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Finding Fortune in Fantasy Football
Football fans turn their fictitious hobby into real money
Michael Kaplan
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Jim Belushi, November/December 2010
Last December 27th, as the NFL season neared its completion, the Dallas Cowboys confronted the Washington Redskins. It was a big match-up for Dallas. Winning this game would clinch a playoff spot. It was also a major four quarters for Jason Conn and nine of his friends and relatives. Far from the Skins' FedEx Field, Conn and his guys watched the action from inside a finished basement in Ohio. But they didn't really care whether or not Dallas made it to the play-offs. On some level, they didn't even care about the game. Still, the guys had $300,000 riding on quarterback Tony Romo putting in a stellar performance.
Conn and his investors bet serious money, but rather than banking on a team winning, the group of friends place their bucks on individual players and create their own teams. They partake in a scaled-up form of fantasy football-in which you put together a theoretical team, compete against other theoretical teams, and get points by having players who gain yardage via passing or running-with six-figure sums hanging in the balance.
"Before the Dallas game began, we trailed by 12 points," says Conn, referring to fantasy points. "But we still had two guys in the running and the other fantasy team was done. Nevertheless, I have to say that it got very quiet inside the rec room."
Then the game began and Dallas quarterback Tony Romo-one of Conn's key players-flitted in a four-yard touchdown pass. Jell-O shots in the Dallas Cowboys colors were passed around and quickly consumed. The $300,000 first-place prize loomed and, in short order, Team Conn accrued the points to seal their win. Bottles of champagne were promptly popped; Cohiba cigars got clipped and lit; a long night of celebrating ensued. "It went beyond the money," says Conn. "There were 10 of us, and the $300,000 was split evenly. It came to $30,000 per person. But it's great to know that we went up against the best fantasy football guys and beat them. We reached the pinnacle of fantasy football."
Fantasy Football is a huge U.S. pastime, and its 22 million annual participants are finding out how hard it is to put together a winning lineup every Sunday. But Conn ranks among an elite group. Guys in his circle risk as much as $25,000 per team with the hopes of finishing first and taking home enough money to finance the off-season.
Dustin Ashby co-owns World Championship of Fantasy Football, a primary facilitator of the big-money leagues. He takes an innocent obsession and turns it into a high-flying event that he likens to the World Series of Poker. But Ashby has competitors: Fantasy Football Players Championship allows for exceptionally flexible lineups. Another fantasy organization, National Fantasy Football Championship, holds live drafts in eight cities across the United States. FanDuel.com runs fantasy football competitions that resolve in a single day (as opposed to a season), and you can multi-team, buying in as often as you like over the course of a single game day. Operating in a less commercially driven but no less competitive
environment, a dozen or so high-stakes poker players take fantasy football to the next level by putting together their own league. It can be as cutthroat as a high-stakes hold'em game in Bobby's Room at the Bellagio.
The poker league's buy-in is $5,000. But that entry fee pales next to the side action. FullTilt pro Erick Lindgren has been known to wager as much as $500,000 in ancillary propositions. He and fellow poker stud Daniel Negreanu once had an ongoing weekly bet in which they each pitted one of their players, heads up, against the performance of the other guy's player. "My biggest bet was for $25,000 against Erick," says World Series of Poker bracelet-winner Gavin Smith. "It was a must-win for league [meaning that if neither guy's team finishes first for the season, no money changes hands] and Erick wound up winning. That year didn't work very well for me. My team came in third or fourth, but it wasn't enough."
Even poker stars with shallower pockets get in on the action. Nick Rainey, who's become a runaway success on the online tournament circuit, has been competing in the poker players' fantasy football league for the last three years. "I'll maintain four or five side-bets in which my team goes up against the teams of other guys," says Rainey, acknowledging that he used to think fantasy football was irredeemably goofy. "Now that I'm doing it, though, I find it really interesting. It creates a whole new way of watching a day's worth of football games."
Fantasy football grew out of old-school rotisserie league baseball, beloved by stat junkies who enjoyed placing valuations on minutiae of the game. Initially, this sports-betting derivative was indulged in by friends and coworkers. Then, as the Internet blew up, so did the spread and breadth of fantasy sports. While basketball and hockey leagues are up and coming, football has proven to be an especially popular iteration, largely because the game's schedule is more controlled. That makes it more manageable for people who have things in their lives that go beyond theoretical teams. "It definitely gets a bit excessive," acknowledges champion Jason Conn, who's first draft for this season kicked off in late August. "I purposely gave my share of the $300,000 in winnings to my wife." Is this payback for all the time he devotes to fantasy football? Conn quickly adds, "I figure that it will give me carte blanch to go Las Vegas for the fantasy football drafts."
When it comes to fantasy football, regardless of the level at which you engage, the draft is of utmost importance. The more sophisticated leagues apply an auction approach. With this method, each team receives a certain amount of draft dollars (say, $1,000) and they can spend that much on bidding for players who will comprise a team. For the savviest team owners, this element of the process presents one more opportunity to find an edge. "Let's say I have no interest in owning Drew Brees," says Gavin Smith. "Maybe I'll bid him up a little bit anyway and hope that somebody jumps in and gets Brees for more than what he wanted to pay. Sometimes, though, you get stuck with a player you can't use. But, often enough, it leaves opponents with less money in the later stages."
This is particularly useful for Smith, as he explains, "My player-buying strategy is to wait until later in the draft. Then I get more marginal players for less money. The top three or four running backs always go for inflated prices. Same with the top quarterbacks. I let other people grab those guys and I wind up with a more balanced team at the end."
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Upgrading between two non-hobby tier Heroku Postgres databases is best accomplished using followers. The PG Backups-based approach described here is useful to upgrade from a starter tier database, where followers are not supported, or older 32-bit production database, and when upgrading across PostgreSQL versions.
The PG Backups add-on is useful not only for capturing regular backups of your database but also as an upgrade tool for hobby tier databases. PG Backups can be used to migrate between starter tier databases or from a starter tier database to a production tier database.
Before beginning you should ensure you've installed the pgbackups addon:
$ heroku addons:add pgbackups
The steps to upgrade from a starter tier database are the same independent of the plan you're upgrading to. This assumes you have the PG Backups add-on already installed on the application you wish to upgrade.
Upgrading databases necessarily involves some amount of downtime. Please plan accordingly.
Provision new plan
Provision a new database of the plan you want to upgrade to. If you're unsure of which plan is right for you please consider reading the Choosing the Right Heroku Postgres Plan article.
Upgrading from dev to basic
If you are upgrading from an older version your new database by default will be 9.3. If you wish to remain on an identical version you should use the
version flag.
If you are upgrading from the
dev starter tier plan to a
basic starter tier plan you will first need to provision a new
basic database.
$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:hobby-basic Adding heroku-postgresql:hobby-basic on sushi... done, v122 ($9/mo) Attached as HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK_URL Database has been created and is available Use `heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql:basic` to view documentation.
Take note of this new database name (
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK here) as you will refer to it when restoring the backup.
Upgrading to production tier
If you are upgrading from one of the starter tier database plans (
dev or
basic) to a standard or premium tier plan, provision the new standard or premium database.
$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:standard-tengu Adding heroku-postgresql:standard-tengu on sushi... done, v122 ($50/mo) The database should be available in 3-5 minutes Use `heroku pg:wait` to track status Use `heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql:standard-tengu` to view documentation.
Production databases may take a few minutes to be fully provisioned. Use
pg:wait to wait until the process is completed before proceeding with the upgrade.
$ heroku pg:wait Waiting for database HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK_URL... available
Take note of this new database name (
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK here) as you will refer to it when restoring the backup.
Prevent new updates
It is important that no new data is written to your application during the upgrade process or it will not be transferred to the new database. To accomplish this, place your app into maintenance mode. If you have scheduler jobs running as well you will want to disable those.
Your application will be unavailable starting at this point in the upgrade process.
$ heroku maintenance:on Enabling maintenance mode for sushi... done
Any non-web dynos should be scaled down as well (maintenance mode automatically scales down all web dynos).
$ heroku ps:scale worker=0 Scaling worker processes... done, now running 0
Transfer data to new database
To transfer data from your current database to the newly provisioned database, simply use the
pgbackups:transfer command with the
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR name of your new database (
PINK in this example).
$ heroku pgbackups:transfer HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK ! WARNING: Destructive Action ! Transfering data from DATABASE_URL to HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK ! To proceed, type "sushi" or re-run this command with --confirm sushi > sushi
This step may take some time depending on the size of your dataset. Wait until the transfer completes before proceeding.
Note that the upgraded database may be smaller (as seen in heroku pg:info), since this process avoids moving MVCC bloat to the new database.
Promote new database
Please take care to note that the port number for your database may change during this process. You should ensure that the port is parsed correctly from the URL.
At this point the new database is populated with the data from the original database but is not yet the active database for your application. If you wish for the new upgraded database to be the primary database for your application you will need to promote it.
$ heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK Promoting HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK_URL to DATABASE_URL... done
The upgraded database is now the primary database (though the application is not yet receiving new requests).
Make application active
To resume normal application operation, scale any non-web dynos back to their original levels (if the application was not previously using non-web dynos, skip this step in order to avoid scaling any dynos that you may not need).
$ heroku ps:scale worker=1
Finally, turn off maintenance mode.
$ heroku maintenance:off
Your application is now receiving requests to your upgraded database instance. This can be confirmed by running
heroku pg:info – the database denoted by
DATABASE_URL is considered the primary database.
Remove old database
The original database will continue to run (and incur charges) even after the upgrade. If desired, remove it after the upgrade is successful.
$ heroku addons:remove HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ORANGE
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ORANGE is your database name as seen on the output of
heroku addons.
Transfering databases between Heroku applications
You may want to transfer the contents of one application's database to another application's database. For instance, when maintaining both a staging and production environment of a single application you may wish to take a snapshot of the production data and import it to staging for testing purposes.
For the purpose of consistency the database being migrated from will be called the
source database while the database being migrated to will be called the
target database.
To transfer the source database to the target database you will need to invoke pgbackups from the target application, referencing a source database. This is a destructive operation: the transfer operation will drop existing data and replace it with the contents of the source database. The contents of the database prior to a transfer will not be recoverable. If the target database already contains data, capturing a backup with
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It was a loss that left West Virginia's players and coaches dumbfounded -- by their own inability to make shots (a 33 percent performance overall, including an abysmal 28.1 percent in the decisive second half) and by the fact they allowed the Dukes repeated opportunities to produce offense in transition (an 18-8 edge in fast break points).
"I'm going to preface what I say by saying it's my job to fix it, and I will fix it," WVU coach Bob Huggins said. "It's 100 percent my fault. It's my job. I'm the one that's supposed to coach them up, and I've got to get them better."
Even rebounding, a bedrock of WVU teams under Huggins, failed the Mountaineers on this night. Duquesne (6-4) won that battle 43-39 overall, and the Dukes only lost the battle for second-chance points 8-6.
Without those extra opportunities, the Mountaineers' futile halfcourt offense was repeatedly on display. When WVU could not work the ball inside to forward Deniz Kilicli, it almost always found itself taking a jumper late in the shot clock.
That didn't work, as West Virginia was only 4-of-18 (22.2 percent) from 3-point range -- including a 1-of-8 (12.5 percent) showing in the second half.
Nothing went right for the Mountaineers when it mattered most, as they made only one of their six free throw attempts in the second half after making all seven of their tries in the opening 20 minutes.
"We had every opportunity to blow the game open," Huggins said. "We had offensive opportunities because of our defense and didn't finish in transition. Obviously, we didn't make shots."
It came on the heels of what had been a strong first half from WVU.
Indeed, the Mountaineers (4-4) got the better of what was occasionally an ugly first half. West Virginia used an early 12-2 run to take a 16-6 lead, using its defense to force turnovers and generate transition opportunities.
It was the same story on the other side, though, as WVU's missed jump shots served to kick-start the Dukes' fast break. Duquesne did not score a single point in the first half that was not either in the paint or at the free throw line. The hosts missed all eight of their 3-point tries in the period. Not surprisingly, they trailed 36-23 at the intermission.
"The truth of the matter is I think we got a false sense of security when we went up 15," Huggins said. "We took some bad shots. We were horrible in transition, and they got back in the game in a quicker way. They made a 3, they made another 3, then they had a lot of confidence to shoot 3s. You have to give them some credit: they made open shots, and we didn't."
West Virginia's bench was an asset in the first half, as 15 of its 36 points in the first half came from the reserves.
Prominent among them was Matt Humphrey, as the transfer scored five points in seven minutes in the action. Battling a nagging shoulder injury, he had only played a total of four minutes in the Mountaineers' previous four games, logging only one minute against Marshall and missing the entirety of his team's wins over VMI and Virginia Tech.
Humphrey finished with 10 points, including WVU's only made 3-pointer in the second half. Juwan Staten led WVU with 13 points and four assists, but made only 5 of 16 shots from the field. Guard Gary Browne added another 10, all of which came in the first half.
For the Dukes, reserve guard Jerry Jones led the way with 16 points on 7-of-9 shooting. Guard Derrick Colter struggled from the field, making only 5 of 16 shots, but finished with 12 points and seven assists. Reserve Marvin Binney added 10 points on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting performance.
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At night after the action has closed up for the evening, some of the visitors seek out more than just drinks at our bars or action on our slot machines. They want sex, and there are pimps out there who are more than happy to oblige. Every year hundreds of girls are brought to the area to solicit sex from event participants, and although the police inevitably capture some of them, most slip in and slip out unnoticed.
Human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms trade as the second largest criminal industry in the world today. It is also the fastest growing. By 2017, it is estimated to become the largest. The total market value of illicit human trafficking is estimated to be in excess of $32 billion a year.
When most people think of human trafficking, they think of women and children being smuggled across foreign borders from Third World countries and forced into sex rings or slave labor somewhere in some country America never thinks about. The sad truth is the sex trafficking of juveniles and young men and women is happening right here in our community, and it's happening to our children.
Pimps target girls in schools and shopping malls, preying on the weak and those with low self-esteem. They shower them with gifts, or they offer them a "job" that requires no experience and pays a very strong wage. What they are really doing is coercing or tricking them into prostitution.
Once the pimps get these girls sucked into the sex trade, they use whatever it takes to keep them under control – drugs, beatings and death threats. Some force girls to work in strip clubs and escort services.
Sex trafficking is a serious and growing threat. Not only is it vastly underreported, it is misunderstood. It isn't limited to the wrong side of the tracks; pimps are infiltrating the affluent suburbs where the girls are more naïve and unsuspecting. Unfortunately, many suffer from the delusion that it would never happen to our loved ones because "they come from a good family" or "they were raised properly." Not so. Human trafficking affects every strata of society, and we must do something about it.
Thankfully, we have concerned citizens such as Assemblyman John Hambrick who have worked to address this issue with legislation that goes after the pimps financially. I applaud Hambrick for taking on this horrific crime, and it's encouraging to know he will be working even more to strengthen Nevada's laws in the next legislative session.
On the ground we have groups such as Awaken INC, a Christian human rights organization that seeks to combat sexual exploitation and trafficking of women and children throughout Nevada. I interviewed the group's founder, Melissa Holland, on a recent episode of my "Nevada Matters" radio show, and it was all I could do to keep my composure. This problem is real folks, and it's right under our noses.
An estimated 400 women and children are trafficked each night here in Nevada, and we all must come together to stop this. Human trafficking can no longer be ignored. People like Holland and Hambrick are angels for doing what they do, but they can't do it without our help.
Sean Cary is a local business owner, freelance writer, host of "Week in Review" heard on Fox News Radio 99.1 FM and pundit on the television show "Nevada Newsmakers." Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com and read his blog at www.seancary.com.


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Accounts of backed-up sewage, cold or non-existent showers and a horrible stench aboard the crippled Carnival Triumph cruise hardly inspire a vacation at sea.
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She does not expect the eight-day odyssey will intimidate core cruisers, but may dissuade people who were hesitant about booking a cruise to begin with.
"Maybe some family was going to go on a cruise this summer, I think that's when we'll see whether they (people) what to cruise or not," she said.
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Return of a Classic: The Seven-Fold Tie
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Well, I can tell you," says John Haller, vice president at Robert Talbott Inc., the most renowned U.S. tiemaker, "that our more expensive lines of neckwear are selling better than our starting lines."
Which just goes to confirm what I've been thinking lately, namely, that ties are coming back. I base my theory on the ironically commonplace observation that fewer men are forced to wear them. All this business about casual wear at the office has left men with the choice to tie or not to tie, and so neckwear has finally come full circle to where it was some three centuries earlier: an object of pure ornamentation and aesthetic delight.
Since ties need no longer be the symbols of conformity and regimentation, men are free to take real pride in their selections, rather than grumbling and muttering as they sling any old piece of tattered cloth around their necks because it's part of the uniform. Ties become part of that array of little gifts, those affordable luxuries if you will, that bring a satisfaction and repose often denied to the deeper moments of life: a wonderful cigar or fine glass of Port, a handsome pair of cashmere socks, or that wonderful little antique leather photo frame we saw in the shop window the other day. Just the thing to celebrate making it through another frenzied week.
But the surest proof I can muster as evidence that neckwear is gaining in popularity is the recent return of the seven-fold tie. Never heard of it? It is the stuff of legend, the consummation of craftsmanship, the dream of dandies and the pride of collectors of fine menswear everywhere. Let me fill you in a bit on that.
The Edwardian years, from the 1880s to the First World War, were the salad days for bespoke accoutrement: a gentleman would even have his raincoat and umbrella custom-made. Spats and silk top hats were still in vogue, as were walking sticks and boutonnieres. Tailors sewed a loop of thread behind the left lapel buttonhole to hold the stem of the flower securely in place. There were even tiny glass bottles that were filled with water and secured by the loop, to keep the boutonniere fresh. These boutonniere bottles are collector's items today, relics of a lost time.
The matter of neckwear was of particular concern. Had not Oscar Wilde written in The Importance of Being Earnest that "a well-tied tie is the first serious step in life"? There was much more variety and individualism to neckwear then than there is today. There were, of course, cravats (the famous Ascot being only one of a dozen popular styles), bow ties (tied symmetrically and asymmetrically), and literally dozens of ways of knotting a long tie besides the four-in-hand style that is de rigeur today. It was this fertile period that laid the groundwork for the renowned seven-fold.
As early as 1828, the prolific French writer Honoré de Balzac had written, under a nom de plume, a treatise entitled "The Art of Tying the Cravat," which contained lessons on making 32 different knots. Instructive volumes of that type acted as something of a sartorial bridge between the great Regency dandies of the 1810s and '20s and their Edwardian grandsons.
Neckwear, as the earlier nineteenth century had understood it, was a large muslin scarf, folded over several times to form the shape of a band anywhere from four to eight inches high and perhaps three feet long. It was wrapped several times around the neck and knotted in some fashion over the throat. Over the succeeding decades, however, neckwear began to evolve from this thickly folded scarf to a narrow band easily knotted under the smaller, stiff collars that became standard for businessmen's shirting.
To avoid damage due to the inevitable wrinkling as the tie was knotted and unknotted again and again, superior tiemakers relied on the finest silks, turning the fabric in on itself several times to provide stability and resiliency. Experimentation led to the discovery that, if the finest silks were used, folding the fabric in on itself seven times proved the perfect tie: body without bulk, resiliency without stiffness. That meant using a whole square yard of fabric for each tie! The seven-fold became the epitome of the tiemaker's art, fashionable with the celebrated haberdashers of London, Paris and New York in the early years of this century. It wasn't until later, in the 1920s, that tiemakers found a cheaper way to make ties by using smaller strips of material cut on the bias, stitching them together in several sections, and using wool linings to give some added body to flimsier silks.
As cheaper, mechanized methods of producing these section-sewn ties quickly replaced the artisans, and as the price of superior silk increased dramatically over the decades, the seven-fold tie slowly disappeared, vanishing by the late 1940s. Up until a few years ago, it seemed all but forgotten, one of those fashion dinosaurs doomed by an age of McEverything.
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Mason loves to go to the nursing home and push his great grandma around in her wheel chair. He also likes to socialize with the other residents there at the nursing home, it just makes their day. He has become a little flirt with all the pretty girls smiling at them and making faces and trying to get attention from the nurses at the nursing home and even with waitresses at the restaurants. So we have plenty of pictures of him making faces, it was very hard to choose. He is only 15 mths old and has become very sociable everywhere we go. He just goes up to people and strikes up conversations just like he knows what he is talking about with facial jestures and hand movements of course we dont understand a word he is saying but he sure acts like he does and I guess he does. I will be glad when we do. I believe when he starts talking we are gonna find out we have one very smart little boy. He is a very lovable, happy child who never meets a stranger. Of course I am a very proud nanna too.
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New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates "programmed visions," which seek to shape and predict--even embody--a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability.
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"In a move of stunning originality, Wendy Chun argues that belief in 'programmability' fuels the current organization of the modern liberal state. Computer code, she tells us, is fetisha magical entity thanks to which individuals believe themselves agents of causality and sovereignty. In truth, though, power lies elsewheremost importantly in the social, political, and economic relations embedded within and materialized in the software and hardware that render us desiring subjects. Essential for students of science and media studies."
Timothy W. Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society, Duke University
"Programmed Visions is an entirely fresh and original piece of scholarshiplyrically written, uncompromisingly rigorous, and full of surprising and provocative insights. Chun demonstrates convincingly that programmability is an 'ideological belief,' and in so doing challenges received ideas about digital media's supposedly objective relation to truth, noncontingency, and operability. This book is of tremendous importance to gender studies, digital media studies, history, and science and technology studies."
Lisa Nakamura, Asian American Studies Program and Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Once again, Wendy Chun proves herself to be the indispensable critic of Internet and computer cultures. We learn how the computer thinks us and the implications of that thought in terms of race, gender, and visuality. Chun creates a new and flexible terminology that displaces our sense of the computer as a transparent WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) servant into a twinned relationship of causality and ignorance. From here, neither the computer nor visual culture will look the same again."
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University


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RENO – This year, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) brings eating disorder awareness to campuses and communities around the world during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week from Feb. 26 through March 3. The University of Nevada, Reno Student Health Center and University Counseling Services have partnered with the local Center for Hope of the Sierras for a week of awareness events on campus, part of a 25-year national effort.
"In the United States, as many as 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting a life and death battle with an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia," said Meghan Eliopulos, marketing and admissions director for the Center for Hope of the Sierras. "This week will focus on the ways we are all vulnerable to influence by the media, including social media, in its infiltration of our mental images of body and beauty, and how to counteract these influences and reduce the likelihood of the development of eating disorders."
Events scheduled for the week include a screening of "America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments," including a question-and-answer session with director Daryl Roberts, a discussion panel at Wooster High School to discuss the effects of media messaging on body image, a yoga session to improve mindfulness and more.
For more information, visit the UNR Student Health Center page at www.unr.edu/shc/Events.html.


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That's all I had to say to my wife last Sunday when the Broncos received their second loss of the season, this time to Peyton Manning and the Colts, 27-13.
"You always say that," she replied, rolling her eyes. "They always beat themselves."
OK, so I, along with dedicated football fans across the country, say that every Sunday evening when their team loses. It's a statement that says, my team lost today, they should have won, there still is hope for a successful season.
Even though they are sitting at 1-2 right now, I still have hope for the Broncos this season, and it's no time to panic.
While Sunday's final score would indicate that the game wasn't close at all, it really was a close game and it was an indication that Denver could be good this year. The Broncos were in the game and had a chance to win it until mid fourth quarter.
You would think in preparing for a game against Peyton Manning, the team would have to emphasize a defensive-minded game. That is the wrong emphasis. When playing the Colts, you have to emphasize offense. Your team needs to be able to score to keep up with the Colts offense and then hope for a chance to win it by a field goal at the end of the game.
On Sunday, Denver's defense did what they needed to do. They held the Colts running game to an absolute minimum. Champ Bailey and the Broncos defensive backs kept Manning's main targets, Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark, at bay with 109 yards in receiving. The Broncos also shut down the Colts running game, holding them to an average of 1.8 yards per run. The defense showed up to play and had Denver in the game to win.
The offense, on the other hand, didn't look so sharp. And if your offense isn't going to be sharp against the Colts, well, you lose games by a score of 27-13.
The Bronco offense had two turnovers in the game that effectively gave Manning 10 points, and then in four straight plays couldn't score any points from the Colts 1-yard line. Oh yeah, they committed another turnover in the red zone in the fourth quarter. That's at least 10 points (if not more) that the Broncos offense gave up. The Broncos beat themselves last Sunday.
I know. Woulda shoulda coulda.
The point I am making here is that if Denver finds a way to put points on the board they will be a playoff-bound team. Quarterback Kyle Orton had a career-high day with 476 yards passing. He is at the top of his game. (He could cut down on the turnovers, but he looks really good.)
I think fans in Bronco country are still trying to warm up to head coach Josh McDaniels after so many years of success under Mike Shanahan. Everybody knows McDaniels is a smart, dedicated coach, but is he too inexperienced as a head coach to lead the team in the post season? Why couldn't the Broncos score a touchdown from the 1-yard line last weekend? Josh, call a play that will put six points on the board! While I love running the ball over and over and over again, with the dinged up running back corps the Broncos have right now, maybe a creative play call was needed on the 1-yard line last week instead of run, run, run, run. Maybe?
Maybe Denver needed Tim Tebow in the mix to put the ball in the end zone? Who knows?
What I do know is that Denver is in a weak AFC West division this year. San Diego has finally proven that they aren't any good despite what many say. The Chargers are a nobody team once again. The Raiders? Is Al Davis still alive? If he is, then the Raiders are not a team to worry about.
And then there is the 3-0 Kansas City Chiefs. Who knew they would be good this year? I am not sold on them quite yet. They seem like a lot of hype, yet they are 3-0. We will have to see how they will handle a tough AFC rivalry with Denver in mid November.
If the Broncos can play the way they did on Sunday against the Colts the rest of the season, and put the ball in the end zone, it will be a good year for Denver. Despite the loss, they are good.
Everything is falling into place for Denver; they just need to stop beating themselves.
But I have said that before.


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Thursday, April 24, 2014
I am an employee of a Portland-based company that distributes expanded polystyrene shipping containers to local seafood companies.
Maryellen O'Toole of Scarborough carries a cup of coffee from a Portland Dunkin' Donuts. A reader wonders if the city of Portland's proposed ban on Styrofoam packaging would apply to things like the cups, which are made not of Styrofoam but of a different material – expanded polystyrene,
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I write this letter in the hope that it may help the Portland City Council understand some important questions and concerns of some who work and/or live in Portland regarding the proposed citywide Styrofoam ban ("Portland moves toward ban on Styrofoam packaging," May 7).
I have heard it said that the proposed ban will not have an effect on the seafood companies in Portland that rely on expanded polystyrene, as it is a Food and Drug Administration-approved means of shipping for their perishable items.
But I have to ask the question: What's the difference between expanded polystyrene shipping containers and an expanded polystyrene Dunkin' Donuts cup?
How can we rest easy that we won't be directly affected now or at a later date?
Will the exemption for shipping containers be written into the citywide ban?
Additionally, I am hopeful that the Green Packaging Working Group has reviewed the following facts about expanded polystyrene before they make any quick decisions.
• Expanded polystyrene creates 20 percent less greenhouse gas emissions during its life span than fiberboard, paperboard or cardboard.
• Expanded polystyrene does not leach any toxic chemicals into the ground, nor does it release methane gas into the ozone.
• Expanded polystyrene foam is 100 percent recyclable. (For more information about expanded polystyrene, visit www.epspackaging.org.)
I hope the City Council does its part to clear up the misconceptions about expanded polystyrene and about how it defines "Styrofoam" as it moves forward. Additionally, I hope the council can offer more information than it has to its constituents to help ease their fears.
While we all agree that we want our children to have a safe and healthy world to live in, my hopes are that we can achieve that in an honest and truthful way that doesn't harm those people already struggling in a tough economy.
Emily Tibbetts
1943 graduate of MMA: Press missed a good story
My wife and I had the pleasure and privilege of attending a college graduation May 4 at one of Maine's most unique schools, Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, on the Bagaduce River off Penobscot Bay.
This was the 70th commencement exercise for the academy, which graduated its first class in 1943, following entry of the United States into World War II.
There were two members of this first class on hand who MMA President Dr. William Brennan called upon to stand and be applauded by the class of 2013: Capt. Dick Spear, former head of the Maine Ferry Service, and myself.
This highly specialized institution trains young men and women as officers for duty in the maritime world as well as in both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Additionally, approximately one-half of the members of the student body are nonregimental in nature, pursuing specialized academic subjects of their choice. All students graduate with accredited degrees.
The graduation itself was extremely interesting, again bringing out the uniqueness of the regimental and nonregimental blend of the student body. Half of the students were in military uniforms, while the other half were in academic regalia. There was the official swearing-in of the new Navy/Coast Guard officers, as well as the announcements of all the special academic degrees and awards.
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Indiana Dunes Visitor Center
Address 1: 1215 N. State Road 49
City: Porter
State: IN
Zip Code: 46304
Toll-free: (800) 283-8687
Phone: 219-926-2255
Website: www.indianadunes.com
Hours: Memorial Day through Labor Day: Sunday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CST Labor Day through Memorial Day Sunday - Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. CST
Directions: Lat: 41.6337 Long: -87.0538 Located on State Rte 49, just south of the intersection with US Rte 20.
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Want to create a personalized tour of Indiana Dunes Country? Just stop by the Visitor Center. Our front desk destination concierges are supremely knowledgeable and can handpick the perfect attractions, activities and accommodations for you. This includes providing detailed information about dining, shopping, beach access, and assisting with directions and many other needs you may have. If you happen to drop by after hours, the brochure-stocked vestibule is open around the clock. Maps and a phone board listing ALL THE AREA'S ACCOMMODATIONS is provided for your convenience. You can also walk through our ever-changing exhibit room, learn about the history and ecology of the Dunes at our in-house movie theatre and pick out educational mementos in our bookstore. Don't miss… taking a walk around our building and learning about its eco-friendly architecture. Go to each station to learn about rain gardens and native landscaping, and get ideas of environmentally friendly things you can do at home.


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Workforce West Virginia provides public computer center
Workforce West Virginia has opened a new public computer center at its Ripley office.
Officials are encouraging individuals with limited or no access to Internet or high-speed computer service to use the new center, located at 206 Stone Drive in Ripley.
The center is designed to provide public access to resume preparation and online job search tools, as well as online classes and training. Students can also use the location to complete research papers and homework assignments.
The Ripley Workforce West Virginia office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. The office is not open on weekends. Workforce West Virginia's public computer centers are funded by a grant from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.


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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - Freshman guard Braylon Rayson scored 13 of Central Michigan's 16 points in triple overtime to lead the Chippewas to a thrilling come-from-behind 101-95 victory over Ball State on Wednesday night at McGuirk Arena.
Rayson, who finished the game with a career-high 30 points, contributed one of many heroic performances in securing the Chippewas' second MAC win of the season. Blake Hibbitts knocked down three three-pointers in the span of 22 seconds at the end of regulation to tie the game and force overtime. Chris Fowler and Austin Stewart used different ways to get there but each notched double-doubles. Fowler overcame a slow start to score right at his season average of 18 points and added 12 assists against just one turnover. Stewart, who recorded a career-high 17 points to go along with 10 rebounds, was strong from the start, keeping CMU in the game while the team battled through early struggles.
"I think tonight's game was important for us, not to be competitive, like we've been, but to get some results for our hard work," said CMU head coach Keno Davis. "It would have been tough to lose this game to be able to look at the last five games and be able to put up that type of effort and not be rewarded for it."
Central Michigan (9-16, 2-11 MAC) trailed for nearly the entire game, including the all of the first half. The Chippewas shot just 39 percent from the field (11-of-28) and never led in the contest's opening 20 minutes. Rayson and Stewart scored nine points each to keep CMU within striking distance, but the Chippewas headed to the break down by eight at 38-30.
CMU picked up the pace in the second half, starting fast by outscoring Ball State 8-2 out of the locker room to pull within two at 40-38. However, the Cardinals responded, beginning a trend that would repeat over and over again throughout much of the remainder of the second half. As soon as CMU would get close, Ball State would knock down a big shot or go on a mini-run to keep the Chippewas at bay.
That is until the final minute of regulation time when Hibbitts' took center stage and shot the lights out with his barrage of three-pointers.
CMU fell behind in the first overtime and didn't score until the 2:49 mark when Fowler made a single free throw to get the Chippewas to within three at 75-72. John Simons then closed the gap and tied the game with a three-pointer two possessions later. After the teams traded buckets, Fowler had one last look at the basket but his eight-footer from the right wing fell just short, forcing a second overtime.
The Chippewas led for much of the second overtime, including at the 3:16 mark when Simons drilled another clutch three-pointer. After Ball State re-tied the game at 83-83, Stewart gave the lead back to CMU with a emphatic dunk on a run out with 1:30 remaining. However, Ball State senior forward Chris Bond would score on a layup on the ensuing possession, again knotting the game. Each team missed an opportunity to secure the win with empty possessions but CMU got one last shot with three seconds remaining. After the inbounds, Fowler took a pass from Simons and had an open look from beyond the arc but his shot rimmed out.
The third overtime proved to be showtime for Braylon Rayson, as he put the team on his back and took the game over. The freshman point guard was unstoppable, slashing to the basket, making free throws and downing a three-pointer to push CMU over the top. Rayson scored the Chippewas' first 11 points of the period and Ball State had no answer for him on either end of the court. Fittingly, he scored CMU's final two points of the game and inched the Chippewas over the century mark, sinking two free throws with 10 seconds left to play.
Uncharacteristically poor free throw shooting hampered CMU, which proved to be a factor at key times throughout the game. The Chippewas shot just 50 percent, making 19-of-38 attempts while Ball State shot at CMU's normal average, 73 percent.
Offsetting the off night at the line was CMU's ability to force turnovers and take care of the ball. Ball State totaled 15 turnovers, which the Chippewas turned into 21 points. CMU remarkably had just six turnovers in 55 minutes of game time.
Ball State (4-20, 1-12 MAC) was led by Bond, who posted 21 points and 12 rebounds. Freshman guard Zavier Turner added 20 points but fouled out with 2:33 remaining in the third overtime. Senior center Majok Majok, who entered the game averaging a double-double, was limited to six points and six rebounds before leaving the game in double overtime with an injury.
The Chippewas remain at home this weekend, hosting MAC West foe Northern Illinois (11-13, 5-7 MAC) in a 2 p.m. game on Sunday in McGuirk Arena. CMU will aim to avenge an 88-63 loss to the Huskies on Feb. 12 in DeKalb.
Central Michigan men's basketball is on Twitter. Follow head coach Keno Davis (@CoachKenoDavis) and the program's official Twitter account (@CMUMensBBall) to get insider news and information and team updates. The Chippewas are also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CMUMensBBall.