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Houston-based Apache Corp, the largest producer of oil and gas in the shallower regions of the Gulf of Mexico, will sell off all of its production there as part of a $3.75 billion cash deal with a unit of New York private equity firm Riverstone Holdings.
The assets include wells currently producing about 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
The sale will end Apache's 30-year run as a producer in Gulf waters up to 1,000 feet deep, known as the shelf region.
Apache's shelf portfolio that is subject to the sale includes more than 500 blocks with 1.9 million net acres and year-end 2012 estimated proved reserves of 133 million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids and 636 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Shareholder concerns: Apache CEO compensation target reduced
The deal effectively means Apache is selling its shallower water Gulf production assets but still has deepwater production assets — currently producing about 13,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day — and will continue to explore.
Prior to Thursday's announcement, the company had said it planned to sell at least $4 billion in assets by the end of this year.
In a conference call with reporters after the announcement, Chief Executive Officer G. Steven Farris said the company has more assets on the table that it is considering selling and the total exceeds $4 billion, but he would not say what, if anything further, the company plans to sell.
The company said it will use the proceeds from the sale of the Gulf assets first to pay down debt and buy back shares.
"This is really the first step in the rebalancing of our portfolio," Farris said.
The Riverstone affiliate, Fieldwood Energy, has agreed to assume all asset retirement obligations for the properties, which, as of June 30, Apache estimated at a discounted value of roughly $1.5 billion.
Apache will keep 50 percent of its ownership interest in all exploration blocks and in horizons below production in developed blocks, where high-potential deep hydrocarbon plays are being tested, the company said.
Fieldwood said in a statement that it and Apache have agreed to jointly participate in deep exploration opportunities on the acquired assets.
Buying spree: Apache cheapest as $16 billion in deals numbs investors
The news comes as Apache has faced concerns over its sagging stock price and some of its investment decisions. In May, shareholders voted down a proposal to raise executive pay at Apache, in what was viewed as a visible rebuke to top management. Apache shares rose then fell then rose again in roller-coaster after-hours trading, as investors digested the Gulf assets sale announcement.
In recent years, Apache has fueled production growth through a series of acquisitions, but has had more trouble in transitioning the company to organic growth. The company wowed investors at its analyst's meeting last June with an ambitious 6 to 9 percent growth target, but has since pulled these goals back to 3 to 5 percent, leaving investors jittery about its prospects.
While the Gulf deal gets Apache close to its target for sales this year, the value the company received seemed unfavorable, said James Sullivan, an analyst for Alembic Global Advisors in New York.
"It is also more of the (Gulf of Mexico) shelf than a lot of people said they would sell," Sullivan said.
He added that Apache appears to have sold "even more than what they wanted to, in order to maximize the cash inflow. I would say the metrics are at the lower end."
But Mark Hanson, an analyst for investment research firm Morningstar in Chicago, said the deal seemed fair and was "probably a good thing for Apache and its shareholders," because production can be a volatile business.
Hanson compared Apache's offshore production records from its Gulf assets to an electrocardiogram readout.
"It's all over the place," he said.
Deep water: US Gulf oil profits lure $16 billion more rigs by 2015
Even with the volatility of production, which can vary because of maintenance or hurricane threats, returns from Apache's production were strong in the past, Hanson said. But removing assets with sudden swings in activity was a good decision, he said.
"I would say it probably does make sense if you're trying to introduce more predictability," Hanson said.
Apache also obtained some important concessions from the deal, mainly the covering of retirement obligations, Sullivan said.
"They've been out there for 30 years and that asset's been very good to them and they know it and they've operated it pretty well," Sullivan said. "But it's obviously a declining asset … they were facing that problem and a significant (retirement) obligation associated with it."
The Gulf assets sale is expected to close Sept. 30.
Apache said Fieldwood has agreed to offer employment to substantially all of the Apache employees affected by the sale.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Members of the Bucknell University community will participate in the national China Town Hall event "Local Connections, National Reflections," featuring U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, on Monday, Oct. 29, in the Terrace Room of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell.
CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of programming designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss China-related issues with leading experts. CHINA Town Hall is generously underwritten by the Starr Foundation.
"This is the first time that Bucknell University has worked with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations to host this national event," said Zhiqun Zhu, MacArthur Chair in East Asian Politics and associate professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell.
"Given the importance of U.S.-China relations today and a fairly prominent role of China in this U.S. presidential election, we are extremely happy that Bucknell can be part of this national discussion."
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Glaser is a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Locke has extensive experience working with China. As Secretary of Commerce, he co-chaired two sessions of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade that resulted in important changes to Chinese trade policy.
As Governor of Washington, he strengthened economic ties between China and Washington, more than doubling the state's exports to China to more than $5 billion per year. As a partner in the Seattle office of the international law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, he co-chaired the firm's China practice.
Locke's grandfather emigrated from China to Washington, initially finding employment as a servant, working in exchange for English lessons. His father, also born in China, was a small business owner, operating a grocery store where Locke worked while receiving his education in Seattle public schools. Locke went on to earn a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale University and a law degree from Boston University.
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Comeback campaigns on tap for big Bay Area bats
PHOENIX -- The best rebounders in the Golden State's Bay Area this year might not be Andrew Bogut and David Lee of the Warriors.
Keep your eyes on the Giants' Buster Posey and Josh Reddick of the Athletics. They appear poised to take flight and do some amazing things.
PHOENIX -- The best rebounders in the Golden State's Bay Area this year might not be Andrew Bogut and David Lee of the Warriors.
Keep your eyes on the Giants' Buster Posey and Josh Reddick of the Athletics. They appear poised to take flight and do some amazing things.
The final days of Spring Training traditionally are a time of fearless forecasts. The feeling here is that Posey and Reddick could rebound their way into Most Valuable Player Award conversations in their respective leagues.
For Posey, this is not exactly an outlandish suggestion. The gifted, resourceful catcher was the National League MVP Award winner in 2012, driving his club to the NL West title and through an improbable World Series championship run.
For Reddick, whose highest finish on an American League MVP Award ballot was 16th in 2012, it constitutes a serious leap of faith. But if anybody warrants that, it's Reddick, whose leaping, spectacular catches in the opening game of the Cactus League, robbing the Giants' Michael Morse of two homers, endured as the highlights of Cactus League play.
"Josh has shown what he can do," said teammate Coco Crisp, the center fielder who knows the sensation of stealing homers. "He's a great athlete capable of doing great things."
Neither Posey nor Reddick could find personal satisfaction in 2013. Intensely competitive Southern gentlemen, they were frustrated in different ways -- Posey by his team's plunge to sub-.500 territory; Reddick by a wrist injury seven games into the season that deprived him of the strength and bat speed needed to wheel on 95-mph fastballs and launch them.
Playing the same number of games (148) with 10 fewer at-bats, Posey watched his offensive production tumble across the board last year.
Only by Posey's elevated standards was his line of .294/.371/.450 a disappointment. During his 2012 NL MVP Award campaign, those figures were .336/.408/.549. Posey's home runs (24 to 15) and RBIs (103 to 72) declined, and his total bases fell from 291 to 234.
The team's leader by example more than voice, Posey went to work over the winter, adding 10 pounds of muscle. His focus is on lifting the team's 76-86 record, which left the Giants tied for third with the Padres in the NL West. Raising his own numbers can only help the club, whether Posey hits third or fourth in manager Bruce Bochy's lineup.
"I definitely think it served as extra motivation," said Posey, who blew out 27 birthday candles on Thursday.
Hitting .325 with 13 homers at the All-Star break, the catcher batted .244 after the Midsummer Classic, driving in only 16 runs. That's not Buster Posey.
"The focal point was more about being strong and explosive," Posey said when asked about the added weight. "That's our game. That's baseball. You have to be strong, but everything you do is explosive. Hitting is explosive. Pitching is explosive. Catching and blocking [pitches] are explosive. So I think that was more of the focal point, trying to get in good shape to maintain that throughout the course of the year."
At his peak, Posey is as valuable as any player in the game. A return to winning form by the Giants in a division the defending champion Dodgers are expected to rule would go a long way toward moving him back into MVP consideration.
Few players in the game are as explosive as Reddick, who, like Posey, is a 27-year-old Georgia native. Embarking on his third season in Oakland after coming over in the Dec. 28, 2011, five-player swap that sent closer Andrew Bailey to Boston, Reddick has the talent and drive to be an elite player.
Reddick's breakout 2012 season featured everything but a high batting average. Hitting .242, the slender, graceful athlete launched 32 homers and drove in 85 runs with a .463 slugging percentage while making the adjustment to Oakland's spacious dimensions.
Reddick claimed the AL Rawlings Gold Glove Award in right field, the advanced metrics reflecting his all-around skills. Only Jason Heyward and Gerardo Parra, both playing more games, have saved more runs than Reddick's 42 the past three seasons.
Reddick's 2013 season was derailed almost before it began. Aggressively pursuing a fly ball in Houston on April 7, he crashed into a metal bar in the right-field fence in Houston. Gritting his teeth and continuing to play in spite of the pain, Reddick went 27 games without a home run, finally going deep on June 6 in Chicago against the White Sox. His season average fell to .226, his slugging to .379, and he experienced a 20-homer loss to 12.
"I'm not going to use it as an excuse," Reddick said. "It was my third game in that park and I should have known that bar was there. I learned from that. I'm going to go out and check every wall before games from now on.
"I've put it behind me. I know what I can do when I'm healthy. That's the biggest thing for any player -- being healthy."
No self-respecting athlete wants to be accused of making alibis, but there is a difference between excuses and explanations. What happened in Houston explains why Reddick wasn't Reddick as the A's rolled to the AL West title without the thunder in his bat.
In 254 at-bats for Boston in 2011, Reddick hit .280 and slugged .457. If he bats close to .280 and the power returns, he can be an MVP-caliber player. The competition in the AL is fierce, obviously. Two-time MVP Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout are superstars. But if the A's roar and Reddick soars, who knows?
Lyle Spencer is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Dear John Scott, by Bobby Robins
Posted on: 02-14-16 06:25 PM Posted by:
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http://www.bobbyrobins.com/blog/dear-john-scott- nh...
You don't know me, but I know you. More specifically, I know of you. I've seen all of your fights online. I was playing in Providence, the Boston Bruins farm team, when you TKO'd Shawn Thornton a couple years back. I was on the first year of my NHL contract with the Bruins, just waiting for my chance. Word was that Thornton would be out for a couple of weeks. I was shitting my pants thinking that I might get called up. The Bruins were playing against Buffalo the next week, where you would be waiting. I sat there and I wondered if this was the time. Shouldn't I feel excited about this? And then I went back and re-watched all of your fights. It didn't help. It got worse. But I signed up for this, and I forced myself to accept it. Once I dispersed all that fear, I prepared myself and I was ready. I would do the job. Or I would die trying.
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"The NHL Is Losing Part of Its Uniqueness without Fighting" -- Vice article
Posted on: 12-12-15 08:00 AM Posted by:
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https://sports.vice.com/ca/article/the-nhl-is -losi...
December 11, 2015
Dave Bidini
"The NHL Is Losing Part of Its Uniqueness without Fighting"
OK, it's gone, or mostly gone. Handfuls of teams have single-digit fights, including the Maple Leafs, who have a league-low one fighting major this season. The average amount of fights per game has been cut in half over the last 15 seasons. How do we feel about this? Do we miss the fighting? Is there an element of the game that seems suddenly, strikingly absent? Do ticket prices justify watching a physical sport where hardly anyone is physical anymore? Or rather: Do ticket prices justify watching a physical sport where hardly anyone is physical anymore, especially when no one scores goals, either? Can the NHL put fighting back in the game? Some fighting? Any fighting?
A few years ago, I programmed a literary event that had Toronto Star sports writer Cathal Kelly as one of its presenters. Kelly told a story of one summer working abroad as a young man, eventually settling in western Europe. He remembered attending an early Radiohead show in a field—a festival of some kind—and having his view blocked by an enormous umbrella, even though the evening was clear. The umbrella holder was hectored by the crowd until, finally, it collapsed. After the umbrella came down, one of Cathal's friends sighed and said, "And now, we miss the umbrella." This is a little how I feel about fighting.
READ MORE: The NHL Must Reinvent Itself to Address the Rapid Decline in Scoring
I don't miss fighting. Rather, I miss the idea of fighting. I miss the idea that, at any point, the pressure and tension and drama of a game can explode in a hail of fists; ten men losing their shit and addressing their emotions the way we've been taught not to. The cultural significance of fighting is complicated. To me, it was always a little like watching pornography. To paraphrase Susan Sontag: "For the first ten minutes, all you want to do is fuck. For the next ten, it's the last thing you want to do." I wonder if there's a way of getting those first ten minutes back while stopping the next ten from happening.
Does the game seem duller without the threat of pugilism? For devotees of the sport, it probably does not—we watch the play in all of its glorious detail, and we'll keep watching no matter what it becomes—but for those who give it a passing glance (the very demographic that, in the USA at least, will, or won't, put hockey over the top, or at least beyond the mighty five or six dominant mainstream sports), you wonder how many eyeballs have cruised across the game without being drawn to the sight of two sanguine men slugging away at each other, eyes pinched during contact and hair greased in sweat hanging down their necks. Has a certain colour—bloodred, I suppose—become drained from the sport to the point that it shines less hard? Is it now more monochromatic? Do people miss the umbrella?
Tie Domi, Bob Propert, Marty McSorley, Donald Brashear, Tony Twist, Ogie Ogilthorpe, the Hansons, Eddie Shore, Gilles Bilodeau, Felix Batterinski, and dirty Steve Durbano, who died destitute in Yellowknife—for all of their ice crimes (in the case of Batterinski, it was a fictional life), they were enormous cultural figures in the wild and complex narrative of the game. Because of the current absence of goons or policemen—choose your term—there's a vacuum in the game. And with most safe-minded and micro-managed players entrapped in an already stultifyingly goal-challenged game, characters who possessed a true sense of individuality—impetuous and controversial—have been mortgaged in favour of something the NHL has yet to invent.
There are all kinds of issues regarding the decline of fighting, and the possible, eventual, elimination of it. The ongoing lawsuit brought by retired players—alleging that the NHL knowingly put players at risk despite decades of data connecting blows to the head with long-term neurological damage—has likely informed the league's decision to move swiftly (hastily) to rid the league of fisticuffs. But, whatever the NHL's motivations, it underestimated the effect of changing a product in which fighting, or rather, the idea of fighting, was central to its play. Fighting was and is mostly ugly and dangerous, but it also gave the game a kind of character found no where else in professional sport.
I always insisted that fighting wouldn't be missed if it disappeared, and I still think that (I think). But as the game becomes puck chess, I'm left wondering. Hockey has to figure out how it can still remain unique and wild in fighting's absence. These days, we're paying hundreds of dollars to watch players not only not score, but not fight, either.
Not a single umbrella, anywhere.
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This is what starts to happen without fighting....
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Pretty much expect to see more of this kind of stuff as the game drifts away from the game we once loved.
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NHL enforcers and fights are slowly vanishing
Posted on: 12-10-14 02:01 PM Posted by:
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By DAN GELSTON (AP Sports Writer)December 9, 2014 2:28 PMAP - Sports
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Dave Schultz would drop his gloves in a flash, his bare fists pummeling away at unprotected faces in fits of fury so ferocious he became known as ''The Hammer.''
Schultz was the intimidating backbone of Philadelphia's ''Broad Street Bullies'' teams of the 1970s that won a pair of Stanley Cup championships. The Flyers' rugged style of play became their calling card, and by the 1980s every team had a tough guy or two whose primary role was to protect his teammates by brute force.
Fast forward 40 years since the Flyers' last championship and players like Schultz are having a harder time sticking in the NHL. The role of the enforcer is seemingly going down without a fight as speed and skill on every line have become the norm.
In a league that is also facing head injury concerns - and lawsuits - is it finally time to say goodbye to the goon?
''They just wanted to take fighting out of the game,'' Schultz said. ''It's not the same game.''
But not necessarily a worse one.
The true signal the culture in the NHL has changed comes from Schultz's old stomping grounds. For the first time since the organization was in its infancy, the Flyers opened the season without a true enforcer on their roster. Heck, their biggest threat might be goalie Ray Emery, who headlined a fight last season against Washington's unwilling goalie, Braden Holtby.
''We've got some toughness on our team,'' Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said. ''We've got some guys that can handle themselves. But I think when you look, there weren't a lot of fights in the preseason. There are never any fights in the playoffs. In between, there's been less and less.''
The numbers back up the former NHL goalie.
There were 143 fights through the first 408 games of the season, which projects to 431 fights overall, according to hockeyfights.com. That's a dramatic dip from 734 fights in 2008-09 and 714 fights in 2009-10. The number of fights fell into the 500s in 2011-12 and the 400s last season (there were 347 fights in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season).
The NHL has toughened instigation penalties in place since the 1930s. It added a two-minute minor for the player who started the fight in the 1990s, looking to both cut down on brawling and perhaps attract more casual fans. Of late, the NHL is dishing out longer suspensions for cheap shots and illegal hits, erasing some of the players' unwritten code of justice.
''That tells you, let's just play hockey,'' Schultz said. ''And when there's a problem, the league will take care of it.''
That role used to be left to the enforcers, the de facto bodyguards for the stars. Back on the put-up-your-dukes heyday, even Wayne Gretzky had his own personal great one watching his back: Marty McSorley was the Hall of Famer's first line of thuggish defense, serving and protecting Gretzky in stints with Edmonton and Los Angeles.
''I remember when guys like Gretzky said, we want guys to be able to protect us,'' Schultz said. ''(Sidney) Crosby doesn't want to be protected. By the league, yes. But not by one of his teammates.''
Stu Grimson, the color analyst on Nashville Predators' TV broadcasts, was known as ''The Grim Reaper'' with 2,113 career penalty minutes in his NHL career. He said fighting still has a role in the game, especially at home games where one entertaining scrum can shift momentum and liven up the fans.
''I think the fight itself, there is a purpose for it, and you can put your finger on that purpose,'' he said. ''I think it makes sense to keep that in the game, and I think it's valuable to the game for that reason.''
Chicago Blackhawks forward Dan Carcillo said fights aren't going to completely vanish, either.
''I don't think the mindless, senseless, go out and fight, rah-rah, for no reason, I don't think that has a place in the game anymore,'' Carcillo said. ''If guys take runs at other players, I think those players that take the run at them, whether they fight or not, they have to know in the back of their mind that there's still fighting in this game and they're going to have to answer the bell or respond to it if they're going to take dirty runs or cheap shots.''
But in the back of everyone minds is the risk of concussions and other long-term health risks that come with trading punches on the ice. The idea that brawling was as much fun as a nasty wreck in NASCAR or bench-clearing brawl in baseball came to a jarring halt in 2011 when three former enforcers were found dead.
Derek Boogaard, once named in a Sports Illustrated players poll as the NHL's toughest fighter, died from an accidental mix of alcohol and the painkiller oxycodone. Wade Belak hanged himself and Rick Rypien was discovered at his home after suffering from depression for a decade.
The 65-year-old Schultz said he suffered nothing more than a couple of minor concussions and feels fine.
''We didn't hit anyone near as hard as they do today,'' Schultz said.
There are just now far fewer of those hits.
''It's still an exciting sport,'' Schultz said. ''It's just evolving. It's the way it is.''
AP Sports Writer Pat Graham in Denver and Teresa M. Walker in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report
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USA Hockey Alienating Hockey Down South with Increased Fighting Rules
Posted on: 06-10-14 06:27 PM Posted by:
USA Hockey Alienating Hockey Down South with Increased Fighting Rules
By: Joey Battaino
By now we have all heard about the rule changes that USA Hockey implemented during their Annual Congress last week in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The council recommended and passed stricter fighting rules for Tier I and Tier II players, including a 10-minute misconduct to accompany a five minute major for any fight during the course of a game.
Of course, we must not forget about the children, who according to USA Hockey's VP for the Junior Council John Vanbiesbrouck, would be helpless to gain any information about the connections to fighting and head trauma, if it were not for USA Hockey imposing rules on them.
"Our efforts in player saftey include a concerted focus on eliminating dangerous behavior in junior hockey,"
STOP! We are ALREADY on a very slippery slope on what USA Hockey considers "dangerous" as it is. By this logic, Open-ice body checks are dangerous. Are we on the road to eliminating checking in the junior ranks?
Many people will look at that last paragraph and see an overreaction. I have a feeling that owners of teams down south may be right on track with my thinking.
Lets take a look at the NAHL's South Division in the 2013-14 season, which had six out of their seven members in the top 10 in attendance. Lone Star (North Richland Hills, TX) was 11th.
According to hockeyfights.com, the South Division partook in 245 of the 348 fights in the league last season. In fact, the top four teams in fighting Corpus Christi, Rio Grande Valley, Amarillo, and Wichita Falls all compete in the South Division. This is hardly a coincidence, folks.
Rough house hockey south of the Mason-Dixon dates back to 1996 and the birth of the Western Professional Hockey League. In a time where folks still didn't know the North Stars moved to Dallas, a new professional hockey league took shape in nontraditional hockey markets like Rio Rancho, NM, Austin, Amarillo, and Waco. Attendance numbers soared and expansion soon followed for this rough and tumble league. The birth of the WPHL has been what has arguably kept the Stars in Dallas. Hear me out, here. Was the popularity of the Stars, just in Big D, enough to keep them in Dallas? No. They needed neighboring regions to buy in. The Stars needed the WPHL and in turn the WPHL needed the Stars. And just like the NAHL needs the South Division, the South Division needs fighting. Not a rodeo circus every night, but fans down here need to know that part of their entertainment value in a ticket is the chance that a fight will break out. That was what their hockey values were built on. Think of the first time you saw the game of hockey. Growing up in Michigan in the early 90's, I saw both sides of the game. Steve Yzerman would gracefully carry himself around the ice creating plays for his line mates, while big, bruising Bob Probert would barrel his way through defenders and not think twice about it. For many in the south, the first time they saw the game they were witnessing Jacques Mailhot fighting security guards in full hockey gear on the concrete in Rio Rancho. They thought that is what hockey was. People grew used to this style of hockey that contined into the last 2000's when the pro hockey model became much too expensive for smaller markets. Teams in the south switched to juniors to save a few bucks but not to sell their stripes. Amarillo, Topeka, Odessa, Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, and Rio Grande Valley all continued to play the styles that had made them successful in the past.
My biggest fear in all of this is that I am not entirely convinced that the Tier II product can survive without fighting. Tier II provides an opportunity for players who might not have the speed or skill to compete at the Tier I level, a chance to get a Division I scholarship. What is never highlighted by the league, for obvious reasons, is it's physical, sometimes over-the-edge type play. I'll cite one major example. Weekly, the league requests members send in what they think are the top plays of the week. Not once this season, was a fight, or even a hit, highlighted. Hits and Fights can change the outlook of a hockey game and can be just as important as a goal or save. It's a game built on momentum.
At the end of the day, I don't think we are giving enough credit to the kids who are coming up to play juniors. With so much talk about head trauma awareness, isn't there enough information available to players that they can make their OWN educated decision on whether it is safe for them to fight or not? When I was younger, it was simple. If you are not a fighter, you put on a cage. A visor was as good as a welcome mat. If you were tough you didn't hide behind the cage because at that time, the rules didn't protect players who wore cages. Everything and everyone was fair game, as it should be.
Proponents to these rule changes will say that this is one step closer to eliminating fighting in junior hockey all together. With the information provided above, it would seem that we are one step closer to eliminating hockey in the South all together.
This is an opinion piece and in no way reflects the views of the Odessa Jackalopes, the NAHL, or any of it's members.
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Helmets, Hypocrisy, and Hockey
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The NHL season is upon us. After a tumultuous 12-13 season that saw no pre-season and a shortened season the league is back with its full 82 game regular season schedule for 13-14. Full of hope and excitement as well as full of some new rules that are based in total hypocrisy and political correctness.
Players whom have played less than 26 games must wear a visor. As of last season, 73% of NHL players were already wearing them. It is mandatory in Juniors and in the AHL. I like the idea of personal choice to professional players who choose to not wear one, but the rule happened because of Marc Staal's unfortunate accident. It has happened before and it will happen again to players who wear visors as injuries are part of the game. Overall I don't have issue with the rule except for it creates a serious problem to the grandfather players combined with yet another rule.
This would be the helmets during fighting rule. This rule trips over itself in hypocrisy and stupidity. So if you take off your helmet to engage in a fight you get an extra minor. It's about safety. How is it "safe" for a grandfathered player who chooses not to wear a visor to engage in a fight with a player who has to wear one? One of them is forced to fight with their face exposed and the other with it protected with the shield. Forget the hand injuries that come with punching a shield, but this scenario that has already played out creates an uneven playing field. Players do hurt themselves sometimes hitting their head on the ice during a fight. It is a reality to the sport. The thing is when two men are engaged in a bare-knuckled on ice skates sometimes people will get hurt. A player is more likely to injury their hand or in the case of players who does not wear a shield and is fighting someone who does he is at a greater risk due to this rule.
There was a popular NHL promotional commercial that I saw up until this summer that showed a fight in where Joe Thornton and Jamie Been took off their helmets to engage into a fight. So the new rule is for safety, yet it is used to promote the game at the same time? Profit over safety is the NHL's way I guess. Those Center Ice packages don't sell themselves.
The league is a walking contradiction when it comes to fighting. They create rules like this to limit/curb fighting yet make money off of the new EA NHL14 game that has a primary selling point of a new fighting engine. Make up your mind.
Anyone who thinks these changes are for safety are being very naive. This is about looking at what happened in the NFL with lawsuits and seeing some of the tragic deaths of young hockey players, most of them pugilists. This has nothing to do with safety, but money.
Besides, hockey is a very physically demanding sport. While rules are needed as well as advances in equipment the game has a physicality to it that will result in players getting hurt. Adding politically correct rules that cause more harm then good will stop this. You can't Nerf proof the NHL. The league is slowly but surely alienating its fans. Hopefully after some poor NHL vet that does not wear a visor gets his clocked cleaned by someone who does wear one and tucks his chin while firing a big punch the league can see how absurd forcing guys to keep their helmets on is. Sadly that won't change a thing but I assure you it will be on highlights and promotional videos to sell the game. Those Center Ice packages don't sell themselves.
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Time For Tom Sestito To Prove His NHL Mettle
Posted on: 03-03-13 09:59 AM Posted by:
Time for Tom Sestito to prove his NHL mettle
Canucks new winger a waiver-wire pickup, and plays with one speed — full throttle
Tom Sestito, here with the Columbus Blue Jackets, redirects a shot past goalie Roberto Luongo for his first NHL career goal during a game in December 2010 at Rogers Arena. The two are now teammates, as Sestito was acquired from the Philadelphia Flyers off of waivers.
Tom Sestito has been called a lot of things. Some of them are flattering. Some aren't.
As a waiver-wire claim after the Vancouver Canucks lost Aaron Volpatti to the Washington Capitals in the same process Thursday, the hulking winger has a hard head and soft hands — he scored his first two NHL goals against Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider — but his long-term effectiveness as a fourth-line checker, grinder and fighter will be measured in the short term. The 6-foot-5, 228 pound forward knows he can't be a gentle giant in the Canucks' ongoing fourth-line experiments with Steve Pinizzotto honing his game with the Chicago Wolves.
Sestito made the right first impression Saturday.
After levelling Colin Fraser with a heavy shoulder check in the neutral zone that dropped the Los Angeles Kings centre, he had to answer a challenge from Jordan Nolan. Sestito got in the first four punches — popping the lid off the Kings winger — and also absorbed four punches. The fight not only got Sestito going, it energized his new teammates in a 5-2 victory at Rogers Arena. Sestito also nearly scored early in the third period and forced Jonathan Quick to make a shoulder save.
"You don't want to wait around to get into the game," said Sestito, who finished with three hits in 7:03 on a line with Jordan Schroeder and Dale Weise. "It was good to get that first fight out of the way and the first game out of the way and go from there. After the hit, I just looked around to see if anybody was coming and I was expecting somebody. I wasn't looking for a fight, but that's my game.
"It was great. An unbelievable atmosphere and the fans were great."
So was Sestito.
"He was physical when he had the opportunity and had a good scrap," said Canucks coach Alain Vigneault. "He seemed to be comfortable with the puck and I think we've got some elements to work with there."
That doesn't surprise Scott Arniel. He enjoyed coaching Sestito in Columbus and hated coaching against him in the AHL and that says something. In this abnormal NHL season, waiver-wire claims have become the norm as teams wrestle with compacted schedules and expanded injury lists. Fourth lines are a factor, not an afterthought, because Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago proved as the last three Stanley Cup champions how effective the right fourth line can be. In that respect, Sestito took a step in the right direction.
"That's the one thing with Tommy — if anything you've got to calm him down and don't let him get too rattled," said Arniel, who now guides the Wolves. "He's one guy you don't have to wire up. He's not afraid and if he recognizes that fine line between taking a bad penalty or going after somebody, he can be a real solid player."
The book on Sesito includes 26 fights at the NHL level — including one against Zack Kassian last season just 11 days before the winger was traded from Buffalo to Vancouver — and an OHL resume with Plymouth that included a 42 goals and 135 penalty minutes in 2006-07 with linemate James Neal and a Memorial Cup semi-final appearance at the Pacific Coliseum. That came a year after he was selected by the Blue Jackets in the third round of the draft. There was also the growth spurt from 5-foot-10 to 6-foot-3 the year before junior and the constant comparison to his older brother, Tim, who plays in the New Jersey system.
However, above all, there's the chance to expand a 35-game NHL career with Columbus, Philadelphia and Vancouver that includes four goals — two this season — to go with seven assists and 164 penalty minutes. He knows that. Just ask him about the waiver-wire claim.
"I was ecstatic," sid the 25-year-old Rome, N.Y native. "I was surprised because I had heard rumours about Edmonton and I've been here a couple of times and it's a great city."
Sestito can't let a recent charley horse injury slow his approach, even though he hasn't played in a couple of weeks. After all, Calgary has recalled Brian McGratton and Sestito may have to take on the Flames enforcer Sunday in the Saddledome.
"You've just got to get out there and it doesn't matter who I play, I play the same way with hitting bodies and fighting if I have to," added Sestito. "And I love playing in the away rinks because the fans get on you and under your skin and that's good to hear. I've got one speed and I go full all the time."
Had the Canucks known Ryan Kesler's right foot was broken before they placed Volpatti on waivers — an awkward two-hour window — then Sestito probably wouldn't even be here. The Canucks were hoping Volpatti would clear waivers and develop his limited game with more ice time in the AHL. And knowing Pinizzotto will eventually play his first NHL game because Volpatti was placed on waivers to activate Pinizzotto from injury reserve, there were enough fourth-liners in the fold.
"We liked what he (Volpatti) did here, but you need to be able to kill penalties and he didn't develop last year because he was hurt for the entire season," said Canucks general manager Mike Gillis. "And we still want to have a player like that, so we selected Tom."
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Sens Should Re-Sign Tough Duo
Posted on: 06-11-12 06:53 PM Posted by:
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Sens should re-sign tough duo
By Don Brennan ,Ottawa Sun
First posted: Thursday, June 07, 2012 05:38 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, June 07, 2012 07:11 PM EDT
Matt Carkner catches his breath at practice early in the 2011-12 season. (Darren Brown/Ottawa Sun)
Two key ingredients in the Senators' recipe for modest success this season were toughness and chemistry.
That's why there should be no hesitation in re-signing Matt Carkner.
I understand GM Bryan Murray when he says he "can't bring them all back" when referring to seven pending unrestricted free agents.
He needs to make room for Jakob Silfverberg, maybe Mika Zibanejad, perhaps Mark Stone, and possibly one, if not both, of Patrick Wiercioch and Mark Borowiecki.
He wants to have openings for a veteran, defensive defenceman to replace Filip Kuba and either another free-agent signing or a training camp surprise.
But there also has to be a spot for a 6-foot-4, 230-pound blueliner who happens to be one of the top heavyweights in the league.
A man among so many boys in the dressing room.
A guy coach Paul MacLean scratched from the lineup during the regular season but leaned on in the playoffs, and someone he would have turned to again in Game 7 against the Rangers if Carkner's knee wasn't banged up.
A Winchester product who has a lot of fans here and was making only $700,000 this season. His cap hit won't be an issue.
Carkner has his shortcomings, but he also has a lot of respect, both around the league and on this team. He has an off-ice demeanour that makes him popular with Senators who play a little bigger and braver knowing he has their back.
Carkner re-emphasized he'll stop at no length to stand up for them by confronting Brian Boyle in Game 2, and the Senators rallied around the beating he administered.
Going forward, the only possible issue could be Carkner's knee. But even if it will never again be 100%, he's worth having as a sixth or seventh defencemen on a team that shouldn't have to rely every night on two rookie rearguards.
Only four other defencemen are expected to return in September — Erik Karlsson, Jared Cowen, Chris Phillips and Sergei Gonchar. That number could be trimmed to three if Murray can somehow unload Gonchar's $5.5 million salary.
Re-signing Carkner should be a no-brainer, and at the end of the day I expect Murray will see it as such.
Of the six others who are eligible to test the market, Kuba, defenceman Matt Gilroy and backup goalie Alex Auld are gone. If winger Rob Klinkhammer is re-inked, he'll likely be playing in Binghamton.
Jesse Winchester is certainly worth retaining if he's over his concussion problems.
That leaves Zenon Konopka.
Like Carkner, Konopka provided plenty of grit and leadership. (Remember when Senators teams would be searching high and low for those qualities)?
Like Carkner, he watched a number of regular-season games from the press box. Like Carkner, he was tapped on the shoulder by MacLean in the playoffs — and his effort in response should have earned him another contract here.
Konopka could barely walk, his back was so bad, but he pleaded to keep playing. He had the best faceoff winning percentage of any centre on the 16 first-round playoff teams, and he helped set up huge goals in Game 2 and Game 5 victories, both at Madison Square Garden.
Like Carkner, he made $700,000 and wants to come back. Konopka, like Carkner, is 31. There are plenty of miles left in his tank. Also, his personality is strong in the dressing room, where it's known he'll do anything it takes to win.
There's a theory the Senators were able to come from behind to win so many games in the third period because they weren't intimidated — opponents couldn't push them around when protecting a lead. The presence of Carkner and Konopka was a big part of that.
Perhaps Konopka isn't as likely to be re-signed as Carkner because the Senators would like to put Zack Smith in his fourth-line role and sign Chris Kelly to centre the third. But then, Kelly can also play wing.
It's a great thing to have so much promising youth, but it's also necessary to possess a blend of veterans with character. Should Murray allow Carkner and/or Konopka to slip away, he'll bring in more toughness — probably, younger players to fill the role.
But Murray would be messing with chemistry by following that path. and the Senators already have a lot of youth. To show the way and protect them, they're best hanging on to and rewarding two good men who are already here and eager to reach for a pen.
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July 2006—TREAT Asia has signed a contract with Family Health International's Asia Regional Program to serve as the Regional Coordination Secretariat for a new network of HIV programs for men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Greater Mekong Subregion. The Secretariat will be initially funded by the United States Agency for International Development's Regional Development Mission/Asia and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Global AIDS Program.
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Infertility seems to be more common in women with untreated celiac disease. Other gynecological and obstetrical problems may also be more common, including miscarriages and preterm births.
For men, problems can include abnormal sperm -- such as lower sperm numbers, altered shape, and reduced function. Men with untreated celiac disease may also have lower testosterone levels.
The good news is that with proper treatment with a gluten-free diet and correction of nutritional deficiencies, the prognosis for future pregnancies is much improved.
Celiac disease -- which prevents your body from properly digesting gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley – may be far more common than previously thought. A decade ago, it was believed that celiac disease affected just one in 10,000 Americans.
But a 2004 report by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that as many as one in every 133 Americans have it. That equates to roughly 2 million people suffering from gluten intolerance in the US alone.
There are many millions more that suffer from sub-clinical gluten intolerance – some estimate as many as 30 million Americans -- so there is a very real possibility that you or someone you know is affected by this.
Unfortunately, celiac disease can manifest in so many ways, it's frequently misdiagnosed and/or mistreated. One study showed it takes an average of 11 years for patients to receive a correct diagnosis!
What is Celiac Disease?
Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease, much like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. To get the disease, you must have both a genetic predisposition plus an environmental factor that triggers the disease.
In this case, the environmental trigger is gluten.
If you have celiac disease, eating gluten triggers an autoimmune response, provoking your body to attack itself and destroy healthy tissues, especially the villi in your small intestine. This can also have a detrimental effect on your body's ability to absorb and process nutrients.
Some of the most common symptoms of this disease process include:
- Chronic diarrhea
- Gas
- Bloating
- Acid reflux
- Constipation
Even a small amount of gluten can trigger a response.
How Celiac Disease Can Affect Your Fertility
In the New York Times article above, Dr. Sheila Crowe, a professor in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Virginia, provides information about a slightly lesser known side effect of celiac disease, namely infertility, which can affect both men and women with the disease.
Studies from various countries indicate that fertility problems are indeed more common in women with untreated celiac disease, compared to women who do not have it.
The risk of suffering other gynecological and obstetrical problems like miscarriage or preterm birth is also higher for those with celiac disease.
In addition, other common menstrual disorders that frequently affect women with celiac disease include:
- Later onset of menstruation
- Earlier menopause
- Secondary amenorrhea (a condition in which menses starts but then stops)
These menstrual abnormalities, along with other hormonal disruptions they cause, can lead to fewer ovulations, which in turn results in a reduced chance of pregnancy.
Men with the disease, especially if it's undiagnosed, can also face fertility problems due to:
- Abnormal sperm (reduced sperm count, altered shape, and reduced function)
- Reduced testosterone levels
How to Diagnose Celiac Disease
As Dr. Crowe recommends, it might be wise to get screened for celiac disease if you suffer from repeated miscarriages or are unable to conceive for unknown reasons – especially if you suffer any of the most common symptoms.
Just remember that symptoms can vary widely, and symptoms are easily confused with those of other diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome, iron-deficiency anemia, or even chronic fatigue syndrome.
Fortunately, there are now more reliable blood tests that can screen for the disease, so that you're not left guessing and wondering.
People with celiac disease have higher than normal levels of certain autoantibodies in their blood. So to diagnose celiac disease, your doctor will need to test your blood for high levels of anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTGA) or anti-endomysium antibodies (EMA).
Please keep in mind that you need to continue eating a diet containing gluten, such as breads and pastas, in order to obtain an accurate test result! If you go on a gluten-free diet prior to being tested, the results may come up negative for celiac even though you might in fact have the disease.
If the test is positive for celiac disease, a biopsy of your small intestine may be performed to confirm your diagnosis. The biopsy checks for damage to the villi, which is a sign that celiac disease is damaging your intestines.
The Case for a Low- or No-Grain Diet – Whether You Have Celiac Disease or Not
The prevalence of celiac disease is yet more evidence that contemporary humans simply aren't equipped to consume mass quantities of starch and sugar rich foods many modern diets consists of.
Most people simply consume far too much bread, cereal, pasta, corn (a grain, not a vegetable), rice, potatoes, snacks and junk foods, with grave consequences to their health.
A diet high in grains causes insulin resistance which causes far more problems than this dangerous autoimmune response. It's also a leading factor of obesity, which now affects a whopping two-thirds of all Americans.
Many of you are still focused on fat intake, but it's really not the fat in the foods you eat but rather the excess carbohydrates from your processed food diet that is making you overweight and unhealthy, and contributing to epidemic levels of other diseases such as diabetes.
How to Treat Celiac Disease
In my experience, gluten intolerance can be treated quite easily by eliminating gluten and most grains from your daily diet.
It's important to realize that gluten can be hidden in many foods including soups, soy sauce, candies, cold cuts, and various low- and no-fat products, so check the labels before you eat it.
Also watch out for malt, starches, hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), texturized vegetable protein (TVP) and natural flavoring.
Some pharmaceuticals, vinegars and alcohol can also contain gluten.
If you have celiac disease, it's imperative that you do not eat gluten in order to avoid further damage to your health. But it's not only people with gluten intolerance who would benefit from avoiding grains--in my estimation over 85 percent of the population would benefit from avoiding them, and this includes even whole, organic grains.
Remember, if you stick to a diet consisting mainly of whole foods, preferably locally-grown organics, you'll reap all the other beneficial side effects as well, such as increased energy, an enhanced mood, and a lower risk of other chronic illnesses.
Once you realize how good you can feel on a gluten-free diet, you'll probably have no problem avoiding it and living a full, healthy life!
Additional Resources
For more in-depth information about celiac disease and going on a gluten-free diet, here are three good sources:
- Website: www.celiaccenter.org
- UK website for sufferers of coeliac disease: www.coeliac.co.uk
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Bone-chilling temperatures were gripping the Decatur area today as wind-chill readings were well below zero and the National Weather Service was predicting a high of only around 10 above.
The Decatur weather station recorded an overnight low of 6 above, which was the 7 a.m. reading.
At the same time, the weather service office in Fort Wayne also had 6 above, with a west wind at 24 mph producing a wind chill of 15 below.
That chill factor wasn't likely to change a lot today, forecasters said, as winds were expected to blow at 15 to 20 mph from the west, with gusts as high as 25.
Tonight's low here is predicted to be around 7 above, with southwest winds at 10 to 15 mph and ... an 80 percent chance of snow!
Snow will be likely Saturday, but we should see some warming, the weather bureau said, with a high here around 25. More snow is likely Saturday night, with a low in the upper teens.
Snow is likely to be over by Sunday, with a high near 24 and a low around 13 — and continued stiff winds.
One positive factor is the fall of the St. Marys River. It had jumped all the way to 14.72 feet on Thursday morning, but had dropped back to 14.72 feet this morning.


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Jelita Septriasa name or commonly known as Acha Septriasa skyrocketed when she starred in the film HEART. Ex-cover girl of 2004 foray into the world of acting through the film APA ARTINYA CINTA that appear as supporting players of Sandy Aulia. But at that time the name Acha is not so well known until comes the bids from Starvision production house to become one of the key players together Nirina Zubir and Irwansyah.
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Not only in Indonesia, a girl born 1 September 1989 are also popular in Malaysia. Even the duet songs she brought with Irwansyah like Sampai Menutup Mata, My Heart and Pecinta Wanita, occupies top list in the country radio.
February 2008, Acha left Indonesia to study in Malaysia. This, then forced her to rarely meet with Irwansyah, apart indeed the rest of her from the world entertainment.
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Acha name became stuck on the end of 2008, for allegedly being behind the third person household confused of Pasha Ungu and Okie. Although the press conference has been conducted related to this issue, but Pasha did not argue has given a special birthday gift to Acha, even now at the hour hands of Pasha is still kept by Acha.
Back Acha into the media spotlight in early April 2009. The photos looked like her, with the appearance of sexy and slightly nudity circulated widely on the internet. But it turns out, the photo is a photo her sister, Juwita Marsha, which she is a new artist.
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Real American Area: No Bubble. Real Bay Area? Otherwise.
Here's part 1643 of Proof there is indeed a Bay Area Bubble 4.0.
Housing Bubble Unlikely, Home Price Appreciation Should Slow – CoreLogic
BY JANN SWANSON, Mortgage News Daily
May 16 2013, 11:10AM
CoreLogic said today that home prices are projected to increase 3.9 percent on an annualized basis between the fourth quarter of 2012 and the same quarter in 2017. However, a new housing bubble is not likely as market dynamics shift for both supply and demand. Prices rose 7.3 percent in 2012.
The CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index report notes that the increase in 2012 was the strongest rate of appreciation in nearly seven years and projected that prices will continue to improve in 2013 and beyond in the more than 380 U.S. markets it tracks. The company's current analysis says that, "Cities at epicenter of housing bubble/crash are clocking highest rate of appreciation, largely driven by investor demand."
This map comes to us thanks to Burbed reader PKamp3 over at DQYDJ.net, who linked us to the story in Business Insider. However they got the story from Jim the Realtor's BubbleInfo blog, who in turn got it from Mortgage News Daily. And it's a good thing we traced the map (and story) all the way back to the original article, because it has some seriously amusing conclusions to anyone who lives Where It's Special. And that's without making fun of the name of the Chief Economist for CoreLogic/Case-Shiller. Nah, we'll just make fun of his opinions of whether there's a housing bubble:
Dr. Stiff tamped down concerns of another housing bubble. "Even if double-digit price appreciation were to continue in the former bubble metro areas, there is no reason to believe that new home price bubbles are forming. That's because single-family homes in these markets are still very affordable, even after last year's large price gains. Consider Phoenix, where home prices rose 27 percent since the market hit bottom in 2011, making it the strongest residential real estate market in the U.S. Yet, home prices there are still 45 percent below their 2006 peak," Stiff continued.
Yes, if you would consider living in a hellhole like Phoenix with summer daytime temperatures routinely above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, of course you'd note that these markets are still very affordable. But nobody uses the words "Real Bay Area home prices" and "affordable" unless they are separated by some sort of negating construction.
Lest you think we are making this up, the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City metro is the least affordable in the entire country, with only 28.9 percent of homes affordable by a median income household. That's right, we're Number One again, beating out 221 other metros for the crown! Santa Cruz-Watsonville is #4 (37.1%), while San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara isn't far behind at #6 (43.3%) and Salinas (44.4%) at #7.
Where's Phoenix, the brick oven that's still 45 percent below their 2006 peak? They're at number 57 in unaffordability.
Let us remind everyone that San Francisco and San Mateo Counties never dropped 45 percent below peak. The reason the San Francisco Case-Shiller numbers dropped as much as they did is because they're completely weighed down by Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
It's the East Bay that dropped like a rock after 2006, not the Real Bay Area. And like a pair of cement overshoes, the East Bay took the whole SF Case-Shiller index down with it. Even the upper tier (the top third of home prices) is affected by this home distribution.
And let's check those East Bay numbers. Oakland-Fremont-Hayward turns in a respectable #24 in the You Can't Touch This index, showing it's no Phoenix, either.
So we have some words for that Stiff Doctor: There is too a Bay Area Bubble 4.0. We see it every single day even outside the Real Bay Area. We see peak pricing. We see bidding wars. We hear from readers reporting lines to enter Open Houses, or appraisals coming in higher in just a few weeks, or as-is cash overbids on homes where the would-be buyers didn't even bother going inside.
Inotherwords, Dr. Stiff, maybe you need to get over your Phoenix fixation and check out the parts of the country where the housing bubble is very much back.


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HOSCHTON – Myron P. Cash, 92, died Saturday, April 2, 2011, following a period of declining health.
Born on October 11, 1918, he was the son of the late William Joseph and Leah Murphy Cash. He was retired as a farmer and from the textile industry and was a member of White Plains Baptist Church. Mr. Cash was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Jeanette Skelton Cash.
Survivors include a son, Roger (Reba) Cash, Hoschton; daughter, Betty (Jack) Timms, Hoschton; brother, Carey (Louise) Cash, Bethlehem; sister, Georgine (Dr. Robert) Smith, Waycross; grandchildren, Deron Cash, Loganville, and Carmen Ledford, Jefferson; and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Sunday, April 3, from the White Plains Baptist Church with the Revs. Cary Pittman and Jeffrey Bell officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, 2150 Limestone Pkwy., Suite 222, Gainesville, GA 30501.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Sept. 26, 2008) - The ETSU men's soccer team is set to take on 15th ranked North Carolina in the Bucs first big test of the season Saturday at 7 p.m. at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill.
The Bucs (4-2) enter Saturday's contest coming off of a 2-0 win over High Point this past Saturday. Sean Hoek (Newburgh, Ind.) tallied his team-leading third goal of the season in the match, while Andrew Brown (Montego Bay, Jamaica) put the game away with a last minute goal from 45 yards out.
The Tar Heels (5-1-1) defeated Elon 2-1 Wednesday in a tight, back and forth match. North Carolina has been ranked as high as 7th in the country, but a loss to 16th ranked Boston College last Friday dropped them out of the top ten. The Tar Heels are led by Eddie Ababio, who has five goals and an assist on the season, including a game winning goal against South Carolina.
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One person is dead and another injured after a car-pickup truck crash Monday night just north of Roseville.
Illinois State Police said the unidentified driver was traveling in a Volkswagen about 6:50 p.m. on Business Route U.S. 67 when the vehicle was struck by an oncoming Dodge 2500 extended cab pickup driven by Scott W. Jones, 55, of Roseville.
According to a statement, the driver of the Volkswagen attempted to pass another car "at a high rate of speed" when it approached the oncoming truck. The Volkswagen veered into back into the right lane, but spun out counterclockwise back across the center line and in a collision course with the truck. The front of the pickup then struck the Volkswagen's passenger side, according to state police.
The driver of the Volkswagen, whose name will be released upon family notification, was pronounced dead at the scene. Jones was transported to OSF Holy Family Medical Center and treated for non-life threatening injuries. He was listed as in stable condition Monday night.
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Sharynne McLeod is Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog was designed to record the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 60 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
|Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Willow Tea Rooms
|Kirsty, Joanne, Sharynne, Jim and Alan
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Since this blog commenced Professor McLeod's postdoctoral scholars have included: Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, Cen (Audrey) Wang, Michelle Brown; PhD students have included: Jane McCormack, Jacqui Barr, Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, Suzanne Hopf, Ben Pham, Helen Blake, Anna Cronin, Natalie Hegarty, Anniek van Doornik, Nicole McGill, Van Tran; masters students have included: Rebekah Lockart; and honours students have included: Bethany Toohill, Hannah Wilkin, Erin Holliday, Nicole Limbrick, and Charlotte Howland.
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