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The year-old bald eagle fed on two carcasses of horses that had been euthanized near Winlock, Wash. The horses had been put down with a barbiturate called Euthasol and then improperly disposed of, said Audubon operations manager Lacy Campbell.
The eagle recovered under the Audubon Society's care and was eventually released Wednesday around 1 p.m., near Winlock.
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Euthasol acts as a sedative at lower doses, which is why the juvenile eagle was found on the ground and unable to fly, said Campbell. While the barbiturate worked its way out of his system, we kept the bird hydrated, provided regular meals, and kept him isolated to minimize stress.
The other six eagles were treated at the West Sound Wildlife Center on Bainbridge Island,Wash.
A worker with Raindancer Wild Bird Rescue in Olympia brought the eagles to West Sound Wildlife Center, where a team of 15 volunteers have been working on the birds for days. They were all in critical condition.
Some of the eagles were vomiting and convulsing while the most critical were unconscious and unresponsive.
Workers at West Sound Wildlife Center believe the eagles ate meat from two dead horses that had been euthanized with a strong poison. However, those horses had not been properly disposed of, and were left to rot where other animals could eat them.
The volunteer vets saved all of the birds. The eagles had likely eaten enough poison to kill a horse, vets said.
It's miraculous that they're even here, said Dr. Alicia Bye.
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They are all quite young, just two or three years old. They don't even have the telltale white feathers on their heads yet.
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He's got no footwork, poor fundamentals, bad hands, no touch on his shot, he can't play off the ball and he can't score in the post consistently. He doesn't really even set very good screens. Then to top off all of that, he can't hit free throws. I'm not buying the back recovery excuse anymore. Outside of 3 or 4 games, the dude has played like a scrub trapped in the body of a Greek god. At this point, I DGAF if he bolts.
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The year of 2012 year is not ending without several stalwart contributors to MERCI Clinic's mission of providing medical care for working poor adults without health insurance being honored for their service.
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Shumway was the first pharmacist for the clinic and Miller said, "He and his wife were on Broad Street operating literally from a closet. There was no room to turn around."
Thanks to the work of the Shumways and other volunteers, "Now things are just a little bit different," she said. "In 2011 MERCI dispensed 45,842 prescriptions and had $2.5 million provided through pharmacy assistance programs."
Dr. Kunkel of Trent Pines Drive practiced with Coastal Eye Clinic for many years, and said, "I served at MERCI Clinic for 10 years and enjoyed it very much."
A native of Norton, Va., Kunkel went to the Virginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia and its medical school, then interned in Denver prior to starting his general practice rural Virginia. He later specialized in ophthalmology at Duke University and came to New Bern in 1965.
Kunkel said, "The opportunity arose at MERCI and I was glad to accept. I hope that I was doing some good for the community."
Dr. Hudson was born and lived in Raleigh until about age 10, then moved to his mother's native town of Vandemere and graduated from Pamlico High School where he played basketball before going to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"My wife was raised in Pamlico and we started dating high school and never stopped," he said, and "I played on the UNC varsity basketball team and made all ACC my senior year."
"My mother encouraged me to be a physician," said Hudson, who also went to medical school at Carolina, always wanting "to come back to Eastern North Carolina to do family practice.
"The courses I took helped me to continue to believe in that," he said, "and I ended up doing it. They needed physicians in Pamlico County and formed a corporation that raised some money with interest free bonds and built a clinic. They happened to get it done about the time I was ready to practice and I started in 1963 and practiced until 1998."
"I met a lot of wonderful people in Pamlico County and when I came back to practice, my collections never dropped below 95 percent," Hudson said. "I wanted to pay them back a little bit."
"I didn't get involved in the free clinics until I retired from practice," he said. "Dr. Ralph Redding was a good friend of mine and when I retired asked if I could help. The ladies in Oriental clinic who started Hope Clinic asked me if I'd be director and I accepted."
Dr. Cronan was born in Hamden, Conn., and now lives in Morehead City.
His wife, Louise Cronan, said he served two years in the U.S. Army following high school, then attended Duquesne University in Pittsburg, "able to go because of the GI bill." Once he was graduated, he went to Loyola University Chicago's Stretch School of Medicine where he got his medical degree before doing an internship at St. Vincent's Hospital in Bridgeport, Conn., studying family practice. Later in his career, he became chairman of the department of Family Medicine there.
"That's where he met me in his pediatrics internship at St. Vincent's doing a tracheotomy on a child in bed," said Louise Cronan, who has also spent 15 years as a MERCI and Broad Street volunteer. "I hadn't worked with him prior to that" and when the procedure was successfully over, "I lit into him, 'why did you not see this when the child was in the emergency room.'"
It turned out that Dr. Cronan hadn't treated the child but told her later "'I liked the fire in your eyes,'" she said. After one year internship, he started practice in Connecticut, where they both lived and they started dating at end of January and later married.
He began practicing family medicine in Trumbull, Conn., first making house calls, then from a home office in Tumbrel, Conn., making $4 a visit, she said, and stayed as the town grew for 40 years. He was also active in the American Academy of Family Practice and in the political scene, keeping up with continuing education.
The Cronin's came to Carteret County in 1997 intending to retire and sail "but that lasted about five months," Louise Cronan said. "He loved doing what he did" and met Dr. Redding and began working at Broad Street and MERCI Clinics twice a week shortly after in 1998.
Miller said there are other physicians on board but more volunteers at all levels of staffing continue to be needed. "Get involved. Call and talk to us. Go to our website. There is a volunteer application online at merciclinic.org that tells about the positions we have.


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It was good for Charlotte, and it was good for McCrory, and when the book on Mayor Pat was finished, it told how a Republican leader got things done in his New South city. It was the story of Pragmatic Pat.
So now he's governor, and McCrory would surely like to keep that image intact. He's called himself a moderate "Eisenhower Republican," and when the New York Times featured him in a January front page article on GOP soul-searching, he emphasized problem solving and cooperation, not ideology. It's the McCrory that moderates embraced last November.
So what's our new governor done, less than two months in?
He's signed an unemployment insurance bill that harshly and permanently cuts benefits for the jobless while temporarily taxing businesses until a state debt is paid off.
He's watched quietly as Republicans ram through an historic power grab that fires every member of eight critical state boards and commissions, so that they can be replaced with conservative-friendly appointments.
He's declared that North Carolina won't accept a federal expansion of his state's Medicaid program, claiming that he needed time to fix a broken state system (which is true) but ignoring that the feds would give him exactly that by paying fully for the first three years of expansion.
This is not Pragmatic Pat. It's winner-take-all Pat.
Not surprisingly, his approval numbers are dropping. Some Independents and Democrats, especially in Charlotte, are horrified at what they voted for. (The national love is gone, too. The headline on an Esquire magazine piece ripping McCrory last week: "North Carolina takes its turn as Mississippi.")
Everyone, of course, knew that McCrory would be challenged by his state's political landscape. N.C. conservatives have long been wary of McCrory's cred, and Republican lawmakers were inevitably going to test him by slamming their feet on the legislative pedal. But unlike those state legislators, McCrory isn't the beneficiary of conservative, gerrymandered districts. He gets elected by a statewide vote, and his is a battleground state that's demographically trending progressive.
What's a pragmatic politico to do? Look to other governors in battleground states.
In Virginia, Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell has wrestled with his party on redistricting, photo ID and anti-abortion ultrasound bills, and although he's expresseed skepticism about Medicaid expansion, he hasn't ruled it out.
In Ohio, tea party favorite John Kasich announced this month that he would accept the federal Medicaid expansion in his state. In Florida last week, conservative Gov. Rick Scott said he'd do the same. They join five other Republican governors saying yes to the offer.
Let's set aside the obvious economic logic and moral sense behind letting the feds help insure hundreds of thousands more people in their states (even Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer accepted the expansion). Scott and Kasich, as battleground state governors, understand the political benefits. Come election time, they know the Republican base is not their biggest worry. It's the growing number of moderates they might lose.
That's the sensibility many of us thought we were getting with McCrory. Yes, he's a right-leaning governor with a strongly conservative legislature. But unlike voters on the far left and right, moderates don't need someone who always shares their heart and soul. They'll settle for someone who understands that it's hard to win elections without the ideological middle.
It's pragmatism. The Pat McCrory who looked out on uptown Charlotte understood the value of that. He should know today that, as governor, he's getting a new book written on him, right now.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Catawba Colleges Steven Ridolfo (Charlotte, NC) scored six goals on Wednesday afternoon to lead the 10th-ranked Indians past Pfeiffer University 9-8 in mens lacrosse action at N.E. Lefko Field. The win keeps Catawba perfect on the year at 4-0 while the Falcons dip to 1-2.
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Ridolfo would score again to open up the third before a Shepherd man-up goal kept the Falcons within one with 11:32 remaining. After Freddie Turcio (Guilford, CT) and Elliot Gilbert (Corning, NY) traded tallies, Catawba would take final control using three-straight man-up goals to grab a 9-5 lead. Trevor Sieracki (Austin, TX) scored with 3:57 left before Ridolfo put home his final two with 53 and 16 seconds left in the third.
Pfeiffer made a furious comeback in the fourth and final period as Hammock scored with 12:45 left before Steven Tilmon (Orlando, FL) scored just 1:32 later. Justin Rose (Rochester, NY) would put Pfeiffer again within one at 9-8 with 6:14 to play but both sides would go the remaining six and change without finding the back of the net again.
Catawba net minder Michael Peccia (Coquitlum, BRITISH COLUMBIA) made 15 saves in net for the Indians while scooping up a team-high four groundballs. Turcio would cause five of Catawbas eight turnovers on the day. Shepherd led the Falcons with his hat trick while Luke Gillespie (Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA) corralled a game-high seven groundballs.
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An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods. The best known form of the assembly line, the moving assembly line, was realized into practice by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915, and made famous in the following decade by the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers. However, the various preconditions for the development at Ford stretched far back into the 19th century. Ford was the first company to build large factories around the concept. Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit costs for manufactured goods.
On the other hand, using the assembly line, the total time to complete all three cars is 75 minutes. This is possible because there are 3 different installation stations, an engine station, a hood station and a wheels station. By having 3 stations, a total of 3 different cars can be operated at the same time, albeit all working on different steps. After finishing on the first car, the engine installation crew can move onto the second car. While the engine installation crew works on the second car, the first car can be moved to the hood station and then the wheels station to be fitted with the hood and the wheels respectively. After the engine has been installed on the second car, the second car moves to the hood and then the wheels assembly (5 minutes after the wheels assembly is done with the first car), at the same time the third car moves onto the engine assembly. When the third car's engine has been mounted, it then can be moved to the hood and then wheels installation facilities, meanwhile subsequent cars (if any) can be move to the engine installation station. Because it takes 20 minutes to finish work on the engine while it takes only 15 minutes to complete the installation of both the hood and the wheels, the bottleneck is at the engine installation. Hence, additional cars will come off the assembly line at 20 minute increments.
Assembly lines don't increase the speed of producing a single unit, but only increases rate when there are a stream of units to be produced. In the example above, a car will still require 35 minutes to be made, however when there is a stream of cars it will only take 20 minutes to have a new car coming off the assembly line.
The basic kernel of an assembly line concept was introduced to Ford Motor Company by William "Pa" Klann upon his return from visiting a Chicago slaughterhouse and viewing what was referred to the "disassembly line", where animals were butchered as they moved along a conveyor. The efficiency of one person removing the same piece over and over caught his attention. He reported the idea to Peter E. Martin, soon to be head of Ford production, who was doubtful at the time but encouraged him to proceed. Others at Ford have claimed to have put the idea forth to Henry Ford, but Pa Klann's slaughterhouse revelation is well documented in the archives at the Henry Ford Museum and elsewhere, making him an important contributor to the modern automated assembly line concept. The process was an evolution by trial and error of a team consisting primarily of Peter E. Martin, the factory superintendent; Charles E. Sorensen, Martin's assistant; C. Harold Wills, draftsman and toolmaker; Clarence W. Avery; and Charles Ebender. Some of the groundwork for such development had recently been laid by the intelligent layout of machine tool placement that Walter Flanders had been doing at Ford up to 1908.
In 1922 Ford (via his ghostwriter Crowther) said of his 1913 assembly line, "I believe that this was the first moving line ever installed. The idea came in a general way from the overhead trolley that the Chicago packers use in dressing beef.
Charles E. Sorensen, in his 1956 memoir My Forty Years with Ford, presented a different version of development that was not so much about individual "inventors" as a gradual, logical development of industrial engineering:
"Years later in My Life and Work, a book which was written for him, Mr. Ford said that the conveyor-assembly idea occurred to him after watching the reverse process in packing houses where hogs and steers were triced up by hind legs on an overhead conveyor and disassembled. This is a rationalization long after the event. Mr. Ford had nothing to do with originating, planning, and carrying out the assembly line. He encouraged the work, his vision to try unorthodox methods was an example to us; and in that there is glory enough for all."
"Henry Ford had no ideas on mass production. He wanted to build a lot of autos. He was determined but, like everyone else at that time, he didn't know how. In later years he was glorified as the originator of the mass production idea. Far from it; he just grew into it, like the rest of us. The essential tools and the final assembly line with its many integrated feeders resulted from an organization which was continually experimenting and improvising to get better production."
"What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product. Regardless of earlier uses of some of these principles, the direct line of succession of mass production and its intensification into automation stems directly from what we worked out at Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1913. [¶] Henry Ford is generally regarded as the father of mass production. He was not. He was the sponsor of it." [Sorensen explains that Henry Ford did not invent all the aspects of mass production, but he knew that production efficiency meant low unit price, and so he encouraged his engineers to develop the methods.]
"Today historians describe the part the Ford car played in the development of that era and in transforming American life. We see that now. But we didn't see it then; we weren't as smart as we have been credited with being. All that we were trying to do was to develop the Ford car. [¶] The achievement came first. Then came logical expression of its principles and philosophy."
Much has been written about the original layout of the assembly line at Ford. In an article published by Fortune Magazine in June 1944, Henry Ford said that he and Peter E. Martin did it.
As a result of these developments in method, Ford's cars came off the line in three minute intervals. This was much faster than previous methods, increasing production by eight to one (requiring 12.5 man-hours before, 1 hour 33 minutes after), while using less manpower. It was so successful, paint became a bottleneck. Only Japan black would dry fast enough, forcing the company to drop the variety of colors available before 1914, until fast-drying Durco lacquer was developed in 1926. In 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with four months' pay.
Ford's complex safety procedures—especially assigning each worker to a specific location instead of allowing them to roam about—dramatically reduced the rate of injury. The combination of high wages and high efficiency is called "Fordism," and was copied by most major industries. The efficiency gains from the assembly line also coincided with the take off of the United States. The assembly line forced workers to work at a certain pace with very repetitive motions which led to more output per worker while other countries were using less productive methods.
Ford at one point considered suing other car companies because they used the assembly line in their production, but decided against, realizing it was essential to creation and expansion of the industry as a whole.
In the automotive industry, its success was dominating, and quickly spread worldwide. Ford France and Ford Britain in 1911, Ford Denmark 1923, Ford Germany 1925; in 1921, Citroen was the first native European manufacturer to adopt it. Soon, companies had to have assembly lines, or risk going broke by not being able to compete; by 1930, 250 companies which did not had disappeared.
Some sociological theories assume that workers must feel alienated and bored because of the repetition of the same specialized task all day long. Because workers have to stand in the same place for hours and repeat the same motion hundreds of times per day, repetitive stress injuries are a possible pathology of occupational safety. Industrial noise also proved dangerous. When it was not too high, workers were often prohibited from talking. Charles Piaget, a skilled worker at the LIP factory, recalled that beside being prohibited from speaking, the semi-skilled workers had only 25 centimeters in which to move. Industrial ergonomics later tried to minimize physical trauma.


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Even without contact, Rivers have trouble putting it in the basket. I'm puzzled. I hope this isn't a case where a guy naturally has bad touch.
I was never very positive on Rivers, but he is even worse than I thought he would be... yikes.
Definitely wanting to inflict pain on Roberts after that play
l really wished we would of drafted jeremy lamb or meyers leonard with the 10th pick.
How we never get calls
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We can we start giving out 10 day contracts? There gotta be guys in the street better than what I'm seeing right now
If roberts,henry,mason jr or thomas are on the pelicans next year I swear I will boycott this team.
Struggling to remember being this infuriated at 15 minutes of a basketball game
Thomas plays hard and is not bad.
rivers does not belong in the nba. period bottom line. it is actually pretty ridiculous as of now.
This isn't even a good lakers team and we getting blown out. Unbelievable. We should just forfeit all games until Davis comes back if this is the kind of effort we are going to get out of these guys.
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Could've gone the Trey Burks route. Been beneficial to learn more about his game against better competition. No helping Rivers decision not to come back now. He's here. He'll struggle. He just needs to grind away and find a means to excel. Start small perhaps.
Nothing beneficial about beating it into the ground with constant repetition.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Pfeiffer University found the back of the net six times in each of the first two periods en route to doubling up Roberts Wesleyan 16-8 in non-conference men's lacrosse action on Tuesday afternoon. The 11th-ranked Falcons improve to 3-0 on the year while the Redhawks fall to 0-2.
Tuesday's match was moved from Pfeiffer's on-campus N.E. Lefko Field down south to Charlotte at the Harrisburg Road Soccer Complex due to unplayable field conditions in Misenheimer.
James Shepherd led the way with a game-high five goals while Spencer Allen added three. Allen would also have three assists in the victory for a six-point afternoon. Robert Hope would lead the Falcons with four assists on the day as Pfeiffer took 45 shots in the contest. Dom Cianfarano paced the Redhawks with four goals and an assist in the loss while Brett Capps found the back of the net twice.
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The world's best lock has been playing flank. They do things a little differently at Toulon Rugby Club.
It would be unheard of in South Africa for Matfield trade shirt No. 5 for No. 7. He has no equal when it comes to lock play. His analyses of, and ability to read and torment opposition jumpers is legendary, while is skill and athleticism in loose play is unmatched.
There was, however, method to head coach Tana Umaga's madness. Matfield, speaking to keo.co.za from his home in the picturesque suburb of Carquieranne, picks up the story of his three matches in unfamiliar territory.
"The whole purpose behind the switch was to enable me to get my hands on the ball more," Matfield explains. "The coaching staff wanted me to be more involved in the loose, and they felt I had the necessary skills to succeed as a flanker.
"The adjustment was a fairly easy one to make. There's not many differences other than packing down at a different place in the scrum. I still played the same role I always have in the lineouts – making the calls and being the primary jumper.
"I enjoyed the couple of matches I played there, but I think they realised I was best utilised at lock, so I'm back there for this weekend's match [Matfield will be partnered by former Bulls team-mate Francois van Schouwenburg]."
Toulon currently top the log in Pro Division 2, four points clear of Stade Montois and a further 10 points clear of the ambitious Paris-based Racing Metro [two teams are promoted to the Top 14]. They have, however, dropped points on the road, putting them under pressure going into the closing stages of the season.
"It's getting tight now but we've got a good, experienced side, so I'm confident we will cope with the pressure," he said. "The key is to get a couple of away wins [they've lost their last three away games] because that's been our weakness this season."
Asked what he made of the Bulls' indifferent form this season, Matfield sympathized with his former franchise but was in no doubt that their form graph would show an upward curve in the coming weeks.
"The key is to focus on the week ahead and not be overly fixated on setting goals for the [Australasian] tour," he said. "You get into trouble the moment you start looking ahead and lose focus on the task at hand.
"I'm sure they'll bounce back. They've played some good rugby this season – people lose sight of that. They dominated for 30 minutes against an excellent Crusaders side, and should have been 15 points up with 10 minutes to go against the Sharks. I think inexperience cost them in those matches, with guys like Bakkies Botha, Bryan Habana and Akona Ndungane missing.
"But they're back now which is a huge boost. They've been playing some good rugby in my opinion. They key is getting some momentum on tour, which would allow them to make a big charge in the latter part of the campaign."
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Earlier this year, the ASPCA assisted in a three-state dog fighting bust alongside the FBI, Missouri Highway Patrol and several other agencies.
When we found these dogs, many were doomed to live their whole lives tethered by heavy chains—and on the day of the raid, many were left outside to suffer through a blizzard.
Today, after months under the care of our behaviorists, veterinarians and tireless responders, dogs rescued from this raid are thriving. In fact, some have already headed to rescue for adoption! Still others remain in our care.
We wanted to show you some of these dogs' happy faces and thank you for helping us make their rescue possible. We couldn't have taken on this massive operation without your help!
Slideshow: Amazing Transformation of Dog Fighting Victims
May God Bless all of you, and I THANK YOU SO MUCH for caring soooo much about the animals. I love you!!!
Our governor in PA has stopped it where our shelters arent allowed to put down animals. They have to keep them alive.
Great job! These poor dogs deserve to lead happy lives and it looks like they will thanks to you :)
Thank God for the ASPCA and all of those who worked so hard to rehabilitate these wonderful dogs! My dog Zena, an American Bull Terrier is the most loving dog I have ever owned. She makes me laugh everyday by performing her "being silly" actions. I will continue to pray for all people who think fighting dogs is an okay thing to do. I hope they will somedoy soon realize that there are alot of other things to do with dogs other than fight them. Like love them! Saving these dogs was a miracle on earth!
Wonderful, heartening, inspiring, delightful pictures; you guys are the best! Thank you for all that you do for the animals... it's a blessing!
I've worked with rescues myself; though it doesn't make me an expect for sure, I did learn that organizations fight hard to win the hearts and minds of people because with that comes money. I love the ASPCA and the Humane Society..and so many of the very small organizations whose members work so hard.....and yes I even like PETA, though I may not always agree with them. It's a dog-eat-dog world so to speak in the rescue world....so I try to be careful when listening or reading bad reports - you never know where they come from.......Thanks to these groups.....this is a great story.....
This is an inspiring story. Dog fighting (as well as cock fighting and bull fighting) is just unacceptable. We are in 2013 and there are many other 'entertainment' options. Good job!
Are we all getting out of the main subject here???
the ASPCA organization is one of the oldest and one of the best organizations out there, I am a monthly contributor and wish I could do more for these wonderful people that rescue and rehabilitate animals to find loving homes


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#1 I agree with. We should get to know what offers we have to beat
#2 Not sure, b/c I know I probably wont get everyone I bid on so I would like to have some backup plans in case my top guy chooses another team
1) Offers should be public so teams can make counter offers. Its only fair since some teams will value certain free agents more than others.
2) Teams cannot offer more than their roster space. For example, if the Rockets have 8 guys on the roster after the draft, they can only offer 7 contracts. Last free agency, certain teams were offering too many contracts even though they had didn't have enough roster space to sign all the guys they offered.
3) Teams cannot offer more than their cap space. For example, if the Rockets have 30 million in cap space, they can't offer more unless one of their own free agents with Bird Rights is involved. If they increase the offer on one free agent, they need to decrease the offer on another free agent to avoid going over the cap. Again, last season certain teams were offering more than their cap space allowed and more than their roster space and in the process caused market increase and damaged the free agency process Those teams shouldn't be allowed to do it again.
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Rules 1, 2, and 3 are the most important and will make free agency a fair and enjoyable process.
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#1 I agree with. We should get to know what offers we have to beat
#2 Not sure, b/c I know I probably wont get everyone I bid on so I would like to have some backup plans in case my top guy chooses another team
honestly I tried following all these rules last free agency so I'm all for it.
RFA's I think need to be added if possible as well.
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RFA would be nice, but I'm not sure if its doable.
I think the rules that hornets78 are really good. Except for the public bid. I prefer the private bidding to avoid the raising and reraising of bids. Its becoming an auction, which I don't like
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2) I don't think this one matters as much to make FA enjoyable. Especially if we end up with a rule 3.
3) This one makes sense to me, but if you're not gonna win on a max guy, but you've now tied up that cap space and lost out on other potential FAs, haven't decided how I feel about that
4) RFA isn't actually built into the game. The way some other leagues get around this is that they'll just allow the GM to match the offer.
5) Doesn't really matter
The public bids are important to some because certain teams will target a FA as the main guy and if they abide by rule 2 and rule 3, then it will be difficult to just treat players as auctions and even then, some of the attributes like loyalty and playing for a winner apply. A small % of the FAs will take less money.
I don't think its that difficult to keep up with rule 2 and rule 3 since its easy to see how many roster space and cap space each team has. Plus we can all make it easy for the commish by calling out teams breaking rules 2 and 3. Rules 2 and 3 will prevent teams for jacking up the prices which happened last offseason.
I would like to know if someone is bidding more for a FA than me since most FAs take the most money. That happened last FA to me when a bidding war ensued for Etan Thomas. I had to adjust other contracts I offered just to make sure I had enough to outbid for him.
We did it publicly last season, I see no problem with doing it blind this off season.
Under the scenario the bids are private, there should be no limit on number of offers as driving up the price is already avoided and someone like theo Ratliff could end up signing for vet min, the real problem with the current system is the lowballing of some FA like Cato which would may or may not continue under the private setup too. If you're dumb enough to over pay a guy that's you're fault. Not the person driving up the price. If you spread yourself out too much you might sign the Plan B when Plan A was going to sign with you and if you don't spread yourself out you could lose out on multiple FA. It means you gotta play smart. I think both public and private bidding are equal in pros and cons. I think people should learn from my situation with PJ and Hardaway and know that if you only slightly outbid someone, you still might not get the FA
I dont fully trust the sim to make smart decisions
Last edited by speedyG; 10-23-2012 at 05:08 AM.
That is true. You got hosed with FA. I was more fortunate. I slightly outbid for Etan and he signed with me. Everyone I signed like Mighty Mouse, Big Country, and Wally Z, I clearly outbid for them. Really had little competition for them or for all the FAs I signed with the exception of Etan.
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Quick-N-Easy, located on Brame Ave. in West Point, is at risk of going out of business if the Clay County Circuit Court decides to execute its order of default judgement to Roshunda Duncan, who sued the store in 2008 after being injured there the year before.
In her 2008 complaint, Duncan alleges that Quick-N-Easy employee Mohmed Algafaz approached her and began pulling on her, and in her attempt to get him to stop Algafaz allegedly cut Duncan's wrist with a box cutter.
After numerous attempts to get Algafaz to respond to the complaint and because of his failure to defend himself or the store against the allegations, Sixteenth Circuit Court Judge Jim Kitchens entered a default judgement July 9, 2012 in Duncan;s favor. Duncan originally requested a total of $70,879 but was granted an amount of $21,080 to be paid by the store.
Now Algafaz's attorney Marty Haug is asking the court to set aside the entry of default and default judgement and to not execute the order for default judgement. Haug states in his motion the only person who received process in this case was an alleged store clerk, whom Haug says is unauthorized to receive process on behalf of the store or Algafaz since the individual is not a store owner, manager or director. Haug claims that Algafaz was not properly served with the complaint and further alleges that Algafaz, who had no attorney present during the default judgement hearing, did not know about the entry of default or knew anything about the complaint through court summons.
Duncan's attorney Jerry Askew stated in his application to the court for entry of default that he did attempt to serve Algafaz through the alleged store clerk and stated in his motion for additional time to serve process that Algafaz was attempting to evade being properly served with process.
Haug wrote to the court that if the judgement of $21,080 is executed "it would cause serious permanent financial injury to the" store "and will permanently damage the reputation of the store and may result in its permanent closure."
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Star fullback Jaco Taute might be the next player to leave the Lions as he wants to play Super Rugby next season.
Since the Lions' relegation from Super Rugby was declared in August, six players have confirmed their exits. Flank Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors, Scotland), props Jacobie Adriaanse (Scarlets, Wales) and Caylib Oosthuizen (Free State Cheetahs), and locks Ruan Botha (WP), Paul Willemse (Blue Bulls) and Ettienne Oosthuizen (Brumbies, Australia) will all continue their careers elsewhere.
Utility forward Grant Hattingh also signed for the Bulls straight after Super Rugby, before Saru announced the Lions' unfortunate fate.
President Kevin de Klerk has stressed several times in recent weeks that there won't be a major player exodus in Johannesburg as the union has a contracted group of 26 players, who are all committed until 2013.
Strauss was part of this contracted group, but De Klerk explained that the player's release was an exception as he has an opportunity to play Test rugby for Scotland in 2015.
However, Taute, who is signed on until October 2013, said he will also leave if possible.
'Nothing is confirmed yet, but I definitely want to play Super Rugby,' Taute told keo.co.za. 'It's one of the strongest competitions and you get to measure yourself against the best players in the world. That's where I want to play my rugby.
'I'm currently looking over my Lions contract to see what options I can take. I will join another Super Rugby franchise if possible.'
Last week, De Klerk told this site that there were plans being made to create an alternative tournament, with the help of Saru and the IRB. It would run during Super Rugby, which would see the Lions face teams from Europe, America and the Pacific Islands.
De Klerk believes this would allow his players 'to feature at the highest possible levels'.
However, Taute didn't have a positive reaction to this: 'That tournament isn't finalised yet. It's unfortunate that the Lions were relegated. But like I said, Super Rugby is my first preference.'
Meanwhile, Taute also confirmed that he isn't sidelined with wrist bruising. The Lions announced in a statement on Monday that the 21-year-old was one of four players who picked up injuries after the Currie Cup win over the Free State Cheetahs in Bloemfontein last weekend.
'I'm not sure what that's about,' he said. 'I took part in full training and I'm fit.'
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