Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	I don't know how I'll last...	I had not found VJ til the near end (like 1 month from my interview) and sort of glad I had not,lol Never worried about the process, because i was ignorant to it.	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-11 10:15:00
Canada	I don't know how I'll last...	WHAT!!! You have waited since MONDAY?? If I were you I would be contacting your Senator ASAP!!! lol The joys of Immigration!! Please wait till this upcoming Monday to ask the question "Can my Canadian fiance visit me in the USA?" lol Best of luck	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-11 10:05:00
Canada	HNIC Song	Im sure CBC can get Anne Murray to write something!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-12 15:08:00
Canada	HNIC Song	Hockey theme 'wasn't hard to do,' composer says PETER CHENEY From Thursday's Globe and Mail June 12, 2008 at 4:52 AM EDT TORONTO — It started on a peaceful afternoon in 1968, when Dolores Claman sat down at her Knabe grand piano and began picking at the keys, searching for a sound. Outside the window was her garden, then the blue expanse of Lake Ontario. Ms. Claman tried B-flat, then the key of C, seeking the musical essence of something she had never seen firsthand: a professional hockey game. Ms. Claman was a classically trained musician who loved Bach, but she made her living composing jingles. She had written music for everything from toothpaste to its natural enemy, Macintosh toffee. Now she was thinking about Canada's national sport. She pictured Roman gladiators wearing skates. Suddenly, five notes popped into her head. She tapped them out, stressing the third: "dunt-da-DUNT-da-dunt." Ms. Claman had no idea that she just made herself part of Canadian history - and that she had set the stage for an epic battle 40 years in the future. "I wasn't thinking about much at the time," Ms. Claman, 80, said yesterday from her home in London, England. "The song wasn't hard to do." Her song, which was adopted as the theme of CBC's Saturday Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, went on to become one of the country's most recognizable commercial tunes, but until this week, when rival network CTV bought it for an amount estimated at more than $1-million, it never made her more than a modest income. "I am not a jet-set lady," she said. "I don't even own a car." Ms. Claman's payoff is the coda to one of the strangest and most emotional battles in Canadian business history. By last week, she and the CBC were locked in what amounted to a game of chicken. On Friday, the broadcaster announced that it couldn't come to terms with Ms. Claman, and will hold a national song-writing competition to find a new theme for Hockey Night in Canada. On Monday came stunning news: CTV had bought Ms. Claman's song, and will use it as the centrepiece of its hockey coverage. Most fans hailed the move, but there are some dissenters; one fan compared it to selling The Star Spangled Banner to China. For Ms. Claman, the sale is a welcome end to years of wrangling with the CBC, and is dollars-and-cents confirmation of her song's place in the national imagination. "I'm really glad that people care about it. It's been a long, hard road." CTV will not say how much it paid for the song, but sources said the bid far exceeded $1-million. (Ms. Claman said yesterday that the CBC's top offer was approximately $850,000.) For Ms. Claman, commercial vindication was long in coming. She composed the Hockey Night in Canada theme in 1968, on contract for a Toronto advertising firm. Because the song was classified as an advertising jingle, she did not get residuals. Instead, she was paid a one-time creative fee of $800. Her composition was performed by a 20-member orchestra; ironically, the musicians were paid union rates each time the song was used on air. In the early 1970s, Ms. Claman's music was reclassified as a "theme" after the CBC began using it as the standard introduction to Hockey Night in Canada, meaning that she was entitled to music-use licence payments. She said the CBC paid between $2,000 and $10,000 each year. She believes the average was about $4,000. That changed in 1993, after she connected with Toronto agent John Ciccone, who advised her to license the song. After that, she was paid approximately $500 per broadcast, yielding a gross annual income estimated at $30,000 to $45,000. Ms. Claman was born in Vancouver and won a scholarship to New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music as a teenager. She later founded a commercial music company in Toronto with her husband, a British lyricist, and wrote more than 2,000 jingles and theme songs. She said yesterday she had no idea the hockey song she composed 40 years ago in her Scarborough living room would last so long. "It just arrived in my head," she said. She wanted her song to reflect the narrative arc of hockey itself: the arrival at the rink, the battle on the ice, then the trip home, "plus a cold beer." Ms. Claman said she employed an old advertising-business trick when she submitted her song. She actually composed two: the dunt-da-DUNT-da-dunt theme, plus a second one that she knew CBC executives and advertisers would reject. "You have to make them feel like they had a choice. That's how the business works."	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-12 13:14:00
Canada	HNIC Song	I guess it is "saved" but is one goin gto get the same feeling on TSN when it is played as it was on CBC? probably not! I recall when the only game televised during the regualr season was the Saturday night game, now that was hockey night in Canada!! And from what I have read, there is more to the CBC and write of the song conflict that we know about. I have no qualms with a person wanting to be paid fairly for their work, and her work is a "jingle" write, so she struck gold, good for her! Show me (her) the $$$$,lol	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-10 09:51:00
Canada	HNIC Song	Screw u CBC!!!!! http://tsn.ca/nhl/st...s=topStory_main	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-09 14:38:00
Canada	HNIC Song	oh ya,there will be some serious outrage over this!! i wish i knew how to download the theme to my verizon cell phone!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-05 17:00:00
Canada	HNIC Song	I read on one site, she gets about $500 a game for it!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-05 15:29:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Power was out, so didnt get to watch any of it!!! i was so hoping pens would win, forcing a game 7!! oh well, detroit was the better team!! Favorite of the year for Leafs fans, they are in first place, till 2nd game of the new season!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-05 06:42:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	I stayed up and watched the 2 OT, but fel asleep after that, lol. Suprised the pens won, the Wings just seem to have more bounce. One would think the Pens would have the increased energy/stamina as they are the younger team,but thats not the case! Sure making things interesting.	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-03 04:30:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Not looking good for the Pens late in the third!! down by one! Of course they should have been up by 4 or 5 early in the game, lol. Wings are looking strong. was hoping for a Pens win, but there are many players on the Wings i'm glad to see win the cup (again)	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-06-02 21:30:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Pittsburg up 2 games and philly is running out of defensemen,lol	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-12 06:12:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Detroit/Dallas game tonight at 1930 eastern. I'm kind of torn on this series!! Dallas has been playing well, great tending my Turco. I do like Osgood. But will go with Dallas in 6 Penquins/Philly tomorrow at 1930. And ya I'm rooting for the waddlers!! Say penquins in 5 And wrote my Final exam today, so can CHILL!!!!! He hawwww Some one tells me that beverage --beer- tastes yummy, may have to try that for the first time!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-08 15:02:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Thats all she wrote!! Mtl had a few unlucky cross bars!! Oh well, thats hockey!! Like the Leaf fans say "Always next year"	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-03 20:47:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	4-4 again!! Surprised they stuck with Price!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-03 20:21:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	3-2 now!! Price is playing well, BUT he is giving way to many rebounds!! And he can't catch a pick to save his life!! Well now its 3-3!! And that was a weak goal!! Now 4-3!! pull price!! He should had that 1! Edited by flames9, 03 May 2008 - 07:48 PM.	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-03 19:43:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	http://www.theonion....=embedded_video	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-02 20:44:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Avs are Joining the summer golf tour!! Not much of a series there. Rangers stayed alive. Which is fine, more hockey to watch!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-05-02 05:25:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	So sick of jagr whining! "Crosby is diving" whatever!!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-30 05:02:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	No suprise on the raptors!!! I hope price enjoys the view from the bench for the rest of the series,lol iwould start halak, he had a strong season and looked sharp less night and price was just, hmmm price-less,lol	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-29 04:57:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	A good habs/philly game!! Too bad they didnt listen to me and pull price after the 2nd goal!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-28 20:29:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	QUOTE (Leafgal @ Apr 27 2008, 09:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well just like the Leafs the Habs will get them next game Well in the Leafs case,its always NEXT YEAR!!! One usually hears that by early October!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-27 08:20:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Those Avs are kinky I tell ya, they like a good spanking!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-26 16:31:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Ya, I've always liked Fleury, super fast reflexes, playing a better positioning now, when he first came into the league he was pretty erratic.	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-26 04:47:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Goal was changed to malkin! pens win!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-25 20:38:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Penquins/rangers game is on	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-25 18:13:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	They were down 2-0, but I had a feeling they would come back. Unfortunately, Versus showed the Avs game. Go Pittsburg!!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-25 05:02:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	2nd round match ups: Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:00 PM Philadelphia at Montreal Lets go Mtl. Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:30 PM Colorado at Detroit Cheer for AVS, but do like Osgood Friday, April 25, 2008 7:00 PM NY Rangers at Pittsburgh go Pitssburg!!! Friday, April 25, 2008 10:00 PM Dallas at San Jose Dont care,lol Dallas is hot!! Mtl in 5 Avs in 6 Pitts in 6 Dallas in 7	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-23 05:34:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Well both my teams lost!!! Caps were outplaying philly as well in OT. Was a very questionable tripping cal in OT. Ya maybe a good call in the 2nd period,but not OT!! Oh well, was an exciting game to watch!! Was nice seeing OV at the end of the game acknowledge the fans, total class act. And yep, my Flames lost as well, no big surprise there, watched most of the 1st period and they were outplayed. Guess will jump on the Cdns band wagon,lol and still cheering for Pittsburgh.	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-23 05:17:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Im at the gym too watching the Caps game!! My gym is called the couch, and I'm doing 1 armed barley lifts!!!! 2-2	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-22 19:39:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	QUOTE (IR5FORMUMSIE @ Apr 21 2008, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bruins and HABS game 7 tonight. Cherry's not behind the bench this time so the Bs might actually win. Oh yeah, the Flyers are also playing somebody or other. Quick, who's Kiprusoff's back-up? Well the one game where kipper gave up 3 goals on 3 shots, Joseph came in, and the won 4-3!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-21 16:36:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Ya Flames!!!! ur turn caps!!!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-21 04:34:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Was an exciting game!! I might just have to splurge for game 7 if the caps win tomorrow night in Philly!! But it appears my AC unit may have stopped,duh, so may be better to save the $$$,lol	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-20 06:51:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	ya was a good game!!! Ur turn Flames and caps!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-19 21:10:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	good back and forth game Mtl vs Boston!! Boston now up 1 with less than 2 min to go	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-19 20:42:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	Saw the last period of the caps game!! Was hoping my friend would phone up and offer me another ticket, no luck,lol	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-19 16:59:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/scoreboard Keep an eye on that link, and look for WATCH LIVE by the middle bottom right of each boxscore. As long as you have a Yahoo Id (its free) you can watch for free!! Not all games are shown online, but yahoo usually shows a few each week. Sometimes they dont announce which games, to just prior to game start,or until the game has started!!	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-18 13:28:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	QUOTE (IR5FORMUMSIE @ Apr 18 2008, 01:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (flames9 @ Apr 17 2008, 07:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (IR5FORMUMSIE @ Apr 17 2008, 08:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (flames9 @ Apr 17 2008, 07:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> David???? Forget him!!! Concentrate on Iginla and Ovechkin! david!! pbbts!! lol I'm not familiar with those names. Iginla, isn't he he's the guy who goes golfing with Sundin. Bruins just scored on the powerplay. 1-1, 11 minutes left in the 2nd. yes thats correct!! ! Sundin likes to hear how the play offs work. Then why would he ask Iginla? Sharks 4, Flames 3. One more loss and it looks like you'll have to dust off your Club de Hockey sweater. At least they made the playoffs!! Toronto hasn't been in the playoffs in what, 3 years? lol My caps lost as well in double OT! Oh well	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-18 07:08:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	QUOTE (IR5FORMUMSIE @ Apr 17 2008, 08:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (flames9 @ Apr 17 2008, 07:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> David???? Forget him!!! Concentrate on Iginla and Ovechkin! david!! pbbts!! lol I'm not familiar with those names. Iginla, isn't he he's the guy who goes golfing with Sundin. Bruins just scored on the powerplay. 1-1, 11 minutes left in the 2nd. yes thats correct!! ! Sundin likes to hear how the play offs work.	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-17 19:25:00
Canada	NHL Play off time!!!!	David???? Forget him!!! Concentrate on Iginla and Ovechkin! david!! pbbts!! lol	Flames9_RN	Male	Canada	2008-04-17 19:07:00