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The Colorado Rockies have traded pitcher Aaron Harang to the Seattle Mariners for relief pitcher Steven Hensley. It was nearly a week ago that the Rockies picked up Harang from the Los Angeles Dodgers. By trading Ramon Hernandez to the Dodgers and then shipping Harang to the Mariners the Rockies saved nearly $2.5 million. Seattle has not said what Harang's role will be with the club but considering he is owed $7 million this season it is a good bet that he will join the rotation. Last season Harang had a 3.61 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. The 37-year-old is well past the point in his career when he had a plus fastball but he should be a solid innings eater for the Mariners if nothing else. Hensley is little more then organizational filler for the Rockies.
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Urban Meyer is known for being a great builder of programs, and
even rebuilder. Now for the first time, he has to prove he can
He went 17-6 in two years at Bowling Green, and then he went to
Utah where he was a rent-a-coach for two years going 22-2
finishing up with a BCS win over Pitt. He won the national title
in his second year at Florida, and then came last season, the
worst of his coaching career, when he went (gasp!) 9-4.
2008 Schedule
CFN Prediction:
2008 Record: 0-0
Aug. 30
Sept. 6 Miami
Sept. 13 OPEN DATE
Sept. 20 at Tennessee
Sept. 27 Ole Miss
Oct. 4 at Arkansas
Oct. 11 LSU
Oct. 18 OPEN DATE
Oct. 25 Kentucky
Nov. 1 Georgia (Jack.)
Nov. 8 at Vanderbilt
Nov. 15 South Carolina
Nov. 22 The Citadel
Nov. 29 at Florida State
2007 Schedule
CFN Prediction:
2007 Record: 9-4
Sept. 1
Western Kent.
Sept. 8
Sept. 15
Sept. 22
at Ole Miss
Sept. 29
6 at
20 at
Kentucky W 45-37
vs. Georgia
10 at
So. Carolina W 51-31
Florida State
Capital One Bowl
Jan. 1 Michigan L 41-35
Even though a
four-loss season isn't currently acceptable in Gainesville, considering
the bar has been set so high, it was generally acknowledged that 2007
was supposed to be a year of transition. Nine starters needed to be
replaced on defense, a running back needed to be found, and wasn't, and
in the SEC, an elite team that's not fully loaded has to take a step
back and wait its turn again.
Now the question is whether or not all the growing pains of last season
will turn into production this year. Tim Tebow might have been the first
sophomore to win the Heisman, but his epic year came partly because
there wasn't a running back getting the job done. The pass defense was
the worst in the SEC with true freshmen getting their feet wet, there
wasn't enough of a pass rush, even with Derrick Harvey at one end, and
the defense went bye-bye in key situations against the better teams.
While there was a great early win over Tennessee, the second best
victory came against, um, uh, Kentucky?!
There's pressure on everyone in the SEC, but Meyer has to prove that his
terrific recruiting classes and dizzying collection of athletes can meld
together into an SEC championship caliber team. Tebow is a great leader
to start with, there's a ton of talent in the backfield to finally get a
real running game going from the backs, the receiving corps will be
phenomenal, and the defense will be just fine with a little more work.
However, considering all the pieces were supposed to be put in place
last year, the depth at safety is extremely thin, two true freshmen will
be counted on to play big at defensive tackle, and there are only two
upperclassmen on the O line, and both of them, Jim Tartt and Phil
Trautwein, while talented, are banged up.
The overall talent level is there to win a second national title in
three years, but everything has to fall into place around the
mega-stars. In reality, the program is still probably one more year away
from being a championship juggernaut, but the same can be said for
Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, and even Alabama. In the SEC, you have to take
advantage of every opening, and Florida has to make it happen this year.
It could be its turn again.
What to watch for on offense: Less Tebow, but a better Tebow. The
idea will be to keep the star fresh for later in the season and for the
fourth quarters. Even Superman wears down, and Tebow's production
suffered after getting beaten on game in and game out. There will be a
rotation of quarterbacks, but that's more to get the young guys some
work than it is to keep Tebow fresh. In a perfect world, his carries are
cut in half after running it 210 times last year, while he's still used
to barrel it in around the goal line.
What to watch for on defense: Carlos Dunlap. Derrick Harvey might
have been considered a star, but the eighth pick in the draft was way
too inconsistent as he disappeared over parts of the second half of the
season; he didn't do nearly as much as his press clippings suggested.
Even so, Florida needs Dunlap to generate the 8.5 sacks and 17 tackles
for loss that Harvey did, and if this off-season was any indication, he
will. At 6-6 and 290 pounds with good speed, he could quickly become a
The team will be far better if … it could stop someone from
throwing the ball. To be fair, several teams had to abandon the running
game and bombed away in an attempt to keep up the pace, but it's not
like the Gators played Texas Tech and Hawaii every week. Everyone
fattened up on the Gator secondary, and now it's time for true
sophomores Joe Haden and Major Wright to play like seasoned veterans.
The Schedule:
There are just enough problems to
keep the Gators from going unbeaten, but this is still a slate good
enough to win a national title with. Getting Ole Miss from the West is
offset by the home date against LSU, while the non-conference schedule
is easier than it appears on paper. Playing Miami and at Florida State
might be nasty again in a few years, but not now for a superior Florida
team. Of course, in SEC play it's all about the East, and if the Gators
can get by the early showdown at Tennessee it all opens up with South
Carolina and Kentucky going to The Swamp.
Best Offensive Player:
Junior QB Tim Tebow. Have you really taken a look at what Tebow did
last year? He's 6-3, 232 pounds, averaged 4.3 yards per carry while
running for 23 touchdowns, led the team in rushing with 895 yards, was
one of the nation's most efficient passers completing 67% of his throws
for 3,286 yards and 32 touchdowns with six interceptions, and yet there
were still many who blew off the stats like they weren't that big a
deal. It's not like he did all this in the Sun Belt; he was the one
player everyone had to stop in SEC play week in and week out, and no one
did it. If what he did was so easy, and if most of his touchdowns came
on short runs, then why hasn't anyone else ever run and thrown for 20
scores in the same season?
Best Defensive Player:
Junior LB Brandon Spikes. Ohio State's James Laurinaitis might be
the fashionable household name who'll get all the recognition as the
nation's best middle linebacker, or it might be USC's Rey Maualuga who
garners all the attention, but if Spikes chooses to skip his senior
season, he could be the first linebacker taken in the 2009 NFL Draft.
Key player to a
successful season: Freshmen DTs Omar Hunter and Matt Patchan. The
two might be top-shelf, elite of the elite recruits, but it's still
asking for the world for two true freshmen to step in and solve the
problems at defensive tackle. Hunter is an ideal nose tackle who might
have the starting job from the moment he sets foot on campus this fall,
while the undersized Patchan has to first get healthy after suffering a
gunshot wound to his shoulder. If these two aren't tremendous, a dream
season might go bye-bye by mid-October.
The season will be a
success if
... Florida plays for the national title. Tebow, Harvin, and Spikes are
just a few of the phenomenal talents on team that's ridiculously good in
some places, like receiver, tight end, and linebacker, and strangely
mediocre in others, like defensive tackle and safety. Meyer and the
Gators have overcome more. It's national championship or bust for a team
this good.
Key game:
Nov. 1 vs. Georgia. As the last two years have shown, an SEC team can
suffer a loss, or even two, and still play for the national
championship. However, winning the conference title is a must, and the
loser of the Cocktail-Don't-Call-It-A-Cocktail-Party will likely be out
of the hunt. If Florida wins at Tennessee early on, this, along with the
SEC title game, will be the one big hurdle to getting to Miami on
January 8th considering LSU and South Carolina have to come to The

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Final Score: New Orleans 90, Charlotte 87
Charleston, SC (Sports Network) - Ryan Anderson's lay up with less than a
minute to play proved to be the difference, as the New Orleans Hornets
defeated the Charlotte Bobcats, 90-87, to claim their third straight victory
of the preseason.
Anderson scored two of his 14 points on the lay up to give New Orleans the
lead. Bobcats center Brendan Haywood had a chance to tie the game when he was
fouled with six seconds to play, but he missed both free-throw attempts.
Charlotte then fouled Al-Farouq Aminu, who connected on both of his free
throws to account for the final margin.
Anthony Davis, the No.1 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, finished with 12 points
and nine rebounds for New Orleans, while Lance Thomas and Roger Mason Jr. both
contributed double-digit scoring efforts off the bench.
Byron Mullens and Ben Gordon each scored 15 points apiece for the Bobcats,
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If there is nothing Neuronics can not do, why not take death out of one's perspective? And old age? Disease, deformity etc:.
If those things did not have some benefit then it would not be experienced.
There once was a boy who met a genie. The genie gave him 3 wishes.
"I wish for and endless supply of wishes" the boy commanded.
"Very well" said the genie. "You have an endless supply, and two more wishes after that."
The first wish that the boy wished for was a spaceship to take him far from Earth. He traveled far, and along the way he wished for things like air, food, water, friends to play with, and more.
Although the journey to other worlds was fun, after a while he grew tired and wished for an endless amount of physical energy so that he'll never have to rest.
He still had an unlimited supply of wishes left, which comforted him. Yet, he was still quite lonely because he continued to realize that his friends were not real. They only came to be and came to play because he wished it.
It was all an illusion, really.
He eventually came back to Earth because he grew lonely and missed the things he could not control. He missed fighting with his brother because it also meant that he liked making up with him. He missed his homework because it gave him something to do and meant that he would have a sense of accomplishment. He missed his parents because even though he had problems and it wasn't a perfect family, they have been there since the beginning.
After considering all of this for quite some time he decided that life is better left to its own elements.
His second wish was to 'undo' his first wish, and return the endless supply of wishes back to the genie.
He lived a happy life for a number of years. But still, in the back of his mind was the lingering thought that it was all an illusion. That somehow his life, which he was now quite happy with, is something that he wished for. He wanted to feel more secure and that. He wanted life to be itself and to be as real as it could possibly be.
What an awful thought!
To think that even he is not real and does not exist.
"What could be worse that having absolutely no value?", he would think. This troubled him too much, and one day he came to a decision.
Finally used his third wish.
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China is becoming a gold powerhouse
By Jeremy Holcombe
Contributing writer for Goldco Direct and End the Lie
Over the last year or so China has been quietly and independently buying gold, lots of gold.
While many know that China has wanted to become a power player in the world of precious metals (particularly gold), not everyone knows what a powerhouse they are starting to become.
Gold buying, gold production and gold profit out of China has risen considerably over the last year.
So much so that China is starting to become a major gold powerhouse, and they are showing no signs of slowing down.
Not only is China becoming a major powerhouse in the gold world, but at the current rate of gold buying and gold producing,
China is poised to become the world's biggest gold market in 2012. This will especially hold true if demand for the precious metal continues to surge as it has over recent years.
Right now India is the world's largest consumer of gold. However, China has already passed India's monthly figures for gold, but we still have to wait to see a full year's worth of figures from China to see if they have outpaced the Indian gold buying spree.
If the predicted numbers are on point, China will be the biggest dog on the block when it comes to the world of gold.
How are they doing this? Well, believe it or not, even with their poor credit history, China has an almost unlimited amount of cold hard cash (unlike the United States which is essentially surviving solely on credit at this point).
We all know that cash is king, and they are using that cash supply to purchase as much gold as they can get right now.
China produced around 24.13 tonnes of gold in January 2012, an increase of 3.68% from the same month a year ago.
In February of this year, China's gold output jumped 11.3% from January.
Data shows that output for the first two months of the year rose 8% to 51.005 tonnes. In February, China produced around 26.87 tonnes of gold.
Profit streams are up tremendously as well for China, which gives them all the more reason to continue buying the yellow metal.
They have also been advised to continue buying up gold by several key figures in China.
"The Chinese government should not only be cautious of the imported risk caused by rising global inflation, but also further optimize its foreign exchange portfolio and purchase gold assets when the gold price shows a favorable fluctuation," Zhang Jianhua, director of the research bureau affiliated with the People's Bank of China has been quoted as saying.
We will see how this plays out, but it seems as though China very well may continue to buy gold and try to become the largest gold holder and producer in the world.
This will be quite interesting as it could have some widespread consequences and a large impact on the global financial market.
It very well could mean a weakening of the Western power over markets, although what this will actually bring about is anyone's guess at this point.
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2 Responses to China is becoming a gold powerhouse
End time servant May 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM
We should send a thank you to are politicians who betrayed us and this country the USA these men and woman let china have all this gold and so many other things robbed from usReply
Todd Garth July 22, 2012 at 10:52 PM
Great article, I agree China and India are two of the top countries where gold holds a significant cultural and economic value. China and India are expected to continue to account for more than 50 per cent of the world demand for gold in the coming years, particularly as living standards and spending power grows.Reply


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