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| Birmingham -- The girls at the Creative Wellness Center on Southside are a mixed bunch. These are 13- to 17-year olds, yet many are as thin as girls half their age, with the baby faces to match. Others look older and tougher. They slouch on sofas underneath dark hooded sweatshirts. There's an abundance of giant hoop earrings and tattoos.
The girls are here because they've made some serious mistakes. They've assaulted someone or run away or shoplifted. And so the court required them to attend Strong Girls, a 10-week program that uses the arts to rehabilitate female juvenile delinquents. Jessica Leggitte is a tall, broad 16-year-old in the program. In one semester, she'd missed 38 days of school.
"I was always getting picked on and bullied. And when I tried to get help, they just didn't wouldn't listen, so I just stopped going to school."
And Jessica just stopped talking. She says the counseling at Strong Girls has helped her open up more. She and her mother don't fight as much. The program uses the arts like dance and poetry to get girls to talk and trust each other. Trust is something that doesn't come naturally.
"Such a high percentage of our girls - 60 to 70 percent - have been physically and/or sexually and emotionally abused."
That's Eve Laxer, head of the Strong Girls program.
"So when that happens, when there's that kind of trauma, either in childhood or even early adolescence, girls tend to either divorce themselves from their bodies or sexually act out as a survival skill."
And that's why reconnecting with their bodies is a huge part of the program. Dance is one way to do that.
"And we're constantly referencing, what's happening in your body now? And when we do that, it helps them have more time between the thought or the emotion and the action. And that's part of what happens with aggressive behavior is there is no time."
But Strong Girls makes plenty of time for talk, and on this day, gathered in the basement of the Creative Wellness Center, Jessica and 13 other girls are getting the talk. This is the talk that every parent hates to initiate. The talk that gets awkward.
"How do you know if you have an STD?" they're asked.
The girls giggle every now and then. But for the most part, the room is quiet, and the girls lean in to hear more.
"If you don't love yourself, you're not going to protect yourself."
Laura Secord, a nurse practitioner at UAB's HIV clinic, has been giving talks on sexuality for the last couple of years.
"And Strong Girls does a good job of looking at that comprehensive thing of making you feel good about yourself, feel like you're valuable, feel like it's worth protecting yourself. But it's a huge thing to deal with the issues of sexuality, STD's and pregnancy if you don't have much self-esteem."
One self-esteem builder is the sister circle. At the beginning of every session, the girls sit in a circle and take turns rating their day. During one session, Jessica was about an 8. She shared that she knew of a girl in her neighborhood who was trying to steal her boyfriend. Besides being supremely confident that the girl wouldn't win out, she was most proud of the fact that she didn't lose her temper. The girls often applaud each other for these little triumphs.
The girls also do drum circles and write poetry. Eve Laxer says these things offer a chance to really shine at something for the first time.
"In many cases, nobody's really identified out loud the strengths that are seen in these girls. And so it make such a huge difference to them when it's brought to their attention or when there's some help given in them discovering their own strengths and talents that they didn't know were there."
Laxer says Strong Girls offers things that boot camp cannot: relationships, self-expression, reality checks on what they're thinking and feeling. But mostly, a sense that they're in control.
"The boot camps and those kinds of programs rely on external control and external authority. And girls rebel against that all day long.
There's evidence to suggest Strong Girls works. More than a year after treatment, 72% of the program's 2006 graduates had not reoffended. What's more, Laxer says, 80% of parents reported fewer conflicts at home. Laxer says state and federal officials have said they're interested in replicating the Strong Girls model elsewhere.
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Message from the Dean - December 2011
Premier Points: Crosswalked with the Strategic Plan
Last month, I launched our premier points and asked for conversations around each point and the intersection across the various points. Once again, the premier points were chosen because they were inclusive of all programs across the College of Education. The premier points are to move us forward toward the University's goal of leading the state and the nation in becoming the premier PK-12 teacher preparation program. The premier points must also build on the skill sets and experiential knowledge base of our students. These points should be grounded in what we already do (operations genesis) and propel us toward our premier status (aspirational intent).
The next step is to convene representative groups of people to define and operationalize each premier point. I have asked the following faculty members to take the lead of these premier points:
- Assessment – Robert Boody
- Community Service and Outreach – Clare Struck
- Diversity – Suzanne Freedman
- Field-based Experiences – Dianna Briggs
- Inquiry – Robin Lund
- Leadership – Vickie Robinson
- Literacy – Deb Tidwell
- Technology – Leigh Zeitz
I am requesting that each team consist of a member of each department which of course includes the Malcolm Price Lab School in the department of teaching.
The task of each team is to craft an implementation plan that:
- Defines the premier point
- Identifies the charge or rationale for the intent
- Generates the factors to consider when implementing the intent
- Identifies the human, capital, and informational resources needed to address the premier point
If you are interested in being on one of these teams, please let the team leader know as soon as possible. I want everyone to have an articulated understanding of the premier points and to begin to reflect on how these points are incorporated or embedded in your programs, protocols, and pedagogical practices.
Strategic Plan Crosswalk
Operational Genesis:
- Director of Assessment
- Teacher Work Sample
- Piloting the Teacher Performance Assessment
- Students must take an assessment course
- Entry to exit assessments that monitors students' growth in knowledge and skills
- Entry to exit dispositional assessment
- Performance assessment that showcases students' enhancement of PK-12 student performance
- Graduate follow up survey at least 1st, 3rd, and 5th year
- Mechanisms put in place to review, analyze, and use data to guide instruction
Aspirational intent
Strategy 1.1.1 Collect immediate and longitudinal data from students/graduates regarding the impact of their coursework
Strategy 1.2.1: Gather data for individual program assessments into continuous improvement cycles to revise curriculum
Community Service and Outreach
Operational Genesis:
- Early childhood course that requires students to complete clinical hours in community agencies, organizations, and programs that support young learners.
- American Humanics; World leisure; Playground safety; Jacobson Partnership in Comprehensive Literacy; Center for Disabilities, Language, and Literacy; and other programs across the College of Education that encourages connectivity with the community.
Aspirational Intent
Goal 5: establish and enhance strong, mutually beneficial relationships with external constituencies
Obj 5.1. Expand and improve the network of external partners engaged with COE programs
Obj 5.2. Influence local, state, and national policy development
Operational Genesis:
- All faculty and staff possess the dispositional stances that recognize the imperative of the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion into programs, practices, and protocols.
- Establishment of an academic advisor and recruiter who focuses on recruitment and retention of students of color across the College of Education.
- An established diversity committee that focuses on programming and policies pertaining to diversity.
Aspirational Intent
Goal 1: Lead the state and the nation by developing highly effective professionals prepared to educate, serve, and lead the future generations.
Obj:1.2: Evaluate and adapt all preparation programs to focus on 21st century skills and create professionals.
Goal 3: Create, maintain, and enhance a culture that is characterized by a proactive commitment to diversity, collegiality, and mutual respect.
Strategy 3.1.1: Create ongoing professional development to increase faculty and staff cultural competency
Strategy 3.2.1: Review curricula to support development of cultural competency amongst students.
Objective 3.2.1: Recruit and retain diverse faculty, staff, and student body
Operational Genesis:
- Content major in secondary programs
- Extensive reading, math, and science content courses required for elementary
- Collaborative research with students and professors
- Price Lab School transforming to Iowa Research and Development School
Aspirational Intent:
Obj. 2.2: Faculty (and students) will engage in scholarship that represents a broad range of forms and methodologies, has links to teaching and service, and is programmatic, collaborative, and connected with issues of educational importance.
Strategy 2.2.1: Develop collaborative research among pre-service, practicing teachers, and contact professors that address issues and problems of the community, state, nation, and world.
Strategy 2.2.2: Develop active professional communities to support quality scholarship (inquiry).
Strategy 2.2.3: Embrace multiple formats of scholarship (scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching)
Field-based Experiences
Operational Genesis:
- Active Office of Student Field Experiences
- Nationwide and international placements
- Level I, II, III, and IV experiences
- Clinical experiences required in health, athletic training, and leisure studies
- Professional fields
- State-wide distribution network for student teaching through regional centers
Aspirational Intent
Strategy 1.1.3: Develop diverse learning experiences through technology-rich environments, domestic excursion opportunities, and studies abroad that extend the campus to multicultural national and international settings.
Strategy 1.1.4: Provide early, on-going, diverse, intensive mutually-beneficial clinical-based learning experiences that encourage the development of effective practices, impacts student performance, and supports school reform initiatives.
Operational Genesis:
- Active department of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education
- Several Masters of Education in Professional Development offered in various departments
- Budding teacher leader program working in collaboration with Waterloo Public Schools
Aspirational Intent
Objective 1.2: Evaluate and adapt all preparation programs to focus on 21st century skills and create professionals who are developmentally, linguistically, culturally, and technologically competent and confident.
Tactic 22.214.171.124: Review and strengthen high-quality graduate programs that prepare leaders in their professions and enhance the social, cultural, and economic development of Iowa.
Operational Genesis:
- Established the Jacobson's Comprehensive Partnership in Literacy Center
- Established the Center for Disabilities Studies in Literacy, Language, and Learning
- Active programs in literacy education with a minor in reading education
- Literacy aspects of various disciplines incorporated throughout all programs
Aspirational Intent
Objective 1.2: Evaluate and adapt all preparation programs to focus on 21st century skills and create professionals who are developmentally, linguistically, culturally, and technologically competent and confident.
Strategy 1.4.3: Evaluate and increase program's capacity to impact the learning and development of PreK-12 youth.
Operational Genesis:
- Established Instructional Technology program
- One-to-one initiative at Price Lab School
- Required courses in technology for teacher education majors
- Most classrooms equipped with technology for presentation purposes
- Most students enter programs as digital natives
Aspirational Intent
Objective 1.2: Evaluate and adapt all preparation programs to focus on 21st century skills and create professionals who are developmentally, linguistically, culturally, and technologically competent and confident.
Strategy 2.1.2: Ensure that students, professors, instructors, administrators, and staff collaborate in a technology-rich work environment.
Tactic 188.8.131.52: Reallocate funds to support technology enhancements.


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Savannah Mackenzie Angel, treasured daughter of Eric and Misty Angel and beloved sister of Mason Angel, was called to the Lord on March 27, 2014. She is survived by maternal grandparents, Chip and Debbie Fehr; paternal grandparents, Dennis and Jackie Angel; maternal great-grandparents, Marvin & Shirley Wirtjes and Judith Fehr; aunts & uncles, Derek & Ashley Fehr, Danielle & Lester Spriggle, Kelly Angel; and a cousin, Chance Spriggle.
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"Heaven's gain was our loss when our 'little angel' came into this world too soon and was taken too soon."
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A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight. Walking in a winter wonderland.
Gone away is the bluebird, Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song, As we go along, Walking in a winter wonderland. In the meadow we can build a snowman, Then pretend that he is Parson Brown……."
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Walt Disney World is a favorite destination for kids and families for extreme and fun adventures. But did you realize that this is also fast becoming a hot destination for Halloween? Indeed, since the inauguration of the Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, it has been the must-see events in the world-famous park.
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is an annual event held in Walt Disney World during the Halloween season at the Magic Kingdom Park. The event kicks off September 10 and ends on November 1, 2013. There are lots of activities and exciting trick-or-treating in store for all visitors who visit Disney World during that period.
What can you expect to find when you attend the Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party?
First off, there is the Trick-or-Treat event, of which kids look forward to most. You and your kids can dress up in their favorite Halloween costumes while collecting various candies and other treats at Magic Kingdom park. It is astounding how the park had been transformed to reflect the Halloween spirit and that in itself is quite a treat! Another favorite attraction amongst kids are their favorite Disney characters also get dressed for the Halloween. On select nights, there are events held from 7PM tp 12MN. This event is ideal for children of all ages to enjoy.
In addition to the trick-or-treat, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Party features eerie entertainment that provides spook-tacular party that kids and adults will have so much fun with. If you have limited time, you can select from a wide range of events such as the Frontierland, Disney Villains Dance Mix and Mingle, Happy Hallowishes, or Mickey's "Boo-to-You" Halloween Parade. The Frontierland's main attraction is the quartet of dead cowboys serenading audience with songs rendered in the style of Dapper Dans. Meanwhile, Happy Hallowishes takes place in the Ghost Host from the Haunted Mansion wherein guests can experience out of this world fireworks and theme song remixes.
The biggest event during the Halloween festivities at Disney World is the Halloween Parade. Some of the best features at the parade are the hair-raising display of notable characters such as the Four Horsemen, an array of spooky floats, and Haunted Mansion stars. Do not forget to bring your cameras with you if you are going to partake in the parade because the sights and sounds at the parade is something that you and the kids will cherish for a long time.
Have you attended the Mickey's Not-So-Scary Party at Walt Disney World?
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"Flipside: The Patti Page Story," a musical developed and written by University of Central Oklahoma faculty member Greg White, is on its way to an off-Broadway run at New York's 59E59 Theater. The production will be staged Dec. 18-30.
Oklahoman's musical on living legend Patti Page will play off-Broadway
Premiered at UCO in April 2011, "Flipside" follows Page's career from her early days in Claremore through her success as an award-winning singer and television entertainer. After its local premiere, "Flipside" was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival where it won several honors including best musical.
"Very soon after the Kennedy Center competition, I submitted the work to the 59E59 Theater," said White, director of UCO's musical theater program. He said 59E59's mission "is to support nonprofit organizations that are developing new works. It's extremely competitive to be invited to perform in this space."
White has budgeted the New York production at $100,000, a conservative figure that includes travel expenses for the cast, musicians and technical staff, housing during the two-week run and per diem for meals and other related expenses. The scenery, lighting, sound and costumes also will need to be sent to New York.
"We've successfully secured $60,000 of that from UCO's College of Fine Arts and Design, and we've had some donors who have stepped forward," White said. "Our goal is to have all of the money raised before we leave so that we're not dependent on ticket sales."
'Destined to be'
A chance meeting with Page's manager Michael Glynn prompted White to explore the possibility of writing a show about Oklahoma's "Singing Rage." After conducting numerous interviews with Page and her sister Peggy Layton, White explored Page's recordings, memoirs, television appearances and personal life. By the summer of 2010, he had completed a workable draft of "Flipside."
The title comes from the recording industry's designation of its 45 rpm records. In 1950, Page recorded "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" as the A-side of a disc. While that song has faded into obscurity, the record's flip side — "Tennessee Waltz" — turned out to be Page's biggest hit.
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Bengal has enough stocks of salt, says minister
With the price of salt skyrocketing after rumours of a shortage triggered panic buying of the commodity in parts of West Bengal, food and supplies minister Jyotipriya Mallick claimed here Saturday that the state has sufficient stocks of salt.
"At this moment we have enough stock of salt to last for more than eight months for the entire state. Even today (Saturday) we received fresh supply of salt. I want to assure there is no shortage," Mallick said after a meeting with department officials.
People were seen queuing outside shops since Thursday in Darjeeling, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts with salt being sold anywhere between Rs.100 to Rs.150 a kg.
Mallick said he held a meeting with salt traders from across the state as well as food department officials to ensure the supply of salt and its price is normalised at the earliest.
The administration has not only issued a notification rubbishing the rumours but is also carrying out raids to check hoarders and traders indulging in black marketing. So far, over a dozen people have been arrested.
With Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressing concern over the issue, Mallick said the situation was steadily normalising.
"She (Banerjee) called me up last night (Friday) expressing concern. I assured her the department was working on a war footing to take action against those selling salt at exorbitant prices. We are also assuring the public about sufficient stock of salt," added Mallick.
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Instead of sending the bill through his committee, Rangel plans to dispatch the bill directly to the floor of the House, according to Bloomberg.com. There are about 73 tax provisions scheduled to expire by Dec. 31, including the credit for research and experimentation expenses, deductions for tuition and state and local taxes, film and TV production expensing rules, a deduction for contributions of food inventory, tax breaks for certain expenses by school teachers, and a host of other goodies.
The AMT patch probably wont be one of the expiring provisions included in the legislation Rangel will introduce, but the Recovery Act already included the patch for this year. Congress will be able to patch up the AMT once again next year to keep it from spreading to millions more taxpayers.
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moreLisbon: city of the sea is a beautifully written portrait of a much loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day. Malcolm Jack vividly captures the rich and unique history of this haunting and attractive port whose prominent position on the Tagus estuary has inextricablybound its character with the sea. Lisbon is a city of steep inclines and complicated, unsymmetrical streets that criss-cross the hills only in the Baixa area near the river and in the more modern, northern part of the city does any form of a grid system appear. It has enjoyed a political history that has directed Portugal's focus more overseas than inland towards continental Europe, in part because of Spain's geographical position. Thus the city has been stretched in one direction toward Brazil and in another toward the Cape of Good Hope and from there to Asia and the East. Beginning with its earliest inhabitants, Jack traces the city's life through its imperial success in the sixteenth century and the devastating earthquake that humbled the city and shocked Europe in 1755 to its current position as a vibrant and successful European capital. Lisbon's romantic atmosphere has captured the imaginations of foreigners through the ages._x000D_Poets, writers and musicians have all drawn inspiration from different parts of Lisbon. This sensitive exploration of the city's many aspects draws out its cosmopolitan nature, as well as its colourful culture and self-image and brings us closer to understanding its true spirit. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to Lisbon's many visitors as well as anyone interested in European history._x000D__x000D_'Malcolm Jack is a surefooted and erudite guide to the labyrinth of historical Lisbon. _x000D_The city's Moorish past, the age of discovery when Lisbon was the harbour from which the limits of the world were explored, the architectural splendours of the Manueline age, the desolation of the great earthquake of 1755, the Grand Tours of Beckford and Byron, the weird urban fantasies of Pessoa, the hauntingly nostalgic airs of fado _x000D_- all are conjured up in this splendid book.'_x000D_Robert Irwin, Historian, Arabist and novelist_x000D__x000D_'A scholarly yet highly entertaining introduction to Lisbon. The author constantly draws on his extensive knowledge of contemporary travel literature but his main source of description and insight derives from his own, direct observation of all _x000D_the nooks and crannies of old Lisbon and his unique ability to capture the spirit _x000D_of the place. Recommended as essential reading for Lisbon lovers, prospective travellers, Lusophiles and others.' _x000D_Professor João Almeida Flor, University of Lisbon less
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A Chinese man named Li Ching-Yuen lived to be 256 years old.
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Li ching-yuen is rumored to have lived
256 years,
dying in 1933. Groups in the Internet attribute his longevity to his herbalist diet, but I find this difficult to believe and feel his age is attributed to a clerical error in marking his birth.
Man's fascination with the concept of longevity beyond the
70 or
80 years
of the typical human lifespan is documented in a variety of writings, myths and legends stretching back thousands of years. The ancient
Greek historian Herodotus, for example, wrote of a magical fountain in modern day Ethiopia that restored the youth of those who bathed in its waters, and Old Testament reckonings of the biblical patriarch Methuselah (grandfather of Noah) put his age at the time of his death at between 720 and
969 years.
Nonetheless, modern reality pales in comparison to such accounts, as the longest verified human lifespan in recorded history is that of Jeanne Louise Calment, who passed away in her native France in 1997 at the age of 122.
One of the more unusual cases of asserted human longevity in modern times involved Chinese resident Li Ching-Yuen (also rendered as Li Ching-Yun), mention of whom started appearing in U.S. newspaper accounts in the 1920s accompanied by claims that he had been born in either 1677 or 1736. When Li Ching-Yuen finally died in 1933, at a reputed age of either 197 or 256, the
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Li Ching-yun, a resident of Kaihsien, in the Province of Szechwan, who contended that he was one of the world's oldest men, and said he was born in 1736 — which would make him 197 years old — died today.
A Chinese dispatch from Chung-king telling of Mr. Li's death said he attributed his longevity to peace of mind and that it was his belief every one could live at least a century by attaining inward calm.
Compared with estimates of Li Ching-yun's age in previous reports from China the above dispatch is conservative. In 1930 it was said
Professor Wu Chung-chien, dean of the department of education in Minkuo University, had found records showing Li was born in 1677 and that the Imperial Chinese Government congratulated him on his 150th and
200th birthdays.
A correspondent of THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote in 1928 that many of the oldest men in Li's neighborhood asserted their grandfathers knew him as boys and that he was then a grown man.
According to the generally accepted tales told in his province, Li was able to read and write as a child, and by his tenth birthday had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. For the first hundred years he continued at this occupation. Then he switched to selling herbs gathered by others.
Wu Pei-fu, the war lord, took Li into his house to learn the secret of his living to 250. Another pupil said Li told him to "keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog."
According to one version of Li's married life he had buried twenty-three wives and was living with his twenty-fourth, a woman of 60. Another account, which in 1928 credited him with 180 living descendants, comprising eleven generations, recorded only fourteen marriages. This second authority said his eyesight was good; also, that the finger nails of his right hand were very long, and "long" for a Chinese might mean longer than any finger nails ever dreamed of in the United States.
One statement of THE TIMES correspondent which probably caused skeptical readers to believe Li was born more recently that 1677, was that "many who have seen him recently declare that his facial appearance is no different from that of persons two centuries his junior."
At this remove it's unlikely anyone will ever know exactly old Li Ching-Yuen was at the time of his death — he may have been remarkably old, possibly even older than the longest confirmed human lifespan of
122 years.
However, it's highly improbable that he managed to exceed that milestone by as much as 61% to 110%, as claimed in
20th century
accounts of his passing. Skeptics believe that any documentation or personal reminiscences supporting Li Ching-Yuen's claims to extraordinary longevity, even if they were genuine, were most likely attributable to his having assumed the identity of a much older ancestor or someone else of similar name.
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Samsung is advertising OLED as the next great display technology. It expects it to eventually be used by all products that have LCDs today.
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I've also got a post today over at Hockey Wilderness calling for the head of Doug Risebrough.
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I've also got a post today over at Hockey Wilderness calling for the head of Doug Risebrough.
Give neide and buddhafisch some love over there, they could all use a hug.
I guess some of you thought I over stepped my bounds with one of my photos last week and it was brought to my attention by a dear friend of mine that I should change my focus a bit.
I'm here to say that I will do just that.
Apparently some of you are also die-hard Star Wars fans and objected greatly to my depiction of the most awful Commissioner of our time as being like the Emperor from the Star Wars saga.
To recap, here it is:
I guess showing him as an ultimately evil and über-controlling Sith lord was going over the top.
I should've known better.
To make it up to you, here's my extremely juvenile and even more apropos rendition of Herr Bettman hard at work.
If this reference is lost on you, then I weep for your soul. I'll also throw you a bone to help you youngsters and ignoramuses get caught up.
So Detroit Red Wings stars Nick Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk are missing out on the All-Star Game in Montreal because they're injured.
Some writers around the league are questioning exactly how hurt they are considering they both played in Detroit's last game before the break. Fair enough question I'm sure, but then again, the NHL hasn't gone so far as to make the All-Star Game falsely an exhibition by making it count for something, anything, that would necessitate the best and the brightest be there whether they're injured a little bit or not.
Suffice it to say, the All Star Break allows a lot of players time to rest up, heal up and get ready for the second half of the season as well as the playoffs. You know, since the ultimate goal of the NHL season is to win the Stanley Cup and all, sometimes professionals like to be…professional and make sure their obligations to the team are met and that no one goes and does something profound and silly like getting hurt in a highly publicized exhibition.
Leave it to Gary Bettman to get whimpery and whiny when the big stars would rather tend to business be it with their team or their family. After all, Herr Bettman's mid-season soireè is now mandated from on high to make an appearance at even if you're not going to play.
Emperor Gary shows us his "V."
NHL (Lack of) Disciplinarian Colin Campbell breaks it down:
"We've all got obligations to the fans, the rights holders – this game is being televised around the world," Campbell said.
Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk will have to sit out a game next week as punishment for skipping this weekends event. Neither player will lose salary.
"I feel bad for Nicklas Lidstrom," said Campbell. "He's been here how many years now? It's unfair that he gets caught in this web."
You know, it's not so much a web – it's a couple of guys who are nicked up that would rather sit at home. These weren't All-Stars elected by the fans ,which if you're skipping out on a fan-elected spot, fine – take the heat and chew on a suspension – the game is about the fans after all.
But they weren't – they're reserves and whether you agree with how that came about is another story (thanks to the fans in Chicago and Anaheim for this one). Fact is, the starters are the ones who are deemed most important, they're the ones who are burdened with having to put on the super pretty face for the fans. Reserves? Meh – everyone gets one of those.
What's been amazing surrounding all this hoopla is how talk and conspiracy theories have blown up over at a favored Red Wings spot, Abel to Yzerman.
The Chief is normally ornery with Gary Bettman (a trait that is enjoyed quite a bit here) and the true colors are out in full effect, and one thing he makes note of here is that this occurred last year too and under even more suspicious circumstances for the league to be able to hand down a suspension but deciding not to.
From last January:
Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur has pulled out of the Sunday's NHL's All-Star Game in Atlanta to deal with family matters. Brodeur said he informed Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello of his decision about a week ago, but it was not announced by the NHL until today. Brodeur will be replaced by Boston goaltender Tim Thomas.
"It's a tough decision," Brodeur said. "I've got some stuff going on with the family back home, so it's something I just wanted to make sure I was here to take care of. It's definitely a tough one. It's such a great weekend to miss. That's why I waited so long. I tried to avoid making that decision, but I think it's for the best."
That's fine, I won't take issue with "family matters" even if that means going home to boink your sister-in-law.
What, too soon?
Meanwhile, Puck Daddy makes sure to mention that seven players backed out of last year's All Star Game in Atlanta for any number of reasons, including injury. Of course, they weren't suspended because players were apparently allowed to be taken at their word last season.
As for Detroit this time around? Well, suffice to say, Ken Holland isn't very happy – this from the National Post.
"I'm not going to call Nick and tell him he's got to go to Montreal to sit and talk with the media for a day," said a fiery Holland, who is upset with the NHL's treatment of Lidstrom on this issue.
"Imagine me calling Nick, a six-time Norris Trophy winner, four-time Stanley Cup winner and someone who has gone to the last 10 all-star games and telling him he can't spend the time with his four boys and wife.
"I have too much respect for Nick because I know he's playing in pain. He's shown up at every NHL Awards show he's been nominated for. He's done everything the league has asked him to do.
"He's put in his time and he's paid his dues. I'm backing my player because I know he's hurt."
In other words, Gary:
I got your two All Stars right here Gary!
If you think Holland let things go after that, you're fooling yourself and he took things a step further in reminding Bettman who swings the big stick.
"I don't know exactly what Gary has said, but we've always encouraged our players to go and they have over the years," Holland said. "We played in the Winter Classic when asked even though there was some internal opposition. We gave up our traditional New Year's Eve game.
"We've helped carry the flag for the league for more than a decade. I think we've tried to be good partners in these things.
"I understand the All-Star Game is important, but I'm not going to tell Nick and Pavel to go either."
It's clear that the Red Wings even before the Salary Cap Era began had a contentious relationship with the Commissioner's Office. Herr Bettman didn't care for the Red Wings spending as much money as they did and neither did Gary's poor buddy owners. They shut down the league for a year, get the salary cap they want only to discover the Red Wings are also a brilliant scouting team and can grown their own talent.
The Ilitch Family and Ken Holland have been teaming up to give Bettman the finger for years now and Gary hates every bit of it because the Red Wings keeping getting in the way of his grand schemes of doing what he thought David Stern did with the NBA. Stern got lucky in riding the coattails of Magic and Bird and then having Michael Jordan fall in his lap to take over the world.
Gary saw the same thing with Sidney Crosby and still does. He sees the same kind of thing with the Blackhawks now with super talents Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. He sees all these NBA-like stars in his eyes and the Red Wings keep slapping him into reality and Bettman is too much of a Napoleonic pantywaste to deal with it.
His actions against Lidstrom and Datsyuk do have an awful and disgusting precedence (see Brodeur last year) but that doesn't make it right. If a guy's hurt, let them stay home. Major League Baseball doesn't make their injured guys show up if they don't want and their game means something.
Then again, expecting Gary Bettman to not be petty and to somehow find a way to make a joke out of All-Star Weekend, you know when a joke of a game gets played in the first place, seemed like things even he couldn't do. Everything this guy does turns to crap – leaving well enough alone wasn't good enough and it never will be because either he's the dumbest executive on earth or he's got the world's worst consulting firm giving him really bad ideas.
After leaving here for a few months to go stretch my legs on a more "legitimate" appearing website I was amazed to see that the stories out of Nashville about impending doom and gloom and financial armageddon managed to transplant themselves to Phoenix.
What was always part of the side show in Nashville wasn't so much how they're a team that draws poor crowds to their games but more about the financial mismanagement disaster that surrounds this team no matter who the owner ends up being.
The story out of today's Tennesseean seems to say that whether Boots Del Biaggio is there or not, shady things are happening in one form or another.
As they battle to make hockey a long-term success story here, the Nashville Predators' owners might buy thousands of unsold tickets so they can qualify for a full share of the NHL's
revenue-sharing plan, the team's lead owner confirmed Wednesday.
David Freeman stressed that he and the other owners haven't made that decision, but with millions of dollars on the line, they've been discussing the possibility and they can't wait too long to pull the trigger."We've consistently said that we're here to give everything we've got to make this work," Freeman said.
What I'd like to know is what the other NHL owners think about this. After all, these were the same guys that were rumored to be up in arms when they thought Sabres owner Tom Golisano was purposefully keeping ticket prices low so the Sabres would collect on NHL Welfare.
Nevermind that the Sabres were selling out every game, that just meant, to the other owners anyhow, that he should raise the prices and then cry foul when people don't buy the tickets.
Since, you know, those fans aren't caring enough to spend disgusting amounts of money for tickets to watch the hometown team against the dregs of the league and then pay even more money to watch them against their heated rivals.
What's this? It's a sight never to be seen outside the Sommet Center in Nashville.
Then again, who will be the owner to cry "Foul!" on what the Predators are doing?
Anyone? Anyone?
Until that reaction starts to flow in from the outer reaches of the league, I'll be able to take the owners at least slightly serious. After all, if you're going to break this down with an algebraic equation, it might look like this:
3/4 empty arena with bloated ticket prices that regular people can't afford > full house with reasonably priced tickets that the fans are clamoring for
Doesn't that strike anyone as… stupid?
Don't think I've come crawling back here to the Blogspot haven I have here.
Don't look at it that way at all.
Look at it, instead, as me finding my way home to where I'm more comfortable.
Thanks to my now former employers cutting me loose for cost-cutting measures, I'm back here where you grew to love me in the first place.
It's a celebration bitches.


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2010 Infiniti G37 Convertible Priced From $45,215
Opel is better than Chevy, period. Just add some muscle and your good to go.
Im glad they kept Opel, they are the best looking designs in the GM stable.
Product refreshes? Already? Seems hard to believe, what with the Corsa (still very fresh looking after 3+ years), brand new Astra and the Insignia, which is only a year old. Their product range seems pretty fresh, to me.


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Arizona tries to jail the internet, Index on Censorship, August 13, 2002.
Arizona state law bans prisoners in its jails from internet contact with
their friends and families - and now from campaign groups trying to defend
their rights. Three such groups have now recruited the American Civil
Liberties Union to challenge the bans on freedom of speech grounds.
Three prisoners' rights organisations are suing jail managers in the
western US state of Arizona over a new law that criminalises
communications with prisoners and punishes them if information about their
cases appear on websites run by their supporters.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is representing Stop Prisoner
Rape (SPR), the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) and
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) in their
case against Terry L Stewart, Director of the Arizona Department of
They argue that his department's enforcement of Arizona's House Bill 2376
violates both their and their prisoner contacts' first amendment rights to
free speech and severely hampers their advocacy work on behalf of
SPR, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) and Citizens
United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) seek to invalidate a
state law that seeks to ban all information from Arizona prisoners from
being posted on the internet.
"For many prisoners, we are the only source of information about surviving
sexual assault, and we rely on the internet," says Lara Stemple, executive
director of SPR.
SPR, a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to ending sexual
violence against men, women, and youth in all forms of detention, posts
survivor stories, comments, and excerpts from prisoners' letters on its
"Men and women who have been raped in prison are often too ashamed to
speak out," explains Stemple. "SPR's website gives survivors a chance to
connect with one another, and when you are isolated, ashamed, and afraid,
that connection can be a matter of life and death."
All three organisations maintain websites containing information about
prisoner rights, as well as information about specific inmates.
The SPR posts contributions from inmates written about their own personal
experiences of sexual abuse while incarcerated while the CUADP and CCADP
websites posting of personal case information from prisoners and appeals
for legal and political assistance.
The CUADP website held information from 45 prisoners in Arizona jails at
the time the suit was launched. SPR regularly sends fact sheets, survivor
stories, and referrals printed from its website to survivors who are still
"Arizona's attempts to restrict and censor the content of advocacy
organizations' own websites certainly violates the Constitution and
establishes a troubling precedent," says Ann Beeson, Litigation Director
of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program.
"Prisoners and the groups that choose to assist them retain the same vital
freedom of speech that all Americans do."
The bill reinforces restrictions on unmonitored inmate access to the
internet and aims to restrict correspondence between prisoners and
'communication service provider[s]' or 'remote computing service[s]',
though not communications with newspapers and magazines.
The law also imposes disciplinary action against inmates whose names or
personal information appear on the websites. Inmates may also be
disciplined if any person outside prison walls accesses a provider or
service website at a prisoner's request.
The July 18 order reads in part: "Except as authorized by the department
of corrections, an inmate shall not have access to the internet through
the use of a computer, computer system, network, communication service
provider or remote computing system. An inmate who violates this section
is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanour."
The penalties include removal of good behaviour points towards parole.
Prisoners whose names are spotted on the sites are issued with an order
demanding that they contact the site and have their names withdrawn.
In May and June of this year CUADP was contacted by two prisoners
requesting that information about them be removed from the website. CCADP
has similarly been contacted by at least four inmates.
"This ill-conceived law places prisoners in a Catch-22," said Eleanor
Eisenberg, Executive Director of the ACLU of Arizona. "The only way for
prisoners to stop information from being posted on the Internet is to
contact the very organizations the prisoners are now banned from
SPR, CCADP and CUADP are challenging the bill's 'chilling effect' on their
right to free speech and its effective censorship of their public concerns
about prisoner safety.
They also note that pro-death penalty organisations such as
ProDeathPenalty.com and organisations which seek harsher penalties for
prisoners such as the National Organisation of Parents of Murdered
Children also post information about inmates, their crimes and their
To date Stewart and his department have not asked prisoners named by these
pro-death penalty websites try to contact them to have their names
removed. It seems that inmates are only vulnerable to punishment when
their cause is taken up by organisations that try to argue their innocence
on their behalf.
In its letter to Stewart, the ACLU said it believed that the legislation
would be swiftly invalidated by the courts.
"There can be no doubt that the purpose and effect of this legislation is
to suppress the flow of information from prisoners to the outside world,
and to chill the advocacy of CCADP and other anti-death penalty and
prisoner rights organizations," the ACLU letter added.
"The Internet is a vital source of news and information for millions of
people in the United States and around the world," said David C. Fathi,
staff counsel with the ACLU's National Prison Project.
"The government may not ban information about prisoners from the Internet
any more than it could ban such information from newspapers or
When approached by Index on Censorship, Michael Arra, Media Relations
Administrator for the Arizona Department of Corrections told the magazine
that his office had no comment to make on this case "at this time".


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This Very Moment is the Perfect Teacher: Honeymoon at the Hospital.
"This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are."
~ Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart
I planned a pretty ambitious summer vacation this year. First, I took the baby to Texas for two weeks. My beloved life partner, Bladi, did not come with us to the States due to the fact that he is Colombian and does not (yet) have permission to legally enter the U.S.A.
Then, baby and I jetted to Mexico, reunited with her papa and traveled to his home town.
We spent about a month hanging out there and then got legally married on July 19. The next day, we bussed several hours to Popayan, Colombia, where we had arranged to house-sit for some friends.
All was well until baby came down with a fever. Our best option was to go to Cali, a bigger city about two hours away. On the doctor's orders, we took her to a lab for blood and urine tests. We checked into the hospital on a Monday, because her test results showed a bacterial infection.
Thus, I found myself in room number 103 of a government-run children's hospital in Cali, Colombia.
Each step in this process was excruciating, of course. I went through various phases of guilt, regret, blame, worry, and frustration. It is no fun when a baby gets sick.
Things hadn't really fallen apart yet, because I was still able to read, write and even meditate and do a little yoga.
The hospital had some nice qualities: scenic courtyards filled with lovely gardens, mostly friendly nurses and nice private bathrooms with hot showers in each room.
The hospital also had some extremely shitty qualities, at least in the opinion of this gringa consentida (spoiled American). Our room was "furnished" with a metal crib that looked like it belonged in a mental institution, a low cot for me to sleep on with a vinyl pad about the size of a yoga mat, a plastic patio chair and a TV.
The rooms have no privacy. There is a window in the door, and large windows into the neighboring rooms. I could see my neighbors and they could see me. Each time the doctor and head nurse made their rounds, they brought about ten medical interns or nursing students along.
This was definitely life in a fish bowl.
There were children screaming bloody murder at all hours of the day and night. Naturally, kids howl like none other when they are getting blood drawn or shots injected.
I tried to stay positive. I wrote a list of good things about spending your honeymoon at the hospital. I did have lots of time to read, write and meditate. I tried to view it as a personal yoga retreat.
It was an ideal place to practice Tonglen meditation.
At one point, it became clear that my next-door neighbor, a 13-year-old boy with lupus, was in great pain. His mother was trying to get a doctor to come check on him, which took about an hour. Meanwhile, she was pacing in the room, making phone calls and trying to comfort her suffering son. I was a silent witness to the whole scene. I tried my best to take in their pain, confusion and worry and send back solace, health and comfort.
At times, it got too intense and I had to stop.
The next day, I saw his mother in the courtyard and went right up and hugged her even though we'd never formally met.
The hospital had a long list of rules that made it feel like we were incarcerated criminals. For example, visiting hours were from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Other than those three hours, only one parent was allowed to be in the room with their child. Due to breastfeeding, it had to be me most of the time, including all the long, tumultuous nights.
Also, we were not allowed to eat in the hospital, yet there is no cafeteria. Bladi would bring me breakfast and lunch each day and I had to go outside and eat it while he stayed with the baby. The security guards were mostly a bunch of jerks who acted more like prison guards than hospital greeters.
Within a few days, my baby was back to her normal, bubbly, tranquil self. I, on the other hand, was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The pediatrician wanted one more test to confirm that baby could be released, a gammagraph. Turns out they don't do gammagraphs on the weekend. So, I was stuck in this hideous hospital with a healthy baby all weekend long.
Bladi would come and relieve me, and I'd go walk around for an hour or two.
I started doing all sorts of things to regain an illusion of control over my self and my life.
Like buying new clothes and other forms of consumer therapy, eating chicken (I'm normally vegetarian), smoking joints which were conveniently for sale at the urban park a block away from the hospital and getting my hair cut. I wanted a buzz cut, and I discovered that it's pretty much impossible for a woman to get a buzz cut in Cali, Colombia. Latin American culture apparently requires women to have long hair.
By Sunday night when some nurses came in to give the baby her meds and rudely woke me up, I was at my breaking point.
I was no longer able to read or absorb the teachings of When Things Fall Apart. I had lost my yoga powers.
I was going nuts, and something had to give.
I spent most of the night in the bathroom, the only place I could go and have privacy. I maniacally scrawled ideas and notes in my diary, listened to music, and took a series of photos with my iPad mini chronicling my breakdown.
I was still coherent though.
Unlike a manic episode in 2005, in which I totally lost touch with reality, this time, I knew exactly what I was doing.
I laughed. I cried. I waited for the sun to come up. Baby was sleeping soundly the whole time in her bed.
Early in the morning, I decided to lock the doors. I wanted privacy and I was desperate for a sense of control.
I took baby with me into the bathroom. I had put the patio chair in the shower stall and was sitting in there breastfeeding when I heard them knocking on the outer door to our room. I sat, silent, ignoring the knocks. It took them about an hour to get the door open, which I found pretty amusing.
Then, they started knocking on the locked bathroom door. Again, I was silent. They probably thought I'd killed myself and my baby. Finally, I wrote a note and slipped it under the door. It said that I wanted to see my husband and the gringo doctor.
The gringo doctor was a 23-year-old medical intern from New York who was studying medicine in Colombia. I had met him two days prior, when I was attempting to ask a question in my stressed-out Spanish and he said, "Do you speak English?"
"Uh, yeah. Do you?" Doctor Kenny and I made fast friends, as he helped explain my baby's medical chart to me in my native tongue.I am fluent in Spanish, but due to my high stress level, I was not able to communicate clearly or understand much of the specific medical terminology used by the Colombian doctors and nurses.
The morning when I barricaded myself in the bathroom, Bladi was on his way to the hospital.
Doctor Kenny came to the other side of the door, and I explained that I was practicing civil disobedience and that I wanted my daughter to be given the final test she needed and to be released that day.
He said that the hospital had issued an ultimatum: I either had to come out or they were going to call the police.
I yelled, "Call the fucking police! I don't give a shit!" It had never felt so good to curse in English.
So, they called the police.
An officer very gently opened the door. I stood there with my baby in my arms and saw about 20 people staring at me. Nurses, interns, janitors—all curious onlookers who wanted to see what the crazy gringa was up to. I screamed at the top of my lungs several times. When I stopped, a woman started telling me to calm down in broken English. Later, I found out she was a social worker. At that moment, I yelled in her face, "Who the fuck are you? I've never seen you before in my fucking life!"
Then, Bladi arrived and everyone cleared out except Doctor Kenny. I handed my baby over to him so they could check her vital signs—even though she hadn't had a fever or abnormal blood pressure for six days. In the end, my act of civil disobedience worked. She got the test she needed, the results came back clean and we were released that evening.
Sometimes, it's good to be mad. It's important to express your emotions, even the ugly ones. It's okay to fall apart.
It's essential to realize (through your own lived experience) that control is an illusion and to identify all the ways in which we seek to maintain control over our daily lives.
In any case, the honeymoon continues.
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."
~ Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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9 Responses to "This Very Moment is the Perfect Teacher: Honeymoon at the Hospital."
You are so brave my friend. Even in times of such adversity. I am so blessed to have such an inspiring friend. =) love, peace, besos y abrazos to you, Bladi, and your baby girl.
Gracias mi Aubrey! Love you!
I appreciate your bravery in posting so honestly more than you know! Being a mom to a child in the hospital is just. like. this. There is a lot of time spent fighting for your child. When staff listens, things are easier, but when they don't, warfare like this ensues and it is messy and mom often goes un-liked (to put it nicely). Thank you for sharing yourself so openly.
Thank you for reading and commenting, Deb. I am touched that my piece touched you. Hospitals are no fun, but they can be a great place to practice all the yoga and mindfulness techniques we have learned.
Damn that was a good write-up. Thank you for sharing so openly and honestly.
Thanks, Zen Warrior, for reading and commenting!
Yes yes YES yes yes!!! When my mother was dying in the hospital, people kept coming in with clipboards and asking questions and generally ratcheting up the pain by a factor of 500. I (usually very calm and patient) told them all to get out and not come back. And they sputtered, but they left. And, amazingly enough, I had "When Things Fall Apart" right there with me………
The whole healthcare system (worldwide) seems to be a broken system that's not beneficial to the patients or families but rather is a slave to the system itself. Thank you for reading and sharing such a thoughtful comment.
This sounds like a horrific experience. I can't fully understand what brought you to the brink, but that's not my place to understand. Good job understanding yourself.


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Mets to Interview Clint Hurdle
According to the Mike Puma of the New York Post, Sandy Alderson will be contacting Clint Hurdle to arrange for an interview next week.
Yesterday, Mark Hale of the New York Post said Alderson would begin interviewing external candidates next week.
According to Jennifer Langosch of MLB.com, Hurdle interviewed for the Pirates managerial job yesterday, and Jon Heyman of SI.com believes Hurdle is the favorite for the position.
He is currently serving as one of Ron Washington's coaches with the Rangers, but managed the Rockies to the World Series in 2007. That was Hurdle's only winning season while managing the Rockies, and he was fired mid-way through the 2009 season after am 18-28 start, and was replaced by Jim Tracy, who turned the Rockies around and led them to a playoff berth.
Hurdle does have ties to the Mets – he appeared in 13 games for them in 1983, 43 games in 1985 and three in 1987 before retiring as a player, and is 534-625 in his managerial career.
Hurdle also spent five seasons managing in the Mets minor league system, before joining the Rockies in 1994.


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Managing poop can be dirty business. How can we make it cleaner and greener?
As one who spends half the year working in the wood alone, I spend a great deal of my time thinking about things some might consider odd. Like the future of re-purposed plastics. Like biodegradable or compost-able plastic products. Like the validity of the composting and bio-degrading claims. Like the big-picture impact our recreating has on our immediate and greater environs. And even about poop. The business of managing poop is a tricky icky sticky one. Especially at the crag or on a wall.


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Ben on the Bolts: The Streak
When the Chargers step on the field in Washington on Sunday, the streak will have reached 28 days -- four calendar weeks since the defense last allowed an opponent into the end zone.
In football time, it's been 166 minutes and 28 seconds since Terrelle Pryor rolled to his right and threw a touchdown pass to Denarius Moore on October 6. That's the last time the Chargers defense surrendered 6 points in one fell swoop.
While streaks and statistical milestones usually take a backseat to wins in an NFL locker room, it's clear the Chargers consider this particular accomplishment to be something worth protecting. In the closing minutes of the win over Jacksonville, with victory already in hand, the defensive starters came back onto the field with the Jaguars looking at 1st and goal. Eric Weddle gave an impassioned plea to his teammates, imploring them (threatening them?) not to let the Jags into the paint. Four stops later, they celebrated keeping the streak alive into the bye week.
At some point, Jarret Johnson knows the streak will come to an end. Keeping it going will be "tough to do" considering all the great athletes on the other side of the ball. But for now, the veteran linebacker says the Chargers are drawing inspiration from this run of defensive success, and doing everything they can to turn the goal line into the Great Wall.
One person who's a big fan of the defense's streak is Philip Rivers.
"If they don't give up touchdowns, I think we're going to win most of the time," said the quarterback, mastering the obvious with a twinkle in his eye.
Rivers believes the offense has also played a role in the streak. The Chargers have gone on several long scoring drives in the past two games, keeping the defense on the sideline. They can't give up touchdowns when they're not on the field. And when they do go take the field, they're feeling fresh and opposing offenses are unable to get into a rhythm. That's football synergy.
Eventually, the streak will come to an end. The odds say it will happen on Sunday in Washington. Until it does, though, keep that clock ticking.


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Asianology - The Study of Fine Asian Women
Found this site with a funny title: "Asianology - The Study of Fine Asian Women". IMHO it should be called "The Study of Fine Asian, but Mostly Japanese Women" ;-) A lot of galleries, but I really like the introduction text:
Congratulations on finding the school of Asianology! You will be expected to undergo extensive studies in the field of "FINE" asian women. We have many subjects for you to enlighten your knowledge of this privileged field. I know you can't wait to jump right in to your studies so I'll cut this introduction here and let you begin your education. - The Dean
A really great collection, but watch out for those pop-ups!
My vote goes to Ayumi Hamasaki.. always been a fan of her beauty and music. However, did she have enlarged eye surgery? I notice that her old pictures always seem to look so different...
Man... that's not fair... as much as I LOVE Asian chicks, I want one of those Caucasianology sites just to balance things out...
The introduction is cute, but where is the diversity? Maybe I start a site for the study of Asian asses. I have a Ph.D in bootyology.
a study of fine asian women? hmm... i agree with Robin-- mostly Japanese. but if there were a degree in the study of fine asian women... then a-s would definitely be a required course.
thanks apprenticekim! that's quite a compliment! :-)
ohw, candyman; looking forward to your asian-asses site! ;-)
Putting this on my curriculum.
does that make me a Asianologist


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Chill Wine Lounge
1828 E. Sunrise Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Best Of
- Sun 4pm-11pm, Mon-Thu 5pm-11pm, Fri-Sat 4pm-1am
- $$
- Beer/Wine
Fort Lauderdale's independent Gateway movie theater might not be able to boast chef-prepared foods deliverable to high-back leather recliners like at the big mega-chain multiplex, but it's now possible to enjoy a specialty glass of wine or craft beer before walking over to your first-run indie flick. That's thanks to Chill Wine Lounge, the "deco glam" watering hole located next door to Gateway that opened in December 2012. Sure, the ultramodern chrome accents, over-the-top neon purple lighting, and floral motifs all detract a little from the gorgeous terrazzo flooring and generous wine and craft-beer menu (and is an iPad really necessary to take our drink orders when the bar is literally three feet away?) -- but who cares? This neighborhood spot is the perfect place to begin your night out to the movies or end an evening with great drinks.
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