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Nagelfluh is a tough word, a tough word that this kid at the Spelling Bee this year wasvery close to misspelling. But he didnt.
He came through with a clutch h at the last moment and his family were very pleased about it, as you can see:
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Tampa Bay Lightning vs Pittsburgh Penguins. 2016 NHL Playoffs. ECF. Game 5. 05.22.2016. (HD)
Bryan Rust scored a pair of second-period goals and Matt Murray stopped 16 shots to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night to send the franchise to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2009.
Pittsburgh will host Western Conference champion San Jose in Game 1 of the final Monday night.
Jonathan Drouin scored his fifth goal of the playoffs for the Lightning and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 37 saves, but it wasn"t enough to send Tampa Bay back to the Cup Final for a second straight year. Captain Steven Stamkos had two shots in his return from a two-month layoff while dealing with a blood clot.
The Penguins avoided elimination with a borderline dominant 5-2 victory in Game 6 that provided a snapshot of the formula that fueled their rise through the Eastern Conference standings shortly after coach Mike Sullivan"s arrival in mid-December. Sullivan calls it "playing the right way," a way abetted by the influx of speed brought in by general manager Jim Rutherford. That group includes Rust, who forced his way onto the roster thanks to feverish skating and a relentlessness that belies his nondescript 5-foot-11 frame.
That effort or "desperation level" as captain Sidney Crosby calls it provided the Penguins with the boost they needed to overcome a bit of unfortunate history and the return of Stamkos. Pittsburgh had dropped five straight Game 7s at home, including a 1-0 loss to Tampa Bay in 2011 in a series in which both Crosby and Evgeni Malkin missed due to injury. That loss had become symbolic of the franchise"s postseason shortcomings following that gritty run to the Cup in 2009 that culminated with a Game 7 win in Detroit that was supposed to be the launching pad of a dynasty.
Seven long years later, with an entirely new cast around mainstays Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, Chris Kunitz and Marc-Andre Fleury, the Penguins are finally heading back.
It hardly came easy. Vasilevskiy, a revelation while filling in for injured Vezina Trophy finalist Ben Bishop, spent most of the night facing barrage after barrage as Pittsburgh controlled the puck and the pace of play for long stretches. Not even the return of Stamkos, who missed eight weeks while recovering from surgery to fix a blood clot near his right collarbone, could give Tampa Bay a boost as it sought a second straight appearance in the final round.
The 26-year-old practically chased Vasilevskiy onto the ice and played 11:55, his best chance coming on a breakaway in the second period in which his slap shot from the right circle hit Murray and trickled wide.
Yet he was outshone as was everyone else inside an electric Consol Energy Center by a 24-year-old who managed all of five goals in 55 regular season games, a total he"s matched in just 17 games during the postseason. And perhaps even more surprising than the amount of success Rust has enjoyed during the playoffs is when he"s done the most damage. He collected two goals and an assist in a series closeout win over the New York Rangers in the opening round.
Just over a month later, Rust was at it again.
He gave the Penguins the lead 1:55 into the second when he raced down the slot, took a feed from Kunitz and beat Vasilevskiy over his glove. Drouin"s fourth goal of the series tied it at 9:36 of the second, a wicked wrist shot from the circle that zipped by Murray and seemed to blunt Pittsburgh"s momentum.
Only it didn"t.
All of 30 seconds later, the Penguins were back in front. Ben Lovejoy"s slap shot from the point caromed off the end boards to the right of the net. Rust jabbed at it, squeezing it between Vasilevskiy"s left arm and his body.
The Penguins kept coming. Only the spectacular play of the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy kept the Lightning in it. Pittsburgh outshot Tampa Bay 21-5 in the second period alone, yet couldn"t extend its advantage.
Their season on the brink, the Lightning recovered but Murray never wavered. His teammates in front of him kept Tampa Bay from getting in his way and when the final horn blared, Pittsburgh"s metamorphosis from the blahs of December to the madness of May was complete.
Obama, el primer presidente de EE.UU. que visita Hiroshima
For nights afterward, I couldn"t sleep. I couldn"t get his images out of my mind: people going about their daily lives; the sudden fireball so hot it vaporized bodies, leaving just shadows on a wall; the silent, deadly radiation that sickened and killed tens of thousands more.
I had reason to be afraid. By the time I was in high school, the United States had more than 30,000 nuclear weapons in its stockpiles. The Soviet Union soon matched it with tens of thousands of its own. But the horror of nuclear weapons ultimately helped keep the peace. It sounds like a macabre joke, but the concept was dubbed "MAD" - "mutual assured destruction." If one side fired its missiles, the other side would immediately retaliate, and the world would be destroyed. Therefore, nukes should never be used. As President Ronald Reagan put it in 1986, "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."
When I try to explain the bizarre "MAD" world to young friends today, they"re incredulous, because they think the nuclear threat is over and done with, a relic that disappeared along with the Soviet Union. In reality, that threat is back, more dangerous than ever. The unthinkable -- nuclear war with Russia -- is becoming the thinkable.
Russian President Vladimir Putin boasts about Russia"s nuclear might, while a TV anchor in Moscow warns Russia could turn America into "radioactive dust." Last autumn, Russian state TV "accidentally" broadcast video of plans for a nuclear-armed drone submarine that could approach enemy shores, detonating an underwater nuclear device that would unleash a radioactive tsunami on the city it was targeting.
"Russia"s nuclear saber rattling is incredibly irresponsible, it is dangerous, it is destabilizing in terms of its strategic effect," says Michael Carpenter, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of Defense.
Current and former Russian officials have openly raised the possibility that Moscow could employ "limited" use of nuclear weapons, but a former senior Russian military official in Moscow told me that"s a "complete distortion" of Russia"s nuclear policy. A few former officials have engaged in some loose talk, he admitted, but "this is absolutely not Russia"s real nuclear policy."
But Washington is taking Russia"s nuclear talk very seriously. The United States is poised to spend $1 trillion over three decades on modernizing its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems, including bombers and submarines.NATO, meanwhile, is deploying a missile-defense system in Romania and Poland. The Western defense alliance insists it"s not about Russia, but is aimed at countering a potential missile attack from Iran or any rogue states. Russia calls the system a direct threat to its security.
These escalations are perilous. "Once you"ve crossed the nuclear Rubicon, there"s no clear stopping point," says Russia expert Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute in Washington. "There"s no clear point at which you say, "Now we go back to fighting it out with tanks and artillery." No, you cross that threshold and you basically destroy the world."
So if it"s so dangerous, why all the loose talk about nukes?
One reason is to compensate for Russia"s comparative weakness in conventional, nonnuclear weapons. Nukes make Russia a power to be reckoned with.
Raising the specter of using nuclear weapons also scores points for President Putin at home.
Putin "relishes this idea of unpredictability," says Damon Wilson, executive vice president of the Atlantic Council. "I think he If he can foster this sense that you can"t know for certain what he"s going to do then you have to question how rational he is. Maybe, just maybe, he could actually think about the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Then that will temper our actions, keep us off balance."
Putin may be a risk taker, says former U.S. Ambassador John Herbst, but "he"s not not irrational and therefore, I don"t think this would actually lead to the deployment of nuclear weapons, but he likes to threaten us with them."
For more than 40 years, Russia and the United States have negotiated a series of arms control agreements that significantly cut the number of nuclear weapons each side had aimed at the other. But the last agreement, New Start, still leaves each country with 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads, and now -- with tensions rising over the West"s missile defense system and Russia"s incursion into Ukraine -- there"s virtually no chance for any new agreement.
"This is a dangerous moment," says Herbst, "which I don"t believe people in the West really understand."
I grew up with nightmares that another Hiroshima would destroy me and my family and everyone I loved. Today"s young people grew up in a world where nukes were just a bad dream.
Now, it"s time for all of us to wake up to the renewed danger.
Jill Dougherty (@jillrussia) is a former CNN foreign affairs correspondent and Moscow bureau chief with expertise in Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is currently a member of the Kennan Institute Advisory Council at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. The views expressed in this commentary are her own.
Bernie Sanders Vs Donald Trump Debate Agreed To The take-away: Gladiators
Bernie Sanders wants to do it in the biggest stadium possible. Donald Trump said he might do it, but someones gotta pay millions to charity. Fox News, ABC News and CBS News are interested in hosting it.
Theyre talking about a debate before the June 7 California primary between Trump, who has clinched the Republican nomination, and Sanders, still a long shot to wrest the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton as the primary season nears an end.
If Trump and Sanders cross swords, it could be quite the spectacle, writes Newsdays Dan Janison, letting them take unreturned shots at Clinton as well as each other.
The idea from Sanders was raised with Trump by comic Jimmy Kimmel on his ABC show Wednesday night, and Trump indicated interest. If I debated him, we would have such high ratings, I think I should take that money and give it to charity, he said. (Video here.)
Game on, Sanders tweeted. Since then, there has been vacillation from Trump and his camp, even as Sanders campaign manager taunted that he shouldnt chicken out.
Id love to debate Bernie. The problem is hes going to lose, said Trump.
Sanders wanted to debate Clinton ahead of the California voting, but she said no shed rather focus on Trump. She said she is looking ahead to her own debates with the Republican candidate in the fall.
Taking his turn on Kimmel"s show Thursday night, Sanders responded to a Trump-planted question from the host about whether he could stage an independent run. "I think there is a little bit of self service there from Donald Trump," the senator replied.
Over the top
Trump now has the majority of delegates needed to win nomination on the first ballot of the Republican national convention, according to counters at The Associated Press and the major networks.
He crossed the 1,237 mark with pledges from a number of delegates not previously bound to any candidate.
See our delegate tracker for both the Republican and Democratic races here.
Sweet and sour 16
Trump is keeping tabs of who among his 16 former GOP rivals is supporting him, and who is not. Follow along with a story and score card from Newsdays William Goldschlag.
Marco Rubio just took a step away from the fence by saying he would speak on Trumps behalf at the Republican convention if asked.
Shake, rattle and troll
At a Group of Seven meeting in Japan, President Barack Obama said world leaders are rattled by Trump and for good reasons because he shows an ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines.
Nothing wrong with that, Trump said at a news conference. When you rattle someone, thats good, he said. If theyre rattled in a friendly way, thats a good thing ... not a bad thing.
Tax returns: You wouldnt get it
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told the Huffington Post that he would be surprised if the real estate mogul releases his tax returns during the campaign, and he wouldnt advise it.
His tax returns are incredibly complicated, Manafort said. I wouldnt understand them, so how are the American people going to? He added, The financial disclosure he put out gives the salient points. The only people who want the tax returns are the people who want to defeat him.
Trump: wont go there (again)
Trump said Thursday that the 1993 death of Clinton White House aide Vincent Foster, which multiple investigations found to be a suicide, should not be brought up in the campaign unless new information emerges.
In an interview in Tuesdays Washington Post, Trump had called the circumstances of Fosters death fodder for conspiracy theorists in the 1990s very fishy. His comments were assailed as cruel in a Thursday Post Op-Ed by Fosters sister, Sheila Foster Anthony.
What else is happening:
Clinton, defending how she handled emails at the State Department, told ABC News: It was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left ...
Trump said he would support the Canadian Keystone oil pipeline project, but the U.S. government should get a better deal for a share of the revenue.
His energy remarks inspire confusion as he expresses singular disdain for wind turbines...
The Clinton-Sanders primary battle in California is looking like a close contest, potentially harming her "break-it-up-folks-nothing-to-see" posture...
Sanders stays on message to a fault as he moves around the Golden State, delivering speeches that glaringly ignore the particulars of where he happens to be....
A Chinese factory makes Trump masks , and the photos offer a surreal sight ...
The touch-and-go future of Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as DNC chair has become a sideshow for those watching the Sanders-Clinton competition.
Speaking to a labor group in Las Vegas, Clinton praised workers at Trumps hotel there for their effort to unionize ...
A recanvass of voting in Kentuckys Democratic primary confirmed Clinton won. Sanders accepted the result ...
Trump predicted to Bloomberg Businessweek that the GOP will look like a different party in 5 to 10 years. Youre going to have a workers party, he said ...
Cleveland officials are growing more worried about how to deal with expected mass protests and other trouble outside the Republican convention ...
Trump told Kimmel he has used aliases throughout his career in real estate because otherwise, they find out its you, and they charge you more money ...
Democrats could outgun Republicans in their ground operations set for key battleground states.
Trump is seen as determined to alienate Hispanic voters...
Pachuca vs Leon 2016 2-1 GOLES RESUMEN Semifinales Vuelta Clausura 2016 Liga MX
Cuando se jugaban los ltimos minutos del primer tiempo del partido de ida de la final de la Liga de Mxico entre Pachuca y Monterrey, el defensor colombiano scar Murillo tuvo que abandonar el terreno de juego del estadio Hidalgo despus de una disputa del baln con Dorlan Pabn, jugador de "rayados".
Por lo pronto, desde ya se da por descartada su presencia en el partido de vuelta del prximo domingo, segn se comenta en medios mexicanos.
Murillo, jugador convocado por Jos Pkerman a la Seleccin Colombia para la Copa Amrica Centenario, cay a la gramilla e inicialmente se evidenci un dolor muscular en su pierna izquierda.
Tras ser atendido por el cuerpo mdico del Pachuca, de inmediato se hicieron gestos al banquillo para ordenar su sustitucin. El exjugador de Nacional, se levant apoyado por uno de los asistentes de los "tuzos", recibi la masiva y sonora ovacin de los aficionados locales, fue saludado por sus compaeros e incluso se le vio llorando.
Y ahora, solo con el paso de los minutos y cuando se conozca el parte mdico del Pachuca, se podr determinar el alcance de la lesin y su posterior incapacidad.
El hecho se da justo una semana antes del estreno de Colombia en la Copa Amrica Centenario, que ser el prximo 3 de junio frente a Estados Unidos. As, existe preocupacin en el seno del seleccionado colombiano por el presente de Murillo.
Bruce Feldman on firing of Art Briles - "The Herd"
Baylor football fired coach Art Briles on Thursday amid the university"s sexual-assault scandal, but his impact on the athletic department and university remains unquestioned. Despite coaching only eight seasons, Briles has the second most wins and second highest winning percentage of coaches since 1950.
Briles" effect on Baylor University will exist on campus for years -- both the good and the bad. Here are six ways Art Briles changed Baylor football.
Reviving a sleeping giant
Baylor football had historically been a mediocre program at best. The Bears had really only seen sustained success under former head coach Grant Teaff. Art Briles came in and quickly turned things around.
In just his third season, the Bears reached bowl eligibility for the first time in 16 seasons. Just three years later, Baylor captured its first ever Big 12 title, the first of a back-to-back. Heading into the 2016 season, the Bears expected to be national title contenders once more. Briles helped turn Baylor into a true power program.
Heisman Trophy
It"s easy enough to say that Briles recruited a raw athlete named Robert Griffin III to Waco, but that does not quite do justice to how significant a part he played in creating what RGIII became. Briles created the perfect situation for Griffin to thrive.
Griffin was one of the most electric talents in college football history, but much of that came under Briles" tutelage. The Art Briles system allowed Griffin to show off his incalculable ability throughout his college career, and eventually let him put up the mind-boggling numbers that earned him a Heisman Trophy. The award transformed the university.
McLane Stadium
It has been called the "Palace on the Brazos," and it would not exist if not for Art Briles. The team had significant success early, but Briles had the foresight and plan that Baylor needed to upgrade its facilities to become a major national player.
The effect has been unquestionable. McLane Stadium is one of the most technologically-equipped stadiums in all of college football. It also stands on I-35 as a gargantuan advertisement for the team and university. Having a stadium of that caliber will be attractive when it comes to finding a new coach.
Inspired fanbase
Before Art Briles arrived at Baylor, the Bears struggled mightily to draw fans. The attendance was so poor at times that Baylor decided to put a tarp over an entire section of Floyd Casey Stadium. In fact, the Bears reached the listed attendance capacity of 50,000 seven times in its 63 years of existence.
The fans have come out in full force since the Bears started winning again. Briles has led the Bears to 50 wins over the last five seasons, and demand for tickets has reached an all-time high. McLane Stadium"s capacity was reduced to 45,000, but the Bears have reached at least 97 percent capacity in every game they have played at the venue.
National branding
Baylor has always been somewhat of a regional brand, with a fanbase contained within the state of Texas. However, the Heisman Trophy and subsequent success on the field by Briles" squad helped the Baylor brand reach new heights.
Even academically, application rates are exploding and standards continue to improve. Students do not necessarily attend just for the football team, but increased national branding helps draw students to the university. Baylor was a no-name team that could barely gain a foothold in Waco before Briles got to campus -- things have changed.
Program in turmoil
Briles accomplished many great feats for Baylor football, but ultimately leaves the program in a difficult position. Waco has never been an ideal location for a coach, but having a football team in this position makes it all the harder.
Baylor"s next coach will have the difficult duality of having to restore trust in the athletic program, while also trying to attract talent to Waco. As many have proven before, it is difficult enough to try and accomplish one of those tasks. It will take tremendous leadership from athletic director Ian McCaw and the next university president to find a willing candidate.
