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Ryan O'Reilly arbitration with Colorado Avalanche: Here's what it means
It's always on my days off…
I was enjoying (well, before I got sick later that night anyway from a mystery fever/flu) a Father's Day off Sunday up in Estes Park when I made the mistake of checking my Twitter feed. There, Bob McKenzie Tweeted that the Avalanche had filed for arbitration against Ryan O'Reilly, which is rare for a team to do. That set off much of Avalanche Nation to clutching the pearls big-time, worried that it was the resumption of ugliness and the imminent exit of The Factor from the Avs. (Hey Bob, you wrote a book about being a hockey dad, take Father's Day off too, would ya?)
I should be sleeping off this nightmare flu, but I can't let you down any further, dear reader, so here's my quick review of what happened and my take on how it will proceed from here. But first off: don't freak out. I'm going to do this in question and answer form, I just decided. It's probably easier and clearer to understand.
What happened again? The Avs filed for arbitration with O'Reilly. If the Avs can't work out a new contract with him by July 15, the NHL and NHLPA will work out a mutually agreed-upon arbitrator. What is the process of arbitration like? Here is an article I wrote a couple years ago for Sports Illustrated (which has the theme of "arbitration cases are becoming much more rare now").
Why would the Avs do this? O'Reilly's contract came about in a way the Avs didn't want. Calgary gave him an offer sheet in the 2013 lockout season of two years, $10 million, but the final year of the deal had a base salary of $6.5 million. In order to retain O'Reilly's rights in a normal way, the Avs would have had to give him a qualifying offer of that same $6.5 million.
O'Reilly could have accepted that offer outright on a one-year deal, or he could have declined it and held out for more. In either case, though, the Avs would have held on to his rights.
By electing for arbitration, the Avs get to go to a third party and say, "Hey, we never wanted to pay him $6.5 million, but we had it shoved down our throats by another team. Yeah, that was our fault for letting it get that far, but now we want you, arbitrator, to come up with a more reasonable number for him this coming season." Keep in mind: O'Reilly's salary this past season was the $6.5 million, but his cap hit was $5 million. That was the average of his two-year deal, and that's the number the Avs probably would much rather focus on than $6.5 million.
What are the rules for arbitration? If it goes that far — and keep in mind most cases don't make it that far anymore — the arbitrator will hear essentially a trial argument by both sides as to why theirs is the right dollar amount for the player's services. The team will give their dollar amount and the player and his agent will give theirs.
One catch: O'Reilly cannot be awarded anything less than 85-percent of his last base salary. In this case, that means he can't make any less than $5.525 million for 2014-15.
The arbitrator would present two offers to O'Reilly: a one-year offer based on his or her judgment or a two-year deal. O'Reilly could pick either one, but whatever one he chooses, it would be a binding deal.
The Avs would gamble that the arbitrator would award less than $6.5 million a year, and, just my opinion, I think they probably would win that one. Most arbitration cases are based on "comparables", i.e., what similar players of age and statistics already make. It's the same thing with why your house sells for pretty much what the neighbors got. Let's look at a comparable player here in Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn. Benn is 24; O'Reilly is 23. Benn scored 34 goals last year for the Stars, and O'Reilly scored 28. Benn had 79 points, O'Reilly 64. Benn's salary (both base and cap hit) is $5.25 million. Both teams made the playoffs, but lost in the first round. Benn also was a Canadian Olympian, and O'Reilly wasn't.
Keep in mind, O'Reilly already is guaranteed a higher salary than Benn even if he loses the arbitration case. But the Avs would no doubt say to the arbitrator, "Why should we have to pay even more than that for a guy who had 15 fewer points than that guy from Dallas?" O'Reilly's agency, the cutthroat Newport Sports Agency, no doubt would counter that with, "Because our client led the NHL in takeaways last year (82) and he led the Avalanche in ice time among forwards (19:49) and led the Avalanche in goals, with those 28. He does it at both ends of the rink, unlike that guy from Dallas."
Some people have said that Boston's Patrice Bergeron, with a $6.5 million cap hit for several years to come, is a better comparable for O'Reilly. But Bergeron signed a big last contract when he could have become an unrestricted free agent the next year, so that comparable doesn't quite work. You always have to pay more to keep your potential UFA guys (hello, Paul Stastny!).
To me, the Benn comparable is the game, set, match clincher for the Avs if they actually go to arbitration.
Why did it make sense for the Avs to file for arbitration? Because O'Reilly could have done what he did last time he got a qualifying offer. He could reject it and hold out for more, or he could just take the one-year, $6.5 million QO and have that essentially be his base point for negotiations with Colorado or any other team. No matter what happens from here, the Avs can be guaranteed of one thing should they choose it that way: they can have O'Reilly's signature on a binding contract for the 2014-15 season, with the binding expectation that he shows up to training camp in September, ready to play. This eliminates any of the monkey business of early last year as far as him being in uniform or not.
Is it a risk for the Avs to do this? Yes, because it makes it look like they don't want to pay O'Reilly what he's "worth", because O'Reilly can now get stubborn again and dig in his heels and just say no to any further negotiations if they don't come anywhere near that $6.5 million number, or above. Because, they would almost certainly have to trade him before the next two years in that case before he can get away for free as a UFA.
Well, is it a risk for O'Reilly? Yes. He can become an unrestricted free agent after two more seasons, no matter what. He'll only be 25 by then. So, he can easily just say, "OK, I'll take what the Avs crammed down my throat for two more years, max, and then go on the open market finally in two years and really make the big cheese."
But what happens if O'Reilly suffers a serious injury before that? What if his stats drop precipitously? If that happens — and he turned down a reasonable, long-term offer previously from the Avs in the negotiations — how much regret will he have over that? Probably a lot.
Why can't the Avs just pay more than $6.5 million a year for their first-line left winger and be done with this headache? Well, if you're Stan and Josh Kroenke, or Patrick Roy or Joe Sakic, you think you've already got an internal salary cap on your team. Matt Duchene was the team's leading scorer, their lone Canadian Olympian and his cap hit for the next five years is $6 million. It's the same thing as last time, if that's the case: "Because we think Duchene is our top guy for now (or until Nathan MacKinnon's first contract is up in two years, in other words)" and fair is fair and right is right."
Why can't O'Reilly just take something close to that number and be happy? Well, because he has his dollar value worth in mind and athletes' careers are short, and you'd do the same thing if it were you. The Flames thought he was worth $6.5 million a year when they made their offer to O'Reilly. Everybody laughed that he might get anywhere near that (including the Avs), but he got it. So, deal with it. It's a business.
Can another team jump in with the same offer sheet as Calgary did last time? Yes. From July 1-5, teams can do so. But Jay Feaster is no longer a GM with Calgary, so I don't anticipate that happening. The same rules apply as last time: the Avs can just match the offer and it's binding, or let him go and accept draft picks. But offer sheets never work. The Avs would just match it, and the team in question would earn the never-ending enmity of Patrick Roy and Joe Sakic. Feaster violated that good old boys club rule two years ago, and it's no secret why he's gone now partially because of that.
What's going to happen, Dater? I'm going to Vegas in seven days, unless this flu fails to lift. O'Reilly will be there, along with Patrick Roy, MacKinnon and Semyon Varlamov, as part of the NHL awards show. If I had to go up to a betting booth and lay down money for what I think will happen, I'd bet this:
I have no clue.
It will, indeed, be a fascinating story as it plays out. But here's what I think: O'Reilly is coveted around the league, and he might just pull in a P.K. Subban or a Shea Weber-type of defenseman (in Weber's case, the Avs would have to give more). I think the Avs will trade him within two years. I think there's just enough bad blood left over from the previous situation to poison the waters with things going forward.
I've written this before, but it bears repeating: O'Reilly won the last round, but the Avs will win the next round. But it depends on your definition of winning. If the "win" is that the Avs got O'Reilly for less than they wanted to pay him, then they'll win these next two years. But if it means losing a great player within two years over a relative pittance in the world of pro sports, then the Avs might be the long-term losers in this.
It will be written some day who the better player was: Duchene or O'Reilly. The Avs, I believe, do not want to pay him more than Duchene — and never did. They had to for one year, but not a second.
We know what is keeping the Avs from being a real Stanley Cup contender, and that is defense. O'Reilly could be just the guy to bring in the proper defenseman to win a Cup. The L.A. Kings have proven you don't need nine all-stars on your first three lines to win a Cup. You need just enough offense, and an oversupply of defense and goaltending. Right now, the Avs are the inverse. They can arguably make a case they have enough offense without O'Reilly, and the haul he would bring in defensively would justify the Avs ridding him of his big-money demands.
But you won't hear me bad-talking O'Reilly as a player. I think he's a great player. No matter what, the Avs are either going to win or lose this thing.
Does that make things clear?
Also: Mark Guy, O'Reilly's agent, had no comment when I texted him on Monday. The Avs say they will continue to negotiate with O'Reilly and that this was just a business maneuver, nothing more. Roy and Sakic will hold a press conference either Thursday or Friday at the Pepsi Center (and the conspiracy theory in me believes they will have a fun announcement as part of that, but it might have nothing to do with O'Reilly ("Hello Paul Stastny?"). They will no doubt be asked plenty about O'Reilly. We'll see how it plays out.


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Monday: Meatless meal
It's Week 2 of my egg-on-top-of-things kick. I stumbled upon Spiced Lentils With Poached Eggs (see link to recipe) in the new Cooking Light and fell in love. It calls for red lentils, which are really orange and cook a bit quicker than other lentils. I sub the poached egg with a fried egg.
Tuesday: Glazed over
Sweeten the deal tonight with Honey-Barbecue Glazed Pork Chops served with mashed sweet potatoes. Mix the juice of 1 orange with 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce. Pierce bone-in, center-cut chops in several places with a fork. Place in baking pan, pour sauce over them and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, flipping halfway. Remove chops, brush with honey barbecue sauce and broil for about 4 minutes. Drizzle with honey before serving. Make your own mashed sweet potatoes or buy them.
Wednesday: Rotisserie chicken
Tonight, we celebrate autumn while wearing shorts and eating a bowl of creamy red pepper and chickpea soup with chicken, inspired by the latest Food & Wine magazine. In a blender, process a container of red pepper hummus (which is made of chickpeas) with 3 cups chicken stock until smooth. Add 1 cup of cooked rice and a cup of shredded rotisserie chicken. Garnish with chopped fresh parsley and a drizzle of olive oil. Brush pita bread with olive oil mixed with minced garlic then toast until lightly crisped.
Thursday: Seafood bake
To make shrimp and feta pasta, cook a package of orzo according to instructions. While that's cooking, saut� 1 pound of peeled, uncooked large shrimp in olive oil and minced garlic. Remove from heat when just cooked. Mix drained, cooked orzo with shrimp and 1 can diced tomatoes, 1/2 cup of white wine, a couple of teaspoons of Greek seasoning and salt and pepper. Layer in lightly greased casserole and dot with feta cheese crumbles. Bake at 350 degrees until cheese is bubbly, about 12 minutes. Before serving, garnish with chopped, fresh parsley.
Friday: Here's the beef
Grilled skirt steak tacos with guacamole goes well with a fresh fruit salad and a mighty margarita on the rocks. It's Friday, after all. Season steak with salt and pepper and grill to your liking. Cut in thin strips across the grain, pile into small soft flour tortillas and then top with slices of avocado. Sprinkle with fresh lime juice. Simply delicious.


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Shutesbury (Mass.) - Conversation with Jonathan Tuttle; former steward and President (in the 1980s) of AFSCME at UMass and worker in the AFSCME office in Boston. Tuttle was the son of a UMass faculty member, and was instrumental in getting strong affirmative action language into the AFSCME 1776 contract in the late 1970s. Grew up on UMass campus; went to school here and was politically act... more


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Ted Turner is an American media mogul and philanthropist. Early in Turner's career, he took Atlanta's independent UHF television station from financial troubles to profit in three years. He went on to found CNN and TNT. In 1986, he bought MGM/UA. Six years later, he created Cartoon Network and purchased New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment. He has given $1 billion to support UN causes.
Ted Turner(born Nov. 19, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) broadcasting entrepreneur and sportsman who became a major figure in American business in the late 20th century.
Turner attended but did not graduate from Brown University. After stints as an account executive for the billboard-advertising company owned by his father and based in Atlanta, Ga., Turner became the general manager of one of the company's branch offices in 1960. Following his father's death in 1963, Turner took over the ailing family business and restored it to profitability.
In 1970 he purchased a financially troubled UHF television station in Atlanta, and within three years he had made it one of the few truly profitable independent stations in the United States. In 1975 Turner's company was one of the first to use a new communications satellite to broadcast his station (later renamed WTBS, or TBS, the Turner Broadcasting System) to a nationwide cable television audience, thereby greatly increasing revenues. Turner went on to create two other highly successful and innovative cable television networks: CNN (Cable News Network; 1980) and TNT (Turner Network Television; 1988). He also purchased the Atlanta Braves major league baseball team in 1976 and the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team in 1977. Turner was a noted yachtsman as well, and he piloted Courageous to win the America's Cup in 1977. In 1986 he bought the MGM/UA Entertainment Company, which included the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion-picture studio and its library of more than 4,000 films. Turner set off a storm of protest from the film community and film critics when he authorized the "colourizing" of some of the library's black-and-white motion pictures.
The large debt burden sustained from his MGM and other purchases compelled Turner to subsequently sell off not only MGM/UA but also a sizable share of the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., though he retained control of it. He also kept ownership of the MGM film library, which included many Hollywood classics. He also founded and sponsored the Goodwill Games (1986–2001), citing his hope of easing Cold War tensions through friendly athletic competition. He married actress-activist Jane Fonda in 1991; they divorced in 2001.
Turner resumed the expansion of his media empire in the 1990s with the creation of the Cartoon Network (1992) and the purchase (1993) of two motion-picture production companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment. In 1996 the media giant Time Warner Inc. acquired the Turner Broadcasting System for $7.5 billion. As part of the agreement, Turner became a vice-chairman of Time Warner and headed all of the merged company's cable television networks. When Time Warner merged with Internet company AOL, Turner became vice-chairman and senior adviser of AOL Time Warner Inc. In 2003 he resigned as vice-chairman of that company. Also in 2003, Turner both produced and starred in the films Gods and Generals and Gettysburg. In 2006 he received the Bower Award for Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute—a premier science and technology education and development centre in Philadelphia. That same year, Turner announced that he would not seek reelection to Time Warner's board of directors. In April 2007 Junior Achievement—a nonprofit educational organization that provides hands-on business training programs to youths throughout the world—inducted Turner into its U.S. Business Hall of Fame. In 2008 Turner released his autobiography, Call Me Ted.
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Monday, September 3, 2012
New Home!
I can no longer identify with this blog, I have changed to :
Thursday, August 30, 2012
One lb look from Guimarães!
This is one of the outfits I wore while I was away in the north of my country! This one I wore the day I visited the Guimarães City.
As you can see, I've posted it on lookbook.
As you can see, I've posted it on lookbook.
Hope you like it!!
Ps. I'm planing to organise my wardrobe. Wish me luck! ;)
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Lisa from the LisaPlace.
Doesnt she look lovely?
Besides having a great sence of style she is also beautiful and I've always been a bit jealous of her. You should really pass by her blog, would find out a blog full of style and great taste!
Anyway, I just wanted to show this dress, I've always wanted a dress like this.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Summer Breeze
And again, just some inspirational pictures related to summer.Its so sad it is coming to an end.
Dont you just love the choices in this wardrobe? This is not mine, but is just my face! I love everything in this hanger. I love stripes, lace and flower pattern shirts, and basic tops of pastel colors.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
want want want!
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
packing for holidays!
As I'm going away for a few days I have been packing some clothes.
This is everything I have in my bag... (plus underwear, accessories and shoes) :
I dont like to bring a lot of clothes when I'm travelling, so I usualy prepare a few outfits and them i just add some t-shirts and one pair of jeans in case I fell like using something more casual.
These are three of the outfits I prepared for this holliday.
Outfit number 1 - This one is a ore formal outfit, I usualy wear it for a night out. I pared up a striped tube skirt form H&M with a basic black top.
Outfit number 2 - For this outfit I used a pijama top as a "street" top (it was so cute to be just a pijama top, dont you agree?) and for the bottom I chosed a green short to match the green on the top pattern.
Outfit number 3 - This is one of my favorite outfits of this summer. I use it in a more fresh day or at night as it has trousers instead of shorts or skirts. I combined a flower patterned trousers with a basic mint blouse as the pattern has this color on it.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Trend of the week : Patterned Jeans
Patterned jeans are realy fashion trend right now.
When wearing patterned jeans the trick is to chose a color from the pattern for the top or a basic color like white ou back.
As you can see Annabel from the blog Love More wears it perfectly! As you can see Her jeans are amazing! I'm loving that pattern.
All photos from : Love More
I prefer the flower pattern and thats why I would like to share with you this two examples form Blanco.
Hope you like!
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Filippo Simeoni, the 37 year-old current Italian national road race champion, today turned in his tricolor jersey to the Federazione Ciclistica Italiana to protest his and his team's non-selection to the Centenario del Giro d'Italia.
"It is unacceptable that the Italian national champion cannot participate in the most important cycling event of his country. The organizer should explain to all fans why national values are not respected, why team selection criteria is not clear, and why commercial interests take precedence over sporting interests."
Simeoni also insinuated that the behind the non-selection was the old controversy involving Lance Armstrong; Armstrong will be racing in the Giro for the first time this year. The old controversy goes back to 2004, Stage 18 - July 23: Annemasse - Lons le Saunier, in the Tour de France. Here is what happened as reported by AFP:
"Lance Armstrong displayed his well-known determined side, but in bizarre fashion today after chasing down an early attack by Italian Filippo Simeoni on the 18th stage of the Tour de France.
The 32-year-old US Postal leader finished the stage with the main peloton at 11mins behind a group of six riders from which Spaniard Juan Miguel Mercado had emerged to sprint home ahead of Vicente Garcia-Acosta and win the stage for his Quick Step team.
The 32-year-old US Postal leader finished the stage with the main peloton at 11mins behind a group of six riders from which Spaniard Juan Miguel Mercado had emerged to sprint home ahead of Vicente Garcia-Acosta and win the stage for his Quick Step team.
Armstrong, who has also won four stages on this year's race, retained his 4min 09sec lead on second placed Italian Ivan Basso, of CSC, and is well on his way to a record sixth yellow jersey.
But despite his total domination, Armstrong also showed his unforgiving side, especially with Simeoni.
The 32-year-old Italian is a key witness in the trial of Italian sports doctor Michele Ferrari, with whom Armstrong has admitted collaboration in the past, and earlier in the race confirmed his intention to take Armstrong to court for defamation.
Simeoni wants to sue the five-time winner over comments made in French newspaper Le Monde in July 2003. The article quoted Armstrong as saying that Simeoni had ''lied'' when he gave evidence to investigators saying was Ferrari who had showed him (Simeoni) how to use the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) effectively.
The comments did little to improve Armstrong's image vis-a-vis Ferrari, who in the cycling world is looked at with suspicion as much as with curious admiration for his knowledge of advanced training methods.
Today the Domina Vacanze team rider's attempts to get into the six-man breakaway were kept immediately in check, as though Armstrong was intent on trailing him wherever he went even though Simeoni is not a threat in the general classification.
And the message from Armstrong seemed clear: 'Me and the peloton don't like what you've said about Ferrari, and we won't let you forget it'.
Race leaders rarely need to chase down such attacks, and although stranger things have happened in cycling it still shed Armstrong in a curious light.
Simeoni, for one, wasn't happy: ''Armstrong today showed everyone the kind of champion he is,'' said the Italian, who has never implicated Armstrong in any evidence he has given about Ferrari.
''If he was truly a big champion, he wouldn't have to preoccupy himself with modest riders like me.''
When questioned, Armstrong later insisted: ''I was protecting the interests of the peloton. The other riders were very thankful,'' he said before hinting at his real motives.
''All he (Simeoni) wants to do is destroy cycling, destroy the sport that pays him.
''I can't say how many riders said thank you very much.
''They understand that it is their job, and they don't want somebody from within destroy it,''
added Armstrong, who took his petulance a stage further by poking fun at the journalist from L'Equipe newspaper who had interviewed Simeoni two weeks ago.
But despite Simeoni's outcry, Australian veteran Scott Sunderland believes Armstrong's behaviour wasn't out of the ordinary.
''That sort of stuff does happen, and it has for years. I remember a lot of rivalries between teams in the past,'' Sunderland said.
The 37-year-old Alessio rider admitted that Simeoni's card had been marked by some in the peloton, and that Armstrong was within his rights.
''Filippo Simeoni spoke out and from what I can gather was throwing accusations around, saying things like you can't win anything on the big Tours if you're not taking stuff (drugs), so I think a lot of guys have just taken offence.
''It was stupid for Simeoni to do that, especially if he's still in the peloton and riding the big races.
''Plus, he's (Simeoni) talking about what happened in 1996 when things were a bit out of control. Since then things have really moved on as far as fighting against doping is concerned,'' added Sunderland.
''As far as Lance is concerned, I think he was on an easy day and he wanted to show Simeoni that if he was going to attack he would find it difficult.
Ferrari, who once claimed that EPO was no more harmful than orange juice, is set to go on trial in Italy for sports fraud and the distribution of banned substances.
The fallout from the trial, scheduled for later this year, could raise further questions about Armstrong's links with the Italian doctor. "
Reading this reminded me, regretfully, that not much has changed when it comes to doping.
Photo: Filippo Simeoni
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text: The world's fittest womenBy Updated 9:43 AM ET, Wed November 7, 2012 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: The world's fittest womenThe world's fittest women – Our gallery on the world's fittest men got such a huge response, we decided it was only fair to do one on the world's fittest women. By putting their workouts and nutrition first, women such as Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas have become role models for a healthy lifestyle. Did we miss one of your favorites? Let us know at Facebook.com/CNNHealth or on Twitter @CNNHealth. Hide Caption 1 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenAnnie Thorisdottir – Annie Thorisdottir recently earned the title of the world's fittest woman by taking first place at the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games. The competition includes everything from weightlifting to jumping rope. "I think my strengths are that I can usually just keep on going," the Icelandic athlete told CrossFit. "I don't really need to stop and rest." Hide Caption 2 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenDara Torres – Dara Torres is an inspiration to thousands of women who are struggling to get, or stay, in shape as they age. The 45-year-old swimmer brought home three silver medals from her fifth Olympic Games in Beijing and barely missed qualifying for London 2012. If her biceps aren't enough inspiration, check out her two books: "Gold Medal Fitness" and "Age is Just a Number." Hide Caption 3 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenU.S. women's gymnastics team – It's hard to ignore the muscles sported by the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team. All-around gold medalists, from left, Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Gabrielle Douglas show it takes dedication and strength to fly high. Hide Caption 4 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenJessica Biel – Jessica Biel topped Fit Sugar's list of the fittest female celebrities in 2011. Always a proponent for healthy body image, the new Mrs. Justin Timberlake inspired us in 2010 by hiking to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa to raise awareness for the global water crisis. Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston followed closely behind Biel on the list. Hide Caption 5 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenJessica Ennis – Jessica Ennis beat her closest opponent in the 2012 Olympic heptathlon event by more than 300 points. Ennis earned her gold medal by participating in the 100-meter hurdles, the high jump, the shot put, the 200-meter race, the long jump, the javelin throw and the 800-meter race. Hide Caption 6 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenLeanda Cave – Leanda Cave became the first female in history to win both the Ironman World Championship and the Half Ironman World Championship in 2012. The British athlete finished the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run in nine hours, 15 minutes and 54 seconds, according to the BBC. Hide Caption 7 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenKerri Walsh Jennings, Misty May-Treanor – As Sports Illustrated writer Phil Taylor says, "With all due respect to the other teams who compete in beach volleyball ... there is the duo of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, and there is everybody else." May-Treanor, left, and Walsh Jennings went into retirement after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. During their time off, May-Treanor tore her Achilles tendon while rehearsing for "Dancing With the Stars," and Walsh Jennings gave birth -- twice. Still, the duo reunited to dominate the 2012 Olympics, losing only one set in their quest for gold. Hide Caption 8 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenWang Mingjuan – China's Wang Mingjuan weighs only 106 pounds, but she can lift more than 200. Wang claimed the weightlifting gold medal of the 2012 Olympic Games in the women's lightest category. The 26-year-old four-time world champion has not been defeated in international competition since winning her first world title in 2002, according to the Daily Mail.Hide Caption 9 of 11 Photos: The world's fittest womenJillian Michaels – Jillian Michaels is one of the world's most well-known fitness gurus. "The Biggest Loser" trainer has grown her reality TV fame into an empire that includes a line of workout videos, an inspirational book and even an Xbox Kinect game. Hide Caption 10 of 11


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Bowenventure necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Dead Girls Guide (http://www.deadgirlsguide.com)
I am a former corporate CIO who was given a new shot at life. On my 42nd birthday, 2/17/09, I experienced a massive brain hemorrhage that left me clinically dead three times. I was given the opportunity to come back, but only if I promised I would use the spiritual gifts that were given to me at birth, and if I promised that I would teach others how to maximize their gifts too. So, I am starting a seminar and coaching business to do just that!
I am starting from scratch; however, I have a major radio appearance that airs on Sunday, March 28, and I have a Wordpress site that frankly looks like crap right now. I need your creative design talent to hi-light my new business!
My mission is to blend capitalism with spirituality, so while I do want my identity to appeal to the "New Age" crowd, I want it to appeal more so to the corporate crowd, as I was told on the other side that they are in more need of hope, inspiration, and direction. Go figure.
This will be the first step in quickly re-designing the WordPress website, so if you do both (i.e. identity creation and site design), consider this assignment as your paid chance to interview for more work!
I think you can see by my website name, that I have a bit of an ironic/alternative sense of humor, so anything you can do to subtly play that up would be interesting to see.
My target audience is a blend of both spiritually conscious (NOT RELIGIOUS) individuals, and those searching to understand better their life's purpose. Because of my death experience, I have the ability to work with both spirit people (spirits still in the human body), spirits who have crossed over, and the Angelic realm to help individuals move from despair to determination. I am NOT seeking pansies who want entertainment value, eventhough, for legal reasons, I must state that sort of disclaimer on my site.
My perfect client list is going to hold thousands of people ages 30-60 - people who have experienced enough of life to understand that they've gone off course somehow, and need some help getting back to their true purpose.
I am looking for the use of green (emerald with gold flake undertone) and purple as the theme colors of my site, so keeping that in mind will go a long way toward a successful outcome. The green is hard to explain, as it is a color I was surrounded with on the other side - it is sort of the color from the Wizard of Oz, with gold that seems to penetrate through the green. The purple was a darker purple, much like what is on the site today.
I am also including two pictures of me and I would like to see any thoughts you have on creating an identity similar to Brendon Burchard (http://www.brendonburchard.com) or (http://www.expertsacademy.com).
Dead Girls Guide is the brand, and I am the face behind the brand. I am looking to be able to incorporate this brand into business cards, e-book covers, CD/DVD covers, and my Wordpress website, so be thinking in terms of scalability when you create your designs!
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A few weeks ago I asked you, the readers to let me know what your nail questions were. Today, Celebrity and session manicurist Trish Lomax will be answering them!
1. I get little bubbles on the surface of my polish a lot. How do I avoid this?
Before your manicure wipe nails with acetone to remove any residue from the nail plate rather than using a remover as most contain conditioners that leave a film on the nail which won't do you polish application any favours. Roll the bottle between the palms to mix the colour without getting bubbles in as from when you shake the bottle. Ensure you don't have too much product on the brush then apply several thin layers rather than one thick layer of colour and leave each layer to dry!
2. What 5 items are key to nail care (aside from polish)?
A good nail file, cuticle hoof stick, cuticle oil, nail strengthener and blue sponge board.
3. I paint my nails A LOT… and now they're yellow despite religious use of a base coat. How can I fix them?
Its important to have a weekly maintenance programme to keep up the appearance of your nails, another key is to gently buff nails and also changing your polish each week will eliminate staining.
4. I've always had really soft, flexible nails. They actually start to curve downwards as they get longer. Well, for our wedding this past August, I got acrylic nails. Well, now I'm try to find a good nail polish that will strengthen them to make them avoid being torn and bent back so easily–cause that is my new problem. They grow even just a little now, and they are torn, almost at the center of my nail. Is there a polish or a nail cream I could put on them to make them harder? They grow quickly anyways, so that isn't an issue.
Firstly I would recommend removing the acrylic enhancements have a weekly manicure, use a nail treatment such as Mavaflex (£14.50), Mavala Nailactan (£15.36)or OPI Nail Envy along with nail oil to keep nails flexible – it can take a minimum of six months for your nails to return to their former state, so by keeping nails short will help and strict nail regime will speed up the process.
5. Is buffing good or bad? I hear it weakens them, but allows polish to stick better.
Yes I think buffing is good but no more than once a week as this is what weakens nails and only with a gentle buffer either use a 3 way buffer or a blue sponge board (www.biosculpture.co.uk), anything more than this will damage nails.
6. About nails, mine are quite strong but some time ago I got this whitish line in one of my nails, the tip cracks on the part the line is, my mom has a nail just the same, I wander if this kind of defects are caused by and infection or maybe its just in my genetic?
It sounds like it's hereditary as both you and your mum have it! White spots are cause by trauma to the nail, usually just from banging your nails against something. This causes the nail plate to detach from the nail bed, the white patch is a void between the nail bed and the nail plate and will grow out. White spots are not caused by calcium deficiency as commonly thought and you can't really do anything about the white spots, apart from not banging your nails!
7. Also, the edge of one of my toenails has gone dark, flesh, nail and cuticle, not nice, but since its just a little patch, and it doesn't hurt, I just paint the nail and ignore it. What should I do about it?
No never ignore these things, without seeing your nail its hard for me to say but it sounds like you have had trauma to the nail either fron knocking your nail or dropping something heavy on it, the nail may have separated from the nail bed and it could have an infection/mould, this is where water gets in decomes trapped from where you have applied varnish, the water trapped in this warm and dark place is a great breading ground for baterial grows, check whether the discolouration has changed starting from a pale yellow to a dark green black, this usually grows out but to be safe I would recommend you vist your GP or a podiatrist.
8. When I use natural, French-manicure style shades, they often seem to go gloopy and 'porridgey' rather than smooth and sheer… but only on some nails. What am I doing wrong?
You may be getting too much air in the product it's important to ensure the lid is on tight when not in use. I would suggest purchasing Seche Restore as this is the best thinner around (www.nailsbymail.co.uk) NEVER use nail polish remover or acetone as this ruins the varnish and you will have to throw it out! Apply varnish on in several thin coats rather than a thick one and be consistent on each nail with varnish application.
9. What are your favourite nail polish brands?
Both Essie and Mavala are top of my list, Essie because they have a vast colour range, great coverage and a good application brush. Mavala because they are 7 Free, the mini pots are great for travelling and if you are prone to getting bored of colours easily they're ideal due to the size.
10. What do you think of Matte nail polishes?
Essie Matte About You was launched this Autumn and I was searching for this product for quite some time. I love matte nails on the hand but tend to alway use a glossy top coat on Toes, that's just my personal preference.
Hope you girls enjoyed this Q & A Session, if you see some of Trish's gorgeous work, visit her website here.


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Thanks to my good friends Matt Fox and Enrique Crame III of Fine and Dandy Shop for hosting a fabulous book signing party for We are Dandy on Dec 1! It was a wonderful kick off to the holiday season. Among the many dashing party-goers were Nicolas Pron and Kamau Hosten, both featured in the book. We nearly sold out (yay!) but I think there are still a few signed copies left.
This is the ONLY place to get signed copies before Christmas!
Fine and Dandy Shop
445 West 49th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 247-4847
Thanks to Brooklyn Gin for helping us all stay warm and talkative :)
Nicolas Pron and a few of his pages from We are Dandy
Natty and I with Kamau Hosten...in a beautiful black cashmere suit made by Secret Empire
Simon Cleveland
Thomas Crowley, who was featured in I am Dandy (along with Matt and Enrique of course!)
Lovely Tara Isabella Burton and Victoria L.
Was wonderful to meet Montgomery Frazier and Ben!
A shot of Mark Haldeman and James Aguiar from We are Dandy
Ladies love We are Dandy too! Kayla Ferguson, Victoria, Tara, and Sarah Worley
With the incredible American couture designer Maggie Norris!
With Ken Aoki and Masaichi Hasegawa of Gaziano and Girling...a photo to send to Masato Kawai and our other Japanese Dandy friends!
Thanks Brooklyn Gin - those were some delicious and festive looking gin and Hella tonics!


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It was a warm, sleepy Bangalore afternoon at Cubbon Park. I was on a lunch break from work. Everybody in the park was happy, mellow and relaxed. Even the icy expression on Aunty Victoria's statue seemed to have thawed a bit in the afternoon breeze.
The sunlight filtering through the treetops made beautiful dappled patterns on the duck pond. It reflected off the oiled heads of a lone couple under a sprawling banyan, and brought the bald pate of a man asleep on a bench, into dramatic focus. A bunch of burqa clad women were busy picking fallen leaves out of their lunch boxes as they sat in a circle, giggling.
The fountain played lazily. Pan-chewing women gardeners picked weeds insouciantly off a mound of of flowering marigolds, salvias and dwarf zinnias around the statue of the Wodeyar. The ornate lion benches bearing the royal emblem had been given a fresh coat of paint. The Vidhana Soudha and it's new found twin loomed up majestically behind a copse of fading pink Tabebuias near the Central Library.
As I turned into the library, I caught something out of the corner of my eye and turned. Nothing quite prepared me for what I was about to see. An ocean of roses. An acre of them at least. Of every colour and shape. Some as big as two palms cupped together. All in bloom, all at once.
I spotted the old favourites that my grandmother had taught me to name: The baby-pink Eterna, the lavender Whiskey, the delightfully fragrant yellow-and-red Double Delight, the blood red Prince Edward. And hundreds of nameless but astoundingly beautiful others. All set off perfectly by the brick red and granite facade of the library. Absolutely breathtaking.
Yup. We're still the garden city alright. Except we've almost forgotten what to do about it.
PS: If you want to see the rose garden live and in full bloom, go NOW. The rose bushes are specially pruned back every winter to get them to bloom all at once, during republic day. Another week more and you might not see as many. Speak nicely to the cross looking caretaker and she'll let you climb over the fence to take close up shots.


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Fifth Circuit Disobeyed Supreme Court in Allowing Racial Preferences at UT‐Austin
Last year, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to the use of racial preferences in university admissions by reversing a Fifth Circuit panel opinion that had allows the use of race in UT-Austin's admissions policy. That wasn't the end of the story, however; after holding that the university bears the burden of proving that its use of racial preferences is necessary and narrowly tailored—a point on which university administrators are due no deference—the Court remanded the case back to the Fifth Circuit to determine whether UT had offered evidence sufficient to prove that its use of race was "narrowly tailored to achieving the educational benefits" of diversity.
Recall that UT-Austin's admissions program fills most of its spots through a race‐neutral Top Ten Percent Plan—which offers admission to high school graduates in the top ten percent of their class—then fills the remaining seats with a "holistic" rating that takes into account various factors typical to admissions programs (including race for certain preferred minorities).
Well, on remand, the Fifth Circuit panel split 2–1 but once again sided with the university, holding that even if the Top Ten Percent Plan already provided a "critical mass" of minority students, the use of racial preferences was necessary to achieve some other special kind of diversity. The dissenting opinion by Judge Emilio Garza points out how the majority has deferred, once again, to the university's hand‐waving claim that its use of racial preferences is narrowly tailored to an actual, appropriate interest, without having actually proven anything approaching what is constitutionally required.
Abigail Fisher, the white former applicant suing UT‐Austin, has asked the full Fifth Circuit to rehear the case. Cato has filed a brief supporting that petition.
In our brief, we argue that the Fifth Circuit panel failed to apply actual, deference‐free strict scrutiny, failed to require the university to define the "critical mass" its race‐based policy is intended to achieve, and failed to require the university to explain with particularity why race‐blind measures wouldn't be able to achieve its interests. Rather than require that UT‐Austin even roughly define what quanta of black and Hispanic students is necessary to further its diversity goals–a particularly meaningful task given the significant black and Hispanic presence on campus resulting from the Top Ten plan–the university was allowed to skate on vacuous platitudes about "critical masses," "tipping points," "upper bands," and the like. But if interests so vacuous they read like a parody of a Thomas Friedman column were all that strict scrutiny required, why would the Supreme Court have even bothered taking up the Fisher case?
The constitutional laziness and deference the panel majority showed is striking. The Fifth Circuit should hear this case en banc and correct the errors made by the panel majority, which contradict circuit precedent in various ways.
Further background and Cato's previous filings in the case are available here.


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Resnick Campus
The neighborhood surrounding YU's Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1300 Morris Park Avenue) and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology (1165 Morris Park Avenue) is a safe and cozy corner of New York City comprising private homes and shops within walking distance. Also nearby are the restaurants and marinas of City Island, an authentic fishing community in the Bronx, as well as the world-renowned Wildlife Conservation Park (better known as the Bronx Zoo) and the New York Botanical Garden.
Parking: The PF Parking lot (718-430-7021), located on Eastchester Road, is one block north of Morris Park Avenue on the west side of the street. Please call for its hours of operation and other information. There's also a 24-hour (Einstein) Weiler Hospital parking lot on Sacket Avenue on Eastchester Road, opposite the Weiler Hospital, a short walk to the Belfer Building.


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I also set myself another task and that was to achieve this end using communication technologies I hadn't used in that way before. So this ruled out using WS, and led me straight towards the world of POX... or is it REST, I'm not sure I can tell :)
Now taking my own advice and separating "Service" from invocation using a Facade to enable WS and REST on the same code base I quickly knocked up a servlet that takes in a place name (or a geo coord) and returns it as an RSS encoded entry. It also takes in a transport type (more of that later) which is basically to enable pass through. The Place search Pipe uses the same backend service as the WS service, with information ripped from Wikipedia.
Next up is to then have a source of information that will make this all useful. Welcome to Blogger as a data store: My trip blog is just test data (except the last destination for which I leave today). This gave me an input RSS feed that could then be consumed by another pipe, the next pipe is a bit more complex. Firstly it takes in a feed and then orders by date (the opposite way around to most feeds) and then it uses that information to call the first pipe to obtain a geo-tagged set of information. This Geotagging Pipe turns the blog feed into a set of points.
The final pipe in this stage is then one that is meant for cloning by other people if they want to do the same (thinking of the consumer's view) that one can be found here (NB you need to look at the RSS to get the real info).
Stage two of this exercise was then to have something that would take that RSS feed and do all the calculations. Again a quick bit of development followed by fronting using Rome and the next stage was ready. Using the JCoord library to do the distance calculations and taking the carbon numbers from The National Energy Foundation the next servlet was soon deployed. So back into Yahoo Pipes it was, this time taking the URI of the generated feed which is then passed to the new servlet which then returns its resuts as another RSS feed. The carbon calculation Pipe takes an input (as text because Yahoo pipes kept trying to be clever when I used a URL builder) of the Pipe generated RSS feed and then dumps it to the servlet. A Consumer focused (clonable) implementation for my feed is then available here.
Okay so there you have it a few hours of working and its all working, taking information geo ripped from Wikipedia, a blog feed and a bunch of servlets all done using RSS.
Now there is one slight issue here. I've got the carbon calculations for "train", "plane" and "car" but for some reason when you debug the feeds it shows the categories correctly but the deployed pipe is devoid of any category information, so at the moment this means all journeys are calculated based on flying. Other issues are that the database isn't complete (I need to update my regexp stuff to catch some more entries) and the search is currently "first" rather than "best" so London = London borough of Croydon.
Next step (obviously) is to take that feed and turn it into a GoogleMap.
Now one question I have is... did I "do" REST?
If I have time at the station I might lob up a picture of how it all works.
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Prep notebook: Horizon finishes in top eight at NFL's national 7-on-7 event
Horizon advanced to the quarterfinals of the NFL's national 7-on-7 event in Indianapolis last Friday and Saturday before bowing out. The Hawks were an impressive 5-2 in pool play over the two-day event to earn a berth in the elimination tournament.
Horizon won the Broncos' 7-on-7 event last month to qualify for the national tournament — one of four actual high school teams to qualify. (The remainder of the qualifying teams were, in effect, all-star teams from their respective areas, according to Broncos media relations.)
The national event featured 32 entrants from each NFL city. As such, each participating team was branded with NFL gear — Horizon representing in Broncos' jerseys, shorts and sweatshirts. Read more…