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Jose Canseco was Right
When Jose Canseco first came out with his book Juiced on February 14, 2005 ", we had no idea of the extent and the lengths that steroids and illegal drugs were being used in the MLB. We all knew of certain players that were suspected of use or under investigations, but nothing concrete was brought up to support any of Canseco's claims at the time. With the recent revelation of Alex Rodriguez using PED's during his 2001-2003 Texas Ranger days, it is finally showing just cause that Canseco might have been right the entire time> And maybe it was the American baseball fans that were the ones naive to the entire extent of the steroid scene.
If Jose Canseco was seeking revenge, or even a " I told you so." moment, he finally got the last laugh or justified response. In both of his books, Canseco was exploring the culture and trying to educate us as to the extent and the flagrant usage problems in baseball's past. All this from a guy who was in the drivers seat of using himself, and has never denied the fact, to gain an edge in the competitive arena of professional baseball. How enlightening it is to me right now that for years people in the media and in the high ranks in baseball have tried to prove him wrong, to say he was trying to extract revenge over the so-called "blackballing" of him out of the major leagues because of his outward voice towards the problem. And to this day, no one had proven him wrong yet.
I am not trying to paste Canseco up here as a saint in a room of devils, but he was right, and he has gained a huge amount of respect recently on the incidents he has written about, and the players he has been quoted about in both of his books. I know that Amazon.com reviewed his book back in 2005, and called it the " Ball Four" for the new millennium, Canseco's Juiced was intentionally written to show the rampant use of performance-enhancing substances in baseball (with steroids replacing the amphetamines of Bouton's day). Canseco is a self admitted steroid devotee since his 20's, and he goes beyond admitting his own usage to claim that he acted as baseball's ambassador of steroids and is therefore indirectly responsible for "saving" the game.
Canseco says he was nice enough to educate Alex Rodriguez about steroids and even introduced him to a friendly steroids dealer in the late 1990s, but A-Rod returned the favor by trying to bed his wife, the former Bash Brother alleges in his new book, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars and the Battle to Save Baseball. Whatever his motivation, Canseco writes that he is "confident" the Yankees star and three-time MVP used steroids and stated it in his book published in March 2008. "I did everything but inject the guy myself," Canseco says in the book. Canseco said he introduced the future Yankee to a trainer named "Max."
But despite the headline-grabbing claims in his first book, whether Canseco really knows anything about the problem beyond his own use was viewed as opinion and total speculation at the time. He was viewed as a " teller of tales", and with no one coming forth to back him up, or even claim "off the record" of steroid usage in the majors, he was discounted as a bitter former player looking for his last series of hurrah's. Most shocking at the time of both of the books release dates that Canseco remains an unabashed booster of steroids, claiming they'll one day be used safely under medical supervision to propel humans to better health and great feats. Doctors disagree, and it should be noted that doctors did not administer Canseco's steroid use. "Is it cheating," Canseco asks in a revealing moment of moral relativism, "to do what everyone wants you to do?" If that very question were asked by a Little Leaguer, its answer could not be more obvious.
So here we are a few days removed from the A-Rod fiasco, in which he might have truly come clean and began the healing process for himself and his team. But what about the holy integrity of baseball? Is the fact that since nothing in either of his books have been disproved, should we again read them both and look for other answers. Could there be other hidden facts and players within its pages that are still to be bought out into the light of day and discounted, or even shunned like Canseco has endured for so long. Or is the fact that the biggest star in the game today was caught be a indicator to others to come forward before they are also brought to light. That is the question before baseballs' higher powers right now. Should the rest of the world know their business, that happened 6 years ago, or should we just let time and league handle the situation.
Here are a few passages taken from Canseco's book Vindicated that talked directly about current Yankee Alex Rodriguez and former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens with Canseco's personal observations on their careers and steriods :
"I'm confident it was the 'roids ( that made A-Rod buff ). I believed it then, and I believe it now. I've been down this road too many times with too many guys. I know my ( stuff ), and I know the way it works. I may not have seen ( A-Rod ) do the deed, but I set the whole thing up for him, just like he wanted. I saw the changes in his body in a short time. Hell, if you ask me, I did everything but inject the guy myself."
"I admitted to Mike ( Wallace, in 2005 ) that I had never seen Clemens shoot up, but that I had my suspicions. All those Cy Young Awards. The way he was throwing, hard and fast and steady, without seeming to break a sweat. The way he seemed to be getting stronger as he got older. What else could it be? Good genes? Hell, while most of Clemens's peers were sitting on porches, in rocking chairs, with old dogs at their feet, he was still pitching rockets."
Both the above quoted players by Canseco have been linked, or subjectively linked to steroids in the last few years. Clemens is currently fighting for his Hall of Fame career life among allegations and evidence that he has either used, or lied under oath about his past usage. The only difference in these two gentlemen is that one knows that by admitting it now, he can still regain some of his credibility in the next 9 years under his current New York Yankees contract. The other has been basically left in a lepers colony by baseball's fraternity to fester and rot within his own misguided statements and falsehoods. I give Alex Rodriguez a lot of credit for coming clean and admitting and showing his true nature by not dodging the issue, but taking it head on, even if it garners him a suspension or even public ridicule for years.
Canseco talked about both of these players in his books, and the last few months have shown that more and more he is correct on all counts concerning them. But will the baseball community ever acknowledge that he was right?, or will it just conclude that the truth came out and Canseco got lucky in his estimations and accusations. Will he ever get the due credit for trying to soften the blow that was the extent of the steroid scandal and its short-lived era. Isn't it about time that we all wised up to the fact that we were lied to, and manipulated to see the evil in what Canseco was writing at the time, but now he is coming out smelling like a rose after years of badgering and misinformation by baseball and the media.
But the current fact that the 103 other players might be listed on a document obtained by Sports Illustrated. Should their names also be leaked to the media, or would that collapse the entire foundation of integrity of the game to its core. And will it's leadership be able to rebuild it quickly to keeps its fans and sponsors happy and coming back to the ballparks. Canseco will never be known as a prophet, but he did try and educate us to the darker side of the game that we did not want to see, or even realize until a top tier player's name got put out there for everyone to see firsthand. So will this recent reveal make people again take notice of his two novels. I know I am personally going to re-read both novels and see if I can gain more understanding, or even investigate for myself that the game at that time was not clean, but it had a dirty underbelly that now must be cleaned to save what is left of its purity.
Canseco is not a trying to be a poster boy for baseball. To the contrary, he is the one player who had admitted and showed no remorse in his choices to use performance enhancing drugs to better himself and his abilities in baseball. Not unlike a pitcher who relied on spitballs and scuffed balls in the past to produce movement on the ball coming into batters, Canseco found and edge and used it to its fullest. But it was his knowledge and his frank honesty about the rampant usage throughout the major leagues that condemned him for years. I am not saying that he should be given a chance for the Hall of Fame. We all know the actions he took to get that edge will condemn him to baseball purgatory, but could his upfront honestly and revelations at least gain him some respect now with baseball fans?
I believe in Jose Canseco. I saw him as a memeber of the Rays highly touted " Hit Show" in the late 90's. He did garner some great moments in a Rays jersey, but the fact that he also tainted those multi-colored jerseys by using PED's in that clubhouse takes him off my Rays favorite player list. I admire him more today knowing that he tried to warn us of a storm that was brewing off our bows. He also got us ready for the facts to finally come clean and the truth be known in baseball……………….that there will always be evil within all that is good with the game.
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Did Canseco really try "to warn us" in order to rescue the game? You make him sound awfully noble. I always figured he needed money after all the trouble he got into and was using the books as an income source. But you're right – he's been a truth teller. I guess we do have him to thank. Begrudgingly.
I truly think he tried to basically educate us to the extent of it all, but noble was not a word I would use for him.
The best thing about his books is that people like me are going to go re-read them and look for conspiracy theories and other incriminating evidence about the past.
It might be a good thing, it might be a bad thing, but it will bring about a lot of great discussions for the next few months in the ball parks around the country. Now if only Mark McGuire could find the courage…………
Rays Renegade
You raise one of the most logical "arguments", if you will, for Canseco. I will admit that I didn't read his books. Not because I didn't believe him. But because I just couldn't stomach what he was saying in them. But you are right. I need to read them. Canseco tried to let us all know about the problems of drug use in baseball. We were all just to naive to see that he was telling us the truth. We didn't want to know that he was telling us the truth. And look at where that got us. I too will be reading his books. Thanks for helping this baseball fan to finally see the truth.
Another good blog. I always look forward to reading your blogs. I just wrote a blog about Darryl Strawberry coming out with a book now. Check it out!
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I think it was some of Column A, some of Column B with Canseco. You really did not want to believe it was that wide open a drug use.
But you still have to also view him a bit as a whistle blower to the real state of the steroid uses in baseball. I just wish he was credited with some good knowledge back then instead of treating him like a has-been and as a disgruntled ballplayer.
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A book by may favorite Tampa crack addict. Let me tell you that will be some story. I hope he chats about the time he and Dwight Gooden might have been up to no good while they were with the New York Mets, or about his meltdown in Tampa outside the rehab facility.
I always wanted that guy to get his life in order and play again somewhere, or at least coach a full season team.
Rays Renegade
Crazy how our man of truth is stinking Jose Canseco, but it takes that kind of slime to be able to let us know what the other slime are doing. Either way, he certainly looks like he ratted people out for sure. I don't know how offended you are so much by the steroid controversy, but it certainly seems like we have one guy who told us "Some" of the truth (basically so he can continue to reveal piece by piece and make more money off it in parts).
I am one of those people who sensed something was not right, but I did not try and dig into it. Most people were willing to give the players and the league the leeway to clean their own house before striking out and accusing people.
In some ways, the MLB leadership and the MLB players union did some good, but to what extent did they hone in the problem. I have suspected a few ballplayers of this, the first name on my list after Canseco was former Orioles outfielder Brady Anderson, but like a majority of the public, it is letters in the sand right now.
More names will leak out in the next few months. Hopefully they are bit players and no huge name will get dragged through what A -Rod is experiencing right now. But the public also has a short memory at times and this all might just die down like Andy Pettitte's steroid announcement in late 2008.
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Rays Renegade,
Great post. I would really like to read Canseco's books, and try and analyze everything. I honestly don't know much about Canseco besides the fact that he did steroids, but didn't he admit it without any reports coming out about him? He openly admitted it instead of denying it for years like A-Rod did? Maybe he's saving the game in the most opposite way possible (if you know what I mean), and people are ostracizing him for being honest. The truth hurts. It must have hurt for you as a Rays fan, it hurts for Yankee fans, and my dad was hurt when he found out about Pete Rose. There has to be some evil in the game so we can see what really is good. Because without evil, how would we know what good is?
Yes, Canseco has proven to be straight-forward and correct on these matters but I still question his true intentions. In the meantime, I choose to remember him by that homerun ball that went off his head :-)
I hate it when Jose is right. I did enjoy Juiced though it was interesting.
Canseco has always been upfront about his usage. He has said he began it because of a medical condition. And yes, he is one of those guys who has always been candid about the usage of steroids, and has implicated a few players who have not come out yet.
In his second book he gave an account on A-Rod, which now seems to be bearing fruit. But in all, he has tried to be the ambassador of steriods, which might not be a good thing.
Pete Rose hurt me too, but I was more upset with the Shoeless Joe and Buck Weaver B S of the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
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I have a feeling he will be right about more in the near future. I actually liked the guy as a player, and he has never harped about missing out on anything in life because of it all.
It is just sad that it cost him a shot at the Hall of Fame because of his usage. He did murder the ball for a long time, and some of that had to be done with natural ability.
Rays Renegade
That play and the one where the player gave the fan the ball ands gave Bengie Molina an inside-the-park-homer are my two favorite moments in baseball so far in my life.
I always found it a nice homage to that play that they used that in the movie "For the Love of the Game" where the young player had in pop off his head into the glove in Fenway Park. We all know that can not happen in Fenway unless it is right field, but it was a nice moment cuaght forever on DVD.
Old school baby, old school.
Rays Renegade
Who could forget Canseco wanting to pitch and getting hurt in the process! He's not a saint but had he not brought it up steroids may still be plagueing baseball.
There have been worse people who tried to pitch. I remember Wade Boggs pitching his knuckleball for the Rays one season.
It was so funny seeing him toe the rubber. But he also did a pretty good job. Canseco just wanted to do something for people to remember him by, the ball of the head as a Texas Ranger was not enough for him I guess.
Rays Renegade
Somehow I think Canseco 'over-did' steroids in his career. You look at his best year 1988 when he had the 40HR/40SB year. Yes he was on roids that year, but he was much leaner and had more speed.
I think he started juicing more heavily when he went to Texas. The guy turned into a monster that wanted to hit a homer on every pitch! When Canseco played for Toronto, he looked like one of those characters from that Michael Jordan movie 'Space Jam. He could only DH because he had so much body mass!
He did get bigger in Texas, but isn't everything bigger in Texas?
I did notice a huge increase in his size and his deameanor after he left the Oakland A's. He was on hid downside both in career and setroid use probably when he was with the Chicago White Sox in 2001.
I like watching the guy take B P . He did hava great swing and the power was there. Too bad it was from unnatural elements. He could of had a great career, but the 'roids did have a huge effect on him.
Rays Renegade
We live in a sad world where Jose Canseco is right. Who ever thought that would happen? He's still a bum.
I know what you mean there.
But he was right, just like Sonny the Bull was about John Gotti. Some of the best remembered figures are the villians who got it right sometime.
He deserves to at least get a nod of correctness, and now after this blog is about forgotten, so will he again until the next guy tests positive or the list becomes public.
Rays Renegade
Good blog. I read both books for the first time last month. I thought it was good to see some light shed on the steroid era. I'd love to see baseball and the fans able to move on at some point and I think this helped with that. Unfortunately, with the recent A-Rod incident and the 103 names still out there, I think we're a long ways off from putting this behind us. I also thought it was interesting to learn why he used steroids and how he seems to consider himself almost more of an entertainer than an athlete.
Baby Paul,
Always glad to see you writing on here.
Hopefully when you are older we might have a better grip on what is right and wrong with stimulants in baseball and other sports.
Not to say there will not be people who will try to run under the radar.there will always be that type of player, but hopefully they will get caught quicker and with more punishment.
But then again when you are my age, the yearly home run total will be closer to 100 than 50 with player development and not synthetic stimulants or useless drugs. I hope baseball is cleaner in the future……….but I might be a dreamer.
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Excerpt from interview of Alberta Gagné (TC1998-1072) by Martha Pellerin. Part of a project (VFC1998-0007) on Franco-American song in New England funded by the Vermont Folklife Center and undertaken by Pellerin. Interview is one in a series of six conducted between 1995-01-09 and 1995-12-06 as an effort to document the French language song repertoire of Gagné.
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Collaborative, Network-Centric Capabilities Development Center
Welcome to the Integrated Warfare Development Center (IWDC), created by Lockheed Martin in 2002 specifically to expedite development, assessment, refinement and demonstration of tactical, network-centric concepts and systems. As a project of Advanced Development Programs, IWDC is based in Fort Worth, Texas – yet its focus is the world, with a comprehensive air-land-sea vision and how integrated, tactical warfare concepts will function in this environment.
Multiple Work Areas, No Limits to the Capability
Within the 17,000-square-foot center are multiple Development Rooms and Facilities Support Rooms devoted to meeting your facilities support, development, integration, test, and demonstration needs. There are five Development Rooms in the IWDC, one of which is capable of supporting VIP demonstrations and presentations as well as development work. The IWDC is designed and built to provide four major functions with simultaneous operations at multiple levels of security. Both classified and unclassified activities are supported with a modeling and simulation infrastructure driven by robust interactive/interface capability.
System Test and Demonstration Functions support actual system-level testing and demonstration in real time. The IWDC Development Rooms are equipped with robust mission environment digital models augmented with man-in-the-loop simulators. Tactical and operational mission scenarios can be digitally simulated - and man-in-the-loop entities capable of reacting to the threat environment permit interaction with the scenario models. The IWDC has one Development Room specifically designed to support VIP demonstrations and presentations of network-centric concepts.
System Development and Integration Functions permit actual system-level development and integration of technologies in all the IWDC Development Rooms. Modeling and simulation systems allow you to explore performance within specific tactical/operational mission scenarios, but with a greater emphasis placed on engineering functions.
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Facilities Support Functions provided in the IWDC include the handling and coordinating of all operations at the IWDC, meeting your requirements for simulation development, hardware maintenance, internal/external communications networks, secure operations and uninterruptible power generation for the center itself. Facilities Support can design IWDC resources to meet your individual requirements, including rooftop data-link antenna and other transmission connections at multiple levels of security.Combined Live, Virtual and Constructive Environment
All network-centric concepts require evaluation, analysis, modification and validation – particularly as newly developed tactics gain momentum with the fast-changing technologies that are involved. When you open the door to IWDC, you enter a world equipped with more than 100 computers ranging from large SGI servers to SGI workstations to high-end PCs to laptops to pen tablets. You will discover flexibility is all yours as development efforts are conducted with the Virtual, Live or Constructive environments you dictate.
You can establish data links with flying aircraft . . . develop manned simulations in realtime with man-machine interfaces . . . or create purely digital simulations in real or non-real time using a variety of commercial and government models. Reconfigurable aircraft simulators dramatically enhance the realism of all activities, particularly the most actively used real-time scenarios. These include freestanding and desktop versions of both existing and conceptual aircraft. UAV platforms and controllers are also a part of the mix – as they will be in the coming battlespace.
Users can select from multiple visualization tools to monitor activities/interactions occurring within their test scenarios. And you can work with extensive audio/visual presentation capabilities, including a large panorama display system (11 feet by 33 feet) and plasma screens that let you display the inputs you require.
All these tools dramatically simplify analysis of new concepts of operations. All services personnel – Air Force, Navy, Marines, U.S. government and Special Forces – can collaborate with engineers in the development of truly transformational combat air systems. Integrated warfare solutions emerge much faster as Command and Control customers join engineering development personnel in meeting new requirements for the modern day warfighters.Connect With Global Vision Network and the New Center for Innovation
The IWDC allows connectivity with the Global Vision Network – Lockheed Martin's corporate-wide network that enables real-time development and demonstration of advanced integrated technology concepts and solutions. The Global Vision Network links the IWDC with the company's 50,000+ engineers, analysts and scientists, as well as 30,000+ software engineers and information technology specialists. Collaboration with a worldwide network of support personnel can be achieved from the IWDC to offer an unlimited source of expertise.
Users can also access the company's new Center for Innovation – a network-centric experimentation and analysis facility backed by a nationwide network of laboratories and scientists.
Consider This Your Invitation To Make IWDC Your Network-Centric Center
IWDC is ready now. Systems are up and running. The center is fully operational as new resources continue to be evaluated and installed to meet your emerging requirements. As the battlespace of the future takes shape, IWDC is already serving as a fully equipped, collaborative center for exploration and development of the transformational systems warfighters will need.
Integrated warfare concepts and technologies can be developed and demonstrated through resources that are dedicated to the task. Tactical considerations at different operational and strategic levels can be fully explored using the Lockheed Martin Global Vision NetworkTM superior to leverage the breadth of Lockheed Martin Corporation capabilities. Development activities can be assessed, modified and refined to fully support the emerging principles of Tactical/Operational battle management. All can be applied to the principles of airspace/power projection in a network-centric arena.


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OCEAN CITY – City Council candidate Brent Ashley is seeking to become a fixture at City Hall because he thinks the elected body needs "a conservative voice for the people."
Ashley, currently the chairman of the town's Noise Board, of which he has been a member for 20 years, last ran for the council in 1988. He was unsuccessful in that attempt, but Ashley, who is retired after having a career as a local motel and rental property owner, said he is motivated to run because the "taxpayers need a representative."
"Ocean City has been very good to me and the people have been very good to me. My theory is if the community is good to you, you should give back," said Ashley, a former president of the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce. "This is a more public way of giving back. A more public position to maybe help more people. To me, the taxpayer is the director and the boss of government and I think that's often forgotten. The government works for the people."
Ashley said he decided to launch a bid for a council seat after having concerning conversations with numerous residents and city employees over the years during his daily walks and bike rides along the Boardwalk and elsewhere in Ocean City.
"We have a community of so many talented, creative, smart people that are not being utilized. I see the frustration on their faces. Nobody is listening to them. They're afraid to approach the government. I talk to them all the time. They have wonderful ideas. Even if they do present them, they are turned down," Ashley said. "I know a man on the Boardwalk that has been in the business for 40 years who has tried to contact city officials many times about ideas, and they don't respond. They don't return emails, calls and he's a well-known fixture on the Boardwalk."
Ashley pledged to return each and every form of communication with the citizenry if he is elected. It's disturbing to him that many elected officials in Ocean City do not answer phone calls or emails from citizens. There's a sense of elitism among some officials, he said.
"Every phone call will be returned. Absolutely all of them, it may not be within the hour, but I will get back to them … 100 percent, all the time," he said. "Thirty years of demonstrated service proves I can back up my talk. I am not a talker, I'm a doer. It's demonstrated. It's there. I am not new to the community."
After this week's disqualification of William Steiner as a candidate, Ashley is one of seven faces battling for four open seats on the council. The other candidates are incumbents Jay Hancock, Jim Hall and Mary Knight and challengers Doug Cymek, Joe Hall and Sean Rox.
Ashley said he deserves a seat on the council because he is the only candidate that is talking about the taxpayer.
"So many candidates don't want to rock the boat," Ashley said. "They want to go with the status quo, and I have yet to see any candidate so far come out and say it's the taxpayers that really count. They are the people that count. … The government should be run as a personal finance or as a business. It's the taxpayers' money."
Ashley pointed to his conservative approach to financial matters as another way to separate him from others.
"My basic theory is, as far as budgetary problems, to make money you must conservatively spend money and wisely save money. I think there has been some loose spending on the council, and I do not think there is a true conservative on the council and there has not been for a long time. I think the taxpayers money could be better spent in a more conservative matter," he said. "With budget problems, hiring freezes, cutbacks and everything, obviously there's a problem, and these problems should have been looked at years ago when things were plentiful."
Along with spending concerns, Ashley said a disturbing trend has surfaced in City Hall. Over the years, Ashley has noticed voting blocks often form on the council, despite what candidates claim prior to being elected. He is pledging to remain independent and will not align with others. Ashley said he is not beholden to anyone.
"I do not ask for nor do I need anybody's approval to represent the taxpayers. I am only interested in what the taxpayers want. I do not work for the mayor, the city manager," he said. "There's no clicks for me. What's right for the taxpayers is the way I go."
Ashley said he's not a typical politician, backs up what he says with action and admits he can be brash at times, but he thinks these are signs of an independent mind.
"I think so often the power blocks form and they forget what they are there for. I'm not a good back scratcher or eye winker. I am there for the taxpayer. This is not a country club or social group. This is the taxpayers' business. They forget that. I will have no trouble going up against the mayor, city manager, council member or whoever it is if I feel they are not representing the taxpayer," he said. "I don't owe anybody anything. I have been around many years and I know how it works. It's not a game. That's why we are having the problems we are now. Vote for the best candidate who is going to represent the taxpayer. We need people who are independent thinkers who can represent 7,000 very good people."


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So with vSphere 5 down the road, I am sure many of us will be waiting for that. When compared with other products, it makes you wonder what else could be thrown at this beast. So here are some of the things that are expected to be seen, some have been on the wish lists of many, but unlike MS, VMware plans to make them come true soon..
Storage DRS – this will address the LUN being over utilized by VMs that reside on them
Host based replication – Requirement for similar storage on both DR and Prod side can be relaxed with this
Network I/O control – This could come in handy for huge environments or environments that are under-speced and heavily utilized.
Long Distance vMotion – Wow this makes me want to jump and give high fives to anyone I see although the talk is for a 100 mile limit for now and is expected to be around by 2012..
Go VMware — Rock the world!


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Sheridan 45 Cheyenne South 0
Big Horn 44 Burns 22
Glenrock 39 Tongue River 10
Pine Bluffs 34 NSI 6
Today Wyoming vs Toledo 1 pm pregame KWYO / 87.7 FM
Sunday Denver Broncos vs Pittsburgh 4:05 pregame KWYO / 87.7 FM
Lady Broncs 3-0 over Cheyenne South
Lady Generals lost two at a tournament at Snow college in Utah.
Lady Broncs split losing to Cheyenne Central 3-2 and shutting out East 5-0
The Broncs swept both beating Central 4-1 and East 5-0
Lady Broncs 11th at Gillette invite Katie Rotellini 43rd
Big Horn whipped Burns 44-22
Sheridan shutout Cheyenne south 45-0
The Tongue River Eagles football team hadn't played a game in front of their home crowd since the 2010 season, as there weren't enough players to field a team last year. That all changed Friday, as the Eagles hosted Glenrock for their home opener. While the final score of 39-10 wasn't exactly the outcome that the team, or the fans would have liked, spirits remained high after the loss as football was once again back in Tongue River.
Tongue River plays Glenrock tonight on Sports Talk 87.7 FM starting at 4:00 pm. You can also listen to it online!
The Sheridan Broncs play on 1410 AM tonight with pre-game starting at 5:30.
Stay tuned for more updates...
SHS TENNIS - Gillette swept the team matches in tennis action at Sheridan high school Thursday. The Lady Broncs dropped the dual 3-2 with Julia Fenn and Hailey Ligocki winning number one and number two singles.
In the boys dual Gillette took it 4-1 with the Bronc's Reed Ritterbusch winning in number one singles.
Today they host Cheyenne East those matches will start at 1:00 and then they take on Cheyenne Central at 4:00. They host Laramie and Riverton tomorrow
LADY BRONC SWIMMING - The Lady Bronc swimmers and divers host a dual today with Gillette at 4:00.
TENNIS - The Sheridan high school tennis teams host matches today with Gillette they also play matches at home Friday and Saturday.
Tennis Head coach Bob Farout talks about the schedule being in their favor with three home dates in a row.
The Broncs are coming off a good performance at a tournament in Nebraska last week as Farout talks about today's match up with Gillette.
After cruising past Worland 41-0 last week, the Buffalo Bison football team (1-0) will have what looks to be a better challenge this week as they take their No. 3 ranking to Powell against the top-ranked Panthers.
Game time is at 7pm Friday in Powell.
The Lady Bison volleyball team (4-4) will be at the Rawlins Invite today through Saturday. Both the Varsity and JV squads will have matches this weekend.
The Bison golf team will be home this weekend for their own tournament Friday and Saturday at the Buffalo Golf Club.
BRONC / LADY BRONC X-COUNTRY - The Sheridan high school cross country runners are coming off 5th place finishes in their own invitational and will run their next race in Gillette Friday.
We visited with Head coach Art Bauers and the progress each team is making after running in two events.
The Broncs have gone through the injury issues and haven't had the full varsity squad in each of the last two races but Bauers says they are getting closer to being at full strength


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In entertainment law circles, it's common practice for artists and their lawyers to defend one's intellectual-property. So aggressively, in fact, that some acts – particularly legacy acts with a large, frequently licensed discography – have a proverbial chip on their shoulder about copyright-law protections when it applies to their music.
Unfortunately, Will Sheff of Austin, Texas folk rock band Okkervil River has found himself on the receiving end of a rather aggressive intellectual property lawyer sticking up for a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
"Don Henley made me take down a cover of 'The End of the Innocence' that I'd had on there, which I'd rewritten – Don Henley made me take it down!" Okkervil River's lead singer-songwriter Will Sheff told The Music.
Sheff is referring to Golden Opportunities 3, one of three mixtapes in an ongoing covers series that Okkervil River has released for free download on its website.
— Paul de Revere for Radio.com


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 4:50 PM
Town Square
Google delays Bay View office project at NASA Ames
Original post made on Jul 17, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 4:50 PM
a resident of Whisman Station
on Jul 17, 2013 at 12:09 pm
How can Google build a new facility on wetlands that contain endangered species (like the burrowing owl) in the first place? Something fishy here....
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jul 17, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Burrowing owls do not live in "wetlands". Its also questionable whether or not there are actually anymore owls in their habitat(inland from the wetlands. MV set aside the land, but not sure if any owls live there anymore.
In any event, I'm glad its been delayed. I don't think it was a great plan in the first place, and now that they have bought up property in PA they may not need this development.
a resident of another community
on Jul 17, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Or maybe they are postponing the project, because they just bought new real estate in Palo Alto. They could be thinking about expanding in another direction. What a difficult decision to try and navigate; wildlife vs. potential lost of income.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Not great reporting here. You start off saying insinuating that Google has delayed this because their bridge was not approved, and then you finally get around to listing several other reasons that could be the real cause of the delay. Stick to facts and quit skewing the details.
a resident of Waverly Park
on Jul 17, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Notice towards the end "Because the Bay View parcel is on federal property, there was no requirement that such input be collected for the office project itself, and the project has largely escaped public oversight"
So there you go. It is on federal land, not protected wetlands. Google said if they did not get the approval they would delay the project (which will cost Mountain View). They did not get it, so they delayed. No mystery here.
a resident of Waverly Park
on Jul 17, 2013 at 3:29 pm
@ concerned: I thought the article was pretty clear. They DID delay because of the bridge (or lack thereof). The other stuff is mentioned, but it is clearly stated that since the parcel is on federal land, Google did not have to listen to any of it.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 17, 2013 at 3:38 pm
It appears to me that most of the land for the campus has already been graded. Wouldn't this eliminate its usefulness as habitat for the 3 species of concern? The graded area appears to be at an elevation that is too high to be "wetlands" as the term is commonly understood. But perhaps there's a technical definition under which it would be considered to be such.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jul 18, 2013 at 3:22 pm
See other article about their recent purchase in Palo Alto. Did the city kill the goose that was laying those golden eggs?
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 19, 2013 at 7:35 am
"Siegel added that Google may be waiting for three of the four people who voted against the bridges to term out of office in a year and a half - Ronit Bryant, Margaret Abe-Koga and Siegel. John McAlister also voted against the bridge."
I doubt this is true.
GOOGLE doesnt need permission to put in a bridge. There is already one road over to the other side that has a state and federal right of way/
a resident of another community
on Jul 23, 2013 at 10:34 pm
We're talking about Google adding a vehicle bridge, or adding 2 of them. The current bridges are pedestrian bridges. The one at Crittenden has no paved road running up to it on the business park side. The bridge connects to the top of the levees along the creek on each side. There is an issue with providing a paved road up to the top of the levee at Charleston, so Mountain View could effectively stop the use of the bridge by blocking that access, even if the bridge were strong enough to carry a bus.
As I understand it, at the Charleston location, the creation of a bridge is proposed to involve cutting through the levee, which certainly better be planned carefully.
There are a lot of people against the addition of these two vehicle bridges for a lot of different environmental reasons.
a resident of another community
on Jul 24, 2013 at 3:47 pm
Google has heard the MV community, policy makers, and businesses loud and clear and is behaving as any good business would. Buying land in Palo Alto was a logical step. Way to go City Council...start planning for service cuts when Google leaves.
a resident of another community
on Jul 24, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Hah Joe, just like Too Big to Fail for the banks with their cancerous growth since the elimination of Glass Stegel, Google is Too Big to Leave Mountain View. Spreading out is the right thing to do, for all sorts of reasons. If it means some space is left for other business to come, that's even better. Google could get zapped by economic changes, and Mountain View would suffer without other businesses already established.
a resident of another community
on Jul 24, 2013 at 10:09 pm
There really should be full fledged road connections between the north of Bayshore areas in Mountain View. Right now Shoreline and Rengstorff are way busier than Moffett Blvd. Traffic could spread out if there were a better flow up there.
The environmental sensitivities of adding a bridge would be greatly reduced if it were done at La Avenida versus Crittenden and Charleston. It should be open to all traffic, not just Google private shuttles. La Avenida is directly level with what could be the west footing of the traffic bridge. The other side of Stevens Creek there was formerly base housing that has been torn down due to TCE contamination. The roads on the Moffet Field side of the bridge could connect in directly to Moffett Blvd. It would be a good resource to have, with or without a new bus bridge at Charleston, which is trickier to build to the levy on the West side, and closer to more sensitive areas.


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Beyonce became a mom in January (welcoming daughter Blue Ivy Carter with husband Jay-Z), but the superstar celebrated her first Mother's Day by giving credit to her own mom, Tina Knowles.
The singer penned a handwritten note to her mom (which was shared on her personal website in a post titled "Dear Mama"), thanking Tina for giving her an excellent parental role model to look up to as she raises little Blue.
"Everything I am is because of you," the note, posted on Sunday read. "You are the first voice that ever sang to me. At every turn you push me to be better. You teach me to be true to myself and the ones I love.
"When I look into your eyes, I am sooo proud," the note continued. "Now that I'm a mother, I truly realize all the sacrifices you made for us. My love for you goes beyond what I can say. Happy Happy Mamas Day. Love, Beyonce."
In addition to Beyonce, many celebs took to Twitter to celebrate their moms and wish followers a very Happy Mother's Day. Here's what they had to say:
Jessica Simpson: Happy Mother's Day Mom and Ashlee! Y'all are my inspiration! So blessed to be in your company.
Nicole Richie: Happy Mothers Day to all the moms, stage moms, teen moms, and mofo's around the world x
Christina Milian: Happy Mothers Day to all the amazing Mom's of the world! May you be appreciated not just today but EVERYDAY!
Josh Groban: Happy mothers day to my awesome mom who occasionally reads my tweets. I will also be calling. Also I sent something to the house.
Gwen Stefani: happy mothers day muffins gx
Mariah Carey: Happy mother's day to my mom and all the wonderful moms out there. Every day should be mother's day: )
Blake Shelton: Happy Mothers Day momma!!!!! I love you…
Jamie Lynn Spears: Happy Mothers Day to all the beautiful moms!!!! Enjoy yourself and relax- we deserve it!!!! Love you momma Lynne!!
Star Jones: Happy Mother's Day to My Sisters raising the next generation of STARS!
Gabrielle Union: Happy Mothers Day 2 all the single/widowed fathers out there holding it down as mom & dad…you are loved & appreciated!
Leah Remini: Happy Mothers Day to all my moms out there! Xoxo
Brooklyn Decker: Happy Mother's Day to my WONDERFUL mama @TessaDecker She's pretty much perfect in every way.
Maria Shriver: Happy Mother's Day! Interesting to learn how Mother's Day got started with Julia Ward Howe's peace proclamation.
Tamera Mowry-Housley: A big shout out to the sissy on being a new mom Tia Mowry! Have a great time on your book tour!!!
Lacey Chabert: #HappyMothersDay!!! You work harder than any one else. I appreciate all that my mom has done for me. Love you so much Momma!
Andy Cohen: Happy Mother's Day to all! And especially my own, Parade covergirl Evelyn Cohen.
Josh Kelley: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY !!!! What cha got planned for today. Hope you dudes out there take care of your ladies. No skimping…
Joel McHale: Happy Mother's Day to my mom who's not on twitter.
Jordin Sparks: Happy Mothers day to my mommy @JodiSparks, my grandmothers Nana & Nona & my new mom, Jocelyn! I love you all! <3
Heejun Han: Everyday should be mothers day. I love you mom.
Matt Lanter: Happy Mothers Day all you mommas!
Kristi Yamaguchi: Wishing all u Mom's a Happy Mother's Day! Especially my amazing mom-if ever I've had a role model, it's been you!
Benji Madden: Happy Mothers day to my Mom:) lucky to have you Mom:)
Brad Goreski: Happy Mother's Day to @bradgoreskismom and all of the other amazing moms! Sending lots of love. Xx
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi: Happy Mother's Day to my amazing mother and all the mommy's out there!!!! ðŸâ¢â¦
Paris Hilton: Happy Mother's Day KathyHilton ! Love you so much! You are the best mom in the world! Love Paris
Kelly Ripa: Happy mothers day to everyone who nurtures and cares for others! Xo
Teresa Guidice: Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing mamas out there! You have the hardest job in the world and you are very very loved!!!! Xx
Jennifer Love Hewitt: Happy mothers day everyone!!!! Have the best day!!!!;)
Michael Kors: Happy #MothersDay to all of you loving, dedicated, and fiercely chic mothers out there! You are all amazing!
Brooke Burke-Charvet: Happy Mother's Day. Opening home made gifts & enjoying my coffee with my babies & husband.
Samuel L. Jackson: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!! Give yours & every one you can A BIG HUG today!
Josh Duhamel: #HappyMothersDay to all you moms out there! Love you momma!!
Alison Sweeney: An 8 mile morning run. Happy Mothers Day to me!
Adrienne Maloof: Wishing all the mother's out there a very happy Mother's Day! I will be enjoying a lovely day with my husband and my boys! xo A
Tyra Banks: Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there. Special fierce & love to my mama, for doing everything she could to instill power in me!
Sarah Palin: Happy Mother's Day to all the Mama Grizzlies out there! I include my own Mom in that list. I love and thank you
Pharrell Williams: Happy Mother's Day to all the moms in the world, especially the ones in my life.
Katy Perry: Happy Mothers Day Mary Hudson ! <3
Ben Affleck also posted a video on his Facebook page, thanking his mom and "amazing wife Jennifer," who he called an "incredible, spectacular, world-class mom." Click HERE to watch the clip!


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Vendors will begin setting up today for the 71st annual Johnson County Peach Festival at the court square in Clarksville before a banana split contest at 4 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church. Today's festivities will end with a lip sync contest at 6:30 p.m. at the court square. Participants are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite star.
"The reason behind the festival is that it gives a sense of community pride," said Wagler, who is co-chair of the Peach Festival Association's media committee. "It highlights the best of what we have here in Johnson County, and it's one of the best opportunities to come together and really show the state of Arkansas what we're made of."
The festival will pick back up Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. with one of its most notable traditions — the greased pig race — where children agest 5-12 will chase the pig in the court square.
"The Johnson County Sheriff's Office puts that on and they've done it for as long as I can remember," Wagler said. "It's one of the most fun, traditional events I've seen."
The festivities will continue on through the night with a frog jump, a terrapin derby, peach eating and cobbler contests and a street dance — an event that was moved to Friday night to accommodate work schedules, Wagler said.
Local band "On the Verge" will play classic rock songs during the street dance.
A 4-mile run at 7 a.m. will kick off the festival Saturday, continuing with a fishing derby, a diaper derby, a peach pit spitting contest and other festivities. At 11 a.m. a sea of tie-dye will march through the streets of Clarksville during the festival's annual parade, exhibiting this year's festival's theme, "Peace, Love and Peaches."
"It's one of those themes that seems to be fun, and it's hopefully going to bring a lot of the young crowd out," Wagler said. "Plus, it'll make the parade look bright and colorful."
The parade will begin at the Johnson County Fairgrounds and proceed down Main Street to Spadra Creek.
Wagler said tie-dye shirts will be sold at the festival.
Trout Fishing in America will perform a free concert at the Legion Hunt to end the night.
The festival will wrap up Sunday, beginning with the 40th annual Elberta Open Buddy Bass Tournament at 6 a.m., a horseshoe pitching tournament at Cline Park and a free concert by The Diplomats and The Florida Boys.
While the annual festival, which began in 1938, will revolve around peaches, Wagler said due to heat the fruit is in a shorter supply. Because of the heat causing the peach-growing season to begin early, the festival won't feature a booth dedicated to the sale of peaches, but hungry customers will be directed to vendors and also given directions to Johnson County's Peach Picking Paradise.
"We were worried we wouldn't have any peaches at all, so we're really happy that there are peaches available at Peach Picking Paradise," she said. "There's nothing like a Johnson County peach."
For more information on the festival and to see a complete list of its events, visit www.sites.google.com/site/johnsoncountypeachfestival/.
"We would love to see everybody come out and see what happens when the community pulls together," Wagler said. "And I think this year's festival is going to be really great, and it's only going to get better."


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We're sure if you took an un-scientific poll around the the office most people would assume women are quicker to pull the trigger on the big three words in a relationship. However, an actual study has shown the contrary.
The Daily Mail is reporting on a study that found men take only 88 days to say 'I Love You' to their significant others while women take up to 134 days to drop the commitment.
The research also shows that 39 percent of men will say 'I Love You' within the first month with only 23 percent of women saying it in the first 30 days.
The study by YouGov for eHarmony also found men commit quicker than women and introduce their girlfriends to family faster.
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The Bears have been a bit shorthanded, but the Dolores wrestling team appears to now be going at full steam.
After opening the season with a 33-30 dual win at Nucla, the Bears were a bit banged up with injuries and had some ineligible grapplers for last Saturday's Dove Creek Dawg Fight tournament.
Now, Dolores looks primed to fulfill its schedule with a full roster.
First-year coach Leo Garand even scheduled three home duals. Dolores will also host the 2013 San Juan Basin League championships on Feb. 7.
"We're having our first home dual match in five or six years against Ignacio coming up," said Garand, who was a junior college All-American wrestler in California. "I think it's huge (to host). That's one thing the guys were asking me, is, 'Are we going to get a chance to wrestle in front of our home crowd?' The first thing I did was schedule some home matches, so these boys can wrestle in front of their friends and family."
Only seven Bears were able to travel to Dove Creek last week, but they competed well.
Led by senior Wyatt Wade, the 145-pounder placed second in the tourney. He is a two-time state placer, having taken second in 2011 and fourth last February.
Ethan Upton, a junior, placed third in Dove Creek at 182 pounds. Guy Wallace posted a 2-1 mark at 138, while Luke Murefield went 2-2 at 126.
Senior leader Wyatt Mattausch has wrestled well at 132s. But the state returner fractured some ribs last Saturday and did not finish the tourney.
Levi Noyes, 113; Deano Valdez, 152; and, Kolton Shull, 160; all look to compete for state this season.
"We're looking very tough," Garand said. "If we can keep everybody healthy and eligible, I have six or seven guys that can make the state tournament."
Dolores will host Ignacio today in a dual at 5:30 p.m. The Bears then travel to Farmington, N.M., on Saturday to compete in the Piedra Vista High School tourney at 9:30 a.m., before going on Christmas break. Piedra Vista is the two-time defending 4A New Mexico state champions.
Notes: Leo Garand has 33 years of coaching experience between six different sports at the high school and college levels. The California native was a three-time high school wrestling state finalist before competing at the junior college ranks. Garand replaces the retired Jim Everin as Dolores High School's physical education teacher.


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"True to bossa nova's essential subtlety."--New York Times
Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Cantuaria is an exemplar of both bossa nova's traditional values and its new directions.
Cantuaria's sublimely understated touch on seductive songs is rooted in the soul of Brazilian music. Yet heÌs also opened new sonic territory with futurist leanings developed in tandem with musician/producer Arto Lindsay, a central figure in New YorkÌs Downtown music scene who was also raised in Brazil. On Cantuaria's new CD, Vinicius, he is complemented by Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, and David Byrne, among other vanguard luminaries.
This concert is planned in conjunction with our fall exhibition featuring the work of influential Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica. Arto Lindsay will participate in the exhibition-related symposium, On Aspects of Tropicalism, at 1:30 pm on Friday, September 21.
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Here's part one :)
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If Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?
Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.
need to pick up a pg in this draft and start pg,ross,fields,acy,jv
Any talk of a rebuild should be called what it is: tanking or blowing it up. So with that in mind, here is what I would do:
Old Roster (73 mill)
Roster Moves
Option Declined
Goodbye John Lucas III
Goodbye Kleiza (needs to be done to make #'s work on upcoming trades)
Gay for #4, Ben Gordon, 2014 Pistons pick (top 8 protected)
Bargnani and Gray for Biedrins, Jefferson, #13, 2014 pick from GSW (three team deal, Marion to GSW)
DeRozan and Lowry for #14, Hayward, Williams, 2014 pick from Utah
#4: Bennett
#13: Schroeder
#14: Adetokunbo (Euro stash for 2 seasons in ACB)
Raps own pick
Detroit (top 8 protected '14, top 1 '15, unprotected 2016)
Free Agents
Veteran free agent PG with full or partial MLE (Mo Williams, Darren Collison, Beno Udrih)
Minimum 3rd string PG
New 2013-14 roster
PG: (Vet), Schroeder, (min)
SG: Fields, Ross, Gordon
SF: Hayward, Jefferson, Williams
PF: Amir, Bennett, Acy
C: Jonas, Biedrins
The biggest problem (besides reality) is the total salary is $75.6M which puts them about $4M over the projected luxury tax of $71.6M. However, if MLSE are serious about being willing to pay the tax if it makes the team better, getting 3 2013 draft picks and 3 extra 2014 draft picks would be a good way to put their money where their mouth is. Also, the repeater tax does not kick in until a team has been a tax payer for 3 of 4 seasons. The next time the Raptors could possibly be a tax team would be 2016-17 when JV and (possibly) Ross would be up for extensions.
One roster space is left over for flexibility in 2013-14.
What I like about the roster is you have 3 young, solid veterans in Hayward, Fields, and Amir. They are complimentary professional role players who can grow with the team. Hayward would be a restricted free agent after 2013 but Raps would have right to match any contract.
The luxury tax would certainly not be a problem in 2013-2014. Gordon, Jefferson, Williams, and Biedrins would all be expiring with $41M coming off the books. 2013-2014 cap situation would be about $32M plus another $12M in possible 2014 rookie deals plus Hayward extension. The goal would be to keep the payroll around $50M so the Raps can enter the 2014-2015 season able to facilitate financial trades much like the Cavs did this past year.
The 2014 draft looks extremely promising at PG, SF, and PF. The hope is a franchise talent (*gasp* or two!) is found in this draft.
Come 2015-2016 season, the Raptors roster would hopefully be full of promising rookie contract talent with veteran role players like Amir, Fields, and Hayward rounding out the 2nd string and in their prime. There would be all sorts of possibilities with trades and free agency or if the whole "build through the draft" thing worked out, extensions would start being signed.
**I always find these types of ideas fun because of the unknown with the draft. The danger of the unknown, though, is no one ever thinks about drafting a bust (either through injury, lacking NBA talent, disinterest after getting paid, poor fit). Everyone dreams of picking the LeBron James but do not consider the possibility of getting a Michael Beasley or Adam Morrison. If a bust occurs, all these grand dreams of greatness end up.... well, like the last 5 years and 13 of 18.**
I'm 99% sure that Orlando isn't trading for Gay.
I like the idea of Amir starting. I think he's earned it already, let the man prove himself to be able to handle the gig.
I hope he never wears another jersey for his career.
if the cavs are interested in granny danger, maybe they would take a gay for tt kind of thing
If we're gonna go full rebuild/tank, I would go this route:
1. Trade Gay to Cleveland for Tristan Thompson, Alonzo Gee, Tyler Zeller, Cleveland's #31 second-round draft pick in 2013, their own 2014 first-rounder and second-rounder
2. Trade Bargnani and Aaron Gray to Charlotte for Ben Gordon + Portland's protected 2014 first-round pick
3. Trade Lowry and Ross to Sacramento for John Salmons + Isaiah Thomas + Sacramento's 2014 pick
4. Resign Alan Anderson at league minimum
In the 2013 draft, draft Myck Kabongo, and your lineup is now
PG: Thomas/Kabongo/JL3
SG: DeRozan/Gordon/Salmons
SF: Fields/Gee/Anderson
PF: Amir/Thompson/Acy
C: Jonas/Zeller
And we have 2014 first rounders from Sacramento, Cleveland, Portland (top-12 protected but Portland has good odds of avoiding that) and our own, plus our second-rounders from Sacramento and Cleveland. Salmons may have lost his shot almost entirely and be a liability on the floor, but he has great basketball IQ and DeMar can learn that from him. We have very good, very young point guards - we might want to let JL3 walk if we can find a veteran floor general to teach them. We're stacked for young talented bigs. It's a very raw young team, but one with lots of potential.
If we have Thompson hes starting over Amir no doubt.
As for the Utah trade, I'm not sure Utah would want to swap Hayward with Derozan. I think they'd much rather keep Hayward as their starting SF next to Derozan since Hayward is great from 3 and can spread the floor. I also think Hayward is a better player than Derozan, so that swap doesn't really seem like a sweetener to get them to throw in picks. The trade still works fine with just Williams for Lowry and DD. But then I feel like we're giving up too much just for two so-so draft picks. What's great is the trade also works with just Lowry for Marvin Williams and the #14 pick (maybe get a 2nd rounder as well). I think that makes the most sense for both sides. Then we could use DD in a different deal.
How about DD and Kleiza to OKC for Perkins, Perry Jones, our pick back this year, and OKC's first round pick next year? I think that makes sense for both sides. We get a veteran backup C, a young player with loads of potential in Perry, as well as 2 more draft picks. OKC gets their new starting SG and an expiring contract instead of Perkins bloated deal. I don't see a ton of playing time being available for Perry anytime soon in OKC, and that's what he'll need if he is ever going to going to develop, so Toronto will be a much better situation for him. Since we're getting the #12 pick in this years draft from this trade, perhaps change the pick acquired in the Lowry deal to Utah's 2014 first rounder.
I can't get this trade to work in the trade checker (Bargnani and Gray for Biedrins, Jefferson, #13, 2014 pick from GSW (three team deal, Marion to GSW)). How about just Bargs for Biedrins and GSW 2014 first round pick? I just don't see us parlaying Bargs into 2 first round draft picks, even taking back some bad salaries (Bargs is a bad salary too).
Then we'd have the following picks:
2013: #4, and #12
2014: Our pick, GSW Pick, Utah's pick, Detroit's Pick (top 8 protected)
Players sent out:
Bargnani, Lowry, Derozan, Gay, Kleiza
Players coming in:
Marvin Williams, Perkins, Biedrins, Gordon, Perry Jones
Expected Lineup:
PG: MCW (#12 pick), FA, Gordon (part time)
SG: Ross, Fields (part time), Gordon (part time)
SF: Marvin Williams, Perry Jones, Fields (part time)
PF: Anthony Bennett (#4 Pick), Amir, Acy
C: JV, Gray, Perkins, Biedrins
Leaves us a little heavy on the frontcourt, but Biedrins is garbage and will just sit on the bench anyways. That is a team that will grow but not win many games, which will be perfect to get ready for the 2014 draft when we put in the finishing pieces of the rebuild.
The crazy and expensive idea I had, that I didn't include, was trading Kleiza for Michael Beasley and Phoenix's 2014 first-rounder, and then buying Beasley out of his deal. Expensive as all get out - like, it costs us a net $14 million - but is it worth it for a 2014 first-round pick which likely goes top six? I'd do it in a second. Would Phoenix give up a pick to get rid of $18 million of Beasley and Kleiza's $4M expiring as a later trade chip? I don't know.
Chris Paul and Dwight Howard have been in consistent contact recently about the possibility of becoming teammates next season, according to league sources.
Paul and Howard will be the biggest free agents on the market this summer, and their desire is to play together, the sources said.
"They would love to play together if somebody can make it happen," one of the sources said.The preference for both players would be to play together for the Clippers, according to the sources. Because the Clippers don't have enough cap room to sign Howard as a free agent, it would take a sign-and-trade deal with the Lakers to make it happen.Source: ESPN.comeverybody is an option at this point.
Don't even think about them coming here but the Raptors could be a dance partner to help get the details worked out for a team desperate to acquire these guys and in doing so obtain draft picks and/or prospects.
From the Lakers, these players interest me:
- Jordan Hill
- Earl Clark(S&T)
From the Clippers, these players interest me:
- DeAndre Jordan
- Eric Bledsoe
- Ronny Turiaf(S&T)
And the wild card, from the Hawks, these players interest me:
- Al Horford
- Louis Williams
- Jeff Teague(S&T)
- DeShawn Stevenson
The Lakers or Hawks may be interested in Bargnani, DeRozan and Gay. On draft night, 2008, the Hawks were rumored to be interested in drafting Bargnani if he fell to them. It didn't happen. DeRozan trains with Kobe sometimes in the off-season. Gay could take pressure off Kobe now that he's getting near the end of his career. On the flip side, the Hawks may lose Josh Smith and so Gay could interest them.
These are the conversations Ujiri needs to butt into; capitalizing on teams desperate to land superstars and capitalizing on teams desperate to show their fans they didn't walk away empty handed.
I believe you meant "Clippers" in the second group listed.
D'Andre Jordan must be pissed at CP if there is any substance to this. This is like deja vu pre cba.
Another would be to help teams looking to clear space so they can take away the leverage LAC or LAL might have in refusing to negotiate a sign and trade (each can still offer $30M more than any other team).
Houston and Dallas would be the teams to work with their.
The Raptors would not be able to take on salary outright but they could become a dumping ground for larger contracts.
The max salary is likely to be around $16.5M for Howard and Paul next season. See here for explanation.
Looking at Dallas if they lost Marion, Cunningham, and possibly Carter while renouncing Roddy/Collison and declining James/Akognum, the Mavs could sign both.
I feel like there could be big money in putting together an exclusive forum which is open only to NBA players. There could be threads like "Who wants to go to the Clips?" or "How to grab a big payday then bow out of town" etc.
Why on earth would you sign a backup PG and 3rd string PG, neither of whom is young, to multi-year deals?
And people want to criticize BC... ***.
However, I'd much rather see long term pieces come back this way that aren't question marks. Jordan, Hill, Bledsoe, etc. these are guys who could be good long term pieces.
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Chefs' Secrets: Apple pancake recipe from Magnolia Pancake Haus
Updated 11:34 pm, Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Dear Pat: We recently made a first-time visit to The Magnolia Pancake Haus after seeing them featured on "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" on the Food Network. We had a guest from California and thought it would be fun to take him out for breakfast at the MPH. So much was made of the Munchener Apfel Pfannekuchen, that we couldn't resist ordering one for dessert. We asked for three spoons. I thought a few bites would be all I would have. Let me tell you, that pfannekuchen was so incredibly good that it was a matter of dueling spoons to see who could get the last bite. It was gone in a twinkling of an eye. I asked the waitress if they shared the recipe and she said they have it on their website, but I have searched for it, and cannot find it. You would be making many people happy if you could print the recipe for this wonderful dish ... not just the pancake but the secret of their whipped cream, which was delicious and seemed to have more body than the average whipped cream. Thanks so much for all the great recipes you have printed in the past. I promise you, this will be an all-time favorite.
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Dear Doris: Pancakes for breakfast? That's a given. But as you've discovered, when you dress them up, pancakes can take on a whole new persona. Add a little whipped cream and powdered sugar or a scoop of ice cream, and they're transformed into opulent desserts.
Magnolia Pancake Haus owners Robert and Sheila Fleming serve a broad array of delectable scratch-made breakfast, brunch and lunch items, but it's their Munchener Apfel Pfannekuchen that's put them on the map. When Food Network host Guy Fieri of "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" drives up to your restaurant to try the pfannekuchen for himself, you know the word is out.
Fleming's wife Sheila grew up in Munich, and this recipe has been in her family for more than 100 years. The puffed Bavarian pancake, filled with slices of tart Granny Smith apple sweetened with cinnamon- and nutmeg-spiked glaze, is simply irresistible. Fleming kindly shares both the recipe and his secret for that extraordinary whipped cream. He uses a very rich heavy cream with 40 percent butterfat, (generally only available commercially) and adds a little "bloomed" gelatin during the whipping process. (See the note in the recipe.) Regular heavy whipping cream will work just fine, however.
The restaurant does not take reservations, and it's one busy place. Happily, the Flemings are opening a second location of Magnolia Pancake Haus at the corner of Huebner Road and Research, two blocks west of Fredericksburg Road in late April. That should help relieve the long lines of ravenous folk. The restaurant is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.
Magnolia Pancake Haus is at 606 Embassy Oaks, Suite 100 at West Avenue.
Pat Mozersky is a freelance writer for the Express-News. Contact her at chefssecrets.pm@ gmail.com.


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The Cascadia Forest Defenders, Deep Green Resistance and other groups held an "action against extraction" on Sunday, March 3, following the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, to call attention to global-warming inducing tar sands pipelines, fracking, coal exports and other damaging fossil-fuel projects. More in this week's EW.


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TUSTIN – A woman died Tuesday after being trapped by a fire in her apartment, authorities said.
Crews about 6:50 p.m. responded to reports of a fire at a two-story apartment complex in the 15000 block of Williams Street.
The firefighters arrived to find a large amount of flames coming out of a corner unit on the second floor of the complex and heard reports of residents trapped on a balcony, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Marc Stone said.
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Additional Fire Authority crews were called to the scene. The crews extinguished the flames within 20 minutes, preventing it from moving to adjacent units.
After the blaze was extinguished, the firefighters found a woman who had apparently died from injuries suffered in the fire on the balcony of the unit, Stone said. Authorities are not identifying the woman until her family is notified of the death.
A 39-year-old man who had attempted to rescue the woman also suffered "serious burns," Stone said. The man, a neighbor of the woman who died, apparently leaned over from an adjacent balcony to try to save her.
"He did everything possible to try to save the victim on the balcony," Stone said. "It sounds like they were trying to escape and that is when the neighbor jumped into action."
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I love the colours in this pic. Too bad it looks different uploaded. Washed-out somehow. Damn. Looked so much nicer in Photoshop. Brighter. More radiant. Happier. Bleh. JPG sucks.
EDIT at 1:30AM on 30 October 2008: Oh, and FYI – since I've already smeared his name so bad, I might as well just go right on with it, without further remorse or guilt – The Horny Intern actually had the (butt)cheek to say this to Banana Girl and I excitedly:
"You know what would be even cooler?? It'd be even cooler if I stood in the middle and we all stuffed our hands into each other's pockets for the next picture! Ok? Ok? So much cooler, right??? Cum'mon! Let's do it!"
In. His. Dreams.
What are they teaching kids in school these days lah?!
Really makes me worry for my unborn children. Sigh.


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A lightweight bout between UFC veteran Spencer Fisher (24-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC) and "The Ultimate Fighter 9" lightweight winner Ross Pearson (11-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) is expected to be part of UFC 127.
Sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) verbal agreements are in place and that contracts should be signed shortly.
Although not officially announced by the organization, UFC 127 is expected to take place Feb. 27 at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia.
The event airs live on pay-per-view, though it's not clear if Fisher vs. Pearson will be part of the broadcast.
After a three-fight win streak in the UFC, which included wins over notables Caol Uno and Jeremy Stephens, Fisher dropped consecutive losses to Joe Stevenson and Dennis Siver. But he then signed a new UFC deal and got back in the win column with a unanimous-decision victory over Kurt Warburton this past at UFC 120.
He looks for his fifth win in five fights when he meets Pearson, who opened his UFC career with wins over Andre Winner, Aaron Riley and Siver (which earned a "Fight of the Night" bonus). But in his most recent bout, his four-fight win streak came to a halt with a submission loss to Cole Miller.
For more on UFC 127, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Opinion: Harvick Making Right Move
By: Dustin Long - @dustinlong on November 11, 2013 | 10:41 A.M. EST
Kevin Harvick celebrates with his son Keelan after Sunday's victory at Phoenix International Raceway. (Photo: Getty Images)
There was no anger, only admiration. For as much as Kevin Harvick and Richard Childress fought through the years, they built an endearing bond.
As Harvick talked about how Childress has "taught me a lot about being a dad,'' he suddenly stopped.
His throat constricted. Emotion washed over his face. Suddenly a victory celebration stopped. Harvick turned and looked at Childress admiringly with the same reverent gaze a child looks at a father.
In that moment, it seemed implausible that Harvick would leave Childress after this season for Stewart-Haas Racing.
How could he?
Harvick departs as he's about to complete one of his best seasons. His victory Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway marked his fourth of the season, matching his 2011 total and one shy of his career-high in 2006. He's six points behind Matt Kenseth for second in the standings. If he passes Kenseth, Harvick will record his best points finish.
So, is Harvick making the right move by leaving Childress for Stewart-Haas?
Harvick is the only driver to score a Cup victory for Childress in the past two seasons. Although Harvick could be headed for his third top-three points finish in the last four years, one wonders if he's reached as far as he's going to go at RCR - which last won a Cup title in 1994 with Dale Earnhardt.
Stewart-Haas Racing's last title came in 2011 with Tony Stewart.
Harvick enters this weekend's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a chance to win the title, but it's slim. He's 34 points behind series leader Jimmie Johnson.
For all that RCR has done, it's struggled with consistency. The organization went winless in 2009, had five wins in 2010, scored six wins in 2011, had one victory last year and four wins this season.
While Stewart has been the lead driver at SHR, Ryan Newman - who is headed to Richard Childress Racing after this season - scored at least one win each of the past five seasons. That shows stronger depth in the organization.
The drama that Harvick leaves behind could join him at Stewart-Haas Racing. The organization has struggled at times this season and its two victories this season - Stewart won at Dover and Newman won at Indianapolis - are its fewest wins since Stewart became a co-owner in 2009. Such results often can lead to personnel changes.
That's only part of what is happening at Stewart-Haas Racing.
Stewart is recovering from a broken leg, co-owner Gene Haas will fund a fourth team on his own for Kurt Busch, forcing the team to add crew members and build additional space to the race shop
Still, even with these situations, it's time for Harvick to move on, just as it becomes time for a child to leave home and go on their own. Consider that Harvick first drove for Childress in 1999 and moved to Cup in 2001 after Earnhardt's death. Only Jeff Gordon has been with the same Cup team longer than Harvick has been with Childress.
Sometimes it is better to make changes to chase one's dreams.
It's that time for Harvick.
It happens in every family. The child eventually leaves home.
"We want to be successful,and we want to win races,'' Harvick said, noting the generation gap between he and Childress. "I think we have a different approach of how you approach things and how you talk about things and how you move through things. In the end, you want to respect each other.''
That was evident last month at Martinsville Speedway. Upset after an incident with Ty Dillon, Childress' grandson, Harvick criticized Dillon and his brother Austin, stating that they were among the reasons he was leaving the organization.
Just like any parent and child, a discussion followed.
"I think some of the conversations that we had were good for all of us and made us really understand just the fact that how successful we've been together and how successful we've been for each other at RCR,'' Harvick said.
Childress admits that generational gap is significant between the two.
"The ... gap is bigger than it was with Dale (Earnhardt) and myself,'' he said. "At the end of the day, the one thing we both do have is a word called respect and we'll aways have that.''
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 30, 2013, 9:55 AM
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Best of Palo Alto 2013
Original post made on Aug 30, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 30, 2013, 9:55 AM
a resident of Downtown North
on Aug 30, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Clicking on restaurants goes to the food and drink site, not the restaurant site.
online staff of Palo Alto Online
on Aug 30, 2013 at 12:33 pm
Town Square Moderator is a registered user.
The link has been fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Aug 30, 2013 at 4:20 pm
I am amazed to see that Flea Street Cafe received an award. We have gone there three times in fifteen years, most recently this spring, and have always received the most rude and brusque service. We have always assumed that if we waited a couple of years between visits, there might be staff who are friendlier, but that has not been the case so far. They REALLY get rude if one asks for dressing on the side, or no sauce, or no butter!
a resident of Greendell/Walnut Grove
on Aug 30, 2013 at 9:36 pm
palo alto is in trouble with god.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2013 at 10:57 pm
I would like to know how many votes you get and how many votes are between the winner and the business that comes in second place.
Are these overwhelming wins or are they close?
Somehow, I get the feeling that there are no surprises amongst the winners. Are you doing anything to prevent any type of cheating, or preventing unfair cheating from those with a connection to the business that they vote for?
Just thought I would ask anyway.
a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Sep 1, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Il Fornaio was an absolute surprise, if not shock. The food is bland, the portions s all, the prices high, the service blah. Nuff said?
a resident of College Terrace
on Sep 3, 2013 at 1:24 pm
While my daughter has been home from college this summer, we've been to Fuki Sushi at least 3 times. The food and service in the sushi bar for lunch has been terrific. Last week we had dinner in the dining room. The food was great, but the service was so bad, it was a comedy and the time we waited for our food, unacceptable. We noted the chop stick wrappers mentioned they're also at FaceBook. We wondered if they are now spread too thin.
As we left, I looked for a hostess or the owner or manager to express my concern, but there was no one to be found.
a resident of Terman Middle School
on Jun 5, 2017 at 5:48 am
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