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March 30 2012 12:01PM
So the Oilers play the LA Kings tonight in another meaningless game do they? And Gregor is doing married guy stuff before his show and asked us to write the GDB on his behalf? How will we live with the pressure of trying to describe a game that will be forgotten by 99% of us within days?
Fingers and brain don't fail us now!*
A great many folks have done a great many things in the name of "better than nothing." Say you are the unfortunate fellow in the picture above. You say to your wife "Honey, now that the kids are grown up and have left the house we should get a pet! How about a Golden Retriever?"
When the wife strolls in with two spider monkeys and digs up boxes of old childeren's clothing from the basement you quickly come to the sobering realization that the dog you wanted probably isn't on its way. But do you shun the creepy little buggers? No. You dress them up in the family's finest and grimace your way through a series of photos at the local Walmart.
You know why?
Because it's better than nothing.
Now what if you are this little girl? Your parents have set up the video camera and on the eve of Santa's arrival you get to open an early Christmas present. Little would you know that they watch the Jimmy Kimmel show and he has put out a challenge to viewers to give their kids crappy Christmas presents and video their reactions.
How are you to know that Christmas has turned from a joyous day for Children into a joyous day for Jimmy Kimmel and his burning desire to ruin everything? As this big Chicago Bears fan opens up a Packers jersey and promptly flips her Dad the Christmas Bird, we can see that in some cases something is definitely not better than nothing.
So Oilers what's it gonna be tonight? We will be tuning into the game from beginning to end despite the fact it is Friday night, there are a myriad of other things to do and we know this game doesn't exactly mean the world to you.
Jason Strudwick described this in gory detail in his earlier article and we can't help but ask ourselves how we are supposed to find inspiration to watch the game when the millionaires collecting bags of cash can't be bothered to get amped up themselves.
But tune in we will. Why? Because it is better than nothing. Even the worst Oilers game in history is better than nothing. Even a 1-0 shutout loss to some awful team on a Sunday afternoon is better than nothing. Even a pre-season game between split squads of the Oilers and the Columbus Blue Jackets is better than nothing.
And in a few short weeks that is exactly what we will be left with. Nothing.
So go Oilers. Snipe a few would ya?
According to the Oilers twitter feed the scratches tonight are Belanger, Omark, Barker, Petrell and Fedun. More information to follow as it becomes available. Linus Omark also tweeted the message above which suggests he is either confused by something or the question mark key on his Blackberry is stuck. More information on that too should we find out more.
Apparently Linus Omark didn't tweet about a hundred frustrated question marks because he found out he is a healthy scratch tonight. Even though he tweeted it right around the time he would have been finding out the bad news. We can safely make this conclusion because he tweeted in his charming way that we are all wrong if that's what we all thought.
Ha ha! Jokes on us right Linus? And you thought he was on a different page than Oilers management. Scratch that kind of thinking you negative nelly.
*That's obviously what she said
March 30 2012, 05:13PM
This site will NEVER have a better picture than that poor bugger with the monkeys. If EVER a man perfected the "kill me. kill me now" look it's him.
Slow clap for brilliance!
March 30 2012, 01:27PM
On a side note #NugeForCalder
Holy crap, is it just me or does that monkey in the dress have a disproportionately large package?
That monkey penis threatened my manlihood. I felt like he was challenging me; with it just hanging out like that.
Who the hell does he think he is? Ill punch a chimp out!
Detroit Red Wings:
"Hello, Oilers fans, look at your team, now back to me, now back at your team, now back to me. Sadly, they are not me, but if they switched to a mix of grit and skill, they could look like they're me. Look down, back up, where are you? You're at the game watching a team your team could look like. What's in your hand, back at me. I have it, it's a ticket to the Stanley cup finals. Look again, the ticket is now celebratory beverages after winning the cup, Anything is possible when your team switches to a mix of good skill and grit, and not the undersized team of today, I'm on a horse."
Seriously, somebody tell this team that they are in 29th place - why the hell don't they play Omark.
C'mon and throw Omark into a couple of the last few games and see what he can do on the top 6.
And while you are at it, sign the two spider monkeys to a tryout contract, give them Todd Marchant's old equipment and try them out on the blue line for a game or two. Let's see any opposing forwards get by our poo flinging defencemen (ah, it's just like having Pronger back on "D", isn't it?)...
March 30 2012, 03:09PM
Holy crap, is it just me or does that monkey in the dress have a disproportionately large package?
The better question should be why you are checking out a monkeys junk.
March 30 2012, 04:40PM
So Omark and PRV get a handful of games to "prove" themselves (playing mostly 3rd line), are found wanting, and are now trade fodder?
In the meantime, Gagner gets 5 years and still can't check a suitcase, let alone a real hockey player, but he still gets lots of rope because he might be approaching his "breakout" year?
Nope, let's just move along here, nothing to see, no double standards around this coach or team...
I dont recall Omark or Paajarvi ever having a 8 point game.
*checks ye olde timey record book*
Nope. Never happened.
March 30 2012, 05:02PM
I'm pretty certain that these "GAGNER IS CRAPPY!" dummies are probably the same people that are still lamenting the loss of Rob Schremp.
March 30 2012, 08:54PM
Someone should inform Khabibulin that we can't finish 30th anymore. He can quit playing ~MVP~ hockey anytime.
March 30 2012, 11:31PM
Yea that's why he's a plus player on this team, cause of his god awful defence.
March 30 2012, 12:19PM
Omark's response to being in the PB is hilarious.
Omark is so done in Oilerville
Well you know it's the wife who is driving the bus here. Look at the smile!!! SHE'S in heaven! Buddy looks like he wishes he was the guy who told Joe Pesci to get his shine box in Goodfellas!
March 30 2012, 01:02PM
Seriously, somebody tell this team that they are in 29th place - why the hell don't they play Omark.
Because he isnt going to be an Oiler next year and the Team would rather play people who might actually have an NHL future?
@Matt Henderson
So lets make sure his trade value is as low as possible. Wow, great plan Oilers, great use of a possible trade asset
Wang? Isn't that the dude who owns the Islanders?
Omark's ?????? tweet came immediately after Paajarvi tweeted about reading on the way to Edmonton. He just probably knew the recall rules unlike management.
March 30 2012, 08:08PM
The Quebec govt. is free to toss around $$$ because it is courtesy our tax dollars, kinda like free money. Merci Alberta.
March 30 2012, 08:22PM
Is that monkey clear of thetans yet?
March 30 2012, 09:11PM
Hopkins really isn't afraid to throw his weight around... just wish he weighed more!
Is starting Khabibulin our gift to LA to allow them to leapfrog Calgary in the standings?
Let's see here.....1.....yep.........2.......ah ugh.........3.......ok.........4........yea that wasn't so hard?
EDIT: oh wait!.... 5.......damnit!! This is tricky
March 30 2012, 12:19PM
A big oiler win to beat down king chances, some payback for luring away Gretz with morally empty L.A. promises and thier evil blonde temptress Janet. Plus, maybe Calgary can pass the kings and finish 9th, so they get a slightly worse draft spot and maybe delude themselves a little longer thus delaying the inevetable rebuild. 3-1 oil with 2 goals for RNH.
I'm not sure about that guy with the monkey, I think he secretly loves it deep down.
lol This is taken from the Wanye Collection Circa 2041
You mean that's your future?!?!?! Or your past that will come back to haunt you?
March 30 2012, 12:31PM
On a hockey topic, why did they recall Paajarvi. Is he playing tonight?
On a hockey topic, why did they recall Paajarvi. Is he playing tonight?
Imagine so. Suspect he trimmed those sideburns.
March 30 2012, 12:39PM
Imagine so. Suspect he trimmed those sideburns.
Did he take any of the nerve tonic?
March 30 2012, 12:46PM
As opposed to Linus Omark, who has decided barbers are his enemy.
The Wayne family photo. I'll give you 2 guesses which one is Wanye.
Hint: blue plaid was his favorite in those days.
PS: I've let my twitter obsession fade.. They called up Paajarvi? Why in hell did they do that? Is OKC Tanking with him on the team?
Omark's newest tweet.
"its not becuase im helthy scratch like some people think! "
March 30 2012, 01:02PM
Let me guess: Awkwardfamilyphotos.com?
Gotta be one of the funniest photos I've seen in months
March 30 2012, 01:24PM
@Matt Henderson
Arch you just love kicking your goat while he's down don't you?
March 30 2012, 01:24PM
So we can get a 4th round pick instead of a 5th round pick but we have to watch Omark play hockey poorly? No thanks. He isnt changing anybody's mind in the next handful of games.
You want a flashy puck handler who might score 30 points, excite fans in the shootout, but give up tons defensively? He's your guy. I think people already know that.
March 30 2012, 01:26PM
Arch you just love kicking your goat while he's down don't you?
Yes, but in all seriousness that IS why he isnt playing. It's pretty obvious he isnt in their plans and guys like Hartikainen and Paajarvi still are.
If Omark had the confidence of the coach and the organization he would be playing.
Seriously, somebody tell this team that they are in 29th place - why the hell don't they play Omark.
Omark is not a part of the future. He is whiny and not good enough.
And as for the inevitable chirps about playing to raise his value. Really? Do you really think "showcasing" him would accomplish anything.
He gets qualified and then traded. End of story.
C'mon and throw Omark into a couple of the last few games and see what he can do on the top 6.
And while you are at it, sign the two spider monkeys to a tryout contract, give them Todd Marchant's old equipment and try them out on the blue line for a game or two. Let's see any opposing forwards get by our poo flinging defencemen (ah, it's just like having Pronger back on "D", isn't it?)...
Really monkeys on defense.... isn't that what Barker is already??????????? If I were to get a couple of monkeys on this team they would be taking Lowe and Tambos jobs. I'm sure the trade off would be pretty much equal except the monkeys would probably do more.
Hahahahaha so Hall's Labia Surgery, Nipples and know Monkey Management hahahahaha this has been one of the best weeks on Oilers Nation. hahahaha TGIF
March 30 2012, 01:42PM
Off topic: Seattle is in preliminary stages of planning a new waterfront $500 mil US arena. Of course it will be completed before our downtown project breaks ground; my question is will Katz use Seattle as leverage or will the NHL wait to move Phoenix so it remains in a big market[Quebec is 1/5 the size of Seattle]?
The man pushing forward the Seattle plan is a wealthy Seattle native who loved the Sonics,similar to our situation except the Seattle rich dude actually loved the local pro team, he didn't just do some lines of pharmaceutical grade with the teams stars, allegedly.
Any chance another local ownership group steps up? Absentee landlords can be a drag.
March 30 2012, 01:44PM
Hahahahaha so Hall's Labia Surgery, Nipples and know Monkey Management hahahahaha this has been one of the best weeks on Oilers Nation. hahahaha TGIF
*laughing hysterically slowly morphs into inconsolable crying*
Omark is so done in Oilerville
Really? I would make it 70-30 he does return to Sweden. But who can say. The team is 29th not because of Omark. Perhaps things may have been different if was in the lineup. Maybe we would have been 28th.
I don't know who I want to win. I want Eberle and the Nuge to get 4 points each. And I love seeing the oilers win. But if we win it helps the Flames get closer to the playoffs. If we lose it helps the Kings get closer to the playoffs. If we win it helps the Oilers get more points than the leafs. But if the Leafs have more points they could get a better draft pick.
March 30 2012, 02:05PM
Dubya^ here i thought it was because this poor bugger married a Cathy Bates Look-a-Like
as for Omark?
... take your attitude elsewhere
good luck with the rest of your career
decisions, decisions
March 30 2012, 02:22PM
Im stoked to hear that Belanger is taking a seat tonight bout bloody time imo.
I want the Oil to win more than where they place for the draft, ST has the choice of 3 good dmen to pick from, I could care less about the top 2 picks.
Conspericy theroy: the lafs win the lottery because "it's the center of all that is holy" but Burke trades said pick to get Nash, forever handcuffing the team in the salary cap NEVER TO WIN THE CUP AGAIN!!!! MUUUHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
March 30 2012, 02:49PM
My question is why do we keep playing potter? God is he just awful. He just doesn't do enough offensively to make up for his complete defensive lapse. He will never be a full time nhl defensemen on a quality nhl team.... I hate favouritism and renney just loves him don't no why but ya


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Very good pve, medium pvp, medium / weak crafting, good rp possibilities, very good atmosphere, very nice community.
Hope that sums it up...you can buy the box and are good to go. Optional you can buy dlc's, or clothes/pets/xp boosts in the shop.
You can do missions in any order, most of them are repeatable and sometimes very much thinking and investigation is involved. PVP are warezones (3 Factions), but some kind of open pvp is in the works. You are able to tank, dmg or heal with 1 char, there is very much flexibility. I would call it a sandy Themepark puzzle MMO
This is, in no way, shape or form, a sandbox game, remember that. Its primarily themepark, with the main selling points being character flexability, story, setting, atmosphere, and investigation mission (puzzle quests). PvP is instanced, but pve is where the real meat of the game is.
PvE is very SWTORish in terms of presentation, you get a cutscene for the quest (done better in both writing and voiceacting than with TOR IMO) then you go do it.
Dont get me wrong, I love the game, but it really doesnt sound like what you're looking for.
Its not sandbox cause its very linear. In my opinion this game combines few game types: adventure horror mmorpg puzzle. The quests and strory are the most important. If you do not like story and cinematics before every normal quest it may be not for you.
This game is hard and challenging in few aspects. Most of the puzzle quests are not possible to solve by yourself. You have to use solution, walkthrough outside of the game.
Skill system also can be challenging because there are no classes and you can spend points on any skills among hundreds of them. If you spend points in wrong skills, you may have problems later in combat. Skills are also not standard, and not easy to understand. Often damage is not important but proper combination of skills active and passive and combination of states like afflicted, impaired, hindered, weakened etc.
Its a horror game and almost all quests are negative: someone died, commit suicide, killed someone, invoking ghosts, interested in paranormal etc.
I play this game only for interesting story quests, cinematics, atmosphere, sound, music.
The engine of the game is badly optimized and laggy. I can run and play smoothly BF3, Planetside 2, GW2, LOTRO, but this game often lagging and FPS drop below 20. Long loading time when changing zones.
Its just one time payment so its worth the rich content of the game.
No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin
Originally posted by Derros
Dont get me wrong, I love the game, but it really doesnt sound like what you're looking for.
+1, and I also love the game since launch. As others stated, if you love sandbox and pvp, maybe this is not the droid you're looking for
TSW isn't a sandbox (sandbox-y at most, in the way you can develop your character in any direction), and as most players agree on, pvp is maybe the weakest point of it. I can't say it for sure since I don't pvp, but that's what I heard
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
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"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
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You like video games?
Hey if you got the cash try this video game.
Or pick up something on Steam.
Honestly if you're fishing for someone to tell you it's like a sandbox.. It's not. Progression in leveling up you got a few options, progression on where you level up or how, no real options. It's growing and for a flat fee that's kind of novel.
a yo ho ho
Let one of these threads convince you
btw there are no hidden costs whatsover, it´s B2P. You can get cosmetic stuff from the cash shop, and some XP boosts, but that´s it.
Future content additions will be optional downloads or you get them with the optional membership points
No P2W or nasty gambling grab boxes, no "exchange gems for gold ripoffs".
It´s a very good MMO with an honest business model, even got the liftetime membership package and lovin´ it. (Playing since August here)
I also loved SWG, and SWTOR did not live up to my expectations, but TSW fully did. It´s not a sandbox per-se but the free character development and material based crafting feels pretty sandboxy to me. I´d almost say it´s a theme park MMO with some nice sandboxy features.
Also the zones are huge and varied, and there are day/night changes.
Next big zone to come is Tokio
Also it has been hinted in a dev stream there are open world PvP objectives, like events in development. Right now PvP is instanced warzones
Secrets of Dragon?s Spine Trailer.. !
Best MMOs ever played: Ultima, EvE, SW Galaxies, Age of Conan, The Secret World
It's not a sandbox, but has some of the best PvE around. Here's a good write up, and would be what I would say to anyone interested in the game:
PvP is a work in progress -- there are people who play and have fun with it, but be prepared to work for it.
Originally posted by Walic
Pretty much what the subject is.......I want everyone that plays or tried the game to convince me to play it. To help you out some my favorite game of all time is SWG pre-CU. I love sandbox games, being able to do whatever I want when I want and haven't no direction. I like to PVP more controled if possible dont like being ganked nonstop. From what I got from the reading is that it is now a B2P the same model as GW2, but I keep hereing about fees and stuff so what is the sub like? Other then that just start plugging your game tell me about it.............Convince me.........
Based on the little info provided:
PVP in TSW sucks, it's terrible.
TSW is not a sandbox.
So, based on that, don't bother.
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Originally posted by Alchimes
This game is hard and challenging in few aspects. Most of the puzzle quests are not possible to solve by yourself. You have to use solution, walkthrough outside of the game.
Well no... the investigation missions can be REALLY tricky; you have to pay close attention to the mission-giver and clues, and make plenty of use of the Internet (the game has a built-in browser for a reason). I'm most of the way through "Hell and Bach", looked at an online walkthrough of my current progress and wanted to kick myself. After brute-forcing the 2nd and 3rd translations with guesswork and an online Latin phrase site, I learned that the phrases are in the instances as graffiti!
In-game London has some nice amenities: bank-mail-sales sites, a clothing store, a bar with dance floor, and a theater you can rent for productions (some props are loot drops and you can buy others).
It doesnt cost you much to try it out. More like a couple beers. And id recommend getting a couple of beer in the house together with the game because you are gonna love it, enjoy it and forget about the time. So better get the things you need to enjoy the weekend before you start playing! :-)
So why not I ask. I am sure you will realize you should have tried it out months ago!
I just don't understand threads like this.
There is a vast plethora of information about the game. Everything from player reviews to screenshot galleries to 'how to' youtube videos to entire web sites dedicated soley to The Secret World.
What are we, some players, going to be able to show you that you don't already have access to?
If it's a matter of you not wanting to do the research for yourself, well, sorry but I'm not going to do it for you.
It's a good game. It has some really great things about it and some things that aren't so great. It's relatively cheap to try. I play it and have fun. What more can I say?
New build in progress.
Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well sorry I wanted to get input from the players, and their thoughts if I would like that game with the type of gaming I like, so thank you for the people that helped me out.
To the trolls and other A$$holes that didn't F*ck off...
Originally posted by r3zs1ckn3ss
Well it's free, if you go to the thread about what games we're all playing right now, you'll see TSW pop up numerous times almost more than any other mentioned. So if it's FREE, and a lot of people are obviously playing it, the only thing left as far as convincing is making an account and downloading the game.
It isn't free, it's buy-to-play. I believe the 3-5 day trial went away when the payment model changed.
Originally posted by Walic
Well sorry I wanted to get input from the players, and their thoughts if I would like that game with the type of gaming I like, so thank you for the people that helped me out. To the trolls and other A$$holes that didn't F*ck off...
Honestly, you don't sound very sorry.
Originally posted by Walic
Well sorry I wanted to get input from the players, and their thoughts if I would like that game with the type of gaming I like, so thank you for the people that helped me out. To the trolls and other A$$holes that didn't F*ck off...
Let us know what you decided to do :-)
Originally posted by Chtuga
Originally posted by Walic
Well sorry I wanted to get input from the players, and their thoughts if I would like that game with the type of gaming I like, so thank you for the people that helped me out. To the trolls and other A$$holes that didn't F*ck off...
Let us know what you decided to do :-)
I, for one, am on pins and needles, breath held in anticipation!
...... no..
TSW is a great game and I enjoy playing inmensely... but its main strenghts are in the story and athmosphere, IMHO. It's quite the opposite to what you describe to like.
Tthere are 8 areas in the game and you're mostly directed to which area you have to go, and to a lesser extent where in the area you have to be, depending on your gear level and the point you are in the main storyline, and actually at several points some areas are completely off limits even if you're at the apropiate gear level until you reach a specific milestone in the main storyline.
The game is completely based on quests (missions), but they're more involved than other games. While there are a few "kill X, bring Y" kind of quests, there are fewer and I never found myself thinking "ok, who was it that asked me to kill these wolves and why?.. was this farmer or that hunter?". Investigation missions are the highlight of the questing system for me, but they're not for everyone. Personally I come from a gaming background heavy on old school adventure games, even from before they were point and click and you had to use a text parser, so I love the investigation missions and so far I've managed to solve all the ones I've found without using walktroughts, but some can be very hard so they're not for everyone. Personally I love the fact that you have to go out of the game to solve some of them (for example, one character mentions having a blog, and turns out the blog actually exists and you have to visit it to find the clues needed to progress), and you will have to check some information that can be obscure to you like morse code or bible verses, which I also love, but some people hate the fact that not all the information needed is available inside the game, so your mileage may vary on that aspect.
Crafting is there, but doesn't really play a big role, and there's no crafting leveling either, if you have the materials and apropiate crafting kit (drop or bought from the auction house) you can craft the highest level items right away even if you've never done crafting before. PvP I've never tried, but there are only battlegrounds and Fusang, a persistent battelground, but that in most (or all) servers tend to be dominated by one faction, so if you belong to that faction fusang might be just a farming thing, or a hopeless cause if you belong to the other ones.
So, in short, if you're looking for a sanbox experience, stay away from TSW... if you want one of the best theme park experiences available today (IMHO) combined with a creepy horror athmosphere and some very good storytelling, go ahead and dive right in.
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A good portion of our lives is spent at the workplace and working at home. Globalization has taken "do more with less resources" to a new level. Using my career experiences, observations, and education, I will bring real-life scenarios of the Trilogy: Career, Management, and the Workplace to you for interactive dialogue and commenting. Work-life balance is not an easy feat. The goal of my blog is to dive into trilogy challenges we see and face as well as provide realistic approaches to move forward.
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We cannot continue to blame firearms for the tragic situations occurring around the world today. A firearm cannot load itself. A firearm does not decide who will seek it out. A firearm does not decide who will pick it up. A firearm cannot discharge itself.
Human choices enable all of these to take place, regardless of a person's state of mind – an individual choice was made. It does not matter how many laws are put into place. If a person wants a firearm bad enough, they will find it - legally or not.
To continue to hold law abiding citizens accountable for other's choices while taking away their freedoms has to stop. Each and every person is responsible and accountable for their own actions. Gun violence and related deaths are predominant in low income areas of every state. Why doesn't congress and all the other political fronts focus on the real issues crippling our people today; lack of food, loss / need of shelter, and unemployment.
I fear for every citizen, if the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Resolution is passed and brought to our legislation to be ratified. It will mean an end to our right to protect our homes, our children, and our livelihood. In addition, if no one is allowed to have a firearm, how many more jobs will be lost? It is basic economics – no sales = no need to produce = no jobs. Do we really want to revert to prohibition days?
I applaud Darrell Scott for standing up in front of Congress and reminding them of how taking away the freedoms, rights, privileges, and liberties the United States of America was built upon, is destroying our country. I am one of the "young ones," who will not allow his daughter's death to be in vain. God bless the Scott family. Thank you for being strong and realistic.
Speech by a Columbine Father
Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee 12 -years after the Columbine shootings. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. It is a speech he has been giving for years now… it never varies much because Darrell Scott speaks from the heart. It also isn't a speech that our government and progressive leaders were expecting.
They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well, but it needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, every counselor, every security officer and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating. moving and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man to us as a voice crying in the wilderness… Source: http://askmarion.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/columbine-father-12-years-later/
"At this very moment in a cemetery in Southern Denver - Chapel Hill Cemetery - they're erecting 13 crosses that I think are well known across the country, as a permanent memorial at the head of my daughter's grave. And my heart really longs to be there with my children, Bethany and her husband Don, Dana, Craig, and Mike, but it's with their blessing that I'm here today, and I appreciate that.
I realize that I'm a mere pawn in today's hearings, but I'm a willing pawn, because I dare to believe that I can make a difference. Every once in a while, a pawn has been used to checkmate a king. I have no hidden agenda, and of course I have no political aspirations. I simply speak to you as a brokenhearted father, and I only ask that you allow your heart to hear me for the next few minutes.
Since the dawn of creation, there has been both good and evil in the hearts of men and women, and we all contain those seeds: We contain the seeds of kindness and we contain the seeds of violence. And the death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joyce Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other 11 children who died, must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.
The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used, neither was it the NCA - the National Club Association - the true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in his heart. In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA, I am not a hunter, I do not even own a gun, I'm not here to represent or to defend the NRA, because I don't believe they are responsible for my daughter's death, therefore I don't believe they need to be defended by me. If I believed that they had anything to do with Rachel's murder, I would be their strongest opponent. I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy, it was a spiritual event which should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies. Much of that blame lays here in this room - much of that blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves.
I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expressed my feelings best, and it was written before I knew that I would be speaking here today, and I'd like to read that:
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
Men and women are three part beings: we have a body, and we have a soul, and we have a spirit ... And I believe we fail to recognize that third element, that really does need to be recognized by the legislative bodies of this country, that's been ignored for so long. Spiritual influences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries, and we know this is a historic fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We've refused to honor God, and in doing so we opened the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs, politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that continue to erode away our personal and private liberties.
We don't need more restrictive laws. Erik and Dylan would not have been stopped by more gun laws or metal detectors. No amount of laws can stop someone who spends months of planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts. Political posturing and restrictive legislation are not the answers. The young people of our nation hold the key, and there is a spiritual awakening that is taking place that will not be squelched. We don't need more religion, we don't need more gaudy television evangelists spewing out verbal religious garbage, we do not need more million dollar church buildings built while people's basic needs are being ignored. We do need a change of heart and a humble acknowledgement that this nation was founded on the principle of simple trust in God.
When my son Craig lie under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he didn't hesitate to pray in school, and I defy any law or politician to deny him that right. I challenge every young person in America and around the world to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, prayer was brought back to our schools. Don't let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your conscience and denies your God-given right to communicate with Him.
And to those of you who would blame the NRA, I give to you a sincere challenge: dare to examine your own heart before you cast the first stone. My daughter's death will not be in vain: the young people of this country will not allow that to happen. And remember that even a pawn in a master's hand can accomplish much. Thank you very much". Source: http://www.nrawinningteam.com/scotttext.html
Sending daily prayers out to all affected by the senseless tragedies plaguing our world today.
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Random Thoughts - On Kanzig and Brodie
Kent Wilson
July 15 2013 01:39PM
A couple of bits are causing some consternation in Flamesland these days - specifically my takes on TJ Brodie and Keegan Kanzig.
For Brodie, there's a lot of push back on my interest in inking him long-term. Not an unreasonable reaction to tell you the truth - the issue at the heart of the debate is risk vs reward. If you don't rate Brodie as I do or are uncomfortable with the level of risk involved, you won't have much interest in a 7-year type commitment. And fair enough.
I'll say again I don't think a short-term bridge deal is a necessarily a bad play and if the Flames go that direction (which I assume they will), I won't be upset. My presumption is there's more upside to be ahd in locking him down long-term and buying UFA years cheaply now versus what I assume they will cost down the road.
Let's put it another way - 7 years sounds like a long time, but Brodie is in RFA territory for the next 5 years of his career anyways - meaning the Flames will almost certainly be paying him something between now and when he can potentially go UFA. The extra commitment in a 7 year deal is the additional 2 years which are completely optional from the team and player perspective.
So the key question on a long-term deal based on the parameters I previously established are:
1.) How much more expensive is Brodie at 3.5M/year versus a cheaper, bridge contract?
2.) Will Brodie be cheaper/more expensive than 3.5M to re-sign as an RFA after the bridge deal expires?
3.) How much will it cost to buy Brodie's UFA seasons in the future vs now?
Personally, I think there's a non-trivial chance given Brodie's underlying numbers, his comparables and a raising cap that he costs more than 3.5M post-bridge contract. If Brodie is top-3 on the Flames blueline in terms of ice time and points for the next couple of seasons, his future pricetag rises incrementally with each step closer he gets to unrestricted free agency.
One need not compare Brodie to PK Subban, Alex Pietrangelo or Drew Doughty to project a future 5M+ cap hit. There are defenders in the league who make five bills or more who aren't perennial all-stars or established, high impact first pairing guys. For example, James Wisniewski ($5.5M), Matt Carle ($5.5M), Paul Martin ($5M), Alexander Edler ($5M), Mark Streit ($5.75M), Tobias Enstrom ($5.75M), Tyler Myers ($5.5M) and of course Oliver Ekman-Larsson ($5.25M). While some of these guys resigned as UFA's, keep in mind the closer a player gets to UFA in the current market, the more likely a team is to pay UFA market price to retain the player. The Kris Letang extension is a recent example of this effect.
In addition, many of these players were inked when the cap was lower. Cap Geek has a list including their percentage of cap hit in the first year each deal was signed, with the range settling between 6.77% and 9.33%. If Brodie's bridge last two years and he is a top-3 blueliner for the Flames over that period, it's not outrageous to assume he could settle into 6.5-7% of cap ceiling territory. That would put his next deal conservatively at $4.5-$5M, depending on where the cap settles out two or three years from now.
So that's where I am coming from on this issue. Again, if Calgary inks him for something $1.75M for the next two years, it's not a terrible move. They'll likely get really good value out of him during the contract at that price and the deal protects them should he take a step backward or fail to actually develop any further. On the other hand, if he continues his rapid ascent up the depth chart and especially if he gets a 35-40 point season under his belt, look for his pricetag to probably triple when the bridge ends.
- On a related note, it's ironic that the Josi contract put me in mind of this deal for Brodie because I don't actually like the contract for Roman Josi. He is the same age as Brodie, played roughly the same number of games and appeared on Nashville's first pairing last year, but his underlying numbers are nowhere near as good. As a rookie his possession rates were meh. With Weber on the top pairing this past year, he mostly got beat up. Oh, and when he wasn't skating with Weber, his rates were even worse.
Josi is also getting $4M/year from the Preds which I would consider on the high side for Brodie (3.5M or less would be my comfort zone for him at 7 years), making it an even worse bet.
- Next, my panning of the Keegan Kanzig pick. It's true I had not seen the player play when the Flames called his name in the third round. It's possible though not probable he's a diamond in the rough like Zdeno Chara, rather than a immobile goonish type player. If so, I will naturally be thrilled if Kanzig turns out to be a monster shut-down guy in the show and perhaps that sort of upside is worth tossing a long-bomb in the third round now and then.
But I'm not sure some folks realize just how long of a long-shot Kanzig is.
Third rounders make it to the NHL at a rate of about 10-15% overall. If we limit our investigations to defenders - specifically, defenders who score at a low rate like Kanzig, the odds shift to lottery ticket territory. I noted this article on defenseman scoring in junior and future NHL success around the time of the draft, but failed to link to the follow-up which includes a few more details.
Here's the key graph from that post:
This shows all the defenders picked in the 51-100 range from the CHL between 1999-2008. As you see, this where a lot of the low scoring guys tend to get chosen. As you can also see, not one of them who scored anywhere near Kanzig's rate (0.1 points-per-game) played a meaningful number of games in the show. One guy managed just north of 20% of all games available, but most of them cluster around never even getting a cup of coffee.
Considering the entire data set (including first and second rounders), there was one successful pick of 105 players over a near decade of drafts who scored between 0-0.2 PPG and crossed the 40% game played threshold (but not 50%) highlighted in the graph. That's a success rate of less than 1%.
Furthermore, you can count on one hand the number of very big men (over 240 pounds) who have been useful at the NHL level beyond the mucker/goon role since the first lock-out in 2004: Zdeno Chara, Dustin Byfuglien, Andy Sutton and Hal Gill - and I'm stretching things a bit to include Gill and Sutton who were mostly 3rd pairing guys. Tyler Meyers is in the conversation as well given his height, although he's not quite 240+ (yet).
It's a short list not only because men of that size are rare, but because huge dudes are often hampered by issues of speed, agility and dexterity. While hockey is a game of strength, violence and intimidation, it is also a game of speed, agility, decision-making and split second reactions. Just as small guys tend to have challenges at the one end of the spectrum, giant man mountains tend to struggle at the opposite end.
Of course, none of this means Kanzig won't be that rare outlier like Chara because sometimes you win the lottery. From the available data, though, it currently seems like the Flames converted a 10-15% chance at an NHL player to a less than 1% chance for the privilege of wishing on that outcome.
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I guess I wonder if it makes sense to absolutely write off a guy based on stats alone. I question what it is the professional scouts saw in this guy and whether we can say that they are out of their minds based on the numbers. Conroy identified Kanzig as one of the players he was most pleased with in camp. I understand the logic that Kent has laid out in coming to the conclusion that the Flames have lessened their odds by drafting Kanzig. (though your counter gave me pause..) I guess my biggest sticking point continues to be drawing an absolute conclusion that this guy will never make it and that the Flames brass are idiots. (without having seen him play) Furthermore I am pretty certain that the name calling of an eighteen year old draft pick was unproductive in moving the debate forward.


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Thinking with an Empty Net: Coaching Changes and Draft Rankings
Kevin McCartney
May 23 2013 07:08PM
Every week or two, I have a few thoughts. This week I consider Gary Lawless' call for Alain Vigneault as coach in light of the news that he's available and look at Cory Pronman's newest draft rankings .
Coaching Opportunities
- Gary Lawless is mad. First he wants Byfuglien out, then he wanted Noel replaced by Alain Vigneault. Well, step one is complete. Alain Vigneault is available. In fact, there are a lot of big-name coaches in play this off-season, and with a somewhat underwhelming free-agent market, a few teams may make their biggest splash behind the bench.
- I think the fan base can afford to be a bit divided on whether Noel is a good coach. He has extensive experience grooming players. He's well spoken and the media likes him well enough. The roster has clear problems from the net out and it's hard to say whether a 9th place finish in the East is evidence of Noel getting a lot or a little out of his group.
- That said, with news that Burmistrov wants out, the epic mystery of his line combinations, and outrageously bad special teams, there is a fair argument that Claude Noel is not be the guy for the job. Certainly that's my opinion.
- I like Alain Vigneault - I think he deserves credit for managing his roster to get the Sedins 100 points, and for turning Bieksa, Kesler, Burrows, and others into exceptional two way players from their humble beginnings as mistake prone bottom-of-the-roster guys. Vigneault boasts a .583 points % over his 800 game Head Coach career. He did very little with a mostly bad Montreal team in the late '90's, and did well with a good Canucks roster lately (6 of his 7 seasons, the Canucks won the Northwest Division). He has two President's Trophies and three Jack Adam's nominations (including 1 win). Impressive resume.
- Still, how about Dave Tippett? He holds a .617 points % through 738 games with less talented teams all in the significantly harder Pacific division. His post-season success is even less than Vigneault's, of course. But he has one Jack Adams nomination (which he won) and three Pacific Division titles. One of them with the Coyotes, remember. Perhaps he's better suited to squeezing wins out of an under-talented squad with a lot of replacement level bodies on the depth chart?
- The Jets haven't shown a strong sense for windows of opportunity, or at least haven't tipped their hand clearly about when their intended window begins. With that in mind, Claude Noel may be a necessary 'fall man' should the team slide up the draft board for 2014 (intentionally or not). Money - both paying Noel and some of his assistants to go away and paying a big name big bucks - may also be a factor in standing pat.
- This seems like the season to go hard after a difference making coach. They don't come around every year. Were I a betting man, I'd bet the Jets quietly watch as better coaches find jobs before they've made a decision on Noel, trade Burmistrov after the draft for next year's less valuable picks, and then replace Noel next year with an experienced but decidedly average coach (it's Paul Maurice, let's not kid ourselves).
- (Hilarious side note: Patrick Roy to take over the Avalanche?! I'd give so much to play in Conference A next year...)
Draft Rankings
- Cory Pronman came out with his new draft rankings this month. Pronman's work at Hockey Prospectus is a must-read for draft watchers.
- The draft this year is being discussed as perhaps 60 players deep, with top flight talent 10-12 player deep (of course, because the Jets select at 13th). Some are comparing the first round to 2003 - a year with 16 NHL All-Stars to-be selected in round 1 and Marcel Comeau's first draft as Head Scout of the Thrashers/Jets franchise.
- Famously, Corey Perry went 28th overall that year. Less famously, the Kings had two picks at 26th and 27th - taking Brian Boyle and Jeff Tambellini in a bid for the best Fat / Skinny combo seen since 1988. (In reality, of course, it was worse than the combo of Fat Kurri and haven't-played-in-four-years Gretzky at the 2003 Old Timer's Heritage Classic)
- Speaking of the Oilers, everyone's favourite story from that year, of course, is when the Oilers traded down from the 9th ranked North American skater in Zach Parise to take Marc Antoine Pouliot (I've linked to his career stats in case you wanted an extended laugh). Keep that in mind while Craig Button is prattling about how the Jets should trade down in a deep draft. BPA, Marcel Comeau. Please, for the love of wins.
- Anyway, Pronman's rankings: a lot has changed in the 10-16 area since we last had a look 6 weeks ago.
- Hunter Shinkaruk still sits at #10. The diminutive scorer was over-looked for the World Juniors this year, but scored 86 points for the WHL's 9th highest scoring Medicine Hat Tigers, and 91 in his 17 year old season. Still, he's a LW and along with the surging Swedish LW Andre Burakowsky, is unlikely to be targeted by a squad with Ladd and Kane written in pen on the portside of the depth chart for years to come.
- Interestingly, Darnell Nurse slid to #11 in Pronman's rankings. Nurse should remind Jets fans of Marcel Comeau's first ever pick as Head Scout - the sizeable, dependable, tradable Braydon Coburn. Both are left handed, defence first giants at a listed 6'5". Both made waves with their smooth skating and range as large defenders. Though Coburn's scoring was very poor in his draft year, it was for a Winterhawks team with 192 goals and 19 wins. Coburn's four years of junior he had 37, 19, 30, and 44 points (Nurse had 41 this year and just 10 last season). The Jets may see Nurse as a Ron Hainsey replacement down the road. Whether Nurse is available anywhere near #13 is unknown, however, as ISS currently has him ranked at #6 overall.
- On the opposite end of the scale comes Ryan Pulock - my personal hope for the Jets' first pick. The right handed, offensively gifted defender is all over the map in various draft rankings. Pronman has him at #12 (ISS at 14, if you were curious) and notes that his upside is as a top pairing defenceman with an element of risk in his game. Pulock's elite level shot and keen offensive instincts added to stong gap control and transitional play draws my mind to Washington's John Carlson. Both put up similar numbers in their draft year (Carlson: 59 GP 12-31-43 in the USHL and Pulock 61 GP 14-31-45 in the WHL). Though Carlson is a little taller, both are thick at a playing weight that hovers above 210lbs. Carlson has to be considered a better natural skater, has a little more edge to his game, and was more polished defensively at 18 than is Pulock currently. On the other hand, Pulock's 17 year old season saw him put up a whopping 19 goals and 60 points and his powerplay work is elite as much because of his exceptional decision making as his shot. What do you bet some pro level coaching adds some speed and physicality to his game to complete to comparison? Pulock and Trouba as a top pair could be exceptional in 2018.
- Pulock may even give the Jets the flexibility to move Byfuglien in time. I think we all want a happy Gary Lawless, and I'm not pinning my hopes on Vigneault.
May 24 2013, 11:40AM
I think you really gotta go goal-scoring. The art of picking goalies is alot easier if you make goaltending and playing defense your weakness. And that is what the NHL has become with shot-blocking and better goalie equipment: finding good goaltending. I'd prefer the exciting Mtl, Det and Chi team models than the 0-0 tie Vancouver coaching model. So no Vignault. Why didn't they trade a goalie?! Why didn't they start Luongo on his B-day?! As a reward for few misconducts, few suspensions, or being a Europe or outdoor game guinea pig, team could have the right to switch conferences for a few years or permanently if the travel increase is negligible. It was nice that the Jets had the opportunity to see and playoff play Washington and Pittsburgh. Is the ref who robbed Penner, fired yet??
May 24 2013, 11:44AM
And while the owners are pushing this change-the-channel 3pt league, coincidental penalties in a tie game could be served concurrently in the first two periods. Wiith "bonus mode" finicky reffing kicking in for games less than a goal a period. Benching Barker when they needed goals was dumb.
May 24 2013, 01:29PM
Ultimately drafting and trades/waivers are decisive. NYI picked up Grabner a while back and seems almost as important a piece as Tavares in making the playoffs. The Nabokov signing worked out well. But off vs def IMO: LA was D, Boston a shooters O though their passing sucked, Chi O, Pit O, Det O, Ana D, Car D (Ward though defencemen worse than this yr's Det), TB O, NJ D, Det O, Col O, NJ O... 7 to 3 for getting goals as opposed to stopping goals. It doesn't mean you don't address keeping; Edm would've made playoffs if they picked up a goalie but one of the Schultzes are young. Good drafting and good 3rd liner signing here, but bad Jokinen pickup. Maybe go more sure-thing for one year like Carolina signing Semin to 1 yr $6.5M or 7M. Draft Zadorov and D, and pickup a top line FW? I'm having trouble estimating salries of few D UFAs this yr.
May 24 2013, 02:06PM
Your friend Cory made an elementary mistake. He doesn't have goalies taken until 89th and 93rd. That has never happened before. I think Fucale is maybe a 2nd rounder but his technique looks solid and someone in need of a goalie will probably take him in the 1st round. Andrei Mironov is the only kid who made a solid playoff contribution on Dynamo; tied 2nd in D plus minus and goals. I can't see him sliding out of the 2nd rd. J.Subban on name alone, good season bad playoffs, will go in the early 2nd round at latest. Nastasiuk had a good playoffs; he will go in the 1st round. If the Jets pick well they will be set for a decade.
May 24 2013, 06:32PM
Serving coincidental minors consecutively I meant, would add some scoring. For baseball, they gotta get more rundowns. Maybe limiting the prehitting formation of the two inflielders nearest 2nd base? Yeah, that's the key! Make a 2nd baseman more likely to steal 3rd. Maybe change the balk rules, IDK how.


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Last Thursday, as global markets attacked Greece and its weak neighbors, leaders of bigger European powers announced that they would "safeguard financial stability in the euro area." Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was defiant. "We will not be needing help," he said, later complaining that Greece had become "a laboratory animal in the battle between Europe and the markets." Papandreou is right to be resistant. He would do the West a favor if he publicly told his would-be rescuers: "Thank you, but we don't want your help. We will work with our creditors, our public sector and our citizenry to solve our problems."
Greek finances are certainly in trouble. The Mediterranean nation owes nearly 100% of its annual gross domestic product, even after balancing its debt against its financial assets, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The average in the 16 nations that use the common euro currency, including Greece, is 58%. Greece's deficit was nearly 13% of GDP last year, more than twice the euro zone average. Similar gaps loom for years to come unless the country wins spending fights against its powerful public sector.
Greece has been able to borrow in global markets recently only because the European Central Bank–Europe's version of the Federal Reserve–has accepted the nation's bonds from investors in return for cash. But this privilege could end soon. The ECB, like the Fed, is unwinding the extraordinary measures it has taken throughout the three-year-old global financial crisis. Even with this special support, moreover, Greece's borrowing has lately become expensive relative to German government bonds, reflecting markets' unease.
Greece's euro membership appears to give it a big advantage over, say, Ukraine, which had to take an IMF bailout in 2008. France and Germany, the strongest of the euro zone nations, worry that the euro, their marquee economic project, won't hold. Unless it gets help, Greece could abandon the euro; it could then reprint its old drachmas and export goods and services in a cheap currency, spurring economic growth. If Greece even hints at faltering on its national-debt repayments, bondholders could stop lending to Portugal, Spain and other fragile euro zone members, creating the temptation for those countries to do the same.
So continental Europe, led by France and Germany, has made it clear–without quite saying so–that it won't let Greece fail. Europe likely would buy Greek bonds if nobody else will, for example, or offer guarantees to bond buyers. In doing so, the Europeans would flagrantly break their own rules: The euro zone has a "no bailout" clause.
If France and Germany won't stick to the no-rescue rules, Greece should. It should say that it will stick with the euro but that it understands that its promises to its public sector and to its creditors are impossible to reconcile–so it will restructure them.
A Greek solution, as opposed to a European one, would be good for Greeks. European "help" likely won't fix the country's finances. The empty purse is Papandreou's best tool for keeping public resolve strong in the face of crippling strikes by public workers. The Greek citizenry supports Papandreou's plan to cut public-sector pay and benefits by 4%. In polls taken last week 65% said the austerity measures were "necessary and overdue."
If Germany and France give the state another way out, though, Greece may take it. Sure, Europe is making noise about Greece having to get its fiscal house in order in return for a lifeline. But German and French leaders doubtless would be happy if world markets resume ignoring Greece's obvious problems until some undefined time in the future, as markets did for a decade. Meanwhile, Greeks would continue to suffer in an economy suffocated by a bloated public sector and too much debt.
A Greek solution would be good for Europe, too. If Greece were to say that it would keep the euro even as it moves to revamp its finances, the currency likely would fall against the dollar. Investors in European bonds would realize that the no-bailout clause really does mean no bailouts. But a weaker euro would benefit Greece, Spain and other tourism- and export-based economiesincluding Germany and France. Europe could sell its goods and services more cheaply to the rest of the world.
Over the years, too, a Greek solution would be good for the euro. A common currency that can bend will not break. If other indebted euro countries see from Greece's example that they can fix their finances without leaving the euro, they're more likely to stay committed to it.
Finally, a Greek solution would help the entire West, including America. It is past time for the world's investors to understand that irresponsible lending invites borrower default, even if the borrower is a big bank or a government. If the financial world continues to think it can lend without consequences, the result will be a Western world so indebted that it can't compete economically.
Over the past decade global lenders and advisers have reaped huge profits helping Greece to borrow beyond its means. The biggest winners in a European bailout of Greece would be its bondholders and other creditors, including French and German banks that hold tens of billions of dollars in Greek debt.
In America citizens remain rightly outraged that the U.S. government's 2008 bailout of insurance giant
"Strong" Western nations such as France and Germany–and the United States–cannot continue to protect bondholders and other creditors at all costs from the ramifications of lending money to borrowers unable reasonably to pay it back. Nor can the government protect financial firms that use financial engineering to make such lending appear less risky than it truly is.
This "too big to fail" mentality encourages the world's creditors to abet Western debtors in a bizarre experiment: the mass competition to see which governments can raise the most debt the fastest to paper over their problems. In the U.S. no investor in his right mind would trust the states of California or New York with his moneysave for the expectation of a federal bailout.
As the Western world's "too big to fail" policy delays inevitable debt restructurings at banks, nations, states, cities and industrial firms, we're all moving up toward Greek borrowing levels. The U.S. owed 35% of its GDP in 2000; now, it owes 65%. And that's not including Social Security and Medicare. Never mind that this experiment hasn't worked in Japan, which, like Greece, owes 100% of its GDP.
Creditors as well as debtors must take responsibility for bad government debt and for the public-sector profligacy that bad debt enables. Debt becomes bad when nations, states, cities and other entities have no chance of repaying it while still having a chance at decent economic growth. According to Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, authors of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, growth suffers when debt hits 90% of GDP.
The West cannot prosper if it locks itself in debtors' prison. Governments can show markets that they understand this truth now–or markets can teach them the hard way, later.
Nicole Gelinas is the author of After The Fall: Saving Capitalism From Wall Street and Washington and a contributing editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, from which this is adapted.
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Keegan's a little lower than 10th, but he's also a rising star... I've found articles on him lol
Keegan's a little lower than 10th, but he's also a rising star... I've found articles on him lol
This "I deserve this and this *whiiiiiine* The judges are so stuuupied *waiiiiiil* I am the best!! I deserve the following PCS, GOE, levels *weeeeeeep*" is the worst, it just makes me sick, we had it from Chan, we now have it from Lysacek, or from Lambiel 2 years ago. But all that whining about the "Quad should be worth more" or "Judging system is sooo stupid" from Joubert, Weir & Co isn't that much better. Just shut the heck up!
You know what? I am starting to root for the Japanese trio to sweep Vancouver, at least they don't whine about their scores, the judges or the judging system endlessly - well, or at all.
There was a piece in the Seattle Times a few weeks ago about how Seattle folks won't be able to get Canadian Olympic TV coverage this year because CTV (who won the rights there) doesn't have any U.S. satellite relationships. The article pointed out that CBC, which previously had the Olympics and gave access to the U.S. via satellite, was really good about giving coverage to all the different countries and players rather then focus on fluff pieces and personalities, which will be more NBC thing.
But thankfully we have things like Twitter, Ice Network and other media that allows fans to get to know the skaters themselves.
Thanks for the response earlier. Coverage of skaters like Keegan is also part of the PR point I was trying to make. Skating is increasingly a small fish in the big (and getting bigger) pond of sports, especially in the US. It really has to fight for position and notice any way it can. Listening to many of the teleconferences with the top contenders last week, you could almost tell which of the reporter were ones who cover skating as a sport and understand the technical details, versus the one who cover it as a curiosity among all their other assignments, or worse as piece of fluff entertainment. If the press were to take the time to notice that depth among US men has gotten better and was on display last night, skaters like Keegan and Armin and Dornbush might get a boost in being introduced early to the public. That's always a nice set up for the next cycle
Those who were skating fans almost 20 years ago knew who Kwan was back in late 92 or early 93 before she won her first national medal. Same with Lipinski. V/M were being talked up before they became standouts. Far too often US media takes on a show me first mentality rather than taking to time to invest in scouting new talent in advance, at least in sports other than the big three.
Thanks to things like IceNetwork more of us get to see the young juniors and seniors who don't make TV while they are still developing. It's so useful. Hopefully, Keegan will make the TV broadcast tomorrow and does not get preempted by fluff. I think NBC is planning to show the final two groups. I missed the first 30 min of UniSports last night.. Did they show Keegan?
That said, I think there's a great opportunity for some bloggers and skating sites (such as GS) to step up and really talk to these skaters and get to know a little more about them. I think Aaron at Loops, Axels and Spins really has that potential, especially since he's friends with them on Twitter on Facebook. And I think there are some other bloggers that do this.
The media for so long has been the ones to cover the news and I really believe that good figure skating reporting and journalism doesn't necessary have to come from the mainstream media.
no idea about universal sports... he's getting a fair amount of coverage locally, though...
I think that one advantage of covering skaters early is that you do build a relationship with that skater and even when they're big, they'll give you access because they'll remember that you covered them when they were early in their career and also they'll probably trust you because you've shown a track record of solid, accurate coverage.
And Tonichelle, I do think that local papers do a great job covering skaters in their area and thanks to the Internet, we can read these stories too.
Another Keegan article: http://www.adn.com/sports/story/1098226.html
Article on Lukas Kaugars (novice men), also mentions other Colorado Springs area skaters: http://www.gazette.com/sports/spring...pionships.html
Moore/Gaumond article: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20...30/1006/SPORTS
Article about Codero Zuckerman and Baxter Burbank (novice men and junior dance): http://newsminer.com/bookmark/5581189
Article featuring Mark Ladwig: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/266136/
Ryan Bradley article: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...ng-free-skate/
Christine Brennan article was interesting, terrible writing. She says Jeremy Abbott doesn't have international experience, hello Christine, he was the first US man to win the Grand Prix with one of the highest scores. Hello Christine, you thinks Evan should have been given first place no matter how many mistakes he makes in him programs over someone who does better than him because he is the world champion. This is why people have stopped watching figure skating with this mind set. Also, hello Christine, have you ever heard of Paul Wiley?? He never won National, etc. but was one of the brighest US skaters at the Olympics and brought home a silver metal.
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^ agree, that's weak chapter
Yes, dofla answered 'try higher' to moria question 'who order you? Sengoku?'
Higher than fleet admiral, it could be pan-fleet kong, gorousei or celestial dragons.
Law would Definitely lose, but usopp and co. would manage to help him.
They are outnumbered, its time for big name to show up.
Yes, violet for the next crew ^^
Realistically its just really just Oda's bad timing, getting sick during setup chapters, but I agree, we defiantly need a much better chapter next week. I'm tired of all the slow paced story, even if last chapter's reveal was sort of cool.
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Ha! Called Violet being one of Doflamingo's lackies. Still, nice to see she isn't completely hopeless, but simply another damaged girl beneath the corruptive shadow that is Doflamingo. Sanji certainly showed how chivalrous his attitude toward women remains even after two years.
The chapter isn't as bad as a lot of people are making it out to be. Sure, I am ready to see Luffy kick some butt in C Block just as much as the next guy, but I also appreciate Oda mixing up the storylines a bit and showing us what's happening at the same moment as the battle royales at the Corrida Colosseum. The approach simply makes sense in that we as readers won't have to suffer through an overly extended period of "filler" chapters following all the action at the Colosseum. It also theorhetically prevents Oda from pulling the "Luffy's about to go ape @#*% on someone only to skip to Usopp acting like The King Beneath Green Bit" for weeks on end. The unexpected 3 week break has certainly made us all anxious for a return to killer chapters, but as cross eluded to, Oda rarely disappoints, and even then, never for very long.
Regarding Doflamingo, ehhhhhh, we'll see if he turns out to be a Celestial Dragon or not...and I'm still a fan of Rebecca joining if anyone joins this chapter.
Oh my word, that Doflamingo is such an asshole. I am glad Oda has made the relinquishing the throne and shichibukai a Dofla-trolling exercise because given the Doflamingo has been built up this is just the kind of thing a guy like him would do. Luffy and Law will have to pull out all the stops if they are to vanquish such a formidable enemy. And if Doflamingo is as tough as he's made out to be then defeating Kaido seems near impossible unless they get some sort of power up from defeating Doflamingo.
And then there's the mystery of Dofla's past, the people who theorised that Doflamingo has some sort of link to the nobility will be feeling vindicated I imagine. It would be even more interesting if it's revealed that there's some sort of link between Sabo and Dofla
Odd should forget about all this side story bullshit and just focus on the C-Block fight to make up for this weak ass year.
That "side story bullshit" is what makes one piece special. Its smart and intelligent writing and more importantly its creative. Its good. much better than the shallow stories and lame cookie cutter fodder from bleach and the countless rasengans and eye techniques from Naruto. Nartuo and Bleach can't do deep side plots to save there lives. not to mention Oda's amazing side characters who are well drawn and interesting. This is far from a "weak ass year" . If you don't like it that's your opinion and that's fine, just like its mine that i enjoy it. But don't jsut write it off as week or bad when its really technically and actually not.
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The company was reported to be working with law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, people familiar with the matter told the WSJ this week. After chief executive Michael O. Johnson vigorously denied Ackman's "pyramid scheme" accusations late last week to the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, the company said in a Christmas Eve press release it has retained strategic adviser Moelis & Co. as it answers its critics. Herbalife also said that it will exceed its $50 million quarterly share buyback guidance. There was $950 million remaining of the $1 billion authorized in a buyback plan, the release said.
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