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They have a good chance to beat the current JETS very well.
i’m sorry but have you ever looked at some of these college teams? the old miami teams or more recent florida teams? they not only were filled with nfl talent, they were filled with nfl stars.
I learned to never say never after Dorothy Hamill defeated Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes.
In a related story, Heath Evans must have forgotten his comments to a Miami sports radio show just 8 months ago when he slammed Nick Saban.
NO, I am an SEC fan, and this game would be over by the end of the 1st quarter.
That is it for the first 3 rounds, and lets be honest, anyone drafted after the 3rd round has LITTLE chance to start.
That means, there are 7 guys on Alabama who are ready to play in the NFL (AT BEST).
"As far as the goals," Smith-Pelly said, "I have no idea."
So much about Smith-Pelly and his place in this Stanley Cup finals defies explanation. It is, without question, difficult to comprehend how a burly forward who scored seven goals during 75 regular season games this year has now recorded six in 23 playoff games. His most recent goal came Monday night as he swooped to the net at the end of a delirious first period in the Washington Capitals' 6-2 victory in Game 4 against the Vegas Golden Knights, Smith-Pelly's second goal in two games. Figuring out his scoring binge, though, may be the simplest slice of his story.
How did a 25-year-old whose career faced a crossroads in the fall become a crucial cog for a team one victory away from the Stanley Cup? How could a seven-season journeyman hear his initials chanted in a frenzied arena on the sport's biggest stage? How, exactly, did Smith-Pelly become one of Washington's newest sporting darlings?
In training camp, Smith-Pelly joined the fourth team of his career, available because the New Jersey Devils had bought out his contract and let him walk. The Capitals added him, in large part, because their salary cap situation necessitated cheap signings. Back in October, the scene that played out in the second period Monday night would have been unfathomable.
Smith-Pelly was helping kill a penalty, the kind of hard-nosed task he specializes in. He hustled after the puck at center ice, nearly beating Vegas forward Tomas Tatar to the puck. Instead, he checked Tatar into the boards, nearly flipping him into the Capitals' bench. With the puck momentarily loose, Smith-Pelly hacked it across the ice, effectively ending Vegas's chance at a power-play goal.
How can you explain that? Smith-Pelly debuted at 19 with the Anaheim Ducks in 2011, a recent second-round pick. By last offseason, his star had dimmed and his career had destabilized. Last season with New Jersey, Smith-Pelly recorded four goals and five assists in 53 games. The Devils essentially cut him. He had played for three teams - the Ducks, Montreal Canadiens and Devils — in the past three seasons.
Smith-Pelly found his place as a fourth-line forward. Though he now occupies a special place in Capitals history, Smith-Pelly had a quiet, if solid, season. He recorded 16 points. Smith-Pelly, who is black, garnered his most attention when a fan in Chicago hurled racial epithets at him during a game.
When the Capitals configured their bottom-six forwards to start the playoffs, there was no guarantee Smith-Pelly would be included. But the Capitals coaching staff believed he belonged, partly owing to his pedigree as a player who raised his level in the postseason. In his career, he had scored six playoff goals — including five in 2014 with Anaheim, after scoring just two in the regular season — in 24 playoff games.
"I think the things I do all year just kind of get magnified," Smith-Pelly said. "I try to play physical and block shots and do all that stuff all year. This time of year, it's just more important."
Smith-Pelly has found himself in the middle of everything in these playoffs, and not in a way he wanted Monday morning. At the start of the Capitals' morning skate at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, teammate Andre Burakovsky blasted a slapshot. As it hissed toward the net, the puck smacked Smith-Pelly in the face. He left the practice, but returned by the end.
"A little wake-up call," Smith-Pelly said.
Blood trickled down Smith-Pelly's face as he spoke with reporters after the workout. He said team trainers had glued a wound shut, but he was already joking about what Burakovsky owed him for the wayward shot.
"At least a dinner," Smith-Pelly said. "The minimum a dinner, at least."
Sept. 13, 2011 10:26 p.m.
Some rather crazy comments... transnational American indians? What?!?
Anyway, I think many of you are reading waaaay too much into this article. This article isn't about the modern State of Israel, Palestinians, or anything of the sort. Dr. Peterson simply speaks out against anti-Semitism. Dr. Peterson has only authored one book and it happens to be a very pro-Muslim book titled "Muhammed: Prophet of God." If you google Dr. Peterson you can find him discussing Islam, there are even some radio recordings, and he completely rejects, for example, the sort of rhetoric heard from persons like Glenn Beck. Dr. Peterson is very pro-Muslim. As for his specific thoughts on the Israel-Palestine issue, perhaps someone should just ask him since that seems to be what most are concerned about.
And also note, semites include Arabs, not just Jews. And what's a Jew in the BOM context, are we talking blood or religion? Does it matter? BTW there are more Jews in the USA than Israel.
Sept. 3, 2011 1:50 a.m.
nick said "Joseph Fielding Smith argued that Mormons have been adopted into the remnant of Jacob."
That is not correct. Joseph Fielding Smith's words are still taught in chapters 21 and 25 of the current Doctrines of the Gospel Institute Manual.
The great majority of those who become members of the Church are literal descendants of Abraham through Ephraim, son of Joseph. Those who are not literal descendants ... when they are baptized and confirmed they are grafted into the tree and are entitled to all the rights and privileges as heirs"
It is essential in this dispensation that Ephraim stand in his place at the head, exercising the birthright in Israel which was given to him by direct revelation."
It is Ephraim, today, who holds the priesthood. It is with Ephraim that the Lord has made covenant and has revealed the fulness of the everlasting gospel. It is Ephraim who is building temples and performing the ordinances in them for both the living and for the dead."
Mormonism teaches that they are above the Jews because they are from Ephraim. Except for the American Indian. They have a lesser status because they are from Manasseh.
Sept. 2, 2011 2:38 p.m.
I am Jewish and have been fascinated by the philo-Semitism in the LDS religion. I had always assumed that all religions are anti-Semitic, but experiences with many Mormons have convinced me that the philo-Semitism among Mormons is broad and deep. Even though I have read many explanations for philo-Semitism, I am not confident that I fully understand how it began and why it has persisted. This particular article was send to me by an LDS friend. Of course, I liked the article very much. It might give me a broader understanding of philo-Semitism if Mr. Peterson could provide more information about his motivation for writing the article.
Sept. 2, 2011 12:22 p.m.
To Michael: I totally disagree with you. Though I am also American Indian I do not agree with the level that many of them have taken against the US Government or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I firmly and totally believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of our Heavenly Father and another testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Therefore, I am repulsed by your accussations.
Maybe you should really research things before you put on such a tirade. Unlike some I have researched and find nothing about the Book of Mormon or its members that degrades the American Indian. Many of your fellow brethren in South and Central America are accepting the Gospel of Jesus Christ everyday.
I stand with the Book of Mormon and the LDS Church. I come through the Cherokee and the Commanche. My heritage walked on the trail of tears and I am a descendant of the Last War Chief of the Commanche. I accept things as they are and find it quite interesting that we are descendants of Joseph. Do you have any real proof we are not? The answer is no.
Sept. 2, 2011 11:05 a.m.
The United States government believed that the way to "civilize" the American Indian was to make them Christian. Many now realize and admit how wrong that was.
But Mormonism continues to teach that the American Indian is in a fallen and degraded state unless they become Mormon. The teachings of the BofM indicate that the beautiful, rich and ancient traditions of America's indigenous people are considered false traditions of the fathers.
The American Indian is blamed for what happened and still happens to them with the fantasy, pseudo-history notion that their ancestors had turned against Christianity and killed off the righteous followers of Jesus before Columbus came. Such ideas are disgusting in the 21st century.
Mormonism carries an extreme view directed toward America's indigenous people. Mormonism teaches that America's indigenous people are fallen Hebrews who can only become pure and delightsome by becoming Mormon.
These bold statements that you refer to in LDS scriptures are from whose God? The myths from the Near East should not be imposed on a beautiful people in the Americas. Religions that do not believe in Jesus are just as valid as Mormonism. No other mainstream Christian church degrades indigenous traditions like Mormonism.
Sept. 2, 2011 10:15 a.m.
I will try to respond to your feelings, because you are very justified to feel the way you do. The only correction I might offer to your statement is to replace "Mormon" with "Christian." The Book of Mormon does not speak of Mormons, rather Mormon is the prophet who compiled the book.
That being said, I never understand how non-believers call Jesus a great teacher. He was either the Son of God incarnate, or he was an arrogant buffoon. Jesus repeatedly said things like, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." No non-believer can take statements like this in any other fashion than the way you react to the Book of Mormon.
It all comes down to these questions: Is Jesus the Christ and Savior of the world? Did the Father and the Son appear to Joseph Smith and give him commandments? Is the Book of Mormon Christ's words to ancient prophets and translated by Joseph Smith?
From the beginning of Genesis to the last revelation in the Doctrine and Covenants, God makes bold statements. Jesus is the Christ. This Latter-day Saints believe.
Sept. 1, 2011 7:25 p.m.
The American Indians are not Hebrew but the BofM claims they are.
The Book of Mormon teaches that Europeans would come to America, scatter and nearly destroy the indigenous people because they were no longer Christian. If the Indians become Mormon they will blossom as a rose. The title page of the Book of Mormon says it is written to America's indigenous people (Lamanites). They can become pure and delightsome if they become LDS (implying that they are impure and unpleasant if they are not Mormon). This is a perverted idea resembling anti-Semitism, directed at America's indigenous people.
The indigenous American people who do not accept Mormonism's pseudo-history are still under the curse of their ancestors according to the BofM. The BofM needs to be discarded. There is no place in the 21st century for this disgusting Eurocentric teaching.
Sept. 1, 2011 3:17 p.m.
You miss the point. Everyone of these groups, including the Jews, have been at each others throats over the centuries, debating who really is favored of God. The Phrase "what thank ye the Jews for the bible", comes from 2 Nephi chapter 29. It is part of Nephi's alleged prophecy of the apostasy and religious turmoil present in Joseph Smith's day. When many of the protestants who reject the Mormon message will say "a bible, a bible, we have got a bible". In that moment, Nephi rebukes the protestants for having reviled against the Jews. He fails to recognize that the most important part of the Bible, even as per his theology, would be the personal life and ministry of Jesus Christ - and we didn't get that from the Jews. Particularly not the preservation of such over 2000 years. No, we have the protestants, the Catholics, the scribes, and the creeds, to thank for that.
He is also speaking about how the Book of Mormon is to fulfill God's covenant with a portion of the house of Israel (Nephi's alleged descendants), those who are despised by the protestants...except we don't think they really exist anymore?
Sept. 1, 2011 12:43 p.m.
"what thank ye the catholics for preserving the Christian texts"
"what thank ye the reformers for making the bible available to the lay reader"
"what thank ye gutenberg for the printing press"
Excellent questions. We should be thankful for all these things. Some of us are and have actually expressed our gratitude.
"Dan Peterson's article ignores the implications Der Judenstaat has for the Palestinian (and other) peoples of the Middle East. From their perspective, the Jewish occupation is a more blatant violation of national and ethnic sovereignty than the occupation by Europeans of the Americas."
Except that Jews have always constituted a substantial percentage of the population of Palestine, and either payed for the Arab lands they took or took them when they were abandoned by Arabs fleeing to join their enemies who were intent on eradicating them.
Was it religion that poisoned your own attitude?
Sept. 1, 2011 12:39 p.m.
Peterson is, if I'm not mistaken, an Arabist. I doubt that he's unaware of the Palestinian and other Arabs.
But these are short columns. There's only so much a writer can DO in one of them.
And what has religion got to do with Zionism? It was a secular nationalism, by and large, just like other nineteenth-century nationalisms. The first Zionists and the founders of the state of Israel were, on the whole, not practicing, religious Jews.
Even Peterson's article points out that Theodore Herzl was a SECULARIZED Jew. So was Dreyfus, I think, as well.
Sept. 1, 2011 12:29 p.m.
New Yorker objects to Nick's "confounding" of groups, scriptures and argument "that Mormons somehow are chosen by God" to inherit North America.
Nick objects to the claim that Jews are "God's Chosen people".
Dan Peterson's article ignores the implications Der Judenstaat has for the Palestinian (and other) peoples of the Middle East. From their perspective, the Jewish occupation is a more blatant violation of national and ethnic sovereignty than the occupation by Europeans of the Americas.
And everybody claims as their justification for displacing OTHERS the mandate of being Gods chosen people. Chosen for what? To do whatever you want to OTHERS; to displace them, to occupy their lands, to take their resources and ways of life.
Everyone except the atheists are claiming authority and justification from God for the horrors they are inflicting on OTHERS. Religion poisons everything.
Sept. 1, 2011 12:13 p.m.
Why does God play favorites like this?
Sept. 1, 2011 11:31 a.m.
What a great blessing it would be for all Native Americans to have transnational status. It would completely turn around their economics. Instead of being marginalized and discriminated against, the current nations would compete for them to prevent brain drain and loss of human resources.
nick - No, a land doesn't "automatically belong to the people who occupy it, even though they took it from another." The only justification for giving it lock, stock, and barrel to the European conquers is that they had the power to take it. And that is no justification at all. Your confounding of groups, scriptures, and argument that Mormons somehow are chosen by God to inherit instead of the Native Americans, is no argument at all. However the Europeans always have used any justification at all, regardless of how unjust it may be.
Sept. 1, 2011 11:25 a.m.
Whoa--way to hijack an article about the Book of Mormon supporting the Jews into a political statement advocating opening our borders! That's quite a stretch.
I appreciate the reminder of the Book of Mormon's teachings on the Jews.
Still scratching my head over the "people without a country" status.
Sept. 1, 2011 11:14 a.m.
The point is, there is recorded in the Book of Mormon scriptures, God's warning concerning unthankfulness, hatred and evil actions toward His Covenant people. This particular scripture, quoting the Lord, is no small warning and it should resound as penetrating to the ear, heart and mind as do the Ten Commandments. History attest that the Jews have suffered terribly man's injustice and cruelty. Tyranical and unjust regimes, past and future would have done well, and will do well to heed such authoritative, mandated directive and warning.
Sept. 1, 2011 10:58 a.m.
Former BYU Professor John Sorenson's monumental work on migrations to the New World clearly proves that scores of groups/tribes/peoples immigrated to the New World during the past 3,000 years. Each group often contended with and, in some cases, replaced the peoples who preceeded them. Kurt's reasoning is faulty. Does a land automatically belong to the people who occupy it, even though they took it from another, earlier group of people?
Some of the groups were nearly extinguished such as the Jaredites and Nephites and other groups that modern history can document. The Aztecs severely persecuted neighboring tribes which, in part, led to their conquest when Cortez allied with those tribes. As part of the Spanish conquest, small pox wiped out nearly 90% of the indigenous population.
Finally, Kurt misreads Nephi. Joseph Fielding Smith argued that Mormons have been adopted into the remnant of Jacob. In addition, there has been so much intermarrying between Europeans and native Americans that it is difficult to classify all people south of the US border as pure remnant of Jacob. It's been my observation that the ruling classes in Latin America are of mostly European extraction.
Sept. 1, 2011 8:19 a.m.
From the Book of Mormon account in 3 Nephi 21, Jesus Christ gave this land to the remnant of Israel who remain in the latter days (see verse 22). The land clearly belongs to them.
The gentiles, or European and other immigrants, in the land in the latter days are told that, if they are faithful, they will be permitted to assist the remnant in building the New Jerusalem (see verse 23). The New Jerusalem is generally considered to be centered in North America.
If this understanding is correct, then Latter-day Saints should be advocating passage of a U.S. law and/or a pan-American treaty that would allow document native Americans throughout North and South America transnational status.
Their current status is as the Jews--people without a country. The European immigrant populations throughout the Americas tend to discriminate against them, if not worse.
With official transnational status, they would be able to move, live and work wherever in the Americas they chose. As least some part of the U.S. "illegal" immigration issue, would be resolved. After all the Europeans came as the ultimate illegal aliens and took the land away from native Americans.
Huawei has now announced the Maimang 7 smartphone in China. The mid-range device comes in a slew of colour options, and sports a display notch in the front. There is a dual camera setup at the front and back, stacked vertically, and a fingerprint scanner placed right below it. The smartphone comes with features like Google AR Core support, AI scene recognition, 6GB RAM, and varied colour options. This comes in the midst of teasers of the Mate 20 and the Mate 20 Pro, scheduled to be unveiled in London on October 16.
The Huawei Maimang 7 is priced at CNY 2,399 (roughly Rs. 25,300), and is available in Bright Black, Charm Blue, and Platinum Gold colour options. It is up for pre-orders on the company website, and will go on sale from September 15.
As for specifications, the Huawei Maimang 7 runs on Android 8.1 Oreo based on EMUI 8.2 OS. The dual-SIM (Nano) smartphone sports a 6.3-inch (1080x2340 pixels) full-HD+ display with 2.5D curved glass protection and 19:5:9 aspect ratio. It is powered by the 12nm Kirin 710 octa-core processor with Mali-G51 MP4 GPU, and 6GB RAM. Internal storage is at 64GB expandable up to 256GB with the help of the hybrid microSD card slot.
As for cameras, the dual camera setup sports one 20-megapixel sensor and a 2-megapixel secondary camera with f/1.8 aperture and LED flash support. At the front, the Huawei Maimang 7 also sports a dual camera setup with one 24-megapixel sensor and another 2-megapixel sensor with f/2.0 aperture. The smartphone packs a 3750mAh battery with fast charging support, dimensions measure at 158.3x75.3x7.6mm, and the smartphone weighs 172 grams. Connectivity options include Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS + GLONASS, and USB Type-C port.
In 2004, when photographer Rob Hornstra wanted to publish his first cohesive body of work in a book, he ran into a common problem—he couldn't find a publisher who was willing to fund it. Hornstra's solution was less than common: he decided to raise the initial funds himself by selling copies in advance via word of mouth and social networking. It took a month, but he succeeded. Hornstra decided to jump start the publication of his next two books the same way, with each volume of pre-orders selling out more quickly than the last. Hornstra is now on his sixth book (plus newspapers, postcards, prints and posters), and still relies primarily on his own crowdfunding efforts to fund them and their related projects. Crowdfunding and self-publishing are less rare these days, but that is thanks in part to pioneers like Hornstra whose distinctive eye and determination helped blaze the trail to get important work to receptive audiences without the backing of traditional journalistic and publishing outlets.