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  1. Yep, just looking at someone's face tells you all you need to know about hockey trades, and whether some one is innocent or not. No need for a trial at all.
  2. Milan has 19 million reasons not to retire.
  3. Ebola, on the move, now found in city of 2 million people in Congo https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-declared-a-global-health-emergency/ar-AAEtfoe?ocid=spartandhp " GENEVA — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of two million people. A WHO expert committee had declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration for this outbreak, which other experts say has long met the conditions. More than 1,600 people have died since August in the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which is unfolding in a region described as a war zone. This week the first Ebola case was confirmed in Goma, a major regional crossroads in northeastern Congo on the Rwandan border with an international airport. Health experts have feared this scenario for months. A declaration of a global health emergency often brings greater international attention and aid, along with concerns that nervous governments might overreact with border closures. While the risk of regional spread remains high the risk outside the region remains low, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said after the announcement in Geneva. "The (international emergency) should not be used to stigmatize or penalize the very people who are most in need of our help," he said. This is the fifth such declaration in history. Previous emergencies were declared for the devastating 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, the emergence of Zika in the Americas, the swine flu pandemic and polio eradication. WHO defines a global emergency as an "extraordinary event" which constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a co-ordinated international response. Last month this outbreak spilled across the border for the first time when a family brought the virus into Uganda after attending the burial in Congo of an infected relative. Even then, the expert committee advised against a declaration. Alexandra Phelan, a global health expert at Georgetown University Law Center, said Wednesday's declaration was long overdue. "This essentially serves as a call to the international community that they have to step up appropriate financial and technical support," she said but warned that countries should be wary of imposing travel or trade restrictions. "Those restrictions would actually restrict the flow of goods and health care workers into affected countries so they are counter-productive," she said. Future emergency declarations might be perceived as punishment and "might result in other countries not reporting outbreaks in the future, which puts us all at greater risk." WHO had been heavily criticized for its sluggish response to the West Africa outbreak, which it repeatedly declined to declare a global emergency until the virus was spreading explosively in three countries and nearly 1,000 people were dead. Internal documents later showed WHO held off partly out of fear a declaration would anger the countries involved and hurt their economies. The current outbreak is spreading in a turbulent Congo border region where dozens of rebel groups are active and where Ebola had not been experienced before. Efforts to contain the virus have been hurt by mistrust by wary locals that has prompted deadly attacks on health workers. Some infected people have deliberately evaded health authorities. The pastor who brought Ebola to Goma used several fake names to conceal his identity on his way to the city, Congolese officials said. WHO on Tuesday said the man had died and health workers were scrambling to trace dozens of his contacts, including those who had travelled on the same bus. There was no immediate reaction to WHO's emergency declaration from Congo's health ministry, which had lobbied against it. "Calling for a (global emergency) to raise funds while ignoring the negative consequences for (Congo) is reckless," the ministry tweeted following an editorial by Britain's secretary of state for international development in favour of a declaration. Rory Stewart announced earlier this week that Britain would donate up to another $63 million for the Ebola response and called for other countries, especially Francophone ones, to increase their support. At a U.N. meeting on Ebola in Geneva on Tuesday, Congo's health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga, said the outbreak was "not a humanitarian crisis" and that the risk of Ebola spreading to other cities or regions in Congo remained the same. "Ebola is not rocket science, it's very simple," he said. WHO has long called the regional Ebola risk "very high." Earlier this week, Ugandan health officials said a Congolese fish trader had travelled to Uganda while sick and vomited several times at a local market. The woman returned to Congo last week and died after testing positive for Ebola. Ugandan officials estimate almost 600 people could be targeted for vaccination and follow-up. Those working in the field say the outbreak is clearly taking a turn for the worse despite advances in this outbreak that include the widespread use of an experimental but effective Ebola vaccine. Dr. Maurice Kakule was one of the first people to survive the current outbreak after he fell ill while treating a woman last July before the outbreak had even been declared. "What is clear is that Ebola is an emergency because the epidemic persists despite every possible effort to educate people," he told the Geneva meeting. "We have sufficiently informed them about the existence of this disease but there are still people who don't want to believe that it does." ___
  4. It is possible that without Johnny Clegg, Paul Simon's "Graceland" album would not exist. I suggest this as Johnny had been preforming with black musicians, and their music, in South Africa for years before Paul went over and did the same. The guy had the courage and the talent to stand up to the apartheid government.
  5. Clegg was a musician and anti apartheid activist. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/celebrity/south-african-musician-activist-johnny-clegg-dead-at-66/ar-AAEqm3F?ocid=spartandhp Musician and activist Johnny Clegg — known for playing his music in defiance of the apartheid policies of South Africa — died Tuesday at 66 after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Clegg formed the multiracial bands Juluka and Savuka in South Africa in the 1970s and '80s, respectively, during the country's white-minority rule. His performances and music, influenced by Zulu and folk harmonies, gained him international renown and the nickname "White Zulu." Clegg's bands and cross-cultural style were seen as symbols of unity and defiance against apartheid. Born in England, Clegg's family settled in Johannesburg, where he was exposed to Zulu music and dance at an early age. Much of what he learned was eventually incorporated into his own music and performances. "I was a lot more open to the other South Africa that most white kids were not open to," Clegg said in a 2017 interview with CBC News's Day 6. "This was a unique genre of guitar, African guitar music, coming from South Africa. I knew that nobody in the white world particularly knew about it." It was through dance that Clegg met Sipho Mchunu, a Zulu musician and singer who became one of his longest musical collaborators. Together, they formed the duo Juluka (Zulu for "sweat"). Their collaboration broke apartheid laws so they performed in secret at private halls, universities and churches. Clegg himself was arrested multiple times for violating those laws. Many of his shows were also shut down by police. © Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images South African musician Johnny Clegg — once dubbed 'the White Zulu' — spent nearly four decades making foot-stomping music that challenged the country's apartheid regime and promoted racial reconciliation. He was also pursuing an academic career at this time and ended up at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he looked into the parallels between Zulu and Celtic folk music. Clegg would eventually mix sounds from both traditions into a new style, particularly after forming the band Savuka (Zulu for "We have risen") in 1986. One of Clegg's most famous songs, Asimbonanga, ("We've never seen him") was written in 1987 for Nelson Mandela, who was then still in prison. It became an anthem among the anti-apartheid movement. The government eventually banned it. © Trevor Samson/AFP/Getty Images This 1989 photo shows Clegg, right, in a traditional Zulu garb during his wedding. Post-apartheid South Africa's apartheid laws were eventually repealed and Mandela, released from prison, became the country's first black president in 1994. In 1997, Clegg was playing Asimbonanga while on tour in Germany and was surprised by Mandela himself, who had snuck on stage behind him. "It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world. And at peace with myself," Mandela said to the audience. He called on Clegg to resume the song and urged all in the audience to get up and dance. At the end of the song, Mandela and Clegg, holding hands, walked offstage. Towards the end of his life, Clegg voiced concerns about post-apartheid South Africa's lingering problems, including racism and the economic exclusion of blacks. He expressed these concerns in his 2017 song, Colour of My Skin. That year, Clegg also embarked on a farewell tour. It was two years after his cancer diagnosis. Clegg died peacefully in his Johannesburg home, surrounded by family, according to his agent.
  6. Looks like The Vancouver Connection just got disconnected.
  7. Rush, Rock and roll Hall of Fame Induction music starts 18:00 in.
  8. pedal to the metal, as in gas pedal to the metal floor in your vehicle.
  9. Well Trebreh was part right, the Ladd and Lucic deals are at least as bad and most likely worse than Loui's.
  10. I can agree that last season Loui was better than Schaller and MacEwan which is to be expected. One is a 4th line energy guy the other has played extremely few games in the show. Leivo I'd like a larger sample size before declaring a winner, and to me Gaudette was pretty decent for a rookie. The problem is none of the guys you mentioned are paid more than Schaller at $1.9 mill with Leivo getting $1.5 mill and the other two at less than $1. The other issue is that it is reasonable to think that Gaudette and MacEwan will get better, Leivo probably will get a bit better. With Schaller I'm just not sure what is to come, he did not have a good year.
  11. Name three players that are worse than Loui on the Canucks Guy won't be sent down as "punishment" if sent down it will be because he just isn't good enough to come close to justifying a $6 mill cap hit. And you might want to tone down on calling other fans names, it does nothing to boost your point of view and imo diminishes it.
  12. Perhaps you are right, I don't agree with straw manning or deliberate or just ignorant twisting of unrelated things.
  13. Any player out there with half a brain would not be concerned in the least with watching a team send down a player that has underperformed year after year. Especially since that player is still getting paid NHL money. It is allowed by league rules, rules that the NHLPA agreed and signed on to.
  14. You 'all might want to look up the ingredient list before switching on a regular basis.
  15. Seems silly to try and rebrand or change the name of the team, especially when the area around Vancouver has a problem with a dwindling number of those big, tuxedo wearing, dolphins anyway. Another few years and the southern pod may be deceased.
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