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Die Wilmes Bauernhof ist ein Bauernhof zu Hause um 1900, der neu renoviert wurde. Die original Eichenverkleidung und Holzböden bleiben erhalten und fügen Sie die rustikale Atmosphäre des Bauernhofes Haus. Es bietet eine herrliche Aussicht von der Veranda Schaukel und im ganzen Haus. Ruhige Sonnenuntergänge aus dem angrenzenden Balkon sehen. Die großen Schatten spendenden Bäumen sind perfekt für ein Picknick. Das Haus eignet sich für einzelne Familien oder Gruppen.
Nach einem Tag im Holiday World, Antiquitäten, oder Besichtigung des Bauernhaus ist Wandern ein friedlicher Ort zum Entspannen. Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen genießen werden. Ein Aufenthalt im Bauernhaus wird ein Speicher wird niemand so schnell vergessen werden.
My family and I came from California and Washington. My brother and I grew up in Dubois County so his family and I met to come visit our family and friends for the week. The Wilmes farmhouse was absolutely perfect for us! Fun for the kids to play and so nice to be able to have a home to live in for the week vs. a hotel. This was our second time staying here and we will continue to rent it every year when we come back. The owner's are very nice and accommodating. I highly recommend staying at this wonderful home!
If you are looking for dazzling and state of the art...this is not your place. If you are looking for comfortable and homey and well maintained this is for you. The setting is just wonderful, right smack in the middle of the heart of America's farmlands with grazing cows to keep you company. Our class reunion gathered here and loved it so much we booked it for next year already. It is well furnished with lots of room. simple and charming. The owners are gracious and accommodating. recommend it highly.
The Farmhouse let our 3 generations settle in for a few days of family time. The surrounding area is quiet and has no traffic, so it's good for the little ones. The upstairs bathroom is beautiful and big. The 3 bedrooms are quite comfortable and well supplied. The downstairs bedroom and full bath gave Nana and Papa a bit of quiet after a full day of family fun. Holiday World and Santa Claus are literally only minutes away. Lincoln State Park is less than 1/2 hour. Gina is an amazing hostess, too! We will definitely book again the next time we go to Holiday World.
We have been coming to Holiday World off and on for 18 years and stayed at the local hotel. This time we wanted a place to spread out and relax. The Wilmes Farmhouse fit that perfectly for our family of 9. Gina always answered promptly to any questions we had and the house was clean and well supplied. My kids loved looking at the cows and the older girls LOVED the beautiful sunsets! We will definitely return to the farmhouse when we come back to Holiday World!
We went for a weekend getaway for our sons birthday and have some family time. The Wilmes farmhouse was perfect my parents and kids said this is where they wanted to stay the next time we go to Holiday World!! It's beautiful scenery, plenty of room and it's not far away from attractions and other things to do!! We roasted marshmallows and made Smores we basically enjoyed sitting together and the serenity of the farm my 9 mmonth old grandson liked the cows!! The Wilmes are close by if you have any problems or need anything!! Thank you for allowing us the use of your family's home it was beautiful!!
We had a small family reunion of 7 adults and 2 children and the house seemed to welcome us as soon as we drove onto the property. Pretty, well cared for flowers blooming along the entrance side of the old farmhouse and a nice porch swing all caught my eye. Once inside everything was very nice, large rooms for eating and socializing and 4 bedrooms plus 2 full baths made everyone very happy. This farmhouse was just perfect and only a few miles to Holiday World, the reason for renting this home. It is furnished nicely with all the conveniences of home and we all enjoyed our stay so much that this ole Farmhouse is going to be our go-to rental for our yearly family reunion! Many thanks to the owner for answering my questions quickly and for her cooperation allowing us a later Sunday morning checkout. We will be back and hope others find this old, sturdy home as lovely as our family did.
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Weve all seen the grainy and morbid Zapruder film of John F. Kennedys assassination in Dallas in 1963. Imagine what it must have been like to be an actual witness. Now, imagine you were one of those responsible for safeguarding JFK. There are not many jobs where you can be a 100-percent failure, but being on the Kennedy detail was one of them, says Gerald Blaine, a member of JFKs Secret Service detail. The Presidents security has never spoken publicly about the assassination. Until now. Blaine interviewed surviving members of the team for his book, The Kennedy Detail, cowritten with journalist Lisa McCubbin. In the process, he discovered the shared pain they bore in solitude all these years. We never discussed the assassination with each other or our families until [a reunion] last year, he says. All agents felt the same guilt, anger, and failure. It was not until we started discussing the emotional aspect of the assassination did we start the healing process. In addition to the agent experience, the book details aspects of the assassination that Blaine says have been misrepresented. The major reason it was written is to save history from these bizarre theories being mistaken as fact. Sorry Ollie Stone, Blaine supports the lone gunman premise.
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On 40th anniversary of Rubik's Cube invention, Google posts a playable version of the world's best-selling toy
The original Rubik's Cube is plastic, with nine coloured squares on each face. The object is to move the pieces around until each side of the cube is a solid colour.
New Delhi: If you gave up trying to crack the Rubik's Cube a long time ago, why not make another attempt with Google's digital version of the immensely popular 3D combination puzzle posted as a doodle on the 40th anniversary of its invention?
In 1974, while a young professor of architecture in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Rubik created an innovative solid cube that twisted and turned but did not break or fall apart.
The first model was used to help him explain spatial relationships to his students. With colourful stickers on its sides, the cube got scrambled and thus emerged as the first 'Rubik's Cube.'
It took well over a month for Rubik to work out the solution to his puzzle. Designed primarily as a mobile sculpture symbolising the stark contrasts of the human condition-bewildering problems and triumphant intelligence, simplicity and complexity, stability and dynamism, order and chaos-it ended up becoming the world's best-selling toy ever.
The original Rubik's Cube - which won "toy of the year" in Britain in 1980 - is plastic, with nine coloured squares on each face.
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"Most of my adult life I spent with the cube because I was only 30 (years old) when I created it. And right now, after 40 years I can say: 'I know the cube, I know what happened around the cube,'" Rubik said in an interview to Reuters.
There are many forms of the cube on show - from the first simple wooden prototypes to a bejewelled version worth $2.5 million.
The first Rubik's world championship was held in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary, where the winner solved the cube in 22.95 seconds. The record for the fastest solving a Rubik's Cube is held by a robot.
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Pakistan vs India Series will Start on last week of this year as 25 December 2012.The schedule for the much awaited cricket series between Pakistan and India has been announced.
According to reports in the India media, Pakistan will tour its neighboring country from 25 December till 6 January. The Pakistan team will arrive in New Delhi on 22 December to play the five match series consisting of three ODIs and two T20s. In July 2012, it was announced that Pakistan and India would resume cricketing ties after five years.
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The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid
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BeschreibungFrustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the occupation, the Palestinian population of Israel and the Occupied Territories rose up on 29 September 2000. In this book a group of leading spokespeople trace the course of the uprising and its consequences.
PortraitRoane Carey is Copy Chief at The Nation magazine, New York.
Pressestimmen"The first time Beitr Jala was shelled, people were surprised and wondered what had happened... now Israel is threatening to blockade the Palestinian areas and prevent us from getting water, electricity, or fuel... Children are the first victims of all this. No wonder they don't laugh from their hearts anymore. They've lost their childhoods, and their crime is that they are Palestinian. " - Patricia Al-Teet, school student, Beit Jala, the West Bank
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Story and Photos by Jason Bruno
2013 is all but expired, but I can't help but look back . . . it was another great year for the game and
for us at LinksNation. If you're reading this, I'd like to thank you for supporting the site. There were so
many great experiences for us in 2013, and I'd like to share a few of my personal thoughts and
recollections of our year.
Demo Day on the eve of the PGA Show - Orlando
The PGA Show in January is always a great week form an industry standpoint, but when you throw
in the grand opening of a world class golf facility (Streamsong Red & Blue Courses) in the same week
it becomes special. The people at Mosaic teamed with Kemper Sports to host a gathering of the world's
most respected Travel & Course reviewers, as well other golf journalists from around the globe.
Crenshaw at the opening of Streamsong
I was fortunate enough to be paired that day with Doak's Design associate Eric Iverson, his brother
Neil (who works for Horizon Sports Turf) and Canada's Rick Young, who writes on the business and
equipment side of the game for Score Magazine. We enjoyed a "chamber of commerce" weather day
that January morning, and aside from misplacing my camera, it was a flawless day for golf. Tom Doak's
Blue course at Streamsong did not disappoint, our review:
You learn much about a person after riding in a cart for a 5 hour round on the links, and truth be told, I
felt like Rick Young was a longtime friend by the time we hit the back nine . . . great guy. Eric Iverson
was incredibly insightful on the design and construction of the Blue and other Doak projects currently
in the works. When the day was over, I knew it was one to remember and as usual it was as much about
the people as it was the scenery. Later in May, I went back to play the Red Course, and all I can say is
Kudos to Ben Crenshaw & Bill Coore on an amazing design.
Rick Young joined me on the Blue Course at the Streamsong Opening in late January.
Next was my one on one Q&A with Ben Crenshaw at the Allianz Championship just weeks after the
Streamsong Grand Opening. If you enjoy talking course design and architecture (I do), then Gentle
Ben will engage in great conversation . . . even after shooting 76, as I found out. We talked Payne
Stewart, '99 Ryder Cup, and of course, golf architecture & design. I've interviewed many tour players,
course designers, and superintendents . . . no doubt this was among my favorite moments as a scribe.
To read the interview with Ben Crenshaw:
The crew from the 1st Annual LinksNation Cup Team Matches held the first week in March at Mission
Inn and World Woods.
Just a few weeks later, we were at Isleworth covering the Tavistock Cup - which was a blast as usual.
After observing Adam Scott at Tavistock, I proclaimed that he'd win the Masters, nailed it . . .
but whiffed on the other 3 major predictions.
The next trip on the agenda was a week in Philadelphia, a course review at the Classic Donald Ross
design - Aronimink (pictured below), then a week behind the scenes at Merion for the U.S Open.
The uphill ninth at Aronimink
The week in Philly started with a day at Aronimink hosted by Head Professional Jeff Kiddie. I was
paired with Jay Sigel, Dr.Jim McGlynn and Asst. Professional Pat Clark. Great company and a top
100 classic Ross design on a gorgeous June day, another highlight for sure. Our Aronimink feature:
Later that same day, I was enroute to my meeting at Merion just 7 miles away. Certainly I was the
only scribe who was working behind the scenes on the hallowed grounds of the Wickerbaskets. Being
part of Shaffer's grounds staff was an honor, our first major task on the Monday before the Open was
one of damage control - we rebuilt the greenside bunker on the famous 11th hole (where Bobby Jones
completed the "Grand Slam" in 1930. Along with Matt Shaffer, who I consider a friend . . . the guys in
our group (all experts in Agronomy throughout the world) bonded during the week. Guys like Paul Porto,
Patrick Haughley, Tyler, Greg, Big Pat, Robert, Keith, Andy, Dave Petfield and my partner in crime from
New South Wales Golf Club in Australia - Dean Lenerth. Images from the 113th U.S Open at Merion:
Rebuilding the bunker on eleven
Robert, Dean, JB and Greg on our last night of tending to the turf at Merion
We worked hours before the sun came up each morning and finished long after the sun set every
evening. It was a hectic week with all of the horrible weather that hit the Philadelphia area that
week, but Matt Shaffer showed nothing but grace under pressure. One of the highlights of the week
was when the Golf Channel interviewed Shaffer the day before the championship began, Chamblee &
Nobilo asked Matt how he'd handle his course getting shredded by the best players in the world
(because of the soft conditions), he fired back and let them know that Merion would not only hold up,
but it would come out on top when all was said and done. The herd of grounds masters gathered at
the hotel watching on TV roared like the patrons at Augusta when Nicklaus nailed the "Yes Sir" putt in
1986. In the end, Merion was the true winner (as Shaffer predicted) along with Justin Rose. I made a
half dozen lifelong mates, all who were very proud of what they accomplished. Matt Shaffer somehow
motivated us by his commanding presence and our own need to help him finish the job. We all can hope
to reach his level of excellence in our professions. I hope to return to Merion in 2014 . . . to see the
place a year after the Open, but mostly to see my friend Matt Shaffer.
A great view of the fifth hole at Merion, I shot this photo from the tenth green on the Sunday evening
before the U.S Open.
In late August I traveled to Laredo, Texas for the media opening for the Max A Mandel course designed
by Robert Trent Jones Jr. Guest of Honor Nancy Lopez was another memorable interview, and is one of
the nicest people in the game. "The Max" sits along the Rio Grande on the Texas/Mexico border, and is
a unique signature course in an area starving for a first class facility. Again the memory was as much
about new friendship as it was of business . . . Jason Veretto of the Back Nine Network was a pleasure
to get to know. Feature on "The Max":
The par 3 - fifteenth at "The Max"
In 2014 we'll start off with the PGA Show, and then it's off to the media opening at the new Trump
Doral Blue Monster designed by Gil Hanse. Looking forward to another great year in golf, and another
adventurous year in the LinksNation.
Story and photos by Jason Bruno
Aronimink GC was the site of my day with Jay Sigel, Dr.Jim McGlynn & Asst. Pro Pat Clark
It's been awhile since I've written about my personal experiences out on the road, so let me trace
back to June and my trip to Philly. I arrived early Saturday into Atlantic City Airport and drove straight
to Atlantic City Country Club to check on the conditions (after I had heard about all of the damage to
the area last fall from Hurricane Sandy). I wasn't able to visit with GM Charles Fahy, but I was told
that the only significant damage to the course was on tee boxes 14 & 16 that sit right up on the water.
Everything was rebuilt and looked great, then I revisited my second favorite grill room (Winged Foot is my
all time favorite), ACCC also has one of the classic locker rooms in all of golf.
History adorns the walls of the Grillroom at ACCC
Next it was off to my hotel on the shore line of AC, I had some time to kill and I was waiting on my
high school buddy Frank to arrive in from Connecticut for the evenings events in AC. I walked along
the south shore of New jersey and of course took my wedge and 3 brand new dimpled pearls with me.
The few people along the beach probably thought I was nuts, and they weren't far off . . . obsessed
would have been a more apt description.
They weren't aware that I was channeling a young Seve Ballesteros (I had always heard about how he
taught himself the game as a boy, hitting off the sand of the beaches in Spain where he grew up). I had
always wanted to do so, and what better time and place then a day off in Jersey, or so I thought. For the
most part, the short 40 yard pitch shots off the wet sand came off rather well, but one errant shot hit
a berm of large jaggedy boulders piled up along the nearby roadway and skipped across the paved road -
damaging nothing except for my right out of the box custom #61 Penta Ball (I know what you're thinking,
why #61? It's too long and too personal of a story, trust me). Finally, I decided I was no Seve and the
few people hanging around the beach were right, I'm nuts . . . so I decided to wait on my friend upstairs
in the hotel.
My old high school buddy Frank Bannon was driving down from Connecticut for a night of nostalgia, as in
the form of Rock music, not drinking or partying . . . those that know me, know that's not my style. We
were headed to the House of Blues in AC to see the Rebel Yell antics of Billy Idol. Seeing a great show
from an artist of your youth is a great and powerful experience, especially when it's right in front of the
stage . . . Rock on Billy!
Billy Idol on a golf website . . . there is a first for everything.
The following morning Frank and I once again parted ways, and as I drove west to Philly for a day
at Aronimink, and a week at the U.S Open, Frank headed north to Staten Island, New York to visit
his Mother's grave site, which coincidentally sits less than two miles from where both of my parents
are laid to rest. While driving, I reflected on our many times together during our teens and was happy
to have added another memory to our long history as friends.
Upon arriving at Aronimink Golf Club in the Philly suburb of Newtown Square, I was excited to see
and experience another classic Donald Ross design. I am always in awe of the atmosphere at these
classic Northeast clubs, like Winged Foot, Quaker Ridge, Siwanoy, and Merion. I can't put my finger on
it but it's just a special feeling. I met Head Professional Jeff Kiddie on the driving range where he
informed me that I'd be playing in a special group with Asst. Professional Pat Clark, Greens Chairman
Dr.Jim McGlynn and longtime Aronimink member and Philadelphia golf legend Jay Sigel. Although I've
played many great major championship venues and with many prominent people in the game, it was
an honor to tee it up with Jay Sigel on his home track. The classic Ross design exceeded expectations,
and as usual it was the great company that made the day exceptional. Dr.Jim is by far the best 5 index
I've ever played with, and as a person he's scratch. Jay Sigel is a class act, he took the time to show
me on every green where the original Ross runoffs were reclaimed during the restoration, and we chatted
between holes about where he plays during the winters in Palm Beach (He did mention that he also
belongs to Pine Valley, but the olive branch wasn't extended in my direction). Pat and I were down early
in our match against Jay and Dr.Jim, (Dr.Jim was on fire, I believe he was a few under on the front nine),
but just as we showed signs of life, Pat had to leave to give a lesson. From holes 14 thru 18 I held my
own against the dynamic duo, playing even on the back (shooting 75).
Afterward, we had drinks on the patio outside the clubhouse and Jay and Dr.Jim talked about the
club and their hopes for a future major at Aronimink. I agreed that the club and the course was
certainly worthy. Afterward, I wasn't able to see Jeff Kiddie and thank him in person, he was off doing
what golf professionals do best - helping members improve their game. Moments later I was headed
down the road 7 miles away to Ardmore for an afternoon meeting at Merion on the eve of U.S Open
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Most movement disorders, reflecting degenerative disorders, develop in a slowly progressive fashion. Some movement disorders, however, manifest with an acute onset. We wish to give an overview of the management and therapy of those acute-onset movement disorders.
Drug–induced movement disorders are mainly caused by dopamine–receptor blockers (DRB) as used as antipsychotics (neuroleptics) and antiemetics. Acute dystonic reactions usually occur within the first four days of treatment. Typically, cranial pharyngeal and cervical muscles are affected. Anticholinergics produce a prompt relief.Akathisia is characterized by an often exceedingly bothersome feeling of restlessness and the inability to remain still. It is a common side effect of DRB and occurs within few days after their initiation. It subsides when DRB are ceased.Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome is a rare, but life–threatening adverse reaction to DRB which may occur at any time during DRB application. It is characterised by hyperthermia, rigidity, reduced consciousness and autonomic failure. Therapeutically immediate DRB withdrawal is crucial.Additional dantrolene or bromocriptine application together with symptomatic treatment may be necessary.
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North End put in an excellent performance in front of almost 2,000 travelling fans at Craven Cottage, but they had to settle for a point despite Joe Garner scoring for the second game in succession.
Garner – off the mark seven days earlier against former club Blackburn scored with a close range header from a Paul Gallagher cross early on.
Home skipper Ross McCormack equalised with a free kick into the top right hand corner from the edge of the box with 12 minutes left.
Simon Grayson had been forced to make two changes to the starting line-up, Bailey Wright missing the first of two games through suspension and Calum Woods, out with a hamstring injury, replaced by Marnick Vermijl and returning skipper Tom Clarke.
And the visitors were on the front foot from the opening moments. The first chance came when Daniel Johnson's ball in behind found Eoin Doyle, whose volley from the edge of the box was acrobatically pushed away by Joe Lewis in the Fulham goal.
Moments later a Paul Gallagher corner from the left was flicked on by Clarke across the face of goal, but no one was able to get a final touch.
Joe Garner then saw a shot blocked after Vermijl's cross brought was down on his chest by the No.14 and Gallagher follow up with an effort from the edge of the 'D' that was also blocked.
However, they earned a deserved lead in the 11th minute as Garner met a Gallagher cross at the back post after a short corner played between Gallagher and Cunningham on the left hand side.
After waiting all season for his first goal of the season, the League One player of the year for 2015 made it two in two.
He now looked at the top of his game and shortly after almost doubled his and the Lilywhites' tally from 30 yards after a superb run from the left by Adam Reach providing the ball on a plate for Garner whose curled was inches wide of the right hand upright.
At the mid-point of the half, with the home fans vocal in their vitriol against their own teams' efforts, Gallagher saw a volley go wide after a Johnson ball into box was headed back by Garner for the No.12.
Around the half hour mark the home side finally created one or two opportunities. Firstly a brilliant recovery last-ditch tackle was required from Adam Reach to deny Ross McCormack with Fulham's first real chance.
And second later Jordan Pickford was finally needed with a wonderful diving backwards save to tip Moussa Dembele's deflected shot over the bar.
However, it could and perhaps should have been 2-0 to the side in yellow before half-time when Eoin Doyle missed a close range header from three yards out after Tom Clarke's early cross was superbly headed back across goal by Garner for his striker partner.
North End and their supporters felt they should have had a penalty four minutes after the break when a strong run from Daniel Johnson saw him upended by Ream, but neither the referee nor the linesman – who was closer – seemed to see what looked an obvious trip.
Shortly before the hour mark James Husband should have been sent off – no doubt about it. He had been dispossessed in the box by Clarke and then he spear tackled the North End skipper and somehow survived with only a yellow card.
A Tom Cairney free kick was deflected over the bar by the PNE wall with 20 minutes left, but another free kick from a similar position drew the home side level with 12 minutes left – Ross McCormack curling the ball into the top right hand corner from the right hand edge of the box after substitute John Welsh was harshly adjudged to have handled.
There was almost an immediate response from North End and Vermijl and another change Keane raced down the right, with the No.9 squaring the ball to the edge of the box only for Alan Browne to be unable to get real purchase onto an effort and Stearman, the Cottagers skipper, blocked the ball and cleared.
In the final minute North End had two excellent chances to win the game, Reach seeing a shot blocked by Fredericks and then John Welsh firing the follow up over the bar from 22 yards.
The Lilywhites had a final chance in the last minute of the five added on, with a corner won by a brave Stevie May challenge, which saw him need treatment for it and in fact be stretchered from the field of play, but the corner was cleared and North End had to settle for a point.
Fulham line-up
: Lewis, Fredericks, Stearman, Reama, Husband (Pringle, 89), Parker (Smith, 75), O'Hara, Kavanagh (Hutchinson, 46), Cairney, McCormack (c), Dembele. Subs not used: Rodak, Garbutt, Voser, Woodrow.
PNE line-up
: Pickford, Vermijl, Reach, Clarke (c), Huntington, Cunningham, Browne, Gallagher (Welsh, 74), Johnson, Garner, Doyle (Keane, 74). Subs not used: Kirkland, Kilkenny, Davies, May, Hugill.
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Paul W. Bryant High School serves grades 9 through 12 and is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, forming part of the Tuscaloosa City Schools. The school is named after former Alabama Crimson Tide football head coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant. The school competes as part of the Alabama High School Athletic Association in Region 4 of the 6A division.
With the 1999 lifting of the desegregation order that resulted in the creation of Central High School in 1979, the School Board began exploring the option to construct three new high schools to replace Central.[1] By the early 2000s (decade), Tuscaloosa City Schools announced that three new high schools would be constructed that would become Bryant, Northridge and a new Central High School. By September 2001, the board would award construction contracts totaling $100 million to implement the Five-Year Facilities Plan.[2] Costing $31.5 million to complete, the school would celebrate its ribbon-cutting on August 24, 2003, with U.S. Representative Artur Davis delivering the keynote address.[3]
In January 2002, the Tuscaloosa City Schools School Board voted to name the school after Alabama Crimson Tide football head coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant.[4] The name was selected after being suggested by a resident during a community meeting regarding the new school.[4] Originally, the mascot was to be the "Bears" playing on the famous nickname of Paul Bryant.[5] However, that option was ruled out because the old Tuscaloosa High had been nicknamed the Black Bears, and a 1970s court order relating to the consolidation of Druid High with Tuscaloosa High stated that no new school in Tuscaloosa may take a nickname used by any of the former segregated schools.[5][6] Additionally, the name "Titans"—voted on by students of schools that would feed into Bryant—was rejected because Holy Spirit High School's teams were already named the Titans.[5]
With the rejection of "Bears" and "Titans," popular sentiment was in favor of using "Stampede" as a mascot. According to PTA president Paul Lightsey, anyone who heard the school's name would expect to see an elephant as the mascot even if the school opted not to use Alabama's colors of red and white. Due to concerns about copyright issues, "Huskies" was chosen as an interim name.[6] However, after Alabama lifted its objections to Bryant High using an elephant mascot, "Stampede" was ultimately chosen as the mascot for the school.[7]
Paul W. Bryant has a program offered to junior and seniors called Co-Op that provides students with the technical and hands on experience of the work force while in school.[8]
Varsity sports[edit]
Paul W. Bryant High School currently fields a varsity team in nine men's and eight women's sports.[9] They are:
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- ^ Schmitke, Alison (Winter 2005–2006). "Teaching Brown in Tuscaloosa". Rethinking Schools.
- ^ Kampis, Johnny (September 26, 2001). "Board approves contracts for schools". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ Ricks, Markeshia (August 25, 2003). "New high schools open their doors". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ a b Kampis, Johnny (January 29, 2002). "New school will be named Paul W. Bryant High School". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ a b c Kampis, Johnny (March 19, 2002). "Bryant High School can't `Bear' it". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ a b Reeves, Steve (April 22, 2003). "Bryant High Huskies, for now". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ Carroll, Andrew (August 7, 2003). "Stampede tries on its new colors". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ [1] Archived August 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Paul W. Bryant High School, Paul W. Bryant High School Athletics. Archived August 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.


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RICHMOND, Va. Republican John McCain's presidential campaign sued the Virginia election board Monday, claiming absentee ballots weren't mailed on time to military members serving overseas.
The complaint asks the U.S. District Court in Richmond to order the state to count absentee ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received by Nov. 14. It contends that thousands of troops' ballots -- many of which would go to McCain -- will not be counted.
The deadline for ballots to be received is 7 p.m. Election Day, which is Tuesday.
The lawsuit is the second in a week to challenge preparations for the presidential election in Virginia, where Barack Obama hopes to become the first Democrat since 1964 to win the state's 13 electoral votes. Polls over the past week show him about even with or slightly ahead of McCain.
More than 436,000 new Virginia voters have registered since Jan. 1, and about 500,000 people -- a tenth of the state's electorate_ have cast absentee ballots.
The NAACP sued the state last week, alleging it allotted too few voting machines for the enormous number of voters in majority black precincts expected to be drawn by the prospect of electing Obama as the first black president.
U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams on Monday declined to order longer voting hours and other changes requested by the NAACP. He did order the elections board to publicize the availability of curbside voting for older or disabled voters and the fact that people in line by 7 p.m. will be allowed to vote.
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The term Internet of Things (coined by
Many people now monitor their houses (temperature, surveillance cameras, crock pot making dinner, fridge, budgie-cage warmer) remotely. Already there are hundreds of gadgets you can app-erate on your mobile device, from garage door openers and security systems to pacemakers and implantable insulin pumps. And there are single-hub control systems, such as Staples Connect. It's estimated that by 2016 about 19 billion intelligent devices will be wirelessly networked -- about 2.5 per person on Earth.
Foremost has been the smart car, starting for you, parking for you, and avoiding fender-benders. About 1.5 million people, for example, already drive smart Fords. New models can synchronize Ford's SYNC system with the software called AppLink, so you can voice-control your smartphone apps while in your car, orchestrating your world while on wheels.
On Wednesday, the
So, is the Internet of Things a good thing of things?
The study, titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive By 2025," is a curious document. It surveys 1,867 experts and industry soothsayers. The gist: The Internet of Things will be great, and there will be issues -- chief among them privacy and security.
"Eighty-three percent say, 'Yup, it'll happen and have benefits,' " Rainie said, "then they say, 'But here are the things you're going to have to worry about as we move into this world,' many cautionary notes to policymakers and engineers, saying, 'This could go very wrong if we're not careful.' "
By 2025, said respondents, our devices "will be interacting with the physical and virtual worlds more than interacting with us. The devices are going to disappear into what we wear and/or carry." We will, they predicted, "talk to devices in essentially the same way we talk to other people." (
"Yes, you will be permanently connected to the network via wearable devices." (If you think you can't escape work now . . ..)
Another inescapable thing: data collection. "Every part of our life will be quantifiable and eternal, and we will answer to the community for our decisions," writes social media maven
If the self becomes totally quantifiable, a specter rises: the sacrifice of privacy. Reading my blood sugar, blood pressure, and other vitals could help my doctor track and treat me. But once your private data exist, as Rainie puts it, "there's usually a way for someone else to get at them, whether it's law enforcement, companies, or government entities."
Many respondents focused on how the Internet of Things will intersect with Big Data -- the brave, current world of lightning-fast crunching of unthinkably vast info-universes, sifting and shifting to learn what the sifters and shifters want to know about you.
"By 2025, we will have long ago given up our privacy," said college professor
Much negotiation lies ahead over how to handle these matters. A coming Pew report asks this huge question: "Will we or won't we by 2025 have worked out a commercial regime in which both users and retailers are happy with how info is used? Where there's some balance with which most people are happy?" (Hope so.)
More heartening is what respondents say about us, the users.
"Human beings have a say," as Rainie puts it. "As users, we discover undreamed-of uses for new tech the designers never saw. We'll do the same with our smart houses, cars, sneakers, and fridges."
And as we do, we may shape the Internet of Things into an Internet of Us.
Stay smart.
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An April 12, 2012 press release from the Department of Foreign Affairs
The Philippine delegation met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during the official launch of the 2012–2013 Philippines–China Years of Friendly Exchanges (YFE) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing, last April 11.
Headed by Representative Al Francis Bichara, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the Philippine delegation was composed of Rep. Ma. Zenaida B. Angping, Vice Chair of the Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Relations and Diplomacy, with spouse and former Rep. Harry Angping; Rep. Julieta R. Cortuna, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and Assistant Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro and Director Aileen Mendiola-Rau of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Office of Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Foreign Minister Yang welcomed the delegation by saying that the Philippines and China, as close neighbors, should foster closer interaction as parliaments reflect the will and desire of the people. He observed that the economic dynamism of the Asian region has encouraged both countries to aim for strong economic relations and build more physical connectivity in the region.
Foreign Minister Yang added, "Both countries need to truly reflect the warm feelings of both peoples and to focus on the positive aspects of the relationship."
In response, Rep. Bichara said that China welcomes more visits from the Philippines by proposing more inter-parliamentary exchanges.
Following the meeting with Foreign Minister Yang, Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying, former Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, hosted a luncheon for the delegation.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario earlier led the Philippine launching of the YFE at the DFA office last March 20.


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"I have often said that I am never happier than when I am writing," runs the final paragraph of Francis King's autobiography, Yesterday Came Suddenly (1993). "But it might have been better for me and for those close to me if it had not been so." Here King, ever sensitive to what he perceived as his own shortcomings, was doing himself an injustice. A prolific and accomplished novelist, whose output in his 1970s and '80s heyday ran to a book a year, he was also a gregarious man, devoted to his friends and prepared to travel enormous distances – sometimes literally – on their behalf. In a career that extended into its seventh decade, he wrote at least half a dozen novels that deserve a place in the late 20th-century canon.
King was born in 1923 in Adelboden, Switzerland, where his tubercular father, a senior officer in the Indian Police, had gone for treatment at a sanatorium. In later life, he would remember the taste of salt – a symptom of the disease – on his father's forehead as he bent to kiss him goodnight. His early years were spent in India – an "earthly paradise" according to his memoirs, but with a distinct undercurrent of violence: at one point King's father was near-fatally poisoned by his cook; an uncle was later murdered by a vengeful sepoy. Act of Darkness (1983), one of his best novels, draws on these early memories. Sent back to prep school in England, he became a remittance child, farmed out (together with his three sisters) on a succession of relatives. His status as a piece of human supercargo was confirmed by his Aunt Hetty's computation of taxi fares: "four shillings for us and sixpence for Francis." A realist in family matters, King claimed not to resent this.
The news of his father's death was brought to him during his first term at Shrewsbury. By his own admission, this affected him less than his mother's return to England to make a home for her children. A "priggish, prudish, conceited boy", he was ferociously bright, won a Classics scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford – he later changed to English Literature – and published his first novel, To the Dark Tower (1946), while still an undergraduate. Much of the writing was done at a farm in Essex where, as a conscientious objector, he had gone to work on the land. Here the unwelcome attentions of the local female talent prompted much soul-searching about his sexuality. Finally, on holiday in Venice two years after the war's end, he allowed himself to be seduced by a gondolier.
Although the firm of Home & Van Thal, who had brought out three of his novels, went bankrupt before it could publish his study of the Brownings – the excuse for his Italian trip – King's star continued to rise. He struck up a friendship with JR Ackerley, who invited him to review books for The Listener, while the observational powers that distinguished his fiction were noted by Dylan Thomas. "He has eyes and ears in his bloody arse," Thomas suggested, after an evening spent in King's company.
Taken on to the staff of the British Council, he spent the next two decades combining the writing of a stream of well-received novels with the life of a cultural haute fonctionnaire, lecturing at local universities and institutes and acting as factotum to a succession of visiting British dignitaries. These postings took him to Italy, Greece, Finland, Egypt (where, arriving during the Suez crisis, he was briefly placed under house arrest) and Japan. Though prepared to make the best of any destination wished upon him by the authorities in London, King felt a special affinity for Japan, believing that he had achieved an understanding of the national psyche denied to most western visitors. Certainly, the experience produced three of his best books: The Custom House (1961), The Waves Behind the Boat (1965) and a collection of short stories, The Japanese Umbrella (1964).
Like the rest of his compendious oeuvre, King's early work was marked by an extreme sensitivity to minor personal inconvenience. As one critic put it, the character in his fiction who enters an unfamiliar lavatory is almost certain to find something nasty lurking in the toilet bowl. It also fairly seethes with nervous tension. As the early stories collected in a much later selected volume, One is a Wanderer (1985), demonstrate, King specialises in people thrown into each other's company by family ties or long association who do not much like each other and strain for the opportunity to assert their own independence. Highlights from this early period include The Man on the Rock, a bitter study of accidie, and The Widow (both 1957), a shrewd and affectionate portrait – the model was his mother – of a middle-aged woman coming to terms with the privations of post-war England.
Hindsight renders the homosexual themes of his early books more deliberate than they may have seemed at the time. King later acknowledged that in the pre-Wolfenden days he described gay relationships in a carefully occluded code, decipherable by anyone who knew of his sexual orientation.
In 1966 he resigned from the British Council and returned to England to devote himself to his writing. To supplement his income – never large – he took freelance jobs, working as literary adviser to Weidenfeld & Nicolson and contributing book reviews to The Sunday Telegraph; he later graduated to the post of theatre critic. He was a generous if occasionally feline reviewer, remarking once of a work by Kingsley Amis: "Not many people could write a better comic novel than Jake's Thing, but Mr Amis is one of them."
He also, aided by his friend and benefactor, the novelist CHB Kitchin, bought a house in Brighton and set up as a landlord, renting rooms to language students and visitors to the local university. This provided the background to his novel A Domestic Animal (1968), which contains a thinly-disguised account of his affair with an Italian economist, Giorgio Balloni.
Unfortunately, the book – one of his best – involved him in a bruising libel case. One of King's acquaintances in Brighton was the former Labour MP Tom Skeffington-Lodge. A vainglorious man, convinced that his brief time in the House should be marked by a peerage, Skeffington-Lodge had written to senior figures in the Labour Party urging them to intervene on his behalf. The one-line reply he received from Lord Attlee, expressing the hope that he would "get what he deserved", Skeffington-Lodge took at face value and read aloud at a dinner party at which King was present. All this King put verbatim into A Domestic Animal, taking the precaution of disguising his original as a female character named "Dame Winifred Harcourt". By chance Skeffington-Lodge, thought never to have read a book in his life, picked up a proof copy at the house of a mutual friend, was outraged and threatened legal action. Withdrawn, rewritten and eventually re-issued, the novel was, King believed, denied the reception it merited. Ten years later he used the situation in which he had found himself as the basis for a second novel, The Action, which narrowly missed the 1978 Booker shortlist.
In later life King lived in Kensington, surrounding himself with friends, most though by no means all of whom were drawn from the literary world he inhabited. He had a taste for what he called "difficult women", and enjoyed the confidence of Ivy Compton-Burnett (of whom he left a memorable portrait), Olivia Manning, Sonia Orwell and Jean Rhys. Efficient, courteous and anxious to do his best by his friends, he was in demand as a literary executor, performing this service for Ackerley and Kitchin, among others, and occasional ghostwriter. Both LP Hartley's novel Poor Clare (1968) and the second volume of the journalist Godfrey Winn's memoirs benefited from King's attentions. "It is not often that, in his fifties, a writer can drastically improve his style" one reviewer noted of the Winn opus, somewhat to the nominal author's annoyance. This solicitousness extended to the literary community as a whole. In the 1970s, together with his friends Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy, he was a founder member of the Writers Action Group which agitated for Public Lending Rights. Later he was a notable chairman of International PEN.
In certain respects, King's later years were not easy. His novels, as he often pointed out, were well reviewed but sold modestly. The relative commercial success of Act of Darkness was a welcome boost, but by the late 1980s this impetus had diminished, and there were several changes of publisher. His personal life, too, was in disarray. David Atkin, his long-term companion, died of Aids in 1988, and in the same year King survived an operation for cancer. Meanwhile, his mother, to whom he was devoted, had reached her late nineties: she was to die at the age of 102. Typically, these concerns had no obvious effect on his output. He was as industrious in his seventies as in his twenties, producing a series of novels that, if anything, got better as he got older. The Nick of Time, which covers the plight of an asylum-seeker, made the 2003 Man Booker longlist.
Nattily dressed and greatly at his ease, King continued to charm festival audiences into his mid-eighties, often with his friend Beryl Bainbridge. There was a memorable performance at the 2008 King's Lynn Fiction Festival, at which he discussed his sex life before an audience of admiring north Norfolk bourgeoisie. By the time of his death the literary category in which he reposed was all but extinct – the old-fashioned Man of Letters who relies on his pen and whose position grows ever more precarious with each new lurch in book-trade economics. But few 20th-century British writers have filled this vanishing niche with such indefatigability or distinction.
Francis Henry King, writer: born Adelboden, Switzerland 4 March 1923; OBE 1979, CBE 1985; died 3 July 2011.
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Transition from Non-Checking to Checking Division
Aside from the first and most important commandmant -- Keep Your Head Up -- what advice would people give to a young player transitioning from non-checking to checking play (i.e., squirt to pee wee). Player is somewhat undersized but pretty strong on his skates.
In particular, I'd be interested in the 3 pieces of advice people might give regarding (i) giving a hit and (ii) taking a hit. Also interested in how to develop awareness/6th sense of what's happening behind you or outside of immediate visual range.
Thanks for any help
I think the easyest thig is if your are a winger is to try and stay as close as the boards as possible when someone comes to check you that way the impact will not be as hard.But I remeber when I went form no contact to contact it was hard to get used to I was tall but I wasnt the best skater so alot of people came after me and the 1st few games were not alot of fun.Also I dont know how it works where you play but we had 2 years of pee wee so I was 1st year but there were players that had allready played 1 year of contact hockey so they would just kill us and at the start everybody was just running around trying to hit everyone we barely needed the puck lol.
To give a hit keep your elbows done the refs will call it almost everytime, and keep your legs going and drive through the guy with your shoulder. also dont go out of your way just to hit someone it looks bad and 9 times out of 10 you take yourself right out of the play. theres no real way to take a hit becuase you never know if someone is going to hit you. when i played i was told dont worry about the hit worry about the play going on if dont you spend time wondering if your going to get hit instead of making a play, also never turn your back to a hit it makes everything worse. to be aware just keep your head up, read the play and anticipate where the play is heading. most great hockey players have this skill mastered and are always in the right spot at right times. but most of all just take in the first year you play and learn from what you did wrong and right.
If the player is going from squirt to PW, he will be in the same boat as every other player out there, they will all be learning as they go. Remind him that checks are designed to separate a player from the puck, not the player from his skates.
When giving a hit, keep your elbows in. If they get up, or you put your hands into the other player's head/face, it's an easy penalty to call. Hand checking can be useful in some situations in open ice but as more of a push then an actual hit.
The best advice I've ever received on hitting is this: Remember that you're trying to separate player and puck, not kill a guy.
As for the receiving end; don't slow down near the boards. I see this a lot, kids slow down near the boards and the guy chasing them doesn't.
Also, learn to kick the puck to your stick if it's in your feet, looking down to get it can end badly.
Hitting at this age is really no big deal it will seem intimidating and all the players will be like "oh im gonna destroy everyone ala scott stevens style" really no one can hit very good and most of the time if someone gets sat down its because of a more accidental collision.
As far as takeing hits being close to the boards is always good if your 2 feet away from the boards and then you get hit your gonna be hurt. Size isn't as big as a factor, its harder to hit smaller kids because there lower. They usually just get pushed over its not a big collision where they get plastered.
Once you're keeping your head up, make sure you keep it on a swivel, too. Know where you are on the ice in relation to dangerous areas (ex. a few feet out from the boards, cutting across the middle, etc.) and know where the opposition players are. Be aware.
Aside from that, know you're going to get hit: it's inevitable, and once you take a couple solid checks, you'll realize that it's generally not a big deal. Don't try to duck when a guy is hitting you on the boards, becuase then you're getting into head-on-dasher territory. Don't turn at the last second, don't raise your arms to try to brace yourself, etc. etc. etc. Just keep yourself going and take it, as it's likely to hurt less just getting on the boards and absorbing. Don't play scared.
Keep your temper and know what you're doing out there. Don't get mad because a guy hit you earlier and run him from behind or try to take his head off. Not only is that dumb hockey, but it's also going to feel pretty awful afterwards if you seriously hurt a guy. Don't hit to hurt, instead hit to gain posession of the puck for your team.
I'd say remind them that checking is a tool used to gain control of the puck for your team.
Also, remember that you hit with your shoulders, not with your hands. I see so many young kids going for a hit where they just get their hands up to push the opposing player. Oftentimes the hands end up right to the face and they find themselves in the box for roughing.
For peewee there is no need to worry. Most of the other kids are going through the same thing as you and will just be getting accustomed to hitting just like you. If your association is any good they will usually give you some body checking skills lessons. These will help you get used to using the body.
1st of all... be thankful that your province has done it at a younger age. Kids are still developing and there is less chance of someone getting seriously hurt.
As mentioned prior to my post... kids will be going for the hit all the time. Run around like nuts. This is more likely to happen when kids are 1st intoduced to hitting in their junior drafts years (bantams aged 14-15). Some boys have become very big compared to others...Players unaware of how to take hits and don't know when it's coming.
He will have to develop a comfort level. Learn how long he has/doesn't have with the puck.Kids may start to treat the puck like a hot potato. He will hopefully learn that he has a lot more time than he thinks with the puck.
The best thing for him may be to actually get hit hard. As humans... we tend to learn from our mistakes..especially when they hurt our bodies. Getting his bell rung will teach him to take a look up before he receives passes. If he's a smart hockey player, he will begin to learn about lanes/areas that are commonly open, the "danger zones" and how to effectively pivot to stay open for passes.
My coach, who I was with for both squirt and peewee, told us in our transitional year to "keep your feet moving", rather than "keep your head up", which I always thought was more practical advice. Most people with common sense will keep their head up (except for Tim Connolly), but a lot of kids get flattened when they stop moving their feet and start drifting. It's ten times harder to hit a moving target, even when that target is moving relatively towards you, because you (as the checker) are no longer in control of the pace.
As for advice...
Giving a hit: Emphasize that the stick shouldn't be up, the elbow should be relatively against the body, and that the knee should not be out. Crazy enough, when I was in my only year of peewee, there was a kid in the league playing his 2nd year of peewee who had a habit of knee-to-knee hits, and he apparently was never told by anyone that they're illegal until about halfway through the season. Psychologically, make sure that he doesn't expect to be killing someone with every hit - sometimes the most important hits are just little bumps that are more accurate at the price of power.
Taking a hit: First off, don't develop the "omg you hit me" mentality. Hockey's a physical game and nobody is exempt from being hit. If it happens, shake it off and get back in the play or go to the bench. Of course, if it's an injury, that's a different case. As for the hit itself, try to stay as compact as possible without balling up. A lot of people try to avoid the hit at the last second and end up getting decked even harder because they stretch themselves out and make their body easier to line up.
Vision: Get to know your position and your teammates/linemates. Having a decent idea as to where a teammate might be before receiving a pass can give a player the fraction of a second that the defense can't make up. Talk to linemates on the bench after shifts, without being annoying. Make sure he knows whatever breakout the coach is running, not that many peewee players follow that, but some do.
Other advice to pass on: Defensive positioning is more important than the big hit.
I was going to say something else, but droller already touched on it. "The best thing for him may be to actually get hit hard." I've always thought that the best players have a healthy fear of getting lit up, but aren't afraid of the check. Part of the lesson of getting drilled is that you shouldn't go to location X with your head down, but there's also a lesson to be learned in that you live even when you get decked - don't be so afraid of the hit that you stop going to those areas altogether. Just do it more intelligently next time. Also, make sure that he's skating without the puck. This is something that I find helps develop vision, because the player is able to put into perspective what the rink looks like from various situations, lanes and angles. On top of that, you can't be static in the neutral zone.
So I've rambled a bit... But I hope some of this was useful.
A ton of good advice and input here -- all very much appreciated.
Key takeaways seem to be (i) hit to make a hockey play (i.e., move the player off the puck) rather than to "send a message" (more likely, especially at the PW age, to just throw player off balance and out of position) and (ii) keep feet moving when receiving a hit (instead of freezing up in anticipation of impact.
Any additional advice that is specific to smaller players.
Again thanks for all the thoughtful posts here.
You have to use your body to go around people instead of stickhandling through them. That was the biggest thing I had to learn when I went from no hitting street hockey to ice hockey.
On the other hand, smaller guys can often benefit from non-traditional checks, most notably the hip check. Use that lower center of gravity to up-end bigger guys that probably aren't expecting it. The hip check is tough to master though, really hard to get the timing down.
I played as a small, light guy so I was on the receiving end of alot of open ice checks that sent me on my ass. It was a problem area for me. I developed a growth on the tailbone, a bone chip maybe, that I attribute to those hits.
Though I believe this applies to the player in high school where impacts are harder, faster, more frequent.
i got smoked my first game in contact hahahaha never got hit like that again.
Im at the college level so my tips might not be as useful but my coaches always preach a couple things:
1. Always have your head up
2. If youre going to get hit bend your knees and put your hands and stick up - it wont get called if youre the one getting hit and the opposing player is likely to soften the hit up.
3. DO NOT DUCK INTO THE PERSON HITTING- you can break your neck
4. Just use instinct - every player gets hit, the best players know when they need to take a hit to make a play and go about taking it accordingly.
5. if the puck is in your feet - learn to kick it out and know youre probably about to get nailed. Dont just look down and stop skating, youll end up on a stretcher.
One of the most important things I learned in hockey was to never turn into the boards. I saw several concussions and a broken collarbone to players on my team because they turned to face the boards. We've seen it several times in the NHL this season where the puck is in the corner and a player turns into the boards to play the puck and they get plastered into the boards face-first. If you do need to turn into the boards, make sure you are as flat as possible so if someone does bump you from behind, you are already against the boards and don't go flying headfirst into the edge where the glass meets the boards.
One of the biggest things youre going to notice immediately, the difference needed in conditioning going from non checking to full contact. Youre going to tire physically much quicker.
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