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The amount of marijuana ripped from illegal back-country gardens by statewide eradication teams has plummeted for the second year in a row, a reflection of changing growing habits and reduced enforcement.
As California's outdoor marijuana growing season comes to a close, numbers released by state officials shows eradication teams have destroyed about 1.5 million plants, mostly from federal forests. That's less than half of last year's haul.
But in a Santa Rosa neighborhood, authorities Friday were still chopping down towering pot plants following a lengthy investigation into widespread backyard pot cultivation.
Marijuana Raids In Santa Rosa
The massive sweep of 33 residential marijuana gardens launched this week may be evidence that some cultivation efforts are shifting closer to populated areas.
"They are moving it in and growing much larger plants," said Sonoma County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Gossett, who runs the agency's narcotics team.
In Mendocino County, deputies tore down more than 400 plants Wednesday from a property in central Covelo in Round Valley. "This was in downtown Covelo," Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said. "We're changing our investigations to go after people moving into neighborhoods."
Authorities across the North Coast this year reported spotting fewer of the massive back-country gardens they used to find in the rugged forests.
Medical marijuana laws may have coaxed some illegal pot cultivation out of the forests and nearer to water access and supplies, investigators said.
State Parks rangers found no pot gardens this year in the Russian River district, where large gardens were discovered in the past in parks such as Austin Creek State Recreation Area north of Guerneville, said Jenny Donovan, public safety superintendent.
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CVC Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs have struck a deal in which $975 million Australian dollars (US$1.03 billion) of mezzanine debt in Nine Entertainment Co. will be converted into equity on the condition that CVC is able to refinance the entertainment company's burdensome senior debt, people familiar with the deal told Deal Journal Australia.
CVC is kicking off a roadshow in the U.S. and U.K. this week to test investor appetite for the refinancing of Nine's A$2.7 billion in senior debt which matures in February 2013, people said, describing the trip as a "non deal roadshow" even though the private equity firm has less than a year to strike a deal.
CVC Capital Partners is preparing to sell Nine Entertainment Co.'s Ticketek event ticketing business and Allphones Arena as the private equity firm works to cut the media company's debt burden, people familiar with the matter told Deal Journal Australia.
CVC is under pressure to refinance 2.7 billion Australian dollars (US$2.88 billion) of Nine's senior debt that is due in February 2013, particularly because hedge funds have bought up at least half of that debt and have been agitating for a restructuring that would give them equity stakes in the business. Nine also has A$975 million in mezzanine debt, a large portion of which is held by Goldman Sachs. Negotiations about the restructuring of that debt are ongoing, a person familiar with the situation said.
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With a 103 rushing yards and 130 total yards from scrimmage on Sunday, Dolphins running back Reggie Bush went over 1,000 total yards for the 2011 season. Reggie now has 770 yards rushing on the season, averaging an impressive 4.6 yards per carry. Furthermore, Reggie has taken his game to a higher level as the season has progressed by rushing for 100 yards or more in three of the past seven games. Take a closer look at how the Dolphins dynamic runner has racked up the yards this season:
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Letter to a friend
You came to me in an hour of such a need
I loved you because I never thought that I would know the love of a beautiful woman again
I condemned myself to being alone to support a child or worse locked into a forced relationship that doomed me to
becoming my Father.
You were a ladder up and out and I clung to you as you clung to me.
We held each other for the better life the other offered.
We burned so brightly and for those years there was a fire that was the perfect mixture of fuel and heat.
The crescendo of our beautiful music came and we fought and fizzled. Fought to rekindle and fought
to escape. We both did.
I know that the moments were so beautiful and perfect and that they will never be that way again.
Outside of our arms everything else melted away and there was no worry or sadness or uncertainty only
reassuring love. Love. That was it.
It was easy to be a Man in love with you.
It was easy to be a Father with you bracing me.
Anything I say to you will diminish the perfection of what was ours. It had to be written and written in such a way that
you may not find it until years have washed away the remnants of us.
I hope you find this and it reminds you only of how good and perfect and wonderful it actually was. It was that good.
I mean this only to remind you and myself that something we both clutched was
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The Russians are coming. No, T-72 tanks are not plowing through Poland headed for Paris. There is no need for that outdated Soviet doctrine. Not when Russia can patrol near our coastal waters and harvest our most strategic resource—petroleum.
While the Obama administration seems bent on banning offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf, Russia is filling the vacuum, building its energy wealth and stretching its strategic reach all the way to Cuba and the vast oil pools that lay inside the Gulf of Mexico.
The Kremlin's aim to be the world's dominant power hasn't changed since the Soviets tried to smuggle first-strike nuclear warheads onto the island of Cuba. But unlike First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, today's supreme leader Vladimir Putin is not gunning to win the arms race. He is out to win the energy race. So far it has been no contest.
Last year marked a milestone for the United States. For the first time since World War II, we pumped less than 5 million barrels of oil per day. We pumped almost twice that much oil 30 years ago when Jimmy Carter was president.
While Carter handed over the Panama Canal, Obama's mistakes will be far more devastating to the U.S.
"Over the last 25 years, opportunities to head off the current crisis were ignored, missed or deliberately blocked, according to analysts, politicians and veterans of the oil and automobile industries," wrote The New York Times.
"What's more, for all the surprise at just how high oil prices have climbed, and fears for the future, this is one crisis we were warned about. Ever since the oil shortages of the 1970s, one report after another has cautioned against America's oil addiction."
Yet the Obama administration has blindly ignored the warnings. The president continues to tout clean energy over offshore oil, even though seven out of 10 Americans want to drill for it.
Obama's position on offshore drilling is as cloudy as the deep warm waters of the Gulf. As a senator he opposed it. As a candidate, Obama seemed to support it. But as president, Obama has stifled efforts to expand it.
This month The Washington Post said it now knows the president's true intentions: "Hidden deep within the president's budget proposal released on Feb. 1 are numbers that reveal his true intentions. The budget shows that revenues collected from new offshore leasing will decline over the next five years—from $1.5 billion in 2009, to only $413 million in fiscal 2015. If the president planned on expanding offshore drilling, revenues would be increasing, not decreasing. This budget clearly indicates that he has no intention of opening additional areas to drilling off our nation's coast."
Enter Russia—a nuclear mega power with a growing choke-hold on fossil fuel supplies. Last summer Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin signed four contracts securing exploration rights in Cuba's economic zone in the Gulf.
Havana says there may be 20 billion barrels of oil along its coast. That's the total remaining conventional oil reserves of the U.S.
The Cuban deal will cement the Kremlin as the dominant petroleum power in the world. Russia already has three times more oil reserves than the U.S. Russia also has the largest natural gas reserves in the world—four times more than Canada and eight times more than Saudi Arabia.
"Vladimir Putin's Russia is assembling an economic machine powerful enough to force Europe, the U.S. and Asia to their knees," wrote The First Post. "It does not involve uranium, explosives or suicide bombers, but the natural resources that power the global economy. Russia will soon exert such sway over the supply of oil and natural gas that the OPEC crisis of the mid-1970s could seem trivial."
Half of Russia's state revenues and more than one-third its exports are derived from petroleum. Clearly Putin isn't worried about cleaning up the environment (just one reason world carbon reduction agreements are useless and dangerous), but in projecting power. To that end Russia has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world's number one oil producer. The Kremlin also has its hands on the kill-switch to critical natural gas supply lines to Europe and Asia.
Meanwhile America's dependence on oil is growing just as its availability is shrinking. The last time the U.S. produced such little oil Truman was President. And I can't find one oilman in 100 that thinks the decline in American oil production is going to be arrested. As one Canadian oil company president said to me: "U.S. production in the lower 48 is falling into a black hole."
What the Kremlin understands and what the White House doesn't is that there is nothing on the horizon to replace petroleum. In fact, every four years, the U.S. consumes a cubic mile of oil. This has the energy equivalent of:
- Four of the giant Three Gorges dams, cranking at full capacity for 50 years.
- More than 30,000 1.65-megawatt wind turbines, cranking for 50 years.
- A whopping 100,000 1-megawatt coal-fired electric plants, going full-bore for 50 years.
- Fifty-two giant nuclear electric plants, running at 100 percent capacity for 50 years.
There aren't in enough windmills or solar panels now or in 20 years from now that will significantly offset this demand.
What It Means
America is headed for an unmitigated disaster. Russia is bent on becoming the dominant petro-power of the world. Putin has gone so far as to say his country is an "energy superpower" and he has repeatedly demonstrated he will use his nation's growing energy wealth as a blunt instrument of Kremlin foreign policy.
While Obama fetters away opportunities to drill for more oil, Putin is busy outflanking America on all sides. Russia is busy building closer relations with Iran and Pakistan, America's key enemy and ally on the War on Terror. And in our own hemisphere Putin is about to meet with Venezuelan President and Uncle Sam hater, Hugo Chavez.
As for Cuba and its oil, it is just the latest energy domino to fall. There will be many more as Russia aims to dominate America, not with armies but with oil.
Yours for real wealth and good health,
John Myers
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The York Revolution led throughout most of Sunday's game, but for the second consecutive night, saw a late lead get away in a 7-6 loss at Long Island.
The Revs dropped the final two games of their series against the Ducks after winning the opener, and will now have today off after completing a stretch of 25 games in 24 days.
The Revs will head to Southern Maryland to open a series on Tuesday night against the Blue Crabs.
Things got off to a promising start on Sunday, as the Revs built a 4-0 lead through three-and-a-half innings.
Revs starter Brett Tomko breezed through the first three innings, but ran into trouble in the bottom of the fourth, allowing five runs as the Ducks suddenly claimed a 5-4 lead.
Bryant Nelson drove in the first run on a fielder's choice and, with two outs in the inning, Adam Bailey and Ralph Henriquez teamed up on back-to-back home runs. Bailey's was a three-run shot, his second in as many games after ending Saturday's contest with a walk-off three-run homer.
The Revs answered right back in the fifth, scoring twice to take a 6-5 lead. Mark Teahen's sacrifice fly tied the score, and Salvador Paniagua drove in the go-ahead run on a fielder's choice.
Tomko sailed through his next three innings, working seven innings for the sixth consecutive start. The right-hander was greeted with three consecutive singles to begin the eighth, however, with Nelson's single to right pushing home the tying run.
Tomko (4-7) bounced back to record the next two outs, but reliever Yunior Novoa was greeted with a go-ahead single to right by Bailey, who provided the game-winner for Long Island for the second consecutive night.
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Staffing constraints have nonetheless kept us from providing all the support our patients and families, and their caregivers, need. The recent BIDMC strategic plan provides a major boost in resources. Our staffing will soon nearly double, allowing us to provide even more complete assistance to the hundreds of patients and families we currently see each year, and to reach many more.
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Vitra Brings It Home
It's all round to Vitra's place in Weil am Rhein as the leading design manufacturer opens its striking new VitraHaus, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
'Most cities look better covered in snow. Here, the snow covers all the beauty. You don't see all the effort that was made.' Jacques Herzog isn't too happy with state of climatic affairs. With the great and the good of international architectural journalism assembled in Weil am Rhein, a stone's throw from Basel, for a press conference to mark the opening of design manufacturer Vitra's new VitraHaus, the more loquacious half of the Priztker Prize-winning architectural duo Herzog & de Meuron is at pains to make sure that we don't leave with any half-baked impressions of the project. It's ironic perhaps that the weather – something beyond our control – should be an issue at an event as professionally managed as this one.
VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
Vitra has long been a leading name in design manufacturing, the status of its brand helped in no small way by it cultural engagement, taking the form of the world-famous Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Museum in Weil, its immpecably curated touring design exhibitions and its publishing activity. It is no wonder that the VitraHaus (when will all this orthographical elision end?) has been designed by one of the highest-profile architectural practices around, when seen in the context of the other stellar names to have created buildings for the company on its main production site: Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Nicholas Grimshaw, Alvaro Siza and, of course, Gehry. Each project differs from the next in its formal and visual language, yet somehow, in toto, they achieve a dialogue that works. 'We never wanted an architectual zoo,' says Rolf Fehlbaum, son of Vitra founder Willy Fehlbaum. 'We wanted an ensemble.'
VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron with Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Museum in background; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
Fehlbaum describes the VitraHaus as a form of homecoming. For the first time since Vitra launched its home collection in 2004, the company will have an on-site showroom dedicated to its non-office-oriented products. Presented by Vitra as 'not a museum, a showroom or a shop, but a combination of them', the building takes the very notion of 'house' and uses it to elaborate a set of meanings that tie architectural expression to marketing and brand communication.
The structure of the building plays with the archetypal Western house shape (think of the conventional five-sided drawing that we learn to execute from an early age, with its parallel vertical walls and sloping roof,), elongating this flat form into a series of volumes that are then stacked at various angles. The result, when viewed from outside, is, a highly graphic construction, its graphic-ness heightened by the building's charcoal-coloured stucco skin and the fact that glazing exists only at the gable ends of the tube-like volumes. At night, internal illumination has a dramatic effect, as the building's dark exterior recedes visually, while its large windows become bright display-cabinet fronts, inviting the gaze into its object-filled rooms.
View into Vitrine gallery space at VitraHaus, by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
Inside, the angular intersection of the individual stacked 'houses', which create in total a five-storey, in places dramatically cantilevered, structure, produces a series of unpredictable spaces, at times domestic in scale (fitting, of course, given the nature of the project), at others grander. The visitor's movement through the VitraHaus is a rather peripatetic and resolutely vertical one, as they negotiate the structure's various layers by means of staircases which, as Vitra's press release puts it rather purply, 'are integrated into expansive, winding organic volumes that figurative eat their way through the various levels of the building like a worm, sometimes revealing fascinating visual relationships between the various houses, at other times blocking the view.'
Interior view of VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
Worms aside, the way you discover the totality of this building's somewhat labyrinthine interior is delightful. Great views of the surrounding landscape, both near (in the form of the Vitra campus's other exemplary buildings) and far (like Basel's industrial-looking pharmaceutical sector), only add to the experience, of course. For Herzog & de Meuron, who describe the configuration of the VitraHaus stack as the result of having 'crashed one building into another, allowing for unexpected spaces', the element of surprise experienced by the visitor mirrors the creative process they followed. Suggesting their role as one of observers of the design as it took shape, as much as its agents, the architects examined the multitude of spaces the 'crashing' produced, each space being assessed in terms of how suitable it was to the client's needs.
Interior view of VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
Rolf Fehlbaum really works the metaphor of the home and the idea of homecoming: the VitraHaus is presented as a homecoming in architectural-commission terms, with Vitra using local Basel-based 'old friends', Herzog & de Meuron, for the project, after the international likes of Hadid and Ando. Home is also the Weil am Rhein site itself. '"Why is the building here?," people ask. Because we are from here. We produce here.' While Vitra's headquarters may be over the border in Basel, the German production site has, through its safari park of architectural attractions (which, in additional to the large-scale structures, include a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, a knock-down petrol station by Jean Prouvé and a bus stop designed by Jasper Morrison, replete with Eames wire seating) achieved a particular signficance in the imagination of both the design cognescenti and a more general public. Vitra is visited by 100,000 people a year.
Interior view of VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
The VitraHaus capitalises on the idea of Weil as hallowed ground. The building, positioned at the front of the site, acts as a highly visible welcome sign to those arriving. A welcome home, as Vitra would have it. But beyond this function as a brand and communication tool, the project has a canny business rationale. In tough economic times, why spend money on showing at expensive trade fairs when you can invite commerical customers to your very own on-site showroom, where the brand experience can be controlled to a much greater degree? It'll also be interesting to see what effect the VitraHaus will have on the company's existing network of much smaller showrooms in nearby cities. 'We are an economically minded company,' Fehlbaum reminds us.
View of courtyard at VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
The plan is that the VitraHaus will encourage visitors – trade, consumer and cultural – to spend a full day on site. Various rooms contain staged settings of furniture and other objects, including classics by Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton, as well as contemporary designs by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison, Maarten van Severen, Antonio Citterio and others. A 'colour laboratory' has been created to help visitors negotiate that always-tricky area of chromatic choice. There is a children's area upstairs and, immediately on entering the building of course, a shop.
The Vitrine at the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright (www.vitra.com)
Next to the small, larch-floored courtyard (defined by the building's intersecting forms) that you pass through before reaching the main entrance is a small gallery space called the Vitrine. Acting as a trailer almost for the main attraction that is the Vitra Design Museum's stunning permanent collection, it presents a small, but impressive, selection of industrially made chairs from the 19th and 20th centuries. Perhaps as a nod to the artefacts contained within, the two non-glazed sides of the Vitrine house are concave, forming banks that allows visitors to sit outside.
VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron; photographer Iwan Baan, copyright Vitra (www.vitra.com)
'We wanted buildings that are memorable and exciting,' says Rolf Fehlbaum of the architectural collection that Vitra has built up at Weil, 'and we got them.' He's not wrong. With the VitraHaus, the company has achieved a pedigree landmark building that, in brand terms, speaks confidently of Vitra's status as high-end design manufacturer with a real commitment to creating a cultural legacy, but which also, on a practical level, provides it with a space, or series of intimate spaces that allow it to do what it ultimately comes down to: to sell persuasively to an already interested audience. It's not been the best of times financially for the company, as Fehlbaum admits readily: 'Vitra has been badly affected (by the economic downturn). 2009 was a bad year.' But, as the chief executive also points out, 'Buildings have always anticpated great changes at Vitra. They give us focus.' This is one house that plans on welcoming home the profit.
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Annie Oeth is a mom of four all the time and features editor and family columnist at The Clarion-Ledger some of the time.
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A wise pastor friend of mine once said teenagers are like cats. Little children are like dogs. They're usually happy and always ready to play. But they turn into cats. Somewhere around age 13. July 16th, 2014
Birthday Palooza and a cake stolen from the Duggars
At our house, we don't just celebrate our nation's birthday. Oh, no. We celebrate half the kids' birthdays that week, too. The youngest Dear Son's birthday is July 1, and the oldest Dear Son's birt June 30th, 2014
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Why do I listen to country music on my morning commute? All that happens is that I get verklempt on the way to the office and mess up my eyeliner. Thanks, U.S. 96.3. And darn you, Trace Adkins. June 25th, 2014
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Born Dec. 13, 1928, in Hall County, she was a daughter of the late Lewis Patrick and Gladys Annie Lee Humphries Jones. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her first husband, O.B. Chitwood; and second husband, Robert J. Free; daughter, Frances Tench; brothers, George, Leroy, Richard, and Lewis Jones; sisters, Mary Lou Bone and Myrel Arthur.
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The new Milwaukee Film Festival formally announced its dates Tuesday and issued an invitation for entries. As previously reported here the festival will begin Sept. 24, and run through Oct. 4.
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So the Oilers want the moon defensively but don't want to give up anything to get it?
That's cool. Keep that young core together that has brought them top 5 draft picks year in and year out. That should continue to work for them.
"We're not a cap team or a floor team, so it wasn't necessary to do it this way," said Stars GM Jim Nil. "We just decided to take this path."
"We have a lot of young defensemen who are making a good push and we need to create room for them," Nill said of the Rome decision.
The Stars won't use their last compliance buyout, despite the talk that they could use it on Erik Cole (one year at $4 million) or Sergei Gonchar (one year at $5 million).
GM Jim Nill said that they made an offer to center Vern Fiddler, but it was rejected. Fiddler will test the open market. They won't be making offers to Ray Whitney or Tim Thomas.
"I'd like to add four or five players — one or two through trades and two or three unrestricted free agents," said MacTavish.
They would like to make some trades before free agency starts.
"The managers meeting at the final really gets everybody talking a little bit more. This week will be a busy week for everybody to see what the fits are out there.
"This year there are not so many top free agents available. The guys who would normally be secondary targets are now the primary targets. It's a good year to be a UFA."
They are in a good salary cap position, and will be looking for puck-moving and a defensive defenseman.
"We need help on defence. We're looking for a puck-moving defenceman, a guy who can carry the puck north and continue into open ice."
"We also need a defending defenceman. We're not going to compromise our young prospects on defence," he said of forcing the likes of Darnell Nurse, Oscar Klefbom, Martin Marincin, etc. into the line-up until they are ready."
Core players in Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Justin Schultz won't be going anywhere. The Oilers won't be using their compliance buyouts.
So the Oilers want the moon defensively but don't want to give up anything to get it?
That's cool. Keep that young core together that has brought them top 5 draft picks year in and year out. That should continue to work for them.
I'm sure Edmonton's lack of playoffs is just the thing to lure a big free agent signing to fix their defense.
Edmonton has the money so they can overpay at least and maybe get a top UFA defense-man like Niskanen. But I agree that they are ridiculous in expecting to attain core players for nothing through trading.
Personally I would move RNH. The talent is there but I don't know if hes really a dominant #1 center that can't be replaced. He clearly has great value.
Edmonton trades Darnell Nurse, Nail Yakupov and the 3rd overall pick in 2014 draft to Philadelphia for Braydon Coburn, Andrew McDonald, and the 17th overall pick in 2014.
Then Philly flips the 3rd overall pick along with Brayden Schenn for 1st overall and the rights to Kulikov.
Get it done Hexy..
@kc oilers made it clear there not moving yakupov. But McDonald and corburn for nurse and 3rd overall pick might work. Can't see schenn going to panthers
Oilers should keep RNH and Hall. If they want something of value they'll have to give up Eberle, Schultz or the 3rd overall.
Oilers have money and cap space but they have two very important things working against them:
1. They are a perennial loser and UFAs usually want to go somewhere they believe they can win.
2. It's Edmonton; brutal climate and guys are always in the spotlight.
You have I think that if winning matters then a guy like Niskanen would go to Detroit and if it's all about the money then Florida is a far better place to play for a losing team: great weather and zero pressure and due to a very low tax rate they could probably clear more cash with a lower annual gross.
If Edmonton wants to seriously upgrade they will have to trade something of value and start drafting and developing a lot better.
@Rob Of course McT said he's not moving Yak, he just drafted him first overall 2 years ago. There's no scenario where he can say otherwise without shrinking his value and all but sealing his fate in Edm.
That said, the rumblings about Yak having some "issues" in Edm are already well known. My gut tells me he could be available but the return would have to be perfect. Coburn is an extremely value piece to the Flyers and would be a first pairing guy in Edm. It's going to take a NHL player to pry him away from Philly. Maybe that's how this deal falls through, I don't know, but Hexy won't give up his top minute defenseman in his prime for that return.
I think Brayden to Florida is at least plausible. Tallon has expressed willingness to move down if he can add an NHL player. Philly has a plethora of centers and Schenn still hasn't really found an identity in Philly yet, bouncing from center to wing and not breaking out like a lot hoped. Kulikov took a bit of a step back last year and coulde prove to be a tough negotiation for a small market team like Florida.
With all of that said Rob, I'm just winging it here bro. I really want Hextall to make a splash this off season so maybe this is all wishful thinking but I'm at least trying to be as realistic as I can.
There is no way Philly is trading Coburn, let alone Coburn and McDonald in the same trade, without a legit #1 D coming back. Nurse has alot of potential, but that's basically all he has going for him. He's played 7 professional games, 0 in the NHL.
The only way I see Philly trading Coburn is in a package for a current top pairing Dman. Which the Oilers are lacking.
Mcdonald is basically untouchable right now, or at least should be. They just signed him to an extension 2 months ago, trading him now is just bad optics. Not just for trying to lure potential FA's in the future, but also re-signing their own players.
@ChrisB you're probably somewhat right about the return for Coburn. Nurse might not be the right guy although I disagree that a #1 has to come back. Klefbom or Marincin would likely be targeted first. When a #1 guy gets traded in the NHL it's almost always for a large package of players and picks. I'm not saying this is likely or anything but if Hexy could clear some cap space we could absolutely chase down Niskanen in free agency. We could give him a monster deal with a full NMC, something not too many teams would do. So you're quibble with "optics" wouldn't really apply to him as he'll be looking for the most money.
McDonald is not untouchable. Yes he was just traded and signed for not too long ago but it was by a different GM. We also have L Schenn and Grossman who are the same type of defensman. There's value there and for the right return one of these 3 could definitely be had. Look no further than a few years ago with Mike Richards, Jeff Carter and even JVR. They were all signed to long term deals but it didn't matter. There's no problems in Philly luring in free agents or signing our own players and we traded our captain 3 years ago. So you are way overblowing that.
KC if philly manages to get the 1st overall pick they might as well pick up ekblad. ekblad has a higher ceiling than kulikov and the flyers have a bad history with russians to begin with. But none of this matters anyway because theres no way they get the 1st pick.
@Tom If we did manage to get the first overall Ekblad is exactly who I would want. The only reason I added Kulikov is because Brayden Schenn would be a pretty high price to pay to only move up 2 draft positions. There's a consensus top 3 or 4 in this draft and no one is truly ahead of another. I think that's why Dale Tallon has expressed a willingness to move down from the number 1 pick. Although I don't think he would want to drop out of the top 5.
A couple things on the Oilers despite not being an Oiler fan nor really watching a lot of their games. (Great preface!)
The issue with Yakupov is that if the Oilers keep treating them as they have, he'll end up in the KHL. His career in the NHL has been a BUST so far and he can earn more in the K. So, I don't think the Oilers have a lot of value in Yakupov right now – certainly not more than they think.
Also, I understand that RNH is talented, however, in ALL games that I have seen, he comes across as very weak on and off the puck. In fact, probably a bit too weak for a valued center. I don't think his value is as much as others think.


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'Break the ice' is to create the relax atmosphere. It usually uses by the speaker at the beginning of the talk or seminar to create a relax atmosphere. It's called 'ice breaking' activity.
break the ice is an easy idiom, for instance when you are with someone who you dont know very much, and you cant find a subject to talk with him, you can begin with some words to break the ice or to start the conversation with him
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Mya tells us her colon's sore and Mike says it will get sorer prompting a laugh from Mya. She does enjoy anal and she's been taking it in the can for only four months. Mike soon shoots some fine tease of Mya's firm ass. John Dough gets to bone this girl and moving indoors the two get cozy with John feeling her ass and perky tits. Some close fingering is shot before John has a seat so Mya can lean over and swallow his cock.
Hot 'n' Juicy;
Mya doe some fine sword swallowing as John continues to finger her ass. On to the sex which featured a bouncy RCA with multiple A2M. Mya then pulls her legs back for some hard driving mish anal and the position morphs into spoon when John slided behind her. A great ass grabbing anal in doggie is shot last before Mya is jizzercized!
bono-Meter: 8.5
Jayna Oso:
Here we have a dark erotic looking woman. I love her hair how it drops over both her shoulders.
Show 'n' Tell:
Jayna genuinely enjoys anal sex as she tells Mike. Wow, this girls ass is gorgeous! Mark Wood is turned on to be working with this babe and he's soon peeling her shorts off exposing that hot ass once more and he promplty spanks it! Mr. Wood tongues her ass, briefly, before Jayna gets busy sucking his rod.
Hot 'n' Juicy:
The floor level was used to great effectiveness here and Jayna's eye contact was very good. Mark gets a good rhythm going as he skull fucks Jayna. Yes! A hot body slapping RCA is first and the energy picked up noticeably. This fine pace continues when they move to doggie anal which nicely showed off her ass. Oh Yes!! Jayna then pulls her legs apart nice 'n' wide as Mark plunges deep into her ass, fucking awesome! A good hard cowgirl anal ends the sex and Jayna's face gets plastered with spunk!
bono-Meter: 8.5
Monica Sweetheart:
Absolutely gorgeous is all I can say as Monica comes onscreen. The makeup artist did an awesome job getting the already beautiful Miss Sweetheart to look even hotter if that's possible!!
Show 'n' Tell:
Mike has fun talking with Monica and her accent is so fucking hot and damn she's got a great smile, beautiful eyes, yep I'm hooked!! Monica is in town for a month so it's great Zero got her to shoot this scene. When asked if she's done anal with her screen partner, Mark Davis, before she laughs and says I think so prompting a funny response from Quasarman! It's these little exchanges I like when an interview is done. Monica is quite honest telling us she's not really a fan of anal sex which surprises me as she's so fucking good at it!! Mike gives us a great shot of Monica's perfect ass. Monica talks a lot in this interview ending it by saying she's 22 and still feels very fresh, no retirement soon for this beautiful Czech girl!
Hot 'n' Juicy:
Moving indoors we find Mark feeling her legs and soon pulling her panties off showing us once again her flawless ass. Mark does some good finger work to her bum letting Monica help out plus lick his fingers clean. Monica then delivers a bone stiffening bj to Mark's tool and the floor and side views were used nicely. Loved watching Monica bend over to suck Mark's cock as we get a great shot of her ass sticking high up into the air! On to the sex where Miss Sweetheart is analized in a smokin RCA, a steady doggie-- some gaping is shown and she does A2M throughout. An awesome mish anal is shot with gaping and Mark pulls out and walks around for some overhead skull fucking! A brief piledriver anal leads to a great pop to her lovely face!
bono-Meter: 9.5
Extras & Final Thoughts:
This was a worthy successor to the first one as all the girls were analized thoroughly and we got some great cocksucking and some fine facial finishes! Good extras also with the solo stripteases always being hot-- check out Monica's which is almost dreamlike!!! Also there's a photo gallery, a cumshot loop, and finally some great behind the scenes stuff with Wendy Knight flashing us her tits at one point! So this one is highly recommended and let's see Grand Theft Anal III real soon!!


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Familiar surnames in draft
Through 50 rounds of the MLB Draft, several familiar names -- or at least last names -- are picked . Among those kin to current or former big-leaguers drafted:
• Delino Deshields Jr. (1st round, Astros), son of Delino Deshields.
• Cam Bedrosian (1st round, Angels), son of Steve Bedrosian.
• Kellen Sweeney (2nd round, Blue Jays), brother of Mark Sweeney.
• Mel Rojas Jr. (3rd round, Pirates), son of Mel Rojas.
• Cory Vaughn (4th round, Mets), son of Greg Vaughn.
• James Baldwin III (4th round, Dodgers), son of James Baldwin.
• Dickie Thon Jr. (5th round, Blue Jays), son of Dickie Thon.
• Connor Narron (5th round, Orioles), son of Jerry Narron.
• Drew Cisco (6th round, Reds), grandson of Galen Cisco.
• Patrick Leyland (8th round, Tigers), son of Jim Leyland.
• Benjamin Gamel (9th round, Yankees), brother of Mat Gamel.
• JaDamion Williams (10th round, Twins), son of Reggie Williams.
• Reggie Williams Jr. (10th round, Cardinals), son of Reggie Williams.
• Hunter Jones (11th round, Indians), son of Tracy Jones.
• Josh Magee (18th round, Astros), son of Wendell Magee.
• Dillon Moyer (22nd round, Twins), son of Jamie Moyer.
• Ozney Guillen (22nd round, White Sox), son of Ozzie Guillen.
• Mark Tracy (22nd round, Rockies), son of Jim Tracy.
• Bryan Harper (28th round, Cubs), brother of Bryce Harper.
• Brett Bochy (30th round, Giants), son of Bruce Bochy.
• Benito Santiago Jr. (31st round, Cubs), son of Benito Santiago.
• Andy Fermin (32nd round, Blue Jays), son of Felix Fermin.
• Devon Ethier (32nd round, Dodgers), brother of Andre Ethier.
• Logan Thompson (33rd round, Indians), son of Robby Thompson.
• Andrew Benes (35th round, Cardinals), son of Andy Benes, nephew of Alan Benes.
• Bobby Geren (36th round, A's), son of Bob Geren.
• Jake May (39th round, Reds), grandson of Lee May.
• Bo McClendon (39th round, Tigers), son of Lloyd McClendon.
• John Franco (42nd round, Mets), son of John Franco.
• Chad Wallach (43rd round, Dodgers), son of Tim Wallach.
• Benjamin Verlander (46th round, Tigers), brother of Justin Verlander.
• Joesph Jackson (50th round, Royals), great-great-grandnephew of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
-- C. Trent Rosecrans
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Category: MLB
Tags: A's, Angels, Astros, Blue Jays, Bob Geren, Bruce Bochy, Bryce Harper, Cardinals, Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, Indians, Jamie Moyer, Jim Leyland, Jim Tracy, Justin Verlander, Mark Sweeney, Mat Gamel, Mets, MLB Draft, Orioles, Pirates, Reds, Rockies, Royals, Tigers, Twins, White Sox, Yankees
Posted on: June 9, 2010 12:20 pm
Edited on: June 9, 2010 5:57 pm
Yankees to pursue Lee?
According to the New York Post's George King , the Mariners are expecting the Yankees to be among the bidders if they shop left-hander Cliff Lee before the deadline.
Lee was traded to Seattle in the offseason and is in the final year of his contract. The Mariners hoped to contend and convince Lee to sign long-term, but with their season in the ditch they will almost certainly opt to cash him in. Lee is making $9 million this season.
A source told King the Mariners have been scouting the Yankees' minor league system extensively and will ask for shortstop Eduardo Nunez and a catcher.
-- David Andriesen
UPDATE: The New York Daily News says the Yankees are not interested in adding a starter, according to a team source.
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Category: MLB
Tags: Cliff Lee, Eduardo Nunez, Yankees
Posted on: June 8, 2010 10:43 pm
Edited on: October 19, 2010 11:26 am
Teixeira backs up talk
Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira has been a little testy as of late , but a trip to his hometown (not to mention a night of Orioles pitching) may bring a smile back to his face.
Teixeira went 3 for 4 with a home run and two RBI in the Yankees' 12-7 victory over Baltimore, raising his average to .220.
-- C. Trent Rosecrans
Category: MLB
Tags: Mark Teixeira, New York, Orioles, Yankees
Posted on: June 8, 2010 12:18 pm
Pressure building on Teixeira
Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is getting defensive about his lousy season, turning to "the back of my baseball card says it all" as an argument when speaking with reporters at the conclusion of a weekend series that saw him go 1-for-14 with seven strikeouts.
Sure, the back of Teixeira's baseball card looks great, because it doesn't include this year's stats. For a while it was easy to write off his struggles as a slow start to the season, but the season is more than a third over and a guy who started last year's All-Star Game is batting .211.
Apparently the pressure is getting to Teixeira.
"I don't know how many times I have to tell you guys, I had a great May," Teixeira told the New York Daily News in what was described as "an exasperated, defensive tone."
Well, kind of. He actually had a great couple of weeks at the start of May, batting .339 with five homers and 20 RBIs in the first 15 games of the month. Throw out those 15 games and his season numbers would be truly ugly: a .162 average with three homers and 14 RBI.
At this point, the hot streak is looking like the anomaly. An "anti-slump" in a bad season. If Teixeira is going to turn it around, he'd better hurry, because the pressure in New York is only going to increase.
-- David Andriesen, CBSSports.com
Category: MLB
Tags: Mark Teixeira, Yankees


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A turf war broke out on the Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday over whether the city is doing enough to measure the effectiveness of its gang prevention efforts, with rival council members sparring over whether the debate was a legitimate issue or political posturing.
Following a presentation by police Chief Tom Schwedhelm about the department's efforts to track gang crime statistics, Councilman Gary Wysocky tussled with Mayor Ernesto Olivares, a former police lieutenant who headed the city's gang prevention programs from 2006 to 2008.
Wysocky, citing a January Police Department analysis of five years of gang crime data, sought to portray the city's efforts as falling short of goals.
"Promises were made, and one of the promises was we're going to cut gang crime in half by 2010," Wysocky said. "These numbers say it hasn't happened. We haven't even come close."
Olivares said he "took offense" at Wysocky trying to use a report to "muddy the waters" and mislead the public by inappropriately comparing two sets of data.
"It's almost like yelling fire in a theater. It's not happening," Olivares said. "People see that this city is much safer and much different because of the efforts that have been put out by this community working together."
Following a particularly testy exchange between the two, Councilman Scott Bartley weighed in on the motivations at play in the debate. "I smell election in the air," Bartley said, calling the issue a "tempest in a teapot."
Both Wysocky and Olivares are up for re-election this fall.
But others backed Wysocky's concerns.
Lisa Maldonado, executive director of the North Bay Labor Council, said she previously served on the Measure O Oversight Committee and it was "very frustrating" to not have gang crime statistics provided despite repeated requests. She praised Wysocky for questioning the numbers, which she called "half-baked."


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Motor-sport franchise Formula One Group is delaying its $2.5 billion initial public offering in Singapore as choppy markets continue to hit equity fund raising efforts of companies globally, people familiar with the situation said Friday.
The high-profile IPO is the latest casualty as offerings the world over are either being pulled or delayed due to a slump in investor sentiment on renewed fears over the ongoing debt crisis in the euro-zone. On Thursday, U.K.-based jeweler Graff Diamond Corp. pulled its $1 billion IPO in Hong Kong, citing weak market conditions.
Investors looking at Formula One Group's planned $2.5 billion initial public offering are getting up to speed on something they rarely see in Asia: stock bundled with debt.
The auto-racing franchise is selling every new share with an accompanying loan note, and the two parts can't be traded or sold separately.
So-called "stapled securities" are unusual in Asia, but seen more often further south, in Australia.
From Dow Jones Newswires' P.R. Venkat and Sam Holmes:
Formula One Group, the motor racing franchise owned by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd., will sell stapled securities in its more than US$2.5 billion Singapore initial public offering, people familiar with the situation said Thursday, a move aimed at retaining its U.K. tax benefits and keeping more cash for the company's future growth plans.
The IPO is the first such structured offering in Singapore wherein the company will offer shares stapled with a loan note. This means the shares and the loan note will be bundled as one stapled security and cannot be traded or sold separately.
Singapore could see two big initial public offerings in June from a real estate investment trust and Formula One.
As Dow Jones Newswires reports Monday, Singapore government-backed Ascendas Group is seeking to list its hospitality REIT and raise US$500 million in an IPO. It has received approval from the Singapore stock exchange and is currently enlisting cornerstone investors, according to people familiar with the deal.
Formula One is racing ahead with a planned $2.5 billion initial public offering in Singapore, a high-profile win for the city whose efforts to attract big sporting names is starting to pay off.
Enthusiasm in the region for soccer and motor sports is huge; Singapore's nighttime Grand Prix, started in 2008, quickly became a staple of the Asia corporate-entertainment and party scene. Neighboring Malaysia also hosts a Formula One race, and further participates in the sport through the team Mercedes GP Petronas, a joint venture between state-owned oil company Petronas and Germany's Mercedes-Benz.
Formula One could be revving up Singapore's bid to rival Hong Kong as a destination for brand-name listings, after a long, dry run for the city-state's equity markets.
As Dow Jones Newswires reports Tuesday, private equity firm CVC Capital Partners hopes to raise at least $2 billion through a listing of SLEC Holdings, the holding company for Formula One. CVC has owned 63% in the company since 2006.
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Conducts periodic training classes for refugee clients on employability skills and acculturation topics.
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Provides follow-up and related information to trainees, as appropriate.
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Helps new clients navigate systemic barriers to employment and those related to driver's license, social security cards, employment authorization, discrimination, and similar issues.
Develops and maintains an information/resource library on topics relevant to refugee clients.
Assists administration of Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment systems (CASAS) testing for English language proficiency.
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Betty Olson
Betty L. Olson, 73, of Marion, died Friday, March 14, 2014, at St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids. Services were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories, Cedar Rapids. The Rev. Linda Livingston officiated. There was a visitation Tuesday at Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home in Cedar Rapids from 4 to 6 p.m. and on Wednesday at the chapel after 10 a.m.
Surviving are her husband of 49 years, Sheldon G. Olson; her son, Bradley (LeeAnn) Olson of Walford; a brother, Charles (Rita) Wagner of Dubuque; a sister, Marion (Dave) Hoover of Nashville, Tenn.; her granddaughters, Ashley Olson of Davenport and Tasha Olson of Walford; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Carol (Gene) Laugeson.
Betty was born July 15, 1940, in Bellevue, Iowa, the daughter of Charles and Marie (Ross) Wagner. She married Sheldon G. Olson on March 21, 1964, in Elkader. Betty was retired from LeFebure Co. in Cedar Rapids and was a member of Ascension Lutheran Church in Marion.
She enjoyed puzzles, rides in the country and gambling in Tama. She also loved making her Lefse and was famous for her meatballs and spaghetti. Her dog, Nemo, was priceless.
A memorial fund has been established for Camp Courageous and Linn County Humane Society.


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Then Larry said he wasn't guilty.
Then Larry said he would resign his Senate seat.
Now Larry wants to stay.
It seems Senator Craig can't make up his mind. Is it poor judgement, or just indecision? Is this a good thing or a bad thing for a Senator? Do politicians flip-flop or what? I don't know, I would never hire him.
What if a President was like that?


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Matter of Cove v. NYS Tax Tribunal, 515156
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- Before: Peters, P.J., Lahtinen, Stein and Egan Jr., JJ.
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