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Since it began two years ago, roughly 150 local children have been taught to swim through community efforts like Safe Kids Mid-South.
Swim skills less common among black children BY BETH SPENCER News Reporter For some children, that first summer dip in the pool could be more deadly than others, according to recent research conducted by University of Memphis professors about minority groups and swimming. The first phase of the study revealed nearly 60 percent of African American children had little to no swimming skills, which tripled their chances of drowning.
According to a study printed in the American Journal of Public Health, in 2006 black males aged 15 to 19 years displayed a drowning rate of 1.39 per 100,000 persons, compared to the white male rate of 0.11 and the Hispanic male rate of 0.26. Black females of the same age scored the highest as well, rating 0.18 as compared to white females with a 0.04 and Hispanic females who scored a 0.06 rate. Assistant professor in The U of M’s health and sports sciences department Carol Irwin said U
of M researchers began working from there. The first phase of their study surveyed 2,000 parents in 2008, using a broader approach than this year’s more in-depth focus group. “We learned that the number one factor was not just the fear of drowning,” she said. “They had a deep, profound, embedded fear that they could not swim.” After two local children drowned in 2008, it sparked the formation of Make a Splash Mid-
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BY BETH SPENCER News Reporter A greener, roomier space to socialize, picnic and enjoy cold beverages before games is right around the corner for Tiger football fans. Renovations to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium’s entrance will be complete by the beginning of football season, including newly-dubbed “Tiger Lane,” a $15 million greenway funded by the city running from East Parkway to the stadium, 1,300 feet long he team and 160 feet wide. Bill Lansden, assowill walk ciate athletic director for development through the at The University of promenade with Memphis, said renovating the stadium’s fans cheering entrance would make them on. The it more accessible and attractive, increasing impact will be tailgating activities. tremendous.” “It’s going to enhance the game-day — Tom Fristick atmosphere,” he said. President, Highland Hundred “Fans, families and kids can socialize and kids can play before each of our games. There will be plenty of room to grill burgers and throw Frisbees. We’ll have a lot more people tailgating before games.” The project, in the works for one year now, was approved last month and should be complete by Sept. 1, just in time for the first home game Sept. 18 against
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Sports
BY MEGAN HARRIS Editor-In-Chief Former Tigers forward Robert Dozier will be sidelined for 12 weeks after fracturing his left foot’s fifth metatarsal last week. The injury occurred during a non-contact drill at the Miami Heat’s practice facility, requiring the surgical
insertion of a screw. Dozier is expected to be ready by training camp, if Miami invites him into the preseason. After graduating from The University of Memphis in 2009, the 6-9 Georgia-native became the final selection of the 2009 draft. Dozier was one of only six players in U of M history to finish his collegiate career with 1,000 points and
900 rebounds, including an unsuccessful bid at the 2008 NCAA Championship against Kansas. He spent last season playing in Greece for VAP Kolossos, still under contract with the Heat. At the time of his injury, Dozier was set to be a focal man of Miami’s summer league team in Las Vegas.
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Former Tigers forward Robert Dozier makes a free throw attempt for The University of Memphis.
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from page 1 South, a group devoted to teaching water safety to children who have little or no swim training. Susan Helms, director of injury prevention and Safe Kids MidSouth at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, said the program’s goal was to teach 1,000 children to swim, have 100 join recreational and developmental swim teams and 50 join competitive swim teams by 2012. “We combine seasoned swimmers with learners,” Helms said. “So they’re meeting peers and there are friendships made there.” The program combined forces with local YMCA facilities, local schools and area swimming facilities to improve lifeguard training, encourage diversity in swimming, offer lessons to children at reduced prices or free of charge and teach free family CPR classes. Halfway towards its 2012 deadline, Helms said the organization has taught roughly 150 children to swim since they began. She said that to reach its goals, Safe Kids Mid-South will need to raise additional funds to support swimming lessons, engage more groups, venues and instructors to provide them, as well as attain greater overall community support.
Sally Ross, assistant professor of health and sports sciences at The U of M, led the second phase of swimming research with focus groups in six different U.S. cities. “The ability to talk to people in person gave us a deeper, richer component to work with,” she said. “We learned about their backgrounds with swimming – what’s keeping their kids from swimming. They gave us some really great information, such as their economic situations and lack of time to take their kids swimming.” Ross said most parents weren’t surprised to find out the high numbers of children in minority groups who were dying in the water each year. “The numbers are staggering,” she said. “But some of the parents shared information about African American girls and the amount of effort in taking care of their hair. One mother said ‘Sunday was hair day,’ for her and her swimmer daughters, where they spent all day fixing the damage swimming did to their hair.” The focus group research, which began in February and ended last month, was successful in getting information about each family’s fears about swimming, Ross said. “We let them tell us,” she said. “Instead of us as the researchers, they’re really the experts and we represent their voices.”
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Tablet computers set to overtake netbooks The unexpected popularity of netbook computers helped carry the PC industry through the recession, but industry analysts believe the scaled-down laptops will soon be overtaken by a wave of iPads and similar tablet devices. Tablet computers will outsell netbooks in the United States by 2012, according to a report issued June 17 by Forrester Research, which also predicted that nearly one in four personal computers sold to U.S. consumers will be tablets by 2015. The report echoes earlier projections from other leading research firms, which have suggested that sales are beginning to slow for netbooks, also known as mini-notebooks or mini-notes. Meanwhile, Apple has reported selling 2 million iPads in the first two months since the product was introduced. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other leading computer-makers are all rushing to introduce their own iPad-style tablets, which some in the industry refer to as “slate” computers. HP had planned to launch a Windowsbased tablet this summer, but has recently emphasized plans
Tiger Lane from page 1
the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders. “One of the challenges we’ve always had is basically that one large area was all concrete,” Lansden said. “Now the city is creating a grassy area where fans can tailgate. It’ll feel like a normal college atmosphere.” Former Tigers player and assistant to the athletic director at The U of M Lish Trice said he expects the team’s fan base and game rituals to grow along with the greenway. “It’s going to be fantastic,” he said. “(The team has) been walking through the Coliseum and stadium, so now we can start a
to use software from Palm, the smartphone maker that HP is in the process of acquiring. “It appears the momentum is shifting from mini-note PCs to slates,” said a report issued this week by NPD Group. As more computer makers begin to introduce their own tablets in the coming months, the NPD report predicted consumers will increasingly turn away from netbooks. Lower-priced netbooks, which have smaller screens and keyboards than traditional laptop computers, have been extremely popular since their introduction in 2008. The Gartner research firm reported more than 32 million netbooks were sold worldwide last year. Analysts say the strong demand for netbooks helped major PC makers maintain their sales volume through the economic downturn - when some customers shied away from buying higher-priced desktop and laptop models - although some of the netbooks provided a lower profit margin than fullsize models. But netbooks generally offered less processing power and other features that come with traditional notebook computers. Netbook sales have started to show signs of slow-
ing in some regions, “as consumers begin to understand the limitations of mini-notebooks, especially in the face of aggressive price cuts of regular notebooks,” said Gartner researcher Mikako Kitagawa, in a report last month. Tablet computers, meanwhile, offer consumers a different model for computing, according to NPD. Instead of a scaleddown netbook that attempts to mimic the complete operation of a traditional laptop or desktop computer, NPD’s John Jacobs noted that tablets based on Apple or Android operating systems allow consumers to choose from an a la carte menu of software applications, designed to perform specific functions with ease. Forrester ’s Sarah Rotman Epps estimates about 3.5 million tablet devices will be sold in the United States this year, but her report predicts that number will skyrocket to 20.4 million by 2015. The report estimates U.S. consumers will buy just over 15 million netbooks in 2015.
new tradition with Tiger Lane, which will be second to none.” Before games, fans can line the greenway, surrounding the players as they march to the field, said Tom Fristick, president of Highland Hundred, the official booster club for The U of M Tigers. “The team will walk through the promenade with fans cheering them on,” he said. “The atmosphere will be tremendous.” Fristick said the Highland Hundred supported the renovations by purchasing 550 soonto-be created parking spaces from the city, which will be sold exclusively to members at $175 per space each season. Memphis City Councilman and former Highland Hundred
President Bill Boyd said the growing lack of parking spaces, along with beautifying the stadium, sparked the decision to renovate the arena. “I’m a long-time, loyal Tiger Fan,” he said. “Part of my role was to convince other city council members to approve renovations.” The project also includes locker room improvements and adding space near the ticket area, to decrease crowding after fans buy tickets, Boyd said. “The fairground was a big eyesore as it was,” he said. “Now it’ll be well lit and Tiger players can walk through the lane with fans yelling and cheering them on.” The renovation plan also should also improve the flow of
Netbook sales have started to show signs of slowing, while tablet sales are on the rise, thanks in part to Apple’s iPad.
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Every human being has an obligation to be obedient to God, because He created us. We would have no existence without Him. In Him we each “live, move, and have our being.” Each of His rational creatures will eventually give an account to Him for how they have lived their lives. This is true of each and every human being regardless of what religious beliefs they espouse. However, those who are Christians have a double obligation to serve and obey God. Not only is God their Creator, He is their Redeemer. Jesus Christ has paid the debt owed to God’s justice for all His spiritual children. This exempts them from the eternal wrath that He will ultimately inflict on those who are His enemies. This exemption, which is freely given to them, was purchased at great price. This price is defined in 1 Peter 1:18, 19, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold… But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot…” Christian, the next time you are tempted to do that which is contrary to the Word of God, remember these words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
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BY CONNIE OGLE McClatchy Newspapers “Grown Ups� is the perfect poster child for this maddening summer of movie mediocrity. It’s not so hilarious that you need to rush to see it but not so bad that you will suffer unduly if you take a chance on its moreor-less family friendly charms (provided your family is up for crude jokes, a running gag about breast-feeding a 4-year-old and an unnerving shot of a pants-free David Spade). On the grand scale of Adam Sandler movies — and oh, how grand that scale is! — “Grown
Ups� registers as a middle-ofthe-pack comedy, not the instant classic of a “Happy Gilmore� or “The Wedding Singer� but not the heinous affront of “Little Nicky.� Its premise is slight: Five junior-high buddies reunite for their basketball coach’s funeral, wives and kids in tow, and reconnect with the simple pleasures of friendship, constant insults and being whacked in the family jewels. Modest lessons at best, but Lenny (Sandler), now a Hollywood agent, wants his obnoxious offspring to put down their smart phones, step away from the video games and skip some rocks on the lake, damn it. He wants his glam designer wife (Salma Hayek) to forgo their planned trip to Milan to hang out with his buddies (Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) and their families. That she agrees is a foregone
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Adam Sandler leads a star-studded cast in his latest release “Grown Ups.� The film hits theaters tomorrow. conclusion, but the greater mysteries — what on Earth is Hayek doing in this movie, and, for that matter, why is Maria Bello here, too, and who believes she’d real-
ly be married to Kevin James? — are left unanswered. Still, the guys are more amusing than not, and they display the easy chemistry of real-life
pals. Sandler and Fred Wolf are credited with writing the screenplay, but most of the sloppy dialogue in “Grown Ups� sounds as if the comedians are riffing on each other’s jokes. This approach doesn’t always work, but when it sputters there are still fragments of humor to sustain us, providing you think it’s really funny for a guy to slam into a tree (I do, actually). There’s also a great running gag about the guys’ most moronic childhood game, “arrow roulette,� which is pretty much what it sounds like and exactly the sort of idiotic activity adolescent boys are wont to try once they’ve escaped adult supervision. In the end, the movie is about having no regrets. Fortunately, whether you decide to see it opening weekend, wait for On Demand or ignore it altogether, “Grown Ups� will keep your regrets to a minimum.
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