jan. 17. Gas prices soared on a combination of factors from Hurricane sandy out east and the Richmond refinery fire on the West coast and of course the ongoing saga surrounding the reversal of the Seaway pipeline. With some refiners going into maintenance early due to the aforementioned problems there is more talk about a tightness of gasoline blending components that help produce those summer blends of gasoline that we all know and love. According to Barbara Powell of Bloomberg it seems that some of the heavier crudes that are available don't exactly pack the same punch when it comes to the production of these higher quality blends.
Then you have the refiners having to balance the reduction of supply of winter blend versus rebuilding of the new blends. Refiners in California that had to run overtime to make up for lost production after the Chevron fire in Richmond California.
Oil prices of course are knocking on the lower end of the trading range, which gives us hope that the historic run in gasoline should start to slow. Oil Prices seemed to get even weaker when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned that the economic outlook for EU continues to be weak but does expect a gradual recovery later this year. Not exactly the type of comment that is going to conjure up visions of sizzling European demand.


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On this page, you'll find several phones we know are coming, but haven't been announced yet. On page two we'll get into some of the phones we know are coming, but have yet to hit store shelves.
Apple's iPhone 6
Whether you're an Apple fan or not, the iPhone 6 is probably the biggest smartphone release of the year. If the many (many) rumors are correct, the company is sticking with tradition, and this year's model will be drastically different from those before it.
The biggest departure will be its extra large screen, perhaps measuring 4.7-inches, with a higher pixel resolution. There's plenty more gossip, too. The screen could be covered in unbreakable sapphire; the body could be very slim; and of course, iOS 8 could take yet more bold steps forward. There's also a chance it'll be joined by the iWatch, and there's even talk of a second, even larger iPhone coming soon afterwards. We should know more around September.
Read our full iPhone 6 Rumor Roundup and iWatch Rumor Roundup.
LG has continually upped its game for the last two years, and the rumored LG G3, its 2014 flagship Android phone, could be its best smartphone yet. The most exciting part? It's looking highly likely that its 5.5-inch screen will have a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, which will make it the first device widely available with such a high pixel count. Other features to look out for include a new user interface, a possible octa-core processor, and 13-megapixel camera. The LG G3's launch event should take place sometime before the summer.
Read our full LG G3 Rumor Roundup.
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Talk about Samsung's next phone and tablet hybrid has only just begun, but it's already causing a stir. We expect the screen to be bigger than ever, at least 5.9-inches, and it may even be curved at the edges, making it entirely bezel-less. Like the LG G3, Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 may also feature a 2560 x 1440 pixel screen resolution. It's early days for Note 4 rumors, but we should expect at least a 16-megapixel camera, a waterproof chassis, and some flashy new handwriting recognition features. Samsung's fond of announcing its newest Note phone during the IFA trade show, held in early September.
Read our full Galaxy Note 4 Rumor Roundup.
Amazon's Fire 3D smartphone
One of the year's most unusual phones could end up coming from a relative newcomer, Amazon. We've been hearing about its supposed plans to make a smartphone for years, but nothing has ever come of it, until set of leaked pictures made everything seem a little more real recently. If the phone does launch, it may come with a clever eye-tracking system to create a 3D user interface. We'll have to wait to find out if this is the coolest feature ever, or the gimmick it sounds like, until Amazon finally makes it official.
Read our full Amazon Fire 3D Phone Rumor Roundup.
HTC One M8 Mini
HTC spun off the popular HTC One several times, coming up with the One Mini and the One Max, so it's logical to imagine it'll do the same with the recently announced One M8. Rumors of the One M8 Mini have already started to spread. If they're accurate, it'll probably have a 4.5-inch, 720p screen, a quad-core processor, and Android 4.4 with Sense 6.0. However, it probably won't have the One M8's Duo Camera, and may shun the UltraPixel setup completely, in favor of a standard 13-megapixel camera. Hints have been dropped the phone will be headed to Verizon, and that it could be announced in May.
Read our HTC One M8 Mini Rumors Page.
Samsung Galaxy K Zoom
Samsung's follow-up to the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which may be named the K Zoom, Galaxy K, or a combination of both, is all set to be announced at an event later in April. Expect some major changes over its predecessor, including a thinner chassis, a larger screen and a faster processor. The good news is, if leaked pictures are correct, the camera lens should be flush against the body, but still retain a 10x optical zoom. We'll bring you all the news from the event on April 29, when we'll find out for sure what Samsung is going to name its new phone.
Read our full Galaxy K Zoom Rumor Roundup.


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The 57th Annual Otero Arts Festival opened for viewing by schools and the public on Tuesday morning. The viewing will continue through Thursday.
The 57th Annual Otero Arts Festival opened for viewing by schools and the public on Tuesday morning. The viewing will continue through Thursday. Students from 30 local area schools participated in the show, which contains not only visual art but also creative writing. First in the door for viewing on Wednesday morning was Cheraw School, which included many of the prize-winning artists and their teacher, Jessica Turner.
The 2013 Otero Arts Festival Committee consisted of Debbie Phillips, Arts Festival Coordinator; Deanna Soechting, Creative Writing Contest; Steven Kahaler-Taillebois, Art Contest; RuAnn Keith, Chair Department of Arts; Darlene Blackford, Creative Movement Instructor.
Otero Junior College Scholarships went to Rebekah Bunch of Kit Carson High School and Amelia Valdez, McClave High School. Alternates for scholarships were Samantha O'Leary of Crowley County High School and Sidney Buhr of Cheraw High School. President's Award went to Rebekah Bunch of Kit Carson High School.
Judge's Best of Show, senior devision, went to Cheyenne Eddy of Cheraw High School for "Cowboy." Junior Division Best of Show went to Tanner Maes of La Junta Jr/Sr High School for "Self Portrait." Judge's Choices, senior division, went to Cassi Vasquez for "Love Is My Choice"; junior division, Melody Martinez of La Junta for "Fancy Show Dancer." Three dimensional awards went to Carly McCormack of Swink for "Earth Dragon" and Ruthie Graham of Cheraw for "The Kimono."
Creative Writing Contest scholarship went to Taylor Robbins of La Junta High School, alternate Serena Gutierrez of La Junta High School. The best representative work in the senior division went to Alisa Artemova of Rocky Ford High School for "Follow the Stars." Best representative work, junior division, was "The Dead Fox on the Road" by Danielle Painter of Swink Middle School.
Senior portfolio awards are as follows: first place, Robbins, La Junta; second place, Serena Gutierrez, La Junta; third place, Trey Honey, La Junta; fourth place, Morgan Wadleigh, La Junta. Honorable mentions went to Adrianna Eckhard, La Junta High School and David Merewether, Karval High School.
Don't miss this great show of the talent in our schools:
When: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday; 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. People's Choice balloting; Awards Ceremony 7 p.m.
Where: McDivitt Center Gym


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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
There is no sun. There is no samba. Your sequins and feathers cannot come out to play today. The paint on these walls chip and fall into lead clusters on the ground. The wallpaper lazily unfurls and limps into a soggy heap. The flowers in the vase wilt as the petals go plop, plop, plop. Even though the clouds keep coming - rapid, rolling, eating everything - the wind stands still and collapses into a pile of nothing. My glitter refuses to sparkle. The gin in my tub looks like sludge. The world around me is lifeless, colorless and odorless. I've lost my jiggle, my jingle, my jangle. My jiggles won't jingle or jangle. What is life without a hip scarf tinkling on the breeze? Without an insult on the wind? Without a hip bam to the throat? Colors dull and all that is left is the grey. Saturation, like my spirit, is negative. In the distance I hear a Brazil nut hit the tile and roll away. It leaves behind a silence and I am reminded of Eponine... And now I'm all alone again, nowhere to turn, no one to go to. Without a home, without a friend, without a face to say hola puta to. *dabs tears* Let's recap, shall we?
We near the end of our Filipino tale in the thick of night. The giant moon looms overhead as our last remaining Survivors come trundling into camp drunk on giddiness and safety. Shakira (Abi-Maria) stands fluffing the flounces of her dress while offhandedly thanking everyone for keeping her in the game. "Thanks putas. I'm in awe, really." And then she reached up into her bikini bottoms and whipped out a fake idol/voodoo doll that looks suspiciously like Jell-O Pop (Carter). As she waved it overhead and danced around the campfire, Blair (Lisa) looked thoughtfully into the distance remembering Jell-O Pop, "He was such a nice young man. Remember when he'd read us the sonnets? I could really use a smoke right now." Melty (Michael), swatting Shakira's celebration hips away from his face, replies, "He took it so personally. Check under the shelter. I'm sure he hid a spare pack next to his scarf collection." *sigh* No, Jell-O Pop did not leave behind any of his fancy Russian cigarettes. All that remains of him are the ashes in his pipe and a cashmere beret that is beginning to pill in the humidity.
Meanwhile, we find Golden Boy (Malcolm) stroking his chin and glaring at Blair out of the corner of his eye. At the last Tribal Council Blair mumbled some cockamamie something or other about going to the end with someone she can beat. Golden Boy, being gilded and polished and lickable, knows she's not talking about him. So, while it is cute and charming that Blair has finally decided to play the game, Golden Boy can't risk her hanging around too much longer. She's dangerous now. Not dangerous in the sense that she could actually win Immunity or use the Latin beat in her soul to rumba someone to death. No, she's dangerous in the way that she could whine someone into submission. She could bat her eyelashes, flash that Warner charm, and manipulate the rest into feeling sorry for her. Hey, it's worked for her so far. Could it actually get her the million?
A new day dawns and with it, a bitterness. A bitterness and resentment from everyone except for my white light Shakira. Shakira sits in innocence wearing a crown of daisies while the other old bitties do everything they possibly can to make her feel bad. Dr. Denise runs her fingers back and forth in the sand and mumbles, "Well, hopefully Jell-O Pop is resting well." Melty nods emphatically, "Yeah, I wonder what breakfast poem he's reading to everyone. Do you think it's Frost or Tennyson? Remember when he read Corso and made Blair blush? *sigh* We never did find out what happened to Beowulf. I miss Jell-O Pop so." Denise then reaches across Shakira to hand Melty a coconut, "I sure do hope his pillow was fluffy enough for him last night. What if they don't sell Sobranie's at Ponderosa? You know how he gets if he has to smoke American." Melty gasps and clutches his pearls, "OMG what if they only have Marlboro's?! Poor Jell-O Pop!" Listening to all of this, Shakira grabs her purse and keeps a stiff upper lip, "I'm going to get some water, putas."
And while Shakira is away, the catty sewing circle doth play. Hens pecking at the sand all angry at themselves for their own votes. Listen, you do-gooding fuddy duddies, I'm going to lay it out for you all simple like - One. Million. Dollars. ($2.56 if you're Jeff Kent) I'd cut every single one of you loose for one million dollars. Hell, for $20 I'd poke you in the nether regions and throw your most cherished family photos on the fire. For $50 I'd skin your pets and wear them on my head. So imagine what I'd do for a million dollars (some stale saltines and government cheese if you're Jeff Kent). You shouldn't be lolling about in the sand counting the days until Shakira goes home. You should be clawing and pining for a way to make sure she's sitting next to you in that final three. You seem to forget that she'll be hurling a ninja star at R.C.'s head during the question and answer portion. Which, naturally, will be followed by a short unfair Filipino trial and then a public hanging in the town square. She's not getting the million (some pieces of string and a broken rubberband if you're Jeff Kent) you chuckleheads!
Shakira herself knows she probably can't win. But she's made it this far. "Final three" has such a lovely ring to it. Like the ringing and jingling when Shakira walks up the beach. *jingle jangle, puta, jingle jangle* Plus, it would be another feather in her sequined bustle if she can prevent that pesky Dr. Denise from winning. So, after baking in the sun and sorting through all of her files on how to whack a sex therapist, Shakira decides to tell Blair just how insignificant she is. "You're a bottom, puta." I think Shakira meant to say "on the bottom", but she's Brazilian. Everything is sex and feathers down there. Sex and feathers and bongos.
After hearing she's a bottom, Blair blinks wide eyes and asks for more details. Shakira juts one hip out to the side and flicks a speck of sand off her shoulder, "Oh, you know, just be careful. Be very careful, puta." And then she kicked sand in Blair's eyes and skipped away. To Blair's credit, she doesn't really believe the Caipirinha that Shakira is serving. She doesn't believe it, but ever since her brother, Christopher Dollanganger, visited camp she's been filled with a new naughtiness. A new whisper of evil that lets her know it is OK to scheme, it is OK to plot, it is OK to flirt with Brazilian rage and roll around in it for a spell. The problem with this new naughtiness is that it is coupled with a newly found self confidence. Sexy brothers can do that I guess. *shrugs shoulders* Self confident Blair likes to do that fake, "How did I get so lucky to have all these opportunities to choose from?" thing. That, "It's my destiny" thing. No. No. It's not your destiny. Shakira and Denise have been there all along. So have Melty and Golden Boy. Everyone around you has always been there. The fact that you've just now opened your eyes to how to move them around like chess pieces isn't a hand delivered gift from God. It's called Survivor.
And this brings us to the big Reward Challenge. Come on in guys! For today's challenge you will race up and over a slide and into the ocean where you will grab fiiiive golden riiiings. Once you've collected both bundles, you must land one ring on each peg. First person to land all fiiiive golden riiiings will be picked up in a helicopter and taken to a boat with pizza and soft drinks where you'll get to swim with whale sharks. The winner will also get to choose two people to join them. Survivors ready, go!
The Survivors leap off the start and immediately Melty and Golden Boy take the lead. The boys stay in the lead with Dr. Denise and Shakira hot on their heels. Blair, however, begins to struggle as soon as she hits the water. Perhaps getting her 1920's bathing suit wet is weighing her down a little bit. That thing is like a giant burka swirling around her and coming dangerously close to smothering her face. You almost have to give her credit for doing as well as she's done in the past swim challenges. I don't think we ever stopped to consider that she's pulling an extra 200 pounds of wet fabric behind her.
So everyone gets their bundles and now it's a race against time and accuracy to see who can land their rings first. Melty makes quick work of landing his first three rings with Golden Boy, again, not far behind. Little spitfire Denise tells herself she's throwing Nuva Ring's on cervices and, hey, she lands one! Blair manages to nail a ring as well, but, let's face it, this race is all up to Melty and Golden Boy. Both have 4 rings on the pegs and toss, toss, toss... MELTY WINS REWARD!!!
The big question now is who will Melty choose to go with him. Actually, no it's not. We know who Melty will take just like we know that he'll injure himself again at some point during this episode. And kind of like how we know we'll have a prayer scene in the near future. We know! The only thing we don't know, and the only thing that keeps me on my toes - other than what curse words Shakira will spit into the wind - is when Golden Boy will let down his lovely locks. He's like my Rapunzel. Let down your hair goddammit! (Side Note: I can't believe he had his hair in a ponytail on the Jeff Probst Show. I could have killed him. If he pulls that crap at the Reunion, we're going to have a big problem.) But I digress... so yeah, Melty picks Golden Boy and Blair.
Hearing Melty's picks, Shakira crosses her arms over her body and looks sadly at the sand. Dimples notices as her lower lip begins to tremble and remarks that she looks heartbroken. Shakira shrugs her shoulders and wipes the weakness off her face. Once the ickiness is gone, she smirks and says, "I guess my vote doesn't mean anything." *glitter falls from the sky* Yes! That is how a Latin girl serves it up. If you do something to piss her off, she'll get you back for it. Maybe not now. Maybe not tomorrow. Nope, she'll wait until you're begging for her vote and then she'll throw this little scene right here back in your face like a monkey throwing poop. "You remember when you won that reward and you didn't pick me to eat pizza? No vote for you, puta!" *pow pow*
So while Denise and Shakira head back to Migrayne (Dangrayne) to be fake-nice to each other, the others are whisked away to the crystalline blue waters of the South China Sea. Aboard some sort of a booze cruise vessel, the three gorge themselves on soggy pizza, Costco cookies, and pop. Pop. Now, I'm a girl who has lived on both coasts - not Middle America. I know not of what this "pop" thing is. In my alcohol soaked existence, pop is the noise a bottle of champagne makes when you open it. But, to straight edge Christian Melty, pop is a drug. A wonderful drug that attacks your blood, your insulin and that "good time" part of the brain that makes you want to dance topless on a bar and make out with long-haired bartenders. And that is exactly what Melty does. He whips out his iPhone and gets his best girlfriend to tweet a pic of Golden Boy signing his boobs. And then he got into a fight with some frat guy giving him the side eye before making out with the bouncer and chipping a tooth on the end of a pop bottle while flashing the crowd his thong. Or... at least that's what I've heard drunk girls do. *whistles innocently.*
Before the high can become a memory and before the hangovers have time to settle in, the fearless crew of the Pop Cruise hold their fingers up to the wind and are able to decipher precisely where a giant creature is swimming up the road apiece. Once Nemo is spotted, the Filipino crew kicks each Survivor overboard one by one for the swimming experience of a lifetime. And I gotta tell ya - it certainly was a majestic experience. Watching that giant fish come swimming up out of the blue only to discover Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama had gotten her hands all over it was the last thing I expected to see. First, she destroyed all those Marc Jacobs bags and now... a fish! Not everything needs to have polka dots on it for crying out loud.
Once the swimming is over and Melty got his ass handed to him by a fish head-butt, Golden Boy takes what is probably his last opportunity to do some strategizing without Denise lurking nearby. He tells both Melty and Blair that it'll be a blow out if any of them are up against Denise in the final three. She made it through the horrifying reign of Dreads, she survived every Tribal Council ever in the history of Survivor, she's a tough competitor with a body like one of those Leonardo DaVinci muscle drawings, she's articulate, and she has no real enemies. Add all of that up and it's like cat nip to those jurors. Melty nods and takes it all in before giving his answer with a big toothy orange soda stained grin. Meanwhile Blair thinks to herself, "Those are the same qualities you have, Golden Boy." Jostling on the boat while holy water sluices around inside of her, Blair doesn't agree with the Denise plan. She doesn't agree and she also doesn't lie. But this once. But this one itty bitty time she'll lie. It's just a tiny white lie and God is probably busy right now shaking his head at Shakira chasing Denise around the beach with a machete. He probably won't notice Blair fist pumping Golden Boy and making a final three deal that she has no intention of keeping.
Day turns to night and then night turns to morning. Only, on this morning, Denise is in mourning. Sometime in the night, a creature of unknown origin ('shakirachnid' from the Animalia kingdom, Anthropeda phylum, Arachnida class, Aranae order, Mebarek family, Shakira genus - native to forests of South America east of the Andes: Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, BRAZIL and Paraguay) clamped her fangs down on Denise's neck and released a hot and spicy salsa/poison that is now coursing through the good doctor's veins. Denise describes the pain as a sharp stinging - which, ironically, is something she hears quite often as a sex therapist. Ba dum bum! I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Upon further research into the poison that is slowly killing Denise, I came upon the following quote for the "Brazilian Wandering Spider." I bring it to you unedited...
It sways from side to side!!!
I don't want to point any fingers, but...
Some people would page a medic, get Golden Boy to pee on it, or chase Shakira down the beach with a firearm, but Blair decides that the best plan of action is to pray on it. Yes, gather around everyone. It's prayer time!
Heavenly father, please make this poison go through Denise oh so fast. Until then, cradle her like a baby and rock her back and forth like a mother would. And could you blow on her wounds while you're at it? I know it's not a burn and I know we didn't clean it with alcohol, but blow on it anyways. We ask you to heal this pain and comfort her.
Enter Melty...
Lord, we have a big challenge coming up. We have a big day. Those starving kids in Cambodia? The hell with them. Make Denise well, please. Just, you know, not TOO well. We don't want her to win or anything because we're thinking about voting her out. Final three, baby! And thanks for inventing sugar. Amen.
And this brings us to the big Immunity Challenge. Come on in guys! For today's challenge you will use planks to cross a rope bridge collecting pieces to a maze along the way. Once across you will take your maze pieces and - doh! - make a maze. Once your maze is assembled you will dingle dangle a ball through it. First person to get their ball in the finish hole wins Immunity. Survivors ready, go!
Out of the gate we see everyone using different methods with their planks. Golden Boy and Melty hurriedly place theirs on the rope while Shakira takes hers and files them down to sharp points. If a spider bite can't kill Denise, then maybe a wooden stake to the heart can. It's a risky method to use as the filing puts Shakira behind the others, but wait until she finishes. Have you ever seen a lady with habanero poison in her veins successfully run from a homicidal Brazilian? Me either. The others continue to collect to their puzzle pieces with Golden Boy and Melty maintaining a nominal lead.
Golden Boy reaches the platform and then... tim-ber! He falls into the sand and has to start the whole thing over again. At home I started to panic. I mean, I know Golden Boy is safe no matter what, but I'm always rooting for either him or Shakira to win. So, Golden Boy falls and my heart starts to race. But then I noticed it. You noticed it too, didn't you? His hair came tumbling down with that fall. It cascaded and billowed. So I smiled.
Oh sure the others are pulling ahead and Denise, with veins on fire, manages to piece her puzzle together faster than anyone else. Only, it's wrong Denise. Wrong! The hallucinations have started and the lines of her maze are all squiggly. They're dancing off the paint and into the sunlight. She tries to focus and fix the pieces, but they just won't slide into place.
Meanwhile, look who has come from behind and is ready to kick all of your asses. It's Golden Boy! Managing the impossible, he restarted the rope part, regathered all the puzzle pieces, put them in place while Denise was asking the wooden stairs behind her for help, and dingle dangled his ball through the maze.
No matter how hard Denise and Melty try to catch up, they can't. Which means... GOLDEN BOY WINS IMMUNITY!!!
Back at Migrayne the mood is somewhat relaxed. Everyone is hanging out enjoying the lazy afternoon while Melty sits fireside and keeps an eye on a covered pot. I don't know what is inside the pot and I don't know how large the gunpowder balls are that are fueling the fire. All I know is that Melty should stay away from fire, sharp objects, rocks, sticks, utensils, glass, polka dotted fish, water, pop and pillows for the rest of his life. You might be scratching your head at the pillows thing, but trust me. He'll get one stuffed with asbestos or with a family of Brazilian Wandering Spiders living inside. Just take my word on it.
So after the fire leapt up and tried to eat Melty, Shakira did a little reevaluating of the game and has decided that her only way to stay is to get Blair and Melty to vote with her to get rid of Denise. It isn't that crazy of a plan and it makes a hell of a lot of sense. The problem, unfortunately, is in Shakira's delivery of the pitch, "I'm being humble here. You can't win against Denise and Malcolm, puta." *giggles* While Shakira cracks me up endlessly, a guy like Melty (who hasn't had sugar for 30 yrs) isn't going to be entranced by brutal honesty and matter-of-factness. He's the kind of guy who needs smiles and parables and some sprinkles of the word "Lord" here and there. You need to come to him with bandages, iodine, and reasons why so and so isn't deserving. He's one of those annoyingly moral guys who probably says "Oh my word" instead of "Oh my God." So while Shakira makes a fuckload of sense to you and I, I know she won't crack his morally superior exterior.
Blair, however, has walked on the dark side and has found that she likes it. Just seeing Christopher Dollanganger sauntering into camp last week made her want to toss her rosary into the fire and say "damn" just for the hell of it. Where Melty is inherently good, I feel like Blair actually has to work at it. She has to remind herself all the time of what is right and what is wrong. Melty is such an innocent fop that he wouldn't know what wrong was if it sat on his face. Even then he'd probably compliment it and offer it some sugar-free cola. But Blair... Blair knows what evil is. She's been tempted by it all of her life. Melty isn't like that. Melty grew up on a commune sharing fruits and nuts with the rest of clowns at the Jester Academy while Blair shielded her eyes as she drove down Hollywood Boulevard. So when Melty approaches Blair with Shakira's plan to vote off Denise, the first words out of her mouth are, "Oh I like that."
Meanwhile, sensing that something is possibly amiss, Denise drops some hints to Golden Boy that she wants that spare Hidden Immunity Idol of his. Golden Boy shifts his eyes from side to side and assures Denise that there is no way they'll keep Shakira around tonight. He's confident that Denise is safe. And it is here that I wonder why Shakira and Golden Boy never had a conversation. Shakira is under the impression that Golden Boy and Denise are tight so it would have to be up to him to make the first move - like he did out on that boat with the others. All he had to do was approach Shakira with a plan to keep her safe. It would have been so easy! Damn you Golden Boy. *shakes fist in the air*
And this brings us to Tribal Council. Dimples asks Blair how the mood back at camp was after Golden Boy's win. Blair admits that Shakira was playing Survivor and making some very strong arguments to stay in the game. This, of course, causes Dimples to turn his attention to Shakira and once again be an inappropriately rude dickhead.
"So Shakira, you feel like you're in trouble?"
"Yes, my back is up against the wall."
"With all due respect, you've been detested. Laughed at! You're not likable. You're not a good person. You're just not nice."
And then Shakira flung a Brazilian Wandering Spider at his face.
Dimples brings up the point that since Shakira is so awful and wretched, she might be a great person to take to the end. Shakira replies, "Absolutely. I'm the best person to bring because they can all beat me." And there you have it. As far as I'm concerned, case closed. That's it. That's all you need to hear. You take the person you can beat. Again, ONE MILLION DOLLARS (or pocket lint if you're Jeff Kent).
Dimples then turns to Denise for her opinion on the case that everyone could beat Shakira. Denise replies, "Absolutely. If that's the game you want to play." The game you want to play? The game you want to play?! Oh come on! The only game you should want to play is the one that gets you one million dollars (poop on the bottom of your shoe if you're Jeff Kent). There is no other game anyone anywhere should be playing out here. Why put yourself through the mental and physical torture of the Survivor experience and then piss it all away because you want "good people" to get to the end? No, no, no!
And then Denise really sticks her foot in it when she says that it is because of luck that Shakira has gotten as far as she has. Blair hears this and shouts, "Oh hell no! My Fandango colors are screaming right now. It was not luck that kept us away from Tribal Council." Damn Blair. Nicely done.
Denise backpedals immediately and says she didn't mean to imply that Fandango got lucky. Denise, I like you and I realize you're trying to save yourself, but Shakira found an Idol. Shakira saved her money at that auction instead of buying herself a Grand Slam Breakfast. Shakira won Immunity when she needed it. And she was injured. And no one liked her. Babe, that's not luck. That's either skill or divine intervention from the great goddess Shakira herself.
Look, she's praying over us right now.
As with all hip shakes and booby thrusts, the goodness is only temporary. And aren't we thankful for that! Because hold onto your pasties, bitches. I give you the best scene ever.
"Choose me. You can beat me. No one can beat Denise or Malcolm. Melty or Blair can't win this game against Denise."
"What do you say to this Melty?"
"You know, it's so many things..."
"He's an idiot! That's why he's going to lose a million dollars."
"Anyway Dimples, let me finish my thought..."
"You're a moron! You are a moron."
"I guess that's her way of communicating. I don't know."
"He thinks he's going to win a million dollars at the end and he's not."
Hang on... I'll be right back.
*pads to the refrigerator and retrieves two bowls of pink glitter*
*sticks face in and blows*
I love this girl!
Which makes it all the harder. All the sadder. All the more miserable to say what I'm about to say. Standing here dripping in pink glitter a single solitary tear falls down my cheek.
Shakira is the 14th person voted out of Survivor Philippines. And this is how she left the Survivor set...
Others laughed when she pulled out her veil, but that's because they didn't understand her genius. Keep shaking Shakira. You will be missed.
So, what did you think of last night's episode? Did Melty and Blair make the right decision? How boring will the finale episode be without Shakira in the first 90 minutes? Finally, who do you want to win Survivor Philippines? Comment it out bitches and have a puta day! I'll see you back here on Monday for my final blog of the season.
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Wonderful work on what is the saddest day of the season. I've decided that Denise is my new least favorite person, narrowly beating the has-been jesus freak.Oh how awful it must have been for her to have to spend a couple of hours with somebody so beneath her. Give me a break.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2012 at 10:53 PM
The pic of Skupin dancing away from the tribal was classic. Abi's negativity was exhausting and I am sure a break from it in the last few days will be like pure oxygen coursing through the camp...I expect Penner has given Lisa/Blair up by now, so I don't see her winning and nobody roots for a therapist, so its GB or Melty down the strech and you have to give the nod to GB...as it should be. Glad you are back.ReplyDelete
I have seen the light. Or been blinded by the shimmer of all that glitter on Miss Lala's boobs. I dissent from the near-universal rejoicing at Shakira's shuffle off to Ponderosa.ReplyDelete
Excellent, admirable and wonderful as the Shakira shuffle may be, it does give Blair extra camera time. I may have to go up to my roof and throw myself off if I have to listen one more can-I-be-evil speech by Blair.
Blair, dear heart, dearest heart, you started off promising GB never to tell about the idol. Then you told about it. Since then you've managed break every promise, abandon every ally, stab almost everyone in the back, including people who are not even playing this season. None of the stabbings have got you anywhere and you're not going to win, but stop telling us how nice you are, how conflicted you are, how surprised you are to find that knife in your hand over and over again.Replies
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 5:25 PM
The one thing we have learned about the alliance power of five in this game is never, never let the #4 and #5 know they are not one of the top three dogs. I could not understand why Shakira kept flaunting her early top dog status to Blair and Melty. Shakira was saying "Blair, 4th place is pretty good for a middle-age housewife with no badonkadonk." As demonstrated last season with Kim (Handlebar) and Chelsea (Prunes), let everyone feel like they are loved until its time to dispose of alliance baggage.Delete
Irregardless, WTF any one of the final four would have been in better shape with Abi going to the finals. Can't you just go for a nice beach walk if you don't want to talk to her?
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 at 12:43 AM
I love this blog! Also, I have noticed that Blair has been given noticeably more airtime in her confessionals than any other contestant during these episodes. For example, when Melty and Blair make a decision together, it's always Blair that appears onscreen detailing what she (and Melty) will do. So, is this a hint or angling on the editors' part? It just makes me think that the editors are showing us more Blair, so that when she wins, we understand why! So, I pick Blair for the win.ReplyDelete
And I will miss Shakira! She made the last few episodes really interesting. Why didn't she play her fantasy idol?! It would've been funny.
Awesome, this is awesome!ReplyDelete
To be honest, at first I felt that Abi was simply an annoying player with no intention to win but only to create some drama, but as time progressed, I found that Abi was a sound strategic player, and definitely 1 of All-Star caliber.
If Tandang had stuck together, and not voted off their own, then things would have turned out very differently. (Pagonging of Kalabaw and Matsing etc etc)
But now, looking on to the finale, I'm fine with any of the 4 winning. In my opinion, all 4 got there through their own effort. None of them simply rode coattails, very much unlike some of the players from seasons past.
But anyways, I'm hoping Malcolm or Denise wins. I mean, unless it's a Final 2, at least 1 of them will be at the Final Tribal, and the story of surviving Matsing and all that stuff will definitely win lots of jury votes. They survived 4 Tribals before the tribe absorption, and that is certainly no mean feat. (just like Stephenie in Palau)
Good work! A very exciting read, with constructive humor injected!
Go Team Abi!
Greetings from Singapore! :D
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 at 2:15 AM
THis blog was truly a piece of shite.ReplyDelete
Thanks again Lala for another great season, you really are awesome. I was a little surprised they voted Abi, if Skupin and Lisa wanted any chance I thought they'd vote Denise.ReplyDelete
Going to miss Shakira though.
Did you happen to see bitchy RC towards Abi at Ponderosa, she's such a sore loser.
Once again great stuff.
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I'm brazilian and I love your blog, sad episode for us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Great Blog Lala! Sorry for you that your Shaki's gone.ReplyDelete
Since there was no blog last week, I would love to hear your thoughts on two things:
1. The "loved ones"(especially Golden Boy's wacky brother).
2. Golden Boy calling Shakira a bitch (you must have felt conflicted, no?).
I can live with Golden Boy, Dr. Denise, or even Melty winning. Blair got on my nerves long ago. I give her credit, but her game and her reasonings are just redundant and befuddling!
P.S. I'm looking forward to the reunion show, especially if Shakira finally finds out the truth about R.C., Prickly Pete, and the hidden immunity idol.Replies
1. I thought it was very sweet for the producers to let Miles partake of the peyote before coming onscreen.Delete
2. His hair wasn't down when he said it. No conflict whatsoever! Golden Boy was very naughty in that moment. I think he needs to be spanked.
Ode to Abi:ReplyDelete
Blithely bitchy
Beautifully Brazilian
Bluntly ballsy
Blatantly brillian'
Thanks for the laughs Abi! It's a damn shame you won't be in front of the jury - I'm sure you would have given me more. You can slap me, call me a moron and throw an Açaí cocktail in my face anytime! When I'm slapped by you, I'll take it and like it.
Lala, I'm bummed. Abi and Carter were my two favourite characters of the blog, and now they're gone. I wanted Abi to face the jury for obvious reasons, and I wanted Carter to face the jury so you could have some poetic fun with his answers. Skupe, Blair and Denise are gonna be pretty boring methinks. I hope Malcolm makes it 'cos he might pull a Todd Herzog and blow the jury away with a clever and diplomatic speech. The lad is a canny one.
This is your best blog of the season. A terrific intro, a great mix of pics, episode images and Shaki gifs, and some great lines. My fave? "All that remains of him are the ashes in his pipe and a cashmere beret beginning to pill in the humidity". Thanks for using every opportunity the episode provided to give Jell-O Pop a satisfying ending.
I might be a little late to the finale blog as I am travelling over those days. In fact, the coming finale may be the first instance of me being unable to see the episode prior to reading your blog. Please keep this in mind as you are writing it, as you'll need to devote more of your blog to a simple reconstruction of events, rather than your opinion of those events. Also, you'll need to cut back on the fantastic notions and the comedy. In fact, don't try to be creative at all - a simple transcription of the episode will be fine.
Thanks bitch.
- Presidente' of the Lala FanclubDecember 14, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Dearest Lala,ReplyDelete
My heart soared like pop drunk Melty atop the sailboat timbers when I saw you one again graced us with your divine blogging appearance. You are back in your full glittering gin soaked greatness.
I so appreciated the Melty safety list as will his wife. Even if he doesn't win the million, they will save a fortune in bandaids and co-pays.
I am so sorry your Brazilian spider slinging nymph is gone, puta. I tired of her "poor me, I am so mistreated and disliked for being honest." She could not tolerate a shred of "honesty" spoken to her. However I will miss that she will not get to speak more at the final tribal council. But know what she says will be spicy with a side of bitterness. Final Tribal hath no fury like an honest spurned Brazilian.
Unfortunately the network declined the club nomination's of you for the Fan Favorite for $100,000. I tried bitch.
We will have to show you some PayPal love.
You bring smiles to many. We lift our gin to you!
As ever,
Presidente' of the Lala Fanclub
Abi must have been more difficult than shown, otherwise they would not have voted her off, the reaction after the tribal was a first. Denise's comment about driving needles into her own eardrums rather than spend the afternoon alone with Abi was also an hint to the magnitude of the "problem". The "problem" continued on into the Ponderosa, RC was less than friendly, Abi kept up the bullying, I'll bet the remaining days in the Ponderosa were uncomfortable to say the least.ReplyDelete
Great blog this week Lala, us real Shakira fans will certainly miss the weekly GIGs!
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Some people have described Shakira as being a villain. Is this deserved? I'd like to present the evidence:ReplyDelete
1. Abi spotted that RC was a schemer who would flip as soon as she could. And a victim who would still carry a grudge almost a year later. Abi could have handled the situation better... by not threatening to kill RC, for instance. But Abi correctly assessed RC's lack of reliability and general bitterness.
2. Abi recognised Lisa as an indecisive jelly-fish of a woman. Abi is obviously a good judge of character.
3. Abi said pretty much the same things to tribe members themselves that she said in confessionals. By contrast, Malcolm said nice things to Abi's face but called her a bitch in his confessionals. Lisa portrays herself as a nice church lady. But she used a confessional to say that she wasn't calling Abi a pig, but then pretty much called her a pig. Who are the real villains here?
4. Skupin and Lisa prayed together, and apparently God told Skupin to insult Abi's mother. Abi has never insulted another Survivor's mother.
5. Vera might be completely confused about the game. But Vera isn't as confused as Zane, Angie, or Dreads.
6. Everyone knows that you don't want to win the family reward challenge because you piss people off. Abi was the only Survivor with enough strategy to realise this.
7. Malcolm and Denise voted off the African-American members of Matsing, then quickly got rid of Artis after the merge. On the other hand, Abi has never been a Klan member.
8. Tribe members slammed Abi for telling them about her food reward. But only a couple of days later they were talking about how great the food auction was in front of poor starving Abi. Who is it that lacks self-awareness?
9. Abi didn't made any Survivor cry. In fact Lisa admitted that it is "really hard not to laugh" when Abi is entertaining the tribe with her honestly expressed observations. By contrast, Denise enjoyed making Abi genwinly cry. Evil!
10. Abi tried to kill Skupin with a coconut. She would have been a certainty for fan favourite if she had succeeded. And if Abi hadn't injured him, Skupin would only have injured himself sooner or later anyway.
Verdict: Feisty Brazilian Goddess. Not a villain.
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2012 at 5:51 AM
Abi is the best player this season without a doubt! She's the Sandra-Courtney airtime show we never had in Heroes Vs Villains season! I enjoyed this season because of her.ReplyDelete
-from the Philippines!
Need to work on a phrase that is opposite of "Jesus freak". Tired of that type of empty judgement. (Scott)ReplyDelete
Not into the Abi fan club. So glad she's finally gone, even though it's a bad game play. She was just another person playing the "race card" (in her words-Latina). Her people skills need much polishing. And why was she sitting out so many of the comps?
Skupin dancing away from TC...is that a first? I truly enjoyed the peek at his glee as he departed. And I was celebrating w/him.Replies
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Right-on about Scott. Scott has a fantasy that Shakira would do him. Sadly, she won't make exceptions for 50 year olds blogging in Mom's basement.Delete
As far as Abi is concerned she get's no sympathy from me. Latina bravado=major bitch without the people skills and awareness to know/ understand that people on the show just didn't like her. See you later Patrona.
The comment of the year! You hit all the internet cliches! According to you, I believe I could date our dear little Abi, and I apparently live in my mom's basement! And from an anonymous commenter!!! Kudos, and +3 to you for hitting all the marks!Delete
No, no, and no. Abi consistently entertained me throughout the season, and that's all I watch this show (or any show) for. I have no fantasies that she'd even entertain an idea to spend time with me (ok, maybe a secret fantasy or two that helps me sleep at night), and guess what? I'm a homeowner! In fact, I have a pretty nice gig...and a new side gig that pays pretty well!
Seriously, if you don't like her, it doesn't matter to me. Whatever gets you through the show is more than ok with me. Every person has their own fanbase, and that's why there are a variety of people on these shows.
Happy holidays!
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Hmmm, Decisions, Decisions, .... Should I tweak your nipples and kiss your cute little Patootie by telling you how great & wonderful you are or should I be more circumspect.ReplyDelete
On the one hand I do very much enjoy reading all your stuff because it makes me smile. Even though it does sometimes give me a feeling just between my eyes & above the bridge of my nose that is similar to the brain freeze one gets from eating ice cream to fast. This has the effect of exasperating my dyslexia and I fear may someday send me into an epileptic fit so severe that I may never recover. ( BTW I do know that dyslexia & epilepsy have nothing to do with each other but you get my point. )
On the other hand should I be more careful, I mean I would hate to make that pretty head of your bigger then it already is. My god you would undoubtably become an even a bigger bitch then you already are. :-) As for your comment about having only spent time on the coasts, I think maybe it's time you expand your horizons a little and spend some time with us here in middle America. We would love to have you and you find that you like it. Granted you would have to learn how to defend yourself against the rampaging bands of wild savages that rome the plains, not to mention the cowboys who would only want one thing from a pretty little filly like yourself. :-)
Aww hell, because I don't want to be stuck doing the downward facing dog for another month I think I will play it safe and just say.
You did it again, your prose are masterful and it was a terrific read.
Your friend Munclejim
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2012 at 1:27 PM
So glad Abi is gone!! Don't know who I want to win the million dollars but it won't be she-witch now for sure.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM
When Lisa starts talking I have to mute it and swallow my vomit. You know she wrote a book called "creative correction" her views on parenting where she is all for spanking. Every time she questions her morals I want to slap herReplyDelete
Abi definitely got lucky. Abi sucks at challenges and literally sat out every single one. If her tribe wasnt amazing and she actually had to go to tribal council early on when people want strong tribes, she woulda been out of there. That is pure luck, and you know it lala.ReplyDelete
But great blog this season, your Melty jokes are great, they always crack me up xD. Thank you for all your hard work this season, we all appreciate it :)
Surprised there is nothing about Ponderosa, and the confrontation w/RC. Or that Carter is now infatuated w/Abi.ReplyDeleteReplies
The one where RC was a heinously ridiculous bitter bitch and brought up the Holocaust? Yeah, I saw it. I only blog the CBS episode here, but I've been commenting on Ponderosa on my Facebook page. I think RC did Abi a huge favor in those videos. Abi was apologetic and humble while RC was a screaming banshee annoyed that she's no longer the only girl there with all of the men. It must have really chapped her ass when Pete and Abi started doing the hibbidy dibbidy. I can almost picture the envy creeping up her face. Oh how I wish I had a photo of that!Delete
Interesting what you said about Pete and Abi. Your buddy Scott chastised me for discussing it a few weeks back. It's called validation!!Delete
To be fair, at the time there was no evidence that this indeed happened...and when it did it was after both of them were given the boot from the island. So more power to both of them! Boom chicka wow!!! :)Delete
You are gifted. <3ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2012 at 7:20 PM
I think Golden Boy was the big loser last episode. He either wins immunity next episode or the other three will take him out. He has just bet $1million on winning the immunity challenge. What were the alternatives...ReplyDelete
I don't think Abi ever had a chance of flipping Lisa and Skupin to take out Denise. They were never going to risk Malcolm giving the idol to Denise.
I don't think Malcolm should have co-opted Abi to take out Denise. For instance, by giving the idol to Abi. Denise would be gone, but Malcolm would still need to win immunity next episode to avoid Abi teaming with Skups and Lisa to take out Malcolm.
That leaves Malcolm co-opting Abi to remove his biggest challenge threat, Skups. It would have been an easy play too. Five minutes before TC Malcolm tells Abi to vote Skupin, don't ask questions, and he'll take care of her. Then gives Abi the idol after voting has taken place. 3 votes for Abi that don't count, and 2 votes for Skupin and he doesn't get to dance away from TC. The only risk would be if Lisa and Skupin ended up voting Denise, in which case it's 2:2 Skupin and Denise, they both attempt to build a fire, and Skupin is med-evaced a few minutes later with second degree burns.
That leaves a final four of Malcolm, Abi, Denise, and Lisa. With Skupin gone, Malcolm has a better chance of winning immunity. And if he doesn't, there is no way that Denise and Abi ever manage to work together to get rid of him.
This all might be immaterial within 24 hours if Malcolm wins the final immunity and walks away with the cash. But he has only himself to blame if we're watching his Ponderosa videos tomorrow night.
Carter's infatuated with Abi?! Oh my God Lala, this is PERFECT! You've gotta write a short story about the romance between the tempestuous tamale and the Byronic brooder! Please? I'll even give you the title you lazy bitch:ReplyDelete
"Lovers: The Affair of the Latin and the Laureate."
I was surprised that there was an interview on cbs.com called "After the Show" where Abi was shown comments made by her fellow players, the ones she will vote on.ReplyDelete
I betcha any money that Shakira will get her Million dollars when Hugh Hefner offers her money to pose nude in Playboy...☺...ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm betting she'd do it for 50 grand.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 5:31 PM
It seems like anyone with any fame poses nude in Brasil. Actresses, Singers, Reality Contestants, Models, TV Hosts, etc. I think just about every hot babe on Big Brother Brasil has stripped down for one of the men's magazines. So yes, I would almost expect Abi to be in both Playboy U.S. and Playboy Brasil. Vivo Brasil!Delete
Look, she was hot but not THAT hot. The big breasted blonde bimbo (cookie?) was hotter. RC, maybe too. I wonder if they will pose? LOLDelete


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For Father's Day – Avoiding my 10 Whisky Regrets
Posted by Arctic Wolf on June 15, 2012
Yesterday I shared a few of my rum experiences which were, let me say, less than enjoyable. The list was meant to help you avoid similar pitfalls in your search for a suitable rum to buy Dad for Father's Day. Today, I think it is only fair, that I also list a few of the whisky decisions I have regretted as well. The list I came up with, isn't really a list of horrible whiskies that left me gasping (although a couple are). It is more of a list of whiskies which in some way tainted my enjoyment such that I kind of wished I had never succumbed to their charm in the bottle.
They made me run to them, and then they made me run from them, kind of like that Gloria Jones song covered by Soft Cell:
These are my regrets, and I publish this list in hopes that I can help you avoid a regret or two this Father's Day. (Just for the fun of it, I think I will count them down in reverse order starting with a few minor regrets, working my way to my biggest whisky regret.)
My 10 Whisky Regrets
Happy Father's Day Everyone!
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GREENCASTLE — Despite a relatively sound performance against a quality opponent, the unpredictable start to the season continued for the Greencastle-Antrim varsity baseball team on Friday.
After battling back to tie the game at 2-2 entering the fifth inning, the Blue Devils appeared capable of exchanging blows with visiting South Western, seemingly seizing the momentum entering the later stages of the contest.
Unfazed, the Mustangs answered by scoring three runs in the fifth before tacking on another in the sixth en route to a 6-2, non-league victory.
"There were plenty of positives, but we still have to do a better job in all phases, especially against a team like South Western," G-A head coach Eric Shaner said. "We shot ourselves in the foot a couple times and we just haven't been able to put hits together at the plate. Hopefully we can build on the positives and improve moving forward."
The Mustangs jumped on the board early with a run in the first before Danny Stepler singled, stole second and later scored on a botched pickoff attempt to knot things up heading into the third.
Following another South Western tally for a 2-1 lead, G-A again showed the ability to keep pace as Holden Baker sent an RBI-double off the chalk line in right, again tying the game at the end of the fourth.
The complexity of the contest quickly changed in the top of the fifth, with a triple by South Western's Parker Bean sparking the Mustangs' three-run inning. An RBI-single from Bishop Elder ensued prior to a two-run base knock by starting pitcher Chris Mills, abruptly pushing the advantage to 5-2.
Despite putting three base runners on in the home half of the frame, G-A was unable to cut into the deficit, thus allowing Bean's third hit of the game in the top of the sixth to extend South Western's lead to four.
The Blue Devils then left two more on base in the bottom of the sixth before being retired in order in the seventh, bringing an unfavorable end to a game that seemed within reach.
Stepler accounted for both G-A runs while Adam Moore remained hot at the plate, hammering a leadoff double to left to begin the fourth.
Through the first five games of the 2013 campaign, Moore is batting .526 (10-for-19) to lead all Blue Devil hitters.
Jake Crist, Ashtin Byers, Cam Chilcote and Kurt Hansen also contributed a base knock in the loss.
Bean's 3-for-4 performance paced South Western followed by two-hit afternoons from Tyler Sterner and Brandon Utz.
The Blue Devils (3-2) continue their busy start to the season with three games next week, beginning at home against Camp Hill on Monday before traveling to Gettysburg on Tuesday.


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Karrueche Tran is not going to like this.
Sources say Chris Brown and Rihanna have decided to move in together...
From NY Daily News
Rihanna fans who weren't thrilled that she patched things up with Chris Brown won't like this at all: Sources tell Confidenti@l that Brown has "moved into" the $12 million Pacific Palisades mansion RiRi bought right before Christmas. The two have been inseparable lately, including a holiday rendezvous on the Ivory Coast, courtside dates to Lakers games and separate Twitter posts in which they're wrapped in identical bedding. We're even told that Brown gave Rihanna his $750,000 Lamborghini and went shopping for another one. Reps for Brown and Rihanna didn't return calls for comment.
Pics of Rihanna's new pad