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Nice one Doggy. So we won a Stanley Cup last year.
05-06 Detroit Red Wings - Fights 6 - Stanley Cup: No
06-07 Detroit Red Wings - Fights 10 - Stanley Cup: No
07-08 Detroit Red Wings - Fights 20 - Stanley Cup: Yes
08-09 Detroit Red Wings - Fights 7 - Stanley Cup: ?
Damn, the Wings have only ever won the cup in their entire history with an enforcer in thier roster.
I would too if the team this year was the same as the pro-enforcer team that won the cup.
Wow, are you aware that we are not even HALFWAY through the season? 7 +7 is 14.. and as the playoffs get closer I am sure you will see more fighting to protect our guys.
It's a bit too soon to be on the S.S. Panic already.
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Mid-sized cars are not too small and not too big; they're just right. A perfect balance of power and efficiency, comfort and agility, and performance and environmental consciousness.
While sales in the under-$60,000 mid-sized sector dropped 6.6 per cent last year, it is still a hotly contested segment of the showroom with 58,053 vehicles sold and 26 models on offer with prices starting from $24,990 for the Czech-made Skoda Octavia.
We've chosen four models to compare for this battle of the mid-sized cars. Of course, there is the longtime top-selling, Aussie-built Toyota Camry which is also the newest model here with the seventh generation released just last month.
It is joined by close rival Mazda6 from Japan, the German-made VW Passat and South Korea's Kia Optima. VW marketing boss Jutta Friese says Passat customers are looking for a mid-sized car that "fits their stage in life".
"They are most likely to be married, living in the metro area and have a successful career," she says. "They own their home, have a family and want a comfortable and sophisticated car with the latest technology. They are well educated and want a car that represents their professional stage in life."
With that in mind, we asked a couple of married, professional fathers living in the metro area to come along for the ride. Richard Newsome and Cameron Cooper agree that these cars fit their lifestyle and would be suitable for families with primary school children.
Mazda6 Touring hatch comes in as the cheapest at $34,450 for the five-speed auto, while the six-speed manual costs an extra $2000. The sedan is $1000 less, but the difference is only the rear tailgate.
It even looks the same on the road. Mazda recently added front and rear parking sensors, leather seat trim and power adjustable front seats with driver's side memory function, all for $300 less than the previous Classic models. They also include Bluetooth, climate control airconditioning, cruise control and trip computer.
The most expensive of our selection is the Camry Atara SL at $39,990. The flagship Camry model has a reversing camera, JBL premium audio with 10 speakers, Bluetooth, satnav, digital radio, RDS live traffic updates, blind-spot monitor, automatic high beam and electric front seats.
It is closely followed by the turbo-charged Passat at $38,990. VW also has an extensive array of features such as daytime driving lights, rearview camera, heated leather seats, Bluetooth, tyre pressure monitoring and fancy audio system with a media device interface, but satnav with reversing camera is an expensive option.
The Kia Optima Platinum sits nicely in the middle at $36,990 and features a high-end audio system with iPod and Bluetooth connectivity, electric sunroof, dusk-sensing HID headlights with washer, leather trim with wood-look interior, heated and powered front passenger seats, alloy sports pedals, cooling glove box and daytime LED running lights.
However, it's also the only one without auto wipers. Kia has just added the Si model at $30,990 which keeps all the safety gear, but loses the sunroof, LED and HID lights. It also has smaller 17-inch wheels and brakes. In the next few months all Platimum Optimas will come with satnav as standard.
All are powered by four-cylinder engines, but the VW is the only one with a turbocharger. It's only a 1.8-litre engine compared with the 2.4-litre Kia and 2.5-litre Toyota and Mazda. Most powerful here is the Optima's Theta II engine with gasoline direct injection. It produces 148kW with the Camry a distant second on 135kW, then Mazda6 (125kW) and Passat 118kW.
Despite the lack of top-end power, the VW pulls well thanks to the turbo's 250Nm of torque which equals the Kia. At the same time, the VW has the best fuel figures with 7.2L/100km, compared with 7.8 and 7.9 for the Toyota and Kia, while the Mazda is the worst at 8.7L/100km.
All are packed with technology, but the Camry's remote wing mirrors stopped working and we couldn't get the Passat's Bluetooth to recognise our phones. Quickest and easiest to pair a Bluetooth phone is the Kia.
The Peter-Schreyer-designed Optima won honours at the Australian International Design Awards and Red Dot awards in Europe last year and won the nod from our testers. Cooper says it has changed his impression of Kia.
"If you stuck four circles across the grille it would look like an Audi," says Newsome. They also like the Mazda6, despite its age. "It has a touch of Batmobile in the front. I kind of expect it to transform into something scary at any minute," says Newsome. Despite Newsome saying the Passat looks like a "pocket-sized limo", they found it a little bland, although "classic".
The updated Camry still rings no bells for these testers. "It has no sex appeal," says Cooper. The updated front appears puffy around the headlights like a boxer that's been punched in both eyes. The Mazda6 might be the smallest car in length, width and height but the Camry is another 220mm lower and that gives it a slightly sleeker than before.
Inside, it's a different story with the Camry looking smarter and fresher, yet familiar says Tarago owner Newsome. The Kia cabin was described as "modern", the VW as "austere" and Mazda as "dated", including the traditional key and handbrake.
Cooper thought the Camry had the best driving position. "The seats are comfortable with good lower back support. I could sit in it all day without any problems," he says. Winner in rear legroom is the Kia, followed by the Toyota, VW then Mazda, but Newsome didn't like the lack of headroom in the Optima.
All have generous cargo areas but the Passat has the most usable space with a large square area, while the rear wheel arches intrude into the others, but least of all in the Mazda6.
All four cars have maximum five-star ANCAP safety ratings. The new Camry is yet to be tested but is not expected to be below its previous five-star rating, especially this flagship model with features such as a blind-spot monitor. Optima adds hillstart assist control to stop it rolling backwards when stopped on a hill and static cornering lights.
Mazda6 and Optima have six airbags, the Camry has seven with a knee airbag for the driver, while the Passat has eight, adding extra side protection for the rear passengers. VW also has a driver fatigue detection system and tyre pressure monitors but no standard rearview camera. It is only available with the $2300 satnav option.
Optima and Camry have reversing cameras fitted as standard while the Mazda6 is the only one without them. However, it has front and rear parking sensors like the VW and Optima. The Toyota only has rear sensors. Newsome found the Kia the worst for visibility with thick A pillars and small rear window anMazda6 the best for visibility.
It never rains but it pours in Queensland and our test day featured buckets of rain and flash flooding. The weather provided a solid test for the dynamics of these vehicles which we took through a suburban landscape and out into the country where the cars could stretch their legs and prove their abilty to be family tourers.
The auto wipers also came in handy, although our testers claimed they were a little slow to respond to changing patterns of rain. All cabins are quiet, despite the extra tyre noise on wet roads and hammering rain on the windscreen, but the Camry remains the benchmark for shoosh. Our testers knew nothing of the power figures, but were quick to spot the snappy response of the Optima and Camry.
The Passat felt sluggish off the line until the turbo kicked in, but we had to be careful in the rain not to get caught out by the sudden turbo boost. There were no complaints about the ride in any of the cars despite urban potholes and broken country roads.
This latest Camry will not scare the horses or the fans; here sits a comfortable and competent tourer. It feels a little bigger than the VW and Mazda, a little less agile than all, and the steering a bit soft-over-easy. But ride comfort and road manners are decent and, given a prod, the Camry's 2.5 litre sounds pretty good.
Toyota Camry 2.5 Atara SL auto
Price: $39,990
Warranty: 3 year/100,000km
Service: five $130 capped-price services for first four years or 75,000km
Engine: 2.5L 4-cylinder, 135kW/235Nm
Transmission: 6-speed auto
Economy: 7.8L/100km
CO2: 183g/km
Weight: 1460-1505kg
Dimensions: 4815mm (L), 1825mm (W), 1200mm (H), 2775mm (WB)
Somewhere lately the Passat became middle-class. It is a precise enough piece of machinery despite that little bit of turbo lag at times (especially on rolling starts). Steering, brakes, ride and handling are excellent, well up there in this crowd. But these safe and mature Euro dynamics cannot always inspire and it does not quite have yesterday's cachet.
VW Passat 118TSI auto (only available as auto)
Price: $38,990
Options fitted: metallic paint, satnav and Park Assist 2 ($3900)
Warranty: 3-year unlimited km
Service: 15,000km
Engine: 1.8 litre 4-cylinder, turbo, 118kW/250Nm
Transmission: 7-speed auto DSG
Economy: 7.2L/100km
CO2: 168g/km
Weight: 1482kg
Dimensions: 4769mm (L), 1820mm (W), 1490mm (H), 2711mm (WB)
The mid-sized Mazda has long brought a little sportiness to this class; tauter chassis, lively engines and gearboxes for pressing on in cars easy to place on the road, harder than rivals to upset. This current version retains that "zoom-zoom" character, it's quick and comfortable over all manner of roads but newcomers have shifted the goalposts a bit.
Mazda6 2.5 Touring auto
Price: $34,450
Warranty: 3 years, unlimited km
Servicing: 6 months/10,000km
Engine: 2.5L 4-cylinder, 125kW/226Nm
Transmission: 5-speed auto (
Economy: 8.8L/100km
CO2: 206g/km
Weight: 1487kg
Dimensions: 4735mm (L), 1795mm (W), 1440mm (H), 2725mm (WB)
Finally, our hero car of this test. The Kia muscles its way into this company with a sharp and sporting edge. It sits flat and taut, it has the most eager engine and transmission of the mob and rarely puts a wheel wrong in back-road touring. Some may find the steering a tad too meaty but response and feedback from the front-end are forever encouraging and involving. This is the driver's car here.
Kia Optima 2.4 Platinum (0ne trim level - auto only)
Price: $36,990
Warranty: 5-year unlimited km
Service: 15,000km
Engine: 2.4L 4-cylinder GDI, 148kW/250Nm
Transmission: 6-speed auto
Economy: 7.9L/100km
CO2: 189g/km
Weight: 1551kg
Dimensions: 4845mm (L), 1830mm (W), 1455mm (H), 2795mm (WB)

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This year's Oscars may not take place until Feb. 24, but the ceremony's host, Seth MacFarlane, already started earning his salary Thursday morning – by joining Emma Stone to announce the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' headquarters in Beverly Hills.
And the name that kept coming up: Lincoln, which reaped the lion's share number of nominations, 12, including those for Best Picture, Best Director Steven Spielberg, Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and Supporting Actress Sally Field.
Other highly recognized films were Life of Pi, with 11 nominations; Les Misérables, with nine; and Argo, with seven, though, surprisingly, not one for its director Ben Affleck.
Due to recent rules, the Best Picture category can have anywhere from five to 10 nominees. This year, there are a total of nine. They are:
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
In the other major categories, the nominees are:
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
For the complete list of nominations, click here.
The 85th annual Academy Awards will air live Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Academy Award Nominations: Lincoln Leads the Pack
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Has anyone ever heard of the band Tokyo Police Club? I've resently started listening to them and i got to say i really do like them. If u know of them let me know what u think about them i would really like to hear youre opinion please, and thank you^_^
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I think I've herd of them once before... don't remember though.
u should check them out, u might like them
I'll be sure to next time I look for some new music
ive heard of that band but ive only heard one song for like 2 seconds
Yea, i believe that song is called Graves its a pretty short song. I heard them on mtv one morning when i woke up and thought it was pretty cool^_^
haven't heard of them
I have
The Greatest Clan In Death and Universe... The Zombaukto Clan
ill see if I like them ^__^
i'll try to listen to their musicif ya say theyre that good^_^
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The Skyhawks walked down a short set of scoring steps Friday.
They started high at 22 points, stepped down to 20, then plunged to 11 as the Fort Lewis College volleyball team lost in three sets to No. 23 Metro State on Friday night in Denver.
�It didn�t go real well,� FLC head coach Shelley Aaland said.
The first game, Aaland said, felt like the two teams were matching up well before the Metro State offense really got going.
�We were just dominated by their offense, and we weren�t able to adjust quickly enough,� she said.
Blame the Roadrunners� �ridiculous� .441 hitting percentage, led by Alysa Heath�s 21 kills and single error for a .741 hitting percentage.
�They just run a really fast offense,� Aaland said.
�It�s hard to anticipate where they�re going to go.�
Lauren Quijano added 14 kills for the Roadrunners, Daleah Whitaker had eight and Kylie Haun seven.
�They�re very smart hitters, so when we took away one part of the court, they�d go to the other.�
For the Skyhawks, the scoring was much more even.
Ashley Wells led the team with seven kills, followed by six from Stephani Sonka and four each from Ashley Ellis and Kristin Stephan.
�It was all offense, not a whole lot of defense,� Aaland said.
�We decided if we couldn�t stop them, we�d have to match them.�
They didn�t, but the Skyhawks did outclass them when it came to blocking and serving. The FLC women doubled up the Roadrunners at the net, totaling six blocks.
�We had aspects of our game that were pretty strong,� Aaland said of her �improving� team.
The Skyhawks also served up six aces to just two from the Metro State women.
It doesn�t get any easier for the Skyhawks (9-11, 5-7 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference), either. They�ll play No. 17 Regis at 5 p.m. today in Denver.


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WASHINGTON -- Birmingham Mayor William Bell sarcastically welcomed the Republican presidential candidates to Alabama in a brief call with reporters today arranged by the Democratic Party.
"We are excited the Republican circus has entered the great state of Alabama," Bell said.
Bell focused especially on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, saying he was "trying to be all things to all people."
"They're changing their accents and talking about eating grits, but we're not going to be fooled by that," Bell said. "We've had a long line of carpetbaggers coming in here."
Bell argued a Romney presidency would hurt the economy, limit abortion rights and threaten benefits under Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
Bell said a second term from President Barack Obama would help Birmingham with job creation and bringing new industry to the state.
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January 20, 2013
A few days after 6-year-old Noah Pozner was gunned down at Newtown's Sandy Hook School, his mother, Veronique, gave an interview of searing clarity....
"And no the philosophy of this University hasn't changed. It is the crud that inhabits this country that has changed."
It's obvious your knowledge of history is limited, so I will take that into account when I consider some of your comments. However you are spot on when you said the following, "It is the crud that inhabits this country that has changed." That will be one of the rare times that you and I agree.
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Cowbell, Columbia is NOT WHAT IS WAS, and it also was FAR different when MY GRANDMOTHER attended it. And for your information I could have attended an IVY League School, I turned down a athletic grant in aid to Dartmouth. You do know where Dartmouth is and what league it's don't you?
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"Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist"
This is all you need to know about this airhead. A lot of people still fall for this sham of an award, for crying out loud, it's awarded by Columbia University. Need I say more?
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This air head is so far out of touch with everyday folks in this country. She is an example of someone who has lived a very pampered and sheltered life. She is in dire need of a "realitycheck".
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GUILFORD LAKE — Less than 24 hours after firefighters battled blazes in Columbiana and Rogers Thursday evening, a home caught fire in Hanover Townshi....
Not sure why the words pay pal and dot com were removed but you can figure it out.
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The owner of the house in Guilford Lake is my uncle. His name was misspelled in the article. He wanted me to thank the firefighters and volunteers. We're accepting donations for him as he lost everything. We are placing buckets around Guilford Lake and Salem at places like the Guilford Grill. He can also accept donations directly: James Sechler 6165 Camp blvd Lisbon, OH 44432 and through "******" at: uncle_jims_house@yahoo**** Every dollar helps. Thank you!
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That must be the new NFPA approved firefighting jeans. Sure wish I had a set like that.
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An artistic, beautiful, dark skinned girl. Who usually has brown eyes that resemble black pools. She is very good at drawing and art like projects. Usually has black or brown hair. She is very smart and pretty and gorgeous. She knows how to make someone laugh or joke. Her name originates from Nigeria the meaning: First daughter. She speaks a mixture of languages including ghetto. She is the most reliable friend. Very likable, loved by everyone, and puts a smile on all sad faces. She can twerk and dance and ride a bike like a pro. SHE IS BOSS.
Jim: That girl is so boss.
Carl: Yeah she must be an Ada.
Helga: OH! I wish I was as boss as Ada
Ploga: Me too! Shes so... LOOK THERE SHE IS!
Carl: Yeah she must be an Ada.
Helga: OH! I wish I was as boss as Ada
Ploga: Me too! Shes so... LOOK THERE SHE IS!
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Word used to describe a sexy vixen who is usually bitingly witty and hard to catch. (can also be used as a noun)
Man, you need to be careful, she's hella ada;
She's out of your league, she's too much of an ada.
She's out of your league, she's too much of an ada.
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1. A programming language that was named after the alleged first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Currently in use by the US Government and its contractors.
2. A lovely lady by the name of Choi.
2. A lovely lady by the name of Choi.
1. I'm so 1337, I know ADA!
2. I'm so lucky, I know Ada!
2. I'm so lucky, I know Ada!
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All day ass. When one has gone to work, gone home, maybe the gym, doesn't shower, and has a stinky, sweaty, all day ass.
Damn bro, you're not really going out without taking a shower first are you? You have ADA! You can't pick up a lady at the bar and expect her to lick that all day ass!
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Americans with Disabilities Act.
The city cut ramps into the sidewalks to fulfill ADA requirements.
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City in Michigan, just outside of Grand Rapids. . World HQ of amway.
Let's go to Ada and buy into a pyramid scheme.
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During this past summer, I attended the Pennsylvania Buck Tails by the Wildlife Leadership Academy, or WLA, which I found from an ad in the Altoona Mirror.
It was a five-day, four-night intensive camp about white-tailed deer. We woke up around 5 o'clock every morning, and this was more than just a simple cam. We are building blocks for our futures.
We learned how to start to make changes to our communities and our futures. We were also given the incentive because we need to complete three outreaches as part of our camp.
There are four areas in which we can do our outreaches - media, creative arts, service and education. An outreach is something we do after the camp is over in one of these categories that pertain to nature or conservation. We still stay in touch with the supervisors of the camp to help us with certain outreach projects or project opportunities.
One of the things we did at camp was deer necropsy. I have done dissections in school before, but seeing someone thoroughly dissect such a large animal was something entirely new.
At first, I was apprehensive about it, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and the people there were really kind to the squeamish people. We did plenty of team-building activities, which were a nice break from the teaching seminars.
We learned how to age deer by their jaws and antlers. We did field activities, where we learned to use various equipment that scientists use. We learned how to identify various plants, made a plant press, learned photography skills and so much more.
My favorite part was the shooting range. I had never shot a gun before, because I feel uncomfortable about killing animals. It turns out that I really enjoyed target shooting, though.
I experienced so much in such a short period of time. I am very glad I went and got to experience all of these new things. I want to be a marine biologist and even though this didn't specifically fit that, I got opportunities from the camp for marine biology.
I would recommend this camp to anyone who has a love of animals or the outdoors. You will find so many opportunities and new experiences. Plus the food was awesome.
I hope you will share my experience with your readers so more teens can find out about this amazing organization and get involved.
Vanessa Blanchard
Big Ten exit plan
I would love to see Penn State leave the Big Ten for the ACC.
Not for the erroneous calls but because of the way we were treated for the Sandusky case and NCAA sanctions - piling on like cowards, then claiming support.
As Neil Rudel suggested, though, I don't see the current president and/or athletic director taking these steps, which is another reason that they, along with the entire board - less the three new members - need to go.
A new president and board should move quickly to have the sanctions reduced - especially after additional information has followed the rush to endorse the Freeh report by our incompetent Board of Trustees.
And yes, take action now to get out of the Big Ten.
I know I am dreaming, but it is the holiday season. Hello, Santa Claus!
Tim Muri
Naperville, Ill.
PSU criticism bothersome
How does one continue to criticize the current Penn State football program? Just look at what they have been dealt and what they have been through.
What gives Neil Rudel the right to criticize Matt McGloin for being outspoken after the Nebraska game for criticizing the officials? Matt is just showing his love for the game, his passion, and the frustration after putting in such hard work.
I also don't understand letter writer Les Hart saying he is disappointed in the coaching.
Could you possibly ask for a better scenario - a better staff to say all the right things, to stay so positive and an offense so fun to watch?
Positive thinkers are winners, Les.
These kids are college students, not paid professionals. Let's show them a little love, at least locally.
Jim Prindible
For Big Ten, it's about the money
It is not about a PSU conspiracy. It's about who will bring the most money to the Big Ten.
If PSU beats Nebraska, Nebraska most likely gets a smaller bowl bid.
Without Ohio State and PSU going bowling, Big Ten revenues will be a lot less.
It's all about money. Just ask Mark Emmert.
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"Call me what you want—daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, myeloma patient, myeloma survivor and now, myeloma advocate!" Advocate Kathy Cartwright from St. Charles, Missouri, wrote these words when she began participating in the Postcards for Parity Program in August. Throughout her postcard collecting journey in Missouri, she utilized all of these facets of herself to collect hundreds of postcards. Congratulations to Kathy, our December Advocate of the Month!
Kathy did a great job inspiring others to educate folks about the struggles faced by myeloma patients and other cancer patients to receive the treatment they need to survive. With her support group members and family members asking people to fill out postcards, we received high volumes of cards from the same district, which helped beef up our 'holiday gifts' to those legislators. She explains, "I could not have done it without the support group, family & friends. With more than one person reaching out to others affected by cancer and explaining the Postcards for Parity Program, the signatures rolled in one after another."
Through her experience, Kathy found that, "If people were not taking anti-cancer drugs, they really did not know there could be a difference in health insurance coverage depending on the mechanism for their treatment and were appalled by this information. Those who were talking anti-cancer drugs knew all too well the costs!"
The postcard program has helped spread the responsibility of advocating for access to care from solely the patient and caregiver to the larger community of those who care about them. Kathy and members of her support group had family members not only fill out postcards, but ask their friends to sign them as well. This helped spread our reach beyond the myeloma community. "Some of my family members took the cards to work and collected signatures, as well as folks from our support group reaching out to their church, and others even going door to door to get those cards signed! I took the cards to the medical & cancer centers by my home and the medical professionals were also eager to sign them."
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"You don't know what's going to happen in the next 10 years. But I get asked that question a lot because I'm in my thirties and it's like: time to get married and have babies, right? That's the vibe. Well, I already have a mother to ask those questions, so nobody else needs to!"
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It's going to take some doing for this weekend's high school football slate to live up to the bar set by the first week of action.
Altoona kicked off John Franco Era Part II, and Hollidaysburg, the "Backyard Brawl," and Huntingdon all came down to the late stages, while Penn Cambria and Central raised eyebrows with some very dominating performances.
However, the biggest eyebrow-raisers came courtesy of Northern Cambria and Portage, which pulled off huge upsets.
The Colts stunned state-ranked and defending PIAA Class A semifinalist Penns Manor, 28-20, scoring twice in the fourth quarter - the second touchdown coming on Jeff Hogan's 4-yard run with 1:20 to play after NC recovered an accidental onside kick - to avenge a pair of losses from 2011.
Hogan, NC's star volleyball and basketball player, had an outstanding game. Matched against Penns Manor all-stater and potential Division I recruit Danny Ferens, all Hogan did was run for two touchdowns, throw for two touchdowns, complete a two-point conversion pass and accumulate 183 yards of total offense on 19 passes and five runs.
Ferens wasn't bad either, rushing for 155 and three TDs.
While Northern Cambria was sending the home crowd away happy, the Portage Mustangs were spoiling the first kickoff in Boswell to what was supposed to be another triumphant season for North Star. Missing one starting running back due to a disqualification and another because he was ill, the youthful Mustangs held the prohibitive WestPAC favorite to 154 yards and got a late TD from first-time quarterback Evan Price to pull out a 13-10 shocker.
n While Northern Cambria and Portage will be soaring into week 2 games tonight, a couple of other teams with big aspirations from the same general part of the Altoona Mirror coverage area will be seeking to bounce back.
Neither Cambria Heights nor Glendale were facing pushovers in the first week - Richland has most of its lineup back from last year's District 5-6 Class AA runner-up, and Northern Bedford always is in contention for ICC and District 5 Class A crowns. However, to lose at home with so much electricity surrounding those programs that have been so maligned in the last couple of decades had to be a bitter pill to swallow.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The first time I ever attended a golf tournament I was 7 years old.
My mother and many extended family members accompanied me to be a part of this golf tournament, which consisted of my dads friends and colleagues through the Charleston Contractors Association. My parents and a couple of players wore shirts sporting the words Team Monica.
It was July 1997 and at the time I was skinny, frail and covered in bruises. I also had to wear an oversized baseball cap to cover my bald little head. I do not remember much of the tournament; I had a very weak immune system and ended up getting sick and had to leave the tournament early to go to the hospital.
This is no ordinary golf tournament. It has survived 17 years and has raised over $600,000 geared toward fighting childhood cancer at MUSC Childrens Hospital. It is credited for helping fund a $3.5 million grant for the hospital for experiments. The tournament is the longest running fundraising event in the hospitals history.
This tournament also happens to be named after yours truly.
I was in first grade when my mom took me to see our family pediatrician because of a persistent low-grade fever I had been enduring for about a week. Our doctor commented that I looked anemic and decided to draw some blood. A blood test would reveal news that would be confusing to me, but devastating to my parents: I had Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL).
I was diagnosed Friday, Oct. 25, 1996.
There are many types of Leukemia but ALL is most commonly found in children. Leukemia is when an immature or mutated white blood cell begins to reproduce, inhibiting the production of normal cells. It causes severe bruising in patients and increased risk of infection.
I ended up going through nearly three years of chemotherapy, but that first year of my diagnosis was a tough one. I spent many nights in the hospital if I ever got sick or got a fever I landed myself back in the hospital.
I was pretty naïve about my illness it took me a while to pronounce it leukemia instead of leukamenia. When I was sick I thought it was my cancer that caused me to go bald but it was actually the chemotherapy, a series of anti-cancer medicine that works like poison; while it did save my life it made me nauseous and weak and took away my precious locks.
Less than a year into my cancer treatment my dad was approached by colleagues and dear family friend Bailey Williams to start a golf tournament in my name, not only to raise funds for MUSCs cancer research but to raise awareness as well. On July 18 we are celebrating the 18th Annual Monica Kreber Golf Tournament on Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms. Every year all proceeds go to the pediatric oncology at MUSC.
Today I am 24 years old and 100-percent cancer-free (fist pump). I regularly go back to MUSC once a year for a check-up and yes, this is my real hair I am not wearing a wig or anything. I know I owe my life to my wonderful doctors and nurses but I also owe a great deal of thanks to all the people who prayed for me to get better when I was sick many of those people still participate in my golf tournament.
Forgive me for sounding sappy (I just finished reading The Fault in Our Stars spoiler alert: I cried at least once per chapter), but the people who are involved in my golf tournament are the best people I know. Despite the fact that my tournament is held every July and it is over 100 degrees outside they show up, have fun and join us in the fight to beat cancer.
One of the biggest compliments I ever receive is being told how much these people look forward to the tournament each year. And I am not going to lie having a golf tournament named after me is ridiculously cool. Seeing banners and posters practically shouting my name in big, bold letters never gets old.
My parents always tell me that back when I was sick it was important for them to meet other parents who had gone through the same thing and had success stories to share which is why we are still sharing our own success story. We try to network with the golf tournament and over the years we have invited parents with children fighting cancer to come and be a part of our event.
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It's a basic tenet in negotiations, one Darcy Regier alludes to often. If the Buffalo Sabres' general manager wants to sign a player at a lower salary, he'll add another year or two to the contract. Dollars for term is a tradeoff.
The possibility of that swap disappearing is why NHL talks remain at a standstill and more games have disappeared.
The 2012-13 season continued to shrink Monday as the league announced the cancellation of all games through Dec. 30. A total of 526 games have been wiped out, equal to 42.8 percent of the season. The Sabres have lost 35 games, including eight in the two-week chunk that was subtracted Monday.
The league wants a seven-day training camp prior to the start of the season, so it would need to have a collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players' Association in place by Christmas Eve in order to avoid more cancellations. The league also said it will not play a season with fewer than 48 games, so the sides have until Jan. 11 or so to avoid a full wipeout.
One of the parties will need to budge on contract term limits in order to finalize a deal.
Before talks imploded last week, the NHL proposed a five-year limit on contracts, with a seven-year exemption for players who re-sign with their current team. The players' association proposed an eight-year limit.
"Term limits on player contracts," Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said, "is the hill we will die on."
The players are nearly as adamant. They view their offer of eight years as a major concession and have no desire to trim contract lengths even more.
The union's view is that limiting players to five years would dramatically alter the league's economic system. It would eliminate hockey's "middle class" and create teams with high-salaried stars surrounded by low-paid youngsters.
Here's a theoretical example of why:
Minnesota signed defenseman Ryan Suter this summer to a 13-year contract worth $98 million. There were benefits for both sides, with Suter getting a guaranteed paycheck for more than a dozen years and the Wild getting one of the game's better defensemen for $7.5 million a year.
If Suter could get only five years, however, he would likely demand a higher salary. (The term-for-dollars tradeoff.) If he signed for $10.5 million per season, the Wild would have $3 million less to spend on other players.
To squeeze in a full roster, they might sign three $850,000 rookies rather than a veteran making $2.5 million.
"A star player will always command dollars," Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller wrote in a text message after serving as a union negotiator last week. "So as cap hits increase for star players it creates a smaller pool of money for a large group of players below. Something has to give.
"Remember, we operate in a cap. I believe that since entry-level players have fewer rights and make less money it will force guys out of the league and shorten overall careers. It will be a league that gets younger and has more player turnover. It will take a few years, but the NHL wants a 10-year CBA, so it will absolutely happen if we accept their terms."
Miller debated the topic with league owners and said the NHL's main argument for term limits is they allow small-market teams to compete with large-market clubs. Teams such as Florida and Nashville would be more hesitant to pay players $10.5 million per season than organizations in New York, Toronto or Philadelphia.
"That is true and we respect that," Miller wrote. "We feel like we have put constraints that accomplish very similar things through salary cap recapture rules, limits on the variance of salary and term-length limits.
"We didn't ignore their plea, we just propose to accomplish it differently. I think it offers more flexibility for team building."
There are no plans for the sides to debate the topic again. No meetings are scheduled, though reports say Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr have talked informally.
"We are proposing a long-term system that will pay the players billions and billions of dollars over its term, but we have to have a system that works right," Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "As difficult and as painful as this all is, having an agreement that doesn't work and takes us back to an era when the game wasn't healthy and the game on the ice didn't have the magnificence that it has now, isn't something that we're prepared to go back to."
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Volunteering is an act of giving and sharing while contributing to the community, the satisfaction comes from knowing that you have made a difference in the life of others.
The satisfaction is usually greater when one does selfless acts without seeking financial gain or publicity.
Through such selfless experience, one may even discover skills or untapped energies that they never knew existed.
Volunteering can be done formally, through organisations, or informally like buying groceries for your elderly neighbours.
In Brunei, the culture of voluntarism is not well-developed compared to neighbouring countries.
This is despite the fact that the Sultanate is known for its close-knit family units.
Of course, this does not mean that the spirit to do voluntary community work is weak among Bruneians, because there has been many instances in the past where Bruneians rose to the occasion in helping the unfortunate. One example is the 2004 tsunami tragedy where Bruneians did not hesitate to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to help victims in Aceh while countless man hours were deployed to the Indonesian' territory.
A quick interview with a group of youths who want to do community work revealed that most are ignorant about the avenues to channel their interest.
A check at various government agencies showed that there are many places that one can do voluntary community work.
The Community Development Department under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports has developed programmes like the Senior Citizens Family Project, Young Persons Support Group, Individual Guidance and Mentoring to address this issue.
There are also non-governmental organisations like the Brunei Aids Council (BAC) and its youth outfit, Penyinar; Brunei's Drug Prevention Association (Basmida) and Brunei Darussalam National Association for the Blind (BDNAB).
People can also give time and energy to children and teenagers at centres such as Pusat Ehsan Al-Ameerah Al-Hajjah Maryam, Association for Children with Special Needs (Kaca) and Society for the Management of Autism Related Issues In Training, Education and Resources (Smarter).
There are a lot of benefits to doing community work, as The Brunei Times discovers from Ali Yusri Abdul Ghafor, an education officer and counsellor at the Schools Department of the Ministry of Education.
He says those interested in volunteering should keep in mind that one must not have a hidden agenda when joining. Volunteers should also abide by the rules of the organisation or association they are joining and remember the main reason of volunteering is to help out.
"There is an advantage for students as volunteering can be seen as an avenue to get experience and knowledge that they can make use of when they start working," says Ali Yusri.
He adds that job interviews nowadays not only focus on academic results but also on the qualities of the person that is most fit for the position most companies look for someone who is well-rounded.
So apart from building your spiritual character, voluntary community work also benefits your career plans.
A government servant who requested anonymity says that the culture of volunteerism among youths can be encouraged if there is more non-governmental organisations dealing with social problems.
The woman who is active in informal charity work also says that such NGOs would appeal more to the youths.
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11 Things I Learned from Writing 100 Cracked Articles
Despite being a great patriot, I'm also sure I'll be sued by several Americans by the time I finish typing about how porky and fat they all are right here in this very sentence*. So many of my countrymen are pansies that the US puts more safety guidelines on a waterslide than Japan does on a nuclear fuel rod. That's why I do my part every year by celebrating our nation's birthday barbarically and unsafely with Homemade Fireworks.
*I've been accused of "fatphobia" by seven different sources, which only makes me wonder why fat people invented a word that's so impossible to say during a cheeseburger.
I've done several articles here at Cracked about the importance of kicking ass like 10 Traits You Need for Any Apocalypse and 5 Things God Damn Aliens Should Think About Before They Invade Us. I've also discussed sensitive issues Americans face like Torture (As a Batman Comic), Immigration (As a Man Comic), and Jumping Jacks (As a Bikini Tribute to the Troops). Foreign people, I know you godless savages are just seeing lines of strange shapes right now, but you should really be terrified of how much my articles have strengthened us as a nation.
Fact: Nerds Hate Sports
I've found that nothing causes a nerd to lose interest faster than sports. And as everyone knows, when a nerd starts to lose interest, all that space where the interest was turns into rage. For instance, when I wrote this admittedly strange article about bad pedestrians entirely in NBA metaphors, many angry commenters informed me that it fell outside their area of interest and therefore had no place on Cracked. I heard the same thing in this article about Crazy Athletes. And while I thank these commenters for magically doing all that marketing research in their own heads, I'm worried they might have a dangerous condition originally discovered by corrections officers called "Too Rapeable."
I've had three non-comedy jobs in my life: stunt man, pro wrestler, and UFC: Undisputed writer. I'm nerdy as shit, but I also think all men should live their life like they might need to break a 2x4 with any or every part of their body at any time. Kicking the fuck out of someone is the purest form of expression we have in this morally ambiguous society, and I try to share that joy with the world in articles like The Top 8 OH SHIT Moments in MMA, The 10 Worst MMA Fights, 7 Fighters Who Lied Their Way to Legendary, 10 Ragdoll KOs, The 6 Least Sportsmanlike Moments in MMA, The Ultimate Fighter Book of Josh Koscheck Insults, The 10 Ass Kickest Moments in Kickboxing, and Worst Life Ever: The Story of Kazuyuki Fujita's Skull. Oh, and remember earlier when I mentioned that people on the Internet accuse everyone of stealing things inappropriately? That Kazuyuki Fujita article is about actual events that took place on a human head and I got at least 200 hate mails saying that I stole it from an episode of "The Simpsons."
MMA isn't for everyone. In fact, once every 3 seconds someone observes that it's just two shirtless homosexuals hugging each other on the floor. Now I'm not in charge of defending combat against homosexuality critics, but I think a childlike observation without a joke degrades both jokes and children. So here's my solution: if you enjoy MMA and someone tells you that stuff's just gay fellas fuckin', take their cell phone and smash it. Because what are they going to do, fight you? That'd make them the gay! Call the cops? How? You just smashed their phone! And what are they going to tell AppleCare? "Sorry my phone broke, but when my friends are discussing sports I simply cannot stop bringing up gay sex." That completely voids an iPhone's warranty!
I like to think that most people are smart. That's why there are only 73 successful businesses that let you to trade in old gold for whatever amount of cash they feel like sending you. But despite our savviness, most people still think 80 pound ladies can fend off multiple attackers with karate chops and nerve pinches. I do what I can to debunk these kinds of martial arts myths in articles like 5 Self Defense Books for Women Who Want to Lose Fights, 4 Survival Guides for Wildly Improbable Situations, and How to Win a Bar Fight. Karate masters put out books way faster than I can debunk them, though, so I'll probably still be writing these articles when I'm in a wheelchair. Speaking of, I already own 7 books and 3 videos explaining how to kill a mugger from one of those.
Understanding Women and Why You Totally Can't
A lot of my articles are based on the extensive research I've done in trying to understand women. I've played the The Ni***r N*g**r N**g*r N***er Dr. Laura Board Game, studied books on Fucking Like a Librarian, examined Every Religion's Sex Practices and looked at over 92,000 drawings of Kim Cattrall's mon pubis in 4 Sex Books for People Who Hate Sex. I've read so many books about sex that sometimes gynecologists send me pictures of weird fleshy things to see if they've discovered an unnamed vagina part.
While I was buying all these books on romance and wheelchair karate, I learned two important things: One, it's totally possible to give the Amazon.com recommendation robot an emotional breakdown. And two, there are bestselling authors out there whose idea of romantic advice is to offer them a coupon for free pizza and then stick your dick in them. These romantic visionaries inspired articles like 1516 Ways to Kill Romance and 11,201 More Pieces of Terrible Advice.
At first, my only goal was to make some classy, highbrow jokes about these simple-minded authors, but soon I realized that most of these simple-minded authors were Gregory JP Godek. Now I have a new goal. I'm going to keep writing about this stupid fucker until all the Google results for his name are my jokes about his fat, pizza-filled wife. And in that tradition, you can avoid up to 280 calories of saturated fat if you dab Godek's wife with a napkin before making love.
It may seem strange that only 6% of my columns are about poontang and 90% of my brain's chemicals are devoted to hunting it. That's because writing about your sex life is for self destructive assholes like that lady from the TV show about hot flashes. Even on a terrible first date, I'm probably going to get far enough into a conversation to tell the girl what I do for a living. And wouldn't that be a great idea to send her to a column about me boning all the other women I'm seeing... she'd either have a huge problem with that or I'm going to die if I fuck her. Plus, women hold you responsible for every girl you've ever gone out with, even if it was before you met her. I've dated enough in the information age to know that when a woman looks at my Facebook photos, these are the only pictures she clicks on:
Also, although women are the natural enemy of women, they are always on each other's team when you're telling a story about how insane one of them is. So if I'm dating an insane one, and dear God how I have, I try to bear that burden myself. Though I have noticed that when I'm enduring a lady's hormonal frenzy, my articles tend to be less philosophical (See: Giant Dong Comics Vol. I, Kick to the Groin Comics, or Giant Dong Comics Vol. II), and more about how I hate every single thing (See: 8 Douchebags Who Found This Article by Googling Themselves). These almost always receive less hate mail because the angsty commenters recognize me as one of their own. In fact, that article about douchebags was barely intended to be funny. I wrote it so that if Spencer Pratt or his Frankenstein's monster of a woman ever meet me it will be culturally impossible for them not to attack me.
I Don't Have the Same Taste in Music as Anybody
My favorite bands are Poison, Michael Jackson, and Milli Vanilli. When I go to Coachella I miss every act because if I don't keep drinking the sun boils away all my $12 beers before they can get me drunk. Plus, I only go to concerts in the first place if I'm dating a girl smart enough to see through my excuses to miss it. I seriously can't hold a conversation with anyone about music. Still, I wrote What are Your Top 5 Crime Scene Albums?, Su-Su-Science: Using Pandora as Phil Collins Gaydar, and The Numerically Bootiest Songs of All Time. I now see that We Are the World 2 was right about music being able to make a difference.
Reading Makes You Smarter, Unless You're at One of My Book Cases
Back when there were book stores, I used to love to shop in the self-help section. Unfortunately, I never found a book called How to Hide Your Laughter From the Emotionally Fragile Person Reading the Same Self-Help Book as You. Here's what I did find, though: 4 Supremely Depressing Books About Happiness and 24,504 Reasons to Burn Books. And since my dream book was never written, I wrote it myself: Gary Busey's 3rd Grade Science Textbook.
One of the saddest moments of my career came after writing Tits For Men, a savage annihilation of Maxim magazine's drooling, date-rapey editorial direction. A few days later, Maxim Online posted this, a limp-dicked response that proved they even write jokes like date rapists. I've been looking for a proper nemesis my whole career and here I find out I was picking a comedy fight with a magazine whose humor staff couldn't suck a joke out of a rowboat full of diverse religious viewpoints. Fuck you and your weakness, Maxim. You've added to a string of disappointing possible nemeses. I gave it a shot with Carlos Mencia, The Competitive Eating Industry, and once I thought I really had something with Uwe Boll when I was scheduled to box him, he backed out, and I retaliated by painstakingly attacking everything he's ever done. But look at us now:
Best Freunds! He never even took a swing at me!
Maybe I shouldn't talk too much shit about Maxim because my second issue of Tits For Men was a battle between the Surgeon General and Big Tobacco that took place entirely in cigarette ads and most people either didn't get it, hated it, or both. Luckily, my magazine career got back on track with another attack on Maxim in my quiz Is it Gay? Or is it Maxim? and the Tits for Men spinoff, Penis for Women. Where I'm from, we have a word for that kind of wordplay: amazing.
Mercy is for the Weak. The Stupid Deserve No Mercy
I mock the stupid, but that's only because I can be pretty stupid myself. For instance, I barely scored "not color blind" on these 6 IQ Tests Created by Complete Morons. I once spent almost 10 hours watching dog shows for an article I was going to call Eukanuba Nosferatu. I decided that every fifth person in the crowd at dog shows looked like a vampire. Eukanuba Nosferatu is something an idiot spirit shit in my brain, and it still holds the number one spot on my idea board (See Figure 34HHH). I write articles about how Mayonnaise Lies To Us or how Airlines Should Hire Pantied Bears as Stewardesses. And yet I'm constantly inventing new ways to mock my stupid brothers and sisters like suggesting Jobs for the Exceptionally Dumb or writing this article that I wasn't clever enough to figure out a category for. Real Talk.
In the past, people have suggested I'm a monster, and I don't always argue that. But normally I turn my hate on people who have some sort of success in life. If I say that Spencer Pratt is such a pussy that when he gets a haircut they charge him for a bikini wax, I know he can at least jerk off to the fact that someone typed his name. When I discredit every stupid book that Gregory JP Godek wrote, he can at least sit in his running car in his closed garage and intellectualize that thousands of people bought them. And for the opposite reason, I don't like to mess with people who write me hate mail-- because even if they hurt my delicate feelings, those poor angry children have nothing. What kind of man would I be if I used my Maxim-crushing wit against an unarmed child? Don't answer please, because I broke the rules of engagement on two different occasions: The Only 10 Angry Commenters To Ever Exist and When Scrapbookers Attack. Sometimes you have to tell haters which of their brothers' cocks they can suck.
I love all the funny people here at Cracked, Real Talk. Every weekend I make charcoal drawings of Soren Bowie's naked torso that we donate to zoos to encourage their animals to breed. I once stacked Fightin' DOB and Kvetchin' Gladstone on top of me in a trenchcoat to trick our way into the WNBA. It led to the league's first in-game unwanted pregnancy. Robert Brockway lets me store beer and soup in his moustache, and in one of my favorite Cracked articles, he swapped intellectual properties with me to simultaneously create Brockway's Seanbaby's Man Comics and Seanbaby's Brockway's Choose Your Own Drug-Fueled Misadventure. These are people I, sniff, would be happy to spend another 100 articles with.
Starting with The 24,504 Worst Pieces of Advice Ever Published, Sean's reviews of self-help literature exposed me to the dark underside of books I had always trusted to guide me through life. His The 10 Most Butt References in the History of Rap Music gave me the guidance I needed to carry on without them.
8 Douchebags Who Found This Article by Googling Themselves gave me an epiphany. I realized that the sacred blade of mockery was forged by evolution so that it, and the masters who wield it, would be humanity's only defense against the complete Spencer Prattification of the species.
Man, where to start singing Sean's praises? I mean, before he started writing for Cracked, I had no idea you could just Photoshop dirty things into the conversation bubbles of old comics and call that a column. I thought you had to like string sentences together into paragraphs in support of an idea. But then again I'm pretty unsophisticated. Like I never even knew you could cure your chlamydia by having unprotected sex with three girls who didn't have chlamydia. Seriously, the dude has taught me so much.
But if I had to point to one thing he's written here that fills me with the most joy, it would be the following line from his column about the Power Lord -- that 80s action figure featuring a dude with a blue face on the back of his head:
"My own son asked me if I made this toy so that He-Man could have a face-to-face conversation with the guy he's fucking."
Gets me every time.
I love gay jokes, but I hate homophobia, so why do I love this? Because it's not homophobic. While it presumes that He-man is gay, it doesn't deride him for that lifestyle. Furthermore, the Power Lord's sexual orientation is not even at issue. That's what kills me. Instead, he's so pathetic, he exists in his hideously tortured, two-faced state solely for He-man's sexual and verbal gratification. Great stuff. Also, he Photoshopped it like totally perfectly and stuff.
There are people we each encounter in our lives who are not meant for the banality of this world. Not meant to separate darks from lights or stare at numbered screens in DMVs. They ought to be riding on hunks of magma and iron hurtling through space and destroying moons. Seanbaby, I suspect, is one of these people. I don't know because I've never met him; he was supposed to visit once but suddenly couldn't because he was having sex with a girl in Portland. My only point of reference is his non-fiction piece, "How to Show America You Care With Homemade Fireworks," which probably deserves to be included in the canon of American Literature, or at the very least, laminated by someone.
The night after reading it I had a dream that he and I were on safari together, hunting game cats with loosely nailed two-by-fours. Sitting over the campfire, he confided in me that he had two dicks, one on each hip like guns, and one of them could pee sand. To date, that remains - in my mind - the pinnacle of masculinity toward which all men struggle.
On March 4th, 2011, Phil Collins officially retired from music. I don't know if this article had anything to do with it, but I'm positive that it had everything to do with it.
This was the first of Seanbaby's Cracked articles to make me laugh so hard that I got kind of mad at my computer for embarrassing me in public. It was comedy without dead spots, just pure rapid-fire madness - from Spontaneo: The Dog who Just Doesn't Give a Fuck's chain of reasoning being simply "Meat! Fucking!" to the Punchmaster's first line being "wait...you're not the real Chewbacca!" - that never let up. But the thing that stuck with me the most was this page:
The text is brilliantly dark and hilarious, but a lot of people might've missed the punchline there: There is no way out of the maze. Sean added a single line, right at the start, sealing off all exit. He just executed a perfect child-murder joke with one single, 1/4" straight black line. If brevity is the soul of wit, Seanbaby makes Mark Twain look like Dennis Miller.
Seanbaby thanks April O'Neil every month for taking pictures of herself using his EGM column as underwear. You can follow him on Twitter or face him on Facebook. His website is Seanbaby.com.


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Does Critical Mass Matter? Views From the Boardroom
Lissa L. Broome
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
John M. Conley
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
Kimberly D. Krawiec
Duke University School of Law
June 3, 2011
34 Seattle University Law Review 1049-1080 (2011)
In this Article, we report and analyze the results of forty-six wide-ranging interviews with corporate directors and other relevant insiders on the general topic of whether and how the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of corporate boards matters. In particular, we explore their views on the concept of "critical mass" — that is, the theory that women and racial or ethnic minorities are unlikely to have an impact in the boardroom until they grow from a few tokens into a considerable minority of the board.
In contrast to other recent qualitative research on corporate boards, we find more limited support among our respondents for critical mass theory. Though some female respondents expressed the view, consistent with critical mass theory, that having more women on the board increased their comfort level and eased some of the stresses associated with being the first and only female, this narrative is in tension with our respondents' apparent embrace of their first and only status. Moreover, with the possible exception of employee relations, our interviews largely fail to support the theory that a critical mass of female directors will produce different, and distinctly feminine, boardroom outcomes.
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Keywords: board diversity, race, gender, critical mass
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Rain Boot (Wellies) Cookies - Tutorial
12 comments:
- AleyPili said...
We always love your ideas! Thanks for sharing.
- May 2, 2012 at 4:34 AM
- Janine (sugarkissed.net) said...
What size tip do u use for the stripes?
- May 2, 2012 at 6:55 AM
- Nancy said...
Too cute! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Could you tell me which tip you used on the yellow wellie to make the lines so precise?
- May 2, 2012 at 8:10 AM
- Kim Redden said...
Very cute Pam....I love the silver details on the buckles...very cleaver!
- May 2, 2012 at 10:39 AM
- CookieCrazie Pam said...
Thanks Nancy! I used a #1 tip to make all the lines in the plaid. ♥
- May 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM
- Lisa @ Sweet 2 Eat Baking said...
Fantastic as always. I'm loving the purple spotty boot, I have some similar!
- May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Krystal Dogolo said...
adorable! rainy days would be much more fun with these on my feet!
- May 2, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Bea Garcia said...
You are GENIOUS!!! A Cowboy Boot Cutter??? I would've never thought you used that, I thought you had the Wellie Cutter :)
- May 2, 2012 at 5:52 PM
- CookieCrazie Pam said...
haha! I didn't know there was a wellie cutter. :) Thanks dear Bea. ♥
- May 2, 2012 at 6:12 PM
- Andrea said...
Love em!
- May 3, 2012 at 7:25 AM
- Nancy said...
Yea! Is that the one you use for writing as well? I thought I had seen you mention something about that in a previous post but I cannot find it right now. I am a glaze only girl thanks to you. Not to mention, my family doesn't like RI. I hope to one day make cookies as beautiful as yours ;o) Happy Thursday.
- May 3, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- CookieCrazie Pam said...
Actually......I prefer to do my writing letters with a 1.5 PME tip. They are a dream for such a task. :)
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With the second phase of the Parker-Fries sewer project ahead of schedule, Town of Tonawanda officials approved several resolutions Monday related to part three, which is expected to begin this fall.
"Originally, phase two was supposed to be completed in November of this year," Ken Maving, director of the Water Resources Department, said during a public hearing on the project. "We are ahead of schedule with the contractor."
Completion now is anticipated in July – after the contractor, Concrete Applied Technologies of Alden, takes a break later this month. When work resumes the week of March 4, it will focus on Brighton Road.
The four-phase project, which began in 2010, is part of a five-part townwide overhaul planned for the sanitary sewer system. The work is necessary, in part, to prevent sanitary sewer overflows from ending up in local waterways during wet weather.
Phase three will cost an estimated $16 million; a bond resolution for that amount was among the resolutions adopted Monday by lawmakers.
The work involves replacing a little more than 11,000 linear feet of sanitary sewer – more than half of it along Parkhurst Boulevard. The work zone includes several sanitary sewer overflows, which channel sanitary waste through storm sewers in times of wet weather to prevent backups in homes.
"We are eliminating some. We are abating the overflows on others," Maving said. "We are not eliminating structures."
Installation of larger sewer lines, including 5,500 feet of 42-inch pipe, will help with the flow, Maving said. All the work will be done through open cuts, as opposed to tunneling used for part of phase one.
The work will go out to bid in August, with the contract awarded in September. Work is expected to start in November and be completed by April 2015.
Also Monday, the past president of the Ken-Ton School District's Parent Teacher Student Association asked what the town is doing to ensure the safety of children. Hours earlier, four schools were placed in "lockdown" mode because of a report of a suspicious man, possibly carrying a gun, in the area of Colvin Boulevard and Highland Parkway.
Ann Morelli wants the town to help fund the School Resource Officer program, which previously had town police officers assigned full time to each of the two high schools. Cuts to the school district's 2011-12 budget left the two officers sharing one job.
"We have a great relationship with the school district. We have been working on it," said Town Supervisor Anthony F. Caruana.
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