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Quarterback Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys congratulates quarterback Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings on their 34-3 victory during the NFC Divisional Playoff Game on January 17, 2010 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It's been more than nine months since the Minnesota Vikings whipped the Dallas Cowboys 34-3 in the divisional round of the 2009 NFL playoffs but, like a scornful woman, neither side can seem to forget the imbroglio ignited when Keith Brooking accused the Vikes of running up the score.
"We don't care what Brooking says," Vikings' defensive tackle Pat Williams said, via the Dallas Morning News. "If he's still talking about last year that's his bad because last year is last year and we ain't worried about. If he wants to cry like a little baby, he'll cry like a little baby but we aren't worried about what he's saying."
Indeed, a great show of maturity by Mr. Williams.
Brad Childress, what say you?
"If they're slamming people into the formation, nothing says that you have to go in there and have everybody shorten their necks so they stop us," Childress said of last January's game. "Now you've got to make a decision whether you kick a field goal. So the easiest thing is to get another first down. That's all we were trying to do and we ended up scoring."
It seems a childish line of remarks from Minnesota, but Dallas is no better.
Between Wade Phillips responding to criticism from Tony Dungy by deriding his quarterbacking abilities (it should be noted that Dungy was not a quarterback by trade) and Jerry Jones saying that, basically, it's just not fair that Marc Colombo was called for the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty last week, this Sunday's game--as far as the talk leading up to it is concerned, anyway--might as well be a battle of six-year-old boys.
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Johnson, Ashley lead No. 5 Arizona to NIT semis
Originally published: Nov 19, 2013 - 11:32 pm
Brandon Ashley added 16 points, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson 13 and Aaron Gordon 12 for the Wildcats (5-0), who play Drexel in the tournament semifinals Nov. 27 in Madison Square Garden. No. 6 Duke plays Alabama in the other semifinal.
Xavier Munford scored 20 on 6 for 16 shooting for the Rams, who never led. No other Rhode Island player reached double figures.
The Rams (3-2) lost their 21st straight against a ranked team.
The Wildcats led by 24 at halftime and as many as 32 after that.
Arizona got off to a sloppy start, with four early turnovers, and was up only 10-6 after Rhode Island's Biggie Minnis scored with 10:50 left in the game.
But the Wildcats scored six quick points, four by Johnson, in a 13-3 spurt that made it 23-9 on Rondae Hollis-Jefferson's dunk on a lob from T.J. McConnell with 6:54 left in the half. Munford's basket cut the lead to 23-11, then the Wildcats erupted in a 14-3 run. Gordon had a reverse dunk on a lob from McConnell, then Hollis-Jefferson sank a 3. Arizona led 37-14 and the rout was on.
In the final minute of the half, McConnell sank a 3 and Ashley made two from the foul line to put the Wildcats up 43-19 at the break.
The Rams shot 25 percent in the first half (7 for 28) to Arizona's 56 percent (18 of 32).
Arizona outscored Rhode Island 13-6 to start the second half to go up 56-25 on Johnson's two free throws with 15:20 to play.
The Rams, who struggled to beat Metro State 66-63 in the first round Monday night, put together a 19-7 run that cut the lead to 63-44 on a pair of free throws by Munford with 8:46 to play. Rhode Island had a chance to get closer but Gordon blocked Matthew Butler's shot and Gabe York sank a 3-pointer. Rhode Island never got it under 20 again.
Rhode Island's last victory over a ranked team came against then-No. 25 Utah on Dec. 2, 1998.
- Rich Rodriguez, Head Coach UA Football - Monday August 25Who will be his starting quarterback and how will he replace Ka'Deem Carey?
- Greg Byrne, University of Arizona Athletic Director - Friday August 8Greg Byrne talks about the new ruling that gives autonomy to the Power 5 conferences.
- Bucky Brooks, NFL Network draft analyst - Friday May 2Bucky Brooks discusses what the Cardinals should do with the 20th overall pick.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Tuesday April 15Adam and Jarrett talk about UA's early departures.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Thursday April 3Adam and Jarrett recap a tough loss as well as the season itself.

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My little girl is a big Peppa Pig fan so anything to do with this is a big hit with her. She recently moved into her own room as her new little brother took the nursery. We didn't really have a theme per say when we decorated her room as I didn't want it to be too girly and over the top with one character so we have plain white walls with some Mickey Mouse and friends on them and some Winnie The Pooh and some Peppe Pig. When I saw this clock I knew it would be a nice way of adding a bit of Peppa but not making it Peppe Pig overkill. I also thought a clock would be a brilliant idea as although she cannot tell the time yet to have a clock in her room and get her familiar with it and the numbers and how it works will only make my job easier when it comes to actually teaching her to tell the time properly.
It is in a flower shape so it has lots of little rounded edges. This makes it look quite fun in my opinion and is not as boring as just a round clock. There are also two little pink plastic daisies on each side of the clock. On the plastic rim there are little heart outlines which give the frame of the clock some texture and a nice look. The numbers 1 to 12 are displayed on the clock which is perfect for little kids as this is the way they will learn rather than having a fancy clock that just has marks where the numbers should be.
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What: Homegrown food just tastes better, especially if you understand the factors that influence flavor. In this fact-filled lecture, you'll learn the science behind flavor and how variety choice, soil, and watering all influence the taste and quality of the food you grow in your garden. I will offer specific advice for preventing bitterness, bolting, cracking. Plus, we will explore crops can be eaten at more than one stage of growth, how to harvest crops like garlic scapes and green coriander, and learn about the best vegetable varieties for the Pacific Northwest.
When: Wednesday, March 14 at 6:45 pm
Where: The Northwest Horticultural Society will host this lecture at the Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle.
Succession Planning 101 at The Seed Bank
What: Even small vegetable gardens can produce a remarkable amount and variety of food. All it takes is a little planning! Planting food in intervals throughout the season – a practice known as succession planting – allows you to keep your garden full and productive from spring through fall (and even into winter). This talk covers basic succession planting strategies, walks you through a three-season succession planting plan, and gives you ideas for simplifying and streamlining the process.
When: Thursday, March 22nd at 7pm
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What: In this presentation I'm excited to introduce some overlooked, but delicious, edible crops, including pea shoots, green coriander seed, and garlic scapes! We will also enjoy some samples of the recipes in the book!
When: Friday, March 23rd from 6pm to 8pm
Where: The Gardens at Heather Farm, 1540 Marchbanks Drive, Walnut Creek CA (hosted by the Ruth Bancroft Garden)
Gourmet Gardening at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
What: At the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show I will be discussing how to grow gourmet quality vegetables at home. You'll learn about how to grow and harvest delicious extra edibles and I will share some of my very favorite varieties, including 'Purple Peacock' broccoli and 'Golden India' snow pea.
When: Saturday, March 24th at 3:15 in the Meeting Pavillion
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What: Learn how to grow herbs and infuse their flavor into your everyday recipes! In this hands-on workshop I'm going to share tips for growing the best spring herbs (think parsley, chives, and dill) and demonstrate how to make a delicious compound butter flavored with garden fresh herbs. Plus, I will be answering your most pressing vegetable gardening questions.
When: Monday, March 26th at 6:00 pm
Where: Book Passage at the Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, California, 94111
Grow Cook Eat: A Reading and Talk at Omnivore Books
What: In this fun evening at Omnivore Books, I will be talking about my favorite subject: exploring all the wonderful food available to gardeners. I will share how to grow and harvest ephemeral treats like radish greens, garlic scapes, and green coriander seeds, talk about cooking with fresh food from the garden. There will also be a Q&A!
When: Wednesday, March 28th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm
Where: Omnivore Books, 3885a Cesar Chavez Street(at Church Street), San Francisco, CA 94131
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Got a chance to talk to Davis High mega-recruit Troy Hinds tonight, about nine hours after the 6-foot-5, 230-pound defensive end committed to BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall.
Hinds' description of the last 24 hours: "Pretty crazy."
And a big relief off his shoulders, he said.
Hinds said that although he committed to Mendenhall today, he pretty much made up his mind over the course of the last two weeks.
"When I knew 100 percent that's where I wanted to go, that's when I [pulled the trigger]," he said.
Hinds said all 16 or so schools that had offered him had their strong points here or there, but in his mind BYU had all of them.
"It's not one thing that I can pinpoint," he said. "It was a combination of things like my relationships with the coaches, the environment down there, things like that."
Hinds said he turns 19 next May, and will likely have his mission call before he even graduates from high school. His mission plans weren't a big factor in his decision, he said, noting that every coach at every school he talked to was OK with him leaving right away on a mission.
Nor was a school's conference affiliation.
He said the fact that all the other schools (except Notre Dame) that offered him are in BCS conferences did not have an impact on his decision.
"It's the school, not who the school plays [that is important to him]," he said."I didn't take into account what conference they are in when I weighed [the pros and cons] of each school. That didn't matter that much."
It was interesting to hear some of the chatter at BYU practice tonight regarding the misconceptions of how the Hinds' commitment news broke. Sounds like some BYU fans out there believe that I ignored some sort of embargo on the press release that Hinds wrote when I first mentioned on Twitter (@drewjay) that he had committed to BYU and jumped the gun, thereby purposefully stealing the kid's thunder.
That's not true.
Here's how it went down, in case you care:
Knowing that they were going to meet with Mendenhall around noon on Monday and give the commitment, the Hinds apparently wrote the press release/letter on Sunday night and emailed it to dozens and dozens of coaches from around the country who had recruited Hinds.
They wanted those coaches to get the news before they read it from an online news source.
The plan was to send it to the media after the meeting with Mendenhall, or minutes before.
The leak, if you want to call it that -- or the way the plan got scuttled -- came when one of the recipients who got the email late Sunday or early Monday forwarded it on to me. Far as I can tell, no other media member got the forwarded email until later in the day, after the beans were spilled.
I read it around 8:30 a.m., saw the part where Hinds mentioned he was meeting with Mendenhall this morning, and figured that the meeting had already taken place. So I tweeted it out, then quickly filed a report for the Tribune website, and another on this blog.
So there you have it.
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New Orleans. The French Quarter. Boudin. Chicory coffee. Shrimp and Cajun food and music. The Big Easy. Only thing is, that's what the Kansas City Chiefs defense has been lately, The Big Easy. As in it's been ridiculously easy for other teams to score, Two games, 75 points. Two losses. A lot of unanswered questions and even more not-very-happy fans. This was supposed to be the season the Chiefs would contend, With returning starters Jamaal Charles, Eric Berry and Tony Moeaki back from year-long injuries suffered in 2011, new OC Brian Daboll, and an influx of free agent talent like Eric Winston, Kevin Boss and Stanford Routt, the Chiefs were (supposedly) primed for a playoff push.
So yeah, not a very good feeling about the Chiefs right now, but hey, two games is NOT the end of the season, right? No problem! All the Chiefs have to do is ... oh yeah, beat the Saints. On the road. A Saints team that needs a win as much as the Chiefs need a win. Right. From a feeling of "This is Our Year" to "OMG what the hell is going on out there?" this quickly hurts, but it's not over til it's over, right? The show must go on, and Sunday it will indeed continue as the Chiefs head to the Superdome to take on Drew Brees and the Saints.
Questions about the Chiefs? We have answers for your questions, though much of what we USED to think has been missing in action so far this year. Ah well, fire away and we'll do our very best to answer your questions about our "awesome" team. Besides, when your favorite team is 0-2 it's easier to look ahead and be hopeful than look back and be depressed. Sometimes you just gotta smile despite all the pain. Ask away, Saints fans, and be nice: like you we're hurting right now. Here's to a good game, may the best team win. :-)


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In the United States alone, there is a divorce every 13 seconds. Each of these marriages end for different reasons and has its own story. Unfortunately that story could include a child.
"Right now, the kids are in a tug-of-war for who is going to get them, and that's not fair to the kids; it's not fair to the parents," Casey Wilson said.
Wilson's story is like many others. His marriage was coming to an end, and he found himself in a court battle for a chance to see his child.
"The brightest beacon for these courts is the best interest of the children, and you have to do that from a number of angles," attorney Shelly Munson said.
It's a phrase Wilson hears all too often.
"I think the best interest of the child standard creates a bias because it gives judges so much discretion and they have a bias that mom is the caregiver and dad pays for the children," Wilson said.
In Wilson's case, the judge awarded the mother primary custody, limiting how much time Wilson was able to spend with his child and re-emphasizing his belief in a bias against non-custodial parents.
Munson believes a bias in court rulings is exaggerated and that judges consider all the evidence when determining the best interest of the child.
"They come in, there's a clean slate on the board. It doesn't matter what sex you are, moms and dads are created equal. It all depends, however, on who is the primary caregiver for the child. That's one of the big factors," Munson said.
The way the courts rule in cases like this could have more to do on the lack of clarity in South Dakota law.
"It doesn't anywhere really specify in our code book what the factors are to look for any kind of custody. It's by case law," attorney Debra Voigt said.
It's Wilson's personal situation that led him to join of other South Dakota parents to push for a change in state law. They want judges to consider shared parenting as a custody option, which would give both parents close to a 50-50 split with the child.
"The courts have not really followed, necessarily, what the current social science research has supported, which is equally involving both parents," Wilson said.
Why is this momentum for change happening now? To Wilson, it has a lot to do with the number of parents willing to speak out about their cases. In the past that was hard to find.
"They're afraid to talk about their situation because it'll be used against them in court. So, it keeps a lot of people from talking about it. Even me, myself, I'm afraid to talk about my case, but I do it and I'll take the blows if I have to," Wilson said.
The recent push in Pierre isn't the first time someone has tried to add shared parenting into state law. Past attempts have tried to make shared parenting a requirement in custody cases, but according to Voigt, that would create an even bigger mess.
"You have to take a look at what the history is. What if one of them is in the Pen, you know, and you have an automatic thing. What if one of them is a truck driver and you're going to automatically give him or her joint physical custody; that may not make sense," Voigt said.
This time around, Wilson feels safeguards are in place to keep that from being a problem.
"There's parental fitness factors within the bill, which have always been part of the bills. If a person is found to be abusive, there's no reason they should have equal custody of their children," Wilson said.
Even if the bill becomes state law and shared parenting is an official option, one big question remains: can it work?
"What's most important is that you be able to co-parent with that other parent, and I don't think a lot of people in shared parenting get that. So, in a lot of ways, the parents are important because that's what it takes to make it work," Voigt said.
The emotions of a bitter divorce could create an unhealthy environment for a shared parenting set-up, but that is a factor a judge would consider.
Even though his marriage didn't work, Wilson doesn't want his child to lack an important role model. Just like other people hoping for change, they just want to be the ideal parent for someone that calls them mom or dad.
"I know, in my situation, I come from an in-tact marriage. I would say, growing up, neither parent was more important; both parents were important, and why just since the dissolution of the marriage has that changed?" Wilson said.
Senate Bill 74 passed in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.


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I wrote a version of this in April for this past offseason. I think we should start looking ahead now.
March 5, 2014 (Trade Deadline)
Buffalo Acquires: 1st Round Pick in 2014 & Mitchell Moroz, 40% Retained Salary of Miller
Edmonton Acquires: Ryan Miller
Buffalo Acquires: Conditional 2nd Round Pick in 2015 (Converted to 1st if Vanek re-signs), 3rd Round Pick in 2016, Markus Granlund, Ben Hanowski, 25% Retained Salary of Vanek
Calgary Acquires: Thomas Vanek
April 14, 2014 (Day After Last Game of Regular Season)
Fire General Manager Darcy Regier and Head Coach Ron Rolston
June 1, 2014
Name Rick Dudley General Manager
June 15, 2014
Name Scott Arniel Head Coach
June 20-26, 2014 (Re-Sign Phase)
Steve Ott: 4 Years/$16M
Tyler Ennis: 6 Years/$24M
Marcus Foligno: 3 Years/$9M
Jamie McBain: 2 Years/$4M
Chad Ruhwedel: 3 Years/$3M
Matt Hackett: 3 Years/$3M
Corey Tropp: 4 Years/$3.2M
Matt MacKenzie: 2 Years/$1.4M
Nick Crawford: 1 Year/$600K
Cody McCormick, John Scott, Kevin Porter, Henrik Tallinder, Alexander Sulzer, Connor Knapp, Jamie Tardif, Luke Adam, Jonathan Parker
June 27, 2014 (NHL Entry Draft)
Buffalo Acquires: Tomas Fleischmann
Florida Acquires: 2nd Round Pick in 2015 & Brayden McNabb
Buffalo Acquires: 2nd Round Pick in 2016
St Louis Acquires: Drew Stafford
Draft: Sam Reinhart (#1 Overall) & Nick Schmaltz (#15 Overall)
June 30, 2014
Compliance Buyout: Ville Leino
July 1, 2014
Sign Free Agent:
C-Paul Stastny: 7 Years/$50.75M
Projected Lines
Fleischmann ($4.5M) - Hodgson ($4.25M) - Reinhart ($925K)
Ennis ($4M) - Stastny ($7.25M) - Girgensons ($925K)
Foligno ($3M) - Grigorenko ($925K) - Armia ($925K)
Ott ($4M) - Larsson ($763K) - Flynn ($637K)
Ehrhoff ($4M) - Myers ($5.5M)
Ristolainen ($925K) - Weber ($1.66M)
Pysyk ($870K) - McBain ($2M)
Enroth ($1.25M) - Hackett ($1M)
Kaleta ($1.25M), Tropp ($800K), Zadorov ($925K)
Rochester Americans (No Particular Order)
Markus Granlund, Tim Schaller, Justin Kea, Phil Varone, Frederick Roy
Left Wingers
Mitchell Moroz, Ben Hanowski, Matt Ellis, Eric Locke, Gustav Possler, Kevin Sundher, Daniel Catenacci
Right Wingers
Colin Jacobs, Shawn Szydlowski, Logan Nelson
Brady Austin, Drew Bagnall, Mark Adams, Chad Ruhwedel, Alex Lepkowski, Jerome Gauthier Leduc, Matt MacKenzie, Nick Crawford
Andrey Makarov, Linus Ullmark, Nathan Lieuwen
Ryan Miller
It has been talked about since November of 2011, when Ryan Miller for Bobby Ryan trade rumors arose out of the Buffalo air. After the lockout-shortened 2013 season, and especially after the Sabres dealt Captain Jason Pominville, the trade speculation surrounding the Olympic Goaltender has escalated to daily conversation around not just Buffalo but the entire National Hockey League. On or before March 5, 2014, Ryan Miller's days in Blue-and-Gold will be in his rear-view mirror. It has been recently reported by Pierre LeBrun that Edmonton is in fact on Miller's 8-team No-Trade list, however, if the Sabres continue to play the way they have this month (Which is more probable than possible), there is a very good chance he will waive his No-Trade to go to, shall we say, ANYWHERE but Buffalo. In this proposed trade, Buffalo gets a 1st Round Pick in 2014 (a given no matter where he is dealt) and prospect Mitchell Moroz. Moroz is a 6' 3", 215 pound brute who can also score. He currently has 15 points and 38 penalty minutes in 11 games with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League. Although he is not high on the prospect list for Edmonton, I like him.
Thomas Vanek
As with Miller, Thomas Vanek trade rumors have been floating around the League for a while now. He has said recently that he has not ruled out signing in Buffalo, saying that he and his family love the city and the organization. Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda. If Thomas Vanek was committed to re-signing here, he would've done so already. When the Buffalo Sabres traded Jason Pominville, everyone knew a deal involving Vanek was almost inevitable. Also, the Pominville deal showed what kind of value Vanek would fetch. In this proposed trade, Buffalo gets a Conditional 2nd Round Pick in 2015(Becomes 1st if he re-signs), a 3rd Round Pick in 2016, Center Markus Granlund, and Left Winger Ben Hanowski. The 7th and 9th Ranked Flames prospects respectively, according to Hockey Prospectus, both project to be 2nd Line players. To this point, Granlund, 6' 0", 185 pounds, has played one AHL game with the Abbotsford Heat, registering an assist. In two seasons in the Finnish pro league, SM-Liiga, he has registered 64 points in 97 games. Hanowski, 6' 2", 210 pounds, currently leads the Heat with 5 points in 5 games, 4 of which are goals. The Conditional draft pick is only what I would agree to if I were Calgary's GM. If Vanek doesn't sign, I'm really screwed.
Locker Cleanout Day (April 14, 2014)
Locker Cleanout is always a disappointing day for 29 of the 30 teams in the NHL. For the Sabres, the spotlight won't be on the players, but on owner Terry Pegula. If my prediction comes to fruition, the Sabres will relieve Head Coach Ron Rolston of his duties and (finally) fire General Manger Darcy Regier. I liked the hiring of Rolston when the Sabres canned Ruff, but it just hasn't worked out over the two seasons he has been in command. He doesn't show emotion or concern, and has every recently gone out and had a "Dance-Off" with the players at a practice after a butt-whipping by Vancouver. As for Regier, this will be a glorious day in Buffalo. The 2013-14 season will mark his 16th season as General Manager. In that time span, including not making the playoffs this year, will be an 8-8 record of making the playoffs versus not. 4 of those times the Sabres did make the Conference Finals, and once, the Stanley Cup Finals. But there still is no Stanley Cup in Buffalo. 16 seasons and no Cup? Time to move on. Granted, Regier has history to be a good GM, scoring good returns for Kassian, Leopold, Regehr, and Pominville. However, it is time to try something new.
A New General Manager
To make amends with the disheartened Sabres fans, the Sabres will pull from their own history, hiring experienced executive and former Sabre Rick Dudley as General Manager. Currently an Assistant General Manager with Montreal, Dudley has proved his ability to be an effective GM in the National Hockey League. He started his Management career in 1998 when he was hired as GM by the Ottawa Senators. He was then "traded" to Tampa Bay where he filled the same capacity. While in Tampa Bay, he acquired NHL All-Star and Olympic Goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin in a blockbuster deal. He also acquired Defenseman Dan Boyle from Florida for a fifth-rounder; Boyle would become Tampa's top Defenseman in their Cup run in 2004 (after Dudley was fired). After some time as an Assistant GM, he regained full-bird status in Atlanta in 2010. He immediately made an impact, making a blockbuster deal with Stanley Cup Champions Chicago to acquire Dustin Byfuglien (and 3 others) in a deal for 3 players and 2 draft picks. One week later he acquired Andrew Ladd from Chicago; Ladd would later become Captain.
I think Dudley is an essential piece of a big revamp the Sabres need.
The Third Coach in Four Years
Ron Rolston's time was short-lived, and rightfully so. After failing to improve the team when he replaced Lindy Ruff, Rolston has had an ugly start to the 2013-14 season. The team he is leading will not improve much this season, and I feel his leadership (or, possibly, a lack there of) is a part of that. His talent is developing young players; a talent with which he excelled as the Coach of Lake Superior State, Clarkson State, Harvard University, and Boston College at the collegiate level (11 seasons), the USA National Team Development Program for 7 seasons, and the Rochester Americans for 2 seasons. He cannot, at least right now, coach NHL players successfully.
Continuing with the trend of former Sabres players, I predict the Sabres will hire Scott Arniel as Head Coach. Arniel is currently an assistant coach with the New York Rangers, a position he has held in the past with Buffalo. He has previously been the Head Coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets before being fired just a year and a half into the job. He has also made the playoffs in four of the five years he served as a Head Coach in the American Hockey League.
2014 NHL Entry Draft
Incoming General Manager Rick Dudley will be busy on Draft Day.
Trading Miller and Vanek dropped the Sabres Cap Hit by $13.3 Million. The Sabres need some Salary, and some Veteran Scoring. I feel Tomas Fleischmann may be the answer. Fleischmann, currently with Florida, is a consistent 60 point scorer. Taking that into consideration, it will cost Buffalo a 2nd Round Pick (this one in 2015) and Defenseman Brayden McNabb. McNabb has been recently passed over on the Depth Chart by newcomers Chad Ruhwedel, Rasmus Ristolainen, and Nikita Zadorov. He really doesn't have a future in Buffalo, but I feel he is an NHL Defenseman.
That 2nd Round Pick will be recouped fast, however, as Buffalo will trade Drew Stafford to St Louis for theirs in 2016. Trading Stafford will be the last move to completely erase the old "Core 6" from recent Sabre years: Gaustad (Nashville), Roy (Dallas), Pominville (Minnesota), Miller (Edmonton), and Vanek (Calgary).
Assistant General Manager Kevin Devine, known for his Draft Skills, will also be busy, as Buffalo owns two 1st Round Picks: theirs (1st Overall) and Edmonton's (15th Overall). They will select Sam Reinhart and Nick Schmaltz.
Thank You, CBA, for Compliance Buyouts
Terry Pegula made sure to toss his money around when he took over as owner of the Sabres. On July 1, 2011, the Sabres signed highly sought-out forward Ville Leino to a 6-Year/$27 Million contract. Boy, was that a mistake with a capital "MISS". Leino has been an injury-prone, low-scoring player and a waste of $4.5 Million annually.
Hey, Buffalo Signed a Good Player
The Colorado Avalanche have a very interesting problem. Too Many Centers. On July 1, 2014, veteran Paul Stastny becomes a Free Agent. His production has not been up to his potential, so I think he will be passed on by most Cup-Contenders, especially with that $6.6 Million Cap Hit. While most teams that give him an offer will want to cut his pay, Buffalo can afford to over spend by a lot, having almost no big salaries. I think Stastny will be a good addition for Buffalo, bringing scoring ability, faceoff ability, and leadership.
Future Outlook
I think the Future is bright for this team if they assemble something similar to what I have here. Will they make the Playoffs in 2014-15? Probably not. But they will be a whole lot closer than they will be this year. Will they become a consistent Cup Contender in 3-4 years? I think the answer to that is a resounding "YES!".


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As Jason and I close out our Letter of Intent series, we thought we'd cover one last item that has screwed many a seller – the case where a public company acquires a private company for unregistered stock. Some buyers will try to ignore this – a good seller should work hard up front to get agreement on what type of stock and what kind of registration rights they will be receiving. Expectation setting is key in this situation.
One thing to consider here is the non-binding nature of a "promise" to register shares. The buyer will argue that they can't guarantee to register the shares because they don't control the SEC. The past history of the buyer with the SEC is crucial, including knowing the current status of SEC filings, any outstanding registration statements, and any promises that the buyer has made to shareholders of other companies it has acquired.
We've had several unfortunate situations where we've been "promised" a quick registration from a buyer, only to have them drag their feet on the filing after the deal, or get the filing hung up in the SEC. In today's SOX environment, we've been amazed by the poor behavior of several of the big four accounting firms who "don't have time" to work on merger accounting questioned by the SEC, especially in situations where the accounting firm is not going to be the merged company's auditor going forward. Be very careful here as stock isn't tradeable until it's registered and the 12 month automatic waiting period for unregistered stock to become registered (in the absence of a registration statement filed with the SEC) can be a long time (and a lot of volatility) to have to wait for.
While I much prefer sex (as in "The Joy of …"), sometimes I have to settle for registration rights. With this post, Jason and I end our Letter of Intent series. We hope you've enjoyed it – feel free to comment and email me additional questions to address.
While watching the Sopranos tonight, I saw the magic manilla envelope stuffed with cash get passed to Tony and thought "what would a good deal be without some fees?" Remember – it is important to make sure that the lawyers and bankers can afford their fancy sports cars.
A letter of intent will usually be explicit about who pays for which costs and what limits exist for the seller to run up transaction costs in the merger. The transaction cost associated with an agent or banker, the legal bill, and any other seller-side costs are typically included in the transaction fee section. While it's conceivable that the buyer will punt on worrying about who covers transaction fees, in today's M&A world most savvy buyers are very focused on making sure the seller ends up eating these, especially if they are meaningful amounts.
Occasionally the concept of a break up fee if the deal doesn't close, or the seller executes a deal with another buyer, comes up. This is rare in the context of private company VC-backed M&A but prevalent in the context of public company M&A deals (where one public company is acquiring another public company.) We generally fight any request of an buyer to institute a break up fee and tell the potential buyer to rely on the no shop clause instead. Most buyers of VC-backed companies are much larger and more resource rich than the seller it seeks to acquire, so it strikes us as odd why the buyer would receive a cash windfall if the deal does not close, especially since both parties will have costs incurred in the process.
No matter how you structure things, most fees end up coming out of the seller's proceeds, so tread carefully.
Since it's a Saturday morning, I thought I'd cover a topic in our Letter of Intent series that my wife Amy would never agree to. Signing a letter of intent starts a serious and expensive process – for both the buyer and seller – as you both work to consumate a deal. As a result, you should expect that a buyer will insist on a no shop provision similar to the one that we discussed in our term sheet series. In the case of an acquisition, no shop provisions are almost always unilateral, especially if you are dealing with an acquisitive buyer.
As the seller you should be able to negotiate the length of time into a reasonable zone (45 to 60 days). If the buyer is asking for more than 60 days, you should push back hard as it's never in a seller's interest to be locked up, especially for an extended period of time. In addition, most deals should be able to be closed within 60 days from signing of the LOI, so having a reasonable deadline forces everyone to be focused on the actual goal (e.g. closing the deal.)
Since most no shops will be unilateral – the buyer has the right but not the obligation to cancel the no shop if they decide to go forward with the deal – this time window is particularly important since the seller is likely to be tied up for the length of the no shop even if the deal doesn't proceed. Rather than fight the no shop, we've found it more effective to carve out specific events – most notably financings (at the minimum financings done by the existing syndicate) to keep some pressure on the buyer.
When you are asked "Hi – it's been fun to date. Will you marry me?" you usually don't expect the person asking the question to say "Oh – and it'll only happen if my mother says it is ok." (although I expect this happens occasionally, especially if the person asking hasn't had enough therapy.)
Buyers are like this and will normally include certain conditions to closing in the LOI. These can be generic phrases such as "Subject to Board approval by Acquirer," "Subject to the Company not having a material adverse change," or "Subject to due diligence and agreement on definitive documents." They can also be phrases that are specific to the situation of the seller such as "Subject to the Company settling outstanding copyright litigation," or "Subject to Company liquidating its foreign subsidiaries." We generally don't get too concerned about this provision, because any of these "outs" are very easy to trigger should the buyer decide that they don't want to do the deal.
Instead of worrying about whether or not the provision is part of the LOI, we tend to focus on the details of the conditions to close, as this is another data point about the attitude of the buyer. If the list of conditions is long and complex, you likely have a suitor with very particular tastes. In this case, it's worth pushing back early on a few of these conditions to close, especially the more constraining ones, to learn about what your negotiation process is going to be like.
As the seller, you should expect that once you've agreed to specific conditions to close, you'll be held to them. It's worth aggressively addressing them early in the due diligence process so you don't get hung up by something unexpected when you try to "liquidate a foreign subsidiary", especially if you've never done this before.
As my body recovers from my recent marathon, my brain turns back to Letters of Intent. Jason and I left you hanging for a while in our Letter of Intent series – we plan to tromp to the finish line in the next few weeks.
In an effort to mix metaphors, while Jack Bauer tries to always look out for other people at CTU (except for say – in Ryan Chappelle's case), it's not always true that management is playing the same role in an acquisition. In public company acquisitions, you often hear about egregious cases of senior management looking out for themselves (and their board members helping them line their pockets) at the expense of shareholders. This can also happen in acquisitions of private companies, where the buyer knows he needs the senior executives to stick around and is willing to pay something extra for it. Of course, the opposite can happen as well, where the consideration in an acquisition is slim and the investors try to grab all the nickels for themselves, leaving management with little to nothing.
Since management's (and the board's) responsibility is to all shareholders, it's important for management (and the board) to have the proper perspective on their individual circumstances in the context of the specific deal that is occurring. Whenever I'm on the board of a company that is a seller, I prefer to defer the detailed discussion about individual compensation until after the LOI is signed and the management of the buyer and the seller have time to do diligence on each other, build a working relationship, and understand logical roles. Spending too much time up front negotiating management packages often results in a lot of very early deal fatigue, typically makes buyers uncomfortable with the motivation of the management team for the seller, and can often create a huge wedge between management and the other shareholders on the sellers side. We aren't suggesting that management and employees "should not be taken care of appropriately" in a transaction – rather – there won't be an opportunity to take care of folks appropriately if you don't actually get to the transaction, and this is an area that often causes a lot of unnecessary stress if addressed too early in the negotiation.
While we don't recommend negotiating the employment agreements too early in the process, we also don't recommend leaving them to the very end of the process. Many buyers do this so they can exert as much pressure as possible on the key employees of the seller – i.e. – everyone is ready to get the deal done, the only thing hanging it up is the employment agreements. Ironically, many sellers view the situation exactly the opposite way – i.e. now that the deal is basically done, we can ask for a bunch of extra stuff from the buyer. Neither of these positions is very effective – both usually result in unnecessary tension at the end of the deal process and occasionally create a real rift between buyer and seller post transaction.
As with most things in a negotiation (and in life), balance is important. When it comes to employee matters, there's nothing wrong with a solid negotiation – just make sure that it happens in the context of a deal, or you'll likely never actually get the deal done.


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McDonald's is going on a one-day hiring spree. It plans to hire up to 1,800 new workers across New England and New York, according to Fosters.
A lot of the newly available jobs are likely to spots that were vacated by students going back to school.
Participating McDonald's locations will be taking applications and conducting on-site interviews from 3 PM to 5 PM.
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Simply The Best Bondi Bea
Bondi Beach, Sydney-Eastern Suburbs, NSW
- Guests: 2
- Bedrooms: 1
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Bedroom 1 - 1x Queen
- Bathrooms: 1
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'Simply the Best' in a new secure apartment block in a prime position which is just a walk around the corner to Bondi Beach.
This is perfect for a holiday; or a stay for business with pleasure in mind.
This one bedroom modern apartment is spacious and trendy; There are tiled floors throughout the living areas and a large comfortable lounge for you to relax on when you have the time after surfing! or spending time on the beach. A plasma TV and a DVD player are there for your media pleasure. Foxtel is installed.
The bi-fold windows that extend across the front of the apartment open up on to a balcony giving bright natural light into the apartment, there is comfortable seating and a table for your late night glass of wine in the evening air. …
Plus there is a small built-in study area (easy to keep your computer out of sight).
A glass dining table and chairs to seat 4 mean that you can dine in with friends. But keep in mind that there are many excellent restaurants on your door step for you to try.
A galley kitchen with a granite work-top has ample cupboards and storage space, There is a gas cook top and an electric oven. A microwave, dishwasher and all the top quality kitchen aids and equipment that you would require. Cookware and crockery for the table is provided.
The bedroom is carpeted and stylish with a queen sized bed a built-in wardrobe with hanging space and storage for your clothes. Bedside tables and lamps for your late night reading. All bed linen and towels are provided. For your stay
A spacious modern bathroom with a large shower makes it easy and fun to wash off the sand. There is also a built-in laundry with a washer, drier and laundry tub. This apartment has everything you need.
If you have a car there is an extra charge to use a secure car park on site. There is a bus stop close by and regular buses into Sydney City, Bondi Junction and all other areas.
Being so close to the beach it is ideal for surfers and swimmers and for those who enjoy skate boarding or trick cycling; there is a skate board park right on the beach front.
It's great entertainment just to watch these fit young people showing terrific skills on skate boards and cycles.
Swim and surf at Bondi Beach, Coogee and Bronte three of the most sought after locations for beach and water activities.
Enjoy a Sydney Harbour cruise or sample the great choices for meals and dinner at harbour-side restaurants: Darling Harbour, Circular Quay, Woolloomooloo and Watsons Bay.
Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Potts Point, Double Bay, Rose Bay and Paddington are home to many of the finest restaurants, cafes and bars in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
Shop till you drop in Sydney City and Bondi Junction or indulge your sporting passions at:
Royal Randwick racing, Sydney Cricket Ground, Moore Park and Waverley golf courses for pleasure and frustration.
Please contact us for available dates or for other alternative properties.
Charges start at the advertised price depending on season, family numbers and duration of stay. The low pricing applies to the winter season; the highest rate is over the summer and Christmas holiday period. Minimum stay 7 nights.
Bookings of Less than 7 nights will be considered subject to availability
A bond is required (this is returned within 5-7 working days from departure, after a satisfactory inspection of the property). Other mandatory charges as listed. A pocket WIFI 3G Modem can be supplied for $120 for the first month and $75 for subsequent months thereafter.
Keys are picked up from a central office location in Darlinghurst on day of arrival. Check-in is from 2:30pm. Check-out is 10am.
Whilst we use our best efforts to ensure that the information and descriptions inserted by ourselves on websites are accurate, no guarantee is provided by Apartments-r-oz the said information and descriptions are free from errors or faults. Apartments-r-oz does not accept any liability for any errors or omissions and reserves the right to change information published on our descriptions inserted on websites at any time. Apartments-r-oz, does not accept liability for any indirect or consequential loss arising out of the use of or connected with websites or for any products or services purchased from websites.
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Accepted: Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Bank Transfer
- Minimum Stay 7 Nights
- Bond $1,000
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Standard Features
- Activities/Themes
- Fishing Nearby
- Food / Restaurants
- Golf
- Luxury
- Swimming Activities
- Walking or Hiking
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- Domestic
- AirCon
- Bath Towels provided
- Bedding & Sheets provided
- Clothes Dryer
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- Dishwasher
- Gas Stove
- Hair Dryer
- Iron & Ironing board
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- Vacuum System
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- Entertainment
- CD Player
- DVD Player
- Stereo/Music system
- General
- Child friendly
- Luxury
- Balcony
- Transport
- Bus
- Public transport
- Walk to the shops
Bedroom configurations
- Bedroom 1 – 1x Queen
Standard Charges
- Departure Clean - $175 inc. GST Per Booking
- Property Manager Booking Fee - $17 inc. GST Per Booking
Optional Extras
- Broadband Internet - $120 inc. GST Per Booking
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from $141 to $326 per night*
Min 7 nights stay
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On Arrival, please report any damage or requirement maintenance immediately to the property manager, as you will be liable for any Damage on your departure.
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It's been a difficult journey for The Ultimate Fighter season seven winner Amir Sadollah since the show's finale back in June of 2008. With the onus of becoming a proven prospect due to his impressive wins on the show, many fans expected Sadollah to make waves as a phenom in only his second professional bout under the Octagon lights. Unfortunately, it only took NCAA Division I wrestler Johny Hendricks twenty-nine seconds to prove that Sadollah was still a work in progress, deflating the hype around him and putting him on a program to slowly build him into what some believe is a world class fighter.
The hype around Sadollah as he exited the show, in retrospect, was unfair. The reality series has only produced arguably two solid prospects in season winners, Nate Diaz and Ryan Bader, over the last eight seasons. The depth of talent on the show hadn't come close to what it was in the first four seasons, mainly due to the competitive nature of the market for prospects. And Sadollah won the show without a single professional fight. Impressive, but not indicative of a fighter who will catapult through the ranks quickly.
Surprisingly, Sadollah has fought admirably in the UFC's welterweight division. The level of competition he has faced has been above average when compared to the prospects battling it out for attention in the remote regions of the world, and he's succeeded more times than not in those encounters. For a guy who entered the UFC with no record, victories over Brad Blackburn, Peter Sobotta, Phil Baroni, and C.B. Dollaway are far from laughable considering his greenness in the sport.
Saturday night's contest at UFC Fight Night 24 against DaMarques Johnson, runner-up on the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter, will serve as another stepping stone in Sadollah's progression to become a top talent in the division. Johnson, who enters the contest after defeating Mike Guymon at UFC: Fight for the Troops 2 in January, is on a similar path, hoping to prove he has what it takes to challenge better competition. A win over Sadollah may be the first step in the right direction for Johnson. It would be a disastrous setback for Sadollah.
At 30 years old, Sadollah's time is shorter than most prospects entering the sport today. Amir has already shown the ability to learn quickly, improving his stand-up skills incredibly since his entry into the sport. He's a versatile fighter with the capability to become, at the very least, a solid, mid-echelon fighter. Every fight is important, but Saturday night's showdown with DaMarques Johnson could be the most significant of his career if he wants the opportunity to become a relevant player in the UFC's welterweight division before time runs out.


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Nativ Disaster: ex-Attack Attack! Project Kick Out Half Of Band
It looks like Nativ are done before they even truly started. After months and months of quietness, William Honto and frontman Phil Druyor are reporting that they have been kicked out of the band, publicly at least, with all information regarding their names being removed from social networks. Read a series of tweets from the former members below after the jump.
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City of Bethlehem offering free flu shots
Published: Jan 22 2013 12:30:45 PM EST
It's not too late to roll up your sleeve and get a free flu shot.
The Bethlehem Health Bureau is offering flu shots for Bethlehem residents on Wednesday from 8-10 a.m. in the rotunda at City Hall, 10 East Church Street.
No appointments are necessary.
For more information on the vaccine, visit the Bethlehem Health Department's website.
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The following businesses are hiring for the listed positions in White Lake or Highland, according to indeed.com or the company's website:
White Lake Police
- Police/Fire dispatcher - The Charter Township of White Lake is accepting applications for a full time Police/Fire dispatcher. Computer experience required. Completion of Oakland County 911 Academy as well as prior dispatch experience, including E-911, Vesta Pallis, L.E.I.N. and C.L.E.M.I.S., is preferred. Salary range: $36,939 to $41,703, full benefits. Applications are due at the White Lake Township Clerk's office, 7525 Highland Road, White Lake, MI 48383 (248) 698-3300 ext. 7 by Monday noon, November 26, 2012.
- The White Lake Township Civil Service Commission announces an open, competitive examination to fill future vacancies of Police Officer with the
White Lake Police Department. The salary range is $44,609 to $59,953 annually with full benefits. Applications and qualification requirements may be obtained from the township website at www.whitelaketwp.com and from the White Lake Township Clerk's office at: 7525 Highland Road, White Lake, MI 48383, 248-698-3300 ext 7 MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BEFORE AN APPLICANT WILL BE INVITED TO TEST. Applications are due at the White Lake Twp. Clerk's office by 12:00 noon January 4, 2013. White Lake is an equal opportunity employer.
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Here is something we can look forward to in 2006. Finally, food labels will clearly state any of 8 common ingredients that trigger thousands of allergic reactions every year. For example, the word casein is a milk derivative.
So, if you're allergic to milk and a product says it contains casein and you don't know that means milk, you are in big trouble if you eat that. Now, allergens will be listed in plain English. That means if it has any kind of milk or protien derived from milk it will say contains milk. FDA officials say they hope this will help kids better understand what they can and can't eat. The allergens that will be listed include milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybeans. Those 8 account for 90 percent of all allergic reactions. The FDA action is a result of the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection act of 2004: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/new01281.html


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I am writing to express my support for Stephanie Paulmeno to serve as State Representative for Greenwich. As state comptroller and the state's former healthcare advocate, I know first hand that Stephanie is an effective and informed advocate on health care access and equality for all people, particularly our senior citizens. Stephanie has made her vital focuses clear — to fight for pay and wealth acquisition equity for women, particularly single mothers, and to promote economic development, infrastructure revitalization, job creation and innovation in education. Stephanie truly has the right background and command of issues vital to Greenwich and our state.
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Darvish Looking To Break Rangers Piggy Bank
Darvish was in Texas this last week to 'negotiate'. He already went home after demanding 5 yrs/100 million. With the transfer fee, that would put him over 30 million a season. The Rangers could have any pitcher in the world for that money - why take an unproven one?


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Analysis Beyond the Echo Chamber
The American Task Force Argentina (ATFA) is Elliott Management's main public relations and lobbying arm supporting its long-running legal fight against Argentina in U.S. courts to collect on debt purchased in the aftermath of the country's 2001 default. Although it markets itself as a coalition, ATFA has in the past had to remove several groups from its list of supporters after the Wall Street Journal found that they had never heard of the organization, much less supported it. Over the years, ATFA has gone to creative lengths both to lobby the hedge funds' case and to generally defame Argentina, by alleging nefarious ties with Iran, for example.
One of ATFA's main goals has been to divert attention away from the fact that the fight over Argentina's debt fundamentally hinges on the heavy-handed tactics of large hedge fund owners, like Elliott's Paul Singer, to collect a lot of money on distressed sovereign debt. These tactics are not pretty, and these hedge funds rightly earned the name "vulture funds" long before the Argentina case, as CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker has pointed out. So one of ATFA's strategies has been to highlight how Argentina's actions have supposedly hurt the "little guys" and how the vulture funds' case somehow represents a fight for these underdogs.
ATFA has not been great at coalition building, however. To date, perhaps their most successful lobbying push was their attempt to portray Argentina as cheating retired educators. Before 2010's bond restructuring, one of the holdout creditors was TIAA-CREF, which had a relatively small stake in the defaulted bonds. Jumping on this fact, ATFA alleged that Argentina seriously harmed the pensions of retired academics, hosting an event [PDF] on the default's effect on teachers, coordinating [PDF] letters [PDF] to members of Congress, and launching an ad campaign [PDF]. ATFA's ad lists the members of the "American Task Force Argentina Educator Coalition" who support the vulture fund's case: the Alabama, Georgia, and Colorado conferences of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Nebraska Community College Association, and lastly, the Nebraska Retired Teacher Association. That's it. There was no participation from the national AAUP or TIAA-CREF in this campaign; in the case of the Georgia conference of the AAUP, it's unclear if the collaboration with ATFA involved the participation of anyone but the group's then-executive secretary. When Congressman Eric Massa later pushed ATFA-backed legislation to punish Argentina over the debt issue, ATFA's efforts may have helped the bill to garner some extra co-sponsors. But Massa's ATFA legislation died, just like all of its later versions.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the body that governs credit derivatives, recently declared a "failure to pay" credit event that triggers payment of credit default swaps (CDS) on Argentina's debt. Bloomberg and others have raised the question of whether Paul Singer's Elliott Associates or other hedge funds involved in the case against Argentina hold any of these CDS—and may be forcing a default and profiting from their CDS positions.
Elliott's lawyers have denied that the firm owns CDS on Argentina's debt, and a December, 2012 Reuters report cites an anonymous source saying the firm did have some, but no longer does. When asked by Judge Rosemary Pooler in a February 27th hearing in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals if Elliott's NML owned any of the CDS, Elliott's lawyer, Ted Olson, gave an evasive answer:
"I don't know that that's true," Olson said. "I'm informed it isn't true. But if it was true, it would be utterly irrelevant."
"I don't know that that's true," Olson said. "I'm informed it isn't true. But if it was true, it would be utterly irrelevant."
Bloomberg pointed out that it was unclear if the denial applied to just NML Capital the Elliott subsidiary represented in the case, or to all of Paul Singer's firms.
ISDA Decision
On June 20th, the law firm Schulte Roth & Zaber (SRZ) sent a memo on behalf of an anonymous holder of Argentine CDS to the ISDA Credit Derivatives Determination Committee (DC) asking them to decide whether Argentina had defaulted on its debt, and also arguing that Argentina's public statements were tantamount to a repudiation of its restructured bond payments, urging them to rule that Argentina had triggered a "repudiation/moratorium" credit event.
SRZ wrote that their client's CDS were set to expire on the 20th of June, and that if the ISDA DC ruled that "repudiation/moratorium" had occurred, this would extend the life of the CDS.
The ISDA DC did rule that Argentina had defaulted through a "failure to pay" credit event, which is different than a "repudiation/moratorium" credit event in that it apparently doesn't extend the life of expired CDS, though it does trigger payment of non-expired CDS. ISDA DC later confirmed that Argentina's public statements did not constitute a "repudiation" credit event. The 'no' vote was unanimous among the DC's 15 members, including Elliott Management, which is a non-dealer voting member.
After penning an op-ed which blames the U.S. backed cold war and drug war for leading to the recent surge in migration from Central America, the Guatemalan President has hired a cold warrior to lobby the U.S. for increasing drug war cooperation. Confused yet? Okay, let's start over. Last week, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina wrote an op-ed in the Guardian arguing that the U.S. shared responsibility for a legacy that has spurred the current migration crisis involving the surge of unaccompanied Central American children arriving at U.S. borders:
…the so-called cold war had one of its hot spots in Guatemala…Communist and anti-communist ideologies created in Guatemala one of the bloodiest conflicts in Latin America, with weapons and money mostly from countries outside the region. More damaging was that for decades governments diverted resources from social and economic programs to security and defense.
Nonetheless, after the curse of the cold war, we faced another war: the war on drugs. Again based on ideological motivations, this new war diverted scarce funding from policies to foster education, health and employment to programs to block the flow of drugs from producer countries in South America to the consumer countries in the north. The failure of the war on drugs is widely recognized today, both for its limited capacity to stop drug flow, and its terrible consequences, expanding violence, corrupting institutions and weakening the rule of law.
While Perez Molina makes some fine points in his op-ed, he also completely leaves out his own role in the exact policies he's criticizing. During the Cold War, Molina was a Guatemalan military officer involved in a "scorched earth" campaign that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and he has even been personally linked to serious human rights violations from this time period. Pot, meet kettle.The situation took a turn for the ironic this week when O'Dwyers reported that Guatemala had hired notorious and far-right cold-warrior Otto Reich to lobby on the government's behalf in Washington. Reich, who's also been pretty much at the center of every lousy U.S. policy in the region since the Cold War, will be paid over $100,000 to, among other things:
Design a strategy to move forward on the change of narrative from Guatemala to Washington, D.C., allowing representatives in the North American political parties that are willing to abandon the reference to Guatemala of the 1970's and 1980's, as well as the last century, and are eager to talk about the present and future of Guatemala of the 21st century.
Last week the Wall Street Journal had a front page article on the net worth of Argentina's first family since 2003, the year Néstor Kirchner was elected president. Based on financial disclosures with Argentina's Anti-Corruption Office, the Wall Street Journal reported that, "the couple's net worth rose from $2.5 million to $17.7 million" between 2003 and 2010. Implying that such returns must involve some sort of corruption, the Journal writes, a "lot of people in Argentina want to know where that money came from."But there is a serious problem with the way the data are presented here. The Journal is reporting the Kirchners' net worth in dollars, without adjusting for local inflation. This makes the increase look much bigger than it is, since Argentina had cumulative inflation of nearly 200 percent during these years, according to private estimates.If the Wall Street Journal had taken inflation into account then the Kirchner's net worth would have looked quite different. From $2.5 million in 2003, the Kirchners' real net worth increased to around $6.1 million in 2010.Simply adjusting for inflation takes away more than three-quarters of the Kirchners' gain. Should the Journal have known this and adjusted for inflation? The question answers itself. We won't speculate about anyone's motives.
Election season officially kicked off in Brazil on July 1st. For the past 7 months, amid wide-scale attacks on her competency -- and against the Brazilian economy -- coming from all sides of the political spectrum in the Anglophone media, President Dilma Rousseff's poll numbers have remained stable, placing her far ahead of her closest competitor, Senator Aécio Neves of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's PSDB party. IBOPE, Brazil's most widely-respected polling agency, released numbers last week showing that 38 percent of the Brazilian public intends to vote for Dilma. According to IBOPE this is the same percentage who intended to vote for her in the last poll that was taken immediately before the World Cup, and roughly the same percentage that have supported her all year. Brazil has a multi-party system and she is currently far enough ahead of the remaining candidates that if the election were held tomorrow, she would win in the first round.
According to another recent poll by Datafolha [PDF], Dilma is leading in every region in Brazil. The numbers are close in the wealthy Southeast and South, but her lead climbs in the poorer North and Northeast. In the Northeast, Brazil's poorest and second most populous region, the percentage of people saying they will vote for her climbs to 55 percent.
João Pedro Stedile, one of the national leaders of the Landless Peasants' Movement (MST), breaks down the choices that voters have this October in the following manner: "Dilma Rousseff and (third-most-popular candidate) Eduardo Campos represent neo-developmentalism, and Aécio Neves represents neoliberalism." Neo-developmentalism is a term that people on the Brazilian left use to describe the PT's modern version of developmentalism. Developmentalism is a Keynesian-influenced economic strategy first developed in the 1940s in the Third World by economists like Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado based on income redistribution through social welfare initiatives, government stimulus for national industrial production and consumption, maintaining key sectors of the economy under control of state companies, and a high minimum wage, that was employed at varying levels by Brazilian president João (Jango) Goulart before the U.S.-supported military coup of 1964. Many people on the Brazilian left apply the "neo" prefix to the 12 years of PT government due to the neoliberal policies initiated in the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration, such as an independent and monetarist Central Bank , that the PT has done little to revert and that blend with traditional developmentalist policies such as large minimum wage hikes, high social spending on welfare programs, maintaining state control over the petroleum industry and mortgage market and subsidizing the construction and manufacturing industries.
[Below is an update to the blog post from July 21 reviewing how Latin America's political leaders responded to Israel's siege on Gaza.]
In a coordinated move on Tuesday (July 29), several Latin American countries recalled their ambassadors to Israel, including El Salvador, Chile, and Peru, the latter two of which made a point to say they had consulted with each other before announcing their decision. This means that five countries so far have recalled their ambassadors over Israel's attack on Gaza which began July 8th, since Brazil and Ecuador had done so earlier. According to reports from Haaretz, Israel's Foreign Ministry responded by saying that El Salvador, Peru and Chile were encouraging Hamas by recalling their ambassadors.
El Salvador announced its decision to recall its ambassador over "the serious escalation in violence and the realization of indiscriminate bombing from Israel into the Gaza Strip," which they say has resulted in many deaths, injuries, an exodus of Palestinians fleeing their homes, and serious material damage. Chile recalled its ambassador the same day (July 29), saying that Israel's military operations "comprise a collective punishment against the civilian population of Palestine in Gaza." The same statement from Chile condemns rocket launches by Hamas against civilians in Israel, but argues that Israeli operations in Gaza "violate the principle of proportionality in the use of force, an indispensable requirement for the justification of legitimate defense." The government of Peru recalled its ambassador and said that Israel's military operations in Gaza "constitute a new and reiterated violation of the basic norms of international humanitarian law."
In addition, several countries put out new statements reacting to the conflict.
On Monday, I wrote this article looking at the splits within the Obama administration on policy toward Venezuela and how they were manifested in the case of Venezuela's former military intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal. Carvajal was arrested last Wednesday in the Dutch island of Aruba with the help of the DEA, after he arrived to take up a post as Consular-General at the Venezuelan embassy there. Washington's attempt to extradite him to the U.S., despite his diplomatic immunity, collapsed on Sunday night when the government of the Netherlands acknowledged Carvajal's protected diplomatic status.
My argument was that the failed extradition was another attempt by the hard right to blow up diplomatic relations with Venezuela. It failed for the same reason that the previous attempt – the proposed economic sanctions against Venezuela that passed the House of Representatives on May 28, did not become law: President Obama (or whoever is in charge of U.S. foreign policy in the hemisphere), does not want to break diplomatic relations with Venezuela at this point.
Since yesterday, three more developments have followed the failed extradition attempt: first, Senator Bob Corker (the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) released his hold on the sanctions legislation. This was what was officially holding up the sanctions bill in the Senate.
At the same time, a group of senators including Robert Menendez, Bill Nelson, and Marco Rubio, the co-sponsors of the Senate's version of the proposed Venezuela sanctions bill, released a letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to "use the existing authorities that the Administration has to levy targeted sanctions against individuals that have been complicit in human rights violations in Venezuela." This may be a signal from the most militant anti-Venezuela members of the Senate that they have reached some sort of agreement not to push forward with their own sanctions legislation, which the State Department has referred to as "unhelpful," if the Obama administration utilizes its "existing authorities" to pressure Venezuela.
On July 10th, just two days after Israel launched Operation Protective Edge (the largest attack on Gaza in several years) President Obama released a statement in which he "reaffirmed Israel's right to defend itself." With a death toll now over 550, it is important to look beyond U.S. government sources for information and perspective. Foreign policy among the countries in Latin America conforms to the long-standing, overwhelming international consensus that opposes Israeli aggression and occupation, but it also reflects the region's "second independence." Over the last 15 years, most countries in Latin America have increased their ability to pursue a foreign policy agenda separate from the goals of the U.S. State Department. In the vast majority of cases, reactions to the latest hostilities are fundamentally at odds with the U.S. position, but they are also varied: many governments directly criticize Israel, using words like "crimes against humanity" and "genocide" to describe recent events; other official statements limit themselves to calling for a ceasefire and a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Some of the strongest statements were issued by left-leaning governments in South America, including those of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. The government of Argentina issued a statement "strongly condemn[ing] that Israel -- defying calls by the Security Council, by the Secretary General and by the many voices of the international community – has decided to escalate the crisis by launching a ground offensive." President Evo Morales of Bolivia announced that he had petitioned the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR) to consider a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for "crimes against humanity" and "genocide." (Bolivia broke diplomatic relations with Israel in 2009 over Israel's Operation Cast Lead assault on Gaza.) The statement from Brazil reads in part:[1]
The Brazilian Government vehemently condemns the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, with disproportionate use of force, which resulted in more than 230 Palestinians dead, many of them unarmed civilians and children. It equally condemns the firing of rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel.
As murmurs of U.S. sanctions against Venezuela continue in the aftermath of the protest violence there, researcher Michael McCarthy recently published an article in World Politics Review making some good arguments for why they would be a bad idea. He points out that unilateral sanctions lack regional support, and argues that they would discourage dialogue within Venezuela, would likely be ineffective, and may even harm U.S. interests by scuttling efforts to improve and maintain ties in the region.
McCarthy claims that the push for sanctions represents a "symbolic action" on the part of U.S. officials to communicate "universal support for human rights." This assumption is pervasive in the mainstream debate about Venezuela sanctions; most commentators assume that the moral basis of imposing sanctions is sound and that the only real debate is on whether they will have the desired practical effect. In this context, some of the most obvious questions are missing from the discussion—in particular: a) what right does the U.S. have to enact coercive, unilateral economic measures against democratically-elected governments (measures that in this case, happen to be nearly universally opposed in the rest of the region and, as a study by pollster Luis Vicente Leon recently presented at the Washington Office on Latin America shows, are overwhelmingly opposed domestically in Venezuela)? And b) what integrity does the U.S. have when it comes to promoting human rights?
Last year, over a thousand unarmed protestors were killed by the U.S.-backed military government of Egypt after an illegal coup overthrew the country's first democratically-elected president. Among those killed was a young journalist, Ahmed Assem el-Senousy, who had the misfortune to film his own murder at the hands of a government soldier who had spotted his camera. It was a grim echo of an event from another era—in June, 1973, Swedish journalist Leonardo Henrichsen similarly filmed his own death in Chile at the hands of a soldier in an unsuccessful military coup attempt that presaged Augusto Pinochet's U.S. supported takeover three months later. The State Department claims that U.S. interests always align with democracy and human rights, but it is hard to miss the glaring gap between U.S. rhetoric on these issues and its actions.
In an effort to defend NAFTA and promote similar agreements, the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) – Washington's most influential think tank on international economic policy – had a full day of events yesterday. The program highlighted one of their recent publications [pdf], which seeks "not to rehash old claims that may have been overstated but to clear the air so that the benefits and challenges of trade can be examined in an objective light." In spite of this disclaimer, the authors grossly overstated the benefits of NAFTA for Mexico, and put forward a number of misleading claims, including a particularly egregious bait-and-switch used to justify a rant against the economic policies of the "Andean-3" aka Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. It is a good example of how ideology can trump facts when it comes to commercial agreements made in Washington.
Earlier this year, CEPR published a paper giving an overview of the Mexican economy in the NAFTA era ("Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Assessment After 20 Years"), so I will focus here on the claims made about Mexico by the PIIE economists. In terms of their bottom line for Mexico, the authors' findings concur with our conclusions. They say that "Mexican growth in the NAFTA era has been disappointing." But they also argue that without NAFTA Mexico's economy would be $170 billion smaller. In other words, they attribute half of Mexico's (per capita) growth rate to trade in goods and services stimulated by NAFTA (see table below.) Given Mexico's population (about 118 million), this amounts to a payoff of $1,441 per person, or about $4 per day. In a country where over 27 percent of the population lives on less than $4 a day – in rural areas it is over 48 percent of the population – this would be very significant. In reality, results such as these are produced by economic models that are highly sensitive to parameters which the researchers themselves determine, so it is easy to end up with results that corroborate one's worldview.
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This Sunday, Pastor Elaine Cho will speak on "God Will Make a Way" during the 10:30 a.m. at the local church, which is at 104 Berkshire Place. Child care and Sunday school for elementary-age students are both available. The Senior Fellowship will meet at noon at the home of Barbara and Jack Dawson. At the same time, Kendra Mathison will host a lunch and pool party for children, older youths and parents at her yard.
A Taize Service is planned for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6.
To learn more about La Cañada United Methodist Church, phone (818) 790-3605.
-- Carol Cormaci, email@example.com