LastPommerFan
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He's already in the division, so him landing in the Atlantic would just be status quo, right?
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This pick stinks.
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One could make a case for Pominville. But I won't.
I will.
If you drafted the greatest hockey player ever, and that player was a forward, by definition he was the best forward you ever drafted.
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6 words. I think he goes back to the full "the buffalo sabres select First Last"
dagnabbit! too late by seconds.
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Boys turned 3 months last Friday. Time is flying by. I have been trying the last few days to catch up on all the hockey news. Been missing this place, but between work, building a new fence at home, and those 2 awesome little nuggets, I need more time in a day! lol.
I missed this during my leave of absence. CONGRATS MAN!
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I've seen conflicting info around the interwebs. Question: Can the contract be front loaded? Say $35 mil for the 1st 2 years and $42 mil over the last 5 years so an avg of $11 / year but only $7 mil on the books the last 5 years to help facilitate other contracts as needed.
tl;dr: no.
Max annual compensation is 20% of the cap, so max annual compensation for contracts signed this summer will be about $14.5M.
There are a couple of rules on year-year variability as well:
1) Compensation (salary+bonus) cannot vary year to year by more than 35% of the first year's compensation.
2) Lowest year cannot be less than 50% of the highest year. So if he made $17.5M in year one, the lowest year would have to be $8.75M,
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I'm in Innsbruck, Austria right now.
I keep looking up at the mountains in amazement and saying aloud "What the ######. People actually get to live here?"
Life goal. It's gonna happen.
My dad was there for the 1976 Olympic Games. He still brags about it to this day, 40 years later.
I was there for a day in 2003. It was as awesome as he said.
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O's took a 2-run lead into the 9th against Toronto, but Zach Britton wanted to make it exciting, so, with one out he loaded the bases for the reigning AL MVP. And then got Donaldson to ground into an easy 4-6-3 to end the game.
God I love baseball.
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Mrs Case is out of town on business this whole week, so I've been shuffling all three mini cases around to their various schools, sitters, sports, etc by myself while still trying to get to work at least some number of hours each day. It has been fun, but exhausting.
My love returns today!
But before that? On Fridays, my wife is usually off of work so that she has a one on one day with our youngest while the other two are at school. I've taken the day off and will spend the next 6 hours on a walking expedition to explore Canandaigua with him, including the pastry shop and the toy store :-) then we are going to plant some veggies in our new back yard garden. The. We are both going to take a nap. Dino is 3 and a half, and I have never spent a day alone with him.
F'n Fantastic!!
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Awesome, Whiskey! Stick around, would ya?
We'll see. It mostly depends on my ability to have less than 26 hours worth of to do each day.
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I got a dog. His name is O'Ryan. He is majestic AF.
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YOU CAN'T SLAP MY EMOTIONS AWAY
My parents have done some research that proves this hypothesis to be invalid.
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Thanks!
Just three follow-up questions:
Is there a general feel for how the team is doing/ where they are headed?
Is Liger really gone?
Does 11 making poor food choices really make a top 10 list?
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You know what *would be* awesome? If someone(s) could create a thread and offer a summary of the awesome things the board has discussed over the past 2+ months so that a half empty bottle would get refilled.
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For a second, when this link was blue.... I half expected college football talk or something (silly me) baseball has 831 games a season, take a break guys ;)
Appreciate the hot stove, or get out of the kitchen.
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Apparently, the Director of National Intelligence informed our President that known terrorists are posing as Syrian refugees and trying to enter the United States. The refugees are not widows and orphans, as the President told us.
President Obama did not know Clapper was a fear mongering racist trying to restrict the movement of brown people when he nominated him.
Source Link?
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People can call it domestic terrorism if they want, but when the actor is this unhinged, does it really qualify? There's no logic behind what he did.
Are you talking about Tim McVeigh or the Unibomber?
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Drunkard- Two things:
First, A Christian Nation wouldn't replace the BoR with Leviticus. Mosaic Law (The Commandments and Leviticus) was fulfilled by Christ. A Christian Nation would instead be governed by a call to perform "works of mercy", we would be a nation that would "turn the other cheek", Americans would "love their enemies". All of this, as laid out in the Sermon on the Mount, is probably the most clear, direct, and forceful language that Jesus used when instructing his followers on how to act. He specifically says that the old law is fulfilled, and lays down these things as the new Law. It's all obviously been corrupted by a couple millennia of kings and wealth using the Church as their tool for subjugation, but the message is laid out in plain language, on documents dated from the first generation after Jesus's life.
Second, Jesus's words aside, I would encourage you to try empathy with the "other side". The human mind is an absolutely amazing thing, but it's got some pretty simple drivers. We are social creatures. Our brains instinctively create a sense of tribe. As a survival mechanism, this works as a shortcut to quickly identify threats. The modern result of this function is that we often misidentify threats prematurely. Unfortunately, this prevents us from accepting potentially useful inputs and information because once a source is IDed as "other" our ability to trust it falls so low that we don't even listen. If we begin our arguments from a point of degradation and belittling, we run the risk of have ourselves immediately identified as "other" by the potential recipients. We preemptively eliminate our chances of having our ideas assimilated into the other person's internal sense of "tribe". If we start our arguments not from our turf, but from the realm of the "other" we stand a better chance of moving things.
There is a psychological underpinning to the partisanship and stalemate we see today. We've split the country into strong identity "tribes" and no one hears what the other one is saying. Breaking this will require that we give up some of the outward themes of our tribe, in order to learn and appreciate the "other". it's why liberals are so deeply sickened when they see an Open-Carry rally in Texas, and why conservatives don't listen when they see a Black Lives Matter rally on TV. Their instincts tell them that this is "Other" and not to be trusted. When I see a bunch of people with long guns threateningly rally, my stomach turns and I think "crazy people". I need to over come that instinct as ask myself (and more importantly them) why they hold that identification, and what is motivating them to this action.I'm not trying to argue that all people have legitimate and wonderful reasons to hold the positions they hold, lots of positions are held purely out of fear and/or greed. My point is only that if I don't make an effort to understand those reasons, I'm not going to help change peoples beliefs. If we all do this, nothing changes.
During the Triangle Shirtwaist Strikes of the early progressive era, Anne Morgan (Daughter of JP) took up the cause of the nascent labor union. She was very valuable to the strikers, not simply because she provided a high profile, but because she could readily identify with the "tribe" from the other side. When hard-line socialists began infiltrating the meetings, Morgan fought back against them, noting particularly that their appeal to emotionalism would derail the movement. This act kept the strikers focused on the things they were working for, rather than allowing an "us vs them" identity war to begin.
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If i get there, and am told she grabbed his arm, and there are visible signs of injury, no choice. Not in PA. Doesn't matter who called. If i am told it was an accident and have no side telling me it was from grabbing, no domestic.
Thanks for the clarification.
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This is all good stuff to be sure.
One can't belittle others if others can't be belittled. One can't be belittled if one doesn't take offense. Nothing anyone can say, no amount of ridicule what so ever, can have the power to shake one's faith. If it does, the faith isn't strong enough to begin with.
Sure it can. One's faith can remain strong, while one's emotions are hurt by a world that appears to be rejecting or hostile or both. Belittling people is never needed. It's never productive for humanity. I do it. I wish I didn't. I'll work to do it less.
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Thanks for the clarification.
My post was certainly not confined to their particular brand of being offended, though. It goes for anyone of any faith in anything.
Somehow we drifted into offended. I don't think "offense" is the issue we need to worry about. It's about people feeling belittled. Feeling lost. We can all work together. 99.9999% of the people on this planet are working really hard toward 2 things: providing for their family and giving their children a slightly better shot at being able to do the same. That work is really hard, it's all we can worry about. We need something to tie the rest together. For some, that's tribal/community/political affiliation, to others, it's evidence based science, still to others, it's faith. All of those options are ok if they make your life a little smoother.
It becomes a problem when we start belittling each other based on our community, or our academics, or our faith. It makes the world, and already tough (not evil, but certainly not easy) world harder. It might just be a little bit harder, but it's harder unnecessarily.
I'm not saying we can't try and convert folks, show them that our system will make their lives even easier, better. But belittling people does unneeded harm.
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I came late to this dance and don't know what YEC is.
Good point about tolerance. I submit faith is impossible without it.
Young Earth Creationist
Steven Stamkos stays in Tampa Bay, 8.5mil x 8yrs
in The Aud Club
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No way we're paying foligno 2.5M to play on the fourth line.