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Here are some behind the scenes news and notes as it relates to Mark's camp.
- Hayden Smith is at a wedding in Sydney, and is not in attendance.
- It was originally reported that Terrance Ganaway would not make it because he wanted to spend time with his wife. However, he had a change of heart and is there.
- Running back John Griffin, who really turned heads during OTA's and Minicamp, is at the camp.
- Stephen Hill, who told reporters in May that he wasn't sure if he would be able to attend due to a "scheduling conflict," is in attendance.
- Todd Norman, Mark Sanchez's personal trainer, is helping run the workouts.
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@steve - Your point is way off base. The city of Richmond IS on one END of the state... the EAST end. I would interpret the author's statement that the DR site is at the WEST end of the state. Ends are not necessarily oriented north/south they typically refer to the farthest points - and Virginia is far wider than it is tall.
'opposite end'? from the center of the state? how can an end be opposite from the center? deliberately vague about where a dr site is? good idea. inaccurate writing? very bad idea. English is a hard enough language to understand without editorial abuse.
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Posted on 12/19/2012 7:25:43 PM PST by kiryandil
I just got done throwing up (again) listening to Obama opine on gun control in the wake of the Newtown shooting.
Let's step back for a moment and look at this issue with a wide-angle lens, starting with President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg, two of the loudest anti-gun proponents.
Let me first disclose where I'm coming from -- I'm a parent of a teen-age daughter and have raised her single-handed since she was in diapers. She came into this world through an intentional act that I undertook with not only full acceptance of the potential consequence but actual planning for that consequence. I would lay down my life for her, as would most parents. And in a few years she will go off on her own, yet I believe our relationship will remain solid through the years. I hope to some day see the "circle of life" repeat with one or more grandchildren and, I hope, a worthy partner with whom she chooses to live her life with.
I still remember walking her out to the bus stop that first day of school, and her marching up into the bus to go to kindergarten. Just like every other parent has done in one way or another.
I never gave much thought to the idea that she might be at risk while in school. Oh sure, it's always a possibility -- anything is a possibility; there might be a tornado tomorrow, or lightning could hit you on the way to get the mail in the afternoon. But there are some things that you start by believing, or you'd never let your kid walk up those steps onto the bus. Among them are that the teachers and staff are not creeps; they are there to help your child learn, not exploit them in some hideous way. You cede to those people what is known as in loco parentis for a number of hours in the day, and then you take that responsibility back when your kid comes home in the afternoon.
If there's a bump in the night and it's a thug intent on attacking my family, it's my responsibility to deal with it first. That's who I am as the head of the household. I am the first responder, because my other alternative is to be the first victim, either along side or right in front of my daughter. And again, while you don't expect such an event to happen, and you arrange your life as best you're able to prevent it, there is no such thing as a guarantee.
Now please understand one thing very clearly before we continue.
Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama don't have this issue.
They literally do not care about such things, and they design their life and their public office so as to be able to not care. It is an intentional act they could cast aside should they so choose, but they have not and will not.
Mayor Bloomberg has a small cadre of hired hands who are near and with him literally 24 hours a day. They are armed, all the time, and they are paid to worry about these things so he doesn't have to.
Likewise, President Obama has a literal army of trained, armed soldiers in the form of parts of the military and an entire division of officers (The Secret Service) who's job it is, once again, to make this not his problem for both him and his entire family. Michelle and his children do not have to concern themselves about these issues because there are literally over a thousand others who are paid to take that responsibility -- up to and including eating a bullet in their place.
Neither of these people is proposing to rely on what they claim you should rely on -- a "law." A piece of paper, which today doesn't even get printed on real paper; it's a ghost in a machine that glows at you in the dark.
Let me remind you that our founders said, over 200 years ago:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
They did not say that government gave them rights. They stated that you had them, just as they had them, simply by virtue of being human and alive. That all persons have them, and that they are unalienable -- unable to be removed by any man.
If you believe that you have a right to life because your creator endowed you with that right, and that this right is unalienable and thus cannot be taken from you (although it can certainly be disrespected!) then it follows that you have not only the right but the responsibility to defend your life. That is, you have the right and the responsibility to deter to the best of your ability any other person who would take your life from you.
You may choose to delegate this responsibility to others, as Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama have, but your right to life is not inferior to theirs. It is equal. President Obama has no more right to live than you do. You are his equal from the standpoint of what your creator, and his creator, endowed both of you with.
So we have established that you have the right to live, as does the President. And if the President has the right to defend his life with deadly force, and indeed the responsibility to do so, then, should it be necessary, so do you.
This debate should end right there. Up until all of these people in political office disband their police forces, their Secret Service details, throw down their own arms, armored cars, body armor and other defensive means of interdicting assault they have nothing -- not even a moral argument -- behind them in their demand that you disarm and become an intentional victim -- no matter who you are.
But of course the debate doesn't end there, because the false equivalences don't begin and end with rank hypocrisy and politicians crapping all over the documents they swear to uphold.
Worse, we the people keep electing jackasses just like them. Indeed, in the last election we had two choices for President that were both hostile to your fundamental right to life.
Thus, we are compelled to continue our debate and look at the world around us.
Unfortunately when we continue our examination that we find that there is evil in the world. There are those who disrespect other people's rights. Some of them may want to kill you. Everyone who undertakes to murder believes their reason for doing so is justified. That they may be objectively insane doesn't change their view of the world. Their desire to see you die is in direct conflict with your right to live.
In that situation one of you will be victorious, and the other will not.
It is your decision, and only justly your decision, how you resolve this conflict. You have the right to surrender your life if you so wish, but in doing so you are making a decision that only you, and nobody else, has the authority to make.
President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg demand that you cede this decision to an insane criminal.
They are attempting to demand that you not defend your right to life, although they will not themselves do what they demand of you and cede their decision to any person who is insane and would kill them.
They in fact spend millions of your taxpayer dollars to prevent the very victimization they demand you submit to from happening to them.
There is only one sane response to that demand, and it is for you to insist that these people perform an anatomically-impossible act.
Now let's put this in the context of your children.
When a child is born it is defenseless, hungry and cold. The newborn baby is dependent upon its parents for everything, other than oxygen from the air, that it needs to survive. It is incapable of feeding itself, it is incapable of adjusting its environment and bodily covering to deal with environmental changes such as heat or cold, and it is incapable of disposing of the waste products from bodily processes in a manner that will not make itself and others ill. That child, during the next 18 years, undergoes growth in both mind and body, to the point where (hopefully) he or she is capable of discharging those responsibilities alone.
But until that time comes, you are that child's protector. You are the one ensconced with the responsibility to protect that child's life.
That child's right to life is unalienable but as that child's parent you are the one charged with defending that right.
How dare you refuse to discharge that responsibility!
Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama, along with many others have, thus far successfully, demanded that you intentionally refuse to defend your child's right to life as soon as that child enters a school -- and they then attempt to compel you, by law, to have that child attend some form of school!
How dare you consent in place of that young person who is too young to do so!
They have the gall to tell you that your children must be unarmed targets while armed guards stand at the ready next to them on a literal 24 hour a day basis to prevent the same thing from happening to them, while forcing you to pay for their protection.
How dare you accept this premise while they smugly stand with their Secret Service and Police, armed to the teeth, not even willing to step inside a hotel without security first checking to make sure there has been no evil laid in!
Now I would like it very much if we could find a way to rid the world of evil. Simply making all guns disappear, which is incidentally a factual impossibility, is unfortunately insufficient. One of the worst mass-murders committed in the 20th century was undertaken by a man with less than a gallon of gasoline and two matches; he killed 80 people here in the United States and is currently in prison for life. No gun law in the world could have changed that outcome, for he did not use a gun. Another nutjob blew up a federal building in Oklahoma; he used fertilizer, diesel fuel and a truck. Likewise people have murdered with cars, SUVs, swimming pools, common household goods used as poisons along with sporting goods, including baseball bats, golf clubs and even their bare hands. A not-insignificant number of murders in China in recent years have been committed (in schools no less!) by knife-wielding assailants. Your kitchen contains more than enough implements of destruction to murder virtually anyone, especially if taken by surprise. Harris and Klebold at Columbine not only used guns, they also attempted to blow up the school with tanks of ordinary propane; fortunately the detonators failed to work.
I don't see anyone talking about banning outdoor BBQ grills.
Fortunately man is clever and invented a device many years ago that makes the weak the equal of the strong. It makes the 90lb woman the equal of the 250lb man who desires to rape her. It makes the 92 year old wheelchair-ridden widow able to stop two teenage thugs who break into her home with felony on their mind.
And it makes an elementary school principal, janitor or teacher able to stop a rampaging young man.
It's called a gun.
We recently read in the news about a deranged man who stole a gun and shot up a shopping mall in Oregon. After shooting a couple of people his gun jammed. He un-jammed it and then decided to shoot himself, despite the fact that the police had not yet arrived. This puzzled me, as the pattern in these rampages is that the maniac continues to kill until he either runs out of ammunition or the police arrive and it is evident that he will be captured. Then, as his final act of defiance, he kills himself. This insane individual checked out before the cops got there, which is uncommon, despite having plenty of ammunition remaining -- and no cops yet at the door.
The media, Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, Joe Lieberman and others didn't talk about why he shot himself instead of continuing his rampage once he unjammed his gun. They tried to keep that quiet on purpose, concealed from you because it destroys their justification for demanding that you cede the most-holy of all rights that you have -- your right to life -- to them.
You see, a man carrying a concealed weapon, an ordinary law-abiding 22-year old citizen, pulled that weapon and used it to defend himself, his friend and her baby.
He didn't have a clear shot without the risk of hitting an innocent person and thus didn't fire. He didn't have to. The shooter saw him along with his gun and that was enough for him -- he decided to dispatch himself.
That's how it happens 98% of the time, according to the FBI. 98 times in 100 when a citizen uses a firearm in self-defense he or she doesn't have to shoot anyone. It's simply enough that the weapon is there in the hands of a person willing to defend their right to life -- the criminal decides to terminate his assault.
The gun, the much-maligned gun, in the hands of a person willing to discharge their personal responsibility to defend their own life and those who they love, stops a felony in process more than one million times a year in the United States -- and 98% of the time that weapon is not discharged.
President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, Lieberman, Pelosi, Boxer and more are all dancing in the blood of those dead children in Newtown and worse, they are lying to you about the true record that guns have in relationship to crime in this country and they know it as the counter to their argument that guns in the hands of citizens would not stop such assaults happened just days before!
Now let's look at another argument -- that citizens will shoot "wildly" and hit innocent people. The facts say differently -- citizens in fact shoot the wrong person only 1/5th as often as police officers!
This really isn't surprising, when you think about it, and it also isn't an indictment of the police. A police officer almost never is at the scene of a crime when it begins; he is called or otherwise discovers the crime in process. As he was not the original intended victim it's not surprising that he's sometimes not real sure who the bad guy is.
A woman being raped, on the other hand, is quite sure who the rapist is at the moment he attempts his crime, since his body is attached to the instrument with which he intends to commit the assault. Her odds of engaging the wrong person by accident are vanishingly small.
And this leads to the next problem -- the cops are never there. They can't be. When seconds count the police will be along in 5 minutes. Within those 5 minutes a homicidal maniac can murder dozens of people. The police will then "catch" (or kill) him, but you will still be dead.
It therefore is utterly ridiculous for you to rely on the police and insane for any government official to suggest (or worse, insist) that you do so; their purpose is to show up with a broom and clean up the mess, documenting it all for prosecutors, juries and judges -- if the assailant is still alive.
I've already made the case conclusively that our government at both State and Federal levels are full of hypocrites who insist that you cede to them your right to life, while they assiduously protect themselves at your expense, being unwilling to live with the restrictions they would impose on you.
But in truth it gets worse than that.
You see, our government has been running guns. Illegally running guns. Jaime Avila, in just one of many examples, purchased two rifles that were found at the scene of a federal agent shot near the Arizona-Mexico border. Our government knew Mr. Avila was illegally trafficking weapons to the Sinaloa drug cartel. Nonetheless, when his purchases were called into the BATFE for clearance the government intentionally approved the transactions despite knowing they were illegal.
Two of those hundreds of weapons came back over the border and were used to murder Brian Terry. Hundreds of Mexican citizens have been murdered with these guns in total -- guns that our government illegally, intentionally and maliciously allowed to be delivered to this murderous cartel.
Mr. Avila's sentence? 57 months in prison, or just under 6 years.
Two days before the Newtown Connecticut shootings.
Media outrage? Zero.
Your outrage? Did you even know about the sentence?
Guess who didn't tell you and run that story every 5 minutes on national TV -- the same media that is trying to ban your firearms!
An adjunct to the oft-heard argument that we shouldn't allow guns in places like schools, churches and similar is that civilians can't be trusted to only shoot when they should, and not when it's unclear if they could injure or kill an innocent person.
But the record says otherwise, and not only in the incident that occurred just days before Newtown at the Oregon mall. Witness this incident from March of this year, one of over a million a year, when a deranged man claiming he wanted to see his children (who do not attend there) showed up at a church and kicked in the door while wielding a shotgun.
He didn't expect to find a parishoner with a pistol pointed at him, who then held the would-be shooter until the police arrived. As in 98% of these cases the armed citizen in this event did not need to shoot -- by the mere presence of his firearm he likely prevented the nut with the shotgun from causing mayhem in the church.
Arguments over magazine size or type of weapon are distractions. A man intent on murder who doesn't have a 30 round magazine will stuff three 10 rounders in his pocket instead. You can change magazines in less than a second with a bit of practice; such a restriction burdens no criminal. Not only did the alleged assailant in Newtown have a rifle with him that some people would like to ban he also stole two pistols, either of which alone was more than sufficient to commit the mass-murder that occurred. In the instant case banning "assault weapons" would have changed exactly nothing, never mind that Connecticut already has an assault weapons ban and it did not prevent the crime!
What's worse is that banning weapons based on how they look (which is what so-called "assault weapons" bans do) has nothing to do with the ability of a firearm to inflict injury. Semi-automatic firearms, which is what all of these are, were invented in the 1800s. They were sold through the mail with no background check or anything else until 1968. Many of the most popular firearms, including shotguns such as the Remington 1100, .22LR rifles such as the Ruger 10-22 and many hunting rifles are semi-automatic.
Indeed, the common AR-15 variants are most-often used for varmints, target practice and competition. None of these weapons are "machine guns" or weapons of war, the sale and possession of machine guns (any weapon which can fire more than one round for each pull of the trigger) have been heavily regulated (but legal) since the National Firearms Act of 1934.
AR-15 variants are the most-popular sporting weapon sold in the United States; surveys show more than 3 million Americans own one. They're popular because they're reasonably-priced, reasonably-accurate out of the box, have a light recoil and thus can be used by women and others of smaller stature without having your shoulder pounded to a bloody pulp and the ammunition is reasonably-priced since the cartridge is relatively small (in fact the bullet is about the same size and mass as a 22LR!)
These rifles are considered severely-underpowered for many hunting applications and in fact it is illegal to hunt deer with one in many states as they are not lethal enough to have a reasonable certainty of humanely taking the animal in question. Common hunting rifles are far more deadly than an AR-15.
There is in fact nothing particularly special about the AR-15, or for that matter any other gun.
Now, onto legal constraints as they exist today, and the fallacy that they could have prevented what occurred last week.
Background checks are already necessary to buy guns but again do nothing to deter a determined criminal. In the case of Newtown the system worked; the shooter attempted to buy his weapon at a store and was turned down.
He then turned to murder -- of his mother -- to acquire the weapons he used.
There is no background check system that would have prevented this tragedy. The guns didn't come from a licensed dealer, there was no circumvention of the system via the so-called "gun show loophole" (or any other sort of loophole); the alleged perpetrator in fact murdered the lawful owner of the weapons in order to acquire them.
Further, mass-shooting events are almost-never random. Columbine and the Aurora theater shooting both are known to have been extensively planned. In the case of Newtown it is reported that the shooter destroyed his computer, including the hard disk, before beginning his assault, in addition to attempting to buy a gun in a store. This evidences material amounts of planning and premeditation, which means he didn't randomly decide to shoot up a school, he planned to do so and selected that as the location most-likely to bring him "success" as he defined it in whatever twisted worldview he held. Had he not been able to find someone with guns he could steal through committing murder (and consider that a cop could have been his intended target in that regard since they all have guns!) he could have used any one of a number of other easily-acquired means of committing murder and mayhem. This shooter was clearly nuts, but insane does not mean unable to plan -- that he very-clearly was able to do, and did.
There are, however, three things we could have done, and any of them might have stopped the tragedy from occurring, or at least limited or prevented the loss of life.
The first is to get rid of the so-called "gun free zones"; they are nothing more than a public advertisement that the persons within them are unarmed and thus targets for anyone who wants to commit murder.
There is already a strong vetting process for school personnel. We check them for criminal records for entirely valid reasons -- nobody wants a pedophile working for the school in contact with their kids! There is no reason not to allow school districts, if they so choose, to allow those members of their staff and faculty who desire to acquire the training to carry concealed to do so while on school property. In short removing the target of opportunity sign from the front door might have deterred this shooter. If it didn't the principal and teachers who elected to be trained would have had a fighting chance. And that's all we can ask for, really, when all the other defenses we try to put up in front of such an assault fail.
Second, if you're going to actually "up-armor" the schools, then do it and mean it. Classroom doors must be able to be locked from the inside and require a key to open from the outside. Sidelights and glass in the doors must be of shatter-proof material (e.g. wired glass or polycarbonate) so as to prevent someone from breaking a window and either walking in or reaching through or unlocking the door. Doors must be able to withstand a reasonable degree of assault, meaning they should be steel-framed and steel-cored, bolted to the building. The point is to deter assault, not make it impossible. At the same time there needs to be a means for two-way communication to and from the office along with some sort of duress alarm so in the event of a serious problem the teachers can all be informed to lock the doors. Many people want "single-point" entry with a passthrough from a front office or similar -- this is a nice idea for new schools, but is entirely unreasonable for existing construction. In addition we need to be sensitive to the fact that you still have to deal with exposures during before and after-school periods (e.g. when buses are loading and unloading); there's only so much you can reasonably do without turning schools into prisons. Our children are not prisoners of the State and we must not allow them to be treated as if they are.
Third, we must improve psychiatric surveillance and impose liability on those professionals who have a duty to report and fail to do so. The shooter at the Colorado movie theater could have been interdicted on this basis but wasn't. We don't yet know if that is the case in this incident, but the public deserves to know. There is a serious civil liberty concern here that has to be balanced against public safety, and for this reason the exact criteria and how we perform that balance must take place through public debate. There's nothing wrong with being crazy; we all have the right to be nuts so long as we're not a risk to anyone else. But when someone expresses a credible desire to commit mass-murder that sort of shield must evaporate.
In short the answer is not found in gun bans -- no matter what sort of excuse is offered. In the instant case there is no gun ban that would have changed the outcome.
But beyond the proved inability to be effective gun bans are nothing more than an outrageous demand by our political leadership that we submit not only ourselves but our children to slaughter by criminals, promoted by politicians dancing in dead childrens' blood and upon their still-warm corpses, while they hide behind their armed guards, bullet-proof windows and armored vehicles.
No citizen should stand for this crap -- not on an ethical basis, not on a moral basis, and not on a Constitutional basis.
Oh, good grief! Thank you so much. I'm not the only one after all. You are exactly right. There is no point in listening to someone who has never allowed a true statement to fall from his lips.
I find him so unbearable that I shut off Rush Limbaugh parodies of his voice. I hate him with a burning passion, more than I have ever hated anyone before in my life.
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MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) -- Lindsey Vonn showed she can beat Tina Maze in the Slovenian's best discipline and on her home snow.
While it may be too late to challenge her biggest rival for the overall World Cup title, Vonn is looking like Maze's biggest challenger at next month's world championships.
The American proved that she has fully recovered from a recent illness by winning a World Cup giant slalom, her second win in two weeks.
Vonn was third behind Maze after the first run but overcame several errors in the second to put down the fastest time and create a margin that Maze couldn't overcome. Vonn won in 2 minutes, 22.2 seconds for her first GS victory since last March.
"In the second run I decided, OK, it's all or nothing, I had to go for it," Vonn said. "It's been a rough year for me in GS, so it's just perfect."
Maze still clinched her third giant slalom discipline title by placing second. Maze had a near-perfect first run, but a poor start to the second cost her valuable time and she finished 0.08 seconds behind Vonn.
With her 59th World Cup win overall, Vonn's just three away from equaling Annemarie Moser Proell's record on the women's side. She earned her first GS victory since last March and back-to-back wins after taking the downhill last week at Cortina D'Ampezzo.
Vonn took nearly a month off over the holidays to recover from an intestinal illness that landed her in the hospital in November. While her break allowed Maze to build an even bigger lead in the overall standings, Vonn said it's clear she made the right decision.
"A couple of weeks ago, everyone was thinking I was crazy taking this time off," Vonn said. "But I felt my body wasn't ready. Now I am ready."
Austria's Anna Fenninger was third, 0.57 seconds behind Vonn.
Maze's closest rival in the GS, Kathrin Zettel, only managed sixth. Maze is 238 points ahead of Zettel with just two GS races remaining this season.
Maze also extended her lead in the overall standing to 748 points against her closest challenger, Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, who finished fourth. Vonn stands another 66 points back in third, having missed several races while sidelined.
The 29-year-old Maze performed in front of a passionate home crowd and was 0.48 seconds ahead of Vonn after dominating the first run.
However, she ran wide at the start of the second, leaving her 0.13 seconds behind her rival at the first checkpoint. Despite the cheers of the fans urging her on, Maze couldn't make up the time and finished with tears in her eyes.
"I had a mistake in the flat part," Maze said. "In my final run, I just had too many mistakes but I am very satisfied with second."
Maze has won four of the seven giant slaloms this season, making the podium in the other three.
"I have been working so hard this year for this GS crystal globe," she said. "Now I've won it, I feel freed and can look forward."
While the overall World Cup title may be Maze's to win or lose, Vonn will be a favorite to dominate next month's world championships in Schladming, Austria.


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Wanted to cook mung beans soup but forgot to set timer as I usually will, then I was totally absorbed in Ugly Betty. By the time I finally remembered my soup, it had became very mushy paste. First thing came into my mind was ice cream! But it was impossible to squeeze the ice cream maker into my tiny freezer... so why not ice blocks? Luckily I had coconut cream and brown sugar in stock, stirred in a bit of both, cooled then moulded. Simple huh?
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- 23 July, 2007 17:26
creatif indeed!
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- 23 July, 2007 18:48
i love this too... used to make with plastic bags when i was a child.
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really smart .. i miss red bean ice cream potong now .. slurp .. hehehe
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Forever Hilltop contains the first two consecutive books in a series by Judy Baer. Set in the remote community of North Dakota's "Hillside Township," the story begins with the arrival of the new pastor for the two small churches. City dweller Alex heard the call to the ministry after several years of being a college professor, and this is his first parish. Moving from Chicago to a rural community where the Scandinavian farmers proudly occupy the same farms that their ancestors filed claims on over a century before means lots of new experiences for Alex. He's impressed with the neighborly kindnesses he experiences as he moves into a house where the pantry is full, the vegetable garden has been planted and tended, and the casseroles begin to arrive. As he gets better acquainted with the individuals, Alex also discovers the many needs, and begins to pray for this diverse congregation.
The reader gets to know the folks of Hilltop along with Alex, from the bachelor who turned his back on Wall Street and came back to farm the family land, to the mischievous boy whose heart for wounded animals has led him to start his own "hoomain" society; from the invaluable church secretary who donates her time as her family's tithe, to the single women who eye Alex as they drop off delicious pies. The story moves along at a leisurely pace as we along with Alex learn to care for these strong people who face some large life problems in a struggling economy, and rejoice as prayer helps Alex to suggest some solutions.
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WASHINGTON—The National Center for Victims of Crime and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation have released Taking Action: An Advocate's Guide to Assisting Victims of Financial Fraud to provide those who serve the more than 30 million Americans who are victims of financial fraud every year with an important new tool to aid their clients. This groundbreaking new guide is designed for consumer advocates, lawyers, counselors and other victim service providers.
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Although financial fraud can strike people from all walks of life, older Americans and those on the brink of retirement are especially vulnerable. The FINRA Foundation's recent survey of nearly 2,400 U.S. adults age 40 and older – Financial Fraud and Fraud Susceptibility in the United States – revealed that over 80 percent of respondents have been solicited to participate in potentially fraudulent schemes, and over 40 percent of those surveyed cannot identify some classic "red flags" of fraud. Additionally, Americans age 65 and older are more likely to be targeted by fraudsters and more likely to lose money once targeted.
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"Taking Action represents not only an innovative collaboration between The National Center and the FINRA Foundation, but an important advancement in the victim services field," said Mai Fernandez, Executive Director of The National Center for Victims of Crime.
Fraud researchers typically find that a very small percentage of survey respondents self-report that they have been victims of financial fraud. In the FINRA Foundation's survey, a small group of respondents who admitted to investing in a fraudulent investment, but did not report the fraud, indicated that reporting it would not have made a difference, they did not know where to report it or they were too embarrassed. Taking Action was developed, in part, to help increase the number of victims who report fraud and get access to assistance.
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9:00am to 5:00pm
At the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, Zopim (www.zopim.com), a leading provider of cloud-based Customer Engagement solutions, will hijack the city of Austin, TX to sow the seeds of customer love.
Leveraging SXSW attendees' infamous love for the fun and wacky, "The Support Grinch", a superbad green monster will be unleashed onto the streets on 9th March 2012. He will terrorize innocent civilians with his unsanitary vocabulary, outrageous hairdo and evil smirk.
Fortunately, his green Achilles' Heel is well-documented - the Support Grinch hates hugs. This SXSW, join hands with thousands of heroes on HugTheGrinch.com to hunt the Grinch down. Snap photographic evidence of your loving heroics, and stand a chance to win great prizes, including the ultimate MacBook Air, sponsored by the customer lovers from Zopim!
Very much like the free hugs movement, our goal is to spread spontaneous fun and happiness at SXSW through this mobile game that we conceived in our spare time over the past two weeks.
Linking back to our business, customer engagement software is only part of the equation for customer happiness. We see our users inject great passion, humor and spontaneity when using Zopim to chat with their customers. This reinforces our belief that true customer joy can only be delivered when people within the organization are truly happy, in line with the values of the Delivering Happiness movement.
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Bauerle & Company Case Study
Bauerle and Company, P.C. is a Denver-based accounting firm with the mission of helping businesses and individuals achieve both financial and personal success. The firm strives to become the trusted business advisor to their closely-held client businesses within the Colorado market by employing dedicated and talented accounting professionals. The staff provides services that span audit and tax to wealth management and IT solutions.
Josh Holman, IT Manager, Bauerle and Company, P.C.
The Challenge
As is common in the financial services sector, secure and accurate data access and storage are critical for analysis that is conducted on an ongoing basis. In the tax division at Bauerle and Company, the company deploys the Thomson Reuters UltraTax CS program. Because of the program design—which utilizes a flat file database—calculating taxes for a client company that has operations in all 50 states could result in read and write operations that increase exponentially with complexity. Although the Bauerle team has investigated using other tax software packages, the data integrity capabilities of Thomson Reuters and its superior ability to handle complex returns instill confidence in the users.
However, this flat file database structure was beginning to cause serious delays and inefficiencies for the firm. For example, when a CPA requested that a return be printed, the system had to scan through the database files multiple times to recalculate the forms which need to be printed. Due to the large number of read/ write operations that were being created by the tax software application, it was common for the system to take as long as 30 minutes to execute this process prior to initiating the print job.
In addition, when submitting digital tax returns, the system needed to read the file several times before the data could be transferred. Although many of the files were only 3MB to 4MB in size, the process of conducting multiple reads and writes was slowing down the procedure.
"In one case, it took 2 hours for us to e-file a return for a company," explained Josh Holman, IT Manager at Bauerle & Company, told us. "We figured that we could reduce this to 20 or 30 minutes if we had the right equipment. It is my role to manage our infrastructure for my internal CPA customers. Therefore, our management asked me to find a new solution and set it up."
The Solution
After tax season was over, Holman put a Fusion ioMemory 410GB* PCIe card through a number of tests—timing processes from the program itself—because he was unable to obtain a synthetic benchmark that could simulate the actual workload. Throughout his testing, Holman was able to pinpoint the bottlenecks. By installing the Fusion ioMemory PCIe card into the terminal server, the same print job that used to take 30 minutes could now be executed in just three minutes.
With these stellar results in hand, Holman approached the firm's partner group with a proposal to solve the ongoing latency issues. The firm agreed to purchase a Dell PowerEdge R710 server, in which the Fusion ioMemory PCIe card would be housed. Holman continued to deploy Hyper-V to enable virtualization and the host operating system continues to run on spinning media, while Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) runs the Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards. Although the host operating system is aware of the Fusion ioMemory card, the virtual machine is not. The tax-associated data housed in the database is very small, so the firm does not anticipate needing additional capacity over and above the Fusion ioMemory PCIe card for some time.
Josh Holman, IT Manager, Bauerle and Company, P.C.
The Result
Holman is pleased to report that efile transmissions are now completed in a fraction of the time that they used to take. According to Holman's in-house tests, file preview latency averaged 23.2 minutes prior to implementing the Fusion ioMemory card, and only 3.6 minutes on average after—an 85 percent improvement. File open latency averaged more than three and one-half minutes prior to implementing the Fusion ioMemory cards. With the card, the latency was reduced to just 14 seconds—a 94 percent improvement. "In one case, the client's e-file used to take one-and-a- half hours to transmit," commented Holman. "This year, that same file took only 12 minutes to transmit end-to-end. Our staff was calling me because their jobs were running so fast." Members of the IT team now are the "heroes" of the firm.
The firm has also seen positive financial results due to the deployment of the Fusion ioMemory PCIe card. "This card pays for itself," said Holman. "It has cut down on the time we spend waiting for the computers, so now we can get more done."
This new architecture has also improved efficiency. "Our CPAs are more efficient and productive during what can be a stressful and hectic tax season. Instead of clicking "print" and the computer not doing anything for 30 minutes, they are actually able to complete the print and e-file processes in a timely manner," said Holman.
After Holman achieved success with the Fusion ioMemory PCIe deployment, he approached the software developers at Thomson Reuters to discuss additional integration and solutions. This led to an invitation for Holman to speak at the 35th Annual Thomson Reuters Users' Conference—Synergy 2015—about how larger firms should consider setting up their tax application software. A recommendation to deploy Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards will be a central theme.
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Giant panda
Adored around the world, the distinctive black and white animal is a national treasure in China and has been the symbol of WWF since its formation in 1961.
While its numbers are slowly increasing, the giant panda remains one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world.
Learn more about this amazing species!
About the Panda:
- Panda population
- Habitat: where do they live?
- Diet: what do they eat?
- How long do pandas live?
- What do they look like?
- Natural enemies
- Life cycle
- The future
Fast facts
- 1,864 wild giant pandas were counted during a 2014 survey
- An adult panda can weigh about 100-150kg and grow up to 150cm long
- Pandas feed for up to 14 hours a day and can eat up to 38kg of bamboo
- When born, a panda cub is just 1/900th the size of its mother
- Pandas are good swimmers and excellent tree climbers
- Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats
Common name
Giant Panda (En); Panda Géant (Fr); Panda gigante (Sp);
scientific name
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests of Southwest China
1,864 in the wild (2014)
did you know?
That the panda cub is 1/900th the size of its mother
Upto 150cm for adults
Love Giant Pandas?
Emblem of global biodiversity
But the Chinese government is committed to conserving the species and its habitat, and has already drastically increased the number of panda reserves.
WWF has been active in giant panda conservation since 1980, and is continuing to support the government's efforts to give the species more room to feed and breed.


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Amy Goodman Reports from Copenhagen
Video: Amy Goodman on ecological debt, massive marches, and the latest from "the Bella of the beast," the heart of the U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
From the Halls of Copenhagen
As negotiations heat up and international leaders begin to arrive at the U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen, grassroots pressure is increasing.
Tensions Mount in Copenhagen
NGO representatives walk out of climate negotiations, police clash with protesters, and all eyes turn to the U.S. and China.
Climate Change Movement Builds at Copenhagen
Movement building in this period requires actions that can bring about a radical shift in values.
God Begins to Smile
Video: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, calling for a legally binding agreement on climate change, says the movement for climate justice in Copenhagen would cheer God up.
Update from Copenhagen
As week two begins, the U.N. climate negotiations focus on global inequality.
A Global Day of Action
The largest environmental demonstration in history took place in Copenhagen on Saturday.
Tens of Thousands March in Copenhagen
Demonstrators outside the U.N. negotiations demand a climate deal.
Cap & Dividend: A Clear Winner
A new bipartisan climate bill offers a much smarter way to cut emissions—auction off pollution permits and distribute the proceeds to everyone.
It's Going to Be Beautiful
Bill McKibben: There are reasons to be encouraged about the negotiations in Copenhagen, and ways to get involved in your own backyard.
The Mulch: The COP-15 Blame Game
The Copenhagen negotiations shouldn't be about avoiding blame, but about getting results.
Youth and Indigenous Activists Escalate Protests
In Copenhagen, diverse coalitions of activists are supporting each other in calling for a binding and equitable treaty.
We Hold the Key to Copenhagen
"We the People" will have to act up if we want a global agreement that averts climate chaos.
Honoring Nathan Huggins, Martin, and Malcolm
I spoke (via Skype) to the graduate students Symposium at Harvard University on December 5, the 20th anniversary of the death of Nathan Huggins, former director of the university's DuBois Center.
Video: Youth Activists Crash Live Climate Denier Webcast
A group of young activists took over the stage, telling Americans for Prosperity that real prosperity comes from clean energy.
Copenhagen's Conscience: The Youth Climate Movement Won't Settle
Youth activists are playing an important role: refusing to allow the smallness of politics to stand in the way of the fair and globally-binding deal that our generation demands for survival.
Video: It's Hot in Here Dance
Before the summit's first plenary, young activists inject energy and passion into the proceedings.
The Copenhagen Moment
Video: Leaders of the climate justice movement on turning the U.N. negotiations in Copenhagen into a true global turning point.
The Mulch: What's at Stake in Copenhagen?
Independent media on what we can hope for from the largest and most important U.N. climate change summit in history.
10 Million People Petition for Climate Action
As some try to lower expectations about the outcome of the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, public pressure for real action is increasing.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. businesses added to their stockpiles at a slightly slower pace in June compared with May, possibly reflecting weaker sales in the past two months.
Business stockpiles increased 0.4 percent in June on a seasonally adjusted basis after a 0.5 percent gain in May, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Sales rose 0.3 percent in June, matching the May increase. Sales have slowed after rapid gains from February through April.
The sales slowdown was also evident in a separate report showing that July retail sales were flat. But analysts say they think solid job growth will give a boost to consumer spending and the economy in coming months. Many foresee an annual economic growth rate of around 3 percent in the second half of this year.
The 0.4 percent rise in inventories in June was in line with economists' expectations. It reflected a 0.5 percent increase in inventories held by retailers and 0.3 percent gains in inventories held by manufacturers and by wholesalers.
Inventory growth is closely watched by economists. When companies add goods to store shelves and warehouses, it shows optimism about future demand. Increasing orders to restock lifts factory production and overall economic growth.
In the April-June quarter, an acceleration in inventory building contributed 40 percent of the economy's 4 percent annual growth rate during the period.
That strong growth rebound followed the first three months of the year, when severe winter weather put the economy into reverse, shrinking at an annual rate of 2.1 percent. During the first quarter, the slowdown in inventory restocking subtracted 1.2 percentage points from growth.
For the rest of the year, most analysts predict that inventory building will support economic growth but will not exhibit the sharp swings seen in the first and second quarters.


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Brandon Ross: When your own police label you a terroristBY BRANDON ROSS
August 06. 2013 9:46PM
I MOVED FROM Maryland to New Hampshire in 2010. Why? I walked into my corner grocery store in Maryland and all the lights were off. Reason: the small-business owner couldn't afford the new countywide carbon tax. That was the last straw for me. I was exhausted by the ever-present bureaucracy and taxes near Washington, D.C. So I moved here.
Now, according to Concord police, that makes me — and other people moving to New Hampshire for a better life — a domestic terrorist. Seriously.
Concord Police Chief John Duval recently begged Washington, D.C., for more than $250,000 to buy a military-style "armored personnel carrier" — the Lenco BearCat G3. Chief Duval claims he needs this military personnel carrier because of groups like the "Free Staters." He stated in his application that their threats were "real and here" and are providing Concord police "daily challenges."
A "Free Stater" is a person loosely participating in peaceful, social and economic migration: to move 20,000 Americans who believe in smaller, responsible government to New Hampshire. I did that. I came to New Hampshire for that very reason. So, yes, I guess I am a "Free Stater." I am also a Republican, a lawyer and a computer nerd.
Concord police want a military-style vehicle because of people like me? Most of my "Free Stater" friends have families, children, jobs, student loans and mortgages. What unique "daily challenges" are they giving Concord police?
It is sobering for police to label you and your friends "domestic terrorists," to hear that you are the enemy. And Chief Duval quickly flip-flopped, telling the Union Leader that he needs a BearCat to protect "life and property." Or maybe to serve warrants? And some police officers — not in Concord, but elsewhere in America — are killed on the job each year. So isn't that a good reason for Concord taxpayers to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new toy?
In 2011, a similar saga unfolded when Keene police asked for a quarter-million dollars to buy a BearCat. Keene also ignored the public opposition to that wasteful spending. And Keene police also got their shiny new toy.
Still today, one Keene city councilor calls Keene's new BearCat a waste of money. Keene public records show that of the 21 times that Keene used its BearCat, only two were for questionably legitimate uses. The other 19 times were for "training purposes" — to prevent their BearCat from collecting rust.
That could have been a learning opportunity for Concord on wasteful spending. But it's a foregone conclusion: the Concord police will get their BearCat. And every year, Concord taxpayers will waste even more money maintaining a military-style vehicle that Concord doesn't need. But wasn't that the Concord Police Department's underlying motivation: earmarking more money for their budget — by labeling some of their own citizens as terrorists?
I was born in our nation's murder capital. I've driven through bombed-out parts of Detroit with my doors unlocked. I've walked through dangerous parts of our nation's capital at night. And, in my job, I've sat in locked rooms across tables from convicted murderers and rapists.
But I am far, far more scared to hear our civilian police say they need more military weapons because the people they are supposed to protect are terrorists.
A terrorist is a person who uses fear to achieve a political goal. Isn't capturing more taxpayer money to buy new toys a political goal? Doesn't labeling some of us as "domestic terrorists" inspire fear? If Concord Police Chief John Duval is searching for "domestic terrorists" in Concord, he should start with the man sitting behind his desk.
Brandon Ross is an attorney in Manchester and a former resident of Concord.


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Making great butter isn't rocket science. But it does take hard work and a lot of hands on attention. That's why commercial dairies stopped doing it. They also stopped using higher-fat cream because it's too expensive. Allison and Bob use cream with 42 percent fat (commercial dairies use 36). Most important, Allison and Bob culture their butter, which is kind of a way of saying they start it on the way to cheese by adding some bacteria that enhance the butter's flavor. It takes time and money, which means—you guessed it—big commercial dairies stopped doing that too. (If you like food trivia, "Sweet Cream Butter" is the name commercial dairies use for butter that's not cultured. Like most marketing it sounds good, but it's actually less flavorful.)
The difference in flavor between this Vermont butter and commercial brands is obvious as soon as you put some on your tongue. It has a lively, light, citrusy tang that makes for a much fuller, more complex butter experience.
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It's not fair.
As the Dodgers continue their series with the St. Louis Cardinals, I'll be sitting home watching from my couch instead of hitting a dramatic game-winning homerun.
I blame Jim Volkland.
He is the guy who didn't let me play on my high school baseball team. Volkland cut me after I booted three easy grounders in a row and tried to bunt my way on with two strikes.
Coach Volkland screamed, "What are you doing?!" as the ball rolled foul and that was it for my baseball career.
But I still believe had he only put me on the team I would have gotten better and who knows? That could have been me instead of Uribe riding to the Dodgers' rescue against the Braves.
I'd also like to play for the Lakers.
Granted, I'm almost 56, with a vertical leap of 4 centimeters, bad knees, no inside game to go along with no outside game and I couldn't dribble if I ate soup with a fork. I have nothing to offer the game of basketball except a pair of sneakers.
Still, I don't think it's right only great athletes who are tall and unbelievably talented get to play in the NBA. I'd love a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract and I'd like a posse as well.
Very few columnists have homeboys.
Unfortunately for me the people who run sports teams are not the same people who run our schools. Sports are the last true meritocracy in America and it's not fair!
One peek at Washington or Sacramento and you know anyone can get elected to public office. Literally anyone. Congress looks like the bar scene from "Star Wars" and the state assembly and senate make me wonder if instead of emptying the prisons we might not have emptied the insane asylums instead.
The other traditional talent-driven professions have also been dumbed down. Thanks to "American Idol" singing is now screaming and reality television has rendered acting obsolete.
In sports it's not, "what have you done for me lately?" It's "what can you do for me now?"
As opposed to our schools whose governing philosophy appears to be, "Don't worry about doing anything."
The latest lowering of the bar involves the prestigious Advanced Placement courses.
In yet another surreal attempt to guarantee everyone has equal access to everything — including the boy's and girl's restrooms — LAUSD schools are using a computer-based lottery to award AP classes — classes that can bump up a student's grade point average and earn valuable college credits with the potential to save thousands in tuition dollars.
This isn't just an L.A. issue. The College Board, the organization that runs the AP program, endorses open access and more and more activists and educators view restricting access to these elite classes to elite students is … elitist.
And if there's one thing you can't be in modern day America it's elitist. Don't believe me? Ask President Romney.
Unless, of course, you're really good at basketball, baseball, football or tennis. Schools love elite athletes.
No matter how much the fat dumpy kid with thick glasses wants to play quarterback he's unlikely to get the chance. Yet we have no problem telling the brightest students they can't take an AP class they would excel in because the lucky ping-pong ball didn't bounce their way.
The last thing we should do is give up on struggling students. Not everyone discovers their true capacities at the same age.
But the second to last thing we should do is water down academic opportunities for our best and brightest students out of some run amuck notion that egalitarianism is a higher social virtue than talent.
As Robert DeNiro famously said in "Meet the Parents," "I didn't know they gave out 9th place ribbons."
Real life doesn't.
Doug McIntyre's column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Anthony Wayne looks to win the White Division with (front) Harry Pawliski; (second row, from left) Sam Spencer, Chris Podbielniak, and Brandon Zielinski; and (back) Cal Johnson and Chris Miller.
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Good depth, plenty of experience, and offensive explosiveness are expected to propel Anthony Wayne to the top of Northwest Hockey Conference White Division.
The Generals captured the regular-season title last season and 13 starters return.
"With having a majority of the team returning from last year. We are looking to continue the success that we have had over the last few years in the White Division," Anthony Wayne coach Troy Boze said. "We have a lot of depth on offense."
The Generals are competing this season in the National Conference in the White Division along with Lake, Southview, Perrysburg, and Fremont Ross. The former NHC Blue Division was disbanded and those teams joined the White Division in two conferences.
There will be regular-season champions in each conference, and a post-season tournament will be held to determine the overall winner of the White Division.
"I think the White Division has the ability to anyone's," Boze said. "That is why we have told the team that we have to focus on the game we are playing and not look ahead."
Southview moves down from the higher level Red division, and the Cougars are expected to challenge AW.
Lake coach Craig Horvath, whose team won the NHC Blue Division title last year, said his team looks forward to the postseason tournament.
"It is prefect for our division," Horvath said.
Here's a look at the White Division National Conference teams in predicted order of finish based on a coaches' poll:
At Anthony Wayne, Boze is in his first season, and he inherits a team that went 22-12 overall and were 7-3 in the NHC.
Among 16 total players, he has seven seniors. Chris Podbielniak, a 6-foot-3 senior goaltender, returns in net.
Senior forward Cal Johnson and senior defenseman Harry Pawliski possess both talent and experience.
Sophomore Austin Pennell, who can play forward and defense, saw extensive action as a freshman.
Seniors Sam Spencer (D) and Chris Miller (F) are also among the top returning Generals.
"With seniors Chad Bialecki, Cal Johnson, and Chris Miller, we have experience," Boze said. "We also have returners Robbie Brubaker and Brandon Zielinski and sophomore newcomer Austin Pennell, who has played AAA [travel hockey] the last few years. We also picked up [sophomore] Mike McDougall, who plays a very physical style of hockey and can find the back of the net."
Defensemen Harrison Pawliski, Sam Spencer, and Cody Bowman also are back. Carson Bales has rejoined the team after missing all of last season due to an injury.
"All four defensemen have been solid so far this year and are getting better every game," Boze said.
Southview, which had competed for years in the upper tier Red Division, drops down to the White due to low numbers.
Longtime coach Wayne Collins has 14 players. But senior goalie Luke McMahon is back. Seniors Tyler Houck and Mitch McMahon return as forwards.
Junior Michael Yon is the team's leading returning scorer and earned All-NHC first team last year. Yon is a captain, along with junior defenseman Mike Dibble.
"The blue line back should be our strengths with solid defense from Mike Dibble, Kyle Fleck, Cole Snider, and goalie McMahon," said Collins, whose Cougars went 14-13-1 last season.
Lake won the Blue Division regular season title with an 8-0-0 record. Coach Craig Horvath, who is in his sixth season, led his team to a 21-11-3 record.
But he lost a lot of talent to graduation and this season has 12 players, including five seniors. Senior goalie Nick Horsman, who earned all-league first team honors, will be counted on heavily.
"Our strength should be goaltending," Horvath said. "He has the ability to steal a game when he is prepared. He needs to be mentally focused and consistent."
Junior forward Salahdin Mustapha earned All-NHC first team honors.
Senior forward Kyle Ramer, senior defenseman Jordan Ramer, sophomore defenseman Dylan Mauder, and senior defenseman Sam Rogers are the other top returning players.
"If we stay healthy and keep working hard and minimize penalties, we are as good as any team in the White Division," Horvath said. "We just have to play a full three periods."
Perrysburg has four seniors among 10 returning starters for coach Jeff LaCourse, who enters his seventh season with a 133-54-10 record.
The Yellow Jackets (7-19-4 overall, 3-6-1 last year) have 18 players. Senior goalie Cam Studer earned All-NHC first team honors. Studer has 45 career wins.
Senior defenseman Elliott Kayser scored 13 goals and had 18 assists. Sophomore center Matt Studer finished with 24 points (12 goals, 12 assists).
Senior defenseman Alex Mihlbauer had nine goals to go along with 15 assists.
"Elliott Kayser and Alex Mihlbauer are both four-year varsity players and, along with freshman Sam Rudolph, will give us a solid defensive core," LaCourse said. "Matt Studer, Alex Serrao, and Chris Sarni will lead the team offensively and should post good numbers this season."
Other top returning players are senior forward Steven Wilhelm, junior forward Luke Heckman, sophomore forward Ryan Murphy, and sophomore goalie Sam Hooper.
"We have 18 players this year, but are lacking in experience and depth," he said. "I expect our team to be near the .500 mark this year if everything comes together."
Fremont Ross and coach Micah Schumacher face a rebuilding year with 15 players.
But he has six seniors and six returning letter winners back.
Senior goalie Gaetan Brugger is a foreign exchange student from Switzerland and is strong in goal, according to Schumacher.
The Little Giants were 5-17 overall and 4-9 in the NHC in Schumacher's first season.
Senior defenseman David Serrick earned all-league first team honors.
Other players expected to make an impact include senior winger Trenton Laird, senior center Mike Cook, junior defenseman Jacob Dagg, and junior center Chris Souders.
But the team is inexperienced overall with eight first-year players.
"David Serrick is the most seasoned player on the team with many first and second year skaters," Schumacher said. "With solid goaltending we will try to work from there."
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The news coming from the Denver Nuggets camp is that the franchise is now taking phone calls regarding their star, Carmelo Anthony. That's a different position than last week, when the Nuggets were reportedly still focused on convincing Anthony to sign the 3-year/$65 million extension the team has (and still has) on the table.
If you want the details surrounding the initial trade speculation involving the Nuggets/76ers/New Jersey Nets, you can scroll down to the previous blog post. Or you can click here: Trade Talk. There, you can find the potential pieces involved in the trade speculation.
But here's the latest from the Sixers' side (and the following is probably true of nearly all NBA teams): The Sixers will be contacting Denver. By the time you're reading this, the Sixers might have already contacted Denver about what it would take to land Anthony.
According to one source with knowledge of the Sixers' thinking, the franchise still believes this to be a "shot in the dark," but added that you never know what can happen in these situations. It's been reported by ESPN's Chad Ford that Denver wants "a young prospect, draft picks, and cap relief" in exchange for Melo. Can the Sixers meet those needs? Does Iguodala qualify as a 'young prospect', or would that mean Turner's inclusion?
And here's this bit from ESPN's Marc Stein and Ford:
"I'm not sure how soon, but I do think they're going to trade him [between now and February]," said one rival GM.
Said another source briefed on Denver's plans: "There's no doubt they are working on it. Eventually they're going to pull the trigger. "
Reports have persisted for weeks that Anthony, who can become a free agent at the end of the coming season, wants out.