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The GroundWork Accelerator
The GroundWork Accelerator program supports founders at the crossroads of growth, i.e., a customer-ready product, in market, with the earliest signs of traction… but not at scale and, often, not yet at product-market-fit.
What's next for companies at this stage is chart a path to meaningful traction, i.e., the beginnings of scale — scaling users, scaling customers, scaling revenue, scaling team. But scaling is among the most difficult milestones for any startup to achieve. And at this stage of a startup's life, the clock is ticking.
The failure rate of startups is extraordinarily high, even for those with lots going for them — great product, great market, great team, and even great investors. There are certainly no magic bullets, but the GroundWork startup accelerator program thesis is that the most-reliable path to scaling is:
- have a solid understanding of the milestones you want to reach next, include why that milestone is the right one;
- have specific growth targets and a thesis for how to attain them;
- have a quantitative understanding of the assumptions underlying your growth thesis;
- have a thoughtful, metrics-driven approach to validating your assumptions through research and experimentation;
- have the discipline and dedication to build a cogent growth story;
- buckle up… this won't be easy.
Done right, this approach to planning for growth can lay the groundwork for scale.
But the startup world moves fast. It is sometimes said that planning anything in advance for a startup is a fools errand because plans are obsolete the minute they are forged. This is true enough… particularly because most startup growth plans lack cogency. For the GroundWork startup accelerator, the cogency of the plan is fundamental.
Throughout the GroundWork startup accelerator program, founders are challenged to understand, explain, defend and refine the cogency of their assumptions and the cogency of the growth plans they develop.
Significant uncertainty and risk are an inescapable fact of life for every venture-scale growth startup. This is especially true in the early stages, before product-market-fit is achieved, and no amount of cogency can guarantee success. The GroundWork program thesis is simply that cogency is the best tool we have. And that's good news because striving for cogency is within the reach of every single startup company and every single startup founder.
Every startup founder also has blind spots and not every element of risk and uncertainty is plainly obvious — even when you're looking for them! Startups in the GroundWork program get help understanding the assumptions they already know about as well as flushing out assumptions that are hidden from view.
- Founders set their growth outcome targets.
- Prepare to raise capital?
- Achieve a valuation milestone?
- Launch in a new market?
- Achieve/grow profitability?
- Something else…?
- Founders build their growth thesis.
- How much growth? How fast?
- From where? From who? And how?
- What's next?
- Founders model their growth thesis assumptions.
- Identify and quantify underlying assumptions.
- Verify plausibility of quantified assumptions.
- Revise based learnings.
- Founders build a growth plan that meets a high standard of cogency.
- What channels? What tactics? What cost? What time?
- What skills? What gaps?
- Expected results?
- What if the worst case? What if the best case?
At the end of the program, founders will either have a cogent growth plan they can execute on or they will know where the risks in their plan are and how to mitigate them.
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- Up to 90% discount off the HubSpot Growth Platform.
- Access to exclusive education resources and tailored training, including content, masterclasses, 24/7 support, and a startup-friendly onboarding experience.
- Access to over 200 software integrations, many at startup friendly pricing, as well as the opportunity to build an integration on the HubSpot platform.
AWS Activate Program
- $10,000 in AWS Promotional Credit valid for 2 years
- 1 year of AWS Business Support (up to $5,000).
- 80 credits for self-paced labs
Google Cloud for Startups Spark Program
- $20,000 in Google Cloud Platform and Firebase Credits
- Invitations to exclusive, local Google Cloud events.
- Access to Hire FREE for 6 months – a $600 value. (Available in limited territories)
- $500 in Qwiklabs credits to kickstart your company's hands-on lab training initiatives.
- $200/month for Google Maps API, good for 12 months.
- One year of free G Suite (up to 10 users – only valid for new domains) or a year of discounted upgrades to G Suite Business or G Suite Enterprise.
- An opportunity to apply for our Surge program to extend your credits to up to $100,000 for a second year as your business continues to grow.
With that said, the GroundWork program is designed to accelerate founders and companies that are at a crossroads of growth. Here's how we think about startups that are a good fit for the GroundWork program.
- Vision — We look for founders with big ideas that solve meaningful problems of meaningful value to meaningful markets… and with a plan to get there.
- Passion — We look for founders with strong conviction and sincere passion for the problems they are solving.
- Discipline — We look for founders who know that there is no "Get-Critical-Mass Button" and who understand that getting from here to there requires thoughtful execution and a lot of hard work.
- Initial Product — We look for founders who have built a live product, available for use by arms-length customers.
- Initial Revenue — We look for founders who have delivered value to at least some initial arms-length customer(s) willing to pay money for their product.
- Growth Thesis — We look for founders who have a thoughtful thesis about their next growth milestones and how they can achieve them.
- Lean Experimentation — We look for founders who are eager to quantify their growth assumptions and leverage Lean methodologies to validate, invalidate and improve their growth strategy.
GroundWork Accelerator mentors are different — 100% are Startup Haven members, which means 100% are experienced startup founders, C-level execs and investors. In addition to being a Startup Haven member, each mentor is individually selected based on their specific technical and business expertise, their personal startup experience and their commitment to adhering to the Startup Haven Mentor Guidelines and Mentor Code of Conduct.
Among other things, this means that we do not utilize the help of service provider mentors. This is not a value judgment against service providers. Service providers are essential and startups need help from lots of folks, including lawyers, bankers, accountants, recruiters, designers, marketers and a myriad of others. For Startup Haven and the GroundWork program, we think it's essential that the help and advice that GroundWork participants receive from mentors should be free from the potential for conflict of interest or pecuniary bias.
We also believe that for founders with a strong network of other experienced startup founders, execs and investors, finding the right service provider is merely a matter of asking for referrals. Startup Haven and the GroundWork program provide just that sort of network.
You learn more about the GroundWork Mentor Program here.
GroundWork mentors can be either local or remote. Because in-person collaboration can be so valuable, teams are encouraged build relationships with local mentors in their city whenever they can. However, because the GroundWork program is essentially virtual, any team can work with any mentor in any city. In working with remote mentors, teams are encouraged to utilize web collaboration tools such as Slack, Zoom, Google Docs, etc. GroundWork teams and mentors are also provided access to private channels on Founder to Founder, Startup Haven's member-only ask/offer forum.
You learn more about the GroundWork Mentor Program here.
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This entry was prepared by Håkan Tell and published on 1 October 2013. About this Historian Historian: Deinias of Argos Jacoby number: 306 Attested works: Historian's date: 3rd century BC 2nd century BC Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples ( Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | IX. Argos Place of origin: unknown BNJ 306 T 1 Source: Plutarch, Life of Aratos 3.4 Work mentioned: Source date: 1st century AD Source language: Greek Fragment subject: despotism - Library of Congress revolutions - Library of Congress law, ancient - …
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Keeping Track With Symbology
Bar code symbologies and scanner technologies are hardly new, but standardizing their application in the automotive industry for shipping and marking parts directly is.
#Saab #Opel #GeneralMotors
These last couple of years have seen much progress in bar code reading reliability (98% is not unusual), longer reading distances (tens of feet for laser-based scanning), and all-encompassing bar code data collection, says Kevin Prouty, Research Director, Manufacturing Strategy for Boston-based AMR Research. Now for the inevitable "but": There really haven't been any earth-shaking changes in how bar code technology really works.
That's not to say nothing has been happening. The big news is that the automotive industry–particularly General Motors (GM)–is implementing standards to use two-dimensional (2D) code symbologies in day-to-day supply chain and production operations. This is a natural situation. Bar code technology tends to lead the industry, and now the industry is catching up by gravitating toward PDF417 for shipping labels and Data Matrix for direct part marking (DPM).
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The main automotive 2D codes are either stacked codes, such as PDF417, or matrix codes, such as Data Matrix and QR Code.
PDF417 (sponsor: Symbol Technologies Inc.) is a high-capacity 2D bar code symbology. It can encode up to 1,850 ASCII or 2,725 numeric characters per symbol, or approximately 900 characters per square inch—more than 100 times the data than a conventional linear bar code.
Data Matrix (sponsor: RVSI Acuity CiMatrix) looks like a checkerboard—a square made up of multiple squares of equal size or dots. This checkerboard can be quite small—as small as 0.1 in.—which is ideal for tight spaces. The symbol typically contains up to 500 characters per square inch and it has little redundancy; almost all of it is meant for data or error correction. The solid-bar finder patterns are minimal, which winds up being the symbol's Achilles heel: Damaging one of those lines can make the code unscannable.PDF417 is best read by a rastering laser scanner (the laser pattern envelopes the entire bar code). Overhead built into the symbology tells the scanner where each row is—those picket fences—in terms of height. Because of that, you can cut a PDF417 label into horizontal slices, jumble those slices up, pull them out one at a time, and have the scanner put the jumbled mess back together. This makes PDF417 virtually bulletproof. Really. You have to shoot a lot of bullets into a PDF417 bar code or mark it up a lot before it's unscannable.
To read this matrix code, an imager takes a snapshot of the entire symbol. Imaging algorithms locate the finder patterns within that snapshot, and then apply decoding algorithms. Readability depends on proper and consistent lighting and contrast across the checkerboard pattern, as well as sophisticated image processing hardware and algorithms. The imagers themselves are still an immature technology, costly, and don't feature nearly the depth of field that laser scanners offer.
Because Data Matrix can be printed simply as individual squares or dots, versus bars as required by PDF417, it can be directly etched, stamped, or peened onto metal, plastic, and other materials.
Other 2D codes do exist. About 60% of Japan's automotive industry uses QR Code (Quick Response Code; sponsor: Nippondenso Company). QR code is a 2D matrix code that can encode up to 2,509 numeric or 1,520 alphanumeric characters. The symbol has locator patterns in three corners, three levels of error detection, and 32 standard sizes. The smallest QR Code measures 21 x 21 cells (each cell encodes one bit) and can grow in increments of four cells to a maximum of 105 x 105 cells.
MaxiCode (sponsor: United Parcel Service) looks like a honeycomb (888 hexagonal cells) with a bull's-eye target in the middle for an imager to locate. It is limited to 100 alphanumeric characters and is used for high-speed sortation. While MaxiCode is in the public domain, the symbol is used almost exclusively by UPS, mostly for political rather than technical reasons.
Many of the people interviewed for this article felt that the symbology-standards wars have been fought. Unless a code brings some unique capability to the table, then the feeling is that the various standards bodies—AIAG, AIM, and ISO, etc.—are not going to consider the new symbology for an industry standard.
How do you read this stuff?
Laser scanners are typically used for reading linear bar codes. A conventional laser-based, linear bar code scanner operates at 36 scans per second and costs under $1,000. In the middle market, high-speed linear laser scanners operate at 100 to 200 scans per second. These devices output a straight scan line; however, they can read PDF417 if this scan line is waved over the symbology. At the high end are laser scanners that can output a raster pattern if they recognize a PDF417 symbol. Read rates are less than a second. Because the scanning requires two degrees of freedom, the device contains a more complex and expensive central processor.
2D imagers involve camera technology, specifically some sort of lens system. Therein lies the problem: currently, all image readers on the market are fixed focus; imagers are optimized for one point in space, which is typically between 7 in. and 10 in., though reading from up to 2 ft. is not unusual with the proper lens system. In fact, the depth of field in imagers is a multivariable function depending on lighting, lens system, code size, and imager speed.
Most imagers are based on charge-coupled device (CCD) technology. A low-end CCD imager includes a linear CCD array of about 500 to 600 pixels by 1 pixel. Such scanners are basically contact reading devices. On the high-end side, 640 x 480 element imagers have to crunch through an image weighing in at 300 KB or more to extract the symbol. Such image processing often uses a processor powerful enough to drive a low-end Macintosh computer.
In the past two years, imagers based on complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor technology have hit the market. Compared with CCD imagers, CMOS imagers are faster, consume less power, more expensive by a few hundred dollars, and still evolving.
Vision systems can also read bar code symbologies. These systems have tended to be overkill for bar code reading and they are generally more expensive than bar code scanning devices, whether laser or CCD. Plus, they have all the same lens and lighting problems that imagers have. However, their prices have been dropping, making them more competitive for fixed-mount applications.
A global shipping label
Now for the big news. In late 1999, GM introduced GM1724 specification, "Common Global Shipping Label Template." This was subsequently superseded by GM1724-A, "Individual Container Label."* (The "A" extension differentiates the individual container standard from the master-label standards, "-B," and mixed-label standards, "-C.")
This specification came about because the word came from on high to "get commonality wherever possible." Truth is, says Larry Graham, GM's Global Manager for Automatic Identification Technologies, coming up with a standard shipping label is not just a GM issue; it's an industry issue involving suppliers, carriers, third-party logistics providers, as well as GM and all the other automakers.
GM also realized it had to develop a shipping label system that could work with and without technology. Strange, huh? Even Graham admits that. However, in some parts of the world where GM is building new facilities (such as in Thailand and China), scanning, electronic data interchange (EDI) and other technologies we take for granted don't exist. Plus, these technologies can be cost-prohibitive in those regions.
GM1724-A is very automation-oriented. GM's previous shipping labels used as many as five or more Code 39 linear bar codes. These are replaced by a single line of PDF417, which acts as a paper-based EDI transmission. Oxymoron aside, it turns out that many manufacturing companies batch their EDI transactions for transmission at the end of the day. In just-in-time environments, this transmission can sometimes be six hours after the truck arrives at the customer site. By scanning essentially the same EDI information—now in a bar code—incoming shipments don't have to wait at the receiving dock.
GM1724-A also specifies such things as standard data locations, standard fonts, upper case lettering, and human readable data—all in a 4 in. by 6 in. label. "It turns out that the real scanners that move things are not the technology scanners, but the human eye," says Graham.
Here's a Data Matrix symbol dot peened directly on a metal part, as seen by a vision system. The symbol could have been just as easily laser etched, chemically etched, even ink jet printed. And the part could have been made of plastic, glass, or just about anything else that's solid.
The label contains ship to/from addresses, made/assembled in information, material handling codes, part numbers, shipment dates, part bin, special handling requirements, container type, and gross weight. A descriptor block contains information known only by the supplier, such as quantity, part description, or revision or engineering change date. A license-plate linear bar code using Code 128—that's right, GM is moving away from Code 39 for space efficiency—holds up to 22 characters. These include a new "J Series" international data identifier for describing the container load type (mixed load) plus a DUNS number for vendor identification. (In Europe, ODETTE, the European automotive standards group, would be used instead of DUNS.) Other blocks on the label provide reference information, such as pack or production dates. And there's even a block exclusively for suppliers to use.
GM1724-A was okayed back in July 1999. Starting March 31, 2000, all GM suppliers were to use this label standard when shipping production parts to GM's facilities, including the designated receiving locations for passenger and truck vehicle assembly operations (e.g., GMNA, Saturn, Opel, and Saab), component operations (e.g., powertrain and metal fab), and service parts operations (e.g., GMSPO). GM started issuing PR&Rs (Problem Report & Resolutions) on December 1, 2000.
According to Graham, ODETTE stopped working on a next-generation shipping label when it saw GM1724-A. In April, JAMA (the Japanese counterpart of the AIAG) is expected to offer some final edits to the specification. At that time, the auto industry will have a common, global transport label.
Overall, GM expects the single global label will streamline GM's receiving operations to the tune of at least $100 million per year.
The next step: Direct part marking
So much for in-transit part marking. The next step is direct part marking (DPM). Note the difference here. Part marking usually involves other media, be that a sticky label, a tag, riveted metal tag, a tag chained to the part, or, for parts too small to individually mark, a box of nuts and bolts. DPM is as advertised: the mark is directly on the part. Another difference, explains Bill Hoffman, manager of Industrial Solutions, Automotive, for Intermec Technologies Corp. (Oxford, MI), DPM is serialized data for the express purpose of tracking the individual part, not just the type of part.
"All the top tiers in the automotive industry have DPM projects going on," says Jim Hahn, president of AutoImage ID, Inc. (Cherry Hill, NJ). GM, for instance, has DPM pilots involving airbags, engine blocks, heads, and camshafts. Actually, DPM applications are plenty: cradle-to-grave track-and-trace, recalls, theft protection and fighting gray-market theft, and error proofing. Spark plugs are a simple example where DPM might prove indispensable. The spark plug might screw into an engine without a problem, but its spark gap directly affects engine performance. So, given the speed of car manufacturing these days, a mislabeled box of spark plugs can create havoc. "In less than a second, a perfectly good shipment of spark plugs can turn into bad parts!" says Graham. Not only would each of thousands of engines have to be inspected for the wrong spark plugs, but the spark-plug supplier would somehow pay the price.
At the end of the day
Graham harkens back to his retail days when he talks about the GM1724-A shipping label. "Many people think of these labels as a nuisance. In fact, they are a very important. They are an extension of your image. The containers coming in the door are our first impression of you as a supplier. Look at the container labels and ask yourself, 'Would I send this out on my letterhead or my business card?' If you start thinking about that, I think we can eliminate a lot—a lot—of issues we have in shipping labels."
*If you're one of the 30,000 vendors to General Motors, there's a surprise awaiting you regarding the GM1724-A, "Individual Container Label." The specification calls for some non-printable characters. Well, maybe they are printable on your printer, but you won't know that until your printer is certified, as well as the related firmware, software, and infrastructure, to meet the design goals of GM1724-A.
GM appointed Intermec Technologies Corp. (Everett, WA) as a certifying agent for GM1724-A. Intermec assures GM1724-A compliance by certifying each Intermec printer used to print this label. Then Intermec officially notifies GM about certification.
Certification involves two steps. The first step, pay $75.00 per printer for firmware updates, if required; any required maintenance affecting certification; and a label print test. The second step requires that actual shipping data be printed using the vendor's Level 1-certified printer and verified in compliance. Once this Level II certification is passed, the vendor is authorized to go into production.
Given the number of GM suppliers—and their printers—involved, the name of the game now is to get some PR&R (Problem Report & Resolutions) relief, urges Intermec's Bill Hoffman, Manager of Industrial Solutions, Automotive. "You can keep shipping your label as long as you're registered and just waiting to be certified." Information about Intermec's GM1724-A compliance certification process is available at www.GM1724.intermec.com/, or call 800-815-3363.


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|Farro & Sweet Potato Risotto
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ah farro, the darling of the Nashville culinary scene.
Nope, your ears are clean! In the last few years, this ancient Italian strain of wheat has graced the menus of Nashville's hottest restaurants, and in multiple forms. I've enjoyed farro pasta, cold farro salads, delicate appetizers sprinkled with farro, and most commonly, farro risotto.
Why this sudden farro spotlight? I'm not totally sure, but I imagine that somebody gave it a whirl and realized that its chewy, hearty texture and nutty flavor stand up to all kindsa cooking technique and pair beautifully with an array of ingredients. And then that guy/human told a guy, and he told a guy etc. That's how it seems to go down here. But unlike pork belly or fried chicken or mac n'cheese, this is an obsession I can get down with! (note, none of the aforementioned are bad foods in moderation, but wouldn't claim them healthy).
When farro is properly prepared, it's a wonderful source of fiber, magnesium, B vitamins and a host of other nutrients. What is proper preparation? Namely, soaking the grain overnight with an acid breaks down phytic acid, which binds to vitamins and minerals, preventing their absorption. Not only does this process allow you to glean more of the good stuff, it makes the grains much more digestible. And, BONUS, it cuts down on the cooking time.
Even with the help from soaking, making this farro risotto is a labor of love, but I promise it is worth the carpel tunnel (j.k. sort of ). Once it's soaked, the dish is complete within an hour, but you really gotta love on it the entire time to achieve a creamy consistency. This is an ideal recipe for a chilly weekend night, and you won't believe how complex and delicious your end product is. Traditional risotto uses white wine, but I love how apple cider adds a layer of spice along with sweetness. Sweet potatoes, pecans and sage are as natural a flavor team as you'll find and they are oh so at-home in this dish.
I'm proud to say I drank the farro cool-aid, and this will continue to be a staple on our menu for the rest of the winter!
Some other ways to enjoy this dish ||for breakfast with a poached or lightly fried egg, over arugula drizzled with olive oil and balsamic, mixed with chickpeas, sausage or pulled chicken, as a bed for grilled salmon
**All photography in this post is by the talented Southern Fatty. Click to check out more of his work!


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Joe is back with his post-game thoughts….
The Rays were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position tonight. They deserved to lose to the Rangers. And you put an exclamation point at the end of it with Karlos Pena taking a called third strike with the game on line in the 10th.
Yeah, the pitch was off the plate, but Pena still has to swing. The Rays aren't paying him in that spot to eagle-eye a walk with Sam Fuld on deck and needing two runs to tie. Of course, the notion of taking a fastball the other way is foreign to the 2012 Pena.
But Joe watched 23-year-old Chris Archer be dominant and aggressive against the Rangers tonight and walked away with at least a little excitement.
Rays fans have seen Archer's talent before, but this was his best display, and it was against Texas under September pressure. You have to wonder how this kid has a losing record down in Durham?
It sickens Joe that the home plate umpire perpetuated the neutering of baseball and warned Archer and the Rangers about pitching inside. Archer was masterfully old school keeping the Rangers big bats off the plate. It was obvious that he wasn't trying to bean Josh Hamilton on an 0-2 count with two outs. But there was the ump needlessly stepping in to make sure baseball doesn't get manly like it used to be.
Joe hopes Jim Hickey and Joe Maddon make sure Archer goes to bed tonight knowing it's ok to pump fastballs inside. It would be a damn shame to see this kid lose some of his swagger and command for no good reason.


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On 11-06-29 10:49 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 29/06/11 15:15, Daniel Qian wrote:Not sure if it is the same on Debian but on Fedora I only copied the "workplace" output schema file (autofs.schema in my case) to /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/cn=schema/ without modifying anything. I restarted slapd after that and everything worked for me. Surprisingly easy although I had to do a restart.Right, that is one option. But indeed the primary advantage of cn=config is that it doesn't need a restart, and that's really where I want to be :)ATB, Mark.
In that case you can slapcat it into the db after trimming the schema file I guess. But then the cn=config directory structure on file system will be inconsistent with the actual running config. Actually I have been wondering for a while if this will be an issue and would like to hear some words if anyone have about this.


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Team officials were visited by court officers in the paddock at Monza on the eve of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
A McLaren statement described the visit as "wholly unnecessary", adding they "strongly suspected the nature and timing" was aimed at disrupting them.
The incident happened shortly before Saturday's qualifying session.
The team said they were "completely confident that were any proceedings of this type ever to be brought we would be completely exonerated".
McLaren already face a second World Motor Sport Council hearing in Paris on Thursday after new evidence recently surfaced in the "spygate" scandal.
The team were found guilty of fraudulent conduct at the first hearing after being caught in possession of technical information belonging to Ferrari, although no penalty was imposed due to insufficient evidence.
The latest allegation reportedly centres around an e-mail exchange between Alonso and test driver Pedro de la Rosa.
In a worst-case scenario, McLaren could be kicked out of the competition both this year and next.
They are currently 11 points ahead of Ferrari in the constructors' standings while British rookie Hamilton leads double world champion Alonso by five points in the drivers' title battle.
The spying row blew up when McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan, who has since been suspended by the team, was found to have nearly 800 pages of Ferrari documents in his house.
Ferrari believe Coughlan received the documents from their former performance director Nigel Stepney.
Criminal proceedings are active against Stepney, who was sacked by Ferrari from his role as head of performance development in July.
Stepney is also being investigated for allegedly sabotaging the team's cars ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix in May.
A mysterious white powder was apparently discovered around the petrol caps of the cars driven by Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen days before the race in Monte Carlo.
Stepney has strongly protested his innocence in both cases.
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Never Play Candyland with Oompa Loompas
Hi All, I haven't guest blogged here in a while, but what a fun bunch of prompts I was given to welcome me back! I had the following to choose from:
Amy- Mozart, Mice and Men
Cameron- I didn't know whether to be flattered or insulted
Erika- Like a Rainbow in the Dark
Jen- Christmas in July
Wendy- When Oompa Loompas play Candyland
The short story that follows is just a bit of backstory to my new adult fantasy trilogy 'The Blackness' inspired by Wendy's prompt: When Oompa Loompas play Candyland. It shows what my main characters life was like before the events in the first book, 'Dying was the Easy Part' and before she became known as Jocelyn Hardy. I hope you enjoy!
Never Play Candyland with Ooompa Loompas
The paint was the first thing the old jewelry maker and royal guard noticed, smeared across the edges of the glass display cases in his shop. Tiny fingerprints, smudged from their mistress's quick movements. A smile tugged at his face under the long white beard and he followed the trail, the orange growing lighter with each print, until he cleared the edge of the case and found a little girl sitting on the floor. Three strange little creatures all with orange skin and green hair fanned out in a circle around her with a board game on the floor in the center.
"No, Oompa One," said the little girl sternly, the fabric of her white dress crinkling as she leaned forward pointing at the board and the little green gingerbread man serving as a gaming piece. The little gingerbread man waved at her, but she ignored him. "You have to move it to the purple space because that's the color on your card."
The orange creature named Oompa One simply blinked at the jeweler's charge, the young princess Penelope—or as she insisted she be called for the duration of this game: Princess Lolly.
"Oompa One want chocolate. Chocolate now please," it said pointing to Gloppy, one of the many creatures printed on the faded Candyland board.
The Princess sighed, a sound the jeweler knew well. "Oh, Oompa One, no. Gloppy is made of molasses. There isn't any chocolate in Candyland."
At that the three Oompa-Loompas started to mutter, what sounded suspiciously like the beginnings of a song starting to form between the trio—a song about lying princesses and cacao beans.
The jeweler cleared his throat and Penelope's head shot up, aqua colored eyes wide. The Oompa-Loompas dissolved into swirling particles of orange and green, the tiny gingerbread men board game markers returning to their plastic staticness.
"Smithy! You're back!" Penelope scrambled to her feet, black patent leather shoes squeaking as she threw herself at him, tiny arms, fingers still dusted with orange paint fisting his pant legs.
"Och, my ghile," Smithy said, scooping her up. "What would your mother be saying if she could see ye now? You know real Oompa's are not that ghastly color."
"Oh, but they are. They're orange and green. Like in the movie."
"Hmmph. I think someone's been seeing too much of that Hollywood tripe. I've told ye before that that rot will rot yer brains." He coughed awkwardly at the unintended pun.
Tiny eyebrows, rose at that. "But why were the Oompa's I called orange then?" She held out her hand, fingers splayed. "See? They got their color on me!"
Chuckling, Smithy used his handkerchief to clean the fingers waving at him. "You didn'a so much call them as create them, my ghile. I've told ye that your magic is a powerful thing."
"Can I make anything then?"
The question was innocent, the eyes wide and guileless, and Smithy was struck again by the singular power of his little charge. If she wanted she could upend the Earth, create creatures of all shapes and descriptions that would be fully and totally loyal to her.
And she wouldn't even need the usual magic paraphernalia. The pendants and the chants that ordinary witches relied on. That sort of power was staggering. Dangerous.
"Anything you wish, my ghile," he said. "As long as it fits inside Cook's breadbox that is."
That got a giggle and a sloppy kiss on the cheek before she was demanding to be let down. Since Smithy was well aware of the girl's ability to simply order his arms to release her, he was gratified to hear the words—even if they weren't the most polite.
"Should ye be here, my ghile?" he asked, moving around the display case towards the back room that held his tools, the loose product that he would shape and twist into the jewelry lining the inside of his displays.
"No." The little girl skipped after him, settling down on the end of his workbench where her own tiny pliers and length of coiled gold wire waited. "But Mummy said that Daddy wasn't to be disturbed. She says that all the time now and I didn't want to be quiet and play in my room like a good girl."
The last part of her sentence was said in a near perfect imitation of the girl's mother and Smithy ducked his head to hide a smile. "Aye," he said, smile fading as he thought of the girls father. "Yer papa has a difficult job, dear one. Ye must give him time. He'll be right as duck sauce by the Winter Solstice, just ye wait."
The little girl didn't ask the obvious question; one an older child would have asked immediately. Instead the worry lines wrinkling her forehead smoothed away and she began to tell Smithy about her day. About wanting to play Candyland which she'd found when visiting the city of Chicago months ago with her father—before her father had gotten too unstable to leave his lands.
These are dangerous time, the princess's mother, told Smithy the last time he'd seen her. Soon it will be too dangerous for her to be near him. If it breaks free. If it sees…
She'd broken off then, but both knew the danger. Knew that if the thing inside her husband woke up when Penelope was in the room the consequences to them all would be horrific.
But for now, the man still held up to his sanity, his consciousness. The evil within did not yet realize the potential power source next to it. But it was just a matter of time. A waiting game that Smithy was growing tired of playing.
And unlike made up Oompa-Loompas playing Candyland, once this game ended (or started?) there'd be no going back.
It'd be war.
He gazed at the innocent child and knew in that moment that his days with her, like this were numbered. Soon she'd have to be sent away, hidden. But for now he listened to her babble on about Gramma Nut and the Ice Cream Sea, and thought of silver blades and golden arrows.
If war came, he'd be ready.
Just let it not be now.
He cleared his throat.
"How about another round of Candyland?"
Megan Wahl lives in San Jose, CA where she is currently busy editing her first novel 'Dying is the Easy Part' and starting on her second, 'Caught Between' both part of the planned trilogy, 'The Blackness'. When she's not buried nose deep in her own fantasy world she can be found at the local bookstore, nose first inside someone else's fantasy. Or as she likes to justify it, 'doing research'.


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Promoted as a mockumentary of the seedy underbelly of the condiment industry, The Mayo Conspiracy highlights the cartel referred to as "Big Mayo" and their grip on America's condiment usage. How much power could Big Mayo hold over the public? If you believe the facts revealed in this film, Big Mayo had hands in some of the biggest events in American history, from the JFK Assassination, to the CIA's clandestine attack on the ghettos, to the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the most recent controversy over the newly passed Affordable Care Act promoted by President Obama.
The white devil's condiment is just one tool wielded by the condiment establishment to keep control over the populace, but it's unobtrusive nature makes it one of the most powerful. The typical citizen may not have any idea how ingrained in our society mayo has become, and while this film is satirical in nature, this reviewer believes that the filmmakers have used their jokes to hide some disturbing facts in a way that gets the word out to investigative viewers while protecting themselves from the mayo cartel's vengeance.


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Painting a room is perhaps the cheapest home improvement you can carry out. A fresh coat of paint in a different shade or texture can completely transform a room for minimal cost. If your walls are not in the best condition and you don't have time to re-plaster them before painting, consider hanging wallpaper instead, to avoid drawing attention to the damage.
Determine the changes you want to do prior to starting the renovation. This is crucial to make sure you stay on budget and within a certain time frame. If you change course midstream and add new requirements, the cost and completion time will increase accordingly. The contractors you hire will be much more satisfied if you have a plan before starting construction and you don't deviate from that plan.
If you're unsure of how to fix something in your home, hire a professional instead. Many people start in on home improvement projects thinking that they can do it easily, but that is not the case with many projects. It is easier and more cost effective to let a professional handle it instead of messing up and throwing your materials out.
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Last Tuesday evening The Dallas Morning News sponsored a conference in the arts district called "Come Together," supposedly to talk about "economic development, education and opportunity" but really to talk about culluh.
Yeah, skin color, that topic that pretty much the whole rest of the world is bored to death with by now but still gets Dallas more excited than sex. The show featured Mayor Mike Rawlings, Uber-Preacher T.D. Jakes, lawyer Liz Cedillo-Pereira, who I think is being groomed to be the next Adelfa Callejo, and Michael Sorrell, the college president who turned his football field into a farm.
The topic was an extension of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Morning News editorial page campaign called "Bridging the Gap," about bringing together the city's two hemispheres. I will have a column about it in more detail in next week's newspaper. This is just a quick note to tell you they did not talk about the one thing I wanted them to, surprise surprise.
The hemispheres. I was hoping before we launched into an earnest evening-long discussion on how to bridge the gap between the hemispheres, we might discuss the fact that there are no hemispheres. We only have hemispheres in our heads.
I bring this up not merely to be a twit, even though that might be sufficient motivation, but also because the hemispheres-in-the-head issue was at the heart of a recent scathing federal investigative report finding Dallas guilty of misappropriating federal funds in order to carry out an official policy of racial segregation.
The HUD report, issued at the end of last year, made Dallas the largest city in the country in the 21st century to be officially accused by the federal government of promoting racial segregation. And the report started out talking about hemispheres:
"The complainant specifically alleges that the city arbitrarily created a boundary that divided into two sectors," the report states toward the top. "The Northern Sector is predominantly non-minority and includes the downtown business district. The Southern Sector is predominantly minority."
See, to people who aren't from Dallas, that's weird. It's striking. It jumps out at them. You tell somebody from L.A. that you live in the "Southern Sector," they think you're talking about some kind of South African shit.
But here everybody just assumes that's how it is, and that includes people in both hemispheres. People in the northern hemisphere usually don't think it's their job to make the southern hemisphere better. People in the southern hemisphere think it is. But hardly anybody on either side ever stops and says, "Hey. There are no hemispheres."
Let me just toss this out: The danger, when you have imaginary hemispheres in your brain, is that you will go out into the real world and try to make those hemispheres come true. You can't rearrange the physical world into divisions that do not exist naturally, but you can do all kinds of weird stuff to the man-made world, like only put sewers in half of it.
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There was a guy in the audience right behind me, Robert Pitre, about whom I have written in the past, a landowner near the new UNTD campus near Interstate 35-E and I-20, and all he and other landowners in the area want is a sewer system.
Everybody in the northern hemisphere has sewers. But vast areas of the southern hemisphere have no sewers. I thought if we could agree to ditch the whole hemispheres thing, then maybe the light bulb would go off and everybody would realize right away why there should be sewers in the whole city. Because, you know, it's a whole city.
Didn't happen. Didn't even start to happen. Everybody just jumped right into the usual discussion about diplomacy between the hemispheres. I will explain more next week.
Another thing they did not mention in this long sober discussion of hemispheres was the HUD accusation. I'm sitting out there wondering why they even bother having the discussion, if they're not going to address the HUD accusation. Oh well, it's Dallas. The most important thing, whenever we talk about things here, is to make sure nobody talks about anything.


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Known as "Judicial Review," federal courts are empowered with the authority to review decisions made by the military. Before seeking judicial review, the service member will generally have to exhaust all available "administrative remedies" – meaning that the service member generally will have to pursue all avenues of relief provided by the military before taking the matter to federal court; much in the same way that a chain of command works. The administrative remedies that must be exhausted are dependent upon the character of the case and determine the availability of judicial review.
For example, a service member who applies to the Board for the Correction of Military Records may ask for direct judicial review of the Board's final decision. If the time limits concerned have not expired (usually six years from the "date of injury" or the date the service member leaves the military,) a federal court will review the Board's decision and may award the member a favorable decision, including removal of adverse information, reinstatement, back-pay and allowances, voiding or correcting evaluation reports, and referral to a Special Selection Promotion Board for promotion consideration. The type of relief available to the service member is dependent upon the case's circumstances as well as the relief requested.
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Into An Anti-Hero's Heart
The novels of Andrew Vachss are known for their hard-core, gritty content and for his character, Burke, a no-nonsense anti-hero. The twelfth book in the "Burke" series is called Dead And Gone.
Vachss told CBS News Early Show Anchor Bryant Gumbel that he would mainly describe his books as honest.
"I'm not amping it up. If I had a wish, it would be that what I had to write about was fictional," said the 57-year-old author.
In Dead And Gone, Burke is offered a job to deliver a ransom for a child who was kidnapped 10 years ago. The swap turns out to be a trap, and Burke and his beloved dog, Pansy, are shot by unknown gunmen.
Vachss says that in this novel, readers see a side to Burke that they haven't seen before.
"You see Burke as a child institutionalized, which is something you didn't really see before, and how his view of the world was formed, says Vachss.
His novels always center around the protection of children, specifically children who are abused, some of them sexually.
"I absolutely believe that child protection and crime prevention are one and the same," says Vachss.
He explains how children's welfare came to be his all-consuming passion and preoccupation.
"I was a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases. Unlike the way most people discovered child sexual abuse, in a media context, in argument about whether it's exaggerated, I saw babies dripping in gonorrhea," recalls Vachss. "I have been hot after predators ever since that time."
He also works as an attorney, and he only represents children.
Vachss' work experiences provide the material for his novels. "I don't need any research," he says.
That's because after Vachss worked as a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare, he ran a maximum security prison for violent youths. Then he went to law school.
He decided to write about what he witnessed "because I don't have a TV show, a radio program. I'm a working-class boy in America. A book would get a bigger jury than you get in a courthouse."
Burke is not your typical literary hero. He's an ex-convict who lives on the fringe of society.
Vachss explains that Burke is a career criminal. "No point making him anything else. I wanted to show people what hell looked like and I didn't think an angel would be the right guide I had to make him part of it instead of somebody investigating it."
Vachss and Burke have a lot in common.
"We have the same taste in women, in music, in automobiles and in dogs," says Vachss. Both men have the same politics and social outlook. Burke is even wounded in one of his eyes, as was Vachss when he was seven years old. But Vachss says that's where the similarities end.
Vachss denies that Burke is his avenging angel, and says he wouldn't want to do what Burke does chase down bad guys and punish them.
"I don't at all admire smebody in his situation," says Vachss. "I feel bad for him his methods of expression are much more limited than mine are."
In Dead and Gone, Burke, who usually lives in New York City, has moved west. But Vachss says this is temporary.
"In this plot he's presumed to be dead, and it's to his tactical advantage to be off the streets. But he'll be back," he says.
After people have read his book, Vachss hopes people will be angry.
"I want them to be angry You have two people running for president of the United States, not one mentioned child protection."
Vachss gets a lot of feedback from his readers, some of whom have been moved to action.
"I get just really a ton of mail, especially at the website," he says. "People say they have done things and some of those things we have been able to verify. I'm gratified with the results."
Interestingly, Vachss says he doesn't think of himself as a writer.
"A writer would be somebody you can give an assignment to and would produce the material. I have one song to play. I'm trying to play it perfect until I get it right, but I don't have that range," he says.


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Basswood is a great wood burning wood. It's very soft and easy to burn, there are practically no grains. It's a solid surface of soft burning wood and it's beautiful. It's so clean and light, so you can burn in wonderfully light or dark details making it one of the best woods to burn. My only gripe with basswood are the size options. I've only been able to find basswood in precut plaque sizes or circular sizes with the live edge in hobby stores or online. You can find the planks online, however they are pricey and why buy higher priced planks of basswood when poplar is less expensive and already in the local store? I do use the basswood plaques because they are easier than gluing up, sanding and cutting the poplar. I usually keep a few of these plaques on hand for quick turn around.
Birch burns much like basswood. The grains are consistently soft and you can find this in the big box stores. I like the birch plywood because Clay can just cut out the sizes I need and frame it out to cover the plywood edges. We don't use it that often mostly because poplar is our go to choice, but it's always there as an option if we need it. We also like the poplar over birch since it's a solid piece of wood and not plywood.
Poplar is my absolute favorite and the best wood for wood burning for three reasons: 1. easy to burn, 2. very accessible, 3. customize any size. We use poplar for most of our project. Poplar is readily available at the big box hardware stores at varying sizes and Clay is able to make any size canvas or frame that we need for a customer. The grains are consistently soft throughout the boards which makes an ideal wood burning surface. I'm able to burn in fine details with ease. I should add that it accepts stain evenly and holds true to the stain color. If you are new to wood burning, go buy a smaller board and use it to practice. Poplar is my top recommendation.
Yellow Pine. Pine is a common wood in wood burning. It's inexpensive and you can find nice and neat pieces at hobby stores cutout into shapes, plaques and designs. Yellow pine is hard for me to burn because the grains are so different. The lighter grain is very soft while the darker grain is hard to burn. So when I'm burning a portrait it's difficult to get a detailed or consistent pattern. Pine is better for letters or signs that will be burnt solid and not shaded. Yellow pine is my least favorite not one of the best woods for wood burning. It makes a lower quality burn and finished product.
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Second – use a fan. A fan should be used when wood burning any type of wood. It isn't safe for someone to breathe in smoke especially if you are going to be burning for hours. I use a small battery operated fan that is portable and I can place it very close to my burning area and it sucks the smoke right in and away from my face. When I first start burning I wasn't using one. Clay noticed all of the smoke going right into my eyes and he suggested setting up a little fan. I still use it when I burn and I've seen other pyrographers mention that they use a fan as well, so it's a common practice in pyrography.
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It's not often that Hennepin County Residents are asked to fill an open seat on the County Board. For us in SW Minneapolis and St. Louis Park, it's been 15 years. That's why it's so important for us to choose the right person. That person is Marion Greene.
Marion is a proven leader who served in the Minnesota Legislature. Her colleagues quickly embraced her leading voice on important issues like healthcare and early childhood. Marion serves on two of the highest profile non-profit boards in our community – OutFront Minnesota and Minnesotans United for All Families. And Marion knows public officials serve first and foremost to represent their constituents, speaking regularly about the importance of inviting more engagement with County government.
I serve with Marion on the boards of OutFront and Minnesotans United. I know she's a strong progressive who will fight for policies that benefit us all.
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J.K. Rowling has donated £10 million towards the setting up of a new multiple sclerosis research clinic.
The clinic, which will be based at the University of Edinburgh, will be named after the Harry Potter author's mum Anne, who died from the illness in 1990 at the age of 45.
"I have supported research into the cause and treatment of multiple sclerosis for many years now, but when I first saw the proposal for this clinic I knew that I had found a project more exciting, more innovative, and, I believe, more likely to succeed in unravelling the mysteries of MS than any other I had read about or been asked to fund," Rowling said in a statement.
She added: "I truly believe that it is set to become a world centre for excellence in the field of regenerative neurology."
The university said that the donation was the largest single amount it had ever received, as well as Rowling's largest given to a charitable cause.


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In the moments before kickoff, some players listen to metal and some listen to rap. Some talk to God and some talk to themselves.
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Patrick Kerney wraps a black graphite glove around his neck, wires it to the portable neuromuscular stimulator in his locker and sends small currents of electricity into his body. He literally energizes himself. "It fires you up -- your adrenal glands," Kerney says. He also freaks out some of his less tech-oriented teammates, who eye Kerney skeptically, as though he might be part man and part machine.
When Kerney goes home to his house in Bellevue, Wash., he climbs into a hyperbaric chamber to infuse his body with oxygen. Then he falls asleep under silver-threaded "earthing" sheets plugged into an electrical outlet, thus ostensibly neutralizing free radicals, those highly reactive particles that can damage cells. "I know this is going to make me sound ridiculous," says Kerney.
That might be true if he were not making so many others look ridiculous on the field. In his ninth NFL season Kerney, 31, led the NFC with 14 1/2 sacks, and in the wild-card playoff game at Qwest Field last Saturday the visiting Washington Redskins assigned two and sometimes three men to keep him out of their quarterback's face. It was no use. With his adrenal glands firing and no free radicals disrupting him, Kerney was a force, amassing seven tackles and four quarterback pressures in the Seahawks' 35-14 victory. This weekend he travels to Green Bay to face Brett Favre and the Packers in the divisional playoffs. The neuromuscular stimulator will be making the trip.
Kerney had a large role in wrecking the NFL's most inspiring plotline. The Redskins were playing for Sean Taylor, their teammate who was slain in late November. They were playing behind Todd Collins, a quarterback who until December had not started an NFL game in a decade. Washington, which had won four straight simply to reach the playoffs, took a one-point lead in the fourth quarter and, after recovering a kickoff that the Seahawks' return team somehow failed to touch, had third down at the Seattle 12-yard line with 11:44 left, and a chance to put the game away.
Washington positioned right tackle Stephon Heyer and fullback Mike Sellers across from Kerney, 604 pounds of pass protection. The Seahawks' end split them as if they were straw men and swiped at Collins's right hand, forcing an incomplete pass and a field goal attempt. Shaun Suisham's 30-yarder hooked left, and the Redskins lost their juju. Seattle scored three straight touchdowns -- two on interception returns -- to put an end to Washington's march. "You hurt more because you know the cause was bigger than this game," said Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss afterward, invoking Taylor's memory.
Kerney skipped off the field with blood on the bridge of his nose, cuts along both arms and eye black smeared across his cheeks. Turns out he didn't hurt his nose on any of the Redskins' double- and triple-teams but on a pregame head butt with fellow Seahawks outside the locker room. "It felt good," he said, poking at the fresh scab.
A first-round pick of the Falcons in 1999, Kerney had been a fixture on the defensive front in Atlanta, starting 105 consecutive games before tearing his right pectoral muscle in November 2006. He missed the final seven games of the '06 season but was nevertheless highly sought when the free-agent signing period opened in March. Kerney visited Denver and was expecting to sign with the Broncos, but he humored the Seahawks and took a flight to Seattle aboard owner Paul Allen's private plane. Jim Mora, who'd coached Kerney in Atlanta and is now an assistant with the Seahawks, went along for the ride. As the plane neared the Pacific Northwest, Mora asked Kerney a weighted question: "So, do you want to see Mount Saint Helens?"
He didn't need to wait for the answer. Mora ducked his head into the cockpit, the pilot called air traffic control for clearance, and the plane dipped its wing. For a volcanic defensive end, it was the ultimate joyride. "You could see the steam rising," Kerney says. "You could see the mountain blown out on one side and the trees all matted down. The sun was breaking through the clouds. An artist could not have painted it any better."
The Seahawks had an unfair advantage in their free-agent courtship. From his time with the Falcons, Mora knew that Kerney was a licensed pilot with his own four-seat Beechcraft, so the next day in Seattle, Kerney got a ride on Allen's seaplane, which landed in the middle of Puget Sound. Then he was taken to Allen's private hangar in Everett, Wash., which is stocked with vintage World War II fighter planes. Says Seattle linebacker Lofa Tatupu of his bosses, "They knew exactly what they were doing." On March 5 Kerney agreed to a six-year, $39.5 million contract with the Seahawks.
It was his first recruiting trip of any kind. Kerney, who grew up in Newtown, Pa., attended The Taft School in Watertown, Conn., which produces plenty of National Merit finalists but not so many edge pass rushers. He went to Virginia to play lacrosse and walked on to the football team. Somehow, a prep-school grad and history major whose favorite sports included lacrosse, hockey and wrestling became a first-round NFL draft pick.
Kerney is still exotic for his breed. In a league of Cadillac Escalades, he drives a Honda Accord hybrid. He regularly goes to sleep by 9:30 p.m. He hikes on off days -- his favorite spot in the Seattle area is Tiger Mountain because he can't get to the top without vomiting at least once. "I've been there with him," Seahawks defensive end Darryl Tapp says. "It's not a lot of fun."
But there's a reason why Tapp keeps following Kerney into weight rooms and up mountain peaks, even if the experience is usually painful and nauseating. Last season, without Kerney, Tapp had three sacks and 22 solo tackles. This season, with Kerney serving as his mentor and bookend, Tapp racked up seven sacks and 41 solo tackles.
After Saturday's playoff victory a few of Kerney's defensive teammates peered into his locker, checking out the graphite gloves and the muscle stimulator, as though the gadgets held some scientific secret to his dominance. "At first we all thought it was a little weird," tackle Rocky Bernard said. "Now it's almost normal."
And it's more than enough to fire up the Seahawks' adrenal glands for a deeper postseason run.


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Most of the Dallas Stars prospects have turned pro in the 2009-10 season, leaving the organization's junior ranks rather depleted. Reinforcements were signed in the form of Medicine Hat center Tristan King and Gatineau defenseman Hubert Labrie, however. As per Dallas' drafting style, two-thirds of their junior prospects reside in the Western League. The goaltender Tyler Beskorowany and the lone defenseman of the group Labrie play in the OHL and QMJHL, respectively.
Scott Glennie, RW, Brandon Wheat Kings
Acquired: 1st round (8th overall) in 2009
Feb. 22, 1991. Ht: 6'1, Wt: 188 lbs.
The Stars first pick in 2009 has rejoined Brandon and his outstanding Western League teammates Brayden Schenn (LA) and Matt Calvert (CLB). Additionally, they have a new piece to spur an already potent offense – diminutive Finn Toni Rajala (EDM). With six players scoring at a better than point-per-game pace, Glennie clearly has a lot of talent around him. So far, he's amassed 21 points in 20 games while being a +12.
The speedy winger is looking to grab a spot on the Canadian World Junior Championship team for the first time. Glennie is already on the Team WHL roster for the Subway Super Series later in November. The offensively-gifted right-handed shooter will look to impress on a national stage and justify his lofty draft status.
Tomas Vincour, RW, Edmonton Oil Kings
Acquired: 5th round (129th overall) in 2009
Nov. 19, 1990. Ht: 6'2, Wt: 205 lbs.
Steady improvement is the best way to describe Tomas Vincour's development since being the No. 1 selection in the CHL Import Draft in 2007. After being selected in the fifth round by Dallas, Vincour has a chance to really elevate his stock with a big year in Edmonton this season. Already with 10 goals and 17 points through 19 games, the Czech-born winger is tied for first on his club in goals and is ranked second in points.
Vincour plays a power forward game but his skating needs some improvement. Once he builds up the inertia he can move at a pretty good clip – but his agility and quickness are certainly lacking. He possesses very good offensive instincts and a quality shot, which will allow him to thrive at the junior level. The 6-foot-2 winger has twice represented the Czechs in the international arena – once with the U18 club and last year with the U20's.
Tristan King, C, Medicine Hat Tigers
Acquired: Signed as a free agent 9/19/2009
Nov. 7, 1990. Ht: 6'0", Wt: 191 lbs.
Just prior to entering his fourth year of junior hockey (his second with Medicine Hat), King signed his first professional contract with the Dallas Stars. Plagued quite a bit by injuries, the Minnesotan had his season abbreviated in 2008-09. Despite playing in just 47 games, he established career marks in goals (14), assists (22) and points (36). King is off to an even stronger start in 2009-10 with 21 points in his first 24 games.
The handsy 19-year-old forward will look to give his numbers a serious boost this season while being a major piece of Medicine Hat's high-octane offense. King will need to shake off the cobwebs left by a concussion and groin injury from yesteryear and become more involved in the dirty areas to get goals.
Matt Tassone, C, Swift Current Broncos
Acquired: 6th round (176th overall) in 2008
Nov. 28, 1989. Ht: 6'2", Wt: 202 lbs.
A surprising performance last season by Tassone has put him on some radar screens across the hockey world. Despite appearing in just 52 games in his last campaign, Tassone tallied 36 goals and 55 points while amassing another 100 penalty minute season. His willingness to go into the trenches and battle for goals has proven most valuable for the Alberta native.
Unfortunately, Tassone went under the knife to make some repairs on his shoulder and that has held him out for the entire season up to this juncture. Tassone is hoping to return before the calendar turns to 2010.
Tyler Beskorowany, G, Kingston Frontenacs
Acquired: 2nd round (59th overall) in 2008
Apr. 28, 1990. Ht: 6'5", Wt: 205 lbs.
Last year Beskorowany faced a seemingly infinite barrage of shots while a member of the Owen Sound Attack. Despite his trade to Kingston, Beskorowany faces just as many (or more) shots per game this season.
On the plus side, the large netminder is the unquestioned starter in Kingston; he's been in the crease for roughly 87 percent of his team's minutes played this year. The statistics have improved slightly through 20 games. He's 8-10-2 with a 3.40 GAA and .903 save percentage but still battles game-to-game consistency. He'll put together a remarkable, game-stealing performance one night and then get yanked after surrendering a half dozen through two periods. He's still a work in progress, but the Stars brass is hoping that this change of scenery is ultimately a positive one.
Hubert Labrie, D, Gatineau Olympiques
Acquired: Signed as a free agent 9/19/2009
July 12, 1991. Ht: 5'11", Wt: 170 lbs.
With a noticeable dearth in defensive prospects in the pipeline, the Dallas Stars went out and grabbed the undrafted Labrie. Once thought to be an upper-echelon prospect for the 2009 NHL draft, Labrie slipped all the way through the cracks to undrafted status. This was largely due to his diminutive stature – last year he was listed at just 5'10, 158 pounds. That said, he's willing to battle every step of the way against opposing forwards.
Typically, smaller smooth-skating blueliners are known for their offensive talents. That's not the case with Labrie however, as if his 30 points in 136 career QMJHL games didn't reveal such a revelation. Labrie has been used as one of Gatineau's better shutdown rearguards. The lone current QMJHL player in the Stars system will need to continue to smooth out his game and gain strength in order to have an NHL future.


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