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I believe that although I have come across the website of Fitness and Freebies before, I have not featured them on my blog before. It must have slipped my mind. Anyway, I chanced upon it again today while looking for health recipes. Fitness and Freebies has a range of healthy recipe to suit every diet.
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Probably one of the most important things to a golfer is a decent golf bag. Golf bags can be chosen for style, color and your budget. There is a huge variety of golf bags available that will suit golfers who play golf only occasionally, the more experienced golfer who plays every week without fail, right through to the professional golfer whose tools of trade are reliant on being easily accessible during the pressure of a golf tournament.
Generally speaking most amateur golfers walk the course when they play golf, so that the most popular types of golf bags are those that either have legs that fold out, so they stand upright when placed on the ground or the type of bag that will sit on a buggy to be wheeled around. This helps ease the amount of stress on the golfers back, at least reducing the need to have to bend over to some extent.
Golf bags are divided into sections for the golf clubs to be placed into. Most golfers are quite fussy how their golf clubs are placed in and like to keep them in a particluar order so they can readily locate the correct club when they want it. To assist the golfer with this, some bags come complete with long tubes in which individual clubs are placed. This ensures the clubs dont get tangled up and it also helps to preserve the grips for a longer period of time as theyre not rubbing against each other.
An additional consideration to be made is regarding the number of pockets your golf bag should have. You have probably seen golf bags with lots of pockets and wondered what are they all for. Well, they are definitely required. You will need a large pocket for either the golf bag hood or cover and also putting your wet weather gear in. You will need another pocket to have a spare towel, which you will need for drying both your hands and grips when its raining and also for sweaty brows and hands in the summer. Other pockets will be utilised for spare golf balls, golf tees, divot or plug mark tools, and dont forget youll need a pocket for your car keys, wallet and cell phone.
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Hi gang, Rick here, bringing you News and Views from the Ontario Hockey League as well Junior Hockey worldwide. With the Kontinental Hockey League making a big splash in their first summer as the league, they are popping the champagne whats going on in Canada.

There were two reports in Canada that the OHL and the QMJHL want out of the CHL Import Draft. You can read my thought here at The World of Junior Hockey on the OHL wanting out.
Now why should the NHL should step in the CHL business? The NHL wants to keep the the Europeans in the NHL. It doesnt look good for the NHL that the CHL doesnt want anymore Europeans to play in the league because of a few sour grapes.
What should be done? Gary Bettman or anyone in the NHL Headquarters should talk to David Branch the CHL and the OHL commissioner and Gilles Courteau the QMJHL commissioner and see whats going on.

If they dont budge, go for the juggular and back out of the Development Agreement between the CHL and the NHL. That will hurt the CHL financially and possibe water down the leagues.
What does the Development Agreement entail? Basically it keeps NHL teams from taking their junior age players and putting them in the AHL as 18 and 19 year olds. Also when a NHL Team signs a junior aged player, they pay the players junior team a development fee. I would just take away the development fee and hurt the teams financially.
I know it seems extreme but if the NHL wants to keep the European players coming, they need every league thats affliated with them open to Europeans. Because if they dont the KHL will welcome these players with oprn arms.

The KHL wants to start a junior league of their own and if theres no more Import Draft they get instant crediblity as an developmental league to the KHL. Once they get these players, they will probably hold them as long as possible.
Thats My Take
(Thanks to Nathan Fournier for this. Nathan also writes for the Lewiston Maineiacs of the QMJHL.

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Coaches Hot Seat have been astonished to see the number of high school football players just entering their senior year that have verbally committed to play at certain schools.  High school football season has not even started, and there are already 100s of kids that have verbally committed, but to a college football coach that verbal commitment doesn’t really mean very much, because the player still has to be recruited for another 8 months.  Therefore, we propose that a series of “signing windows” be instituted, where a recruit can sign a binding letter of commitment to his chosen college.
 
Signing Windows
1.  The first “signing window” would open in the summer after a recruit completes his junior year of high school, with the “signing window” opening on approximately July 15 and lasting until high school football practice starts, approximately August first.  During this two-week period a recruit would be able to sign a binding letter of commitment to a school, if he has made a visit, not an official visit, but just a visit to the school he plans to sign with.  Having a “signing window” between July 15 and August 1 would allow recruits to go ahead and make a firm written commitment to where they want to go to school, which would end the recruiting process for a number of recruits, and would most certainly help out college coaches, by freeing them up from recruiting the now signed players during the fall football season.  Just imagine if at some of the current schools that now have 20 or so verbal commitments, if all of those 20 recruits went ahead and signed a letter of commitment, the amount of time that would be freed up for coaches to concentrate on the football season (and maybe even their families some), since they would know that “X” number and exactly which players would be coming to their school.  We believe that eventually the majority of recruits would sign a letter of commitment during this first “signing window” and that by going ahead and signing in the summer before their senior year, it would be better for the recruit, for the colleges, and for the coaches.
 
2.  The second “signing window” would open on the first Monday after the end of the college football regular season, and would be open for 5 business days or one work week.  This second “signing window” would allow all of the recruits that did not sign in the summer before the football season to sign a letter of commitment to their chosen school, as long as they have made a visit to the school.  By having a second signing window in the first week of December and with the first signing window in the summer, we believe that a majority of recruits would sign their letters of commitments before their December high school exams and the holiday period, which would free up college coaches to focus on either their upcoming post-season games or on the next season.  There is no reason that a recruit that has decided where he wants to attend college should have to wait until the first week of February to make that written declaration, and it is not fair to put recruits through the entire recruiting process for another 60 days (December and January), not to mention the amount of time and effort that is expended by coaches to hand-hold recruits through those additional two months.  We have heard horror stories about the number of calls that football recruits get from recruiting services and from nervous coaches (and opposing team coaches), that do nothing more than make life difficult for recruits.  Why would the NCAA and the conferences allow recruits to be subjected to all of this excess recruiting when a recruit already knows where he wants to go to school?  It just makes common sense to allow a recruit to go ahead and sign a letter of commitment during one of the two mentioned signing window periods, so that the recruiting process can be brought to an end. 
 
3.  The third “signing window” would open around the same time as the current National Signing Day in the first week of February and would last for one week.  All of the players that are undecided about where they want to go to school could sign their letter of commitment at this time, which would mercifully bring the football recruiting season to an end. 
 
OK, to summarize our “Signing Windows” proposal:
 
The first “signing window” would open on July 15 in the summer before a football recruit’s senior year in high school and closes on August 1.   During this “signing window” a recruit could sign a binding letter of commitment to the school he has chosen to attend, as long as he has made a visit to the school.
 
The second “signing window” opens the Monday after the college football regular season is completed and stays open for one week, 5 business days.  A recruit can sign a binding letter of commitment at this time to the school he has chosen to attend, as long as he has made a visit to the school.
 
The third “signing window” opens during the first week of February and stays open for one week for all recruits that did not sign during one of the first two “signing windows”
 
The biggest advantages to the “Signing Windows” approach:
 
By allowing recruits that are now making verbal commitments to schools to go ahead and sign a binding letter of commitment either before the football season or in the first week after the conclusion of the college football regular season, the decks could be cleared for all recruits that want to go ahead and make a firm decision.  There is a tremendous amount of time spent recruiting high school football players even after they have verbally committed to a school, both by coaches at the school he has committed to, and by opposing team’s coaches, and in our opinion that is a tremendous amount of wasted time and resources that could be spent better elsewhere.  It is time to bring the recruiting madness to and end and go ahead and allow recruits that have decided on where they want to go to college, to go ahead and sign a letter of commitment to the school they have chosen. 
 
College football coaches already have their hands full with coaching their current team, and there is way too much time spent both during the regular season and during the months of December and January recruiting or holding onto players that have often already decided where they want to go to school.  If a recruit has decided where he wants to go to school, he should be able in the United States of America to sign a letter of commitment to that school.  What could possibly be wrong with that idea?  If a majority of recruits started signing letters of commitment either before the football season or in the first week of December, we could eliminate a lot of the madness that goes on with recruiting, and most of all these really stupid, and very insulting to the general public, press conferences that are being held by 18 year olds so that everyone can watch breathlessly to see where a particular kid is going to play football.  That is not what choosing a college is supposed to be about, by holding a press conference, and anything that can be done to bring some sanity to the entire recruiting process should be welcomed by everyone.
 
Most importantly, by allowing recruits to go ahead and sign before their senior year and their high school football season, a tremendous amount of pressure could be taken off these young men that are now being bombarded from all sides over what is really a very important decision, where they are going to attend college.  Just imagine that if a recruit could go ahead and sign a letter of commitment in the summer before his senior year, how much weight would be taken off the recruit’s shoulders and how much more he could focus on playing high school football.  The NCAA and the conferences should be trying to make this entire process a lot simpler for the young men that are trying to decide which school to attend, and by allowing someone to go ahead and sign a letter of commitment to end the craziness of recruiting for that player, can only be a good thing for the recruit and for college football in general.
 
Lastly, we believe that along with instituting these three “signing windows” for high school football recruits, another major change needs to be made that would allow both head football coaches and assistant coaches, to get to know high school players better before they ever sign a letter of commitment to a school.  It is very easy for a college football coach to recognize talent, but character is another thing entirely.  We believe that head coaches and their assistants need to be allowed to spend more time with both recruits and their high school coaches, so that college coaches can get a better understanding of what makes a recruit tick, and if that recruit would be a good addition to a particular school and football team.  We don’t quite understand the “Saban Rule” or the rule that caused the “Saban Rule” to be passed, but we do know that if college coaches are allowed to sit down with recruits, their parents, their guidance counselors, and their high school football coaches, we would be able to cut down on the number of negative problems that are now happening on college campuses.  We do not know the recruiting rules that pertain to visiting with recruits well enough to recommend a lot in this area, but it seems to us that after a recruit has completed his sophomore year of high school, coaches should be able to sit down with a recruit, and everyone else mentioned above so that a clear picture of the recruit can be obtained.  It is vitally important that college coaches know all they can about a recruit, his character, his skills on the football field, his performance in the classroom, his attitude, and many other things, and the only way to learn those things is by spending time on high school campuses and in the homes of recruits.  The coaches need time with these recruits, and the recruits need to spend time with the coaches so that can really get to know each other, so that when the first “signing window” opportunity arrives, a recruit can confidently sign with a school that he really wants to attend and play football for.  Who could possibly argue with any of that? 
 
As for verbal commitments, we would probably just recommend that they be done away with, and that everyone would find out where a high school recruit was going to school, when he signed during the above mentioned “signing windows.”
 
Our goals are simple in making these proposals:
 
1.  What is best for the high school recruits?
2.  What is best for college football coaches and the game of college football?
 
By instituting a system where recruits that are ready to make a decision and can go ahead and sign a binding letter of commitment to a school just before their senior year of high school or just after the college football regular season, a lot of pressure would be taken off of recruits and their families, and it would allow coaches to both know who they have signed for the next year, and to focus on the current college football season.  If a majority of recruits signed during the pre-senior year or early December “signing window” we believe that it would benefit the recruits, it would free up more time for college coaches to coach their current teams and spend time with their families, and it would hopefully bring an end to the silliness of an 18 year old calling a press conference to tell the world where he is going to college.  If it only did the latter, the “signing window” change would be well worth it, but we believe the benefits of this proposal would be large for everyone involved, and that it would make the entire game of college football stronger.

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remember when you sent your vcr home with me on the plane to show you were serious about moving here
remember when you used to type my papers and do my laundry while I worked Sunday nights in college
remember when the limo never returned to pick us up from the wedding ceremony and we caught a ride in our friends mini van and the entire wedding party had to be de-doghaired with maxi pads in the parking lot
remember when you drove out here in your sister's 1981 Ford Grenada filled with all your stuff and they pulled you in at the border and I had to come down and pledge that I would only let you stay 3 months
rememeber when we used to dress up in cute couples Halloween costumes: disco Miss Piggy and Kermit, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, Drew Carey and Mimi
remember when 8 days before our wedding we found out I wouldn't be allowed back in Canada for 6 months and that would mean I couldn't go to our wedding reception or go to work
remember when we woke up the first morning in our first house and it felt like the best Christmas morning ever
remember when you washed all my wool sweaters in hot water before a ski trip in college and to this day you're only allowed to do your own laundry
remember the night we brought Aiden home from the hospital and it felt so awkward and surreal to have a baby in our house
remember when I said yes it was the best thing I've ever done!
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This post is wholly to date-stamp a particular issue, without yet revealing it to the niche market that cares.

Adrian College's men's hockey team went 26-3 in its inaugural season last year, closing the year with 20 straight victories (and one of those losses came when the coach sat the starting goalie for skipping class--a big thumbs up to both the coach and the prof who reported the class skipping). Along the way they won games by scores such as 9-1, 14-2, 18-1, 16-2 and 20-2. In the process they quickly became the most hated team in NCAA Division III hockey, based not only on the traumatic losses bestowed upon their opponents, but also on the claimed ignorance and arrogance of their fans, who--it was alleged--thought they ought to be crowned NCAA D-III champs without further ado.

Ignorance did play some role, as the D-III playoff selection process is a bit odd (due to historical factors of where the most, and the best teams are located), and hard for first-timers to D-III to parse. The consequence was not so much arrogance, as frustration, as fans who believed their team could compete with the best realized that even if the team had gone undefeated, they would still have been denied a spot in the playoffs.

Without going into details, the fundamental problem was the dreaded SoS, Strength of Schedule. Because of its geographic location, the only league into which Adrian properly fit happened to be one that is--as attested to by the scores Adrian posted--quite weak. Strength of schedule is a useful measure; it ensures teams don't post good records just by playing patsies. The downside is a team, no matter how good, can be kept out of playoffs by the refusal of teams from good conferences to schedule them. And it's not all pure selfishness on the part of those teams--if they win, because their opponents' overal SoS is weak, it doesn't help the winning team's SoS, whereas if they lose their ranking will be killed by the other team's Sos.

So the Adrian College coach has reportedly sent out a message to all the good D-III conferences (nearly all on the East Coast, the one place outside Minnesota that is a real hotbed of college hockey), announcing that for the 2009-2010 season we will play anyone, anyplace, anytime (the '08'09 schedule is already set). And reportedly, so far there are no offers by any of those good programs. If they all refuse to play, they can continue to say Adrian really is weak, based on its SoS, despite its record and its scoring. But, although it grieves me as an Adrian fan to admit this, they have nothing to gain by scheduling Adrian, win or lose.

But the stakes are about to get higher. While running up those scores last year, Adrian's coach often sat his first line, or first two lines, for most of the third period. While I couldn't blame an outsider for disbelieving it, Adrian was consciously trying to not run up the score. In the final regular season home game, there was only one player on the team who had not scored, and the coach forbade everyone else from taking a shot on goal--if we were going to score any more against a badly beaten opponent, it was only going to be by that one guy (who did, finally, score his single goal for the season).

But reportedly another coach in our conference voted Adrian lower in the polls just out of spite, and Adrian's coach has, again reportedly, said that his team will try to run up the score against opponents this year. In part it's aimed at that particular other coach, whose unfortunate players are going to be the ones who suffer, and in part it's to make a statement that if a score of 20-2 isn't sufficient to be recognized as a playoff worthy program, perhaps a score of 30-2 will be.

If this comes true, Adrian will be hated more passionately than it was last season. And I can't say that I would blame anyone for that hatred. And I'm not going to whine that the current playoff selection system is unfair--the system was in place long before Adrian started a hockey team. But if the only way for Adrian to get consideration in the current system is to thrash its opponents far more than they deserve (they're just college kids not good enough for D-I or the minor leagues, after all), that's what's going to happen. And despite having a powerhouse of a team in his first season, the coach has recruited players expected to deprive current players of ice time.

So, come January, February, and March of 2009, if the Adrian Bulldogs win some games by more than 20 goals, remember that the reasons were posted here first, long before the games began. (And if they're not, if they're struggling to win, well, commenting is always open here, and you can mock me as viciously as you are able.

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