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The white-haired man in a flannel shirt and suspenders sat among a bevy of reporters and listened intently while Portland Mayor Michael Brennan pleaded for the nation to take up stricter gun laws, especially for so-called assault rifles.
It was weeks after a deeply troubled young man armed with his mother's .223 caliber semiautomatic assault-style rifle shot 26 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Finally, in a timbre honed by years of Saturday mornings spent behind a radio microphone, Jeffrey Weinstein spoke up for the Second Amendment.
"One thing that kind of bothers me is the definition of assault weapons," said the 70-year-old retiree from Yarmouth.
Like other advocates, Weinstein opposes designating one weapon as more dangerous than another based on its cosmetic features, such as a collapsible stock, muzzle flash suppressor or pistol grip.
As president and founding member of the Maine Gun Owners Association, Weinstein has spoken up for gun rights in Maine for years. But, since the Newtown shootings in December, he has made newspaper headlines and TV news broadcasts, granted dozens of interviews and become a go-to media spokesman for defenders of the right to bear arms.
Weinstein is less outspoken about his association, however, and has refused to say how many dues-paying members the group has or who they are. Weinstein, who has granted interviews to this newspaper in the past, was hesitant to discuss his life and role as an advocate and declined to return repeated messages requesting comment for this story.
Weinstein has worn many hats in his career — candidate for public office, radio engineer, Air Force serviceman, Yarmouth school board member, Civil Air Corps volunteer, libertarian conservative talk-radio host and firearms instructor.
"He's done everything," said George A. Fogg of North Yarmouth, listed in state records as the gun association's vice president. "He's a chief instructor, and he's run many, many classes to get more people involved in teaching gun safety."
Born in Portland and a graduate of Deering High School and the University of Maine, Weinstein's early career led him to Massachusetts, where he worked at defense contractor Raytheon, and then at stereo manufacturer Bose Corp., representing the company in marketing presentations across North America, according to a biography posted on a 2010 campaign website.
After a stint being stationed in Europe in the Air Force, Weinstein returned to Maine in 1977. He operated a marine electronics company before serving 17 years as CEO and president of Portland Marine Operator, the ship-to-shore communication company for Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He also hosted a two-hour talk show on WLOB until about 2005, said Jon Van Hoogenstyn, station manager.
Weinstein leads the Yarmouth Republican Committee, although in the late 1990s, he was active in the Libertarian Party of Maine. During his unsuccessful bid for the State House in 2010, he proposed eliminating MaineCare to allow unfettered competition among insurers; reducing taxes; and eliminating burdensome state regulations to foster job creation.
But no job, political campaign or volunteer project has thrust him further into the spotlight than his role as an outspoken gun advocate.
And even if there is scant evidence that his group is more than an email list of like-minded Mainers, Weinstein clearly shares the viewpoint of many in the state who believe firearm ownership is a uniquely American bulwark against governmental intrusion on private lives. After Newtown, Weinstein has pointed to the federal and local attempts under way to legislate firearm ownership as evidence of overreach, saying that incremental limits now will lead to an outright ban on weapons down the road.
It is a fear many share, as Mainers flock to gun stores in record numbers to buy weapons and ammunition.
Requests for permits to carry a concealed weapon in Maine have skyrocketed in recent years, with 2013 expected to exceed past rates. In each of the two months since the shootings at Sandy Hook, applications for background checks in the state have been at their highest since the federal government started the program in 1998.
Weinstein said he is open to some gun law reforms, such as expanded background checks, and said he would be a willing partner in discussions with law enforcement and legislators as the gun conversation unfolds in Maine.
"Clearly he is more reasonable and more moderate than some gun owners," said William Harwood, founder of the Maine Coalition Against Handgun Violence, who has debated Weinstein on radio shows and before legislative committees. "But still, there are other gun owners who are more willing to pursue more comprehensive gun regulation than Jeff."
Weinstein has stood fast against defining semiautomatic assault-style firearms differently than hunting rifles, saying they operate in mechanically identical ways; he has also resisted limiting the capacity of ammunition magazines.
His most controversial pitch, however, came a week after the Newtown shootings. In a statement that blasted national media outlets for their coverage, and called for improvements to a deteriorating mental health safety net, Weinstein, who served for four years on the Yarmouth School Committee, suggested school districts encourage trained and certified teachers to carry concealed weapons into classrooms.
"If one of the 'good guys' had had a firearm immediately available during the Newtown shooting, things would have likely turned out significantly different," Weinstein wrote. "Places designated 'gun-free' zones are recognized as defenseless; you might as well post a sign out front saying, 'Attack me.' "
The proposal was panned by police officials and some educators in Maine, but was echoed in a nationally televised statement a day later by the nations's top gun lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre, CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, who called for armed guards to be posted in schools nationwide. Now, a bill is under consideration in Augusta along the same lines.
Unlike the NRA or the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, a statewide advocate for gun rights, membership in Weinstein's group is difficult to discern.
The NRA boasts a membership of 4 million "moms and dads, daughters and sons."
David Trahan, executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, said his group reached 10,000 members after the shootings at Sandy Hook.
Weinstein, on the other hand, has refused in past interviews to disclose the number of members who pay $10 annual dues or $300 for lifetime memberships.
The issue of membership was raised in 2010 when Weinstein briefly ran for the Maine Legislature to represent the 107th District in Yarmouth, said Melissa Walsh Innes, who handily defeated Weinstein for the seat.
"The question we always had was, was this (group) one person, or was this a pulpit to speak for 500 people?" Walsh Innes said. "It's easy to say you're part of an association."
At the time, Walsh Innes said, Weinstein was the chairman of the Yarmouth Republican Party and entered the race at the last moment. "He may have been doing it as a favor to the party," she said.
Before Weinstein's written statement about Newtown was published Dec. 20, the Maine Gun Owner's Association website appeared inactive since about 2006. Other than Weinstein, only two men are listed on incorporation papers filed in 2003: Fogg, 80, and Harold Fairfield of Yarmouth, who is listed as the treasurer. Fairfield could not be reached for comment, and a message left at a phone number listed for him was not returned.
Fogg said members of the group communicate largely by email when necessary.
To Fogg, the Second Amendment is evidence that the framers of the Constitution shared his fear of an escalating role of government to control the private lives of its citizens.
"It was all about the tyrannical use of government to put down the people," Fogg said.
"That is probably the biggest reason that people have been buying assault weapons like they're ice cream cones."
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Over a 30-year period ending in 2000, the U.S. beef cow inventory fell 8.4%, yet inflation-adjusted prices for 500- to 550-lb. feeder steers fell by 33.6%. But why in a supply/demand world would this price drop occur at a time of falling cow inventory?
Cow/calf producers operate in an economic environment characterized by cycles in feeder cattle prices and beef cow inventories. From 1970-2000, U.S. beef cow inventory fell from 36.7 million head to 33.6 million head. Meanwhile, real feeder steer prices (500-550 lbs., Oklahoma City) declined from $88/cwt. to $58.43/cwt. in inflation-adjusted dollars (Figure 1). This precipitous price drop affected ranchers' management decisions in areas such as genetics, financing and marketing as they struggled to remain economically viable.
Numerous factors caused the long-term decline in real feeder prices, but they generally encompass the fundamentals of demand and supply. Of course, other factors such as weather or political decisions can be important.
Two factors influencing feeder cattle demand are consumer beef demand and meat packer demand. These demand levels determine the economic health of the cattle feeding industry.
Backgrounding profitability also affects feeder demand. Meanwhile, the factors influencing feeder cattle supply include the costs of producing calves and imports of feeder cattle, primarily from Mexico.
A recent statistical study evaluated the demand and supply factors that determine levels of real feeder steer prices (750-800 lbs., Oklahoma City). This price weight range reflects backgrounded cattle ready for finishing.
A number of market factors were studied. These included slaughter steer price, corn price, feeder cattle supplies (including Mexican feeder imports), finance cost (interest rate), feedlot profit risk, feedlot technology and beef cow productivity.
Generally, increases in slaughter cattle prices and cost savings from feedlot technology increase feeder price. Meanwhile, increases in the other factors decrease feeder price.
The past 20 years reveal trends in these variables that could have affected feeder prices. From 1980-2000, real (750- to 800-lb.) feeder steer price declined from $81.78/cwt. to $62.53/cwt., or $19.25/cwt. (23.5%). The market factors accounted for $18.57/cwt., or 96.5% of this decline.
The following discussion focuses on changes in the demand and supply factors from 1980-2000 and their effects on feeder cattle prices. The numerical effects are also given in Table 1 on page 6-BF.
- Slaughter steer and corn prices
The largest single reason for the long-term decline in feeder steer price is the 34% decline in real slaughter steer price. This caused a $33/cwt. decline in feeder price.
Many analysts indicate the long-term decline in consumer beef demand (beginning in the late 1970s) and increases in dressed weights of slaughter cattle (domestic and slaughter imports) led to the slaughter price slide.
Real (inflation-adjusted) corn price declined by about 60% over this period, primarily as corn supplies increased relative to corn usage. This resulted in a partial offset to the slaughter price decline (by increasing feedlot demand), increasing feeder steer price by about $11/cwt.
- Feeder supplies and Mexican imports
Based on the U.S. beef cattle cycle (Figure 1), feeder cattle supplies declined 12% from 1980 to 2000. This added about $12/cwt. to feeder price as smaller calf crops reduced stocker/feeder supplies available for backgrounding and finishing.
However, imports of Mexican feeder cattle utilized by backgrounders and finishers (primarily in the South) increased over this period from 332,000 head to 1.22 million head. This jump increased imports' share from 1% to about 4% of U.S. feeder cattle supplies.
Table 1. Changing market factors and impacts on feeder cattle prices, 1980-2000
Factors changing
Feeder price
Beef cow
Percent -51.1% +16.9% +18.6% +1.8% -4.2% +9.6% -20.4% -3.6% $/cwt. -$32.84 +$10.84 +$11.99 +$1.17 -$2.70 +$6.14 -$13.13 -$2.30 Note: Under Factors Changing, percentage changes (plus or minus as shown in parentheses) represent trends in market factors from 1980 to 2000. Under Feeder Price Response, the response of freeder cattle price to these changes is given in percent and $/cwt. terms.
Increasing Mexican cattle inventories, the reduction of trade barriers and utilization of U.S. feedlot capacity accounted for the import increase. The result was a $2.30/cwt. reduction in feeder cattle price.
- Finance cost
Money interest rates adjusted for inflation impact feeder cattle prices since they affect carrying costs from feedlot placement to finishing. However, their price effects are quite small.
Statistical analysis indicates a 1% increase in the U.S. prime interest rate (which affects rates on agricultural loans) decreases feeder price by less than 1/10 of 1%. However, interest costs for individual feedlots can represent up to 18% of total cost of gain. The 46% drop in real prime interest rates from 14.4% in 1980 to 7.8% in 2000 resulted in increasing feeder price by less than $1.20/cwt.
- Feedlot profit risk and technology
Profit risk for feedlots is difficult to measure. Agricultural economists, however, often use the ratio of fed-steer price to corn price as an approximate measure of finishing profitability. The greater the variation in this output-input price ratio, the greater the profit risk facing feedlots. An increase in feedlot risk usually reduces the demand for feeder cattle placements.
For individual lots, forward pricing through futures and options can manage price risk, but basis risk still occurs. The data show that feedlot profit risk increased 26% from 1980 to 2000, which contributed to a $2.70/cwt. decline in feeder price.
Statistical analysis indicated that increases in feedlot technology led to increases in feeder cattle prices. Developments such as increased mechanization and health and nutrition management can result in a lower per pound cost of gain.
These technology changes have been commensurate with increasing feedlot size. Feedlot size may be price-neutral, or size may result in large feeding firms exercising market power and decreasing cattle prices. Alternatively, firms may pass on technological cost savings to feeder suppliers through increased price bids.
The latter appears to have occurred. Marketings from large feedlots (32,000 head or greater) as percent of marketings from all feedlots increased from 10% in 1980 to 47% in 2000. This resulted in nearly a $6.15/cwt. increase in feeder steer price.
- Beef cow productivity
Beef cow productivity here represents carcass pounds of beef produced/breeding cow. Adjustments are made for imports of Canadian and Mexican cattle destined for U.S. slaughter.
U.S. cow/calf producers have increased beef cow productivity from 496 lbs. in 1980 to 677 lbs. in 2000 (36%). It's attributed to improved breeding genetics, feed nutrition and other management practices that have increased calving percentages and weaning weights.
The downside is that the increased beef tonnage was marketed at lower prices. Holding beef demand constant, results show that the weight increase contributed to about a $13/cwt. decline in U.S. feeder cattle price.
The Bottom Line
Changes (or risk) in feeder prices are subject to many factors. Some producers manage price risk through contracting and futures markets. Others engage value-based and product-niche markets to improve their net price positions.
Long-term changes in cattle prices depend heavily on factors influencing consumer beef demand. Other factors include production costs, technology changes, processor and retailer competition, and exports and imports.
Demand improvement, besides requiring economic growth, necessitates consistency between cattle genetics and consumer preferences.
Consumer demand is a major factor affecting the prices packers are willing to pay for slaughter cattle. To negate the $13/cwt. feeder cattle price drop from 1980-2000 due to increased beef cow productivity, for example, consumer beef demand would have had to increase to the point of raising real slaughter cattle price by 14%. That's not a trivial change considering that slaughter price declined by 34% over that period.
John Marsh is a Montana State University professor of agricultural economics in Bozeman.


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DeKALB – "It's a privilege and an honor."
That's how Ralph Karau felt about receiving the handmade quilt that was on the table next to him.
Karau was among the 27 veterans residing at the DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center who received a quilt from the DeKalb County Quilters' Guild during a special ceremony Friday morning. Friday was the 71st anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Karau was one of four brothers who served in World War II, including one who was killed.
"We want to show we honor and respect everything you do to protect our freedom," Bobbie Lundberg of the guild told the assembled veterans. "There's nothing better than freedom."
Lundberg said about five years ago, her group became involved with the Home of the Brave project, which presents quilts to the families of fallen U.S. soldiers. While the 100 members of the guild made the tops of the quilts, she said Cousins Quilting of Lamoille finished the quilts.
"We got over involved," she laughed.
Since they had so many more quilts than they needed, the group decided to distribute them to living veterans in area nursing homes. If they have enough, they planned to take the rest to Bethany Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, Pine Acres and Oak Crest.
"We were originally going to do this on Veterans Day," Lundberg said. "But there was so much going on, so we settled for Pearl Harbor Day."
JoAnn Russell, who is in charge of the local project, said they met a woman a couple of years ago whose son was killed in battle. Russell said the woman keeps her quilt on the arm of a living room chair, which is what helps her get through the day.
"Hearing that encouraged us to go on," Russell said.
Assisted by 12 members of honor guards from DeKalb, Sycamore, Waterman and Genoa, each veteran at the center was presented with a quilt, thanked for his service and saluted.
Each quilt, Lundberg said, has the same pattern, but the fabric is different. All are based off the quilts given to soldiers of both sides during the Civil War, who slept in them and often were buried with them.
"This is a real honor for us," center activities director Kate Vickers said; "Any time we can show our support we are very grateful."
"It's a wonderful thing to know," one veteran, Wilbur Zekoff, said of the honor bestowed upon him.
His brother, Richard, who also lives at the center, agreed, saying it was a nice show of respect for what they went through.


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I try to keep yall on the cutting edge of culture! This morning on the Today Show they noted that a top trend of 2007 was fingernails painted black or dark blue and Victoria Beckham's haircut was The Haircut. I know I certainly got sick of seeing it on lots of women!
So here's a list to keep us all up-to-date!
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Allie Mac Kay was live with a preview of Habitat for Humanity San Fernando & Santa Clarita Valleys and USO Greater Los Angeles "BBQ for Our Troops" Fundraiser. The BBQ will help raise funds to build homes for low-income veterans and provide no-cost social and education services. There will be carnival games, a chili cook-off, and a USO style show.
BBQ For Our Troops Fundraiser in Valencia
Habitat for Humanity SF/SCV – Centre Pointe Build Site
21545 Centre Pointe Pkwy
Santa Clarita, CA 91350
Saturday, Nov 9
11am- 4pm
Food provided by Rattler's Bar B Que
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The sixth report in Plans annual State of the Worlds Girls series, Learning for life, takes a critical look at the state of girls education. The report argues that behind the success of global parity in primary education enrolment figures lies a crisis in the quality of learning.
Enrolment figures measure attendance on one day of the school year, and they are currently the only measure of success. They tell us nothing about real access to education or the quality of what is being taught, or learnt.
All over the world poverty and discrimination continue to have a detrimental effect on girls attendance in school. This is particularly true when they reach adolescence and, in many families, a daughters domestic and reproductive role takes precedence over her right to education.
Violence in schools, early marriage, pregnancy and housework continue to constitute significant barriers to girls education around the world.
The challenge now is to make sure that all girls, however poor, isolated or disadvantaged, are able to attend school on a regular basis and gain a good quality education that equips them for life.


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Obama and Boehner meet again to avert fiscal cliff
WASHINGTON — President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met privately Thursday after another day of back-and-forth over tax hikes, spending cuts and efforts to avoid the year-end "fiscal cliff."
Hours earlier, Boehner said that unless Obama makes further concessions on spending cuts, Washington will head over the cliff and into a series of tax hikes and massive budget reductions.
"The president wants to pretend spending isn't the problem. That's why we don't have an agreement," said Boehner, R-Ohio. "Unfortunately, the White House is so unserious about cutting spending that it appears willing to slow-walk our economy right up to -- and over -- the fiscal cliff."
Meanwhile, a group of Democrats sent Obama a letter warning him against accepting Republican proposals to reduce entitlement programs, including an increase in the Medicare eligibility age.
After their 50-minute meeting at the White House, aides to Obama and Boehner sent out similar statements saying they would not detail the discussions, but the "lines of communication remain open."
Just 18 days remain for Washington to take action before the George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire, and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years are triggered. Several other laws are expiring that also affect millions of Americans, including a temporary payroll tax holiday and long-term unemployment benefits.
Speaker of the House John Boehner says one reason there's no deal to avoid the fiscal cliff is that President Barack Obama has not offered enough spending cuts. (Dec. 13)
Obama called negotiations "still a work in progress," as he answered a question shouted to him as he left the White House for a holiday party for employees at the nearby Blair House early Thursday afternoon. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Republicans have been more "rhetorical" than specific in their revenue and spending proposals. "There is no specificity behind what the Republicans have put forward," he said, describing the GOP plan as "fantasy economics."
Carney added, "We still believe a big deal is possible."
Obama and Boehner, the chief negotiators, remain far apart on an agreement. Obama is seeking $1.4 trillion in revenue in his latest offer, which includes raising the individual tax rates on the top 2%. Boehner opposes the tax hike, and wants to overhaul the tax code instead to generate more revenue. Republicans also want more spending cuts -- particularly in entitlement programs like Medicare -- which Democrats are unwilling to cede.
POLL: Both parties will be blamed for fiscal cliff
"Don't even think about raising the Medicare age," warned Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., "We have clarity on that." Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., echoed Pelosi, telling reporters that he's received assurances from the White House that raising the Medicare eligibility age is "no longer one of the items being considered by the White House."
Pelosi said if there's any chance of reaching a deal before Christmas, an agreement would need to be reached by early next week. There is no indication Obama and Boehner are near an accord to meet that deadline. The speaker has advised lawmakers that Congress could be in session the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, leading right up to the "fiscal cliff" deadline.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says with 12 days until Christmas, Congress should spend more time working on a deal to avoid the possible fiscal cliff. (Dec. 13) AP
Financial markets have remained stable during the negotiations because there is still confidence a deal will be reached, Pelosi said. "So far they trust that we would not be so stupid to go over a cliff."
Boehner has been non-committal about whether or not he would bring a bill to the House floor to extend the current tax rates for 98% of Americans, which the Democratic-Senate has already passed. It is one option to address the "fiscal cliff" if a broader deal cannot be reached. He said only that a full expiration of the tax rates "remains a risk."
He also reiterated that Republicans will not support an effort by the president to remove the need for congressional approval to raise the debt ceiling, the nation's borrowing authority, which is scheduled to hit its $16.4 trillion limit in mid-February.
"Congress is never going to give up our ability to control the purse," he said, "The fact is, the debt limit ought to be used to bring fiscal sanity to Washington D.C."
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Who's going where in Draft? We'll find out tonight
The time has come for all of Major League Baseball to turn from the present and look toward the future as the First-Year Player Draft begins tonight.
Baseball is the only major sport to hold its Draft during its regular season, giving fans the opportunity to see how their favorite teams are building for down the road at the same time they are checking what they are currently doing on the field.
The time has come for all of Major League Baseball to turn from the present and look toward the future as the First-Year Player Draft begins tonight.
Baseball is the only major sport to hold its Draft during its regular season, giving fans the opportunity to see how their favorite teams are building for down the road at the same time they are checking what they are currently doing on the field.
The 2013 First-Year Player Draft will take place tonight through Saturday, beginning with the Draft preview show on MLB.com and MLB Network tonight at 6 p.m. ET. Live Draft coverage from MLB Network's Studio 42 begins at 7 p.m., with the top 73 picks being streamed on MLB.com and broadcast on MLB Network. Rounds 3-10 will be streamed live on MLB.com on Friday, beginning with a preview show at 12:30 p.m., and Rounds 11-40 will be streamed live on MLB.com on Saturday, starting at 1 p.m.
MLB.com's coverage includes Draft Central, the Top 100 Draft Prospects list and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of Draft-eligible players. You can also keep up to date by following @MLBDraft on Twitter. And you can get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
A total of nine players -- an all-time high -- will be attending the Draft in person: Tim Anderson, Nick Ciuffo, Ian Clarkin, J.P. Crawford, Jon Denney, Clint Frazier, Aaron Judge, Billy McKinney and Dominic Smith.
As they did last year, when they took high school shortstop Carlos Correa, the Houston Astros hold the first overall selection and are on the clock. It's the third time a team has had back-to-back No. 1 picks, as the Tampa Rays took David Price and Tim Beckham in 2007 and 2008 and the Washington Nationals got Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper in 2009 and 2010. But neither the Rays nor the Nats had a real opportunity to consider the same players in successive years.
Right-hander Mark Appel didn't go No. 1 last year, slipping to No. 8, when the Pirates rolled the dice and took him. But he opted to remain at Stanford and he's been more consistently dominant this year than he was as a junior -- the reason why he's No. 1 on the MLB.com Top 100 list.
In the final hours before the Draft, the Astros were still looking at a group of five potential candidates: Appel, Oklahoma pitcher Jonathan Gray, college third basemen Kris Bryant (San Diego) and Colin Moran (North Carolina) and Georgia high school outfielder Clint Frazier. It didn't appear that Gray's positive test for Adderall, the ADHD medication, was keeping the Astros, or other teams, from strongly considering the hard-throwing right-hander. While it seemed unlikely, taking Frazier would mean the top pick was at the Draft two years running.
The Chicago Cubs, picking No. 2, have said they have four candidates for that pick, all of whom are in the group above: Appel, Gray, Bryant and Moran. Even with some uncertainty at the very top, there are still many who see a Gray-Appel 1-2 start to the Draft. The Colorado Rockies, Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians round out the top five selections.
The Rockies have been tied to Bryant for a while, as have the Twins to Texas high school pitcher Kohl Stewart. Moran could end up being a good fit with Cleveland.
The Miami Marlins are up next at No. 6, the first of what will be four picks for the organization on the Draft's first night. They and the New York Yankees are the only two teams with so many selections through the first two rounds. The Yankees got their extra picks -- Nos. 32 and 33 -- due to the loss of Nick Swisher and Rafael Soriano to free agency.
The Marlins received their added selections thanks to the newest wrinkle in the Draft: the Competitive Balance Rounds. Miami initially received the No. 6 pick in Competitive Balance Round A during a lottery held last July. While they traded that pick to the Tigers, they received the second pick of Round A, No. 35, from the Pirates in a deal involving first baseman Gaby Sanchez. They picked up the final pick in Competitive Balance Round B in the swap with the Tigers.
"We're looking at a lot of different ways to do it," Marlins vice president of scouting Stan Meek said. "We're doing what we can to utilize the money the best way we can.
"What Houston did [in 2012] worked for them. They worked it to the way they thought it worked to their advantage. We'll try to do the same. We'll try to use our money to the greatest extent. It's different based on how you see players. We're trying to see all avenues and that's created even more work for us."
One of the bigger challenges in trying to do that has been a lack of players separating themselves from the rest of the class, leaving many -- not just the Marlins at No. 6 -- wondering who exactly belongs at the top of their Draft board. Some have seen Appel, Gray and perhaps Bryant as the only players who have cemented themselves as impact-type talents. And if the Marlins are feeling challenged up there, imagine how teams picking lower down in the first round are feeling.
"You have to make sure you're comfortable with the guy at 6, but the first guy doesn't make your Draft," Meek explained about trying to juggle all the picks. "We've had to scout them all. It's kept us running pretty hard getting looks at everybody.
"We've had a lot of difference of opinion on players, too. It's been harder to find consensus. It's been a big challenge. This year, in my 12 years of doing it, it's been the toughest in terms of betting a consensus on the top guys. There are probably two or three guys that everyone would agree on in our group, then it splinters pretty good."
There are some agreed-upon strengths in the Draft, at least in terms of depth. There's a good number of left-handed pitchers and a surprisingly large number of high school catchers, with perhaps three prep backstops finding their way into the first round. The depth might make it a better Draft as it winds into the later rounds, even if it provides a stiffer challenge earlier, especially given the increase in Draft pool money allotted to sign players taken in the first 10 rounds.
"Eight percent was added to the pools, but I don't think eight percent has been added to the ability [in the class]," one scouting director joked. "In any Draft, there are always good big leaguers. It's our job to sift those guys out and try to make good decisions.
"The late risers in this Draft could make some big jumps because we're a little uncertain about what we've seen so far."
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter.


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Democratic legacies on line in 2014
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — There's every reason to believe that Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor will be tossed out of office in November: He's a Democrat from a conservative Southern state who voted for Obamacare and is facing one of the most promising up-and-comers in the Republican Party.
Every reason, that is, except one: his last name. For the past half-century, the Pryor name has been to Arkansas politics what Wal-Mart is to industry here: ubiquitous, trusted, even revered — but increasingly buffeted by change in the marketplace.
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Pryor, this once Democratic bedrock's last remaining Democratic representative in Washington, openly acknowledges that his fate in the race — one in a handful that will decide control of the Senate — rests in part upon the surname that his popular father, former Arkansas senator and governor David Pryor, made famous. He needs every advantage he can muster in an auspicious election year for Republicans.
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"In Proverbs, it says a good name is worth more than great riches," the 51-year-old son said in an interview outside a Ducks Unlimited gun auction recently. "I feel like that ought to be my verse for life because I've really been blessed with a good name. People in this state love my dad and my mother."
His opponent, 36-year-old freshman Rep. Tom Cotton, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and product of Harvard, said the Pryor legacy counts only for so much.
"Mark Pryor followed his dad into politics. I followed my dad into the infantry," Cotton said in an interview. "In the end, I don't think voters elect the name on the bumper sticker."
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Pryor is one of several southern Democrats relying on family ties to prevail in difficult Senate races this year. In Louisiana, vulnerable Sen. Mary Landrieu's father, Moon Landrieu, earned the enduring favor of African-Americans by integrating New Orleans City Hall as mayor in the 1970s. Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is the daughter of former state Democratic Party chairman and longtime party boss Jerry Lundergan.
In Georgia, retired Sen. Sam Nunn's decades as a defense hawk and outspoken moderate gave his daughter, nonprofit executive Michelle Nunn, instant credibility as a first-time Senate candidate. And Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is the son the late Mo Udall, who spent three decades in Congress and sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976.
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Mark Pryor is leaning, subtly but unambiguously, on his family identity to make the case he's a different kind of Democrat, not the reflexive supporter of President Barack Obama his opponents are portraying him as. His campaign signs use the same red, white and blue color scheme and mantra — "Arkansas Comes First" — as his father's decades ago.
From the statehouse to the Senate
David Pryor is the chief elder statesman of the state's clubby political class. Its intimacy was on display on a recent Friday night, as 800 of Little Rock's elite gathered for an induction ceremony to the University of Arkansas Business Hall of Fame.
David Pryor introduced Mack McLarty, Bill Clinton's first White House chief of staff and one of four inductees, by regaling the crowd with war stories from the 1952 governor's race.
"I may be the oldest person in this room," Pryor joked. "I first met Mack when he was 8 years old and I was 18."
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The son of a county sheriff, David Pryor made a name for himself in the late 1950s by railing in newspaper columns against then-Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus, infamous for blocking school desegregation in Little Rock. Pryor went on to win a seat in the statehouse in 1960, at age 26, then rose to congressman, governor and three-term senator. He retired in 1996 after rising to No. 3 in his party's Senate leadership.
In the Senate, Pryor was known for his populist streak — he crusaded against high prescription drug prices and fought to safeguard entitlements — and for being Bill Clinton's eyes and ears on Capitol Hill.
The elder Pryor has remained visible since coming home to the Razorback State. He served as inaugural dean of the Clinton School of Public Service, then stepped in to lead the state Democratic Party in 2008 after a gunman killed the chairman.
Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe said David Pryor "may be the most beloved politician in recent Arkansas history" because he was neither arrogant nor polarizing.
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"Clinton always had a 52-48 deal," Beebe said in an interview. "There was nobody that was neutral. They either really, really liked him or really, really didn't like him."
The self-deprecating and soft-spoken ex-senator now likens himself to a former president who becomes more popular after leaving office, because even old adversaries associate him with a time when the Senate worked.
"I think they say, 'Times were pretty good when Ole Pryor was up there,'" he said in an interview. "I never think of it as a dynasty."
But it certainly feels that way here. A center focused on preserving the state's history at the University of Arkansas is named for the elder Pryor, and a picture of him on a trip to Cuba hangs prominently on the wall at Doe's Eat Place, the legendary Little Rock steak house.
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'If his last name wasn't Pryor'
But the family presence goes well beyond edifices or titles: It is part of the state's political fabric. And it is felt especially by older voters whose lives have intersected with the father and son's decades atop the state political order.
George Holitik, 82, of Little Rock considers himself an independent. He backed Mitt Romney in 2012 and believes Obamacare was a mistake. But he still plans to vote for Mark Pryor in November.


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- 3 Beds
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- 1,518 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Duplex
SubdivisionLAKE RIDGE ESTATES AT LAKE DILLON
Listing Date10/07/18
Year Built2006
Lot Size0.05 Acres
Parking1 Car Garage, 2 Car Assigned
Property Description
Rarely available duplex. One bedroom on main floor and upper bedrooms with long views. Great utility in floor plan and decks. One-car detached garage. West views to Lake Dillon from the large deck. Recreation path just off the back of the property. Summit Stage stop at the end of the driveway into development. Walk to pizza, Pour House coffee shop & Cala Inn one block away. Friendly neighborhood with many full time residents
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Come experience the magic of the Colorado high country and fall in love with the town of Dillon. Perfectly situated on the scenic shores of the Lake Dillon Reservoir with recreation, entertainment, relaxation, and pure fun all at your doorstep. Dillon is a great getaway close to Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, Copper Mountain, Vail, Beaver Creek and Denver. Aside from being an excellent, central location for embracing Summit County's winter activities, Dillon bustles with summer events for all ages, from the Thursday Nature Nights series and Friday morning Farmers Markets to the popular weekend concerts at Lake Dillon Amphitheatre. Spend an afternoon at the Dillon Marina where rental boats, guided sailing tours or sailing lessons are available, or visit the School House Museum and historical park where relics from the mining days come to life. World-class lodging, dining and shopping are within minutes.
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Called my local liquor store a while ago and asked them if they were going to carry the Hayman's Old Tom Gin. Usually, they're on top of this sort of thing, so I was a bit surprised when the response was, "Hayman's? I haven't heard of that." Fortunately, a quick call to the distributor revealed that the gin was already in Southern California and would be shipped North soon.
Martinez Cocktail
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Pour into the shaker 3 glasses of Gin, 3 of French Vermouth, add a dessertspoonful of Orange Bitters and 2 of Curacao or Maraschino. Shake and serve with a cherry and a piece of lemon rind.
I suspect Craddock gets the idiotic idea of using French Vermouth in a Martinez from Robert Vermeire, who espouses this formulation in his book, "Cocktails: How to Mix Them". And I suppose it is perfectly fine drink, though Martinez, it is not.
Martinez Cocktail
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1 1/2 oz Hayman's Old Tom Gin
3/4 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
Scant teaspoon Luxardo Maraschino
Dash Angostura Orange Bitters
Dash Angostura Bitters
Stir with ice to chill and strain into a cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel over glass. Add a (preferably luxardo or toschi) cherry if you so desire.
If you're using a higher proof gin, you might want to up the amount of vermouth, but I find with Plymouth, or now Hayman's, 2-1 is a good ratio. I also like to add a dash of angostura, as I find it tames some of the tropical marshmallow candy notes that show up when Carpano Antica is in close proximity to Luxardo Maraschino. As they say, your mileage may vary.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Shameful: Nearly 1000 ballots found in Broward County election warehouse. Add that to the mess in Arizona and you wonder how we as a country can tell a Third World country to run their elections. Those votes were not included in the final tally from Florida.
Last Tuesday, close to 800,000 people voted in Broward County, some waited in lines for four to five and sometimes six hours. Many have said the news of these ballots add to their uneasiness about how the election was run. Florida was the last state to officially announce its election results, long after President Obama was officially announced as re-elected. Source
Sorry, but this is either incompetence or fraud. If you vote, your vote should be counted. It's just that simple.


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The town of Chesapeake City was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman the Village of Bohemia (or Bohemia Manor), but the name was changed in 1839 when the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built. Today, the town contains numerous old homes from that era that have been converted into bed and breakfasts, restaurants, and the local historical museum.
The town was separated into north and south sections when the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built through the middle of the town. The two were connected by a drawbridge until 1942, when that was destroyed by a freighter that struck it. The current bridge opened in 1949.
The new bridge had to be tall enough to allow supertankers to pass beneath it, resulting in a structure so high and long that cars no longer went into the city to cross the canal. Business declined for decades thereafter. Now it is a destination of daytrippers from Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as those who own Eastern Shore Vacation Homes


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Wales tour to Australia
Hope springs eternal
Huw Richards
June 25, 2012
Wales' Bradley Davies reflects on one of three near misses his side suffered on their tour of Australia © Getty Images
'I can stand the despair - it's the hope that's intolerable'. John Cleese's thwarted headmaster in the 1986 film Clockwise arguably touched upon a fundamental truth about life. He certainly came up, 26 years before the event, with the perfect summation of Welsh feelings about the just concluded three-match series against Australia.
There are, as Ireland's ghastly experience in the match that followed on immediately afterwards on Saturday, worse things than losing consecutive Test matches to the same opponent by a single score. Memories of beatings comparable to the one inflicted on Brian O'Driscoll's men in Hamilton being routine occurrences whenever Wales crossed the equator are still recent enough to be vividly painful.
And at the end of a season that stretches back the best part of a year, it is also worth remembering that Wales had considerably more ups than downs. Offered fourth place in the World Cup and a Grand Slam this time last year, Welsh fans would undoubtedly have accepted with alacrity, while wondering what sort of parallel universe they had wandered into.
They might not, though, have been quite so keen to sign up for five defeats by Australia. This has to be some sort of record, albeit one too dispiriting to inspire a Statsguru search for clarification.
It is one thing, after all, to be routinely dumped upon by somebody manifestly superior - as was Wales's lot against England a decade ago and has been against New Zealand since 1980. It is another when it is an opponent you reckon yourself to have a shot at - particularly when an average margin of four points per match across those five defeats shows that belief to be reasonably well-founded.
Coming on top of a Grand Slam won more by ability to seize chances when they arose and hold off opponents in a tight finish than by overwhelming superiority, it seemed to mark a regression. The team that won the Grand Slam because it knew how to win the close ones suddenly lost that essential knack.
This was never more evident than in the final minutes of the second Test. Far from showing the clinical qualities with which by that time Sky Sports' commentator had become totally obsessed, the Wallabies showed every sign of coming apart - making elementary mistakes that included their coaching team leaving Berrick Barnes to take a vital penalty when it was obvious that he was injured. But still Wales could not put them away, even when that demanded nothing more complex than holding on to possession and running down the clock.
Blown line-outs, tactical kicks that set up opposing counterattacks and iffy re-starts - often leading to a score being conceded within a minute or two of a Welsh try or penalty - also represented a recurrence of ingrained faults there was reason to hope had been eliminated.
But it was, after all, Australia. They may be the southern giant Wales always reckons to have a hope of toppling, but they're also the team who consistently make smarter, more effective use of fairly limited resources than anybody else in world rugby.
They also have genuine quality in a smart, aggressive back row and superb half-backs. Had Will Genia and Berrick Barnes swapped with Mike Phillips and Rhys Priestland, the result of the series would probably have been very different.
Disappointing as it is for a country with an incomparable history of half-back play, this is no longer a Welsh strength. Phillips's strengths are well-established, but so too are his limitations as a tactician and distributor. At least, though, Wales had a bench warmer offering the alternative of quick hands and thought in Rhys Webb.
Priestland has risen and fallen dramatically in a year, emerging to startling effect at the World Cup before suffering a loss of form and confidence during the Six Nations that deepened in Australia. Warren Gatland and Rob Howley clearly believe in him and have backed him to come through his personal recession.
That's to their credit, but at the same time Howley painted himself into a corner, particularly given his apparent lack of faith in James Hook, when the in-form Dan Biggar was one of the last group dropped from the tour party. It meant that Priestland, while struggling for most of the series, played all but the final 11 minutes of the three matches.
We can hope that Sir Clive Woodward, whose record as a national coach still compels the utmost respect, is right when he suggests that this series of near-misses does represent progress for a developing time, and will prove to be a springboard. At the moment it still feels more like continuously banging one's head against the ceiling.
But it would also be a mistake to end this year on too negative a note. There were the World Cup victory over Ireland, the Grand Slam and the Shane Williams farewell tour - whose final significant moment enabled Biggar's touchline conversion to clinch the Ospreys' RaboDirect Pro 12 title away to Leinster, who must now be as wary of Steve Tandy's revitalised team as Wales are of Australia.
Several players - Leigh Halfpenny, George North, Dan Lydiate and Sam Warburton - turned serious promise into world-class achievement, with Alex Cuthbert not far behind and Ashley Beck offering early signs of similar accomplishment. At the same time came were reminders of the importance of veterans. Wales's diminishing number of chapel goers continue to offer heartfelt prayers for the fitness and form of Adam Jones while Ryan Jones, whose try in Sydney was a richly-deserved coda to another fine display, has some claim to be regarded as Wales'a player of 2012 so far. Somebody usually goes on the Lions tour without being a regular first-choice and Ryan's ability to play a range of positions, utter selflessness and physical commitment should give him a very good shot if he maintains his current form into 2013.
A Six Nations defence and a Lions tour - that should be a year to look forward to. The only problem is that before we get there Wales have to play Australia again, on December 1. A sixth meeting in 14 months really does seem a bit much, particularly since it is the ever-contentious fourth match of the autumn window. Still, hope springs eternal….
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Azilda gets its name from a woman who was one of the first to settle in the rocky area. It was Azilda Belanger who left her legacy on the area…that is, until Randy Carlyle came along.
Friday, August 17 had been earmarked for Randy Carlyle's triumphant return to the village in which he was raised. Azilda has a lot to be proud of in native son Carlyle. Drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1976, Randy enjoyed a sterling career playing defense for the Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets over 1,055 games. In 1981, he was the league's best defenseman, recipient of the Norris Trophy.
After retiring with the Jets in 1993, Carlyle moved into coaching. He was an assistant coach in Winnipeg during the 1995-96 season, then spent from 1996 to 2001 and 2004-05 as head coach of the Manitoba Moose (later adding the general manager and team president titles as well), first in the International Hockey League and then, when that league folded, in the American Hockey League. In 1998-99, Randy was the IHL's Executive of the Year. In between his stints, he was an assistant coach with the NHL Washington Capitals.
Hired as head coach of the Anaheim (Mighty) Ducks during the summer of 2005, Randy brought his hockey bag full of coaching and playing experiences to a very fine, young team. "I enjoy the lifestyle," Randy said. "It's hard work, but I love being around the game. Being a coach is the closest thing to being a player. The best part is when you win, no doubt. The worst part, of course, is when you lose."
And then, no surprise to Randy, the Ducks captured the Stanley Cup last June. "I was afforded a great opportunity to come into a good group of players and an organization that wants to win," he stated. "I have a great working relationship with GM Brian Burke and the staff and ownership. We're all on the same page. We don't think about anything but being an elite team and challenging for the Stanley Cup."
Many in the small community knew the Carlyle family well through the years. "There were a lot of people asking, 'Do you remember me?'" laughed Randy. Never losing his proud grin, Carlyle laughed and kibitzed with every fan, keeping the long line moving as efficiently as possible through the afternoon. "It's about having as many people as possible have their picture taken with it," reminded Randy. "We want people to be able to enjoy it!"
After the visit to the community centre, Randy took the Stanley Cup to show his sister, his brother, a hardware store, a car dealership and to his mother-in-law's house. That evening, Randy, his wife Corey and their children Craig, Derek and Alexis, were the guests of honour at a party for 250 at the spectacular LakeHouse Restaurant in Sudbury's famous Science North attraction. The party ensued while guests looked out over Ramsey Lake.
After a full day, Randy took the Cup on Saturday, August 18 to his cottage on Manitoulin Island. The visit to Rockville was the first time the Stanley Cup had been on the island.
After family photos were taken at the cottage, Carlyle, dressed casually in a t-shirt, shorts and his Crocs, took the Stanley Cup over to the Rockville Community Centre. Local volunteers dressed in matching orange Stanley Cup t-shirts were already in place to make certain that the Stanley Cup's visit to Manitoulin Island was organized and memorable for local fans.
Beginning at 11AM, fans traipsed through the rec centre to see the Stanley Cup, the Norris Trophy and to greet the Ducks' coach. Asked whether he had ever had his picture taken so often, he laughed and replied, "Yeah, yesterday in Azilda!"
After the public event, Carlyle made several visits around the area, including the hardware store, Looney Toonie dollar store, the grocert store, a restaurant, the bakery and the hospital. That evening, dinner with the Stanley Cup took place at the Schoolhouse Restaurant in nearby Providence Bay, where the menu included a scrumptious beef consommé, Caesar salad, salmon, prime rib, chicken, bread pudding and crème brulee.
As Randy was walking along, he spotted a squirrel's tail, abandoned on the trail. The stern coach made way for a comedian, as he held the tail under his nose and looked like Lanny McDonald on a bad day!
For a town of 1,100 residents, Lucknow has an extraordinary hockey legacy. Murray Murdoch played on the Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers in 1928 and 1933. The Chin family, specifically George, Bill and Ab, terrorized opponents with their goal-scoring prowess in the 1940's. NHL and Team Canada '72 star, Paul Henderson, was born in Lucknow and learned to play hockey as a youngster in the basement of the Chin's family restaurant. And now the community can thrust out its chest and boast of one more Dave Farrish.
An astute student of the game, Dave pursued coaching after retiring as a player. He coached with the AHL's Moncton Hawks, the IHL's Fort Wayne Komets, the ECHL's Louisiana Ice Gators and was an assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils of the NHL before he was hired as an assistant coach to Randy Carlyle in August 2005.
The fact that Carlyle and Farrish are celebrating a Stanley Cup championship together is no coincidence. The two met in 1973 when they were put together on the blueline of the OHA's junior Sudbury Wolves. Both were recognized with All-Star selections in 1976 and were drafted by NHL teams that year. Farrish and Carlyle became friends in '73 and have remained so through 34 years. "Randy's like family to me, and I would assume I'm like that to him," explained Farrish. "We have cottages four doors apart on Manitoulin Island and we've got houses about a five-minute walk apart in Anaheim. I'm very blessed that he saw something in me that encouraged him to bring me to the Ducks. I'm indebted to him forever for the opportunity!"
Dave Farrish asked for the Stanley Cup at his cottage at 6AM on Sunday, August 19 so he could get photographs of the sunrise with hockey's most historic trophy. Dave's wife, Roxanne, was there to witness the incredible view with her husband. It was a belated birthday gift for the likeable assistant coach of the Ducks, who celebrated his 51st birthday on August 1.
Inside the cottage, Farrish has a wall lined with license plates from each of the places in which he's lived Austria, Canadian provinces New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec plus U.S. states Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and, of course, California.
Later that morning, Dave flew with the Stanley Cup from his Rockville cottage to Lucknow, Ontario. As the small plane prepared to land, Farrish looked out the window and saw about a hundred people waiting for him, as well as 'Welcome Dave' written in a field near the landing strip.
Dave was driven to the Lucknow Sports Complex, where local minor hockey players were given the opportunity to get their photos taken with him and the Stanley Cup. At 1:30, Farrish rode in a convertible with the Cup through Lucknow's downtown core, accompanied by Lucknow Minor Hockey players and coaches and led by the Lucknow Pipe Band. The parade of champions returned to the arena greeted by thunderous applause, as Lucknow welcomed back one of its proud sons.
Having shared the Stanley Cup with the fans, Dave and Roxanne slipped into a VIP area in order to celebrate with family and close friends. Champagne filled the bowl, and each took a turn sipping the nectar of victory.
Later, Farrish took the gleaming trophy to visit his mother in nearby Goderich. After photos at the house and in a local park, Dave took the Cup back to his Mom's place and gathered with some pals for a more private celebration. Dave made the world's biggest margarita, poured it into the historic bowl of the Cup and tilted Lord Stanley's mug to let all of his friends and family members enjoy a drink.
"I left Lucknow at a very early age, but I'm sure a lot of people told their kids and their grandchildren about us and our minor hockey days," reflected Farrish. "It's great to come back to the community that has been so supportive of me growing up and share the Stanley Cup with them."
We'll flip the pages of the Stanley Cup Journal over to the entry for Rick Patterson, the Director of Professional Scouting, and share it with you on Tuesday. See you then!
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Enjoy a relaxing Sunday night at the movies at Barnsley House's very own cinema. After your film screening (with popcorn!), enjoy a two-course supper at The Potager.
Time: Arrival from 5:00pm, screening at 5:30pm
Tickets: £32.00 per person including a two-course supper in The Potager, cinema screening and popcorn (supper served from 7:00pm). Tickets for Sunday Cinema must be booked and prepaid in advance and are non-refundable.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The euro slipped Friday, contributing to the currency's losses against the U.S. dollar for the week, after the European Central Bank said commercial banks would pay back early a smaller-than-expected chunk of cheap three-year loans.
The euro EURUSD, -0.0180% traded at $1.3182, after a low at $1.3144, compared with $1.3187 in North American trade late Thursday. For the week, the euro fell about 1.3% versus the dollar.
Meanwhile, the ICE dollar index DXY, +0.02%, which measures the greenback's moves against six major global currencies, rose to 81.454, from 81.377 in North America late on Thursday.
The index gained about 1.1% for the week.
The euro had spiked as high as $1.3245 after a much stronger-than-expected German Ifo index. It gave up those gains after the ECB said banks would repay early just 61 billion euros ($80.71 billion) of cheap loans borrowed from the central bank at its second three-year tender operation a year ago — about half the amount expected. See: Second ECB LTRO repayment smaller than expected.
A larger-than-expected round of repayments from the ECB's first three-year tender in December 2011 had previously helped lift the euro. The paybacks are seen as supportive for the currency because they shrink the ECB's balance sheet at a time when other major central banks continue to expand theirs.
"But there's a difference between active and passive balance-sheet changes. This was a passive one, because the banks were controlling the change, not the ECB themselves," in contrast with the active QE strategies of the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and Bank of England, according to Simon Smith, chief economist at FxPro in London.
"But, if banks still feel they need to hold on to liquidity offered when times were bad, rather than pay it back now that things are supposedly better, it's not a resounding vote of confidence," he said.
Also clipping the euro's wings, the European Commission said it expects the euro-zone economy to contract by 0.3% in 2013, marking a second straight year of contraction. See: Euro-zone economy to shrink again in 2013.
"The EURUSD remains poised to weaken further over the near to medium term as the fundamental outlook for the euro area turns increasingly bleak," said David Song, a currency analyst at DailyFX.
Earlier, however, the Munich-based Ifo Institute said its German business-climate indicator rose more than expected.
"A day like today once again illustrates the divergences across the euro zone. While most other euro-zone countries are moaning under the burdens of reforms, austerity and recession, the German economy continues playing in a league of its own," said Carsten Brzeski, an economist at ING in Brussels.
Dollar strength
The WSJ dollar index BUXX, +0.03%, a separate index capturing the currency's moves against a slightly wider basket of rival units, rose to 72.53 from 72.49 on Thursday.
"The bullish sentiment surrounding the U.S dollar gather pace" as a growing number of Federal Reserve Open Market Committee officials "saw scope to scale back on quantitative easing," said Song. "The shift in the policy outlook should prop up the greenback going forward as the central bank adopts an improved outlook for the world's largest economy." See: Fed, uneasy over 'QE,' plans bond-buy debate.
Investors were also likely cautious ahead of the Italian general elections starting this weekend. Read Matthew Lynn's column: Watch out, Berlusconi could crash the markets.
The Japanese currency also weakened, with the dollar USDJPY, +0.11% purchasing 93.43 yen as compared with ¥93.11. For the week, the dollar is down 0.1% versus the yen.
The dollar has risen about 7.7% over the yen in 2013 to date, helped by expectations of Japanese monetary easing.
"Prospects for further [yen] weakening depend on whether the Bank of Japan loosens policies more than priced in, and the global economy recovers," BofA Merrill Lynch analysts wrote in a note.
"Short-term [yen] moves may be more two-way compared with the past few months. In the long term, we are [yen] bearish, as Japan's unsustainable government debt dynamics and adverse demographics make inflation the main policy option," they added.
Among other major currency pairs, the British pound GBPUSD, -0.0329% fetched $1.5245, unchanged from late Thursday.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD, +0.0738% was among the day's strongest performers, jumping to $1.0327 from $1.0235 after Reserve Bank of Australia Gov. Glenn Stevens said, in testimony to a parliamentary committee on Friday, that interest rates were at an "appropriate" level for now. He said more time was needed for the central bank's previous interest-rate reductions to work their way through the economy. Read full story on Glenn Stevens's remarks.


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This sounds really cool... I hope it keeps the fast pace of the other ones though!Also, I hope this means more CW figures... not animated ones, but movie styled versions.
This will be great if the same animators and Gendy is still involved. Otherwise, I am not optomistic that the series will continue at a high level.DBK
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North Carolina: A political headache for Democrats
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in Charlotte.
The causes are plenty.
Labor unions, a core Democratic constituency, are up in arms. Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue isn't running for re-election; Democrats say she was likely to lose. The state Democratic Party is in disarray over an explosive sexual harassment scandal. Voters recently approved amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage, a position that runs counter to Obama's. And unemployment in the state remains persistently high.
"Nobody can sugarcoat the fact that we got problems here," said Gary Pearce, a former Democratic consultant who was an adviser to former Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt. Pearce was referring specifically to state party woes but could have been talking about any of the troubles here for Democrats.
But, he added: "I think the greatest strength that the party has is President Obama. And he's the thing that people will rally around."
It wasn't supposed to be like this — at least that was the hope — when Democrats chose Charlotte to host the national convention, where Obama will formally accept his party's presidential nomination for a second time, Sept. 4-6.
When Democrats announced the choice in February 2011, they said selecting the Southern city signaled Obama's intent to fight hard for the conservative-leaning state like he did in 2008. They also highlighted the economic transformation in the state and in Charlotte — from tobacco, textiles and furniture-making to research, energy and banking. Party leaders noted the state's strong political leadership and expressed hope that a Perdue re-election bid would get a boost from the attention that would be lavished on the convention.
Now traditional Democratic Party groups are threatening huge protests in part because they're deeply uncomfortable that the convention is being held in one of the least union-friendly states. And thousands of Democrats across the country are calling for the convention to be relocated because of the gay-marriage vote.
Democrats say that won't happen.
"Charlotte is going to host a great convention," insisted Mayor Anthony Foxx, who pushed to bring the event to North Carolina's largest city.
Said Democratic National Convention in Charlotte spokeswoman Joanne Peters: "The convention is staying in Charlotte."
Republicans point out the obvious.
"North Carolina is a mess for the Democratic Party and for President Obama," said Republican National Committee spokesman Matt Connelly.
Four years ago, Obama became the first Democrat to carry North Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976. He did it by exploiting voter anger at President George W. Bush and assembling a diverse coalition of supporters, including huge numbers of minorities who had never been politically organized and young voters. State law allowed people to register to vote on Election Day, which also meant the large student vote could be tapped.
The campaign also targeted highly educated newcomers to the state.
Obama's team has been hopeful about replicating that effort, while mindful of the new challenges confronting him here. They note that there are enough states in play that Obama can find a strategy to get the necessary 270 electoral votes to win a second term without the 15 North Carolina offers, while Republican Mitt Romney's path to victory is more limited, meaning he's more likely to need a victory here.
Criticism began immediately after Charlotte was announced.
Many labor leaders were upset that the convention would be held in a state that offers few protections for workers and in a city with no union hotels. While some unions plan to attend, more than a dozen trade unions are boycotting. Union protests also are planned for convention week.
But unions aren't the only ones stirring trouble for Obama.
Politically, things are much different in the state.
State unemployment was 9.7 percent in March, well above the national average of 8.2 percent that month, and it's much higher in some rural counties.
There's also the fired-up Republican base that turned out Tuesday to approve the constitutional ban on gay marriage. The vote prompted more than 28,000 people to sign an online petition — by the New York-based Gay Marriage USA — to move the convention from Charlotte. Twitter also was flooded with similar sentiment from angry supporters of same-sex marriage. Obama stated his support for gay marriage a day after the vote.
Democrats want to include gay marriage in the platform to be adopted at the convention. That could create controversy at a gathering that's intended to promote party unity by drawing attention to a divisive social issue when the economy remains the most pressing concern.
What's more, the state Democratic Party is in disarray.
With sagging poll numbers, Perdue announced in January that she would not seek a second term. Her decision came on the heels of bruising budget battles with the GOP-controlled Legislature. Republicans in 2010 captured the Legislature for the first time in 140 years.
Then there's the sex scandal roiling the state party.
State Party Chairman David Parker has refused to resign — although he has said he won't seek re-election — despite pressure to step down from Perdue and other Democrats who say his presence leading the party has become a distraction. Sexual harassment allegations against executive director Jay Parmley by a former party employee have siphoned off all the political air in North Carolina.
The turmoil is churning just as Democrats accelerate preparations for the convention.
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Travers Sabine Circuit
A challenging multi-day tramping track in the heart of Nelson Lakes National Park, featuring an alpine crossing of the Travers Pass at 1787m.
The Travers Sabine is a challenging 4-7 day journey through some of the most spectacular scenery that the Nelson Lakes National Park has to offer. Ancient beech forests cloak even older glacial valleys. Large scree slopes surround you in the upper basins of the valleys, and as you gradually climb to the high point of the walk at almost 1800 metres, the Travers Saddle offers you breathtaking views east into the Travers Valley and west into the Sabine Valley.
This hike is designed for guests who have a good level of fitness, and have experienced multi day walks before. More challenging than the Great Walks of the region, such as the Heaphy Track and Queen Charlotte Track, the Travers Sabine traverses rough ground and includes 'poled' sections over rocky terrain, rather than well-formed tracks.
While the walk can be done as a challenging freedom hike, a guided option with local operators Southern Wilderness offers a unique opportunity to experience the northernmost part of the Southern Alps in relative comfort. With guides leading the way and carrying the bulk of the food and equipment, you can relax with a relatively light pack, gourmet meals organised and cooked for you, and entertaining interpretation provided to bring your surroundings to life:


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Running a large school district is complicated. Any operation with a $50 million budget and more than 450 employees would be, but there's the added elements of tax money involvement and a volunteer, albeit elected, board of directors.
That places an enormous amount of responsibility on the administration, particularly the superintendent, who not only gets to guide the efforts of all those employees but be the go-to answer person for the board of education as well. If the BOE is content to rubberstamp everything the top administrator offers, accountability to the public goes out the window.
We thought all that changed in Hays USD 489 with the early retirement of Fred Kaufman less than three years ago. His defiance of the board in response to challenging questions led to his separation. That departure led to a gradual transformation of the board as long-standing members either stepped down or were defeated.
When Josh Waddell, Lance Bickle and Danielle Robben joined the board two weeks ago, it became readily apparent even more questions were going to be asked of staff. Lengthy executive sessions were held the past two board meetings -- and early retirement notices were given by the top two administrators.
Will Roth, who succeeded Kaufman, was under contract until June 30, 2015. He moved the date to July 1, 2014, then to Oct. 1 of this year after encouragement from the board. Deputy Superintendent Richard Cain will retire even earlier, effective Sept. 1.
We can't predict if other surprise announcements will take place, but we wouldn't be surprised.
While we'll never know all of what took place in those executive sessions, we do know the board is asking lots of questions. Contracts are being examined. Policies voted upon by the board are being scrutinized to ensure the interpretation implemented is correct. IT upgrades are being looked at, as are workers compensation claims, athletic field surfaces and budget transfers. The board is looking at everything, and even plans to hire a management consultant at Monday's meeting not only to assist in the superintendent search but to look for areas to improve efficiency.
In short, the 489 BOE is striving to bring the same level of excellence found in classrooms throughout the district to the central office. This board wants administrators who can identify problems down the road, research options and recommend directions to take. They want a proactive superintendent who can avoid handing the board crises to manage. They want financial management that's comprehendable. They want accountability from top to bottom.
For patrons of USD 489, these all seem reasonable and necessary goals. Most likely are surprised all those were not in place.
The public elects seven board members to be reasonable stewards of our trust -- and our money. If a majority of them didn't have full faith and confidence in the job being performed by Roth or Cain, for whatever reason, then the retirements come at a good time.
We look forward to what a nationwide search results in, and to the suggestions made by the new consultant. And we encourage patience for all those watching the process. The first steps might have happened quickly, but wholesale change will take time.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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Google is expected to launch a mobile payment system on Thursday that allows consumers to buy items and checkout with smartphones rather than traditional credit/debit cards. The system will run on the Google's Android operating system and will be available on phones from Sprint Nextel Corp.
The service would allow users to pay for retail purchases by holding their smartphone up to a specialized reader at checkout counters.
Google has been working with MasterCard, the world's second-largest credit card processing network and Citigroup Inc to develop this mobile payments system. During the trial period, the service will be available only for Citigroup credit/debit card users.
Google is planning to show off the technology and has invited reporters to attend a "partner event" on Thursday in New York.