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Texas leads Oklahoma 65-51-5 all-time heading into Saturday's Red River Rivalry
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Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school
She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons.
Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing.
Gillian does not know how to sit and cannot be attentive.
When she comes home, her mother punishes her too.
So not only does she Gillian have bad grades and punishment at school, but she also suffers from them at home.
One day, Gillian's mother is called to school.
The lady, sad as someone waiting for bad news, takes her hand and goes to the interview room.
The teachers speak of illness, of an obvious disorder.
Maybe it's hyperactivity or maybe she needs a medication.
During the interview an old teacher arrives who knows the little girl.
He asks all the adults, mother and colleagues, to follow him into an adjoining room from where she can still be seen.
As he leaves, he tells Gillian that they will be back soon and turns on an old radio with music.
As the girl is alone in the room, she immediately gets up and begins to move up and down chasing the music in the air with her feet and her heart.
The teacher smiles as the colleagues and the mother look at him between confusion and compassion, as is often done with the old.
So he says: "See? Gillian is not sick, Gillian is a dancer!"
He recommends that her mother take her to a dance class and that her colleagues make her dance from time to time.
She attends her first lesson and when she gets home she tells her mother: "Everyone is like me, no one can sit there!"
In 1981, after a career as a dancer, opening her own dance academy and receiving international recognition for her art, Gillian Lynne became the choreographer of the musical "Cats."
Hopefully, all “different” children find adults capable of welcoming them for who they are and not for what they lack.
Long live the differences, the little black sheep and the misunderstood.
They are the ones who create beauty in this world
Clever post by an anonymous author. 🙂
I keep hearing people complain that gasoline is over $4.00 a gallon. And yes, I'd love to see it at $2.00 again. But before we declare gasoline the most outrageously expensive liquid on Earth, let's put things in perspective.
For $4.00, I get a GALLON of gasoline. I pour it into a 4,000-pound machine, turn a key, and that gallon will haul me, the groceries, the golf clubs and half the junk in my trunk almost 30 miles down the highway.
That's actually a pretty impressive day's work for $4.00.
Now let's compare.
A restaurant sells me a 5-ounce glass of wine for $9. That's about $230 a gallon. And how far does it transport me?
Usually from the dinner table to the men’s room.
A fancy coffee shop can charge $6 for a 16-ounce latte. That's $48 a gallon. It doesn't transport me 30 miles. It transports me from "Leave me alone" to "Okay, now you may speak."
Bottled water at a convenience store might be $2.50 for 20 ounces. That's $16 a gallon, for something that occasionally falls out of the sky FOR FREE.
A 12-ounce energy drink at $3.50 works out to more than $37 a gallon. Apparently caffeine becomes a precious mineral once you put lightning bolts on the can.
Buy one of those little 2-ounce bottles of "energy shot" for $3. That's $192 a gallon. At that price, it shouldn't give me energy. It should mow my lawn.
Maple syrup at $8 for a 12-ounce bottle? About $85 a gallon. And its principal technological achievement is making pancakes sticky.
Vanilla extract at $6 for two ounces? That's $384 a gallon. For $384, I expect the vanilla bean to come to my house and bake the cookies.
Printer ink can cost thousands of dollars per gallon. And unlike gasoline, it sometimes refuses to come out because the printer has decided cyan is low.
Even that $9 glass of wine deserves another look. At roughly $230 a gallon, filling a typical 15-gallon gas tank with restaurant wine would cost about $3,450.
Of course, after drinking 15 gallons of wine, transportation would no longer be your biggest concern.
So yes, $4.00 gasoline is expensive.
But it's also a remarkable bargain when you think about what you're buying. You're purchasing enough concentrated energy to push several thousand pounds of steel, glass, groceries and humanity nearly 30 miles.
Meanwhile, we'll cheerfully pay $6 for coffee, $9 for wine and $3 for water, then stand at the gas pump staring at the numbers like we're watching the national debt clock.
Maybe gasoline doesn't need better pricing.
Maybe it just needs a fancier name.
"Handcrafted Premium Petroleum, locally pumped, small-batch refined, with subtle notes of octane and dinosaur."
Put it in a 12-ounce artisan bottle and charge $14.
We'll line up around the block.
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They filmed the Super Bowl Shuffle before they won it. Sunglasses, fog machine, linemen on sax. Ditka let them do it and they still blew out New England 46–10. Rest in peace, Mike Ditka. Nobody’s shuffling like that again.
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“Girl math???” 🤨
Texas QB Arch Manning explains current trends. 🤘
(🎥 courtesy of our friends at @RedBull)
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Jump training does not have to look like burpees or box jumps especially if you're over 45
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Billionaire cancer doctor Patrick Soon-Shiong told Tucker Carlson that almost every oncologist ignores the one number in your blood test that kills cancer:
“Pick up the phone, call any random oncologist, not to shame them, and say, ‘You do a CBC, correct?’ A complete blood count. You take blood and check whether you’re anemic or not.”
“And you give chemotherapy and radiation, and you ask, ‘What do you look for?’ Well, we look to see if you’re anemic, so we can give you this drug Amgen makes called Epogen. We look to see whether your platelets have gone down, so we can give you a platelet transfusion. We look to see whether your neutrophils have gone down so you don’t get an infection, so we give you Neupogen.”
“Well, the problem is, do red blood cells kill cancer? No. Do platelets kill cancer? No. Do neutrophils kill cancer? No.”
“What kills cancer? The natural killer cells and T cells. So in that CBC, there’s a thing called the lymphocytes. Do you look at that? No.”
“The only cell that is important, that kills cancer, and 99.9% of oncologists will say, ‘We don’t pay any attention to that.’”
Even Tucker couldn’t believe it: “Why, if you’re fighting cancer, would you ignore the one cell that fights cancer?”
“That’s the missing link. That is the key element in your body.”
PS. We post daily breakdowns on health and longevity, so if that’s you, follow us @LxngevityLab for more.
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Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And it’s goodbye to A&M.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And we’ll put over one more win.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
For it’s Texas that we love best.
Give ’em hell, Give ’em hell,
OU SUCKS!!!
And it’s good-bye to all the rest!
#TEXvsOU
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POV: Walking into work the Friday before the Red River Rivalry… especially when you work with Sooners. #texasfight #texasfootball #tvsou #redriverrivalry
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Mike Ditka was scheduled to sing the seventh inning stretch on July 5th, 1998. This was the year that Harry Caray died and the “guest conductor” was new at Wrigley Field. Ditka got stuck in traffic and was running late. By the time the top of the seventh ended, Ditka was still not there and Steve Stone and Chip Caray stalled for time. Finally Ditka busts into the press box, grabs the mic, and screams Take Me Out To The Ball Game in twenty two seconds! Organist Gary Pressy could barely keep up! The crowd roared with approval! R.I.P. Mike Ditka
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Funny personal story I have about the late GOAT Mike Ditka...
When I was a toddler, my parents and I were on a flight and #MikeDitka happened to be on the flight a few years after the 1985 superbowl win.
My mom passed him in the aisle and I waved to him, and he said to my mom, "She's a beautiful little girl!" My mom said, "Oh just wait..."
In front of DA Coach she says, "Faran, who is the President of the United States?" ... I go, "Mike Ditka!"
20 years later when I danced for his team "The Chicago Rush," I met him at his Ditka's Steakhouse in downtown Chicago.
Upon meeting him, I go, "I actually met you when I was about 3 years old on a plane with my parents." He goes, "Wait, you're not the little girl who said I was the President of the United States, are you?" I told him, "Indeed I am."
He gave me the biggest hug and said, "I don't think you realize, I told everyone in my family that happened... I have been telling that story for decades! What a full circle moment that now you dance for the team!"
Rest in power Coach! You are and always will be a legend.
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Every month Martín’s parents took a trip to see Grandma and came home on the same train the next day. One day the child said to his parents:
“I'm already grown up. Can I go to my grandma's alone?"
After a brief discussion, his parents accepted. They stood with him as he waited for the train to exit. They said goodbye to their son and gave him some tips through the window. Martin repeated to them:
“I know. I've been told this more than a thousand times."
As the train was about to leave, his father murmured in his ear:
“Son if you feel bad or insecure, this is for you!"
And he put something in his pocket.
Now Martin was alone, sitting on the train as he had wanted, without his parents for the first time.
He was admiring the landscape out the window. Around him some unknowns pushed themselves in. They made a lot of noise. They got in and out of the train car. The conductor made some comments about him being alone. One person looked at him with eyes of sadness.
Martin was feeling more uneasy with every minute that passed. And now he was scared. He felt cornered and alone. He put his head down, and with tears in his eyes, he remembered his dad had put something in his pocket. Trembling, he searched for what his father had given him. Upon finding the piece of paper he read it:
“Son, I'm in the last train car!"
That's how life is, we must let our kids go. We must let them try new things. But we always like to be in the last car, watching, in case they are afraid or in case they find obstacles and don’t know what to do. We want to be close to them as long as we are still alive.
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House Republicans passed over 70 bills this week alone — that adds to our total of over 900 bills passed through the House so far this Congress.
We’ve DELIVERED for Americans by:
🇺🇸 Enacting the largest middle and working class tax cut in US history
🇺🇸 Creating new incentives to build and hire American
🇺🇸 Adding the biggest boost to job creation in decades
🇺🇸 Establishing Trump accounts for every American child
🇺🇸 Restoring safety and order to our cities
🇺🇸 Stopping American deaths from the scourge of fentanyl
🇺🇸Closing the border
By contrast, the Democrat agenda is very simple: grievance politics, bigger government, higher taxes, open borders, and zero security.
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Ben Johnson pays tribute to one of the most iconic figures in Chicago Bears history
