Report: McNabb training in Arizona while awaiting fate

via Football Insider by Mike Jones on 5/5/11

Donovan McNabb is training with a group of NFL players – most of them Arizona Cardinals – at Arizona State University, according to the Arizona Republic.

The camp, organized by Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald, features about 20 player, with Arizona QBs John Skelton and Rich Bartel the other passers in attendance.

The workouts were described as low-key, which McNabb – who lives in Chandler, Ariz., and isn’t expected to return for a second season in Washington – is a fan of. McNabb has been splitting time between his homes in Virginia and Arizona, and is also working out here.

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Bring this show back to broadway:Will the “Scottsboro Boys” get a Second Life?


The Scottsboro boys were a group of nine African American teenagers who were wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama. Last year the story was turned into a Broadway musical. The musical received favorable reviews; but after six weeks and only 49 performances, producers shut the show down due to lackluster ticket sales.

Recently there was an announcement that the musical received 12 Tony nominations. This announcement served as ammunition to resurrect the show.

Today the investors and producers are petitioning audiences to bring the musical back to Broadway. On the show’s website you can pledge to support the show by purchasing a discounted ticket if and when it comes back to the stage.

You can read the rest of the story about the musical and the efforts to keep it alive over at theGrio.com.

 

 

Woman: Do you know how to KEEP Turning a Guy On? It Ain’t That Hard


 

A friend of mine recently asked me what turns me on. Strangely enough, I had a hard time answering outright; my initial notion being I was supposed to come up with something from a gonzo porn flick that involves a blender, maraschino cherries, a vacuum cleaner, the tongue of an adult St. Bernard and a celly with 911 on speed dial.

I’m a male who’s not in his 70s and suffering from prostate cancer. By virtue of that, it takes little more than a strong wind to turn me on. Teen sex comedies would have you believe it takes some really far-out sh*t to get a man going, but female stand-up comics almost nail it when they joke about the vagina being more than enough.

While I don’t think that’s entirely accurate, I do know it’s the simple things that drive us. Here’s a brief, incomplete list of what gets me open:

- A woman with a nice frame whose silhouette is enough to engender the anticipation of seeing her. She clearly takes care of herself and can dress like a knockout (not a whore) when she wants to remind the world that she’s on jam.

- Dark hair. (On her head, that is)

- Watching my girlfriend prance around in skintight black cotton pants that look as though they’d barely fit as sleeves around my arm. That’s how asses get slapped as they walk by.

- The “walking sex bomb”: a woman who’s not just dead sexy, but owns her sexuality and renders the average man a babbling buffoon. See: Rihanna; Megan Fox; Shane Mosley’s girlfriend.

- Navel rings.

- Virtually anything with shiny fabric from Victoria’s Secret.

- The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. Any year.

- Walking in the kitchen to see aforementioned girlfriend cooking. Of course, I do my best to see that the meal gets postponed or somehow ruined…

- Jeans, sweet Jesus…JEANS. The right pair can punctuate what you’re already working with beneath, or if you’re rocking a sloppier a$$, make all that feta cheese you’re packing look like a heart made of freshly-sculpted ice.

- A killer, traffic-stopping.

Yep. No crazy-filthy sex acts, whips or nipple clamps. This list will change, I’m sure, as I grow older. But at 30, these are what remind me why women are the best invention since the Chia Pet.

Just in Case: America's 10 Least Stressful Jobs 2011: CareerCast

via Most Popular Entries on HuffingtonPost by Harry Bradford on 5/7/11

With so many unemployed Americans struggling to find any sort of paying work, the idea of obtaining a steady, low-stress job can seem like a pipe dream. But it is possible.

A recent survey by CareerCast pinpoints those careers with the lowest levels of stress. To quantify workplace anxiety, they asked respondents to rate 200 jobs by eleven stress factors: outlook/growth potential, travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, own life at risk, life of another at risk and meeting the public.

The results indicate that several factors contribute to a more relaxed working life, with job stability, a common trait among tenured professors or government employees, reported to be among the most critical. In the healthcare industry, which makes up more than half of the jobs on this list, that level of stability can be attributed in large part to the increasing medical needs of aging baby boomers.

Another factor that shouldn't be discounted, either, is workplace flexibility. Many in the tech industry, such as computer programmers and software engineers, are big beneficiaries of that often overlooked perk.

Here are the top ten least stressful jobs according to CareerCast.