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It's 11:04 a.m. on Tuesday, and some of the Maple Leafs have already left the Air Canada Centre ice after their morning skate.
But Mikhail Grabovski, who would have been the first on the ice had he not stopped to sign an autograph, heads to the corner faceoff dot with Darryl Boyce to work with assistant coach Keith Acton.
The two centres take turns trying a trick play off the drop. Grabovski is first. He grips the sticks with both hands in the same direction, appearing to want to draw the puck back. But when Acton drops the puck, Grabovski shoots forward, toward the net. It's a little awkward because it's more of a shovel than a shot, but he gets some good wood on it. Later on Tuesday, Grabovski tried it against Florida, getting a shot on net.
"It's a good play," Grabovski says. "The goalie was not ready for it. I did it my first chance. The next time, I set up the same way, but I drew (the puck) back."
It was a small moment — one of the "little things" players often speak of — in a week of practice.
"For me, I love the game, I love to play. I don't really like practice," Grabovski says. "But practice is important because you try new plays, try something different, and after, use it in the game."
When asked to identify the most impressive practice players, Wilson names Dion Phaneuf and "the Grabovski line", which includes wingers Nikolai Kulemin and Clarke MacArthur.
"More than anything, it shows in their game, they're truly professional," Wilson said of the linemates. "They work hard on lots of things, before and after practice. That's why they've been successful and hopefully it rubs off on people."
The three are generally among the first to arrive and last to leave any particular workout. Grabovski seems to be the driving force, getting Kulemin to occasionally take faceoffs against him, and working at directing three-man plays in the offensive zone.
"He's a really professional guy that's working on every aspect of his game," Acton says. "When he finishes his faceoffs, he says 'I want to go work on my shot.' Then he wants to work with his linemates on something to do on the power play.
"He never stops thinking about the game. He's the kid of guy who doesn't think about hockey for two and half hours he's at the rink. It totally consumes him. He's thinking about it probably when he's lying in bed at night."
Practice is a collection of all the little things that — if done well — add up to a game played well. Generally, the team starts out with individual or two-man plays and works up to the four-man or five-man drills.
"Practice doesn't make perfect," Wilson says. "Perfect practice makes perfect. Sloppy practice does nothing."
A typical NHL practice is about an hour long, the game-day skate a half-hour. Some players arrive early, others stay late. Rookies gather up the pucks at the end. The Leafs run, maybe, seven or eight different drills per practice from a playbook of about 50, although Wilson said there are upwards of 300 drills that can be done.
Some are "flow drills" with a lot of skating and passing. Others are "battle drills" with a lot of checking and battling for position. All are important.
"Practice is everything leading up to the game," MacArthur says. "There are so many different scenarios out there that I see happening in the game, like a quick 2-on-2 play. Learning how to make plays, beat the D, 2-on-1 and get around the D, get some room. Everything I've learned is because we try hard in practice."
Practice is also good for the soul, a way for a player to turn his game around.
"I feel if I don't practice hard, and if you let yourself off the hook, it's going to lead into games," says defenceman Luke Schenn.
"You might be able to get away with one or two lazy practices, but if you constantly have a good work ethic and want to get better, and be a hard-working guy, it's going to lead to good things on the ice."
Drills are chosen based partly on what happened in the last game, and partly on the team they're facing in the next game, but mostly by what the team hopes to accomplish over the long haul. The Leafs, for example, run the power play and penalty kill in just about every practice.
"Almost a third of the game comes down to power play and penalty killing," says Wilson. "I've always believed you have to work on your power play and your penalty killing at the same time. If you don't do those things in practice, they're not going to improve in a game. So we work on it pretty much every day for 10 or 15 minutes."
Wilson is also trying to convince his defencemen to join the rush to create odd-man opportunities, while also trying to convince his forwards to use the defencemen on the rush more often. So, the team practices a lot of 4-on-1s and 4-on-2s.
"There are three or four drills we like to do to work on weaknesses on our game," Wilson says.
"We're trying to get our team to be more aggressive in the defensive zone coverage. We want our defencemen jumping into plays. Today we were working on our back-checking, it's getting more back-side pressure. So we throw in 2-on-1s with back-checkers. "You try to address the needs of your team and also prepare them for the next game."
Some drills are just 2-on-1s or 3-on-2s, but others have fancy names:
The Detroit Package, a five-man breakout drill designed to beat the neutral zone trap.
The Canada Cup, a five-man flow drill that features passes in every zone before a shot.
The Lockout and On The Money feature long-bomb stretch passes.
But one drill the Leafs have dropped from their rotation is The 80s Oilers, featuring end-to-end skating, passing and shooting. They've dropped it out of superstition more than anything.
"We'll be flying around passing the puck and the next game we lose," Wilson says. "Then after three or four losses, guys are saying: 'We don't want to do that drill anymore because that's why we're losing.'
"Players never want to say they're losing because they played poorly. They're losing because we're doing a drill. It's the drill's fault. It's not us. That's human nature."
The same drill may have a different name from team to team, but every team nicknames drills as a means to speed up practice.
"You want to keep the pace up and the tempo high," said Acton. "So you nickname a drill and you call out the nickname and everybody knows and you go right into it. It keeps the pace of practice going."
Coaches call players to the whiteboard only two or three times a session, to tweak a drill or to explain one they haven't used in a while.
"When I was working with Pat Quinn (as Quinn's assistant in Vancouver), he had these two-hour practices, a lot of standing around at the board, and talking, and guys are getting cold and stiff," said Wilson. "It took a while to get Pat to shorten up the practice."
"You get better by repetition. That's what practice is about. For a goalie, especially, practice is always harder than games. The guys have more time and less pressure, so they can make plays. If you can play well in practice, you'll be that much better in games." – G James Reimer.
"You can get your mind cleared or your confidence back. If you have a rough night the night before, it's something you can do to get back to the drawing board; to get back to having a really hard good practice, getting a confident mind-set about yourself." – F Kris Versteeg
"Nobody likes to skate without pucks. That's kind of a crappy (drill). Inevitably, every team does it. It's more of a conditioning thing so. When you don't skate with the puck you say: 'Oh boy,' and just bury your head and try to skate hard. So that's one drill I dislike and I think I can speak on behalf of most players that ever played hockey." – C John Mitchell


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William Michael Dillon's voice is reminiscent of Johnny Cash. It's deep, throaty and textured. It sounds like the voice of someone who has led a complex life.
But when it comes to performing in jail, not even Cash, the man who immortalized Folsom Prison Blues, can claim to be Dillon's peer. Dillon was wrongly incarcerated for murder in several Florida prisons for 27 years, until 2008.
Looking back, Dillon says the worst part of living behind bars was the feeling that he would have to suffer a lifetime of undeserved punishment without anyone to comfort him. He remembers thinking, "This is my life from here on out. I can't prove anything."
Late one night, in a moment of despair, he picked up a roll of toilet paper and started to write songs.
"The writing really started to give me an outlet," he said. "To say, 'I'm going to document this, but nobody's going to hear it, but it's going to make me feel better.' "
Next month, he's releasing an independently produced album that includes four songs he wrote in his cell. The title track, Black Robes and Lawyers, is an indictment of the American criminal justice system that Dillon developed throughout his sentence. In it, Dillon pleas, "Let me reach that gate!"
Before Dillon went to prison in 1981, he was a carefree 22-year-old. He said he worked as a bowling alley mechanic and occasional construction worker, but a Florida Senate report about his exoneration calls him a "beach bum." Broke, the report says, Dillon "spent his days and nights sleeping on the beach, in cars, or at the apartments of acquaintances or strangers, smoking marijuana, and 'bumming' cigarettes, drinks, meals, rides and clothes."
One summer night, Dillon went to the Pelican Bar on Route A1A, near Melbourne. That same night, James Dvorak was beaten to death on Canova Beach, across the road from the bar. Eight days later, on Aug. 26, 1981, Dillon was arrested and charged with the murder.
Dillon said he did not do it, that he was never at the beach. "I knew they were wrong, and I knew they were going to find out they were wrong." He was ultimately convicted of murder and sentenced to life.
The weight of paying for another's crime made Dillon angry. At first, he turned to violence for catharsis. "My first disciplinary report in prison was destruction of the whole cell," he said. "I tore the porcelain toilet, the sinks, everything off the walls."
But violence did not solve his problems, so he started to write songs. In the late 1980s, while staying in Avon Park Correctional Institution in Highlands County in Central Florida, Dillon said he began to work as an assistant in the prison's recreation department, which had a few old instruments. Dillon persuaded prison authorities to purchase more equipment and start a rock music program, where he was able to learn guitar.
From Avon Park, the Florida Department of Corrections sent Dillon to a handful of prisons throughout the state. In each facility, Dillon got involved in music. His favorite program was at Hardee Correctional Institution in Hardee County, where he was transferred in 2005.
Hardee was also the facility where Dillon's luck changed. One day in 2006, Dillon was sitting in the prison library when a fellow inmate walked up to him and asked, "Have you ever had a DNA test?" When Dillon said no, the inmate handed Dillon a form and said, "Fill this out and send it in."
"And that's exactly what I did," Dillon recalls. For the next two years, Dillon, aided by the legal nonprofit Florida Innocence Project, fought in court for the evidence from his trial to be DNA-tested, and then for the court to conclude that the absence of his DNA on the evidence meant he was innocent. He was finally released from prison on Nov. 18, 2008, nearly three decades after he was arrested.
When Dillon walked out of prison, he entered a world that was completely different from the one he had left in 1981. At the start of his sentence, "there were no cell phones," Dillon said. People "had just started using VCRs. There were cassette tapes, eight-tracks."
Dillon now has a girlfriend, Ellen Moskowitz, whom he met at a DNA exoneration conference. She manages his music career.
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Dillon got a big break last year after Grammy-winning producer Jim Tullio saw him on the Discovery Channel's On the Case with Paula Zahn. Tullio was immediately taken by Dillon's story. At the end of the episode, Zahn said Dillon's dream was to record an album.
Tullio reached out to the jailhouse musician and offered to let him record an album at his studio in Illinois for free. That album will go on sale Aug. 16.
Tullio said he wanted to help Dillon overcome the "worst horror I could ever imagine, to be caged like an animal … knowing you're innocent."


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Unlike some Canadians who boast Irish or Ukrainian roots, Quebecers rarely mention their ancestry. The "French" in French-Canadian refers to the language, not to the people of France, whom Quebecer's not-so-jokingly call "les maudits français" (the damn French).
Most Quebecers maintain a love-hate relationship with the country of their ancestors. At best, France is the motherland from which our language and culture flows. At worst, it is a neglectful parent that turned its back on its colony when Louis XV gave up his northern possessions in order to keep the Sugar Islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue, at the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Some still resent the way the French army behaved on the Plains of Abraham. Students of my generation learned that the French soldiers were sleeping the night the British invaded Quebec, which allowed General Wolfe's troops to claim an easy victory. Not the whole truth, of course, but the story stuck. And it is remembered.
Bottom line is, most Quebecers don't really care about France other than as a lovely vacation spot, and a place that produces wines and writers they like. They don't identify with today's French society: no one cares about the current scandal surrounding French President François Hollande's complicated love life.
We share a language, a common history, cultural references and not much else. Ours is a unique francophone take on North American culture. More Elvis Presley than Johnny Halliday. Take, for instance, Québec's latest singing sensation, David Thibault, is a 16 year-old Elvis impersonator who was a hit on Ellen.
However, when observing sovereigntist politicians' attitude towards all things French, one could be tempted to conclude that we are but two peas in a pod, and that Quebec is closer to France than it is to Canada. The province's nationalist leaders love to bask in the glory of being treated like dignitaries from a sovereign country when they visit Paris.
Keeping near la mère-patrie is a matter of political life and death as it counts on France to be the first country to recognize the République du Québec, should it come to pass
Since 1961, when Liberal premier Jean Lesage opened the first Maison du Québec in Paris, all Quebec governments have kept close ties to the French state. With reason: over 40% of Canadian exports to France originate in Quebec, France is the second-largest investor in Québec and 300,000 Frenchmen and women visit Québec each year.
But for the Parti Québécois, it goes much further. Keeping near la mère-patrie is a matter of political life and death as it counts on France to be the first country to recognize the République du Québec, should it come to pass.
Since De Gaulle's "Vive le Québec libre" in 1967, French governments have navigated between soft support for sovereignty and the "ni-ni" (neither-nor) diplomatic doctrine, "neither interference, nor indifference," established by the socialist President François Mitterand in 1977 as a polite way of saying "Keep us out of it." Only Nicolas Sarkozy strayed from the 'ni-ni' when he defended Canadian federalism in 2009. To the PQ's horror.
A low-key version of the ni-ni resumed when current Premier Pauline Marois visited President Hollande after their respective victories in 2012. But do average Quebecers care? No-no.
The Premier believes, despite evidence to the contrary, that secularism 'à la française' is the best way to help immigrants integrate, not the hated doctrine of multiculturalism
Indeed, more and more feel that the Marois government is pushing the French connection too far. The Quebec charter of values was inspired by the 1905 legislation that made France a secular country and the only democratic jurisdiction in the world that forbids the wearing of religious signs by all civil servants. If Premier Marois has her way, Québec will be the second.
The Premier believes, despite evidence to the contrary, that secularism "à la française" is the best way to help immigrants integrate, not the hated doctrine of multiculturalism. She once said that multiculturalism in Britain was the cause of inter-ethnic violence "in a society in which no one knows where they stand." She apparently forgot that urban riots in high immigration areas have been a staple of life in France since the 1970s. This New Year's Eve alone, 1,067 cars were set on fire, as part of an annual ritual amongst "disenfranchised youth from the suburbs." In France, that's increasingly the short, polite description for young, unassimilated Muslims.
Late last year, Madame Marois visited France, Monaco and Belgium. Buried in the press release announcing her trip was this gem: "The mission will allow the presentation of the new economic plan, Priority to Employment, to the French authorities." (My italics.) As much as he likes to promote Canada's historical links to Britain, I can't imagine Stephen Harper jetting over to London to present his Economic Action Plan to the British authorities.
It wouldn't happen, of course. Harper would know better, and English Canadians wouldn't care. But Quebecers are left with the disturbing spectacle of Pauline Marois and François Hollande gavotte together, two political lame ducks seeking from a foreign head of government the love they are not getting at home.
National Post
Lise Ravary is a columnist and blogger with Le Journal de Montréal.


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A True Type Font.
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>interest in encoding scripts that are no longer in active use; one might
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Blessy directed movie Kalimannu bagged a clean U/A Certificate from the Censor Board. The movie was earlier slated for an August 9 release, but now the movie gets postponed.
Kalimannu will be getting released on August 23. The movie has Shweta Menon and Biju Menon in lead roles. They are sharing the screen together for the first time. The movie tells the bondage between a pregnant mother and her baby.
Kalimannu was a much hyped movie. The movie was in news for many reasons. Regardless of the delivery scene, Kalimannu was criticised after the poster of the movie was out. It had the picture of Biju Menon drawing on the bare stomach of pregnant Shweta.
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Labour's new economic development spokesperson has wasted no time in getting stuck into the man whose job he wants.
Dunedin North MP David Clark has been an MP for barely even a year, but David Shearer has appointed him to the role vacated by former leadership rival David Cunliffe, who now sits on the back benches.
This morning on Firstline he said Minister of Economic Development Steven Joyce "talks a slick game, but the stats don't back him up".
"He's got a big challenge, and he's actually not delivering," says Dr Clark. "He is talking the talk – there's no doubt that he's a slick politician – but he's left himself a wee bit exposed by not delivering on his promises."
Dr Clark, who has a PhD in existential philosophy, says he has a strong background in business, and is "pretty excited" to be going up against Mr Joyce, a self-made millionaire businessman whose own academic achievements are in zoology, rather than economics.
"We need to lay out a plan, and I guess [Mr Shearer's] going to rely on – in part – my background from my time at the Treasury, and also the fact I've grown up in a family with two business owners. Both my parents were business owners, so business is what we talked at home.
"My last job too was running an NGO, and reporting to a board, and had to turn that organisation around from one that was eking by to one that was sustainable and turning a surplus. So I guess I've had a bit of hands-on experience, I've got a theoretical Treasury background and I come from a family that understands business."
Dr Clark says it's only his first day on the job, but he already has a number of ideas he wants to explore.
"I've got a few ideas and I'm looking to bring some fresh thinking to the table," he says.
"Some of the things are already in Labour's platform, that I think are sensible, pro-growth tax reform – there's no doubt that makes sense. The OECD has already employed pro-growth tax reforms more broadly, just New Zealand's dragging the chain there. Savings policy – so you've got capital depth that's available for businesses. New Zealand procurement policies – you know, those kinds of things are sensible, they're already cornerstones in Labour's policy, but there's more we can do."
He points to ongoing job losses, particularly in the manufacturing sector, as evidence the Government has no plan.
"Seventeen thousand manufacturing jobs lost last year in New Zealand; the last quarter, we saw 23,000 jobs go in New Zealand, and that's just part of a trend; overnight another 100 jobs at Suzanne Grae – it goes on and on and on, and we've seen an economy in decline and a Government that's taken its hands off the wheel… The question is on everyone's lips: where are the jobs, Steven?"
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Former Franklin County Commissioner Ann Schroeder was appointed this week to serve on a board that helps local youth.
The county commission voted 3-0 to appoint Schroeder to the Franklin County Children and Families Community Resource Board.
The board helps provide mental health services for local youth.
"We are fortunate to have this funding in our county for our kids," said Schroeder, who was a county commissioner for 12 years but did not seek re-election last year.
Drug and alcohol prevention and intervention, child abuse and sexual abuse prevention, and bullying and teasing prevention are among the programs offered by the Franklin County Children and Families Community Resource Board.
Also, there are programs for pregnant teenagers and high-risk youth.
The organization works with public and private schools throughout Franklin County. The board oversees the Putting Kids First: Community Children's Service Fund.
In 2008, voters approved a quarter-cent sales tax to fund the programs.
"They've done a very good job of managing the money," Schroeder said.
Executive Director Annie Schulte said there are no other vacancies on the board at this time, but a third of the members come up for renewal or replacement each year.
She said board members come from all areas of the county to ensure strong geographic representation. Likewise, there must be a diverse makeup of men and women on the board, Schulte said.
Schroeder was considered a good choice for a board member because she helped get the tax measure on the ballot in 2008 when she was a county commissioner, Schulte said.
"She was instrumental in getting that accomplished," Schulte said.
Schroeder has a parks and recreation background. This could be helpful in terms of the board working with park departments to increase options for youth with mental health problems, Schulte added.
Also, Schroeder served as the liaison between the board and the county commission when she was a commissioner, Schulte added. Schroeder is familiar with the state's open meetings law, which also will be helpful, Schulte said.
Schroeder and other board members are unpaid.
The 12-member board meets in the basement of the Bank of Sullivan in Union, 351 S. Oak St., on the third Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. The meetings are open to the public.
Schroeder's term runs to the end of 2015 or until a successor is appointed.


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League set agenda for the next biennium and elected unanimously Chris Carson of Burbank, California as the organization's 19th national president.
The League was pleased to join dozens of voting rights advocates, state and local elections officials, congressional staff and academics at last week's 2015 Voting and Elections Summit in Washington D.C. The annual event brings together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss the latest innovations and ongoing challenges in election administration and voting systems.
Mark your calendar for 9pm ET on Tuesday, January 20th, because we're back with the League of Women Voters' State of the Union (SOTU) Bingo! Get your game boards ready and join us as we live-tweet the SOTU and track how the President's speech aligns with the League's legislative priorities.
Follow @LWV and @VOTE411 and use the hashtags #LWV and #SOTU to join in and play along live.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally posted on President Elisabeth MacNamara's Huffington Post blog.
This morning, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA) will present their report to a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing. The League submitted testimony to PCEA that urged consideration of a five-point reform agenda as part of its recommendations.
On Tuesday, January 28 at 9:00pm ET, President Barack Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union (SOTU) address. The speech will outline the President's key policy priorities for the coming year.
"There are many good recommendations in this report and others that we will need to look at more closely to examine the real impact on American voters," said League President Elisabeth MacNamara.
Editorial Note: This blog post is written by Deirdre Macnab,President of the League of Women Voters of Florida.
The League once again calls on the President and the nation's new elections commission to make bold changes to make elections free, fair and accessible.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally published on the The Huffington Post.
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Air-Powered Car Aims for 2010 Launch
Developed by a former Formula One engineer at the European MDI corporation, the air car is already a working prototype of a personal vehicle utilizing compressed air propulsion. After a round of alleged deals with the Indian Tata motors and various Japanese automakers, MDI has recently licensed the technology to the New York-based Zero Pollution Motors, which plans to build a 6-seat version of the air car. The company is even eyeing the American market with a price target of less than $18,000 for the initial model delivered in 2010.
According to Technoride, Zero Pollution is aiming for a top speed of 90 mph and a range of 800 miles - a claim some deem to be technologically outlandish. "It is possible to power a car with compressed air, but the mileage claim is at the edge of possibility," said John Callister, director of the Harvey Kinzelberg Entrepreneurship in Engineering program at Cornell University's College of Engineering. "No one's really proven a six-seater passenger car [can get] any better than 75 miles to the gallon."
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by Anna Mitterling, Wildlife Cooperative Coordinator, MUCC
Last week I posted a DNR press release announcing the publication of the first year of managing for CWD here in southcentral Michigan. I was surprised by a few responses to that report. But what stemmed out of that dialogue reminded me of a larger issue than just hunters who are not informed about the wildlife they manage - but the attacking that we as hunters personally do to each other. There are lots of posts about not supporting a company because of a stance they take on hunting, or complaints about anti-hunters, or even the decline of hunter numbers over time. But the real issue, and the heart of the problem I see - is that if we cannot be a uniformed 'largest armed army,' then divided we'll fall.
There are many different forms of wildlife management and recreation. We have hunting, fishing and trapping. All respected methods in their own rights. Each component has its own mess of controversy - amongst the ranks of hunters, trappers, and anglers. Rather than focusing on our areas of disagreement, why not focus on what we share to be true? I am most familiar with hunters, so I will stick to that topic.
In the hunting community I see barriers between crossbows and traditional archery, hound hunters and landowners, traditional deer management hunters and quality deer management hunters, conflicts between different species of hunting interest, private land and public land, northern and southern hunters, etc. Even the most 'like-minded' hunters have areas of drastic separation that seem to cause strong divisions.
Rather than be the cause of our own destruction, why can't we agree to disagree, or at least respect that we have different perspectives with different backgrounds and goals? Can we agree that our hunting community is part of who we are, being outdoors is vital, providing quality meat for our families is essential, following laws is mandatory, ethical hunting and harvest is required, and the existence of hunting is crucial for the future existence of the wild things we deeply care for?
I am grateful for the hunting community who has welcomed me in with open arms! My passion for managing habitat, sitting in my tree stand with my bow, following a dog searching for birds in the grasslands, walking a trap line and much more, is because of this community I love and respect so much. Let's show each other that side more often. Let's take part in celebrating accomplishments, questioning preconceptions, thoughtfully listening and considering what someone else has to share. Let us be the community I know we can be, putting our differences aside, and celebrating what is held common and dear - and protecting the future we desperately hope for. For each of us know, the void would be deep without this experience called 'hunting.'
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Richard Smith commented 2016-09-14 09:34:00 -0400I am not arguing against antler point restrictions. I support voluntary apr and am opposed to mandatory apr. I think the best system is what we used to have whereby every hunter has the opportunity to choose which buck to shoot under a voluntary system. I think many hunters would still choose to pass up young bucks, as I would. If you are correct that 70% of hunters support apr, what's wrong with giving hunters the choice? I'm agreeing with Anna's blog in agreeing to disagree with you about MANDATORY APR!
Kirk Nartker commented 2016-09-12 16:00:36 -0400RPS, you are living in the past. Period. And I think you totally missed the point that Anna was making. You still want to argue against apr's even when hunters in a given area want them. They must want them more than the old combo tags, if they voted it in, right?
Richard Smith commented 2016-09-09 22:35:13 -0400When all MI deer hunters had the freedom to choose which buck to shoot, whether it be a spike or a buck with 3 or 4 points per antler, 100% of hunters had the opportunity to agree to agree or agree to disagree. In every opinion survey conducted by the DNR a higher percentage of hunters preferred a combination license with one tag unrestricted and one tag restricted to bucks with at least 4 points on one antler. In the most recent DNR survey, 60 some percent, but not 66 percent, supported current antler point restrictions. When every deer hunter has the freedom to choose their preferred target, the way it used to be, 100% beats 60 to 70% every time!!!
Kirk Nartker commented 2016-09-09 16:56:57 -0400Times are a changing. When you have roughly 70% of the hunters in one area "agreeing to agree", that's about as good as it gets, RPS, Don't you think? Do 70% of the yoopers "agree to agree"? I think it's best that we let the hunters of the area, decide what they want for regs.
Richard Smith commented 2016-09-09 15:49:25 -0400Great points Anna that I totally agree with. The best way to accomplish what you suggest is to get back to deer hunting regulations that permit each hunter to decide for themselves which bucks they choose to take based upon what they see and their management philosophy. Not that many years ago, combo deer licenses were uniform across the state, with one tag unrestricted and one tag restricted to bucks with 4 points on one antler. That licensing system was popular and widely accepted and allowed hunters to agree to disagree about their choice of harvest. The spread of mandatory antler point restrictions in many parts of the state makes it impossible to agree to disagree when it comes to buck harvest. Hunters who live in areas where mandatory antler point restrictions exist must agree to agree with those regulations, if they choose to hunt there, or go elsewhere. Going back to regulations that give all MI deer hunters the freedom to choose which deer they decide to shoot will give more hunters the opportunity to agree to disagree!


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SOUTH FLORIDA - Voters will hit the polls Tuesday for elections in Homestead and Miami Lakes.
In Homestead, there's a primary vote for mayor and two council seats. Steven Bateman, who was suspended from office in August after he was arrested on public corruption charges, is running for reelection as mayor.
Miami Lakes is holding a special election to replace the city's suspended mayor, Michael Pizzi, and to elect a new council member.
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We here at The Vox Shop understand that personal voice instruction can be very expensive and if you can find a good vocal coach in your area, they may not even teach the style of singing you like. Easy-to-use singing courses that you follow at home are now available at a fraction of the cost of private voice lessons! Voice training you can apply to your singing immediately!
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Turning Back the Signs of Time with Laser Treatments and Fillers
Generally, we like to recommend a combination of skin care treatments to reverse the signs of aging and sun-damage with IPL & Genesis laser treatments followed by an appropriate filler for the lines around the mouth and Botox or Dysport to relax forehead wrinkles. You might consider 2 laser treatments/ year and begin to use Botox every 3-4 months as needed .
Fraxel For Fine Lines on Forehead and Smile Lines
Signs of premature aging are usually caused by sun damage. UV rays cause oxygen molecules in the skin to become unstable. As you may have already learned, these are called free radicals which act like scavengers, trying to regain their missing electrons from the tissues in your body. This oxidation process is what damages collagen structures in your skin, which then looses its firmness.
Fraxel helps correct photodamage by enabling the skin to synthesize new collagen fibers. This is accomplished by deliberately applying heat to the dermal layer of the skin, which will then react as though it was injured and created collagen to repair itself.
Botox may be able to help relax the muscles on your forehead to diminish the appearance of the fine lines.
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I would probably consider using Fraxel to smoothen out the fine lines and also some Botox or Dysport to relax the muscles that are causing them. More etched in lines can be treated with CO2 laser like the Ultrapulse.
Topical products such as Retin A or Lifting Serum from my product line scientificskin.com may also help.
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Yesterday it was the Nintendo Wii, today PlayStation 3 owners are the ones who get to enjoy streaming video from Netflix without leaving their couches, and without having to keep the Netflix disc in their DVD trays. Just fire up your PlayStation 3, head to the XrossMediaBar (XMB,) and you should see the Netflix app there, ready to download.
Once you have it installed on your PS3, the disc will no longer work. You're free to use it as a Frisbee or a coaster for those drinks you can enjoy now that you don't have to get up to watch a movie. At least PS3 owners will be able to enjoy streaming video in beautiful 1080p HD with Dolby 5.1 channel surround sound, something Wii owners sadly didn't get yesterday, but that's more Nintendo's problem to solve than Netflix's.


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The Rush City football team fought a brutal battle, ending in a 61-20 loss, in the bitter cold against No. 2 ranked Moose Lake-Willow River on Friday.
Senior Johnathan Mielke rushed for 137 yards with two touchdowns for the home team. Junior Danny Myers scored his first varsity touchdown and ran in a two point conversion.
"Ryan Lind continues to improve his play on both sides of the line of scrimmage," said coach Paul Kirby. "He is working his tail off in practice, and the results have shown on the field. Congratulations to Danny Myers for finding the end zone for his first varsity score. Danny is a 'yes coach' kind of player and has earned his playing time through hard work and great effort.
"It was great to see Johnathan Mielke return to the form that we all have come to expect from him. He had an outstanding game and once again, proves that he is a quality football player.
"This was a tough, physical game against a deep and talented team that has perennial post season experience. I would have liked to see Rush City execute better fundamentally. However, this just wasn't our night. I know that we have the ability to play better than that. With more football games to come, we need to quickly refocus and look toward our next opponent, Two Harbors. And then hopefully continue to improve into the playoffs," Kirby noted.
The Rush City football team has a 1-4 Great Polar Blue Alliance Conference record and 2-4 overall record. The Tigers will travel to Two Harbors to face the winless Agates at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12.


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Cut check: Missing could be costly
The projected cut at the Viking Classic right now is even par, which isn't good news for John Mallinger, among others. Right now, Mallinger, who shots 73-72 through the first two rounds to stand at even par, is projected to fall even further outside the top 125 on the money list (from No. 128 to 132).
Ditto Joe Ogilvie, who opened with a 68 but has struggled here in the second round at 5 over through 13 holes. Ogilvie started the week 123rd on the money list, but is currently projected to drop to No. 126.
Among those projected to make the biggest move in the other direction? Nathan Green, who is 3 under through 16 holes and if the tournament ended right now would climb 24 spots to No. 112. For the complete projected money list, click here .


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When we hear the term "historic landmark" many of us tend to think of man-made features or places where some notable event occurred, but the National Historic Landmark (NHL) program encompasses much more than buildings and battlefields. That variety was confirmed by the 2010 National Historic Landmark Photo Contest, because this year's winning entry was a photo of a famous… mountain.
The Secretary of the Interior designates National Historic Landmarks "because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. The National Park Service manages the National Historic Landmarks Program, which works with citizens throughout the nation in nominating new landmarks and providing assistance to existing landmarks."
The announcement of the winners of the recent photo contest illustrates the variety of the nearly 2,500 sites included in the program: "This year's record-breaking response to the call for entries resulted in astonishing images of NHLs from coast to coast, including Alaska and Hawaii. The pictures took us from battlefields to mountaintops and celebrated the variety of NHLs, including sea-going vessels of various vintages, colorful interiors from architectural treasures, and historic structures framed by clouds, sunlight and star-pricked night."
This year's winning photo included one of those "mountaintops"—Mount Rainier. The peak and the park that bears its name are both widely known for superb scenery, but they also have an important historic role in the nation's conservation movement. According to the contest announcement,
This arresting image depicts Mount Rainier National Park. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997, the park was the first fully developed product of the National Park Service (NPS) master planning process and remains the most complete product of this process. The initiation of NPS master planning at Mount Rainier in the late 1920s marked a major step in the design and management of scenic reservations in the 20th century.
"The selection of this year's winner took some exciting outside-the-box thinking," said NPS Director Jonathan Jarvis. "When we look at the winning image, we see the natural world instead of one of the many historic buildings on the list of NHLs. Managed—not made—by humans, Mount Rainier National Park represents a landmark in conservation history.
"That said, the images that received honorable mentions—which feature structures, vessels, and other physical destinations that give evidence of human activity and fit our traditional idea of 'historic' sites—also dazzle us and keep us from forgetting our rich past. I commend the winners, judges, and administrators of the 2010 NHL Photo Contest, as well as all who participated."
The winning image, "Mount Rainier in the Morning," was taken by Matthew Bell of Lost Delta Photography, Olympia, Washington. "Under a sky of periwinkle blue and pastel pink, the bulk of Mount Rainer, with its gray face swathed in snow, slopes gently downward toward the lush meadow that occupies the middle-ground of the photograph. In the foreground, a waterfall's "pale streams," spectral and smoke-like, course down a wall of rock."
What does it take to win a photo contest at this level? You can view the winner, and all of the images receiving Honorable Mention honors, at this link.
The sites represented by the honorable mentions include the U. S. Air Force Academy Chapel, a battleship (the USS Texas), Kennecott Mines (Alaska), the U. S. Capitol and the Columbia River Highway (Oregon). A list of all of the sites included in the NHL program, organized by state and "other jurisdictions" (such as Virgin Islands and American Samoa), is available here.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Chesapeake Energy (CHK) , the nation's second largest producer of natural gas, has been reducing its debt and selling noncore assets in an effort to strengthen its balance sheet that may draw investors to the company's stock.
Here are some of the moves Chesapeake has made during the past several months to clean up its balance sheet which became loaded with debt under co-founder and former CEO Aubrey McClendon.
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- At the end of June, Chesapeake completed the spinoff of its oilfield-services business into a separately traded company called Seventy Seven Energy (SSE) , a move that is expected to free $1.1 billion of Chesapeake's debt
- Chesapeake is buy backing preferred shares of its CHK Utica subsidiary for $1.26 billion, a move that will save Chesapeake $75 million a year in dividend payments.
- In May, Chesapeake reached a deal to sell noncore assets in Oklahoma and Texas for $310 million.
At the end of the second quarter, Chesapeake's debt-to-equity ratio was 0.69, which was roughly in line with that of Anadarko Petroleum (APC) , another oil and gas producer, whose debt-to-equity ratio is 0.71.
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Shares of Chesapeake closed Wednesday at $26.33. They are down 3% for the year, compared with a 7.5% gain for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Chesapeake's stock trades at 20.7 times this year's estimated earnings, compared with a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 18.5 for the S&P 500.


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Danbury's Praxair Inc. lifted its first-quarter profits amid strong sales for its industrial gases at home and abroad. Praxair also declared a regular dividend.
In three months ended March 31, Praxair netted $419 million, or $1.38 a fully diluted share, up from $398 million, or $1.29 a share, netted the same period a year earlier.
First-quarter revenues rose 5 percent to $2.8 billion vs. $2.7 billion last year.
Praxair's sales growth was strongest in North America and Asia in the manufacturing, metals and energy markets, Chairman and CEO Steve Angel said Wednesday. Growth was slower in Europe and South America due to weaker economic conditions in those geographies.
For the second quarter of 2012, Praxair expects diluted earnings per share in the range of $1.40 to $1.45.
For the full year of 2012, Praxair expects sales in the range of $11.6 billion to $11.9 billion. The company expects diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $5.75 to $5.90.
Praxair's board declared a quarterly dividend of 55 cents a share to be paid June 15 to stockholders on record by June 7.
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For all of the aspiring publicists out there looking to make a splash in the high profile world of fashion and entertainment PR, remember this: success doesn't come overnight.
In our latest Media Beat segment with People's Revolution founder Kelly Cutrone, she says those looking to enter the industry "have to be willing to pay their dues."
Cutrone sure did. "I learned a lot from being her submissive assistant and doing whatever she asked," she says of her days starting off with legendary publicist Susan Blond.
PART 1: Kelly Cutrone on Being Part of a 'Real' Reality Show
PART 2: Kelly Cutrone Calls New York Media Scene "Boring"
Media Beat is mediabistro.com's interview series with the movers and shakers of the media world. View all past episodes at MediaBeat.com.


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Nunhems USA Inc. plans to introduce a new watermelon variety at the National Watermelon Association convention Feb. 19-23 in Savannah, Ga.
Parma, Idaho-based Nunhems' Premium variety is a small variety known for big yields, according to a company news release.
The Premium, already available in Europe, is a pollinator variety. Unlike other polinators, it can be harvested as a marketable fruit. The Premium has edible seeds and ships well, according to the release.
During the National Watermelon Association convention, Premium watermelon will be served in the appetizer course at the Feb. 21 dinner.
Nunhems is the brand name of the vegetable seed business of Bayer CropScience. The company has created varieties of 28 vegetables, including carrots, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce, melons, onions, peppers and tomatoes.


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TipTop Technologies has just debuted two self-serve semantic data analytics services for small and medium-size businesses, to join its custom-service solutions directed at helping larger enterprises in the finance, marketing and publishing verticals engage in activities such as semantically classifying and categorizing unstructured information on the web, and track and influence company, product and topic buzz.
The two new solutions are Web Page Analyzer and Tweet Analyzer. "The notion here is that we want to make TipTop available very broadly, for deeper data analysis, and for anyone to leverage," says Shyam Kapur, president and CEO of TipTop.
With Tweet Analyzer, users for a fee can upload .CSV files of tweets and in return receive a .CSV file that gives them back an understanding of those tweets' contents, their main concepts and sentiment. "This is oriented clearly to those companies that don't have in-house experience" of doing this, says Kapur. "It's data analysis on tap." Similarly, with Web Page Analyzer, users for a fee can submit any number of web pages for processing through the same semantic engine. The pages can be their own or anyone else's content.
"I don't think people really understand their own content, especially if they have a sizeable number of pages," Kapur says. "But in other use cases you may want to understand your competitors' pages, or others inside blogs or other public domain pages where the topics are of interest to you and your business. As long as the page is accessible without a user name and password, including public Facebook pages, you can process it." In that way, SMBs can gain more insight into what's being said about their products – good and bad; about their competitors' offerings; or the space they serve in general.
TipTop actually began in the consumer space. Its products there include semantic information discovery system TipTop Insight Engine and TipTop Shopping, which uses its semantic engine to analyze user-generated product reviews from Amazon and highlight the best ones on a variety of features. Another recent launch by the company were iOS and Android versions of its Insight Engine to replace its mobile site. "The fundamental value proposition is similar to what is on our site, since they are conversions of our site for the app platform," says Kapur.
"It will process news from hundreds of sources to find interesting and buzzy things. You can see what happening in the world updated every 5 minutes, explore whatever you like, and slice and dice it by sentiment to see positive and negative perspectives."
Still in the works is PartyT, which is expected to be a paid consumer service, drawing on TipTop's engine's ability to read language as humans do, that Kapur says will be "something new – an evolution of service, ecommerce, of social networks, of the web as a whole." Users will be called T Drinkers, and, as Kapur describes it, they can be humans or machines, each account participating in the network anonymously so that participants can express themselves freely. What he aims is for Party T to be "an instantiation in silicon of all human minds."
Once logged in, a user is placed in the middle of all the conversations that are going on within TipTop at that time. Since anonymity is guaranteed, no one on the network can know exactly which identity or account – man or machine – is responsible for which contribution or interaction.
Users and TipTop will be in a continuous natural dialogue within TipTop, he says, and most of what will be shown to users as a result of that are tips processed via TipTop. Users, for example, who express in natural language a comment about what movie is worth watching, can get recommendations, show times and theatres showing movies that fit a certain description (those that show the human side of life, for instance); be given appropriate options once they've explained the timing that's good for them; and upon the expressed thought about having a friend attend the event with, be shown the names of a few friends who are likely to enjoy watching that kind of show. It can even send an invite to them – not to mention booking the seats and suggesting a nearby restaurant.
"Enabling this kind of completely natural dialogue is quite within our reach now," Kapur says. "By making TipTop a constant companion of the user, we also make the user feel comfortable revealing a lot about themselves and their preferences to TipTop. TipTop can thus provide highly personalized tips over a long period of time, not only one-time tips as a direct result of some single action that a user takes."
Any thought that anyone shares will be valued more highly by TipTop only if it is supported by solid evidence, he adds. "In fact, one purpose of having data analyzed by TipTop is to generate the kind of solid evidence that could back a statement/thought/opinion someone wishes to make," he says.


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Sometimes small stories are as interesting as big ones:
Those models were chosen, Lt. David Hughes said, because they're stolen at a disproportionately higher rate than other cars, primarily because their ignition systems lack sophisticated security features.
"We realized that when we looked at all our stolen vehicles in 2012," he said. "It just jumped off the page that Honda Accords and Civics, for example, accounted for one-third of all our stolen vehicles."
The department, which purchased more than 900 "Clubs" with $10,000 in forfeiture money seized from drug dealers, began the program June 18. More than 500 have been distributed to walk-in applicants, and another 100 or so to owners of stolen cars after they were recovered.
Cars parked overnight on the street or in parking lots are particularly at risk, Hughes said. The security devices will be available until the supply runs out. (For more information, call 925-671-3030.)
He said the district needs to better explain what's at risk and how it has worked to trim costs since the last vote. "We hope to have a more community-based campaign this time," he said.
The district's five stations, which cover 249 square miles — including areas torched by the recent Morgan fire on Mount Diablo — are now fully staffed with three firefighters only because of a two-year federal grant that will expire in 14 months. The grant has masked the predicament that lies ahead.
"Without some new funding after November 2014, we would have to drop down to three stations," Smith said, "and it's by no means sure we would have three firefighters at each station."
Two-thirds voter support is needed to approve a parcel tax. Inasmuch as the last effort fell short of 50 percent, that community-based campaign better be really good.
The Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act, authored by state Sens. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, and Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, would add a surcharge of $8 to $14 to new mattress purchases — politicians fix everything with fees — that will be used to offset charges for dropping mattresses at waste facilities. The thinking seems to be that folks who've been chucking their old mattresses alongside the road will take them to the dump if they can do so for free.
You don't have to be a psychic to know what's coming next: the Used Box Springs Recovery and Recycling Act.
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So I've been trying to install some plugins forawhile now, to be specific it was the mplayer plugin so I could actually watch some dvds. First I had some different problems, but now ever time I type in the command to download something from yum, I get this CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Error accessing file for config file:///etc/yum.conf. Fedora has been pissing me off lately, and would appreciate the help..


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Expiring Tax Deduction to Increase Commercial Vehicle Sales
Commercial vehicle sales are expected to see a boom as the year comes to an end, thanks to an expiring tax deduction.
Section 179 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code allows businesses to deduct up to 76 percent of the cost of their commercial vehicle this year, nearly double what was previously allowed. The deduction expires today, which will likely cause an increase in commercial vehicle sales the last week of December.
SEE ALSO: 2014 Chevrolet Silverado High Country Review
Section 179 was originally established before the recession to help boost the economy with businesses allowed to deduct up to $25,000 a year in annual depreciation on vehicles such as a heavy-duty pickup. But as part of the tax-code changes, the annual limit was increased to $500,000. That limit will revert back to $25,000 next year. Businesses that purchase or lease $2 million or less in equipment this year can apply for the Section 179 deduction.
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Building entrepreneurs into business owners
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:06:27 GMT —
Starting a business is a difficult process.
That's why the first major event for the Tri-States Minority Chamber of Commerce was a business networking event.
Vendors and speakers came to give information and advice on everything from financing to licensing.
The chamber hopes to help minority entrepreneurs become business owners.
"Very encouraging, very uplifting for the speakers that were there to let us know all the information out there that we had no knowledge of," Pearl Harris said.
Pearl and Philip Harris were inspired to start their own business in 2008 after going to a statewide Minority Chamber of Commerce event, similar to what the Tri-State Minority Chamber of Commerce hosted on Tuesday.
"That made me excited, knowing there's help out there that can help people like us," Harris continued.
The couple's businesses, P&P Cleaning Service, now serves about 20 local businesses and employs eight people. Their experience and the help they received is what made them want to help other entrepreneurs get started.
"With the Tri-State Minority Chamber in place, they can come to us and we can give them the direction that they need," Yolanda Wilson explained. Wilson is the treasurer of the chamber as well as a business owner.
Wilson and President Crystal Young believe that help for minority entrepreneurs is something that is much needed in the Tri-States.
"Our goal is to increase minority businesses in the Tri-States and we want to do that through contracting and government procurement," Young said.
Young believes bringing in more more minority businesses will have a positive ripple effect on the Tri-States.
"It's about making the whole region basically equal by bringing those people that are on unemployment lines to being employable, if not employable then owning their own businesses," Young said.
The chamber has been around for about a year, and encourages anyone to attend their monthly meetings.


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" Genre: Hard Rock & Metal - Death Metal / Artist: Hypocrisy / Audio CD released 2002-01-21 at No Idea "
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'Penetralia' is the debut from influential Swedish death metal band Hypocrisy, and still ranks among their most aggressive releases. The production quality is surprisingly high for a death metal debut of the early nineties, fleshing out the bass and only really faltering on the synthetic sound of the drums, especially evident in the opening drum roll of 'God Is a Lie.'
So, yeah, a quick glance at the tracklist and a listen to the growled, easily-discerned lyrics makes it clear that this is entirely content to slot into the anti-Christian gimmick of early nineties death metal, demonstrated best by bands like Deicide, but while the subject matter isn't the most inventive in the world, Peter Tägtgren's guitar work is unique in the genre, ranging from catchy yet standard death metal riffs to original solos and lead melodies in all songs, a far cry from the standard, Slayer-derived death metal squeal.
1. Impotent God
2. Suffering Souls
3. Nightmare
4. Jesus Fall
5. God Is a Lie
6. Left to Rot
7. Burn by the Cross
8. To Escape Is to Die
9. Take the Throne
10. Penetralia
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1 Impotent God
2 Suffering Souls
3 Nightmare
4 Jesus Fall
5 God Is A...
6 Left to Rot
7 Burn the Cross
8 To Escape Is to Die
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Q: Talk about the importance of the third preseason game?
A: That's the focus, the installation and teaching them to game plan and how we do those kind of things each day leading up to the game. That's the most important thing. We talked yesterday about what we wanted to get done as a football team. That's what we talked about at the meeting yesterday.
Q: When you game planned did you look at preseason film, last season or both?
A: Just pretty much who they are now because really a lot of that has to do with what players they have. Of course with them they have a new defensive coordinator with Gregg Williams so some of those kinds of things are more of an issue.
Q: Any time for Bruce and Charlie?
A: It depends. Right now I've really not gone there. I want to see Jeff play. We need to see Jeff play.
Q: JaMarcus still possibly into third quarter?
A: Yes.
Q: Is that true for all starters?
A: Maybe. Maybe. Depends on how I feel. Don't hold me on that because that's how you tend to do it in the preseason.
Q: Will rookie receivers start again?
A: Yes.
Q: Could you start season with them as starters?
A: Sure. I don't think that's an issue to us quite honestly other than the fact that they are rookies. Shoot, they're doing really, really well, both of them. They just keep getting better as they have progressed all the time. That's enabled us to do it.
Q: How much can Javon go?
A: I don't know that. We'll see. He's ready to go, wants to go, and we want him to go. We'll just kind of take that as we go into the game.
Q: What's deal with Hiram?
A: It started out as an illness and really it will be a game time decision.
Q: You saw Saints last year, what challenge do they present?
A: It's a new defensive coordinator, a new defensive scheme. There's really nothing to draw from last year that way. Offensively, obviously their ability to throw the football and they're trying to be more balanced in run to pass ratio. So it's good for us because we still have to keep working this run game defensively.
Q: Who is out for the game?
A: That list I gave you, the only ones who will be game time decisions will be Norris and Eugene?
Q: Is Shaugnessy close?
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Market Report: Here We Go Again
Another crazy week, and although we have not gone anywhere, as we are still stuck in the same range we have been for weeks.
However the market did put in a in a bull trap that we were suspicious off, I posted this to members last week in my weekend report.
"As per the SPX idea, if a 3rd wave is working now, we really don't want to hanging around, we need to see an aggressive upside move, if we lose 33ES that's a caution to the bulls, under 29ES can suggest either see 1285ES and a lower target for wave E.
Or the wave E can be a triangle itself and we potentially continue a triangle sideways, but for now let's focus on 33ES and 29ES, under 33ES is weaker than I would want to see, it held on Friday, so ideally need a rally and gap up on Sunday/Monday.
So far only 3 waves, so potentially a b wave if no follow through here and reverses back under 33ES.
I will keep everyone updated, so don't worry if you're confused, under 33ES is a sell short term.
If you look closely on the FTSE and DAX and SPX, we possibly only have 3 waves to the upside from last week's move, so there is a chance of a b wave high and we reverse hard to the downside, for that idea I expect to see puking under 33ES, then see other market's like AUD/USD puke and USD/CAD get aggressive to the upside.
So watch for a potential bull trap loosing 33ES and seeing heavy downside price action is near term not good for the bulls, and I am using 33ES for an edge.
The DAX to stall out near 7350 can be only a 3 wave move, the same as the SPX if stalls out near its highs made last week around 1345SPX, so let's watch for any weakness in risk markets.
If a 3rd wave, this really should not hang about and rally hard from Monday.
Rumor's of sorts of stuff going around about stock markets crashes and if the deal on the US debt don't get done etc.
We won't know what the markets are going to do until it opens, that much we do know, however under 33ES is a sell, so we sell 1st think about patterns later, next support is 29ES, but staying under 33ES then 29ES is a sell".
The market's inability to move away from the 33ES area was an issue; that area had been an important area for us over the last few weeks, and we knew that if the market could not hold that 33ES area, it was going to cause a problem for any bullish idea of going higher.
Seeing 33ES lost was a problem for the bulls, earlier in the week globex was looking like a triangle, and the market's inability to stay above 33ES, was suggesting this was the likely path going forward with a bearish bias staying under 33ES and especially under 29ES, we knew that under 33ES was a sell, it was a case of sell 1st look at patterns 2nd.
Traders should never have an issue with respecting what price does, after all "price is all that matters".
That's something I am true believer in, price rules and always will do, by having an idea, you are one step in front of the next trader that is not focused and does not have a trading plan, whilst we were bullish above 33ES, the very fact we gapped down in globex on Sunday was an issue, as we traded as low as 22ES.
So that was a caution, but we then wanted a back test to get short, what happened is that it kept gyrating around 33ES and was causing all sorts of issues, but then the pattern started to materialize, once I had an idea, we then knew how we could play it.
Seeing the globex session gyrate in Europe around the 33ES was a starting to look bearish, but we still needed to get under it solidly, well finally, it cracked and what a way it went, we knew our risk was to 39ES, but the downside potential was at least to 1312-15ES or lower targets of 1306ES and 1285ES.
Sheessshhhhhhhh little did I think we would see 1285ES so soon but it was nailed eventually and job well done.
The bulls are not dead and buried, just as they were not dead and buried at the mid June lows. Whilst this area of support holds, the bullish idea of seeing higher needs respecting, those that don't respect this area in the ES may just find themselves on the end of a powerful rally like we saw back in mid June 2011 for 90 handles. There is a right time and wrong time to buy and sell, and caution imo should be used, this area is a war zone and the victor will likely see a substantial move, either way we don't care, as long as we can get on the trend.
If the market wants to crack lower and lose this support area, then traders need to follow that lower and sell it once it confirms and breaks lower support.
Readers of my past articles will note that I have and still remain bullish, I was bullish going into the lows made near 1260SPX as the world was crying crashes, and of course with too many shorts, we saw a forced short covering rally of 90ES handles, in one of the quickest rallies on record.
I wonder how many saw that coming?
Not many, judging by the speed the bears were covering.
Now we are near to those areas again, and it's like that 90 handle rally never happened, I mean traders now want to start thinking about getting short at the lows again? Are they serious?
Was it not a better place to get short at the highs at resistance? I.e. 33ES or even 16ES, or at any of our #s
I guess, you need 60 handles of downside to get bearish, and 90 handles of upside to get bullish :-)
It's the same every time traders are bearish at the lows when you want to be thinking about buying and bullish at the highs when you really want to be thinking about selling, and you wonder why traders are getting taken to the cleaners in this market.
When you look at the range this past year, it's just been one great big triangle shape, and we are stuck in a huge range, and still not confirmed that the market has indeed turned bearish.
Now whilst those bullish patterns are in play and potentially viable, we should respect those.
Can this market crack lower? Sure it can and it could see a water fall type move, but I am not in the business of forecasting crashes or bull markets to SPX 2000, I will let price prove an idea wrong or right.
So where and what are we potentially doing now??
The bullish triangle idea is still valid, it does not technically get invalidated until 1258SPX, but I really want to see some support hold around the 1280SPX area, we tested our target areas on Friday, and hit the 1285ES area, but with the US debt issue overhanging the markets, it's up in the air if the low is on for the pattern, although I am open to ideas of seeing lower, if the market cant rally from here, I think we 1st really need to see how price responds to these areas, if the bulls can't get the upside going as will be needed and get over some key resistance areas, then the bears will get the advantage, and sellers will likely take control.
Then traders need to become sellers, as if the bulls can't deliver, there is little point buying a market if it looks like it's going to really see heavy selling, so next week will be important for bulls and bears.
We know what needs to happen, and the bulls need to "show us da money" or they are going to be trouble.
I don't have any issues flipping and getting aggressive short this market, sheeshhh we have practically been short this week from 33ES into Fridays low. So jumping back on the short side is not going to be a problem for us, however if a substantial low is near, it can be a move that is going to hurt any "late to the party bears" that now want to sell after a 60 handle move.
Nothing really much changed from my last article, as the Bullish ED idea is still valid, DX has a valid ED idea as its virtually the opposite to the EUR/USD pair , this past week has seen markets continue to whipsaw around.
DX idea.
Still looking for the new low in this ED idea on the DX, that should see the EUR/USD push higher towards 150-152, however we do have a level in the EUR/USD that if broken on the downside, would really startto see issues on the bullish idea.
So whilst these ideas still stand, they are the primary ideas going forward.
The week was the complete opposite to the prior week when the bulls were in control, so around 70% taken back off the prior rally that started in mid June 2011, whilst this market can crack lower and see some substantial problems, there is a setup for the bulls as long as 1258SPX holds, although I would prefer not to get that close to those lows, then the bulls have to "show us da money" and buy aggressively or they face losing the support areas we are currently vibrating.
Failure to hold these levels is a big issue for the bulls, as the market can be setting up for a substantial downside move.
Bulls need to deliver or they can be in real trouble fast, it should be a good week, 90-60 handle moves in a few days are great conditions and great for nimble traders that are prepared to jump on the move and ignore the news and just follow what price is doing.
Until next time.
Have a profitable week ahead.
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Although it seems like only yesterday the National Introducing Brokers Association ("NIBA") panel on "Assessing FCM Risk" took place over two weeks ago. If you were part of the standing room only audience thank you for attending! Your support meant a great deal to NIBA, Turnkey Trading Partners, and the other panelists. If you weren't able to attend this year's Chicago conference the following is a quick overview of what was discussed. If you'd like more details please see my pre-conference article "Your FCM; Hero or Villain?" or feel free to contact Turnkey Trading Partners at any time.
1. Review Previous Regulatory Violations: Remember that not all regulatory violations are created equal. As an example violations for sales practices and advertising can be much different than violations in capital sensitive areas. Investors should approach with caution firms that have previous anti-money laundering or capital level infractions. Also, always be sure that prior to investing money with an FCM a review of all applicable regulator websites is conducted. The BASIC system can be found at NFA's website and Broker Check can be found at FINRA's website. Each system, when used in conjunction with a quick web search, can return valuable due diligence information. Also the CFTC makes available (NFA will soon as well) FCM financial information for your consideration.
2. Risk Index Rating Recommendations: We discussed several companies that specialize in the publication of FCM risk indexes. These firms have made an attempt to rank the likelihood that your FCM could be the "next big failure." Although some of the variables they consider can be useful in determining if an FCM is a good fit, not all of their considerations are helpful or relevant. Those in attendance will recall that some index firms ranked side by side public (accept retail customer funds) and private (trade only proprietary monies) FCM's which skews ranking results. Other firms analyzed companies who do not transact in commodity futures at all even though they may be listed as an FCM. The take away for investors is that there is no simple "one size fits all" model to index risk within the FCM community. Although doing so may be time consuming and tedious, investors need to conduct a wide range of due diligence to gain a level of comfort with their specific FCM.
3. Corporate Structure/Bankruptcy Considerations: John Roe ("Mr. Roe") from the Commodity Customer Coalition ("CCC") raised a variety of valid points related to the structure of your FCM. Is the company publically or privately traded? Is the company a single corporate entity or a group of affiliated, comingled business lines each with a different corporate structure? How is the business registered; as a clearing or non-clearing FCM? Who ultimately holds customer deposits? Your FCM? An Affiliate of theirs? The answers to these questions (among others) and the wide array of implications to those answers were discussed in detail.
4. What Can/Should Be Done: After working through the aforementioned items we discussed what can, could, or should be done within the industry to solve the FCM insolvency problem. I presented my thoughts about our morality as a people and within the industry. Specifically I shared that if we really believe no person should be able to aggress against another person or their property we must begin swiftly putting the people violating this consideration in jail. I continued by sharing that a lack of oversight in the futures industry was not the direct underlying cause of the MFG and PFG insolvencies. I further went on to explain that new regulations, although perhaps well intended, often bring about unintended, undesired consequences. That no amount of regulators, auditors, rules or other preventative measures will make a difference unless those responsible are fully and severely punished for their violations of already existing rules. Building off of this Mr. Roe suggested several practical ideas that are being considered for implementation within the industry. They included, but were not necessarily limited to; the creation of a customer protection fund, various legislative reforms, and several alternative account segregation options.
Through the FCM Risk Assessment panel I believe we showed that even during these trying times an individual investor, commodity trading advisor ("CTA"), Introducing Broker ("IB"), or any other market participant has a variety of ways to proactively monitor their FCM(s). All in all the 2012 NIBA Chicago conference was a huge success for the panelists. It is our hope that our presentations and the information we provided was valuable and timely for all of those who attended.
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James Bibbings is the President and CEO of Turnkey Trading Partners ("TTP"), a firm that supports all commodity and forex specific regulatory and business needs. Prior to founding TTP, Bibbings worked with the National Futures Association ("NFA") as a supervising auditor. During his time with NFA he was involved in many investigative audits and was able to gain a deep working knowledge of FDM, FCM, IB, CTA, and CPO operations. Since departing from NFA, Bibbings has owned and operated an independent introducing brokerage and participated in international forums on proposed CFTC regulatory requirements. He has been qualified in Federal Court as an expert witness and has provided testimony on a variety of CFTC and NFA related industry activities. Bibbings work has been featured at the Financial Times, Bloomberg , MSN, Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, Forex Journal, FX Street, FinAlternatives, and many other highly acclaimed investment publications.