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Ken Hitchcock’s message to the players came through loud and clear.
They didn’t like hearing it, and they definitely disagree with the part about a lack of commitment, but they understand the frustration level and admit feeling some of it themselves.
No, things are not especially chipper around the Edmonton Oilers these days, nor should they be after the team lost 11 of its last 13 at home and 16 of its last 22 overall to fall six points out of a fast-fading wildcard spot.
Two days after the head coach unloaded both barrels in a post-game media conference following a lifeless 5-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks, the players returned to practice Monday, his words still resonating in the dressing room.
He amended the comment Monday to say he was talking about a willingness to fully accept and carry out a hard-checking style, not the will to win.
Either way, the players respectfully submit that nobody cares about winning and getting to the post-season more than they do.
“You never want to hear your coach say that,” said Zack Kassian. “We clearly want it. Whoever was around for the playoff run two years ago, that’s what we live for, that’s what we love to play for. That’s the best time in hockey. What’s the point in playing 82 games if you don’t get in the playoffs? We want it.
Having said all that, the players understand where Hitchcock’s frustration is coming from. They feel it, too. This isn’t a strong roster, that’s why the GM got fired, but they should still be better than they are.
The Oilers saw a lot of the good cop in the early days of the Hitchcock tenure, now they’re getting a sense of the legendary bad cop. It’s a transition most of the coaches in Edmonton (eight of them in 10 years) have undergone at one point or another. Hitchcock can play it harder than most, though.
“He definitely has more of an old school approach in motivation and teaching, he’s kind of like a football coach,” said Nurse, who sees a lot of similarities between Hitchcock and the men who coached his uncle (Eagles QB Donovan McNabb) and father Richard, who played 103 games with the Hamilton Ti-Cats.
Hitchcock knew before he even made his comments Saturday that they would strike a nerve, but reminds everyone that these are thick-skinned professional athletes we’re talking about, not delicate flowers who might never recover from a scolding. It was harsh, and a lot of it was deserved, but the focus now is on Wednesday in Pittsburgh.
“It is what it is,” he said. “You have to get your hands dirty every day and you’e going to make mistakes. It’s an emotional sport, it’s not like we’re shopping at the mall. Understand that.
The bottom line is they all want the same thing — wins — and they have’t been coming fast enough to save this season.
“I will not be bullied into doing anything that I think is wrong by anybody, whether it be editorial boards or Congress or the president,” Barr told the hearing.
WASHINGTON: Vowing “I will not be bullied,” President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shadowing Trump is not a witch hunt and that his predecessor was right to recuse himself from the probe.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Barr the memo showed “a determined effort, I thought, to undermine Bob Mueller.” The nominee told senators he was merely trying to advised Justice Department officials against “stretching the statute beyond what was intended” to conclude that the president had obstructed justice.
He said that, at 68 and partially retired, he felt emboldened to “do the right thing and not really care about the consequences.” If a president directs an attorney general to do something illegal, he said, an attorney general must resign.
Feinstein said the nominee’s past rhetoric in support of expansive presidential powers “raises a number of serious questions about your views on executive authority and whether the president is, in fact, above the law.” Under questioning, Barr voiced a more moderate view, saying a president who ordered an attorney general to halt an investigation would clearly be committing an “abuse of power” if not necessarily a crime.
He also defended his decision to send an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department in which he criticized as “fatally misconceived” the theory of obstruction that Mueller appeared to be pursuing with regard to Trump, including the special counsel’s investigation into president’s firing of former FBI director James Comey.
He said he raised his concerns at a lunch with the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller and has overseen his work. Rosenstein didn’t respond and was “sphinx-like,” Barr recalled. He followed up with the memo in June.
Barr also sent the document to White House lawyers and discussed it with Trump’s personal attorneys and a lawyer representing Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, among others.
PARIS (AFP) - Ex-French president Jacques Chirac will not attend his corruption trial opening in Paris on Monday on medical grounds, his lawyers said Saturday. The lawyers said, they submitted a letter from their client to the presiding judge together with a copy of his medical file. "In the letter, president Chirac indicated to the court his wish to see the trial proceed to its end and his willingness to assume his responsibilities, even though he is not entirely capable of taking part in the hearings. He has therefore asked his lawyers to represent him and speak for him in these hearings," the lawyers said in a communique.
An event center, innovation hub, and more student housing, outdoor collaborative learning areas and places for students to buy food and other necessities are proposed for Cal State Fullerton to transform it into a 24-hour campus and boost student success.
In one of two presentations April 10, Bradley Leathley of Flad Architects introduced three options in an updated Master Plan to audience members who crowded into the Clayes Performing Arts Center lobby. The options were the result of over a year of interviews, surveys and discussions with members of the campus community on building uses and locations, campus boundaries and expansions, open space and transportation.
Leathley emphasized that the options are just ideas and asked audience members to check out the various poster boards in the lobby for each part of the Master Plan and write comments on Post-it notes. Those comments, he said, will be part of the decision making for the final proposal, which will be voted on by CSUF and California State University officials.
But many in the morning audience had come to hear proposals for the Fullerton Arboretum after weeks of rumors and online petitions that warned that a parking lot or dormitories were planned for the popular 26-acre botanical garden.
Leathley and later Danny Kim, CSUF’s vice president and chief financial officer for the Division of Administration and Finance, tried to put their fears to rest, saying there are no plans for a parking lot on Arboretum property and only an idea in the Master Plan for a conference center at the southeast edge of the Arboretum that could include some student housing.
The three options presented on a poster board for the Arboretum all include some type of development.
Option A proposes the conference center with housing and meeting space. Option B proposed the conference center/housing and a student wellness center at the southern edge of the Arboretum. Option C has the most buildings: the conference center/housing, student wellness center, a sustainability center, a greenhouse and research building, a new administration building and a maintenance building.
A number of audience members asked for a Q&A session about the Arboretum after the Master Plan presentation. Several spoke out against any development of the Arboretum, saying it is already a center for outdoor collaborative learning, and buildings aren’t needed.
Arboretum Director Gregory Dyment said after the presentation that he didn’t understand why a wellness center building was necessary.
He did say he supported a greenhouse that could be used by the many researchers from the university who use the Arboretum.
Jodi Balma, a political science professor at Fullerton College and CSUF alum, criticized the plans. She also asked the audience to donate money to support the Arboretum, which loses its funding from the city of Fullerton in December 2020 and will officially become part of CSUF.
“I’ve participated in master plans like this at Cal State Fullerton and Fullerton College since 1988,” Balma said. “Here’s the problem with all of these wonderful and beautiful very expensive layouts. It’s a false premise. You’re not thinking outside of the box.
Kim said what the Master Plan does is integrate the Arboretum into the university. He said the conference center/housing option was an example of that.
Arboretum officials had expressed a desire for a potential conference center where they could host scientific conferences, he said. But to operate a conference center would require expertise and financial resources the Arboretum doesn’t have, he said.
“Is there a way we can move forward with that plan with a residential hall and conference center the Arboretum could use?” Kim said.
Growth at Cal State Fullerton is an important component in the Master Plan, Leathley said in his presentation, pointing to a slide reflecting not only overall student growth but the steady growth in all of the university’s colleges.
The university has approximately 963,000 square feet of learning space, he said. The CSU recommendation for a campus of the university’s current population is more than 1 million square feet, and in the future, an exponentially larger amount will be needed.
Another consideration is the age of the campus and many of the buildings. Some buildings have become outdated, he said. There have been program changes, as well, that add to the need to consider replacing some campus buildings, he said.
Two of the bigger proposals in the Master Plan — typically done every 10 years — are the event center and the innovation hub.
The event center is described as a place for performances, symposiums, job fairs, graduate events and other sporting events. It would provide a presence for CSUF in the community and be a financial asset for the campus and the city of Fullerton, according to the plan.
The innovation hub would serve as a place to connect students with professionals, and would attract and retain faculty, staff and students, the plan states. It would feature such programs as Makerspaces, dry labs, wet labs, faculty offices, lecture sites and amenity spaces.
Being mentioned in the plan does not guarantee a project will be built, Kim said. Funding is definitely an issue.
Later this month, the Master Plan Task Force Committee will review the three options and comments, with the information going to the President’s Cabinet and Chancellor’s Office in early May, officials said. A final report with one preferred plan will be reviewed by the Board of Trustees.
A number of projects from the 2003 CSUF Master Plan have been completed.
Some projects are planned or under way.
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Arlington Heights village officials were relieved when a deal was struck last month to keep Arlington International Racecourse open, even with a shortened racing season.
But just when village officials thought their racetrack troubles were over, they now face new concerns about proposed legislation that could affect the amount of tax revenue the village receives from the track.
Arlington International executives plan to return to Springfield next week and are expected to propose racing reforms that could include the elimination of admission taxes, and suggestions on how to redirect certain riverboat casino revenues to the horse racing industry.
The proposals would be similar to those Arlington International presented to state lawmakers in November, and are designed to enhance prize money given to horse owners and trainers, helping maintain the quality and competitiveness of racing in the state.
But Arlington Heights officials want to make sure they understand how any racing reforms would affect the $1.4 million the village receives annually from the track through real estate, hotel, admission and sales taxes, and any potential revenues that would be collected if the track were granted a casino license.
"We would not want to suddenly find out that we were being cut out of the picture or being given only half our due," Village President Arlene Mulder said Wednesday. "We have to have an ongoing communication on proposed legislation."
In a memo distributed to the Arlington Heights Village Board on Tuesday, village manager William Dixon expressed fears that the proposed racing reforms could result in the loss of $75,000 in admission taxes from Arlington International, and the potential loss of millions of dollars should the track get a casino license.
Scott Mordell, vice president of administration and finance for Arlington International, acknowledged Wednesday that the village could lose $75,000 a year in admission taxes, but proposals to tap into casino fees and taxes would still result in the village reaping up to $6 million annually if the track operated a casino.
Dixon said the confusion about the bottom line for the village "is an indication of why we are eager to meet early in the calendar year with racecourse officials."
Mulder said village officials are investigating what benefits other municipalities have received from casinos so that they can be vigilant regarding the impact of any new gaming legislation.
There is a HIV outbreak in Glasgow, caused by needle sharing and cocaine flooding the city's streets.
The fatal accident inquiry into the Clutha disaster, in which 10 people were killed, began on Monday morning.
10 people died when the police helicopter crashed on to the roof of the Glasgow bar in November 2013.
Police in Scotland and London are working together on the investigation.
An investigation has been launched by the health board after the cases emerged at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
A huge 20-vehicle pile up caused rush hour delays near Glasgow, closing the motorway for several hours.
The royal visitors officially opened the building following a £10 million refurbishment.
Hoshi had eaten the skewer inside the kebab at a barbecue she attended with her vegetarian owners.
Experts have warned that parts of the building are at risk of sudden collapse.
Piero Mingoia, Uche Ikpeazu, Luke Berry: Who has scored your top Cambridge United goal this season?
Piero Mingoia volleys in against Accrington.
Jay Simpson saw off Cambridge United’s Uche Ikpeazu and Luke Berry and the rest of the competition to take the Sky Bet League Two Goal of the Weekend Award.
The former Arsenal youngster blasted the ball into the top corner from just outside the box as Leyton Orient triumphed 3-0 against Colchester.
Ikpeazu and Berry were surely in the running thanks to their excellent efforts in the weekend’s 3-1 away win over Crawley, with the former lobbing the goalkeeper and the latter converting a set-piece.
So after they were denied the accolade, we thought we’d give fans the chance to vote for their favourite U’s goal of the season so far.
Along with those two strikes against Crawley, we’ve included Piero Mingoia’s efforts against Barnet, Sheffield Wednesday and Accrington in our poll.
You can also give consideration to Berry’s finish against Newport and the midfielder’s free kick against Blackpool, with the latter having got him nominated for the league’s October Goal of the Month Award.
Which of our magnificent seven is your favourite Cambridge United goal of the season so far?
James Mitchell, who played ruthless tycoon Palmer Cortlandt on US daytime soap All My Children, has died aged 89.
Mitchell, a dancer who began his career with the American Ballet Theater, died on Friday in a Los Angeles hospital, his partner Albert Wolsky said.
The actor had suffered from heart disease for several years, complicated by a recent bout of pneumonia.
His final TV appearance was on All My Children's 40th anniversary episode earlier this month.
Mitchell had been a mainstay of the show from 1979 - 2008, playing the icy, wealthy patriarch of the Cortlandt family.
"He really enjoyed it," Wolsky said of his partner's long-running role. "The meaner he could be, the happier he was.
"Actors love to play the villain. He loved playing mean."
Born in Sacramento in 1920, Mitchell had a degree in theatre from Los Angeles City College.
Prior to his soap career, he was a Broadway star, playing lead roles in the likes of Brigadoon, Carousel, Billion Dollar Baby and Paint Your Wagon.
He also toured the world with the American Ballet Theater and, in later life, taught dance and movement at Yale University and Drake University in Iowa.
As a dancer, he had a brief career in movie musicals, appearing alongside Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon and Cyd Charisse in Deep In My Heart.
Perhaps his most notable role came as "dream Curly" in the 1955 production of Oklahoma!
Plans for a memorial service are pending, Wolsky said.
Sioux Falls is edging closer toward the record for coldest temperature on Jan. 30.
Sioux Falls is edging closer toward the record for coldest temperature on Jan. 30 as the deep freeze continues to settle in, reaching temperatures not seen in nearly a decade.
The temperature is expected to dip down to -29 degrees on Wednesday: The National Weather Service says the record for Sioux Falls on Jan. 30 is -27 degrees, set in 1899.
But in spite of the cold, the city is not even close to breaking the all-time cold record: On Feb. 9, 1899, it was -42 degrees, says meteorologist Andrew Kalin.
When was the last time it was this cold?
Nearly a decade ago, on Jan. 2, 2010, the temperature reached -30 degrees, Kalin said. The forecasted low for Wednesday, -29 degrees, was previously reached on Feb. 2, 1996.
But the most dangerous numbers with this deep freeze won't be breaking any records, because there aren't any: The National Weather Service does not keep track of wind chills, Kalin said. Wind chills are expected to reach -35 degrees on Tuesday afternoon and could plummet to as low as -60 degrees on Wednesday.
Other cities could also come close to breaking records: Mitchell is expected to reach a temperature of -25 degrees, only one degree away from the -26 degree record set in 1966. Huron's forecasted low for Wednesday is -31 degrees, which would unseat 1994's daily record of -29 degrees.
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My son Michael will be attending University of Maryland in the fall. I just got back from his college orientation. It is an exciting but bittersweet time for me. When he leaves at the end of the summer, Rafi and I will officially become empty nesters and another chapter of our lives will begin.
This is my third orientation. (I already have two college graduates under my belt.) Admittedly, the other two orientations were a while ago; still, this was the best of the bunch. The staff was well-prepared, anticipating our every question and concern. They accomplished the impossible: they took a l600-acre campus with over 25,000 undergraduates and magically transformed it into a warm, welcoming environment.