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Given the amount of industry noise about native video and scripted animations, you'd be forgiven if you had never heard of the new microdata specification included in HTML5.
Similar to outside efforts like Microformats, HTML5′s microdata offers a way of extend HTML by adding custom vocabularies to your pages.
The easiest way to understand it is to consider a common use case. Let's say you want list details about a business on your page — the name, address, telephone number and so on. To do that you'll need to use some vocabulary in addition to HTML, since there is no
<business> tag.
Using microdata, you can create your own custom name/value pairs to define a vocabulary that describes a business listing.
When a search engine spider comes along, it will know that not only is your data a business listing, but it can discover the address, the phone number, or even the precise geo-coordinates if you want to include them.
Given that HTML5 is still a draft at this point, why bother?
Actually, despite its lack of publicity and HTML5′s still-incomplete status, microdata is already being used by Google, which has started adding information gleaned from microdata markup to its search result snippets.


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The Clock Suite
Behind the classic Berns Clock lies the ultimate luxury of our Clock Suite, which measures 56 m2. The upper floor offers an inviting King size bed (180 cm) while on the lower floor you have large sofas, a dining table for up to 8 people, a bathroom and a guest WC. In the bathroom you can wind down in our steam shower or the separate bathtub. The large feature windows offer views of Berzelii Park. A Nespresso machine and bathrobes and slippers are also provided for your comfort. Harmonious colours, designer furniture, original windows, generous ceiling height and atmospheric lighting make this a suite like no other.
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Fred Snowden
Was the first black head coach in Division I college basketball. Led the UA men's basketball team as head coach from 1972-82 and acted as special assistant to the athletic director from 1982-83. He compiled a career record of 167-108 for a winning percentage of .607. Led the UA to a Western Athletic Conference championship in 1976, then on to victories over Georgetown and Nevada-Las Vegas and into the Western Regional Final, the first time UA had ever advanced beyond the first round. Also coached UA's 1975 team to 2nd place in the National Commissioner's Tournament and the 1977 team to the NCAA Mid-West Regional. Produced five NBA players including Larry Demic, Bob Elliott, Eric Money, Coniel Norman, and Al Fleming. His teams were also the first to set attendance records in McKale Center.


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Project Title: Real-time Air Quality Sensing on Aircraft
Anticipated Outcome: Identification and enhancement of commercial off-the-shelf sensor technologies for application to real time measurements of air contaminants in aircraft (i) cabins, (ii) recirculation air systems and (iii) bleed air systems.
Project Summary: The unique environment of airliner cabins (high density of occupants, inability to leave the cabin, high altitude operation requiring a pressurized environment) presents both passengers and crew members with a range of air quality issues including: low humidity, low pressure, increased levels of carbon dioxide as well as ozone, contamination from various gaseous chemicals from aircraft operations including carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds plus potential infectious diseases. FAA regulations impose specific limits for carbon monoxide (FAR 25.831, 121.219 and 125.117), carbon dioxide (FAR 25.831) and ozone (FAR 25.832 and 121.578) in the air supply of aircraft. Commercially available air quality sensors are being tested and evaluated towards aircraft operations and re-engineered by ACER reseachers to provide robust, reliable performance in aircraft. Future air traveller can then be assured that compliance with the regulations is achieved.
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Auburn University
Boise State University
Recent Scientific Papers and Technical Reports:
"Copper nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes-based electrochemical sensing System for fast identification of tricresyl-phosphate in aqueous samples and air," Valber A. Pedrosa, Rigved Epur, Jessica Benton, Ruel A. Overfelt, Aleksandr L. Simonian, Sens. Actuators B: Chem. Vol. 140, n 1 (2009) pp. 92-97.
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"Effect of chelating agents on the preferred orientation of ZnO films by sol-gel process" Yoon, Sang Hoon; Liu, Dan; Shen, Dongna; Park, Minseo; Kim, Dong-Joo; Journal of Materials Science, Vol 43, n 18 (2008) pp 6177-6181.
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"A fluorescence-based biosensor for the detection of organophosphate pesticides and chemical warfare agents," Viveros, L.; Paliwal, S.; McCrae, D.; Wild, J.; Simonian, A.; Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, Vol 115, n 1 (2006) pp 150-157.
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"TCP electrochemical detection," Vertelov, G.K.; Gale, W.F.; Simonian, A.L.; ECS Transactions, Vol. 3, n 10, (2006) pp 21-34.
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"Nanoparticle-based optical biosensors for the direct detection of organophosphate chemical warfare agents and pesticides," Simonian, A.L.; Good, T.A.; Wang, S.-S.; Wild, J.R.; Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol 534, n 1 (2005) pp 69-77.
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Flames Top IPFW 14-6; Fall to Host UALR 9-5 on Friday
Feb. 28, 2014
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The UIC baseball team (4-5) split a pair of games on Friday as the Flames topped IPFW, 14-6, but fell to host UA-Little Rock by a final of 9-5 later in the day. Senior Alex Jurich tallied eight RBI on the day and belted his first career grand slam against the Mastodons. Jurich also paced the Flames with five hits on the day as freshman Ricardo Ramirez posted two doubles, two runs and an RBI on just three at-bats.
"We competed consistently well today," said Head Coach Mike Dee. "Our execution on the mound needs to improve in crucial situations, but it's really a matter of relaxing and trusting instead of ability. Trust is an area we can fix."
Junior Carl Sugihara sent Ramirez across the dish in the second inning on sac fly to take the 2-1 lead. The Mastodons began the bottom of the second frame with a solo homer from Kristian Gayday and went on to score three more runs to capture a 5-2 edge.
UIC struck back with two scores in the third as Jacob McNamara kicked things off be reaching base on a throwing error and then advanced to second on a balk. Junior Jake Nath joined him on base with an infield single that kept McNamara at second. On the next at-bat, freshman Brett Krause laid down a bunt-single, send Nath to third and McNamara home. Nath eventually crossed the dish after an RBI-double from Ramirez, his first collegiate RBI and two-base hit.
The 5-4 score remained deadlocked until the top the seventh when both UIC and IPFW plated one runner apiece, bringing the count to 6-5.
It was in the eighth inning that UIC took the lead for good after Jurich drilled his first-career grand slam over the left field wall, giving the Flames a 9-6 advantage. Jurich totaled five RBI in the contest, which set a new single-game record for the Minnesota native.
UIC piled up five more runs in the final inning as redshirt sophomore Conor Philbin did most of the dirty work with a 3-RBI double to center field, his second two-bagger of the season.
Freshman Mitchell Schulewitz was credited with the as he pitched the seventh and eighth innings, allowing just one earned run.
Jurich gave UIC a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning with a 2-RBI single right-center field, scoring Detmer and McNamara.
Little Rock knotted the score at 2-2 in the third frame, but blew the game wide open in the sixth inning when they plated six runs. The Flames bullpen pegged three batters, allowed two doubles and permitted a base on balls during UALR's six-run surge.
The Trojans tacked on one more run in the off a solo homer in the seventh frame to take a 9-2 lead.
UIC attempted a late comeback with one run in the bottom of the eighth and two more in the ninth, but it was too little too late for the Flames as UALR sealed the four-run triumph.
The Flames return to action on Saturday against SEC-member Missouri with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. CT. Sophomore Ian Lewandowski will take the mound opposite of right-hander Eric Anderson.


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Intro: Many traditional Easter dinner recipes call for lamb, whether it's for lamb chops or leg of lamb. Additionally, this meat is a treat for many people, so finding the right side dish will help bring out all the flavors of your Easter meal.
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This leg of lamb recipe mixes the flavors of lamb with the seasoning power of garlic and lemon. It also asks for you to cook vegetables like red potatoes, carrots and peas right in the dish, making cooking leg of lamb for Easter dinner much simpler.
Cooking lamb chops with rosemary is a nice way to make individual portions for your Easter dinner recipes. In addition to the rosemary flavoring, you'll add some apricot or peach preserves and Dijon mustard for a nice holiday dinner treat.
Glazed carrots are an excellent side dish for your Easter dinner recipes. Since many people cook both lamb and ham on this holiday, these veggies work well with both. These glazed carrots recipes include orange glazed, honey glazed and maple syrup glazed carrots. Delish!
Steamed asparagus is a lovely, simple side dish to serve with your lamb chops or leg of lamb. Asparagus is a spring vegetable and graces many tables during the Easter holiday. This steamed asparagus recipe also includes instructions for hollandaise sauce.
Roasted asparagus is another excellent side dish if you're wondering what to cook with lamb. This one features fresh roasted asparagus with shavings of Parmesan cheese.
Sweet potatoes are some of my favorite lamb side dishes. I often make this mashed sweet potatoes with maple syrup recipe for the fall and winter holidays, but it's yummy with your Easter dinner recipes as well.


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Pumpkin Apple Muffin
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup refrigerated or frozen egg product, thawed, or 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 3/4 cup low fat buttermilk or sour milk*
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly spray twelve 2-1/2-inch muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, stir together all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, wheat germ, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- In a medium bowl, combine egg, pumpkin, buttermilk, applesauce, brown sugar, and oil. Add pumpkin mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened.
- Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups, filling each about two-thirds full. Bake about 25 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted near centers comes out clean.
- Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove from muffin cups; serve warm.
*To make 3/4 cup sour milk, place 2-1/4 teaspoons lemon juice or vinegar in a glass measuring cup. Add enough milk to make 3/4 cup total liquid; stir. Let mixture stand for 5 minutes before using.
Serving size 1 muffin
Makes 12 muffins
Nutrition Facts
Calories: 122
Fat: 3.8g
Salt: 54mg
Fiber: 2g
Carbohydrates: 18g


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Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1:00 p.m.
Below is a photo album from Oregon's preseason tip-off event, Matt Knight Madness. Special thanks to our photographer Eric Evans for the great pics.
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Historic Michie Tavern first began providing food, drink and lodging to travelers in 1784. Today, that tradition continues in the form of historic tours and southern mid-day meals.
The tavern capitalizes on its age as part of its patron's experience. Diners at Michie Tavern will eat in an 1800s-style dining facility, called an Ordinary. The Ordinary at Michie Tavern serves traditional Southern foods that a traveler during the 1800s might have eaten.
Servers even don period frocks, complete with bonnet, and warm Southern hospitality mannerisms: "Seconds, M'am? Thirds for you, sir? Y'all eat up now, you hear?"
While the rustic restaurant has modern lighting, the lights are kept low. In addition, the low ceiling and the dark wood interior make the atmosphere feel very 1800s. Flatware, plates and cups are Jefferson Cup style, silver in color, adding to the overall impression that, "This is no ordinary, modern meal." Servers even don period frocks, complete with bonnet, and warm Southern hospitality mannerisms.
Michie Tavern's dining facility is divided into an entry way with tables and chairs, a mid-section that houses the main buffet serving line. Several rooms branch off the back of the serving line room, and stretch as far as the eye can see, in the dimly lit interior. When at capacity, Michie Tavern can open a second buffet to serve the back rooms. This setup makes private parties and large tour groups a breeze. In colder months, diners can enjoy a roaring fire.
Although, operations have been modernized with the all-you-can-eat buffet concept common in modern times, the food itself is quite uncommon and not all plagued by modern-day fat consumption concerns.The Southern menu includes traditional recipes for fried chicken, black-eyed peas, stewed tomatoes, biscuits and green beans with bacon.
Dieters beware! While the food definitely possesses a melt-in-your-mouth flavor, the caloric intake number is likely considerably higher than daily recommendatopms. And part of the period-frocked servers' hospitality is offering to bring to your table, seconds…thirds…fourths…until you ask for no more! Calorie tracking at that point just becomes uncharitable.
Virginia wines and brews have made their way as completely accurate "period" options to the Michie Tavern menu; mulled apple cider and cold water are other beverage options. Traditional Southern deserts like Peach cobbler are also available, if you have room after multiple trips to the buffet line, or seconds handed out from your sever.
Come as you are; no reservations are required, unless the group is 15-members large or more. And the buffet menu is the same delicious fare every day:
- Southern Fried Chicken
- Hickory Smoked Pulled Pork Barbecue
- Marinated Baked Chicken
- Homemade Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
- Black-eyed Peas
- Stewed Tomatoes
- Cole Slaw
- Green Beans
- Whole Baby Beets
- Cornbread and Biscuits
This mid-day fare, or lunch, is served daily year round; Michie Tavern only closes its doors on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Back in the 1800s the mid-day meal was considered the main meal of the day, with only a snack or light meal for dinner. Even just tasting a little bit of everything on the buffet may leave your belly so full, it does not needing any more food until breakfast, the next day.
Ticket prices break down as follow: Adult Buffet $17.50; Youth Buffet 12-15 $10.95; and Youth Buffet 6-11 $6.95. From April through October, the Ordinary is open from 11:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; operating hours are 11:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. from November through March.
When is a good time to visit Michie Tavern for lunch? Any time you want to make a meal special is the perfect time to do lunch at Michie Tavern. There is a romance to traveling back to a simpler time. If the children are bored, or need to get reinvested in history, Michie Tavern's Jefferson Cup drinks and silver-plate dining ware might do the trick.
Don't forget that Michie Tavern closes promptly on time each day so make your plans accordingly. Also, since many people couple a tour of Monticello with Michie Tavern for lunch, timing your arrival can be tricky to avoid lines. Spontaneity is good; just allow enough time to eat with as many trips as possible back to the buffet bar, and some time to sit and digest once done.
While its location may not be authentic (it was originally located 17 miles away), Michie Tavern was built and operated by the Scotsman William Michie. Located in Albemarle County, Michie Tavern is less than a mile from Monticello, and about 3.5 miles from Charlottesville. Michie Tavern is located at 685 Thomas Jefferson Parkway in Charlottesville. For more information, check out their website.
Have a hankering for fried chicken or black-eyed peas? Michie Tavern serves them up every day of the year.
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How to Be Cool and Laid Back
Ironically, being "cool," "chill," or "laid back" can actually take concentration and practice at first. If you're not the type of person who finds it easy to relax and go with the flow and you want to change this, don't worry - wikiHow can help you learn to "let go". Read on below the jump to get started.
1Relax, open your mind, and just chill. You need to relax and let all the tension drift away. This is your reality, your perception of the world. remember that.
2Realize that because this is your perception of the world, people are entering your reality. They should have no effect on your moods, feelings and beliefs. So basically, don't give a toss what anyone else thinks. All that matters is what you think of yourself.
3Always stick up for yourself. No matter who or what it is about. In the end, the only person that is really there for you, is you. Take up a martial art and use it wisely.
4Do not let people control your emotions. Stay cool, stay calm and you will remain in control. Just stare someone dead in the eye for a few seconds and then laugh a little, make sure they know you have a darker side.
5Keep improving yourself. Work out, learn a new hobby, etc. You need to stay flexible and be able to show people that you are always getting better!
6Be a friendly guy, but learn to defend yourself when the time comes. Make sure the person knows that if he doesn't pack it in, you won't stand for it.
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Volume 4, Number 4—December 1998
Dual Infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia: A Case Report
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To the Editor: In their article, Daniel J. Sexton et al. state, "Well- documented cases of simultaneous human infections with more than one tick-borne pathogen are rare" (1) and mention only two reports of such cases. However, another report should be mentioned because of its historical interest and the lessons it may teach.
In 1900 to 1905, in the Bitter Root Valley, a tick-borne disease emerged, which became known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Although Ricketts et al. later published a report (2), which identified the causative agent, in 1904 L.B. Chowning and W.M. Wilson published Studies on Pyroplasma hominis (3). They reported finding Pyroplasma (since changed to Babesia) in the blood of approximately 20 patients with spotted fever. They studied this organism in detail and even found the reservoir for it in the local rodent species. Wilson et al. thought that the organism was the causative agent of spotted fever. On the basis of their excellent plates and descriptions, it is clear that the organism they were describing was what we later came to know as Babesia microti.
The work of Wilson and Chowning was ignored and forgotten for many years. They had incorrectly concluded that spotted fever was caused by a parasite. For many years it was "well known" that Babesia infections became apparent in human patients only on removal or inactivation of the spleen. That persons with functional spleens were subject to infection with B. microti was finally established by the so-called Nantucket outbreak (4) and subsequent publications.
Therefore, Wilson and Chowning's work reports several cases of simultaneous infections of humans by two tickborne pathogens; i.e., patients had spotted fever and B. microti in the blood. More poignant was that an "emerging" disease of humans was missed and not discovered again for some 70 years.
- Sexton DJ, Corey GR, Carpenter C, Kong LQ, Gandhi T, Breitschwerdt E, Dual infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a spotted fever group rickettsia: a case report. Emerg Infect Dis. 1998;4:311–6. DOIPubMed
- Ricketts HT. Some aspects of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Rev Infect Dis. 1909;:1227–40.
- Wilson LB, Chowning WM. Studies on Pyroplasma hominis. Rev Infect Dis. 1904;1:31–57.
- Ruebush TK, Juranek DD, Chisholm ES, Snow PC, Healy GR, Sulzer AJ. Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island. N Engl J Med. 1977;297:825–87.PubMed
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This is one story Mike Sessoms will surely never grow tired of telling. For the past 13 years, Sessoms has steadily worked his way up the company ladder at Ohio-based Glow Industries, climbing from an entry-level sales position to his current title as the company's product manager.
And whom does he have to thank for his constant ascent?
Of all people, it's his mother.
"It's kind of a funny story, actually," said Sessoms. "It was my mother who got me my first job with the company. My mom, Sue, owned one of those free magazines you see in grocery stores and places like that. She asked the owner of Glow if she could put her magazines in the retail stores that they had. While she was talking to them, they asked her if she knew of any sales people and she said, 'Yeah, my son'. And the rest is history. At the time, I'm not sure if she knew the full extent of what they sold."
Located in Perrysburg, Glow Industries is a wholesale importer, exporter, distributor and manufacturer specializing in soaps, incense, incense burners, Nag Champa and adult toys, like the highly popular Don Wand glass novelties. Glow has been in business for more than 30 years and boasts a customer base of some 12,000 buyers—not including chain stores.
"We started in the smoke shop industry in the mid-'70s," Sessoms said. "At the time we carried novelty and gag gifts, but not the major stuff. We manufacture smoking accessories, pipes, incense, candles and tapestries. About six years ago we jumped into the adult industry with the Don Wand glass dildos. Since then we've branched off further with the Treeze wooden vibrators, the Kama Diva urethane vibrators and the Mr. Magic male enhancement pill. The plan is to continue to grow in the adult industry as well as the smoke shop industry. We're dabbling in a little bit of everything; we import, we export, we manufacture, we have retail, and we carry a lot of other novelties other than our own."
Glow has come along way from its humble beginnings three decades ago.
"It all started with a retail store they called 'The Shed,' " Sessoms said. "Owner Dave Glowacki, whose son Jason now runs the business, did two tours in Vietnam, and when he came back home he opened what was a record shop at the time. After awhile he jumped into pipes and after that he went into the adult products. It started out as a smoke shop, but now it's half and half. A lot more adult shops are starting to carry smoking accessories, which is one of things we're trying to push right now because the customer base is built in. It's a great fit for both industries."
Known for consistent beauty and high quality, Don Wand glass dildos are handmade of Pyrex, known as a worldwide leader in top-quality scientific and medical-grade glass.
"The Don Wand product is one of our most popular items," Sessoms said. "It has been a great line for us; they've just blown up. Everyone should have one. We started out with seven styles, and it has taken off to the point where we now have over 70 styles."
New styles have built-in LED lights that flash red and blue, and all Don Wands are packaged in a clamshell with a velvet bag. Wholesale prices range from $9 to $18.
"At first everyone was concerned because they're made out of glass," Sessoms said.
"But at that point there was a lack of education from a consumer standpoint because it was such a new material. A lot of people thought it was going to break or crack and cut the person. But that's not the case. It is glass, and glass can break, but we use borosilicate, which is more resistant to breaking than most traditional glass formulations. They can be warmed or cooled to your preferred comfort zone and they maintain temperature for an extended period of time. We've put a lot of effort into branding the name."
Another hot item is the all-natural male sexual stimulant Mr. Magic product line.
"We're also selling a ton of those," he said. "We're really moving them and we just launched that line within the last three months. And most importantly, it works. You can market something until you're blue in the face, but if it doesn't work it's not going to sell."
For more information, visit GlowIndustries.com.
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College Hockey:Committee hears coaches' ideas on regionals, NCAA selection, but consensus lacking
As the saying goes, everything old is new again.
When the Division I men's coaching body met last week during the annual American Hockey Coaches Association convention to discuss the hot topics in college hockey, two of the major themes centered around moving NCAA regional games back to campus sites and tweaking the selection criteria to reward teams for non-conference road wins.
Bonuses for road wins were a part of the formula as recently as 2007, and before the advent of regional play in 1992, all NCAA tournament games leading into the Frozen Four were played in home rinks. Since 2010, the NCAA regionals have been exclusively at neutral sites after 18 years of mixed campus and off-campus venues.
While those were major threads at the convention in Naples, Fla., trying to get 59 college hockey coaches to agree on anything can be an exercise in futility.
"There's no consensus. There's definitely a split in what people are thinking," Michigan State coach Tom Anastos said. "I think the committee will have to decide what they're going to prioritize."
Changes to the selection criteria and regional sites were never going to be decided at the coaches' meetings, but NCAA committee members were listening and have some more information to take into their sessions next month.
Some in the coaching fraternity have argued that it's time to take first-round games back to campus sites, where fans of at least one of the teams can attend without significant travel.
This season, the combined attendance for the four regionals was 37,321, down 48 percent from 2012. The Yale-North Dakota regional final in Grand Rapids, Mich., drew only an announced 1,918 fans.
Other coaches are uncomfortable with the idea of giving an advantage to schools that would host opening-round games.
One proposed format included eight best-of-three series feeding into two regional sites.
Regionals have already been selected for the 2014 tournament, so any changes in tournament format that the NCAA Division I men's ice hockey committee wouldn't take effect for two seasons.
"What we're trying to do as a committee is trying to think of what's the best format for the tournament, what makes the tournament the best," outgoing committee chair and Notre Dame senior associate athletic director Tom Nevala said. "And so that's what we have to continue to debate. I think if we look at whether it's our options for locations for regionals, ticket pricing, attendance, all the things over time, we'd realize that it can be better than it is today. And we've got to figure out how to make it better."
Revamping the criteria?
At the same time, they might be looking at ways to make the formula that picks at-large teams for the tournament better.
The coaches talked about the concept of rewarding teams for road non-conference victories, which was one component of the selection criteria from 2003 to 2007.
The idea has new legs now because of concerns with the imbalance of hosting non-conference games. Last season, the 12 Atlantic Hockey teams hosted an average of only two non-conference games per team in their home rink; in the WCHA, the average was over four and a half games.
Bonus points toward a team's Ratings Percentage Index for road victories could entice the bigger programs to schedule more road games, but it was a controversial piece of the selection criteria in the five years that it was in place.
Nevala said that the committee will see how some potential changes would have impacted past tournament selections, but the upcoming conference realignment makes those comparisons tricky.
"From our committee's standpoint, we have to be very careful on that or any criteria change at this point using the current math," Nevala said. "With the new conference alignment and varying the levels of non-conference games, we don't know what the impact of that math will be."
Among the outside-the-box ways to get more of a balance in scheduling was this idea: Disqualify any teams that play more than 60 percent of their non-conference games at home from NCAA tournament consideration. That concept, however, was a non-starter among the coaching body as a whole.
Minor discussions on rules
The rules committee is in the middle of a two-year rule book cycle, so no changes can be made this offseason.
There were some small discussions, however, on giving on-ice officials the ability to use video to review major penalties and ways to increase offense.
Anastos, the rules committee chair, said the most prominent idea presented to increase scoring opportunities was to not allow players to intentionally leave a skating position (i.e., kneel or lay down) to block shots.
Potential recruiting change opposed
The coaches also got an update on potential NCAA legislation changes, including one that could impact the recruiting competition with major junior teams.
Joe Bertagna, the Hockey East commissioner and AHCA executive director, said the NCAA could institute a 100-day limit on recruiting for college coaches. In that scenario, two of a team's coaches recruiting on the same day would count as two of the 100 allowable days per season.
"We don't want a recruiting calendar," Bertagna said. "We certainly feel that our needs in recruiting against Canadian junior hockey are so unique that we can make a case that we shouldn't be lumped in with everybody else."
Bertagna emphasized that not only is hockey different from other Division I sports in recruiting, men's hockey has a vastly different landscape than women's hockey does.
Division I men's college hockey teams have a lot of ground to make up by the time they're able to contact recruits that may have been talking to major junior teams since the age of 13, Bertagna said.
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This week we asked you to respond to the prompt "When I look in the mirror…"
I have been thinking about this prompt for days. DAYS. Because I could probably write an entire book just from this one prompt. (Don't worry, I am not going to do that here.) But something happened to help me decide which angle I finally wanted to take. The "thing" was a tweet from a Just.Be.Enough. community member who responded to my reminder of the prompt with: "i don't know if i can complete that sentence nicely. (about myself)" The tweet reminded me yet again of WHY Just.Be.Enough. exists. Because we are not good at noticing the good things about ourselves. The beauty. The kindness. The ability we have to do just about anything we set our minds to.
Except that, if you are like me, sometimes we forget to see the good things. Sometimes that journey to being enough has road closures or detours that make seeing the good things a bit harder. I realized after seeing that tweet that I needed to take a better look at what I'm seeing when I look in the mirror.
One View from the Mirror
I spent a LOT of time in front of the mirror yesterday. At the hair salon I sat down in my hairdresser's chair, armed with images saved on my iPad of cuts that would transform my mop. I wanted a new look. I need something bold. I needed some funk. A fresh look. A bolder color. A snappy pixie cut. In other words…anything but ME.
Later that afternoon, I spent time in and out of dresses in a fitting room at my favorite Nordstroms attempting to find an outfit that would make me feel FABULOUS and wonderful on stage next week during the Listen to Your Mother show where I will be reading. Nothing with too bold of a print. Nothing sleeveless because my arms could not pull it off with their lack of muscle. Nothing that would accentuate my upper body. With dress after dress I found faults. With dress after dress I thought to myself, "Not even Spanx will help this dress."
I got my snazzy new hair cut. I love it. And I found a new dress. I love that too. Almost. Truth be told…I love the idea of the dress but am not actually sold on how the dress looks on ME. As I sat discouraged in the fitting room, I realized something very important as I tried on my umpteenth dress surrounded by mirrors. The truth of the matter was that NO DRESS was going to make me feel fabulous or amazing or stand taller with pride and confidence…unless I started to feel it on my own. Just BECAUSE.
Another View from the Mirror
Which brings me back to the idea of looking in the mirror. I could go on and on about the things I see in the mirror. The gray hairs. The bulging instead of toned abdomen. OR, I could focus on what lies beneath those things. The woman I am trying to be. The woman who tries to learn from her mistakes, detours, or floundering.
The woman who is stepping outside her comfort zone to make a HUGE career switch. The woman who is setting foot on a stage in one week to share her story with a REAL audience. The woman who is getting over a major life event to get healthy and fit once again. The woman who tries her best.
I NEED to believe in that view of myself. Because if I don't believe in her, who will?
That woman…that me. The one I see out of the corner of my eye, underneath the new bolder, red-colored pixie cut. The one who lies within the muscles that are being woken up after a winter of sleeping dormant. The one who sometimes makes a choice to be ok with "less than."
A new haircut and a great dress do not make me who I am. They are not going to change the me that is hidden by the woman I see in the mirror. They might help…but with just a bit of effort, I can dig a little deeper to look past the initial reflection, to find and honor the REAL me that is lying within.
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Manny Pacquiao will be looking to restore faith and erase any doubts surrounding his last outing with Timothy Bradley, and more importantly, his trilogy with Juan Manuel Marquez, when he faces the Mexican for a fourth time on December 8th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Controversially, their first meeting resulted in a draw, with Pacquiao later claiming two contentious points wins over Marquez in follow up bouts courtesy of a split and majority decision. This time, Pacquiao has vowed to put an end to the rivalry once and for all, insisting the judges will be taken out of the equation.
"I want to be the other Manny Pacquiao, like when I was 24, 25 years old. I want people who watch this fight to be satisfied. I want to make this fight short. I want to knock him out".
For this fight then, or so it seems,Pacquiao will be looking to reinstate some of the relentlessness that terrorized the featherweight divisions. Freddie Roach enhanced the notion.
"Technically, we can't outbox this guy, so we have to outfight him...I don't want the nice Manny Pacquiao, touching gloves with the other guy and everything. That drives me crazy. You can't be friends out there."
Reading between the lines, then, it seems Roach and Pacquiao are referring to the three knockdowns that occurred during the very first round in fight one with Marquez --which happened to be Pacquiao's most deliberate and aggressive showing to date against him-- and are possibly thinking that's something they need to recapture. A far more aggressive Manny Pacquiao.
This, I believe, would be a mistake on their part.
What is often overlooked when dissecting Pacquiao and Marquez, is the fact that their fights haven't always been razor close, at least not from a round to round basis. Ironically, the fight that saw the biggest disparity between them, was actually the only time when both fighters were deemed to be the equal of each other by the judges. It was also the fight in which Marquez was hurt the most by Pacquiao. Regardless of how the score cards read in the first fight, Marquez managed to weather the early storm and was more dominant across eleven rounds in that fight, than he was at any stage in any of the following two fights against Pacquiao. If not for those three early knockdowns in the opening round, Pacquiao, struggling to fathom a way around Marquez's superior ring intelligence, would have lost the first meeting by a very wide margin. If you remember correctly, what transpired during those eleven rounds {Pacquiao's predictable one handed attacks continually blunted by Marquez's movement and sharp counters} was the reason why Roach decided to broaden Pacquiao's stylistic horizons in the first place.
There's no doubting the fact that Pacquiao seemed to have a hunger back then that's missing now, but to pursuit a marksman like Marquez without abandon, looking for a knockout like he did in the first fight, would surely be a step backwards for Pacquiao. The last time they met was the only occasion in three fights that Pacquiao has failed to either hurt or drop Marquez, but it was probably Pacquiao's most complete --offensive and defensive-- performance against Marquez. And yet, Pacquiao and Roach seem to be placing more emphasis on Pacquiao being more aggressive like he was in the first fight. Marquez, who thrives on aggression {see Juan Diaz and Michael Katsidis} has already proved that he can't be physically overwhelmed by Pacquiao, regardless of the weight class they fight in. Going further, I believe the more aggressive Pacquiao becomes, the more chance that Marquez, and not Pacquiao, will have of definitively putting an end to their saga. Pacquiao has already underestimated Marquez once, he can't allow himself to do the same again.
Over the course of three fights,no fighter has been able to test Pacquiao the way Marquez has, using his superior craft and timing to negate Pacquiao's greater physicalities of speed and power. And yet, apart from rounds two through twelve in their first meeting, Marquez has never really beaten Pacquiao beyond any doubt. Pacquiao's more aggressive style seems to translate better on the score cards with the judges. As his 2-0-1 record against Marquez suggests, you could argue that Marquez does a terriffic job of taming and disrupting Pacquiao with his patience and waiting game tactics, but falls just short of conclusively bettering him because of Pacquiao's superior work rate and foward momentum.
Because both fighters will likely do what they're most comfortable with against each other, which is for Marquez to wait and react, and for Pacquiao to pursuit and ambush, I think we're going to see more of fights two and three, rather than fight one, which ultimately means more of the same. However, if both fighters decide to go against the grain, then logic, which tells us we're going to get another closely contested fight on December 8th, could be thrown out the window.
Cry baby is going to get fudged up for the fouth time -- but may get a gift -- because that is how the Sin City stanks roll and cheat their flat arses off. Only in America. Da Manny shoulda fought dat muthacryingchump in Asia or the Middle East.
Chris John kicked Marquez's arse in Asia. And the crybaby doesn't wanna fight him again -- not in Mexico or the USA. Holla!
Da Manny is gonna break Marquez's __ __ ___ like an iceberg did the Titanic. So Nation Pac does not need to panic. We know da haps in da U.S.A. Nowadays, hating Asians' success is okay.
Muthasuckas traded Pinoy-born Tim TeBow outta Denver. Yank-stanks dumped Jeremy "Linsanity" Lin outta da Big Worm -- I mean the Big Apple. Hahaha! Sin City super stanky-stanks hardcore robbed Da Manny to Big-foot Bamzi -- I mean Bradley. And in November, the ___ ____ ____ are plotting, trotting and blood clotting to dirty vote Hawaiin-native Prez O and his Pinoy super chefs outta da lilly White Shack -- I mean White House. Hehehe!
Oh, YUP! There is no UPSET in the air, BUT d@mn plain-old apple-pie cheating and fibbing. Now da first U.S. Prez George "Wooden Grill" Washington know dat his wooden-teeth @ss chopped down da cherry tree, the apple tree, the pecan tree, corn brushes, the grapevines and chopped off a muscle-bound, big-headed, runaway slave's big--@ss foot. [Probably a mutha-ancestor of ___ ____ ____.] Instead of giving dat slave's descendant 40 arces and a mule, da corrupted Sin City super stanks gave him $5mil, a trumped-up boxing victory over Da Manny and an alphabet-sanctioning commission title belt. Haha! Hehe!
Yall know da deal. Ain't iota of justice for Asian origin and born nowadays in the seedy-arse hurt bitnezz. It JUST US!
I'm making three bests on the Pacquiao-Marquez fiasco: 1. Da Manny is ROBBED! 2. Da Manny KAYOS da crybaby bandit of imaginary wins. 3. Da Manny knock dat crocodile-tears muthasucka down a few times and cruise to four victories. And that Marquez says: "Me beat Pakow [sic] four times. Evy'bodee kno' dii!" Holla!
if i was pac man i wouldnt dance and move and flow and box, i would step right on top of jmm's lead foot and go to the body with a straight left followed with a right hook. i would repeat that till the damn cows come home...forget boxing and playing chess with jmm... to beat a counter punching either crowd and disrupt the shiiit out of him or stay back and bore the crowd and counter punch the shiiit out of him like floyd did....jmm is a true lb for lb counter puncher, pac forget about the crowd and whoop his ***, too much crying for my taste and i am a jmm fan..
it doesn't seem logical that JMM should be able to hang with the likes of Pac(the difference in strength and speed should be apparent from the get-go but somehow Marquez manages to make Pac look like he's evenly matched every time)... I know Marquez is tough, resilent, and thinks well enough to make crucial adjustments.... but Diaz and Katsidis (also Casamayor) were getting in deep into Marquez's stuff early in their fan friendly fights... and Pac is nearly twice as good as those guys in every way.
Marquez is probably one of the best 2nd half fighters in the biz today,.. as long as you omit the Mayweather fight from the conversation. Floyd fought a technically magnificent clinic in their otherwise bloodless encounter several years ago... but even then Marquez was able to touch Floyd whenever Floyd squared up and opened up for too long.
I really believe Marquez is truly obsessed with beating Pac... his resentment and contempt for Pac has been building up as a result of some of the questionable judging of their previous fights and must be serving as Marquez's well-spring of infinite youth.... he refuses to go away until he gets his hand raised.
I also believe the reason Marquez never wants to fight anyone else lately is because he's been secretly training for Pac for the last 2 and a half years... Marquez good showing against Pac is more than the oft used cliche' ......"Marquez just has his number".... it's more than styles makes fights and it's more than some hidden personal attribute......
...I bet Marquez trains for Pac every opportunity he gets,.. behind the scenes.. covertly, researching Pac like researchers hunt tirelessly for a cure for AIDS... and if age doesn't suddenly catch up to Marquez,.. his obsessive, relentless, research and training will finally pay off. All things being equal.....Pac needs a KO and only a KO will win it this time.
If you thought Michael Myers,.. Jason Vorhees... and "Death (as played in "Final Destination" were relentless,.. You haven't seen anything yet... Marquez is all of the above and more...........he may even be getting the benefit of witch-doctors...the fountain of youth.. and holy water in his spit bucket... whatever it is Marquez is on a mission and he knows this is his last chance...probably his last fight.. I wouldn't easily pick against him.
Heard all this before and I don't believe a word. Roach spent years deprogramming the reckless aggression to get the Manny we have today. An overly-aggressive Manny probably gets KO'd by JMM. He won't want that to happen so he will box the same measured fight he has in recent years. I don't think Manny is capable of doing the things he used to do, Bradley was there to be KO'd and he couldn't do it. The real story of the Bradley fight was Manny's decline. Another close fight for me unless JMM decides to be very agressive and I can't see that happening either. Sorry!
The real story of the Bradley fight was racist-@$$ judges with power to express that racism without hinderance. Bradley couldn't hold Da Manny's spit bucket. Make believe and/or hatred does not change a spade into an ace. Da Manny was mistreated because status and race. And that is something that haters and legion groupies and ___ ___ just cannot face. Holla!
The only time that Manny has dominated JMM was in the first fight during the knockdowns...after that JMM has made Manny look normal. His counter punching is one of the best in boxing and knows how to pace himself in a fight. After every fight with JMM I look at Manny and it looks like he was kidnaped and beat up to get some information.
This should be another good fight!
Hehe! Be the Joker next time. Holla!
don`t cry too much jmm and disrespect the nevada judges are not acceptable you have
to fight pacman toe to toe not backpedaling as seen in last fight common jmm ko pac man and people will give you credit. as a boxing fans I can`t wait to see this fight.
good luck to both of you guys. see you on dec 8 @ las vegas:
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Kain (カイン) is a character exclusive to the Strider Hiryu manga and its NES adaptation. A stylized "C" can be seen on his clothes, which indicates his name is intended to be written Cain. Though the NES game is an adaptation of the manga, his role and fate is notably different between them. The manga treats him like a sidekick, and gives him few times to shine, being mostly witness of Hiryu's fights. The NES game gives him less on-screen time, but also shows him as more competent, being the first one who discovers Matic's betrayal.
Special A-Rank Strider and Hiryu's best friend since their time in training school[2], Kain appears to be optimistic, ignorant and a bit weak, but in truth his skill level is on par with Hiryu's. He's shown to be disrespectful and playful while on duty[3], but he knows when to take the situation seriously.
Kain's primary weapon is the Cypher, though he has also been shown capable of handling a variety of firearms, including a grenade launcher[3] and the hi-tech machinegun Shadowtag Bullets[4].
Kain, together with Strider Sheena, were assigned to support the Kazakh Rebel Army. After being discovered by the Kazakh Secret Police, they are forced to defend themselves. After a valiant fight, Kain is taken off guard by an armed child and shot down. Falling unconscious, Kain is captured by the enemy. During his imprisonment, he's subjected to the ZAIN Project and successfully brainwashed.
Hiryu is taken out of retirement for a rescue mission, which he fulfills with Sheena's assistance. On the way out Kazakh, they are forced to stay in a Rebel Army's safe house due to a blizzard. While there, Kain recovers consciousness. With a sudden change of personality, Kain picks his Cypher and attacks Sheena, wounding her in the shoulder. He then fights Hiryu violently. Sheena tries to stop the fighting, but Kain fatally injures her. Enraged, Hiryu throws several kunais at him, one striking his neck (where the mind-control device is found) and knocking him out.
Kain recovers a short time later, and discovers Sheena's dead body. Upon realizing he was responsible, he becomes deeply saddened, but Hiryu is able to talk him out of it. After hearing about Enterprise's ZAIN Project from the captured Secret Police Chief, they swear on Sheena's grave to stop their plans.
Kain remains at Hiryu's side during most of their adventure, serving as the brains to Hiryu's brawn. During their fight against Striders Arana and Kubira, he's first trapped by Arana's web wires and later almost eaten by Kubira's crocodiles. Both times he's saved by Hiryu's quick actions. During the final showdown in Enterprise's headquarters, he implants bombs while disguised as a repairman, and once their cover is blown by Matic, he activates them to help their escape. He splits up from Hiryu there, and reunites with him just as he was fighting Matic, in time to shoot down the soldiers backing Matic.
After Matic's defeat and the destruction of ZAIN, he's last seen talking with Director Kuramoto about Hiryu, who has already left.
Strider (NES)EditKain is captured by enemy forces while investigating on Kazakh, and Strider Matic calls Hiryu out of retirement to kill him, citing that once he's discovered by the enemy, there's no point on a rescue mission. Hiryu refuses to kill him and, after some investigation, finds and rescues him. He's unconscious, so Hiryu brings him back to the Blue Dragon. Through a recording, Kain reveals concerns about something known as the ZAIN Project, and considers Chief Kuramoto may know something helpful.
When he returns from Japan with Kuramoto's information, Kain awakes and suddenly turns on Hiryu, attacking him violently. Hiryu knocks him out. Having learned from Kuramoto about ZAIN's mind-control abilities, he swears to take them out and ask Sheena to take care of Kain. While Hiryu is out destroying the various ZAIN Terminals, Kain sneaks out of the Blue Dragon when Sheena was not looking.
Now in his right mind, Kain starts to chase after Matic, knowing about his involvement on the ZAIN Project. His attempt to capture Matic fails, however, and he's fatally injured. With his last strength, he sends a message to Hiryu revealing Matic's location: the Red Dragon.
Skills and AbilitiesEdit
Being a Special-A rank agent, Kain is among the strongest members of the Striders, with Matic claiming that no current member outside Hiryu would have a fighting chance against him[5]. While Kain wields a Cypher much like Hiryu, he's also good at handling firearms. During missions, he seems to prefer a more tactical approach, awaiting for the right time to strike at his targets by exploiting any weakness he finds. He has a good eye for details, as he noticed the ultra-fine wires from Arana's wire trap, which are almost invisible to the naked eye.[6]
Kain is also a good strategist, seemingly coming up with some of the duo's plans, like finding out the ZAIN laboratory by checking for high expenses of electricity and phone line in the Kazakh area[7]; or destroying the Amazon Institute to get a trip to Enterprise's Los Angeles HQ, having correctly guessed medic aid would arrive to take the injured back to HQ so as to keep them from revealing any important information[8]
During his time under ZAIN's mind control, Kain fought on par with Hiryu, seemingly matching him in both strength and speed. While in this unrestrained state he appeared unstoppable, in the end he was instantly knocked out by striking the ZAIN implant in his neck.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 1, Pg. 8. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 2, Pg. 56. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 1, Pg. 7. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 6, Pg. 207. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 1, Pg. 24. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 4, Pg. 126-127. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 3, Pg. 107. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
- ↑ Wada, Tatsumi (Nov 10, 1989). Strider Hiryû. Chapter 4, Pg. 134. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 4-04-713009-5.
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Hi there guys. I went to the South Florida gun show yesterday just for kicks. Have been in the ideation stages for my second firearm since mere moments after purchasing my first one just about exactly one month ago.
Actually, a local shooting friend let me fire her Browning Buck Mark .22 at the range a few weeks ago and it was a true pleasure, plus a little ego boosting because after learning to shoot on Glock 22 .40 S&W, my skills at shooting with the 22 were so great that 18 of 20 bullets hit within the bullseye ring of her target.
Woweee! Color me a .22 convert. So, for cheap ammunition and plentiful, guilt-free target shooting purposes I have been idly "shopping" for a .22 ever since. I liked that Buck Mark, true, however I have been slowly getting more enamored of the Walther P22. After having my friend "introduce" me to the dealer at the show that had the p22's for sale, both she and the dealer "sold" me on the idea of this very Glock-tacular .22LR pistol, also made in Austria and initially touted by the dealer as "the new .22lr Glock".
I did not want to buy it on sight because a) didn't have the money, really and b) didn't want to commit to a brand or weapon without having done some research and having some knowledge about the weapon first.
Since I got home, I have found the ISSC reviewed in a video on YouTube, and for few of them for sale on auction sites. One auctioneer mentioned on his as that ISSC is currently being sued by Glock for copying their design (it's main selling point) and that these little shooters may not be around for long.
Right now, all my info seems very "hearsay", including from the dealer. Does anyone have any knowledge of ISSC, or know of any research, threads, or source of further information? It would be greatly appreciated!
Links here:
ISSC M22 Glock 17 like 22lr 22 lr pistol : Semi-auto at GunBroker.com
YouTube - Austrian Sporting Arms M22
It seems like the going price is hovering in the $350-$400 range. Which is a little pricey but not necessarily pricier than the Walther P22 I have been eyeing.
What do you guys think?


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The Good News: Ilya Kovalchuk is a Devil for a long time, no matter how badly Gary Bettman wanted him to go back to Russia so that he could move the franchise from their beautiful new arena in Newark to Lima, Peru (think of the untapped TV market!) Kovy's been moved to the top line to play alongside the absolutely sublime Zach Parise and the painfully underrated Travis Zajac. This new line could become the best in the NHL, as put together by new head coach John MacLean, taking over for the deservingly departed Jacques ("goals? I hate goals!") Lemaire. Human wrecking ball Anton Volchenkov and the uber-smooth Henrik Tallinder bolster a defense-corps which was often overmatched last year in the rugged Atlantic Division. LW Patrik Elias and the seemingly super-human Martin Brodeur really, really want another cup ring before they enter the NHL Hall of Fame.
The Bad News: Andy Greene is solid, but taking over for the departed Paul Martin as the best puck mover on the blueline may be a lot for him to handle. The Devils sorely need free agent re-acquisition Jason Arnott to have something left in the tank and fill the gaping hole the Devils had last year at second-line center. Gary Bettman penalized the Devils multiple draft picks for signing Kovalchuk to a similar contract to many in the NHL (Pronger, Luongo, Hossa, etc etc), probably because he's still mad that they didn't relocate to Nashville like he wanted them to after the 1994-95 season. This further depletes the Devils' prospect pipeline, and they really need youngsters like Jacob Josefson, Mattias Tedenby and Alexander Urbom to step up and make the team out of training camp.
Fantasy Focus: Travis Zajac has seen his point totals rise in the past three seasons from 34 to 62 to 67. Playing on a line with a pair of 50-goal threats in Kovalchuk and Parise, the young two-way pivot could see his totals skyrocket over 80 points. Move him up in your center rankings to the second tier, right behind the superstars.
Fearless Forecast: GM Lou Lamoriello is determined to win another Stanley Cup in the Martin Brodeur-era. After three consecutive seasons of early playoff exits, expect the Devils to approach former heights and battle the Caps and the Pens for the right to represent the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Finals, where Gary Bettman will punish Ilya Kovalchuk and try to disallow him from playing by sending him to his room without supper.
Atlantic Division: 1st place
Eastern Conference: 2nd place
The Good News: GM Garth Snow is building this team up from the rubble left by ex-GM Mike Milbury the right way, by letting the kids play no matter how much they struggle, and then amassing high draft picks and using them wisely. C John Tavares is one of the bright young stars in the NHL. As an 18-year old rookie in 2009-10, he scored 24-30-54 and has the talent to at least double those totals in the future. C Josh Bailey is just turning 21 the week of the season opener, and has the potential to become a 60-point two-way pivot behind Tavares on the second line. The Isles' 5th overall pick in the 2010 draft was LW Nino Niederreiter, a player I absolutely love. "El Nino" tore up the WJC tournament last year, almost single-handedly upsetting Russia. He has a blindingly bright future as a two-way, first-line power forward. Snow also scored in this year's draft with C Brock Nelson (30th overall) and RW Kirill Kabanov (65th overall), a mercurial head-case who just might have been the most talented player in the entire 2010 draft.
The Bad News: The perennially rebuilding Islanders weren't expected to be very competitive coming out of training camp, and then were buried in a deluge of bad news before training camp even ended. First, their best defenseman and best player, D Mark Streit went down for the season with a serious shoulder injury. Adding metaphorical insult to literal injury, first-line future-star RW Kyle Okposo went down later the same week, and he is expected to also miss much of the 2010-11 campaign. With those two players, the Isles had problems. Without them and in perhaps the toughest division in the NHL, it's going to be a long year on the island apparently named after that.
Fantasy Focus: The loss of Okposo for a great deal of time improves the odds of Nino Niederreiter making the big squad for the Isles. In a seasonal league, temper your expectations. The Isles are going to have to traverse a bumpy road, so 40 points and an unbecoming +/- rating is an optimistic wish. In a keeper league however, make sure you nab this kid. He had blown past expectations at every level, and when the Isles' core of Tavares-Okposo-Bailey-Kabanov gains two or three years of experience, El Nino will be on the top line as a dominant power forward.
Fearless Forecast: I've never believed it's better to be lucky than good. Conversely, it might be better to be bad than unlucky. And if you're an Islander fan on Long Island, you have to watch a terrible team in an atrocious arena. That's unlucky, and we're not even taking into account the Long Island Expressway, which the revised version of Dante's Inferno is including as the tenth through thirteenth levels of Hades.
Atlantic Division: 5th place
Eastern Conference: 14th place
The Good News: In a star-driven town, the Rangers have a star-driven team. G Henrik Lundqvist is a top-5 goaltender on the planet earth. When he's on, he has an aura of invincibility as if you couldn't even fire a bullet past him. RW Marian Gaborik, when healthy, is one of the most electric goal-scoring talents around, and even without a decent center he posted all-star numbers of 42-44-86 in 2009-10. D Marc Staal is becoming a shut-down specialist on an otherwise troublesome blueline, where the Rangers struggled all of last season despite his superior efforts and a very good rookie campaign by the offensively-gifted Michael Del Zotto.
The Bad News: Outside of Staal and Del Zotto, the blueline was embarrassing last season. Now released, Wade Redden at 6-years and almost $40 million may have been the worst contract signing in NHL history. Michal Roszival also was a washout on the blueline, and GM Glen Sather somehow signed D Dan Girardi to 4 years at $13 million when his most memorable moment of last season was standing two feet away watching while Flyers' goon Dan Carcillo used Ranger meal-ticket Marian Gaborik as his personal punching bag. The Rangers are also painfully thin at center, and if Erik Christensen is once again forced to pivot the top line, the Rangers will be outside looking in as the playoffs begin once again.
Fantasy Focus: As thin as the Rangers are up the middle, it has looked more and more in training camp as if 20-year old rookie Derek Stepan is the best pivot on the team. The captain and leading scorer of the USA team in the WJCs which shocked Canada, Russia and Sweden by taking the gold, Stepan's smarts, advanced maturity and leadership qualities echo Jonathan Toews. Although he does not quite possess Toews' physical gifts, Stepan is one of those character kids it's foolish to bet against. I am betting he beats the odds again to center the Rangers' first line between Gaborik and Alexander Frolov, in which case a 20-40-60 line and a run at the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year are not out of the question.
Fearless Forecast: Sometimes, and I swear this is true, I stay up nights in my Brooklyn apartment wondering how Glen Sather has a job as Rangers' general manager and I don't.
Atlantic Division: 4th place
Eastern Conference: 11th place
The Good News: The Flyers have to be energized by their thrilling run all the way to the Cup-finals after being ten minutes away from missing the playoffs last year before they even started. D Chris Pronger may be the player you hate the most in the NHL, but he proves over and over again each year why one day he'll be the player you hate the most in the NHL Hall of Fame. Mike Richards, Jeff Carter and Danny Briere give Philly one of the most potent center combos in the league. On the wings the Flyers mow teams over with both young goal-scoring talent (Claude Giroux, James Van Riemsdyk) and grit (Scott Hartnell, Ian Laperriere). New additions Bill Guerin and Nikolai Zherdev give them an overabundance of skill up front.
The Bad News: What is it about the Flyers that they hate going into a season with anything in goal except question marks? The journeyman combo of Brian Boucher and Michael Leighton will give them a league-leading total of frequent-flyer mileage, not save percentage. To compound matters, Leighton will likely miss the first month of the season with back spasms, leaving youngsters Johan Backlund and Sergei Bobrovsky to compete for the backup job behind Boucher. With their plethora of talent on the blueline and forward lines, I thought for sure that GM Paul Holmgren would spend the off-season trying to acquire a young stud net minder like Jonathan Bernier (blocked in L.A. by Jonathan Quick) or Vancouver's Cory Schneider (blocked through eternity itself by Roberto Luongo), but he did nothing of the sort. In Holmgren's defense, I still consider him much smarter than myself, which makes him much, much smarter than Glen Sather.
Fantasy Focus: Two of my favorite sleepers for 2010-11 are skating in Philly, with Claude Giroux and James Van Riemsdyk skating on the wings. In his first full season last year, Giroux posted a line of 16-31-47 before an absolute sparking playoff run of 10-11-21 in 23 games. Giroux can be had after the 10th round of most drafts, and should be in line for 65 to 75 points this year. Van Riemsdyk is a year younger than Giroux, and tallied 15-20-35 as a rookie last year. He should get up around 25 goals and 50 points as a soph at the very least, and lasted in two of my fantasy drafts after the 15th round making him a bigger bargain out of Philly than Geno's Cheesesteaks.
Fearless Forecast: The Flyers are an elite team, and they won't struggle in the regular season this year like they did last year. However, they also won't likely have a Cinderella team like Montreal knocking Washington and Pittsburgh out of the playoffs for them. Expect a 100-point season, but without a bona fide goaltender, don't expect another Stanley Cup appearance.
Atlantic Division: 3rd place
Eastern Conference: 5th place
The Good News: Love him or hate him, Sidney Crosby is the real deal. He's won a Cup and an Olympic gold, and is quite simply one of the most dominant athletes in the world. C Evgeni Malkin was slowed by injuries last year, but another 100-point season in 2010-11 is in the cards for a guy who would be the meal ticket for any team in the NHL not headlined by Sid the Kid or Alexander Ovechkin. Jordan Staal is another huge, talented player up the middle, where the Pens might be as strong as any team in NHL history. Off-season additions of two-way force Paul Martin and shot-blocking machine Zbynek Michalek solidify a blueline already patrolled by physical force Brooks Orpik and emerging power play wizard Alex Goligoski. Often maligned by the media, goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury oozes talent and came up with all the huge saves two years prior when the Pens won the Stanley Cup.
The Bad News: With all of their great centers, who is playing the wing in Steel Town? Outside of LW Chris Kunitz, the Pens lack anyone with the pedigree to skate with top-end talent. Top prospect LW Eric Tangradi looks ready to step in this year, but what kind of output can really be expected of him, much less grinders like Pascal Dupuis, Matt Cooke, Tyler Kennedy and Max Talbot? Don't forget about the Staal foot injury, which will keep him sidelined for at least the first couple weeks of the regular season.
Fantasy Focus: D Alex Goligoski scored 37 points in just 69 games last year, playing power play second fiddle for most of it behind Sergei Gonchar. Well, now Gonchar is now gone-char and Goligoski is first fiddle. It would not be surprising to see the talented young rearguard amass 50 to 60 points. Also keep an eye on free agent signee Paul Martin, a 30+ point guy in New Jersey who could see that go up by at least 10 to 15 points on the high-flying Penguins.
Fearless Forecast: These Penguins really can fly. Cup-winners two years ago before a disappointing playoff loss to Montreal last year, Crosby and Malkin should be men possessed come the start of the season. Come springtime, two things are for certain in Pittsburgh: the Pens will be making a long playoff run, and Ben Roethlisberger will be in trouble again and blaming it on how she was dressed.
Atlantic Division: 2nd place
Eastern Conference: 4th place
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Prince Nayef denounces deviant ideologies
May 20, 2009
The First National Conference on Intellectual Security, which concluded today in Riyadh, issued a final communiqué stressing the importance of moderation, tolerance, cross-cultural dialogue, non-violence, and the establishment of national strategies for promoting those values. The declaration pointed out the moderate nature of Islam and warned against the dangers of embracing deviant ideologies.
The conference was organized by Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who serves as Chair for Intellectual Security at King Saud University (KSU).
Addressing a press conference in Riyadh earlier this week, Prince Nayef explained that the purpose of the forum was to counter the "intellectual abnormality" which is "the main reason for terrorism." He expressed hope that the small number of Saudis participating in deviant groups abroad would renounce their beliefs and return home, noting, "The country is ready to welcome its citizens if they decide to opt for the correct path."
Prince Nayef continued, "I do not think that we have any honor as Saudis to find our sons abroad turning into bombers who kill innocent men, women and children that are not guilty of anything anywhere, whether in Iraq, Pakistan and Lebanon or anywhere else. These individuals make bombing as their profession. This is a dishonorable act and a great sin." He added, "The religion of Islam has nothing to do, whatsoever, with these individuals."


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In Portland, Oregon, where I live, the 4th of July holiday offers an excuse for a wonderful annual blues festival in Waterfront Park downtown. Unfortunately, in my neighborhood, it also provides cover for people to blow off fireworks that terrify young children and animals, and that turn the air thick with smoke and errant projectiles. Last year, the fire department here reported 35 fires sparked by toy missiles, defective firecrackers, and other items of explosive revelry. The Washington State Department of Ecology warns that "Breathing fine particles in fireworks smoke can cause or contribute to serious short- or long-term health problems. They include: Risk of heart attack and stroke. Lung inflammation. Reduced lung function. Asthma-like symptoms. Asthma attacks."
Apart from the noise pollution, air pollution, and flying debris pollution, there is something profoundly inappropriate about blowing off fireworks at a time when the United States is waging war with real fireworks around the world. To cite just one example, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London has estimated that since November 2001, U.S. drone attacks have killed at least 2,600 people in five countries, including as many as 247 children. And, of course, the Iraq war, which began with the deadly U.S. fireworks of "shock and awe" bombardment in 2003, has morphed into seemingly endless internecine fighting, and according to the United Nations, the creation of more than a million refugees just this year. The pretend war of celebratory fireworks thus becomes part of a propaganda campaign that inures us—especially the children among us—to current and future wars half a world away.
But the yahoo of fireworks also turns an immensely complicated time in U.S. history into a cartoon of miseducation. For example, check out Ray Raphael's "Re-examining the Revolution" at the Zinn Education Project, an article that every history teacher should read before wading into the events leading up to 1776. Raphael analyzed 22 elementary, middle school, and high school texts and found them filled with inaccuracies—some merely silly, but others that leave students with important misunderstandings about U.S. history, and how social change does and does not happen.
Raphael offers some context for the Declaration of Independence:
In 1997, Pauline Maier published American Scripture, where she uncovered 90 state and local "declarations of independence" that preceded the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The consequence of this historical tidbit is profound: Jefferson was not a lonely genius conjuring his notions from the ether; he was part of a nationwide political upheaval.
Similarly, Raphael reports that
[I]n 1774 common farmers and artisans from throughout Massachusetts rose up by the thousands and overthrew all British authority. In the small town of Worcester (only 300 voters), 4,622 militiamen from 37 surrounding communities lined both sides of Main Street and forced British-appointed officials to walk the gauntlet, hats in hand, reciting their recantations 30 times each so everyone could hear. There were no famous "leaders" for this event. The people elected representatives who served for one day only, the ultimate in term limits. "The body of the people" made decisions and the people decided that the old regime must fall.
As Raphael concludes, "Textbook authors and popular history writers fail to portray the great mass of humanity as active players, agents on their own behalf." Instead, textbooks credit Great Men—Washington, Franklin, Jefferson—and render all others as "mere followers."
And there is a lot more that complicates the events surrounding the 4th of July and the Revolutionary War. As Raphael notes, "Not one of the elementary or middle school texts [I reviewed] even mentions the genocidal Sullivan campaign, one of the largest military offensives of the war, which burned Iroquois villages and destroyed every orchard and farm in its path to deny food to Indians." For use with students, see "George Washington: An American Hero?" in Rethinking Columbus, published by Rethinking Schools. In an excerpt included in Rethinking Columbus, Washington wrote to Gen. John Sullivan on May 31, 1779:
The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians with their associates and adherents. The immediate object is their total destruction and devastation and the capture of as many persons of every age and sex as possible.
It will be essential to ruin their crops now on the ground, and prevent their planting more. . . .
Parties should be detached to lay waste all settlements around . . . that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed. . . .
Those are the orders of a war criminal.
Nor do texts mention the indigenous resistance movements of the 1780s in response to American "settler" expansion, which Raphael calls "the largest coalitions of Native Americans in our history."
In a recent episode of Democracy Now!, Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, points out that more enslaved Africans in the American colonies fought with the British than with the American colonists. As Horne told Democracy Now! hosts Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, "It makes little sense for slaves to fight alongside slave masters so that slave masters could then deepen the persecution of the enslaved. . . ."
Included at the Zinn Education Project site is a link to Danny Glover, who performs one of history's most passionate denunciations of U.S. racism and hypocrisy: Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro." Howard Zinn introduces Glover at one of the remarkable "The People Speak" events. Douglass delivered the speech on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, New York, at a Declaration of Independence commemoration:
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
Douglass delivered his speech four years after the United States finished its war against Mexico to steal land and spread slavery, five years before the vicious Supreme Court Dred Scott decision, and nine years before the country would explode into civil war. His words call out through the generations to abandon the empty "shout of liberty and equality" on July 4, and to put away the fireworks and flags. In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, the Zinn Education Project urges teachers to use July 4 as a time to rethink how we equip students to reflect on the complicated birth of the United States of America.
Bill Bigelow taught high school social studies in Portland, Ore. for almost 30 years. He is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and co-director of the Zinn Education Project, www.zinnedproject.org. This article is part of the Zinn Education Project If We Knew Our History series.
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You fail to give credit to the great state of Rhode Island, which not only was the first to establish religious freedom, but also the first to fight the British. We burned the British ship, the Gaspee, in 1772 in protest of unfair taxation – long before the Boston Tea Party. http://www.gaspee.org/
Response shared by Elizabeth Kenyon — July 3, 2013 @ 5:19 pm
Actually, we need to be Rethinking Professors and Tenure. This liberal gibberish has no place in academia. If this is what tuition gets you then kids are better off saving their money. If you decide not to publish this remark then it will be clear you do not believe in the 1st amendment either.
Response shared by Dean Wilson — July 6, 2014 @ 9:13 am
It is a shame that the author has such a hatred for the United States, the greatest country to ever exist on this planet. Shame on you for wanting people to give up their right to celebrate what freedoms they have left.
Response shared by Nonsenseyousay — July 7, 2014 @ 11:46 am
No political system is perfect, but the first steps of the American experiment, leading up to the Declaration of Independence, were popular displays of anti-government sentiment, sometimes armed. To that extent, if we are to celebrate that individual initiative, that of people coming together in communities to protest the corruption and abuse of an over-taxing, over-regulatory government, then we must also teach these are the same roots of standoffs such as Mr. Bundys and the roots of the birth of the modern Tea Party. Granted, there is nothing "progressive" about our Colonial uprising, which are considered by todays standards "acts of terrorism", or our current observations of popular swings towards libertarianism, but the ideals of this nation are not based on adoration of or allegiance to a top down, regulation-crazy, tax-crazy wealth redistributionist government. The people in the colonies were ready to go to war over taxes and government abuses that pale in comparison to what our current "progressive" government foists on us. To that end, I think Rose Wilder Lanes book "the Discovery of Freedom" (1943 I believe) should be required reading in our schools. In that book she mentions the history @ the Gaspee ship mentioned by the comment above. Great discussion of the INDIVIDUALS who made US history happen during the time period of the Founding, and what it was exactly they were trying to escape.
Response shared by JoeFromMd — July 9, 2014 @ 3:37 pm
I cannot celebrate freedom with such imitations of war as fireworks! The noise alone is too stressful, I'd rather be at Walden Pond…
Response shared by Deborah Lotus — July 3, 2015 @ 9:14 am
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text: please can i have some help as i have no idea what to get ticket wise. we are going to the swan hotel next year on the 16th september for 28 days we want to do all the disney parks and both ds's want to do sea world n hubby wants to do universal im pretty easy going so will go anywhere (for my sins) the only one we dont want to go to is busch as when hubby went with friends before he says its not really our thing (not that i know what our thing is !!) all help would be appreciated as i honestly havent got a clue and would like some pointers (ds's are 15 n 16)