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Despite living only five miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I have never had the good fortune of seeing the President or First Lady in the flesh. However, yesterday I, along with the sophomore class of Bell Multicultural High School in Columbia Heights had the pleasure of not only seeing but hearing Mrs. Obama speak on the importance of committing to your education in order to create a better future for ourselves and our country.
However, this school isn't just any regular high school. Bell Multicultural is part of the Columbia Heights Educational Campus (CHEC) which is a unique globally themed bilingual campus that serves grades 6 through 12 and prepares all of its students for success in college and their careers.
CHEC has been recognized as one of the top schools in the area and country on the Advanced Placement Challenge Index for offering Advanced Placement to all students. It also has the only Spanish language dual immersion high school program in Washington D.C. Students can take a full bilingual program through the 12th grade. CHEC students come from over 20 countries and use this diversity to complement their globally themed curriculum. Every grade explores a global theme, which ties together their learning and builds their global awareness.
During Mrs. Obama's opening remarks and highly motivational speech she pointed out success stories from the high school including that of Dominican-born student Roger Sánchez saying
"In fifth grade, Roger came to the United States from the Dominican Republic to live with his mother. When Roger arrived in America, he could barely speak a word of English. He often couldn't understand anything his teachers were saying, so he decided to put a piece of paper in his pocket so he could jot down all the new words he heard, and then he'd ask his friends and teachers to translate for him.
He went to the library and poured through books and videos and cassettes to help teach himself English. And after all those hours of studying and practicing, Roger arrived here at Bell ready to thrive. And every day, he put the same effort into his classes that he put into learning English. He joined the baseball, the football teams. He helped found your Global Kids Club so that students could discuss world issues. And last spring, he graduated with nearly a 4.0 GPA."
Following her remarks, Mrs. Obama, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Bell alum Menbere sat on a comfy sofa with BET moderator Jeff Johnson and opened the floor up for discussion and a Q&A session with the 10th-grade class at CHEC who represent the college Class of 2020. The First Lady made it clear that she want to "hear your story, your questions your concerns." Encouraging students to talk.
The school's goal is to have 100% of students graduate with plans for higher education. In 2012, 82% of students went on to college and they are working towards increasing that number year on year.
Truthfully, I was dying to ask a question. I didn't get to, but I wanted to get the bilingual aspect of success in there. Especially because we were at such a unique educational setting. I would have asked her and Secretary Duncan talk about research showing how being bilingual helps you get ahead in education and life and to discuss how these particular bilingual high school students place (test wise) among other monolingual high school students.
And in case you were wondering, the First Lady looked immaculate as always! If you'd like to know more about what she wore, her look and how the rest of the day went, then please see Very Busy Mamá.


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Recipe Facts
- 1 (15-ounce) can of white beans (cannellini beans), drained and rinsed
- 5 tablespoons lemon juice (from about 3 lemons)
- 1 medium clove garlic, smashed and peeled
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves (optional)
- 2 tablespoons water
- 7 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, plus more for grilling
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4 large portobello mushroom caps, stems and gills removed, wiped clean with a damp paper towel
- 4 good-quality sandwich rolls, preferably focaccia, sliced
- About 2 cups baby arugula leaves
In the bowl of a food processor, combine the white beans, 1/4 cup lemon juice, garlic, rosemary, and water. Blend. With machine running, drizzle in 1/4 cup olive oil. Process until completely smooth, about one minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer spread to a bowl and refrigerate.
Light one half chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with gray ash, pour out and spread the coals evenly over half of coal grate. Set cooking grate in place, cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Alternatively, preheat one side of a gas grill to medium high, covered, for at least 10 minutes. Clean and oil the grilling grate.
Using a pastry brush, brush both sides of mushroom caps with a generous amount of olive oil, a about 1 tablespoon per mushroom. Season both sides of mushrooms generously with salt and pepper. When grill is hot, add mushrooms to hot side and cook, covered, until mushroom is well-browned on one side, about 4 minutes. Flip mushrooms and cook for an additional 4 minutes. Transfer mushrooms to a plate. Add rolls to grill and toast lightly on both sides, about 2 minutes per side. Remove.
Whisk together remaining tablespoon lemon juice and 2 tablespoons olive oil and season to taste with salt an pepper. Set dressing aside.
Lay out sandwich roll bottoms and spread each with a small amount of white bean mixture. Add 1 mushroom to each sandwich and top with a generous amount of white bean spread. Dress arugula with lemon juice and olive oil (you may not need all the dressing). Divide arugula between sandwiches and season with salt and pepper. Add sandwich roll tops and carefully slice sandwiches in half with a sharp serrated knife. Serve immediately.
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On Wednesday, the Icelandic Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling finding that Valitor (formerly VISA Iceland) had illegally terminated a contract with DataCell, WikiLeaks' Icelandic Web host, thereby stopping processing donations to the embattled site.
Valitor will now be forced (Icelandic) to pay 800,000 Icelandic krónur ($6,824) per day if the gateway to WikiLeaks donations is not reopened within 15 days, according to the group.
"This is a victory for free speech," said Julian Assange, the site's founder, in an online statement. "This is a victory against the rise of economic censorship to crack down against journalists and publishers. We thank the Icelandic people for showing that they will not be bullied by powerful Washington backed financial services companies like Visa. And we send out a warning to the other companies involved in this blockade: you're next."
Less than a week after the Icelandic district court's ruling in July 2012, WikiLeaks opened up another means of donating via a French bank. By December 2012, a new group, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, also set up an online means to donate to Assange's group.
On its website, WikiLeaks lists myriad other ways that people can donate, including sending direct bank transfers to various accounts in Iceland and Australia. The Wau Holland Foundation, a German group named after the founder of the Chaos Computer Club, has been WikiLeaks' primary receiving entity in Germany, for example.


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Today the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) presented a grant to SoCal Corporate Growth Partners for $1.775 million to operate a new MBDA Business Center in Riverside, California.
MBDA National Director David Hinson was joined by Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge and Daniel Sieu, CEO & President of SoCal Corporate Growth Partners to celebrate the opening of the new Riverside MBDA Business Center, which will be operated over five years.
This Business Center is a part of a network of 45 centers that operate nationally under the auspices of MBDA designed to help minority-owned firms secure capital for new equipment and facilities; compete for public and private sector contracts; and prepare for exporting opportunities. The Centers also provide strategic advice on supplier diversity programs to help make buyers more effective and efficient in meeting their goals.
The most recently opened business centers were in Boston, MA, Minneapolis, MN and Manhattan, NY.
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857–1935, American paleontologist and geologist, b. Fairfield, Conn. He was professor of comparative anatomy (1883–90) at Princeton, and professor of biology (1891–96) and of zoology (1896–1910) at Columbia, where he was also dean of the faculty of pure science (1892–95). From 1891 he was associated with the American Museum of Natural History and formed one of the world's foremost collections of vertebrate fossils. Under his presidency (1908–33) the museum's scientific staff, facilities, and endowments were greatly expanded. He joined the U.S. Geological Survey as vertebrate paleontologist in 1900 and became (1924) senior geologist. His voluminous writings include general works on evolution and over 500 technical papers on paleontology.
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From OpenMokoJump to: navigation, search[edit]Introduction
This page is aimed at Gentoo users new to the OpenMoko project who're trying to get the QEMU emulator up and running and do some development for the project. The basic process to do this is described at OpenMoko_under_QEMU however there are a number of Gentoo specific steps, not all of which are immediately obvious. This page obviously draws heavily from the main OpenMoko_under_QEMU page and you should check that page for most of the details as it is more likely to be updated
The ultimate aim of this article is to get a good Gentoo process set out which can then be used as the basis for an ebuild. Ideally this would incorporate the Neo1973 qemu files into the normal Gentoo qemu build.[edit]Using Manual Setup
Fetch the source from Subversion as described in the main article. Before performing the configure step we need to emerge a few dependencies.emerge -va libsdl lynx netpbm
(more dependencies to be added here)
Unfortunately qemu won't compile with gcc4.x so we need to temporarily switch to a gcc3.4 compiler. You can check the available gcc installs by using gcc-config -l. If the output lists a valid gcc3.4 compiler then you can skip the next install, but most people will probably see output similar to this:# gcc-config -l
[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 *
If you don't have an entry in the list for gcc3.4 then you'll have to emerge the compiler using:# emerge -va =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r2
# gcc-config -l
[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6
[2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened
[3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie
[4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp
[5] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednossp
[6] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 *
Once you've got a valid install of gcc3.4 activate it with the following:# gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6
# source /etc/profile
Your system will now be using the gcc 3.4.6 compiler. Its probably best if you don't emerge anything else until you're done compiling qemu and can set it back.
Now continue with the ./configure and make sections from the main article, then reset your system to the previous gcc compiler using the gcc-config command again.# ./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu # GCC 3.x will be required, see --cc=
# make
# gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2
# source /etc/profile
Once you've completed the rest of the instructions set out in the main article you should have a qemu Neo1973 emulator which you can run with something similar to: arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M neo -m 130 -mtdblock openmoko/openmoko-flash.image -kernel openmoko/openmoko-kernel.bin -usb -show-cursor -snapshot -usbdevice keyboard


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We used to be happy with words and pictures. Now we have to add lots of noise and moving pictures to our WordPress blogs.
The visual and audible web is here today, and videos, podcasts, music, and all types of multimedia are flooding the Internet bands. Bloggers are leading the way by hosting and showcasing video and audio files on their blogs in as many ways as there are tunes.
Multimedia files can be stored and hosted on your blog or off your blog on an audio/music and/or video hosted service site. Some WordPress Plugins are designed to work with only self-hosted files, others with only off-site hosted files. Then there are a few Plugins which will handle both.
The process of adding video, music, audio, podcasts, and other multimedia files to your WordPress blog can be simple or complex, depending upon what you want the end results to be. I've included a list of technical resources and articles to help you learn more about podcasting, video and adding multimedia to your WordPress blog at the end of this article.
There are good, do-it-all multimedia WordPress Plugins and there are very narrow, do-one-thing Plugins. Choosing the right one for you is up to you and your media needs. I will not recommend one over another as a favorite since my needs are different from yours. These are free, so try them until you find one you like and use that.
Note: As with all trendy and fad Plugins, many of these Plugins will be here today, gone tomorrow, as the author changes focus and stops supporting the Plugin. Some off-site hosted multimedia sites may close and go out of business, leaving you stuck, unable to access your files and hosting dead links on your blog. Things like this change rapidly, so thoroughly test and research your options before you seriously invest a lot of time and energy into one Plugin. And if your multimedia files are important to you, keep backups on your computer, just in case.
Multimedia WordPress Plugins
I've classified WordPress Plugins which handle all types of media as Multimedia WordPress Plugins. They will handle audio, video, podcasts, and just about every format you can throw at them.
Cool Player WordPress Plugin supports all types of multimedia files including video, audio, podcast, and hosted services like YouTube, iFilm, vSocial YoQoo, MetaCafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, and more. It supports the Rich Text Editor and HTML editor with a button for easy embedding of on-site and off-site files. It is configurable and features a lot of great options.
Anarchy Media Player WordPress Plugin also offers a wide range of self-hosted and off-site hosted video and music formats including QuickTime, Flash, and Windows Media. More than a dozen different off-site hosted video services are supported, and dozens of different file types. It also hosts music files, including iTunes.
wordTube WordPress Plugin, also called a "WordPress Media Center", is a WordPress Plugin that helps you showcase streaming video formats (FLV and SWF), audio files (MP3), graphics (GIF, PNG, JPG), and a variety of other video and audio formats from your blog.
Have you found other Multimedia WordPress Plugins which handle audio and video with ease in a wide variety of formats?
Adding Video to WordPress
The following WordPress Plugins handle video specifically. There are many different types of video formats and ways of presenting your videos. Below, I've featured video WordPress Plugins for do-it-all video sources, self-hosted videos, off-site hosted videos, video galleries, and Flash video players. This is just the tip of the video iceberg, so suggestions and recommendations are welcome in the comments below.
There are many different types of video WordPress Plugins and video player WordPress Plugins available which focus on self-hosted or off-site hosted videos, but I only found a few that will do both, and most of those are listed above in the Multimedia WordPress Plugins list.
Viper's Video Quicktags WordPress Plugin adds quicktag buttons to your Write Post editor allowing for fast linking to off-site and on-site video files.
EmbedTheVideo WordPress Plugin and Extreme Video Plugin will allow embedding of a wide variety of video formats including on-site and off-site hosted video files, along with a lot of customization.
vPIP WordPress Plugin dynamically embeds a video after the viewer clicks on the video link. The link can be a text or image. The idea behind this multimedia player is that the page loads quickly as the embedded video loads after the link is clicked. It works with QuickTime, Windows Media, and Flash. If you host large video files, this might be an alternative to waiting for long page loads.
An interesting twist on adding video to your blog is enabling your readers to respond back with audio and video. ITP Research offers the Video Comments WordPress Plugin which allows comments to be made on your video as people are watching it. A popup window displays the video and commenting area. As a video is watched, comments associated with it are shown. Comments can be made at any time in the video.
The concept behind the comments is not so much that people can leave comments anywhere they want, which is probably what will happen, but to have the comments act as a subtext to the video. This could be an interesting addition to your video blog.
Video Gallery WordPress Plugins
The following Video WordPress Plugins display a gallery of videos on a WordPress post or page. This is an easy way to create a visual gallery of different videos, especially if you host a lot of video tutorials or a video collection.
- TubePress Gallery WordPress Plugin
- Berri Youtube Gallery WordPress Plugin
- Daiko's Video Widget
- NextGEN Gallery WordPress Plugin
- Vodpod Videos Widget
- WP Gallery WordPress Plugin
- WP-Vidavee WordPress Plugin
- Daiko's YouTube Widget
Flash Video Plugins
The following list of video WordPress Plugins specialize in producing videos with Flash or Flash videos.
- WPvideo WordPress Plugin
- WP-FLV Flash Video Player Plugin
- WP-SWF WordPress Plugin
- Kimili Flash Embed
- Flash Video Player Plugin for WordPress
- Easy Inline SWF Plugin for WordPress
- SatayTube WordPress Plugin
Self-Hosted Video WordPress Plugins
A self-hosted video WordPress Plugin is one that only supports video files on your blog's server. To the best of my knowledge, they do not allow videos hosted off your blog like YouTube or Google Video. To use these, upload the video file to your blog's site and then link to the file with the options found in the Plugin.
Off-site Hosted Video WordPress Plugins
The hottest trend online today are videos hosted off your site on YouTube, Google Video, or one of more than a dozen different video hosting services, all vying for your business.
The following video WordPress Plugins are designed for the most part to only handle video files not hosted on your site, only videos hosted off-site on one of the many video hosting services. Some will host many different video hosting services, while others are limited to only one specific service.
WPVideo WordPress Plugin is considered by many to be the easiest Video Plugin to use for embedding video hosted off your blog. Once installed, just add the tag snippet with a link to any YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, or other hosted site video file into a post and the video automatically displays. Configuration includes display of additional data such as video title, duration, and a download link.
WordPress Video Plugin covers 14 different online video services for easy embedding of videos into your WordPress blog.
Google VideoSearch WordPress Widget embeds Google Video AJAX search into your WordPress sidebar to help your reader search for popular videos or specific video categories.
Other off-site hosted video WordPress Plugins include:
- YouTube WordPress Plugin With Technorati Tags
- Your Youtube Favorite Videos WordPress Plugin
- Video Blogger Plugin for WordPress, aka Vlogger, aka Vlog Plugin
- EasyTube
- Gecko Tube WordPress Plugin
- Smart YouTube Plugin
- TubePress WordPress Plugin
- VideoWarrior WordPress Plugin
- Youtube Brackets WordPress Plugin
- Daiko's Video Widget
- Revver WordPress Plugin
- Link.de – Videopop WordPress Plugin
- Youtube and Google WordPress Plugin
Adding Podcasts, Music, and Audio to WordPress
By default, you can easily add podcasting files into WordPress without any WordPress Plugins. Instructions are on the WordPress Codex Podcasting Guide. The article includes information on how to setup a specific podcast category and feed for your podcasts.
However, many people like the ease of including podcasts and audio files via WordPress Plugins. These Plugins also help you include podcasts, music, and other audio files through off-site audio services such as iTunes.
One of the most popular podcasting WordPress Plugins is podPress WordPress Plugin. It features integration with iTunes, preview of your podcast on iTunes, download stats, feed generation, viewing MP3 ID3 tags, control over player look and placement, support for a wide range of formats including video podcasting, podcast categories, and audio comments.
Taragana's Del.icio.us mp3 Player WordPress Plugin plays any MP3 files or links on your WordPress blog posts and offers a tagging option for visitors to tag and post the MP3 to del.icio.us. It is very lightweight and creates a small player icon and link on your post.
There are also a variety of WordPress Plugins which bring radio to your blog. For example, WP [radio.wazee] WordPress Plugin broadcasts the popular Internet Alternative Rock Radio Station. While not exactly radio, Tornadostream allows users to choose from a wide range of music from their playlists and host them on your blog, turning your WordPress blog into a "radio station". Audio Player WordPress Plugin will also allow you to sequence a series of music files to play like a radio station.
Other audio and audio player WordPress Plugins include:
- Audio Player WordPress Plugin
- WP-iPodCatter WordPress Plugin
- WP Automatic Music Player 3.0
- WordPress XSPF Player Plugin
- WP Audioscrobbler WordPress Plugin (last.fm)
- SHOUTcast Sidebar WordPress Widget
Technical Support and Guides for Multimedia Files in WordPress
The following articles are resources and guides to help you learn more about including multimedia files in your WordPress blog including video, audio, podcasts, multimedia feeds, music, and so much more. Some of these articles offer tips on the equipment and software to use to produce your own video, music, and podcasting files, as well as how to publish them and create feeds to promote them.
- Podcasting Underground
- How to Podcast Tutorial
- Jason's Podcasting Tips Blog
- Informit.com – Publish a Video Podcast with WordPress (print version)
- Matthias Zeller – Challenges with embedding YouTube video into WordPress Blog
- Caddickisms – Making MP3s playable on a website, the easy way (the manual method)
- PC Mag – The Perfect Editing Station (video) – (print version)
- SoloStream – Set up a Video Blog (or How to Add Flash Video to Your WordPress Site)
- Combining WordPress and AutoViewer with a Flash Intro Page
- Podcast Your Audio Content From Your Journal
- Wikipedia on Podcasting
- iPodder on Podcasting
- Podcast Feedcheck Tool
- ChrisJDavis Podcasting with WordPress
- Podcasters Wiki
Get Yourself Released
If you are going to be offering a lot of videos, podcasts, and recordings of people and their property, you will need to get a release that authorizes you to use and publish their likeness and property without incrimination or harm. The Podcast Release WordPress Plugin was developed by MWGBlog which hosts a lot of interview media. The release form is easy to use and hosted on a page on your site for your "models" to sign off on quickly and easily. Make sure you are protected with this easy-to-use form.
What Video and Audio WordPress Plugins Do You Recommend?
As I mentioned, this list is barely the tip of the multimedia iceberg. As I wrote this, I discovered two new Plugins for this category had been released. It is a fast moving and ever-changing industry so keep an eye out for newer and better multimedia WordPress Plugins, and also for the oldies but goodies to update their WordPress Plugins to work with the new technology.
So what are you using to offer video, music, audio, and podcasts to your blogging audience? Any favorites you recommend? How are you using them, and what would you like to see in future versions?
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Tibet Kham 2006 Windows & Doors
Windows and doors found during our visit in July and August 2006 to the area of Eastern Tibet known as Kham. More pictures of our travels in Kham are available in other galleries. All photos are Copyright 2007 Larry Lenon All Rights Reserved. Watermarks will not appear on prints or downloads ordered through SmugMug. Questions ? Comments ? Email me!Read More


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Angie's half-up hairstyle looked serene and elegant at the 2013 ELLE Women in Television Celebration.
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Angie Kielt went for the season's bright lip color of choice — a tangy orange.
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The creators of blue oceans, in sharp contrast to companies playing by traditional rules, never use the competition as a benchmark. Instead they make it irrelevant by creating a leap in value for both buyers and the company itself.
Companies don't have to venture into distant waters to create blue oceans.Most blue oceans are created from within, not beyond, the red oceans of existing industries.
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One Mo for the road at All-Star game
NEW YORK — He stood alone, atop the mound, atop a city, atop his profession.
NEW YORK — He stood alone, atop the mound, atop a city, atop his profession.
The fans gave him a standing ovation. So did the players, on both teams, from the top step of each dugout. Mariano Rivera touched his cap to his heart, waved it at the fans, nearly broke down in tears.
"It was amazing," Rivera said. "It was a scene I will never forget."
It was his last All-Star act in a game that will never forget him — well, except for the three outs he coolly recorded as soon as everyone sat down. In the last All-Star game of his Cooperstown career, the best closer in baseball history worked a perfect eighth inning — yes, eighth inning — as the American League beat the National League, 3-0.
The victory ended a three-game National League winning streak and delivered World Series home-field advantage to the American League for the first time since 2009.
Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers doubled and scored the game's first run, Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles doubled and scored the second run, and Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians doubled home the third run.
That set an early stage for Rivera, the New York Yankees closer. In batting practice, AL manager Jim Leyland told Rivera he would work the ninth inning if the AL had a big lead and the eighth inning otherwise. In an NL park — and in New York — Leyland would not risk holding Rivera for a bottom of the ninth inning that might not be played.
"I wanted to make sure I got out of here alive," Leyland said.
So, with the AL leading by a not entirely comfortable margin of 3-0, Leyland gave Rivera the eighth inning. However, in the middle of the eighth, Neil Diamond strode onto the field for a live performance of his Fenway Park staple, "Sweet Caroline."
For presumably the first and last time in his distinguished career, Rivera had to wait to make his entrance because Diamond was hogging the field.
Rivera cooled his heels in the bullpen. The players cooled their heels in the dugouts. Then, in one of the most jarring musical transitions in human history, Diamond gave way to Metallica.
"Enter Sandman," the trademark Rivera entrance song, blared ominously from the speakers. Rivera jogged toward the mound, all by himself.
None of the AL players took the field until Rivera, serenaded by the crowd, climbed the mound and bathed in applause.
The players wanted it that way. They talked about it in the dugout, with Leyland. This was not an orchestrated plan. It was more of a spontaneous reaction to let Rivera have his moment, all by himself.
To the veteran players, the moment echoed Cal Ripken Jr.'s final All-Star game, in 2001. Ripken had moved to third base for the final years of his career, but Alex Rodriguez famously excused himself from shortstop so Ripken could make a final All-Star appearance at the position that made him famous.
"We're looking at greatness," Torii Hunter said. "We can tell our grandkids, 'I was in the All-Star game with that guy.'
"Cal Ripken was one of those guys. Mariano is one of those guys."
Ripken was regal, and a bit aloof. Rivera gave the AL team a pregame pep talk in which he thanked his teammates for the honor and privilege of playing with them.
Mike Trout, who at 21 is less than half Rivera's age, already has a ball signed by Rivera. The Los Angeles Angels play the Yankees in New York next month, and Trout plans to ask Rivera for a signed jersey.
Trout does not even have kids, and yet he already is thinking ahead to telling them how he played with the great Rivera.


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The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a small program Microsoft pushes out to computers on Patch Tuesday to clean out a list of malware. On this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft added scans for a malware file that masks itself as security software, and it found plenty of copies.
Win32/FakeSecSen has gone by various names, including Micro Antivirus 2009, MS Antivirus, Spyware Preventer, Vista Antivirus 2008, Advanced Antivirus, System Antivirus 2008, Ultimate Antivirus 2008, Windows Antivirus, XPert Antivirus, Power Antivirus, and Ultra Antivirus 2009. Furthermore, it is skinnable, so each of these variants has a different GUI, although the basic functionality is the same: bother users with warnings of malware until they pay up.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently released some data on how the removal tool performed this month: FakeSecSen was removed from 994,061 machines. That number isn't the highest Microsoft has recorded before, and the number of removals depends on which malware Microsoft adds each month and how widespread it is.
The company did note, however, that for every one thousand machines in the US scanned by MSRT during the last seven days, roughly five were infected with FakeSecSen rogues. That's quite high for just one piece of malware, but things could have been much worse, according to Microsoft:
Normally each FakeSecSen installation contains one EXE, one or two DAT files, one Control Panel applet (CPL), one desktop shortcut and sometimes one uninstaller. It is interesting that only 20 percent of these removals contain executables of FakeSecSen. This indicates either the other 80 percent had at one point been infected by FakeSecSen and the threat was then manually and partially removed, or the machines were cleaned by other AV products/tools, or FakeSecSen had failed to install, etc.
Once Microsoft gets into the game of free real-time antivirus solutions, it will be worth watching how infection rates fare, instead of just taking note of cleanup numbers each month.
Further reading:
- Microsoft Malware Protection Center: MSRT Review on Win32/FakeSecSen Rogues


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September 6th, 2012
My Take: When it comes to 'God' in our political platforms, less is more
Editor's Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor.
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN
I first heard that God had gone missing from the Democratic Party platform from a Facebook friend who rejoiced in a godless platform as a triumph for the First Amendment and the separation of church and state.
I was surprised, however, because since the loss of John Kerry to George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential race, Democrats have gotten religion.
President Obama used the word God five times in his inaugural address. And according to my search of the database of The American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he has used it thousands of times more during his presidency.
In remarks at annual National Prayer Breakfasts, Obama called us "children of God" in 2009, spoke of "God's grace" in 2010, quoted from the Book of Job on "God's voice" in 2011 and invoked "God's command to 'love thy neighbor as thyself'" in 2012.
The president also invoked the almighty in more prosaic settings, including fundraisers and television interviews and remarks to Super Bowl champions.
This April he used a weekly radio address to talk about Passover and Easter—"the story of the Exodus" and ""the all-important gift of grace through the resurrection of his son."
And in dozens of speeches over the last two years Obama has spoken of our "God-given potential."
That is the formulation that found its way back into this year's Democratic Party platform, after "God" had gone missing in a prior draft.
None of this should really matter, of course. There isn't any straight line from an affirmation of our "God-given potential" to any particular federal law. But it does matter because we continue as a nation to wage a culture war that goes back to the late 1970s.
That was when Republicans decided to start hammering away at their Democratic opponents on so-called "values" questions and in the process turned U.S. politics into a decades-long referendum on the libertinism of the 1960s.
Foolishly, the Democrats responded as my Facebook friend did, by invoking Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state. But being the anti-God party in a nation in which 95% or so believe in God proved to be a losing strategy. So the Democrats reversed course in 2004.
For better or for worse, we now have two religious parties in the United States. The Constitution may be godless, but both parties are hell-bent on presenting themselves as godly.
Is this a good thing? If you believe, as George Washington wrote in his Farewell Address, that "religion and morality" are "these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens," then perhaps it is.
But do we really want "God" to serve as a "prop" of our politics? Apparently, the answer of both parties to that question is yes.
The decision of Democratic Party delegates to reinsert God into their party's platform was clearly motivated by political calculations rather than theological acumen. But are the decisions of the Republican Party any different?
Are the repeated references to "providence" and "God" in its platform proof that its policies are more godly?
In its discussion of the Second Amendment, the GOP platform informs us that our citizens' "God-given right of self-defense" extends not only to gun ownership but also "the right to obtain and store ammunition without registration." Really? Is bearing a semi-automatic weapon really the answer to "What would Jesus do?"
Is the fact that the GOP platform refers to "God" twelve times rather than one supposed to prove that Republicans are 12 times more godly?
As a matter of tradition, Americans have always mixed church and state, but they have almost always tried to do so in ways that were respectful of adherents of minority religions and of citizens without any religion at all. So what our two religious parties are doing today runs in the American grain.
Still, I can't help but feel that the now-obligatory references to God in virtually every presidential speech and every party proclamation are more about pridefully asserting one's godliness than humbly asserting one's faith.
In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus told his followers not to pray, as the hypocrites do, on the street corners, so they might be seen and admired, but to pray instead in their closets, in secret, with the doors shut.
Today I'd like a little more of that sort of religion, please, and a little less of the street corner hucksterism of the Democrats and Republicans alike.
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By: Ayatullah Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari
There is no doubt that belief in the preceding Prophets is one of the pillars of the Islamic creed. The long line of Prophets who succeeded each other throughout history with the single goal of teaching the human being monotheism may be compared to a chain in which the final and most sublime link was the Most Noble Prophet of Islam.
If the Quran insists on the exalted position that God's messengers occupy in the history of revelation and calls on the Muslims to believe in the heavenly books that they brought, it is in order to confirm the truth and veracity of religion and to demonstrate that human beings must at all times turn to pure, authentic religions that derive from revelation, the religious guidance of humanity being entrusted by God in every age to a particular Prophet.
If we see any variation in the procedures and programs followed by the various Prophets, it is to be explained in terms of the swift changes that take place in human development and the passage of the human being from one stage to the next. For all the Prophets were, without distinction, true guides of humanity to the goals set by God; they preached a single doctrine deriving from a single source, advancing it in accordance with the dictates and circumstances of their time. The Quran says: "We make no distinction among any of the Prophets."(2:135)
The sending of the Prophets formed part of the plan of creation from the very beginning, and the chain of the Messengers represented the gradual unfolding of Divine guidance. Just as the human being advanced in the general conduct of his life, so, too, the mission of the Prophets moved forward, in harmony with the progress of the human being, and the Prophets accordingly foretold the appearance of the Prophets who would succeed them.
The Prophet of Islam confirmed the messengerhood of previous Prophets and the heavenly books they had brought, just as they had confirmed the Prophets who had preceded them. Those earlier Prophets had also proclaimed that others would follow them, so that the very leaders of religion clearly proclaimed the interconnectedness of all true religion.
Although the fact that the appearance of a Prophet has been foretold cannot serve in itself as proof for the veracity of a person's claim to prophethood, it does serve to indicate what might be the nature of a true Prophet and what qualities might be observed in him.
Were a name to be specified when predicting the emergence of a Prophet, this would, of course, be open to misuse, since naming is a conventional matter and anyone could adopt the name in question.
Similarly, to specify the exact moment when the Prophet was to appear would have facilitated the task of false claimants by giving them the opportunity to prepare themselves for making their fateful and monstrous claim. Furthermore, this might have led to a profusion of claims, which would then have induced confusion in the minds of people.
It may not be difficult for people with the ability to examine matters carefully and realistically to tell the difference between a true Messenger of God and false and erroneous claimants. But at the same time, it should not be forgotten that recognizing the truth, particularly in circumstances where it is mixed with falsehood, is not easy for those many people whose level of thought and awareness is not especially high. Many are those who fall into traps laid by the ambitions of the wicked.
It is for these reasons that the characteristics of a future Prophet are spelled out, these being the distinctive signs by which he may be recognized. Then those scholars on whom others depend for guidance in this matter can measure the claimant to prophethood against the characteristics that have been mentioned, devoting themselves to the task in utter purity and sincerity.
Christianity never advanced the claim that the religion of Jesus would be permanent and eternal or that Jesus was the Seal of the Prophets and a guarantor of the textual integrity of the Gospels.
Other religions also did not make analogous claims for themselves.
Islam does, however, speak of being the last and most perfect of all religions and of its Messenger being the Seal of the Prophets.
It therefore follows that the heavenly book of Islam must always be protected from corruption and distortion.
The fundamental difference between the sacred books of Christianity and Islam is that Christianity lacks a revealed text that was fixed at the very time of its origins, whereas Islam possesses one.
The Gospels which we now have at our disposal have been extensively criticized by scholars and researchers who have examined different copies of the Gospels and have reached the conclusion that the New Testament has undergone many changes. There are many indications that the text of the Gospels has been codified to a considerable extent, to conform to personal beliefs and opinions.
John Nass, a historian of religions, writes as follows: "The history of Christianity is the story of a religion that arose from a belief in Divine incarnation having taken place in the person of its founder. All the teachings of Christianity revolve around the conviction that the person of Jesus represents the clearest manifestation of the Divine essence. But this religion that started out with a belief in Divine incarnation was transformed through a series of developments and took on a human dimension so that all the weaknesses and imperfections of the human condition began to appear in it.
"The story of religion is extremely long, including many ups and downs and moments of both glory and shame; it is these contrasts that give it meaning and significance. In none of the world's religions have such exalted spiritual aims been manifest as in Christianity; but equally in none of them has the failure to reach those aims been so marked."
Despite the textual corruption to which the Gospels have been subject, there are indications that the expressions "Spirit of Truth," "Holy Ghost" and "Comforter' which they contain may refer to the Prophet of Islam.
The Gospels record that Jesus addressed his disciples as follows: "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.[52] But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me."[53] "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteousness because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now. How be it, when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you."[54] "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."[55]
If we say that the Comforter is identical with the Holy Ghost, we know that the Holy Ghost constantly accompanied Jesus and it would therefore not have been correct for him to say: "He will not come to you until I go."
When the Prophet Jesus says, "The prince of the world cometh" and that he will guide mankind, he is in effect accepting the religion to be brought by that person as the most perfect of all religions. Can the description of him given by Jesus fit anyone other than Muhammad, upon whom be peace and blessings?
When Jesus says, "He shall testify of me," and "he shall glorify me," did anyone other than the Prophet of Islam revere and honor Jesus or defend the innocence of Mary against the unworthy accusations made by the Jews?
Was it the Holy Ghost that did these things, or the Prophet of Islam? In addition to the fact that these verses clearly bear witness that the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of truth, cannot be anyone other than the Prophet of Islam, we also encounter the world "Paraclete" in some of the Gospels, the meaning of which is identical with that of the named Muhammad and Ahmad. Translators of the Gospels however have taken the work perikletos, a proper name in Greek equivalent in its meaning to Ahmad, to be parakletos, translating this as "Comforter."
Dr. Bucaille has a valuable discussion of this subject in the Chapter called "Jesus's Last Dialogues. The Paraclete of John's Gospel." "John is the only evangelist to report the episode of the last dialogue with the Apostles. It takes place at the end of the Last Supper and before Jesus's arrest. It ends in a very long speech: four chapters in John's Gospel (14 to 17) are devoted to this narration which is not mentioned anywhere in the other Gospels. These chapters of John nevertheless deal with questions of prime importance and fundamental significance to the future outlook. They are set out with all the grandeur and solemnity that characterizes the farewell scene between the Master and His disciples.
"This very touching farewell scene which contains Jesus's spiritual testament is entirely absent from Matthew, Mark and Luke. How can the absence of this description be explained? One might ask the following: did the text initially exist in the first three Gospels? Was it subsequently suppressed? Why? It must be state immediately that no answer can be found; the mystery surrounding this huge gap in the narrations of the first three evangelists remains as obscure as ever.
"The dominating feature of this narration - seen in the crowning speech - is the view of man's future that Jesus describes, His care in addressing His disciples and through them the whole of humanity, His recommendations and commandments and His concern to specify the guide whom man must follow after His departure. The text of John's Gospel is the only one to designate him as parakletos in Greek which in English has become Paraclete.
The following are the essential passages: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete." (14, 15-16)
"What does 'Paraclete' mean? The present text of John's Gospel explains its meaning as follow: "But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." (14, 26).
"...he will bear witness to me..." (15, 26)
"It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
And when he comes, he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment..." (16, 74)
"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me..." (16,13-14).
"(It must be noted that the passages in John, chapters 14-17, which have not been cited here, in no way alter the general meaning of these quotations).
On a cursory reading, the text which identifies the Greek work 'Paraclete' with the Holy Spirit is unlikely to attract much attention.
This is especially true when the subtitles of the text are generally used for translations and the terminology commentators employ in works for mass publication direct the reader towards the meaning in these passages that an exemplary orthodoxy would like them to have. Should one have the slightest difficulty in comprehension, there are many explanations available such as those given by A. Tricot in his Little Dictionary of the New Testament (Petit Dictionnaire du Nouveau Testament) to enlighten one on this subject. In his entry on the Paraclete this commentator writes the following: " 'This name or title translated from the Greek is only used in the New Testament by John: he uses it four times in his account of Jesus's speech after the Last Supper 56 (14, 16 and 26; 15, 26; 16, 7) and once in his First Letter (2, 1). In John's Gospel the word is applied to the Holy Spirit; in the Letter it refers to Christ. "Paraclete" was a term in current usage among the Hellenist Jews, First century AD, meaning "intercessor," "defender" (...) Jesus predicts that the Spirit will be sent by the Father and Son. Its mission will be to take the place of the Son in the role he played during his mortal life as a helper for the benefit of his disciplines. The Spirit will intervene and act as a substitute for Christ, adopting the role of Paraclete or omnipotent intercessor.'
"This commentary therefore makes the Holy Spirit into the ultimate guide of man after Jesus's departure. How does it square with John's text?
"It is a necessary question because a priori it seems strange to ascribe the last paragraph quoted above to the Holy Spirit: 'for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.' It seems inconceivable that one could ascribe to the Holy Spirit the ability to speak and declare whatever he hears...Logic demands that this question be raised, but to my knowledge, it is not usually the subject of commentaries.
"To gain an exact idea of the problem, one has to go back to the basic Greek text. This is especially important because John is universally recognized to have written in Greek instead of another language. The Greek text consulted was the Norum Testamentum Graece.[57]
"Any serious textual criticism begins with a search for variations. Here it would seem that in all the known manuscripts of John's Gospel, the only variation likely to change the meaning of the sentence is in passage 14, 26 of the famous Palimpsest version written in Syriac.[58] Here it is not the Holy Spirit that is mentioned, but quite simply the Spirit. Did the scribe merely miss out a word or, knowing full well that the text he was to copy claimed to make the Holy Spirit hear and speak, did he perhaps lack the audacity to write something that seemed absurd to him? Apart from this observation there is little need to labor the other variations, they are grammatical and do not change the general meaning. The important thing is that what has been demonstrated here with regard to the exact meaning of the verbs 'to hear' and 'to speak' should apply to all the other manuscripts of John's Gospel, as is indeed the case.
The verb 'to speak' in the translation is the Greek verb 'laleo' which has the general meaning of 'to emit sounds' and the specific meaning of 'to speak'. This verb occurs very frequently in the Greek text of the Gospels. It designates a solemn declaration made by Jesus during His preachings. It therefore becomes clear that the communication to man which He here proclaims does not in any way consist of a statement inspired by the agency of the Holy Spirit.
It has a very obvious material character moreover, which comes from the idea of the emission of sounds conveyed by the Greek word that defines it.
"The two Greek verbs 'akouo' and 'laleo' therefore define concrete actions which can only be applied to a being with hearing and speech organs. It is consequently impossible to apply them to the Holy Spirit.
"For this reason, the text of this passage from John's Gospel, as handed down to us in Greek manuscripts, is quite incomprehensible if one takes it as a whole, including the words 'Holy Spirit' in passage 14, 26: "But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name" etc. It is the only passage in John's Gospel that identifies the Paraclete with the Holy Spirit.
"If the words 'Holy Spirit" (to pneuma to agton) are omitted from the passage, the complete text of John then conveys a meaning which is perfectly clear. It is confirmed moreover, by another text by the same evangelist, the First Letter, where John uses the same word 'Paraclete' simply to mean Jesus, the intercessor at God's side.59 According to John, when Jesus says (14, 16): 'And I pray the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete,' what He is saying is that 'another intercessor will be sent to man, as He Himself was at God's side on man's behalf during His earthly life.
"According to the rules of logic therefore, one is brought to see in John's Paraclete a human being like Jesus, possessing the faculties of hearing and speech formally implied in John's Greek text.
Jesus therefore predicts that God will later send a human being to Earth to take up the role defined by John, i.e. to be a prophet who hears God's word and repeats his message to man. This is the logical interpretation of John's texts arrived at if one attributes to the words their proper meaning.
"The presence of the term 'Holy Spirit' in today's text could easily have come from a later addition made quite deliberately. It may have been intended to change the original meaning which predicted the advent of a prophet subsequent to Jesus and was therefore in contradiction with the teachings of the Christian churches at the time of their formation; these teachings maintained that Jesus was the last of the prophets."[60]
The Grande Encyclopedie Francaise has the following to say in its entry on Muhammad, upon whom be blessings and peace: "Muhammad, the founder of the religion of Islam, the Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets. The word Muhammad means the one who is praised; it is derived from the root hamd, meaning laudation and veneration. By a remarkable coincidence, there is another name, derived from the same root as Muhammad and synonymous with it, Ahmad, which was very probably used by the Christians of Arabia as the equivalent of Paraclete. Ahmad, meaning much praised and revered, is the translation of the word perikletos which has been mistakenly rendered as parakletos. For this reason, Muslim religious writers have repeatedly remarked that this name refers to the future appearance of the Prophet of Islam. The Quran refers to this matter in a remarkable verse in Surah Saff."[61]
The verse referred to by the encyclopedia runs as follows: "When Jesus son of Mary said to the Children of Israel, 'I am God's Messenger sent unto you. I confirm the veracity of the Torah which is here in front of me and give you glad tidings that a Prophet will come after me whose name is Ahmad.' But when the Prophet came to the people with proofs and miracles, they said, 'This is clear magic.' "(61:6)
In another verse the Quran says the following: "Those Jews and Christians will enjoy God's mercy who follow the unlettered Prophet whose description they read in the Torah and the Gospels. He is a Prophet who summons them unto good and restrains them from evil, who makes the pure licit for them and the impure illicit, and releases them from the shackles of heavy and arduous obligations. So those who believe in him, revere him and aid him, and follow his clear and luminous guidance, are in truth on the path of salvation."(6:156)
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Still a lot to be thankful for in sports
The bad stuff is easy. You read about it almost every day; hear it discussed endlessly by the talking heads on radio and television.
But if sports is a microcosm of society -- and it is -- then there's a lot of good going on, too. And, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, here are some things to be thankful for this year that have nothing to do with wins and losses, the World Series or the Super Bowl:
A COACH'S FIGHT: Circumstances. That's what Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano called his health problems when he came in the locker room after a win against Miami a few weeks ago and addressed his team for the first time since unexpectedly being hospitalized just as his first season as head coach was beginning. The circumstances are that Pagano has leukemia, an insidious disease that's difficult to beat no matter how hard you fight. In an moving speech that you have to watch to fully appreciate, Pagano vowed to dance at the weddings of both his daughters and to host more than one Super Bowl trophy before he's done fighting. "It's already beat. It's already beat," Pagano told his team.
DRUG BUSTERS: It would have been easy for Travis Tygart and his investigators at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to simply give up on nailing Lance Armstrong. Federal prosecutors already had, and if they couldn't build a case against Armstrong, hard to imagine the doping agency doing any better. But Tygart pressed on, eventually building a case that tore apart the facade Armstrong had created, detailing a widespread and systematic doping scheme on a level not seen before in organized sports. Yes, he took down an American sports hero and damaged his charitable work, but Tygart also sent a message that a level playing field is important. Sports will be a cleaner and better place because of it.
BROOKLYN REBORN: No, the Dodgers aren't returning. Suddenly, though, Brooklyn is a sports town again, thanks to a new, $1 billion arena and a Russian billionaire who parked his basketball team there. The New York Islanders will also be moving there in 2015, assuming, of course, that the NHL lockout is resolved by then.
BRITISH INVASION: Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France, while Andy Murray became the first British man to claim a tennis major in 76 years when he won the U.S. Open. Perennial also-rans, the British had a spectacular sporting summer the country will never forget, including a London Olympics that surpassed expectations at every turn.
VIN SCULLY: He would be a national treasure, but the people of Los Angeles like to claim him as their own. For more than 60 years, Scully has broadcast the Dodgers, and his gift to the new Dodger owners was the announcement that he will come back for at least one more year at the age of 85, calling games as he always does, solo in the announcer's booth. In the interests of full disclosures, I was one of those kids in LA who went to sleep at night with a transistor radio underneath my pillow, growing up listening to Vinny.
RORY TIME: For years, golf fans waited for a rival to the great Tiger Woods, only to be disappointed by every David Duval who came along. Rory McIlroy is the anti-Tiger, an accessible and grounded superstar from the town of Holywood in Northern Ireland who hits the ball incredible distances, all with an inner joy that Woods will never have. McIlroy has his own reason to be thankful, with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki as his constant companion.
BOXING: Even if you don't like the sport, you have to love the stories. Johnathon Banks learned everything he knew about boxing from Emanuel Steward, so much so that when Steward died a few weeks ago, Banks took over as trainer of heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. He was in Klitschko's corner in Germany for his win over Mariusz Wach and then flew to Detroit for a memorial service for Steward. A few days later he was in Atlantic City, where he revived his own career with a shocking knockout win Saturday night over Seth Mitchell. That could put him in line for a title shot against, you guessed it, Klitschko, the man he trains. Only in boxing. "All I can think is how grateful I am for Emanuel Steward," Banks said.
LABOR PEACE: OK, the NHL is in lockout mode, and the prospect of another lost season is a gut check to hockey fans everywhere. But there will be no lost games in the NFL for much of the next decade, the NBA has a new long-term deal and the only thing owners and players in baseball are worried about is how many zeroes the new contracts have. And, of course, there are decent referees on the field again in the NFL, even if they do happen to swear at times.
CONCUSSIONS: Good things are happening in the fight against the once silent epidemic of concussions on sports. Brains are being analyzed, millions of dollars are being poured into research, and there's an awareness about the danger of hits to the head that could save lives everywhere from your child's soccer field to the stadiums of the NFL. Unfortunately, it's too late for thousands of former players who are paying for the blows to their head every day of their lives -- something the NFL refuses to own up to.
DEATH OF THE BCS: Our long national nightmare is almost over. The Bowl Championship Series is, for all intents and purposes, dead, killed off by a fan revolt at the age of 16. It will be replaced in 2014 by a four-team playoff that, while not perfect, will help legitimize the national championship game. Meanwhile, a possible Notre Dame against Alabama title game this season could be one of the biggest ever.
OPPORTUNITIES: Forty years ago this summer, Congress passed and President Richard Nixon signed into law a bill that changed sports forever. Title IX opened up opportunities for women to play sports that were once unimaginable, and it's a gift that will keep on giving for generations to come. When Title IX was enacted, fewer than 30,000 female students participated in sports in colleges and universities, a number that has now increased nearly six-fold. Some 3 million girls participate in high school athletics today, 10 times the number who played sports in 1972. Women may never make big breakthroughs in professional sports, but the resources now devoted to female sports means your daughters and granddaughters can dream of doing things in sports they could never do before.
SPORTS EXTRA: You pay for it more than you realize, every time the cable or satellite bill is due. The Yankees cost you money, and so do the Knicks. There are so many new sports networks popping up that each want their share of the pie that the bill will keep going up until customers finally revolt. What you once got for free now costs a lot, but what a bargain it really is. The variety of sports on television is astonishing, even more so to the generations that grew up before ESPN, when watching sports meant a few football games and Saturday's baseball game of the week -- and having to get up to turn the channel to watch it.
We're living in a world where the options for sports fans are greater than ever. We can watch basketball on the decks of aircraft carriers, hockey on the infield of old baseball parks, and the NFL from soccer stadiums in London. Instead of being parked in front of a TV we can feed our seemingly insatiable sports fix on laptops, tablets and even smartphones.
If that's not enough it's easier than ever to have a little something riding on the game, whether in form of a wager or a fantasy team payout.
Still there's nothing like a Saturday morning spent watching the kids play soccer or, at my house, a Thanksgiving Day street football game with relatives of all ages.
Even in an era of amazing technology, there's room at the local playground for a pickup game of hoops, and grass at the park to toss a baseball around.
So enjoy the turkey and the NFL on TV as well. Save room for the pumpkin pie, and yet another game to feast your eyes on.
There's a lot to be thankful for.


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