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Editor's note: As with many NFL players, being drafted means dealing with a boatload of emotions. Former Bears defensive lineman Anthony Adams, who was taken out of Penn State by San Francisco in the second round in 2003, guides us through the ups and downs of his selection process.
Draft day in 2003 was an awesome yet agonizing experience for me. On one hand, it is awesome that your life will be completely changed forever. On the other hand, it is agonizing because you don't know what team will draft you, what round you are going in, or if you are even going to get drafted at all! But what often gets overlooked is the road to the draft. My road took a lot of unexpected turns.
Stage 1: Get noticed. And hire an agent.
After the season, I didn't know what round I was predicted to go. But I did a great job in selecting one of the top agents in Joel Segal. He told me it could be anywhere from the first round through the fourth. After a strong Senior Bowl week in Mobile, Ala., I helped my chances and seemed to be on everybody's radar.
Stage 2: "Hi, I'm Anthony"
Then there was the combine. There were six teams that wanted to meet with me. For the remaining teams, I basically just introduced myself and created my own meetings. There were a lot of teams that told me that they would draft me in a heartbeat. All I knew was that it would be a blessing to hear my name get called. I knew some of my friends who had great agents and had awesome bowl game performances who didn't get drafted. I knew the same thing could happen to me.
Stage 3: Must … run … faster
After the combine, it was time for pro day. I managed to improve my bench press and ran a better 40-yard dash time. All 32 teams were represented and even some head coaches and general managers were there. I also joked with coach Bill Cowher about him drafting me in the first round to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Stage 4: Loneliness
After pro day, it was time for team visits and individual workouts. All my friends were going on visits and individual workouts and I didn't get a call for either. But then the 49ers called and said they wanted to fly in to Penn State and take [eventual Bear] Michael Haynes and myself through a workout. The field was terrible because it rained the night before, but I think we did well. After the workout and thorough conversations with the coach, I did not think the 49ers would take a chance on me.
Stage 5: Pick me! Pick me! Aw man …
Finally, it is draft day! I'm excited. I'm anxious. I'm uneasy. I've done everything I could possibly do to ensure that I get drafted. I was at Penn State defensive line coach Larry Johnson Sr.'s house. I had most of my family and friends there, and they were just as excited as I was. It seemed like the day was moving so slow, but it started to speed up when I got all types of prank phone calls from my friends pretending to be head coaches.
Then it was time for the draft. A lot had me ranked as the No. 6 defensive tackle in the draft. The fifth DT was taken at pick 25! I started to see my name on the screen for best available players. I'm thinking to myself, "I could possibly be taken in the first round!" I'm going crazy because the teams remaining are the ones that said they would draft me in a heartbeat.
Two picks after that, my college teammate Larry Johnson Jr. got drafted to the Kansas City Chiefs. We all shouted and celebrated with him. As I sat on the couch, it seemed like with every pick that went by I slowly started to slide off.
The first round came and went. By the second round, I was completely laid out on the floor. The crowd that was there with Larry had left and people were coming in saying, "Anthony still didn't get drafted yet?"
Stage 6: WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!
Then the weirdest thing happened. As the draft went to commercial, my phone rang.
San Francisco drafted me with the 57th pick during a commercial break. Once I got the call, I had to make sure it was not any of my friends pranking me again. I was assured that it wasn't and they tried to call me earlier, but their calls were not getting through. There was an uproar in the house after they saw what was the biggest smile on my face as I sat on the floor.
Stage 7: Panic
Upon talking to 49ers coach Dennis Erickson and GM Terry Donahue, they said they wanted to fly me out the next day for a press conference. Once I found this out, the second-weirdest thing happened. I did not have a suit.
I had to borrow a suit jacket (which I still have, lol) from Coach Johnson and put together a suit to conduct this press conference. I was extremely prepared for the draft, but this was something I was not prepared for. The road to the draft often gets overlooked and there are a lot of unexpected turns. I just did not know a suit would be one of them.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 6:00pm
Bring on the gaming! RPL is hosting two new gaming clubs. The kid-free, adult game night will be held on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 P.M. April's event will be held on the third Tuesday, April 15th due to scheduling conflicts. Tweens/teens 6th grade and up will have their own gaming fun on the fourth Monday of each month at 4 P.M. A different game will be featured each month; other games will also be available.
- Teen Game Night – Monday, March 24 at 4 P.M. featuring Small World
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TSU Mentioned in Sunday's New York Times Crossword
If you played Sunday's New York Times Crossword Puzzle, you may have noticed that Tennessee State University was mentioned.
The clue and answer:
18. The Tigers of the Ohio Valley Conf. : TSU
The Tigers and Lady Tigers are the athletic teams of Tennessee State University (TSU) in Nashville.
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IT Management Slideshow: IT Jobs: CIOs Emphasize Flexible Labor
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 05-25-2011
CIOs and other senior tech managers are looking for alternatives to traditional hiring models. While there are still many who stick to recruiting full-time, local employees, a growing number of CIOs are interested in expanding their use of contractual, part-time or even overseas talent, according to a survey from Harvey Nash Group and PA Consulting Group. The survey serves as a general "State of the CIO" report, shedding light on topics such as the surprisingly high level of job fulfillment among senior tech mangers. But, the more revealing results focus upon the strategic/talent-staffing challenges that CIOs expect to face for the immediate future. "CIOs are facing new challenges presented by a world which is increasingly mobile, using social networking tools to transact and communicate," says Albert Ellis, CEO of Harvey Nash. "Technology leaders have to deal with the two main priorities from the CEO: driving innovation, particularly in the mobile applications area, while continuing to manage costs. The result is an increased dependence on a flexible, multi-sourced environment." More than 2,500 senior tech execs worldwide took part in the survey. Here are 10 highlights:
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One set of Sundevils down. One set of Sundevils to go.
Coming back after struggling in a District 2-4A road contest Saturday, the Los Alamos Hilltopper volleyball team couldn't seem to find its rhythm until the very end of its contest against Class 3A Sandia Prep.
That rhythm, however, carried the Hilltoppers to a 3-1 win over the Sundevils Tuesday night at Griffith Gymnasium.
Los Alamos trailed 15-10 in the fourth set of its home contest with Sandia Prep holding serve and was down 16-13, but reeled off 12 straight points to win, 11 of them with veteran Erin Kirk at the service line.
Samantha Fenner and Brianna Montaño had block kills during Kirk's run at the service line to help secure a 25-18, 20-25, 25-22, 25-16 victory.
"I just trust in what I've been trained and just not think about it," said Kirk of her string of 11 straight points, which came just moments after the Sundevils had taken a five-point lead and seemed to have the momentum on their side. "Just get a consistent serve and a consistent toss every point."
The big showing at the service line came on the heels of two subpar serve performances in consecutive losses to Albuquerque Academy and Santa Fe, the latter knocking Los Alamos out of the top spot in the District 2-4A race.
Los Alamos will have a chance to regain a share of the district lead tonight, but it will have to get through the Española Valley Sundevils.
Match time is schedule for 6:30 p.m.
Española Valley is currently on top of the district standings with a record of 2-0, having beaten both Santa Fe and Capital so far. The Sundevils (8-5 overall) are also the last team other than the Hilltoppers to win the district championship.
Los Alamos head coach Garry Maskaly said Española Valley's Sundevils use their middle hitters effectively, something that the Hilltoppers have seen in their past three outings.
Tuesday, Sandia Prep middle blocker Dixie Cooper got off to a fast start, picking up seven spike kills in the first two sets. Cooper would get just three more in the final two sets, however, as the Los Alamos defense used its block against Cooper more effectively to slow her down.
But the Hilltoppers, who got away from their signature service game, was only successful with it in spots prior to Kirk's long run at the end.
"It really goes back to serving," said Maskaly. "We have to trust our serves the way we work on them in practice. Both against Academy and Santa Fe, we backed off. We were not as consistent."
Kirk was asked to take height off her pre-serve toss in practice this week. For others, it was simply a matter of making sure the mechanics were there.
Offensively, Kirk led all hitters with 13 spike kills from the outside.
Fenner had nine spike kills and three block kills, coming up with two block kills and two tip kills in the final set.
Sandia Prep (4-9) couldn't get any traction during the early part of its season but had seemed to bounce back as of late. Tuesday, it led at least at one point in all four sets.
The Hilltoppers improved to 7-6 on the season and are hoping Tuesday's win will help carry them into tonight's contest against a Sundevil squad that will most likely be primed and ready.
"We have to play our game," Kirk said. "We're really good at that. We have to trust our training and we have to have confidence. That's our biggest weapon."
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Watch The ::God Is Imaginary Videos On YouTube ::
This article in Scientific American explains what researchers found.:http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-angry-straight-male
Adams and his colleagues' interpretation of these plethsymograph findings have not gone unchallenged. For example, in an article published in a 2006 issue of the Journal of Research in Personality, Gettysburg College researcher Brian Meier and his colleagues argue that Adams's findings can be better interpreted as the homophobic group's "defensive loathing" of gay males rather than a secret attraction. Drawing an analogy to other phobias, Meier and his coauthors state that, "We believe it is inaccurate to argue that spider phobics secretly desire spiders or that claustrophobics secretly like to be crammed into dark and tight spaces." These investigators reason that Adams's homophobic sample experienced erections in response to the gay male porn due not to sexual arousal, but due to their anxiety over the images, which in turn provoked the physiological response of penile engorgement.
http://williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Prison_Homosexuality_and_Its_Effect.pdf A report into homosexuality in prisons (1976) worth a read as background.


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Police in Hathersage are advising campers to remove valuables from their tents following thefts in the area.
Between 11am and 6.15pm on Monday, April 21, offenders entered a tent on a campsite on Birley Lane, Hathersage.
A Mammut sports jacket, a Sony Experia Z mobile phone and a wallet with cash were taken.
Between 10.30am and 6.30pm on the same date, offenders entered a tent and took a Samsung mobile phone from within.
PCSO Anthony Boswell, of the Hathersage Safer Neighbourhood Team, said: "I would encourage all campers not to leave any valuables in their tent while unattended.
"It only takes a few minutes for a criminal to enter a tent and search through belongings to steal."
Anyone with any information about the incidents is asked to call police on 101 quoting crime reference 16405/14.


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Recognizing the best from high school athletics over the past week.
Albert Landeros
Tracy wrestling: The senior 122-pounder was the only wrestler from the San Joaquin Athletic Association to win a Division IA championship on Saturday at Turlock-Pitman High, where he went 4-0. He cruised into the finals with a pin, a technical fall and a major decision. In the finals, he defeated Elk Grove-Franklin sophomore Josh Villaflor 6-2. Landeros qualified for the Masters championships on Friday and Saturday at Stockton Arena with an opportunity to advance to the state meet.
Dylan Alexander
Weston Ranch basketball: The 6-foot-3 senior guard scored a game-high 18 points behind three 3-pointers in a 73-43 win over Kimball that gave the Cougars a share of the Valley Oak League crown.
Stephen Martinez
Bear Creek basketball: The 6-0 junior guard scored a team-high 16 points and hit two big free throws late in a 68-58 outbracket win on Friday over Rodriguez, the Bruins' first-ever playoff victory.
Trent Nicholson
Kimball wrestling: The 132-pound junior won the Section Division IV championship and helped the Jaguars finish third in team scoring by pinning Los Banos' Jimmy Felix in 3 minutes, 3 seconds in the finals.
Veasna Samol
Stagg girls basketball: Finished with 14 points and six steals in the Delta Queens' 54-48 outbracket loss to Fair Oaks-Bella Vista. Samol led Stagg's dramatic turnaround this year with close to 10 points per game.
Trevor Smith
Ripon wrestling: The defending Masters champion at 182 pounds moved up to 195 and won the Division V championship, beating Bret Harte's Luke Brewer in the finals to qualify for the Masters.
Caleb Storey
Bret Harte wrestling: The 113-pound senior, who earned a seventh-place medal at the Masters last year at the same weight, won the Division V championship by beating Calaveras' Tylor Gonsalves in the finals.
- Stephen Roberson
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If you drive from the Canadian border on the north to the Iowa border on the south, you may think you are visiting several states and going through at least two seasons on the way.
If you start on a day in late April, you'll see snow on the ground. Around noon you'll be in central Minnesota, where the snow is gone and ice on the lakes has melted. Farther south later that afternoon, trees are full with leaves, farmers are finishing plowing, and it's spring. In a month, it will be spring in the north. You may like to check the weather map or the weather forecasts for today.
Another reason there seem to be several Minnesotas is that the state is at the crossroads of three types of terrain. Grassland plains and prairies are to the west and south, coniferous (cone-bearing) forest is to the north, and to the east is the hardwood forest, once known as the Big Woods.
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Rep. Pete Stark Was One of Us
Regardless of party affiliation, any elected official that serves his or her constituency for four decades should be recognized as exhibiting the essence of representative democracy. For all the talk of term limits, having one's job be dependent upon a public referendum every 24 months would seem to offer just such a limit. Rep. Pete Stark of California, Congress's only out atheist, saw his storied Congressional career come to a close on Tuesday when he was defeated in his quest for a 21st term. Rep. Stark was one of us, and not just by virtue of his nonbelief.
For almost two decades, we have let other groups and organizations work and succeed in defining nonbelievers as unpatriotic, lacking moral centers, and a pox on society. Yet Rep. Stark's work on healthcare in the 1980s, his constant vigilance in protecting our men and women in the Armed Forces, and his care for the environment throughout his 40 years of service are an instant refutation of those charges. Some undoubtedly disagree with his politics, but none could question he was operating out of a deep love and commitment to his country. We may not know when he came to the realization that he was an atheist, but whether it was before his first election or after his 15th, his service as a Representative remained steadfast. He proved that nonbelief in a deity did not preclude a strong belief in our country.
Pete Stark was one of us. His departure from the U.S. House or Representatives is bittersweet. As we reflect on his loss we are emboldened by the apparent victory of Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona. An open nontheist, Sinema's race was encouraging because her nonbelief was not a factor in her election. It was not used to slander her as un-American or suggest that she was unfit for office. Additionally, newly elected Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin has not listed a religious affiliation during her time as a Congresswoman. Voters in Wisconsin looked to her record in the House, not to a biographical bullet point, to determine that she was qualified to represent the state.
Pete Stark was one of us. Reading his acceptance speech for being awarded the 2008 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association, one is struck by his humbleness, his humor, and his gratitude at having the privilege of serving in elected office. Nonbelievers heal our sick, educate our children, serve in our military, raise families in every state and, yes, represent some of us in government. Nonbelievers are a part of American society and have been since its inception. The results of this election show that Rep. Pete Stark was not just one of us, in an important way he was the first of us.
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Cisco expanded Jabber, its presence-, voice- and video-loaded UC application, with a new feature called Jabber Guest.
Based on Expressway's security functionality, Jabber Guest lets users grant access to their own corporate communicate platforms to people outside their organization, like a client or business partner. Jabber Guest also lets users send a link to outside participants via their website, inviting those participants to join a two-way video call.
Cisco said Jabber Guest was built largely with customer service or contact center representatives in mind. A customer service agent, for instance, could use Jabber to deploy video chats with consumers directly over his or her company's website, and then ask those consumers to physically show him or her what the issue might be.


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Just out of curiosity, how would you describe your voice and do you like it? Also, I think I'm really out of it because the first time around I wrote 'bike' instead of voice. Um.
I'm more curious about your speaking voice, but singing is fine, too. :D
Anyway, I was going to get the ball rolling, but it turns out I can't figure out how to describe my voice.
● I don't like how my voice sounds over the telephone. I recorded it once & played it to see what I sound like, & I think I sound like a slightly nasally boy.
● Singing voice however, I've been scolded cause I sound like a cat going through a meat grinder from what I was told
● Besides having a soft voice, I'm content with my speaking voice. Just dislike having to raise it when people can't hear me. .__.
-I used to hate my voice how it sounded when it was recorded or on the phone because it was SO low... and i just broke my voice.. ( cuz i have a history of singing solos in church from when i was 5-11... people said i sounded like an adorable angel and i really bathed in their compliments... when my voice broke and it sounded all manly i hated myself and i still tried to act like cute little angel boy but failed miserable resulting in lowering of my own confidence and decreasing my number of friends cuz everything saw me as gay and weird)
-Now i really like my voice again, i sing for my school band and it's really ausome ^____^ Practice makes perfect guys~ if you hate ur voice cuz it broke, just practice with ur voice and make it sound better! Cuz no one sounds naturally disgusting, unless they have some kind of disease or something. (:
im a lot older than when was last here o.o
I sound a little kid -___________-;;
My voice is really tiny~ people said i sound like 13 ` omgoosh.
I don't really like my voice T^T;;
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I'm the total opposite! My friends are forever telling me I'm being too loud.
My friend is like that I don't know how to tell her she doesn't have to talk like I'm 50 ft away from her
I sound like a guy when I'm at the phone, according to what my friend said. And the worse part is that he says I sound like my younger brother. My brother is more fucked up than me, so it's quite an insult. Well, in RL', my voice is loud, one of the loudest in the class, in fact. So, I kinda' like it. And I really don't sing that bad either. My voice is sorta' more deep than high. But not 'male' deep, more like 'decent' deep. I never liked high-pitched voices. :\
Quite dead on this shithole.
My voice is pretty deep for my age and people mistake my age, thinking I'm in my 20s when on the phone or using voice chat.
1 to 10 on how deep my voice is, I'll give it a 8.5
I like my voice. I'm the type of person who wouldn't mind talking just so to hear my voice.
It's a little low for a girl, but it's moderately low. U can mistake me for a high school boy and won't mind it. I might even try to manipulate the situation. Haha!
In a rate of 1-10, with 10 being really low, mine would be 7.3
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I sound a little kid -___________-;;
My voice is really tiny~ people said i sound like 13 ` omgoosh.
I don't really like my voice T^T;;
I know just how you feel V.V....
When I speak another language my voice gets to the point that it sounds like a toddler....
i hate my voice and hearing a recording of myself is so embarrassing
its girly with gay accent and I hate it...
My voice is kind of small and cute?? i dont like my voice to be cute...>. < i want a strong and mature voice:( oh, well~ its okay~ my speaking voice is the same too~ i want my voice to be more deep~ ^^
My accent is really strong, even my Australian friends comment on it... My cousins say I sound like Steve Irwin
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i think my voice is pretty normal, but sometimes it sounds weird.
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Land in downtown Rolla is being unearthed at two locations to make way for more parking – and, hopefully, a more accessible downtown area.
Land in downtown Rolla is being unearthed at two locations to make way for more parking – and, hopefully, a more accessible downtown area.
The improvements are being made possible through a $296,760 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) awarded to the City of Rolla by the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED).
Rolla Mayor William Jenks III calls the project a "huge step forward" for downtown revitalization efforts.
"Parking has always been an issue in downtown Rolla," Jenks said. "Through the assistance of MRPC (Meramec Regional Planning Commission) and the CDBG grant, we've been able to lessen the problem and hopefully improve commerce in that area."
MRPC assisted in preparing the grant application and serves as the project administrator.
The $440,756 project will redevelop two vacant, unused and blighted lots into landscaped public parking areas. The new lots will be located at the intersection of Sixth and Elm streets and the intersection of 10 and Rolla streets.
Construction on both lots has begun, and Jenks said it is exciting to see progress on the project, which has been in the works for two years after the need was identified two years prior to that.
Action items for community revitalization had been identified in the 2009 downtown plan for the Rolla downtown and arts district.
Lack of sufficient parking had been noted as a factor hindering downtown business district development. Business owners, downtown residents, shoppers and Missouri University of Science and Technology students often compete for available parking.
Unused and vacant areas had been flagged in the plan as detracting from the downtown's aesthetics and negatively impacting the image of the downtown district.
The City of Rolla and the Rolla Downtown Business Association (RDBA) identified the lots, which are in the southern and northwestern portions of the business district.
The two lots will add 167 paved parking spaces.
"We are thrilled to death to have this. It is something we have been waiting on for a long time. Parking has been quite the issue," Rolla Downtown Business Association President Lonna Sowers said.
The RDBA is a 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization, comprised of business owners, property owners, neighboring districts and residents with the common goal of seeking improvements for the downtown area. The RDBA evaluates and plans to address current and future needs in economic development for the downtown area.
Sowers explained the additional parking will connect the downtown businesses with the university, as well as connect businesses to the arts and entertainment district.
The public parking areas will not only alleviate parking needs for business, but also for the increased downtown residency, which has resulted from new housing developments, Sowers said.
"This parking area will be huge in helping our residents as well as the people who come to shop," Sowers said.
Rolla Public Works Director Steve Hargis hopes to have both lots completed by September.
The Missouri DED CDBG program offers grants to small Missouri communities to improve local facilities, address critical health and safety concerns and develop a greater capacity for growth.
It offers funds for water and sewer projects, industrial infrastructure and community facilities like fire stations. CDBG is a "pass through" funding program from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). For more information about CDBG grant opportunities in the Meramec region, call Kelly Sink-Blair at 573-265-2993.


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This article in the Greenfield Recorder appeared one day after the historic 1963 "March on Washington." Two hundred thousand people marched in support of federal civil rights legislation and for a national employment program. Despite widespread predictions of violence the march was peaceful. President Kennedy referred to the "quiet dignity" of the protest, a clear contrast to violence directed at the civil rights movement in the south. Interestingly, this article makes no reference to the "I Have a Dream" section of King's speech that would later become the best-remembered aspect of the event. This Associated Press release is also quite negative about the impact of the event on Civil Rights legislation stalled in Congress.
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The entire coaching staff has a hand in preparing Havelock�s punt return team each week.
The entire coaching staff has a hand in preparing Havelock�s punt return team each week.
"Having Pharoh (Cooper) and A.J. (Coplon) back there as returners, it kind of makes that job easy," Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant said.
Cooper had a 37-yard punt return for a touchdown and Coplon added a 58-yarder as the Rams beat Currituck 49-0 last week in the first round of the playoffs. For the year, Cooper has two punt returns for scores (37 and 67 yards), while Coplon has four (58, 53, 55 and 35 yards).
Coplon, who runs the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds, doesn�t use that speed right away when returning a punt. He often hesitates before making his first move up the field.
"I�m just trying to set up my blocks and look for the open side of the field," said Coplon, who has also returned two of his five interceptions for touchdowns this season.
Cooper is averaging 25.7 yards per punt return, while Coplon averages 24.8 yards.
"Guys peel back and look for those big blocks on those punt returns, and with A.J. and Pharoh back there returning, they set up blocks very well," Bryant said.
Bryant said the staff realizes the importance of special teams.
"It creates field position," he said. "We�re able to flip the field around quickly. Our kickoff return team is so good that most teams don�t kick it deep. They onside it or pooch kick it."
Taylor Woods has had just three opportunities to return a kickoff this season, but his opening return against Currituck set the Rams up inside Knight territory to start the game.
"When I get the opportunity, it�s a special feeling," Woods said. "It�s once in a blue moon that they kick it deep to us. Usually they�ll pooch kick it or onside kick."
He said the reason the return game is so good for the Rams is the blocking.
"It�s awesome," he said. "They�re making holes for me to run through. I just see an open seam and run through it.
"I give all the credit to the coaches and how they coach us up."
Another aspect of special teams is place-kicking, and sophomore Dylan Baker was 7-for-7 on extra points against Currituck.
"I�ve been on him about keeping his head down and driving through the ball," Bryant said.
As for the return game, he just hopes teams don�t follow what would be his strategy.
"I wouldn�t kick it to us," he joked.


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My daughter is almost 8 months and I have 275+ oz. of frozen milk. The oldest date is end of October. She gets about 25 oz. a week from babysitter and I nurse the remaining time. She is also on solids 3 times a day and loving them. (We recently started offering bottles/nursing before solids at lunch and dinner b/c she was only taking 3-6 oz from sitter a day she liked her solids so much)
My question is this: how should i handle the supply? I pump at work and get about 20 ounces a week and then pump in the evening if she decides she doesnt want to eat before bed. I would say I pretty much offset her milk intake by pumping outtake. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I am concerned that my frozen milk supply is going to go to waste as she gets older and wants less ( I plan to ween at 1 yr and just use frozen supply until it runs out - maybe nurse at night)
I hate pumping at work but since I don't work everyday I am concerned that if I drop, lets say the noon pumping session, that the supply wont be there when i need it when im home. Example: I work tues, thurs, friday and pump at noon and 3pm. I nurse all her feeding times mon, wed, sat, sun.
should i continue pumping these times even though my frozen supply seems to have outpaced her intake or can I drop a pumping session and allow her to start moving through my supply? will i still have milk to nurse on the n on-working days.. does your body figure that out?
*If I NEVER pumped again (which i don't plan on doing) she would be able to get bottles off of our frozen supply for almost 12 weeks! (nursing the rest of the time)
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Forty years after President John Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act aimed at eliminating pay discrimination based on gender, there continues to be a wage gap between men and women continues. It's ridiculous.
Back then, according to the U.S. Census, women made about 60 cents for every dollar that men earned. It was the year that Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique" was published and before abortion was legal. Women who worked outside their homes had to wear skirts to the office. According to a Pew Research Center study, in those days only 11 percent of all households with children under 18 years old had women the sole or primary sources of income.
Today, the corresponding figure is about 40 percent, in part a reflection of changes in rates of single-parent households and divorce. Even the term "housewife" has been updated. Now it's stay-at-home moms who take care of their Netflix-watching children.
But Census data show that, on average, women still receive only 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. President Barack Obama and Democrats cite that statistic often in pushing for the Paycheck Fairness Act.
That legislation has already twice failed to pass Congress. It wouldn't eliminate a gender gap in U.S. workers' pay, but it would put in place some important mechanisms to make discrimination more difficult. The Senate is set to consider it.
Obama can't force legislative action, but he can exercise control of federal policy. To show his support for the equal-pay cause, he signed two executive orders, one barring federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their salaries and another that requires federal contractors to disclose wage information along racial and gender lines.
Congress should take a cue.
Squashing even the appearance of gender discrimination matters because women are increasingly the primary breadwinners. Not addressing structural problems in pay is simply an insult.
But critics rightly point out that the gender gap cited by Obama is based on a comparison of overall annual wages in the United States, not comparisons of what is earned by men and women in equivalent positions, or even hourly pay.
Moreover, it's skewed by the fact that women occupy more low-paying jobs and tend to work fewer hours, in part because many are the primary caregivers to their children. That's fair.
But beyond those factors, there remains a wage gap that is unaccounted for. According to a researcher at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, about 25 percent to 40 percent of the discrepancy cannot be linked to the above factors. There is discrimination that needs remedies.
The Paycheck Fairness Act is one step in that direction. Perhaps most important, the legislation would set tougher legal standards for an employer who claims the reason a woman is paid less has to do with education, training or experience — not gender.
Republicans, who have blocked the bill in the past, say it's more regulation that would open the door for more lawsuits. That sounds like the same old song from a party that has few female leaders.
This bill won't completely eliminate the gender gap, but it doesn't have to do that to do a lot of good.


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Accuser testifies she doesn't remember attacks but rumors spread quickly
Accuser testifies in Naval Academy sex assault
Accuser testifies she doesn't remember attacks but rumors spread quickly
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
A woman who is accusing three fellow Naval Academy midshipmen of sexually assaulting her at an off-campus party has testified that she doesn't remember the alleged attack but that rumors spread quickly that she had sex with six to nine people.
The senior testified for more than two hours Wednesday at the Washington Navy Yard at a hearing that will determine if the three former football players will face court-martial.
She testified that the assault happened at a place known in Annapolis as the football house because of its association with players on the team.
She says she doesn't recall the sexual encounters at the April 2012 party with the three students who have been charged. She says she woke up after a night of drinking with a sore back.


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PORTSMOUTH -- Lodgesys has selected Robert Cartwright, an industry innovator whose hospitality career spans 18-years, to lead Portsmouth's Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary in April of 2013.
Shari Young, vice president and managing director Lodgesys, inc., described Cartwright as an exceptional fit to lead the long-standing hotel. "Cartwright's dynamic leadership, marketing innovation, demonstrated hotel management success and his passion for hospitality will be invaluable assets for the continuing success of sheraton portsmouth," observed Young.
Cartwright launched his hospitality career at the Sheraton New York hotel & towers in New York City in 1991. That post, as finance department coordinator, was a springboard for progressively more responsible management roles with the diverse collection of starwood hotels and resorts worldwide brands.
Cartwright has a B.S. In economics from State University of New York and is a graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration's professional development program in asset management, real estate and hotel investments. A resident of Stratham, Cartwright and his family made the decision to make the Seacoast their permanent home, where is wife, Michele, was born and raised. Robert and Michele have two boys, Jack and Rhys, ages 6 and 4.


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The last book I loved was You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr. A wife and mother living the Beverly Hills good life, Anne leads book groups for directors, screenwriters, producers, and actors. It's not that she planned to do this, it just happened because she's so well read, so brilliant, so delightfully British. […]...more


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Players continue to talk about the new rule regarding use of the top of the helmet in the open field.
None who have discussed it seem to like it.
"[T]hey keep making these rules, people aren't going to want to watch football any more," Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant said Saturday, via the Dallas Morning News. "I don't think that rule is going to last long. There's going to be so many penalties in this league. Too many guys getting fined. It's hard for somebody to pay attention to trying to not to use their helmet."
Another Cowboy who may benefit from trying to tackle tailbacks who aren't ramming them with the tops of their helmets is skeptical about the implementation of the rule.
"Are they going to call it?" cornerback Brandon Carr said. "I think they're trying too hard on that topic. It's one thing to improve safety but it can't just challenge the integrity of the game. I don't see too many running backs out there running with their heads down intentionally trying to spear you or anything with their helmet. Most running backs lower their shoulder anyway. You're taught to lower the shoulder and bring the boom."
Tailbacks can still bring the boom with their shoulders, face masks, sides of helmets, and hairlines of helmets. The only thing prohibited — outside the tackle box and three yards or more down the field within the tackle box — is the use of the top of the helmet as a battering ram.
That's all the rule is. And despite Dez's concerns, the rule is going to last a lot longer in the league than he will. So it makes sense for him and all other players to understand what the rule is, what the rule isn't, and prepare to adjust accordingly.


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Best Vocal Effects Pedal For Reverb, Harmony & Tuning
Best Vocal Effects Pedal For Reverb, Harmony & Tuning
Of course it makes perfect sense for vocals to have a dedicated FX unit, in most genres they are the focal point of the song. Also every voice is unique and requires careful treatment to ensure it finds it's place in the mix and stands out when needed. Apply a big delay for the chorus, a hushed harmony for an intimate verse or simply turn up to the gig with the perfect sound in your pocket.
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Inputs for Mic, Line & Guitar (In and Through), 1/8" Aux Input, MIDI In, Out & Thru
Get up to 8 harmonies and 4 voices of unison for a truly gigantic vocal sound! These can be freely generated or controlled by MIDI, guitar, MP3 or any audio source.
Pitch correction for any style, from extreme T-Pain settings to subtle nudging.
Creative effects including distortion, megaphone, old radio & guitar FX.
More subtle processing like simply delays, reverb and EQ also feature. Allowing you to get the fundamentals of your vocal sound right, then get creative with looping and processing.
Check out the samples below to hear just how natural the harmonising and effects are, as well as some subtle and not so subtle examples of pitch and effects processing.
Being such a versatile and reliable beast it has gathered fans in just about every musical genre imaginable, pop, rock, metal, country, hip hop and of course beatboxers are big fans of it's more "out there" features.
Pure Vocals - Practice At Home And Take Your Sound To The StageFor the dedicated singer it's important that your effects unit covers the essentials such as reverb, delay, EQ, pitch and light modulation. Equally important is that you get warmed up and practiced before the show, so loop features and headphone outputs can be a massive help too.
Roland have you well covered on all counts with their range of vocal processors. The VT-12 visualises pitch, provides a metronome for timing, two inputs to practice with a teacher/student, built in exercises and a record function to listen back to how you did. On top of this it comes with a book of lessons from Berklee School Of Music.
Once you've practiced your voice and got your scales down then the VE-5 and VE-20 vocal processors are the perfect accompaniment on stage and in the dressing room. They both offer the core FX any vocalist needs as well as some great creative alternative tones and looping.
The main difference between the two units is that the VE-5 can be stand mounted and battery powered while the VE-20 is a stompbox. So the VE-20 is ideal if you're intending on getting creative with the looper and the VE-5 is very portable, use it on a table top at home, mic stand on stage and unplugged in the dressing room or on the tour bus.
Roland VT-12
TC Helicon VoiceLive Play
|For practice at home or lessons the VT-12 is ideal, showing your exact pitch visually and delivering a metronome for timing. A number of lessons come built in to allow you to practice alone, the record function captures your performance and lets you play back to hear how you did.
|If you'd prefer to learn by singing along then the vocal cancel function on the Voice Live Play will suit you perfectly. When practice is over then tuning, harmonies, EQ and FX give you powerful tools for getting your stage sound right before you get to the gig.
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|Whether you are a solo acoustic guitar player or part of a 4 piece folk band, the Play Acoustic is ideal for anyone that plays acoustic and sings. Lots of built-in effects for guitar (Corona chorus, Hall of Fame reverb) as well as tons of vocal effects. The harmony setting is fantastic and the Play Acoustic tracks what chords you are playing on guitar to ensure you sound spot on. Also has a built-in looper, as well as anti-feedback - meaning your live performances will be better than ever!
|Similar to the Play Acoustic, but for electric guitarists. Ideal for anyone in a band that does either lead or backing vocals. The Play Electric has tons of amp simulators taken from the popular Voice Live 3, as well as guitar effects and vocal effects such as reverb, harmony and transducer. Lots of useful effects for both on stage and in the studio - whether you are in a band or play solo!
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Pitch correction, reverb, delay and simple EQ/Dynamics control, don't put up with bad sound again. A straightforward solution to so many stage problems.
|All the essentials with reverb, EQ and added creative FX for those special moments in the song. Clip it to your mic stand battery power for the ultimate on-stage convenience.
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|Contain many of the more creative effects from the Voicelive 3 including modulation, reverb, distortions and the Hardtun feature used by Kanye West. Hours of fun to be had and plenty of opportunities to mix things up on stage.
|A real powerhouse, with the range of FX you expect from a flagship VoiceLive product but the added genius of touch screen capabilities. Get inspired in the studio, arrange presets ready to trigger live and then tweak in real time for a perfect performance.
|Masses of creative effects, reverb, harmonies and a looper from an iconic stompbox manufacturer. Boss know how to put together a pedal and the VE-20 is no exception. Check out the Road Test below where the VE-20 is put through it's paces live and Abe goes through some of the special features.
Individual EffectsUp to now we've largely covered the best multi-effects vocal processors. However there are a range of individual pedals, covering Reverb, Harmonising, Compression and more. Just like a guitarists simply stomp when you need your sound to take off, clamp down or leap out the speakers.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on January 9 announced that its Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is making $24.9 million available through its new Low- or No-Emission Vehicle Deployment Program that will put a new generation of advanced, non-polluting transit buses on the road in communities nationwide. The funds are intended to encourage more widespread adoption of reliable "green energy" buses into transit fleets.
FTA will award the funds on a competitive basis to transit agencies and state transportation departments working either independently or jointly with bus manufacturers that are already making low- and zero-emission buses. The program builds on the success of FTA's National Fuel Cell Bus Program, which invested in the research, development, and testing of alternative fuels and related equipment, such as electric charging stations, for the transit industry. This program successfully committed $90 million over seven years for innovative research, demonstration, and deployment projects to reduce the cost of fuel cells for transit use.
In addition to their environmental benefits, LoNo transit buses will, in the long run, help transit agencies save money on fuel and maintenance costs. According to the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, zero-emission buses can achieve more than double the fuel economy of buses running on diesel and other fuels. See the DOT press release.


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In the time it takes you to read this sentence, more than a million neurons will transmit electrical impulses in your nervous system — triggered by touching this page, or using your eyes to make sense of the letters and words. These impulses — set off by touch, sight, sound and other stimuli — are relayed neuron-to-neuron through the brain by tiny messenger molecules called neurotransmitters.
You could think of a neurotransmitter as a lightning-fast pony express rider leaving St. Joseph, Missouri to get to Elwood, Kansas, the next stop, in microseconds. The distance between the two towns is like the synapse, the gap between a sending and receiving neuron. When the rider gets to Elwood, he hands his mail pouch to the next rider, whom you could think of as a receptor, a specialized protein on the membrane of the message-receiving neuron. As a neurotransmitter docks at a receptor, the neuron becomes activated, signaling it to release neurotransmitters for relay to the next neuron. But the interaction between the neurotransmitter and receptor must be just right, or the message won't be relayed, the next rider won't leave Elwood to journey across the next synapse.
It's a crude, imperfect analogy for an extremely complicated process. Though incompletely understood, the complex interactions between neurotransmitters and receptors are the basis for the therapeutic action of many drugs. Prozac and its derivatives, for instance, treat clinical depression by binding to receptors for the neurotransmitter serotonin, increasing the amount of serotonin available in synapses.
Computational chemist Maria Kurnikova of Carnegie Mellon University uses supercomputing to study membrane proteins such as receptors and how they interact with neurotransmitters. In extensive work over the past three years, she and post-doctoral fellow Tatyana Mamonova used PSC's LeMieux and BigBen to gain new understanding of the receptor for an important neurotransmitter called glutamate.
"What we found is exciting," says Kurnikova, "because it's something nobody expected." Their findings go beyond laboratory experiments and identify the precise atom-by-atom changes that occur as glutamate binds to the glutamate receptor, a process that changes the receptor's shape and eventually leads to activation of the neuron — information that presents new possibilities for precisely designed therapeutic drugs.
Structure of the glutamate receptor's ligand binding domain, highlighting residues (red) that make connection across the cleft. The central residue forms a bond within the binding domain, stabilizing and locking the domain in the closed state.
Although glutamate may not be as well known to most people as serotonin and some other neurotransmitters, it's the most prevalent neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and an important focus of medical and pharmaceutical research. The interaction between glutamate and glutamate receptors plays an essential role in memory and learning, and dysfunction of this interaction is related to a diverse list of central nervous system disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia and depression.
A key to better understanding of all these dysfunctions is precise knowledge of how the glutamate receptor works. While there are several different glutamate receptors, Kurnikova and Mamonova looked at one (known as AMPA) that is the most common and initiates the series of steps that lead to neural activation. AMPA is a four-part protein (a tetramer) that forms a pore-like "ion channel" in the neural membrane — like a valve that opens selectively to allow ions, biochemical electricity, to flow through the channel into the cell.
The valve-apparatus of the receptor — its "gating mechanism" — that causes it to shift from closed to open was in large part a mystery when Kurnikova and Mamonova began their work. What was known is that each of the four parts of the receptor has its own "binding domain" — a cleft-like structure that extends outside the membrane — where glutamate can attach. When glutamate binds, this cleft in the binding domain closes — like a Venus flytrap catching a fly — which in turn causes the transmembrane channel to open for ion flow.
"Cleft closure controls opening of the pore," says Kurnikova. "And the degree of cleft closure is believed to relate to how much the pore opens. Experiments show that this seems to be correct. But exactly how it happens nobody knows. It would be really nice to know on the molecular level what controls the degree of cleft closure, but to separate these processes into two — docked glutamate first and then the closed binding domain — is experimentally impossible."
Kurnikova and Mamonova tackled this problem by, in effect, building an atom-by-atom model of glutamate and the glutamate receptor binding-domain inside the computer. They used their model, comprising 20,000 atoms, with PSC systems — initially LeMieux, PSC's terascale system, and more recently BigBen — to simulate the shift from the unbound to bound state of the receptor.
Using a method called "molecular dynamics," they tracked the forces among all the atoms as the receptor atoms shift position. They relied on software called AMBER (Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement) and a special technique called "umbrella sampling."
This image shows electrostatic charge, positive (blue) and negative (red), of the protein and ligand, glutamate (right), illustrating electrostatic complementarity between the ligand and protein.
In terms of the number of atoms, their problem was relatively modest. Their major challenge was to simulate the entire duration of the transition from unbound to bound state. With umbrella sampling, they divided the transition into 12 windows, each of which they simulated for 10 nanoseconds, a relatively long period in terms of biomolecular events. The simulations sliced time into femtoseconds, a million freeze-frame snapshots for each nanosecond. At each snapshot interval the simulation recalculated the forces and positions of every atom.
"Forcing a protein from one conformation into another is a challenging simulation," says Kurnikova. "Umbrella sampling is a technique where you bias the system to move slowly through its conformational space so you can sample the entire space. With mathematical techniques, you eliminate the biasing effects and calculate the free energy difference."
With their first series of simulations in 2004, the researchers compared results from their modeling to experimental data, gathered from infrared spectroscopy, measuring shifts in the vibrational frequencies of glutamate as it binds to the receptor. Their calculations closely reproduced the experimental results, validating their approach.
These simulations also provided insight into the positive/negative electronic polarities between the unbound receptor binding-domain — the open cleft of the Venus flytrap — and glutamate. They showed that the open cleft projects a positive electronic charge that strongly attracts the negatively charged molecular face of glutamate.
With the 2005 arrival of BigBen at PSC, the researchers were able to step up the pace of their work. "When we started," says Kurnikova, "running a simulation of one nanosecond would take several days. With BigBen, we were suddenly able to run 10 nanoseconds overnight."
The improved technology allowed them to do extensive simulations that tracked variant (mutant) glutamate receptor structures and the effect of the mutations on the transition from open to closed state of the glutamate binding domain. Ultimately, this allowed Kurnikova and Mamonova to identify precisely which molecular interactions controlled the binding-domain transition from open to closed. They identified several key interactions, but — most interesting — they found a bond that forms within the binding-domain itself once the cleft closes that, more than other interactions, stabilizes and locks the binding domain in the closed state.
"Nobody expected this from experimental analysis," says Kurnikova, "that there is this one interaction which is the most important and controls that whole transition." For drug design, this detailed knowledge is very important, she adds, and can guide pharmaceutical companies toward finding compounds with very specific effects — to either inhibit or enhance the gating mechanism of the glutamate receptor.
"That's the advantage of atomistic simulations," she says. "We can look at that experimentally and observe some effect and guess why it works, but with this modeling we can see what causes what we see experimentally — not just what happens, but how. We can understand that in great detail."
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This image from the simulation illustrates the axis along which RT seems to twist, a motion, says Madrid, that might allow the DNA to move across the protein and facilitate its replication.
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In another project, PSC scientist Marcela Madrid collaborated with Maria Kurnikova and colleagues in a series of large-scale simulations of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). This multi-functional protein plays a critical role in the life-cycle of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It replicates HIV's DNA, essentially a copy-and-paste function, which is then incorporated into immune-system cells of the infected person. Because of this critical role, RT is the target of several FDA-approved anti-AIDS drugs.
Using PSC's LeMieux and the Cray XT3, Madrid and the Carnegie Mellon scientists simulated RT with and without DNA, simulations that involved 123,000 atoms. Notably, they extended their molecular dynamics simulation for 40 nanoseconds of biological time, much longer than any previous similar work. Because of this extended time, the simulations reveal motions and detailed interactions of DNA bound to RT not before observed. In particular, they show that the DNA undergoes a "twist and slide" motion, which may facilitate its positioning at RT's active site. Interfering with this motion could disrupt RT's function. "This work is important in understanding RT's function," says Madrid, "because it shows details of the motion that have not been observed before by any other computational technique."


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Dr. Tong came to the OCC in 2011 from the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), where he served as a Senior Market Economist since 2008. His areas of focus include the development of home equity loan and credit line loss projection models; conducting DFA stress tests; monitoring housing and mortgage market conditions, emerging trends, and policy developments; and assessing their impacts on the national banks and federal thrifts.
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Eating and Growth
By: Dr. Michelle MD
Of all of the miracles we witness every day, the growth of our children is one of the most remarkable. The growth spurt in the first year of life is truly incredible. Imagine how crazy it would be if we found ourselves triple our current weight and 50% taller one year from now. We do not seem at all surprised when it happens to the average 7 pound newborn infant.(Smaller babies often nearly quadruple their weight, and larger babies only double their weight, but we will use the average sized boy baby for the sake of this discussion.) One thing we all understand is that the infant needs to eat to grow. A voracious appetite driven by the need to grow allows the baby to consume over 100 calories per kilogram every day.
That is the equivalent of an adult consuming 6000 to 7000 calories a day! For the first few months, when the infant is still unable to move around much, the fat piles up all over the body, and the baby reaches double his birth weight. From about 4-6 months of age on, some of the calories are burned by activity and the baby gains weight less rapidly.
This rapid growth rate tapers off at about one year of age. For the next few years, the child consumes fewer calories than he did in infancy. The increase in weight is only about 3-4 pounds and in height only about 3 inches for the whole second year of life. The appetite is considerably smaller and the activity level is relentless. The toddler only needs about 20-24 ounces of milk a day and only eats about two tablespoons of each food at a meal. Many parents are alarmed by this decrease in consumption. They try to feed the child even when he is not hungry. This is not wise. Many studies have shown that children will eat as much as they need if offered a variety of foods.
The Real Job
When it comes to food, the most important job that
parents have during the toddler and childhood years is to encourage good eating habits in their children. A balanced diet of fruits and vegetables, high quality proteins, unsaturated fats and high fiber carbohydrates not only nourishes the child, it also gives him the enjoyment for these foods throughout life. This is the key to healthy eating as an adult. Healthy eating habits also include eating real meals while sitting at the table, and eating about two snacks a day. Even the snacks should be at set times of day for toddlers so the child learns the difference between eating times and play or sleep times. The toddler who has a continuous nosh all day long has a much harder time limiting his eating when he is older.
Childhood Eating
As the child grows slowly through the ages of 3-11 he eats only about one tablespoon per year of age for typical portions of the food at his meals. He should drink about 20 ounces of milk or eat yogurt, cottage cheese or cheese instead of some of these ounces. Juice should be limited to only 4 ounces a day, preferably as one drink. The rest of the drinks should be water. The habit of always drinking sweet drinks is another cause of weight problems later on. Water is
refreshing, convenient and even has fluoride to help teeth. A sport bottle, filled with cold tap water is usually acceptable as a take along drink for kids.
At around age 11 for girls, and age 14 for boys, another growth spurt starts and parents are amazed at the increase in their childs appetite. This can be particularly alarming when the child starts storing fat around the abdomen before the growth actually starts to accelerate. This is a very tricky and important time. There is a delicate balance between the need to grow, the amount of calories used by exercise, the need to eat for social and emotional gratification, and the genetic makeup of the child.
It is very important to have the childs doctor monitor the growth in height and weight during the pre-adolescent and adolescent years.
Inches and Pounds
Fueling the actual growth during this last big growth spurt requires a lot of calories. The teenager gets very hungry, often later in the evening. The height increases in spurts, causing a need for extra food. Every inch a girl grows increases the weight by about 5 pounds. Every inch a boy grows increases the weight about 7 pounds. This is because the heart, liver and other organs increase in size, and the bones and muscles become longer and stronger.
To gain a pound, the body needs to take in about 3500 calories more than the amount used. This is why I warn mothers that they must count a growing adolescent boy as two people to feed! How much of this extra eating is enough? How much is too much? This can depend on the build of the child. Children with broader frames gain more than children with smaller frames. The 5-7 pound per inch average is for average-sized kids.
It is important that the growing adolescent be allowed to feel satisfied and not hungry.
The most important help you can give your growing teenager is to make sure there is real, high quality food around when he or she needs to eat. An extra portion of chicken, a tuna burger, and other real substantial food will fill him up without needing the greasy snack foods. Salads and fruit alone will not be enough, since their calorie content is low.
Activity and Growth
Growing bones and muscles strengthen and straighten when actively exercised. The level of activity often determines posture, and overall balanced weight gain during this growth period. These kids should walk to school and back, run around and play active games during the daytime breaks, and generally not sit down during their spare time. This is a physical need of the growing body.
Delicate Balance
If a growing adolescent tries to control his or her intake too strictly during this time, the final, actual growth could be stunted. Eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia can cause a derangement of their maturation and growth that can affect the rest of their lives.
On the other hand, excessive weight gain during this growth period can lead to a lifetime of struggling to maintain a healthy body weight. There is a particular danger to being obese as an adolescent. The risk of diabetes is much greater than it is when the excess weight is acquired in adulthood. If there is obesity and diabetes in the family, the risk is even higher, so, in these families, every effort must be made to avoid obesity during adolescence.
Habits for a Lifetime
We have a great responsibility to be conscious of our childrens eating habits. Good habits formed early, last a lifetime. We should consider the role junk foods play in our everyday life. If we could only limit these treats for special occasions, they would not be such a big factor in our childrens diets. Now that we know how important eating habits are, we can make the effort to do the right thing for our families.
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Mississippi agriculture funding suffered its fair share of funding cuts in the recent budgetary process, but efforts are already under way to tackle similar challenges certain to return in the future.
That was the assessment conveyed by leaders of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation during its summer commodities meeting held on July 7 in Jackson, Miss.
Harry Dendy, governmental relations official with the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, reported there was a 2.4 percent ($1.5 million) reduction in fiscal 2006 funds for ag Extension departments at Mississippi State University.
The overall budget has been set at $4.6 billion for fiscal 2006.
"One of the things we were most interested in was the funding of the ag schools at MSU, and we fought long and hard, and hoped we would get level funding for that. We came close," Dendy said.
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation President David Waide said hammering out the state's budget has been a long process.
"The net effect is that some of the things the state didn't fund will be passed on to the counties in the form of unfunded mandates. That will be a challenge to us," he said "Hopefully we'll survive this and be able to restore the budgets that are so near and dear to us in agriculture because of what our land grant universities do for us in the state."
Dendy reviewed several agriculture-related bills presented and accepted by the legislature, including:
House bill 960, which offers the same tax incentive to biodiesel already established for ethanol.
House bill 6161, which extends the rice research and promotion act until July 2008.
House bill 156 and Senate bill 2681, which strengthen the current seed laws and establish a seed inspection fee.
Two proposed bills Dendy mentioned failed to generate enough political support: House bill 618, which offered changes affecting the current control of funds for the soybean checkoff program, and House bill 1710 ("bona fide farmer act") pertaining to which parties would regulate and issue permits.
Waide said the bureau has already begun formulating multiple committees aimed at determining a message for legislatures for the next regular session and pursuing cogent ways to deliver the message.
"We will involve people here (at the meeting) in this process," he said. "We understand the problems the state has, but nonetheless, when you think of the impact ag has in this state, in the last six years we have seen over $35 million taken from it. Agriculture contributes to more than one-third of the state's economy. We can't afford to let that trend continue."
Finally, Waide briefly commented on the ongoing discussions of controversial changes to the farm bill.
He said it is important for the general public to realize not only how vital agriculture is for America's food supply, but also how small a price the federal government subsidizes farmers compared to foreign nations.
He said he wants the Farm Bureau to play a direct and indirect role in those efforts.
"Whether it be through appropriations to our land grant universities, whether it be through direct payments to our producers, whether it be through environmental supplements to producers who are installing things for the consuming public's good, or whether it's through the school lunch program, it sends a message," he said. "And we should be the bearer of that message that our system is the most efficient and our population is certainly the best fed, the best clothed and the best housed of any nation on earth."
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Memphis Grizzlies are showing a knack for closing out tight games against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
All that's left to prove is whether they can finish off a playoff series that's been nip and tuck throughout and move on to the Western Conference finals for the first time in franchise history.
In each of the first three games of the series, the go-ahead bucket was scored in the final 2 minutes. Then Game 4 went to overtime, with Memphis winning 103-97 to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the series and put the Thunder on the brink of elimination. Game 5 is Wednesday night in Oklahoma City.
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"One thing about Kevin, he's going to come back and give everything he has," Brooks said. "He's not an excuse guy. He's not going to blame anything on nobody, other than put the pressure on himself to perform every night. That's what makes us a good team, because of that attitude that he has."
Durant has had to do it all since Westbrook had knee surgery prior to Game 3 of the first round of the playoffs. He's averaging 30.8 points, 11 rebounds and 6.8 assists in this round, and also hit all the key shots down the stretch in the Thunder's Game 1 victory.
But over time, Memphis — the league's top defensive team in the regular season — has made it harder for Durant to excel with the game on the line. After going 10 for 16 from the field with 22 points in the fourth quarter of the first two games, Durant has gone 3 for 17 and scored seven points in the fourth quarter in Games 3 and 4 plus overtime on Monday night.
His shooting percentage in crunch time has gone down in each game.
"We've just got to find a way to make those plays. We're playing hard every day. It's just not going our way," Durant said. "We just have to get ready for Game 5. It's at home, so it should be exciting. I'm looking forward to it."
While Oklahoma City is at risk of bowing out, the Grizzlies are one win away from the next big step in their progression as a franchise. Before this season, they had won only one postseason series, against San Antonio in 2011.
"It's still a game. Still we have to play another game, and we have to win another game. There's no greater magnitude," coach Lionel Hollins said. "It's just a game that we have to go out and play well to win. It's just like when were down 0-1, just like when we were 1-1, just like when we were 2-1. It never changes. It's a game that has to be played to the best of your ability and the winning and losing takes care of itself."
With two teams that have been so closely matched, there don't figure to be any more major adjustments at this point. Brooks was happy with his decision to have power forward Serge Ibaka guard 7-footer Marc Gasol instead of counterpart Zach Randolph, given that Ibaka emerged from a shooting slump for 17 points and 14 rebounds.
"I think it loosened him up, just his mind, so he can focus on what he does well. We need his scoring, we need his shooting and I thought last game was good," Brooks said. "Hopefully we can get it again."
It still wasn't enough to change the final result — the third straight Memphis win by exactly six points.
"As hard as they came out on us (Monday) night, they're going to come out even harder when they get home. It's desperation for them," Hollins said. "And we can't anticipate or think that it's going to be an easy game. We have to go out and be ready for a heavyweight battle."
Brooks said the three straight losses haven't changed his team's mindset, which remains "we expect to win and if we don't, it'll be disappointing." And he doesn't want the win-or-else mentality to create mounting pressure on his players.
"The pressure is not to make every shot. The pressure is just to compete as hard as you can for your team, and wherever that takes you, you live with it," he said. "I think our guys are ready to commit to one more great effort game, and we're looking forward to it."
After the loss Monday night, Brooks had a light-hearted moment and mentioned knowing that there's a barbecue festival in Memphis on Friday, when Game 6 would be played.
"We want to be able to win in front of our home fans and have another game in Memphis and see what we can do there. I like our ability to come back in tough situations, within games and even to the next game. This is obviously not the greatest position to be in but we still have a chance to be a part of history," Brooks said.
"There's not a lot of teams that have come back from 3-1 but we have the talent, we have the teamwork, we have the effort and teamwork to do it."


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