If I needed any more fuel for my BCS fire.
Yeah, LSU and Do they follow the same formula they used earlier in the year?
What’s the difference between 
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Yeah, LSU and What’s the difference between 
Hey, It's ya girl Ash here to fill you on the hottest album of November (sorry Hov)
For all you Alicia Keys fans the wait is finally over!!!!
Ms. Keys has finally dropped her long awaited third album entitled As I Am (released Nov.13th).
I tend to be a little biased when it comes to Alicia Keys because I’m a die-hard fan and love everything she puts out. Mainly because it’s original and all her own. But for those of ya’ll who may have been sleeping on her you need to go out and cop this album, it’s her best work yet.
“You can definitely expect the unexpected from this album," Keys admitted. "It's different. It has a new energy. It has a new feeling. It has like more of aggression to it. I've learned a lot this year and I've been through a lot. So I think that I've grown as a person. You definitely feel it. You hear it in the sound of it. You hear it in the passion in my voice. You hear it all the way around the board.”---Alicia Keys
You get a balance of slow and fast tracks on this album.
Her two current singles “No One” and “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” (just released) continue to blow up the air waves. And they are just a taste of the hard work she’s been putting in, in the studio. You have to love how she mixes her classic piano style with a taste of R&B (new and old).
Other singles to look out for are “Lessons Learned”, “Wreckless Love”, “The Thing About Love”, “Superwoman” and “Sure Looks Good to Me.”
If you only buy one album (no bootlegs) this fourth quarter get Alicia Keys’, As I Am.
It’s a classic. It’s energetic. And Ms. Keys lets it be known that’s it’s aight to be yourself and express your feelings. If you don’t feel something when you listen to this album there’s DEFINITELY something wrong with you…..
For those of you that haven’t seen this yet. You need to check out “Like You’ll Never See Me Again”
Till the next review,
Ash
As we all know Alicia Keys' Album, As I Am, comes out tomorrow ("if ya don't know, now ya know") and what better way to celebrate than to talk about the evolution of her style.
See the Evolution
Keys had an Aaliyah (r.i.p) style going on there.
She has such a grown up style, I Love It. A++
Day 6.... The Columbia students who are on "Hunger Strike" mean business. The five is, for the moment, down to four (one member had to be rushed to the hospital). However, the attention and showcase of peaceful demonstration is gaining a strong, vocal following. The student group behind this, has organized ways to support them."Other ways you can support include signing our petition if you have not done so already (http://www.petitiononline.The students on campus have been participating in events for the "Hunger Strike", including Marching to Lee Bollinger's (President of Columbia) house, Candle light Vigils, a growing Facebook group, the support of Faculty, and the biggest...setting up Negotiations with the schools hierarchycom/kwzchen/petition.html ), coming out to our vigils, which are held every night at 9pm at the Sundial, donating water, blankets, pillows, sleeping bags or flashlights, and telling all your friends, listeners and professors about the strike and the demands."

<-----From Maryland with Love
People always think and wonder about what life brings them. You go through so much but for what reason exactly?“where are all if any good men go”
“why is he doing this and that to me if he’s suppose to love me”
“Why can’t I just find the right one for me?”.
Then there are the guys, asking questions like,
“Why are you always nagging me?”
“Why are you getting so emotional?”
There’s so much that a girl or guy wants, but seem to never find or get what they want.
Some Saturdays’ ago, I went to go see, “Why did I get married,” and found myself relating to certain parts and happenings from the movie.
If you have not seen it yet, go for yourself or for your girlfriend/boyfriend. It'll shed some light onto issues that present themselves in relationships, it'll be good for you both. Out of all the themes, issues, and guidance that the movie gives, the biggest one for me was the 80/20 Rule.
Let’s break it down this 80/20 rule….
Rule for the day...80>20....
(Survey)
So……have you found your 80?
Yes
No
Not sure
Along the lines of Tennis sensations Maria Sharapova and Anna Kournikova, comes another athlete that the press (mainly male bloggers) want to turn into a sex symbol. Except, this girl is not embracing it. Here is some excerpts from a May 29th article that featured Stokke on the front page of the Washington Post..."In her high school track and field career, Stokke had won a 2004 California state pole vaulting title, broken five national records and earned a scholarship to the University of California, yet only track devotees had noticed. Then, in early May, she received e-mails from friends who warned that a year-old picture of Stokke idly adjusting her hair at a track meet in New York had been plastered across the Internet. She had more than 1,000 new messages on her MySpace page. A three-minute video of Stokke standing against a wall and analyzing her performance at another meet had been posted on YouTube and viewed 150,000 times."
"Allison Stokke doesn't like the internet attention she's had
Stokke read on message boards that dozens of anonymous strangers had turned her picture into the background image on their computers. She felt violated. It was like becoming the victim of a crime, Stokke said."
"How would I feel if it were my daughter that got this unwanted attention? Well, I don't know. I'd like to think I'd feel fortunate that my daughter was a record-breaking athlete and honors student with no physical or mental deformities. It's 2007, people: time to realize that attractive women athletes will always be recognized and -- yes, sometimes -- obsessed over. Is it right or wrong? I don't know. But it's reality."
To show a little of what's being said, here is a comment on the "With Leather" blog.
Some of the Demands are:"We demand that Columbia expand ethically, support Ethnic Studies, reform the Core Curriculum, and improve administrative support for students of color, students of faith, and LGBTQ students:Because our cause is multi-faceted, our demands call for change on all levels and ask for a spectrum of responsibility:
We don't just want new programs or changes and improvements to existing programs. We want lasting changes in the power dynamics between the university, its students, and its community.
- a more systematic response to hate crimes from Public Safety
- a more collaborative expansion effort from the administration
- a revision of the Core that encourages critical engagement with issues of racism and colonialism
- more resources and support for the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER), the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS), and the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA).
Yes! Until the university completes a community-wide pilot program exploring the best possible responses to acts of hate on its campus and fundamentally changes the power dynamics of its decision-making process these students will not eat."
Go Columbia Students... It seems as though students from all levels are ready to stand up when they feel as though things are unjust. First, college students (primarily) forced the nation to pay attention to the circumstances of the Jena 6 situation and now a Hunger Strike.
So by now most everyone has heard about Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman and his recorded excessive use of Nga. Short synopsis, Dog's son is dating a black girl...Dog doesn't want that, because they use Nga in the house a lot...and well I'll let him tell it..."It's not because she's black. It's because we've used the word (Nga) sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some (Fcukin) (Nga) heard us say (Nga) and turned us into The Enquirer magazine."Way to put your foot in your mouth...Dog
"I thought that I was cool enough in the black world to be able to use that word as a brother to a brother."
"I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother."
"HANNITY: But did you use it regularly?We're do I stand, personally I DON'T CARE. I never watched the show before. I know that people of all colors say Nga, and that those that are not black (or spanish) understand that they can't say it in public without a negative image. This is less offensive then Michael Richards (Kramer) or Don Imus, because he did not use make offensive remarks in a public setting. However, he's gonna suffer financial losses ($$) for his actions.D. CHAPMAN: Not that regularly, only probably as a greeting to a black person where they'd come up, "Hey, my N-dog." And I'd be like, stick my head in his chest, "Hi, man, how are you doing?"
I wouldn't turn around and say, "Hi," and use it out loud, because I'm going to get beat up, but I used it as a — when I meet a brother, and we shake, and we say, "How's it," that's how it is. It's not a degrading thing at all.
HANNITY: You said this is how you would greet — you told me privately — Snoop Dogg. Is that true?
D. CHAPMAN: Yes, that's exactly right. I mean, you just can't walk up to someone, "Hi." You know, you'd get hit in the mouth. But when a brother says that to you first or you realize that there's — there's a special connection that I thought I had between me and black America.
And I used to say, "I'm black, too." In other words, I — my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
So when I stood there and said, "I kind of know what you feel like, because I've been there, too," I felt that I could embrace and like, as brothers or, even as a black woman, say the word.
You can't — I now learned I'm not black at all. And I never did it out of hate. This sounds so stupid. I always did it out of love. Other white guys would be like, "Boy, who does Dog think he is? Dog can say that." And black guys would be with me and walk with me and respect me.
So I went too far with that. I got — I should have never, ever..."
"As the video progresses, shots of patron are tossed back; many young striking females scatter throughout Jay’s social establishment, the 40/40, and the appearances from DJ Clue, Mariah Carey, Jadakiss (who threw up the Roc sign), Freeway, Young Gunz, Swizz Beatz, Cassie, Larry Johnson, Just Blaze, Beanie Sigel, Sean C, LV and many more only end the speculation that this video wasn’t a real celebration."

After giving an explanation as to why he went back into the studio and made an album with drugs, money, and "the Life" as his subject matter ("I was inspired by the movie"). Jay was given the pass to return to Reasonable Doubt.
INTRO "To be a Gangster, swagger is not a must it's a liability a cliche"If you seen the movie you'd understand this and other parts of the album.
"what we call corrupt he called paying duesAMERICAN DREAM
now when the rules is blurred as they are what am I to do
but pray, pray the lord forgive me"
"know where to cop? (Naw)In the third verse, he then details how you start your growth mentioning the "connect" for the first time.
got a connect (No),
who in the F knows how to be successful."
"she told me she like my New Orleans demeanor,
and so i said goodbye Katrina and Hello Brooklyn".
"like Frank Lucas is cool but i ain't trying to snitch"
"Speech,Reminds me of "The Mack", at the Player's Ball when Goldie is crowned the Mack of the Year.
first of all i wanna thank my connect,
the most important person with all due respect"
"If I would've grew up to be a doctor, my nephews would've grew up to do the same".And the feeling that comes with knowing that your family and crew is doing well together.
"I'm even better, I'm eating betterIt's a real "Sweet" feeling.
best thing about it, is my nga's eating together".
"I know what you like, i am your prescriptionSecond verse Jay continues with the metaphor of the song, then comparing the addiction to shopping
I'm your physician, i'm your addiction"
"like every color Giuseppe's, your guilty pleasure is meI really like how Jay has masked the "actual" song, so that only those that listen in will pick it up (sorry for spoiling it, but you would not have gotten it anyway). The ending of the addiction is wonderfully depicted at the end of the song with the drug (Jay) trying to hold on.
Its so much fun, you shun therapy"
"How could you deny me so vehemently?Party Life
Now your body is shakin' trying to free it of me
And your soul is in control, trying to lead it from me
And your heart no longer pledge allegiance to me
Damn, i'm missing the days when you needed the D"
"hey baby when you used to fillet mignonIt's the older, "made man" that has no real worries.
its kind of hard to go back to hamburger helper."
"I'm in a whole other leauge, nga's never catch meIgnorant Shit
"I missed the part where it stopped being about ImusJay also shows the complexities with rapping and how people are tuning too close to "entertainment" .
What do my lyrics got to do with this SHIT?"
"SCARFACE the movie did more than Scarface the rapper to meJay also, takes a shot at the critics of hip hop that don't show the same forceful stance to pop stars.
Still that ain't the blame for all the shit that's happened to me "
"Are you saying what I'm spitting,SAY HELLO
Is worse than these celebutantes showin' they kitten, you kidding?"
"They say i'm a menaceSo Jay is speaking out on the ills of society to justify his reasons for being in the "life". "
That's the picture they paint
They say a lot about me
Let me tell ya what i ain't"
"Only God can judge him, only he without sinThe second and third verse are especially crazy, but I'll just post up a couple of lines.
Can tell me if my means can justify my ends."
"And if Al Sharpton is speaking for meSUCCESS ft. Nas
Somebody get him the word and tell him i don't approve
Tell him i'll remove the curses
If you tell me our schools gon' be perfect
When Jena 6 don't exist
Tell him THAT's when i'll stop saying bitch---BIIITCH! "
"Is this what success all about,However, to me the most controversial part came from Nas. He states
a bunch of nga's actin like bitches with big mouths,
all this stress all i got is this big house,
couple cars i don't bring half them shits out,
all this Ace of Spade I drink just to piss out,
I mean I like the taste could've saved myself six hours"
"Worst enemies wanna be my best friends, best friends wanna be enemies like that's what in."I'll let you decide what you think of that.
"When i get to one brick, then The Game i will depart withTo getting locked up and losing the empire that you built,
Got to one brick then i looked to the sky, said
Sorry God, i lied, but give me one more try"
"When the letters start to slow, when your commissary's lowFinally, how to leave the drug life (and the rap life),
When your lawyer screams "Appeal!" only thinkin' bout a bill
When your chances are nil, damn, gravity's ill... "
"Fight, and you'll never surviveThe movie concept of the album is now finished, starting with a "prayer" and ending with the lead character "falling". Jay continues on with two bonus tracks.
Run, and you'll never escape
So just fall from grace, damn...."
"Blame Reagan for making me into a monsterSecondly,
Blame Oliver North and Iran-Contra
I ran contraband that they sponsored"
"Push (push) money over broads, you got it, fuck Bush"I just don't know which one he's talking about???

So the other day, I got a chance to catch up one of my favorite #1 teams, Penn State University.....
The Nittany Lions are at the top of their game and the consensus Volleyball number 1 and showcased it on ESPN against Purdue(Yes I watched 2 of the 3 sets). Penn State is now at 22-2 on the season and looking good (i love the spandex ladies).