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When Politics Is Personal
By Deborah Sontag
Published: September 15, 2002
'My daughter Clare, and it's spelled c-l-a-r-e, she's my fourth child of eight,'' Senator Pete V. Domenici began reluctantly, his voice soft and gravelly. ''Clare was a beautiful, beautiful girl. Now she's all grown up, and she's, well, she's struggling. Struggle is a good word for it.''
Domenici had been sitting beside me in an armchair in his Washington office, chatting about a re-election race that is causing him little anxiety. But when the conversation shifted to his family, and then specifically to his 40-year-old daughter, Clare, he rose abruptly and moved away, putting his solid senatorial desk between us. Sitting beneath a Navajo wall-hanging from his native New Mexico, he absorbed himself lining up pens on a yellow legal pad. A 70-year-old Republican, Domenici is not a soul-bearing, confessional type, and he has zealously guarded his family's privacy during his nearly three decades in the Senate. ''Personal stuff,'' as he calls it, makes him squeamish; he'd rather talk about taxes or nuclear energy or almost any piece of pending legislation.
With what looked like a nod to himself, however, he continued. ''Clare was a very marvelous gifted athlete,'' he said. ''In her best year in high school, she was district champion in tennis; she was a catcher on the baseball team; she was an absolutely outstanding guard on the basketball team.'' During her freshman year at Wake Forest in North Carolina, however, Clare started to lose her zest, growing ''fuzzy'' and inordinately indecisive. She would call home frequently for guidance on simple issues, ''like what kind of potato to have,'' Domenici said. ''She was all out of whack. Then my wife, Nancy, went down there to help her and ended up bringing Clare back home. That's when things got really out of hand. Her temperament totally changed. She became angry, mean. Throwing things at mirrors. Cussing, swearing. Crying, shrinking into a shell, taking to her bed. And that started two novice parents down the strange path of having to believe something we didn't want to believe. And to really believe it, to acknowledge that Clare was mentally ill, took a long time.''
As Domenici exhaled, his assistant tiptoed in to give him a note, and he asked her hopefully, ''Meredith, do I have to go to an appropriation meeting?'' The assistant shook her head, but Domenici had revealed all he wanted to about Clare for the moment. So he switched gears and talked, in his distinctively folksy and rambling way, about how the happenstance of Clare's illness had redirected his political agenda. If it were not for Clare's struggle with what was finally diagnosed as atypical schizophrenia, it is improbable that Pete Domenici, Mr. Fiscal, would have assumed the unlikely role of champion for the mentally ill. ''I don't believe the subject ever would have come up,'' he acknowledged.
Domenici had made a name for himself as the Republican Party's budget expert. He was a gray, pragmatic fiscal and social conservative who opposed abortion, gun control and same-sex marriage and supported school vouchers, tax cuts and mandatory three-strikes sentencing. He was no bleeding heart, no cause-pleader. But Clare's troubles led Pete and Nancy Domenici into what, 18 years ago, seemed almost like a secret world inhabited by all those whose lives had been touched and ineluctably changed by mental illness. ''And once I got into it, I wouldn't have gotten out of it even if somehow Clare would have come out of my mind,'' Domenici said. ''You get into the world of these dread diseases -- you hear stories -- they're terrible from the standpoint of what's happening to these people and what's happening to their families. Society was just ignoring them, denying them resources.''
It is strange to think that government works that way, that the fact that a senior senator has a mentally ill daughter can spur governmental action on mental illness. Yet on many issues, politics really is that personal and lawmaking that arbitrary. ''You'd be surprised how often legislation is directly informed by our lives,'' Lynn N. Rivers, a Democratic member of the House from Michigan, says. ''In the field of mental health, I think it's possible that nothing at all would have been done by Congress if it weren't for legislators like Domenici who were galvanized by personal experience.'' Rivers herself has had very direct personal experience; she is a manic-depressive. At a committee hearing this spring, after a couple of witnesses suggested that mental illnesses were not really illnesses, she snapped open her purse and extracted an amber vial -- the pills that keep her healthy -- and shook it like a maraca as if to wake them up.
Over a decade ago, when Domenici embraced the issue, mental illness was not on the national agenda. Americans didn't like to think about it. Even now, although the subject has come out of the shadows and Prozac is in many an American medicine cabinet, Americans remain skeptical and judgmental. Domenici knew that he was growing impassioned about an issue that many of his colleagues would consider marginal, even distasteful, and that he needed colleagues who had been shaken personally, too. He ended up joining forces with a quite liberal Democratic senator, Paul Wellstone, whose older brother had grappled with severe mental illness for many years. Together the ''odd couple,'' in Wellstone's words, nurtured bipartisan alliances with former Senator Alan Simpson, whose niece committed suicide, and Senator Harry Reid, whose father killed himself, and Tipper Gore, who has suffered depression, and Representative Marge Roukema, whose husband is a psychiatrist, and Representative Patrick Kennedy, who has also battled depression, and Senator Edward Kennedy, Patrick's influential father, and Rivers. ''There has been a personal, crystallizing experience in each of our lives,'' Wellstone says. ''You almost wish it didn't have to work that way, that all of us would care deeply anyway about people who were vulnerable and not getting the care they need. But this kind of thing happens a lot in politics for fully human reasons.''


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One bright Cornish Friday morning in the month preceding the worldwide release of Tori Amos' latest album, Gold Dust, the US-born singer/songwriter is sitting in her home studio as life bustles along upstairs, in the main residence.
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She elaborates: "We're at the husband's place in Cornwall, just back from Florida, where it was warm and we all got tans, and it's sunny here today, it's bright, but it's English sun, it's not Florida, you know? We had to come back to get Tash ready to head off back to school."
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Before I can ask whether Tash shows signs of following in her mother's inimitable footsteps, Amos laughs again and, unbidden, answers the question for me.
"I have, for a long time, dreamed of playing with an orchestra, but I could never imagine it actually happening."
"I suspect she might, though differently. She's the most wonderful mimic. She could meet you and ten minutes later, on your way out of the room, you'd hear her taking you off! Believe me, she does great take-offs of me! She knows which buttons to hit and, well, I wonder where she got that from, huh? I can't imagine!" she guffaws.
For the past 20 years, 49-year-old Amos has been proudly pushing buttons left, right and centre with her feisty, singular songs. Hers is deeply confessional music, nearly all of it characterised by her confronting and personal lyrics, sensuously unbridled live performance manner and unbridled honesty in interviews.
In 1992, she released her brilliant debut, Little Earthquakes, and Gold Dust marks what she calls the twentieth anniversary of "ripping the pages out of the diary and pushing them under the door, out into the wider world, to see if anybody would read or relate or react."
Read, react and relate we did and, in the intervening years, she has released a further 10 studio albums, each as ambitious and uncompromising as the next.
From the 1990s through the 2000s, each of Amos' albums is the musical embodiment of the very qualities that have both amassed her a loyal following and driven some clueless, spiteful critics to label her everything from "utterly insane" to "astonishingly inappropriate" – her honesty and her purity of creative vision.
Coming less than a year after her last effort, the ambitious classical opus that was commissioned by revered classical music label Deutsche Grammaphon and released as Night of Hunters, the Gold Dust album sees Amos continuing to explore what it is to work within an orchestral setting.
This time around, she has revisited various songs – which she refers to as "girls" – drawn from her extensive back-catalogue. Amos has rearranged and reinterpreted each of the album's 15 tracks, rerecording them with the famed Dutch Metropole Orchestra.
"The crazy thing is that the idea for Gold Dust came as Night of Hunters was coming," Amos explains. "It was very confusing at times because I'd be trying to work with one girl and, you know, another would be poking her head around the corner, trying to get my attention and, for a while there, I wasn't quite sure what was going on, so there were times I'd wonder what was going on until it all started to become a little clearer," she says with a hearty laugh.
In many ways, she concedes, there would be no Gold Dust without Night of Hunters.
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Mary Ann Tetreault
Mary Ann Tetreault , Ph.D.
Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Political Science
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Ph.D. - Rice University
M.A. - Rice University
A.B. - Sarah Lawrence College
World politics
Middle East
Energy and the Environment
Violent conflict
International Political Economy
As a child, I was a pest, constantly asking questions and never satisfied with the standard parental response, "because I said so." As a professor, I look for that child in my students. I see my job as enlarging my students' world and providing multiple views and viewpoints from which to add to their knowledge, and develop ethical responses to what they find and see. To me, the greatest enemy of democracy and autonomy is ignorance. My goals in teaching are not only to transmit knowledge, but also the skills and confidence that will enable students to continue to educate themselves throughout life.
I believe that the greatest enemy of democracy and autonomy is ignorance. My goals in teaching are not only to transmit knowledge, but also the skills and confidence that will enable students to continue to educate themselves throughout life.
My research is eclectic. I've written about oil and the Middle East, the often broken promises of revolutions, the meaning of private and public life, and the relationship between civil society and the state. Women are a focus of nearly all my projects because the actions and experiences of women are often so different from those of men that they enable me to test global theories - which I often find wanting. Empirical examinations of theories are incorporated into my classroom teaching. Among my favorite Baby IR classes is the one where we look at the "democratic peace thesis" and test it using information the students find in their readings on World War I. Although each semester's students display minor variations in their democracy ratings of the various actors in that war, which come from the a priori listing of characteristics of "democracy" the class itself determines, this exercise usually produces some real surprises with regard to how much - actually, how little - democracy predicts to a propensity for aggression.
A T-shirt slogan of my youth was "question authority." To that, I say "Amen," even when I am the authority.
Political Change in the Arab Gulf States: Stuck in Transition, editor, with Gwenn Okruhlik and Andrzej Kapiszewski (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2011).
World Politics as if People Mattered, co-author Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005); second edition March 2009.
"Great Expectations: Western-style Education in the Gulf States," in Industrialization in the Gulf: A Socioeconomic Revolution, ed. Jean-Francois Seznec, Mimi Kirk (New York: Routledge, 2010): 143-53.
"Globalization and Islam," in Globalisierung "" entfrenzte Welten versus begrenzte Identitäten? Ed. Rachid Ouaissa and Heidrun Zinecker. Leipzig: Leipzig University Press, 2009: 259-81
"Endless Adjustment: How the Second Oil Shock Hatched Today's Oil Market," Viewpoints: Special Edition, Washington: Middle East Institute, August 2009.
"Kuwait: Slouching Toward Democracy?" In Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf, ed. Joshua Teitelbaum (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009: 107-31.
"The Day After "Victory" : Kuwait's 2009 Election and the Contentious Present," co-author Mohammed al-Ghanim, Middle East Reports Online, 8 July 2009.
"Women's Rights in the Middle East: A Longitudinal Study of Kuwait," co-authors Katherine Meyer and Helen Rizzo, International Political Sociology, 2009(3): 218-37.
"International Relations," and "The Political Economy of Oil," in Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, 3rd. ed., ed. Jillian Schwedler and Deborah J. Gerner (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008): 137-75 and 255-79 respectively.
"Women in International Relations: Sediment, Trends, and Agency," Politics & Gender 4(1) March 2008: 144-56.
"Naomi Roht-Arriaza's The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights," Minerva 31, Review essay, November 2007, 16-19.
"Complex Consequences: Hydrocarbon Production as a Route to Economic Health," in Rebuilding Devastated Economies in the Middle East, ed. Leonard Binder (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 77-94.
"The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib: Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on Terror," National Women's Studies Association Journal, 18(3) Fall 2006: 33-50.
"Kuwait's Annus Mirabilis," Middle East Reports Online, 7 September 2006.
"Divided Communities of Memory: Diasporas Come Home," in Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture, and Identity, ed. Haideh Moghissi (London: Routledge, 2006): 81-98.
"Three Emirs and a Tale of Two Transitions," Middle East Reports Online, 10 February 2006.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy 2013: The Year of the Walk!
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By Kristina Bravo for TakePart.com
But did the biotech giant start with good intentions, as in most scientist-turned-villain tales? Not quite. Here's a look at how Monsanto morphed into the leading purveyor of crops that nature didn't quite come up with.
1901: Pharmaceutical company agent John F. Queeny launches Monsanto to produce saccharin, an artificial sweetener then only manufactured in Germany.
1907: The USDA investigates whether replacing saccharin with sugar violates the Pure Food and Drug Act, a consumer protection law. President Theodore Roosevelt, a saccharin consumer, objects to the investigation.
1911: The USDA proclaims foods with saccharin "adulterated," thus banning it except for use by medical patients who must avoid sugar.
1914: World War I starts, and sugar shortages prompt the government to lift saccharin restrictions.
1915: With caffeine and vanillin added to Monsanto's product line, and Coca-Cola as a chief customer, sales reach $1 million.
1917: Monsanto begins producing aspirin, becoming the top producer in the U.S., a title it held until the 1980s.
1928: Queeny passes on the company to his son, Edgar M. Queeny. Monsanto flourishes under the protection of high U.S. tariffs.
1933: Expanding, the company renames itself the Monsanto Chemical Company. One of its products, styrene, will become critical to the U.S. during World War II.
Continue reading at http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/03/27/monsanto-timeline
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Only in the Keys can you find a island named No Name. It is a small island only accessible via one road. Drive to the eastern tip of Big Pine Key, cross the bridge over Bogie Channel & you are there.
No Name Key has a number of things which make it unique, not the least of which is being almost entirely under the auspices of the Federal Government as the vast majority of the island's acreage is part of the National Key Deer Refuge. This refuge is a part of the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges.
Another unique aspect of No Name Key is that for the few people who live there, there is no commercial electricity, water or sewer. Wind, solar and other generator power are the order of the day. Cisterns catch the usually more than adequate rainfall.
One final fascinating historical fact about No Name Key: It was the staging area for the disastrous Bay of Pigs attempted invasion of Cuba.
This arrangement leaves most of No Name Key pristine and untouched. The Key is home to the largest herd of Key Deer in existence. The best viewing time for them is dawn & dusk, although there is always a chance of seeing a few during the day, especially during the late afternoon, browsing at the edge of the road. Please remember that it is against the law to feed or otherwise bother the Key Deer.
Other denizens of the Key Deer Refuge include Marsh Rabbits, Turkey Vultures, Seagulls, Pelicans, Egrets, Herons, Osprey, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes, Alligators, and sometimes Crocodiles. All told, the Key Deer Refuge is home to 22 species of plants and animals, listed as endangered or threatened, including 5 species found nowhere else in the world.
The parts of the island that are the Key Deer Refuge have many trails which are open only to hikers & bicyclists. No powered vehicles are allowed in the Refuge. But the walks are exquisite. Wildlife and an amazing assortment of plants greet you at every turn. The Key Deer are estimated to eat over 150 types of plants so there are way more than that to be seen.
The Key Deer Refuge is only open during the daylight hours. For more information call the Refuge office at 305-872-2239.


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Every filmmaker has at least one 'dream project', a movie they've been trying to make for years but aren't able to get off the ground for one reason or another. For filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, that project has been his long-awaited adaptation of horror icon H.P. Lovecraft's atmospheric 1931 story "At the Mountains of Madness".
The story follows explorers in Antarctica who uncover the remains of highly evolved creatures neither plant or animal. Investigating a gigantic mountain range, they come upon an abandoned ancient city. Their explorations underground causes something to stir from its slumber.
The film has started and stopped again over the years at various studios. Things seemed to be gathering steam three years ago when the project was at Universal Pictures. James Cameron was slated to produce and Tom Cruise was linked as a possible star, but the film's $150 million budget and R rating meant the studio wasn't keen on green lighting it and ultimately pulled the plug.
Del Toro then went on to make "Pacific Rim" and the upcoming "Crimson Peak" with Legendary Pictures. Now, with Universal and Legendary in bed together, talk of 'Mountains' has come back around and del Toro is hopeful he has the chance to make it for both of them. He's also realised that the need for an R rating isn't as necessary anymore with PG-13 being more relaxed these days. He tells The Wall Street Journal:
"That's exactly what I discussed with them. I said to them, that's the movie that I would really love to do one day, and it's still expensive, it's still… I think that now, with the way I've seen PG-13 become more and more flexible, I think I could do it PG-13 now, so I'm going to explore it with [Legendary], to be as horrifying as I can, but to not be quite as graphic.
There's basically one or two scenes in the book that people don't remember that are pretty graphic. Namely, for example, the human autopsy that the aliens do, which is a very shocking moment. But I think I can find ways of doing it. We'll see. It's certainly a possibility in the future.
Legendary was very close to doing it at one point, so I know they love the screenplay. I think there's a really strong possibility we can do it at Legendary because now they are at Universal, and Universal, you may remember, almost greenlit the movie.
The fact that we now have two studios together that love the material, and if they support each other, they are risking a lot less. It would be great to do it, but I've understood that you don't plan your career, it just happens... Hopefully it'll happen. It's certainly one of the movies I would love to do."


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The Colorado Springs Parents of Multiples Club's Annual Everything 4 Kids Sale will be held June 12, 2010 at Beth-El Mennonite Church, 4625 Ranch Drive, 80918 (just off Union SW of North Academy). Public shopping is from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Admission is $1 at the door (children admitted free).
If you have kids, this event is 2 Big 2 Miss! You will find a great selection of gently used kids clothing from newborn and up, maternity items, high chairs, booster seats, and other baby equipment, infant feeding accessories, learning toys, bikes, trikes, and much more!
The event is sponsored by Peak Value Magazine, Lillian's of Colorado Springs ("The Hippest Shoppe in Town!"), Curb Appeal Lawn and Tree Care, and Kevin Coleman with Farmer's Insurance.
The Colorado Springs Parents of Multiples (CSPOMS) is a group of parents of twins, triplets, and more who are joined together to support each other through the challenges and joys of raising multiples.
CSPOMS offers the following benefits to its members:
- Monthly club meetings with speakers and discussions pertaining to raising multiples of varying ages
- Social gatherings out on the town each month after the general meeting
- Monthly newsletter to keep members up to date on club happenings
- Bi-Monthly playgroups for those with young children
- Holiday parties and events for the whole family
- Annual summer picnic
- Unique "Stork Club" for members who are expecting multiples. Stork Club members are matched with a mentor from the club and have a special time before each meeting to talk with each other and get advice from seasoned parents of multiples.
- Yahoo! Group where members can post questions and items of interest between club meetings, getting feedback from many CSPOMS members
- Annual "Everything for Kids" sale where members can sell children's items and find great bargains
- Annual raffle and silent auction where more great deals can be found
- Membership in the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs (NOMOTC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families of multiple birth children through education, research, and networking.
Be sure to tell your friends about the Everything 4 Kids Sale. It will be 2 Big 2 Miss!
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Firstly, the new AsiQWin ver2 software includes six new pore size calculation models based on microscopic density functional theory (DFT) to bring the library up to a total of twenty two. The new QSDFT (Quenched Solid DFT) kernels are applicable to micro-mesoporous carbons of various types including structures derived from hard and soft templates, and those having complex pore networks, plus a variety of pore geometries (slit, cylindical and spherical), covering pore sizes up to 50nm. The entire DFT library encompasses other adsorbent types like zeolites and silicas, a variety of adsorbates (N2, Ar and CO2), temperatures, plus specific (different) models for adsorption data and desorption data. The comprehensive nature of this calculation module ensures its applicability to a very wide range of both traditional and state-of-the-art porous materials.
This latest software version also includes a new, intelligent "wizard" to automatically select those data points to be used in the so-called B.E.T surface area calculation, thus ensuring proper exclusion of measured data points that lie at too high a relative pressure for accurate micropore surface area measurements. This represents the first known commercial software implementation of the strategy for specific surface area determination of microporous materials as described in the BET surface area standard ISO 9277:2010 (Annex C). Manual selection of B.E.T. data points is also enhanced - by the inclusion of a new, user-friendly graphical point selector; tagging of such points in a tabular format is no longer necessary.
And to support extra-long analysis times that are sometimes unavoidable when measuring fully-equilibrated (i.e. accurate) micro-mesopore analyses, the user can now choose to have the Autosorb-iQ automatically re-measure the system's effective void volume (a.k.a. dead space or free space) during the analysis to account for subtle temperature changes that can occur over tens of hours.
This feature is implemented without the need to access the sample cell volume directly (i.e. neither adsorbate nor helium is added/subtracted from the sample cell in order to make the adjustment), without software-only calculation of intermediate temperature zones, without adjusting coolant level, and without enlarging the all-important cold zone so as to ensure the highest sensitivity. Addtionally, the new capability works not only for liquid nitrogen, but also for other cryogens at other temperatures, and without any additional hardware. An incorrect void volumes impacts the quality of sorption isotherms, and so some means of minimizing it, controlling it and/or correcting it are essential in order to obtain the best results.
Users of the chemisorption-enabled model, the Autosorb-iQ-C and C-XR equipped with a TCD for flow-based measurements, can now mix-'n'-match static manometric analyses (i.e. pressure-based adsorption isotherms) with TPR/TPO/TPD and pulse titration measurements. This enhancement will be particularly appreciated by those scientists researching heterogeneous catalysts.
The new software and measurement features will be available on all newly ordered Autosorb-iQ instruments as standard, and will shortly be available to existing users as upgrade packages.
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According to the PETA website, PETA's Man of the Year is Tim Gunn and PETA's Woman of the Year is Ellen DeGeneres. The USA Today quote PETA President Ingrid E Newkirk as saying, "Tim Gunn and Ellen DeGeneres show us that one person really can make a difference in the world by rejecting cruel deeds in favor of compassionate acts. Their message that animals must be treated kindly and respectfully has reached scores of people, and many of them have changed their buying habits, all because Gunn and DeGeneres spoke up for the voiceless."
In the press release, PETA says they chose Ellen because ever since she and her wife, Portia De Rossi, decided to eliminate all animal products in 2008, Ellen has made sure that her wildly popular talk show includes features to raise people's awareness of animal issues. She made vegan pizza with Chef Wolfgang Puck, spoke with Dr. Neal Barnard about the health benefits of a vegan diet, and just in time for Thanksgiving, "talked turkey" about the everyday abuse of animals on factory farms with Jonathan Safran Foer, author of "Eating Animals."
Ellen also created pages on her web site that feature insight, info, and tips about cruelty-free living. Visitors can find recipes, read about why Ellen went vegan, learn where to shop, and more.
The release also includes Tim Gunn who narrated PETA's video exposing skin-crawling atrocities suffered by animals who are slaughtered for their pelts, and the media have been buzzing ever since. Tim recently told the LA Times, "Wearing fur is like wearing a big sign reading, 'I'm in favor of inflicting cruelty and pain on animals as a fashion statement.' Unspeakable torture is inflicted on dogs, cats, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, minks, and myriad trapped, helpless creatures in the name of fashion—yes, dogs and cats."
And thanks to Tim, fur challenges are noticeably absent from Project Runway — and there's zero fur at Liz Claiborne, where he is chief creative officer.


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It's not uncommon for fans of major franchises to devote several hours, days and weeks to the stories they hold so dear, but there's something almost indescribable about the devotion of the "Twilight" fanbase — a devotion that was on full display Thursday night (June 24) at the world premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
"This is beyond insane. It's, like, ludicrous madness. You can't describe something like this," actor Justin Chon, who plays Eric in the "Twilight" series, told MTV News on the black carpet of the "Eclipse" premiere. "These are some of the most dedicated fans that you'll find on planet Earth."
Sarah Clarke, who plays Bella's mother Renee Dwyer in the "Twilight" films, echoed Chon's sentiment: "You never get used to this. I think there's an Elvis quality, you know?"
Clarke pointed out that many of the fans in attendance had been camping outside the theater for almost a week just to make sure they were able to see all their favorite stars. To thank these fans, Peter Facinelli and some of his castmates paid a visit to the dedicated "Twilight" supporters earlier in the week.
"A couple of us came down and signed some autographs for them, because they've been camping out for five days and we wanted to make sure the wait was worth it," Facinelli said. "It's humbling to have this much fan support. I definitely appreciate it, and I know that the cast does. We don't take it for granted. This whole franchise has been successful because of those fans."
In addition to the numerous fans and "Twilight" castmembers themselves, many other notable Hollywood personalities and surprising celebs came out for the "Eclipse" premiere. Athletes like Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and L.A. Lakers newcomer Ron Artest were two of the more unexpected celebrities in attendance, with Artest throwing his support behind Team Jacob and the rest of the wolf pack. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, in contrast, declared her own status as a proud member of the Team Edward faithful.
"I tried to meet [Robert Pattinson] last year, and I waited on line for an hour and a half to meet him, and just as I got to the front, he left," Hewitt recalled of a previous opportunity to meet the hunky Edward Cullen in person. "I was so sad. But he didn't mean it — he's Edward!"
Although she fully supports the sexy vampire, Hewitt said she has difficulty relating to Bella's romantic dilemma. "[My love life] sometimes feels more complicated [than hers]," she said. "Nobody ever just says, 'Can I bite you?' And if they did, I'd be like, 'Yes!' And we could just move on with our lives, and it would be amazing!"
One of the most anticipated personalities attending the "Eclipse" premiere was none other than "Twilight" author and mastermind Stephenie Meyer herself. "I'm so not used to this," Meyer admitted when asked about the size and scope of the "Eclipse" premiere. "I only do this kind of thing once a year. The rest of the time, I am totally incognito. It's nice to be the author, let me tell you. It's so much easier than being the actor!"
There's no question that Meyer was able to navigate through the crowd with more anonymity than the film's three leading actors, as Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart couldn't travel from point A to point B without cheers and applause following them every step of the way.
"This energy is always undeniable," Stewart said of the crowd's unbridled enthusiasm. "I feel like I'm one of them. I feel like we share the exact same passion for this thing, and it feels a little weird to be at the head of it, but it's cool."
Lautner said that when he first stepped onto the red carpet, there was only one sensation going through his mind: amazement. "It's absolutely incredible and so exciting," he said. "It's a little bit of pressure, because you definitely want to live up to their expectations, but at the same time, we luckily have the most supportive fans in the world. Sometimes, this is just like extra comfort."
"Anybody who says they're tired of this is completely crazy," Pattinson agreed with his co-star and onscreen romantic rival. "If I ever said that [I'm tired of this], someone just has to remind me of what I was doing before: sitting around doing nothing!"
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March 22, 2000
Sat.-Sun., March 25-26 - UW Track & Field at Stanford Invitational
8:30 a.m., Cobb Track and Angell Field, Stanford, Calif.
Sat., March 25 - UW Track & Field at Spring Break Open
10:00 a.m., Edmonds Stadium, Edmonds, Wash.
This Week: The Washington men's and women's track & field teams make their annual spring break trek to California to participate in the Stanford Invitational, Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26 at Cobb Track on the Stanford campus. The Stanford Invitational is one of the premier track & field events of the spring, providing the Husky men's and women's teams an opportunity to compete among an elite field that includes numerous Olympians and NCAA title contenders.
Huskies' History of Success at Stanford: In the past, the Stanford Invitational has proven a fertile ground for Washington distance runners to register NCAA qualifying marks. Last year at Stanford, Deeja Youngquist (34:04.70) and Anna Aoki (34:05.30) clocked the second and third fastest 10,000-meter women's times in Husky history en route to finishing fifth and seventh, respectively. Aoki won the 10,000-meter competition at the 1998 Stanford Invitational with a time of 34:55.62. In 1997, Washington's Margaret Butler raced to a time of 16:45.6 in the women's 5,00 meters to break the Canadian Junior record. Distance runners haven't been the only Huskies to excel at Stanford. At the 1998 Stanford Invitational, Washington's Ja'Warren Hooker clocked a winning time of 10.28 seconds. He edged runner-up Jeff Laynes, a world-class competitor for the Nike TC, who finished in 10.30. Another Husky sprinter, Derek Prior, won the 1998 men's 400-meter race in 46.13, the second best time in school history. The UW will bring 22 athletes to Stanford.
Spring Break Too: Another group of Huskies will remain in the Northwest to compete at the Spring Break Open on Saturday, March 25 in Edmonds, Wash. The meet, hosted by Western Washington University, begins at 10 a.m.
Awesome Anna Aoki: The Washington women's team features one of the finest women's distance runners in the nation, senior Anna Aoki. Aoki, the 1998 conference 10,000-meter champion, was the Pac-10 runner-up at that distance in 1999. She registered a career-best time of 34:05.30 on March 27, 1999 at Stanford, the ninth-fastest 10K time in the nation last season. That mark is the third best in Husky history. At the 1999 NCAA Outdoor championships, Aoki placed 19th (36:54.34) after finishing 17th in 1998. Aoki reached the NCAA provisional standards in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter events last year, but opted to concentrate on the 10,000m. A product of Fort Vancouver (Wash.) High School, Aoki has qualified for NCAA Indoor championship competition on three occasions in the 5,000 meters. She raced to a 13th-place performance in 1997, 12th in 1999 and 14th in 2000. Aoki has been a mainstay of the UW women's cross country team that qualified for each of the last three NCAA Championships and placed 14th in 1997, ninth in 1998 and 13th in 1999.
Back on Track: Junior Ja'Warren Hooker is back on track, literally, after struggling through an injury-plagued 1999 campaign. He was sidelined until mid-April of the 1999 season with a stress fracture in his left shin and was unable to defend the 1998 NCAA Indoor 55-meter championship he won as a freshman. That was the first NCAA track title for a Husky since 1988. Hooker placed third in the 200 meters and fourth in the 100 at the 1999 Pac-10 championships, but did not compete at either the 1999 NCAA Indoor or Outdoor meet. In 2000, Hooker has finished sixth in the 60- (6.68) and 200-meter (20.67) events at the NCAA Indoor meet and was named the Western Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year. As a freshman, Hooker was named the 1998 Pacific-10 Conference male track and field Athlete of the Year. He became the first double-event winner in Husky history at the 1998 Pac-10 championship meet, winning the 100- and 200-meter titles. After opening the 1998 outdoor season with 21 consecutive sprint victories, Hooker was beaten for the first time in the finals of the NCAA 100-meter championship in Buffalo, N.Y. where he finished third. Also during 1998, Hooker established a new school record in the 100 meters with a time of 10.18, and boasts the fifth best 200-meter time in UW history with an outdoor mark of 20.70. He is the first Washington track & field athlete to garner Pac-10 Athlete of the Year honors since 1976 when the award was introduced. Hooker played receiver on the Husky football team his first two years (1997 & 1998) before deciding to concentrate solely on track & field. As a freshman in 1997 he scored four touchdowns, including an 89-yard kickoff return at Arizona the first time he touched the ball as a collegian. Hooker appeared in eight games during 1998, catching nine passed for 78 yards before a shoulder injury ended his season.
Coaching Staff: While Washington boasts a bevy of standout athletes, the coaches will also draw a great deal of attention this season. The Husky men's and women's track teams are coached for the third season by Orin Richburg, a nationally-acclaimed mentor who will serve as head coach of the U.S. National men's track & field team at the 2001 World Championships in Winnipeg. The UW throwers will be tutored for the 32nd, and final, year by assistant coach Ken Shannon who will resign following the 2000 collegiate season. Shannon, who stepped down in 1997 as head UW men's coach after 29 seasons, tutored his Husky throwers to 10 NCAA championships and eight Olympic berths since arriving at Washington in 1968. The UW distance runners are in the capable hands of former Husky All-America steeplechase competitor Greg Metcalf who participated in the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials. Metcalf coached the women's cross country team to an unprecedented three straight NCAA championship berths. Joining the staff this season as an assistant coach is former 400-meter world record holder and 1968 Olympic gold medalist Lee Evans. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Evans won the gold medal in the 400 meters with a time of 43.86. That record stood for 20 years until being eclipsed in 1988 when Butch Reynolds ran 43.29. Evans earned a second gold medal in 1968 as part of the United States' 4 x 400-meter relay team that clocked a time of 2:56.1 that also stood as a world record for 20 years.
Coach Richburg: After 12 years as head women's track & field coach at Washington, Orin Richburg took on a new assignment in 1997. He was named head men's and women's track & field/cross country coach in July of 1997. Richburg converted the Washington women's track & field team into one of the best dual-meet squads in the nation. He has the most women's dual-meet victories in Washington history, more than doubling his closest rival. He led the Washington women to an impressive 68-22 dual-meet record since his arrival at the school in 1986. The UW women's team ranked among the top-10 dual-meet teams in the nation every year during the 1990s. His 1988 UW squad finished 10th at the NCAA championship meet, the best national finish in the school's history. His Washington teams have produced 10 conference and two national individual champions. Last year, the Richburg-coached Huskies had a perfect 5-0 men's record, including a sweep of Northwest rivals Oregon and Washington State. The UW women had a 4-1 dual-meet record. In 1998, the Huskies had an 8-1 women's dual-meet record and finished fourth at the Pac-10 meet. The UW men were 7-2 in 1998 and placed 23rd at the NCAA Championships, their best finish since 1985. Prior to coming to Washington, Richburg spent seven seasons at Kent State and three years as an assistant at Western Michigan. A fine athlete in his own right, Richburg earned All-America accolades as a sprinter at Kent State, finishing sixth in the 200-yard dash at the 1967 NCAA championships.
Big Ben: Washington senior Ben Lindsey has secured his fourth consecutive invitation to the NCAA championships, reaching the automatic men's discus qualifying standard with a heave of 198-11 on March 18 at UCLA. Lindsey boasts a career-best mark of 202-7, thrown on March 28, 1998 in San Diego, that is the third longest in Washington history. The school record of 214-7 was set by Borys Chambul in 1976. The three-time All-American battled a late-season bout with mononucleosis last year, but still managed to finish third in the shot put (60-2) and fifth in the discus (182-9) at the 1999 Pac-10 meet. He placed 19th in the discus at the 1999 NCAA championships after finishing fifth in 1998 and ninth as a freshman in 1997. Also a standout shot putter, Lindsey was the 1998 Pac-10 runner-up and finished fifth (62-5 3/4) at the 1998 NCAA Indoor championships. His personal-best shot put mark of 65-4, registered on May 2, 1998 at Husky Stadium, was the second best effort in Husky history, trailing only the school record 65-11 set in 1979 by Steve Summers. Lindsey won the Washington state high school discus title three times and claimed two prep shot championships.
Spear Specialist: Sophomore Justin St. Clair is the latest in a long line of Washington javelin standouts. The Tacoma, Wash. native (Franklin Pierce HS) placed 12th at the 1999 NCAA Championships with a heave of 219-feet, 1-inch. His career-best effort of 231-3 is the ninth longest mark in Husky history. St. Clair placed third at the 1999 Pac-10 championships (224-5) after finishing seventh in 1998 (209-0). St. Clair was named the Pac-10 men's track & field athlete of the week on April 6. He added over 17 feet to his previous career-best during 1999 after entering the year with a top effort of 214-0. St. Clair won seven of the 10 javelin competitions he entered last season, placing second at the Drake Relays and third at the Pac-10 championships. He topped the 220-foot plateau in eight consecutive meets. Since 1970 when coach Ken Shannon began training Washington javelin competitors, a Husky won 10 of 30 conference men's titles. The most any other conference school can claim is five. Add in 1987 Pac-10 women's titlist Helena Uusitalo, who won the 1986 NCAA title, and Washington athletes have accounted for seven AAU/TAC national javelin championships and three NCAA titles. Also, three UW individuals have earned U.S. Olympic Team berths, including Duncan Atwood twice (1980, 1984). In 1989, Darryl Roberson set an American collegiate record of 249-6 with the new javelin. Washington has had at least one men's or women's javelin competitor qualify for the NCAA championship meet and place among the top 13 during 16 of the 18 years since the NCAA began sponsoring women's sports in 1982.
2000 NCAA Indoor Recap: Two individuals represented Washington in three events at the 2000 NCAA Indoor Championships, March 10-11 in Fayetteville, Ark. Junior Ja'Warren Hooker placed sixth in both the 60-meter dash (6.68) and 200 meters (20.67). He was the 55-meter champion in 1998. Senior Anna Aoki made her third NCAA Indoor appearance, placing 14th in the women's 5,000 meters (16:47.32).
NCAA Championship Qualifying Procedures: Marks which reach automatic standards guarantee berths to the 2000 NCAA Championship Meet, May 31-June 3 in Durham, N.C. If there are not enough automatic qualifiers to fill out the fields, individuals with the next best marks receive NCAA bids, provided they reached the provisional standard.
1999 NCAA Recap: Washington sent four women along with two men's qualifiers to the 1999 NCAA Championships in Boise, Idaho. In men's competition: Justin St. Clair placed 12th in the javelin (219-1) and Ben Lindsey was 19th in the discus (165-8). In women's competition: Cecilia Barnes finished 11th in the discus (169-3), Deeja Youngquist (36:24.33) and Anna Aoki (36:54.34) were 17th and 19th in the 10,000 meters and Keisha Griffis was 19th in the 400-meter hurdles (1:01.01). Both men's NCAA competitors return along with Aoki to compete for the Huskies in 2000.
Husky Qualifiers: Eight Washington athletes have reached NCAA qualifying standards in seven different events, including senior Ben Lindsey who has ensured his fourth consecutive NCAA championships appearance. Linsdey reached the automatic men's discus standard with a heave of 198-11 on March 18 at UCLA. He also has a provisional shot put mark of 59-111/4. Seniors Margaret Butler (9:35.19) and Cami Matson (9:36.87) both reached the provisional women's 3,000-meter mark. Junior Justin St. Clair (227-8), a 12th-place NCAA finisher last spring, hit the provisional men's javelin standard. (See the entire list of Washington NCAA qualifiers in the chart below).
Last Week (UCLA Tri-Meet): Ben Lindsey and Ja'Warren Hooker each won a pair of events and registered NCAA qualifying marks on March 18, lifting the Washington men's track and field team to dual-meet victories over host UCLA and California at Drake Stadium. The Huskies defeated UCLA 109-90 and edged California 100-99 under dual-meet scoring. The Washington men amassed five NCAA qualifying marks en route to winning 10 of 19 events. The Washington women's team claimed six of 18 event championships to finish second in tri-meet scoring. The UCLA women posted a winning total of 170 points followed by Washington with 107.5 and California with 104.5. Lindsey guaranteed his fourth consecutive NCAA Championship invitation by winning the discus with an automatic qualifying distance of 198-feet, 11-inches. He also won the shot put with an NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 59-11 1/4. Hooker swept the sprint titles, winning both the 100- and 200-meter races. He clocked a time of 10.35 in the 100 and an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 20.63 in the 200. Two other Huskies reached NCAA provisional standards while winning events, Justin St. Clair in the javelin (227-8) and Matt Phillips in the pole vault (17-8 1/2). Also winning events for the Husky men were Tom Hildrum in the steeplechase (9:13.89), Derek Prior in the 400 meters (47.14), Geoff Perry in the 800 meters (1:53.53) and Jason Fayant in the 5,000 meters (14:37.10). Washington women's winners included, Kara Syrdal in the 3,000 meters (9:46.98), Cami Matson in the 1,500 meters (4:26.62), Chelsie Pentz in the 400 meters (55.22), Kelsey Sheppard in the 400-meter hurdles (1:00.09), Megan Spriestersbach in the javelin (138-2) and the 4x400-meter relay team (3:44.08).
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I don't really have any advice on the odor issues. But I've been told that vibrators are okay as long as the doctor has said that sex is okay. My daughter's father used to joke that using it would give her a stutter, but that isn't the case. I hope you guys are able to work things out for the better, I can't imagine the frustration you're working with.
Half of the post was talking about having spoken to and going through testing with her doctor.
Honestly, I don't see how he can react the way that he is. I understand the odor may be a turn-off, but seriously? He has to realize that his actions are hurting you. Have you told him that? If you have gone to the doctor and still can't figure out what is wrong, then he needs to see that you are actually trying. Not to mention if you are showering daily, and it's not a cleanliness issue. But instead he is punishing you by witholding sex. You should stop being sexual with him at all, until he is willing to be sexual with you again. That is just ridiculous and I am sorry you're going through that.
As far as the odor goes, my only suggestions are try a different OB, google the hell out of it, and there are some pills you can take that supposedly change the smell/taste of things. They're supposed to be just for fun, but who knows that may help?
So, to get this straight...prior to being pregnant you couldn't smell anything and since he isn't giving you oral sex, or touching you with his fingers, this odor that is turning him off is supposed to be strong enough to just waft up and "ruin" everything?
Do you guys have other odor discrepancies? (i.e. he is really sensitive to the garbage can and you are not, etc). That seems the only possibility unless something else is going on, like it's psychosomatic or, alternatively, he is just being a jerk.
It seems to me that you have an extremely asymmetrical sexual relationship and that would really bother me if I was you. It sounds like you are willing to do anything for him (and he expects you to), and he is willing to do very little for you (and you may/may not be okay with that?).
Honestly, if there is nothing medically going on with you (which it sounds like you have checked out), I would stop focusing on pleasing him, take care of yourself if he won't, and tell him to slap some vicks vapor rub under his nose, suck it up, and stop being a jerk if he wants to get anybit of anything. But that's just IMHO.
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I want to write a recap of Game Five but I'm still so psyched about the win that I don't feel like I can put it together.
After Radek Bonk scored to tie the game, I was thinking it was going to be one of those nights. I knew the Red Wings could win - that they had the talent and all that - I just expected it to be a night where Nashville got that one extra bounce.
Instead, Detroit's strong team defence forced the bounce, a turnover in the neutral zone that Niklas Kronwall used to spring Johan Franzen in all alone on Dan Ellis.
And Franzen, as has been said so many times this season in the forums here, is a beast.
Compare this season to the Red Wings' 1998 campaign (so much easier to do now with Chris Osgood in goal) and Franzen is playing Tomas Holmstrom's role. We're watching his breakout and he's just got insane amounts of confidence right now.
Speaking of Osgood... Twenty saves on twenty-one shots is about everything anyone could have asked of him. He was steady, not spectacular, and the team played more confidently in front of him than they do in front of Hasek.
Obviously, the Predators were without David Legwand and Jason Arnott, which makes a big difference. I fully expect them to be back for Game Six though I do wonder what was actually bothering Arnott, since I don't think the flu would have been enough to keep him from playing in such an important game.
If the Red Wings play Game Six like they did Game Five, the Predators will not return to Detroit when the Wings do.
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I think this could be a twist of fate for the wings. Wings look confident with ozzy in net. He's improved alot. I remember him being known for giving up goals in "waves" in the playoffs, lets hope he can stymie the preds, I believe he can.
As for other changes I think that should take place...
MEECH in for STUART
ABDELKADER in for HARTIGAN or MCCARTY (hate to say it)
Move FILPULLA to FOURTH LINE as Center
I really think we need fresh legs, some of the guys in the lineup "hit the wall" after rejoining the lineup. NEED TO ADD SPEED ON DEFENSE!!! Oh and need to run 4 lines, not 3 lines.
I begin to realize how much we miss Kopecky as a fourth line grinder.
I don't think things need to be drastically shaken up. I would go with Abdelkader over Hartigan, though. If I make any change on defense, it's Ericsson for Lebda. I like Lebda more than Lilja, and Meech more than both, but Ericsson most of all of those four.
He should have gone with Abs, much more physical. He lives for these kind of games, plus he can shoot the puck.
As much as I get frusterated with Dom, Osgood scares me just as much. He started the season out great but after the all star game...which he got lit up he hasn't looked the same. Being at home should help the cause knowing that a majority of the fans probably want this to happen anyway. One or two big saves right away and the fans should be behind him all the way. Wings still have home ice advantage lets just hope they protect it. I don't think any other changes are really a must, the bottom line is those top 3 lines need to produce hands down. Yes the 4th line could make a difference but the top guys need to produce thats what their payed for.
I think Helm's addition is more to give that bottom line some speed to help them recover from their f*ckups than to help them score. Hartigan lost faceoffs all over the place in Game Four, he needed to go. Now, if Mac gets caught up, Helm is quick enough to get back to cover for him.
And I think that's why he's in instead of Abdelkader. It's not more grit that the Wings need (though it probably wouldn't hurt), it's speed. It's not that Abs is slow, it's that Helm is faster. Wonder how their faceoff prowess matches up.
Why!?!?!??!?!?!?! ): They play Helm in the game I won't see T_T
Is it only on Versus, or is it on FSN, also? D:
&& yes, Hartigan really needed to go =/
I dont believe playoff games are broadcasted on FSN. Generally all of the games are played on versus, with the exception of a few being played on CBC, the Canadian Broadcasters.
It's not a question whether or not which goalie is better than the other. This decision is purely to try and force a momentum swing. The predators have all the confidence in the world right now, and they think they've found a way to consistently beat Hasek. With Osgood in net they will need to find new methods to score, and I dont think Osgood will get continually beat from outside shots as much as Hasek has. I believe this to be an excellent switch, and the Wizard will rise to the occasion. Osgood's change from Standup to the Hybrid style has allowed him to cover more of the net while not compromising speed and agility. He was prone to getting beat from far out on his old style, but his new adaptation has seemigly paid some great dividends. Look or Osgood to come out strong and only get beat by quality scoring chances. I personally dont invision Osgood pulling a Patrick Roy in Game 7 of the 2002 finals, so there should be no worries with this move.
The substitution of Darren Helm in for Mark Hartigan is also a good move. Although we are losing grit, we are tremendously gaining speed, which was stated by somebody before me. The Red Wings have much more speed than the Predators, and it's about time we use it to our advantage. Overall, the biggest thing Detroit needs to improve on is face-off percentage. If we can once again dominate the face-off circle, then we will be home free.
The game is on Versus nationally, FSN Detroit where available. The local broadcasters are allowed to carry the first two rounds of the playoffs even if it's on Versus (but not if it's on NBC).
Agreed about faceoffs. Draper keeps getting his ass kicked by Arnott (who Ken and Mickey won't stop reminding us is one of the guys Draper hates going up against).
To be honest I had no idea that Arnott was that amazing at face-offs. At least now they are back at home and have the luxury of last line change. So they can decide when to place Draper out there. That way he is not up against Arnott.
Legwand and Arnott are both out. Langfeld and Bochenski are in. Wings have to take advantage of this.
Holy hell, great chance by Cleary and Draper shorthanded. Cleary's already looking better than he has of late.
Preds buzzing for a couple shifts there. Gotta keep that stuff limited, Wings need the next goal too.
I'm still nervous. The Wings need another. They're playing well when they get into the Nashville end but the Preds are pushing a lot in the Detroit zone.
I won't be calmed down until Detroit takes a 3-0 lead. I swear if they blow another lead i'll probably go insane. Good work during the first period, and with Arnott and Legwand out, they need to take advantage.
I probably wouldn't be comfortable until the wings are winning by at least 5. They'd probably blow that as well.
I didn't say another one would make me less nervous.
I'll feel less nervous about this series if the Wings can get two more wins. Number of goals doesn't matter.
Excellent point. I'm not too worried about Detroit not winning the Cup at this point, I will just be peeved if they endure another first round flame-out. I think these lower-seeded teams scare Detroit to be honest. They never know what to expect from them. That is why I'm hoping for a higher-seeded opponent in the next round if they advance.
Excellent point. I'm not too worried about Detroit not winning the Cup at this point, I will just be peeved if they endure another first round flame-out. I think these lower-seeded teams scare Detroit to be honest. They never know what to expect from them. That is why I'm hoping for a higher-seeded opponent in the next round if they advance.
Cup or nothing. One winner, 29 losers.
I'm concerned about not cashing in on the power plays. Gotta take goals however they come and it feels like that should be where they come.
I had no reaction at all, this is so common nowadays for the wings. all season this type of thing happened, outplayed the opponent only to let them back in it somehow, this game eerily similar to wings v ducks last year in playoffs game 5. Enjoy the OT while wings are still in it...
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As many of you know, Jerry Isenhart Jr. is in a major battle against cancer. He was diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumor. Jerry Jr. is in SwedishHospital and has a team of medical personnel from surgeons to nurses working towards a positive resolution to this issue.
Jerry Sr., Cecilia and his younger brother Willy are currently at Jerry Jr's bedside 24 hours a day. In addition, thoughts and prayers for his full recovery are pouring in through a special blog that has been set-up by Jerry Sr. and Willy.
Today marks the fourth day of his stay in Swedish. On Tuesday, the surgeons successfully operated to relieve fluid pressure on the brain that was leading to massive and unbearable headaches.
In the near future, possibly today, February 7, Jerry Jr. will begin his long road to recovery with a series of radiation treatments and chemotherapy.
His spirits have been lifted by an outpouring of prayers and positive thoughts posted on his blog (http://jerryisenhartjr.wordpress.com). He was sitting up in bed this morning, reading these postings on his I-Pad and Jerry Sr. wrote on the blog this morning (February 7): "As he read through your messages his face went from a deep worried frown to a tearful smile as he realized just how many people cared about him. Your words have been a priceless medicine for his heart and his head. We can't say enough"
Jerry Jr. (right) took the time to pose with his mother, Cecilia, and fellow player Matt Peterson and a cousin.
A group of concerned community members who know the Isenhart family well have set-up an account at North Cascades National Bank (NCNB) called the Isenhart Family Care Account. Donations to this account can be made at any branch of NCNB.
There is also a donation account set-up at Give Naked (http://givenaked.org), a Chelan charity that helps people in need. Their message to the community reads: Several community members have contacted Give Naked to let us know that the Isenhart family could use some help. Certainly, they will be faced with massive expenses beyond medical bills including travel and hotel fees. Would you be willing to give $5 or $10 to help this local family?
While insurance will cover most hospital expenses (not all), there are still living expenses for the family while staying in Seattle. Small donations add up and are genuinely appreciated. Ray Dobbs, business development manager at NCNB said this morning that the Isenharts have direct access to the Isenhart Family Care Account.
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The first time around it was a controversy, Bradley wins by split decision. The fans were obviously not happy with the outcome of the first fight so they had to do it again! This time fans got what they wanted. If not a knock out, fans were happy with a unanimous decision. Bradley didn't give up without a good fight and a lot of bobbing and weaving! Quite honestly, the fact that he was dodging majority of punches thrown by Paquiao, Bradley saved himself by not allowing Paquiao to get too close to him. Any fighter that goes the distance, the full 12 rounds, has more respect than one who just lay down and die.
With a gain of $20 million on the fight, Paquiao had more than his title gain back, he was fighting for pride. The Phillipino congressman could not possibly go home with another defeat. Fans don't think his ego could take it. Going in to the fight Paquiao swore to be more aggressive in this fight, and Bradley talked a lot of trash. Fans were expecting him to not only knock Paquiao out but they more expected him to back up all the talk, unfortunately he couldn't do it.
Make no mistake about it, this was not an easy win for Paquiao. "He tried to knock me out, I tried to knock him out," Pacquiao said after the fight. "Many times, I hit him hard but he was still there." Fight fans were at the edge of their seat the entire round because most of them bet that Paquiao would regain the title, as he did. Of course there were fans that don't agree with the decision, but you can't argue with a ref who was sitting there fight night counting blows and judging which ones were more valid than others.
At the fight were celebrities like Jack Nicholson, Will Ferrell and 50 Cent maybe hoping that his next fight will be against Money Mayweather, but we all know that may never happen. Loyal fight fans know that Mayweather is about politics and money, meaning he is the best business man in the boxing business. Considering the last eight fights Paquiao have had has ended in decision, no one thinks the champ will take such a chance, so it's best to give it up. This fight was more than enough proof that the champ may never take that chance on his career being in the hands of judged or promoters that may not like him or have his best interest at heart.
Boxing is not a sport of heart and performance anymore, but of pure MONEY and POWER, everybody knows that and anyone that will turn down $150 million is proof enough that there is more to this match up than "they say." At this stage of the game and all the drama that has conspired around this mega fight, Mayweather is a very smart man for thinking twice before he considers this fight. So fans will have to waits to see if the champ decides to fall into the trap or not. Chance are we will see him fight Manuel Marquez or Mike Alvarado next, whom which Bob Arum also promotes.
"I think I can fight for two more years," said Paquiao after the fight. So now boxing fans will have to wait until the May 17th fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Mike Alvarado to see who will get their chance at the champ next. "I have no problem with fighting Marquez again, but that's up to my promoter, Bob Arum," Paquiao said. Considering Bradley ended Paquiao's 15 year winning streak it only makes sense to match Paquiao up with another fighter on the Arum rooster, that way all the money stays at home. This fighter generated 1.3 million pay-per-view buys, the biggest audience of Paquiao's career, so one can image what his next fight will draw. Why wouldn't Arum want it all?


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Jeremy Hutter is once again harkening to the call of the Spartan Death Race, a grueling endurance competition in Vermont that promises participants "the totally unexpected and the totally insane."
Small wonder that, Hutter, 22, of Mesa, says, "My parents think I'm nuts."
The two-day competition, which starts next Friday in Pittsfield, Vt., promises participants on its website that "90 percent of you will not complete this endurance race."
Hutter, who participated in last year's competition, said in an e-mail interview that the obstacle course "tests you mentally, physically and emotionally" and "is designed to break you down to the point where you will want to quit the race."
"The race directors do everything they can to make you quit," said Hutter, an Arizona State University secondary education major. "All tasks and the race course are unknown to racers before it starts. You basically find out what you're going to do as they are telling you to do it."
"One task that racers can count on is a 'wood-chopping challenge,' " he said. "Last year's race involved us sewing our bib number onto our shirts, hiking throughout the night in groups of 20 carrying a canoe, being paired up into teams and having to scavenge around a mountain trying to find the stick with the number we were assigned to.
"The race directors come up with very creative tasks meant to get you frustrated and want to quit the race. Only about 10 percent of the people who start the race will finish it."
Hutter said he was motivated last year to enter the competition because "I wanted a challenge that would push me to my limits, and I wanted to see what I was made of."
He dropped out after 36 hours, and this year sees the challenge simply: "Go back and finish what I started and to redeem myself and to finish the race this time."
He prepares by working out six days a week, with one workout consisting of going to a nearby mountain and carrying a five-gallon bucket with weights and hiking up and down as many times as he can. "I am able to get to seven times now," he said.
"Another workout consist of going down to the school track and running and doing basic exercises, such as push-ups, crunches, dips, box jumps, pull-ups, burpees. I also hike the Flat Iron trail at Superstition Mountain once a week."
As grueling as that may seem in Arizona's hot temperatures, Hutter calls his workouts "just simple stuff that keeps me on my feet and keeps me moving."
"The goal before the race date is to do an all-night run with my pack on to get used to the weight I will be carrying during the race," he added.
Hutter is quickly becoming a veteran of grueling obstacle-course competitions. He participated in the Tough Mudder competition in east Mesa and did the 2011 World's Toughest Mudder in New Jersey in 2011.
Hutter said his friends aren't interested in joining him in the Spartan Death Race.
"It is such a demanding race and takes a lot of commitment on the racer's part to train properly for it, but they are all very supportive of me doing this," he said. "They just think I am crazy! And every single one of them just says, 'Come back alive!' "


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On Monday of this week I participated in a celebration called "Canoe the Heart". To back up a bit, about three years ago, the agencies along the border started thinking about a collaborative relationship. At the start there were Voyageurs National Park, Quetico Provinical Park and the Superior National Forest. Now there are about 25 entities that are members of the group that call themselves "Heart of the Continent". They do not talk policy but rather they are a partnership of Canadian/American land managers and local stakeholders working together on cross-border projects that promote the economic, cultural and natural health of the lakes, forests and communities on the Ontario/Minnesota border.
This year is our Centennial celebration and it is also the centennial celebration for Quetico Provincial Park. So the folks at Heart of the Continent decided to do a canoe trip from Atikokin Ontario, over to International Falls and back to Saganaga Lake. From there they would move to Grand Marais and canoe to Grand Portage then onto Thunderbay. All was done in a nine person "Voyageur" style canoe. Stops were made along the way in various small towns to celebrate the centennial for both the park and the national forest. The celebration for Cook County took place at Chik Wauk, in the Grand Marais Recreational Park, and at the National Monument in Grand Portage.
All rather fitting I would say. As I think about the eons of time, the one connection we all have is water. Humans have traveled the oceans for centuries. The Great Lakes and the Sweetwater Trail provided a link first for Native Americans, later for Voyageurs, settlers and present day shipping between Minnesota and the eastern part of our continent. And then there are the lakes of the Boundary Waters that provided a canoe highway for early Natives, Voyageurs and today's recreationists.
The waters that provided life and mobility to early Americans still provide a connection for the people of the United States and Canada. And what better places to celebrate that connection than Grand Portage, Grand Marais and Chik Wauk? All places on the water established so many years ago and remain to serve people of today. I thought it particularly relevant to celebrate at Chik Wauk, a place built to serve people who came to use the land and waters. Through the efforts of the community of the Gunflint Trail, it will continue to serve to tell the story of the connection of the people to the lands and waters of northeastern Minnesota and Canada.
Staff from the Wilderness Canoe Base and Gunflint Wilderness Camp provided voyager canoes to ferry visitors from the County parking lot on the Sag Trail to Chik Wauk. And then those same voyageur canoes paddled up the Sag Corridor to escort the expedition canoe back to Chik Wauk.
There were about 150 people in attendance on a bright sunny day. Included were a few activities for the kids and then a great meal provided by Gunflint Lodge. After lunch there were short presentations by Quetico's Dave Maynard and Superior National Forest's Lee Johnson on the history of each. The celebration was capped by a special recognition of Janice Matichuk, who has staffed Quetico's Cache Bay Ranger Station for the past 25 years.
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High School: Played soccer at the club level ... A local Tucson product who will bring immediate depth and talent to the goalkeeper position ... Played for the WPSL Arizona Rush in 2009, gaining valuable experience against collegiate and pro level players ... Club experience with the Arizona Rush from 2005-08 ... Club team won the Nomads, Hammers Cup and Vegas Cup tournaments in 2008 ... Participated in the U17 ODP program in 2007-08 ... Also ran cross country and track for high school.
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