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Fixing the Flyers, Step One: Dont Panic Over a Shortened Season
Apr 29, 2013, 2:30 PM EDT
It seems we've been on Peter Laviolette watch practically all
year, waiting for the inevitable to happen. The Flyers are notoriously tough on
head coaches. For instance when the Flyers began the 06-07 campaign with a
1-6-1 record, Ken Hitchcock was handed his walking papers that fast, while
general manager Bobby Clarke stepped down.
Coincidentally that was the only other occasion over the past
18 seasons where the Flyers missed the playoffs. This year the team started a similarly
awful 2-6, and from there we could never quite shake the feeling that Lavvy might
get canned at any moment, until Sunday that is. One day after the final horn
sounded, Paul Holmgren reiterated to reporters the message that he stuck to all
along: this head coach will return.
"Peter Laviolette is the coach," Holmgren said. "I don't
know where all this crap came from."
"Our team played hard until the end," he said. "Peter is a
strong motivator and a strong tactician. I expect him to lead our team back into
the playoffs next year."
That doesn't mean Laviolette won't be looking over his
shoulder when the Flyers resume their quest for the Cup come October. While you
get the sense there is some legitimate support for the man inside the front
office, it might have as much to do with the fact that Lavvy will only be embarking
on the two-year extension he signed just this last summer, or in other words
saving face.
Still, keeping Laviolette on board (for now) – not to
mention Homer – is also the smart decision, primarily because it's not the one
being made out of panic. In an 82-game season, eight games represent less than
10% of the schedule. In 2013, eight games was 1/6 of the slate.
Maybe this is the sign of an organization that concedes a
condensed 48-game season is not necessarily a complete representation of where
their hockey club stands today.
More quirks of a 48-game schedule
Make no mistake, nobody is trying to "blame" the shortened
season for the Flyers' woes. Everyone had to play under the same conditions,
and the guys in Orange & Black simply were not good enough. Their 5-on-5
scoring differential ranked 25th in the NHL, the defense was plagued by constant
complete breakdowns throughout, and for much of the way there was essentially one
goaltender on the roster.
In a normal season though, eight games would not so heavily influence
the final outcome. In a normal season, the Flyers would be six points out of a
playoff spot with 34 contests left to play. And in a normal season, they are
just hitting their stride.
Don't look now, but Lavvy's squad started to turn the corner toward the end. Philly won six of their last seven games, and are 10-5 dating back to March 30. At the 48-game mark of an 82-game season, the Flyers would
widely be considered in the midst of their playoff push.
Instead, in a 48-game season every little misstep gets
magnified. It took 16 games, or 1/3 of the season, to figure out Claude Giroux
should be paired with Jakub Voracek. It took until the April 3 trade deadline
to add a truly viable backup netminder in Steve Mason, at which point Ilya Bryzgalov had
played in 22 games in a row – nearly half of the schedule.
Where would they be
if either of those changes had been made in January?
Some things just didn't fall their way
Then there is the matter of 262 man games being lost to injury,
2nd-most in the NHL by some counts, and also more than the Flyers endured in two
of the previous three full seasons (240 in 10-11, 205 in 09-10). Yes, that is an
excuse. Every team has to deal with injuries. But still, that averages out to roughly
five scratches per game – four even if Chris Pronger is removed from the
As a result the Flyers were forced to lean heavily on young players. By the end of the season, they had been relying on major contributions from as many as a dozen players 25-years-old
or younger, many of whom were in their first or second NHL seasons. Some of them did not enjoy the growth that the team was
counting on to be successful this year, most notably Brayden Schenn and Sean Couturier.
Remarkably that was yet another area where the Flyers did
not panic. Couturier in particular was linked in potential deals with San Jose
and Ottawa for Ryane Clowe and Ben Bishop respectively. However, Homer was not willing
to give up on the talented 20 year old, even though there was almost an
expectation from fans and observers that a struggling young player would be
moved for immediate help.
2013 was a disappointing hockey season for Philadelphia, one
that exposed some definite issues that need to be addressed. However, 48 games do
not indicate first- and second-year players have hit a wall, and therefore the Flyers need to be reinvented yet again. The actions of the front
office suggest they agree.
So far at least.
Previously: Positive Takeaways from a Lost Flyers Season
- john procopi - May 16, 2013 at 11:07 PM
First of all The Flyers haven't won anything in 38 years so counseling patience makes no sense .Second ,talking about the Flyers front office like they have a clue is equally silly. Again they haven't won in 38 years-these bozo's are clueless.
Flyers main problem is that the fans continue to support this braindead locked in the 70′s brainless organization.Boycott the bums-cost the billionaire owners some money and then you might see a commitment to winning. Right now these Jackals simply print money and believe in Barnums " a sucker (ie Flyer fan) is born every minute
- willh888 - May 17, 2013 at 7:56 AM
you like.. really care about brains
- Dan - May 18, 2013 at 2:46 PM
For the large part I agree with this article. Except in the case of Paul Holmgren who should be fired. He has mismanaged this team from the very beginning. He trades the so-called "bad seeds" in Richards and Carter only to bring in a far bigger headache in Bryzgalov. He completely gave up on Bobrovsky and undersold JVR (should've gotten more than just Schenn straight up). He allowed Jagr and Carle to bounce trying to sign Parise and Suter who pretty much said they would not go to either: a Devils rival or the Eastern conference. The 2010 and 2011 teams should have been Cup winners but Holmgren's inability to bring in a goaltender cost them in both playoff runs. He signed a high risk contract with Chris Pronger (35+ contracts that go over 3 years are extremely poor judgment calls) and instead of getting a goaltender he trades for Meszaros to play on the third defensive pairing. And let's not even go into the whole how he treated trading Gagne and replacing him with Zherdev fiasco.
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Germany seems to be thawing toward Greece, but what this means for the euro is complicated. And then there's Spain.
Well, what do you know? Germany's Angela Merkel is backing away from longtime austerity targets for Greece.
The question now is how that country will resolve its issues - and when Spain will bite the bullet and ask for aid.
Jacques Cailloux, chief European economist at Nomura, says it's complicated.
"It's important to recognize that the sentiment has shifted towards Greece from the northern countries, " and that is giving Greece more time to right the ship. It's "quite a big shift from a political standpoint" from the early summer, he says - and probably means Greece has turned a key corner.
That said, plenty of questions remain. For starters, Cailloux says, there is the matter of exactly how Greek assistance might be worked out. "It's very clear that the amount of contraction in Greece is extremely significant and they're still in a very negative spiral, " he notes, and "the hard work on the political scene still remains to be done on the creditor side."
Then there is the matter of exactly why political leaders backed away from forcing Greece out of the monetary union. Cailloux doesn't know for sure, but he doesn't think it was newfound admiration for the way the country has been managing its money. Rather, he says, it was "probably related to the fear of knock on effects from a potential Greek exit on other countries." Without the stabilization mechanisms in place, it was just too risky to contemplate. Of course, those mechanisms have now been created - so further deterioration in Greece could conceivably get a different response.
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Product DescriptionThe Sortie was designedTo be an XC/all-mountain machine, capable of handling long, abusive singleTrack rides. For 2012, Diamondback has redesignedThe rearTriangle, making it siffer and stronger without adding any weight. Outfitted with Diamondback's Knuckle Box suspension design,The Sortie is an efficient rideThat can still handleThe rough stuff. Frame: SortieTrail 5" 6061-T6 Weapons Grade Aluminum w/ HydroformedTopTube, Butted / Formed DownTube / Seatstays, Under Arch Seatstay bridge, Knuckl
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Date Reviewed: April 8, 2012
Strengths: I love the DB sortie 1 bike it handles great is not too heavy climbs well good gruppo of parts chain line was ok etc im an ex bike mechanic and can say it came ready to ride out of the box good tires spokes tensioned cables pre stretched etc
Weaknesses: never had any complaints until today it felt funny and seemed to be squatting I then noticed the top tube has a vertical crack near the weld on the thickest part of the frame..., t is almost all the way thru and this bike is done now and never to be ridden again .. perhaps weapons grade aluminum is too hard ?? its not my firts bike and it was used gently
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Purchased At: ebay
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Bike Setup: stock parts
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2011
Strengths: Very smooth ride and great shifting and stopping power. Lightweight, handles very well, great climbing ability as well as amazing descending ability.
Weaknesses: The front Tora 289 forks don't have a lot of adjust-ability, but can be upgraded. Other than that None!
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $960.00
Purchased At: Performance bicycle
Similar Products Used: I raced and rode Trek 4500 HT, shifts gears about the same but much better ride.
Bike Setup: Stock except for tires, I changed them out for Mountain King 2.2.
Date Reviewed: April 23, 2011
Strengths: Upgradeable, Strong, Light/Responsive, Great Deal!
Weaknesses: It was fine when stock but improved tremendously when I upgraded just about everything. Dont know if thats a weakness.
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Even though GI-Joes had Mission-1 on sale for $1000 this week, I got the Sortie at my local shop since they also bought my old bike.
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Celena Taylor is absolutely incredible! She takes her time, is very skilled with color, and she keeps my long locks looking healthy! If you have blonde hair I highly recommend her. I've never been disappointed and will NOT go to anyone else. I have received many compliments on my color recently and her prices are fair. Thanks Celena!
Katie rocks! Every time I leave her chair my hair looks like a million bucks. She always gives me exactly what I ask for-- long subtle layers, just the ends cut off.. no matter what the request she listens. Finally, a stylist that listens! Me and my hair love her.
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Not only was the atmosphere great but the service was fantastic! Rosvelt had a vision for my hair. And it turned out fantastic!! The blowout was top notch and the little trim he gave me made a HUGE difference.
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Rosvelt knows what's hot & how to make you look fabulous! – Rosvelt Ranses is the Hairstylist of my dreams. Seriously. He is the man I have been looking for my entire adult life. Professionally, he possesses all the qualities I value the most: well educated, culture current from LA to South Beach , expert techniques, and true passion for his art. He knows what's hot and he knows how to make you look and feel that way. The man has more style in his little pinky finger than I do in my entire body.
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From the minute valet welcomed me to the salon, I knew I was in for a treat at Vis-a-Vis. They immediately offered me a selection of organic herbal teas, coffee or water. By the time I was in my smock, I was greeted in my chair with full tea service for one including Viennese Piroulines! (see picture attached to salon reviews)
The entire staff was friendly and attentive - they went out of their way to make sure I was comfortable and all my needs were met, without being pushy. I appreciate that, because rarely do you find such high quality without a pretentious attitude.
In testament, I'll share with you a short story. People used to tell me I resembled Celine Dion. That's kind of like a backhanded compliment, depending on who you ask. In the past few months, I have actually had two people tell me I reminded them of Giselle Bundchen. That fact is amazing in itself. That's a compliment I'll happily accept any day.
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Great experience – Vis-a-Vis is a great salon and a great experience. I always walk out feeling wonderful. This time, though, Simone convinced me to try going darker with my color. I was nervous at first but I decided to trust her. WOW! I have never gotten so many complements and days later I am still excited about my visit to Vis-a-Vis.
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In today's 5 Questions with SuChin Pak video, Sandé tells us what's changed since she's become a star (her song "Next to Me" is everywhere), what she sings in the shower, and the best advice she's ever gotten. She even sings the first lyric she ever wrote, at age 7, about aliens.
In case you're wondering, the interview takes place at JFK, as Sandé joins the ranks of Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, and Robyn for JetBlue's Live from T5 concert series.
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"Eric Hertz and Robert Currie have devoted their lives and their company's resources to saving some of the world's last great white-water, wilderness rivers."
"The absolute mastery of Robert Currie guiding in the back of the raft made every element of the Futaleufu river seem heightened, perfected, colorized, almost virtual."
"Earth River is the premier river runner in the world. Their staff includes the finest guides to be found."
"Earth River is more than a great whitewater outfitter. Their contributions have made a real difference in our efforts to preserve some of the world's most beautiful rivers in Chile and Canada."
"I want to personally thank Earth River for helping us stop the hydro-electric projects on our land preventing the destruction of one of North America's last great wildernesses."
"I've rafted with Eric Hertz down some tough rivers—the Futaleufu in Chile, the Colca in Peru. He's one of the best in the business—obsessed with safety."
"Earth River Expeditions is the premier river runner in the world. Their staff includes the finest guides to be found. They have guided descents down some of the toughest whitewater on Earth."
– ESPN Television
Not only have Earth River guides safely taken care of our guests for the past 25 years but their contribution to our exploratory and conservation work has been immeasurable. It takes a special kind of person to deal with the unforseen challenges associated with first descents, exploratories and conservation trips. It is imperitive that the seasoned clients we take on exploratories and the neophyte, non paying media and policy makers that come on conservation expeditions, feel secure during the challenging situations that are bound to arise on these kinds of trips. Our guides are hand picked, motovated and extremely accomplished beyond river guiding. As marvelous as the destinations we visit are, they will tell you that the highlight of their work is sharing those amazing places with our guests. Make sure to read the "Personal Reflections" at the bottom of each guide bio. They are a window into who Earth River guides are beyond their world class guiding skills.
"Eric is one of the best in the business - Obsessed with safety."
National Geographic Magazine
I met Eric in 1988, when he almost single-handedly stopped the James Bay II Hydro-electric Project, which would have destroyed eleven major rivers in northern Quebec. I worked with him to save Headwall Canyon in British Columbia and Quebec's Magpie.
Robert Kennedy Jr., Town and Country Magazine
Eric's guiding began at 16 on a cross country bicycle trip where he met a guide who invited him to row a baggage boat on Oregon's Rogue River. Throughout his high school and college summers he guided on the Tuolumne River in California where he was one of the first to run a commercial paddle boat. After college, he spent his summers guiding on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and was a playwright the rest of the year. His plays won a number of awards including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His play "Between Rails" was successfully produced off-broadway. (New York Times review). During this time he also co-founded the Rondout-Esopus Land Conservancy in the Catskill and Sharwangunk ("gunks") Mountains of the Hudson Valley in New York which has protected over 3,500 acres.
In the late nineteen eighties, Eric gave up playwriting to start Earth River. The company was founded on a number of core principles; exploring and finding the most amazing trips, running the finest, safest trips possible and fighting to preserve important river resources. Over the past 23 years, Eric has organized and led dozens of conservation awareness trips taking policy makers and media down threatened rivers. His efforts focussed on stopping the James Bay Hydro-electric Project in Quebec and dams on Chile's Bio Bio and Futaleufu rivers and Quebec's Magpie. Eric's other conservation efforts helped bring awareness to the preservation of watersheds like British Columbia's, Yosemite like, Headwall Canyon and New Foundland's Main River, which were both threatened by clear cut logging. Using his land trust experience, he and his partner, Robert Currie, founded, the Earth River Land Trust on the Futaleufu which to date has protected over 20 kilometers of the river's most dramatic shoreline.
Eric has been a pioneer in river rafting safety. He introduced the industry to foot cups to keep paddlers in the rafts and was among the first to teach clients active "self rescue" swimming techniques rather than passively floating on their backs. He was the first outfitter to offer a raft training day before running class 5 and introduced the industry to the use of caterafts "safety cats" as a rescue craft on large volume rivers like the futaleufu. He was the among the first to introduce oar-paddle hybrid rafts and double guided boats on challenging rivers.
Eric has organized and led first descents around the world and has been featured in American Airlines Magazine, Outside, National Geographic (yellow), National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times, Conde Naste Traveler, Town and Country, Men's Journal and on National Geographic Television, P.B.S., ESPN, TBS and Nicolodian. He pioneered and opened commercial rafting and multi-sport trips on a number of spectacular destinations including; Patagonia Chile's Futaleufu, Peru's Yavero, China's Great Bend of the Yangtze, Quebec's Magpie, Peru's Colca Canyon, Tibet's Upper Yangtze, British Columbia's Headwall Canyon, Yukon Territory's Primrose, , Fiji's Vanua Balavu and Chile's Lakes of Patagonia. Eric was the trip leader and captained the lead boat on a number of notable first raft descents including; the Futaleufu, Magpie, Headwall Canyon and Tibet's Schulo ho which was featured in National Geograpic (yellow) Magazine; the only time a commercial river outfitter has ever been featured in the Magazine's 100 year history. His two sons, Cade and Teal, are now guiding commercially.
"Hertz and his partner, the Chilean white-water expert Roberto Currie, made an expeditionary first descent of the Futaleufu in 1991 and
figued how to safely navigate what today is one of the most intensive stretches of commercially rafted white-water rapids in the world."
The New York Times
Robert is a native of Santiago, Chile. After finishing his formal education, he ran his family's farm in the Chilean Lake District. In 1990 he began managing Earth River's Chile operations, joining the company as a partner three years later. He has rafted on five continents and has done exploratories in Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Africa, China, Tibet, Patagonia, Quebec and British Columbia. He led the first descent of China's Po Tsang Po featured in National Geographic Adventure, co-led the first raft descent of Peru's Yavero and was on the first complete raft descent of the Futaleufu. He has been featured in Outside Magazine, Town and Country, National Geographic Adventure and the New York Times and on, ESPN, PBS and The Discovery Channel. He narrates the award winning documentary "Fighting for the Futaleufu".
Upon discovering plans to dam the Futaleufu and realizing that the local farmers along the river had no idea what that meant, Robert loaded up two vans with local farmers (most had never been out of the area) on a week long trip up to see what had happened to the Bio Bio. Seeing what was left of the once spectacular Bio Bio Valley left many of them in tears. When they returned to Futaleufu the group spoke of what they had witnessed to the entire community in the school gym. Robert then organized members of the community in an unsuccessful bid for the river's water rights which were granted to the power company, Endessa.
Robert co-founded the the Earth River Land Trust on the Futaleufu which to date has protected over 20 kilometers of the river's most sensitive and spectacular shoreline. He has participated in numerous conservation awareness expeditions in Chile, Quebec and British Columbia as well as led a number of conservation trips on the Futaleufu with Chilean and U.S. media, influential Chilean citizens and policy makers, American actors and the Natural Resources Defense Council. These trips resulted in a number of press conferences in Santiago exposing the Chilean people to the threats to this national treasure. In 2006 Robert started a local guide internship program on the Futaleufu which has trained and produced a number of qualified and accomplished Futaleufu river guides from the Futaleufu area. Working with Senator Antonio Horvath, the head of the Chilean Senate environmental committee, Robert was instrumental in bringing awareness to the Chilean government about the dangers from water borne invasive species like Didymo that adversely impact rivers, streams and lakes destroying fisheries and tourism. In the near future the Chilean Senate will be considering an invasive species protection act for Chile thanks in part to Roberts efforts.
Santiago, Chile
Robert has been running rivers around the world from Ecuador to Tibet with his father since he was fourteen. His experience guiding on the Futaleufú and the knowledge that there were plans to dam all the the rivers in Patagonia led him to pursue a career in environmental law. Robert graduated law school in Chile at the top of his class. For his compulsory government apprenticeship he won the prestigious "Tribunales de Familia" award as the top new attorney in Santiago. Upon passing law bar in Chile, Robert moved to New York to work for the environemntal group, HudsonRiverkeeper. While at Riverkeeper he submitted a proposal to the Waterkeeper Alliance to launch a Riverkeeper on the Futaleufu. After the proposal was accepted, Robert returned to Chile to make his vision a reality and began developing strategies to address threats to the Futaleufu watershed, assembled a dynamic team to run the organization and worked to establish its legal status as a non-profit in the United States and Chile. As the President of Patagonia's first Riverkeeper, Robert is responsible for leading the organization, overseeing legal strategies, engaging in outreach with Chilean and international donors and strengthening institutional relationships with the Waterkeeper Alliance. This past year, Robert traveled back to the U.S. with his wife Karime and completed a U.S. Master of Law degree (LL.M.) at Columbia Law School in New York where he sat on the board of the Columbia Environmental Law Society and interned at the United Nations on the Climate Change Initiative. Robert will be taking the bar in New York in 2014. Robert leads Earth River's Futaleufu treking trips and shoots video and guides on the rafting trips. When not guiding expeditions on the Futaleufu he is working to protect the watershed and the community that depends on it. Robert's daughter, Amanda, was born this past November. If you do a Futaleufu trip you will more then likely have both Robert Jr. and his father, Robert Sr. on your expedition.
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Ashland, Oregon
"Just wanted to let you know that Brent and I had another amazing trip with Greg (Our fifth). His passion for the outdoors and wanting to share it with others is only surpassed by his attention to detail, friendly demeanor, conscientious nature and concern for people's safety and well being. We can't wait to do another trip with him."
- Shanna Chan, Futaleufu, Colca, Yangtze & Magpie
Greg has been guiding expeditions around the world for 25 years, working as an Earth River trip leader for the past 15 years on the Colca, Yangtze and Futaleufu Rivers. He is among the most highly respected and experienced whitewater guides of our time. He has rafted on five continents and been an integral part of Earth River's conservation efforts on the Magpie River and British Columbia's, Yosemite like, Headwall Canyon. In addition to guiding rafts he spent five years on the U.S. National rafting team. Greg received his EMT and Wilderness EMT certification in 1988 and continues his medical training to the present. He has taught numerous guide schools in California, Oregon and Australia. When not guiding for Earth River, he runs his own fly fishing company on the Rogue River in Oregon and works as a general contractor. He lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Susan.
Jim Coffey is Canadian and has been guiding for 30 years. He is considered to be among the most experienced and accomplished guides in the rafting industry. Jim has run rivers in 35 countries, guiding expeditions in the U.S., Canada (Quebec, Ontario, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territory, and British Columbia), Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India and Nepal. Jim is a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B) and an accredited certified instructor in a number of disciplines including; rafting, canoeing (American Canoe Association), First Aid/C.P.R., and Swift Water Rescue. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the prestigious Higgins and Langley Awards for Excellence in Swiftwater Rescue. Jim brought the Swift water Rescue 3 program to Eastern Canada and has taught swift water rescue classes throughout the Americas. He has raced whitewater canoes representing Canada internationally and captained the Canadian rafting team to 5 top 10 finishes at the World Rafting Championships. Jim is the Founder, Director and Lead Instructor of W.I.L.D (Whitewater Intensive Leadership Development School), the world's most comprehensive whitewater guide training program. Graduates of this 4 month intensive program learn Swiftwater Rescue, wilderness first aid, rafting, kayaking, adventure leadership, conservation and Wilderness Ethics. Jim has worked to bring attention to the threats to a number of Canadian rivers including James Bay, Quebec's Rupert and Kipawa Rivers.
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Expedition Leader
Syracuse, New York
"Steve's incredible energy level is only superceded by his enthusiasm to share incredible places with others. His eyes light up when he talks about his work with inner city kids and photography."
- Dick Shiro, Futaleufu, Upper Yangtze
Steve has been guiding for over 35 years and has been with Earth River since it's inception. He has run rivers on nearly every continent including 10 years on the Grand Canyon, 9 years on the Upper Yangtze and 5 years on the Futaleufu. He guided on the first ever descent of Tibet's class 5 Poe Sang Po and on many of the earliest Futaleufu expeditions. Steve is an accomplished photographer and his work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, American Airlines Magazine and Conde Naste Traveler. He is an associate professor of photography at Syracuse University where he founded the PAL project which connects university students with inner city school children through photography and creative writing. He lives in Syracuse with his wife Mary Lynn and their two daughters.
Expedition Leader
Davis, California
Aaron started guiding as a student at the University of California, Davis where he received a degree in civil engineering. After graduating, he continued to guide on the Grand Canyon, Cherry Creek and the Middle Fork of the Salmon. Internationally Aaaron has guided in New Zealand, Peru through the Colca Canyon and for 5 years in Chile on the Futaleufu. He has taught numerous guide schools and worked as an instructor for Outward Bound. When not guiding he has worked as a math teacher and water polo coach at Wagner College. Aaron has been a an EMT for ten years and is currently applying to medical school. His interest is emergency medicine which will allow him the flexibility to continue guiding.
Danny has been guiding river expeditions for 8 years and is a wilderness EMT and a NOLS instructor. Besides river guiding, he is a certified ice climbing, rock climbing and fly fishing guide. His river guiding experience includes numerous rivers throughout the western U.S. including Alaska and the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Internationally he has guided in New Zealand, Morocco, Nepal and in Chile on the Futaleufu. Danny is an airplane and helicopter pilot. He is currently pursuing a commercial helicopter flight instructor license. He and his wife, Tessa, live in California with their dog Puck.
Leonardo Medina (Peke) was born on a farm in the Escala Valley along the Futaleufu River just below Infierno Canyon. Peke's early years were spent working on his family's farm. When he was 15 he became the third recipient of Earth River's guide internship scholarship program on the Futaleufu. For the next five years Peke trained on Futaleufu on Earth River trips. Upon completing his internship, he was hired by Earth River and is now a core member of Earth River's Futaleufu crew as a safety cataraft guide. He is considered, among his peers, to be one of the finest safety cat guides in the world. He has been working on his English and expects to be guiding clients down the river within the next few years. He was recently featured in the award winning documentary, "Fighting for the Futaleufu."
Accord, New York
"Cade is an exceptionally mature and sensitive young man. We were amazed by his competence at such a young age. It was hard for Natalia and I to believe he was only 18."
David Larkin, first descent of Yavero River
Cade has been running expeditions since he was 6. He has worked as a guide on the Middle Fork of the Salmon, Magpie and Grand Canyon. Internationally he has done expedions in Patagonia, Peru, Tibet, Fiji, British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Quebc. At 10 he was on the first exploration of the Lakes of Patagonia, featured in National Geographic Adventure Magazine. At 9 he began paddling an inflatable kayak down the class 4 Magpie River in Quebec and shot video to sell to the guests.In 2003 he became active in the fight to stop multiple dams slated for the lower Magpie River in Quebec, testifying at government hearings in Sept Isles, Quebec and showing a video that contradicted the developers claims that the River's most impressive and soon to be flooded rapid was not runnable. His Magpie footage was shown across Canada on CBC Television. In 2010 he shot video on the first raft and commercial descent of Peru's recently discovered Yavero River. He was part of the safety team on the first descent of Patagonia's Quinto River. He is a senior at Humboldt State University in California. Cade is an avid kayaker and splits his guiding between the Middle Fork of the Salmon with Echo Adventures and the Magpie with Earth River.
The following guides also work with Earth River; Jiyue Zhang, Chengdu, China (Partner China/Tibet), Juan Gabriel Acero (Colo), Bogata, Columbia (Guide - Chile & Canada).
"Eric Hertz and Robert Currie have devoted their lives and their company's resources to saving some of the world's last great white-water, wilderness rivers."
"The absolute mastery of Robert Currie guiding in the back of the raft made every element of the Futaleufu river seem heightened, perfected, colorized, almost virtual."
"Earth River is the premier river runner in the world. Their staff includes the finest guides to be found."
"Earth River is more than a great whitewater outfitter. Their contributions have made a real difference in our efforts to preserve some of the world's most beautiful rivers in Chile and Canada."
"I want to personally thank Earth River for helping us stop the hydro-electric projects on our land preventing the destruction of one of North America's last great wildernesses."
"I've rafted with Eric Hertz down some tough rivers—the Futaleufu in Chile, the Colca in Peru. He's one of the best in the business—obsessed with safety."


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Placer County Environmental Engineering and the county's Health and Human Services Department will participate in a countywide prescription drug "take-back" event on Saturday, Sept. 25.
Sponsored by the Coalition for Placer Youth, the event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Any prescription or over-the-counter medications can be turned in at 12 locations across Placer County.
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NEW YORK— Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelley can't-close-a-deal Levene is told that he cannot have the "premium leads" (translation: the only sales leads that might actually result in a sale) because they are not given out to a person who "falls below that mark."
In Daniel Sullivan's high-profile Broadway revival of a great American drama of prosaic Midwestern business, a masterpiece that can withstand almost any out-of-whack revival, even this one, the great American actor Al Pacino blinks straight out at the audience. He will do this, beyond all bounds of common practice, for the next two hours, a choice at once interesting, sweet and weird. But first, Pacino's aptly gaunt salesman Shelley wrenches back his head to look at his unfeeling boss, played by David Harbour. "Then how," he says, dripping with just the right mix of obsequiousness, defiance and sanity-threatening exasperation, "do they get above that mark?"
Well, isn't that the fundamental paradox of American business, politics, education, life? Do all our lives not spin around the question of who gets the premium leads? Are not our great moral questions really some version of this brief exchange on fairness, spoken between an older, less powerful man and a young, marginally more powerful man? Mamet, writing at the zenith of observational powers now seemingly squelched in service of the polemical and the cerebral, stuffs this harrowing but crucially familiar existential exchange into a sketch that takes place in the blood-red booth of a crappy Chinese restaurant, somewhere barren on Chicago's North Side.
Such a moment is this! Pacino's instincts are too rich to let it pass him by, and, for a few minutes, you think that Sullivan's "Glengarry" will sear the play's soul. An hour or two later, you come to see that the production has its high points, its entertainments, its solid performances, and there is nothing herein to kill the appeal of this brilliantly constructed and spectacularly theatrical play -- part tragedy, part burglary whodunit, with carefully leaked information. But this production, which features a simple but telling design by Eugene Lee, ultimately does not succeed pretty much for the same reasons that the last Broadway production of Mamet's "American Buffalo" did not work out. It is insufficiently real and specific. And, frankly, if you'll forgive the parochialism, it's insufficiently recognizable as set in Chicago.
To some extent, the problems that afflict this production are not dissimilar to the problems that afflict the script to "The Anarchist," the new David Mamet drama playing down the block, which is having its plug pulled Dec. 16 after a raft of mostly negative reviews (I felt mixed). Thus there is chatter about what has happened to Mamet. "Always be closing," which we see projected, fortune cookie-like, between scenes at "Glengarry," is an adage for salesman to live by, but not ideal for playwrights.
Closing won't be an issue with a star-centered production of Mamet's greatest play, a drama brilliantly rooted in the real angst of those born without the premium leads. Although hardly an everyman in whom we can see ourselves, Pacino's Shelley is certainly playful, unpredictable and rhythmically impulsive — all fair enough for a more colorful fellow than Arthur Miller's Willy Loman, a fellow victim of the brutalities of American business. Pacino certainly captures Shelley's vulnerability, even if he channels much of that into eccentricity. The problems arrive more when it feels like these actors don't understand the huge stakes of small events in these third-tier salesmen's lives.
Pacino doesn't recount Levene's sole tale of success — the one actual sale (or so it seems) that puts him on the Cadillac prize board — with enough of the relived relish of a man for whom successes have been few. Similarly, Bobby Cannavale, who plays Ricky Roma, doesn't reveal the requisite raw panic when one of his sales threatens to go south. Cannavale and the director Sullivan both overestimate and underestimate this character. They overestimate him by missing the truth that he's only the king of a very low-stakes world, perennially terrified of slipping off the leader board. And they underestimate his eloquence. You don't believe that Cannavale, who lacks the requisite silver tongue, could sell Amish heaters in a swamp. In fact, he has a slickness that would put most people on their guard.
Richard Schiff, the "West Wing" star, turns in an isolated but moving performance as Aaronow, the mad-as-hell salesman who almost can't take it any more. And there's very solid work from the lesser-known actors in the company, such as Jeremy Shamos (a nervous Lingk), John C. McGinley (an unstinting Moss) and Murphy Guyer (a pitch-perfect cop). Harbour nearly busts a gasket in the "Go to lunch!" exchange, made famous in the movie by Kevin Spacey and forged here, excitingly, with less control and more panic.
There's no need to panic over Mamet. He's just changed his preoccupations. Just as Miller started to obsess over the limits of the intellect when it came to satisfying sensual needs, or as August Wilson grew tired of realism and craved the freedom of classic tragedy, Mamet has removed himself from the "Glengarry" salesmen and their working-class problems.
It's hard to imagine his observational powers have diminished; the issue seems to be more that his circle, both intellectual and personal, has changed. Sure, "Glengarry" is far a better play than "The Anarchist." Sure, one pines for a Mamet who better remembers what Second City, Chicago's streets and the denizens of the Lincoln Hotel combined to teach him of life back home. But Mamet remains an American great who's yet to bore us with anything. The great writers must be allowed to ebb and flow. Mamet is still selling us "Glengarry Glen Ross" and he's no fool. He knows which play people are buying.
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Any word if this might work for Aussie iPhones? Need to unlock from "3 Mobile" to work with "Optus"
Also, don't forget to tap your head and rub your belly while you're at it
i would like to know if it also works with 5.0
this is crap
"If you are successful at temporarily gaining network access, you'll lose it as soon as TMSI is refreshed (happens often)"
Now that someone has figured that out, looks like 5.1 will have another line in the change log.
Who's the moron who lives in his parents' basement who had enough time on his hands to figure this one out?
Will it stay unlocked after power off or need to repet this steps again?
You even read the article?
I would like to know if Georgia has tried this? Rene? Phil? LOL!!!
Of course they haven't.
Seriously. Why crawl on edge! phone almost useless at that point
Interesting way to drag people to read this post. I don't think that it would work
Apple is the only company that makes it so darn difficult to unlock its phones. Maybe because they want people to buy their ridiculously over price unlocked iPhones. Why can't they make it BlackBerry and Android just buy the code and the phone is unlocked. Simple.
How did someone discover this???
I wonder if this would work to allow Sprint / Verizon phones work on ATT?
No because the iPhone on Verizon does not have a sim card well iPhone 4 that is
Why in the world would you want a phone not pre-programmed for AT&T to run on AT&T?
I heard if you follow a rainbow there is a pot of gold! Although I'm writing this, I haven't tried it or know of anyone first hand who has. If you give it a try, let us know if you have any success! F$&?!
Does anybody read @Musclenerd's twitter posts?
"Today was example of Apple echo chamber..all blogs repeating same "unlock" story without verifying 1st hand (so as not to be scooped?)
10 hours ago"
This has been posted for 12 hours without any confirmation. And you consider your site the number iPhone iPod iPad blog? And you call this journalism? How pathetic! FYI, it does not work.
Just tried it with a 3GS. Doesn't work. Bummers.
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