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CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) every player who’s yet to reach superstar status in the major leagues can dream that this is the year he’ll make a name for himself The theme of our season-opening power rankings is based off of those dreams We’ve identified one player on each team who’s shown glimpses that he could break out on the big stage With the vast majority of MLB teams set to open the 2025 season on Thursday we’ll soon find out which players have what it takes and which have misplaced hope—until next year Sports Illustrated's 2025 MLB Preview Issue Breakout Candidate: SP Roki SasakiNo surprise here There’s a reason he’s been the world’s top pitching prospect for several years Sasaki boasts a wicked arsenal that includes an upper 90s fastball that hits triple-digits regularly plus a splitter that is already one of MLB’s best pitches and a good slider He’s an extreme favorite to win Rookie of the Year in the National League Breakout Candidate: SP Griffin CanningIt may feel overly optimistic to call Canning Injuries and inconsistency have left the former Los Angeles Angels hurler’s potential untapped Canning racked up 22 strikeouts in 14 ⅓ innings during a productive spring He could finally level up in David Stearns’s Mets pitching lab Breakout Candidate: 2B Bryson Stott Stott seemed on the verge of becoming an All-Star after he rapped 164 hits But he took a step back in a disappointing ‘24 campaign in which he was playing through a nerve issue in his elbow Now healthy and with a strong spring under his belt Stott is poised to become an All-Star for the first time Breakout Candidate: OF Jasson Dominguez Dominguez endured some rough moments in left field to start the spring but the Yankees demonstrated patience and he began to show progress belted four home runs in eight games in a brief stint in the majors in 2023 before injuries derailed his progress In ‘25 he’ll show why he earned the nickname “The Martian.” — TC Breakout Candidate: OF Ceddanne Rafaela At just 23 years old last season appearing in 152 games while belting 15 home runs and swiping 19 bases while also being rated as an above-average center fielder with a strong arm The speedy Rafaela could go for a 25–25 season in one of the AL’s best lineups in ‘25 Pfaadt emerged during Arizona’s 2023 World Series run but struggled in his first full season / Jeff Hanisch-Imagn ImagesBreakout Candidate: SP Brandon PfaadtPfaadt will open the season as Arizona’s fifth starter in a strong rotation He has yet to put it all together in his two-year career But the silver lining from last season was that while his ERA sat at 4.71 Breakout Candidate: SP Spencer SchwellenbachIn a rookie season that flew under the radar in the National League Schwellenbach amassed a 3.35 ERA and 127 strikeouts in 123 ⅔ innings pitched in ‘24 He can sit righties down with a filthy slider and send lefties back to the dugout with his splitter or curveball It’s rare for such a young pitcher—he’ll be 25 in May—to have so many weapons Breakout Candidate: CF Pete Crow-ArmstrongFour years later the Cubs’ 2021 trade of Javier Baez to the New York Mets appears ready to bear fruit Crow-Armstrong was a capable center fielder in his first full season in 2024 driving in 47 runs and stealing 27 bases—but he can be something much more than that Look for the speedster to make a case for the All-Star Game after posting a gaudy .500/.485/.906 slash line in limited spring action Breakout Candidate: IF Jackson Holliday Holliday the son of former seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday with All-Star shortstop Gunnar Henderson set to begin the year on the injured list Holliday will have plenty of opportunities to shine A strong spring in which he collected 16 hits and swiped five bases in 16 games only adds to the excitement Breakout Candidate: SP Gavin WilliamsWilliams suffered an elbow injury last spring and picked up some bad mechanical habits as his fastball increased velocity and vertical break in the spring when he racked up 26 strikeouts in 17 ⅓ innings Arrighetti posted fantastic strikeout numbers last year but didn’t showcase fine command / Thomas Shea-Imagn ImagesBreakout Candidate: SP Spencer ArrighettiThe 25-year-old righty made 28 starts in 2024 and struck out 171 hitters in 145 innings pitched He looked dominant at times but finished the campaign with a 4.53 ERA That should improve if he harnesses his control Arrighetti has a mid-90s fastball with life and movement and a hard biting slider that can be devastating to right-handed hitters He looked dominant at times last year and should be more often this year Breakout Candidate: 1B/DH Spencer Torkelson Torkelson belted 31 home runs and drove in 94 runs in his second season in ‘23 A brutal slump resulted in a demotion to Triple-A last summer Breakout Candidate: LF Wyatt LangfordAfter a promising rookie year 4 pick from the loaded 2023 MLB draft could realize his All-Star potential Langford finished the 2024 campaign slashing .253/.325/.415 with 16 home runs and 74 RBI He has followed that up by absolutely mashing this spring The 23-year-old is set to be a huge piece of the Rangers’ puzzle Breakout Candidate: SP Bryan Woo The power righty starter with incredible fastball movement had an outstanding 2024 His walk rate was among the best in the majors and his strikeout-to-walk rate was an eye-popping 7.8 He simply doesn’t let guys get on base and is poised to be even more valuable with a bigger workload in 2025 Breakout Candidate: SS Xander Bogaerts Can a four-time All-Star be a breakout candidate In the case of Bogaerts and his time in San Diego $280 million contract the Padres signed him to in December 2022 Two down years have lowered expectations and taken some pressure off him Breakout Candidate: RF Matt Wallner The 27-year-old Wallner posted a .914 OPS in the second half and carried the Twins’ Carlos Correa-less lineup down the stretch There’s a little bit too much swing-and-miss in his game but he has an impressive ability to barrel the ball and a 10 percent career walk rate is nothing to sneeze at If he can handle the adjustments pitchers make to him Breakout Candidate: SP Robbie RayThis is more of a bounce-back than breakout prediction the former Cy Young winner has looked excellent in spring training It’s time for him to reintroduce himself to the majors Ray made seven starts in 2024 with mixed results posting a 4.70 ERA but striking out 43 in 30 ⅔ innings Breakout Candidate: 1B Vinnie Pasquantino Pasquantino belted a career-high 19 home runs in ‘24 but missed the final month of the season with a broken right thumb rare combinations for a power-hitting first baseman Pasquantino suffered a Grade 1-plus right hamstring strain this spring but if he can recover to enjoy good health in ‘25 Breakout Candidate: 2B/SS Matt McLainShoulder surgery cost McLain—who received Rookie of the Year votes in 2023—all of last season because he was special in just 89 games in ‘23 extrapolated to a 162-game season: .290/.357/.507 If he stays healthy and comes remotely close to those numbers the Reds’ infield will be must-see television Caminero’s power has scouts salivating ahead of this season / Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn ImagesBreakout Candidate: 3B Junior CamineroThere will be highs and lows with Caminero this year Look no further than his spring training performance opposite field home run off of Yankees lefthander Max Fried in a game on Sunday But Caminero’s raw power could be a godsend for the Rays’ lineup posted a monstrous .407/.541/.704 slash line in 37 spring training plate appearances The 25-year-old on-base machine earned a spot on the Opening Day roster and should get plenty of at-bats this year especially with Daulton Varsho opening the season on the IL Breakout Candidate: LF James Wood The 6’7” 234-pound slugger acquired in the Juan Soto trade posted a 122 OPS+ a .264 batting average and swiped 14 bases in just 79 games last year Wood struggled defensively in his first taste of big-league action He’s long been touted as a future All-Star and the future is now Breakout Candidate: 2B Nick GonzalesPittsburgh’s 2020 first-round pick is an intriguing piece With the caveat that he had good batted-ball luck last year Gonzales made modest strides as a contact hitter raising his average 61 points and OPS 93 points Good range numbers at second base suggest a potent all-around game waiting to be unlocked Breakout Candidate: RF Lawrence Butler One could argue Butler broke out in 2024 as the toolsy right fielder slashed .300/.345/.553 with 13 home runs and 12 stolen bases after the All-Star break going from a sixth-round pick in 2018 to the recent recipient of a seven-year Expect big things this season in West Sacramento has the stuff to be a late bloomer for the Angels / Rick Scuteri-Imagn ImagesBreakout Candidate: SP Jose SorianoSoriano is a 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Volume 13 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.982654 This article is part of the Research TopicChildren's Drawings: Evidence-based Research and PracticeView all 18 articles This retrospective-descriptive study investigated how primary and middle-school children perceived the first COVID-19 lockdown in Italy (March–May 2020) as manifested in their drawings Once school restarted after the first COVID-19 wave and as part of a structured school re-entry program run in their class in September 2020 900 Italian children aged 7–13 were asked to draw a moment of their life during the lockdown The drawings were coded and quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed; several pictorial examples are illustrated in this article Most children used colorful and full-body representations of the self but in almost half of the pictures drawn by older students the self was either missing or represented without the face visible Most children drew the interior of their houses and the outside world was completely invisible in over half of the pictures The most represented activities among younger students were playing or sport Domestic routines and distance learning were also depicted drew characters showing emotional cohesion clues and more younger pupils and girls depicted contentment as their main emotion Conflicting emotions were virtually non-existent Our data suggest that children coped with the lockdown through play The high incidence of the missing self-representation in preadolescents could indicate how the enforced loneliness and lack of direct physical contact with others impacted their perception of the self The findings presented here deepen our knowledge of the dynamics connected to the effects of the COVID crisis on children and young people and show how drawings can provide a valuable window into children’s emotions and perceptions some children felt free to use their time as they wished and took this opportunity to spend more time with their families These characteristics make drawings a rich and colorful source of information for researchers the “life as experienced,” relating to the images and the specific meanings they assume for an individual and then “life as told,” which is a narrative that is inevitably influenced by the socio-cultural conventions of story-telling Idoiaga Mondragon et al. (2022) used drawing as a tool to explore how the COVID-19 lockdown affected children in Spain They contacted children through their schools’ administration which forwarded a questionnaire to their parents Children drew their lockdown experience by answering two questions (“What are you doing during the lockdown?” and “What do you miss?”) Physical activities carried out in the home and art projects were the activities most represented during the lockdown Most children drew their family members and reported positive emotions and they reported missing playing and team sports The present study utilized a retrospective-descriptive design to analyze how children remembered their own lockdown experiences and how they depicted these through their drawings This observational work expands on recent drawing-based children COVID-19 research using qualitative and quantitative content analyses and statistical exploration of the association of different responses with gender and school level group and measure different variables connected to the COVID-19 lockdown experience by addressing the following research questions: how did children represent themselves and objects when thinking back to the times of lockdown [Research Question (RQ)1] What are the most commonly represented subjects What emotional content and type of relationships are reproduced (RQ3) we hypothesized that there would be differences based on gender or school level in the school children’s depictions of their lockdown experiences Sixty classes (72% primary school, 28% middle school) from three school districts in the Umbria region of central Italy took part in the program. This involved 54 teachers who administered it to 906 students [48.8% female, mean age 9.4 years, standard deviation (SD) 1.7 years, age range 7–13 years] after obtaining parental written consent and approval of each school board (Capurso et al., 2021a) each student completed the seven-page school re-entry booklet to produce a set of personal narratives organized as a continuous storyline starting at the beginning of the lockdown period and ending in class when school restarted This resulted in a unique sample of children’s accounts of their experiences the children’s booklet was explained in detail and instructions were provided for its use in class The teachers were told to start the program as soon as school reopened and finish it within a few days (the average duration was 5.1 days) One of the booklet’s activities asked children to “Draw a moment that has remained in your mind from when you had to stay at home.” The children could choose any drawing tools they liked to complete the task The teachers collected the drawings for this paper’s data and they were digitized by the research team We used several scales of the PAIR coding system (Pictorial Assessment of Interpersonal Relationships; Bombi et al., 2007) to address RQ3 PAIR is a psychological instrument developed to organize and code drawings representing relationships and emotions Each of the instrument’s six scales can be used independently we used the Scale of Value to identify the “self” in the picture assuming that this was the character with the highest score based on a set of attributes (dimensions Emotions (centered on the character assumed to represent the self) based on the assessment of graphic clues expressing one of the following nominal and mutually exclusive items; neutrality The Emotional Climate (used when two or more subjects were represented) which we reduced to two mutually exclusive nominal categories: sharing the same emotional state or presenting different emotional states which measures the interdependence between the partners (when more people were present) based on the presence of six pictorial cues (looking which measures the autonomy of the partners and provides a score from 0 to 6 based on the presence of six pictorial cues (avoiding looking at the other person acting independently from the other person staying in a specific space (not shared with the other person) which informs on the disruption of the relationship Pictorial assessment of interpersonal relationships is based on marking qualitative characteristics in a picture and its represented subjects from a set of described pictorial features. PAIR is a viable tool to study children’s representations of their social world, and its development has followed rigorous validation (Bombi et al., 2007) The original dataset (in Italian and Filemaker format) is available upon request from the corresponding author Overview of the coding scheme developed for the drawings The quantitative content analysis allowed us to determine the statistical relevance of specific drawing details; however, the depth, richness, and texture of children’s drawn experiences were lost within the broader codes used by the quantitative content analysis. Therefore, we conducted a secondary, in-depth qualitative inductive content analysis (Miles and Huberman, 1994) on selected drawings representing each of the analyzed codes or a relative overarching theme the authors selected all the pictures that corresponded to a specific code and jointly discussed and commented on them to select what they felt was most meaningful The units in this analysis were the things appearing in the drawings The researchers were more interpretive in this stage; they formed questions and wrote conceptual comments on how the chosen picture and the lockdown context would be connected in the representation of the child’s reality Of the 906 participants, 900 completed the drawing activity. The drawings were analyzed based on the coding scheme (Table 1), and the main results are reported in Table 2 As the qualitative content analysis of the drawings inevitably deals with the same principles and generalizations as the quantitative data our comments from the qualitative analysis have been integrated into the following results paragraphs Quantitative content analysis of the drawings for school level and gender Most children used colorful representations (75%) with a full-body view (64%). There was a higher prevalence among primary school (PS) students [color: χ2 (1) = 98.32, p < 0.001; full-body: χ2 (1) = 48.45, p < 0.001; see Figure 1]. In 42% of the pictures made by SS students, the self was either missing or represented by a back view, χ2 (1) = 42.27, p < 0.001 (see Figures 2–5) Other people were also present in 61% of the drawings A colorful representation with full body view and other people present (PS The screen is reporting on the increase of the contagions Another different example of a drawing with no people A large white space is filled only with a computer displaying a videocall program and a table with a notebook and a pen A different example of a drawing with no people and that ball in front of the net is “asking” to be kicked soon (PS An example of missing people; this time the depicted scene is the inside of the house Someone must have prepared those cakes and surely is going to eat them soon (PS For example, colorful and well-detailed images are present in Figures 1, 6–10 A large part of the drawing area has been used in these images These pictures convey a sense of completeness and satisfaction; they show a world filled with friends and play activities that allowed the child to navigate through the hard times The images communicated by these drawings may not necessarily reproduce a lived reality but reflect an internal world capable of remaining active and well organized despite the crisis situation the illustrations are richer in color and details this picture also has a high cohesion ranking because the children stand on a common area A lucky boy who could access a backyard swimming pool (SS A picture with a high score of distancing according to the PAIR scale Figures 2, 3 show different types of void representation where people (or faces) are invisible. Only technology is present, but even where two people are represented (Figure 2) and the space is overwhelmed by the invasive presence of the television (TV) (which is showing deaths and COVID-19 case counts) someone has just finished baking those hot pies and will be eating them shortly Both these pictures depict elements of life even in the absence of human figures; they are full of color and warmth and convey positive expectations and a sense of security or community The face of the friend is colored and full of details but her hair appears brushed and well-kempt The white space around gives us a sense of isolation folded back on itself and chained to his seat (PS but the girls’ own chair is empty (SS An example of two girls actively using ICT for a chat The girl is saying: “when this is over we’ll ride together in our bicycle” (PS The problem is that no one is present to use it the emptiness of the room is reflected in the emptiness of cyberspace It shows a boy watering a lawn in front of his house The picture is in black and white and conveys all the insecurity connected to the first stage of the COVID-19 pandemic The sun is partially obscured by the clouds a grinning and intimidating virus is watching But the picture also contains elements of life and the houses in the background emit smoke from their chimneys to reflect the life that is inside Hovering over the boy’s house is a bottle of disinfectant that keeps the virus away The TV screen is showing the pandemic news but the children are playing inside a separate area that seems to keep them safe from the menacing world (PS Finally, 6% of children represented escaping activities such as dreaming; Figure 17 shows a boy dreaming of a slice of pizza a typical longed-for snack among Italian children during the lockdown This reminds the child of the life outside that continues despite the lockdown and is waiting to welcome the subject once the isolation is over In terms of depicted objects and living creatures, the self was represented alone in 53.55% of the images (Figure 15); when it was associated with other people (29.55%), this was more often done by PS children [χ2 (1) = 14.26, p < 0.001; see Figures 2, 6). Pets (11.44%, Figure 9) were more often portrayed by PS [χ2 (1) = 11.21 p < 0.001] and females [χ2(1) = 5.32 White emptiness is prevalent in this picture The subject occupies a small portion in the middle his arms are open as if to embrace the world and his body is filled with color and details This picture is a testimony to the resilience that younger children could show even when they had no siblings or friends to play with during the lockdown The PAIR scale could be applied only to 257 drawings that depicted two or more people; therefore the following data only apply to this subsample (55% female An uncommon example of PAIR’s negative emotions; TV says: do not go outside (PS Examples of shared positive emotions can be seen in Figures 1, 6–8, 10 These pictures show smiling children playing or engaged in some other collaborative activity The colors are well distributed and bright and the whole image paints an optimistic picture of the represented event Conversely, Figure 19 depicts a rare example of shared negative emotions; two young girls sit at a table with a TV between them The color fill is less uniform than in other pictures and the TV and long table increase the distance between the girls who appear unable to play together and are left alone with their anger and sadness The external world is still present since a blue sky and a shining sun are visible through the window but these act as reminders of what the girls are missing and wishing for The represented subjects often shared the same emotion (59.14%, see Figures 1, 6–8, 14) with a prevalence among PS [χ2(1) = 13.69 p < 0.001] and females [χ2(1) = 10.55 Figure 1 is an example of sharing positive emotions It depicts a couple of children playing outdoors with a pet and their whole body is visible in color with full details; the sky is blue the grassed ground fills the bottom of the page and the drawing space is filled with details and colors this picture was manifestly conceived by a young girl who experienced positive times during the lockdown and could most likely access open space to play with friends or siblings Shared neutrality (30.74%, Figure 18) was more frequent among SS [χ2(1) = 6.56, p < 0.05] and males [χ2(1) = 8.67, p < 0.05]. Unilateral or opposite emotions were rare (10.12%; Figure 20 is an example of opposite emotions) The child on the right is somehow excluded from playing with the other two subjects in the middle of the drawing This picture reminds us that not all children live in a happy family environment without tensions and conflicts the memory of the lockdown is connected to difficult or negative experiences An example of PAIR’s opposite emotions (PS Virtually no conflict (97.67%) was depicted in the pictures analyzed where the child in blue is separated from the other two subjects who are playing together and appear to be walking away and not looking at him Quantitative content analysis of the selected PAIR items for emotions Univariate analysis of variance of PAIR cohesion and distancing scales – based on school level and gender (N = 257) This study analyzed a set of Umbrian-Italian children’s lockdown-related drawings which were retrospectively created in September 2020 when the school was restarted after the first COVID-19 wave The results of this research offer several insights into how children experienced their first lockdown and how they narrated their lives at home through drawings The combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis enabled an in-depth analysis of the children’s vision and perceptions of the situation recommendations include engaging youngsters in play activities communicating with children in an age-appropriate manner about the pandemic situation limiting their exposure to unfiltered news and outlining possible activities rather than prohibitions the recommendations include modeling important life skills like coping and problem-solving transmitting a sense of control whenever possible and allowing older children to learn responsibility we hypothesized that despite the adversities children would have found ways of thriving and exhibited resilience the prompt asking children to draw their experience was neutral in the present study to allow the subjects complete freedom to choose what to draw and what type of experience to report (e.g. and parents to plan the use of screentime and connect it with some activities that promote active relationships Schools should play a primary role in this kind of planning and should plan and deliver distance education activities where ICT is used as a tool to reach a final aim or product and not just as a means to deliver traditional subject-based content While most drawings convey a positive message, there were instances of negative memories from the lockdown. These were usually connected to drawings showing loneliness/void (Figures 2, 3) or conveying a sense of exclusion and marginalization, as seen in Figures 19, 20 The pictures with wide empty spaces, indicating a sense of a void, remind us that peer interaction is extremely important to children and that those who lacked it during the lockdown suffered deeply, to the extent that it affected their self-perception. Evidently, not all children had the opportunity for meaningful peer interactions. Children across Europe have reported emptiness as a source of distress (Forte et al., 2021) This data reminds us of the importance of establishing peer support networks in times of crisis and how crucial it is to ensure that such support is available to every child but especially to those living in families experiencing vulnerability or with a single parent Such a network could be facilitated by peers or other professional types of interventions development-based intervention that targets parents and teachers to support social skills and prevent or moderate conduct or oppositional defiant disorders and emotional or behavioral problems in neglected or abused children This study’s main limitations are the limited provenance of the subjects and the inevitably subjective characteristics of the interpretation of the drawings the administration of the task in the classroom could not be controlled by the researcher We used standardized instructions for the children and their teachers to improve control We ensured that all the children were administered the task in the same place (their classroom) we used the participants’ drawings to substantiate the interpretations of the data from the quantitative analysis our findings cannot be generalized to different cultural or geographical settings This study used a child-centered drawings-based approach and prioritized their perspectives and experiences, enabling them to share information in ways that worked for them. This method is considered easily accessed by children of different ages, sex, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and with different language abilities (Milbrath and Trautner, 2008) the children’s drawings enabled us to understand how they perceived play and emptiness during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic Our results show the protective role of good relationships Technology is depicted in an ambivalent way; sometimes it contributes to maintaining good relationships but often it is associated with a dissolved self-image The connection between ICT-related social functions and the self-image of children and adolescents needs further investigation in the future the lockdown drawings showed positive moments some of the pictures showed signs of discomfort or even distress usually connected to a lack of peer or family relationships or the absence of the subject’s involvement in meaningful activities Maintaining developmental trajectories and supporting children’s thriving can be achieved even in times of crisis if family and community support systems are networked and if public policies provide family support and pay attention to those who are more vulnerable despite many studies reporting children as having suffered due to the COVID-19 lockdown When presented with the opportunity to recall their lockdown time freely and their pictures transmit a sense of resilience This could indicate that the difficult times during the lockdown were a natural part of their daily lives the children were ready to populate all voids they had drawn during the pandemic At this very moment, the young boy who imagined that lonely football in Figure 6 is probably running around and chasing that same ball on a field full of voices The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors Ethical review and approval was not required for the study on human participants in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements Written informed consent to participate in this study was provided by the participants or their legal guardian/next of kin and developed the first draft of the manuscript LB performed the ANOVA and other quantitative analyses while CM contributed to conceptualizing the work All authors were involved in writing the manuscript and contributed to the content analysis process This article publication fee was funded by Personal Departmental Research funds by MC (CAPULEHO14) and CM (MAZZ_SERAFICO 2019) We thank all the children who contributed to this study by opening their hearts and sharing their experiences during such difficult times We would like to acknowledge all participating headteachers and teachers from the following Italian schools that took part in this study: Istituto Comprensivo Statale Panicale-Piegaro-Paciano We acknowledge technical support from the Morlacchi printshop in Perugia which provided the scanning device to digitize all the children’s materials and Simona Villani for 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He explained to reporters why he went above and beyond for his new Mets teammate Juan Soto on why he gifted Brett Baty a car for No. 22:"He actually had no excuses or anything he just gave it away for me, I'm just thankful for that. I made sure he's going to really appreciate it." pic.twitter.com/S3eqlvtXzf it's not about the car or anything," Soto said "It's something that's gonna make him happy he tells himself that it was worth giving the number 22 To make him feel comfortable and really be thankful for what he has done." "Some guys don't like to give away their numbers and everything But he actually had no excuses or anything he just gave it away for me And I just made sure that he gets something that he's going to really appreciate." who said he didn't know Soto was going to purchase him a car just for him to be able to think to do something like that I couldn't be more grateful," Baty said "I'm just really excited that he's on our team and I get to learn from him And just learn from one of the best hitters in the game But it was super exciting going out there and seeing that." Baty added that he's been driving the same 2016 Toyota 4 Runner Brett Baty reveals he's been driving the same car he drove in high school for his whole career before Soto's gift:"Every Spring Training I come in saying 'I'm gonna get a new car, I'm gonna get a new car'... I didn't expect that, that was amazing." pic.twitter.com/40bf36YE2c "I've been driving the same car .. Honestly Mark [Vientos] has been giving me a hard time about it .. But I've been driving the car I drove in high school around for my whole career And I come into spring training every single year I'm like 'I'm gonna get a new car Baty said in conversations with Vientos and Mets manager of team travel Edgar Suero that he had always indicated he'd want "something spacious" in a new vehicle He said he knew something was up when Suero asked him for his car insurance on Wednesday Baty will be driving around in his dream car who will continue wearing a number near and dear to his heart But Dallas's stunning about-face with its franchise player may have hit those closest to home harder than anyone came out in droves to protest the deal outside of American Airlines Arena before Sunday's hockey game between the Dallas Stars and Columbus Blue Jackets carried a coffin in a mock funeral for the Mavericks which blasted the deal as the "Worst Trade in NBA History." Three dudes brought a coffin to American Airlines Center. They’re playing “See You Again.” “Rest in peace to the Mavs.” pic.twitter.com/0Ndv26vGyb Signs, flowers, words of appreciation for Doncic and memorabilia were all placed outside the arena in the lead-up to the Stars-Blue Jackets game, all of which were later removed by arena staff on Monday morning FOX4 Dallas-Fort Worth also gave Mavericks fans a chance to let their voices be heard in interviews outside the stadium To say these fans were distraught by the Doncic trade would be an understatement Mavericks fans are understandably crashing out Via @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/dz4fw6k159 calling the trade the "worst moment in the history of my life" cited Doncic and the Mavs' run to the NBA Finals last summer on an early career trajectory that has him in the company of some of the game's greatest players likely would have earned the right to have a statue outside of the arena one day But even more so than his stellar play on the court which in 2021 declared July 6 "Luka Doncic Day" And the feeling was mutual, as Doncic penned a heartfelt farewell to Mavs fans on Sunday and Mavs fans are special fans," Doncic wrote in the statement "Thank you from the bottom of my heart." It's safe to say that the emotional scars Mavs fans are feeling in the aftermath of the stunning trade won't soon heal Terique Owens on Wednesday is re-signing with San Francisco's practice squad, according to multiple reports. Mike Garafolo of NFL Network was first to report the news Owens, an undrafted free agent out of Missouri State, first signed with San Francisco back in April after he was invited to the club's local Pro Day as the elder Owens began his career with the 49ers after being drafted by the organization in the third round of the 1996 NFL draft With fellow rookie wideouts Ricky Pearsall and Jacob Cowing missing the first several practices of training camp the younger Owens took advantage of the opportunity and seemed poised to potentially make the 53-man roster But he fractured his hand in August and was waived with an injury settlement by the 49ers he was expected to miss five to seven weeks Owens caught 46 passes for 765 yards and four touchdowns who—along with his brother Matthew—was involved in two of the three bouts on the ice against the Canadians explained in an interview with ESPN's Emily Kaplan after the first period that the brawls started "organically" adding that his brother "wanted a piece" of Team Canada winger Brandon Hagel Brady Tkachuk on the ELECTRIC start to USA-Canada 🎤 #4Nations pic.twitter.com/0bRMku7472 I think it just happened pretty organically," Tkachuk said now it's an opportunity to win the game." "Right when we found out the starting lineup he said he wanted a piece of him [Hagel] and then I coordinated with Benny [Sam Bennett] there and Millsy [J.T Miller] finished off with a big boy one too." The ensuing adrenaline rush quickly propelled both teams to find the net as Team Canada center Connor McDavid scored 5:31 into the first period with Team USA's Jake Guentzel answering back roughly five minutes later to tie the game Team USA went on to defeat Team Canada 3-1 clinching a spot in the 4 Nations Face-Off final "I think everybody knows KAT my brother so that definitely hurt," Edwards said I'm ready to get to know them [Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo] and try to get it figured out as fast as we can because we trying to get back to where we was and go even farther." On Friday, Towns, a four-time All-Star, was dealt to the Knicks in exchange for a return package headlined by three-time All-Star Julius Randle guard Donte DiVincenzo and a protected first round pick The Charlotte Hornets were also a part of the deal When asked if he had been given a chance to give input to the front office on the deal Edwards said he hadn't because he was on a plane at the time The trade had to be particularly jarring for Edwards whose relationship with Towns blossomed into a strong working partnership that resulted in three playoff appearances in the four years the two spent together including a run to the Western Conference finals this past summer Even Towns himself seemed to be surprised by the deal Edwards said he communicated with Towns via text messages after his plane landed "It was incredible," Edwards said of his relationship with Towns "That's what we talked about once I landed We were just talking to each other about everything "And he sent me a picture of him at the gym at like three in the morning it's clear that the two will likely maintain a strong friendship Edwards's Timberwolves will open the 2024-25 season on Tuesday October 22 in Los Angeles against the Lakers who came on in relief for Boston in the top of the ninth inning found himself in a bit of a pickle after he allowed a single to Ernie Clement and a walk to left fielder Davis Schneider to start the inning but caught a little bit too much air on the attempt Weissert dove full extension to make the catch then immediately turned and fired to second to double off Clement Shortstop Ceddane Rafaela then quickly threw to first to attempt the third out but Schneider narrowly beat the throw back to the bag PITCHERS. 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ATHLETES 😤Watch Greg Weissert nearly start a triple play! pic.twitter.com/TawJg2WTEz It would have been just the 17th 1-6-3 triple play in MLB history-and the first in 27 years-according to Baseball Almanac records dating back to 1876 Go just about anywhere in the United States and you'll hear someone pronouncing a word differently than you've ever heard it spoken in your life Well, baseball fans watching the MLB Home Run Derby on Monday night were treated to a lesson in Philadelphia lingo as Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm—and his teammate Bryce Harper—brought a water bottle with a thick Philadelphia accent that likely hails from somewhere in the Delaware County region When Bohm took a 45-second timeout during his first round at-bat hilariously labeled to reflect how Philadelphians pronounce the word was the perfect shout-out to the Phillies' home base on the national stage Wooder, it's a Philly thing 🤣 pic.twitter.com/xTr6ig3OJ9 Not only did Bohm make Philadelphia proud with the wooder bottle an All-Star for the first time in his career but ended up hitting the most home runs of any player in the first round While he was defeated by eventual Derby champion Teoscar Hernandez via a semifinal swing-off, Bohm still left his mark on the event—and on Philadelphians everywhere is eyeing two of Kerr's assistants from the team's gold medal run in Paris Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra and Los Angeles Clippers coach Tyronn Lue who served as an assistant coach for the Americans at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was named USA men's basketball head coach in December of 2021 replacing San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich in the role Kerr led a USA Basketball team that finished a disappointing fourth in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, though the group did manage to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, where Kerr, who at times was questioned for his rotational decisions and the Americans redeemed themselves by winning an Olympic gold medal for the fifth straight time The news that Kerr won't be continuing on as USA's head coach isn't particularly surprising given that he in November of 2023 had said he intended to step down after the Paris Olympics who have won a combined three NBA championships USA Basketball has two experienced and respected head coaches as replacement candidates Whether it's Spoelstra, Lue or another coach, whoever is ultimately chosen will be tasked with ushering in a new era of USA Basketball in a landscape where international rivals are seemingly closing the talent gap Volume 7 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01953 This article is part of the Research TopicThe Role of Play in Child Assessment and InterventionView all 16 articles We propose that children’s play and coping strategies are connected this connection has often been overlooked in the literature the principal developmental functions of play are reviewed and compared with the different stages of the coping process Our results show that coping and play are essential elements in child development and indicate the presence of several overlapping areas where play and coping intersect their interrelationship has seldom been examined We explore the possible reasons for this omission with reference to the different natures of play and coping constructs and also to the definitive psychometric and cognitive characteristics of most common coping measurement instruments We conclude by proposing that play should be considered an elective form of coping in most aspects of children’s lives We also propose that methods to measure coping in children should be improved and a more analogical approach should be adopted toward play to enable accurate recognition of coping Coping and play are widely recognized as being crucial to child development. In different ways, they both support mental, physical, social, and emotional well-being and the ability to adapt (Bjorklund and Pellegrini, 2002; Russ, 2004; Ginsburg, 2007; Skinner and Zimmer-Gembeck, 2007; Aldwin, 2009; Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2016) we aim to highlight limits in current coping theories that obscure the importance of play and show possible future developments for integrating both constructs Coping adapts and develops as a joint function of internal traits and environmental characteristics (Skinner and Zimmer-Gembeck, 2007; Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2016). Infants engage in reflex actions mediated by their own temperament (Rueda and Rothbart, 2009), and volitional coping strategies start to emerge from early childhood (Compas et al., 2001) their coping strategies develop as follows: • Initial stage of social referencing (Klinnert et al., 1983; Fonagy et al., 2007) where children quickly attune to their caregiver’s reactions to assess potential dangers and whether they should engage or withdraw from the external situations; • Concurrent stage of interpersonal coping, in which children intentionally instigate coping actions in their caregivers through by communication aimed at producing the desired results (Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2016); • Predominance of distraction strategies in younger children and progressive differentiation of this trend in children over 4 years old (Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2011) • Gradual shift from behavioral actions to more cognitive-based and emotion-focused forms of coping (Losoya et al., 1998; Spirito, 2003); • Increase in problem-solving and the ability to regulate the coping response according to the stressful situation (Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2011); • Development of regulation strategies that in turn increase the use of emotion-focused forms of coping from age 6 onward (Band and Weisz, 1988; Altshuler and Ruble, 1989; Aldwin, 2009); • Increased seeking for social support and the shift from parent-centered help to peer support, especially for emotional problems (Crystal et al., 2008) The main limitation of current studies into children’s coping strategies is the tendency for children’s strategies be regarded in the same way as those of adults “The way in which coping is conceptualized influences methods of measurement and defines the scope of what is included within the rubric of coping Many of the problems in the field have come from the lack of clarity and consensus regarding the nature of coping during childhood and adolescence.” If the construct of coping is cognitive in nature then children’s coping tools should align with their cognitive developmental stage as defined by current theories in the field if the coping strategy of a group of children in the preoperational stage Finally, many of the coping categories identified by the current measurement tools are mutually exclusive (Ryan-Wenger, 1992; Skinner et al., 2003), where a specific action is interpreted only as a single type of coping strategy (e.g., “go out and play” is only classified as distancing from the stressful event). While such an approach serves the need of a taxonomy-based construct (Reynolds, 1971) it inevitably fails when faced with the multidimensional characteristics of play leading to a partial and incomplete consideration of its potential has not revealed any meaningful discussion of the term is only seen as an attempt by the child to distance themselves from the stressor or delay the need to face the situation Conversely, the adaptive and evolutionary functions of play have been studied for many years. Ellis (1998) asserted that play is a biological function to mediate adaptation to unpredictable threats, whilst others suggest that play is a crucial component in children, representing central evolutionary and natural values that continue throughout life (Sutton-Smith, 1997), and mediating adjustment during childhood (Bjorklund and Green, 1992) Given the characteristics of these two constructs the three main areas where play and coping encounter are cognitive These aspect of play are connected to the appraisal stage of coping where children assess the external reality to identify and later trial solutions in a way that is at the same time safe and not frustrating According to a psychodynamic view, the deep nature of play is ambiguous. Winnicott (1971) explains this by placing play in a special transitional area, where fantasy and external reality coexist. Such a space represents the transition from omnipotence, where the child feels that they can create the world, to an objective and sometimes frustrating reality, where the world is beyond their personal control. Winnicott (1971 51) states that “into this play area the child gathers objects or phenomena from external reality and uses these in the service of some sample derived from inner or personal reality.” The transitional space is in the middle ground between the child and the environment exploring different possible scenarios connecting fantasy and reality While this later view may render a definition of play relative and therefore hard to attain universally it has the advantage of allowing for a wide set of different play settings Such characteristics make matching with the contextual nature of coping constructs possible since also coping is linked to individual and socio-contextual traits They suggested that the lack of fear of any real consequences and the autonomy experienced in play allowed children to develop new solutions helping them to comprehend and solve their social and personal problems who recognizes its function as a holder for- and molder of There are several areas where play can be connected to coping. In children at the preoperative and concrete stage of development (ages 3–10), play may act as an initiator of forms of conjectural thinking. To visualize different solutions and assess different coping actions, in situations of distress, adults start a chain of “if-then” mental statements (Lazarus, 1991); whereas children can “pretend-play about it,” envisioning solutions and testing them in a safe and imaginative context in pretend play young children show signs of understanding others’ thinking and beliefs when confronting reality which is a key component commonly found both in coping and in play activity Figure 1 shows the different stages of the coping process (Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2016) and how play can act as a mediator at different times It begins with play mediating the different components in the appraisal phase (the stressor the assessment of personal and social resources and the potential coping strategy itself) and it then continues with play mediating the coping action with personal and social resources These aspects should all be the focus of future research FIGURE 1. Coping as a transactional process (adapted from Zimmer-Gembeck and Skinner, 2016) integrated with play functions Original Picture Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons This peculiar characteristic of play should be acknowledged and accepted in any investigation of children’s coping behaviors and strategies The relationship between the assessment of children’s coping strategies and play calls for further research in two main areas Coping is related to volitional cognitive processes and is generally categorized using mutually exclusive taxonomies Play is a fundamental part of a child’s life while autonomous coping skills become increasingly important in adulthood Coping is akin to walking across a bridge over troubled waters but play shows children different options and enables them to choose which route to take The metaphor of our title recalls the power of play as a mediator helping the children to work out coping solutions; and the role of play as a mediator between coping and the stressors The aim of this paper was to connect the free and fantastical world of play with the more rational and grounded theory of coping in children In doing so we focused mainly on the interconnections of play and coping outlining the adaptive functions coming from the unregulated characteristics of play types of play and settings where play is indeed much more structured and this also helps children to cope play remains a universal language and a means for children to express themselves A proper connection with coping will help more children to develop and become more resilient when facing adversity and this is surely a field worth exploring for any researcher in human development MC initiated and planned the outline of the article conducted the research on children’s coping strategies performed the comparisons of coping and play and discussed the differences between the two He also edited the main text of the article BR researched children’s play and drafted the paragraph about 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what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page RIDGEFIELD PARK – The first time was a surprise The 5-foot-5 Ridgefield Park senior center -- well she’s about as close to a center as the Lady Scarlets have -- has battled through not just one have helped the Lady Scarlets to a 24-2 record and the North 2 Group 2 semifinals Saturday against Essex County power Newark Tech Capurso believes the hypothesis that girls are more susceptible to ACL tears than boys She doesn’t even wear a brace on her unlucky right knee “I had a brace sophomore year and I hated it I asked coach if I could practice without it and she said sure and I was so much faster,” said Capurso but you’re getting knee pads.” AOW: Female Athlete of the Week: Dorian Capurso, Ridgefield Park DARREN COOPER: Ron Harper Jr. lifts the Ironmen to another Jamboree title COLUMN: Brian Dunn, NVOld Tappan girls hoops coach, reaches 400-win mark Coming into Ridgefield Park, Dorian carried with her the reputation as the younger sister of Scarlets standout running back Dante Capurso, but she has carved out her own legacy. After the Lady Scarlets thumped Morris Tech, 62-35, in the quarterfinals Thursday night, Ridgefield Park athletic director Mike Raimondi told a friend that Dorian was the ‘toughest kid in school.’ Growing up, Dorian saw a different path. She liked softball. She played soccer too, and her speed made her a game-changer in that sport. She wasn’t even sure she was going to play basketball in high school, but her Dad talked her into it at the last minute. She started on varsity as a freshman for the Lady Scarlets in basketball and then went on to a good softball season that spring. Sophomore year was off to another good start, she scored a bunch of goals in soccer, and went back to work in basketball, hustling, playing defense and creating her own shot. “We were in Paramus Catholic and were lined up to break the press. It was four across and we were inbounding the ball. I went long and my teammate passed it to me. I took one dribble and went up for the lay-up and when I came down, I popped my knee cap out,” said Capurso. After the trainer shifted the bone back in place, Capurso asked to re-enter the game (seriously). The initial ACL test was negative, but an MRI showed the unfortunate truth: a total tear of her ACL and meniscus in her right knee. “A couple of weeks before it happened to one of my teammates in practice,” said Capurso. “It was a freak accident. It wasn’t slippery. I jumped up and my knee caved in. You heard the pop….I didn’t want to hear the pop, but I heard it.” The date was Jan. 25. Surgery was nine days later. Rehab started the next day. Capurso was on crutches for six weeks and a machine bent her leg for eight hours a day. She missed softball season as a sophomore, but came back to play soccer as a junior. While making a move on the Ridgefield Park grass (it’s called “The Pit” for a reason) she landed wrong and tore the meniscus in her knee again. “The way our field is set up there are bumps and ridges everywhere,” said Capurso. “I missed a couple of games and went back.” By now, Capurso was hooked on hoops. She developed a strong connection with Lady Scarlets coach Nicole Pucciarelli and was determined to play as a junior. She was cleared to play just after tryouts. This time it happened in the second round of the county tournament against Saddle River Day. Same kind of play, a press break, a pass, a dribble, a jump. And she knew it before she hit the ground. “As soon as I went off my foot I knew,” she said. “It’s just a feeling you can’t forget. It’s like a rubber band breaking in your knee.” She did it all again. This time a surgeon put in a cadaver ligament (the first surgery stretched the hamstring to take the place of the ACL). She did the rehab. She sat out soccer season. But she wasn’t missing basketball season, although the county tournament did give her the jitters (she made it through unscathed). Now she follows a strict regimen with her knee. Ice, ice, baby. Lots of ice at all times. “I’m not nervous about it, because I know I can take care of myself and if it gets worse, I will go to rehab and get stronger,” said Capurso. “I do see myself playing in college and having fun with my kids when I’m older. It’s mental. It’s mostly mental.” Against Morris Tech, Capurso only scored six points, but was a defensive force. She laughed about one particular play where she blocked a Devils pass with her, well, face, which led to an easy basket. After the game, she talked to a local college coach. The next time she plays she will wear the black knee pad and show no fear. Volume 4 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2017.00038 This article is part of the Research TopicHealth-promoting effects of traditional Mediterranean DietsView all 4 articles Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in the world among men and is the fifth most common cause of cancer death among men The aim of our review was to analyze observational and case–control studies to point out the effects of overweight and diets components on the cancer risk and the effect of the Mediterranean diet (MD) on the reduction of risk and mortality of prostate cancer It is known that incidence and progression of cancer is multifactorial and prostate are due also to a high body mass index and to high consumption of high carcinogenic dietary factors as red and processed meat or saturated fats rich foods and to a low consumption of vegetables and fruits Previous meta-analysis suggested that high adherence to diet model based on the traditional MD pattern gives a significant protection from incidence and mortality of cancer of all types consumed in high amount by Mediterranean basin populations phenolic compounds exert some strong chemo-preventive effects including both antioxidant effects and actions on cancer cell signaling and cell cycle progression and proliferation The protective effect of the MD against the prostate cancer is also due to the high consumption of tomato sauce Lycopene is the most relevant functional component in tomatoes; after activating by the cooking of tomato sauce it exerts antioxidant properties by acting in the modulation of downregulation mechanisms of the inflammatory response represents a healthy dietary pattern in the context of a healthy lifestyle habits our narrative review allows us to reaffirm how nutritional factors play an important role in cancer initiation and development and how a healthy dietary pattern represented by MD and its components could exert a protective role by the development and progression of prostate cancer which investigated the effects of compliance to the MD on incidence and mortality of different types of cancer showed that high adherence to MD was associated with a significant lower risk of overall cancer The aim of our narrative review was to analyze observational studies (cohort and case–control studies) that investigated the effects of overweight and obesity and diets components and the effect of adherence to MD on overall cancer risk involving participants from two similar prospective studies of the Danish population The authors found that high values BMI were not associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer in men (BMI 25–29.9: 1.06; 95% CI: 0.93–1.21; BMI ≥ 30: 0.95; 95% CI: 0.78–1.14; p trend 0.93) suggesting that previous observational associations could in some way be explained by confounding and behavioral factors authors observed a left-skewed “inverse U”-shaped relationship between BMI values and incidence of cancer at the age of 45–79 years In correspondence with BMI value of 35 kg/m2 authors find a decreased incidence of 35% (RR: 0.65; 95% CI: 0.50–0.85) compared with the incidence at BMI value of 22 kg/m2 In correspondence with BMI value of 18 kg/m2 authors find a decreased incidence of 23% (RR: 0.77; 95% CI: 0.54–1.11) compared with the reference value They did not observe any statistically significant association between BMI at the age of 30 years and incidence of localized prostate cancer authors did not observe any statistically significant association between BMI at the age of 30 years as well as at the age of 40–79 years processed meat and unprocessed meat intake did not find any association between red meat intake and incidence of prostate cancer (RR = 0.81 a significative association was shown between very well-done meat intake and incidence of prostate cancer (RR = 1.69 and related mutagens as heme iron and nitrite/nitrate as part of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Authors found that high intake of red and processed meat was associated with an elevated risk of total prostate cancer (red meat: HR = 1.12 p = 0.002; processed meat: HR = 1.07 p = 0.04) and advanced prostate cancer (red meat: HR = 1.31 p = 0.04; processed meat: HR = 1.32 which is sourced from barbecued or grilled meat was all significantly associated with a high risk of total and advanced prostate cancer (HR = 1.09 a population-based cohort study of 11.082 subjects did not observe any statistically significant reduction of risk of advanced prostate cancer among low week meat consumers compared with individuals with the highest meat intake it was found that low meat consumers (1 day/week) and fish consumers had an increased risk of advanced prostate cancer (HR: 1.75 respectively) than subjects with the highest meat intake (6/7 days/week) also after adjustment for confounders (age It was also found that prostate cancer rick was further increased after adjustment for dietary factors and 1 day/week consumers (HR = 2.43) The authors explain this paradoxical result by suggesting that vegetarians are also less likely to follow prostate cancer screening guidelines compared with non-vegetarians this association was no longer was evident (RR = 0.94; 95% CI: 0.79 Fatty acids intake and development of prostate cancer Regarding the relationship between saturated fatty acids (SFA) and the risk of prostate cancer, a population-based prospective study among 43,435 Japanese men (46) was conducted to investigate if the intake of specific SFA could increase in a dose-dependently way the risk of prostate cancer Authors showed that high intake of myristic acid (which is found in dairy products and palm kernel oil) and palmitic acid (which is found in palm oil was associated with an augmented risk of prostate cancer (RR = 1.62 A meta-analysis from 12 case–control studies (5,777 cases and 9,805 control) and from 12 cohort studies (445,820 subjects), concerning fish intake and the incidence and mortality of prostate cancer (45) did not observe any significant association between fish consumption and a reduction of prostate cancer incidence among cohort studies (RR: 1.01; 95% CI: 0.90–1.14; p = 0.83) Authors observed a weak association between fish intake and reduction of prostate cancer incidence from case–control studies (RR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.72–1.00; p = 0.05) authors observed a significant reduction of mortality from prostate cancer associated with a high consumption of fish by pooling the four of the cohort studies (RR: 0.37; 95% CI: 0.18 Regarding the intake of dairy products and prostate cancer risk within the study mentioned above conducted by Kurahashi et al. a strong positive association between high intake of dairy products and prostate cancer was observed (339.8 vs 12.8 g/day: RR = 1.63 authors observed a strong positive association between high intake of milk (290.5 vs 2.3 g/day: RR = 1.53 p = 0.001) and between high intake of yogurt (31.5 vs 1.9 g/day: RR = 1.52 p < 0.001) and risk of prostate cancer Intake of cheese was not statistically associated with total prostate cancer (6.2 vs 1.9 g/day: RR = 1.32 nor the calcium intake (725.1 vs 282.8 mg/day: RR = 1.24 An experimental study conducted on transgenic mice expressing prostate adenocarcinoma at intraepithelial stage, which were fed with high amount of milk (skim or whole) for 15–27 weeks (51) did not aggravate nor promote tumor progression milk intake could exhibit slight protective effects by not promoting the expression of tumor-related markers like Ki-67 and Gprc6a Authors concluded asserting that regular milk consumption should be not detrimental for patients with early-stage prostate tumors Then, a meta-analysis from 32 prospective studies was conducted within the Continuous Update Project (52) to investigate the relation between dairy and to investigate any association among the types of dairy products and the sources of calcium intake with the prostate cancer risk They showed that high intake of total dairy products (summary RR = 1.07 and dietary calcium (summary RR = 1.05 per 400 mg/day) were associated with increased total prostate cancer risk They also showed that high intake of calcium from dairy products but not not-dairy calcium or supplemental calcium intakes were associated with total prostate cancer risk Regarding calcium intake and the risk of prostate cancer, it has been proposed that high calcium intake down regulates the formation of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D2 (e brgocaliferol D2), which is the active form of vitamin D. Ergocalciderol-D2 could play an important role in prostate cancer carcinogenesis by inhibiting cell proliferation. Down regulation of the ergocaliferol-D2, thereby could increase the cell proliferation in the prostate cancer (53) The meta-analysis conducted by Huncharek et al. (50) had not revealed any significant relationship between vitamin D intake and prostate cancer (RR = 1.16 A subsequent meta-analysis of 21 studies (54) reported a statistically association between higher Vitamin D concentrations and a higher risk for developing prostate cancer (OR: 1.17 epidemiological studies did not provide any strong evidence that higher concentrations of Vitamin D might reduce the risk of prostate cancer At present, there is no evidence that vitamin D will reduce the incidence of prostate cancer, and there is an inconsistent evidence that Vitamin D may prevent progression of early-stage disease and mortality (55). All the studies above mentioned are summarized in Table 3 and Vitamin D and development of prostate cancer Author concluded that overweight in the Greek population could be related exclusively to limited physical activity and to excessive energy intake MD supplemented with nuts and a low-fat diet revealed that all the three diets induced a reduction of waist circumference (p = 0.003 p = 0.001 and p = 0.001 for low-fat was observed a significant reduction in body weight (p = 0.003 and p = 0.021 for olive oil and nut diets Authors found a significant reduction of risk for prostate cancer comparing regular (≥1 portion/week) vs occasional intake (<1 portion/week) of Cruciferous vegetables (OR: 0.87 95% CI: 0.70–1.09) and comparing regular vs occasional intake of Onions (≥7 portion/week vs no use; OR: 0.29 95% CI: 0.07–1.03) and Garlic (high vs no or low use; OR: 0.81 authors showed that apple intake was associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer (OR: 0.91; 95% CI: 0.77–1.07) Authors also found a significant inverse association between high intake of proanthocyanidins and prostate cancer (OR: 0.87; 95% CI 0.76–0.99) Apples contain high levels of flavonoids and phenolic acids and they had a high level of antioxidant activity Authors concluded by assuming that the protective effects of vegetables and fruit against cancer are correlated with the whole of their constituents Garlic and onion are a source of several organosulphur compounds and have anti-inflammatory Schwingshackl and Hoffmann in their meta-analysis (12) have confirmed the concept that a high adherence to the MD diet was associated with a significant reduction in both mortality and cancer incidence by 10% (RR: 0.90, 95% CI 0.86–0.95, p < 0.0001). Their results were in accordance with previous meta-analyses, which analyzed the effects of high adherence to MD on reduction of cancer risk (70, 71) Schwingshackl and Hoffmann assessed that the risk of prostate cancer could be reduced by 4% with a high adherence to MD the authors confirmed both the concept that dietary factors could reduce cancer risk through several mechanisms involving the suppression of spontaneous mutations of DNA or the methylation of DNA and the induction of apoptosis Schwingshackl and Hoffmann also reiterated the highly protective role of the olive oil which is one of the main components of the MD authors find that olive oil was unrelated to the risk (p = 0.66); the specific cancer-protective effect could be attributed to the high content of vitamin E in olive oil which was significantly inversely related to prostate cancer risk (OR 0.53 have confirmed that an increased consumption of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA)-rich vegetables oils had a protective role toward prostate cancer risk Already in 2008 (74) was pointed out the role of a plethora of minor constituents in olive oil in addition to oleic acid and progression of the carcinogenic process These components include alpha-tocopherol, and carotenoids, which have been widely studied, and several phenolic compounds, such as tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol, which represent the major share of antioxidants in olive oil as metabolites of the oleuropein, phytosqualene, secoiridoids, phytosterols, and lignans. A pooled analysis conducted from 15 studies, involving 11.239 case and 18.541 controls (75) showed that alpha-tocopherol was associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer (highest vs lowest quintiles: OR = 0.86 The authors have shown that alpha-tocopherol is particularly protective against both advanced and aggressive prostate cancer (80% increase of alpha-tocopherol: OR = 0.71 Lycopene (Figure 2) is a tetra-terpene from the carotenoid family which is found in tomatoes and in red fruits and vegetables is responsible for reducing the risk of various cancers Intestinal absorption and, hence, the bioavailability of lycopene is improved by fats and by cooking of foods that contain it, for example, by cooking the tomato sauce. It was observed that the plasma concentration of lycopene significantly increased after the consumption of tomatoes meals cooked in olive oil, compared to the consumption of tomatoes meals cooked without olive oil (76) Mediterranean diet (MD) components and development of prostate cancer apart from being stabilizers of oleic acid by protecting the unsaturated fats against oxidants phenolic compounds present in extra virgin olive oil may exert a strong chemo-preventive effect via a variety of distinct mechanism as well including both direct antioxidant effects and actions on cancer cell signaling and cell cycle progression An interesting pilot study (78) was conducted to determine the association between fat and oil intake and whole blood fatty acid profiles and to evaluate any association with markers of inflammation (PSA and CRP) and DNA damage in a group of 20 men with prostate cancer who accept to adhered to a Mediterranean style diet for 3 months Volunteers were asked to eat 30–50 g of seeds and nuts daily as source of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n3PUFA) and to take 15 mL or more of extra virgin olive oil as source of MUFA Volunteers were asked to avoid the cooking of the oil to medium and high temperatures They also were asked to reduce dairy intake to one portion daily and to reduce the intake of SFA by substituting butter and margarine with olive oil volunteers were asked to eat no more than 400 g/week of red meat which was substituted with oily fish at least once a week to avoid high temperature of cooking meat and fish authors observed a significant decrement of total SFA due to a significant decrease in stearic acid intake (p = 0.002) DHA and EPA showed a statistically significant increase in blood levels (p = 0.042) while arachidonic acid (AA) did not change significantly (p = 0.379) both the ratios of n6PUFA:n3PUFA and AA:EPA authors did not find any significant change during the 3 months of the study; they observed a significant correlation between adherence to feeding based on the MD model and DNA damage fish intake was protective vs DNA fragility (r = −0.452; p = 0.045) while dairy intake was significantly related with DNA fragility (r = 0.571; p = 0.008) Concerning the association between DNA damage and red meat was directly associated with an increased DNA damage (r = 0.456; p = 0.043 and r = 0.576; p = 0.007 Authors also showed that MUFA and oleic acid intake had a protective role against DNA damage (r = −0.565 p = 0.009 and r = −0.514; p = 0.020 respectively); high blood levels of omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n6PUFA) intake and a high ratio of n6PUFA/n3PUFA were associated with an increased DNA damage (r = 0.536 a second pilot study was conducted to evaluate the effect of 3 months of adherence to a dietary pattern based on the MD model on DNA damage and inflammation in a group of 20 men with diagnosed prostate cancer Energy obtained from saturated fat decreased significantly (p < 0.001) sofrito (tomato sauce prepared with garlic and/or onion) pomegranate juice and green tea were statistically significant (p = 0.014 respectively); a decrease in refined carbohydrate intake was observed by reduced intake of sweetened beverages and cakes or biscuits (p = 0.046 and p = 0.004 participants reduced the consumption of red meat (p < 0.001) and increased the consumption of fish (p < 0.001) and legumes (p = 0.005) so as not to change the amount of recruitment of the total protein (p = 0.149) there were no statistically significant relationships between high dietary adherence to the MD model and blood levels of C-reactive protein and PSA following the dietary pattern based on the MD model was inversely associated with DNA damage (p = 0.013); particularly MD model was protective against the peroxide-induced DNA damage (p = 0.009) Authors reported that consumption of green tea and intake of legumes were protective against DNA damage (p = 0.002; p = 0.004 while red meat intake was significantly associated with DNA damage (p = 0.007) A significant protective effect of vitamin C against DNA damage was observed at the end of the study (p = 0.007) protective effects of folate intake against hydrogen peroxide-induced DNA damage were observed after 3 months of dietary intervention (p = 0.023) the supposed protective effects due to an increased intake of vitamin E against basal and peroxide-induced DNA damage were not statistically significative at the end of the study (p = 0.175) we confirmed that higher degree of adherence to the traditional MD is associated with a reduction in total mortality with respect to both deaths due to coronary heart disease and deaths due to cancer Several studies provide evidence that nutrition is an important influencing factor for either tumor progression or survival; most of these reports investigated macronutrient composition or specific nutrients rather than dietary patterns If the MD is dismantled into its components it seems that there is no single ingredient or food category mediating any favorable effects Protective effect is instead due to the whole food pattern characteristic for the MD Protective effects of the MD might be due to several mechanisms involving the suppression of spontaneous mutations the regulation of the cell proliferation mechanisms and the methylation of DNA and the induction of apoptosis The main fat component of the MD is extra virgin olive oil which is consumed in high amount by Mediterranean basin populations Beneficial effects of olive oil are due to the monounsaturated fatty acid content The high content of oleic acid makes olive oil far less susceptible to oxidation than the polyunsaturated fatty acids Phenolic compounds present in extra virgin olive oil have a protective role toward the oleic acid from the lipid peroxidation including both direct antioxidant effects and actions on cancer cell signaling and cell cycle progression and proliferation The protective effect of MD against cancer is also due to the high consumption of fruits and vegetables with a high content of flavonoids The flavonoids exert multiple protective effects by inhibiting the inflammation and have a strong antioxidant activity Flavonoids have anti-mutagenic and anti-proliferative properties involving cell signaling Lycopene is the most relevant functional component in tomatoes; 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) *Correspondence: Cristiano Capurso, Y3Jpc3RpYW5vLmNhcHVyc29AdW5pZmcuaXQ= (Clockwise from top left) Zach Berger of Westhampton AJ Dahlk of Harborfields and Joseph Dolezal of Wheatley Newsday's annual list of Long Island's top boys golfers as the Long Island championship which includes all schools regardless of which season they compete in All stats on the alphabetical list below are from their last completed season unless otherwise noted V and VI compete in the fall season while Conferences I Baran finished second at the individual county championship and went 12-1 in team match play with a 37 average last fall Berger shot rounds of 75 and a 74 in the county championship to finish fourth at 149 last fall He finished tied for 24th at the state championship last June with a 14-over par 158 Blackmore tied for sixth (151) with rounds of 79 and 72 at the county championship last fall Caponi finished with a 1.401 adjusted scoring average over par last fall Capurso was 8-2 in league play and was 10-2 overall with 35.3 average He finished fifth at the county championship (150) and will represent Suffolk at the state championship this June Cohen finished with a 2.602 adjusted scoring average over par last fall Connolly finished with a 0.393 adjusted scoring average over par in league play last fall Dahlk finished tied for sixth with a 151 at Spring Lake Golf Course at the county championship last fall Daitch finished with a 2.309 adjusted scoring average over par last fall Dolezal won the Nassau individual championship with a 141 which included a second-round score of 69 at Bethpage Red last spring He finished tied for eighth at the state championship with an 8-over par 152 Estrella shot a 1-over 72 on both days of the Nassau individual championship at Bethpage Red last spring Jessop won the individual county title last October when he parred the No 1 playoff hole for a 147 at Spring Lake Golf Course (Clockwise from top left) Bryce Karty of Port Washington Harry Wolk of Half Hollow Hills West and Dean Muratore of St Karty shot a 143 at the Nassau individual championship and led all scorers with a 10-over 81 on Bethpage Black in the Long Island championship He helped Port Washington to county and Long Island team titles last spring He finished tied for 37th at the state championship (161) Klar finished with a 1.378 adjusted scoring average over par last fall The Michigan commit and Newsday’s returning Player of the Year shot a 3-under par 68 to win the CHSAA state championship by seven strokes and set an 18-hole school record last season Muratore averaged 1.44 strokes under par per nine holes which was the lowest scoring average in the NSCHSAA Shallat finished tied for 33rd at the state championship with an opening score of 76 and a second-round score of 84 last spring Trotta tied for sixth at the county championship with rounds of 77 and 74 at Spring Lake Golf Course last fall Wallace finished with a 3.221 adjusted scoring average over par last fall Wolk finished tied for third with a 149 at the individual county championship last fall and will compete in the state championship this June Zhao finished tied for 78th at the state championship last June with a 178 last spring The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25¢for 6 months Get important news about your town as it happens Get the top stories from across our network Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from daily updates "This was my first time imaging The Orion Nebula," Michael Capurso wrote of his black-and-white photo A memorial service is scheduled next weekend for the popular Ridgewood native who was killed in a crash last week in Pennsylvania was behind the wheel of a Subaru SUV that slid off the road into a tree and burst into flames near his Shohola Capurso had taught class that night at the Ridgewood Karate Academy "Michael was an incredible teacher and mentor to hundreds of kids "Such a tremendous loss for the community." Capurso studied physics and astronomy at SUNY New Paltz He was an avid astro-photographer who published many of his images on social media with great delight -- among them an assistant Scoutmaster and an active member of Troop 5 in Ridgewood with his family and received Eagle Scout Mentor Pins from younger scouts Scout leaders said Capurso "exemplified what it is to be an Eagle Scout He also was actively involved in the North Jersey Mineralogical Society Capurso joined RKA when he was six years and became part of the leadership team when he was only 13 he'd earned his blackbelt alongside his younger brother He was promoted to sensei by the time he was 16 and studied for several years while training children A memorial service for Capurso is scheduled for 1 p.m His family asks that charitable donations be made in his name to St DONATE HERE: Give Hope to Kids With Cancer You can find some of Capurso's captivating photos at these links: instagram.com/capurso_photography/astrobin.com/users/Michaelc95/ Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here pouring in a team-high 35 points in the process "Just got to let the ego go when you think of coming off the bench and all that I thought about Manu Ginóbili,” Thompson said and I don't think anyone looks down on his Hall of Fame candidacy There's nothing wrong with aspiring to be like Ginóbili whose willingness to cede personal accolades for team achievements helped spearhead San Antonio's dynasty Perhaps Thompson's own willingness to come off the bench could extend his career—and Golden State's championship window TrendingPopularNew YorkANYC carpenters union elects new president following 2 resignationsPaul Capurso’s victory awaits certification and comes after misconduct allegations involving predecessors 7:40 p.m.: The New York City District Council of Carpenters has elected a new president following the recent resignations of two of the union’s leaders amid allegations of misconduct raking in 1,624 of the 3,668 votes tabulated by the union on Thursday The results await certification by the district council’s court appointed monitor on March 9 The union counted nearly 20,000 members as of September A special election was initiated late last year, following the resignation of Graham McHugh who stepped down over allegations that he’d worked off the books earlier in his career while he was a rank and file member of the union resigned in February 2018 over allegations of misconduct — allegedly in relation to sexual harassment Capurso has been the union’s lead regional manager of business representatives in Manhattan and Queens since 2011 and has been a trustee of the benefit funds since 2013 Capurso earned the endorsements of the district council’s head Capurso couldn’t immediately be reached for comment SIGN UPThe carpenter’s union has been under the supervision of an independent monitor since 1994, a product of a federal racketeering case The monitor’s term was recently extended through the end of this year the union’s monitor indicated that the organization is considering different ways to root out ties to organized crime among its members The District Council’s consent decree — the agreement it made with the federal government to resolve racketeering charges in the 1990s — bars members and leaders from “willful and purposeful” associations with organized crime being related to an associate of organized crime isn’t grounds for dismissal a former official with the now-defunct Local 257 and alleged associate of the Genovese crime family was indicted in the 1980s with other union officials on extortion charges Capurso’s relation to Bitondo (which Capurso described as a very distant relative) had come up in previous years and rumblings surfaced again in the lead up to the special election The district council’s former monitor Dennis Walsh said Thursday that the relationship had been thoroughly vetted and didn’t violate the consent decree “All the candidates were interviewed and investigated Capurso had previously been vetted by my predecessor and it had been determined at that time that nothing about Mr Bitondo violated the Consent Decree,” Glen McGorty we learned of nothing to suggest otherwise Capurso was permitted to seek and hold the office of president.” McGorty, who has served as the monitor since 2014, is winding down his role by transferring more investigative authority and responsibilities to the council’s inspector general, a position created in recent years as part of the union’s effort to eventually operate without a monitor Write to Kathryn Brenzel at kathryn@therealdeal.com .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Charlie De Biase Jr. | debiase@siadvance.comIt's been three years since Debra Capurso got the itch to become a runner and in that time span she's made significant strides in what she's accomplished who's lived on Staten Island her entire life was granted entry into the New York City Marathon after completing the New York Road Runners' 9+1 program "You have to run nine New York Road Runners' races then volunteer for another,'' said Capurso "And I had planned to run a marathon for the first time.'' But a funny thing happened to Capurso after signing up for the 26.2-mile race 'do I really want to do this?'' she admitted I didn't want to deal with training in the summer things changed rather quickly for the 57-year-old Capurso once she started regularly watching the video blog of a 27-year-old woman she first met 18 years earlier former Moore Catholic basketball player Jillian Monitello has been a Cystic Fibrosis patient nearly her entire life who after marrying is now Jillian Azzarelli appears on the video blog with her husband Rosario to give the everyday ups and downs of dealing with CF who met Azzarelli while attending her own daughter's (former St John Villa and Hofstra University hoops star Nicole Capurso) youth basketball games and it made her reconsider running the marathon She decided she wanted to run the race in an effort to help raise funds for Jillian the marathon seemed much more doable for Debra Capurso "I became addicted to watching those videos and I realized that running a marathon was nothing to be scared of or challenged by as compared to what those living with Cystic Fibrosis are challenged with every single day of their life .. Debra Capurso felt compelled to inform Azzarelli that she had decided she was going to run the marathon in her honor and she was overwhelmed with her response "I couldn't believe how touched she was by my gesture,'' said Capurso was indeed blown away by Capurso's selflessness she was going to run a marathon in support of me,'' said Azzarelli "It's a very touching situation for me To do that for somebody else is just incredible.'' will compete for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's 'Breathe Team.'' Whatever funds she raises will then be forwarded to Azzarelli's team She said she plans on working out 4-5 times a week getting up to as many as 20 miles while training Capurso, who works for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, can certainly use some help in raising funds toward this worthy cause. For those who wish to help, please check out her fundraising page by going to her fundraising page Capurso said she plans to cross the finish line with 'determination and focus.' I will feel like I did something with a real purpose,'' Capurso said "I'm going to feel like I accomplished something and the fact it will help someone will help me get through it.'' Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices \n m_gallery = \"runner_debra_capurso_set_to_tr\";\n m_gallery_id = \"22928138\";\n m_gallery_title = \"Runner Debra Capurso set to train for NYC Marathon with a purpose\";\n m_gallery_blog_id = \"4499\";\n m_gallery_creation_date = \"Friday 3:41 AM\";\n m_gallery_permalink = \"http://photos.silive.com/4499/gallery/runner_debra_capurso_set_to_tr/index.html\";\n m_gallery_json = \"https://blog.silive.com/photogallery/4499/22928138.json\";\n m_gallery_pagetype = \"embed\";\n m_gallery_type = \"photo\";\n <\/script>\n Gallery: Runner Debra Capurso set to train for NYC Marathon with a purpose a Boy Scout must embody 12 qualities that define the "Scout Law," including loyalty According to Ridgewood’s Boy Scout Troop 5 Assistant Scoutmaster Michael Reinke the two newest Eagle Scouts — John Capurso and Ryan Vimba — exhibit those characteristics and more who spoke to a crowd of Capurso and Vimba’s family members and friends as well as younger scouts and local dignitaries at an Eagle Court of Honor ceremony on Monday at First Presbyterian Church Capurso and Vimba "could be home playing video games," remarked Reinke but instead they were sitting in chairs perched by the church’s altar being awarded commendations by a number of guests who they helped throughout their scouting journey The boys maintained their composure and focus choosing to pursue a rank that is achieved by less than 10 percent of Boy Scouts across the nation The highest advancement in Boy Scouts takes "an average of five years to complete," shared Assistant Scoutmaster David Bock and the honor has been obtained by 2.3 million others (recorded in 2015) Capurso and Vimba now join a company of Eagle Scouts that includes nine who earned the Medal of Honor and some key political figures President Gerald Ford and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Reinke believes that great achievement can be part of the two newly-minted Eagle Scouts’ futures "Ryan is going to be one of these people running our country," he said "John is going to be a Medal of Honor recipient "My challenge to all of you scouts is to continue on your path," added Reinke That path involves acquiring six ranks before the coveted rank of Eagle: Scout Citizenship in the Community and Family Life A minimum of 21 merit badges must be obtained a number which Capurso and Vimba far exceeded Aspiring Eagles must also serve six months in a troop leadership position developing and carrying out a service project for the community Vimba dedicated his time to working with the Christ Episcopal Church Altar Guild in providing a new cabinet to store the church’s altar cloths "The way that they stored it was a bad system," he explained what I did was build a cabinet that is around 10 feet long and five feet high you take the altar cloths and you can roll them up on carpet tubes and store them more easily." Father Daniel Gunn of Christ Church was on hand to award Vimba with a certificate of appreciation on behalf of the church he found that the 17-year-old is the definition of what scouts aspire to be who thanked some of his fellow scouts and adult leaders in the community but credited his father for teaching and helping him build the finished cabinet "There’d be no cabinet sitting in Christ Church right now [if it wasn’t for his father]," said Vimba Capurso also recognized an old system that needed modifications The now-freshman at Bergen Community College was still a senior at Ridgewood High School and longtime member of its TV club when he carried out his service project we had an old TV setup in the studio that ended up being removed because it was just so old and it was breaking down," shared Capurso The club was temporarily using foldable tables for a news desk and a shabby fading backdrop that had paint chipping off its surface After receiving permission from the school and the studio’s teacher Capurso geared his Eagle project toward replacing the makeshift news desk with a modular design and various configurations "It ended up going from one huge desk — which would have been super heavy — to three sections," he said "You can make one straight desk or change it and make it a round desk." The red three-sectioned desk accents the blue movable wall/divider Capurso repainted to serve as the background for video sessions at the studio The whole process only took "about a month or two," he said but the new setup should satisfy current and incoming club members for years to come "Hard work and dedication can achieve anything," advised Capurso Although he admitted to allowing procrastination to seep in at times scouts and Scoutmasters for not giving up on him; he awarded mentor pins to Reinke and fellow Eagle Scout Christian Seremetis When reflecting on his best memories as a scout Vimba expressed appreciation for Scoutmaster Rocco Orlando who "has been a huge part of my success in this troop" and has worked with him "personally on many occasions teaching me various skills and helping me become a good scout a good leader and a good person." But one particular experience he recounted to the audience was the moment he truly connected with nature "It was one of the best feelings I ever felt," he expressed He noted that it took until a trip this year to make that connection enjoying the cool breeze in his face and looking over a lake with a sense of clarity He had never felt closer to nature than that moment "It’s a feeling every scout should experience but I also believe it must happen alone," suggested Vimba "While I encourage you scouts to spend your time with your friends on these camping trips also know that it’s important to spend time with yourself." It was an epiphany he knew he needed to finally come into his own as a person and scout "I realized all the measures we take to preserve nature are just as much for us as they are for our environment," explained Vimba It is this kind of awareness that can inspire and motivate others It is this kind of compassion shown by both Vimba and Capurso that has convinced Reinke that the new Eagles have a promising future ahead "These boys won’t stand idly by," said Reinke "I know for a fact that they’ll continue to do something." Theresa is survived by her devoted husband of 56 years Nicholas; son John and his wife Susan (Westford) son Scott and his wife Jane (Sturbridge); sister Esther Russo; brother Salvatore Palmieri; grandchildren Carolyn a daughter of the late John and Mary (Cairo) Palmieri Theresa worked at Quinsigamond Community College and was a recruiter and administrative assistant at the UMass Medical School Besides spending time with her family and friends she also enjoyed spending many winters in Marco Island A funeral Mass will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel/St Worcester is honored to be assisting the family with arrangements memorial contributions can be made to Quinsigamond Community College Foundation-Respiratory Therapy Program July 6th 2011 at the Holy Trinity Rehabilitation Center surrounded by her family Kathy Stukowski and her husband Paul of Worcester; a son-in-law and his fiancée Elaine Simone of West Boylston; four grandchildren she cherished: Beth Ann Moughan and her husband James of Holden Mark Stukowski and his fiancée Katie Taylor all of Worcester; five adored great grandchildren: Jimmy Gianna and Anthony Joseph Ferdella; a sister Lena Harvey and her husband William and Angela Capurso all of Worcester; many nieces a daughter of Frank and Catherine (Fahey) Razzano She graduated from David Hale Fanning Trade school and worked many years for the City of Worcester Treasurers Office and Bradlees Department Store before retiring Irene was a lifelong member of Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church the Maria SS Addorlorata Women's Society of the Men's Biscegliese Society and the Circle of Friends especially the Saturday night group at the Froshinn Club in Shrewsbury to the sounds of MoCo Irene and her husband Joe traveled extensively and spent many winters in Florida They mostly cherished the times they spent on Cape Cod with their family Irene will long be remembered as a genuine lady and a proud wife July 11th from the MERCADANTE FUNERAL HOME & CHAPEL 370 Plantation St with a Mass at 11:00 am in her beloved church Burial next to her husband will follow in Worcester County Memorial Park in Paxton Friends and relatives are invited to visit with the family July 10th from 3 pm to 6 pm in the funeral home Irene can be remembered with contributions made to Our Lady of Mt Carmel Restoration Fund Irene's family would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to the entire staff of Holy Trinity Rehabilitation Center and Holy Trinity Hospice for the outstanding care given Irene and the compassion and support given to us Our mother's final days were restful and dignified due to their loving care.