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Watching old Avs games – St. Louis at Colorado, April 3, 1996
This is something I'll do from time to time, dusting off an old Avs game on VHS from the basement and popping it in, and offering commentary.
Call it time capsule beat writing. About a year ago, a gift of about 500 Avalanche games from the past – all on VHS – was given to me. So, when I play them here, it's for the first time ever. Most or all of these games, I was at, watching from the press box. Never saw them on TV.
Today's first installment is an April 3, 1996, regular-season game between the Blues and Avs, from McNichols Sports Arena.
As of this writing, I can't remember if I was even there for this game. I'll check in the Post's archives later on that, but for now here's a look back with me, as the tape plays:
We have the St. Louis feed, which back then was called "Prime Sports". Ken Wilson does the play-by-play and Joe Micheletti is the color guy for the Blues, and Bruce Affleck (no relation to Ben or Casey) is the rinkside reporter.
Affleck is talking about how both teams want to go into the playoffs with some good momentum.
Patrick Roy vs. Jon Casey in the pipes. First thing that strikes me is how the different color of burgundy red the Avs used to have in their home uniforms. It was lighter back then.
Oh wow, I just completely forgot that Wayne Gretzky played on this Blues team. Geez, he looks weird in that Blues getup, which back in '96 was a very bizarre combination of blue on top of the jersey, with a blazing red bottom half. There were also vertical yellow stripes at the bottom half. These uniforms, understandably, didn't last a long time in Blues history I don't believe.
Igor Kravchuck just hit the post to the left of Roy in the opening couple minutes.
There's Marc Crawford. Wow, did he look young then. I'll never forget all the jokes we all used to hear around the rink about his hair.
Paul Stewart just whistled Troy Murray for elbowing. Troy Murray was a very underrated player for that Avs team. He was good on draws and hit hard. I remember one in particular, on Darius Kasparaitis of the Isles.
Here are other things that I'd totally forgotten about, from watching here: the Red Dog Ale logos on the Big Mac Ice, the United Airlines logos and the Joslins ad on the boards.
Still can't get over seeing Gretz in these Blues getups. Maybe he left St. Loo after a couple months because of them. Really, they're hideous.
Wow, Chris Pronger looks young.
Great save Casey on Val Kamensky, after a feed from Sandis Ozolinsh. Goalies stacked the pads more back then, and this was one of them.
Casey was playing for the injured Grant Fuhr, and astute hockey historians will recall Casey nearly stole a second-round series from Detroit. But Steve Yzerman beat him from the blue line in OT in the seventh game, otherwise it would have been Blues-Avs in the '96 Western Finals.
Adam Deadmarsh totally robbed by Casey, after a Mike Keane feed. So far, the line of Deadmarsh, Keane and Stephane Yelle is all over the Blues.
We have our first goal of the game. Steve Leach beats Roy with a fluttery wrist shot, on a setup from behind the net by Peter Zezel. This is a pretty soft goal. Roy is beaten to the far post on a knuckleball, and he looks ticked. Joe Sakic was a little tardy getting to Leach out front. Micheletti calls it a "great pass" by Zezel – if great can be defined by throwing the puck about 10 feet to a wide open guy in the slot.
A double-minor to Geoff Courtnall puts the Avs on the PP.
Gretzky stopped on a short-handed breakaway! The Great One was a little slow getting his slapper off and Roy has a pretty easy pad save. No wonder Crawford passed on the Great One in the '98 Olympic shootout. Did this miss here influence Crow?
Now Murray Baron is sent to the box by Stewie, for absolutely mugging Peter Forsberg behind the net. Two-man advantage Avs for 43 seconds.
Kamensky robbed again. The Russian winger truly was one of the most skillfull forwards of his day. He was a great, stylish skater, and tougher than a lot of people gave him credit for.
My goodness, Forsberg looked like a boy then. Remember that "Jofa" logo that always showed through the front of his white uniform? I'd forgotten about that too. He always wore a t-shirt with the company's name underneath his sweater.
The Avs fail to convert on the 5-on-3. Casey looks strong. He was a standup goalie, I see. Very upright on his skates, as were most goalies in the older days. People forget that Roy was one of the few butterfly goalies back then. Now, everybody plays it.
Avs go on the PP again, and Claude Lemieux rings the post with a slapper. Claude never got cheated with his shot out there. He was the World B. Free of his day, never passing up a shot.
Avs come up empty again, and Crawford looks concerned. He barks something on the bench, which if I can read lips is something like "@$%% $%@$%"
Mike Keane to the box now. One thing about a Paul Stewart game – they took about four hours, with all his calls. But the Avs still arguably have a Cup because of him. About a month after this game was played, he gave the Avs a gift 5-on-3 PP in Game 5 of the first-round series against the Canucks, in the third period with the Avs down 4-2. Sakic scored, the Avs went on to win in OT, taking a 3-2 lead. If the Avs had gone to Vancouver down 3-2 in that series, I think they lose. That team was very fragile emotionally around this time.
The Blues do nothing, and your score after one period is Blues 1, Avs zippo.
Between periods, here's an ad for Feld Chevy in St. Louis. Is that place still there, Missouri readers?
OH MY GOD, here's a between period interview between Affleck and Sakic. Joe is actually sitting down in a studio, not just standing by the dressing room like most such interviews are done now.
Geez, he looks younger. But really, the Sakic of today is holding up pretty well. A few more lines around the face, but for this being 12 years ago, he's aged pretty well.
Here's a surprise: Sakic answers questions then the same way he does now. Very polite, very courteous, very vanilla. "We're playing pretty consistent hockey right now and things have been going pretty well for us," he tells Affleck.
That's it for the first answer.
"We just want to play consistent hockey and play well in our own end" Sakic starts off his second answer. "If we can keep the puck out of the net, we're going to have some success in the playoffs. Playoff time, every game is important, and you've got to come put prepared from the opening faceoff."
But he does say something remotely interesting here. Affleck is trying to ask something about the atmosphere in Denver being "quiet" compared to Quebec – implying that nobody cares about hockey in Denver, of course.
Sakic answers: "Everybody enjoys playing here. It's a great city. It's a place where we haven't had any turmoil amongst the players like we did before in Quebec."
Believe me, most Avs players were thrilled to get out of Quebec.
Second period underway, but here are a couple of out of town scores: Winnipeg leads Dallas 1-0 in the second, and Tampa Bay has a 2-0 edge on Hartford in the third.
Adam Creighton makes it 2-0 Bad Guys, with a bang-bang play in front after Stephane Matteau completely turned Sandis Ozolinsh into a pretzel behind the net with a steal and pass.
Roy appears to glare a little at Ozo – not the only time that would happen.
Brett Hull is not playing in this one, but for what reason I still haven't found out from Wilson and Micheletti. Thanks for keeping me updated on one of the greatest goal-scorers in history, guys. Not a big deal when a guy like him is out.
Hard to believe Gretzky was given the captain's C on this Blues team. I mean, he was the Great One and all, but a guy who hadn't played all year with you, was a deadline pickup, is now your captain? Did that cause any problem in the Blues dressing room I wonder?
Mike Ricci has taken Chris Simon's spot on a line with Sakic and Scott Young here, as Crawford tries to get something going for his team, which clearly looks off tonight. Sakic isn't doing much and Roy so far is shaky.
Gretz tries to bank one in off Roy from behind net and it comes damn close to working. Then Gretz makes a great backhand pass from behind the net to Courtnall, which forces Alexei Gusarov grab him. Two minutes for holding on the Goose, at 6:09.
ATTENTION BLUES FANS: April 8, 1996, was Maxwell House Mug Night at the Kiel Center, against Winnipeg. The first 15,000 fans OVER THE AGE OF 16 get a free Maxwell House mug. This is an honest-to-god upcoming promotion they're plugging here.
Gee, I bet there was a riot at the Kiel doors when they opened that night.
To a Blues fan out there: If anybody has a Maxwell House mug from that very night, I'll trade you a signed copy of my book "Blood Feud" for it – and I'll get a current Avs player to sign it, too. Deal? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
3-0 Blues. The Great One blasts a slap shot by Roy, after a gruesome giveaway by Curtis Leschyshyn. Actually, Curtis' clearout pass hit a seam in the Big Mac glass and came back in the zone, setting up Gretz better than he ever could have himself.
Mike Keenan is enjoying himself over that one. People forget he bolted the Rangers after winning a Cup in 1994 and went to the Blues, getting the GM job along with the coaching position. (Quick story: After the 1994-95 lockout ended, the Blues practiced up in Vail to get ready for the 48-game season. I was really the only guy at the Post covering hockey at the time, so they sent me up there to do a story on him and the Blues.
I was going through a horrible breakup with an old girlfriend at the time, and I mean, I was in rough shape. In the dictionary under "dumped" and "loser", there was a picture of me at the time.
Keenan could tell something was wrong with me, so he actually pulled me into his little office at Vail's Dobson Arena, asked me what the problem was. I told him a thumbnail sketch of my sad situation, and he said, yeah, he was going through a divorce (or had just been through one), can't remember which, and said to keep my chin up. I was embarrassed at having let on anything was wrong, on the job like that, but I've never forgotten that from Iron Mike).
Adam Deadmarsh finally gets the Avs on the board (and there is that old siren sound at Big Mac they played after goals. Wow, forgot about that, too). Casey arguably was interfered with by Yelle on the goal, but this was when goalies literally could be steamrolled like fresh, hot tar, so no call from Stewie.
$1.99 for a seafood and crab Subway sub here, on a commercial break. I wonder if I could copy this to my ipod, and go into a Subway and play this and ask for my $1.99 seafood and crab sub? Hey, I'm just going by what your ad says, if they look at me funny.
Chris Simon makes it 3-2 with a clean slap shot from the blue line! Wow, bad goal by Casey, but the Chief looks happy. This was one of 16 pucks Simon put in the net that year, along with 250 minutes in the penalty box. Not bad, and it was DUMB of the Avs to let him go after the year. What else could you have possibly wanted out of an enforcer? But the Avs lowballed him in negotiations and was traded to Washington. It might have cost them another Cup in '96-97.
Simon goes to the box for hooking a few minutes later, Adam Foote goes to the bin for elbowing Leach, so it's a 5-on-3 for 47 seconds for the Blues. Gretzky, wearing one of those nasal strips across his nose in this one, looks pumped. He's playing the right point on the PP, but the Avs buckle down and kill it off, and after two periods, it's a 3-2 game.
Basil McRae is your between-period guest in the studio with Affleck. He's talking about his recent return from a shoulder injury, and how he feels since. "So far, so good," he says.
From the out-of-town scoreboard, the Lightning went on to beat the Whale, 4-2, the Bruins whipped up on the Habs 4-1 and Winnipeg is clinging to that one-goal lead after two periods against the Stars, before they all packed up and moved to Phoenix.
Here we go with the third period. Micheletti thinks the Blues have to get back to their forechecking game and stay away from careless penalties with a one-goal lead.
Uh-oh, Claude Lemieux is going to the box for four minutes for high-sticking…my god, is that Craig MacTavish??? Yes it is, and wearing no helmet too. Forgot that he was the last player who was allowed not to wear one, under a grandfather clause. MacTavish shows Stewart a little blood under the chin.
Stewart actually gives Pepe a five-minute major for high-sticking, then tacks on two more minutes for unpsortsmanlike conduct. I don't think Stewie appreciating being, if I can read lips correctly, compared to waste by-product from a horse.
The Avs are doing a nice job on the PK, and Foote actually has the best scoring chances in the first four minutes of the Blues PP, but he muffs Forsberg's beautiful setup off a 2-on-1.
I wish I knew how much time was left on the PP, but THERE'S NO COUNTDOWN POWER PLAY CLOCK WITH THIS 1996 BROADCAST.
Yup, it never fails. 4-2 Blues, just as the PK was about to expire. Zezel tips home a Pronger shot from the blue line. Almost seven minutes of hard work, for nothing. Happens all the time.
Now the Avs look beat. If Lemieux hadn't mouthed off, the PK expires, they get a lift and maybe get back to even. But, sure enough, on the next shift, Leach puts a little backhander by Patty Roy, and it's 5-2. They're dead. Nice giveaway by Lefebvre on that goal, too.
But a game refereed by Paul Stewart is never quite over when a team has a big lead. He always tried to get things a little closer by making some calls on the winning team, and there goes Zezel to the sin bin here for a hooking call on Ozo.
Micheletti is apoplectic, calling it a "weird" call. Wilson calls it "marginal."
And here come the Avs! Kamensky makes it 5-3 with a goal, after the puck hit a seam behind the glass on a dump-in and ricocheted in front, to a yawning net. Micheletti says the "glass here is terrible" and he was right. Of course, I didn't hear him say that after Gretz's gift goal.
Stewie comes to the rescue again! Leach goes to the box on another "marginal" call, and the Avs have seven minutes left and a power play.
But the Avs do nothing. Ozolinsh tries to force too much across the blue line, and keeps getting stripped of the puck, and Gretzky is actually doing a nice job on the PK.
Now the Avs look like they know it's over. Stewie is done with any charity probably, and time is running out.
Game over. Anderson tips in a Gretzky textbook cross and she's 6-3 now.
The horn sounds. Casey's teammates give him the requisite smelly glove to the head and Wilson calls is a "big" win for the Blues. Micheletti says it was a "tremendous effort" and that's that.
So, for my 12-year-later game summary: there's no question the Lemieux penalties were the turning point. A 3-2 game entering the third turns into a seven-minute PP, and a goal right as it was going to run out. That's a backbreaker.
My three stars are, 1. Zezel – game-winner and two assists. 2. Gretzky – amazingly prodicient three-point night and 3. Deadmarsh – hardest worker for the losing team.
So, let's check to see if I wrote the actual game story from that night – and I have NO IDEA whether I did or not.
(Insert Jeopardy music here).
Yup, I did. And, again, I have zero memory of this. Here's the first few graphs by yours truly from the April 4, 1996, Denver Post:
For the Colorado Avalanche, the danger signs were these entering
last night's game against the St. Louis Blues.
*The Blues came into the road contest winless in their last
six games.
*The Blues seemingly had their entire team on the disabled
list, including the leading goal-scorer and No. 1 goalie.
*The Avalanche was well-rested and virtually injury-free.
Naturally, the Avalanche lost 6-3 to the banged-up,
beleaguered Blues.
As has happened time and again this season, the Avs served as
the NHL's version of a Hallmark card.
Colorado's play was flat for most of the game, but a bad power
play and some ill-advised penalties – especially in the third
period – were the main contributors to the loss.
And the Avalanche isn't doing much to entice its fans to shell
out up to $19.95 on pay-per-view for home playoff games, either.
The loss was Colorado's fourth in the last five games at
McNichols Sports Arena.
Craig Wolanin, one of the few Avs players willing to speak
about the loss, couldn't put a finger on why Colorado has
trouble at home against teams clearly its inferior.
""I don't know if I have a concrete answer. It could a be
number of things. It could be the (five-day) layoff, coupled
with them coming off a shellacking by Detroit. It could have
been a couple bad bounces. We knew we might be a bit lethargic
coming off the long layoff, but I don't know if that's a valid
excuse. I'm not trying to make excuses," Wolanin said.
Thanks for tripping down memory lane with me. Until next time….


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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are to open Heathrow Terminal Two as they fly to Northern Ireland for a three-day trip.
The £2.5 billion Queen's Terminal, named in honour of the monarch, will be unveiled this afternoon.
Following a tour of the new building and a plaque unveiling for The Queen, the Royal couple will fly to George Best Belfast City Airport before making their way to their official residence at Hillsborough Castle.
At the castle her Majesty is due to meet Stormont's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
The encounter will be the third time the Queen and Sinn Fein veteran and former IRA commander Mr McGuinness have met.
Engagements during Tuesday and Wednesday include a visit to the set of hit US fantasy drama Game Of Thrones in east Belfast.
The Queen and Duke will tour the Painthall studios in the city's regenerated docklands where much of the popular HBO series is filmed.
Northern Ireland is fast developing an international reputation as a leading filming destination, with the powersharing administration at Stormont offering attractive incentives to producers to film in the region.
Game Of Thrones is estimated to be the biggest TV production in Europe and its first four seasons have been credited with bringing a direct economic benefit of £82 million to Northern Ireland, creating the equivalent of more than 900 full-time and 5,700 part-time jobs.
The Queen and Duke will also visit the historic Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast.
Once a prison synonymous with the dark years of the Troubles, its transformation into a popular visitor attraction is symbolic of Northern Ireland's journey away from conflict.
The Royal couple will also be guests at a reception and lunch at Belfast City Hall and will attend a garden party at Hillsborough Castle.
The castle is also playing host to experts and crew from the Antiques Road show this week and the Queen and Duke will stop by to visit them during their stay.
During her time across the Irish Sea, her Majesty will also attend a Royal British Legion reception in Coleraine in Co Londonderry where she will launch a programme of activities commemorating the First World War.
The Queen and Duke last visited Northern Ireland in 2012 as part of her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
That occasion proved highly symbolic in terms of the peace process as it marked the first occasion the Queen met Mr McGuinness.
The old Heathrow Terminal Two was opened by The Queen in 1955 and was in operation for more than 50 years before it was demolished to make way for a new building capable of handling 20 million passengers a year.

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The nitty gritty on New York City
Confession: Usually five days in NYC has this nature girl clawing at the subway walls, dying to get back to the mountains and sea. Not this time. I soaked up every minute — and enough pizza and corned beef to last me till winter. In fact, I found myself in some trendy little East Village eatery one night with three other Seattleites who were also on VK and I couldn't stop thinking, "Why are we not eating deli at this very minute?! WHY, GOD, WHY?!" (Needless to say, I was still starving by the time I was done with my fancy $25 French entree.)
For those of you who don't know, I'm from the Tri-State Area (BonJoviLand, to be exact), which means I had piles of people to visit in NYC: my dad, my high school friends, my college roomies, a couple pals from my bad old days in NY publishing, and on and on and on. I had a blast seeing high school pals Heth and Jed rock the Union Square subway station. I was tickled to reunite with writerpal Beena, who I met at Hedgebrook, and happy to see Seattle expat Nina (sorely missed in the NW!) in her new Brooklyn hood. I was floored when my freaking prom date showed up at one of my readings. (Dude, where's my corsage?) And I'm ever grateful for all the people who rallied to see me read at the supercool Bluestockings on the Lower East Side and BookCourt in Brooklyn, which made for a fab last chapter of my book tour.
Another highlight of the Big Apple was meeting so many email buddies — from fellow Single Staters Judy McGuire, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Susan Shapiro to Anti 9-to-5 Guide interviewees Janet Rosen and Heather Swain. I also loved that I could just email a magazine editor I write for (or hope to write for) or an agent recommended to me by a friend and set up a coffee date, literally in a New York minute. I left the city thinking, "Damn, 3000 miles isn't soooo far… I need to get out of my house more often… I need to come back here twice a year… Must keep a toe in the NY publishing pool…"
What about you? If you're a freelancer who does a decent chunk of business in another time zone, do you travel periodically to score some face time with your clients and contacts? Does it boost your business when your contacts suddenly see your bright smiling face rather than just your email handle? Inquiring minds wanna know.
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Boot Camp Day 25
Minister Fitness Boot Camp - Get FIT and Stay FIT in The GYM with Coach T (Min. Taurus James)
Minister Fitness Boot Camp - Get FIT and Stay FIT in The GYM with Coach T (Min. Taurus James)
Like a broken tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble. - Proverbs 25:19
"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." - Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)
"Lord, I want what You want for my life...nothing more...nothing less."
-- Watch the video.
-- Write down one thing you want to accomplish today, and write down "Why" you want to do this.
-- Visualize what it will feel like if you do NOT achieve this goal. Write down what will you feel like.
-- Commit yourself to diligently doing whatever it takes to getting to the place He&lsqo;s called you to be.
-- Share your goal in the TELL US YOUR GOALS section of the Boot Camp Discussions.
-- Leave a comment on this page to positively Inspire, Influence or Impact others going through The GYM Boot Camp.
To be fit is to be of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose. It is not enough to say that you are fit. It is not enough to appear to be fit. You must BE FIT!
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Facebook Messenger Continues War on SMS
All Things Digital's Mike Isaac joins Digits to discuss the new Facebook Messenger app, allowing people to send messages without actually being signed up for Facebook. Photo: Facebook.com/mobile/messenger
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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BOULDER, CO - January 9, 2006
Webroot Software, Inc., the leading provider of anti-spyware software and other security technologies for the enterprise and consumers, today announced the appointment of Joshua Pace to the position of chief financial officer (CFO). Michael Irwin, who has served as CFO of Webroot since September 2004, will assume the role of chief operating officer (COO).
The addition of Pace comes as Webroot closed out the most successful quarter in the company's history on December 31. As CFO, Pace will oversee Webroot's financial growth as the company continues to expand both domestically and internationally, and further demonstrates its superior technology resources and product performance in 2006.
"As we move forward in 2006, we are expanding our operations both globally and domestically to continue our strong growth pattern," said David Moll, CEO of Webroot." Joshua has a strong track record of helping to achieve and effectively manage global financial growth for major corporations and his experience will help to ensure we continue to expand our business aggressively and intelligently."
Prior to joining Webroot, Pace served as senior vice president and CFO of Openwave Systems (NASDAQ: OPWV) where he led the finance organization that spanned operations in over twenty countries. He also served as CFO of M2 Networx, a provider of desktop collaboration services, and he was the vice president of financial planning & analysis for Covad Communications.
"Webroot has hit a very exciting stage in the corporate lifecycle and is well positioned for increasing financial success on a global scale," said Pace. "The company is the technology leader in a rapidly expanding global market, and as CFO I plan to leverage Webroot's success to increase the trajectory of financial performance."
Prior to Covad, Pace spent eight years with US WEST Communications. Before his departure, he served as executive director of finance for the Designed Services unit that delivered telephony and data products to 14 states and 16 million users. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche as a senior auditor. Pace earned his B.S. degree in accounting from the University of North Carolina and his MBA in international finance from the University of Colorado.
As part of Webroot's executive expansion, Irwin will move from CFO to the role of COO. In this new position, Irwin will be responsible for overseeing all internal operations of Webroot, in addition to strategically driving forward the overall business and company objectives.
"Mike's management and leadership abilities have strongly aided Webroot in achieving record financial success and solidifying the company's top market position," said Moll. "As we move into 2006, Mike will be leading our operational efforts to expand the company's global reach and technology excellence."
Prior to joining Webroot, Irwin served as CFO of Brightmail, which was acquired by Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC). At Brightmail, Irwin engineered the IPO effort which ultimately resulted in the Symantec acquisition. Prior to Brightmail, Irwin served as vice president of B2SB Technologies Corp. (previously known as Smartage.com Corporation), a provider of software and services to small businesses, where he guided capitalization efforts that raised $22 million in private equity. He also spent nearly eight years in the management consulting and M&A groups at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Irwin earned a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.


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Leadership is a relationship. The cornerstone of effective relationships is trust. Without trust, relationships are destined for significant problems. Without trust, relationship will often end up being short term.
Trust is one of the dynamics we explore within the Leadership Challenge Practice of Enable Others to Act. One of my favorite Workshop activities to explore this trust dynamic is the Leaders Walk of Trust, which works like this:
We ask everyone to stand up and prepare to encounter the other program participants. It is challenge by choice, so people are allowed to choose whom they encounter, but the goal is for them to encounter everyone.
As they meet each person, they are to say one of three things (and nothing else):
"I trust you,"
"I don't trust you," or
"I don't care to say."
People are immediately struck with the dilemma of what to say and how truthful to be in their communications. After all of the encounters and communications take place, a very interesting debrief tends to follow.
Some typical debrief questions are:
How did that go?
What did you say?
Was anyone surprised by what they heard?
Did anyone say anything other than I trust you?
If you said I trust you, what were you talking about? You trust them with what?
What is most interesting about this activity is it allows people to experience the dilemma of how truthful to be and what it means to communicate trust. These three messages (I trust you, I don't trust you, or I don't care to say) are the meanings people are getting from our everyday actions in the workplace. What matters more than our words are the actions we take; people are getting those messages we are sending very clearly.
A Leadership Challenge for all leaders is to communicate, "I trust you" in our everyday actions. Since trust is an inside out development dynamic, we must elevate our own ability to be vulnerable and trust others before we can ask others to raise their level of trust.
Contributed by Craig Haptonstall of Leadership Mechanics, LLC


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The beauty of the MINIAK lies in the price, for $260 one can wield the power of keyboards $1,000+. There's a reason you haven't seen more than 2 negative comments online about this keyboard, primarily because it annihilates the competition effortlessly with more features per capita than any similarly priced unit.
Akai's MINIAK has a solid, rugged design that catches the eye. While this isn't an official aspect of a review, you'll note some prime empty space to decal your synth and personally that is much appreciated. The dominance of three wheels on the front of the synth harkens to older times, and is a welcome deviation from the rampant use of knobs on the majority of modern keyboards. There are three assignable knobs that provide a nice tweakability. However a control panel with filter and envelope modifiers would have been a joy as well.
The vocoder capabilities of the MINIAK are intense. Thick, fat synth sounds layered over your vocals, pumped out through the keyboards' on-board gooseneck microphone will have you feeling much cooler than you probably are. Remember that with great power comes great responsibility however, and as tasty as this vocoder's potential certainly is, we must be weary of its use.
The keyboard is a shorty, thus the MINI in the name, with 37 notes. Some folks warrant complaints of the keys being too stiff, that is hogwash. The screen is small on the unit, and could have seriously benefitted from some color deviation with the text against the backdrop. Angled views of the screen are a little tough, but after 20 minutes of play you get the hang of what you're doing.
The programming features of the MINIAK are powerful, but wholly require a degree from MIT. That's hyperbolic language to stress the difficulty of programming on the MINIAK. Don't take it literally. The arpeggiator on the unit is a beast and with only a couple of keys you can create lush, dense, layers that will entice ladies and men alike.
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When a Framingham, Massachusetts man was recently arrested for DUI and offered a phone call to arrange bail, he told police officers, "I think I'd like to call the White House."
The man in question was 67-year-old Onyango Obama, who's the half-brother of President Barack Obama's late father.
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There's a glimpse of both the past and the future inside the pages of this issue. On page 18 we reveal the summary of an online survey we conducted in January with Certified Angus Beef, LLC (CAB). To no one's surprise, our respondents confirm Angus genetics dominate America's cowherd.
By all measures, the CAB program has been a tremendous success. It's done everything the American Angus Association hoped—and more—when the program was launched 36 years ago. Demand for CAB product has grown at a rapid pace, specifically because consumers quickly recognized the high quality, and the brand consistently offered an enjoyable eating experience. As demand for CAB grew, so did the demand for Angus bulls—exactly what CAB's founders envisioned. Indeed, CAB is so popular the program's biggest hurdle remains finding enough cattle that qualify.
Then and now. During the past few years the robust demand for Angus created by CAB trickled into sale barns and feedyards. If there was a single trait that suggested performance and quality as cattle ran through a sale ring it was a black hide. To their credit, the American Angus Association capitalized on that popularity with expanded programs to support their breeders and commercial operations. They built a vast service organization and a database that is the envy of all other breeds.
But that's the past. Our cover story in this issue is a glimpse of your future. That future, and the future of your industry's success is data.
Sure, Angus may play a critical role in that future. In fact, it's most obvious Angus has a head start toward the future—a huge data base, large membership with quality-oriented breeders and a large association staff. But there are no guarantees, and there will be no breed loyalty among cattlemen using data to build their cowherds and fill feedlot pens.
Last month I caught a glimpse of this new data-fueled revolution at Decatur County Feed Yard in Oberlin, Kan. The focus of the day was strategies to improve both ranch profitability and consumer satisfaction. Angus does not have a patent on either of those goals.
What I heard from ranchers and saw in the pens was how they have changed the way they select bulls and modified how they measure success. Most preferred using composite bulls that offer the laundry list of modern data, yet also provide the hybrid vigor that comes from crossbreeding. Angus is a mainstay in most of those herds, and a critical component to many of the best composite sires.
Data, however, makes it much easier for cowmen and feedlot buyers to look past hide color. Modern measurements and accurate calculations that drive profit, carcass quality and eating satisfaction will rapidly become standard.
Today's higher cattle prices will only encourage buyers to look past hide color and demand more
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Last week, the Marines made it clear that its spouses' clubs could not discriminate against same-sex couples.
Wednesday, the Army said: not so fast.
As things stand now, the Army, backed by the Pentagon, is saying it will not bar recognition of spouses' clubs that prohibit same-sex couples from membership.
This all began awhile back at Fort Bragg, N.C., after the Association of Bragg Officers' Spouses denied Ashley Broadway membership, even though she is married to Army Lieutenant Colonel Heather Mack. Broadway says she is "extremely disappointed" by the decision. "With this move, the Defense Department and the Pentagon have opened the door to discrimination of any soldier, and these soldiers' families, for any reason," she says. "The government of the greatest nation in the world should not be entertaining or tolerating this, and should not allow exclusionary groups to operate on any military installation."
The Marines, sniffing change in the air, issued orders last week saying that such discrimination against same-sex couples would lead the corps to deny such clubs any support from the corps. "We would interpret a spouse's club's decision to exclude a same-sex spouse as sexual discrimination," the corps' top lawyer wrote.
(MORE: U.S. Marine Makes First Ever Same-Sex Marriage Proposal in the White House)
The Army, typically, sees it just the opposite. "The Association of the Bragg Officers' Spouses, a private organization, is not in violation of current Department of Defense instructions, directives, and laws," says Ben Abel, a Fort Bragg spokesman.
When Abel is asked to square the Army decision with the Marine's, he says only that "we are responsible for the welfare of soldiers and their families at Fort Bragg."
The corps interprets Marine guidance as saying that same-sex couples must be recognized by such clubs if such clubs are to continue to receive corps' benefits (such as holding meetings on corps' installations). The corps' lawyer says the language bars "unlawful discrimination," which means the corps "would interpret" that language to bar discrimination against same-sex couples.
Here's the Pentagon's 2008 guidance the Arny is relying on, which the service says dictates just the reverse:
No person because of race, color, creed, sex, age, disability, or national origin shall be unlawfully denied membership, unlawfully excluded from participation, or otherwise subjected to unlawful discrimination by any non-Federal entity or other private organization covered by this Instruction.
It too has that all-important "otherwise" caveat in there. But the Army says that's not broad enough to ban spouses' clubs from barring same-sex couples. The Pentagon, which championed the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military, concurs.
(MORE: Military Same-Sex Partner Benefits: "Separate But Not Equal")
There's no mention in the guidelines of sexual orientation, which isn't surprising – they were written three years before the Pentagon lifted its gay ban. Defense officials say they simply are complying with the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which says marriage can only be between a woman and a man, and has let the Pentagon deny benefits to same-sex spouses that traditional spouses get.
This all boils down to three things:
— The Marines were the service most opposed to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." But once they realized it was going to change, they saluted, got out in front of it, and have pushed hard to turn the same-sex issue into a non-issue in its ranks. They were the more agile – Marines would prefer "expeditionary" – force in dealing with a change that many thought would be significant, but really hasn't been.
— The Army is the most traditional of the military services, and the one that plods, in ways both good and bad. If it can find a regulation justifying the status quo, it will embrace it tightly. This should come as no surprise: this is how the Army fights, this is how it wages peace, and this is how it lives.
— The key unknown is how prospective defense secretary Chuck Hagel will deal with the matter. He upset gay activists by opposing a gay ambassador a decade ago, and has since apologized. "I fully support the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 and value the service of all those who fight for our country," Hagel recently wrote Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. "I know firsthand the profound sacrifice our service members and their families make, and if confirmed as Secretary of Defense, I will do everything possible to the extent permissible under current law to provide equal benefits to the families of all our service members."
The contrast between the Army and Marines could dissolve overnight if a Defense Secretary Hagel issued orders detailing how all the services should deal with the matter.
Look for it to melt, like winter ice, before summer.
UPDATE: The spouses' club said it "would like to offer Ms. Broadway a special Guest Membership" on Thursday. "It's fantastic that they have finally contacted Ashley after a month of silence, but if the ABOS mission is to support all military families, why are they continuing to deny same-sex military spouses full membership?" responded Stephen L. Peters II, president of the American Military Partner Association. "Offering `guest membership' to Ashley is like offering her `second-class membership status.' There is no valid reason why she should not be offered full membership as outlined in the organization's bylaws."
MORE: Marines Publish a Book On The End of `Don't Ask, Don't Tell'


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Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva was in court in Trenton, N.J., on Tuesday, testifying that a fellow former Connecticut basketball star had swindled him out of $250,000, according to the Trentonian.
Tate George, who hit a memorable buzzer beater for UConn to defeat Clemson in the 1990 NCAA tournament, is being prosecuted in federal court for wire fraud for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme related to a real estate development in Bridgeport, Conn.
Villanueva testified that he was promised a $37,500 profit from his quarter-million-dollar investment, plus 2% of the project's gross income for years. He said he never got any money back.
After he testified that the loss of $250,000 "hurt" him, Villanueva told the Trentonian on the way out of the courthouse that it hurt him personally to be conned by a fellow UConn athlete.
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Villanueva signed a $30-million contract with the Pistons in 2009.
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Universal's 3D "Battleship" rose to the top of the overseas box office, collecting $58 million in its second outing for an international cume of $121.8 million.
The U tentpole went out internationally nearly a month before its U.S. bow, and is playing in 49 territories, getting out ahead of summer tentpoles like Disney-Marvel's "The Avengers," which opened in 42 markets April 25.
Despite U's strategy, "Battleship" was broadsided by an unexpected rival: the 3D reissue of "Titanic," which has grossed $225 million internationally.
In China, "Battleship" collected a solid $17.7 million, but the film still ranked second locally behind "Titanic" 3D, which grossed $24 million — enough to cross the $100 million mark at the Chinese B.O.
Despite the overperformance of "Titanic," "Battleship" has seen notable returns so far. In China, it scored the biggest opening weekend for Universal, delivering almost twice the studio's previous top Chinese debut of "Fast Five." Russia contributed a No. 1 bow for "Battleship" with $11.2 million — another Universal best locally.
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On March 13, 2014, CFP Board announced a suite of initiatives – a new study of center for financial planning, Ph.D. program and academic journal collaboration – that will bolster the academic underpinnings of financial planning as a profession; provide new opportunities for research and teaching; and enhance the quality of financial advice to the public. Read the full news release >.
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This year's theme – Awareness; Education; Induction – will be a platform for furthering our discipline relative to specific subject matter areas, engaging students both within the classroom and in online learning platforms, as well as facilitating certificate and degree-seeking students' journeys toward CFP® certification. Subject matter experts and researchers are encouraged to submit proposals that focus on furthering the discipline and enriching current practice.
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Representatives of firms are invited to join us Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern) for this webinar, during which Dr. Chaffin and CFP Board's Director of Firm Relations, Joseph V. Maugeri, CFP®, will describe the upcoming Firms' Night at the CFP Board Registered Program Conference as well as potential avenues for firms to engage Registered Programs regarding partnership opportunities. This webinar is exclusively for firms who are participating in Firms' Night. .
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- The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
- Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.
- The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
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Wetlands that once sheltered Marsh Arabs and a host of wildlife in southern Iraq are being partly restored and could offer a haven once again if it is done right, experts said Saturday.
WASHINGTON Wetlands that once sheltered Marsh Arabs and a host of wildlife in southern Iraq are being partly restored and could offer a haven once again if it is done right, experts said Saturday.
Luckily, water coming into the area from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is unexpectedly clean, washing away toxic salts that built up when the area was drained under Saddam Hussein's regime, the international team of experts reported.
Bird species are starting to return, including pelicans, cormorants and wading species. The area was also important for spawning fish and shrimp and, with only 20 percent of the marshes restored, these animals have along way to go, the experts reported.
"The future of the 5,000-year-old Marsh Arab culture and the economic stability of large portions of southern Iraq are dependent on the success of this restoration effort," they write in next week's issue of the journal Science.
And there would be political benefits as well.
"I think you could stabilize huge, vast areas of Iraq by doing this," said Curtis Richardson, an ecologist at Duke University said at a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"The destruction of the Marsh Arabs is seen as symbolic of Saddam Hussein's regime," agreed Peter Reiss, a water resource specialist at Development Alternatives, Inc. who is directing the restoration project under contract to the U.S. government.
"It became emblematic of those years of oppression."
The area of tall reeds and clear waters is valued by more than just its immediate inhabitants.
Cradle of Civilization
"The Mesopotamiam marshes of southern Iraq are considered by many to be the 'cradle of Western civilization' and are often referred to as the Garden of Eden," Reiss, Richardson and their colleagues wrote.
"Notably, the marshes were once the permanent habitat for millions of birds and a flyway for millions more migrating between Siberia and Africa."
Saddam drained more than 90 percent of the 5,800 square miles of marshes during his regime, in part to punish the Shi'ite Marsh Arabs who opposed him, in part to provide access to the border with Iran during his country's long war with its neighbor and in part to save water for cities upstream.
Richardson said as soon as Saddam was ousted by U.S. troops, farmers blew up dikes and earthen dams that had held the water back. Often this had unexpected effects.
"You'd go to a village and find it half-flooded. They had no idea it would go that far," Richardson said. "You may be washing salt into another farmer's field."
Ecologists were worried that toxic salts, pesticides and other chemicals could be washed back into the marshes and kill off what life had managed to survive. But except for some areas that are saltier than normal, they have found little evidence this happened.
While rainfall is only about 4 inches a year, the snowmelt in the mountains of neighboring Iran and Turkey send clear, fresh water every spring, they found.
Reiss estimated 100,000 to 125,000 people remain in the area, but of the 75,000 his team surveyed, all had been displaced at least once and some as many as 18 times.
"They are not expecting a full return and revival to what the marshes looked like," he said. "In fact, they don't want it."
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(CNN) -- The shadow match fixing casts over football grew a shade darker Thursday after Britain's National Crime Agency confirmed seven arrests had been made as part of an ongoing investigation.
Two men suspected of involvement have been charged with conspiracy to defraud bookmakers by influencing the course of football matches and placing bets thereon, the NCA said Thursday. Five of the seven arrested have made bail, the agency said.
The arrests were made across Britain Tuesday and Wednesday as part of a probe into a "suspected international illegal betting syndicate," said the NCA -- Britain's equivalent of U.S. law enforcement agency the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The NCA, which became operational in October, is working closely with the Gambling Commission and the Football Association, the organization which oversees English football.
READ: Arrests in Singapore over match-fixing
"This is an active investigation and we are unable to provide further detail at this time."
The Gambling Commission, which regulates most gambling in Britain, is cooperating with the NCA in the investigation.
"The Gambling Commission has provided advice, intelligence and expertise in supporting this ongoing National Crime Agency investigation and continues to liaise with both the NCA and the Football Association," the body said in a statement.
An investigation by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph claimed Asian match-fixers are targeting games in English professional football's lower levels.
In a series of covert conversations recorded by the newspaper over the past two weeks, one of the arrested individuals claimed that lower league matches could be fixed for £50,000 ($81,500) and correctly forecast the outcome of three games played by the same team.
The Football League, which runs the lower leagues of English professional soccer, said it was aware of media reports but it had not been contacted by the NCA.
"We understand from media reports that there is an ongoing police investigation into alleged match fixing in domestic football," said Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey. "To date, we have had no contact from the police regarding this matter.
"The threat of corruption is a matter that the Football League and the other football authorities treat with the utmost seriousness. The integrity of our matches and our competitions is the bedrock of the domestic game."
Match fixing has plagued world soccer in recent years. Senior European crime fighters Europol announced in February it had probed 680 suspicious matches across the globe including two European Champions League matches, one of which was played in England.
In Australia, four British players who spent part of last season with clubs in the Conference South have been arrested and charged for alleged match fixing in the Victoria Premier League this year. They have been suspended by FIFA and are due in court later this month.


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David L. Snow, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Snow is a clinical/community psychologist who has extensive experience in the design and evaluation of preventive interventions in community settings, particularly in the workplace and school systems, and in research aimed at identifying key risk and protective factors predictive of substance use/abuse, psychological symptoms, intimate partner violence, and other behavioral outcomes. His workplace intervention, Coping with Work and Family Stress, has been rigorously evaluated through grants from NIDA and NIAAA, and has been designated as a science-based program by the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) and as a SAMHSA Model Program. Along with ongoing efficacy and effectiveness trials, the program is being disseminated on a national and international basis. Dr. Snow also is collaborating with faculty at Columbia University and staff of the National Health Promotion Association on the dissemination of science-based workplace interventions to militatry personnel and their families, is testing the effectiveness of his Coping with Work and Family Stress intervention with a population of minority women at risk for HIV/AIDS and substance abuse in partnership with an organization in the Washington, DC area, and is collaborating with the Boston College Center on Aging & Work as a member of a research team investigating the effects of Time and Placement Management (TPM) policies on employee health, well being, and productivity in a large U.S. corporation. In addition, Dr. Snow has special interests in the protective and stress-mediating effects of coping and social support, methodological and ethical issues in prevention research, and technical assistance and organizational consultation.
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- Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical and Community PsychologyUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine
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|Listing of Coping with Work and Family Stress: A Workplace Preventive Intervention (David L. Snow, Ph.D., Principal Investigator) as an Evidence-Based Prevention Program.
|National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices (NREPP)
|Selection of Coping with Work and Family Stress: A Workplace Preventive Intervention (David L. Snow, Ph.D., Principal Investigator) as an Evidence-Based and Model Prevention Program.
|Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Registry of Effective Programs (NREP).
|Recipient of the Henry V. McNeil Award for outstanding achievement and innovation in the field of community mental health (awarded to David L. Snow, Ph.D., Director and The Consultation Center).
|American Psychological Foundation and the Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association
|Selection of The Consultation Center (David L. Snow, Ph.D., Director) of the Hill-West Haven Division, Connecticut Mental Health Center as one of the ten most outstanding primary prevention programs in the nation developed as part of a community mental health center.
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After 2 years, scientists confirm mysterious Gulf of Mexico blob is rare jellyfish
After two years of pondering, marine biologists in the past few days have confirmed that a mysterious pink blob seen on underwater video from the Gulf of Mexico is a big, rare jellyfish known as Deepstaria reticulum, according to The Daily Mail.
"A quick glimpse of a hexagonal pattern on its billowing skin helped a team of scientists figure out that the strange creature was a huge jellyfish," The Daily Mail reported.
The video, taken in April 2012 from an oil rig about 5,000 feet below the surface, shows an undulating flap that's hard to characterize.
Last week, Fuel Fix spotlighted photos and video taken from the camera, causing renewed interest from several sites about the mysterious creature.
When the video first showed up, folks at Deep Sea News speculated on what the strange creature could be, since the Deepstaria jellyfish was more likely to be found in the Antarctic than in the Gulf of Mexico.
Although the wavy object looked like an old whale placenta, Deep Sea News ruled that out because it seemed unlikely that a big chunk of potential food would have descended so far at such a slow pace without being eaten.
According to Deep Sea News, the unusual jellyfish was first described in 1966 by F.S. Russell, a British marine biologist, after a specimen was collected by the U.S. submersible research vessel, Deepstar 400.


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Sophomore Zack Wolfenzon gave Harvard a 1-0 lead in the first half (David Silverman Photography).
STORRS, Conn. – Despite being outshot, 25-6, the sixth-ranked Harvard men's soccer team earned a 1-1 draw at No. 10 Connecticut Saturday evening. With the tie, the Crimson remains unbeaten at 2-0-1 on the season, while the Huskies move to 3-0-1.
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The Huskies had the next eight shots before scoring on a penalty kick after a handball call in the Crimson box at 43:05. Stephane Diop lined up and beat Harvard's Austin Harms with a shot, tying the game just before halftime. At the midway point, UConn led in shots, 11-2, and earned all three corner kicks of the first half.
In the 63rd minute, Harvard withstood a surge by the Huskies, as the Crimson defense blocked a shot by Tony Cascio, and moments later, Mamadou Diouf saw his shot from the top of the box hit the post. Late in the second, Harvard's Richard Smith headed a shot on net after a corner kick, but Ford was there to make the save and preserve the 1-1 score.
In the first extra session, Brian Rogers nearly ended the game in favor of the Crimson, but his try from the top of the box hit the crossbar at 93:37.
Harms finished the game with three saves, while Ford also recorded three stops. UConn had nine corner kicks, compared to one for the Crimson.
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| Battlegrounds are shared between multiple servers where their players can engage in PvP against other realms. Each group of realms is called a Battlegroup. Battlegroups were introduced in Patch 1.12.
In Patch 3.3.0 cross realm instances were introduced, and they are connected in the same groups as the battlegrounds.
With the introduction of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and Rated battlegrounds, battlegroups no longer apply to battlegrounds.[1][2] Players from different battlegroups can PvP against each other in both random and rated battlegrounds if they are in the same region (US, EU, etc.).
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Universal has stated that they want to make a "Shared Universe" for their monsters. This could be a good thing, or a very bad thing.
A 911 call was made from a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio. The caller stated that a man had a rifle, and was pointing it at people and kids. Police responded, and when they confronted him, they fired upon him quickly when they say he started to raise the rifle he was carrying. Afterwards, it was found that the firearm was actually a pellet gun, not the deadly weapon that the police feared. The 911 caller also admitted that he lied about what he saw on the call. It's a terrible mess. But there are a couple of things I would like to set straight.
Too many times, I hear people referring to themselves as "pagan" when the discussion of religion comes up. You really need to stop doing this, let me tell you why.
Any firearm that fires more than one bullet when you pull the trigger is considered a "Machine Gun" under US law. It doesn't matter if it fires in bursts, if its full auto, or even if it fires out of multiple barrels. People are always looking for different ways to get around this restriction and increase your rate of fire, without actually turning into a "Machine Gun" and having its sale restricted. One of the more popular items are bump fire stocks. A new contender is the bi-directional trigger by Liberty Gun Works.
So, one of those beard guys from the duck show wants everybody to see the new Left Behind movie.
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