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When we think of investment fraud victims, most of us envision a little old lady getting tricked by a sly con man. But the reality is much different: the typical mark is a boomer guy.
The AARP's new "Fraud Victim Study" finds that victims of investment fraud are more likely to be males 50 and up with at least some college education and an annual income of at least $50,000. Of course, some of this has to do with selection bias: Crooks tend to seek the group with the most money, and boomer men tend to land in that sweet spot. But that's not the whole story. These victims also tended to expose themselves to sales situations more often than the general population and to take risks with their money (because, on the whole, they are less upset about losing some cash) — both of which increase the likelihood of becoming an investment fraud victim, the study found.
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Atsuyoshi Fujiwara has been a pastor and scholar in Japan since 1999. Immediately after the March 2011 disaster, he joined volunteers in relief work and believes the Japanese church's rapid response is a key reason why some Japanese are giving Christianity a fresh look.
A professor of theology at Seigakuin University and founding pastor at Covenant of Grace Church in Tokyo, Fujiwara recently published Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context: A Believers' Church Perspective (Wipf and Stock). He is helping to plan the third theological conference at Fuller Seminary to examine the Christian response to Japan's triple disaster. Christianity Today senior editor of global journalism, Timothy C. Morgan, interviewed Fujiwara by e-mail.
You say that Japan has had three separate encounters with Christianity. What went wrong with each of them?
Each period was different. Yet there was a pattern: Christianity came in chaotic periods when Japan lost peace and order.
Sixteenth-century warfare preceded the arrival of Jesuits and the Roman Catholic mission. Then, after 250 years of the Shogunate era, Japan's isolation ended in 1844, and Western missions groups arrived. After World War II, Christian missions increased.
Initially Japan accepted Christianity, yet gradually rejected it when the nation recovered peace, order, and confidence. The Roman Catholic mission was remarkable. We had numerous Christian martyrs. In the latter two periods, Christianity became more success-oriented around the idea that "Japan needs democracy and Christianity to be successful." When Japan became successful without Christianity, it abandoned it.1


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Navigating the world of social media monitoring tools
If you can't measure it, you can't manage it!
This may be an old business saying, but is has never been more pertinent when it comes to social media.
It is possible to track and trace in real-time any digital communication if it's in the public domain. Social media has of course created an explosion of trackable online and public dialogue.
Herein lays an amazing opportunity to gain an endless amount of market and consumer insight and intelligence. But herein also lays considerable new challenges for marketers.
The technology is not the issue
In response to the anticipated market opportunity for monitoring and analysing what consumers are saying on social media there has is a plethora of software tools developed that can perform these tasks.
A colleague dedicated over a year to the creation of a taxonomy and guide summing up the main features, functions and benefits of a remarkable 250 different tools. This report is available from http://ideya.eu.com/reports.html.But despite the guidance given by the report, the process of selecting the right tools is still a bewildering exercise particularly as and they range in price from free to over £150,000 per annum. So where do you start
Start with deciding what you want to measure
Unless you want to get totally confused by the masses amount of data you can collect, start by deciding what it is you need to measure.
These measurements should be based on your goals for using social media. Remember, social media is best used in conjunction with your other marcoms activities and not used in isolation. Therefore, refer back to your original marcoms goals and then work out how social media can most effectively achieve these goals by augmenting your other marketing and customer services programs.
Resist being carried away by obvious metrics such as numbers of Facebook or Twitter fans or followers. These stats are good for the ego but have only on vague correlation to tangible goals that social media is great as realising. Goals such as increasing average order value, improving customer life time value, reaching more of your total addressable market, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing churn rate.
Having decided on what you can achieve with social media then decide what metrics you need to measure the ROI.
The next step is to start the process of selecting the most cost effective tools that can produce the data you need in easily produced and digestible management dashboard reports. But there are other considerations.
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The unstructured data gleaned from social media will offer up great insight but will considerably more valuable if can be integrated with and correlated to your other data sets. Transactional data, web data and purchased research data that should be held in your CRM systems.
Knowing who is saying what on social media, their propensity to buy, sentiment, advocacy and social capital or influence is invaluable for building ongoing engagement. But you also need to match that data with consumers buying patterns and market segment classifications. This is what data scientists have started to term as 'Big Data'. This collection of data enables marketers to know how to better engage with consumers through personalised interactive content.
Therefore, organisations that use CRM comprehensively need a social media monitoring system that integrates SocialCRM data with their CRM databases.
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A few technology vendors are starting to build this capability into their software. Notably Salesforce.com, a leader in CRM systems, has made a flurry of acquisitions to provide an integrated social system.
Salesforce.com is tooling up to provide a complete social enterprise platform offering tools that will allow you to listen, gain insight, engage, publish, advertise and measure social marketing programs http://www.salesforce.com/uk/solutions/.
They have acquired Radian6 a leading social monitoring tool, Chatter an online employee collaboration system and Buddy Media. Buddy Media is used for social media content distribution and moderation, user engagement and measuring the reach of your content and the buzz it generates across the Blogosphere.
Many other social media monitoring technology providers integrate operation capacity of CRM systems with their tools and services. Ideya's report has identified around 62 SMM tools providers that currently offer their own CRM or allow integration with other CRM technologies.
Accessible and affordable
The good news is that systems such as those provided by Salesforce.com and many others are provisioned as 'software as a service' (Saas). These services mean no IT hardware investment, systems implementation effort and problematic deployment issues and not least, no capital investment.
Just get started by trying out a monitoring tool to get a feel of what it can do and use the above tips to plan your way forward.
For those of you need to dig deeper into social media metrics I can't recommend enough reading Social Media Metrics by Jim Sterne. In the meantime consider the following 11 tips.
11 points to work through
- Be clear about what you are intending to achieve by adopting social media and decide what you want to use a tool for. For example, market insight and prediction, competitive monitoring, customer satisfaction and sentiment analysis, market reach and influence, building social capital, campaign measurement, influencer, conversation and community marketing.
- Set measurable social media goals against your core business objectives and prioritise them.
- Decide what the metrics you are going to use to measure your success.
- Don't just measure numbers of Fans or Followers.
- Be clear about the main sources of data you want to monitor e.g. social networks, blogs, microblogs, social bookmarks, video and photosharing sites, news, duscussion boards and reviews, smartphones and geographic coverage.
- Do you need to merge social media data with CRM data? Make a list of the benefits this can bring to your marcoms programs because this is a bigish investment.
- Decide if you need your social media content distribution system to measure the reach and buzz generated by your content.
- Decide what management reports you need for different functions of your organisation – customers services, PR and marketing will need different dashboards.
- Be clear about what you can realistically do with the data to improve your marcoms initiatives.
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Anton Tobias | The vast cornfields of the Midwest | 08/02/2008
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"On October 14th Anchor Bay/Starz Entertainment will release a Halloween 30th anniversary edition of the film. I, for one, being a longtime Halloween enthusiast, haven't been this dissapointed since Rob Zombie got to cash in on and destroy this classic film with one of the worst renditions ever made.
Again, and in typical Anchor Bay fashion, consumers are being offered the same Halloween product in a new package. Look closely, every single DVD disc included in this set has been a prior release from Anchor Bay.
Even the Blu-Ray disc has been out for months. This is disgraceful and Halloween fans deserve better.
The original Halloween was released thirty years ago, so why is Anchor Bay releasing Halloween 4 and 5 with this set? They were filmed in the late 80's. The answer is greed and laziness. Anchor Bay is jumbling every Halloween release they've ever produced into one pathetic boxset in order to cash in yet again.
This has to be the laziest attempt at a Halloween special edition ever. Thirty years of triumph deserves so much better and this company is just slapping together a lame Halloween boxset at the last minute and calling it a thirty year editon.
Even the Micael Myers mask included in this set is cheap and has been available for years at any local Spencer's gift shop. It has no resemblance to the original mask what-so-ever. Nothing in this boxset is worth spending money on.
This was the perfect opportunity for Anchor Bay to release some of the "lost Halloween footage" found a few years ago burried in boxes. All of John Carpenter's Halloween footage that was not used in the movie was found and Halloween fans have been long awaiting to see just a few frames from this holy grail of unused film stock.
Will any of this footage be available on this boxset? Nope. Just the same tired releases from a company that doesn't know how to show this classic film the proper respect it deserves.
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Eric Ericson | Venice, Florida USA | 07/30/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Halloween. What a perfect title for a Horror movie. It's hard to believe back in 1977 that there had never been any movie, let alone a Horror film, that incorporated that title. And what good usage it got. Written, directed, and even musically scored by John Carpenter (with great assistance by then girlfriend Debra Hill), this was truly a film that brought Horror to it's roots, leaving an impact that only George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead did ten years earlier. Showcasing a deranged killer by the name of Michael Myers who in childhood murdered his sister in cold blood on Halloween night, only to escape his asylum to return to his Illinois home to hunt down babysitter (and eventually known little sister) Jamie Lee Curtis 15 years later, was truly an amazing film that never exploited the genre, keeping the imagination and terror flowing within the viewers mind rather than blatantly on the screen. For it's time it was the number one profitable independent film ever made, and after almost thirty years, it still terrifies and never grows old. A true classic film. Every single DVD collector should own it....
But which one?
Not in the sense of sequels, but rather in which version of the original should you add to your collection. You see, this film has had the DVD distribution rights by Anchor Bay Entertainment (now known as Starz), and they have re-released this classic now a total of six times. So I would like to compare the two most popular versions to see which one should be for you, the "Restored" or the "25th Anniversary"
Starting with the "Restored" version, this DVD was authored way back in 1999. However, it was personally restored by Halloween original cinematographer Dean Cundey, trying to preserve as much of the look of it's original theatrical run. This version has been released a whopping three times. But for the film's "25th (2003) Anniversary", Anchor Bay remastered the film yet again for another release "Halloween 25", this time taking the remastering process in their own hands, something of which Cundey was not happy with. You see, comparing the two's video, you'll notice that each are different. One point is brightness and sharpness. In the Cundey version, overall picture is dark and not as sharp while for 25 the white levels have been raised and it's overall color saturation has been lowered. To me, while the original with it's dark blue hue running throughout looks good, at times it's hard to see certain shots in the dark. The 25th version has fixed that, even going as far as making the film look more natural. As for sharpness, the 25th beats it by far. Audio wise, each film seems on the same level, so a tie there, but it's the video that should be considered when purchasing: the Cundey-more true to the original film/the 25-a sharper, more realistic picture.
Next would be the use of the disc space. Restored is one of those discs that wanted to cater to the early 2000's audiences of giving them both a widescreen and a fullframe on the same disc. Because of this, the bitrate is pretty small for both presentations. However, the 25th is a 2 disc set that only offers on Disc One the Widescreen presentation, and it's Divimax as well. But to be honest, it's bitrate isn't up to say Superbit quality. It's better, but with a total of four audio tracks to choose from, the entire dual layer disc is only used by 75%, and that other 25 could have went to more video bitrate, but alas it's not. But to me, the bitrate still is higher on the 25, not to mention it's compression is four years younger than Restored, so 25 wins again.
Finally is Extras, Restored has a 30 minute documentary called Halloween Unmasked 2000, narrated by Twisted Sister's Dee Snider. Why is he on here than just being a popular fan, beats me. But on 25's second disc is a whopping 87 minute documentary called A Cut Above The Rest which expands on the original and gives much greater detail on the film. 25 also includes another ten minute featurette called On Location, going back to view all the houses and such that were used in the film that Restored does not include either. And if that wasn't enough, 25 has the original Laserdisc commentary by John Carpenter with additional vocals with Jamie Lee Curtis and Debra Hill. This might be the best extra 25 has over Restored, because it's got to be one of the most personal commentaries I've ever heard. Carpenter doesn't hold anything back, a must listen. And sure, both have the same trailers, TV Spots, and such, but again to me 25th Anniversary wins this one too.
But the main reason why I'm writing all this is because back in 2007, Anchor Bay decided to stop releasing the 25th Anniversary and instead re-issue the Restored version. Why, I'm not sure. Dean Cundey was never happy with 25, and maybe his name on the back of Restored's box was a selling-point, I don't know. Maybe the 25's cover was confusing buyers because it looks a little like sequel H20's version? But I do know for your money, the 25th Anniversary is still the best way to go. What's sad is to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the classic film, Anchor Bay is yet again double-dipping it's audience by releasing a six disc collection featuring Parts 1, 4, 5, the NBC-TV edit, the 25 Years Of Terror special and a Blu-Ray version of the original. But again, both the DVD and Blu-Ray (BD version rumored to be a video-hybrid of both) are from the 1999 Cundey master (but the Blu does have the Cut Above special and commentary too). It would have been nice if the DVD was the 25 so fans could have both versions, but no, 25th Anniversary seems lost now.
In conclusion, if you want the best overall 1978 Halloween package, go with the 2003 25th Anniversary Edition. More extras, a more realistic picture, and a commentary to die for. Ratings-wise then from me is:
Restored: (8.5/10)
25th Anniversary: (9.5/10)
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Brett Michael Roberts | Renton, WA USA | 10/09/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This new, Extended version of Halloween is something no fan should be without! 12 minutes of additional footage (4 scenes) has been put into the original version, and the result is awesome. These scenes were not deleted. They were really shot in 1980, when the film was released on cut TV. The scenes were shot using the cast and crew of Halloween II (another must see!) and directed by John Carpenter, himself. These scenes include:#1 A very well made scene where Dr. Loomis (Doneld Pleasance) has an intense conversation with two sanitarium officials. He begs that they move Myers to a maximum security ward, saying that the boy is dangerous and has an instinctive forsce within him. The officials are unimpressed by what Loomis says, and simply keep Myers in the minimum security ward. #2 A scene directly following the previous added scene. Loomis walks into young Michael's cell. For about 1 minute he simply stares at the boy, who stares out the window. Loomis then says "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me!"#3 This scene is after Myers escape. Loomis walks with a nurse into Michael's room, which is completely trashed. The nurse shows him that the word "Sister" is carved in the door. (If you've seen Halloween II, then you know what this means).#4 This final additional scene is my personal favorite. In this scene we get a bit more of Jamie Lee Curtis, a bit more of PJ Soles, and a bit more of Nancy Kyes/Loomis. Lynda (Soles) comes over to Laurie's (Curtis) house, and they have some girl chat. Then, Annie (Kyes/Loomis) calls and asks (unsuccesfully) if she can borrow some of Laurie's clothes. I really love this new version of Halloween. It just feels more complete. I know that these scenes WERE NOT in the original version, but it's way better off with them in there. John Carpenter has said he hates these scenes (as some other reviewers may tell you) but that is HIS opinioun. I love these scenes. They make the movie make a bit more sense. For example, the scene wher Loomis fights with the officials really shows how hard he tried to get them to move Michael. Later on he talks about how much he tried to get them to move him, and this added scene shows you how right he is. The scene with "Sister" really helped connect this to the 2nd (making a great double feature). And the scene with Lynda, Annie and Laurie shows a bit more of their personal lives. Awesome. This version was only available on either the two tape Special VHS editions (where they were AFTER the movie) and on the THX Two Disk Anchor Bay Limited Edition (which is 150 bucks to buy on Amazon used!). I tried really hard to find that two disk limited edition, but I was to late. So this here DVD is like a dream come true. Thank you Anchor Bay! I suggest (unless you have the two disk version) that you buy one now, before it, too, goes out of stock!Halloween is Rated R for Small Violence, Brief Nudity, and brief Language. The new scenes contain nothing to offend parents who were OK with their kids watching the other version.If you found my review helpful, be sure and give me a vote! Thank you!"
An Absolute Classic
Guido | NY United States | 03/21/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The original Halloween is one of the greatest horror movies of all time and my personal favorite. Even though I've seen it numerous times I can't get enough. On Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his sister in the small town of Haddonfield Illinois. Now, 15 years later, he has escaped from a mental institution to reek havoc amongst the trick or treaters. Jaime Lee Curtis stars in her first role as Laurie Strode and is pursued by Michael Myers throughout the entire movie. Donald Pleasance plays Dr. Sam Loomis (Michael Myers doctor) and warns Haddonfield Police of Michael's return. Hesitant to believe the wild accusation Dr. Loomis must hunt Michael down before he can do anymore harm. Halloween will scare and delight you at the same time. The music score for Halloween is still creepy almost 25 years later and is synonymous with the movie. If you only see one horror movie in your lifetime, see this absolute classic, Halloween."


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I guess you heard about the free trip to Mars? Well here is your chance
It may sound out of this world but even bigger things are in the pipeline.
NASA are building modular Landing craft that burn components (Magnesium alloys) light and combustable/ to relaunch to Earth. They use Supercritical Carbon Dioxide to extract it.
Carbon Dioxide is the main Gas on Mars, so aboundant
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... iticalco2/
Ten years in the making.
You may think its science fiction but the same technology today produces the bulk of our decaffeinated coffee and hops in your beer as an example, CUB. it extracts essential oils better than anything and even heavy metals using pressure and temperature to set up the phase change between liquid to gas. Its ideal to clean up for heavy metals as that was its original purpose so very applicable to mining and extraction in the 21st century.
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Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager gifted with the ability to see spirits. His life is drastically changed by the sudden appearance of a Soul Reaper—one who governs the flow of souls between the human world and the afterlife—named Rukia Kuchiki, who arrives in search of a Hollow, a dangerous lost soul. When Rukia is severely wounded defending Ichigo from the Hollow, she attempts to transfer half of her reiatsu energy to Ichigo so that he can defeat the Hollow. However, Ichigo takes almost all of her energy, transforming into a Soul Reaper and allowing him to defeat the Hollow with ease. With her powers diminished, Rukia is left stranded in the human world until she can recover her strength. In the meantime, Ichigo must take over Rukia's role as a Soul Reaper, battling Hollows and guiding souls to the afterlife realm known as the Soul Society.
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Chief Judge Kremers helps keep wedding bells ringing in aftermath of fire
Madison, Wisconsin - July 15, 2013
Thanks to a disaster at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, Chief Judge Jeffrey A. Kremers can add another title to his resume after 21 years on the bench: emergency wedding planner.
As reported by Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, who witnessed recent events unfold, Kremers sprang to action when a bride-to-be showed up with her prospective groom and numerous family members at the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Building around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10.
Problem was, the courthouse was closed. A July 6 fire had destroyed much of an electrical utility room in the basement and caused extensive smoke and odor damage throughout the building. Abrahamson was in town to survey the damage and offer state court system assistance when the wedding party appeared in the lobby without a marriage certificate.
The odds of a wedding happening at this point were not good, as a temporary location had not yet been set up to accommodate people facing this plight. (On Thursday, July 11, the county clerk's office opened a temporary location in the lobby of the City Campus Building to process marriage licenses).
The couple had earlier made their first required trip to the courthouse, but all they had to show for their efforts was a receipt. Without a license, a judge could not sign off. Rather than let disappointment set in, Kremers called the Milwaukee County Clerk's office in an effort to get the license.
He found out that Milwaukee County Clerk Joseph J. Czarnezki had personally collected the pending marriage licenses for safekeeping while the courthouse was closed and crews worked to bring the building back to working order.
Kremers was told Czarnezki was at the Milwaukee County Board meeting, which was being held at a temporary location downtown at the Milwaukee Area Technical College campus. Kremers made his way to the county board meeting, retrieved the wedding license for the couple and brought it back to the courthouse.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Daniel A. Noonan, who was at the ready with his robe and a wedding script, performed the wedding ceremony.
"By 4 p.m., the wedding party that was dejected at 3 p.m., was laughing and 'high five-ing' each other when the papers were signed, and the ceremony was complete," Abrahamson said.
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Mixer--size and brand
I need a mixer that will mix 50lbs of bread dough.
Is a 30qt sufficient?
and what about brand? hobart of course...but SO expensive. Anyone know anything aboutNEW FMA OMCAN 30 QT COMMERCIAL FOOD MIXER
or Centaur or Globe?? Is a hobart really worth the extra money???


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Criminal damage to property
Criminal damage to property in the 600 block of E. Main Street, Goessel, was reported at 7:54 a.m. Oct. 10. A lock and hinge were broken. The property was valued at $250.
Criminal trespass and criminal damage to property
Criminal trespass and criminal damage to property in the 1500 block of 140th Road, Marion, were reported at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 12. Alfalfa valued at $250 was destroyed.
Criminal trespass and misdemeanor theft
Criminal trespass and theft in the 2500 block of 180th Road, Marion, was reported at 12:44 p.m. Oct. 12. Copper wire, eight auto air-conditioning compressors, two small gas engines, and 10 pulleys were reported stolen. The property was valued at $200.
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The Kochs' quest to save America
In January 2009, just days after the inauguration of President Obama, Charles and David Koch met in their company headquarters in Wichita with their longtime political strategist, Rich Fink.
The country was headed toward bankruptcy, they agreed. Fink told them bluntly that Obama's administration represented the worst of what Charles and David fear most: a bloated, regulation-heavy, free-spending government that could plunge the country into another deep recession. That day, Fink advised two of the richest men in the nation that it would be the fight of their lives to stop the government spending spree and to change the course of the country, starting with the 2012 election.
"If we are going to do this, we should do it right or not at all," Fink, 61, recalled telling the brothers. "But if we don't do it right or if we don't do it at all, we will be insignificant and we will just waste a lot of time and I would rather play golf.
"And if we do it right, then it is going to get very, very ugly."
Three and a half years later, President Obama accused the Koch brothers of engineering "a corporate takeover of our democracy."
The brothers' political spending and the network of conservative political organizations and think tanks they fund have sparked protests.
Two years of condemnations and criticism prompted Charles Koch to break his silence about politics. In his most extensive interview in 15 years, Charles Koch, along with his family and friends, talked about why he wants to defeat Obama and elect members of Congress who will stop what he calls catastrophic overspending. Government recklessness threatens the country and his business, he said.
The Kochs say the price for their political involvement has been high: Death threats, cyberattacks on their business, hundreds of news stories criticizing them, calls for boycotts of the company's consumer goods, and what the brothers see as ongoing and unjustified public attacks from the Obama administration.
The Kochs aren't finished. Win or lose in November, they plan to start a new fight. They are organizing dozens of business and grassroots groups to build support for eliminating all corporate and agricultural subsidies.
The country must deal with corporate welfare, which they say exceeds $350 billion a year, before it can rein in spending on Social Security and Medicare, Fink said.
"How is any American going to feel good about reforming Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security when there is so much cronyism going on with these companies and businessmen are making off with so many tax dollars?" Fink asked.
The Kochs won't say how much they are spending or specifically what they are doing to defeat Obama, but it's enough to prompt critics to question how much political influence one family should have.
"The Koch political machine is the most elaborate, comprehensive financial dip into American politics since Standard Oil and the robber barons a century ago," said Larry Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota.
"This is the 21st century version of how you buy yourself a government in America."
Their motive, Jacobs suspects, is wealth. "The rest of this may well be the means to an end."
Charles Koch says his enemies accuse him of maneuvering "so that we can be free to plunder or exploit people, exploit our employees, exploit our customers.
"And if that's true, why are we the only large company that's doing this?" he asked. "If this were the easy way to make money, why wouldn't they be doing it?"
Charles Koch said he would prefer not to get involved in politics.
"I look at those activities as defensive," he said. "That is, we need to preserve enough liberty and enough of a market economy so people can speak out and have independent resources to provide diverse opinions, and try to put some limits on the growth and intrusiveness of government."
Attacks multiply
The brothers say they are taking risks by speaking out. Mark Holden, Koch Industries' senior vice president and general counsel, said there has been a progression of attacks and lies about the company since Obama's election, including:
Summer 2010: Austan Goolsbee, then Obama's chief economic adviser, commented on Koch Industries' tax status during a briefing with reporters in Washington, accusing the company of not paying taxes.
Under federal law, it's a crime to improperly access or disclose confidential tax information, according to Holden, who suspects the administration was trying to intimidate them because of their political views.
"It was false and malicious, too," Holden said. "We pay a lot of taxes."
May 2012: Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, said in a video that the campaign is "going to call their BS," referencing the Kochs.
"Really?" Holden said. "If my kids said that to me, they'd be going to their room. This is the deputy campaign manager? This is the discourse in this country?"
May 2012: David Axelrod, Obama's senior political consultant, told the media in a telephone conference that Mitt Romney is being aided by "the (political strategist) Karl (Rove) and Koch brothers' contract killers in super PAC land," according to news accounts.
"And when you have Axelrod, one of (Obama's) top campaign officials, saying we are contract killers. I mean, I don't know how somebody in the administration can say that about a private citizen," said Charles Koch. "The attacks are unbelievable."
"It's frightening because you don't know what they're going to do," he said. "They have tremendous power. They can destroy just about anybody, whether you are totally innocent or not."
July 2012: U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., read a statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate accusing the Koch brothers of being "two of the biggest sources of secret money in politics."
With photos of the Koch brothers as a backdrop, captioned "The Koch Brothers: Subverting the Democratic Process," Lautenberg spoke for three minutes accusing the brothers of picking their preferred politicians.
"If these wealthy individuals want to pick our next president, they should have the muscle and the courage to stand up and say so, tell everybody ... what they want to do to our democracy. They don't have the courage," Lautenberg said.
Lautenberg also read a list of Koch Industries' consumer products into the record, detailing the various companies the Koch brothers own. Koch officials called that action tantamount to inviting a boycott by consumers.
The attacks have forced the brothers to increase security around themselves and their families, both said. David Koch said Obama's criticisms might tempt disturbed people to hurt them.
Obama's "criticism can stimulate a lot of anger and dislike toward us," David Koch said, "so there's a huge security concern."
The threat the Kochs fear most from the government is the potential for harassment by regulation.
"The government can shut our refineries down just by not letting us take an old heater and replace it with a more efficient heater," Fink said. "You need a permit for that. They have the power to shut us down."
The White House did not return calls seeking comment.
Fink said he warned the brothers that January day in 2009 about the perils of taking on the president and upsetting the special interests that fund the political system.
"I said that you guys will possibly risk the businesses that you have built and your family legacy and there's going to be a lot of fallback from this," he said.
"They both of them said, 'Absolutely not. We are committed. We believe it is the right thing to do. If we don't save the country we are not going to have a company anyhow. So what's the big difference?' "
Economic predictions
The Kochs believe the country is racing inevitably to economic disaster. They blame Republicans and Democrats alike.
They say that overspending, coupled with future shortfalls in Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, along with interest on the national debt, will push the country into bankruptcy, just as surely as a family that consistently spends more than it makes will end up broke.
"We're running well over a trillion-dollar-a-year deficits with our national debt climbing inexorably to greater and greater level," David Koch said. "The Federal Reserve, of course, is buying the bonds the federal government issues to finance the debt. And my God, if this continues to increase, we're going to have ever-increasing inflation, it could become runaway inflation that would raise interest rates on our national debt enormously, and our country could spiral into bankruptcy."
The interest alone that the United States will owe to China in 2025 is projected to be enough to fund that country's entire military, Fink said.
The Kochs say neither Obama nor Romney will address overspending or expanding government.
"You go through history, the rate of increase in federal government has been almost the same under Republicans as under Democrats," Charles Koch said. But he said that under Romney the country's economic decline will proceed more slowly.
They also say that the country is threatened by cronyism, companies that would lobby for regulations to cripple their competitors or for subsidies rather than compete in the marketplace.
"Businesses, rather than focusing on finding what products and services will add value for people, will improve their quality of life, go to the government and get subsidies, mandates and other things, so the economy is no longer directed by individual consumers, but it's directed politically," Charles Koch said. "And we've seen what happens to societies that go there. And so that's happening to this society."
Although the Kochs have long complained about corporate subsidies, saying they increase taxes and the price of goods, the company accepts subsidies for production of ethanol. Not accepting them would put the company at a competitive disadvantage, they say.
Their political views date back to the 1930s, when their father, Fred, an engineer, told stories at the dinner table about building cracking units in refineries for Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union, a nation that controlled economics from central planning. Their father despised the socialism of the Soviet Union.
He "was extraordinarily fearful of our government becoming much more socialistic and domineering," David Koch said. "...So from the time we were teenagers to the present, we've been very concerned and worried about our government evolving into a very controlling, socialist type of government."
The Kochs believe that no government program can create real prosperity, and that when government interferes with the markets, whether through subsidies, taxation or excessive regulation, it diminishes prosperity.
A case in point, Charles Koch said, is low interest rates.
"I worry about the policy of the Fed, with zero interest rates. Okay, that may make some of the banks a lot of money, but what does it do to the person who saved? Who's counting on income? How are they going to invest? They're going to make now very risky investments to get any return. It's zero return on depositing your money now. That wasn't what they banked on when they saved this money and thought they'd have enough to live on when they retired."
Another is the housing crisis. The problems, he said, started with regulations.
"Fanny and Freddie were subsidizing the majority of houses, and they were directing the banks where to put it, and underwriting losses. So once again, this is, the banks profited from this, and the losses were socialized. Taxpayers, the ordinary person, the poor people are bearing that — to enrich a few bankers."
The Kochs think government is an obstacle to making money that should be removed, said Jim Steele, who with Don Barlett just released "The Betrayal of the American Dream." The book accuses the "ruling elite" — including the Kochs — of impoverishing the American middle class by pushing initiatives such as deregulation, outsourcing and balanced budgets to enrich themselves.
The Kochs have spent more than three decades building a vast, sophisticated network of think tanks, university researchers and citizen groups to advocate for limited government, lower taxes and limited regulation.
"We feel that the views of the foundations that they support ... have been really instrumental in undermining the economic well-being of the middle class," Steele said.
Free markets to the Kochs mean freedom to make money, Steele said.
"I think they view government as an intrusion in their liberty to make money," he said. "Any government regulation is seen as an intrusion that would interfere with that process."
Steele said the Kochs are using money they gleaned from lower taxes on dividends and on the wealthy to finance a disinformation campaign against Obama.
Steele said claims by Republicans that Obama is responsible for the current budget deficit are preposterous.
"His predecessor ran up the deficit, and because of the issues with Bush II, the economy slows down, tax collections are down and that contributes to the deficit.
"So now they're going to run ads basically with free money, the money they've saved not paying taxes on their dividends, to accuse him of the deficit problems.
"It's truly preposterous."
The wealthy trying to influence an election isn't new. George Soros, a billionaire hedge fund investor, contributed around $40 million to defeat President George W. Bush in 2004, according to Bill Allison, a campaign finance expert with the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, D.C.
But checkbook politics got a huge boost in 2010. The U.S. Supreme Court, in the Citizens United decision, held that government has no right under the First Amendment to restrict political contributions by corporations and unions. The spending, while controversial, is legal.
"What we're seeing this time around is an escalation of scale," Allison said. "The Citizens United decision has legitimized this kind of spending in a way it was never legitimized before. Soros was interviewed by lawyers for the FTC asking why he had given the money and about possible campaign finance violations. With Citizens United, you'll never see that kind of scrutiny again."
Ideas and education
Only a crisis can produce real change, economist Milton Friedman wrote in 1982. "When that crisis occurs," he wrote, "the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."
The Kochs spent three decades making sure they had plenty of ideas lying around.
One of the biggest idea generators is the Mercatus Center, started by Fink with seed money from Charles Koch. The group has studied the privatization of Social Security and analyzed environmental regulations asking if they do more harm than good. The answer is often yes.
In 2004, the Wall Street Journal called the Mercatus Center the most important think tank you've never heard of. When President George W. Bush's Office of Management and Budget late in 2001 sought suggestions for regulations in need of reform, 14 of the 23 "high priority" changes it considered came from Mercatus. Eight of those dealt with environmental regulations.
The center is housed at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where Fink once taught economics. George Mason also is home to the Institute for Humane Studies, chaired by Charles Koch, and the Charles G. Koch summer internship, a ten-week program for college students who believe in limited government and low taxes and who want a career in public policy.
The institute places students with 80 like-minded nonprofits. When nonprofits need someone to testify before state legislatures, speak to groups or write letters to the editor, they can tap the institute's talent pool.
Charles Koch says the bulk of his charitable spending goes to these type of educational activities. The family gives money to about 200 universities each semester to further research and teaching of free-market economics and support students who believe in those ideas.
The family won't say how much it has spent to build its network. But the Charles Koch Foundation alone has given about $60.5 million to think tanks and universities since 2000, according to IRS filings. About $40 million of that has gone to George Mason and its affiliated groups. The foundation is just one of many sources of money for the network, Fink said.
It's been money effectively spent, according to Joe Aistrup, a political science professor at Kansas State University. The Koch brothers' political genius, he said, began in recognizing the absence of Libertarian think tanks in the 1970s promoting that individual well-being and prosperity are fostered by individual freedom and limited government.
Prior to that, there was "nothing at all devoted to government not doing anything, essentially," he said.
The Kochs probably wouldn't be nearly as successful if it hadn't been for Fink, who said he began pestering Charles Koch around 1977. Fink, then a PhD candidate at New York University, was searching for $150,000 over three years for an educational and research program on a new approach to market-based economics.
Charles Koch, his last hope for money, agreed to meet with him if he came to Wichita. Fink, who says he looked and dressed outlandishly even by late 1970s standards, bought a $1,200 plane ticket and flew to Wichita.
He had hair and a beard down to his shoulders. He bought his first suit — made of black polyester with white piping. Under it he wore a black-and-white checkered shirt and a blue tie anchored by a Phi Beta Kappa tie clip that he put on backward. As he got off the plane in Wichita, people kept staring at him.
"I thought, 'Man, am I looking hot. I am looking sharp.' And I said, 'Man, it's the suit, I am going to get me another one of these babies.'... Never did I realize what a jackass I looked like."
After his presentation, Charles had nothing to say and Fink got on the plane thinking he had blown his last chance.
Then someone from the company called. They would give him the money on one condition: If he didn't meet his measurable goals he would never bother them again. That was the start of what became the Mercatus Center.
Years later, Fink told Charles, "If a guy came up to me with a black polyester suit, white piping, dressed like that with a beard and hair down to his shoulders, I don't think I would probably meet with him let alone give him the equivalent of about $500,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars. I said, 'Why did you do that?' And he said, 'I like polyester. It's petroleum based.' "
In 1983, Charles asked Fink to evaluate four groups he was funding, including the Council for a Competitive Economy, made up of 2,000 business leaders who had pledged to lobby Congress for an end to corporate subsidies. But when it came time to testify against their own subsidies, most dropped out of the group. "It was like a failing institution," Fink said.
Fink and his economic students spent six weeks studying ways to bring about social change and came up with a blueprint to invest Charles' money to advance free-market economics.
They gave money to hundreds of universities to generate ideas. They funded dozens of think tanks to turn those ideas into public policy proposals. They created grassroots groups to push for the proposals. And they helped elect politicians who would turn the proposals into law.
In 1984, Fink, the Kochs and another businessman created their first grassroots group, Citizens for a Sound Economy, with about $1.5 million in seed money from David Koch. They statistically tested economic issues — international trade, a balanced budget amendment, a supermajority vote on tax increases — on membership lists of about 130 organizations and discovered that a flat tax had the greatest appeal.
The group initially called for privatizing government and adopting a flat tax. It opposed President Reagan's highway bill because it was loaded with pork projects. It opposed Hillary Clinton's health care reform. It also helped defeat President Clinton's BTU tax — a tax on energy — in 1993. In selected states, including Kansas, it fought tax increases and sought tort reform.
After major victories, the brothers and Fink made a mistake, according to Charles Koch. They had built a network of universities, think tanks, grassroots organizations, politicians and industry officials. "Then we kind of let it wither away. So we got new threats, we had to start over, in large part. Not completely, but in large part," Charles Koch said.
In 2003, with Republicans in charge of the White House and Congress, but failing to control spending, the Kochs redoubled their efforts.
They launched their twice-a-year, invitation-only economic seminars to encourage business leaders to promote free-market ideas by educating their employees, running ads, raising money and contributing to think tanks and universities. The first was in Chicago with 17 people attending nonstop economic lectures.
"We didn't even let people take a bathroom break," Fink said. "We just ... wore everybody out. We presented economic analysis, basically from morning to night."
The next year only eight business leaders came back. The seminar brought in celebrities and politicians, while still slipping in economic lessons. The sessions are now typically attended by hundreds of business leaders. The one in Palm Springs in 2011 also attracted hundreds of protestors and resulted in 25 arrests.
In 2004, internal disagreements caused Citizens for a Sound Economy to splinter into two groups. Dick Armey, the former House majority leader from Texas, launched FreedomWorks. The Kochs launched Americans for Prosperity, which called for an end to corporate subsidies and for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
Fink won't discuss what the brothers and Americans for Prosperity have accomplished recently.
"We're just besieged day and night with attacks and the more visible we are, and the more we've done, the more attacks we get," he said. "But we're very aggressive on almost all the major economic issues we're generally involved in. I think that's actually one of the things that happened at the Obama administration, is that every rock they overturned, they saw people who were against it, and it turned out to be us."
Some have accused the Kochs of starting and funding the tea party.
Fink says they didn't start it; CNBC reporter Rick Santelli did when, on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange, he called for a tea party to protest government spending. But Fink believes they laid the groundwork for it to take hold.
"We met for 20 or 30 years advancing free-market ideas in universities, think tanks and citizen groups," Fink said. "I am hopeful that those ideas filtered down and were part of the cause of the tea party taking off."
They haven't funded the tea party directly, largely because they haven't received any proposals that meet their criteria, Fink said. But Fink said they do fund groups, including Americans for Prosperity, which give money to, and work with, the tea party.
Frayda Levy, a former book distributor who founded the New Jersey AFP chapter and is on the board of directors of the national organization, works with the tea party.
"We try to meet with these groups and try to talk to them about being a little more sophisticated about how they think about economic liberty," Levy said.
"We hold town meetings with these other groups, and invariably, somebody there wants to talk about immigration or Agenda 21. And we try to tell them, 'Look, Agenda 21 is not our problem. The problem is government spending and the deficit.'
"We are trying to enable the tea party movement to think through an economic framework and get some of these people out of what sometimes tends to be a more xenophobic framework."
Causes and candidates
Charles and David Koch, each worth an estimated $31 billion, directly support causes and candidates at the national or state level.
They won't say how much they are spending to influence the election.
Charles Koch refuted early media reports that put their tab to defeat Obama at $200 million.
"Well, the Obama campaign said they were going to spend a billion. No, we're not going to spend that much," he said, referring to the $200 million.
"We're going to participate effectively in the election, let's just put it that way," David Koch said.
Fink said simply, "We are doing a lot."
Providing more information, he said, would increase criticism. "Anybody who sticks their head up is going to get shot. We understand that. We're sticking our head up and getting shot.... Any information you put out there just increases the number of bullets and arrows, so why do that?"
The Koch Industries Political Action Committee has spent $2.3 million in the 2012 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
They've spent more than $60 million lobbying Washington in the past decade and $13.6 million backing political candidates, usually Republicans, since 1990.
The total amount being spent isn't public, thanks to campaign finance laws that allow nonprofit groups to keep the identity of their donors secret.
Americans for Prosperity plans to spend $110 million to defeat Obama, its director, Tim Phillips, told the national media in early August.
When the Obama administration called on the nonprofit earlier this year to release its donor list, it refused. The Kochs say that only a small part of the money is coming from them. In 2009, the Kochs donated about 8 percent of the AFP's $27 million budget, according to the company. This year, David Koch told Weekly Standard, they are donating less than 10 percent of the organization's budget.
In additional to the presidential race, the Kochs are influencing Congressional and state races. Republicans need to win control of four seats to control the U.S. Senate. In Ohio, a spokeswoman for Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, said the Koch family has invested more money to defeat him than any other senator.
"The Koch brothers have joined numerous other third-party, secretly-funded groups to pump more outside money into this race against Sherrod than has been spent against any other Senate candidate in the country, and it is the only reason Josh Mandel is remotely competitive," said campaign spokeswoman Sadie Weiner.
In Kansas, Koch Industries was the largest donor to the Kansas Chamber of Commerce's political action committee in the August primary, contributing $125,000 to help defeat 10 moderate senators, a quarter of the state senate.
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The Citizens United ruling has made it possible for families like the Kochs to successfully dominate political debate, Steele said.
Middle-class America is losing its influence in the political process, he said.
"The idea that a handful of folks who just happen to have a lot of money have everyone's best interests at heart, that's not what America's about," he said.
But Fink says the Kochs aren't doing anything for their cause that labor unions and Hollywood aren't doing for Obama and Democrats.
"If you look at the money that comes in from the labor unions, plaintiffs attorneys, whatever, it far exceeds the resources coming in from this side," he said. "So I would say that if it is one family or a group of people, the point of view we are trying to represent is underfunded, not overfunded... This is going to sound wrong, but what do you say to the Founding Fathers? There was a very small group of people that were a minority that changed the whole country. You say George Washington had too much influence? We shouldn't allow them to do that? And we should have spread the influence around?"
Jacobs, the Minnesota political scientist, calls the Kochs the powerbrokers of the Republican Party, but warns that if Romney loses they may be ostracized.
The American business community, Jacobs said, is almost certain to take a dim view of the Kochs' move against corporate subsidies.
"Once you get into the other things businesses rely upon — subsidies and tax exemptions — there's a tension between the Koch brothers and mainstream business that hasn't played itself out yet."
The Kochs realize as they prepare for their campaign to end corporate subsidies that they are about to become even more unpopular with political parties and special-interest groups that depend on government.
But throughout the history of the world there have been small groups of people who have changed society, Fink said.
They aren't backing down.
"We believe America is at a tipping point," Fink said. "That with our debt, with our government spending, if you look at the economics of it, it is totally unsustainable.... We are in the process of destroying America, of destroying the American dream. We believe just like the... American revolutionaries did, there is going to be a small group of people who stand up and fight to save the country. Otherwise we have lost it."


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Opening the doors to new trading partners comes with its own set of challenges.
As pork producers gear up for another volatile year, it's opening new trade doors that remains a top concern for leaders in the pork industry.
"Last year, in 2012, we exported 27% of our product," says Howard Hill, National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President-elect. "The world knows where to come to get good-quality pork and they also know that we're the low-cost producers."
USDA says that despite trader barriers, net pork exports increased nearly eleven-fold since 2000.
National Pork Producers Council says free-trade agreements, specifically the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), are a main focus when it comes to developing more trade opportunities.
"Even though we do export a lot of pork product to Japan and we are paying gate prices, there are some restrictions that are there," says NPPC President Randy Spronk. "And we think through this negotiation, if we can bring those tariffs down to zero, if we can remove all non-tariff trade barriers like we've done with South Korea, Columbia and Panama, we have a great opportunity to double our exports to Japan, which is a phenomenal market."
Another agreement in the works is the U.S.-EU Free Trade Agreement. Spronk says expectations are for the EU to eliminate tariffs and barriers.
Not everyone is as bullish on the trade opportunities with Europe, seeing it as a constant struggle.
"I think the toughest battle is almost always the EU," says Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics. "They're pros at protectionism. My experience is, every time we solve one issue with the EU, we find another one."
They say the main issue with overall trade is always gaining access to new trading partners. Mayer says when looking at China, the recent Smithfield acquisition may play in the pork industry's favor.
"I think it probably causes our exports to China to grow faster than they otherwise would have," says Meyer. "I think they were going to grow anyway, but this probably greases the skids on these some."
One barrier for trade in countries like China and Russia is a product that contains the feed additive ractopamine. Many in the pork industry say countries banning exports due to ractopamine is just smoke and mirrors.
"We just don't think that using it as a trade barrier is the proper way to do it," Hill says. "We know there are countries that are probably using ractopamine, but yet they want to keep pork from the outside out. They're using this as a trade barrier."
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Friday morning put a smile on the faces of the invited riders and journalists. Not only because it was the official 'world smiling day' but also the fact that the Hintertux Glacier presented itself on a perfect Bluebird day with a perfectly shaped park and 40 cm of fresh powder. After a relaxed day of snowboarding and good action in the park, the riders of the Hot-zone.tv team and guests enjoyed the preview video premiere of the Hot-Zone team movie 'In love with the dude forever'.
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Reinhart, Ekblad named captains of Top Prospectsby Mike G. Morreale
Forward Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay Ice and defenseman Aaron Ekblad of the Barrie Colts on Thursday were named captains for the 2014 BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game on Jan. 15 in Calgary.
The Top Prospects Game will showcase the Canadian Hockey League's top 40 NHL draft-eligible players for the 2014 NHL Draft, featuring talent from the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
"I don't think you will find one scout say this game will dramatically influence their position on a specific player, but a good performance always bodes well," NHL Central Scouting Director Dan Marr said via a conference call on Thursday. "The players in this game were voted in by the NHL teams, so now those teams will get an opportunity to see them play."
2014 BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Rosters
Team Cherry (Coach Jim Peplinski)
Goalies: Ty Edmonds, Prince George Cougars, WHL; Alex Nedeljkovic, Plymouth Whalers, OHL.
Defense: #Roland McKeown, Kingston Frontenacs, OHL; Alexis Vanier, Baie-Comeau Drakkar, QMJHL; Haydn Fleury, Red Deer Rebels, WHL; Anthony DeAngelo, Sarnia Sting, OHL; Aaron Irving, Edmonton Oil Kings, WHL; Jacob Middleton, Ottawa 67's, OHL.
Forwards: Chase De Leo, Portland Winterhawks, WHL; Robert Fabbri, Guelph Storm, OHL; Nick Ritchie, Peterborough Petes, OHL; Matt Mistele, Plymouth Whalers, OHL; *Sam Reinhart, Koontenay Ice, WHL; Nikita Scherbak, Saskatoon Blades, WHL; Daniel Audette, Sherbrooke Phoenix, QMJHL; #Ivan Barbashev, Moncton Wildcats, QMJHL; Michael Dal Colle, Oshawa Generals, OHL; Ryan MacInnis, Kitchener Rangers, OHL; Nikolay Goldobin, Sarnia Sting, OHL; Conner Bleackley, Red Deer Rebels, WHL.
Team Orr (Coach Tim Hunter)
Goalies: Mason McDonald, Acadie-Bathurst Titan, QMJHL; Julio Billia, Chicoutimi Sagueneens, QMJHL.
Defense: Alex Peters, Plymouth Whalers, OHL; Brycen Martin, Swift Current Broncos, WHL; *Aaron Ekblad, Barrie Colts, OHL; Julius Honka, Swift Current Broncos, WHL; Ben Thomas, Calgary Hitmen, WHL; Aaron Haydon, Niagara IceDogs, OHL.
Forwards: Eric Cornel, Peterborough Petes, OHL; Brendan Perlini, Niagara IceDogs, OHL; #Jake Virtanen, Calgary Hitmen, WHL; Jared McCann, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, OHL; Brendan Lemieux, Barrie Colts, OHL; #Nikolaj Ehlers, Halifax Mooseheads, QMJHL; Clark Bishop, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, QMJHL; Josh Ho-Sang, Windsor Spitfires, OHL; Blake Clarke, North Bay Battalion, OHL; Leon Draisaitl, Prince Albert Raiders, WHL; Sam Bennett, Kingston Frontenacs, OHL; Spencer Watson, Kingston Frontenacs, OHL.
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Reinhart will captain Team Cherry, which will be coached by Jim Peplinski. The alternate captains will be defenseman Roland McKeown of the Kingston Frontenacs (OHL) and forward Ivan Barbashev of the Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL).
Ekblad will wear the "C" for Team Orr, coached by Tim Hunter. The alternates are forward Jake Virtanen of the hometown Calgary Hitmen (WHL) and forward Nikolaj Ehlers of the Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL).
"I want to shut down Sam," Ekblad said. "I want to make sure he doesn't score any goals, so that's my main goal for now. Of course winning the game is also important, and I want those bragging rights over him."
Both Reinhart and Ekblad are not only A-rated prospects on NHL Central Scouting's December players to watch list for the 2014 draft, but participated in the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship for fourth-place Canada. Reinhart had two goals, five points and a plus-3 rating in a top-six role for Canada coach Brent Sutter, and Ekblad had one goal and two points in a top-four role along the blue line for his country.
"I don't think I've ever played against Aaron, so it'll be exciting. I may have to fight him once or twice," Reinhart said, tongue in cheek.
Reinhart, a 6-foot-0.75, 185-pound right-hander, has 16 goals and 50 points in 33 games for Kootenay in the WHL. He's in his third full season with the Ice and has 81 goals and 199 points in 176 career games with the team.
He led the Ice last season in goals (35), assists (50) and points (85). He not only captained Canada's team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka, but also wore the "C" for Canada's World Under-18 National Team that garnered gold. At the U-18 World Championship in Sochi, Russia, Reinhart had three goals, seven points and a plus-7 rating on a line primarily with Morgan Klimchuk (Calgary Flames, No. 28, 2013) and 2015 draft-eligible prodigy Connor McDavid.
Reinhart has quite the hockey pedigree.
Max Reinhart, 21, was taken by the Calgary Flames in the third round (No. 63) of the 2010 draft. The only defenseman of the trio, Griffin Reinhart, 19, was selected No. 4 by the New York Islanders in 2012. His father, Paul Reinhart, who will serve as an assistant coach for Team Cherry, was chosen No. 12 by the Atlanta Flames in 1979.
"My brothers have had a huge impact on my career," Sam Reinhart said. "It's not so much what they've said as it's been just watching them both handle their draft years. I learned a lot watching what they experienced."
Ekblad (6-3.5, 216), who has 10 goals and 25 points in 29 games in the OHL, served as the captain for first-place Canada at the 2013 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka this past summer. He was also captain of Team Ontario at the 2013 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and finished as the second-highest scoring defenseman at the tournament with six points (two goals, four assists).
Ekblad was granted exceptional player status by Hockey Canada to be eligible for the 2011 OHL priority selection draft as a 15-year-old -- a year younger than the standard age of 16. He was selected No. 1 in 2011 by the Colts in the OHL priority selection and had 10 goals and 29 points in 63 games to earn OHL Rookie of the Year honors.
"Me, Sam and all the other players at this game have a special bond; we're all fighting for top honors in this year's draft," Ekblad said. "It's going to be an exciting time and obviously to play against Sam is going to be exciting."