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The biggest destabilization may well be in Saudi Arabia. The power elite in the Royal Family is restless and radicalized. The current leader is sick, and the transition is not as clear as in the past. Worst of all their greatest friend-USA- does not need their oil anymore. Is a US retreat from military support far behind? What happens then? The Gulf could easily explode into some serious ugly soon enough. The price of oil shoots up again, and guess who is the new kid on the block with export capability? The absolute worst case for the Saudis is unfolding, and it will affect everybody. The world is changing and the stakes are high.

Is it time to KILL THEM ALL?. I feel threatened by them right now, them and their filthy oily meat sauce. Burka burka burka!!!

I don't hate and certainly am not jealous of the Leafs, Toronto or 'the east'(actually the center). But from time to time I present facts that you are very uncomfortable with. I'm sure you'll get over it if you are capable of stepping back just a wee bit and thinking objectively instead of emotionally.

is what you before you said this: Despite your self-deprecation, I don't think you are a 'nobody'. From the NHL viewpoint, yes it would be. Everybody who loves the Leafs already watches the Leafs. Nobody in Orange County is going to watch Leafs vs Nashville because the Leafs are playing. If it is Bruins vs Kings, there is a shot at picking up some new viewers, the ones they want. It is retard marketing 101 to try to sell your product again to people who already buy it. You have to sell it to people who have not previously bought in to grow revenue.

I prefer my religion bland, mild and inoffensive so I'll start an Alfredo cult within Pastafarianism. It will be like the United Church within Protestanism,. Or maybe Unitarian.

That is seriously old school. I had counters done this spring and the estimator used a laser templating system that was quick and astonishingly accurate. This was in a complex kitchen where none of the corners were square and the walls had the usual waves There was no manual measurement or angle calculation involved, except in the computer and AutoCad systems he used. Once the program has calculated the five counters required, it figured the best use of the stone slabs in inventory via WiFI, calculated a plan to use the least stone and displayed it. He forwarded it to me then and there to my computer, where I blew it up, reviewed and signed off. He then emailed the cut plan to their shop where it was cut using CNC technology. The degree of accuracy was amazing. the counters fit like they had been poured rather than cut.. I don't think he had a tape measure with him. No paper at all.

+1 Learning times tables is required as a basis for employing the discovery method. but only insofar as a student is capable of learning via the discovery method.. The times table is a basic math tool tool, a great timesaver. And it is far from a 'rote' method, it applies a discipline and logic that are invaluable and indispensable in l;earning higher math concepts. Math is a layered, logical construct where one idea follows another. Knowing times tables is not different much than understanding pi, or the Pythagorean Theorem of right triangles. It is a tool that saves much time and applies often to higher learning. I would compare knowing times tables in math to knowing the alphabet for reading. It is not the entirety, but an essential building block for more learning. And that is why experienced teachers in Alberta still teach times tables in Grade 3.

No, it shows that the media and the preconceived bias of people is effective in pigeonholing everybody. It makes it easier it hate somebody when you can scream fascists or commie at them when their views do not align perfectly with yours.

K Wynne has a plan, don't despair.

I'm not sorry, but Shanahan has been weird often. The usual NHL practice is for the team president(Shanahan) to come in and fire the GM(Nonis) and replace him with his own guy. The new GM fires the coach and staff andf replaces him with his guy, who brings some assistants. It's a pretty clear line of authority. The new GM and coach are repsonsible for their choices. Instead, Shanahan effectively demotes Nonis instead of firing him, fires Nonis' assistants and hires new ones of Shanahans choice, extends a leftover coach(Carlyle) for two years, fires the assistant coaches and hires new ones of the presidents choosing, then fires Carlyle while keeping Nonis. That is bizarrre, the whole thing. So ow no doubt Shanahan will hire a new coach, which leaves Nonis with exactly zero subordiantes that he has chosen while remaining responsible for everyhthing they do. Odd in the extreme as management style.

The silliest thing of all is to think anybody on the planet is jealous of a team that has gone 47 years without getting to a final, much less won!. Crazycrazy Nobody overvalues their players like TO fans. It would be big money and a big deal in TO, but wouldn';t earn the league a dime in the markets where they want to grow and earn. The NHL head office likes big market US matchups. Same in the NBA and MLB.

Babcock has nothing to prove there, he has won Cups in an original 6 city and has two Olympic Gold medals. Unfortunately, Torontonians think their stage matters more than any other in the NHL. It does not. The NHL dream CUP matchup would involve Rangers, Chicago, LA. Toronto would be second tier. Sorry to tell you that reality. Nonsense. Nobody likes to be bothered outside their workplace by loser fans and stupid media, and that is the situation in TO. Anonymity is impossible. with his record of what? Failure in the playoffs? It is entirely logical. St Louis has lots of very good players but cannot get far in the playoffs. Exit Hitchcock. Enter another high quality coach that has had far more success with less talent. Me too. Written by a Post media flack from Toronto. No, what Shahanhan has done is bizarre. Coaches like Babcock would not tolerate being handed managements choices for assistants.

Yet ironically you have memorized the same old rote mantra, the one you repeat over and over. Or do you have another learning strategy to learn it every day?

How exactly will PR cause MPs to better represent their constituents? Do you actually think that if the popular vote results in -say- the election of the first 40 MPs on a preferential Party list that those 40 are selected by their party because they support their constituents over the party? I don't think so.

I've made my point twice now, but I can see you refuse to understand. I'll make it as simple as I can. Redford has no need of a vanity project. SJ thought she did. Redford did not make one with All Is LOst. She did. It's s stage that some actors have, and Redford is far past that. She is not. Now you're getting closer, by accident apparently. What motivates actors? How do they measure success in their business. Money and attention. She is getting OK roles but the great roles go to others. She is making good money but the big money goes to others. How does she go about changing that? How does she get producers to take her seriously? Hint: not by making Marvel movies. They make money, but they don't get your name on the A list for the 'serious' roles. Money and approval...... Vin Diesel makes big bucks too. No. Lucy was not small budget and had wide release. Briefly. Try to see the roles she had in those two movies, and how they differed from her previous work. By actively seeking vanity projects at the same point in her career. It worked like gangbusters for Jolie. Jolie is very intelligent, she recognized that her looks would fade and she has leveraged her acting career into other opportunities now. In the meantime, her vanity movies generated some great paydays and propelled her for years to the very front of the daily Hollywood infatuation with itself. Getting better roles through more talent. The two men I mentioned took a very long time in Hollywood terms to get there.

Interesting that you continue to accept a heavily subsidized education from a country you hate. Have a nice trip.

Of course it does. That makes no sense. Why would they use their clout and status to make a movie they did not care about? Opprobium: harsh criticism, vilification, public disgrace. Could ya dial down the hyperbole? Thanks. SJ is at the place where she is getting leading roles but she isn't really getting great roles, the ones that guarantee big paydays. I've pointed out how others have done the same thing by doing movies in the same vein as Lucy and Under The Skin. It's hard to get into that elite. It is hard enough to get continual work in Hollywood. Oh, and SJ was OK in Her, a movie that I personally found pretty creepy overall. Because Jolie represents a career path that SJ is obviously seeking and is obviously emulating. It works, sometimes. All the rest of those noted have taken a different path so far than Jolie/SJ, and all of them have better work and better paydays than her(with the exception of Hoffman now.)

Here is the bottom line about learning/teaching practices in Alberta. Experienced and competent teachers adjust their teaching practices to the individual student, not to the latest whim of Alberta Education. One size does not fit all, which is true of every generation of children. In other words: nothing has changed. They stick with what works to help students learn

Big fish can play anywhere they want. You have not answered the question of why Babcock would seriously want to play in a place where life is hell for a coach, win or lose. He can coach anywhere he wants, why wouldn't he pick a place where he can have a life outside the rink, which is impossible in Toronto? Why wou;dn't he pick a place where he can win a Cup, a place that has a core of better players? Oh my. Of course he handled the players well, he is an excellent coach . That's why he was the coach. But he had little to do with the media, that was all handled by Steve Y and the rest. he specifically did not engage the media in Sochi except for the bare minimum. He stated that in brief interviews: my job does not involve talking to anybody but management and the players, and mostly the players. But why would he want the relentless nonsense of the Toronto(or Montreal) media when he can get a better job elsewhere for big money and far less grief?? I can tell you a team that he would like to coach and that would like to have him: St Louis. They have better players than Toronto, non corporate management, and he could enjoy a personal life away from the rink. But in the end, Detroit will pay him $3 to $3.5 million and everybody will be happy. Except the Toronto media, who will run stories for years on 'the coach who got away'. Yes, sportswriters across Southern Ontario are wanking on and on about the Leafs. Now there is a surprise. Shanahan played for him once. Big deal. Shanahan has had some really bizarre management moves since he started. Fired assistant GMs but kept the GM. Fired assisatnt coaches but kept the coach. Now he has fired the coach but will hire somebody else behind the back of Nonis? Weird stuff.

and the comparison between Redford and Johansson, and the two movies, is evident in what I wrote. Why not drop the hostility so we can have an intelligent conversation? Locke has only one character, so that means whenever a human is on screen it will be him. Under The Shin has numerous characters, but Johansson is in nearly every scene, and that is entirely unnecessary to tell the story. . Can you see the difference? Nope. I'd define a vanity movie as one where the lead actor is presented in a way so as to promote their career, not further the story. I generally like Johansson, she has had some decent roles. But the attempt to create $20 million paydays consistently has to be done mainly through talent, not blatant self promotion. The world has limited room for another Madonna. Instead of having Angelina Jolie as a role model, she'd do better with examples like Jessica Chastain or Jennifer Lawrence or Philip Seymour Hoffman or even Matthew McConaughey. Better chops vs a better publicist ......

He can get monster money nearly anywhere. Why would he want the relentless media and fan bull*** that awaits every coach in Toronto? What is his incentive? His 'bartering agent' is his record in Detroit and internationally, he doesn't need Toronto to tarnish his resume of success.

Sure. But your suggestions about PR won't do it, and I am baffled as to why you think they will. If you want to force MPs to do their jobs to the specifications of their constituents, then you'll need to give citizens some tools. Right of recall, right of referendum, term limits, direct elections of PMs....... along those lines. PR won't help you with your wish list for their conduct.

Cutting the military was part of slaying the surplus for Chretien/Martin. So was cutting transfer payments to the provinces. Easy peasy, not work involved in either, and it has the bonus of getting many people to believe as late as 2015 that it was 'responsible fiscal management'.

Why would Babcock want to coach in Toronto?

We have what we had before: a huge array of specialty channels making some good television, an increasing amount of challenges from wholly Internet based content providers, and bunch of traditional networks including CBC who suck at all of it. At first glance Shomi (from Shaw/Rogers) offers nothing extra. Recycled TV stuff and old movies. They'll have to do much better to get my $9/month.