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April 18 2009 02:05AM
Tonight's game was even better than game one, which I enjoyed immensely. Some of the glaring weak spots in game one (Sundin, Rypien, Raymond) looked substantially better, and the Canucks controlled the game from start to finish.
Sundin was a sight. His face looked even uglier than normal, with him sporting a massive shiner that he picked up in practice, courtesy of an errant puck. Underneath the bruise was a scar; after Sundin scored the first goal it started bleeding and at one point he was having difficulty seeing because of all the blood around his eye.
On a non-trivial note, his play was much improved as well. Other thoughts from the game:
- Kyle Wellwood had a phenomenal game. He kept getting hammered by Blues players (in particular David Backes) but he didn't shy away from scoring areas and he made plays all night. I was very impressed.
- Steve Bernier had another solid game, and was moved up with the Sedin twins for several shifts, where he looked dangerous. I don't know what he did with the Steve Bernier from the regular season, but I'm assuming this new one is a genetically modified clone of some kind.
- Roberto Luongo played like he is the best goaltender in the NHL. I'm not saying he is, but he looked like it tonight.
- That scrum at the end of the game was clearly caused by Kevin Bieksa's nasty (but oh-so-subtle) trip on B.J. Crombeen. I'm not sure whether to admire his sneakiness and psychological warfare, or criticize the cheapshot, but I am sure of one thing: the guy on the Team 1040 postgame show (I thought it was Larscheid but I couldn't be sure) who tried to minimize that and blame the events on Crombeen was out to lunch.
- Andy Murray could clearly be seen screaming "Use your head!" and pointing at the Canucks bench. I'm not sure if his anger was entirely or only partially manufactured, but there's no doubt the guy can amp up the emotion. I expect the Blues to be much more dangerous at home where they have the favourable matchups.
- On the Blues side of the equation, Andy MacDonald had an incredible evening and deserved at least one goal, maybe even two.
Since no nucks dudes are here....
can we have kessler?
I concur it was a really good game and MacDonald played well, the kid line was much more effective as well which bodes well for the home barn, they should be amped.


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Van Gogh's bedroom at Arles
[Le chambre de van Gogh à Arles] 1889
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Transferred in application of the Peace Treaty with Japan 1959
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Vincent van Gogh invites us into the intimate environment of his bedroom at Arles. The cool blue wall colour highlights the vertical surfaces and contrasts with the textured brown floor. A patch of red on the bedcover provides a strong contrast to the other objects around the room.
The awkward tilt of the room and the linear brushstrokes on the floor encourage the viewer into the space. Van Gogh crops the tops of the doors, windows and paintings so that we are focused on one end of the room with the bulky wooden bed indicating the room's depth.
In October 1888, van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo about his intention of painting his bedroom in Arles. At the outset, the artist noted that he would paint the wood of the bed and chairs the yellow of fresh butter, the bed cover scarlet and the window green. The bold colouring of Japanese prints was an inspiration for the artist.
This painting is one of three canvases of the subject; each varies slightly in colour, size and the depiction of certain details. This version was made for the artist's mother and is the smallest of the three.
After an exhausting week of intense painting, van Gogh wrote to Gauguin about his desire to paint a canvas to suggest 'absolute restfulness'. As the artist waited for his friend to join him at the Yellow House in Arles, the restfulness he desired in his bedroom painting seemed to elude him. The spartan space and angled surfaces create a sense of unease, providing an insight into the artist's troubled emotional state.
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Pan Am success for Bansley and Maloney
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico – Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto showed the patience that made them one of the breakout teams in international beach volleyball this year in their opening match victory Sunday at the Pan Am Games.
Bansley and Maloney defeated Virginia Zonta and Ana Gallay of Argentina 18-21, 22-20, 15-6 under ideal conditions at the beach resort city which is hosting beach volleyball events at the Games.
''We were a little nervous at the start,'' said Maloney about the 56 minute match. ''It's a pair we have never played before and it took us a couple of sets to figure them out.''
In serving, both teams executed 12 service faults but Canada had the upper hand in aces with six to three for the Argentineans. Bansley and Maloney also fared better with their attack percentage.
In the other pool G match, Yarleen Santiago and Yamileska Yantin of Puerto Rico defeated Diana Romero and Marcela Avalos of El Salvador 21-4, 21-7. The Canadians play the Puerto Ricans on Monday and the Salvadorians on Tuesday. The top-two in each of the four pools advances to the quarterfinals.
Bansley and Maloney emerged as Canada's top international pair in 2011 They moved up to 23rd in the world rankings this season posting three top-10 finishes on the World Tour circuit and placing 17th at the world championships in Rome.
''The key to our success has been our consistency,'' said Maloney. ''That has given us a shot to qualify for the Olympics through the international ranking system.''
Bansley and Maloney can gain an Olympic berth automatically if they are ranked in the top-16 in the world on June 16, 2012.
On the men's side, Christian Redmann of Oro Station, Ont., and Ben Saxton of Balzac, Alta., start their tournament on Monday.
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What do Happy Feet, Polar Express, the Lord of the Ringstrilogy, Beowulf, and The Strange Case of Benjamin Button have in common? They are all films that employ the latest advances in motion capture technology -- or rather, what was cutting-edge in motion capture back in 2007, when those films were first being made. Scientists continue to come up with breakthrough technologies to make Hollywood's special effects even more magically convincing.
First, a bit of (recent) history. Back in the early days of animation, directors had to use dozens of cameras filming from all possible angles around the actor to capture his or her movements. But Polar Express and Beowulf, for example (both directed by Robert Zemeckis), relied on the Shape Wrap II suit developed by Aesthetic Technologies Lab in 2007 to capture, say, the curvy form of Angelina Jolie as Grendel's monstrous mother, or the fluid movements of Tom Hanks' animated conductor in Polar Express.
The key is using fiber optics to essentially record how light bends around a body. Strips of fiber optic tubes snake around the actor's body, fastened at several key points, and then computer software tracks the movements based on data gleaned from motion sensors and wirelessly transmitted to the computer.
Computer scientists at Cornell created a modeling technique that same year to make animated blonde hair more lifelike by simulating light that reflects from each individual hair -- an effect that is difficult to recreate digitally. Their process traces rays of light from the source into the hair and processes that data to produce a map of where the light should be at various points in the hair. Now a simulation that used to take 60 hours of computation time can be done in less than 3 hours.
For Benjamin Button, the challenge was to find a way to show Brad Pitt's character aging backwards, while still allowing for realistic human facial expressions. The filmmakers used a new (in 2007) technology called Contour, in which glow-in-the-dark makeup is used to cover an actor's face in order to digitally capture the subtle muscle movement, wrinkles, and micro-expressions that could one day create realistic "synthetic actors." Here's Ed Ulbrich speaking at TED about how they digitally generated the "old" Benjamin Button's face:
And motion capture technology keeps advancing with new innovations. Last week a paper appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in England, describing a new device -- developed by researchers at Newcastle University -- capable of retrieving dozens of stored movement sequences in a motion capture system's vast database in just minutes. That can save producers a lot of time (and money); hours can be lost searching through motion capture libraries for just the right sequence. With the Newcastle system, one simply "sketches" the required movement with a mouse or a pen, and the software searches for a similar sequence already in the motion capture library.
Scientists can also now create personalized simulations of living body parts, such as replicating someone's gait, or simulating the flow of blood through the heart is it contracts. One day it may even be possible to replicate complete, functioning human bodies in the 3D digital world, possibly eliminating the need or animal testing. Who knows what creativity such a technology could inspire in the next generation of films?


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WELL, I NEVER, a Prisoners greatest hits set. About time, I calls it.
Britain's finest psych'n'soul band of the past two decades blessed us with four studio albums, several live sets, a number of 7"s, the odd bonus number and sundry compilation tracks between 1982 and 1986. And everything that Graham, Jamie, Allan and Johnny cut still sounds monumentally inspired. From the propulsive teen garage of their 1982 debut album, "A Taste Of Pink", to 1986's classy "In From The Cold", the Kentish quartet's catalogue is an awesome musical treasure trove.
The Prisoners were such a solid unit - a bunch of fiercely independent anti-hipsters who exuded a dryly silly sense of humour - and owed as much to the Pretty Things and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, as the Small Faces, or Booker T. & The MGs. They dished an unassailable, interlocking riptide of steaming Hammond, searing guitar, soulful vocals, fluid bass and on-the-dime drumming. Or, if you put it another way, nothing less than a musical rollercoaster ride through 30 years of suss and strut - with guitar and organ dogfighting on top, just for kicks. Yep, that's the kind of synapse-frying Medway Delta gumbo that you can get a more-ish earful of right here. The band and old Dean-O Rudland, the compilers of this essential set, have selected so many treats that it's nearly indecent.
Sure, some Prisoners fanatics (and they are legion) will nitpick with the track selection-.-that's the luxury of having such a nugget-stuffed catalogue to choose from (buy it all, why don'tcha?). But, believe me, the bottom line is that this baby smokes. And we ain't talking low tar. Expect a whole heap of Leslie speaker-shredding overdrive and lysergic guitar-fuelled fury, via stage faves like Nobody Wants Your Love, Deceiving Eye and Reaching My Head. What about the paint-strippingly funky, dancefloor-filling instrumentals? Well, there's sure-fire boat-floaters Come To The Mushroom, Explosion On Uranus and Revenge Of The Cybermen. And also classic songsmithery aplenty, on such heart-tugging numbers as Whenever I'm Gone, The Last Thing On Your Mind and Mourn My Health. Oh, and don't forget the all-out garage psych screamers (Melanie, Better In Black) or the slices of edgily atmospheric pop (Wish The Rain, Thinking Of You (Broken Pieces)). Truly, this particular musical cup doth runneth over.
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Exalt the Lord our God.
Verse: The Lord reigns; let the people tremble.
BRETHREN, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods; but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong; you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first; and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. What has become of the satisfaction you felt? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, that you may make much of, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you! I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not hear the law?
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kyarazen wrote:having a yunnan dian hong now..
Having gushu hongcha from Jiangjiatang. The leaves are the longest I've ever seen. Very tasty.
kyarazen wrote:having a yunnan dian hong now..
debunix wrote:I don't come here too often, because most black teas are too bitter for me
debunix wrote:I've rarely bought black teas, but have encountered them at buffet tables and conferences and as gifts, and nearly always found them unpleasantly to unbearably bitter.
I don't pretend to have made a comprehensive survey of black teas, but with very few exceptions, when I've stepped out of my green/oolong/puerh comfort zone, it has not been fun. I've enjoyed Yunnan golds and Taiwanese Buddha Hand enough to buy them again, but even they require very careful brewing for me to enjoy them.
Tead Off wrote:Black teas, when brewed properly, are delicious.
debunix wrote:I don't mean to come here only to criticize black teas, but I do not know how to describe the wonderfulness of the Jin Jun Mei without contrasting it to other black teas I have not enjoyed.
People vary in their sensitivity to bitter tastes; I suspect many people who either don't taste them easily, or are used to, and may even enjoy, many bitter tastes in other parts of their diet, just don't get how strong and how unpleasant the bitter elements can be to someone else. I have tried brewing a variety of black teas in different ways, am quite confident that it was not deficiency of brewing technique that was the problem for me: it is my oversensitive taste buds, which were not routinely challenged with bitter tastes when I was growing up.
ethan wrote:We try to enhance each other's enjoyment of tea here, but words only go so far. To know whether we cannot enjoy a category of tea, we need to have some of the best in ideal conditions. Should we try to buy the best, prepare it ideally, etc.? We may, but we may not feel like it.
Some of us may advise debunix not to give up on black tea; however, why should anyone go out of his way to be disappointed? One can give up on black tea even before trying the best in ideal conditions.
Tead Off wrote:Debunix, I'm trying to figure out what 'bitterness' you are referring to in black teas.
For someone who drinks Puerh, bitterness is a quality that almost any Puerh will have if brewed heavy-handedly. You also drink sencha, I believe. .... I would never equate bitter with the black/red teas we are talking about.


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In the current edition of Think, there is an interview with Dave Lucas, SAGES Fellow and poet, where he discusses his work and his popular SAGES course Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry. …Read more.
Last week saw the annual Anisfield-Wolf ceremony to recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book awards in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family's passion for social justice. …Read more.
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Men's national volleyball team camp gets underway in Gatineau, Que.
GATINEAU, Que. – Canada's national men's volleyball teams will begin to take shape this month beginning with this week's camp to determine the squad for this August's World University Games in China.
Forty-three players are currently at a Canadian men's national volleyball team training camp being held at the squad's training base at the Centre Sportif in Gatineau. The camp officially started on Sunday and will continue until Thursday.
The main objective of this week`s camp is to select the national B team / World University Games team that will train throughout the summer and eventually compete at the Universiade. This camp is also an opportunity for athletes to be evaluated for consideration for the Senior A Team as well.
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Alberta: Curtis James, Calgary; Graeme Vigrass, Calgary; Allan Meek, Calgary; Spencer Leiske, Lacombe; Jay Blankenau, Sherwood Park; Tanner Nault, Sherwood Park; Ciaran McGovern, Grande Prairie; Thomas Jarnoc, Calgary; Jonathan Whitton, Edmonton; Blair Bann, Edmonton
B.C.: Rudy Verhoeff, Victoria; Marc Howatson, Victoria; Mark Broome, Kelowna; John Galloway, Victoria; : Devon Parkinson, Victoria;
Manitoba: Chris Voth, Winnipeg; Kevin Miller Russell; Dane Pischke, Winnipeg; Mike DeRocco, Winnipeg; Andrew Town, Winnipeg; Jason DeRocco, Winnipeg; Jean-Paul Carriere, St.Laurent;
New Brunswick: Jacob Kilpatrick,St. John.
Ontario: Joshua Neadow, Parkham; Niko Rukavina, Mississauga; Bryan Fautley, Huttonville; Reid Halpeny, Exeter; Kyle Williamson, Essex; Andre Brown, Mississauga, Ont; Tyler Santoni, Kingston; Mike Amoroso, Toronto; Joren Zeeman, Cambridge; Rosser Winston, Whitby; Bryan Davidson, Sudbury, Ont., Sander Ratsep, London; Erik Mattson, Toronto; Graeme Higgins, Scarborough; Jonathan Sloane, Winchester; Joseph Brooks, Toronto;
Quebec: Pierre-Alexis Lapointe, la Malbaie; Karl De Granpre, Pierreville;; Justin Boudreault, St-Joseph-de-Beauce; Chris Hoag, Sherbrooke;


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I'm not crazy about the length of the contract that'll take Andrew Ference within a couple of years of having 40 candles on his birthday cake, but there's not much doubt in my mind Edmonton Oilers GM Craig MacTavish has found himself a player who'll fit into his dressing room seamlessly.
Ference, 34, a veteran of 760 NHL games who won a Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011, signed for $13 million over four years to play in his hometown with the Oilers on July 5.
While Ference definitely isn't the big-bang addition the Oilers still need on their blue line, he's the kind of honest, veteran second-pairing defenseman who'll bring dimensions coach Dallas Eakins wants and needs. Hard-nosed. Nothing flashy – save for the, ahem, salute he offered fans of the Montreal Canadiens during the first round of the 2011 playoffs.
Just as important when it's still a bit of a sales pitch to convince UFAs to come to Edmonton, Ference seems genuinely happy to be coming home. So far, Ference has said all the right things, his latest address to the media coming at Servus Place in St. Albert Tuesday.
Ference talked about what he learned during his time with the Bruins, a tenure that included the Cup win in 2011 and another trip to the finals this spring.
"Everybody talks now about Boston being so battle-tested and having all this playoff experience, but when I went there, there was a bunch of guys with no playoff experience, guys who hadn't been in the playoffs for a number of years," said Ference, who joined Boston by way of trade in 2007.
"You wouldn't even see Bruins hats around town, so I realize how easy it is to have the tide turn fairly quickly. "It's really neat to be part of that, especially in a city like this that cares."
Ference, who has 120 playoff games on his resume, knows full well he be expected to provide leadership to the young core here. That's something, if he picked up anything from playing with Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh and Jarome Iginla during his days with the Calgary Flames, he's capable of.
"I've played with a lot of Hall of Fame guys," he said. "At the end of the day, the most impactful players are the guys who have those qualities but are themselves. They're not trying too hard. It's not forced. Nobody is coming in with a script. People operate best when they can be themselves and they can be in a positive atmosphere and contribute to a team. That's probably biggest thing I've learned from all those guys.
"Of course, I come in feeling a huge responsibility, just like every guy on the team probably should. That's the only way to take the next step forward."
It's time to take that step. Ference will help.
With Ilya Kovalchuk walking away from $77 million and his contract with the New Jersey Devils for a boatload of cash back in the KHL, there's been a fair amount of buzz about the possibility of other Russian players doing likewise – notably in these parts, Nail Yakupov.
Bob Stauffer of 630 CHED had connected correspondent Dmitry Chesnokov on his Oilers Now show his afternoon and he addressed the relationship, or lack of same, between Kovalchuk's decision and other Russian players. It's much the same take Jason Gregor offered earlier this week.
"He's committed," Chesnokov said of Yakupov's ties to Edmonton. "I understand the panic and the doubt that can set in. If you ask me, in my honest opinion, Kovalchuk is a one-off.
"It's not the floodgates opening and all of a sudden and Yakupov is buying a ticket on the way to Siberia or something like that. No. He came to North America to play junior hockey, you know? To learn, to be preparing, to hit the ground running when he's drafted.
"He played and felt what it's like to be, you know, with the Oilers, this young organization, sort of on the cusp of being this very, very, very good team. He's not going anywhere."
. . . I expect a bounce back year from Ryan Jones, who has fallen out of favor with some Oilers fans after a sub-par season in which he struggled to come back from a serious eye injury. Jones didn't garner a lot of interest during his short time in the free agent market – the contract he got from the Oilers was better than anything else out there. He's got something to prove.
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Expectations and anticipation run high for fans this year as they have had their fill of hype and Kool-Aid .They want results/relief from of all these years of waiting . With that comes heighthened pessimism and criticism . They want to see fab 5 breakout and be more dominant . They want to see team play well as a team with consistent effort .
The rebuild thru draft is pretty much over , and it's time for results to show a massive increase in results and team play . The time for status quo and poor results should be over . The tolerance level of fans is rapidly dwindling with poor results .
July 16 2013, 11:49PM
I laughed my ass off at that aunt/uncle line, but nuge2nail is absolutely right. We experienced the worst case scenario last year when Horcoff, Belanger and (I think it was) Nuge all went down with injuries at the same time. The thought of Gagner and Gordon missing time simultaneously next year is legitimately frightening.
I hope MacT is just bluffing when he says he's more or less finished tweaking things - maybe he saw what broadcasting his plans brought him, and now he's trying some slight of hand. Either way, we desperately need a couple centers and a couple wingers.
Not sure how Ference will be used but they should cosider moving him beside Petry then put Smid with J. Schultz . Right now I think Belov is ahead of N.Schultz but they may end up being paired although I won't be surprised to see Nick gone and Klefbom with Belov . Eakins is going to want A puck mover on each pairing and right now that's Petry , Justin & Belov . Also won't be surprised to see 8 "D" carried.We still have Fedun & Marachin who may put some training camp pressue on all of them .
July 16 2013, 11:53PM
If if if. If my aunt had a pair she would be my uncle.
Gosh, what if all three goalies shared a pop and got mono?
In the worst case scenario, you roll three centres through four lines with spot duty to your AHL player.
Once again, there is also a guy named Pitlick.
but then what would we be able to complain about in the middle of july?
I forgot about the median-digit salut that Ference flashed to Montreal. If I was MacT, I'd give him an extra two years on his deal just for that!
I laughed my ass off at that aunt/uncle line, but nuge2nail is absolutely right. We experienced the worst case scenario last year when Horcoff, Belanger and (I think it was) Nuge all went down with injuries at the same time. The thought of Gagner and Gordon missing time simultaneously next year is legitimately frightening.
I hope MacT is just bluffing when he says he's more or less finished tweaking things - maybe he saw what broadcasting his plans brought him, and now he's trying some slight of hand. Either way, we desperately need a couple centers and a couple wingers.
My guess is Gagner's signing is taking priority and holding up other possible moves. Once the deal goes down one way or another there'll be more clarity.
The homework for PRV's deal was done at least two weeks before the trade was announced. I'm betting MacT has a bunch of possible options he can drop depending on how the Gagner situation plays out.
I like the additions and subtractions to the roster so far. We are still a far cry from being taken seriously as a contender, however we are on our way.
I don't believe for one second MacT is finished. I think he has learned a little lesson about sharing his intentions with the fans. He unknowingly put himself in a pressure cooker situation when he spoke of the changes he was going to make to the roster in this off season. Being the impatient fans we are to the Oil, we are holding his feet to the fire. I have no doubt that every effort is being made to add more grit, leadership and experience. Mac t realizes this roster is not enough to get the job done, and I'm sure he isn't satisfied with it either. I am expecting an announcement any day now that he signed a big fish.
July 17 2013, 06:39AM
Has Perron not played some centre ? I have seen him listed as one and wonder if he can be a back up option
If Gagner's number doesn't fit into the salary structure could you possibly work a trade with Buffalo for Tyler Myers?
If Myers is not longer the apple of their eye with the Sabres, it may make some sense going forward for the Oilers. He could be the legitimate top pairing defenseman they have been looking for.
Buffalo needs points - Gagner can do that. Not saying a one for one but some type of package. Sign Grabovski for a shorter term and away you go.
This Gagner issue is dragging on and seems a little strange to me as the chatter coming out about a month ago is it was a foregone conclusion he was signing.
If if if. If my aunt had a pair she would be my uncle.
Gosh, what if all three goalies shared a pop and got mono?
In the worst case scenario, you roll three centres through four lines with spot duty to your AHL player.
Once again, there is also a guy named Pitlick.
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If, if, if..... It happened last year.... Not the goalies pooping on each other and getting mono, but the injuries..
A couple injuries is not the same thing as your aunt all of a sudden growing balls... Unless that's common in your family...
Expecting all three centers to be healthy all year, it's a recipe for disaster... Might as well expect another lottery pick if that's the plan...
You gotta be kidding...As if Cam Ward comes to edmonton to be a "tandem goalie" with devan dubnyk. Also, Penner would never have came back especially with MacT. But being an armchair gm must be easy when guys like fisher ward and boychuk are an easy acquisition.


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With their third round pick in the NHL entry draft the Vancouver Canucks selected Cole Cassels, a former teammate of prospect Nicklas Jensen and the son of former Canucks playmaker Andrew Cassels. Cole is yet another two-way centreman who plays in the OHL, bringing Vancouver's tally of such players to two on the day. In a departure from the draft strategies of years passed, Cole Cassels is a 1995 birthday and only turned eighteen seven weeks ago.
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Cassels has played two seasons with the Oshawa Generals, playing on the fourth line as a sixteen year old and evolving to take on a bigger role in his sophmore major junior campaign this past season. The Oshawa Generals were stacked this past season, and Cassels managed forty-three points in sixty-four games a respectable total for a seventeen year old.
Cassels doesn't appear to remember Vancouver, though he says his father describes the scenery as "very nice." He identified Columbus as the city that his dad played in where he has the closest ties, since he played minor hockey there. He also describes playing video games with Ovechkin during his father's final NHL season as a highlight of growing up (makes sense).
Cassels is known for his sturdy two-way play and deft touch, but he's not afraid of drop the gloves (which he's had to do as a fourth liner for much of his Major Junior career thus far).
Great. We draft a guy that played on line 4 in the juniors.
Great. We draft a guy that played on line 4 in the juniors.
Re-read the article. It said he was a fourth liner as a 16 year old and had respectable results as a 17 year old.


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Skip to comments.Pope tells presidents only God can bring peace to Holy Land
Posted on 06/09/2014 8:45:24 AM PDT by Welchie25
Praying for peace in the Holy Land alongside leaders of long-antagonistic nations, Pope Francis called on God to act where human efforts had failed, to end what he described as violence inspired by the devil.
More than once we have been on the verge of peace, but the evil one, employing a variety of means, has succeeded in blocking it, the pope said June 8 at an evening ceremony in the Vatican Gardens. That is why we are here, because we know and we believe that we need the help of God.
The pope addressed his remarks to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during an invocation for peace in the Holy Land, to which he had invited them during his visit to the region two weeks earlier.
I was young, now I am old. I experienced war, I tasted peace, Peres said in an English portion of his statement. Never will I forget the bereaved families, parents and children, who paid the cost of war. And all my life I shall never stop to act for peace for the generations to come. Lets all of us join hands and make it happen.
The event, at which Christians, Muslims and Jews prayed in each others presence, was almost certainly the first of its kind at the Vatican, according to Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office.
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Isn't the Pope supposed to be God incarnate? If so, why hasn't he brought peace to the Middle East?
That's an interesting idea, since God plainly will not allow any "two-state solution" to be permanent.
NO, the Pope is not God Incarnate.
I hope you're trying to be sarcastic with this question. If not, you really need to do some research. Thx.
It was set up that way before Joshua crossed the Jordan. IMO, it is obvious even in the correlations between the blessings upon the descendants of Abraham and Ishmael.
He is the Holy Father, right? The Holy See who sees all and knows all? The only one who can interpret his own words written in the Bible?
The pope can do all things God can do.
Pope Clement VI., Acta Clementis, c. 1350; cited in the Roman Catholic publication: Granfield, Patrick, The Limits of the Papacy, NY: Crossroad, 1987; p.36.
Of course, that might be taken out of context.
I agree that it will take a literal miracle to bring peace to that region.
Interesting. I thought the Pope was supposed to be familiar with Scripture.
Obama and his worshipers think Obama is God.
Obama to Pope: "I know, I know...but I'm busy right now with a bunch of scandals..."
There will be no peace until after the apocalypse. I would assume the Pope has read Revelation.
You are insulting and absurd. I have my disagreements with Catholic leadership. However, NO true Catholic thinks the Pope is "God Incarnate". Your post is bigoted and does nothing to promote the conservative cause.
Obama thinks he is god. Is that close enough?/sarc
This might have been an interesting thread.
Unfortunately you decided to make it about your ignorance and bigotry.
"Isnt the Pope supposed to be God incarnate?"
No, the pope is supposed to be given divine inspiration directly from God. Therefore the opinion of the pope is supposed to be infallible.
Isn't being infallible render one God or a god?
No, as I said, the pope is supposed to be repeating God's instructions by divine inspiration. Being God's mouthpiece does not make you God or even god, just the messenger. Of course, that hasn't always worked in practice as there have been many papal edicts that have been overturned.
It sure would be nice if the Pope could bring peace to the Middle East just not at Israel's expense.
Calling him God incarnate is OT. This discussion is supposed to be about the Antichrist. ;-)
We get it you are anti catholic and the Pope is Satan, a popular view these days and one that hardly sets you apart as enlightened.
The pope has spoken the truth, if God wills peace in the middle east as part of humanity's story than it will be so. It really is that easy.
Looks like the Pope never heard of free will. There will be peace only when all those involved freely choose to stop killing, and to work for peace.
Blaming the devil doesn't solve the problem. It's humans acting out of their free will who choose evil over good.
Such a cute little tyke.
"The pope has spoken the truth, if God wills peace in the middle east as part of humanitys story than it will be so. It really is that easy."
Anybody can read the end of the story and figure that one out!
"Such a cute little tyke."
I'm trying!
Let him spew. I like knowing who the ignorant and the bigots are.
Same here!
God bless Pope Francis!
That's good! Its nice to see you're self aware!
Thanks! Feels great being sentient and all! ;)
...and the IDF.
Ah, no he's not supposed to be.
Glad to know that.
Apparently it is a bit difficult for you or you wouldn't be engaging in this thread, unless of course you are motivated by narcissism.
I would never be a BO wannabe!
Um, actually not.
If you look at it as "God will strike a Pope dead before He allows him to officially promulgate error", you would be closer the mark.
In any case that only pertains to the teaching office of the Church. Popes can be--and have been--wrong in their personal opinions.
Uhh...no. Only Jesus Christ is God incarnate.
Sorry that's wrong too.
Just watched the CNN segment on the prayer session. I think this was a unique and special event. The fact that major representatives of the Jewish, Catholic/Orthodox and Muslim religions gathered together in prayer was pretty amazing. In this instance I will defer to God's response to Jonah's anger over calling Nineveh to repent. I would hope we don't worry more about the gourd than the opportunity for God to show us His Mercy (yet again). Just sayin....
"Isnt being infallible render one God or a god?"
Nope. See that? I just said something that is infallibly true. Yet I am neither God nor a god.
And let's face it: Unless you can name the specific points of papal infallibility, you're too ignorant to make any intelligent comments about the issue.
"No, the pope is supposed to be given divine inspiration directly from God. Therefore the opinion of the pope is supposed to be infallible."
1) Papal infallibility is about a negative protection of the Holy Spirit. It is not in any way a "divine inspiration directly from God."
2) No opinion of the pope can be infallible - that's why it's called an opinion.
The fact is that one of my neighbors claims to be God, and I haven't been able to disprove it yet.
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Title kind of speaks for itself I guess. Who is everyone looking forward to playing as the most?
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Shocker, MoonKnight, and Viper. I know the shocker is in the game but the other two are kinda obscure and go way back in the day.
Awww yeah! Bring on Moon Knight! That and I am looking forward to playing Rocket Raccoon, because I'll admit, that was one series I never kept up with, but started with news of the upcoming movie, and it's actually pretty good.
On a side note, cheers to the lucky 10 who got in!
Quite a varied bunch there, i'm surprised that so many people wants villains though.
Psylocke would be a great character if done right and i'm also hoping the Vision gets in myself .
most anticipated will be amerika and spiderman, i think
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Wovlerine all the way. He's been my favorite comic book character since I was 8 years old and I'm 31 now. Granted I dont' read comics anymore, but the games like City of Heroes, DC Online, etc made me relieve my childhood years in a wierd way when I played them a little.
I'm excited none the less.
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