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Had read a lot of bad reviews about this resort and was very apprehensive about our vacation. We had reservations at Oasis Tulum but we were checked into the Grand Oasis part of the property. We found the resort to be clean and grounds kept extremely well. The beach & water
was some of the best I have seem in cancun/cozumel area, we enjoyed swimming & snorkeling
in the protected water. Food was fair in specialty restaurants and below par in the buffets, breakfast was the best meal of the day. Stay away from Mexican restaurant in the Oasis Tulum
side of the resort, it was by far the worst excuse for a specialty restaurant we have ever experienced. Overall all for the price we paid we would return for the beach & water, if you are
looking for perfection do not go to this resort. If you can tolerate some short comings for the
price you are paying I would recommend this resort. Most of bad reviews related to the older part
of resort and we walked through it and it appeared in good repair and grounds well kept.
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H.R.5145 - To authorize the National War Dogs Monument, Inc. to establish a national monument in honor of military working dog teams.109th Congress (2005-2006)
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"I recently moved to a new home and after ""watching"" the lawn for a year decided to plant some flowers. Last fall I planted some tulips in the front of my yard near the street. This year, the area is SUPER WET and I am afraid my tulips will rot. I don't know why it is so wet there this year but I am wondering if there is something I can do to make the soil drain better or must I move the tulips? The soil is pretty much black dirt. "
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Oct 8, 2015
Boll In, Clarkson Out For Opener
The longest tenured Blue Jackets player will have a spot in the lineup on opening night.
Right wing Jared Boll, who came to training camp with a guaranteed contract but not a guaranteed spot on the roster, will skate in a familiar spot: right wing on the fourth line, next to left wing Matt Calvert and center Gregory Campbell.
It may have helped Boll's ...Continue Reading
Oct 8, 2015
Blue Jackets | Dubinsky, Jenner named alternate captains
The Blue Jackets have handed out the last of their letters, today naming veteran center Brandon Dubinsky and left wing Boone Jenner as alternate captains to captain Nick Foligno on the eve of the 2015-16 season.
"Those two guys ... I've talked about the engine under the hood, well those guys provide a lot of the horsepower for our team," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said. "There are other guys who do it, too, but those guys -- day in and day out, especially in practice -- they are the two guys who are always going.
"You're always looking for your leaders to drive it, and they help drive it."Continue Reading
Oct 8, 2015
Cannon Fodder podcast | Poised for a big season?
The Dispatch hockey writers are back to set the stage for the opening of the 2015-16 season of the Columbus Blue Jackets.Continue Reading
Oct 8, 2015
Where Are They Now?
Former Blue Jackets playing outside Columbus in the NHL, as of opening-night rosters provided by the league:
Tim Jackman
Antoine Vermette
...Continue Reading
Oct 7, 2015
Cleveland Rocks
By all accounts, the Blue Jackets' two-day, two-night getaway in Cleveland that wrapped up this morning was a rousing success, a fine way to both blow off steam after a lengthy training camp and a fitting place for two more mornings of prep in advance of Friday's season opener.
Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said there was nothing not to like about the Jackets' first-ever trip to the home of its new minor-league affiliate. His players concurred. Expect them to be back, perhaps with an exhibition in game in Quicken Loans Arena as the centerpiece of next year's agenda.
"We'll talk about it," said Richards, a frequent visitor to Cleveland during his IHL playing days. "We'll see what we liked and we didn't. For me, there was really nothing I didn't (like). It's right...Continue Reading
Oct 7, 2015
NHL Rosters, 2015-16
NEW YORK (Oct. 7, 2015) -- Following are NHL club rosters, as of 10 a.m., Eastern time today. Some players who recently have agreed to terms with their respective clubs but whose contracts had not yet been approved by the League are not included. The 2015-16 regular season begins tonight with four games:Continue Reading
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Frederik Andersen, Kevin Bieksa, Andrew Cogliano, Simon Despres, Cam Fowler ...
Oct 6, 2015
The I-71 Connection
The Blue Jackets are taking a break from routine today and Wednesday. They're skating in the suburbs of Cleveland, along with the minor-league affiliate Lake Erie, and mixing work and relaxation as they prepare for the 2015-16 season to start on Friday.
"We can get our work in, keep practicing," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said. "But it's still a change of scenery. There's still the chance to practice and keep our focus on the ice, but also have some team time together. This group is pretty close, but we have some new guys, too. I think it's a good thing for any team to do."
The Blue Jackets have gone twice ...Continue Reading
Oct 6, 2015
Girding, Golfing And Heading North
The Blue Jackets were off on Sunday after completing a wildly successful training camp. They gathered at the rink this morning - a few guys skated - and then packed their bags to head north. Bags, as in, golf and hockey bags.
First stop? Double Eagle in Galena, site of the annual Blue Jackets Foundation golf tournament this afternoon. Good cause.
Second stop? On to Cleveland (well, Strongsville), where the Blue Jackets will practice for two days in the practice rink of the minor-league affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters.
The Blue Jackets emerged from training camp plenty happy and ...Continue Reading
Oct 4, 2015
Full Throttle Finish
The Blue Jackets appear more than ready for the regular season to start. Why wait until Friday? Last night, the Jackets put a finishing stamp – or maybe stomp is the better word – on the final preseason game, a 7-1 rout over the Nashville Predators in Nationwide Arena.
"I thought we looked fast," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said. "I thought we looked heavy in the battles. We've done some good things in some other games, but I don't think we had a full 60-minute game. Today was a full 60-minute game."
It's hard to remember a Blue Jackets training camp ...Continue Reading
Oct 3, 2015
Down to 23
The Blue Jackets assigned six players to minor-league Lake Erie following a 7-1 win over Nashville tonight in Nationwide Arena, essentially finalizing the roster that will open the regular season on Friday against the New York Rangers.
Forwards Markus Hannikainen, Michael Chaput, Kerby Rychel and defensemen Andrew Bodnarchuk, Justin Falk and Dean Kukan were sent to Cleveland. Chaput, Bodnarchuk and Falk will be placed on waivers at Noon and must clear to return to the AHL.
The moves leave the Blue Jackets with 25 players, though two of them...Continue Reading
Oct 3, 2015
The Club, No. 3
It's been a while since the Blue Jackets have made training camp cuts, but the deadline is coming. They have 31 players in camp, technically, but the NHL requires that rosters (no more than 23 players per team) be set by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Here is our third installment of The Club, which seeks to provide a frame for what the Blue Jackets and AHL Lake Erie Monsters might look like, given the current picture at training camp.
There are 31 players in camp, including injured forward Daniel Zaar, who is physically in Cleveland getting treatment as part of the AHL Lake Erie Monsters. As injured players can't be cut, he's technically a Blue Jacket until doctors give him the clear.
The really difficult cuts are coming ...Continue Reading
Oct 3, 2015
Training Camp, The End
During the first seven preseason games, the Blue Jackets looked at line combinations, worked on systems and tried to acclimate to the speed of a typical NHL game. They looked inward for answers in advance of the regular season.
Today was different. Today the Jackets tried to replicate the rhythm of a regular-season game day, with a morning power play meeting, a mid-day nap, and a scheduled late-afternoon penalty kill meeting in advance of a 7 p.m. puck drop vs. Nashville in Nationwide Arena.
The Blue Jackets worked with regard to their opponent ...Continue Reading
Oct 2, 2015
Last(ing) Impressions
In the end, the kids were alright.
Using a lineup heavy on young players slated for a quick trip back to minor-league Cleveland, the Blue Jackets jumped the Buffalo Sabres tonight in First Niagara Center, scoring five straight goals against a Grade-A group of Sabres.
It was barely enough.
The Sabres, surly and surging after being embarrassed through two periods, scored four times in the third period.
But Buffalo couldn't find...Continue Reading
Oct 2, 2015
Training Camp, Day 14
The Blue Jackets signed Markus Hannikainen to two-year, entry-level contract in April, taking a low-risk chance on a 22-year-old who just finished a dazzling first season in Finland's elite league.
But Hannikainen's training camp was cut short, and his preseason schedule of games wiped clean, because of an abdominal injury suffered early in the NHL prospects tournament in Traverse City.
"Seeing the other guys play and work their ...Continue Reading
Oct 1, 2015
Blue Jackets Sign Yevenko
The Blue Jackets this afternoon signed towering defenseman Oleg Yevenko to a one-year, two-way NHL/AHL contract.
Yevenko, 6-foot-7 and 238 pounds, was signed to a minor-league contract by the Blue Jackets earlier this summer. But his standout play during the Traverse City prospects tournament and a strong showing at training camp earned him an upgrade.
"Playing against NHL players -- bigger, faster, stronger guys -- I've been impressed with how he's handled himself," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said last week.
Yevenko, 24, of Minsk, Belarus, first caught...Continue Reading
Sep 30, 2015
Training Camp, Day 13
The Blue Jackets are a day away from the two-week mark of training camp, moving ever closer to opening night, Oct. 9. That's nine days from today.
Anybody think that's too soon? Anybody longing for a month-long camp, with, say, 12 exhibition games?
Didn't think so.
Barring calamity heading into their final two exhibition games this weekend, the Blue Jackets appear to be...Continue Reading
Sep 30, 2015
Saad - Johansen - Foligno
Shortly after left wing Brandon Saad was traded from the Chicago Blackhawks to the Blue Jackets in late June, he did what any self-respecting child of the 1990s would do. He fired up YouTube.
Saad went looking for as much visual information as he could find on his new teammates, specifically center Ryan Johansen and right wing/captain Nick Foligno, who were likely to be his linemates.
"There's only so much you can do before you're actually there," Saad said. "I knew about both of those guys, and I knew their games a little bit. But I could tell by watching (online) that they have a lot of skill and smarts, and some really good passion to play the game. So that's exciting.
"And just getting here ... we're off to a good start. This will be fun."
Saad had ...Continue Reading
Sep 29, 2015
Training Camp, Day 12
The Blue Jackets have kept their projected lines and pairs mostly intact throughout the preseason schedule, and that won't change tonight in Nashville, where the Jackets will play the sixth of eight exhibition games.
Three of the top four forward lines and two of three defensive pairs will stay together in Music City. No tinkering tonight.
"There have been some things we've liked, but for me it's about getting guys the reps they need together," Richards said. "There is not one forward line that...Continue Reading
Sep 28, 2015
Training Camp, Day 11
A sense of normalcy returned to Nationwide Arena and its attached practice rink this morning, where the Blue Jackets held their first "working" practice of training camp with all players skating in one group.
Twenty-eight players participated, and the scene didn't look, sound or feel much different from one that might play out at midseason. The Jackets worked on a variety of things, including their new-look power play. They were done in 70 minutes.
The day did not...Continue Reading
Sep 26, 2015
Down To Business
PITTSBURGH – The Blue Jackets began striking a more serious tone on Friday, the morning after a hum-drum loss to the Minnesota Wild in Nationwide Arena brought them to the mid-point of their exhibition schedule.
The importance of preseason can only be dismissed so long, it seems, especially for a club with a reputation for slow starts in the regular season.
Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards put together a lineup for Saturday's game in Pittsburgh that could be seen as a wake-up call. The Blue Jackets played their projected top three forward lines and their projected top two pairs in a surprisingly robust 4-2 win over the Penguins in CONSOL Energy Center.
Oh, and No. 1 goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky ...Continue Reading
Sep 26, 2015
Jackets Trim Four More From Roster
The Blue Jackets made four roster cuts after tonight's 4-2 win over Pittsburgh in CONSOL Energy Center.
Defenseman Oleg Yevenko and goaltenders Anton Fosberg and Joonas Korpisalo were sent to AHL Lake Erie, which opens training camp on Monday.
Forward Brett Gallant will be placed on waivers at noon Sunday. If he clears, he'll join the other three in Lake Erie.
The Blue Jackets roster now sits at 31 players.
Yevenko ...Continue Reading
Sep 26, 2015
Training Camp, Day 9
The Blue Jackets will begin the second half of their exhibition season this afternoon in Pittsburgh, where the NHL Network will pick up the local TV feed and beam a 4 p.m. game to a national audience.
Good timing for that. Sidney Crosby and Phil Kessel are in the Penguins' lineup. Blue Jackets forward Brandon Saad will make his overdue club debut in his hometown.
Saad, born and raised in Pittsburgh, was struck...Continue Reading
Sep 26, 2015
The Club, No. 2
The Blue Jackets have had two rounds of training camp cuts, sending 14 players out on each occassion. The boldest whack came Friday, when top prospects Oliver Bjorkstrand and Sonny Milano were handed early exits.
Here is our second installment of The Club, which seeks to provide a frame for what the Blue Jackets and AHL Lake Erie Monsters might look like, given the current picture at training camp.
There are 35 players in camp. There could be further cuts on ...Continue Reading
Sep 25, 2015
Blue Jackets Cut 14 From Camp
The Blue Jackets cut 14 more players from the training camp roster today, including some of their top prospects.
Forwards Oliver Bjorkstrand, Sonny Milano, Alex Broadhurst, Nick Moutrey, Lukas Sedalk and T.J. Tynan were sent to AHL Lake Erie, along with defensemen Dillon Heatherington, Michael Paliotta and John Ramage.
Defensemen Austin Madaisky and Jaime Sifers were placed on waivers. If they clear at noon Saturday, they'll be assigned to AHL Lake Erie, which opens camp on Monday.
The following players were...Continue Reading
Sep 25, 2015
Clarkson Avoids NHL Punishment
Blue Jackets right wing David Clarkson will not face supplemental punishment from the NHL for his knee-on-knee hit with Minnesota forward Justin Fontaine during the Wild's 5-2 win in Nationwide Arena on Thursday.
A source told The Dispatch that the NHL, after reviewing the incident using club-provided game film, determined that Clarkson's punishment by NHL officials during the game was deemed sufficient. Clarkson was given a major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct at 1:03 of the first period.
Clarkson is no ...Continue Reading
Sep 24, 2015
Unwelcome Wrinkles
A 5-2 exhibition loss to the Minnesota Wild tonight in Nationwide Arena did not sit well with the Blue Jackets.
A three-goal loss at home is never pleasant, no. But the consternation had more to do with the matters that mucked up the fourth of eight preseason games.
First, there was the ejection of right wing David Clarkson for a kneeing major just 63 seconds into the game. That begat a 5-minute Minnesota power play, which begat the game's first goal, scored by Wild defenseman Christian Folin with just 11 seconds remaining in the Clarkson penalty.
The Clarkson major...Continue Reading
Sep 24, 2015
Training Camp, Day 7
Much has been made of the Blue Jackets' awful run-in with injuries last season, but the endless, devastating run of injuries crept all the way down into the minor leagues. Not only did the AHL club - then in Springfield, Mass. - lose players to call-ups, but they lost their own players to various maladies.
Goaltender Anton Forsberg had a maginificent first half, then succumbed to injuries in the second half. Twice the club lost their leading scorer -- defenseman Austin Madaisky was leading the club in early March when he suffered an ankle injury, and forward Kerby Rychel was leading the way when he suffered a concussion.
A not-so-funny funny nugget: ...Continue Reading
Sep 23, 2015
Sherwood, Vogelhuber Among First Cuts
The Blue Jackets have made their first cuts of training camp, sending 14 players back to the junior ranks, the minor leagues or Europe. The roster now stands at 49 players.
Forwards Paul Bittner (Portland - WHL), Keegan Kolesar (Seattle - WHL), Julien Pelletier (Sherbrooke - QMJHL) and Kole Sherwood (London - OHL) , and defensemen Olivier LeBlanc (Cape Breton - QMJHL), Sam Ruopp (Prince George - WHL) and Blake Siebenaler (Niagara - OHL) were returned to their junior clubs.
Sherwood, of New Albany ...Continue Reading
Sep 23, 2015
Time To Trim
Later today, perhaps by lunchtime, the Blue Jackets will be a slimmer, sleeker team.
General manager Jarmo Kekalainen said before a 5-2 split-squad exhibition loss in St. Louis tonight that the club expects to cut its 63-man training-camp roster down to fewer than 50. The remaining players will be split into two practice groups instead of three. The focus will narrow.
Some of the...Continue Reading
Sep 22, 2015
Finding A Fourth
Ryan Johansen, Nick Foligno and Sergei Bobrovsky starred in the Blue Jackets' 3-1 exhibition victory over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday in Nationwide Arena. Johansen had a goal and an assists. Foligno had two assists. Bobrovsky stopped all 24 shots in two periods of work.
That's what the Jackets have come to expect from their two 2015 All-Stars and the 2013 Vezina Trophy winner.
The mysteries reside lower in the lineup. Here's one: ...Continue Reading
Sep 22, 2015
Training Camp, Day 5
It's Day 5 of Blue Jackets training camp, and the bumps and bruises are starting to make an impact after several intense practices and a preseason game. Relax, people. It's not 2014-15 anymore. These are minor, day-to-day injuries.
The Blue Jackets had two game-day practice groups because they have two games tonight: the St. Louis Blues at Blue Jackets is a 7 p.m. puck drop in Nationwide Arena. One hour later, the Blue Jackets play the Blues in Scottrade Center.
A third group of non gameday participants practiced this afternoon, and it was a space group: 16 players.
Blue Jackets left wing Brandon Saad ...Continue Reading
Sep 21, 2015
Korpisalo Shines In Exhibition Opener
Goaltender Joonas Korpisalo arrived in Columbus from Finland on August 3, leaving himself plenty of time to get acclimated to a new continent, new teammates, and the smaller rinks of the NHL.
"It was a great idea for me to come over early," Korpisalo said. "The people are so nice here; the city is nice. I feel very comfortable and happy."
That comfort extended to the ice Monday night, when, in the first NHL action of his career, Korpisalo had a 39-save shutout in a 1-0 shootout loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the exhibition opener in Nationwide Arena.
Like most exhibition openers ...Continue Reading
Sep 21, 2015
Lace 'Em Up
Real, live hockey returns to Nationwide Arena this evening, when the sort-of Blue Jackets will open their exhibition season against the sort-of Pittsburgh Penguins.
Sadly, there were no hordes of desperate fans stampeding to the box-office windows this morning in anticipation of seeing the Pens -- minus Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Phil Kessel, Kris Letang, etc. – square off against Blue Jackets Practice Group 1.
"It's probably going to be...Continue Reading
Sep 21, 2015
The Club, No. 1
The first three days of Blue Jackets' training camp are done. The new system is in place -- Todd Richards wants his group to be more aggressive this season -- and now the filtering begins, through preseason games and practices.
The Blue Jackets still have 63 players in camp, but that will change on Wednesday when the first round of cuts come down. The Jackets plan to have only two practice groups as of Thursday, so expect a fair number of players to go.
The is only The Club, No. 1. We'll do at least a few more of these as training camp makes its way to the start of the regular season.
A few clarifications: ...Continue Reading
Sep 20, 2015
Training Camp, Day 3
Scott Hartnell hasn't skated on a third line since early in his career, maybe his rookie season with Nashville. Matt Calvert is not viewed as a fourth-line talent, but that's where he's skating so far in Blue Jackets training camp.
The Blue Jackets' scoring depth -- and make no doubt, it's never been this deep in Columbus -- has put proven players in new roles.
"If you look at the teams that have won the last four or five years, this is how it is," Hartnell said. "The team that comes to mind for me is Boston. (The Bruins) had one of the best fourth lines in hockey with (Gregory) Campbell ...Continue Reading
Sep 20, 2015
Training Camp, Day 2
David Clarkson spent his summer getting settled in Columbus and decompressing after what must have felt like a three-year sentence in Toronto. Rene Bourque, meanwhile, nursed a back injury back to health and prepared to resume "fighting for his career" after running aground with Montreal and Anaheim last season.
The Blue Jackets' two big reclamation projects are underway, now two days deep into training camp.
If Clarkson and Bourque can turn the clock back four years on their careers -- that's when they last played at their peaks in the NHL -- the Blue Jackets will have as much firepower as any club in the NHL.
"I'm not looking at what they did previously ...Continue Reading
Sep 18, 2015
Training Camp, Day 1
The NHL's salary cap barely grew and the Canadian dollar continued to lag – those are two big reasons NHL free agency was more conservative than ever this summer. The music stopped with so many established players still looking for a chair.
One of those players, veteran forward James Sheppard, is in camp with the Blue Jackets on a player-tryout agreement, hoping to earn a full-fledged contract with his play.
"This was not my expectation," Sheppard said. "I've never been through something like this. I'm just grateful to have an opportunity, to be where I'm at."
What a sobering summer:
On May 29, Sheppard and the New York Rangers ...Continue Reading
Sep 17, 2015
Blue Jackets Hope To Establish Lines, Pairs Early In Training Camp
There will be surprises. Anybody who has ever followed the Blue Jackets through training camp knows that the best laid plans are always altered -- good or bad -- by the events that unfold between now and the regular-season opener.
But how the team is aligned when it opens camp sheds significant light on what coaches and management are thinking, how they view the Blue Jackets when everyone is healthy.
Here's what the Blue Jackets NHL-level forward lines will look like at the start of camp:
F1: Brandon Saad - Ryan Johansen ...Continue Reading
Sep 16, 2015
Blue Jackets Training Camp Schedule
(Group rosters TBA; Full roster here. Practices in Ice Haus are free and open to the public)
Friday, Sept. 18 (Ice Haus): Group 1, 9 a.m.; Group 2, 11:30 a.m.; Group 3, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 19: (Ice Haus and Nationwide Arena, all sessions open to public on this day): Group 2, 9 a.m.; Group 3, 11:45 a.m.; Group 1, 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 20 (IH and NWA): Group 3, 9 a.m.; Group 1, 11:45 a.m.; Group 2, 2:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 21...Continue Reading
Sep 16, 2015
Happy And Healthy
The Blue Jackets released their training camp roster this afternoon, and it is not the length or the names printed on the 63-man list that were foremost on the mind of president of hockey operations John Davidson this afternoon.
"I know one thing going in: We're healthy," Davidson said during his opening remarks at the team's annual media day luncheon. "That's a real strong improvement for us."
The Blue Jackets, you'll remember were derailed by a franchise-record, NHL-high 508 man-games lost to injury last season. Davidson reiterated that, after much study, it was determined that bad luck was the culprit. The injury list is only...Continue Reading
Sep 16, 2015
Blue Jackets Training Camp Roster
The 63 players listed on the Blue Jackets training camp roster released this afternoon:
Forwards (37): 9 Gregory Campbell, 11 Matt Calvert, 12 Ryan Craig, 13 Cam Atkinson, 17 Brandon Dubinsky, 18 Rene Bourque, 19 Ryan Johnansen, 20 Brandon Saad, 21 Kerby Rychel, 22 Sonny Milano, 23 David Clarkson, 24 Antti Pihlstrom, 25 William Karlsson, 28 Oliver Bjorkstrand, 32 James Sheppard, 33 Markus Hannikainen, 34 Josh Anderson, 38 Boone Jenner, 39 Michael Chaput, 40 Jared Boll, 41 Alexander Wennberg, 43 Scott Hartnell, 45 Lukas Sedlak, 49 T.J. Tynan, 50 Nick Moutrey, 56 Brett Gallant, 57 Paul Bittner, 62 Alex Broadhurst, 63 Daniel Zaar, 64 Dante Salituro, 71 Nick Foligno, 75 Peter Quenneville, 76 Trent Vogelhuber, 77 Seth Ambroz, 79 Julien Pelletier, 85 Keegan Kolesar, 88 Kole Sherwood
Defensemen (20): 2 Andrew Bodnarchuk, 4 Kevin Connaution, 7 Jack Johnson, 27 Ryan Murray, 29 Cody Goloubef, 36 Michael Paliotta, 37 Dylan Heatherington, 44 Justin Falk, 46 Dean Kukan, 47 Dalton Prout, 48 Jamie Sifers, 51 Fedor Tyutin, 54 Austin Madaisky, 55 John Ramage, 58 David Savard, 66 Oleg Yevenko, 78 Blake Siebenaler, 82 Oliver LeBlanc, 86 Sam Ruopp, 87 Veeti Vainio
Goaltenders (6): 30 Curtis McElhinney, 31 Anton Forsberg, 60 Brad Thiessen, 70 Joonas Korpisalo, 72 Sergei Bobrovsky, 80 Dustin Carlson
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Sep 15, 2015
Jackets Snag Second Straight Title
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Even though they were defending champions, the Blue Jackets' top prospects didn't feel like favorites last night – not in front of a partisan crowd full of Detroit Red Wings sweaters.
That only made lifting the Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup sweeter.
Left wing Kerby Rychel fueled the Blue Jackets' top line with one goal and two assists, and the Jackets beat the Red Wings 5-2 to win the NHL prospects tournament for the second straight year.
"It was a big challenge for us in front of Detroit's crowd," Rychel said. ...Continue Reading
Sep 14, 2015
Traverse City, Day 3
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- With wins on Friday and Saturday, the Blue Jackets already had earned a return to trip to the championship game of the NHL prospects tournament. Good thing yesterday's game vs. the New York Rangers was essentially meaningless.
The Rangers won 4-0, snapping the Blue Jackets' six-game winning streak at this event. The Jackets, who had scored 13 goals in the first two games, were stopped on all 38 shots by New York goaltender Jacob Smith.
Even so, the Blue Jackets (2-1-0) will play ...Continue Reading
Sep 12, 2015
Traverse City, Day 2
Oliver Bjorkstrand had a five-point game -- two goals and two assists coming in the third period -- to lead the Blue Jackets to a 8-5 win over the Minnesota Wild at the NHL prospects tournament in Traverse City, Mich.
T.J. Tynan also had two goals for the Blue Jackets, who had 11 players reach the scoresheet.
The Blue Jackets, who won this tournament last year, are 2-0 heading into Monday's 3:30 p.m. matchup vs. the New York Rangers.
This was a Wild affair ... literally. ...Continue Reading
Sep 11, 2015
Traverse City, Day 1
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – In retrospect, Sonny Milano's face-plant into the end boards barely one period into last year's NHL Prospects Tournament was a painful harbinger of what awaited the Blue Jackets in 2014-15.
A week later, the Jackets announced that veteran forward Nathan Horton had a serious back injury and was out indefinitely, and that defenseman Ryan Murray was out indefinitely with a lingering knee ailment. So began an incomprehensible cascade of bad news.
Last night, after a 5-2 win over St. Louis on the opening day ...Continue Reading
Sep 10, 2015
NHL, Blue Jackets To Tighten Security
Blue Jackets fans can expect a slower entrance to Nationwide Arena beginning this season.
The NHL announced today that it is tightening its security policy, requiring all fans to clear metal detectors before entering arenas. In most places, including Nationwide Arena, handheld wands have been during the last several seasons.
Fans will be asked to remove keys, phones ...Continue Reading
Sep 8, 2015
Jackets' Savard Signs 5-Year Extension
The Blue Jackets have signed defenseman David Savard to a five-year, $21.25 million contract extension, a deal that begins next season and runs through 2020-21. He would have been a restricted free agent next summer.
"It's a vote of confidence from (Blue Jackets' GM) Jarmo Kekalainen and (president of hockey operations) John Davidson," Savard said. "That feels so good, because I have worked so hard to get to this point and this is where I really want to play for a long time now."
This is the final season in the two-year contract Savard signed after 2013-14. He'll make $1.3 million.
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What's that sound, you ask? Oh sorry, that's me pounding my head against this desk after seeing the set lists from the third annual edition of the Kiss Kruize. The group broke out a generous helping of rarely heard early songs for these cruise ship shows, including their first-ever performances of 'Almost Human' and 'Anything for My Baby.'
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"Bring a machete, and let's do this!" With those seven words to his wife's hairdresser, Ted Nugent removed himself from the ranks of longhaired rock stars last week. But is his sharp new look part of a plan to run for President of the United States of America?
On Oct. 11, 1983, Kiss performed the first-ever show without their trademark facepaint. The change helped revitalize the band's sagging commercial fortunes, but also marked the beginning of an extended "troubling time" for founding member Gene Simmons.
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Writing in his always-entertaining blog a few weeks ago, Whitney Tilson gave a nice nod to Dan Willingham's New York Times op-ed addressing the sorry state of American teacher preparation. Amid effusive praise of the piece, Whitney writes, "I think morphemes and phonemes matter too but maybe not as much as Willingham does." This gently stated but dismissive view of the importance of reading instruction troubles me because I think it captures a viewpoint widely shared by many education reformers. I don't think it's because there are many education reformers who reject the science here (unlike many in teacher preparation). Researchers long ago identified the reading methods that would reduce the current deplorable rate of reading failure from 30 percent to somewhere well south of 10 percent, if only schools would take that step. Teacher preparation programs that fail to impress upon elementary teacher candidates the integral connection between spoken sounds and written words are essentially committing malpractice. Instead, I think the issue for some education reformers is that other reforms seem much more important. I can't figure out why there are still perfectly reasonable, rational people who aren't willing to embrace the 2 + 2...
The Seventy Four had a simple goal: to make the 2016 presidential election season one in which candidates could pause in their frenzy of backstabbing and baby kissing to talk about education. In a first-of-its-kind education forum, the site (with the help of sponsor and cohost the American Federation for Children) invited presidential candidates to discuss their vision for public schools. Republicans spoke in August, and Democrats were supposed to take their turn later this month.
But as Politico recently reported, the Democrats declined their invitations. It's a missed opportunity. Worse, nobody seems to know why the candidates backed out.
Campbell Brown, the Seventy Four's co-founder and would-be forum moderator, says it's due to pressure from teachers' unions (both the AFT and NEA have publically endorsed Hillary Clinton). "What happened here is very clear: The teachers' unions have gotten to these candidates," Brown told Politico. "All we asked is that these candidates explain their vision for public education in this country, and how we address the inequality that leaves so many poor children behind." Representatives from the unions, unsurprisingly, won't verify her claim. More troubling, the candidates won't comment on their refusal to join in the debate. They're remaining...
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children. – John Dewey
The intuitive appeal of this oft-quoted maxim is obvious. It speaks to the conviction that all of the children in a community or a country are "our kids" and that we should want the very best for them just as we do for our own flesh and blood.
Taken literally, however, it is also problematic, for it equates "sameness" with "equity." That's an error in part because what "the best and wisest parents" want varies—some seek traditional schools, others favor progressive ones, etc.
But it's also a mistake because children's needs vary. Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stability. And when it comes to their schools, poor kids may need something a whole lot different. That's why I'm a big fan of No Excuses charter schools, which are showing great promise for low-income children—even if they might not be a good fit for many of their upper-middle class peers.
Remember all those pitched battles and screaming matches over Common Core? The furious charges of federal overreach? The demands to "repeal every word" of it? As children return to school across the country this week, Common Core remains largely intact in more than forty states. At the same time, new evidence suggests that the much tougher Common Core challenges—the ones emanating from inside classrooms—have only just begun.
Results from the initial round of Common Core-aligned tests (administered last spring) have been trickling out for the past few weeks in more than a dozen states. The results have been sobering, but not unexpected. Recall that the No Child Left Behind years were an era of rampant grade inflation. States whose students performed poorly on the benchmark National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) routinely rated the vast majority of their students on or above grade level, simply because states were allowed to set their own bar for success and thus had a perverse incentive to declare ever-greater numbers of kids proficient. The result was a comforting illusion of student competence that was shattered when "proficient" kids got to college and needed remediation,...
Between 2010 and 2012, more than forty states adopted the Common Core standards in reading and math, setting dramatically higher expectations for students in our elementary and secondary schools. Now comes a critical milestone in this effort. In the coming weeks, parents in most states will receive for the first time their children's scores on new tests aligned to the standards. The news is expected to be sobering, and it may come as a shock for many. Parents shouldn't shoot the messenger.
It is important to remember why so many states started down this path in the first place. Under federal law, every state must test children each year in grades 3–8 to ensure they are making progress. That's a good idea. Parents deserve to know if their kids are learning, and taxpayers are entitled to know if the money we spend on schools is being used wisely.
But it is left to states to define what it means to be "proficient" in math and reading. Unfortunately, most states have historically set a very low bar (often called "juking the stats"). The result was a comforting illusion that most of our...
Most of the sturm und drang over Common Core has centered on the politics of the standards' creation and adoption. The bigger problem—much bigger—was always going to be implementation. This new brief from the Education Trust offers a glimpse of how it's going. Alas, the answer is not very well.
An analysis of middle school classroom assignments finds that most "do not reflect the high-level goals" set by Common Core. This, the report suggests, demonstrates where teachers are in their understanding of the higher standards. Among the sobering data points: A mere 6 percent of the assignment fell into the high range of Education Trust's analysis framework, and fewer than 40 percent of assignments were aligned with grade-appropriate standards at all. "It's time for an honest conversation about where we are in implementing the standards," the report concludes.
Hear, hear—but some important caveats must be noted. The study was conducted at six middle schools spread across two urban districts in two states. Given Education Trust's focus on equity and the achievement gap, this is not surprising; however, it may not be representative of K–12 education at large. It's also interesting that more than half of the assignments reviewed came from...
Standardized tests are commonly blamed for narrowing the school curriculum to reading and math. That's one reason Congress is considering changes in the law that could lead states to put less emphasis on test scores. But even if we abolished standardized tests tomorrow, a majority of elementary schools would continue to pay scant attention to subjects like history and science.
Consider this: In 1977, twenty-five years before No Child Left Behind ushered in the era of high-stakes testing, elementary school teachers spent only about fifty minutes each day on science and social studies combined. True, in 2012, they spent even less time on those subjects—but only by about ten minutes.
The root cause of today's narrow elementary curriculum isn't testing, although that has exacerbated the trend. It's a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills—strategies like "finding the main idea"—rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.
Many elementary students spend hours practicing skills-based strategies, reading a book about zebras one day and a story about wizards the next.
That's a problem for all students:...
On Wednesday, the American Federation for Children sponsored and cohosted with the Seventy Four a first-of-its-kind summit at which six Republican presidential candidates talked about American education. They discussed hot-button K–12 education issues—Common Core, teachers' unions, school choice—but struggled to name the exact role a president should play in that arena.
"A president can do many things; it doesn't mean it should," former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said.
Most candidates questioned the purpose of the Department of Education and favored state control of schools. Fiorina said the amount of money flowing through Washington does not correlate with student improvements.
"The federal government is the last place in the world I want holding states and local school districts accountable," said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. But when pressed by Seventy Four editor-in-chief and summit host Campbell Brown, candidates agreed that presidential influence is the most useful tool for a president to move the needle on education.
"The bully pulpit needs to be used," former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said. "This is crisis. Hundreds of thousands of kids can't get jobs because of the skills gap….This has got to be the highest priority for the next president of...
The poll results that Education Next released yesterday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure. That dimming enthusiasm for change is apt to dominate coverage of the survey findings and the debates that follow.
Yet two other big-picture tendencies are also visible in these data, and it strikes me that they matter more over the long run than any one year's blips around particular reform ideas.
First, when it comes to fundamental principles and practices regarding K–12 education, the American public is generally pretty sensible and steadfast. More on this below.
Second, when it comes to important basic facts regarding that very same K–12 education system, the American public is stunningly ignorant. This is especially true on the fiscal side. Poll respondents underestimated by half how much money is spent per pupil in their local schools. They're...


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WHAT IT IS: Scituate Clergy Association and leaders from the wider community will join together to respond to the crisis of opiate addiction that has affected Scituate and the greater South Shore community.
WHEN: The Day of Hope is Sunday, March 30.
SUNDAY SERVICES: The following congregations will offer services on this theme:
Christ Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) – 9:30 a.m.; www.clc-scituate.org.
First Baptist Church; First Trinitarian (UCC) – 10 a.m.; www.firstbaptistscituate.com.
First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church – 10:30 a.m.; www.firstparishscituate.org.
First Trinitarian Congregational Church UCC – 10 a.m.; www.ftccscituate.org.
Harbor United Methodist Church – 10:30 a.m.; www.humcscituate.org.
St. Luke's Episcopal Church – 10 a.m.; www.saintlukesscituate.com.
GATHERING AT LAWSON COMMON: All are welcome to gather on Lawson Common on First Parish Road at 6:30 p.m. for United in Hope - a Community Vigil. Speakers will share first hand experiences of addiction and recovery.
CANDLES AND PRAYER: The evening will conclude at 7:30 p.m. with a candle lit period of quiet and prayer as attendees think about those lost, those who struggle with addiction, those who are in recovery and those who are affected by a loved one's substance use.
RESOURCES AND MATERIALS: A resource area will be available before and after the vigil with take-home materials with volunteers to assist with questions, including Patrick Cronin, coordinator for the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery; Mary D'Eramo, chair of the Norwell Chapter of Learn to Cope (www.learn2cope.org); and Scituate FACTS Coalition (www.scituatefacts.org). Educational materials and local resources for support groups, recovery programs and information about Narcan will also be available.
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PORTLAND, Ore., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- For the millions of people who long for a good night sleep but find traditional remedies such as drugs, sound machines or natural supplements ineffective, help is on the way. Coherence Resources, Inc. is announcing the first sleep-assisting device that silently helps the user adjust his or her breathing rhythm to a pattern that delivers natural sleep.
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Young children and teens can become sexually victimized — especially via the Internet — when they don't realize they are being "groomed" by canny adults, say experts on child exploitation.
To parents, "our basic message is get that [personal computer] out of the bedroom and put it in a public place and set some limits and know what your kids are doing," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Internet plays a huge role in child exploitation, and adults who work with youths should do so only in ways that are above reproach, Mr. Allen said.
This means "don't use instant messaging in the middle of the night," he added.
The use of e-mails and instant messages as exploitation tools has been garnering attention since recent news reports of former Rep. Mark Foley's sexually explicit electronic messages with former congressional pages, who were teenagers at the time.
The Florida Republican resigned his office, has entered an alcoholism rehabilitation program and is being investigated by law-enforcement agencies.
"Any suggestion that Mark Foley is a pedophile is false, categorically false," Mr. Foley's attorney, David Roth, told a televised press conference in Florida last week . "Mark Foley denies ever, ever having any sexual contact with a minor."
However, Mr. Foley's online conversations with several male pages, which focused on the teens' physical activities and genitals, sound like grooming practices employed by sexual predators, sex-abuse experts said.
Typically, a relationship starts out "in a very innocent way," with the predator acting like a friend to the victim, said Lynn Parrish, spokeswoman for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN).
The predator develops the friendship by giving the young person gifts, empathizing with his or her problems and building a relationship of trust, she said. But at some point, the relationship takes a sexual turn, "and because it happens gradually over time … young people miss these cues."
"Teens don't recognize the grooming when they see it; the kid is totally oblivious to it until it's too late," said Patrick Trueman, the former head of the Justice Department's unit on child exploitation and obscenity.
Once sexual contact is made, the predator will "hold it over you," he said. He can pressure the child for more sexual contact, saying, "'Oh, if you don't do this again, I've got these pictures of you now. Your friends are going to know all about this. We're just alike. You're just like me.'"
Children and teens will feel shame and confusion and refuse to talk about what happened, even though they should, Mr. Trueman said. This, in turn, can lead to "a cycle of abuse," in which the youths become promiscuous or turn to substance abuse.
"The effects can last a lifetime unless you get help," said Ms. Parrish, who urged victims of sexual abuse to call RAINN's hot line, 800/656-HOPE.


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The world risks a repeat of the disastrous 2006 bird flu outbreaks unless surveillance and control of this and other dangerous animal diseases is strengthened globally, FAO warns.
"The continuing international economic downturn means less money is available for prevention of H5N1 bird flu and other threats of animal origin. This is not only true for international organizations but also countries themselves," says FAO Chief Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth. "Even though everyone knows that prevention is better than cure, I am worried because in the current climate governments are unable to keep up their guard."
Continued strict vigilance is required, however, given that large reservoirs of the H5N1 virus still exist in some countries in Asia and the Middle East, in which the disease has become endemic. Without adequate controls, it could easily spread globally as it did at its peak in 2006, when 63 countries were affected.


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Hi GT, welcome to the group.
My Civil War interests started with the letters that my great-grandfather wrote home from the Civil War.
You expressed an interest in General Thomas. My great-grandfather thought highly of him also.
See: http://www.genealogycenter.info/fam_kendrickletters.php
page 105 and maybe General Thomas thought okay of my great-grandfather also, pages 252-254.
Dave. (dave0718@...)
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Having seen a few photos from this location last year, I decided to scout about the area during day light, in hope of returning for some night time shooting. It's only 30 miles away, and as you can see from the maps at the end, i've only really covered the cooling tower and one pool!
I decided to convert to Black and White again, purely as each shot was so drastically different colour wise, the video did't flow well. It does add to the rough, run-down feel of the area.
I like how the shot opens and ends with the energy efficient wind turbines, the only downside is I didn't get any focus > out of focus transitions! Still too excited with the glidetrack!
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I second that sentiment. I don't think it's any accident that Shoe Artist has posted three or four fits in a row which seriously push the envelope of classic style, and yet none of them have screamed "fail".
Good colour and texture coordination, and rather than just tweaking the slider between City Boy and Landed Gentry, he's striking out along a perpendicular axis of RockStar/Grunge. Some might say that dimension belongs more to SWD, but personally I think it's high time it was recognised as being part of Classic Style.
Of course, that makes everything more difficult. But hey, life wasn't meant to be easy. Right?


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Government should be open about 'outsourced emissions' according to Committee.
The Government should be straightforward about the impact that UK consumption is having on the world's climate, according to a report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee.
The MPs warn that:
- UK's record on cutting greenhouse gases is not as good as DECC figures suggest
- Carbon dioxide emissions from imported goods consumed in the UK are going up faster than Government is cutting CO2 at home
- Government figures on consumption-based emissions - from imported goods - show that carbon dioxide emissions in 2009 were 20% higher than in 1990.
Tim Yeo MP, Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, said:
"Successive governments have claimed to be cutting climate-changing emissions, but in fact a lot of pollution has simply been outsourced overseas.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change likes to argue that the UK is only responsible for 2% of the world's CO2 emissions, but the Government's own research shows this not to be the case.
We get through more consumer goods than ever before in the UK and this is pushing up emissions in manufacturing countries like China."
The Department for Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) official CO2 figures - that count territorial emissions from power stations and transport, etc, within UK borders - show nearly 20% reduction between 1990–2009. But research commissioned by the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reveals that CO2 emissions were 20% higher in 2009 if consumption based emissions - from imported goods - are included.
The fall in territorial emissions was not mainly the consequence of the Government's climate policy, according to the report. Rather it was the result of the shift in manufacturing industries away from the UK and the switch from coal to gas-fired electricity generation that began in the early 1990s. Since 1990 carbon dioxide emissions from imports have almost doubled (from 166 million tonnes (Mt) CO2 to 331 Mt CO2 in 2009).
If the UK wishes to encourage emissions reductions in countries that manufacture and export goods to the UK, the MPs say the Government should recognise the growth in the UK's consumption-based emissions. Acknowledging that UK consumption is driving up territorial emissions in other countries could increase the UK's leverage over those emissions and help to secure a binding global agreement on carbon cuts.
Tim Yeo MP added:
"The UK can scarcely lecture countries like China for failing to sign up to binding emissions cuts when much of their pollution is produced making products for us and other high-consumption economies.
We are not saying that consumption emissions should form the basis of a new global climate treaty, but a more honest approach about our contribution to rising CO2 levels could help to break the stalemate."
The report concludes that the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) should no longer rely exclusively on territorial emissions as its primary policy driver. There is sufficiently robust data available to develop new policy options and identify carbon-intensive behaviours that are overlooked by concentrating on territorial emissions alone. Ministers should explore the options for incorporating consumption-based emissions data in to the policy making process and setting emissions targets on a consumption-basis at the national level.
Tim Yeo MP said:
"Without a complete picture of the UK's impact on the global climate, DECC runs the risk of designing energy and climate change policies that produce perverse unintended consequences.
The Government should commission the Committee on Climate Change to examine how the UK could incorporate consumption emissions accounting into our climate change policy.
Better information on the emissions embedded in products could also encourage individuals and businesses to reduce their own carbon footprint."
DECC has claimed that it would be too difficult to count consumption - based emissions. However, the MPs argue that the Government should not use the uncertainties inherent to consumption-based emissions data as an excuse for inaction. The MPs point out that several local authorities are already using consumption data to inform policy making and researchers for DEFRA have calculated the UK's consumption impact with only small margin of uncertainty. The independent Committee on Climate Change - set up to advise the Government on its carbon budgets - has told the MPs that it would welcome the opportunity to explore the implications that consumption-based emissions accounting might have for the UK's carbon budgets, and that it could undertake such work after it publishes its fourth progress report on the carbon budget in June 2012.
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Create now provides an avenue for volunteers who have the time and the heart to help others who could greatly benefit. My experience in dealing with at-risk youth and teaching them how to create things was so rewarding, because it gave them confidence that they could create awesome things themselves, and it also gave these kids something to look forward to every week. In the short summer that I volunteered with the organization, I developed great relationships with many awesome people.
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