The Canadiens have called a 4 p.m. press conference at the Bell Centre.
Team president Pierre Boivin will make "an important announcement regarding the Club's management".
TSN's all-knowing Bob McKenzie says Bob Gainey is stepping down and Pierre Gauthier is taking over as interim general manager.
Gauthier, who will be 57 in May, joined the Canadiens as director of pro scouting in 2003. He added the title of assistant general manager three years later.
A native of Montreal, Gauthier has served as GM of the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
Gauthier is a vegetarian who is known as the wrong man to ask about nutrition unless you have an hour to spare.
We'll be at the press conference with news, comment and audio.
i see bad things coming. price traded being the top of the list, that or just let go. halak around for another 2 maybe 3 years and not doing as well as this year.
turcot for price? will be interesting to say the least. i'm sure schu will have something to say.
Can't believe they already have an expansion coming out soon, the original game came out in November. Not sure if it's a good idea to come out a week after FF13.
i think they got the atmosphere down pat, the only thing i think they'll need to work on is the ai of the aliens. they seem kind of static. the lighting is fantastic though.
i love ocean lab, justine sussa's voice is just incredible and then you mix her songs with above and beyond and you have magic. they really understand the whole scene and the type of music people like.
Interesting read on why HTML 5 won't kill flash even though it's more efficient and doesn't take as much resources. This argument goes against the iPad, because it will only be able to support HTML 5.
seriously though, iran just launched their first experiments into space, sending a white mouse, some black worms and some turtles into space. people are worried this might lead to ballistic nuclear missiles. i wonder just how evil this evil empire actually is and how they see the west, is it really as bad as the western media portrays them seeing the west?
TEHRAN – Iran on Wednesday hailed the successful launch of a home-built satellite carrying a rat, turtles and worms, amid Western concerns Tehran is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons.
Iranian state television said the Kavoshgar 3 (Explorer) rocket carried a capsule containing "live animals" -- marking Iran's first experiment in sending living creatures into space.
Television footage showed a white rat on its back in a container with tubes protruding from its mouth. Two other containers contained respectively several dark worms and small turtles.
France said it had received news of the launch of the rocket with "great concern."
"This announcement can only reinforce the concerns of the international community as Iran in parallel develops a nuclear programme that has no identifiable civil aims," a spokesman said in Paris.
The ISNA news agency said the capsule carrying the creatures returned to earth safely after a U-shaped voyage as planned, but it did not elaborate on the condition of the animals.
"It is a great job that living organisms can be sent into space, we do experiments on them and they return to earth," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said as he welcomed the launch.
The ILNA news agency reported that Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the "biological data of the animals will be sent to us for evaluation."
State television showed footage of the rocket being fired from a desert launchpad leaving behind a thick plume of smoke.
A few minutes later the grainy images showed the capsule detaching from the rocket and spinning in orbit.
The television also carried pictures of Ahmadinejad unveiling another home-built rocket designed to carry satellites, dubbed Simorgh (Phoenix).
The milk-bottle shaped rocket, emblazoned in blue with the words "Satellite Carrier Simorgh," is equipped to carry a 100-kilogram (220-pound) satellite 500 kilometres (310 miles) into orbit, the television report said.
The 27-metre (90 foot) tall multi-stage rocket weighs 85 tonnes and its liquid fuel propulsion system has a thrust of up to 100 tonnes, the report added.
Ahmadinejad said Iran was "going to send a satellite 500 kilometres (310 miles) up. The next steps are 700 and 1,000 kilometres. Everyone knows that reaching the 1,000 kilometre orbit allows you to reach all orbits."
Vahidi revealed details of three new satellite prototypes -- the Toloo (Dawn), Navid (Good News), and Mesbah-2 (Lantern) -- as well as of Simorgh.
"Toloo is a satellite used for remote survey and weighs 100 kilograms (220 pounds). It is planned to be placed in 500 kilometre (310 mile) orbit for three years," Vahidi said.
"The Simorgh rocket is able to place a satellite weighing 100 kilos in 500 kilometre orbit," Vahidi said, adding that a further refinement of the same design would allow satellites to be placed in a 1,000-kilometre orbit.
The satellite launch and the unveiling of the new prototypes came as Iran marked "Space Technology Day" as part of celebrations for the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Iran launched its first home-built satellite, the Omid (Hope), in February last year to coincide with the 30th anniversary.
In 2008, Iran fired two rockets into space -- the Kavoshgar in February and the Kavoshgar 2 in November -- but neither was carrying any payload.
The West suspects Iran of secretly trying to build an atomic bomb and fears the technology used to launch space rockets could be diverted into developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Tehran denies having military goals for its space programme or its nuclear drive.
Montreal wins 3 - 2 without going into overtime. and from what i understand, scoring all goals on even strength. what WHAT?! even strength goals?! unheard of!
i missed the game, watched highlights and saw the typical halak problems, the typical encouraging gomez and gionta play but no scoring, saw pouliot go to the net and push, saw darshe push his way to the puck and actually get it ( a lot of other canadiens don't do this) and i saw DAGS actually play like he wanted it.
sergei scored as well. missed the other two goals though.
didn't see the vancouver goals at all though.
phaneuf in his first fight as a mapple leaf, reminded me of komisarek burning down all his habs bridges during the first game of the season. just seem to be trying too hard. giguere seems to have stolen the show though. i wonder if he could be a bright light for toronto, i don't think the other acquisitions will change the team too much.
boston lost, nice :D
but the habs are still ahead of most of the pack in games played, how is this possible? i'm sure it'll come back to bite us in the ass later on.
Canadiens forward Michael Cammalleri was sitting in his stall in sweatpants, a brace beneath on his right knee, crutches at his side, when he met a Montreal media mob shortly after noon today, ready to get his rehabilitation going.
Cammalleri would say nothing beyond he's got an injury to the right knee that will require no surgery, but he was in good spirits and looking to bum lifts from teammates since he can't yet drive a car.
there might still be time to salvage the season if it goes down hill like i'm thinking it's going to go without him.
in the mean time i'd like to see DAGS pick up some slack, he played great with Carbo last season and this season hasn't done anything notable.
Metropolit should be another hab that we see come forward. he always seems to step up when things are down.
on another note, the price v. halak fiasco is still ongoing. i don't think this will ever end...
The complete deal was Phaneuf, right wing Fredrik Sjostrom and prospect Keith Aulie to Toronto for forwards Niklas Hagman, Matt Stajan, Jamal Mayers and defenseman Ian White.
Phaneuf to Toronto? never thought it would happen. he was a staple just like Iginla is. and Stajan to Calgary, that also seemed out of place since when the season started he was supposed t be the great white hope for Toronto.
Wow, i just got an email from homebrewdev.com about the wode loader for wii. (so far this post sounds shockingly like one of those comments from those mod chip websites...)
they advertise it as a usb mass storage loader for the wii.
here's the details from the website:
WODE - WII OPTICAL DRIVE EMULATOR
The Wode is a massive breakthrough in the Wii industry. It allows you to load and play backup off of a USB Mass Storage device. It is a USB Loader via hardware which means no issues with compatibility, no worrying about bricking your Wii.
The Wode Wii comes packaged like the original Wii docking station and has a built in LCD screen for scrolling through your softwares. Being packaged like the original Wii docking station means it retains its clean, sleek look.
Features:
- Play Wii & GC backup direct from USB Mass Storage devices @8X read speed (HDD and FLASH drive)
- Complete Solder free install solution
- Easy to use GUI - LCD & Joystick)
- Region mod, Update blocker, Autoboot.
- Passthrough with FLAT-MOD mode built-in, play to access dvd reader at 3X read speed
- Powerful ARM9 MCU
- Totally Flexible Linux Kernel
- USB hub support for multiple USB devices connection
- Great File System support - use existing WBFS formatted media or 'drag and drop' to existing USB devices
* NTFS
* WBFS
* EXT3FS
* HPFS
- Future updates will bring more cool features since it's based on Linux OS!
incredible. it's not on any US or canadian sites that i could find just yet, though it probably won't be long.
here what it looks like:
i have no idea if it works yet or the compatibility of it. but with a linux os it's upgradable and if the team keeps updating it then shouldn't worry too much about it breaking.
a little history for people who don't know. Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Leaves Squaresoft for whatever reason. Forms a company called MistWalker who goes on to create a couple of games called Blue Dragon and Last Odyssey. Both not very big hits. He then mentions that his studio is working on two games, one for the iphone and a proper game but doesn't mention a system.
Nintendo just revealed for which system: the Wii.
very excited.
click the image to go to the site, very nice very final fantasy-ish music.
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