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  1. For Dahlen to come over before he was "ready" shows poorly on Dahlen. He could have stayed with Timra or signed with a longer term SHL team and he chose not to. Dahlen and his advisors messed up. Like Tryamkin he couldn't cope so he went home.
  2. mmm, Cap Friendly shows him making $70,000, before tax, in the minors.
  3. Dahlen said he didn't know what he did wrong, but then Dahlen has a history of being vague with the truth.
  4. The difference is I didn't say take "it for what it is worth" so imo my opinion is more valid than yours, yvmv.
  5. Made good sense, you were telling a poster he was foolish to expect the government to fix things , while at the same time moaning in the "oil/Alberta" threads that the feds aren't doing enough.
  6. That is just nuts, 28 lbs in a day. Must have been a different scale.
  7. There are so many adds for "credit fixing" companies that I am tempted to go into massive debt, then get the help to pay less than I owe. Almost seems silly to just live within my means, when I can just buy lots of stuff, and ask for a do over when the payments start to hurt.
  8. Why consider them flops? Why not consider them unproven potential players?
  9. True, you may get nothing, like Daigle and many other flops. Typical the player is being traded because the other team feels they want a pick more than that player, it can happen for many reasons. The team may be overstocked with that type of player in that position so trading from strength to shore up weakness. The team may also be in cap trouble and have to trade the player. Every year, now, 31 teams draft 7 players a piece equaling 217 potential players, but since we know that not every team ices a line up with 7 rookies per year, it indicates that players are more valuable than picks.
  10. Now the police are faking pictures of suspects: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/witnesses-said-a-bank-robber-didnt-have-facial-tattoos-so-police-digitally-altered-a-suspects-mugshot/ar-AAG1jiX?ocid=spartandhp Witnesses said a bank robber didn’t have facial tattoos. So police digitally altered a suspect’s mugshot. Antonia Farzan 6 hrs ago Officers who led black man on rope won’t face criminal charges Illinois lawmaker apologizes for photos of mock Trump assassination Prosecutors have said the move was necessary because Tyrone Lamont Allen could have been wearing makeup. But his attorney argues that admitting the evidence could have worrisome implications. It would be hard to miss Tyrone Lamont Allen’s facial tattoos. The 50-year-old’s forehead is covered in delicate script, reaching from his eyebrows to his hairline. A single teardrop appears under his left eye, while his right cheek is unmistakably inked with a looping design. Advertisement So when authorities got a tip that Allen was behind a string of bank and credit union robberies in Portland, Ore., in April 2017, there was one major problem: None of the tellers had mentioned seeing any tattoos on the robber’s face. Surveillance footage, too, showed a man with no visible tattoos. Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today’s most popular stories on The Washington Post Yet, Allen was charged with the crime — after police took an unusual step. As the Oregonian first reported Friday, investigators used Photoshop to digitally alter his mug shot, covering up his distinctive tattoos. Two of the tellers, who weren’t told that the image had been edited, subsequently picked him out of a photo array of five similar-looking men and identified him as the robber. Now, a federal judge in Oregon is tasked with determining whether that crucial evidence should be thrown out of court, and whether Allen’s rights were violated. His attorney, Mark Ahlemeyer, argued that the question has weighty implications, given that today’s technology makes it easier than ever to manipulate a photograph. If covering up a suspect’s prominent facial tattoos is considered fair game, the federal public defender wrote in a recent motion, “there would presumably be nothing wrong with adjusting various pixels to make someone’s face appear slimmer, so long as the government’s theory was that the suspect had gained weight since the crime.” Allen faces three counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery, all stemming from holdups that took place in northeast Portland in early April 2017. The culprit, nicknamed the “Foul Mouth Bandit” by police because of his frequent use of profanity, made trips to four banks and credit unions over the course of four days, each time claiming that he had a gun and demanding cash. All but one of the tellers complied, and the robber ultimately walked off with more than $14,000. That same month, Allen was arrested after police stopped him on the freeway for driving a car with no license plates, headlights or taillights. According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Oregon in May 2017, officers found a glass pipe inside his pocket. Another pipe, which appeared to have drug residue on it, was underneath the driver’s seat. Later, police got a call from a tipster who knew Allen through a mutual friend, and asked to remain anonymous for his safety. The tipster said that his friend had shown him Allen’s mug shot, along with surveillance footage of the serial bank robber that appeared on KPTV. His head “immediately started spinning,” he said, explaining that the robber looked just like Allen, but without the tattoos. Though one of the tellers had mentioned seeing faded tattoos on the robber’s neck, and another had noticed tattoos on his hand, none had described him with any ink on his face. Investigators subsequently used Photoshop to paint over Allen’s tattoos, and showed them to the tellers in a double-blind lineup, court filings say. According to the criminal complaint, only two of the four tellers identified Allen as the robber — one picked a different man from the lineup, while another was unable to decide. Police also searched the car that Allen had been driving when he was arrested, which was full of clothing and looked like he had been living in it. They found several black hooded sweatshirts, two pairs of gray sweatpants, one pair of burgundy sweatpants, and a gray ski mask, which they said matched the clothing that the “Foul Mouth Bandit” had been wearing during two recent robberies. Last month, when Allen’s attorney discovered that his client’s mug shot had been digitally manipulated before it was added to a lineup, he filed a motion to have the evidence thrown out of court. In response, prosecutors argued that the robber’s “immutable facial features” looked enough like Allen’s to justify adding him to the photo array, noting that he could have put on makeup before committing the robberies. Allen “should not reap a windfall because the investigators were able to take steps to counteract his efforts to disguise his identity,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul T. Maloney wrote. By using Photoshop to paint over Allen’s tattoos, he argued, investigators simply “applied the digital equivalent of makeup." Police have also justified the controversial move by arguing that Allen’s tattoos could have been distracting to witnesses tasked with picking out the culprit from a photo lineup. During a Wednesday hearing, Portland Police Detective Brett Hawkinson testified that the point of altering the mug shot was to “mask things that would stand out,” the Oregonian reported. Ahlemeyer, the defense attorney, claimed the Photoshop job had a different motivation: It made his client look more like the perpetrator. Admitting the results into evidence could be a “slippery slope,” he argued. “If a witness reports that a perpetrator did not have any front teeth, can the government simply black out a suspect’s teeth on the theory that it could be done with cosmetics?” he wrote. “Or if a suspect’s skin color is too dark or too light as compared to objective video evidence, can the government simply press a few strokes on a computer keyboard and adjust the color to match that objective evidence?” Those questions largely haven’t been tested in court before, but Allen apparently isn’t the only one whose mug shot was digitally altered by the Portland Police Bureau. According to the Oregonian, Mark Weber, the forensic criminalist who “painted over the tattoos,” testified that he had edited other suspects’ photos for lineups before, and didn’t write up a report because the police department doesn’t require it. U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez said that he plans to issue a written ruling on the issue soon, the paper reported.
  11. They tried and the Feds and Provincial government got in the way.
  12. He has played for some pretty awful Canuck teams over the last few years though.
  13. If Nyquist was willing to play here, but who truly knows.
  14. Seems ISIS is not done yet: And even the Taliban is pissed. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/islamic-state-claims-bombing-at-kabul-wedding-that-killed-63/ar-AAFXQDZ?ocid=spartandhp KABUL — The death toll from a late-night suicide bombing at a crowded wedding party in the Afghan capital rose to at least 63 on Sunday, including women and children, officials said. The local Islamic State group's affiliate claimed responsibility for what was the deadliest attack in Kabul this year. Another 182 people were wounded in the Saturday night explosion, government spokesman Feroz Bashari said. Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi confirmed the casualty toll as families began to bury the dead. Some helped to dig graves with their bare hands. Kabul residents were outraged as there appears to be no end to violence even as the United States and the Taliban say they are nearing a deal to end their 18-year conflict, America's longest war. The Taliban condemned the attack as "forbidden and unjustifiable" and denied any involvement. Both the Taliban and IS have carried large-scale attacks in the Afghan capital in the past. The blast occurred in a western Kabul neighbourhood that is home to many of the country's minority Shiite Hazara community. IS has claimed responsibility for many attacks targeting Shiites in the past. A statement by the militant group posted on an IS-linked website on Sunday said a Pakistani IS fighter seeking martyrdom targeted a large Shiite gathering in Kabul.:" More at link.
  15. Not well, so doesn't that mean that the delayed rebuild is on ownership and not the GM?
  16. Gurn

    Pre-season Poll #2

    you never know, that's why they play the actual games.
  17. I wouldn't worry about JB being hasty to try and "save" his job even if he did not get an extension. At the last draft Jim picked a Russian kid that is at least 2 years away from even coming to North America, so he seems immune to that kind of pressure.
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