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The hike: The Bighorn Creek trail is less steep than the other East Vail trails. It is generally a fairly easy walk. |
The first 1/2 mile of the trail climbs steeply out of the Vail Valley, then more gradually climbs up through stands of aspen and pine. The trail passes beaver ponds and remains of old mining camps as well as Bighorn Falls. Near mile 2, the views of Vail and Bighorn drainage are exceptional. Around mile 3, the trail pas... |
Just before mile 2 and past a large fern grove, there is a side trail to an overlook down the steep drop to Bighorn Creek. This point makes a good destination for short hikes. The cabin is unlocked to offer shelter for hikers. Please respect this private property and help protect it for others to use and enjoy. |
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Most fantasy pundits will tell you it doesn’t matter who you take in the first few rounds of your fantasy baseball draft. They’ll tell you it is about “best player available,” personal preference and your initial draft strategy. |
To a certain extent, that is true, but even a cursory glance at each position’s tiers of talent level and overall depth will tell you if you don’t have your first baseman locked down within the first few rounds, you’re doing it wrong. |
You’ll hear the phrase “position scarcity” thrown around quite a bit during draft season. Most don’t understand the concept. It refers to the lack of available options at a given position in relation to the percentage of starting major league players drafted. But since you can wait until the last round to draft any pos... |
At first base, you want big-time power. Consistent big-time power. Home runs and RBIs are the primaries, and runs scored and batting average immediately follow. There are seven first basemen who do all of that for you — Paul Goldschmidt, Anthony Rizzo, Miguel Cabrera, Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Abreu, Freddie Freeman and ... |
When you draft any of them, 30 home runs, 100-plus RBIs, at least 90 runs scored and an average that sits above the .290 mark can be expected. They are fantasy gold, and they’re the only ones who do it all. |
You certainly can find power as you go down the list. Chris Davis, Carlos Santana and Mike Napoli are great examples. However, their batting averages are terrible. Look even further down the list, and names like Eric Hosmer, Hanley Ramirez and Brandon Belt show decent production, but the numbers don’t even touch those ... |
First base is not a position you want to wait on. Regardless of who else you draft in the early rounds, you still will be lacking without one of the top seven. Invest early. Secure the position. Everything else will fall into place. |
Howard Bender is the managing editor at FantasyAlarm.com and host of “Fantasy Sports Tonight” on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio (Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 8 p.m.). Follow him on Twitter @rotobuzzguy. |
The 1987 film "Ishtar" has long held a cultural status much larger than that of just a single movie, as shorthand for the utter worst, an epochal flop with audiences and critics alike and a huge financial bomb. Its air of failure has become all-encompassing, or as one of the songs featured in the movie put it, "Hello, ... |
The notorious reputation of "Ishtar" as too-expensive and no-good has long crushed the actual film. Last summer, the headline of a New York Times article on the box-office performance of "John Carter" declared "'Ishtar' lands on Mars," and just recently an angry investor railed against a string of summer flops at Sony ... |
"Ishtar," as it happens, was finally released on Blu-ray last week, having never been on DVD, and that new disc in some way caps an alternate story line, just as recent reissues of other films have helped rescue them from sometimes undeserved infamy. Through occasional appearances on television and revival screenings, ... |
And they like it. As the film's writer-director, Elaine May, has said in one form or another on numerous occasions, "If half the people who made cracks about 'Ishtar' had actually seen it, I would be a rich woman." |
Filmmakers from Lena Dunham and Joe Swanberg to Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino have all championed the film in the past few years, finding a sophisticated, self-aware wit and inspirational current in its story of a pair of struggling New York songwriters, long on dreams, short on connections or talent. In a bit of ... |
What Chuck and Lyle don't have in talent, they make up for with enthusiasm and an unwavering belief in themselves. They are equally deluded and determined. (And their songs, many co-written by May with Paul Williams, are brilliantly catchy, hilarious and awful all at once.) When they land a booking in a small Middle Ea... |
The film's production received intense media coverage before its release, relentlessly proclaiming that it was too expensive, May's methods were wasteful, and it was working too hard to be an effortless comedy. The combined appeal at the time of Beatty, Hoffman and May made it an alluring target for a takedown. (The fi... |
After a mixed review from critic Sheila Benson in the Los Angeles Times, critic-at-large Charles Champlin defended the film by noting, "Memory does not immediately yield a film for which so many critics, reporters and industry members were lying in wait. … It's not so much a case of let the buyers beware as let the buy... |
After "Ishtar," Elaine May never directed another film. She was given a National Medal of Arts by President Obama in a White House ceremony in July, an overdue recognition for her career on stage and screen as part of the groundbreaking comedy duo with Mike Nichols and a two-time Oscar nominee for her work on the scree... |
"Ishtar" is not the only movie to benefit from a recent reconsideration thanks to a home-video release. Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 "At Long Last Love," released on Blu-ray earlier in the summer, having never even been on VHS, has also been getting welcome reappraisal after being called in its day "disappointing and embar... |
The film is a purposefully fizzy throwback to the high-society Astaire-Rogers musicals, featuring songs by Cole Porter. The performers did their own singing live on the set, often in fluid, long takes that framed them from head to toe (take that, "Les Miserables"). The film has a playful, unpredictable puttin'-on-a-sho... |
And then there is "Heaven's Gate," a film perhaps equal only to "Ishtar" as universally accepted shorthand for disaster. The grand, epic-scaled 1980 western written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert and Christopher Walken, has seen its resuscitation building for quite a long ... |
For the recent release of a new restoration (likewise available on home video), English critic Robbie Colin stated, "Its status as a true wonder-work of American cinema is now surely beyond doubt." |
In the age of online contrarianism, when every argument can be met by a "yes, but ...," does every failure require such reassessment? At times, a positive course-correction can be practically immediate, as when the 2011 Kenneth Lonergan film "Margaret" — which featured a searing supporting performance by May's daughter... |
Perhaps inevitably, this idea of cultural turnaround can also become a rhetorical ploy, as when the team behind this summer's "The Lone Ranger" recently went on the offensive, with stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer and producer Jerry Bruckheimer all complaining that the coverage of the film's budget and difficult prod... |
Time will tell, won't it? |
In the nightclub performance that caps their story, Chuck and Lyle declare they have "found the spirit of Ishtar." It has perhaps taken all these years for that spirit to reveal itself unencumbered by the baggage of the film's initial release. Lyle's words of offbeat encouragement to Chuck might well apply to the tarni... |
Where do Matt Luke, Joe Moorhead, Jay Hopson coach salaries rank? |
USA TODAY released its rankings of Division I college football coaches' salaries on Wednesday. Where do Mississippi's coaches land in the rankings? |
USA TODAY released its yearly ranking of the 130 NCAA Division I college football head coaches' annual salaries on Wednesday. |
The final rankings were based on each coach's base pay for the 2018 season. The list detailed other information that did not influence the rankings, including maximum bonus pay possible, bonuses paid in 2017-18 and the amount a school would be require to pay in order to buy out a coach's contract as of Dec. 1 of this y... |
Alabama's Nick Saban topped both the SEC and the nation, as he's set to earn $8.3 million this year. |
Of the head coaches for Mississippi's three Division I programs, Ole Miss' Matt Luke ranked the highest in the country (44th) at $3 million annually. Mississippi State's Joe Moorhead fell a few spots below Luke (49th) with his $2.6 million a year. Finally, Southern Mississippi's Jay Hopson ranked 111th in the nation at... |
Here's the breakdown and analysis of each Mississippi coach's pay in the 2018 season. |
Luke became the highest paid NCAA coach in Mississippi this year, thanks to the discrepancy between former Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen and current MSU coach Moorhead’s salaries. |
Mullen finalized a four-year contract extension last February that had him earning $4.5 million in 2017. He left for Florida after the season. Moorhead took over for Mullen for less than two thirds the salary ($2.6 million school pay). That made Luke’s $3 million base salary the highest in the state. |
Luke’s pay is still well below the more than $4.7 million former Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze was making before his resignation last summer. |
Among Southeastern Conference coaches, Luke’s salary falls in the bottom third. Other than Moorhead, the only other coaches making less than Luke are Missouri’s Barry Odom ($2,350,000 school pay) and Vanderbilt’s Derek Mason ($2,812,523). |
Luke’s base salary is even with North Carolina State’s Dave Doeren’s. On top of his base salary, Luke can make a max bonus of $1,550,000. Luke already secured a $150,000 bonus for beating Texas Tech 47-27 in the Rebels' season opener. A win against a Power Five conference opponent outside of the SEC earns him that much... |
Mississippi State nearly cut its head coach’s salary in half by replacing Mullen with Moorhead. Mullen earned $4.5 million in base pay in 2017, and Moorhead is making $2.6 million in base pay this year. |
Mullen’s move to Florida vaulted him well past the $5 million mark. He’s set to make $6.07 million with the Gators this year, but that still only makes him the fifth-highest paid coach in the SEC despite being the country’s 8th highest paid coach. |
Moorhead, meanwhile, comes in as the 13th highest paid coach in the SEC. The only coach Moorhead stands above is Missouri’s Barry Odom, who reels in $2.35 million in base pay. |
Moorhead has a max bonus of $1.35 million. A staggering $1,000,000 of that comes from a national championship victory. Given that his Bulldogs have struggled in conference play thus far and have effectively eliminated themselves from national title contention, he won’t reach that mark. |
Released earlier this year by Mississippi State, $100,000 of that bonus figure comes from an SEC Championship Game appearance. Another $200,000 comes from an SEC Championship Game victory. |
Hopson's base salary of $500,000 per year stays steady, despite his recent extension. As the Hattiesburg American reported in August, Hopson has been extended through Jan. 31, 2022, set to make a sum of $2 million over the course of the contract. |
Hopson's yearly rate of $500,000 is the lowest annual value of the 13 coaches in Conference USA for which contract data is available. The next cheapest C-USA coaching contract belongs to Charlotte coach Mark Lambert, who is set to earn $625,000 annually. |
That said, Hopson has the chance to make back his money with on-field success. The maximum bonus that Hopson can earn in a season is $870,000, the third-highest mark in Conference USA behind FAU coach Lane Kiffin and UAB coach Bill Clark. This includes bonuses of $100,000 for an appearance in a New Year's Six bowl, $25... |
The cost to buy out Hopson's contract as of this December would be $1,583,333. That ranks middle-of-the-pack among C-USA buyout clauses. That number is derived from the buyout clause in Hopson's contract, which states that he'd be owed 50 percent of the base salary remaining on his contract were he terminated without c... |
She could have earned $2million by singing just three songs and giving up thirty minutes of her evening to mingle with wedding guests – but Taylor Swift is way better than that. |
Proving she’s yet again an absolute STAR, Taylor allegedly turned down the mega-bucks wedding deal to instead perform for free at a christening. |
But before you get all excited thinking Tay might do the same for you one day – it was a very special christening as it was for her little baby godson Leo’s. |
The 25-year-old was asked by pal Jaime King and her Hollywood screenwriter and director husband Kyle Newman, to be Leo’s godmother last month. |
According to the Sunday Express, Swift was offered one million dollars per song she sang at his wedding providing she also spent just thirty minutes of her time mingling with the bridal party and guests afterwards. |
Taylor proved it’s not all about the money though as she stood by her duties and turned up at one-month old Leo’s christening ready and prepared to belt out some of her famous hits for the guests there for free. |
‘Taylor arrived with her own music backing tracks and belted out some of her biggest hits, including Love Story, I Knew You Were Trouble and Red,’ a source told the publication. |
Meanwhile, while she’s been busy being a good friend, she’s also kicked off her five-day sell-out stint at the Los Angeles Staples Center as part of the LA leg of her 1989 world tour. |
And continuing her tradition of inviting famous faces to join her on stage, last night she invited none other than Friends star Matt Le Blanc. We should probably also mention the fact she got actor Chris Rock and model Sean O’Pry to join her on stage too but OMG – Joey from Friends! |
TOKYO - A magnitude-7.4 aftershock rattled Japan on Thursday night, knocking out power across a large swath of the northern part of the country nearly a month after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened the northeastern coast. |
Japan's meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning but cancelled it about 90 minutes later. Officials said power was out in all of three northern prefectures (states) and in parts of two others. |
The operator of the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said there was no immediate sign of new problems caused by the aftershock, and Japan's nuclear safety agency says workers there retreated to a quake-resistant shelter in the complex. None were injured. The crisis there started when the tsunami knocked... |
Officials said the aftershock hit 30 miles (50 kilometres) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., later downgraded it to 7.1. |
The quake struck at 11:32 p.m. local time. Moments beforehand, residents in the western Tokyo suburb of Fuchu were warned on a neighbourhood public address system of an imminent quake. |
Prime Minister Naoto Kan huddled with staff members in his office shortly afterward, according to deputy Cabinet spokesman Noriyuki Shikata. |
A separate government emergency response team met shortly after midnight to monitor any reports of damage and urged firefighters, police and other emergency personnel to aid those in need. |
The USGS said the aftershock struck off the eastern coast 40 miles (65 kilometres) from Sendai and 70 miles (115 kilometres) from Fukushima. It was about 205 miles (330 kilometres) from Tokyo. |
Associated Press writers Jay Alabaster in Ichinoseki, Japan; Malcolm Foster, Ryan Nakashima and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Colleen Slevin in Denver, Colorado, contributed to this report. |
From left, Sandra Cash and J. David Derosier of Keep Orange County Beautiful are shown with KOCB winner Barbara Bates and Pinehurst Mayor T.W. Permenter, also a board member of KOCB. |
Nomination forms can be found at www.KOCB.org. |
Jason Rezaian is an American-Iranian correspondent for the Washington Post. He was held in Iran's notorious Evin prison longer than any other international journalist: 18 long months. Three years after his release, Rezaian has shared his ordeal in a book entitled "Prisoner". He tells us more about being held in an Iran... |
The European Central Bank (ECB) said Wednesday it would check up on dozens of banks' ability to withstand a crisis from a new angle, looking this time into how long their cash piles would hold out. |
The ECB's banking supervision arm will calculate a so-called "survival period", defined as "the number of days that a bank can continue to operate using available cash and collateral with no access to funding markets". |
Around 100 banks will pass under the supervisors' microscope. |
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the latest "stress test" differs from past rounds as it is not based on a wider simulated scenario like a global economic or political crisis. |
Instead, each bank will be put through a battery of "adverse and extreme hypothetical shocks" at different levels of intensity, causing "increasing liquidity (cash) outflows". |
The ECB "will not assess the potential causes of these shocks or the impact of wider market turbulence," it said. |
Nor will it build into the simulation a potential policy response -- like emergency loans -- from the central bank. |
The tests are especially unusual as they do not examine how economic headwinds would impact a bank's capital ratio, or the relationship between its capital and its assets -- a measure supervisors have focused on lifting since the 2008 financial crisis. |
But the spotlight on liquidity is especially timely as it harks back to Lehman's demise for lack of cash. |
Since then, banks have been required to keep enough liquidity on hand to cover short-term financing needs. |
The stress test is to begin immediately and last for four months. |
The leader of the worldwide Catholic Church isn’t just known for the usual papal expressions of love, kindness and faith. Pope Francis has also touched millions with his off-script pronouncements and deeds, as well as his 'normal' behavior. |
1. Having once proclaimed the internet a "gift from God," the Pope goes online quite often himself. Spreading the gospel, sharing advice and reacting to world news through social media - just as so many of us like to do - he posts a lot, having millions of followers on Twitter.Lord, thank you! |
2. The pontiff, who is the first of his chosen name, Francis, in the entire history of papacy in the Catholic Church, has also broke historic ground by being part of a... selfie! |
3. Pope Francis loves the four-legged friends as much as many of us, and has reportedly promised that your favorite pooch will have a spot in heaven, along with all other animals. Even more so, he made the "all dogs go to heaven" statement to comfort a little boy mourning the loss of his dog, according to Italian media... |
4. Having commented that God is not "a magician with a magic wand," the Pope acknowledged that both the Big Bang and evolution happened. The Big Bang theory did not contradict the existence of God, but required it, he said while delivering a speech at a religious meeting. |
5. Pope Francis has also stated that he would welcome alien life forms into the open arms of the Catholic Church, should they be willing to convert. Having put forward his official stance on Martians - among other intergalactic travelers, it was the Italian mafia that got "excommunicated" by the church head. |
6. While calling for people to practice "responsible parenting," the Pope is kind and welcoming to younger believers. He gave two lucky 11-year-olds a ride through St. Peter's Square on his popemobile. Although the two Italian boys eagerly hopped aboard the vehicle, the Pope himself is not so excited about his exclusiv... |
8. Another time he reportedly exchanged skullcaps with students, putting on the one offered to him and giving his own to two Americans studying in Rome. While in Brazil, the Pope swapped his traditional skullcap for a head piece of indigenous people from the Amazon, meeting with the natives and encouraging the area to ... |
9. Really embracing equality and drawing instant applause from an audience in the Philippines, Pope Francis has called on men to listen to women - as they have “much to tell us." Women are able to ask questions that men can’t grasp, he said. Under his leadership, the Vatican has also considered "welcoming gifts and qua... |
10. Having once revealed to church-goers that there was a time when he was a bouncer at a nightclub in his native Argentina, Pope Francis has also sold his 'casual cool' belongings for a good cause. In February 2014, his Harley-Davidson motorcycle was auctioned off for $327,000, with the money donated to a soup kitchen... |
11. Refusing to move into papal palace and known for his simple lifestyle, the humble persona of Pope Francis has become a real "People's Pope." Speculation has been raised that he has been venturing out of the Vatican under the cover of the night, disguised as a priest and meeting with the homeless. |
12. But sometimes he has moments for himself - and that is not only to pray, but to support his favorite football team. Coming from the homeland of many football stars, the Pope is a huge fan, cheering for Argentina's San Lorenzo club. |
Stories about education and careers in Oakland, Berkeley, and the East Bay. |
The University of California is implementing measures to accommodate transgender and gender nonconforming students — but for many, there's still a wait for the bathroom. |
That's because students willingly agreed to increase their own fees to pay for it. Some, however, remain concerned about the lack of long-term counseling at UC Berkeley. |
Families and teachers say Oakland Unified is not meeting the needs of special ed students, but a lack of federal funds has created a huge financial burden for the school district. |
At Oakland School for the Arts, high school students produce a professional literary journal that attracts national interest and preps youth for careers in writing. |
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