5: DESEAN Jackson #1

Former Long Beach Poly standout, wide receiver, Desean Jackson, is one of the most exciting college football players in the nation and a threat for a big play every time he touches the ball.   If you’re not watching the #8 ranked team in the nation and its star player this season, you’re missing something special.

 

After passing its first road test of the season at Colorado State on Saturday, which they won 34-28, Cal will be at home for two consecutive games, beginning with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Saturday at 3:30 p.m.   By the way, they thumped Tennessee in their first home game of the season.

 

Desean is a top candidate for the Heisman Trophy, the Biletnikoff Award (top receiver) and the Randy Moss Award (top returner) this year.   He is rated as the No. 1 receiver in the nation by The Sporting News and by Rivals.com, and is also ranked as the No. 1 special teams player in the nation by Rivals.  He has 21 touchdowns in 24 career games.  He is Cal’s leading receiver for each of his first two seasons and he led the nation in punt return average (18.2) and punt return TDs (4) in 2006, 19.2 percent of which he’s returned for touchdowns (five TDs on 26 returns). 

 

Watch Desean dazzle the Memorial Colleseum crowd up at Cal, at this week’s 5:

 

YouTube – Desean Jackson 77 yard punt return for TD vs. Tennessee

 

Desean’s sic highlight real from Poly, check it out:

 

YouTube – Desean Jackson H.S. Highlights

 

Reception Highlights:

 

DeSean Jackson

 

Punt Return Highlights:

 

DeSean Jackson

 

4: Girl Power

 

No rich relatives? No professional mentors? No problem. Ashley Qualls, 17, has built a million-dollar web site. She’s LOL all the way to the bank. 🙂

 

According to FastCompany.com, late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching for under-the-radar destinations for notoriously fickle teenagers. Beyond MySpace and Facebook, countless sites come and go in the teen universe, like soon forgotten pop songs. But Whateverlife stood out. It was more authentic somehow. It featured a steady supply of designs for MySpace pages and attracted a few hundred-thousand girls a day. “Clever design, a growing base–that’s a no-brainer for us,” Moray says.

He approached Ashley Qualls, Whateverlife’s founder, about incorporating ads from ValueClick’s 450 or so clients and sharing the revenue. At first, she declined. Then a few weeks later she changed her mind. He was in Los Angeles and she was in Detroit, so they arranged everything by phone and email. They still have yet to meet in person.

 

When did Moray, who’s 40, learn that his new business partner was 17 years old?

 

Girl Power – Whateverlife.com – Ashley Qualls – Nabbr

 

3: Just Do It…Russian Style

 

A Russian province is readying for “Family Contact” day — unofficially being called “Conception Day” — in an effort to boost flagging birth rates, officials said on Monday.

 

The special day for encouraging procreation was dreamt up by the governor of Ulyanovsk province, Sergei Morozov, who this year awarded prizes ranging from a television to a Russian-made all-terrain vehicle for giving birth on Russia’s Constitution Day on June 12. President Vladimir Putin has made fixing Russia’s ongoing population slump a national priority.

 

Read this week’s 3, here:

 

Russian province gets set for ‘Conception Day’

 

2: Newsome:  Your Resignation Please

 

SFGate.com reports:

 

Saying he wants to start his second term with a clean slate, Mayor Gavin Newsom today asked all city department heads and anybody he has appointed to serve on a city commission or board to hand in their letters of resignation.

 

On Friday, Newsom also told all senior staffers in his office to do the same.

 

Newsom told department heads at his regular Monday department head meeting that he wanted each of them to turn in letters of resignation, but didn’t say how many resignations he ultimately would accept, according to Mitch Katz, director of the city’s public health department, who was at the meeting. Katz said the department heads were very surprised by the mayor’s request.

 

Newsom, who is running for reelection in November but faces no serious political threat in the race, told department heads he wants to start his second term with “a clean slate,” according to others present at the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

 

Read Newsom’s call for resignations at this week’s 2:

 

Newsom calls for resignations – says he wants fresh start next term

 

1: A Sobering Reminder

 

YouTube – 9/11 First Plane

 

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