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So, maybe it's New Year's Day, your birthday or a random positive Monday when you get a burst of inspiration and decide to set some big goals … goals that you have been meaning to achieve for quite some time.
You're feeling energized, organized and confident.
A week passes, and you grasp for some confidence while trying to gain
momentum – then, you blink, and it's been six months … your results haven't changed much.
You remember long days of:
Trying to motivate yourself | Feeling behind | Constantly overwhelmed
You feel stuck.
So then you try out a couple of health, productivity or personal development programs with unsatisfactory results and start realizing no matter how hard you work, nothing seems to change.
You feel like you will never be able to end this cycle.
Fast forward another year or so…
Now your life has disappeared into 50 and 60+ hour workweeks, you're sleep-deprived, stressed, irritated, tired all the time, unable to focus and missing the fire that got you started on this road to begin with.
You've officially traded your health for success. In other words, you are well on your way to be a burnout.
Really feel what that would be like and think, what do you really want?
With all the books, programs, articles, events, blogs, podcasts, and life & health coaching out there – it can feel like drinking from a fire hose. Making it very hard to know the best course of action for improving your life … and no wonder so many people are stuck and spend years looking for a solution that gives a long-term answer.
Well, look no further – this is it.
You see, if you want to improve your health, wealth, happiness and relationships – you're going to have to change your lifestyle… there's just no way around it.
Everything in our lives is directly tied to our lifestyle… that includes:
– The amount of energy we feel
– The amount of stress we experience
– The way we perform our work
– The amount of sleep we get
– Our relationship and connection we enjoy with others
– How we achieve our goals
And the list goes on
Unless you have a lifestyle that is working for you and is in support of what you are up to in this world, any results you will get is only temporary.
Living a performance lifestyle produces long-lasting results.
PL365 is based on the most important concept a person will ever learn when it comes to living with the fundamentals of successful living – lifestyle.
LIFESTYLE deals with everything from our weight to our energy to our stress levels to our personal relationships. Until you understand this,
you are dealing with an unknown enemy.
You'll try to change something in your life and that change just won't "take" … because you're not trying to change the cause of the problem.
Attempting to change your results while ignoring what kind of lifestyle you are living is comparable to a person painting the outside of his house
and wondering why the kitchen doesn't look different!
The PL365 is a strong action-oriented program with a powerful emphasis on accountability. Without this change, very little will ever change in your life!
This year-round online program teaches us the necessary lifestyle mindset and skill set to go beyond the surface issues and dig through the
real circumstances of our life that are distracting us and holding us back from achieving our goals in life.
Our lifestyle can be likened to a thermostat–if it doesn't operate properly in one area of your life, its power will affect all facets of your life .
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Over the course of one year, PL365 will introduce you to some of the most truly life-changing habits and skillsets you've ever heard about,
tapping into the power of your lifestyle by learning to think, plan, and act like an elite athlete—even if you're not into sports or a fitness enthusiast.
The PL 365 Training Program is a 365 days / 1-year training designed to help you understand and apply the principles and concepts of performance lifestyle.
Each month you'll get a live webinar lesson on one of the 12 lifestyles essential from John Allen Mollenhauer. Each session provides in-depth insight into what each essential is, how you can use it to improve the quality of your life and ways to develop it.
With the rigorous application of these principles and training, each participant will experience incredible results in all areas of their lives.
Throughout the training, you are going through three levels of transformation:
Resolve: identifying hidden lifestyle challenges and habits which are distracting and preventing you from achieving the results you truly want in every area of your life.
Evolve: building awareness and skills to heal the painful, chronic disconnect between energy, health, and performance.
Achieve: Thinking, planning and acting like a pro knowing you can sustain the process and endure any challenges.
This program is a strategically designed mix of education, accountability, and action. Action toward the progressive realization of your optimal health and goals in life.
"I knew I was exhausted and needed a breakfrom my high achieving life, but I didn't begin to acknowledge my true condition until hearing John Allen speak at the 2006 CoachVille Conference. The more I learn through the Performance Lifestyle Plan, the more I'm able to manage the precious energy that's needed for goal achievement. Moving forward, my dedication to putting my health first will allow me to increase productivity without jeopardizing my health or success, like I have so many times before. I can achieve my work goals without sacrificing my performance goals! I look forward to further study and mastery of the process with the many resources PerformanceLifestyle comprovides."
Are you low on power, drinking cup after cup of coffee to battle your persistent fatigue? That's how you build up an energy debt that saps your body of its innate life force. Energy is the foundation of health and performance. When you spend more than you recuperate, you can't perform at the top of your game. In this course, you'll discover how to increase your overall energy and achieve peak levels when needed.
Are you low on power, drinking cup after cup of coffee to battle your persistent fatigue? That's how you build up an energy debt that saps your body of its innate life force. Energy is the foundation of health and performance. When you spend more than you recuperate, you can't perform at the top of your game. In this course, you'll discover how to increase your overall energy and achieve peak levels when needed.
Nutrient-rich foods are essential to energy, health, and performance. Discover why superfoods are a cornerstone of optimal nutrition and how you can eat more whole, plant-based, nutrient-rich foods in ways that work for you. In this module, you'll learn the 3 Classes of Food™, the 5 key attributes of health-promoting foods, and how to transition to eating in a way that's healthy and convenient for your lifestyle.
A body that is fit for generating and regenerating the power it needs can succeed amidst the physical and mental rigors of goal achievement. Building momentum through a structured but flexible fitness strategy that respects your present situation and focuses on preparing for events will inspire you to train and sustain a fit body. In this course, you'll learn how to activate and strengthen your body with proven techniques used by professional athletes.
Your personal story has been developing since childhood and is connected to your ancestral history. How you frame your story is a primary determinant of your psychological self-esteem, how others perceive you, how you experience your energy, and how well you perform. In this course, you'll discover how projecting a real, but positive, personal narrative attracts productive, valuable relationships, as well as how your story can change when you optimize your lifestyle.
Energy and time are your two most precious assets. They are both infinite and finite at the same time, so it's important to manage these resources effectively to optimize your health, performance, and productivity. Your schedule is key to your success and quality of life. In this module, you'll learn how to manage time like a pro, free of the distractions that hold you back.
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the numerous competing responsibilities flooding your life. By streamlining and simplifying your life, you can minimize distractions and free up more energy, time, and space to live better and execute on your goals. In this module, you'll learn the difference between simplifying your life and streamlining for flow, efficiency, and productivity, as well as top strategies for accomplishing both.
At the most fundamental level, you are pure motivation. But without adequate energy to power your drive, you can still end up stagnant. In this training, you'll discover what motives are truly driving you. Plus, you'll learn how to use your brain with precision, stay in the zone for long periods of time, and manage all external drivers from a position of objective clarity.
Many people rely on the power of their individual brains and personas to navigate the world. But when you lose sight of the immense awareness you can access, share, and increase in genuine relationships with others, you limit your own potential. In this course, you will learn about the stages of development and how to expand your awareness to be more inclusive, so you can remove resistance, free your energy, and give yourself the larger perspective you need to succeed.
A lifestyle can only be successful if you have enough support to mitigate common setbacks and challenges. Establishing financial stability and a team to support you must be deeply embedded in your overall strategy. In this module, you will learn how to build structural, functional, and relationship-based support that empowers you to unleash your potential and live with positive accountability and reinforcement because you are no longer solely responsible for everything.
Access to information and opportunity is greater than ever before in human history. But without a core strategy, it is easy to be scattered in too many directions, leaving your energy diffused and ineffective. Athletes organize their lives around game plans that are based on best practices and experience. In this training, you will learn how to identify your direction and create a strategic plan with built-in lifestyle support that enables you to achieve your goals.
If you don't know your objectives and goals—and the difference between the two—then you probably don't have a game plan for how to succeed. Without knowing how to play your game and how to achieve your goals, you'll do a lot of running around with minimal results. In this course, you'll take a step back and figure out what game you are playing, whether you know how to play, whether you want to play, and how you can win.
Few acts in life have the potential to build momentum faster than the intentional act of serving others. Service engages you and offers opportunities to learn and practice skills you can apply in your family and in your career. In this module, you'll delve into the greater good that inspires the work you do and increases your motivation and drive to maintain standards of excellence.
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"I'm so busy that the traditional approach just wasn't working for me, especially no one was addressing energy. And quite frankly, fatigue can easily throw me off course. I highly recommend PL to anyone who's got a lot going on."
PL365 helps individuals who are under constant pressure to perform where expectations are high, non-negotiable, and relentless. They cannot afford to wing it, they need to know the skills for living in balance with vibrant health and peace of mind while achieving even their most ambitious goals.
"I set goals every year, but seldom get to them or achieve them."
"I want to be happier, healthier and enjoy peace of mind."
"I'm stuck."
"I struggle to stay focused and constantly procrastinate."
"I am tired all the time."
" I constantly feel overwhelmed "
"I want more out of life, but don't know what to do."
"I struggle with telling an optomistic story about myself and my circumstances.
"I don't even know what I want; I just know I want more."
"I don't run my business, my business runs me."
"I often find I am not able to stop and take care of myself even though I want too."
"I love Performance Lifestyle. As a matter of fact, I like the phone and internet support that compliments the weekly personal trainer I have. The education and the information I receive from Performance Lifestyle is exactly what I have been looking for over the past several years. It's helped me understand the relationship of exercise, diet and rest. Knowing how all of them combine to form a fit and energized "performance" lifestyle is making a huge difference in my life.At 53 years-old, nothing else was working to help me become fit, healthy and feeling good. I've read all the books over the years. But it wasn't until I discovered Performance Lifestyle that someone put all the right information together in the right way so I could act in an informed and empowered way to rescue my body and my long-term health while still living a fully engaged life. Thank you so much for your dedication to this, John Allen. I tell all my aging baby boomer friends about you."
So Are You Ready To Achieve Your Goals Without Trading Health For Success?
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GW2: An Argument Against Balanced Classes
What does the term "balanced" mean, when it comes to classes? In most MMOGs, IMO, a "balanced" class means different things when it comes to PvE and PvP.
In PVE, balance generally means that a perfectly played, maximally efficient class will be the functional equivalent of any other class when it comes to the acquiring content that is part of the linear character progression. IOW, when reduced to a mathematical formula, every class (when perfectly played) produces the same value when it comes to gaining levels, farming resources or gold, or contributing to group or raid content.
In PvP, balance means that a perfectly played class will result in a draw with any other perfectly played class (when measured statistically over time).
The concept of "balance", in any non-arbitrary, objective sense, must refer to a statistical analysis in regards to acquiring specific, mathematically-reducible products. IOW, if any class is not equivalent to any other class in terms being reduced to a numerical variable towards some kind of linear product, then the class is "not balanced".
My question is: should classes in GW2 be "balanced" at all? Or is this simply a notion rooted in the very kind of MMO structure that GW2 is designed to escape? Doesn't striving for universal equivalence of professions limit the possible variety, and doesn't it impose the mentality that all your character is, essentially, is a numerical value in regards to how much it can contribute in a give PvE or PvP situation?
When characters are essentially reducible to how much tanking, dps or healing they provide, then it seems they can be balanced; I'm not sure how one would go about "balancing" the classes in GW2. When you consider all of the variables – all of the variant dodge roll effects, the ability to generate combo fields, character foot speed in aiding in the evasion of MOB attacks and effects, quick revive skills, etc. – unless you just line up one class mano a mano against each other with players dedicated to perfecting those particular classes in PvP, how can anyone claim to have "balanced" anything?
It seems to me that ANET should just abandon the whole notion of "balancing" classes, free up the future for all kinds of new class variations, and just let the general population figure out what they prefer playing. Then, if very few people are playing a certain class, they might take a look at changing something – but, then again, why not have classes that few people enjoy? I think trying to accomplish an even spread of class choices is also a mistake – an attempt to homogenize class appeal. Even if a class is difficult to play, so what? Lots of people enjoy playing difficult-to-play classes.
It seems to me that the idea of a set of "balanced" classes is really only viable when the productivity of a character in a given PvE or PvP setting is essentially reducible to numbers in a formula. Given the structure of combat in GW2, I think that "class balance" should be an idea throw into the same garbage bin as the holy trinity.

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TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - A 38-year-old man in Ohio was arrested on burglary charges after a woman says she woke up to him rubbing her feet, WTVG reports.
The 30-year-old victim, who didn't want to be identified, says she was sound asleep early Tuesday morning at her home when she opened her eyes to find a man rubbing her feet.
"I started screaming, 'What are you doing in my house? How did you even get in here? What are you doing?'" the woman said. "He tried to force himself on me, and I was able to start screaming and push him off, and he took off running."
Police identified the man as 38-year-old Tito Cunningham.
The victim says she knew Cunningham because he lived in a group home across the street and that he likely got into her house through an unlocked back door.
"He said that he 'liked me' and that if I told anybody, he would 'get me,'"the victim said. "Your home is supposed to be where you feel the safest, and I don't feel safe in my home right now. He took that from me."
Officers arrested Cunningham on burglary charges and booked him in the Lucas County Jail. Reports show the suspect told officers he was looking for cigarettes, but the victim says they were nowhere near her room.
"My cigarettes are in my kitchen - like my backdoor is right outside the kitchen - so if that's what he was doing, then there was no reason to be in my bedroom, touching my feet," she said.
Shaken up after the scary encounter, the woman hopes people take her advice and lock their doors to prevent incidents like hers.
"Double check and triple check, always," she said. "Even if you're sure you did - get up and do it again."
The victim says she's installing a security system and also plans to get a concealed carry permit.
Cunningham is set to face a judge Wednesday morning.
Copyright 2019 WTVG via Gray Television Group, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison was bornon 17 August 1944 in Manhattan, New York, United States, is CTO and Founder, Oracle. Larry Ellison is #10 in List Billionaires People In The World. Ellison cofounded software firm Oracle in 1977 to tap into the growing need for customer relationship management databases. He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 but still serves as chairman of the board and chief technology officer. As part of Oracle's push into cloud computing, it acquiRed Cloud-software firm Netsuite for $9.3 billion in 2016. Oracle moved into hardware with its 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. In 2016, Ellison pledged to give $200 million to the University of Southern California for a cancer treatment center.
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As of January 2018, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fifth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the eighth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $61
As of February 2016, Ellison had given $4 million overall to the PAC
He has donated to both Democratic and Republican politicians, and in late 2014 hosted Republican Senator Rand Paul at a fundraiser at his home
On September 25, 2013, Ellison's Oracle Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand to win the 34th America's Cup in San Francisco Bay, California
On June 21, 2012, the governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, declared that Ellison had signed an agreement to buy most of the island of Lanai from the Castle & Cooke company, owned by David H
In 2011 he purchased the 249-acre Porcupine Creek Estate and private golf course in Rancho Mirage, California, for $42
In August 2010, it was reported that Ellison is one of the 40 billionaires who have signed "The Giving Pledge"
In 2009, Larry purchased the Indian Wells Tennis Garden tennis facility in California's Coachella Valley and the Indian Wells Masters tournament, both of which he still owns
The Sun acquisition also gave Oracle control of the popular MySQL open source database, which Sun had acquired in 2008
" In 2007, Ellison pledged $500,000 to fortify a community centre in Sderot, Israel, after discovering that the building was not fortified against rocket attacks
In June 2006, he announced he would not honor his earlier pledge of $115 million to Harvard University, claiming it was due to the departure of former President Lawrence Summers
In 2005, Ellison agreed to settle a four-year-old insider-trading lawsuit by offering to pay $100 million to charity in Oracle's name
Forbes's 2004 list of charitable donations made by the wealthiest 400 Americans stated that Ellison had donated $151,092,103, about 1% of his estimated personal wealth
Following success racing Maxi yachts, Ellison founded BMW Oracle Racing to compete for the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup
In 2002, Ellison's Oracle's team introduced kite yachting into the American Cup environment
" US District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled in Ellison's favor in June 2001, calling for a waiver for Ellison's jet, but did not invalidate the curfew
In January 2000, Ellison sued over the interpretation of the airport rule, contending that his Gulfstream V aircraft "is certified by the manufacturer to fly at two weights: 75,000 pounds, and at 90,000 pounds, for heavier loads or long flights requiring more fuel
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In 1994, Informix overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival
In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the name "SQL Server"
In 1992, Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash
With the defeat of Informix and of Sybase, Oracle enjoyed years of industry dominance until the rise of Microsoft SQL Server in the late 1990s and IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2001 to complement their DB2 database
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In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with two partners and an investment of $2,000; $1,200 of the money was his
During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation
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text: I've wanted to visit Scandinavia for what seems like a lifetime. It is one of the fewer parts of Europe I have never visited and I am so happy to be ticking at least one place off my list, on none other than my 25th birthday. We are flying out to Copenhagen on Saturday for 3 nights and I'd love to hear of any reccomendations, suggestions and must-see's from anyone who has visited or lives in this gorgeous part of the world!


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The Double Major/Dual Degree is making the most of your time at the University of Arizona!
In the past few years there has been increasing demand from undergraduate students that their degree be marketable to prospective employers upon graduation. While a liberal arts education aims at giving students a diverse education, without specific preparation for a particular job of field of employment, some employers have preferences regarding particular fields of study in which their prospective employees hold their degrees.
Given this, completing a degree as a double major, or completing two concurrent degrees (dual degree) can put a graduating student in a better position to secure a position with a preferred employer. Students who pursue double majors and dual degrees report their education experience as more favorable than students who pursue single majors/degrees, and they are more likely to be accepted into their preferred graduate program, and have more options for graduate degree programs.
In addition to this, studying more than one subject with the depth that completing a major course of study provides encourages an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving along with a more nuanced understanding of the complexity of contemporary topics and subjects of study.
Double-Dipping with Philosophy and PPEL majors
The University of Arizona and the Philosophy Department encourage our students to make the most of the time spent in pursuit of an undergraduate degree. In accord with this, the Philosophy Department allows 6 units of double-dipping with any other major. To share major courses, both majors must allow double-dipping. For a list of Double-Dipping policies for some Departments and majors at UA, go HERE.
We have also forged agreements with several departments across campus to encourage our students to double major in our programs.Our policies for double-use of course credit can be viewed for each major pairing by clicking the links below. Double-use of a course constitutes using one course for two different course requirements. This is generally allowed only for course requirements in the major, and not for Tier-1 General Education requirements, or for minor requirements. The exception to this is that PPEL allows double-dipping with a Philosophy or Economics minor. Contact the Academic Advisor for PPEL, Sarah Williams, for more info.
Because of these policies, many students can complete two majors in four years. Students who double-major are not required to complete a minor, and students in dual-degree programs can often use courses from the second degree toward minor requirements in the first degree. Contact your advisor for more details.
Philosophy Double Major Opportunities
Majors most commonly paired with Philosophy and with whom the Philosophy Department has a double-dipping policy:
Care Health & Society (BS) and Philosophy Dual Degree
PPEL – Philosophy, Politics Economics & Law and Philosophy
Religious Studies and Philosophy Double Major
Sociology (BA) and Philosophy Double Major
Other majors commonly paired with Philosophy:
While we do not yet have formal policy arrangements in place with the following departments, it is possible that we will have a policy in place in the near future. It also might be possible for you to set up an arrangement for your particular situation. As a general rule, Philosophy allows 6 units of cross-listed major coursework to apply to a second major if the other major also allows double-use of courses. Contact Sarah Williams in the Philosophy Department, and your other major advisor to find out if double-use of units is possible for you.
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Gender & Women's Studies
Philosophy with Minor Opportunities
Tier-2 Humanities: Up to two Tier-2 courses (6 units) used to satisfy General Education requirements can also be used to satisfy your minor requirements. Contact your minor advisor or your Philosophy advisor, Sarah Williams for details.
Philosophy allows students to double-dip up to 12 units of coursework between the Philosophy major and a Philosophy minor in a sequential degree. Students may not double-dip units between any major and any minor under the same degree (i.e. B.A., B.S., B.F.A., etc.) per University Policy.
PPEL Double Major Opportunities
PPEL with Minor Opportunities
Tier-2 Humanities: Up to two Tier-2 courses (6 units) used to satisfy General Education requirements can also be used to satisfy your minor requirements. Contact your minor advisor or your Philosophy advisor, Sarah Williams for details.
Economics Minor: PPEL Majors who wish to complete the 'Moral, Economic and Political Values Track' and declare a minor in Economics may waive up to 12 units of required courses in the PPEL major with an ECON minor. Students may automatically waive ECON 200 and three Track requirement courses in PPEL with completion of three upper-division Economics courses in the ECON minor. (These course exceptions are made by your PPEL advisor. Contact Sarah Williams if you are a PPEL major who declared an ECON minor. To declare an ECON minor, you must attend an info session. For more information and link to info session signups visit: https://econ.arizona.edu/undergraduate/minors) This has the effect of being able to complete the PPEL major and the ECON minor with only 6 additional units (2 courses) more than what is required to complete the PPEL major alone.
Philosophy Minor: PPEL Majors who wish to complete the 'Moral, Economic and Political Values Track' and declare a minor in Philosophy may waive up to 12 upper-division units of PPEL Track requirements with four upper-division courses in the Philosophy minor. This has the effect of being able to complete the PPEL major and the PHIL minor with only 6 additional units (2 courses) more than what is required to complete the PPEL major alone. Visit http://philosophy.arizona.edu/philosophy-minor or contact your advisor, Sarah Williams for more details.


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Bears Bites: Huge D in the Big D
Getting that feeling:
Um, remember the last time the Bears marched into Dallas and simply crushed the Cowboys?
The year was 1985.
Just sayin'.
Too soon?
Maybe, but why not think big?
Huge D in Big D:
Lovie loves turnovers.
Lovie got turnovers.
The guy is just too smooth:
Probably not a bigger turnover Monday night than Peanut Tillman's pick-6.
The guy now has 31 career INTs and 30 forced fumbles.
Simply incredible.
The quote:
"They're a wrecking machine."
-- ESPN analyst Jon Gruden on the Bears' defense.
Typical QB:
Grumpy, shouty, pouty making risky decisions …
Say hello to Tony Romo.
Jay Cutler overcomes a shaky first half -- including a brief spat with O-coordinator Mike Tice -- before lighting it up in the second with the help of old buddy Brandon Marshall.
Please tell me:
That sideline incident won't overshadow what was a huge road win for the beloved.
But …
Pretty sure it will. Sadly.
Ponder this:
The Bears are now tied atop the NFC North with … the Minnesota Vikings.
Wait, can that be right?


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Budding gardeners lend a hand!
As the Autumn leaves fell in Irlam Linear Park on 16th November 2018, 33 children from St. Teresas school and 8 children from Springwood school were beavering away on the ground helping Hamilton Davies Trust (HDT) plant a swathe of English bluebells at the Preston Avenue entrance to our hidden gem.
With 500 bulbs to plant, it was a good job there was plenty of adults to lend a hand too!
HDT wish to thank Simon, Mandy and Anthony from Kingsland, who kindly worked alongside the children and teachers, as well as Geoff and Andy from the Friends of Chat Moss who also lent a hand anprovided the trowels for them to use.
Mandy Eccles from HDT said: "HDT want to say a big thank you to all the children and adults who did such a fantastic job. What a lovely morning it was listening to the chatter amongst the children and adults as they busily planted. Well done everyone!"
For some of the children it was their first visit to the Linear Park and they really enjoyed it and are excited to see the carpet of bluebells next Spring.
If you've not had chance to see this lovely woodland space yet, then don your wellies, pop along and enjoy. Alternatively, click here to see images https://irlamandcadishead.net/locations/irlam-linear-park/
HDT are keen to support the maintenance and enhancement of Irlam Linear Park and have recently formed a Friends group with the help of some residents and local businesses Kingsland Drinks, Benchmark Building Supplies, B Johnson Funeralcare and Titan Security.
If you are interested in being a part of, or supporting, the Friends group then please contact Tony Prescott on 0161 222 4003 or email@example.com
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Dramatic video shows plane skidding off runway at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, wing tipping into ground
An American Eagle flight slid off the runway Monday morning at Chicago O'Hare International Airport as snowy conditions and blustery winds led to hundreds of flight cancellations at the city's major airports.
All 38 passengers and three crew members were deplaned from the aircraft and are now safely back in the terminal, said American Airlines spokesperson Ross Feinstein. The flight originated in Greensboro, North Carolina.
At the time of the incident, there was light snow with visibility of less than a mile, wind gusts of 30 mph and a temperature of 23 degrees Fahrenheit.
As of 10 a.m. ET, 500 flights were canceled at O'Hare and Midway International Airport due to weather conditions
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for parts of Chicago until 3 p.m. ET.


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Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Paul Goldsmith has announced relief for KiwiSaver members who are suffering financial hardship following the November 14 earthquakes, by making it easier for them to withdraw their funds. Scoop.co.nz. More>
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Commerce Minister Simon Power today announced relief for earthquake-affected Cantabrians who have KiwiSaver accounts by making it easier for them to withdraw their contribution.
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Tried to fix it by just adding a shim but it was past the point of being revived. My 12 year old son managed to well and truly kill the volume decrease function on this 3 year old 4S which I handed down to him after i upgraded to a 5S. This was replaced as part of a general overhaul (I replaced a badly scratched screen in the process as well and figured I may as well get it all done while I'm at it - the cost of parts for doing it all myself was less than taking it in.)
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Off all tasks done replacing the volume strip is most likely the most complex since the ribbon needs to be glued and folded in place. It comes with adhesive strips applied. The mute button has a small screw which could easily be missed if you don't pay attention to the guide. The new strip needs to have the tips melted on the mute switch once in place. A hot soldering iron or piece of thick wire heated up will do the job.
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The provided guides are good - just make sure you study all the photographs on each step before you start pulling and tugging at stuff. The microphone next to the earphone jack may tear off from the old ribbon when removing it. Pull it off with a tweezer and make sure you put the glue pad back so the new microphone will stay put.


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I was diagnosed with endo 5 years ago but have subsequently had 2 IVF babies. Pregnancy and breast feeding seems to have kept the endo at bay, but has now come back with a vengeance. I have a scan with my gyny consultant tomorrow. He suggested fitting a Mirena coil at the same time as this should ease some of my symptoms. He has also suggested I could have a laparascopy to laser the endo and try and detach my ovary from my abdominal wall. I think I have decided to go for the laparascpoy as my right ovary is particularly painful, but understand that the endo is likely to come back if I do not use some form of hormonal treatment. I am very nervous of the coil though as have heard some horror stories. I did not respond well to the pill as got very down and my labido was non existent. I have heard some people suffering the same from the Mirena Coil and was wondering if people could share their experiences.
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Derek Strong
|Personal information
|February 9, 1968
Los Angeles, California
|Listed height
|6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
|Listed weight
|220 lb (100 kg)
|Career information
|High school
|Pacific Palisades
(Los Angeles, California)
|Xavier (1987–1990)
|NBA draft
|1990 / Round: 2 / Pick: 47th overall
|Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers
|Playing career
|Power forward
|35, 20, 31, 7, 33, 30
|Career history
|Huesca La Magia
|Miami Tropics
|Washington Bullets
|Quad City Thunder
|Milwaukee Bucks
|Boston Celtics
|Los Angeles Lakers
|Orlando Magic
|Los Angeles Clippers
|Columbus Riverdragons
|Career highlights and awards
|Career NBA statistics
|3,088 (6.8 ppg)
|2,213 (4.9 rpg)
|291 (0.6 apg)
|Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Derek Lamar Strong (born February 9, 1968) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in ten National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons from 1991 to 2001 for six different teams. A 6'8" forward from Xavier University, Strong was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round (47th pick overall) of the 1990 NBA draft. Strong has successfully transitioned into stock car racing.
Professional Basketball Career[edit]
Strong played for the Washington Bullets, Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers.
In his NBA career, Strong played in 456 games and scored a total of 3,088 points. His best year as a professional came during the 1997–98 season as a member of the Magic, appearing in 58 games and averaging 12.7 ppg.
In 1992–93, Strong was named the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) Most Valuable Player, while playing with the Quad City Thunder.[1]
NASCAR career[edit]
During his tenure in the NBA, Derek was an avid NASCAR fan and remained committed to pursuing this childhood dream when his playing days ended. Strong transitioned into a professional stock car driver and owner of Strong Racing Team Derek is the first NBA player to successfully transition into stock car racing. Strong Racing is the first team in NASCAR history to have African-American female owners – Dawn Whitaker and Erika Hill.[2] Strong Racing is a Stock Car Racing Team that competes in ASA and NASCAR Racing events. Strong Racing is managed by Stuart Lycett and is based in Los Angeles.[3]
Strong supports many charities including The Music City Motorsports Institute, a non-profit associated with Strong Racing that seeks to motivate and inspire students to achieve academic success with an educational platform of learning, discovery and fun in the motor sports industry.[4] Co-owner of Strong Racing, Erika Hill is also the co-founder of Peace International, a non-profit organization whose primary mission is to build schools in remote areas throughout the world.[5]
- ^ "The official site of the NBA". NBA.com. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ "LTTS Exclusive: NBA and NASCAR Legend Derek Strong". Look to the Stars. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ http://www.crsportsnews.com/?id=786540&keys=nascar-nba-derek-strong
- ^ http://www.crsportsnews.com/?id=786540&keys=nascar-nba-derek-strong
- ^ "LTTS Exclusive: NBA and NASCAR Legend Derek Strong". Look to the Stars. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
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What are the 'Human Givens'?
In the last twenty years or so we have come to a new and deeper understanding of the ways in which the human mind works, and how to help it heal. Two innovative psychologists, Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, developed important new organising ideas and theories to enable the first ever scientific approach to understanding the human mind, and defining the emotional needs with which we are all born. Helpfully, they have also given us a clear idea of the tools with which we can meet those needs, and how to fix things when our inbuilt 'system' does not seem to be working at its best. Their work has given rise to what is now known as the human givens approach to psychotherapy, where the focus is on helping each individual to develop their skills so they can meet their own emotional and physical needs with the innate resources with which they were born.
Interestingly, those ideas are now reaching into the more enlightened sectors of the corporate world and informed areas of public life. See here for an interesting video on developments in the corporate and public sector.
Our 'given' needs naturally look for fulfilment through the ways we interact with our environment and through the use of the resources that nature gave us. However, when our emotional needs are not fulfilled, or when our resources are being used incorrectly, we may suffer considerable distress. Of course, those resources may have been damaged in some way by events in our lives over which we had no control, so we may need help in developing those resources and 'repairing' the damage that was done.
There is now widespread agreement as to the nature of our emotional needs.
•Security — safe territory and an environment which allows us to develop fully
•Attention, to give and receive it — a form of nutrition
•A sense of autonomy and control — having the ability to make responsible choices
•Being emotionally connected to others
•Feeling part of a wider community
•Intimacy — to know that at least one person accepts us totally for who we are
•Privacy — opportunity to reflect and consolidate experience
•Sense of status within social groupings – acceptance within the tribe
•Sense of competence and achievement – feelings of success
•Meaning and purpose — which come from being stretched in what we do and think
Along with physical and emotional needs, we have been given tools to help us meet those needs.
•The ability to develop complex long-term memory, which enables us to add to our innate knowledge, and to learn
•The ability to build rapport, to empathise and to connect with others
•Imagination, which enables us to focus our attention away from our emotions, to use language and to problem solve more creatively and objectively
•A conscious, rational mind that can check out emotions, and which can question, analyse and plan
•The ability to 'know' — that is, to understand the world unconsciously through metaphorical pattern matching
•An observing self — that part of us that can step back, be more objective and be aware of itself as a unique centre of awareness, separate from intellect, emotion and conditioning
•A dreaming brain that preserves the integrity of our genetic inheritance every night by metaphorically defusing expectations held in the autonomic arousal system because they were not acted out the previous day.
Over hundreds of thousands of years our 'human givens' underwent continuous refinement as they drove our evolution forwards. They could perhaps be thought of as inbuilt, biological templates that continually interact with one another and (in undamaged people) look for their natural fulfilment in the world in ways that allow us to survive and thrive together as individuals in a great variety of different social groupings. It is the way those needs are met, and the way we use those wonderful resources, that determine the physical, mental and moral health of any individual. As such, the human givens are the benchmark position to which we must all refer in education, in mental and physical health and in the way we organise and run our lives at work, at home and in our leisure pursuits. When we feel emotionally fulfilled and when we are operating effectively within society, we are more likely to be emotionally and mentally healthy. But when too many innate physical and emotional needs are not being met in the environment, or when our resources are used incorrectly, unwittingly or otherwise, we suffer great distress, and so do those around us.
From the therapist's couch to the classroom, from the HR department to the social worker, and from the prison to the residential home each and every person concerned with the emotional and mental well-being of others should be addressing whether or not their innate needs are being met by their given resources. Much of our work is in helping people to develop the necessary skills to ensure they are able to do exactly that.


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To me, movies tell stories and make us think, and entertain at the same time. The Hunger Games accomplishes all. The fact is this kind of scenario where the powers to be keep pulling strings to "manufacture" empathy, restore political balance, gain power over the people ... are all evident in various facets of life. You take that scenario and mesh it with the reality TV craze over the past 10 years, you get The Hunger Games. Reality TV intrudes private space, people generally like to watch "others suffer and/or pull through hardships". Reality TV dumbs us all down to the lowest common denominator. I think some were really well planned, such as Survivor and even The Amazing Race, but much of the rest tries too hard and voyeuristic viewing is too cruel and deplorable. Producers "jiggle" with participants emotions, manufacture situations to create conflicts, sensationalise situations all for the viewing public.
What is The Hunger Games? Its a potent mix of The Truman Show, Reality TV, Rambo and copied extensively from the great Japanese movie Battle Royale. Its Big Brother Orwellian gone bad. We needed to go there to know what could happen if we let certain values get out of hand. Too much credit is given to the author, not enough for the blatant plagiarism of Battle Royale.
In Battle Royale, massive unemployment has caused enormous anger stemming from the younger generation. The government passed a Bill to "control" that and to make sure their youth do not get "weak" Every year one junior high class will be selected at random to participate in Battle Royale in a secluded island with only one person allowed to come out alive. They have to kill because all of them have a special necklace cuff which can be activated to blow up if they do not do so. The event is broadcasted like Reality TV.
The Hunger Games, saw many states warring over a long time. After the war, they were classified into Districts 1-12 depending on the line of work/industry they do. Every year one male and one female teenager will be selected to participate in the games, One lone victor emerges, the participants are called Tributes ( to commemorate the war struggle and maintain peace ... go figure).
Its a nasty side of human nature as putting a group in a boxed environment with specific rules, will cause most to work towards that objective. Survival of the fittest, the will to live will almost always win out the morality and ethical aspects. The Hunger Games is good entertainment, bring your teen kids along, not your under 12s though, and make sure you discuss through the issues in the movie. Too many parents are too protective nowadays. If you live in clean streets all the time, you do not understand how people live in poverty. If The Hunger Games is a 9/10, Battle Royale is 11/10.
Sydney Morning herald op piece: The arrival of The Hunger Games on the big screen has sent thrills around the world. Already a publishing blockbuster, Suzanne Collins's sensational trilogy is cleaning up at the box office as well. The first instalment is an enthralling film that keeps audiences spellbound throughout. Or so I hear, for I won't be going. I read all three books in my professional capacity as a reviewer and experienced first-hand their hypnotic quality. But while they may provide gripping entertainment, they carry some worrying ethical messages.
Collins conceived the idea while channel surfing between reality TV shows and news coverage of a war zone. Many are convinced that the trilogy presents a violent, unjust and horrifically dystopian future world as a poignant critique of reality television, totalitarian government and screen violence as entertainment.
But could Collins's skill in turning this critique into pulse-racing entertainment ultimately leave her young audience less sensitive to violence? More importantly, by constantly putting her good protagonists into worst-case scenarios where they must make decisions that under normal circumstances would be wrong, is she gently pressuring her young audience into stretching moral boundaries? I believe so. Here are five reasons why.
Firstly, Collins distorts the meaning of heroic rebellion. The lead character, Katniss Everdeen, clearly has more courage than most people on the planet. In addition, she seems to have no choice but to go along with the Games and try to survive. If she refuses, not only will she die, but her family and friends will also suffer.
But is it real rebellion to allow herself to be trained up for a killer-survivor episode? Could one say no? Other heroes have shown it is possible. Passive resistance was the ''weapon'' of choice for Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and anti-Nazi activists Sophie Scholl and her brother. And may we mention Christian martyrs? In all these cases, even where their protests led to sudden death, their story didn't end. Katniss is courageous, but her ''rebellion'' is a compromise.
"Author Suzanne Collins distorts the meaning of heroic rebellion". Photo: Getty Images
Secondly, survival justifies killing in this story. By participating in the Games, even the heroes allow themselves to be infected with its kill-or-be-killed ethos. Katniss reluctantly begins by dropping an insect nest on someone's head so they swell up and die ''naturally'', then destroys others' food so they will starve. Later, she has no problem shooting a citizen who blocks her path.
Thirdly, characters are desensitised to sexual exploitation. The reality television framework makes body appearance important: each contestant has a stylist who must first assess them without clothes (Katniss ''bravely'' resists the urge to cover herself), and then a full body wax makes them camera-ready. This is probably normal for reality TV, but don't tell me it's brave.
A fake relationship between Katniss and the male lead, Peeta, is also played up to win sponsorship. So physical affection is given for food, or later because she's ''so desperately lonely [she] can't stand it''. This selfish mockery is all the love that is shown in The Hunger Games.
Fourthly, feelings replace right and wrong. For Katniss, the pattern is repeated over and over: a catastrophic situation is followed by her passionate but often unethical reaction, then a soul-searching analysis of her feelings to deal with her guilt, followed by defiant justification that she had no choice, or that she was confused, which is the fault of those who created the catastrophe. Thus she becomes the victim-hero: they made her do it.
Finally, there is the seductive sensationalism of the storytelling. It is like watching a graphic news story that turns horrific events into entertainment. The screaming, the blood, the broken bodies - and when all this is no longer enough, the slow and graphic death of some poor, innocent character we've come to like. How can this series be a critique of using injury and death for entertainment when it does the same itself?
My argument is not against violence, moral ambivalence or outright wrongdoing in teen literature, but against justifying them and casting them in a heroic light.Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-ive-lost-my-hunger-for-violent-unethical-games-20120402-1w8pl.html#ixzz1r2KtMTwz


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Wordless Wednesday #49 | Healthy Eating.
17 replies:
- MaryJane Tauyan said...
omg! yummy foods! wla ding ako rice or even white breads for months now! eating clean n din haha its my second month nah this august! try green tea in between din it will make you feel so full and less craving din
- Wed Aug 07, 02:37:00 PM GMT+8
- Sam Lanuza said...
Like you and Mary Jane I hope I can manage not to eat rice too. It's as if I am carbs dependent xD
- Wed Aug 07, 02:49:00 PM GMT+8
- Zwitsal Mae Yuson said...
wow! i like this! nice diet!
- Wed Aug 07, 03:01:00 PM GMT+8
- Lexie Lane said...
I could not eat that pusit without rice! Oh my gosh! So yummy!
- Wed Aug 07, 03:02:00 PM GMT+8
- MikiHope said...
I have not eaten rice in over a year!
These dishes look yummy!
- Wed Aug 07, 03:11:00 PM GMT+8
- Jocris Mangubat said...
Can't live without rice. You do have a healthy living Mommy great job,^^
- Wed Aug 07, 04:01:00 PM GMT+8
- ReviewsSheROTE Pamela R said...
the salad looks good =) NOT so sure about giving up rice---maybe cutting down but we <3 our rice in this house
- Wed Aug 07, 08:02:00 PM GMT+8
- ReviewsSheROTE Pamela R said...
the salad looks good---not so sure about cutting rice out of our diet--We <3 it in this house. Never had pusit before =]
- Wed Aug 07, 08:04:00 PM GMT+8
- April Perez said...
i started to eat healthy again by eating a balanced diet. i still eat rice but this time less than a cup na, also decided to work out :D
- Wed Aug 07, 09:44:00 PM GMT+8
- Debarpan Mukherjee said...
really impressive diet.carry on.
- Wed Aug 07, 11:29:00 PM GMT+8
- Cindy Batchelor said...
I wish i could take a bite of that salad right now! looks delicious! love the pics!
- Wed Aug 07, 11:35:00 PM GMT+8
- Tammy Graham said...
That does look delicious but what is that in the last pictures. Hmmmm....
- Thu Aug 08, 02:29:00 AM GMT+8
- Corinne Schmitt said...
Yum! I love that you have shown such delicious-looking pictures of healthy food. Eating healthy isn't a punishment!
- Thu Aug 08, 02:58:00 AM GMT+8
- Franc said...
Good job. I also try to go without rice for a few days at times. Running and biking for me is easier when I am lighter.
- Thu Aug 08, 09:35:00 AM GMT+8
- Sweethestia said...
I love binusog na pusit with toyo mansi and sili.. yumyum
- Thu Aug 08, 11:09:00 PM GMT+8
- melandriaonline said...
wow, that's a lot of great foods. Now, i'm hungry.
- Thu Aug 08, 11:22:00 PM GMT+8
- Ruth said...
Oh, I love this entry, wordless wednesday! I should join this too! Hah
Btw, I just had apples! :)
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I am having a lazy day, so today it is going to be shorter than usual.
I am remembering and dreaming and definetely I would love to be going down these stairs
enjoying this landscape
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
A Child-Free Trip to Niagara Falls
Thirty years later, I did and because it was a special trip, I decided to push the boat out and stay in a top class hotel in Niagara Falls. The Marriott fitted the bill perfectly.
It is on the Canadian side, so that's another country ticked off my must visit list. Best of all it is the closest hotel to the falls. Most of the rooms have spectacular views of the falls, so I booked one of them and was not disappointed. It was breath taking, but if you want the best views, you should really stay on the top floors.
I thoroughly enjoyed eating breakfast looking out on the falls. You eat breakfast on the fourth floor, so the view of the falls is great especially on a sunny day. Speaking of food the room service is great, but the best thing about the hotel, food wise, is the Terrapin Grille. The food served suited my tastes and the portion sizes were generous, so it gets my vote.
The quality of the rooms is high. My room was well proportioned and I had a spacious bathroom with a lovely deep tub. My shower was not bad either with good water pressure. Apparently, there are some stunning rooms on the top floors that include a two person Jacuzzi.
I am not much of a spa person, but decided to take advantage of the hotel's facilities and try everything. The spa facilities were exceptional. There is a steam room, two whirlpools and a sauna. I spent quite a bit of time in the hotel's indoor pool and really enjoyed myself.
The sundeck was my favourite spot. I also put my head around the door of the fitness room, but did not use the equipment. My impression is that there was everything you need in the gym, but not having used the equipment I can't really comment on how good it is.
As well as enjoying the sundeck, I treated myself to several spa treatments by buying a spa package, which saved me about 12% on the normal cost. The spa is beautifully decorated and the staff looked after me well and I enjoyed all of the treatments.
The hotel offers some nice extras like valet parking. I found the staff attentive and very accommodating. The atmosphere in the hotel is tranquil. This is helped by the fact it is located a little outside of the main tourist area, but it is close enough to everything to make the hotel a great base for visiting the falls and the surrounding area.
I would highly recommend this hotel as a base for anyone. If you are looking for a romantic break, the hotel has all of the necessary elements especially if you book one of the suites on the upper floors.
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With Sooners looming, Longhorns just avoid upset
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Longhorns said they weren't
looking past Oklahoma State to their matchup with rival Oklahoma.
Second-ranked Texas will have a hard time getting anyone to
believe them after Saturday's 17-15 victory over the Cowboys that
took cornerback Rod Babers' defensive stop on a 2-point conversion
and a drive-killing interception in the fourth quarter to seal the
"It was a good, hard fight,'' said Texas quarterback Chris
Simms, who passed for 267 yards and a touchdown and ran for another
in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
"I think it's really good we got a good hard test like this.''
Entering next week's showdown against rival Oklahoma, Texas is
5-0 for the first time since 1983. The Longhorns went undefeated in
the regular season that year.
Texas was anything but perfect Saturday.
Missed field goals, a dropped touchdown pass and an inability to
put the Cowboys away in the second nearly did Texas in.
The crowd of 83,116 at Royal-Memorial Stadium was expecting a
typical home blowout. But they couldn't start chanting "Beat OU!''
until the final seconds ticked off of this one.
"Not many good things happened to us today,'' said Texas coach
Mack Brown, who tried to find the positive.
"It's good to be in tight games because our kids are tested.
You need to be in some fights. It's dangerous for us every week. I
hope our fans learned something today.''
It was a fight Texas could have lost.
Leading 17-9 in the fourth, Texas pinned OSU on its own 1 after
a punt. Josh Fields then hit Rashaun Woods for a 25-yard
completion, and a 25-yard run by Seymore Shaw quickly moved the
ball to midfield for the Cowboys (2-3, 0-1).
Facing third-and-23 from the Texas 33, Fields threw a prayer to
John Lewis, who came down with the ball just inside the goal line
for the touchdown.
On the 2-point try, Fields found Woods at the goal line, but his
back was turned to the end zone and Babers stopped him before he
could get across.
Oklahoma State had one last chance to win when Texas failed to
pick up a first down. Babers stepped up again when Fields' errant
throw went right into his hands with two minutes left.
"It was a blessing,'' Babers said of his first interception.
"I was praying before the pick.''
Statistically, it shouldn't have been this close. The Longhorns
outgained Oklahoma State 412-273 in total yards and had 25 first
downs, compared with 15 for the Cowboys.
Tailback Cedric Benson ran for 117 yards on 27 carries. Simms
was 24-of-46 with one interception. Sloan Thomas caught seven
passes for 130 yards.
But the Longhorns had uncharacteristic mistakes on offense. Wide
receiver Roy Williams, who sat out last week's win over Tulane,
dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone when he tried to grab it
with one hand.
Normally reliable kicker Dusty Mangum missed three field goal
attempts of 35, 24 and 44 yards.
"We didn't get anything out of our kicking game today,'' Brown
said. "We have to work on that next week.''
Texas' 17 points were its fewest at home since a 35-17 loss to
Kansas State in 1999.
"We were in position to win,'' Oklahoma State coach Les Miles
said. "This is no moral victory.''
The Texas defense has two shutouts this season but found itself
down 3-0 after the Cowboys' first drive, on Luke Phillips' 39-yard
field goal. They were the first points given up by the Longhorns in
the first quarter this season.
Texas finally punched the ball into the end zone after forcing
Oklahoma State to punt with a minute left in the half.
Simms directed a four-play, 59-yard drive, aided by a Cowboys
personal foul, and he found B.J. Johnson from 9 yards out for the
game's first touchdown. Texas led 10-3 at halftime.
Texas went up 17-3 when Simms capped an 80-yard drive with a
1-yard keeper that appeared to put his team in control. But two
Longhorns penalties on Oklahoma State's next drive moved the ball
30 yards, and the Cowboys' Tatum Bell took a pitchout and skirted
down the sideline 45 yards for a touchdown to make it 17-9. A bad
snap led to a blocked kick on the extra-point try.
The botched attempt left Miles wondering about what could have
"If we make the extra point, we have a tied ballgame (late in
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Fast forward 18 months and Mourinho finds himself in the position that the class clown always ends up in – alone, under-pressure and even worse on the verge of getting expelled.
His first game against Barcelona in November 2010 ended up with a result that director Florentino Perez regarded as the worst in the club's history. It was a 5-0 drubbing, a 'humiliation'. Mourinho drew criticism for his conservative tactics and inability to change the game. These digs have continued to stick with him as time after time Barcelona have got the better of Madrid. Last season they pipped Madrid to the title as well as running off with their third Champions League in four years.
The only comfort was that Madrid won the Copa Del Rey but even that came via an extra-time strike against an exhausted Barcelona rather than from a dominating performance. Now Mourinho has faced Pep Guardiola's men nine times with Madrid and won just that one game in extra-time. The aggregate score stands at Barcelona 19 Madrid 9. In five Bernabéu games against Mourinho, Barcelona remain unbeaten, a run that even Guardiola has said, 'To come and win here so often is not normal.' It is the first time in Mourinho's career where he has faced an obstacle he seemingly cannot overcome, a tactical battle that he keeps losing and with every loss comes a sign Madrid are running out of patience.
And the hounds in Madrid are turning on him. Despite La Liga stats that are simply stunning with a record 70 goals in 20 matches Mourinho knows it's not enough. Even if Madrid get beaten again at the Nou Camp in their second league game against Barca such has been their league form the seven point lead they now enjoy at the league summit looks unsurpassable even for a side as good as Barcelona. But the Barcelona 'problem' returned with a vengeance this month.
The footballing gods once again drew the rivals together in the Copa Del Rey, this time in the quarter-finals. Once more Madrid expected and once more Mourinho failed to deliver. The score this time just 2-1 but the ease in which Barcelona won was extraordinary. A puzzling starting line-up brought accusations of negative tactics. Once more Pepe was the villain, this time for a stamp on Messi that brought his eighth booking in eleven El Clasicos. It should have been red.
Then it happened. Marca the Spanish sporting paper which acts like an unofficial mouthpiece for the club turned on Mourinho. No-one could remember a similar incident in which the next day's writing had been so critical of Madrid and the tactics employed. They wrote 'Mou still hasn't found the right key and he is left without excuses.' Journal AS, so notoriously pro-Madrid they were once caught photoshopping a Bilbao defender out of a picture to 'prove' how offside Dan Alves had been when he scored a crucial Barcelona goal, had a simple message for its readers, 'Madrid offered dirtiness; Barcelona offered football.'
The dirty and underhand tactics that have become a feature of Madrid's battles against Barcelona over the last year were lambasted. AS's editor Alfredo Relaño asked: If you're just going to keep losing what's the need to lose your decorum too?'. Mourinho was widely blamed for this descent into thuggery. He did himself no favours when he claimed not to have seen Pepe's disgusting stamp on Messi. Madrid's power men had allowed Mourinho free reign; if you're winning matches and winning trophies then a bit of controversy doesn't matter. But then they seemed to suddenly realise they weren't winning matches, certainly not against their old foes, and the stream of trophies was more like a tiny drip.
The tides were changing. Mourinho had been under pressure before but he had always commanded the respect and loyalty from his players, the fans and those who fell over themselves to write about what a talented manager he was. Before the second leg something else happened altogether more sinister for Mourinho. A conversation he had had at the training ground with Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas was leaked to the media. It detailed Ramos's frustrations with the tactics employed against Barcelona and Iker Casillas took issue when he heard Mourinho talking about him. Remarkably neither the club nor Mourinho sought to deny the allegations amid rumours that he was losing the support of his players.
It was the second leak in a week to hit the Madrid camp, after news that Di Maria would miss the second-leg was also released. The media went into overdrive about a mole in the team, an actual player who unhappy with the way things were run was seeking to undermine and damage his manager.
A disastrous few days got worse for the suddenly 'not-so-Special One'. He was booed by the fans during Madrid's 4-1 win over Bilbao and noticeably never left his seat, as if he were looking for refuge out of the spotlight. On the eve of the second-leg cup game at the Nou Camp AS ran a story likening Mourinho to Schettino, the captain of the doomed cruise ship Costa Concordia. The tension was becoming unbearable.
Mourinho threw caution to the wind against Barcelona just a little over two weeks ago, playing Kaka and Ozil together in the middle for the first time ever. They smashed Barcelona but incredibly still found themselves 2-0 down. A stirring comeback restored some pride but it wasn't enough to keep them in the competition.
Now reports are claiming Mourinho has made up his mind to leave Madrid at the end of the season while others say he will be sacked if he doesn't deliver La Liga and the Champions League. Mourinho is the name in the frame at Spurs, whilst he has also been linked to former club Chelsea. The mind games, the conspiracy theories, the wild gestures and mysterious musings that Mourinho excelled at have become boring and predictable.
It's not just Madrid who are tiring of Mourinho, football is tiring of Mourinho…so ask yourself do you really want him back?
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