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Some of us have exes that seem to have some sort of sixth sense when it comes to us. The moment we have moved on and let go of any idea of a reunion with them, they show up! Why do some exes always come back? Better question to ask: Why do we let them?
The decision to reunite with a former flame should not be taken lightly. Although it may seem easy to forget the reason you broke up, it is worthwhile to determine if things have changed. Part of the vicious cycle of making up and breaking up, is that we tend to gloss over the part that did not work. This is especially easy to do when your judgment is being clouded by loneliness or really good reunited sex.
What do you do when you are seeing somebody new and your ex returns? They appear to have changed and you have all that history with them. At the same time, you have a great connection and chemistry with the person you are seeing. What would you do: go for chemistry or history?
Happy Wednesday!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
March 13th, 2013
7:01 am
Good Morning!!!
Chemistry!!! I am living this right now!! If you have moved on from the Ex and there is very little to no hope on revival of the old flame, keep it moving! Im gonna stop right here before things go bad.
March 13th, 2013
7:34 am
It never works out. I know experience has taught me well, but everyone needs to find out for themselves.
March 13th, 2013
8:11 am
If I was already dating someone else and things seemed great, why in the hell would one want to go back to history? Obviously, something was too wrong to try to stay and work it out. Plus, how do you know the ex isn't just sniffing back around because he/she caught wind that you were trying to move on…and we know how folks are when they see someone else playing with an 'old toy'. Matter of fact, when the ex saw a pic or found out I took the beau on a trip with the family, he started acting a bit weird. He either came across/found the original piece of paper that I wrote my number on, from YEAAARS ago (when I first gave him my phone number) and texted me a picture of it. He said he was taking all our momento's, putting them in a box and packing them up. He was like, I knew you were dating but I didn't think you were serious enough to take someone around your family.
March 13th, 2013
8:12 am
Hopefully, that post falls within the posting guidelines as far as length is concerned.
March 13th, 2013
8:14 am
It's kind of like taking a drink of milk from the refrigerator, finding out it's sour, then putting it back saying "Maybe it'll be better tomorrow." Isn't it?
March 13th, 2013
8:32 am
Shantelle – That's definitely a different way to look at it….Yuck though lol I've never seen your moniker before so welcome if you're a newbie…if not then, simply good morning
March 13th, 2013
8:39 am
GOOD Wednesday Morning MIA!!!
-Shantelle You hit the nail on the head!
Let the history stay exactly where it is meant to be, in the PAST! Continue to move forward with your life and remember that they are an EX for a reason.
March 13th, 2013
8:41 am
Hey all,
Slim don't start (LOL)
There's nothing wrong with going back to an ex, if that's what you want to do. Sometimes breakups aren't all for bad reasons, sometimes you just may not have been on the same page at that time. But at least make sure you're not in a relationship at the time. If you're ex only seems to want to come back when there is someone else in the picture, then that's more of a control issue than anything is IMO.
March 13th, 2013
8:41 am
Morning ladies!
I know i might be wrong for this, but every chance I have ever gotten to catch up with an old flame, I have taken it as a chance to do all of the really freaky things that I respected her to much to ask for the first time around……..
March 13th, 2013
8:43 am
Good morning! I agree with Shantelle.
I'm not a going back to the ex fan. It's over for a reason best to let it stay that way, I just went through the return of the ex just recently, I shut him down with the quickness.
I'll take chemistry over history any day. Although he may "appear" to have changed I doubt it. You can put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig.
March 13th, 2013
8:47 am
Button, do you not think its possible for a person to change… to mature and become a better person over time?
March 13th, 2013
8:50 am
I don't play the ex file and glad I have never did either. It seems it could be more unnecessary trouble/drama………Morning MIA! C where you be?!? lawd I am ready for Friday! #carryon
March 13th, 2013
9:05 am
Single – Whadddd did I do? Not starting anything at all.
If you're ex only seems to want to come back when there is someone else in the picture, then that's more of a control issue than anything My point exactly!
March 13th, 2013
9:23 am
Heeeey Lady – Just getting in with calls on the calendar popping up already. It's gonna be THAT kind of day….lol
I agree with your stance, Lady. I don't beleive in backtracking. Yeah, sometimes folks grow and grow up, I say let someone else enjoy the ex's new found "I've changed" discovery. While you're "fiiiinding" yourself, I've found someone new, that already knew who and what they were…lol And with that, we hit the ground running
March 13th, 2013
9:24 am
believe not beleive…my baaad…as soon as I'm off this call, I'm going for coffee…uggggh
March 13th, 2013
9:27 am
O/T…May I..lol: It was announced on GMA, that a movie is in the works from the series Good Times!!
March 13th, 2013
9:33 am
can't relate, but rarely do ex-relations bring anything good. MissMoni, button all are on the right track.
You moved on but he/she hasn't found anyone so trying to get you back is the only option they may have.. Don't fall for it.
March 13th, 2013
9:36 am
IMO, it becomes a self inflicted trap to believe you can't move on to something or someone better.
Cel – I so agree. In fact, this is a control game some play. "You CAN'T do better than me, so you may as well take me back." Same even with jobs. You get stuck. Successful people, in relationships and careers, don't allow themselves to get stuck.
And yes, you will be met with criticism from some. That's when you have to listen to your gut. Move on and do it with no regrets.
March 13th, 2013
9:37 am
Courtside – I believe a person can change. I've changed over the years myself but that doesn't mean that I would want an ex back into my life, my heart. Now we can be civil with each other and I'll congratulate you on your change and all but to say come on hon let's pick up where we left off, that's not happening.
March 13th, 2013
9:47 am
They only come back if you let them; they only come back if you want them to. So go with your gut. Don't leave yourself wondering what if.
March 13th, 2013
10:00 am
C they should leave Good Times in syndication~
March 13th, 2013
10:04 am
-Celisea I would like to go on record and say that Good Times is one of my FAV tv shows. It will be interesting to see who they cast for this particular movie. . .
-abc I totally agree. In the end the ultimate choice is up to the individual, choose wisely!!!
March 13th, 2013
10:08 am
Lady – LOLOL….I LOVE Good Times. I think it's gonna be interesting
MsMoni – You and I are vibing on the Good Times thingy. I can watch those old reruns and quote the script…lol My brother says I'm (and apparently you) the only one that still watches. Yes, it would be interesting to see who's gonna get to wear those infamous corduroys…lolol
March 13th, 2013
10:14 am
good morning. single I am with you. all break ups aren't bad. all exes aren't the devil. lol. sometimes the timing was off or life got in the way. you grow, you mature, you experience things and life brings you back to each other. goodness knows we've all heard the stories of folks reuniting with the high school sweetheart or whoever after 10, 20, 30, 40 years of marriage to someone else. it is what it is. in short, I don't think you should discount a person just because they are an ex. if you have to discount them I'm sure you can find enough other reasons.
March 13th, 2013
10:14 am
"What do you do when you are seeing somebody new and your ex returns?" – Is this a trick question?
You continue to see the person you're presently spending time with. Many ex's that return only return because:
(1) their dating pool isn't what they thought it would be
(2) they want a familiar side piece
(3) they still want to inflict emotional harm on you
(4) they want to keep their toe in the door just in case
(5) they're down on their luck and need your assistance.
Seriously, though, there's a host of reasons why one comes back.
March 13th, 2013
10:20 am
Leggs – I agree with all except #3.
March 13th, 2013
10:27 am
Morning Good Blog Peeps!!
The 2 times I went back, they didn't work out but they were not horrible. I'm not against going back if it was a situation where the timing was just off. Other than that, I see nothing wrong with discounting someone because they are an ex. Sometimes maybe it's not that they have changed, YOU have. Maybe YOU have outgrown them or are now leading a different lifestyle that they would not fit in well with or be happy with. You are under no obligation to take someone back.
As for them coming around when they find out you're with someone new – that's just game. Sure you can choose to go with "history" if you want, but don't be looking foolish when bad history repeats itself.
Sure folks can change for the better, they do it all the time. That still does not mean you are obligated to take them back. You've changed? Good for you! For your sake and others that have to deal with you, I sure hope so. Doesn't have anything to do with me now, though!
March 13th, 2013
10:28 am
Even when folks "change", I dunno, IMO and for me time marches on. That's significant enough that I don't want to go back. I can congratulate and be sincerely happy for a person's progress, but by the same token I don't want to go back, for me it's like hanging on.
Let's say people change for the better, still not good enough reason to go back. If a person didn't sieze the opportunity while it was available, you stunt yourself and stagnation sets. There are other opportunities to embark on other folks and new things and new experiences. IMO, it becomes a self inflicted trap to believe you can't move on to something or someone better. If a person has improved and changed, I see nothing wrong with acknowledging, but again, that's not reason enough to hit repeat. Again, just my opinion
March 13th, 2013
10:28 am
-Leggs Your list is quite accurate. Most times the EX thinks that the grass is greener on the other side and then finds out it was only artificial turf.
March 13th, 2013
10:32 am
Button ~ cool, but I think #3 certainly happens. People are cruel and some will take the time to make another uncomfortable if you let them back in.
This could be an EOD, but it needs to be said before subject changes (lol):
Ex Means: Thanks for the Experience, our time has Expired, you no longer Exist now Exit my life!!!!
Gotta love itr.
March 13th, 2013
10:40 am
This blog is acting strange. My reply to Cel's 10:28 is showing up at 9:37, BEFORE my starting post of the day that's showing at 10:27! I guess they are trying to get the DST right!LOL!!!
March 13th, 2013
10:44 am
Kimmie – I agree and that's the key "successful people." I think also that a "moving on" mentality or "stuck" will transcend into other areas of your life.
That is weird!! Sometime ago, the blog was doing this same thing…posts showing up at different times and out of sync. That's probably what was going on then…
March 13th, 2013
10:51 am
Good morning everyone!
After the Ex, I don't think I will ever trust that a man can change for the better after several years. He and I weren't technically together 10-12 years ago, but we hung out a lot and slept together a lot and I babysat his son. He had broken my heart back then. When we reunited, I really thought he had changed a lot and that he was brought back in my life because we were meant to be together. Boy, was I wrong. He changed for the better for about a year, then started sliding back down the slippery slope of being the old him. I hate to admit this, but I still have a lot of anger issues with him (and with myself) and it's been just over a year since I kicked him out…
March 13th, 2013
10:51 am
Leggs – I agree, alot of times it's not that they really want you back, but are just trying to mess with you. Hubs and I were talking about this the other day.
March 13th, 2013
10:54 am
Most definitely, kimmie.
March 13th, 2013
11:00 am
Leggs – true. to me that just takes up too much energy.
March 13th, 2013
11:13 am
i stick by my stance that I don't think "ex" alone is enough reason to discount. "ex" alone in my opinion is almost significant. to me it's just a term. a word. you date the person and the person's characteristics. I have a few exes that I am very friendly with and the primary reason I won't get back with them isn't because they are exes. it's because they, like everyone, were affected by life. in their particular cases, they had more kids. had they not had additional children in our years apart I might be willing to reconsider reconnecting. lol.
March 13th, 2013
11:16 am
That situation I shared about reconnecting with my Ex certainly did not end well. She's still tryin. Just reached out to me a few days ago.
March 13th, 2013
11:26 am
Button ~ that's why I never really understood "stalking." It takes too much energy to go through all of that. When it's over, it's over. Let your emotional wounds heal and K.I.M. Some, just can't do that. Drama is their crutch and they go full throttle.
March 13th, 2013
11:27 am
"do not think "bj" constitutes having a form of sex…….." It's not a form of sex. It's merely a personal salutation, much like shaking hands or a hug. Bill Clinton enacted legislation that established this fact years ago. Whenever I enter the home, that's my preferred method of greeting.
March 13th, 2013
11:27 am
disco ~ that's the point, it's not the word itself, it's the circumstances that makes one an ex.
March 13th, 2013
11:33 am
Ex Means: Thanks for the Experience, our time has Expired, you no longer Exist now Exit my life!!!!
Cosign…if you're my ex then you're that for a reason so push on my brother. I don't back track so once I'm done, I'm done witcha. And no I don't want to be your friend either…no hard feelings it's just better that way…IMO
March 13th, 2013
11:35 am
IMO, ex is a term and attached to the assumption that "ex", implies things ended badly." The average says "my ex." On a scale of majority versus minority, it's a given that the majority that states "my ex" almost never mean anything positive. If so, an explanation or statement usually follows. He was a good guy/gal, just not the right time/place/situation, etc. If the person ain't explaining and keeping with "my ex", we can almost go with it wasn't a good experience.
March 13th, 2013
11:38 am
Disco – Yeah, I don't discount folks over a term they are called, unless it's hyphenated by something bad like "ex-con", "ex-stalker", you get the drift. Again, glad you've changed, I just don't want to deal with it!
Like I stated before, stuff like life circumstance or bad timing would not discount an ex. Other drama I had to deal with when dating them would though.
March 13th, 2013
11:40 am
ex is a term and attached to the assumption that "ex", implies things ended badly…If the person ain't explaining and keeping with "my ex", we can almost go with it wasn't a good experience.
I've heard ex referred to in both good and bad breakups…and it'd be correct seeing as either way they're still an ex. I guess it just depends on the situation and people involved. To-may-to…to-mah-to..
March 13th, 2013
11:43 am
I don't discount folks over a term they are called, unless it's hyphenated by something bad like "ex-con", "ex-stalker",
Okay kimmie?!
March 13th, 2013
11:45 am
I was going back to disco's post of the term "ex" and stating the term itself is not reason enough to discount a person. I think if it's broken down like disco states, it's just semantics. My point is, we can toss "ex" around but it's not the person as much as it is the experience.
March 13th, 2013
11:49 am
Just curious. Does one have to have been in an exclusive, committed relationship with a person for them to beome an Ex? If we just dated on and off for a year and had sex 100 times then stopped, am I considered your ex? If not, than you should have no problem with me coming back for more….right?
March 13th, 2013
11:51 am
Umm okay…I guess…
March 13th, 2013
11:52 am
Anybody watch the Preacher's Daughter that aired last night? I watched to see what these kids were doing, and I must admit the 17 year old black girl is off the chain. She's too hot to trot. But, what I thought to be interesting is the white pastor asking his daughters about their purity rings. One admitted staying away from temptation is difficult and that she has smoked weed before, the other daughter doesn't even know where her's is and the 17-year old, with her baby breastfeeding, strokes her ring contemplating on what it means to wear it. Her father kept saying he hope she remains "pure." Umm, how she gonna do that when she had sex with 2 guys and is now wondering who the baby daddy is. Her "pureness" has flown the coop…
The ex-Russian wrestler is cool. I like his 16-year old daugther trying to date for the first time. Now Mom is a different story. She keeps it real, giving her daughter's prospective bf a questionnaire to fill out. That was funny!


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Thanks Tim and Ray.
I had to laugh though at that parting shot, Ray... I might live here, but I'm not British! I'm from the Caribbean. My husband and his family are, in a technical sense - Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, still considered by some to be 'occupied' Irish territory. If anyone asks, I'm in Ireland, ok?
I realized this week, in talking to my three year old that... he somehow has managed to retain some memory of his Dad. Whether it'd last or not is something only time will tell but, he had a cold and was coughing. He was going about all proud of himself, saying he's coughing just like his Daddy.
Now, my husband's chronic cough (treated by the doctors as an allergy, with an inhaler) turned out to be a sign of his heart problem - only discovered post-mortem.
I certainly never told my son that his Dad coughed a lot and on asking around, nobody else told him either. Everyone has been assuming that someone else must have said it... it seems that the cough, however painful a memory it is to the adults, is something my son remembers, associates with his Dad and ... well, it doesn't bother him so I guess I'd need to not tell him why it makes the adults choke when he says it?
I don't know about sainthood, there are days when all I want is to go asleep and wake up when the kids are 18... but I figure all we can do is get through the day-to-day and hope we're doing the right thing?
For perspective, it's helpful to think about the thought process of a 3 year old. At that age, they have a simplistic way of looking at things. In many cases, they come up with questions or do things that make adults "cringe", as you said. Simple questions are best handled with simple answers. Adults are squirming while a 3 year old is comfortable in his own skin. It's still difficult, to be sure. Sometimes you have to probe to see exactly what a 3 year old meant -- what does he really want to know? Ask the Spirit for help during those times and you find yourself cringing less.
It's sad and frustrating to hear that your husband's medical problem wasn't diagnosed properly. It's hard to say if doctors didn't examine the symptoms closely enough -- there are so many common symptoms for several medical problems. Unfortunately, no matter what the circumstances were, the end result is the same -- you've lost your husband.
Day-to-day is the way to deal with all of this. Yesterday is past, tomorrow isn't here yet, so we have the "present". Time is a most valuable gift. You've been given a cross that's heavier than what others are carrying. Somehow, in His infinite wisdom, He feels you can handle it. You are dealing with a heavy load. Carry it as best you can, offer it up, and you're on your way to sainthood. Tired? No doubt about it. Some rough days? Certainly. But the children are at such an enjoyable age and can bring a lot of cheer to your home.
Oops -- didn't really pay attention to the Belfast -- just the Great Britain part. My simplistic, 3 year-old way of thinking concluded that if you're in Great Britain, you're British. Well, Irish it is.


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- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Dec 16, 2011
- Summary: Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates "Ghost Protocol". Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know. (Paramount Pictures)… Expand
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Positive: 32 out of 38
Mixed: 6 out of 38
Negative: 0 out of 38
Ghost Protocol brims with scenes that are exciting and amazing at the same time; they're brought off with such casual aplomb that they're funny, too.
Should you see Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol? By all means, and in the big, big, biggest theater you can find.
Pixar wizard Brad Bird's live-action debut serves up sights and setpieces of often jaw-dropping ingenuity and visual flair, but it's a movie of dazzling individual parts that don't come together to fully satisfying effect in the final stretch.
Dec 27, 2011The movie is sheer hurtling mechanism - the entire world in motion - and it's great silly fun. [2 Jan. 2012, p.79]
Bird has done a stylish and involving job here, turning in an entertaining production that's got considerable visual flair, especially in its action-heavy Imax sections.
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Apr 30, 2013I agree 100% with weisberger. I honestly don't see how anyone likes this movie. The plot is incredibly shallow and generic, Explains pretty much nothing, and the dialogue is awful. The action scenes are poorly done and are so incredibly unrealistic that it leaves you dumb-founded. I really don't see how anyone could give this movie a position review let alone critical acclaim.… Expand
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However, not all white grubs are "bad." Some aid in breaking down the cellulose found in soils amended with horse manure or compost, converting it into nutrients needed by the plants.
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Though modest in size, WEIMAR is the spiritual capital of German culture. A young Robert Schumann noted in his diary, "Germans are powerfully drawn to Weimar", and like those to Stratford in England they are not idle tourists so much as aesthete pilgrims come to revere a pantheon of intellectual and artistic saints. Saxe-Weimar dukes were patrons of Lucas Cranach and Johann Sebastian Bach as an overture to the town's finest hour in the late eighteenth century. During the rule of aesthete duke Carl August (1757–1828), the court capital was an intellectual hothouse of rare talents such as dramatist Friedrich Schiller, poet Christoph-Martin Wieland, theologian Johann Gottfried Herder and, more than anyone else, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The city flowered as the home of the German Enlightenment whose beauty and ideas astounded Europe. Later names in the roll call of honour include Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche and Bauhaus founders Walter Gropius, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The town's name is also synonymous with the ill-fated Weimar Republic of post-imperial Germany.
Weimar is the museum city par excellence whose every street is steeped in a revered past. Thankfully it is charming, too, thanks to frantic efforts to buff up its looks as European City of Culture in 1999. Definitively small-scale, notwithstanding the handsome Park an der Ilm south and the odd gallery, almost everything worth seeing lies within a ten-minute radius of the Markt in the lattice of streets bound to the north by Graben, track of a medieval moat, and to the south by Steubenstrasse. Here you'll find first-rate art in the ducal Schloss, a gorgeous Rococo library, the Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek, and Goethe's house. Erudite stuff and proof that Weimar most rewards those who apply their minds – others may find it rather provincial.Read More
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No figure commands German culture like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1748–1832). A lazy comparison is often made to Shakespeare, which underplays the achievements of the last great Renaissance man of European culture. Not content with producing some of the most insightful drama in the German language, Goethe penned poetry, novels, travelogues and short stories, as well as philosophical essays and treatises on theology, humanism and science. His influence on German philosophy is incalculable. Indeed, he didn't see himself as a writer and proposed near his death that he would be remembered for his Theory of Colours treatise. "As to what I have done as a poet … I take no pride in it," he said, "but that in my century I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colours – of that I am not a little proud." Misguidedly so as it turned out: the hypothesis suggested that darkness is not an absence of light but a polar opposite that interacts with it, with colour arising where the two flow together. Modern science has rebuffed his theory, but the idea was popular with artists such as Turner and Kandinsky.
The Frankfurt-born son of a wealthy family, Goethe trained as a lawyer but found fame in 1774 as the 26-year-old novelist of The Sorrows of Young Werther. Its semi-autobiographical tale of obsessive love not only became the best seller of the proto-Romantic Sturm und Drang movement, it so wowed 18-year-old Carl August that the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach took on Goethe as a court adviser in 1775. Goethe would remain there until his death, though paradoxically he was so wrapped up in official duties and science that literature went onto the back burner for that first decade. It was an Italian holiday from 1786 that rekindled his creative spark (and also sent countless young Germans who read his Italian Journey mooning around Italy). On his return two years later he teamed up with Schiller to continue his major prose achievement, Wilhelm Meister, a six-novel cycle. He also began the work on the two-part lyric drama, Faust, which he would tinker with until his death. Ostensibly a narrative of the classic legend, his dramatic masterpiece strives to lay bare the soul of Western society. Small wonder that when Berlin erected its "Walk of Ideas", a 12m-high stack of books on Bebelplatz in 2006, all the illustrious names of German literature rested on a single giant tome of Goethe's.


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When all was said and done, last night's pre-season tilt between the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks left a fine layer of rust covering the ice at Pengrowth Saddledome. Few expect brilliance in game one of the pre-season and rightly so.
It was a game to get reacquainted with teammates and playing in an organized setting again.
A one-goal victory against a Canucks club with few names we'll be hearing again during the regular season isn't something to get excited about. But a win is a win nevertheless, even in the pre-season.
So while the outcome leaves little to say, the play of the Flames roster does allow for assessment.
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Alex Tanguay did what Flames fans know he can do. What was great about his performance was that he actually did what was expected of him.
An effortless pass to Mikael Backlund on a shorthanded rush in the second period was a great start. The pass to Backlund showed the soft hands of Tanguay, but more importantly showed his speed as he exploded through centre ice to start the 2-on-1 rush. The pass to Jarome Iginla on the game winner was a great sign that those two players still have chemistry.
Jay Bouwmeester finally started to show why he makes the big money. Bouwmeester didn't shy away from joining the rush and demonstrated great speed and offensive ability on a few shifts during the night. There were a few defensive lapses, but seeing his 6-foot-4 frame standing in front of the net on power plays was enough to forget his mistakes. Thirty minutes of ice time isn't too bad either.
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With most conversations switching to T.J. Brodie when discussing the defensive future, Matt Pelech did a good job bringing himself back into contention.
Pelech showed good speed and vision throughout the night. On several occasions Pelech looked trapped in his end, but effortlessly spun away from forecheckers and moved the puck up the ice. There were the expected mental errors along the way, but rookies and veterans alike were doing that last night. Of all the prospects in attendance at the Saddledome, Pelech looked most comfortable.
John Armstrong, before being dropped in the third period by a puck to the face, was also showing promise. Armstrong showed lots of determination, strength and forechecking prowess. He didn't play like a top six forward, but there were plenty of situations where he looked worthy of a third or fourth line spot on the Flames.
Room for Improvement
Although Curtis Glencross had over 14 minutes of ice time, he was a non factor all night. There were a few bursts of speed when shorthanded, but otherwise Glencross was barely noticed.
Glencross was a strong penalty killer last season, but like the rest of the Flames, his 5-on-5 play needs improvement. His play against the Canucks left much to be desired and one can only hope it was the result of a long summer and nothing else.
Save of the Game
Leland Irving faced eight shots in 20 minutes of play, and while Marco Rosa's goal was shaky, Irving did provide the save of the game. A pass across the goal mouth to Jordan Schroeder looked to be a sure goal, but Irving quickly moved from right to left and robbed Schroeder with his outstretched left pad and glove. The save was a nice confidence boost for a goalie who struggled last season.
Game MVP
One player in the middle of trade talk all summer was Robyn Regehr. Much of the trade talk stemmed from a 2009-10 season to forget for Regehr. Against the Canucks last night, Regehr was a force.
Regehr's two assists was a nice offensive addition, but his strong defensive play was especially noticeable and welcomed. A strong 20 minutes of ice time, with hits, good positioning and aggression from the veteran defenseman is just what the doctor ordered.
The strong offensive and defensive showing of Regehr made him the most complete player for the Flames last night, and is hopefully a sign that he is returning to form for the upcoming season.


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Kentucky has produced its fair share of successful authors, a number of whom achieved huge critical and commercial fame. In addition, the Bluegrass State is the birthplace of many well-known and critically influential literary scholars.
Robert Penn Warren achieved literary immortality with his hugely successful, best-selling novel All The King's Men, which won him the Pulitzer Prize. Born in Guthrie in 1905, Warren helped form the Southern Agrarians, an influential writers group, during his undergraduate years at Vanderbilt University. Though they gained a reputation for their promotion of Southern conservative populism, Warren began to distance himself from this conservative mentality. He became a strong supporter of the Civil Rights movement and published a well-received book, Who Speaks For The Negro. Warren served as the Library of Congress' Poet Laureate from 1944 to1945, winning the Pulitzer Prize two more times for works of poetry, Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (1958) and Now and Then (1979). He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1981. Along with fellow Agrarian Cleanth Brooks, Warren also co-authored the seminal textbook, Understanding Poetry, and its follow-up, Understanding Fiction.
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Though born in Annapolis, Maryland, Barbara Kingsolver was raised outside of Carlisle, Kentucky, living a solitary life she claimed helped beget an "elaborate existence of the mind." In 1988, she released her first novel, The Bean Trees. Some of her more famous works include Homeland and Other Stories, Animal Dreams, and The Poisonwood Bible. The latter novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She was the recipient in 2000 of the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton.
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Along with great writers, there are a number of scholars that hail from Kentucky as well. Cleanth Brooks and Thomas D. Clark are two of the most well-known.
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Kentucky's vast legacy of writers reminds us that a state's inhabitants are what truly define that state. The critical and commercial, literary and scholarly success enjoyed by so many authors indicates that Kentucky continues to inspire and propel writers to new and greater heights.


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Have you ever wondered how the photographs of our fleet in flight are created? What about the video above? This type of imagery is known as air-to-air photography. Meet Pouya Dianat, the master mind behind our air-to-air footage and learn how he captures these mesmerizing moments.
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Amateur: 'I think I can beat (McIlroy) at his worst'
Benjamin Smith fell short of becoming the first amateur to win the New Jersey Open two straight years Thursday.
Smith shot a third-round 4-over 75 to go from leading after the second round to finishing three shots back of winner Frank Esposito Jr.
But it's what Smith said Wednesday that caught the attention of Golfweek.
"It's fun for me to compete," said the 26-year-old Voorhees, N.J., native. "I have never had the goal of being a professional golfer and doing it as a living. I don't know if I am good enough actually.
"Obviously if I play my best and Rory McIlroy plays his worst, I think I can beat him at his worst. But day in and day out, obviously, I don't think I can do it."
OK, so it wasn't a challenge to the World No. 2, but it's still an interesting statement coming from a mid-amateur at a state open.
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Mercury Pollutes Awareness Campaign- Boise is launching a new awareness campaign to educate residents about mercury-containing products found in the home and how residents should properly manage those products when they are no longer needed.
Drug Take Back Day/Shred It Day - Clean out your medicine and filing cabinets of old medications, credit card receipts, and bank statements on September 27 from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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We are about relationships…Otsego Manor continues to promote and develop lasting, loving relationships within households, between neighbors, and throughout the community. We are about decisions made by the elders who live here, or the ones closest to them and who know them best, with family as partners in care-giving. We are about individuals giving and receiving care prompted by the heart. We are about living rich lives individually and together. Good, rich, healthy relationships…it's what we at Otsego Manor are about.
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TOLEDO, OH (Toledo News Now) - The second suspect in a Perrysburg Township murder from over the weekend has been picked up by authorities.
The attorney for Jose Moya said he had been working with Moya's mother to arrange for Raul Moya to turn himself in at his office Wednesday, but the U.S. Marshals got to him first and made the arrest.
Marshals said they showed up to Moya's mother's home on Buckeye and Raul Moya was there. They said he hugged his mom, kissed his sister and said he had to go.
The U.S. Marshals handed Raul Moya over to Perrysburg Township Police Wednesday afternoon.
Raul Moya was arraigned in Perrysburg Municipal Court Wednesday afternoon. He has been charged with obstructing business and is being held on $105,000 bond. He joins his brother Jose Moya in the Wood County Jail. Raul Moya is due back in court Aug. 2.
Perrysburg Township Police have charged Jose Moya with murder. He made his first court appearance Wednesday morning. His bond was set at $545,000 and he is due back in court Aug. 2.
Officers from Perrysburg Township said people living in the neighborhood had been living in fear.
Perrysburg Township Police named Jose Moya a suspect just hours after the homicide of Leandra Frankum, 21, who was shot and killed on Broad Street in Perrysburg Township around 1:20 a.m. Sunday. Police say Raul Moya helped his brother Jose get away.
Jose Moya is believed to have been Frankum's on and off again boyfriend. He turned himself in to authorities Tuesday afternoon, after being advised by his attorney.
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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Green Bay's Plan Commission has voted to change the classification of the site in the Broadway District where Walmart wants to build a store.
However, it was to "downtown" and not "commercial" which isn't what Walmart was seeking.
Going with the recommendation presented by the commission, led by City Planner Nic Sporacio, the committee voted 5-1 with Chairperson Maribeth Conard abstaining to deny the motion amending the Green Bay Smart Growth 2022 Comprehensive Plan by revising the map of Future Land Use.
Instead, they approved the recommendation to change the properties in the 400-600 blocks of N. Broadway Street from general industrial to downtown. Walmart was looking to have the properties classified as commercial for the purpose of building a 150,000 square foot store.
"In this case here, the people have spoke loud and clear and by large quantities," said Alderman Jerry Wiezbiskie after the meeting. "Nothing against Walmart but a big-box down there, there's no place for it down there."
As explained by Sporacio, the "downtown" classification aims to keep the future land use at a medium-box, or between 25,000 and 70,000 square feet. It also allows for mixed-use development, rather than just one particular usage.
"We look forward to working with the city council to look at how our project can continue to move forward," says Walmart spokesperson Lisa Nelson, who wouldn't say if this was the end of the line for the retail giant. "We are proposing a 150,000 square foot store at the site. We've vetted them through many folks within the district and we believe it's a really great plan."
Most in attendance spoke during the public comment period against Walmart building their Supercenter at Broadway and Kellogg Streets. The meeting, which lasted over 4 hours, heard many of the same arguments against the plan.
The Green Bay City Council will take up this amended resolution when they meet on Tuesday February 4th.


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One of the world's preeminent cancer scientists, Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, has been appointed the new director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
February 04, 2014
Researchers are harnessing the power of the body's natural defenses to fight deadly cancers, and the treatment appears to be powerful, effective and long-lasting.
December 05, 2013
UCSF has been awarded a major federal grant to "transform and revolutionize" the treatment of prostate cancer, the second most common form of cancer among American men.
May 08, 2013
A new genomic test can help predict whether men are more likely to harbor an aggressive form of prostate cancer, according to a new UCSF study.
December 11, 2012
President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate UCSF's Mack Roach, who is recognized as a major authority on the treatment of prostate cancer, to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
February 22, 2012
Uncovering the network of genes regulated by a crucial molecule involved in cancer called mTOR, which controls protein production inside cells, researchers at UCSF have discovered how a protein "master regulator" goes awry, leading to metastasis, the fatal step of cancer.
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Scientists at UCSF have identified nearly 200 genes in the healthy prostate tissue of men with low-grade prostate cancer that may help explain how physical activity improves survival from the disease.
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New studies of vitamin supplements, prostate cancer risk in men and mortality in women have yielded disappointing results. Some researchers remain optimistic about identifying dietary and lifestyle interventions that are beneficial to health.
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For logic-minded Americans still genuinely puzzled as to how it could be that our presidents and secretaries of state and generals and pundits keep hammering home the big lie that Islam has nothing to do with jihad, that the religion of conquest is a "religion of peace," I have a special warning. Such widespread, politics- and mass-media-driven brainwashing is nothing new.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of what passed for debate over another doomed effort to secure U.S. interests by embarking on the fruitless pursuit, cultivation and empowerment of Islamic "moderates," this time in Syria.
It's 9/11 the 13th and these United States have never been closer to losing the last vestiges of their foundational identity.
We have mourned our dead, fought wars, rebuilt cities, but something still is missing. That something is informed talk about Islam. Frank discussion of the Koran and Muhammad.
One thing an old Ivy League revolutionary can't stand is people noticing that he represents the Establishment. That he embodies the System to a point where he can make it stop and make it go. He will go to great lengths to convince himself, if not others, this is not so.
?There is something deeply shameful about the official American response to this week's unprecedented gunning down of a U.S. Army two-star general by an Afghan army soldier.
There's something darkly coincidental in the fact that the latest weapon to be deployed against the survival instinct of both Israel and the United States is an alleged "heartlessness" when it comes to children.
Dear Members of Congress: Here's an assignment for you: Watch the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" and pay particular attention to the part in which Dorothy realizes that in her ruby red slippers, she had the magic power she needed all along.
There is one thing we can predict about the tens of thousands of "minor aliens" crashing our southern border. If permitted to stay in this country and gain citizenship, at least 8 in 10 of them will grow up to be Big Government Democrats.
About those 300 U.S. military advisers that the Obama administration has ordered to Iraq.
Are the neocons going home?
It isn't that the barbarians are at the gate. The barbarians control the gate. I don't know what else to call a president and attorney general who have opened the U.S. border to literally tens of thousands of "children" -- some described as "sexually active" teens, some even suspected of ties to gangs.
One day, I predict, the fate of Bowe Bergdahl will prove to be the least important aspect of the Bowe Bergdahl story. For now, though, even more than President Obama, Bergdahl is the locus of rage as Americans erupt in pent-up frustration over the disaster that is Afghanistan.
he National Catholic Register broke the most shocking cultural news of the week: "A group of students at the University of Notre Dame has generated a campus-wide controversy by advocating that marriage between one woman and one man is better suited for children than same-sex 'marriage.'"
John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), may have taken Uncle Sam and shaken him by the lapels this week, but the media missed it. Americans, however, need to hear how Sopko, in an address at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., laid out why Afghanistan remains "relevant" -- and a cause for outrage -- for every U.S. taxpayer and policymaker.
You suggest in your syndicated column, "Harry Reid: A McCarthy for Our Time," that we "ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) the same question once posed to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by U.S. Army head-counsel Joseph N. Welch: 'Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?'"
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The important-sounding Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union has recently reiterated "its strong support for Ukraine's unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity."
When Brandeis University withdrew an honorary degree for Ayaan Hirsi Ali after a student-professor firestorm branded her an "Islamophobe," the campus in effect declared itself an outpost of Islamic law, American-style.
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An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl is credited with rescuing her 3-year-old brother from their burning building.
She tossed him from a fire escape into the arms of neighbors below.
Janixia Soto reportedly alerted her mom and brother, Walter, on Thursday as smoke from a ground floor fire filled the apartments above.
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Egbert Austin Williams was born in 1875 in the Antigua. He moved to California with his parents at the age of 12 and later became a popular comedian.
Bert, as he is widely known, took to music and entertainment as a way to survive after the death of his father. He went from cafť to cafť in San Francisco singing minstrel ditties and passing the hat.
While in Antigua, his interest in people's mannerisms, especially those of peasants, became evident in his performances. He later shifted his attention to a similar type of African American - the humble, shiftless, slouching Negro, who could neither read nor write but who had a certain hard, and not altogether inaccurate, philosophy of life. He would study this type patiently and rejoice whenever he discovered a new twist of dialect or expression. From this Bert would go on to develop what became his trademark character - "Mr. Nobody" (Charlie Chaplin would later develop a white character who was similar), and the accompanying song he composed, "Nobody," became his signature work.
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Bert continued working alone and later joined the Ziegfeld Follies. It was the top production of its kind in America, and Bert was its highest paid star for ten years. He often had to use his "Mr. Nobody" routine to save the show's reputation.
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Bert Williams was one of the greatest pantomimists of all time. He read many of the great literary masterpieces, and could discuss the works of Darwin, Voltaire, Kant, and Goethe among others. It was said that next to the stage his greatest interest was the history of Africa and of his people in America and the West Indies. Booker T. Washington once modestly observed, "Bert Williams has done more for the race than I have. He has smiled his way into people's hearts. I have been obliged to fight my way."
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