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When 11-year-old Kailey Hopkins and her family moved from Lincoln Park to Highland Park two years ago, she left behind a slew of friends who liked to play tag and kickball. Kailey found herself trying to fit in with girls who were more interested in socializing than sports.
"Fifth and sixth grade are pretty tough years, and being new and an outsider was very difficult," says Kailey's mom, Marissa Hopkins, who also has a 14-year-old son. "Girls are constantly in or out of cliques. There's a lot of drama with girls that I did not find at all with boys."
Between the ages of 8 and 12, making friends and fitting in move up on most girls' priority list. While you can't choose your daughter's friends, you can help her make good choices and deal with the bumpy road that often comes with the territory. And parents who find a way to talk—and listen—to their kids set the stage for open communication at other developmental hurdles, such as dealing with peer pressure, according to research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Ups and downs are healthy
But it's not always easy—for parents or their daughters.
"The hardest part is finding people that actually know you and like to be with you every day," says Kailey, who starts seventh grade at Northwood Junior High School in September. "Now I just enjoy my friends because I know the next day it may be different. Adults sometimes say that life goes on. It does, but it feels bad."
Most parents, of course, don't want their kids to feel bad. But the ups and downs of adolescent friendships are healthy, says Grayson Holmbeck, professor and director of the clinical psychology doctorate program at Loyola University. "Girls who learn to develop and maintain friendships when they're young use those same social skills to develop healthy relationships as teens and adults," he says. "Intense friendships, even if they're stormy, difficult or rocky, are better than no friendships at all. If you don't have a friend to practice on, you can't learn those skills."
And yes, boys' and girls' friendships are different. Boys tend to develop "side-by-side" friendships through shared experiences such as sports, Holmbeck says. Boys talk less about their feelings and may need more encouragement to discuss problems.
Research suggests that girls, on the other hand, are more emotional than boys and need help handling their emotions, Holmbeck says. Girls typically have "face-to-face" friendships. They talk more about intimacy, feel greater anxiety over rejection and are more likely to have exclusive friends. "There's a dating quality to girls' friendships even though they are the same sex," he says.
Listen to your daughter
As girls become more aware of the outside world, they look to other people and the media for clues on how to behave.
"At this age, girls are observing how other people handle emotions, and they're trying some of these things out for themselves," says Denise Hayworth, a social worker and assistant director of Communities in Schools in Aurora, part of a national organization that brings community resources into neighboring schools.
"They encounter comfortable feelings and uncomfortable feelings, and they need to know that both are OK," she says. "It's the behavior or action that comes from the uncomfortable feelings that can get you into trouble. For example, just because I'm angry doesn't mean I have to call my best friend names. This is where kids need a lot of guidance."
While parents might be tempted to dismiss name calling and other immature social behavior, experts say it's important to listen to your daughter and respect her friendships.
"The kids I talk to who are feeling unsupported or disconnected from their parents say they wish parents would listen more without giving advice," says Bryn Jessup, a clinical psychologist who works with children and families at his offices in Chicago and Northfield. "It's hard to sit with your own child when he or she is distressed, but that's really what's called for. Be interested, listen and then ask questions to help your child to process what's going on, rather than just dispensing advice."
Most kids—boys and girls—are more talkative at certain times—such as bedtime or Sunday evenings, Holmbeck says. He also suggests an indirect approach such as talking about your day while in the car or during downtime at home.
And while cliques are an almost universal part of preteen social behavior, they also can be fairly fluid. "It's not uncommon for friendships to change in a few days," Jessup says. "That's another reason not to be dismissive. If her best friend isn't talking to her or if she is not speaking to a friend, you are in a position to enlarge her tool kit for coping with social upsets and conflicts. If you don't have anything else to offer your child, she'll stop bringing things to your attention."
Encourage healthy friendships
But don't try to pick her friends. "Kids figure out friendships for themselves," Jessup says. "She'll weigh in on who she wants to socialize with."
Instead, help your daughter distinguish between healthy and unhealthy friendships. Encourage her to talk about the qualities of a good friend: How do you know if someone is a good friend? What do you like about your friends? How do your friends make you feel? What kind of friend do you want to be?
"It's a great point to open up a conversation about friendships and it makes it feel safer than talking about a certain person," says Karen Fiore, assistant director of the Resurrection After School Program at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Chicago. "Girls need to know it's OK to have conflict in a relationship with people we love, and it's a great lesson to learn, even as an adult."
During the school year, Fiore leads "girl power" meetings to give girls a forum for expressing their feelings among their peers. "I try to teach girls to be direct and make good friendship choices," she says. "I want them to have the confidence to communicate for themselves. That's a life skill."
Still, kids sometimes make unhealthy friendship choices. Hayworth, who has a 10-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son, suggests setting some parameters. For example, encourage your daughter to invite her friends over to your house or get to know her friends' parents. "I need to know who my kids are hanging out with," Hayworth says.
And if Hayworth thought her daughter's friends were using cigarettes, drugs or alcohol, she would draw the line. "Sometimes you have to say that is not a person you can hang out with," she says. To prevent that, she suggests talking about ways to avoid unsafe situations and people, and using role playing to teach your daughter how to refuse offers for cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.
Honor requests for privacy
When social conflicts do erupt, girls often discuss them with this caveat: Don't tell anyone else. Many parents' first inclination is to intervene anyway. Sometimes that's the appropriate move—such as if a problem persists for months or if your daughter's safety is at stake. But in most cases, experts say, it's better to honor her request for privacy.
"I've learned not to interfere so much, to allow my kids to make mistakes, to allow the drama to happen in life," says Miriam Wade-Hicks, a social worker for Aurora School District 129 and a mother of four kids ages 7 to 17. "But when my kids say they want to work out a problem themselves, I remind them that they are accountable for their actions. Working it out includes showing empathy and taking responsibility."
Still, there are times when parents need to step in. "I like my mom to give tips but not exactly butt in," says Wade-Hicks' daughter, Mia Hicks, 13, who starts eighth grade at Washington Middle School in Aurora this fall. "If it's something really big, she should talk to other parents, hear their side of the story and hopefully resolve it."
Marissa Hopkins says she believes in intervention but tries to respect her daughter's request to not interfere. "When we first moved, Kailey was teased incessantly by another girl because she was the new kid and had upset the apple cart. We brainstormed ways to handle the situation but the problem persisted. Much to her chagrin, I called the other parents who did not want to interfere."
After six months the situation still had not changed and Kailey agreed to let her mom talk to her teachers.
"When kids aren't being properly supervised or guided it's time to step in," Hopkins says. "When a child is being that hurtful I think it needs parent intervention. She doesn't have to be friends with my daughter, but she does have to be polite and respectful." Although the problem did dissipate shortly after, "I don't think she ever really got it," Hopkins says.
Determining when to call another parent about a peer conflict is tricky. Wade-Hicks decides on a case-by-case basis, depending on the situation and whether she knows the other parents. If her daughter can't resolve a conflict at school, she first contacts the teacher. If that doesn't work, she calls the other parents.
"I would approach it as a concerned parent trying to solve the problem so everyone can learn something," Wade-Hicks says. "Don't call another parent to point a finger because you don't know how they'll react. I would hope they would reciprocate with a positive approach. If not, you might learn something about the problem."
Find friends outside of school
School is a natural place to build relationships. But it isn't the only place for girls to find friends. In fact, some girls are more socially successful off the playground.
"If your child is struggling, don't have her put all her friendships with the kids she goes to school with every day," suggests Chicago mom Marcey Harrison, whose daughter Rebecca, now 14, was teased at school in fourth grade because of a learning disability. "Encourage your children to do what they're good at. For Rebecca, it was always dance. That's where she met a large circle of friends. We've seen that issues at school don't always carry over to other activities."
Kailey Hopkins made several friends at summer camp and keeps in touch with her old city friends. "I've been with them so long, I know who my true friends are," she says. "They say you learn that as you get older, but I think I've found some."
Harrison, a single mom, also values family support. "We're very family oriented," she says. "We spend a lot of time with cousins and extended cousins. It requires more effort but you get a lot of positive reinforcement from family. Your family always loves you."
And while some kids make friends more easily than others, there may be a problem if your child doesn't have any friends. Seek support from a school counselor, therapist, teacher, adult relative or mentor if your child has trouble making friends or if friendships damage her self-esteem. Other red flags include changes in eating or sleeping patterns or school performance.
"It's not a sign that something's wrong if your child doesn't have a best friend, but a kid with no friends is much more concerning," says Loyola University's Holmbeck. "If you have a child who is not socializing at all, it is worth asking how they feel about friendships. There may be things they're not telling you."
Likewise, seek help if you feel you can't talk to your daughter or if she's unwilling or unable to talk to you.
"Early adolescents value a connection with the adult world," Hayworth says. "Especially as they progress into middle school, they really want to talk to adults who will understand and listen. If there are other adults connected to your child in some way, that's great. Every child deserves to have a one-on-one relationship with an adult. That's how kids learn."
Between ages 8 and 12, the desire to fit into a social group becomes more important to girls. While cliques may bring to mind mean girls and exclusive friendships, they are an unavoidable part of tween social behavior.
"At this age, kids have the developmental capacity to rank, evaluate and become aware of status dimensions, even if it's of their own making," says Bryn Jessup, a Chicago psychologist. "Cliques are not always mean and not necessarily pejorative." It can help girls to find a group of friends that offers support.
Still, some struggle to fit in. "Girls can be extremely cruel if you don't look, talk and act just like they do," says a Chicago mom whose daughter graduated from a private elementary school. "I'm proud of her and who she is. It's just not who the popular kids are now."
Instead of continuing to be rejected, her daughter made friends with kids a year younger, and expanded her circle with friends from camp.
"It's really hard to tell your child to ignore things when all she wants is to be accepted," says the mom.
While it's easy to categorize girls as "nice" and "mean," Aurora teen Mia Hicks, 13, cautions not to judge. "There are one or two mean people in every group. Be yourself and talk to the kids that seem nice."
But that doesn't mean restricting yourself to one crowd. Mia's group hang out together. Still her "really, really best friend," who she's known since she was 4, is in another group. "It's good to have lots of different friends," Mia says.
Chicagoan Rebecca Harrison, 14, says she's open to meeting new people—but not everyone agree. "Cliques get annoying sometimes," she says. "I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but sometimes it makes it harder to make friends. ... Some people think it's important to be popular, but I like to have friends who like you to be yourself."
When Kailey Hopkins moved to Highland Park, her older brother met kids with siblings in her grade. "That's how I met a nice girl who introduced me to her friends and that carried me through," she says. "Some of the popular kids have been together since preschool and it's really hard to get to know them. I don't expect to be in that group. I'd rather be friends with more people."
Monica Ginsburg is a Chicago writer, the mother of two girls and a frequent contributor to Chicago Parent.
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State of developpment:
Melee combat is functional:
right now, the melee combat game feature is functional. You can naviguate through the skill tree adequately, developping the PC as you seem it fit as you gain XP. As you go up through levels, you can unlock more combat skills and specialize a character. Weapons look balanced already with blunt (to knock over), edged (to decapite or dismember) or heavy weapons (to kill outright). Weapons have a duration and might break in combat if overused.
The core basics is crow control. Zombies are enduring and will take damage until their skull is broken. Knocking them over leaves them vulnerable to a finisher and incapacitates them until they get back on feet. Goal of a melee combat is to avoid getting surrounded, priorities go as eliminating zombies right away, incapacipate them by knocking them over, make room for oneself through pushing moves. This opens opportunities to deal with zombies terminally.
Shooting combat is not functional:
you can shoot but you wont hit much, even with a shotgun at close range. XP
is not gained. NPCs do not use their guns apart when on guard tower duty. The various types of ammo do not seem to have different effects.
The direct consequence is that the number of zombies in the streets are balanced versus melee combat. You wont meet that many zombies. A zombie horde is currently made of seven to ten zombies. Not a threat for a single PC or a PC accompanied by an NPC. Additionnally, it might mean that you can spot the developpment of a zombie horde and abort. At the moment, zombies sit tight and wait for reinforcement. Maybe once they reach a critical mass, they might move on as a horde. Seven to ten zombies is too low a number for this mechanic to kick in.
One next goal in this game developpment is to integrate shooting as a viable option and to balance it against the option of going into melee.
My guess is that the trade off is meant to be established this way:
Melee combat has two limiting factors: melee weapons wearing down (they can be repaired over night if the home base has the right facility) and the stamina of a survivor.
Shooting combat has one major limiting factor: ammo that is limited over the map. Beside, shooting noise attracts zombies (rather fast) and you can use silencers to deafen the noise. Silencers have limited uses though and they can go broken anytime during a shooting.
Here's the guessed trade off: melee combat is less resource based but will probably come with the risk of being infected. Right now, going into melee does not increase the risk of being infected, even when you've got bitten by zombies but it is clear that it is an option on the table as getting surrounded by zombies leaves a character vulnerable to being grabbed and bitten. Beside, going through a melee combat without being scratched is saluted by NPCs and earns you trust (if not scratched, you cant be contamined)
Another point is that automatic guns, when used on full auto, tend to dismember zombies, losing their arms. Armless zombies cant grab you. Unloading a full clip on incoming zombies, ripping them off their arms might be a valuable way to tender them before going into melee.
A consequence of the integration of shooting will probably be much more zombies in the streets. In my game, the home base harbours 21 survivors. There's no chances seven to ten zombies can threaten a home base with 10 survivors armed with guns. How many more zombies? Toward the end of the game, you get assaulted by thirty to fourty zombies, to be handled by melee combat. Does not look like a threat for four characters (keeping in mind the contamination through bite is not yet implemented)
Very early status. The basis is laid out but nothing more. Goods come in several flavours: food, ammo, medecine, construction material. The time unit is the day and everyday, a home, depending on the number of survivors in it, consume x units of each good.
The day spans from dawn to dawn, meaning that you can go on a mission at night. But right now, you cant skip the night stage and it is a full 24 hours cycle. I hope they can make it more interesting by providing the option of skipping nights as going out at night will be meaningfully more dangerous than going out in daylight.
Goods come into two versions: packaged or unpackaged. Packaged goods are the only goods a communauty consume. You can unpackage goods to get goods that can be used by a PC. Up to you to choose if you want to unpack goods to give you items to use when on missions.
Home base:
Very early too. Opportunities are given to upgrade the home base, depending on the survivors your group has. Later, facilities can be combined to ensure production of higher level goods. Too sketchy at the moment to be assessed properly as in the current version, you do not need internal production, foraging the outside is largerly enough to support a large group of outsiders and it is easy enough.
Base defending is also very limited due to the non functionality of shooting.
The base also consumes material for maintenance and apparently, the protection level a base offers goes down if not properly maintained. Bases have several entry points but right now, for instances, zombies are sometimes able to climb over an apparently barbed wired section of the wall when you fail to maintain the home properly.
Too early though.
Survival is made simple and straightforward. Each survivor has one life. The survivor dies, you take control of another survivor.
Gaining trust from a survivor goes through making a few runs with that survivor and performing well during the run. For example, going through a melee battle against several zombies without getting scratched earns trust. Helping an overwhelmed survivor gains trust etc
When a survivor trusts enough, you gain control over that survivor and you can developp his/her skills adequately.
Communauty building:
It is the feature that will make me keep tabs on the game developpment.
The campaign is scripted and the maps are known. But you meet survivors in a random way for most of them. If the game delivers, it will ensure a high level of replayability.
Survivors come with their personality and skills. A mattering point is that NPCs, contrary to so many other games, pull their weight. They can kill zombies and more than anything, every day, they go on runs to help sustaining the communauty.
This gives the player no longer that a central seat to make it happen but rather a seat of coordinator to ensure that the communauty endures.
Due to their personality, survivors will get along with each other more or less. Survivors who bind start to support each other and go on a run as a group. This of course increases the chances of the run to be a success.
Building a communauty that works efficiently might be key in the game.
As you spot groups forming themselves, you might want to specialize members accordingly by making one a search expert, the other a mule and the last a spotter etc As you do that, it increases the chances for a run to be a success.
The communauty has a moral which is affects by events. So you want runs to be successful as the higher the moral is, the less conflict it spurs.
Now and then, you will receive requests from survivors on a run to back them up. This consumes time. Making sure a group on a run is adequately prepared removes the obligation of supporting every run made around. When you know a group is prepared enough, you can let it go and expect a success.
Another promising feature is that depending on their personality, the way they gel in and their successes, survivors will go through the ordeal of the end of the world with different emotional states. Some might get desesperate while others might turn ambitious. When things turn sour, a survivor might choose to run away.
The player might influence all the evolution though. For example, a survivor who does not have enough trust yet turns sulky, you can take control of survivor with close centers of interest and invite the sulky survivor to runs. Successes of runs will induce a change in mentality in the sulky survivor who regains hope and will also start to bond with the controlled survivor etc Meaning that communauty morale goes up etc
And some other things.
The danger of early access is that it gives so much to see of unfunctional features, stubs etc
The miracle of Steam delivery though is that as soon it is updated, the earlier version is no longer accessible so every new version obliterates the previous one and if features do not make it in the game, it is less likely to show as comparison with the earlier version is not possible.
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I Am One Week Post-op Today and There Seems to Be More of a Burning Sensation at my Incision?
Tummy Tuck - Burning Sensation at Incision Site?
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Burning sensation at incision after tummy tuck
Congratulations on getting your tummy tuck. One week after surgery there may be many different feelings. Patients report pain, burning, pins and needles, numbness or cold sensations just to name a few. It is related to the swelling and the effect of surgery on the nerves. The sensations are usually brief and simply go away with time. I would recommend that you speak with or see your doctor just to make sure nothing serious may be happening. Otherwise these feeling are often felt after surgery.
Tummy tuck incision feeling
A burning sensation one weel post-op after a tummy tuck along the incision is probably normal. If you are concerned I would check it out with your doctor.
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Burning Sensation 1 Week after Tummy Tuck Normal
It is not at all unusual to have some burning pain in the incision site at this point in your recovery. If you do not have increased redness or warmth in the area, you should be able to wait until your regular appointment assuming it is in the next few days.
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Burning sensation after tummy tuck
This sensation should be checked at your surgeon's office. It can be due to a skin nerve which might go away on it's own, but it may signal some other problem requiring treatment.
Burning incision lines
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One week post op incision burning is normal.
One week after surgery your wounds may be healing or just a little irritated which is normal. You should check with your plastic surgeon ans share your concerns.
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Burning tummy tuck scar
I've seen this happen and I've seen it go away completely. The nerves may be in the process of healing and often it will resolve in time. It's possible that it could be more chronic in which case you should present the problem to your board certified plastic surgeon that did the operation. On ocassion an injection of a steroid and local anesthetic can break the cycle of pain and that will resolve it permanently. I've seen this happen in the past. In all likelihood, your problem will spontaneously resolve.
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Burning sensation after tummy tuck
This is a hard question to answer without examining you in person.
It might just be post-op pain, but it could also represent symptoms from a wound infection, seroma, neurogenic pain or other wound problem. Please see your surgeon for a check-up.
Best wishes,
Burning sensation after tummy tuck
Make sure to touch base with your surgeon.
Infections should be promptly treated by drainage or antibiotics.
Nerve pain may require desensitizxation therapies.
However sensations such as this are fairly common after an abdominoplasty procedure.
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Burning along incision site from abdominoplasty
This may be a normal sensation, but would not necessarily be normal if it just started now, after 1 week. You may be developing a wound infection, you may have fluid under the incision that is causing the burnining, or you may have nerve sensitivity. You should be evaluated by your surgeon to determine the cause.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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If you can maintaining it this way, I would expect you to easily get 225,000+ before you see any real (major) problems. These have been some really solid vehicles so far.
Trying to decide if an extended warranty for an additional 5 years or 100,000 miles makes sense. Any thoughts?
Uh, how much do they want?
Who is the warranty from?
What all does it cover?
1,700 with zero deductible through Warranty Direct. I have used them in the past.
Since you've had them in the past, did you ever have a claim?
How did they handle it?
I have had many claims and they handle everything. I take the car to the dealer and they pay the dealer direct via a mastercard. No hassle for me. Cheaper than buyin through the dealer and they are rated extremely high.
Engine--a) The following lubricated internal parts: pistons, pins & rings, connecting rods & bearings; crankshaft & main bearings; camshaft, followers & cam bearings; push rods, valves, springs, replaceable guides, seats & lifters; rocker arms, shafts & bushings; timing gear, chain, tensioners & retainers; eccentric shaft; oil pump. (b) Timing belt; serpentine belt; Water pump: Impeller shaft, bearings, bushings & housing; intake & exhaust manifolds; engine mounts & cushions; engine torque strut; harmonic balancer; flywheel (flexplate) & flywheel ring gear; mechanical fuel pump; dipstick & tube; all pulleys. (c) All lubricated internal parts of the vehicle manufacturer installed turbocharger or supercharger. (d) Engine head(s); engine block; cylinder barrels; timing cover; valve cover(s); oil pan; dipstick & tube.
Transmission--(a) All lubricated internal parts contained within the case(s). (b) Computer modules & solenoids; filler tube & dipstick; vacuum modulator; internal linkage. (c) Transmission case, transfer case & torque converter case.
Drive Axle--(a) All lubricated internal parts contained within the housing(s). (b) Axle shafts; constant velocity joints (CV); universal joints; drive shafts; locking hubs; locking rings; supports, retainer & bearings. (c) Differential housing, transaxle housing & final drive housing.
ELECTRICAL- Starter Motor, alternator, voltage regulator, power window motors, heater fan and front wiper motor. AIR CONDITIONING - Compressor Motor, condenser and evaporator, compressor clutch, coil (pulley and hoses are not covered).
Wow, that is one of the better looking warranty policies but couple that with that you have used them and were satisfied with how they handled the claim, then I would say that it would be good insurance against the unexpected.
I've been using them since 2002 on several of my cars. If you sell the car before the mileage or time are up they give you a prorated refund.
Sounds like a epic win!
Thanks for the info. Check them out at warrantydirect.com.
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HUMMING PLATES consists of two metal plates, round and square, each supported in the middle, with fine sand on their surfaces. A taut bow is rubbed on the edge of the plate, sending out a wave, a vibration that travels along the surface of the plate. The waves spread out in all direction and reflect from the edge of the plate. The reflected waves meet new waves produced by the bow. Where these waves meet, they can add together and make the plate vibrate a lot, or cancel out so that the plate is hardly vibrating at all. The sand bounces away from places where the plate vibrates a lot, and collects in relatively still areas.


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If the forecast for Metro Vancouver holds true this weekend, we're in for a rare January treat: that elusive combination of mild temperatures and sunshine that makes people in this city giddy. The tennis courts will be full, people will be wearing shorts, the laptops will migrate to the outdoor tables.
It's exactly the kind of weather that makes Vancouverites smug.
Does it mean winter is over? Don't bet on it.
I've seen more than a couple of February snowfalls that have wiped the smirks off the faces of beach volleyball players mid-spike.
Like anyone who's lived here for even a few years, city councillor George Affleck knows that it takes just a couple of centimetres of snow to bring this city to its knees. He also knows that the city's plan for dealing with snow is less than ideal. This week, Mr. Affleck brought a motion to council born out of our mid-December brush with winter and this week's slippery morning commutes.
Part of this is no doubt a reaction to the outrage that followed December's relatively minor – but paralyzing – snowfall, when it was learned that some streets that also happen to be dedicated bike routes may have been given priority when it came to snow clearing. Hard to swallow for people trying get up their own side streets.
A larger part of it, though, comes from the fact that when it does snow in this city, people understandably tend to leave their cars at home and rely on transit – which is, well, unreliable. We know that by the forlorn faces of people huddled at bus stops, while down the route and out of view, hobbled trolley buses are pulled over to the side of the road. We saw that last month. We've seen it many times in the past.
Invariably, Translink blames road conditions and especially a lack of snow-clearing at bus-stops for its failure to keep buses moving, rather than the fact that its buses may not be designed or equipped to handle a Canadian winter.
It also blames car drivers who have the audacity to take to the roads for clogging up traffic.
But with Translink providing spotty service, what choice do they have?
In his motion, which was unanimously endorsed by council this week, Mr. Affleck makes the point that we have to stop looking at snowfalls and icy conditions as rare occurrences.
He cites a report by city staff that followed what's become known (unofficially) as Snowmageddon four years ago. The report plays down Vancouver's winter woes, noting that only eight major winter storms have hit the city in the past 140 years.
But it's not the "once-in-20-years" storms we need to worry about. It's the not-at-all-rare surprise dusting of light snow, or the frosty mornings when the temperature drops below zero, turning the streets into skating rinks.
The city invariably insists its efforts to salt and brine and sand the roads have been a success. The fact that cars keep slamming into each other must be unrelated to the state of the roads.
Clearly, whatever the city is doing isn't working, or working to the expectations of people who live in a major Canadian city. If it were working, buses would be on time and basic services like garbage pick-up wouldn't have to be put on hold, crippled by frost.
I grew up in Ottawa, where snow clearing occurs with military precision and is carried out by an army of graders, sidewalk plows, snow blowers, dump trucks, and front end-loaders. It is something to behold.
I'm not expecting the same effort or suggesting that anything even close is needed in this city. It wouldn't make any sense to spend millions of dollars on equipment that would be called into action just a few days a year.
But people do expect the city to do better.
Transit has to be at its best when people need it the most.
The city has to do everything it can to keep the buses, and everything else moving.
It's not good enough to point fingers and lay blame and suggest that only people who really need to go to work should venture out.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL • Ex-Oklahoma State basketball player Darrell Williams was freed Friday in Stillwater, Okla., after a judge gave him a suspended sentence in a sexual assault case in which Williams insisted he was innocent.
Williams, 23, had been jailed since he was convicted in July of groping two women and reaching inside their pants without their consent at a party in December 2010.
He maintained he was the victim of misidentification several of the 80 people at the party were wearing Oklahoma State University warm-up clothes and his supporters claimed he was a victim of racial bias.
Tour de Francemay vacate titles
CYCLING • The Tour de France will have no official winner for the seven races from 1999-2005 if Lance Armstrong is stripped of his victories by the International Cycling Union.
Tour director Christian Prudhomme on Friday called the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's report on Armstrong "damning."
"It raises doubts, he said, about "a system and an era."
Tour officials are still waiting on the UCI's decision on whether to go along with USADA's decision to ban Armstrong for life and erase his racing results.
The report cost Armstrong's former team manager, Johan Bruyneel, his job as general manager of RadioShack Nissan Trek, as he resigned Friday.
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Feb. 23, 2013
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University of Wyoming Cowboy sophomore swimmer Adam Kalms won his second Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship in as many days taking first in the 200-yard freestyle on Friday, at East Los Angeles College in Los Angeles. Kalms won his championship in the 200 freestyle breaking the MPSF and school record for the second time during the championships with a time of 1:34.52. After three days of competition the Cowboys are in third place of the 10 team field with 401.5 team points. The Pokes are 16 points behind first-place BYU and 11 points behind second-place UNLV.
"Adam's swim was the swim of the night for us tonight," Wyoming associate head coach Matt Leach said. "This is a very close meet and tomorrow morning will be a predictor of who is going to win this thing."
Kalms won the 200 freestyle championship sweeping both the preliminary and finals. He was followed by junior Ethan Griffel who took runner-up honors moving from fourth (1:37.48) in the preliminaries to second in the finals with a time of 1:36.89.
In the 400 individual medley, freshman Ryan Nelson put together two excellent swims opening with a first-place finish in the preliminaries with a time of 3:49.25. Nelson came back in the finals to finish second place and dropped two seconds off his time to finish with a school record time of 3:47.23. Sophomore Jordan Turner and senior Trevor LeValley also earned places in the championship final with fourth (3:52.58) and eighth (3:53.85) place finishes, respectively, in the preliminaries. Turner returned in the finals finishing fourth with a time of 3:50.49, while LeValley came back to finish the finals in eighth with a time of 3:55.73.
"Ryan, Jordan and Trevor were amazing tonight their swims scored us a lot of points," Leach said. "Ryan absolutely destroyed our school record tonight. It was a great swim, especially for a freshman."
Sophomore Mike McCormick swam his way into the championship final of the 100 breaststroke finishing fourth with an NCAA "B" provisional time of 54.95. McCormick returned to the final placing fifth with a time of 55.26.
In the 100 backstroke, junior Jayce Calhoon took fifth in the preliminaries with a time of 49.21 earning a place in the championship final. In the final, Calhoon finished seventh touching the wall in 49.85.The evening's relay event at the MPSF Championships was the 400 medley with Calhoon, sophomore Mike McCormick and juniors Nick Rutecki and Ethan Griffel finishing fifth with a time of 3:16.04.
In Colorado Springs, Colo., at the Air Force Academy junior Derek Campbell finished first in the preliminary round of diving on the 1-meter springboard with a mark of 307.00. In the championship competition, Campbell finished second with a final score of 308.50. Freshman Eric McMillin continued his excellent weekend of diving finishing the preliminary round of diving in 15th place with a score of 250.70. McMillin dove in the consolation final finishing third and 11th overall with a final tally of 284.95.
"Both Derek and Eric are having great weekends," Wyoming diving coach Yahya Radman said. "There is some very tough competition here and I am happy with our results so far. We are very pleased with our performance but not satisfied."
At the Mountain West Championships in San Antonio, Texas, the Cowgirls moved up one place to finish the day in third place with 320 team points.
"The ladies are in position to hold on to third place and we just need to finish strong," Wyoming head coach Tom Johnson said.
Freshman Molly Coonce broke the school record in the 100 butterfly. Coonce earned a place in the championship final after placing sixth in the preliminaries with a time of 54.37. Coonce broke the school record in the championship final moving up one place to finish fifth with a time of 54.26. Her time was also an NCAA "B" provisional time. Also earning a place in the championship final was sophomore Claudia Carlson who finished the preliminaries in seventh place (54.52) and came back in the finals also to finish seventh with a time of 54.26.
"We had great swims from everyone in the 100 fly tonight," Johnson said. "Both Molly and Claudia were under the school record and swam terrific."
Junior Morgan Hartigan had two excellent swims in the 100 breaststroke finishing third in the preliminary with a time of 1:01.73. Hartigan came back in the championship final improving on her time finishing third with a NCAA "B" provisional time of 1:01.49. Coonce continued her excellent night earning a place in the championship final placing fifth in the preliminary with a time of 1:02.44. In the final, Coonce touched the wall in seventh with a time of 1:03.18. Junior Stephanie Young also swam her way into the championship final taking sixth in the preliminary with a time of 1:02.64. Young moved on to the final and finished eighth with a time of 1:03.43.
"The 100 breast really separated us from UNLV and Nevada," Johnson said. "Morgan, Molly and Stephanie gave us a lot of points in that event and helped us keep our lead over those two teams."
In the 400 IM, senior Jessy Badaracco swam her way into the championship final taking fifth place in the preliminaries with the second-fastest time in school history of 4:18.23. In the final, Badaracco finished sixth with a time of 4:18.71.
"Jessy had a terrific swim in the 400 IM tonight," Johnson said. "She was amazing and has had a great weekend of racing so far."
In the 200 freestyle, freshman Emily Stucky placed sixth (1:48.67) in the preliminary and returned to take sixth in the championship final finishing in 1:48.82. Sophomore Jordan Denny took 10th (1:49.82) in the preliminaries and came back to win the consolation final and finish ninth overall with a time of 1:48.24.
The MW relay event of the evening was the 200 freestyle with Hartigan, sophomore Melanie McDonough, and freshman Emily Ridout and Stucky finished third with a time of 1:31.65.
Both conference championships will conclude on Saturday. The MPSF Championships will begin at 11:30 a.m. MT with the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfly preliminaries. The men's platform diving competition will begin at 11 .m. MT. The MW Championships will begin at 10 a.m. MT with the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast and 200 fly preliminaries. The women's platform dive preliminaries will begin at 11:30 a.m. MT.


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On Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2011, we launched a carbon-footprint savings tool that will quantify carbon savings that can be attributed to reusing property.
The carbon-footprint savings tool was developed by Cooler, Inc., a for-profit social venture whose mission is to connect every purchase to a solution for global warming. Cooler's carbon calculation technology is based on peer-reviewed economic input-output models and analysis developed by OpenIO, and at Carnegie-Mellon University, UC Berkeley, and research institutions around the world. Since 2008, Cooler has worked to help eBay document the environment and energy benefits of reuse.
The carbon-footprint savings tool is included in this site, www.gsaauctions.gov, and all of our other reuse systems including GSAXcess®, Computers for Learning, and the Agency Asset Management System [AAMS]. It's a tool that we will make available and requires no effort on your part. When you review an item on GSA Auctions℠ for sale, the record will be sent to Cooler for processing through its carbon-footprint calculator. Cooler will then send the results from the calculator to GSA in grams of carbon savings. This is totally automated and is virtually instantaneous; I want to assure you that it will not have any impact on our processing timeline. Using a table provided by Cooler, we will then translate the carbon savings into 23 equivalencies [click here for a listing and explanation of the equivalencies]. In GSA Auctions℠, the equivalencies will appear on the Item Description Pages.
The postings will be below the photo of the item and headed by a green banner with white text saying, "Go Green…Reuse is Recycling!" Below the banner will be a script that says, "Reusing this item instead of buying new is like saving the carbon equivalent of ...". Each of the 23 equivalencies can be selected from a drop down. "Gallons of Gasoline Used" is the default equivalency, and each equivalency will be displayed with a graphic representation. For example, "Gallons of Gasoline Used" will display a graphic representation of a gasoline pump. Airline flights will show a graphic representation of an ascending airplane. You can select the equivalency which has the most meaning for you. As you select an equivalency, the page will automatically refresh showing the calculation for the selected equivalency.
At this time, we do not have carbon savings for every item offered in our systems. Currently, the Cooler calculator is matching 75% or more of the assets we report to them with savings. Cooler is aggressively working to improve their matching performance by adding to their calculator those Federal Supply Classes that we have identified to them as priority.
We are proud to announce our carbon-footprint savings addition to our reuse applications. Traditionally, our reuse programs, most especially utilization and donation, have only been evaluated in terms of cost savings. Carbon-footprint savings provide a new, exciting way of looking at the value of excess, surplus, and exchange/sale property. We believe that identifying these carbon savings will encourage federal and state agencies and the general public to turn to reuse as a preferred, environmentally-friendly solution to the disposal of federal assets at the end of life.
1) Reuse reduces carbon footprint in two critical ways. First, the used item delays the carbon emissions of new purchases. Second, the reuse item delays production of new products."
2) The relationship between pounds of carbon produced and one unit of the equivalency is based on averages.
3) Carbon storage (sequestration) occurs in forests primarily through the natural process of photosynthesis. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is taken up through tiny openings in leaves and incorporated as carbon into the woody biomass of trees. Roughly half of this biomass is carbon.
4) "producing and consuming" :
"producing " refers to the process of production of the equivalency. For example, the process of drilling for oil and refining it into gasoline. Or the manufacture of a diswasher or TV.
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By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor
Soccer America Magazine
SKY IS FALLING. It's appropriate that an advertising blitz for the feature film ''Chicken Little'' is
underway as postseason doomsayers descend on higher-seeded teams that lost their first game. No. 1 seeds New England (0-1) and San Jose (1-3) are in arrears, goes the reasoning, and thus, all but
Yet every top-seeded team, save one, that failed to win the first game rallied to win the series under the current playoff format.
The 2003 Quakes lost the first game in
Los Angeles, 2-0, and fell behind in the second game by the same score before storming back to win 5-4 on aggregate; the 2004 Quakes won the first conference semifinal leg last season as the
lower-seeded team, 2-0, thus consigning Kansas City -- in the eyes of many observers -- to the dead and buried.
Kansas City won the second game, 3-0. Do the math. Only the Crew, which lost
the first leg to New England in last year's first round, 1-0, couldn't turn it around at home (1-1) and only attained that feat by failing to convert two penalties.
CONCERN. More worrying Quakes coach Dominic Kinnear than a two-goal deficit are the defensive errors that plagued his team last week. Although many of the Quakes have playoff experience, only Pat
Onstad and Dwayne DeRosario and Brian Mullan went through the last two seasons together.
Kelly Gray hadn't played with Danny Califf in the playoffs, and Califf hadn't played with
Eddie Robinson, who hadn't played with Ricardo Clark and Mark Chung, etc. With those baptisms done, the Quakes can turn their attention to routing their fiercest rival in the second game at
Spartan Stadium.
''I don't know what it is, the tight space, the crowd right on top of you, or what,'' says Kinnear, ''but games here are always fast-paced with
a lot of energy.''
Of his 12 postseason goals, Landon Donovan has scored five of them at Spartan Stadium as a member of the Quakes. He knows how to work those tight spaces and
scored a spectacular goal at Spartan in a 2-1 Quakes win Aug. 27.
METRO EDGE. The Metros took a 1-0 lead over the Revs on Amado Guevara's goal and with Youri Djorkaeff working
his magic and Eddie Gaven back on his game, they'll have the offensive punch to keep New England somewhat honest at Gillette Stadium. That, and Tony Meola's track record of big saves, will be
enough to scrape past the No. 1 seed.
That's the theory anyway.
''With the amount of players they put in the midfield they rely on those three backs and [Matt] Reis
to get them out of a lot of situations,'' says Metros defender Jeff Agoos. ''That does create opportunities at the other end.''
EVEN-STEVEN. The other two
series are tied 0-0, and the homefield advantage enjoyed by FC Dallas (against Colorado) and D.C. United (vs. the Fire) might be mitigated by the away teams exploiting the space left by those home
teams pushing into attack.
Colorado outshot Dallas, 14-6, and several potent efforts were turned away by Scott Garlick. Rapids coach Fernando Clavijo has yet to unleash Diego Serna in the
playoffs. The key attackers, though, might be Colorado's Dedi Ben-Dayan, who scored four goals in just eight regular season games, and Dallas' Carlos Ruiz, who was kept on the bench until the
second half of the first leg but is out of the doghouse and will start. There will be goals this time around.
''I think we have the players to score on anybody,'' says
Clavijo. ''We have made a lot of changes during the season with the playoffs in mind.''
Both coaches turned to little-used defensive veterans in the first game. Leo Cullen
started and played 70 minutes for the Rapids, Steve Jolley went the full 90 for Dallas. Nat Borchers will return for Colorado, which might push Pablo Mastroeni into midfield and trigger further moves.
D.C. DANCE. In the first game, both teams were incensed at referee Brian Hall, who didn't give a penalty kick when Jaime Moreno was tripped in the penalty area by Jim Curtin and
disallowed a stoppage-time header by Chad Barrett on a mysterious pushing foul. OK, all square.
Blanking Moreno and Christian Gomez at RFK is probably beyond the capabilities of the Fire,
yet D.C.'s back line is still incorporating Argentine defender Facundo Erpen and couldn't subdue Chris Rolfe. It will welcome back the covering and tackling offered by midfielder Ben Olsen,
assuming he recovers from the calf strain that kept him out of game one. And for a late spark, if needed, there's always Freddy.
''We're confident we can get the job done
with the weapons that we have going forward,'' says United's Santino Quaranta. ''We need to get Christian Gomez more involved Sunday, because he's a huge part of the team.
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Frank Lampard has set goalscoring records that may never be broken but even he is struggling to process the kind of "crazy figures" Lionel Messi will bring to Stamford Bridge in Chelsea's Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.
February saw Lampard become the first player to achieve double figures in Barclays Premier League goals for 10 consecutive seasons, while a week ago he became the first midfielder to score 150 in the competition. But, more than nine years Lampard's junior, Messi is already Barcelona's record goalscorer, having netted 243 times for them - on 63 occasions this season alone.
Messi had only 78 career goals to his name the last time Barca came to Stamford Bridge just three years ago, and Lampard said: "He was a fantastic player then, at that stage. But what he's doing now, the levels he's taken his game to is something I've never seen before."
He added: "I grew up with (Diego) Maradona - he was my idol as a player - but I think Messi has taken it to probably further levels than him, certainly in his club football.
"To score the 70 goals he'll probably end up with this season, they're crazy figures.
"He deserves it. He's the best player in the world on merit. He's absolutely unbelievable."
Lampard understandably played down his own remarkable exploits after moving within four of another 20-goal campaign.
"I'm pleased to be up there and around that kind of figure," he said.
"I haven't played as many games as I would have liked to this season. If I can get to 20, it'll help us because we've got six or seven games to go now and if I could do that, it will obviously help us."


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Proximity to the beach was superb! Nice, quiet location. Definitely a perfect retreat for a calm and relaxing getaway. The air conditioning didn't work all that well.
It was a most relaxing holiday in a very peaceful hotel close to the sandy beach. A wonderful find.
Understated refinement, always excellent, attentive and personal service, fabulous bar/restaurant in front of the beach.
I found the hotel very relaxing and peaceful with a great location right beside the beach. Porto Santo Hotel& Spa is a great place to get away from the hectic pace of morden life and recharge one's batteries. One small complaint was the lack of choice of good beer at the bar. I am a big fan of Superbock beer and I was disappointed it was not served.
For the moment Pestana Porto Santo is the best hotel on the Porto Santo island. It has a large space with gardens, pools, sport activities (beach volley, beach soccer, tennis, jogging, and if you like golf they will take you to the golf course) and for kids. Although it's not on the beach (very smart authorities in Porto Santo to protect the beach, nothing is allowed to be build on the beach), it is next to it, the sand comes to their big yard and they have direct access and facilities to the beach. The beach is impressive, the hotel is clean, they have many facilities. We felt very secure on this island, they say they do not have criminality. To visit the island you can rent an ATV, moto, take a taxi or book a tour. The taxi is quite cheap More a 4 stars hotel than 5 stars. Even with all those facilities, for the price you pay and for the 5 stars hotel you would expect some luxury and great services. In the room the main lamp didn't work and no plastic bags in the bathroom, some old furniture. Small TV. Poor trained staff,especially the waiters,quite unqualified and goofers. The staff doesn't speak english well (excepting the reception where they speak very good english and they are professionals). The hotel surroundings are for the moment construction sites. Not a real problem, more an esthetic issue that will change soon. High food/drinks prices. 10 euros/sunbed on the beach. Waiters and beach guys have an "I care more about my tip" attitude. Poor evening entertainment.
Very polite and helpful staff (we felt welcome from the first minute on). The design of the villas fits well into the landscape, the pool area is nicely designed and the greening diversified. The three restaurants provide all menus of excellent quality and there are regularly organised special dinner events in the pool area. The beach is just unbelievable beautiful, the hotel installations on the beach are built with respect to nature and you never get the impression to have a rather big hotel behind the sand dunes. In general you have the impression that the hotel management cares a lot of keeping a high standard. After our stay we wish a lot that the hotel management can influence positively the development on this island paradies. We got a room in the pool area and were very happy with this location. But I expect a less good atmosphere if your room is on the backside of the hotel direction road (isolated, bad view, noise, ...).
We got a free upgrade to a suite (booked a standard room) due to overbooking. It is seemingly the best hotel in Porto Santo, mostly Portuguese families and even though the hotel is big, the apartment style doesn't make you feel there is mass tourism. Overall we were very happy with our stay there No free internet.
Relaxing by the pool.
I enjoyed the very weel keeped gardens, and also the the interior desing. The location is also spectacular.
Very good facilities. 2 swimming pools (salt and sweet water), direct access to the beach. Big rooms, you can see the room from the bathroom. Excellent breakfast. During the cleaning of the rooms there were very bags in the corridors for all day, courtesy bus to city not working. Prices for dinning (buffet) very expensive 30€/person.
PLeasant staff The food, except breakfast. The quality of hotel reswtaurants is poor. The dishes ar enot tasty.
hotel facilities, surroundings, the fact that the hotel staff upgraded our room to superior (for honeymoon). a little bit expensive and I would not classify it as a 5 stars hotel. It's rather a 4+ stars hotel.
The beach is fabulous, so easy access is a real plus point. The layout of the pool area also good. It is so quiet and peaceful, and ideal for a young child, our boy of 2 clearly loved being there The children's play area did not cater for a 2 year old, I suspect that minimum age would be about 5 for the area.
The facilities are excellent, the staff are very helpful, a true 5 stars.
Excellent internet facility with a separate room and two pc available free of charge. Shuttle bus to commercial core (village center) several times a day. Direct access to beach. Shuttle bus can be easily extended to airport with only additional two minutes' driving. Hot water is only sufficient for one person to take a hot bath (limited or controlled?).
The vicinity to the beach and nice pool. Furniture in the kitchen. The hotel is dirty and old. The tables in breakfast room were dirty as well, we found a small "animal" in the bread while eating...Moreover there were mushrooms on the wall in the sleeping room, thus it stank badly and we couldn't sleep in this room at all. I never saw mushrooms on the wall in four star hotel! The sofa in the saloon was dirty as well. The furniter in the rooms is really old, not fresh so the atmosphere in the room is not nice. I assume we paid too much for such bad conditions. The hotel is really old and I don't understand why four stars...There was no hairdrayer in the bathroom as well. The pool was always full of small children. I don't recommend this hotel to young couples without children.
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The room and the public areas were very clean and the hotel is in a good position on the beach and a very short walk from town. Too expensive for the standard offered. We paid 130 Euro per night for a double room with limited TV channels and a very noisy airconditioner which luckily we didn't need. The TV in the sports bar wasn't working. The hotel can get noisy at night when people come in late. The breakfasts are OK but could be better considering the price and the queue at the coffee machine is irritating.
It was a very relaxing and pleasant environment and the location by the beach was perfect. Not enough parasols by the swimming pool meaning that guests would fight over them.
The proximity to the center of the city and the possibility to leave your luggage while waiting for the boat or plane back In general it needs renovation
Not far from the center and from the seaside. One of the cheapest solutions in Porto Santo. Not very clean and tidy. The rooms are not very comfortable. For sure not the best solution in Porto Santo.Low quality but not low price.
Location is excellent, a few minutes from the beach and right in the center. Too much expensive for what we get. Room as very simple, view to the wall, breakfast very very average. It would be a good hotel for 50 euros a night, not for the 100 we have paid.
the ass. manager was very nice,professional and helpful. room too small.
hotel staff was very nice, good location breakfast not very nice, problems with coffe machine, very small rooms and bathrooms, tv wasn't working properly, rooms were looking much worse then on the website


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Penguins minor league notebook: Gibbons remains patient for next opportunity
WILKES-BARRE — For a while, it looked like Brian Gibbons was going down the path once walked by Rico Fata and Konstantin Koltsov — fleet-footed Penguins prospects with the speed to create scoring chances but not the finish to make them count.
An undrafted free agent out of Boston College, the 5-foot-8 Gibbons created offensive opportunities by the handful during his first two seasons with the Baby Pens, but his numbers — 30 points in 70 games both years — lagged badly behind.
Gibbons has exactly 30 points again this year, but this time, they've been racked up in 27 games. He scored goals in two of his first three games after being sent down at the start of the Olympic break.
Gibbons thinks he knows what's at the root of his offensive insurgence too.
"Confidence. Not in terms of playing but in terms of finishing scoring chances," Gibbons said. "I've always been able to get points in high school and college. My first two years here, I was struggling to do things that had always been pretty easy for me, like breakaways and two-on-ones."
Spending some time on the right wing with Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz helped his confidence too, but he doesn't know when he'll get the next chance to do that again. As the Penguins get healthier up front, there's no guarantee Gibbons will be called back up at the end of the break.
"No one here is under the impression that they're here for a couple weeks, they're going to get in some games and they're going to be automatically recalled," coach John Hynes said.
Young man's game
The Baby Pens wore special jerseys Saturday night, replicas of the ones the Americans wore in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics with the letters "WBS" instead of "USA" on the front.
Tom Kostopoulos is the only player on the roster who was born when the Miracle on Ice happened, and he had just celebrated his first birthday.
By contrast, four Baby Pens players — Anton Zlobin, Dominik Uher, Scott Harrington and Harrison Ruopp — hadn't been born when the Dream Team won basketball gold in Barcelona in 1992.
The Baby Pens came into Saturday on a five-game losing streak, the second-longest skid in the four seasons Hynes has been head coach.
After winning AHL goalie of the month honors in January, rookie Eric Hartzell was pulled from three of his first five starts in February. Harry Zolnierczyk, a 17-goal scorer, took his turn as a healthy scratch. Defenseman Brendan Mikkelson has been a minus in six straight games.
"This is probably the roughest stretch we've had," Hynes said.
Scoring spree
Nebraska-Omaha junior Josh Archibald, the Penguins' sixth-round pick in 2011, is on the kind of scoring streak that could vault him into Hobey Baker Award contention.
Archibald, a 5-10 right wing, has nine goals and four assists in his last seven games, including two hat tricks. Archibald is second in the country with 23 goals, trailing only Boston College's Johnny Gaudreau.
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Obamacare is a huge power-grab by the Federal Government — of course it's going to be looked on skeptically. And, the court should not be swayed by the argument "no supreme court has overturned a president's signature accomplishment" argument. The law's constitutionality is unimpacted by whether it's a "signature accomplishment" or not.
There is only one response that should be made here to what you've said (which is actually just a regurgitation of the talking points that have been made by just sooooooo many other democratic/Obama supporters on this issue) is that if this was George W. Bush saying what President Obama has been saying about the SCOTUS, it would have gone viral against Bush not only in the mainstream press but all over the Internet and on just so many blogsites and in liberal venues like Media Matters and the like.
You really haven't posted anything here with any kind of originality.
"The court" didn't give us super-PACS–the founding fathers did when they wrote the First Amendment into the Constitution. Perhaps you think they should have carved out an exemption to free speech for those Americans who choose to speak collectively via a corporation, such as a newspaper or a union.
And the court can't "take away health care reform." All it can do is tell the president and the Congress that they must respect the Constitution when crafting health care regulations. It can be done. Had the Obama campaign/administration made a sincere effort to work with Republicans on the issue they would have found many solutions that respected the limits on federal power established in the Constitution. Instead they chose to break the law, so now they are in danger of having to start all over. The Obamanauts have no one to blame but themselves for their arrogance.
The Supreme Court did not give us super PACs, the founding fathers did when they wrote the First Amendment. Nor did they give us George W. Bush as president; remember that a very meticulous examination of the ballots by media organizations showed that Bush did in fact receive more votes in Florida.
Obama's attack on the court last week, like his attack on the court during one of his State of the Union addresses, is indeed outrageous, even if not entirely unprecedented. And dap916 is absolutely correct in pointing out that had George W. Bush made a similar comment he would have been pilloried by those (such as Gary) who now buck and shuffle to cover up and distract from Obama's revealing gaffe. "Constitutional law professor" my fanny–this guy doesn't understand the first thing about the Constitution.