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Green Economy Report: How two per cent of global GDP can trigger green growth and fight poverty
New UNEP Report Underlines Sustainable Public Policy and Investment Path on the Road to Rio+20
Nairobi/World, 21 February 2011 - Investing two per cent of global GDP into ten key sectors can kick-start a transition towards a low carbon, resource efficient Green Economy a new report launched today says.
The sum, currently amounting to an average of around $1.3 trillion a year and backed by forward-looking national and international policies, would grow the global economy at around the same rate if not higher than those forecast, under current economic models.
But without rising risks, shocks, scarcities and crises increasingly inherent in the existing, resource-depleting, high carbon 'brown' economy, says the study.
As such, it comprehensively challenges the myth of a trade off between environmental investments and economic growth and instead points to a current "gross misallocation of capital".
The report sees a Green Economy as not only relevant to more developed economies but as a key catalyst for growth and poverty eradication in developing ones too, where in some cases close to 90 per cent of the GDP of the poor is linked to nature or natural capital such as forests and freshwaters.
It cites India, where over 80 per cent of the $8 billion National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which underwrites at least 100 days of paid work for rural households, invests in water conservation, irrigation and land development.
Two per cent of the combined GDP of Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam is currently lost as a result of water-borne diseases due to inadequate sanitation.
The report has modeled the outcomes of policies that redirect around $1.3 trillion a year into green investments and across ten key sectors - roughly equivalent to two per cent of global GDP. To place this amount in perspective, it is less than one-tenth of the total annual investment in physical capital.
Currently, the world spends between one and two per cent of global GDP on a range of subsidies that often perpetuate unsustainable resources use in areas such as fossil fuels, agriculture, including pesticide subsidies, water and fisheries.
Many of these are contributing to environmental damage and inefficiencies in the global economy, and phasing them down or phasing them out would generate multiple benefits while freeing up resources to finance a Green Economy transition.
Incomes and Employment
In addition to higher growth, an overall transition to a Green Economy would realize per capita incomes higher than under current economic models, while reducing the ecological footprint by nearly 50 per cent in 2050, as compared to business as usual.
The Green Economy report acknowledges that in the short-term, job losses in some sectors - fisheries for example - are inevitable if they are to transition towards sustainability.
Investment, in some cases funded from cuts in harmful subsidies, will be required to re-skill and re-train some sections of the global workforce to ensure a fair and socially acceptable transition.
The report makes the case that over time the number of "new and decent jobs created" in sectors - ranging from renewable energies to more sustainable agriculture - will however offset those lost from the former "brown economy".
For example, investing about one and a quarter per cent of global GDP each year in energy efficiency and renewable energies could cut global primary energy demand by nine per cent in 2020 and close to 40 per cent by 2050, it says.
The report, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, also highlights enormous opportunities for decoupling waste generation from GDP growth, including in recovery and recycling.
The report, compiled by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide, takes meeting and sustaining the UN's Millennium Development Goals - ranging from halving the proportion of people in hunger to halving the proportion without access to safe drinking water - as one aim.
Bringing down emissions of greenhouse gases to the much safer levels of 450 parts per million by 2050 is another overarching target.
The findings were presented today to environment ministers from over 100 countries at the opening of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum.
The report, part of a bigger macro-economic study published online, is aimed at accelerating sustainable development and forms part of UNEP's contribution to the preparation of the Rio+20 conference scheduled in Brazil next year.
The full report is available online from today and countries are encouraged to submit further Green Economy examples. Over the coming months UNEP's Green Economy team plans to present the report in capitals around the world.
Here they also want to learn firsthand how best to assist countries and communities commence a transition to a Green Economy within their national circumstances.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: "The world is again on the Road to Rio, but in a world very different to the one of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992."
"Rio 2012 comes against a backdrop of rapidly diminishing natural resources and accelerating environmental change - from the loss of coral reefs and forests to the rising scarcity of productive land; from the urgent need to feed and fuel economies and the likely impacts of unchecked climate change," he added.
"The Green Economy as documented and illustrated in UNEP's report offers a focused and pragmatic assessment of how countries, communities and corporations have begun to make a transition towards a more sustainable pattern of consumption and production. It is rooted in the sustainability principles agreed at Rio in 1992, while recognizing that the fundamental signals driving our economies must evolve in terms of public policy and market responses," he said.
"We must move beyond the polarities of the past, such as development versus environment, state versus market, and North versus South," said Mr. Steiner.
"With 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day and with more than two billion people being added to the global population by 2050, it is clear that we must continue to develop and grow our economies. But this development cannot come at the expense of the very life support systems on land, in the oceans or in our atmosphere that sustain our economies, and thus, the lives of each and everyone of us," he added.
"The Green Economy provides a vital part of the answer of how to keep humanity's ecological footprint within planetary boundaries. It aims to link the environmental imperatives for changing course to economic and social outcomes - in particular economic development, jobs and equity," said Mr. Steiner.
Pavan Sukhdev, on secondment from Deutsche Bank and head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative, said: "Governments have a central role in changing laws and policies, and in investing public money in public wealth to make the transition possible. By doing so, they can also unleash the trillions of dollars of private capital in favour of a Green Economy."
"Misallocation of capital is at the centre of the world's current dilemmas and there are fast actions that can be taken starting literally today - from phasing down and phasing out the over $600 billion in global fossil fuel subsidizes to re-directing the more than $20 billion subsidies perversely rewarding those involved in unsustainable fisheries," he said.
"A Green Economy is not about stifling growth and prosperity, it is about reconnecting with what is real wealth; re-investing in rather than just mining natural capital; and, favouring the many over the few. It is also about a global economy that recognizes the intergenerational responsibility of nations to hand over a healthy, functioning and productive planet to the young people of today and those yet to be born," added Mr. Sukhdev.
Notes to Editors:
Key Findings and Some Key Sectors
UNEP defines a Green Economy as "one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities".
A big part of that transition involves policies and investments that decouple growth from the current intensive consumption of materials and energy use.
While there has been some decoupling over the past 30 years, the gains have been far too modest to put the planet on a sustainable path and conserve finite resources.
Pivotal Policy Role of Governments
Innovative and imaginative public policies will be vital to generate enabling conditions that, in turn, can unleash markets and direct private sector investments into a Green Economic transition.
These include:
Public policy can also ensure that the benefits of greening one sector can trigger wider sustainability benefits across others.
From Fisheries to Buildings - Ten Key Sectors Underpin a Green Economy
The ten sectors identified in the report as key to greening the global economy are:
agriculture, buildings, energy supply, fisheries, forestry, industry including energy efficiency, tourism, transport, waste management and water.
Of the two per cent of GDP proposed in the report, the sums invested by sector at current levels of GDP would be:
Some Sectoral Highlights
A Green Economy would invest $100 billion, up to $300 billion a year until 2050, in agriculture in order to feed nine billion people, while promoting better soil fertility management and sustainable water use to improve biological plant management.
The building sector is the single largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, with one-third of global end-energy use taking place in offices and homes.
The construction sector is responsible for more than a third of global material resource consumption, including 12 per cent of all freshwater use.
Based on an IPCC scenario, the climate footprint of the building sector is projected to nearly double to 15.6 billion tones of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, or 30 per cent of total energy related C02.
Subsidies estimated at around $27 billion a year have generated excess fishing capacity by a factor of two relative to the ability of fish to reproduce.
The report suggests that investing in strengthened fisheries management, including the establishment of Marine Protected Areas and the decommissioning and reduction of fleet capacity, as well as retraining, can rebuild the planet's fish resources.
"The present value of benefits from greening the fishing sector is estimated to be three to five times the necessary investment," says the report.
Forests generate goods and services, which support the economic livelihoods of over one billion people, recycle nutrients vital for agriculture and harbour 80 per cent of land-based species.
Deforestation also currently accounts for close to 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
"Reducing deforestation can therefore be a good investment: the climate regulation benefits of halving global deforestation alone have been estimated to exceed costs by a factor of three," says the study.
The report analyzes the contribution that $15 billion a year - or 0.03 per cent of global GDP - can make to greening this sector, including triggering greater investments in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).
Such investments can also assist in scaling-up tried and tested market mechanisms, including certified timber and the certification of rainforest products to payment for ecosystems and community-based partnerships.
Fast tracking such recommendations could make a key contribution to 2011 - designated as the UN's International Year of Forests.
The environmental and social costs of transport in terms of air pollution, traffic accidents and congestion can currently cost around 10 per cent of a region or country's GDP.
Policies for greening transport range from those that shift journeys to public and non-motorized transport to ones which boost fuel efficiency and cleaner vehicles.
In Europe, the analysis indicates that public transport investments yield regional economic benefits more than twice their cost.
Reducing the sulphur content of transportation fuels in Sub Saharan Africa could save up to nearly $1 billion a year in health and related costs.
By 2050, the world is likely to be generating over 13 billion tonnes of municipal and other wastes: currently only 25 per cent of all waste is recovered or recycled.
Between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of methane-related greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 2030 with associated financial savings.
Waste prevention and management also remains a key challenge for manufacturing, where approaches such as remanufacturing and redesign of products and processes can play a part in reducing waste and resource use.
Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication - A Synthesis for Policy Makers, and the full draft chapters, including the modeling and scenarios, will be available after 1pm Nairobi time (or 1000 GMT) on 21 February 2011 at: www.unep.org and www.unep.org/greeneconomy.
The site will also showcase the current compilation of Green Economy case studies from countries and regions around the world.
The 26th session of UNEP's Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum can be found at: http://www.unep.org/gc/gc26
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 or Rio+20 website is at: http://www.uncsd2012.org/
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.1.4, 2.2.1
Component/s: Web Services
Testing Instructions:
1) turn on web services under advanced features.
2) plugins->web services -> external services , create a web service
3) define in the GUI, a web services function that creates moodle users using 'moodle_user_create_users'
4) call the web service with a web services test client (some can be cloned from here : email@example.com:moodlehq/sample-ws-clients.git )
5) check that it can create firstname and lastnames with spaces in it.
Please test MDL-30878 also. Part of this patch was removed for testing MDL-30878.1) turn on web services under advanced features. 2) plugins->web services -> external services , create a web service 3) define in the GUI, a web services function that creates moodle users using 'moodle_user_create_users' 4) call the web service with a web services test client (some can be cloned from here : email@example.com:moodlehq/sample-ws-clients.git ) 5) check that it can create firstname and lastnames with spaces in it. Please test MDL-30878 also. Part of this patch was removed for testing MDL-30878.
Affected Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE
Fixed Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
Pull Master Branch:
Pull Master Diff URL:
Users can be added with leading/trailing spaces in firstname and lastname via the GUI form. However, the same values submitted via web services will cause an exception to be thrown.
This appears to be because the create_users service runs the data through truncate_userinfo() and throws an exception if it is returned modified in anyway. truncate_userinfo() has a call to trim() which strips the spaces. The fields are of type PARAM_NOTAGS which allows the spaces.
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- has a non-specific relationship to
MDL-29374 Exceptions returned by moodle_user_create_users are not explicit
- Closed
- has been marked as being related by
MDL-29582 missing validation error in web UIs when entering names with leading/trailling spaces.
- Closed
- required writing of QA test
MDL-31714 Core needs centralized data validations for use by core and web services too. truncate_userinfo() not good enough.
- Open
- will help resolve
MDL-29276 META- Web service improvements for 2.2
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I added Petr as watcher. He wrote the:
$truncated = truncate_userinfo($user);
foreach ($truncated as $key=>$value) {
I'm not sure why user information needs to be truncated, the phpdoc say:
Will truncate userinfo as it comes from auth_get_userinfo (from external auth) which may have large fields
what does that mean?
Tt means that external source may have fields 32786826738 characters long, but our DB would throw error.
Ok I understand now, thanks.
Two possibilities, user firstname/address/lastname/email... :
a- can have leading/trailing white space => I'll fix it
b- cannot => continue to throw an exception. I just need to update the error message that is incomplete.
Petr? Apparently b) seems correct.
Option b would mean that the web service behaves differently to the manual "add user" page, which is the bug I am reporting. It should be possible to add a user with whitespace around their name if you can do it via GUI.
NOTE: This issue was assigned to the STABLE backlog without complete triaging process. Marking it as triaged, but with this note for future reference.
This issue has been reported to affect MP clients. Please give it priority.
need your opinion, is there any history about spaces in fields related to ldap/ext-db auth i should know about?
afaik i see no reason for trimming in truncate_userinfo() but i'm not familiar with other auth usages etc.
+1 to throw validation error in web UIs when typing new or changing existing usernames, I personally do not like any silent modification of submitted/external data
ok, removed trimming to stop silently screwing with data.
up for peer-review.
Hi Apu, Thanks for fixing the patch.
This is working great in all branches.
Uhm, I was going to integrate this (leave any lead/trail whitespace unmodified in the WS creating services) but then I read the followup
MDL-29582 about the UI and it seems that we are going to the "error/prevent" route there, or am I wrong?
In any case, I think the same restrictions and behavior should be expected both when creating users from WS or UI and it seems we are going to continue bahving differently? Please clarify / discuss and decide.
I'm reopening this. Feel free to re-send it once defined the (ideally) unique behavior.
well the follow up of error/prevent issue is to decide whether we want to go the error/prevent route. I'll clarify that there.
I sort of agreed with Petr's comment .
The changes to webservices iS firstly to make them consistent for now but secondly to prevent modification of incoming external data.
Alternatively we could go the route of modifying external data and perhaps log to admin log? but it could be a crazy amount of log ..
I've been looking at this issue and
MDL-29582 this morning and have to admit I'm a little confused.
- The modified method truncate_userinfo is taking a portion of the string and then trimming which is a weird order to have those two operations in. The only reason I can think of for the trim is to remove trailing whitespace that is perhaps left over from the substr operation... department "Department of communication & technology" would be trimmed to "Department of communication & " (note the now trailing whitespace). This would of course mean that
- Only some fields are safe to substring; username, idnumber, email, country for sure are not. Where as institution, department, etc wouldn't really matter. At a glance with username's being trimmed should we in the future increase the length of the username field there would be a risk of authentication plugins adding users that already exist because of username concatenation.
As for the actual issue of accepting leading and trailing whitespace - I lack to see why we would want to accept leading/trailing whitespace but of course that is inconsequential - really this issue is about consistency right?
My personal opinion at this point is that Moodle code should not be truncating user_info, and should not be trimming it either. I think core should be validating the incoming data to make sure that it meets the requirements we have, and any failure to meet those requirements (field length etc) should result in error/exception.
Any trimming or concatenation should be done as an entirely separate operation before that validation, on a field by field basis, and really only if we know that incoming data is going not going to meet our requirements and only if we know it is safe to complete such operations (so really only on information only fields).
Perhaps I've missed something?
agreed that this issue is about consistency. I also agree that we should be throw back error/exception upon receive data that aren't to requirements. I think i was trying to separate the two points by creating
MDL-29582 as a dev task of improving web services (which i realize now is how i missed the fact that this applies to stable as well).
I'll write up a patch so that ws goes along the lines of validation+error instead of mangling data.
ok, i've made changes so that the web service call to create_users() validation doesn't truncate the user info and also now checks that the email is valid (like GUI @ user/editadvanced_form.php:validation() does).
I've spoken to Jerome, and according to him, the objective of web services is to cater any of moodle's core services, as is, consistently to the external applications etc.. this patch would help achieve that.
If firstname lastname should at all be truncated, it should be a proper improvement , i've created : MDL-31714
up for integration, after Sam's review: (selective copy n paste :-p)
(10:14:08) firstname.lastname@example.com: The changes you have made certainly look like positive changes in regards to aligning it with how the UI works
Sam has created
MDL-31762 for other things he's noticed lacking in user_create_user().
Certainly user validations need more work, but I think the followups created can be a good place for that.
So integrating this (21, 22 & master). Thanks!
Sorry Apu, I am getting
<DEBUGINFO>Email address already exists: email@example.com</DEBUGINFO>
error. As discussed with you, it is happening because check is being done in transaction after user_create_user is called, so probably a nice idea to move it above this function or in user_create_user function
Thanks for spotting that Raj!
i've put up this fix : https://github.com/nebgor/moodle/commit/d1eced9c816beebca7788b20e84fd0d7f627ef67 - that commit is based on integration.git/master branch
edit: diff url https://github.com/nebgor/moodle/compare/int_master...int_m_MDL-25027
this should fix that DB check.
Eloy: Please cherry-pick this to master, 22 and 21. it applies clean for me atm.
New commit added to 21, 22 & master, reseting back to testing phase... thanks!
Thanks Everyone,
Works Great
tested for moodle_user_create_users and core_users_create_users
I wish I said it every time
you do the things you do.
You always lend a helping hand,
and I'm filled with gratitude.
You are strong and generous
for each and everyone one of us.
I am eternally grateful,
I cannot say thanks enough.
Sorry for the (un)cool bit above, lol. Closing this as fixed. Ciao

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Skip to comments.White House Defends Obamacare Rule That Forces New Insurance
Posted on 11/01/2013 9:20:34 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
Washington (CNN) - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Friday continued to defend the rule in the national health care law that may end up forcing millions of Americans from their health insurance.
Carney's defense of the law comes amid revelations that a grand total of six Americans signed up for Obamacare coverage on the first day the online exchanges went live October 1, according to internal notes provided to the Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
"White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Friday continued to defend the rule in the national health care law that may end up forcing millions of Americans from their health insurance."
But WAIT!!! I thought it was those shifty insurance companies that decided all of a sudden that they didn't need millions of their customers any more, and then dropped them from their customer rolls!!!!
As wise an idea as this was, Madison and the other Framers failed to expressly incorporate such a limit on government within the Constitution itself.
I believe we need several amendments to the Constitution. How about you??
working link?
Yes. Thanks!
What they're saying is that those policies you had
weren't "good enough"
Please replace the link on my original post with this working link directly to the article: (Thanks!)
Come on: This is Jay carney. He gets paid to lie.
His job depends on his lies.
Does anyone with a brain actually expect him to be truthful?
One has to give up all morals and their very souls to work in Jay Carneys job for Obama.
When asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo about the law requiring individuals to get new insurance coverage they may not need or want, such as maternity care, Carney argued that many people don't really know or understand what their options are and urged buyers to do their homework. In many cases, "you're going to find out you get better insurance, that's a guarantee, better minimum coverage and at same or lower cost because you'll qualify for a tax credit," he said.
White House defends Obamacare rule that forces new insurance(CNN November 1st, 2013) /
So we get tax credits to help pay for coverage that doesnt even apply to us?
Yep. Limbaugh is calling Obama's lie about keeping your doctor and insurance outright fraud today. He said Nixon resigned for much less.
Thanks! I posted to the admin moderator and requested they change it.
Obama/Soetoro has cemeted his legacy as the biggest Presidential LIAR, A THIEF, A CON ARTIST and propagandist of all time.
If the insurance companies knew all this and didn't tell it to the shareholders, they should all be in jail. They had to have sat around a table and decided what to do.
Latest line from the loony left seems to be "well employers cancel policies and buy new ones for their people all the time" - true - that's the magic of a free market competitive system where you can make changes for the better -cheaper or expanded coverage - whenever you want - but the changes coming under Obamacare are forced by the government which arrogantly thinks it knows better than anyone else what people need, and is requiring them to buy pricier and, for most, unnecessary coverage.....
Go to 3:00 on this audio and you will see the insurance companies protested what the administration was doing as it would be very disruptive and the admistration ignored their advice:
October 31, 2013
Robert Laszewski on 'trickle of enrollment' in ObamaCare
Administration at odds with the individual insurance market
Yes. I heard that on Fox. Michael J. Cannon with Cato answered a liberal on Fox today and said the companies do this at their discretion periodically but that is not the same as what the govt. had done. Cannon is very good regarding up to date info on Obamacare and what it means. I just started following him on Twitter. Betsy McCaughey was on Mark Levin one night and mentioned his name as being knowldgeable about Obamacare. He was answering questions today on Fox before the LA airport shooting happened and bumped him. I wanted to hear what he had to say.
I hope one day to see a video where a real American walks up to this slimy worm Jay Carney, rares back, and leaves him with a ...
(posting guidelines force me to stop there.)
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Israel is to destroy the seven nations of Canaan—Marriages with them are forbidden lest apostasy result—Israel has a mission as a holy and chosen people—The Lord shows mercy unto those who love Him and keep His commandments—He promises to remove sickness from the children of Israel if they obey.
1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly
3 Neither shalt thou make
4 For they will
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall
6 For thou art
7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the Lord
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which
10 And
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
12 ¶Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye
13 And he will
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female
15 And the Lord will take away from thee all
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great
20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and
22 And the Lord thy God will
23 But the Lord thy God shall
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.


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Skip to comments.Cops: Fla. woman attacks boyfriend after bad sex
Posted on 11/29/2012 9:01:18 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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Bitches be crazy, amirite?
I wondered where she moved to.
"A Florida woman allegedly attacked her boyfriend because he had an orgasm during sex and she did not"
You know, as a man, I've encountered this situation before, but it shouldn't be this hard to resolve. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...
Even if you fail, it's got to be more fun trying than getting in a fistfight!
Well...I choose guilty. ;o)
How are you? Hope all is well with school.
You know, once the swelling goes down, and if she could lose the sourpuss, I'm thinking she's could get a little Lisa Bonet thing going on.
I'm going to say: Not Guilty!
She's got some fire in her eyes though, and I like the feisty ones!
I do believe those are cuts on her lip from the ensuing fistfight. Dude wasn't afraid to hit a girl.
Involuntary celibacy doesn't count.
No but I do wonder why you keep mentioning it.
No but I do wonder why you keep mentioning it.
I always carry a knife.
(Harbor Frieght, special sale!)
Went right over ya.
Coitus Interpunchtus
I appreciate your confirming for me that I am not the only man who uses the "baseball" diversion.
I appreciate your confirming for me that I am not the only man who uses the "baseball" diversion.
Or maybe I just chose a diversionary response.
I don't know why but I expected to read that she tried calling 911 to report an emergency situation.
Dude, Heineken is Dutch. Any German brewer would get lynched for that stuff.
"You mean she was faking it?"
She is an Obama Voter, i.e. the 18 to 30 something Entitlement Class, it is about the give-me's....
Entitled too; Free Pills, Medical Care, soon your 401(k), and obviously a new requirement Orgasms....
We are Rome folks, Bread and Circus, Increase the Dole, Increase the Dole....
Now that's funny.
The article has a link to the police report posted on The Smoking Gun. On the second page of the report it identifies the relationship between the victim and the accused as "brother/sister".
I hope it was a typo.
Given that finals start a week from Monday, I'm not sure that "well" is the right word. They'll get better, though.
I'll let Mr. Jimmy Buffet comment for me...
This has never, ever happened to me!
Never date anyone crazier than you.
The guy needs to learn Sam Kinison's alphabet trick.
I know that you will do "well", but you will be in my thoughts and prayers anyway.
Best wishes and good luck with finals!
Thank you, on all accounts. I hope you are doing well too.
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Topic: [solved] Running first app under apache
Hi, everyone
I have to apologize for my English
openSUSE 11.4
Apache 2.2.17
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I have already installed RoR application under apache - ChiliProject (but using rails 2.3.14) and it works fine. It's installed in /chiliproject and In httpd config I have "RailsBaseURI /chiliproject/public".
Now, I need to develop own application (actually, first experience in web developing).
"rails new hello_world", Webrick works fine, but I want to run it under apache with CGI. I added in httpd conf "RailsBaseURI /hello_world/public". But it doesn't work properly. When I press "About your application environment" on index page it gives me 404 "The page you were looking for doesn't exist.". For any routes in rails it gives either error 500 or 404. But same routes and controllers work fine with webrick. And even if I put ChiliProject into /hello_world it works. This means that problem is not with apache or passenger.
I read on the ruby website that 1.8.7 may cause crashes with rails3. Shame... I spent 4 hours working arounf RVM and different rub versions. After all, ChiliProject (even lates version) doesn't work with ruby 1.9 and my original problem did not gone. Now I have all thing back (ruby 1.8.7 from distro's repo and no RVM).
btw, this hello_world is here http://thegeekway.org/hello_world/public/
Thanks in advance
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Halle Berry and Brea Bennet.
"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible, I chose Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small!
All girls above are HOT except the 2nd one in the yellow bikini. WOOF. I probably wouldn't have sex with her more than 2 or 3 times.
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Cinematographer Christopher Walters (pictured left) used a modified SnapFocus for the RED EPIC for a portion of a Toyota Space Shuttle campaign that aired online in conjunction with Super Bowl commercials. "It performed brilliantly," Walters reports. "We were running and gunning at this industrial site, and the more people we had around the camera, the more of a target we became for accidents. But with the SnapFocus, I was able to go with no crew at all and get shots with incredible follow focus." He maintains that he still loves his first assistants, and doesn't think that this piece of equipment will negate what they do, but it will aid in smaller or more off-the-cuff shoots.
On one day of the Toyota shoot, Walters used an 85mm lens while following a mockup of the shuttle that had been mounted to giant dollies. When the shuttle was moving, it had all kinds of vehicles moving around it, so the most dynamic way Walters could shoot it was with the longer lens. "I wanted to shoot wide open because I was going for an abstract, shallow depth-of-field look," recalls Walters. "The SnapFocus was the perfect tool. I would never have been able to pull focus off the barrel. With two people on that particular job, there would have definitely been a margin for error in the focus. But because I knew exactly where I was going to step next, I could pull the handle and land everything super sharp."
A piece of gear that fulfills the "smaller" requirement is Motion Picture Marine's Perfect Horizon camera stabilization head (pictured right), which has won an Academy Award and an Emmy for engineering and scientific achievement. Coming in at under 30 pounds and only 9 inches high, the Perfect Horizon stabilizer is still able to carry loads of up to 150 pounds. It can be mounted on a great variety of boats, and has proved its salt for some spectacular filming sequences in James Bond films, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Discovery's "Air Jaws 4" and the opening sequence for the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, which was shot by Cinematographer William Reed and Perfect Horizon Technician Brian Uranovsky.
"Instead of holding the camera on my shoulder at sea while rolling over the waves and such, I can put it on the Perfect Horizon and get a completely level shot every time," says Uranovsky, a London-based South African DP who has worked all over the world. "It allows us to zoom into images, like shark and whale breaching, and hold it there with absolute precision." While Uranovsky has used other stabilizers, like the Cineflex, he says the Perfect Horizon is the only stabilizer that's fit for the sea. For Die Another Day, the stabilizer was used for a dramatic opening surfing sequence on a huge surf day with 40-foot waves — and this was the same day when the Olympics sequence was shot. For Casino Royale, the gear steadied the horizon duringa speedy chase sequence in Venice, Italy.
Los Angeles-based Jib Operator Victor Pancerev has been using equipment from Inventor/Filmmaker Eddie Barber (pictured left) for the last 20 years. Pancerev swears by the SteadyPOD by Barber Tech Video Products (www.BarberTech.com), which tops the "cheaper and faster" gear categories. "I needed a Steadicam for a small film we were shooting on the Sony EX3, and really you don't need what I would call the conventional-jacketed Steadicam setup for a camera like that," recalls Pancerev. "So I bought the SteadyPOD, [which] has some great features besides just steadying a shot. You can put it in high mode and use it as a mini-boom/jib arm; there's low mode [which turns it into a doggie cam; and you can even turn the camera back at yourself to do some amazing narrative shots, where you're in frame as you walk and talk. It's just so easy to get a great shot with it."
Barber, Pancerev and others that have used the SteadyPOD all claim that the learning curve is close to zero. In fact, a complete camera amateur could use the SteadyPOD to potentially create useable steady shots for a project, making it a very valuable tool. "When the cameras were heavier, you needed that gyroscopic support to hold it," explains Pancerev. "Now that many cameras only weigh a few pounds, the SteadyPOD is just more practical. This takes seconds, literally seconds to balance the camera, and then you're shooting. In filmmaking today, time is everything, and this saves so much time. And you can make your mark on the film world without spending millions of dollars. My friends are Steadicam operators, and, I'm not trying to put anyone out of a job, but when you're making your own film and the tools are available and are cheap, it's such an advantage to have something like the SteadyPOD."


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12 Strays of Christmas - Mama Cass has been adopted.
ID#A1675121- Mama Cass is a fun 1-year-old female, black domestic short-hair mix. Mama Cass is waiting for someone to scoop her up and take her home. She is loveable and wants the opportunity to show off all her good qualities. Mama Cass is available at the Eastside shelter.
Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department will introduce a new pet each day through December 24. Each pet featured in the "12 Strays of Christmas" comes with the special adoption fee of just $12. These pets will be featured on our web site and Facebook page.
The $12 adoption fee includes spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchip, follow up call with an Adoption Counselor to make sure your new pet is adjusting well, a goodie bag with coupons and some toys from Petco.
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If you're a handbag girl and you love yourself a good sale, then you're in luck (times two) because we've hunted down 9 designer bags that are majorly chic and discounted. Inside, you'll find everything from a leopard Christian Louboutin clutch perfect for after-hours fun and a textured woven Rebecca Minkoff satchel to a rich tasseled Mulberry. But wait, that's not all — we also tracked down a black and white Phillip Lim bag, the perfect green See by Chloé companion, and a fabulous colorblocked shopper tote by Marni. Tempted yet? Click on to see and shop them all.


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For the record, I'm an Arsenal fan (in the Premier League).
I'm a Bayern Munich fan (in the Bundesliga).
And most importantly, I'm a Barcelona fan (in La Liga).
Last Saturday, I watched the Premier League matchup between Fulham and Wigan. You can check out the game report in the previous blog I wrote. As the week progressed and the rescheduling of matches came into focus, there were two more matches I saw before hitting the plane to Munich.
On Tuesday night, there was an FA Cup redraw between Brentford (League 1) and Southend United (League 2). On tap for Wednesday night, a rescheduled Premier League matchup between Chelsea and Southampton was put into place. I got tickets for both games…
Truthfully, of the three football matches I've seen, the Brentford game has been the most exciting. I saw Brentford two years ago in my last trip to London in a normal League 1 regular season match. Unable to call that first game 'exciting', I hoped this second game had a little more energy than before. Although it was only the third round of the English FA Cup, the winner of this contest would play…Chelsea!
That's one of the many reasons why I enjoy European Football. Every country has their top tier league, followed by weaker leagues below that. While each club is looking to win their league and be promoted to the higher league, most countries tend to have a league cup of some kind; some countries have multiple league cups. In England, there are two main cups - the Captial One Cup (use to be the Carling Cup) and the FA Cup. Bad football clubs from all leagues across England, for example, have the chance to compete in these cups against some of the best clubs in the country. Are you following along?
So, this Brentford vs Southend contest was serious business. Despite a slew of teams still fighting to see another day, the winner of this contest would host Chelsea, the victors of the UEFA Champions League, at an old stadium that most likely seats 10,000 people. Yes, there was a lot on the line…
Brentford forced the draw against Southend a couple of weeks ago to hold onto their FA Cup dreams. Bringing it back to their home stadium of Griffin Park, Brentford was on a mission to wreak hell on Southend…and that's just what they did. However, Brentford had numerous scoring opportunities to make this game a shear blowout. Instead, the Southend defense did what they could to keep the Bees in their hive (Yes, Brentford's mascot is the Bees). In the end, Brentford took care of Southend in a thriller 2-1.
The energy in that small, crappy stadium was an atmosphere I haven't felt as a fan in a long-time. Fans from all sides shouting their favorite chants; fellow Brits saying some of the filthiest things to the officials when cheap shots weren't called on the field; there were roars heard like no other when Brentford scored…even when they were just a hair off target. Whether you're new to the sport or not, you, the fan, were part of a large cheering section family, supporting a team that you may never see again. There wasn't a jumbo-tron telling fans to get loud or music to fire up the fans.
Walking out of the stadium after the game, I kept thinking to myself, 'Are the Bees really going to play Chelsea, the 2012 Champions of Europe, in two weeks? At Griffin Park? This is crazy!'
Speaking of Chelsea, I bought a few tickets for the game at Stamford Bridge during the stadium tour on Monday. Stamford Bridge is one hell of a venue (can't say it beats the Emirates, though…). Touring the locker-room, pressroom, and the field, I was impressed with everything they had to offer. It was definitely the supreme of supreme stadiums in England…but I digress.
Purchasing the tickets, I didn't realize what section we were
sitting in. Eleven rows back to the left of the goal, I was quite impressed with where we ended up. The tickets were a little pricey – 52 pounds (about $85 give or take) per person, but you only live once, right? Anyway, there's a rule that fans are not allowed to stand for a long duration throughout the match. Well, that went out the window, when some of the loudest Chelsea fans were all around us! Although I've become a serious Arsenal fan, how could I not cheer for Chelsea? Do I really want my ass kicked? I will say this – I have nothing against Chelsea as a club…yet. In the meantime, I'll cheer for them when appropriate.
From an offensive standpoint, Chelsea dominated their side of the ball in the first half. Newly acquired striker Demba Ba put up the first score for the Blues, while midfielder Eden Hazard knocked in the second goal late in the first half. However, in the second half, Southampton battled their way back, firing in two goals to even the match. Having several opportunities to score, Chelsea came up with nothing. The match was drawn 2-2. For Chelsea, though, they need victories if they want to catch Manchester United and Manchester City for the Premier League title.
As for the city of London, it was nice to be back. Like most big cities, London has its positives and negatives. It's one of the most universal cities in the world when it comes to ethnicity and culture; all walks of life can be found in London. There are some impoverished areas and there are some beautiful areas. The food, too, can be really good, but also a little questionable. Taking a wild guess, I would say there are tens of thousands of places to eat in London, yet I was trying to stick to the classic pubs. I've gotten a little picky to stay away from restaurants in shady neighborhoods as well as food served from outside vendors. Refusing to eat any of it, I stuck close to what I know best – sandwiches, pizza, beer, and fish n' chips. However, cannot wait to eat the German food in Munich…to be continued…
Enjoying the vast amount of history London has to offer, I knew it was important to check out as much as I could. One day, we went to the Tower of London. Built close to a 1,000 years ago, the Tower of London served as the prison and protector of the riches. Inside the large castle, I saw the amazing armory, the different types of execution weapons, and the royal family's extensive and world-famous Crown Jewels. It's a must-see site in London.
We also took a walk around Camden Market, a large, outside shopping center with stands and booths all over the place. Things are pretty cheap there, and there are a lot of knockoffs. However, you can negotiate prices with the different store owners, and sometimes get a steal of a deal. In the end, I only bought one thing from there – a "Mind the Gap" shot glass for three pounds. And yes, I did go to Harrods with a couple of girls. Before you strip my man card, I was there to buy Mom a birthday present and to take a gander at their golf section.
Obviously, we did a walk-around of the city, seeing some of the important landmarks like Trafalgar Square, Big Ben and Parliament, Leicester Square, St. James Park, and Buckingham Palace (I caught the tale-end of the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham. That's a site to see also!).
I'm also with a pretty good group of people. Spending the next 18 days with them, I'm not afraid to nip things in the bud if anybody starts getting on my case/out of hand. So far, things have been going well…Let's keep it that way…
So there you have it. I'm now in Munich until Tuesday; on Saturday, we will see Bayern Munich play the worst team in the Bundesliga – Gruether Furth – at the enormous Allianz Arena.
I'll have a game summary report in the next couple of days…Stay tuned!
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Anatomy of a Run
Robert Cleave
February 08 2011 04:45PM
This recent reversal by the Flames has lead to all sorts of rationales being mooted for the uptick in results, from a happier atmosphere in the aftermath of Darth Sutter's removal to just being lucky and plenty of things in between. There's every possibility that every and any of those sorts of explanations are at least partly at the root of the 13-3-4 run that Calgary finds itself on, but it's the role of fortune that interests me most, and why it seemed time for a little deeper look at the Flames since they went to Dallas on December 23rd.
As regular readers know, there's some worthwhile evidence that good old fashioned variance can play a significant part in a team's results. A team can outshoot and have no luck around the net while another squad can throw a few pucks in off shinpads or rear ends. The trick, of course, is to examine how those results are actually being achieved and try to filter out narrative-driven explanations. With that in mind, I decided to review the Flames' work at even strength since that night in the Lone Star State.
When the Flames went to Dallas, they were a team that was 5 days away from tying the can to their GM, seemingly dead for this year and beyond. So, what's happened in the interim to flip the conference standings? When I went in for a deeper look, it was clear that any review needed to be split in to two sets of games. The first set was the 12 game skein from the Dallas game to the disaster at the Dome on January 19th, when the Flames lost to the Wild 6-0. The second is the current 7-0-1 run that started, again, with a night against the Stars, this time in Calgary. I've pulled the numbers from the Time on Ice Corsi sheets in order to parse out empty netters and the like.
December 23 - January 19: Hard Graft
With the benefit of hindsight, this really was the beginning of the good times, although the turmoil around the club that only seemed to ease with Sutter's dismissal might have distracted all of us from that. The team's EV out-shooting numbers, which had been decent enough all year, finally began to have a few wins attached, but not an obvious way.
Over that 12 game span, the Flames outshot their opposition 334-246 but were actually outscored 27-28 at EV. Now, 27 goals at EV over 12 games is a pretty good average. If a team could manage that sort of action for a year, that would be good for 184 EV goals, which is the pace that the Canucks are currently on, and Vancouver wouldn't be anywhere in that range if they weren't shooting north of 9%. Calgary was doing that while shooting 8.1%, which is lower than their current full season average of 8.4%. In other words, the Flames were earning every last one of those 27 goals for.
That makes it obvious what was going on at the other end, for whatever reason people would like to assign to the problem. 28 GA on 246 shots equals an .886 EVSV%. Not good, to be kind. Kipper, obviously, had his struggles as well as some poor fortune, since there was a run of games where Calgary was deflecting pucks past him like they meant it.
Add that 8.1 shooting percentage to the Flames' 88.6 save percentage, and you get a combined PDO of 96.7 in the 12 games. Teams like Ottawa, New Jersey and the Islanders are down in that range for the year, and given where their records are, you can see why the Flames needed to be launching a pile of shots just to give themselves a chance. One thing that should always be kept in mind is that PDO numbers strongly revert to 100 for teams over time. A club can outrun fortune for a stretch of games, even for a season, but things normally even out.
That series of games was likely a run where the Flames deserved better than a 6-3-3 record, even if 6-3-3 seemed like water to a team dying of thirst. The next batch, though, shows what happens when you get a bit of good luck on the go.
January 21 – February 7: Dame Fortune smiles, but maybe not as much as you'd think
For a team that's gone through periods where nothing worked despite the best of efforts, this past run of games must be very enjoyable. The 7-0-1 flurry has vaulted them into 8th place, past a couple of worthy clubs, not the least of whom was last night's victim. While there's plenty of talk about good play and that's not entirely unfounded, the Flames have finally had an extended run on the decent side of the bounces, and the record at least partly reflects that.
At EV, the Flames have been out-shot 156-170, but have scored 18 goals to their opposition's 14. Shooting 11.5% at EV will fix a lot of ailments under normal circumstances, and that run of good shooting has certainly helped the Flames. In fairness, 6 of those 18 goals came against the Stars on a night where Andrew Raycroft was a bit iffy, but since then, the scoring numbers have been a bit more normal looking. Absent that one game, Calgary has scored 12 goals on 141 EV shots. 8.5% is right where they are for the year, so nothing much special has happened since they rung up Dallas. Even with the numbers all in, 11.5 isn't outrageous for a short stretch. The Flames shot about 15% at EV for October of '09, and other teams have certainly outdone that over 15 or 20 game stretches. Most good teams have it happen at least once a season.
Good shooting luck factored in, it's in net where things have turned hard in Calgary's favour. After Karlsson's 4 for 17 showing against Dallas, Kipper has run with things, allowing 10 goals on 153 shots. That's a EVSV% of .935. His full season numbers read .913 at EV even with this latest run included, so you can see where having Miikka in harness has sent the club into orbit. His good work has allowed the team to roll right through being outshot 5 of the 8 games in question. Even with Karlsson's numbers added, the Flames' EVSV% for the 8 games is .918. Their full season numbers are a combined .909, where a decent number would be in the range of .920. Kipper finished last year with a personal number of .928 at EV, so it isn't like he can't make that sort of standard.
11.5 SH% + 91.8 SV% = 103.3, which is a hefty PDO, and not sustainable for a year unless you're last year's Capitals, who finished with a team PDO of over 103. Of course, toss the Dallas game from Calgary's run and you have 8.5 + 93.5, or 102.
That 102 figure is also high, but there are a few teams every year that operate in that neighbourhood for a full season. The Bruins, Canucks, Flyers and Stars are all in that range for the year as we speak, and that's something to remember. The Flames have had a nice few weeks. A few clubs live this way as a matter of course. Teams like Minnesota and Nashville are over 101, and if anyone thinks that those are super teams that have high percentages on merit, well...
Let's add the whole mess and see where we are. The Flames have scored 45 EV goals on 490 shots, for a EVSH% of 9.2. That would be very good for a full year, likely in the top five or so league wide. At the other end, the Flames have allowed 42 goals on 416 shots for a smooth .899 EVSV%. That number would be almost certainly be in the bottom five for a full season. 9.2 + 89.9 equals a PDO of 99.1 since December 23rd. If 100 is normal, the Flames are, for the whole of the run, still a bit under the number.
What's the reality for the Flames going forward? I doubt that they'll shoot 9% for the rest of the year, but if they can get decent goaltending, they still have a bit of bounce left to get back to even. Behind the Net shows them with a full season 5v5 PDO of 98.9, so all they've really done in that regard is tread water, even through this burst up the standings. The fact that the Flames are even in the hunt at the moment suggests to me that they're likely a little better team than we've spent the year giving them credit for being. Great? Hell, no, and they'll still need a revamp of the roster in short order. But they aren't a bad team, people, and they're at least as worthy a playoff outfit through the first two thirds of the year as any other team in that cluster of squads between the Wings and the Oilers.
Nice summary, Robert. I've been completely out of the loop this year but I do check in occasionally to glean the collective wisdom of Flamesnation. Your last two sentences sum up the Flames as well as any could.
There's been a lot of ink (well, virtual ink) spilled about the wisdom of tearing down versus treading 8th place water (and count me on the side of 'anything but tearing down'). But as much as I can pay attention right now, I want to cheer for a team that can win on almost any night with effort I can get behind (like during the LA game which I managed to catch on Saturday). For all their faults, the Flames have been providing that for a decent stretch now.
Rene Bourque for Zach Bogosian? Could it happen?
February 08 2011, 06:06PM
Rene Bourque for Zach Bogosian? Could it happen?
I...suppose it could. Something to consider.
Bourque + Steady Steve for Bogosian sounds good. Perhaps throw in Kotalik for his booming point shot.
Rumours are that they would want alot for Bogosian, I'm not sure they'd accept just Bourque, but through in hagman or staios, and that would be a done deal for me.
This would be a great move for this team moving forward, a young defensemen, which hopefully in different situations could continue developing. Word is that he has regressed for the last season and a half, so it would be a gamble in that respect.
Great article BTW, I'm always fascinated when the stats show a different side of the story.
Great work.
February 08 2011, 07:42PM
Actually, Bogo hasn't really regressed...his circumstances are just brutal.
@Kent Wilson
Well, lets hope so. It does sound like they are expecting him to be something he is not. You would think the Thrashers would understand how to develop players properly, but it sounds like he has been mishandled.
Of course we won't know for sure until his circumstances change, and hopefully that means coming to Calgary.
February 08 2011, 08:18PM
I think you guys are either overvaluing our players or undervaluing what Atl thinks of Bogosian.
If it were a trade centred around Bourque, the Flames would have to throw in one of their non-Staios defencemen at the very least. That said, if it took Bourque, Sarich, and a 3rd round pick, I'd still think Atlanta got fleeced. I would bet a full twenty dollars that Bogosian becomes a good top-2 defenceman in the next 3-4 years, and that is worth a streaky injury risk plus a good deal of other assets.
February 08 2011, 08:23PM
That's a fair assumption, but NHL managers in pursuit of much-needed post-season berths do stupid stuff like this all the time. Including the franchise in question - in 2007 they dealt Braydon Coburn to the Flyers for...Alexei Zhitnik! who was 35 years old at the time.
So, yeah...you never know.
Haha, I don't think we are overvaluing our players! But I do think ATL would be willing to add experience in exchange for their young guy. As mentioned above, Bourque would be a valued depth asset, as he is a 25+ goal guy, and staios would be a short term fix for them. I think if we included Staios we would have to add a higher pick, like a 2nd or 3rd, but if we use Sarich instead, maybe a 4th or 5th would be sufficient.
...maybe Borque and Stajan get traded in a package for someone.
...random thought. Patrick Kane reminds me of a young Alex Tanguay. I think Patrick Kane is overrated. That being said, I think Tanguay and Kane are both good players (and exceptional playmakers).
February 08 2011, 09:54PM
It looks like if the flames can finish their final 27 games with a record (likely a top 3 record for the remainder of the season) of 16-8-3 they can squeeze into 8th.
Unfortunately that 2 - 3 more games played than other teams kind of puts a damper on things.
Will be interesting to see what they do. I am REALLY hoping they play the Canucks. Would he a very exciting 4 games for sure.
February 08 2011, 09:56PM
...maybe Borque and Stajan get traded in a package for someone.
...random thought. Patrick Kane reminds me of a young Alex Tanguay. I think Patrick Kane is overrated. That being said, I think Tanguay and Kane are both good players (and exceptional playmakers).
Only difference is kane is 21 and tanguay is 31 and Kane's offensive output in his first 4 NHL seaons will likely be better than tangauay's best 4 totalled.
No real comparison at all. Kane is playing injured and is still better than Tanguay.
Do we really need Bogosian? Don't we have some very nice young D men waiting and growing on the farm? Im thinking Atl is going to want more than we'd be comfortable offering for him. Im not sure we really need him at this point.
February 09 2011, 08:48AM
Probably don't really need him. No one the Flames have in the system currently projects as well as Bogosian though. He would also instantly make someone like Sarich expendable. Although I think the Flames should try to move Sarich's contract at some point because it's poor value, he'd still have to replaced by someone who can play the game respectably now.
February 09 2011, 10:29AM
I think that is the kind of deal Flames need to make at the deadline. Land good young talent.
...I KNOW Kane is younger, that is why I made the point in the first place (Kane reminds me of a "YOUNG" Tanguay). I'm not necessarily comparing their level of play at this particular point in time.
...Kane has an adjusted per season average of 77 pts (26g 51a) and Tanguay 68pts (22g 46a). They are both pass first left wingers with speed that play a perimeter game.
...you may not think Kane is overrated, but no comparison at all, give me a break.
...Bogosian has minimal hockey sense. Whatever you give up for him at this point you'd be over paying because of his draft class and physical tools.
February 09 2011, 12:27PM
I prefer 55378008 to 37818.


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The Drovers outshot their opponent 17-3 in the game but were not able to find the goal again.
Junior Ryan Mcentee started for the Drovers and recorded a save. Teammate Bryan Byars finished the game at keeper.
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22 May 2012 - All Members of the G8, during a meeting at Camp David in the United States, have thrown their collective support behind a new international effort to phase-down so-called short lived climate pollutants. Research indicates that pollutants such as black carbon, methane and some fluorinated gases know as HFCs are not only aggravating climate change but several are responsible for over 2.5 million premature deaths annually and millions of tonnes of crop losses. The Climate and Clean Air Coalition was launched in February by six countries-Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United States-with the UN Environment Programme as a partner and host of its secretariat. In April the membership expanded to 13 with the enrollment of Colombia, Japan, Nigeria, Norway and the European Commission along with the World Bank. 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