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Around the League - Mar 11, 2010
Jason Gregor
March 11 2010 02:08PM
The NHL GM meetings wrapped up yesterday, and to no one's surprise they came up with a recommendation that will punish headshots — or at least some of them. Thankfully they found a way to word the rule so it won't punish or deter players from making big, clean hits.
"A lateral, back pressure or blindside hit to an opponent where the head is targeted and or the principal point of contact is not permitted. A violation of the above will result in a minor or major penalty and shall be reviewed for possible supplemental discipline."
This wording is great because it allows players going straight on towards another player to deliver a blow. I was concerned they would word it in a way that might deter players from delivering a hard check. I'm all for getting rid of cheap head shots, but I do think the puck carrier still has to keep his head up and hopefully the game never loses that element.
There are still some grey areas that need to be worked out. Is a blindside hit a two-minute penalty, a five-minute major or will it be one or the other accompanied with a game misconduct? These wrinkles will be ironed out over the summer, but expect this rule to be in place next season.
It is long overdue and the players clearly needed some guidelines.
A few other rule changes were tabled, and I don't see why they won't be approved by the competition committee and board of governors this summer.
- The GMs want the first tiebreaker at season's end to be changed to regulation and overtime wins, and not overall wins as is currently the case. Basically a team that is dominant in the shootouts, won't win the tiebreaker.
- The NHL wants the American Hockey League to go to a four-man officiating system in 40 per cent of AHL games. The AHL currently uses three-man system for all games. This is really the AHL's decision but considering the NHL has agreed to financially back it, I don't see why the AHL would balk at it.
There were a few other rule changes presented on Tuesday by various GMs that didn't make it out of the boardroom.
The Islanders proposed that the top seven teams in each conference make the playoffs, while the eight through fifteen seeds would have a play-in tournament in each conference. This is idiotic. Basically the regular season would come down to a one-game do-or-die format. Why play 82 games? That was a horrible idea by the Islanders.
Once again some Einstein thought a tweak to the all-star game would make it better. Memo to the NHL or anyone who thinks the all-star can be meaningful, IT CAN'T, nor should it.
The all-star game is a meaningless, fun game, but someone actually proposed that the two leading scorers or leading scorers in each conference, at the all-star break, would draft their own teams. I'm not making this up. This was actually put on the table as a viable option.
I don't understand why people expect the all-star game to be intense, when many regular season games aren't that intense. The all-star game is a reward for the stars of the league. They get recognition for a good start to their season, they get to mingle with other stars of the league, and most importantly the big sponsors get to meet the stars of the game.
Nothing will ever make the all-star game meaningful, so can we please stop trying.
The other proposals at least had some validity to them.
Changing the overtime formula to four minutes of four-on-four and if no goal was scored then they would play three-on-three for four minutes. The NHL would like to see more games decided in overtime rather than in shootouts. The AJHL currently uses this formula and the three-on-three is highly entertaining. I think the NHL might re-visit this idea in the future.
The final proposal was a challenge flag. The NFL and NLL currently use a coach's challenge flag, but I'm not sure how it would be effective in the NHL. Right now any questionable goal is reviewed, so what exactly would coaches challenge? Would they challenge missed offside calls, or questionable penalties?
I'm not sure the NHL needs a challenge flag. Do you? Would any of these rules changes make the game better?
The headshot issue needed to be addressed, but one rule that should be changed is touch-icing. I don't see the benefits of having touch icing. Sure there are a few exciting races for the puck where the forechecker gets there first to avoid the icing call, but is it really that exciting? We've seen some horrendous injuries because of these races, and I don't see the reward outweighing the risk.
I'd be all for getting rid of the instigator rule, but I don't see that happening unfortunately.
Ice woman of the week
Meagan is a three-year veteran on the Dallas Stars Ice-Girls. She loves horseback riding, snowboarding and herding cattle in helicopters. I wonder if she herds the cows while wearing her goaltending equipment.
Random thoughts
- Tonight the Windsor Spitfires host the Plymouth Whalers. Taylor Hall v. Tyler Seguin and Cam Fowler will also be on the ice. The Oilers, Bruins, Blue Jackets and Islanders will have three of four scouts/management types in attendance, and other teams will be there as well. If you are interested you can watch it at http://livestream.ontariohockeyleague.com/
- Back in late January I wrote the Canucks needed to be at least .500 on their NHL-record 14 game road trip, they finished 8-5-1 after a shootout loss in Phoenix last night, if they wanted to win the NW. They did better than that, and now with ten of their final 15 games at home and a five point lead on Colorado it looks like they should get home ice in the first round. I still think Mike Gillis should have added more than Alberts and Stastny, but the Canucks are Canada's best hope to win a Cup. It's safe to say that won't happen, and Lord Stanley will reside in the US for another season.
- I loved hearing Vinny Lecavalier rip the league for not suspending Matt Cooke. "He's been doing this his whole career, hurting guys. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly he was going to hit his (Savard's) head. He's got no respect for players and they (NHL) are protecting the wrong guy." Cooke is a gutless puke in my mind. But I think it is more a lack of fear than a lack of respect. If Cooke knew he'd have to fight a guy or risk being jumped he'd think twice before delivering another blatant cheap shot.
- Looks like the Oiler curse doesn't leave a player once he departs Edmonton. Denis Grebeshkov took a shot in nards, and needed surgery to supposedly remove one of them and is out a month. Steve Staios is -3 in three games with the Flames. Lubomir Visnovsky has two goals in three games with the Ducks, but they've lost all three and now the Ducks are seven points out of a playoff spot. Should the Oilers perform an exorcism of their dressing room at the end of year? I don't think it can hurt.
- Nothing like jumping the gun. Hockey Canada was in an uproar about losing Sidney Crosby's glove and stick. It turns out the glove was in Patrice Bergeron's bag, and the stick was packed in a truck and sent to Toronto. You'd think that asking other players to check their bags would have been the first thing to do, rather than offer a $10,000 reward and basically accuse someone of stealing the items.
- So Sidney Crosby didn't go on the David Letterman or the Today Show. Who cares? Do you really think having Crosby in that forum will boost hockey's interest amongst Americans? Crosby would be better served to go on SNL and be funny or poke fun at himself. Getting interviewed by Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira would be a kin to Elisabeth Hasselbeck going on Off The Record. I doubt sports fans would all of a sudden tune into The View after seeing her. Crosby is not the most personable guy, so put him on SNL and maybe we'd see a lighter side of him. Non-hockey fans would be more enticed by that that seeing him with Letterman or Lauer.
Leaders through the season
Here are the top ten in pts, goals, assists and other stats.
44: Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby
41: Steven Stamkos
39: Patrick Marleau
35: Marian Gaborik
34: Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk
31: Alexander Semin, Anze Kopitar, Zach Parise, Jarome Iginla and Jeff Carter
62: Henrik Sedin (first week Thornton hasn't lead since week two)
61: Joe Thornton
55: Martin St. Louis
54: Nicklas Backstrom and Brad Richards
50: Ovechkin and Paul Stastny
49: Patrick Kane and Mike Green
47: Ryan Getzlaf
94: Ovechkin
88: H. Sedin
84: Crosby
80: Backstrom
79: St. Louis
78: Stamkos
77: Thornton
75: Patrick Kane
72: Brad Richards
70: Marian Gaborik
+42: Ovechkin
+37: Jeff Schultz
+32: Backstrom, H. Sedin and Daniel Sedin
+31: Mike Green
+30: Alex Burrows
+28: Christian Ehrhoff
+27: Alex Semin
+23: Jonathon Toews
***Patrick O'Sullivan has a big lead for the green jacket sitting at -32. Shawn Horcoff has dropped to -27, while Rod Brind'Amour is -24 and Steve Staios is -22. Staios is -3 in three games with the Flames***
PP Goals:
17: Stamkos
16: Heatley
13: Anze Kopitar, Mike Richards and Gaborik
12: Crosby
11: Ovechkin, Backstrom, Marleau, Ryan Kesler, Evgeni Malkin and Ilya Kovalchuk
257: Ryan Callahan
256: Cal Clutterbuck
240: Dustin Brown
217: Stephane Robidas
207: Steve Ott and Brooks Orpik
197: Chris Neil
195: Matt Greene, Brendan Morrow and Mike Fisher
312: Ovechkin (22 shots this week)
278: Jeff Carter
274: Parise
240: Crosby
233: Phil Kessel
232: Marleau
231: Malkin
229: Henrik Zetterberg, Alex Semin and and Lecavalier
Quote of the week
I had Windsor head coach Bob Boughner and Plymouth bench boss Mike Vellucci on my show this week. Both had some interesting comments on Hall and Seguin.
Boughner on Hall's best strength and what he is working on:
"I've had him since he was 15 and his best attribute is his skating. He is extremely hard to knock off the puck, and has NHL explosive speed right now. He has a wide wheel base which makes him hard to knock of the puck. And his hunger for the puck is immense. He'll go into the dangerous areas, he'll crash the net as hard as I've seen anybody and if it is a 50/50 battle for the puck he'll come up with it."
Boughner on how Hall is handling the pressure of being highly touted?
"He is a really confident kid who doesn't get shaken easily and he loves being that go-to-guy and the guy to make a difference. In that regard he is handling it no problem. In the other way he has done some great things. He asked me if he can do his own community visits instead of doing team visits because it would mean more. He's bought tickets out of his own pocket and he spends time going on hospital visits that we don't even know about. He tries to give back in his own way and he doesn't need or want the media there. He just likes giving back."
Boughner on the concerns that Hall skates with his head down too much and he might get hurt in the NHL.
"I think that is overblown, but I can see why people would say that. He's got a target on his back every night and teams are looking to finish him and they're looking to put as much abuse on him as they can. Taylor's one of those guys who doesn't shy away from it. He does get hard some nights and I think its cause he isn't afraid to go to the dangerous areas. Sometimes he does look down at the puck, but he's gotten a lot better at it and just when you think you have him he gets low to the ice and duck around checks. I've seen him get hit hard, but he's always got up and went right back at it and he isn't easily intimidated."
What do you like about Seguin's game?
"He's a great player. I had him at the U-18 this summer for team Canada. He's more of a puck distributor, while Taylor is more dominant at fishing loosing pucks and going to the net harder and winning battles. Seguin is more a playmaking centre. He sees the ice extremely well, and isn't afraid to shoot from anywhere and he is a great skater. Hall is more of a take it himself type of player while Seguin is more of a distributor."
Mike Vellucci gave me his thoughts on both as well.
What has been the biggest improvement in Seguin's game this season?
"The biggest improvement is his finish. This year he has worked on being a more well-rounded player, not just an assist guy, but being able to score too and we've seen that with is 47 goals and 58 assists. He's a well-rounded hockey player. He knows how to play in his own end, but just like any young guy you need to harp on him sometimes a bit more to make sure he does. He's been involved in 43% of our goals this year, which is a very high number."
How is Seguin dealing with all the fanfare and attention?
"He's a level-headed kid. He actually deals with the media very well. He's well-spoken and articulate and I know he wants to be the number one overall pick. That is his goal as is winning a championship this year. He wants to go the first pick and he hasn't shied away from it. It's something he is putting in an effort to make happen. He's worked hard this summer to get there. He put on some weight, improved his foot speed and worked extremely hard and wanted to start the season strong. And he did. Taylor Hall has been tabbed number one the last three years, while not many people knew who Tyler was and he was out to prove he was every bit as good and as talented and wanted to be number one."
What does he need to keep working on and improve to be successful in the NHL?
"Like most kids, strength is the biggest thing. I don't have to harp on him that much, because he is in the weight room, not just with our team, but on his own and before practice. We work on little things. Where to be positionally, how to save your strength instead of skating all over and keep circling and do a little more stops and starts. He makes coaches look good, so really we work on strength, conditioning, consistency and also his defensive play."
I asked him to compare Hall and Seguin.
"They are different no doubt about it. Taylor Hall is an exceptional player and his speed is dynamic. When the puck is on his stick everyone is trying to catch up or they are standing there watching him. He is dominant. Tyler has good speed as well, but he sees the ice so well and he controls the game. When the puck is on his stick he can slow it up and speed it up. Hall is a year older and will probably be more explosive his first couple years in the NHL, but I think Tyler Seguin will be a very dominant forward for several years as well."
Sounds like both players are determined to be stars in the NHL, and it will be interesting to see which one has his name called first June 25th in Los Angeles.
March 11 2010, 02:27PM
Maybe we should make a trade for Meagan! she would be Oil MVP for sure.
March 11 2010, 02:35PM
After reading that, I want Hall. Sounds like he'll be a lot of fun to watch.
I can't wait to see Cam Barker light it up in that Junior game. It will be man against boys.
Cam Barker shoule be 1st Star
March 11 2010, 02:44PM
the oilers really need a dynamic player, i believe Hall will be the solution,plus hes a natural goal scorer...
Interesting Assessment on both Hall and Seguin:
"He does get hard some nights and I think its cause he isn't afraid to go to the dangerous areas."
Every night when i was 17.
I've got an NHL goalies calendar on my office wall (gee thanks Mom!), and the March picture of Marty Turco. Looks like meagan is wearing Turco's actual game gear - and quite well I might add!
"Denis Grebeshkov took a shot in nards, and needed surgery to supposedly remove one of them and is out a month." WHAT? Remove?!
I think you can bring some meaning to the Allstar game by making the reult of the game itself mean something. They should make the winner of the Allstar game get home ice in the Stanley Cup final.
The NHL schedule is still very conference-heavy. Teams play far more games within their conference than they do out of it, so a team like Washington wins the President's Trophy and guarantees themselves home ice as long as they're in the playoffs because they get more games against Toronto, Atlanta, Carolina, Florida, etc. during the season.
Between compiling the teams based on the best players from each conference (and not guaranteeing each team is represented), and giving the winning team home ice in the SCF, you might actually see an improvement in the actual game.
Great read. Hearing from both coaches on both Hall and Seguin was great. Your around the league article gets better every week, and I'm not just talking about the Women of the week...
March 11 2010, 03:14PM
Put the ice woman at the top of your post - we all scroll to her first before we read a word anyway.
Didn't the nut job happen to another Oiler who left us a couple years ago??? Or maybe it was wishful thinking on my part....
I would like to see a 10-minute misconduct penalty for the after-the-whistle pushing and shoving. If you are going to disrupt the game between whistles without backing it up, then sit for 10-minutes in shame, but if a player wants to drop the gloves and fight, then go ahead and take your 5-minute penalty. Maybe this will make the Matt Cookes of the League more accountable for their actions.
"Denis Grebeshkov took a shot in nards, and needed surgery to supposedly remove one of them and is out a month." WHAT? Remove?!
and if he loses the other one we'll have to start calling him Denise Grebeshkov.
March 11 2010, 03:25PM
I would like to see a 10-minute misconduct penalty for the after-the-whistle pushing and shoving. If you are going to disrupt the game between whistles without backing it up, then sit for 10-minutes in shame, but if a player wants to drop the gloves and fight, then go ahead and take your 5-minute penalty. Maybe this will make the Matt Cookes of the League more accountable for their actions.
Makes it tough to protect your goalie if that was the case. If you start a fight you get the instigator and if you push someone you get 10 minutes. Either way you hurt your team.
I'd like to see something happen to try and eliminate the scrums after the whistle but I'm not sure this is it.
March 11 2010, 03:26PM
and if he loses the other one we'll have to start calling him Denise Grebeshkov.
Or Tom Gilbert.
Or Tom Gilbert.
Okay, there is a TON of smack being slung around the blogosphere about Gilbert's "preferences". Is this shti true or is everyone just shtiin the rest of us?
Okay, there is a TON of smack being slung around the blogosphere about Gilbert's "preferences". Is this shti true or is everyone just shtiin the rest of us?
You should read his blog at the Oilers site and judge for yourself. Beware, ITS SEXY!
You should read his blog at the Oilers site and judge for yourself. Beware, ITS SEXY!
Guess that's why he didn't get to pose all naked like with Souray, Cogs, and thecaptain for that magazine. He wouldn't have been able to keep his eyes on the camera, they woulda been too focussed on the other guy's junk.
March 11 2010, 03:47PM
Okay, there is a TON of smack being slung around the blogosphere about Gilbert's "preferences". Is this shti true or is everyone just shtiin the rest of us?
What he's gay? I had reason to believe he was a the Comrie of the 00's
Long time reader, first time posting.
My 2 cents on Hall vs Seguin is that the Oilers need a dominant player who can drive hard to the net and is strong in the corners and has good foot speed. In that sense, Hall would be that guy and he sounds a lot like a younger Iginla to me.
Even if Seguin is a better 2-way player today, it is easier to coach a player on improving defensive skills, while pure goal scoring ability is a talent that is rare at the elite level.
We already have Hemsky as a first line playmaker, and we can't seem to sign any UFAs to play with him, so I'd go with Hall. From what I've read as well, Hall is currently a winger however played most of junior as a centre, so he would be versitile as well.
On a side note, it would be nice to see us pick up Jagr for 1 season so the top defensive pairings on other teams focus on that line. That would give our younger guys more success and confidence going up against lesser defensive units.
Thoughts guys?
Ask yourself, if any of the meatballs spreading this stuff actually know him???
If he was your good friend, would you start a rumour on the Internet about his "preferences"? Even asking the question puts you close to the category of not smart.
Absolutely not, but this isn't the only site that refers to it. Anyway, I could care less. I'm not sure why I even asked the question? Save for a handful of guys, I have nothing but the utmost respect for professional hockey players.
"meatballs" heh.
Edit: I pick Seguin, in on 43% of the teams goals!
Draft Meagan first overall. No way Hall or Seguin sell more tickets than she does.
3-on-3 overtime sounds interesting; I'd like to see that.
The Oilers curse is everywhere; Schremp is out for the season as well. King Tut has nothing on the Mighty Oil.
Hall is buying tickets for people out of his own pocket?!? Either that is extremely generous as he probably gets paid like $100/week or he got a nice "Pat Kane" signing bonus to play in Windsor.
Hall sounds like he would be a great fit here. We haven't had a power forward until this season. If Penner walks or gets dealt it might be nice to have a guy who could fill his role.
If we took Seguin we would probably need a guy who could score by the sounds of things.
March 11 2010, 04:03PM
Here's a Hall/Seguin follow-up question to no one in particular: Has anyone heard any scouting opinion on the possibility of turning Hall into a centre?
There would be nothing wrong with keeping him on the wing, but I'm thinking back - way back - to a time when another bull-moose left-winger was moved to centre a couple of years into his NHL career.
Centre ice turned out to be a pretty good move for Mark Messier.
March 11 2010, 04:10PM
I'm not a scout, so my impressions mean very little compared to those guys, but I go with Seguin. However, I'm a fan of going with the Best Player Available in the draft. It doesnt matter whether we already have Hemsky or not because in a couple years he might not be here anyway. Cant base what you draft on the current needs of the club, that's what Free Agency is for.
Seguin has scored more goals than Hall by quite a bit this season, keep that in mind when everyone is calling him more of a distributor than Hall.
Did it make the all stars play harder in baseball? No. It won't make guys work harder for home ice. You are dreaming my man if you think home ice will make guys play hard. Why does it have to matter, and why would you make one game decide home ice advantage, when it has nothing to do with the teams that win regular season games?
Maybe the players won't treat it like game 7 of the SCF, but if the result actually lead to something, maybe people would actually watch ithe game (or at least care about it a little more). And isn't that the whole point? I also didn't realise the SCF teams were already locked up at the AS break each year.
The schedule is ~3/4 inter-conference games anyway, but the result of that schedule is supposed to determine which of the top teams in each conference deserves home ice? Seems about as reasonable as having the result of a collection of one conference's best players vs the other's decide it. And if it adds value to the AGS, then why not?
Meagan's purdee.
Appreciate the response. Totally agree with the free agency point, however we seem to have trouble going that route to fill any holes: faceoff specialist, penalty killer, let alone a goal scorer (dare I say Hossa or Heatley).
Great point on Seguin's goal scoring overall, however if you look at the 2 teams in comparison, Seguin is on a weaker team and in on over 40% of the goals scored. Hall is on a stronger team and still putting up large numbers.
At the end of the day I don't think you could go wrong with either Hall or Seguin. I just fear we will finish 29th overall and a team in 3rd thru 5th worst will win the lottery and we'll lose out on both. That's the kind of luck we're having this season...
Any one else think that getting our own Ice Girls crew might help offset the reduction in quality hockey next year, in order to keep season ticket sales up?
March 11 2010, 04:21PM
But why do we want the game to mean more? It's fun meaningless entertainment and that all it should be. The last thing a fan of a borderline playoff team wants is for their all-star player injuring his shoulder in an All-star game so that San Jose or Pittsburgh can have home ice advantage n the SCF.
Hey, you're #946. Did you just sign up? If so, ON is almost at 1000. This should happen before Saturday so the banner can be made in time. Tell your friends people.
Yes, I did just sign up yesterday. Love the site, been reading for a while, finally decided to join in on the fun! Been listening to Gregor and Brownlee on the Team for a while too.
I'm looking forward to getting out to the Pint sometime as well!
March 11 2010, 04:29PM
Get a team that doesn't suck and most of the Oilers problems in the free agent market will disappear. Pittsburgh and Detroit are holes yet FAs sign there.
Don't get me wrong, Edmonton will always have a disadvantage when it come to it's climate, but a lot of it will be cured if the franchise and city aren't view as a cold dark dangerous oil-polluted suck-hole.
March 11 2010, 04:34PM
Hey, you're #946. Did you just sign up? If so, ON is almost at 1000. This should happen before Saturday so the banner can be made in time. Tell your friends people.
What will the banner say? ?'OilersNation celebrates 234 unique users and 766 Ogden trolls'
There was an article? Really it's time for the ice woman of the week to get her own post on ON.
What will the banner say? ?'OilersNation celebrates 234 unique users and 766 Ogden trolls'
Careful...the last time someone called them trolls, the Brotherhood found out where he lived and Ogdened his house.
March 11 2010, 04:45PM
Hey, more Oilerfans out here on this god-forsaken leaf-fan-infested rock is good by me I've got the screech, lambs, and bluestar ready for anyone who drops by.
* Puts on a wavering smile trying to convince himself that it rains a lot here so the ogdened house will look after it self*
Careful...the last time someone called them trolls, the Brotherhood found out where he lived and Ogdened his house.
Before someone made me read urbandictionary this week, that wouldn't have made me smile.
March 11 2010, 04:50PM
Man I was just making fun of him for being soft when he plays hockey. I wasn't trying to suggest anything about his sexuality.
Plus chicks think he's dreamy.
March 11 2010, 04:51PM
Can someone please answer a question for me. What is the purpose of the referees, if players feel they need to protect one another?
If someone isn't playing according to rules, aren't the refs there to punish them accordingly? In the NFL if someone hits the QB helmet to helmet, he is penalized. No one ever steps in to face wash him or try to beat him up. The players are in the game to play and not to serve and protect.
Until the NHL gets rid of the useless fighting and players that are there for these purposes, cheap shots and useless players will keep occurring.
Well we all enjoy joking about the Sedin sisters but take a read, very nice touch.
March 11 2010, 04:54PM
@Aleslav Smidsky
Really? You think Matt Cooke won't have a spot on an NHL roster if fighting is banned?
March 11 2010, 04:56PM
@Petr's Jofa
He would eventually, be suspended and kicked out for his mangina like actions.
Some douches somewhere feel players like Cooke are good for the game of hockey. Why, I don't know.
March 11 2010, 04:57PM
Before someone made me read urbandictionary this week, that wouldn't have made me smile.
urbandictionary is a glorious way to kill some time. you can find out all sorts of neat things....
some though, you can never take back once you read it
March 11 2010, 05:00PM
@cableguy - 2nd Tier Fan
Truer words have never been spoken.
I think someone used the word 'snoodle' here and I'm still shaken.
March 11 2010, 05:02PM
@Aleslav Smidsky
Banning fighting won't give the NHL grounds to ban him for life.
I just figured it out
JG's "ethical issue" is outing a certain number 77
I should have known when Tommy said his favorite player was Wendell Clark I especially should have known when he said his boyfriends need to have the same moustache


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Just scroll down to posts made a few days ago. You'll see the photos there. Click on each photo for more details.
Just scroll down to posts made a few days ago. You'll see the photos there. Click on each photo for more details.
'I'm not sure where the myth about newly emerging virgin queens not being able to fly, originated.'
The other morning I walked by my incubator in the kitchen to get my coffee and something big flew right by my face. I got my coffee and sat down to take out the cells that had hatched over night and mark the virgins. As I was preparing to do that, I big fat virgin landed right next to me on the counter! What the...??? Yup, she hatched that night, pushed her way past the JZBZ cup that was sitting on top the roller cage, got out of the incubator through the fan grid and was flying around the kitchen! I guess she oriented to the incubator. I was still a little blurry eyed and really couldn't believe what had happened. When I looked sure enough, there was a roller cage and hatched JZBZ cell with no queen in it.
So yeah, they can fly all right.
And ready to make their break whenever possible.
The newly hatched virgins are usually a little confused, blurry eyed like I was, and slower moving. Give them a few hours and they are runny and stronger. A virgin that has just hatched, direct released on a frame will be submissive to the bees that come to investigate her. Sometimes She'll curl up or lay on her side a bit like she is frightened.
A 12+ hour old virgin will strut right out like she owns the frame.
As always, This has just been my experience...
I picked up a frame the other day that had a queen cell on it, she hatched in front of my face flew across my bee yard and into another open hive.
Laurie's story reminds me of the day a queen and a drone were doing their thing and landed on my ear before falling to the ground. A week later another pair landed right in front of me not 5 feet from the same place. Now, that's gotta be a DCA!
four out of six cells place in mating nucs are now big fat queens laying perfect patterns, with the other two most likely victims of predatory birds and/or dragonflies.
no word on the five virgins that i gave away to club members to try.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
three out of those four are now heading the strongest and heaviest hives in my production yard.
the fourth one swarmed out of a five frame nuc this summer and her replacement didn't make it.
still no word on the virgins that i gave away.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Thanks for the follow-up. I browse many threads trying to learn and often wonder the outcome.
A new emerged queen is a bee. So, yes, when dried she can fly as good, if she needs to, as any bee. A friend picked out one out of the incubator and marked her..Suddenly the queen took of..and my friends German schepard catched it..Note: Dont have dogs in the incubator room...

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CLEVELAND- Leona Christensen, age 90, passed away on Feb. 26, 2013 in Price, Utah. She was born June 9, 1922 in Rangley, Colo. to John Lee and Ida Pearl Long Wagner. Leona married Charlie Majors, they later divorced, she then married James Christensen on Nov. 3, 1979 in Wellington, Utah.
Leona grew up in the Uintah Basin, she grew up as a cowboy and was one at heart her entire life, and gained a love for horses. She raised her family in Huntington, UT. Leona attended CEU and earned her nursing degree, and worked over 30 years as a nurse. Leona was a care giver for many families in Carbon and Emery County. Leona's hobbies included gardening, quilting, and dancing. She will be remembered as a loving, compassionate, hard working lady.
She is survived by her children: Karolye Bowman of Huntington, Utah, Jerry (Jackie) Majors of Slidel, La Iris "Bunny" Bean, Drucilla "Judy" Palmer both of Cleveland, Utah, Zen (Teressa) Majors of Richfield, Utah, daughter-in-law, Donna Majors of Huntington, Utah, nephew, Gail Wagner of Ariz., sister, Arvila Campbell of Lake Havasu, Ariz., 14 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren, and numerous great-great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husband James, parents, son, Jimmy Majors, nephew, Larry Wagner, three sisters, and six brothers.
In lieu of flowers the family asks you take a friend to lunch, buy a child in need new shoes, or visit a care center, just pay it forward.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 1, 2013 at 10 a.m. at Fausett Mortuary in Price (680 East 100 South). A viewing will be held prior to the service at the mortuary from 9:00 to 9:45 a.m. Interment will be held in the Myton City Cemetery following the services. Services are in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Family and friends may sign the guestbook and share memories of Leona at www.fausettmortuary.com
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TUPELO – The pace of change has increased rapidly in the 50 years since James Meredith made history by becoming the first black student enrolled at Ole Miss, but some issues still remain.
Meredith spoke to an audience at the Lee County Library on Friday about problems that still exist within Mississippi's black community.
"The public education system is as near to a complete breakdown as could be," he said. "That's because 90 percent of the problems we are trying to fix are already out of hand. Prevention is better than cure."
Meredith said the breakdown of moral character among Mississippians has destroyed the family unit. Without the support of a sound household, children arrive at school lacking the foundation needed to learn.
"Our black students are coming into schools without knowing their ABCs or how to sit still," he said. "If they haven't been taught right from wrong, how can we expect them to do right inside any kind of system?"
In his new book, "A Mission from God,"Meredith places the burden of solving this problem on the church.
He argues churches should take it upon themselves to educate every child within a two-mile radius under 5 years old.
"The government can't fix this problem, as much as it might want to," he said. "When slavery ended, the education of blacks was done largely through the black church. Mississippi is still the center of the black-white universe."
Meredith said black Christians in Mississippi know the Bible and its teachings word for word, but have trouble executing them.
"Christ instructed the church to carry on his way after his death," he said. "But we ask, 'What is going to happen to me if I help this child,' when we should ask, 'What is going to happen to that child if I don't help.'"
Meredith said he felt it was God's direction to him to spread his message, especially in his home state, a state that, to him, is of utmost importance.
"Mississippi has a spirit I have never experienced anywhere else," he said. "We just have to make up our mind which way we're going to go. I believe we are well-equipped to go from the bottom to the top."


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In Differential Object Marking (DOM), animacy or definiteness (or some related aspect of the interpretation of the direct object) affects the formal marking of objecthood – e.g., definite objects are overtly case marked in Hebrew, and optionally case marked in Hindi/Urdu, but not indefinite objects; as another example, specific objects are overtly case marked in Turkish, but not nonspecific objects; definite animate objects are overtly case marked in Spanish, but generally not inanimate or indefinite ones. The overt marking in such cases is sometimes identified as accusative, sometimes as dative. Such phenomena have been discussed together at least since the early 1980's (cf. the conference web page for references).
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By: Matt Stephen @mattystephen
As the February 27th trade deadline approaches and next to nothing has happened, and looks like very little will happen, we should take some time to step into a blue and white time machine and go to trade deadlines past.
In the Burke era, trade deadline has been kind to the Leafs and their fans, but as pundits grasp at straws for trades sending Grabovski to Nashville, purporting Schenn's healthy scratch as a sign he's been shipped and Kadri as the go-to trade bait, they all seem a little far-fetched. Then again, ask me today would I trade Matt Stajan and Niklas 'cleared waivers' Hagman for now-captain Dion Phaneuf and defensive partner Keith Aulie, the answer is obvious. Or, not to outdo himself, trading Francois Beauchemin for now-All-Star Joffrey Lupul and second in rookie points for defenseman Jake Gardiner.
Burke has made moves that left the Ducks, Preds and Flames all feeling slighted, though for some, his track record with the Leafs isn't necessarily spotless, especially if they don't make the playoffs once Seguin (again) this year.
It's worth looking back on what could have been if Burke was at the helm when a certain #16 and his 6-million 6-year buyout took place.
The last goal he ever scored in Toronto was off a feed from future Leaf John-Michael Liles back on Oct. 13 2009 as a member of the Avalanche, but his vengeance wasn't over and won't be until 2014. Tucker remains the last reminder of the Leafs' recent past, an era that ended when Mats Sundin left that same year. Tomas Kaberle's exit last year was the final step in making the slate blank for Burke to rebuild as he liked.
The Leafs 2.0 are built around a new core of speedy players, making bottom-six forward Daryl Boyce the longest serving Leaf thanks to having played just one game in 2007-2008, before runners-up Schenn, Grabo and Kulemin joined the squad. The Leafs aren't missing out on a Bobby Ryan while they're doling out Tucker's salary, but another affordable sandpaper power forward might have done nicely. Tucker's on-ice legacy could end up being dwarfed by what he's cost the team since he left.
Tucker, who retired in 2010, is now an NHLPA-certified player agent joining forces with ex-agent, now-colleague, Carlos Sosa at Turning Point Sports Management. While he works out of retirement negotiating and then re-negotiating contracts for his clients, he still remains on MLSE payroll. Tucker has the second-longest active buyout behind former Sen/nemesis Alexei Yashin, who is being paid 17.6 million over eight years by the Islanders. Other than these two, the only notable buyouts are Chris Drury (3.2 million over two years) and Sheldon Souray (3 million over two years).
Tucker's buyout is a lingering reminder of an ugly era for the Leafs, and it'll lift some psychological weight when the mistakes of the past have been paid for. But there are also real consequences to being one of the few teams carrying that kind of cap hit while also scrambling to re-build.
Tucker's departure doesn't need defending, but I'd like to consider the 'what ifs' of its circumstances for a second. Think of Tucker as a modern day Bill Barilko, without the need for superstition - instead of being "the fifty mission cap", he's more like "the six year cap-hit". For a season of a Tucker-buyout, you could pay for on ice talent like a Joey Crabb ($750,000), a Mike Brown ($736,667), a Darryl Boyce ($700,000), a Cody Franson ($800,000), or a Jake Gardiner ($1.11 bonus included).
Over his six-year tenure as the spectre haunting MLSE's payroll at 6 million dollars overall, Darcy Tucker makes up enough to pay for all three years remaining on James Reimer's contract with 600K to spare, or enough for a season of Phil Kessel, again with 600K to spare.
We're three weeks away from the trade deadline and with the Buds on the bubble once again, despite being on pace for the most wins since the lockout, it's still going to be a crunch of numbers and hard-fought games to make it to the coveted 92-93 point mark. When it's (always) this close, it's hard not to feel like the dollars and cents are a big deal.
So what holes need to be patched up to make arguably the "best" team since the lockout into a serious playoff contender? The defense? The one that carries a revolving door of eight qualified blueliners all playing more than 15 games...probably not. The goaltending? With two goalies having both played over 20 games both with three shutouts, nope. To compete in playoff hockey they need a top-six power forward, a Mike Brown on steroids, a Scott Hartnell/David Backes power forward. You know someone who can score, hit and fight, someone with experience who can bring energy to the lineup, almost sounds like #16 doesn't it?
Like this kind of look at current and past leaf trades (good & bad) and a reminderer of how easy it is to forget the good, the bad and the ugly.
February 07 2012, 09:20PM
I've read several articles from Matt Stephen and I'm impressed. Good read.
which dragged the team down more, Tucker's buyout for the last 5 years or Tucker's last 5 years actually playing for them?
It will be interesting to see what happens this summer with the collective bargaining agreements. Player buyouts are sure to be part of the discussion.
February 09 2012, 07:50PM
Matt raises an interesting point on the need for further additional truculence in the leaf lineup as the deadline looms. Down the stretch and certainly in the playoffs the intensity and physicality increases. A top 6 forward who will take a beating in front of the net could be the difference between playoffs or not.


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Since Michelle Malkin and others have been examining the racist hate group "MECHA" and pointing to their flagship website MECHA.ORG as plain and clear evidence of their hate and violent tendencies MECHA has restricted access to the content of the site by replacing the hate filled blogs and diatribes with a plain blank page. No errors. No redirects. Just nothing.
That site has been available online continuously for a long time and for this to happen at this time when for the first time in a LONG time (like forever?) when the spotlight is turned on their true nature - their site gets (literally) whitewashed? Go figure!
I predict that MECHA.ORG will pop back up soon with a completely new look. No eagle holding a stick of dynamite. No hate speech or Marxist propaganda. No calls to "revolution". Watch and see.
This is bad for the credibility of those pointing to that site as publically available PROOF of what MECHA and its followers believe and practice. No doubt a gesture towards their sleeper Cruz Bustamante and those shining the light on his racist affiliations and past.
Anyone happen to have a saved copy of that site before they took it down in the atypical Marxist style of hiding like roaches when the lights are turned on?
I was noticing that.
Christ All-flocking Mighty.
This is literally "1984".
These guys are going back and changing the archives.
Roaches hate the light. They probably got a call from Cruz Bustamove prior to the debates today -- the dims knew this issue was going to receive air time and didn't want the coorborating evidence revealed for all to see.
The Left is getting hysterical. We have them on the run.
Even the IRS doesn't hide their tracks that well.
Go to archive.org, and "go back" to http://www.treas.gov/sba/irssic.html
Then go down to "SIC Code 3484" and tell me why a bunch of tax collectors need $200,000 worth of Remington 11-87 shotguns and $1,000,000 worth of Sigarms semi-auto pistols.
Check "SIC Code 3669", while you're at it.
The revenooers didn't hide this; how did the MECHA guys do it?
Check this out.
Agit-prop, a contraction of the words "agitatsiia" and "propaganda" was an omni-present activity in the post-Revolutionary Soviet Union. Intended to inculcate and promote appropriate social class values among the masses, its many forms (palaces of culture, use of agitation trains and cars, poster campaigns, and the countless agitation centres, or 'agitpunkts', among others) served as a powerful means of politically educating the population at large. Books and libraries played an important role in the agit-prop entreprise...
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The pressure upon Bustamante has increased greatly ever since information became widely known that Republican Party candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was a Nazi "brownshirt" in Austria and that Arnold has social connections with former president of Austria, Kurt Wilhelm, another Nazi implicated in war time atrocities. It appears that Republicans favoring Schwarzenegger want to even the score.
There is, of course, no comparison between the Nazi Party in Germany and a student group that struggles to increase educational opportunities for Chicanos and Mexican-Americans at colleges and universities that have traditionally shut the doors to Latinos. Cruz Bustamante owes his political success largely to the training he received as a Mechista and is unlikely to turn his back on his comrades that gave him his start at Fresno State University. Without MEChA at Fresno State University, Bustamante may have never set foot on campus. One of MEChA's primary missions is to recruit promising students from high schools in the community and to provide social, cultural and academic support to assure that recruited students graduate.
...MEChA's primary goal is to instill ethnic and cultural pride in its members. It accomplishes this by providing a true version of our history
...MEChA emphasizes the fact that our current disadvantaged, economic and political, situation is primarily due to us losing the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the subsequent confiscation of our vast land by the English speaking invaders.
Ha! Why should that stop your fear mongering? No one seems to mind, you're on a roll.
Now that is funny.
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Good that Komatsus not their for nothing. Different types of Rain in gourmet world. Nice Idea, like always in Toriko . Time "4" combos
Good that Komatsus not their for nothing. Different types of Rain in gourmet world. Nice Idea, like always in Toriko . Time "4" combos
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Id like to nominate Toriko to get its own parent thread !
Nice chapter though, and loved how the 4beast didn't even care about Toriko or the others, lol like they were just kids trying to fight with a professional. Nice to see their techniques not working too, this way they have to use their brains a little more or maybe even combo attacks, I hope! What I want to know is how does Rin's machine work???? Theres like no data on gourmet world monsters to help categorize them and the 4beast is something that pops up every few hundred years or something so how would it know what the rating was when its so rare -_-. Plus Id also like to know why gourmet cells were wasted on Rin for?!?!! She literally serves no purpose other than to add commentary or use a machine to fight for her... At least all the others are improving their cells and using their own strength and not some lame perfume braclet...
Komatsu should fire off a couple slashes from his knife, couldn't hurt right?
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Chapter 203
So many high level chefs... Amazing, but they need to hurry up and stop talking, they sort of have a time limit XP
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I love how Setsuna just mobilized 1 million people with a phone call lol. You know this would only be possible in Japan where there is a sense of unity and greater good, if the 4beast was in America there would be anarchy and all those sub-chefs would of got the fudge out of there at the first chance lol. Im glad to see the chefs have a sense of duty. Makes you wonder where all the police and military are in this world haha, everyones relying on chefs to save the world lol
A pie in the sky?
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Wow, Komatsu is impressive, he probably got this skill from food honor, plus his own genius of course.
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Am I to high or wasnt it mentioned how the complete procedure of the simple cooking worked? Kinda lame ;P.
The toriko team probably will eat the soup, too and get a gourmetcell powerup/health restore shit. :3
Plus its a riceball, why do you think it's a soup?
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^ haha dunno why I thought that lol, soup and health fits better then riceball xd. + I was outerspace while posting. Sry xd
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To leave their old apartment is to be from the past, close the door and cross the line. Look for your old apartment and find – disorder, frustration in life. To be in a closed house or room – a desperate situation, a long hard period of life. Try to change the projection of the future. To see in the old apartment of old friends or people from the past – hear news about them.


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A special youth pheasant hunt was held for young hunters age 15 and below at the Huntington fish and game farm on Nov. 14. The hunts began at 8 a.m; 11 a.m. and the final hunt at 2 p.m. This gave the Division of Wildlife Resources personnel time to set out new birds between hunts. The pheasants came from the Hatt Ranch in Green River. Each youth hunter was allowed to take two birds. When the pheasants are set out they are spun around a little to make them dizzy so they will stay in one spot and not just fly off so the youth will have the opportunity to harvest the birds. Several of the young hunters brought bird dogs with them and the dogs scouted a little ahead letting the hunters know which bushes contained birds. Youth came from all over the state to participate on this beautiful autumn day in Huntington.
The special youth hunts are a great way to introduce young people to upland game hunting. Earlier in the year chukkar hunts were held as well at places around the state. These special youth hunts have been held in Utah for years.
"Kids really enjoy these hunts," says Dave Olsen, upland game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "They usually have plenty of birds to shoot at, and they don't have to compete with older hunters for a bird."
"The number of young people who hunt in Utah has declined through the years," Olsen says. "We're hoping these youth hunts will help reverse that trend by getting young people into the field and letting them experience what it's like to take an upland game bird.
"The hunts also give us a chance to teach young people how to be responsible and ethical hunters."


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Brad Williams rules KROQ's April Foolishness
Knocking 'em dead with high energy and hilarious moves. Photo: Kelly A. Swift, for the Register
Brad Williams has come a long way since the days of entertaining peers between classes at Sunny Hills High School. As one of the featured comics at the KROQ's fourth sold-out Kevin & Bean April Foolishness show Saturday night at Gibson Amphitheatre, Williams' mid-event set absolutely killed.
The 29-year-old stand-up star, born with achondroplasia (a type of dwarfism), gave a mighty performance, winning the crowd over almost instantly by shaking his money-maker to House of Pain's "Jump Around."
Hardcore KROQ listeners are familiar with Williams as he often fills in for the Kevin & Bean Show's Ralph Garman. Yet it was more than his physical comedy that got laughs; his material was also on point.
As someone who encourages fans to ask questions and not just stare at people who are different, Williams shared that the Little People of America reached out to him about newly declared Dwarfism Awareness Month, recognized in October. His first thought was that it would always be overshadowed by Breast Cancer Awareness month, a cause that even pro athletes recognize by wearing pink.
"It's Dwarfism Awareness Month ... everyone wears capris," he quipped. "They should have given us February – it's the shortest month!"
His rant about last year's film "Snow White and the Huntsman," which turned average-height actors into dwarves via CGI, also had everybody laughing. Williams says the studio's response to an LPA protest was even more offensive: "normal-sized" actors were used, they said, because of concerns about acting quality.
"Then why was Kristin Stewart the star of your movie!" Williams fired back.
The rest of the evening rolled on smoothly with little lag time between comics, among them Bill Burr, Jay Mohr, Doug Benson, Rob Delaney and Ari Shaffir, all of whom brought their A-games. KROQ personalities introduced each act, reminding that they all had donated their time, with proceeds from the charity gig going to the Wounded Warrior Project and Cedars-Sinai's NICU.
"Next year when we do this, we're going to raise money to get Kevin & Bean some pants," Benson promised, poking fun at how the duo always wears cargo shorts to such events.
As Kevin Ryder pointed out in his intro, Benson, an advocate for legalizing marijuana and an avid user, "walks the walk and talks the talk." The squinty-eyed comic made his way to the front of the stage, small Post-It note with jokes scribbled on it in hand, and opened with "holy crap, I'm so high right now." He certainly addressed an appropriate crowd, as several patrons indulged in a puffing 'n' passing throughout the evening.
Despite the inebriation, his set was spot-on, his quick lines ("the only way you could get me to go to a dueling-piano bar is if it were to the death") receiving huge laughs. He also gave tips on how to smoke pot in a hotel room without getting caught or charged for it later.
Just like in previous April Foolishness appearances, Benson shared his frustration over marijuana's more-or-less illegality, noting that it shouldn't be treated the same as, say, methamphetamine: "I get high and watch 'Breaking Bad' but I don't do meth and watch 'Weeds.'"
Headliner Burr, a fan favorite two years ago, also brought high energy, sharing stories about his significant other and, at one point, explaining why he'd choose a .22 caliber rifle were he to become a gun owner. "You're in a house, what more do you need? It's like a BB gun on steroids."
He discussed life on the road, coming up from cheap motels to expensive hotels, yet shared that he wonders why windows don't open in some high-dollar accommodations. People assume it's to keep anyone from leaping to their death, but how can a hotel be held liable for that? "At what age is 'I don't get gravity' a viable defense?"
During one of his final jokes – a bold attempt at making light of Hitler – Burr detected a lull. He peered into the crowd and said: "An hour after a dancing midget, I'm going to make a Hitler joke? That's suicide."
Since Mohr immediately followed Williams' set, which ended with him dancing to a mash-up of Psy and MC Hammer, the veteran comic came out downplaying it. "I want to thank all of my opening acts tonight ... very funny guys in a couple of years. I'll try to make you laugh with words."
His best bits came from impersonations of various rock legends – Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Bono – all of whom he chastised for chatting way too much during arena tours that fetch hundreds per ticket. "Just shut up and play the hits," he demanded, adding that the Rolling Stones get right to the point: "They're not going to waste time talking because at any moment they could be dead."
Delaney and Shaffir served as stellar warm-up, setting a good pace for the rest of the evening. But really: Kevin & Bean with Sam the Armenian Comedian? He's a local "comedian" the morning show occasionally puts on the air, but he's awkward and his jokes have no structure. I don't recall how long they allowed him on stage, but it felt like forever. The audience initially went along with the gag but eventually began to boo him profusely.
Thankfully Kevin & Bean cut Sam off and put us all out of our misery. "That's the colonoscopy of the evening," Gene "Bean" Baxter told the crowd. Next time, if given the option, I'll take the colonoscopy.
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Miura is taking his time as usual. XD
Miura is taking his time as usual. XD
Spoiler!does it mean that their child, or at least it's spirit form, is on the level of the Flower-Storm King, or is he the King himself and has no blood relation with Casca and Guts ? I guess if Guts were to weld the additional power, on the Flower-Storm King level, then he might have some chance against Black Griffin.
I get the feeling that Casca might chose Grif instead of Guts, especially as Grif seems to be unable to kill Casca because of his host's parental feelings to Casca.
Next chapter is in October 26th, so we might get it scanlated around the first week of November .
Irvine sure is one of the best looking characters in his apostle form in this series. I wonder what he sacrificed thought, his eyesight, or perhaps he isn't really an apostle at all ?
Griffith would have been really cool right now with his battle tactics, magic, allies and all, if it wasn't only for his betrayal. I'm never gonna forgive that bastard. No matter how he might think that it was probably necessary sacrifice or something for a greater good.
Man it sucks so much the chapters are so slow, this is probably the best manga i have read.
EDIT: No chapter in 5 months, the heck?
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Yeah, I am really anticipating the foretold power up for Serpico, Schierke mentioned that he is ready for the next step, so likely a class change is coming for him from Wind Fencer/Sylph Knight ---> Wind Lord/Sylph Lord . Plus the Mustacho Knight needs to get his hands on the Earth Axe and officially join the gang, unless they left it in the tree...
lol class change, love it heh.
I can't wait either, where is this year's chapter? Thought it would be out by now lol. I never really considered the knight to join the group but it does sound cool. We need a witch upgrade (Farnese and Shrieke), we need caska to come back already (shes more trouble now than her strengths were when she was sane imo), Isidro and Serpico need something a little more (I like the dagger for isidro but I feel like he doesn't use it to its full potential), and as much as I love the fairies I hope they get an upgrade at fairy island too (something magical I hope, I love the comedic value of them but other than that what do they do?).
I think Gantz will get his upgrade when he gets Caska back to normal, Im sure its a huge burden on his mind and thats whats making him weak to the berserker armor, probably will kick the spirits ass and make it into his dog or something, but I really want to see him be able to remove the armor one day and not die.
A pie in the sky?
They have:
- on front:
- Guts as the physical attacker and evil eater,
- Serpico as the swift wind slasher,
- Isdiro as the flame piercer and bomber,
- half mermaid as the water and sound user,
- on the back:
- madame in distress Caska,
- support magician Farnese,
- attack and support magician Shrieka,
- summons:
- elemental spirits,
- fairy the healers,
- child of prophecy, the moon crawler,
- hellhound,
- event characters/summons:
- Skull Knight as the riding savior.
The Mustacho Knight could become their defender class character, since he seems slow and heavily armored.
Serpico is mentioned as the only one ready for the next step, but all other elemental users should also gain a power up eventually, especially since there might be a short time skip when they reach the island.
For the time being, according to Skull Knight, Guts have 2 choices/roads:
- save Caska,
- kill Grifith.
He can't do both. Seeing as he still posses the Behelit and the most important person in his life is Caska and that he already is quite powerful, by sacrificing her and becoming an apostle he should have enough power to take revenge on Grifith.
The other option is that he will get a new armor, just like Skull Knight got a new one (it's possible that the armor itself gives elf aura, rather than Skull Knight himself).
...huh?: http://berserk-confessions.tumblr.co...ro-miura-after
well, that would explain a bit, but is it true ? Plus I heard that he works without assistants ?


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Virtuoso jumping display hands Sizing easy victory
Report: Clonmel, Thursday
Clonmel Oil Chase (Grade 2) 2m4f, 5yo+
SIZING EUROPE made it two-from-two for the season as he demolished his four Clonmel Oil Chase rivals with a faultless display of jumping.
Facing a field that included Tranquil Sea, winner of this race in 2010 and 2011, Sizing Europe jumped neatly and made his rivals look leaden-footed as he accelerated away in the final quarter.
Paddy Power cut the Henry de Bromhead-trained ten-year-old to 10-1 (from 12) for the King George VI Chase on December 26, a race his trainer said he was "giving serious consideration to". Boylesports went 12-1 (from 16) for the same race.
However, De Bromhead warned that Sizing Europe had two alternative targets. "We have three options for him over Christmas - the King George, the Lexus Chase and the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown," he said.
"We're keen to stick to our plan regarding the ground and are giving serious consideration to the King George.
"I'd very much like to see him running on good ground over three miles and it's a race Alan [Potts, owner] would love to have a runner in."
Sizing Europe has twice attempted the King George trip of 3m in the Down Royal Champion Chase and twice finished second (albeit on the first occasion, 2010, behind Kauto Star). He has yet to win at a trip further than today's 2m4f.
Yet the 1-7 favourite looked mighty impressive as he cruised to a 20-length win over second-placed Magnanimity and on the basis of this type of performance would not be without his supporters for Kempton's December 26 favourite.
"To go and win like that was an awesome performance - he's nearly getting better!" De Bromhead said.
Jockey Andrew Lynch added: "He was very good, jumped super and was almost running away with me."


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What's holding us back in Atheism 1.0? Could it be that we're too busy indulging in mind games? It's an issue of authenticity.
Self worth is best achieved by giving ourselves credit for our strengths and admirable traits. However, if something too painful occurs that we can't face, an attack by an authority figure when we're young or a rejection when we're at our most vulnerable, we can settle for provisional self-esteem based on invidious comparison. We soothe our wounds with "I'm better than somebody else." This easy fix is widely encouraged in the culture, socially acceptable.
In 1964 Eric Berne's Games People Play described the mind games of this "I'm OK, You're not OK" position. Instead of living in the full threatening chaotic experience of reality, players buy into a limited version in which it's easier for them to cope. Their reality is narrowed down so that every action is one of a victim, a rescuer , or a persecutor. They're not aware that they edit reality to fit their preferred game. It's just reality as they know it.
Many religious memeplexes include a version of VRP reality. The chosen people are victimized by a cruel, malevolent outside world, but they'll soon be rescued by a god and then it will be the turn of those awful persecutors to be victims in the end time.
If you identify as a Victim, you're morally superior to your persecutor.
If you're rescuing victims, you're morally superior to victims and persecutors.
But here's the kicker that Eric Berne identified. You can start out as a Victim and collect, as he put it, trading stamps. You can collect self-pity stamps, or you can collect anger stamps. When you have collected enough, you get to trade them in as justified persecution of your former Persecutors. You get to be mean without guilt, because "they deserved it", and you are morally superior. Players of VRP games always end up taking every role at some point.
So poor persecuted Christians can attack someone they deem undesirable or a threat, and still feel virtuous. Group bonding offers many opportunities to put your group members up, put everyone else down, and shore up fragile egos.
As I see it, it's no accident that Atheists are stuck in religion bashing and can't move on to construct an authentic vibrant secular community to compete with the religious communities. Part of our problem is that, for too many of our members, giving up theism was easy, giving up VRP too hard. These members can't help but steer our conversations back to the faults of religion.
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VRP is just a simplistic representation of a complex concept so that its more palatable to the masses. Ironically while arguing against a simplistic world view VRP asserts only 3 simple categories.
In fact we all live in a simplified world in any case, especially if we remove philosophy and focus on the more regular life of a person. Ie. how do you behave and think in the moment and not on a discussion forum.
In any case I would suggest that most VRP arises from actual persecution and persists long after persecution ends. Assuming we define persecution only in institutional terms where a powerful institution attacks an initially less powerful one. Indeed VRP has many parallels to religion in general. Arises from reality but persists beyond its use date.
Now clearly VRP, which affects nationalism as well as religion, is pushed by those in power on the masses as a means of control, again like religion. It benefits the church and also various governments and wealthy interest groups to generate a VRP complex.
I know this will piss people off, but we see the very same "VRP" message in feminism as we do among JeeFrees. Particularly in the radfem separatist movement. As I noted previously VRP is a simplification of a much more complex paradigm, which ironically is adopted by its adherents precisely BECAUSE its simpler than reality.
I would also like to speculate that a "VRP" phase is unavoidable for any culture at some point. The concept of VRP is actually quite similar to the idea of identity politics.
As for how to avoid this in atheism, I would argue that it is very problematic. There are social costs associated with throwing off a "VRP" yoke. Focusing on a more complex understanding of humanity is painful.
Imagine a war where we did not allow ourselves to demonize our enemy. How horrible would it be to slaughter other human beings while accepting that they were human, that they didn't deserve to die, that they were dying because we decided our own survival was more necessary, that in most cases 90% of the people we killed had no control over their role in their society, that they probably did not support or understand the war, if they were even aware of the real reasons at all. Consider the reaction of many soldiers towards being informed that the war in Afghanistan was a mistake, a crime, and a waste of time. Many of them suffer enough while believing what their leaders tell them. Image how they must feel if they learn it is all a lie?
A lot of the things we refer to as mental illness are coping mechanisms for trauma. How many of those people, if we took away their coping mechanism, would be willing to live?
I do not think the human race will move on to greyer, more complex ways of thinking any time soon. There have been studies saying that objectivity correlates highly to depression.
I couldn't agree more with your point Matthew, it's a vicious circle that in order to fight against VRP we usually end up reproducing the same simplifications that created VRP, kinda like fighting evil with evil... I would suggest that taking your point a bit further, that indeed beliefs are coping mechanisms, and that the human race must evolve to accept reality as is or remain staring at the moving shadows in Plato's allegory of the cave.
I do believe that we can move on to such a cartesian acceptance of the world, there was a time when we believed the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us, there was a time when we believed illness were demonic curses, there was also a time when we believed the atom was the smallest and indivisible unit of matter. It seems to me the human spirit always finds a way to overcome, atheism another step towards that cartesian future, but I do agree that we have a long road ahead.
I would speculate that its possible that we will never get passed this kind of thinking. We can combat individual aspects of ignorance. But we will proceed to think of everything we have no individually understood in the same simplistic terms.
Further ideas are a lot harder to get passed than what is scientifically provable as most of the things you listed are.
However we could regard our acquisition of individual truths as at least some form of progress. I think that it would be better in the long run if we did so, in order to avoid feelings of futility.
If we can't, as a culture, get past reducing the world and ourselves to the simplistic and dysfunctional roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer, Matthew, I can't imagine us surviving as a species. The problems of creating a sustainable culture, so future generations can survive, are too complex. Yes, it's very hard to get past entrapment in such a mind game, but it is possible. The first step is knowledge, so self-reflection can occur. People trapped in VPR suffer a lot, and learning that they are inadvertently causing much of their pain is a first step. Finding the sources of strength for authentic self worth can be learned. One might even begin with a movie or TV series in which the main character frees him or her self, with the help of a friend.
A person who manages to escape this mind game will have an immediate tangible improvement in self-actualization and life quality, similar to deconversion. So yes, that's some form of progress. It's something worth celebrating.
Matthew, I'd like to address two of your points.
1."In fact we all live in a simplified world in any case,..." It's true that everyone participates in a process of selecting some of the infinite sensory data flooding in to pay attention to and ignores the rest. This process also involves interpretation, habits of focusing the gaze, habits of speech, etc. Kari Marie Norgaard, in Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life describes how we come to participate in a shared reality, and she focuses on the way it enables denial of Climate Change. But her point is well taken. There is a difference between an emotionally healthy person in a culture, narrowing their attention and interpreting reality according to regional customs, and someone caught in VPR. Yes, some cultures are solidly locked into VPR in relation to war, conflict with other nations, some subcultures are locked in with respect to other subcultures (like the Tea Party with respect to US illegal immigrants). nevertheless, people in these VPR cultures can still avoid VPR in their personal relationships, with family and friends. They can compartmentalize. When an individual is caught in VPR, he or she applies it to their entire reality, most especially with every other human being with whom they interact, even casually, as well as to large issues such as war.
2. "Ironically while arguing against a simplistic world view VRP asserts only 3 simple categories." This misrepresents VPR as a logical argument, while it operates at a different level. VPR doesn't "argue" per se, as a political manifesto might. It doesn't "assert". Such mind games distort perception and thinking at a deeper level than conscious verbal discourse. While some VPR players might be articulate enough to defend their positions by making such arguments and assertions, that isn't part of the mind game. Most victims are consciously unaware of playing a mind game at all, and would deny such intent. It's just a pattern we observe in how they see reality, how they react, how they feel.
I would have to agree Ruth. I would enjoy learning more about mind games. I'm going to add that book to my Amazon list.
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The bride is the daughter of Eric and Sharon Bunderson of Castle Dale and the granddaughter of Rex and Betty Bunderson of Emery. She graduated from Utah State University with a bachelor's degree in English literature and then served a LDS mission in the Fiji Islands.
Wayne is the son of John and Sisilia Ngaluafe of Tonga. He served a LDS mission in Tonga and later attended BYU-Hawaii, studying biology. He plans to finish his degree at USU.
Both Wayne and Callie work in Cache Valley and will make their home in Logan.
Allen and Ricki Edwards announce the marriage of their daughter, Jill Verlene Edwards to Jeremiah Walter Ison, son of Coy and Mona Ison.
Jill and Jeremy will be honored at a reception that evening from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Price 7th LDS Ward building, located at 996 East 700 North. Dancing will follow until 9 p.m.
Jill is an English teacher at Carbon High and Jeremy works as a computer network engineer for the county school district.
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Brian and Angela have chosen June 15 to be married. A reception will be held at the bride's home in Huntington from 2-5 p.m. that evening.
The couple will make their home in Salt Lake City.
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A reception will be held at the Castle Dale Stake Center that evening from 7-9 p.m.
Michael (Tom) and Joann Shannon of Huntington and Daniel H. and Becky Johnson formerly of Castle Dale announce the marriage of their children, Krista Lee Shannon and D.J. Johnson.
The couple will be married on June 14 in the Mount Timpanogas Temple.
Receptions in their honor will be held in Pleasant Grove on June 14 from 6-8 p.m. and the Huntington Stake Center on June 15 from 5-7 p.m.
Jerry and Loni Giraud announce the marriage of their daughter, Jennifer Rae Giraud to Dalray B. Bradley, son of Dale and Cindy Bradley.
Dalray and Jennifer will be married on June 15 at the Carbon Country Club.
A reception honoring the newlyweds will be presented that evening from 7-8:30 p.m. Dancing will follow until midnight.
Gage Samuel Sundstrom announces the marriage of his parents, Ashley Leigh White and Samuel Ben Sundstrom, on June 15 at 6 p.m. at the Ferron LDS Chapel, 35 West 200 North.
A reception will be held in their honor that evening following the wedding at the multi-purpose building at the Ferron Race Track.
Parents of the bride are Marvin and Linda White of Ferron. Parents of the groom are Jon and Deanna Sundstrom of Emery.