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Replacements: 16 Edgar Marutlulle, 17 Jaco Engels, 18 Daniel Adongo, 19 Jacques Engelbrecht, 20 Johan Herbst, 21 George Whitehead, 22 Hadleigh Parkes.
Date: February 23
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Skip to comments.U.S. Unadjusted Unemployment Shoots Back Up (adjusted rate hits 8.3%)
Posted on 12/06/2012 6:49:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, was 7.8% for the month of November, up significantly from 7.0% for October. Gallup's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 8.3%, nearly a one-point increase over October's rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
Come July it will be back up to 10% ...our new normal in Obama's People's Republic.
Hire Americans.
Just saying...
The election is over and 0bama has more flexibility and doesn't give a damn now (not that he ever did) so the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't have to be quite as inventive in their unemployment statistics.
I think we'll find that MOST government agencies start showing us the real numbers on everything. They don't have to hide anything from "The People" anymore since they've got a mandate, right?
Obamanation Communism File.
"Shhhh! This is for par!"
Yep, and never forget that the Dept of labor Head, Hilda Solis, is a full blown Marxist.
What's the U6, Kenneth?
He's on the practice range. Still can't play.
You mean in the People's Øbama Øbomination Republic?
... or PØØR for short
Election day can't get here fast enough..
..oh, wait.
Well, whaddayaknow... there IS some data reflecting the post-election layoffs.
Really? And why would they do that? Did Hitler's propoganda ministry suddenly come clean after he came to power?
They don't care. The Communists in DC are using the mindset that "They Won" so they can do whatever they wish, damn the consequences. The books were cooked for October and November to make Obama look good, and now the real truth will come roaring back. They can't hide the numbers forever. At some point everyone will be unemployed or know 10 people who are and we'll know that the numbers are BS.
what a surprise.
When a couple of generations in a row are educated from kindergarten through college by the democrat fascist academic machine, they're stupid enough to elect a fascist like King Barry when he can't even, as they say, make the trains run on time.
As long as the government leaves the eighty percent of the Internet dedicated to porn intact, even the majority of those who talk the Conservative and Christian talk will roll over and accept it without a whimper. If free health care includes free Viagra along with the free contraceptives, they'll just go along to get along the same way they have on everything from abortion to undressing for airport security.
But since a few who talk the talk also walk the walk, there will be blood.
November jobs number and UE rate come out tomorrow....should be interesting.
But, but, but... MSM says all is OK!
Jobless claims drop to 370K as Sandy blows over
Unexpectedly of course.
This misery will continue until the day Obammy leaves office.
I like how the unemployment numbers were rigged towards the end of the campaign. The economy is getting better, just give Comrade Barack a little more time. How stupid can people be?
If Romney had won it would be 9.3%, if not higher.
We will see a drop in unemployment numbers... starting in August 2014, to get ready for the midterms.
WOW; that's rather phenomenal. And they attribute it to jobs lost as a result of the hurricane and lackluster Christmas seasonal hiring.
But then again........I'm not sure how closely Gallup is watched.
Heckava job Barky
Depends on what the definition of employed is... if employed is a 5 hour workweek he can really keep the unemployment numbers down.
I can't tell what the graphs mean any more since the numbers are rigged in so many ways I'm not sure they are being adjusted for every trick.
And today, the WSJ reports that the unemployment rate FELL to 7.7%.
So........who's right?
And today, the WSJ reports that the unemployment rate FELL to 7.7%.
So........who's right?
I saw that link, too. But it was pulled.
With Obama's people running the DOL, they can put out whatever numbers he tells them to, and there'll be NO argument from the enemedia.
There's no doubt EVERYONE in government positions do whatever they're told. Whether it's legal or not.
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These engines have transformed transportation, warfare and fun. How much do you know about jet engines?
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Question 1 of 30
Jet engines are combustion engines that produce what?
The many pounds of thrust produced by a jet engine are what propels the aircraft forward.
Question 2 of 30
Before jet engines, what type of engines were used to power aircraft?
kerosene engines
piston engines
The Wright Brothers used an aluminum piston engine in the first plane that they built.
steam engines
Question 3 of 30
What is the land-speed record for a jet-powered car?
about 1,100 mph
about 760 mph
The record was set by a car called the ThrustSSC back in 1997.
about 420 mph
Question 4 of 30
Jet engines are also sometimes referred to as what?
gas turbine engines
They are also called combustion turbine engines, and their invention heralded a fast and efficient mode of transportation
in-line engines
compression engines
Question 5 of 30
Which type of jet engine is often used to power helicopters?
Turboshaft engines apply power to a shaft, which can then be used to spin a helicopter's rotor.
Question 6 of 30
What's the approximate maximum speed of a ramjet-propelled aircraft?
1,200 mph
3,300 mph
4,500 mph
This kind of jet engine can't start from a dead stop, it must "ram" air into the engine, which works best at supersonic speeds.
Question 7 of 30
The first jet engines were nearly simultaneously invented by Dr. Hans von Ohain and which other inventor?
Richard Pearae
Frank Whittle
The United States used Whittle's design for its first jet fighters in World War II.
The Wright Brothers
Question 8 of 30
By which decade were jet engines basically the standard type of propulsion for combat aircraft?
WWII sparked high-speed evolution in terms of jet aircraft as hostile countries researched ways to gain air superiority.
Question 9 of 30
Jet engines are a type of reaction engine, meaning they rely heavily on which of Newton's laws of motion?
Newton's first law
Newton's second law
Newton's third law
You will recall that the third law of motion stipulates that every action is met with an equal and opposite reaction.
Question 10 of 30
Which country was the first to mass produce a jet-fighter plane?
It was the Messerschmitt Me 262, which downed hundreds of Allied targets during World War II.
United States
Question 11 of 30
What was the nickname for the Messerschmitt Me 262?
Thunder Blow
Lightning Strike
Storm Bird
It was first produced with a piston engine but graduated to a jet engine in 1942.
Question 12 of 30
What is a defining characteristic of a free-turbine engine?
The turbines use free-spinning bearings for better efficiency.
The turbines spin independently of other rotating engine parts.
This way, the turbines can spin at their optimum speed regardless of the engine's other fans.
The turbines are free as part of the engine purchase.
Question 13 of 30
The jet engine combustor combines air with what component?
The fuel and air mixture becomes ignitable, which then provides the tremendous thrust the engine needs to move the plane.
Question 14 of 30
Which type of jet engine was the first to be produced for real-world use?
These are the earliest and simplest type of jet engines.
Question 15 of 30
What do jet engines expel from their rear nozzles?
These gases have high speed or temperature that provides thrust to the machine.
Question 16 of 30
In a jet engine, what is the purpose of a mixer?
to quiet the engine
It blends some of the ultra-hot exhaust gases with cooler air that bypasses the turbine in order to make the engine (a little) quieter.
to equalize air pressure inside and outside the engine
to combine the fuel and air
Question 17 of 30
Between which altitudes do turboprop engines generally generate their highest efficiency?
between 5,000 and 10,000 feet
between 10,000 and 20,000 feet
between 20,000 and 30,000 feet
It's why some planes ascend to such high altitudes during cross-country flights.
Question 18 of 30
What does an afterburner do?
adds nitrous to jet exhaust
ignites extra gases at the engine intake
provides added thrust
Afterburners are common on military jets to provide more thrust, helping pilots to attack and evade; they also allow for faster takeoffs.
Question 19 of 30
During takeoff, by what percentage can an afterburner increase thrust?
10 percent
20 percent
40 percent
This boost can shorten the space needed for takeoffs … or just provide more fun for the pilot.
Question 20 of 30
In a turboprop engine, what drives the spinning of the propeller?
the combustion chamber
the turbine
The turbine is connected to the front-mounted propeller, spinning the prop to increase air intake.
the compressor fans
Question 21 of 30
Air flows through the engine at supersonic speeds in which type of engine technology?
These supersonic combusting ramjets feature supersonic airflow throughout the length of the engine, allowing for incredible speeds.
Question 22 of 30
What is the biggest jet aircraft engine in the world?
During certification processes, this engine set a world record for thrust power.
Question 23 of 30
How much thrust did the GE90-115B produce to break the world record?
112,800 pounds of thrust
127,900 pounds of thrust
And it did so for 60 hours, just to see how the engineers could push their creation.
132,300 pounds of thrust
Question 24 of 30
What's the average unit cost for the GE90-115B?
$24 million
Huge jet power does not come cheap; the engine can produce about 111,000 horsepower.
$12 million
$6 million
Question 25 of 30
Which series of aircraft were the first supersonic fighter planes used widely in the United States Air Force?
Buffalo Series
Century Series
Some of this series was still active in the force until the 1980s.
Merlin Series
Question 26 of 30
Most modern commercial airplanes use which type of jet engine?
The superior efficiency of these engines helps airlines maximize efficiency and save on fuel and overall flight expenses.
Question 27 of 30
When the air-fuel mixture in a jet engine ignites, it can reach what temperature?
around 600 degrees Fahrenheit
around 1200 degrees Fahrenheit
The very hot air and high pressure drives the turbine and provides the thrust necessary for high-speed flight.
around 2600 degrees Fahrenheit
Question 28 of 30
The most powerful jet fighter engine in the world produces how much thrust?
43,000 pounds of thrust
It's the engine found on the F-35 Lightning II fighter, which can fly around 1,200 mph.
62,000 pounds of thrust
98,000 pounds of thrust
Question 29 of 30
Why do turbofan engines route some air on the periphery of the main body of the engine?
to double the engine's power
to keep the engine quieter
This configuration also cools the engine and does provide a bit more thrust.
to stabilize the plane
Question 30 of 30
Which engine has been used for more fighter aircraft than any other?
Pratt & Whitney F100
More than 7,000 have been manufactured and millions of flight hours logged, making it both advanced and reliable.


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GREEN RIVER-Ellen Annie Dimick Peacock peacefully passed away surrounded by loved ones on Sept. 13, 2012 of natural causes at the age of 96 in the Richfield Care Center, Richfield, Utah.
Ellen was born Aug. 16, 1916 to Francis and Annie Latturner Dimick at their home in Sunnyside, Utah. She married Ellis Deloss Peacock Oct. 30, 1936 in the Manti Temple. They are the parents of four daughters and one son, 20 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, and 27 great-great grandchildren.
In her youth, Ellen was very much a tom boy, preferring the outdoors. She loved to play tennis, shoot guns and go horseback riding, but most of all she loved to dance.
Ellen and Ellis lived in Sunnyside, Utah, Wellington, Utah, and Dragerton (East Carbon), Utah before building their final home in Green River, Utah. While raising their family, she kept herself busy at Peacock's Market. She also spent time gardening, quilting, canning, genealogy, rock hunting and helping others.
Her love for the Lord was apparent throughout her life. She was always active in the church and expressed it in her many church callings, such as stake missionary and relief society president just to name a few.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, two siblings, Victor and Buddy, and her daughter, Leona Gwen Weihing.
She is survived by her siblings, Jean Ufford (Vernal, Utah) and George "Jerry" Dimick (Vernal, Utah); her children, Barbara Cartwright (Logan, Uah), James (Carol) Peacock (Payson, Utah), Becky (Stan) Chappell (Richfield, Utah), and Tammie (Jack) Frost (Dillon, Mont.).
Funeral service, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, 11 a.m., Green River LDS Ward Chapel. A viewing was held Sunday evening, Sept. 16 from 6-7 p.m. at Mitchell Funeral Home (233 East Main Street-Price, Utah) and Monday from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the church in Green River. Interment will follow at the Price City Cemetery at 3 p.m.
The family would like to give a heartfelt thanks to Bonnie Nielsen for the love, friendship and sisterhood she showed to Ellen as well as the Richfield Care Center and their staff for their tender loving care this past year.
"Wait just a minute".......We will miss you Grandma Chickie.
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Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting
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Canucks Bring in Secret Agent, Ink Zach Hamill To Two-Way Deal
Dimitri Filipovic
July 25 2013 11:59AM
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Don't let the blank look on Zach Hamill's face (pictured above) fool you: he has seen things, and he knows things. After all, he did spend five years in the Boston Bruins organization, including 20 games spanning three seasons with the big club. Unless he has been brought in by Mike Gillis and co. to spill the beans on what they've got going on over there, I don't see very much reason to care about the fact that the Canucks have signed the Port Coquitlam native to a 1-year, two-way contract.
Read on past the jump for more on the newest member of the organization.
To be honest, if Hamill isn't divulging other teams' secrets, then I don't know very much about him (other than the fact that when you type his name into the Google search bar, the phrase "Zach Hamill bust" is the 3rd thing that comes up). That's why I'll let friend of the blog Corey Pronman take it away - who listed Hamill as the 10th best prospect in the Bruins organization two summers ago - with a breakdown:
The Good: Zach Hamill has plus puck skills and the ability to do things out of the ordinary with the puck. He's very creative and can make life hectic for defenders when they try to take him one-on-one in open ice. Hamill is a plus passer who can make difficult seeing eye distributions regularly and has the kind of vision that gives scouts the impression he has eyes in the back of his head. He has all the offensive ability to dominate a game and create highlight reel plays.
The Bad: Where do I begin with the former top ten pick? His skating doesn't really impress and I wouldn't say it barely touches NHL-average on a good day, and when you consider his size being below-average, his mobility really hurts him. Hamill's height/weight listing is generous as he looks much smaller on the ice and it looks like he's made marginal physical development since his draft season. He's not strong on the puck and has all the indications of a perimeter player and well below-fringe physical player. His defensive game has shown some progression and he will show noticeable effort there, but don't think he can play a two-way NHL center effectively.
Projection: A second line winger in a perfect world, but I don't think he can play a bottom-six role so it's score or bust for him now and it's very much starting to look like the latter.
That's a rather grim synopsis, wouldn't you say? Obviously the only reason his name still holds any weight is because of the fact that he was a top 10 pick in 2007 (8th overall, to be precise).
This tweet by Mike Halford sums up that blunder by the Bruins' scouting staff pretty well. Other than Logan Couture, here are some other names that were selected after Hamill, that you may have heard of: Ryan McDonagh, Lars Eller, Kevin Shattenkirk, Max Pacioretty, David Perron, Brendan Smith, PK Subban, Wayne Simmonds, and Patrick White (kidding!).
Anyways, don't expect to hear much from Hamill this season. He'll likely fill a role as a depth player in Utica, and that'll be that. I've seen some fans of the team freaking out on Twitter over this, which is more than a little silly. NHL clubs do these sorts of things all of the time, and they fly under the radar. It's common practice to bring in depth players on two-way deals.
While this is a transaction that ultimately has no risk attached to it, I'm left scratching my head trying to figure out why the Canucks viewed Gilbert Brule as a "reduntant" player that they were unwilling to bring in on a tryout basis, only to go and bring in someone like Hamill. Confusing.
(Oh yeah, Colin Stuart was signed, too.)
July 25 2013, 12:21PM
Well, they still need to fill out the Utica roster, right? So that's probably why. Also, perhaps Canucks management feels a Brule brings with him too much baggage from the past.
Maybe Hamill is supposed to serve as a warning in Utica for what happens to (top-10) draft picks that don't work hard to get bigger and improve their skating?
Head scratcher, I agree. But there's probably a limited number of NHL-marginal players willing to take a two-way contract.
I'd guess they weren't going to try and stick Brule with a spot on an AHL team when he might be able to get on with an NHL roster somewhere else. Lets' put it this way, both are redundant for the CAnucks at the NHL level, but Hamill is at least useful in the AHL.
Brule was very useful in the AHL... Brule offers more than the canucks current 3rd and 4th line center, i don't see him being redundant in their system.
Who knows what Brule is asking for though? Maybe he wants a million plus for some crazy reason. Or maybe he's dead-set on a one-way deal. I guess Gillis did say he hadn't even though of Brule, but the only reason Canucks fans are even thinking of him is because they treasure former Giants players for some reason. I guess that's why everyone was so sad to see Connauton go...oh wait, no one was sad...
July 25 2013, 09:33PM
Not hard to see what the Bruins are doing. They play a smart disciplined system, the Canucks play like they're clueless and can not adapt. The Hawks solved Boston and Chara, I would advise the Canucks and their fans to simply watch those games to learn. But when do the Canucks ever care about learning from their mistakes?
Everyone talks about this player and that plaer coming and what they can do, but no player can come into a club without direction or a system and make any impact. You could have put mario or Gretzky in their prime on AV's Canucks and they still would have choked out. It's not one plaer, one move, it's the right system, folks.
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Hamill seems like the kind of guy who would excel in Europe. I wonder why he'd rather play in the AHL?
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Alternative Name - Advancing Giants; Attack on Titan; Shingeki no Kyodai
Years of Released - 2009
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Author(s) - Isayama Hajime
Artist(s) - Isayama Hajime
Genre(s) - Action, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
Type - Japanese Manga
SynopsisSpoiler!Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by giants. Giants are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of giants.
Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a giant in over 100 years. Teenage boy Elen and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a super giant that appears out of thin air. As the smaller giants flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Elen vows that he will murder every single giant and take revenge for all of mankind.
Nominated for the 4th Manga Taisho Awards (2011) and winner of the 35th annual Kodansha Manga award for Best Shounen.
Is anyone reading this wondrous manga ? Classed as a Shounen yet it doesn't suffer from usual problems of that genre, at least not yet - or not in such a substantial manner. The ordeals which characters face are utterly engrossing, and their psychological struggle only adds to the overall intensity. I quite adored the meticulous depiction of titans, with their redoubtable and ghastly appearance causing spine chill. I highly recommend this piece, enjoy.


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Bayern Munich scored 15 goals in their first run-out under Pep Guardiola, beating a local supporters' club in front of 11,000 spectators.
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The treble winners started with a side including captain Philipp Lahm, Thomas Muller and Manuel Neuer while Toni Kroos and Franck Ribery both came on at the break as Guardiola took a look at 21 players in a 15-1 victory.
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Melody Carver is a character exclusive to the Monster High book series by Lisi Harrison. She does not appear in any webisodes, or is even on the Monster High website. Melody is a siren, a bird-like sea nymph with an incredibly hypnotic voice. She starts growing/malting feathers in the third book, which they all seem to come from her hair. In the third book Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way, she is finally revealed to be a siren instead of a human, like she mistakenly thought she was for so many years. She is also the adoptive stepsister of Candace Carver, and adoptive daughter to Glory and Beau Carver, as well as the biological daughter of Marina, a siren.
Initially, Melody was a bit frumpy and awkward, but also very kind and sweet. This stems from her being made fun of because of her old nose and asthma problems, which put an inferiority complex on her. She was very accepting of Jackson when she found out he was a RAD, almost to the point of just not caring. When she herself found out she was a RAD, she was pretty much happy about it, probably due to the fact that she figured out she had found a place of belonging.
However, after tasting the freedom and specialty that comes with being a RAD, Melody completely shed her bland nature, and found herself doing things the old Melody never would, such as joining a band. This behavior also came with a new attitude, an almost antagonistic one as Melody started acting like people owe her, as well as her power for personal gain after she promised herself she wouldn't.
Melody is also fiery, feisty, quick-witted, very intelligent and crafty (when needed), and very much capable of defending herself and her friends.
Though her style was frumpy at first, by the fourth book, she starting wearing glam rocker chic, such as bustiers, denim vests, leopard print mini-skirts, shiny shirts and skirts, high-heeled boots and booties, fedoras and bangles. Her trademark style, however, is her feathers, which she wears for extensions, earrings and other accessories.
- Glory Carver - adoptive mother
- Beau Carver - adoptive father
- Candace Carver - adoptive stepsister
- Marina - birth mother
- Bekka Madden - Melody's ex-friend (first book)
- Haylee - Also an ex-friend. Bekka's mousy friend, helped Bekka backstab her, then defriends Bekka in the 3rd book.
- Frankie - Becomes her best friend at the end of the first book.
- Billy Phaidin - An invisible boy who later becomes good friends with Melody, in the second book.
- Brett Redding - First non-Carver NUDI member.
- Cleo - Befriends her at the end of the second book, formerly bitter rivals. Become good friends due to common hatred of Bekka.
- Jackson - Melody's boyfriend and first person and friend she meets in New Salem. Broken up briefly but reconciled at the end. Can be fairly shy and also hates music.
- Granite Sanders - A gargoyle who is Leadfeather's manager. Although he shared a kiss with Melody, the two never dated, and nothing became of this relationship. Granite can be a minor character in some parts of the books.
Melody falls in love with Jackson, but his other half, D.J., isn't interested in her because he likes Frankie (or as he calls her in the book series, "Firecracker"). Melody and Jackson become a couple by the end of the first book. However, they break up for a short period of time by the 4th book because Melody chose to go on the road with her band instead of spending the summer with Jackson, but the two got back together after Jackson decided to come along with her and turned himself into DJ. This presumed to form a love-triangle between her, Jackson, and Holt. She also shared a kiss with a gargoyle named Granite, who showed the same passion for music as her.
In The Books
Book 1 - Monster High
The books begin with Melody's journey to Salem, her reminiscing about her large nose, which her plastic surgeon father fixed for her, both for cosmetic reasons and to help her breathe. The family also moved to Salem, Oregon to help with her asthma, and Melody has to start at a new school, Merston High. Within moving, Melody meets Jackson, whom she implies a crush on, much to the joy of her sister, Candace.
However, at school, Jackson started acting different and ditches her, she befriends normies Bekka and Haylee, but that soon ends after Melody finds out about Jackson's monster heritage after eavesdropping on a conversation between he and his mom and recording the transformation on her phone. A jealousy enraged Bekka discovers the video after Frankie Stein's incident with her boyfriend at the dance and blackmails Melody, saying if she doesn't bring Frankie to her in 48 hours, she'll release the video. She decides to team up with DJ and Frankie to keep Frankie safe rather than turn her in, and help Frankie earn the forgiveness of the adult RADs. At the end of the book, Frankie and Melody become friends.
Book 2 - The Ghoul Next Door
Along with her sister and Brett, Melody forms NUDI (Normies Uncool with Discriminating Idiots). Brett decides to make a documentary entitiled 'The Ghoul Next Door' to help the Normie community deal that RAD's existence among them. However, the video is sabotaged by Bekka (who was helping Cleo at the time), making it a fear propaganda film instead, forcing the RAD children to go under house arrest again. Manu, one of Cleo's family's servants, mistakes Melody for a relative of a woman he calls Marina and tells her to pass his greeting. He tells her Marina has a large nose and that triggers Melody's questioning whether she could have been adopted. Candance and Melody are accidentally caught up in Cleo's Teen Vogue photoshoot, where Melody ends up using her singing voice for the first time to control someone, in this case a camel named Humphrey.
Book 3 - Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way
Melody starts to grow feathers out of her hair, which many mistake for a fashion statement. She also starts to use her voice more, and for good, such as releasing Bekka's control over Haylee. She met a woman named Marina outside a seemingly abandoned house, where she received a letter of why Marina gave Melody up for adoption, thus confirming her RAD status. According to Marina's letter, she gave Melody up so Melody could grow up to have a free will of her own, free of Marina's powerful influence. Marina still loves Melody very deeply though. It was in fact Doctor Carver who fixed Marina's nose after she broke it playing football, and that's how she found out that the Carvers were looking to adopt.
Book 4 - Back and Deader Than Ever
With a new lease on life, Melody joins a girl band, where she finds she fits in quite nicely. The band members of Leadfeather had a similar background story like Melody, because they to didn't really fit in school. Melody earn the band a tour around America for the Summer, and started finding herself liking the band's roadie/manager, Granite, a gargoyle. She and Jackson had broken up briefly due to him sacrificing their plans to be counselors at summer camp, but reconciled when he willingly turned himself into D.J. to join on her on Leadfeather's tour.
- Melody shares her first name with Melody Piper from Ever After High.


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Joining Forces
Project Word's national survey on freelance investigative reporting gave voice to significant distress over the current economic landscape.
One freelancer had a slightly more hopeful story to tell. Like others, she believed philanthropy was an important component of freelance reporting. But she also preached the tonic of self-help—including smart business sense, disciplined story management, and a bit of cooperation.
The respondent, Lee van der Voo, collaborates with a half-dozen other savvy reporters in a central office in Portland, OR, called "Base Camp," Like several other members, she operates her freelance outfit as an "S" corporation for tax purposes, follows her own strict rules about time-management and investment, and generally learns the other side of the editorial equation as she goes.
"I didn't have the greatest business sense when I started freelancing," said van der Voo, noting that she had spent her newspaper career behind a firewall separating editorial and revenue personnel. "I took the Koolaid about noble calling, upholding democracy, I was divorced from business realities. The minute they shove you out the door, you realize the decades of biz fundamentals that you haven't learned."
Along with her would-be competitors, van der Voo shares the resources and expenses of Base Camp, trading notes on the business of freelancing, including who pays what. Beyond Base Camp, the group also operates within a larger regional network called Pitch Club—a meeting of about 10 regulars who workshop pitches and share publication news, including leads about changing editors and startups. A third group, called Portland Newsies, meets monthly to share industry tips, talk about new models, and just generally connect—"it's more of a social gathering," she emailed after a post-survey interview, "but something smart always comes of it."
Mother Jones
Project Word director Laird Townsend went for a solo byline with his investigative report on crops and climate for Mother Jones magazine, which highlighted the US' "fiscal exposure" to climate change. Published on the day Congress began reconciling a Farm Bill, October 30, 2013, the piece profiled a community of West Texas cotton farmers struggling with drought. As a profile, the piece breathed new life into a topic. The farmers spoke candidly about the underappreciated risks and challenges they manage each year, especially in a drought. They also shed light on the potential ecological and fiscal vulnerability of a key component of the Farm Bill—crop insurance. The piece registered scores of comments, hundreds of Tweets, a thousand-plus Likes, pickups on websites like Grist, and praise on Michael Pollan's Facebook page. We are grateful to the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting for supporting Townsend's reporting, which included two trips to the windswept southern plains.
ExxonMobil and Aceh
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The story on John Doe v. ExxonMobil for the Dallas Morning News, which published on September 30, 2012, after almost a year in development, is just one version of collaborative nonprofit journalism at work. A day later, Monday, October 1, our companion radio piece went out to more than 80 US stations in the US, from KSUA in Fairbanks AK to WMNF in Tampa FL, and to other stations throughout North America, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Next came our October 5 release of an expanded magazine piece in Mother Jones.
This reporting would not have been possible without Project Word. Project Word serves the public with rigorous, independent, nonprofit journalism, helping editors and producers develop important stories and writers. We focus on the most difficult stories. We help diverse reporters write those stories for outlets like the Dallas Morning News. That in turn helps the outlets inform deserving audiences. You can play a part by donating to Project Word.
In this case, Project Word stepped in because a complex, underreported story raised a fundamental public-interest question: Are corporations liable for aiding and abetting atrocities worldwide? On Monday, October 1st, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. Like ExxonMobil, Shell has argued that only individuals—and not corporations—are liable for human rights violations.
As it deliberates in the coming months, the US Supreme Court will be at a crossroads. Its 2010 Citizen United ruling affirmed that corporations are persons for the purpose of their rights; will it now rule that corporations are not persons for the purpose of liabilities?
A ruling, expected as early as December, could in turn determine whether lawsuits like the one against ExxonMobil, brought by Acehnese villagers in Indonesia, can continue in US federal court. That is why Project Word chose to carefully report the ExxonMobil case and the stakes involved—for the company, the U.S. judiciary, and plaintiffs worldwide.
We could not have done this without dedicated supporters. Special thanks go to the Fund for Investigative Journalism for a grant to reporter Ian T. Shearn, to the Mailman Foundation for a grant to Project Word, and to Project Word's array of dedicated individual donors—all of whom rallied to make this reporting possible.
In addition to supplying newspaper, magazine, and radio versions of the story, we have updated our own website with Emily Johnson's visually rich multimedia piece from Aceh. Project Word will be following up in coming weeks with sidebars, related reporting, and links related to the ExxonMobil and Supreme Court cases. With additional support we can continue covering the beat of corporate accountability.
Nonprofit journalism can ensure that the media still produces the kind of reporting that is vital for a democracy. The newsroom of the future is supported by foundation grants and individual donations. Please consider donating to Project Word and follow us on Twitter below.
New Media, Old Problem
In a December 2010 story for National Geographic Daily News, Project Word writer Ruxandra Guidi, pictured here, reported an irony of the climate-change era: rising Caribbean seas and intense storms have threatened island-dwelling Kuna peoples, below, but a World Bank-supported climate mitigation plan has jeopardized their plans to relocate. Photos by Roberto ("Bear") Guerra.
How can Project Word and its allies maintain and strengthen original reporting and media diversity in these economically challenging times? This was the central question of a recent Project Word benefit event at the Pulitzer Word room at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
We didn't ask, "How will the media survive economically"? Instead we asked "how will the public interest survive economically?" They're not the same thing. We put it this way: "In a world where aggregated content and new devices lure audiences and advertisers, how will substantial, diverse, expensive public-interest reporting survive?"
Attention spans are shortening and advertisers can use precise page-hit metrics to direct content ("we'll fund any story as long as it profiles celebrities"). At the same time, savvy "aggregators"—entitites that post other people's work—can lure audiences away from the very outlets whose original reporting they rely on. Those original sources are losing revenue, and their editorial resources are collapsing. That spells disaster—at least for public general-interest reporting.
Of course, economic opportunities abound. The Huffington Post just sold for $300 million. Sophisticated Internet companies like Yahoo and Google can reposition themselves as profitable media companies. And the use of technology and social media can help conventional or "legacy" news outlets become profitable once again. But it's not clear that these developments necessarily assure the survival of public-interest journalism.
Indeed, new media companies like Gawker, Huffington Post, and Newsreel can profit exactly because they tend to aggregate other people's work, rely on cheap opinion instead of expensive reporting, and do not really fund investigative reporting—all the while diverting audiences from legacy media that do (or did).
Legacy media
For its part, the conventional well-known "legacy" media are trying to catch up. They are integrating for-pay web content, negotiating digital devices, and enlisting bloggers and social media. But even if those routes succeed, the success would not necessarily translate to replenished newsrooms, bureaus, investigative budgets, or incentives to pursue the difficult stories. If Gawker's sophisticated story rankings are taken as the Holy Grail, advertisers would pressure a publication like the New York Times simply to follow the page-hits, shares, and references—to stories like "Condoms with teeth" and "Mad men: out of focus groups."
Of course, the Times would not so easily abandon its role as a public-trust institution. But it's not a question of whether the "media" will thrive as an industry. It's a question of whether independent reporting will thrive as a public good. A democracy will always need well-trained, -supported, and -edited reporters whose distinct backgrounds impel them to take on a special mission: seek what others won't even think to look for; have the tenacity, skills, and independence to find it and report it well.
In the strictest sense, such work is not usually cost-effective, marketable, or popular. Nor does it necessarily carry the utopian glamour of high-tech multi-nodal communications technology. Its tasks are simple: to look beyond conventional corridors of power, pursue the highest-yielding questions or hunches or leads, find the most important sources or documents, convey the most revealing voices, and tell the untold stories in the public interest. This is plain old journalism— but the formula for maintaining it is disappearing with every newsroom layoff, and nothing has yet taken its place. Not even the hippest, smartest Silicon Valley start-up has managed to adequately answer the question—what will happen to complex investigative and narrative reporting?
The principle challenges
At the recent Project Word benefit event, a seasoned panel took up the question. Political humorist Bill Shein did a marvelous job illustrating the principal challenges. And the panel responded with substantial, thoughtful, and effective ways that practitioners are meeting them—as a special highlight, Alfredo Corchado talked about his work at the Mexico City bureau of the Dallas Morning News, braving the border wars as the sole remaining staffer. Because staffers like Corchado are fewer and farther between, freelancers have had to take up the slack, although they too are fighting for editors, space, and funding.
This is largely where Project Word has come in. Two Project Word reporters, Teo Ballvé and Maureen Nandini Mitra, described how the Project has facilitated their work. By leveraging philanthropy, Project Word allows auxiliary editors (like Project director Laird Townsend) the time and resources to help break stories like Ballvé's—in this case, exposing USAID's connection to palm oil production on land stolen from Colombia campesinos. Without Project Word's editorial support, Ballvé's story could not have made the Nation's pages. And editors at publications like the Boston Globe could not have run a range of other pieces, including several well-regarded reports on a controversial World Bank climate-mitigation program. If all goes as planned, Mitra's piece on Borneo will be the next in that series.
Along with Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Ian Shearn, Texas Monthly correspondent Cecilia Balli described the challenges of independent freelancing, and the benefit that philanthropic support brings—especially in the story-proposal phase where Project Word focuses. Balli also described the subtle cultural and journalistic obstacles she's fought to overcome, obstacles that Project Word has helped writers like Ballvé negotiate successfully. At the event, Project Word vowed to help Balli succeed next at The New Yorker, Atlantic, or another magazine of her choice—all to the public's benefit.
For their part, panelists Brant Houston of the Investigative News Network and Ricardo Sandoval of the Center for Public Integrity described the recent successes of their own grant-supported journalism, with its unprecedented twist—collaboration. In response to shrinking newsrooms, their nonprofits have practiced enhanced communication and cooperation to yield a range of investigative coups on crucial topics, from illegal catches of bluefin tuna to sexual assaults on campuses. All these stories, including Project Word's pieces, would not have reached mainstream media audiences without strong editorial managers like Townsend, Sandoval, Houston, firmly supported by grants and donations. This support only partially compensates for gutted budgets and empty newsrooms, but it keeps the scrappy spirit of investigative reporting alive.
New terrain
In pushing into this terrain, the panelists were on the frontlines of a pronounced shift: commercial newsgathering operations are increasingly strengthened by nonprofit media centers. The panelists also pointed out the challenges of this terrain—from organizing collaborations of independent journalists across cultures and borders, to navigating potential funding conflicts of grant-funded reporting, and defending independence and credibility.
But perhaps the liveliest dialogue of the night concerned the role of legacy media. How do we relate to these newspapers, magazines, and broadcast outlets that have long served as arbiters of journalism? Will they survive? A terrific new documentary, "Front Page: Inside the New York Times," poses the same question from behind the veil. But on May 24th, the panelists asked it from the outside—what's the most helpful role of independent grant-supported reporters and editors like those on the panel?
Does Project Word continue to serve the Boston Globe and its ilk, while the new Web 2.0 models sort themselves out? Or do we dismiss the legacy media as dinosaurs—or "dying dogs," as one panelist put it. Do we steer their disappearing audiences to our own media websites, as the aggregators do to theirs?
The principal goal of Project Word is to promote gutsy, honest, first-rate reporting in the public interest, a goal that any number of outlets can help us accomplish. Even as the new landscape promises other sources of good journalism, the Boston Globe has a track record. Its editors still want to go beyond empty opinion and digested press releases. They still want to publish writers whose instincts, skills, knowledge, and diverse backgrounds—ethnic, linguistic, geographic—help them uncover stories others couldn't. They still uphold standards of fairness, accuracy, and impartiality. By supplying legacy media with good stories, Project Word helps those outlets move toward the fullest media diversity, retaining audiences and revenue. But to what extent and in what circumstances will support of these legacy media serve public-interest journalism? How else should Project Word pursue its goals? Where best to direct our resources?
The question is not likely to go away in coming years, or become less relevant. So whether you attended the event or missed it, we welcome your thoughts: email@example.com.
And please consider lending your support to Project Word any way you can, including making a donation. You are now a facilitator of a new newsroom, carrying on an indispensable tradition.
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The Nation: A Debut
Project Word's debut article appeared in The Nation magazine in June 2009. It was a quintessential success story, highlighting the broadest range of services that Project Word makes available to writers and editors.
Teo Ballvé, a Bogota-based investigative reporter editor at the small but highly regarded journal NACLA: A Report on the Americas, had been struggling to publish in higher-circulation magazines. He had an important story idea: farmers in northwestern Colombia had lost their land to paramilitary thugs, and were organizing to claim it back from the narcotrafficker-linked palm oil companies that now held the land (many with support of the US). Ballvé wanted to tell the farmers' story. He wanted to find it a home.
In 2008 he called on Project Word. Over the course of about a year Project Word helped him pursue his reporting, develop his narrative, secure funding from The Nation Institute, and produce a winning draft for The Nation. The magazine's editors took it from there (no writer can have more than one editor at a time). Because Ballvé was able to document questionable involvement of the US Agency for International Development, the piece became widely read, spawning follow up stories in a range of US and Latin American media. The article was subsequently nominated for awards by The Inter American Press Association, Overseas Press Club, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
Mother Jones: Carbon Refugees
Compared to "The Dark Side of Plan Colombia," which received our start-to-finish services, this article revealed Project Word's motto of restraint—"Do what's necessary, stay out of the way."
The writer, experienced investigative journalist Mark Schapiro, wanted to trace the effects of controversial carbon trading on the inhabitants of a Brazilian forest. But he needed absolutely no developmental editing assistance of any kind from Project Word, nor any entrée to editors. Project Word never saw a word of any draft. We simply liked and trusted his proposal, as did Mother Jones.
Instead, Schapiro needed support to report from Brazil. So we provided that assistance, along with access to an indigenous Guarani interpreter and a world-class French photographer, Nicolas Villaume. The results ran in the magazine's November–December issue, and included a PBS/Frontline documentary. Both works were widely circulated at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen (2009) and Cancun (2010). Schapiro's subsequent article in Harper's (with no involvement from Project Word) also covers related material.
The Boston Globe: The Face of Global Warming
Like "Plan Colombia," this article highlighted Project Word's versatility. It involved a range of necessary services, from developmental editing to a photography package, to entrée to editors.
From the start we strongly believed in the story, which originated as a project at the University of California-Berkeley. The writer, Jon Mingle, had learned the Zanskari language as a teacher in the northwest Himalayas. Later he returned for two more trips, which resulted in an intimate portrait of Zanskari villagers as part of a journalism course at the university. But he thought the story needed a fresh direction and guidance. So he contacted Project Word, signed up, developed the piece under the Project's guidance, and hoped we would find it a home.
Numerous drafts and two rejections later, Mingle persevered. In November 2009, an editor in the Boston Globe's Ideas section recognized what Project Word saw in the work: insightful reporting from an indigenous community that deserved to be heard. Through his familiarity with the language and empathy with Zanskari culture, Mingle had managed to convey climate change from the perspective of an ancient village. Mingle portrayed people who, in deed and word, had something rare and valuable to say—not only about a melting glacier but also about adaptation and human resilience. Illustrated by the evocative photographs of Nicolas Villaume, the Zanskari's message was as surprising as it was provocative, certainly judging by readers' comments about the Boston Globe article.
Resurgence/Guernica: Caribou People
This was an opportunity not to be missed: convey the first-hand experience of Gwich'in, People of the Caribou, with climate change.
In April 2009, Project Word took up an invitation to visit Arctic Village, at the foot of the Brooks Range in northeast Alaska, part of a larger Athabaskan-speaking territory stretching in to Canada. Along with a photographer, Nicolas Villaume, the Project Word director camped out on a hunt with Gwich'in hunters Charlie Swaney and Jimmy John (who fed us the caribou they took with clean shots, after brief, silent prayers). After the hunt we talked with Swaney, John, and their fellow villagers, piecing together an essay for the British-based Resurgence, a photo essay for Guernica, and other stories in the pipeline. The land was a wilderness of severe beauty, the Gwich'in response to it remarkably complex and resilient. But the effects of permafrost were wreaking havoc on a 5,000-year-old cultural tradition, whose survival, upon reflection, is more important than it would appear.


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Follow that Art! Six-Sided Planes Gets a Makeover by Paintings Conservation
Last week Balcomb Greene's Six-Sided Planes made its first entry into the Museums and the acquisitions process via the registration department. This week, the painting heads upstairs to the paintings conservation lab for a little makeover.
My name is Elise Effmann and I'm an associate paintings conservator at the Fine Arts Museums. Conservators are entrusted with the care, treatment and technical study of artworks in the collection. When a painting comes to the Museums as a proposed acquisition, our department must examine it to provide the curators with information about how it was made, and to determine if there are any potential problems with the acquisition due to its condition.


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Skip to comments.New ruling puts freeze on FEMA payments
Posted on 12/23/2006 7:35:55 AM PST by OBXWanderer
WASHINGTON Just as federal housing money was to start flowing again to thousands of Texas-based hurricane evacuees, a federal appeals court put everything on hold Friday.
The ruling means that about 4,200 families in Houston, San Antonio and Austin who were left homeless by hurricanes Katrina and Rita will have to wait until at least February to find out whether the federal government is required to restore their rental assistance payments.
By then, the temporary housing program will have expired unless Congress or President Bush extend it.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
--here's one for them--
I thought the key word here was "temporary", but I must be mistaken.
GET..... a job...
Do not make up your own headlines.
Public housing and welfare were intended to be short-term, too. I'd laugh, but it seems the joke is on us.
This will go on forever!
When it comes to money ... they'll keep reaching in your pocket. There is little incentive to get up on their feet and have THEM help themselves. Pity me silly is much easier. Demoncrats know this and so does Bush.
Not a good thing to count on the govt.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"All of us have had tragedy in our lives but you don't see the federal government holding our hands."
One word: Reparations
One word: Reparations
What this have to do with any past? Get a life, brother
Allow the "temporary" housing program to expire and mainstream these bums.
...and a loan and your own house or condo so that when Islam knocks on your door, you have something to defend.
These parasites still want to be called e-vac-u-ees?
They failed to evacuate when they were told to.
They have failed to go out and get jobs to pay the rent.
They sound more like lazy parasites, not evacuees.
"I thought the key word here was "temporary","
People will be living in FEMA trailers for the next 30 years...
It's the way government works today...
How many "Temporary" government programs EVER get cut???
"What this have to do with any past? Get a life, brother."
I'm not your brother and the only reason this is even remotely tolerated is because they are black. More "slavery-guilt" turned into stipends from tax dollars. Essentially, it's back-door reparations.
"Why are these people special?"
Because they are the chosen victim minority...
sheesh, get with the Democrat program, dude...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How pathetic the ghetto-ward dwellers of New Orleans are. They are children.
I'm ashamed of these people, no initiative, no drive, Thank God for Katrina, because it create more exposure into this disgusting welfare culture.
Just look at the forgot people of Mississippi. No complaining on their part.
Let the Katrinites STARVE.
These people have confused assistance from the government with adoption by the government.
fema payment to katrina evacuees will be as temporary as clinton's incursion into bosnia!!!!
Entitlements are forever.
Just think "temporary tax". That will give you the meaning of "temporary" in gummit circles.
FAMILIES...an interesting choice of words. I wonder how many (or how few) of them are mom, dad and kids, who were either homeowners or good responsible tenants and who worked instead of collecting public assistance.
I know, Ms. Single Mom and her brood count as a "family", but don't usually function as one. I'd like to see the breakdown.
I would like to see the breakdown as well.
FEMA does try to get their trailers back when the lease expires.
Just act some of the FEMA guys who have gone to deactivate these trailers only to get physically assaulted by people who don't think they should have to give them up.
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EAST CARBON- Joseph Jr. Wood passed away peacefully June 7, 2011 in Orem, Utah.
He was born Sept. 10, 1926 in Dove Creek, Colo. to Joseph Franklin Wood and Ora Gladys Bain.
Married Lena Donella Mae Adams Sept. 9, 1949 in Price. She passed away Aug. 4, 2006.
Joe worked for US Steel for more than 30 years at the Columbia Utah Mine, Horse Canyon Mine and the Sommerset Mine in Colorado. He loved working in the mine and had many great friends and many great stories to tell. Joe could always be found in Huntington Canyon with a fishing pole in hand, and a grandchild in the other.
He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His greatest love was his family, especially his grandchildren.
Joe had six children, five sons, Duane (Connie) Wood, Price, Darrell Wood, Orangeville, Donald (Roberta) Wood, Farmington, N.M., Larry (Elaine) Wood, East Carbon, Terry (Tracy) Wood, East Carbon, and one daughter, Michelle (Mike) Lovell, Riverton, Utah; 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Joe was preceded in death by his parents, wife Donella Wood; and son, Darrell Wood; eight sisters and one brother.
A graveside service was held Friday, June 10, 2011, 10 a.m. at the Valley View Cemetery in Sunnyside, Utah. The family received friends at Mitchell Funeral Home Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome daily and may share memories of Joe at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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I'll soon be buying a laptop with a huge discount from the place I work at, but I'm hesitant about which one to take. The thing I'm doubting about is the processor, one has an Intel Core Duo T2080 (Compaq) and the other has an AMD Sempron 3500+ (Acer). For as far as I know, the Intel Core Duo T2080 is the better processor, but it has only 1730MHz, while the other has 2000MHz. The Compaq also only has 128MB shared video memory, while the Acer has 256MB shared video memory. Both have 1024MB RAM. So, which one would you pick?
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Maple Leafs sign Jay McClement, re-up Matt Frattin
Cam Charron
July 01 2012 03:44PM
Looks like it was Bob McKenzie who broke the news late Sunday afternoon...
TOR signs Jay McClement to to 2 year deal worth $3M.— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) July 1, 2012
McClement represents a very savvy signing by Brian Burke. Similar to last season's major pick-up of David Steckel, Jay McClement is a checking centreman who has spent time with the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues. He is a darling with underlying numbers.
He has spent the better part of his NHL career playing very tough minutes as a checking centreman. His career faceoff percentage hinges somewhere between 51-52%, but what's more impressive is the amount of time he spends taking draws in the defensive zone. These are his offensive zone start rates, in relation to the number of shifts he's started in the defensive zone.
2009 - 33.2%
2010 - 41.2%
2011 - 39.1%
2012 - 34.3%
He's faced some pretty tough competition as well. Picture him as the sort of player that Dave Steckel is, except slightly more offensive. He scored 10 goals last season and, until last season, he was usually good for 15 assists as well, usually being a 25-point guy in tough minutes.
While his Corsi Rel QoC last season was unimpressive at -.289, Colorado didn't seem like they wanted to put him in the right spots. His Corsi Rel QoC, which measures quality of competition, was 1.210, 1.070, and 0.738 in the three seasons prior, so hopefully the Leafs can find the right spots for him to play. He's been run over in relative Corsi and possession, worth noting.
McClement isn't a first-line centre by any means, but he's a very good depth guy, and the term, $1.5 AAV over two years, doesn't set the team back should he not pan out in Toronto. This gives the Leafs two good checking centremen, which solidifies Tyler Bozak's spot as the first line centreman next year, I figure.
Meanwhile, this nugget broke from James a few minutes after the McClement deal was "announced" by McKenzie:
Leafs sign Matt Frattin to a two-year deal.— James Mirtle (@mirtle) July 1, 2012
I imagine this is a one-way deal. Frattin had some good NHLe's last season [check our post on that from mid-June] and is probably good enough to be a third line winger in the NHL in a sheltered role. It'll be interesting to see how the Leafs treat their depth lines after training camp, unless the Leafs plan to use Steckel a little bit more offensively with Frattin and, say, Nazem Kadri.
Frattin is one of the four major restricted free agents the Leafs needed to sign. Nik Kulemin, Cody Franson and Ben Scrivens represent the others. Ryan Hamilton and Jussi Rynnas, who should both play with the Toronto Marlies next season, were also signed to deals.
Details later.
So if Burke is done this is how the Leafs appear to stack up for 2012-13:
Lupul-Bozak-Kessel Van Reimsdyk-Grabovski-MacArthur Kulemin-McClement-Frattin Lombardi-Steckel-Brown Komarov
Expect Connolly to be traded for a #5 D-man to compete for time on the third defensive pairing.
Kadri and Colbourne to start in the AHL and be used as injury call ups .
Phaneuf-Gunnarsson Gardiner-Liles Komisarek-Fransson
Reimer Scrivens
Sadly this team will not crack the top 8 in the Eastern Conference this year. Burke will resign at seasons end.


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Scratch Brewing Company is a farmhouse brewery and restaurant located 5 miles from the Shawnee National Forest in Ava, Illinois. Named one of the top four breweries for foraged beer by Outside Magazine, and one of the most beautiful places to drink beer in the world by All About Beer Magazine, Scratch Brewing Company focuses on farmhouse beers and other styles brewed with home grown and locally farmed and foraged ingredients.
Buttermilk Hill is home to this vineyard & winery, the location and view are quite unique and allow all who visit to truly feel like they are back to nature. The grounds are large enough to have a picnic or a private conversations over a glass of wine. And at the same time, the winery is accommodating to larger groups. The wine list has several whites and reds made with local grapes.
Waterstreet has a great menu full of delicious dishes.
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Skip to comments.What Happened to the Tea Party? (New York Slimes Opinion Pages 'Room For Debate')
Posted on 06/25/2012 2:02:31 PM PDT by lbryce
In 2010, the Tea Party was all the rage. Pundits were speculating on what effect the movement would have on state and federal elections. But we are well into the presidential campaign season, the conventions are just around the corner, and yet the Tea Party is strangely silent.
What happened to the movement? Have its goals and values been absorbed into the G.O.P.? Or was it always the Republican Party in disguise?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They are going to have enough TEA to drown in come November.
Ask Gov Walker of Wisconsin:)
"Ask Gov Walker of Wisconsin:)"
Yes, reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated.
Tea Party people know their power comes from the voting booth. They are quietly waiting for their chance to vote Obama and many other Democrats out of office.
The time for talk is over. Polling shows very few undecided voters. Turnout is the key to the fall election. Tea Partiers don't need more rallies, we are ready to do our duty in November.
Maybe the New York Slimes might ask, "How many candidates has the OWS astrotruf gotten pass the primaries?" As far as I know, there have been none.
I think the Times has a point; I'm willing to bet there are entire areas of Manhattan where the Tea Party is all but nonexistent. I would expect that sort of coverage from a local paper like the Times.
We will know we have won when the platforms and statements coming out or the GOP mirror the TEA attitudes on issues.
As usual, the Opposition and their supporting Enemedia will entirely fail to get it and will assume the Tea Party is moribund.
Although there are "brick and mortar" Tea Party groups out there, IMO most T.P.ers are under the radar as far as being analyzed and counted. Those big gatherings in DC and elsewhere prior to Obamacare might have represented 10% or fewer of Tea Partiers due to distance or schedule. No one, including the NYT, can know the strength of this movement.
My guess is that those POed folks haven't gone anywhere, but are biding their time (as someone said upthread) waiting to vote in November.
The relationship between the Republican Party and the Tea Party is like a tiger and someone riding it. The tiger might go in the right direction if you hit it hard enough, but it will always be resentful and turn on you the second you loosen hold on its reins.
Getting rid of Lugar gave the tiger a big smack in the head and it snarled quite a bit about it.
To me, the Tea "Party" was, is, and ever shall be a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
We will know we have won when the platforms and statements coming out or the GOP mirror the TEA attitudes on issues.
As usual, the Opposition and their supporting Enemedia will entirely fail to get it and will assume the Tea Party is moribund.
Problem is look what Romney did in MA. He might be for free markets, but keep studying him and you will be surprised. (Don't tell anyone I told you to look into who Romney reall is. The GOP, several establishment people and Romney himself, wants to TELL you who he is. Don't look behind the curtain) I'm praying for a miracle at the convention.
The Tea Party movement is a grassroots movement of millions of like-minded Americans from all backgrounds and political parties. Tea Party members share similar core principles supporting the United States Constitution as the Founders intended, such as:
Limited federal government
Individual freedoms
Personal responsibility
Free markets
Returning political power to the states and the people
As a movement, The Tea Party is not a political party nor is looking to form a third political party any time soon. The Tea Party movement, is instead, about reforming all political parties and government so that the core principles of our Founding Fathers become, once again, the foundation upon which America stands.
I agree, but I would add "a hostile takeover by the party's own rank and file". The GOP has a schizophrenic quality due to the fact that the party professionals and the party's rank and file only barely agree philosophically. The party professionals tolerate the membership because they need their votes, but they don't respect them. The membership have put up with this for decades, expecting things to get better next election, and finally lost patience after seeing conservatives frozen out in 2008, and O steam-rolling the country with the GOP establishment unable to offer any resistance whatever.
Most press discussions seem to miss this: the Tea Party is essentially the GOP members tired of being used. Their anger was directed as much at the GOP establishment as much as it ever was at Obama and his gang. We expect Dems to be against us; we're tired of having to fight our own party establishment too.
Once again, the SLIMES validate my tagline. Thank.
Virtually EVERY Tea Party follower I know is in a situation known as "gainfully employed". Those momentarily "out of work" are busy seeking their next job.
Tea Partiers have no time for sit-ins, camp-ins, sleep-ins, disruptive protests, professional whining, screeching impossible demands, and hating the world.
Their idea of "activism" is putting a mark on a sheet of paper, called the BALLOT.
I believe the PEN is mightier than the LOUD MOUTH.
Yes. It's like the NYT is saying The Tide Has Gone Out; Ocean Not As Strong As This Morning.
The TEA party has gotten down to the business of governing. The liberals should try that some time.
Never fear, we're still here.
A slumbering giant has been roused, and is by no means ready to fall back into sleep. Too much more to do, and only a limited window of time in which to get it done.
The activism need not be loud or flashy, it need only pass from one to another, and keep the faith that the right thing will be done.
And if by some mischance, the effort to turn back the tide of lawless behavior at high levels fails for now, just keep on taking down the record of the high crimes and misdemeanors, until such time as these matters may be dealt with in a summary manner.
To the NY Times, you're not a real movement unless you throw rocks, light fires or shit on a sidewalk.
Don't worry slimes. You'll hear from us in November when we kick the dictator fraud out of the people's White House.
...police car.
You describe my political philosophy exactly. That, and most of the party rank and file I would like to believe.
The party professionals, though, are content to be Discount Dems; always ready to pass the Dem agenda, just cutting the rate of growth a couple percent. I'm tired of our party being the Discount Dem Party. Whatever they're for, we just want to knock a couple of percentage points off the rate of increase. Thats it. Don't ask the GOP grandees to get into any deep discussion beyond tax cuts. Ask them for a moral or philosophical argument and you just embarrass them.
"What happened to the (Tea Party) movement?"
Is this the NY Slimes? Two words: Dick Lugar.
+1 for that turn of phrase. Well done.
I cannot believe there are so many people here who are not aware how much the TP had to do with the Walker victory as well as the other recall candidates victory in WI.
The NYT is so out of touch with anyone outside their teeny 20 percent nasty radicals located on the coasts, they can't understand the Tea Party and can't find it. What was that ruckus that derailed us and who are those tea bagging whitey people!
The left is not going to believe that they got another @ss wipping untill they are out on the streets with no levers of power to pull.
What happened to the TEA PARTY?? Nothing..we are still here organized and ready to bring the KENYAN down!!
Since he assumed the helm in 1988 (his run should be about done soon), "Pinchy" Sulzberger has stuffed the staff with homosexuals and other deviants, swung the editorial policy over hard-left, and done everything he can in 24 years to turn the New York Times into the countercultural weekly of Soho, Greenwich Village, and TriBeCa.
The most pampered cockatoos in North America crap on fresh-daily copies of The New York Times.
If anything, Romney represents the backlash from the GOP-E against the Tea Party. They "played" us in the primaries, pitting all the Conservatives against each other while their boy grabbed the nomination by hook or by crook. The next time, we need to be ready before the primaries even get started, and have one viable candidate vetted and selected by US to rally around. Then, we need to stick with that choice, no matter who else throws their hat into the primaries because they think they see an opening.
If the Tea Party can do that, we'll never see another Bush/McCain/Romney nominee from the Republicans again.
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