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Colorado Avalanche 2018-19 Season Preview

Wildcats Youth Hockey Website 

The Colorado Avalanche enter the upcoming season battling for respect. Yes, they made the playoffs last season but that hasn’t improved speculation on the upcoming season. Of 17 NHL.com panelists, only five thought the Avalanche would make the postseason, and that was as a wild card team. Of course, at the beginning of last season, […]

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Can Trump’s bullying style deliver more trade breakthroughs?

TheRepublic.com 

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has muscled Canada into joining a revamped North American trade deal, sealed a pact with South Korea and coaxed a reluctant Japan into agreeing to one-on-one trade talks. All in the past two weeks. To President Donald Trump and his allies, the results vindicate his drive to upend traditional trade

Former FBI agent defends work on Wetterling case

«Star Tribune» (startribune.com) 

Stearns County Sheriff Don Gudmundson last month wasn't shy about criticizing the Jacob Wetterling investigation for "going off the rails," taking some less-than-subtle jabs at the FBI. Steve Gilkerson, a former FBI special agent who worked the investigation in the first months after the October 1989 kidnapping, defended his work.

Azusa Pacific University Reverses LGBT Policy

New American 

Azusa Pacific University reversed — or at least made a strategic retreat from — its recent decision to allow same-sex romantic relationships on campus.



[Volleyball] Two Mid-South teams Mentioned in NAIA Women's Volleyball Coaches' Top 25 Poll

Mid-South Conference Baseball 

NAIA Volleyball Coaches' Top 25 Poll

COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Two the Mid-South Conference teams are mentioned in the NAIA Women's Volleyball Coaches' Top 25 Poll, NAIA officials announced on Tuesday.

Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) is the lone team ranked from the Mid-South and remains in the top 10 this week. The Blue Raiders dropped down two spots to No. 6 after tallying 502 voting points.

Apartment reform legislation launched

Scoop 

After several years of work the Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Bill to strengthen the management of apartments and townhouses has today been released by National’s Housing spokesperson Judith Collins ...

Why The New York Times TL;DR’d its own 14,218-word Trump investigation

Nieman Journalism Lab 

You could certainly read The New York Times’ massive investigation (14,128 words, by my count) into how Trump’s “self-made” fortune is not only not self-made but also involves tax fraud. But the Times knows that not everybody is going to do that. So on Tuesday afternoon, at the same time that it published the investigation...

Kevin Stitt’s company appeared in court today as defendant in federal lawsuit

Kfor.com 

NEW YORK – Gateway Mortgage, the company founded by Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate Kevin Stitt, is on of the defendants in a federal lawsuit that began today in the Southern District of New York. The hearing was part of a civil suit filed in bankruptcy court against Gateway Mortgage Group and others in December 2016 by Lehman Brothers Holdings. The lawsuit alleges Stitt’s company was among those that sold defective mortgages to consumers at the height of the mortgage crisis. According to the lawsuit... Читать дальше...

The art (and science) of lying

Boing Boing 

Now seems like a fine time to read this Scientific American article titled The Art of Lying by Theodor Schaarschmidt. According to a study conducted by UC Santa Barbara psychologist Bella M. DePaulo and referenced in the article, people make up around two stories every day. Apparently, children "initially have difficulty formulating believable lies, but proficiency improves with age. Young adults between 18 and 29 do it best. After about the age of 45, we begin to lose this ability." From Scientific... Читать дальше...

Lawmakers work on fix after conservation fund lapses

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A popular program that supports conservation and outdoor recreation projects across the country expired after Congress could not agree on language to extend it. Lawmakers from both parties back the Land and Water Conservation Fund, but the program lapsed Monday amid dispute over whether its renewal should be part of a broader package of land-use and parks bills.





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