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RT @USATODAY: #BREAKING: Tokyo-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner diverted to Seattle
RT @USATODAY: #BREAKING: Tokyo-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner diverted to Seattle
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Seattle Sounders striker Obafemi Martins is thrilled to be a part of the rapidly growing Major League Soccer competition. read more
Seattle Sounders striker Obafemi Martins is thrilled to be a part of the rapidly growing Major League Soccer competition. read more
about 1 hour ago
Sigi Schmid says the growing popularity of soccer in Seattle suggests to him that he has the best job in MLS. read more
Sigi Schmid says the growing popularity of soccer in Seattle suggests to him that he has the best job in MLS. read more
about 1 hour ago
We're back to that daunting C-word.
We're back to that daunting C-word.
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Hey Bucs Nation! While we wait for the season to being I've got a question for you guys: what will next year's trap game be? I feel every year the Bucs always beat a team they shouldn't have and / or lose against a team they shouldn't ha...
Hey Bucs Nation! While we wait for the season to being I've got a question for you guys: what will next year's trap game be? I feel every year the Bucs always beat a team they shouldn't have and / or lose against a team they shouldn't have. Each team will be judged by their record from the previous year compared to the Bucs record (7-9). To make things easier I took away division rivals so you can't pick the Saints, Falcons, or Panthers. For the purposes of this topic Miami and the teams we lost to last year but still ended with a worse record than the Bucs are in the losing team category. So who do you think it'll be? Which Team With A Winning Record Will We Upset? @NE (12-4) SF (11-4-1) @SEA (11-5) @STL (7-8-1) Which Team With A Losing Record Will We Be Upset By? MIA (7-9) @NYJ (6-10) BUF (6-10) ARI (5-11) DET (4-12) PHI (4-12) For the losing record team, I feel like Arizona will be the team. Their defense is underrated with them finishing fifth in passing yards allowed (though they did suck against the run) and with the addition of Palmer, Fitzgerald has someone who knows how to throw the ball. Though Palmer is on the downward slope of his career, he still put up over 4000 yards with 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. I'm sure Revis will be all over Fitzgerald but I can see this being the one we let slip away. For the winning record team, the easy answer is St Louis. It's hard to win in Seattle plus I don't like East Coast teams traveling to play on the West Coast. Though on paper, the pass defense is much improved I don't think we can stop Brady and Belichick in New England. San Francisco at home? We would need a lot of things to go our away with their dominant defense and one of last year's phenom in Colin Kaepernick. I would add a poll but it would have to be two polls and I don't think this page allows that. Hey Bucs Nation! While we wait for the season to being I've got a question for you guys: what will next year's trap game be? I feel every year the Bucs always beat a team they shouldn't have and / or lose against a team they shouldn't have. Each team will be judged by their record from the previous year compared to the Bucs record (7-9). To make things easier I took away division rivals so you can't pick the Saints, Falcons, or Panthers. For the purposes of this topic Miami and the teams we lost to last year but still ended with a worse record than the Bucs are in the losing team category. So who do you think it'll be? Which Team With A Winning Record Will We Upset? @NE (12-4) SF (11-4-1) @SEA (11-5) @STL (7-8-1) Which Team With A Losing Record Will We Be Upset By? MIA (7-9) @NYJ (6-10) BUF (6-10) ARI (5-11) DET (4-12) PHI (4-12) For the losing record team, I feel like Arizona will be the team. Their defense is underrated with them finishing fifth in passing yards allowed (though they did suck against the run) and with the addition of Palmer, Fitzgerald has someone who knows how to throw the ball. Though Palmer is on the downward slope of his career, he still put up over 4000 yards with 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. I'm sure Revis will be all over Fitzgerald but I can see this being the one we let slip away. For the winning record team, the easy answer is St Louis. It's hard to win in Seattle plus I don't like East Coast teams traveling to play on the West Coast. Though on paper, the pass defense is much improved I don't think we can stop Brady and Belichick in New England. San Francisco at home? We would need a lot of things to go our away with their dominant defense and one of last year's phenom in Colin Kaepernick. I would add a poll but it would have to be two polls and I don't think this page allows that.
about 2 hours ago
We've talked about it before, but if the Mariners want to keep this goal of a .500 season intact, they will have to come out of this road trip with a winning record. Fall to 10 games under and they're pretty much toast. Right now...
We've talked about it before, but if the Mariners want to keep this goal of a .500 season intact, they will have to come out of this road trip with a winning record. Fall to 10 games under and they're pretty much toast. Right now, they're at nine under .500 with three games left on this trip. Time for the Mariners to surprise people by taking two of three. Three of three would be real good, but, well, baby steps with this bunch. They aren't calling Dustin Ackley up yet to play the outfield, so apparently, they are convinced the guys on-hand can get it done. Time to prove it.
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Jason Hammel caught a nasty virus from his kid, and it's thrown the Orioles' starting rotation all out of whack for this week's series in Detroit. Last night, the O's took the path of least resistance and handed the ball to the confoundi...
Jason Hammel caught a nasty virus from his kid, and it's thrown the Orioles' starting rotation all out of whack for this week's series in Detroit. Last night, the O's took the path of least resistance and handed the ball to the confoundingly hittable Jake Arrieta, on the basis that he 1) was rested; b) had minor league options; and iii) was already on the 40-man roster. That's how far Jake has fallen. After he predictably failed (5 R, 10 H in 4.2 IP), he was on a plane back to Norfolk before most of the team was done showering. No fuss, no muss.Tonight, the team's second consecutive spot start goes to another wayward young pitcher, Zach Britton. Though healthier than he was in 2012, when he made only 12 appearances for the Birds with a 5.07 ERA, Zach has spent all of the current season (other than one rocky start in Seattle) in AAA. The prospect of the 25-year-old lefty facing the likes of Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder in hostile territory isn't nearly as terrifying to me as the thought of Arrieta doing the same. Britton has a 3.28 ERA with the Tides this year, and has allowed only a pair of home runs in 60.1 innings. He's been even better as of late. Still, with Justin Verlander starting for the Tigers, the odds are lopsided. For my part, I'd just like some sign that the Orioles have legitimate pitching depth, instead of "plenty of guys who suck and a few who are usually okay".UPDATE: Zach pitched into the sixth inning and left with a 5-1 lead thanks to home runs from J. J. Hardy and Adam Jones. That'll play.
about 2 hours ago
From their work ethic to their idealism, people in Silicon Valley tend to do things a bit differently. Turns out those differences extend to the way many of Silicon Valley’s newly rich think about generational wealth. So suggests Jim Cod...
From their work ethic to their idealism, people in Silicon Valley tend to do things a bit differently. Turns out those differences extend to the way many of Silicon Valley’s newly rich think about generational wealth. So suggests Jim Cody, a managing director of estate, trust and philanthropy advisory services at Harris myCFO, a wealth management firm that caters to ultra-high-net-worth clients, or people with $25 million in investable assets and a net worth of about $100 million. Though the firm has seven offices nationwide, including in Seattle, Chicago and New York City, Cody says there are disparities between the clients the firm sees in the Bay Area compared to elsewhere. In California, for example, high net worth individuals tend to be slightly younger, with 27% under age 40, compared to 24% nationally. (The data comes from BMO Private Bank, the parent company of Harris MyCFO.) Also, less than 1% of California’s ultra-rich individuals inherited their wealth, compared to 3% nationally. Perhaps most meaningfully, Cody says that in Silicon Valley, the super wealthy think there’s always another home run around the corner. We talked with Cody yesterday. Following is our conversation, edited for length and clarity. How do  venture capitalists differ in the ways they manage their wealth from your other customers? The VCs vary. Some are younger people who are just getting started and getting their first carried interest and who are more akin to entrepreneurs who are having their first wealth event. Then you have VCs who have been around 10, 15, 20 years and who’ve seen liquidity events and are, by necessity, more diversified, given that their wealth has come from different funds with different maturities. [The latter group] tends to be more savvy from a business point of view and taking holdings off the table. We see them distribute to themselves when they distribute shares to their [firm’s] investors, and often, they’ll use those shares – which are often very low basis shares – for charitable giving. Or they may have a standing order with us to sell the shares right away when the shares hit their account. Many entrepreneurs and former VCs have become angel investors. How much of their overall wealth is it safe to invest in startups? The percentage of overall wealth that someone can afford to put back on the table depends on their individual risk level and the magnitude of their wealth. Billionaires only “need” several hundred million dollars to live off of, so they can invest more. If someone’s wealth is between $10 million and $20 million, we wouldn’t counsel those folks to put a meaningful percentage of their wealth into high-risk investments. The person with $20 million might considering [reinvesting] $1 million or $2 million [into startups]. Our advice is: You’ve hit a grand slam. These types of events should be considered once-in-a-lifetime. Let’s make sure this money lasts throughout your lifetime to accommodate your needs and your family’s needs and, if possible, your philanthropic desires. Do you see differences among your clients nationwide? Across the U.S., we have clients who have what we’d call more mature and multi-generational wealth, where the clients aren’t necessarily the first-generation wealth creators, as they tend to be in the Bay Area. In the Midwest, and in the Chicago area, where it’s inherited wealth, the clients treat [the money] more like they are stewards and like it has purposes beyond their immediate needs, meaning for family members, future generations, and philanthropic organizations. Older wealth is more conservative and less risky. In the Bay Area, you meet these young entrepreneurs who are very bright and who, when we tell them to consider a wealth event as a one-time [happening], they tell us that one of their friends has [hit a home run] three times. So their experience tends to be clouded by what they see others doing. We also see people who’ve made it and lost it and get back on the horse
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Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles early this morning. He was 33. If you don't know, Michael Hastings is the journalist who, two years ago, took down Afghanistan commander and Army General Stanley McChrystal with a s...
Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles early this morning. He was 33. If you don't know, Michael Hastings is the journalist who, two years ago, took down Afghanistan commander and Army General Stanley McChrystal with a single piece in Rolling Stone magazine. He did this by reporting what the general and the jocks on his staff actually said—everything that was not strictly off-record—about the war and about Barack Obama while embedded with them. Hastings was then attacked by flocks of so-called reporters, including CBS's Lara Logan and others, for breaking tradition and not censoring the impolitic, embarrassing, off-the-cuff remarks that McChrystal made that revealed how he and many in the military establishment actually think. Within days, Obama dismissed McChrystal. Hastings followed that up with The Operators, a superb book on the war in Afghanistan. He always tried to debunk the myth of another military-media superstar, General David Petraeus—long before Petraeus' affair, rather than his fuck-ups in Iraq, led to his public disgrace. If you read Hastings's writing, you see that he was one of the journalists who bonded with the grunts on the ground, not the generals turned politicians standing behind podiums. Here he is in his last appearance on MSNBC, still kicking ass and taking names: "Hastings' hallmark as reporter was his refusal to cozy up to power," Rolling Stone says. We need more reporters like him, not less, which is why this feels very hard to bear. [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
about 2 hours ago
Earl Thomas: 'Hawks secondary tops in NFL
Earl Thomas: 'Hawks secondary tops in NFL
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