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This season's third and last Chanukah Festival for Israel Bonds, an annual series of events sponsored by the Greater New York Committee for the State of Israel Bonds, was performed here tonight at Madison Square Garden before an enthusiastic capacity audience of 18,000 persons. Two other festivals were conducted last month. Since the previous performances were also sold out, admission being granted only to purchasers of Israel Bonds, this season's total attendance was estimated by the committee at approximately 54,000 persons.
The festivals this year marked not only the traditional celebration of Chanukah but also Israel's 20th anniversary. Max Abrams is campaign chairman for the Greater New York Committee, and Jack D. Weiler, secretary-treasurer of the Israel Bond Organization, was Chanukah Festival chairman for the season.
A number of America's leading stars of stage, screen and television participated in the performances, for which dramatic segments were written by Henry Denker, a well-known Broadway play-wright and a novelist. Original ballets were performed by the Sophie Maslow Dance Group. The productions were supervised by Hi Brown, prominent radio and television producer. Music was performed by the Festival Philharmonic under the direction of Maurice Levine. Stage design and lighting were by Sam Leve, and costumes were created by Jerome E. Boxhorn.


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As darkness threatens to engulf all life, the universe cries out for a champion with a pure heart. But they'll have to settle for schoolgirl June Summer. With the help of her friends and her mentor, a winged bunny, June will battle monsters, struggle to maintain a normal school life, and occasionally watch television. Hey, even heroines need a little downtime. -A Magical Girl Parody. Updates Wednesdays!
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You mean the girly girl who embodies cheer and cuteness isn't the Magical Girl? Looks like he's got his work cut out for him after all.
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Evidence gives support to tales of local history in South Hills area
A wooden cross at the base of a more than 200-year-old oak tree in Bob Cranmer's front yard honors a woman and her three children likely killed by American Indians.
Their grave, probably from the late 1700s, is verified by tales from those knowledgeable about the area, letters between leaders of the Northwest Indian War and a radar scan of the tree's base, said Cranmer, 56, of Brentwood, a former Allegheny County commissioner whose 1909 house was featured in a television documentary chronicling an exorcism he requested there.
Cranmer believes the woman's husband planted the tree at the property's entrance along Brownsville Road as a memorial for his family. Cranmer is writing a book on the history of the house, set to be published by New York-based Berkley/Penguin Group next year.
"It's pretty compelling," he said of the history he unearthed in his yard.
The Cranmers moved into their home nearly 25 years ago. It often attracts questions.
"People were always like, 'Oh you live in that home?' " said Cranmer, president of Cranmer Consultants. "If you're from the South Hills, you generally know something about this home."
He was always curious about the tree. The home's former resident, Walter Wagner Jr., told him about a town legend that George Washington camped there.
Wagner, 78, of Bristol, Ind., who grew up in the home, said he is uncertain where he heard the tale.
"It just seems to be something that somebody once told me," he said.
Then a woman told Cranmer about the possible murder of a woman and children on his lawn.
She heard that Indians "killed and scalped" family members living there during post-Revolutionary War years, before the current home was built. The father, who was away when they died, buried his family in the yard and transplanted the tree at their grave.
"I said, 'Well, that's a pretty neat story,' " Cranmer said.
To find out if it were true, he searched the Internet and the National Archives, reading war department documents. He came across a letter from Isaac Craig, the commander of Fort Pitt, to Secretary of War Henry Knox, dated March 31, 1792, during the Northwest Indian War. The letter referenced the wife of Deliverance Brown, killed with her three children.
"(The Indians) wanted to terrorize these people from trying to settle out here," said Cranmer, a history buff. "Come 1791-92, this was a very dangerous place to be. I'm told this story and then I read this. How unique that in the same time period I find a record of three children and their mother being killed by the Indians." Yet he wanted physical evidence.
While watching The History Channel's "Unearthing America," he learned about a technique: holding two copper rods steady while walking above a grave will cause the wires to cross, he said.
Cranmer tried it on the grave of Pete, the family's cocker spaniel.
"It responded," he said. "So with that, I took it out to the front yard and sure enough, when I got near the tree, these things just started going crazy. It's almost like it's mechanical."
He hired Ground Penetrating Radar Systems Inc., a company The History Channel used to find a graveyard, to examine his yard. The results showed a man-made, 11-by-6-foot, disturbance at the base of the tree. The company's report said the findings are consistent with "an excavated grave site, with what appears to be the remains of objects four to five feet down from the surface."
"The images that were depicted would have shown four people buried horizontally," Cranmer said.
Cranmer's son, Bob Jr., 27, said he was "taken back" as he watched the radar experts in his childhood yard.
"Although, I'm not too surprised," he said, because he, too, has heard stories about the property over the years. "Older people would be walking down the street and see us on the porch and would come up and share stories with us."
A few week's ago, Cranmer called Wagner to tell him about his findings. This was the first time the man whose family lived in the home for more than 30 years had heard of a possible burial ground on the property, Wagner said.
"That's a little bit shocking. I could see it as being a possibility," he said.
Cranmer said he has done what he can to determine the history of the tree and burial site. He doesn't want to disturb the grave.
Instead, this spring he plans to place a brass plaque there.
Stephanie Hacke is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-388-5818 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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First of all it's nice to be here. I had some previous experience with FreeBSD but I decided to give OpenBSD a go and I'm not one bit dissapointed.
I installed 4.4 3 days ago(had not known at the time that the next will be released the second day).
Was surprised to see that cpu scaling worked out of the box.that was not the case with any Linux I ever used, or with FreeBSD.
X configure actually worked and I had a working window manager in 1 minute.
I set apmd_flags to "-C", rebooted and automatic scaling worked. then I decided to upgrade to 4.5 (copied all the sets off the 4.5 cd to /sets, booted the 4.5 bsd.rd, started updating from disc, mounted /sets...it all worked ok...or so it seemed )
Without any other change I booted to 4.5, just to see my cpu was at full capacity when idling in the console (1.800 MHz). `sysctl hw` shows all the scaling stuff, and I can use `sysctl hw.setperf=0` to get it to 800MHz (minimum and cool), but apm does not do it automatically. So for now I have it with "-L" (manual mode) but I'd like apmd to do it automatically.
I should point out that I disabled apm in the kernel and enabled acpi (apm would crash on boot if enabled..this was a problem with everything I used before..it's my laptop's fault). I did this for 4.4 too and it worked.
Second problem is that my Broadcom won't connect to the AP. This is buggy under Linux too, but after a few tries it works.
It can detect AP's, and I see it can get my AP's bssid etc, so traffic works, but it just doesn't get an ip. dhclient says "no link ........ sleeping" and that's all. It runs in the background but no connection can be made. Enabling debug shows the auth beeing sent but after that nothing. The AP is unsecured so it's not a WEP/WPA issue. I decided to buy a rt73 chip based card tomorrow...so this ain't a big problem anymore (even though a fix would be nice)
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The PS4 was once labeled as having a failure rate of just 0.4%. That was a week ago. One week later and the system now has a failure rate of just under 1%. With more than a million units shipped in North America, that brings the tally of defective units close to 10,000.
The failure rate update comes courtesy of The Washington Post, where Sony representative Dan Race told them that the PS4's failure rate was just under 1% and that the console's hiccups are...
"...within the expected range for a new product introduction." … "There have been several issues reported, which leads us to believe there isn't a singular problem that could impact a broader percentage of PS4 units,"
While 1% is still better than the Xbox 360's RROD issue that saw a launch of 3% failure rate right off the bat, it still leaves some gamers to believe that many of the defective units – arriving dead at the homes of Amazon purchasers – is Sony's fault. Additionally, some believe that the system is just built with defective parts, similar to the Xbox 360's RROD issue. However, only a small percentage of individuals out of the million units that have shipped have publicly voiced their problems with the PS4, mostly with disgruntled one-star reviews on Amazon.
Some pundits blamed Sony for not being more thorough with their second and third tier quality assurance testing, similar to what Apple does – which is how they weeded out more than 5 million faulty units they eventually had sent back to Foxconn, as reported by The Consumerist.
While Sony is desperately trying to fix the problem with the PS4s, there's another side to the blame-coin.
There are running rumors of worker sabotage on the assembly line. This has taken on a life of its own but hasn't really reared any reasonable forms of information from official sources. The closest bit of information we've had from Sony regarding the matter was reported by PS4 Daily, where Shuhei Yoshida, Sony's worldwide studio boss, simply said that...
"Be assured we are investigating reported PS4 issues. The number is very small compared to shipped, we believe they are isolated incidents."
Across majority of the forum threads and aggregators, many gamers have become equally dismissive of any foul play on the assembly lines. It's not hard to see the word "sabotage" and think "tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist!". But at the same time, a lot of these allegations are fueled from some disturbing instances that have occurred over the past couple of months at the Foxconn plants where the PlayStation 4 is being assembled.
Workers lacing a batch of the thermal paste with trace amounts of lead has been scoffed at, just the same as students "spitting on the motherboard" was labeled as ludicrous.
However, Foxconn has a deal with the local school districts to recruit and use the students on assembly lines, gluing together parts and even running inspection of finished products, as reported by Quartz. Foxconn is now using a referral program, paying schools to solicit their students to become a part of their work force because workers wise to Foxconn's schemes have decided to avoid the company.


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State Rep. Ray Liberti said he will ask the Legislature to abolish the controversial Palm Beach County Expressway Authority, prompting wild applause and cheers from the audience at a legislative delegation meeting Wednesday night.
``In 1983, it was one of those numerous concepts in a list of ideas,`` Liberti said, tracing the origin of the authority.
``But we`re in 1986 now. I think we should concentrate on existing thoroughfares.``
Liberti, a West Palm Beach Democrat, said he would file a House bill eliminating the five-member authority. He asked other county lawmakers for support.
Sen. Don Childers, D-West Palm Beach, immediately said he would introduce similar legislation in the Senate.
``I would hope my colleagues in the Senate would support it,`` he said.
An overflow crowd of more than 250 people packed the County Commission chambers in West Palm Beach for the hearing.
The action by lawmakers came after emotional testimony from a half-dozen residents living in the path of a proposed expressway route.
The road would parallel Okeechobee Boulevard, connecting Wellington and Royal Palm Beach with downtown West Palm Beach.
``They`re going to have to get a sheriff to move me off my land,`` said Scott Lewis, owner of a West Palm Beach area plant nursery. ``And I`ll be going off waving the American flag.``
Estella Friedman, a mobile home owner, would have to move if the expressway plan were enacted. She conceded the Legislature`s 1983 formation of the authority was well-intentioned.
``But the path to hell is built on good intentions,`` Friedman said. ``And it would be hell for thousands of people if the expressway was created.``
Rules governing the delegation meeting barred legislators from voting on whether they would endorse Liberti`s bill. Legislation to abolish the authority requires a general bill. Lawmakers were allowed only to vote on local bills Wednesday.


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- Pete said...
Pradeep, excellent blog as usual, thanks.
Worden Webinar featured pro swing trader Larry Connors a few months ago and he has an interesting take on holding periods that might interest your readers; it was point number 8 during the presentation. The webinar is available in Worden archives:
"On average, statistically 5-8 trading days is usually the sweet spot to locking in gains. Less time usually doesn't allow the move to be maximized. More time and the gains begin to revert to market averages."
- Dec 3, 2010, 8:01:00 AM
- Pradeep Bonde said...
My market Monitor database also shows similar thing. 15 to 20% kind of moves are more common on less than month time frame. The move happen in momentum bursts of 3 to 7 days. Rest of the time the stock is in base or pullback mode.
Last night I did a video on Members site showing that with many examples of recent stock moves where moves of 100% plus happened in less than a month, but effectively the 100% plus gain was made only in 3 to 7 days time frame.
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When setting up your outdoor retreat, it is easy to overlook small details that will make a huge difference in the overall comfort for you and your guests. When paired with one of our Berlin Gardens chairs, this Amish Poly Footstool is sure to be the perfect place to kick your feet up and really get the most from your outdoor furniture. Available in every beautiful poly color as your Berlin Gardens chairs, you're sure to find a footstool to compliment your decor.
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Council for the Future of Europe
Peter Sutherland is chairman of Goldman Sachs International in London, a position he assumed in 1995, and serves as the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Migration & Development. Prior to joining the World Trade Organization (GATT) in 1993, he was with the firm for three years as an international advisor. Peter was chairman of BP plc from 1997 to December 2009. He is chairman of the London School of Economics.
Previously, Peter was attorney general of Ireland, a commissioner of the European Communities and then chairman of Allied Irish Banks. He then went on to be the director-general of GATT. Peter is honorary president of the European Policy Centre in Brussels and honorary chairman of the Trilateral Commission (Europe).
Peter is a Foundation Board member of the World Economic Forum. He is a Consultor for the Administration of the Finances of the Holy See. Peter is also president of The Federal Trust. He is a UNIDO goodwill ambassador and Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Migration and Development. In 2011, Peter co-chaired a trade experts group to provide analysis and recommendations in support of trade liberalization and revitalization on the nomination of the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey and Indonesia.
Peter earned a bachelor's degree in Civil Law from University College Dublin. He is an honorary bencher of the King's Inns. He has received fifteen honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and America. Peter has also received an honorary (KCMG) Knighthood from the United Kingdom and has been decorated by Spain, Belgium, France, Morocco, Brazil, Portugal and New Zealand. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory (Papal decoration) in 2008. He is an Honorary Fellow of the London Business School and the Oxford University Institute of Economics.


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"As Father Josiah Trenham prepared to read the Gospel, several parishioners discreetly scooped up their babies, retreated up the aisles of St. Andrew Orthodox Church and out into the spring air, so as not to allow the crying of little ones to disturb the divine liturgy.
The time-honored tradition was shattered when a car passed by the Riverside, Calif., church, slowing down as the front passenger leaned out of his window and bellowed menacingly through a bullhorn, according to witnesses.
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Burning Star's WWW.VIRUS.COM Completes Shooting!Mar 24, 2016 03:55 AM
It seems Burning Star Sampoornesh Babu have couple of films in his kitty. While Kobbari Matta is still under shooting, another movie 'www.virus.com' with caption 'no vaccine only toxin' finished shooting schedule and is now moving into post production works.
The makers of this movie promise that this upcoming film contains all kinds of elements to entertain audience and Sampoornesh will look differently from his previous films. Ch Shiva Ramakrishna is helming this project and is being produced by Md Saleem and Kalyan Dhulipla under the A S N film banner. This film is being presented by Duhara movies.
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On August 1, 2016, Hyatt Groups will implement changes to the Hyatt Gold Passport® Award Chart. The changes will include 56 hotels moving to a lower category and 50 hotels moving to a higher category. A complete list of changes can be found on hyatt.com.
Between now and August 1, 2016, reservations can be made using the current award chart. Existing reservations for stays after August 1, 2016, will receive a refund for the point difference if the hotel moved to a lower category.
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"Royal Texas Holdem" is a famous card game, almost same as other Texas holdem, it is a mobile network game which is enjoying between Smart Phone User and users.
Basically, it is a variation of the general card game of 7 Ordinary Poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community card being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three ("the flop") then two additional single cards ("the turn" and "the river" or "fouth and fifth street" respectively), with players having the option to check, bet, raise or fold after each deal; i.e., betting is occur prior to the flop, "on the flop", "on the turn", and "on the river".
- Apply to general "Texas Holdem" game with Ordinary 7 Poker game rule.
- 2~9 players can be join in one game table.
- Can make your own game table for the different conditions(Betting Rule, speed)
- User can enjoy "Free Recharge Service" with seeing advertisement, maximum a day 10 times if remaining under$100.
- "Item Shop", Player can purchase game money on the "Item Shop", and also using by inside game money, can purchase Gifts on the "Gift Shop".
- The " Inside Ranking system" is supported by the amount of the remaining credit.
This game is almost same as "Texas Holdem Poker", so you can learn easy and fast, please enjoy with us.


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Hope Bike Components, Brakes, wheels, head sets and much much more. All made in the UK. With Hope's product development and improvement being a hugely important part of their business, Hope's technical excellence and unrivalled customer service holds the key to producing products of the highest quality and value for money.
Everything Hope is made in the Barnoldswick Factory right down to the connectors, shims, pawls and other small parts that go into making the finished piece.
Chain Guides and Devices becoming more common out on the trails, with what used to be for Downhill and Free Ride we have seen them sneaking into all mountain and cross country. Chain devices like chain tensioners and single speed conversion kits are also growing in popularity. These offerings from MRP, Hope and Straitline should meet your requirements but if you need something else please get in touch.


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Zeb at 6 months
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He sure is a cutie pie and such a mix of all your kids...the missing piece to your family puzzle! Love him and can't believe he's already 6 months!ReplyDelete
He is such an adorable, happy baby boy!! Love these sweet snapshots of your Zeb!ReplyDelete
Oh, Zeb is so adorable and precious! Sweet photos! ;) xo HeatherReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Absolutely beautiful. You are so blessed.ReplyDelete
He reminds me a lot of Simon and John in these pictures. Such a cutie, and great photos.ReplyDelete
Oh baby Zeb! I love these shots of him, Rebekah.ReplyDelete
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i am about to do a post so similar of kai that i did for his 2 month :)
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A quick post to demonstrate two neat tricks for using the most real estate in your SharePoint 2013 site using IntelliGantt.
First, while it's common to put IntelliGantt on a SharePoint page, like the home page, you really don't have to. You can go right to the IntelliGantt_Inhouse.aspx or IntelliGantt_Online.aspx file in your SiteAssets and view it there. When you do so, IntelliGantt will fill the entire browser window like so.
If you want to devote every possible pixel to your IntelliGantt view, just hit F11 and the chrome around the web browser will disappear. Now IntelliGantt will be as large as your monitor.
If you have a multiple monitor situation, you can do this same trick over the monitor grid and turn IntelliGantt into a JumboGantt so that everyone can see what tasks need to be done.


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Designed for high temperature environments from −40°C to 85°C either indoors or out, the UW3804X and UW5805S white LEDs deliver a luminous intensity up to 2,000 mcd with a forward current of 20 mA. They are fabricated from an InGaN die and come in a water-clear lens with up to a 50° viewing angle depending on package. Other features include a power dissipation of 107 mW, 25 mA forward current, 60 mA peak forward current, and a reverse voltage of 5V. Derating is from 0.33(dc) 0.85(pulse) mA/°C. The through-hole LEDs come in either a 3 mm (UW3804X) or 5 mm (UW5805S) package with prices beginning at $0.95 each/100. STANLEY ELECTRIC SALES OF AMERICA, INC., Irvine, CA. (800) 533-5231.
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Web Presence for Golf Professionals
It has been thought that you must create your own unique website in order to be visible on the web, but those times are changing. This mass customization of websites has led to an overcrowding and ultimately cluttered mess on the web. This article argues that building websites using this model is very counterproductive for the vast majority of Golf Teaching Professionals. There are three significant reasons for the ineffectiveness of mass customization of websites:
Maintenance Costs: When a Golf Pro or course manager builds a website, either directly or through web developers, they have implicitly committed to the lifetime costs of maintaining that website. There are a lot of reasons for updating a website, particularly in the service industry, and these updates must be made on a timely manner. If you are required to pay extra for additional edits to your website, this can get very expensive fast. For a Golf Course or Teaching Pro's website to be relevant, it must be updated constantly.
Opportunity Costs: When things need to be changed on your website, they need to be change right away. There is a time and a cost associated with having to go to a 3rd party to make small adjustments. You need to be able to manage the page on your time. The problem with this in the past has been the quick changes in technology. As a golf professional, you are not keeping up with these changes and can easily be left behind.
Business-to-Business collaboration: With different companies building their own unique websites, businesses cannot easily integrate their respective marketing messages to create a material impact in the marketplace. Also, it is impossible for golf professionals to partner with like businesses such as Tennis Instructors or Personal Trainers. Thus, customization actually leads to the loss of massive business opportunities for small businesses.
What about solutions from companies such as Web.com, GoDaddy, Vistaprint, or Wix.com ?
Companies such as GoDaddy, Vistaprint, Wix.com andWeb.com increasingly have offered "do-it-yourself" tools. While these tools certainly aid in the ease-of-development of websites, they fundamentally do not change the idea of mass customization and often are not as simple as advertised.
What is the solution?
In a word, the answer is platforms. Platforms differ from toolkits in that the technology company builds the core functionality that can be personalized by each business. Examples of successful platforms include Facebook, Linkedin, and Quickbooks. Today, golf professionals have access to platforms such as Ocoos for their marketing function. These platforms have the following characteristics:
Standard web presence driven by personalized information submitted by the customer themselves
Simple methods for upload information, pictures, videos, etc.
Plenty of ways to make it work for your business, such as ecommerce, online scheduling, linking social media, analytics, etc.
How do platforms compare to the toolkit approach?
In a platform, the consumers of the website gain a standard look and feel. This contrasts favorably with the mass customization of the toolkit model, where customers have a potentially haphazard and unfamiliar experience.
In a platform, golf professionals have access to a deep functionality at a very affordable price.
In a platform, maintenance costs are minimized since they are shared over all users. For toolkits, the maintenance costs can be rather large.
In a platform, opportunity costs are eliminated because new Internet technologies (like instagram) can be integrated in a very efficient manner, unlike toolkit approaches that require each individual site to integrate it.
Finally, the platform approach allows for a standard base upon which business-to-business marketing integration can occur.
Do these platforms remove the need for digital marketers?
No. Actually, the opposite is true. With these platforms, digital marketers can focus on core marketing much more efficiently than they currently can. Additionally, they can operate with a platform that can scale efficiently over time.


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It's Time to Play! Created by @JimSilver – father of three and renowned toy expert – and @TheToyGuy Chris Byrne, a leading expert on toys, play, and children's trends, TimetoPlayMag.com is a playful website where you can find the best information on all things "kid" – and have some fun yourself!
Join Jim and Time to Play writer Jeff McKinney (@JeffMMcKinney) this Thursday from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. EST to celebrate the season with the #ToyGiveaway party. The parties I have hosted for Time to Play in the past have been some of our most fun, and this one is shaping up to be no different!
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Traveling Luck for Buck Siding Florida, United States
The timezone in Buck Siding is America/Iqaluit
Morning Sunrise at 07:42 and Evening Sunset at 19:07. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 29.8850°, Longitude. -84.9753°
Morning Sunrise at 07:42 and Evening Sunset at 19:07. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 29.8850°, Longitude. -84.9753°
Weather near Buck Siding Last report from Apalachicola, Apalachicola, FL 24.4km awayheavy rain Temperature: 27°C / 81°F
Wind: 57.5km/h South gusting to 84km/h
Cloud: Broken at 900ft Solid Overcast at 1500ft
Satellite map of Buck Siding and it's surroudings...
Geographic features & Photographs around Buck Siding in Florida, United States
stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Deep Creek (0.5km)
- South Prong Fort Godsden Creek (4.3km)
- Graham Creek (6.1km)
- Poplar Branch (7.4km)
- Smokehouse Creek (8.1km)
- Fort Gadsden Creek (8.4km)
- Harrison Creek (8.4km)
- Bearman Creek (8.4km)
- Brothers River (9.3km)
- Caesar Creek (9.5km)
- Howard Creek (9.9km)
- Brickyard Creek (10.9km)
- Hidden Johnson Creek (11.6km)
- Thankyouma'am Creek (12.4km)
- Doyle Creek (13.1km)
- Juniper Creek (13.8km)
- Owl Creek (14.2km)
- Saltwater (14.3km)
- Hoffman Creek (14.8km)
- Devon Creek (15km)
- Brown Creek (15.1km)
Local Feature A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Buck Siding (0km)
- Missouri Landing (4.5km)
- Van Horn Landing (4.9km)
- Walker Camp (historical) (5.6km)
- Padget Camp (historical) (7km)
- Smith Creek Landing (7km)
- Walker Camp (historical) (9.4km)
- Gardner Landing (10km)
- Brickyard Landing (10.7km)
- Creels Side Camp (10.9km)
- Butcher Pen Landing (12.1km)
inlet a narrow waterway extending into the land, or connecting a bay or lagoon with a larger body of water.
- Little Brothers Slough (7.6km)
- Humphreys Slough (8.8km)
- Brickyard Cut Off (10.8km)
- Johnson Slough (11.8km)
- Three Brothers Creek (14.2km)
- Montgomery Slough (14.5km)
populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Fort Gadsden (4.7km)
- Beverly (4.8km)
- Hays Place (7.5km)
- Achackwaithle (historical) (10.3km)
- Creels (12.6km)
- Brickyard (12.9km)
Accommodation around Buck Siding
Water Street Hotel And Marina 329 Water St, Apalachicola
Coombs Inn 80 Sixth Street, Apalachicola
BEST WESTERN APALACH INN 249 Highway 98 West, Apalachicola
island a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Bloody Bluff Island (5km)
- Forbes Island (7.5km)
- Saint Marks Island (10.8km)
- Downes Island (14.6km)
swamp a wetland dominated by tree vegetation.
- Van Horn Bay (4km)
- Coffee Branch (15km)
channel the deepest part of a stream, bay, lagoon, or strait, through which the main current flows.
- East River Cut Off (11.4km)
- Coffee Branch (15.2km)
lake a large inland body of standing water.
- Fanny Lake (11.3km)
- Evans Lake (12km)
park an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Fort Gadsden State Historic Site (9km)
- Fort Gadsden State Park (10.4km)
tower a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- East Bay Fire Tower (13.8km)
cemetery a burial place or ground.
- Brown and Smith Cemetery (9.9km)
bridge a structure erected across an obstacle such as a stream, road, etc., in order to carry roads, railroads, and pedestrians across.
- Fort Gadsden Bridge (4.9km)
church a building for public Christian worship.
- Bethlehem Church (12km)
bay a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
- Blounts Bay (15.2km)
Wikipedia entries close to Buck Siding
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- Apalachicola (Florida) city m city
- Apalachicola Municipal Airport airport airport
- Eastpoint, Florida city o city
- Porter's Bar Site city o city
- St. George Island Bridge bridge landmark
- Crooked River Light tower landmark
- Carrabelle, Florida city o
- Dog Island Light tower landmark
- Port St. Joe, Florida city o city
- Constitution Convention Museum State Park city o city
- Wewahitchka, Florida city o city
- Cape St. George Light tower landmark
- Lanark Village, Florida city o
- St. Joseph Point Light tower landmark
- Mexico Beach city m city
Airports close to Buck SidingTyndall afb(PAM), Panama city, Usa (81.5km)
Tallahassee rgnl(TLH), Tallahassee, Usa (109.4km)


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A REIT is an entity organized as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes. In order to maintain REIT status on an on-going basis, a REIT must also operate in conformity with the requirements for REIT qualification under the Internal Revenue Code. The advantage of operating as a REIT is that […]
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Columbia Pictures has released the official synopsis for the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man movie. It's very similar to what we've seen before (specifically on The Amazing Spider-Man movie website), but it is worth checking out for confirmation, joy, and outrage.
One of the world's most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in "The Amazing Spider-Man." Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the film in association with Marvel Entertainment for Columbia Pictures, which will open in theaters everywhere in 3D on July 3, 2012.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
The Amazing Spider-Man arrives on July 03, 2012 in 3D, 2D and IMAX.
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Sounds like a refreshing alternative to the previous movie(s).
Ultimate Spider Man. Costume looks like a basketball. Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben. Feh. Pass.
Enh…I may see this with someone elses money.
The synopsis sound Ultimate-ish, I'm not against that let us see how this turns out.
Sally Field as Aunt MAy……..sounds interesting. I'll give it a chance so long as there's no over the top dancing Peter Parker.
I can't understand what everyone is upset about? You mean you LIKED the Mighty Morphin Power Goblin from the first movie? Or the ridiculous "hey we'll kidnap this random girl (who just so happens to be Spidey's girlfriend) every movie until Spidey comes out to fight us" plot lines?
Nope. Didn't like that either. Doctor Octopus I liked. The portrayal of Peter Parker I liked. I'm not comparing this to the other movies any more than I compared "Batman Begins" and "Dark Knight" with the Tim Burton and other Batman movies. Or comparing Christian Bale with Adam West. I was one of the few folks that didn't like Ultimate Spider-Man so running the story line more along that than the "original" would naturally not appeal to me.
The mix of The Utimates and the Avengers, I kinda liked because they needed to update the origin and the Ultimates "universe" was more contemporary.
I'll probably watch the movie but my reaction is to the synopsis. And I still say "Feh".
People seem to forget that, however flawed, the Spiderman movies raised the superhero genre out of the dregs it had been wallowing since… well, even before the Fantastic Four movies. As far back as the 1940s Batman serial. Without the Spiderman movies would we have gotten the Dark Knight movies, Thor, the Iron Mans or Captain America? Let's face it, you could take any really good Superhero movie and write out the synopsis and it would raise eyebrows and bring on scorn. So, even though I am usually the first one to heap scorn on a bad idea, I will reserve judgement until the movie is actually released. The only think I can really nitpick about on the synopsis was that, if memory serves me correct, Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker didn't go to school together, and that's a minor point. Plus, it's been so long since I read the early spiderman issues (and to steal Matthew's catch phrase, I read the original issues) I may have forgotten the exact details and gotten it wrong. If I recall correctly, Spiderman's original crushes were Betty Brandt and Mary Jane Watson and Gwen came out of nowhere at the start of the gogo boot era.


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December 10, 2012
Architecture is a candied delight - Gingerbread Workshop
This past weekend, seven families participated in Monticello's first ever My Monticello Gingerbread House Family Workshop. We loved seeing multiple generations working together with such focus, creativity, and collaboration. Check out the exuberant work of these budding architects!
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The participating companies of the Career Experience 2017 were:
- MSG Global
- Capgemini
- Accenture
- MIcompany
- Willis Towers Watson
- Districon
The case description of MSG Global:
Students are divided in teams of 4-5. Each group will create their own "broodfonds" (Bread fund).
The Bread fund consists of 50 fictive people: 15 people <35 years, 15 people 35-45 years, 10 people 45-55 years and 10 people 55-67 years. The teams have to come up with rules/premiums/benefits per population group to create a working Bread fund. The teams will receive an excel file on which the teams can find mortality rates and disability rates per population group to help them in coming up premium rates. After creation of the Bread fund, the game will be simulated 10 years and 20 years in the future to discover if the teams have created an effective Bread fund. Every team will receive a card, which tells the team how many fictive people have left the Bread fund and how many people received benefits during these 2 time-periods. Lastly, every team will need to create a short presentation in which they will display what rules they used to set up their Bread fund and how effective their Bread fund worked.
The case description of Capgemini:
This case is about Blueberry Fashion Inc., which is a large clothing company headquartered in Utrecht, NL and has 800.000 employees worldwide. They serve more than 150.000 stores in countries all over the world with over 160 million customers creating 10 billion dollars in revenue.
10 years ago Blueberry Fashion Inc. invested 80.000 euros in each country to set up their own website in order to serve customers through online channels. But now in 2017, Coco Blueberry CEO of Blueberry Fashion Inc. (and great granddaughter of Peter Blueberry) feels that they are losing customers to new online competitors and startups. Coco Blueberry has the ambition for Blueberry Fashion Inc. to become world leader in online fashion within the next three years. She hired Capgemini to help her tackle the challenges. In order to understand the problem, Capgemini will conduct several interviews with employees of Blueberry Fashion Inc. At the end of the process they will present their project approach to Coco and the board.
The case desciption of Accenture:
In this case you will encounter a market sizing issue. The case consists of two parts, where we will try to challenge you to use your analytical and numeric skills to solve this challenging capacity issue.
The case description of MIcompany:
Everybody is talking about Big Data! It is the number 1 board topic in many blue chip companies. But how do you get beyond big words? How do you really create impact with data? How do you transform a company to a data driven organization? With more than 10 years of experience in this field, MIcompany is the number 1 agency in creating sustainable impact with Data Analytics. And this is your chance to experience what we really do. In our Data Analytics case you will perform a MIcompany project from start to finish – extremely rapidly! Will you discover your own analytical X-factor that we are looking for?
The case description of Willis Towers Watson:
Tijdens deze case kruip je in de huid van een consultant en krijg je een indruk van wat een consultant bij Willis Towers Watson zoal voor werkzaamheden doet. De case is vooral gericht op Retirement, Investment, Risk and Reinsurance. We zullen een beroep doen op je analytisch vermogen en creativiteit, maar bovenal op je overtuigingskracht ten opzichte van de opdrachtgever. De voertaal tijdens de workshop is Nederlands. Indien je geïnteresseerd bent in Willis Towers Watson adviseren wij je om deze uitdaging aan te gaan!
The case description of Districon:
Case: Supermarkets receive their goods from a single, central distribution center. Trucks drive routes, visiting multiple supermarkets on their way. When constructing these routes, several constraints should be considered, such as the maximum capacity of a truck and a maximum route length.
Your task: You are the route planner. A basic schedule is already generated, but it does not fulfill all the wishes and constraints of the supermarkets and truck drivers. You will extend the AIMMS model to optimize the schedule, adding new constraints, and create a user interface with your results. The team which presents his solution best wins a prize!


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My Twelve Stages Of Marriage When you asked this topic in class on Wednesday. This subject came to mind on what I follow in my own life. What I am going to touch base on is a sermon that Dr. James Dobson as given many times. When I heard the words and think about life of today and see all the miss haps of a marriage. Last I heard is that 6 out of 10 marriages these days result in divorce. The divorce word or any other words along that line should never be a part a marriage vocabulary. On what Dr. Dobson has said in this sermon that is something has a lot of truth to it. That people take the time and build each stage on a relationship that the out come should be much greater for a long lasting marriage.
There are twelve stages that Dr. Dobson talked about.
I am going to list those down and talk about of what I think it means to me. Each one of these steps listed allows each one to be a little more intimate with each other. Each step allows you to get closer to each other as the relationship goes one.
The Eye To Body is the first step on meeting someone new. Eye to body is looking at the opposite sex for the first time. For example is looking at like eye color, hair color, how they carry them self's.
The Eye To Eye is the second step on meeting someone new. Eye to eye is looking each on the eyes on passing the person by or on the other side of the room you lock eyes. By the time of this process is in the middle of it a spark start to begin. You do not know where it is going to go but you are still at step two.
The Voice To Voice is the third step on meeting someone new. Voice to voice is the first stage on talking to each other. At first is taking the conversation at small talk and build up to be talking on a regular basis. Allow each other to beginning to share information with each other.
The Hand To Hand is the fourth step on meeting someone new. Hand to hand is the first process of touching each other.
The Hand To Shoulders is the fifth step on meeting someone new. Hand to shoulders is something like putting your arm around them. This may go along the line of giving a shoulder rubs and back massages. That is all it should go on this step. This process is not a romantic step yet with each other.
The Hand To Waste is the sixth step on meeting someone new. Hand to waste is a process of walking and each other putting your hand on each other waste. This process is not a romantic step yet with each other.
The Face To Face is the seventh step on meeting someone new. Face to face is a process of beginning to be closer of looking into each other eyes as a more in depth way. It also maybe kissing, cheek-to-cheek, head on each other shoulders, or any other way that is allowing the face-to-face contact to be allowed. This process of face to face is a different kind intimacy level and a different way.
The Hand to Hair is the eighth step on meeting someone new. Hand to hair is more of a romantic way on how you approach it. For a relationship on touching the hair is more of a caressing the hair. Touching it in a more of a romantic way or any other way that is showing a romantic side. You just do not go up to people and start touching their hair. A lot of people will take it a different way of what you intent on doing of touching people's hair.
The last four steps on meeting someone new is something that is in a marriage relationship. I am not going to get into detail about the last four points. .
1. Hand To Body 2. Mouth To Breast.
3. Touching Below The Waist.
4. Intercourse.
Bonding accurse when you go threw all the twelve stages of marriage in order. If each other skip one of these twelve steps that it will be more likely a hard road marriage. It is also possible for one stage to be skipped and allowed to go back to start over on the stages. It is just going take a lot of dedication between to two individuals. Many marriages end due to all these stages just rushed right threw and not take the time for each one. Once you are married you still need to go threw the steps to refresh everything in a marriage bond. Sometimes when people come home from work they jump right threw the first eight stages and just want sex or more. Most people do not want that, because that other one wants that marriage bond and not feel used.
There are my twelve stages of marriage. Again when you said you wanted a paper wrote on what you think. This subject came to mind on what Dr. Dobson has said. I really do follow these stages on meeting female.


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The process of realistically generating load tests is something of an art, and some of the best perks about LoadComplete are the settings that aid that artistry. Of course, like all load testing tools, you can specify the number of virtual users to be simulated, but you can also set certain conditions that easily create more powerful and reliable load tests. Load Testing is so important to the testing phase- an appliation that works fine under normal use, but breaks with an influx of users is not quality software. So, no matter which load testing tool you choose, make sure it allows you to set some version of these basic conditions and remember the our performance testing best practices.
When running performance tests, it's not desirable to start all virtual users at the same time. Starting all virtual users at the same time can create artificial bottlenecks in certain parts of the application – such as the login process. In LoadComplete, you can elect to set a load profile whereby you start with a small number of virtual users, and increase that number over time. For example: you start with a single virtual user and add one virtual user every two seconds until you reach a certain number of simultaneous users, and then hold that number for the duration of the test.
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While recording a scenario, you may need to specify some parameters that will be used for further test runs. For example, you can enter some search terms, user names and so on in the application's fields. However, it is not a good practice to play back a test with the same recorded data for each user as it does not simulate the real-life conditions. To solve the problem, LoadComplete allows you to parameterize your load test using special variables. A variable can store desired data and your requests can use this data during test runs.
Real users visit a website using different browsers, the bandwidth of user's Internet connections can vary significantly, and they spend different amounts of time on each page. You can configure all these parameters when creating load tests in LoadComplete. This means you can specify different browsers and connection bandwidth for different groups of virtual users. You can also specify think time for each tested page (we call this think time, as it simulates the time period when a user is viewing the page and thinking). You can easily randomize the think time for simulated scenarios to better emulate real user activity to better simulate actual users in your performance tests.
To download a Web page, modern Web browsers send requests to the server using several simultaneous connections. These parallel requests download images, scripts, CSS files and other resources located on the page. Unlike many other load testing tools, LoadComplete automatically detects and simulates parallel requests, that is, it sends requests exactly like your browser did when you recorded your scenario. This makes the simulation closer to real-world conditions.
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The 2007 Make-Yer-Own Oscar Pool Page is ready to go. A big thanks to everyone who helped test it out. And if anyone else notices further bugs or errors, be sure to drop me a line.
(Oh, and keep those cliches coming. Still haven't decided what to do with them all, but I've been getting some great ones!)


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VIDEO: Adam Silver on Milwaukee's arena situation
By Jon Hartzell, NBA.com
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks need a new arena, and they need it soon. New NBA commissioner Adam Silver has said so. The Bucks' owner has said it. Everyone across the league acknowledges the need to replace what has become maybe the NBA's most dismal arena.
How the Bucks plan to pay for one is a different story, and one which recently intensified as reports indicated owner Herb Kohl may be close to selling the team, with an announcement possible at the NBA Board of Governors meetings later this week in New York.
The 79-year-old Kohl has stated his willingness to sell, but he also has said he's dedicated to finding an owner who will keep the team in Milwaukee. A new downtown arena is the quickest way to secure the franchise's future in Milwaukee.
"In order to keep the Bucks, we have to have a facility," Kohl said during Bucks media day in October. "And in order to get a facility, we have to keep the Bucks. So it's like a two-fer: We're either going to get both in the years ahead or we're going to have neither."
Kohl has stated he is willing to contribute a significant personal financial investment to replace the current BMO Harris Bradley Center. The "Fortress on Fourth" was a privately funded gift built in 1988 with funds donated by philanthropists Jane Bradley Pettit and her husband, Lloyd Pettit. In addition to housing the Bucks, it is home to the Marquette University men's basketball team and the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.
But it has gradually fallen into disrepair, with a leaking atrium and a refrigerant system that's no longer permitted in the United States. The Bradley Center struggles to generate the revenue needed to make fixes due to a lack of suite space and no year-round, on-site restaurant.
Kohl might be willing to fund an arena by himself if he could afford it. But with a reported net worth around $264 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Kohl may not have the desire or the means. Especially after he contributed $25 million to the Wisconsin Badgers' arena in Madison, now named the Kohl Center, in 1998.
VIDEO: Kohl on Potential Investors
A pricey proposition for Kohl, Milwaukee
This is where a sale of the team could solve the Bucks' problem. Recent reports from Grantland's editor-in-chief Bill Simmons suggest the sale price for the franchise will be upward of $550 million, far greater than the $405 million that Forbes valued the team at in January. (Kohl paid an estimated $18 million for the franchise in 1985.)
Some speculate that given an arena price tag like that, Kohl might be willing to make a big investment in a new building after the team is sold. Others suggest that the sale of the franchise will depend largely on a commitment from the new ownership group to make a major contribution to an arena. These two sources could get the Bucks close to the $500 million necessary to construct an arena (the Sacramento Kings' new arena is projected to cost $448 million), though Kohl has said he believes funding should come from a combination of public and private funds.
It may be difficult to raise enough private funds. But one of the groups reportedly interested in the Bucks, New York-based hedge-fund billionaires Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, have an estimated combined net worth around $3 billion, according to Forbes. They reportedly were close to closing a sale on the Bucks less than a week ago for $550 million, but a "late flurry of offers" drove the price up and re-opened negotiations, according to Simmons. Grantland also reported that Kohl refused to sell to a Seattle ownership group led by Chris Hansen and former Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer (who is worth approximately $20.1 billion, according to Forbes).
The other names to emerge as possible investors are nowhere near as wealthy as Lasry and Edens. But they all have at least some connection to Milwaukee, or the Midwest, which would ease the fear that a new ownership group would attempt to relocate the team. The most likely of these local investors are Chicago-based businessman Richard Chaifetz, who donated $12 million to build an arena at his alma-mater (Saint Louis University), former Bucks player (and one of Wendy's largest franchisees), Junior Bridgeman, Wisconsin-based consultant Jon Hammes and current Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, who previously stated he would be interested in investing in a new arena. It seems likely Kohl would remain involved with the team in some capacity if he decides to sell to a local ownership group, and he could even remain the majority owner.
While a local ownership group sounds like a smart way to keep the team in Milwaukee, most believe that to go that route with the potential investors whose names have surfaced, significant public funding for a new arena would be needed. And local governments do not seem too keen on that idea.
VIDEO: Kohl on Arena (2012)
Tax-for-arena argument won't help cause
Southeastern Wisconsin residents continue to have a sour taste in their mouth over the five-county, 0.1 percent sales tax enacted in 1996 to fund the development of the Brewers' Miller Park, which opened in 2001. The tax initially was to expire in 2012. But it was delayed to 2014 and now 2020 as tax revenues in the region have declined.
The battle over that tax was fierce in 1995. It passed by just one vote, cast by Racine County State Senator George Petak, who was quickly recalled nine months later because of the vote. Racine County already passed a resolution in July stating it would not support a tax for a new arena, and the other three local counties have made similar statements. Some have suggested extending the Miller Park tax to cover the new arena, but that seems unlikely at this point.
Local apathy is a huge hurdle in getting public money for a new arena. The perception around town is that a new arena would be only for the Bucks, rather than for the community. And the Bucks, the third-winningest team in the NBA during the 25 years prior to Kohl, have not gained many fans during the Kohl era. They've advanced past the first round of the playoffs just once since 1989 and are in the midst of their worst season ever.
All public funding hope is not lost, however. The private contributions from Kohl, Attanasio and a new ownership group would at least lessen the burden placed on the public to fund the arena. So the tax would not need to be as large as it was for Miller Park, which received $290 million in public funds in 1996 (equivalent to roughly $437 million in 2014). There are also emerging ideas about a "cultural tax" which would not only fund a new arena, but also parks, museums and the Milwaukee County Zoo. The concept was successfully used in Oklahoma City to fund the construction of the Thunders' Chesapeake Energy Arena.
New public funding ideas will continue to emerge ("Super TIF," anyone?). Still, it seems clear most Milwaukeeans are not enthusiastic about helping rich owners fund a new arena.
Bucks on-court product has some hope
All of this hullaballoo comes at the end of a season in which the Bucks will finish with the worst record in the NBA, after an offseason which saw them add 11 new players and coach Larry Drew in hopes of making another exasperated run at the playoffs. The Bucks will have a top pick in this year's NBA Draft, joining a young core of Larry Sanders, John Henson, Brandon Knight, Khris Middleton, Nate Wolters and 19-year-old Giannis Antetokounmpo. The future of the franchise and the arena may be cloudy, but the roster's future is arguably bright.
Silver is pleased with Kohl's efforts to keep the team in Milwaukee, where it has been since 1968. But Milwaukee will force the NBA's hand if there is no plan in place for a new arena when the Bradley Center's lease expires in 2017. Current signs point toward Kohl selling the team. But many thought current Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan was going to buy the franchise in 2003 before Kohl pulled out late in the negotiation.
It's been a horrible season for the Bucks, one that mercifully ends tonight when they host playoff-bound Atlanta at the Bradley Center (8 ET, League Pass). After that, with the franchise on the selling block, an unsettled arena situation and a critical top four pick in the Draft, the Bucks will step uncertainly into what may be their most important offseason yet.