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Offering direct access to the beach, this Sandestin condo is next to a golf course, 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from Grand Boulevard Town Center, and 2 mi (3.2 km) from Silver Sands Premium Outlets. Topsail Beach State Preserve and The Emerald Sanctuary are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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Catch some rays at the nearby beach or spend the day relaxing at Luau at Sandestin's full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the condo's 15 restaurants.
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Condo Amenities
Condo Amenities
Spend the day at the beach and work on your tan with sun loungers (chaise longues) or relax in the shade with umbrellas. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Luau at Sandestin like a children's club and an outdoor pool.
Dining is available at one of the condo's 15 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at one of the 3 coffee shops/cafés. The property also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the condo's bars, which include 3 bars/lounges, a beach bar, and a poolside bar. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. This beach condo also offers a children's pool, outdoor tennis courts, and a spa tub. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Luau at Sandestin is a smoke-free property.
- Hair salon
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Beach bar
- Computer station
- Rooftop terrace
- Year Built 2006
- Number of restaurants - 15
- 24-hour business center
- Billiards or pool table
- Grocery/convenience store
- Tennis on site
- Snack bar/deli
- Porter/bellhop
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Wedding services
- Children's club
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Arcade/game room
- Garden
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Nightclub
- Children's pool
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 120
- Number of floors - 17
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 3
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- WiFi (surcharge)
- One meeting room
- Poolside bar
- Luggage storage
- Direct access to private beach
- Free self parking
- Conference center
- Outdoor tennis courts - 15
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Outdoor tennis courts
- Grocery/convenience store
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Playground on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 9.95 per night )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 9.95 per night )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Microwave
- Cable TV service
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Breakfast is available for a surcharge each morning.
Luau at Sandestin has 15 restaurants on site.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include outdoor tennis courts, a sauna, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Basketball on site
- Kayaking on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Sailing on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Boat tours on site
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Miniature golf on site
Spa Services
Destin Day Spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic.
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Massages
Condo Policies
Minimum check-in age is 25
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 11 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 9.00 per night.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: 14 percent of room rate
- Pool access
- Spa tub access
- Beach access
- Health club access
- Fitness center access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Nearby fitness center access
- Parking
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 10 and USD 25 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 9.95 per night (rates may vary)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 9.00 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 11 per night
Condo Name
- Luau Sandestin
- Luau Sandestin Condo Miramar Beach
- Luau Sandestin Miramar Beach
- Sandestin Luau
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Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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Damon Berryhill knows the names.
Hershiser, Moyer, Santana, Babitt, Valentin.
Berryhill competed with or against them during a 10-year career in Major League Baseball.
Damon Berryhill knows the names.
Hershiser, Moyer, Santana, Babitt, Valentin.
Berryhill competed with or against them during a 10-year career in Major League Baseball.
Yet these are different versions. They are younger, fearless copies of their fathers, and it gives Berryhill pause as he contemplates the merging of past and future.
"I knew these guys when they were nothin' 9-year-olds running around and now they're in pro ball," said Berryhill, manager of the Ogden Raptors. But "just because their parents were big leaguers doesn't mean they're off and running."
There's a reason why Jordan Hershiser, Dillon Moyer, Alex Santana, Zach Babitt and Jesmuel Valentin are in the Pioneer League, the ground floor of professional baseball. Right now, they have only potential, which has yet to be molded. To Berryhill, they are no different than the other Raptors whose parents aren't quite as well-known.
Realistically, it will be a success for the Los Angeles Dodgers if one of these five draft picks eventually wears a big-league uniform.
"There's a lot to be learned," said Berryhill, former teammate of recently retired pitcher Jamie Moyer, who won 269 games in the majors.
The family connection in baseball is strong. There have been more than 200 sons who have successfully followed their fathers to the big leagues.
"People ask me, 'Oh, do you think you have your dad's talent?' " said the 23-year-old Hershiser, a 34th-round draft pick in 2012 out of USC. His father, Orel, won a Cy Young and World Series MVP for the Dodgers in 1988. "Maybe when I win 200 games in the big leagues, then I'll say I have my dad's talent. Until then, he'll be better than I am."
Hershiser, injured in college, was drafted on potential and pedigree.
"And a great work ethic. I really root for him," said Orel Hershiser, a baseball analyst for ESPN. "It's not a thing that makes me feel old. It's just a great experience for him and a great time to grow up.
"It's nice to know there are people looking after him. It's not like he went off to New York to become a bonds trader. I'm really just a dad. I ask him how its going. … 'Do you need any money?' "
Dad's best advice? "Work hard. Don't waste days," Jordan said.
Of the five, Valentin, 19, enjoyed the highest draft selection, taken 51st overall in 2012. Santana, 19, was a second-round pick in 2011. Babitt, 23, went in the 10th round of 2012, while Moyer, 21, was a 38th-round draft choice in 2013.
Jamie Moyer retired in 2012 at age 49, maybe holding out for a chance to play with his son. It's happened twice before, most notably with Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. for Seattle in 1990.
"He was trying to hang on," Dillon said. "Maybe he'll develop a knuckleball. He was pretty excited when he heard Damon was going to be my manager."
Even more excitement was experienced by the fathers the day their sons were drafted.
"The dude was crying and I was just enjoying the moment," Santana said about his father Rafael, a shortstop who played for seven seasons and is now the Latin American coordinator for the Chicago White Sox. "He doesn't get too excited."
"He just went to the floor crying," Valentin said about his dad, Jose, an infielder who played 16 seasons, eight with Milwaukee. Jose Valentin finished his career with more than 1,300 hits and 249 home runs.
Jose Valentin now manages at Single-A Fort Wayne in the Midwestern League. In a surreal moment for both, for a few games earlier this season, father and son were in opposing dugouts when Jesmuel spent some time with the Great Lakes Loons in Midland, Mich.
"It was tough for me to see my son playing on the other side and manage against him," the elder Valentin said. "It's hard to see my son fail. It was emotional at times.
"I have to realize that he has his own job and his own life. I cannot go out there. I cannot hit for him."
If possible, father wanted son to do well, but not at the expense of Fort Wayne. Let him get hits, but with the bases empty.
"When we looked at each other, we were a little bit in shock," Jesmuel said.
To a man, the Raptor players agreed that the experience of having been in major league clubhouses is an advantage. They experienced the right and wrong way to conduct themselves, how to prepare to play.
They're not wide-eyed youngsters experiencing professional baseball. Even the eight-hour bus rides are not new, having played either on amateur or college teams.
Still, "it varies," Berryhill said. "Some kids come to pro ball more mature than others. Once they're here, they're treated like anyone else."
Of the five, only Zach Babitt never saw his father Mack "Shooty" Babitt play professionally. Babitt managed to play 54 games in the big leagues for the Oakland Athletics in 1981 and is now a scout for the New York Mets.
"I've seen maybe five minutes of highlight tapes of my dad playing," said Zach, who carries his father's baseball card in his wallet. Making it to the big leagues is the dream, but some things mean more than others.
"I used to feel pressure when I was younger, certain expectations to live up to by others," Zach said, echoing the sentiments of his four teammates. "My father, even when I was playing college ball, always told me how proud he was of me. He never went to college, so he was proud of that. He told me, 'I don't care if you never get another hit, you have no idea how proud your dad is of you.'
"I try to go out every day and try to represent my family and make my father proud." Raptors and their famous fathers
Mack "Shooty" Babitt • 1977 25th-round draft choice of Oakland Athletics. Infielder played 54 games in 1981, .256 average.
Orel Hershiser • 1979 17th-round draft choice of Los Angeles Dodgers. Pitcher made MLB debut in 1983, played 18 seasons, 204-150, 3.48 ERA. Won 1988 Cy Young.
Rafael Santana • Signed by New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1979. Infielder made MLB debut in 1983. Played seven seasons, .246 average, 497 career hits.
Jamie Moyer • 1984 sixth-round draft choice of Chicago Cubs. Pitcher made MLB debut in 1986. Played 25 seasons, 269-209. Won 20 games twice.
Jose Valentin • Signed by San Diego Padres as an amateur free agent in 1986. Infielder made MLB debut in 1992. Played 16 seasons, .243 average, 249 HRs, 816 RBIs.
Zach Babitt • Age 23. Infielder was a 2012 10th-round draft choice from Academy of Arts University, San Francisco.
Jordan Hershiser • Age 23. Pitcher was a 2012 34th-round draft choice from USC.
Alex Santana • Age 19. Infielder was 2011 second-round draft from Mariner High School, Cape Coral, Fla.
Dillon Moyer • Age 21. Infielder was 2013 38th-round draft choice from UC San Diego.
Jesmuel Valentin • Age 19. Infielder was 2012 first-round draft choice from Puerto Rico Baseball Academy.

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Offense plates 10 runs on 16 hits to club L.A. and even the series
ST. PETERSBURG -- Early runs backed a solid effort by Chris Archer as the Rays defeated the Angels, 10-3, Saturday night at Tropicana Field.
The Rays snapped a two-game losing streak heading into the series finale Sunday afternoon. Rays manager Joe Maddon has stressed the importance of winning series if they want to remain in contention. The Rays have claimed their last five series and the first two series of the current homestand.
"Our objective is to win series," Maddon said. "The Angels, you can see, are really, really good. But I think the Rays are really, really good. It's going to be a fun afternoon, but it's going to be tough."
The American League East-leading Orioles took a 6-3 loss to the Mariners Saturday night, which means the Rays will wake up Sunday morning trailing by 7 1/2 games. They have won 12 of their last 15 games and are 30-14 since June 11, the best record in baseball.
Evan Longoria got the Rays started Saturday night with a two-run first-inning homer off Angels starter C.J. Wilson.
"That was huge," Brandon Guyer said. "Any time you can jump out to a lead with a pitcher like they had throwing and we had throwing, it always helps out."
The Rays hardly sat on their early lead.
James Loney singled in the second with one out and moved to second when Curt Casali walked. Logan Forsythe's single to center scored Loney while Casali advanced to third.
A healthy dose of small ball followed. Desmond Jennings' bunt single scored Casali. The next hitter, Ben Zobrist, also bunted, loading the bases for Guyer. The rookie outfielder singled to center to drive home two to complete the four-run outburst and give the Rays a 6-0 lead.
"We just capitalized on [Wilson's] mistakes," Guyer said. "Some stuff just went our way today."
Wilson, who had just been reinstated from the 15-day disabled list, made the second-shortest start of his career, only recording four outs on 50 pitches.
"The velocity was good, all the pitches were where they needed to be in terms of speed and sharpness, it was just a matter of, I threw a couple of bad pitches," Wilson said.
With his team taking the early 6-0 lead, Maddon noted that it was up to Archer, "Who did bend, but not break."
Archer made his 22nd start of the season for the Rays and posted three scoreless innings before hitting a bump in the fourth. Howie Kendrick and Hank Conger each had RBI doubles and David Freese grounded out to drive home another, cutting the lead to 6-3.
"I had a couple of 3-2 counts that ran my pitch counts up," Archer said. "Then I had that fourth inning, obviously, where I gave up a few hits in a row. But I felt like I was in total control of my mind, my body, my delivery. Didn't execute some pitches, but tonight was one of those nights where the team gave me plenty of wiggle room. So three runs was plenty, more than enough to win."
Archer allowed three runs on six hits and two walks while striking out nine en route to his seventh win of the season.
Joel Peralta and Brad Boxberger held the Angels scoreless in the seventh and eighth innings before the Rays added four more runs in the bottom of the inning to help secure the win. Cesar Ramos added a scoreless ninth to finish out the win.
Ben Zobrist paced the Rays' 16-hit attack with a four-hit performance, his second of the current homestand. Guyer went 2-for-2 and reached base in all four plate appearances and Loney had a three-hit day, extending his on-base streak to 21 games.
"We normally do pretty good when we get out on top," Maddon said. "... Up and down the lineup, we hit the ball well. Good at-bats, a lot of hits and eventually, eventually scored 10 runs."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test.
It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser performance. However, unlike V8 and SunSpider, which are more general stress tests to measure overall capability, Mozilla's Rob Sayre says Kraken focuses mainly on "realistic workloads and forward-looking applications."
Among the real-world things Kraken tests are Mozilla's new beat detection scripts, which uses experimental audio APIs, and image processing tools like the ones that apply a Gaussian blur or desaturate a JPG using JavaScript.
"These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today," Sayre writes, "and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available."
While real-world tests are important and Kraken offers a way to measure browser performance in ways that aren't really possible without it, in terms of an overall performance benchmark test, Kraken seems unlikely to supplant V8 or SunSpider.
Of course, supplanting doesn't seem to be the goal of Kraken. Rather, Mozilla wants to shift focus from generalized benchmarks to tests that reflect what's actually happening on the web — both today's web apps and those that are pushing the boundaries and paving the way for a new generation of apps.
The goal of Kraken is less about proving how "fast" a browser is overall and more about offering a way to test actual, everyday tasks that mirror the things we all do with web browsers.
To test Kraken you can head over to the new site and run it yourself. In Mozilla's testing Kraken shows that Firefox 4 (with its new JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine) is already more than 2.5 times faster than the current release of Firefox 3.6.
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One man's plight highlights the needs, dangers facing the entire community of older LGBT people
David Webb | Contributing Writer
Almost a year after a well-known gay community activist was discovered wandering the streets and apparently suffering from dementia, he remains alone in a nursing home near White Rock Lake without any support from family or friends, according to representatives of Dallas' Crisis Intervention Unit.
"He is completely alone," said Valencia Hooper, a caseworker for the unit, which is a program administered by the Dallas Police Department. "He doesn't have anybody."
The activist, whose identity is being withheld because of his vulnerability, was arrested by police just before Christmas last year when he was allegedly discovered trying to get into a car that did not belong to him. At the time the activist was homeless and wandering the streets after being evicted from his Oak Lawn apartment.
It is suspected that at the time of his arrest he was too confused to understand what he was doing, and that he was likely trying to find shelter from the weather.
While he was in jail¸ the activist came into contact with a nurse who realized that he was suffering from dementia and did not belong there, according to Marilu Thorn, another caseworker with the unit that initially assisted him and tried unsuccessfully to locate family members or friends who knew him.
Thorn said that when she started looking into the activist's personal history in an attempt to find help for him, she was shocked to discover that he had been so well-known in the community. A few years ago, the activist was on the Democratic Party's ticket running for a state representative's position for a district in central Dallas.
Thorn reached out to the Dallas Voice for help, and a notice was posted on the newspaper's blog featuring a picture of the activist and asking for assistance in locating his family. The effort was unsuccessful so the activist now only has contact with nursing home staff, other residents and the caseworkers who still monitor him.
"He's pretty much out of it," said Hooper, who noted that he needs someone to visit him and make sure that he has the personal things he needs such as clothing and shoes. "He's really a very sweet man."
Hooper said that as it stands now, if the activist were to die there wouldn't even be anyone to notify to determine if anyone wanted to hold a memorial service. "He is going to die someday," she said.
The activist, who moved to Dallas in 1975, is believed to have a son and a grandson somewhere, but apparently no one knows how to contact them. A former roommate of the activist's now reportedly lives in Florida.
Hooper said that when the activist was first evicted from his apartment, some of his neighbors tried to help him for a while. One neighbor would let him sleep on her sofa at night. He would go to the streets during the day when she left for work.
"They didn't know what to do," Hooper said. "They kind of treated him like he was a little dog."
At the time the activist's plight came to the attention of the Dallas Voice, research showed that there were scarce resources dedicated to aging LGBT people who lack personal resources. Although the activist's plight sparked some concern in the community, apparently no progress has been made so far.
One reader who commented about the lack of resources said the community's resources are rightfully dedicated to HIV/AIDS services, and that there is no room for other programs.
He said that LGBT people are already entitled to the same resources that benefit all elderly people, but another reader noted that many programs benefiting seniors are religion-based and reject homosexuality.
Resource Center Dallas sponsors a program for LGBT seniors, the GLBT Aging Interest Network or GAIN, but its primary focus is education, entertainment and social activities, according to Kee Holt, RCD's center services manager who oversees the GAIN Program.
After the activist began receiving help from the caseworkers, he was transferred from jail to a medical facility for evaluation and eventually was placed in the nursing home.
Thorn said anyone who was aware of the activist's plight could have called Dallas' 311 service to report his situation. That would have resulted in his case probably being referred to the
Crisis Intervention Unit, and he would have avoided the trip to jail, she said.
"It shouldn't have gotten that bad," Thorn said.
Holt said that as unfortunate as this man's story is, a nearly complete lack of services in Dallas for LGBT seniors means that he is probably not the only one in such a situation.
"There's really nothing at all out there for GLBT seniors in this city," Holt said. "If you're an older GLBT person here who needs some specific services, you're really just out of luck.
There are no GLBT-specific shelters, no GLBT-specific services or resources. Oak Lawn United Methodist Church does have a program that helps a lot of people, but it's not GLBT-specific."
There are, of course, more general services and resources for senior citizens in the area, and Resource Center Dallas recently became a member of the Community Council of Greater
Dallas, an umbrella organization for Dallas-area agencies on aging. But, Holt stressed, those services are often not educated on the special needs of LGBT seniors and in some instances are outright hostile.
"When I first took this job in 2008, I started just cold-calling all the nursing homes and assisted-living facilities I could find in this area, just to try and get a feel for what people knew about LGBT seniors and their issues and how welcoming they would be," Holt said. "I got hung up on a lot of times, and I even had some people tell me that they didn't have any LGBT residents because 'they grow out of it by now.' Some just told me, "We don't have that kind of thing here.'"
It's attitudes like those, Holt said, that put many older LGBTs in an untenable either-or situation: "They have lived their lives as out LGBT men and women, and now, they face the decision of either going back into the closet and spending the rest of their lives hiding who they are, or they can stay out and face being ostracized, maybe even mistreated, by staff members and other residents at the nursing homes and assisted-living facilities.
"It's just a really, really difficult situation, with no good answers right now," he said.
Holt noted that the Dallas Area Agency on Aging has recently asked Resource Center Dallas to conduct diversity training for its staff in an effort to increase understanding on LGBT issues. That is a step in the right direction, he said, but there are many more steps that are needed.
"The Resource Center needs a full-time staff person to work on just these issues. I don't have the time to do that, and the funding for that isn't there right now," Holt said. "What we need in Dallas is an activist organization focusing on these [LGBT senior] issues. I don't think that GAIN will be that organization. But we need one."
Dallas Voice Senior Editor Tammye Nash contributed to this report.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 16, 2011.


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WASHINGTON -- Nationals outfielders Bryce Harper and Jayson Werth were both in the starting lineup and played six innings in Friday's 4-2 exhibition loss to the Yankees, fending off some dings and dents.
Harper has jammed his left thumb twice in the past week while fighting off inside pitches, including on Tuesday against the Marlins. The left fielder took Wednesday off but played three innings on Thursday against the Mets, going 1-for-1 with a single and a sacrifice fly.
On Friday, Harper singled in his first at-bat against Yankees lefty Andy Pettitte, who struck out the star outfielder three times in four hitless at-bats last season. Harper finished 1-for-3 on Friday.
Before the game, manager Davey Johnson didn't display much concern about Harper's readiness for Monday's regular-season opener against the Marlins, considering the outfielder hit .484 with three home runs and 15 RBIs in Grapefruit League play.
"Well, he's swinging the bat so poorly," Johnson deadpanned. "They don't look like jam shots that he's hitting. He's going to have two days off [after Friday], and we'll be monitoring him pretty close."
Werth was hit by a pitch on his left elbow on Wednesday and sat out Thursday's Grapefruit League finale. Johnson said the right fielder is dealing with a stinger on his "funny bone." He finished Friday's game 0-for-3 with a strikeout.
"I'm sure he's going to be fine," Johnson said. "It's probably just the cold weather stiffening it up."
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Congratulations, David Backes: The staggeringly, almost hilariously incorrect call that might have cost your team at least one point won't cost you any money.
Backes, the St. Louis Blues' captain, won't face a disciplinary hearing for a hit he laid on Detroit Red Wings defenseman Kent Huskins on Friday night. Backes leveled Huskins at 9:38 of third period with a clean (albeit late) shoulder to the sternum. The officiating crew, rather than call a two-minute minor, ruled that Backes made illegal contact with Huskins' head (he didn't) and ejected him from the game.
Detroit, naturally, scored on the ensuing five-minute power play to take a 4-3 lead and wound up winning 5-3.
No hearing means no suspension, which is as close to good news as the Blues could get. It's fun, though, to imagine how Backes' theoretical talk with Brendan Shanahan would've gone, though:
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The more interesting thing to track is how the league deals with the officiating crew. It's difficult to figure how or why the situation played out like it did — the referee who made the call was behind the play, so all he saw was Huskins' head snap back. Given that, and probably Backes' reputation for playing a physical, on-edge game, some dots were inappropriately connected. Then, none of the other three officials disconnected them, which is the larger problem.
Policing headshots should be a priority, but common sense and quality control can't go out the window, either.
At the bottom of this screen cap is linesman Derek Amell. Seems he got a good look at what happened. But Amell didn't make the call — a referee (either Chris Lee or Ian Walsh) did. He was the guy 30-ish feet behind the play with no clear view of the point of impact.
Meanwhile, the Blues, after coming back from a 2-0 deficit, missed out on a chance to earn at least one point (and possibly two) against a division rival during a shortened season. They can't be happy about the outcome, though defenseman Barret Jackman deserves credit for not going ballistic on the referee after Backes was tossed.
"I'm not going to comment on that," coach Ken Hitchcock said after the game, which featured a Henrik Zetterberg hat trick and the eventual game-winner from Pavel Datsyuk. "It was a big turning point and it turned out being the turning point of the game."
Kevin Shattenkirk, who scored the Blues' first goal, refused to say the call was the reason his team lost.
"There are breaks in the game, and some of them don't go your way," he said. "We've got to do a better job of killing that penalty."
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text: Defensive upgrade is a WVU priority By Dave Hickman August 1, 2013 Story Share MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - If it seems as if Will Clarke has been a part of West Virginia's football program a long, long time, well, it's because he has.He was a part of Bill Stewart's first full recruiting class, one of just six fifth-year seniors this season who arrived as scholarship recruits in 2009. Of those six, only safety Darwin Cook (23) has started more games than Clarke's 22.He's an iron man in the strictest sense of the word. When he earned Iron Mountaineer honors last spring for his work in the weight room, he became the first player in school history to do so three times.He's played for teams that have averaged almost nine wins a year and won a BCS bowl game.Yet as his final season approaches with the beginning of fall camp Thursday, Clarke has a bad taste in his mouth, and he wants to rid himself of it."We have been working hard,'' Clarke said. "But seeing how bad last season went for us defensively, everyone knows how bad it was, from outside to inside the program, and I don't want to repeat that. I don't want to go out that way.''Indeed, as fall camp began amid so many questions about personnel at almost every position, the one that overrides all others concerns the defense for which Clarke plays. As last season proved, no matter what Dana Holgorsen manages to coax out of a rebuilt offense, it won't matter if the defense is as bad as it was in 2012. There are signs of hope, of course. There always are. This year it comes in the form of a new defensive coordinator, Keith Patterson, and a year spent adjusting to life in the offensive-minded Big 12.No matter the scheme, though, last season's performance begs the question of whether the Mountaineers just weren't very good. It's easy to say that schematically the defense was a failure, but at some point isn't it also fair to question those who were executing it?Maybe they just were not that good."That never crossed my mind,'' Clarke said. "It's Division I football. Everyone is good. If everyone had handled their jobs we would have been better. But there were times when we weren't all there, all 11 guys, and it showed.'' Fixing that is the responsibility of Patterson and his rebuilt staff. They can't be certain that everyone will handle his responsibilities on every play - no coach can - but after last year's debacle perhaps the first priority is to make sure they find 11 guys committed to doing that.It's a philosophy that has been driven into Clarke and the rest of the defenders from the end of last season - don't worry about the big picture, worry about your job and everything else will take care of itself."Most of the defensive problems last year we brought on ourselves," Clarke said. "We beat ourselves more than teams beat us. That's nothing against the teams that did well against us, but I believe with better preparation and more urgency to get to the ball and more urgency to get the calls - know your assignments and things like that - I believe that can definitely help us a lot."The scheme, though, still has to be considered in West Virginia's failures a year ago. "Coach Patterson has incorporated a lot more of an attacking style," Clarke said. "We should be attacking more out of our 3-4 defense instead of the rush-three, drop-eight zone that we were playing. He's trying to bring more pressure from the front seven, whether it's four guys, five guys, no matter how many guys we're bringing. Just try and bring more pressure on the quarterback and make the pocket close more."The good thing about it is as a defensive player it gives you a lot of opportunities to attempt to make plays. I feel like that should be the main goal of every defensive player. The Big 12 is such an offensive-oriented conference, especially with passing plays, so it gives us a chance to get a lot of sacks and interceptions."There doesn't seem to be much faith that the Mountaineers can turn things around on defense. In the Big 12's annual media poll, West Virginia was picked eighth out of 10 teams. Given Holgorsen's reputation for building offenses, that has to mean only one thing - that the defense just has too many question marks.Fine, Clarke says. Think that way."We're picked to finish eighth and that's helping us out because we're the only guys that think we're going to be good,'' he said. "We actually believe we're going to be good.''Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at Twitter.com/dphickman1. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 'Heroin(e)' spotlights women helping combat Huntington's drug crisis 4 YWCA Charleston's Women of Achievement to be honored in March 5 Area EMS workers return from assisting with Irma recovery Herd schedule watered down? Previous Story WVU QB call will take some time Next Story


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money 21 wrote:I just went all discraft dga as well and am happy with the set up.
BLURR wrote:Well, I have only had a chance to throw it a few times. Initial impression is not as flippy as expected. It has a little bit of turn to it, but fights back out of it. Not sure if it will stay in the bag or not as I need a flippy distance driver. Might have to find me another Star Destrulcan. I will say this though, it has great speed and glide. Could have potential to be a big bomber once it loses some of its early stability.
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Willits third-graders will have a new home next fall. The board of trustees of the Willits Unified School District decided Wednesday to move the class to Brookside Elementary School.
The board voted 4-1 to approve moving third-grade and restoring a traditional kindergarten through third-grade configuration at Brookside.
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Well, considering there isn't test for HGH I'd say it's bogus.
you cant trust EVERYTHING you read on Wikipedia. Chances are someone put that up there as a joke, unless they supplied a link to their source.
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Yeah - thats got to be bogus. The the references of his wikipedia page shows that the HGH paragraph was cited in a digg.com article. The digg.com article just links back to the wikipedia page.
In that case, shouldn't someone take that down from the wiki entry?
Maybe the kicker is too liquored up to notice he's been accused of cheating.
It requires a blood test, something the NFL doesn't do though.
There would have been some kind of a mention of another NFL player getting caught somewhere else as well.
He worked out for the Jags since Scobee has groin issues, but they went with former NO Saint John Carney.
Seriously, what has happened to this guy. I don't how he went from a perfect season to being unemployed. Did his body finally catch up to his mouth? Perhaps it's only fair.
"It's never to late to be who you might have been" - George Eliot
MJ is a damn good kicker and he really must have a bad attitude for not getting any interest.
He absolutely sucked in Dallas. Combine that with the fact he can't kick it to the five on kickoffs, so you have to have two active kickers on the roster and he's not in that high of a demand.
Anywho...before they won that Super Bowl a lot of us were kinda thinking the same thing as what he said about Peyton and Dungy being too laid back.
...Still "flying casual"
I have a feeling he was always a bad guy. We just didn't realize how bad until he started running his mouth.


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Oakton, Virginia, December 19, 2012
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) -- Provincial police say one person has died after a train carrying crude oil derailed, triggering several explosions and a huge blaze in a town in eastern Quebec.
Police Lieutenant Michel Brunet would not say how many people might be missing after the 73-car train derailed early Saturday in the town of Lac-Megantic (Lack-MAH-Gan-Tic), about 155 miles (250 kilometers) east of Montreal.
Officials say the explosions and fire destroyed a large part of the town's downtown area. Up to 1,000 people were forced from their homes in the town.
Witnesses say the eruptions sent many local residents scrambling through the streets under the intense heat of towering fireballs and a red glow that illuminated the night sky. Billowing smoke could be seen from several miles (kilometers) away hours after the derailment.�
Some of the train's 73 cars exploded and the fire spread to a number of homes in the lakeside town of 6,000 people, which is close to the border with Maine and Vermont.
"When you see the center of your town almost destroyed, you'll understand that we're asking ourselves how we are going to get through this event," an emotional Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche told a televised news briefing.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted: "Thoughts & prayers are with those impacted in Lac Megantic. Horrible news."
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known.
Authorities set up perimeters as firefighters battled to control the fire, and worried residents looked on amid fears that some of their friends and loved ones may have died in their homes
"We're told some people are missing but they may just be out of town or on vacation," Brunet told a news conference.
Lac-Megantic resident Claude Bedard described the scene of the explosions as "dreadful."
"It's terrible," Bedard said. "We've never seen anything like it. The Metro store, Dollarama, everything that was there is gone."
Bernard Demers, who owns a local restaurant, had to evacuate his home after the derailment.
"Early this morning (there was) a big explosion like an atomic bomb," he said. "It was very hot. ... Everybody was afraid."
Environment Quebec spokesman Christian Blanchette said a large but undetermined amount of fuel had also spilled into the Chaudiere (Ah-DER-Re) River. Blanchette said the 73 cars were filled with crude oil, and at least four were damaged by the explosions and fire.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Joey Logano says he's not looking for trouble with other drivers, but vows not to change the way he races.
The 22-year-old driver, who entered the Sprint Cup Series at age 18, defended the way he raced two weeks ago at Auto Club Speedway, where he and Denny Hamlin wrecked on the final lap and Logano drew the ire of Tony Stewart for blocking.
Hamlin and Stewart remained critical of Logano this week, but Logano said Friday he would not change the way he races.
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Stewart and Logano nearly came to blows after the race as Stewart was angry over a block following a restart with 11 laps remaining. Hamlin was at Martinsville Speedway on Friday in street clothes with a compression fracture in his lower back as a result of his crash with Logano. Hamlin insisted this week that Logano caused the accident, which could cause him to miss at least five races.
"I don't look for trouble, but I'm also not here to get walked on, either," Logano said Friday. "There's a fine line of how you're going to earn that respect."
Logano replaced Stewart at Joe Gibbs Racing four years ago but was replaced after last season by Matt Kenseth. The winner of nine Nationwide Series races and one Cup race last year, Logano landed a ride at Penske Racing for 2013.
"It's a hard scenario for him this year because of the scenario of switching teams and a lot of things that are going on," Stewart said. "I'm sure there is a little extra pressure on him right now."
If there's more pressure, Logano isn't showing it.
"I don't feel like I need to prove myself," Logano said. "I want to go out and win races. If that's proving yourself, OK, then that's what it is.
"But I'm out here to win races just like everyone else is, and I'm going to race hard to do that."
Brian Vickers, who has had his own battles with Stewart, wished Logano "good luck" in dealing with Stewart.
"He's racing hard and that's what's expected of him from the people that support him," said veteran Mark Martin, who anointed Logano as one of the top young drivers several years ago and now is replacing the injured Hamlin this week. "He finds himself in a position where the spotlight seems to be shining on him.
"… He's been caught in a lot of dust-ups lately and one of the reasons is because he's racing hard like the rest of us out there."
Stewart said Logano, who also tangled with Hamlin at Bristol three weeks ago, is having trouble with other drivers because he isn't showing the respect he needs when racing among the frontrunners.
"He's got to understand he's in a position that can run good but he's messing with guys that are running up front all the time," Stewart said.
"There are common denominators in some of these equations here. You don't have to be a genius to figure out what it is."
The common denominator is that Hamlin and Stewart both have had problems with Logano in recent weeks, but Logano insists he's not going to back down.
"I'm not going to change the way I drive," Logano said. "I don't feel like I do anything that's really disrespectful to other drivers out there.
"I race really hard. I'm fine with being known as a hard racer. That's OK with me."
As far as the move on Stewart, Logano said he would not have blocked him earlier in the event but said the block was necessary to try to win the race.
"I obviously looked back on it and what I did, and I looked back at the four or five cars behind me and they did the same exact thing," Logano said. "That's hard racing at the end of the race, and I stand by what I said at the end of the race."
Logano believes that with a week off since the California race, he and Stewart can put their issues behind them. He said they both made critical comments in the heat of the moment afterward.
"We have not talked to each other, but we had an off weekend and time to relax a little bit and cool off, so I feel like that's over," Logano said.
He won't call Hamlin, his former teammate, but did say he hopes to see Hamlin racing again soon. Hamlin is out an estimated five races.
"It's unfortunate," Logano said. "We want him to get better because he's one of the best racecar drivers out there.
"I want to race against the best of the best. We're hoping for a speedy recovery for him so he can get out here and race with us again."


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Establishing a Daily Practice Discovering Buddhism
The purpose of this course is to learn how to meditate at home, in order to continuously develop ones human potential and live with a peaceful mind in daily life. It starts with the 6 preliminary practices and is based on A Daily Meditation Practice - How to Meditate on the Graded Path to Enlightenment, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche,
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Geshe Gyalten will teach Kyabje Choden Rinpoche's commentary on the Gaden Lha Gyema or One Hundred Deities of Tushita Heaven. This is Lama Tsongkhapaâs Guru Yoga. When practiced in conjunction with recitations of the Meg Tse Ma mantra, this Guru Yoga is an unprecedented method for increasing the three essences of spiritual development: compassion, wisdom and the spiritual power to subdue all forms of obstacles.Lama Tsongkhapa is an emanation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion; Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom and Vajrapani, the Buddha of Power. This practice enables us to be guided by these three Buddhas in all of our lives.
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Experience a 1 day, 2 session mani retreat with the meditation master and yogi Kyabje Choden Rinpoche. Reciting the six syllable mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM, with heartfelt respect and the altruistic motivation has infinite benefits. Among these are obtaining higher migrations in future rebirths, the removal of the suffering of all beings and taking rebirth in a Pure Land. Reciting the mani mantra is equivalent to reciting the names of all of the Buddhas.
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Geshe Gyalten will lead us in this simple yet deeply profound method to realize the nature of our mind. Mahamudra Meditation, the Great Seal (the quintessential teaching and meditation of the Buddha) is a step by step meditation practice on the mind through both Sutra and Tantra to bring about inner peace and satisfaction.
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The Shurangama Mantra is the longest mantra in Buddhism. It is also called the most magical and wonderful language. Whoever recites it will become protected by Vajra Treasury Bodhisattvas of Medicine Buddha (Akshobhya Mitrugpa). If you want to hold the mantra, you have to be sincere in your intent, rectify your mind and cultivate your body. Then you must get rid of your desire for material objects and people. Now what is meant by getting rid of your desire for material objects and people? It means to transform of all your desire for physical comforts, pleasures and things -- it means not having greed or lust but instead having simultaneous wisdom and compassion. If you can get rid of material desires, establish your intent to benefit others more than your self, make firm your determination (Bodhichitta), and be really sincere, then, in holding this mantra, you will get a response. Discussion of the entire bird's eye view of the Shurangama Mantra. Now, in the Shurangama Mantra, right from the beginning, you take refuge with all Buddhas of the Ten Directions that pervade empty space in the Dharma Realm. They you take refuge with all the Great Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions that pervade the Dharma Realm and empty space. And then you take refuge with the Arhats, the Sages of the First Fruit through the Fourth Fruit. Then you take refuge with all the gods.
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FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. — The Wet Seal reported that net sales for the fourth quarter were $161.7 million compared with net sales of $163.2 million for the 13-week fourth quarter in fiscal 2011.
Consolidated comparable-store sales declined 8.3%, including a comparable-store sales decline of 9.1% at Wet Seal and 3.1% at Arden B.
Net loss was $85.8 million, or 97 cents per diluted share, as compared with net income of $1.1 million, or 1 cent per diluted share, in the prior year quarter.
John Goodman, CEO of The Wet Seal Inc., stated, "Fiscal 2012 was a challenging year for the Company, marked by changes in leadership, strategic direction and brand positioning, which had a significant impact on our financial performance. During the past two months, our team has moved quickly to begin stabilizing the business, get back to Wet Seal's fast fashion roots and prepare for growth. Additionally, we have taken meaningful action to reduce expenses, control inventories and leverage the core strengths of our team members.
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Net sales for the 53-week period were $580.4 million compared with net sales of $620.1 million in the 52-week period of fiscal 2011.
Consolidated comparable-store sales declined 10.1%, including a comparable-store sales decline of 10.1% at Wet Seal and 9.9% at Arden B.
Net loss was $113.2 million, or $1.28 per diluted share, compared with net income of $15.1 million, or 16 cents per diluted share, in fiscal 2011.
During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, the company opened four and closed eight Wet Seal stores and closed 19 Arden B stores. As of Feb. 2, the vompany operated 530 stores in 47 states and Puerto Rico, including 468 Wet Seal stores and 62 Arden B stores.
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Francis Cummins believes fan power can again inspire the Bulls when they face Challenge Cup kings Warrington in the quarter-finals.
Cummins' men were drawn at home to the Wolves last night and will face them over the weekend of June 7-8, while Cougars were handed a trip to Widnes.
It will be the third successive home Cup tie of the season for Bradford and, following Sunday's stirring 33-20 comeback win over Catalan Dragons, Cummins believes the supporters can again play a pivotal role.
Tony Smith has guided Warrington to three Challenge Cup final wins since 2009 but Cummins said: "The numbers weren't big on Sunday but the fans found their voice again and that support made a difference.
"There is a reason why Catalan win the penalty count at home more often than not and that's because their fans are very vocal.
"I said I was proud of the players on Sunday but I was proud of the supporters as well.
"If we can get some more form behind us then I'm sure we'll get more support against Warrington for what will be a massive game – a quarter-final of the Challenge Cup."
Cummins learnt his coaching trade under Smith at Leeds and the Bulls chief will cross swords with his former mentor in Super League combat at Odsal on Sunday.
Cummins added: "Tony and I still speak but we want to beat Warrington and they want to beat us – that's the way it is.
"It's more about us progressing because ultimately that's what we want."
Manase Manuokafoa (hamstring) could miss Sunday's game but James Donaldson and Dale Ferguson are aiming to return to action, while Cummins could add to his squad before the weekend.
He said: "We're trying really hard and I've got my fingers crossed because we're going to need numbers. Hopefully something could happen soon."
Meanwhile, Cougars player-coach Paul March admitted: "We wanted a West Yorkshire derby but it didn't come out like that.
"Widnes are well supported but I'm sure a lot of Cougars fans will get themselves over there and it should be a good atmosphere.
"It could be an upset – it's just how they play and how we play.
"But that's why the Challenge Cup is the greatest knockout cup competition in the world."
The odds on Leeds winning the Cup for the first time since 1999 shortened when they were drawn at home to Championship leaders Leigh – only their second tie against non Super League opposition since 2010 – while Castleford host holders Wigan.
The draw was made by Great Britain internationals Jason Robinson and Paul Sculthorpe.