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"It was my first year and I didn't really know a lot about being part of a legacy, what I guess you'd call a royal family," he said. "I didn't have that experience. I came from junior to the American league and then plopped right down in the hottest place to work.
"Serge was really good. He told me how things would go and he was right on. We had some good years and then it got critical near the end. It was a little bit nasty but that's Montreal."
Looking back, Mr. Burns said he didn't think his departures in Montreal, Toronto and Boston were because of players tuning him out, as the media accounts of the day maintained.
"After a while, like with all coaches, they said, 'Well, we don't want to go that way no more,'" he said. "Players need something new after a while. They need a new voice in the room. I don't think they stopped listening. They said, 'We're due for a change here, let's do different things different ways.'
"But in New Jersey it was different. Lou [Lamoriello, the GM]said, 'This is the way we're doing it, if you don't like it, goodbye.'"
Mr. Burns became a full-time coach thanks to Wayne Gretzky, who finally convinced him to resign from the police service in Gatineau and coach the junior team he owned at the time, the Hull Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. After his playing days ended in junior hockey, Mr. Burns had joined the police service and became a coach as a sideline.
"Yeah, Gretzky said, 'I'll give you a longer contract and pay you whatever [the police]are paying you,'" Mr. Burns said. "He said, 'You won't be here long.' It was exactly that way."
Still, it took Mr. Burns some time to sever his connection with the Gatineau police. He was hired by the Olympiques in 1984 but took a leave of absence from the force in his first two seasons. He did not resign from the service until 1986. True to Mr. Gretzky's prediction, Mr. Burns moved on the following year when Mr. Savard hired him to coach the Sherbrooke Canadiens, the Montreal Canadiens' farm team. One year after that, his NHL career began in Montreal.
Despite winning the coach-of-the-year award three times before he was hired by Mr. Lamoriello, Mr. Burns said he did not learn how to become a winner until he went to New Jersey, where he finally won an NHL championship. He said it would not have happened without the guidance of Lamoriello, who is also known as a demanding taskmaster.
"I think I learned things that I thought I knew," he said. "I've never had that kind of relationship with a GM. He's an easy guy to work for. He wants to win, he's the boss and you have to accept it. He's a guy who knows where he's going."
By the time Mr. Burns was forced to step down as the Devils head coach in 2004 when he was diagnosed with colon cancer, his NHL coaching record was 501-350-175. The cancer went into remission and Mr. Burns hoped to return to coaching but he was stricken again, this time with liver cancer. He fought that off as well, making his final appearance as a coach as an assistant on the Canadian team at the 2008 world championships. But when cancer attacked his lungs in 2009, Mr. Burns decided not to seek further treatment.
"I'd say he has to be a poster child for inspiration," Robin Burns said. "He never once pitied himself. He never once talked about what was happening to him."
As his illness advanced, Mr. Burns said it made him more introspective and brought him closer to his daughter and son from his first marriage. While he always spent his summers with his children at his beloved second home on Lake Memphrémagog in Quebec's Eastern Townships, he admitted the demands of an NHL coaching career made family life difficult.Report Typo/Error
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Ubisoft and film maker and distributor New Regency have announced they are partnering on the forthcoming Assassin's Creed film.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film and television division of Ubisoft, will develop the Assassin's Creed film in close collaboration with New Regency. The development of a screenplay is beginning immediately and the project described as 'being fast tracked as the creative pieces come together.'
'Ubisoft chose to partner with New Regency because they are a talent and filmmaker-driven company, with the same independent and creative mindset that we have at Ubisoft Motion Pictures,' said Jean-Julien Baronnet, chief executive officer, Ubisoft Motion Pictures. 'Bringing aboard New Regency's renowned production and distribution expertise while maintaining our own creative and financial flexibility ensures that Assassin's Creed will be a high-quality film that respects the lore and fans of the video game franchise.'
The partnership with New Regency comes hot on the heels of Ubisoft Motion Pictures attaching distinguished actor Michael Fassbender to the Assassin's Creed film.
'We wanted to do everything we could to secure the rights to Assassin's Creed, which Ubisoft has maintained with such care and quality over the years,' said Brad Weston, president and chief executive officer, New Regency. 'Having just finished working with Michael on Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave (with Plan B) made the partnership even more irresistible.'
Ubisoft Motion Pictures was created in January 2011 to expand the audience of Ubisoft's successful video game brands by bringing them to film, television and Web series.
Assassin's Creed 3 is due for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on 31 October 2012, read our full preview here.

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Portland, Ore. • Even in sunny Southern California, Real Salt Lake was left searching for a bright spot last weekend.
But in a 4-2 beatdown at the hands of the L.A. Galaxy, a second-half goal from RSL striker Joao Plata, his second in league play this season, stood out as a moment of excellence that night.
A few weeks back, Real coach Jason Kreis said he'd been hesitant to move Plata, the diminutive Ecuadorian, into his team's starting lineup for fear of losing the spark Plata brought coming off the bench. Nevertheless, Kreis has started the striker in three straight games with his inclusion in Wednesday night's starting 11.
"I think the players continue to make the choices, really," Kreis said this week. "We always say the choices are difficult and they are, because the differences are miniscule. But every once in a while, a player performs their way into forcing your hand, and I think Plata has done that."
The 21-year-old Plata has surprised many with his play, scoring two goals and assisting six times so far this year, but Kreis does not consider himself among those not expecting it.
"Plata popped out of nowhere for a lot of people except the coaching staff. We've been watching him actually for the past several years," said Kreis, who said he began monitoring Plata three years ago at the MLS combine. "We've seen sparks of what he's capable of. I don't think he was ever a consistent player with Toronto, and he's certainly working toward much more consistency with us. It's taken him a long time to realize how much more is expected of him here and to buy into that. Since he's done that, we've seen success on the field because he's a talented player no doubt."
No rush on Wanderer
Former Bolton Wanderer Ricardo Gardner remains on trial with RSL, but don't expect a decision on him right away.
The 34-year-old is coming off a knee surgery, and RSL general manager Garth Lagerwey said the team wants to see him regain his fitness before evaluating him fully. Salt Lake has a reserve game, Aug. 31 at home against the Timbers, which could be the team's best look at Gardner.
Defensive options
After starting 12 straight matches to start the year, defender Chris Schuler hasn't seen the field since mid-May, as he works his way back from a foot injury.
But Kreis said that could change soon.
"[He's] very, very close," Kreis said. "I thought he had a particularly strong training session [Tuesday]. He's just entering his third week of full training. ... Three to four weeks is when we'd expect someone to start getting full soccer fitness."


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The Saturday Review of Literature called the book "almost unbearable reading at times," but said that its directness and vividness made it impossible to put down.
For 35 years, until recently, Fowler lived in Montclair, New Jersey, and her saga only gradually became known to friends she met at the local YMCA. She was a legend there for her daily exercise regimen: swimming 18 laps and doing 36 pull-ups on the diving board well into her 90s. In her 80s, she was still putt-putting around town on a motor scooter.
As Fowler intermittently spun out the story of her life, friends in the YMCA's steam room at first thought it implausible. "We all thought she was exaggerating," Elizabeth Crann said. "She was never exaggerating."
Elizabeth Japp was born in the US. Her father was Sir Henry Japp, a British engineer who built the rail tunnels under the East River. The New York Times in 1906 called him "the wizard".
In her book, Fowler, who had both American and British citizenship, describes how the family moved back to England when she was 12. She attended English schools and then went to study music in Paris, where someone burst into one of her lessons and demanded that the master hear two children. One was the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who immediately became a pupil.
While in France, Japp became engaged to an English businessman who died in a plane crash when she was 21. She returned to New York. At some point she met Frank Fowler, a physician who worked on the Gold Coast of Africa for the Colonial Medical Service. They left their only daughter, Niccie, in England. After German bombing began, they sent her to live in Connecticut. After strains in her marriage, Fowler talked her way onto the West Kebar, a ship carrying palm oil from what is now Ghana to New York.
She was the only woman on board, and wrote that the men resented her because they believed she could not pull her weight. German submarines had been attacking many merchant ships, but Fowler on a pleasant evening was relaxing on deck, knitting. Suddenly, the captain screamed, "This is it!"
Thirty-five people ended up in an eight-metre lifeboat, a self-contained universe of fear, boredom and oddity. Fowler wrote of trying to evade a man intent on kissing her, and how she finally managed to urinate in a bucket. Repeatedly and inexplicably, she wrote, she mourned the Burberry coat she had lost.
Mostly she told of her boat mates and their interaction. "Human decency showed more brightly with some," she wrote. "That was all - but that was everything, too."
The lifeboat was finally spotted from land, off the coast of Barbados. After they were rescued, she worked as a nanny in Connecticut but was also something of a celebrity. Lord & Taylor displayed her bedraggled dress from the lifeboat in its window, and women's magazines profiled her. The columnist Elsa Maxwell wrote she "has had more emotional experiences out of this war than any other human being I know".
For many years, Fowler worked as a book and magazine editor. She is survived by her daughter and a grandson. She treasured a piece of the lifeboat's sail her companions had given her. "To a good shipmate," it said.
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Frank Lutz, a prominent Republican pollster is working for a group named "The Israel Project" which contains members from both sides of the aisle in Congress. A recent report from Lutz argued the need to smear opponents of Prime Minister Netanyahu. "The idea that anywhere that you have Palestinians, there can't be Jews, that some areas have to be Jew-free, is a racist idea. We don't say that we have to cleanse out Arabs from Israel. They are citizens of Israel. They enjoy equal rights. We cannot see why it is that peace requires that any palestinian area would require a kind of ethnic cleansing to remove Jews."
Wow!! Where does one begin to deal with this misinformation and blatant lying? The West Bank, according to the UN Partition Plan was reserved for an Arab state. Israel seized the area during the 1967 war and it became occupied territory. According to international law a nation can not colonize with its own citizens land that belongs to another nation. Please inform Israel Arabs they now possess "equal rights!!"
Those who care about Israel understand the best security for Jews and Arabs is peace, not war, no land aggression, not spreading lies. Arab nations for the first time in history are prepared to negotiate for peace with Israel. Groups like The Israel Project" would best be termed: "The Anti-Israel Project."


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NFL NOTEBOOK: Colts sign former Patriots WR Branch
The Colts signed former Super Bowl MVP Deion Branch six days before playing his ex-team in the divisional round.
The 5-foot-9, 195-pound Branch had 518 catches for 6,644 yards and 39 touchdowns over a career spent mostly with the New England Patriots. Branch also has 64 receptions for 948 yards and four TDs in 17 postseason games. He won two Super Bowls and was MVP during the Pats' third title run.
To make room, Indy put starting cornerback Greg Toler and defensive end Fili Moala on injured reserve. The Colts promoted receiver Josh Lenz to the active roster and released defensive tackle Christian Tupou from the practice squad.
DOLPHINS: A punchless offense in the final two games kept Miami out of the postseason, and they'll have a new play-caller in 2014.
Offensive coordinator Mike Sherman was fired Monday, the first change by the team since the holiday collapse. Coach Joe Philbin defended Sherman the day after the season, but owner Stephen Ross was expected to demand some sort of shake-up following the dismal finish.
PANTHERS: Carolina wide receiver Steve Smith said he'll play Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC divisional playoffs.
What he can't predict is how his sprained left knee will feel during the game.
The 34-year-old Smith says the knee "felt good" after doing some cutting during a light practice Monday. He's expected to test it out more thoroughly Wednesday.
PATRIOTS: New England's defense suffered another big blow Monday when the Patriots' placed linebacker Brandon Spikes on injured reserve because of a knee injury five days before their playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts.
Spikes, the Patriots' second-leading tackler, is their fourth key defender to be sidelined for the season.
SAINTS: The New Orleans Saints' 26-24 win against the Philadelphia Eagles was the most-watched Saturday wild-card game on NBC with 34.4 million viewers. The Indianapolis Colts' 45-44 win over the Kansas City Chiefs had 27.6 million viewers. On CBS, the San Diego-Cincinnati game was seen by 30.9 million, the highest viewership in 19 years for an early AFC wild-card game.


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The Junior Certificate results are due out shortly and the newspapers will highlight again the problem of underage drinking. Irish teenagers are one of the highest binge drinkers in Europe.
The problem of teenage drinking
Binge drinking can directly cause accidents and injury as well as depression, anxiety, suicide and attempted suicide. Alcohol consumption has risen 48% in the past ten years. The average age for teens to start drinking is 14 to 15, three years younger than it was thirty years ago.
Peer pressure around alcohol
What can you do as a parent in the lead up to the night? If your son or daughter is not interested in drinking; they are likely to spend the night 'taking care' of friends who have been drinking. The hype around the Junior Cert night and the pressure 'to drink' is considerable. What a pity more schools don't take the students away for the night as some do. Some schools organise an overnight away for the students; maybe Glendalough or elsewhere for fun hiking followed by an overnight in the Youth Hostel with classmates and teachers.
Offer an alternative to the Junior Cert night
According to the Gardai at Donnybrook Station, a teen in trouble will often remark that they found it hard to say no to the peer pressure that builds up before the day. Your Junior Cert student may be looking for an excuse to say No ; or for you to provide an attractive alternative, so provide one. The Junior Cert night is about celebrating your son or daughter and a meal out with family may be an alternative. Is there something they would like to do, maybe this is the time to suggest it.
Practical tips to avoid problems with teen drinking
90% of people have alcohol in their homes but parents are not monitoring alcohol levels. Be sure it is not you who provide the first drink. Vodka is often used to lace the mineral in the handbag. Talk to older siblings and ensure they do not offer to buy alcohol for the younger teen. Check out that the event they are going to is age appropriate.
Many establishes hold Junior Cert nights which are popular so ensure they have the required prebooked ticket. Much trouble arises from drunk teens with nowhere to go. Some teens may carry false ID cards to gain access to over 18 clubs. Drop your teen as close as possible to the venue at the start time and collect at the time the disco ends.
Talk to other parents
Communicate with other parents about your teenagers plans. Each teen tells you 'everyone else is allowed' until you talk to the other parents and discover that that is not the case. Too much money is a problem as it can either be taken or used to purchase alcohol. Be aware of what is in the handbag, a small mouthwash bottle may be used to disguise the smell of alcohol.
Talk to your teen about alcohol
A teenager with positive self esteem is less likely to misuse alcohol or drugs. Sporting activities and clubs occupy them and build a solid sense of themselves. Empower your child to make good and informed choices. Finally, set a good example and model responsible behaviour around alcohol.
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