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PRICE-Linda Lee Nelson, age 67, passed away peacefully Jan. 20, 2010 at Castleview Hospital in Price.
She was born March 5, 1942 in Price, Utah to Gale Eldon and Clelia Ariotti Nelson.
Linda attended the Ann Self School in Spring Glen and also the Castle Valley Center in Price. For years she lived with her friends in a group home in Price until her health began to fail, and for the past two years she resided under the excellent care at Parkdale Care Center.
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Chile 101: Time to heat up Pueblo's pride and joy
Welcome to chile week.
Sure, every day is a chile day in Pueblo, but we're in the midst of The Big One: the week leading up to the city's signature event, the Chile and Frijoles Festival. Tens of thousands of people will flow onto Union Avenue and out to local farms this weekend for a whiff and taste of our most famous crop.
In honor of that, and in recognition of the newcomers who might not be up to speed on all things chile, we present a crash course in this perfect pepper.
Your taste buds are on alert.
With due respect to the venerable Hatch chile from New Mexico, the greatness of the Pueblo chile is no longer a secret.
The Pueblo is thicker than other types of chiles and about 6 inches long, with a moderate blast of heat and a hint of sweetness. And when it's roasted . . . oh, baby, the flavor is beyond compare.
Pueblos are of the Mira Sol variety of peppers, named so because they grow upward, toward the sun. The arid summer days and cool nights on the St. Charles Mesa are an ideal incubator for this crop.
Pueblo's farmers grow a variety of delicious peppers, from Anaheims to jalapenos, but the Pueblo reigns supreme.
There are two important rules to follow when getting your hands on chile peppers:
1. Wear rubber gloves. Capsaicin in chile gives the pepper its heat and can irritate skin. Which leads us to . . .
2. Don't touch your eyes! Anyone who's experienced this will tell you: If you don't follow the glove rule, make sure to thoroughly wash your hands after handling chiles. Your eyes will thank you.
Those who buy just a few pounds of chiles at a time can take home fresh peppers and roast them in the oven or on the grill, but by far the most popular choice is to buy chiles by the bushel and have them roasted on site before taking them home.
Most farmers and produce markets have their own commercial roasters that can do the job in 10 minutes or so (be sure to add some fresh garlic bulbs for extra flavor).
Once that's done, the only job is to put the chiles in freezer bags, squeeze out as much air as possible, and store them in the freezer.
Some people remove the roasted skins before freezing; others leave them on until thawing. We're in the skin-on camp (to hold in flavor), but hey, it's a free country.
The ghost pepper has been displaced.
For some time, the Bhut Jolokia, or ghost pepper, was rated hottest on the Scoville scale, which measures the heat level of various peppers. At more than 850,000 Scoville units, this ghost makes a visible impact on taste buds.
Now an English farmer and pub owner named Gerald Fowler can claim the heat title with his Naga Viper chile. Its pungency? More than 1.3 million Scoville units.
Fowler used three peppers to create his monster: the ghost pepper, Naga Morich and Trinidad Scorpion.
Customers who want to sample its ferociousness can try a curry that's made with the pepper — but Fowler makes them sign a disclaimer form beforehand.
For comparison, here's how some other common peppers rank on Mr. Scoville's list:
Anaheim — 250-500
Jalapeno — 2,500-5,000
Pueblo — 5,000-6,000
Serrano — 10,000-20,000
Cayenne — 30,000-50,000
Habanero — 100,000-350,000
Need to cool your mouth after a taste of spicy peppers? Try things like milk or sour cream. The fat in dairy products is believed to cut the heat. Water and carbonated drinks won't do much to douse it.
Tortillas and other breads also can help lower the temperature by absorbing that capsaicin.
Then again, isn't heat a big part of the chile fun?
To seed or not to seed? It really comes down to personal preference. Removing seeds (and the vein) from chiles will lessen the heat factor, but doesn't affect flavor.
We could put a recipe here, but the fact is there are as many recipes for green chile (or green chile sauce, as some nonlocals insist on calling it) as there are cooks. Only one thing is constant: Simmer the chile for several hours to bring up the flavor.
Here's a list of basics that make their way into many recipes; we'll leave the improvisation to you.
Chicken or vegetable stock
You want to buy a bushel of chiles but think there's no way to use that much before next harvest.
Au, contraire. Never mind batches of green chile; those peppers can be used in, or with, just about any food imaginable:
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In December 2010, Charles Wilhite and a co-defendant, Angel Hernandez, were found guilty in the shooting death of Alberto Rodriguez nearly two years earlier in Springfield's Six Corners neighborhood. Prosecutors say Hernandez paid Wilhite to carry out the shooting, which was allegedly prompted by a feud. Both Wilhite and Hernandez were sentenced to life in prison without parole. But Wilhite continues to maintain his innocence, and his family, friends and lawyers say police and prosecutors got the wrong man. Wilhite's aunt, Vira Douangmany-Cage says there is no physical evidence linking Wilhite to the murder victim, Rodriguez.
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Wilhite's family says his conviction was based in part on testimony from two key witnesses who have since recanted. In the status hearing in superior court in Springfield, Judge Peter Velis agreed to consider an evidentiary hearing but said he was not ready to order a new trial. Wilhite's lawyer says he's hoping for a new trial or a not-guilty verdict from the judge. The prosecution did not ask the judge to block the evidentiary hearing but made clear that they oppose a new trial.


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In my last post I drew attention to John Merrow's visit to a school in Queens, N.Y., using the new Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) program. Today I'd like to start with a chunk of the transcript from Merrow's video:
JOHN MERROW: In balanced literacy, comprehension is a skill, something to be practiced, like a jump-shot or dance steps…. Not so here. In this reading program at a school in Queens, N.Y., the emphasis is on content, the knowledge kids acquire.
TEACHER: Pick your favorite planet. And you're going to look back into your reading notebook and you're going to have to write two facts about that planet.
JOHN MERROW: PS-96 uses a curriculum called Core Knowledge developed by a nonprofit organization led by education reformer E. D. Hirsch, Jr….
STUDENT: Saturn is the second biggest planet. Saturn has thousands of rings.
JOHN MERROW: Core Knowledge is an outlier used by just over 1 percent of elementary schools. That's only 800 schools. Because it's such a small program now, the final cost has not been determined. Organizers say it will be less than basal readers….
JOYCE BARRETT-WALKER, Principal, Public School 96: When I initially came to PS-96, we were not a Core Knowledge school. We basically used basal readers and some sort of— and balanced literacy. Through the basal readers, it was a lot of fictional, fictional studies, fictional texts.
JOHN MERROW: But principal Barrett-Walker wasn't a fan of basal readers and their emphasis on fiction. She felt her students needed to know the same things that children in affluent neighborhoods were learning.
JOYCE BARRETT-WALKER: I felt that some of the students who were here didn't have enough prior knowledge.
JOHN MERROW: Prior knowledge means?
JOYCE BARRETT-WALKER: Knowledge that they need to have to, I feel, function in society, to have conversation, just to help them exist and understanding who they are as far as their relationship to the rest of the world.
Core Knowledge can be challenging. So you do have to do a lot of training, because informational text is very complex. Now, how do you tear it down so that young children in kindergarten and first grade can understand about Egyptian civilizations?
JOHN MERROW: Content is king in the Core Knowledge approach. Books are organized by subjects like mythology, Mozart and the Westward Expansion, topics that some say are over the heads of the young readers…. Apparently, nobody told these first-graders.
STUDENT: My favorite book is solar system—actually, a nature book, "The Skeleton."
JOHN MERROW: Oh, "The Skeleton."
And how about you?
STUDENT: An archaeologist book because it's teaching me more than archaeology.
JOHN MERROW: The arrival of the Common Core doesn't faze principal Barrett-Walker.
JOYCE BARRETT-WALKER: When I look at what the expectations are coming in with the Common Core learning standards, it seems that we're where we need to be right now.
P.S. 96 is where it needs to be, and its young students are on the path to college. Schools using the Core Knowledge Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for PreK–8, and especially those that adopt the new CKLA program, will address all of the CCSS. Core Knowledge is very closely aligned to the CCSS in mathematics and English language arts & literacy. In English language arts & literacy especially, the CCSS and Core Knowledge call for many of the same practices. Other programs could be written to align just as well, but they would have to start from the same shared foundation that supports both Core Knowledge and the CCSS: cognitive science research on reading comprehension.
In my last post I briefly described some of that research, focusing the importance of knowledge for reading comprehension. Now I'd like to mention one more research finding that is critical for the early grades: Until the end of middle school (on average), students' have better listening comprehension than reading comprehension. In the very early grades this is obvious—children are just learning to read. But the fact that reading comprehension takes so many years to outstrip listening comprehension is not obvious at all. Typical 5th, 6th, and 7th graders read well: Why would they still learn more from listening than reading? Because they still do not have enough prior knowledge to draw the full meaning from the text. In class, when teachers are reading aloud, they support comprehension. They pause to define new vocabulary, to explain an idea or event, to ask questions that gauge students' understanding, or to answer questions as needed. They also read with good fluency and proper intonation, which also aid comprehension.
I have worked with hundreds of teachers on reading aloud in class, especially in the very early grades when listening, looking, and talking are students' main tools for learning. Very often teachers have an initial concern that the read-aloud will make students passive (and will quickly lead to behavior problems). But a read-aloud should be quite the opposite. Fiction or nonfiction, a high-quality text offers many words and ideas that students are curious about. And wonderful conversations, and even short research projects, ensue. (Even so, I have to admit that I also value the listening skills children develop over time when their teachers do lots of read-alouds from engaging texts. Really listening to another person, attending to another's point of view and feelings—isn't that terrifically valuable in and of itself?)
Don't take it from me. Here's an excerpt of a communication that arrived in my inbox last week from some educators in New York who are now using the CKLA Listening and Learning program. A network support team member in the Jefferson-Lewis-Hamilton-Herkimer-Oneida BOCES (those not familiar with New York can think of BOCES as consortia of school districts) emailed me the following reflections on their early experiences using CKLA:
Teachers expressed amazement at the content knowledge their students have been developing. One teacher shared an anecdote in which one of her second graders wondered aloud if Marian Anderson had ever met Rosa Parks, since Rosa would probably have stood up for Marian when she was denied hotel accommodations after a performance.
Teachers expressed great satisfaction with the degree to which students have begun answering in complete sentences and offering support for their thinking. Because this is explicitly requested by the teachers as part of the read alouds, students have come to understand and prepare to meet this expectation on their own….Several teachers shared anecdotes of very young children using very sophisticated vocabulary correctly. There were smiles around the room.
Every educator who finds the time to study both the CCSS and the underlying research; who comes to understand the importance of content knowledge in history, civics, science, and the arts; and who experiments in class with reading aloud interesting fiction and nonfiction texts so as to spark conversations and investigations can experience that same satisfaction.
We're celebrating each CCSS victory and are happy to have created materials that generate responses such as this and provide a means of leveraging developmentally-appropriate best practices to implement Common Core in the early grades.
Through decades of hard work, cognitive scientists have assembled a new understanding of how listening and reading comprehension work: they depend on prior knowledge. It's time for all of us in education to embrace that research, and adopt new educational programs that build students' knowledge.
Stay tuned: Later this week, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., will take a deeper look at the research on learning by listening.


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There was a wiper release at Huntington North Reservoir on July 13. Aquatics director for the Division of Wildlife Resources, Justin Hart said there were 10,000 two inch fish released. They scattered them around the edges of the lake where they can take cover from predators while they have a chance to grow.
Three years ago wipers were planted at Huntington North and these fish are now between 12-14 inches. Hart estimates it will take these newly planted fish at least three years to grow to catchable length.
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The recent increase in building permit fees has raised some questions for county residents. They have wondered why and how much these fees have been raised. The responsibilities of a building inspector are numerous and with the addition of several cities, the existing responsibilities for planning and zoning and department responsibilities have been overwhelming for the current county building inspector. Hence, the need for a relook at the way the county does building inspections and the need for additional help in the department.
One of the chief responsibilities of the building inspector is to ensure that a building is being built to code. This ICC code contains 2,800 pages and knowing the ins and outs of the code is time consuming and demanding. A good inspector should know the code and why the rules are made, they need a good knowledge of the industry and background to make good decisions. The inspector needs to know when to stand firm and when adjustments can and should be allowed. An inspector must also be a public relations person who can work with the public in helping them solve their problems and meet their needs.
The building inspector travels from one end of the county to the other. An inspection in Castle Dale may take less than an hour, but one in Emery can take up to three hours for travel and inspection time. A building in progress must be inspected a number of times, which leads to the time consuming aspect of the job. Inspections are required for each step along the way including: footing, foundation, temporary electrical service, rough framing, HVAC, plumbing and electrical, insulation, sheet rock, house wrap, natural gas, electrical service and a final inspection.
The building inspector would like to start or enhance services, but is limited in doing so because of lack of manpower. Improvements could be made for complete monitoring of construction sites throughout the county to ensure building permits are issued and inspections made. Roofing and siding jobs could more actively be pursued for building permits. Sometimes this siding work is done by out of the area contractors and is not as professional as an inspector would require them to be. Also, monitoring of ongoing projects could be more regular especially where the builder has not asked for an inspection in awhile. Final inspections are very important for safety reasons. One big offender is lack of hand rails and wiring is a must for inspection.
An important aspect of the building inspector job is spending the time with do-it-yourselfers. They need reassurance and it is helpful for the inspector to spend time going over rules and regulations with them.
In day to day operations the inspector is involved with handing out information and forms to those wanting building permits. The applications must be checked for accuracy and completeness. The building inspector checks plans and issues permits. The building inspector maintains records and communication with the cities. He also keeps a contractors list and tracking information.
A building permit is intended to be a true user fee to cover services provided by the building department. As much as possible, the consumer should get what they pay for.
With the increase in building permit fees to the Uniform Building Code 1997 the building permit fee for a $100,000 home will be $993.75. Under the old fee structure the building permit fee for a $100,000 home was $289.30.
The increase is 3.4 times what it was. This big jump in fees is the cause for the concern among county residents. The commission explained at a public hearing held that the old fee schedule was antiquated and has not kept up with rising costs. It is the hope of the commission that the building fee increase will help so additional help can be obtained in the building inspection department.
The details for the monetary contributions for the cities to have the county inspector take care of all of their inspections is still being worked out.
The resolution approved at the commission meeting stated: "Whereas, Emery County has established the office of building official pursuant to Title 58, Chapter 56 of the Utah Code Annotated, (1953) as amended and whereas, a number of the cities and towns within Emery County have expressed a desire to enter into an interlocal agreement with the county underwhich the county's building official would provide building inspection services within the incorporated boundaries of such cities or towns; and whereas, such expansion of the duties and services of the building official will require increased financial resources; and whereas the fees charged by Emery County for building permits have not kept pace with the fees charged by other counties in this state; and whereas, the fees set forth herein as suggested by the 1997 Uniform Building Code and not greater than the limits stated in UCA Section 1-36-102. Whereas, Emery County finds that the fees set forth in this resolution are reasonably necessary to offset the costs of provided building inspection services, issuing building permits and creating and maintaining records of such activities; now, therefore, it is hereby resolved by the Emery County Commission, which is the legislative body of Emery County, as follows: That the county shall henceforth, until further changes by this body, charge, assess and collect fees for building permits in accordance with the following schedule:
If the total valuation of construction is not greater than $500 the fee is $23.50. If more than $500, but less than $2,000, the fee is $23.50, plus $3.05 for each additional $100 or fraction thereof, in excess of $500. For valuation of construction more than $2,000 and not greater than $25,000, the fee is $69.25, plus $14 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, in excess of $2,000. For valuation more than $25,000 and not greater than $50,000 the fee is $391.75 plus $10.10 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, in excess of $25,000. For valuation more than $50,000, and not greater than $100,000 the fee is $643.75 plus $7 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, in excess of $50,000. If valuation is more than $100,000 and not greater than $500,000 the fee is $993.75 plus $5.60 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, in excess of $100,000.
If valuation is more than $500,000 and not greater than $1 million, the fee is $3,233.75 plus $4.75 for each additional $1,000, or fraction thereof, in excess of $500,000. More than $1 million, the fee is $5,608.75 plus $3.65 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, in excess of $1 million. In addition to said fees, a surcharge of 1 percent shall be added as required by U.C.A. 58-56-9.
The value of construction shall be determined according to the most current edition of the uniform building code, building valuation data schedule.


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This device is so far superior to the Kindle Touch, it's not funny. Best ebook reader I have seen, IMO.
01-15-2012 06:57 AM - edited 01-15-2012 12:17 PM
I tried the tablet at night with maximum dimmed backgroundlights.
I did not like it, when moving eyes or the letters/pages on the screen it flickered to much for me.
With night mode background i felt even worse.
for novels e ink is much better if you plan to do a lot of reading, I have been using my TPT to read since my daughter has co-opted my KOBO to read a series of books. the available ereading apps for android are very good and offer a lot of variety in terms of features an options but the device it self is too heavy for long reading bouts if you have to hold it and the LCD looks good for a while but afer a long time reading my eyes get tired.
for magazines and for techincal books (photography) the TPT is very,very good much better than eink.
06-17-2012 03:29 PM - edited 06-18-2012 02:34 AM
I found out other tablets are flickerfree.
At least my inexpensive 100Eu 7" Odys Xelio doesnt flicker noticeable even when dimmed.
And a simple test with a small solarcell and a headphone lets the TPT squeak because of the frequencies,
where the Xelio is silent like my old lcd without led....
The flickering backlight means it makes the eyes quick tired and "stresses" the brain...
Cant belive the engineers didnt test it or made this failure in how to dimm the leds.
I am so disappointed about the TPT.
If your primary concern is reading you should get a Kindle or similar e-ink device. I use the TPT for reading but that is not it's primary use. There are limitations in bright and dim environments. It is also heavy to hold compared to a kindle. The flicker/eystrain issue is not a primary drawback for me for reading; it's the glare in bright environments, eyestrain in dim environments ant the size and weight of the tablet.
I don't agree that e-ink is better in reading than LED/LCD. You would need to be in a well-lit place to read e-Ink comfortably, or you would strain your eyes a lot. Whereas you can read from LED/LCD in the dark if you like. In any case, it is not too good for the eyes to read under strong sunlight or in total darkness, and for a prolong period of time.
Personally I have the NookColor eReader and love reading it. Great screen and compact size.
06-18-2012 02:20 AM - edited 06-18-2012 02:36 AM
I use non-glare screenprotectors, without I couldn't work with the decives.
With theTPT I primary write on it...
Secondary i use it for reading webpages and PDF files
Also while writing on it I have to look at the screen quite often.
For reading without getting ill I will use now the Odys Xelio Tablet.


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Political Coase Theorem
Francesco Parisi
University of Minnesota - Law School; University of Bologna
Public Choice, Vol. 115, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1-36, April 2003
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 01-05
This article considers the applicability of the Coase theorem (in both its positive and normative formulations) to the political market. The article analogizes the choice of decision rules in the political market to the choice of legal rules in the traditional Coase theorem and further analogizes alternative initial coalitions to the different initial allocations of entitlements considered by Coase (1960). On the basis of these analogies, the paper examines the relevance (or lack thereof) of alternative voting rules and initial coalitions on the final political outcome. The article further shows that, if all voters are allowed to enter into Coasian bargaining over the policy outcome to be adopted by the majority coalition (i.e., if political bargains are possible and are enforceable), uniqueness and stability are obtained. The analysis of the axiomatic Nash bargaining equilibrium yields an interesting geometric intuition. If voters have similar utility functions centered around different ideal policy points, the Coasian bargaining will be conducive to the center of mass of the policy space, which weighs the agents' preferences as revealed in the bargaining process. Such ideal equilibrium satisfies most criteria of social welfare. The article concludes considering the various practical limits of this ideal political market, whenever collective action and agency problems affect the political bargaining in a representative or direct democracy.
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A number of problems have emerged for the Buffalo Sabres through the first nine games of the season. Chief among them are lack of secondary scoring, loads of defensive breakdowns and inconsistent goaltending.
It has led to what has become a regular discussion the last few years about whether or not Lindy Ruff should be fired.
It was five weeks ago yesterday the Bills decided to end the Chan Gailey era at One Bills Drive. It was a move most people could see coming. Listening to Chan Gailey each Football Monday, you could hear the frustration in his voice and it sounded like he had run out of answers.
I didn't get that sense listening to Lindy Ruff during his interview with Jeremy and me this morning. Although, there was one time where I envisioned Lindy sitting in his hotel room with his arms stretched out by his sides and shrugging his shoulders as if to say "Guys, I have no idea what to do."
He was asked about the possibility of moving Mikhail Grigorenko up to the second line. Ruff responded by saying its hard to tell who that second line is right now.
Ruff has tried some different combinations but nothing has worked to this point. The line of Thomas Vanek, Cody Hodgson and Jason Pominville has combined for 18 goals. The other 11 forwards who have dressed in at least one game this season have a total of five goals.
I suppose it isn't fair to expect much scoring from fourth line players so I'll focus on the next 6 forwards after that top line. Tyler Ennis leads the way with two goals scored. Steve Ott, Mikhail Grigorenko and Marcus Foligno have one each. Drew Stafford and Jochan Hecht, who had more even strength ice time than Vanek in the last game with Florida, have a big fat zero in the goal column.
Stafford is off to this worst start as a Sabre. He had never gone more than six games at the start of the season before registering his first goal. He is at nine games and counting.
Foligno had six goals in his first nine games after the March 10th call up last season but is stuck at one.
As far as Stafford is concerned, Ruff broke down all of Stafford's scoring opportunities this season and told the winger, he isn't getting tight enough around the net. For that matter, Ruff said there were times when Stafford skated right by the net. He added that Stafford has to do a better job of battling for rebound chances and tip chances.
Ruff had a similar scouting report for Ennis who has gotten more of his chances on the rush rather than around the net.
All six of the forwards are getting ample opportunities to grab hold of the second line job since Ruff has pretty much balanced out the playing time for the group. Ennis and Stafford are averaging just under 19 minutes a game while Ott, Hecht and Foligno are all between 16 and 17 minutes. Grigorenko is the low man at less than 12 minutes a game.
The offensive deep freeze isn't just when the Sabres skate five on five. Do you remember Ott's power play goal in the season opener against Philadelphia? That is the only power play goal scored by a forward not named Vanek or Pominville in nine games.


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Architectural academic and author Julia Gatley champions mid-century design.
Knocking up a boatshed proved a seminal experience for architectural student Julia Gatley. At 21 she was invited, along with a dozen fellow Victoria University class members, to a working bee at architect Ian Athfield's bach overlooking tranquil Awaroa Bay in the Abel Tasman National Park. Like his Wellington home, the plaster-clad organic bach that resembles a predecessor to the village of Hobbiton was an experimental project where ideas of communal ownership and living were explored. While hammering nails and painting boards, Gatley was captivated by Athfield's ideas - and his affable nature. "He was very generous and open and a great storyteller. He explained his reaction against suburbia. His belief was that housing needed to be denser but with a greater sense of privacy than a line of detached bungalows could ever ensure, and also a great sense of neighbourhood or community."
That was 25 years ago and her respect for this dynamic figure, once considered radical but now the Christchurch Earthquake Architectural Ambassador, has never waned.
Gatley has just completed a book about "Ath" as he is affectionately known to his peers.
It's not the first thoroughly researched tome she's written about a subject dear to her heart. Inadvertently, Gatley has become New Zealand's foremost female editor of architectural books. Her two previous offerings - Long Live the Modern and Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture - sold out within weeks.
As a Senior Lecturer in architecture at the University of Auckland, she is expected to publish essays for an academic audience. But Gatley has managed to straddle the fence with her accessible, contemporary style. "I'm very conscious of wanting to reach a general readership," she says.
Fastidious, forensic research through archival material for her previous two books has made her an authority on (and accidental champion of) New Zealand modernism. Though mid-century architecture may be highly fashionable right now, Gatley came to love this era via a circuitous route.
"I graduated in architecture just as the stock market crashed in the 80s. There wasn't a lot of work so I went door-knocking and landed a job at the Historic Places Trust."
The trust's nationwide project at the time aimed to have a backlog of buildings researched and registered; Gatley did the Wellington work and also saw the reports submitted to Head Office by researchers up and down the country. This gave her a unique perspective on our built environment. "I learnt to appreciate the historical, social and cultural value of buildings rather than just focus on design."
A case in point is the first project she researched for the trust, the Karitane Products Society Building in Wellington, where infant milk formulas were made. It was designed in the 20s by architect William Gray Young. Although no longer a working factory, it has a stake in our social history and deserves its place in our heritage.
Gatley soon developed favourite architects such as Francis Petre who designed Christchurch's Catholic cathedral. "He loved Gothic Revival architecture but the Catholic church preferred classical forms," she explains. Still Petre was allowed to express himself more freely in the Dominican Priory in Dunedin, which dates from the 1870s and is important for its early use of concrete and abstracted Gothic windows.
During the mid-90s, when Gatley worked for the trust, their focus was on architecture pre-1940. "So, when I did my masters thesis, I decided to look at more 'modern' buildings to balance up my knowledge."
Her research began to take in Auckland from this time, although it was a further 10 years before she moved here. She still admires some buildings included in her masters thesis, those, like the Greys Avenue Flats, a block of concrete apartments built by the Labour Government in the mid-40s. Taking a cue from European modernism, the architects relished the opportunity to design high-density housing, rather than detached State houses, Gatley says. But Aucklanders were really opposed to the idea of medium and high density housing at the time. "That's because they provided accommodation for people other than nuclear families." There had been uproar when an earlier block of flats was limited to one bedroom units.
Gatley herself is in favour of apartment living. "Everyone expects me to live in a groovy 50s house." Until recently, home was a small space in central Auckland. With no car, she favours walking to the university or, on inclement days, taking the bus. But her work has changed her lifestyle. While visiting families of the Group Architects to research her second book, she struck up a romance. She has recently moved into a modest and much-altered Mt Eden cottage that her partner Jeremy, the son of one of the original members of the Group, Bruce Rotherham, has owned for 20 years.
It gives her the inside story on the much-admired Rotherham house in Stanley Bay, built in 1951, which featured a double-height volume and a dish-shaped mezzanine that floated through it. The "dish" cupped the master bedroom and there was no balustrade to secure it. "People would be horrified about that today but Jeremy enjoyed trying to walk up the sloping sides of the dish as a child." It was steep enough that it sent him safely back to floor levelrather than catapulting him over the side and into the open-plan living area below.
While other site visits to meet the owners pale in comparison, they nevertheless unearthed some fondly-told stories. "I met someone who had built Group Architects houses," explains Gatley. "He told me the neighbours at the time nicknamed the Group's Second House 'the Maori house' because it had a gabled porch like a meeting house." Group leader Bill Wilson responded by calling it the 'Pakeha house'."
Though Jeremy Rotherham is not an architect like his father, he has inherited some design skills. "He's always making something, or fixing something!," says Gatley. She's no slouch when it comes to carpentry either, due to an enforced stint in the workshop of Tasmania University where she taught for a while. It was here Gatley fashioned a replica of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's "Daisy" table that sits proudly in the couple's Mt Eden living room. "I had no drawings to go off, just a photo. Later I discovered that the original was actually a garden table and a whole lot bigger."
Her coffee-table version fits nicely beside two William Morris-style chairs. They are upholstered in a Liberty fabric. "It's a new one but it is based on a William Morris design."
A wall of art behind this seating includes some gems rescued from London where Bruce Rotherham went to live and work in 1955. Rotherham was a typography enthusiast and designed his own font, called 'Wedge'. It's a passion he incorporated into artworks. The terracotta-toned paintings on pieces of wood are signed 'rotheram' - all in lower case and dropping to second 'h' so that the name read phonetically - which, says Gatley, was a very modernist thing to do. Other buys are from the Elam fine arts school end-of-year exhibitions. "There's one by Clare Kim who was signed by the Sanderson Gallery when she graduated," says Gatley.
Now she's finished the Athfield book in time for its launch in June, she can afford to take things a bit easier. Weekends will no longer be spent peering into archival material or visiting Auckland-based Athfield houses.
Most of the six or seven homes he designed in the city during the 70s are hidden down long driveways.
"He was one of the first to introduce ideas of sustainability and energy efficiency. He incorporated water collection, solar heating and composting into one of his 1970s houses."
The homes circle Auckland from the leafy West to coastal North Shore to east of Howick. Some sport his recognisable white-plaster aesthetic but others are timber or brick. A red-brick house in Titirangi was designed for an engineering friend from Christchurch Boys High School. It includes multiple floor levels, a barrel-vaulted ceiling and round windows made of a concrete drain pipe - forms typical to Athfield at the time. "He was often working with low budgets and believed in sourcing second-hand materials from other projects," says Gatley. He expected hands-on involvement from his clients. At the very least, they'd do the painting but often they could be found scavenging on demolition sites and painstakingly cleaning brick or timber for re-use.
This reflects Athfield's abhorrence of the 70s propensity to demolish buildings rather than re-invent them. Thankfully, says Gatley, that stance is changing. She's happy to have played a small part in raising awareness of our public, commercial and institutional heritage. And councils are taking notice.
"Twenty years ago local authorities didn't want to know about buildings from the 50s, 60s and 70s but now they are increasingly accepting them as part of our 'heritage'," she says. It only takes one or two local people actively talking about the architecture of any one place to make a difference."
And though her generation of architects has written about modernism, Gatley is hopeful her students will fly the flag for what came after - postmodern architecture from the 1970s and 80s." Any takers?
* The book Athfield Architects by Julia Gatley (AUP: $75) will be released on 15 June. The exhibition Athfield Architects: People and Place, curated by Julia Gatley runs from 23 June-7 Oct at City Gallery Wellington.


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From June 15th to the 30th NHL teams have a chance to rid themselves of their bad financial decisions; also know as the buyout period. This year the buyout period should be more active with the introduction of two potential compliance buyouts per team.
Here's a quick refresher on how it works.
The regular buyout works like this.
If a player is younger than 26 at the time of the buyout, his team can buy him out for only 1/3 of the remaining value on his contract.
If the player is 26 or older then he is bought at 2/3 of the remaining value.
Teams still take a cap hit for the player, but the costs are spread out over twice the length of his remaining salary. For instance, if a player has two years remaining on a contract that paid him $4 million every year, ($8 million remaining) the team buys him out at a total cost of $5.36 million. Then they would split that into four payments.
His cap hit for the next four seasons would be $1,333,333.
The compliance buyout works the same, as far as paying the player, but the major advantage is that the player's salary doesn't count towards the team's overall cap hit. This is a huge opportunity for teams that are saddled with over-priced contracts, and need to free up some cap space.
Teams are only allowed two compliance buyouts. The Rangers and Canadiens have already used one on Wade Redden and Scott Gomez respectively, so that leaves 58 possible candidates. Teams can use a compliance buyout this year or next June.
If a team uses a compliance buyout, that player cannot re-sign with that same team for at least one season. I've never read anything that would prevent two teams from agreeing to buyout players, then sign the other team's player and trade them back to their original team. I doubt it happens, but I've never read anything that says it's prohibited.
Brad Richards, 33, New York Rangers: 7 years remaining with a $6.67 million cap hit.
He is owed $36 million in actual money, so the Rangers would have to buy him out at $24 million, but he wouldn't count against the cap.
If they used a regular buyout it would cost them $1.7 million in cap space for the next 14 seasons.
Daniel Briere, 35, Philadelphia Flyers: 2 years remaining with a $6.5 million cap hit.
He is only owed $5 million in actual dollars, so the Flyers could buy him out for $3.35 million. If he was a regular buyout he'd cost a lot more in cap space. I believe he's a lock to be a compliance buyout.
Ville Leino, 29, Buffalo Sabres: 4 years remaining with a $4.5 million cap hit.
He is owed $15 in actual dollars, and the Sabres could buy him out for $10 million. Leino only played 8 games this season, but he registered 6 points. He finished the season with lung issues, so he'd have to be deemed healthy before they buy him out. I'm curious to see if the Sabres opt to cut bait with a player who has 10 goals and 31 points in 79 games over two seasons in Buffalo.
Mike Komisarek, 31, Toronto Maple Leafs: 1 year remaining with a $4.5 million cap hit.
He's owed $3.5 million, so it would cost the Leafs $2.33 million to buy him out. That is pocket change for the Leafs, and even though the Leafs currently have $19 million in cap space next season, I see him as a legitimate compliance possibility.
David Booth, 28, Vancouver Canucks: 2 years remaining with a $4.25 million cap hit.
He's owed $9.25 million in actual dollars. It would cost the Canucks $6.19 million to buy him out. The Canucks are in dire need of cap space, so buying out Booth makes sense, as long as he is deemed healthy. He finished the season on the IR.
Keith Ballard, 30, Vancouver Canucks: 2 years remaining with a $4.2 million cap hit.
He's owed $8.4 million in actual dollars, and it would the Canucks $5.6 million to buy him out. Getting rid of Booth and Ballard would free up $8.45 million, but it would also illustrate two of Mike Gillis' worst signings. Ballard was a healthy scratch in the playoffs, and seemingly can't stay out of the Canucks doghouse.
Ilya Bryzgalov, 32, Philadelphia Flyers: 7 years remaining with a $5.66 million cap hit.
He is owed $34.5 million, so it would cost the Flyers $23 million to buy him out. The Flyers are currently over the $64.3 million cap for next season. They need to find some cap space, and at the same time improve their team. Bryzgalov's play was actually fairly decent in Philadelphia this season, according to the beat reporters, but his aloof attitude seems to have worn out its welcome with his teammates and management. However, $23 million, just to say goodbye, is still a huge chunk of money, even for the rich Flyers.
Dany Heatley, 32, Minnesota Wild: 1 year remaining with a $7.5 million cap hit.
Heatley is owed $5 million, so the Wild would need to ante up $3.33 million to send him packing. The Wild have $8.5 million in cap space, but they need to re-sign Cal Clutterbuck, Matt Cullen, Jared Spurgeon and decide what to do about a starting goaltender. Backstrom is unrestricted. Buying out Heatley would almost double their cap space.
Eric Belanger, 35, Edmonton Oilers: 1 year remaining with a $1.75 million cap hit.
Belanger is owed $1.25 million, so it would cost the Oilers $833,333 to get him off the roster. I don't see him being in Edmonton next season. The Oilers could use a regular buyout on him, but because his contract was front-loaded he would be a $916,667 cap hit next season, and a $416,667 cap hit in 2014. The Oilers likely won't be in a cap-crunch this season, so they could save a compliance buyout for a bigger contract if necessary.
Some have suggested the Oilers send Belanger to the minors in early October and hope someone claims him on waivers, but I doubt they want him in the AHL around their younger players.
- The Oilers only need to qualify Magnus Paajarvi at $850,000 to maintain his rights, so I think we can safely say that will happen. The bigger question is what will his new deal look like? I could see him getting a two-year deal at $1.5 million/year. His agent likely wants more money or only a one-year deal to allow Paajarvi an opportunity to have a good season and cash in next year. I'm curious to see how MacTavish handles Paajarivi's contract.
- Many have asked if Shawn Horcoff is an option for a compliance buyout. I don't see the Oilers doing that unless MacTavish makes a few deals to acquire a few veteran centremen. You can't expect the Oilers to compete if they have Nugent-Hopkins, Gagner and Lander as their top-three centres next season. They need some experience and strength. I don't see Horcoff being bought out this summer.
- Here is Jordan Eberle's second commercial. How would you rate it compared to his ATB ones?
- Who are some other players you feel would be obvious compliance buyouts, other thanTomas Kaberle in Montreal?
@Jason Gregor
Is there a time frame for these buyouts? Basically does a team have to use them next yr or not at all?
May 22 2013, 12:30PM
What I'm more interested in is buyouts that might become candidates specifically for the Oilers to pick up? Any useful defensemen? Any bottom 6 forwards that might fit in nicely?
DSF don't bother commenting. I encourage you to write a blog, I'll promote it for you, but you won't be hijacking the comments section in my articles. Good luck. Also, no need for anyone else to comment on this. Just talk about buyouts.
Can you please ban Weber trade talk as well?
May 22 2013, 12:34PM
@Jason Gregor
Paajarvi at 1.5 X 2 is just about right. Keeps term low enough for the player to prove something and is an acceptable dollar figure. If they could bump it down to 1.3 or so that would be ideal.
My fear is that Calgary has three first rounders and money to spend on buyouts and they rebuild quicker than the Oilers.
Vinny Lecavalier (TBL) @ $7.727M until 2020
JM Liles (TOR) @ $3.875M until 2016
I might get savaged for this, but does Vincent Lecavalier get bought out? It might not be likely given TB's financial state, but it's not out of the realm of possibility is it?
What about Ben Eager? You think he becomes a buyout if he can't be added to some sort of package?
May 22 2013, 12:41PM
DSF don't bother commenting. I encourage you to write a blog, I'll promote it for you, but you won't be hijacking the comments section in my articles. Good luck. Also, no need for anyone else to comment on this. Just talk about buyouts.
^thank you Jason!! anyways, good article and it's starting to become an interesting time of year, isn't it? Stanley Cup finals around the corner, the entry draft, compliance buyouts and the summer UFA season....can't wait to see what happens in general and what the Oilers do....and they better bloody well be active!!
It will be tough for some of these owners/GM's to own up to the mistakes they've made. Paying Brad Richards $24M to not play on your team after that J Schultz-like signing debacle would be astounding. Can't see them doing it.
Good point about using Belanger as a regular buyout option, but I don't see who they use it on other than Eager. Horcoff is the only candidate, but (as hard as this is to say) he has value on this team, especially with the center ice weakness. If I remember correctly a team that buys out a player can not re-sign him, is that correct? A great idea would be to buy him out for 2/3 of his contract to remove his horrible cap hit, just to re-sign him for 1/3 ($1.8M) for the same term. No impact to the player, bonus cap room for the team.
I would presume you scenario with teams buying out players signing another teams and then trading would be considered salary cap circumvention and be stopped then fined by Bettman. Do you not agree? Thanks for the post, I have been looking everywhere for a well written one. Its hard to take any blog seriously when they have Marc Savard as the top buyout. Whats your over/under for buyouts?
May 22 2013, 12:52PM
Keeping Horcoff is not bold. He's owed $7MM more, so pay him his $4.66 and say goodbye, and at the same time put to rest any lingering doubts that Lowe is pulling the strings.
Agree you can't go into next year with Nuge, Gags and Lander but you can go in with Nuge, Gags (or someone MacT trades Gagner for) and one of the servicable free agent centers that are available - you could get almost all of this year's crop for less than Horc's 5.5MM cap hit. Or be bold and sign Ribeiro for that amount, bump Gags to 3C or trade him for help on D.
Hmm exciting times ahead with the possibility of so many talented players all of a sudden becoming UFA's as a result of buyouts. Makes you wonder of Calgary will simply create a new bubble team of aging veterans. It also will likely drive down the UFA prices of people like Horton, Clarkson, Bickell, and any other UFA the Oilers were looking to target.
With the Nishkuchnin news, and the buyouts, and Tambi no longer at the helm, this could be a very busy and rewarding summer for Edmonton.
Better acting this time out, although why does Kevin's Moms car have BC plates on it? Or are those Keybec plates?!
The reason I bring up Vinny has more to do with the length of his contract versus the massive cap hit and what they're actually paying him in those later years.
The guy has 7 more years under this deal. That will be a financial handicap as the years go on. Plus, under the new CBA, if he retires before then does the team not take a hit? (or are old contracts signed before 2013 grandfathered in?)
May 22 2013, 01:07PM
If the Oilers can't find a team that needs to get to the salary floor with Shawn, then they should use these buyouts on Horcoff and Hemsky. Probably couldn't even tell the difference with them not in the lineup. Kyle Wellwood (at 1/4 the salary) can do anything Horcoff can do, probably even better if you go off of the last couple seasons statistics. With the opportunities that will present themselves this summer, this is a good time to oust these 3 amigos (if we include Gagner)
Please please please, if Sam isn't moved at the draft, someone sign Gagner to an offer sheet. That 1st/2nd and 3rd round selections could be parlayed into a fine return on some level. Maybe get a 3rd or 4th for Whitneys rights next month, and a 6th/7th for Belanger. These overpaid, underachieving oft injured vets are just killin us.
Horcoff is a much bigger trade candidate than buyout candidate, at least this year.
NTC drops to limited NMC (he can name 10 teams he can be dealt to) on July 1st. Maybe a team trying to get to the salary floor may be interested...
A deal would be a better move that the Oilers paying him for 2 years to play against us.
May 22 2013, 01:09PM
Some other candidates that jumped out at me (aka anti-value contracts):
Wisniewski (4 years left @5.5/yr cap hit) Ohlund (3 @ $3.6) David Jones (3 @ $4) Tuomu Ruutu (3 @ $4.75) Brian Campbell (3 @ 7.1) Stafford (2 @ $4) Fleischman (2 @ $4.5) Havlat (2 @ $5)
Some of the 3-year guys you maybe see next year instead of this year depending on the cap situations of their teams. Interesting times ahead indeed.
May 22 2013, 01:30PM
Hey Gregor, do you think that Horcoff could be traded to a team like Florida who wants to save money? His cap hit is 5.5 million for two years but his actual pay is 4 million and 3 million dollars respectivey.
May 22 2013, 01:31PM
Props to Gregor
What are the odds of trading for a soon to be bought out player, playing them for a year and if they can't get it together, then buy them out. Or trade horcoff to the rangers for Richards. Or at least something relative to this idea.
Great cameo by Jay and Dan in the Eberle commercial! I'm going to miss those two clowns. Be sure to watch their outtakes.
oh, and, bye bye Belanger! Thanks for nothing - except the false hope!
DSF don't bother commenting. I encourage you to write a blog, I'll promote it for you, but you won't be hijacking the comments section in my articles. Good luck. Also, no need for anyone else to comment on this. Just talk about buyouts.
Im going to miss the dirty bastard. Sure you won't reconcider. Some of us grew fond of the troll. He will be missed.
May 22 2013, 01:43PM
It's unfortunate both regular and compliance buyouts occur in the same time frame. Be nice to have a second wave of opportunities for teams to improve if the compliance portion expired in mid'ish/late July. Guys bought out would still find work in plenty of time for training camps.
Hope the Oilers can fill a few holes with brought out players this summer.
May 22 2013, 02:12PM
Considering the inherent lesson involved with compliance buyouts, or buyouts in general, the one lesson I would hope and pray for is that the Oilers avoid any player who is on the receiving end of one.
As bad as the Horcoff contract is, its laughable compared to some listed, especially those signed in the last two years already being considered buyout options.
Horcoff's situation with the Oilers is difficult to pigeon hole. "If" the Oilers were in cap difficulty, then I can definitely see the logic, "If" the Oilers had a glut of usable centers, then again I could see it, but as of right now, Horcoff is still a servicable 3rd/4th line center albeit an expensive one for two more years. I can see the Oilers keeping him at least one more year, re-evaluating after next season and if they havent used up both compliance buyouts, then perhaps using it then.
I may be in the minority, but I do see Hemsky having some trade value, not high value, but perhaps packaged with a prospect to a low scoring team, his one year cost is negligable (look at Semin last year).
An option not being discussed, though a cheaper alternative, is the Rangers option of moving players to the AHL next year even at full contract value, opening up slots for other options. If you gave Smythe or even Horcoff the option of retiring or playing in the AHL, they might unhappily see the light.
Is the following allowed: Team A trades a 3rd round pick to Tampa for Vinny and a 2nd and perhaps Connelly. They then buy out Vinny. Is anything stopping Vinny from immediately resigning in Tampa? Why would either team do this? Team A has a richer owner who gets a couple of good assets. Tampa gets salary cap relief while keepingt Vinny.
I can definitely see Olesz and Montador out of Chicago and Malone out of Tampa Bay being bought out this summer. Although if Richards was bought out in New York maybe the Oilers would take a look at him as 2nd line center at a 3.5-4 million dollar cap hit. Horcoff although has a high salary would still have value if traded to a team like florida, colorado, dallas or islanders or any other low cap team looking for that 'phoney' cap hit to get over the floor.
Vigneault fired, Burmistrov wants out, compliance buy outs, regular buyouts, decent forward and goalie UFA's abound, several bad contract situations, high draft pick that now might include a power forward Russian Winger, and a GM looking to make some bold moves, this is shaping up to be the most interesting summer of not watching hockey ever.
Outlandish prediction for such a summer that somehow strangely come true:
PK Subban becomes an Oiler after we send back Klefbomb and our first. Roundly regarded as a bold yet terrible deal, PK finds himself at home by being able to join in Yak's crazy cellies, and with Hall and Ebs down at Oil City Road House (now called Nashvilles?)
AV fired from Vancouver, Edmonton should hire him as head coach
A have not seen Rick Dipietro mentioned. The second he is healthy, Garth Snow will almost certainly buy him out.
May 22 2013, 02:54PM
I just signed in to prop the fist comment.
Gregor, thoughts on a Marc-Andre Fleury buyout?
With Andy Sutton retiring, are we still on the hook for his salary?
KHL thing sounds fishy. Nichushkin
AV would make Oilers a better team.
Where can I buy a "Kevin Wheeler" Oilers' jersey?
May 22 2013, 03:32PM
I'm not sure whether it's his coaching - as the head coach i assume it is - or the players on the roster but Van. plays a BORRRRING game and everyone out here is crying that the team is all defence first with AV and has no personality. Just throwing it out there.
lots of potential veteran players that are going be pinched out due to the cap crunch, we will find out really quickly if they plan on post season hockey or not for next season. There will be so many names available that we have no idea about that if MacT doesn't start off with a bang.. then we're all screwed.
Gagner is pretty much a goner the way I see it, he's not a good fit on this roster. He would be the worst 3rd line center in hockey. Can't win a draw, can't out muscle anyone, is just horrible on the defensive side of things. Replacing Horcoff with Gagner would be worse then all we've witnessed so far.
Richards will never come to Edmonton regardless of any buy out situation. It was made pretty clear during his big free agent summer of fun that he has no interest out west, wants to play in a time zone that his family can watch him.
How about we do a big ass trade with Boston.
Gagner, Klefbom, #7
Krejic(sp?, Hamilton, Horton's negotiation rights?
"Some have suggested the Oilers send Belanger to the minors in early October and hope someone claims him on waivers, but I doubt they want him in the AHL around their younger players."
This raised a white flag for me? How come? What kind of person is he to be aorund?
Well.. he talks about wanting to play for another team while just finishing the 1st year of a 3yr deal.. that he's been sucking dry wind on..
I can't recall a Oiler publically saying he'd like to play somewhere else while an Oiler and ends up still being an Oiler by season or even weeks end lol. What happened to the blue collar days when he would been driven to the airport and told to not come back?
May 22 2013, 03:39PM
lots of potential veteran players that are going be pinched out due to the cap crunch, we will find out really quickly if they plan on post season hockey or not for next season. There will be so many names available that we have no idea about that if MacT doesn't start off with a bang.. then we're all screwed.
Gagner is pretty much a goner the way I see it, he's not a good fit on this roster. He would be the worst 3rd line center in hockey. Can't win a draw, can't out muscle anyone, is just horrible on the defensive side of things. Replacing Horcoff with Gagner would be worse then all we've witnessed so far.
Richards will never come to Edmonton regardless of any buy out situation. It was made pretty clear during his big free agent summer of fun that he has no interest out west, wants to play in a time zone that his family can watch him.
How about we do a big ass trade with Boston.
Gagner, Klefbom, #7
Krejic(sp?, Hamilton, Horton's negotiation rights?
Why are you guys suggesting to trade Klefbom?? He's their best defensive prospect, and he is the type of 2 way defender that they desperately need.
I truly believe if Oilers were serious about winning, they would drop the old boys network and hire Alain Vigneault. It would take a strong President to do this. Kevin ( 6 Stanley Cups) Lowe does not guts to do what is right.
Oilers will be losers until Lowe is fired. Edmonton has the worst record in the NHL since the lockout 2004. And Kevin thinks he knows about winning.
Unless there is a buyout of Shawn Horcoff's contract, the culture of this team and the progression of the youth will suffer.
It's time for guys like Horcoff and Smyth to move on to other roles.........apparently the team has plans for Smyth and Horcoff would make a good management candidate. As far as their hockey skills go, especially Horcoff, their best before date long expired.
I hope Mac T shows his courage and totally transforms the bottom six .........watching the playoffs with teams like Boston, San Jose, LA, and Chicago makes one realize that our team needs toughness on at least two if not three lines.
If we were in the playoffs our small team would need a hospital on-site. Thank god that Tamby is gone.........time for Mac T to show us some of his vision , everyone is watching.
With Andy Sutton retiring, are we still on the hook for his salary?
No, Sutton's contract was for one year and would terminate on June 30th anyways.
As for buyouts-- what about trying something a little different and creative? We may not need both of our compliance buyouts but there may be a few teams that could use an unofficial third buyout-- could we swing a trade with a modest buyout partner ($2M to $4M range/one year or so) and maybe land a NHL player or top shelf prospect or a decent draft pick as part of the process? We could also expand the scope to look at more going back our trading partner's way if there is of some quality involved in the transaction. The end result is we would only mainly give up money.
Philly or Vancouver may need to move more than two players to become reasonably cap flexible for 2013/14 and our owner, Mr. Moneybags, may have cap room to trade or use in the cause.
Would Vancouver trade us Ballard (to be bought out) and maybe Edler for an affordable alternative like Potter and maybe a second or third round pick? We carry the cap buyout on Ballard, Vancouver dumps two salaries while getting a 6/7 roster player and they keep their buyout options open.
Would Philly trade us Briere (for buyout) and maybe a centre like Talbot or a defenceman like Meszaros for futures or maybe a third rounder? It would still leave them with an available compliance buyout for Bryzgalov if they wanted?
wow oilers are weak down the middle. we need to do something right away to address this and im not talking about sean monahan either!!!!
I wonder how Mr Katz would feel about us all on here throwing his money away? But on to bigger topics, Horcoff's value was noticed without him in the lineup. With all of these skilled wingers the Oilers should be looking into getting huge centermen who can actually win a faceoff in the offensive zone.
I don't think there is one guy on this team who will be bought out. You can just send Belanger and Eager to the minors in hopes of someone claiming them off of waivers.
P.S. Props to Gregor for shutting out DSF.
May 22 2013, 04:16PM
I love the idea of us looking at our 2 compliance buyout spots as assets.
Although we can't trade them, we can help some other teams that may have more than 2 that they need to do and by doing so acquire some talent.
For example if the rangers buyout 2 of their big guys, maybe they send us Boyle over for a lot less if we take one of those compliance buyouts, and take care of it for them.
I would be curious to know what the regs are for cash on the side deals. If we do a CB for another team that Keats sat coats us $1.5 for 6 years, can the other team pay us back on the side?
I agree that we will likely use a regular buyout on Belanger and will not buyout horcoff, so we should be able to help 2 teams here and score some assets back.
Another question for Gregor or anyone else...re hemsky...if we keep some f his salary, up to half I believe is the limit, does the other team only get the cap hit portion, or do they take the whole cap hit of said player?


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