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Post-draft doings: Had 31 goals and 28 assists for 59 points in 47 regular-season games this past season with Tri-City, missing about six weeks because of wrist surgery. Finished season on a seven-game point streak (seven goals, three assists). In 2018 WHL playoffs, Rasmussen had 14 goals and 17 assists for 33 points in 14 games. He had multi-point performances in 10 games, and only went without a point in one game.
Next up: Rasmussen’s dominance down the stretch and through the playoffs have earned him a shot at making the Wings this autumn. He’s 6-foot-6, 220 pounds, so even though he’s only 19, that’ll help him as he plays against men. He’s smart, goes to the net, and a candidate for power-play minutes. He’s a center but played wing during the playoffs, and that should help him this autumn, because it’s a less demanding position than center, especially for a young player (Dylan Larkin started out in NHL as a wing, then found his footing at center).
Rasmussen has a year left of junior eligibility, so he’ll either be in Detroit next season, or juniors. The AHL is not an option. If the Wings keep him past 10 games, it’ll burn a year of his entry-level contract if they later end up sending him back to juniors.
Draft year doings: Two goals, seven assists in 48 games for Almtuna AS (Allsvenska).
Post-draft doings: Had six goals and eight assists for 14 points in 34 games with Almtuna.
Next up: Gained confidence at World Junior Championship. Skates great, makes a good first pass and plays the game hard. Playing next season at Frolunda HC in Swedish elite league, a club known for developing players. Needs to gain strength but has hockey sense, is competitive, and shoots right.
Draft year doings: One goal, 11 assists in 47 games for Sioux Falls (United States Hockey League).
Draft day scouting report: Good skater. More offensive side to his game than showed in USHL this year. Really good hockey sense.
Post-draft doings: Had two goals and four assists for six points in 40 games with Boston University (Hockey East).
Early assessment: It took Kotkansalo a bit of time to get up to speed, but overall he had a good freshman year. Expected to push for a bigger role next season.
Draft year doings: 26 goals, 26 assists in 64 games split between Regina and Red Deer (WHL).
Draft day scouting report: A Tyler Bertuzzi-type player in that Zablocki thrives in playoffs. Hard guy to play against. Has good hockey sense, and if he is not factoring in on the score sheet, he is factoring in on the penalty side.
Post-draft doings: Had 12 goals and 19 assists for 31 points in 65 games split among Red Deer, Lethbridge & Victoria (WHL). Had three points in 10 playoff games for Victoria.
Early assessment: Had some growing pains as he played on three different teams. Can turn pro or go back to juniors for overage year.
Draft year doings: 21 goals, 26 assists in 60 games for Peterborough Petes (Ontario Hockey League).
Draft day scouting report: Good two-way player, sound defensively, good on faceoffs.
Post-draft doings: Had 16 goals and 15 assists for 31 points in 54 games with Peterborough.
Early assessment: An injury hampered his 2017-18 season. Should have opportunity for a bigger role next season.
Draft year doings: 21-10-1, 2.41 goals-against average, .917 save percentage with Muskegon (USHL).
Draft day scouting report: 6-foot-5 goalie who is figuring out how to make the most of his size. Will take longer to develop, as is often case with bigger goalies (see Ben Bishop). Athletic butterfly style.
Post-draft doings: Went 5-6-2 with a 2.88 goals-against average and .892 save percentage in 17 games at Quinnipiac University (ECAC).
Early assessment: Went through growing pains in the first half but had a good second half. Goalies take time to develop, and he needs to build up his frame.
Draft year doings: Two goals, 10 assists in 38 games with Malmo J20 (SuperElit).
Draft day scouting report: Smart, good puck mover. Maybe most upside of all the defensemen the Wings drafted this year.
Post-draft doings: Had one goal among six points in 14 games with Malmo (SuperElit, a junior ice hockey league in Sweden), played one game with Malmo’s team in the top-level Swedish hockey league, and had two assists in 26 games with IK Pantern (second-highest Swedish league). Played for his native Denmark in World Junior U20 championship.
Early assessment: Got off to a great start but then missed about two months because of mononucleosis. Needs to improve his skating but he has good tools. Expected to play next season for Malmo in the top-level Swedish elite league.
Draft year doings: Six goals, 13 assists in 61 games for Peterborough Petes (OHL).
Draft day scouting report: Loves to throw his body around.
Post-draft doings: Had three goals, eight assists for 11 points in 50 games with Peterborough.
Early assessment: Had a pretty good 2017-18 overall, but needs to continue to work on his skating. Tough, physical defender.
Draft year doings: 37 goals, 23 assists in 56 games with Fargo (USHL).
Draft day scouting report: Has size and skill, could be dark horse if skating improves.
Post-draft doings: Had four goals and nine assists for 13 points in 28 games with Union College (ECAC).
Early assessment: Solid freshman year, should build on that next season.
Draft year doings: One assist in 12 games for Hamilton (OHL).
Draft day scouting report: Good skater, competitive, can move the puck.
Post-draft doings: Had one goal and three assists in 66 games between Hamilton and Saginaw (OHL). Had one assist in four playoff games with Saginaw.
Early assessment: Another lanky (6-foot-3, 192 pounds) guy who needs to put on strength. His game was markedly better once he was traded to Saginaw and took on a bigger role.
Draft year doings: 20 goals, 21 assists in 65 games with Saginaw (OHL).
Draft day scouting report: Pretty good year on team that struggled. Good character.
Post-draft doings: Had nine goals and 16 assists for 25 points in 41 games with Saginaw.
Early assessment: His 2017-18 season was hampered by an elbow injury. Smaller (5-foot-11, 180 pounds) but skilled guy capable of better offensive numbers.
Beautiful tree filled property near Lake Cypress Springs. Great for just recreation or building a get a way or full time home. Nice area to enjoy nature.
KEY WEST, Fla. -- For those who don't live in so-called battleground states, the voice is surprising: ''I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message." What follows on the screen is less surprising: an ominous listing of John F. Kerry's Senate votes, suggesting he opposed everything from the Sherman tank to McGruff the crime-fighting dog.
Floridians, like Ohioans, Pennsylvanians, and others, see scores of these commercials every week, along with increasing numbers of ads from the Kerry campaign and liberal ''527" groups, so named for the provision in the tax code that allows them.
But while most of Kerry's ads so far have been upbeat biographical spots -- leaving the dirty work of softening up Bush to the ''527" groups -- Bush's campaign was at work earlier and longer in trying to define Kerry as a weak-on-defense liberal.
This shock-and-awe of the airwaves hasn't seriously damaged Kerry, though Republicans can reasonably argue that the horse race polls would be worse for them without the ads. But viewers might just as well wonder whether Bush has come on too strong, too fast: His campaign is already on orange alert with five months to go before the election.
The Bush strategy seems simple: Use the Republicans' fund-raising advantage to portray Kerry as a Massachusetts liberal just the way George H. W. Bush portrayed Michael Dukakis as an out-of-touch, card-carrying left-winger in 1988.
But so far, this campaign has played out as Bush-Dukakis the way Dukakis must have envisioned it unfolding: Bush has seemed a little shrill and insistent, while Kerry travels the country making presidential-type addresses. He's currently on an 11-day tour discussing national security.
That's not to say that anyone, even the most diehard Democrats, thinks that Kerry is cruising to victory. The state-by-state numbers are only moderately encouraging, and the possibility of an event that could tip the election in Bush's favor -- a major terrorist attack, the capture of Osama bin Laden -- will be present every day until Nov. 3.
But the continued closeness of the election only makes Bush's attack-dog tactics seem more out of proportion for an incumbent seeking reelection. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton seized the initiative in their reelection runs by portraying their administrations in gauzy, upbeat themes, conveyed in 30-second spots that played like Viagra ads.
This year, if anyone's running a stately, incumbent-style walk-through, it's Kerry. And if the poll numbers continue to decline for Bush, expect a further role reversal. It could be only a matter of weeks before Bush starts invoking the spirit of Harry S. Truman, the patron saint of embattled incumbents, whose toughness and feistiness (they didn't call it negative campaigning then) helped him overcome his unpopular policies.
The Democrats' secret weapon this year has been their unity of purpose. Not only has the party avoided internal squabbles, it has tacitly accepted the idea that it must run two complementary campaigns without ever acknowledging the differences between them.
The first is the campaign against Bush, which got off to a jump-start with former Vermont governor Howard Dean's fiery rhetoric, took off on the Internet and in TV spots by groups like MoveOn.org and now continues apace with different Bush antagonists taking the lead every week: hundreds of thousands of women marching against Bush's judicial nominees one week, an apoplectic address by Al Gore another week, a provocative description of Iraq as ''Bush's Vietnam" by Edward M. Kennedy another week, and so on.
The second campaign is Kerry's effort to establish himself as a serious president-in-waiting. With former Clinton administration economic and foreign-policy advisers charting a moderate course -- and even matching Bush's hawkish policies in the Mideast -- Kerry has staked a claim to the political middle without losing many Democrats on the left.
Ralph Nader's third-party campaign remains a threat, however, as do some policy successes for Bush. The economy, which voters say is their top concern, is far from weak, and Bush has yet to receive much credit for it. If the Iraq news were to quiet down, voters might notice that their incomes have been rising steadily while their federal tax bill has gone down.
For now, though, Kerry can enjoy the luxury of running a 19th-century campaign, offering policy pronouncements from his rhetorical front porch while others stoke the outrage against Bush.
It's not a small advantage. With each serious speech and sober pronouncement, Kerry looks more like a man preparing for a new administration in January.
And with each intemperate attack ad, Bush looks like a man expecting a different administration in January, too.
While one committee was deciding that Kobe Bryant shouldn’t be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences four months after he won an Oscar for the short film “Dear Basketball,” other AMPAS committees have been trying to determine just how generous they ought to be in finding prospective new members.
And in many cases, they have been faced with a tricky decision: Stick to the written guidelines or use the nebulous escape clauses built into Academy rules to invite people who might not otherwise qualify?
Such are the pitfalls at a time when the Academy is trying hard to become less overwhelmingly white and male, by inviting hundreds of increasingly diverse new members to join the organization.
As committees in the 17 Academy branches came up with lists of prospective new members over the past two months, though, members who participated in the decisions told TheWrap that the focus has been on finding lots of new members, whether or not they strictly meet the written requirements.
That last clause is being invoked more and more often, said the committee members, some of whom expect that this year’s class will be as large as the record-breaking 2016 and 2017 classes.
Can they possibly find as many prospective new members as they have the last two years, when they invited 683 in 2016 and 744 in 2017?
And what will this mean to the diversity goals that were set by the Academy at the height of the #OscarsSoWhite protests in 2016, when then-president Cheryl Boone Isaacs pledged to double the number of women and non-white members by 2020?
On the surface, it seems unlikely that the Academy, which has combed the globe for prospective Oscar voters for the last two years, can find another class as large as the last two. But we thought that would be the case last year, that they surely couldn’t find another 683 qualified film professionals — and they proved us wrong by topping that number by almost 100.
And several of those who participated in the process so far this year say they expect another huge group of invitations, based on the wide net that has been cast and the willingness to invite people who in past years would not have made the cut.
When it comes to the diversity goals that Isaacs announced two and a half years ago, the Academy is way ahead of schedule on one count, but significantly behind on another.
At the time that Isaacs pledged to double the female and non-white membership, the Academy had 6,436 active members, with 6,124 of them eligible to vote for the Oscars. AMPAS figures revealed that the membership at that point was 75 percent male and 92 percent white — so if those figures are accurate, the diversity pledge required them to add about 1,609 female members and 515 non-white members.
On the latter front, the Academy has essentially achieved its goal: Again using AMPAS percentages, about 280 nonwhite members were invited in 2016, and another 232 in 2017. Depending on how many of those declined the invitation, a figure the Academy does not reveal, the organization is likely at or very close to its goal, making it a virtual certainty that it will have doubled the number of non-white members as soon as this year’s invitations go out.
The goal of doubling the number of women members, though, is not so easily attained. The Academy needed to add more than 1,600 women, and they invited 315 in 2016 and 302 in 2017. That leaves them almost 1,000 short, with the classes of 2018, 2019 and 2020 still to go.
To truly double the number of female members it had at the time the challenge was announced, then, the Academy would need to average more than 330 new female members for the next three years, more than they achieved even in the last two record years for new admissions.
And while the numbers are going up dramatically, the Academy is not just adding women and people of color. Given the record size of the last two classes, they are also adding lots more white men. Since the 2016 Academy already had more than 5,900 white members and 4,800 men, the diversity percentages can only increase slowly.
That’s what the branches have been up against as they looked for members of the Class of 2018, and what the board will be facing as they vote on hundreds of prospective members on Saturday.
The Academy is making progress, and making it more quickly than many of us thought they would. But it wasn’t easy in 2016 and 2017, and it’s not going to be easy in 2018.
The list of new members will be announced early next week.
The Motion Picture Academy made amazing strides in its goal to diversify membership -- but some of their invites this year are questionable. Read on for TheWrap's tally of oddballs, and people you would think have been members for years.
The Old Spice spokesman has had an impressive if not niche acting career. Still a bit of a head-scratcher, but the man brings a ton of joy and muscles wherever he pops up, so we'll take it.
The kitschy '70s start ("The Incredible Hulk" TV series) mostly takes B-movie action roles or plays heightened versions of himself ("I Love You, Man"). But we'll welcome him with a smile because we know what happens when he gets angry.
With all due respect to child stars who chug along into adulthood as actors, including "Harry Potter"'s platinum blonde baby villain, this seems like a stretch -- or perhaps a nod to the iconic books turning 20 this year.
Same thing goes here for Grint, the lovable Ron Weasely.
How in GOD's NAME was this show business legend not already an Academy member? But this is another example of "Its' Never Too Late" in the 95-year-old's career.
Allen is best known for playing Lydia in the iconic film "Fame," but she's long been a choreographer for the Oscars telecast. She's essentially the Bruce Vilanch of dance at the Academy, so this is a long-overdue internal promotion.
Hunt was a national treasure during her late-aughts TV show and a rare female producer and star, though she's mostly been putting in voice work on animated projects like "Cars" for the past decade.
These R&B icons, most famous for their shepherding of Janet Jackson's most memorable albums, might seem curious additions to the film academy. The men have put in hundreds of songs on movie soundtracks over the years, however.
Don't get us wrong, we're obsessed with Triplehorn. "Sliding Doors"? Amazing. "Big Love"? She was the show. But the actress does fall somewhere on a spectrum of "Why isn't she already a member" and "Really?"
It's confounding to think Whedon was not previously invited to join the Academy's ranks. Not only is he a commercially proven force, thanks to his "Avengers" gigs, but he can do high-brown (like his contemporary take on Shakespeare's "As You Like It") and cult stardom with his TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Each summer AidData – a research and innovation lab at W&M – sends students abroad to work with local organizations on research driven projects. Over the last 4 years its Summer Fellows program has matched 75 students with host organizations in 10 countries to promote data literacy and use of aid information in decision making. Fellows are embedded for 10 weeks with governments, civil society organizations, universities, and USAID missions. During that time they undertake collaboratively defined projects, including building data management and visualization systems, training journalists in data analysis for evidence-based reporting and incorporating aid information into service delivery and corruption monitoring efforts.
It’s a powerful experience for students to take their classroom coursework and their AidData experience and apply those tools and knowledge in practice. This year W&M students will work in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Senegal and Nepal. The respective diversity of backgrounds is a testament to W&M’s focus on interdisciplinary studies, with majors and minors including: International Relations, Chinese, Public Health, Ecology, GIS & Environmental Policy, Economics and Mathematics. More about them and their cohort.
One of my favorite parts of the experience, though, is their first week. We call it the “data bootcamp” and it’s held at W&M each year just before Memorial Day. Faculty and staff from across AidData open their homes to the students, and it’s a great experience to get to know the students better as we sit around the dinner table each night talking about what they learned and what they hope to achieve. It always reminds me that many of my strongest moments of personal growth and reflection occurred when I conducted research abroad. And consistently, when I ask students what their favorite experience was from their time at W&M and AidData, they point to this chance to conduct research with local community and government partners abroad.
GENEVA (Reuters) - With the Higgs boson in the bag, the head of the CERN research center urged scientists on Tuesday to push on to unveil the “dark universe” - the hidden stuff that makes up 95 per cent of the cosmos and is still a mystery to earthbound researchers.
Rolf Heuer spoke after the Nobel physics prize went to Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle, which explains how fundamental matter got the mass to form stars and planets.
“We have now completed the Standard Model,” Heuer told reporters, referring to the portrait of the known universe drafted in the 1980s.
“It is high time for us to go on to the dark universe,” added the director general of the world’s main institution focusing on the basic particles of nature, based near Geneva.
The Higgs boson and its associated force field were among the last major building blocks of that model of how the cosmos works.
Their existence was confirmed, after three decades, when the particle was seen last year in CERN’s underground particle smasher, the giant Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The LHC, now in the middle of a two-year refit and upgrade, is due to resume operations in early 2015 with its power doubled.
“That will open promising territory into new physics,” Heuer’s deputy Sergio Bertolucci said. New physics is the term used by scientists for the realms beyond the Standard Model that currently remain as elusive as science-fiction.
First among these - highlighted in Nobel acceptance comments by Englert - is super-symmetry, the theory that all basic particles have a heavier but invisible partner, which is linked to concepts like string theory and extra dimensions.