PFT: Umenyiora, Giants agree to restructure deal

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The Bills will be wearing a ?JW Danforth? logo on their practice jerseys under a deal that makes the company the team?s official HVAC and Plumbing supplier.? (Here?s hoping the company did its due diligence on the damage Marcell Dareus can do to a toilet.)

Jets K Nick Folk participated in a ?Dump the Dump? rally aimed at keeping a garbage facility out of his Upper East Side neighborhood.? (It?s unknown whether the City responded by saying, ?F?k the Folk.?)

Former Dolphins DE/LB Jason Taylor has joined ESPN.

Pats QB Tom Brady is happy that offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is back; ?It?s nice to have familiarity with Josh kind of stepping into that role,? Brady said. ?I really enjoy him. We?ve had a great working relationship for a very long time. It?s good to see him out there and work together. It?s been a fun spring.?

Bengals TE Colin Cochart has some advice for kids graduating from the high school he attended in Wisconsin; ?Two things that have got me to the place I am now are persistence and very hard work,? Cochart said. ?You never, ever want to quit.? You never want to not do enough.? If you think you are done studying, study some more.? If you think you are done working out, work out some more.?

Ravens LB Mike McAdoo, an undrafted free agent in 2011 who spent his rookie year on injured reserve, tore an Achilles tendon on Thursday and is out for the year.

From the ever-growing ?That?s What She Said? file, here?s Browns coach Pat Shurmur:? ?When the ball spins at you, what you see is the tip and so then you try to catch the tip.?

Former Steelers Jack Butler and Dermontti Dawson, members of the 2012 Hall of Fame class, are the featured guests for the Steelers 10th annual men?s fantasy camp.? (We?re trying to confirm whether Limas Sweed has registered as a participant.)

With Texans WR Andre Johnson injured (again), all but one of the team?s receivers have never played in an NFL? game.

With a maximum of 10 OTAs under the new CBA, Jags coach Mike Mularkey canceled the final session and took the team on a paintball excursion.? (LaRon Landry hopes they wore their cups.)

Titans RB Chris Johnson has added eight or nine pounds of muscle.

Colts owner Jim Irsay has a warning for anyone that may hurl insults at the team via Twitter:? ?We accept fair n constructive criticism here, but anyone chirping that chump-punk garage will b blocked quicker than a 135 pound Nose Tackle.?

The Broncos have made progress in recent days on a long-term deal with K Matt Prater.

The next court date for Raiders receiver DHB on his DUI charge is June 28.

Chiefs WR Jonathan Baldwin missed practice Friday with an illness; he was replaced in the starting lineup by veteran Terrance Copper.

With the Chargers? future in San Diego undecided, the field of candidates for the mayor who may decide their fate will be cut from four to two on Tuesday.

The Cowboys held an hour-long film session for the media this week; one reporter was chastised (jokingly) by defensive coordinator Rob Ryan for eating pizza during the meeting.? (The reporter should have said, ?What?? I?m just having a G.D. snack.?)

Redskins secondary coach Raheem Morris is already making a mark in Washington; ?I ain?t the loudest one on the defense no more,? CB DeAngelo Hall said.? ?Raheem probably is.? I just love his energy, his coaching style.?

Former Eagles RB and current assistant coach Duce Staley has high praise for LeSean McCoy; ?I see a guy that can be great,? Staley said.? ?I see a guy that has some things that he has to shine up, of course, has some things that he has to work on, but I see a player that can definitely be one of the great ones that played in the NFL.?

Yes, an entire page on the Giants? official website has been devoted to random Twitter reactions to the news that DE Osi Umenyiora has a new contract.

Could the Lions having 21 of 22 starters back be a bad thing?

A group of Packers fans wants to put a bronze plaque at Vince Lombardi?s grave.

Vikings LS Cullen Loeffler is developing a football-catching system that features metal in the ball and magnets in the gloves.? (In unrelated news, former Vikings WR Troy Williamson is contemplating a comeback.)

Should Bears RB Matt Forte face reality?

Though he?ll never leapfrog Cam Newton, Panthers QB Jimmy Clausen quietly is improving.

Saints season-ticket holders will get dibs on season tickets for the NBA?s New Orleans Hornets.

Bucs coach Greg Schiano celebrated his birthday by throwing out the first pitch on Friday night at the Tampa Bay Rays game ? and he sent the ball high over manager Joe Maddon?s head; ?I should?ve gotten up on the mound I guess, huh?? Schiano said. ?Too much strength. I?ve got to get out of the weight room.?

Come September, the Falcons may have some tough decisions to make at defensive end.

Could Skelton vs. Kolb in 2012 have the same impact on the Cardinals at Warner vs. Leinart in 2008?? (The Magic 8 Ball says, ?You?ve gotta be f?king kidding me.?)

The Rams and St. Louis will negotiate regarding potential upgrades to the Edward Jones Dome before submitting the issue to arbitration on June 15.? (We recommend against holding your breath.? Or any other involuntary bodily function.)

49ers WR Michael Crabtree is happy to be healthy, for a change; ?I?m just feeling good, man,? Crabtree said. ?It?s been a while. It just feels good not to have to go through so many warm-ups, putting on a bunch of wraps and [ointments] just to go out and play.?

Missing most of 2011 helped Seahawks CB Marcus Trufant realize how much he loves the game.

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Oprah Winfrey launches 'Oprah's Book Club 2.0'

FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Oprah Winfrey accepts her DVF Lifetime Leadership Award at The Third Annual DVF Awards held at the United Nations in New York. "Oprah's Book Club 2.0," a joint project of Winfrey's OWN network and her "O" magazine, begins Monday with Cheryl Strayed's popular memoir "Wild." Along with the traditional paper version of the book, special e-editions will be made available that include Winfrey's comments and a reader's guide. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Oprah Winfrey accepts her DVF Lifetime Leadership Award at The Third Annual DVF Awards held at the United Nations in New York. "Oprah's Book Club 2.0," a joint project of Winfrey's OWN network and her "O" magazine, begins Monday with Cheryl Strayed's popular memoir "Wild." Along with the traditional paper version of the book, special e-editions will be made available that include Winfrey's comments and a reader's guide. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

(AP) ? Oprah Winfrey is back in the book club business, updated for the digital age.

"Oprah's Book Club 2.0," a joint project of Winfrey's OWN network and her O magazine, begins Monday with the popular memoir "Wild," Cheryl Strayed's story of her 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in California and Washington. Besides the traditional paper version, featuring the circular Oprah book club logo, special e-editions will be made available that include Winfrey's comments and a reader's guide.

An interview with Strayed will air July 22 on OWN's "Super Soul Sunday" and on Oprah Radio. Readers will be able to share opinions through Facebook and Twitter and Winfrey's website, www.oprah.com.

"This is way different from the old book club," Winfrey said in an online video announcement, taped in her Chicago office and posted Friday on her website. "This time it's an interactive, online club for our digital world."

The new club will test whether Winfrey still has clout with the reading public, especially when her viewership is far smaller than years ago. Starting in the mid-1990s, Winfrey made hits out of dozens of books through her previous club, featured on her syndicated talk show. But sales had fallen by the time her show ended, in 2011. One of her last picks, a combined volume of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations," was in part a victim of the e-book market as many readers simply downloaded free, public-domain versions of the novels.

The initial response to Friday's announcement was slow compared to Winfrey's peak, when her choices topped best-seller charts within hours of her revealing them. As of Friday night, "Wild," had received a mild bump on Amazon.com's list, from No. 175 before Winfrey's pick to No. 97. "Wild" ranked No. 244 late Friday on the Kindle e-book charts.

"Wild" was published in March by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Inc.

Associated Press

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Supervolcanoes evolve superquickly

Huge underground magma chambers appear and erupt within just several hundred years

Web edition : Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

The biggest eruptions on Earth may happen faster than volcanologists had thought. Giant blobs of magma appear underground and then pour onto the surface within centuries, suggests a new study of a California supereruption.

If the work holds true for other volcanoes, it means the most powerful eruptions don?t have magma chambers beneath them for very long. So if big changes start happening, like the ground rising or new geysers spouting, volcanologists might expect an eruption sooner rather than later. Yellowstone, for one, experienced a supereruption about 2.1 million years ago.

?The fact that at Yellowstone there?s no giant magma body right now doesn?t mean that in hundreds to thousands of years we couldn?t have one,? says Guilherme Gualda, a geologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. ?By understanding these time scales better, we know better what to expect.?

Gualda and his colleagues report the discovery May 30 in PLoS ONE.

The researchers studied 760,000-year-old rocks from Long Valley in eastern California. These rocks, known as the Bishop Tuff, formed during one of the biggest eruptions known, which spread some 600 cubic kilometers of ash and other debris across the landscape. Earlier studies, which looked at crystals such as zircon, suggested that the Bishop magma had sat underground, chemically evolving and slowly crystallizing for more than 100,000 years before erupting.

Gualda?s team looked instead at crystals of quartz. Certain properties of the quartz ? such as how much the element titanium migrated within it and how glass pieces within it grew rounder over time ? can indicate how long ago the quartz solidified within the liquid magma. That process would begin almost as soon as the magma body appears, the researchers? calculations showed. Once quartz forms, gas pressure builds up and eventually forces the magma to erupt.

Quartz would have crystallized less than 10,000 years before the eruption ? and usually more like 50 to 3,000 years, the team reports. The other studies that used zircon, and found a much older age, may represent a longer-term history of volcanism across the entire region, Gualda says.

Research at other supervolcanoes has shown how quickly an eruption can happen once magma starts moving toward the surface (SN: 3/10/12, p. 12). ?What we?re finding is that it wasn?t there for very long to begin with,? says Gualda.

The discovery supports the idea that magma can accumulate rapidly before supereruptions, says Erik Klemetti, a geologist at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, who has found similar fast changes in zircon crystals from New Zealand eruptions. Still, he says, ?this study really doesn?t address a key question ? just how do these large magma bodies initially form??

For now, Gualda is leaving that challenge to others. He is working to apply the new finding to other supervolcanoes to see whether they play by the same rules as Long Valley.


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Laguna Creek High School takes home top awards at 2012 SMUD Northern California Solar Regatta

Students in Laguna Creek High School?s Green Energy Technology Academy (GETA) took home three of the top awards at the 2012 SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utilities Agency) Northern California Solar Regatta on Friday, May 18 at Rancho Seco Lake.

Laguna Creek entered two teams in the competition, the ?junior? team and the ?senior? team.? The ?junior? team won the slalom and speed races.? By finishing first in these races, the ?junior? team amassed the highest point total for the day and took home the Regatta Cup.? The award-winning ?junior? team consisted of the following students: Molly Kelly, Santana Marin, Andy Panuschka and Kerstin Wallinger.?

The SMUD Northern California Solar Regatta is a water race that invites teams of students in grades 7-12 to design, build and compete with solar-powered boats.? Each student team is mentored by an educator or other school administrator.? During the school year, students were loaned solar modules to design and build the boats.? On race day, students competed in sprint, distance and slalom races.? Students also received awards for creativity, design and efficiency of their boats.

?I am extremely proud of our students? accomplishments at this event,? said Eric Johnson, a science teacher at Laguna Creek and co-coordinator for GETA.? ?With the help of Gerhard Panuschka, a parent of one of our students, both teams spent countless hours constructing, sanding, finishing and testing the boat.? They also learned a great deal in regards to the design and integration of the boat?s power management system.? The students are already planning for next year?s event and we hope that more teams step up to the challenge next year.?

The GETA Academy is designed for students interested in green energy. GETA?students explore the concepts of energy extraction, conversion and transmission processes through complex, hands-on, project-based work. Depending on their post secondary plans,?students who graduate from the Green Energy Technology Academy will be prepared to enter two or four institutions of study, a technical training program or go directly to work in the Energy Sector.

The 2012 Northern California Solar Regatta was sponsored by SMUD and the San Joaquin Office of Education.? Click here for more information about the SMUD Solar Regatta.

Source: Elk Grove Unfiied School District

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PHILIPPINES: Proudly ?Pinoy? Views on Attachment Parenting ...

Photo of the author and her then 5-month old son

I won?t go into the old news that is Time?s controversial ?mom enough? mid-May issue. We all know they sold enough copies on that matter.

Instead, I wanted to share some views on attachment parenting and breastfeeding expressed by fellow Filipino moms.

To begin, let me say that I am a babywearing,?formerly nursing mom (my son recently weaned?after being breastfed for two years and six months). In fact, here?s a photo of me a year and a half ago, when my son was just five months old.

Here in the Philippines, we are not new to the concept of babywearing and breastfeeding.

Velvet?Escario?Roxas, a breastfeeding counselor and representative of Arugaan (ah-roo-ga-an), a non-governmental, WHO-funded organization that conducts breastfeeding training for the Philippine Department of Health, gave a good picture of this when she posted a recent ?Facebook status update on the fan page of the popular breastfeeding blog, Chronicles of a Nursing Mom:

?Our Pinoy [colloquialism for "Filipino] ancestors have been doing these things since the beginning of time. We call it the Filipino way of living or raising of children. They on the other hand modernized it and called it attachment parenting. Look at the indigenous folks of the mountain provinces.

Photo courtesy of Francisco Guerrero Photography, from The Painters? Wife blog.

They breastfeed their children to 7 years, co-sleep with their kids, use the baby slings (to feed, to protect the children from rice field snakes/rats etc). I have so much respect for our ancestors ? of their wisdom and knowledge and most especially on the care for infants/children.?

I try to be a good mom. I decided to become a work-at-home mom not because I believe that every mom should work from home so that she can care for her kid, but because?for me, this is what works.?I do not discount those women who choose to hold full-time jobs outside the home; in fact, I admire them for being able to do what I myself was not able to to effectively. I breastfed for a total of two years and six months, which I am?hugely?proud of. I know of other women who?ve worked full-time and have managed to raise happy, healthy and whole kids. ?The point is: We, as parents, will instinctively desire to be the best parents that we can be for our children.?Neva Santos of the popular parenting blog, Manila Mommy, summarizes this very well:

The [attachment parenting] style is instinctive. Not to trivialize how hard parenting is, but sometimes listening to your gut is the best, right? Follow your intuition, I say. But even with the emphasis on [attachment parenting] in discussions as a result of the Time cover, it also got people talking on other parenting styles and the only conclusion to all that talk is that?there is no one type that works for parents and children. Heck for different kids in the same family, different styles could? work.

Indeed. In the end, the only parenting ?style? that works is one that is grounded on love. Parents work hard to be the best providers, caregivers and educators they can for their kids. The end result ? the so called ?success? of one?s parenting ? is relative. ?Fellow blogger, breastfeeding, babywearing and attachment parenting advocate?(and also a friend), Eliza Santiago-Ypon of The Painters? Wife, was interviewed by a local broadsheet regarding her views on this matter, and she does a great job of encapsulating the fact that breastfeeding, in particular, is not the measure of success of a healthy family:

?No one should be made to feel they?re less if they don?t breastfeed. As a breastfeeding advocate, I will always try to promote breastfeeding and its benefits to anyone I meet, but at the end of the day, we?re all just trying to be good parents. I?ve met some who express regret and guilt that they didn?t breastfeed but have learned to move past it. They have great, healthy children. No one should make them feel they didn?t do the best they could.?

I don?t have much to add to what these ladies have said. ?I just wanted to say that, as moms, we?re not competing for a medal or honor or accolade.?We?re all part of one, big, global community, and we look out for our families based on what works for our families. The choices that make up my definition of parenting are what?work for me ? and that?s fine. I?m not a 100 percent attachment parenting practitioner, and I don?t intend to be, but this doesn?t make me any less of a successful mom.?Ultimately, I am beholden to my child for one thing only, and that is to love him wholly, unconditionally.

Whether people agree with my version of parenting or not, is fine. Just don?t ask me if I am ?mom enough?? because I will tell you?I am not just enough, I?m the only mom who can love my kid the way I can.

This is an original World Moms Blog post by Martine de Luna in Manila, Philippines. ?Martine blogs over at?Dainty Mom, and can be found daily on Twitter?@Dainty_Mom, and on?Facebook.

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