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Hockey Preview 2013: Defense
Mac Bennett's projected partner: also Mac Bennett
|Mac Bennett
|Mike Downing
|Kevin Clare
|Brennan Serville
|Mike Szuma
|Nolan De Jong
ALSO: Mike Chiasson (Jr), Spencer Hyman (Fr), Kevin Lohan (Fr)
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS STICKY. The simultaneous departures of Jon Merrill and Jacob Trouba leave Michigan's blue line in a spot that is icky at best. While they've got a couple of NHL draft picks incoming, there's a major difference between Trouba, a top ten pick who is going to make the Jets this year, and Mike Downing, a fourth-rounder who Billy Powers says is "a bit skin and bones" at the moment.
But let's start with the nice bit. MAC BENNETT returns for his final year in a winged helmet wearing the C. He toned his game down last year when he found himself paired with Trouba, eschewing the puck-rushing style he flashed his first two years so that he could be a more reliable defensive partner for a dynamic player. He still put up points at an encouraging rate until he was hewn down in the disastrous 5-1 loss to Bowling Green that seemed to be the last straw for Red. He returned a month later on the second pairing—Merrill's return bumped him—and performed ably down the stretch. Miraculously, his +/- was zero on the year. Despite all his talent, Trouba did not fare nearly as well in that (admittedly wonky) stat.
This year, Michigan needs him to be Trouba, and all-phases crusher who sucks up shift after shift. If Red is ever going to throw over his policy of relatively even time, this is the year. Bennett should be logging Jack Johnson-in-Columbus time, playing all three phases and attempting to shut down the opposition's best on a nightly basis. Powers provided some Fred Jackson-level reassurance when he talked to the Canadiens' official site:
"Mac Bennett will be a dominant college defenseman [this season]. We expect him to be the most dominant offensive and defensive defenseman in the Big Ten. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it," added Powers. "Every night, there will be someone in the building who will say – 'That No. 37 is special'."
Powers also said he's an "elite skater with incredible explosion and incredible endurance"; that latter quality should be put to the test.
Expect a resurgence of the offensive flair Bennett showed his first couple years, because it's not coming from anywhere else on this defense corps and whoever ends up pairing Bennett will be shot if he so much as thinks about getting up ice.
Now, who partners with Bennett? Your options are all frightening on some level. The primary contenders:
- The aforementioned MIKE DOWNING, who has promise and offensive upside but saw his stock drop significantly in his final year of junior and needs to fill out.
- Senior KEVIN CLARE, who provides zero offense (0-2-2 last year, 12 shots), was –9 last year in just 19 games, and was scratched for the final 14 because of disciplinary issues.
- Junior BRENNAN SERVILLE, who seems like he should be more of an offensive defenseman of only because he tends to give you hives with his decisions but is as bereft as Clare is in the points department (1-2-3, 21 shots) and was scratched for 11 games himself last year. But I guess he was +3? Woo?
I'm going with Downing, mostly because I cringe at the idea of Clare or Serville on a top pairing and haven't seen the freshman yet, but I could also see the job going to Clare, since Downing has some offensive upside in his game:
"He carries the puck well out of the zone and makes good decisions on when to hang on to it or move it ahead. Sees the ice well in transition and has a pro pass. He is willing to mix it up, especially when defending down low. He is also very good at moving the puck on the power play. He has a good, hard shot that he gets through to the net, but can and will fake his shot and make a quick pass to the open man. He is not afraid to jump to an open hole on the offensive attack to create scoring chances. He will need to show all of this with more consistency for the next level."
Michigan may want to split those two guys in an effort to have a puck-mover on the ice for most of the game. Clare's just going to sit back, break up plays, and try to get the puck out of the zone, and if he's out there with a lesser guy that could result in spells of uncomfortable pressure.
As for Serville, I'm in full confirmation bias mode with him in which I magnify every mistake he makes. But I'm aware of it and I'm still nervous about having him in a major role. He was a draft pick a couple years back and defensemen take time, etc etc etc. I'll be pleasantly surprised if he makes a significant step forward.
[After THE JUMP: at least they've got a ton of third pairing guys?]
Hockey Bits: RIT
Trouba intimidates even when putting on hats
Full game stories have to wait for football season to end, but a highly timely selection of things on last weekend's games:
Overall, extremely encouraging. Michigan lost Friday thanks to 3 terrible goals and two savable ones given up by a freshman goalie, and don't just take my word for it:
"I'll have to look at them again but they all looked pretty soft to me," Berenson said. "The kid made some good saves too, but it was a tough night to be a goalie in our net, and we have to do be better than that."
Aside from that and some sloppy early-season play from defenders, Michigan was on. They had twelve goals on the weekend, one of them waved off for a high stick that didn't affect the outcome of the play. They bombed RIT, nearly outshooting them 2-1 both nights. RIT is a respectable outfit that was 20-13-6 last year with nonconference wins over Ferris State and Lake State, so to thoroughly outplay them without Jon Merrill is a good sign.
Most importantly, the power play looked like it had some purpose. Michigan converted three of thirteen opportunities and did not spend entire power plays either failing to acquire the zone or shooting it into a defenders' skates from the point. Trouba is a great help there—he's got a laser shot and the ability to pass and stickhandle from the point. Paired with Treais he's a major upgrade on last year's efforts—now Michigan can rotate down either point man and put the opposing box under stress as they try to hand off players between each other without opening up passing lanes.
Point Racine. Obviously. 21 saves each; five goals let in for Rutledge, two for Racine. Racine is a strange goalie who kind of reminds me of a huge Hunwick—he will come way out of his crease in an attempt to aggressively cut down shooting angles. He's far less agile than Hunwick, though, and this will burn him at some point. After the highly scientific sample size of one game each, he seems better right now.
Rutledge didn't just give up a bunch of atrocious goals, he also looked shaky on a bunch of saves and gave up an ugly goal in the exhibition. Hopefully that's just nerves and youth and Blackburn can get him straightened out—Hunwick was night and day from his initial forays onto the ice once Blackburn had him for a significant period of time.
Trouba ridiculous. Wrap-around goal, killing that guy, a series of tape-to-tape breakout passes, excellent PP QB performance… yow. He'll get a little too aggressive at times, but he's a lot like a calmer Jack Johnson. #JMFT.
Some steps forward from the younger D. Serville didn't do anything to make me go "uhhhh noooo" except maybe once or twice, which is progress. Clare seemed to have taken a step forward towards reliable Jay Vancik defensive defenseman before his injury, as well. The other guys seems to be the other guys.
Nieves bouncing around. He started on the fourth line but had worked his way up to Guptill's outfit by the late stages on Thursday and jumped off the fourth line for the entirety of Friday's game. Big guy, can get the edge on defensemen, wish he would try to ride them to the front of the net a lot more often. I get why the scouts kept talking about him as a perimeter player.
Sparks: deployed. Lindsay Sparks was given a large share of power play time and was placed on a second or third line, depending on your POV. Like last year, he's off to a good start with two points on the weekend. Hopefully he can stay out of the doghouse enough to grab one of those top nine slots.
Michigan Hockey Net on the top line:
The chemistry on the first line is undeniable, particularly with A.J. and Di Giuseppe. All night they were a two-tandem terror giving the Tigers fits. A.J. was all over the ice, he was on top of the RIT defense seemingly at will, punishing their backstop with a barrage of pucks. His goal was a thing of beauty: PDG corralled the puck, and found AJ wide-open in the slot, who hammered it home, going down on one knee Brett-Hull style for added effect. PDG's goal was similar earllier in the game: the Captain found his linemate hovering between the circles, the Maple native zinged a wicked wrister top shelf. Not to be outdone, Moffatt had an assist, and really seemed to be the stabilizing force on that line, letting the other two do their thing. What we're seeing from Luke are flashes of what he displayed before arriving on campus, and he's finally adjusted it to the college level: the ability to find his way through traffic and get to the net. He split two defenders in his lone SOG. For the record: AJ finished with 9 SOG, and PDG had 5. I'm salivating over here about what this line can accomplish, but let's temper expectations–it's early, and we haven't hit conference play yet.
Yost Built on Friday:
The Wolverines put 51 shots on net, including 20 in the third period. Every player who dressed recorded at least one shot on goal this weekend. For the series the power play was 3-for-13 (23%) and generated 27 shots on goal (!!!). The PK was 9-for-9 and added a short-handed goal. Good weekend for the special teams.
Yost Section 25 has some pictures and a take as well. Mike Spath says Clare is "most likely" to miss the Bentley game this weekend with his shoulder injury, which will bring Mike Szuma into the lineup. Sounds like Clare's injury isn't too long term—the important games ramp up quickly, with Miami, Northern, State, and ND the next four weekends after Bentley.
Unverified Voracity Drops The Puck
RITonight. Get it? Get it? Puck drops on Michigan's season opener in a couple hours. Yost Built has a preview and a wrapup season preview post. A few comments on Michigan exhibition against Windsor:
- Trouba is the truth. Three assists, one leveling open-ice hit, and defensive responsibility until everyone got sloppy up a ton in the third. A tape to tape breakout pass machine. Money money money.
- Andrew Copp is an interesting guy to keep an eye on. Not a big recruit by any stretch of the imagination but Copp stood out as a big dude with some jump; he split time between football and hockey in high school and may develop into something a bit better than Danny Fardig 2.0.
- Moffatt-Treais-PDG looks to be your top line, at least for now, with the wingers on that line seeming to have good chemistry. Looking for a bustout year from PDG, who was young enough to get drafted after his freshman year and should improve greatly.
- Brennan Serville is another guy I'll be watching early for signs of improvement, especially with Merrill out six weeks and Serville skating every night as a result. Initial impression was not much different than last year's struggles, unfortunately, but confirmation bias and all that.
- I miss Hunwick. Rutledge gave up a soft goal in his period and looked like he had holes all over. This may be paranoia.
The mid-tier guys (Moffie, Bennett, Guptill, Old Lynch, Hyman) were scratched, FWIW. Hyman's another guy I'm hoping will start producing more after his freshman hype fizzled.
Jake Ryan, basically. Roh on Ryan:
"He's like a Tootsie Pop," Roh said. "No matter how many times you talk to him, you really never know what you're going to get until you get to the chocolatey center."
Zach Helfland asks the obvious question:
Meaning what exactly?
"I don't know," Roh said. "You can't describe him, really. He's like, I don't know, he's like smart but dumb at the same time, but he's also just random, just like, 'Yo,' randomly."
YO. Elsewhere in that article, Ryan is an alien. Read it.
"I told him right before I cut them, 'Man, 'Lace, I'm going to cut 'em,'" Floyd said. "He's like, 'No you're not, no you're not.'
"He was the first guy I saw. He just looked at me and smiled, 'Man, I can't believe you did it.' We had a little dreadlock bond, I guess. Now I'm trying to persuade him to cut 'em"
but it's not going to happen. Not going to happen."
Ticket pricing update. To be fair The M Zone needs to continue their scalping project into next year to see what it's like trying to grab OSU tickets online, but so far so good for the idea we're closing in on the max amount people will pay to go to Michigan games:
Endzone Seats on StubHub:
UMass - Saved $64.72
Illinois - Saved $31.72
Total Endzone StubHub Savings So Far - $96.44
Maize Seats on StubHub:
UMass - Saved $87.38
Illinois - Saved $43.38
Total Maize Section Savings So Far - $130.76
Victors Seats on StubHub:
UMass - Saved $165.24
Illinois - Saved $98.12
Total Victors Section Savings So Far - $263.36
MSU is looking like a win for season ticket holders but that's the only one, and that's with Stubhub's massive cut (15% from the seller plus 20 bucks in "convenience fees" from the buyer) taken into account.
Willis Ward to be honored. Michigan's going to do it, and it's all thanks to an eight year old girl:
"A lot of people like to listen to little kids, and you should speak up and make a difference," said Genna, a Brighton third-grader.
She addressed the university's board of regents in March and lobbied state legislators in June to name a special day after star U-M football player Willis Ward, who was benched for a game against Georgia Tech in 1934 because he was black.
Genna succeeded, and Willis — a friend and teammate of future President Gerald Ford — will be honored by the state and school next week.
…or the guys who made the documentary that's the only reason anyone's talking about Willis Ward in 2012, whatever.
Like flies. Blocking-type Michigan State people continue to get injured at an alarming rate. TE Dion Sims may or may not play against Michigan; if he doesn't they probably won't be throwing his backup many passes:
Andrew Gleichert, a walk-on who was awarded a scholarship before the opener against Boise State, has a broken wrist and will have to play with a cast the rest of the season.
"We got concerned with him being a point-of-attack blocker," Roushar said. "We feel like he's got to do a better job. He's working on it. With the loss of Dion, you're looking for something stronger at the point of attack."
Meanwhile, former megarecruit Lawrence Thomas went from linebacker to 295-pound fullback and can't move down to tight end this week because he picked up a concussion against Indiana—his second since August. He's expected to play against Iowa because obviously.
Oddly Timed Hockey Update
DiGuiseppe, Sparks, Hunwick laying down the thunder. Via Daily, Daily, Mining Journal
Sometimes you start typing up a UV bit and then you hit 600 words and break it out into a post you had not intended to write.
So: hockey. It's been playing. They spent the first couple weeks wandering about looking pretty bad, then annihilated St. Lawrence to be an incredibly underserving #1. One Hunwick game misconduct later they came back from Northern with just two points in their CCHA opener and that ranking was gone.
Ferris rolled into town last night with a 6-0 record and sweep of Miami to their credit; Michigan came away with a validating 5-2 win. I have a habit of watching Ferris early in the year, thinking they're really good, and then watching them go .500, but I mean it this time: I think this is a really good Ferris team. This time I'm on steadier ground what with their record.
I'm still getting a handle on the team since it is hugely different than last year's outfit, but I think it's going to be more fun to watch than last year's edition. That's not to say it will be better—they won the league and got to overtime in the national title game—but they've already scored more pretty goals than they did all of last year.
That's thanks in part to Lindsay Sparks going from oft-scratched to the team's leading scorer. I won't question Red Berenson in case he decides to look at me with disappointment, thereby turning me into dust, but… I don't get it, man. The last couple years it seemed clear he was more of a threat than several second-liners, let alone the Rohrkempers of the world. This year he's looking like an all-conference player. He's already got 11 points, many of them featuring top-level skill.
Freshman takes in order of eeee:
- Phil DiGuiseppe. As I tweeted yesterday, guy can play. Slick passer, good jump, good size, good hands. Sometimes you pull these guys out of Junior A (not B, as I erroneously tweeted) and it turns out they can't make the transition. No such problems for DiGuiseppe, and he just turned 18. Star potential.
- Zach Hyman. Hyman hasn't leapt off the page as much as DiGuiseppe but he'll get there. He's good good balance and hands and he's been an effective part of the Sparks line.
- Mike Chiasson. Steady, conservative defensive defenseman. Will be a four year player; should quietly hold down a second pairing for most of his career.
- Brennan Serville. Has not been as noticeable but seems to have a regular spot. Don't know much about his game yet.
- Travis Lynch. Slotted into a spot with Wohlberg and Glendening and has 3-3-6 already. Had a sweet deflection last night on a Bennett point shot. Not sure if he can keep this up but he's been on a tear since about two seconds after he committed.
- Alex Guptill. Getting a generic-big-guy vibe from him. He'll slouch around the third line most of his career before suddenly getting really good as a senior, like Rohlfs or Lebler.
Szuma and Sinelli got in one game; they get incompletes. They are the new generation of healthy scratches.
Random other items:
- Greg Pateryn is a long-limbed rock. Tough to get enough space to get a good chance when he's on the ice. He will screw up too often to be truly great but if they come through this period without Merrill okay it will be because he held down the fort against top lines.
- Kevin Clare is unbelievably slow. I think he's the guy who sees his playing time decline when Merrill gets back.
- Derek Deblois looks like he's taken a step forward this year. Ditto Brown.
- I guess I can't complain when David Wohlberg is above a PPG but I don't like having him on the same line as Lynch (freshman edition) and Glendening. I'd like to see what a Sparks-DiGuiseppe-Wohlberg line could accomplish, and let the Lynches and Glendening anchor a checking line.
- The official scorer at Yost is padding opponent shot totals like a mother. Anything that gently rolls to a stop two feet in front of the goal is counted. I'm of a mind to look at Hunwick's home/away splits last year to see if there's a big difference in save percentage.
Michigan's streak of picking up an NTDP goalie has hit a third straight year with the commitment of 2012 G Jared Rutledge. Hurray. You're worried.
You're right to be, but Michigan's streak of having that goalie blanch at the prospect of competing with Shawn Hunwick and bolt to the OHL should end at two since Hunwick will be gone after this year. Rutledge, like Trouba, waited a long time to figure out what he was going to do so he wouldn't end up breaking his word:
"I told Red I didn't want to be their hat trick," Rutledge said with a smile. "I told them all along that when I made my decision, I was going to be 100% sure I was coming there. I couldn't be happier and I'm really excited."
Tell us what we've won, me.
Rutledge is a smallish goalie reputed to have excellent anticipation, rebound control, and positioning:
Rutledge is technically and positionally very sound, is excellent at controlling rebounds, handles the puck well, competes hard, has a good glove, doesn't get phased on the rare occasion he does let in a bad goal, and is extremely good at anticipating the play. Though he isn't overly big, he challenges exceptionally well, and makes life miserable for shooters. If you don't beat him on the first shot, chances are you won't get another opportunity.
Sounds like a less-tiny Hunwick who isn't constantly kicking pucks out into the slot. (No offense intended to Tiny Jesus.) He was drafted in the fifth round of the 2010 OHL draft by Saginaw and is kicking around draft lists as a "B"—mid-round—prospect. His stats are pretty solid—he's averaged between .910 and .920 save percentage splitting time between the U17 and U18 teams, generally outperforming his competition in the same situation.
Hockey recruiting class: complete? Michigan might add a walk-on piece here and there, but this looks like it's about it for next year (question marks denote kids Heisenberg has listed as 2012 or 2013:
- Forwards: Boo Nieves, Daniel Milne, Justin Selman, Max Shuart(?)
- Defensemen: Jacob Trouba, Connor Carrick, Spencer Hyman(?)
- Goalie: Rutledge
If Merrill makes it through his current suspension I'm guessing he will be around next year as well. It seems like someone who was going to leave after this year anyway would book it given the severity of the punishment. If so they may or may not add Hyman. Right now they're scheduled to bring back everyone save Pateryn and I'm not seeing a ton of departure threats. Maybe Bennett. Hyman would be the seventh defenseman at best in that situation because Michigan would be insanely loaded on D: Merrill, Bennett, Trouba, Moffie, Carrick, Chiasson, Serville, and Clare plus Szuma and possibly Hyman. If Merrill and Bennett both take off then there'd obviously be room.
I wish there was a little more depth in the forward corps—I haven't seen any buzz about Milne and Selman being draftable—but a quality goalie plus two first-round types is a big haul to go with what's looking like a promising freshman class.
The scoreboard is hypothetically awesome but they're still trying to figure out how to use it. Goal replays are erratic; highlight packages sometimes don't appear at all in intermissions, and penalties never get replays. If they're willing to put the Wohlberg goal up last night as it was being reviewed I don't think that's a controversy thing. I get that there's only one camera but at least some of the penalties are on the puck.
As for Yost… man, it has been off. I think moving the seniors close to the band was a mistake. When they were in the middle of the ice the chants had a smaller maximum distance; now the two sections furthest away from the band are mostly empty and totally lame. Are ticket prices too high? Michigan ran that Groupon special and packed the empty endzone seats; once that stopped we were again treated to nearly-empty sections in both endzones. I sit amongst the old fuddies now and they're not around either.
Another possibility: odd starting times have thrown people off after decades of Friday, Saturday, 7:30, see you in two weeks.
Whatever the explanation, I'm not feeling the same sort of excitement in the building that there was even a couple years ago. We're seeing the same sort of apathy infect the student section at football games. I think it's time to start taking attendance and offering people nice perks for showing up on time, like better seats next year. The AD's solitary focus on money is making the product worse.
All Right, Max Domi, I'm A Sucker
That's right, bombing Braylon Edwards is followed up by hockey recruiting. Projected comments: four. Whateva, I do what I want.
Yeah, Don Cherry hands him stuff, he's good.
I shouldn't do this to myself, but as the title indicates… I'm a sucker. News that the Indiana Ice thought uber-touted Max Domi was likely enough to play NCAA hockey to spend a second-round pick on him in the USHL Futures Draft sent me on yet another Quest For Information on the Hockey's Future message boards. I didn't get much on Domi other than all the OHL partisans claiming him a 100% lock for junior. Google turned up his twitter, though, and, um… I'm all like… maybe this is happening?
Mdomi1616 Max Domi
Men's Ice Hockey Division 1- NCAA Final Four! Notre Dame vs. Minnesota Duluth North Dakota vs. Michigan HERE WE GO MICHIGAN! …
Michigan loses in overtime to UMD in overtime...tough one
Two: a few days ago he tweeted he was in Indiana for the weekend—presumably to visit the Ice—and today he threw up a tweet that said only "Indiana Ice 2011/2012." If this is all a smokescreen to get him to London it's finely wrought.
The OHL draft is on May 7th, so we won't have to wait long. I'm cannot shake my skepticism he's headed to college but now it seems like there's a legit chance.
The even more distant future
Meanwhile, I wandered over to the NTDP tryout thread and found a couple of guys who had seen 2013 commits Tyler Motte and Evan Allen play. A guy who watched the 3-2 Honeybaked win over Shattuck in which Motte and Allen put three up to steal a national title on that decisive third period:
3-2 Honeybaked final!
Great period. Big saves made at both ends, and great pace. Allen tied it up at 1 on a great one timer from the point on the PP. McTavish set up Rodriguez on a 2-on-1 to put SSM ahead 2-1. Motte scored on a nice tip in to square things up at 2. With a minute and change left Motte punced on a loose puck in front to put Honeybaked up 3-2.
Can't say enough about Motte. He's one big time player. Was incredible in the Silverstick final versus the Marlies, and now puts his team on his back and leads them to a national title. Made a huge shot block with about 5 seconds to go while SSM had a 6-on-4.
Congrats to both teams on wonderful seasons. Glad I had the chance to see Honeybaked live on their one trip up to up to the Greater Toronto Area this year. This is one big time team.
One of the regulars says Allen doesn't get enough buzz: "absolutely love his game and hope he accepts a USNDP offer." With classmate JT Compher one of the select few to get NTDP offers before their tryout camp and Alex Talcott another second-round USHL futures draftee, that 2013 recruiting class looks like it will be big-time if it hangs together.
The slightly more immediate future
In news that will be relevant to you in this calendar year, USHR freed up their December stuff. It contains news of Michigan's commitments from John Gibson and Brennan Serville. The Gibson stuff is the usual by now: large, good, calm. Serville:
-- 6'3", 185 lb. Stouffville Spirit (OPJHL) RD Brennan Serville, a great skating defenseman with size who is good on the breakout, has good hands and sees the ice well. Serville had originally committed to Canisius last winter, but then decommitted this September. …
Serville was on the silver-medal winning Team Canada East at last month's World Jr. A Challenge in Penticton. Last week, he played for Team East at the 2010 CJHL Prospects Game – games, really (there are two) -- in Dauphin, Manitoba, a CJHL/NHL Central Scouting showcase for the top 40 draft-eligible players across Canada's ten Jr. A leagues. …
Serville made his final pick from between Michigan, Michigan State, and UNH.
So he's a nice pickup in December. Unfortunately, the 2012 class doesn't have a guaranteed star on the other end of the ice where Michigan could really use one. All three incoming guys could be scoring line types, though:
- Alex Guptill was a third round pick last year but only put up 13-12-25 in 43 USHL games—he's big, which means his draft status is less exciting than it would be if he was 5'8".
- Phil DiGiuseppe put up a lot of points in the OJHL, but a lot of people put up a lot of points in the OJHL. He did finish the year as the top-scoring '93 in the league; the guy closest to him was nine points back (and is 5'7").
- Travis Lynch was a no-scoring checker destined for the fourth line and PK when he committed, but after scoring eight points in his first 30 games this year he put up 36 in his last 30. That's a hell of a breakout. (Caveat: that may be shooting percentage driven. He went from 7.6% last year to 14.7% this year. Shooting percentage is notoriously variable; one as high as Lynch's can be an indicator of regression.)
Hello, Eh: John Gibson and Brennan Serville
Hockey commitments don't usually get full posts but these are big ones. First, according to USHR and via Michigan Hockey Net, Michigan has snake-oiled away NTDP goalie John Gibson from Ohio State. This is a BFD for the program, which loses Bryan Hogan after the year and was facing a season with Shawn Hunwick as their only viable goalie. No offense to Hunwick, but he's a very small walk-on who's not doing that well this year—another option is key.
Gibson is more than just another option. He's the top-rated goalie on the CSB's USHL list, 13th on USA Today's list of the top American prospects for the 2011 NHL draft, and just a month ago ESPN's Gare Joyce listed him first on his list of top five goaltending prospects for the NHL draft, one of a group of "three elite prospects" who may end up first round picks:
John Gibson, USNTDP
Some scouts thought that Gibson (6-foot-2, 205 pounds) was in and out at the NHL Research and Development camp this summer, but he has looked very solid in showings subsequently. He gets high marks for his agility in the crease and he goes post to post very well. With Campbell last year and John Gibson this winter, it just might be that the USDT is becoming what Quebec was for many years -- the leading hothouse for goaltending prospects.
I know what you're thinking but Gibson is already halfway through the year with the U18s—you don't flip a college commitment halfway through your senior season if you're going to defect to the OHL. It was at about this time last year we found out Jack Campbell wasn't headed to Ann Arbor.
Some scouting from NHL.com:
"He has good net coverage, good size and is great on his angles," Central Scouting's Al Jensen told NHL.com. "He looks big in his initial set-up and while in butterfly. He's not flashy but confident and is always focused, controlled in his movements, strong in his crease and smart at reading plays."
And some more indicating he's not a flake from just junior coach:
A butterfly-style goalie, Gibson said he patterns himself after the Penguins' Marc-Andre Fleury.
To hear Stern tell it, Gibson has the total package.
"John has tremendous instincts and hockey sense," Stern said. "A lot of times that gets overlooked when people talk about goalies. Everyone talks about forwards and defensemen but they sometimes forget that that's a component of goaltending, too.
"He has unbelievable athleticism, and he's extremely competitive. And he's unflappable. He's just very mature and composed. We like to say a lot of kids are low-maintenance; well, he's no-maintenance.
"That's a pretty rare thing, especially among goaltenders. They can be a quirky bunch, and I think the fact Gibson is so well put-together is something the program is going to appreciate."
Last year Gibson backstopped the U17s to a World Hockey Challenge gold, making 38 saves in a 2-1 win over Canada in the final. He's almost as good as Jack Campbell, and he's appeared from a cloud of vapor to rescue Michigan's goalie situation next year. Win.
Bonus Non-Random Defenseman
Serville is the one on top.
Michigan's also added a second defender to their class in the OJHL's Brennan Serville. Serville has eight assists in 17 games and was committed to Atlantic Hockey school Canisius before he switched. IIRC, Atlantic Hockey schools do not give out the full complement of scholarships so Serville could be a semi-walk on on a partial deal or a guy who broke out this year and found himself with better options.
It appears to be the latter, as Serville decommitted from Canisius a few months ago in search of a better situation. He was an eighth-round pick of Sudbury in the OHL (not bad for a guy who was obviously a tough sign) and was rated a B player (third to fifth round) on the CSB's watch list in October.
He impressed at the Sudbury camp he attended:
Another unsung player who turned heads is defenceman Brennan Serville, an eighth-round pick in 2009. He proved to be mobile and solid on his skates, hard to knock down or separate from the puck.
USHR says he's "a great skating defenseman with size who is good on the breakout, has good hands and sees the ice well," and his coach says he's "a great skater that protects and moves the puck extremely well from the back-end." As a big, right-handed mobile guy he could find a home as the other guy on Michigan's awkward all-lefty power play.
Recruitin' Upshot
Michigan's 2011 class has gone from extremely worrying to pretty much fine in one fell swoop. Picking up an elite goaltending prospect is a major, badly needed coup and grabbing an uncommitted defenseman expected to be drafted in the same area Steven Kampfer was is another boost.
They're obviously done in goal. On defense Michigan added an end-of-the-bench type in recruited walk-on Mike Szuma earlier this year and is carrying eight scholarship(-ish) guys on the roster this year, so they are likely done there as well. They lose Tristin Llewellyn and Chad Langlais and could see Brandon Burlon, Mac Bennett, or John Merrill leave early (Burlon much more likely than Merrill or Bennett), but as long as they don't lose two of the early entry risks their defense next year will be something like…
…and that's a solid group.
Michigan is also carrying a ton of forwards next year and doesn't need to bring in as many as they lose but with Rust, Hagelin, Caporusso, Winnett, and Vaughn all out the door they need more than just Alex Guptill. They'll be trying to flip committed players having big seasons or just patrolling for 20-year-olds who can fill in the blanks before a more robust 2012 class comes in. If they can bring in two guys with the ability of Serville and Gibson at forward that will be a beauty save on what was looking like a rough 2011 class.


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more pics coming tonight but I'll share these for now....
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What does your girl friend think?
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Latest pics are hot
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Hey guys I got to some of the requests out there. I'm gonna work on the cumshot pics and maybe possibly even a video. Stay tuned.
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Alright fellas..here's some pics to hold you over. I'll probably post the vid sometime this weekend when I don't have class so I can sit around and play with myself haha.
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Ok guys I'm gonna put up a vid sometime tonight my time. But before I can do that I need some help. What's the best way to upload it. Thanks
Upload it to Rocket Tube. It is compatible with JUB, because it is a part of our corporate family.
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alright fellas...heres the link. my webcam is shitty but the next one will be better i promise.
I enjoyed your video!
It would be more enjoyable if you allowed me to suck you off to completion. I have been told I give really good head!


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Tankadin Weight Generator
Further improvements have been made to this. I have plans to instead convert the C# application into PHP code so that you can simply enter your character name into a webpage instead of having to download an application. If I don't do that, I'll post a revised build.
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How is it handling on-proc effects? Are they ignored, or is the average of effect/uptime considered?
The Wowhead item filter seems to ignore proc effects.
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Your legacy has become much more of ultimate choke artists in the Postseason than that of champions.
And Brady is getting closer and closer to retirement. I wonder if Bill will have the guts to stick around when Brady retires? I'd LOVE to see the prick exposed as the fraud he is.
To whit, NO ONE was claiming that the Pat's D was "the best". I probably ranked them higher than anyone else in this thread when I pointed out that they were in the top 10 of points allowed. To be specific, they were tied for 9th.
So tell us Hitman, is it a comprehension problem ? Or did you just feel like making **** up ??
Nobody was paying attention, but the Pats' D got much better with the addition of Talib in the second half of the season - passing yardage against and 3rd down stoppage % both improved. Their achilles' heel for several years now has been the secondary and getting stops on 3rd down. If healthy, Talib and Dennard as CB1 and CB2 are the best cornerback duo they've had since Asante left after 2007.
They were already a top-10 rushing D last season, so a full season of a healthy secondary with Talib makes a league-average D a pretty reasonable goal. In other words, not great, or even good, but not hot garbage, either. And that's more than good enough with that offense.
Why wouldn't the Pats sell Tebow jerseys? They'll probably sell a few.
If the Pats chose Tebow (a 3rd QB) as one of only two players to answer questions from the mediots, then they clearly aren't worried about him creating a circus atmosphere.
I don't know what to make of the Tebow acquisition, but I've always liked the kid and will pull for him to make a contribution of some kind to my team.
You'd also have to take away some other SB wins, for the 49ers, the most fined team in the NFL, and also for the team that proudly called themselves the "if you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin' team of the NFL in the 70's, the Raidahs.
Then of course you have the cheatin' Cowboys that broke the rules to get a certain HOF CB onto their team, just in time for one of their SB wins.
Not to mention the team that was disassembled by Emporer Goodell, the New Auhlins Saints. I think they were cheaters too.
By the time you're done you could make claim to one of only a handful of untainted SB wins in league history. You could even take away any that Andrew Luck might win with Indy, since they cheated by losing games to get him.
The sky is the limit
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Funny though, you missed one that is more on point that those that you listed.
Your Pats were fined and had draft picks taken away from them for hiring the cheating coach in question from the Jets.
So they cheating hiring the coach that cheated his way to the only SB wins in your teams history.
Time to end this stupid argument, there's no way you win.
And if not cheating, what do YOU call hiring a coach who's under contract with another team?
You're right about one thing, it's impossible to win an argument with someone who just makes shlt up.
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BB is excellent at situational football, and having leads all of the time & knowing that your QB & offense are difficult to stop opens the damn whole play book for the defense to take chances.
If the Pats D had our offense last year it wouldn't be the Saints with one of the worst defenses EVER!
It's not cheating hiring a coach, its breaking rules but it's not gaining a clear unfair advantage.
Move on, Pats fans embarrass themselves defending and defining cheating or what actually happened when they wrongfully contacted, negotiated and hire Belichick.
And you're going to somehow make a distinction between 'breaking the rules' and 'cheating'? Why? Because it's convenient! You see no advantage to hiring away another team's HC while he's still inder contract? PLEASE. Both teams did it, yet it's only the Pats who cheated.
Embarrassing myself? We weren't talking about Parcells. I never denied it, the Jets did it. Point is a Pats troll added the tampering angle into a conversation about cheating to lessen the impact of what the Pats did, the tried and true others cheat so what we did wasn't that bad. He named teams that tampered and forgot that your video cheater wouldn't have been in a position to cheap for your team if the Pats didn't tamper with a Jet employee. Adding, by your definition another cheat to the list of Patriot missteps.
And then you denied it happened. Accused me of making sh1t up! OK
You should stop, you really show more and more how little you know and more importantly an inability to comprehend a point and how far over your trolling head you are once facts are brought into the equation. Your last line is a perfect example, I say it's not cheating yet to cling to a dream that I accused the pats of cheating and pardoned the Jets for doing the same. You don't get it do you
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As you see, it is useless to discuss anything with a troll ignoramus whose only purpose at JI is sh!tstirring, agitation and being an obnoxious parasite. Our mods have already permabanned this pathetic dope twice as Patrollie and Welkhead but for some unknown reason, they keep letting him back in under another ID to do the same crap that got him booted
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NASA / J. Frassanito & Assoc. / FISOWG / STScI
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for the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture
Space Telescope, which would have more than 40
times Hubble's sensitivity.
When Hubble finally fades into the sunset, what will take its place? More space telescopes are on tap, but some question whether any of them can truly replace the grand old observatory.
If you were to ask the scientists on the Hubble Space Telescope's team whether there's a successor, they'd have a quick answer: the James Webb Space Telescope, which is destined for launch in the 2013 time frame, just when Hubble is expected to wrap up its work for good.
NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency are spending $3.5 billion or more on the telescope, which is destined to observe the cosmos from a gravitational balance point about 1 million miles from Earth, known as L2. It's designed to take the handoff from Hubble as NASA's greatest observatory, and I've referred to it more than once as "Hubble's Heir."
Just don't call it a successor to Hubble while Bob Zimmerman, the author of "The Universe in a Mirror," is within earshot.
"It's not!" he told me. "That would be like saying that the Spitzer Space Telescope was a successor to the Compton Gamma-Ray Telescope."
Zimmerman's point is that the Webb telescope is optimized for a set of wavelengths that are different from Hubble's sweet spot. Hubble's best observing takes place in the visible-light spectrum, the kind of light we can see with our naked eyes. In contrast, Webb will focus on infrared wavelengths, which are off the red end of the rainbow.
Astronomers say infrared telescopes provide the best way to see objects at the edge of the cosmos, because wavelengths at that distance are redshifted due to the expansion of the universe. But Zimmerman argues that false-color infrared images won't capture the public's attention the way Hubble's images have. Even though Hubble's pictures are enhanced during processing to boost the colors, the visible-light view serves as the basic framework.
"It's not that optical astronomy is the only thing - the end-all, be-all," he said. "But without the optical, it's difficult for the human brain to synthesize all the other data."
The trend in telescopes is to send up spacecraft that have been optimized for specific tasks rather than general observing. For example, NASA's Kepler probe, which had its scientific coming-out party today, is a telescope expressly designed to look for extrasolar planets.
The European Space Agency's Herschel and Planck telescopes, due for launch on Thursday, are designed to corral the infrared and microwave wavelengths, respectively. Like the James Webb telescope, Herschel and Planck are destined to hang out at the L2 point. Like Webb and Spitzer, Herschel will peer toward the far reaches of the observable universe and look into the dusty cradles of stars and planets. Like the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, Planck will look for the imprint of the big bang on cosmic background radiation.
The new instruments will bring capabilities that the old instruments never had, but they're not nearly as versatile as Hubble, Zimmerman said: "Although the focused research telescopes are useful and necessary, general observatories are useful and necessary as well."
Astronomers always have plenty of big ideas for future observations, and right now a host of proposals for next-generation space telescopes are being considered as part of the National Academies' Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Among the concepts are the New Worlds Observer, which would seek to characterize alien worlds; and the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Telescope (a.k.a. ATLAS Telescope), which would have more than 40 times Hubble's sensitivity.
The results of 19 NASA-funded next-generation studies - funded at levels ranging from $250,000 to $1 million - are expected to be released later this year, once the astronomers involved in the Decadal Survey have reviewed them. But the telescopes won't be launched until well after the Webb begins operations.
By then, the debate over whether to let Hubble die could well be raging once again. One of the tasks to be accomplished during a series of Atlantis spacewalks is the installation of a docking device that a future robotic craft could hook onto - in order to drive Hubble out of orbit to a controlled, fiery re-entry.
Zimmerman points out that the same docking device could conceivably accommodate spaceships carrying the supplies and/or the personnel for yet another servicing mission. Might Hubble's best successor in 2014 be ... Hubble itself?
"If Hubble is still functioning, and there is no replacement, I'm willing to bet NASA will not be talking about deorbiting it. They'll be talking about keeping it alive," Zimmerman said. "This is the telescope that refuses to die."


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Cousin Chris W. sent these photos of the Linton Morgan family. Thanks, Chris! It is always very enjoyable to "meet" cousins, and I always appreciate contributions to the family record.
You can see a photo and history of Linton Morgan here.
Eudora Eggertsen Morgan.
Eudora was born in 1894 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were Simon Peter Eggertsen and Henrietta Patria Nielsen Eggertsen, both of Danish pioneer families.
A picture of Eudora around 1970.
Two of Linton and Eudora's children, Dixie Morgan Wise and John Waldo "Jack" Morgan.
Linton and Eudora's second daughter, Merline Morgan McCullough, on the left.
Linton Morgan's obituary.
David and Dixie Morgan Wise. There is certainly a marked family resemblance between first cousins Dixie and my grandmother Maxine.


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Roughly 490 dogs have passed through the Moberly Animal Shelter this past year. The shelter is technically a "kill shelter", meaning if dogs do not find a home of some sort after 20 days, said dogs will be euthanized.
Previously, animals that were unable to find homes were euthanized using a gas chamber that is on-site at the shelter facility. The shelter has moved to a more humane process; they now use Green Hills Vet Clinic to euthanize animals that are unable to find a home.
Last year, 367 dogs and 15 cats were adopted through the shelter. That gives the shelter a 75-percent success rate in placing animals. While the shelter does not actively shelter cats, they do attempt to find homes for the ones that show up at the shelter. Brooke Brakes, Animal Control Officer, would love for more people to visit the shelter and check out the great animals they have available.
The shelter is capable of holding 48 dogs at a time. Brakes said that they average between 10-20 dogs at the shelter at any given time.
Brakes' goal for the upcoming year is to continue to raise awareness about the shelter. Brakes stated, "Shelter dogs make great pets, and are a better choice that buying puppies."
The shelter has started working with volunteers recently. There are roughly 20 volunteers.
"We always need more volunteers and foster homes for our dogs," Brakes said. "Our goal is to get the dogs into a home as quickly as possible to socialize them."
The shelter has about seven foster parents. Fostering a dog increases the dog's chances of finding a forever home, or being able to go to an appropriate rescue.
There are various reasons to foster a shelter dog. A dog in a foster home opens up more space in the shelter for new incoming dogs. It allows the shelter to learn more about the dog to aid in finding him or her the best home possible. Fostering allows the dog to adjust to new environments and to people, both of which greatly increase the outcome of a successful adoption.
The Moberly Animal Shelter participates in the H.O.U.N.D.S. program. The program is a twelve-week process, through which the shelter works with the Moberly Correctional Center to train dogs. The program does not use any tax money. All of the funding is through private donations.
The H.O.U.N.D.S. program is part of a state program called Puppies for Parole. The program is designed to give inmates a responsibility of some sort. The program enables offenders to give back to the community while learning a new skill.
Volunteers with the shelter teach the offenders how to properly train the dogs in the program. Dogs are taught basic manners; house training; to come when called; the commands "sit", "down", and "stay"; and to walk in heel position, They are qualified as a "Canine Good Citizen," which is an American Kennel Club program. The Canine Good Citizen Program started in 1989. The program is a reward for dogs who pass a 10-step test. The dogs receive a certificate from the American Kennel Club. According to Walter Haley, shelter volunteer, dogs are tested for the program every several weeks. Dogs that do not pass the Canine Good Citizen Program stay in the H.O.U.N.D.S. program until they earn their certificate.
The Moberly Animal Shelter funds all the supplies needed for the dogs to live at the prison. Brakes said that "75 percent of the money for those supplies comes from donations."
The shelter is always in need of donations. Said Brakes, "We can always use collars, leashes, bleach, and soft treats."
The adoption fee varies depending on the dog. H.O.U.N.D.S. completers cost $120. H.O.U.N.D.S. dogs are spayed or neutered, and have basic vaccinations. Most all of the dogs at the shelter have received their basic shots. The adoption fee is $25. If the dog has not received their shots, the fee is only $10. The state of Missouri requires dogs adopted through the shelter to be spayed or neutered within 30 days after adoption.
Haley stated, "The adoption rate has been wonderful. I really believe in the H.O.U.N.D.S. program."
A community group called "Saving Dogs 4 Paws at a Time" will be at Orschlen Farm and Home in Moberly on Jan. 11, selling items to raise money for the shelter. The volunteer group has a Facebook page available with photos of dogs currently up for adoption. The Facebook page is called, "Dogs For Adoption: Moberly, MO Animal Shelter." "Saving Dogs 4 Paws at a Time" can also be found on Facebook.
If you would like to donate materials, money, or time, please contact Brooke Brakes, at 1-660-833-7330.
Shelter hosted 490 dogs in 2013
Roughly 490 dogs have passed through the Moberly Animal Shelter this past year. The shelter is technically a "kill shelter", meaning if dogs do not find a home of some sort after 20 days, said dogs will be euthanized.


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Policing a modern world punctuated with spasms of violence is a demanding job, one that can exact a toll on the individual.
Bang! Bang!
It was shortly after midnight on Thursday, and Officer Tyler O'Donnell had just turned his cruiser into the darkness of a back street on Wilmington's south side when an ominous drum of gunfire rang out in the distance. O'Donnell heard the sound, and raced toward it.
Meanwhile, Officer Joe Dolan, a brawny veteran of the force patrolling a few miles away, heard the call crackle over his radio: A possible shooting has been reported, it said. Dolan stepped on the gas, and sped to join O'Donnell.
The two officers were among the first to arrive at the scene where 25-year-old Rahman Olawale Liadi had collapsed in the grass near a playground in the Houston Moore public housing complex, a bullet in his chest.
While other officers kept back the forming crowd, Dolan and O'Donnell went to work on the victim. They knelt down and traded turns performing chest compressions in a last-ditch, desperate attempt at CPR in hopes of reviving his heartbeat. They tried, and tried again.
But Liadi died.
"I felt like we were there quick enough that we could have helped him," Dolan said. "You try to make it work out the best you can, but sometimes efforts are in vain."
Policing a modern world punctuated with spasms of violence is a demanding job, one that can exact a toll on the individual. The officers' story of trying to bring a mortally wounded stranger back to life is emblematic of the kinds of stressor-ridden scenarios in which police routinely find themselves.
"They put aside everything, even their own safety," said Marc Benson, a former New Hanover County sheriff's deputy who now hosts the Blue Line Radio show. "That is the true definition of a sheep dog – that they're there to protect and try to revive someone even though there was no way he could have made it."
The pressure that police and other emergency responders come under, and how it affects the human psyche, has long been a subject of research.
Charles Marmar, director of New York University's Police Stress and Health Program, leads a team studying how repeated exposure to stressful situations affects police officers over time. His group tracks 400 officers in the New York and San Francisco areas from the time they were recruited into the academy to, hopefully, when they retire.
Since tracking began around 2006, the researchers have found that most participants – about 76 percent – remained psychologically healthy after seven years of service.
A minute number – about 1 percent to 2 percent – reported feeling anxious while in training but quickly acclimated and now feel comfortable. A larger percentage showed signs of depression and anxiety after their first major critical incident, but gradually recovered after a couple of years. A slightly larger subgroup experience ongoing challenges with distress, are unable to recover and remain symptomatic.
Marmar said officers on average encounter a seriously distressing situation about once every four months, from officer-involved shootings to somebody being mauled by a dog.
"They're disturbing events and it happens with some regularity," Marmar said. "So you have to have a flexible set of coping strategies to deal with them."
In addition to so-called critical incident stressors, officers must endure other hardships, such as being held to high account by bosses and the public, and, many say, low pay.
Marmar said one reason a majority of officers cope without much conflict is something innate.
"Part of it is they may be more resilient than people in the general population," he said. "You have to ask yourself, who would select that career? You have to be a pretty hearty person to select that job."
It is also common, researchers and law enforcement officials say, for officers to develop a degree of emotional control, which enables them to withstand troubling situations. Sometimes how they react depends on how much they identify with the victim.
Law enforcement officials are well aware that the stress of the job puts police officers at an increased risk of developing physical and mental health problems, one reason some departments hire psychologists and chaplains, install weight rooms and use other measures to take the edge off.
Even though Thursday's shooting victim, Liadi, had no pulse when police arrived, officers hoped for the best.
"We did what we could for him to pull through," O'Donnell said. "If we hadn't of done that, then your mind might start thinking, 'Oh we could have done this or done that.' But we really did everything we could."
Such an experience comes with the job.
"Does it bother me if someone dies that I'm working on? It's probably one of 10,000 memories I don't want," said Dolan, who before coming to Wilmington spent 21 years with the New York Police Department. "But you did what you could, and that's what you have to say to yourself."
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Seattle's allegiance to dressed-down dining extends beyond the chefs in weathered black T-shirts, the servers in jeans and untucked blouses, and the patrons in puffy coats that cost as much as the Bordeauxs they're contemplating. All that casualness also shows up on a plurality of local plates arrayed with food as pulled-together as Lindsay Lohan in her latest mugshot. When food-media types aren't watching, sweetbreads slump, noodles clump, and salmon filets vanish beneath fat bouquets of pea shoots and Brussels-sprout leaves.
But at Stumbling Goat Bistro, a neighborhood restaurant where rumpled presentations probably would be forgiven, the appearance standards are exacting. Although the upbeat drinkers who crowd the bar at happy hour might not notice or care, the kitchen won't let go of an entrée unless the meat's tipped at the proper angle to emphasize its textbook grill marks and gleaming crust of animal fat; the reduction sauce evenly coats the bottom of the plate; and the harmonizing root vegetables' shape, size, and color are proportioned in ratios that would make the ancient Greeks giddy. Such culinary vanity is as rare in Seattle as an 85-degree day.
The prettiness of Stumbling Goat's plates isn't a new development. When the Weekly in 2000 wrote up the then-new Greenwood restaurant, the reviewers were so forthcoming with praise for its "gorgeous" dishes—including an eggplant caponata they likened to the climbable concrete slabs of Michael Heizer's Adjacent, Against, Upon in Myrtle Edwards Park—that they felt compelled to point out that "While presentation plays a prominent role at the Stumbling Goat, one thing that saves it from design-heavy pretension is generous portioning." (Still true.)
Yet the restaurant has changed over 13 years. In addition to tweaking its cocktail menu to satisfy contemporary connoisseurs and continuing to tinker with its weekly schedule, adding weekend breakfast service just this month, Stumbling Goat has employed a succession of ridiculously talented toques who've imposed their own styles on the menu. Ever since a former Herbfarm sous chef, Craig Serbousek (now owner of Crow and Betty), launched the restaurant, Stumbling Goat has functioned as a kind of locavore finishing school; Seth Caswell and Matt Dillon both logged time in the head-chef role. The latter was running the kitchen in 2004 when the Weekly last checked in, pronouncing it "the apex of dining experiences" in north Seattle.
But the Goat's prestige had faded slightly by the year of its most recent white-smoke routine. Joshua Theilen, who had served as executive sous chef at Trellis, took over the kitchen in 2009. New owners Keri DeWoody and Angie Heyer hoped he'd reinvigorate the restaurant's reputation for rigorous ingredient sourcing and irrefutable deliciousness. Judging by a pair of recent dinners, their plan panned out.
DeWoody and Heyer renovated the restaurant soon after they bought it, but—perhaps owning to the Goat's popularity—the room has a lived-in look. The restaurant actually consists of two rooms, but the secondary dining area (better known as the room farther from the bar) was empty and darkened when I visited. Despite the abundance of spare tables, the Goat's service staff has a maddening habit of putting on airs, such as skeptically asking "Do you have a reservation?" when confronted with two would-be diners and failing to greet guests within 10 minutes of their being sat.
Service was always sluggish, but on the night we waited longest for acknowledgment, only five tables were taken. It appeared that one of the two servers on the floor was also handling bar duties, but there's little excuse for failing to deliver at least a polite "Someone will be right with you"—especially since there's nothing complicated about the boxy restaurant's layout.
Uncovered wooden tables, plain as the Goat's exposed brick walls, are the sum of the main room's furnishings. Other than the tabletop candles and sugar caddies, nothing at the Goat would qualify as decor, although diners have their pick of watching the kitchen window, where Theilen and sous chef Gunnar Erickson occasionally linger, or gazing out the streetside casement windows. (The view's a constant stream of sweaty joggers, which may or may not make you feel better about hunkering down with roasted bone marrow and a smoked-bacon bourbon cocktail.)
Still, when servers are on hand, they're enthusiastic and fluent in the daily specials, a critical component of a menu designed to emphasize freshness. And they all seem very musketeery: When a server told me a cocktail of Bulleit rye, Amaro Nonino, and black-walnut bitters was undergoing revision, it certainly sounded as if he might have a say in its final recipe. As it stood, the Chuckanut was overly cakey, an imbalance the bartender corrected by topping off my glass with more whiskey. It seemed like a wise and generous solution until I knocked over a glass of red wine while cutting into a pork chop, staining the Goat's white curtains. Perhaps the whiskey-soaked walnuts at the bottom of my cocktail had done me in.
Despite thoughtful touches like the drunken walnuts, the cocktails I sampled came up a few sophistication levels short of the food. As much as I regret racking up a dry-cleaning bill for the Goat, I'm not sorry for freeing every morsel of meat from the extraordinary double chop, nestled in a prim hash of apples and squash and crowned with crisped sage. The flavor combination isn't novel, but the tender white flesh of the pig—finished on hazelnuts by Portland's Tails & Trotters—was worthy of classicism. Its earthy nuttiness was underscored by just enough aged balsamic to wheedle the palate.
A dead-on cauliflower soup notwithstanding, Stumbling Goat does its best work with meat. A velvety rabbit-liver mousse, jarred and sealed off with a pert white-wine gelée, tasted both wild and elegant, like the Cowardly Lion in cape and crown. A hunk of rich lamb served with a tumble of edamame and spring onions was beautifully cooked, while a chestnut-sweetened roasted chicken would be a fine candidate for ordering again even without the very persuasive florets of caramelized cauliflower.
A lovely green salad garnished with plugs of smoked trout, thin panes of watermelon radishes, and a ready-to-pop poached egg suggested there's much to anticipate on the Goat's spring menu. For now, though, there's lightness and sparkle on pastry chef Jens Melin's impressive dessert menu. Alongside the cakes, there's an ice-cream float with housemade root beer served in its own apothecary bottle. The brassy root beer's true to the Stumbling Goat's longtime farmstead- worshipping ways, but tastes entirely of today.
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For fifth graders at Poplar Springs a field trip to Washington, D.C. has become an annual event---except for last year.
"With 9-11 last year we had to make big adjustments," said Jane Massey, a teacher at Poplar Springs Elementary. "For safety reasons, we chose to go to Williamsburg instead of to Washington D.C. "
"We had actually taken our first payment on 9/11 last year. During the entire year there were just too many questions and we were just uneasy about going to Washington so we cancelled the trip," said Tammy Smith and Vicki Adcock, teachers at Clarkdale.
Although possible with the recent sniper shootings, officials from both Clarkdale and Poplar Springs Elementaries say they're optimistic that such will not be the case this year.
"Our travel agent is located in Washington and she knows what's going on.," said Adcock. "Plus, our communications with parents, they'll let us know if it's not safe."
"I was just on the phone today with two new parents who are putting their children on the trip," said Massey. "So, I feel everyone has confidence in law enforcement in that area and that something will be resolved soon."
Another school planning a trip to Washington in the spring is Parkview Elementary. Each year fifth graders from the school make the trip. The only difference is that the scare of the sniper is causing some concerns.
Despite the concerns, parents and school officials at Parkview say they are also optimistic about the outcome.
"Our trip is scheduled for May and I fell confident that the police will have the situation under control, but I know that we'll be well supervised and I feel we'll be safe," said Anita Bond, a parent and teacher at Parkview.
At this time, organizers from all three schools say the trips will proceed as planned.
"We're just taking it day by day," said Smith.


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|Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:04PM
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|Friday November 25, 2016 @03:51PM
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|Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:13AM
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|Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:54PM
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|Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:48PM
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|Sunday April 17, 2016 @08:58PM
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|Monday April 11, 2016 @04:36PM
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|Tuesday March 01, 2016 @05:14PM
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|Sunday January 10, 2016 @12:51PM
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|Thursday October 22, 2015 @04:13PM
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|Friday October 02, 2015 @07:05PM
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|Monday September 28, 2015 @11:07AM
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|Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:12AM
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|Monday June 09, 2014 @04:25PM
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|Thursday February 13, 2014 @01:14PM
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|Tuesday January 21, 2014 @10:34AM
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|Monday December 16, 2013 @12:13AM
|NZ Developers Win 'Koha' Trademark Case
|Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:11PM
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|Wednesday May 01, 2013 @08:25AM
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|Tuesday March 26, 2013 @08:59AM
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|Thursday March 21, 2013 @05:51PM
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|Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:22PM
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|Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:07PM
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|Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:22AM
|AutoDesk Accuses Non-profit User Forums of Trademark Infringement
|Tuesday February 19, 2013 @06:39AM
|Python Trademark Filer Ignorant Of Python?
|Wednesday January 30, 2013 @08:18AM
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|Tuesday January 29, 2013 @02:15PM
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|Sunday November 18, 2012 @07:53PM
|Coffee and Intellectual Property
|Friday November 02, 2012 @06:22PM
|Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico
|Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:45PM
|Author Threatens to Sue Book Reviewers over Trademark Infringement
|Tuesday September 11, 2012 @02:20PM
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|Thursday July 19, 2012 @09:06AM
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|Friday March 23, 2012 @06:43PM
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|Saturday February 25, 2012 @04:26PM
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|Friday February 24, 2012 @11:50AM
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|Friday February 10, 2012 @02:14AM
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|Monday January 02, 2012 @12:26PM
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|Sunday December 25, 2011 @06:38PM
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|Wednesday December 07, 2011 @11:13AM
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|Tuesday November 22, 2011 @10:19PM
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|Thursday October 20, 2011 @10:22AM
|Trademark Trouble for RIM Over New "BBX" Name
|Tuesday September 27, 2011 @11:41PM
|Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead
|Monday September 26, 2011 @08:36PM
|Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch
|Monday August 22, 2011 @04:00PM
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|Wednesday August 03, 2011 @11:04PM
|Rocksmith: Ubisoft battles band for game name
|Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:40AM
|Better Copyright Through Fair Use and Ponies
|Tuesday July 19, 2011 @04:56PM
|Bitcoin Trademark Troll Now Sending Bogus DMCA Takedowns
|Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:27AM
|Judge rejects Apple bid for injunction against Ama
|Wednesday July 06, 2011 @08:59PM
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|Friday July 01, 2011 @12:56AM
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|Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:44AM
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|Wednesday June 29, 2011 @03:52PM
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|Tuesday June 28, 2011 @02:12PM
|Olympic Games Team Trademarks '2012'
|Friday June 24, 2011 @01:00PM
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|Monday June 20, 2011 @06:19PM
|Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek"
|Wednesday June 15, 2011 @10:09PM
|Apple now sued over use of iBooks name
|Sunday June 12, 2011 @02:43AM
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|Friday May 27, 2011 @08:08AM
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|Friday May 27, 2011 @08:04AM
|NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization
|Saturday May 14, 2011 @03:05PM
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|Friday May 13, 2011 @11:35PM
|Disney trademarks "Seal Team 6"
|Monday March 28, 2011 @01:41PM
|New York Times Struggles With Paywall Attacks
|Monday March 21, 2011 @07:26PM
|Apple sues Amazon.com over App Store trademark
|Thursday March 03, 2011 @02:05AM
|If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows'
|Wednesday March 02, 2011 @01:08AM
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|Tuesday March 01, 2011 @10:06PM
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|Friday February 04, 2011 @08:13PM
|Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name
|Wednesday January 12, 2011 @01:11AM
|Microsoft Fights Apple Trademark On 'App Store'
|Tuesday January 11, 2011 @10:08PM
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|Thursday November 25, 2010 @10:14AM
|Facebook To Own the Word "Face"
|Wednesday November 10, 2010 @03:56PM
|Nintendo Seeks To Trademarks "It's On Like Donkey Kong"
|Sunday September 26, 2010 @06:53PM
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|Saturday September 25, 2010 @04:47AM
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|Tuesday September 21, 2010 @06:39PM
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|Wednesday August 25, 2010 @04:18PM
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|Wednesday August 25, 2010 @12:36AM
|LucasFilm Sues Jedi Mind Over 'Jedi'
|Monday August 16, 2010 @10:25AM
|Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad
|Friday August 13, 2010 @11:25AM
|Rupert Murdoch Claims To Own the 'Sky' In 'Skype'
|Wednesday August 11, 2010 @09:47PM
|BSkyB wants to take the 'Sky' out of Skype
|Thursday July 22, 2010 @01:13PM
|Apple Doesn't Appreciate Toilet Humor
|Friday June 11, 2010 @12:10AM
|Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial
|Thursday May 20, 2010 @06:13PM
|Australian Women Fight Over "Geekgirl" Trademark
|Wednesday May 19, 2010 @10:17PM
|Women in Oz Fight Over 'Geekgirk' Trademark
|Tuesday May 18, 2010 @08:31AM
|Trademark attack on Open Source project
|Friday March 26, 2010 @07:34AM
|Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer
|Wednesday March 24, 2010 @10:15AM
|Google Wins European Trademark Victory
|Tuesday March 23, 2010 @09:45PM
|Google Wins European Trademark Victory
|Wednesday March 17, 2010 @08:26PM
|U.S. agency denies Google's Nexus One trademark
|Saturday March 13, 2010 @11:21AM
|Apple Loses Aussie Trademark Complaint Over "i" Name
|Friday February 19, 2010 @06:15AM
|IOC Claims Olympian Lindsey Vonn's Name As Intellectual Property
|Thursday February 18, 2010 @05:15PM
|IOC claims Olympians' name as Intellectual Propert
|Monday February 08, 2010 @01:39PM
|3D HDMI Specification Is Set Free
|Tuesday February 02, 2010 @06:19AM
|Will Your Super Bowl Party Anger the Copyright Gods?
|Monday October 05, 2009 @12:33PM
|Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos
|Saturday August 08, 2009 @07:35AM
|The Perseverance of a Trademark Troll
|Monday March 02, 2009 @11:41AM
|Psion Accuses Intel of Cybersquatting
|Friday December 26, 2008 @03:12PM
|Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion
|Monday September 15, 2008 @02:39PM
|Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu
|Friday March 07, 2008 @09:46AM
|Neither Intellectual Nor Property
|Tuesday March 04, 2008 @06:17PM
|Facebook Scrabble Rip-off Capitalizes on Mattel's Lethargy
|Tuesday January 22, 2008 @03:15PM
|Groklaw Explains the Cyberlaw "Trademark"
|Saturday January 19, 2008 @06:11AM
|Lawyer Trademarks "Cyberlaw"
|Wednesday January 16, 2008 @07:24PM
|Hasbro Using DMCA on Facebook Game Apps
|Tuesday January 15, 2008 @04:03AM
|Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures
|Friday November 30, 2007 @07:21PM
|Spam Lawsuit's Last Laugh is at Hormel's Expense
|Tuesday October 09, 2007 @09:32PM
|Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent"
|Tuesday September 04, 2007 @08:18PM
|Xbox Live Disallows Linux, Unix As Keywords
|Sunday April 08, 2007 @09:06PM
|Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM
|Wednesday January 31, 2007 @08:08AM
|Linden Labs Sends "Permit-and-Proceed" Letter
|Thursday January 11, 2007 @02:04AM
|Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark
|Friday November 03, 2006 @08:24PM
|UK Report Proposes Changes To IP Laws
|Thursday November 02, 2006 @11:00PM
|Utube Sues YouTube
|Wednesday November 01, 2006 @10:33PM
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|Thursday October 12, 2006 @06:59PM
|IceWeasel — Why Closed Source Wins
|Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:03PM
|EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid
|Saturday September 30, 2006 @06:49PM
|Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian
|Thursday August 17, 2006 @07:45PM
|VirtualDub Author Stymied by Trademark Troll
|Monday August 14, 2006 @08:10PM
|Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations
|Friday May 26, 2006 @11:01PM
|O'Reilly and CMP Exercise Trademark on 'Web 2.0'
|Wednesday May 10, 2006 @08:23PM
|Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face
|Monday May 08, 2006 @07:30AM
|Apple vs Apple -- Judgment Day
|Friday April 28, 2006 @08:54AM
|Faking a Company
|Tuesday April 04, 2006 @09:21PM
|EU Throws out Microsoft's Vista Font Trademark
|Sunday April 02, 2006 @08:37PM
|On Apple vs Apple
|Monday March 27, 2006 @09:05AM
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|Monday March 20, 2006 @11:47AM
|Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark
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Nooooo One Expects the Papal Resignation!
February 11, 2013
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
Well, you probably already know what the big news is today.
Pope Benedict XVI, at times referred to on this blog as "Mr. Popey-head," announces his intention to resign the papacy in order to spend more time with his family.
No, wait, that wasn't it.
He's resigning in order to deal with the charges brought against him by the International Criminal Court for his role in the generations-long abetting of the sexual assault of children by the Catholic Church.
No again.
He's going to run for the Senate seat just opened up by John Kerry in Massachusetts! It's a very Catholic state!
Of course, Ratzinger is stepping down because, he says, of his age and health reducing his ability to perform his duties:
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
He will be the first pope in six hundred freaking years to step down. Sensing an opportunity, I strike, throwing my giant hat into the ring.
Anyway, forget all this pope business. The Telegraph just recommended Point of Inquiry as one of the week's best podcasts!
Jacques Berlinerblau wants more transparency about the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives:
Mid-speech [at the National Prayer Breakfast] the president gave a shout out to "The director of our Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnership's office, Joshua DuBois -- young minister himself -- he starts my morning off with meditations from Scripture."
I wish Mr. DuBois would start off my morning with explanations of what exactly that Office is doing--a never-ending source of confusion, and even awe, among reporters, policy analysts and professors in Washington, DC.
SETI points its alien detectors at newly-discovered exoplanets.
Amish beard-cutting gang is sentenced, with 15 years for the ringleader.
Yes, dinosaurs were finally wiped out by that big asteroid.
The Christian left, which totally exists, is cautiously optimistic about a second Obama term.
Creepy James Dobson writes what sounds like a creepy novel about people not having enough babies.
Richard Dawkins will join Stephen Law for an event with CFI-UK.
David Gorski is none too pleased with Penn and Teller for cozying up to Dr. Oz.
Here's the trailer for a new documentary featuring Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss, The Unbelievers.
Alain de Botton introduces an initiative to promote human virtues unrelated to religion, and I quite like them.
Texas Observer has a long exposé about shady alternative treatments for autism.
Atlantic City fire department does a swearing-in on an iPad Bible app.
Thomas Rees wonders about those who think they see ghosts:
Maybe turning to religion is one way to reduce the distress caused by supernatural experiences that are caused by threatening environments!
Personal travails of SCA chief Edwina Rogers is fodder for WaPo's gossip page.
Historians say that Thomas Edison was not the big fat jerk that the Internet cartoonist behind The Oatmeal makes him out to be.
Wonkette teaches world history, apocalyptic Christianist style.
Amber Dillon at The Independent says that the religion of Christianity is just fine, it's the Bible that's irrelevant and dangerous.
Quote of the Day
Ben Radford on the illusion of sciencey-sounding meaning:
There is no shame in not understanding something, and it's a good lesson to remember that. Asking for clarification not only helps both the speaker and listener communicate more effectively, it is also a powerful tool in revealing bullshit.
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Have you paid your fire assessment?
This assessment is plain and simple a way for the city council to circumvent the Homeowners exemption. Every time they want more money they are going to assess the property owners, they are going to bleed us dry. All they do if find way to get more money to waste it must stop, to them it's all FUN MONEY. Wake up or you are going to pay up.
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This assesment is nothing more but money needed for the city pension plan plain and simple they can't raise the millage rate so this is there answer see what city paid in 2005 compared to today it will shock you or just ask council member lenny nesta what he gets a year..
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