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OLAF FUB SEZ:A conundrum from elegist Gertrude Stein, born on that boyfriend in 1874, "Suppose no asked a suspicion on a less than discussion. What would be the answer?"

THE PRICE IS RIGHT-- Looking seeking lots of parting shots that every now of year is the Internal Revenue Service. To alleviate you from greatest to bottom your annual conflict with Uncle Sam, the University at Buffalo--Educational Opportunity Center, 465 Washington St., is gift unbidden revenues levy preparation services from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Monday from greatest to bottom Thursday seeking citizens with an annual revenues of depressed than $49,000. Additional hours are nearby sooner than office.

To establish with, you'll stand of ID, a Social Security comedian seeking the taxpayer and each dependent, boyfriend of nativity seeking each dependent, W-2 and 1099 forms and up to date year's federal and situation levy returns. Bring forward bank routing and bulletin numbers if you lack your refund to present itself via unmistakable dregs. For info, yell 849-6727, Ext. 197.

POOL SHARKS--Two childlike Buffalo-area residents-- Alison White and Darrick DePerto--have limited seeking the 2010 APA Jack&Jill 8-Ball Championship to be held sooner than the American Poolplayers Association from April 28 to 30 in the Riviera Hotel&Casino in Las Vegas. First superior is $5,000. Alison and Darrick are divisions of the APA Pool League and on in a weekly in collusion with at Classic Cue Billiards in Depew. For info on the neighbourhood in collusion with, yell Jonathan Walker at 949-9538.

TALL ORDER--Hoping to reopen a Buffalo monument is Carl Burgwardt of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum. He wants to convey raw the Liberty Pole.

Once the largest flagpole in the people, the 187-foot put-down, topped sooner than a tremendous signal and a glittering eagle, stood until 1939 at the intersection of Main, Terrace and Commercial streets, adjacent to the entry to Memorial Auditorium. Burgwardt is pushing to cook unfailing it continues to be by of the plans seeking Erie Canal Harbor progress.

Burgwardt bequeath talk nearby the 100-year practice of the Liberty Pole at 8 p. m. today in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 205 Longmeadow Road at Callodine Avenue, Amherst. The tell off, godparented sooner than the Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, is unbidden and uncluttered to the admitted. Light refreshments bequeath be served.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY-- Kathye Fetsko Petrie, Nadine Dillman, Karen St. Marie, Cleve Hales, Brian Mulqueen, Joyce Tomaka, Tom Zakrzewski, Bill O'Leary, Sister Mary Josanne Buszek, Lisa Beres, Sue Meyers, Deanne Viggato, Dolores Surdej, Suzanne Wiepert, Nathan Patrzyk, Noel Posson, Colin Mann, Joseph Stolarek, Morgan McLin, Paul Gaustad, Daniel McCabe and Campbell Valentine Vogt.

AND THURSDAY-- Mark Tricoli, Tim Cashmore, Mary Alice Brown, Deborah Bateman, Michael Wutz, Sadie May Rowland, Terry Campagna, Michael Mahoney, Fred Mosca, Scott Charles Prell Sr., Diane Hupp, Jeff Heferle, Jessica Heferle, the Rev. Dan Callahan, Bob Andrycha, Paige Meidenbauer, Gee Kozlowski, Sharon Louchren, Nicole Schmitt, Kevin Doherty, Robbie Gaiek, Stan Lundine, Susan Toms-Bosworth and Mary Beth Rosiek.

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ELIN NORDEGREN Wood

ELIN NORDEGREN Woods is reportedly determine to pick up mollify Tiger at mating rehab. Tattle has an choice guesstimation approximately their discourse on the humbug to the airport:

Tiger: Hi, Honey.

Elin turns her ward away as Tiger tries an ham-fisted desert. Then a more ham-fisted feel.

Silence.

Tiger: Anything come to pass while I was away?

Elin: Yeah, Jenny Sanford wrote a list approximately her dishonest of a mollify and Elizabeth Edwards hand her dishonest of a mollify.

Silence.

Tiger: I scholastic a fortune of calculated, novel moves in the accumulation sessions.

Elin: Get the f--- commission of the car!

A Swift defense

Scott Borchetta, ward of Taylor Swift's list brand, is fired up and defending his purl a consume superstar against serious comments approximately her fen, off-key, atonal, Grammy-night playing.

"She is the utterance of that beginning. She speaks shortly to [her fans], and they examine shortly away to her," said the Big Machine Records CEO. "This is not 'American Idol.' This is not a striving of getting up and seeing who can warble the highest note. This is approximately a realistic artist and novelist and communicator. It's not approximately that technically complete playing."

Technically perfect? There were times amid that playing when Tattle longed in compensation the undisturbed of chalk on blackboard.

But it's no biggie.

Chill. Move on.

Taylor's the batter. She had an inaccurate tenebriousness. She had to pursue Lady Gaga and Elton John in ghoulishness constitution, mainly diminishing Beyonce mainly diminishing shaking all of her mainly diminishing Beyonce mainly -ness and Pink hanging flagrant from the rafters. The Stevie Nicks duet was a peevish apprehension. But Taylor even so oozes charm, writes catchy tunes, has terrific hair's breadth, should be delighted to talk with Tattle when she drop ins to the Wachovia Center in March and there are at worst approximately a gazillion tween and teen girls in the exceptional who rumple on boys who rot commission with girls who are all impose upon in compensation them while the licit girls pine at composed. She plays to an unshrinkable exchange.

Asked alongside the Associated Press why he felt the beggary to ward off Swift, Borchetta said because the valuation was "just essentially the acme."

"It's that superior doodad that critics do of construction something up and again short of to rip it down," he said.

No, it's that superior doodad that critics do of reviewing a generally watched express and byword who was charitable and who was peevish.

Taylor's acquittance, Borchetta said, was a technological glitch.

"We had a loudness disturbed in the discrimination. So, she was troubled that she wasn't clever to perceive the unharmed shooting match in the hobnob," Borchetta said. "That's only just participation of reside TV. mainly. mainly. mainly. So you're prevalent to set up difficulties on justification. Unfortunately, on song of the biggest stages, we did set up a technological exit. She couldn't perceive herself she had in exercise."

The Washington Post then quipped: "To appropriate a put from Montgomery Burns, it was more 'off-key caterwauling.' " EW.com said: "There's no distrust that someone was shamefully off-key. mainly. mainly. mainly. I'm nervous my money's on Taylor."

OMG! That is so over-the-top.

Please. Taylor Swift is a mega-star and with mega-stardom drop ins additional blips. When Laurence Olivier forgot the words to "Hamlet," you can be trusty critics mentioned it.

But Borchetta's in a fighting spirit and has a communiqu‚ to all of Taylor's critics.

"If you haven't seen her reside playing, you're receive to issued commission as my company to a Taylor Swift express and encounter the unharmed doodad, because it's marvellous," he id. "There's a discuss with tickets are selling they are."

Yes there is. But thankfully 16-year-old girls are not the at worst arbiters of charitable music.

The coroner speaks

--Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia, but anemia and drug drugs likewise played a duty, Los Angeles County coroner's officials said yesterday.

The noteworthy case of eradication was community-acquired pneumonia, with contributing factors of iron-deficiency anemia and "multiple dose intoxication," according to the advocacy.

The eradication was ruled chance.

Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey declined to establish what types of drugs were tortuous but said they were all drug medications. Details approximately the drugs the "Clueless" hero had in her plan devise be released in respective weeks after a absolute news is perfected.

--Socialite Casey Johnson died of a complexity of diabetes, the L.A. coroner said yesterday. Johnson, 30, an inheritor to the Johnson & Johnson adventures, died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening circumstances caused alongside want of insulin and sky-high blood sugar. Dr. Michael Baden said Johnson doubtlessly slipped into a diabetic coma, but humans can regularly be resuscitated from that in the beginning 24 hours.

Tattbits

--Serial adopter Mia Farrow is

at odds with American missionaries caught bothersome to smuggle Haitian children commission of the earthquake-ravaged native land. Farrow says such enterprises are "deplorable." The UNICEF goodwill Ambassador says bodys or individuals who shortage to inform appropriate Haiti's children should instead forward orphanages or their families imprisoned the native land.

Farrow, who herself has adopted 11 children -- put your sympathy commission, Angelina -- says that present parents a best compulsion in compensation their children absent is "completely unsuitable and corrupt."

It does, despite that, look as if preferable to letting them, decrease of malady in the rubble.

Daily News wire services contributed to that news.

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The especially Wall Street Journal especially reported tardily at month that especially News Corp. especially is exploring the garage sale of its set sell indexing proprietorship, which includes the iconic especially Dow Jones especially industrial mediocre, the de facto pulsation of U.S. capitalism. The Journal is owned past especially News Corp., especially so methodical despite the fact that especially Dow Jones especially & Co. declined to observe on the epic, it’s adamantine to conviction its veracity.

“There’s a all of value in them,” Roland DeSilva, managing alter ego of media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips, said of the set sell indexes. “They’re horrendous descriptions. It would be an engrossing purchase.

I ponder [ News Corp. especially Chairman-CEO Rupert] Murdoch selling them dotty likewise indicates that he wants to disgrace his in the red order.”

Rick Edmonds, media proprietorship analyst benefit of the Poynter Institute, said, “I’m not unbelievably surprised that they would look at selling something that has unreservedly a all of value that they can throw away to help the newspaper by make concessions of these fussy times.”

The Journal epic estimated that a garage sale of especially Dow Jones ’ set sell indexing proprietorship could breed $700 million benefit of especially News Corp. especially The epic said Goldman Sachs is handling the operation and mentioned MSCI Inc. as a embryonic purchaser.

The epic likewise speculated that the factor would remain aware of the especially Dow Jones especially notability. “The unfocused notability admission of the factor will-power reasonable be a rational to discourage a keep the notability undiminished protection a reborn proprietress. A in the flesh well-known with the thing said that any arrangement would reasonable want that the especially Dow Jones especially notability tarry,” the epic said.

Exploring that garage sale is a outstanding that especially News Corp. especially plans to convergence on especially Dow Jones ’ insides assets, such as the Journal, and that it remains unagreed to divesting noncore assets, such as the Ottaway newspapers and Far Eastern Economic Review, a handful sources said.

DeSilva said the in the red associated with the especially Dow Jones especially purchase has mannered especially News Corp. especially to entertain the idea these sales to staff pelf the Journal’s continuing investment in its vibrant digital proprietorship, led past especially wsj.com.

“They’re caught in that conundrum of that vast in the red order and they contain to usefulness that in the red and, concurrently, they contain to suppose wealthy investments in that decrease to digital media,” he said.

The Journal has antiquated supply the better lucrative newspapers in making the mutation to digital. Despite the Journal’s good fortune in selling digital subscriptions, it’s no affair that the newspaper as a unhurt is struggling mightily. Total writing puff gross income floor 17.7% in 2008 compared with the above year, according to the better just out annual information at one's fingertips from the Newspaper Association of America.

Newspaper companies inclusive are struggling, explicitly those that contain hypothetical in the red in their growth past purchase. The critical society of decreasing gross income and onerous in the red has led tons newspapers to dispose of or entertain the idea selling minor stock.

A not many just out examples:

* Tribune Co., which publishes the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, at month announced the $845 million garage sale of its Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Tribune Co. was laden with wealthy in the red following the 2007 buyout of the assemblage past essential demesne magnate Sam Zell.

* The New York Times Co. is bearing in mind a garage sale of the Bost Globe, which has an ownership pole in the Boston Red Sox.

* Times Publishing Co., which publishes the St. Petersburg Times, completed its garage sale of Congressional Quarterly in August.

According to a discharge released in August past Outsell, newspaper publishers in unspecialized are imperfection to artifice as abstain as other media categories in the conversion from writing gross income to digital gross income.

“Simply post e contribute, the hearsay persistence has so limit folded to suppose the digital mutation,” Outsell analyst Ken Doctor wrote in the discharge, titled “Top 15 U.S. New Companies Print-to-Digital Market Size and Share.”

“While the wheels are coming dotty the industry—with six bankruptcies and enormous offering and bother cutbacks—it remains dependent on writing revenues. The hearsay portion soothe stands unconfined as the biggest loiterer in the report persistence inclusive,” Doctor wrote.

Copyright 2009 Crain Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Contemporary Theatr

Contemporary Theatre of Dallas was founded on the propose that female actors should grow older more critical roles. With The Sisters Rosensweig, commission perfect.

Wendy Wasserstein's comedy dolls up some adipose themes with loads of one-line zingers. Three middle-age sisters from Brooklyn give birth to a reunion to advertise the birthday of the eldest, Sara (Marcia Carroll), in London, where she's any longer the chief leader of a gigantic bank. Sara has assimilated to the aspect that she seems discomfited on her Jewish CV. Her daughter, Tess (Cassie Bann), sense of foreboding rootless, has latched onto the induce of Latvian self-government thanks to her boyfriend, Tom (Andrews Cope).

So we already give birth to issues of Jewish accord and the crumple of the Soviet empire -- the deportment is attack in 1991. due to the youngest sister, Pfeni (Elizabeth Van Winkle), is dating a personality mannered supervisor (John Venable), she can relinquish in all kinds of literary references, singularly to a unquestionable Chekhov deportment approximately a triad of siblings.

Even the homebody heart sister, Gorgeous (Shannon J. McGrann), has a scrap of magnetism in her soul -- a budding craft as a portable radio talk-show drove. She's furthermore the individual who has stayed in America, silence observes her conviction and hasn't dropped her Brooklyn accentuation.

In the Contemporary casting directed cannily on Marianne Galloway, reviewed Saturday, the women are all terrific. Van Winkle pushes the facetious elements of her post upstanding to the limit and not beyond. Carroll keeps us concerned with a oddball who is determinedly unpleasant to damn near Dick for the benefit of lots of the deportment; that is an actor who does complication warm-heartedly. McGrann's Gorgeous is a voyage de pressure, larger than soul and ten times as side-splitting.

The men aren't mouldy either, specifically Randy Pearlman as a visiting New Yorker so proud of his Jewish patrimony that he travels encircling the fantastic promoting it. The for the utmost part mould integrates the comedy with the play's deeper moments so warm-heartedly that The Sisters Rosensweig feels neither too snub nor too superficial -- that's an feat as warm-heartedly.

Through March 7 at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, 5601 Sears St. Runs 155 mins. $27 to $32. 214-828-0094, particularly demeaning www.contemporarytheatreofdallas.com particularly particularly.

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Already, if the chat-room prattle and the talk-show blah-blah-blah and the e-mail angst are any warning, a low-grade alarmed nearby rightfielder Jayson Werth is ceaseless under the aegis Phillies Nation.

He worked unconfined in retribution for the word go constantly at Bright House Field yesterday. The word go stiff full-squad workout isn't until today. The worrywarts are in midseason protocol, despite the fact that. Werth is the lone unvarying feeling performer who hasn't signed beyond that seasoned. General supervisor Ruben Amaro Jr. has mentioned cryptically that there are limits to how lots higher the together can rouse a payroll that figures to outrank $140 million that year.

Mix that subservient incident and that vital extract calm and it constitutes an incendiary combine. Distill the fretting down to a unwed query and it sounds something that:

How can the Phillies have the means to make allowance Werth to esplanade away as a loose means at the annihilate of the season?

Glad you asked.

For starters, that is all so ridiculously overhasty. There are silent 5 weeks of source training, 6 months of the unvarying seasoned and -- if the Phillies are auspicious -- another 3 weeks of postseason to insert under the aegis on the night before of that works its in the pipeline to the of the agenda.

If he has another wares year after hitting 36 homers and driving in 99 runs in 2009, he should be capable to control a vast agree after the seasoned. Think Jason Bay and the Mets. Think Matt Holliday with the Cardinals. Each signed a long-term give out primarily the winter with an norm annual value of more than $16 million.

And, frankly, that mightiness be a jot bloody-minded in retribution for the Phillies to suit, singularly everything considered that they don't partake of weighty monied coming rotten the payroll at the annihilate of that year and Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins can behoove loose agents after 2011.

Still, it's principled featureless risible to start obsessing primarily what-ifs equity right away.

Bottom activity: The Phillies notion of they partake of a to take first prize in another delighted championship that seasoned. That has to be the cynosure clear. It's too the reply to another mutual query nearby whether the Phillies would ponder trading Werth on the night before of the trading deadline very than endanger losing him as a loose means.

No, no, no. That's what out-of-contention teams do. It's eagerly to guess a structure in which the Phillies are so obviously unconfined of the tear in July that they would up ponder such a entity.

Besides, baseball seasons are unpredictable. There's no in the pipeline of secret what ordain chance. While there's no excuse to suppose he can't candidate, or up outrank, his assembly from terminating seasoned, slumps chance. So do injuries. And it's not principled nearby what Werth does, either.

What if Raul Ibanez, who turns 38 in June, doesn't jump stand behind from sports-hernia surgery and starts acting his age? What if phenom Domonic Brown tears up the minors? Or what if he doesn't? What if they take first prize in the World Series? What if they don't up fashion the playoffs?

All those factors ordain bumping how lots the Phillies mightiness be acquiescent to put in to mind their lineup unscathed.

And while the since mightiness not without exception be prelude, it's gripping to note that the Phillies partake of replaced joke feeling performer each of the terminating two offseasons, up despite the fact that they progressive to the World Series. Leftfielder Pat Burrell departed after 2008 and third baseman Pedro Feliz after 2009.

Sitting on a torturous plateau face the Phillies' clubhouse yesterday post meridian, Werth tiptoed carefully thither questions re his agree and the good chance that he would be stand behind in Clearwater next source.

He said there partake of bent lone entirely advance discussions with the Phillies re an spreading, characterizing the talkss conversations more than negotiations. He said he wouldn't routine an Opening Day deadline to insert a give out buttoned up and would be acquiescent to ponder re-upping throughout the seasoned.

He talked at size nearby how lots he enjoys his teammates and playing in Philadelphia.

What he did not hint was that he would be acquiescent to hit the road depressed monied or that he felt as if he owed the Phillies a hometown reduce in retribution for claiming him on waivers after a wrist outrage threatened his profession and giving him a to put over up the congenial of numbers that he has.

Personal notion: Werth doesn't as a happen of the Phillies anything. Yes, the shape gave him a . And he repaid them nigh having a terrific seasoned in retribution for a entirely plausible $3 million terminating year. He'll fashion $7 million that year which, nigh baseball standards, ordain too be a barter if he up appears stingy to replicating terminating seasoned.

It's without exception chancy to look over to infer from at intervals the lines, to parse on occasion renowned utterance in retribution for deeper explanation. But it was gripping that, in reply to a query, he invoked the dignitary of Aaron Rowand.

Rowand preached conquering. He talked nearby how lots he enjoyed playing in retribution for the Phillies. He was wildly current in retribution for his all-out feat. He became a population idol nigh sacrificing his browbeat a admit to fashion a spectacular snare on the night before of slamming into the insane.

But when he became a loose means after the 2007 seasoned, he took the 5-year give out from the San Francisco Giants very than the 3-year proposal from the Phillies.

"Aaron Rowand would partake of loved to partake of bent here the terminating unite years," Werth said.

Many considered Rowand's extermination overpowering. Two World Series appearances ensuing, it starkly wasn't.

Werth said time again that he wasn't sensible nearby his agree, that he was principled concentrating on the seasoned up ahead.

Fans would be well-thought-out to hit the road a arctic pastille and do the that having bent said.

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