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Eli Rafalovich is 3 years old and just returning from a hike with his mother, Tina. They're no more than in the door of their Falls Church, Va., home when Eli asks if his mom will play ball with him.
"He's a kid who loves balls -- every since he was tiny," Tina Rafalovich said. "We can get all kinds of toys and games. I hope his love of balls and sports continues to be natural."
Whether or not Eli ever becomes an athlete, he's well on his way to a life of fitness. Dr. Michael Cohen, of Boys Town Pediatrics in Omaha, Neb., said developing healthy habits early is the easiest way to have healthy kids who grow into healthy adults.
How can parents inspire it? By living it themselves.
Many parents read to their infants in an effort to show them early how important reading is. Use the same approach with exercise, Cohen said.
"From the earliest days, I encourage (parents of newborns) to take walks with the child in a stroller, and then children are used to having those healthy habits," the doctor said.
Tina Rafalovich said she doesn't give much thought to Eli's exercise regimen, and she doesn't have to. As a stay-at-home mother, Tina and Eli play, sing, bike, swim and chase the family's two dogs through most days. They're getting fit without trying.
"He loves DVDs and watches TV, but he also never sits for long. He'll get up and run around," Tina said.
The Rafalovich approach is just what the American Heart Association recommends.
"Be active with your kids. Experts say that what kids want more than anything else is time with their parents. To give them that, don't just send them out to play -- go play with them," the association writes on its website.
If it's too late to follow the Rafalovich family's example in your house, Cohen suggests four approaches for getting the whole family off the couch and into the world of exercise.
Set Goals
To get moving, start with goals that are easy to attain in a week. Children sometimes can't grasp long-term goals, Cohen said, so break them up into bits.
"'Instead of, 'You're going to start exercising as far as the eye can see' -- sometimes it's too much for them to grasp. Instead, (say) 'Let's start with 10 minutes three times a week.' Then increase each week," Cohen said.
Aim for getting your child's heart rate above 100 beats per minute for 30 minutes.
Everyone Move
"I think it's unfair that the parents lecture the children and the parents don't necessarily embrace the lifestyle for themselves. It's so much easier and fun for a child if the parents are involved," he said.
It also helps you multitask, Cohen said, because in a busy life, parents don't need to schedule exercise time separate from family time -- it all happens at once.
Praise Works
Cohen said parents should be very involved in praising their children for trying to become more active. A parent's notice can be the best motivator to keep kids moving.
Whether it is a hug or a phrase, let your children know you notice their efforts.
Food Isn't A Reward
While you should be positive, you shouldn't celebrate goals with a trip to the ice cream store.
"Providing food based on performance or behavior connects food to mood. This practice can encourage children to eat treats even when they are not hungry and can instill lifetime habits of rewarding or comforting themselves with food behaviors associated with unhealthy eating or obesity," according to teaching materials for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School in North Carolina.
The point of setting diet goals is to change a child's behavior and attitude toward food, so take the reward's focus off food, too.
"Try going to the movies or taking a special outing," Cohen said.
Some families create a chart to map goals, then at certain points along the way the rewards are granted.
"A trip to favorite place ... or something they value but don't get a chance to do often. Be creative," suggests HealthyEatingAdvisor.com.
Rewards could include a day at a water park, a sleepover with friends or something small such as a book, a temporary tattoo, a puzzle or gift certificate to a favorite store.
Exercise Goes Beyond Gym
Don't forget, exercise comes in many forms.
"When most adults think about exercise, they imagine working out in the gym on a treadmill or lifting weights," according to KidsHealth.org. "But for children, exercise means playing and being physically active. Kids exercise when they have gym class at school, soccer practice or dance class. They're also exercising when they're at recess, riding bikes or playing tag."
Cohen said 30 minutes of cardiovascular activity three times a week is a good target for which to aim. And families should keep daily screen time to less than an hour a day on school days, whether that means videogames, TV or non-school-related computer surfing.
While a family can initiate its own fitness program, Cohen recommends seeing a doctor before you start. In his practice, Cohen asks questions to get a complete picture of the family's overall health, and runs screening tests on the children that may pick up hidden problems.
A doctor can help a family tailor its fitness regimen to address any problems. The benefits are substantial and cumulative, and can help increase life expectancy and lower the chance of heart disease.
"Increased physical activity has been associated with an increased life expectancy and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease," according to the American Heart Association. "Physical activity produces overall physical, psychological and social benefits. Inactive children are likely to become inactive adults. And physical activity helps with controlling weight, reducing blood pressure, raising HDL ("good") cholesterol and reducing the risk of diabetes and some kinds of cancer."


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Ravens-49ers: Which brother wins?
NEW ORLEANS The San Francisco 49ers never have tasted defeat in a Super Bowl, going 5-0. Its the most impressive mark for any franchise in the big game.
Baltimore also is undefeated, with the Ravens winning their only appearance, in 2001.
Someone will have the Super Bowl blahs for the first time after Sundays title game in the Superdome.
The Ravens (13-6), who are 3½-point underdogs, are on one of those runs reminiscent of recent NFL champions. Indeed, the New York Giants reached the Super Bowl a year ago in a similar manner, winning a wild-card game at home, then two playoffs on the road, including an overtime thriller.
The Giants got healthy down the stretch, something the Ravens have replicated, particularly on defense where star linebackers Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs are giving vintage performances following injury-shortened seasons.
I believe we have found a way to believe in each other, and nothing else matters, said Lewis, who will retire after the game. That is one thing about our sideline. When we are on our sideline, there is only one thing that matters, when this game ends, we will be victorious, and everybody believes the same thing. Thats whats been our road, no matter whos been up, whos been down, whos been hurt, whos been injured. We found a way to pick each other up.
Baltimores path to New Orleans led through New England, where the Ravens fell to the Patriots in last years AFC title game. But they outscored the Patriots 21-0 in the second half to earn their spot in the Super Bowl.
San Francisco (13-4-1) also came up one win short a year ago, losing to the Giants for the NFC championship. That defeat has driven the 49ers just as much as the Ravens failure in 2011 lifted them.
These Niners are built around a physical, stingy defense that also has been the Ravens persona for years, although not as much in 2012 as in Lewis other 17 pro seasons. Linebacker Patrick Willis, who like Lewis wears No. 52 and is a perennial All-Pro, is the anchor.
As a kid, you grew up watching, Willis said. Just to have the opportunity to be able to play in this game given my first four years (out of the playoffs), we were at home at this time watching other teams play. Last year we were one game away. To be able to be here, is truly special.
To make it extra special, San Franciscos offense will need to outdo Baltimores. The Ravens have scored 90 points in three games, and the Niners have 73 in two.
Baltimores defense has made big plays against Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Now it gets an entirely different type of quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. His combination of running skill, powerful arm and surprising cool for a second-year pro makes him particularly dangerous against the Ravens. Baltimore does not have the fastest defense in the league.
Then again, the 49ers must deal with Joe Flacco, the only QB to win a postseason game in each of his first five seasons. Flacco also has six road playoff victories, a league record.
While the Ravens and 49ers play for each other, the Harbaugh brothers, John of the Ravens and Jim of the 49ers, will go against each other in the first Super Bowl featuring sibling head coaches. Theyve had fun with the topic this week, but it will be as serious as football can get on Sunday.
With older brother John coming out on top.
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A horse in Michigan is being dubbed the "Houdini Horse" thanks to her knack for opening stall doors.
Video of 9-year-old Mariska freeing herself and her stablemates at Misty Meadow Farms near Midland has gone viral, racking up nearly 787,000 YouTube hits as of Tuesday morning.
The farmer's co-owner, Sandy Bonem, posted the video of Mariska's antics, The Associated Press reported.
She told the Saginaw News that the Freisian mare "doesn't like to be locked in," and unlocks the stall of every other horse on the farm -- except her mother.
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Shumlin: Preschool partnership nets $800,000
AP File Photo Children play with toys in Montpelier at the Turtle Island Children's Center in 2003. Gov. Peter Shumlin has announced funding for a public-private partnership aimed at increasing enrollment of the state's preschoolers.
WILLISTON Gov. Peter Shumlin said Wednesday a new public-private partnership has raised $800,000 to help move the state closer to his goal of 100 percent of preschoolers getting access to quality early childhood education.
There is no question that quality pre-K programs give kids the best start possible, ensuring they arrive at school ready to learn, Shumlin said at Heartworks, a Williston preschool packed with adults and children for his announcement.
Strong preschool programs lead to better future outcomes, ranging from more high school graduates going to college to fewer dropping out or ending up in jail, he said.
The funding is expected to help a dozen communities launch public preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-olds and help pay for them in the first two years, with money after that coming from the state education fund, which provides state aid to local school districts.
Of the $800,000, half is coming from the Agency of Education budget, Shumlin said. The rest is coming from the Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative, which raises money from foundations and other private sources.
The effort comes well short of that envisioned in a bill that died in the waning days of this years legislative session. That bill called for requiring communities to provide preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds.
New state funding would have been about $1.2 million in 2015 had the bill passed, said Rep. Sarah Buxton, D-Tunbridge, a member of the House Education Committee and a main backer of the bill. That was projected to grow to $9.1 million in the 10th year of the program.
Shumlin had called for a bigger expansion of child care subsidies by using money he wanted to cut from a program that uses a state earned income tax credit to provide cash benefits to low-income working residents. Shumlins fellow Democrats in the Legislature rejected that approach, arguing it amounted to cutting one program designed to help low-income residents to strengthen another.
Shumlin spokeswoman Susan Allen emailed a follow-up statement Wednesday afternoon, saying the governor supports the bill backed by Buxton and Sen. Kevin Mullin, R-Rutland, which is known as the universal pre-K bill.
Shumlin looks forward to discussions about details, costs and funding sources, Allen wrote. We continue down the road toward universal pre-k with todays announcement.
At the news conference, Shumlin said 70 percent of the states 13,000 preschool-eligible children have access to preschool.
Thats a great accomplishment, he said. Our job is to get the other 30 percent.
Several early education professionals said the governors 70 percent number was overstated. Seventy is the percentage of children up to age 5 who need child care because their parents or other adults in their households work, said Reeva Murphy, deputy commissioner of the Department for Children and Families.
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A chance to taste the winning 'Sweet Genius' dessert at Harbor House
Maybe you saw Milwaukeean Sarah Mironczuk win $10,000 on the Food Network's "Sweet Genius" competition last week. Now you can try her winning dessert.
The pastry chef's employer — the seafood restaurant Harbor House, 550 N. Harbor Drive — is offering Cayenne White Cake ($7.25) for two weeks, starting this Friday. »Read Full Blog Post
Harlem Globetrotters' Special K answers 10 for Tap
Here's some of what was learned from talking with Harlem Globetrotters' player Kevin "Special K" Daley.
1. He can whistle the Globetrotters' theme song. »Read Full Article
Notables in arts, entertainment who died in 2012
A singing diva on the verge of a possible comeback, an Oscar winner who loved to clown around in Milwaukee, everybody's favorite small-town sheriff and everyone's favorite oilman they loved to hate - of them left the stage in 2012.
The deaths of Whitney Houston, Ernest Borgnine, Andy Griffith and Larry Hagman garnered our attention, as we remembered their impact with their passing. But there were many more. »Read Full Article
24 hours: A quickest guide to Milwaukee's weekend
9 p.m. Friday
Celebrate the music, humor and legacy of one of rock's most inscrutable icons at Zappa Fest, a tribute to Frank Zappa at Linneman's in Riverwest. Acts on the bill include Dr. Chow's Love Medicine, Freddy Lee Band and Gozor Tenplat. »Read Full Article(1)
Milwaukee movies off the grid
Times to reopen Friday
The Times Cinema reopens Friday with floodlight hitting the skies and "Django Unchained" on the screen. »Read Full Article
Duane Dudek's top 10 movies for 2012
If there were two of me and one of us did nothing but go to film festivals, this 2012 top 10 list might be completely different.
Or twice as long. Films that haven't played here yet, never will or that I just did not manage to see when they did are popping up on various other end-of-year lists. »Read Full Article(3)
Best new restaurants
Some of the restaurants on the list of 2012's best new restaurants should come as no surprise: They've already appeared on the annual Top 30 list, out in September.
It's not typical for new restaurants to make the Top 30 so quickly, but these - Braise, c.1880 and Odd Duck - were exceptional from the get-go. »Read Full Article(2)
Blessed Feathers' Berube pops the question onstage
It was music that brought Donivan Berube and Jacquelyn Beaupre together. They met at work in 2008, at Januli's Pizzeria and Italian Deli in West Bend. What began as a friendship blossomed into a musical and romantic partnership as the folk duo Blessed Feathers.
So when Berube had to ask the most important question of his life - if Beaupre would marry him - he couldn't think of a better place to do it then during a Blessed Feathers set at Turner Hall Ballroom. »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: A wintry mix of fun
Old Man 2012 may be getting creaky, but there's still lots of life in his Thursday calendar. Example: Winter Fest brings a world of winter fun indoors-- from rock climbing to zip lines and a polar cafe.
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A man convicted of killing two women and leaving a third woman for dead is once again scheduled for execution.
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday rescinded a temporary stay for Marshall Lee Gore, 49, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 24.
Scott order the stay last week after Gore's attorneys claimed he was insane.
The Governor's Office reported that a three-doctor commission determined Gore was mentally competent and could be executed.
Gore killed Susan Roark and Robyn Novick and attempted to kill Tina Coralis in early 1988. Roark's body was found in Columbia County, and Novick's body was discovered in Miami-Dade County.
Two days after killing Novick, Gore attacked Coralis and left her for dead near the scene where Novick's body was found earlier.


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The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment of Nuclear Terrorism
June 6, 2011
Authors: Matthew Bunn, Professor of Practice; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Yuri Morozov, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Simon Saradzhyan, Director, Russia Matters Project; Assistant Director, U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Viktor I. Yesin, Pavel S. Zolotarev
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Researchers from the United States and Russia have issued a joint assessment of the global threat of nuclear terrorism, warning of a persistent danger that terrorists could obtain or make a nuclear device and use it with catastrophic consequences.
The first joint threat assessment by experts from the worlds two major nuclear powers concludes: If current approaches toward eliminating the threat are not replaced with a sense of urgency and resolve, the question will become not if but when, and on what scale, the first act of nuclear terrorism occurs.
The study recommends measures to tighten security over existing nuclear weapons and the nuclear materials terrorists would need to make a crude nuclear bomb, along with expanded police and intelligence cooperation to interdict nuclear smuggling and stop terrorist nuclear plots. The report also calls for improved protection of nuclear facilities that might be sabotaged, and of radiological materials that might be used in a dirty bomb.
The report, titled "The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment on Nuclear Terrorism," released on Monday, June 6, in Cambridge, Mass., and in Moscow, results from a nearly year-long partnership by nuclear security experts from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and The Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, a leading Russian research center.
Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists getting and detonating a nuclear bomb is enough to justify urgent action to reduce the risk. Al-Qaeda and North Caucasus terrorist groups have both made statements indicating that they seek nuclear weapons and have attempted to acquire them; these groups are presented together as a case study to assess nuclear terrorism as a present and future threat. (The only other terrorist group known to have systematically sought to get nuclear weapons was the Japanese cult group Aum Shinrikyo.) This study makes the case that it is plausible that a technically sophisticated group could make, deliver, and detonate a crude nuclear bomb if it could obtain sufficient fissile material. The study offers recommendations for actions to reduce this danger.
Press release announcing report is accessible here.
PDFs of English and Russian versions of the complete report are available here.
- Joint-Threat-Assessment ENG 27 May 2011.pdf (1.4 MB PDF)
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I know, I know...they come callin' every year when the leaves begin to turn and there's frost on the pumpkin. Mice. With apologies to Santa, autumn is (IMHO) "the most wonderful time of the year" and I spent the last week attending events throughout the Upper Delaware Valley, basking in the explosion of fall foliage that helps define life in the Catskills and the incredible bounty that Mother Nature provides.
Since I'm still unpacking (nesting comes next), I decided to schlep a box in from the barn before heading out to the Chapin Lake Club (www.chapinestate.com [2]) and the fundraising dinner benefiting the Sullivan County Federation for the Homeless (email@example.com [3]). "Wonder what's inside?," I whispered to the dog as she sniffed the cardboard and wagged in anticipation, hoping to unearth some of her still missing toys. "Surprise!" I cried and opened the flaps.
The first surprise was an alarmed mouse running up my arm, onto my shoulder and leaping to the floor. Shrieking (in typical manly fashion), I jumped up just in time to observe what appeared to be a living fountain of mice pouring out of the box, spilling onto the floor and scurrying (as only mice can do) under the fridge, under the couch and yes (oh, the horror!) under the bed, as Dharma raced to and fro, thrilled to have playmates in the house. Heart pounding (hey, there were at least a dozen) and clock ticking, I considered my options. I was determined to meet my commitment and attend the "silent auction and simple meal in a handcrafted bowl" that the fundraiser promised, which had been dubbed "Under the Harvest Moon" and was planned in conjunction with the Empty Bowl Project (www.emptybowls.net [4]).
My Internet research had revealed that "Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by the Imagine Render Group." The basic premise is simple: potters, craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.
Clearly more important than a mouse in the house (and grateful that I have food in my pantry), I shook it off (literally) and headed out with the pup. Upon arriving, departing Federation director Stacey Bresky said a few words along with event coordinators Danielle Gaebel and Kathy Kreiter, who thanked the many participating local artists for their beautiful bowls and explained that the organization has lost all of its state funding. Statistics dictate the tremendous need for donations and support within the private sector. More than 8,000 dollars was raised and neighbors (once again) gathered to assist those in need.
Slightly creeped out by the image of an endless parade of mice scampering about while the cat (I mean dog) was away, I headed toward Livingston Manor (under the aforementioned harvest moon) and the Catskill Art Society's (www.catskillartsociety.org [5]) 40th anniversary celebration and fundraising dinner party. The CAS provides great opportunities for artistic expression, supported by active community involvement, and I took part in a tour of the proposed new upper-floor space before a few speakers and director Ann Manby shared some thoughts. This was followed by ceramic artist Cecily Fortescue's proclamation that "you've come a long way, baby!" while enthusing about the gallery, its supporters and the ongoing desire to include the community in the next stage of growth.
"CAS will become what you want it to be," she said, "and we want this region to be a place where people want to stay—not one that they want to leave," she concluded, before dinner was served and I headed home with my dinner date. It was a pleasure to check out the CAS website the next day and read that "It was a full house, more than 100 CAS members and supporters were here, and we hope that you enjoyed the presentations, dinner, wine and music!" and further, "We were glad to share some of the progress we've made since purchasing the Arts Center building in October, 2011"... but I digress.
I stomped into the house, flicked on the lights and watched them scatter while my pal nonchalantly snapped a pic of the tiny footprints left in the bowl of bacon fat that I'd stupidly left out on the counter. To be candid, the dog snagged a few mice and I admired her tenacity, skills and bravura, while apologizing to the critters and tossing them back into the field, where they belong. I prepared a few "snacks" for my new roommates and turned in, mildly disturbed by the scratching and squeaking that filled the night air. Making a mental note to check the contents of future incoming boxes, I informed the Icky Mouse Club that I'd do my best to spare their lives in the future. Why? Because we like you. "Live and let live" I promised, but please, not in the house.


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Got a sweet tooth? Crest is debuting a new chocolate mint-flavored toothpaste next week.
Mint Chocolate Trek ($4.99) will hit stores the first week of February, according to the dental hygiene giant.
"Got an adventurous spirit or a sweet tooth?" Crest asks in a news release. "Well, then this is the toothpaste for you. Now consumers can explore outside their boundaries, arouse their senses and energize their brushing routine like never before."
It's one of three new flavors in Crest's "Be" line of toothpaste.
The others are Vanilla Mint Spark and Lime Spearmint Zest.
Dentist Matthew Messina, a consumer adviser for the American Dental Association, told ABC News he has "no idea" whether the American public will embrace the idea of a chocolate-flavored toothpaste.
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A Killer Play by Any Other Team & Ugly Angels Weekend
I love my Angels, as you have all probably guessed by now. But I don't think you can be a diehard fan of one particular team without being an equally passionate fan of the game itself. As such there is no disloyalty in admiring feats of greatness performed by teams and players other than your own, quite the contrary. Baseball is one of our favorite museums and every diving catch, robbed homerun, clutch line drive, wicked change-up to strike out the side, and perfectly executed six-four-three double play is a work of art we would be philistines not to appreciate.
But how do you react when the not-your-team's oh wow, any true baseball fan can appreciate how awesome this is play/catch/hit happens in a game against your team? It's a real conundrum. Of course, you always root for your team. But for me, the pure baseball fan side of my brain is thinking Wow! Wow! That was amazing! I can't believe I just saw that! What a play/catch/hit/whatever! and wants my body to stand up and cheer. While the Angels fan side of my brain is swearing a blue streak and wants my fist to shake angrily in the air or pound on the table.
Usually the reaction that actually bubbles from my mouth is very loud, starts out with a tone of grudging genuine admiration, finishes with a tone of passionate anger and anguish and sounds a little something like this (Note: Sections in quotations have been edited to make my more sailor-like proclivities safe for a general audience.):
Great catch, "when two people really love each other"er
Oh, nice play, "notoriously stubborn beast of burden" hole
Great hit, you "I question whether your mommy and daddy really made everything official before you were born."
I think it's an understandable reaction, and a one I find myself having several times a week. When we lose because of situations like this, that censored part above gets louder, longer and more creative. Every once in a great long while, a lost game might have so many of this sort of play that there is nothing you can do but calmly accept defeat with an understandable explanation along the lines of: Okay, my guys really need to be better about RISP but what can you do? Josh Hamilton was a human highlight reel, that "when two people really love each other"er.
This. Was not. One of the those games. Nor was yesterday's game. In fact, seriously, nor was this whole Red Sox series. Oh, I had a few Nice play, "notoriously stubborn beast of burden" hole moments, especially where Dustin Pedrioa was concerned. But even though the Red Sox swept the Angels this series, keeping us to a measly five runs in four games with back to back shutouts to finish things off, I don't think they played unbeatable baseball by any means. This is not a sour grapes, poor loser post. I am not knocking the Red Sox at all. Everyone knows they started out the season on the wrong foot…or, like, five of them. But there is no denying they are heating up, as I always assumed they would. They played pretty good baseball during this four game series. Very good at some points, but never lights out. Prior to this series, after the debacle that was opening weekend in Kansas City, the Angels were playing pretty good baseball. Very good at some points and occasionally lights out. There was no reason we couldn't have at least split this series if we'd kept that up.
It's not even a question that the Angels can play better ball than we did the last four games. How many Angels highlights from the Texas series were in the MLB Tonight Plays of the Week this evening? A lot. And Peter Bourjos' amazing dead sprint to jump up and rob Dave Murphy of a homerun at the centerfield wall was the #2 play of the week, and deservedly so. I think the Boston series play was the fluke, not the Blue Jays, Indians, White Sox and Texas series. So, come on Angels. Pick yourselves up. Dust yourselves off. Get it together. Wake up the bats. Make your pitches. Score some runs. And, pretty please with sugar on top, call the darned ball. There's a lot more baseball left to play and you can do this.
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Good news is that this can just be a small hiccup, rather than a cavernous hole, to overcome. Shake it off. Get yer aces back on the hill… go to town. I have faith in the Halos… it's the only sort of "religious" entity (if you can call it that; by the way, you can't but I'm playing with words here) I have faith in🙂
Of course I was excited by the sweep, but I was as surprised as you were. Good perspective on the whole series. I hope all is well with you–nuts over here, hence my lack of writing and responsiveness to my friends in blog world.
Jeff – I agree. If they turn it around now, they can even afford a few more hiccoughs through the season without major psychological trauma to the team. If not…well…I'd rather not think about that. Yeah, I assumed you meant it creatively. If you were suddenly throwing around religious references without irony, we would all have to worry that perhaps the Pujols situation has traumatized you more deeply than we knew.
Michael – Enjoy the excitement. You earned it after that scary start. I wasn't surprised that the Sox won, but I was surprised by the sweep. I think most Sox fans would agree that the Red Sox are mid-upswing at the moment, not at the very top of their game yet, which is good baseball indeed but a sweep was unexpected. I sure hope my guys get over it before they go to Fenway in a few weeks. I would really love not to have another 9 and 1 season, LOL. I figured you've been busy. It's nearly the end of the school year. But I love to hear from you when you have the time, thanks for dropping by.
— Kristen
How about Weaver? Gotta be happy about where he's headed.
I like to think that I always have an appreciation for any well-played aspect of the game, which is partially why the ChiTown skid has been so painful. Not only are they not winning, but that they have played some *terrible* baseball. I found myself watching a lot of the Tampa/Jays series last week to see if I could watch Sam Fuld make another amazing catch and to watch Jose Bautista reach base 11 consecutive times and smack a couple of long balls at pivotal moments. I am not going to lie, I am a happier camper (and there is a LOT less swearing) when the ChiSox win, but I'm just happy when they're not actively attempting to LOSE.🙂
Hopefully, you're enjoying tonight's show a little more – but I have to ask: What's up with the 2 dudes dressed like the banana and the penguin? I saw them as I was flipping channels after the Sox/Yankees tonight. I appreciate the spirit, but is there some joke going over my head, or was it just silly boys being silly?
Alissa – Oh yes! I am seriously thinking of creating a phrase – like (wo)man crush – to describe exactly how ecstatic I feel about how Weaver is pitching and just how all around clutch he is this year.
Keleigh – Tonight's game was much better! And I assume you felt the same about the White Sox? I think the dancing banana was just something silly and random. We've had fans come dressed as Where's Waldo and Wilda before and an all green body stocking just to get on the Jumbotron. The peanut butter jelly time song played on the Jumbotron while the banana danced is one of the very first email/internet memes and I think it just fit the costumed antics in the stands so the video guys played it…then again, I could be missing something.
— Kristen


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Each of the default SSAS client tools (Pivot Tables, SSRS, Power BI etc.) have strengths, but numerous limitations. See how XLCubed extends business users abilities in reporting, dashboards & data discovery, in any version of of SSAS & Office.
Advanced Modeling with Analysis Services Tabular
This session goes beyond the classical star schema modeling, exploring new techniques to model data with Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular. You will see how brute-force power in DAX allows different data models than those used in SSAS Multidimensional
Basket Analysis using BI Office and SSAS Tabular Edition
In this session Pyramid analytics will show how to use BI Office to easily build an adhoc Analysis Services Tabular Edition analytic data set and perform associative analysis using the unique features of BI Office.
BI Tips and Tricks with SQL Server Reporting Services
Impress the boss and your colleagues by delivering Dashboards, KPIS, maps and Scorecards wrapped in a tablet-ready interface with SSRS
DAX Patterns
Learn ready-to-use DAX patterns improving development speed of Power Pivot solutions. Good also for SSAS Tabular developers.
Deep-Dive to Analysis Services Security
This session targets SSAS developers that are already dealing with complex security solutions on a regular basis and want to get more insights on what actually happens inside SSAS when the different kinds of security are applied to their model.
Introducing XLCubed: More Microsoft BI power with less tools
Learn how XLCubed unlocks the value of Multi-dimensional and Tabular SSAS and SQL for power users in Excel; providing pixel perfect delivery of reporting, dashboards for both Web and Mobile and with or without SharePoint.
In this session we'll look at the structure and basics of MDX, the Multi Dimensional query eXpression language for querying Analysis Services OLAP cubes. We'll start at the beginning, so no previous experience necessary.
Optimising Cube Processing
You don't have to be an analysis services guru to gain a better understanding of how to analyse, configure and optimise cube processing.
Power Query in Modern Corporate BI
Explore Power Query features to import data from existing Corporate BI systems.
Analysis Services for the DBA
Mark will explain the use cases for Analysis Services, illustrate how it improves performance for large data sets and eases report writing, and will go through a practical example of building a first Analysis Services solution
Data Modeling for Analysis Services Cubes
In this session we'll look at a number of different data scenarios and explore ways of remodelling the data to optimise it for cubes and MDX. Sometimes a small ETL change can have a dramatic impact on the cube's functionality and simplicity.
DAX Query Engine Internals
In this session, we will analyze the way DAX solves filtering. Starting from simple queries, we will follow the steps DAX does with the filter context, discovering the internals of the query engine of DAX.
DAXMD: SSAS Multidimensional meets DAX and Power View
This session looks at the most significant new functionality to be added to SSAS Multidimensional in recent years: support for the DAX language and Power View.
Excel 2013 Analytics
Excel is "The" analytical tool in Microsoft suite for advanced analysts. This session introduces Excel 2013 and 2010 business intelligence capabilities.
Incremental processing of SSAS Multidimensional databases
Processing of SSAS OLAP databases can be a tricky business, particularly when it comes to incremental processing of dimensions. John will give you real life examples of why certain approaches work and others do not.
MDX vs. DAX: Currency Conversion Faceoff
Compare and contrast how multidimensional and tabular achieve the same end result in quite different ways. Features covered can be used in a broad range of scenarios (not only currency conversion), adding valuable knowledge to your SSAS arsenal.
Modern Data Warehousing Strategy
This session will discuss what a modern strategy for data warehousing can be in this era, considering how the use of technologies like PowerPivot or Analysis Services Tabular affect the way you should model your data.
Transforming PowerPivot into Enterprise BI with Pyramid
PowerPivot is a breakthrough for self-serve BI but is not easily deployed in the enterprise. Join us for this fast-paced, technical demonstration on how to upgrade PowerPivot into secure and scalable Analysis Services tabular cubes
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In this session, we are going to explain and test different DW features in SQL Server 2012, including star join optimization through bitmap filters, table partitioning, window functions, columnstore indices and more.
Accelerating BI Projects with Varigence
Learn how Varigence tools accelerate BI development, enhance reusability, and improve agility through the use of customizable patterns and automation scripts and transform your metadata into comprehensive BI solutions.
Advanced Security with Analysis Services Multidimensional
This session will cover advanced security topics in the Analysis Services Multidimensional model.
Analysis Services 2012 Tabular Mode Best Practices
In this session we'll understand the best practices of using this new technology. What exactly is it good for? When to use it and when NOT to? Migration, Security, Administration and other tips and tricks.
Building a BI Portal for Tabular Models
The Microsoft BI stack has a number of tools for data visualization - Excel, Power View, native Reporting Services, and Performance Point. Come see each visualization applied to the new tabular model in Analysis Services.
Building an infrastructure to support real-time OLAP
Users love flexible analytics but hate to wait for the data to be loaded into a traditional data warehouse. John will describe how to build an infrastructure to support real-time loading of your OLAP cubes so your user's get exactly what they want
Business Intelligence with Excel 2010
Most of us use Excel in our Daily work, but are you familiar with the Business Intelligence features in Excel? In this session we'll look at some of the most common and useful BI features in Excel 2010 and discuss limitations and best practices.
Create a Data Model in BISM Tabular
In this session you will see how to create a BISM Tabular data model from scratch, providing the required metadata in order to improve user experience navigating the data model by using client tools like Excel PivotTable and Power View.
Everything You Wanted to Know about ProClarity's RoadMap...
But were afraid to ask. Pyramid Analytics burst onto the Microsoft BI scene with not only a full roadmap for ProClarity users, but also with cube driven dashboards that offer rich functionality – yet are easy to design and deploy by business users.
Load Testing Analysis Services
Ever deployed an Analysis Services cube that worked perfectly well with one user on the development server, only to find that it doesn't meet the required volumes of user concurrency?
Memory Management for Analysis Services with SQL Sentry
Learn how to monitor Analysis Services with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor. Get tips on best practices, monitoring counters and options plus improve your understanding of how Analysis Services uses memory and where it differs from SQL Server.
Performance investigations with Analysis Services 2012
This session will do a brief overview of Analysis Services 2012 performance topics, and drill into some common methods for investigating performance issues. The talk will be adjusted based on the audience interests.
Temporal Snapshot Fact Table
Snapshots without snapshots...is that possible? Take a "Classic" snapshot fact table, add some temporal data theory and you'll get a new fact table than can store snapshot data without doing snapshots. A life saver when you have a lot of data.
Think Outside the Group! Take MDX to the next level in SSRS
Reporting Services is a powerful tool that can make designing reports a snap...most of the time. Design format starts with your report query. Take your queries to the next level with MDX concepts to conquer the trickiest report layouts.
Basic BISM
This session explains what the BI Semantic Model in SQL Server Denali is, how it is related to Analysis Services, and provides a brief introduction to the new Tabular model.
Building Great Models for Crescent
SQL Server Code Name Denali Reporting Services will include Project Crescent for visualizing, interacting with and presenting data. Project Crescent. Come to this session to see how to make the most of this new tool.
Many-to-Many Relationships in DAX
Deep dive into the handling of many to many relationships in DAX. How to make them work and how to optimize their speed thorugh many patterns and live examples of M2M usage.
Master Data Services in SQL Server Denali
Master Data Services has been given an overhaul in Denali, including a new Excel add-in and modified web front-end. Come to this session to see how MDS can be used to give greater control and process to your BI/DW dimension management.
MDX and DAX-compare and contrast
This talk looks at MDX and DAX, examining their similarities and differences. It won't turn you into an expert in either but it will help you to decide, given your particular career plans, if either or both are worth learning.
Vertipaq vs OLAP: Change Your Data Modeling Approach
In this session we will introduce the new modeling capabilities of Vertipaq, showing how the same scenarios can be modeled in both Multidimensional (MOLAP) and Tabular (Vertipaq), looking at how to enable your data warehouse to support both.
Writeback-Here Comes the Sun
With Excel 2010 it is finally possible to modify data in a SSAS cube, without using any macros or third party add-ins. This opens for a lot of common business scenarios like budgeting and planning directly from Excel 2010.
28 Weeks later - How to scale-out your MS Business Intelligence environment
The SQL Server provides much functionality that increases the scalability and flexibility of your solution by distributing data and jobs among low-priced commodity servers.
Analysis Services Advanced Best Practices
This dense hour of presentation will cover design techniques to leverage cube features that also consider possible maintenance of the database structure over time.
Automating SSAS cube documentation using SSRS, DMV and Spatial Data
This session will show how to use DMVs (data management views) to query the OLAP cube structure, and then use SSRS to create a set of interactive reports including the BUS matrix, and using spatial data to generate automated star schemas.
BISM Introduction
Introduce the features of BISM (BI Semantic Model), the new engine that will be available in Analysis Services "Denali".
Building a dynamic OLAP environment
This session will present the tools and techniques used to create OLAP cubes and supporting data marts on-the-fly from a mere set of data files and configuration metadata.
Data Modelling for a flexible cube
Learn how to leverage the data model to create flexible behaviour in a cube without the overhead of calculated members
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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, playwright William Congreve wrote in 1697. Things haven't changed much in more than 300 years if, in fact, art reflects real life. Apparently, it does.
In the new movie, "The Other Woman," a cad of a husband cheats on his wife and his mistress until the scorned women band together and give the guy his comeuppance.
The opening hodgepodge of the film shows a woman with her new boyfriend. They've been together eight weeks — they frolic in New York's Central Park, have candlelight-for-two dinners, and he shows up with a present "just because." While she would like him to meet her father, she says "can't we stay in this bubble just a bit longer?" He agrees.
It all looks oh, so romantic. That is, until he says his house in Connecticut has a plumbing problem and he must go to the country for the weekend. When she shows up at his house in a sexy plumber's outfit, complete with plunger, and in stiletto heels, she gets quite a shocking surprise when his wife opens the door. (This isn't much of a spoiler, believe me).
Cameron Diaz plays the other woman, Cornell and Columbia law grad Carly Whitten. Diplomas are proudly displayed in her to-die for skyscraper office with a drop-dead view of Manhattan. Yes, she certainly does have it all, a great loft apartment in Tribeca, fantastic career and fabulous clothes. "Sex and the City's" Patricia Field was the costumer and the clothes could definitely share space in Carrie Bradshaw's closet. For fashionistas, keep an eye out for these gems: Antonio Beradi skin tight black dress, Tom Ford sheath dress in white, and a Rick Owens black leather skirt with blazer. And Diaz wears the clothes well. She's utterly sensational looking in the film and director Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook") makes sure the camera angles catch her just right.
And while Diaz is the sexy star draw of this movie, Leslie Mann ("This Is 40") as betrayed wife, Kate, pulls out all the comic stops and steals the show. The suburban housewife tells her husband that she needs to go to "brain camp" because she can't remember things, and decides she should get some Ginko Balboa to help her forgetfulness. Hubby corrects her reference to the movie Rocky. "That's Ginko Biloba," he says.
Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Game of Thrones," "Oblivion") gets the thankless role of scheming cad, Mark King, a Maserati driving entrepreneur who is as unsavory in business, we find out, as he is with women. Coster-Waldau shows his knack for comedy, too, in the knock out final minutes of the film where his luck has run out.
Rapper/singer Nicki Minaj also proves comedic prowess as Whitten's assistant, Lydia. The role most certainly became bigger than originally written because of Minaj's star power. Fashion takes a front seat (Gucci, Herve Leger, Versace and Alexander McQueen; dang! that legal assistant must have a sugar daddy somewhere) to whatever dialogue Lydia's given, although Lydia is given some doozies. She nicknames Carly's boyfriends — Lydia's tagged a former beau, Dr. Not So Smart informing us that Carly sent him and his medicine bag packing.
Don Johnson is almost unrecognizable in a small role as Carly's playboy father — a typical womanizer who is on wife No. 5. Is this really who James "Sonny" Crockett became after his retirement from "Miami Vice"?
Swimsuit supermodel Kate Upton shows up in the latter half of the film as the second other woman, but she doesn't have much to do but bat puppy dog eyes and flounce around in a bikini. Ditto for Taylor Kinney ("Chicago Fire") who plays the dreamy, blue-eyed brother of Kate.
There's a crop of these female empowerment movies (chick flicks are now chicks-with-an-attitude movies – the trend started with "Bridesmaids") constantly being churned out. There's nothing wrong with "The Other Woman," it's just there's not much originality to it, either.
The script by Melissa K. Stack does have its share of great comedic moments, and kudos to her for not creating a stereotyped Connecticut housewife with Kate, or a Manhattan maneater with Carly. Cassavetes direction saves the movie with his creative camera angles and ability to capitalize on Stack's built-in hijinks.
Here's the verdict on "The Other Woman." Leave the guys home (this movie is a surefire antidote to Viagra) and invite the girls out for what amount to ladies locker room talk: man bashing and designer clothes envy.