KEISHA tackles...

Women's Professional Football

Your girl, Keisha, has been offered the opportunity to tryout and possibly get on a women’s professional football team. The New York Sharks is the only women’s tackle football team in the area.

Now for those that know me, trying out and making a football team is not a challenge for me (in my prime). The real challenge is trying out and possibly making a football team with less than ZERO days of training and conditioning at the age of 30.

Follow me as I push myself to the limit and test my strength against the Tri-state area’s toughest women.

For those that I wondering about the position that I might play, well, I was thinking that I might fit the role of Quarterback or wide receiver and I definitely want to be on special teams as kickoff return to display my “dipping” skills that I learned from back in the days in the Gesner parking lot.

My tryout will be with the New York Sharks on Saturday, January 23 at 9am in Brooklyn, NY.

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UPDATE:

I made the team!!!

Help Haiti

• Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420
• Agape Flights, 941-584-8078
• American Red Cross, 800-733-2767, Text "HAITI" to "90999" to Donate $10 via cellphone
• American Refugee Committee, 800-875-7060
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 212-687-6200
• American Jewish World Service, 212-792-2900
• AmeriCares, 800-486-4357
• Beyond Borders, 866-424-8403
• B'nai B'rith International, 202-857-6600
• CARE, 800-521-2273
• CarmaFoundation
• Catholic Relief Services, 800-736-3467
• Childcare Worldwide, 800-553-2328
• Church World Services, 800-297-1516
• Clinton Foundation, 501-748-0471, Text "HAITI" to 20222 to donate $10 to Haiti relief
• Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
• Concern Worldwide, 212-557-8000
• Convoy of Hope, 417-823-8998
• Cross International, 800-391-8545
• CRUDEM Foundation, 413-642-0450
• CRWRC, 800-55-CRWRC
• Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767
• Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392
• Episcopal Relief and Development, 800-334-7626
• Feed My Starving Children, 763-504-2919
• Food for the Poor, 800-427-9104
• Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694
• Friends of the Orphans, 312-386-7499
• Habitat for Humanity, 1-800-422-4828
• Haiti Children, 877-424-8454
• Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
• Haiti Marycare, 203-675-4770
• Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357
• Healing Hands for Haiti, 651-769-5846
• Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183
• International Child Care, 800-722-4453
• International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462
• International Rescue Committee, 877-733-8433
• International Relief Teams, 619-284-7979
• Islamic Relief USA, 888-479-4968
• Lions Club International Foundation, 630-203-3836
• Lutheran World Relief, 800-597-5972
• Medical Benevolence Foundation, 800-547-7627
• Medical Teams International, 800-959-4325
• Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634
• Mennonite Central Committee, 888-563-4676
• Mercy Corps, 888-256-1900
• Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, 800-306-9950
• New Life for Haiti, 815-436-7633
• Operation Blessing, 800-730-2537
• Operation USA, 800-678-7255
• Oxfam, 800-776-9326
• Partners in Health, 617-432-5298
• RHEMA International, 248-652-9894
• Rural Haiti Project, 347-405-5552
• The Salvation Army, 800-725-2769
• Samaritan's Purse, 828-262-1980
• Save the Children, 800-728-3843
• ShelterBox
• UN Central Emergency Response Fund
• UNICEF, 800-367-5437
• United Methodist Committee on Relief, 800-554-8583
• World Concern, 800-755-5022
• World Hope International, 888-466-4673
• World Relief, 800-535-5433
• World Vision, 888-511-6548
• Yele Haiti, 212-352-0552, Wyclef Jean's grassroots org, Text Yele to 501501 to donate $5 via cellphone

Did You Know?

Denver public schools attempted to honor Martin Luther King Jr. by providing a "Southern Style" lunch menu of fried chicken and collard greens — a meal that some say is an offensive caricature of black culture.

Denver Public Schools apologized for what it called a "well-intentioned but highly insensitive" attempt to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14176531

I laugh at this because when did fried chicken become a serious way to honor black people and such a person of that stature? Anyway.

Oprah's Golden Ticket Contest

To celebrate the 10th year of circulation for O, The Oprah Magazine, Oprah is giving away ten Golden Tickets of a lifetime, "Live Your Best Life Weekend" from May 7-9.  The prize includes an all-expense paid trip for you and a guest to New York City for an extravaganza to celebrate the magazine's tenth year success, and of Oprah.

In the February issue of "O" the Golden Ticket sweepstakes will be featured  on the cover of the issue, labeled “Enter to win a trip to O’s 10th anniversary bash! Your golden ticket is inside.” The issue will contain envelopes in which  readers will find 10-digit codes to be entered on a section of a Oprah's website (oprah.com/goldenticket) to learn if they have won.

The festivities include seminars with Suze Orman, Nate Berkus, Martha Beck, and an evening with Oprah at Radio City Music Hall.  The positive message of Oprah's magazine is going to flow all weekend.  Pick you your O Magazine today to see if you got the Golden Ticket.

You can also purchase tickets to the "Live Your Best Life Weekend". The tickets go on sale on March 15, so the sweepstakes gives readers of the magazine an early chance to be there. The February issue is on its way to subscribers and is due on newsstands next week.

Simon says... Goodbye to Idol

Simon Cowell, the famed judge of American Idol, announced today that he will leave the show after this season and start a new singing competition show, “The X Factor”, on Fox starting in 2011. Like “Idol,” “The X Factor”, will feature young singers, judges and voting by viewers.

No replacement judge has been talked about as of yet. Which I’m pretty sure they have someone in the wing, since Simon was talking about leaving the show for the past year now.

Just a few nights ago, I was watching TMZ and they asked Randy Jackson (the other judge) what he thought about Simon leaving the show, Randy looked shocked as hell, asked where they heard that and was like don’t believe everything you read.

Well Randy, umm, what should I believe, cause Simon is out! Maybe you guys can still make the show as successful as it has been with Simon. Maybe.

Anyway, Simon is leaving to do the same damn thing. What’s up with England have great shows and the US copying it, then we forgot where the idea came from. Ahh, America.

We’ll see how this year plays out with Simon, Randy, Ellen and the other girl.

Quote of the Week

As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld. Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.

-Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com

Reported in the  New York Daily News, Elite social networking site BeautifulPeople.com caused a stir this week after its members voted to oust some 5,000 users from its site for becoming less than beautiful.

Did You Know? US vs HIV

There was a ban on HIV infected individuals from entering the US? I don't think I knew that fully. For some reason the US thought that would help. The history of HIV/AIDS in the United States began in about 1969, when HIV likely entered the United States through a single infected immigrant from Haiti (allegedly).

I guess based on the history on how HIV got into the US, the American approach to containment has been to maintain strict entry controls to the country for people with HIV or AIDS. Under legislation enacted by the United States Congress in 1993, patients found importing anti-HIV medication into the country were arrested and placed on flights back to their country of origin.

However, on Monday, the United States lifted the 22-year ban that prevented people with HIV/AIDS from entering the country.

The ban wasn't compatible with U.S. plans to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS, said President Barack Obama, BBC News reported.

A couple of years ago Michelle and I were in Africa and we tried to combat the stigma when we were in Kenya by taking a public HIV/AIDS test.  And I'm proud to announce today we're about to take another step towards ending that stigma.Twenty-two years ago, in a decision rooted in fear rather than fact, the United States instituted a travel ban on entry into the country for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease -- yet we've treated a visitor living with it as a threat.  We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic -- yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people from HIV from entering our own country.If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it.

-President Barack Obama, On Ending The HIV Ban

Congress and FORMER President Bush began this process last year.