March 2012
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San Jose Sharks player Tommy Wingels helps lead way on "You Can Play" →
mercurynews.com
Sharks rookie Tommy Wingels will never forget the reaction when the student-manager of his college hockey team stood up at a team meeting and announced that he was gay.
“There wasn’t a reaction. Nobody cared,” Wingels said. “He was just Brendan and the guy who was a friend to all of us. It didn’t change the way he reacted around us, and it didn’t change the way we acted around him.”
Wingels wants the rest of the sports world to take that approach. To advance that cause, he provided financial backing and joined the advisory board of the You Can Play Project, an organization that was created in the memory of Brendan Burke, the student-manager on Wingels’ college hockey team at Miami University.
The project takes its name from a phrase often used by Brendan: “If you can play, you can play.” Wingels, a regular in the Sharks lineup for the past three months, became involved in the “You Can Play” project through Patrick Burke, Brendan’s brother and a scout for the Philadelphia Flyers.
“After the accident, we stayed in touch with Tommy, and he always said he wanted to do anything he could to help carry on Brendan’s legacy,” Patrick said. “When I told him about the idea for ‘You Can Play,’ he jumped at it. Our first two checks that were ever written to get us off the ground were done by Tommy Wingels and Andy Miele,” Patrick Burke said. “I think it’s pretty safe to say that without those two, we wouldn’t be in the position we are today.”
“I’m fully behind it,” Sharks coach Todd McLellan said of Wingels’ work. “I think it’s a great cause. Everybody chooses to live their lives their own way, and we have to appreciate that.” Persuading someone to do that is not the mission of the “You Can Play” project. Fostering a more accepting environment in which that can happen is.
“We just want to create an atmosphere where if someone’s ready, they’re able to do that,” Wingels said. “We’re trying to eliminate the casual homophobia in the game and in the locker room. … It’s not just hockey we’re talking about. It’s sports in general. We want people to be judged on their talent. Nothing else should really matter.”
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Kaskade – Live @ Ultra Music Festival 2012 – 25.03.2012
DOWNLOAD: Kaskade – Live @ Ultra Music Festival 2012 – 25.03.2012
Tracklist:
01 Dada Life – Kick Out The Epic Motherfucker
02 Kaskade feat. Mindy Gledhill – Eyes
w/ Kaskade feat. Mindy Gledhill – Eyes (Swanky Tunes Remix)
03 R3hab & Swanky Tunes feat. Max’C – Sending My Love (Kaskade MixMash)
04 Kaskade feat. Skylar Grey – Room For Happiness (Gregori Klosman Remix)
05 ID – ID
w/ Kaskade – Angel On My Shoulder
06 Sandro Silva & Quintino – Epic
w/ ID – ID
07 Tommy Trash vs. Kaskade – Cascade Vs. Empty Streets (Kaskade MashUp)
08 ID – ID
w/ Deadmau5 & Kaskade – Move For Me
09 ID – ID
10 Qulinez – Troll
w/ Kaskade – Stars Align
11 Tiesto – Maximal Crazy (R3hab & Swanky Tunes Remix)
12 Hard Rock Sofa – Quasar
w/ Kaskade – 4 AM
i've been knocked down so much that i've become afraid of my own success.
musings at 0047
i should’ve known better…
not too many people my age would want to be a cop. let alone with oakland.
click the OPD tag. all you see is Fuck, OPD this. Fuck, OPD that.
it’s like Cop Hater central out there.
but, that life, i want it.
bad.
so bad that it hurts.
i’ve got this cockiness about me that is starting to grow with each passing day.
yeah, i’m in the middle of OPD’s process. swag.
it kind of scares me.
no.
it really scares me.
it’s fucking Oakland.
I’m trying to be a cop.
in OAKLAND.
what the hell is wrong with me?
it’s not about the power. it’s not about the gun. hell, it’s most definitely not about the money. [OPD has one of the highest starting salaries in the state, just fyi] I could give a single shit about the money.
call me naive, call me stupid.
but i want to do my part in serving that community.
it’s a fucked up world out there and i want in.
my race, law, and equality professor gave me a sad statistic the other day. something about how 1 in every 3 black boys born in the year 2000 will have died of a gunshot wound by this year.
i’ve been having second thoughts about continuing with the selection process since i took the test last week.
Fuck, has it only been a week?
It has.
i’ve had second thoughts about this process because of everyone worrying about me. i hate it worrying people. and the ones who are worrying know that.
and they’re using my sympathy against me.
i feel little support.
i feel like no one understands what i’m going through.
Why?
BECAUSE EVERY ONE HATES A COP.
i feel alone.
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but, still.
I. Want. This.
the lonelier i feel, the more i want to prove myself.
prove myself TO myself.
prove to myself that i can do this.
prove to myself that i can do more than just want and dream.
prove to myself that i’m willing to do what it takes.
fuck the hate.
fuck the guilt.
It’s MY life.
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but if only i can just SAY that.
writing it out like this can only do so much.
no one will read it.
no one will care.
so what do i do from here?
MAKE. IT. HAPPEN.
use my voice.
damnit, friggin’ barrio actually taught me something.
study aids, coconut water, and E-40...
these three things will help me at least get through most of this book review….
maybe if i actually read the hard copy of this book, it’d be a lot simpler to do.
time is going by really slowly…
graduation is in 50 days. people have beef with me and i don't even know why. full blown senioritis is threatening to kick in. hella papers are coming in. OPD process is scaring the shit out of me.
all of my feels right now.
