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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Charlie Batch will likely start at quarterback this week for the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens, Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday.
However, he also said starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who missed two games with shoulder and rib injuries, began throwing Monday and could be healthy enough to play in the key game at Baltimore.
"We'll leave the door open for him," Tomlin said of Roethlisberger. "He's got a chance.
"Right now, Charlie Batch is our quarterback. We are working offensively to put together a plan to complement his strengths. That is our plan until otherwise."
The Steelers have lost both games since Roethlisberger was injured. Bryon Leftwich filled in against the Ravens in Pittsburgh but suffer a rib fracture in the game. Batch started last week against Cleveland, a game in which the Steelers had eight turnovers.
Pittsburgh is 6-5 on the season, three games back of division-leading Baltimore in the AFC North.


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May 2001 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 49, Number 3
A GIS Class Exercise to Study Environmental Risk
Meg E. Stewart, Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Jill S. Schneiderman, Department Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Stephanie B. Andrews, Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may01.html#v49p227
Measuring the Effects of a Research-Based Field Experience on Undergraduates and K-12 Teachers
Jacqueline E. Huntoon, Gregg J. S. Bluth, and William A. Kennedy, Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences,Michigan Technological University,Houghton, MI
During the summer of 1999, a new type of field course was taught in five of eastern Utah's National Parks and Monuments. The course was unique because it targeted a combination of university undergraduates and K-12 teachers, emphasized development of participants' problem-solving skills, and assessed the effectiveness of several non-traditional teaching methods. The course's primary goal was to teach participants to develop and test their own ideas. The course also was designed to help participants learn to use tools and methods employed by research scientists. A mix of undergraduates and teachers was targeted so that the course could be used to introduce undergraduates to the concept of teaching as a career.
A blend of pedagogical components was employed and tested during the course. Pre- and post-course attitudinal surveys, instruments designed to measure lower- and higher-order cognitive skills, diagnostic learning logs, and post-course interviews were used to assess the course's success at achieving six specific goals.
The course produced an immediate impact on the attitudes, career choices, and lower- and higher-order cognitive skills of student participants. Although the initial results are intriguing, the assessments are not statistically significant for a variety of reasons including small sample size. Subsequent offerings of the course will be assessed in similar ways so that results can be interpreted with more confidence in the future.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may01.html#v49p235
Development and Evaluation of "Where Are We?" Map-Skills Software and Curriculum
Kim A. Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
Danielle Kaplan, Teachers College, New York, NY
Kottie Christie-Blick, Cottage Lane School, South Orangetown CSD, NY
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Geoscience Research at National Liberal Arts Colleges: School Rankings
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If baby yoga seems so yesterday and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star so last century, then the newest craze among trendsetter New York parents is for you: Baby DJ School.
DJ, composer and playwright Natalie Elizabeth Weiss is offering an eight-week program to teach babies hip-hop, how to mix their own music and play air guitar with the best of them.
And her clients? Professional families in Brooklyn, New York, one of the most competitive cities in the world where wealthy parents are notorious for lavishing cash and attention on their progeny's early development.
"Parents love it. They freak out. They all want to bring their friends. It's growing so quickly," Weiss said.
With songs such as That's Why Daddy Loves Disco, and modern DJ equipment, she teaches tots under three about electro, hip-hop and house; how to play records, match beats and create funky samples.
"Baby DJ, put your hands up, put your hands up, up," raps Weiss at the start of the lesson as five toddlers sit or stumble around rugs on the floor of a vintage clothes and vinyl shop in Brooklyn.
Some smile and look excited. Their parents push their children's arms up and down in time to the beat.
"Baby DJ, you got to get up if you wanna get down," Weiss croons.
She believes nursery rhymes — such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, which basically have the same melody — are not challenging enough.
Instead she offers babies rhythm, and the chance to play with mixing songs.
"They're like geniuses — just because they can't say what they're learning doesn't mean they aren't," she told a local television network before the class.
The children certainly love pressing the buttons and pushing the slider on her DJ deck, but in a 45-minute class, not all the children look convinced at all times.
"Let's try the disco arm move," cries Weiss, jabbing her arm diagonally into the air and down to the side.
One toddler picks his nose and another chucks a record on the floor. However, the parents are hooked, clapping on the beat and jiggling their hips.
Alexis Langsfeld, mom to 20-month-old Ellie and part-time emergency physician, is a big fan.
"It's kind of a combination of exploring the world, and physics and music," she said.
If her daughter is too young to start traditional music lessons on a violin or piano, Baby DJ School is perfect.
"This is much more like sliding and pushing and it makes a lot of sense. You're using someone else's tools for them to make their own music," Langsfeld said.
Ellie loves the classes, Langsfeld said, noting: "She definitely gets her little moves on."
Warren Bernard, an art school professor, has brought 22-month son Charles to his second Baby DJ lesson.
"I figured, you know, DJ class, let's see what happens," Bernard said. "People take their kids to go swimming ... there could be worse things that a baby could do at this age."
"I don't know if this is going to be his profession when he grows up, but hey, it's all about exposing your children to as many things as possible," he said.
Weiss, who has taught experimental electronic workshops to older children, got the Baby DJ School idea when she showed a friend's tot how her equipment works.
The boy is now one of the more enthusiastic class members.
"[I] whipped it out, showed him the basics — he picked it up like that," she said, clicking her fingers. "He's already working with buttons, knobs and levers in all his toys. It's not any more complicated to move a volume knob up than it is to move a train across the tracks on a little wooden train set."


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I was planning on writing about Las Vegas this week having visited the oh-so-cool Cosmopolitan Hotel last week but Kim Kardashian's wedstavaganza has proven to be big enough to overshadow even the bright lights of Sin City. So, look out for a post soon on Vegas' latest haute spot but for now let's take a wee peek at where Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries celebrated the exchange of their million dollar rings.
With a 20-carat ring, a Vera Wang wedding dress and a $1.5 million magazine deal it was unlikely that the bride-to-be-would settle for anything less than an amazing honeymoon suite. Last week it was reported that friends and family of "Team Hump" had booked up many of the guest rooms and suites at the Four Seasons Resort and Hotel, otherwise known as "the Biltmore", near stylish Santa Barbara, California. There was, of course, a firm "no comment" from the management but the smart money was on the Four Seasons hosting the happy couple. The ceremony itself took place on Saturday at the $30 million mansion of Frank Caufield in the ultra-exclusive neighbourhood of Montecito but sure enough wily photographers did manage to get a couple of snaps of the couple exiting the hotel on Sunday morning.
Santa Barbara has long been on my lust-list of places to visit and the Biltmore looks like it would more than satisfy my California dream of staying in a Spanish colonial mansion on America's romantic Riviera. Room and suites at the resort look charming but the stars of the biggest reality wedding ever are sure to have booked up the Ty Warner Cottage, a 2000-square-foot Iberianesque cottage hidden away in the hotel's verdant tropical gardens, with its white-shuttered living area, large master bedroom and spa bathroom with rain shower. Sigh…
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Recently installed Kubuntu 12.10 on a Dell XPS system. Overall happy, but I cannot access my Windows printers. Samba is correctly installed and works for browsing and accessing Windows directories on the MSHOME workgroup.
When trying to add my existing (and working) printers to Kubuntu, I select the "Windows Printer via SAMBA" option and the "browse" box on the right is not available (gray). When entering the printer name directly, as soon as I have entered "smb://MSHOME/x", "x" being just about anything, the "next" button at the bottom is available and enables me to select a printer. which of course will not work! (no correct Windows server or printer is selected).
I tried just about all options, including providing proper authentication data but nothing seems to enable the "browse" box to become active.
Sounds to me like a bug in the add printer feature, no?
Note: Entering the exact path to the printer enables to select, enable and print, but it may not be easy in a larger network environment.
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I have written a program in cpp that computes the magnetic field at a point from a current carrying loop. It uses the biot savart law and the monte carlo technique to carry out the integral. The program functions as expected for points that are not too close to the loop but from looking at a plot of the vectors you can see strange errors close to the loop.
I checked my results against http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/curloo.html#c3 for a point on the axis and http://www.netdenizen.com/emagnet/offaxis/iloopcalculator.htm for a point off the axis. My program agrees with these sources for points not too close to the loop.
This is my code. http://pastebin.com/4BH9qEZz
My main question is if there is anything inherent in the monte carlo technique that would cause this error?


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CLERMONT, Fla.—UMass Boston started off the season with a bang Saturday afternoon, sweeping a pair of regional opponents to help head coach Natalia Ardagna reach her 100th career victory at Hancock Field.
Ardagna earned the historic victory with a 13-0 mercy rule victory over Thomas College (1-6), before the Beacons moved to 2-0 with a 6-2 win over Bates College (3-3). Already the winningest head coach in program history, Ardagna reached the century-mark in just her 220th career game, and stands just 18 wins shy of 100 wins at UMB.
While the Beacons offense had a terrific day across the board, the biggest story for UMB was their pitching. Sophomore Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) picked up where she left off in her freshman season with a five-inning, two hit shutout of the Terriers; while freshman Emily Gray (New Bedford, Mass.) earned her first career victory with a seven-inning complete game.
The pair combined to allow no earned runs and just eight hits over 13 innings, while striking out nine batters.
At the plate, senior catcher Sue Killilea (Abington, Mass.) continued her historic pursuit of the record books with a 5-for-7 day and four runs scored. Killilea recorded a pair of triples to move into a tie for 20th all-time in DIII history with 27 career triples, and needs just four more triples to move into a tie for 10th all-time.
First baseman Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) and second baseman Erika Vecchiet (Pequannock, N.J.) combined for five runs and six RBI, while transfer Kristina Bove (Medford, Mass.) blasted the Beacons lone home run of the day, to go along with four hits and three RBI.
GAME ONE: UMass Boston 13, Thomas College (Maine) 0--5 Innings
UMass Boston kicked off the contest with a seven-run outburst in the top of the first inning and never looked back in a mercy-rule win over the Terriers. The Beacons tacked on a five-spot in the third inning and cruised to a 13-0 victory to win their third straight season-opener in a row.
Zullo was dominant in her first appearance of the season, striking out six, and allowing just two baserunners in five innings.
Offensively every starter recorded a hit, with six different Beacons notching two hits. Killilea led the way, going 2-for-4 with two hits and three RBI, while Bove finished 3-for-3 with two runs and two RBI.
Senior third baseman Kelsey Souza (Braintree, Mass.) enjoyed a great return to the diamond after a five-year hiatus, finishing 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI out of the leadoff spot.
After putting their first four batters on base, Vecchiet sparked the Beacons rally with a two-run double to put the Beacons ahead 3-0. An illegal pitch and RBI singles from Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Taryn Asta (Marshfield, Mass.) and Bove made it 7-0 through a half-inning of play.
The Beacons made it 12-0 after three innings of play when Killilea blasted a two-run triple to the right-field fence and came around to score on a sacrifice fly from Hemstock.
UMass Boston capped off the scoring in the fourth, when Bove blasted her first collegiate home-run over the right-field fence to make it 13-0.
Zullo put Thomas College down in order in the fourth and fifth, to earn her 11th career victory in 23 starts.
GAME TWO: UMass Boston 6, Bates College 2
Game two was more of the same, as the Beacons rode some timely-hitting and Gray's strong pitching performance to a 6-2 win over the Bobcats.
The Beacons scored three runs with two outs and cracked out a pair of doubles and triples to score five runs over the course of the first three innings.
Gray held up her end of the bargain, going seven inning strong, allowing two unearned runs and six hits. The freshman right-hander struck out three and allowed just one walk.
Killilea cracked out three hits in three trips to the plate, while registering two runs and two RBI. Hemstock added two hits, two runs and two RBI, including one of the Beacons four stolen bases.
UMass Boston jumped out to another early lead, when Hemstock flared a single down the right-field line to score Killilea-who reached on a triple to right-field. Two batters later, Hemstock came in to score on a double-steal, when Vecchiet forced a throw down to second base-that allowed Hemstock to come home.
After Bates College tied the game at 2 in the top of the third, the Beacons rallied for three runs in the bottom half of the inning. Killilea started off the inning with a one-out double to center and came in to score on an RBI single from Hemstock. The Beacons made it 4-2 when Vecchiet blasted a triple to right field to easily score Hemstock, and Vecchiet came across to score on a wild pitch three batters late to put UMB ahead 5-2.
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Wendyl wants to know: Eclipse sugarfree mints
I was asked to look at these mints by a friend who employs a lot of staff and was concerned that they were on "everyone's desks, all the time". "Are they safe?" My first reaction after buying this little tin of mints was that there was no way I could read the ingredients standing in the supermarket to get a gauge of what was in them. Surely this is something you should be able to do before making the decision to purchase? Instead I had to take them home and get out my trusty magnifying glass and once I had deciphered the ingredients I realised that they are printed on the plastic wrapping which is discarded as soon as you open the mints. Tins of mints like these are a popular choice for people to keep in their handbags, cars and on their desks to give that last-minute fresh breath confidence before a meeting. These ones are sugar-free, which inevitably means aspartame will be in there somewhere. Ingredients ( in order of greatest quantity):
Sorbitol This is an alcohol found in fruit and seaweed. It is often used as a sugar substitute for diabetics. If consumed to excess it can cause diarrhoea and gastrointestinal disturbances. Eating as little as 10 grams can cause diarrhoea in some children. Each 2g mint has 1.9g of sorbitol so you wouldn't want your children having more than 5 or 6 of these mints in one sitting.
Anti-caking agent (470) This is salts of fatty acids which have no known adverse health effect.
Flavour This will be artificial as it doesn't state otherwise. Peppermint oil is a natural flavouring used by other mint producers which is a good substitute.
Sweeteners (951,950) The first sweetener is aspartame (951) which has had a very controversial ride in the food industry. Otherwise known as NutraSweet it is a compound prepared from aspartic acid and phenylalanine, which is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. There have been objections made that it might cause brain damage and that when used in soft drinks it deteriorates into toxic levels of methyl alcohol under storage conditions. Neither claim was accepted and it has been approved as a sweetener since 1981. However, aspartame must be avoided by people with the genetic condition phenylketonuria or PKU. The second sweetener is acesulphame potassium (950) which is a chemical that is 200 times sweeter than sugar. Its approval for use in 1988 was controversial as the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington consumer group, said that animals fed this in two different studies suffered more tumours than others that did not receive the compound. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) said that four long-term animal studies in dogs, mice, and rats had not shown any toxic effects and approved its use.
Colour 132 This is a coal tar dye which gives the colour blue to a food product. It was banned in Norway after concerns that it may cause allergic reactions in some people. It is not recommended for children.
My recommendations: This product comes with a warning in very, very small print that excessive consumption may have a laxative effect. This will be due to the sorbitol, so you wouldn't want to be throwing a whole tin into your mouth, that's for sure. Many people opt for sugar-free mints because they believe that they have less calories. But if you compare a 2g serve of this sugar-free product, which has just 28kj, with the same sized mint of the same brand, which uses sugar, it has just 34kj, which gives you a tiny energy saving of 6kj. Is it worth it? Others like to keep sugar away from their teeth, which is a good idea, but a 2g mint should be sucked and digested fairly quickly. If you want a breath freshener, why not go for a bag of mints the way they used to make them? There are some marketed under the name Curiously Strong Mints that have the advantage of using the natural flavouring of peppermint oil and no artificial coal tar dyes. You'll also get more bang for your buck, at $2.89 per 200g as opposed to $2.79 for 34g of this product. But you will have to find a tin to put them in.


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Baseball's Matt Spencer Named A Louisville Slugger National Collegiate Baseball Player of the Week
Feb. 5, 2007
TEMPE, Ariz. - Arizona State University OF Matt Spencer has been named a 'Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week' by Collegiate Baseball. The junior from Morristown, Tenn. had a stellar first weekend as a Sun Devil, helping lead ASU to a three-game sweep of Southern Utah. The transfer from North Carolina was one of three players honored by the publication and was the only position player.
Spencer went 7-9 (.778) with two doubles and two homers, including a grand slam on Sunday that hit the green monster in centerfield. He totaled 13 RBI for the weekend, despite never playing past the fifth inning in any of the three games. Spencer and the Sun Devils scored 61 runs against the Thunderbirds, tying a school record for most runs scored in a three-game series.
Arizona State (3-0) moved up two spots to #12 in this week's Collegiate Baseball poll. They head to Houston, Texas this weekend to participate in the Houston College Classic played at Minute Maid Park. They will face Texas A&M on Friday, #6 Vanderbilt on Saturday and Houston on Sunday.
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DU lacrosse: Baxter's injuries and Pioneers' trust in Law
I spoke with DU senior attackman and team captain Todd Baxter at Sunday night's NCAA Tournament selection-show gathering. The Pioneers' second-leading goal scorer (28) and third-leading point producer (46) is scheduled to have X-rays on his right ankle and an MRI on his right knee today. He injured both at the same time with 30 seconds left in Saturday's ECAC championship-game victory over Fairfield (Conn.), his former team. Baxter, from Eden Prairie, Minn., transferred to DU after his freshman season at Fairfield.
Junior attackman Mark Matthews, DU's all-time leading scorer who leads the team with 41 goals, dubbed Baxter "the heart and soul" of a team entering its first-ever home NCAA Tournament game on a 10-game winning streak, and a group that has legitimate Final Four dreams. Obviously, it would be a shame if Baxter is ruled out for the season. Although results of his tests have not been completed (or revealed), it's extremely doubtful he will be able to play in Sunday's NCAA Tournament opener against Villanova at Peter Barton Stadium.
"Feeling alright," Baxter said with a grin, while his right leg was braced/bandaged and elevated on a chair. "We'll determine what degree (the injuries are) and if I can go next week, or in two weeks or in three weeks, or if I'm done for the season . . . I have a great training staff with me right now and I'm pretty optimistic about the whole situation."
DU coach Bill Tierney announced Sunday that sophomore midfielder Eric Law would replace Baxter and play with Matthews and junior Alex Demopoulos around the cage, beginning at today's practice. Law is from Centennial and was a high-school star 15 miles south on University Blvd. — at Arapahoe. He is fifth on the team in points (24) and sixth in goals (13).
"Todd Baxter has been the glue to this team. People will talk about Mark Matthews and Alex Demopoulos . . . But Todd has become a great captain," Tierney said. "If Todd doesn't play next weekend, we'll go with Eric Law . . . Eric Law played in front of 30,000 people last year as an attackman for Salisbury University in the Division III national championship. He's played on our first midfield all year long. He's a poised young man as a sophomore. Eric would be the first one to tell you he's not Todd Baxter, but we feel confident Eric can do a great job. He's been an attackman all his life until this year, when we had to move him to midfield because there was no room for him, and he's done an amazing job. So we'll get to work with Eric and see what happens."
At the beginning of the season, DU lost its fourth attackman two games in, when sophomore Colin Scott went down with a knee injury. Scott is redshirting.
Please look for a story or blog about Law this week.
Keep tabs with Mike Chambers on Twitter: @MChambersDP


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Garlic and onions are two of the most versatile and inexpensive staples to keep in your kitchen pantry. Our recipes highlight these hard-working root vegetables' myriad possibilities.
This soup provides a delicious way to enjoy the robust flavor of garlic, which has been known to lower cholesterol.
This simple side highlights the wonderful flavor of caramelized onions, which also promote HDL -- the good kind of cholesterol.
This crustless, protein-packed variety of quiche provides many health benefits. The onion and garlic give it flavor and have been known to lower blood pressure over time.
Eggplant is layered with a mixture of low-fat turkey, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and spices and topped with a light yogurt sauce in our version of moussaka, a Mediterranean classic. Moussaka may be assembled a day in advance and refrigerated; bake for an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until center is hot.
This delicious and healthy dish combines wonderful Indian flavors and lots of garlic.
Broccoli, onion, garlic, tomatoes, yellow zucchini, and eggplant, coupled with nutty wheat berries (unprocessed whole kernels of wheat), make a lusty dish. This is an excellent accompaniment to meat or fish; it can also be served as an entree.
Layers of phyllo dough make a quick crust for this savory pie. For the filling, fresh spinach is sauteed with onion and garlic, then stirred into a combination of ricotta and Parmesan cheeses, fresh dill, parsley, cumin, and eggs. Serve warm or at room temperature. For brunch, try coupling the pie with a green salad.
A garlicky fava bean salad brings together the abundant protein and fiber in beans and a slew of antioxidants from corn, cucumber, garlic, and parsley.
Generously spread slimmed-down parsley pesto onto crusty sourdough, or swirl it into another dish, such as chicken soup.
Serve this garlic-heavy topping with grilled shrimp, fish, or pork.
Tuna rubbed with garlic-herb oil shares plate space with fiber-rich beans and kale.
To make a Southwest-style soup, garlic, tomatillos, and a serrano chile are first roasted in the oven to bring out their smoky sweetness.
This simple crustless zucchini pie gets its rich flavor from four cloves of garlic.
This dish combines parsnips and cipollines. Also referred to as wild onions, fresh cipollines are the bittersweet bulbs of the grape hyacinth, and are available for a short time in the fall. If you can't find them, use some other sweet onion, such as Vidalia, cut into walnut-size pieces.


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Here are seven in-home exercises for men and women using body weight and everything you'd find in your house (no gym equipment), according to Melissa Mata, owner of Perfection Fitness.
1. Washing-machine twist: This targets the obliques for a healthy waist line. Using a kitchen towel, twist it and hold it straight out. Sitting on a mat, lean back, elevate your feet off the ground for more resistance and begin to twist right from left. Aim for as many twists your body can do for 30 seconds.
2. Towel tightener: This will help with your underarms, taking you from flab to firm. Standing with your legs apart and your knees slightly bent, reach over your head to grab onto one end of a kitchen or hand towel. Have your partner add resistance as you pull it up and add resistance as you pull it down. Be sure to contract and squeeze your triceps muscles with every rep. Aim for an many reps as your arms can do for 30 seconds.
3. Side stair leg raises: These will help firm up your thighs. Standing to the side of a stair, keep one foot on and one off. Kick your leg straight out with your heel aiming to the ceiling. Kick as many times as you can for 30 seconds. For more weight, have your partner add resistance as you raise your leg.
4. The can-can: This will help tone your shoulders and back. Grab two soup cans and hold them above your shoulders. Complete as many shoulder raises in 30 seconds by lightening the cans straight above your head and right back down. For added weight, your partner can place both of her hands over yours and apply manual resistance.
5. Counter top pushes: This helps your chest. Lean forward onto a kitchen counter top, keeping your feet behind you and your hands positioned shoulder-width apart. Begin to do a push up off the counter. For added resistance, elevate one foot in the air. Complete as many pushes as you can for 30 seconds.
6. Partner pushes: This is a great exercise for you and a partner or a child. Lie on the floor and have your partner interlock hands with you as she stands slightly above you. By completing push-ups off each others body weight, repeat as many downs and ups as you both can do in 30 seconds. This targets both of your arms, core and chest muscles. Remember to exhale and have fun.
7. Weighted kid squats: This will burn your "buns" and you'll feel it in your legs and back, but you'll like the finished product. To add resistance to the everyday squat, have your child (probably no more than 40 pounds, but you be the judge) put yourself in a piggyback position. Complete 10 to 15 squats with your child holding on.


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Will Leitch will be previewing/musing on every baseball team each weekday until the start of the season. You can pre-order his book and follow him on Twitter. Today: The Boston Red Sox.
Before last year's playoffs, there was a bit of casual discussion about whether or not the 2009 postseason would decide who the supposed "team of the decade" would be. This was bewildering to me. No matter who ended up winning — and the Yankees' tied the Red Sox's number of decade titles — it seems pretty clear that the aughts were the decade of the Red Sox. Everything that happened, the entire decade, occurred in their wake.
In the past, I've talked about the Sports Nancy Grace rule: The minute a story crosses over to mainstream cable news, inspiring people who don't care about sports to start talking about sports, it becomes uninteresting and tiresome to actual sports fans. (Examples: Michael Vick, Duke lacrosse, the Olympics.) The Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004 was the exception. It really did feel like the planet shifted a little bit. (The only sports story that would make the cover of Time right now I can think of that doesn't involve an athlete murdering someone — or Buzz Bissinger writing about how dangerous football is — would be the Cubs winning the World Series. The Red Sox proved busting history can move massive product.) A Red Sox title changed how we think about championships. Obviously, championships were always the goal of any team, but the Red Sox were famous for, as Michael Lewis put it, their "undignified stagger toward the postseason." 2004 proved that the end result was always worth whatever you went through beforehand. The White Sox's title the next year was arguably just as much of an epiphany for the team's fans. But the White Sox were Barry Bonds hitting 73 only five years after Mark McGwire hit 70: We weren't ready yet for that much history again, so quickly. Plus, it was the Red Sox. The Yankees could win just as many titles and win more games, but the transformation of the Red Sox was the baseball story of the last decade. (If you think "steroids" were the baseball story of the last decade, I honestly and truly feel sorry for you.)
The 2000s were a decade of sports exceptionalism, the decade of overkill, the This Is The Greatest Super Bowl Ever and This Is The Greatest Rivalry Ever. I think this is entirely due to the Red Sox and the Yankees, and what happened in 2003 and 2004. The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry transmogrified into the pulsating, tentacled megamonster it has become this decade, and it changed everything. Suddenly, a World Series between the Cardinals and Tigers, two of baseball's most historic franchises, became a dull afterthought, the replacement series that existed only after the Yankees and Red Sox didn't make it. The never-ending chase for maximum ratings caused the sports networks to ignore any team west of the northeast corridor. The Yankees-Red Sox holy war, the two richest teams desperate to outdo the other, raised baseball salaries to unimaginable levels. The Yankees and Red Sox have dwarfed everything else in baseball over the last 10 years, and none of us has been able to escape it. It is not humble and welcoming. It is loud and exclusionary. It is AROD AND JETER VERSUS PAPI AND MANNY TONIGHT ON FOXXXXXXX!!!!! This is the direction the Red Sox title pushed baseball. It was inevitable. I do not blame them for it.
At the beginning of the last decade, the Red Sox outfield consisted of Troy O'Leary, Carl Everett and Trot Nixon, and the first baseman was Brian Daubach. Today, the Red Sox go about three guys deep at every position, leaving nothing to chance. (The Red Sox are so deep, you expect them to attempt a line change in the fourth inning.) They are an enterprise now. They manufacture championships, even when they don't. No longer is the torture and pain around. In 2000, they were Daniel Plainview, ravaging the land for oil, breaking his leg, striving, failing, hungry. In 2010, they are Daniel Plainview, alone in their castle, lost from who he once was but still searching ... but just searching in a massive mansion with a bowling alley. The Red Sox are who they always were. They just have a bigger house now. The Red Sox traded up.
One suspects the fans, the true fans, would have it no other way. The Red Sox turned into what their most diehard fans wanted them to be all along: A simple dominant team unencumbered by history, megalomania over misery. I'd make that trade. Wouldn't you?
Small sections of this essay were taken from a Newsweek essay I wrote a few months ago. I'm pretty much trying to make the same point. Forgive me.


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Mark Allen Shepherd (born 7 January 1961; age 58) is an actor and artist from Rockville Centre, New York who is best known for his portrayal of the Lurian freighter captain Morn in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Throughout the seven year run of Deep Space Nine, Shepherd never received official credit and appeared in other background roles as well. He also portrayed Morn in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.
Shepherd received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island which he attended between 1979 and 1984. After graduation, he moved to Southern California and studied at the California Institute of the Arts, focusing on music, film, theater, performance, and interdisciplinary arts between 1986 and 1990.
Shepherd is also an accomplished artist, and he has created numerous abstract impressionist paintings, mixing media types into photo mosaics. In his artwork, he likes exploring abstract concepts as energy, consciousness, perception, and multi-dimensionality. Indeed, twenty-three of his works have been used as set dressing on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, including paintings in the quarters of Kira Nerys, Julian Bashir, Jadzia Dax, and Jake Sisko. [1] [2]
Shepherd appeared as Morn in every season of Deep Space Nine in heavy makeup, which took nearly two hours to apply. Once in costume, Shepherd was known to spend fourteen hours a day filming. His makeup artist was Vincent Niebla, who earned an Emmy Award for his work on Deep Space Nine. [3] [4] Although his character never uttered a word, Morn became a recurring character in the series, and even had an entire episode written about him. (DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?") Interestingly, Shepherd appeared, without makeup, in this episode, and is asked to take Morn's seat at the bar when Morn is presumed dead.
An action figure of Morn was released by Playmates Toys. Shepherd was interviewed in 1996 in Star Trek Monthly issue 19 and in 1998 by Sue Schneider in Star Trek Monthly issue 46, titled "Voice of the Barfly". Another interview was printed in the 1995 magazine The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine issue 11, by Larry Nemecek and titled "Mark Allen Shepherd: Morn". Shepherd also gave interviews for the "Hidden file 10" on the DS9 Season 6 DVD and for "Morn Speaks" on the DS9 Season 7 DVD.
Shepherd is a co-founder of Plural Dolt, an absurd music theater group based in Los Angeles since 1987, as well as a musician who released the CDs "Morn to be Wild" (2005) [5] and "Space Walk" (2005). [6] He is also a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. [7]
Outside Star Trek, Shepherd appeared as a pregnant Tenctonese in an episode of the science fiction series Alien Nation, portrayed Lenny in the 2001 comedy Babylon Vista, and played a killer in the 2007 adventure Slow Motion Addict.
In 2009, Shepherd voiced the role of Alex Miller on the fan-produced audio series Star Trek: The Continuing Mission.
Star Trek appearances Edit
Recurring appearances Edit
- DS9: as Morn
- "Emissary" (Season 1)
- "Past Prologue"
- "A Man Alone"
- "Babel"
- "Captive Pursuit"
- "Q-Less"
- "Dax"
- "The Passenger"
- "Move Along Home"
- "The Nagus"
- "Vortex"
- "Battle Lines"
- "The Storyteller"
- "Progress"
- "If Wishes Were Horses"
- "The Forsaken"
- "Dramatis Personae"
- "Duet"
- "In the Hands of the Prophets"
- "The Siege" (Season 2)
- "Melora"
- "Rules of Acquisition"
- "Sanctuary"
- "Rivals"
- "The Alternate"
- "Playing God"
- "Profit and Loss"
- "The Wire"
- "The Jem'Hadar"
- "The House of Quark" (Season 3)
- "Fascination"
- "Prophet Motive"
- "Visionary"
- "Explorers"
- "Family Business"
- "Shakaar"
- "Facets"
- "The Way of the Warrior" (Season 4)
- "The Visitor"
- "Rejoined"
- "Starship Down"
- "Little Green Men"
- "Homefront"
- "Sons of Mogh"
- "Bar Association"
- "Accession"
- "Rules of Engagement"
- "Body Parts"
- "Apocalypse Rising" (Season 5)
- "The Assignment"
- "Trials and Tribble-ations"
- "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."
- "Rapture"
- "In Purgatory's Shadow"
- "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
- "A Simple Investigation"
- "Business as Usual"
- "Ferengi Love Songs"
- "Empok Nor"
- "In the Cards"
- "Call to Arms"
- "A Time to Stand" (Season 6)
- "Behind the Lines"
- "Favor the Bold"
- "You Are Cordially Invited"
- "Resurrection"
- "Statistical Probabilities"
- "The Magnificent Ferengi"
- "Who Mourns for Morn?"
- "One Little Ship"
- "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"
- "Inquisition"
- "His Way"
- "The Reckoning"
- "Valiant"
- "Profit and Lace"
- "Time's Orphan"
- "The Sound of Her Voice"
- "Tears of the Prophets"
- "Image in the Sand" (Season 7)
- "Afterimage"
- "Take Me Out to the Holosuite"
- "Chrysalis"
- "Once More Unto the Breach"
- "The Emperor's New Cloak"
- "Field of Fire"
- "Chimera"
- "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang"
- "Penumbra"
- "The Dogs of War"
- "What You Leave Behind"
- DS9: as Human DS9 resident
- "A Man Alone"
- "Vortex"
- "The Storyteller"
- "If Wishes Were Horses"
- "The Forsaken"
- "Dramatis Personae"
- "Duet"
- "Melora"
- "Necessary Evil"
- "Sanctuary"
- "Whispers"
Star Trek interviews Edit
- DS9 Season 6 DVD special feature "Hidden File 10", interviewed on 3 April 2003
- DS9 Season 7 DVD special feature "Morn speaks", interviewed on 3 April 2003
External links Edit
- MarkAllenShepherd.com – official site
- Mark Allen Shepherd at MySpace.com
- Mark Allen Shepherd at the Internet Movie Database
- Mark Allen Shepherd at Wikipedia


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Social Security Death Indexes
May 11, 2010 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy.
Filed under genealogy, SSDI, USA
Researching in the USA Most of my genealogy research on my husband's side of the family is the USA. He has AUMACKS in Michigan and NJ and his MILLERS are into Maine and south. His ancestors include Empire Loyalists and Salem witches. His family also has Civil War and Revolutionary War Vets. Needless to say I've had to find genealogy sources [...]


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Obama snoozes and loses
DENVER — One word of advice for Barack Obama before his next debate: caffeine.
I had a Pepsi right before the debate started Wednesday night and was tingly for the next 90 minutes.
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President Obama looked like someone had slipped him an Ambien.
( Also on POLITICO: 5 takeaways from the Denver debate)
The first presidential debate of 2012 took place at the University of Denver and was between Obama and Mitt Romney. But only Romney showed up.
For much of the debate, it appeared as if Obama, the former professor, and not Obama, the presidential candidate, was on stage.
It's not that Romney's performance was perfect or polished — it wasn't — it's just that Obama's was so mediocre.
It is possible Obama was overconfident, but I doubt it. He is not a foolish man. So I think he was just overtired or over-distracted or over-something. But he sure wasn't over-energetic.
( PHOTOS: Obama not having fun)
Maybe Jen Psaki, his traveling press secretary, was preparing us when she said on Air Force One Sunday that Obama "has had less time to prepare than we anticipated. That's just a fact. It's difficult to schedule significant blocks of time when you're the president."
Mitt Romney, by comparison, seemed bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. He seemed to enjoy being there.
He was far from profound. "My priority is putting people back to work in this country," he said.
And: "I love great schools."
Trite? You bet. But at least he spoke in reasonably short sentences.
Obama often sounded like he was defending a doctoral dissertation. His thoughts seemed to range from lengthy to endless.
Mr. President, shorter is better. Really. We are a society with a short attention span.
( Also on POLITICO: Not debatable: Obama stumbled)
Complex problems do not require complex answers. Not on TV, they don't. Once a candidate is safely elected, he can be as long-winded as he wants in the White House and even before Congress.
But he has to get elected. And it's a little early for Obama to fall on the ball. Which is where he seemed to spend most of the evening Wednesday.
And, by so doing, he let Romney get away with a lot.
"Mr. President, you're entitled to your own airplane and your own house, but not to your own facts," Romney said in one of the few zingers of the debate.
Couldn't Obama have replied in kind? Obama could have said something like: "And you, Gov. Romney, think you're entitled to car elevators and Swiss bank accounts!"


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Since cutting our cable, Dan and I have enjoyed a break from the endless speculation and drama of 24-hour cable news and instead rely on a few trusted print and internet sources for our information. This has improved our quality of life significantly, making us less angry and more informed…(although I have to admit I miss Anderson Cooper during disasters).
This most recent flap with Shirley Sherrod reveals just how out-of-control our sound bite culture has become and why we decided to ditch cable news. The speed at which Sherrod's words were lifted out of context, edited, distributed, and then subjected to reaction was truly astounding, and we should all be alarmed by the sloppy reporting the sequence of events revealed.
Having worked in journalism for several years myself, I am familiar with the temptation of trying to fit a person (or source) into a predetermined story. When working with a tight deadline and a tough editor, it's just so much easier when you hear what you expect to hear, when your "characters" play right into your headline or lead. This tendency is only exacerbated when certain networks actually require certain slants and when the demands of impatient consumers take priority over accuracy and caution. As newspapers sputter and fail and the talking heads on TV get louder and louder,victory is given to those have mastered the sound bite rather than those who have mastered the story.
Because stories take too much time.
Stories are too complex.
Stories are too colorful and messy and inexact to fit into a three-minute segment on TV.
Of course, journalists are not the only guilty parties. We do the same thing when we cut people off, hurry through our conversations, and surround ourselves with those who look and think just like us. We want people to fit our stereotypes because it makes them more manageable. We want stories to be brief and simple so we don't have to be changed by them. We are running low on patience, and we are losing our love for story.
What strikes me about Sherrod's story…when revealed in its entirety… is how beautifully redemptive it is. It is the story of a black woman grappling with the injustices of her past and overcoming personal prejudices to find common ground with her neighbors. It is a redemptive story precisely because it is complex.The characters are complex. The culture is complex. The history is complex. It's not a story that shoves people into neat and tidy categories of good and evil. It's not a story that resolves perfectly at the end. It's not a story that fits into a sound bite.
None of the good ones do.
To exploit the part of the story where Sherrod is most vulnerable, most open about the darkness within herself that she must overcome, is nothing short of sacrilege. It is like interrupting a prayer or a poem.
Part of our challenge as followers of Jesus is to preserve his tradition of storytelling in a culture that demands we get to the point.
We've got to slow down. We've got to listen better. We've got to be willing to risk being changed.
After all, our very faith is rooted in a story. If God doesn't speak in sound bites, maybe his children weren't made to either.
What are some of the effects of our sound bite culture? Do you think it has influenced how we read and interpret the Bible? What does it look like, practically speaking, to celebrate story in our day-to-day lives?
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BOSTON, Mass. – With a dominating defensive performance men's basketball secured it's spot in tomorrow's championship game of the 28th Annual Harbor Invitational as the Beacons limited the University of New England to just 18.9% shooting from the field to earn a one-sided 72-30 win Friday evening in the brand new Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium.
The 42-point margin marked the largest win since the Beacons 97-51 dismantling of Emerson College on December 4, 1996. All-time Friday's win is the eighth largest margin of victory for head coach Charlie Titus and his Beacons. It also stands as the fewest points allowed by UMB since their January 16, 1999 win over Rhode Island College (72-39).
Friday's win improved the Beacons to 2-2 on the year, while the University of New England fell to 0-4 overall.
Senior guard Mike Mitchell, Jr. (Dorchester, Mass.) was the driving force behind the Beacons one-sided victory as he lead all scorers with 14 points. Big-man Brian Clarke (Miramar, Fla.) dropped in 12 points and grabbed five rebounds to lead UMB's front-court. Off the bench Jahleel Moise (Brockton, Mass.) wasted little time making an impact as the freshman led the bench with 10 points.
On the glass junior Rahshjeem Benson (Boston, Mass.) was dominant yet again totaling nine boards, while also posting one of UMB's four blocks. Kadeem Coulter (Boston, Mass.) led the Beacons defensive effort with a pair of blocks and also managed six boards in 14 minutes of action.
As a squad UMB held the Nor'Easters to 14 points in the first half and 16 in the second. From three-point range, UNE shot 13.6%, making just three of their 22 attempts from behind the arc. UMB also held a +20 advantage on the glass as they finished with 49 rebounds in the contest, 38 of which came on the defensive side of the court. The Beacons also forced 24 turnovers and came-up with 16 steals.
For New England Charles Fenner III led his team with 10 points and had four rebounds.
The Beacons looking to bounce back from a pair of overtime losses and playing in their first home game in their brand new gym wasted little time taking over Friday's match-up. Never once did UMB trail on the scoreboard and held at-most 25 point lead in the first half. Sophomore forward Cody Edmond (White Castle, La.) helped the Beacons to their huge first half lead on three separate occasions.
After the break the onslaught continued as UMB did not miss a beat. Basket after basket, the Beacons continued to stretch their lead. UMB's biggest lead of the contest, 31 points, came on a Mitchell 3-pointer at the 12:53 mark. From distance, Mitchell finished with four of the Beacons eight 3-pointers.
Following the Mitchell three the Beacons turned to their bench to help keep the momentum going. Every player that entered the game continued to pressure New England and took advantage of every one of their possessions.
In total the Beacons bench combined for 31 points, while the Nor'Easters bench accounted for just two points all night.
Men's Basketball will face Trinity College (Conn.) tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the championship game of the 28th Annual Harbor Invitational.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) Ryan Braun skipped the Milwaukee Brewers' fan festival last January, remaining mostly quiet while he waited for a decision in his appeal of a 50-game suspension under baseball's drug policy.
What a difference a year makes.
The 2011 NL MVP was on hand Sunday as the Brewers held their annual winter party just weeks before the team is scheduled to report to spring training. And the focus was on Milwaukee's inexperienced rotation and carrying over last season's strong finish, not on his rocky stretch from a year ago.
``There's always so much optimism this time of year but I think there are more unknowns than this time last year because of the lack of experience with our starting pitchers,'' Braun said. ``Last year, (Zack) Greinke and (Shaun) Marcum were guys with longer track records but this group is very talented. There's a lot of uncertainty but certainly a lot of talent.''
Well off the pace in the NL Central, the Brewers traded Greinke to the Los Angeles Angels last July. Marcum was bothered by right elbow tightness for much of the season, then signed with the New York Mets over the winter.
Now Mike Fiers, Wily Peralta and Mark Rogers are part of a youthful group poised to take on a bigger role, and Chris Narveson likely will be back in the rotation if he's fully recovered from shoulder surgery that ended his 2012 season after just two starts.
``It's no different than when we went with our young positional players: Corey Hart, J.J. Hardy, Ricky Weeks, Prince Fielder,'' general manager Doug Melvin said. ``The reason we got Greinke and (Randy) Wolf a couple years ago was to bide time to give our younger guys the ability to develop in the big leagues. Now it's their time to do it on the big league level.
``Marco Estrada, there's only two guys with a better walks to strikeouts ratio in the major leagues. Michael Fiers had a better strikeouts per nine innings than a whole list of quality pitchers. I'm banking on some of their performance of last year in August and September.''
A year ago, the Brewers were coming off one of their most successful seasons since the franchise moved to Milwaukee. Braun and Fielder combined to lead the Brewers to the 2011 NL Central title and an appearance in the league championship series.
But Fielder signed a big free-agent deal with Detroit last January and Braun was hounded by the suspension for much of last winter. He tested positive for elevated testosterone levels but arbitrator Shyam Das ruled in favor of the slugger due to chain of custody issues involving the sample, throwing out the penalty during spring training.
Braun responded with another monster season, hitting .319 with 112 RBIs and leading the NL in home runs (41), total bases (356) and OPS (.987). He finished second in NL MVP voting behind Giants star Buster Posey.
The left fielder anchors a lineup that returns almost completely intact after leading the National League in home runs, RBIs, runs, stolen bases and extra-base hits - quite the impressive feat for the first season since Fielder left. First baseman Corey Hart will miss the start of the season due to a right knee injury, but is expected to play this year.
``When Ryan is healthy, Ryan can have a better year than he had last year and a better year than he had the year before,'' manager Ron Roenicke said. ``He's capable of doing that. We need to keep him on the field and keep him healthy.''
Braun is one of 14 members of the Brewers' organization slated for the World Baseball Classic. Pool play for the international competition begins in early March.
``It's a tremendous honor to represent your country,'' said Braun, who was born in Mission Hills, Calif., and played college ball at the University of Miami. ``You don't know how many opportunities you'll get to do that - this tournament only happens once every four years, and four years from now who knows - for all of us - what our health situation will be, where we'll be in the game, whether we'll even get an opportunity to be invited.
``For me, I think it was a no-brainer. As long as I was healthy, it was something I was definitely going to do.''
While the majority of Milwaukee's position players are back, the pitching staff is full of question marks. The Brewers completely rebuilt their bullpen, save for closer John Axford and setup man Jim Henderson. Veterans Mike Gonzalez, Tom Gorzelanny and Burke Badenhop will fill some of the innings, with a crop of prospects expected to fill the rest along with rounding out the rotation.
A couple of the young players got valuable experience last season after Milwaukee slumped to a 54-66 record on Aug. 19. The Brewers went 27-13 to finish the year.
Braun thinks that experience will help in 2013.
``You've already seen them succeed at the highest level,'' he said. ``It's one thing to be a prospect and have success in the minor leagues but to see Rogers and Peralta come up, Fiers, what he did all year ... to see all those guys come up and succeed at this level, it gives us as a team confidence that they can produce, succeed and thrive at this level.''


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Wolfgang A. Ritschel
Wolfgang A. Ritschel
The Meeting
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My Life as an Artist
After a successful and enjoyable academic career in the medical sciences I am happy and thankful now being able to devote my full time and energiesto a creative life in the visual arts as an expressionist painter and sculptor. My wife and I travel a lot in our van across beautiful America to catch impressions of our great land and its people and their different ways of life and heritage. Other travels take us overseas, and I always return enriched and inspired, with numerous sketches and paintings to be completed in my studios in Cincinnati, Ohio.
While growing up in Austria, I've always had a great love for and interest in the visual and performing arts dating back to my earliest memories. In my late teens, I decidedtodivide the focus of my studies betweenthe natural sciences, art history, andfine arts. During my ensuing academic career in the medical sciences over the next forty years, I always took alongmy sketch pad and travel set of watercolors in my personal and professional travels all over the world so they would be available at a moment's notice. In my fifties, I began to follow my increasing desire to devote once again more of my spare time and energies to the arts, taking art courses at the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Art Academy, Miami University, Oxford, and at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado. Finally, I left academiafor a new life as a full-time artist.
What carried over from my former career is my great love of teaching, the transmittal of knowledge, and discussion. Upon invitation I have presented numerous art talks, lectures and demonstrations at diverse forums such as the Museum of Alabama, Cincinnati Art Museum, University of Indiana East, University of Southern California, Hillel Gallery, at national and international health science meetings, the Peruvian-North American Cultural Center, Cincinnati Art Club, Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, and Mason Art Association.
-Wolfgang Ritschel


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How to Make a Multilayered Pop-Up Christmas Card
Homemade pop-up Christmas cards don't have to look like amateur work. You can create a beautiful, multilayered pop-up Christmas card by using magazine photos, your own photos, or old cut up Christmas cards. The pop-up card in this how-to has three layers (four, if you count the greeting card itself). As the card opens, it reveals the hills, a house, and a bear to complete the scene.
Of course, you don't have to use photographs from magazines for this kind of project; you can use your own photos. Pop-up cards with your own photographs can be great fun. In these days of digital photography and high-quality home printers, you can easily create a pop-up with your friends and family.
For this project, you need
3 or 4 sheets of thin white card
Magazines for photographs, your own photos, or old Christmas cards
White school glue and glue spreader
Glue stick
Pencil and eraser
Sharp craft knife
Cutting mat
Fold a full sheet of card in half to make the main part of your greeting card.
Look through magazines to find photos that can make a background for the greeting card, as well as the layers that pop up from it.
Find a hill that's as wide as the greeting card (approximately 8-1/2") and about half as high. Find a building that's taller but not as wide as the hill. Find a person measuring between 4-3/4" and 5-7/8" tall.
Make the parts at the front shorter and/or narrower than those at the back so they don't block the view.
Add a 1/4″-wide picture tab to the bottom of the hill, building, and person; carefully cut out the shapes.
For complicated shapes, first cut close to the line you're aiming at — perhaps 3/8" away from it; then cut carefully on the correct line. Cutting out the picture is much easier if you're cutting near the edge.
If your pictures are a little flimsy, try gluing them to a sheet of card with a glue stick before cutting them out along their edges.
On a piece of card, draw four 4"-long parallel lines 1/4" apart.
This will form your tabs.
Score the middle two and cut the outer two lines.
The tabs are what hold everything in your pop-up card together. Don't make the tabs too long. 3/4" should be fine. If they're too long, the parts of the pop-up will spill out of the closed greeting card.
Cut pieces from this card to make your top tabs. You need three or four of them for this project.
Place your hill, building, and person where you want them to be in the final project.
Using white school glue, glue down the picture tabs.
Line up each picture tab with the crease of the greeting card or with the layer before it. Be sure to space the magazine photos 1/4" apart to match with the 1/4" tabs. Glue the hill to the greeting card, then glue the building into place on the card, and lastly glue the person into place on the card.
Glue in the top tabs and let your pop-up card dry.
Glue a tab behind each picture, connecting it to the layer behind it. Open and close the pop-up card to make sure it works. Keep your greeting card open when the glue is drying.
Now you're well equipped to do some experimenting on your own. You can have all sorts of fun with multilayered pop-up cards. Don't forget that you're not limited to one item per layer.


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I have been using Ubuntu since 5.10 (Breezy) and never did it disappoint in the area of hardware support. Yeah there were some issues with broadcom wifi chips, but it was fixable.
But now since 10.04, I can not get my synaptics touchpad operational. I bought a new vaio laptop and its touchpad was not supported as well.
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Help a Sphero robot navigate obstacles using code in the Sphero Edu app on iPad. Kids will explore block-based coding by programming simple movements, changing colors, and more. They'll set up obstacles and use iPad to program a path for their robot to navigate. iPad devices will be provided, or bring your own. Recommended for ages 6–12.
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Labs dive deeper into a creative approach by getting you started on a project that you can take further. Labs build on your existing skills. If you're a beginner, check out Skills sessions.


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Katie Holmes and Jimmy Fallon took turns taking weird pictures with the "Photo Booth" iPad app on Monday's episode of "The Tonight Show."
But first, Holmes talked to Fallon about brutal instructors at a modeling school she attended at the age of 10.
"They were trying to teach beauty," said Holmes, who stars in the new film "The Giver." "They took me as an example and they dissected my face. They said, 'you see, not perfect. Her eyes too far apart, her nose, lips not perfect, but altogether she's not bad'."
"They're wrong," Fallon said while holding up the August issue of Glamour magazine featuring Holmes on the cover.
Finally, the two played a new "Tonight Show" game. They took pictures of themselves making funny faces using the "Photo Booth" iPad app and tried to replicate each other's photos.
See the two make funny faces in the video above.


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- 1 1/2 cups dry tricolor wagon wheel pasta
- 1 cup frozen (defrosted) or canned (drained) whole kernel corn
- 1 cup canned, no-salt-added kidney beans, drained
- 1/4 cup chopped black olives
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh tomato
- 1/4 cup chopped green pepper
- 1/4 cup sliced green onion
- 1/2 cup low-fat grated Cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons corn oil
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
Prepare pasta according to package directions by cooking it in boiling water. When pasta is tender, drain, rinse with cool water, and drain again. Place pasta in mixing bowl. Add corn, kidney beans, black olives, tomato, green pepper, green onion, and grated Cheddar cheese. Toss lightly to distribute ingredients. Whisk lemon juice, corn oil, and chili powder together in small bowl until blended. Pour dressing over pasta and toss. Pack in resealable plastic food containers and chill until serving time.
Yield: 7 portions.
Serving size: 1 cup.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 212 calories, Carbohydrates: 29 g, Protein: 9 g, Fat: 9 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Sodium: 107 mg, Fiber: 5 g
Exchanges per serving: 1 1/2 starch, 1 vegetable, 1/2 medium-fat meat, 1 fat. Carbohydrate choices: 2.
This recipe was developed by Sharon Palmer, a registered dietitian and freelance writer in Southern California.


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Youtube terminates my Youtube channel (March 4, 2018)
So there we are, folks. My entire YT channel (with over 20 research videos) is gone.
I was at least (perhaps naively) expecting that Youtube would abide by their own rules and stated regulations, such as :
"However, it is important to understand that if you receive three strikes within three months, we'll terminate your account, rendering it permanently inaccessible."
Instead, I only recently received two "strikes" (as they call them) related to two videos - and was never contacted by Youtube at any stage for any clarification about what sort of "Community Guidelines" my two research videos ("911 ACTORS" and "FAKE PENTAGON SMOKE") would have violated. This morning, my channel was just gone - no reason given.
I mean, they could have at least been civil enough to write me something like this : "We're sorry, but we have orders to shut down any videos which expose the media fakery perpetrated on September 11, 2001". Well, I guess that's asking too much.
How annoying though... my main feature movie, SEPTEMBER CLUES, was just about to reach the 1-million-viewers mark (about 970.000 or so). But what I'll miss mostly, I guess, are the countless supportive YT comments under my videos from people all around the world : they were a joy to read. To be sure, I once (not long ago) counted the "thumb ups" and "thumb downs" on all of my 20+ videos (out of sheer curiosity), and the proportion was roughly 80% vs 20%. I can only hope this is fairly representative of the ratio of appreciative intelligent people - versus non-appreciative intelligent people in our world. This is of course assuming that ALL the people who (for some reason) found my videos on Youtube - were of the intelligent sort!
Seriously now - what exactly does the Nutwork (which obviously runs Youtube/Google/etc/etc) wish to achieve with what will be remembered as "the Great 2018 Youtube Purge" ? Paul Romano has some fine comments to offer about this: http://fakeologist.com/blog/2018/03/03/why-are-they-purging-youtube-channels/
And remember, Ladies and Gents, all of my September Clues videos (now banned from YT) are currently viewable here:


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Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further toward an Anthropology for Liberation edited by Faye V. Harrison.
provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology. Bolles ~American Ethnologist, 1994 (DOI: 10.1525/ae.1994.21.4.02a00160)
"groundbreaking" Levinson – The Teachers College Record, 2008
Decolonizing Anthropology is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical reconstruction of the discipline devoted to understanding humankind in all its diversity and commonality…The utility and power of a decolonized anthropology must continue to be tested and developed…May the results of our ethnographic probes–the data, the social and cultural analysis, the theorizing, and the strategies for knowledge application–help us envision clearer paths to increased understanding, a heightened sense of intercultural and international solidarity, and last, but certainly not least, world transformation.
SUPPORTS: Fieldwork and methodology courses, Anthropology of Race and Racism, African American history and studies.
Print copies of this book are available for purchase at the AAA online store at a special member price of $15.00. This book is also available in electronic version at Powell's Books or Kobo.


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Genealogy Business Card Scanner
October 27, 2011 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy.
Filed under conference, genealogy, Technology
WorldCard Mobile – Business Card Scanner for Genealogy Conferences Going to Genealogy Conferences is one of my favourite things to do. At these conferences I make lots of connections and in the process get lots of business cards. When I return home I have great plans to enter all of the contact information into [...]


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As President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address, America "cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it."
Not even the very wealthy can continue to succeed without a broader-based prosperity. That's because 70 percent of economic activity in America is consumer spending. When most Americans are becoming poorer, they're less able to spend. Without their spending, the economy can't get out of first gear. That's a big reason why the recovery continues to be anemic.
Almost a quarter of all jobs in America now pay wages below the poverty line for a family of four. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that over the next decade, seven out of 10 growth occupations will be low-wage -- like serving customers at big-box retailers and fast-food chains.
At this rate, who's going to buy all the goods and services America is capable of producing? We can't return to the kind of debt-financed consumption that caused the bubble in the first place.
It's not a zero-sum game. Wealthy Americans would do better with smaller shares of a rapidly growing economy than with the large shares they now possess of an economy that's barely moving.
If they were rational, the wealthy would support public investments in education and job training, a world-class infrastructure (transportation, water and sewage, energy, Internet) and basic research -- all of which would make the American workforce more productive.
If they were rational, they'd even support labor unions -- which have proven the best means of giving working people a fair share of the nation's prosperity.
But labor unions are almost extinct. The decline of labor unions in America tracks exactly the decline in the bottom 90 percent's share of total earnings, and the shrinkage of the middle class.
In the 1950s, when the U.S. economy was growing faster than 3 percent a year, more than a third of all working Americans belonged to a union. That gave them enough bargaining clout to get wages that allowed them to buy what the economy was capable of producing.
But as of 2012 only 6.6 percent of American workers in the private sector were unionized, the lowest rate of unionization in almost a century.
What's to blame? Partly globalization and technological change. Globalization sent many formerly unionized jobs abroad. Technologies have replaced many formerly unionized workers in telecommunications (remember telephone operators?) and clerical jobs.
But other nations subject to the same forces have far higher levels of unionization than America. Some 28 percent of Canada's workforce is unionized, as is more than 25 percent of Britain's and almost 20 percent of Germany's.
Unions are almost extinct in America because we've chosen to make them extinct.
Unlike other rich nations, our labor laws allow employers to replace striking workers. We've also made it exceedingly difficult for workers to organize, and we barely penalize companies that violate labor laws. (A worker who's illegally fired for trying to organize a union may, if lucky, get the job back along with back pay -- after years of legal haggling.)
Don't blame globalization and technological change for why employees at Walmart, America's largest employer, still don't have a union. They're not in global competition, and their jobs aren't directly threatened by technology.
The average pay of a Walmart worker is $8.81 an hour. A third of Walmart's employees work less than 28 hours per week and don't qualify for benefits.
Walmart is a microcosm of the American economy. It has brazenly fought off unions. But it could easily afford to pay its workers more. It earned $16 billion last year. Much of that sum went to Walmart's shareholders, including the family of its founder, Sam Walton.
The wealth of the Walton family now exceeds the wealth of the bottom 40 percent of American families combined, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
But how can Walmart expect to continue to show fat profits when most of its customers are on a downward economic escalator?
Walmart should be unionized. So should McDonald's. So should every major big-box retailer and fast-food outlet in the nation. So should every hospital in America.
That way, more Americans would have enough money in their pockets to get the economy moving. And everyone -- even the very rich -- would benefit. As the president said, America cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future." He blogs at www.robertreich.org.


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Jennie Livingston on her Documentary "Earth Camp One" Part 1/
Right now I'm nearing the end (Friday night at 8!) of a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to get to a rough cut on the film. I've applied for a billion grants where people I don't know go into a room and look at my project and come out and tell me "yes" or "no," (usually no, and by email) so it's incredible to build a web page, put a video on it and have 400+ people say "yes!" by backing the project. It's pretty mind-blowing, that "yes." All the endless reservations, differences in taste, politics, and sensibility that kept various granting organizations or corporations from supporting my project are absent. Of course they may be hundreds of people viewing my video and reading my text who loathe it, but fortunately Kickstarter and Indiegogo have no guestbook for people who looked and left. Whomever might've rejected my project and moved on, I'm blissfully unaware, checking my email and racking up the next 15 backers who write me messages about how much they love the excerpt, and the idea of the film, and can't wait to see it!
I can't help but think that the extent to which first person speech, in film, is considered too personal, or not appropriate to fund goes back to the sense that someone speaking in the first person speaks with a small voice, with a domestic voice, as opposed to with the authority of the state, the church, the university. Whether the filmmaker is Alan Berliner or Agnes Varda, there's still a sense that if you are talking about yourself, it must be personal, and if it's personal, it can't be universal. Or, as a woman in the audience at a recent screening of Tiffany Shlain's Connected, one of my favorite films of 2011, said, when I pressed her to tell me what she thought, "I think films like this one are self-indulgent because documentaries should be about something important, and if you're talking about yourself, it means you think you're important." I appreciated this woman's candor, but I think her views are not only unconsciously sexist, I think there's an unfortunate sense that what's important must be outside ourselves! And I would argue that what's universal is not always what's rubber-stamped by experts or confirmed by mass appeal, but is always a good story well-told: and that Joan Didion is no less universal than Toni Morrison: and that Tiffany Shlain is no less universal than Steven Spielberg: the difference is the form, not the authority of the speaker nor the weight of the story.


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Just Announced! Kristen Stewart's New Movie! Is Robert Pattinson In It?
Can you believe K-Stew is playing a prostitute?
Kristen Stewart is totally dominating theaters in 2010! Along with The Yellow Handkerchief, The Runaways and Eclipse, Deadline.com is reporting that Kristen will be appearing in a fourth movie this fall. The drama Welcome to the Rileys, which premiered at Sundance this year, has been picked up for distribution!
The movie stars James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo as a couple whose marriage begins to fall apart when their teenage daughter passes away. James' character takes a trip to New Orleans and "finds himself drawn to an underage prostitute," played by Kristen Stewart.
Sadly, there won't be any R-Patz in this movie. But with Kristen's shocking new role as a prostitute, Welcome to the Rileys still sounds like a must-see! Do you agree, BFFs?


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Online Wood LCD Watch
- $149.00
Available Options
A limited edition watch with a cryptic time display made up of vertical lines, Kisai Online Wood uses a built in accelerometer to reveal the digital time when you turn your wrist.
Available in two styles, all dark sandal wood or maple wood with dark sandal wood lines in a choice of natural, blue or red LCD display, Kisai Online Wood features time, date, alarm and animation.
Turn Your Wrist To Reveal The Digital Time & Date
Kisai Online Wood is a digital watch so is as easy to read as any other wrist watch. The "always on" display is made up of vertical lines which look like a cryptic pattern to outsiders.
Turn the watch towards you and the lines fall away to reveal the time in hours and minutes. One push of the lower button changes the display to date mode which can be read in the same way as the time.
The digits that make up the time are easy to learn. The diagram below shows cryptic mode at the top and regular mode below. Click the buttons below to scroll through the numbers:
A Custom Made, Limited Edition Wood Watch
Like all wood watches from Tokyoflash Japan, Kisai Online Wood has been carefully crafted from 100% natural wood and is a limited edition design.
The watch has an adjustable strap and is a lightweight design suitable for small and large wrists. A clear coating has been applied to Kisai Online Wood for protection and durability.
A Futuristic Animation Feature
An animation mode is programmed into Kisai Online Wood. When activated the display will animate every two seconds. This can be turned on or off in the settings.
Download the PDF instruction manual for a detailed explanation of all functions and settings or check out the video above for a hands on demonstration.
Due to the natural qualities of wood, the color and grain may be slightly darker or lighter than shown in the photos.
- Displays the time and date
- Alarm mode
- LCD "always on" display
- Animation feature (can be turned off)
- Natural wood case and adjustable wood strap
- Clasp: simple fold over clasp with push button
- Screw-on case back
- Minimum wrist size: 100 mm (approx.)
- Maximum wrist size: 210 mm (approx.)
- Case Dimensions: 33 mm x 55 mm x 13 mm
- Weight: 78 grams
- Battery: CR2032 standard replaceable watch battery
- English instructions
- One year warranty
Concept to Reality
In February 2010, Tokyoflash Japan opened its Design Studio Blog to showcase concept designs and request ideas for new watch designs from fans. The idea for Kisai Online was submitted by Sam Jerichow from Germany and was voted as one of the most popular designs by fans.
Find out more about the original concept on the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog.
Blog reader & watch designer Sam Jerichow says:
On the day I found out about the Design Studio Blog, my brain began to work instantly. It was like an unlocked door was kicked wide open for me. I had some experiences playing around with clockworks but I never found a way to let this interest grow. I submitted design after design to the blog and while the hope that one of them would be chosen to get made was kept on a fair level, the addiction of seeing an idea from my sketch book being featured online increased week by week.
When I received the message about ONLINE being chosen for production, I could do nothing but smile! I actually hopped on my chair!
Since then, the news has haunted my head every day. After some months I was shown the first illustration and was utterly impressed. The first product images then just blew my eyes off! I thought "These can never be beaten by renderings." Seeing something real after making so many virtual images, feels great. Now I can hold ONLINE, a real product based on an idea of mine in my own hands – offline if you will. What an irony! And this is just awesome!
Thank you everyone at Tokyoflash for this wonderful experience and for doing such a good job! Thank you to all who supported me and still do! I hope you appreciate this result of inspiration and effort, like I do.
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