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Richmond’s Julius Zhang eyeing Olympic battle, versus Canada

Richmond’s Julius Zhang, suited up for his native China

Alan Campbell – Richmond News

Three years ago, Julius (Dehan) Zhang would never have believed what was coming down the road in his fledgling professional hockey career.

If someone had even hinted to the Richmond Seafair Minor and Delta Hockey Academy product that he could potentially line up in the Olympic Games – suited for China, against Canada – he’d have thought you certifiable.

But that is exactly the prospect facing 21-year-old Zhang, a Richmondite in every sense of the word, who emigrated from China as a young child, before being selected at 18 for the Chinese national hockey program.

Since then, he’s been playing second tier club hockey in Russia for a Chinese-based team, until the pandemic halted most professional sports.

Zhang is now hoping to return to China in the new year to begin his home nation’s preparations for an Olympic games debut in Beijing in 2022, where they will face Germany, the U.S. and, of course, Canada.

“It’s crazy. In fact, the whole last three years has been crazy,” said Zhang from his parent’s home near Williams Road and Railway Avenue.

“It would be amazing (to face Canada). If you told me this five years ago…I would never have believed it in a million years.

“I’ve gotten lucky with all these opportunities. I have a Chinese passport, I’m only a permanent resident here.

“In order to play in the Olympics for China, you need a Chinese passport and China is one of the only countries that doesn’t allow dual citizenship. They’ve been trying to get players with Chinese-Canadian heritage to go over to play, to strengthen their program.

“There are some ex-NHL guys. But the problem is, they don’t have Chinese passports. They’re trying to get it so they can play in the Olympics.”

Zhang, who has turned out for the Chinese national U18, U20 and men’s teams, admitted his passport situation gives him a little shove up the ladder, but he’s more than ready to grab it.

As for his native nation’s actual chances competing against the powerhouses of hockey, Zhang said they’ve got a little more than a year to improve.

“As the host country, China received automatic qualification and they obviously want to do well,” said Zhang, who has been training every day since the pandemic and playing some hockey with other pros and university players.

“We’ve always had high level Russian or European coaches. There’s a lot of resources being poured into it. In China, hockey is still new but it’s growing rapidly.

“They have the resources at grass roots level and, of course, they have a huge population, so they will get better.

“I take a lot of pride in growing the game in China. I’m not quite a pioneer, but a role model. It’s a very proud country.

“But as far as I’m aware, I’m the only player on the team who grew up in Canada.”

Bulls’ Japan-born players having an impact on the ice this season

The North Iowa Bulls’ Sota Isogai practices at the Mason City Multipurpose Arena

When you think of hockey hotbeds, Japan is probably not the first place that comes to mind. For the North Iowa Bulls though, the country has had a sizable impact on the team’s 2020 success so far.

Second-year Bulls’ player Sota Isogai was named the NA3HL West Division Star of the Week for the week of Nov. 3, after scoring two goals with one assist in the Bulls’ record-setting 13-3 win over Willmar on Oct. 30. Isogai, a native of Nagano, Japan, is tied with Garrett Freeman for the team lead with six goals this season.

Isogai has been playing abroad for several years, with two seasons in Russia and two in Austria before coming to the United States.

Aside from Isogai, the Bulls also have first-year forward Shota Kaneko, of Tokyo, on the roster. This season is Kaneko’s first in the U.S., after he spent last season as a member of Japan’s U20 team. Kaneko currently has two goals on the season, along with three assists.

Shota Kaneko takes a shot during the North Iowa Bulls’ practice at Mason City Multipurpose Arena

Isogai and Kaneko are not the first Japanese born players to have suited up for the Bulls. Kohei Sato played for North Iowa for parts of three seasons from 2014-2017, before going on to play at the University of New Hampshire, becoming the first-ever Japanese born player to play Division I hockey.

“We like the Japanese players in that they are smart hockey players,” Bulls head coach Todd Sanden said earlier this season. “The first year is a bit of a language barrier, but the universal language of hockey is pretty transparent, and easy for those guys to understand. We’ve been blessed to have some very good Japanese players in our program.”

With one year under his belt, Isogai has grown more comfortable in a Bulls uniform. His English has improved by a lot over last season, and he has turned into a key player for the team.

Sanden was thrilled when Isogai announced he would be coming back, and said that Isogai’s return has been a big factor in the 9-3 Bulls’ success this season.

“Certainly we are excited when guys decide to come back, but with so many options and teams available at this level and different countries at the tier two level, it is never a given that guys are just going to return,” Sanden said. “We were very excited when he decided to come back, and he had other options, for sure. We’ve made him a captain here too. His return certainly is an important piece for our team.”

Isogai and the Bulls first connected at a tryout in Edina, Minnesota, in 2019. After trying out for several teams in the NA3HL, Isogai made the choice to join the Bulls, where he scored 22 goals in his first season in the states.

North Iowa Bulls players are given some instruction from coach Todd Sanden

“It’s been kind of a lucky, opportunity-based situation for us,” Sanden said. “Sota came to us on a bit of a bluebird opportunity. A guy reached out, he tried out for a couple teams in our league and ended up picking our team, which we are very thankful and fortunate for.”

Kaneko came to the Bulls through an advisor the team has worked with in the past, and who helped the team acquire Sato several years ago.

For both Isogai and Kaneko, the biggest adjustment between Japan and North Iowa has been the language, but both of them have been working hard to be able to communicate with their teammates.

“Language is probably the biggest thing, and chemistry. Just getting to know each other is probably the hardest thing,” forward Sean Sullivan said. “They’re pretty quiet and shy, coming over here and not knowing anyone. We just talk to them and try to get to know them. Being the initiation to try to get to know them is the biggest thing.”

So far, the differences between Japan and Iowa seems to fall by the wayside once the pair step onto the ice. Hockey in America is more physical than hockey in Japan, according to Isogai, but he and Kaneko have adjusted to it well.

“Physicality certainly is a part of the game, and they have integrated into that part of the game seamlessly,” Sanden said. “Shota initiates a lot of physicality when he is out there. He gets in quick on fore checks, and he separates guys from the puck with his body. We haven’t seen any tentativeness, they both are able to handle the physical style of play that we play in.”

This season, Isogai has felt a lot more comfortable both on the ice and off. With his English skills improving, and his body more adapted to American hockey, he has become a crucial part of the team’s attack.

“This year, I have better English,” Isogai said. “Everything is better. I’m more fast, and more strong.”

But this year has been an especially strange one in NA3HL hockey, with COVID-19 changing much of how the team goes about its day to day life. For foreign-born players, it can be an especially worrisome time as the pandemic continues to spread. Isogai says that his family hasn’t expressed too much concern about the virus, as the team is taking precautions.

“A little bit worried, but I’m playing hockey,” Isogai said. “It’s fun.”

Once you look past the language, the hockey style, and the other cultural differences that exist between Japan and the United States, there is one thing that Isogai, Kaneko, and the American-born Bulls can all agree on.

The glory of American cuisine.

“I like your food,” Isogai said. “I like hamburgers.”

Slovenia’s world-leading goal scorer

Slovenian forward Pia Pren celebrates a goal with her teammate Sara Confidenti at the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group A

By Liz Montroy –

No other player has collected as many goals, assists or points for their country at the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship program than Slovenia’s Pia Pren.

Through 57 World Championship games, Pren has amassed 65 goals and 71 assists for a total of 136 points. The prolific scorer has demonstrated her offensive prowess wherever she’s played – through 66 games in the Slovenian women’s hockey championship between 2006/07 and 2019/20, Pren had a staggering 178 goals and 171 assists. These 349 points are over 100 more than that of the league’s second highest scorer, Jasmina Rosar (230).

With her talent, Pren managed to play in one of Europe’s top leagues, the SDHL in Sweden, where she was fifth in scoring for SDE last season with 18 points (4+14) in 32 games.

How did Pren become the powerhouse forward she is today? It all started in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana when she was five years old.

“The coaches at first were a little skeptical, like how is that going to go with a girl among the boys,” Pren said of when she first joined a local hockey school. “After some time they gave up and they gave me a chance.”

Everybody believed that it was going to be a month and then I’d have had enough, but it turned into a little longer time.

Pia Pren Slovenian forward

“A little longer time” is an understatement. Now 29 years old, Pren is not only still competing, but has been part of the national team program for nearly two decades.

“Pia was, from the beginning, the kind of girl who liked competing with boys and wanted to be better than the boys,” said Slovenian national team and Olimpija Ljubljana coach Franc Ferjanic, who first met Pren when she was six. “She worked really hard and her skills are now really at a very high level.”

Starting from a young age, Pren has dedicated hours towards her shot.

“I don’t have a strong shot, so I always try to work on accuracy,” she said. “When I was younger I spent quite some time at the hockey arena on a little synthetic ice rink we had beside the actual one shooting on targets that were set on the goal posts.”

Pren was just 12 years old when she made her debut with the national team in 2004, a few months after playing in a U13 boys’ tournament in Canada. The extra work on her shot paid off, with Pren contributing four goals and three assists in her inaugural Women’s World Championship tournament, which she followed up with a whopping 10 goals and 9 assists at the 2005 tournament.

Pia Pren in action with the Slovenian women’s national team

Having spent her childhood playing with boys, these early experiences as a rookie with the national team were also her introduction to playing with other women.

“I had almost 20 moms beside me, everybody taking care of me,” she said. “At the same time, I think there was some pressure as well. It’s a big, big stage for a 12-year-old for sure.”

However, Pren proved that she could handle herself on that stage, becoming a consistent face on Slovenia’s roster and collecting numerous accolades at the World Championships. She has been named Best Forward five times and Top Player on the Team six times, in addition to leading Slovenia and the tournament in goals, assists and points on multiple occasions.

Sure, it’s not the top level. With just 82 female players in the country to choose from, Slovenia competes in the fourth tier of the Women’s Worlds and is ranked 24th in the 2020 IIHF Women’s World Ranking. But wherever Slovenia plays, Pren shines.

The last World Championship was one of Pren’s best, with her, Sara Confidenti and Julia Blazinsek making headlines with their combined 47 points (20 of which belong to Pren) in five games – not to mention that Slovenia won Division II Group A gold after three years of barely avoiding relegation to Group B.

Slovenian captain Pia Pren accepts the winners’ trophy from IIHF Council member Sergej Gontcharov at the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group A

Once the pandemic is over and the full World Championship program will be back, Slovenia will for only the second time in history (after 2007) compete in the third tier of international women’s hockey and that’s also thanks to Pren, who has captained the national team since 2014.

“I don’t consider myself a goal scorer – maybe stats say [I am],” said Pren. “I am more of a passer, I love to pass and create for my teammates. Myself and my former teammates agree that I’m shooting way too little and passing way too much even when I should shoot, so that’s something I still have to work on.”

“I don’t have any particular favourite way to score. I like if it’s a team effort, a nice set-up, or a well-executed power play or counter-attack.”

Pren’s team-first mentality is evident in the way she speaks about her own skills and successes, and likely lends well to her role as Slovenia’s team captain.

“Her strengths are her skills, hockey sense and leadership,” said Ferjanic. “As a captain she has a strong personality and because of all her qualities, all the players respect her.”

There is no doubt that Pren, with her offensive talent, extensive experience at the World Championships and in leagues in Slovenia, Austria and Sweden, and competency as a captain, is helping propel Slovenia forward on the world stage.

Hand: New Governing Body Is So Important For The Sport

Source: Ice Hockey UK

Ice Hockey UK’s National Development Head Coach Tony Hand MBE says establishment of a brand new governing body for the whole of the UK is so important to help move the sport forward.

The proposal has the support of the various governing bodies in the UK and now the EIHA members will vote on a unified approach at a virtual AGM on Saturday 12th December.

Hand said: “The sport of ice hockey in the UK has not had a co-ordinated approach for far too long now and I believe now is the time to change.

“We need a new model with new people developing new ideas to build on the success we’ve already had across the various organizations.

“It can’t happen with separate organizations making decisions that are not joined up but if everything is unified, I believe this great sport can make massive strides in the UK.

“Under the current board, ice hockey has come a long way. I think they have done a fantastic job and the sport is in the best place it has been for a long time.

“But we need to build on that now and the time is right for a new governing body to take us to a new level.”

The EIHA has produced a document for its members explaining the proposal to establish a new single governing body for the sport across the whole of the UK.

The document goes through the resolutions and explains what is being proposed, explains what would be different if a new governing body was established in the immediate future, in the short and medium term, as well as setting out the frequently asked questions and providing answers.

Click here to read the document.

In 2006, the first Iranians were selected in the NHL draft

Daniel Rahimi

By Vitaly Nesterov – National Teams of Ice Hockey

In 2006, a historic event happened for Iran – Two hockey players with roots in this country were drafted by NHL clubs

These hockey players were Daniel Rahimi and Rhett Rakhshani

Daniel Rahimi was born in 1987 in Sweden and before the 2006 draft he played in the system of  IF Björklöven. In the 3rd round, under the 82nd overall pick, the defender was drafted by Vancouver and Rahimi immediately moved to Canada, but played only in the AHL for Manitoba Moose.

After two seasons, Rahimi returned to Sweden.,  at the moment, Daniel is a playing in the Allsvenskan league (the second strongest league in Sweden), where he moved this season from the elite division  Club Vaxjo to IF Björklöven.

Rhett Rakhshani was born in March 1988 in the United States and was selected a little later than his future Linkoping teammate Rahimi – he was chosen by the Islanders in the 4th round under the 100th pick overall. Rhett has little experience in the NHL for his team – in the seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12, Rakhshani played a total of 7 games without earning a single point.

In season 2012/13, Rhett moved to Sweden and played fpr HV-71.  Rhett still plays in the country and in the 2015/16 season, Rhett played with Daniel Rahimi for Linköping HC.

For the last two seasons, Rakhshani has played in Frölunda HC and, of course, his achievements include a victory in the Champions League. Before the start of the new season,Rakhshani moved to Djurgårdens IF, but has not yet played for the new club.

Rhett Rakhshani

While Training Continues, China’s Prized Women’s Hockey Players Are in Russia

China’s hockey governing body assigned the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays to manage the women’s national team a few years ago. KRS’s general manager attributed the current separation to the coronavirus pandemic limiting travel into China

By New York Times

With the 2022 Winter Games 15 months away, at a time teams would normally be paring their rosters, the North American imports aren’t in the Beijing training bubble.

The players most crucial to Chinese women’s ice hockey reside in a hotel about 70 miles south of Moscow. The quasi resort’s expansive grounds contain horses, stray cats and a speleochamber — a salt cave designed to improve breathing.

That these players are in Russia and not Beijing, 3,600 miles away, symbolizes how far China, whose women’s ice hockey team last qualified for the Olympics in 2010, has moved away from its grand plans in the sport.

“Not seeing it come to fruition and deviate is a disappointment,” said Maddie Woo, who was recruited to play in China and occasionally skated with China’s national team over the past three years. “There was so much potential. There still is. It’s just the time sensitivity of it now. It’s shocking.”

Woo was one of several North Americans of Chinese descent who signed in 2017 with the newly formed Kunlun Red Star, a team now known as the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays. With China hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Chinese Ice Hockey Association, the national governing body, assigned the club to manage the women’s national team.

KRS hired Woo and other players to be sport ambassadors, training and playing alongside less experienced Chinese nationals in hopes of elevating the homegrown players’ skills.

In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, Billy Ngokposited that players like Woo might become Chinese citizens, making them eligible for the Olympic team. For the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, host South Korea deployed a similar tactic, although China has stricter passport policies.

Now, just 15 months before the opening ceremony — when teams begin paring their rosters — the North American imports would ideally be with the Chinese nationals in Beijing, where a training bubble has been set up by the hockey association.

Claire Liu, the general manager of KRS, attributed the separation to the coronavirus pandemic limiting travel into China. But current and former KRS players and coaches added that communication between them and the hockey association had diminished to sporadic messages passed along by a bilingual intermediary.

Rachel Llanes, a Filipino-American forward who also hopes to represent China, said she still trains as if she’s “on call” for the national team. For now, Llanes plays only for KRS in Russia’s Zhenskaya Hockey League with six North Americans of Chinese descent who harbor similar Olympic dreams. In the 2019-20 season, KRS won the league title, but this year the team has had 10 games rescheduled because of the pandemic.

Alexandra Vafina of KRS stick handling. “I hope to be at the Olympics, but I know it’s not guaranteed,” said Rachel Llanes, a Filipino-American player.

“I hope to be at the Olympics, but I know it’s not guaranteed,” Llanes said. “If you’re banking on it, I don’t recommend thinking that way. If we don’t get called, we’ll get four years of experience no one else can say they had.”

Since 2017, KRS has invested millions to create an environment uncommon in women’s hockey. Digit Murphy, an American who had coached in college and the professional ranks, was hired to lead the women’s program. She enticed recruits with a simple, yet novel, approach.

KRS not only pays livable salaries of about $70,000 per year, but provides amenities expected of a pro team like first-class airfare, an equipment manager and ice times when the sun is still shining.

That hasn’t been the case for North American women’s hockey, despite Canada and the United States reigning as the sport’s powerhouses (several United States national team alumnae have also been KRS sports ambassadors). Founded in 2015, the National Women’s Hockey League, which has six teams across North America, had a highest reported salary of $15,000 last season.

In October, Secret, the deodorant brand, contributed $1 million to the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association, a rare instance in which a party proclaiming interest in elevating North American women’s hockey gave more than just crumbs.

“We’re pretty spoiled, I’m not going to lie,” said Llanes, who worked three jobs while playing in Boston for teams in North American leagues. “We don’t have to worry about anything. You’re hockey players.”

In 2017, KRS staff also ran junior national teams and two franchises in the now-defunct Canadian Women’s Hockey League.

Rob Morgan, who coached one of the Chinese teams in the C.W.H.L. and is now an adviser for KRS, said when he first met the Chinese national players, “we could see in their eyes they were just numb” from practicing four times per day.

The new staff incorporated shorter practices with weight lifting, nutrition lessons or meetings with a sports psychologist.

The Chinese players responded positively to the changes, Morgan said. Murphy said North American players teased Chinese players for hiding snacks in their bags — many were shocked they could freely leave their rooms to eat, instead of being limited to having meals at their training facility’s dining hall.

“The first year, in terms of helping the Chinese players, was probably the most collaborative and most effective,” said Melanie Jue, a Chinese-Canadian defenseman on KRS.

But toward the end of KRS’s first year, higher-ups within Chinese hockey began making unexpected alterations. The national hockey association changed leadership, and junior teams training in the U.S. were disbanded. Regional hockey organizations with political clout grumbled about the resources afforded to KRS.

Tang Liang and Qi Xueting, third from left and fourth from left, are among the Chinese nationals on the team. Since July, about 40 homegrown players have been in Beijing facing youth teams

Xu Guoqi, author of “Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008,” said sports rivalries among local governments in China were not uncommon.

“Backstabbing practices, or they try to lobby, always that’s a case,” Xu said, noting that the Chinese hockey association is essentially under the control of the Chinese government. “The reality is the party is in charge of everything.”

For the 2018-19 C.W.H.L. season, China supplied only one team, the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays. (The C.W.H.L. folded soon after and said the revenue from China had probably kept the league from ceasing operations earlier.)

In 2017, KRS also ran a men’s team with a similar mission to build Chinese hockey centered around foreign players and Chinese teenagers who previously trained in America.

In interviews with current and former KRS players and coaches, none said they knew where the partnership between their club and the C.I.H.A. currently stood. The Chinese nationals currently on KRS are mostly older players not expected to compete at the next Olympics.

Liu, the team’s general manager, said that the “relationship is still there” and that the roster composition was different because of the pandemic. The hockey association declined interview requests.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, KRS relocated to Russia this season to reduce travel. The hockey association has reason to be cautious of bringing international players into its bubble. In March, two Chinese players training with a travel squad in the United States tested positive for the coronavirus shortly after returning to Beijing.

Since July, about 40 Chinese homegrown players have been in Beijing, playing against youth teams and practicing multiple times a day when most of the women’s hockey world was on pause.

That won’t necessarily create an advantage at the Olympic tournament, though. China ranks 19th in the world, but has an automatic bid as the host.

“If they really want a great showing in 2022, based on what I’ve seen, it needs to include Chinese North Americans,” said Bob Deraney, who coached KRS in 2018.

Deraney and Morgan added that they expected the North American contingent to eventually get called up, and Liu believed it was still a possibility, although another hurdle remained. Since China does not recognize dual nationality, Canadians and Americans would have to surrender their passports.

There are political ramifications to representing China, which has been roundly criticized for human rights abuses and holds a souring reputation in the West.

Rose Alleva, a forward from Minnesota who played one year with KRS, said giving up her American passport was “a deal breaker” and decided not to continue with the program.

“It’s definitely something you have to grapple with,” said Woo, who left KRS to begin her career in biomedical engineering. “You can’t be ignorant to the idea someone will hand you a Chinese passport and everything will be fine, and you’ll still be Canadian or American.”

Xu said there could be one workaround if players got passports from Taiwan or Hong Kong. When the former N.B.A. player Jeremy Lin obtained his Taiwanese passport last year, he became an eligibledomestic athlete for China under new rules instituted by the Chinese government, allowing him to play in the Chinese Basketball Association.

Whether or not the imports play for China in 2022, there have been potent takeaways.

China once built rinks in a decommissioned war bunker, but now state-of-the-art sheets are popping up throughout the mainland. According to the International Ice Hockey Federation, there are 822 rinks in China.

Leah Lum, a Chinese-Canadian forward, noted that when KRS runs youth clinics around the country, there’s an indescribable pride in seeing Chinese children engaged in her sport.

Playing hockey in China has also allowed Lum and her teammates to connect with their families’ heritage in ways that were impossible before.

“It’s a dream to be able to come here and focus on hockey,” Lum said. “Experiencing our culture and ancestry — China, that’s who I am.”

Nikita Bashkirov: “I feel at home here”

By Maxim Garashchuk – National Teams of Ice Hockey

On November 6, Russian forward Nikita Bashkirov signed a contract with the Lithuanian club Baltu Ainiai Kaunas. Previously played in the Sweden for Olofströms IK. In his debut game in the Lithuanian Championship, Nikita scored 4 goals and added two assists, as his team beat Klaipeda (12: 3). In a conversation with one of our journalists, the former Stalnye Lisy forward told why he decided to leave Sweden and also shared his emotions about the first match with Baltu Ainiai Kaunas.

Why did you decide to leave Olofströms IK?

At Olofströms IK I didn’t get enough playing time. At the same time, not all the conditions for my arrival there were fulfilled by the club’s management, and I had problems with the English language. I constantly had to ask Pavils Galsons to translate all the coach’s requirements to me. Then the second wave of coronavirus began and the games in Sweden were postponed for a month. Then I decided that something needed to be changed so that all this would not last the whole season. I began to communicate with the management of the club so that they would let me go.

How did you get the offer to play in Lithuania?

While I was solving issues with the club’s manager, I was looking for options in other countries for a comfortable continuation of this season, and through some friends, I  found a good Belarusian coach in Lithuania – Alexander Mikheyonok . I talked with him, he just said that they have one place for a foreign player and they will wait for me, as I will resolve all issues with “Olofströms IK”.

How would you comment on the debut game in Lithuania?

The debut game was quite interesting, as “Klaipeda” had one of the best goalkeepers in the league. The entire game was played practically in the opponent’s zone and there were a lot of chances to score. we did not start well in the first half of the first period of the game, but then we broke through and the result was a 12: 3 defeat of Klaipeda.

You finished with 4 goals and two assists?

 I didn’t expect it to turn out that way. The last time something like this happened to me was in my youth hockey days.

 Did you know anything about the local championship before coming to Lithuania?

My friend here is Makar Tokarev. Before my arrival, he told me everything: about the city, management, coaches, living conditions and the level of hockey. Therefore, nothing surprised me when I arrived in Lithuania. I feel at home here. The team received me well.

How is the team preparing for the upcoming game against the 21-time national champion Energija Elektrėnai?

It’s just another game for us.  We prepare for all games the same way. We respect all of our opponents in the league.

“Women’s Crowns” win Scandinavian summit

Michelle Lowenhielm scored Sweden’s overtime-winning goal against Denmark

By Martim Merk –

With the Women’s Euro Hockey Tour cancelled during the International Break for national teams in November, a spontaneous tournament of the three Scandinavian countries had the most to offer for fans of women’s ice hockey at the end of last week.

Traditionally Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden would have met in a four-team tournament last week or a Four Nations Cup be held with the North American teams and their top rivals from Europe. But 2020 is not a normal year and due to the global pandemic the teams decided not to meet for a tournament of that scale.

Many national team camps were therefore cancelled for men and women, senior and junior teams, while others held camps without games or tried to find alternatives in their neighbourhood. Born out of sheer necessity was a “Battle of Scandinavia” with the top Scandinavian countries facing each other.

This hasn’t happened often since Sweden used to play with the top nations. But since sensationally winning Olympic silver in 2006 with a semi-final win against the United States the team has developed from a medal contender to a team battling against relegation in the last few years. At the last Women’s Worlds in 2019 the impossible happened and Sweden’s “Women’s Crowns” (Damkronorna) were relegated from the top division – as first Swedish team in history and in any category.

With relegation the Swedish women’s team also lost its automatic entry at the next Olympics and has to go through a qualification tournament and due to the pandemic last spring it still has to wait for a chance to correct the mishap and earn promotion back to the top level.

At the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship the two relegated teams Sweden and France will be replaced by Hungary and Denmark. Therefore the three-nation tournament last week was a chance for Sweden (9th in the IIHF Women’s World Ranking) to prove on the ice whether they are still the number-one women’s ice hockey nation in Scandinavia in a rare clash against their western neighbours from Denmark (11th) and Norway (13th).

The first game held in Harnosand against Norway sent a clear message as six different players scored in a 6-0 win. Shots on goal favoured Sweden 40-9.

Denmark, the Swedes’ “replacement” at the next Women’s Worlds in Halifax, made it more difficult for the host country in front of 205 fans – almost a sell-out according to the attendance restrictions – in Sundsvall and were leading the game longer than their more famous, yellow-and-blue opponents despite being outshot 33-23.

At 15:18 Nicoline Jensen tied up a Swedish lead by Lina Ljungblom that had only lasted for 25 seconds.

The Danes also reacted fast after the first face-off of the middle frame. Josefine Persson gave the red-and-white team a lead after 24 seconds that stayed for most of the period. At 15:55 Josefin Bouveng tied it up on a 5-on-3 power play but less than two minutes later Persson scored again to give Sweden a 3-2 lead.

The Copenhagen native is one of eleven players on the Danish roster who plays here club hockey in Sweden. She moved over in 2015 and is currently with Lulea. Denmark’s Swedish coach Peter Elander, who led the Damkronorna during its better days including the historic Olympic silver medal in 2006, has become the bench boss for the Danish women’s national team last year.

In a hard-fought and balanced third period it was another Josefine who wrote the next chapter. At 12:50 Holmgren scored another power-play goal for Sweden to tie the game at three and 91 seconds into overtime Michelle Lowenhielm scored Sweden’s game-winning goal again on a power play.

In this game for Scandinavian honour the Swedes succeeded in good timing as they prepare for 2021, which shall be a year of the redemption for the Damkronorna. At the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division I Group A next spring in Angers the Swedes will play host France, Norway, Austria, Slovakia and the Netherlands for promotion. In August they will host one of the Final Olympic Qualification groups where they will meet France and Slovakia (as well as a qualifier) again with the top team advancing to the Beijing 2022 Olympics.

While Denmark couldn’t beat their big rival head-to-head on ice, they can still enjoy their top-level status for the Women’s Worlds in Halifax and used this opportunity with a brave game against Sweden and a 4-0 win against Norway. Persson scored her tournament-leading third goal, Silke Glud netted two in the game.

In Halifax the Danes are seeded in the lower of the two-tiered groups and will play Japan, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary. The top-three of the five teams will advance to the quarter-finals against the Group A teams while the last two will be relegated.

Good and bad news for Finland

Another Northern European country played its games at home with Finland. The lionesses played two male opponents, the under-18 teams of Assat Pori and JYP Jyvaskyla, and head coach Pasi Mustonen hoped to have games at a pace comparable to their top opponents in women’s hockey.

The camp started well with a 3-2 win against Assat after goals from Nelli Laitinen and Susanna Tapani in regulation time and Petra Nieminen and Michelle Karvinen in the shootout.

The day after the lionesses didn’t seem to have enough energy left. Viivi Vainikka tied the game in a first period that ended 1-1 but eventually the JYP juniors won 6-1.

Things became worse one day later when a player previously tested negative showed Covid-19 symptoms and was tested positive at the end of the camp in Kuortane causing quarantine for players of the women’s national team and its opponents.

Other games were not held in women’s hockey during the international break. Two Hungary vs. Austria games in Budapest were cancelled in the last minute due to increasing Covid-19 numbers and restrictions in Hungary. Most other countries either cancelled their camps entirely such as the Czechs, Germany, Russia and Switzerland or held it without the usual exhibition games such as the United States.

Russian youngsters impress in Finland

Russian forward Rodion Amirov led the Karjala Tournament in goal scoring.

By Any Potts –

International hockey made a long-awaited return – albeit with some adjustments imposed by the coronavirus situation. In Finland, the Euro Hockey Tour got underway in front of limited crowds and players put in a bubble. Elsewhere, Germany staged its first top-level hockey event since the start of the pandemic as the Deutschland Cup took place, although only three teams took part in Krefeld.

Amirov sets record in Russian success

This is a big year for Rodion Amirov. The 19-year-old Salavat Yulayev Ufa forward has been tracked as one to watch for a couple of seasons and now he is starting to deliver on that promise. Elevated to a big role in the KHL as illness affected Ufa’s big names, he’s beginning to produce the points his potential demands. Then came a #15 NHL draft pick, linking him to the Leafs, and now a senior international debut.

And not just any debut. Russia decided to use the Karjala Tournament – traditionally a full-blooded men’s tournament – as a testing ground for its U20 roster. The Red Machine’s usual preparations for the World Juniors have been hampered by the pandemic, while national team head coach Valeri Bragin only recently recovered from a case of coronavirus. Thus, the Russian boys – Amirov & Co, under U20 head coach Igor Larionov – would face the men of Europe’s top hockey powers.

It was a controversial decision in Russia, and even more so beyond the country’s Western borders as the other teams didn’t hide their disappointment. But from the moment Amirov put his team 1-0 up in the second minute of the opening game against Finland, it was fully vindicated. Amirov scored in each of his first three international games – the first player ever to do so for Russia – and the team won three out of three to top the group. Only Sweden came close to stopping Larionov’s youngsters, losing out in a shootout after Amirov – who else? – potted a late goal in a 1-1 tie.

In his brief career to date, Amirov has sometimes been criticised as a luxury item. In Helsinki, though, there was no questioning his output or his attitude. His observations about the tournament suggested a big ‘buy in’ to the team amid the clamour about his personal performance.

“The most important thing was that we won the tournament,” he said. “Playing against men was an interesting experience, that’s really valuable as part of our preparation for the World Juniors. I’d like to thank Igor Nikolayevich [Larionov], who found the right words for the team. We always got switched on for the next game right away and we came here to win, not just to take part. The Russian national team’s task is always to win, so we did everything to achieve this with a competitive team. Luckily, everything worked out and we won the tournament.”

Larionov himself said that he was happy for Amirov and fellow forward and first-round draft pick Yegor Chinakhov, who finished with two goals in the tournament. But he also talked up the contribution of SKA St. Petersburg goalie Yaroslav Askarov, who returned to action in the opening 6-2 win over Finland and delivered three wins.

“We discussed it with Yaroslav [Askarov], we wanted to be sure that he felt he could play all three games. He made it clear that he wanted to play, he put in good performances, so we let him get on with it,” Larionov said. “We were all happy that he played so well, he was reliable every time.”

There was also praise for captain Vasili Podkolzin (SKA), but Larionov is looking forward to seeing how his young charges develop over the course of another month of KHL action.

“Winning any game helps us to progress and helps the guys to develop, especially here,” he added. “But there are loads of things that we saw where we can improve. This is just one step towards bringing the team together. Now our players are going back to their clubs, back to their routines, battling for a place on their teams. In another month, they will have that bit of extra experience. We’re looking forward to getting everyone together in Novogorsk at the end of November and work on our game together.”
Russia secured top spot with a 3-0 victory over the Czech Republic on Sunday. Previously the Czechs, coached by Filip Pesan following the death of Milos Riha in the summer, had beaten both Sweden and Finland. However, they could not complete a sweep against Russia and had to settle for silver.

Pesan, who gave 12 players an international debut in the three games, was happy with what he saw over the weekend. Sunday’s game featured three teenagers, including 19-year-old goalie Lukas Parik, as the Czechs looked to build for their future. “I’m happy that we were able to help the U20s prepare for the World Championship,” Pesan told “A lot of the players here made a strong application to be invited back for other tournaments.”

The Czechs had their preparations disrupted by local restrictions that prevented teams from training in indoor arenas. Some of the teams practised outdoor or went abroad. “Right now, it just sounds like an excuse, but our boys were not game ready,” Pesan added. “I’m not interested in opinions, I just wanted to help the juniors and the youngsters played a great game.”

The good news that the Extraliga would be allowed to resume the competition just came when the team departed for Helsinki. The league had its first round on Saturday with no spectators allowed and mandatory testing before the games.

While the Slavic nations battled for top spot, their Nordic rivals had a tougher time of it. Finland and Sweden both selected entirely home-based rosters for the tournament. The two went head-to-head in Sunday’s concluding game with the loser destined to finish last. Sweden jumped to a 2-0 lead at the start of the second period, but the host nation steadily battled back and won on a power play goal from Valtteri Kemilainen with three minutes to play.

For 2016 World Junior champion Vili Saarijarvi, who got the tying goal midway through the third, it was important to finish the tournament strongly – and scoring his first senior international goal was a bonus.

“It wasn’t exactly a dream goal, but I’ll take it!” he said after the game. “We ended with a good feeling and I think we played our best game at the end, which was important. We did well to get back into it and get ahead at the end, and I think we deserved our win today.”

Latvia wins the Deutschland Cup

Top-level hockey returned to Germany for the first time since the pandemic as the Deutschland Cup saw the host nation play a three-way contest against Latvia and a Germany ‘B’ roster. That B team was comprised of under-25 players who are playing their way into contention for a call-up to the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. Due to the pandemic Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland have not been able to travel to Krefeld forcing the organizer to change the setup.

The games at Krefeld’s Yayla Arena represented a return to action for some of the country’s top players. The DEL, Germany’s top league, has postponed the start of the season and will soon discuss about the possibility of launching it in December. Following the weekend’s action, some of the clubs will play in a pre-season tournament.

Despite hopes for a smooth return to action, preparations for this tournament hit turbulence. Germany’s head coach, Toni Soderholm, tested positive for COVID-19 prior to his planned departure for the games. He remained in quarantine, communicating with his colleagues online, while Steffen Ziesche, U18 head coach, took charge of the team.

Latvia faced similar challenges, with Bob Hartley remaining in Russia where he is head coach of Avangard Omsk. Artis Arbols stepped up to replace him. With Dinamo Riga using the international pause to catch up on KHL games missed during its own quarantine, Latvia’s roster was a mix of home-based players, rising stars and, in the form of Martins Karsums and Andris Dzerins, a couple of veterans currently without a club.

The tournament format saw a round robin with the two top teams advancing to Sunday’s final. Germany B found life tough, losing 7-2 to Germany and 5-2 to Latvia. On Saturday, in a dress rehearsal for the medal game, the Germans defeated Latvia 2-0 and looked set to win it all.

However, the Latvians had other ideas. Down 0-1 to Andreas Eder’s goal midway through the first period, the Baltic nation hit back with two goals in 11 seconds to take a lead into the first intermission. Gatis Sprukts and Frenks Razgals were the scorers. Marc Michaelis, a Canucks prospect loaned back to his native Mannheim for the start of the DEL season, tied it up for Germany in the third but Razgals came up with an overtime winner to give Latvia the trophy.

Two wins for Hungary

The first action, on Thursday, ended in a 5-2 win for the host. First period goals from Balint Magosi and Istvan Bartalis set Hungary on its way. Poland rallied in the middle frame, getting back to 2-3 thanks to markers from Martin Przygodzki and Mateusz Bryk but the Hungarians took the game away with two unanswered goals in the third period.

After a comfortable win in the first game, the Magyars also took the second encounter. This was a tighter affair, with Poland leading twice before Istvan Sofron scored two to give the home team another victory.

End of the World’ discovers Para ice hockey

our players are currently practicing Para ice hockey at Ushuaia’s outdoor ice rink
ⒸNicolas Badaracco

By Stuart LiebermanWorld Para Ice Hockey

Nicolas Badaracco has been a goaltender on Argentina’s national ice hockey team since it made its international debut in 2012.

Now, he is dedicating just as much time to his sport off the ice. He is working to bring Para ice hockey to the “End of the World,” otherwise known as Ushuaia, the southernmost city at the tip of Argentina.

Ushuaia is the first known city in Latin America where Para ice hockey is starting to take off.

“Everyone has to have the opportunity to play ice hockey,” Badaracco said. “Here, there are a lot of people who cannot even try to play because the sport barely exists. So, I started investigating how Para ice hockey works, and then I started to make plans for how to build my own sledge and made drawings for it.”

Badaracco has played ice hockey since he was 11 years old, experiencing the sport at the international level while also coaching the next generation of players in his country. Additionally, he now works as the manager of Ushuaia’s Olympic-sized outdoor ice rink.

In 2019, he flew to Miami, Florida with Argentina’s national team to compete in the LATAM Cup, a tournament held to help grow the sport’s presence throughout Latin American countries.

Prior to one of his games he met Ron Robichaud, the head coach of the Florida Sled Bandits team. Robichaud invited Badaracco to try Para ice hockey for the first time while he was there.

“It was amazing,” Badaracco said. “It’s very hard. Even for me, as someone who plays hockey for a living and who knows his body, it was very hard. To skate straight is hard – at least the first time, but after that you can learn.”

Robichaud gifted Badaracco a sledge after that so he could take it back to Argentina as a model to copy and create several more.

In Miami, Badaracco also met Karina Villegas, a forward on the USA women’s development Para ice hockey team who lost her right leg at age 13 after being struck by a government vehicle while standing outside a school in Venezuela.

Villegas, who fled to the USA in 2001, immediately agreed to help him introduce Para ice hockey to Latin American countries.

“When I met her in Florida, she fell in love with the idea and brought me some sticks — my first Para ice hockey sticks — so I could copy those sticks here in my country,” he said.

Badaracco has since recruited four athletes with a disability to the sport locally. He is working with the local government in hopes of receiving funds from the Ministry of Education to help grow Para ice hockey, but budgets are now frozen due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the meantime, from 30 November to 4 December, he will lead a Para ice hockey information session as part of the Facundo Rivas Tournament, an annual multi-sport festival for people with a disability.

This year, the event will be held virtually for participants in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. Villegas will also be helping out with the festival.

“There are a lot of people who can probably play they sport, yet they don’t even know what it is,” Badaracco said.

“There is going to be a model to showcase how Para ice hockey is played and how they can develop this sport in their cities. I already have four athletes who are training here, and I’m trying to adapt my sledge for people to use on all surfaces with wheels, too,” he added.

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Joint Operation Agreement Adalah

Oil and gas operators who have a joint mission to explore, develop and operate leased land located in zones or in more than one area must use a joint venture agreement as the underlying contractual framework for their joint venture. The parties in the OJA can be classified approximately as follows: Seperti diketahui, Joint Operation tidak termasuk Subjek Pajak PPh maka penghasilan yang diterima suatu JO sebenarnya adalah penghasilan para anggota JO yang besarnya bagian masing-masing ditentukan sesuai perjanjian. A joint operating agreement, abbreviated JOA, is an agreement between two or more operators, under which they collaborate to share their resources and know-how to explore, develop and produce hydrocarbons from several rental lands. It is one of the largest and most widely used agreements in the oil and gas industry. The joint-operating agreement is a joint venture (JV) between different operators who sign this agreement. Operators share the profits as agreed in the JOA. Joint enterprise agreements allow resources to be pooled and risk to be shared. They also guide how the joint operation pays out revenues and profits. In the highly expensive and complex world of oil and gas exploration and production, a treaty is a crucial element in protecting all parties involved. However, each party must perform due diligence on each contract in order to protect its own interests. Two or more oil and gas operators can take an JOA to share the risk and cost of oil and gas exploration.

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The sun has set on Daylight Savings Time for 2019 - that wonderful extra hour of sleep officially ushering in evenings spent snuggled under a blanket, toes toasting in the glow of a fire and festive films with warm mugs of hot chocolate. The countdown to the most wonderful time of the year is on.

But you may be starting to notice just how scarce the sunlight hours are becoming during the day, and wondering what effect this has on your health each year. Perhaps you have noticed fatigue washing over you just as we passed Hallowe’en or perhaps that your mood dips from the onset of winter until springtime.

When we absorb less sunlight, our body creates less vitamin D. Vitamin D is crucial for helping to absorb calcium, promote bone growth, regulate insulin levels and support the health of the immune system. Symptoms of early vitamin D deficiency can include muscle pain, unexplained fatigue, hair loss, difficulty walking and overall weakness, as well as links to poor mental health and even Seasonal Affective Disorder.

The most natural source is the vitamin D created by the body itself but it is not always easy to absorb enough sunlight through the skin to produce the levels of vitamin D we need, especially for those in Northern climates and people with darker skin.

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  1. Eat thoughtfully: You can get vitamin D from your diet, though it is trickier than other vitamins. Egg yolks, cod liver oil and fatty fish such as tuna or salmon can be great sources of vitamin D when eaten regularly. In fact, the average person can satisfy their weekly dietary vitamin D requirement with just 2.5 servings of wild salmon per week. For plant-based diets, mushrooms, spinach and soybeans can help absorb vitamin D at a slightly less efficient rate than animal products. You can also buy calcium-fortified and vitamin D-fortified foods such as orange juice, cow’s milk, alternative milks, cereals and yoghurts.
  2. Find alternatives: The NHS advises considering a small daily vitamin D supplement to keep your intake steady throughout the winter months. The average adult needs no more than 600 IU of vitamin D per day; a proportion of this can be found in daily multivitamins, which typically contain around 100 IU to accompany sun and diet. If you’re unsure what kind of supplement to choose, consult your doctor for an idea of how much you ought to take on top of your diet.
  3. Follow the Sun!: The best and most natural source of vitamin D is through sunlight, so try to make the most of every moment you can snag in the sun. It can take from just 15 minutes of skin exposure each day to absorb what you need. Make it a daily priority to get out into the open air; the wavelengths required to produce vitamin D are lost through glass, so sitting by a window is not enough! Take your lunch break outside a few times a week, or set aside even just a quarter of an hour for a brisk, rejuvenating walk. Vitamin D can be stored in the body, so stock up on sunlight at the weekends with one of our favourite local walks in the Tunbridge Wells area

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10 Foods to Eat Your Way to Healthy, Hydrated Winter Skin

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Scripture Reflection: March 31st, 2019 – 4th Sunday of Lent

March 30, 2019

JOS 5:9A, 10-12
PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
2 COR 5:17-21
LK 15:1-3, 11-32

During the Lenten time, the first readings each Sunday relay significant moments from salvation history. God worked marvelous deeds for the people of Israel. On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, we see that the Israelites are completing a long journey in the desert and will celebrate their Passover in a new land with rich produce and an abundance of good things.

We, as Christians, are now in the middle of our own Lenten journey of forty days. We have been travelling in the desert and have embraced a sacrificial attitude. Our themes of action have been prayer, fasting and works of mercy. This is a very good weekend to take some time to evaluate where we have been since Ash Wednesday and where we still want to go as we approach the great Solemnity of Easter. Take a few moments, as St. Paul does in his writing to the Corinthians, to ask what “new things” in your life can replace some “old ones?” Paul offers the challenge of being ambassadors of reconciliation. This world and our own lives are in deep need of reconciliation. To do this we must be willing to change, give up our own opinions at times and defer to someone else and reach out with true willingness to be forgiving and merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful. God, our Father, gave up His only Son. We can surely give up some of our sinful and unforgiving ways!

The Gospel story of The Prodigal Son is familiar to us; and surely the father in the Gospel today showed forgiveness towards his son in a prodigious way. It seems almost impossible that he would forgive all that his son had done in wasting money and property and renouncing his father when he left. However, since this is an image for God our Father, it is the most believable of stories for us. God loves us so much; His arms are wide open; His words of mercy flow so easily towards us as seen in the father who forgives his son. We will continue to have the problem of saying and doing things that move us away from God, but let us remember we always have the Sacrament of Reconciliation to show God our sorrow and to restore our relationship with Him. It is a Sacrament that is ALWAYS available for us to run to. This Lent, may the mercy and love of God, our Father, and Jesus, who gave up His life for us, fill each of us with peace and reconciliation of mind and heart!

Sister Diane Marie Corrado, CSFN

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Just a day after cabinet agreed to allow the Energy Ministry to grant three oil production licenses to France’s total, experts in the Oil and gas sector say government must now focus on what Ugandans can reap out of this development. According to Uthman Mayanjja from Price Water Cooper House, the issuance of the production license will mark the final phase towards commercial oil production.


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Buganda Kingdom Royal Family Property War

The Family Division of the High Court in Kampala has started mediation in a property wrangle between the descendants of Ssekabaka Daudi Chwa II. The conflict emanates on which of the descendants should act as estate administrator – with the current position occupiers rejected over their failure to demand compensation from the Central Government five years after they were elected into office.
Mediation talks conducted by the court’s Registrar Irene Akankwatsa today heard that two of the estate administrators; Nnaalinnya Dorothy Nassolo and Ssaava Iga Matovu had withdrawn from their positions. This leaves only Prince David Namugala Mawanda, Nnaalinya Gladys Nandawula Kyakuse Lumaama and Prince Moses Kimera still holding onto their positions.
The petitioner, Prince Kalemera Kimera – who claims the backing of the progeny of the late Kabaka, wants the panel of administrators disbanded and a new one elected. The estate is composed of 450 square Miles allocated to the then Kabaka Daudi Chwa as Private property by the 1900 Buganda Agreement. Recently, the family petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, demanding over sh20 trillion from the Central government in compensation in unpaid property dues. The talks were adjourned to 11th October 2016.


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text: 38 THE NEBRASKAN i oi the old .and. well established mining re gions, and they decided to try their luck in a new locality. Their wagons were abandoned, and their belongings packed on horses and burroes. In two days the' had passed the majority of claims already staked out. Five days brought them, on December 5th, to what seemed to them a desirable place for location. Temporary lodges were con structed, and soon they were ready to dig the precious metal from the rough mountains. Their prospecting was not as successful as they had expected, but they labored on be cause indications were good for a find. Anael, now past fifteen, was the pride of the camp, which sprang up around their new settlement. Her household duties were sim ple, and she was frequently up in the mount ains gathering wild ilowers, or bagging some choice game, for she had become proficient with the rifle in herlndianahome. Christmas week approached, but the prospects for a cheery Christmas was not very bright to them. On the morning of the 24th Anael did her light household duties early, and was intent upon taking an excursion further up the mountain than ever before, and secure some (good game for the Christmas dinner, besides some flowers and native novelties which would do to keep as presents, although they were not especially polished. Full of gaiety and hopes for a bright future, she was soon climbing the mountain sides. While push ing upwards her foot loosened a large bould er, and sent it to the bottom of a deep .precipice with a loud noise, crashing down the mountain side like an avalanche. Anael sprang foward without, danger to herself, and looking around she saw a yellow lump glit tering in the sun. She hastened back to ex amine it, and it proved to be one of the most valuable gold nuggets ever found in that valley. As she rolled it over, her eyes sparkled with delight. What a Christmas present it would be ! But how to get it Ihome? vShe found she could carry jt, but to .conceal tit way the question. She had on a large shawl, and wrappjng her apron around il, folded the shawl and put the nugget in the folds. She made a sling out of the shawl, and throwing it over her back lugged it home. While she had not secured as fine game as she expected, she had some rabbits and squirrels, so made them answer for turkey and cranberry sauce. She hid her find for a Christmas surprise. The men came in at night disheartened. All of Payne's shiftlessness had ceased in this wild search for wealth, and he was removing as much dirt from the mountain side as any of his neighbors. The camp was to take a vacation on Christ mas day. Anael was up early next morning to prepare breakfast. She didn't awake the men folks until the meal was ready. She placed the nugget at his plate, and covered it with a napkin, which she had raked up for the occasion. "Hey, a napkin for use at this Christmas feast,'' said John as he ap proached the table, "a rarity indeed." He sat down and after dishing xip the meal caught hold of the napkin, and uncovered the lump beneath it. The surprise was so great that he sprang back as if seized with terror. After a few moments silent observa tion, glancing first at the nugget, and then at Anael, he exclaimed: "Can it be pos sible? No! it must be a dream." But all doubts could but vanish. It was a reality, and Anael had by a single turn of the foot uncovered the fortune which they had spent hour upon hour of tiresome labor in striving for. Auael explained her trip to the mount ains with radient cheeks, and great was the Christmas celebration for the Paynes. Payne appeared more jovial than he had been for days at the "ball" given that night, but none learned the reason why. It was best to keep that a secret. A few days later he announced his intention of forever leaving the gold fields, and soon afterward bid his brothers farewell. He went to San Francisco and settled there, going into 41 prosperous business with his son. After he had disposed of his nugget, he wrote his friends the rea son of his sudden departure. Anael Payne became a belle in coast society and her name spread far and wide as that of anaccomplish ,ed ,and charming young lady.


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Chuck Mayes is a former educator for Sikeston R-6 Schools.  He retired in 2020 after 30 years in K-12 public education where he served as a teacher, elementary principal, middle school principal, and for eight years as the Sikeston Chief Academic Officer/Assistant Superintendent working with curriculum, assessment, gifted education, and virtual learning.

Chuck is a lifelong resident of Southeast Missouri having graduated from Risco High School before moving to Sikeston to begin his career in public education.  He is married to his wife, Ronda, and they have two children.  His son Alex and daughter-in-law Lauren are both teachers for Sikeston.  His youngest son, Aaron, is a sophomore at the University of Alabama-Huntsville majoring in chemical engineering.

Chuck enjoys being active in his church, attempting home remodeling projects, playing in trivia contests, and spending time with his new grandson, Hendrix.


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The Stockholm Diocese of Sweden through Mr. Charles Camara organized and funded the Project Cycle Management workshop for the Jesuits in Nepal. There were 25 Jesuit participants from all over Nepal. The workshop was designed for Five days [September 16 to 20]. The workshop began with a general introduction of the participants and a brief biography of Mr. Charles Camara, the resource person.  He elaborated about his inception into funding agency. He divulged into the context of project writing and the need of it today for the participants. The Afternoon was dived into two sessions.  Fr. Juel expounded the Catholic Social Teaching to set the mood into faith based project writing.  Similarly, Fr. Boby dwelt upon the aspect of Jesuit Spirituality of project writing. The days used to begin with a short prayer and end with a reflection and a thanksgiving prayer. The workshop taught the participants various concepts: Problem Tree, Objective Tree, Strategic Analysis, LFA-Matrix, etc.  The Jesuits had to go through a process of conceptualizing a problem to coming up with a complete proposal ready to be sent to a donor agency. The goal of this training was to make participants acquire adequate knowledge about how to apply each step of “Project Cycle Management” (PCM) and the method “Logical Framework Approach” (LFA) to design, implement, monitor, document and report a development-oriented or pastoral project, as well as fund raised for it. The objectives of the training were successfully acquired by the Jesuits. Firstly, they learnt practical skills in how to apply each step of planning, Implementing, monitoring, documenting, reporting an evaluating a project.  Secondly, they learned how to apply LFA as a practical tool in development work, especially in the preparation of a project proposal, monitoring the intervention and preparation of progress and final reports.  Thirdly, the Jesuits learnt how to conduct organizational assessment by dynamically applying SWOT; and learned how to fund raise for different kinds of projects and program.  A few months earlier the Jesuits were asked to prepare themselves by reflecting upon their present state of knowledge of each of above said concepts and ideas. And asked to reflect upon the “Jesuit Spirituality” and its connection with the development and pastoral work, especially as pertaining to operating areas and as the nature of their work.


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The rapid growth of lower-carbon intermittent energy resources connected to the grid is transforming the mission of conventional steam generating stations around the world in terms of their share of electricity generation and operating mode. Most affected are fossil fuel-fired and nuclear thermal generating units. Many of the dispatchable units being used to balance the grid are conventional coal-fired steam plants, which were often designed to operate as baseload facilities with limited turndown and ramp rate capabilities. Because the frequency and severity of cycling these units to match grid demand can significantly impact their reliability, grid stability can subsequently be negatively impacted if their operation is not properly managed.

Coal-fired steam generators that are capable of flexible operations can play a key role in ensuring grid stability. However, as these units age, their reliability can be challenged by thermal transients associated with cyclic operations. These conditions may need further assessment and monitoring to help mitigate potentially costly equipment damage and to promote safe, efficient, and event-free operations without depleting the plant’s operating and maintenance budgets.

Through bilateral discussions with India under the Power & Energy Efficiency Pillar of the U.S.-India Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP), the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy supported development of a coal power plant flexibility tool. This public-domain tool provides operators with a systematic approach to evaluate existing coal power plants by identifying technical issues and obstacles impeding flexible operation.

The high-level assessment templates, included in this tool and intended to help identify areas of vulnerability that require attention, are applicable to coal-fired subcritical and supercritical steam power plants rated >100 MW. Because the design and operation of each unit varies, the templates are intended to be used to evaluate individual units. However, multiple units at a given plant can be evaluated in parallel.

  • Provides a systematic approach to evaluate existing coal power plant flexibility by identifying technical issues and roadblocks impeding flexible operation.
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Spoilers might be a bit overcooked.

This was an episode in which the strength of the realm wielded by Cersei clashed with the raw power of Daenerys’ legacy. Dragon (Drogon to be specific) trumps everything, scorpions or no scorpions. The dreaded giant crossbows were shown as fearsome weaknesses for the mythical beast. The tide seemed to favour Cersei and paint Daenerys as the underdog, but we were all deceived. Perhaps we were supposed to have false expectations, but it almost seemed like perhaps the show could’ve used some time to develop this outcome a little better.

You might think I’m talking about how Drogon just overpowered everything and everyone. Yes, that happened. But no, what I am talking about is where Daenerys character is headed now. A very, very dark place indeed. The cheering for the Mother of Dragons has stopped. There’s one twist that we’re being prepared for, a heel turn for the character we’ve been cheering on since she was sold to the Dothraki. Daenerys is suddenly been shifted into the mad, vindictive, ruthless role. We already had that? Why do we need it?

Highs, Lows and Scorch Marks:

  • Some people want to see the world burn. They’re probably some of the viewers, but I hardly think hardcore fans of the show want to see excellent world building for 7 seasons just to destroy everything in the last. Or perhaps they do. Still, literally everything was just overpowered by a dragon. Dany’s only strategy was using the sun and steeping the angle of attack to take out a bunch of ships of the Iron Fleet. That was it though, after that I’m not sure why the other scorpions become ineffective.
  • Daenerys. Now, more than ever, the show is literally forcing us to side with Jon Snow against Daenerys. To do that, they have to start painting the Mother of Dragons in a negative light. It’s a bit too late? You’ve been building this character from slave to savior to warrior to queen and the next step is going to be destroyer? Doesn’t make sense. Not everything has to be a subversion. It’s frustrating to build something just go for a cheap twist in the end.
  • Cersei and Jaime. First of all, their arc was doomed for them to end up together. We literally had Jaime ride all the way to Winterfell to face the white walkers, make Brienne a knight, sleep with her and then have him ride all the way back to Cersei again. That was exhausting. But we knew they would most likely die or kill each other. I won’t be surprised if they emerge from the rubble for the finale.
  • The Hound and The Mountain finally face each other. It kinda went the best it could have gone, and that’s another arc fulfilled. Oh, and Qyburn dies too. No need to look up who he is, he’s dead.
  • Euron Greyjoy dies because, of course, Jaime is the bigger gun in the show. Well, actually he dies because he thinks he won and Jaime just grabs a sword and stabs him. RIP Euron Greyjoy. You were not much of a character.
  • Arya. She’s there to literally learn a lesson, which makes me think it might be up to Arya to kill Daenerys. I never thought it would come to that, but that’s the only reason we have Arya watching people get killed in King’s Landing. That’s also the only reason she survives and even finds the only surviving horse to ride out of the city. Death rides a pale horse. It’s a little too on the nose, but I guess we don’t have time to be subtle with the finale coming up.
  • RIP Varys. He was now is absolutely certain where Daenerys was headed, but I just thought his death was another step to paint her in a negative light. I would’ve prefer him to disappear mysteriously.
  • I did like that suddenly every hidden site with Wildfire on it went up. After all, they were hidden caches of it throughout the city that had never been found. At least nobody can use that anymore.
  • And finally, the show is trying to pull one last fast twist that we’re all seeing coming in literally the last minute: make two favourites fight each other. It’s not something anybody wanted, and just like having Drogon burn the entire city down, it feels forced.

That will do for now.


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Another bout of selling gripped the U.S. stock market Friday, as anxiety mounts over whether the frenzy behind a swift, meteoric rise in GameStop and a handful of other stocks will damage Wall Street overall.

The S&P 500 dropped 1.9%, giving the benchmark index its biggest weekly loss since October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq each fell 2%.

GameStop shot up nearly 70%, clawing back much of its steep loss from the day before, after Robinhood said it will allow customers to start buying some of the stock again. GameStop has been on a stupefying 1,600% run over the last three weeks and has become the battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%.

The assault is directed squarely at hedge funds and other Wall Street titans that had bet the struggling video game retailer’s stock would fall. Those firms are taking sharp losses, and other investors say that’s pushing them to sell other stocks they own to raise cash. That, in turn, helps pull down parts of the market completely unrelated to the revolt underway by the cadre of smaller and novice investors.

The maniacal moves for GameStop and a few other formerly beaten-down stocks has drowned out many of the other issues weighing on markets, including the virus, vaccine rollouts and potential aid for the economy.

“Our consideration is whether this is something that is a long-term influence or contained within a handful of companies,” said Tom Hainlin, national investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.

Meanwhile, calls for regulators to step in are growing louder on Capitol Hill, and the Securities and Exchange Commission says it’s carefully monitoring the situation.

“You’ve seen a lot of volatility this week, so when you have some unknowns like what you’re seeing in the retail trading world, people are a little concerned at record highs here and taking some money off the table,” said Megan Horneman, director of portfolio strategy at Verdence Capital Advisors.

The S&P 500 fell 73.14 points to 3,714.24. It ended the week with a 3.2% loss, its worst week in three months. It ended January with a 1.1% loss, its first monthly decline since October. The S&P 500 is still up 13.6% since the end of October.

Some of the heaviest weights on the index were Apple, Microsoft and other Big Tech stocks that have been big winners for professional and other investors over the last year.

The Dow lost 620.74 points to 29,982.62, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite slid 266.46 points to 13,070.69. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies gave up 32.97 points, or 1.6%, to 2,073.64.

Other forces also weighed on the market. Johnson & Johnson fell 3.6% after it said its vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19, though not as powerfully as rivals. Analysts said the results, which would require just one shot instead of the two required by other vaccine makers, were below expectations.

Elsewhere, investors watched virus infection spikes in Europe and Asia, renewed travel curbs and negotiations in Washington over President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic aid package. Hopes for such stimulus for the economy have carried the S&P 500 and other major indexes back to record highs recently, along with enthusiasm about COVID-19 vaccines and the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep the accelerator floored on its help for the economy. Low interest rates from the Fed can act like steroids for stocks and other investments.

“We are still moving towards a recovery from the pandemic, just a heck of a lot bumpier than anyone had expected,” said Stephen Innes of Axi in a report.

Wall Street’s focus remains squarely on GameStop and other moonshot stocks. AMC Entertainment jumped 53.7%, and headphone company Koss vaulted 52.5%. After their success with GameStop, traders have been looking for other downtrodden stocks in the market where hedge funds and other Wall Street firms are betting on price drops.

By rallying together into these stocks, they are triggering something called a “short squeeze.” In that, a stock’s price can explode higher as investors who had bet on price declines scramble to get out of their trades.

The smaller investors, meanwhile, have been crowing about their empowerment and saying the financial elite are simply getting their comeuppance after years of pulling away from the rest of America.

“We’ve had their boot on our necks for so (expletive) long that the sudden rush of blood to our brains when we have just a (asterisk)chance(asterisk) of getting free has made me feel … well, it’s made me feel,” one user wrote on a Reddit discussion about GameStop stock.

“I’ve been isolated throughout this entire pandemic and live in a state far from home or any sense of community, ”another user replied. “I’d kind of just… given up. These last few weeks I’ve started caring again; feeling impassioned again; wanting more again.”

Most of Wall Street and other market watchers say they expect the smaller-pocketed investors who are pushing up GameStop to eventually get burned. The struggling retailer is expected to still lose money in its next fiscal year, and many analysts say its stock should be closer to $15 than $330.

In response, many users on Reddit have said they can keep up the pressure longer than hedge funds can stay solvent, although they often use more colorful language to say that.

This week, Robinhood and other online trading platforms restricted trading in GameStop and other stocks that have soared recently, prompting outrage from individual investors on Twitter and other social media sites. After easing up on some of the restrictions early Friday, Robinhood tightened them again throughout the day, limiting the number of GameStop shares that customers could buy. By 3:03 p.m. Eastern time, they could not purchase any more if they already had at least one share.

The SEC said Friday that it is evaluating “the extreme price volatility of certain stocks’ trading prices,” warning that such volatility can expose investors to “rapid and severe losses and undermine market confidence.”

Jacob Frenkel, a former SEC enforcement attorney and federal prosecutor, suggested it may have made sense for the market watchdog agency to suspend trading for up to 10 days in GameStop stock, under its legal authority.

Merely monitoring the situation, without SEC action, “is like putting safety experts in a permanent front-row seat in front of a runaway roller coaster,” Frenkel said.

An enforcement investigation by the agency would need to determine whether there were violations of the securities laws, said Frenkel, who heads the government investigations practice at law firm Dickinson Wright.

Both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee plan to hold hearings on the GameStop controversy.

“The capital markets need to be less of a casino and more of a place where people … can invest in companies that are leading the new economy,” said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., who heads the Financial Services subcommittee on investor protection.

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(CNN) — The first dogs have entered the White House — the Bidens’ two German shepherds, Champ and Major, officially joined the first family in their new residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Sunday.

“The First Family wanted to get settled before bringing the dogs down to Washington from Delaware. Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace, and Major loved running around on the South Lawn,” First Lady Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa told CNN in a statement Monday.

The Bidens’ dogs moving in marks a return to a longstanding tradition of Presidents and their families bringing their pets with them to the White House. Former President Donald Trump and his family did not have any pets for the four years they lived in the White House.

Champ has been with the Biden family for more than 10 years — since December 2008, weeks after Biden became Barack Obama’s vice president-elect. Major, a shelter dog, joined the Biden family more recently. He was adopted in November 2018, months before Biden announced he would run for president in the 2020 election cycle.

Major is the first shelter dog to live in the White House. Earlier this month, the Delaware Humane Association, where he was adopted from, and Pumpkin Pet Insurance hosted a virtual celebration — an “Indoguration Party” — for Major.

Though he is the first shelter dog at the White House, Major is not the first rescue. A shelter often receives government funding, whereas animal rescues are often completely run by volunteers.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter, Luci, rescued a mixed-breed pup abandoned by his owner at a gas station in Texas named Yuki. Former President Bill Clinton’s family cat, Socks, was also a rescue.

Jill Biden has also said she would “love to get a cat,” telling Fox 5 in Washington, “I love having animals around the house.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday she did not have an update about the cat.

“I’m also wondering about the cat, because the cat is going to dominate the internet whenever the cat is announced and wherever that cat is found,” Psaki said in a Sunday evening video answering questions posed on Twitter.

The tradition of keeping pets in the White House dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who kept a mockingbird and a couple of bear cubs during his presidency. Throughout the years, presidential pets have become celebrities of sorts.

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The Deception of Many – What has religion forgotten?

Avatar new2torah | October 28, 2020

How "Many" is "Many". Jesus said WIDE is the gate to destruction and narrow the path that leads to life AND FEW WILL FIND IT. Yet today, we have millions of Christians who claim they are saved and believe in Jesus?

So what gives?

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