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Toni Stone, Peanut Johnson and Constance Morgan Signed Ball - First Three Woman In Professional Baseball
Starting Bid - $200.00, Sold For - $290.00
During the 1950s, Toni Stone, Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, and Constance Morgan became the first women to play professional baseball, achieving that distinction in the Negro Leagues. Offered is an official National League (White) ball signed (during the early 1990s) by all three pioneers. Each has signed the ball in blue ink ("9/10"), with Johnson's signature across the sweet spot. The signatures of Stone and Morgan appear, respectively, on separate side panels. Morgan, in addition to signing the ball, has also added her former team affiliation, "Indianapolis Clowns," below her signature. Both Stone and Johnson debuted with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953 and Morgan joined the club the following season. While many originally thought it was simply a publicity stunt (the Negro League was in a steep decline at the time) the woman quickly proved their ability on the field. Stone actually replaced Hank Aaron at second base for the Clowns and batted .243 in fifty games with the club in 1953. Johnson, a pitcher, compiled a record of 33-8 during her two-year tenure with the team. Morgan joined the Clowns in 1954 at the age of nineteen, replacing Stone who joined the Kansas City Monarchs that year. Each of the women retired after the 1955 season. Both Stone and Morgan passed away in 1996. This a rare and extremely unusual signed display piece commemorating the debut of women in professional baseball. The ball displays a few areas of very light age toning and is otherwise in Near Mint condition. LOAs from James Spence/JSA and Steve Grad, Mike Gutierrez & Zach Rullo/PSA DNA. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $290.00
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Open Field is made possible by this dedicated team of programming experts from the Education department at the Walker Art Center. Feel free to engage them on the field with questions, feedback or friendly discourse.
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Assistant Director, Family and Youth Programs
Role on the field:
Maker, Explorer, Daydreamer
Education models, theories of play, art criticism and interpretation. I also love children's books, young adult fiction, video games, cats, and perfecting the art of gluten free cooking
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Administrative Assistant, Education & Community Programs
Role on the field:
Amateur naturalist & field listening enthusiast ("Field listening"—a term of my own invention—is the moment-to-moment savoring of aural experience. It is like field recording but unmediated by technology and without playback.)
Bird watching, citizen science, World Listening Day, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts, mindfulness practices, geology and phenology.
Ashley Duffalo
Program Manager, Public and Community Programs
Role on the field:
Open Field Programmer
I'm interested in how people participate in culture through cooperation, collaboration, art, education, and acts of exchange and generosity. My favorite Field activities include sharing a meal, singing karaoke, or having a conversation with friends and strangers alike.
Jessica Faucher
Visitor Service Specialist, Education and Community Programs
Role on the field:
Cheerleader, admirer, and ally.
I enjoy meeting new people and engaging visitors to the Walker's awesome programming. I spend my free time exploring historical archives, taking classes at a local University, running, dining with friends, and keeping busy!
Kristina Fong
Internet Cat Video Festival Coordinator
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I bring the cats.
Internet phenomenons, social media, neutral information gathering, roadtrips, and boxes, yarn, and lying in the sun.
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Associate Director of Education, Learning Initiatives
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I do what Christina Alderman tells me to do. I also create programs for the Field once in a while that activate the Walker's stellar volunteer tour guides.
How humor and good storytelling can bolster learning in museums; being a patient, goofy, and loving mama to a wily toddler; running; imagining home improvement projects and sometimes carrying them out; contemplating doula training; volunteering; writing poetry in-between everything else.
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The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights: An Updated Appraisal
Aoife Nolan
University of Nottingham - School of Law
Bruce Porter
Social Rights Advocacy Centre
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo - Faculty of Law; Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI); Pluricourts Centre of Excellence
July 16, 2009
CHRGJ Working Paper No. 15
In this paper, the authors consider the question of the justiciability of social and economic rights from both a conceptual and an experiential perspective. They first review some of the major concerns that are frequently raised in relation to whether social and economic rights can, or should be, adjudicated by courts, drawing on commentary from experts and judicial and quasi-judicial bodies considering this question. This is followed by an overview of the growing body of jurisprudence from domestic courts and regional and international bodies that have adjudicated social and economic rights. The authors thereby convey a better sense of how the adjudication of social and economic rights operates in practice, and the way in which courts and other bodies address the issues that have been raised with regard to the justiciability of these rights.
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LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) — First-graders at Doyle Elementary School raised $4,600 to help an injured classmate get the therapy he needs.
Logan Watts injured his brain falling from a tree swing at his family's camp in Mississippi last May. He's now deaf in one ear, uses a walker and has had several operations and lots of rehabilitation.
He's going to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Children's Hospital and will stay there for weeks of therapy designed to make him use and strengthen his weakened left arm.
The therapy costs $8,000, plus food, lodging and travel, Logan's mother, Britany Watts, told The Daily Star.
Logan's class started a school fundraiser. Students paid $2 each to wear blue jeans and a yellow shirt — Logan's favorite color — to school on March 27. The school, which has 650 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, held a rally on Logan's sixth birthday to give him the money.
"Logan is a very special student to our school. In kindergarten he was always willing to help others in his class and to do the right thing, so the students wanted to do what they could to help him. And as you can see by the money raised, the response to help Logan has been overwhelming," Principal Donna Sibley said.
Sibley said the yellow shirt day brought in thousands of dollars, including several donations of much more than $2.
Watts and her husband, Jonathan Watts, said their faith has allowed them to remain steadfast in their hope of their son's recovery.
Logan goes to the Our Lady of the Lake Regional Center's Outpatient Pediatric Clinic three times a week for occupational, physical and speech therapy sessions, his mother said. He also works with therapists from the Livingston Parish School System each week for more therapy. A public school teacher comes to his house twice a week to do his first-grade-level classwork at home.
Britany Watts said her son's speech is improving each day and he has regained strength in his right arm, but doctors say he needs constraint-induced therapy to improve use of his left arm. His right arm will be restrained almost 24 hours a day to make him use the other, and he will have hours of therapy a day on the left arm.
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Wayne Brady oversees plenty of trades as the host of "Let's Make a Deal," but recently he supervised a transaction off the set. The veteran television funnyman has purchased a luxury condominium in Pacific Palisades, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Brady paid $1.75 million for the property found in the Rockwell Building, a coveted coastal high-rise that features just 10 single-level residences and six "penthouse" townhomes. Brady's new digs boasts a host of luxe touches, including reclaimed white oak flooring, signature exposed concrete walls, custom built-ins and cabinets, and marble countertops. Ann Sacks tile and natural stone run throughout the home, which also features a row of French doors that open onto a private viewing terrace with handcrafted Moroccan cement tiles and floor-to-ceiling windows.
In addition to its finer finishes, Brady's new home comes complete with wired home automation, which includes built-in audio, lighting controls with a Nest thermostat, and private security systems. Last but certainly not least, the home is accessed via an electronically keyed private elevator that connects to secure underground parking.
Known for his role on the comedy improv show "Whose Line Is It Anyway" and "The Wayne Brady Show," Brady was tapped to host an updated version of "Let's Make a Deal" for CBS in 2009. He has also appeared as a guest star on numerous other shows, including an infamous sketch on "Chappelle's Show" and a semi-recurring role on "How I Met Your Mother."


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The Global Youth Summit is a series of UIAA youth events where young mountaineers from around the world come together to climb, promote peace and cooperation between countries and work on the protection of the environment.
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ARISF is one of the pillars to the Olympic Movement, with all of its 32 Me principles set forth in the Olympic Charter. Through ARISF, the Member IFs maintain an ongoing dialogue with the IOC and the entire Olympic Movement on matters of common interest.
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Been enjoying the site for a good 6 months but this is my first post/login. Had to share this here cuz I don't think anyone else will truly appreciate it. So, yesterday I took the dog for a walk along the bike trail and as we are walking along I spotted this nice size log laying there. Hey great opportunity to do some primal lifts right. So I grab one end of it and heave it over end to end. Well it just so happens that particular log is home to some very protective hornets. The primal workout quickly shifted from lifting to sprinting. HAHA
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Yikes!!! And it was a real sprint workout I'm sure, adrenaline and all
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Why can't other doctors be like Dr. Issack. He is kind, smart, accurate and insightful. Additionally, his patient (bedside) manor is amazing. His staff is wonderful, too.
I'm walking without pain and enjoying my life again because of Dr. Issack's operation on my cervical spine. The surgery cured my neck and arm pain. He is a very skilled surgeon. He takes time to explain things in laymans terms.
Dr. Issack took his time and even diagnosed me with something that I had for many years and no other doctor was able to do. He made me comfortable at my appointment and I left satisfied. I was able to leave the clinic with results. Thanks Dr. Issack.
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OK - Tammy Risenhoover, 19, Tulsa, 1984
Ruled out by DNA
The Doe Network:
Case File 1878DFOK
Tammy Dawn Risenhoover
Missing since early 1984 from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
- Date Of Birth: August 6, 1964
- Age at Time of Disappearance: 26 years old
- Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'2"; 130 lbs
- Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Black/brown hair; hazel eyes. Medium complexion.
- Marks, Scars: Purple-ish birthmark on back of neck at hairline
Circumstances of Disappearance
Tammy Risenhoover disappeared under suspicious circumstances in early 1984. At the time she was associating with a local motorcycle gang. She was reported missing by her family on March 6, 1990 but they had no contact since 1984.
Foul play is suspected.
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Police in Kansas City and Kansas City, Kan., are looking for a driver who fled after running over a police officer's foot Tuesday morning.
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Photography has only recently been accepted in New Zealand as an art form and has arguably been largely neglected in historical academic study. While there is a growing body of popular literature and scholarship on photography in New Zealand, much of it is dedicated to recent art photography or is limited to individual photographers (i.e., it often follows art historical conventions that are often not entirely reconcilable with the broad range of photographic production). In order to stimulate interdisciplinary scholarly exchange about the specific challenges and issues that face the construction of a history of photography in New Zealand, a research symposium is being organised at the University of Otago to take place from 7-8 December 2007.
This symposium will have a pre-read format. Participants will submit their texts one month in advance of the symposium for distribution to the attendees. One intended outcome of the symposium will be an edited, peer-reviewed quality-assured anthology – either an edited volume or a special conference issue of an academic journal – that will serve as stimulus for further research, a valuable reference work, and a teaching tool for the study of photography in New Zealand. Rather than promoting a nationalist history of photography, the aim of this symposium is to simulate critical scholarship that will be both national and trans-national in nature.
Among the topics that may be addressed are:
Photographs brought by immigrants to New Zealand
Family photograph albums
Colonialism and Race in New Zealand photographs
Stereographs and lantern slides
The trade in photographs
Photographic materials and supplies
Photographically illustrated books and periodicals
The flow of photographers and images across the Tasman
Missionary photography (in both New Zealand the broader Pacific)
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The Survivor Diet
Meager Rations, Bug Larvae, Tough Physical Challenges—Is This Any Way to Lose Weight? Contestants on Survivor Have Found It Shockingly Effective. Who Lost the Most? Who Got Too Thin? Who Kept It Off? And Should We Try This at Home?
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After dropping from 165 lbs. to 129 lbs. on Survivor: All-Stars, O'Brien hit the shops. "I'd be squealing, 'I can fit in a size 6!' I was buying little camisoles—at 50!" says O'Brien, now 52. Two years earlier on Survivor: Marquesas, O'Brien had dropped 34 lbs. The downside? "When I got back [from Marquesas]," says the Burlington, Vt., real estate agent, "I had a really bad stomach. Anything with fat made me sick." Consultations with a doctor and nutritionist set her system right, but 20 lbs. have crept back on. O'Brien now works out with a trainer to reverse the trend: "I am determined to get back in those jeans."
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Holding the record as Survivor's all-time biggest loser, the Virginia farmer went from 279 lbs. to 202 lbs. in 37 days during the Africa edition. (One of his game strategies: giving up rations to two members of his alliance.) Another factor: "We lived on a [wildlife] reserve, and there was no hunting. We had to eat just what we carried—and what we carried was a little bit of mush. It was terrible." Actually, it was mashed corn. After returning from Kenya, Buchanan, 50, was famished and "so weak," he says, that he binged on chocolate and strawberry ice cream for days. (After gaining 66 lbs. back, he dropped 42 of them again on All-Stars.) When he was thinner, "everybody said, 'Boy, you look nice!' But I never felt good," says Buchanan, 6′3″. He maintained his final Survivor loss for a year but now weighs 290 lbs: "Listen to me, how happy I am fat."
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Tanner, who started at 151 lbs., lost 16 lbs. during the show, "mostly in the first three weeks," she says. Still, "I never got hungry." The Missouri Department of Transportation employee, 43, has stayed trim by riding her bike and steering clear of sugar and fried foods. " when you have a chance to not eat mashed potatoes and gravy for supper," she says, "you realize you can do without."
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The Survivor diet is not one I'd recommend," says the show's physician, Dr. Adrian Cohen. "It's extreme, the food groups are poorly represented, and it doesn't provide enough fiber." Players receive about a cup of rice or corn a day and as much fish and local produce as they can gather—which usually isn't much. (In Africa they also had canned beans.) " It's about 1,000 calories a day," Cohen estimates. Because it's TV, players "have a feeling of 'they're not going to let us starve, are they?'" Well, no, but losing more than 15 percent body weight "would be cause for concern," he says. Guatemala winner Danni Boatwright (right) lost 19 percent, though Cohen said she remained relatively healthy. With fast-track weight loss, he warns, "your metabolism takes a beating—it's not a healthy way. If it were, I'd publish a book."
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I'm just looking for some help from you more knowledgeable folks. I'm in a 12 team league with fairly standard scoring and very light, odd keeper rules. There are only 2 keeper slots, plus you are penalized for your keeper selections based on where the player was last drafted. It works like this: if player A was drafted in the fourth round in 2008, he costs a third round pick this year and, assuming he's kept, would cost a first round pick in 2010 (in case of both keepers overlapping, you lose the next lower round pick). There are some flaws in the system, but they haven't really been a problem yet. Anyway, the rosters are QB,RB,RB,WR,WR,WR,TE,K,D,6xBench.
I'm trying to decide between Turner for a 1st round pick penalty and Brees for a 2nd rounder. There are probably 5 or 6 teams that would draft before me in the first round, although I'm actually in the 10 slot (my team had a meltdown in week 16). My other keeper is a no-brainer (I think) with Slaton for only a 10th rounder. I could be overlooking something, so I'll give you my other options that aren't awful with their potential draft round penalties: Gore(1), Boldin(3), Lee Evans(4), Jennings(5), Jason Campbell(11).
Sorry for the oddball system (yes, I understand the flaws in it) and long-winded explanation. Reading around here, it sounds like you guys would go with Slaton/Brees, but I want to make sure that I'm not missing something. Thanks for any help.
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Slaton and Jennings. Those are the two that are worth a lot more than the pick you're giving up. Definitely not Brees - there's no need to give up a 2nd rounder for him when he or Brady will probably still be available when you draft in the 2nd. Turner is the only other option that's worth considering - if you think that he's way better than what you could draft with your 1st round pick then it would be reasonable for you to keep him. I don't think that he is, so I wouldn't keep him. But I probably would keep Peterson(1) over Jennings(5), so if you think that Turner is right up there with Peterson then it would be understandable to keep Turner.
Just a word of caution around your line of thinking here. In a keeper league with 2 keepers, the first round is much closer to the 3rd round in other leagues. Are you really certain that people won't be taking Brees and Brady as their third players?
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One of the creations of the financial reform bill (H.R. 4173 "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act") was a Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB), an organization that is charged with regulating financial products from payday loans to mortgages, credit cards to credit counseling, and a litany of products in between. Here's an analysis of the actual text of the bill that creates this executive agency.
This week, President Obama announced that he would be calling on Elizabeth Warren to lead the agency.
Here's the fun part: Warren was named "assistant to the president and special advisor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in charge of launching the new agency and setting its mission." Had she been named its first director, she would need Senate confirmation, which would've been very difficult. Instead, she was named a "special advisor" with a broad set of powers that sound very much like those tasked to an agency's first director. She'll be recruiting staff, setting policy, and be the face of the agency.
Despite her prominence in the news lately, I don't know much about Elizabeth Warren other than that she was tasked to as the chair of the oversight panel that investigated TARP and is seen as a consumer advocate.
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Contrary to earlier reports elsewhere, neither "American Idol" contender Ruben Studdard nor his prospective record label is concerned with the weighty issue of the FOX show contestant's large frame.
Speaking to New York's Daily News, a spokeswoman for record producer Clive Davis's RCA Music Group (which produces CDs with "Idol" winners) shot down a Web report that Davis is worried about Studdard's weight -- in the wake of speculation that severe weight fluctuations and obesity may have contributed to the recent life-threatening stroke suffered by Grammy legend Luther Vandross, 52.
Studdard, 25, is said to tip the scales at 360 lbs.
"It's a ludicrous slant to put on the story," said the rep. "Ruben is an incredible artist, and we would be thrilled to work with him."
The comment comes just as Studdard and the other last man standing, wire-thin Clay Aiken, 24, duke it out this week to see who finishes No. 1 with "Idol" viewers.
The final decision will be announced Wednesday -- though it has been widely assumed that, owing to their immense popularity, both guys will end up with lucrative recording contracts.
For his part, Studdard has made it clear that issues about his size don't weigh him down.
"It's cool being a big guy," the News quotes Studdard as telling reporters last week. (Studdard and Aiken grace the cover of this week's PEOPLE.)
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Driving north and south, it takes all of a couple minutes to pass through Platteville — depending on how you catch the town's only two traffic lights.
With its cattle supply store and grain elevators to the east of U.S. 85 and its locally owned cafes and truck dealerships to the west, those who drive through would likely peg the community of about 2,500 people as one of quiet, simple, small-town living — not necessarily the stomping ground of decorated scholars who've made their mark on an industry at the national and global levels.
But a pair of honors handed down last month to two native sons of Platteville suggest that it's both.
John Matsushima, a 1939 graduate of what was then-Platteville High School, was named the 2013 Citizen of the West by the National Western Stock Show in Denver on Sept. 24 — honoring the retired Colorado State University professor for, among other accomplishments, establishing U.S. beef exports to Japan in the early-1980s, pioneering a steam processing technique for cattle feed grains that has helped reduce the cost of beef production, and for teaching nearly 10,000 students at three universities during his career.
And earlier in the month, Stephen Miller, raised on a dairy farm near Platteville and a 1964 graduate of the consolidated Valley High School in Gilcrest, received the inaugural Andrew Vanvig Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Wyoming — a salute to the long-time professor at the school. Miller was a pioneer in weed sciences and conservation farming practices, and, during his own 38-year career as an educator, taught somewhere around 8,000 students.
"It was humbling to receive such an award," said Matsushima, who, like Miller, said the relationships he developed with his many students over the decades is what means the most to him looking back on his career.
"You think of the people who have been given this honor in the past, and it's even more humbling," Matsushima added, referring to past Citizen of the West recipients, which include other pioneers in the livestock industry, such as Weld County natives Kenneth Monfort and W.D. Farr. Matsushima will officially receive his honor in January, during the 2013 National Western Stock Show.
While the chances are statistically slim for a small town like Platteville to produce not one, but two such innovators in ag and renowned educators, both of the recent award winners are quick to credit their hometown for shaping them into the people they are today.
"That's where it all started for me," Miller said of growing up on his family's 500 acres of farmground in southern Weld County, an operation that consisted of about 400 acres of dryland wheat, nearly 100 dairy cows and about 100 acres of irrigated ground to produce feed for the livestock.
"I wasn't exactly crazy about the cows, though," added Miller, laughing. "They needed too much attention ... milked at 4 in the morning, and again at 4 in the afternoon. They were too high-maintenance.
"But I enjoyed farming."
As a kid, Miller had to hand-hoe the family's sugar beet fields — a tedious chore, but one that sparked his imagination and eventually sent him to Colorado State University, and later North Dakota State University to pursue graduate degrees, looking for better ways of controlling weeds.
While Miller wasn't a fan of livestock, Matsushima certainly was.
Born to immigrant parents from Japan who began farming near Lafayette and eventually near Platteville, Matsushima's love of cattle began at an early age.
His involvement with 4-H, stock shows and county fairs — where one of his steers beat that of another young rancher named Kenny Monfort, an eventual beef-industry pioneer whose family owned and operated what is now JBS USA — only encouraged his interest.
After graduating as valedictorian of his high school class, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Colorado State University — then Colorado A&M College — in animal husbandry.
He went on to receive his Ph.D. in animal sciences at the University of Minnesota, and then began his long career of teaching and research in beef nutrition.
While he was teaching at the University of Nebraska, Warren Monfort (Ken's father) and CSU President William Morgan lured Matsushima back to CSU.
In addition to mentoring thousands of students and working with hundreds on research projects, Matsushima has written several books, including an autobiography, and authored numerous other publications.
In 2009, Matsushima received the "Tenno Hosho," the Emperor's Citation, an award given by the emperor of Japan.
The prestigious award is primarily given to presidents and prime ministers, or CEOs of major corporations.
Matsushima was the first Japanese-American to win the award.
At age 91, Matsushima, a Fort Collins resident, remains a professor emeritus at CSU — still checking in at his office on campus during most days of the week, he said.
Like Matsushima, Miller was a prolific writer — publishing 60 refereed journal articles, 200 proceedings and abstracts, 37 extension bulletins, 470 research progress reports, nine books or book chapters, 27 dissertations, 58 miscellaneous publications, and 42 invited presentations, according to the University of Wyoming.
After finishing his Ph.D. at North Dakota State University, Miller spent time on the NDSU faculty before going to work at the University of Wyoming in 1987.
During his career, he received the 1984 Merit Award from the North Dakota Ag Chem Association; the 1984 Outstanding Contributions to No-till Farming Award from the Manitoba-North Dakota Zero-till Association; the 1991 Outstanding Weed Scientist Award from Western Society Weed Science; and the 1992 Research Runner-up No-till Tiger Award from the Conservation Technology Information Center, among other honors.
In 2005, he became director of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, which serves as the research arm for the university's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
He retired in 2010, but, as Matsushima still does, Miller — now a resident of Wellington — spends most days back on campus, serving as an adviser and in other roles.
"It's been a very enjoyable career," Miller said. "A career that's taken me many places ... but Platteville will always be my home.
"It's a small town, but it instills a good work ethic in people, and values. Because of that, I think we'll always see successful people coming from there."


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The cheers at Eustis High School today were loud and boisterous as the campus welcomed home its state championship cheerleading squad.
Eustis High School competed in the Florida High School Athletic Association Competitive Cheerleading Championship on Thursday evening at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee. Competing in the 1A Large Co-Ed finals, Eustis High captured the state title.
"I'm so proud to say we brought home the State Championship for our school, this program, and this community," said Coach Sarah Rimes. "Through all our many challenges and hardships this year these kids put everything they had out on the floor and came away with what they have rightfully earned. I cannot thank all of you enough for helping us out in so many ways. This has been a lifelong dream of mine and Coach Beth Bonadonna. As both of us are Eustis High Alumni and former cheerleaders for Eustis, this win has a little bit deeper meaning."
Team members include: Jessica Hoffman, Ashley Higgins, Niesha Weeks, Alexis Allen, Hayley Carroll, Jaliah Maple, Brittany Vaughn, Victoria Grable, Sarah Jordan, Jordan Small, Lauren Levingston, Hannah Conte, Baylie Treves, Emma Rodriguez, Sue Wilson, Kalie Brecklin, Hannah Means, Dustin Carson, Ben Hilliard, Peter Gunterman and Hunter Labarga.


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Creator-executive producer John Markus says this new sitcom is "unusual television" in that its female central character is "principled," "virtuous," "right-minded" and averse to sex outside marriage. It seems perverse to point out that Kristin is not entertaining.
Kristin Chenoweth (a Tony Award winner for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) stars as Kristin Yancey, a frighteningly perky Oklahoman who comes to New York City with hopes of a Broadway career but takes a day job as personal assistant to Tommy Ballantine (Jon Tenney), a playboy real estate developer described by NBC as "Donald Trump-esque." Tommy has an embarrassingly well-publicized history of sexually harassing female aides, so his right-hand man Aldo (Larry Romano) hires Kristin based on her minister's assurance that she has a strict no-shenanigans policy. (Did we mention that Markus promises "realistic, relatable stories"?) But Kristin has sex on the brain nonetheless. In the June 5 pilot, Tommy tests Kristin's defenses, and she has a strangely encouraging way of discouraging him. "A person's spirituality is very connected to their sensuality," she says. "And I'm extremely spiritual." Hallelujah, baby. In an upcoming episode, office sexpot Santa (pronounced "Sahnta" and played by Ana Ortiz) has thrilling intercourse with a construction worker on an exposed beam 60 stories up. Well, we don't actually see this difficult act, but there's a lot of tiresome talk about it.
Her character's musical-theater side will give Chenoweth a welcome excuse to sing and dance now and then. Still, the breakdown on Kristin is 99 percent contrivance, 1 percent comedy. Bottom Line: Don't feel guilty about changing channels
Picks and Pans Review: Kristin
updated 06/04/2001 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 06/04/2001 AT 01:00 AM EDT


text: I borrowed and read this while at a friend's house on vacation. It's got some interesting ideas. While I don't think much of Gibson as a writer, he's definitely a sharp observer of cultural trends. This book follows the adventures of Cayce Pollard, a "coolhunter" (somebody who hits the streets trying to observe new trends that advertising companies could then exploit), as she tries to track down the source of mysterious film footage that appears haphazardly on the net. The feel of the footage actually reminded me of the movie The Ring, but that's another story entirely. Worth a read, but not a buy in my opinion.


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The Kihei Public Library will offer the following three free children's programs in November:
* Robert DeVinck will present "Classics Illustrated with Papa Lopaka" at 3 p.m. today. DeVinck will offer a dramatic reading of his "Classics Illustrated" comic book. There will be a brief discussion and question-and-answer session. The program is recommended for ages 8 to 12 and will include light snacks provided by the Kay A. Edwards Memorial Fund.
* "Fall Art, Fall Colors with Chelsea Toia" will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. This hands-on experience will celebrate fall colors using acrylic and tempra paints. Participants will learn about pointillism using simple materials, and will create a project to take home or display in the library. All materials will be supplied. The Kay A. Edwards Memorial Fund is sponsoring this program, which is suitable for ages 3 and older. Children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.
* Family Movie Night featuring "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday. This film is suitable for all ages. Children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. Free snacks will be provided by the Kay A. Edwards Memorial Fund.
Contact the library as soon as possible if a sign language interpreter or other special accommodation is needed for these programs.
For more information, call the library at 875-6833.


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backtracking gps unit to user
I'm looking for someone who can backtrack a "gps-snitch" transmitter back to the owner.
It looks like whoever set it up had to make an account and pay for monthly service. I'll compensate generously to anyone who can help figure this out. Theres a serial number and another number on the device which were used to set it up and connect it to a computer, email, etc.. Let me know if anyone has any ideas..
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C'mon guys, somebodys got to be able to do this. I have a serial number for the unit and the user had to have an account to use it, which includes their info. I'm trying to recover my stolen stuff from them gps'ing my car to know when nobody was home -- lost my pc, wife's jewelry, tv, etc.. Unfortunately no home owner's insurance...:thinking:
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A homeless woman was stabbed and found on the east side of Des Moines with serious injuries and in poor condition Sunday morning, according to Des Moines police.
Cassandra Anne Yaw, 36, was transported to Mercy Hospital with a stabbing wound that left her in critical but stable condition Sunday night.
Johnny Lee McFadden, 42, reported the stabbing at 650 Southeast 26th Court around 7:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a preliminary police report. Johnny Lee McFadden, who was determined to be homeless, was arrested Sunday afternoon for assault with a weapon and intent to injure. He was also charged with forgery, according to information from Polk County jail.
Other witnesses included Destiny McFadden, 21, Johnny McFadden Jr, 23, and Andrew Harwood.
Officials said more information would be available Monday regarding the incident.


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Viji Kurup, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Associate Director, Medical Student Education; Director, Departmental Education
Research Interests
Library Science; Medical Informatics; Medical Laboratory Science; Educational Technology
Research Organizations
Extensive Research Description
Current projects:
International: I am the Chair Designee for the Committee on Outreach and Developing world for society for education in anesthesia (SEA)- (www.seahq.net). My objectives for this year are
- Developing crisis resource management tools like algorithms and making them handy for use in remote locations
- Developing a document with tips for teaching for residents going overseas
- Cofounder of Sim Worldwide (sww.etsu.edu). This is a website dedicated to increasing collabaration among medical schools in the US and abroad. Currently we transmit selected teaching sessions to the developing world. We have schools in India, Thailand, ElSalvador, China and Switzerland who log on to the sessions. We have one way video transmission and two way chat. This enables the session to be interactive for the audience abroad.
- Director of a monthly e-learning module for the PGY1 students who are coming into our program in anesthesia called the START (Successful transition to Anesthesia Residency Training) program- This is a collaboration with Stanford Anesthesia (Dr Larry Chu) who initiated the very successful program there. Tara Paulose, CA2 resident is co-director on this project. In this project we shoot short videos of pertinent topics which follow a trigger video to reinforce basic concepts in anesthesia to residents.
- Yale Media Lab: We are currently involved in making videos for teaching. Erica Zador is the technical Assistant.
- Simulation- We use simulation to reinforce important concepts for our residents. Currently we are designing scenarios and testing them before applying to practice.
- Developing a dedicated site for medical students who are interested in anesthesia to get information and interact. Our CA2 resident Shaun Gruenbaum and medical student Benjamin Gruenbaum are co-founders of this website. We are currently developing content for this website.
- Co-founder of an anesthesia multimedia website (www.anesthesiaillustrated.com). This is a collaboration with Stanford Aim Lab, again under the direction of Dr Larry Chu. The goal is to create a library of education media that can be used by faculty and students in the specialty for learning and teaching.
- Building a patient education website for anesthesia with information we got from the survey of our pre-operative patients.
- Using flashcard app to create flashcards for anesthesia residents to prep for their board exams. The project lead for this project is John Dicarlo, CA1 resident.
- We are working on evaluating the feasibility of using video conferencing to evaluate patients before anesthesia. The project lead for this is Dr Michael Fishman, CA1 resident.
- Creating a curriculum for teaching residents how to teach. This will be focused on residents who want to learn more on teaching and learning theories. We anticipate offering the courses starting 2013.
Selected Publications
- Kannan J, Kurup V. Blended learning in anesthesia education - current state and future model. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 25 (6) , pp. 692-698
- Kurup, V., Considine, A., Hersey, D., Dai, F., Senior, A., Silverman, D.G., Dabu-Bondoc, S. Role of the Internet as an information resource for surgical patients: A survey of 877 patients (2013)British Journal of Anaesthesia


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EGYPTOLOGISTS think they have identified the mummy of Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, found in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Zahi Hawass, Egypt's chief archaeologist, will hold a news conference in Cairo tomorrow to announce what may be the most important find in the area since the discovery of King Tutankhamun.
An archaeologist, who asked not to be named, said the candidate for identification as the mummy of Hatshepsut was one of two females found in 1903 in a small tomb believed to be that of Hatshepsut's wetnurse, Sitre In.
Several Egyptologists have speculated over the years that one of the mummies was that of the queen, who ruled between 1503 and 1482BC - at the height of ancient Egypt's power.
The archaeologist said Hawass would present new evidence for identification, but not all Egyptologists were convinced he would be able to prove his case.
"It's based on teeth and body parts. It's an interesting piece of scientific deduction that might point to the truth," he said.
The Egyptologist Elizabeth Thomas speculated many years ago that one of the mummies was Hatshepsut's, because the positioning of the right arm over her chest suggested royalty.
Her mummy may have been hidden in the tomb for safekeeping because her stepson and successor, Tuthmosis III, was trying to obliterate her memory.
Donald Ryan, an Egyptologist who rediscovered the tomb in 1989, said this month there were many possibilities for the identities of the two female mummies found in the tomb, known as KV 60. "Both of the KV 60 mummies are in Cairo now and are being examined in various clever ways that very well might shed light on these questions," he said.


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LANGLEY — Year after year, the U.S. Rowing Southeast Regional Championship Regatta is held at Langley Pond. Year after year, it's the pond itself that draws the group and its rowers from across the region back to Aiken County.
Jim Buckalew, the director of the event and a Charleston, W.Va., native, said that the pond is a draw because of the group effort the county puts into the facility.
"It's a great place to row," Buckalew said. "The parks, recreation and tourism group makes us welcome here. They've fixed everything; it's beautiful. The grounds crew does phenomenal work, it's very neighborly and the folks that have been coming up here for years love to come up here to row."
The teams are from a variety of clubs across the southeast, including groups from as close as Augusta and as far away as Jacksonville and Tallahassee in Florida or Nashville, Tenn.
Steve DeBever is in his first year coming to Langley Pond with the Jacksonville club but said that his team has been coming for eight or nine years.
"It's an excellent site to row in. The waters are very calm here, typically. It's a picturesque, you know, area to go, and the crews that show up here are very competitive," DeBever said.
"Being a regional event, you have some really good competition, and that's great for a team."
DeBever explained that the calm conditions at Langley Pond allow the competitors to focus on their craft instead of wind or choppy water.
"When you have flat water, it allows you to really focus on the power and your technique," he said. "Usually, when it's a bit rough, you're worried about other factors. Here, you can just focus on really specific areas of your stroke and as well as the other teams, knowing where they are and what you have to do to get out front."
The races, which will continue today, brought between 250 and 300 rowers into the county for a sport that event officials claim is growing, particularly in the Southeast. Sam Dempsey, the chief referee, said that not only are the boats the "fastest human-powered thing there is," but the sport itself is expanding because of how low-cost it can actually be.
Teams from the high-school level all the way up through the elite competition groups can share a boathouse and facilities.
"It's a very fast-growing sport," Dempsey said. "It's not the upper-crust, New England hoity-toity thing that most people think."
Co-chief Mike Forster added that Title IX has caused many universities in the South, like Clemson, to add rowing to counterbalance large men's teams like football. He said a women's rowing team can add 60 female athletes or more to an athletic department, and that has further fed the sport's growth.
Bringing in even more people for rowing events at Langley Pond would add to the benefits Assistant County Administrator Brian Sanders already sees from hosting the regional event.
"It's economic impact, incredible economic impact," Sanders said. "It exposes Aiken County to a lot of people that would not ever come here probably. They obviously have to have somewhere to stay, somewhere to eat, somewhere to get gas, and we've actually had people over the years – this is the 20th year of this regatta here. We've had people that were so impressed with Aiken County – would never have probably come here except they came here to row – retired here."
Because of those short-term and long-term benefits, Sanders said the county has invested into enhancing the experience for rowing events in hopes of hosting 2,000 or more rowers in future regattas.
Through the combination of a "lot of pots of money" that include local option sales tax funds, grants and the cooperation of different entities like the Augusta Rowing Club, the county has been able to not only improve existing facilities but also purchase additional land. Aiken County now owns the current park area, the pond and more than 100 acres of shoreline on the park side of the pond toward Bobby's Barbeque,
Officials hope to turn the course, which now finishes on the far side of the pond at the dam end, to a more viewer-friendly portion of the pond behind the Jefferson Davis Parkway restaurant.
"What we'd like to do is take that property that we now own, develop it, use that to stage the events and flip the course, and they'll be right on top of the finish line at that point," Sanders said.
This year's regatta will finish today, with races set from 7:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Jeremy Timmerman has a journalism degree from Mercer University and has been at the Aiken Standard since June 2010.
Staff photo by Jeremy Timmerman Teams compete in the Men's Masters 4s race at the US Rowing Southeast Regional Championships at Langley Pond on Saturday.×
Staff photo by Jeremy Timmerman Teams cross the finish line for the Men's Masters 4s race at the US Rowing Southeast Regional Championships at Langley Pond on Saturday.×


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Most models of Mars' history suggest that it has become colder and drier over time. Much of the water that the planet originally contained on its surface has migrated to subsurface reservoirs of ice and probably liquid at greater depth. The amount of volatiles is believed to strongly influence the emplacement of the layered (fluidized) ejecta morphologies, with higher concentrations of volatiles giving rise to larger radial extents of the ejecta blankets. To determine if the concentrations of volatiles in these subsurface reservoirs have varied over time, we are conducting a study to determine if the radial extent of these ejecta morphologies correlate with the preservational state of the crater. The revised ``Catalog of Large Martian Impact Craters" contains a new scale for crater preservation (ranging from ``ghost" craters at 0 to pristine craters at 7) and information on the ejecta mobility (EM) ratio (EM = maximum radial extent of ejecta/crater radius). At present we have analyzed 570 craters with preservational categories 4 through 7 in quadrangles MC 8 through 11 (0 to 30 N, 0 to 180 W). The analysis has looked at terrain units from throughout Martian history and has considered the data as a group as well as for separate terrain units. Craters with preservational categories 4 through 5 show a slight decrease in EM, but erosional effects are quite severe for this group and the results are likely not providing statistically valid information about volatile concentration during this time. Craters in higher preservational categories show a relatively constant EM ratio regardless of terrain, averaging between 1.5 and 1.6. Since these ejecta morphologies are not severely affected by erosion, this suggests that the concentration of subsurface volatiles at the depths sampled by the impact craters has not decreased substantially since these craters formed (primarily since Late Noachian, according to crater statistical studies).
This work was supported by NASA Mars Data Analysis Grant NAG58265.
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Northwest NEWS
ugust 10, 1998
Fire District looks at Knoll Lumber
by Andrew Walgamott
Staff reporter
WOODINVILLE--After structural engineers finish poring over the Knoll Lumber building, the Woodinville Fire and Life Safety District may move in.
It would bring the district to downtown Woodinville, a long-time goal.
"We're excited about it," said Frank Peep, WFLSD Board of Commissioners chairman. Last week, the five-member board voted unanimously to purchase the building contingent upon a 30-day feasibility study.
The study will determine the costs of converting the 19,000 square-foot building from a store selling nails, paint, sanders and drywall to a fire station, administrative office and training facility. The Knoll Lumber building is located at 17718 Woodinville-Snohomish Road.
"If everything looks okay at the end of 30 days, its ours," Peep said.
The district would pay $2.5 million for the building and 2.3 acres of land. Fire Chief Steve Smith said the district must decide by August 26 whether to follow through. If so, the structure would serve as district headquarters.
The district says a fire station there would allow them to meet national response time standards, responding to 80 percent of medical alarms within four minutes and 80 percent of fire alarms in urban areas within five minutes.
Peep said the district is finding that many of their calls are coming from the downtown core. With retirees moving into Brittany Park, and TRF construction coming along, more people are in the downtown area.
Speaking at City Hall, Woodinville Mayor Don Brocha said it would be "a positive to have the station down here," though he expressed some disappointment the district passed on the possibility of locating with the city at the Northshore School District's Sorenson complex.
The district had plans to base an ambulance at a temporary station behind City Hall. But unless Knoll is found unacceptable, that would be scratched.
The site became available recently after Knoll closed its doors there. "We saw the potential," Peep said, "talked about it and decided to make an offer."
If the district moves in, they will then consider putting Station 31 up for sale. Smith said real estate agents have estimated it to be worth $1.8 million. He said agents said existing buildings in the industrial area are scarce, and were confident it would sell within 90 days.
The district has another $1.7 million budgeted for building a new station as well.
Station 31, which is located near the King-Snohomish County line, was built in 1987 when King County Fire District 42 covered downtown Woodinville. In 1992, the two districts merged.
The district owns three acres south of Boston Market but can't build on that.


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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Headlines That Shoulda Been, Part II
"Deepak Chopra Admits to Be Earth-Shakingly Irritating."
Had a powerful meditation just now—caused an earthquake in Southern California," Chopra wrote to his nearly 179,000 Twitter followers shortly after the quake.
And then, to clarify: "Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake," he tweeted. "Sorry about that."
According to a ridiculously cursory Google search, Mr. Chopra once said, "If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world..."
I'll be meditating on that later this evening. Be on the lookout for world wounding.
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Perhaps a class action suit on behalf of all the folks who were materially effected by the quake damage…
I had a powerful meditation this morning ... but a quick flick of the flush handled took care of it.
I'll be meditating on that later this evening.
I hope the earth moves for you as well.
Best I've been able to accomplish lately is making my office chair rattle.


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Animistic religion
the belief that inanimate objects, such as hills, trees, rocks, rivers, and other elements of natural landscape, possess souls and can help or hinder human efforts on Earth
Polytheistic religion
Belief system in which multiple deities are revered as creators and arbiters of all that exists in the universe.
Ethnic religion
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.
Universal religion
Religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those who live in a particular location
Syncretic religion
Separate religions that combine into a new religion; often borrow from the past and the present.
The view that the present well-being of mankind should predominate over religious considerations in civil or public affairs.
Caste system
System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma. After many lives of good karma, they may be relieved from cycle of life and win their place in heaven.
Lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society
The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions
In Hinduism he was the universal soul, and in the trinity of gods in Hinduism he was the Creator
A worldwide movement, originating in the 19th century that sought to establish and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine. Since 1948, its function has been to support the state of Israel.
One of the two main ethnic groups within the Jewish culture. This branch eventually settled in Central Europe after having been driven out of Jerusalem early in the first millenium A.D
Cultural tradition made up of descendants of Jews who moved to Spain and Potugal in Western Europe
A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
A member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad
Religious fundamentalism
Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy
Ethnic cleansing
Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
Female infanticide
The intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females
Dowry deaths
In the context of arranged marriages in India, disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of a bride.