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Jason Gregor
June 07 2012 09:16AM
We've known for months that Steve Tambellini had a contract extension, so yesterday's announcement wasn't a surprise. The fact the presser was at a Casino was fitting because in many people's eyes, extending Tambellini was a huge gamble by the Oilers.
It seemed most fans and media wanted to know how long the extension was, my sources tell me it is a three-year deal, but I don't think the term matters that much.
If the Oilers don't improve this year, Tambellini won't be at the draft podium in June of 2013.
There are many reasons to argue why Tambellini shouldn't have received an extension. He's weeks away from hiring his third head coach, he's coming off of 30th, 30th and 29th place finishes and most of his free agent signings or trades have been busts.
All valid.
On the other hand teams that are continual losers are constantly making change. They hire a new GM every few seasons, and he then he spends a few seasons trying a different direction, yet they rarely see improvement. Being patient isn't one of my biggest strengths, and most fans and pro sports teams suffer the same inability to stay the course.
It would have been easy to fire Tambellini, there are many valid reasons why they could have, but they elected to stay the course. There are cases where being patient has paid off.
- Darcy Regier missed the playoffs three straight seasons before making it to consecutive conference championships with the Sabres.
- Jim Rutherford missed the playoffs his first four years running the Hurricanes, then lost the Cup final in his 7th season and finally won in his 10th year as GM.
- David Poile missed the playoffs his first five years running the expansion Predators, but he's made the post-season in eight of nine seasons since. Considering his budget most seasons, he's done a hell of a job.
- George McPhee made the playoffs, with one Cup appearance, in four of his first six seasons, but then the Caps missed the dance three years in a row, where they drafted Ovechkin, Green and Backstrom, and now they've made the dance five straight times.
- Glen Sather missed the playoffs in his first four years with the Rangers, but they've made the dance in six of seven since.
- Dean Lombardi missed the playoffs his first three years, but he's now in his 6th season and he's one win away from winning the Stanley Cup.
Of course there are examples of teams who've kept the same GM and haven't seen much progress.
- Don Waddell was the GM in Atlanta for ten years. They missed the playoffs for the first six, made it in their 7th season, but missed the next three. Waddell wasn't able to surround his elite top picks with solid complimentary players and the Thrashers were essentially losers during his entire regime.
- Scott Howson has missed the playoffs four of five years as the GM in Columbus, and his 5th season was his worst, yet he's still in charge.
- Garth Snow made the playoffs his first year as the Islanders' GM, but he's missed the last five years. The Islanders have yet to show any real signs of improving, yet Snow continues to pull the strings.
- In 3 1/2 years leading the Leafs Brian Burke has yet to guide them to the playoff, yet he'll be front and centre during 24/7 on HBO later this year.
The optimist in me says that the Oilers will improve next season, mostly because they'll have four excellent young players and I'm tired of seeing Wanye and Oiler fans in a constant state of unhappiness, but I'm sure people in Toronto, NYI and Columbus have felt they'd see improvement the past four years, but it didn't happen.
Tambellini has yet to show he is willing to make a significant move, although for the past two seasons the Oilers haven't had anything of significant value to offer up in trades. Moving forward, however, he will need to show the ability to make a gutsy, calculated move to improve his team, or they will continue to flounder near the bottom of the standings.
I understand why there are legions of fans who don't believe Tambellini can make a major move to improve his team, because so far his actions are very deliberate and excruciatingly slow. He is incredible cautious about letting anyone, even some of his own staff, know what his plan of attack is.
Being outgoing, gregarious and bombastic hasn't made the Leafs any good, so I don't agree that Tambellini needs to outline his plan publicly. He'll be evaluated on his actions, rather than his words, and thus far his actions haven't been great.
I honestly don't believe the term of his new deal ultimately matters. If the Oilers don't make a significant improvement this season, there is no way that Kevin Lowe and Darryl Katz should believe he's the guy to lead them to the
promised land playoffs.
Despite signing a multi-year deal, I believe Tambellini has one season to show improvement or he should be gone. That doesn't mean they have to make the playoffs, but they can't be out of the race in January or February. This team will need to be in the hunt right up until the final weeks of the season. If not, then Tambellini should not return.
The funding for the new proposed downtown arena is always a hot topic, but in many cases the debates are filled with wrong information. For the past months I've received numerous emails, texts and tweets from fans upset that the city would use money from the MSI (Municipal Sustainability Initiative) towards the arena. Many vented that this should be used on more important things like education, health care, etc.
I spoke with Michelle Davio, spokesperson for Municipal Affairs of thegovernment of Alberta to get some insight into exactly how the MSI works.
JG: Can you explain what is the MSI exactly, and how does it work when distributing it to each municipality?
MD: It's a program to help municipalities with their infrastructure needs. It started back in 2007. This year, like you said, it's $896 million that's become distributed to municipalities across the province. Of that, Edmonton is getting 167 million this year and has received about $735 million to date.
JG: What are the guidelines that the City has to abide by to use funds from the MSI?
MD: There are guidelines, but they're pretty broad. It's supposed to be used for public infrastructure. Edmonton has used it for things like the Queen E Pool, rehabbing the Dawson Bridge, building fire stations, all sorts of things.
JG: So an arena would be considered?
MD: Yeah. One of the eligible categories to use MSI funding is for parks, recreation, and sports facilities. There's a criteria, but assuming that it meets the criteria, that would be an acceptable use. But it's up to the City of Edmonton to decide what their priorities are.
JG: Where does this money actually come from, this 896 million? Is it all tax money?
MD: Yeah. It's tax dollars. It comes out of government revenues. Next year it's supposed to go up to 1.05 billion, the total pot, and it will be the same the year after that.
JG: What are some of the other categories that a city could use this money towards?
MD: Roads, bridges, libraries.
JG: So not healthcare.
MD: You could build a healthcare facility.
JG: Would building a school fall under this?
MD: I believe those are separate budgets.
JG: So a lot of times it's just going for infrastructural upgrade more than anything else.
MD: And new facilities as well. For example, connections on the Anthony Henday, it's being used for that. Building parks, fire stations, an exhibit at the zoo. They have bought Edmonton Transit buses with it. They have to submit a list of projects that they want to use MSI for and make sure they fit within the broad criteria. And if they do, then it's up to the City.
JG: When does the transaction happen? When would the City get this money?
MD: MSI money flows once a year, so they get the money by June this year out of that year's budget.
JG: Oh, okay. So now my other question would be, if the facility was to start being built, let's say, January of next year ‑‑ that's when the first shovel would come in the ground. If it took three years, could you take $35 million from each year out of it? Would that work, or is it normally a one‑time thing?
MD: No. Sometimes municipalities use multiple years' allocations for a project. There have been lots of things that are built that take more than the amount you get in one year.
JG: So then the city would have to submit to you and suggest: For the 2013 year we will need "$50 million," and then in 2014 they could put another 50 million in if that's how it was going to work. They don't have to use 100 million all a one shot one-time thing.
MD: That's right. And you can use, up to 75% of future year allocations, where you can plan to use it for a particular project.
Hopefully that gives you a better understanding of how the MSI works. We can debate all day if it is the right idea to use this money for the arena, but considering the city will likely recoup their money through new taxes I'd look into it. Rather than see the city, and taxpayers, lose a billion dollars to continually grow our city out, rather than rebuild the inner cores.
- The New Jersey Devils have never been swept in a seven-game series, going at least five games in all 43 series they've played. That is the longest active streak in the NHL, MLB and NBA.
- The Devils were the best PK team during the regular season. They only allowed 27 goals on 259 kills (89.6%) and they scored 15 SH goals. But in the playoffs their PK has been awful, surrendering 19 goals on 71 chances (73.2%) and they only have one shorthanded goal. Some tweeted me suggesting it's because they faced good PP teams in the Panthers, Flyers, Rangers and Kings. I looked it up, and those numbers don't jive.
Regular season PP ranking: V. Devils in playoffs
Flyers - 6th at 19.7% Flyers went 3 for 19..... 15.7%
Panthers - 6th at 19.7% Panthers went 9 for 27... 33.3%
Kings - 17th at 17.0% Kings are 3 for 9.... 33.3%
Rangers - 23rd at 15.7% Rangers went 4 for 16... 25.0%
The Flyers and Panthers were solid in the regular season, but the Panthers were unreal v. the Devils, while the Flyers PP% dropped. The Flyers scored 12 goals on 21 PP chances in the first round v. the Pens, but couldn't score capitalize against the Devils.
Martin Brodeur's PK save % is obviously lower in the playoffs, but it would be misleading to say it is just him. It is amazing how a team can play that well for 82 games, but suddenly in the playoffs their PK falls apart.
- A day after hiring Michel Therrien the Habs fired assistant coaches, Randy Cunneyworth and Randy Ladouceur. When the Oilers hire their new head coach, I wonder if we'll see the same happen in Edmonton.
- After two awful seasons, it would be a joke if Tom Renney takes all the blame. He can't be the only one responsible for 29th and 30th place finishes. Don't be surprised to see some changes on the coaching staff, and in pro scouting. Renney can't be the only guy who pays the price.
I set a goal to raise $50,000 for my MS Bike Tour this year, and I wanted to say thanks for helping me reach my goal. I'm currently at $50,379.00 with two days before the ride. We have $47,529.00 on line and I have $2,850 in cash and cheques that I'm taking down to the MS Society today. You can add to the total if you like right here.
It was lots of fun organizing all the prizes we had for my auctions, and I thank you all for participating in my MS WSOP tournament and my Ultimate Sports Fan Package. Also a big thank you to all the companies and people who donated the prizes.
I'll ride the 190 KM this weekend with a great sense of pride knowing there are so many people in the community willing to help others.
Thanks again.
June 07 2012, 10:17AM
You're a narrow-minded moron!!
June 07 2012, 09:47AM
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!! HOW DARE MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO FUNding millionaires and billi...onnaires...and...hockey...*
*Loses track of conversation and finds an episode of Matlock that had been forgotten since the last time he saw it
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!! HOW DARE MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO FUNding millionaires and billi...onnaires...and...hockey...*
*Loses track of conversation and finds an episode of Matlock that had been forgotten since the last time he saw it
You're a narrow-minded moron!!
June 07 2012, 09:26AM
This extension has the same feeling as a fist to the eye.
Congrats on reaching your fundraising goal, Jason! Hopefully you have a great ride on the weekend. Major props to everyone that donated.
June 07 2012, 09:34AM
Props Gregor on hitting $50k
I keep hoping to myself that Tambo is actually really sly and has been sewering this team on purpose for top picks until it's time to come out guns blazing, take no prisoners.
Khabi, Barker, Belanger
More likely, he is a buffoon. But until we flounder at the bottom next year I will hope to Odin that he is some underrated genious.
You're a narrow-minded moron!!
[EDITED] I've been far too sensitive to arena naysayers. They troll Staples' blog, waiting to pounce with ridiculous commnents like "We need the MSI for education!". Good job Gregor for setting the record straight.
June 07 2012, 10:04AM
Jason: 1. Great interview with Taylor Fedun on Tuesday. He sounds like a really solid, character guy. I hope he does regain his previous level of play and will be an Oiler in the near future. 2. Regarding the arena, I hope that the whiners and detractors have noted that two big condo developments, within a few blocks of the arena, were announced last week. Apparently, one of them, the Ultima, had commitments on about half of the units when they went on sale Saturday. The arena is, as predicted, spurring more development in the area.
Tambellini's deadline moves the last 2 season were pretty solid:
The Penner trade was good (do we move up picks if the Kings win the cup this year, or was that only last year?)
We all liked the signings this summer except for Barker and that was a low risk move. Renney didn't maximize what we could have gotten from those guys by giving them icetime regardless of performance.
The hardline resigning of Hemsky was very good, considering his value on the trade market.
And while some fans hate it, the Gilbert for Schultz trade was a good hockey trade, to shore up a weakness. That will especially look good if we can add a puck mover in free agency this year.
If you start the rebuild with the Hall pick, Tambellini has done an adequate job, but he'll need to do better to keep his gig.
June 07 2012, 01:19PM
@ Naughty
Man that would be a horrible trade
June 07 2012, 01:50PM
This extension has the same feeling as a fist to the eye.
I guess it's better than a kick in the nuts. Not much better.
You know, it's tough to play poker with no chips in front of you. The Pronger fiasco had nothing to do with Tambellini, but I bet it made it hard to recruit UFA's for a few years. Not having talent on the team, also made it difficult to attract UFA's.
The Khabi acquisition is pretty hard to defend, but I will defend the acquisition of Belanger. At the end of 2010-2011, fans griped about our situation at center. We needed to scale back Horcoff's ice time. He was taking all the important draws. The need for a third or fourth line center who was good on the dot, was identified and filled with Belanger. I think Renney using him on the power play was a bad decision. Also, nothing about Belanger's stats signaled a problem. So Tambellini identified a need and filled it. Who knows who else was considered, and wouldn't commit.
When Tambellini was hired he had no chips in front of him. Edmonton was not the first choice for UFA's. Signing Penner was not a success, and cost the team draft picks(poker chips). So now, here we are four years after signing Tambellini. We have a successful farm team. We have plenty of decent prospects in the system. Hockeysfuture rates the Oiler #4 in prospect depth. Our roster is mostly young, at the skill positions. We have all our draft picks this year. We haven't traded away the future for short term gains.
Bottom line, the Oiler are better than they were four years ago. On simple wins and losses, it mat not seem like it, but I like this team going forward much more than the team four years ago.
For those who don't like the Hemskey signing, I suggest you do a little bit of research. Compare Hemskey to Marian Gaborik. Similar injury situation, points, linemates(in Minnesota). I dare say that, if Hemskey went to UFA this off season, someone would have scooped him and likely for more than the $5m.
I don't get the critics. You say Horcoff sucks, yet you won't cut Hemskey slack, for having him as his center. You complain about rushing the kids, yet you complain about all the ice time the veterans are getting. No matter what Tambellini, Lowe, Renney, or McTavish have done, they were wrong. It's getting old folks.
June 07 2012, 07:29PM
@fresh mess
you should see what our tax $$ are going to at the federal building downtown...THATS IMMORAL!!
@Fresh Mess..."No taxpayer money"...
Funny how Tim Thomas and his tea party, "don't tax me" antics play in to all of this. Every time a community or government is railroaded in to paying for their work place, 57% of it ends up in hockey players pockets. So taxpayers subsidised Thomas while he was an amateur, because most minor hockey rinks are taxpayer funded. Then when he reached the NHL, through revenue sharing, the sweet deal the Oilers got at the coliseum, directly contributed to the salary cap increase. And then he feels he is taxed too much. LOL
MSI.Tax payer money either way. In this case the tax payer money is from all Albertans. Which in my opinion makes the most sense. We build a ighway to to Ft Oil and it costs all Albertans. We build a bridge in nowhere Alberta and its on all Albertans. We are in this together. Arguing over what the MSI is put to is stupid. I don't tell Vegreville how to spend thier money. Or Grand Prarie.Or bashaw. Everyone gets a piece. If the municipality decides to spend thiers on an arena,so be it. If they want to build a new Arts center.Fine by me. They want to build a giant Easter Egg Park. So be it. Mandel and company are allin on this project. Whats the issue? Public perception. And thats what we pay the PR people for.
Good read. Here's hoping the GM has the balls to git r done.
June 07 2012, 09:28AM
I think the other problem with Tambo is that he doesn't even get a lot of the small moves right either.
Congrats to you for raising $50+k (and to everyone who donated). Good job!
I agree that the Oil must show an improvement this year for Tambi to stick around. But what would an acceptable improvement be? Last year they did improve by 10 points, but to me this was a dissapointing result.
I don't think a playoff spot is likley next year but finishing in the 85 to 90 point range would be an acceptable improvement.
I suggest that Tambi's performance to date has been mixed. Kbabby for 4 years a big mistake, getting Ryan Jones off the waiver wire a hit.
A GM's event horizon in 3 years plus so not re-newing him would put the Oil in the "constant change for the sake of change leading nowhere" group. I think we should also remember the Oiler's organization was a disaster when Tambi took over, not much talent at NHL level and zippo in the AHL.
I think Tambo has made some pretty significant and some very controversial moves. He made the best offer for Heatley, sent Souray to the minors, traded Visnovsky, Gilbert, Penner while they were still top players, offered Hossa/Jagr big money to come here, offered Hemsky & Eberle to the Bruins for the Seguin pick. He's capable of making big moves, he just chooses his spots.
It's a bird , it's a plane ,faster than a speeding bullet ? No - it's super sloth . Takes a team and makes it a total disaster that 4 years later remains basically the same . No where to go but up , and that took 3 years to go up one position -whoopie ! Most seem to forget Tams made this disaster as bad as it was/became . Now he is in charge of fixing it . No wonder we are where we are .
I hope you're right, that if we don't see progress ST is gone after next year.
I am okay with keeping ST as the improvement in the drafting and developments at OKC give me some hope he knows what he is doing. Plus it is a complete mystery who the next up and coming GM candidate is. We talk about "magic beans" when it comes to draft picks, but man all the GM candidates seem like "magic beans" right now. Hextall might be the top candidate, but I just can't see him in Edmonton and he was around for the Hickey at 4 pick and Teubert at 17 pick. Botterill looked like a genius three months ago, but he is considered a cap genius and yet they owe Martin and Michelek $9Mill for the next 3 years and flamed out in the playoffs because they didn't trust their backup when Fleury fell apart. Joe Will is supposedly the most cutting edge guy, yet San Jose looks like they could be in the lottery in the next few years.
Maybe next summer we'll have a better read on available candidates (who knows it looks the the Phoenix situation is unraveling again so maybe Maloney will be available). The one thing I give ST credit for is he hasn't crippled the rebuild with bad contracts or trading the key kids for vets, so if a new guy comes in after next year the team is still on target for success.
Tamby won't disclose the plan because there is no plan. Except of course to continue to let StuMac and his staff work the amateur draft while Tamby and the pro-scouts do zippski. Tamby came in here with a clean slate basically and now he is little more than a pariah to most fans and public relations nightmare for the organization.
I do wish someone would reach out and slap that sh*t-eating grin off his face though.
June 07 2012, 10:49AM
Excellent article
If Renney got turfed for what he did with the team, Tambellini should have been turfed for what he gave Renney to work with. Plain and simple.
Tambi made decent trades on moving Penner and Smyth to the Kings (in separate deals), but I would say that the jury is out on the Gilbert for Schultz trade until we see a full season or two for each in their new uniforms.
There's also losing Brule for nothing and then having to pay 1/2 of his 2011-12 salary. And then buying Souray out and paying him to play for Dallas. And then signing Khabibulin to a four year albatross of a contract. And then losing Schremp for nothing on waivers. And trading former first rounders like Riley Nash and Cogliano for second rounders. And mismanaging the whole PR situation with courting Heatley; burying Souray in the minors; and ticking LA off in the Smyth-Fraser deal.
As for a public declaration from Tambi as to what the 2012-13 goal is, I think he can no longer hide from the media and has to give the fans a sense of what the expectations are for the next season, by no later than sometime around July 15th or so, once he's had a chance to work the draft and FA market. He's had an easy ride for the first four years while fans have supported the team and bought tickets to see 30th, 30th and 29th place finishes-- it's "put up or shut up" time now for him!
Anyways, on happier news, there is no where to go but up! And congratulations on hitting the $50,000 mark for a worthy charity.
Can you imagine all non playoff teams tanking each season ? What a mess the NHL would become . Hopefully no one else follows our template . Change draft to make sure this sort of thing is not tolerated in the future as far as i am concerned .
Wonder if thats anything like how the inside of arena will turn out, that bridge thing or whatever you call it looks awesome, scary though for drunk fans, but that would be damn cool, is there another one like it in the league?
June 07 2012, 11:19AM
Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to turf Tambellini after what's surely going to occur next season. Can we wait till a full week after the season ends so he can get us the first selection again in the 2013 draft.
If there's one thing Steve has been dominant at, it is securing that first overall selection at the last 3 lottery drafts. Wait for the week after the season ends, then throw him under the bus.
June 07 2012, 11:38AM
I'm Props-ing BILL's fail and encourage the rest of you to do the same. It was spectacular.
June 07 2012, 11:41AM
I think Bill was joking, too.
June 07 2012, 11:58AM
I think Bill was joking, too.
What was the joke exactly? Who is the target of his brilliant lampoon?
With so much on the line for Tambellini, a fresh contract extension in hand and the common realization that a new coach won't be a magic bullet for team success you would think it would be time to admit/correct some mistakes. Without quality goaltending the team will have little success. How can you possibly roll the dice on Khabibulin again next season. With so much player debate and room for improvement overlooking this issue will prove fatal.
June 07 2012, 12:02PM
What was the joke exactly? Who is the target of his brilliant lampoon?
Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I thought he was pretending to be a cliched supporter of using the MSI funds for the arena, just as Archaeologuy was pretending to be a cliched non-supporter of using the funds for the arena.
I could be wrong, though; it's hard to gauge this stuff when it's written.
Jason, congrats on reaching your goal, and continued success with future goals. As far as Tamby getting another extension, I have mixed feelings. On 1 hand I think it's important he follows through with the rebuild, but should be more proactive getting us immediate help, especially when injuries occur. On the other hand, if Lowe really is making every decision, what can he do, if they don't have a meeting of the minds. I don't know if it's Tambys' personality, or the Oilers philosophy in general, to take forever with keeping the fan base in the dark with their decisions, but seriously, I hate never knowing what is going on with this team and having months of speculation for a simple announcement.
Tamby has to know exactly what his young assets can do before he starts making meaningful trades! That's why Gagner may or may not be dealt this summer? Up until now who is going to take Horc, Khabibulan or some of the other vets in a trade & if they did what's the return? Although if anybody would take Horc's contract for nothing that would be nice :-)
I was just going through the roster and the plethora of forwards, and trying to figure out where they are all going to play. If they draft Yakupov, we have to many similar type players, so that being said, we need to trade some.
Hemsky Ganger or Pijarvi 1st Rounder 2013
To Edm
Nash Methot
Sorry, Hemsky and one of Ganger/Pijaarvi and the 2013 pick
Negative props. Nash has a horrible contract and has never played particularly well. Hall will get so good the next couple years we'll all laugh at Nash (even if he is laughing all the way to the bank).
Tamby was told that they needed to build this team for the long term future, which I must say is looking pretty damn good. Signing big free agents doesn't nothing for the team in the long run and likely could hurt them when it comes to signing future contracts. A lot of his move after the decided rebuild was going to take place have been good. Some unpredictable things have happened and some gambles were made. But this was the time to try that stuff when it doesn't matter as much.
Guys like Eager, Belanger, Fraser, all are better that what they have shown with the Oilers. You can't predict that. Barker was a good gamble that never paid off. Sutton, I think, is a great guy to have and has a lot to give to the young guys. Signing Vet AHL goalies as back plans has been good.
He has done a lot of good things for a team that is looking to build up for the future. Now he has to switch to winning and that means he can have the freedom to make bigger trades for the pieces that are needed and I think the Gilbert trade was the start of it.
@ Dulock:
I don't think Tambellini offered Eberle AND Hemsky to Boston for Seguin. I think it was Hemsky as the starter, Chiarelli I believe wanted Eberle with Hemmer.
I stand to be corrected however.
June 07 2012, 04:13PM
Surely Morey Gare has to be gone soon. As head pro scout the Oilers have just had way too many misses in the past few years.
I'm sure it doesn't help his cause that his brother-in-law Tom Renney was just axed too.
Thanks for a ray of sanity. Other than my reservation about signing Fly By for 5 million I agree with your comments.
A previous comment (not from you)complained about Tambi not making short term moves to shore up the roster when injuries occurred. I wonder if some people understand what a complete rebuild the Oilers are in the midst of. They cannot gte sidetracked looking for short term fixes.
Is it true you released info today about Smyth only being offered one year contract with bonuses? Any idea dollars involved if its true?
Further research on Belanger. He was 386th in the NHL in total points. That puts him at 13th best on an average team. Below middle of the pack, but pretty much spot on for a defensive specialist, centering 4th line wingers. In 794 NHL games his shooting % was 10.5%. This season, only 3.4%. Since he was signed based on his statistics over the last few Seasons, the Oilers would reasonably have expected him to score 12 goals, based on the number of shots he took.
However.....Goals and points were not why he was brought to the Oil. It was his faceoff numbers. He won 55.3% of his faceoffs and was near the topp in the league for numbers of faceoffs. Further, when you compare him to players who fared better on the dot, you would see names like Thornton, Bergeron and Teows. Yeah, he didn't put up their offensive numbers, but he is only drawing $1.75m/season. The closest comparison I could find for games played and points, with similar f/o%, was Rich Peverley. He only makes $1.125m, but he was an RFA when he signed that contract.
Further, he took 189 Shorthanded face offs and only 42 on the power play. Not exactly a recipe for point production.
I think at $1.75m he was slightly overpaid, for what he contributed. If his point toals return to his career metrics, we should see 10 to 12 goals and 35 to 45 points. Given what he brings in faceoffs he would be a bargain.
"No taxpayer money"... that's what Mandel promised before the election.
This deal is immoral.
If I'm a player I want to start winning.
If I'm the new coach I want to see some improvement from the veterans and shelter the rooks.
If I'm the GM I want to add a coach, at least one OFF-DMAN, a proven NHL PKiller, manage the cap and see some development on the farm and on the big club.
If I'm the owner I want to see some ground being churned and some concrete being poured.
And what the owner says goes.
Stay tuned for a couple more years.
"No taxpayer money"... that's what Mandel promised before the election.
This deal is immoral.
You must REALLY be choked about the AGA and new RAM.
June 08 2012, 12:54AM
Tambo is the best Oiler GM since the dynasty. He just needs to learn the art of trading. Example: with a season in a tank, management should have played Omark on a line, where he could rack up some points. He would be a much more attractive trade-in for other teams.
June 08 2012, 07:40AM
David S wrote:
You must REALLY be choked about the AGA and new RAM.
doubtful. the new RAM probably provides him steady employment as a night security guard. it allows him to run around in his spider man PJs pretending to be Larry Daley.*
nobody would be choked about that
*truth may be stretched... or not


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Mandelbrot Set Viewer - 5.00
Ian Mallett (geometrian)
First of all, this is not another release of my other Mandelbrot Set program (http://www.pygame.org/project/675/). This program is not all about rendering huge images (although it does do that too), it is about zooming in indefinitely.
Starting with an image of the Mandelbrot Set, draw a rectangle with the mouse, and the program will zoom to fill that rectangle. This can go on indefinitely. If you choose a small enough screensize, (such as 300x200), the wait to see the zoomed image is only a few seconds. You can then zoom in on that image, and so on. Unfortunately, at a certain point, Python's float handling gets too imprecise, and you can actually see rounding errors as pixelated blocks. Though this is somewhat amusing, I may fix it later so that you can zoom in truly forever.
Once you have a nice view, you can take a picture of it, and have the computer render the current window at any resolution. (For example, the screenshot here is a 1200x800 render of a section of the Mandelbrot Set viewed on a 300x200 screen).
This is the spiritual successor to the previous versions, but it shares no code. It was rewritten for a different purpose and then adapted to be similar to the older versions here. A number of older features have been removed since they are irrelevant. Version 5.00 supports double-precision rendering, arbitrary quality supersampling, realtime rendering and zooming, and screenshots, among other features.
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Germantown wrestling coach Casey Gabrielson summed up his team's opening night 54-18 rout at the hands of border rival Menomonee Falls on Wednesday night thusly:
"It was like men against boys in a lot of cases and in that situation, men are always going to win," he said.
And that it was, as the Indians, with returning state state placewinner Bill Holz leading the way, won the first seven matches and never looked back.
Indian coach Jim McMahon downplayed the meaning of the impressive win, but was still pleased with the effort.
"We're still young," he said. "We're still putting together a set line-up and we have a lot of competitive spots yet."
McMahon, whose team will send its varsity to the Slinger Invitational on Saturday and its junior varsity to the Nicolet Invite, have increased numbers (53) and a great many veteran wrestlers back.
Along with Holz at 126, Alooya Olapo is another returning state quailifier who competed at 195 pounds tonight.
"The numbers are great for us," McMahon said. "It's the Junior Indians' program starting to pay dividends for us. We're going to get everyone a match on Saturday, as we'll send our freshmen up to Plymouth. It's a nice group this year, with a lot of good kids and good parents."
Meanwhile, Gabrielson has about 44 wrestlers out this season.
In a good news/bad news situation about half the team is freshmen. The Warhawks will build around returning state qualifier Hunter Higginbotham, who's competing at 285 pounds this season. Brandon Goesch, who narrowly missed out on a state berth last season and who is competing at 138 and Tyler Baran at 160, will also help out.
"This will probably be the poorest group we'll have in the next four years but it will get better," said Gabrielson. "Just hats off to Falls tonight, they were as good as we thought they were. Maybe a (state) top 10 team."
Both coaches admitted that the starting point of the match, at 113 pounds, was most advantageous to the Indians.
"I think I won a lottery tonight," laughed McMahon. "It was the perfect place for us to start."
"When I saw that draw, I pretty much knew any chance at us getting any early momentum was out the window," said Gabrielson. "We started in the heart of the line-up. It was like going down 21-0 in a football game, just very hard to recover from."
Falls started the match in a "no-quarter" fashion, as Aaron Daly at 113 (pin 0:52), Holz's freshman brother Jerrot at 120 (pin 1:48), Bill Holz at 126 (technical fall 4:17), Casey Crangle at 132 (pin 4:51), Austin Meyers at 138 (8-4 decision), Sam Schwabenlander at 145 (7-5 decision) and Jon Haririe at 152 (6-0 decision), all earned victories.
The score was 32-0 before Baran recorded a pin in 2:15 at 160 pounds for the Warhawks first win.
Of those wins, McMahon was most impressed with the effort of Meyers, as it came against Goesch. He gave up the first takedown but then rallied.
"We had circled that match," said McMahon. "It was a very nice win for Austin."
Falls reasserted itself after Baran's pin, as Jake Fuitten at 170 (3:25) and Alex Koch at 182 (1:21) pinned their opponents with strong throws. Olapo, probably wrestling up a class this night at 195, then overpowered Germantown's Steve asmondy, with a 15-6 major decision.
Germantown earned pins from Joe Zizzo at 220 (1:17) and Higginbotham at 285 (0:19) before Falls Ian Virlee closed out the match with a pin against Warhawk freshman Zack Szohr at 106 (4:50).
The win for Virlee was significant because Szohr is a five-time state youth champion, but as he weighs only about 82 pounds, he was simply outmuscled by the larger Virlee.
"He was very nervous going into that match," said Gabrielson, "but I'm not worried about him. We'll work on some technique issues and I think he'll be fine in a couple of weeks."
"We were just too young tonight. We made a lot of middle school mistakes. We did do some good things but we have a lot of work to do."
Germantown will host North Shore rival Whitefish Bay on Thursday and then will be at the Kiel Duals on Saturday.
McMahon also praised the work of Virlee and Fuiten. He said the Indians are just getting started on what he hopes is a successful campaign.
"We also have a lot of work to do," McMahon said.
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The Gift of Tractors for Swedish Agricultural College
Sweden's famous Bollerup Agricultural Institute has been given a helping hand by Massey Ferguson this year, with the gift of nine MF tractors.
The Institute began educating agricultural students 100 years ago in 1912 and is now a modern Agricultural Upper Secondary School.
The tractors provided by Massey Ferguson will continue to be renewed over the years, helping students at the school which specialises in agriculture, horse keeping and outdoor pursuits.


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Mad Men: A Chic Retrospective
"I love Bangkok's main amulet market, it is the source for all manner of charms to bring you luck and ward off evil, from carved Buddha's to intricately wrapped stones, rings and bracelets. You have to go early before the river floods all the stalls. I bargained for a bracelet while the water was lapping at my ankles. I also was obsessed with a simple rope necklace, I don't really know why, but I was shocked when the dealer told me the price, it was far more than anything else he had. It spoke to me but I just didn't believe in its power as much as he did. I wish I had now because I still think about it. When staying in Bangkok I love The Sukhothai Hotel. In a city full of luxury hotels this one manages to feel very Thai, has every luxury, and full business services; it's an oasis in a very busy city."
"Le Marché aux Puces in Paris is a must. It is not always as exciting as years past, but I never go away empty handed. Head straight to the Paul Bert section for Midcentury and trendier antiques. Many of the stalls are done up with great style."
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I've spent a couple of months since Vision
Expo East 2013 thinking about the opportunity and feasibility of in-office lens-making,
where I had a firsthand look at the QSpex
technology. Now I'm a strong proponent of
in-office lens finishing, i.e., the edging and
glazing of lenses ordered uncut (not edged
into the frame) from a lab. In fact, I work for
an independent optician in which I often
use the three edgers upstairs in their finishing
lab. Here, I'm talking about actual fabrication (casting) of an AR, polarized or photochromic lens in your own office, neither at
the lab nor the manufacturer.
What is it about in-office lens fabrication
that could make it a good
decision for you? It's been
tried before. We've been
moving to on-demand lens
designing (digital) for frame
and fit, thinner and lighter
lens materials for more than
half the lenses sold and for
many offices, AR lenses have
become more than half of all
lenses delivered. Why could
in-office lens fabrication be a
renewed opportunity now?
All practices manage a toolbox of products
that meet their patient's requirements for
good, better and best. We consistently add
and delete new products from the toolbox
each year. I suggest that in-office lens fabrication creates a unique opportunity to
manage your office's lens preferences and
reduce the number of choices in the toolbox. Since you can only sell the best of the
best a smaller percentage of the time, what
should your lens platform be?
For 2012, from The Vision Council,
when asked about progressive lens mix, 84
percent of the ECPs surveyed were offering free-form lenses (Fig. 1). Of those 84
percent, about 23 percent were free-form
or digitally surfaced lenses. The rest were
made up of high-end to value lenses with
the majority in the premium high-end category (~39 percent). As a result, this suggests that free-form sales, which in itself
is a mixture of good, better and best is only
approaching a fifth of all lenses sold (only
84 percent reported so that means 0.84 x 22.7 percent or about 19 percent are freeform). That also shows that the vast majority of offices make up the balance (just over
half) of their mix using more traditional
lenses. The question then becomes, as
technology and market pressures shift,
what should those lenses be?
One option is to make your own lenses
and participate in the growing phenomenon of private label. Private label uses the
equity of patient trust that you have built.
Why not deliver a lens that is your own
brand as long as it also delivers technological
upgrades and the product combinations that
answer to the patients' budgets, managed
vision care coverage and your targeted
office margins?
Why is private label an opportunity right
now? Private label digital lenses are a
growing market amongst laboratories.
According to L&T Group Editor Andy
Karp: "Although there are no reliable
statistics on the size or rate of growth of
private label digital progressive lenses,
knowledgeable industry observers peg the
market at anywhere from 2 percent to 5
percent of total progressive lens sales, and
some believe it could be more than double
in the next year or two. New data shows
that digital PALs are gaining in popularity.
Sales of these lenses rose more than 15
percent during 2012 according to VisionWatch, the large scale, continuous research
study conducted by The Vision Council.
Anecdotal evidence from suppliers indicates that sales of private label digital PALs
are contributing significantly toward this
upward trend."
This suggests that in-office lens
fabrication can provide that same
private label opportunity to separate you from the competition and
deliver the margins and success
needed to justify changing product
and office procedures.
There is only one lens-making
system newly available, and it has
changed from the earlier glass
mold, urethane gasket and awkward coatings systems to one of
disposable AR, polarized, photochromic (available this year) and HC to
lens transferring molds using a preattached spacer. If the majority of lenses
required in your office are premium but
not digitally personalized, then what
should they be?
Instead of ordering lenses from the traditional laboratory, this lens fabrication
system produces a lens to prescription inoffice. The process requires molds to
produce the front and back lens base curve
and powers, the pre-attached spacer holds
the molds together, monomer, and the
filling and curing unit.
Molds: The QSpex System utilizes single
use plastic disposable molds, eliminating
the need to clean the molds after use; they
are simply thrown away or recycled. Molds
are ordered or inventoried clean and
sealed. In the past, mold inventories were
expensive and required that office technicians become excellent at mold cleaning
after each use, since anything on the mold
would be transferred to the lens. In addition,
because molds were used repeatedly without proper handling, the molds would
often become damaged and need to be
replaced. That was expensive and created
operator morale problems.
In this system, there is no repeat use of
molds but are instead disposable (Fig. 2).
This ensures that each new lens made
starts with a new mold, which provides
three benefits. First, it eliminates the need
for cleaning expertise. Second, there isn't
an expensive mold investment to replace if
damaged and lastly, lens design improvements can be implemented as each new
lens is made because molds are received
new each time. In the past, a mold inventory limited changes to new designs since
mold inventories were owned and used
over and over again. This is analogous to
the advantage for manufacturers in freeform surfacing where any variety of progressive designs can be made from a single
vision lens blank.
Spacers: No gaskets per se are required
since each back mold is supplied with a
pre-attached spacer. This spacer also provides an axis alignment protractor for compound and polarized lenses. In traditional
casting, gaskets hold glass molds a predetermined center or edge thickness apart.
Again, in previous systems, gasket inventories
were pre-manufactured and specific to the
lens material and power being made. For
plus lenses in rimless and semi-rimless
frames, an additional spacer may be
required to produce a slightly thicker lens
edge to ensure that there is enough strap or
grooving thickness.
Filling Station: An individual "tottle" (softsided bottle) of monomer is placed in a
small filling station and tube affixed
through the spacer to fill the lens cavity.
Tabletop Unit: The last part of the system
is a small footprint Curing Oven that houses the right and left mold chambers and a
separate annealing unit (Fig. 3). The footprint of the curing unit is 14 inches wide,
12 inches long and 13 inches high. The filling unit is 6 inches wide, 7 inches long and
8 inches high. Both the curing and filling
unit can sit on top of the mold storage cabinet which is 36 inches wide, 25 inches
long and 38 inches high. The mold storage
cabinet is on castors and can be easily
moved to any location.
Time: The process to produce a pair of
lenses ready for edging is under 45 minutes, including hands-on assembly and
curing/annealing times.
Other impediments to in-office lens casting
in the past were that there were limitations
in prescription range, lack of AR, photochromics and polarized lenses, or combinations of them. In this new system, the
front molds are prepared so that they will
transfer lens treatments during the lens
curing process. This means that the QSpex
System produces either PALs or single
vision lenses as non-glare AR,
photochromic with AR or
polarized lenses with back surface AR. This is determined by
the front mold treatment selected. A front mold that creates a
polarized lens would look like
Fig. 4. The back mold would
add AR if selected that way.
Like in-office finishing, your office controls
quality, patient service and costs. Unique to
this system is the way that molds are packaged so they deliver an uncontaminated
surface for the fabrication of quality AR
lenses. The package is sealed to the environment until needed. "In-office lens production time is typically an improvement
when compared to an outside lab—and to
less than an hour when required—plus the
cost of goods can be reduced by about a
third, even when considering the fullyweighted internal labor costs," says Raymond Brill, OD.
A prescription range of -4.25D to +2.00D
with cylinder to -2.00D with progressive
adds of +1.00D to +3.00D in 0.25D steps
covers about 86 percent of contemporary
prescriptions. The combined properties of a
1.55 index (1.547 actual value), specific
gravity of 1.15 grams per cubic centimeter
and an Abbe value of 40 produce thin, light
and visually clear lenses over the
entire available prescription range.
This lens material can be drilled,
notched and grooved, and can be
edged with any edger. Since the
QSpex lenses, at equivalent center
thicknesses, are more impact resistant than standard
hard resin, minus
lenses have thinner
centers in the powers that matter,
above -2.00 diopters. In addition,
consistent with modern lens materials,
these lenses are 100-percent UVA and
UVB blocking.
If you've considered the addition of new
lens products in your office, you've learned
that when a product does not have the full
complement of availability in range and/or
treatments, opticians avoid them. It's difficult to know when to offer them and if
offered but not available, the patient has to
be called. As a result, it is critical that any
new lens or lens platform provide options
for the majority of patients the majority of
the time. Considering thinness (index), lightness (specific gravity), impact resistance and
treatments available, this becomes an option
for an office's core lens offering. It is unlike
switching to 1.67, for example, for all patients.
Most offices wouldn't sell 1.67 high index
lenses for a -1.00 prescription in a standardsized frame. There is less benefit for the
increased costs. However, if lens fabricating
provides merchandising and margin opportunities as well, it's well worth considering.
Just like the way that free-form is used by
your lab as a manufacturing method to
introduce new technologies, broaden the
treatments available in the same designs
and reduce the costs of fixed design lens
blanks in inventory, lens fabricating can do
the same for the professional office and
reduce dependence on the laboratory.
Offices implementing the QSpex System
can create their own business opportunities.
Lens fabrication is an alternative that
delivers another lens design for your consideration. It is just like a rep visiting to tell
you about a new lens you should consider for your business: 1. Test the attributes of
the design (it must have all the same attributes or be better). 2. Have the right material platform that delivers patient benefits
that are easy to sell, and 3. Have been
upgraded to the norm of higher standards,
by including AR with every lens.
Private label lenses make you unique. Your
practice name on a progressive takes
advantage of the professional equity that
you've built with customers. They're not
shop-able on the Internet but because they
are your own brand, they carry your personal stamp of approval.
Many independent labs have adopted
private label digital lenses. In fact, some of
the larger legacy lens producers provide
private label designs to labs as a business
opportunity for all the same reasons you
should consider it.
Private label is an effective business strategy. Online reference sources conclude
that there are various advantages for the
retailers to go for private label brands. The
advantages include control over pricing of
the product/service. For lens fabricating,
higher margins are available when compared to equivalent branded products.
Considering that the average eyewear consumer knows few lens brand names and
relies on the ECP's expertise, lens fabricating provides the flexibility to develop an
effective pricing strategy. Other advantages
are marketing plan flexibility, creation of a
personalized image which in turn leads to
higher customer loyalty, control of production, marketing, distribution and profits,
and the opportunity to meet changing customer preferences, i.e., the acceptability of
private label products. Your own progressive lens brand reduces legacy brand name
dependence and yields more flexibility,
especially when the economy suffers. Finally, when consumers price compare, your
brand is only available from you.
If the doctor/business owner purchases a
lens fabrication system, will the opticians
mutiny? If you or your doctor agrees with
the business argument that the product is a
responsible addition or substitution for your
office, here's what is needed to make it work
for everyone in the office. New procedures
require ownership by the staff that operates
them. Therefore, getting everyone on board
is essential. In fact, their participation in the
decision is preferred.
Initially, there will need to be an allocation
of time for the initial setup of the equipment
in the office and proper training—just like
learning to edge on new equipment. Being
good at making lenses without bubbles or
defects do take some practice—it's that simple. In fact, this probably requires fewer
technical decisions than edging. That's a
good start. The sophistication built in to the
system allows easy adoption; speed and
expertise come with time.
I worked as part of a lens manufacturing
company (SOLA) for over 22 years. During that time, my opinion was that casting
was too complicated, especially with the
requirements for high quality glass
molds that cost a lot, the special handling
required to clean them without also damaging them and the fact that most times
they couldn't be replaced quickly since we
were making so many lens styles, each
requiring its own molds in quantity.
Disposable molds that transfer AR to a
thinner/lighter product—those are changes that could influence even the skeptic in
me. If I were a practice owner, lens fabrication warrants a pencil test (product test
and financial opportunity analysis) and a
positioning exercise (marketing strategy
assessment) to decide whether it's the right
opportunity to change the way in which
business is done. The company reports
that impact testing is not required since
QSpex does the impact compliance testing
for each of its accounts in a special sampling program. Information about Impact
Compliance can be sourced from The
Vision Council (thevisioncouncil.org).
In-office lens fabrication creates a unique
opportunity to manage your office's lens
preferences and reduce the number of lens
choices in the toolbox. Since the core of an
office's lenses is still standard and premium,
this creates the potential for a platform shift
when the other design, material and treatment options meet the office's requirements
for comparability. That leaves the options of
private label and cost of goods/potential
margins as an added bonus. Using a unique
technology and curing unit, QSpex has created a new opportunity to rediscover the
opportunity for in-office lens fabrication.
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A fairly quiet weekend is on tap for our region. Any light snow left over from Friday night will have moved out by Saturday morning.
Saturday morning low temperatures will be below freezing - watch out for a few slick spots.
Sunday will bring a mix of sun and clouds - temperatures will struggle to reach into the lower forties.
A new weather system will move into the region by Monday. Rain showers will develop by Monday night and linger into Tuesday. Rainfall totals should range from 0.25"-0.50".
Severe weather is not anticipated through all of next week.
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Bath scored a dramatic 27-22 victory over Agen while Gloucester eased past Bordeaux 25-13 in their Challenge Cup fixtures on Thursday.
Bath scored a dramatic 27-22 victory over Agen while Gloucester eased past Bordeaux 25-13 in their Challenge Cup fixtures on Thursday.
Francois Louw's last-minute try handed Bath a bonus point victory on a dramatic night in Agen.
Agen fly-half Raphael Lagarde seemed to have wrapped the game up for the hosts with a faultless kicking display, despite scoring only one try to Bath's four.
The hosts opened the scoring at the Stade Armandie when Benjamin Petre dove over. Lagarde added the extras, before Stephen Donald put the visitors on the board with a penalty kick. Lagarde added a penalty of his own, before Michael Claassens dove over to close the gap shortly before the interval.
Lagarde continued to keep Agen;s noses in front with some pin-point goal-kicking, before Kyle Eastmond and Donald dove over to put the visitors in the lead for the first time.
Nevertheless, another Lagarde penalty, his fourth of the second half, handed the home side a slended 22-20 lead with less than 10 minutes to go. Damien Lagrange's sin-binning let Bath back in the game however and skipper Louw powered over from short range to hand Bath the win.
The scorers:
For Agen:
Try: Petre
Con: Lagarde
Pens: Lagarde 5
For Bath:
Tries: Eastmond, Donald, Claassens, Louw
Cons: Donald 2
Pen: Donald
Yellow card: Lagrange
Gloucester took the early lead against Bordeaux when lock Will James scored in the corner after six minutes, before flyhalf Billy Twelvetrees doubled his side's advantage with a neat turn of pace to touch down in the corner. Both conversion attempts were missed however.
Bordeaux was unlucky not to score after Jimmy Cowan's foul on Thierry Brana went unnoticed, but Gloucester showed their class again in the 25th minute when James Simpson-Daniel's expertly-timed pass put fellow winger Charlie Sharples in at the corner. Twelvetrees again missed the conversion, but added three more to the score with a long range effort shortly before half-time.
Upon the re-start, Gloucester added their fourth try when Ben Morgan rampaged through the defence before off-loading to Sharples to score his second of the night. Twelvetrees made no mistake this time and added the extras.
The second half was a scrappy affair though as Bordeaux prevented the hosts from replicating their free-flowing football from earlier in the match. Bordeaux then had the final say of the match when flanker Gauthier Gibouin went over under the posts in injury-time for a converted try.
The scorers:
For Gloucester
Tries: Sharples 2, Twelvetrees, James
Con: Twelvetrees
Pen: Twelvetrees
For Bordeaux
Try: Gibouin
Con: Lopez
Pens: Sanchez 2
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In Cheddar Field in Castle Dale, the signal was given for a horde, closely watched by parents, of children ages 1-10 to race onto fields with scattered plastic eggs and candy.
The Castle Dale Youth City Council sponsored and supervised the Easter Egg Hunt event. Mayor Neal Peacock and other council members handed out prizes at the end of the hunt for Easter Eggs.
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Report: No. 1 WR recruit Ricky Seals-Jones wears Texas A&M gloves during high school game
The race for the nation's top wide receiver recruit has turned into a tight battle between a pair of SEC West foes: Texas A&M and LSU.
Since the Texas Longhorns dropped out of the picture two months ago, Seals-Jones has been saying that the Aggies and Tigers are the unquestioned leaders in his recruitment, but hasn't given an indication as to which way he might be leaning.
But according to ESPN's Sam Khan Jr., Seals-Jones was seen sporting maroon-and-white Texas A&M gloves during his game with Sealy High School last week. The move seemed to be a good sign for Aggie fans, though Seals-Jones told Khan that it wasn't necessarily a sign that he is College Station-bound.
"I was just having fun with it," Seals-Jones told Khan. "I was just wearing the gloves because they looked nice and everybody likes the inside of them. So I decided to throw them on."
Seals-Jones spent the weekend visiting the LSU campus and attending the LSU-Alabama game just a few weeks after visiting College Station. The 6-foot-5 Seals-Jones is rated as the nation's No. 1 receiver prospect by Scout and ESPN, and the No. 1 athlete prospect (he also plays quarterback and safety in high school) by Rivals.


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These two A list reality sisters have had sex with the same celebrity. Just not at the same time. He said that he would love to go for three sisters if he can.
The Game/Kim and Khloe Kardashian
It shouldn't be too hard The Game should challenge himself a bit and try for a white girl NOT so willing to spread her legs for a big one.ReplyCancel
Um, this is dude with the ice cream cone on his face? I mean, I like ice cream as much as the next person, but it's not big enough to cover how stupid you have to be to get that on your faceReplyCancel
What, sandy?????ReplyCancel
Well I wouldn't say it's a major challenge…..ReplyCancel
Gucci Mane has the ice cream tattoo.ReplyCancel
Thats Gucci Mane. DUH 🙂ReplyCancel
Some betch called Lotta nailed itReplyCancel
lol you guys are killing me this morningReplyCancel
Thank you, young people! I shall go look at James Taylor's totally normal face now.ReplyCancel
Lotta got this!
Awww the Game is just overcompensating for getting shot down on CHANGE OF HEART
back in the day. Anyone else remember this vintage gold of The Game getting torn up on national TV?
@Lady H- please elaborate on the game getting torn up.ReplyCancel
Huh TTM?? 🙂ReplyCancel
James "you've gotta friend" Taylor has an ice cream tattoo? I'm so lost.ReplyCancel
Game wants to stay together and She chose CHANGE OF HEARTReplyCancel
@TTM Gucci was in your fav movie Spring Breakers ; ) He was Francos arch enemy I believeReplyCancel
It might be a challenge. Kourtney is into white guys.ReplyCancel
There's one more legal KTrash sister. And if hes very patient and waits 2 yrs…..ReplyCancel
No, he does not. And it soothes me, KristinReplyCancel
I didn't understand why it mattered that she is white, sandyReplyCancel
90 more minutes I'll never get back, Derek! Except I did get to see Franco's felating skills, so there's thatReplyCancel
Oh that doesn't really matter but that's what hes going after these days @TTM.ReplyCancel
I think Freya's right.
So I finally looked up this Game person. He has LA on his face and when that didn't stand out enough he added a red star around it. He is a good looking guy though and he's very tall.
Somehow I don't think these girls are real territorial with their tricks.
And Riven you're not the only women in history who hooked up with brothers. I have several friends who have similar stories. One got mad at the younger brother and told him his brother was better endowed to piss him off. I thought that was pretty funny.ReplyCancel
I'm sure he will have no problem nailing kendall or kylie.ReplyCancel
@JSierra- I've heard similar things. Streets ain't safe no more.ReplyCancel
Ha! I should've clicked your link the 1st time. :-/ReplyCancel
I don't get why khloe only dates African american…I don't know know if the game is or not but Ive always wondered what that's about. Meh! Why do I care! She is a complete self centred douche. I saw one of there shows they were doing some appearance with sick kids and khloe says 'I do a lot for whatever hospital it was back in LA etc' really ? Are you a doctor? Or a nurse? Do you work there at all? No no and no! What a self absorbed idiot.ReplyCancel
Kylie is clearly available and willingReplyCancel
Not if they're whores. No sister code .


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OAK RIDGE, Tenn.—The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, which is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities, was recently recognized for its pursuit of excellence in health and safety and for achieving continued recognition at the Star level in the Department of Energy's Voluntary Protection Program.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently presented the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, which is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities, with its seventh consecutive "Star of Excellence" award for safety.
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"You know, I haven't worked in a while," Lauren Hutton is saying. "It's like playing a violin. You get out of practice."
It's a spring afternoon in Los Angeles, and Lauren Hutton is sitting in the hazy sunshine. Perched slantwise on the banquette of a private terrace at the Sunset Tower Hotel, she is wearing a print sundress and oversize sunglasses, sandals open to reveal dark painted toenails. Her face, that famous face, is a mesh of fine creases, freckled with evidence of a lifetime in the sun. The bones are still strong, the jawline is firm, the startling eyes behind shades she lifts from time to time are merry and clear.
Hutton's hands, which she says laughingly are those of a Mississippi farmer, are unadorned but for an old-fashioned ring, a flat-topped sapphire surrounded by mine-cut diamonds. Once a flashy stickpin belonging to her godfather, the ring was made for her by a fancy New York jeweler. Somehow in the process some of the stones were lost.
Rings aren't metaphors, as we all know. Yet there's a temptation to see something symbolic in the flawed ornament with its missing diamonds, something emblematic of an irregular beauty who, over the course of six rumbustious decades, repeatedly gained and mislaid fame and fortune, and who, 12 and a half years after a motorcycle accident that almost claimed her life, is back on her bike and in front of the cameras, posing for ad campaigns and magazine editorials, a cover girl again at the improbable age of 69.
"My real life was never modeling or acting," says the woman who was once the highest paid model in the world, who appeared 27 times on the cover of American Vogue (and on the covers of international editions on 14 other occasions), who was for a decade the face of Revlon, who was shot by such gods of fashion photography as Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, as well as practically every other shutterbug of any merit, who started her own cosmetics line, and who, though she never quite achieved Hollywood stardom, left behind a distinctive cinematic presence in such films as Paul Schrader's underrated 1980 classic American Gigolo and a sense of the absurd when in Viva Knievel! she leaped on the back of the famous stunt rider's bike.
Yet modeling and acting were never her real life, Hutton insists. Her real life, she says, was everything that happened on the side. "My real life was learning," she says, leaning forward with her elbows on the table. "And probably my saddest thing is that I had no edumacation."
The truth, of course, is that Lauren Hutton, née Mary Laurence Hutton, of Charleston, South Carolina, got herself plenty of edumacation, even including a formal one, at the genteel ladies school H. Sophie Newcomb College (later swallowed up by Tulane University). If most of what you read about her paints Hutton as a hick beauty out of Swamplandia, a female Tom Sawyer with a mouth that ought to be washed out regularly with soap, the image is one she did little to dispel. Even across the decades when she reigned as the "fresh American face of fashion," Hutton was known to insiders as a gap-toothed wackadoodle whose imperfections rendered her far more interesting to work with than any of her more conventionally lovely contemporaries—women whose names nobody knows anymore.
Roughly a thousand years ago (it was actually 1966), when Hutton was first signed to Ford Models, then the top agency in the United States, Eileen Ford told Vogue she was "one of the wittiest and tenderest girls I know, without a phony bone in her body." All the same, Ford added levelly, "I still don't know what made me take her."
The point is understandable if you happen to have seen the early pictures. Bright-eyed but goofy, notable mainly for a gap in her smile she later disguised with mortician's wax, the very young Hutton looks little like the sublime American beauty she would eventually become. She looks, in fact, like the tomboy she considered herself, a girl born to a genteel Southern couple and raised for a brief time in a Charleston house that in centuries past had been in the possession of a colonial governor.
Hutton's parents divorced when she was a kid. After her father vacated, her mother remarried, and though Mary Laurence Hutton took that man's name (Hall), he never returned the favor by adopting her. The newly constituted family—Hutton acquired three half-sisters—moved from gentility in South Carolina to a postwar subdivision in a raw region of Florida, on the outskirts of Tampa. Though the area is now filled with featureless developments, in those days it was still a wild place, swampy and full of alligators and waving saw grass. It was the kind of landscape Wallace Stevens had in mind when he described the "venereal soil" of Florida.
"There were a lot of snakes," Hutton says, fishing in her bag for a homemade cigarette. "You like snakes?"
Eventually Hutton made her way to New York. She worked briefly as a Playboy bunny, took up with a disc jockey 19 years her senior, returned to New Orleans, then drifted back to Manhattan, arriving like Holly Golightly and every other pretty yokel of legend, with a cheap suitcase, no contacts, and carrying only a minimal grubstake on which to build a future. "If I hadn't been poor I would never have been a model," she says now. "I was always a tomboy. I liked doing interesting shit, the stuff boys get to do." Stubbing out her half-smoked cigarette and returning it to her purse to save for later, she adds, "I was the girl that beheaded dolls."
The two of us are sitting opposite each other at a table behind a privacy hedge that separates us from the Sunset Tower's Terrace Lounge. It's in the lounge and atop the pool—covered for the occasion—that Vanity Fair holds its annual post-Oscars party. And it's there that all the famous players, in their Lloyd's-bonded jewelry and their borrowed couture finery, preen for the press and the paparazzi and then afterward clump around inside like denizens of a celebrity petting zoo, idly chattering until the keepers come with trays of sliders from In-N-Out Burger, signaling the end of the party, when everyone can go home again—purpose served.
It's easy to imagine Hutton in that kind of setting, another of the occupationally beautiful. But red carpets have never been Hutton's natural terrain. "I have only been on one red carpet in my life," she says, despite having appeared in dozens of movies and television series.
Although the claim cannot be altogether accurate, it's certainly true that Hutton shirked celebrity more energetically than she ever courted it. "I always behave badly. It's always easy for me to behave badly in any situation. I have this distrust of people."
In a celebrated Vogue of June 1973, the one featuring 22 pages of Hutton photographed by Richard Avedon, a writer describes her as "deliberately self-mocking, slightly mischievous, not at all awed by her tremendous success but not taking it for granted either."
That particular story is most notable for having produced Avedon's abstracted image of a bare-breasted Hutton, an image titled Lauren Hutton, Great Exuma, The Bahamas. Among photography collectors it is a canonical work. In 2008 a print of it was auctioned at Christie's for $127,000. The picture I prefer from that shoot is a kind of mug shot, a black-and-white portrait covered with Hutton's handwritten notations of her flaws. Regarding her nose she has scrawled "red rubber ball flying-banana bridge." At the brow she notes "old tomboy scars." The "laugh lines on their way to becoming tire treads," as she wrote, never did become tracks. But the off-center chin, the asymmetrical jawline, the upper lip "much higher" on the right side are exactly the same today.
The fact is she's not classically beautiful. She would tell you so herself. "She wears truthfulness like a slightly embarrassing chronic disease," said that Vogue writer of decades ago. But facts are not truth, and the reality is that when Hutton is in a room your eye naturally goes to her. The writer Camille Paglia once wrote of Hutton, "She creates this mental space around her, and she sweeps everyone around her into her orbit." She also possesses a force that Fabien Baron, the editorial director of Interview, ascribed to Kate Moss, another quirky beauty whose astounding career few in the modeling business could have predicted: "the mental power to put it forward." Kohle Yohannan, the curator of the blockbuster 2009 show "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, said of Moss that she is always the biggest part of any picture she's in. Hutton is the same.
It's not just that she jumped around a lot in the images Avedon took of her. It's that she always seems to be headed somewhere important just outside the frame. More often than not, she was—to the Great Barrier Reef or Antarctica or the Amazon or Kenya or anyplace in the back of beyond. She "sought out the wild places," she says. And in each country she would "find out where you were not supposed to go and head straight there. It's always the thing to do." The roads she tended to follow are the ones that show up on maps as broken red lines.
"I was healing myself three times a year with my trips," Hutton says. "After smiling for two months in a row, I took off."
For nearly 30 years she traveled with Bob Williamson, a boyfriend whom she described in those days as "my old man" and whom even now she refers to as her "safety net." This seems like an odd formulation, given that over the course of their long relationship Williamson, who died in 1997, squandered millions of dollars of Hutton's earnings. (Hutton never married or had children.)
She now considers the loss the cost of doing emotional business. "Bob was as brave as he could be. He saved my life at least five times," Hutton says, and she intends it literally. He also kept her anchored, "making sure I didn't get seduced by the work."
Leaning back on the banquette, Hutton adds, "I didn't have a father, and I wanted to be a child with a protector. I'd never seen a shrink, and there was a psychological situation that clearly needed to be addressed. But, you know, I wanted to see the world and how people lived and think about who are we, how are we, why is the world? And Bob did that for me."
After Williamson left her, she picked up the pieces and went back to work again. "I could have moaned and groaned and stayed in bed for a year," she says. "That was my money! Anyway, I was lucky I started again, because this time the money was mine and I kept it, and that's why I'm not a bag lady right now."
She kept traveling, too, to all the wild places, what few of them remain. "I went to the Solomons in June," she says, referring to the remote island chain in the South Pacific. "I collected some weird stuff there," she adds, grinning. "I have some lovely penis sheaths."
Ivan Bart, the managing director of IMG Models, the powerhouse agency that represents Kate Moss, Gisele Bündchen, Kate Upton, and Hutton, among others, says that it is precisely this almost heedless spirit of adventure that has allowed Hutton to make comebacks at age 45 and now, nearly 25 years later, shooting with star photographers, scoring ad campaigns and French Vogue covers at an age when her contemporaries are waiting for Social Security checks.
"It's because, in between, she's had a life," Bart told me. "She allowed herself to live and have other experiences than just having a career. She was living in Africa, learning different religions, being an adventurer. She is fearless, whether she's sailing down the Nile or riding a motorbike across the desert with Dennis Hopper. She rides like the boys."
That fearlessness has not come without a cost. She was riding with the boys—a group that included Hopper, Jeremy Irons, and Thomas Krens, then head of the Guggenheim Museum—in October 2000, on a 100-mile jaunt through the California desert to Las Vegas, to celebrate a planned motorcycle exhibit at the Hermitage-Guggenheim museum, when she lost control on a curve. The 56-year-old Hutton skidded 100 feet and was sent airborne. She suffered multiple leg and arm fractures, broken ribs, and a punctured lung.
It was probably because Irons had handed her a full-face helmet a few moments before the crash that Lauren Hutton still has a face. "I had just come from white shark diving off Belize, and I was pushing it too hard," she says now. She spent close to a year in the hospital, tended in shifts by a group of loyal friends: Alba Clemente, wife of the artist Francesco Clemente; Helen Marden, whose husband is Brice Marden; Jacqueline Schnabel, ex-wife of Julian Schnabel; Jeannette Etheredge, owner of the legendary Tosca Café in San Francisco; Anjelica Huston; and others. It says something about Hutton that her roots are deeper in the art world than in the entertainment industry. Her closest friends are either women artists themselves or the wives of celebrated painters, and Hutton has long maintained strong relationships with artists, including Ed Ruscha, who has been among her closest friends for 40 years. And surely Hutton is the only fashion model one can imagine introducing William S. Burroughs to a network television audience, as she did on Saturday Night Live in 1981.
The accident and recovery, in the company of friends who took care of her during a year when there was no guarantee she would ever stand or walk again, say a good deal about the faith she has engendered from the beginning, when Diana Vreeland, the Vogue dragoness, first pulled her out of obscurity, pronouncing, "You, you have quite a presence."
"I've had experiences others haven't had, not all good, but I don't regret any one of them," Hutton says. "I've healed myself with trips like the ones I took."
The woman who is now writing a memoir she may end up calling Smile adds that "whenever I came back from Africa or the Antarctic, head swelling with the beauty of it all, I found I was loving life again. You look different because of everything that has gone on inside of you." You look, if you're Lauren Hutton, like a person who has lived a very full life, who understands that more than this you cannot ask of the world, and who has seldom chosen to disguise any of it. "My smile," she says, "was real."
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LAKE FOREST, ILL. — Tiger Woods could have done without the two-stroke penalty he received on Friday.
He could have done without his ice-cold putter, too.
The world's No. 1 fired a final-round even-par 71 Monday at soggy Conway Farms Golf Club to finish in a tie for 11th in the BMW Championship, the third leg of the FedExCup playoffs, seven shots behind winner Zach Johnson.
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While the sun returned to the area after Sunday's rain suspended play for a day, nothing could heat up Woods' putter.
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"I think I had somewhere in the neighborhood of either five to seven three-putts this week," said Woods, who actually had five. "That's a lot. It was not a very good putting week. It's just one of those weeks where I just didn't have it.
"If I quit eliminating the simple mistakes on the greens, I would have been all right. I would have been in there with a better chance. But I'm in good shape going into (this) week."
He was in good shape at the start of the final round — just four shots out of the lead after a 66 on Saturday. But Woods just couldn't get anything going.
"I thought I needed to shoot at least 3, 4 under par on the front nine and at least give myself a chance going into the back nine where if I put a good back nine together I might be in there, but I wasn't anywhere near it," Woods said. "The whole idea was to try and shoot something even par or under par today after my start, and I somewhat accomplished that."
Woods returns to No. 1 in the FedExCup standings. He and the others in the top five heading to East Lake Golf Club for the season-ending Tour Championship by Coca-Cola — Henrik Stenson, Adam Scott, Johnson and Matt Kuchar — will win the FedExCup if they win at East Lake.
"We control our destiny and go out there hopefully and win it," Woods said.
By the time he tees off Thursday in The Tour Championship, Woods' latest rules infraction will be behind him. He was assessed a two-stroke penalty in the scoring trailer following his second round. Woods, while removing debris around his ball in back of the first hole, moved the ball. Woods insisted the ball oscillated and returned to its position; Tour rules officials thought otherwise and gave him two strokes.
He also thinks troubles with his back will be behind him. His back tightened up on him shortly into Monday's final round and bothered him slightly coming in.
"It was a little bit tight today," he said. "It's a little bit cooler, and certainly a little bit tight, but it won't be like that next week."
That was in reference to the forecast for Atlanta — high in the upper 70s and low 80s for the week. Perhaps that will warm up his putter, too.


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I hope things turn around and your are able to get into the Sheriff's Office. It seems that we don't have much of choice but to go back to school. The positions I have been looking at want the four year degree and I am not ready to owe that much money to go for another two years. I am hoping that we my experience and schooling it would be enough. I am getting phone calls to further the education, but I tell them, where's the job to pay for the first two years?
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I was looking to get into the Census Bureau but they seem to only hire as a need basis, nothing permanent. I worked there in the last census as a crew leader and really enjoye it. I also applied in the Social Security Administration as a debt collector but I only scored 83, that was the only position availabe. They put my name on the list if they need more people. The problem is that I only have an Associate's Degree in Business Administration and alot of places want a Bachelor's. I just earned the associates and not ready to go for the bachelors. For the internet jobs I am looking other than the government in the field of customer service or management. I have been getting offers from insurance companies to sell life insurance but I do not have the personality for it. Got offered a job in Comcast, a cable company but it was atleast an hour drive and not up to it.
I just checked, it is only by 16 for now.
You did more than me. Went to a job that had my resume, emailed me to come in and apply for the job and after I applied they said they would give it to the HR department, I guess they will do the background check to see if I am worthy of a job interview.
I did notice it, but I think you converse more than me. LOL
Thanks for tags, it was nice of you.
My day went pretty well, how about yours?
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Bottega Venetta Buckle Wedge Sandal
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Item # 267365
Bottega Veneta is luxury at its best. Bringing us beautiful footwear done in the richest materials and with close attention to detail, this iconic brand will never go out of style. This leather buckle sandal is perfect for your chic style.
- Fine Italian leather upper
- Ankle strap with adjustable buckle
- Fully lined with leather
- 1" platform, 5" textured wedge heel
- Leather sole
- Made in Italy
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