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|NHL Conference Call with Savard (and what he said to Laraque Saturday night)
|11.24.08 at 4:24 pm ET
Bruins center Marc Savard had an NHL-sponsored conference call with assorted media members after being named last week's First Start in the NHL Three Stars competition. Here's a partial transcript from this afternoon's call with reporters, including some interesting thoughts on the Laraque/Lucic confrontation last weekend and the punch-filled turning point for this season's team. I skipped a few probing questions for Savard about John Tavares and the Oshawa Generals, but let's just say that he thinks the youngster is a player and doesn't mind that he'll break his junior scoring records with the Generals. So now you can sleep knowing that. Here's Savard:
From a plus/minus standpoint you're having the best year of your career. What have you done to improve that? MS: Well, I don't know. I've just been building every year since Coach Hartley helped me out in Atlanta. Then I came here and I've learned a lot from Claude. So things have helped in that way, and then obviously playing in our system makes it a lot easier to be a better plus player than I've been in the past.
It's right there and [Claude] tells us exactly what to do and it's right there in front of us. You trust in your teammates and they do their job and it makes it a lot easier. It's that and a lot of little things. Being down low and what exactly do you do when you're down there and being better away from the puck has really helped me too.
Do you feel you're a more complete player this year? MS:Yeah, I do. I'm killing penalties this year. It's the first year in the NHL that I've done that and I'm taking a lot of big faceoffs. It's nice to be counted on like that, it feels good and hopefully we keep on playing like that.
The Boston Bruins success has raised a lot of eyebrows around the league. What are you doing to keep playing this well? MS: We're just playing together, you know, and we really get along so well. I know a lot of teams say that, but we really do. If something needs to be said, well then we air it out in the room and we go from there.
When Dallas came in here, I think I really look at that as our turning point for the season. We started off with a .500 schedule through our first six games, and Dallas came in here and we had a big game against them. We just grew from there, and we've just been on a pretty good roll since then.
If Dallas was the turning point, then what did the two recent wins against Montreal do? MS:Yeah, obviously it's a huge rivalry. We're not the biggest fans of the Canadiens, and I'm sure they're not the biggest fans of us, so it's nice to be able to finally get some wins against them. I think we're just building off it and rolling over, and we're just a confident team right now. We know that we have to work hard to get our victories.
Can you talk about how much instant impact Lucic has had with Boston. MS: Well, I knew from Day One of training camp last year when I went right to our GM and said that this guy is ready. I knew with his size and stuff. I played with him in one exhibition game early on, and I think it was against the Islanders in Halifax or New Brunswick or something. I knew right then that he was ready to play. He has more skill than everybody gives him credit for, and I can see that when he makes good little plays.
We've been working well together, so hopefully if he continues to do that then he's going to have a great career. After the playoffs when he was a huge presence for us in the playoffs, I think he's just rolled that over into this year. Playing on my wing, I can take advantage of it and chip it into the corner knowing that he's going for it. There's not too many guy that are going to be the first one back there when he's going. He's a great addition, and we have a good mix on the line. So it's nice to have him on the line.
Julien has been active in moving players around. Can you talk about the defensive awareness that you and Phil have? MS: Playing with Phil and Milan, they're both younger guys — and for myself too — for us to be out there and get the minutes that we want to get we try and stress to each other to be good defensively. If we're good defensively then we're going to get a lot of offense. Really it feels like we haven't been in our zone that much for that reason. We've been getting back hard, breaking up plays and getting it back in. We're having a lot of fun as a line.
Like you said, Kess has really worked hard at that aspect so he can be out there in those situations. As he gets older he's obviously going to be a top guy at both ends [of the ice].
PJ Axelsson has also been moved up to the top lines a few times, so you have Axelsson and Phil playing in different roles and winning games. Julien seems to be asking a lot of everybody [on the team]. MS: Yeah, he is. He's a demanding coach, but in the same sense he's fair. If you're playing hard and you're playing good, then you're going to get that ice time. We've been getting that as a line, and obviously our team has been playing great as a whole lineup. If someone isn't going one night, then somebody else picks them up. It's been good in that way.
We know what we have to do to win: we have to keep working and Claude keeps stressing that every day. There's not too many days where he lets that stuff slide. We know as a team what we have to do to win, and we've been able to do it.
One of the subplots of last weekend's game was staying clear of Laraque. 1) Was that talked about and 2) there was a faceoff where Georges and Lucic were squaring off in the faceoff circle and they were yakking it up a little. You seemed to come over and have something to say and things calmed down a little bit. What happened there? MS: I just told Georges that there's going to be another time for this. Right now we're worried about wins. Milan Lucic is a hockey player and not just a fighter, so that's basically what I said. It kept him quiet for a little bit anyway.
If they wanted to put Georges out there that much then it was fine with us. We didn't want anybody fighting, especially because we're obviously a little short on the defensive corps with Andrew Ference out. People are saying 'well, why didn't [Chara] grab him'. There'll be time for that. I'm not saying we're going to do it, but right now it wasn't the time. Especially playing up there when we were on the road. If they got hot on the power play, which they're capable of doing, we didn't want that to happen either. We played it the way we wanted to play it, and there was nothing else about it.
Would you like to be considered for the Canadian Olympic team, and do you take a lot of pride in your passing ability? MS: Yeah, that would be a huge honor for me. It's something that I obviously don't go into every game thinking about, but it would be nice to work for that. Right now I'm worrying about the Boston Bruins, but it would be a huge to wear the jersey of my country. You see a lot of big players on that list, and it would be nice to be mentioned with them.
On the passing side, I've always been a passer first. I tried to get away from that to open up more things and try to get more shots on goal this year, and I think I've done that. It's obviously worked out well. It's nice to get some recognition on that, and hopefully I can keep setting up my wingers for some nice goals.
Do you think the Bruins won't be able to fly under the radar anymore this season? MS:Now, for sure we know that teams are going to be coming for us and we need to be ready every night. Claude keeps us pretty honest in that we have to ready to go every night. The best thing about our hockey club, though, is that we're obviously a confident group right now…but we also know what we have to do to win games, and that's work hard and stay with our system. Play at both ends of the ice, and we've obviously been able to do that and get great goaltending and we're getting different guys stepping up every night. We're getting a good mix right now, but like you said we're only 20 games in so we're obviously not getting too high and we're trying to keep an even keel. Things are going well.
Can you talk a little about how important Tim Thomas has been this year? MS: Tim has been huge. He's been a great goaltender and he hasn't got a lot of credit over his career, but he's having a great year this year. It's nice to have a goalie back there that's going to make the big save for you, and he's done that this year. Obviously with Manny back there it pushes Tim even a bit more because when when Manny has gone in there he's played well too. So we have a great one-two punch going on right now, and hopefully they can keep playing the way they have for the whole season.
I thought that moment with Laraque and Lucic from Saturday night's game was a pretty good example of veteran leadership. Have you always been that kind of leader at each stop in your NHL career, or is that something that's blossomed in Boston? MS: I think throughout the years, as I've gotten older, I've become more of a leader and I've learned a lot through my career. Obviously in my career there's been some tough times, and you only get stronger from that. We get along so well in the dressing room and we have so many young and me being an older guy I'm able to help those kids out a little bit.
Playing with two kids — Kessel and Lucic — I'm always talking to them between shifts, and I always want more and I want them to always want more too. I think they're proving that this year. [Being a leader] isn't always about just saying something, it's about going out and doing it too. So hopefully I'm able to do that stuff. I do talk a lot and I like to have a lot of fun before the game and keep guys loose, but — in the same sense — when the puck drops I think it's time to get serious and get things going. Those of the types of things I want to bring and hopefully I'm able to do that.
What have your impression been so far of Blake Wheeler? MS:Blake's a skilled hockey player and he's a big boy, so he's got a lot of things going for him. He skates well. He's really come in here and looked like a veteran out there and he's played really well. Coach is giving him an opportunity to play a lot a lot, and his line is playing really with Krejci and Kobasew right now too. They bring a lot to the hockey team, and Wheeler seems to keep getting better every day.
He's been a big part of our success at the shootout lately too. He shoots first and I think in his three shootouts he's scored twice. He keeps growing and he has one of his best buddies in Kessell here too, so that's helped him out with the adjustment. The sky is the limit for him.
When you look at the size, is he as physical as you expected him to be? MS: When you've got a big guy there you obviously expect a guy to finish his checks — or when you're any size you expect them to finish checks — but when you've got that kind of size and that kind of gift you hope that he uses it. And he uses it well and he uses it to his advantage. He gets to the net hard and with that big body he's able to get some goals.
Was there a moment last year when you realized this was a team that was really together? MS:I think it started last year when Bergie went down, we came together closer and you knew each guy had to step up. And then when it came to the end of the year really had to battle to make it into the playoffs, and from then on in we had a seven game series against Montreal. We were able to battle back the way we did and really have the same team come back besides a couple of guys and then add three players.
From there we've really taken off and in the room — whether we're on the road — we really get along so great and I know a lot of teams say that but it's the truth here. We hang out all the time. Even yesterday we had a little team get together and it's like a family here. Every sticks up for each other. But that Dallas game this year brought us even closer together this year and we really stick up for each other. It was one of our first big games at home this year and it really brought us together.
Did this start change expectations in the room? MS: Yes and no. I think at the beginning of the year we thought that we had a great team, and it was just a matter of when it all came together. It obviously came together pretty fast. Off that Montreal series we knew that we really grew as a team and we saw what kind of damage we could do if we played together, worked hard and just stayed within the system. We've done that and now we're a confident group, but at the end of the day we know what wins us hockey games. That's working hard, and coach keeps us honest in that regard and helps us do it.
Somebody told me that today's players really like playing in a system. How important is that in Boston? MS: It makes it easier because you know that the system is there to protect you, and if you get away from it then you're going to get into trouble. I think we know that as a team. We probably don't have the most skilled team in the NHL, but if we stick with what we're taught we're able to win games through hard work. We do have skill players and it's proven every night because we have guys stepping up. We're a confident team right now, but we know that we have to work hard.
You've put up some pretty impressive numbers since the end of the lockout. What do you attribute that to? MS: I don't know. I think I'm focused and going into games I want to help the team offensively and I want to produce every night. I think I've been hungry to do that. I think that's why I've been able to stay so consistently since the lockout. Obviously I've gotten a great opportunity to play in the division that I've been in, and things have worked out.
Are you upset because Lucic is a big guy that other guys want to fight him? You've got guys like Georges that want to fight him simply because he's a big guy. MS: On the Lucic stuff, I think he's going to get challenged a lot because I think his record is pretty flawless in the fighting department, and people not only want to fight but get him off the ice because he's such a factor in most hockey games and he's only getting better every day. I like having him out there obviously, and when he goes in the box if shifts up our lines and stuff like that. So it makes it a little tougher.
Myself coming into the league I had a lot of growing pains to go through. Coming into the league I played with the Rangers and we had a lot of stars and obviously it was hard for me to make a name there. I went to Calgary and got a great opportunity to play. When I moved on to Atlanta that's where things started to get a lot better. Obviously Coach Hartley really helped me out and I owe him a lot to him — especially in the early stages — because he basically told me there's the ball right there and if you want to take it then just go. He gave me a lot of ice time and I was able to succeed there before I moved on to Boston, where I'm happy and I hope that i can finish out my career here and keep getting better.
|Julien ordered Lucic to keep the gloves on
|11.22.08 at 9:06 pm ET
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — Bruins coach Claude Julien, who continued his march toward the Jack Adams Trophy by coaching the pants off Habs coach Guy Carbonneau in a big statement game last night, seemed fairly agitated after a tense, playoff-like game that ended with a thrilling 3-2 shootout win over the Montreal Canadiens. Julien admitted that he (rightly) told Milan Lucic not to drop the gloves and go berserk when enforcer Georges Laraque came calling for a throwdown. Instead, Big, Bad Looch got the last laugh with a game-tying second period goal which he immediately followed with a little post-score posing, primping and styling for the angry masses in Montreal.
While Julien's hockey Gandhi move undoubtedly had something to do with the current state of Lucic's hand after pummeling Nick Boynton in Friday night's win, the B's head coach also seemed to take some exception with Montreal coach Guy Carbonneau's calculated decision to send his noted enforcer after Boston's 20-year-old, second-year winger.
"He's probably the toughest guy in the league, and I know Georges Laraque was [goading Lucic] because he was told to. Georges is not that type of guy and he respects the young kids and knows what that is all about. There was no way that was going to happen. [Shawn] Thornton was there ready for Georges and that never happened either. My tough guy was ready for their tough guy and it's as simple as that. I told [Lucic] not to fight, and if you were wondering…it was me.
"I don't send guys to fight. When guys go out and fight they do it on their own. That's all I'm going to say. I know for a fact that [going after Lucic] was said and [Laraque] had a job to do tonight. He was to shadow Lucic and that was his job. It's as simple as that. For us I think Lucic is a good player and if they want Georges to shadow him then that means more ice time for Georges and good for him."
Lucic clearly seemed a bit non-plussed to be answering questions about why he refused to drop the gloves with Laraque after the big Canadiens winger skated nearly side-by-side with the Incredible Looch on four different shifts in the first period. It seemed as if the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Laraque was doing everything possible to entice the 6-foot-4, 220-pound Lucic into a fists of furty competition. Looch does lead the B's with 48 penalty minutes on the season, but he wasn't biting this time.
Thornton is pretty familiar with the job requirements for a tough guy/enforcer, and he empathized a bit with the plight of Lucic, who obviously didn't want to be seen as backing away from a physical confrontation with Laraque.
"I'm sure it's[difficult]," said Thornton. "He did a good job of staying disciplined. He did his job. [Lucic] got a goal and we got two points out of it. I think that's the most important thing that we got the two points.
Did Thornton expect that Laraque was going to make himself Looch's Siamese Twin out on the ice for nearly the entire first period, and practically big for a fight?
"I don't know. I thought we did a good job and [Lucic/Komisarek] was a good fight and that was the end of it. Obviously they didn't feel the same way, but whatever. If the guys wants to do that then it's his barn and he can do whatever he wants. But Lucic did a good job staying disciplined and helping us get the two points."
Each time Lucic headed to the bench following his shift, the Bell Centre crowd let him have it with hoots, hollers and chants of "Luc-cic". The Carbonneau move seemed to be devised to quiet the spirited, physical Looch in a must-win game for the Habs, but instead Lucic finished with revenge on a hockey dish served cold: a goal and nine hits in 15:10 of ice time. Carbonneau's game plan of intimidation and frontier justice might be considered trash barrel material the next time the two Old Time Hockey rivals tangle.
Here's a word-for-word transcription of the terse Lucic interview with the assorted Canadian and Boston media after the game:
What happened with Laraque? ML: Nothing.
What did he say? ML: Nothing.
Is that the first time in your life that somebody shadowed you like that? ML: Yeah.
How does it feel? ML: Okay. If that's what they want to do then they can do it.
Did Claude tell you not to fight:? You're a first line player and he isn't so it's a bad match-up. ML: I don't know. You'll have to ask him.
Did he also tell you not to talk about it? ML: No, I just don't feel like talking about it. That's about all I have to say.
When you scored you seemed to ham it up a little bit there. ML: Yeah, a little bit. It's nice to score when the fans are on you a little bit there.
Do you enjoy when the crowd gets on you like that? Is that a fun environment for you to play in? ML: Yeah, it's fun if they're on you like that or they're not on you like that. It's a fun building to play in. 21,000 people in the crowd and they're always whooping it up. It's a tough building to play in, and we're just happy to get the two points.
I guess this guy is seething in his Patrick Roy Canadiens sweater after Lucic and Laraque didn't rumble at the Bell Centre, or perhaps Carbonneau dreamed this up and showed it to the Habs skaters before Saturday night's game:
|Wheeler pulls the bra trick
|11.10.08 at 3:55 pm ET
Great little tidbit in SI.com hockey writer Michael Farber's column this week about some of the wackier details from Blake Wheeler's breakout hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs last week. It's been known for a while that a particularly exuberant female fan chucked a celebratory bra onto the ice during Thursday night's hat trick festivities along with the stream of baseball-style hats, but the bra's resting place is an instant classic: directly on the life-sized stuffed bear that the Bruins have stowed away in the trainer's room.
Now Blake Wheeler leads all NHL rookies in goals scored this season and in bra tricks.
Here's an excerpt of the full entry from Farber:
The Bruins always have had the most elaborate hat-trick ritual in the NHL. It involves a life-sized stuffed bear that once resided in a corner of the dressing room and is now tucked away in the trainer's room. A Boston hat-trick scorer has been allowed to choose his favorite from all the hats on the ice and plop it on the bear's head, where it stays until the next hat trick.
But the Bruins bear is in different duds now. In addition to the caps that greeted Wheeler's accomplishment, a fan — let's hope it was a woman — threw a bra onto the ice, which veteran defenseman Aaron Ward conceded was a first in his career. A sheepish Wheeler autographed it, and now, well, the bear has more support than it knows what to do with.
Boston probably won't win the Stanley Cup this season, but it already has laid claim to the C Cup.
|Julien leaning toward playing Kobasew
|11.07.08 at 1:58 pm ET
Bruins head coach Claude Julien indicated after Friday morning's practice that he's "leaning toward" inserting winger Chuck Kobasew back into the Black and Gold's lineup on Saturday. The B's are set to host the Buffalo Sabres Saturday night and will be looking to capture their third straight victory on home ice this season.
Kobasew has been skating with the team for the better part of two weeks, and said he's passed every medical clearance hurdle before deeming himself ready to return to the ice. The former Boston College forward scored 22 goals and 17 assists in 73 games for the B's last season and had formed with David Krejci and Blake Wheeler to create an extremely effective line during the preseason finale and opening night against the Colorado Avalanche.
"We've given the fourth line a lot of credit for being the type of line that they are and giving us the energy that we need ' but David Krejci's line, whoever he played with," said Julien. "[Blake] Wheeler and [Chuck] Kobasew that first game and even the last exhibition game…that line was dominant."
Kobasew said he was "anxious" to get back on the ice and that he'd passed every hurdle in testing the full health of his right ankle. The additional practice he's received this week has also allowed the the 6-foot, 193-pound mixture of skill and scrap to lock in his timing on the ice, and attempt to make a seamless transition back from the injured reserve list.
"I feel fine now and the last couple of days have been good," said Kobasew. "They gave me a little extra time to practice with the guys and I'm feeling good. I've been skating for almost two weeks now. Now I'm just anxious to get out there and play.
"We'll see what they want to do and go from there," added Kobasew. "You want to play no matter what…even in the first couple of days after I got hurt. Now it's nice to be out there skating with the guys and getting back into it. I'm looking forward to playing."
It's doubtful that Blake Wheeler — hot off the heels of a hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs — will be removed from the top four lines, which would leave Petteri Nokelainen as the most logical player to be a healthy scratch if/when Kobasew makes his return Saturday night. It's possible that a late injury could remove somebody else from the mix, but Julien said in some ways it's a pleasant dilemma in making such difficult roster decisions.
"It's a tough decision, but it's a great position to be in," said Julien. "I don't like making those decisions because it's not a lot of fun, but it's a lot better than putting guys in that don't necessarily deserve to be in the lineup. I'd rather be in this position than the other one."
–Julien gave B's center Patrice Bergeron the day off on Friday — an admission by the coach that his young center has been pushing hard since the first day of training camp in his recovery from last season's nasty concussion. No injury or problems, just a simple day away from the frozen office.
–Good story by Puck Daddy at Yahoo! about success stories and failed attempts by athletes to change their uniform numbers a la Blake Wheeler last night.
|Sounds of the game… Bruins 5, Leafs 2
|11.06.08 at 11:11 pm ET
It might be time to start asking just who is Blake Wheeler.
He changed his uniform number before the game from 42 to 26. He scored his first career hat trick as the Bruins beat the Maple Leafs, 5-2, Thursday night at TD Banknorth Garden.
Wheeler is now tied with Toronto's Mikhail Grabovski for the NHL rookie goal lead with 6. '¦ Dennis Wideman won $100 for scoring the goal on Andrew Ference's 100th career assist. Ference said before the game he would offer the reward to the lucky goal-scorer. Thursday marked Zdeno Chara's 700th career game.
Now for the stars of the game.
Blake Wheeler gives props to his line mates of Marco Sturm and David Krejci.
Wheeler on bringing his A-game every night.
Tim Thomas said the 5-on-3 penalty kill in the third period was the key to the game since Boston led only, 3-1.
Andrew Ference collected his 100th career assist and explains why Thursday was such a big win.
|Hockey Notes: Good things from Kessel
|10.18.08 at 9:38 am ET
It might be time to stop haphazardly tossing Phil Kessel's name aroun whenever the NHL trade winds start blowing in Boston this winter.
The 21-year-old puck prodigy has a pair of goals in the first three games this season and has clearly shown a willingness to start paying a higher price to score points and make things happen for the team. The 6-foot, 192-pound Kessel has always been blessed with a ridiculously fast release and it still looks somebody hit the turbo button on a Nintendo controller whenever the winger gets his legs churning and gains some speed. The difference this season is that he's also starting to flash a little grit and tenacity in his hockey tool box.
Kessel's #1 responsibility should be putting points on the table and lighting up the red lamp like it's Main Street in Amsterdam, but the willingness to "take a hit and make a play" is something that the Bruins organization has been waiting to see. Bruins coach Claude Julien sees a player that's simply growing up before his eyes and mixing the strength, speed and skill package necessary to be an effective, responsible player in his system — a maturation that some unfairly expected to see when he was still a teen-ager but is happening on its own schedule. Something that is just fine with the B's.
"With time and experience, he just keeps getting better," said Juien, who really seems to be the perfect coach for a young hockey club that's both reaping explosive bursts of hockey skill and enduring necessary growing pains during an 82-game hockey schedule. "That's why you have to be patient sometimes with young athletes. You don't want to turn the page or overreact. I think that's paying dividends right now in Phil's case."
Kessel is certainly someone that holds a lot of value around the NHL world given his "can't be taught" physical skills and precocious age, but the gist of Julien's words isn't lost. The Bruins had ample chances to deal Kessel last season if they deemed that the youngster wasn't a good fit with their team philosophies, but it's always a risky roll of the dice with somebody young enough to change their habits and raise their potential ceiling as a player.
Was the benching last season in Boston's first round battle against the Canadiens something that finally got Kessel's attention and brought about the change? Was it simply the maturation of a young guy that started playing men's pro hockey as 19-year-old and faced off cancer in his rookie season along with everything else?
Kessel's not telling, but it's clear that he's beginning to "get it", as Bill Parcells is wont to say: "I worked hard this summer and I want to do well this year. It's all about helping this team win games and get better. I don't think I learned anything from sitting down in the playoffs. It was a decision that the coach made. Playing in the playoffs just makes you want to get back there again."
Kessel went from 11 goals and 29 points in his rookie season — along with a tough -12 to set the numbers to sobering reality — but improved to 19 goals, 37 points and a -6 last season in Julien's defensive-minded system. With time and confidence on his side, is a 30 goal, 50 points season a possibility after watching Kessel weave through defenses in the early going and mystify goalies with his snapping wrist shot? It would be a big step forward, but it's a step that the Bruins are hoping to see become reality as Kessel keeps learning to harness his considerable talents.
"When Boston was here [in Minnesota] I was talking to [Peter] Chiarelli in the stands because they practice [at the University of Minnesota] before they play the Wild," said Golden Gophers head coach Don Lucia, who coached both Blake Wheeler and Kessel during their collegiate hockey careers. "We were talking about how [Phil] has matured and gotten better. People forget that he just turned 21 years old, that Phil is really just still a pup. He's going to keep getting better. He's an outstanding player now, and he's going to be even better three or four years from now."
Scouting report on Lukacevic
I've heard a lot of questions over the last week about the minor league player involved in the Andrew Alberts trade with the Philadelphia Flyers: Ned Lukacevic. The 22-year-old winger was packaged with a conditional draft pick to the Bruins for the brawny Bruins blueliner to clear off some room under the salary cap, and Lukacevic promptly reported to the Providence Bruins.
Lukacevic has bounced between the ECHL and AHL levels over the last two seasons and potted 36 points for the ECHL's Reading Royals last season before getting dealt to the Flyers in the Dennis Gauthier trade over the summer. Here's a scouting report on Lukacevic from an NHL talent evaluator that's watched the 6-foot, 200-pound winger several times over the last few years: "His best asset is his skating. He's a great skater with a lot of speed. He really needs to work on his grit and paying the price going to the net. Sometimes he would do it and other times he wouldn't. He needs more consistency in that area."
Tough Break to Break Out
Prior to the start of the season, veteran Bruins defenseman Aaron Ward credited Rod Brind'Amour with really helping light his competitive fire while sharing a rigorous off-season workout schedule with Rod the Bod. So it must have been truly disappointing for Ward to hear that Brind'Amour needed arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in September after reconstruction surgery for a torn ACL wiped out the final six weeks of the season for the Carolina sparkplug.
The Heart and Soul is back with the 'Canes following the second surgery that wiped out much of his training camp, however, and has a pair of goals and an assist in four games with Carolina after playing only one preseason game. The 38-year-old is obviously back in a big way with Carolina, but he also deserves an assist for providing a little spark and inspiration to help get Ward's 35-year-old skating legs churning again this summer.
"I started skating in June with Rod Brind'Amour and he's the kind of guy that's just piss and vinegar. That's just the type of guy that he is and he just lives for hockey. So he got out there in April and I got out there in June and started skating with him. It's weird," said Ward, who played in his 700th NHL game against the Canadienslast Wednesday. "I never had a mental need to play hockey, but Game 6 of last season also really helped propel me back out there [to skate with Rod.]
"I don't know if it was anxiety or just excitement that got me out there skating again [so early.] But as an older guy that's a good sign. Because when you start feeling like it's tough to get the pads on, and I've gone through that before, that's not good. It was rough when I was in New York and I came here in the second half. It was tough to get that mental switch going where you wanted to be out on the ice, but last year I wasn't ready for [the season] to be done. That's a good sign."
|Cut-down day for the Bruins
|10.07.08 at 12:21 pm ET
The days leading up to the regular season are always a difficult time mixed with happiness and melancholy in the world of an NHL team, and the past several weeks have been more so for the Black and Gold given their depth situation. The Bruins haven't boasted a team this deep or talented since prior to the NHL lockout, and the new salary cap wrinkle with regard to rookie bonus money has complIcated matters.
The emergence of 22-year-old rookie Blake Wheeler made it imperative that Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli clear room for the $2.85 million cap hit that Wheeler's contract carries due to the rookie bonus money built into his deal. With that move in mind, forward Peter Schaefer ($2.1 million), Jeremy Reich ($487,500) and Nate Thompson ($500K) were all placed on waivers and young blueliner Matt Hunwick ($750K) was assigned to the Providence Bruins. It's hard to imagine Thompson and Reich clearing through waivers given their hockey value and the affordable price tags that go along with them.
Chiarelli dilligently attempted to jettison Schaefer during the last few weeks of training camp, but Schaefer's salary combined with last season's underperformance (9 goals, 17 assists and countless DNP-CD's in 63 games after notching 50 points and 46 respectively over the previous two seasons with the Ottawa Senators) left the Bruins GM without much a market. Give credit to both Chiarelli for essentially admitting that the signing of Schaefer turned out to be a free agent mistake, and to owner Jeremy Jacobs for agreeing to potentially swallow the entirety of Schaefer's $2.1 million deal should he go unclaimed. It was obvious to everyone that Claude Julien wanted Big Wheeler on his roster from jump street, and both Chiarelli and Jacobs made difficult, appropriate decisions to make it happen.
According to an excellent site on NHL Salary Caps called Hockey Buzz the Bruins are now only $242,501 under the $56.7 million salary cap for the 2008-09 season, so expect another move potentially involving Andrew Ference,P.J. Axelsson or Andrew Alberts. Both defenseman and Axe would draw interest around the league and each is being paid in excess of $1 million — a sum that would give Chiarelli the room he's looking for under the cap. I spoke with Alberts about recently hearing his name in trade rumors with both Vancouver and Chicago, and I'll have a little something up on the blog about that in two shakes of a hockey stick.
In the meantime, here's some thoughts from Chiarelli earlier this afternoon while addressing the B's media corps about the roster moves:
PC: So we've made some roster moves to get us down to 23 on our roster. We've released Peter Schaefer and he's on waivers today, and he'll be designated for reassignment pending whether he's claimed or not. We've put Jeremy Reich on waivers, so we'll see if he clears in another 24 hours. Nate Thompson and Matt Hunwick. Nate will go on waivers too for 24 hours too, and Matt is a pure assignment with no waivers.
Was that a difficult decision with Schaefer or was that something that was pretty cut-and-dried? PC: Yeah, it was difficult. I have had a history with him in Ottawa and I brought him in here, but it wasn't working out. I know he's a good player and these things happen. We talked yesterday and we had a good talk. He may end up in another NHL city or he may end up in Providence.
Was there a lot of dissapointment on his end when you talked to him? PC: He's been around the league for a while and I think he knew what was coming especially given the play of Blake Wheeler. He pretty much expected it is what he told me. He was disappointed that it didn't work out here.
Was there a lot of trade feelers put out there before it came to this? PC: Oh yeah. It's tough now. What happens is right now you're looking at the roster and generally you're really happy about it because you see all these competitions where somebody wins and somebody loses. So it's tough now moving guys. But that changes in a week to a month when teams start not playing well.
Would you be open to using him on re-entry or is that not an option? PC: That's something that down the road we might look at, but right now no. I need all the cap space I can get.
Did he have any insight as to why things didn't work out with him here? PC: Yeah, but that will remain private. If you catch up with him he may say it, but I'm not going to talk for him.
So with these moves how much room do you have under the salary cap? PC: We're still pretty tight. This may not be our final roster. There may be one more move before we leave tomorrow, but we'll see how the rest of the day plays out.
Can you give us any indication as to what that move might be? PC: Ummm no. Not yet.
From the standpoint of depth within the organization, can you be hurt if somehow they all get claimed? PC: It speaks to two things: One that we've had all these difficult decisions and in my years here we haven't had those kinds of difficult decisions, so it means that we have depth. We have teams calling about these players. Organizationally we're in a good spot. But if we lose these players then our depth gets tested. But we have had some good perfromances in camp by guys that we've already released and sent down that I'd be comfortable with in certain instances.
Speak to how the loss of the bonus cushion has affected your decision-making? PC: Well it certainly has, but those are the rules we're playing with this year. It might have saved a job or two, but I look at it like you've got to ice the best team possible. That's how I look at it.
Speaking of Blake, preseason is obviously a very short window but do you feel like he's good enough to be with this team over the long haul? PC: We still may have one more move, but Blake has made the team. We're going to take it slowly. I liken it to Looch a little bit last year, but he's a couple of years older. I want him to continue working hard and continue practicing hard and see a progression. The level of play really picks up now, so we'll see how he does.
Did going through the development of Lucic last year help you trust your judgement a little more with Wheeler this year? PC: A little bit, but there's a three-year age difference and that's big at this point. What it does speak to is the coaching staff and their ability to help develop these young guys.
Is Wheeler making the team more or a surprise than Lucic last year? PC: Don't forget that Blake was the fifth pick overall during his draft year, so he comes with a pretty thick resume. I guess as a third party you woud look down at this and expect him to make it rather than Lucic, with all things being equal.
How do you see the goaltending heading into the season? PC: I'm happy where they're at. They both had good camps. Our objective was to have a strong duo and I think that's what we're getting.
Do you think in this day and age that any NHL team needs two goaltenders to get through a season? PC: I think it certainly helps. You can see the wear and tear with a couple of goalies that played a ton of games and you could see it impacted their playoff performance. So it definitely helps.


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Steamboat Springs The Steamboat Pee Wee A boys hockey team braced for the hurricane it knew was coming.
Arapahoe, which faced off against Steamboat in the championship game of the weekend's Ski Town Classic hockey tournament at Howelsen Ice Arena in Steamboat Springs, pulled its goalie and a wave of blue-clad players screamed down the ice, desperate for a goal.
"I was worried," Steamboat goalie Kyle "Max" Vollmer said. "I was really getting peppered."
There was one close call, the puck bouncing off the top of Vollmer's stick and free for a moment, but the defense held and the clock expired, the Steamboat players champions of their division thanks to a 2-1 title-game victory.
"It was fun. I really enjoyed it," Vollmer said. "I'm glad we got this far, and I'm glad we won."
Bryce Sullivan scored two goals as Steamboat's Pee Wee team wrapped up a long but successful weekend.
Jordan Gorr assisted on both of Sullivan's goals, and Chris Kaminski assisted on one.
They were joined in a high finish Sunday by Steamboat's Bantam A squad, which played in the championship but lost, 2-0, to Littleton Black.
Steamboat Pee Wee coach Blair McNamara said Sunday's success was all about Howelsen Ice Arena, which played host to more than 35 hours of hockey in a wild weekend.
He said his team's hard work in practices before the tournament paid off, and that the large crowd of cheering fans during the tournament brought out his players' best.
"It was great. This tournament here, it epitomizes what hockey's all about," McNamara said. "We've had enthusiastic fans and the kids really seemed to bring their best to play in front of the hometown crowd."
The Bantam A team ended up down two goals, but still managed to lose in heartbreaking fashion. The team lost its captain, Erik Sobeck, in the first period, but strong goaltending, both by Littleton and by Steamboat's Trent Trask, kept the game scoreless deep into the third period.
The teams met earlier in the weekend during the round-robin portion of the tournament and played to a 1-1 tie. Littleton finally earned an advantage in the rivalry with a goal with five minutes remaining in the final period. The team tacked on another one inside the final minute after Steamboat had pulled its goalie.
"It was a back and forth, hard game. They're a good team and we wore down a little bit," Bantam A coach Bob Milne said. "We had a lot of opportunities. It was just a well-played game on both sides. We match up well."
Steamboat's final competing team on the weekend finished 0-4 in the Bantam B division. The Northern Colorado Youth Hockey squad, from the Fort Collins area, won that division, defeating Littleton Red in the championship.
Ski Town Classic hockey tournament
Howelsen Ice Arena
Bantam A
CSAHA Bantam A Allstars 0, DU Bantam A 4
Vail/Eagle 3, Foothills Bantam A 1
Bantam B
Summit 8, Steamboat 2
PeeWee A
Littleton PeeWee A Black 2, Foothills PeeWee A 1
Steamboat 2, Arap PW A Maize 1
Bantam B championship
Littleton Bantam B Red 0, NCYH Bantam B 2
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Littleton Ban A Black 2, Steamboat 0

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Anyone collect or interested in old safes? I've been trying to collect information on them and values but don't seem to be coming up with much. I work as a realtor in Maryland and have come across two in the last couple I've looked at. I can't seem to find much information on them and thought someone here might know a thing or two.
The first is by Gardall and appears to be from around the 1950s. It is about the size of a small file cabinet and has a combination lock by Sargent and Greenleaf. It has casters and seems to be relatively light. The hinges are on the right side of the .
The other I found appeared to be much older and was in pretty bad shape. There wasn't much for markings other than a dial that says York and the lever has 1085 engraved on it with an 8 underneath that. It also says 1085 on one of the casters that are almost completely rusted. It's rather large and very heavy but looks like it's been neglected for years.
I have some iphone pics of both but they are pretty crappy due to the lack of light. If anyone has some insight that'd be great.
Feel free to share any old safes you guys have as well.
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Historic Trade Route Celebration set Saturday in Outing
OUTING — With the confirmation that two of Minnesota's best flintknappers (makers of stone tools) — Rod Johnson and Dan Wendt — are coming to Outing, the cast is set for Saturday's Historic Trade Route Celebration.
Geographer Joseph Nicollet will lead the 10 a.m.-arriving canoe expedition. His troupe will be aboard handmade birch bark canoes — from medium-sized to two that can each carry 14 adults.
Also included will be the great North Country cedar-strip canoes from Mille Lacs Kathio State Park for archaeologist-led canoe tours from the Outing Station dock at 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Each tour can accommodate 18 passengers (reservations are requested and may be made at the site if seats are available).
Saturday's schedule
9 a.m.-5 p.m. — Demonstration and storytelling at various locations (maps provided).
9 a.m. — Archeologists discuss bridge artifacts at the Narrows. Local artifacts 2,000-plus years old, Hamline University student team assisting.
10 a.m. — Nicollet canoe expedition with authentic birch bark canoes will arrive at the Narrows (join in with your own canoe); Native elders will greet and welcome them.
10:30 a.m. — Land O' Lakes Marine Flintknappers, pottery demonstration and birch bark canoes on exhibit.
11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. — Archaeologist-conducted canoe rides in "cedar-strip cargo canoes." Sign up and depart from the dock across from The Outing Station.
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Luscher Park — Leech Lake dancers, Leech Lake drummers (singers).
Other demonstrations and information:
11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. — The Village Inn: CIRHN, Archaeology Display, from South Roosevelt Lake. RALALA barbecue.
Outing Library, sponsored book signing, historic materials available.
Noon-2 p.m.: RALALA silent auction.
8:30 p.m.: Live music at the Narrows.


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GOSPEL reggae singer Ricardo 'Jubba D' Harris is waiting for the day when his music makes a difference in the lives of listeners.
And, despite the challenges, he believes it will eventually happen through God's help.
JUBBA D… describes his style as "unique and catchy"
"I have a style that people like, I think I have the flavour," he said.
Jubba D describes his style as "unique and catchy" and is counting on this to take him to the top.
Last year, he released his first single Mi Nuh Waan Nuh Devil and although it has not taken off as much as he would have hoped, he thinks it could happen with more airplay.
He said has done collabs with other gospel artists but they are yet to be released.
The Spanish Town-born gospel artist and past student of Denham Town High said he developed a love of music at an early age.
He started off by performing at school concerts and community events before hitting the big stage at the annual Fun in the Son gospel concert.
Jubba D, who got saved a few years ago, said he will be experimenting with "clean secular songs" as he is a well-rounded entertainer.


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"More executive pay is being tied to incentives schemes and as profit goes down, it begins to hit the back pocket."
Peter Salt, a director of Hamilton James Bruce, said there were patchy signs of a pick-up, which was not yet reflected in salary reviews.
"Executive salaries should remain relatively flat with backed-up supply spilling over to this year and the need for six-plus months of continuous demand before we begin to see active demand pressures begin to inflate prices," Mr Salt said.
"If July through to December lives up to expectations, then executives should begin to see rewards for their patience by early 2003."
Mr Salt pointed to improved optimism in March, although the turnover in the recruitment market remains much slower than a year ago.
"The banking and finance and telecommunications sectors remain in containment mode," he said.
Mr Sinclair said companies were trying all internal methods of recruitment before looking externally and, he said, some major corporates, including the banks, were not finished with the process of staff cuts.
But the experts say there are sectors that are experiencing a pick-up in demand.
Mr Sinclair highlighted insolvency specialists in the accounting profession as well as analysts and tax professionals in banking and finance.
"Wealth management has continued to grow, particularly with domestic players. Therefore specialist roles in funds management and custody continue to be in demand," he said.
And in a tough job environment there is another boom sector: human resources.
"There is a growing market for qualified human resource professionals with a strategic focus," said Mr Sinclair. "Many HR directors are anticipating a strong need for organisational development going forward in 2002."
Graham O'Neill, director at the Hay Group, said it was becoming harder to pick overall industry trends as it varied from company to company.
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As far as empirical evidence is concerned, massage therpay gives greater relief than chiropratic. If essential oils are used in conjunction with the massage therapy, then the healing would be faster. There is a 3000-year background to massage therapy.
For muscle and soft tissue soreness I've found massage to work well, while for issues around the spine and hip / shoulder bones, chiropracty has worked well for me.
Everyone is different in their techniques and you shouldn't settle for one you aren't completely comfortable with!!! Bedside manner is a big deal but, ultimately stick with the ones that are getting the job done to your satisfaction. Good luck.
Everyone's pain is different. What works for some may not work for you. You should consider trying both and see which your back pain responds better to. Also, acupuncture is an ancient and effective method of managing back pain. I've seen people with as few as one or two treatments become essentially pain free. Yoga is another great way to align the spine and reduce back pain while also increasing your strength and flexibility.
Your question is very timely, since I happened to write about my local chiropractic and wellness center yesterday on here! I strongly believe that both are necessary to wellness; massage has its benefits in easing pain, but chiropractic eliminates the problem. Sometimes, however, the problem gets so bad that you have to go back and forth to work out the tightness in order for a chiropractic adjustment to hold. That is why drinking enough water, exercising, practicing good posture, and trying to get a handle on your stress are so important. Your body responds to what you do to it, so if you abuse it in any way (i.e. by hunching over or enduring heavy lifting incorrectly), you can suffer long-lasting effects.
Both modalities are excellent however to state which is best for back pain would depend on the type of situation one is having with their back.
I will share this, both methods can work together with back pain. An excellent chiropractor knows that alignment is most important and most all of us really need to be adjusted. Some of us need to be adjusted several times a week. Regular day to day motion throughs us off whether we notice it or not. This in turn affects the system of our whole body. This has usually happened before the pain is recognized.
So, an excellent chiropractor and maintenance massage therapy equals a new man/woman.
(Let me know if you need assistance with a chiropractor, as long as you are in the U.S.)
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It really depends on the source of the back pain. If it is neurologically based then you would likely see better results with the chiropractor, if the nerves are working properly and you've just strained a muscle then the massage therapist would probably get better results.
I prefer using massage therapy, Because Massage therapy improves circulation by bringing oxygen and other nutrients to body tissues.
It relieves muscle tension and pain, increases flexibility and mobility, and helps clear lactic acid and other waste, which reduces pain and stiffness in muscles and joints.
It would depend on what is causing the back pain. Rubbing sore muscles won't help if the problem is a spinal misalignment. However, realigning the spine will not help if the case is tense muscles. Many chiropractic offices now include massage therapy in their offerings so that patients can get the right treatment at the right time.
I think that the both therapy is better for the back pain, it depends on the kind of pain.
The way I look at it, massage therapy brings temporary relief, while chiropractic care is more of a long-term fix. It may or may not immediately relieve back pain, but will eventually help your back have less problems. I am a firm believer in using both those therapies in order to survive!!!
I thinkt hat Massage Therapy is the best option. everybody can try this
I want to advice you to try yoga. It helps me a lot. even for erectile dysfunction treatment.
Have you ever heard of Sacrolliac Joint Injections. Worked wonders for me.
Check with your local Pain Management Specialist.


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Sawatch Range > Mount Elbert > Climber's Log
Mount Elbert Climber's Log
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|Winter Elbert
Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2006
|Great weekend - camped high and skied from the summit. Noone else seen for two days.
|Posted Apr 17, 2006 6:21 pm
|Ah, youth
|Matt and I were both 14. Had the place to ourselves. Dragging himslef up the last bit to the summit, Matt swore to give up smoking.
|Posted Apr 10, 2006 11:44 pm
|Route: East Ridge
Date Climbed: May 29, 2005
|Practically a blizzard on descent!
|Posted Apr 7, 2006 4:47 am
|Nice, HIGH walk up!
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 1999
|Despite some rainy weather, My son Lance, age 10, and my other son Travis, age 8, made it with me to the roof of Colorado via the South Mount Elbert Trail #1481. We had spent the previous night in Leadville which really helped us acclimatize I believe.
|Posted Mar 31, 2006 9:58 am
|NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2005
|Great day, only took 4 hours round trip, with 30 min break at the summit. Great Views.
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 2:04 am
|Northeast Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2005
|There was snow above the first false summit. The weather was great, and there were a TON of people on this trail. It looked like ants on the mountain from the summit.
|Posted Mar 7, 2006 1:13 am
|South Elbert Trial
Date Climbed: May 30, 2005
|Very windy on the top but the views are rewarding.
|Posted Mar 6, 2006 4:42 pm
|Matt Toensing
|Matt Toensing
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2005
|Did part of the Colo trail and climbed Elbert and Massive as part of the trip.
|Posted Mar 5, 2006 5:01 pm
|NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2004
|Early season, but friends in tennis shoes still made it.
|Posted Mar 4, 2006 7:49 pm
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 1994
|Climbed this during a summer living in Aspen. What a summer that was - 20 14ers.
|Posted Mar 4, 2006 7:48 pm
|Rocky Alps
|South Elbert Route
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2005
|For being the highest mountain after Mt. Whitney in the lower 48 states, I was surprised by how easy Mt. Elbert turned out to be(bottom to top and back in 4 hours, with the help of a 4WD road that let us park at 11,000 feet). La Plata is quite impressive when viewed from the summit, but overall the mountains in the area seemed more like big hills.
|Posted Mar 4, 2006 8:22 am
|Mountain Jim
|Standard Route
|First climbed in 1967, two more times since then. The second time was a round trip in 3 hours and 21 minutes ... oh to be that young, again.
|Posted Mar 3, 2006 1:08 am
|Route: NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2005
|With cousin. 8 hours. No more Elbert...
|Posted Feb 27, 2006 2:03 am
|Route: NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2005
|With friends. 7 hours.
|Posted Feb 27, 2006 2:02 am
|Route: NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2005
|With out-of-shape friends...11 hours (OUCH). Got dumped on in the afternoon.
|Posted Feb 27, 2006 2:01 am
|Route: NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2005
|4 hr 30 min - 3 hours up, 1.5 down. Sprained ankle on way down...going too fast. Lots of loose scree. This trail is pretty trashed.
|Posted Feb 27, 2006 1:59 am
|Route: Black Cloud
Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2002
|Made summit of S. Elbert (yes, a 14er too!). Weather prevented ridge traverse to Elbert. One of the most beautiful hikes in the Sawatch!
|Posted Feb 27, 2006 1:54 am
|Really windy on top!
Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2006
|Climbed via the South Trail and reached the top at 4:30pm. Wes summitted about an hour earlier. Two other members turned back at around 12,500 ft. It wasn't snowing whole lot, but there was a lot of blowing snow due to wind gusting over the ridges at over 40mph. Lower mountain had several (more than 5!) feet of powder. Make sure to stay on the trail unless you enjoy postholing. Only saw one other group, three guys from the Bay area. HP #25.
|Posted Feb 21, 2006 4:15 am
|Joel Hopper
|Route Climbed: Northeast ridge Date Climbed: June 1995
|Climbed with my brother, SP member Woodie Hopper. The climb was windy and the summit was snow-covered.
|Posted Feb 20, 2006 5:31 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 1979
|Beautiful day with few other climbers. My wife's second 14'er.
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"Imagine There's No Fracking" Billboard Appeals To Cuomo
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon Intensify Artist's Campaign
08 Nov, 2012, 11:56 ET from Artists Against Fracking
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "Governor Cuomo: Imagine There's No Fracking" reads a large billboard up today on New York's Major Deegan Expressway, a route often used by the Governor.
"Our message is simple: We want Governor Cuomo to imagine and guarantee a New York free of the fracking threat to our water, air, beautiful landscapes and climate," explained Yoko Ono, who designed and purchased the billboard space. "Every time New Yorkers pass this billboard, we also want them to imagine a truly clean energy future, not fracking. Visit www.artistsagainstfracking.com. Don't frack New York."
"Fracking for gas is inherently dirty and dangerous," added musician Sean Ono Lennon. "Cement and pipes at these great depths are simply not reliable, as the industry's own documents show. Cracks and leaks will inevitably poison wells and aquifers. Rural communities will be turned into industrial brownfields. No amount of regulation can make fracking safe."
Yoko and Sean recently formed Artists Against Fracking, a coalition of more than 180 artists including Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Robert DeNiro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and many others. The group aims to convince the Governor to make the current moratorium on fracking in New York permanent, as have Vermont, France and many New York towns and cities. AAF is focusing on New York as a first step in a global effort.
The artists repeated their call for Governor Cuomo to meet with them -- to which there has been no response -- and to ensure the credibility of the state health study on fracking by allowing sufficient time, rather than rushing to meet an upcoming Nov. 29 regulatory deadline.
They pointed out that New York could create far more jobs, and save far more energy than fracking will ever produce, by mobilizing to insulate every building in the state, changing every window to a new efficient model and painting every roof white to reflect the sun. These jobs would more than pay for themselves through the energy savings, and save consumers money too. New York can also do much more to stimulate the deployment of clean, renewable energy.
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(1) The facility is at a fixed place or location;
(2) The embalming facility is adequately equipped and maintained in a sanitary manner. The embalming room at the facility shall contain only the articles, facilities, and instruments necessary for its stated purpose. The embalming room shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and used only for the care and preparation of dead human bodies. The minimal requirements for the embalming room shall be as follows:
(a) Sanitary floor;
(b) All instruments and appliances used in the embalming of a dead human body shall be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized using an appropriate disinfectant immediately at the conclusion of each individual case;
(c) Running hot and cold water with a sink for personal hygiene;
(d) Exhaust fan and intake vent, permanently installed and operable with the capacity to change the air in the room at least fifteen times each hour;
(e) Sanitary plumbing connected with sewer, cesspool, septic tank, or other department of health approved system;
(f) Porcelain, stainless steel, metal-lined or fiberglass operating table;
(f) All opening windows and outside doors shall be adequately screened and shielded from outside viewing;
(h) All hydro-aspirators or electric aspirators shall be equipped with at least one air breaker;
(i) Containers for refuse, trash and soiled linens shall be adequately covered or sealed at all times;
(j) First-aid kit and eyewash;
(k) The embalming or preparation room shall be strictly private. A "private" sign shall be posted on the door(s) entering the preparation room. No one shall be allowed therein while the body is being embalmed except the embalmers, funeral directors, apprentices and other authorized persons and officials in discharge of their duties;
(l) All waste materials, refuse, used bandages and cotton shall be destroyed in accordance with all applicable OSHA and EPA regulations;
(m) Every person, while engaged in actually embalming a dead human body, shall be attired in a clean and sanitary smock or gown covering the person from the neck to below the knees and shall, while so engaged, wear impervious rubber gloves;
(n) All bodies in the preparation room shall be treated with proper care and dignity and shall be properly covered at all times;
(o) Ingress and egress of the preparation room shall be situated so that functions in the funeral home shall not impede or interfere with entering or exiting said room; and
(p) Sufficient emergency lighting.
(3) The board shall issue a license to operate an embalming facility only for the address at which the embalming facility is to operate and shall issue said license only to an embalmer who is actually in charge of the facility.
Replaces: 4717-1-27
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/10/2016
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4717.04
Rule Amplifies: 4717.06
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I'm not sure why. Could have something to do with the guy.
I'm not sure why. Could have something to do with the guy.
its too busy, i like the frentic quality youre going for , but it needs some refinement
are you aware that you spelled tattoo wrong?
or was that supposed to be like that.
the tattoo design is really cool, design tattoos myself.
dislike with the dither, nice tattoo
it looks like "new pork."
you have something good in my book IF you:
a.) loose the tattoos. throw design off balance, colors too bold, don't fit in
b.) loose the nameless text. it's poorly done and makes the image look grossie.
c.) otherwise, nice work.
um, can't lose the tattoos since that is the THANG of the piece... inked...SS.... super species...tattoo ID....
looks like New Dork
Looks like a t-shirt for a band such as Leftover Crack. People like this style, but not really for me.
keep the tattoo. the only real problem is how busy the background is -- i couldn't tell those were people in the foreground! work on the background so that attention is drawn straight to the people in the front. especially the big black shape in the middle -- eyes go straight to it, and all the white around it just seems like noise.
but really, i like it.
cliche' tattoo/wrong color
loose the headline
I like the white-work
disturbing but.. looks like one more t-shirt
cool shirt.. i would definetly buy it!


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Marjorie Perloff Looks to Contemporary Appropriators for Salvation from Tepid Writing
If you haven't yet noticed, the Boston Review has a new piece up by Marjorie Perloff, author of the very recent Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, which boils similar potatoes. The article, called "Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric," responds to a question posed by Jed Rasula in a recent lecture. "What happens to poetry when everybody is a poet?"
Perloff notes that "The national (or even transnational) demand for a certain kind of prize-winning, 'well-crafted' poem—a poem that the New Yorker would see fit to print and that would help its author get one of the 'good jobs' advertised by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs—has produced extraordinary uniformity." She goes on to discuss, essentially, why most poems are boring, referring to extended metaphor, variations in identity politics, lack of attention to a rigorous line, and workshop staples/lyric formulae–sufficient graphic imagery, that well-formed epiphany, and so on. Also discussed is the easy diminishment of the work of those, say, writing their fourth book, by the excitement surrounding poets more youthful–a fairly recent turn of attention compared to discourse about the poems themselves in the poetry wars of the 1960s and 1980s. "The newcomers are not necessarily better than their elders, nor do they write in an appreciably different mode, but the spotlight is now on them. Ezra Pound's 'Make it New' has come to refer not to a set of poems, but to the poet who is known to have written them."
Perloff's eventual point, that the "dominant poetry culture of our time—the culture of prizes, professorships, and political correctness" could actually be dislodged by those working in conceptual modes, follows a thorough look at well-meaning anthologizers like Cole Swensen and David St. John, who edited American Hybrid. As for Rita Dove's recent much-discussed Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry:
As I was reading…it occurred to me that perhaps this Penguin anthology was designed for Junior High School students—kids forced to study something called poetry, who would find those references to "crawling out of the wreckage of the Civil War" or to the "take-no-prisoners approach" of the Beats both accessible and colorful.
Perloff also happens to look at the charges of aesthetic exclusion (recently put forth by Jonas Mekas, for instance):
One surmises from the table of contents of this chronological survey that Dove, from her perspective as a woman of color, has included many more minority poets than is usually the case. But her choices are oddly arbitrary: Harryette Mullen, widely considered one of the finest African American poets writing today, gets less than a page; experimental black poets such as Will Alexander and C. S. Giscombe are not included, and, more surprisingly, neither is the prominent Asian American poet John Yau. The Objectivists—Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker—poets increasingly written about and studied both here and abroad, are simply written out the canon, as are such significant West Coast poets of the mid-century as Kenneth Rexroth and Jack Spicer.
If we grant Dove her donnée—"a reflection of my sensibilities"—we need not quarrel with these omissions, but what about the copyright issue Dove raises at the close of her introduction? Evidently, she wanted to include Allen Ginsberg (Howl gets a prominent mention) and Sylvia Plath, but the reproduction costs were prohibitive. The publisher "who insisted on unaffordable fees" is obviously HarperCollins; the paperback edition of Ginsberg's Collected Poems, a Harper Perennial Classic, is an Amazon bestseller, as are Plath's Collected Poems and autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. Clearly concerned about the omission of these important poets, Dove asks her readers to "cut me some slack" and reminds us that Ginsberg and Plath are readily available "in your local public library."
But if the anthology is to have any sort of validity as a textbook or a selection for the general reader, this copyright caveat is unacceptable, and the fault is primarily the publisher's….
Interestingly, Perloff writes, "there has never been a fixed American poetry canon," noting that Dove, in her choices, reasserts what is already well worn. And so: "At this point, the lack of consensus about the poetry of the postwar decades has led not, as one might have hoped, to a cheerful pluralism animated by noisy critical debate about the nature of lyric, but to the curious closure exemplified by the Dove anthology…", leading to a current climate in which "thousands of poets [are] jostling for their place in the sun, [and] a tepid tolerance rules."
And so we return to Kenny Goldsmith's "uncreative writing" and Conceptualism as possible maneuvers for change.
The main charge against Conceptual writing is that the reliance on other people's words negates the essence of lyric poetry. Appropriation, its detractors insist, produces at best a bloodless poetry that, however interesting at the intellectual level, allows for no unique emotional input. If the words used are not my own, how can I convey the true voice of feeling unique to lyric?
This is hardly a new complaint: it was lodged as early as the 1970s against John Cage's writings-through—texts, usually lineated, composed entirely of citations, with source texts ranging from Joyce's Finnegans Wake to the notebooks of Jasper Johns.
Here Perloff as Cage expert comes to the fore. She also discusses Ginsberg at length, and Susan Howe's recent That This (2010)–it might just be for us, but Howe often comes to mind during the conceptual/lyric debate; hasn't she been experimental with compositional technique, other sources, and visual forms for decades now? Yes: "Howe would not call herself a Conceptualist poet, and she regularly combines cited material with her own prose and verse. Still, she has always avoided the free-verse lyric paradigm (observation—triggering memory—insight) ubiquitous in the Dove anthology in which, incidentally, she is not included." Another distinction is also welcome:
The verbivocovisual—we might call it Joycean—mode of That This is one of the directions appropriation has taken in contemporary poetry. From the work of Steve McCaffery and Christian Bök, to Christian Hawkey and Uljana Wolf, such poems are designed to exceed their dimensions as print blocks, moving outward both aurally and visually to encompass the larger field.
The opposite move—found in the work of leading Conceptual poets such as Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place, Caroline Bergvall and Craig Dworkin—is to foreground the choice of source text itself, the very selection of that text and its context generating the methods that determine its "copy."
Perloff also investigates the work of Srikanth Reddy, Charles Bernstein, and, surprisingly, Peter Gizzi, noting that the latter makes inventive use of echo, "a model of Oulipean ingenuity," as Craig Dworkin calls it. (May we also point you to Vanessa Place's ECHO for more on this. Place has also presented this as a talk in various places–check out the videoed roundtable at the University of Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival.) In all, the claim is that "in recent years we have witnessed a lively reaction from a growing group of poets who are rejecting the status quo."
The commenters have responded in droves, posting their own uncreative writing, recalling Helen Vendler's original attack on Dove's editing and Penguin's response to the situation about rights and permissions; and so on.
Posted in Poetry News on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 by Harriet Staff.


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Oxnard police on Wednesday arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of attempted robbery and believe he is responsible for a string of recent robberies in the city.
Salvador Raymond Medrano is accused of trying to rob the cafeteria of St. John's Regional Medical Center on North Rose Avenue on July 10, police said.
According to witnesses, a man entered the cafeteria and confronted a cashier, demanding money from the register. The cashier called for security, and the man ran away. A security guard followed him out of the hospital and notified police.
Officers searched the area and found a man running from the hospital who matched the description of the suspect and was later identified as Medrano, police said.
Authorities believe Medrano also is responsible for a string of commercial robberies that started Tuesday, but he has not yet been arrested for any of those.
The first robbery occurred about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday at a Subway restaurant in the 1900 block of North Rose Avenue. The second was reported about 11 p.m. at the Food 4 Less supermarket, 150 W. Esplanade Drive.
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Harley-Davidson reports profit slightly below Wall Street estimates
Harley-Davidson Inc. shares hit a 52-week high Tuesday after the company said it expects its profit margin to rise this year, and that it's benefiting from extensive changes in its manufacturing system.
The changes are aimed at building motorcycles closer to seasonal demand and reducing the amount of inventory the company carries.
The changes are most evident at the company's largest assembly plant in York, Pa., where Harley demolished buildings that once made motorcycle parts that now are outsourced to other companies. Changes are also dramatic inside the newer 650,000-square-foot factory that formerly was used just to assemble Harley's Softail motorcycles.
Where partially assembled bikes once crawled along a conveyor belt with overhead hooks, and parts were stacked to the ceiling, there's now a production line with more than 100 robotic smart carts traveling on five rows of thin magnetic tape.
Hundreds of jobs were eliminated at the York factory, but Harley-Davidson points to the plant as a model of efficiency it wants to replicate throughout its system.
The company wants a system where production can quickly be ramped up or throttled back as needed. Altogether, the changes are expected to save hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years.
"This is absolutely, by far, the best transformation I have ever been associated with," CEO Keith Wandell said Tuesday in a Journal Sentinel interview.
Harley forecast that its 2013 operating margin would improve to between 35.25% and 36.25% of sales, up from 34.8% in 2012.
Also Tuesday, the company reported fourth-quarter 2012 profit of $70.6 million, or 31 cents a share, down from $105.7 million, or 46 cents, last year when it booked a 22-cent tax benefit related to the sale of Italian motorcycle maker MV Augusta.
Analysts, on average, had expected the company to earn 32 cents a share in the quarter, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue declined 1.5% to $1.01 billion from $1.03 billion.
Harley's U.S. motorcycle sales climbed 8.4% in the recent quarter and were up 7.5% worldwide. Outside the United States, sales fell in Europe and Canada but rose in Asia and Latin America.
"There was good strength in the U.S. That was really nice to see," said analyst Robin Diedrich with Edward Jones Co.
Sales to young motorcyclists, women and racial minorities grew faster than sales to the company's core customers in 2012.
Harley also opened 31 international dealerships in 18 countries, including Malaysia, Russia, Turkey and Bolivia.
After the announcements, Harley shares closed at $54.52, up $1.32. The shares have traded in a range of $37.84 to $54.32 in the past 52 weeks.
There are clear signs that consumer confidence is higher than it was a year ago, Diedrich said.
But the outlook is still cautiously optimistic, as much of the world economy remains unsettled.
"Given that our European business was down in 2012, and the economic concerns that remain in Europe for the near term, we no longer believe that we will meet our goal of international retail sales exceeding 40% of total retail sales by 2014. However, we continue to believe international sales will grow at a faster rate than domestic sales through 2014," Chief Financial Officer John Olin said on a conference call with analysts.
Besides York, changes also are under way at Harley-Davidson's plants in Menomonee Falls and Tomahawk, including the hiring of seasonal employees.
This year, the company said, it will focus on completing its new operating system and employee training at the Wisconsin plants. Up next will be changes in Kansas City, Mo.
"There's a huge amount of credit gone to the work done on Pilgrim Road, as well as Tomahawk, and to the entire supply base to support York," said Matt Levatich, president of Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
In 2012, the company said, it realized $280 million in savings from restructuring activities initiated since early 2009. The company expects about $305 million in savings in 2013, rising to annual ongoing savings of about $320 million beginning in 2014.
"The ambitious restructuring of our manufacturing operations, aimed at delivering better responsiveness for customers and greater operating efficiency, is now largely behind us," Wandell said.
Harley expects to ship between 259,000 and 264,000 motorcycles in 2013, which would mark an increase of up to 6.5% from 2012.
"We don't provide a forecast of the industry. But just in general, we feel very good about the industry," Olin said.
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Strong growth in Foodland Associated's Australian supermarket chain has offset the effect of a stronger Australian dollar on its New Zealand operations, with the company posting a modest 3.5 per cent total sales growth for the three months to January 31.
Foodland yesterday claimed not to have felt any heat from the petrol discount offers made by its larger rivals, and said its store upgrades and customer loyalty programs had helped buoy sales.
"The strong performance from the respective supermarket divisions reflects the improvements being seen from the ongoing rebranding and refurbishment program under way in Queensland and New Zealand," said Foodland managing director Trevor Coates.
Total sales rose to $1.54 billion from $1.49 billion in the previous corresponding period, excluding sales revenue from its Farmers and Red Arrow operations sold last year but including $13.5 million of sales from five Newmart stores bought in December.
Comparable store sales figures were not provided but the company said they were similar to those produced by Coles Myer and Woolworths.
Coles Myer last week posted 4 per cent like-for-like sales growth for the second quarter, marginally ahead of the 3.8 per cent growth by Woolworths. Last year, both chains launched petrol discount offers to lure more customers into their stores.
Foodland's share price, which has touched $19.75 this year, yesterday rallied to $19.44 before closing steady at $19.35.
Sales at the company's Australian Action supermarket chain grew 13.8 per cent to $346.6 million, compared with 1.3 per cent growth for its New Zealand supermarkets to $876.8 million.
The company said its investment in a bigger fresh food offering in its Queensland stores had paid off but it had so far completed less than half of the store refurbishments planned.
In Western Australia, its other major Australian market, it said it was experimenting with new store layouts and was pleased with customer reaction to a new loyalty program.
Sales at its Australian and New Zealand wholesale operations grew 2.6 per cent and 0.5 per cent respectively.
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