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The remainder of Dickenson's staff returns with two assistants holding new titles — Brent Monson (10th season) is the club's new defensive co-ordinator while special teams co-ordinator Mark Kilam (15th season) adds the title of assistant head coach.
Receivers coach Pete Costanza (12th season), running backs coach Marc Mueller (sixth season), quarterbacks coach Ryan Dinwiddie (fourth season), offensive line coach Pat DelMonaco (sixth season), defensive line coach Corey Mace (fourth season) and defensive backs coach Joshua Bell (second season) are all back in 2019.
New research published in this month's issue of the journal Pediatric strengthens the argument that the best way to reduce childhood obesity isn't through government programs or "healthy" school lunches but through greater parental involvement in a child's life - and more specifically a child's food decisions.
The Australian study examined 165 overweight children and randomly assigned them to one of three programs: an exercise program, a parent-controlled diet program, or a program combining both diet and exercise. After two years, all children experienced weight loss but the report noted that "the greatest effects were achieved through inclusion of a parent-centered diet program, indicating the importance of targeting parents within treatment and the possibility of targeting them exclusively in treating obese prepubertal children."
This latest research adds to the many other studies supporting the notion that parents are best suited to improving a child's health (I have written about this here and here). Ohio State University College of Public Health conducted a similar study last year and the results showed that the only way to reduce childhood obesity is if parents employ three rules: less television, dinner with mom and dad, and more sleep. Perhaps most interestingly, the study found that even for children predisposed to obesity (poor children and those with obese mothers), their likelihood of developing weight problems was reduced if their parents followed the three rules. Less television, family dinners, and early bedtimes are activities parents control ... for now.
And these studies are not all new. In 2000, a Harvard Medical school study of over 16,000 children found that "eating family dinner was associated with healthful dietary intake patterns, including more fruits and vegetables, less fried food and soda, less saturated and trans fat, lower glycemic load, more fiber and micronutrients from food, and no material differences in red meat or snack foods."
While Michelle Obama continues her crusade to strengthen the role of government institutions in feeding children, she may want to take a moment to read up on the latest research which proves her Let's Move campaign will do little to reduce obesity in America.
Curious 'citizen scientists' can now help marine researchers better understand how killer whales and pilot whales communicate. Today Scientific American, in partnership with The Zooniverse, launches the whale-song project, Whale FM, at http://whale.fm.
The Whale FM site displays calls from both Orcas (killer whales) and the lesser known pilot whales. Citizen scientists are presented with a whale call and shown where it was recorded on a map of the world's oceans and seas. After listening to the whale call, which is represented on screen as a spectrogram showing how the pitch of the sound changes with time, citizen scientists are asked to listen to a number of potential matching calls from the project's database. If a match is found, the citizen scientist clicks on that sound's spectrogram and the results are stored.
"One doesn't need a science degree to be a citizen scientist," says Mariette DiChristina, Editor in Chief of Scientific American. "All you need is a curiosity about the world around you and an interest in observing, measuring and reporting what you hear and see. We are pleased to work with The Zooniverse on this scientifically interesting and enjoyable project."
The dataset generated by this project will enable scientists to address a number of questions regarding whale communication. For example, biologists studying killer whales report that each group of whales has its own distinctive dialect of calls, with related groups having dialects that are more similar. The Whale FM calls on citizen scientists to test these results by making their own judgments of similarity between calls.
"Only a few researchers have categorized whale calls," says Peter Tyack of the University of St Andrews. "By asking hundreds of people to make similar judgments, we will learn how reliable the categories are, and they get the fun of hearing these amazing sounds."
Much less is known about the calls of pilot whales than of killer whales. Researchers, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews in Scotland want to know the size of the Pilot Whales' call repertoire and whether call repertoires vary between groups as in killer whales. The Whale FM welcomes citizen scientists to help researchers to discover the call repertoires of pilot whales and to study how vocal traditions vary between different groups of whales.
"Scientists are faced with huge datasets, which become increasingly difficult and time-consuming to analyze by a small group of experts", adds Sander von Benda-Beckmann of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). "This task is still too challenging for computers to handle. By involving a large number of volunteers we will be able to analyze much more data than we would otherwise be able to."
Citizen scientists can sign up to participate in the Whale FM using their existing Scientific American login and password. The project is free and participants can decide how much time they devote to the project.
Scientific American has actively promoted citizen science projects, since May 2011 at www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science. The Whale FM is the first Scientific American has co-sponsored. Other Citizen Scientist projects hosted on Scientific American include The Dragonfly Swarm Project, Gulf Oil Spill Tracker, and The Great Sunflower Project.
Citizen Science is one of a number of education initiatives from Scientific American, as part of its Change the Equation commitment. In September 2010, Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Scientific American's parent organization, joined Change the Equation, a CEO-led public-private partnership to support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) literacy in the United States. Mariette DiChristina is also an adviser for the Citizen Science Alliance, which will produce around 10 new projects.
The Zooniverse began with a single project, Galaxy Zoo, which was launched in July 2007. The Zooniverse is now home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) is based at the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland, and is Europe's leading research centre in the field of marine mammal biology. SMRU carries out interdisciplinary research into the biology of marine mammals, trains marine mammal scientists through undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and provides impartial and independent advice to governments, non-governmental organizations and industry on conservation issues. SMRU's current strategic science priorities include: evaluating the status of marine mammal populations; investigating the importance of marine mammals as components of marine ecosystems; determining the dynamics of marine mammal populations; studying marine mammal social structure and communication; providing the technological basis for observing free-ranging marine mammals and their environment. For further information, please visit www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/ and www.st-andrews.ac.uk/.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent organization in Falmouth, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the ocean and its interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the ocean's role in the changing global environment. The WHOI Marine Mammal Center focuses on issues affecting conservation of marine mammals and various other marine animals such as turtles. Interdisciplinary teams are brought together to address these issues from a variety of scientific and engineering perspectives in order to gain a more comprehensive scientific understanding. Through the Center's collaborations with external parties and academic institutions, and its facilities such as the necropsy facility, it creates a unique environment to pursue new research opportunities. For further information, please visit www.whoi.edu.
The only stores that can usually beat Aldi's frozen chicken prices are typically the wholesale clubs, but now Aldi ramps it up a bit by adding fresh chicken. The prices can hardly be beat: boneless, skinless chicken breasts for $2.49 per pound, wings for $1.89 per pound and thighs for $1.29 per pound.
If you're looking for frozen chicken breasts, a 48-ounce bag is only $4.99 at Aldi (regularly $5.49, Kirkwood brand), a deal that's hard to beat.
She has stared at a pulsating sun and not burned her eyes.
She has smelled the sweetness of roses as she climbed the mountain, a scentshe believed marked the presence of the Virgin Mary.
Now Ruth VonDenBosch, owner of a religious bookstore in Linthicum, is planning her fourth trip to Medjugorje, the small Yugoslavian town where for the past 10 years Mary, the mother of Jesus, has reportedly appeared to young visionaries.
"It's a calling. You hunger forit. I haven't been anywhere else on this Earth (where) you can feel the presence of the Mother of God except when I go to Mass. She's like your mother. She's the mother of all creation," says VonDenBosch, 56.
Three times she has journeyed to Medjugorje, a hamlet of about 1,000 Roman Catholics, seeking some enhanced spiritual reality. She has not been disappointed.
She found herself able to stare at the sun, cloaked by a thin silver disc, for an hour at a time -- although the authorities at Medjugorje do not recommend it, and two pilgrims have suffered eye damage.
When she came home last year, VonDenBoschhad her eyes checked by her doctor, whom she claims found her long-distance vision mysteriously perfected.
But more significant was the spiritual enlightenment that accompanied her pilgrimages, VonDenBosch says.
"You're inspired to read about Jesus and to study more," she says. "I love going to Mass every day. I just love it. It's part of my daily routine now. I even determine the hours the store is openaround the Mass schedule."
VonDenBosch, an attractive redhead, doesn't look much like a mystic, nor even a saint.
She is practical,chatty, whimsical. But her approach to faith is to accept without proof, without doubt.
"If you have faith, no explanation is necessary. If you don't have faith, no explanation is possible," she says.
The saying could be the motto for Medjugorje, ever since five teen-agers and one child reported seeing the Virgin Mary on June 24, 1981, on a hill outside the Croatian town.
In the decade since, more than 15 million people have visited Medjugorje, making pilgrimage to thehill, hoping to see the sun spin or change colors, hoping for healing or a vision.
VonDenBosch felt some of this religious energy on her third trip in May 1990, she says, "felt the Holy Spirit continually. It's like the hills come alive.
"That's why I can't wait to getback."
Reminders of this interest fill her Angels R Reading, her bookstore on Camp Meade Road.
Books, cassettes, video tapes and pamphlets describe the reported wonders of Medjugorje. Copies of a coloring book VonDenBosch wrote and printed at her own expense tell the story for children. She's given away hundreds of the coloring books, as well as1,000 copies of a newspaper story about the mystical events.
The bookstore, which VonDenBosch opened last year, resulted from her third trip to Yugoslavia. She decided to open it, signed a three-year lease and only then realized the commitment she'd made.
"Had I done a lot of discerning, the store wouldn't be here," she says. "But God must have wanted me here. It's more ministry than business."
The store offers books about about supernatural healing, about prayer, about cults, a surprising mix of conflicting opinions ranging from charismatic preacher John Wimber to Norm Geisler, who opposes Wimber's teaching on the miraculous.
And there are angelic pins and pictures and books.
"I'm very involved with the angels," says VonDenBosch, matter-of-factly. "Every night when I leave the shop, I ask St.Michael to watch over the place."
"Each person does have an angel, and there's an angel at every township," she says.
"From the stories I've read, every angel is different. Some are 6 feet high. Some 10 feet high."
Her personal angel is small, VonDenBosch believes, because she's seen him in a dream.
"I woke up and there was this white-on-white-on-white angel sitting on my headboard. He had a white pageboy haircut and looked about 10 years old.
"I asked, 'May I touch you?' and he never answered, just smiled. I touched his arm and the dream ended."
VonDenBosch knows there are many skeptics, both about the supernatural in general and Medjugorje in particular.
Sheknows the Roman Catholic Church has not approved the sightings at Medjugorje as valid apparitions, and the local bishop there has deemed them fraudulent.
But, she points out, the six visionaries still fall to their knees every evening, speaking to a presence no one else can see.
In September, if the political situation has calmed, VonDenBosch plans another trip, led by Father Joe McDonough of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Glen Burnie.
So far, more than 30 county residents have signed up for the trip.
"Go," VonDenBosch says to both skeptics and believers, with the certainty of a woman who does not doubt. "Go and you will see."
A LEADING green recruiter believes workers in traditional energy jobs are well placed to make the jump to the booming renewables sector.
But he has warned the workers who do make the switch may have to take a pay cut.
The comments come as a new report found the renewable industry employs more people in Queensland than in any other state.
There are 56 renewable energy projects proposed across regional Queensland - 46 of which are solar plants. The Queensland Government states the renewable industry could support about 15,000 construction jobs in this state by 2030 - tripling today's numbers.
Specialist renewable recruiter Kevin Warner from recruitment firm Davidson said the boom in planned renewable projects offered opportunities for energy workers - but paydays like the mining boom were no longer available.
"We just need to be having conversations now around where we will find the staff. There is certainly scope to bring in staff from other sectors, notably the mining and the oil and gas sectors, where their skills can be transferred and adapted easily," he said.
"However, staff moving from these sectors into the renewable energy sector need to be aware that they might not attract the salary levels they were receiving in the oil and gas and mining sectors.
"This is going to be the challenge, but I think those workforces are starting to realise they were getting overpaid and should they wish to change industry, they need to, in some respects, re-evaluate their expectations.
Queensland Resources Council chief Ian Macfarlane said although renewables would help the construction industry they would not employ a large operations staff.
"The QRC supports more renewable energy into the electricity grid but there is a clear distinction between short-term solar farm jobs and ongoing careers at power stations, gas fields, refineries or a mine," he said.
"Once a solar farm is built, it only employs a few maintenance staff. Renewable projects are good for construction jobs but they are not sustained jobs whereas a resource project needs a large workforce for 20-40 years."
Mr Warner's comments come as a report from Green Energy Markets found the renewable sector supported 15,691 full time equivalent jobs in December last year - including 5870 in Queensland, more than any other state.
The report found across Australia wind farms will soon produce about five times as much power as the Snowy Hydro Electric Scheme.
"The wind farms under construction at present will produce twice as much power per annum as the Snowy Hydro scheme. When combined with wind farms already in operation, wind will supply five times more electricity per annum than that of the Snowy scheme," the report said.
Queensland installed more rooftop solar systems in December last year than any other state, according to Green Energy Market's Renewable Energy Index. The report found 4378 rooftop systems were installed in Queensland, just in front of the combined NSW and ACT total of 4365, and well in front of 2763 in Western Australia and Victoria's 2624. According to the report the panels installed in Queensland will save the households $55 million in bills over the next 10 years.
Cacti in the Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness within Mojave Trails National Monument is seen in a photo tweeted by Joshua Tree National Park in December 2017.
A parcel of land that is prime habitat for the so-called teddy bear cactus has been purchased for a Mojave Desert conservation organization.
An anonymous donor bought the 599 acres of Southern California land for $140,000 and deeded it to the Mojave Desert Land Trust, The Desert Sun newspaper reported.
The cactus is formally called the cholla, but it earned its cuddly but misleading nickname because dense coverings of painful spines resemble the fuzzy limbs of a teddy bear.
The land will provide a buffer between Interstate 40 and the Bigelow Cholla Wilderness Garden in the Bureau of Land Management’s Mojave Trails National Monument.
“Anytime we get that much land in a single go is a pretty exciting day,” Peter Satin, the trust’s director of land management, told the newspaper.
“From an ecological perspective, it has a ton of dry desert wash. When we have lots of rainfall, those will flood, and that’s really neat, because we’ll get the vegetation coming up,” he said.
It’s also good terrain for desert tortoises, which like washes.
The land was purchased from Las Vegas school teacher Roger Becker. In the 1980s, his mother invested in a gas station complex that was never built because there wasn’t enough traffic.
The land was sold with the understanding it would be permanently protected from mining or other destructive activities.
The teddy bear cholla is also known as the jumping cactus because its fiendish barbs almost seem to fly off into anyone who makes the unwise decision to go near one.
Comedian Phil Silvers, who portrayed fast-talking, scheming M. Sgt. Ernie Bilko in the 1950s television series ''The Phil Silvers Show,'' died at his home Friday. He was 73.
He died in his sleep at 1:30 p.m. of natural causes, said his daughter, Tracy Silvers.
His personal assistant, Jean Edwards, was with him at the time, his daughter said.
Mr. Silvers, who started in show business as a vaudeville singer at age 13, made his film debut in ''Hit Parade of 1941.'' He continued for the next decade to play comic roles in feature films.
''I was alway Blinky, the friend of the hero whose big scene came when he told the girl (usually Betty Grable) that the hero really loved her,'' he once said in an interview.
After a USO tour with Frank Sinatra in 1946, Mr. Silvers returned to Broadway in ''High Button Shoes,'' which ran for 727 performances. With the success of the Broadway and feature-film productions of ''Top Banana,'' he became known as the ''top banana,'' a phrase he claimed to have contributed to the English lexicon.
But he was best known for his role as the rascally con man, Sgt. Bilko, in the hit program ''The Phil Silvers Show,'' originally called, ''You`ll Never Get Rich.'' His devilish grin and his way of barking commands at his ragtag platoon endeared him to a generation of television viewers.
Set at the fictional Ft. Baxter, Kan., the show was a satire of military life that revolved around Bilko`s schemes. He passed his time gambling and pursuing moneymaking plans, usually outmaneuvering his superior, Col. John Hall, played by Paul Ford.
The series ran from 1955 to 1959 and won three Emmy awards.
In 1968, Mr. Silvers testified in a case involving a card-cheating conspiracy that he had compulsively gambled away thousands of dollars on cards and sporting events.
Mr. Silvers` daughter said he had not been seriously ill since 1972, when he suffered a stroke.
Melnick said Mr. Silvers had been feeling good for ''the last couple of weeks'' and wanted to go back to work.
''Today I got a script that Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas had sent him,'' Melnick said.
Services are scheduled Sunday at Forest Lawn.
Staff Sgt. Tim Kennedy is fighting Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza for the Strikeforce middleweight championship on Aug. 21 on Showtime. The cable network released this short video about Kennedy, which highlights his unique resume as a Special Forces soldier who has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kennedy talks a little about his Army experience, and how it’s helped him become proficient at picking up fighters in the Octagon and throwing them around.
Kirk Cousins’ first free agent visit will be with the Vikings. It’s quite possible the visit will end with a contract making him the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback.
According to an NFL source, the Redskins quarterback will visit the Vikings on Wednesday and Thursday as the league year officially begins. Cousins still is talking to teams in addition to the Vikings, another league source said, but mutual interest between the former Pro Bowl player and Minnesota has been something of an open NFL secret for weeks.
Multiple reports said the Vikings have offered Cousins a three-year, $84 million deal, which would make him the highest-paid quarterback in the league. It remains to be seen if the Vikings’ offer will be the biggest one Cousins receives — the New York Jets have $84 million in cap space, and have positioned themselves for a strong run at Cousins — but the chance to compete for a championship in Minnesota could be what gives the Vikings the edge.