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What we learned with the Kadri and Franson negotiations
Cam Charron
September 27 2013 10:56AM
We know you're wrong because you have a Big Bang Theory t-shirt.
Ryan Lambert over at Puck Daddy wrote a column that went up this morning about how the Toronto Maple Leafs mishandled their salary cap situation this summer. It's tough to disagree with the overarching point, that Toronto once had lots of cap space where now they have none, and if Frazer McLaren remains injured, there is a non-zero chance that Toronto will have to skate with 17 players in the opener next week to become salary cap-compliant.
But it's also not as bad as it could have been. Technology is much better now than it was five or six years ago, and we can watch not only all the games we want to, but we can also watch the decision-making process come to life. There's so much more information with which to judge players. I can remember coming out of the last lockout even, we knew the goals and assists and time on ice of the players our teams picked up, but without a handle on context everybody sort of trusted the eyes of scouts and management.
That's changed in recent years. No matter what your focus, you probably have an opinion on management beyond "I like what they did, wait and see" because you too see things a certain way and believe there are undervalued players and talents. Even people I've come across that have chided me for my frequent disagreement of Dave Nonis' moves because he's in the business and I'm not, seem to hold opinions on other franchises and the way they're run. One of Lambert's points is that the hockey blogosphere is teeming with lawyers and mathematicians and people that have a speciality related to a large part of hockey or the way it's run. One of my favourite hockey bloggers is a doctor, Jo Innes, who writes great stuff about injuries and giving greater clarification to what is happening to the bodies of these players.
Going to be another day where bloggers with no league contact think they know more than managers and league executives... #HereWeGoAgain— Anthony Nicholson (@N24Nicholson) September 27, 2013
Holding an opinion that's different than a manager is both a natural reflex, and a valid exercise. My speciality in the hockey blogosphere is data. I can find valuable information in spreadsheets, predict the performance of teams and players reasonably well (I missed on the Leafs last season, but accurately forecast their demise in 2011-2012. I also used those same metrics to, with confidence, poke holes at a reactionary Boston Bruins fan/blogger that suggested the Bruins were marching towards destruction because they had a poor record against Pittsburgh and Montreal last season). This leads to a huge problem when I'm in hockey pools because my opinion on players is slanted towards two-way players like Patrice Bergeron or Anze Kopitar who influence shot ratios, but don't get a lot of points for goals and assists, which is how pools are won and lost.
I don't think that it's necessary to defend the validity of analytics as they pertain to hockey, but I do think that, while I'm good at certain things relating to the game, I'm not as good with negotiations and have difficulty understanding certain aspects of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. I have a couple of friends that are lawyers and I ask them questions to clear things up about things pertaining to those aspects of the game, but left to my own devices and forced to think originally, I'm a little stumped. Frankly, I wouldn't even know how to even begin a negotiation for Benoit Pouliot, much less the process of signing him, so much as I know that having a real executive with experience sign Pouliot would be a good idea.
A lot of Leafs observers, and most that follow the Leafs in a professional capacity, completely overshot the amount of money that would be commanded by Nazem Kadri and Cody Franson. I have mentioned many times on this blog just how good Dave Nonis is with restricted free agents. While he overvalues toughness, he certainly does not overvalue RFAs, and while the Leafs are in a salary cap crunch right now it doesn't appear they'll have to lose a key player from the roster to become cap-compliant.
Here are some things I'd written about the process:
The situation is very clear: the Toronto Maple Leafs don't have the salary cap space to sign both Nazem Kadri and Cody Franson unless they a) move some salary or b) Dave Nonis is secretly a wizard.
the problem Nonis runs into is that Franson won't play for free in 2013-2014 and should get close to $3-million in this [one-year contract] scenario.
They have a 48-hour window to decide whether or not to buy out a contract that could help them sign Cody Franson and Nazem Kadri, two players that will likely command $7-million between the two, that the Maple Leafs do not have salary cap space for.
Perhaps the most telling paragraph is this one, from July 29th:
the team will have little depth if they fail to trade John-Michael Liles, and if Mark Fraser's arbitration award comes in at more than $900K, any demotion of his will count against the cap a little. The team can ill-afford to see Franson or Kadri come in at more than our projected amounts (Franson was at $2.8-million and Kadri at $3.5-million, but Carl Gunnarsson's deal was a little more than our $2.8-million projection, as was Jonathan Bernier) and every $100K counts during this season.
When you write for a living, like when you do any other job, you grow, you change, you make decisions differently. I think that the people paying attention to hockey got too caught up in the fact that so many players were cashing in long-term on their second contracts. Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Gabriel Landeskog, Tyler Seguin, Evander Kane… that it came as a bit of a shock that players like P.K. Subban came in at prices far lower than expected or that they're worth. The same happened for Nazem Kadri and Cody Franson.
The winter was interesting. Three key restricted free agents made it to the start of the season without signing deals: Subban, Ryan O'Reilly, and Jamie Benn. They each ended their holdouts in a different fashion. Subban signed the two-year cheap "bridge" contract, Benn signed long-term with a Dallas team in desperate need of a franchise face, and O'Reilly signed an offer sheet that was eventually matched.
Without that offer sheet, how long does O'Reilly last on the market without Colorado willing to admit they're willing to pay him, or that he's worth, $10-million over two seasons? They can wait forever, until O'Reilly decides to join. His leverage was nil. The Stars had more of a requirement to get Benn under contract but the Avalanche, not hoping to compete and having a plethora of other centremen, could wait for their own terms. So could the Montreal Canadiens. Without offer sheets, hockey teams have no real reason to rush into signing restricted free agents to contracts.
Until the events of the last two weeks, I'd never really given this much thought. That last paragraph from July 29 I quoted (and Mark Fraser came in at $375K more than my estimate) failed to mention that Carl Gunnarsson, Jonathan Bernier and Fraser were all arbitration-eligible players. Dave Nonis even mentioned in an interview that I struggle to find, that Bernier and Gunnarsson's contracts were wrapped up quickly because they had arbitration rights. With arbitration, the team runs a risk of the player's salary inflating for one year, and you don't get the player for a second season. In a salary cap crunch season, it was not a risk teams were willing to take, and of the 21 scheduled arbitration hearings, not a single one actually made it to court. All were settled, some of them on the courthouse steps.
Nonis, to his credit, correctly read into Kadri and Franson and realized they had no leverage. Kadri couldn't talk to the media without facing criticism and Nonis called Franson's bluff on the possibility of signing in Europe. I love Franson and I have to admit I got nervous during the negotiation because I didn't think he'd get a home in time for a chance to play 82 games, but ultimately he relented, realizing that he wanted to be in Toronto, and if he did, he had to play at a number that worked for the Maple Leafs. Despite the length of time the contracts took to sign, both Kadri and Franson will be around for the season opener, at a stunning $2.1-million less than I'd forecasted. While I assumed $7-million for both, Kadri came in at $2.9-million and Franson, somehow, at $2-million.
The savings is roughly equal to one Nik Kulemin, saving the Leafs from trading a roster player.
Being good at analyzing a certain part of the game doesn't make me impervious to analyzing a second, or even close to good at it. I have no clue why Franson didn't exercise his rights to arbitration, but he did, and it cost him a lot of money this season. I think I may have advised Nonis to go to arbitration with Jonathan Bernier, who has a real flimsy statistical record in the NHL to date, but he had more leverage in the situation. I would have, in retrospect, not qualified Fraser because his arbitration rights made him a very expensive commodity, but of the people looking back on that contract now, how many of them suggested an alternate course of action that would have avoided Fraser's big contract? I didn't read any. It's not like Nonis was the only general manager to have a depth player file for arbitration, with a case. That happened in Vancouver as well, and this is just the second time in NHL history that teams have been forced to spend less dollars after a short season. It would have been tough to predict that the Frasers and Dale Weises of the world would have had such an effect on a team's cap situation, but there you go.
So what did we learn? Nonis properly valued the leverage of a restricted free agent without arbitration rights, and I did not, and you do not have to be a wizard to do so. The above writing isn't a point I'm trying to reinforce, but things that are clearer now in benefit of hindsight. It is not entirely disproven that Dave Nonis is not a wizard, and I think for sure he would be sorted into House Hufflepuff, but he is not a wizard based on the fact the got two key players locked up for $2.1-million less than a blogger projected. It just means he has the negotiating experience necessary to know just how much such a player gets to command in a situation where he has little leverage.
Excellent read. Good summation of thoughts from July until now on the contract stuff. Well done sir.
September 27 2013, 11:12AM
You, and others myself included, only talked about what fair market value for Kadri and Franson most likely was. That's all. But Kadri and Franson weren't negotiating on the fair and open market. Did they have a case for bigger paychecks? Absolutely. Did they end up getting that money? No. Were you wrong to say they could? No.
September 27 2013, 02:09PM
"Holding an opinion that's different than a manager is both a natural reflex, and a valid exercise"
I have to ask, why is this a natural reflex? Are you simply trying to offer a different side of the spectrum or are you just being controversial for the sole purpose that people love a pessimist ?
I know that sounds rude and I'm honestly not trying to be I've personally just noticed that the articles on this site are about 90% criticism
Great read Cam. I think Nonis did a great job getting these two signed for the price he did.... but he didn't really have a choice - did he?
Also interesting.. Kadri, Franson and Raymond for 5.9 makes the Grabo buyout look a lot better than it's been portrayed.
Although.. signing both Orr and McLaren was about the dumbest thing I saw over the summer (league wide).
And now we know why Dave Nonis is a GM and you are a writer. As a fan of a given team we all have a tendency to fall in love with the teams players, and inflate their value. A GM has to view things from a business perspective, and I that when it comes to negotiating contracts, Nonis is much better than Burke was.
Good article Cam. It takes a lot to see over and above what others may see and think. I personally think GM Nonis has done a good job locking in some players but as stated by another comment, Nonis has to look at these contracts as a business, nothing else.
September 28 2013, 06:19AM
Cam, well done. A lot of people were skeptical through the summer; the cap looked like a black cloud.
Sometimes, I think we viewed the whole offseason with the wrong metaphor in mind. The image of everyone operating in a free market, as if players and employers issue and call bids until the market clears, doesn't really work.
One aspect of the proceedings that sometimes got lost was the strategic nature of the bargaining process -- that agents and management shaped each other's behaviour. This is how you get such divergent outcomes with Subban, Benn et al. Now you can throw Franson into this mix.
There was also a summer context. By August, most of the wealthy teams were up against their budget constraint. Those that weren't didn't have deep pockets. This is how Kadri and Franson had to take what they got.
Many writers and pundits exaggerated the problem because they presumed that there was a market where value and price would align. They do, on the whole, in the long run. But not under the oligopsonistic conditions of compressed negotiations. Competition between teams and players is not the same as free market.
The fact is, there is no way, in one summer after a shortened season working with a pretty severe CBA, that Nonis was going to be a rain-maker. No way. The best we could hope was an improvement of the team in decent increments. That's what Nonis has done, much as we chewed our finger nails along the way.
Even then, he had wiggle room to get Ranger and Mason, which gives the team good options. I'd say Bernier has the same effect.
Since the cap is going to make a mega-leap for next year (it has to: all the major market teams are in the same spot as the Leafs and they will drive the cap way up, and in the long run sink the marginal teams), Nonis can now work on long-term contracts for Kessel, Franson, Kulemin, (I'd throw Gardiner into this mix too).
All in all, the team is in very good shape -- so much better than a few years ago. Now, had Burke not done all the repositioning work for Nonis, he'd have far less to work with.


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Leinster ran in five tries to progress to the Challenge Cup semi-finals by beating Wasps 48-28 in an entertaining spectacle on Friday.
Leinster ran in five tries to progress to the Challenge Cup semi-finals by beating Wasps 48-28 in an entertaining spectacle on Friday.
The Irish side's experience in Europe shone through as they batted away a spirited challenge from Wasps, controlling possession and territory in the second half to keep the hosts at arm's length.
Rob Kearney's try before the 60-minute mark wrapped up the result, as Leinster now return to Dublin for the semi-final against Biarritz with an eye on winning some silverware at home in the Irish capital in May.
Wasps have won many admirers thanks to the performances of their talented youngsters this season and will have gained many more after this outing, but it was a key error from full-back Elliot Daly at the beginning of the second-half which lead to Leinster's third try and left the hosts chasing the game.
They had started so boldly – winger Christian Wade underlining his rising reputation with a stunning pair of tries in the opening quarter.
Wade toured with England to South Africa last year but has kicked on this season – and he showed it in abundance at Adams Park with a fine brace of tries in the first-half. He was fingertips away from a hat-trick chasing a kick on the stroke of half-time.
Ian Madigan however showed that he is another talent that cannot be ignored, finishing with 28 points to his name.
The Leinster fly-half's monster boot and nifty footwork kept the visitors in front throughout as he built on a fine solo try with an excellent kicking performance – the youngster reiterating that Leinster will not miss Johnny Sexton as sorely as first predicted when he leaves at the end of the season.
Wasps wasted no time in taking the lead, Wade finding enough space down the right wing to go over after good work from Italy international Andrea Masi in the build-up.
Leinster hit back through a try from Gordon D'Arcy – who had an excellent game – before Wade sent a message to the onlooking Warren Gatland and Stuart Lancaster by breaking through a gap and speeding round the tackle of Rob Kearney for his second try in 15 minutes.
Madigan responded with a special try of his own – slicing between Joe Launchbury and Marco Wentzel before rounding Elliot Daly to put Leinster in front, adding a penalty minutes later to put Leinster 17-12 ahead.
Robinson responded with a penalty for Wasps but good work from Cian Healy at the scrum lead to Madigan striking again, Leinster going into half-time 20-15 ahead.
Sustained pressure from Leinster after the break yielded first a penalty for Madigan, before the error from Daly was pounced upon by Isa Nacewa and recycled by Mike Ross, who burrowed over with a little help from his friends – Leinster leading 30-15 and leaving Wasps on the ropes.
Both sides traded penalties as Leinster continued to take control, stretching the Wasps defence and winning the collisions before sealing the win as Rob Kearney crashed over following fine work by Sean O'Brien.
Tom Varndell grabbed two tries either side of another score for Leinster from Nacewa as both teams used the full width of the pitch to attack, carrying on from another enthralling match the previous night at Kingsholm between Gloucester and Biarritz.
A further penalty from Madigan added another touch of gloss to a busy scoreboard, Leinster underlining their class as Wasps left with plenty to be proud of, but an indication of the work to be done ahead in order to become a force in Europe once again.
The scorers:
For Wasps:
Tries: Wade 2, Varndell 2
Cons: Robinson
Pens: Robinson 2
For Leinster:
Tries: D'Arcy, Madigan, Ross, R Kearney, Nacewa
Cons: Madigan 4
Pens: Madigan 5
Wasps: 15 Elliott Daly, 14 Christian Wade, 13 Andrea Masi, 12 Chris Bell, 11 Tom Varndell, 10 Nicky Robinson, 9 Joe Simpson, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Sam Jones, 6 Joe Launchbury, 5 Marco Wentzel, 4 Tom Palmer, 3 Phil Swainston, 2 T Rhys Thomas, 1 Zak Taulafo.
Replacements: 16 Tom Lindsay, 17 Tim Payne, 18 William Taylor, 19 Jonathan Poff, 20 Billy Vunipola, 21 Charlie Davies, 22 Stephen Jones, 23 Hugo Southwell.
Leinster: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Dave Kearney, 13 Fergus McFadden, 12 Gordon D'Arcy, 11 Isa Nacewa, 10 Ian Madigan, 9 Isaac Boss, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 Sean O'Brien, 6 Kevin McLaughlin, 5 Devin Toner, 4 Leo Cullen, 3 Mike Ross, 2 Richardt Strauss, 1 Cian Healy.
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Jack McGrath, 18 Jamie Hagan, 19 Quinn Roux, 20 Shane Jennings, 21 John Cooney, 22 Andrew Goodman, 23 Andrew Conway.
Referee: Pascal Gauzère (France)
Assistant referees: Marius Mitrea (Italy), Neil Hennessy (Wales)
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TUPELO – Renasant Corp. reported net income of $7.57 million in the first quarter, a 27 percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
For Renasant, the parent of Renasant Bank, the quarterly earnings represented 30 cents a share, 2 cents higher than consensus estimates.
In the first three months of 2012, Renasant earned $5.97 million, or 24 cents a share.
"Our strong start to 2013 represents the fifth consecutive quarter of improvement in net income and earnings per share," said Renasant Chairman and CEO Robin McGraw. "The results for the first quarter of 2013 reflect loan and deposit growth, higher levels of noninterest income and lower credit costs as we experienced significant improvements in our credit quality metrics."
Total loans, which include loans covered and not covered under FDIC loss-share agreements, were $2.81 billion in the first quarter, compared to $2.60 billion last year.
Total deposits grew to $3.56 billion from $3.47 billion.
Renasant's net interest margin – the difference between what the interest income from loans and the amount of interest it pays – was 3.89 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to 3.85 percent a year earlier.
Net interest income was $33.4 million versus $32.8 million a year earlier, while non-interest income was $17.3 million, compared to $16.4 million last year.
Renasant set aside $46.5 million for loan losses, representing 1.79 percent of loans, compared to last year's allowance for loan losses of $44.2 million, or 1.94 percent of loans.
The company's nonperforming loans declined from $30.4 million to $28 million. As a percentage of total loans, NPL were 1.08 percent in the first three months of the year, compraed to 1.33 percent in last year's first quarter.
Renasant charged off $893,000 during the first quarter, an 82 percent decrease from $5 million in net charge-offs a year eariler.
The company's provision for loan losses fell to $3.1 million, compared to $4.8 million for the first quarter of 2012.
Total assets as of March 31 were $4.27 billion.
McGraw also noted Renasant's recent announcement of its planned acquisition of Kosciusko-based First M&F Corp., the parent of M&F Bank. That $119 million deal is expected to be completed by the third quarter.
"In addition to our strong financial start for this year, during the first quarter of 2013, we also announced our plans to acquire First M&F Corp. … a $1.6 billion financial services company with 36 full-service locations in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee," he said. "This will be the largest merger in our company's history and, upon completion of the transaction, the pro forma combined company will have approximately $5.8 billion in total assets and 123 full-service locations."
Renasant (Nasdaq GS: RNST) closed Tuesday at $22.09 a share, up 20 cents. It announced its earnings after the market closed.
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Skip to comments.Man Faces Charges For Firing Warning Shots at Gang on His Lawn
Posted on 09/07/2010 8:01:18 PM PDT by Coleus
A homeowner who grabbed a rifle from his house and fired warning shots in a confrontation with a group of men on his lawn faces criminal charges, but his family said he was defending his home from a threatening mass of strangers.
George Grier, 30, fired rounds into the ground and air from an assault-style rifle after arguing with a large group of men gathered outside his Long Island home Sunday evening, Nassau County police said Monday. No one was hurt.
His sister, Caprice Rines, said Grier feared for the safety of his wife and two small children when about 20 men converged on his Uniondale lawn after two of them began quarreling. He didn't know the men, who ignored his requests to leave and kept approaching the house, she said.
If that were me, I probably would have just called the police department first and let them handle it. If they were illegal aliens, they probably would have run away when the cops showed up. And, he probably could have conveyed his message by just brandishing his rifle instead of actually shooting it where he could have killed somebody for loitering on his lawn.
Dumbass prosecutor.
What the hell is an "assault-style rifle"?
I'd have fired ONCE into the ground directly in front of the approaching fighter. The next shot would have found a much softer target...
Call the cops and wait for them to come thru the front door. Firing bullets into the air can kill someone else.
"Shannon Smith had been an award-winning athlete and honor student, and had graduated from the eighth grade a few weeks prior to her death. While standing in her backyard and talking on the telephone with a friend, a stray bullet hit her in her head, causing instant death. Smith's death sparked a furor among Arizona residents. Her funeral was attended by approximately 1,300 mourners."
The best warning shots would be into the soft target first.
The dirt is no threat.
That said, he had the wrong firearm with him. A 12 gauge with 00 buck would be a far more effective tool. For noise effect, a 410 would work well too.
"Get off my lawn!"
Call 911 and Die
One of the most basic rules of marksmanship is know what you are shooting at and be sure of your backstop (what your bullet will hit if you miss or your bullet goes through your target).
If you are shooting in the air you have know idea what you are shooting at or where your bullet will eventually come to rest.
I have read of many tragedies caused by hunters and shooters who did not follow these two simple rules.
I agree this man had the right to defend his home but he did recklessly fire his rifle in the air. He may be guilty of reckless endangerment of his neighbors.
And wait 40 minutes for the cops to show up?
A deer rifle....
Totally Awesome Guns and Range commercial
Love that movie!
For all you and I know...the guy had blanks!
It was great.
George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious MS-13. He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.
I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, Can you please leave? Grier said.
Grier said the five men dared him to use the gun; and that their shouts brought another larger group of gang members in front of his house.
He starts threatening my family, my life. Oh youre dead. Im gonna kill your family and your babies. Youre dead. So when he says that, 20 others guys come rushing around the corner. And so I fired four warning shots into the grass, Grier said.
Wasn't that the point he was making?
One more reason down here we say Southern by the Grace of God!
What goes up, must come down.
I don't live far from the scene of the incident, and from what our local papers are saying the mob on the man's lawn were hispanic gang members. From photos, Mr. Grier is a black man. The town of Uniondale is primarily black and hispanic and is not a very nice place. In the last 25 years or so, the area has become very crime ridden. The papers do not say why these gang members were on Grier's lawn in the first place, but it seems terrible that a homeowner cannot protect his own domicile from harm. I did not know that Long Island would consider Grier's action criminal. Can't wait to leave this place.
Yep. Clint Eastwood. A M1 Garand. What could be wrong with that?
You may be right.
But if he did it would be obvious to the guys on his lawn.
To fire blanks from a semi-auto rifle you have to do one of two things.
One; manually cycle the bolt for each shot.
Two; install a special attachment over the muzzle of the rifle to provide the backpressure necessary to cycle the bolt automatically. (Typically this attachment is about three times the size of the muzzle of the rifle and painted orange so that the training officer can see that it is installed)
Either one of these things makes it obvious to anyone familiar with guns that you are firing blanks.
If you have a recoil operated semi-auto you just have to manually cycle the bolt.
Do we know he was arrested for the air shot and not for firing, period?
Is that a good movie? Someone gave me the DVD for my birthday, but I still haven't watched. Clint lost me as a fan with the craptastic movie about the girl boxer who pulled the plug at the end.
'Firing bullets into the air can kill someone else.'
I guess you didn't read the article. Read before posting.
Go read it again if you're missing my point.
In NY this is probably true.
I merely state that firing in the air is reckless. No one should do that especially in an urban setting. You cannot predict where the shot will land.
The smart way to fire a warning shot is to fire in to the ground as close to vertically as possible
Of course firing a warning shot at all is debatable.
Warning shots are for idiots that saw too many movies.
Great movie...if you enjoy watching un-politically correct tough old codgers delivering beat-downs on hip-hop gang thugs!
Watch it, I think you will like it. (for the record, that other movie did nothing for me either...I thought it was BS)
"What goes up, must come down."
But shots FIRED INTO one's lawn need not come UP!
This guy did a few very stupid things. He showed a weapon before one was, strictly speaking, necessary, hoping it would talk for him, thus telegraphing fear. He fired 4 "warning" shots into the ground after being challenged by a punk who correctly assessed that he was afraid of using the gun. He fired a shot into the air.
Guns are very serious things; when a man points one he ought to mean it. Guns aren't made for negotiation.
They wouldn't know a cap pistol from a .270 rifle......
Based on the story linked from post 22, I'd have to take this guy's side 100%. I hope the courts rule in his favor. He'll probably have to move his family away now, though.
This story reminds me of another story in NY a few years ago. In that story, the homeowner used an old gun that wasn't registered, and a teen was killed. The homeowner was sentenced to two years.
I hope this guy isn't charged with anything. He only shot warning shots. With all the gang activity, how else are the residents supposed to protect themselves?
They're for use AFTER the warnings have failed.
I had to sit there quite some time...during the credits. Kinda choked up....
My girl really liked the movie too...we laughed out loud 5-6 times....
You should watch it, FRiend.
Best FRegards,
Put me on the jury.
This guy's mistake was going outside.
1) Call police.
2) Close and lock all doors and windows.
3) Wait.
4) If perps enter,shoot to kill.
Never go outside with a weapon in the case of home defence.
I am sure myth busters may have to do this but I think a 7.62 round shot "in the air" would not do much more harm that taking that same bullet and throwing it as hard as you can at someone.
Think terminal velocity. If it was fired at less than a 45 degree arc than it would have been dangerous.
to imagine terminal velocity of an object, you can imagine driving a car and having that object(a bullet) suspended on a string outside the window. Now drive the car fast enough to have that object on a string reach a 45 degree angle(fudging for the string drag) and you have the terminal velocity for that object.
A paper cups terminal velocity might be 10 MPH and a penny's terminal velocity might be 30 MPH. A tumbling bullet? I don't know.
I am guessing it would be about as fast as a MLB pitcher could throw it and it would suck to get hit by it but I don't think it would be deadly, unless it hit you in the eye and if that happened it just wasn't your day.
Not much...FRiend.
You: "I guess you didnt read the article. Read before posting."
Article: "George Grier, 30, fired rounds into the ground and air "
I read the article, and YOU need to read before criticizing someone else.
A San Antonio man was shot 13 times. As police investigated, gangs began to fight. As arrests commenced, rioting broke out in the neighborhood. I saw this reported on broadcast tv last night.
Dunno about that. Did they get off his lawn and leave him and his family alone?
That was what he was trying to accomplish, wasn't it?
No one died. No one was hurt. They left him alone. Seems like an effective negotiation strategy to me.
And in general ... if your house is being surrounded by 10-20 gang members, the last thing you want to do is to attract their attention in a hostile way. It might be a manly thing to do, but tactically it is unwise. Most likely they don't even know or care about your existence. You gain nothing by revealing yourself and your capabilities. Negotiations with gangs are unlikely anyway; the only people you can negotiate with are probably nice enough that you don't need to.
So from my "monday morning quarterback" POV, the best plan of action for him would be to call the police, then to hunker down at the house, distribute weapons and ammo to all able family members and allocate them to cover doors and windows. If any of these entry points is breached by criminals then the defenders have clear legal right to use deadly force.
"I am sure myth busters may have to do this but I think a 7.62 round shot in the air would not do much more harm that taking that same bullet and throwing it as hard as you can at someone."
Wrong. They can kill when they come down unless you manage a perfect 90 deg into the air shot.
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HELPER-Stella F. Gigliotti, 96, passed away June 19, 2009 in Salt Lake City.
She was born on Feb. 18, 1913 in Helper, Utah to Frank and Elizabeth Siletta Felice.
At the young age of 16, Stella eloped with Ross Gigliotti and they spent 67 years together until his death on July 13, 1996. They had three children, eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and one great-great- grandchild. As a loving and deeply caring grandmother, she helped raise several of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Stella loved being with people, especially young people. She spent countless hours sharing her wisdom with people who came into her grocery store and gas station. She donated a large portion of her property to create one of the first free urban fishing ponds in Utah. It was important to her that children have a place to fish.
Stella will be remembered for her beautiful roses and delicious cooking. "Stella's Kitchen" is a treasured family cookbook.
She had a deep love for the Bible and became one of Jehovah's Witness in 1973. She was looking forward to a paradise earth where she could learn to ski and drive.
Her motto was "Make your smile your umbrella on a rainy day."
She is survived by her children, Eunetta Button, Shirley Martin, and Ross D. Gigliotti; sister, Matilda Davido; brothers, Rudy Felice and Frank Marrelli.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ross; brothers, Ernie Felice and Charles Marrelli; and her grand daughter, Paula Peay Earl.
The family would like to thank Applegate Hospice, Home Instead and her friends and family for their loving care and support.
Funeral services, Saturday, June 27, 2009, 11 a.m., Mitchell Funeral Home, 233 East Main Street in Price. Family will be at Mitchell's Saturday one hour prior to services. Interment, Mt. View Cemetery, Helper.


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pffft they have nothing on the MAPLE SYRUP HEIST
lol thats amazing and the best part of it was they didnt locate the chicken wings XD
hehee, as a black guy ill proudly say that these 2 fella's raised the bar of stereotypical behaviour hahahaha.
OMg thats amazing but ay hahaha, bloody brilliant haha
hahaha these guys forfilled the dreams of black peopel everywhere hahahah XD
I'm just wondering how many grape sodas it would take to wash down that many wings..
I Lold at the obvious racist jokes made that day.
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I tried anchovies for the first time a few weeks ago. I actually really, really enjoy them. Everyone says they just taste like salt, and sure they're salty, but there is other flavor. Tasty flavor! :)
Since Pizza Hut talk's been going on, at Pizza Hut, you can buy 14 wings for $10.00. That's around $0.71 apiece. So, $65,000.00 divided by $0.71 is...91,549 and 1/3 of a wing. Oh my. They could stand sharing, I think.
Wings sound really great right now. I might get some tonight. Those spicy asian boneless...oh god, I'm salivating.
Then again, I guess I've never really looked! I'll put that on my shopping list for Sunday.
I love Tobasco sauce and Tobasco flavored things. Not sure if you know what I'm talking about, but Slim Jim makes a Tobasco-flavored one and those are great.I also recently tried tabasco sauce on pizza. It works really well. So much so that if feels like something is missing without it. I think the main reaon why things like anchovies and tobasco work so well is because they have only one really strong taste. So they can make the pizza saltier/spicier without conflicting too much with the flavors already contained in the pizza.
I know just what you mean! Banana peppers are great toppings on pizza too, and I think it's for that same reason. They don't interfere with all of the other tastiness.
I don't like anchovies because my childhood cartoons didn't and I refuse to try something new.
anchovies are bad and you should all feel bad. my mum orders pizzas with anchovies, and one time the.... anchovy juice managed to get on my pizza (they must have been cooking it directly underneath. about a quarter of the base of my pizza was soggy with anchovy juice and it ruined the whole pizza for me
i don't want to live through winteri can't stand to see everything ending
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Is there anything creepier than zombies coming to life in the middle of the woods on a cold, wet fall night under the light of the moon?
Perhaps a chainsaw-wielding clown chasing you down a ravine or werewolves feasting on elk bones around the bend might be one response, or a headless horseman riding through the trees from nowhere ready to take you to the land of the dead.
If you have it in you or if you dare, then venture into Highlands Ranch's backcountry this weekend, but beware, you may not make it out alive.
For the second consecutive year and the first with ample time to prepare and plan, the Backcountry Wilderness team is beckoning you to enter the Haunted Forest.
Open from 7-10 p.m. Oct. 26-27, and starting behind Rocky Heights Middle School, 11033 Monarch Boulevard, Highlands Ranch, the adult-friendly (or not so friendly) freak fest will have just about everything one could ask for in a Haunted House. Yet instead of taking it inside, come rain or snow, the fright will all occur along a three-quarter-mile-long trail filled with graveyards, low-hanging trees and lots of hidden surprises.
"There will be a lot of jumping out," said Backcountry Wilderness Area coordinator Hope Marasco, adding that one of the thrills will be people not being able to differentiate between which ghouls and skeletons are props and which are real.
"The imagination just goes wild in the dark," Marasco said. "It's so much fun to be able to create this, envision it and watch it materialize."
Marasco said that this year's forest will be much scarier than last year's, as they learned after the first go-round that they need to keep the thrills coming and maintain a degree of consistency from beginning to middle to end.
Advanced tickets can be purchased for $8 at any HRCA Recreation Center. Tickets are $12 at the gate. There will be no will-call available and there is no wheelchair or stroller access available. It is recommended that participants be 10 and older.
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The 24-team solution
Cam Charron
September 05 2012 10:44AM
All of a sudden, we feel the need to drop teams from the NHL roster. Michael Grange suggested four, but in the interest of balance, let's drop six, for two 12-team conferences. Right now, the teams are spread out, few are shown on television, and the NHL cannot obviously compete financially in the United States with a league similarly sized to the NFL and MLB.
But this leads me to a question, one that I'm determined to answer before the next round of contraction or relocation:
If it were in the best interests of the National Hockey League to have fewer teams, why wouldn't there already be fewer teams?
My general belief is that while hockey teams are maybe run poorly from a hockey perspective, some of the best businessmen in North America are the ones who run teams. The NHL, under the leadership of Gary Bettman, has been dug from a niche sport popular in Canada and the Northeastern United States into a multi-billion dollar sport popular in Canada and the Northeastern United States.
There are markets getting arenas popping up that would be more suitable for NHL hockey than anywhere else. Kansas City has money, the desire for a team, and nothing to do in their sports world in the winter. Ditto Seattle, who are looking into an arena to get their basketball team back. Québec City broke ground on a new building and Markham, a short drive North of Toronto, is looking to get in on the action.
Are there ten teams that the NHL could conceivably leave behind to create the 24-team league?
According to Forbes' franchise values from last season, the ten lowest revenue markets in the league, to move four and accommodate contraction for six, were Phoenix, Atlanta, Long Island, St. Louis, Columbus, Raleigh, Miami, Nashville, Denver and Anaheim. But Atlanta have already moved North to Winnipeg. That slots Buffalo in at #11.
But hang on. Carolina, Nashville and Buffalo have pretty good fan support. Youth hockey programs in North Carolina and Tennessee are probably just a few years away from sending their first wave of kids to major hockey development programs, in fact Joshua Wesley was on last season's U-17 USA Hockey National Developmental Team, a Raleigh player born in 1996, playing minor hockey with the Carolina Jr. Hurricanes.
Around the mid-aughts, the Western Hockey League saw a giant surge of players from California, players inspired by the Wayne Gretzky-led Los Angeles Kings and recent teams added in the Bay Area and Anaheim. The expansion program was a long-term plan that is now beginning to see benefits. As hockey grows in more places, more players will develop, and the game will be more fun.
So, fine. Let's leave Nashville, Carolina and Buffalo alone. We'll also cut Kansas City from our re-location plans, which also allow us to keep a midwestern team in Denver. That means the following teams will be cut:
-NY Islanders
-St. Louis
Three teams are being re-located, so we've determined, to Seattle, Markham and Québec, places where the NHL will make more money and the league can survive on more of a free market system.
Now we're at 27 teams, an unbalanced number, if we're heartless and take away the Islanders from Long Island. They're a team with ownership issues, like Chicago was in the Bill Wirtz days, and arena issues, like Pittsburgh in the Mellon Arena days. Both teams have grown into revenue powerhouses. So we'll keep them along for the ride, and now we're back at 28:
|Smythe Division
|Adams Division
|Calgary Flames
|Boston Bruins
|Dallas Stars
|Buffalo Sabres
|Edmonton Oilers
|Markham Not Torontos
|Los Angeles Kings
|Montreal Canadiens
|San Jose Sharks
|Ottawa Senators
|Seattle Vente Lattes
|Québec Accent Aigus
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|Toronto Maple Leafs
|Norris Division
|Patrick Division
|Chicago Blackhawks
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|New York Islanders
|Minnesota Wild
|New York Rangers
|Nashville Predators
|Philadelphia Flyers
|Pittsburgh Penguins
|Tampa Bay Lightning
|Winnipeg Jets
|Washington Capitals
Okay, so we've subtracted five teams and added three. The free market dictates this, I guess, but you still have no insurance against turmoil. It's not like this 28-team league, set up to the same collective bargaining constraints against a similar NHLPA.
The teams may be from more familiar lands, but it's homogenous. Markham makes sense for the players, as they'll be sure to draw more league revenue, but without a revenue sharing system, where does Philadelphia see the benefits? Or New York? Markham lies in the interests of few people, but having a strong team in Anaheim makes more. You have more exposure, and hockey players growing up in unfamiliar places that aren't known for breeding hockey players.
In short, while I'm determined to answer the question from above is a clearer manner, this is my theory for why the 24-team solution, or the 28-team solution, or all the back-of-the-envelope proposals to move teams North, doesn't exactly work out longer term for the NHL.
How does the above 28-team league make more money for the Toronto Maple Leafs where the current 30-team format doesn't?
Am I the only one thinking this would actively make things worse for the teams at the top? As long as there are stragglers, they can justify giving the players a smaller share of the revenue pie, which will disproportionally benefit them. There are reasonable reasons why they should want to minimize revenue sharing (why subsidize your own competition if you don't have to?), which means as long as there are teams struggling at the bottom there are sound reasons for them to advocate cutting costs league-wide (beyond just "we want more money," even if that's the underlying motivation). Take away the financial struggles and the league as a whole is better off, but the businessmen at the top aren't.
Between that and the PR hit the league would probably take in any big shakeup, plus the extra factors you point out, I don't see the demand for it.
September 05 2012, 12:41PM
Of course you're right, Cam. From a self-interested perspective, it is absolutely in the interest of the NHL's money-making teams to have a handful of money losing teams in the league. It provides the cover they need for the league as a whole to cry poverty. On the margin, it also increases the rich teams' revenue from league-wide TV, merchandising and other contracts, with minimal cost. In fact, the only cost to those teams is whatever is required through revenue sharing, which is why they want to keep this as minimal as possible.
On the flip side, the NHLPA obviously wants as many teams as possible because that means more jobs for their members.
The only real reason to contract, IMO, is to improve quality of the on-ice product. I've said this before*, and I know my stuff is almost all tongue-in-cheek and/or outright mockery, so the underlying themes are usually glossed over, but seriously: how much better would hockey games be if 2-3 of each teams' current fourth liners couldn't make the NHL? That's what you're really talking about, when you contemplate contraction.
I guess the contradiction I see in the NHL's position is they like to talk like they're one big organization and how can small market teams survive, multi-million dollar losses, yada yada yada. If this was a real issue, the logical solution would be some combination of increased revenue sharing and fewer teams bleeding cash. But the fact the NHL owners don't want to consider either of these options illustrates the validity of the premise.
Now, if the NHL was an actual corporation and each team was a division, you can bet your bottom dollar that they would have contracted and/or relocated teams long ago.
Just remember: always ask yourself, "Is this good for Ed Snider?"
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September 05 2012, 10:33PM
I just can't get behind any contraction discussion that doesn't include moving the Sens to, say, the Kamchatka Peninsula. Sorry, Cam.
September 06 2012, 08:05AM
Well, the benefit to the Leafs of a smaller league would be a better chance of making the playoffs. We were pretty good when there was only six teams.


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19-year-old Selena Gomez plays Grace AND Cordelia in the new movie Monte Carlo (rated PG).
Q: This movie is about having your dream come true. Was becoming a teenage idol part of your dream in your life? How was it to play two people in one movie?
Selena: Yes. My dream was to just do what I love, so I guess the outcome has been really surprising and wonderful for me. As far as playing two roles, that was really fun. I was nervous though as all get out. I was really nervous because Cordelia was a totally different character for me. She was completely evil and had to have an accent, so I was a little nervous, but I had a great time.
Q: Could you tell me about the challenges and rewards of working in TV versus film?
Selena: For me I worked on a sitcom, so I had four cameras; we had an audience and my hours were maybe 10 hours a day. And I enjoyed that. It was actually easy and I was very comfortable. On film, we worked night shoots at six, worked 14 hour days, but the reward was being on this beautiful location and meeting awesome people. It was fun.
Q: What was your favorite scene in the movie?
Selena: My favorite scene in the movie would maybe be the end where I'm saying goodbye to Leighton [Meester] because our characters go up this huge arc, so it's really nice to see us bond at the end. And there's another scene that I like where I'm with Katie [Cassidy] in the bed and we're kind of talking about our feelings and what we're going through, and it's really sweet and Katie does a great job.
Q: Could you talk about wearing the gorgeous clothes?
Selena: Tom Bezucha, who directed the film, wanted it to be really beautiful and not very bright, but just uplifting, and he did a very good job with it. Grace's wardrobe is very Texan and very simple but very pretty. Cordelia's was very intense. She wore really amazing dresses and jackets and glasses and purses and earrings, and it was really fun to create that whole vibe because she wasn't the kind of heiress I thought she was going to be. She was very high-fashion. My personal style is just simple and I like comfortable things.
Q: The movie is all about this like once in a lifetime adventure. In your own life, do you have one memorable summer adventure?
Selena: For me, it would probably have to be this movie. I was 17 when I shot the film and I got to live in Budapest for six weeks and go to Paris and Monte Carlo for two weeks and work with Katie and Leighton which was awesome. So for me, that whole experience was really life-changing. I learned so much on this film. So I would say that was one of the best summers.
Q: The movie begins with a graduation scene. Could you talk about what your school experience was like, and if you have advice for kids about going back to school in the fall.
Selena: I went to school up until eighth grade, so it was Middle School for me. I was not a very popular kid. I kind of sat in the back. I had, like, two friends and my cousin was the captain of the cheerleading team, so nobody picked on me because she was the most popular, so she was always very protective of me. My advice though is it's so hard to not give in to all the trends and what people are saying. So hard to do that, but ultimately I would much rather be the oddball out than create something of myself that I'm not proud of. I don't know if that's advice but I really hope that they stay who they are.
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NEW YORK - It is 8:40 Friday night in the middle of the New York Yankees clubhouse.
The Yankees just won the American League Division Series title, a 3-1 victory against the Baltimore Orioles in Game 5, a dramatic back-and-forth series in which the Yankees never scored multiple runs in an inning since Game 1.
Yet, just 42 minutes after the last out is recorded, the clubhouse is virtually silent.
There is no music. Reliever Derek Lowe is talking to reporters on one side of the clubhouse. Pitcher Ivan Nova, who was not even active, is having a private conversation with a reporter. Raul Ibanez, the hero of the series, is quietly doing interviews in front of his locker.
There is no other player in the room. The champagne bottles and corks have already been cleared from the floor.
The clubhouse attendants are taking the plastic lining down from the lockers.
There have been wilder celebrations in spring-training games than this tepid party.
"This is no different than May,'' Lowe says. "What are you going to do? We win, you go home. You play again in 24 hours.''
That's it?
"Hey, we won the East, and there was no big celebration,'' Lowe says. "This is what is expected.
"I'm not saying you don't celebrate. It's not something you're not proud of. But this isn't your ultimate goal. Your ultimate goal is to get a World Series ring.''
Well, I hate to be second-guessing the Yankees' party-planning committee, but they should have had a raucous celebration. Going deep into the night. Lasting into the wee hours of the morning.
Sure, they'll be playing again at 8:07 tonight at Yankee Stadium against the Detroit Tigers in the American League Championship Series, but come on, it's not like ballplayers have never played a game without a hangover.
This was a mistake not to party.
You see, this will be their final celebration of the year.
They have to beat the Tigers four times in seven games to advance to the World Series.
It ain't happening.
It won't even be close.
The Tigers will win this series, and may even dominate it.
Sure, everyone knows that Cy Young candidate Justin Verlander, who pitched a complete-game shutout Thursday night against Oakland, won't be able to pitch again until Game 3. Of course, he'll also be rested for Game 7, if needed.
The Yankees, who got a Verlander-esque performance from CC Sabathia with his complete game, won't have Sabathia again until Game 4. If there is a Game 7, he'll have to pitch on short rest.
This is a problem. A huge problem. The Tigers have Doug Fister and Anibal Sanchez for Games 1-2, Verlander in Game 3, and Max Scherzer in Game 4.
The Yankees simply can't match up with this rotation, no matter if Andy Pettitte discovers the Fountain of Youth or not. He'll be followed by Hiroki Kuroda and Phil Hughes before Sabathia even sees the mound again.
And, oh yeah, the Yankee staff will be facing the greatest 3-4 punch in baseball: Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder.
If that's not enough to cause a few sleepless nights, let's not forget about the unrest that will be engulfing the Yankees' clubhouse daily.
The Tigers do not have a single left-handed starter. Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is right-handed.
If Yankees manager Joe Girardi benched Rodriguez against Orioles right-handed starter Jason Hammel on Friday, why would he play Rodriguez against any of the Tigers' vaunted starters?
"I have to look in the mirror and do what I can,'' Rodriguez said before the game, "to do the best I can. Don't assume that you've heard the last from us or me.''
Well, judging from the uproar in New York over Rodriguez's benching on Friday, why would the controversy suddenly disappear as the stakes go higher?
"I usually say I am going to worry about one day at a time,'' Girardi said. "I am going to worry about tonight. And I'll have a lineup for you tomorrow.''
The conventional thinking is that Rodriguez will be back in the lineup in Game 1. The thinking is also that if A-Rod goes hitless again, he won't be back in the next day. Or the day after.
And certainly not against Verlander.
You don't think the tabloids will have a little fun with that, with the highest-paid player in baseball sitting on the bench as if he's gathering sunflower seeds for the fellas?
"All I know is that it's going to be a tough series,'' says Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira. "They have one of the toughest pitching staffs in baseball. Their 3-4 combo is the best in all of baseball. And they've got Verlander.
"They get your attention.''
Yes, indeed, that's why it would have made a whole lot more sense if Lowe's teammates had hung around, and didn't turn their party into a church social.
Well, if nothing else, a Detroit writer suggested to Lowe, the Yankees were at least dashing the Tigers' hopes that they'd show up Saturday night hung-over and bleary eyed.
"Yep, look around, there's me, and that's it,'' Lowe said. "Write about me. Write that the long reliever had a drink.
"Yeah, [write that] they're screwed. Call Vegas. They're done.''
That's precisely the point.
They are done. So why not enjoy this moment. This will be their last party of the year.
Tigers in five. No more than six.


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- A new study says there's $75 million a year in the millisecond differences between SPDR S&P 500 ETF and stock-index futures. – Sam Mamudi, Bloomberg News
- Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. accuses a former hedge-fund analyst of stealing trading models from the $14 billion hedge-fund firm Two Sigma Investments. — Nathan Vardi, Forbes.com
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- 2013 will go down as the year that ETFs caught up with index mutual funds. — Murray Coleman, Wall Street Journal


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A key reason many people seek a graduate degree is to create a better life for themselves and their families. Smith students are challenged to make necessary sacrifices during their graduate business study. For many students, not having been in an academic environment for several years is a big adjustment.
It is possible to successfully balance both your graduate business program and your family life.
Smith graduate students in all programs have said that it is crucial to enlist the support of family at the outset – cooperation and understanding by spouses, children and other family members will be a large part of your success and give you peace of mind during the program.
Even with long nights of studying and writing papers – the Smith curriculum offers the options that will allow you to create a good balance between the demands of school and home – all while receiving a quality education.
Smith students say you can expect to spend one to two hours of study time for each hour of lecture time. Working in teams can be more time-consuming – up to a full day on a weekend and a half-day or night meeting during the week. However, Smith faculty and your fellow students understand the juggling act you undertake every day and are flexible in making the experience as rewarding as possible.
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Smith's Family Club is a way for students, their spouses and families to meet and create informal support groups through recreational activities that get your family involved with your life at Smith and create opportunities for quality time.
While there are sacrifices to be made to obtain your Smith degree, the program is definitely manageable. In the end, expect the investment to not only pay big dividends in career advancement and upward mobility – but also in enriching the quality of life for you and your family.
Smith students are also encouraged to leverage the Family Care Resource and Referral Service at the University of Maryland. This service is another step in UMD's efforts to achieve excellence in all areas of campus life by providing free seminars, one-on-one consultations and informational resources to students who have child care and elder care needs. Further information about these services is available on the University Human Resources website.


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We designed this initiative based on input we received from our employees and nonprofit organizations around the world. The result is an effort that mobilizes the expertise, talent, and passion of our employees in skilled volunteer projects that make a sustainable and meaningful difference for nonprofits. At the same time, it provides valuable learning opportunities and supports career development for Adobe participants.
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The Inneract Project (IP), a nonprofit based in San Francisco, Calif., provides free design education to inner-city youth and their communities, serving as a facilitator to aspiring career designers and a mentor to youth pursuing higher education. One of the key determinants of IP's success is its ability to inform parents about the value and practical application of design education. To address this need, IP engaged a team of Adobe Pro Bono volunteers, including designers and developers. This group was tasked with creating marketing materials to highlight successful professionals with backgrounds in design. Volunteers captured video footage of innovators, creators, and designers who had inspiring stories to share about their unique career paths. This footage became part of a documentary series which is now featured on the IP website, serving as an accessible tool for youth and their parents.
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Brookfield Central junior wins local competition
Ellen Linnihan probably said it best on why Abbie Taylor was recently crowned the 2013 Distinguished Young Woman of Brookfield.
"Abbie is incredibly well rounded," said Linnihan, the chairperson for the DYW of Brookfield and Elm Grove. "She's got phenomenal energy and is well respected by her peers.
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"It's a huge honor because it's such an honorable program," said Taylor, who now moves on to the state competition in the summer against other local winners. "It was just an awesome experience."
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In addition to winning the fitness competition and the chef award, Taylor was an alternate winner in three of the five categories, including the interview section, talent competition and self expression.
She also impressed those in attendance when she talked about her love for diversity and helping those less fortunate in working with the Association for the Rights of Citizens with handicaps organization.
Taylor hopes to translate this love into her career as she aspires to work in the special education field.
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Denver, CO - Going on offense to advance financial literacy, Visa USA has teamed up with John Lynch and Jake Plummer of the Denver Broncos to talk with Denver students about driving toward the end-zone in a different game, one which prepares them to become fiscally fit adults.
"When I was in high school, there were no classes to educate us about how to make smart, informed decisions about money management," said John Lynch to a crowded room full of students and teachers at South High School in Denver.
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John Lynch, Jake Plummer and South High School Business Finance Teacher, Richard Cole, helped coach a class of approximately forty (40) students, which was split up into two teams. Together, they engaged students using an animated computer game called "Financial Football." The content, developed with the cooperation of the NFL and the NFL Players Association, incorporates lessons taught through Practical Money Skills for Life, Visas award-winning money management curriculum.
Todays event is part of a seventeen (17) city campaign in partnership with the NFL to promote financial literacy in schools across the country. The NFL players will help the program reach the grassroots level, visiting high schools in their local markets, to provide basic financial literacy training.
"Financial Football" combines the structure and rules of the NFL with financial education questions of varying difficulty. To score points, a team needs to answer questions correctly. And, just like in the NFL, penalties can cost a team yardage. The team with the highest point total after four quarters wins the game.
"Equipping the next generation of professionals, civic leaders, trades people, executives, and business owners with vital financial skills really needs to be a cooperative effort between schools, the business community and government," said South High School Principal, William Kohut.
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Practical Money Skills for Life ( www.PracticalMoneySkills.com) is a comprehensive financial literacy program - available in English, Spanish and Chinese - that teaches young adults personal finance skills. The program reaches more than 100,000 schools and 37 million students in the United States.
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The bears did well in captivity gaining enough weight to be re-released into the wild in early November. The young bears arrived at the facility weighing approximately 30 pounds and left weighing over 120 pounds. The two young male bears were fed bear chow (similar to dog food), fish, nuts, and fresh fruits and vegetables donated from a local grocery store and farmers. In addition to being well-fed, the bears had plenty of enrichment opportunities in their pen including a tire swing, climbing trees and logs, and a mini swimming pool. Read more »


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