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At the beginning of the 56-game regular season of SM-liiga, the Finnish elite league, the rigors of the hockey season as a whole are already taxing the players. Eleven months with the team, interrupted by international games on several occasions, may mean 100 games a season for young players. U20 national team players are under an especially heavy schedule. The last round of the SM-liiga regular season will be played on March 6th and the postseason will be over by April 16th.
SM-liiga teams continue to compete at odds with the finest in Europe, although the league has been gradually losing ground in the fight for the best players in the continent. In 2005-06, highly skill young players are springing up around the league and the league is moving toward more advanced offensive tactics. This is facilitated by the league's decision to weed out obstruction, for which the successful zero-tolerance approach of the NHL lends credibility. The number of goals scored may be increasing significantly.
There are now 37 drafted NHL prospects in the league. The number is in decline due to the change in draft rules of the new CBA, and the total will shrink further still until 2008, when there will be no more than two draft classes worth of prospects in European leagues. This has little effect on the amount of young talent in SM-liiga, however, as better and better players remain undrafted and many of them become unrestricted free agents in the year they turn 22 years of age.
Things are the same old in Espoo
For years, the Blues have built above average rosters only good enough for first round eliminations each spring. This year may be no different. Ari Ahonen and Bernd Brückler, no longer aiming directly for the NHL, make a strong goaltending tandem. Among defensemen quantity is making up for quality and injuries, whereas the offense looks weaker than the one that struggled last year. There are no completely new NHL prospects in the roster. Antti Härmä guards the net of the Finnish U20 team in the fall but can't get SM-liiga starts behind Ahonen and Brückler.
Three defensemen have long-term injuries on opening night. To deal with this, the team has 11 capable defensemen under contract and Mikael Kurki can't fit into the line-up. Things will get only worse for Kurki, who was promising playing parts of the season with the pros in 2005-06, as the injury situation improves. He hopes to make the WJC but is in a very wrong place right now.
Like Kurki, Mikko Lehtonen (BOS) is also in a situation where he joins the pro team for the second time but not with the advantage of having been a regular the season before. Lehtonen, a gifted puckhandler, does bring more special skills to the table and can reach a bigger role in 2006-07. If he does well, he could play on the scoring lines consistently. It is consistency that has been his main problem so far. He would do well to improve in that area, in order to both be in a good playing condition in the WJC tournament (which he couldn't do in 2005-06) and prepare himself for the foreign environment of the AHL.
On paper, the Blues forwards are capable of getting the job done even when battered, but the team still decided to rent Patrik Valcak (BOS) from TPS for a month. Valcak will reinforce the lower lines until the arrival of Kent Manderville in October.
IFK prospects flock away in droves
In the offseason, IFK Helsinki didn't commit to their most talented junior players enough, and as a result lost several of them to other teams: Jonas Enlund (ATL) to Tappara, Teemu Ramstedt to TPS, Nico Aaltonen to Lukko and Robert Nyholm (CBJ) to Kingston, OHL. The loss of talent was worse still, as IFK lost four players to the NHL. Some youngsters still remain, though, and train under the management of Bob Francis, his first year in Europe.
In 1999, IFK snagged the talent 18-year-old goalie Ari Ahonen out of JYP, and a breakout quickly ensued. Now they have landed another catch from the same organization with Aleksis Ahlqvist, 20. Few talented Finnish goalie prospects fall through the cracks in the NHL draft anymore, but Ahlqvist may be the best to have done so despite consistent progress. He has played but a couple of games in the league yet and the veteran Jan Lundell is still the starter, so he has to earn every one of his minutes. Ahlqvist will begin the season on loan in HPK.
On a top quality defense core are Teemu Laakso (NSH) and Timo Seppänen (PIT). The defense lines are the part of the team that can carry it far, so the two can't be guaranteed good minutes among strong competition. They couldn't make the team in every game last season, so they will have to fight a couple of other defensemen for regular top six minutes. At best Laakso and Seppänen have been most promising and up for the challenge.
IFK has consistently kept at least half a dozen young forwards in line-up this decade. Now the team features three NHL prospects: Lennart Petrell (CBJ), Max Wärn (DAL) and Pasi Salonen (WSH). The draft rights of each player are valid through 2008, so decisions need not be rushed on them based on their performances this season. Still, Petrell is already looking across the Atlantic. Unfortunately, he suffered injuries in the offseason and couldn't attend the Blue Jackets' prospect camp. The beginning of the regular season is looking happier for him, as Francis wants the big and aggressive winger on a scoring line. Petrell may enjoy a real breakout season at least as far as production is concerned.
In reference to the exodus of young talent, in 2004-05 IFK had as many as six national team forwards of the 2006 draft class in the organization. Now Wärn is the only one who remains. The sole rookie among all the team's NHL prospects, he has yet to earn any kind of spurs in the pros. As a responsible player Wärn could very well center the fourth line, but he isn't as far as to win the spot from other youngsters for sure. He will likely be seen regularly in juniors.
Salonen has been suffering from injuries in the past seasons. A solid player otherwise, he can be a solid third line player for IFK, but his breakout is still not in sight. Barring that and injuries to other forwards, he isn't quite fit for a scoring role yet and has to settle with average point production. The roster also includes some other interesting forwards, most of whom haven't developed that early or otherwise fast enough for the NHL. One of them is Tony's younger brother and second-generation IFK forward Tobias Salmelainen, who has skill and speed but hasn't put it together yet at the age of 21. He appeared in 27 games in 2005-06 and still has to fight for ice time, but in the long run he could go rather far in his development.
Wiikman, Seydoux, Korhonen face challenging situations in HPK ranks
HPK heads into the season as the reigning champions for the first time. This hasn't affected the way the team is built in the small market of Hämeenlinna, though. Many of the top scorers are gone, and the replacements are developing players who would be a bargain in case of a strong season. Forwards Joonas Vihko, Antti Pihlström, Jonas Andersson and the more established Aki Uusikartano fit this bill. The team is set to contend for another championship.
The playoff MVP Miika Wiikman, 21, wasn't completely focused on a new season in Finland. An illegal transfer to the AHL and the Rangers organization didn't come to be, and now he is fulfilling a renegotiated contract with HPK. Wiikman's partner between the pipes, Karri Rämö, is gone to Tampa, and Wiikman has to handle at least 70 percent of the starts. The hybrid goalie has both the team's hopes of success and his own NHL hopes resting on his shoulders. Juha Toivonen, 19, and Mikko Tolvanen, 18, have a lot of potential but can't seem to support the team just yet. Injuries to Wiikman and the backup Eero Väre prompted them to rent Aleksis Ahlqvist from IFK for the early rounds of the season.
Behind the strong core, there are four youngsters fighting for ice time among defensemen. Juuso Hietanen, 21, is already established and Jussi Ruohola, 20, doesn't bring many special skills to the table. Between them lie Risto Korhonen (CAR) and Philippe Seydoux (OTT). Both have been developing slowly over the past few years and are a year from the expiry of their draft rights. Korhonen is still the same big, mean and slow defenseman as before, which may however be what HPK needs. When his strength is needed, he may get good minutes, but any underachievement will likely push him out of the lineup. The Swiss Seydoux has struggled in preseason games and his job may be in jeopardy, although the team is patient with the 21-year-old. He needs to either improve his weaknesses on defense or show more of his offensive skills to earn his place in SM-liiga.
The HPK offense doesn't feature much in the way of NHL potential. A veteran of last season's WJC Jari Sailio has had his best showcase for a draft pick and Joona Karevaara will likely not make the 2007 tournament, while he can crack the HPK roster for good. Ville Leino, 22, is the team's most important forward. Gifted with skill and poise, Leino could soon become one of the finest centers in Europe, although his career so far has been marked with gross inconsistency and questionable all-around ability. That didn't change completely with one breakout season and his weaknesses may keep him out of the NHL, but a player of his age and caliber will get a closer look.
Rask and Helenius to backstop Ilves
Goalie Riku Helenius was drafted 15th overall by Tampa Bay in 2006. Tuukka Rask (BOS) had to wait six turns longer the year before, but developed so much over 2006-07 that Helenius stands little chance of dethroning him. Watching the two compete, the Ilves staff can but smile gleefully, knowing they have the most gifted goaltending tandem seen in Ilves and the league since the days of Jarmo Myllys and Jukka Tammi over 20 years ago.
The lightning-fast butterfly Rask has the potential to be the best goalie in the league already in 2006-07. On the flipside, his ongoing military service poses a challenge for his conditioning, which has been one of his weak sides. Rask faces a large workload, as he is still young enough to appear in the WJC for the third time.
Helenius had difficulty at times in preseason. The team didn't make things easy for him, but the performances weren't good for Helenius himself either. He has already played in two international tournaments this fall: Finland's U20 team lost all their games in Lake Placid, as Team USA crushed the Finnish defenses and Helenius with them. In a tournament of four nations in Sweden, however, he played two splendid games. His overall level of play reflects that of a typical SM-liiga backup, which isn't bad considering that he has yet to play a game in the league.
The teenagers Rask and Helenius also compose a very young duo, and counting on youth bears its risks. In the face of hardship, a veteran presence could solve issues that the two could not. Ilves will face a tough situation around New Year when the Finnish U20 team may want both goalies for the WJC tournament. It remains to be seen if Ilves will negotiate to keep Helenius in Finland. Four or five starts against professionals could even be beneficial for Helenius as opposed to sitting on the bench in games against juniors.
As impressive and important as Rask can be, it may still be Perttu Lindgren (DAL) whom Ilves fans revere as their young savior. After cracking a point-per-game pace late in 2005-06, Lindgren signed with the Stars but returned as planned upon his expected failure to make the Stars' line-up. Before moving on to Dallas, Lindgren was dominant with Ilves in preseason. Like Rask, he also has the military service to complicate things, but he can challenge any player in the league in terms of stardom.
Lindgren's old linemate Sami-Petteri Sandell returns to Ilves after two years in the WHL. Sandell is now SM-liiga ready, although preseason suggests that he is not a fitting sniper for Lindgren right now, such has been the playmaker's development after their common years in U18. A lot can still be expected to Sandell in the near future. Another import from the WHL is Lauris Darzins (NSH). Despite an advantage in age over Sandell and experience from the Latvian men's national team, Darzins hasn't been quite as impressive yet as foreign players need to be. Nothing will be free for him in Ilves, so he has to pick up the pace himself and work his way toward the top lines.
Ilves acquired Kristian Kudroc to lead the defense, but with the loss of Ville Koistinen to Nashville, the next best guy isn't that great. There is considerable depth, however, enough to have potentially kept Juho Mielonen (DET) out of the top six even without an injury. Mielonen made the team in 2005-06, but his season was incomplete because of a shoulder injury. Now his shoulder is hurt again, which will keep him out of the rinks until November. Mikko Kuukka, 20, can challenge for a big role in the defense corps. He will be an unrestricted free agent in June 2007, and solid stay-at-home defense can earn him an NHL contract one day.
Joonas Lehtivuori (PHI) is another defenseman who doesn't have it easy among the team's plethora of able defensemen. Barely 18 years of age, he starts out with a small role and spare minutes. Lehtivuori is still inexperienced overall and not too much can be expected of him in 2006-07. Making the Finnish WJC squad could be his most important goal for the season.
The 1987-born forwards Ville Korhonen and Tommi Huhtala pick up where they left off last season. Making the team was already a reach for them in 2006-07, so their accomplishments beyond that naturally weren't much. They start the season from the lower lines and try to improve gradually. The progress of the two quick and versatile players has been steady enough for them to keep up their NHL hopes. Ilves has even more junior national team players coming up from Jr A, but they are too numerous to adopt all at once. Jarkko Näppilä, Juuso Antonen, Jan-Mikael Järvinen and others will have to wait.
The giant of a forward Marko Anttila (CHI) has been the team's most positive surprise in preseason. Now armed with more experience and offensive wits, the 6'7 winger has scored regularly while playing solid defense. He can go far in this year's Ilves, although to go as far as the NHL one day he will need a lot more meanness. For now Anttila isn't making much use of his last half a foot of height. That won't stop him from getting results in SM-liiga in 2006-07, though.
Shedden to coach Jokerit players
The hockey community was shaken in Helsinki when Jokerit signed the coach of the rival IFK after a successful 2005-06 season. Doug Shedden, previously with the St. John's Leafs in the AHL, did a good job pushing young IFK players to career seasons, and similar success is wished of him in Jokerit. Shedden is pushing a heavily North American way of hockey and demands that the players take responsibility of their own careers, which is generally helpful with prospects who aren't that well-rounded.
Jokerit acquired two ex-prospects to lead the offense. Kim Hirschovits, 24, followed Shedden from IFK after a breakout season. The former Rangers draft pick, Hirschovits can easily take one more step in Finnish rinks and become a star, which could rejuvenate his NHL hopes. Things aren't that simple for Jani Rita, 25, who has already had two chances in North America. A positive performance could make his career very interesting again but perhaps, like in the past, in vain?
Shedden is intent on making a strong backup out of Niko Hovinen (MIN) soon. A goalie with loads of potential but also with problems largely caused by his towering stature, Hovinen is coming off a broken season and needs to rebound. He is bouncing between the Jokerit pros and juniors as well as Finland's U20 national team, but in August and September he has been very impressive in each. He is easy to demote to juniors if room is needed for another backup. Still, Hovinen could be in SM-liiga to stay in the near future.
Sami Lepistö (WSH) has gradually developed the skills to reach the very top of Europe in offensive abilities for a defenseman. He could round out his defensive and physical play this season, but unfortunately his collarbone was broken in preseason and will be lucky to return in November. When he returns, he will get to play as much as he can without wearing down as well as to fight for a spot in the World Championships.
Jokerit no longer have hordes of drafted players in their ranks as they did a couple of years back, and the team is no longer struggling to find spots for all of its junior national team players. The rookies trying to crack the roster in 2006-07 have moderate potential. The career of Roni Andersson, 21, was thought to be in jeopardy when he couldn't move on to the pro roster right away after graduating from juniors. A year later he is making a comeback, and is fighting for the rookie of the year award, at least based on preseason performance. The 18-year-old duo of Jori Lehterä and Kim Strömberg needs to get out of Jr A quickly, but a spot in SM-liiga isn't secure for them.
JYP prospects in dire need of breakout
JYP heads into the season with yet another cheap roster with no star power besides the goalie Sinuhe Wallinheimo. They retain the NHL prospects they had in 2006-07, all of whom need results fast. Arsi Piispanen (CBJ) went from 12 to 17 points over the previous seasons and could get much higher if his development is favorable. Ossi Louhivaara (OTT), who is two years older, has a history of similar numbers. Louhivaara begins the season injured, which doesn't help the technically solid winger to develop new strengths and his scoring touch. Unlike Piispanen and Louhivaara, Valtteri Tenkanen (LA) won't see his draft rights expire in 2007 yet, so he has a year more to impress the Kings, which he sorely needs. Having had his previous seasons shortened by injuries, he hasn't had a chance to improve much over that time. Any player can achieve any role in JYP, but all three seemed limited in their abilities to become a key player.
The hardship of the forwards mentioned above may make Miika Lahti the team's best prospect. Lahti cracked the pro team's line-up early and now has notable experience backing him as he tries to make the WJCs. Perhaps not very far away from being drafted in 2005 or 2006, he could develop impressive enough two-way skills to attract attention from the NHL.
KalPa loses Puustinen, must wait for new talent
Looking to move up from a last place finish in 2005-06, KalPa could only make marginal improvements to the roster on paper. The team is led by Martin Sonnenberg, who was sensationally made captain without a single offense game in Finland to date, while the language barrier had kept SM-liiga teams from naming a foreign captain under any conditions so far.
KalPa's anticipation of the organization's top prospect Juuso Puustinen (CGY) making the move to SM-liiga ended in disappointment yet quiet pride as Puustinen chose to move to the WHL. The transfer leaves KalPa without an NHL prospect for another year. Furthermore, the youngsters Tomi Tuomainen and Joonas Riekkinen seem to be missing their chance to make the WJC tournament, and neither did they begin the season with the pro squad.
Kärpät defense lines decimated by NHL transfers
The powerhouse of the 2000's has had a highly-talented and young team year after year, yet until 2006 they suffered only pluggable holes to the roster as players moved to the NHL. This all changed as the impact of transfers was centralized to the defense core this offseason: The loss of a dominant starting goalie and defensemen No. 1, 2 and 3 left only smoking ruins in the far northern shores of the Baltic Sea. Inevitably their replacements made an inferior solution and now the situation for young defensive players like a whole different world.
Despite the revolutionized pecking order, Oskari Korpikari (MTL) hasn't had the momentum to move to the top. The defenseman with a solid style of play has been a fringe player for the championship-winning Kärpät teams, much due to injuries. Now Korpikari is relatively healthy but can't seem to move up to the top two pairings. The Canadiens have their hopes up because of impressive showings in rookie camps, which doesn't change the fact that Korpikari's progress back home has been rather sad. Tommi Leinonen (PIT) is in a much earlier career stage than Korpikari but moving steadily forward. He begins the season with the pro team and can hope to play the majority of the games in SM-liiga this season. That is all that can be expected of a rookie, though.
Kärpät also have the defenseman Joni Liljeblad under contract. Recently turned 17, Liljeblad will not be at the NHL draft until 2008, and the talented blueliner doesn't have business in SM-liiga either in 2006-07 yet. The 20-year forward Veikko Karppinen has been carrying the Kärpät Jr A team recently and is now being groomed for a pro career, but he can't beat healthy regulars in the competition for ice time. In the past, some Kärpät young like Karppinen have proven able to pursue an NHL career after a late breakout.
Also among forwards, Janne Pesonen (ANA) needs to stop the decline, albeit marginal, of his point totals. Still, fact is that he needs a whole lot more than just solid if he wants to play in the NHL one day. Kärpät is the right setting for Pesonen as long as he is up to the challenge himself. One way or the other, Juhamatti Aaltonen (STL) is still likely to steal the spotlight. Even though the wizard of a stickhandler may not get to be part of the top line Mika Pyörälä – Jari Viuhkola – Hannes Hyvönen, Aaltonen will receive plenty of power play minutes and the linemates he needs to score – and scores he does. People expect much of the highly entertaining winger, and league-wide stardom isn't out of the question.
Lukko acquires talented youth
Rauma is the smallest town to be home to an SM-liiga organization. The population base prevents Lukko from grooming the best young talent in the country, so the organization has to be active in the market and hire youth from other teams. Furthermore, corporate support provides Lukko with the ability to make acquisitions to their core as well, so the team is on the rise after a rather miserable 2005-06 season.
Jan Platil (OTT) planned a temporary return from North America. The physical defenseman needs the bigger rinks to improve his finesse. Platil may not have it easy to cope with the crackdown on obstruction, so his status among Lukko defensemen is still a mystery. His development toward the NHL hasn't been very successful, and a fellow Czech newcomer Jiri Hunkes, 22, may have the momentum to outplay Platil. The puck-carrying defenseman vied for a spot in the World Championships in 2006, which not many players in the league did, but he still has to get used to the scarce time and space of the Finnish league. Hopefully, Hunkes could become a top defenseman by the end of the season and still continue to develop from that.
The 18-year-old forward Nico Aaltonen is a new name in Lukko. As expected, he wasn't able to go from scoring half a point per game in HIFK Jr A to making the Lukko pro squad, but he has dominated as an underaged player in international U20 games. Given this pace, the agile multi-purpose forward has to be given a shot at SM-liiga soon.
Miikka Tuomainen (ATL) and Petri Lammassaari begin their second season in SM-liiga. Tuomainen showed improvement in the fall of 2005, but trailed off toward the end of the season. Big, athletic and good technically, he now needs to contribute consistently and make life difficult for opponents. The sparkplug Lammassaari was the most positive surprise last season and is now set to play real minutes throughout the season, which could bring his point totals to the 20s. Both of the two start roughly with a third-line role, which isn't the case for Lammassaari's old linemate Ville-Vesa Vainiola, 21. The former Jr A MVP has struggled to make the four lines for good, which is a pity, since he has the raw talent to go far in SM-liiga, perhaps even further.
Pelicans look forward to a solid season
After a brush with death by bankruptcy, Pelicans are back on their feet and ready to take off. The coach Hannu Aravirta has brought in a winning game plan and the core is intact from last season. The roster is still that of a small team, so young prospects aren't limited to a smallish role if they break out.
Jani Forsström, 20, has been somewhat sidetracked from optimal development since 2005-06 when he failed to make Finland's WJC roster. Now a more successful youth national team defenseman Joonas Jalvanti, 18, is blazing past him. After a good U18 WC tournament, the blueliner lacking in explosiveness and the sharpest of moves was left undrafted, but now he is going after a pro career. Jalvanti has already serviced the Finnish U20 team well early this season, though he still has to wait to become a permanent fixture with the men's team of Pelicans.
The offense continues to be led by the 21-year-old duo of Jesse Saarinen and Tuomas Santavuori. They both broke out last fall, although the former junior national team player Santavuori has the most potential of the two. Saarinen, small and relatively one-dimensional, isn't quite as interesting to watch as the highly-talented Santavuori.
Leo Komarov (TOR) is a new player coming from a total breakout season in Ässät. A spot on the third line in SM-liiga and the second line in the WJC was a reach for him in 2005-06, so he can't be expected to gain much higher a status in 2006-07. The team rolls fairly equally talented lines, so Komarov's production depends on his linemates. He can provide a chippy game regardless of the environment.
Vili Sopanen and Marko Pöyhönen are part of Finland's U20 camp roster and also on the fringes of the Pelicans lineup. Like most rookies, they aren't expected to do much in SM-liiga, but especially Sopanen is worth watching. He can already tear up the Jr A league and at 6'3 and 213 pounds, his physique won't limit his potential.
Kolehmainen an important player for SaiPa
The small SaiPa organization saw several players enjoy a breakout season and carry the team to the playoffs in 2005-06, but now they are all gone. Only Rob Zepp remains as the team's MVP, and the skaters have no stars among them.
Beaconing a relatively smallish base of hockey-playing children in the area, SaiPa doesn't have a lot of young talent moving up to the roster either. Janne Kolehmainen (OTT) is now the organization's only NHL prospect. The strong and mean forechecking specialist has only put up a few random points so far and could stand to improve from that significantly. It is somewhat of a lottery trying to end up on a line that catches a hot streak and assumes the responsibility of scoring for SaiPa, so Kolehmainen may not reach immediate results.
Eetu Holma, 23, could be an important player for the team. It has been natural for the hulking power forward to develop late, and continuing progress could take him to the league's top for good. On the outside looking in, Jonne Virtanen (18 years, 6'6 and 257 pounds) was acquired for the Jr A team, and he is hoped to make the pro squad eventually.
Kontiola rules the Tappara roost
Tappara has been practising an aggressive approach on the market as of late, filling all four lines with experienced players and acquiring young talent from other organizations' Jr A teams (Harri Säteri from HPK, Antti Hölli from Ilves, Jonas Enlund (ATL) from HIFK). This hasn't been all good news for the players involved. Enlund left Helsinki seeking ice time and the team's commitment, but he starts the season in juniors due to Tappara's logjam of centers whereas IFK turns out not to have much beyond the second line. Enlund was already a star in Jr A in 2005-06, so the juniors are a very wrong place for him.
In preseason Enlund formed a youth line with Hölli and the 17-year-old Niclas Lucenius. Hölli showed great improvement in Jr A last year and quickly became an option for Finland's WJC squad in 2007. It was a good preseason for the skilled right wing, but not as good as to keep him in SM-liiga yet. Lucenius is Finland's top prospect for the 2007 draft and the youngest player to try to make the league this fall. Expectedly, he failed, but the time of the Turku native will come, even if it isn't in 2006-07.
At the other end of the pecking order, the older NHL prospect Petri Kontiola (CHI) is the team's MVP. Kontiola has gradually developed puck skills that make him one of the best in Europe, as recent Euro Hockey Tour indicate. Kontiola can do most anything in the offensive zone and is a good bet to lead the entire league in points in 2006-07. Teemu Nurmi, 21, has been made Kontiola's sniper. After two years of sluggish development, the WJC veteran could finally become an offensive force in SM-liiga this season.
Säteri is Tappara's third goalie at a mere 16 years of age, so essentially he is the starter in Jr A. If the pro squad were actually to need a spare goalie, it is unlikely Säteri would be given a chance yet. In front of the goalies, the defense corps features Ville Mäntymaa (ANA). Once the best defenseman of his age group in the country, Mäntymaa is seeing his NHL hopes and his draft pick go to ruin. Still not a part of Tappara's top four in his fourth year, the development of the solid yet unimpressive stay-at-home defenseman continues to be slow. In fact, Tappara may have higher hopes for the younger WJC veteran Matti Koistinen. Koistinen begins the season as a depth defenseman, but his performances have been such both internationally and home that his potential could also take him to international pro level one day.
Old powerhouse TPS stagnant in talent development
Having sent players like Saku Koivu and Miikka Kiprusoff to the NHL in the 1990's, TPS no longer keeps up with the best to produce NHL prospects. The team's only drafted prospect isn't their own graduate from juniors, and the Czech Patrik Valcak (BOS) doesn't have that bright a future in front of him either. Years after being drafted, Valcak is now toiling in the lower lines. He was loaned to Blues to make room in the foreign player quota for Tomas Duba, who fills in for the injured goalie Jani Hurme early in the season.
TPS is facing a problem with their aging veteran core and needs new talent quickly. Juho Jokinen, 20, was injured yet again before the season began. He could become an important puck-moving defenseman already this season, but not until he can stay healthy. Henrik Maunula has a decent shot at the WJC tournament and has been playing solid for TPS Junior A, but the coach has been hesitant to call him up despite injuries to other defensemen.
Jussi Makkonen, 21, is already an important center for TPS. Standing at 6'4 but possessing enough skill and speed to produce consistently, he is the second line center behind Layne Ulmer or Ivan Huml. A prospect of his quality should be kept an eye on. Makkonen will be an unrestricted free agent in June 2007.
Teemu Ramstedt, an important player for the Finnish U20 team, is a most intriguing rookie in TPS. The highly skilled center/winger is still timid in his style of play, but if he can shake it off, there are few limits to his potential. Ramstedt doesn't start the season with much of a role in the TPS roster, but he is expected to climb the ladder over the course of the season.
Ässät continue their cooperation with Stars
Over the past few years, Ässät have developed their unofficial affiliation with the Dallas Stars, much with the effort of Kari Takko, a legendary Ässät goalie and now a scout for the Stars. In 2005-06, the Stars sent Matt Nickerson to develop the finesse-oriented qualities of his game. Nickerson provided Ässät with a whole lot of bang for buck, while he seemed to improve in the areas he was supposed to. The transatlantic cooperation appears fruitful and Ässät was looking to add two players from the Stars' camp for young players but couldn't find a defenseman on whose transfer all three parties would have come to agreement. Despite that, for the first time a Finnish team's quota on foreign players is filled with NHL prospects only.
Brandon Crombeen is the team's only Stars prospect coming from North America, and he has been most impressive in preseason. Crombeen's strong and straightforward play is working great in Finnish rinks. If he isn't quite up to playing with the team's star forwards Marko Kivenmäki and Kristian Kuusela, he could at least be a good second line player in the small-name Ässät line-up.
Tom Wandell is a Stars prospect whose transfer from his native Sweden was announced early. Still basically without pro experience, Wandell can't do much for Ässät in 2006-07, but he is expected to play in SM-liiga all season instead of Ässät juniors. His set of skills is still so strong that his appearance on a scoring line is likely at some point along the season. Late in the offseason Alexander Naurov, also a Stars pick, was acquired from the Russian second tier High League. Naurov won't be a core player by default but may amount to one over the season. His recent scoring totals don't bode well alone, and a breakout season would be in order for the smooth-skating forward.
Goaltender Eero Kilpeläinen (DAL) is now with Ässät for real after a season on loan in the second tier league. It is a key year for Kilpeläinen, whose rights the Stars will lose in June 2007, as it is his best chance to earn an NHL contract. The mid-sized goalie has some game-breaking ability, and it would be important for the team that he seize the starter's job from Matti Kaltiainen. In any case, Kilpeläinen getting under 20 starts is highly unlikely.
Peter Aston (FLA) found his way to Pori without the influence of the Stars. Coming off a great season in Peterborough and Windsor, he is looking to round out his game by adapting to a new environment. With only major junior experience to his name, Aston is still a long way from becoming a key player in SM-liiga as preseason games have shown. Still, the top four of the defense corps is easy to crack and Aston is certain to get power play minutes. His natural talent is definitely good enough to put up points in the league. In competition with Aston is Tero Konttinen, a recent graduate from Jokerit juniors and a rookie in the league. He truly impressed in his tryout period with his puck skills and smooth moves also on defense, earning a two-year contract. He can challenge for the league's rookie of the year award. Finally, 18-year-old Eetu Heikkinen is looking for third-pairing minutes in SM-liiga, which could propel him to Finland's WJC squad. For the youngster who still stands a good chance of being picked in the NHL draft, any solid and complete season with the pros would be a good achievement.
Wingers Joonas Kemppainen, 18, Jussi Peltomaa, 19, and Tuomas Huhtanen, 19, are with Finland's U20 national team. In Ässät they can't all make it, but one of them is likely to establish his presence in SM-liiga for good. Especially the well-rounded players Kemppainen and Peltomaa still have hopes for the WJC, and in the long run, the NHL.
Lastly, but the most significantly, there is Jesse Joensuu (NYI). The 18-year-old winger is already beginning his third season in the league and many expect a breakout from him. Joensuu is a very capable scoring line player for Ässät on any decent day, but patience is needed with the awkward teenager. Development in motor coordination must come first, not until then should people expect over half a point per game. Joensuu injured his shoulder in Lake Placid and early August, but begins the SM-liiga season in shape.
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In her first event at the 2019 NCAA Division III Championships in Greensboro, N.C., sophomore swimmer Meg Peel crushed her seed time by more than two seconds in the 50-yard freestyle.
Peel of Spring Lake (Spring Lake HS) was seeded 63rd with a time of 25.89 in the sprint event. In this morning's preliminaries, she clocked in at 23.79, good for 32nd place.
Peel's 50 free time at nationals became the fastest swim in that event by a Hope woman swimmer this season and the fourth-fastest all0time. The Hope record is owned by Libby Westrate who recorded a time of 23.34 in 2013.
Next up for Peel will be the 100-yard backstroke on Friday, March 22 at NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championship. Men's diver Brian Simonich of Highland (Milford HS) begins competing at nationals tomorrow March 21, on the 1-meter board.

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With too many options there's an awful amount of room to make bad choices:
On PSOBB you'd come across melee FOmarls and FOmars - not quite built for purpose, but they made do even though their ATP was poor.
On PSU you'd get CAST's dabbling with magic even though their MST was over 50% less than a Newman.
You get the same occurances on PSO2 and it does leave me wondering why people do it. To be different? To relish the challenge of having character with awful stats? I can't say that I get it. Perhaps it gets a little boring seeing every force being a Newman or every ranger being a CAST.
Yes you can make it work, and still enjoy the game. But I'd liken it to entering a donkey in the grand national. Yes you'd finish the race, but you'd be going up against purpose bred thoroughbreds who will leave you for dust.


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Cybersecurity in Health Care: The DHHS Has Spoken
We live in an age of cyber threats and crime, and no industry is immune to data breach. Unfortunately, based on the volume of personal information collected and processed in order to provide health care and insurance benefits, the medical profession is one of those most frequently targeted by cybercriminals. And while the HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) Security Rule requires appropriate safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and security of individuals' electronic personal health information, some health care providers struggle to implement and comply with its requirements. The Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with leaders in the health care space to help with that. (Read More)
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New Year's (Cybersecurity) Resolutions
With 2018 now in the rear view mirror, many of us approach the new year looking to reassess and focus on ways to improve ourselves. The same can be said for businesses, which could certainly benefit by bolstering their cybersecurity and data privacy practices. With that said, here are a few cybersecurity tips to focus on in 2019. (Read More)


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Computers have become ubiquitous and essential today. The conventional gadget of documenting things on paper is being swiftly changed by computers. The developing dependency on computer systems, particularly on the grounds that the advent of the Internet, has additionally made the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of facts and sources prone.
The Internet came into existence with the view to convey the arena closer. It is a totally dynamic surroundings where there may be no boundary of place and time for any consumer. Initially, the Internet becomes conceptualized for a confined variety of users and subsequently, it turned into designed without taking any security thing into attention. The multiplied reputation of the Internet made it an open ground for hackers, viruses, bugs; which compromised the simple reasons for which the computer systems and Internet got here into lifestyles.
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Birth of the Internet and Concerns
Though facts sharing commenced taking region through computers within the '60s called the ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) and the e-mail system changed into conceived in 1969, whilst it changed into termed because the electronic submit workplace, the term 'Internet' was first utilized in 1982. The international became made familiar with the term 'laptop virus' for the first time in 1983 by way of Fred Cohen. Robert Schifreen and Steve Gold had been arrested for compromising with Prince Philip's Prestel mailbox. The first PC virus referred to as 'Brain' changed into created in Pakistan in 1985. By 1987, with the growing range of Internet hosts and the private computer industry; range of people got get admission to the Internet, which turned into a completely unique experience. With this sort of extensive and open platform to use, the Internet was no longer secure. Privacy and security concerns started mushrooming and the terms 'hacker', 'cracker' and 'digital run-in' have been coined, whilst Robert Morris released the Internet worm that unfolds across 1/tenth (6000) of the Internet hosts. He becomes then sentenced to three years probation, 400 hours of community service and $10,000 fine.
CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
As the protection concerns over the Internet commenced increasing, CERT was fashioned in 1988, which become to be the focal point of the pc safety worries of the Internet customers. This group actively unfold laptop protection attention among users and commenced undertaking studies that were targeted to improve the security of current systems.
By 1992, the number of Internet users swelled by means of 341% since the limit on the economic use of Internet was lifted with the aid of the National Science Foundation in 1990 and Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist in Switzerland first wrote the code of the World Wide Web in 1991, many businesses, businesses and people hosted their websites. However, hackers began working extensively round 1995 and altered the websites of the U.S. Justice Department, the CIA and the U.S. Air Force. This becomes accompanied by a range of virus assaults and worms that affected computers and running systems for the reason that overdue '90s. Even nowadays, Internet structures cannot be deemed foolproof, and usually want a safety returned-up to shop the computer structures. As such threats had been unfolding and making headlines within the press, they had to be tackled and additionally raised alarms to broaden safety systems, that is whilst Firewall commenced its evolution.
November 2, 1988, changed the Internet user enjoy for all time. Peter Yee on the NASA Ames Research Center pronounced an incident within the TCP/IP Internet mailing listing that Berkeley, UC San Diego, Lawrence Livermore, Stanford, and NASA Ames have been attacked by using Internet virus. This is while people who constructed and contributed to the Internet and its customers felt hazardous in their internet presence. Other viruses followed match and started out attacking structures. This brought about the making of a Firewall. This term literally method that it's miles a wall or barrier among the residence and the garage or between apartments so one can control the time of a raging fire from coming into every other premise, or a precautionary distance among a vehicle engine and its driver. This idea was done in the virtual international in the shape of the primary network firewalls in past due Nineteen Eighties, which were routers that had been used to separate networks into smaller LANs. This avoided diverse networks from being affected at the identical time. However, the primary protection routers have been used in the early Nineteen Nineties which labored on the filtering guidelines that would detect harmful pages or websites and will block them from the system. These have been powerful however limited. Thereon, Firewalls also emerged with technology and safety wishes. Firewalls are the checkpoints that impose restrictions on the incoming and outgoing packets in public and private networks based on IP source advert TCP port wide variety. Packet Filters, Circuit-degree gateways, Application-level gateways are some of the sorts of firewalls.
Most viruses within the '80s were enormously less harmful to the systems, as they had been confined to self-reproduction and had no specific damage habitual written within the code. However, this scene modified when extra programmers became aware of virus programming and started out constructing viruses that manipulated and destroyed records on inflamed computers. This aroused the need for something like an anti-virus, which could render safety to the structures and networks. Though it's miles a subject of discussion over who became the primary to invent the anti-virus code or software program, early information from the Nineteen Eighties credit score Bernd Fix of having first publicly accomplished the elimination of pc viruses in 1987, additionally there were two anti-virus packages that had been advanced for the Atari ST platform inside the identical year. Many inventors had picked the academic papers to develop strategies for anti-virus with the aid of Fred Cohen I 1988. Desperate want to get a step forward with anti-viruses, a mailing list referred to as the VIRUS-L become started in 1988 at the BITNET/EARN network in which new viruses and opportunities to put off them were discussed. These discussions led to 2 of its individuals – John McAfee and Eugene Kaspersky to shape software program organizations that even nowadays develop and promote anti-virus software.
Installing an anti-virus software program on personal computers, the use of equipment like firewalls, cloud anti-virus, online scanners, and so forth are being increasingly used for safety functions. These gear include their own percentage of benefits and disadvantages like a high-priced renewal, for instance. Every facility comes with its own drawbacks. Like the innovation in computer era gave upward push to the Internet facility, it turned into bugged with protection worries. When the tools for safety from these threats advanced, they too have positive barriers or are still progressing. Yet, we can not do away with both these facilities.


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21 elementary school students and one bus driver sustained non-life-threatening injuries after two school buses crashed in Renton, Washington.
According to KIRO, 17 of the Lakeridge Elementary School students had to be transported to hospitals, while four other students did not require hospitalization.
Around 9:30 A.M. on Friday, one bus was filmed rear-ending another in the 2100 block of Southwest Sunset Boulevard. The wind shield of the at-fault bus was shattered, while the other bus' rear was smashed-in. The students had just been picked up to go to school from two nearby apartment complexes.
Multiple police and firefighters responded to the scene, while emergency personnel used a nearby apartment complex as a medical triage area for the students. Parents also arrived quickly on scene to find their children. Twelve of the more seriously injured children were transported by ambulance to area hospitals, while five others were driven by parents.
RentonPD tweeted that all injuries sustained were minor.
The elementary schoolers are shaken by the accident, but doing fine.
"I was sitting down in the seats and then bus 13 hit our bus and I flew over like two of the seats," said student Teashawn Richmond, 11.
"I'm thinking about how I never want to go on the bus forever again," said Christian Allen, a 6-year-old who hit his head on the seat in front of him during the collision. Him and his brother went to the doctor to be checked out.
Whilst the Washington State Patrol is examining the buses, both the Renton Police and the Renton School district are investigating the crash. Both drivers will be meeting with the district on Monday, but the district is waiting for the outcome of the police investigation before deciding when the the drivers will be clear to transport students again.
Both buses, with a capacity for 75 children each, were said to be full at the time of the collision.
Renton School District officials say that all drivers must pass training before they are approved as safe to drive. The district called the crash "an anomaly," reminding parents that riding the bus is still the safest means of transporting kids to and from school.


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Practicing the Game of Manifestation
For the last 15 years I've been focused on building Kindness Yoga and empowering the leaders of my studios to run things without my daily involvement. Then, last year (November 2015), my wife and I chose the 29th of December 2016 as a date that no matter what we would be boarding a plane and heading to a beach somewhere to live for a least a year. In April of 2016 (only five months after we set our goal) we were boarding a plane and moving to Costa Rica! It happened much faster than we thought. I love to practice the game of manifestation (and it is particularly potent when my wife Cameron and I can get on the same page about what we are wanting).
As a recovering opportunist, I have always looked for the easiest, most efficient next step to make the biggest difference in whatever it is I was doing. This has been a very workable strategy thus far – it has been the philosophy through which we have opened many of our studios and has been the engine behind much of our growth within Kindness Yoga. For example, someone would call and say "Hey, I am having trouble with my business, do you want to take it over?" or "Somebody just moved out of this space, do you want it?" The business has just grown and grown, and most often it was because I said "Yes", usually this yes would push our team past what we thought was possible for us as a group (financially or bandwidth-wise).
The ceiling for what I thought was possible has really been expanded by these experiences. Each time I have said "Yes!" and taken action, providence has stepped in with all manner of support that I couldn't have predicted and lo and behold we have been able to pull off most of these aspirations.
However, this style of life and business takes a lot of emotional energy, physical energy, and attention. Choosing this way has often lead us into a tremendous amount of uncertainty and in general it is a more stressful than easeful way of growing. At this stage of my life I am working with an axiom: 'I don't have to work hard to have big things occur' (this could be achievements, global change, or personal transformation) but honestly I don't know how this new strategy looks or have much experience with it. You see there has always been a deep desire to grow Kindness Yoga to affect greater transformation and consequently I have said "Yes!", to many opportunities that have just shown up. Over time we have become skilled at living in the uncertainty of following the next opportunity.
However, at this point I point I find myself wondering how the practice of manifestation would look and feel without leaving it up to random opportunity? It might be really fun! It might even be more effective.
So right now I am inspired by discernment. Choosing selectively which opportunities to accept and which to pass up. For the first time in my professional career Kindness is truly operating without my day to day direction. I have become a business owner instead of an employee that owns his business. This is a really incredible position to be in, and at the same time – "What the hell do I do now?" There is nothing but opportunity in front of me, and lots to choose from. I find myself a little lost quite frankly, which is surprising to hear come out of my mouth.
That said, looking at my position from a different perspective, I can also say that there is no problem here – it is all perfect. We have the most incredible set of challenges and uncertainties that I have ever heard of. What I would tell myself is that there are no "wrong" choices, and that I can say "no" or "hold" to even what seems like perfect opportunities.
I am actively choosing the criteria around what represents an actionable opportunity. In my experience if I attract a situation that feels really good except certain points and I have the courage to say "No" to it, another version of what I am wanting is coming right on its heels. It reminds me of one of the teachings of Abraham Hicks, where they say it's good that there is a lag time between what you say that you want and receiving it. This lag time is to protect you. If you said, "I really want to ride on an elephant – that is my dream," and then bam! There was an elephant in your living room and you were riding on top of it, you would be experiencing the problems of getting what you wanted too fast. I think that as I have become better at getting what I want out of life, the time between asking and seeing evidence of what I want coming to me, is shortening. Especially when I am meditating, and visualizing, and speaking about it, and feeling it as if it has already occurred. Man! It's like – is there any version of life that I couldn't live?
I should also say though, that there is a cost to achieving a dream that is not mentioned in the colorful brochure in your mind! Moving to Costa Rica means that we had to leave Denver – and there was nothing wrong with our life in Denver. We have friends and family there, we have a community, we just built our dream home one year ago… so there are challenges of leaving a life that works. The heart-ache of saying good-bye to everything that you love and know. It is the death of my life as it was and it brings moments of deep appreciation for everything that we have.
Ultimately it has become clear that it really doesn't matter where I live or what successes I achieve. It always comes back to this – Am I centered? Am I meditating? Am I practicing yoga every day? Is there something that I am not saying? Someone I need to forgive? Do I need to ask for forgiveness? Do the people around me know how I feel about them? It is these daily rituals that make life great.
I wonder about what it would be like if my "striving" just chilled out? Today I was driving with my daughters going under the speed limit and I had zero desire to pass the guy who was having me drive that slow. I could see people around me wanting to go faster and there was just this very different feeling inside of me – a softness, a release of something. "Wherever you go, there you are" – it's a cliché, and yet – that is really just the truth of it. If I am not doing my rituals, and being good to my partner and good to my kids, then it doesn't really matter where I am – I will be suffering on some level.
If I were to tap into the Universal part of me at this moment – he would be sitting back with a slight smile on his face, just really relaxed, and stomach unclenched. There is nothing wrong. There is nothing to do. I am safe.
Patrick Harrington is the father of two girls, and a husband. His life has taken on more and more meaning through his committed explorations into his own patterns of – and addictions to – suffering. His classes and retreats reflect this intimate and vulnerable process, and allow his students and fellow teachers to relate on a level that transforms. It is though his own healing journey and movement towards living his dharma that leads his yoga teaching, parenting, relationships and business.Patrick has taught before tens of thousands of students, lead teacher trainings and mentored teachers over many years as the owner of Kindness Yoga. "We – as yoga studios and teachers – are not in competition with each other," he says. "Rather, we are in competition with all the unconscious activities out there." Patrick believes that yoga will direct culture towards a more awakened strategy of life. He encourages us to wake up to what we want to contribute in this life and "quit messing around and get on with it!" Visit his profile here.


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Australia's canoe sprint paddlers journey to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics begins on Thursday at the opening ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Poland.
For the paracanoe team, Poznan will be the only World Cup before the World Championships at the end of August, which will decide the first round of Olympic and Paralympic quota spots.
In the women's K4, South Australian Cat McArthur has taken over the stroke seat and will be backed by 2012 Olympian Jo Brigden-Jones and Rio Olympians Alyce Burnett and Alyssa Bull in Poznan.
Brigden-Jones is the senior on the women's team and is thrilled to be contesting the international season on her 16th Australian team.
"It's awesome to be racing in the Australia team for this year's world cups and then hopefully for the World Championships later on," she said.
"It's a big, important year, so it's really great to be part of a fantastic team who are all hungry to do really well and I'm pretty honoured that this will be my 16th year on an Australian team.
"Yes, I'm old, but it's pretty cool and hopefully I can bring some good experience to the team and help some people out along the way and make sure we qualify for Tokyo."
Along with the K4, she will be competing in the K1 200 with McArthur while K4 teammates Alyce Burnett and Alyssa Bull will also race the women's K1 1000.
"The K4 is the priority. It's the big boat and we want to qualify the most spots for the Games so we'll be making sure we can put our best foot forward come August," Burnett said.
Western Australian Jaime Roberts will be contesting the women's K2 200 and 500 together with Brianna Massie before moving into the women's K4 for the next World Cup while Jo Brigden-Jones will be moving into the K2.
Bernadette Wallace makes her return to the national squad following a touch with cancer (melanoma) in 2016.
The 29-year old sister of Olympic champion Kenny Wallace kayaker turned canoeist will be aiming to qualify the women's canoe double together with Josephine Bulmer this season with the women's C1 and C2 classes to premier at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.


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If social media has served any profound purpose, it's been to reveal just how phenomenally selfish we are, and how manipulative we can become in our quest to be the centre of attention.
If we're not publicly screwing over our best friend and flushing our own dignity down the toilet in the hope of a single Like from a low-end celeb who doubtless hates our grovelling, servile guts, we're trying to use other people's traumas as a means to put ourselves in the spotlight. If, by the end of a social media thread, we haven't placed ourselves right at the epicentre of the issue at hand, we've failed. And it just wouldn't be a poverty thread if an affluent influencer didn't wade in with a 'quote-tweet', claming to have had a desperately frugal childhood.
Just like real life, social media is all about status, and on Twitter, status was traditionally measured by a user's Followers total. However, it's become increasingly well recognised that the Twitter Followers total is close to meaningless as a yardstick of status or influence. Using follow-management apps, it's easy to churn up a Followers total of 100,000 or more, virtually none of whom will ever pay the remotest bit of attention. Continue reading Retweet-Begging: The Bad, The Ugly And The Positively Grotesque


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Zlatan – Osale Ft. Davido MP3.
Zlatan Osanle Ft. Davido, Nigerian talented rapper Zlatan teams up with DMW boss in person of Davido, on a new song which is titled Osale.
Zlatan Osanle was dropped after the controversial Zlatan got from Segun Wire in which Davido reacts and say "We are coming for you thugs".
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Blossom Chukwujekwu's wife Maureen Esisi, turned 32 today and has promised to spill the beans on her rumoured marriage split today.
Nollywood actor, Blossom Chukwujekwu's wife Maureen Esiri who was accused of being the reason her husband left her in their home after 3 years of marriage is ready to tell her own story.
Maureen while celebrating her 32nd birthday today, took to her social media page to share a picture of herself and has promised her followers and fans that she will be spilling the real deal today.
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HAPPY 32nd BIRTHDAY TO ME. Say a Little Prayer for me as I #SpillTheRealDeaL later Today
SDK blog had earlier reported that insiders the marriage between the two didn't start on the right note and that was why after the traditional wedding, it took another year to convince his family to allow the marriage hold because theey felt both had not healed from the other relationships they had recently come out of. The top reason given for the split was reportedly disrespect from the Maureen to her husband Blossom and that she didn't want to get pregnant yet even though there were pressures from his family.
There were also allegations of infidelity by Blossom, there was also an allegation that Lilian Esoro who he dated before they both split and got married, was pregnant for him. AN allegation which Lilian has come out to deny.
Blossom moved out of his marital home about a month ago and blocked Maureen on social media.


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Attention Residents: Cox Communications, Omaha's most preferred cable provider, will be hosting a Resident Appreciation Pool party at the Pinhook Flats Apartments. The party is scheduled for Thursday, June 30th at 5:00pm, weather permitting. We hope to see you there!
Lotus House of Yoga will be offering free Yoga every Sunday through the end of May, and then the last Sunday of June, July and August. Each Yoga session is approximately 35 minutes long and will be held at Omaha's Stinson park in Aksarben Village. Yoga starts at 8:00 am…come early to reserve your spot!
Pinhook Flats Apartments located in Omaha's Aksarben Village, will be opening the pool for the summer on Friday, May 27th (weather permitting.) Pool hours are from 10am to 9pm, 7 days a week. Please be aware of all pool rules and regulations, which are posted at the pool. If you have any questions, please feel … Continue reading Pinhook Flats Apartments- Pool Opening May 27th!!
This Saturday, May 21st is the annual Dundee Spring Fling! Festivities start at 7am with a Pancake breakfast and will continue on throughout the day with events like a BBQ Cooking Contest, face painting, a pie eating contest and performances by Central High's Jazz Band and Dek's Tae Kwon Do. There will also be several … Continue reading Stop by the Dundee Spring Fling this weekend!
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Check out this link: http://www.ketv.com/news/27722744/detail.html This is an all to familiar scene: someone leaving a grill unattended on an apartment balcony; someone falling asleep with a lit cigarette; a candle is left burning after a person goes out for the night. "Not me." you say. Probably not – but possibly your neighbor. Occasionally, someone will comment … Continue reading Pacific Gardens Apartments Advice Column: Is your renter's insurance paid up?
On Thursday, May 5th Highclere residents will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo at the clubhouse. From 11:30am to 1:30pm we will be serving a taco bar. Stop by for some Mexican fair and visit with your neighbors. See you there!
At Villa Vinee Apartments in Omaha, we want to make sure that our residents enjoy the beautiful weather to the fullest! We have several charcoal grills around the property for our residents to use and enjoy! Here's some do's and don't when it comes to grilling: -To light a charcoal fire, place the coals in … Continue reading Grilling Season is here! Tips on how to use Villa Vinee's community grills!
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Class B AIS, the name game
This weekend I'm working on a PMY column about Class B AIS, and now have three transponders up and running, which you'll hear about. But I also went over my notes and audio recording of the NMEA AIS meeting, and recalled with a smile Jorge Arroyo's dismay about repetitive and goofy recreational boat names. "We don't want 250 Rum Runners in our database!" he exclaimed. The very next day I saw Bullship moored above at Catalina Island. The truth is that we can be pretty foolish about boat names, and they are going to look…um…unprofessional on AIS target screens and Web sites…
Given what I wrote about Arroyo's NMEA talk—i.e. a new rule mandating the use of state registration numbers as AIS vessel name—I want to be extra clear that Bullship and other dumbass yacht names will be on those target screens, if their owners equip them with Class B. I don't know why the USCG made made a big deal of an idea it would change its mind on almost immediately (perhaps with some Panbot guidance), but I do know my reporting was accurate (thanks to the amazingly effective Pulse smartpen). More goofy boat names that may be coming to an AIS screen near you can be found here, and on this blog (which borrowed my photo!) and don't forget the possibilities of the vessel name/home port transom combination:
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Thanks to Chrome's new prerendering technology, some Google.com search results will appear to load almost instantly after you click on them.
Although Google.com is the most high-profile site to use this new prerendering technology, it can be used by other sites since it's been designed as a web standard. Web developers interested in learning more can see our post in the Chromium blog.
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2019 Jul. 03 07:15 AM
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Aid for Trade Global Review 2019: "Supporting Economic Diversification and Empowerment"
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will take an active part in the forthcoming Aid for Trade Global Review 2019, which will take place at the WTO headquarters in Geneva from 3 to 5 July 2019 under the theme "Supporting Economic Diversification and Empowerment". This year's theme is of particular relevance to UNIDO given industry's role in economic diversification as well as in creating decent employment opportunities for women and youth. Apart from participating in the opening plenary, UNIDO will be co-organizing the following sessions:
From Aid to Investment: Supporting Economic Diversification and Industrialization in Africa
Co-organized with the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, the session on 3 July 2019 will discuss how Official Development Assistance (ODA) can best address key bottlenecks in mobilizing public and private investment to support manufacturing capacity in Africa. A number of initiatives - such as UNIDO's Programme for Country Partnership (PCP), TICAD-supported trade and investment initiatives, and the European Union's External Investment Plan - will also be discussed.
Adding Value: Quality Infrastructure for Sustainable Development
On 4 July 2019, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and UNIDO will be co-organizing a session to discuss how robust quality infrastructure systems better position developing economies to work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The session will demonstrate the contribution of quality infrastructure to people, prosperity, and the planet.
With more than USD30 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocated every year to Aid for Trade (around 30 percent of total ODA), the Global Review constitutes an excellent opportunity to make the case that inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) matters in making trade more inclusive and ensuring that its benefits are spread further and wider. It also constitutes an excellent opportunity to review how Aid for Trade flows can better support UNIDO Member States in achieving ISID, notably in the context of the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (IDDA III). Attended by ministers of trade and development, senior representatives from international financial institutions, development partners and the private sector, the event will attract over 1,500 participants.
Please find out more about the event here.
Find out all UNIDO's involvement in Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 here.


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ĐỒNG NAI — The number of drug users is rising in the southern province of Đồng Nai, causing public concern in the region.
A meeting held by Đồng Nai Province's Party Committee on drug control and prevention has revealed that there are nearly 4,500 drug users in the province, some 1,100 more than 2017.
Of these, 820 drug users are receiving treatment at rehabilitation centres.
Most drug addicts are between 16-30 years old and have no stable jobs or are unemployed.
The drug-users tend to be young, while up to 80 per cent of them use methamphetamine.
In addition to popular drugs, some new kinds of drugs like synthetic cannabis and khát (Catha edulis) leaves are being used.
The extreme dangers of amphetamine-type stimulants, especially methamphetamine, cause difficulties in rehabilitation work.
To cope with the situation, the provincial Party Committee has asked local authorities to enhance the dissemination of drug prevention in schools, offices and residential areas.
The police, customs and health sectors in the province were requested to crack down on the trade and use of drugs while strengthening inspections of enterprises engaged in the import of substances for agriculture and other legitimate uses to slow the illegal trade and production of drugs. — VNS


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7:00pm - 11:00pm
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Saturday, September 21st -Sunday, November 2nd
Thursday (Lights On): $5
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Sunday Admission: $7
625 South Main Street
Kendallville, IN 46755
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Nightmare on Main Street is recommended for children and adults ages 13+ due to the violent and graphic scenes depicted throughout the attraction.
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Director of film about Jack Abramhoff found dead
(DEADLINE LIVE) New York Times is reporting that George Hickenlooper, director of "Casino Jack", a film starring Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday before the screening of his film.
Hickenlooper allegedly died of natural causes. He was 47.
Meanwhile, since his release from prison earlier this summer, Abramhoff has been working at a pizzeria in Baltimore while living at a half-way house.
One Response to Director of film about Jack Abramhoff found dead
Why is convicted shyster/felon Abramhoff cavorting in some pizzeria & not in prison???
How is it that Hickenlooper was well enough to direct a movie, yet now he's dead at merely 47?