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Reply of
Drooler's Poll
There are obvious advantages to the sites - they can pretend that the girl is new, if they change nationality then they might get a few members from that country if people think there are local girls on the site, they can try to maintain an air of exclusivity by having almost all unique names, and they can try to separate themselves from the girls' escort names. Given that so many european porn perfomers are really escorts who just do porn as a loss leader, I am surprised they put up wth it.
I really can't see any advantage to the girl in using a different name on some sites - they don't use their real names anyway.
Joy Mii
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Joymii's Reply
As of today, 3 out of the last 5 scenes are anal. You've made you choice, I've made mine.
Next year you'll be on here defending DP scenes, or double anal, or something similar. Of course, the girls love it, you treat them wonderfully - typical apologist BS. Glad to be gone, I'm afraid.
Joy Mii
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Joymii's Reply
Thanks. A thoughtful comment. However, all you are really doing is demonstrating the appalling way most porn is made - well, duh! I wouldn't go near any sites that I thought might behave like that. I don't have an obsession with anal at all, it just happens to be the subject here. I leave that to the pro-anal people, who go on sites posting over and over again on the subject. Even on
, there are members who never post about anything else - you can see their posting record and it is page after page of demands for anal and comments on girls' anuses. Fortunately they have so far not got anywhere on
so they tend to drift away.
has similar members, but there they have succeeded, are now in the majority, and the site has been wrecked. I do agree, though, that for me it is symbolic of the ugliness and abuse of modern porn.
Saying the girls all enjoy it is ridiculous, the percentage of women who enjoy anal in the real world compared to the percentage who supposedly enjoy it in porn makes those claims utterly untenable. In Petra you may have found one of the miniscule number who really do enjoy it, but when you get up to 5, 10 or 30%, let alone the 80%+ on most sites it just can't be believed. Sadly you are perpetuating the dangerous myth that it is easy and enjoyable. So yes, I do punish you, as your claims that the girls all enjoy doing anal aren't believable. You don't have a magical source of girls who all love anal, you just have models who have to do anal to earn a living. This subject came up on
a while ago, and one of the members there put it much more concisely than I could. So, with compliments to "Blackhawk":
If you ask a model if she wants to do a scene with anal or without it, she will say "Without". If you ask her if she wants to do the scene, or not do it and not get paid while someone else does it and does get paid, she will say "Yes". "Something they're comfortable with and want to do" simply means "something they've done before".
Joy Mii
Reply of
anyonebutme's Reply
I agree that is the real problem. We have absolutely no weight in the market. Over recent years porn has become so ugly and abusive that most people have cut back or simply stopped buying it - which is why the porn business is in such a financial mess. Unfortunately, rather than trying to reach out to wider markets of females, couples and well adjusted guys, it is easier to sink back into trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of the hardened porn addicts, a dumb move as those are exactly the people more likely to learn how to pirate material and they will always want more extreme sex. The performers end up having to do more and more painful, ugly and outright dangerous acts for less and less money as the business collapses. If you have any empathy at all, the vast majority of porn is absolutely sickening. Obviously Joymii isn't that extreme (yet), but it will get worse, bitter experience shows that.
Joy Mii
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Joymii's Reply
Thanks for the offer, but no thanks. When I checked on ccbill, I'd misremembered the remaining subscription, there are a few weeks left but I don't think we'll keep visiting.
We had the bad experience with
, where they started off doing an anal scene every few months and stating that they would only do anal with girls who did it in their private lives. They are now about 30% anal, doing DPs and god knows what, and have members endlessly demanding even more and viciously insulting anyone who doesn't like it. We kept hanging on but it just got worse and worse. Why would we think Joymii will be any different? You've already gone from one odd scene to consecutive anal scenes this week, it is obvious where you are heading. I'm afraid you're getting a shorter leash than we gave
I recently saw a program about old porn, where they interviewed a model (not a porn performer) who liked watching it, and she loved watching anal. The interviewer asked her if she liked doing anal herself, and she answered "Hell no, but when I'm watching porn I want to see girls asses getting ripped". Mysoginy isn't limited to men.
There is no way I am going to sit down with my wife to watch something that is really about hating her, and I'm not going to give my hard earned dollars to people who will make that kind of material. Even if I don't watch it, it has still been made. If we can't buy porn without contributing to pain and injuries, then we won't buy it. We don't watch a lot, and we have enough collected to watch for years without repeating, so we don't really need any more -
will do us.
Joy Mii
Reply of
cjd2004's Reply
Try talking to a few... I didn't actually say all women hate anal, that would be ridiculous. A tiny percentage can enjoy it, and a few more can withstand it when pressured into it ("if you really loved me you would...") - but seriously, 80+% of BG porn is anal, do you really think that when maybe 2 or 3% in the real world can do it, 80% of porn girls want to?
My wife's kid sister did some porn a few years ago, the typical porn career of one trip out to LA. She hadn't planned on telling the family, but the injuries she received meant in the end she had to, so we know about how the girls are bullied and pressured into it, and about the injections and drugs they take to get through it. If you have any empathetic intelligence at all, you will see most of the time in an anal scene that you are watching a girl in pain or distress - obviously most porn is made by and for men who don't notice or don't care. Sure, at the top of the market they can do it a bit nicer, but it is still essentially the same act.
Joy Mii
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Joymii's Reply
The single most requested by stupid males who have got their sex ed by watching porn, and the single most hated act by females. That's why you had to give that apologist BS about it being a "gift" from a woman to her partner - if she got anything from it it wouldn't have to be a "gift", would it?
You've made you choice, and like x-art have decided that the mysoginist male market is bigger than the couple/female market. There are a vanishingly small number of sites where is it possible for us to find good erotica without this particular unpleasant fetish, and there is now one less. We can live with it.
Joy Mii
Too much anal - we're gone
I'm afraid they've gone too far for us - successive scenes with anal is just too much. We've cancelled membership. A real shame, this was a nice site, but they've obviously decided to change their target audience, and we're not part of it.
Sex Art
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Arlen84's Reply
Maybe it is just personal taste. My tv is HD, but I'm not sitting at a desk two feet from it! I would say that, apart from some comments about color balance, I have never seen any complaints from users on SexArt about the technical quality of the films, but I have seen a lot of complaints on x-art - to such an extent that they had to try to recode some recent films.
Sex Art
Reply of
Arlen84's Review
Interesting comments about bitrates and video quality on both this site and x-art. I don't know about the technicalities, but I watch these films on a 42" tv and have no problems at all with SexArt films, they look great with the barest hint of pixellation sometimes on dissolve edits. They are up there with joymii for quality and far better than x-art.
Erotica X
Reply of
rearadmiral's Review
Great review RA. This definitely looks like a site to keep an eye on.
Reply of
Khan's Poll
I sometimes use the iPhone to look at the sites I'm a member of while I'm away, just to see what the latest updates are and to check on comments and occasionally reply. I never actually download the material though, far too small!
Reply of
Colette's Reply
Hi Colette,
If you read my review from a few weeks ago (which was critical but by no means wholly negative), you will see that there are concerns with the quality of a lot of your recent videos, this comment was just concerning two examples of the last films I saw before leaving. It is silly of you to suggest that there was only a rendering issue with one film, you know perfectly well that there were several that were so bad you had to try to re-render them, with a small improvement in quality but big drop in resolution - the complaints from the users are there on the site, or at least they were when I was last on there. There have been a lot of other recent films which have attracted sporadic complaints, and pretty much all the Prague produced content is technically very poor.
I was a member for two years (actually, two separate year memberships with a break). Over the last year the site has changed out of all recognition both in quality and type, and is simply no longer the kind of material I can enjoy with my wife. By the way, Good Night Kiss is yet another anal film, which is exactly the kind of thing she (and I) really don't want to watch - is that the best you can do as a recommendation these days?
Anyway, thanks for replying. You say you try hard, I think you are trying for high volume, nasty, mainstream material rather than the artistic quality you used to aim for when you made 3 or 4 updates per week and just had one site. We want "glamcore", and I'm afraid you're not that anymore.
Final thoughts on leaving
Following my recent review, my subscription ends in a few days and this is my last time home, so I've just downloaded the last material I will get from here....
We kept a film with my favourite model Susie (Dido elsewhere) to watch at the end... what a shocker. It was a washed-out, blocky, pixelated mess - I can't believe anything this technically poor was put on a professional site, effectively unwatchable. As I said in my review, clearly no-one is bothering to check on the quality of the material any more.
I also quickly looked at another film - it was a DP scene with James Deen, so it had a pretty high uggh factor to start with but it did have a sort of creepy fascination. The girl was a scraggy little thing with buck teeth, an average little porn girl and a long way short of the standard x-art used to have. It was just shot from the middle distance with no style, and the end was careless - a guy came on her face, a quick clunk edit to a shot of her with obvious fake cum for 2 seconds and clunk, the film stopped. No time or care taken at all.
These two films sum up why I am out of this site... It really isn't glamcore any more.
Babes Network.com
Reply of
RLane's Review
Nice review. The "cons" aren't things that matter to me. This site is next on my list to try :)
Michael Ninn
Reply of
otoh's Reply
Babes is on my list - probably after Christmas when I have caught up on TLE and joymii.
Michael Ninn
Reply of
otoh's Reply
Definitely. I am a fan of overly-stylized artsy-daftness, and it is well beyond that. Ninn clearly has delusions of being some kind of "artiste". I've just seen a message he posted on a
update a few days ago where he really insulted the members while going on about his "artistic vision" - not a smart move when you consider who has just bailed him out!
Joy Mii
Reply of
Joymii's Reply
We're reasonable people and can agree to differ, but I'm afraid the answer to your last point is "Yes" because the anal was actually done, in handcuffs for caprice you didn't beat the shit out of her.
If it's 1 or 2 odd occasions we'll ignore it. If it becomes regular and attracts people who demand it all the time, we'll be gone.
Reply of
tangub's Reply
Thanks I was a little worried it might come across as too negative and ranty. I don't hate the site I just wish it would be as good as it once was.
Joy Mii
Reply of
Joymii's Reply
I'm not saying either of you are mistreating models, but you are getting them pre-mistreated by the likes of Woodman. My favorite all time model is the one you call Lara (there you go using different names again!), and I found a shocking Woodman scene with her where she was simply anally assaulted and clearly shuddering and screaming in pain throughout the whole thing. The scene lacked all humanity or empathy, and really would only appeal to the absolute sickest. I then found her thread on his blog, where he repeatedly insulted her because she had demanded so much money to work with him again - his members suggested hiring "Mandingo" (I can guess...) for a straight scene with her, and then have him "totally destroy her ass" and "finish her off for good" - the suggestion was popular, which sums up the views of those who want to see anal porn.
You have obviously thought about it, and decided that you will gain more members than you will lose by including anal, and in the short term you are undoubtedly right. However, you then have to keep those members, and they won't be satisfied with the odd gentle anal scene, they want more and more. You end up losing more original members. This isn't imagination - it's what heppened on
and I hope it doesn't happen to joymii.
Current Member
over 1 year
(at the time of review).
- All attractive models, mostly well known, although many are now mainstream porn performers without quite the same class.
- Usually avoid models with bad piercings and tattoos, when they do use tattooed models they do a pretty good job of hiding them.
- As far as I can tell, there are no models with breast enhancements.
- Good archive of some of the most beautiful photography I've ever seen.
- Site doesn't seem to time out. When I first joined I stayed logged in for several days while downloading the old material.
- Easy navigation and basic search facilities. All updates are clearly dated.
- Big clear thumbnails on updates & model pages.
- Very active member community, with lots of comments.
- Multiple sizes and resolutions of photos & videos, up to 1080p, although I only ever download the highest.
- Streaming available.
- No logos on films, very small logos on photos.
- All content seems to be exclusive.
- Plenty of material, around 400 films and rather more photo sets.
- Very slow and unreliable downloads.
- Little variety of models - almost all white, slim, 18 - 25.
- Model bios are a joke, even more so than most sites.
- There has recently been a huge increase in the volume of material, and a great drop in quality control.
- Some photo sets still very good, but an increasing number of out of focus & poorly lit sets.
- The voting is blatantly fiddled, with all updates being posted with large numbers of 10/10 votes
- Comments are pre-moderated, and while they allow through some mild criticism there is much more leeway given to those who follow the party line.
- Over the last year the material has become much more sexually extreme.
Bottom Line:
Don't get me wrong,
was good, but there are now serious issues.
It is odd to find a major site as slow and unreliable as this. I never get much more than 200 KBytes/sec (every other site I am on maxes out my internet connection at 2 MBytes/sec), and it often takes several attempts to download. I travel a lot and am home briefly, and often don't manage to download the backlog. There are several films I never have got downloaded - this is using 3 different pcs, 3 different browsers, and several internet connections - I've even tried in hotels (which I don't like doing) with no improvement.
The technical and artistic quality of the films has dropped a lot recently. It has gotten so bad that there are a lot of complaints on the site, but in reality it has been dropping for several months. This isn't just about the bunch of films released that are supposedly HQ but are very pixelated and really very low quality, in general the quality has dropped. Obviously no-one looked at the films before uploading them. There have been several films released with terrible lighting problems, including one that was completely unwatchable due to purple lens flares across the entire image. The film editing has become very basic, and many films don't even end smoothly with a fade to a "the end" screen, the film just stops suddenly 1 second after the action finishes. Clearly much less time is being spent in post-production and no checking is being done at all.
It seems strange that site blog keeps boasting of how quickly they are producing material. They say that large numbers of films & photo shoots are being done in a day, clearly with little preparation. Almost all the updates are produced in one house in Malibu, or one studio in Prague. The same sets are being used over and over, and the updates are clearly being filmed in a few minutes with minimal attention to detail. There is no longer any scene setting, they just put people in front of the camera and make them get on with it. Many films just have one camera from the side doing a longshot, and one from in front doing a close up, and all they do is cut between the two.
The voting is a joke. Many sites pump up the votes a bit, but this site is ridiculous. Updates appear around midnight, and have between 30 and 100 10/10 votes. They give more 10/10 votes to the more extreme material which is what they prefer. It means that the site, rather than the membership, is choosing what is more popular. It also makes the older material, when they didn't do this, seem poorly rated. Members can make up a new name whenever they comment, and I get the feeling that some people are having conversations with themselves, or putting up multiple positive comments for the material they like. There are a suspiciously large number of comments with female names which never appear again, especially on the nastier material. The moderation of the comments is uneven, and it is noticeable, for example, that comments insulting members who don't like anal are allowed through while responses aren't. The pre-moderation and blocking of anything that mentions other sites in a positive light is comical, as
recently went onto
to take advantage of their lack of pre-moderation to advertise and try to poach members - when she got a negative response she became very aggressive and made wild allegations. Eventually
, who are very tolerant in their comments, had to remove most of the thread.
The material has become much more sexually extreme, and a significant portion of the recent updates are clearly aimed at the mysoginistic male mainstream porn market. There is a lot of anal now, several DPs and rough looking facials, and the blog shows that this is clearly the direction the site wish to go. A lot of the current material just looks harsh and aggressive and like mainstream porn. Material like this used to attract negative comments, it doesn't any more apart from a couple of sad sounding members. Either the comments are blocked or the old members from the artistic days of a few years ago have left.
was the benchmark glamcore site. Over the last year or so it has left this behind, and is now marginally upmarket mainstream porn. I say marginally because good mainstream sites wouldn't put up the technically poor films that have been posted recently. If you are coming from regular porn, looking for something that seems a little classy, you may well like it. If you're coming from erotica, and fancy something a little more explicit, or have seen some magazine articles or adverts and are considering porn/glamcore for the first time,
would be much more likely to suit. I find little artistic or erotic on here now, and my wife will only watch films if I have checked them out first. My annual membership is coming to an end (it's my second time on the site), and I won't be renewing.
Joy Mii
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Joymii's Reply
Wow quick response - you must be monitoring this place closely!
I have no problem with the 720, I mentioned it as other people do care. I hadn't noticed that the older stuff was all available at 1080 now. I stand corrected.
The ethnicity issue seems to be the case for all the glamcore sites. You should look at JAV porn, it is weird stuff but they have stunning Japanese models, whether they'd be prepared to work for a western company for cultural reasons I don't know.
Anal is a big issue for us, and I'd really rather you didn't go there. Girls are pressured into it and are often seriously hurt or injured, we have real personal experience of it. I'm sure you would never do it like that, but once you start out doing some, even if it is just with a real couple who really do it, it is hard to stop. Look at
- they used to do an anal scene once every 3 months or so, and promised that they only used girls how really liked it and asked to do it, now about 1/3 of their BG scenes are anal. It is hard to believe the girls really enjoy it when, as you say, you can see them ass fucked to oblivion on other sites and you know they have only done that because they are desperate for the work.
Joy Mii
Current Member
over 3 months
(at the time of review).
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Reason: Increasing amount of anal material on the site
- Very attractive models
- The site corporate style with brightly colored videos is refreshing
- Stunningly beautiful films, the "joy" in the title is well chosen
- All exclusive content, I think.
- Very quick and reliable downloads, always maxes out my internet connection (around 2 MBytes/sec).
- Multiple sizes and resolutions of photos & videos, although I only ever download the highest. Recent videos are true HD.
- Earlier material had highest video resolution of 720p, but very good quality. EDIT - see below, all available at 1080 now.
- Little variety of models - almost all white, slim, 18 - 25.
- I was going to say that so far
has held the line against including ugly mysoginistic male-oriented material like anal. Sadly, they have just cracked, and are increasing the amount
- As someone else said, the photos don't quite match up
- Well known models, but all seem to be under different names which is irritating
Bottom Line:
is another very good, genuine glamcore/heartcore site. They update pretty much every other day, not quite alternative photo sets & videos, but more or less. Most videos have accompanying photo sets. It features a mixture of BG, GG and solo material, a fairly even mix these days, all shot with the same bright sunny style.
It doesn't have quite the artistic quality and variety of, say,
, but within its limitations, the films are beautiful to watch. There is some fairly wild sex, but it is all bright and happy looking. My wife generally prefers the BG films here to those on
, this site was her favourite. It is simply reliably very good, with very few duds - I kind of prefer the riskier peaks & troughs of
, but I liked both. We had planned on renewing, but have decided to cancel due to the inceasing amount of anal on the site. These sites need to understand that while anal, dp and similar gross-out stuff might appeal to men on their own, it is a HUGE turnoff for most women, and therefore to most couples. Having much of it will drive the site straight down to mainstream porn, it seems really silly of these sites to rob themselves of their USP.
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Khan's Poll
If sex isn't amazing, you're not doing it right!
Michael Ninn
Current Member
over 3 months
(at the time of review).
- Very large archive of files going back to 2004, although there are a lot of gaps.
- Very quick and reliable downloads, always maxes out my internet connection (around 2 MBytes/sec).
- Films are very well made and very stylish.
- Plenty of diversity in the models.
- Mostly exclusive content, but some has logos of other sites like Marc Dorcel.
- Multiple sizes and resolutions of photos & videos, although I only ever download the highest available for any update
- Streaming available, again I haven't tried it..
- A lot of the earlier material is very low definition, as low as 360p. Low bitrate makes it unwatchable on a large screen.
- The website is poorly laid out. New updates aren't clearly dated and the names on the updates are very inconsistant.
- The cross-site advertising is a pain.
- Many of the photo sets don't have zip files.
- Many photo sets are of very poor quality. Many are out of focus, poorly lit, and low definition.
- There seems to be a lot of duplicated material with different names.
- I'm not really sure if there is any actual new material. After joining I noticed that Met had actually announced buying the Ninn archives, rather than the Ninn site, so it is possible that they are just re-releasing old material at higher definition.
- Although it is possible to vote & comment, there are very few votes and almost no comments, so there is no feel of any community.
- There are quite a few dead links and empty tabs in the updates. For example the 2006 tab is empty.
Bottom Line:
Michael Ninn
is mainly very stylized and fetishistic material, some of which is genuinely artistic. Films and associated photo sets are released together at varying frequencies.
I joined this site as a special offer when joining
. It gave an option of a very cheap membership within one hour of joining
. I did a quick look around, and thought this site might be interesting. Unfortunately I had only seen some Solo Erotica and Innocence material, I had missed the abusive stuff. I'm afraid it isn't really my thing - I am very aware of the nasty abusive side of modern porn, which is why I despise so much of it, and a lot of the material on this site is exactly the kind of stuff I don't want to see. Much of the material isn't just fetishist, it is very nasty, aggressive and often looks very violent. The girls frequently seem to be in extreme discomfort, if not pain. There is a huge amount of slapping, humiliation and abuse. The BG material is pretty much 100% anal, and often shockingly brutal. Having said that, the films are well made and very imaginative and must have a high budget for porn, and I have found maybe 10% of the films which I can enjoy. The photo sets are mostly a waste of time.
I'm not sure how this site is meant to fit in with the other
Met Art
sites which, except for the mysterious
, all seem to be done with great respect to the performers. To be honest,the presence of this kind of material made me question continuing with any sites on the
Met Art
network. They need to be a bit careful at least with the cross site advertising if their network is going to include material like this.
It seems that the material is old, and with no comments or interaction and a somewhat uneven release schedule the whole thing has an air of a neglected backwater. It really is material for the most hardened porn consumer, certainly not for couples, and my wife and I found a lot of it sickening. I won't be renewing the membership.
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When you contact me please make sure I can see some examples of your previous work in your portfolio.
I have several examples from other websites which you can use as inspiration / starting point to work from.
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The Wild has acquired Arizona goalie Devan Dubnyk for a third-round pick. He's in the last year of his contract with an 800K cap hit, so this is a short-term fix. At one point this year, Dubnyk was competing with Mike Smith for the starting job. He is 9-5-2 with a 2.72 goals against average and .916 save percentage this year.
The 6-foot-6 longtime Edmonton goalie is 70-81-24 all-time with a 2.88 goals-against average, .910 save percentage and nine shutouts. Hey, it's probably better than what they have.
Dubnyk, known as a terrific teammate, had a disastrous year last year. He lost his starting job in Edmonton, was traded twice and ended up in the minors. Arizona took a risk on him that working with goalie coach Sean Burke would revive Dubnyk's career and he has outplayed Smith. Burke has said Dubnyk has improved his patience and positioning and his confidence is back.
I wish Devan continued success. He came in here and worked hard and got his game back. Terrific person and a real pleasure to work with.
— Sean Burke (@SBurkie1) January 14, 2015
Some move had to be done at some point. Wild has given up the fourth-least shots in the league and has the worst save percentage. GM Chuck Fletcher via text said the Wild's unsure yet if Dubnyk debuts tomorrow. It'll depend when he arrives in Buffalo. He will carry three goalies when all three are healthy.
This is the type of move I expected at some point -- a short-term patchwork Band-Aid. It makes no sense to me to give up a boatload of assets for a goalie when there's no assurance a goalie 1) can save this season; 2) may not be the answer long-term. The Wild has to figure out the long-term answer in goal and to make some knee-jerk decision now when there may be better options down the road is the prudent thing to do. Again, look at the standings. Look at the Wild's game right now. A goalie alone isn't saving the day.
I haven't talked to Fletcher yet other than an exchange of quick texts, but my guess is he felt incumbent on 1) giving this roster hope on a nightly basis with a goalie; it is so clear this team melts down after deflating goals and there have been a ton of them lately and you just can't enter every game not feeling confident about your goaltending; 2) wanted to deliver Yeo a goalie so the guy whose job we all assume is on the line, has a chance to win.
Also, Matt Dumba has been recalled.
Ryan Suter had a 4 p.m. phone hearing for his elbow to the head of the Pittsburgh Penguins' Steve Downie last night and he was just handed a two-game suspension. As Suter said Sunday, "When it rains it pours, and it's pouring." He also said, "Every day's a bad day right now."
Suter loses $81,058.72 in salary.
Downie practiced today, so he looks to be fine as of now and often times that would play an influence in the league's decision into how to discipline. Didn't here.
The Wild hoped the NHL, like it did with Marco Scandella earlier this season on an illegal check to the head, would let Suter off the hook with a fine. This was his first time ever being remotely in trouble and anybody who watches Suter play knows he's a squeaky clean player.
"I only looked at it once," coach Mike Yeo said. "We have the hearing this evening. But what I saw when I looked at it initially is that he's not looking at the player at all. First off if you know the player, you know that's not his intention at all. He's not in any way a dirty player. It's hard for you to quote this, but he's looking at the player and I think he's, …"
Humorously, Yeo then juts out his right elbow like a chicken wing and accidentally nailed NHL.com reporter Joe Yerdon's recorder. Yeo apologized, then said with a laugh, "See how easily it happens?"
Yeo continued, "I think he puts his elbow up just to box the guy out and we've had other things that have been our other focus this morning, but that was my initial thought."
Video from the NHL on the suspension:
Yeo was hoping for a fine because "I know that's not his intention, that's not the type of player that he is. I know that he felt bad about it even during the game (sent an apology through Sidney Crosby). As much as anything else, we need him in the lineup."
Suter is minus-7 the past two games (actually minus-6 because when I watched the game over today, he was not on the ice for the last goal and was given a minus; Nate Prosser was on the ice) and minus-22 the past 20 games (minus-21, really, like that makes it better). The league is taking away the one minus, so he's minus-6 his last two games and minus-21 the past 20 games.
Yeo said last night that this is inside Suter's head now, that he's frustrated with the way he's been on for many goals lately and the two of them have met.
Yeo said, "Listen, it's almost a byproduct of our game. Everything is compounding right now. Many of the mistakes that we're making, you can see, it's almost like we're trying to compensate or recoup something that we've given up before and I think that's what's going on. We're not a team that gives up breakaways, let alone a couple in a game. We're not a team that gives up odd-man rushes. That's not the way that we play the game. But what's happening is we end up doing a little bit more to help the cause and we end up overextending ourselves. … That's where we have to tighten up."
Suter said earlier today, "I've never gone through anything like this. Innocent plays are ending up in the back of our net. I'm sure you've seen my minuses (plus-minus). I've never, ever, experienced that in my life. To be minus-3 in a night, it would happen maybe once a year. Now it seems like it's an every night occurrence. We just have to bear down defensively.''
Justin Falk is sidelined with an upper-body injury. Jon Blum also took a shot to the face today. It was swollen pretty good and his teeth were hurting, but he said he's fine. Christian Folin also took two big spills in practice, but he brushed it off and said he'll be fine. But the Wild's D is very banged up.
With Suter suspended, Jared Spurgeon practiced for parts today on the left side. He said it was very weird and it would be his first time playing that side as a pro.
The Wild's D is a mess.
Yeo did a lot of one-on-one coaching today. A ton of it, actually. "A lot of work to be done," he said. He often stopped drills to grab guys like Matt Cooke, Mikko Koivu, Jason Pominville, Thomas Vanek, etc. for one-on-one tutorials.
"We said this morning we wished we had an opportunity to have like three practices in a row or something like that where we could first off just to have one of those battle type of practices that kind of shakes things up a little bit," Yeo said. "But just the tactical part of your game that has been eroding lately, it's focus wise. There are so many other things that are in our minds right now. Because of that we're doing things and we know that we're supposed to do them but we're not doing them with a purpose. We're doing them because we know we're supposed to and there's a big difference there. That's why a lot of the clips that you see, we're doing things ok and we're not in a bad position. But they're still breaking us down and that's why it's getting back to doing things with a purpose, being more assertive in it."
More team meetings today, that was very videocentric with some eye-opening examples of bad hockey.
"It's not about trying to embarrass anybody or lift anybody up, it's just recognition of where we're at and what our game looks like and realizing that we need to get it back to what it needs to be," Yeo said. "It's not about roster. It's about our play. Talent is one thing but we've got to play together and we've got to play with purpose in every little detail of our game. It's not about blaming anybody or trying to find reasons why. This is just where we're at and what I'm focused on is how we're going to get out of it."
Today was really about building the team's game back up heading into tomorrow's four-point game with the Sabres. I say that tongue and cheek, obviously, as Wild fans have started campaigning for a tanking on Twitter to get Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel. If you look at the standings, as bad as the Wild has been, it has a good amount of losing to go to catch teams like Buffalo or Edmonton.
The Sabres have lost a franchise-record eight in a row and have no regulation wins since Dec. 11!
They're just not cooperating!!!
Niklas Backstrom or Dubnyk vs. Jhonas Enroth Thursday night as the Wild completes this terrible three-game trip. Fourteen combined consecutive losses for these two teams. Should be a doozy.
It's spooky.
One year ago, the Wild was in the midst of a six-game losing streak entering its 43rd game of the season against the Buffalo Sabres. Yeo's job was in peril, the Wild's goaltending was in turmoil.
One year later, the Wild is in the midst of a six-game losing streak entering its 43rd game of the season against the Buffalo Sabres. Yeo's job is in peril, the Wild's goaltending is in turmoil.
"It doesn't mean anything to me to be honest with you," Yeo said. "I know that if we play a similar type of game tomorrow, we'll have a similar type result. To me, just going back to the last point, Buffalo doesn't mean anything to me right now. My focus is only on us and getting our game back. We can't hope for any results until we start playing the type of game that's going to get us them."
Fletcher hasn't been around the team a lot since Christmas because of obligations and scouting. In fact, right now he's conducting the team's scouting meetings in a warm place and a little to my surprise didn't rocket to Buffalo to "save the day."
I asked Yeo point blank to the side today how much assurance Fletcher has given him these days that his job is safe. Fletcher has given Yeo two votes of confidence via the Star Tribune as recently as late last week and I know for a fact he has talked with other national reporters the past few days and said the same thing.
Maybe Yeo is putting on a brave public face also because of the fact that he has 2 ½ years left of security on his deal, but last year Yeo seemed a lot more worried for his job than he does this year.
Yeo said he's had a ton of communication lately with Fletcher (he didn't say if he begged for a goalie or defenseman or two!) and that Fletcher's been extremely supportive.
Yeo on his job: "To say that I'm not worried, of course I am. I'm a realist. I know what's going on. I don't read the papers right now and I'm definitely not on Twitter right now (laughs; see, he doesn't see your #fireyeo's, so just stop!). But I'm not going to sit around and mope and feel sorry for myself. I've got a job to do and now is when I have to do it better than ever."
I asked him if he's at least reading the blog, and he said he has taken a break :(
He said some members of the coaching fraternity have reached out to him: "I think everybody's aware of what's going on. But at the same time, I know there's not a whole lot of sympathy for us right now. That's the way the league works. It's an eat or be eaten type of game. That's why we can't sit around feeling sorry for ourselves. We know that nobody's feeling sorry for us. Why should we? That's not going to help us in any way. We have to find a way to get out of this and the only way is with a clear focus on the way that we need to play the game and a desperation and work ethic that can't be matched."
On Backstrom: "I'm not going to sit here and say that he played a great game, but if he gives up rebounds, then it's our job to make sure we have the guys in front of the net too. It's about every guy doing their job. And rebounds happen during the course of the game and we have to make sure we're ready for that situation and he's got to make sure he's ready for the shot. And that's the focus that we need. If I'm a defenseman, I can't be focused and worried about what Nik Backstrom's doing. I have to make sure that I'm aware and alert and ready for my job and that goes right through the whole lineup."
Yeo admitted there are letdowns after some of the deflating goals lately, especially the power-play goal last night that made it 3-1 so soon after the Wild trimmed it to 2-1, but he said, "We have to find a way to be stronger."
Zach Parise said, "I think we should stop referencing last year. We've been doing that way too much. We give up one, two goals and mentally right now we quit. We've been fragile and we change the way we play. That's what's killing us right now."
I asked Parise about the goalies, well, just because: "It's a collective thing I think. That's a position that's always magnified. The way that position works, if you have an off night it can unfortunately cost you the game easily. Whereas if you're a forward and you have an off night, you can blend in and do other things – but not as a goalie. There's way more that happens before the puck gets to the net that can't happen. The way we're turning the puck over, the way we're not tying up guys. We're there, but we're getting outworked and outmuscled and we're giving up second opportunities that shouldn't happen. That's a big concern for all of us. We're making it pretty easy for the other team."
On all the meetings, Parise said, "Of course it needs to get said. There's been a lot of talking around here the last four weeks. At some point, we have to start to deliver. The coaches can only do so much. As players, we have to have some thicker skin and hold each other accountable. We're missing that right now. It's too easy internally to not compete and it's too easy for us to quit. That's the problem, that's the biggest thing."
On the team's game: "You can pull out a video and hit stop and start and slow-mo and pick apart our game, I'm sure there's a lot that we need to be better at. But a lot of it is a mindset for us. We're not willing to defend the right way right now. When things are going wrong, we start to cheat for offense and next thing you know we're spending four or five shifts in our own zone. We're not strong enough on the puck. Our D-zone coverage hasn't been good enough, our neutral-zone transition hasn't been good, our forecheck hasn't been good. But we know how to do it. that's not a question. We've done it. we know how to do it, we know it works. Just right now, it's a mindset, it's not there.
So how do you get that mindset: "Great question. That's what we're trying to figure out. That's where you need guys like myself to help pull us out of it and to go out tomorrow and have a great game and lead the way and play the right way. That type of stuff is contagious. That's got to be something that happens tomorrow."
On how tough this year has been, Suter, before his hearing, said, "It's awful. This whole year has just been terrible in every way possible. With our dads, the sicknesses, the way the team is playing, it's not good right now. The good thing could be that we have a lot of year left to change that. Today was a good practice. We tried to re-set. We're trying to build traction any way we can. I think that's all we can do right now.''
On Yeo's job, Suter said, "That's a huge reflection on us. Yeozie's a really good coach. He knows the game. He's matured a lot in the last couple of years. He's a guy that we want to play for. That's the disappointing thing. I don't know what's going on, we play so well and then we let in a goal or two goals and the wheels just come off. We try to stabilize and it just doesn't work."
Meeting last night, "Everybody is saying the right things. We're all in it together. We all get along. It's a good room. It's just so frustrating. Because you come out and the effort wasn't bad the first two periods but the result was terrible at the end of the game. It's just unacceptable.''
Nik Backstrom on the criticism with the goalie play: "That's part of the game, we grew up like that as goalies, you're used to it. When things don't go well, they usually look at the goalie, and if things go good, they look at the goalie. That's how it goes. It's part of the game. The good thing is that I've been around and I know that. For sure as a goalie you know you can go out there and play a really good game to help the team get out of the slump. You put pressure on yourself to do that. But at the same time, you can't force the result. You have to focus on the details, the process. You can't think about making 70 saves, just make the first one, then the second one, then the third. Sometimes you can get carried away trying to be perfect. Just play hockey. But you have to do the right things every day. It starts in practice. Today we had a great practice. Last week we had some good practices. So it's getting better.''
Two days after the death of his father, J.P., Wild winger Zach Parise was back with his teammates for a Friday practice at Xcel Energy Center. Afterward, he said plans to play in Saturday's game against Nashville and will accompany the Wild on a three-game road trip that begins Sunday.
J.P. Parise died Wednesday night of lung cancer at age 73. Zach missed the Wild's past two games, Tuesday against San Jose and Thursday against Chicago, to remain at his side. Friday, Zach joked that his dad "probably would have been mad'' that he stayed away from the rink, and he said it was important to his healing to return.
Zach said the timing isn't ideal for a road trip to Chicago, Pittsburgh and Buffalo, but his brother Jordan will be at home with his mother, Donna.
"Not only the last few days, but the last month has been really hard,'' Parise said. "Last night, I was watching the game, and finally my wife told me, 'You have to go to the rink. You have to go and practice and get away and try and get back into the groove of things.'
"You can sit at home and sulk. But I know my dad probably would have been mad at me for skipping the San Jose game, and he probably would have been mad at me for not playing last night, too. So it was important for me to get back.''
Parise said his family has been wrapped in support from the hockey community inside and outside Minnesota. It has been "amazing'' and "incredible,'' he said, to hear about the impact J.P. Parise had on so many people.
When asked whether there would be a public memorial, Parise said the family is planning a funeral for next Friday, Jan. 16.
In other news Friday: Coach Mike Yeo said goalie Darcy Kuemper won't play in at least the next three games. Kuemper is sidelined by a lower-body injury, and neither he nor defenseman Marco Scandella (upper body) has been cleared to practice. Kuemper will definitely sit out against Nashville on Saturday, Chicago on Sunday and Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Scandella is day-to-day, so he could be back sooner.
The Wild also reassigned defenseman Stu Bickel to Iowa on Friday.
With Parise returning, Yeo said he would not split the Jason Zucker-Mikko Koivu-Jason Pominville line. He will do some other shuffling to get Parise back in. "The last couple games, that line has been too good to break up,'' Yeo said. "We'll see if Zach coming in can strengthen one of the other lines and we can keep that line going the same. We would be a better team for that.''
The Wild held a short, businesslike, 30-minute practice Friday after Thursday's 4-2 loss to Chicago, a game that Yeo said looked good on film.
"That was arguably one of the best games we've played in the past couple of months, in terms of the way the game is supposed to look, how we were pressuring the puck, how we were creating turnovers and taking away time and space,'' he said. "It will be a good challenge to see if we can bring that again tomorrow.
"We've got a little bit of a condensed schedule, with three games in four days here. When we're playing our best game, it takes a lot of energy, it takes a lot of effort. But that was the thing I was most pleased with (Thursday). The effort looked the way it's supposed to. That said, we didn't win, and I talked about it yesterday. We need wins right now. But the wins will come if we keep bringing the right work ethic, the right attitude every day."
Evening from Xcel Energy Center, where for some reason I'm still at following this morning's practice.
Just slow moving with everything I'm trying to accomplish today.
1. In many, many years covering the league, I saw one of the funniest things I have ever seen in a practice today.
During a 2-on-2 battle drill, Matt Cooke destroyed Mikko Koivu with a check. I was actually on the phone with my editor, Chris Miller, at the time and I interrupted the conversation because I was so flabbergasted and taken aback.
Koivu scraped himself off the ice and gave Cooke a "What the %&#@!!! are you doing?!?!" look and barked a couple things at him in Finnish, I assume. Cooke was hysterically laughing afterward.
Why was this all so funny?????
Because Koivu was Cooke's 2-on-2 TEAMMATE!!!
See, Cooke was wearing a white sweater. Koivu was wearing a green sweater. So was Ryan Suter, who was defending Cooke and Koivu. So Cooke saw the green sweater color of Koivu, mistakenly thought it was Suter, and kaboom!!!
"That's his explanation anyways," Koivu said, rolling his eyes, in the locker room afterward.
OK, maybe you had to be there to find the humor in all this, but it brought some levity to the team after a 7-1 loss two nights after.
2. I mentioned the whole Bryan Allen waiver thing on the previous blog, so check that out. Just don't see it, but we shall see. Used to be a good player, but he's not the same and makes some bigtime $$$.
3. Mikael Granlund skated on his own today after practice largely just to keep up his fitness as he recovers from wrist surgery. He's still hoping to come back later this month and is wearing a soft cast.
By the way, I have been asked a bunch on Twitter why Granlund tapes his blades in black in the first two periods and white in the third. I finally remembered to ask him today, and guess what, there's no rhyme or reason. He said it's something he started doing in Finland, so it's now a superstition, so he just does it.
4. I talked to Stu Bickel today about the team-record 39 penalty minutes (37 during the one second-period incident in Dallas) today. I asked him about Trevor Daley not getting called for the clearest third-man-in penalty in history. He is literally holding Bickel's arms as Jason Demers punches him. The evidence is the welt to the left of Bickel's left eye today. Yet, Daley didn't get a single penalty minute.
Photo courtesy of @lafrinier on Twitter.
"You could over the video and say what you want about the penalties," Bickel said. "I think it's pretty obvious if you just watch the video."
5. Talking points out of today's practice: 2-1 loss, 7-1 loss, they're both the same thing – two points lost in the standings, so don't dwell on it, fix the problems and don't let it filter into the San Jose game.
We'll see Tuesday if that's easier said than done.
The Wild has to get its act together. I'm not going to rehash everything I put in my main article for Tuesday, but the highlights from today:
"It sure does feel like we could be in trouble," Ryan Suter said. "But it's up to us. We control it. That's a good thing to have. There's not many problems in life that you can control."
Suter knows he's not on top of his game and talked a lot about that today, and that's in Tuesday's article.
Coach Mike Yeo said, "We have to move on. It's as simple as that. It's very frustrating and disappointing to lose a game like that, but to sit around and dwell on it the next couple days is certainly not going to help us for [Tuesday].
"Too bad last game ended the way it did because there's been a lot of positives lately. It's easy to sit here and look at that one game, and I'm not a guy to make excuses, but I'm a realist too, and I know that three games in three different cities with travel against a team that was well-rested sitting there waiting for us, that had an effect. There's no question that we weren't on top of our game, we didn't have the pace we needed in that game, but there's been a lot of positives lately, so we have to make sure we throw that one in the garbage and we have an opportunity now with a homestand. They're all against good teams granted, so it'll be a good test. But we just have to make sure we take care of what we can control."
Again, please read Tuesday's paper for the rest of the quotes on turning the page from Saturday, etc., and a story on Keith Ballard. Talk to you after Tuesday's morning skate.
Good afternoon from Xcel Energy Center.
The Wild, two days after its worst loss of the season, practiced this morning.
Tyler Graovac was expectedly reassigned and Brett Sutter, who got the team stomach plague, returned to practice but doesn't look like he'll play when the Wild opens a big three-game homestand Tuesday against San Jose.
If you didn't see my story today on J.P. Parise's health and the burden Zach Parise is playing under, here is that link and get a tissue. Keep Jeeper and the Parise family in your thoughts and prayers. Here is the link to the original story in September of J.P. and Zach talking about J.P.'s condition.
I will write up a fresh blog in a bit with more stuff from today's practice, but I wanted to quickly blog that defenseman Keith Ballard talked today for the first time since he sustained three facial fractures and a concussion Dec. 9 against the Islanders.
Ballard, 32, the Baudette native and former two-time Gophers national champ, is still experiencing symptoms and has done nothing other than taking walks since the injury. He admits that he's not sure if he'll ever play again. He said he's going to let this play out before determining if he'll return.
Ballard said during his last concussion that he's worried about his future and wants to make sure he's healthy in his post-hockey career as a husband and dad to two children.
He said that again today.
"I'm not ready to decide that stuff, but knowing what we know about concussions, I have to think about the long-term," Ballard said. "I've had three in 14 months, five in five years, not to mention all the times you get hit and say, 'I've got my bell rung,' and you're dizzy for a period. That happens probably a lot more than people know. I have to think about the long-term effects, but again, I'm not ready to make that decision yet. But answering it honestly, yeah, I'm going to think about it."
Ballard said he has good days and bad ones, but he's "better than I was the last couple weeks."
He said he has watched the replay of the Islanders Matt Martin checking him between the benches. Ballard's head hit the top of the boards and he fell terrifyingly to the ice. The league didn't discipline Martin because it felt Ballard aided things because he saw the hit coming at the last second and turned to avoid the check.
"The after part was kind of scary," Ballard said of the video that shows him convulsing on the ice and tons of medical staff and paramedics to his aid (see this story). "I was in a bad spot. I think I was in a bad spot regardless. I dumped the puck and he's playing on the other side of the ice and he comes all the way over to finish his check. Which I understand that. Guys like that, that's what they do. For me, I was kind of trying to side step it and he moved right with me. So it's unfortunate. I don't know what else to say about that."
On his future, Ballard said, "I'm not ready to make that decision right now. I'll make it whether I get to that point. I might not have to make it depending on how much longer these symptoms last. But you definitely think about.
On being healthy in his post-hockey career, Ballard said, "That's still more important to me than playing hockey. But I'm not going to make that decision right now. I'm going to let this play out and see how I feel. Hopefully things clear up and I can get back and play. But if it's a choice between trying to stick it out and play and maybe say you're feeling well when you're not and getting hit again or just deciding it's time to be done, that's a decision for down the road. But it's something I'm going to think about."
Ballard didn't have surgery, but he said it was tough "coming home and my face is pretty smashed up and seeing my kids again. I was so out of it for the first week, it was just kind of a blur. I sat on the couch and didn't do much."
Personally, I don't think we see Ballard again in a Wild sweater.
Regardless, he is out indefinitely and the Wild will continue to look for a left-shot defenseman. I'd be surprised if it's Bryan Allen, who's on waivers. This is not the same Bryan Allen who used to play for Vancouver. He's on the downslope of his career and $3.5 million is a huge ticket for a Canadiens depth defenseman. That type of pickup financially could inhibit the Wild from making other fixes, but we'll see tomorrow.
Plain and simple, the Clayton Stoner loss to a big, gigantic contract to Anaheim hurt this team, as did Willie Mitchell (understandably) choosing a richer payday in Florida. Not only does the Wild lack a left-shot, it misses the grit and physicality and size on the blue line.
I'll be back in a bit with a bunch of stuff from today's practice.
Happy new year from Xcel Energy Center, where the Wild held an optional practice Thursday. Fourteen skaters, plus goalies Niklas Backstrom and Darcy Kuemper, participated--including a couple of players who had been missing recently.
Jonas Brodin and Jason Zucker both practiced at full speed. Brodin, who has missed two games with a head injury, said he feels great; coach Mike Yeo is optimistic Brodin will play Friday against Toronto at Xcel as long as Brodin still feels good Friday morning. Brodin has been skating by himself or with Backstrom, who also is feeling good again after missing three games because of the stomach bug that has been working its way through the team.
Zucker is a longer-term project. He said after practice that he has never been hit so hard by an illness as he was by this nasty norovirus. Zucker didn't eat for two days and didn't get off his couch for three or four days; he missed three games, and Thursday marked the first time he has skated since falling ill on Dec. 27.
Zucker said he felt better than he anticipated during Thursday's practice, but Yeo said he knows conditioning will be an issue, and there is no timetable for his return.
Speaking of returns, forward Tyler Graovac was sent back to Iowa after Thursday's practice. He impressed Yeo in the first two NHL games of his career, and both Yeo and GM Chuck Fletcher stressed that Graovac's reassignment had nothing to do with the quality of his play. Fletcher wants the 21-year-old center to continue developing in the minors by playing a big role regularly, and Yeo plans to bring center Erik Haula back into the lineup Friday.
Yeo made it a point to say he hopes Graovac's debut puts a little heat on some veterans."We look at how far he's come along, and we're very encouraged,'' Yeo said. "I hope that he's pushing some guys, because we know he can come in and play. And we're talking about a big, skating centerman who can create and has the ability to make plays. So we're encouraged with where he's at.''
The coach also wants to see how Haula responds to being benched for three of the past four games. Yeo has seen improvement in practice, he said, but stepping up in a game presents a new test.
"The defensive part of his game has to be there,'' Yeo said. "He has to be a guy that's difficult to play against, in terms of being positionally sound and taking away time and space from players. On top of that, more than anything else, it's the compete in the hard areas.
"Every player has to play the game with a physical element. What Erik Haula brings physically is going to be different than what Stu Bickel brings physically. But they have to bring what they bring. That's what I'm looking for.''
Yeo declined to say how he plans to deploy his goalies in back-to-back games Friday (at home against Toronto) and Saturday (at Dallas). But Backstrom is ready to go if he is called upon to start.
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Stephen Dunn/Getty ImagesReggie Bush rushed for 908 yards and six touchdowns while leading USC to the 2004 national title.As a final farewell to the BCS era, I used my opponent-adjusted FEI ratings to identify the five best individual team seasons in each of the Power Five conferences. The ratings reward dominant victories combined with strong competition, which are key elements we expect the College Football Playoff committee to take into account, as well. For this analysis, results that played out on the field are counted, regardless of whether victories were later vacated because of NCAA sanctions. (*Because of the lack of available play-by-play and drive data, FEI ratings have been calculated only since 2003. For the 1998-2002 seasons, we produced an alternate set of ratings based on opponent-adjusted final scores. The alternate ratings have a 0.95 correlation with FEI). Here are the five best Pac-12 teams from the BCS era:
1. 2004 USC Trojans (13-0) These Trojans measure as the best team of the BCS era across all conferences, a dominant team that would later have to vacate its final two victories and the championship crown thanks to NCAA sanctions. USC won games by an average of 23 points per game against the 13th-toughest schedule according to the FEI ratings. Four Trojans opponents ranked among the FEI top 15 at the end of the year, and USC dropped those four teams by a cumulative score of 147-56. The BCS championship win over Oklahoma was the biggest blowout of the era. The USC defense allowed only 80.5 rushing yards per game and tallied 48 sacks on the year, tops in the nation in both measures. Running backs LenDale White and Reggie Bush combined for 2011 yards rushing and 33 touchdowns on the ground, and Bush chipped in 509 receiving yards out of the backfield, as well.
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Looking to explore the Chianti region of Tuscany with all the comforts of home and more? This accommodation in a Tuscany villa has it all, from a swimming pool to sprawling grounds and all the amenities indoors. One of the owners, who lives on the estate in the family villa, is American and she's furnished this holiday villa in Tuscany to American tastes. So relax! Lounge at this Tuscany vacation villa, take a refreshing bike ride to nearby Certaldo (we highly recommend exploring the Pretorio Palace), or take a day trip to Florence and beyond! There is another villa, Villa Certaldo, and an apartment, La Solaia, right next door.
The property is located four kilometers from Certaldo, which has all the necessities combined with small-town charm. Pick up groceries or eat out in the modern section and spend the rest of your day exploring Certaldo Alta, the old medieval village. In July, you may find yourself in the midst of a lively Renaissance festival, complete with street artists, actors, musicians, and more. And don't forget to get your fill of medieval architecture! You can explore the Pretorio Palace or marvel at the profile Certaldo castle cuts across the sky. Like museums? Visit the house of Giovanni Boccaccio (author of the Decameron). Day trips can take you to San Gimignano, Siena, and Florence. Pisa and Florence airports are easy arrival points where you can rent a car.
Lucca: 60 km/37.5 mi
Rome: 250 km/155 mi
Livorno: 80 km/50 mi
Lucca: 60 km/37.5 mi
Pisa: 45 km/28 mi
Volterra: 42 km/26 mi
Florence: 40 km/25 mi
Siena: 35 km/22 mi
San Gimignano: 13 km/8 mi
Poggibonsi: 8 km/5 mi
Certaldo: 4 km/2.5 mi
This independent villa is situated on a private estate that consists of the owner's residence, another villa (Villa Certaldo) and an apartment (La Solaia), both for rent. This villa is nestled into the side of a hill leading up to the main villa, which sits on the crest of the hill. The outdoor areas are on different levels and separated by a fence, so remain very private. A gravel parking area is conveniently located a few meters from the front entrance, separated by a plot of grass. Views from the house are directed away from the other residences, making this villa private with its own fenced garden. There is an enormous fig tree adjacent to the backyard fence that overlooks the valley. At the front of the house on the ground floor there is a spacious covered terrace with a table and chairs for outdoor dining. A pathway from the terrace leads to the villa's own private swimming pool (open from mid May to mid September 9m x 4m, 1.1m deep). The property is accessed via a gate off of a paved, very lightly traveled country road. The surrounding estate includes a 74-acre nature reserve, populated with wild pheasant, hare, wild boar, hedgehogs, and newly-sited roe deer.
Ground Floor: A path from the parking area leads onto the sidewalk of the front yard of the home, providing same level access to the front door. There is then a staircase that leads up to the first floor on the right. A guest bathroom with a sink, toilet, and shower is located just on the left. The foyer leads directly into the 22 m2 living room, where there are two sofas (one is a sofa-bed suitable for one), an easy chair, fireplace, and a safe behind a portrait on the wall! There is also a large flat screen TV with satellite, a DVD player, and a small laptop computer. The entire house and garden offers wireless internet connection free of charge. The living room, as well as the rest of the house, is decorated throughout with an equestrian theme. An arched doorway leads into the 10 m2 kitchen, equipped with a cook-top, oven, dishwasher, microwave, toaster, American and espresso coffee makers, and a dining table seating four to six. There are settings for 12, along with children's plates and utensils. Large double arched glass doors from the kitchen and living room lead out onto the 13 m2 covered terrace, overlooking the countryside and furnished with a table and chairs for dining. Several steps from the terrace lead down to the swimming pool. The ground floor also has one 10 m2 bedroom with a 160 cm queen-size bed and an ensuite bathroom with a sink, toilet, and shower.
First Floor: Twelve sandstone stairs lead from the foyer to the first floor. The landing has a laundry area with a washer and dryer as well as a sink and iron with ironing board. There are two more bedrooms on this floor. The first 14 m2 bedroom has a 160 cm queen-size bed, a writing desk, and a large window that overlooks the valley. The ensuite bathroom has a sink, toilet, and bathtub with handheld showerhead and skylight. The second 20 m2 bedroom has an extra-long large queen-size bed (175 cm wide x 205 cm long) along with a writing desk and three windows overlooking the valley and garden/swimming pool. The ensuite bathroom has two sinks, a toilet, and shower.
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Villa Sella is an amazing getaway and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The serenity of the surroundings are what one craves after a day of touring and the pool was a lifesaver.
Amazing linens and towels made one feel spoiled.
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The location of Villa Sella is perfect. The views are unparalleled and Elizabeth is simply lovely.
Enjoyed Least:
The kitchen was a little smaller than we would have liked as we are all avid cooks and it was definitely a squash and a squeeze.
Surrounding Area:
The villa is perfectly located to explore the surrounding Tuscan countryside. Nothing is too far away.
Nearby Events or Locales:
Certaldo is very close by- but not within walking distance. Sciano is close by and could be walked to but there is very little there!
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Elizabeth provides a great list of local restaurants. We did a lot of cooking at home for dinners and had big lunches out.
We used a GPS and it got us there perfectly.
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Everything was perfect.
Beth, September
We had a wonderful time. The property is within easy distance of the train station, supermarket, and many vineyards and historical towns. The owner Elizabeth was warm and friendly and welcoming.
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The view from the porch was outstanding, as well as the 2nd floor bedrooms. It was peaceful, with beautiful countryside all around us.
Enjoyed Least:
The kitchen was on the small side, with very little space to work in. The drains to the shower were very slow.
Surrounding Area:
The vast openness and scenic countryside. We loved driving down country lanes and came across some amazing towns.
Nearby Events or Locales:
Certaldo was the nearest town and it had everything we needed. It is not within walking distance but is easily a 10 min drive. It was easy to get to from the the villa.
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The property was well-equipped, including a hair dyer, so just bring your clothes and enjoy.
We flew into Pisa and used the directions given to us and had no problems finding the villa.
Check In Out:
The check in and check out were smooth. Elizabeth the owner lives next door so was always on hand if you needed her assistance.
Harinder, August
I spent a month at Villa Sella and can honestly say I loved every minute of it. The location of the villa was ideal for anyone hoping to meander through the Tuscan countryside, with the charming village of Certaldo a 10 minute drive away and the hustle and bustle of Florence a 50 minute train ride from Certaldo. The villa itself was absolutely lovely and had every amenity imaginable included. Elizabeth and her husband were wonderful hosts, anxious to help their guests feel at home and enjoy their experience.
Enjoyed Most:
It was a toss up for us between the private pool where we relaxed in between all our day trips, the veranda, where we enjoyed many a bottle of local wine and delicious meals and last--but definitely not least-- the master bedroom suite.
Enjoyed Least:
Probably the mosquitoes. It was a warm, humid summer so they were in abundance. The owner brought us a fan for the veranda which really helped, coupled with plenty of citronella candles.
Surrounding Area:
The location in Tuscany was perfect...very close to San Gimignano, Certaldo and Poggibonsi with easy access to the main highway between Florence and Siena. We were able to visit many of the hilltop cities Tuscany is so famous for.
Nearby Events or Locales:
The little village of Sciano with a cute pizza/pasta restaurant was a good, long walk from the villa but the closest town with all amenities, Certaldo, was about 6 kilometers away. It was really a wonderful, little town with a walled city at the top of the funiculare with wonderful little restaurants, a great ceramic shop, and fantastic views. The main city of Certaldo itself had cute shops, great gelato on the square, and a wonderful market, the Coop, just outside of the city. Don't fret if you haven't visited any wineries yet, the Coop has a great selection of wines, especially Chianti!
Tips or Restaurants:
Elizabeth really thought of most everything for your convenience but be sure to bring your mosquito repellent devices. Also bring matches! For some crazy reason you can't find matches to buy anywhere. Be sure to avail yourselves of the wood burning grill outside. We made absolutely wonderful florentine Steak and seafood. As far as restaurants go, Pizza Marone in Sciano was good and had good take out pizza. In Old Certaldo I would highly recommend Da Messere Boccacio....wonderful food and great house red wine. If you are up for a beautiful, leisurely dinner with a view I would highly recommend Osteria Del Vicario near the top of the hill. Dinner and wine were both wonderful.
The directions were absolutely perfect. We had no issues finding the property.
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Elizabeth was an exceptional hostess who made us feel welcome and facilitated the check in and out process.
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After considering this for a couple of days I feel both of you have very valid points based on perceived cause and effect. However from other viewpoints perceptions can shift and show a different picture. In most areas today if you buy into the one size fits all program you will get a semi free ride either through collage into a paper shuffling job or into a union position that will stifle any creativity you might have acquired in your early years because it does not fit your job description.
The tendency in the educational system today is to produce round pegs properly sized to fit into round plug and play job positions in business and industry. More flexible creative minds fit into this system about as well as a square peg will into a board with only round holes. So what happens to the creative mind, it either gets its corners rounded off to fit in the per programmed round hole or it has to survive as best can in the independent world where individuality and ability count for more than conformity does.
Have you ever watched what happens to a company when the union comes in and takes control. First they will observe all work in the shop and develop job titles and descriptions. Then they will define those job descriptions more carefully. So in a screw machine shop for instance we will illustrate the job position of machine operator. Now in the company before the union the operator did parts of the setup of the machine, changed and sharpened drills, changed and sharpened cutting tools and adjusted them and checked the parts he makes to make sure the tooling gets changed, sharpened or adjusted before the parts go out of print, after the union he can only put parts into the machine and take them out. It now requires a setup man for every five machines to do the sharpening and adjusting of tooling and an inspector for every five machines to check the work and call the setup man when there is a problem with the parts. Also the supervisor and lead men are no longer allowed to setup or adjust the machines because they are management.
So now we have a department of say 20 machines that used to run with six people that now requires twelve at more money for less production. Also we now have a situation where the worker and the company instead of working together in cooperation as a team to raise profits and pay through higher production and better quality, they are now adversaries where production suffers and quality suffers if the ransom of higher wages is nor forthcoming even though quality and production are falling.
Next step is the company farming out the work of the department with the worst productivity problems followed with a plant or company wide strike because of the outsourcing. Soon the outsourcing goes to other countries where worker productivity is higher so the company can afford to pay the upward spiraling union wages for those positions still left that can not be outsourced despite their falling productivity and outright sabotage of quality. Next step is owner or board of directors decides to sell off or dump the company to an international combine, which comes in and moves the rest of the work somewhere else and sells off what is left to improve their bottom line.
A short discourse on modern education and the democratic union system and its effect on a once great and productive nation and people.
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> John, It seems that I recall you are a couple of years older than me so you
> may not be aware of how things have changed. The situation is now far worse
> than the examples you relate and I have worried over it quite a lot. It
> truly is frightening.
> I may also be more sensitive and exposed because you lived in the real
> world while mine was the fantasy world of civil service. Regardless, I have
> formed a couple of opinions which, as always, I'd like to toss out.
> I'm willing to wager that, during your college days, engineering students
> made fun of business majors and whatever non-engineering student population
> existed at the time. Along with that, I'll bet your professors told you how
> "special" you would be as an engineer and how much respect and
> responsibility would be heaped upon you.
> My third bet is that you went to engineering school because you had a love
> for the art and science of it as well as a talent for doing the things
> required of that profession.... what, back in the dark ages, was called
> "aptitude."
> Two things have changed. Interest and aptitude have gone out the door.
> Students now actually believe all that crap about respect, rewards and
> responsibility but nobody ever told them when or how.
> Today's engineering graduates (all generalities are false, including this
> one) got there out of greed for the money and power they expected to
> automatically apply to all engineering school graduates. The did not go to
> school because they loved or 'had a knack" for that kind of work. They
> graduated because of extensive study and memorization with little or no
> actual understanding of the subject.
> During the '80s, I interviewed literally hundreds of job applicants. One
> engineering school valedictorian actually asked how many people she would be
> supervising during the interview. I passed on her but higher levels
> rescinded my decision and she would up working for me. She could quote
> atomic weights of anything you could name but hand her a block of lead and a
> block of aluminum and she could not tell you which was which. I spent one
> whole day explaining various common fasteners to her.... bolts, nuts,
> washers, lockwashers, rivets, screws... and I never was sure she actually
> understood any of it.
> One physicist candidate revealed a passion for riding dirt bikes.
> I asked if the bike had an expansion chamber.
> Of course!
> How does it work?
> I don't know.
> Is this the scientific curiosity you want to see in your new-hire?
> Couple that with the division of primary education into "workers" and
> "college material" with the resulting death of hands-on training for both,
> the urban upbringing and demise of any kind of actual experience in today's
> colleges and it is highly likely that you can hire a mechanical engineering
> school graduate who cannot walk out to your car, point directly at a bolt
> and say, "That is a bolt."
> WDSmith
> From: catboat15@... <snipped & edited>
> BTW I rant about poorly educated engineers here on the net.
> Example #1: I asked him if he had ever looked under the car. "No, of course
> not, I am an engineer." he replied. Still can not understand why so many
> people with degrees in engineering do not know that all that math and
> science we had to take applies to the real world, not just school book
> problems.
> Example #2 one the engineers (higher grade than I was at the time) tried to
> overhaul a 56 Chevy and could not get the engine to turn over when done.
> I went out to his house and found the rods were too tight on the crankshaft
> to even move with a
> hammer. I asked him shims he took out. Shims, what shims? was his answer.
> Lucky I found the rod bearing shims in his clean up solvent bucket and was
> able to adjust his rods so the engine was tight, but could turn over and
> broken in. Had no Plastigage of course..
> John Meacham
> High desert of California
> 3.5 gauge LBSC Virginia 4-4-0
> 3.5 gauge LBSC Tich 0-4-0
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Pictures, photographs and illustrations of cicadas.
This is a list of books about Cicadas. A few of these books are out of print, but you can still find used copies on online stores. I own most the books in this list.
A Cicada Book from Japan
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Another Cicada Book from Japan
Catalogue of the Cicadoidea by Allen F Sanborn
Cicadas and Aphids What They Have in Common by Sara Swan Miller
Greek Entomyth-ology written and illustrated by Atremis Ippotis
The Cicadas of Thailand Volumes 1 and 2 by Michael Boulard
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A Superior Court judge has ruled that the Secretary of State's office improperly used the courts to investigate a lobbyist for 38 Studios.
Scott Judge Daniel Procaccini ruled that Secretary of State Ralph Mollis and his lawyer misused the courts when looking into whether Michael Corso was registered with the state while lobbying for the failed video game company.
How did Mollis misuse the courts in the judge's view? Here to join us with more is Rhode Island Public Radio political analyst Scott MacKay
Pablo Rodriguez joins Political Roundtable this week as we discuss the outlook for a trial on the pension dispute; Governor-elect Gina Raimondo going out of state to pick her chief of staff; fallout from recent cases in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, and questions about unregistered lobbying.
If anyone still cares about the Holiday/Christmas tree Statehouse kerfuffle, Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced today that this year's rotunda evergreen will be called a`` Christmas tree'' and that Secretary of State Ralph Mollis will light it on Wednesday, December 3 at 6 p.m.
The 15-foor Fraser Fir evergreen was donated to the state by Sarah Partyka of the Farmer's Daughter farm in South Kingstown.
``I am happy to be part of such a wonderful holiday tradition, lighting the State House Christmas tree,'' said Mollis in a statement.
Despite two close races and a controversial vote on gambling in Newport, The Rhode Island Secretary of State is predicting only moderate voter turnout for today's mid-term elections. But the hope is for better numbers than 2010.
That's because this year has an extremely tight and potentially landmark governor's race on the line. Latest polling numbers show Democrat Gina Raimondo and Republican Allan Fung neck in neck. Secretary of State Ralph Mollis says his office is hoping for about fifty percent of eligible voters to exercise their right.
On this Election Day voters will decide on many major statewide races including governor. Most municipalities also have local questions.
Barrington voters must contend with a three-page local ballot, and forty local questions. Secretary of State Ralph Mollis is encouraging Barrington voters, and voters statewide, to look at their ballots before they step into the voting booths.
Secretary of State Ralph Mollis will join the Board of Elections and the Community College of Rhode Island today to register Rhode Island voters. The registration will occur between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at all four of CCRI's locations across the state. Mollis says because of efforts like this, more people are registering to vote than ever.
Anthony Pesaturo, the veteran pollster and political consultant, and Andrew Annaldo, former Democratic city councilman and mayoral candidate, are conducting exit polls today at voting precincts in the Elmhurst and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods of Providence. The neighborhoods are redoubts of old Providence, the city of Italian and Irish Americans, but a smattering of Latinos have moved in recent years. (Mayor Angel Taveras and his family live there, as does City Council President Michael Solomon).It has long been a Democratic Party redoubt.
With the statewide primary on Tuesday, Scott MacKay, Maureen Moakley, and WPRI.com's Ted Nesi join me to discuss the races for lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary of state, and the November campaign for attorney general.
The Farmers Market at Lippitt Park on Providence's East Side is a bustling venue on Saturday mornings as people line up to choose from a cornucopia of fruits, vegetables, sweets, seafood and pasture-feed beef. It was also a beehive of political activity this morning as candidates milled among prospective voters. Secretary of State Ralph Mollis, who is running in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor was spotted, along with Buddy Cianci, who is trying to make a comeback for Providence mayor as an independent.


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