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The present issue opens with two memorial sections. These mark the passing of two major figures in Borneo studies: Derek Freeman and Anthony Richards.Derek Freeman died at the age of 84 on 6 July 2001 in Canberra, Australia. His death occurred on a Saturday. On the Monday morning that followed, when I opened my university email and learned the news, it happened that at the Institute of East Asian Studies we were then hosting a visit from Professor T'ien Ju-K'ang [or Tian Ru Kang], who, with Derek's passing, now becomes the last surviving member of the Colonial Social Science Research Council group, of which Freeman was, of course, a notable part, that pioneered modern social anthropology in what was then British colonial Borneo. It proved to be a memorable, if poignant, visit. Professor T'ien had always seemed to be the least likely of that distinguished group of scholars to outlive the others. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, he had disappeared, been tried (partly on a charge of "collaborating" with the British colonial government of Sarawak), been imprisoned and tortured, and assumed by many in the West to have been killed. But he survived, and in July 2001, as a venerable, but still active Professor of Sociology at Fudan University in Shanghai, he had returned to Sarawak at the invitation of the local Chinese community to speak of his earlier experiences and comment upon the changes that have taken place since his classic field study of a half century ago. Much like Derek Freeman, Professor T'ien has, throughout his life, shown little patience for dogma and has never shied away from controversial subjects. As evidence of the latter, he is now at work, he told us, on a study of Muslim minorities in southwestern China, a "sensitive" topic if ever there was one.
In a more personal vein, Professor James J. Fox, Director of the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, the institution to which Derek Freeman was attached for virtually the whole of his professional career, in his eulogy of Derek delivered during a remembrance ceremony held in Canberra, told his audience that it was Derek who had personally persuaded him to come to the Australian National University. Derek had picked out the university-owned house on Red Hill, where the Foxes still live, had made sure that the university held it until they arrived, and had enrolled the Foxes' two sons in Canberra Grammar School. That was Derek's way. My own experience in going to ANU for three years as a visiting Senior Fellow was precisely the same. Prior to my arrival, Derek had flooded my mail with postcards, brochures, and books on Australian history, art, flora and fauna. He met me at the airport and at once took me on a tour of the mountaintops that surround Canberra, orienting me to the layout of that remarkable city whose landmarks recreate something surprisingly reminiscent of the sacred landscapes of Aboriginal Australia. After that, on frequent occasions over the next three years, morning walks with Derek on Black Mountain or excursions into the countryside surrounding the city of Canberra that he so dearly loved became among the most memorable experiences of my stay in Australia. In his eulogy, Jim Fox also told his audience of how Derek became a friend to his two sons, teaching them, among other things, how to shoot darts from an Iban blowpipe. Again, my own experience was much the same. In the late 1970s, Derek stayed with my family and me in Penang over a number of days. My children became at once devoted to him, calling him ever afterwards "Uncle Derek." Don Tuzin, in the "Remembering Derek Freeman" section that follows Jim's obituary, quite rightly points up Freeman's extraordinary generosity of spirit. However, it must be added that this side of his character was not always apparent. Derek could certainly be abrasive, even at times bullying, with those whose views he considered disingenuous or founded on error. He was never one to suffer fools in silence. But with children it was different. They seemed to have little trouble perceiving this generosity and tended to respond to it in kind.
When Derek visited Penang in 1978 he had already completed a draft of his Margaret Mead and Samoa book and, while there, he presented the main argument to a responsive audience during a specially-scheduled social science faculty seminar at the Universiti Sains Malaysia. He also gave a brilliant extemporaneous talk to my anthropology students on what Iban society can teach us about our human capacity to make choices. Later, in 1983, Freeman, of course, published Margaret Mead and Samoa, a work that immediately embroiled him in a continuing controversy which, for better or worse, absorbed the rest of his life. That year, at the 1983 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, a number of papers were presented on the controversy, nearly all of them hostile, many downright vitriolic, and, in perhaps the most shameful episode in the checkered history of the Association, a motion was passed which resolved that Freeman's work was "unscientific." It also required that the president of the AAA write a letter to the editors of Science 83, who had recommended Freeman's book as a holiday purchase to their readers, to protest their recommendation. As Freeman would point out in response, taking a vote was hardly the way in which questions of science are resolved. With what can only be described as compounded arrogance, the editor and officers of the American Anthropological Association devoted almost the entire December 1983 issue of the American Anthropologist to a one-sided attack on Freeman, denying him a commensurate, unedited space in which to reply. Sensibly, Freeman chose, instead, to respond in full in a special issue of Canberra Anthropology and continued to reply in various forums thereafter. In the final years of her life, Margaret Mead had become, in the American sense, a "celebrity" rather than a practicing anthropologist and, not insignificantly for the Association and its office holders, a milch cow of public funding, establishment influence, prestige and reputation. The virulent nature of much of the criticism directed at Freeman seemed only to bear out his view that Mead had come to assume a more-than-human status for many in the American anthropological profession.
Sadly, Freeman would spend the rest of his life answering his critics. In 1999, after careful scrutiny of the Margaret Mead Papers in the Library of Congress and from other sources, including interviews with Mead's Samoan informants, Derek wrote a detailed reconstruction of Margaret Mead's Samoan fieldwork, The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead (1999), which, he felt, essentially closed the controversy once and for all. Intellectually, he was no doubt right. The book offers what is probably the most detailed examination of how prior assumptions, training, and field experiences come to be translated into ethnographic analysis and description that has ever been written. However, it was a measure of Freeman's often remarkable naivety of real world intellectual politics that he could believe his book, for all that, would end the argument and satisfy his critics. Characteristically, in the last years of his life, after the appearance of far harsher critiques of her Balinese and New Guinea writings, Derek would become among the most steadfast defenders of Margaret Mead's integrity as a social scientist. For Derek, it was always the truth, not personalities, that mattered.
Regrettably, however, for the last twenty years of his life, Derek would never again return to his long-promised study of Iban religion, nor to fully formulate the social theory of choice, sketched in his earlier writings, that his Iban research had inspired.
Following Professor Fox's obituary, in "Remembering Derek Freeman," three of Derek's former students, Don Tuzin, Greg Acciaioli, and Michael Heppell, recall the kind of person he was and reflect on his influence in their lives and in the lives of others who knew him.
Here, I wish to thank Dr. Douglas Lewis of the University of Melbourne for allowing us to use the photograph of Derek Freeman that accompanies this memorial. Derek Freeman's original Iban field notes have been deposited in the Tun Jugah Foundation archives in Kuching, Sarawak. In the next issue of the BRB, I will report on this significant archival collection. Freeman's personal papers and correspondence, together with all of his Samoan research materials, have more recently been acquired by the University of California at San Diego and are now housed in the University's Mandeville Special Collections Library (for more on this collection, see my Brief Communication, "The Derek Freeman Papers," later in this issue of the BRB).
The second memorial section is devoted to Anthony Richards. Richards was appointed District Officer at Kapit in 1951, just as Derek Freeman and his wife Monica were completing their research in the Kapit District. Unlike some administrative officers of the time, Anthony appreciated the value of anthropological research, and he and Derek remained on amicable terms for the rest of their lives.
Anthony Richards, in a letter dated 23 May 2000 written to David Tham, a student of Sarawak colonial history, wrote, acknowledging some minor uncertainties of memory, "I'm afraid I grow old--86 by the end of this year-and, one of these days, my ancestors will come to fetch me home!" Anthony's ancestors did just that a few months later, and he died in Cambridge, England, where he and his family had settled after leaving Sarawak, on 15 November 2000, two weeks short of his 86th birthday.
Characteristically, these words of Anthony's were written in response to a request for information. Throughout his later years, Anthony was famously generous with his knowledge and, in one way or another, virtually everyone writing on Sarawak benefited. I know that I certainly did. Thus, Richards, in the same letter, goes on in response to a request for biographical information, to write: "I've never written memoirs--having seen so many very dreadful and dull ones when working at [the] South Asian Studies Centre here." He then proceeded, however, to tick off a few essentials which, for the record, are worth recording here: "Schools: Primary--a small 'Prep.' School near Chepstow. Then to King's (Cathedral) School at Worcester (c. 1929-34), then with a minor scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford. I did Classics at school, History at Oxford. In 1937, was accepted (with Bill--W.G.--Morison) by the Tuan Muda (Bertram Brooke) for service in Sarawak. We were sent back to Oxford for the 'Colonial' Course--lasting a year, but mostly geared to people going to Africa. So to Sarawak in 1938, arriving in Kuching on 9 September." According to the Sarawak Government Staff List, Richards was officially appointed a "Cadet" on 6 September 1938; in those faraway days of sea travel a European officer began his service upon arrival in Singapore.
Bob Reece's obituary supplies the significant details and a balanced measure of Anthony Richards' life, while some personal impressions by those who knew him in Sarawak, Temonggong Linang, Dato Tra Zehnder, and his life-long friend "Bill" Morison, can be found in the "Remembering Anthony Richards" section that follows.
After Anthony's death, the Richards family kindly donated his books, correspondence, personal papers and photographs to the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and the Tun Jugah Foundation libraries. Later in this issue, I indicate something of the content and significance of these gifts in two Brief Communications. In a third Brief Communication, Bob Reece describes a Saribas Malay syair manuscript included among Richards' unpublished papers, a copy of which is now deposited in the "AJN Richards Collection" at UNIMAS, and outlines the work now underway to translate and annotate this important document.
Also included among the unpublished papers in the gift made to UNIMAS were some brief autobiographical notes written by Anthony Richards in 1981. These describe his experiences as a Sarawak administrative officer and explain how he came to compile his encyclopedic An Iban-English Dictionary. Here, in tribute to Anthony, we open the Research Notes with an extended excerpt from these notes entitled "A.J.N. Richards: A Brief Autobiographical Note, 1981."
The second paper in this issue, by Andrew Smith of the University of Adelaide, "Missionaries, mariners, and merchants: overlooked British travelers to West Borneo in the early nineteenth century," reports on some lesser known travelers to West Borneo in the early decades
of the nineteenth century and speculates on the possible influence of early British travel reports on later events in Sarawak.
As promised in the last issue of the BRB, the two papers that follow return to a debate begun in the Bulletin in 1999 concerning the existence of a Dayak kingdom in what is now Kalimantan Barat. In the opening paper, Andrew Smith and Reed Wadley review the arguments in this debate and suggest that this confederation, or "Kingdom of the Upriver," was probably more symbolic than political in nature. The second, companion paper, "Re-emergence of the Raja Hulu Aiq," by John Bamba, Director of the Institute of Dayakologi, provides contemporary evidence in support of this suggestion, while at the same time it depicts the present "Kingdom of the Upriver," centered in the Ketapang area of West Kalimantan, and its present spiritual head, the Raja Hulu Aiq, against a background of contending economic and political interests. Bamba's material is particularly interesting in light of the reassertion of various forms of local ritual and political authority now occurring throughout post-Suharto Indonesia.
Moving on to South and Central Kalimantan, Martin Baler, in the next paper, "Contributions to Ngaju history," surveys some sources of Ngaju ethnography and history, particularly missionary authors of the last century, some of whom, he argues, are now undeservedly neglected.
Kenneth Sillander, in the significant, substantive paper that follows, "Houses and Social Organization among the Bentian of East Kalimantan," returns us to some basic concerns in the social anthropology of Borneo, namely, to the social organization of "houses," or house groups, including, not the least, the classic longhouse, and to the structure and makeup of local communities. As he rightfully notes, residential patterns in Borneo are often dual or even multiple, and a variety of house-like groups may be interposed between the family and the village. In a fruitful way, Sillander also re-explores the usefulness in a Bornean context of Levi-Strauss's notion of "house societies" (societi a maison) and challenges the view that longhouse-like social groupings are absent from southern Kalimantan. Also interesting is his account of the association of the multifamily lou with local leadership and with the presence of the longan, a ritual structure specifically associated with ancestral skulls and other enduring ancestor-related objects. For the Bentian, the skulls of ancestors are ritually distinguished from the skulls of enemies taken in warfare.
John Postill's paper, "The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak, Part II," is the second installment of a two-part paper. The first installment appeared in the last issue of the BRB and traced the role of radio broadcasting and the Borneo Literature Bureau in a project which Postill aptly describes as meant by its Iban actors "to preserve and modernize the Iban heritage." This project was brought to an end when the Malaysian government replaced the Borneo Literature Bureau with Sarawak and Sabah branches of the Dewan Pustaka dan Bahasa, each controlled from KL and organized to promote the use of Bahasa Malaysia. This new paper looks at what Postill calls the "second phase of Iban media production." This phase, covering the time period of 1977 to 1997, has witnessed, on the one hand, the growing Malaysianization of the media, with national television replacing locally-based radio, and, on the other, the creation of a new Iban cultural industry, centered chiefly in Sibu, particularly in the form of popular music, notably cassette recordings, CDs, and videos, including hugely popular Iban karaoke videos. During the recent Gawai Dayak, my wife and I, while guests in a Saribas longhouse, had occasion to discover just how popular Iban music videos have become as a source of entertainment. In an interesting way they make it possible for Iban viewers to restore Iban language and images to TV screens from which they are otherwise excluded by the national Malaysian media. The present paper includes the complete bibliography of references cited in both installments of the author's paper.
The appearance of John Postill's paper is particularly timely. In the present installment, Postill notes that, "With the demise of the BLB [Borneo Literature Bureau] ... [and the destruction of an indigenous print media] ... Iban-language Christian texts have acquired greater significance as cultural repositories among the more literate Iban." Today, indeed, by far the most widely read book in the Iban language is the Iban translation of the bible, called Bup Kudus. Introduced in 1988, Bup Kudus has been used now for over a decade in Iban churches of every Christian denomination in Sarawak. However, in April 2003, just as the BRB was being readied for the printers, the Malaysian Home Ministry, without explanation, banned Bup Kudus. The ban was reported in the New Straits Times and Malaysian Today, but otherwise went, initially at least, unreported in the Sarawak press. Church leaders, not only Iban, but of other ethnic groups, quickly mobilized and drew up a united petition which they submitted to the Home Ministry, and, after a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, they succeeded in having the ban rescinded. However, the episode raised fears in Sarawak, not only about the freedom of religion, but also about the future status of minority languages in the state.
In the final Research Note in this issue, "A short history of birds' nest management in the Niah caves," Quentin Gausset traces the breakdown of a traditional and seemingly sustainable system of nesting-area tenure and management, resulting in what today has become a tragic situation of over-harvesting of nests and a rapid decline in swiftlet populations, now to the edge of extinction. A special virtue of Gausset's paper is the way in which he carefully notes and distinguishes between the different factors that appear to contribute to this tragedy, including not only the destruction of a traditional system of nesting-area tenure, but also, among other things, changes in the market demand for nests, the conversion of the surrounding forests to oil palm plantations and the resulting importation of migrant laborers and the heavy use of pesticides.
Once again, I take this occasion to thank all of those who assisted me during the year with review and editorial help, or who contributed news or bibliographic items. The list, as always, is a long one and this year includes: Sander Adelaar, George Appell, Dee Baer, Martin Baier, Carol Colfer, Hew Cheng Sim, Allison Hoare, Terry King, Michael Leigh, Ole Mertz, Heidi Munan, Keat Gin Ooi, Vernon Porritt, Bob Reece, Bernard Sellato, Andrew Smith, Vinson Sutlive, Tan Chee-Beng, David Tham, Donald Tuzin, Reed Wadley, and Robert Winzeler. Again, David Tham provided invaluable help with photo scanning. My special thanks go, once again, to Dr. Phillip Thomas (the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA), who single-handedly performed the daunting task of computer processing all of the text, tables, and photographs included in this volume. My wife, Louise Sather, again helped me to proofread and edit the entire issue. To all, my thanks.
The BRC's Seventh Biennial Conference
Finally, also appearing in this issue of the BRB is a report on the Borneo Research Council's Seventh Biennial Conference, "21st Century Borneo," which was sponsored by the Universiti Malaysia Sabah and held on the University's impressive new Kota Kinabalu campus over three days, 15-18 July, 2002. More than 180 papers were given, as well as five panel sessions. All were presented in the meeting rooms and auditorium facilities of the new UMS Library. In addition to providing the conference venue, the Library also announced the establishment of a special Borneo collection and on behalf of the Borneo Research Council, BRC President Dr. George N. Appell presented a complete set of BRC publications to the Library, including the BRB. Here we wish to thank the sponsors, organizing committee, and all of those who took part for making the conference, once again, a resounding success.
At the moment, planning is underway for the Eighth Biennial Conference, which is scheduled to be held in July 2004 in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.
A New Borneo Research Council Email Address and Website
The BRC is pleased to announce that there is, first, a new Borneo Research Council email address: <email@example.com>.
Second, the Council has initiated a new website complete with BRC information: <www.borneoresearchcouncil.org>.
On the website are listed all the publications and their prices that are offered through the Council. There is also a section where those wanting to find out what other fellows and members are doing can post messages. If, for example, you would like to obtain some pointers on developing your research or are looking for other scholars with similar interests, by posting a message on the website, someone may be able to help you out. Also posted on the website are past yearly reports of the president, printable book order forms, and printable membership invoices. If there are other things that you would like to see on the website, send an email with your suggestions to <firstname.lastname@example.com>. We would like to hear from you. Maintaining and operating the new site will incur an added expense to the Council of about US$250 per year.
A New Online Bibliography of Borneo Dissertations
The BRC has now begun an online bibliography of doctoral dissertations on Borneo. The bibliography has been developed in part from existing bibliographies and databases of dissertations, but it can also be augmented by authors of new or overlooked dissertations or by others who may know of dissertations that are not currently included. Once it is posted as a permanent part of the list, bibliographic information on dissertations may be retrieved in several ways. The general goal is to include dissertations in all fields from all universities provided that the dissertation concerns Borneo to some substantial extent or that it contains substantial information on Borneo.
The address of the website is <http://www2.library.unr.edu/dataworks/ Borneo/default.htm>.
The bibliography is maintained by Bob Winzeler and is hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno, Library's DataWorks. A pilot version of the website is now up. Please send comments or suggestions to Bob Winzeler <email@example.com> and submit information on dissertations directly to the website.
As of February 2003, the Editor is pleased to report that about 230 dissertations were already listed on the website, most of them so far, although by no means all, from American and Canadian universities. We are grateful to Bob for undertaking this useful project and would especially welcome information on Asian and European dissertations. Also, anyone wishing to assist with this project should contact Bob directly.
A Change in BRB Reprint Policy
Finally, the Executive Committee of the Borneo Research Council has, with reluctance, decided upon a change of policy with regard to reprints of papers from the Borneo Research Bulletin. In the past, we have provided reprints free upon request. However, in view of rising postage and other costs, a flat fee of USD 5 will now be charged for each reprint requested. This fee includes postage.
Member Support
Here we wish to record our thanks to the following individuals for their contribution during the year 2002 to the BRC endowment and general funds:
Dr. Gale Dixon, Mr. James McLellan, Dr. Clare Boulanger, Dr. Amity Doolittle, Mr. Patrick Cassels, Mrs. Laura Appell-Warren, Dr. Michael R. Dove, Professor H. Arlo Nimmo, Dr. Reed Wadley, Dr. W. D. Wilder, Ms. E. Kim Adams, Mr. Ralph Arbus, Dr. Carol Warren, Dr. Allen Maxwell, and Dr. Jay B. Crain.
Professor Virginia Hooker, Dr. Clare Boulanger, Dr. Yoshiyuki Kiyono, Dr. Amity Doolittle, Mrs. Laura Appell-Warren, Professor Ian Douglas, Dr. Jack Stuster, Dr. Gale Dixon, Dr. Michael R. Dove, Dr. Bernard Sellato, Ms. Vicki Pearson-Rounds, Professor F. Andrew Smith, Dr. Leigh Wright, Dr. W. D. Wilder, Dr. Otto Doering, Dr. Graham Saunders, Dr. Carol J. Colfer, Mr. Ralph Arbus, Dr. Phillip Thomas, Dr. Carol Warren, Dr. Anne Schiller, Dr. Rodney Needham, Dr. Martin Baier, Ms. Dorothy Chin, Mr. Chew Lun Chan, Dr. George N. Appell, and Mrs. Laura W. R. Appell.
We thank all of these individuals for their support.
Change of Editor's Address
Please note that your editor has left the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and returned to the University of Helsinki. His new address is:
Prof. Clifford Sather, Cultural Anthropology, P.O. Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38D), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
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By 68 votes to 31, the United States Senate has voted to debate proposals for regulations on gun ownership; an expected filibuster did not materialise, as 16 Republicans voted for debate. The proposals themselves are very limited, but are bitterly opposed by several high-profile Republicans and also attract opposition from swing-state Democrats, who have good reason to fear the money and influence of the National Rifle Association. That the Senate will even hold a debate may, nevertheless, be a response to rising public disquiet throughout the U.S. especially since the December 20, 2012 episode in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza murdered 20 children and six adults before killing himself in Newtown, Connecticut; he had earlier killed his mother at home. The recent Senate vote, however, is procedural, and only allows debate to start on plans like expanded background checks, such as records of any previous psychiatric treatment, on those trying to buy firearms. A reduction in the size of magazine clips will, however, meet stiff resistance, and any proposal may yet be filibustered. Even if the Senate approves some or all the present proposals, the House of Representatives may reject debate.
In the U.S., gun control is not only a matter of legislation but a difficult constitutional issue, over which several questions remain unresolved. The Second Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights that Congress ratified in 1791, says, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Therefore, gun control could be a State subject alone. On April 5, Connecticut passed some of the tightest controls in the country, but a Republican-held state like Arkansas now lets people carry guns into churches and colleges. Secondly, many historians argue the Second Amendment was meant to protect the body politic against takeover by a standing army, and not to give individuals an open-ended right to bear firearms. Whatever the historical context, it is absurd that U.S. lawmakers cannot reform a system that provides people such easy access to firearms. Congress is prepared to back the use of force in every continent in order to make the world safer for America but it is unwilling to take a basic step to protect American lives where they are most endangered: in the U.S. of A.
Keywords: United States Senate, Barack Obama, gun control legislation, National Rifle Association, Connecticut shooting, School shooting

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quote:There is zero evidence that this is connected to the White House.
quote:Yes but no link was found right???
quote:seems we have found our escape goat.
quote:There is zero evidence that this is connected to the White House. The IG - a Republican appointee w/ a solid work reputation - testified last week that his investigators uncovered no corruption and no political involvement.
quote:tis why I worded it that way...
quote:McCain is the biggest assclown in DC
quote:no he didnt clown. Did you listen to the hearings?
quote:You're talking about the guy who used to date Michelle Obama?
quote:He also testified that this was an audit and they really did not look beyond the IRS itself. He did not say that he investigated and found no link.
quote:"Republicans openly rejected George's assertion that he has no evidence that the decision to target conservative groups was politically motivated."
quote:Nevertheless, if you have evidence of a connection to the White House I'd be eager to see it.
quote:The White House has been knowing about this since a year ago. Jay Carney even admitted that but his aides never told Obama about it. The IRS will not give up the email communication with the White House which is another big arse red flag. We need a Special Counsel to investigate this story because the IRS and WH stories continue to change.
quote:Wonderful red herring.
quote:She was removed and placed on Administrative Leave
quote:but that wasnt his assertion..THATS frickING SPIN. He, in his audit, didnt LOOK AT CONNECTIONS TO THE WH.
quote:frick McCain
quote:History of a personal relationship with the President's wife is a Red Herring? For an IG? Really?
quote: And yes, I've acknowledged that they weren't looking at connections to the White House, but it's reasonable to assume that connections might be uncovered. My point is simply that so far there is zero evidence linking any targeting of conservative groups by the IRS to the White House.


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Kings and AEG like the looks of new Sacramento chance
Sacramentans are divided on whether their city should spend $255 million in public money on a new sports arena.
But as far as the Sacramento Kings and arena operator Anschutz Entertainment Group are concerned, the verdict is in: The arena should be a moneymaker.
AEG could make $5.7 million in annual profit running the building, according to a projection released last week by the city. The deal is so promising for AEG, in fact, that it chipped in another $9 million last Monday without getting anything in return, according to a source familiar with the negotiations but not authorized to discuss them.
"AEG is prepared to make a bet on Sacramento," chief executive Tim Leiweke told Mayor Kevin Johnson that morning, the source said.
AEG officials were unavailable for comment, but other parties said Leiweke's pledge effectively clinched the deal following three days of talks at the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, Fla. The Los Angeles company's commitment totals nearly $59 million.
The Kings like the deal, too, even though they would forgo some revenue streams they control at Power Balance Pavilion. The new arena could breathe life into a struggling franchise with the NBA's lowest player payroll.
"We're going to have a new building; we'll be able to attract players," said co-owner George Maloof.
"Sometimes you have to take chances," said Maloof, whose family is putting $73.25 million into the arena. "And we think this is worth taking."
It's far from a done deal. The City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to accept the "term sheet" hashed out with AEG, the Kings and developer team ICON/Taylor. While the term sheet is nonbinding, the vote is a crucial test.
The city stands to make $1 million in annual profit from the arena, though it's not exactly a windfall. The cash would help compensate the general fund for revenue lost after the city works a deal to pull upfront cash out of its parking garages – the linchpin of its share of the project.
The arena would cost $391 million and open in 2015.
AEG and the Kings are wagering that Sacramento offers significant upside despite 10.9 percent unemployment and other economic woes. They think they can extract enough dollars from the market to make it work for both sides.
"There's enough money to go around," said E.J. Narcise of Team Services LLC, a Maryland firm that brokers sponsorships for sports teams.
Narcise and others say AEG would pull in a lot more advertising revenue at the arena than the Maloofs have sold at Power Balance Pavilion. AEG would split most of the ad dollars 50-50 with the Kings.
The arena itself would be far bigger than Power Balance, providing additional concourse and lounge space on which to plaster corporate logos. The sheer allure of a new building could draw more dollars, too.
One of the Kings' top corporate partners, Thunder Valley Casino, might increase its sponsorship beyond the current $1 million a year, said spokesman Doug Elmets.
Much of AEG's profit could come from events other than Kings games. It's a core strength for the company, which runs arenas from Stockholm to Sydney and is the second-largest U.S. concert promoter. AEG produces tours for stars such as Paul McCartney and Justin Bieber.
"They know what they can bring into that building (in Sacramento)," Narcise said.
Significant upside
Power Balance Pavilion has been severely underperforming in recent years. Just 149,000 tickets were sold for non-sports events last year. That was a 48 percent drop from the peak in 2005, according to Pollstar magazine.
AEG is expected to turn that around. Even some experts who believe the city is making a bad deal say AEG's participation is a big plus.
"If AEG is going to fill up the building, this thing could break even," said Stanford University economist Roger Noll, a critic of public subsidies for sports facilities.
So if it works well for AEG, what's in it for the Kings?
NBA officials spent hours in Orlando convincing the Maloofs that the new arena would help them financially, according to the source. In particular, the NBA said the Kings would do better on this deal than if they had moved to Anaheim last spring, as planned.
In Anaheim, the Kings would have been junior tenants to the Ducks, the National Hockey League team team owned by the Honda Center arena's operator. They would have surrendered more revenue to the Ducks than they would to AEG under Sacramento's proposal.
Take naming rights – the cash received from selling the arena name to a sponsor: The Kings would have gotten one-third of the naming-rights revenue in Anaheim. At the new Sacramento arena, they would split those dollars 50-50 with AEG.
And the naming rights would surely work out better at the new arena than they have at Power Balance.
A maker of sports wristbands, Power Balance paid the Kings only $700,000 before filing for bankruptcy protection. Its new owner walked away from the contract, although the Kings are trying to cut a deal with the company. In the meantime, the Power Balance name remains on the arena.
Contrast that sad state with the prospects at a new arena. Narcise said naming rights could go for $6 million a year. That's far more than Power Balance would have paid if it hadn't gone to bankruptcy court.
Even with AEG taking half, the Kings come out ahead.
Narcise said the company that puts its name on the Sacramento arena will capture some of the good will associated with the team's decision to stay in town.
"You as a partner have the opportunity to come in and ride that wave," Narcise said.
Lowered expectations
The Maloofs' acceptance of the deal shows how the business of sports has changed in just a few years.
In 2006, before the recession, the Maloofs walked away from an arena proposal that would have given them the revenue from all arena events, including parking, concessions and advertising. The Sacramento city-county proposal went to voters anyway – it had to, because it required a sales tax increase – and was soundly defeated.
This time around, the Maloofs are leaving whole chunks of revenue to AEG.
That's fairly typical now. In tough economic times, to get arenas built, teams are giving up some of the revenue streams they once commanded, said Dennis Howard, a sports-business expert at the University of Oregon.
Teams realize "they're not going to control the Ice Capades and the circus," Narcise said.
"This is still a good deal (for the Kings) but this is not as if they didn't make concessions," he added.
It didn't hurt that the NBA was prodding the Kings to stay in Sacramento – and may be quietly helping the team financially to make it happen.
After Johnson got his pledge of additional cash from AEG last Monday, the mayor stepped back into the negotiating room in Orlando and relayed the news to the Maloofs and NBA Commissioner David Stern.
The city and the Kings were still about $5 million apart. Stern got up and stood behind where the Maloof brothers were sitting.
"The Maloofs are good for the rest of it, and we'll be behind them," Stern said, according to two sources who have knowledge of the talks but aren't authorized to speak.
It's not clear what assistance the NBA will provide. Stern told reporters the league will "be as supportive as we could possibly be."
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The noise of the akastic field?
Maybe the CMBR is the underlying medium of the universe, existing before the Big-Bang, and linking everything in existance in the universe together. It would make sense in the fact that the emittance is present everywhere we look in the universe. The initial building block?
How can we spend billions in putting unsustainable humans in orbit doing nothing and at the same time have no clue of the origin of all sort of radiation coming from space?If I was Obama, I would shift all NASA's budget from human exploration into telescopes/robots/SETI.Our little bodies will never leave the solar system, but our minds already can. We need better vehicles.
If the cosmic microwave background radiation was at one particular frequency it would be both exciting and puzzling indeed. Alas, it does not, but the result is no less interesting.The CMBR emits at varying intensity over a band of frequencies. The intensity:frequency curve, like a nicely smoothed, long-term economic index, has a shape that is the signature of a "black body" -- that is, a mass that radiates because of its heat.A hot iron withdrawn from the coals is a black-body, even though it is initially white hot. As it cools, the radiation curve broadens and shifts into the red, then infrared, then into the radio spectrum. According to the Big Bang theory, that hot iron was our universe, albeit much hotter in the beginning. So hot, that matter as we know it could not exist, and infinitely hotter still than the super-hot plasmas we know of in the atmospheres of stars. It was a torrid soup of sub-atomic "stuff" that we can only begin to look for in super hadron colliders.Over a very long period of time, 14 billion years give or take, that hot iron cooled down to a few degrees above absolute zero, extremely frigid by our standards, but still warm enough for electrons spinning around hydrogen atoms to lose a bit of energy as radiation.In fact, the hot iron analogy isn't quite right for our universe. Initially, it was too hot for atoms to form. The cooling came adiabatically by expansion, just as the fluid in a refrigerator cools as it expands. When the universe cooled in this way to the point that hydrogen and other atoms could form, the black body radiation kicked in.What puzzles cosmologists is that the CMBR is much cooler than was expected, by orders of magnitude. Moreover, it is not strictly uniform; there are "hot" spots and cool ones, and even a potential gap or two in the radiation blanket that surrounds us. This suggests something is not quite right with the standard model. Did our universe have a primordial structure of some sort, and was it part of something bigger -- like a bubble forming in a super-universe? The standard picture used to be that the energy content of our universe was constant; the energy accounts were balanced perfectly from time zero. But if there is structure from the beginning, and energy is leaking out into something much bigger, we are faced with a new kind of Big Bang, one more like a kernel of popcorn going off in a supercosmic cooker.
so uh... to quote REM "whats the frequency Kenneth?"
Erm, James, try reading the article again.
Probably just alien teenagers texting each other.
This is not a mystery at all. How can the economist have such a low standard of background research:From wikipedia: Cosmic microwave background radiationThe CMBR is well explained by the Big Bang theory – when the universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was smaller, much hotter, and filled with a uniform glow from its red-hot fog of hydrogen plasma. As the universe expanded, both the plasma and the radiation filling it grew cooler. When the universe got cool enough, stable atoms could form. These atoms could no longer absorb the thermal radiation, and the universe became transparent instead of being an opaque fog. The photons that were around at that time have been propagating ever since, though growing fainter and less energetic, since the exact same photons fill a larger and larger universe. This is the source for the term relic radiation, another name for the CMBR.
Sir,the story as told to me by a personal friend, who was at the time doing laser research at Bell labs, and heard the unfolding storyfirst hand, that Penzias and Wilson were researching sources of noisein a receiver system to be used in a satellite communications system. Cosmic noise sources were a possible bar to sucessfulcomunication via passive satellite reflectors. When they hadtracked down all sources of the excess noise in the receiver some remained unexplained.A chance contact with Robert Dicke's group at Princetonsuggested that the predicted cosmic microwave background could account for the excess noise; so it proved to be. It is ironic that two comunications researchers should get a prize which rightfully should have gone to a radioastronomer. John Firth , Ottawa
Any speculation of what the background noise might be is left unstated. Hypothesize, man!
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The goal is to prepare the home to appeal to the most potential buyers, sell the home more quickly and for the highest selling price. Youve done all the functional and mechanical repairs needed in the home. Now it is time to stage your home, to think about what would be attractive to a buyer. Here are some general guidelines. Curb Appeal. Like a blind date, first impressions are important and that means staging your exterior for maximum curb appeal. This may include a fresh coat of paint on the body and the trim, a neatly mowed and edged lawn (sod and repair as necessary), fresh mulch in flower/plant beds (remove weeds), trim bushes or trees (especially around windows and doors), and clean windows (screens and frames, too). A new front door or fresh paint on the door is worth the money and effort. Power-washing cement entryways, patios, and driveways can also be a plus. The entryway should be welcoming, free of clutter and well-lit. Use a high-quality welcome mat. Place fresh, bright flowers and plants near the entry. Attract the Buyer In. Bright lighting, fresh smells (vs smoke, pets, last nights dinner, etc.), clean flooring, fresh flowers and an open spacious entry create a welcoming entrance that makes the buyer want to see the rest of the house. Reduce Clutter. Strive for a simple clean look to maximize the space throughout the house. Reducing the items on shelves, in closets, hallways and cabinets will also give you a head start on packing for moving. Removing personal photos and items will help buyers picture their own items â and themselves -- in the house. Use Groupings in Common Living Areas. Buyers envision using living rooms and family rooms for family activities and entertaining. Make the space user-friendly and look larger. Position sofas and chairs into conversational groups; be sure that the placement makes the traffic flow obvious. Floating furniture away from walls into these cozy groupings can add to the feeling of spaciousness. Minimize family portraits; remove knick-knacks. Clean and Brighten Kitchen. This is a key area. De-clutter and maximize usable counter space, but dont make it spartan. Clean all appliances and counter surfaces so they shine. Turn on lights; open curtains. If upgrades are needed, think counters, cabinets, and under-cabinet lighting. Staining, painting or changing knobs and handles are low-cost improvements. Updating kitchen faucets and lighting can also add appeal. Clean and Update Bathrooms. These areas need to be sparkling clean and look and smell like a model home. Update Advertisement Make Bedrooms Look Comfortable. Buyers want to see a neutral, spacious and comfortable space to relax in. Remove excess furniture and personal photos. Use luxurious bedding â comforter, accent pillows. Reduce clothing, shoes, etc in closets to make them appear more spacious. Transform Spaces. Repurpose unused spaces into reading spots, study/work areas with a small desk and table lamps; drapes, mirrors, carpet remnants and pillows can create meditation and exercise spaces; a bookcase can make a nook into a small library or display area. Home Lighting. Most homes are improperly lit. Increase the wattage of bulbs and use all three types of lighting â ambient, task, and accent. Ambient lighting is the main lighting source, generally overhead, windows and skylights. Task lighting can be pendants over dining areas, under-cabinet for counters, and reading lamps. Accent lighting comes from table lamps and wall sconces. Great lighting makes the home look warm and inviting. Make Spaces Look Bigger. Using the same color paint can help make adjacent rooms, like kitchen and dining rooms, appear seamless and larger. Matching drapery color and wall color can also give the illusion of space; the differing tones in the same color can also create a sophisticated look. 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Just wondering if anyone has any experience with windvans & cats. My understanding is the rapid shift of apparent wind was a problem with light weight racing cats and less a problem with cruisers. Just the cautious side of me looking for a non-electric backup.
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RV, I don´t think the relative wind issues (shifting not only in direction but also in strength) with today´s cruising cats is any different than today´s lighter displacement cruising monohulls. In fact, cruising boats in larger sizes that are designed to sail fast (Beth Leonard/Evans Starzinger''s HAWK is a good example) experience far more acceleration/wind shift issues than a 40-50 cat is likely to demonstrate.
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I sailed on an old 36'' Piver ketch with a Hasler servo-pendulum vane. That vane wouldn''t react fast enough on a hard beat. It kept letting the port hull fly too high and made the stb hull want to stuff itself. The wind was blowing 15-20kts and seas were 3-4'' short chop (on the Bahama banks). Just rough enough to worry about a minor pitchpole. This boat was cruising and loaded heavily but still leaped off the tops of waves.
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The folks at Scanmar International that sell monitor vanes seem to think that it works OK. I cannot understand how, for example, having the vane on the stbd hull on a close-hauled port tack would work. Seems like the vane would be in a big windshadow. When I spoke to them at the Oakland boat show last year, they seemed convinced that they would work, and had customers who used them.
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- 1 sheet from a 17.3-oz pkg frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed according to pkg directions
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Located in the very centre of Palermo, in one of the most popular streets of the city , Ai 4 Canti B&B offers guests the typical Sicilian hospitaly . Besides single or double rooms with shared bathrooms, the B&B also has a large and comfortable sitting room with TV & FREE INTERNET ACCESS where in the morning you can enjoy for breakfast typical Sicilian cakes. Ai 4 canti B&B. Ai 4 Canti B&B is close to all the important places of Palermo. Piazza Vigliena, Teatro Massimo, the Cathedral and Mercato Ballar (the biggest outdoor market of Palermo) are only a few minutes away, and so are the bars and restaurants of the city. Breakfast not included, laundry facilities are available and there is no curfew Ai 4 Canti B&B: a great way to enjoy the wonderful city of Palermo. 5 minutes walking from the railway station. Please advise about arrival time. Check in time flexible. Check out time at 11.00 Pay cash on arrival. Please note this proeprty has a 48-hour cancellation policy From the airport you can reach Palermo city centre by bus or by train in 50 mins. From the Railway station you can reach the 'B&B' in just 5 mins walking, it is located in Via Maqueda n°124. |
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From the airport you can reach Palermo city centre (Railway station) by bus, it takes about 50 mins and it costs (6.10 Euros) per person; a taxi would cost you about (Euros 40/45)
From the Ralway station (stazione centrale), it is very easy to walk to the B&B in less than 8 minutes. The B&B is at Piazza del Ponticello, 1. As soon as you exit from station, you will see Via Roma (a quite big street) directly in front of you; Via Maqueda is the street that goes parallel to Via Roma on the left. Walk along Via Maqueda and then turn left at Via Ponticello (there is a large T for the tabbacco shop at the corner). Continue walking past 'Copisteria Mary' to the small piazza where you will see a very small church on your left (this is Piazza Ponticello N 1 which is a VERY SMALL square at the first intersection, Piazza ponticello is written at the corner of the building). You will find the B&B in building number N 1. If you see a BIG church named 'Casa Professa' you have already gone TOO FAR
To get the B&B from the port you should take the bus 139 at the bus stop just in front of the exit of the port.
Get that bus and then stop at the railway station (Stazione centrale).


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The UMass men's lacrosse team stats its 2015 season with a 1 p.m. game at McGuirk Stadium against No. 20/20 Army on Saturday, Feb. 7. Daily Hampshire Gazette reporter Matt Vautour spoke with head coach Greg Cannella ahead of the contest to preview the season.
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Inside Lacrosse staff writer Matt Kinnear stopped by Amherst, Mass., and visited a UMass men's lacrosse practice to catch some fall ball preparations. Check out Kinnear's report regarding the Minutemen below:
Andrew Cyr of the Daily Collegian highlighted the production of the freshman class with a recent article as the youngest Minutemen have played an integral role in the team's successes during the 2014 season.
"When you look at the Massachusetts men's lacrosse team, it's nearly impossible to overlook the production the freshmen class has brought to the table this year.
Whether it's been Nick Mariano and his team high 26 goals, good for second amongst freshmen in the NCAA, Grant Consoletti, who's started in all 11 games he's played in, or Aaron Madaisky, the 6 feet 7 inch long stick midfielder that is tied for the tallest player in the country, the freshmen always seem to make big plays when the game is on the line.
'They've all been pretty solid,' said coach Greg Cannella. 'I think we are in the situation we are in because we might have relied on them a little too much. As a coach you never really want to count on five or six freshmen on your team.'
Cannella added that while it's great to have two or three complimentary freshmen, it's a hard transition not only with the games, but with school as well..."
The conclusion of the story can be found on the Daily Collegian website. More on the Minutemen is available on UMassAthletics.com.The University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse squad returns to Colonial Athletic Association competition when Towson heads to Amherst, Mass., for a Saturday, April 5 contest on Garber Field. The Minutemen are 7-2 overall and 1-0 in CAA games following their bye week while the Tigers are 7-3 this year, including a 1-1 mark in the conference. Check out more in this week's UMassAthletics.com men's lacrosse preview below:
University of Massachusetts Men's Lacrosse Game Notes | |
Game 10 | #11/12 Massachusetts (7-2, 1-0) vs. [RV/RV] Towson (7-3, 1-1) |
Date | Time | Saturday, April 5, 2014 | Noon |
Location | Garber Field (5,000) | Amherst, Mass. |
Live Statistics | GameTracker |
Watch | CBS All-Access (subscription required) |
Listen | WMUA 91.1 FM |
Series History | Massachusetts leads, 4-3. Last meeting: Towson 9, Massachusetts 5; April 6, 2013 |
Game Notes | Massachusetts | Towson |
Team Records | Massachusetts | Towson |
Social Media | @UMassAthletics | @UMassMLacrosse |
Tickets | Available through the UMass Athletics Ticket Office at 866-862-7784 |
More on the men's lacrosse program can be found through UMassAthletics.com.
Lacrosse Magazine writer Gary Lambrecht caught up with UMass men's lacrosse head coach Greg Cannella to discuss the 4-0 start to the season and what has led the Minutemen to their four consecutive victories. Check out what Lambrecht has to say about UMass:
"The Minutemen of UMass have grown accustomed to good starts under 20-year coach Greg Cannella. For the third time in the past four years and for the 12th time overall, UMass is 4-0. What makes it notable this year is it's happening around a youth movement in Amherst.
There are five seniors and two redshirt juniors on the roster. Twenty-four of the team's 37 players are freshman and sophomores. The impact underclassmen are all over the place.
'It's been refreshing to coach such a hungry group that wants to do more and know more,' Cannella said..."
The conclusion of the piece can be found through the Lacrosse Magazine weekly notebook. More on the men's lacrosse program is available on UMassAthletics.com.
The University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse team continued its strong start to the 2014 season with an 8-4 win over Harvard to improve to 3-0. The Minutemen continued their "offense-by-committee" approach as six different players recorded at least one goal while eight in total notched at least one point. Below are links for updated national rankings, photo galleries, game stories and more:
UMass' Defense Stymies Harvard, 8-4 | Brian Foley, Inside Lacrosse
UMass Moves Up In Inside Lacrosse Media Top-20 Poll
Minutemen Appear At No. 13 In Lacrosse Magazine Top-20
Highlights: UMass Defeats Harvard In Home-Opener
Photo Gallery: Thom Kendall, UMass Athletics
Second half surge leads UMass men's lacrosse over Harvard | Andrew Cyr, Daily Collegian
UMass men's lacrosse continues hot start, downs Harvard 8-4 in home opener | Dan Malone, Springfield Republican
Lax.com saw UMass men's lacrosse take a 12-11 game from No. 14/9 Ohio State in overtime at the Moe's Southwest Grill Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., this weekend and put together some highlights of the contest for their website. Check them out below:
For more on the men's lacrosse team check out UMassAthletics.com.
Inside Lacrosse was at the Moe's Southwest Grill Classic and caught the action as UMass men's lacrosse defeated No. 14/9 Ohio State, 12-11 in overtime on a Nick Mariano goal with 7.9 seconds left in the extra period. Check out the highlight package they put together below:
More on the men's lacrosse program is available through UMassAthletics.com here.
Lax.com has highlights of UMass men's lacrosse at Army's Michie Stadium and the 6-5 win the Minutemen earned over the Black Knights to start the season on Saturday, Feb. 8. Nick Mariano and Grant Whiteway each had a pair of goals while Zach Oliveri made eight saves in the cage for Massachusetts. Check out some of the key plays from the game for both sides below:
More coverage of college lacrosse can be found on Lax.com. Additional content for the men's lacrosse program, including statistics, stories and photo galleries, can be found through UMassAthletics.com.
Peter Cappiello of the Daily Collegian has a recap of how UMass men's lacrosse started its 2014 season with a hard-fought 6-5 victory over Army at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y., on Saturday, Feb. 8. Freshmen Nick Mariano, Grant Consoletti and Jeff George combined for the first four UMass goals before junior Grant Whiteway stepped up to net the final two and the defense stifled a late Army rally attempt.
"Greg Cannella entered his 20th season as Massachusetts men's lacrosse coach unsure of where his team's points would come from.
Cannella got an unlikely answer in Saturday's season opener at Army, as three freshmen combined for four goals in the Minutemen's 6-5 win over the Black Knights.
Freshmen Grant Consoletti, Nick Mariano and Jeff George all scored in their collegiate debuts for UMass (1-0), with Mariano scoring twice. Consoletti started the attack exactly five minutes into the game when he popped out from the crease to beat Army goalkeeper Sam Somers..."
Read the entirety of Cappiello's story on the Daily Collegian website. More on UMass men's lacrosse can be found through UMassAthletics.com.
Matt Vautour of the Daily Hampshire Gazette spoke with UMass men's lacrosse head coach Greg Cannella to preview the 2014 season, which begins Saturday at Army with an 11 a.m. game. Check out Vautour's preview and what Cannella had to say about the squad:
"University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse coach Greg Cannella admitted he was curious to see how his team plays when it opens the season against Army, Saturday at 11 a.m. at Michie Stadium, in West Point, N.Y.
'We're looking all right. We'll find out a little bit more (Saturday). When adversity hits, you find out what they're all about,' Cannella said. 'They've been a good group to coach so far. They've worked hard. We've prodded them to work even harder and challenge themselves.'
The Minutemen will be playing a lot of new faces, while some of the returning players will be in significantly increased rolls..."
Read the entire story on the Daily Hampshire Gazette website. More on the men's lacrosse program can be found through UMassAthletics.com.
Daily Collegian staff reporter Andrew Cyr put together a story discussing the UMass men's lacrosse team's mentality entering 2014 as the squad embraces its status as an underdog in the battle for the CAA Championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
"It's been a while since the Massachusetts men's lacrosse team has been an afterthought in the Colonial Athletic Conference and the NCAA.
But coming off their first losing season since 2008, the Minutemen enter 2014 unranked in the NCAA national rankings, and predicted to finished fourth in the CAA preseason coaches poll.
The departures of Kyle Smith and Will Manny, the team's top two scorers from a season ago, don't help the cause either.
"This is the first time in a long time we're going to be the underdog in almost every game we play," said UMass coach Greg Cannella, who is returning for his 20th season in Amherst. "But sometimes the underdog role is a good place to be in."
In fact, the underdog role is something the Minutemen embrace. And with their sights set on bouncing back from a disappointing season, preseason polls are the least of their concerns..."
Read the conclusion of Cyr's story through the Daily Collegian website. More on the men's lacrosse program can be found on UMassAthletics.com.
Photographer J. Anthony Roberts stopped by the UMass men's lacrosse scrimmage against St. John's to snap some photos for the Springfield Republican. Check out the full gallery he put together here. More information on UMass men's lacrosse can be found through UMassAthletics.com.


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Stage 19, May 24 – Ponte di Legno-Val Martello, 139km
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What Stage 19 might lack in distance, it more than makes up for in altitude as the riders will climb more than 14,000 feet in only 138 kilometers. The day begins at the bottom of the Gavia, the site of Andy Hampsten's snowy ride to glory in 1988. The Stelvio comes next, a climb that has the honor of being named the "Cima Coppi" as the highest summit in the race. A long descent between the Stelvio and the base of the day's final climb might give some dropped riders a chance to rejoin the front of the race before the final 22-kilometer climb to the finish in Val Martello. If Wiggins is still in the lead, expect Nibali and Hesjedal to send their teams to work early, possibly placing key domestiques like Valerio Agnoli or Peter Stetina into an early breakaway to provide key support later in the race.
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MLB: Washington Nationals at Atlanta Braves
Apr 29, 2013; Atlanta, GA, USA; Washington Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth (28) is checked by head trainer Lee Kuntz and manager Davey Johnson (5) after being injured on a swing against the Atlanta Braves during the eighth inning at Turner Field. The Braves defeated the Nationals 3-2. (Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports)
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Kass: A Sharp Drop in Inflation Lies Ahead
This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver on Oct. 22 at 7:30 a.m. EDT.
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight -- the truly wise person is colorblind."A combination of a higher U.S. dollar and Japanese yen, the vortex of selling and unwinding of long commodities positions (by pension plans and endowments, corporations, hedge funds and managed commodity funds) and renewed evidence of a deepening recession have served to accelerate the decline in commodity prices.-- Albert Schweitzer
According to the lynx-eyed Denny "The Man" Gartman the DJ-AIG Index is "down a stunning 18.6%, and the month is only three-quarters over! For the year, the index is down 26.2%."
Remarkably, the CRB Index, which includes energy product prices, is now back to its late 2004 level. The CRB Raw Materials Index, which excludes energy product prices, is back to its level last seen in summer 2006. In the aggregate, the energy, materials and related sectors only account for about 25% of the S&P 500's profit, so the remaining 75% of the S&P is poised to benefit from the cost relief associated with lower commodities prices. This, combined with the continued tame year-over-year change in unit labor costs (of around 1%), will produce a marked deceleration in headline and core inflation. While the outlook for top-line revenue growth in 2009-2010 remains problematic, the above cost trends will, in the fullness of time, act as a headwind to a sharp mean regression in corporate profit margins. For now, a bull market in fear, concerns regarding a "Great Recession" and the continued indigestion in the hedge fund and fund of funds industries remain front and center. Over time, however, the basis of an improving intermediate-term market picture seems likely to reassume center stage based on the following considerations:- Inflation is ebbing.
- The Fed is and will remain market-friendly.
- The credit markets are thawing.
- Fiscal stimulus appears on the way.
- Financial institutions' capital bases are being shored up (posthaste!).
- Stock valuations are subdued.
- Investor sentiment is at record negative levels.
- Forced selling by executives, individuals, hedge funds and fund of funds has historically marked a market bottom.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
"Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else." - swami Vivekananda
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Vestas Tumbles on Report of Debt Restructuring Talks
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Vestas Wind Systems A/S fell the most in four weeks after a report that the turbine maker is in talks with two banks about restructuring debts after drawing a 300 million-euro ($379 million) credit line.
The shares tumbled 8.1 percent in Copenhagen after the Sunday Times reported that Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc demanded Vestas submit a comprehensive financial plan from Vestas. The British newspaper said Vestas hired PwC and the banks appointed Ernst & Young LLP to advise on the plan.
Vestas along with rivals General Electric Co. and Siemens AG is struggling with declining turbine prices and excess capacity as nations from the U.S. to Germany rein in support for renewable energy. The company detailed restructuring plans in January after issuing a second profit warning in three months. It shelved a U.K. offshore-turbine factory venture and closed a plant in China to save cash last month.
"The company is clearly in severe distress," Martin Prozesky, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., said.
"The restructuring they've announced so far is very insufficient relative to the challenges they are facing. Unless they restructure much more radically, they could run into a liquidity problem," he said today by phone.
Mikkel Friis-Thomsen, a Vestas spokesman, declined to discuss details of the report, saying by phone today: "We never comment on speculation." Vestas shares closed at 29.79 kroner, the lowest since June 27 and biggest drop in a month.
Cash Need
Vestas has debt of almost 1.2 billion euros, according to Bloomberg data. The company's thirst for cash may reflect a need for working capital required for building more turbines as it delivers large orders as well as cash for restructuring, Prozesky said.
"I wouldn't be surprised if they are making an operating loss, and therefore if working capital also requires funding they clearly need financing," he said. The company could cut its "disproportionately costly" research and development staff and shrink its operations in the U.S., where a wind energy tax credit ends this year, he said.
Bernstein estimates 300 million to 400 million euros is the likely charge for the necessary restructuring, Prozesky said.
Wind turbine developers are having trouble raising funds to finance projects from banks that traditionally underwrite the biggest projects, Heinz Steffen, an analyst at Fairesearch GmbH & Co, said today by phone from Kronberg.
'Doing Badly'
"The whole industry is doing badly," he said. Banks are no longer willing to finance large projects constrained by their own financial issues while delays in grid connection and legal reasons in promising offshore wind markets inhibit growth, he said. "Also, the market is in overcapacity and there is price pressure from China."
Officials at HSBC, RBS, PwC and Ernst & Young had no immediate comment on the Sunday Times report. The Bloomberg Wind Energy Index of 64 companies, which rose 3.3 percent on June 29, slipped 0.2 percent today.
Bid Speculation
Chinese competitors Sinovel Wind Group Co. and Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. have considered a bid for Vestas, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten reported in April. While Vestas CEO Ditlev Engel declined to comment on that report at the time, analysts said a bid is unlikely.
"If you look at the other turbine producers like Siemens or GE, I don't see them buying Vestas," said Janne Vincent Kjaer, an analyst at Jyske Bank A/S. "They have already the proven technology and they're also fighting with overcapacity themselves."
Prozesky said a potential acquirer was more likely to include Korean groups such as Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Chinese, European and U.S. companies, facing their own domestic issues, are unlikely to be buyers, he said.
Vestas small shareholders are forming an association to attempt to consolidate their votes and increase influence, the Danish newswire Ritzau Finans said, without saying how it got the information.
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