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Jim was an obvious mistake, right from the start. I haven't been reading his entries so I need to go back and see what the fuss was about.
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Would you listen to Lost Enlightenment again? Why?
I've listened to it more than once and will be listening again.
The rich, personal and true to the moment exchanges between the people who created history. It's possible to have a dialog with a book and this is one of the best examples I've ever read on how someone can have as a mentor someone hundreds of years in the past.
The most gut wrenching moment for me was the author's candid, frank and short explanation of why this period produced no women who were great lights. This came early in the book and in it explained how so much learning never passed out of the courts and to the common people.
I hope to find more of the source material and read it, then return and read this book again.
What made the experience of listening to Lost Enlightenment the most enjoyable?
Mr. Starr paints a very interesting picture of Central Asia (say, modernly, eastern Iran through the -stan countries and western China) and for very many centuries. He does not fail his claim that the region has a "Lost Enlightenment." The numerous parallels to the better known European Enlightenment are most striking: right down to the Brethren of Purity as a rough counterpart to the 18th century Masons (my comparison, not his). The huge debt which world civilization would seem to owe the nowadays-obscure region is most impressive. And at any rate you can be confident it's a good read if you did click for pre-modern Central Asia with any idea that the subject could interest you.
It's always particularly titillating to learn about a time and place you know little about.I'd wonder that any Central Asian specialists browse the book on audible, so I think it's sure to be fresh to anyone who might hear it.
I had not heard Mr. Stillwell before. I thought his intonation was maybe the slightest bit idiosyncratic in how often it gave a questioning lilt, but it certainly wasn't anything objectionable: endearing after a while, even.
I think this question disregards the length of the work. I listened to it without listening to anything else.
This is one of those paradigm shifting books that is very important to read. It is thoroughly researched and helped me understand about the decline of Islamic civilization and why we are in the predicament today.
I read and listen to a lot of history ranging from the scholarly to the consumer level. I want to expand my understanding of central Asian history and scholarship because my study of Islamic history lead me to see the massive gap I have in world history. Silk Roads excited me and so I purchased this audiobook thinking it would really thrill me as Sill Roads had. It was not what I had hoped for at all.
The writer attempted to give an introduction to central Asian thinkers but his approach lacks organization and it's really hard to listen to the book because of that.
There are places he could've really benefited from telling a good story, he abridged the stories that would help a newcomer really build a schema to place the facts in, and that really cheapened the experience.
One of the great ironies in intellectual history is that the knowledge of ancient Greece was largely lost to Europe in the early Middle Ages, but was saved in the Islamic world and then reintroduced to Europe through Moslem Spain. This book gives great insight into the middle leg of that story in a thorough and accessible manner. Starr sets out to explain the rise of the Central Asian Enlightenment, describe all its glories, and then explain its decline.
Central Asia, in the centuries both before and during its Enlightenment, was at the crossroads of vast commercial activities. These included the famous Silk Road to China, as well as routes to India, the Middle East and Europe. Starr focuses on how Central Asia was able to use the interactions and wealth brought by such trade to create an intellectual class. This class was both familiar and comfortable with different cultures and languages and was also used to serving as middlemen between different peoples and cultures. Those intellectuals took the ancient knowledge, sifted it through the other influences of the region, integrated it with knowledge from India and China and made substantial contributions of their own.
The book contrasts the acme of the Central Asian Enlightenment with the comparative backwardness of Europe at the time and then further contrasts the opposite trajectories in intellectual history each area subsequently followed.
Starr argues that religious dogmatism and conflict were prime causes of the decline in the Central Asian Enlightenment. While outside the scope of this book, Starr's other comparisons of Central Asia and Europe lead to the fascinating question of why European intellectuals were able to escape the intellectual conformity imposed, frequently quite violently, by the Roman Catholic Church, which was even more organized and bureaucratic than Islam, while those in Central Asia could not do so.
The book describes the rise and fall of the Islamic intellectual golden age, and Baghdad was only one of many centers. In fact, the heartland was a good deal further East. One thousand years ago Central Asia was a busy place with high culture and large cities. You will recognize Tashkent, Samarkand and others. In fact Merv was reputedly the most populous city on the planet at the time.
Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Euclid and others were long familiar to the salons and academies of Central Asia long before Baghdad was even founded. It's a history I never appreciated but it became lost. I think Merv is now an archaeological site!
The book is long and detailed but is an easy enough listen. The time frame is just prior to Genghis Khan. He screwed up a lot of people but so did some of the Central Asian Muslims. The conquest of India rivals the absolute body counts wracked up by Stalin, Mao, and Genghis himself. One Muslim chronicler tells us proudly how the Muslims killed 400,000,000 polytheists but some modern historians think that was exaggerated boasting.
Detailed information, but not so thorough that newcomers to Medieval Central Asia won't be able to pick it up. Very well written, and narration is on point. Overall, was very impressed with this book.
The book shows that religious hardliners can easily destroy an otherwise wonderful society. The present day fanatics of the Western World may and probably will sink the achievement of the modern age.
With some exceptions, both the author and narrator avoid tendentious characterizations and emotionally derived hyperbole. The material is, in the main, well researched and clearly presented.
As a fan of popular history it's always a treat to discover a time and place that have been previously under-reported. A massively influential culture of scientific, philosophical, literary, theological and architectural inquiry springs up from the 8th Century to around the fall of Constantinople in a part of the world that is now largely a lawless backwater - Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. The ideas and techniques they create have a significant impact on the development of world culture, for instance, Al-Khwarizmi's maths is so sophisticated that we still garble his name when we use an "algorithm". There's so much fascinating detail to pack in that this could have become dry or overwhelming but Starr holds our interest throughout by focusing on both the incredibly interesting characters and the astonishingly advanced work they did. It's also very well narrated. A real treat.
A fascinating topic made boring by an over elaborate analysis of the many individual scholars who contributed to this period of enlightenment.
Very good, thorough, intelligent, well written and erudite history of Central Asia. Well worth listening to.


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VHL Rule Book
July 13, 2016 in Announcements
Senior Admin
Will 4,551
1.0 - The Salary Cap
2.0 - Contract Structure
3.0 - Holdouts & Salary Arbitration
4.0 - Free Agency
5.0 - Training Camp
6.0 - Trades
7.0 - Waivers
8.0 - Releasing Players
9.0 - VHL Draft
10.0 - Earning TPE
11.0 - VHLM
12.0 - Creating a New Player/Position Changes
13.0 - Retirement, Re-Creating & Depreciation
14.0 - General Managers
15.0 - Personal Conduct
1 - THE SALARY CAP
1.1 - Salary Cap Figure
The VHL's salary cap is a hard cap, however if a team exceeds the cap during the off-season the consequences (or lack thereof) are determined by the commissioners. At the conclusion of each season, the salary cap number for the next season will be determined by the commissioners.
The cap number is subject to either positive or negative fluctuation or no change at all and the cap for the next season will be announced before the off-season prior to that season.
Current cap ceiling: $40,000,000
1.2 - Roster Minimum
As of Season 58, the VHL has replaced the legacy Cap Floor with a new roster minimum of 6 players.
All teams must have a minimum of 6 roster players prior to starting the season or face penalty.
There is no requirement for a minimum overall salary expense but all TPE salary minimums and contract maximums for individual players continue to apply, as does the salary cap.
At no point during the season can a team fall under the roster minimum as a result of a trade or any other type of transaction. This will be enforced strictly so to avoid having trades delayed (or voided completely in the case of deadline trades), GM's need to plan ahead and sign players prior to making those deals.
2 – CONTRACT STRUCTURE
Rookie: A player in their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd season after being drafted (considered as entry-level period).
Prime: A player in their 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th season after being drafted.
2.1 – Contract Parameters
The VHL has two general types of contract structures in use: Rookie and Prime. General Manager Contracts fall under whichever category applies to their current age (i.e. a General Manager player will still become a Prime player in his 4th season).
Rookie Contract Structure:
• Rookie Contracts must be 3 seasons in duration.
• The option of holding out or pushing for salary arbitration exists and is governed by Section 3
• The rookie has the option to pursue unrestricted free agency at the conclusion of the contract.
• The minimum salary for Rookie contracts is based on TPA as described in Sections 2.2, 2.3.
• Players on rookie contracts who are playing in the VHLM or VHLE will not count against the VHL salary cap so long as they play in the VHLM.
• If a rookie is not offered a contract by the last day of the pre-season for their entry year (i.e. S45 pre-season for an S45 player), they will become an unrestricted free agent.
• A two-way clause is automatically attached to all rookie contracts for the 3 season duration (see below)
Prime Contract Structure:
• A prime contract will come into effect in the off-season prior to a player's 4th season.
• The minimum contract length is 1 season, the maximum length is 5 seasons.
• The minimum salary for Prime contracts is based on TPA as described in Sections 2.2, 2.3.
• At the expiration of a contract, a player can choose to become an unrestricted free agent.
2.2 – TPE Salary – Minimum
In the VHL, the annual dollar value of a player's salary is indirectly tied to the amount of TPA that the player has at the beginning of each season that they are under contract. Depending on the amount of TPA that a player has, they must make a minimum salary as indicated by the following scale. Please note that there are some exceptions generated by the difference between rookie contracts and veteran contracts.
TPA Bracket         Rookie           Prime
Under 400        $1 500 000        $2 000 000
401-500          $2 000 000        $2 500 000
901+             $4 500 000        $5 500 000
This scale will be re-evaluated for each player at a set date of each off-season (slightly before off-season events such as the draft, training camp, and award ceremony, but after the VHLM Bonuses are handed out) and if the player has moved into another TPA bracket and their minimum salary does not meet the requirements of that bracket, their salary will be adjusted by the Financier to comply with the minimum salary requirements laid out in the table above.
2.3 – Determining Salary Brackets
The cut-off 'week' is the last week of the VHL playoffs and the exact cut-off day is specified in the off-season schedule each season. Every TPE realized before this date counts towards a player total TPA.
Off-season TPE (prediction points, training camp, point tasks posted during the "off-season" weeks) DO NOT count towards a player's TPA hit for the upcoming season.
VHLM Graduation Bonus DOES count towards a player's TPA hit for the upcoming season.
Banked TPE IS included in the Financier's calculation of a players total TPA.
Unclaimed point tasks posted in weeks prior to the off-season week and job pay unclaimed from weeks prior to the off-season week still count against a players total TPE hit. Updaters will be on the lookout for old items being claimed after the cut-off date and, if these items push a player into a higher bracket, they will either have to accept the higher salary or forfeit the TPE entirely. Note that only unclaimed items can be forfeited - no TPE will be un-applied from players to keep them under a certain salary.
The League Financier will be in charge of determining and adjusting salary brackets each off-season. Should there be any issues, the League Financier will work with the commissioners to resolve the issue.
2.4 – Contract Maximums
The maximum annual salary for a player who plays in the VHLM is $3 000 000
The maximum annual salary for an rookie-contract player, who plays in the VHL, is $6 000 000
The maximum annual salary for a prime-contract player is $9 000 000
2.5 – Contract Re-Negotiations/Extensions
Upon a contract being finalized, barring option years the only adjustable portion of the contract is an increase in the annual dollar amount of the contract. There can be no decreases in the term or the dollar value of the contract.
Any increase to the annual dollar amount must be declared as a bonus publicly in the team's contract thread. These will only be allowed to be given out during the off-season, prior to the beginning of the upcoming season (before Day 1 of the sim).
Active players will need to agree publicly in the teams contract thread to accept the bonus; inactive players are not eligible to receive bonuses once they have been signed.
An extension to a current contract can only be officially confirmed during the last year of the current contract. An extension can have a change in the financial terms of the contract either positively or negatively. Extensions must be agreed upon by both the team and the player publicly, unless the player is inactive (see 4.2).
General Managers will only be able to offer an inactive player a maximum one-year extension, and it must come during the off-season in which their contract expires PRIOR to free agency opening. If an inactive is unsigned on the day free agency opens, that player will become an inactive FA as described in Section 4.3. This keeps the power in the hands of the player if they choose to come back.
2.6 – Contract Options
Options must be subsequent to committed terms. No committed terms can succeed an option year.
Options can come in the form of Player Options, Team Options or Mutual (GM & Player Agreeing) Options. A contract may only have one total option year.
No options aside from the 3 options listed above will be enforced by the Commissioner's Office.
Any option must be agreed upon before the start of Free Agency or the player will hit the Free Agent Market. For an inactive player with a Player Option the team may pick up or decline the option for them.
2.7 – No Trade Clauses
Contracts may include a No Trade Clause (NTC), which is voided for the remainder of a contract, should the player waive it:
A NTC gives the player the right to veto any trade involving themselves.
In the event of League Expansion, a NTC also acts as a no-movement clause, and must be waived by the player in order to be exposed during an Expansion Draft
An active player must indicate, either publicly in a trade thread or by contacting a VHL Commissioner, that they wish to waive a NTC before any trades or movement involving that player will be processed.
If a player goes inactive whilst on a contract with a NTC, the inactive's clause may be waived at the commissioners' discretion.
2.8 – Notables
All players playing on Rookie contracts in the VHLM do not count against the cap. Prime contracts always count against the cap.
If a player on a Rookie contract is called up during the season or post-season, their whole salary counts against the cap for that season.
2.9 - Backup Goalie Cap Deduction
Teams with two human goalies will be allowed to deduct up to 2M from the lower of the two goalies salaries when determining their total cap hit.
The deduction will always come from the lower of the two goalies salaries, regardless of the order in which they were acquired.
Example: A team owns a low TPE goalie with a salary of 1.5M. At the deadline, they trade for a veteran goaltender at 60% for 2.7M, while keeping the original goalie on their roster. The amount of the deduction would be 1.5M.
2.10 - VHLM TPE Eligibility
Players are eligible to play in the VHLM if they are at or under 200 TPE at the finance cutoff for the current season.
Once a player has earned 201 TPE, they will no longer be eligible to play in the VHLM, and will automatically be called up to the VHLE, at the start the next season.
2.11 - VHLE TPE Eligibility
Players are eligible to play in the VHLE if they are:
At or below 400 TPE at the finance cutoff for the current season.
At a minimum of 201 TPE by the start of the season.
Once a player has earned 401 TPE, they will no longer be eligible to play in the VHLE, and will automatically be called up to the VHL, at the start the next season.
2.12 - VHL TPE Floor
Players are eligible to play in the VHL if they are above 350 TPE by the start of the current season.
3 – HOLDOUTS / SALARY ARBITRATION
3.1 – Salary Arbitration
Salary Arbitration is a tool available to players to settle contract disputes involving contract length and salary. There are certain rules and restrictions to applying for salary arbitration.
For a player to apply for salary arbitration, you must do so during the final season of your current contract, or before the Entry Draft of that off-season. In order to apply for arbitration, please PM a commissioner.
A team may take a player to arbitration only during the off-season in which they are drafted. If a team is unable to reach a contract agreement with a draftee, they can take that player to arbitration at any point from the time of the draft to the start of the regular season by submitting a PM to the commissioner.
A salary arbitration ruling will be determined by the commissioners and will be based on TPE, activity, team composition, and other factors
A team may walk away from a ruling, however a player may not. If a team accepts a ruling, it is final. If a team walks away from a ruling for a draftee however, they will become an unrestricted free agent not a restricted free agent.
A salary arbitration deal may not be re-worked in any way during the first season of the contract. During the second season, a team is able to give a raise on the contract if they wish, and an extension can be negotiated
3.2 – Holdouts
Any player who elects to hold out will not be eligible to play in either the VHL or VHLM until they have signed a VHL contract
If the player is a draftee, the team that has drafted their rights has the ability to take them to salary arbitration
The team holding the player's rights has the ability to trade their rights to another team if they cannot reach a new contract
If the player already has a contract signed they will have to sit out their contract if no deal can be reached
A player with a signed contract that elects to holdout will not have their contract count against the salary cap
A player may end their holdout at any time
Holdouts will be monitored by the commissioners to ensure that both parties are working towards a productive conclusion. If one or both parties is not working towards a conclusion, additional steps may be taken at the discretion of the commissioners.
4 – FREE AGENCY
4.1 – Unrestricted Free Agents
An unrestricted free agent will be determined as a player who has 0 years left on their contract, a player who declined a player option/the GM declining a team option or not officially picking up the option at the time of the start of free agency, and is not a restricted free agent under the definition described in Section 4.1
A contract must meet TPE – Salary minimums for every season in the contract
After the trade deadline has passed, teams may not sign a player from free agency until the conclusion of the playoffs
A player may accept a contract at any time after the contract is offered, unless there is a limit on free agency length in the off-season. If a player is inactive, then if the thread does not see a raise after 24 hrs, they will go to the team with the highest $ value bid. When offering a contract to an inactive, the dollar amount has to be within the contract scales during non-option seasons thus preventing a team from offering a back-end loaded contract that is all based on conditional team options.
All contract offers must be publicly posted in the thread.
Any raise on a previous offer for inactives must be by a minimum of $250 000.
Free Agent Contracts will have a cap hit equal to the salary earned during that given year
As described in Section 1.5, one-season contract extensions to inactive players are valid as long as the team offers the player a contract extension prior to free agency opening AND the player doesn't decline it before the start of free agency AND that player hasn't posted in 30 days leading up to the start of free agency.
Helsinki signs Player A to a 4 year, $16 million dollar contract structured as follows
Season 1: $3 000 000
The cap hit in Season 1 and Season 2 would be $3 000 000, and the cap hit in Season 3 and Season 4 would be $5 000 000
4.2 - Inactive Players / Free Agents
An Inactive Player is any player who has not had a TPE Update in the past 30 days. An Inactive Free Agent refers to a UFA who has not updated their player in the 30 days prior to the opening of Free Agency.
Free agents falling under this category will be distributed via a priority-claim based system.
4.3 - Inactive Free Agency
Initial priority will be determined by the reverse order of the standings including playoff results (the list will be identical to the order of round 2 and above in the draft).
For claims opened on the first day of free agency, teams will have 24 hours from the time of the first claim to submit claims. At the end of 24 hours, the team with the highest priority claim gets the player. This means claims can be retracted at any time during the 24h period.
Should a player submit a TPE Update within 24 hours of being claimed as an inactive free agent, the player will become 'active' and return to Free Agency.
For all claims opened after the first day of free agency, 12 hours will be used instead of 24 for everything in the above paragraph.
Only ONE claim can be active at a time per team. Once a claim is made, the claiming team falls to the bottom of the list.
All players claimed will be automatically signed to one-year contracts at their TPE minimum salary. These players will not be eligible to receive bonuses.
For each teams first claim each season, they may claim any player they choose. For subsequent uses, it must be used on the highest TPE player available unless there is a justifiable reason not to. Example: A team needs a goalie, so choosing the highest TPE goalie over a higher TPE player would be acceptable
To prevent circumvention of the above rule, players claimed in inactive free agency cannot be released. This means a team cannot get around the requirement that the highest TPE players be claimed first by continually signing and releasing players to effectively 'climb down' to lower TPE players. They can still be sent down to VHLM teams, if they are below 251 TPE, but not if the only reason for it is to circumvent the rules.
4.4 - Tampering
The act of tampering, which is prohibited by the VHL, is defined as any member of a VHL team making direct, or indirect, contact in order to entice, or persuade, or attempt to entice, or persuade a member under contract with another VHL team to enter into negotiations with, or request a trade to, a team that they are not currently under contract with.
The punishment for tampering is decided upon by the VHL Commissioners, and may include sanctions against offering Free Agent contracts to the player(s) in question, sanctions against offering any Free Agent contracts in upcoming Free Agency period, and/or draft pick forfeiture.
In the event a Commissioner is on, or is the GM of, a team involved in a tampering allegation, that Commissioner will not be involved in determining the league's course of action. If deemed necessary, other members of the league's senior leadership may be brought in to review the situation.
4.5 - GM Players in Free Agency
GMs may not sign their own player out of Free Agency unless league approval is provided prior to the start of Free Agency.
5 – TRAINING CAMP
5.1 - Basic Rules of Training Camp
Training occurs during the pre-season, before the start of the Regular Season. Any player who is signed to a VHL or VHLE team may claim their team's Training Camp for that season. Training Camp does count as uncapped TPE.
5.2 – Trades during Training Camp
Players may only claim Training Camp once per season. Should a player be traded while training camps are open, they may only claim Training Camp with their new team if they had not previously claimed it for that same season.
6 – TRADES
6.1 - General Trading Rules
If a GM makes a trade offer in the portal, they are accepting the trade on their team's behalf. Once a receiving GM accepts a trade offer in the portal, it is considered accepted by both parties, and posted to the forums.
All trades will be reviewed by the Commissioner's Office before they are made official in the portal. If a trade is found to be excessively detrimental to a franchise, intentionally compromising to the integrity of the league, or in violation of any other trading rule found in this section, it can and will be vetoed by the commissioners.
After the trade deadline has passed, no trades are allowed to be made until the end of playoffs.
6.2 – Reversing a Trade
Once a trade has been accepted by all parties, it cannot be reversed unless it's blocked by the commissioners as per Section 6.1.
6.3 – Trading Draft Picks
Draft picks may only be able to be traded two years in advance during the regular season (before the trade deadline). During the off-season, draft picks of that off-season's draft and the two consequent drafts can be traded. (i.e. In S31, a team could not trade a S34 draft pick. However upon the completion of the season, S34 picks could be dealt along with S32 and S33 selections.)
Trades found to bypass the above rule (i.e. trading a S40 3rd during the regular season and then having it traded back for a S42 2nd in the off-season.) are not allowed. If such trades are made, the 2nd trade (the one in the off-season) will be blocked by the commissioners.
6.4 - Conditional Trades
Teams may add conditions to trades, so long as they do not circumvent any other rules regarding player movement, including, but not limited to: Traded Draft Pick restrictions or Violating the integrity of the league.
Any, and all, conditions must be explicitly stated at the time a trade occurs, and agreed upon by both parties. Once a condition is agreed upon, make sure to tag a commissioner, who will add a condition tag to the thread, to be followed up on upon completion of the condition(s).
All conditions must convert prior to the conclusion of the following off-season.
Any draft pick that is part of a condition may be traded in a separate trade, so long as the receiving team understands that there are conditions attached to that pick
i.e. If Helsinki makes a trade with Davos, guaranteeing the higher of two S75 1st round picks held by Helsinki at the time, then makes a trade sending the "other" S75 1st round pick to Toronto. Toronto must acknowledge that they would receive the lower of the two picks, while Davos receives the higher.
The League Office holds the right to veto any conditional trade it feels circumvents league rules.
6.5 – Trading Salaries
When trading contracts, teams essentially pay whatever is left on the player's salary. The amount of salary taken on by a team at different points of the season and off-season are split into 4 groups. The team trading for the player is required to pay the following:
100% - off-season - Game 85
85% - Game 86 - 200
70% - Game 201 - 345
60% - Game 346 - ~432 (75% of the season; number not always correct)
50% - Trade Deadline Day (supersedes end range for 60%)
The team trading away the player is required to pay the % of the salary not taken on by the team trading for the player.
If a team trades for a player who has already been traded during the season, they pay the percentage of the original salary.
Kronos Bailey earns $5 000 000. Helisnki trades him to Moscow at Game 160. Moscow pay 85% of his salary, Helsinki pays 15%. Then for some reason Vancouver decides they are willing to pay more, and trades for him too, from Moscow, at Game 210. They don't pay 70% of the 85% that Moscow was paying, but 70% of the original $5mil salary. Moscow pays whatever is left over. So, to summarize:
Helsinki pays 15%: $750 000
Moscow pays 15%: $750 000
Vancouver pays 70%: $3 500 000
6.6 - Trade Deadline
After the trade deadline (approximately Game 432) teams are not allowed to make trades until after the last game of the playoffs.
A time and date for the trade deadline will be announced by the commissioners each season.
6.7 – Trades involving a GM's Player
Any trade involving a GM receiving their own player will be subject to review by the Commissioner's Office.
6.8 – Reacquiring a Player Previously Traded
Any trade to re-acquire a player that was traded within the past 2 seasons, and has not signed a new contract, will be subject to league approval. If a player has signed a new contract between being traded and being re-acquired, and is playing on the new contract, this rule will not apply, though the trade will be subject to regular rules and regulations.
Moscow trades Jet Jaguar to New York in Season 72 off-season, with 3 seasons remaining on his contract. Should Moscow re-acquire him during Season 72 or 73, the trade would be reviewed by league commissioners.
6.9 - Trading Free Agent Rights
Any player whose rights are traded during the off-season may not re-sign with the team(s) they were traded from, during that same off-season.
Dakota Lamb is a Free Agent in the S77 Off-Season. Warsaw trades Lamb's rights to Moscow, following the S77 Playoffs. Moscow fails to agree to a contract with Lamb, and trades Lamb's rights to New York.
Upon the opening of Free Agency, Lamb would be ineligible to sign with either Warsaw or Moscow, but would be free to sign a contract with New York.
7 – CALL-UPS AND SEND-DOWNS
7.1 - VHL Send-downs
Only entry-level players that are in compliance with the VHLE TPE Eligibility may be sent down during the off-season. Non-entry level players or entry-level players with TPE in excess of the VHLE's requirements may not be sent down. Refer to Section 2 for eligibility.
7.2 - VHL Call-ups
Any eligible player may be called up by their VHL team during the off-season. No call-ups may take place during the season. Refer to Section 2 for eligibility.
7.3 - VHLE Call-ups
Any eligible player may request to be moved up from the VHLM to the VHLE during the off-season. Refer to Section 2 for eligibility.
8 – RELEASING PLAYERS
8.1 – When Releasing A Player
After being released, a player will be treated in accordance with the Free Agency rules in Section 4.
The team will take a cap hit of half the players annual salary for each year left on their contract. Also the player will get that % of cash to their credit as well.
Player A has 4 years left at 2 million each year
If Team A wants to cut Player A it would look like this for the cap hit.
Year 1: 1 million
8.2 – Buying Out A Player
If a player is bought-out by a team, they cannot be re-signed by the same team within the same season. If this happens in the off-season then that player cannot be re-signed until the next off-season.
9 - VHL DRAFT
9.1 – Draft Lottery
The first six picks of the first round of the VHL Entry Draft work on a lottery structure. For the purposes of Standings, non-playoff teams will rank 11-16, regardless of Regular Season points earned (i.e. If Toronto finishes in 6th place in the North American conference, but had more points than two European conference Playoff teams, they will be considered 11th Place in the standings, despite finishing with the 9th most points in the league, overall).
The odds for winning the lottery are based on the VHL's regular season standings, and begin as follows, though they may change following the Draft Lottery Tournament, as outlined in Section 9.2:
16th Place: 30.0%
11th Place: 7.5%
Only non-Playoff teams are eligible for the Draft Lottery. The maximum spots a team can move down is 1 spot. If the result of the lottery still allows teams to move down a maximum of one spot, there will be additional lotteries until teams may no longer move down.
If 16th Place wins 1st Overall, there will be a second lottery to determine 2nd Overall. Conversely, should 11th or 12th Place win 1st Overall, there will be no further lotteries.
9.2 - Draft Lottery Tournament
Non-Playoff teams will compete in a 10-game, per team, Round Robin style tournament, to be simmed by a back-up Simmer, which will determine final Draft Lottery Odds.
Upon the completion of the Draft Lottery Tournament, the standings will determine minor changes to the Draft Lottery odds, as follows:
1st Place: +5.0%
2nd Place: +2.5%
3rd Place: No Change
4th Place: No Change
5th Place: -2.5%
Should this affect the odds in a manner where one team passes another, it will not change the rule that teams may not drop more than 1 slot upon completion of the Draft Lottery
If 16th Place finishes last in the tournament, and 15th Place finishes first, while the odds change to 25% (16th Place) and 27.5% (15th Place), 16th Place will still be guaranteed a top-2 draft slot.
9.3 - Draft Order
The first six picks of the draft will be determined by the draft lottery as outlined in Section 9.1.
The following picks in the first-round are determined by both playoff and regular season standings:
7. Team eliminated in the Wild Card Round, who was ranked lower in the regular season standings.
8. Team eliminated in the Wild Card Round, who was ranked higher in the regular season standings.
9. Team eliminated in the Quarter-Finals, who was ranked lowest in the regular season standings, among teams eliminated in the Quarter Finals.
10. Team eliminated in the Quarter-Finals, who was 2nd lowest in the regular season standings, among teams eliminated in the Quarter Finals.
11. Team eliminated in the Quarter-Finals, who was 3rd lowest in the regular season standings, among teams eliminated in the Quarter Finals.
12. Team eliminated in the Quarter-Finals, who was highest in the regular season standings, among teams eliminated in the Quarter Finals.
13. Team eliminated in the Semi-Finals, who was lower in the regular season standings.
14. Team eliminated in the Semi-Finals, who was higher in the regular season standings.
15. Continental Cup Finalist.
16. Continental Cup Champion.
In subsequent rounds, the first six selections will be based on reverse regular season standings, with 16th Place getting the first pick in each round. The rest of the picks of each round come in the same format as above.
10 – EARNING TPE
"TPE" stands for a "Total Points Earned." TPE can be earned in many different ways as outlined below. In the VHL we have a weekly earning cap of 12 capped TPE/week. All work submitted with the intention of claiming TPE MUST be your own. Submitting the work of others will be subject to a TPE earning suspension at the discretion of the league Commissioners.
For more a more user friendly post on how to earn TPE, see here. See this thread for more information on the Point Task Structure and TPE Cap.
10.1 – Weekly Main Point Tasks
Members are allowed to submit 1 point task per week worth up to 6 capped TPE. Point Tasks can be any ONE of the following:
Media Spot
Graphic / Video
Podcast (this is different than a 2-point podcast)
Welfare / Pension / Affiliate Welfare
A point task week is from 12:00 AM PST Monday - 11:59 PM PST Sunday. Should you need an extension, please personal message a commissioner BEFORE the week is over. Conversely, Point Tasks may not be posted ahead of time, unless they qualify as a multi-week claim, without Commissioner approval. Members without a player may not post a Point Task.
Point tasks count against the weekly earning cap of 12 TPE/week.
10.2 – Other Ways to Earn Capped TPE
There are some other ways members can earn weekly TPE (can think of them as secondary point tasks). These Point Tasks are capped at 6 TPE per week and count toward the weekly earning cap of 12 TPE/week. These tasks may only be completed during the week they are claimed.
VHL.com Articles or VHL Radio Podcasts
These are the second method of earning capped TPE each week and can be found here. Members can submit up to two (2) forms of VHL.com/VHL Radio submissions in any given week.
A VHL.com Article is a short, 150-word piece of writing that will immediately earn you 2 capped TPE.
Graphics (for example, a player card) are also accepted in this section.
A VHL Radio Podcast is simply a short podcast - it only needs to a few minutes and will earn you 3 capped TPE.
Like Point Tasks, the topic of any of these can be pretty much anything, as long as it VHL-related in some way.
Affiliate VHL.com Replacement
The VHL affiliate program includes leagues, wherein a submission in said league may count as a replacement for a VHL.com submission, valued at 2 capped TPE. Affiliate VHL.com Replacement submissions do count against the limit of two (2) VHL.com submissions per week.
League Jobs
It takes a lot of people to keep everything in the VHL running and, as such, we frequently post in the Job Interviews section to hire new members. Jobs offer capped TPE each week, with the amount depending on the job. Certain jobs will pay more, for example Simmers earn 8 capped TPE per week, while others will pay less
In relation to theme and other doubles (or triples, etc) weeks, job pay of 6+ counts as a PT meaning if the earner wishes to use it instead of a PT to claim the bonus that is allowed. However in replacing a PT it replaces any option of a PT. This means, for example, that the user cannot claim theme week off of pay and also welfare. That would be two distinctly different "PT's" which is not allowed.
This is in contrast to normal weeks where Job Pay is just looked at as capped TPE, regardless of how much is earned. It is not a "PT replacement" automatically and can be used however a user chooses. This could be replacing their PT, their supplemental tasks, etc. This includes being able to claim welfare alongside job pay with the usual limitations that possesses.
Up to 2 capped TPE per week can be earned through Press Conferences, where you can ask questions in other players press conferences or answer questions asked by others in your own press conference. Press Conference rules can be found here.
Up to 2 capped TPE per week can be earned through participating in VHL Trivia, where you answer VHL related questions asked by the Head of Trivia. Additionally, at the end of the season you will receive an uncapped TPE amount determined by how many weeks you submitted answers to the Trivia. Trivia can be found here.
10.3 – Career Point Tasks
There are some one-time point tasks that members are allowed to submit ONCE during their career at any time. These include a Rookie Profile and an Autobiography (for players whose VHL Draft was S69 or earlier). For more information and rubrics, see here.
For any players whose VHL Draft was S70, or later, there are now 5 Career Point Tasks. These include Junior Review, Prospect Scouting Report, Rookie Experience, Veteran Presence, and Biography. They can be found here, along with their requirements.
Each Career Point Task is unlocked at different points in a player's career, and may only be completed once each, per player.
These do not count against the weekly earning cap of 12 TPE/week.
10.4 – VHL Fantasy Section
The VHL Fantasy Section offers members another chance to grab some TPE. There are hockey, baseball, football and basketball pools throughout the year (among others). In addition, there are some weekly challenges like "VHL Predict the Score." For more information, see the VHL Fantasy Section here.
This does not count against the weekly earning cap of 12 TPE/week.
10.5 – Player Store
Players can spend money at the Player Store at any time during their careers. Their bank balance is determined by the cumulative value of their contracts throughout their career, minus any purchases. Additional cash is sometimes given out by the league for special occasions. The entirety of each seasons contract is added to players balances at the beginning of that season.
No money is carried over when re-creating and, further, a player's bank balance is inaccessible once he is retired meaning no additional purchases can be made.
For rules regarding the carrying-over of previously purchased items (i.e. prediction multiplier, point task upgrade, etc), see the link in Section 12.3.
11 – VHLM
For the full set of VHLM Rules, please visit this page.
12 – CREATING A NEW PLAYER/POSITION CHANGES
12.1-1 – Creating a Player For the First Time
Members who have created a player for the first time will receive 30 free TPE to apply to their player.
12.1-2 - Adjusted Starting TPE
As of the S73 Draft Class, any member who creates a player following the opening week of Creation for their draft class (Trade Deadline 2 seasons prior to their Draft Season, i.e. the S71 Trade Deadline is the opening week of Creation for the S73 Draft), will receive 6 TPE for every week that has passed since the previous deadline upon creation. This applies to both new members and re-creates.
The Season 71 Trade Deadline was Monday April 20th, 2020. Anyone who creates a S73 prospect as of Monday April 27th, would be eligible for the following Adjusted Starting TPE:
Player Creation Dates // Late Joiner Adjustment
Apr 27 - May 03 // +6 TPE
May 04 - May 10 // +12 TPE
June 01 - June 07 // +36 TPE
12.2 - Career Length
Player Careers hold 8 seasons of VHL eligibility, starting with your Draft Season (i.e. S71 Prospects will have their career run from Season 71 through Season 78, inclusive.VHLM seasons prior to your Draft Season do not count towards your aggregate seasons. Playing in the VHLM after your Draft Season does count towards your Eight seasons of VHL eligibility.
12.3 - Position Changes
Defense to Forward or Vise-Versa
Any player can switch from Defense to Forward once per career. Active players must buy a position change in the Player Store. Inactives can have their positions changed by their GMs.
Goalie to Skater or Vise-Versa
A first-gen player will have 1 month from the date of their initial creation to switch to, or from, being a goalie at no penalty.
Re-creates will not be allowed to switch to, or from, being a goalie. However, if a player started off with carryover AND they decide they want to switch prior to the start of the VHL Playoffs in the year prior to their draft year (i.e. S49 Playoffs for an S50 draftee) we will allow them to retire and re-create once again while keeping their original carryover.
A re-create with no carryover will have to retire and recreate as normal should they want to switch to or from goalie.
Player 1, an S50 player, started off with 50 TPE in carryover from his previous player. Just before the start of S49 Playoffs, Player 1 decides he would like to switch to goalie. He will not be allowed to switch, but Player 1 can retire, recreate as Player 2, and start again with the 50 TPE in carryover from the previous player.
This will only be allowed once with the same amount of carryover. (i.e. if the example player above decided he wanted to switch again, he would start at the base 30 TPE).
No TPE will carryover from the player being switched from. This includes point tasks, claimed or unclaimed. If you make the switch, you are starting over.
12.4 - First Generation Player
A first generation (first-gen) player is the first player a member creates. This player will, obviously, start with 0 Carryover TPE, but will be eligible for all First Generation bonuses such as the reward for reaching 100 TPE, or the first generation purchases in the player store.
Alternatively, a member who returns after having no players in the league (either VHL or VHLM) for three (3) seasons, may forego carryover to be re-classified as a first generation player and qualify for the first generation bonuses.
Should a player wish to forego carryover and re-classify as a first-gen, they must contact a VHL Commissioner upon creation. Special circumstances, that do not align with the above criteria, will also be considered, to allow re-classification as a first-gen.
13 – RETIREMENT, RE-CREATING & DEPRECIATION
13.1 - Retiring Your Player
All players are automatically retired after completing 8 seasons following their their VHL Draft.
i.e. A player whose draft season is S71 will be automatically retired following the S78 season
If you wish to retire your player manually, you may do so through the Player Management section of the Portal, by selecting Retire Player.
Any retirement that is manually processed will be considered final by the Commissioner(s).
Any retirement from the start of the Pre-Season, as stated on the season schedule, through the end of the Continental Cup Finals, will be processed in the following off-season
Any retirement during the off-season will be processed immediately
13.2 - Unretiring a Player
If you wish to unretire a player after manually retiring, you have seven (7) days from the time of retirement to do so, but will be penalized in escalating consequences for each day that passes, as follows:
Within 24H of retirement: 1-Week Update Ban
Within 3 days of retirement: 10% TPE and Attribute Reduction
13.3 - Re-Creating Rules
Once you retire, you cannot make player store purchases with your retired player's balance.
If your previous player wins any awards after he is retired, you may claim the TPE for those awards on your new player.
If you retire during the season, you may claim that seasons prediction points on your new player. However, prediction point multipliers bought in the player store are not allowed to be claimed on a new player. If you purchased one and retired, you will receive only your base prediction points.
You cannot claim unclaimed point tasks or any other unclaimed contest/giveaway TPE on a new player without direct permission from a Commissioner. Multi-week PT's with claims remaining can be finished off on a new player so long as the user has not intentionally stopped claiming them in order to utilize the PT after recreation. IE if a user writes 2000 words, doesn't claim it for 4 weeks, and then claims 4 weeks worth after recreation the updates will be denied. If said user writes 2000 words, claims 3 weeks, recreates, and claims the final week that is allowed. Intention will be judged by commissioner discretion.
All players begin with 30 TPE, any adjusted starting TPE or carryover TPE is added to the starting 30.
13.4 - TPE Carry Over
Any player retired with over 50 total TPE will earn carryover at a rate of 4% of the retiring players TPE, up to a maximum of 50 TPE.
Carryover will be earned on top of the 30 starting TPE that all players receive. This means the maximum starting TPE is 80 (30 base + 50 carryover).
13.5 - Depreciation for S80+ Players (S80 and newer)
All players from S80 onwards will be subject to depreciation in the off-season prior to their 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th seasons of play in the VHL. Seasons in the VHLM / VHLE do not contribute for this calculation.
Your TPE level will not be depreciated, only your attributes will be. Experience, Discipline and Leadership will not be subject to depreciation.
Start of Sixth VHL Season: 3% off each attribute regardless of value
Start of Seventh VHL Season: 5% off each attribute regardless of value
Start of Eighth VHL Season: 7% off each attribute regardless of value
Start of Ninth VHL Season: 7% off each attribute regardless of value
** All decimal places .5 and higher will be rounded up.
Player X has a depreciable attribute at 99 going into their 6th Season.
99 X 0.03 = 2.97
99 - 2.97 = 96.03 therefore their attribute would now read as 96 post-depreciation.
13.6 - Depreciation for S79- Players (S79 and older)
All players from S79 and earlier will be subject to depreciation in the off-season prior to their 6th, 7th, and 8th seasons of VHL eligibility. Playing in the VHLM following your draft does not delay depreciation.
Start of Sixth Season: 3% off each attribute regardless of value
Start of Seventh Season: 5% off each attribute regardless of value
Start of Eighth Season: 7% off each attribute regardless of value
14 – GENERAL MANAGERS
14.1 – General Managers and their Players
As of Season 69, GM Players are no longer linked to their teams. Players created by GMs are treated the same as normal players, with a few exceptions:
Manipulation of draft stock so that a GM's player falls to their pick outside the 1st round will result in penalties, to be determined by league commissioners.
Per Section 4.5, GMs may not sign their own players in Free Agency, without league approval
Per Section 6.7, any trade involving a GM trading for his/her own player is subject to league approval
14.2 - Keaton Louth Rule
All teams must start a secondary goalie at least 8 times during the season; meaning no goaltender may start more than 64 games, in one season, for a single team. Failure to comply with this maximum will result in punishment, at the discretion of League Commissioners. Punishment will range from draft pick/cap space fines, to being forced to play a backup goaltender for up to 8 playoff games to make up the extra regular season games played by their #1 goaltender.
Davos starts Ross 22/22 games, trades for Goalie X. Now, Goalie X is allowed to start 50/50
Seattle starts Funk 5/5 games, trades for Goalie Y. Goalie Y may only start 64/67 games, so a 3rd goalie would need to start the remaining 3 games
14.3 - Spirit of Competition
i. Best Available Roster - General Managers are expected to put forth their best available roster, every game of the season. Managers found to be violating the spirit of competition within the league, especially, but not limited to, any form of tanking, will face punishment, at the discretion of the League Commissioners. Punishment will range up to, and including, but not limited to: Draft Pick Forfeiture, Salary Cap Fines, GM Dismissal.
If a team in S73 is found to be playing CPU Players, or inferior Inactive Players, over better Human Created Players, they may face reduced Draft Lottery Odds, or possibly the loss of their 1st Round Pick entirely, in the S74 VHL Entry Draft. Depending on the severity of their transgression, the General Manager may also face dismissal.
ii. CPU Goaltenders - Teams may not start a CPU Goaltender for more than 8 games in a season, when a human created goaltender above 250 TPA is available. If the team does not have a human created goaltender on their roster, they must make a reasonable attempt to acquire one, whether that is through trade, free agency, or the VHL Entry Draft.
If Vancouver does not have a Human Created Goaltender on their roster to start the season, but there is a Free Agent Goaltender, Active, Inactive, or pending Retirement upon season's end, they must make an offer on said Free Agent.
iii. Human Goaltenders Below 250 TPA - Human Created Goaltenders who are below 250 TPA may not start more than 8 games in a season. Should they cross the 250 TPA threshold mid-season, this rule will only apply to games started before crossing 250 TPA.
15 – PERSONAL CONDUCT
Changelog - July 13/16
- Revised much of the formatting
- Revised general organization and wording on much of the rule book for clarity
- Added rule changes announced over the past few seasons, for example rules on goalie-player position changes
- Added all rules pertaining to Project Player 2
- Updated Contract Structure, Salary Cap/Floor, and Salary Brackets to conform with changes announced here
- Updated the section on multiple players to apply only to GM's as described here
- Updated section on Earning TPE to reflect new weekly cap and activities announced here
- Fixed link to VHLM Rulebook
- General cleanup of outdated sections
Victor, omgitshim and DollarAndADream
- Updated Salary Brackets and Maximum Salaries to conform with changes announced here
- Updated Draft Rules to reflect the change from ten teams to eight teams.
- Updated Point Tasks to include reference to VHL Trivia and correct old TPE payouts for VHL.com/Radio.
- Updated Trade Deadline to correct inconsistencies
- Added Replacing a GM
Beaviss and Quik
Quik 4,106
Player: Christian Mingle
Clarified Weekly Caps on TPE earning
Added links to forums for Weekly Main Point Tasks
Clarified start/end dates for TPE Week
Updated VHL.com Submissions to show that up to 2 different type submissions are allowed per week
Updated RFA/Waiver/Release rules as described here: https://vhlforum.com/topic/53506-small-changes-for-s63/
Updated Salary Cap figure
Updated carryover and recreation rules
Added official tampering rules to Free Agency section
I'm sure there's more but these would be the obvious ones
Rayzor_7
Updated Draft Rules with the current lottery format, as well as draft order.
Change Log 23-Apr-20
General Clean Up, updating rules/descriptions from pre-portal days, as well as newly implemented rules
Removed: Two-Way Contracts
Removed: anything pertaining to Signing Bonuses/Performance Bonuses
Removed: section on No Move Clause, amended No Trade Clause section
Added: 2.10 - VHLM Maximum TPE Threshold; was referenced in other sections but had no mention
Cleaned Up Training Camp section
Added: 4.4 - GM Players in Free Agency
Amended: "Trading a GM" to "Trades involving a GM's Player"
Amended: "Re-Acquiring a Previously Traded Player"; Teams may now re-acquire players within a 2-season window, subject to league approval. If player signs a new contract in that time, Re-Acquisition rules do not apply.
Updated: Draft rules to reflect 12 team league
Updated: Career Point Task section
Added: 12.1-2 - Adjusted Starting TPE
Added: 12.2 - Career Length
Amended: Section 14 to encompass anything regarding GMs, reflect new rules regarding GMs and their players
Removed: Section 15 - Replacing a GM; no longer applies
Added: Section 15 - VHL Code of Conduct, incorporates both the league Code of Conduct, as well as Sexual Content Policy
CowboyinAmerica, Gustav, Rayzor_7 and 2 others
Change Log (22-July-2020)
4.2 - Inactive Players / Free Agents: Updated definition of Inactive Free Agent;
4.3 - Inactive Free Agency: Added IFA rules, that were previously linked to a now defunct sub-forum;
6.1 - General Trading Rules: Cleaned up language for portal based trading;
6.5 – Trading Salaries: Updated schedule for salary retention, based on 16-team league;
9.1 – Draft Lottery: Updated Draft Lottery to reflect new odds in a 6-team Lottery;
9.2 - Draft Lottery Tournament: Added Draft Lottery Tournament;
9.3 - Draft Order: Updated Draft order to reflect 16-team league;
10.2 – Other Ways to Earn Capped TPE: Added rules regarding Affiliate VHL.com Submissions;
12.4 - First Generation Player: Added definition of first-gen
Change Log (25-November-2020)
13.0 - Retirement, Re-Creating & Depreciation - Updated to include rules on retirement/unretiring your player.
rory and Jubis
Change Log (13-May-2021)
6.9 - Trading Free Agent Rights added to reflect the spirit of the rule in re-acquiring traded players.
Removed rules regarding GM Player Two.
Beketov 7,697
Location: Halifax, NS
Player: Papa Emeritus
Change Log (31-August-2021)
Amended section 13.3 to clarify remaining weeks of a multi-week claim in relation to re-creation.
Dil, bigAL and rory
bigAL 2,175
Discord: bigAL #9660
Location: Eastern Central Europe
Player: nagyAL
Change Log (2021.09.19)
- Edited section 4.3 regarding inactive UFA claims. Top priority teams no longer automatically get a player they claim. Players have 24 hours from a claim being submitted on them to make a TPE Update and become an active free agent.
Change Log (24-October-2021)
Amended section 10.2 to clarify claiming of job pay, specifically in relation to theme weeks and welfare.
Josh 1,471
Player: David Davis
Personal Conduct (15) has been moved to a separate post owned by mods.
Change Log (2021-01-26)
Section 2 - Added 9th season under prime contract.
Section 2.1 - Added Players in the VHLE to contracts that are excluded for salary cap purposes.
Section 2.10 - Reworded to indicate players are called up to the VHLE at 201.
Section 2.11 - Added
Section 4.5 - Reworded to indicate that league approval must be given prior to FA starting.
Section 5.1 - Reworded to add VHLE players are eligible.
Section 7.1 - Removed
Section 7.2 -> 7.1 - Restricted to off-season and changed send down target to VHLE.
Section 7.3 -> 7.2 - Reworded to indicate players can only be called up if eligible for the VHL based on TPE.
Section 7.3 - Added
Section 14.1 - Removed the portion about claiming GM players in the draft.
Spartan, fishy, MubbleFubbles and 2 others
Updated 13.5 and 13.6 for new depreciation rules.
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Three Rivers man dies overseas in plane crash
Posted: May 1, 2013 12:26 AM EST | Updated: Nov 5, 2014 10:58 PM EST
THREE RIVERS, Mich. -- A man who grew up in Three Rivers, Michigan died Tuesday morning in a plane crash in Afghanistan. Jamie Brokaw was a co-pilot for National Airlines and was one of five people from Michigan killed.
"I was stunned because the safety record for most of the airplanes is very good," said Mike Hoag.
Pilot Mike Hoag was shocked to hear that his neighbor, close family friend, and fellow pilot was killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan.
"They were civilian contract pilots. They haul freight," said Hoag.
Brokaw and six others were working for National Airlines on a U.S. government contract in Afghanistan, when Hoag says a load shifted and the plane's weight became unbalanced.
"That made the plane tail heavy and made it climb straight up until it lost enough forward motion to keep flying and they had to correct and they did not have enough altitude to do that," said Hoag.
The plane went down killing Brokaw and six others aboard. Hoag has known and flown with Brokaw for twenty years. His family stores their plane in Hoag's hangar. He told me Brokaw served in the air force for six years and was married just a year ago.
"I feel badly for his family, his wife, and step-daughter," said Hoag.
Hoag remembers when Brokaw was just 13 and is sad to see him pass just twenty years later with so much life to live.
"He was very adventurous, funny, witty, very honest sincere young man. It was a pleasure to know him," said Hoag.


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Antiquités Mexicaines Vol. I & II [Incomplete] (includes "Recherches sur les Antiquitiés de I'Amérique du Nord et de I'Amérique du Sud" by D. B. Warden)
Lenoir, Alexandre; Guillaume Dupaix; David Bailie Warden
Paris: Jules Didot, 1834. Hardcover. Ex-library. Elephant folio. Three-quarter morocco over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. (INCOMPLETE, complete work was published with a total of 166 plates. These two volumes with 55 plates total, incl. frontispiece). Vol. I: Relation des trois expéditions du colonel Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805.....	More
Materia hieroglyphica: Containing the Egyptian Pantheon, and the Succession of the Pharaohs, From the Earliest Times, To the Conquest by Alexander, and Other Hieroglyphical Subjects
Wilkinson, J. G. (Sir John Gardner Wilkinson)
Malta: Published by the author, 1828. First edition. Written by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875), a pioneer Egyptologist, this work gives us the first classification of the Egyptian deities, in which the eight great gods are: 1) Amun-ra, or Amun-re2) Kneph, or Nef3) Ptah4) Khem5) Ra, Re, or Phre6) Satis7).....	More
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Antigonos, of Carystus
Leipzig: Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1791. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 284pp. Brown library buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Rebacked. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and to corners. Slight discoloration to parts of front endpapers. Paper pasted to inside of front board reading "with the autograph of J.D. Michaelis.....	More
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part 1 & 2
Grenfell, Bernard P.; Arthur S. Hunt
London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898. Ex Library First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, (1) 284 (1)pp., 8 plates; xii, 358 (3)pp., 8 plates. Gray half-cloth over gray paper-covered boards, with gilt-stamped emblem on cover of second volume, black lettering on spines. Notes on supplementary plates CXXI–CXXIV with two descriptive text pages.....	More
Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire (University of Michigan Studies Humanistic Series Volumes XVII-XX)
Waterman, Leroy
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1930-1936. First edition. Hardcover. Signed. Complete 4 volume set. 4to. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Translations and transliterations of letters from the Assyrian royal archives. There are two volumes containing 1471 letters, a third volume of commentary and a final supplemental.....	More
L'Armée Romaine d'Égypte d'Auguste à Dioclétien [Mémoires Publiés par l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Tome Quarante et Unième]. 2-vol. set (Complete)
Lesquier, Jean (Text by); George Foucart (Ed.)
Le Caire (Cairo): Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 x 11"). [6], xxxi, [1], 280pp (Vol. 1); 281-586pp (Vol. 2). Modern full olive cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Publisher's device to title page.Jean Lesquier's monumental "L'Armée Romaine d'Égypte d'Auguste à Dioclétien" is the first.....	More
Numismatica E Antichita Classiche (13 vols.)
Ernesto Bernareggi (dir.)
Lugano: Arti Grafiche Gaggini-Bizzozero, 1979-1996. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. This is a nonconsecutive run of 13 volumes the annual publication that includes vol. 8 (1979), vol. 10 (1981) & vols 15-25 (1986-1996). All are in their original printed illustrated glossy white wrappers with black lettering on covers and spines;.....	More
Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Nos. 67125-67278 : Papyrus Grecs d'Époque Byzantine. Second volume only
Maspero, Jean
Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 3/4"). [4], 169-263, [1]pp (Text), 21 leaves (Plates). Modern blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Title page in red and black lettering. This second volume (out of a 4-vol. set) of Jean.....	More
History of Art in Sardinia, Judea, Syria, and Asia Minor (2 vols. complete)
Perrot, Georges; Charles Chipiez; I. Gonino (trans. and ed.)
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1890. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xiv) 370pp. Vol.2: (x) 294pp. Illustrated blue cloth boards with grey lettering and figures on the front covers. Gilt lettering and grey illustrations on the spines. Publisher's device on the back covers. The work is a two-part.....	More
Bischoff, Erich: Babylonisch-Astrales im Weltbilde des Thalmud und Midrasch.(Leipzig: J.C. Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung. 1907)bound with: Boissier, Alfred: Notes d'Assyrologie. II. (Reprinted from the "Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology," March, 1898)bound with:Ernestus Aemilius Fabian: De Seleucia Babylonia. Cum Tabula Geographica.(Leipzig: Willhelm Engelmann. 1869)bound with:Jones, Felix: Notes on the Topograhy of Nineveh, and the other cities of Assyria; and on the General Geography of the Country between the Tigris and the Upper Zab.(London. 1855)bound with: Academie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres. Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Annee. Bulletin de Mai.(Paris: Librairie Alphonse Picard et Fils. 1911)
NP, n/d. Hardcover. 5 Books bound in one. 172pp. 4pp. 72pp. 101pp. 384pp. Half red leather over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. Top edge gilt.Gilt lettering and ornamental decoration to spine. Raised bands. Marbled boards. The last work is illustrated with 2 full-page photogravures, printed on good quality.....	More
The History of Croesus, King of Lydia, in IV parts. Containing observations, I. On the antient notion of destiny. II. On dreams. III. On the origin and credit of oracles. IV. And the principles upon which their responses were defended against any attack
[Anderson, Walter]
Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1755. Hardcover. 8vo. (1), xxiv, 211pp. Contemporary calf, raised bands. Croesus (595 BC - c. 547? BC) was the king of Lydia from 560/561 BC until his defeat by the Persians in about 547 BC. He was also known for minting gold and silver coins.....	More
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Mallet, Dominique (Text by); George Foucart (Ed.)
Le Caire (Cairo): Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 x 11"). [6], xv, [1], 209, [1]pp. Modern full cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Publisher's device to title page. In Dominique Mallet's remarkable study, we see how the frequent cross cultural and economic relationships between.....	More
Pre-Columbian Contact With the Americas Across the Oceans : An Annotated Bibliography. 2 vol. [INSCRIBED]
Sorenson, John L. and Martin H. Raish
Provo, Utah: Research Press (UT), 1991. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with sliver lettering to spines. Inscribed by John L. Sorenson [one of the authors] to front free endpaper: "To my colleague Cyrus Gordon, as a token of respect for the depth and scale of labour accomplished in.....	More
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Haase, Wolfgang (Editor)
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1982 & 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. 25.1: xvi,890pp. 25.2: x,894-1885pp. Dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjackets. Minor scuffing to boards. Slight bumping to bottom edge on Vol.I. Minor creasing and scuffing to dj's. Two tiny stains on pages 894 & 895. An.....	More
Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux, of Theobald's Park, Waltham Cross
Budge. E. A. Wallis
London: Harrison & Sons, 1896. Second limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500, out of series. Large Quarto. xii, 361 (1)pp., 40 plates. original three quarter black leather over textured green buckram with gilt ruling on covers and gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Foldout frontispiece. Red and black title page.....	More
Le Livre des Rois d'Égypte : Recueil de Titres et Protocoles Royaux, Noms Propres de Rois, Reines, Princes, Princesses, et Parents de Rois, Suivi d'un Index Alphabétique. Tome Cinquième, 'Les Empereurs Romains" [Mémoires Publiés par l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Tome Vingt et Unième]
Gauthier, Henri (Text by); George Foucart (Ed.)
Le Caire (Cairo): Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 x 11"). [6], 259, [3]pp. Modern full blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Publisher's device to title page. This fifth and last volume of Henri Gauthier's monumental catalogue of Egyptian royalties from Menes to the.....	More
Sabaean Researches, In a Series of Essays, Addressed to Distinguished Antiquaries, and Including The Substance of a Course of Lectures, Delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the Engraved Hieroglyphics of Chaldea, Egypt, and Canaan. Illustrated with Babylonian Cylinders, and other Inedited Monuments of Antiquity
Landseer, John
London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; and Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [2], IX, [1], 402pp. Ex-library blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece. Additional title. Engraved headpieces. Remarkable collection of eight essays on Babylonian antiquities, complete with its in-text illustrations and engraved plate depicting.....	More
Actes du Dixieme Congres International des Orientalistes. Session de Genève 1894. Quartrième Partie. Section IV: Ègypte et Langues Africaines. Section V: Extrême-Orient. Section VI: Grèce et Orient. VII: Géographie et Etnographie Orientales.
Leroux, Ernest (Editor)
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1897. First edition. 8vo. vi, 1191 + 184 + 81 pp +3 plates with b/w facsimile photographs of various fragments and artifacts from the Far East. Work is illustrated with a number of b/w facsimiles of musical measures, alphabets, inscriptions, some of which are fold out.....	More
Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla 2 ; 2A:1) Testi Amministrativi della Biblioteca L. 2769; 2) Testi Amministrativi della Biblioteca L. 2769 Tavole (2 vol.)
Pettinato, Giovanni; Francesco Pomponio
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1980/1. Softcover. 2 volumes. Large 4to. xlviii. 378pp. LXX. Green wrappers with black lettering to wrappers and spine. Fascinating work on Ancient language development. The first volume [Materiali Epigrafi di Ebla 2] is a text volume, while the second volume [Materiali Epigrafi di Ebla.....	More
Over Drie Handschriften op Papyrus. Bekend onder de Titels van Papyrus Du Lac Moeris du Fayoum et du Labyrinthe
Pleijte, W.
Amsterdam: Johannes Muller, 1884. Ex-library, first edition. Softcover. Quarto. 50pp. + a portfolio containing eight folded loose plates. Brown filing envelope containing two volumes. Text volume with original grey-green front wrapper with black lettering pasted onto modern salmon-colored wrappers. The second volume is a portfolio of eight fold-outs housed in.....	More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete 8-vol. set [NEW, IN PUBLISHER'S BOX AND SHRINK WRAP]
London: Folio Society, 1997. Second Folio edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 x 7 1/4"). Original cream parchment with gold lettering and compartments based on a 18th century design by Henry Walther. The eight volumes are boxed in two gilt-lettered red paper covered slipcases. The "History of the Decline and Fall of.....	More
History of the Crusades. 3-vol. set (Complete)
Michaud, Joseph François (Text by); W. Robson (Translated from the French by)
New York: Redfield, 1853. First American edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (7 1/2 X 5 1/4"). xxx, 509, [1]pp (Vol. 1); vii, [1], 493, [1]pp (Vol. 2); vii, [1], 547, [1], [8]pp (Publisher's advertisement) (Vol. 3). Contemporary 3/4 crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to.....	More
Jerusalem, Its History and Hope
Oliphant, Margaret; Hamilton Aide (woodcuts); F.M. Good (photography)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (xxiii) 515pp. 3/4 brown pebbled leather, over beige cloth boards, with gilt ruling. Gilt lettering, tooling and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece of a b/w illustration showing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Frontispiece protected by tissue-guard. Captivating.....	More
Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla 3/ 3A:Catalogo dei Tesi Cuneiformi di Tell Mardikh - Ebla.
Pettinato, Giovanni
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1979. Softcover. Large 4to. XLII. 292pp. Olive wrappers with black lettering to wrappers and spine. Fascinating work on Ancient language development. With intensive index at end. Minor Scuffing, rubbing, creasing to wrappers. In Italian. In very good condition. Part of a series: Seminario di..... More
Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla 4:Testi Lessicali Bilingui della Biblioteca L. 2769
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1982. Softcover. Large 4to. xxxiv. 427pp. Followed by 32 plares. Green wrappers with black lettering to wrappers and spine. Fascinating work on Ancient language development. The first part is a text volume, while the second part being are 32 full-page b/w photographic plates. Minor.....	More


KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - The new president of Kennesaw State University is in line for a major salary increase.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/2eFhrUX) Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens' base annual salary will nearly triple when he becomes the university's president next month.
According to a proposal sent to him Monday by the University System of Georgia, Olens, whose current base salary is about $140,000, would receive a base salary of $390,000.
His entire annual compensation package would be about $430,000.
The package includes a housing allowance of $19,400 and subsistence allowance of $13,400 that would be used, in part, to host campus events. Olens would also get $8,400 as an automobile allowance.
Officials says the proposed compensation package for Olens is about $12,000 more than the salary his predecessor, Dan Papp, received.


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Brazil's Newest Unicorn: QuintoAndar Raises $250M Series D Led By SoftBank
Sao Paulo-based real estate startup QuintoAndar has raised a $250 million Series D in a round that is considered massive by U.S. standards but is positively gargantuan in Brazil. The round takes the company "to unicorn status," according to CEO Gabriel Braga, although he would not disclose its exact valuation.
SoftBank Group International led the round, which also included participation from another new investor Dragoneer as well as existing backers General Atlantic and Kaszek Ventures. The financing brings the six-year-old company's total raised to over $335 million, according to its Crunchbase profile, and comes just nine months after its $70 million Series C.
"QuintoAndar makes it easier for people to quickly find homes and for landlords to better manage their properties," said Marcelo Claure, CEO of SoftBank Group International, in a prepared statement. "The company is at the center of a global transformation of the real estate industry."
QuintoAndar describes itself as an "end-to-end solution for long-term rentals" that, among other things, connects potential tenants to landlords and vice versa. It's seen impressive growth in recent years. I spoke with CEO Gabriel Braga by telephone and he told me that the company has increased the number of rentals it helped facilitate by five times year-over-year. QuintoAndar also saw its revenue surge by more than three times last year, according to Braga. (It keeps the first month's rent and a percentage fee of the transactions it helps facilitate.) The company has also more than tripled its number of employees to 1,000 compared to about 300-350 a year ago. On average, it has been closing over 4,500 new contracts per month.
Ultimately, its goal is to provide "a seamless experience for tenants that removes the need for a guarantor, large security deposit, or rental insurance while also providing landlords the best liquidity in the market and fully guaranteed rent."
CEO Braga and André Penha, CTO, came up with the idea for QuintoAndar after getting their MBAs at Stanford University. As many startups do, the company was founded out of Braga's personal "nightmare" of an experience in renting an apartment in Sao Paulo.
The search process was difficult as there was not enough information available online and renters are forced to provide a guarantor, or co-signer, from the same city or pay rent insurance, which Braga described as "very expensive."
"Overall, I felt it was a very inefficient and fragmented process with no transparency or tech," Braga told Crunchbase News. "There was all this friction and high cost involved, just real tangible problems to solve."
The concept for QuintoAndar (which can be translated literally to "Fifth Floor" in Portuguese) was born.
"Little by little, we created a platform that consolidated supply and inventory in a uniform way," Braga said.
The company took the search phase online for the first time, according to Braga. It also eliminated the need for tenants to provide a guarantor, thereby saving them money. On the other side, QuintoAndar also works to help protect the landlord with the guarantee that they will get their rent "on time every month," Braga said.
As we previously reported, Braga acknowledges that some U.S.-based investors initially liked the premise behind the company but were intimidated by the complexities of investing in Brazil, such as the exchange rate risk and a turbulent political, and uncertain economic, environment.
"Although the company was doing well in terms of traction, it was hard at first to convince investors," Braga said.
New York-based General Atlantic led its Series C and, according to Braga, "was committed to Latin America and not afraid of Brazilian risks. They knew firsthand the importance and relevance of the problems we were solving."
Nicolas Szekasy, co-founder and managing partner of Argentina-based Kaszek Ventures, notes that his firm has invested in QuintoAndar since its $7 million Series A in 2016.
"We fell in love with the founding team first and their vision of significantly revolutionizing the way Brazilians rented properties," Szekasy said. "It could take more than a month for someone that was looking at a property to get a transaction closed. Now it can be done in a day."
Szekasy said Kaszek, which recently closed on $600 million between two funds, is "super excited" by QuintoAndar's trajectory, execution, strategic vision and "how they've been attracting talent in the different areas of the company."
Certainly, the fact that SoftBank led this round is notable. We reported earlier this year SoftBank Group had unveiled plans for a $5 billion SoftBank Innovation Fund, or what it described as "the largest-ever technology fund focused exclusively on the fast-growing Latin American market." The news was validation that investors are starting to take the region more seriously.
Last year, QuintoAndar began expanding its offering to more regions in Brazil, and is now in 25 cities and nine metro areas in the country. With its new capital, the company plans to continue growing there and also to start expanding outside of its home country.
"We're doing our homework to understand the pain points and where we can make the biggest difference," Braga told me.
QuintoAndar also recently began partnering with Brazil's leading brick-and-mortar real estate agencies. Currently, 15 brokers work with company "to provide landlords with personal face-to-face support."
It, of course, plans to continue hiring as well and continue building out its home improvement segment of its business.
"Our rentals are going faster at a better price, and through an even more seamless experience for tenants," Braga said.
Brazil has been the largest recipient of venture funding in an increasingly hot investment climate in Latin America. Earlier this year, we reported that venture funding in the region's largest country exploded in 2018 to $1.3 billion, representing nearly two-thirds of all venture money raised in Latin America as a whole last year, according to LAVCA, the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America. That's 52 percent more than the $859 million invested Brazil in 2017, and a staggering 369 percent increase from the $279 million raised in 2016, as you can see in the chart below:
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Lot 201: Olen Bryant Carved Wood Face Sculpture
Olen L. Bryant (American/Tennessee, 1927-2017) carved wood sculpture depicting half of a face with overall silver metallic paint. Unsigned. 16 1/2" H x 7" W x 5" D. A letter of authenticity and provenance from the artist's niece, who served as his studio assistant and personal representative for his estate, will accompany this lot. Provenance: Estate of Olen Bryant, Cottonwood/Clarksville, TN. Biography: Nationally recognized sculptor Olen Bryant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee. He graduated from Murray State University and from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Michigan, where he earned a Master's Degree in Fine Arts, and at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Institute in the Visual Arts in American Culture at the University of Delaware, and the Winterthur Museum. His work was heavily influenced by the sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, and by Far Eastern (especially Buddhist) and Tribal art. From 1964-1991, Bryant taught as a professor at Austin Peay State University, and spent 27 years chairing the department of Sculpture and Ceramics. Bryant won the first Arts and Heritage Development Council's Lifetime Contribution to the Arts Award in 2006 and he received the Distinguished Artists Award during the 2007 Governor's Awards for the Arts. He had more than twenty-two solo exhibitions, and his work is owned by museums including the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, the Tennessee State Museum of Art, the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, and the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, where a retrospective of his work was held in 2007 and 2016. His sculptures have also been displayed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and at Tennessee's Executive Residence. Bryant, whose professors at Cranbrook introduced him to the post-World War II craft movement, was also a founding member of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, and the Nashville Artist Guild. (Sources: Nashville Fine Arts Magazine; The Clearing House Museum, The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, and family information). CONDITION: Scattered losses to paint, overall general wear.


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Q: How to wait until async calls are finished in a each loop before continuing I'm using cheerio and axios to get all links from a web page and making GET requests with axios with each link to check that it is a not broken link (i.e. the status code is 200).
Then, I want to put each broken link URL into an array.
I can't figure out how this works in term of async and await.
const cheerio = require("cheerio");

// returns an array of broken link urls
async function getAllBrokenLinks(url) {
    const res = await axios.get(url) // get webpage

    // if there was an error getting the data, return null
    if (!res || res.status != 200) {
        return null;
    }

    let body = res.data.body.value; // get body html from res
    let results = [];

    $ = cheerio.load(body); // parse body html into cheerio
    let links = $('a'); // get all the links in the body

    $(links).each( (i, link) => {
        let linkText = $(link).text();
        let linkHref = $(link).attr('href');

        // check if the link is dead
        axios.get(linkHref)
        .then( (response) => {
            if (response.status != 200) {
                results.push(linkHref);
            }
        })
        .catch( (error) => {
            results.push(linkHref);
        });
    })

    return results; // this returns an empty array instead of a populated array

}

I know that axios.get() is an async function but I'm not sure how I can wait for each GET request in the each loop to finish running before I return the populated array results.
EDIT: This is different from Using async/await with a forEach loop because $(links) does not have a .forEach function.
EDIT: I tried this:
    const reqs = $(links).map( async (i, link) => {
        let linkText = $(link).text();
        let linkHref = $(link).attr('href');

        // check if the link is dead
       axios.get(linkHref)
       .then( (response) => {
           if (response.status != 200) {
               results.push(linkHref);
           }
       })
       .catch( (error) => {
           results.push(linkHref);
       });

       return axios.get(linkHref)
    })

    await Promise.all(reqs); // ERROR

    return results;

but it is now giving me this error:
(node:77480) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: object is not iterable (cannot read property Symbol(Symbol.iterator))

EDIT: I figured it out. Here is my code:
    // put each link text and href in the linkUrls array
    $(links).each( (i, link) => {
        linkUrls[String($(link).text())] = $(link).attr('href');
    })

    let results = {};
    results['title'] = pageTitle;

    let num = 0;

    for (const linkText in linkUrls) {

        const response = await axios.get(linkUrls[linkText])
        .then( (r) => {
            if (r.status != 200) {
                num += 1;
                results[ 'broken link ' + String(num)] = {
                    'text': linkText,
                    'url': linkUrls[linkText],
                    'status code': r.status
                }
            }

        })
        .catch( (err) => {
            num += 1;
            results[ 'broken link ' + String(num)] = {
                'text': linkText,
                'url': linkUrls[linkText],
                'status code': err.response.status
            }
        })
    }

    console.log('results: ', results);

    return results;

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Our Salty Dog All In One Clipper Kit comes with one standard #10 blade which is the most commonly used blade. However, you may wish to purchase additional blades which are professionally recommended for your specific breed. With thick double coated breeds and poodle/poodle x breeds an extra blade can be highly beneficial. The standard plastic combs can not push through the coats of these breeds and therefore to achieve longer lengths than the standard #10 blade additional blades are required.
To make it confusing the lower the blade number the longer the length of cut. The length cut a blade will give is written on the blade such as a #7 has 3.2mm inscribed. This number refers to the length of hair left cutting against the natural lay of the coat or off-standing coat such as a poodle. When cutting with the lay the length will be approximately twice the stated length. So for example the #7 blade will cut 3.2mm against the lay and approx 6.4 if cutting with the lay of the hair.
There are 2 types of blades, rough cut (skip tooth blades) and finishing blades. The finishing blades are labelled with an "F" such as the #7F blade. Ideally groomers will have both blades for the length they desire, a rough cut blade for the initial groom as it will cut more easily though the hair, followed by a finishing blade for a smoother more even finish. Obviously this is not always realistic especially when people are 1st starting out home grooming. Many of our customers purchase one additional blade and down the track may purchase another as they hone their home grooming skills.
Blades will go dull over time. The beauty of our clipper is that the blades can be sharpened. An online sharpening service such as clipperworlds is inexpensive and will get your blades back in tip top condition increasing the time before needing to buy replacement blades.
Grooming is very technical and you will not achieve the same results as a pro groomer overnight. With time however it will become easier and you will improve a little with each groom. Checkout the blade chart below to see which blades are professionally recommended for your breed.