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Canucks Team Needs: Depth Defenceman
Thomas Drance
June 19 2013 11:23AM
Aaron "The Prototype" Rome
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It's "Canucks team needs" week here at Canucks Army and already we've taken a look at some options the Canucks might have to improve their bottom-six centre depth, and their secondary scoring this offseason. Let's turn our attention to the blue-line, supposedly a strength of this club.
While the Canucks arguably lack a dominant "1A defenceman," there should be no doubt that in Kevin Bieksa, Alex Edler, Dan Hamhuis and Jason Garrison the Vancouver Canucks have four very good top-four guys. In Chris Tanev, who is a restricted free-agent this summer, and Frank Corrado, Vancouver's system has some intriguing young depth as well. What the Canucks lacked a year ago, as evidenced by the fourteen games Cam Barker played, was credible defensive depth. It's an issue likely to be exacerbated this summer by the probable departure of unrestricted free-agent Andrew Alberts and expensive liability Keith Ballard.
Wither Aaron Rome? We'll break it all down after the jump.
Late last season, when the Canucks called up twenty-six year old journeyman Derek Joslin, assistant General Manager Laurence Gilman explained the move in a Team1040 interview. He gave Matt Sekeres and Blake Price a really interesting quote actually, one that elaborated on the organization's philosophy as it pertains to depth blue-liners:
"Well, I've said it many times that a competitive team like ours, if you want to build a team that has a chance you've gotta have depth on the blueline. When we set out to build the team we billed our model with 8 defenseman on the NHL side, but we also sought out players who were going to be 9th, 10th, 11th guys who had the ability to play in the NHL. Derek's a good example.
He's a guy who over the last number of years has played up and down in the NHL... he's an effective guy and he's a safe bet to come up and pitch in if we need it. I mean he's a credible, serviceable depth NHL player."
All told, Mike Gillis's quest for defensive depth is a long standing theme of his tenure as Cancuks General Manager. This has been by necessity, after all the team has employed Sami Salo for the majority of Gillis's tenure. Ultimately the Canucks haven't used fewer than ten different defenceman in any season since 2008-09 (when they still used nine different blue-liners).
Heading into this summer, and assuming that Keith Ballard and Andrew Alberts have played their last games in a Canucks uniform, the team is only seven defenceman deep along the blue-line (Hamhuis, Garrison, Edler, Bieksa, Tanev (RFA), Corrado, Joslin (RFA)). The club re-signed AHL puck mover Patrick Mullen to a two-way deal on Tuesday, but beyond that we get into names like "Peter Andersson" and "Adam Polasek" among a handful of others players who are a stretch to imagine credibly chewing up minutes along an NHL blueline.
Barring some creative scouting, Vancouver's defensive depth will probably sustain a modest hit this summer (in addition to the hit they sustained last summer). You can talk all you want about the limited marginal utility of a seventh and eighth defenceman but this is an issue for the Canucks. Think about it, the Canucks leaned on Cam Barker in thirty percent of their games last season and were left in a position where they essentially had to burn a year(*) off of Frank Corrado's entry-level contract.
(*) Burning a year of Frank Corrado's entry-level deal was unfortunate, and something that almost certainly doesn't happen if Chris Tanev is healthy. It was, however, absolutely the right call.
Look, I know that Aaron Rome was the Joey Fatone of the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks. But ultimately his presence was sorely missed last season, even though he's in no way worth 1.5 million per season for a cap ceiling team like Vancouver.
In three seasons with the Canucks, Rome was an effective and versatile utility defenceman as you'll find in the National Hockey League. You could feed him defensive zone starts, play him with literally any other defenceman on the roster, lean on him in a second or third pairing role, and count on him to adjust seamlessly between the left and right sides. In addition to bringing that sort of versatility, Aaron Rome would essentially come out even by the possession data. He wasn't fast and he took a lot of penalties, but he was a glue guy who could fill in, be trusted to make the safe play and take the body.
The Canucks signed Aaron Rome to a two-way deal after his age 25 season, a season in which he appeared in only 8 games for Columbus in a third pairing role. He'd played in 26 NHL games in his career to that point, and his small sample underlying data was nothing special.
Rome had a productive offensive season as a twenty year old in the CHL, and consistently demonstrated some surprising offensive pop in the American Hockey League (in fact he scored six goals in seven games with the Manitoba Moose in 09-10). So there were some signs that he was skilled enough to handle himself in the National Hockey League.
Rome went on to play nearly two-thousand five hundred minutes for the Canucks over three seasons, providing extraordinary value considering the cost of his two Vancouver deals. He also spent more than one-hundred even-strength minutes with eight(!) different Canucks defenceman over three seasons (Ballard, Bieksa, Tanev, Salo, Hamhuis, Alberts, Edler and Ehrhoff), a testament to both Rome's versatility and the collective inability of Canucks defenceman to stay healthy.
So how does one find a comparable depth piece to Aaron Rome on the open market? It's not an exact science, and it's almost certainly not a trick that the Canucks can just snap their fingers and replicate. I'd think that the key is to take a risk on a group six free-agent, a player with some NHL experience but whose prime years are still ahead of him(*).
(*) Remember when the Canucks played Marc-Andre Gragnani down the stretch so that he'd qualify as a restricted free-agent? Restricted Free Agents are "Group 2" Free Agents, while players aged 25 or older who haven't played in at least 80 NHL games over three professional seasons - like Marc-Andre Gragnani in 2011/12 - are "Group 6."
This is just another one of the many tasks facing Mike Gillis and the Canucks front office this summer, but to their credit, they've been pretty good at identifying helpful players at the fringes of the NHL in the past (Tambellini, Tanev, Ebbett, Volpatti, Weise, Wellwood etc.).
Possible In-House Options
Derek Joslin is okay, I guess.
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Frank Corrado
In the Laurence Gilman quote that leads off the "Diagnosis" section of this piece, Vancouver's Assistant General Manager says that the Canucks look to have eight defenceman at the NHL level, in addition to having 9th, 10th, 11th guys who have the chops to fill in on the NHL roster, but spend the majority of their time in the American Hockey League. Corrado proved down the stretch a year ago that he's not out of place in a third-pairing role at the NHL level. Still, in an ideal world he's going to spend his age 20 season logging major minutes in Utica, as opposed to being a regular at optional skates and occassionally filling in on the third-pairing.
Though the Canucks have used (not burned, used) the first year of Corrado's entry-level contract, the priority with his usage next season should still be on "player development" as opposed to "helpful depth."
Derek Joslin
I hadn't realized this at the outset of writing this post, but the Canucks will retain Derek Joslin's rights as a restricted free-agent so long as they tender him a qualifying offer later this month.
That's good news, and Joslin makes some sense as an eighth or ninth defenceman on the depth-chart. Joslin has been a pretty abysmal possession player at the NHL level over the past few seasons, though the underlying data looks worse because of the time he spent as a fourth-line forward in Carolina during the 2011-12 campaign. Joslin is 26, so there's still some room for improvement. He's been a productive offensive player at the OHL and AHL levels, and he's versatile enough to fill in on the either the right of left point (though he's best suited to the left-side).
Peter Andersson
I still don't really see Andersson as an NHL caliber prospect, certainly not without significant improvements to his skating. He's another guy who, if he's going to make it in the National Hockey League, probably needs to be getting burn in the American Hockey League as opposed to being a taxi squad regular.
Yann Sauve
I'll be curious to see if Sauve even gets a qualifying offer this summer, or if the Canucks just cut him loose. I wouldn't be surprised either way. I doubt that he's ready to be a semi-regular fill in on a third pairing at the NHL level.
The Open Market
You could do worse than Tyson Strachan.
Image via wikimedia commons.
There are a few interesting bets the Canucks could make with Group 6 free-agents on the open market, and a couple of pretty solid older depth guys as well. The Canucks need to fill out the Utica Comets roster this summer anyway, and once they've tendered qualifying offers to players we expect to recieve them (Kellen Lain Chris Tanev, Darren Archibald, Dale Weise, Jordan Schreoder and maybe Derek Joslin, Yann Sauve and Bill Sweatt) they'll have space to add roughly ten additional contracts before hitting the 50 deal max. So they can afford to take a couple of swings at some of the depth defenders on the market.
We'd also mention that the names available could, and probably will, change between now and July 5th. There are surely some defenceman around the league whom teams will use compliance buyouts on. Buyout candidates could be another source of bargain bin shopping items for the Canucks.
In terms of relatively known quantities there are guys like Adam Pardy, Mark Fistric, Ryan O'Byrne, Scott Hannan, Tyson Strachan and Mike Kostka available on the market this summer. These are the sorts of players who, I'm sure, will be looking for top-six jobs but are probably better suited to being seventh or eighth defenceman.
There's also our old pal Dylan Reese.
In terms of group six free-agents with limited track records, guys who might be worth gambling on, there's the likes of Bobby Sanguinetti, Taylor Chorney, Ty Wishart, Brett Bellemore, Chris Summers, and Matt Pelech.
In terms of the "known quantities" I actually quite like Tyson Strachan's game. A BCHL veteran, Strachan has posted some auspicious possession numbers during his time in Florida and has a wealth of NHL experience. He's a right-handed shot and primarily a right-side defenceman, but he's spent nearly three-hundred minutes with Brian Campbell over the past few seasons (Campbell most commonly plays the right side) so he might bring some versatility.
In terms of the "local boys" (Mark Fistric, Ryan O'Byrne and Scott Hannan) I think you'd have to be pretty happy with any of them if they signed at an affordable clip to be a seventh or eighth defender. I don't think that's particularly likely, however, considering the high demand for and non-existent supply of defenceman on the open market.
In terms of fit, Fistric is a bit of a liability at five-on-five but the former Giant is a solid penalty killer and draws an awful lot of penalties somehow. Ryan O'Byrne is a massive right-handed shot who has been over his head for years and was exposed again on Toronto's third-pairing during the 2012 postseason. As a seventh or eighth guy though, you could do a lot worse (and by a lot worse, I mean the Canucks could re-sign Cam Barker).
I thought Scott Hannan was basically finished coming out of the lockout - the 2004-05 lockout - but he played credible minutes alongside Brad Stuart against the Canucks and the Sharks in the postseason this spring. Hannan has bounced around of late, playing for three different teams over the last two years and signing consecutive one-year contracts. If the Canucks were to offer him an affordable two year deal to be their seventh or eighth defender and finish his career close to home, I wouldn't get upset about it.
Adam Pardy was signed to a hilarious deal by Darcy Regier following the 2011-12 season, and he's back on the market and looking at a Full Metal Jacket buzzcut this summer. Like most of the guys we've discussed here, he's not "the answer" or anything to Vancouver's blue-line depth question, but he's alright. Also he'd be good to have on the team from my perspective just for the MSTRKRFT jokes: "ALL I DO IS PARDY AH AH AH AH!"
In terms of the group six guys, Bobby Sanguinetti is probably the most desirable. The twenty-five year old has forty-five games of NHL experience under his belt, and played most of this past season with the Hurricanes. Deployed in extremely soft minutes, Sanguinetti was at least able to maintain possession though the percentages were none to kind to him (which accounts for his -6). I'm sure he'll have suitors on the open market this summer, and he's a reasonable enough bet to be a useful offensive specialist depth guy.
Ty Wishart is a former 16th overall pick and at 6,4 and a couple bucks twenty he could replace some of the heft the team may lose if Andrew Alberts hits the open market. He has twenty-six games of NHL experience and while he didn't particularly impress in any of those contests, he might be worth taking a chance on. Brett Bellemore is another player in that mold, though he's also significantly less experienced. Same goes for Matt Pelech, who is the nephew of Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis. With roles to fill in Utica, these group six guys may make sense on two-way contracts.
The Trade Market
We know Jeff Schultz is available (albeit expensive). At 2.75 million against the cap for next season, his contract doesn't make a lot of sense for the Canucks, but at 1.325 (if Washington agreed to retain half of his cap-hit and salary)? Of course, Jeff Schultz is a plodding defender and not all that good.
Depending on who decides to "sell" at the draft, there could be other, better defenders available. It's probably not worth forfeiting any sort of asset - including a late round pick - to add a seventh or eighth defenceman, however.
There just isn't much available in-house or on the open market in terms of credible depth defenceman this offseason. The Canucks are going to have to get creative to address this particular need, I reckon, and I'd at least expect them to qualify Derek Joslin and gamble on a group six free-agent. If they can bring in a Scott Hannan or a Tyson Strachan that would be helpful, but it might not be realistic depending on the asking price and Vancouver's salary cap situation.
More from the "Canucks Team Needs" series:
What about Jordie Benn?
Do you think Garrison will play the right side again next season?
Using Corrado's first ELC year on the playoff run absolutely was the right move.
However, the fact that a 2011 draft pick usurped Sauve, Connauton, Andersson and other selections from the 2008-2010 draft class speaks volumes about the lack of organizational depth. Not to mention supplanting Ballard.
It's no different than Jensen catching up to Kassian in the battle for a top 9 winger job and Gaunce catching up (in the minds of the organization, at least) to Schroeder for the 3rd line centre job.
Finding utility defenceman seems akin to finding replacement level pitching to fill out a AAA roster and/or compete for the last bullpen job in spring training.
Is there any proper way to do it?
As important as depth is, it seems more or less like a crapshoot.
Rome was good. Barker was not. Alberts started off poorly but improved.
The main thing Gillis can do to improve the depth of the 10-14 forwards and the 7/8 defenseman is to create cap space. Easier said than done, though.
"However, the fact that a 2011 draft pick usurped Sauve, Connauton, Andersson and other selections from the 2008-2010 draft class speaks volumes about the lack of organizational depth. Not to mention supplanting Ballard.
It's no different than Jensen catching up to Kassian in the battle for a top 9 winger job and Gaunce catching up (in the minds of the organization, at least) to Schroeder for the 3rd line centre job."
This could also be interpreted as an organizational improvement in the ability to scout and draft players.
But I do agree about the lack of depth.
You're right. It could be interpreted that way.
Though I'd argue it's more an indictment of the usage of draft picks from 2008-2010 and the Canucks cap crunch than the emergence of Gaunce, Jensen & Corrado.
Frankly, all 3 of those guys should probably start in the minors next year on a contending team.
I'm hoping it's both.
I'm pretty optimistic about Henrik Tommernes coming over next year. He's been very productive in the SEL. Getting very good reviews. 23 years old Might be a nice surprise at camp.
June 19 2013, 03:42PM
I expect the Canucks to re-sign Alberts (2 years 3million) and have him play 3rd pairing with Tanev. So they slightly increase his salary but keep it manageable. Corrado will then hopefully, as he should, play a lot of minutes in Utica.
After all, if they don't resign Alberts, do the Canucks expect to find a suitable replacement at a cheaper price? Not going to happen! So you better sign what you know that you've got! Also he plays left side so the Top-4 can be made up by our top 4 guys.
Of course, this is under the assumption that Ballard will be traded, waived or bought out.
I wonder what Alberts will be asking for anyway, I'm not sure he's done in Vancouver.
Also, might the Ducks buy out Allen? His stock has got to be pretty low, which might help him to sign cheap if he is bought out. I think he could still be a 6th, 7th defenseman.
It's not that there are no D prospects, it's just that most of them will need another year or two to develop into budding NHLers. These are the D guys next season in Utica: Andersson, Price, Polasek, Tommernes, Joslin, Mullen and Sauve (I think thei give him one more chance to prove himself), so far. Assuming that Corrado stays in Vancouver (I agree, probably should be in Utica). They will need more, but Vancouver doesn't have to sign them. It should be Utica signing a couple more vets. Of course, that can't happen until they have a GM in place!
And, I also think it would be wise to keep Alberts (at a reasonable salary, say, up to 1.3 mil). Better the depth D you know (warts and all!), and is proven his utility, rather than taking a chance on yet another unproven depth guy (hello Barker!).
I think we will see a revolving door next season of prospects coming up from Utica. With a real full season, there will be lots of opportunities to show their worth, not to mention a training camp and pre-season!
Like Lapierre, Alberts may want to test the free agent market in search of a bigger role and payday.
Perhaps he feels he can get 2 years and $4 million from an average team as a #6 defenseman.
Not sure the Canucks can compete with that.
The Canucks need a defenseman. The Canucks need a power forward. Th Canucks need to trade Luongo. the Canucks need a good GM and a good coach. The Canucks need this and need that...how long have they been saying that? Meanwhile everyone else just quietly goes about their way "doing" something about what they need. Gillis hasn't even hired a coach yet, because if he hires a good coach, chances are he'll be exposed and gone for the inept team he's mismanaged.
The day the Canucks stop saying what they need and start making moves towards it will be the day they stop becoming what NJ was, a mickey mouse organization. The Canucks over pay over rated players, while they are too cheap to pay for real grit and heart, and while they destroy the draft picks they get or trade them away. Look at Chara, Boston saw how he could be a better player with using his attributes while ottawa made the worse trade of the century trading him because like the Canucks, if a player doesn't fit in with a system, they get traded away..ala Cam Neely.
Great teams develop and mentor players, bad teams like the Nucks trade them away or piss them off to the point where they're demanding to be traded. And that's just one of the Nucks many problems.There's no point talking about what they need when nothing ever gets done about it, is there?
June 19 2013, 10:07PM
Jeremy Price is an intriguing option (though depth guy). He should sign a contract w/ Nucks this summer, unless he pulls a Schultz.
Dylan Reese signed with the KHL for 2013/14. Which totally sucks cause he would have been a great cheap option.
I also like Lovejoy, Kostka. I really like Drewiskie, but Mtl re-signed him for cheap. All have decent undelrying #'s. Also like Citsome and Corvo if they could come cheap.
"Look, I know that Aaron Rome was the Joey Fatone of the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks. But ultimately his presence was sorely missed last season, even though he's in no way worth 1.5 million per season for a cap ceiling team like Vancouver."
I'm not normally one to gripe over the past but it's offseason and i just can't help myself...
This is not a critiscm on you Drance, but how the F-word can we say that Rome is in no way worth $1.5M when Ballard sits in the pressbox during the SCF 2 years ago making $4M+, and still has a job 2 years later!?
It's a tough pill to swallow when i hear how the Canucks couldn't afford Christian Ehrhoff or Aaron Rome the raises they deserved, who were both excellent fits on 1st place teams, and yet Keith Ballard retains his spot on the payroll.
And i do like Ballard, it just baffles me how MG & co. justify letting those 2 defenceman go for cap reasons while at the same time paying Ballard million$ to practice. Not a game, practice. We're talkin about practice. Not a game.. cause he was a healthy scratch.
That is all.
@gunfish the Ballard deal sucked but wasn't a primary reason for the loss of Ehrhoff or Rome, frankly.
On what are you basing this?
If Ballard were not around, there would have been far greater financial flexibility to retain Ehrhoff.
The Canucks may very well have never met Ehrhoff's demands. But it would have been far easier to make him a competitive offer to remain in the Canucks' top 4 if Ballard was not sucking up $4.2 million in cap space as a utility defenseman.
If Ballard were not around, Rome would have fit perfectly as the #6 defenseman.
We can quibble on Ehrhoff. But Tanev, Rome & Alberts would have been a cost effective way to fill out the #5-7 defenseman slots and the savings could have been reinvested in the forward group.
Same goes for Lou. Obviously.
barker is a proven D-man, just a proven bad d-man.
I'm not sure what he meant in regards to Rome but it wasn't the cap hit that prevented the Canucks from re-signing Ehrhoff, it was the 10-year term.
barker is a proven D-man, just a proven bad d-man.
Lol. Well I guess he's got that.
barker is a proven D-man, just a proven bad d-man.
Good one!
I'm not sure what he meant in regards to Rome but it wasn't the cap hit that prevented the Canucks from re-signing Ehrhoff, it was the 10-year term.
The 10 year term is what he received from Buffalo. It has little to do with his negotiations with Vancouver.
In reality, it is a 7 year $37 million contract. The last 3 years are simply to keep the cap hit low.
To keep it simple, let's say that Ehrhoff wouldn't give the Canucks a penny of a discount and wanted a 7 year $37 million contract. That works out to around a $5.3 million cap hit.
In 2011-2012, the Canucks spent $6.2 million on Ballard ($4.2) and Salo ($2). Instead, they could have spent the exact same $6.2 million on Ehrhoff ($5.3) and Tanev ($0.9) in the starting 6.
Of course, they also could have done a 10 year $40 million deal to keep the cap hit low. I'd also suggest that Ehrhoff may very well have signed for a touch less in Vancouver than Buffalo even if it was above what Gillis wanted to pay.
This past season, the Canucks spent $8.8 million on Garrison ($4.6) & Ballard ($4.2). Instead, they could have spent $6.8 million on Ehrhoff ($5.3 million) & Rome ($1.5 million) while using the savings to bolster the forward group.
Same goes for trading Lou obviously.
It's also noteworthy that Garrison's contract expires at the same time as Ehrhoff's "real" contract expires.
Not to mention that there was no way of knowing after the cup run that Garrison would be available or even desirable one year later.
I agree, and I think the Canucks could have accommodated the $5.3 million cap hit even with Ballard on the roster (even though letting him go would've made more sense).
If I remember correctly, even seven years would've been too long for Gillis at the time. Can't really see how Edler's new six-year deal is much different, though.
can't imagine 7 years being too long for Gillis when he sign Lu to 12...
"Can't really see how Edler's new six-year deal is much different, though."
It's pretty much the same thing. Espescially considering he signed prior to this shortened season. In effect, the Canucks gave him 7 years of financial security by adding on 6 years 1 year earlier than necessary.
I don't blame Gillis for not retaining Ehrhoff. I just don't like the narrative that "Ballard's cap hit has not prevented the Canucks from addressing other areas."
Because it absolutely has.
I don't remember it exactly but it seems like he was trying to hold Ehrhoff to a Bieksa-type deal.
I found this quote:
"We're still taking about different possibilities, but like I said earlier, playing on this team is more important than individual compensation," Gillis said. "That's our expectation with everybody. It works with some but it may not work with others. I can't tell you what I expect.
"We'll just see how it goes. If he's unwilling to accept what we think is fair and allows us to be competitive, we'll go in a different direction."
This seems less about Ballard and more about Gillis.
But he didn't follow the "playing on this team is more important than individual compensation" rule with Luongo.
He also didn't follow the $4.6 million "cap" on Canucks defenseman with Edler's recent deal.
And all of this has to be taken in the context of wasting $4.2 million on a utility defenseman.
It's all about opportunity cost. The money/cap space devoted to Ballard was money that could not be spent elsewhere.
If Ballard were not on the roster, a more competitive offer to Ehrhoff would have been possible while trying to maintain depth in other areas.
Do you think a more competitive offer would've been offered if Ballard wasn't on the the roster?
I think Ballard's contract cost the Canucks in other areas but I don't think he was what prevented Gillis from re-signing Ehrhoff.
I certainly think the Canucks would have had the ABILITY to offer more to Ehrhoff if not for Ballard.
Instead, they spent $4.6 on Bieksa & $2 mil on Salo.
It would have been difficult to fit in Ehrhoff on top of that when the cap was $64 million at the time (if I am not mistaken).
OK, we can just disagree on this then.
June 21 2013, 04:20PM
I think we retain Alberts as a depth guy. The odd journeyman is not too tough to find and Gillis has done a decent job there.
The main concern is up front and the new coach. We could see a shift in team philosophy. At D, we need to have a good top 4 and, if Corrado develops, should have a good top 6.


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Skip to comments.Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants
Posted on 06/19/2013 8:21:47 PM PDT by lbryce
President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.
Electric power plants are the largest single source of global warming pollution in the country, responsible for nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. With sweeping climate legislation effectively dead in Congress, the decision on existing power plants which a 2007 Supreme Court decision gave to the executive branch has been among the most closely watched of Mr. Obamas second term.
The administration has already begun steps to restrict climate-altering emissions from any newly built power plants, but imposing carbon standards on the existing utility fleet would be vastly more costly and contentious.
The president is preparing to move soon because rules as complex as those applying to power plants can take years to complete. Experts say that if Mr. Obama hopes to have a new set of greenhouse gas standards for utilities in place before he leaves office he needs to begin before the end of this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But au contraire; the President doesn't care about science, proof,or the validity to limits on power plants. He's mind is already made up so please don't confuse him with about what he wants to do.
So, here now is the culmination of his first term's work laying the ground work in which America's ability as the world's largest economy is very likely to see productivity hampered, more jobs being lost,never to return, Obama's plan to destroy America begins with the curtailment of power plants idled due to some utterly disingenuous, totally fraudulent conspiracy to destroy America's economic, military might and the curtailment of the bountiful cornucopia America has enjoyed for so many decades.
It's so utterly transparent at how rigged, this global warming libel against America has no other purpose but the deliberate destruction America.
"global warming pollution"
The most pollution we get is from the LIBS and this POS...
See y'all around the campfire. It'll be the only way to see or stay warm. But then again...no wood burning, comrade!
Energy prices will rise. Thanks pal. We appreciate the heck out of that. Just a hint. You CAN'T control the weather. Hello.......
Coal & natural gas burning power plants are hard pressed to meet the recently enacted rules on emissions due to costs & difficulties in designing & installing scrubbers to take out co2 & other emissions.
Double up on rules & we will have plants shutting down, higher rates & brown outs. The economy will tank and jobless will sit home with no TV, heat or AC.
The bastard.
fubo you are not the lawmaking branch of government. fubo straight to hell.
Agenda 21 in action, completely out of the closet. It's probably too late to stop this stuff. They've been laying the foundations since June, 1941, the date of the Inter-Allied Declaration. If anyone bothers to read Diana West's new book "American Betrayal: the Secret Assault on our Nation's Character" they'll learn who was behind it and how it all came to be.
We are all just in a holding patterns aren't we?
Young people are leaving him; Bush's approval is higher than his.
He always does this when he gets hit hard. When he got in trouble over Benghazi he announced anew he would seek to close Guantanamo to get his people back on board.
Give us a clue.
It's probably not Professor Moriarty.
Yep...and he's been clamoring for the nations to get back on the Climate Change Global Warming Band wagon...so not surprising.
We are going down I'm afraid...the nation cannot continue to handle the economic drag much longer and ObamaCare will do us further that decline... Already companies are taking people to part-time...and other businesses will simply fold.....So adding Carbon Taxation onto the Limited Companies we'll have left in the US will simply take us further into the gutter.
They should just cut to the chase and make it illegal to combine any elements on the periodic table in any way, without a license, payment of fees for processing said license, and sufficiently burdensome taxes to discourage elemental manipulation directly or indirectly for profit. Any such process would be exempt insofar as it can be shown to contribute to political party coffers and agents of those parties.
I don't think any of that is going to make much difference as he's moving forward hot and heavy regardless....and Congress can't begin to move fast enough to stop him.
Executive orders apply ONLY to the Executive Branch. Nobody else has to give a crap about them.
Virginia and Pennsylvania gave him the votes to do it!
Duh!!! They also are the single largest source of electricity.
Hummmm. What's the game plan here? Tank the economy or make someone very wealthy?
Could be both. Probably is both.
Move to Europe Ass clown Obama!...
This will not help sales of the coal-powered Chevy Dolt.
And how many tens of billions does Obama Motors owe us taxpayers after all these years for union benefits?
With interest?
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stupid ass Republicans say nothing
One of the most amusing (but alarming) ironies is that the Greenies are pushing electric cars while simultaneously forcing the cost of electricity to unbelievable highs. My electric bill has more than doubled in the past three years and I'm told that's just the beginning.
Did you ever get the idea this isn't about anything other than cash flow out of our pockets into theirs... and where they want to "wash it".
When will breathing be outlawed?
The Big O did not lie...at least about this.
During his first campaign he said "Under his plan, electricity prices would necessarily increase". Paraphrasing his blather.
And his followers ignored or cheered.
I fear we are sooo out of luck.
I dont think any of that is going to make much difference as hes moving forward hot and heavy regardless....and Congress cant begin to move fast enough to stop him.
You're right. He's overwhelming any opposition.
[[you are not the lawmaking branch of government. fubo straight to hell.]]
sorry to say, but yes he is now because the axctual lawmaking branch ALLOW him to be by NOT stadnign up to him liek they should, and liek we HIRE them to do
These businesses could fight this IF they were willing enough to do so by REFUSING to pay the extra money, then refusign to pay the fines- but htey would ALL have to do so as one to be effective- they coudl also threaten to withhold their federal tax dollars claimign that the person they hired is NOT doign hte job he was HIRED/elected to do, and has isnteasd turned his aggressiosn o nthe peopel and busiensses with NO reason for doign so-
But of course, the businesses wil lsimpyl comply best they can, be forced out of busienss when they can nol onger affiord the soaring prices-
OK. During WWII he was propagandized to the American public as a kindly, pipe-smoking "Uncle" with a handlebar moustache. And that was after our politicians knew he had overseen the deliberate starvation genocide of as many as 10 million Ukranians and the assassinations of thousands of his own loyalists.
Meanwhile his spy and disinformation networks riddled the Roosevelt administration and maneuvered it into helping him enslave the bulk of Eastern Europe behind an Iron Curtain. They even helped him get uranium for his A-bomb development during the war before we'd developed our own bomb. Does that help?
Yep....and our side can only play enough cards in hopes of retaining their seats. That's about the only thing they can do at this point. ...or stall what they can.
The biggest problem is this adminsitration, and powers from other countries, and behind the scenes, are pushing another agenda that has nothing to do with welfare of our country....they are milking us dry while they use our revenues to establish the countries who will get on the Global band wagon.....then they'll be done with us.
It's now wonder all the wealthy,elites and politicians are arranging homes and villas overseas....when we fall they'll continue elsewhere. Same with companies getting out....they all see it coming.
It looks like it won't be long before Barack the Kenyan has us choosing whether to pay our health insurance premiums or the light bill. Thanks low information voters! You done good! ***holes!
Good points. The United States is being set up for the greatest hit in history. And nobody will come to help us.
Everything is revenge with this guy. Obama minions: your God Obama is petty.
<....The United States is being set up for the greatest hit in history. And nobody will come to help us.....>
In all honesty...we set ourselves up...when we turned our back on God...and the evidence is in.
We now accept all manner of sexual perversion....We take the life of the unborn children among us and call it a "right". .....homosexuality and all manner of deviate practices are being taught to our children while we kicked God out of our schools....we've allowed every pagan religion to practice in this once Christian nation which God gave us to Honor Him "Only". Not to mention that "truth" is no longer being allowed to be heard.
Why wouldn't God Judge this nation?
I've thought that since I was about 16 years old. Woodstock was my wake up notice.
God is now saying that "You no longer want me, go fend for yourselves."
Maybe the answer is for all of us to 'move' to the West coast and push all the democrates into the sea?.... Leave the New England states for all the perverts to live in colonies, along with the prison systems.
Woodstock should have woken everybody up....and it's now those very people running our nation!...and they outsourced the rest of them overseas to "change" their worlds accordingly!
They fail to realize that God defines and establishes boundaries to the nations. He is the one who determines when a nation ceases to exist...and when they prosper.
This administration and the world Globalists think they are in control....they will in time have not only a rude awakening of who has been their 'standard' bearer....but will 'see' their utter contempt and disdain for the God of our Fathers.
That's right.
{I wouldn't want to be in Obama's shoes}.
Obama doesn't worry about repercussions or he wouldn't be doing things in the way he's doing them. He'll just keep the spigot open to the low end voters and unemployed, who are his greatest fear if that spigot was turned off, while he marches he and his co-hurts forward....while the rest of us fund his course.
Obama doesnt worry about repercussions ...........
That's because he is pure evil and has no conscience or care because the end justifies the means to him.
The man is demonically controlled.
Do you think he'll continue to get away with all his treachery?
He has 3.5 years to continue...and yes he will likely continue to out run Congress and duck until his time is up. That doesn't mean some of his people will not take the fall for him....but so far none of those close to him have been barely touched let alone go down....I'm certain there are many who will take any hit for him.
'Increase' isn't punitive enough. He used the word "Skyrocket".
I won't go that far...he's just void of conscious because he has chosen to be. It's the Chicago way.
Oh, he's very evil.
Naw....he's just a pawn-ite in the scheme of things....now his wife is another story!...and his side kick Valerie!
"Its probably too late to stop this stuff. Theyve been laying the foundations since June, 1941"
He's evil!
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Claire is a 20-something, single mom who grudgingly helps her best friend sell sex toys while she attempts to make enough money to start her own business to give her foul-mouthed, but extremely loveable (when he's asleep) toddler a better life.
When Carter, the one-night-stand from her past that changed her life forever, shows up in her hometown bar without any recollection of her besides her unique chocolate scent, Claire will make it a point that he remembers her this time.
With Carter's undisguised shock at suddenly finding out he has a four-year-old son and Claire's panic that her stretch marks and slim-to-none bedroom experience will send the man of her dreams heading for the hills, the pair will do whatever they can to get their happily ever after.
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This was one of the funniest books I have ever listened to. Claire was so funny and Gavin was also Claire and Carter had a one night stand when she was in college and got pregnant Carter spend 5 years trying to remember the girl who smelt like chocolate. I loved listening to this book and can't wait to listen to the rest of this series.
"bring 'em on - fun loved it!"
I read this and shared it with some friends but listening to it was even better. I loved the narrateor = she was very spot on with just giving it to us and that's what I like best about this book. - it's really surprising and just gives you a lot of stuff you don't expect that makes you laugh and feel good.
she added a lot of life to the comedy
"One of the best I've heard"
This book was great. Laughed from start to finish. This is definitely one to listen to again.
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Loved the narrator. She added just the right tone of wryness to the characters and was very believable.
"Engaging and fun read for gym workout."
Story was interesting, fun and light. Another great read for time on the elliptical. Only complaint is the almost constant blasphemy when there are less distracting ways to express emphasis, surprise, excitement....Don't call heaven unless you really need to.
Laugh out loud till you can no longer breath and have tears running down your face funny! The most hilarious book I have ever read!
Warnings: This book contains a lot of profanity, rude remarks, sexual undertones, sex toys, chocolate, violence, drinking, and drugs.
This book is not for those who lack a sense of humor or those who are uptight!
Now that is out of the way. Let me tell you to GRAB this book now if you are the types of person who can handle all the warnings. You will not regret this book at all. You will laugh like you have never laughed before. I imagine that everyone can relate to this book in one of the many LOL moments, rather it be things you may have thought or things you may have wanted to say to someone but was too nice to say them.
The characters are loveable but are no holds bars with their way of speech. I think these characters could even make sailors blush. (Cruse like a sailor) remember those words because sailors aint got nothing on this group!
This book starts of with Claire who is a virgin, one night at a college party she meets a guy and decides its time to pop her cherry. From there the laughs begin. I do not want to go into to much of the story so I will stop there. The story is written to where you know what they are thinking inside of their heads ( you know those thoughts you say to yourself but never dare say out loud since its no PC) yeah!!! Then you have those random thoughts that you think so loud that they pop out your mouth and every one's jaws hit the floor! LMAO!!!!
This book is all kinds of crazy ass fun! A laugh a minute that one can not ever regret. If you love comedy and/or America's funniest videos, I highly suggest you pick up this book.
"So frikkin' funny n' great narration!"
Romy is da bomb! She was sooooo on it with all the different characters and funny situations - very believable and usually I'm sort of turned off by a lot of audible narrators cause they sound like they're on pbs or something but I just really liked how real romy made everything and I really related to the characters.
"Hot & Sweet"
This story is hilarious! It had me laughing all the time. Love a author with a sense of humor, definitely worth the credit :)
I recommended to a friend who loved this book as much as I love it! It was an accidental find on a boring evening Audible search and I'm so glad! I enjoyed every word!
I completely relate to the main character, Claire! Her humorous outlook on parenthood, friendship, relationships and life in general is so familiar. I can see myself spending time with this group of friends and I had a great time getting to know all of the characters.
Claire and I are kindred spirits, but Gavin was probably my fave. Romy did an amazing job bringing the characters and the story to life!
Drew and his t-shirts were a lot of fun and I looked forward to his daily wardrobe selections. Jenny and her misuse of the English language was a good time!
I am so glad I stumbled upon this series and I will definitely listen again!
"So so funny !!"
I loved all of it!
She had a gift in delivering the story in a comical cadence.
Yes - I laughed through the whole thing!
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""[W]hile we can't stop the earth from turning, we can choose to experience each revolution so deeply and completely that even the dark becomes luminous…"
—Starhawk, in The Spiral Dance
At first glance, it might seem odd to spend the longest night of the year celebrating the return of the sun. It's dark. The days are short and cold. The warmth of the summer sun seems hidden in the fuzziness of your memory as you sit huddled around the wood stove, wrapped in a blanket and wearing two pairs of old, faithful socks.
For many of our Pagan ancestors, this was the essence of the winter solstice mystery.
With lives rooted deeply in the rhythm of the seasons, they were dependent upon the reliability of their gods and goddesses to once again return the sun and its greening of the Earth. This night, the turning point from darkness to light, was more than just a metaphorical reflection on the meaning of winter; it was a choice between life or death — confronted with dances, songs, and other offerings given through the long, dark night to the Divine to coax the return of the sun gods to bless the Earth once again.
Now, sitting here at my computer typing up thoughts on my own understanding of the solstice eve, I'm a bit of a scientist. I know that tomorrow morning the sun is going to rise whether I stay up all night or crash deeply into a loud snore within minutes of writing this sentence. I understand how the seasons work and trust in their consistency.
Somehow, though, our society has lost touch with this understanding of cycle in its other expressions. When we feel alone and unpartnered, misunderstood or misaligned, can we hold the vigil, even then, chanting and dancing in our otherwise silent lives, confidently awaiting the return of love? When we struggle to make ends meet, staring anxiously at the bank balance or pink slip, can we remember to keep our dreams awake, and refuse to hand them over to the darkness? When we are holed up in the depths of our own misery and desperation, seeing no discernible way out and unable to find enough oxygen for our smothered souls to breathe, how about then? In that heart-crushing place of unparalleled black emptiness, can we, even then, sing songs to the unseen light, trusting in its promise to once again return, in perfect timing, as the seasons of our lives flow?
Tonight, my children are playing in front of a tree full of twinkling lights. A loaf of wheat bread is almost done baking, and spiced apple cider simmers on the stove. Music is playing in my living room, and my children are dancing wildly with the shadows cast by a deliciously scented candle. We've exchanged simple gifts, and, in just a few hours, we'll all bundle up and go outside to stand in awe of the full moon and its beauty.
Through these simple traditions, I'm creating memories and strengthening our family. More than that, though, I'm teaching them how to create a special, warm, bright space in the midst of the freezing darkness. I'm teaching them how to live. I'm teaching them how to honor and trust in the natural cycles of the Earth — cycles that affect not just the planet and seasons, but their lifetimes, their friendships, and their journeys.
Tonight, we talk about the cold, dark, fallow time of the winter, and the return of the sun as it brings us full circle back into the glow of the summer, but the lesson runs much deeper. I remember rock bottom, even though it's been a while. In fact, I remember hitting more than a few times, when I felt as if all I had hoped for in my life had been taken from me — my hopes, my independence, my autonomy and dignity and self-respect. I've been crushed. I've been betrayed. I've been lost. But somehow, in spite of my own shortsighted miseries, I've stuck around long enough to see that it doesn't last forever. The sun returns. Your life eventually cycles back around to fullness, and when it does, it's almost always brighter than before, with a richer palette of colors painted upon the canvas of your life.
I may never tell my children of the experiences that brought these lessons into my life, but in honoring this night, the "rock bottom" of the cycle of the sun, I impress on their hearts the value of the darkness. They are reminded that the sun always returns. We are learning to value the cycle that brings us through each season in turn, and to respect that even in darkness, work is taking place. Fallow soil is preparing for the next go-round. Our hearts are healing. Our ability to experience life fully is deepening. We are learning to experience this part of the revolution of the earth just as fully, and with just as much intensity, strength, and confidence in the darkness to lead us into the light, as we do when the sun is right there before us speaking its truth.
Of all the lessons my children take from our family's winter solstice celebration, this is the one I hope they remember most: even in the midst of the darkness, within you is the luminous glow that will, in perfect timing, spark the return of your joy. Nurture and honor it, always.
C. Hawk Croft lives in Carrboro, North Carolina with her life partner and five children. She reads tarot, makes trouble, tells bad jokes, sings worse karaoke, and enjoys putting unlike things together just to see what happens.
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Shadow Complex is a huge 3D side scroller shoot 'em up game, which by the looks of it has some 3rd person part in as well. (Like the bit with the turret in the trailer) It looks very similar to Undertow, except in SD there is a massive open world. There will be lots of exploration, boss battles and over 120 secrets. There will be an achievement tracker (like in gears of war 2) at the bottom of the screen to tell you our progress. The game will take around 10 - 12 hours to complete. Finally, there will be a levelling system, which is based on exploration.
You play a man with his girlfriend out on a hike. You're girlfriend goes missing. Then you find an underground facility of people who are trying to take over the USA. You're objective is to stop them.
Release date: 19th August 2009
Platform: Xbox 360
Where to get: Xbox Live Marketplace
Price: 1200 Microsoft points ($15/£10.28)
Download Size: 835.4mb
Foam gun (lets you build cover and staircases. It can also destroy mechanisms and freeze enemies.),
Assault rifle
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Triple jump
Climbing gear
Different types of armour
Jet pack/Thruster
Hookshot (Helps you grapple onto things)
Friction Dampener (Gives you super speed)
(Loads more which I haven't heard of yet)
■LET'S GET PUNCHY: Melee 5 soldiers (15)
■BOMBA PUNTER: Punt 20 Bombas (20)
■MY HEAD A-SPLODE: Get 50 head shots (20)
■MAKE 'EM SCREAM: Get 100 soldiers to scream (20)
■TO KILL A BLACKBIRD: Destroy the helicopter attacking the Vice President (15)
■LOOK OUT!: Kill a soldier with a Bomba (5)
■WALKIN' ON WATER: Make it from one end of lake to the other in hyper-speed (5)
■HERO: Complete the game on any difficulty setting (50)
■COMPLETIONIST: Complete the game with 100% of the items (20)
■MINIMALIST: Complete the game with less than 13% of the items (10)
■PROVEN GROUNDS: Complete the Proving Grounds (10)
■SERIOUS COMPLEX: Level-up to experience level 50 (10)
Credit for this Layout goes to Blast at the ChairForums.
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Order of Presidential Succession
According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, the Senate president pro tempore1 was next in line after the vice president to succeed to the presidency, followed by the Speaker of the House.
In 1886, however, Congress changed the order of presidential succession, replacing the president pro tempore and the Speaker with the cabinet officers. Proponents of this change argued that the congressional leaders lacked executive experience, and none had served as president, while six former secretaries of state had later been elected to that office.
The Presidential Succession Act of 1947, signed by President Harry Truman, changed the order again to what it is today. The cabinet members are ordered in the line of succession according to the date their offices were established.
Prior to the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no provision for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. When a president died in office, the vice president succeeded him, and the vice presidency then remained vacant. The first vice president to take office under the new procedure was Gerald Ford, who was nominated by Nixon on Oct. 12, 1973, and confirmed by Congress the following Dec. 6.
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The average home measures around 2,300 square feet (214 square meters), but these properties take space to the extreme, measuring in at 10-40 times the size of a typical house. Take our quiz to test your knowledge of the world's biggest mansions.
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How much was the list price for the Playboy Mansion when it went on sale in 2016?
$100 million
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The Playboy Mansion was listed at $200 million in the spring of 2016, with the condition that the buyer must allow Hugh Hefner to live there until his death.
$300 million
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How much did Hefner spend buying the Playboy Mansion in 1970?
$1 million
Hefner spent just $1 million on the 20,000 square foot (2,000 square meters) mansion in 1970, the highest price ever paid for an Los Angeles mansion at that time.
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$50 million
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What would it cost you to buy Buckingham Palace if it were put up for sale?
$150 million
$1.5 billion
The Nationwide Building Society estimated the palace at $1.56 billion in 2012. It was valued at just $17 million in 1953 when Queen Elizabeth took the throne.
$150 billion
Question 4 of 30
What is the market value of the White House?
$3.2 million
$320 million
The property at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW has an estimated value of $320 million on the open market. Not a bad deal for one of the world's most iconic mansions.
$3.2 billion
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How many rooms does the White House have?
The White House features 132 rooms, including 35 bathrooms, within its 55,000 square feet (5,000 square meters).
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Where can you find Hearst Castle?
Montecito, California
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Built by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Castle is in San Simeon, California.
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Question 7 of 30
How many bedrooms does Hearst Castle have?
Hearst Castle has 27 bedrooms, two spectacular pools and a $191 million price tag.
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Where is the world's first billion-dollar residence located?
The world's first billion-dollar residence is located in Mumbai, India, and was completed in 2011. It's known as "Antilia."
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How many stories does Antilia have?
The spectacular Antilia stretches 27 stories over Mumbai, measuring 568 feet (173 meters) tall.
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Who owned The Manor before Petra Ecclestone purchased it in 2011?
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Once known as Spelling Manor, the home is now referred to simply as The Manor after it was purchased by Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone in 2011.
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How large is The Manor?
40,000 square feet (4,000 square meters)
57,000 square feet
The Manor measures 57,000 square feet, including a 7,000 square foot master suite, and cost around $45 million to build back in the '80s.
76,000 square feet
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Who named her home "The Promised Land"?
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Oprah spent $50 million for her Montecito, California, estate in 2001, which she named "The Promised Land."
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What is the price per square foot of residences at One Hyde Park?
Homes at One Hyde Park go for $12,000 per square foot in a city where prime real estate averages $2,900 per square foot.
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How much did Mikhail Prokhorov put down as a deposit on Villa Leopolda in 2008?
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$33 million
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Prokhorov put down a 10 percent deposit of $53 million on the property in 2008. He later lost the entire deposit amount after deciding not to buy the home.
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What state is home to the Hala Ranch?
Hala Ranch, which is in Aspen, Colorado, sold for $49 million in 2012.
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How many square feet does the Hala Ranch measure?
36,000 square feet (3,000 square meters)
56,000 square feet
The home measures a staggering 56,000 square feet, including 15 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms. Hey, you need to have a spare bathroom for guests, right?
76,000 square feet
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Where can you find the Maison de L'Amitie?
Maison de L'Amitie includes 60,000 square feet (6,000 square meters) of living space in Palm Beach, Florida, and was once owned by Donald Trump.
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How many floors does Donald Trump's home at Trump Tower occupy?
Trump's family lives in a three-story apartment that measures 30,000 square feet (3,000 square meters) and is valued at $50 million in New York City.
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Where is Mar-a-Lago located?
Palm Beach, Florida
Trump paid just $10 million for the Palm Beach, Florida, estate in 1985, and it's worth millions more today.
Orlando, Florida
Question 20 of 30
How many bedrooms are at Mar-a-Lago?
The massive Mar-a-Lago has 60 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms and three bomb shelters spread over 17 acres (7 hectares).
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Who named his family home Whitehall?
John Rockefeller
Henry Ford
Henry Flagler
Railroad tycoon Henry Flagler built the 100,000-square foot (9,000-square meter) Whitehall as a present for his wife in 1902.
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What is Whitehall used as today?
The 75-room Whitehall served as a hotel until the 1950s but now serves as a museum that attracts over 100,000 visitors each year.
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What year did David Siegel and his family begin building their dream home, nicknamed Versailles?
Siegel and family started their massive home in 2006, with a scheduled completion date of May 2017.
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How large is Versailles?
40,000 square feet (4,000 square meters)
65,000 square feet
90,000 square feet
The 90,000-square foot Versailles has 21 bedrooms, six pools and a 30-car garage.
Question 25 of 30
How much did the Siegels spend to construct Versailles?
$25 million
$50 million
The family spent $50 million on the home near Orlando, Florida, but offered to sell it for $100 million during a 2016 interview.
$100 million
Question 26 of 30
Who named his home Xanadu 2.0?
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Bill Gates
Bill Gates spent $121 million on the 66,000-square foot (6,000-square meter) Xanadu 2.0.
Steve Jobs
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Where can you find the Biltmore?
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Asheville, North Carolina
George Vanderbilt's family home, the Biltmore, opened in 1895 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Question 28 of 30
How many rooms does the Biltmore have?
The Biltmore has 250 rooms, including 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms and 65 fireplaces to keep everyone warm in all that space.
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Where can you find the megamansion Fairfield Pond?
Los Angeles
New York
Ira Rennert's Fairfield Pond, worth an estimated $249 million, is located in the Hamptons in New York.
Question 30 of 30
How large is the Beverly House, a Los Angeles home featured on "The Godfather"?
50,000 square feet (5,000 square meters)
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A Mesa kindergarten teacher was arrested Wednesday after he punished a 6-year-old girl by removing her shirt and forcing her to remain topless for 10 minutes, authorities say.
The incident occurred at Adams Elementary School where Thomas Washburn, 54, was shouting in front of a classroom of 24 students while upset, according to Mesa Police.
Officials said a 6-year-old girl began crying and hid in her shirt in response to Washburn's shouting. When Washburn asked the student to stop hiding and she did not comply, he pulled her shirt off and left her naked from the waist up, according to police. The student was left in this state as class continued for approximately 10 minutes, after which Washburn returned her clothing, police said.
Washburn told the student's mother at the end of the school day what he had done, and she reported the incident to the principal's office. Police were alerted and detectives confirmed the story after interviewing the student and her mother, authorities said.
Investigators initially arrested Washburn on suspicion of one count of child abuse and one count of indecent exposure, as an adult teacher aide was in the classroom at the time of the incident. Police then added 24 additional counts, one for each of the students the child was exposed to in the classroom, police said.
Washburn was later released on his own recognizance and was outfitted with an electronic monitoring device.
Mesa Public Schools spokeswoman Helen Hollands said Washburn has taught kindergarten and first grade at Adams since August 2006. Asked whether Washburn has been in trouble before, Hollands said "not that I am aware of."
She said the district placed him on administrative leave after phoning the police about the classroom incident. He will remain at home while school officials conduct an investigation of the complaints about his behavior, she said.
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There is a strong chance Washburn will not return to the classroom. Hollands said it is against school policy for teachers to act in the way described in the police report.


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