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AAAAAA--Anyone that uses clay pipe regardless of location on planet earth instead of cheaper , less labour intensive and smoothbore solid solvent jointed and lipless laying is a fool! or had someone give tem a truckload od stolen claypipe free and only want a limited lifespan on the drain!: : : : : In your experience, how often do you see overweight traffic (like cement trucks traveling on a crumbling street) breaking or crushing old clay sewer service lines?
: : : : : My village engineer denies that any service line (over a few feet deep) can be affected by traffic -- regardless of road condtions. Instead, he has informed me that broken sewer services are often the cause of road damage!
: : : : : Unfortunately, I am responsible for repairing the service all the way to the main sewer. I'll bet my lunch that you fellows have never seen a homeowner get a village to pick up part of the tab in a case like this (without a little help from Dowe Cheatum & How).
: : : : None, As long as the sewer line is at least 18" in the ground traffic will not bother it. You mentioned pipe bursting. We replace sewer lines useing the pipe bursting trenchless method. You do not have to dig up your lawn or the whole road to replace this line. only one hole at the house and one at the city main.Dale's Plumbing Service Inc. LMP
: : : The matter of clay pipe being crushed by traffic happens when there are inconsistencies in the backfill and compaction of the trench. In the event you bury vitreous china fired clay pipe (VCP) 24 inches deep and it lays flat on a solid very hard trench bottom like decomposed granite or a solid rock trench base, the pipe can break from heavy traffic compression when the bells and/or couplings aren't recessed into a lower area. The rubber band seal coulpings are an extension of 3/4 inch at each end of a ten foot rigid pipe span. Thats why the trench bottom needs to be scarified to provide a bed for the pipe length, and an ares for the couplings to sit deeper is afforded. When the clean backfill material is laid back into the trench on top of clay pipe, at less than eight inches, and then compacted with a mechanical stomper directly over the pipe instead of on each side of the pipe, it has a tendancy to crack the bells and has a tendancy to chip the ends inside band seal couplings if the pipe sags while being compacted. Clay pipe that has it's trench quickly backfilled by a backhoe or loader and isn't shaded by hand almost always drops rocks directly onto the brittle pipe and cracks it. But it isn't noticed, since it's backfill time, not inspection time. Then further layers above the pipe help protect the pipe from compression crushung. Bursting is an engineering term that is normally applied to the pipe expanding and breaking outwardly, while crushing or compression is usually applied to the pipe breaking inwardly. The monocline manufacturing process of clay pipe structurally withstands extremely high compression forces. It rarely is broken by traffic weight alone, unless that traffic vibrates an unclean fill material like rocks directly against the pipe. Having to replace newly laid clay pipe is usually a result of improper workmanship in the backfill and compaction stage. Did you watch your backfill guys closely?
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: : I hope I can get someone to do this as it would help me avoid taking down a big tree and replacing sidewalk -- and a single lenth of HDPE means no more root infiltration - correct?
: You can get pipe bursting done on whatever scale you want it..its available in your neighborhood, and on a national scale. Isn't there a Ditch Witch or Charles Machine Works in Naperville or Geneva or St Charles or Joliet? Oh, heres an ad for Grundocrack in Aurora Its a tailormade system for trenchless pipe laying call TT Technologies in Aurors at (630) 851-8200 or Vermeer at 1 888 VERMEER or try Rob Krzys at (330) 467-7588 directionaldrilling.com
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Tired of gray, flavorless veggie burgers from the freezer section? I've posted recipes for Spicy Black Bean Burgers and Curried Lentil Burgers (like the one you see above) at Maine Food and Lifestyle. Please visit me there!
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Great pic! Your veggie burger looks so tasty! The spicy black bean burgers sound really good. I'd love to give it a try, thanks for the recipes.ReplyDelete
Can I use olive oil? What kind of oil do you use?
Good question! I should have explained that. I used regular old vegetable oil. but olive oil would be fine, too.ReplyDelete
Those burgers look great! I love making my own veggie burgers because yes, I am tired of the flavorless ones from the frozen section.ReplyDelete
Fantastic! The standard veggie burger definitely gets old after the first couple of summer cook outs. Love this spicy idea!ReplyDelete
Yeah, I am doing a lot of exciting cooking this summer! it's because it's my fav thing to do and i get deprived at school without a kitchen of my own! i have to pack it in! can't wait till i have my own place after college :)ReplyDelete
thatza good lookin' burger!
This ought to be a big improvement over the not so wonderful "Garyburgers" I had the other night.ReplyDelete
wow!nice recipe. I tried the black bean burgers last night and really liked them. i tried to pan fry them but realized they really need the time in the oven to harden up the inside. i made a yummy sauce by roasting a red pepper on the grill then blending it with a big scoop of veganaise and a splash of balsamic. Turned out like a grown up ketchup. I'm definitly going to try the lentil recipe too. When are you going to open your restaurant?ReplyDelete
Meghan: thanks for trying the recipe, and thanks for the feedback! I really liked both of these, too. Your grown-up red pepper ketchup sounds delicious! These do have to bake to solidify--when you're using vital wheat gluten to make seitan, you either have to bake, boil, or steam it, and I don't want a boiled or steamed burger. If you wanted them to taste a little charred, you could bake them and then grill them for a few minutes on each side. I've been reheating them in my cast iron skillet.ReplyDelete
Brad: what are Garyburgers?
I hate to disparage such a great local business (in concept), but they are these fairly tasteless veggie burgers that are sold frozen and distributed by Crown O' Maine.ReplyDelete
I was in the mood for a veggie burger tonight and remembered you had this recipe here, but, alas, the link no longer works.ReplyDelete
Here it is: http://blog.mainefoodandlifestyle.com/2009/06/veggie-burgers-worth-showing-off.htmlReplyDelete


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Hush-Hush Europe: La Cerdanya
Straddling France and Spain, the region of La Cerdanya is where Europeans go when they want peace and quiet and really good jam.
A puff of smoke fills the pizzeria, some American exchange students yell, "Stop, drop, and roll," and time hiccups into slow motion. My friend McCrizz and I don't stop or drop--instead, we run straight for the restaurant's door with our napkins still tucked into our shirt collars.
The chef, Fabián Martín, soon appears outside Pizzería-Taller with a sideways grin, offers apologies, and then, in a theatrical gesture, lifts two balls of pizza dough above his head. Under a streetlight in the small Pyrenean town of Llívia, in front of a dazed crowd, he spins, arm rolls, and kicks the balls into 12-inch rounds. Whoops erupt, and we all file back inside for the main event.
Martín is not only one of the world's top pizza-dough acrobats--an official designation--he also makes some of the world's wildest riffs on pizza: sushi pizza, pizza soup, even bite-size pockets of dough filled with a Coca-Cola reduction. As McCrizz and I nibble slices topped with wildflowers, Martín stops by to tell us that he's close to finalizing a formula for something totally new: see-through pizza.
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When the opportunity arose to explore La Cerdanya again, I jumped. I'd be alone for the majority of the trip, but I managed to persuade my friend Mike (also known as McCrizz), who has lived in Barcelona for 18 years now, to join me for the first day and a half.
After dinner at the pizzeria, we walk to our hotel through the back streets of Llívia, an enclave that stuck with Spain in the creation of a 1659 peace treaty, when 33 surrounding towns were ceded to France. Fashioned from a 16th-century stable at a farmhouse estate, the 21-room Hotel Bernat de So, with its contemporary decor, designer lighting, and chic lobby lounge, seems an appropriately cutting-edge place to digest our sushi pizza.
La Cerdanya (the Catalan spelling is used most widely; the French spell it La Cerdagne) is still something of a secret from American tourists, but the valley's history stretches as far back as the 6th century B.C. The list of invaders reads like a Who's Who of European domination: Carthaginians, Moors, Franks, and kings of Aragon. In the early part of the 20th century, the ski resort Le Grand Hôtel opened in Font-Romeu, helping to establish the area as a popular winter destination among sportif Europeans.
Today, visitors come year-round to breathe the intoxicating air, soak in the hot springs, and hike some 250 miles of trails. Beyond outdoorsy pursuits and natural beauty, sunny Cerdanya has a mélange of cultures--a place where you could easily crisscross the border between Spain and France six times a day, and pricey tapas are rare as rain.
After a breakfast of Spanish melon and local mató cheese with honey, McCrizz and I set out for our own dose of fresh air. The receptionist at Bernat de So suggests we go to the village of Dorres and climb to Nuestra Señora de Bell-Lloc, a mountaintop chapel. When we get to Ur, a neighboring town, and ask an elderly gentleman how to get to the chapel, he points up and says, "Está cerca de Dios." There, atop a seemingly vertical peak, is a speck of a building that is indeed close to God. Not up for the climb, we hop in my rental car and scoot 15 minutes away to Eyne in search of the gentle path that leads from the entrance of Cal Pai, Françoise's inn, into the wooded hills.
In no time, McCrizz and I are running through a butterfly-filled alpine meadow, each enjoying our own Sound of Music moment. We wend our way under soaring falcons into the sun-dappled beech and black-pine forest. A gurgling stream leads us over mossy ridges to a small waterfall. We marvel that we're actually stopping to smell the wildflowers--thistles, Madonna lilies, and scented poppies.
We treat ourselves to a post-hike lunch of pea bisque and truffle-dusted beef carpaccio at Can Ventura, a restaurant in Llívia with centuries-old stone walls decorated with antique snowshoes. Afterward, I drop McCrizz off at the train station and immediately take a wrong turn. Flustered, I double back to the traffic circle and go around it about a dozen times before shooting out onto the main road that runs along the spine of the valley. I'm on my way to La Seu d'Urgell in search of Hotel El Castell de Ciutat.
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Virgin Blue Airlines will be the first airline in the country to have aircraft maintenance engineers from maintenance providers Virgin Tech and Jetcare certified to new world standards after an initial investment of over $1.2 million in enhanced training.
Following 18 months of close consultation with industry, including Virgin Blue and Aviation Australia, CASA launched a new maintenance and training standards concept earlier this year as part of an ambitious plan to position Australian aircraft engineers at the forefront of global aviation maintenance standards. Australian standards are already considered to be among the best in the world however the new training regime will propel Australian engineers to a new level.
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Situated in Koekelberg, the National Basilica of the Sacred-Heart allows you to discover an exceptional panoramic view of Brussels, 2 museums and various exhibitions.
This religious Art-Deco style monument is one of the 5 largest churches in the world.
This religious Art-Deco style monument is one of the 5 largest churches in the world.
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Thanks to the lift, you can rise up to a height of 52.80 metres. Just under the basilica dome, an outdoor gallery let's you discover an incomparable view of Brussels.
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KHL: Chara's Lev takes down Ovechkin's Dynamo, Bobrovsky & Ramo earn shutouts, Magnitogorsk dominates
Steve Dangle
December 28 2012 07:49PM
Hey, so the NHL made the NHLPA a 300-page offer. Exciting stuff.
While all the lawyers read over that exciting stuff, allow me to offer you today's KHL highlights.
Zdeno Chara and Lev stop KHL powerhouse Dynamo Moscow.
Sergei Bobrovsky out-deuls Jaroslav Janus for the shutout.
Malkin. Kulemin. O'Reilly. Gonchar. Bunch of other dudes. Magnitogorsk is nuts.
Flames prospect goalie Karri Ramo picks up the shutout.
Evgeny Kuznetsov is a great damn player.
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Skyrimming Part 2: (Unintentional) Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
Posted by reid in Gamiary, Reid McCarter on January 7, 2012
This was originally meant to be the second installment in a long series of Skyrim-related posts, but it turns out that everyone and their mother has already written this game to death. This leaves the continuation of Digital Love Child's inagural gamiary in a bad spot, further complicated by the fact that I no longer even want to play Skyrim much anymore. Why write more about something that's lost its magic? Why add more text to an experience that everyone is already chronicling like crazy?
That idea, in itself, seemed like a good thought to follow through with. It only seems fitting to wrap up this miniscule, two-part series on Skyrim with a look at how I became a werewolf then because, if nothing else, this (maybe familiar) story and it's details demonstrate why such an absorbing game can start to feel hollow after the passing of no more than a handful of weeks.
Skyrimming Part 1 or; What's a Gamiary Anyway?
Posted by reid in Gamiary, Reid McCarter on December 4, 2011
Play enough Skyrim and the game can start to convince you that it is not so much a collection of other people's work but something of a personal toybox instead: a sort of fantasy madlibs creator. Every encounter, whether with monster or human or random item lying on the floor of a cave, wants to shape the story playing out in your game.
Bethesda's latest — and maybe greatest — is the kind of game that seems tailor made for these Gamiary entries. It is a massive world that begs to have its dynamic narratives chronicled and shared (which is the point of this whole thing, after all) and is, luckily, also a stupid amount of fun.


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PRICE/GRAND JUNCTION, Colo - Steven Lee Davies, 26, of Grand Junction, Colo., passed away on April 21, 2013 due to complications from cancer.
He was born on July 6, 1986 in Price to Rick and Sheri Davies. Steven graduated from Carbon High School in 2004. He was currently a student at Colorado Mesa University. He married the love of his life, Sinda Jane Muncy on Sept. 25, 2004.
Steven's passion in life was riding his bike. He loved going on group rides on the Colorado monument with his friends as often as he could. He spent the last two years working at The Bike Shop while he attended classes at CMU. Steven loved to go camping, fishing, taking his daughters on bike rides, and going on date nights. In his spare time you could always find him tinkering with his bike, trying to fix something, and playing his guitar and bass.
Steven is survived by his wife, Sinda Davies, Grand Junction, Colo; his three children, Hayley Lynn, age 5; Tera Leigh, age 3; and unborn son, Nolan Dirk; His parents, Rick and Sheri Davies, Price; Parent-in-laws, Randy and April Muncy, Grand Junction, Colo; Grandmothers, Janice Davies, Price, and Sheila Dunster, Salt Lake City; grandparents Jim and Sue Dunster, Dayton, Idaho; his sister, Rachel Paddock, Ely, Nev; his sister-in-laws, Randi (Chris) Jensen and Jessi (Justin) Smythe, Grand Junction, Colo; and multiple aunts, uncles, nieces and cousins.
Steven was preceded in death by his son, Luke Anthony Davies, his grandfather, Richard "Ted" Davies, his uncle, Dirk Davies, his uncle-in-law, JL Lemon, his cousin, Clinton Christensen and his cousin-in-law, Karen Hopkins.
A service was held in his memory at the River of Life Alliance Church, 701 24 ½ Road, Grand Junction, Colo. on Friday, April 26, 2013 at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, an account has been set up at the Utah Central Credit Union under the names of Steven and Sinda Davies 1330.


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The Rise and Fall of Darryl Sutter - Part 6, The Decline
Kent Wilson
April 14 2011 11:41AM
Empowered by his initial success and emboldened by the installment of friends and family throughout the organization, Sutter was free to indulge his very singular habits and pursue his very singular vision during his reign as the Flames general manager. The unlikely 2003-04 post-season success and the 103 point season the following year cemented the Flames "contender" status in the mind of the team's manager, augmenting expectations in town and around the league as well.
The overarching focus of the club became one of the immediate future as a result, with each first-round exit and each failed season only increasing the apparent urgency to make-good the season following. By the end, Darryl was caught in a sort of gambler's dilemma where his previous actions and investments left him with little option but to continue to throw good money after bad in a vain attempt to bring his vision of another deep playoff run to fruition.
Despite two straight years out of the playoffs, the term "decline" is something of a misnomer when talking about the Flames and Sutter, at least when it comes to regular season outcomes. Calgary was actually one of the more consistent clubs in the league during his tenure, frequently falling between 98 and 94 points per year.
There's a soft downward trend there (mostly due to to the aberrant 103-point effort in his second season) but it's nominal. By and large, the Flames were a solid, 95-point team under Sutter; frequently competitive, always in the conversation for a playoff spot. This moderate rate of success is somewhat laudable and at the very least worthy of faint praise, even in the wake of the Sutter's inevitable ouster. Calgary never completely fell completely out of contention under Darryl, nor was the franchise or fanbase ever forced to suffer through the indignity of a Oilers-style fall from grace and subsequent rebuild (now entering it's fifth year!). Sutter, with his general obstinancy and ill-temper towards failure, ensured the club would never be debased in that fashion while he was at it's helm. That's certainly not a claim some other managers in the league can make.
Spending and Marginal Efficiency
With the above in mind, Sutter's decline isn't obvious in the team's regular season success. His managerial excesses and missteps rear their ugly head when the price of the Flames apparent consistency is considered and weighted accordingly. While Sutter managed to keep the club in the playoff conversation year-after-year, he did so by investing more and more of the organizations dollars, cap space and futures to do so.
In a article entitled Darryl Sutter - Decidedly Average, Derek Zona employs the concept of marginal cap efficiency to grade the various NHL GM's. Defined as "the number of points per million dollars in salary cap spent over the league minimum salary", MCE is a metric for how well or poorly a general manager is spending his cap space. It's a crude but meaningful metric since assembling a roster in a capped environment is essential a contest of efficiency - the managers who can best squeeze the most value out of their cap hits will be the most succesful at creating quality rosters.
As hinted by the title, Zona found that Sutter's efforts between 2003 and 2010 fell right in the middle of the pack in the NHL (1.99 points/MM) over that span.
Averaging the performance over his tenure doesn't give one the true picture of Sutter's increasing intemperance over the years, however:
The table and graph show Sutter's marginal spending (meaning dollars spent above the theoretical minimum-salary team of $11,500,000) and the club's marginal points per season (points above a theoretical replacement level of 45). Of course, as this is an efficiency rating, the smaller the amount, the better. For the purposes of this investigation, I chose to use actual roster dollars spent rather than simple cap dollars since that seemed to be a more honest way to look at how Sutter was using his resources.
As you can see, the Flames were extremely efficient in Sutter's first couple of seasons. The cost of the Calgary's marginal success rapidly increased thereafter, however, with the price of a 95-point team more than doubling over the course of seven seasons.
There are various reasons for this steep acceleration, some of them external and apart from Sutter's management. Both the Flames budget and the league-wide salary cap increased over the same period, for instance, simultaneously boosting the price of UFA's and increasing the amount Darryl had available to spend. Some degree of growing inefficiency was probably inevtiable.
Another primary cause of the steep climb upwards, however, was the fact that many of Sutter's core players were initially underpaid relative to their contributions. Robyn Regehr ($1.95M), Miikka Kiprusoff ($3.33M) and Daymond Langkow ($2.442M) were high value contracts given their cap hits. Add in other decent bargains in the early years (Conroy at $2.546M, Huselius $1.4M and Dion Phaneuf at $.785M) and you have an org paying middling rates for top-notch contributions at the high-end of it's roster.
Some of these deals Sutter acquired or negotiated himself. Others he inherited. After the Flames early success, the question hanging over the organization was whether Sutter would be able to retain all of the club's major contributors given their performance and pending unrestricted free agency. Years of a lackluster budget and a weak Canadian dollar had conditioned Calgary fans to expect the worst when it came to paying stars to stick around.
But retain them he did. Iginla re-upped at his previous rate, but Regehr ($4.05M), Langkow ($4.5M), Kipper ($5.833M) and eventually Phaneuf ($6.5M) all got substantial raises. Sutter's ability to re-sign the Flames big guns was at once a blessing and a curse - a blessing because of the stability and prestige bestowed on the organization thanks to notable stars sticking around. It ensured the Flames ongoing competitiveness and made the club a more attractive destination for free agents.
Ini contrast, it was a curse because paying market-values for your big names eventually becomes untenable in a capped NHL. As the Flames have experienced recently, cap-space and wiggle room become fairly tight when no one at the top-end is outperforming his cap hit. In addition, the new, more expensive contracts to the big boys were almost to a man "legacy deals", rewarding each player for a peak that had already passed, carrying them into the twilight of their career. This season, for instance, the average age of "the big four" (Kipper, Iginla, Regehr and Langkow) was 33-years old. Next year, it will be 34. Their combined cap hit will be just north of $21M.
The lone exception, of course, was Dion Phaneuf. Unfortunately, the success that made him such a bargain as a rookie guaranteed a gross overpayment once he became a restricted free agent. Dion went from one of the best contracts on the club to one of the worst inside a single summer. The fruits of the Phaneuf deal have soured, but the trade was next to inexorable once he signed his name to that contract.
As a result, the core has collectively gotten older and more expensive as the years have passed. They went from bargains to market-priced and are now passing into "poor value" territory.
Replenishing the Core and Spending the Future
The retention of an aging and expensive core was merely one facet of Sutter's budgetary inflation over the years. As Zona observes in the above linked article:
One reason for this performance might be Sutter's tendency to trade away draft picks and young talent for veterans and his penchant for signing unrestricted free agents to fill the roster. Salary Cap dollars are saved in entry level deals, and to a lesser extent, on most restricted free agent contracts.
The Flames inability to draft high-end players is well documented. The last legitimate, top-six forward picked and groomed by the franchise was probably Cory Stillman. Under Sutter, Calgary's drafting continued to be worse than mediocre. In his thorough investigation of the organization's draft performance last summer, Ryan Lambert showed how the Flames lag well behind the league average in terms of games played and points earned by draftees between 2003 and 2009. In fact, the one player propping up all of the Flames totals in those two categories was Phaneuf - and he is no longer part of the club. Other main contributors, Dustin Boyd and Brandon Prust, were also jettisoned.
As discussed in part 5, Sutter defaulted to experience over youth in general. In part, because vets are a safer bet, in part because the plan never wavered from "win now" (meaning suffering through a youngsters first few, mistake laden seasons was frowned upon) and in part because of the lackluster performance of his scouting department. With so few youngsters available to step in and provide value immediately, Darryl turned to free agents and trades to plug roster holes and supplement the core. This caused him to not only invest more and more cap dollars, but also an increasing number of the club's future assets as well.
Since 2005, Sutter has traded 2 first round picks, 6 second round picks, 3 third round picks, 2 fourth round picks, 1 fifth round pick, and 1 seventh round pick. He's traded for 1 first round pick, 2 second round picks, 2 third round picks, 2 fourth round picks, 1 fifth round pick, and 1 seventh round pick. His net loss in five years has been 1 first round pick, 4 second round picks, and 1 third round pick.
That's Derek Zona again from the same article. In fairness, some of Sutter's trades involving picks netted the team useful players. Rene Bourque was had for a second rounder, for example. He also frequently attempted to re-stock the futures cupboard, trading down in the first round for multiple later picks when at all possible.
The net result was nevertheless a general lack of draft picks (particularly inside the first two rounds), making the job of acquiring high-end talent all the more difficult for a scouting team that had struggled with such for years at the best of times. Consistently finishing around the middle of the pack didn't help the situation either - the Flames first choice inside the top-15 under Sutter would have been last summer, for instance, had the pick not been traded for Olli Jokinen.
Darryl's penchant for trading the future for present gains has been dubbed "deficit spending" by Feaster since he took over in Calgary and it's an issue that still haunts the Flames in the wake of Sutter's departure. Although the club has missed the post-season for two years running, it's likely they will finish with just a single pick inside the top-60 across both drafts - this coming June's first rounder. Sutter's inability to internally replenish the club's talent stock therefore became a sort of hideous feedback loop where futures were spent to assuage the lack of quality prospects, ad infinitum.
Growing Inefficiency and Irrationality
The twin vices of an aging, expensive core and a lack of cheap youth combined to compress the organization's cap space slowly but surely, more and more, year after year. The final few brush strokes that painted Sutter and the team into it's current corner was his series of wildly bad bets near the end of his reign. With Iginla et al. drifting away from their peaks, Sutter seemed to become more earnest and desperate in his attempts to push the team over the top. The riverboat gambling essentially began with the acquisition of Olli Jokinen at the trade deadline in 2009. Sutter moved the Flames aformentioned first round pick, Brandon Prust (the first time) and the much cheaper Matthew Lombardi. The move was mostly celebrated, but the truth is it was a fairly bad bet even without the benefit of hindsight.
Jokinen's reputation was inflated thanks to years of big numbers garnered through soft circumstances in what was the worst division in hockey at the time. He was a power-play forward and a guy who could score on third-liners. He was never the mythical "first line center" the Flames were so desperate to pair with Iginla.
As such, the Jokinen gambit failed. His acquisition didn't improve the club (just the opposite) added another pricey contract to the books and cost the team a younger, cheaper player and a first round pick. Jokinen wasn't Sutter's only mistake over the years, but it stands as perhaps the first true footfall on the path to his demise. With the team faltering in 2010, Jokinen (and Brandon Prust again) were later famously traded for pending UFA Chris Higgins and the boat anchor that is Ales Kotalik. Dion Phaneuf and Keith Aulie were dealt for a collection of middling talent out of Toronto. Admist disappoint and panic, Sutter was basically doubling-down on previous mistakes, trading bad bets for different bad bets. Steve Staios - a salary dump - was acquired for a third round pick at the deadline was the cherry on top of a dubious sundae of bad moves that year.
The impetus to preserve the present and forever push to be a contender resulted in Sutter's erratic efforts to get the Flames to the post-season in 2009-10. The choice to sell and reload for next year or buy and push for a playoff berth was never a choice in Sutter's mind. The latter was the unquestioned goal, whatever the cost. The former was inconceivable.
The roster became bloated and cluttered with expensive flotsam in the aftermath of that season. Bad deals and no trade clauses littered the organization, from the newly acquired (Kotalik, Stajan, Hagman, Staios) to the slowly doddering (Cory Sarich). By the end, Sutter was basically buying up sand-bags to load into the back of a hopelessly stuck truck...only to see it sink even lower in the mud.
The Calgary Flames were a lost franchise when Darryl Sutter took the helm nearly a decade ago. A mix of his disdain for losing, his hockey acumen and some good luck combined to pull the organization out of the mire and make them both competitive and relevant for a fan-base desperate for some measure of success. His arrival was in-arguably a boon to the team.
As was his eventual firing. Sutter's stature in Calgary grew to unwieldy proportions with the establishment of a monolithic Sutter-culture in the Flames front office; an edifice and echo chamber that at once shielded Darryl from criticism and reflected his own proclivities and vanities back to him. His vision became too narrowly focused in response, too captured by the goal of winning in the short-term and utterly blind to his own short-comings.
As a result, the Flames have returned from whence they came: facing an uncertain future with no readily apparent path back to contender status. Sutter breathed new life into the Calgary Flames upon his arrival. Flames fans can only hope his departure does the same.
First off the Oilers haven't been rebuilding for 5 years, this is only the second year of a complete rebuild so get your facts right. The year following the SC Final run they sucked, the next two years they finished a very Flame like 9th and 11th. Its only been the last 2 years they did a tank job, mainly due to injuries, not cause they wanted to but because they had to after K Lowe made some terrible signings and handcuffed the organization, Shaun Horcoff comes to mind. The Flames are in the same boat as the Oilers were, and if you think about it the Flame are in going into year 3 of a rebuild based on your logic.
Very nicely said Kent.
Last trade deadline and summer I was VERY confused about the future of the franchise. That's only because I made an assumption that there must have been a plan beyond "next year" and clearly there wasn't.
I hold out hope now for a non-oilers-esque rebuild. If Jay is the GM he's at least saying the right things. Scouting needs to be a focus. The young players need to be re-stocked.
I think the Oiler's '06 run, by the way, was similar to the Flames in that they were playing over their heads. Only the next year did you find out just how over their heads they were.
You have to look at the Calgary season before and after Daryl. Sure he was GM and put the players together but he also tried to be coach and motivator. There he was failing. Feaster is the exact opposite. He trusts his staff and has a great sense of which battles to fight. The Flames are a much better team now than they were in the first half. A playoff team to be sure. BUT, the depth is not there. The top 2 centers went down to injury and that's it for the playoff run. I'm ok with that given where we were in October. Then we had no surface or depth. No at least we have a surface. Time to move the pieces that don't fit with Jay's "energetic and tough". Stajan, Hagman, JayBo, Staois, Kotalik. Listening to Jay I'm inspired by his approach and hope that he gets a chance to improve this team for 2 or 3 years.
April 14 2011, 01:03PM
excellent series, my friend, topped with a truly incredible piece here in installment #6.
what i find the most interesting is that the jokinen trade on deadline day '09 sent brandon prust to the coyotes with an unannounced clause returning him to the flames the next summer (for jim vandermeer ---though i'm not certain if that part was decided at the time). i presume prust was tacked on to that deal as a salary dump to keep the flames under the cap. bummer it wasn't enough $$ to allow for replacement players when the team hit injuries later in the season and were forced to ice a short bench.
the interesting part to me is that the shiny bauble (olli) that daz so desperately coveted led in no short part to his ultimate demise.
hopefully the team keeps its core together, enjoys uncanny good health as they have been for years, endures a series of 9-11 finishes until all the bad contracts are off the books and then begins the process of restocking the shelves. it is the price paid for overvaluing all the talent on your team. memo to management, it would appear to be alot harder with nothing in the farm system, middling first round picks or no picks at all.
April 14 2011, 03:37PM
Very nice article. The only thing I'd like to add is to the "gambler's dilemma" comment; as a not-awful poker player, I think it's important to note that the first rule of "gambling", as it were, is not to become too invested in a hand. The analogy I'd make for Darryl is of someone who had a hand with decent odds through the flop, but as his odds decreased he continued betting to the point that he'd limited his ability to break even on the following hand once that one became unwinnable. I'm not sure whether he just didn't understand the pot odds or whether he went on tilt - probably a combination of both.
i was looking forward to this, long time coming man. awesome job
bwhahaha "COiler-like fall from grace"
The questions that I have about the Jokinen acquisition are why don't we play him on the point on the power play and why Management or the coach's were trying to force Jokinen and Iginla together for so long. It didn't work in 09 it didn't work last year and yet they tried it again to start this season. Why?
Iginla and Jokinen both play the same role as the primary shooter on the line and never meshed together. It always made more senses to me to build a line around each of them instead of force them together.
Great series Kent! It was nice to be able to look back at Darryl's tenure here. I think the trade that began the decline of Darryl was the Jokinen trade. Had we not made that trade, we could've potentially re-signed Cammalleri. Cammy seemed like the missing piece in the puzzle and took a huge load off of Iggy. Once Jokinen came in, it wrecked the chemistry. Darryl wasn't a bad GM, he just was too stubborn at certain moments.
On a side note: every time I heard Steve Montador's name called diring the Sabres game tonight, I think of his OT winner in game 1 of the 2004 Conference Finals. Remember that?
I wonder how things would have turned out if Darryl stayed on as head coach. He fired Mike Keenan and Jim Playfair, both hirings were a large gamble in hindsight. How Keenan refused to practice the powerplay and yanked Kipper at will was mind boggling.
He seemed to be the best guy to get the most out of "this is a tough group to coach" team. Hope Brent can get this group going consistently for 82 games if he's back.
April 14 2011, 11:36PM
Awesome final chapter Kent. And I must say it was a fantastic series. I used to think Darryl got quite the bum wrap here in Calgary with all the good things he did for the team that were so easily forgotten.
However, when you string together the timeline like you have in this series, it is quite the eye-opener. We all knew the '04 run was a combination of lightening in a bottle and just teh moon sitting right with all planets in alignment, but it's also scary how what we are looking at now with this team, really falls under the cliche, "It was only a matter of time".
I can honestly say after reading your series.. I stand corrected! Hopefully Feaster [cause i think he'll keep the job] and Brent [also stays] can right this thing before we have to pull an Edmonton.. and yes Bob Cob, I'm looking at you and your ridiculous comments... not just today, but over the last month! Enjoy Cellar Dweller.. The hurt ain't over yet!
Is Mike Keenan's salary off our books yet?
It really is a shame we couldn't have taken that money and built a stockade in the parking lot of the Saddle Dome. At least that way, when a particular player did poorly each home game, we could lock them in the stockade for a day and charge $5 per person to throw rotten fruit at that player.
Would have been quite entertaining.


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For all the years, he has put on the uniform of blue,
He has never realized how much he protects me and you.
But, as he starts the day again, I just wish he could see,
What he really is and how much he means to you and me.
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over 7 years ago
Thanks for the add and stay safe. "Go Tech".
over 7 years ago
Jack: Thank you for your friendship. Shetland


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Terminator Pro Series Jigs
Made for the pro's, the Terminator Pro Jigs feature a unique head, designed specifically for penetrating cover, as well as an ideal nylon weedguard to protect against snags, while not inhibiting hooksets. A stainless steel wire keeper holds all your soft plastic trailers firmly in place so they don't slip down the hook shank, and a premium banded silicone skirt and rattles provide additional fish attraction. Available in a range of colors, the Terminator Pro Jigs also come equipped with super strong VMC hooks to make every bite count.
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Customer Reviews
Comments: Love this jig. Have caught many fish on this jig and not one flaw. The VMC hooks on them are strong and reliable. The junebug color is my favorite because it is an abnormality to high pressured fish. Pair these jigs with a rage craw or a rage bug and get ready to catch some quality fish.
From: Noah: Effingham IL 2/1/17
Comments: These are my go to jig. Terminator makes great products and these jigs are no exception. They have a unique head design that allows it to come through cover easy. My only improvement would be to recess the line tie or make it smaller. Overall my favorite jig
From: Unknown: 1/28/17
Comments: I love these jigs! I always have one tied on! I just wish they created more colors. That is the only thing wrong with these jigs overall.
From: Brett: Morris, IL 1/3/16
Comments: Happy with the jigs. They are surprisingly snagless in rip rap for river smallies. GP Orange was the color for me cause they were eating craws. Will be buying more
From: Eric: USA 8/20/15
Comments: Very pleased with this jig. Caught my personal best Largemouth Bass on the Pumpkin Green color with a Net Bait craw on the back. In my opinion from fishing both the Strike King jigs and this jig, the Terminator jig is much better. The skirt has more bulk which gives a larger presentation and the small rattle is an extra plus. It also has a trailer hook which keeps your plastic on the baits much better than others I have used. Overall very pleased especially with the price you can get them at.
From: Mitch: Brownsburg, IN 4/4/15
Comments: I like this jig because of the weed guard and the head design. Based off of my success the head was designed to go through cover easier. The weedguard is nice and flexible so its not very big in the fish's mouth. However, The hookup ratio is not very good. I use a Havoc Pit chunk on this and it forces the bait to lay flat so the hook is not up when the fish takes the jig. Overall, great price for an OK jig.
From: Cody: Ripon, WI 10/27/14
Comments: I like these little jigs! They have a great head deisgn, and also have a small enough profile with with a zoom super chunk jr that the smallies inhale them! Hooks are strong! Skirts are great and so are the colors! Get some of these jigs!
From: Chris: NE, WI 5/26/14
Comments: Amazing jig. Heres the trick though... Put a Net Bait Paca Chunk 3inch, 10lb mono on and SWIM JIG this on the surface. The bass cant stand the flapping arms, so much action! Be prepared, fish do nip at this presentation. They strike it hard.
From: Nick: Indianapolis, IN 5/8/14
Comments: Not a great jig. The hooks rust and become dull quick and the jigs don't stand up straight on the bottom. These jigs just fall on their side which makes them easier to snag and kills the presentation. Plus the wire bait keeper always tears up my trailers. Not a big fan
From: J Bird: RI 2/25/14
Comments: This jig is unbeatable for the price. I got one in green pumpkin and junbug. The hooks are very sticky but may not hold up. Can't wait to use them!
From: Nicole: Ramona,CA
Comments: Great jig hook rusted but I just wiped it off caught a 3 pounder on it
From: Birmingham alabama
Comments: I used to like terminator jigs until I bent out a their hook. Im a little disappointed
From: Peter: MN
Comments: Very good jig for the money. I have a PBJ color that works great for bass under docks,in weeds, rocks and almost everywhere. Its my favorite jig.
From: Josh: MN
Comments: Great jig. Weed guard comes down to personal preference. It may be a bit soft to some. But I really like it. Paint quality is there and it can take a beating on hard surfaces. Out of the box I had to make a minor modification to the jig. Using a pair of pliers I had to pinch down the trailer guard just a hair because out of the box it can rip and tear your plastic.
From: Cvang2345: Minneapolis, MN
Comments: The VMC hook black coating not as solid as the Mustad Ultra Point but VMC feels stronger from my finger pressure test. Keep dry, it'll be fine. Skirt glitter is all over my fingers, minor hiccup. Opposed to reviewer before me, I think weedguard is normal length. Excellent head taper that has that tungsten weight look and appears very, very chip resistant. Overall grade: A-
From: CXX: St. Paul, MN
Comments: Great head design, and paint doesn't chip. Used only one jig for an entire weekend on the 'sippi and pitched to back water laydowns all day both days and it held up great. Only gripe i have with it is the brush gaurd is a bit short, i like mine a bit thin and i didn't trim it at all since its somewhat short. The wire trailer keeper takes a bit of getting used to threading plastics on. It will tear right through baits unless you put them on just right, but it holds trailers on better than most jigs. Only pitchin' jig that can come close to these are the Northland Jungle Jigs.
From: Alex: WI


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Sustainability Report
• Coach Sustainability Report 2013.pdf
• Coach Sustainability Report 2014.pdf
• Coach Sustainability Report 2015.pdf
Welcome to Coach's Sustainability Report. Sustainability has long been part of how we do business at Coach, Inc. It's a journey we've been walking for many years. This sustainability report describes our strategy and discusses where we stand in providing thoughtful and creative solutions to key sustainability challenges. At times organizations can operate in silos. We have designed this report to break down those silos and to aggregate many programs in hopes that this information will be useful for our customers, suppliers, business partners, employees, community members, and investors, as well as interested parties in the government and nongovernmental arenas.
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Featuring everything you need and nothing you don't, the Asics GT 1000 2 offers no-nonsense runability and excellent value in a reliable, supportive daily trainer.
The Asics GT 1000, like the Gel 1100 series before it, was a great option for overpronating runners wanting a down-to-earth trainer that could simply get them through their miles. Minimal changes in the latest update to the shoe means that the GT 1000 2 will continue to fit this description.
Utilizing Gel units in both the heel and forefoot, the GT 1000 2 offers excellent impact protection for long runs and high mileage training. The shoe features Asics' softer SpEVA midsole material, which is a boon for runners who like a pillowy ride.
Though the GT 1000 2's upper may not feature any stretch panels or seamless overlays, our testers had no problem achieving a comfortable fit. The padded heel collar does a good job keeping everything in place, while the toebox is fairly open and should accommodate most runners.
Our favorite part of the GT 1000 2 is its value. This shoe offers an excellent running experience for overpronators who just need a shoe to get them through their training, and with a price unmatched by others in its category, runners will be hard pressed to find more bang-for-buck than in the GT 1000 2.
"The GT-1000 2 does fit a bit large, so sizing down half a size would be a good call. Once you get that dialed, though, the fit is as comfortable as you would expect from an Asics shoe."
"Trying this shoe on alongside its predecessor, I wasn't able to feel any differences in fit, comfort or performance. If you liked the GT-1000, you'll be right at home in this update."
"If you're a mild to moderate overpronator and you want a simple trainer that works as hard as you do during heavy training, the GT-1000 2 is a hard option to pass up."


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Nike Flex 2012 TR Boys Infant & Toddler Sneaker
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The cool Nike® Flex 2012 TR sneaker offers all the necessary support and durability needed in an everyday athletic shoe.
- Mesh upper
- Stretch laces with velcro closure for adjustable fit
- Fabric lining; cushioned insole
- Padded collar and tongue
- Lightweight midsole
- Rubber traction sole
- Imported
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Location: Richmond, VA
February 02, 2013
Nike Flex
"Super cute! We get tons of compliments on these little sneakers. My toddler doesn't get "caught" on them... he can walk/crawl whatever in comfort!"
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Dr. Scholls Rustler Slip-On
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Finally, a perfect shoe for the man who craves comfort! The Rustler loafer from Dr. Scholl's is a shoe you can wear all day and its Energy Wave™ cushioning insole will keep your feet feeling terrific.
- Leather upper with suede trim
- Round moc toe
- Fabric lining
- Removable cushioned Energy Wave™ insole
- Synthetic sole for increased traction
- Imported
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By: Azym
Location: California
August 14, 2013
Comfortable but not good look
"I bought this shoes for my husband. It was comfortable but do not look good. I recommend it for elderly."
By: PiPhi
Location: Los Angeles
April 01, 2013
Great Find
"Bought my dad these shoes for a trip to Europe. He has had feet problem for years now and finding good shoes that he can walk in that also look stylish is such a challenge. So happy to have found these shoes. I think he is going to pick up a pair in a different color they worked out so well!"
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Until the jobless rate is below 7%, Federal Reserve is unlikely to end efforts to stimulate economy.
The Federal Reserve's job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going. The jobs report for December doesn't give any indication guests will be getting their coats anytime soon.
The Fed has kept short-term interest rates low and has been buying Treasury bonds to keep long-term rates low in a bid to stimulate the economy – particularly employment. Low rates let people and corporations refinance their debt, giving them more money to spend.
At 7.8%, unemployment is still higher than the Fed would like, which means the Fed's efforts to keep rates low will probably continue through most of this year, says Sam Stovall, market strategist for Standard & Poor's Capital IQ.
Job increases in manufacturing and construction are encouraging, Stovall says. Still, the economy is in a slow-growth mode and remains vulnerable.
For the stock market, the report's picture of a slowly recovering economy is good, but not great news.
The stock market is still looking for a catalyst to continue the upward momentum it got with the "fiscal cliff" agreement" earlier this week, Stovall says. In other words, the market's attention will likely shift to fourth-quarter earnings to justify more stock-buying.
For bond investors, the slight improvement means the Fed may end its bond-buying program by the end of the year, assuming unemployment dips below 7% by then. If that's the case, investors can expect bond yields to trend slightly higher this year.
Bond prices fall when yields rise. The 10-year Treasury note currently yields 1.95%, up from 1.71% just a week ago. But any interest payments are unlikely to completely offset price declines.


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© OPT - J.L. Flemal
- Address:
Avenue de Tervueren 364
1150 Brussels (WOLUWE-SAINT-PIERRE)
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Every Sunday from April to October, the Tram Museum shows you around Brussels on board a 1935 historical tram.
You will discover the capital sitting comfortably in a tram, on the 35 km railway that crosses this multicultural city.
Forget the blisters, sore feet and whining of your children: "Mummy, my feet hurt!" and "Daddy, I'm too tired, I can't walk any longer!"
And for the parents, a guide on board will be telling you thousands of anecdotes on the city of Brussels.
Practical informationDeparture at 10am
Place of departure: the Tram Museum, avenue de Tervuren 364B in 1150 Woluwe St Pierre.
Return around 1.45pm
- adults and children over 12 years €15
- children from 6 to 11 years €10
- free for children under 6 sitting on their parents' lap
Given the duration of the visit, the youngest ones might get restless... no worries, there are also activities for children over 6 years.
- tel. : +32 (0) 2 515 31 08
- website : http://www.trammuseumbrussels.be
Visit our partners' webpages
- Traditional Belgian Chocolatiers - Planète Chocolat
- Horta-Lambeaux Pavilion - The Pavilion of Human Passions
- Aqualibi Waterpark, just a stone's throw away from Brussels
- ADAM, Art & Design Atomium Museum
- Zaabär, the chocolate factory at the heart of Brussels


text: If you would like a bench to be placed at the Huntington Cemetery in memory of one of your loved ones you can contact the Huntington City Hall at 687-2436. The benches are $325. The plaque in the middle is made of stainless steel and is 8" x 22" with the choice of one art work plus the lettering. The plaque can say "Donated By" or "In Memory of" and they are made by Metal Works Store, custom designs are available. The benches are being made by Kent Nielson and a variety of colors are being offered. The benches will be placed around the borders of the cemetery.


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