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Season 11, Week 6

Autism Awareness Week

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 6. I told you on Week 5 that I would send the newsletter for Week 6 early. A couple of reasons why: A. one of the UFL games is on Wednesday night this week. B. Ann Marie’s wedding is on Saturday and I need to get stuff done before I leave on Friday afternoon for her wedding. It’s a busy time for sure in the DiMauro household. I have never been to a wedding before and I am sure that this will be a good experience for me to attend. I can feel that the day will go smoothly, but need to get through this rocky road first.

I have made the decision that Week 6 will be known as Autism Awareness Week for Beat Mike. I had the choice of either choosing this week (because of the Boston walk) or Week 10 (because of the Orlando walk) and I chose this week. Normally, April is Autism Awareness Month, but since that is when the NFL has their off-season during that month that I decided to do a week during the season to make you aware. Strange enough, however, the three walks that BMN sponsors a team; the walks take place during the football season. Go figure, huh? Anyways, I will not go into depth with the information, but there are a few questions and answers that you can read from. What is Autism? Autism is a general term used to describe a group of complex developmental brain disorders known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). The other pervasive developmental disorders are PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified), Asperger's Syndrome, Rett Syndrome and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. Many parents and professionals refer to this group as Autism Spectrum Disorders. How common is Autism? Today, it is estimated that one in every 150 children is diagnosed with autism, making it more common than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined. An estimated 1.5 million individuals in the U.S. and tens of millions worldwide are affected by autism. Government statistics suggest the prevalence rate of autism is increasing 10-17 percent annually. There is not established explanation for thi s increase, although improved diagnosis and environmental influences are two reasons often considered. Studies suggest boys are more likely than girls to develop autism and receive the diagnosis three to four times more frequently. Current estimates are that in the United States alone, one out of 94 boys are diagnosed with autism. For the rest of the answers, you can go to www.autismspeaks.org. Other fact, one of the racers on the Amazing Race, Zev Glassenberg, has Asperger’s Syndrome. Another person, John Elder Robison, wrote the book, Look Me in the Eye, a book that deals with when he was growing up with Asperger’s Syndrome and the problems that he and his family faced. It is a great book and if you have not read the book, I do recommend it! Another person, Mike DiMauro, the president and founder of both the Beat Mike Network and Orlando 183 of NAFCA, has Asperger’s Syndrome. We are still taking donations for our walk teams. The walks that BMN sponsors a team are Western New England, Boston and Orlando. When you go on the walk page, please either type in Mike DiMauro or go to team listing and look up Mike’s PALS.

Here we go with the games f or Week 6! Your bonus chances will follow and each set of games will have a deadline (like in Week 5), so please read the deadlines carefully!

NFL:

St. Louis @ Jacksonville (Fox)

Baltimore @ Minnesota (CBS)

Detroit @ Green Bay (Fox)

Houston @ Cincinnati (CBS)

Cleveland @ Pittsburgh (CBS)

Kansas City @ Washington (CBS)

Carolina @ Tampa Bay (Fox)

New York Giants @ New Orleans (Fox)

Arizona @ Seattle (Fox)

Philadelphia @ Oakland (Fox)

Buffalo @ New York Jets (CBS)

Tennessee @ New England (CBS)

Chicago @ Atlanta (NBC)

Denver @ San Diego (ESPN; MONDAY NIGHT)

OPEN DATE: Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami and San Francisco

DEADLINE: Sunday, October 18 @ 12:55PM ET

UFL:

Florida Tuskers @ Las Vegas Locomotives (Versus; WEDNESDAY)

New York Sentinels @ California Redwoods (HDNet; SATURDAY)

DEADLINE: Wednesday, October 14 @ 8:55PM ET

(If you miss Wednesday’s game, you can always send me the pick for Saturday’s game by 8:55PM ET on October 17).

MLB:

Anaheim Angels vs. New York Yankees (Fox)

Philadelphia Phillies/Colorado Rockies vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (TBS)

(Pick the team that you think will win=2 0their series)

DEADLINE: Thursday, October 15 @ 7PM ET (or five minutes before the start of the first series, whichever comes first)

NEWS:

1. When doing your baseball picks, please be aware that Philadelphia and Colorado will still be playing in the series on Monday and if necessary, Tuesday. The winner of that game will play the Los Angeles Dodgers.

2. The NFL is helping out with their push for Breast Cancer Awareness. Even though the official charity of the BMN is Autism Speaks, we will help spread the word on Breast Cancer Awareness next week, as the Rays of Hope walk is on October 25 at Forest Park in Springfield. The newsletter will be in pink text for that week, except for the two AFL legacy games, where there will be listed in red text.

3. If you are interested in seeing the Tam pa Bay Buccaneers vs. New York Jets on December 13 or Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Atlanta Falcons on January 3, please let me know! The Tampa Bay Buccaneers invited us (BMN) to go to one of their games. I think the tickets were $65 per person according to the paperwork! I have also invited Orlando 183 of NAFCA to come along to the game. For those of you that are reading the newsletter via the Bleacher Report and would like to join the camping club, please go to http://Orlando183NAFCA.tripod.com.

4. If you do not get Versus or HDNet with your cable or satellite provider, then you can go to www.getufl.com and click on schedule to watch the football games. That is also the web site that you can go and get the schedule of games. I watched the Thursday night game on Versus and it was a pretty good game! I recommend the UFL to anyone that is looking for a football craving during the middle of the week!

Good Luck in Week 6! Yes folks, I will be here for Week 7, if I can survive the wedding, lol!

Mike DiMauro
Proud Member of Chapters 8, 27, 30, 51, 114, 157, and 183 of NAFCA.
Proud Member of Disney College Program Fall 2008, Spring 2009 and Summer 2009.
Proud Member of the Walt Disney World Cast Member Team.

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