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Is she going to hold her breath, till people change?
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Grief can do strange things to parents. Imo the church in this story should be shut down for their part in this: https://www.msn.com/g00/en-ca/news/world/us-megachurch-seeks-dollar100k-prayers-to-resurrect-singers-dead-child/ar-BBYaGk7?ocid=spartandhp&i10c.ua=5&i10c.encReferrer= megachurch in California is soliciting prayers and US$100,000 in donations on behalf of two of its members, who are holding out hope that Jesus will "resurrect" their recently deceased toddler. Kalley and Andrew Heiligenthal say their daughter, Olive Alayne, passed away on Dec. 14 at the age of two. Kalley is a well-known singer at the Bethel megachurch in Redding, Calif., and she shared the news of her family tragedy with her 262,000 followers on Instagram Sunday. "We're asking for prayer. We believe in a Jesus who died and conclusively defeated every grave, holding the keys to resurrection power," she wrote in the post. "We need it for our little Olive Alayne, who stopped breathing yesterday and has been pronounced dead by doctors." The post goes on to ask for "bold unified prayers from the global church to stand with us in belief that He will raise this little girl back to life. Her time here is not done, and it is our time to believe boldly, and with confidence wield what King Jesus paid for. More than 151,000 people had liked the post and another 16,000 users left comments by Thursday. A majority of the comments encouraged her to keep hoping for the child's resurrection. Her cause of death has not been released. The Heiligenthals are clearly being encouraged by the Bethel Church, a powerful Christian organization in Redding that claims to have approximately 11,000 followers and nearly half a million fans on Facebook. Bethel also has its own TV service, music label and media wing, and it's in the middle of building a $96-million campus for itself in Redding. The Bethel Church says it recently held its first-ever prayer service dedicated to a person's resurrection. The group's pastor, Bill Johnson, explained in a video on Wednesday that resurrection is possible because "we have biblical precedent; Jesus raised the dead." Johnson did not say how long the church would pray for a resurrection. READ MORE: Dad tries gluing ear after son bites part of it off at Mormon church party "Bethel Church believes in the stories of healing and physical resurrection found in the Bible (Matthew 10:8), and that the miracles they portray are possible today," the church told the Redding Record and Spotlight newspaper on Tuesday. The girl's body has been at the Shasta County Coroner's Office since it was transferred there from the hospital on Dec. 14, Bethel Church told local station KRCR News. The church has set up a GoFundMe page to raise US$100,000 for the family, although it does not specify exactly what the cash will be used for. The campaign had raised more than $44,000 by Thursday afternoon. The GoFundMe page quotes Kalley Heiligenthal's post about resurrecting her daughter, then calls for people to help "bless, honour and support the family in the coming days." "We have set up a gofundme in an effort to support the Heiligenthals," wrote organizer Peter Mattis. "Please join us with your prayer, your solidarity and your financial support." GoFundMe says the campaign is not in violation of its terms of service. The campaign story is clear in that the funds are for financial support for the Heiligenthal family, and the family is entitled to use the funds for a memorial service of their choice," the fundraising platform told Global News in a statement. READ MORE: Flooded nativity scene depicts Jesus born in an era of climate change Bethel Church told KRCR that the page was set up to cover unknown expenses for the family during this time — as well as future expenses for their child, who is still deceased. The church and the Heiligenthals have drawn sharp criticism from some individuals who have accused them of trying to make money off the tragedy. Some have also chastized the church for encouraging an impossible goal, rather than helping the Heiligenthals deal with their unfortunate reality. "This is either lunacy or a giant scam in the making," Twitter user @5thTMNT wrote on Tuesday. "This is so sad," tweeted author Chrissy Stroop. "I have observed firsthand people getting psychologically destroyed, for years, because they didn't get an expected miracle. Waiting for a resurrection, though, is next level unhealthy. But they also have a GoFundMe seeking $100,000 for ... what?" Kalley Heiligenthal has been posting daily messages on Instagram, saying that each day is a "good day for resurrection." Tens of thousands of people have replied to her posts. Many offer messages of support. Others have expressed sympathy for the couple's loss while pointing out that their expectations might be unrealistic. "Is she currently on life support?" one person wrote. "Just curious on how that works logistically if she's been pronounced dead?" "
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If you are in your 3rd year, you are not a rookie. This is not a technicality.
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Heard Jeff Patterson on 1040 this am. Wow what a whiner, he was all hurt and striking out because some people blame the media for a bunch of the talk around the Canucks. He gets paid to critique the Canuck organization, but try to be a bit critical of the media and he swings into "lash out mode", like a butt hurt teenager.
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Why let facts get in the way?
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Nope, not a rookie.
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I really don't want this kid to get broken, he is way too important to ruin.
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How many more games can Quinn play all the extra minutes he is getting?http://www.espn.com/nhl/player/gamelog/_/id/4320548/quinn-hughes Sun 12/1 vs EDM L 2-3 0 1 1 1 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 24:24 24:24 Tue 12/3 vs OTT W 5-2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 19:22 0:00 Sat 12/7 vs BUF W 6-5 (OT) 0 1 1 0 2 2 0.0 0 1 0 0 0 24:00 24:00 Tue 12/10 vs TOR L 1-4 0 0 0 -3 0 5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 25:22 0:00 Thu 12/12 vs CAR W 1-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 22:00 0:00 Sat 12/14 @ SJ L 2-4 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 27:00 27:00 Sun 12/15 @ VGS L 3-6 0 1 1 -2 2 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 23:12 23:12 Tue 12/17 vs MTL L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 28:04 0:00 December Totals 0 4 4 -4 4 16 0.0 0 1 0 0 0 193:24 48:21 Regular Season Stats 2 24 26 -6 8 59 3.4 1 13 0 0 0 722:32 27:47
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/classy-move-from-opposing-goalie-warms-hearts-on-ice-in-st-stephen/ar-BBY6ZcO?ocid=spartandhp " he hockey world seems bereft of feel-good stories of late, but a bit of sportsmanship in St. Stephen over the weekend is helping fill the void. The visiting Southern Victoria High School Vikings were in town Saturday to face the St. Stephen Spartans, but the home team found itself at a major disadvantage. Head coach Don MacCallum said they lost their goaltender to injury and senior player Davan Cloney volunteered to strap on the pads. But the switch from skater to goalie is far from easy. It requires an entirely different set of fundamentals, and this was Cloney's first attempt. "He's a defenceman for us. And sliding into a position that you have not trained at, the skill set is so much different as far as how you stand positionally. How you go down to the surface to butterfly and make saves. How you cover your angles," MacCallum told Maritime Noon. As can be expected, it was an awkward beginning for Cloney. But he got support from an unlikely source. 'He's clearly a kind soul' At the end of the period, Vikings netminder T.J. Sullivan didn't join his team in heading off the ice. Instead, he skated to the other goal and took a knee next to Cloney and shared some pointers. "He made a choice to go down there and help our guy," MacCallum said. "He's clearly a kind soul." The "classy" act drew cheers from the crowd, but Sullivan's support didn't end there, MacCallum said. "Every time Davan made a save, T.J. is at the other end, slapping his stick, encouraging him," he said. The final score was 11-0 in favour of the visitors, but that was of little concern. The players and fans alike were thinking of the teammate who stuck his neck out to help his squad and the thoughtfulness of an opposing player. MacCallum said it was a "100 per cent positive experience on both ends of the ice."
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When will athletes learn to drink nothing but water when overseas? Belinda Stronach's daughter costs whole team a berth at Tokyo Olympics: https://www.msn.com/g00/en-ca/sports/more-sports/canadas-show-jumping-team-dropped-from-tokyo-2020-for-doping-violation/ar-BBY62Ez?ocid=spartandhp&i10c.ua=5&i10c.encReferrer= " Canada's show jumping team has been expelled from next summer's Tokyo Olympics because of a doping violation. Nicole Walker of Aurora, Ont., is appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, saying she inadvertently ingested a cocaine metabolite by drinking coca tea during last summer's Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. "The team deserves to go to the Olympics," Walker said Tuesday in a statement. "My priority right now is to continue to fight for the Canadian equestrian team." The 26-year-old placed fourth in the individual event. She then helped Canada qualify for the 2020 Olympics with another fourth in the team event alongside Eryn Ballard, Lisa Carlsen and Mario Deslauriers. The Pan Am Games was Canada's last chance to qualify for Tokyo. The team had to finish in the top four to be among the 20 countries competing for Olympic team gold in 2020. Walker tested positive for Benzoylecgonine in a sample taken the day of the team final Aug. 7 in Lima. She had a hearing Dec. 4 with the Pan Am Sports disciplinary commission, which disqualified her scores in the individual and team events, the international governing body of equestrian (FEI) said in a statement. In team show jumping, the lowest score among four riders is dropped from the team total. Walker's disqualified scores were replaced by Carlsen's. Canada tumbled from fourth to seventh. Argentina moved up from fifth to claim the last Olympic berth. "There is no basis in fact or law to disqualify Canada from the 2020 Olympics," Walker's lawyer Tim Danson said in a statement. "Canada qualified for the Olympics fair and square even if the scores Nicole earned after she drank the coca tea are discounted." The coca plant contains alkaloids that can be chemically extracted to concoct cocaine. While coca and coca leaves are illegal in Canada under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, coca tea is legal and consumed in several South American countries. Coca tea is considered an altitude sickness remedy in Peru. If Walker is unsuccessful in her appeal to CAS, Canada can send only one rider to Tokyo to compete in the individual event. Equestrian Canada is backing Walker's appeal. "EC remains firmly committed to clean sport and to standing behind our athletes," the organization said in a statement. "We fully support Nicole's decision to bring an appeal forward to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)." Walker is the daughter of Belinda Stronach, president and chairman of The Stronach Group and former member of Parliament from 2004 to 2008. The Canadian team of Yann Candele, Tiffany Foster, Eric Lamaze and Amy Millar lost a jump-off for the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Lamaze, Ian Millar, Jill Henselwood and Mac Cone won a silver medal in 2008. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 17, 2019."
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Australia is getting hotter: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/australia-braces-for-highest-temperatures-in-recorded-history-amid-blistering-heat-wave/ar-BBY5Gxe?ocid=spartandhp " Australia may set a record for its hottest day this week, as temperatures soar past 104 degrees (40 Celsius) in most of the nation’s major cities, with inland areas of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia possibly eclipsing 122 degrees (50 Celsius). The heat wave, which is unusually severe for so early in the summer, is affecting the entirety of continental Australia, gradually progressing eastward from Perth to Adelaide and on toward Melbourne and Sydney by Friday. The heat is sure to aggravate the already record-shattering bush fires, which have emitted massive amounts of greenhouse gases and choked Sydney residents beneath a blanket of unhealthy smoke. Health authorities in New South Wales are warning them to stay indoors during the heat of the day. “When we average temperatures over the country we’re seeing some extremely high values coming up in the forecast,” Blair Trewin, a senior climatologist with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), said in a video posted to the agency’s website. Some of the records that have either already fallen or are expected to be toppled include: The existing national record for the highest nationally averaged temperature is 104.5 degrees (40.3 Celsius), which was reached in January of 2013. “Current indications are that we’ll be at least a degree above that on Wednesday and Thursday,” Trewin said, calling this “a really extreme event on a nationwide perspective.” The BOM is also forecasting that many locations will break monthly records for the hottest temperatures in December. In fact, some places in New South Wales could see their hottest temperature on record for any time of the year, particularly on Saturday, Trewin said. Already, Perth, located in western Australia, has broken its all-time December record for the number of consecutive days (three) reaching or exceeding 104 degrees (40 Celsius). In Adelaide, the forecast calls for four straight days with high temperatures of 104 degrees or higher, straight through Friday, according to BOM meteorologist Sarah Scully. Cities in southeastern Australia could see a sea breeze that prevents temperatures from climbing above 100 degrees during this event right along the coast, but areas just to the northwest of the ocean will sizzle. According to BOM, extreme heat is Australia’s top weather-related killer. Bush fires continue to burn out of control © NASA Wildfires burning in New South Wales on Monday, with red dots corresponding to hot spots detected via satellite. (NASA) As the heat peaks in southeastern Australia, it will make the job tougher for thousands of firefighters deployed to mega fires such as the Gospers Mountain blaze raging across nearly 1 million acres to the northwest of Sydney. Smoke from this fire and others has periodically shrouded the country’s largest city in noxious smoke, posing serious health risks, particularly for the young, those with asthma and other chronic conditions, as well as the elderly. This blaze is so large and is burning across such a variety of terrain that Rural Fire Service firefighter Brian Williams told the Sydney Morning Herald it’s impossible to contain. “It’s such an enormously big fire, it’s beyond human ability to control,” Williams said. The bush fires stretch north into Queensland and southwest into Victoria. All of these areas are expected to see a sharp uptick in fire risk with the heat wave, particularly heading into the weekend. “There are difficult & dangerous fire conditions forecast over coming days,” the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said via Twitter. Climate studies have shown clear and causal links between bush fires, and wildfires in the United States, and long-term global warming. Climate change helps escalate fire risk by drying out vegetation and making it more flammable, among other effects. Tracing the heat to the Indian Ocean, with a push from global warming © Bureau of Meteorology Average annual temperature departures from average in Australia, with a 10-year running mean included (black line). (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) The unusually warm and dry year in Australia is due, in part, to a weather pattern that has set up across the Indian Ocean. Known as the Indian Ocean Dipole, or (IOD), which is an air circulation pattern in the Indian Ocean. When the IOD is in its positive phase, the water is cooler than average off the coast of Sumatra, leading to reduced atmospheric lift there and reduced rainfall over Australia, and there are warmer-than-average waters off the coast of Africa. This year has seen a record positive IOD, and this helped make the January to October period the second-driest such period on record in Australia. “It’s on track to be one of the driest years on record for Australia,” Trewin said, “So you don’t have any soil moisture or air moisture to moderate the heat.” A positive Indian Ocean Dipole the past two years has meant drier-than-average conditions in much of Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology found that it’s unusual to have back-to-back years with a positive dipole, which helps influence precipitation patterns across South Asia and Oceania. This natural climate cycle is changing over time as ocean and air temperatures rise in response to increased amounts of greenhouse gases in the air due to human activities, namely the burning of fossil fuels for energy. This is expected to make back-to-back positive IOD events more common, and make Australia even more prone to drought conditions accompanied by extreme heat. “While the IOD is a natural mode of variability, its behavior is changing in response to climate change. Research suggests that the frequency of positive IOD events, and particularly the occurrence of consecutive events will increase as global temperatures rise,” the bureau stated. Long-term climate trends in Australia show sharp warming and an increase in extreme heat events. Last summer, for example, was the country’s hottest on record, and the meteorology bureau found that climate change exacerbated extreme heat events as well as droughts during the year. Australia has warmed by just over 1.8 degrees (1 Celsius) since 1910, with most of the warming occurring since 1950. The BOM has found there was an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events and severity of drought conditions during this period as well. Eight of Australia’s top 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2005, and 2019 is likely to join that list."
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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
Gurn replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/bluejays/report-blue-jays-agree-to-2-year-deal-with-japanese-pitcher-yamaguchi/ar-BBY5Yvp?ocid=spartandhp " The Toronto Blue Jays reached an agreement with Japanese right-hander Shun Yamaguchi, pending a physical, a source told Shi Davidi of Sportsnet. It's a two-year deal worth just over $6 million with performance bonuses, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Toronto will have to pay the Yomiuri Giants a transfer fee based on a percentage of the contract's value. Yamaguchi led Japan's Central League with 188 strikeouts last season and authored a 2.91 ERA in 170 innings. The 32-year-old registered 111 saves in the early stages of his career before transitioning to a starting pitcher. The Blue Jays believe Yamaguchi will likely be used in a relief role, according to Rosenthal. Toronto's projected 2020 rotation features Tanner Roak, Chase Anderson, Matt Shoemaker, Trent Thornton, and Ryan Borucki. However, the team is also reportedly interested in left-handers Hyun-Jin Ryu and Dallas Keuchel. The only other Japanese players who have played for the Blue Jays are infielder Munenori Kawasaki, outfielder Nori Aoki, and right-handers Tomo Ohka and Ryota Igarashi. Copyright © 2019 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license. -
You do not get something for Nothing (Discussion)
Gurn replied to J.I.A.H.N's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
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Irony, or hypocrisy? dude says other guy should just do his job, but who or what qualified him to talk about others?
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As to vehicles, you are right. No vehicle, other than emergency response equipment, should be able to go faster than 20 klicks over the fasted posted speed limit in Canada- and that burst of speed should last no longer than 1 minute, so as to safely pass a slower vehicle. However nobody wants to mess with multi billion, multi national companies when it is easier to go after the little guy. My Dad, the appliance repairman in my town was informed that a 1 ounce discrepancy in his Freon books could result in a $200,000 fine. Meanwhile in Washington state the U.S. air force was using gallon buckets of Freon to clean their airframes.
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Imagine having enough money in the bank to walk away from an extra $4.25 million dollars. I'm in the wrong line of work. Cap friendly has him at $67.9 mill earnings over his career.