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Curious Case of Casual Connolly
Gus Katsaros
September 27 2012 07:55AM
Tim Connolly is still under contract for another season. He was supposed to be the answer between Phil Kessel and Joffrey Lupul, the first line placeholder until a better option appeared. He was injured in the preseason and lost the spot to Tyler Bozak.
He didn't help his cause with a steadilty eroding defensive game, earning him decreased minutes until late in the season where a brief resurgence earned him seven points in the final dozen games.
This one play stuck out in particular as I was at the game and got to see it from a few different perspectives.
This was the Washington Capitals first goal by Marcus Johansson against the Leafs on February 25, 2012:
Initially I thought the goal was Dion Phaneuf's fault. Johansson was his man as he entered the corner, and he didn't step in his way, something out of character of Phaneuf where he looks for every opportunity to lace up players with a big hit.
After watching the goal a few times, I concluded Tim Connolly was the main culprit. Here's why.
Alex Ovechkin crosses the line while very Leaf player on the ice is watching Ovi. Matthew Lombardi skated from the face off dot in the Capitals zone and coasted into the Leafs zone. Meanwhile, no one is watching Matthieu Perrault.
Phaneuf and Matt Frattin then engage Ovechkin, while Lombardi skates right behind Frattin.
Connolly is entering the zone, not mindful of the trailer, Marcus Johansson. The mistake couldn't get any worse, right?
It does.
Ovechkin side steps a major collision, but is knocked off the puck which goes behind Frattin (a play that is notable differnce in Ovi that has made him less effective as a scorer).
The trailer, Johansson picks up the puck and goes wide down the wing. Phaneuf curls and sees him—this is where the breakdown occurs. In an instant, Dion is watching MJ90 and took a quick peek in Connolly's direction.
Connolly was coasting watching the puck carrier. He had stopped skating entering the zone without another stride, all momentum.
In that split second he has to decide if he's engaging MJ90 who is coming in wide, or stopping in front of the net, the coverage area of center, Connolly.
Dion did the responsible thing and stopped in front of his own net, especially with Ovechkin and Perrault appearing from the soft side out front. Connolly lets them both skate by.
Phaneuf doesn't get to MJ90, which is why I initially thought he had blown his coverage and the goaltending couldn't bail out the play.
The little acknowledgement of where Connolly was on the ice, affected the decision to stop in front. Better communication would have helped "I got him" etc.
James Reimer didn't exactly play that well either, unable to push off and get there with the speed MJ90 had generated without anything in his way to slow it down. Tough call for the goalie.
That play was blown as soon as Dion saw Connolly coasting. That split second register forced a decision, and he committed to it. The consequence was space and the puck carrier had easy access to pick up speed for a great scoring chance .. and capitalized.
Here he's coasting back into the play as the center as well, although deserves credit to get back into the play after it broke down in the offensive zone, but he stopped skating.
It's not an isolated incident. Here he loses the puck in the offensive zone, stops skating and allows Lucic to get to the net hard.
He's much more successful coming off the perimeter and getting to the net, fighting through battles, or just arriving on time.
That last goal was a prime example of the distribution capability and the potential when hooked up with Phil Kessel that earned him a 2-yr $9M contract as a free agent.
He streaks down the wing and makes a skilled pass through the middle - yet stays on the perimeter and travels behind the net. The fact he retrieves a loose puck and scores is about as skilled a play as the fluke goal against the Senators.
There's no question he can find distribution option and execute as well as find his way to the goal.
So the question becomes, does Tim Connolly have enough offensive creativity - while limiting the coachable mistakes - to be a contributor?
We made a decision at McKeen's and he didn't get a write up as a fantasy player in the Yearbook. We felt he wasn't worth the risk. We felt that Tyler Bozak will eventually be the pivot once again, another placeholder duty.
At this point the Leafs should be creating a way to move him.
September 27 2012, 09:00AM
Oh Timmy. Who can forget this awful play against the Oilers: Youtube
September 27 2012, 09:09AM
Oh Timmy. Who can forget this awful play against the Oilers: Youtube
Not so much a lazy, careless backcheck as it is a giveaway. Not sure if it fits into the context of this overall post.
September 27 2012, 09:17AM
@Cam Charron
It was still a pretty lazy play at the blue line.
September 27 2012, 10:46AM
Connolly was a lost cause last year. Once he lost his 1st line role, and maybe because of how the team was playing, or Wilson, or who knows, maybe he just got tired, but it felt like he unplugged until rpetty much the end of the season.
September 27 2012, 11:26AM
Connolly sucks, this post is great.
JVR to centre experiment would most certainly be a disaster and i'd still prefer it to Connolly on the top unit.


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Do you remember the pictures of the old organ grinder with his cute little monkey in the red vest, red hat and the tin cup? The organ grinder would turn the handle of the organ and crank out some music while the monkey would pass the tin cup collecting donations from passersby. Though the pair were beggars, they gave something to those passing by.
Today we have a different kind of beggar. They stand at the corner with a cardboard sign begging for a handout or go to the local government handout office without giving anything back. Sure, they are on hard times, but the attitude is different. The organ grinder at least worked to entertain his donors, to sing for his supper so to speak.
This president has borrowed, spent and wasted $5 trillion, in just three years, of American taxpayers assets. It is like going to a high class electronics store, buying the biggest, baddest large screen TV made, putting the $8,000 price on your credit card, then on the way home, driving it and your brand new pickup truck off a cliff. That is the economic style of the liberals in Washington D.C. What we have to show for our huge $16 trillion debt? What do you have to show for the money they squandered? Nothing but more welfare dads.
I think the arrogant, liberal, central planners in Washington D.C. really think they are smarter than anyone else. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say they really believe they are that smart. (By the way, intelligence is what God gave us. Smart and stupid is what we do with it.) Bear in mind that they want to take the wealth from those that created it (the givers) and redistribute it to those who would gladly give up freedom for the free stuff (the takers).
I think the arrogant elitists in our government and colleges believe that by redistributing the wealth of the able, everyone will have enough. But they fail to realize two things. First, the American system has created more abundance for more people than any other nation in history. No nation has ever provided the wealth for its people as has the American free enterprise system (Free Enterprise, Free to enter the business for the promise of the Prize.)
Second, every nation that has gone down that road has always given its people poverty, misery and death and ended in destruction, but the elite lived well for a time. Though they want the people to come begging to Washington for hand outs, but in a practical sense, they want the power to manipulate the people through hunger and deprivation while telling them all the while that Big Brother is watching out for them.
They would have America become a tin cup society, begging for handouts from them. Another four years of Obama and his cronies will make us a Tin Cup America. This election will decide between an abundant America and a Tin Cup America. You choose.


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Satan obtains permission from the Lord to afflict Job physically—Job is smitten with boils—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar come to comfort him.
1 Again there was a day when the
2 And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
3 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a
4 And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his
5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will
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7 ¶So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
In Butte
I am having a great time, even at the low times when I am wet and tired. I just checked the progress of the race for the first time since it began. I'm a bit surprised I'm in the thick of it. I really expected to be back of pack. :-) I'm looking forward to the coming days, difficult and daunting as every one of them is.
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I wanna come ride! :)ReplyDelete
Keep inspiring us all!
I have been reading your blog for about 6 months now and I am increasingly impress by how strong you are. You are an incredible woman!!! It sounds like you are having a good time out there. Butte is way more impressive at night than during the day. It is my favorite part of the drive between Helena & Butte. Keep up the good work girlie!!!
Keep it Jill, I just came acroos your blog and have in under my favorite section... Someday I would like to do the TD, but baby steps first...ReplyDelete
You're doing great!ReplyDelete
It's been cool following the Spots. To zoom all the way with satellite to a spot were you were just 9 minutes prior really makes us feel like we're in the thick of things ourselves.
In the three summers I lived in the Tetons I never got a chance to ride the Ashton-Flagg Ranch road that splits Yellow Stone and the Tetons. I hope you get a chance to soak in a hot pot or frolic in a hot spring fed stream while you're on that stretch but I suspect you'll be all business.
You are doing great, Jill! It is exciting to see you in the middle of things. Keep up the good work.ReplyDelete


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Huntington City has officially canceled their annual display due to existing fire conditions. Mayor Hilary Gordon, along with councilman Julie Jones, met with Fire Chief Pete Alger, Emery County Commissioner JR Nelson, Sheriff Greg Funk and Captain Kyle Ekker last Saturday to examine the options this year for fireworks, both the kind professionally lit and do it yourself fireworks.
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Violation of the above is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine according to Utah State Code 65-A8212. The use of fireworks outside of incorporated cities was banned earlier last week by the Utah governor as he put a statewide ban on setting off fireworks. Canyon View Junior High School in Huntington has been turned into a small city occupied by between 400 and 500 firefighters who will call this home for the next several weeks as they fight the Seeley fire. They come almost as a self-contained unit with everything they will need to sustain life as they go about their duties of fighting fires.
Because of the occupation of the school, Huntington City has found it necessary to rearrange some of their Heritage Days events. The lawn mower races have been canceled. The pre-fireworks concert scheduled at the school has been moved to the city park. The stage will set up on Center Street and will face the grass and the pavilion. The band Haywire will play from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
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Sunday night against the Tampa Bay Lightning the New York Rangers morphed into the Power Rangers, scoring a season-high three power play goals en-route to a 4-3 road victory at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. The win lifted the Rangers to 19-19-2 on the season and evened their record at 1-1-0 through the first two games on their current five-game road trip.
Mats Zuccarello, Chris Kreider, and Benoit Pouliot all scored with the man advantage for the Rangers, with Zuccarello pacing the team with his second three-point game of the season, equaling a career-high. Ryan McDonagh and Derick Brassard each contributed a pair of power play assists, while Henrik Lundqvist started in goal for the first time in nine days and stopped 37 of 40 shots to backstop the victory.
Rick Nash got the Rangers going on Sunday by scoring his first goal in eight games just 4:30 into the contest, the team's lone even strength goal on the night. Camped out by the right post, Nash had an easy tap in when Derek Stepan whipped a cross-crease pass his way to put the Rangers up 1-0 against a Lightning team playing its second game in as many nights following Saturday's 2-1 home-ice shootout loss against the Montreal Canadiens.
To their credit Tampa Bay came right back with Tyler Johnson finishing a pretty passing sequence for a power play goal at 10:41 of the first period, tying the game 1-1. Ondrej Palat then hammered a rebound past Lundqvist from left wing at 16:55 of the opening period and the Rangers found themselves in a 2-1 hole. However that's where the team's revived power play began to turn the game back in the Rangers favor.
Eight seconds after Valteri Filppula was penalized for a delay of game minor at 18:17 Zuccarello's centering pass to Pouliot banked off the skate of a Lightning defenseman and past goaltender Anders Lindback to even the score at 2-2. The goal was Zuccarello's ninth of the season, and was the start of a big night for the Norwegian winger, who has now surpassed Brad Richards as the team's leading scorer with 28 points.
Zuccarello made a simply gorgeous soft pass to Kreider on left wing with the Rangers skating on the man advantage early in the second period, and Kreider burst towards the net, slipping the disc into the far side of the cage at 4:35 as the visitors restored their one-goal lead. The goal was Kreider's team-high tenth of the season, and third in the last seven games.
Moments later Tampa's J.P. Cote delivered a crushing hit on Carl Hagelin in the far corner of the Rangers offensive zone and was penalized for high sticking at 6:42. Again the Rangers made the Lightning pay for their indiscretion as Pouliot extended his consecutive games point-scoring streak to a career-high seven games as he tapped in a pretty pass from Brassard at 7:51 of the second period.
Pouliot scored his seventh goal of the season, and it was his team-high fifth on the power play. He now has four power play goals in the past five games.
The three power play goals were the most the Rangers had recorded in a game since they also netted three last April 3rd during a 6-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team's power play has come alive of late, and including Sunday it has clicked eight times in its last 23 opportunities, covering the six games. The Rangers entered play Sunday with the NHL's 11th-best power play, converting at an 18.9 percent success rate.
With the Rangers 3-for-3 on the power play, and Tampa Bay 1-for-1, the game's first successful penalty kill finally came 13:11 into the second period when the visitors killed off Dan Girardi's interference minor.
The Lightning did make things more interesting, and tense for the Rangers, when Filpulla's deflection beat Lundqvist stick side for an even strength goal at 8:14 of the third period.
Lundqvist was often under siege in the final period of play, and came up with a string of big saves. Though he surrendered more than two goals for the eighth straight start, Lundqvist played better and better as the game wore on, earning his first win in two weeks and only his third in the month of December.
The Rangers No. 1 goaltender faced 16 shots in the third period, stopping 15, and was awarded the team's Broadway Hat once the victory was sealed.
With defenseman Anton Stralman unable to play due to a sore left hand/wrist on Sunday, rookie Conor Allen made his NHL debut, playing a solid game while being mostly paired alongside Justin Falk, though he also took some shifts with Girardi. His first shift arrived 2:12 into the opening period, and he recorded his first shot on goal two shifts later.
Allen logged 15:47 of ice time, including seven minutes in the third period, on ice even as the Rangers protected their one-goal lead late.
The Rangers will play their final game of calendar year 2013, and reach the midway point of their 2013-14 schedule, when they skate against the Panthers in Sunrise on Tuesday night in the their next contest on this road trip.


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ah, thanks for the correction
just finished watching it this is the best action packed episode since team kakashi and itachi fight, Sakura and Grandma got it going on, they rock, the fight was crazy, although it was 10 puppets to 100, grandma's puppet were stronger, now i am waiting for the manga to come out, i gotta get some sleep, bye
This was a really good episode - I really enjoyed.
And is it just me or was the animation a little different - I don't Know if you could say it was any better or any worse but it definitely seemed different to me - Sasori especially looked differnt - but then again Im probably just imaginning things.
+ No lame Team Guy fight scenes
- Naruto and Kakashi are still running after Deidara (but atleast Kakashi looks to be getting serious)
Wow i will consider this to be the first REAL episode of shippuden. All the others the fights were basically looped actions and talk. My theory the real animators were working on the movie while we got the back up animators, the filler animators for the first 25. The fight was awesome.
redemption, at last. Lets hope that Shippuuden stays like this. I also agree that now the movie is out of the way we may have some better stuff to look forward too now. Fantastic.
Woot, finally an episode I can actually download. Hopefully it'll continue on this path.
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Loved this one more then all the others. XD So much fighting, love it!
This episode was awesome. Can´t say the same about the previous shippuden episodes


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Scientists believe cats 'sort of domesticated themselves'
June 29, 2007
WASHINGTON Your hunch is correct. Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around. The sad truth is, it may not be a final decision.
But don't take this feline diffidence personally. It runs in the family. And it goes back a long way about 12,000 years, actually.
Those are among the inescapable conclusions of a genetic study of the origins of the domestic cat, being published today in the journal Science.
The findings, drawn from the analysis of nearly a thousand cats around the world, suggest that the ancestors of today's tabbies, Persians and Siamese wandered into Near Eastern settlements at the dawn of agriculture. They were looking for food, not friendship.
They found what they were seeking in the form of rodents feeding on stored grain. They stayed for 12 millennia, although not without wandering off now and again to consort with their wild cousins.
The story is quite different from that of other domesticated animals cattle, sheep, goats, horses, and dogs, cats' main rivals for human affection. It may even provide some insight on the behavior of the animal that, if not man's best friend, is certainly his most inscrutable.
It is a story about one of the more important biological experiments ever undertaken, said Stephen O'Brien, a molecular geneticist at the National Cancer Institute's laboratory in Frederick, Md., and one of the supervisors of the project.
We think what happened is that cats sort of domesticated themselves, said Carlos Driscoll, the University of Oxford graduate student who did the work, which required him, among other things, to befriend feral cats on the Mongolian steppes.
There are today 37 species in the family Felidae, ranging from lions through ocelots down to little Mittens. All domestic cats are descended from the species Felis sylvestris (cat of the woods), which goes by the common name wildcat.
The species is indigenous to Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. The New World, Japan and Oceania lack wildcats. Their closest counterpart in North America is the lynx.
There are five subspecies of wildcats and they look very much like many pet cats, particularly nonpedigree ones. The Scottish wildcat, for example, is indistinguishable from a barn cat with a mackerel tabby coat. These animals, however, are true wild species. They are not escaped pets that have become feral, or reverted to the wild.
Driscoll and his collaborators, who included Oxford zoologist David Macdonald, took blood samples and ear punch biopsies from all wildcat subspecies, and from fancy-breed cats, ordinary pet cats, and feral cats. They analyzed two different kinds of genetic fingerprints.
One was nuclear DNA, which carries nearly all of an animal's genes and reflects inheritance from both parents. The other was mitochondrial DNA, which exists outside the cell nucleus, carries only a few genes, and descends through the generations only from the mothers, never from fathers.
Both fingerprints showed that domesticated cats all around the world are most closely related to the wildcat subspecies (called lybica) that lives in the Near East.
One might think that people in each region would have domesticated their local wildcats. In that case, European pet cats today would genetically most closely resemble European wildcats and Chinese cats would be descended from East Asian wildcats. But that isn't the case.
Why not?
Genetics can't answer the question, but history and archaeology can provide a good guess.
Large-scale grain agriculture began in the Near East's Fertile Crescent. With the storage of surplus grain came mice, which fed on it and contaminated it.
Settled farming communities with dense rodent populations were a new habitat. Wildcats came out of the woods and grasslands to exploit it. They may have lived close to man but not petting-close for centuries.
Eventually, though, natural selection favored individual animals whose genetic makeup by chance made them tolerant of human contact. Such behavior provided them with them with things a night indoors, the occasional bowl of milk that allowed them to out-compete their scaredy-cat relatives in town.
I like cats just fine...but I am more of a dog person.
WE know this already.
Cats are domesticated? Mine would disagree. From his point of view, I kind of domesticated myself.
Dogs have masters, cats have staff!
What hunch? My 2, soon to be 3, cats tell me this on a daily basis...I have no choice in the matter. Cats are little people in furry coats
Get a cat that acts like a dog. Ours will fetch.
My father's cat sees the family as funny looking, if defective, cats.
He wonders and yells about why we don't go hunt morsels with him.
He seriously doesn't understand that we cannot fit through the thicket across the street as stealthily as he.
Cat..... the other white meat....
A burglar has entered your home. Your dog goes wild!!!!Disturbed by the dog's barking, your cat takes a deep breath and goes back to sleep. I swear...cat's have Ritalin etched into their DNA.
My 24 pound monster thinks I am here to serve her.
Her counterpart with my missus sees us as being here to save him from the floating invisible threat that chases him.
Like sheep or any other animals they have been domesticated by kindness.
How can they be returned to the wild?
I'm VERRRRRY allergic to cats and have had to pass on some very promissing relationships because of their presence.
When you register a "6" on a "0 - 5" scale, the doc's won't give you shots, and I'm not about to walk around all doped up, on account of a cat.
Cats are not domesticated, any more than people are. They choose to live with us for their own reasons - friendship, food, warmth, whatever. If they do not find what they are looking for, they leave. Dogs and other domesticated animals will not.
I have met some *big* cats (panther, leopard) that were friendly to humans. I have met some small feral cats that wanted to eat my head. *All* the species of cats are smart for their size and can and will decide what they want to do all on their own.
My Bengal and Orange Tabby both fetch a ball and drop it in your hand or at your feet.
True. My cat would like me to run up the backs of armchairs with him, and go out hunting lizards in company.
He goes to the edge of the woods and meows and looks back at me. So we go for walks. Then he darts up a tree and wants me to come up there with him.
I am not as domesticated as he thinks. In fact I am a bit feral still.
I guess it depends on the definition and context of 'domesticate'.
My father's cat isn't truly 'domesticated', but he's domesticated in as much as he likes his electric lights, running water, and climate control.
But he's still a feral cat that decided that humans were to be his 'clan.'
Weird, these furry critters.
You've never seen "It Takes A Thief" on the Discovery Channel, have you?
Also, I've heard of a housecat that took down an invading burglar. From the story and if I recall correctly, the cat tripped him, swarmed his head, ripped out the guy's jugular, and then peed on his face. Burglar died, of course.
NiMH cat does that.
He also brings home live prey to teach us how to hunt.
sure wish mine would leave.. bought for the daughters, now stuck with them. they are now 17 and 15.
I've been trying to arrrange a "leaving" for six months now.. and then I look at them, and they get that Bugs Bunny wide eyed and teary look..
Dogs rule.
Oh yeah...
Here is the news link:
We have what we believe to be a Bengal mix and she loves to play with balls—the toy kind. I think she would be capable of playing fetch if she weren't so ornery. And we also have an orange tabby. We got both cats last year when they were kittens and found in back yards. I've just fallen in love with this Bengal (well, and the tabby too). We got ours for free and we took her to give her a home, but now I want another one. I've been looking them up on the internet and they cost hundreds of dollars. Yikes!
I have 2 cats that LOVE to play fetch. They are worse than dogs - they never tire of it. I do. As long as I throw something, they will lunge after it, pick it up in their mouth and bring it back to me and shove it in my hand.
I once tried a fetch marathon to see how long before they lost interest.
They didn't - I wore out long before they did.
Oh my goodness that's hilarious. I love that line!
Our cat has us in our chose roles: if I get up first she doesn't make any motions to bother me about getting fed. But as soon as my wife makes an appearance, the cat starts nagging her to make haste on the breakfast. Even if it's hours later.
I'd just love to read this but my cats are calling and they just hate it when I am not timely.
So, your cat taught you how to throw. Pretty smart cat!!
if you had a kitten and a puppy from birth,both born the same week and both raised by you, now avance to five years from now and late at night, a thief enters your home with certain ill intent.
The dog will fight to the death to defend you and the cat will sneak out an opening in the house with the video cam and go to an outside window,film the whole thing,sell it to CNN and retire.
sounds like a Paris Hilton documentaty huh
When I get home in the evening, my cats go to 'wet food' bowl and meow until food is placed in their bowl. Immediately after, they go to the back door and meow until the door is opened for them to go sit on the porch in the heat. When it's finally dark, they come in, the door is closed and I don't see them until it's bedtime and they jump on the bed to get a good night nudge. I'm telling you, the only reason I think I'm alive (and still living in the house) is that I haven't strayed from the rules.
heh... true. Of course I happen to be deathly allergic to cats. That means hives, constriction of lungs, inability to breath, anaphylactic shock after 2 hours of exposure without heavy doses of meds that make me drowsy/stupid. Sooooo... I naturally take out my frustration on the things that could kill me if I'm not careful. Imagine not being able to go to a friends house because they have cats? Yeah its kinda like that. So if I lack imagination at least I don't kill the little furballs out of hand on general principle.
Heh. My sibling-American had a cat growing up that I intentionally treated like a dog. Little tiny cat that I'd wrestle with and play paw-pat with. The thing would beat up much larger cats, and I got such fast hand-speed that I could reliably out-strike it (the claws made me learn fast). This cat knew its name, would come when called, and would fetch too.
Hmm, so that's why Warner Brothers named their cartoon cat 'Sylvester".
In the last two months, I have attempted to study the behavior of my lady's two cats, who have tolerated my moving in. The black one is much like the stupid but evil cat in the "Get Fuzzy" cartoon. I've tried somewhat successfully to keep him from getting underfoot when I'm in the kitchen. Not every trip to that room is for the purpose of feeding him.
The white one is stupid in a 'stoned' sort of way. Think of 'Crush', the sea turtle in the "Finding Nemo" movie, and you'll know what I'm talking about. I do a California surfer dude voice that sounds like the character, to put words in his mouth, as he's reacting to the world in his clueless way, and it makes my lady laugh out loud!
"Get a cat that acts like a dog. Ours will fetch."
Wow. We have one (Tommy) that practically raised our two Dachshunds. All three of them will roll around and wrestle in the yard.
Oddly, that cat looks a lot like our cat.
She tolerates being carried around by a sucession of toddlers, and seldom scratches them (even when they deserve it), so she's OK.
She is not quite the born killer of our previous cat, though. That one would bring me (not Mrs. MWT or the clan) daily offerings of mice and birds.
I live in an all-but-me female household, and we've noticed the cats always treat me as the alpha-male of the pride. It's pretty funny, if annoying, to always have a cat underfoot and/or in-lap.
Now I know why my cat just stares at me at times with that "hey stoopid, I can leave anytime I want but I stay here because I want you to be blessed with my presence" look on her face.
..... the other white meat....
Hmmm, that's what a tiger or lion might think as they were about to tear you to shreds before devouring you.
Squirrels, rats, voles, shrews, mice, spiders, who knows what species of mold have chosen to live with us. Why not cats.
I thought cats sort of domesticated people...
The Egyptians thought the cats were gods.
The cats agreed.
Cats basically tolerate humans. If the average cat was twice as big as it is, and the average cat owner was only half as big as he is, the owner wouldn't be an owner.
He/she would be lunch.
Anybody who has watched even the mildest house cat when it's on the prowl will be astounded by the brutality and indifference.
You know what they say, what goes around comes around.
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Jason Gregor
March 23 2012 11:56AM
At the height of the Battle of Alberta the Oilers and Flames were arguably the two best teams in the NHL, but sadly we only got to see them play in the Smyth final. Imagine how intense a Cup final would have been. It would have been crazy.
Fans and players of both teams have many great memories and some gut-wrenching ones as well. The "own goal" in game seven of the Smyth division final became memorable because it ended up being the series deciding goal, but most remember Steve Smith rather than the guy who got credit, Perry Berezan.
I caught up with Berezan prior to the final installment of the BOA and got his thoughts on the rivalry, past, present and future.
JG: How often have you replayed the 1986 Smyth division final game on TV?
PB: I've never watched the whole thing. I've seen that two‑minute clip. Steve Smith I think still spits on my picture when he sees it with that whole scenario. And other than that, I don't think I've watched that whole game once. It is so weird. I think when you talk to the older guys too, our memories really fade, they really fade; and sometimes it's almost better not to see the real product because you probably think it was better than it really was.
But the memories of that series more than anything after we won that Game Seven was coming back to Calgary, flying back, looking out of the plane and seeing thousands of people just off the tarmac outside of a make‑shift fence that they had for people, thousands of them going crazy.
That had to be ‑‑ well, that was certainly at the peak of the Battle of Alberta, and we have to just hope that it comes back. Because the only way it's going to come back, I think, is if they play each other in the playoffs. It's almost impossible to hate a team as much as we hated the Oilers and the Oilers hated us, it's almost impossible unless you played them in the playoffs. Because the regular season, it just fades quickly.
JG: I've went on YouTube and I noticed a few line brawls and brawls seemed to happen in the last regular season game of the year, so even those late season regular season games meant a little bit more, didn't they?
PB: You know, the Badger Bob era, the guy, he thought way too much, and he was so far ahead of his time with thinking. You mentioned the line brawl. I remember it was one of the last games we were playing the regular season in Edmonton, and, of course, the visiting team has to put in their starting lineup.
He liked to mess with Sather's head and tick him off by delaying as long as possible before giving a starting lineup, and who does he start? Up front: Tim Hunter, Neil Sheehy, Nick Fotiu. That's the starting three forwards, and I think we had Terry Johnson and Charlie Bourgeois on defence, our five toughest by far guys.
So from the story I hear when they handed that over to Sather, Sather went ballistic when he saw because he delayed giving it to him. So Sather got it and went ballistic. Of course, he starts all his toughest guys, and what do they do? They dance right away. But that kind of stuff, can you imagine a coach doing that now? You'd be suspended.
JG: Which is in a sense, I think, a sad state of the game because none of the guys got hurt in those fights, but it sure got everybody's attention to start the game.
PB: It did, and it fueled the Mike Bullard pretending to get speared from McSorley and then whispering to Bearcat when he came to him, "I'm good, just let me sit here for the while." I mean, those types of things fueled all kinds of stuff.
Badger Bob was complaining that Glen had a better view from his bench in Edmonton because he had a higher step to see the game from. So Badger complained to the media that Sather was cheating by having a higher bench. He just did whatever it took to get in the craw of Glen, and he was looking for cracks. I mean, there weren't very many cracks in that whole team, that armor of the Oilers at that time. They were just too good. So Badger's way was to slowly poke you until you broke, and it was neat.
Glen Sather had that demeanor that we all know, just that confident demeanor behind the bench, and Badger wanted to bust it. Can you think of one rivalry in sports now that's even close to that?
JG: Nowadays coaches are more worried about every defensive system in the game. It's more about that than it is about trying the mental battles or trying to win the emotional battle. I think that's actually been taken out of the game. We don't see as much raw emotion. Even you said, a simple thing like a higher bench, just trying to get in the head of the other coach by needling him is gone. Why?
PB: The coaches and everyone want to have everything professional. And we also know that if there's anything done that's not quite professional ‑‑ example, Ovechkin making a fire with his stick after scoring, like those kind of things ‑‑ then we get chastised for it.
So if the media and the fans beat up on anyone who tries to be different, then we're never going to have anything different, and everything turns into vanilla, and I think the game needs less vanilla and more color. We're trying to get rid of the whackos, and I understand that. But to still have passion in games, in order to get the passion, really, you have to have the hatred, sadly.
And with that hatred, I'll give you an example right now, a today example. Jarome Iginla plays at another level when he is ticked off at somebody. So if the Oilers want to keep him quiet, just leave him alone. But if you want to tick somebody off like Jarome where he wants to fight you and he starts to bark and get in your face, then that man plays at a level that you can't stop.
A little more anger will really be much more entertaining for us to watch, but I know the game and times have changed, and it's really a lot harder. Referees are calling everything, and you've got Brendan Shanahan going to suspend everybody. So because of all the policing, we're much more laid back; and with that laid back thing, it's going to be more vanilla. And then we'll complain, and then you just keep doing this vicious circle.
I want to see this rivalry come back, but sadly the only way it's going to come back is when both teams meet in the playoffs. And Edmonton, I know they're going to break out. There's going to be a year where they break out and get there. But will the Flames be ready? Will they get in the playoffs so that we can see those two teams play each other? Certainly the odds are against it happening in the near future.
JG: When you played who were the guys that the you or the Flames hated on the Oilers? Gretzky obviously was so good, but who were the guys you just hated playing against?
PB: Well, McSorley, McClelland were at the top, but you know what, the number one pain in the arse wearing an Oiler's jersey was Tikkanen, by far. Probably Glenn Anderson came number two. But Tikkanen was enough of a... the first thing out of my mouth was an idiot on the ice.
He was such a good player because he had good hands, he could finish and he could skate. But it's like the guy was on a different social level on the ice than everybody else. You couldn't understand a word he said. You'd get a face wash completely out of the blue from the guy or a cheap shot, and then he wouldn't break when any of our tough guys would try to go after him. There was nothing you could do that would break the guy.
And I don't know if Tikkanen ever actually fought. So that was another good thing if you want to be a pest, never fight anybody. If you never fight anyone, it's the greatest thing.
I mean, Claude Lemieux was right up there in the NHL at that time. He was probably the number one NHL pest, but Tikkanen by far was the guy that all of us at some point just wanted to kill. At the same time, he was so valuable to that team because he could do it all defensively, offensively, and being a pest.
JG: Right now Curtis Glencross kind of brings that element. He's got 25 goals for the Flames, and he makes no bones about the fact that he puts a target on Nugent‑Hopkins and Hall early in games and gives them that little stick here or there that just tries to get a guy off their game. He's a skilled pest isn't he?
PB: And you gotta try it because you see with – especially against that young core talented core of the Oilers. I know fans there are impatient, and they want things to turn over, but believe me, the rest of the hockey world people are thinking: At some point, this team's going to be amazing.
But you're not going to get a suspension by poking someone to death. Instead of spearing somebody or hitting them from behind and getting booted out of the game, if you poke them to death, you can get them off their game, and Shanahan can't suspend you, and the referee can't put you in the penalty box.
And that whole needling, the old Oiler team, if you even looked at Gretzky the wrong way, every single player that came off that bench for the rest of the game would threaten to kill you. So that mentality that the old Oiler team had made it impossible for anyone ‑‑besides a guy like Neil Sheehy, I guess he was the biggest pest at that time for Wayne Gretzky ‑‑ but it made everyone think twice about doing something to those star players. This current Oiler team is going to have a lot of star players. And they're going to have to get players, even if they're not the big tough guys, just to make sure that the other team knows, you mess with our guys, every single person gets in their face and says: When I get my opportunity, I'm going to kill you. For most guys if they hear it enough, it really gets in your head and makes you think twice.
JG: Do you have a memorable fight of two guys when it was just a slobber knocker back and forth where you were thinking, 'Man, that was awesome to watch'?
PB: Two of them ‑‑ well, actually three of them. There was one in Edmonton, Peplinski and Messier where they were just chins down, and it was one of those where they just keep punching each other in the head at the same time and keep going and going like the old Rock'em Sock'em video games. And after the game seeing Mark's forehead as he walked by with welts all over it thinking, 'Boy, it's a tough thing to do to Mark's head.' And Pep didn't look very good either. That fight was amazing.
When Doug Risebrough and McSorley went at it ‑‑ of course, the cutting of the jersey incident where Riser decided to carry McSorley's jersey back into the penalty box and step all over it into shreds ‑‑ because that fight lasted forever.
And there was another one where we had Stu Grimson and he fought Dave Brown, and Brown beat the living you‑know‑what out of him. That's the fight where you just looked at Grimson after and thought I really don't know how those guys do it.
We've talked about usually nobody gets hurt in a fight, and that's true. In all of those line brawls it didn't happen. Tim Hunter didn't hurt a lot of people, but Tim Hunter was hard to beat. But a Dave Brown would finish your career with one punch. So that's where I think when they talk about people really getting hurt in fights, the Dave Browns of the world are going to ‑‑ there are still some of the those guys left in the league, there aren't many, but there's some of those that all it takes is one punch, and you're done.
JG: Did you ever meet Brown off the ice? Because he looked like a doctor with his glasses and just a calm guy.
PB: Well, so did Stu Grimson, which is hilarious, because Grimmer is a lawyer down in Nashville. The guy is as smart and as studious as they get and wore his glasses, both those guys.
To think the tough guy role and how difficult it is, it really is extremely difficult, and how much anxiety is built up with those guys before every game. That old Oiler‑Flames rivalry, every game all of us had that anxiety in us, every player, because you knew you were taking on every Oiler. And the Oilers in a lot of ways knew, especially in those 80s years, they knew that they were taking on every Flame. And that mentality was on of, no one was alone out there, you're never alone.
I remember one of my first games playing the Oilers, and McSorley was beaking at me because I don't know what I did, who knows what I did, he was beaking at me. He said he was going to kill me. And I looked at him like: Who are you? Like, whatever. I'm beaking back telling him I'm not afraid of him.
So Peplinski comes and sits beside me after that shift he goes, You know, Perry, I can take Marty for you, if you want. I said, I'm not afraid of him. He goes, You better be. I didn't know who the heck Marty McSorley was and should have been afraid of him. (laughs)
If you are afraid of any of the beaking, the talking, if you're afraid of that early, you're not going to play. You're useless. And I think again a lot of these players now coming out of junior, there's still a ton of beaking, but there's not much substance to back it up because they've taken most of it out of the game, which is probably a good thing.
But if you can get inside the head of another team. The Vancouver Canucks in a lot of ways are probably the most hated team in the league. Would you agree?
JG: Yes, it seems that way.
PB: And that's probably a really good thing going into the playoffs because it doesn't take them much to get another team off their game. They're too busy worried about, I want to kick your butt instead of we've gotta play, we've gotta score goals. So the Canucks right now have that edge of you just don't like them.
And every team kind of needs that edge. Regular season, playoffs, if you can't play with an edge, you can't get your game to another psychological level. And that passion that comes out ‑‑ to me, the passion that comes out takes you from fourth gear to fifth gear. And if you don't have the fifth gear, you can't play in the league.
I'll give you a perfect example of a guy who's never seen fifth gear ‑‑ well, maybe he saw it a couple of times, and that was René Bourque. A ridiculous talent. He's got the perfect body, can skate, can shoot, he's tough. But you get him on the ice, and if his heart rate gets up above 150, a warning light goes off, and he backs right off. He doesn't ever play with an edge and with a lot of passion.
That's all we want from players as fans and as coaches and everyone who's watching hockey. All we want is to see a player play with passion. It doesn't matter if they've got the most skill. Tim Jackman for the Flames right now, he plays with passion every shift. So the fans love him, the coaches love him, he just got an extension and a nice contract.
There's a ton of talent on that Oiler team today, and those kids when they play well, they play with a ton of passion. And I think that's what we all want see, but you want to see it consistently.
JG: There was always lots of talk about no one wanting to hit Gretzky because the League wouldn't let him or they were scared of Semenko. You were the biggest rival of the Oilers. Was that ever discussed, or is that a big myth?
PB: No, no, no. First of all, it was very difficult to hit him. And if you did there were guys that would come after you right away. Neil Sheehy, he just got in his face, and he grabbed him, and he'd throw him down, and he just didn't care. But if you didn't care at all, about the repercussion, you might have had some opportunities to hit him.
I think there had to have been a psychological thing of, number one, if you tried to hit him, he was going to embarrass you and two if you did luckily get him, then you'd have to face the piper. Badger, actually, his whole philosophy with us and it took a couple of years, but he says, I know a way to stop Gretzky. Let's watch it.
He had tape after tape, and he showed us how he loved to come in on the right side. And if the defenceman backed off, and then you took the boards away, he would spin, and then he would hit Kurri or Coffey as the late guys, and that's how they'd get their points.
So his thing was just back off, be soft. Allow him to enter the zone, allow him to turn to the boards and spin. Then just hold him there. Don't rush to try to stop him one-on-one because he'll beat you. Just hold him there, and everyone pick up a trailer. If he has no one to pass to, there's no threat, and five-on-five that really gave us a ton of confidence.
But how do you stop him? It was almost impossible to stop the guy. Could you hit him? There were times, sure, but I think there was a lot of stuff psychologically going on inside a guy's heads -- I could lay him out, but am I going to be embarrassed, and am I going to get killed? We're still human beings, and I think that was in everyone's head.
March 23 2012, 12:17PM
Really makes me nostalgic for old time hockey. We always rail on guys like Avery and Ott, and they were a dime a dozen back then. And they could play. The Risebroughs, the Tikannens, the Linesmans, the Peplinskis, guys who could do it all.
You never see that passion anymore, and that one on one coaching battle is virtually non existent.
In so many ways today's game is better than back then, but there's definitely a huge degree of what made hockey back then so fun that's missing today. It's beaten out of the game by the media who wants characters but chides them when they act accordingly, and by coaching systems that stifle any creativity, and by stricter league standards on what is considered appropriate conduct on and off the ice.
Is it better? I don't know, maybe, but it never seems to be as fluid and exciting as it was in those days. Colour me nostalgic.
One of the fist times I have read a flamers comments and been interested.
Edit: Fist Fail.
March 23 2012, 12:23PM
Woww one of the best reads I've seen on Oilersnation, amazing insight into the true BOA of the 80's
That was an awesome interveiw. I wish the old time hockey was still alive. Non of this diving, whinning, pussification stuff. Rivalries were way better back then. Although the Chicago and Vancity rivalry is still alive and well and I cheer like heck for Chicago everytime.
March 23 2012, 12:28PM
Woww one of the best reads I've seen on Oilersnation, amazing insight into the true BOA of the 80's
I agree. Makes me wish I would have been born a decade earlier. Great piece Gregor.
March 23 2012, 12:42PM
Great, great read Jason!!
Keep 'em coming!!
Most excellent interview. More of same, please.
I don't know if it ever occurred to me to even think of who got credit for the Smith goal. Nice to know. I believe Perry is a St. Albert guy. Whenever I think of him, I think of the hit Messier laid on him as he came around the Calgary net during the playoffs.
March 23 2012, 01:12PM
I love these interviews. Jason, these are always really well done.
great read
This interview is the best read I have had all week, just fantastic.
Being a young-ish Oilers fan, they won all their cups when I was a young boy, I cant even say I know what a Calgary-Edmonton rivalry would look. I hope one day I can experience it.
March 23 2012, 01:38PM
Awesome read... On that note tambo do us a favour and get Steve ott!
March 23 2012, 01:42PM
Excellent read. Brilliant.
One guy I always liked back in those days - ended up a Flame - was Nevin Markwart w/the Bruins. Tiny guy, sort of a pretty boy.. But would go with anyone. Never really won - had a few wins.. But he went with all the big guys, minus Probert/Brown. He'd go with guys like McRae, Kocur even. Never lasted long, but he went in and did it. And he wasn't bad on either side of the ice. Smart guy, too. Literally.
Another I loved to watch was McPhee. And we all know where he ended up. His bout w/Tocchet is hockey lore. And should be.
Those were the days... Great memories...
The positive words about the Oilers should make their fans happy. You know what kind of players the Oilers need to poach to protect these kids? Players like Dorsett in Columbus. He could have played in the 80s. A Jackman wouldn't hurt. A Scott Thornton. And so on. Even a guy like Engelland as a 5-6 d-man. Or a Vandemeer. These types of players won't put up with any shenanigans. Even a player like Corey Perry - a real pain... The Oilers might be wise to unlaod a top pick for a guy like Perry. Even a guy like Lucic, who's probably untouchable in Boston.
As for the Flames - man, if we could find a coach like old Badger Bob! Reading this makes you realize just how little heart we have these days. How little leadership on the ice. How far we are from where we were. In terms of respect. Around the league. Darryl did give the team a bit of this before the lockout.
Then the game changed...
Thanks for this piece.
March 23 2012, 02:12PM
That was fantastic, thank you!
Growing up hating the Flames was like Flintstones vitamins adn Atari when I was a kid: standard issue.
A great interview Jason. I heard some of that the other day on the radio and the bit about Tikkanen is classic.
I remember watching Tikkanen one game where the whistle had blown the play dead and an opposing player tapped him on the heel as if to say I'm going to get you one of these times. Tikkanen fell to the ice like a tonne of bricks and the guy got a slashing penalty because the ref caught Esa falling out of the corner of his eye. The poor player just shook his head and laughed as he went to the box.
The good old days in Edmonton where you could have Tikkanen and Henry "Gizmo" Williams do television interviews that requried subtitles.
March 23 2012, 02:54PM
The ayes have it! This is one fantastic read! You nailed it Jason.
As a younger Oilers fan who never actually got to watch any of the BOA in the playoffs, this article was a nice read. It just seems like players back then knew how to be tough and still play a role on a team whereas guys like that today are just clowns who play maybe 2 minutes each night looking for a dance partner. If players were allowed to police themselves more out there then I believe that you would see more passion out of the players but with things like the instigator rule, it's tough. Everytime that Hall or Nuge or Ebs get crushed with a borderline hit that doesn't get called, we are shorthanded because we step in to defend them. It's a tough line to walk without going over IMO because you still want to win the game on the scoreboard.
March 23 2012, 03:15PM
I was a little kid growing up in Calgary during the 80s and I remember hating the Oilers and Greztky with all the passion my little kid heart could muster.
Little did I know that I'd be moving to the Edmonton area in the early 90s and would wind up an Oilers fan.
Now that was a trip down memory lane.Thanks.
Guess hockey has changed much like society.Back then no one had their pants below their ass and you were held responsible for your actions on and off the ice.Kids actually failed grades.Imagine that.
The Oilers of today could take a page from the old days.Hit Gretzky and pay.Everyone knew it.Now just change Gretzky to one of the kids and lets play some old time hockey.
Semenko did not play on Gretzky's wing for his goal scoring.
I remember one game Semenko had a 2 on 1 with Gretz.Dave was looking for the pass with such intensity he skated head first into the crossbar.Before mag-nets.The net rattled.Semenko skated off.Must have be concussed but did not miss a shift.There was a reason he was known as Cement head.
Awww memories.
Gregor, great article.
This is the best comment I've seen in a while, and sorry if I am not citing it correctly:
"And that whole needling, the old Oiler team, if you even looked at Gretzky the wrong way, every single player that came off that bench for the rest of the game would threaten to kill you. So that mentality that the old Oiler team had made it impossible for anyone ‑‑besides a guy like Neil Sheehy, I guess he was the biggest pest at that time for Wayne Gretzky ‑‑ but it made everyone think twice about doing something to those star players. This current Oiler team is going to have a lot of star players. And they're going to have to get players, even if they're not the big tough guys, just to make sure that the other team knows, you mess with our guys, every single person gets in their face and says: When I get my opportunity, I'm going to kill you. For most guys if they hear it enough, it really gets in your head and makes you think twice." end of quote.
I have seen so many comments on ON and had so many conversations with people (who have never played hockey) that say the intimidation factor means nothing. Proof right there. That is the exact reason Keith was able to put Sedin out for who knows how long? playoffs maybe? Could cost them a Cup. Cheapshots go up when the in game enforcers are not there anymore.
March 23 2012, 05:03PM
Excellent discussion Jason. But you kind of cherry picked here a little. Knowing Perry a bit, he is one of the most decent, intelligent and straight-forward guys you will meet. Born and raised in North Edmonton and a former St. Albert Saint.
Not at all a representative cross-section of guys to have worn the Flaming C. (I keed).
March 23 2012, 05:04PM
...a nice bit of nostalgia but why do all these citizens go so gaga over your transcribed interviews Jason...good questions and just as good answers but imo ...your editorial pieces are the brilliant ones not these one-on-ones...memo:to whomever does Jason's transcribing please keep up the good work ...anyway
Berezan hmmm, almost a hated household word for years after his 'goal' gratis the birthday boys' blunder...Berezan was a fringe player with decent wheels as i remember...Smitty scored that 'goal' of Berezans' when 'ol Perry was on the bench after dumping the puck in...one of this franchises darkest moments...but the "good" of it all was when they won the Cup the next year, Gretz got the silverware from Ziegler turned and shouted "Stevie!!!" and handed it directly off to Steve Smith...suck it Calgary
Nick Fotiu - how he was so hated in Edmonton during that 1986 series. I know he skated for the Oilers a few years later, but man, he was so hated when he was with the Flames.
March 23 2012, 10:16PM
The bad old days...it went back much earlier then Flames/oilers I can recall games tween The old flyers and the stampeters in the old Western League... Sticks swinging...heads sliced ...always a 'spriited' game between Edmonton and Calgay...players putting up 'peace bonds' Yes it was exciting....and sometimes i miss it... Thanks for the column Jason....brought tears to my eyes..
Incidently I was in Calgary on business..with my wife..not sure which series or game..but i think Edmonton was a win away...dont remember who they where playing...visited friends, hoping to see the game... TV set never turned on, and i was too embarressed to ask hm to turn it on... he never did!!!!!!!!! Only saw the last little bit in the airport...
Saturday morning coffee and a nostalgic read, what a nice way to start the weekend.
Awesome interview! Thanks for posting it.
Great interview.
I don't agree that " refs are calling everything" (not the games I've been watching!), but the points about how to protect your star players are dead on--and we need more of those kinds of players.
Also, you need the kind of coach who is willing to instill that kind of attitude in your team. Sather never let our team get pushed around by anyone, and wasn't afraid to take a chance on losing a game to make that point when necessary. Sather also understood the point B made about emotion in the game, and how to get it out of his players.
Sure could use a coach with some of these traits... Considering that Katz was supposedly tight with the boys on the bus, I'm surprised he doesn't seem to see that we're missing this?
Berezan's point about the refs and league taking emotion out of the game was also dead on.
McSorley recently said on TV that the NHL is trying to take retribution and self-governing of conduct on the ice away from the players, and put those decisions into the boardrooms instead. He's right, and so is Berezan--these changes are going to turn teams into plain vanilla.
I agree with B that we have to take the "wackos" out of the game, and with that the most egregious and blatant attempts to injure, but not the emotional play.
Again, great article with lots of food for thought.
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March 24 2012, 01:30PM
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For two weeks this summer, Greg Hiler walked door to door in a shantytown in Nairobi, Kenya, asking residents if he could bring them light.
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Missions of Hope International, to which the church introduced them, created a school for the children there. Mary Kamau started the school with about 50 children from the slums, Debbie said. Ten years later, there are multiple campuses with more than 10,000 students.
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Debbie remembers one girl running up to one of the donated gift bags, which she wasn't supposed to have until after school, asking if she could just take one pencil. "Colored?!" she said gleefully to Debbie as she took a pink one.
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A derogatory term used to describe an older bald-headed man (i.e. a father, professor or boss) that is obstinate or settled in his way of thinking.
Girl, I would go to the party tonight but Old Baldy has me on lockdown.
by Valinda November 01, 2006
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