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It must have been terribly frustrating. Cal Ripken Jr. spent his entire Hall of Fame career trying to convey something that was so basic we all just assumed there had to be more to it.
Call it the Ripken Way.
Call it whatever you want.
It was never that complicated.
Cal was never that complicated.
He came.
He practiced.
He played.
Every game for something like 16 years.
When he tried to explain himself -- to defend his famous streak -- it was always the same. It was just a byproduct of his upbringing. It was an obligation to report for work every day, whether you carried a lunch pail or a Louisville Slugger. It was the way Dad taught him and Bill and a lot of other young Orioles to play. He developed his own clichés, but there is a reason some expressions become cliches -- because they are so true there is no need to find new ways to say them.
It had to be frustrating, because each small truth was dissected thousands of times by hundreds of people who had no idea what it was like to be Cal Ripken Jr., but still felt the need to form an opinion.
We live in a cynical world. We questioned his motives as the streak turned into The Streak. We debated whether his seeming obsession with perfect attendance was helping the Orioles or hurting them. We wondered whether the man with the perennial milk mustache was really so perfect after all.
That's the way it is with heroes, but this one was the whole package. He was Brooks with a Maryland birth certificate, a player so available -- so connected -- that virtually every Orioles fan in the region has some kind of first-hand Cal memory.
Tens of thousands of them will make the pilgrimage to Cooperstown, N.Y., this week to show their public affection one more time and to feel the love in return.
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and that is certainly true in this case, because it has been a long time since anyone asked if Ripken was too good to be true.
The answer came not on that September night when he took his famous victory lap around Camden Yards -- though that would have been answer enough -- but in the days and months leading up to it, when he lifted the weight of a broken baseball world onto his shoulders and carried it back to its rightful place in American society.
Somebody had to step forward after Major League Baseball nearly self-destructed in 1994. Somebody had to reach out to a generation of alienated fans still smarting from the first World Series cancellation in nearly a century. Somebody had to convince us that baseball still mattered.
Ripken was the obvious choice for all the obvious reasons, but the reason he succeeded had less to do with his squeaky-clean image and his pursuit of Lou Gehrig than it did with his characteristically basic approach to the problem.
He reached out to the fans one at a time.
Night after night, he stood at the railing near the Orioles dugout and signed autographs until the stadium lights dimmed and the ushers begged to go home. He won the fans back both at home and away with a signature, a handshake, a kind word. By the time 2,131 rolled around, he had become a national symbol of baseball's rebirth.
"I forever will be personally grateful to him for what he did in 1995," baseball commissioner Bud Selig told The Sun at the time of Ripken's retirement announcement in 2001. "It was a very difficult time."
Not that No. 2,131 was some kind of anticlimax. Gehrig's record was supposed to be unassailable. It says so right on his plaque in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. It was supposed to stand forever -- until the kid from Aberdeen turned forever into 56 years and then tacked on an additional 501 straight games to put the new record out of sight.
He didn't get into the game to chase anybody, unless it was Cal Sr., who -- in between minor league road trips -- taught his kids there was a right way and a wrong way to do everything. The right way involved not just practice and preparation, but also perfect practice and total preparation. The wrong way wasn't an option.
Those kids like to tell the story of the day Cal Sr. was working in his yard and suffered a large gash on his forehead. Instead of stopping to clean the wound, he wrapped a bandanna around his head and went right on working until the job was done. And people wonder why Cal Jr. didn't think a bruise was excuse enough to take a day off.
There came a point in The Streak when it took on a life of its own, when even Ripken could no longer deny its importance. There also came a point when the simple act of showing up for work each day actually became controversial, though you never would have known that Sept. 6, 1995.
Ripken's joyous lap around the stadium that record-breaking night cemented the bond he had formed with the fans in a way that still resonates nearly six years after his retirement. Hall of Fame officials expect a record crowd for next Sunday's induction ceremony.
Orioles fans embraced Ripken the day he arrived at Memorial Stadium and have never let go. It is a love affair that Ripken has never taken for granted.
"I guess there's such a fever in Baltimore," Ripken said recently. "You really understand the importance of baseball in all our lives. I think the connection was inherent. It was always there."
Don't be surprised if you hear some things during his acceptance speech that you've heard before. It's not as if Ripken has reconsidered anything since he hung up his well-worn spikes. He's still teaching baseball the same way Cal Ripken Sr. taught it 40 years ago. He's still the same guy who made the Iron Horse hear footsteps, so he's probably going to stay on message.
Of course, they would be preparing to mount his plaque in Cooperstown even if he had not broken Gehrig's supposedly unbreakable record. Ripken redefined the shortstop position and put up the kind of career numbers that guarantee induction.
He set the all-time record for home runs by a shortstop and piled up 3,184 hits during a 21-year career that included two Most Valuable Player Awards, 18 All-Star Game appearances and a World Series ring in 1983. He also won two Gold Gloves and set several fielding records as the prototype for a new generation of big-swinging, slick-fielding shortstops.
Indeed, he would have waltzed into the Hall on the first ballot regardless, but it was The Streak that made him one of the top vote-getters of all time, and it was The Streak that placed him on a pedestal as the most durable player in the history of the sport.
It also has made him an enduring symbol of better times to the legions of disaffected Orioles fans who have lost faith in the franchise over the past decade, which is a curious thing, because Ripken never got back to the World Series after catching the final out of the 1983 Series.
Twelve years after he saved baseball from itself, local fans dream of his coming back to save the Orioles, who continue to languish under the ownership of Peter Angelos.
Ripken has been content to oversee his minor league and youth baseball operation, but he has made it clear he would love the opportunity to shape a major league franchise.
Given that opportunity, he would probably tell you that it isn't that complicated. Never was.


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King vulture
The king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is a large bird found in Central and South America. It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It is the only surviving member of the genus Sarcoramphus, although fossil members are known.
Large and predominantly white, the king vulture has gray to black ruff, flight, and tail feathers. The head and neck are bald, with the skin color varying, including yellow, orange, blue, purple, and red. The king vulture has a very noticeable yellow fleshy caruncle on its beak. This vulture is a scavenger and it often makes the initial cut into a fresh carcass. It also displaces smaller New World vulture species from a carcass. King vultures have been known to live for up to 30 years in captivity.
King vultures were popular figures in the Mayan codices as well as in local folklore and medicine. Although currently listed as least concern by the IUCN, they are decreasing in number, due primarily to habitat loss.
Taxonomy and systematics[edit]
The king vulture was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae as Vultur papa,[2] the type specimen originally collected in Surinam.[3] It was reassigned to the genus Sarcoramphus in 1805 by French zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril. The generic name is a New Latin compound formed from the Greek words σάρξ (sarx, "flesh", the combining form of which is σαρκο-) and ῥάμφος (rhamphos, "crooked beak of bird of prey").[4] The genus name is often misspelled as Sarcorhamphus, improperly retaining the Greek rough breathing despite agglutination with the previous word-element. The bird was also assigned to the genus Gyparchus by Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger in 1841, but this classification is not used in modern literature since Sarcoramphus has priority as the earlier name.[5] The species name is derived from Latin word papa "bishop", alluding the bird's plumage resembling the clothing of one.[6] The king vulture's closest living relative is the Andean condor, Vultur gryphus.[7] Some authors have even put these species in a separate subfamily from the other New World vultures, though most authors consider this subdivision unnecessary.[7]
There are two theories on how the king vulture earned the "king" part of its common name. The first is that the name is a reference to its habit of displacing smaller vultures from a carcass and eating its fill while they wait.[8] An alternative theory reports that the name is derived from Mayan legends, in which the bird was a king who served as a messenger between humans and the gods.[9] This bird was also known as the "white crow" by the Spanish in Paraguay.[10] It was called cozcacuauhtli in Nahuatl, derived from cozcatl "collar" and cuauhtli "bird of prey".[11]
The exact systematic placement of the king vulture and the remaining six species of New World vultures remains unclear.[12] Though both are similar in appearance and have similar ecological roles, the New World and Old World vultures evolved from different ancestors in different parts of the world. Just how different the two are is currently under debate, with some earlier authorities suggesting that the New World vultures are more closely related to storks.[13] More recent authorities maintain their overall position in the order Falconiformes along with the Old World vultures[14] or place them in their own order, Cathartiformes.[15] The South American Classification Committee has removed the New World vultures from Ciconiiformes and instead placed them in Incertae sedis, but notes that a move to Falconiformes or Cathartiformes is possible.[12] Like other New World vultures, the king vulture has a diploid chromosome number of 80.[16]
Fossil record and evolution[edit]
The genus Sarcoramphus, which today contains only the king vulture, had a wider distribution in the past. The Kern vulture (Sarcoramphus kernense), lived in southwestern North America during the mid-Pliocene (Piacenzian), some 3.5–2.5 million years ago). It was a little-known component of the Blancan/Delmontian faunal stages. The only material is a broken distal humerus fossil, found at Pozo Creek, Kern County, California. As per Loye H. Miller's original description, "[c]ompared with [S. papa] the type conforms in general form and curvature except for its greater size and robustness."[17] The large span in time between the existence of the two species suggests that the Kern vulture might be distinct, but as the fossil is somewhat damaged and rather non-diagnostic, even assignment to this genus is not completely certain.[18] During the Late Pleistocene, another species probably assignable to the genus, Sarcoramphus fisheri, occurred in Peru.[19] A supposed king vulture relative from Quaternary cave deposits on Cuba turned out to be bones of the eagle-sized hawk Buteogallus borrasi (formerly in Titanohierax).[20]
Little can be said of the evolutionary history of the genus, mainly because remains of other Neogene New World vultures are usually younger or even more fragmentary. The teratorns held sway over the ecological niche of the extant group especially in North America. The Kern vulture seems to slightly precede the main bout of the Great American Interchange, and it is notable that the living diversity of New World vultures seems to have originated in Central America.[17] The Kern vulture would therefore represent a northwards divergence possibly sister to the S. fisheri – S. papa lineage. The fossil record, though scant, supports the theory that the ancestral king vultures and South American condors separated at least some 5 mya.[21]
Bartram's "painted vulture"[edit]
A "painted vulture" ("Sarcoramphus sacra" or "S. papa sacra") is described in William Bartram's notes of his travels in Florida during the 1770s. This bird's description matches the appearance of the king vulture except that it had a white, not black, tail.[22] Bartram describes the bird as being relatively common and even claimed to have collected one.[22] However, no other naturalists record the painted vulture in Florida and sixty years after the sighting its validity began to be questioned, leading to what John Cassin described as the most inviting problem in North American ornithology.[22] An independent account and painting was made of a similar bird by Eleazar Albin in 1734.[23]
While most early ornithologists defended Bartram's honesty, Joel Asaph Allen argued that the painted vulture was mythical and that Bartram mixed elements of different species to create this bird.[22] Allen pointed out that the birds' behavior, as recorded by Bartram, is in complete agreement with the caracara's.[22] For example, Bartram observed the birds following wildfires to scavenge for burned insects and box turtles. Such behavior is typical of caracaras, but the larger and shorter-legged king vultures are not well adapted for walking. The northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway) was believed to be common and conspicuous in Bartram's days, but it is notably absent from Bartram's notes if the painted vulture is accepted as a Sarcoramphus.[22] However, Francis Harper argued that the bird could, as in the 1930s, have been rare in the area Bartram visited and could have been missed.[22]
Harper noticed that Bartram's notes were considerably altered and expanded in the printed edition, and the detail of the white tail appeared in print for the first time in this revised account. Harper believed that Bartram could have tried to fill in details of the bird from memory and got the tail coloration wrong.[22] Harper and several other researchers have attempted to prove the former existence of a king vulture relative in Florida at this late date, suggesting that the population was in the process of extinction and finally disappeared during a cold spell.[22][24] Additionally, William McAtee, noting the tendency of birds to form Floridian subspecies, suggested that the white tail could be a sign that the painted vulture was a subspecies of the king vulture.[25]
Excluding the two species of condors, the king vulture is the largest of the New World vultures. Its overall length ranges from 67–81 centimeters (27–32 in) and its wingspan is 1.2–2 meters (4–6.6 ft). Its weight ranges from 2.7–4.5 kilograms (6–10 lb).[9][26] An imposing bird, the adult king vulture has predominantly white plumage, which has a slight rose-yellow tinge to it.[27] In stark contrast, the wing coverts, flight feathers and tail are dark grey to black, as is the prominent thick neck ruff.[3] The head and neck are devoid of feathers, the skin shades of red and purple on the head, vivid orange on the neck and yellow on the throat.[28] On the head, the skin is wrinkled and folded, and there is a highly noticeable irregular golden crest attached on the cere above its orange and black bill;[3] this caruncle does not fully form until the bird's fourth year.[29]
The king vulture has the largest skull and braincase, and strongest bill of the New World vultures.[18] This bill has a hooked tip and a sharp cutting edge.[6] The bird has broad wings and a short, broad, and square tail.[27] The irises of its eyes are white and bordered by bright red sclera.[3] Unlike some New World vultures, the king vulture lacks eyelashes.[30] It also has gray legs and long, thick claws.[27]
The vulture is minimally sexually dimorphic, with no difference in plumage and little in size between males and females.[3] The juvenile vulture has a dark bill and eyes, and a downy, gray neck that soon begins to turn the orange of an adult. Younger vultures are a slate gray overall, and, while they look similar to the adult by the third year, they do not completely molt into adult plumage until they are around five or six years of age.[27] Jack Eitniear of the Center for the Study of Tropical Birds in San Antonio, Texas reviewed the plumage of birds in captivity of various ages and found that ventral feathers were the first to begin turning white from two years of age onwards, followed by wing feathers, until the full adult plumage was achieved. The final immature stages being a scattered black feathers in the otherwise white lesser wing coverts.[31]
The vulture's head and neck are featherless as an adaptation for hygiene, though there are black bristles on parts of the head; this lack of feathers prevents bacteria from the carrion it eats from ruining its feathers and exposes the skin to the sterilizing effects of the sun.[6][32]
Dark-plumaged immature birds may be confused with turkey vultures, but soar with flat wings, while the pale plumaged adults could feasibly be confused with the wood stork,[33] although the latter's long neck and legs allow for easy recognition from afar.[34]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The king vulture inhabits an estimated 14 million km2 (5.4 million mi2) between southern Mexico and northern Argentina.[35] In South America, it does not live west of the Andes,[29] except in western Ecuador,[36] north-western Colombia and far north-western Venezuela.[37] It primarily inhabits undisturbed tropical lowland forests as well as savannas and grasslands with these forests nearby.[38] It is often seen near swamps or marshy places in the forests.[10] This bird is often the most numerous or only vulture present in primary lowland forests in its range, but in the Amazon rainforest it is typically outnumbered by the greater yellow-headed vulture, while typically outnumbered by the lesser yellow-headed, turkey and American black vulture in more open habitats.[39] King vultures generally do not live above 1500 m (5000 ft), although are found in places at 2500 m (8000 ft) altitude east of the Andes, and have been rarely recorded up to 3300 m (10000 ft)[26] They inhabit the emergent forest level, or above the canopy.[3] Pleistocene remains have been recovered from Buenos Aires Province in central Argentina, over 700 km (450 mi) south of its current range, giving rise to speculation on the habitat there at the time which had not been thought to be suitable.[40]
Ecology and behavior[edit]
The king vulture soars for hours effortlessly, only flapping its wings infrequently.[34][41] While in flight, its wings are held flat with slightly raised tips, and from a distance the vulture can appear to be headless while in flight.[42] Its wing beats are deep and strong.[27] Birds have been observed engaging in tandem flight on two occasions in Venezuela by naturalist Marsha Schlee, who has proposed it could be a part of courtship behaviour.[43]
Despite its size and gaudy coloration, this vulture is quite inconspicuous when it is perched in trees.[42] While perched, it holds its head lowered and thrust forward.[26] It is non-migratory and, unlike the turkey, lesser yellow-headed and American black vulture, it generally lives alone or in small family groups.[44] Groups of up to 12 birds have been observed bathing and drinking in a pool above a waterfall in Belize.[45] One or two birds generally descend to feed at a carcass, although occasionally up to ten or so may gather if there is significant amount of food.[3] King vultures have lived up to 30 years in captivity, though their lifespan in the wild is unknown.[9] This vulture uses urohidrosis, defecating on its legs, to lower its body temperature. Despite its bill and large size, it is relatively unaggressive at a kill.[3] The king vulture lacks a voice box, although it can make low croaking noises and wheezing sounds in courtship, and bill-snapping noises when threatened.[26] Its only natural predators are snakes, which will prey upon the vulture's eggs and young, and large cats such as jaguars, which may surprise and kill an adult vulture at a carcass.[46]
The king vulture eats anything from cattle carcasses to beached fish and dead lizards. Principally a carrion eater, there are isolated reports of it killing and eating injured animals, newborn calves and small lizards.[26]
Although it locates food by vision, the role smell has in how it specifically finds carrion has been debated. Consensus has been that it does not detect odours, and instead follows the smaller turkey and greater yellow-headed vultures, which do have a sense of smell, to a carcass,[3][47] but a 1991 study demonstrated that the king vulture could find carrion in the forest without the aid of other vultures, suggesting that it locates food using an olfactory sense.[48] The king vulture primarily eats carrion found in the forest, though it is known to venture onto nearby savannas in search of food. Once it has found a carcass, the king vulture displaces the other vultures because of its large size and strong bill.[3] However, when it is at the same kill as the larger Andean condor, the king vulture always defers to it.[49] Using its bill to tear, it makes the initial cut in a fresh carcass. This allows the smaller, weaker-beaked vultures, which can not open the hide of a carcass, access to the carcass after the king vulture has fed.[3] The vulture's tongue is rasp-like, which allows it to pull flesh off of the carcass's bones.[32] Generally, it only eats the skin and harder parts of the tissue of its meal.[46] The king vulture has also been recorded eating fallen fruit of the moriche palm when carrion is scarce in Bolívar state, Venezuela.[50]
The reproductive behaviour of the king vulture in the wild is poorly known, and much knowledge has been gained from observing birds in captivity,[51] particularly at the Paris Menagerie.[52] An adult king vulture sexually matures when it is about four or five years old, with females maturing slightly earlier than males.[53] The birds mainly breed during the dry season.[46] King vultures mate for life and generally lay a single unmarked white egg in its nest in a hollow in a tree.[27] To ward off potential predators, the vultures keep their nests foul-smelling.[51] Both parents incubate the egg for the 52 to 58 days before it hatches. If the egg is lost, it will often be replaced after about six weeks. The parents share incubating and brooding duties until the chick is about a week old, after which they often stand guard rather than brood. The young are semi-altricial—they are helpless when born but are covered in downy feathers (truly altricial birds are born naked), and their eyes are open at birth. Developing quickly, the chicks are fully alert by their second day, and able to beg and wriggle around the nest, and preen themselves and peck by their third day. They start growing their second coat of white down by day 10, and stand on their toes by day 20. From one to three months of age, chicks walk around and explore the vicinity of the nest, and take their first flights at about three months of age.[52]
This bird is a species of least concern to the IUCN,[1] with an estimated range of 14 million km2 (5.4 million mi2) and between 10,000 and 100,000 wild individuals. However, there is evidence that suggests a decline in population, though it is not significant enough to cause it to be listed.[35] This decline is due primarily to habitat destruction and poaching.[44] Although distinctive, its habit of perching in tall trees and flying at altitude render it difficult to monitor.[3]
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The king vulture is one of the most common species of birds represented in the Mayan codices.[54] Its glyph is easily distinguishable by the knob on the bird's beak and by the concentric circles that make up the bird's eyes.[54] Sometimes the bird is portrayed as a god with a human body and a bird head.[54] According to Mayan mythology, this god often carried messages between humans and the other gods.[46] It is also used to represent Cozcacuauhtli, the thirteenth day of the month in the Mayan calendar (13 Reed).[54] An ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) was also considered to be the bird depicted, but the hooked bill and wattle point to the raptor.[11]
The bird's blood and feathers were also used to cure diseases.[32] The king vulture is also a popular subject on the stamps of the countries within its range. It appeared on a stamp for El Salvador in 1963, Belize in 1978, Guatemala in 1979, Honduras in 1997, Bolivia in 1998, and Nicaragua in 1999.[55]
Because of its large size and beauty, the king vulture is an attraction at zoos around the world. The king vulture is one of several bird species with an AZA studbook, which is kept by Shelly Collinsworth of the Fort Worth Zoo.[56]
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Bella Twins: Tasty Twin Tag Team
What's better than a sexy babe in tight spandex? Two sexy babes in tight spandex. No, you're not seeing double from being dropped on your head too many times practicing wresting moves in your living room. There's actually two Bellas, Brie and Nikki. The twenty-eight year old duo made their ring debut back in 2007 and can been seen kicking Diva butt on WWE's Monday Night Raw. Normally, we believe in fair fights but in this case we have absolutely no problem being tag teamed by these two. You can get two for the price of one by following both Brie and Nikki Bella on their shared Twitter account and checking both of them out in their hot gallery below.


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AUSTIN, TX --Geno Smith passed for four touchdowns, leading No. 8 West Virginia to another wild shootout win in the Big 12, this time taking out No. 11 Texas 48-45 on Saturday night. Smith, who has 24 touchdown passes this season without an interception, hit Stedman Bailey with a 6-yard score with 10:50 left to play. Andrew Buie ran for 207 yards and two touchdowns, the second coming giving the Mountaineers a critical 10-point lead late.
West Virginia (5-0, 2-0) didn't seal the win until recovering an onside kick with 14 seconds left after Texas scored a touchdown on a pass from David Ash to Marquise Goodwin.
Joe Bergeron scored four touchdowns, all on short runs, for Texas (4-1, 1-1), which is 2-7 at home in conference games the since 2010.


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John D. McDonald was not altogether pleased with what Hollywood did to his novel Darker Than Amber, but audiences were generally satisfied. Private eye Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) and his cohort Meyer (Theodore Bikel) rescue the beautiful Vangie (Suzy Kendall) from drowning. Vangie has been targetted for death by a couple of disreputable types who, as it turns out, were her former partners in crime. When Vangie is murdered, McGee hires a lookalike (also played by Suzy Kendall) to corner the killers. As is usually the case in the ouevre of John D. McDonald, nothing is quite what it appears to be on surface. Jane Russell, reemerging from one of her period retirements, is fun to watch as Alabama Tiger. Current prints of the R-rated Darker Than Amber have been modified to qualify for a PG. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Blue Jays GM says Gibbons will return as manager
TORONTO (AP) — John Gibbons won't pay the price for the Blue Jays' disappointing season, general manager Alex Anthopoulos said Tuesday.
Anthopoulos insisted that Gibbons will return as manager in 2014, even though the Blue Jays remain stuck in last place in the AL East with a 59-73 record.
Asked about the possibility of replacing Gibbons, Anthopoulos said "there's never been any thought on that respect at all."
Touted as a World Series favorite this spring after remaking their roster with a slew of winter trades and free agent signings, the Blue Jays have slumped badly instead, struggling with a mix of injuries and poor performance.
Gibbons went 305-305 as Blue Jays manager between 2004 and 2008. He was rehired last November after John Farrell was traded to Boston.


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If there's one thing you watch today, this one should be it. La Crosse, Wisconsin CBS WKBT TV news anchor Jennifer Livingston received a nasty viewer e-mail about her weight, taking her to task for being a poor example for her community, especially girls.
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While she could have tried to forget the embarrassing e-mail ever happened, instead Livington, a mom of three daughters, faced it head-on with humility and courage, and turned it into an opportunity to offer encouragement. While acknowledging that she is indeed overweight, and that the e-mail was hurtful, she then shifted the focus to the more devastating bullying kids face every day, behavior that is learned from adults.
"This behavior is learned. It is passed down from people like the man who wrote me that e-mail. If you were at home talking about the fat news lady--guess what? Your children are probably going to go to school and call someone fat. We need to teach our kids how to be kind, not critical, and we need to do that by example.
"To all the children out there who feel lost, who are struggling with your weight, the color of your skin, your sexual preference, your disability--even the acne on your face, listen to me right now: Do not let your self worth be defined by bullies."
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UTD President Dr. David E. Daniel to Address 'Science and Math from a Global Perspective'
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) President Dr. David E. Daniel will give an address on "Science and Math from a Global Perspective" at 6 p.m. Monday, March 20, in the UTD Conference Center, Room CN 1.112. The talk, which will be free and open to the public, is the final event in the university's 2005-06 Seminar Series for Life-Long Learners.
In his presentation, Daniel, a civil engineer and member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, will explore the causes of and solutions to the global challenge to America's longstanding pre-eminence in the fields of science and mathematics.
The Seminar Series for Life-Long Learners was begun in 2004 to share recent advances in science and mathematics education with educators and the general public. The series is presented by the university's Center for Science Education Research and the Teacher Development Center.
Teachers in attendance will receive continuing professional education credit at the close of the session. For additional information about the event, please call UTD's Science/Mathematics Education Department at 972-883-2496.
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"Just my focus now with the team I have," he said. "Everybody knows I can score the basketball, that's a no-brainer. But for me it was being able to go out there and say, 'Today I'm going to lead my team. I'm going to defend. I'm going to help out. I'm going to do what I've got to do. I'm going to sacrifice something out there on the basketball court.' That was my motivation ... to approach this season as a new beginning for me. My focus is extremely high right now."First, I just love the no-brainer line from Carmelo, I'd like to use that in my own life, "Everybody knows I can sweat through my tie, that's a no-brainer," but nothing sounds quite as good as score the basketball.
But I find the rest of what he said sort of strange. Obviously, everything he alluded to is great, but I'm just so curious as to how he explains the change. It's almost as though he's acknowledging that every criticism of him prior to this season was accurate and he's decided to address it, which is great, but sort of weird.
I guess I'm starting to be a little dubious as to how much different a Carmelo we're really seeing here. A look at his numbers, both on offense and defense, for the most part show a fairly similar guy. Is it possible what we're really seeing is a better Knicks team, with Anthony getting the credit for a superior supporting cast? This excellent breakdown from Jared Dubin over at Hoops Chalk is pretty convincing about the ways in which the Knicks' offense has better utilized Melo's talents, by limiting isolations and taking advantage of his ability to pass from the post, something he's also done more willingly so far this season.
But though I've been as ecstatic about this Knicks start as anybody, and genuinely thrilled with the maturation in Anthony's game, that above quote feels like kind of a startling admission. It reads like he's literally saying, "I used to only care about scoring, but now I don't do that anymore." Really? Why? It makes you wonder about the long-term commitment, a little like having a friend boast they've gone three days without drinking over a celebratory beer.
Certainly, Woodson could deserve much of the credit for the change of heart, as there does appear to be a natural chemistry between the two that perhaps is bringing out the best in the franchise forward. Or maybe people are capable of recognizing that there are improvements they need to make, and Anthony's quote is like a former 500-pound man showing off his old parachute-like jeans. "Look, this is what I used to be like! I'm a new man!"
All of which is to say, I'm still struggling to figure out if Melo has made necessary improvements in his game that we ought to applaud, or if he's just always been this good and he's owed an apology, or both, or neither, or some alternate interpretation that I'm not even considering.
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Wound centers specialize in treating chronic or problem wounds, typically those that fail to respond to conventional treatment within 30 days. They are often associated with medical conditions such as diabetes, poor circulation and certain types of infection.
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Apparently, the Nexus 4 wasn't the incredibly well-designed super handset Matias Duarte and company would have had you believe. At least, it wasn't good enough to just leave alone. Several sites around the web are reporting today that the Nexus 4 has seen some small design changes in the latest run of devices. Nothing too major has been changed, but it may be enough to leave you a little miffed if you already own the device.
Photographed in detail by Android Central, two small bumps have been added just above the exposed screws on the rear of the newest Nexus 4 model. These bumps serve to fix several design flaws on the original Nexus 4 without distracting from the overall design.
The completely flush back on the original Nexus 4 caused several problems. When on its back, the Nexus 4′s speaker is muffled; it's incredibly slippery and prone to sliding right off of hard surfaces; and it's a scratch magnet. By adding two small bumps positioned across the back, all three problems are taken care of. There's also been a slight change to the camera lens, but that doesn't appear to serve any purpose so far.
I have experienced problems with everything listed above, but not since using a dbrand carbon fiber skin and now an official Nexus 4 bumper from Google Play (which is fantastic by the way). Still, it would have been nice if accessories had not been needed to fix these problems. Fortunately for new Nexus 4 owners, they won't be.


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Pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia is a rare inherited disorder characterized by skeletal malformations resulting in short legs and mild to moderate short stature (short-limbed dwarfism). Affected individuals may have short, stubby fingers (brachydactyly), abnormally bowed legs (genu varum), and/or a malformation in which the knees are abnormally close together and the ankles are unusually far apart (genu valgum). In addition, affected individuals may have spinal abnormalities including abnormally increased curvature of the bones of the lower spine (lumbar lordosis) and front-to-back curvature of the spine (kyphosis). Cases of pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia are due to mutations of the COMP gene. Most cases of pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. However, a recessive form of the disorder may also exist.
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Renovation Tips from Hotel Bathrooms
Hotels are one of our favorite sources of design inspiration, and their bathrooms are no different. Beyond the mini soaps and fluffy towels, there's real thought behind their function that can prove useful in your own bathroom renovation. Check out these hotel bathrooms from around the world, along with what you can learn from them for your own renovation at home.
1. Luxe never looks old. The bathrooms at the Greenwich Hotel have a very classic, upscale feel. Cool, calming white marble is paired with brass hardware for some warmth and glam. If this is your inspiration, spend where you can, because quality is always stylish.
2. Same color, different scales. A fully black-tiled bathroom sounds like a trip back to the 80s. The key at Hotel DeBrett in Auckland is mixing up the sizes. The smaller penny tiles on the walls match the floors, but the grout helps to break up the sea of black. With this tip, you can make any color work in the bathroom. Also, don't be afraid to add a pop of contrasting color and a bit of whimsy, like with this cheery ladder.
3. Have towels at the ready. Sure, you can add a basket of towels or store them in the linen closet, but if you're renovating, why not add some built in storage? The shelves underneath the sink at Hotel Missoni are unassuming, yet keep what you need close at hand. There's also plenty of hooks and bars in this smallish space.
4. Make the most of what you've got. Not all hotel bathrooms are expanses of marble. The charming old bathrooms at the Ace Hotel don't have much space, but use it well. The tiny corner sink is flanked by open ledges and storage baskets, proving even the smallest powder room can be made comfortable and useful.
5. Relax! Okay, so you may not be sold on a hammock like the one at the W Mexico City, but adding a little R&R to your WC is a great idea. Whether it takes the form of candles, soft curtains, a little settee, some calming tunes, or a fireplace, we all need a little escape sometimes.
Have you been inspired by hotel bathrooms?
• Take a Mental Vacation: Hotel Bathrooms Across the Globe
• Don'ts Worth Doing: Design Ideas from Hotel Bathrooms
• How To: Create a Hotel-Style Bathroom
(Images: 1. The Greenwich Hotel via Decor Pad, 2. Hotel DeBrett via We Heart, 3. Hotel Missoni Edinburgh via Jetsetter, 4. Flickr via Remodelista, 5. Luxurious Mexico via Apartment Therapy)


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Gwyneth Paltrow's Pastel Penthouse
Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin, and their two children recently had their Tribeca penthouse decorated by Roman & Williams; the designers behind the model apartment at 211 Elizabeth Street that we featured in April.
Paltrow's place features a light palette spiked with occasional punches of black and lots of tone-on-tone texture and unique lighting. We like the unusual finds like the sofa swing in the living room, a not-too-kiddie girl's room, diner-inspired kitchen banquette, and graphic wallpapers used throughout. While the feminine style of this apartment is clearly not for everyone, it seems very well-suited to creating a relaxed home environment for high-profile parents perched in the middle of the big city.
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Bell-Bottoms & Amelia Top (BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern)
Added Feb 21, 2013
by matrowland
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I made these two variations on the Jean Stirrup Pants and Elizabeth Gathered-Waist Dress from the BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern book for my sister (www.letsmakeadaisychainvintage.blogspot.com is her super cool fashion blog, plug plug). The Liv Bell-Bottoms are almost exactly as in the book. The Amelia Top is slightly varied, for the sides I used buttons on added flaps instead of a zipper. I also cut the side front and back pieces a little smaller under the arms as you can see in the second picture, as I preferred the effect the bias tape created of outlining the whole top piece, with a squared point at the sides.
Material Notes
I used a light weight pale blue denim for the trousers, it worked well as I think with the flare and the tightness around the thighs a heavier fabric would have not sat well. The top is made from a very light weight cotton and some white bias tape.
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Feb 22, 2013, 07.31 AMby nouvellegamine
super cute! I love the fabrics you chose to make both in.
Feb 21, 2013, 06.08 PMby Mary Athey
Lovely outfit. Good luck x
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By TEENA DRAKE
Special to The Trimble Banner
Nestled in a quiet family-oriented subdivision in Trimble County is an astonishing academy full of spirit, love, dedication, ethics and wrestling. This organization derived from one small garage and two young wrestlers aspiring to learn a new sport. Since 2009 this group has grown from a hobby to a high-ranking academy with over 20 wrestlers ranging from ages 4 to 14.
The Trimble County Conservation District is now accepting Kentucky Soil Erosion and Water Quality Cost Share Applications on a continuous basis. This continual sign-up is designed to make the program more "landowner friendly" and help address the needs of a landowner at any time during the year. As landowners plan conservation projects with the assistance of their local conservation district, they will be able to apply for financial assistance for those projects without having to wait for a designated sign up period.
The current version of the GED test will expire at the end of 2013. The current version, known as the 2002 Series GED test, will be replaced with the new 2014 GED test on Jan. 2, 2014.
Those who have taken the 2002 Series GED test, but not passed all five parts, have until the end of 2013 to pass or they will need to start over again in 2014 with the new GED test in order to receive their high school credential.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article and sidebar were originally published in the January 2013 issue of Towing & Recovery Footnotes (www.trfootnotes.com), a monthly periodical for the towing industry published in Norfolk, Va. It is reprinted here with permission.
By ALLAN T. DUFFIN
Ready for a new career that requires no training costs to you and will pay you a starting salary of $40,000 a year with benefits? If so, you need to attend the 1 p.m., Jan. 24 information session at the Trimble County Library to find out how you can apply for the opportunity for free training to become a long-distance moving van driver.
The offices of the Trimble County Clerk, Sheriff, Circuit Clerk, Judge Executive and PVA will all be closed Monday, January 21st in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
By JULIE BALL HAMBRICK
Special to The Trimble Banner
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of -- or so Shakespeare wrote. Though the statement may be true, it seldom stops many of us from trying to find answers to elusive questions.
The new Harlan Hubbard documentary, "Wonder: The Lives of Anna & Harlan Hubbard," will be showing at the Trimble County Public Library on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 3 and 7 p.m.
Producer/writer Morgan Atkinson will present his Harlan Hubbard documentary, which showcases the lifestyle, artwork and writing of Harlan and Anna Hubbard. Many from Trimble County remember personally visiting the Hubbards at their Trimble County home filled with art, music and writing as they shared a simple life philosophy.
Local contractor Tony Walker was sworn in Monday as the newest member of the Trimble County Board of Education. He succeeds Joey Martin, whose term ended at the end of 2012. Martin chose not to run for re-election and no other candidate appeared on the ballot in November for the vacancy.
School administrators advertised for candidates who were interviewed by the Kentucky School Board Association. Following the interview process, Walker was selected to fill the vacancy.
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Carlos Motta: Histories for the Future extended until January 29
Carlos Motta: Histories for the Future, ranked as one of the top 15 exhibitions in America, has been extended. Motta will now be on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami until January 29th.
PAMM Teen Arts Council Members Recognized at National YoungArts Week
With National YoungArts Week upon us, we are proud to applaud two members of our PAMM Teen Arts Council (PTAC) who are being recognized for their exceptional talent. Ezekiel Binns is a finalist in the Design Art category and Chloe Friend received an honorable mention in Visual Arts.
Pop-up PAMM at Art Deco Weekend
Join us January 13 and 14 at the Art Deco Weekend Kids' Club area in Miami Beach for some free art-making, giveaways and more. The Kids' Club is the place for family friendly fun at Art Deco Weekend. The stage will feature music, dance, theater, storytime and more for kids of all ages. Activities are ongoing between 10am and 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.
See an Exhibition of Works by 2017 YoungArts Winners
Join our friends at YoungArts for the opening of their visual arts, design and photography exhibition on January 13 at 7:30pm, as part of National YoungArts Week. The exhibition, curated by PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, features selected works from some of the nation's most accomplished 15–18 year old visual artists, photographers, designers and writers. National YoungArts week runs January 8–January 15.
South Florida female artists gather for historic Now Be Here photograph
On Saturday, December 10, 2016, history was made at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in partnership with Girl's Club. A coincidental ode to Miami's area code, 305 female artists from across South Florida gathered and posed for a photograph together in participation for Now Be Here #3, a project created by Kim Schoenstadt which aims to capture female identifying artists.


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With the Santorini 54" Round Chat Fire Pit Table, you'll enjoy the functionality of a traditional fire pit while appreciating the added elegance of its decorative cast iron feet and sleek hearth top. Because of its lightweight aluminum construction, this fire pit is simple to transport from one setting to another. Additionally, with its no-hassle adjustable flame, you'll enjoy the warmth of an authentic campfire without the typical mess of smoke and ash.
- Made in the USA
- Dimensions: 54" diameter x 24" H
- 24" Round Burner
- Beautifully handcrafted with sustainable materials
- Use liquid propane or natural gas (includes conversion kit)
The Santorini 54" Round Chat Fire Pit Table features an elegant circular tile table top in several porcelain tile finishes. Offered with 9 different base finishes and 8 different porcelain tile table tops to choose from, ensuring a hands-on approach that allows you to match this Santorini Fire Pit Table to your outdoor living space.


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No matter what product is launching, you can pretty much always expect Walmart to undercut the competition and have it at a lower price. The upcoming Verizon Droid is no exception. Starting Friday sometime soon, Walmart will offer the Droid for $188.00 with 2 year contract. Yup, that is the actual in store price (no silly mail in rebate) which is over $100 cheaper than you would pay at Verizon. They will also have the Droid for $500 off contract compared to $599 at Verizon.
Check your local Walmart circular ad because they are also having a major electronics sale on November 7, 2009. I heard they have the Xbox 360 Arcade for $99 (after $100 gift card).
Update: Some people are confused about the price of the Droid at Verizon Wireless stores. Below you can see an excerpt taken from the official press release. I called my local Verizon store and they also confirmed the mail in rebate. Best Buy ($199) and Walmart ($188) are selling the phone without the rebate.
DROID by Motorola will be available in the United States exclusively at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online on Friday, Nov. 6, for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card.
Update 2: If you are planning to pick up the Droid from Best Buy or Walmart, make sure you call the store first. I have found that many Walmart locations do not carry Verizon phones. My local Best Buy is also not a Verizon reseller.
Update 3: Out of the 5 Walmarts in my area, only 1 carries Verizon phones. I finally got in touch with the Verizon rep at the store and they did not have the phone yet. At this time we do not know when Walmart will have the phone available, but it is coming.
Update 4: Several readers have reported their local Walmart stores have the Droid. One reader said they would sell them on November 6 at 9 AM and another reader reported his store wouldn't sell them till November 8.
[Thank you Matt for the tip]


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How to keep clients repurchasing
From ArticleWorld
If business owners could bring in an extra 5, 10, 20, 100, or 1000+ customers a month-every single month, they would. How do business owners achieve this? To get more customers, business owners must be willing to break even or incur a slight loss. After breaking even or incurring a slight loss they must be able to turn it around, while making profits on back-end repurchasing.
First, business owners must be able to identify and comprehend exactly how much combined profit their customers mean to their business, during the whole of their relationship. This information will help business owners determine how much time they should keep putting in the relationship. Second, business owners need to now the lifetime worth of their customers. The total lifetime value of a customer is measured by many things. One has to look at the total profit of an average customer over the residual sales, and that is without all of the marketing, advertising, and service fulfillment dues.
For example, what if your average new customer brings in for a business owner, an 100$ profit, on average, on their first sale? Then that customer repurchase three more times in the same year, and the average reorder is about 200$. Then the business owner, on each 200$ reorder, will make 100$ gross profit. Next, lets look at an average customer's life that lasts for about two years, and if every new client is worth about 700$. A business owner would be able, in theory, to spend up to 700$ to bring in a new client, while still breaking even.
How to do this? You must calculate your average sale and your profit per sale. Then calculate how much more profit our client is worth to you. To do this you must look at how many times your customer comes back to buy. Third, figure out what a client cost, do this by dividing the marketing budget by the number if customers it generates. Also, determine the amount of prospects the same way. Fourth, determine how many sales you might get, if x- stands for the number of prospects. Also, remember that 0% of prospects become clients. Lastly, determine the marginal net worth of a customer. Do this by subtracting the cost and expenses to get the client from the profit that you expect to earn from the customer over the lifetime of his or her patronage.
Remember to always keep records. They are an essential, and be persistent when doing it. It will take time to build up this repurchasing base, but if you stay the course it will pay off in high monetary benefits.


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This time, world should heed OECD call to action on environment
The OECD Outlook is the latest - and at 520 pages one of the weightiest - in a run of reports from prominent economic institutions and commissions calling on governments and international institutions to face up to the seriousness and immediacy of global environmental problems.
"When a body such as the OECD says that on a range of environmental issues we need to act globally and we need to act now, then it is clear that as communities, countries and companies we need to roll up our collective sleeves and get on with it," said WWF International Director General James Leape.
"It is sobering to think how much better off we would be today if the world, the wealthy world in particular, had heeded OECD's 2001 call to take action on many of these same issues. We should not make the same mistake again."
James Leape said the OECD outlook should be commended for looking beyond the urgent challenge of climate change to other urgent issues of biodiversity loss, mismanagment of water resources and escalating health threats. WWF also welcomed OECD's call to prioritise action in the key sectors of energy, transport, agriculture and fisheries.
"The OECD outlook underlines both the magnitude of the largely self-inflicted threats we face and the urgency of acting effectively on them," said James Leape. "It is rapidly becoming the case that it will be as hard to find a sceptical economist as it is now to find a sceptical scientist."
While generally supporting market liberalisation, the OECD noted that in the absence of "sound environmental policy and institutional frameworks" globalisation "can amplify market and policy failures and intensify environmental pressures".
The OECD repeated its 2001 call for the removal of subsidies to environmentally harmful activities, with special mention of subsidies to fossil fuel use, agricultural production subsidies, fishing overcapacity subsidies and the subsidy and underpricing of damaging transport modes.
The OECD also repeated that environment policy should not be just a concern of environment ministers, but has to be elevated into being a priority of central and economic policy making in particular.
"There is now no reason not to act," said James Leape. "The OECD outlook is emphatic that the policies and technologies to address urgent environment issues are available and affordable, that taking them will increase efficiencies and reduce costs and that the earlier we take action, the better the cost-benefit equation will be."
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KVM Huge Page Backed Memory
Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure.
- Chris Wright -- chrisw redhat com
- John Cooper -- john.cooper redhat com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 12
- Last updated: 2009-07-23
- Percentage of completion: 90%
- Ensure the libvirt patch is in 0.7.0
- Testing
- KVM support for huge pages
- libvirt patch posted for running guests with
-mem-path /dev/hugepages
- libvirt patch-v2 posted which detects the host's hugetlbfs mount point automatically.
Detailed Description
x86 CPUs usually address memory in 4kB pages, but they also have the ability to use huge pages (4MB on x86_63, 2MB on x86_64 and x86_32 PAE).
By using huge pages for a KVM guest's memory, less memory is used for page tables and CPU cache misses are reduced, thereby increasing performance.
Using huge pages for guest memory does have a downside, however - you can no longer swap nor balloon guest memory.
In order to use huge pages with KVM, one must do the following:
- Mount hugetlbfs to
mount -t hugetlbfs hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages
- Reserve some memory for huge pages -
sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=516
- Pass the hugetlbfs path to
qemu-kvm -mem-path /dev/hugepages
This feature aims to improve allow huge pages to be used with libvirt managed guests.
Benefit to Fedora
Enables Fedora KVM hosts to achieve better performance.
Huge pages support in KVM already exists, so the remaining work is confined to libvirt.
How To Test
mount -t hugetlbfs hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages
- Reserve some memory for huge pages -
sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=516
- Run an existing KVM guest with libvirt
- Confirm the guest has booted correctly
- Confirm the guest is using hugepages by checking
HugePages_Freein </code>/proc/meminfo</code>
User Experience
Users of KVM guests using huge page backed memory should experience reduced memory usage and improved performance.
None, the work is confined to libvirt.
Contingency Plan
None needed.
- Old tutorial
Release Notes
KVM guests running on Fedora can now take advantage of huge page backed memory and benefit from improved performance and reduced memory usage.


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We prepare students to excel in the professional field of journalism in converged media environments. Grounded in a liberal arts curriculum, our program instills integrity and teaches practical skills, theoretical perspectives, and critical thinking within the context of ethical reasoning, global perspectives, cultural diversity and a commitment to freedom of expression. Through scholarly and creative activities, we engage students and the community in a continuing dialogue of critical issues in a democratic society.
1. Students will be able to critique the quality and ethics of journalism in any medium, in terms of basic professional standards.
2. Students will be able to produce high quality print, broadcast or online journalism.
3. Students will be able to critically analyze the basic aspects of the relationship between mass media and society, within historical or contemporary contexts.
4. Students will be able to use technology to produce high quality journalism.
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The Ravens today signed guard-center Reggie Stephens to fill out their practice squad. There was an opening after the team waived outside linebacker and former second-round pick Sergio Kindle yesterday.
Stephens, who played his college football at Iowa State, was a seventh-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2010. He has also been with the Buffalo Bills and the Chicago Bears, but he's still yet to see action in an NFL regular-season game yet.
Stephens, 25, is 6-foot-3 and 300 pounds. He spent the end of the 2012-13 season on the Bears' practice squad.
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I was sitting in a lecture hall at a local university the other day and noticed a bank of burned out lights in the ceiling.
I don't know how long the lights have been burned out and while noticeable to me, there was still adequate light in the room. Maybe no one else noticed it.
I also don't know the procedure at that university to get something like that reported and fixed. But here's what I'm guessing is going on. The professor I was listening to lectures in that hall a couple of times a week and while there he is busy running herd on 25 or so college students. Maybe he's noticed the burned out lights but hasn't reported it.
The students are busy listening to and taking notes from that same professor and may or may not have noticed the burned out lights. If they have noticed, it just doesn't affect them that much.
The person who cleans the lecture hall is probably so busy trying to get his work done that he's rushing through each room in the building to get it all clean before the next day of classes. He might have made a mental note to report the burned out lights but forgot or just didn't get it done.
My guess is that most who enter that lecture hall are assuming or at least thinking that someone else will report the burned out lights so it can be taken care of.
Meanwhile, the lights are still burned out.
That same thing is happening in the public lands debates all over the West. Are outdoor recreationists assuming someone else is taking care of defending our right to recreate on public lands?
Sure, some recreationists are paying attention to our version of the burned out lights (taking away access to public lands) but not near enough of them. And those few people are doing their best to do something about it. Again, they are just a few troops fighting the battle when an entire army is needed.
There are basically two groups of snowmobilers: hard core and recreational. I have no idea what the percentage is of each group who are those few troops while the other larger percentage stands idly by thinking someone else will take care of our issues. Thank God there are at least those few troops willing to write a letter, attend a meeting or call their Congressmen or we would most likely be sitting in a dark room just looking at our sleds.
What group do you align yourself with? Better yet, are you one of the few doing something about all the public lands issues facing winter recreationists-there is definitely no shortage of issues-or are you waiting for someone else to report the burned out lights?
It's high time we mobilize the army to help support the troops already engaged in defending our rights to recreate on public lands. Public lands are under attack with a myriad of proposals from new Wilderness areas, to shutting down trails to supposedly protect wildlife habitat, to outright closures.
I'm convinced if every sledder in the West did something-write a letter, make a phone call, attend a land use meeting-about a land use issue in the area(s) they like to ride, we would make a difference-even if just to keep an area open for a few more years. There are nearly 350,000 registered snowmobiles in the western United States. We can safely assume that there are at least that many snowmobilers-both hard core and recreational. That's quite a number and that should be enough to convince politicians at all levels of government that public lands are for the public. So what if there is no current land use issue in your area? Then help a neighbor. And what would happen if you talked to a friend and explained exactly what was happening with our public lands and he or she also wrote a letter or made a phone call or attended a meeting and let their voice be heard? Think of the impact that could have.
If nothing else, every snowmobiler should be engaged in protecting public lands for outdoor recreationists. There is absolutely no excuse for not being engaged in the debate.
If we don't get involved, eventually it will be lights out for all of us who like to recreate on public lands.
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On July 26, Laird Harrison with Medscape Medical News did a feature story telling pediatricians and pediatric nurses how best to meet their patients' oral health needs.
According to the article, infants and toddlers have fallen through a particularly worrisome hole in the system. Traditionally, dentists rarely saw children younger than 3 years of age. But by that age, many children already have serious problem with caries. AAPD President Dr. Warren Brill, D.M.D., M.S., points out that eating a candy bar and washing it down with a glass of water could do less harm than sucking on a lollipop for an hour, even if the lollipop contained less sugar, because it would increase the length of time that sugar level is elevated in the mouth. "With any food that contains sugar, it's not how much you eat, but how often," he said.
Pediatric care providers can also play a role in referring patients to oral health providers, Brill says. For patients with financial resources who reside in big cities, finding a dental office is not likely to be difficult. But low-income patients and those living in remote areas can face big challenges. Brill recommends contacting local dental societies, state dental associations, and dental schools to find out about low-cost programs, and practitioners who accept Medicaid. Some public health clinics offer low-cost oral healthcare as well.
To read the article in its entirety, please go to http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/808212_3
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ACC Basketball
Since the Atlantic Coast Conference began, keen rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In this new book, writer J. Samuel Walker traces the dramatic changes on and off the court during the ACC's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972. As basketball became the ACC's foremost attraction, administrators sought to field winning teams while preserving academic integrity. The ACC also adapted gradually to changes in the postwar South, including the fight for racial justice during the 1960s. Walker re-creates nail-biting games and bitter recruiting battles, while addressing big, off-court questions the league wrestled with during these two decades. "ACC Basketball" details coaches' flair and antics and players' artistry, as well as a major point-shaving scandal and the struggle for conference dominance. Author and historian Walker, an ACC basketball fan for more than 40 years, lives in University Park, Md. Hardcover, 416 pages, $30.
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OMCA Artist Talk & Tour: Hung Liu
Join Hung Liu for an informal talk and in-gallery tour as she reflects on work featured in the exhibition Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu. The event begins in the James Moore Theater on Level 1 with a short presentation on techniques, processes, and ideas Liu uses in creating her work. After a brief Q&A, visitors will have the option to stay for a screening of the 1949 film Daughters of China by Zifeng Ling and Qiang Zhai, that inspired key artworks in the exhibition. This rare, early propaganda film tells the story Chinese female soldiers during the second Sino-Japanese War. The screening will present a 30 minute excerpt of the final culminating dramatic scenes of sacrifice in the face of defeat. Audience members may also choose to join Hung in the gallery to visit the works commented upon in her talk.
Film includes subtitles in English. This program is co-curated by students from the California College of Art's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. Included with Museum admission. Free to OMCA Members. Part of Friday Nights @ OMCA.