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So I am starting to feel very round and keep bumping my belly on everything! We went to dinner last night and I smacked it on the corner of the table really hard. Also, when I sit up straight I am feeling really full. It's much more comfortable to lean back a bit. Anyone else starting to get a bit uncomfortable? I can't even imagine what it's going to be like in a few months, it actually scares me a bit.
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I feel like I am huge! It's hard to imagine that we're not even half way there....we've got a long way and a lot of growing to do!!
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I feel the same way, leaning back is definitely more comfortable. Also, when I go to hug my husband my stomach is the first thing that touches him! Definitely a weird feeling. :) I feel huge already and the baby is still so tiny. I'm nervous for, say, February and March! Eeeep!
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Been feeling big for a few weeks now. Love to lay back when sitting. Find it harder to get up from a sitting or laying down position. Uncomfortable to bend down and grab something from the ground. Also find that I am slightly losing balance sometimes. It appears to others as I am clumsy I think, but I think my balance is just off from my tummy.
I forgot about it being harder to get up from a sitting or laying down position but it's sooo true! I thought I was crazy for thinking this as the baby is still so small.
I am on a step team and my balance is horrible. Sleeping is uncomfortable and sitting up for a long period of time is also (have a desk job and a full time student at an university). My tummy pokes out noticably now with all my clothes. Crazy how I look at pics of how I was a few months ago and now- nothing but tummy and boobs lol
I get the same way lately. if im sitting or laying it's not so bad, but the minute i stand up again I feel huge and round.


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OK, imagine some sun....think reeeeeeal hard. Now imagine a well worn 16 inch softball in your left hand and an aluminum bat in your right. The Georgetown playfield just went through a complete overhaul, and the result is a top notch ballfield-slash-soccer field.
There's ample room around the field on the grass, and plenty of free, unscheduled use of the field. (Don't be afraid of us "haggard, 30 something Georgetown types" if we're tossing around the pigskin. (to quote Mike Seely) We're very friendly.) With the train rolling and whistling by, you can pretend it's your own personal Safeco.
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One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big advice on the door on which it was written: "Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym".
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From 5-9 a.m. on Monday, WHNS Channel 21, Fox News, will broadcast from Landrum as part of the channel's "Celebrate the Carolinas" series.
Morning news anchors Cody Alcorn and Margaret Burnquist with reporter Joe Gahnon will broadcast live from the deck of Foothills Amish Furniture on the corner of Rutherford Street, near the railroad tracks.
Business owners, churches, daycare centers and other residents have been invited to come out that morning carrying signs, wearing costumes and bringing coffee, cakes and anything else they would like to have mentioned on the broadcast.
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The Minnesota Morris Cougars 8-1 win over Northwestern in the first game on Wednesday, May 5 set up a golden opportunity to reach the UMAC Tournament in 2016. Minnesota Morris fell 6-2 in the second game of the doubleheader with Northwestern. One win in UMM's final regular season...
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Can someone tell me what happened on Russell's error?
BILLY BUCKS: As things stand right now, Dylan Cease will be in the Eugene starting rotation when the NWL season begins play in June, and if he peforms well there he could perhaps move up to South Bend toward the end of the minor league season or for the MWL playoffs (if South Bend qualifies).
i'm more "wtf?" about him hitting 2nd than playing LF...especially since zobrist exists.
Soler's primary position is suppose to be in left for this season so technically he is not out of position. Although I agree, it does seem weird given their histories.
Thanks Phil.
Any idea of where/when Cease will head for the season?
Over/under on HBP tonight?
Yes, I know KB played LF and Szczur played RF last night, but there's a legit case that RF is the easier draw at PNC.
Seems an odd lineup -- Soler in LF and Bryant in RF? Two guys out of position? I guess Fed has to catch tonight so All Star Gramps can catch Lester tomorrow. Or maybe Joe just wants somebody else to catch a no-hitter. Would love to see KB get the power turned on. C'mon Jorge -- channel your playoff self!
All it took was Schwarber, Heyward, and Szczur getting hurt for him to get to play again. Let's go ahead and call this little stretch your last real chance to prove you belong on this team, Jorge.
soler hitting 2nd...didn't expect that one.
tonight: Fowler, Soler, Bryant, Rizzo, Zobrisjt, Baez, Russell, Federowicz, Arrieta
roster shuffle official per Sun Times, Gordon Wittenmeyer on twitter...Szczur to DL with minor hamstring strain, Chris Villanueva to 60 day DL, Ryan Kalish to 40 man roster and gets the call-up.
There's an interview with Heyward up on ESPN where he says the wrist thing has been lingering and he just brought it up with the team as it didn't go away. So that could very well explain why he hasn't had the same hard contact recently.
Ryan Kalish writeup (by Peter Gammons last November):
Villanueva goes to the 60 day DL.
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So I am 22/23 weeks pregnant depending which ultrasound we go off of. Monday morning I started having contractions, recognizing that they were to frequent to be braxton hicks I called the doctor and they sent me to ob. I was hooked to a monitor and sure enough I was contracting every two minues. NOT GOOD. I of course broke down and freaked out because of last time. They hooked me to an Iv and started fluids...still no relief. The doctor came in and did an exam and thank god, my cervical length was still a three and I WAS NOT dialated....huge relief. However the contractions were still not slowing down. They called the peri and he told them to give me a shot ( it started with a b or T) and does he same thing as magnesium sulfate. It worked they slowed and eventually stopped. I have been on bed rest since and have an appt tomorrow to discuss what lies ahead as far as tests/ work etc the next 6 weeks. I haven't had any contractions yet. I feel so grateful to god that he didnt take my angel....but I lay here so scared now. Have any of you had any scares like this that resulted in a healthy baby?? Or atleast 25 weeker plus???
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OT: Opinion Piece on NCAA Amateurism From Former Miami Lineman and Recent UM Law Grad
A dead horse? Perhaps. Sour grapes/attempted justification? Maybe so. But still an interesting read from a well-educated former college football player whose team is right in the thick of one of the biggest NCAA investigations of all time. Also somewhat of a counter argument/different perspective on Cousins' Gettysburg Address from the B1G media days.
Full disclosure: I went to Miami for undergrad, so...yea, that might explain why I felt the need to post this.
What's that you say? The rules are the rules? I call b.s.. When the rules are propagated by the very same people they're designed to benefit, I say the rules must be independently justifiable. What is the justification for saying that AJ Green can't sell his jersey? That he won't be an "amateur" anymore? Doesn't the scholarship itself render him no longer an amateur by any objective definition? Doesn't the fact that Georgia spent hundreds of millions of dollars advertising itself to AJ Green render him no longer an amateur? Doesn't he stop being an amateur when UGA promises him that his career at Georgia will net him NFL millions? Doesn't the fact that millions of dollars change hands thanks to the service he provides make him not an amateur?
Mid-Week Metrics: Mythbusters: Manball edition
Power. Strength. Toughness. Big Ten Football.
This is the new (old) Michigan football. What this actually looks like remains to be seen, but I wanted to test out some of the core tenants and clichés of the Manball philosophy to see if there power still rings true today.
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Check here for a run down of the background behind the methods.
Myth 1: Passing too much on offense makes your defense ill-prepared for the rigors of Big Ten play.
I tested this myth for both all college football and the Big Ten exclusively. If it's going to be true anywhere, it's going to be true in the Big Ten.
To judge how much a team passed, I looked only at first half plays where teams haven't made half-time adjustments and should be executing their intended game plan and not reacting much to score and time considerations. I then compared the quantity of first half passes against the defensive success. First I looked at all of the FBS:
That's a whole lot of buck shot and not a lot of trend. There is a slight trend toward more passing = better defense but the effect is not statistically significant.
But as I mentioned earlier, the Big Ten is different than the rest of FBS, it is the nativeland of Manball. So if you look at Big Ten teams in Big Ten games over the last eight years, does the picture look different?
Here at the least the slope is going in the "right" direction but the effect is still small and insignificant. Even if it was statistically significant, the difference between the low (10 passes per first half) and the high (25 passes per first half) is worth one game a season, an advantage sure, but nothing monumental.
Finding: Unlikely
Myth 2: Long Scoring Drives Rest a Defense
Unfortunately I don't have any good tools to tell how rested a defense gets, but I can look at the outcomes of subsequent drives following a scoring drive of various lengths. Does a defense have better outcomes after a long or short scoring drive, does any of it matter at all?
Looks like the rest is more beneficial to the offense than the defense. Defenses give up 20% more points after a 15 play scoring drive by their offense than a 1 play scoring drive.
The usual correlation does not equal causation applies. Worse teams could be more likely to score on longer drives than good teams. Other issues could be at play but I felt comfortable that this overall myth does not hold true.
Myth 3: Running Teams Do Better in the Red Zone Than Passing Teams
I had two ways to look at this one. Is it about running the ball in general, or is it about running the ball once you are in the red zone? They are usually the same thing but I wanted to test out both to see if one rang more true than the other.
First, comparing how much teams run between the 20's to red zone effectiveness, measured in [points on red zone trips]/[7*red zone trips]:
This looks a lot like Myth 1. Some slope but no significance. Even at a significant r sqaured, the difference between 30% rushing and 60% rushing is worth less than a touchdown in red zone production over the course of an entire season.
Here is what it looks like when you change the x-axis to reflect playing calling within the red zone:
Slope increases, as does r squared although there is still a ton of noise.
The case is not strong, and there is definitely more than one way to skin a cat in the red zone but I would leave the door open on this one:
Finding: Plausible, but evidence weak
Myth 4: Offenses With Running Quarterbacks Break Down As The Season Progresses
This one is probably not a manball myth, necessarily, but a good one to look at. Let's go straight to the you-know-what.
Did not see this one coming. Sure last year clouded my mind a little bit but I did not expect QB running offenses to be this dominant. That's a very real gap between QB running offenses and non-QB running offenses.
The weekly data here is a bit noisy but it looks as though offenses built around running QBs peak in early November but are still pretty strong come bowl season. The overall trend roughly mirrors statue QB offenses although the statues do have a bigger uptick come bowl season than other offenses.
Finding: Busted
Myth 5: Offenses With Running QBs Have Worse Defenses
Not a lot of fancy numbers or charts on this one. Only real numbers of note are that the 100+ carry group from Myth 4 have an average defense of that is 0.2 points per game worse than then 0-99 group, that's worth less than a game a decade.
Finding: Busted
Myth 6: Run Oriented Offenses Do Better In The Fourth Quarter
This is one of the key tenants of a run-based offense. The ability to hold the ball with a lead late. Unfortunately the NCAA doesn't provide time stamps for plays and so I don't have them in my database, making a good estimation of clock killing impossible to determine from my data. All I can provide analysis on is the ability of different combinations of run and pass to score points, not run out the clock.
Partially because objectives change in the fourth quarter, but the likelihood of scoring is the lowest in the fourth of any given quarter. That means all situations will tilt toward the negative in my analysis. What I can look at is how much teams run in the first three quarters and compare that with their overall performance in the fourth quarter when the game is within two touchdowns.
I hope I didn't just give away the ending, but if you are going to be a running team you better come into the fourth quarter with a lead. One of the strongest correlations of the day points to strongly diminished returns in the fourth quarter for teams heavily invested in the run.
Finding: Busted without a lead, inconclusive running out the clock
What Does This Mean For The Future of Michigan Manball?
Right now the evidence still points to Manball being more of a philosophical theme than a practice of playcalling but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen either. Nothing I have seen indicates that it can't win a lot of games but it is definitely far from a Decided Schematic Advantage. As all good Michigan fans know, Manball can be effective in most games as long as you have better talent and you aren't playing from behind.
Mid-Week Metrics: Behind The Numbers
A quick guide to where my numbers come from and how they are calculated.
Where Does The Data Come From?
My sole source is the NCAA website, which hosts the play by play data for every year since 2003. 2004 and forward is nearly all there but 2003 is a bit hit and miss.
Thanks to MCaliber I can pull each week's games down directly from the site into Excel where I translate the text into a variety of field and calculations that ultimately end up in an Access database. My tools are somewhat crude but they work and I can get what I need from them.
To data I have 992,624 plays in the database.
What's Included?
All games between two FBS teams. Any games against FCS teams don't exist as far as I'm concerned.
Every play from these games are in the database but not all plays go into calculations. End of half drives are excluded as are any drives in the second half where one team leads by 16 points or more. Only plays under those circumstances are excluded, all other plays from those games are included.
Sacks are counted as pass plays and all fumbles are excluded due to their random nature.
What's The Baseline?
Based on all of this historical data, each down, distance and line of scrimmage are given an expected value. For example:
1st and 10 from your own 20: 1.53 expected points
1st and goal from the 1: 6.48
Since each situation has a value, the value of any play is the change in value created. A 79-yard pass on 1st and 10 from the 20 to the other 1 is worth 4.95 points (6.48 points – 1.53 points). If the running back then punches it in from the 1, he is awarded .49 points (6.97 – 6.48). Touchdowns are worth 6.97 because they create the opportunity for the PAT which is successful 97% of the time. If the PAT is good, the values for the drive look like this:
QB/WR 3.95 points
RB: .49 points
K: .03 points
Thus the 7 points the offense generated are accounted for between the initial 1.53 from field position and the remaining 5.47 from play.
Even plays that gain yards can yield to negative expected point changes. A two-yard gain on 1st and 10 puts the offense in a worse spot than they began even though it was positive yardage. If a drive ends, all of the initial field position points are "left on the field."
Let's say a team hands the ball to their running back three times from the 20 and gains 3 yards each play. A punt on fourth and 1 means that the initial 1.53 expected points is now 0 so the running back now has three plays for –1.53 on the books. Third down plays are typically swing plays and can provide large deviations. Convert a lot of third downs and your value/play will be larger than your yards indicated. Fail on a lot of third downs and it quickly swings in the opposite direction.
What Adjustments Are Made?
We are finally getting to PAN, Points Against Normal. All previous calculations are done independent of opponent. Once several games are on the books in a season, we start to get a picture of who is good and who is not so we can make calibrations to performances.
The baseline as calculated above is adjusted based on the strength of opponents' rush/pass offense/defense. Last year Michigan allowed 0.19 points/rush, which [Ed-M: moment of shock coming] is really bad. So even if the opponent averaged 0.15 points per rush initially, their final tally was negative at –0.04 per play since they performed below what the average team did versus Michigan. A team would have to have an initial average of at least 0.20 to come out positive on the final scoring.
The final scoring is what I will refer to as PAN. It is a measure of actual scoreboard points above the average team you are. PAN can refer to a specific unit such as passing offense, total defense or kick returns, or for a team in total. It is also a good metric for comparing quarterbacks and running backs. It is only somewhat effective for wide receivers since they rarely yield negative plays.
What Does It All Mean?
Zero PAN means you are completely average. For a BCS conference team like Michigan this typically means bottom third of the league. A three-points swing in PAN typically equates to an additional win or loss over the course of a season.
+7 will put you around the Top 25 on the season
+14 is typically Top Ten and potential BCS game
+21 is best in class and probably playing for a national championship
The top rated team I have is Florida 2008. They finished +13 on offense, +7 on defense and +3 in special teams. The top Big Ten team is Ohio 2005 at +19 (7/9/3). The top Michigan team is 2006 at +14 (4/6/4). They come in at 50th overall in the last 8 seasons.
I will try and add relevant updates if more questions come up in the comments.
OT: Randy Shannon's Attempts To Stop Nevin Shapiro
I found this article on Randy Shannon and Nevin Shapiro interesting.
It basically summarizes how Randy Shannon warned his players about Shapiro by name on multiple occasions, refused to talk to the guy, and threatened any assistant coach who dealt with Shapiro with an instant firing. There are rumors he had people around town who would let him know if they saw his players with Shapiro.
Shapiro responded with racially-charged rants to the AD about Shannon. It appears the AD and Shannon didn't exactly see eye-to-eye over Shannon's refusal to even talk to Shapiro.
And yet he still had 12 players receive illegal benefits.
Question: Is it always the coach's responsibility when this kind of thing happens? I know we all say the head coach is ultimately responsible, and maybe he is. But with a system this bad and not exactly getting full support from the AD, what is he supposed to do? Leave the job in protest?
I ask because some of the first things to come out on this board after the story broke were "thank god we didn't hire Randy Shannon as DC." Reading this article though, is Randy Shannon such a bad guy? Should he be held responsible?
Avery and V. Smith returning kicks?
In this practice video produced by Rivals yesterday, it appears that Vincent Smith and Courtney Avery are practicing either kick or punt return catches. It seems to be the impression that Smith may be in even better shape with the knee this year, and I like the idea of putting him back there. Avery played QB very efficiently in high school, so I'd also like to see if he could make some plays back there as well.
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Posted on 12/19/2006 5:23:46 PM PST by advance_copy
A documentary says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire.
The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the report was "erroneous information."
The documentary, due to air next year and seen by Reuters on Tuesday, says the troops could have killed the al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan but the order to shoot never came, possibly because it took too long to request it.
"In 2003 and 2004 we had bin Laden in our sights. The sniper said 'I have bin Laden'," an anonymous French soldier is quoted as saying.
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in what location were these french special forces?
I thought that was the standing order?
I wonder what is so "special" about French Special Forces?
Who in the Western World needs permission to shoot Bin Laden? Isn't there a $25 million dollar reward on him, dead or alive?
hey, don't mock that part of this story. remember when we had Mullah Omar ready to be hit - and some JAG in the chain of command thwarted it.
BTW, the French Special Forces are being withdrawn from Afghanistan.
Seems to me that some "Soldier of Fortune" types would have gone after him by now. I think he is dead.
I hear they're pretty good, as a matter of fact. Don't confuse the French government with the French military, which for the most part is very professional.
Depends on what part of the world they had him sighted....think about it a second....would you want to be the commander who OK's this hit and it turns out it was the wrong guy....and the shooting takes place on the Pakistani side of the border....can you say INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT.
no "soldier of fortune" types are going to be able to operate in that part of the world.
This smells like someone's attempt to establish an urban myth that we (non-terrorist collective) literally had Bin Laden in the crosshairs and could have killed him but President Bush managed to screw it up.
Was Richard Clarke involved in this one too?
Yea,and we could end up with a defeat if we don't clarify the rules of engagement in the field.Keep the lawyers out of it.
I'm just a civilian and a "recreational" shooter at best. Never been to the Middle East and have no training in fieldcraft but so help me -- if I ever could have Bin Ladin "in my sights" nobody would have to tell me to take a shot at him.
Yes, we are superior.
French troops gave Laden an altumatum- 'Either surrender or we will' guess which one Laden chose? http://sacredscoop.com
Poor guy-that's too bad. How much longer will he be there? At least he gave it a try. I wouldn't have the guts or ability to try something like that.
"BTW, the French Special Forces are being withdrawn from Afghanistan."
They are being relocated to Africa in the same area where an American Special Forces base is at Djibouti, where some kind of Special Operations work seems to be anticipated in the near future.
"Zoot Alors, moi, Je ne tirez pas, et j'ai Ozama en mes yeux!
Yeah Right!!
Rummy was right. Going to war with the French as Allies is like going deer hunting with an accordian player.
"Ve deed not shot heem parceque, honlee an Americain Bulleet woul bee politicallee couract??"
This article would be absolutely laughable if some folks did not take it so seriously.
1. French desire to believe they're the only ones who can really get a job done
2. French desier to believe they're warriors, after all
3. French need to believe they're being used by the United States
4. Leftist believe that the US always NEEDS an enemy somewhere in the world, in order to justify militarism
The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the report was "erroneous information."
Well, that's that then. (Anon Source)
I dunno - I'm not very trusting of Reuters. It's also possible that the French government didn't want to be responsible for one of it's own pulling the trigger, just as our command might have had some national pride over who's taking the shot. I dunno I need to see more info.
sucks to be him...
If only unfurling the white flag required going up the chain of command .....
There is a group...mostly from South Africa who's specialty is insurgency. If they were to "Hire" them to take out these creeps, like Bin Laden, it would be done in a few days.
Why didn't we hire them you suppose?
Two initials....PC. Dont wanna make it appear that we hired "Hired Guns" now do we?
This outfit has been successful all over the African continent in stemming communist uprisings. And if they are successful in the deserts and jungles of Africa, then they can do as well in the mountains of Afganistan. That is, if they are still in business. The last I heard they were not.
Why the he!! did they need another order - wasn't the order already out to shoot him on sight???!
It's a great quote but it was by a deputy undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin in the administration of Bush Sr., during the first Gulf War, not Donald Rumsfeld.
I'm surprised that there is no "shoot on sight" order. But, then I've understood the War on Terror less and less as time goes by.
Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but it seems that maybe the objectives were too broad, defining this effort as a war (yes, I know 9/11 was horrific), and then setting the objective of establishing functioning democratic governments.
Perhaps a narrower objective would have been better, defining it as retaliatory action against Afghanistan for harboring Al-Queda (massive destructive bombing) and then concentrating all resources on getting bin Laden.
Second, all this talk about enemy combatants and POWs, etc. (Getting away from the torture issue, for a minute.)In a sense this elevates them, certainly in the eyes of their supporters. Like, here's Osama, he is at war with the United States, great warrior going up against the mightiest nation on Earth. Instead, we could have treated him like a criminal, captured him, presented him to the Mayor of New York (not the President!). The Mayor could then look at the Police Chief and say "Book em" and the Chief could then read him his rights.
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Good. This is probably one reason why employers do not like employees to talk about their salaries to other employees. I don't care if a CEO makes a ton of money, but I won't be one of the workers supporting it with slave wages. And I won't opt that my 401k purchase stock to support their stock options price as a reward.
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As for the inability to track this info, people have to get paid in their local currencies and there has to be some record of that somewhere, right? Should this CEO Pay Ratio be required, it might be a nice intern/new hire project if no one higher up the ladder is willing to invest the time.
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At the memorial, all three of them hugged.
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Hung These Streets Lyrics
album: Track 6 in album Street Education
release date: 2005-6-21
popularity : 3 users have visited this page.
genres: Hip Hop
length: 2:37
producer: Phantom of the Beats
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(feat. Why)
[Intro: Streetlife]
Yeah, come on, come on, yeah
I'm a natural born hustler, and it's on nigga
I'm a natural born hustler, I was raised in the slums
I was taught by these streets, how to double my ones
I stash crack rocks in my mouth til my tongue got numb
And I stood on the ave, until the package was done
A slim chubby fella, always walked with a gun
I got two bad knees, I don't plan to run
I know you can't stand me, since I won a Grammy
And I'm still in your hood, sippin' black berry plenty
I'm an uptown, sneaker rockin', Shaolin New York Yankee
I'm an O.G., I still give haters eye-jammies
All I ever wanted, was an cell five hundred
Be a ghetto celeb, and do my album blunted
[Chorus: Why (Streetlife)]
We love these streets, hung these streets
Never gonna put nothing, above these streets
Reach out and touch something, when the slugs meet
Preach to the streets (teach the youth how to eat)
I'm a natural born gangsta, I keep my hat on the lean
I keep the gun tucked, even when the cops on the scene
These mean streets become, graveyards for frauds
A big boy status, triple extra large
Certified Street, check my identification
Frontin' at my Clan at the door? That's a major violation
You can find me in your grimiest ghetto location
Caught up, brought up, in all sorts of street situations
Listen and learn, maggot, or sleep with the worms
I'm a bad sperm, every time I cum, it burn
We hold trials on these streets, court's adjurned
I send heatwaves, that blow out your perm
[Outro: Why]
Yeah, hah, with the Why, nigga!
Know it's fly, nigga!
My verbal twin, and it's yours
Streetlife! S.I. 7
We in here, nigga, Tical
Yeah, it's on, Loose Linx
To the death, goin' out that way
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Why be a gang member? "It was fast money, it was good money, and it was tax-free money," says ex-gangsta Brian Stewart of Seattle. What
Why be a gang member? "It was fast money, it was good money, and it was tax-free money," says ex-gangsta Brian Stewart of Seattle. What turned him from a future in crime? "My cousin was dismembered, Tyrell Dorian Johnson, they chopped his arms off, chopped his legs, slit his throat, dumped him on the side of the street in the south end…"
When does gangsta life begin? "I've seen them as young as five years old, kindergarten, first grade," says another former member Gabe Morales. "It's rare, but I've seen them, dressed up like gang members, treated like a mascot of the gang." Once, even in gangs, child indoctrination was banned. "But now a lot of gangs are proud of that, this is their future they're advertising."
Those are among the questions by a rightly aghast C.R. Douglas and the answers from experts on gang activity and prevention, playing on the Seattle Channel's current City Inside/Out program. It timely arrives during a spike in Seattle gang-related homicides and assaults, and explores street truths and myths. It's not just those inner city kids, says Morales: The fastest-growing group of gangs consists of suburban white kids, influenced by a glorifying culture and media (MySpace and YouTube in particular. 0h, and click here to "Shed that weak-ass honky image with your very own gangsta name" on Gangsta Name Generator).
Fortunately, there's an upside to the show: It's the wisdom from Marcus Stubblefield, program manager Safe Futures, Tanya Kim, executive director of Powerful Voices, and Terry Hayes of Seattle Human Services -- and knowing that Morales is now a widely respected gang expert, and Brian Stewart, with a degree from WSU and a master's from the UW, is working with kids. By the way, his cousin's killer, a double-murderer, was caught. He apologized.


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