Football team at UVU?

Hey guys!

On the right hand side of the page I've installed a poll. I'm hoping that you'll be able to do me a favor and give me your opinion on the matter. If you feel like you'd like to comment more, leave me a comment under this post, i'd love to hear about it.

There has been rumor at UVU of a football team for a while now, me and a few close friends are looking into the matter further but as of right now how do you feel about UVU establishing a football team?

And if you'd like a football team at UVU would you be willing to pay for it out of your pocket? Say likle 30 dollars a year give or take a few...?

If you don't like the idea of UVU establishing a football team and you found out you were paying for it, say 30 dollars a year give or take a few, how would you feel about that?

Fill out the poll please!

40 Years Ago Today

A bunch of Native American college students in California moved to Alcatraz for a few months, 19 to be exact, to occupy it in hopes of it being relinquished to the indians for their own purposes such as a tribal center and a place of worship since the previous one in SF had burnt down and the government had made no immediate plans to rebuild.

DUring the stay at Alcatraz they lived in the buildings sometimes without electricity and all the time without any phone service and sometimes without running water. During this time the prison was closed and was considered surplus property to the government.

From the article- Motive for the occupation was the government's general treatment of Indians. The U.S. 16 years earlier had begun a policy of terminating Indian reservations and relocating the inhabitants to urban areas.

"[The Alcatraz occupiers] wanted to focus attention on broken treaties, broken promises and termination of tribal areas," said Professor Troy Johnson, chairman of the American Indian studies program at California State University, Long Beach, and author of several publications on the occupation.

The event gathered a ton of media coverage resulting in change for these people. Check out the article.

Since when does Oprah need publicity?

Our darling Oprah is giving her last show (gasp, can it be true?) kinda...she will be giving her last show in 2 years.

SO why does she decide to tell us now? So that our hearts don't break? Trying to break it to us easy... I think she's decided to be done in time to get ready to run for president. If she didn't like Obama so much already I think she would have ran in the last election...

Without Oprah in our lives what will we do? Will we ever hear from her again? I'm being honest here.... What does she think SHE'S going to do? Sit around in her multiple houses all by herself? I wonder if she will continue on with her magazine. I truly do love that magazine. I never read the articles but the pictures are beautiful and the bolded phrases throughout the articles are very clever.

She always looks great on those covers. I think it's safe to say that Oprah is a beautiful woman. Sometimes are better than others. I like watching Oprah because she's not Tyra Banks... You know what I mean? SHes a news woman, she';s giving you facts. Tyra Banks is always trying to start a fire. "Is you baby daddy, YOUR daddy?"......wtf

Oprah never does that. Oprah is also very helpful. To readers like myself she fights half the battle by telling you straight up that she likes a certain book. I have come to find that you can trust these books. I read a story called 'Krik? Krak!' which was a very short read but really touching and it was on her booklist.

Oprah we will miss you and your wholesome clothes and views and books.

The question remains however, why are you telling us this now? It's like her ratings have gone down so she's like, "....I'm leaving!" (fire fire!) and every woman in America is frantic they'll never hear anymore advice. To be fair, they probably just decided and the press always figures this stuff out. She released the info to be informative...why wouldn't she? She's Americas angel.

I bet her ratings go up immediately. The story I read is right here

Check it out

News Story #2

Utah Fire and Rescue Academy students show off for the ladies.

Provo, Uta.- Friday girlfriends and wives of students at the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy (UFRA) were invited to watch as their husbands and boyfriends demonstrated what they've been up to all semester.

Class begins every morning starting at seven o'clock at the academy, however the students are expected to be there at 6:15 am to prep the fire trucks and clean gear. Last Friday was no exception. The day started as normal at the academy, but around lunch the girlfriends and wives enjoyed BBQ while the boys lit a building on fire and demonstrated their knowledge of putting it out.

The program is set up of six groups called "companies" and there are four men in a company. As students of the program they are expected to display leadership qualities, discipline, and strong work ethic.

The students are tested throughout the semester on their physical fitness, comprehensive knowledge and their academic abilities. Which were displayed on Friday as they tore down walls, broke through doors, and exhibited their knowledge of fires behavior towards different elements.

"Discipline is first and foremost at the academy, along with attention to detail. If you score lower then 80% on 3 tests you're kicked out of the academy." said Owen Beaudry a student attending UFRA.

While the students showed off their skills the instructors hung out with the girls and answered questions. Later the girls were taken on a tour where they were shown the props used in the fire demonstration.

"It was fun because the guys were excited and proud to show us how hard they have been working. We were treated like special guests. I never realized how task oriented it is to put out a fire." Said Emily Jensen UVU student and a girlfriend that attended.

After the completion of this fall semester the students of UFRA, who are also all UVU students, will have completed this program and be qualified firefighter/EMTs.

November Dancesport

This was truly a disappointment. I was not dancing at this competition because i've been sick and been busy getting married. It was crazy to watch all the bad dancing. I'm not saying I could have done better (even though I could have) but I was hoping for not so much crap.

I didn't even wait to see who placed where because they all looked the same. I didn't know who would be last. To be fair Giovanna and Paul, were honestly having fun and looking great. And Shannon and Shane were great at being big and boold, they took up space and looked decent doing it.

Other than that I was not impressed. Eugene and Maria came and did a performance and not even they looked very good. Not their best. Everyone was tired and sloppy.... Made me want to get out there though and show em whats up.

There are a few things I want to see in a couple.

1- foremost, good legs and feet, if you can't turn out your feet, can't lift a hip and settle it, and don't know when to straighten or bend. PLEASE, please get off the floor.
2- Don't do cheerleader faces... you know what I mean, Hold your head still please.NO bobbing, and close your mouth
3-any body movement you have going on should only happen because of where your feet are going. Which I understand is alot easier said than done, but if you bend a leg, your butt goes out, simple.. Stop making your body shake unaturally it looks awkward and it makes me feel een more so.

I can't wait to get back in the studio and seriously competing again.

Blackpool 2010 here I come
check out BYU Dancesport

Fort Hood

"The impact of trauma on those who help the traumatized has become a subject of discussion as investigators try to piece together why Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, an Army psychiatrist at Darnall Army Medical Center, allegedly opened fire at a military processing center Thursday at Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others." CNN

This guys story is unknown for the most part. We do know he is a 39 year old psychiatrist at the Texas army base Fort Hood. He just went on a "bloody rampage" as CNN puts it, by killing and injuring several people on the base. This article is speculating that perhaps by hearing so many horror stories that aren't his own and having no outlet for them they just built until it led to a horrifying story of his own.

When I heard this story, before I knew his name or saw his picture, I immediately thought TERRORIST. I'm interested to see how this turns out. It appears in this article with all the experts advise and quotes that there might be some serious government PR work going on here. I'm not usually one for paranoia or conspiracy theories but this seems odd to me.

"Though it was previously reported he was dead, officials reported late Thursday he was alive, wounded and in stable condition." This excerpt was from another article linked to the one I read. Doesn't this seem off to anyone?