Cavs win NBA lottery
Here is the draft order:
1. Cleveland (Via LA Clippers) 2. Minnesota Timberwolves 3. Utah Jazz 4. Cleveland Cavaliers 5. Toronto Raptors 6. Washington Wizards 7. Sacramento Kings 8. Detroit Pistons 9. Charlotte Bobcats 10. Milwaukee Bucks 11. Golden State Warriors 12. Utah Jazz 13. Phoenix Suns 14. Houston Rockets
Watch Cavs' Black Python Bloody Mary 120mm GM Chris Grant's post lottery press conference in the video player.
This is the fourth time the Cavs have received the top overall pick in the draft. In 1971, the Cavs selected Guard Austin Carr from Notre Dame. In 1986, the team picked center Brad Daughterty from North Carolina. In 2003, the Cavs selected forward LeBron James, from Akron St. Vincent St. Mary's High School.
The team with Multicolor Python Bloody Mary 120mm the league's worst record has won the number one pick just four times in the 26 year history of the lottery, and the team with the best odds has won it just twice in 17 years under the current (weighted) system.
Here are the odds for the top 5 teams to get the first pick:
Minnesota 25 percent, Cleveland 19.9 percent, Toronto 15.6 percent, Washington 11.9 percent, Sacramento 7.6 percent.
Here are the top prospects for this years 2011 NBA draft class:
Kyrie Irving: The Duke freshman guard came back from a toe injury to lead the Blue Devils to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA tournament. The six foot two point guard from New Jersey averaged 17 and a half points a game while dishing over four assists. He reminds a lot of scouts of John Wall or Chris Paul with his ability to create for himself and others. Derrick Williams: Next on the Cavs radar is the man who knocked Irving out of March Madness, Arizona forward Derrick Williams. The big fella can play either forward position in the NBA and shot nearly 58 percent from behind the arc. Williams was named the Pac 10 Freshman of the Year in 2010 and the Pac 10 Player of the Year in his two years at Arizona. Enes Kanter: Although the Turkish center hasn't seen game Leather Bloody Mary 120mm action in over a year, Kanter is still high on scouts' boards. The 6 foot 11 center received benefits from his Turkish team so the NCAA suspended him for Kentucky's 2011 year. Kanter dominated Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger at the Nike Hoop Summit in 2010, as the Turk went off for 34 points and 13 rebounds on the Buckeye. Brandon Knight: John Calipari can always find point guards, following in the shoes of Tyreke Evans, Derrick Rose, and John Wall, Brandon Knight is the next to lace it up in the NBA. Knight showed up big in the NCAA Black Leather Bloody Mary 120mm Tournament and has the wingspan to cause a ruckus in the NBA on defense. Kemba Walker: Walker is another players who showed up big in March Madness, no player showed up bigger than Kemba Walker and the champion UConn Huskies. The junior guard played out of this world in the Maui Invitational, the Big East Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.
Canada's projected deficit drops to
Harper revealed Thursday that the government is now projecting the deficit for 2013 14 will ring in at $5.2 billion, far lower than the $16.6 billion previously estimated.
means Black Suede Balota 140mm we are clearly returning to a balanced position, Harper said, adding that it a the government will show a surplus in 2015.
The February Black Suede Big Dorcet 120mm budget had forecast a $2.9 billion deficit for 2014 15, or almost even once a $3 billion rainy day fund was added in, and a surplus of $6.4 billion the year after.
But Thursday numbers show the government is on track to notch a sizeable surplus in 2015, allowing the Conservatives to move on tax breaks pledged in the last campaign just as they prepare to go to the polls next October.
also Leather Bloody Mary 120mm intend . . . to move quickly to implement promises that we made to Canadians in the last election, Harper said in a televised luncheon address to a Brampton business audience.
In the 2011 election campaign, Harper promised the Conservatives would introduce income splitting, which would allow couples with young children to share up to $50,000 for income tax purposes. But he said the promise would have to wait until the budget is balanced.
The prime minister said that some of the factors that helped the bottom line were temporary while others are permanent, such as cuts to government programs and spending.
Harper said a balanced budget will allow the government to the much lower tax rates that we have White Leather Beverly 100mm brought in.
He said a balanced budget allowed the Conservatives to ramp up spending without falling into a of deficits, debts and interest rate hikes.
maintains our ability to respond aggressively with government spending if we ever had a situation that once again needed extraordinary measures, he said.
While the nation is waiting for Harper to announce the country next military moves in Iraq, the discussion in Brampton was focused solely on the economy.
Brisbane Melbourne Cup Day Live Blog
5.14pm: It wasn't just Craig Williams, deposed jockey of winner Dunaden, and unlucky connections of narrow loser Red Cadeaux who were hit hard by the 2011 Melbourne Cup result. Spare a tear, if you Gold Glitter Balota 160mm are so compassionate, for the bookies.
"Devastation, that's what it was," said Flemington bagman Alan Eskander of Betstar, of the photo finish result.
"It took so long to get the result that I was leaning towards it being called a deadheat. But obviously it wasn't to be and it was an enormous difference to bookies across the board."
4.42pm: Adam Cooper reports that Corey Brown, jockey of third placegetter Lucas Cranach had a "perfect run" in the Melbourne Cup. Brown said that when he peeled out of the pack at the 600 metre mark, he could see Damien Oliver aboard up ahead and knew he had him covered but he wasn't sure "what was coming from behind".
That which came from behind turned out to be winner Dunaden and runner up Red Cadeaux.
"It wasn't to be, but he had every chance," Brown said.
"Now that he's Silver Leather Beverly 100mm over here in Australia. (with the Freedman stable), you'll see a nice preparation from him."
4.17pm: Adam Cooper reports that Michael Rodd, the jockey beaten by a nose in today's Melbourne Cup, said after the race that he was never confident of being named the winner in the photo finish, and Rose Suede Balota 160mm he was devastated at getting so close and not winning.
"I would Multicolor Glitter Balota 160mm have preferred to have got beaten by half a length than to get beaten by that," he said.
4.09pm: And a large percentage of the race goers at Eagle Farm have forgotten there are races even on.
The band plays on at Eagle Farm. Photo: Conal Hanna
Meanwhile, outside the track the cab queue is at 50 metres and counting. And a young woman was just spied watering someone's front lawn, in the "Suncorp Stadium, State of Origin night sort of way".
3.28pm: From Eagle Farm:
"Just saw our first 'race fall' for the day, from a woman in heels. Another woman already resorting to carrying her shoes. It's probably safer."
Buying tax liens can be profitable but you'd better know process
A: When bank accounts are paying nearly nothing for deposits and money market funds pay just a bit more than nothing, 18 percent sounds pretty good to us. We can't give you specific information for Queens, but the process is somewhat similar in quite a number of jurisdictions across the country. Black Glitter Balota 160mm Here's how it works.
If you are a property owner and receive a tax bill, you must pay that tax bill within a certain number of days. If you don't pay your taxes, your local government starts to add interest onto the bill. In some states, that interest rate can be around 18 percent. While we haven't checked what other states charge, some may be higher and others lower.
If you still haven't paid your real estate taxes within a year or two, the local municipality has the right to sell the taxes. By selling the taxes, the local municipality gets its money from the tax buyer and the municipality can continue to fund its government obligations. Now the tax buyer Gold Patent leather Au Palace 120mm gets the right to collect interest on that money. If you were the tax buyer, you'd get the right to collect interest at the Pink Patent Leather Fifi Sling 80mm rate of 18 percent.
Most homeowners find out eventually that they have failed to pay their real estate taxes. At that point, they run down to the tax collector's office with cash in hand to pay the debt due. When they get to the tax collector's office, the homeowner receives a bill for the taxes owed, interest that's accrued, along with other costs and expenses. These costs and expenses are usually set by statute but can be expensive. When the homeowner makes that payment, some of the funds go to the municipality to cover expenses and the tax buyer gets back the money they paid for the taxes along with the interest owed.
For the tax buyer, it's a good investment. They put up the money and can earn a rather nice rate of interest on that money until the homeowner comes up with the money to pay the taxes owed. Once the cash is paid, the back taxes are considered "redeemed" and the property tax account is settled.
Some homeowners can't, or won't, pay their real estate tax bills. It's in these cases that the tax buyers can end up as owners of these properties. The sequence of events is as follows: The property owner fails to pay his or her real estate taxes; the local taxing body "sells" the taxes to a tax buyer at a tax auction; a tax buyer pays the municipality the amount of unpaid real estate taxes; the tax buyer receives a document evidencing the tax payment; the property owner gets a fixed amount of time to pay what is owed and redeem the taxes or lose his or her property; the homeowner never shows up to pay the bill; and, finally, the tax buyer receives a tax deed transferring title of the property to the tax buyer.
Once that tax deed is issued, the tax buyer, under most circumstances, becomes the owner of the property. It's a fair deal, you might think. The tax buyer put up the amount that was unpaid Blue Suede Balota 140mm in real estate property taxes and ended up owning the property.
If only it were that easy. You need to know that there are quite a number of pitfalls along the way. If you don't know the properties involved, you may end up paying real estate taxes on properties that have no value and no use. You can also invest in properties where the municipality has made a mistake and in correcting the mistake, you end up investing in those taxes but getting your money back without interest.
One last item you should consider is that in some states, those tax "auctions" are exactly that. They are tax auctions. The highest bidder ends up as the tax buyer. If the property owner owes $10,000 in real estate taxes, you might bid the $10,000 and become the tax buyer, but in many cases there will be multiple tax buyers bidding on the same tax amounts. Those tax buyers may end up bidding more than $10,000 to become the tax buyer on those taxes. The return on the investment for these tax buyers will be less than the 18 percent interest offered with a risk that you might not get all your money back if the property owner redeems immediately or the sale is reversed.
If you want to get into this business, and it is a business, you'd better know the process well and understand the risks involved. Otherwise, tax buying may not be for you.
Beat Georgia or Auburn replica louboutin shoes will face the one
No matter what happened in that game, the 2013 season would be a beginning, not an ending, for Gus Malzahn's program.
In other words, unlike the decline that set in after its christian louboutin shoes replica 2010 national title, Auburn was not going to be a one hit wonder again.
"It's not going to be," the Auburn AD told me. "I'm not going to allow it to be. Nor is Gus. We're building a program back here."
Why is that vow relevant today? Because of all the right now significance of tonight's game at Georgia, there's a bigger picture waiting to come into focus.
Win, and Auburn still could be in the SEC championship race and maybe the playoff picture, too, especially if Alabama takes care of Mississippi State.
Lose, and 2014 starts to look a bit like 2011. Auburn would be 7 3 overall and 4 3 in the conference after dropping three out of five. With Samford replica louboutin at home and Alabama on the road still to go, the Tigers would be staring at a bitterly disappointing 8 4 finish to the regular season and a so so bowl trip.
Lose to Georgia, and it would be entirely possible for Auburn to finish a season that started with national championship aspirations at 8 5. That would not be an indication of a program that's going to compete for championships on a regular basis. That would be an indication of a serial one hit wonder.
Auburn followed up its 2010 national championship by going 8 5 in 2011, but no one had a reason to expect much more after losing the nation's best player in Cam christian louboutin replica Newton, the nation's best defensive player in Nick Fairley and a large senior class of tough and seasoned leaders.
Auburn entered this season with Nick Marshall back at quarterback and every reason to believe the Tigers would and should compete to defend their SEC title and earn a spot in the first College Football Playoff.
Beat Georgia, and those dreams may stay alive. Lose to Georgia, and those dreams will be replaced by questions of what kind of program Malzahn really is building for the future.
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