...latimes.com HELENE ELLIOTT / ON THE NHL NHL's discipline chief gets backup on head-injury punishments After reports that a group of general managers had complained Brendan Shanahan had been too forceful in handing out punishment, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly says he has been consistent and clear. Helene Elliott 6:00 PM PDT, October 10, 2011 | | The NHL gave Brendan Shanahan a hammer. And though the new czar of discipline is swinging it more forcefully than anyone expected, the league insists the hammer won't be replaced with a feather. Shanahan, head of the league's new player safety department, has aggressively carried out the NHL's overdue directive to punish players who hit opponents in the head. Predictably, he has faced a backlash, maybe because his decisiveness and clarity are startling after Colin Campbell's meek, muddled rulings. Hardliners grumble the game is becoming soft. A report Saturday on "Hockey Night in Canada's" Hot Stove feature said a group of general managers went to Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly "and made it very clear that they are very unhappy" with Shanahan, though the report didn't identify them. Daly on Monday backed Shanahan's performance and said he and Bettman had not heard from any disgruntled club executives. "There is only one general manager that I am aware of that has expressed concern to either Gary or me about the standard that Brendan has been imposing and he did so only in response to...
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...methods we use today weren't invented until the centuries later and they contrasts from whaling of the nineteenth century in various ways. Present day whale hunting has progressed from whaling of Melville's day and the whalers are even hunting for different reasons. For example, in Herman Melville's Day, whalers sailed out on small boats searching for the "elephants of the sea." If the wind was not in their favor, they had to smoothly paddle with oars, careful not to scare their prey. When coming upon a whale, the harpooner would kill the beast with a manual harpoon. The hunters must bring the massive animal onboard the ship, to immediately remove the oil, since they are onboard for years at a time. Similar to nineteenth century whaling, whalers today also have small fishing boats, but with sails or motor to speed up the process. They use harpoon cannons, invented by two Norwegians, that explode once penetrated a foot into the flesh of the whale. Occasionally the mammal will not die immediately, therefore the harpooner will shoot it with a high powered riffle. Then the whalers either tow the whale to shore or bring it alongside the ship. Along with the sail, the invention of the explosive harpoon was a dramatic progress for modern whalers and became the turning point in whaling. This difference in these two systems of whale catching shows the advance in modern technology and methods. The explosive harpooner is a more efficient and promising way...
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...news online. The Sea Shephed Society, which sent a fleet of vessels to the southern ocean to block the hunt, proclaimed victory on its website. "Operation Divine Wind is over! The Japanese whalers are going home!" the Sea Shepherd headline read. "There are hundreds of whales swimming free in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary that would now be dead if we had not been down there for the last three months. That makes us very happy indeed," Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson is quoted as saying on the organization's website. News of the Japanese whaling fleet's withdrawal comes four days after the Institute of Cetacean Research, which oversees the Japanese whaling program, reported a confrontation between the Japanese ships and Sea Shepherd's ship Bob Barker. The Bob Barker fired more than 40 flares and aimed a "high-powered" laser beam at the Japanese ships for more than 50 minutes, the institute said in a news release. Watson said that with the high-seas showdown, "the whaling season was effectively over for the season." Japan hunts whales every year despite a worldwide moratorium on whaling, utilizing a loophole in the law that allows for killing the mammals for scientific research. Sea Shepherd said it would be back to block the Japanese fleet if it returns this year. “If the Japanese whalers return, Sea Shepherd will return. We are committed to the defense of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary,” Watson said on the website. “No matter how long it takes, no matter how risky or expensive...
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...provisions for all over the world. However, whales are important edible animals only in a few countries. Finally, there is the biggest difference between cows and whales. It is that whales are free in the huge ocean until caught by people, and cows will be grown up in the field by the people to eat. The first difference between cows and whales is that cows are the most popular edible meat all over the world. Therefore, many cows are butchered everyday. Of course, there are several reasons that people use cows to their provisions. Because cows are easy for farmers to breed, and they are not as clever as other animals. On the other hand, whales have been protected by a law. (The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) Therefore, every whaler has been limited in number to catch the whales recently. The reason of this law is whales are not easy to breed as cows. And they are such a clever animals more than any other kind of animal. The second difference is that cows are important provisions all over the world. Almost of all countries use beef as their main dish. Therefore, it is nothing wound and give any impression us to slaughter cows. But whales have been used as edible meat in a few countries like small islander countries. Therefore, for the people who are living in big countries, to slaughter the whales look like violence activity and wounded hunting. The...
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...Introduction Since the indefinite commercial whaling moratorium was introduced in 1986, the whaling nations have killed around 15,000 whales between them. At the time of writing, the Japanese whaling fleet has just returned from Antarctic waters where a further 300 or so minke whales have been killed for so called ‘research’, in open defiance of world public opinion and the IWC which has never validated the Japanese programme. The meat from those dead whales will end up on sale in Japanese restaurants and on supermarket shelves. Japan is not only defying the global moratorium on commercial whaling, it is killing whales in a sanctuary agreed by the IWC in 1994. Japan has ‘recruited’ many countries to the IWC to support the resumption of commercial whaling using foreign aid packages. If the ban is lost it will be a disaster for whale conservation efforts. This report presents the many reasons why the ban on commercial whaling must be maintained and properly enforced. We cannot wipe away the tragic history of commercial whaling, but we can, and must, prevent its repetition. The Natural History of Whales Whales belong to the order of mammals known as Cetacea. There are about 80 species of cetaceans, including all the dolphins and porpoises, as well as the ten so-called ‘great’ whale species, which have borne the brunt of commercial whaling. Cetaceans are believed to have evolved from land mammals, which adapted to an aquatic existence about 50 million years ago. They are superbly...
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...Think about how noble sacrifices are defined! Now think about what are the defining components justifying noble sacrifices that qualify heroes. This article is going to explain each component, the justification, and how the heroes help shown these components. The main components are helping others without a direct need to, when the hero gives up something extremely valuable, and peaceful intentions. An element of noble sacrifice is helping others with a direct need to. Mr.Grishchenko flying his helicopter over the exploding, radioactive reactor to dump concrete over the fire wasn’t required by any circumstance. Mr.Grishchenko did it out of pure generosity, and what did he get out of it? A terrible disease and radiation that ended up killing him. The elders that helped with the reactor in japan by all means could’ve sat by and acted helpless towards the whole disaster. Instead they went in and helped clean the site, raised awareness, and even earned money for the disaster with a charity found. They did all this just to help the future generates have a better life. Both of these are selfless acts for someone else to live a better life. Never the less, another key component to justify noble sacrifice is giving something of extremely high value to the hero. Irena Sendler gave up a lot of income to help the Jewish people escape before the Nazi party members captured them. She even gave up her freedom just to help get those Jewish people to a safe place. Kate told Anna that...
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...Under Browns supervision Crispus traded cattle, worked in Brown’s shop and also traveled looking for business. From the age of sixteen to about twenty seven little was known about Crispus, but what was known is that Attucks still had that feeling that he needed freedom and as long as he was a slave that would be impossible. While he was on a business trip to Boston, Crispus secretly applied for a job as a whaler and chose a ship that he knew wouldn’t be returning to Boston any time in the near future. Crispus ran away on September 30th, 1750 at the age of twenty-seven, and Deacon Brown published three notices in The Boston Gazette and Country Journal about a runaway slave whose name was Crispas, and he offered money for his capture and return. In spite being a slave and not having any form of education Crispus was smart enough to know that his master would be looking for him and so that’s why he chose the ship that he chose because he knew that if he had chosen a ship that would occasionally come back to Boston his capture would have been easier Whenever Attucks ship landed in a port near Framingham he usually sneaked of at night to visit his...
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...Blue Whale Whales are separated into two groups, the baleen and the toothed whales. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on earth, including the dinosaurs. Baleen is made of keratin, the same material as our fingernails. They live in pods, they have two blowholes. The blue whale has about 2-14 inch thick layer of blubber. They are one of seventy-six species and are marine mammals. Blue whales grow up to about eighty feet long on an average, weighing about one hundred-twenty tons. The females are generally larger than the males; this is the case for all whales. The largest whale that was found was a female. She was ninety-four feet long weighing more than one hundred-seventy four ton. The head of the blue whale forms up to a quarter of the total body length. Compared to other whales, the head is very broad. The blue whale’s heart is the size of a small car and can pump almost ten tons of blood throughout the body. They have very small dorsal fins that are located near the fluke, or tail. Blue whales have long, thin flippers eight feet long and flukes that are twenty five feet wide. The blue whales skin is usually blue-gray with white-gray spots. The underbelly has brown, yellowish-gray specks. During the winter in the cold water diatoms stick to the underbelly, giving it a yellow to silver to sulfur colored sheen, the blue whale is nick-named Sulfur Bottom. Other names include Sibbalds Rorqual and Great Northern Rorqual. Blue whales like all baleen whales, are...
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...an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, was founded on September 7, 1979. The founding members were Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen, and Ed Eagan. ESPN’s headquarters are located in Bristol, Connecticut. However, there are several other offices throughout the United States. These other offices are located in Miami, New York, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. The current president is John Skipper, who has held this position since January 1, 2012. ESPN’s impact on broadcast journalism has been universal, attracting people to the world of broadcasting and sports since it was founded. Bill Rasmussen thought of ESPN in May 1978 when he was fired from the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association. Bill was joined by his son Scott, who had also been let go by the Whalers. However,...
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...ʺThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates that there were approximately 275,000 blue whales before the development of modern whaling in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1960s, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated that the number of blue whales had decreased to between 650 and 2,000.ʺ (Global Issues in Context Online Collection). The number of all whales has been decreasing and the Japanese whalers have been the major cause of the depletion of whales throughout history. The Japanese use whaling for to gather resources like whale meat and oils. I don’t believe that the Japanese should be using whaling for food and resources. First of all, when the whales die off, it greatly affects the ecosystem, in other words, the food chain. Another reason is that the international relations with the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Lastly, whaling does not provide the economic benefits that the Japanese thinks it does. Now let me give you a little background information on whaling. Whaling has gone on for centuries and it has been a necessity for people all over the world. The IWC does allow tribes like the Eskimos, who have hunted whales traditionally, to continue to hunt whales but they could only be a certain type of whale. Traditionally, there used to be a demand for whale oil as a lubricant for machines but these are synthetic so that means you don’t need to kill the whale you could just make. In 1987, the IWC imposed a moratorium...
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...Paul Cuffe was born on January 17, 1759, during the French and Indian War, in Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. He was one of the ten children born to Kofi Slocum, a freed slave, and Ruth Moses, a Native American of the Wampanoag tribe. Kofi anglicized his name to Cuffee. He was a skilled tradesman and in 1772, he died. Once his father died, Paul persuaded his brothers and sisters to take their father's first name as their surname. However, Paul signed his name by spelling Cuffe with only one e. As a young teenager, he built small boats and traded among the Massachusetts islands, as his father had done for many years. He shipped aboard a whaler owned by the prominent Rotch family, Quaker merchants and whalers of New Bedford. During the American Revolution, he served on a privateer and often participated in running...
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...English 122 Nature vs. Man In the world now there are views of what can or should be done with the environment, use what is available to save any animal/plant/bug for the future. Then there are the options that go between those two extremes. Looking at some of the views from our readings as well as other sources, we’ll see what is looked at as right and wrong ways to use and preserve nature. There are many views on how the Earth should be used or preserved, but the how to do it with the world’s increasing population makes the answer so important to those that will come after us. While not about nature, Aldous Huxley’s “Time and the Machine” talks about time and how man has made himself a slave to time. Knowing that we have a limited amount of time in our lives, many want to do as much to fill that time as can be done. Most in the western world view time as something that needs to be taken advantage of, that there’s always a deadline for creating or making something. In some eastern cultures, there isn’t the hurry seen like we have. They aren’t as concerned for man-made time as they have “not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.” (Huxley, 366) He goes on to say that people living in large cities can live “without being aware of the daily march of the sun across the sky; without ever seeing the moon and stars.” (Huxley, 366) This goes to show that people are too into the passing of time and don’t look at taking time to relax and exist with nature. ...
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...Nov 13, 2009 Whales are being targeted and hunted, their population is being dealt serious blows. All the whales in the northern hemisphere are consedered as the north pacific stock.(susan scott, 1) the population of the stock is at 18,000-20,000 whales at present day. Researching the population is a strenous job, and it takes time to come up with the population prediction of the north pacific stock. In the year 1966, when the last study was conducted the “stock” reached a extreme low of 1,200 whales. (susan scott,1) the population is very unstable and always under pressure. Factors that contribute to the the threat towards whales are traditions by natives and nations that claim the reason for their whaling is for “scientific reasons”. Arguments have flared up between whaleing nations against organized partys. During the summer whales migrate into the northern hemisphere because the colder water plays as excelent huntiong grounds. Whales never migrate to another geeding ground. They never break this migrating pattern. By going to the same feeding areas every summer whales are making it easyier for hunters to decide were they want to hunt. Japan, iceland, and norway are the top whaling nations. All of these nations continue to hunt by thinly disguiseing whaling as scientific reasons.(los angelos, The Nation, 1) Many argue that what they are doing is not proffesional and the practices are cruel. The procces involves harpooning a whale and dragging it around until it becomes...
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...Australia's Neighbours New Zealand Australia and New Zealand flag share some seniority because Australia and New Zealand are countries that were previously under the British rule and therefore, it is no wonder their two national flags are quite similar in many ways. However, if one looks more closely, certain subtle difference between Australia flag and New Zealand flag can be noted. While the Australian flag features the Commonwealth Star, the New Zealand flag does not have it. This is because the Commonwealth star is a symbol of Australia. The Australian’s flag’s Southern Cross has four seven pointed stars and one with five; the New Zealand flag has only four five pointed stars. The Australian flag has the Southern Cross in white; the New...
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...had little interest in converting the indigenous people III. Europeans in the Pacific a. Australia and the Larger World i. Dutch Exploration 1. Nothing really to trade at the time ii. British Colonists 1. Captain James Cook 2. First settlement in Australia as a penal colony occurred in 1788 by England 3. Many free settlers after 1830s b. The Pacific Islands and the Larger World i. Spanish Voyages in the Pacific 1. After Magellan 2. Voyages from Acapulco to Manila 3. The indigenous Chamorro people resisted siege, but succumbed to the smallpox ii. Guam 1. In the middle of the trade route between Acapulco and Manila iii. Impact on Pacific Islanders of Regular Visitors and Trade 1. Misunderstandings 2. Some regular visitors were Whalers 3. After the Whalers in the 18th century, missionaries, merchants, and planters started to come iv. Captain Cook and Hawai’i Study Terms: Atahualpa – Inca ruler Audiencias - courts Brazil Chamorro – indigenous people of Guam Conquistadores - conquerers Criollos – creole people Cuzco – was the Inca capital Doña Marina Encomienda -first labor system Engenho – sugar mill Epidemic Disease - smallpox Francisco Pizarro – took over Peru and looted for gold and silver Fur Trade Guarani – native language in Paraguay Hacienda - estate Hernán Cortés – took over the Aztec empire in Mexico and looted for gold Indentured Labor – cheap labor James Cook – charted the eastern coast Malintzin Manila Galleons Mestizo/Métis – the children of native women and French...
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