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No one ever strives to be a good loser.
The whole dignified in defeat thing? It's better than being a jerk about it, but ours is not a culture that puts a premium on losing well, even if we're quick to mock its opposite. Complain and cry and make excuses after a loss, and sure, we will make fun of you. Lose like a gentleman and we'll give you your golf clap on the way out, then talk about you after you're gone.
That's why it feels important to take just a moment to appreciate the example provided by Brian Stann following the UFC on FUEL TV 8 main event on Saturday night. I'm still not sure how he managed it, but just minutes after getting coldcocked by Wanderlei Silva, Stann managed to give a post-fight interview that was articulate, gracious and painfully honest, all in only a few words.
"Wanderlei's always been one of my favorite fighters ever," Stann said shortly after waking up on his back in Saitama Super Arena. "He's one of the fighters who inspired me to start this sport, and I'm very proud to have been a part of his career — as much as this hurts right now. My heart's broken, but I'm still proud that I put my name on the line and I fought him."
See? That's how you do it. The fact that Stann did it with a likely concussion and a mangled nose is only more impressive. As much as it must hurt to get up there and admit that you lost, that it hurt badly, and that you're glad you did it anyway, it's still the best way you can play it. In part that's because, well, what other options do you have? You can complain about a cracked skull or a bad stoppage or a training camp that didn't go the way you planned (when do they ever?), but that's the quickest path from pity to scorn in the eyes of the fans.
Fighters are never more sympathetic or vulnerable or relatable than in the moments immediately following a loss. When they first step into the cage they're like giants towering over the crowd. Even on TV, the cameras all seem to angle up at them. Then they get knocked out or submitted and it's like they shrink right in front of our eyes. They're mortal again. They're one of us, just some guy, and suddenly we feel like we know them. That's because we all know failure and disappointment. Success on that big a stage is hard for most of us to imagine. We enjoy that vicariously, but that doesn't necessarily mean we understand it. Defeat? Now that we understand. What we need – and secretly want – is someone to show us how to do it well.
In Saitama this weekend, Stann did that. It wouldn't hurt us to take a moment to appreciate him for it before our gaze drifts off to the winner's circle once again.
Wanderlei gonna Wanderlei
Talking to Stann a few days before the fight, I asked him if he thought being back in Japan would make Silva revert to the free-swinging, hyper-aggressive style he employed in his PRIDE days. Stann doubted it, he said, but noted that "if he does that, I would certainly feel comfortable doing that with him and feel like the odds were in my favor."
Right up until the leather started flying, that seemed like sound reasoning. After all, we all knew that Stann had a chin like Gibraltar while Silva's had begun to look more like a rapidly melting glacier. If it came down to who could take more punishment, you had to favor the younger, more resilient Stann. That is, right up until he got knocked unconscious for the first time in nearly five years. So much for all those things we thought we knew for sure.
Speed and power and conditioning and technique are all things that can fluctuate over a fighter's career, but his ability to take a punch usually only gets worse with age. And once it starts to go, it rarely comes back. Somehow, Silva seems to have found at least a temporary fix. He took some massive blows from Stann and was still clear-headed enough to fire back. He was wobbled but never woozy, and with his flesh as willing as his spirit (for a change), he managed to look like the old Wanderlei, the head-hunting madman who didn't mind taking some punishment in order to give some back. So now what?
As I wrote in my Sunday column, it'd be great to see Silva ride off into the sunset after a triumph in vintage form, but I have little hope for that. A fighter who's winning becomes convinced that he's reborn in the game. One who's losing tells himself that he just needs to get one more win. So it goes. The day might come (and it might be soon) when UFC President Dana White will have to sit Silva down and give him the Chuck Liddell speech, but the win over Stann tells us that day hasn't arrived just yet. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing for Silva, we can only guess.
You really want to stand with Mark Hunt? Are you sure?
There were times when it seemed like Hunt was doing everything in his power to give Stefan Struve the win in their co-main event heavyweight bout, but Struve tried even harder to give it right back to him. Watching their fighter try to pass the lanky Dutchman's dangerous guard must have given Hunt's cornermen heart palpitations. Between rounds, they begged him to stand back up and "put [his] hand on [Struve's] face." Struve could have used his height and reach in order to make that very difficult, but instead he opted to stand still and cover up while Hunt closed the vast distance between them in search of an exposed bit of flesh to pound with his fists.
It was a baffling game plan from Struve. Had he not heard that this Hunt guy hits pretty hard? Did he not realize that he was better off fighting him either from a great distance on the feet or up close on the mat? The one thing you can't do if you're Struve is stand still and let Hunt pick his target, and of course that's the one thing he did. It cost him the fight and put a painful new crack in his jaw, too. Let's hope it finally taught him an important lesson he has thus far refused to learn.
Diego Sanchez is (technically) victorious in a (sort of) return to lightweight
Sanchez's split-decision win over Takanori Gomi was close enough that, with the way MMA judging works, it's hard to complain. Any time you call it 29-28 for one fighter, and if you acknowledge that even one of the three rounds was close enough to have gone either way, you're basically flipping a coin when you get to the scorecards. That said, this wasn't exactly a triumphant return to lightweight for Sanchez. It wasn't even a return at all, since he failed to make 155 pounds in his first trip to the division since his 2009 lightweight title loss to B.J. Penn.
Now Sanchez says he wants Nate Diaz next, because apparently he thinks it would be cool to have wins over both Diaz brothers. And, sure, I guess it would. But only if you can really get down to the weight class where you intend to fight them, and only if you really, truly beat them.
Beware the wrath of the "Stun Gun"
In a pre-fight tweet, Siyar Bahadurzada promised to take Dong Hyun Kim's soul when they met in Japan, adding "YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME." Bahadurzada was almost right. I've never seen Kim trash talk an opponent while pummeling him from full mount, so at least that was different. Everything else, though? Yeah, same old "Stun Gun." He takes you down, suffocates you with top control, and 15 minutes later he's getting his hand raised while you're hanging your head and silently vowing to go home and work on your escapes from mount.
I'm not sure where the win leaves Kim, who seems guaranteed to squeeze the excitement out of any welterweight up-and-comer who isn't in possession of a great ground game or exquisite takedown defense, but I think it's safe to say that Bahadurzada was exposed. If you can't grapple with the best of them, the UFC's welterweight division is an especially tough place to make a living.
In close fights, some questionable approaches down the stretch
This past weekend brought us a couple of cautionary tales for those who think they know what the judges are scribbling on those inscrutable scorecards of theirs. In prelim action, Brian Caraway's corner assured him he was up two rounds to none before the third and final frame of his fight with Takeya Mizugaki. Turns out they were wrong, as two of the three judges scored it 29-28 for Mizugaki, making it seem like Caraway's corner did him a disservice by making him believe that his lead was more comfortable or obvious than it really was. Even if you think you're up 2-0, when you know that at least one of the rounds was close (and when you know how MMA judges can be), it's probably better to treat the third more like a must-win than a mere formality. In a three-round fight, coasting is always a dangerous idea.
Meanwhile, on the main card, Hector Lombard found himself in a great position to come from behind and steal one from Yushin Okami after clearly losing the first two rounds. The only trouble is, Lombard didn't seem to realize just how clearly he'd lost those two. In fairness, one of the judges somehow scored it in his favor, but that's the kind of ineptitude you can't afford to count on if you're Lombard. He should have known that Okami was ahead after two rounds of superior grappling, just like he should have known that he'd be better off forcing the wrestler to his feet and trying to finish him off with punches. Had Lombard gone that route, he might have done to Okami what Tim Boetsch did just last year. Instead he decided to finish out the round in Okami's guard, betting that it would be enough to seal a decision victory. Like Caraway's corner, it turned out that Lombard's math was off.
What does this tell us? For starters, that you never know what judges are thinking, and that you're better off not finding out. You could argue that anyone who's watched even a little MMA in the past couple years ought to know that already, but still. It's easy to tell fighters that they shouldn't leave it up to the judges, though that's not always realistic. Really, they should make sure that if they do have to rely on the judges, they do everything in their power to make that job ridiculously easy. Anything else and they leave a difficult task in the hands of people who have enough trouble with simple ones.
For complete coverage of UFC on FUEL TV 8, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
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Which Robotics Kit Should I Use? LEGO Edition
Now more than ever, robotics educators are faced with the important question of which kit they should purchase and use. This key question has been made even more intricate in the 2013-2014 school year due to the addition of the new robotics kit, LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3. This article will help break down LEGO's kits, their capabilities and target audiences, and allow you, the educator, to make an informed decision on which kit is best for your particular classroom.
The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is the all-new robotics kit from LEGO Education (creators of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system). It is fully compatible with previous NXT hardware (except for the battery), including all plastic structural pieces and sensors.
- Compatibility with the MATRIX and TETRIX metal systems is expected in fall 2014.
- Those starting a classroom from scratch need not worry; the EV3 comes with a total of 541 elements, including a multitude of structural parts (beams, connectors, wheels, gears, etc), 4 different sensor types (color sensor, gyroscopic sensor, ultrasonic sensor, and touch sensor), 3 motors, and the EV3 micocontroller or 'brain'.
- The EV3 microcontroller sports 4 sensor ports, 4 motor ports, a internal Bluetooth adapter, and a USB slot which can be used with a WiFi adapter for wireless connectivity (as well as microSDHC card slot which supports cards up to 32GB in size).
- It utilizes a Linux-based firmware which allows for on-brick programming and datalogging.
- The EV3 is already legal in First Lego League (ages 9-14), but we are still waiting on information on when it will be legal for First Tech Challenge (High School) competitions.
- Recommended use: Middle School (EV3) or High School (with MATRIX or TETRIX kit).
Now, let's take a look at the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT V2.0. Released in 2009, the NXT platform utilizes a plastic snap-fit hardware structure system, with 431 elements included in the base kit.
- These elements consist of both structural pieces (beams, connectors, and axles, to name a few), three interactive servo motors, the NXT microcontroller, and ultrasonic, light, sound, and two touch sensors included.
- There are also many third-party sensors available from sites such as Hitechnic, Dexter Industries, and Mindsensors.
- The NXT is also fully compatible with the MATRIX and TETRIX metal systems.
- Wireless capabilities include built-in Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity (provided by an external Samantha Module adapter).
- The NXT is currently a legal microcontroller for both the First Lego League (FLL, ages 9-14) and First Tech Challenge (High School) challenges.
- Recommended use: Middle School or High School (with MATRIX or TETRIX metal kit).
We understand that choosing a robotics kit is a tough decision. The number one factor in determining which kit is right for you will come down to the students; depending on the skill level of the students, it may be better to challenge them with a more advanced kit (MATRIX or TETRIX kits) or they made need to start with a simpler kit (LEGO NXT or EV3 kits). No matter which kit you decide to use, though, you can rest easy knowing ROBOTC will fully support all of these platforms.

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Ferrari S.p.A. said the first year of production of its new FF is sold out and customers who order the model now will receive their cars in the second half of 2012.
Ferrari will limit production of the four-seat FF, the luxury sports car maker's first four-wheel-drive model, to 800 units a year. The FF sells for 260,000 euros ($368,700) in Italy, where it goes on sale in May.
Production is currently ramping up and is expected to reach its full speed of 70 units a month by June.
Ferrari says it has already 800 orders of the FF after the company began private previews with potential customers in mid-January.
The FF, which stands for Ferrari Four, replaces the company's 612 Scaglietti flagship.The FF is marginally bigger and roomier than the Scaglietti but weighs the same at 1790kg despite adding fwd.
Ferrari has been working for almost a decade on the innovative, lightweight 4wd system that debuts on the FF.
"Our 4wd system weighs about 45kgs (99 pounds), half of traditional 4wd systems which, to transfer torque to the front wheels in 4wd mode, need a central and a front differential," said Andrea Binotti, chief engineer for the FF, at the car's press launch here.
Ferrari's system, called 4RM, adds a second, smaller, two-gear gearbox in front of the engine to transfer torque to the front wheels.
The main gearbox, a seven-speed dual-clutch unit, is mounted in a transaxle design in the rear to power the rear wheels.
The 4RM keeps an almost perfect weigh balance in the car, with 47 percent of weight on the front axle and 53 percent on the rear axle.
Ferrari product marketing director Marco Valentini said the FF, the world's fastest four-seat model, "creates a segment of its own because no other competitors match the model for roominess and all-round versatility."
Pininfarina S.p.A. designed a shooting brake-style body for the FF, which has a station wagon-shaped tailgate that gives access to an extremely roomy cargo area of 450 liters, rising to 800 liters with the rear seats folded down.
Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A. penned the FF interior and also performed some body engineering for the FF project.


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Credit Suisse Exec on Climbing the Ladder
Credit Suisse Managing Director Marisa Drew says networking and nurturing boosted her career.
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TORONTO - A slew of streaming music services have come to Canada, and more are likely on the way, but while tech-savvy consumers seem to enjoy listening to music online, relatively few want to pay.
There are more than a dozen competitors to choose from in Canada, including free radio-style options such as CBC Music and Songza, and fee-based a la carte listening platforms with millions to songs to access, such as Deezer, HMV's The Vault, Rara and Rdio.
A recently released report by the Media Technology Monitor suggests listening to music online is catching on with large numbers of Canadians. About 59 per cent of anglophones and 46 per cent of francophones said they listen to streaming audio, with YouTube being the most commonly cited source for seeking out tunes.
Another recent report, this one released by the Department of Canadian Heritage, also suggested many Canadians are interested in streaming — but most want it to be free.
About one in three poll respondents said they were very or somewhat likely to subscribe to a free online music service, while just 17 per cent said they would likely pay a monthly fee for a subscription-based service. Canadians who owned a smartphone were more likely to express interest in streaming services. About 43 per cent said they would likely subscribe to a free site while 25 per cent said they'd likely shell out for a paid service.
Last week, U.S.-based company Rdio announced it was offering up to six months of free streaming in Canada in a bid to hook music fans on the service and then convert them into paying subscribers.
But the offer comes with some murky fine print. Yes, users can use the service for up to six months for free on their computers, which would usually cost $5 a month — the freebie doesn't work on mobile phones, access that normally costs $10 a month — but a meter at the top of the screen indicates how much they can listen to before getting cut off. Users who binge on music will find the free offer will expire before six months is through. But Rdio refuses to disclose just how much music users can listen to before the free ride is up.
"There's a point at which we basically say to you, 'You obviously used this a lot, you really like it, please subscribe,'" says Rdio CEO Drew Larner.
"We're in this to make money and we believe we're offering a great service that people ultimately should be happy to pay for. And we're willing to give them (a free trial) and subsidize them for a good amount of time, but from an economic standpoint, it can't be perpetual given that we're not forcing them to look at ads or listen to ads while they're doing that."
Larner says the company felt compelled to expand its free trial to Canada based on the cut-throat competitiveness of the industry, which has a number of competitors who all charge the same price, for almost the exact same service, offering nearly identical catalogues.
"Free is something that's sort of become table stakes at this point, meaning that in order to have a large amount of people coming into the top of the funnel, meaning registered users, people expect a free offering," Larner says.
"The ability to allow people to use Rdio over a longer period of time (as a trial) and really get hooked on it just increases the chances that they're ultimately going to subscribe."
The battle the entire industry faces is in convincing the music-loving public that $5 or $10 a month is a bargain to gain access to a huge, growing catalogue of songs, Larner says, and is a much better deal than the old way of paying to own individual albums or tracks.
"Our goal is to move people away from the idea of ownership and being more comfortable with accessing cloud-based music. We believe we're on our way to doing that but there's still a long way to go," he says, "no question."


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5 questions Twitter must answerFebruary 4, 2014: 1:32 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
It's put up or shut up time for Twitter! The company will release its first "earnings" report since its initial public offering after Wednesday's closing bell.
Considering shares of Twitter (TWTR) are up about 150% from their IPO price -- even though the only news since November has been about what Wall Street analysts think of the stock -- it seems safe to say that expectations are high.
In honor of the number that we've all come to associate with Twitter, I've decided to give you lucky readers 140 questions that need to be answered in Twitter's report. Just kidding. That's a bit excessive. Even for a blowhard like me. So here are five.
1. Will Twitter actually report a profit? Twitter has lost money throughout its brief history. And those losses have escalated recently. The company reported a net loss of $64.6 million in the third quarter of last year, up from a loss of $42.2 million in the second quarter and $21.6 million in the third quarter of 2012.
But analysts are expecting a little less red ink in the fourth quarter. The consensus estimate is for a net loss of $13.1 million, which works out to a loss of 2 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters. However, the estimates range from a loss of 13 cents a share to a profit of 4 cents.
I may be a traditionalist. But I think Twitter MUST show a profit to justify the huge run-up in the stock.
2. Is revenue growth already slowing? Twitter is going to report extremely strong sales growth in the fourth quarter. But will it be strong enough?
Analysts are currently forecasting revenue of $218 million. That would be a 29% increase from the third quarter and 94% jump from the fourth quarter of 2012.
But if Twitter merely meets the consensus forecasts, you have to wonder if the momentum investing crowd will be disappointed. After all, this would actually represent a slowdown in Twitter's sales growth.
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A year ago, Twitter's fourth-quarter revenue increased 36% from the third quarter. In the third quarter of last year, sales were up 105% from the same period in 2012.
Of course that's not to say that Twitter's report should be considered an #epicfail. Sales are growing like the proverbial weed. But any signs of slowing growth could make investors nervous. Twitter is not yet a mature company. It needs to beat estimates to keep investors happy.
3. Will Twitter give any guidance? When Google (GOOG) went public in August of 2004, the company's management team famously said they would not play Wall Street's guidance game. The company refused to give analysts and investors specific targets for earnings and sales outlooks.
Nearly 10 years later, Google is sticking to that philosophy. And Facebook (FB) adopted it as well, when it went public in 2012. Now both Google and Facebook have done just fine without spoon-feeding Wall Street. But will investors be willing to accept no concrete guidance from Twitter? Some might view a lack of detail from CEO Dick Costolo (who is still a relatively unknown commodity on Wall Street) as a worrisome sign.
Related: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone launches new app
Still, if Twitter does decide that it wants to give sales and earnings outlooks, then that creates another challenge. Twitter won't just need to crush the estimates for the fourth quarter. It will also need to give investors evidence that it is expecting a boffo first quarter as well. For what it's worth, analysts are currently expecting Twitter to report sales of $215 million and a loss of 3 cents per share.
That may not cut it. While the first quarter is typically weaker for advertising-driven business like Twitter, revenue of $215 million is below what the company is expected to generate in the fourth quarter. And I can't stress this point enough. Twitter is a young company that investors are buying because they love its growth potential. A sequential decline in sales -- even if it is due to seasonality -- would be a big setback.
4. Is mobile already a mature business? To its credit, Twitter has embraced mobile. Unlike Facebook, which had to prove to Wall Street after its IPO that it had a viable mobile strategy, Twitter does not have to worry about investors wondering if too many people are using Twitter from their desktop computers as opposed to their smartphones and tablets.
Twitter has said that more than 70% of its ad revenue came from mobile devices in the first nine months of last year. That's #phenomenal. What's more, Twitter indicated that more than three-quarters of its users accessed Twitter from a mobile device in the third quarter. That's up from 69% in the third quarter of 2012. Also #awesome.
Related: Facebook earnings soar on strong mobile growth
But it leaves little room for growth. What can Twitter do for an encore? Is it reasonable to expect 75% of ad revenue from mobile and more than 80% of its users tweeting via mobile? (There needs to be an adverb form of mobile. Mobily? Mobilely? Mobly? Schoolhouse Rock anyone?)
Facebook's stock rebounded from its post-IPO doldrums. It went from nearly no mobile revenue to a point where it's now a majority of ad sales. I am not sure if there is a similar catalyst to excite Twitter investors now considering the stock has not stumbled since it went public. I can't imagine that growth in video service Vine is going to do it.
Unless ...
5. Can Twitter make more money off international users? Twitter is a global phenomenon. According to the company's last SEC filing before the IPO, it said it had 232 million monthly active users worldwide. Only 53 million of them were in the United States. The remaining 179 million were in international markets.
But here's the thing. Twitter also said that it generated just 26% of its revenue from international users in the third quarter. Twitter has to do a better job of making money outside the United States. It is wasting a huge opportunity if tweets in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world don't translate into ad sales.
Facebook, which also has a huge majority of its users living outside the U.S., is doing a better job of generating money from its international users: 53% of its revenue came from them.
Yes, investors are obviously going to be looking to see just how many new users Twitter added in the fourth quarter. A big jump from 232 million will likely generate some excitement, especially since Twitter clearly has a long way to go before it reaches the global domination levels of Facebook and its nearly 1.3 billion monthly active users.
But adding users for the sake of adding users is not the point. It only matters if you can make money off them. And that's why, even though I still loathe Facebook as a service and adore Twitter, I think Twitter is an overvalued stock with much to prove while Facebook has lived up to the hype.


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They're rushed. They're tired. They're just not hungry yet.
It's a habit that medical researchers say could create serious health problems if it continues into adulthood. Still, many kids are skipping breakfast as they get older.
"It's too early," said Markysha Wilson, 18, explaining why she can't stomach any food before going to school. Her first class at Hopkins High School starts at 7:45 a.m. when she's still too tired to think about eating.
But by 10 a.m., she's hungry. What does she eat? Doritos and a Monster Energy Drink.
Kids who skip breakfast may be planting the seeds for a lifetime of missing what's often called "the most important meal of the day." The practice often starts in adolescence. Nearly a third of adolescents skip breakfast every day, and as many as 60 percent miss breakfast more than three times a week, according to a recent article in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.
The trend persists despite a barrage of research — and parental advice — that suggests eating breakfast daily is good for you. Regular breakfast eaters are less likely to have heart attacks, and less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, recent studies show. Some research links breakfast to academic performance: Children who eat it are more alert, concentrate better and receive better grades. Whether eating breakfast can help stem the tide of childhood obesity is a matter of heated debate.
The struggle to get kids to fuel up before they start their day vexes many parents. But increasingly, they have a new ally in this fight: schools. More than 89,000 schools nationwide serve breakfast, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The number has risen over the years as more schools serve breakfast to all children — not just those in economic need.
In Minnesota's largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin Schools, breakfast programs are in every building. They include sit-down meals in the cafeteria and grab-n-go items. Some schools even let kids bring breakfast to class.
"The overall feeling is that if [breakfast is] that important, then shouldn't we make sure students are getting breakfast?" said Cindy Hiltz, health service coordinator for the district.
Frantic, missed meals
Many young people and their families say breakfast simply gets lost in the morning rush. Other activities — sleeping in, chatting with their friends in school hallways — are more important to teens than a morning meal, said Esther Motyka, site operations and food safety manager for the Anoka-Hennepin School District.
This is a problem because adolescence is an age when many health behaviors are formed, said Andrew Odegaard, a researcher from the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.
"It's time-consuming so it's hard to do," said Nyjee Arradondo, 17, a student at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka. Even so, she has been on a breakfast kick lately, eating a bowl of cereal before school.
Alice Seuffert, a St. Paul mother of two young children, says recent mornings are a little less hectic because her kids are eating breakfast at school. Both she and her husband work full time. Last year, they fed the kids at home — a ritual that required them to get up much earlier.
"It's really hard because you're not only trying to get your kids ready, but you want to find them things that are healthy — not just a sugary bowl of cereal," she said.
Seuffert, who writes a blog called "Dining With Alice," has taken on the topic of fast, healthy breakfast recipes for kids. Making breakfast in the morning is rarely the tranquil scene depicted in commercials, Seuffert said. It's much more chaotic.
"You feel like a chicken with your head cut off in the mornings," she said. "I've got the baby in the highchair screaming and I'm throwing some cheese and bread at him. Then my 4-year-old is asking me: 'Why can't we eat rocks?' And then I'm trying to help my husband. And we're all trying to get out of the house."
A steady decline
What's for breakfast has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. The standard American breakfast in the 1960s consisted of bacon, eggs, toast and milk. That's been replaced by ready-to-eat boxed cereals and carbohydrate-rich foods. In fact, breakfast has been falling out of favor for the past 20 years, according to the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine article on "The Benefits of Breakfast Consumption to Combat Obesity and Diabetes in Young People."
The trend has closely paralleled a significant rise in obesity, the researchers said. Overweight and obese youths are twice as likely to skip breakfast as their peers who are a normal weight.
In June, a study led by Odegaard at the University of Minnesota, found that people who ate breakfast at least four times a week had a "significantly lower risk" of developing obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes than those who skipped. A month later, Harvard University researchers published a study that showed that men who skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of heart attack than those who ate breakfast.
Much of this research homes in on people's breakfast-eating habits. "What those studies have shown is that the people who eat breakfast tend to eat less throughout the day," Odegaard said. "People who skip it end up gorging on meals and snacks later throughout the day."
But research linking breakfast to weight control has come under fire lately. The collective breakfast studies, noted the authors of a study published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, have not established a "causal relation" between skipping breakfast and obesity.
Still, research chronicling the benefits of breakfast abounds. A recent Ohio University study, which used brain scans of students, discovered that those who ate a healthy breakfast and exercised every day had higher test scores and better concentration skills in class.
Wilson, the Hopkins High student, is starting to rethink her habit of eating nothing but junk food in the morning. It makes her feel "tired and slouchy" at school, she said. "I think I'd do better if I ate a cooked breakfast."
On a recent morning at Hopkins West Junior High, the food service staff armed themselves with a menu designed to win over young taste buds and nutritionists alike. By 7:20 a.m. the doors had swung open and students poured into the cafeteria.
At one table, friends Nick Dutcher, 13, and Everett Hopp, 12, chatted over their plates of waffles, pears and milk. Both boys are big fans of breakfast and make it a habit to eat something every morning — either at home or at school. Hopp said he was surprised to learn that many kids his age choose not to eat breakfast.
"People I know are always eating breakfast," he said, shaking his head.


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text: Very clever viral vid from director Dulcidio Caldeira for MTV Brazil. The balloons are mounted on a track. A cart bearing a camera and a sharp pin starts rolling at one end, filming and popping as it goes. Each balloon has a single frame of the animation hand-drawn on its surface. Looks like they may have stopped it a couple times to clear balloon bits from the lens. [via Dude Craft]


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In the golden age of animated shorts, making classic cartoons was frequently a game of cat-and-mouse. And no one did it better than director Chuck Jones.
Jones was the legendary animator whose unique design, clever timing, inventive staging and flat-out-funny comedic sensibility would come to define the best in cartoons, both on Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes line (where he crafted timeless shorts featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and his own creations Pepe Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, among others) and on such ambitious later-career projects like "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and the Oscar-winning "The Dot and the Line." No matter where his increasingly artful instincts took him, though, Jones never tired of the old standby of feline-rodent rivalries.
"Looney Tunes: The Chuck Jones Collection Mouse Chronicles," on home video August 28, collects a stash of 19 slightly forgotten treasures from Jones' wealth of work at Warner Bros., including a dozen shorts crafted from 1939 to 1946 starring the deliberately adorable but overly talkative mouse Sniffles, and seven cartoons from 1943 to 1951 featuring the creative cat-torturing mouse duo Hubie and Bertie.
"It's almost a cliché that classic animation was 'cats chasing mice' – Tom and Jerry and Mickey Mouse and that sort of thing,' animation historian Jerry Beck says. "Chuck Jones was really the genius amongst the [animator] group and his cartoons are the classic Warner Bros. cartoons. Here we get to see a side of Chuck with the thing that bridges it all: his mouse characters.
"Sniffles was the first thing that Chuck did," says Beck. "When Chuck started to direct cartoons, he came up with a character that was extremely cute. Chuck's idea – this is back in the '30's and Warner cartoons [style wasn't quite] established yet. So Chuck, of all the directors, for some reason decided that instead of going with this funny stuff that he was developing at the studio he would go to the more Disney-like route – the almost sentimental and sweet/cute thing that Disney was doing – so he came up with Sniffles."
"Those early cartoons with Sniffles are completely different from what Chuck would do later," explains Beck of the shorts' more sweet-natured tone. "They are sort of aimed at children – they're unlike the Warner Brothers cartoons, so they're almost an anomaly in that way. They're incredibly well-animated. They're animated in a way that Chuck's own cartoons would not be later on. They're animated in more full Disney style: rounded and dimensional and really, really sweet and cute – the word 'saccharine' can almost be applied. That's not a put down! These are beautiful, beautiful cartoons, but they're not what we think of when we think of Warner Brothers cartoons…Comic books, merchandising – they did a lot of stuff around Sniffles. Sniffles was a popular character in its day".
After interest in Sniffles eventually waned – both on Jones' part and the audiences' – the animator reinvented himself and focused on what would become his specialty: wildly inventive visual comedy. For that, he would draw upon a personality-rich pair of mice pals named Hubie and Bertie who amuse themselves by devising increasingly elaborate ways to physically and psychologically torment Claude Cat, the champion mouser who shares their home.
"This a really different take – a more modern take," says Beck. "Exactly what he developed into. The main gimmick of the Hubie and Bertie cartoons, they would play psychological tricks on their adversary, the cat. This is not something that Tom and Jerry did, or Herman and Katnip or anybody else. This is something that Chuck Jones would do, which is so the polar opposite of Sniffles. These are the sharp, witty, beautifully caricatured drawings."
"What the characters put the cat through in these cartoons is absolutely off-the-wall crazy," chuckles Beck. "They sneak into the house and turn the furniture upside down, making him think that he's upside down. There's a cartoon where they tricked the cat into thinking he'd died and he's going to heaven. There's one cartoon where they wander into the house, and they realize quickly that the cat is a hypochondriac and so they do everything that they can to convince the cat that he's completely sick. It's just funny, funny stuff done in Chuck's classic style."
Together the two sets of mouse tales encompass a period in which an artist is finding his own unique voice in animation. "What's great about it is that you get to see the full range of Chuck Jones's talent, from the very beginning when he's doing Disney style to later, a witty, sharp, artistic style – It's all here," says Beck. "If you're just somebody who wants to watch cartoons with mice, you're going to have fun. If you want to study Chuck Jones's artwork, this is probably the best collection that you could possibly get."
The Naughty and Mice Cartoons of Chuck Jones
New collection showcases Looney Tunes early mouse-minded work.
In the golden age of animated shorts, making classic cartoons was frequently a game of cat-and-mouse. And no one did it better than director Chuck Jones.


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Terence Blanchard Quintet At Newport
As a whole, Terence Blanchard's high-functioning quintet reliably serves up sleek modernism in the form of post-bop jazz. Individually, its members are also becoming great composers: Blanchard's new album, Magnetic, features tunes from everyone in the band. The new repertoire sees Blanchard cop some electric feels for his trumpet. And a guest turn from guitarist Lionel Loueke, who also appears on the album, makes this band a rare six-person quintet.
- Terence Blanchard, trumpet
- Brice Winston, tenor saxophone
- Fabian Almazan, piano
- Joshua Crumbly, bass
- Kendrick Scott, drums
- Lionel Loueke, guitar
Set List
- "Pet Step Sitters Theme Song" (Fabian Almazan)
- "Hallucinations" (Terence Blanchard)
- "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma)
- "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) (feat. Herbie Hancock, piano)


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All myths/legends across time and space conceal Truth. My Greek friend Tom Frangos taught me this when he explained Greek Mythology to me.
The veil that conceals the Truth can only be lifted by the Author of Creation.
Neitzsche is a classic example ... when he shattered the glass house that contained the Western notion of God.


text: TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education is preparing to review the first draft of proposed science standards that could renew the debate over teaching evolution. The standards on the board's afternoon agenda today (TUE) are being drafted by 26 states, including Kansas, along with the National Research Council. The goal is to create guidelines that can be used by all states, and Kansas is likely to consider whether to adopt them next year. State Board of Education member Ken Willard, a Republican from Hutchinson, said last week he considers the initial draft problematic. That document was released in May and describes evolution as a well-established, core scientific concept. Kansas has switched multiple times between standards expressing skepticism about the theory and evolution-friendly guidelines like the ones now in place.


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Yahoo Inc rolled out new versions of its popular Web email on Tuesday, the first major product makeover since Chief Executive Marissa Mayer took the helm of the struggling Internet company five months ago.
Yahoo released new versions of its Yahoo Mail product for smartphones and tablets - in keeping with Mayer's focus on mobile devices - and a revamped version of its Web-based mail product for PC users that cuts out ancillary features and that the company said delivers faster performance.
"You've told us loud and clear that you want fewer distractions when it comes to email. You want to quickly login, communicate, and get on with your day," Mayer said in a post on Yahoo's official blog on Tuesday.
Yahoo is the No. 1 Web email product in the United States and No. 3 worldwide, behind Google Inc's Gmail and Microsoft Corp's Hotmail, according to comScore.
But the number of unique users of Yahoo email declined 16 percent in November from a year earlier in the United States and 7 percent worldwide in October, according to comScore. Gmail's unique users increased 25 percent in the U.S. in November and 20 percent worldwide in October.
Analysts say Yahoo's email decline also owes partly to the broader trend of younger Internet users who prefer to communicate with text messages rather than email.
Mayer, 37, is moving to revitalize Yahoo's various Web products and reverse years of declining revenue. A former Google executive, Mayer is widely admired in Silicon Valley for her Web product savvy, though some analysts and investors have expressed caution, noting that Mayer has never before led an entire company as CEO.
She has said her top priority is to create a coherent mobile strategy for Yahoo and that she intends for at least half of the company's technical workforce to be working on mobile products.
As part of Tuesday's announcement, Yahoo unveiled an update to its mobile email app for smartphones based on the Android operating system, as well as Yahoo's first stand-alone app for Apple's iPhone.
Yahoo also released a version designed for tablets and PCs based on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system.
Vivek Sharma, General Manager of Yahoo Mail & Messenger, said the group of new mobile apps was part of Yahoo's goal of ensuring that its products are available across all major mobile platforms — a move that he said should help Yahoo's email stay popular with the younger generation of users.
"Most of the new users, especially young ones, are using mobile Internet devices. So the first order of things is to make sure there are native experiences for them," said Sharma referring to mobile apps that are specially designed for smartphones.
The new PC version of Yahoo Mail features fewer ads, primarily by doing away with pass-through Web pages that users previously encountered before they could access their inbox and which appeared after a user sent an email.
Eliminating those pages, and improvements to the way Yahoo displays its email Web pages, means that users can now reach their inboxes 40 percent faster, Sharma told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
Yahoo's email product is an important piece of Yahoo's overall online business, serving as a conduit to bring in users which Yahoo then tries to redirect to its other websites, such as news articles, stock quotes and videos.
By simplifying the product's look, Yahoo could increase the amount of time that users spend visiting its online properties, said RBC Capital Markets analyst Andre Sequin.
"A website can be incredibly useful, but if a user interface is annoying or has too many flashing ads, it can drive a person away," said Sequin.
He compared Yahoo's email revamp to one of the key accomplishments that Mayer is credited with at Google: the sparse homepage, which is free of ads and prominently features a search engine box surrounded by white space.
"Improve the experience on mail and there's a good chance you can get people to stay engaged with Yahoo properties for a long time," said Sequin.
Shares of Yahoo were up 11 cents to $19.54 in midday trading on Tuesday.
Yahoo's stock has risen 25 percent since Mayer became CEO in July, reaching its highest level since September 2008 when Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang was CEO.
The years between Yang and Mayer were tumultuous ones at Yahoo, as the Web pioneer cycled through four different chief executives and a variety of strategies.
Yahoo ranks among the world's most popular websites, with roughly 700 million monthly visitors. But revenue has eroded due to competition from Google and Facebook and changes in the online advertising market that have compressed prices for the online display ads that are key to Yahoo's business.
Many analysts and tech-industry observers say Yahoo's online products have failed to keep up with rivals when it comes to integrating innovative mobile and social media features.
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Two months in and this year has already seen significant movement in regulatory action across the country to expand the ability to provide telemedicine services. Below please find some of the more significant items that have already gone into effect in 2016 or are under consideration, including commercial payor and Medicaid reimbursement coverage for telemedicine services, reciprocal licenses for out-of-state providers and the ability to prescribe without an in-person evaluation.
Parity Laws in New York and Connecticut
Effective January 1, 2016, New York passed a Chapter Amendment clarifying last year's telemedicine commercial coverage statute. Under the 2016 Chapter Amendment, private insurers are required to cover services via telemedicine if provided by hospitals, home care and hospice agencies, licensed physicians, physician assistants, dentists, nurses, midwives, podiatrists, optometrists, ophthalmic dispensers, psychologists, social workers, speech language pathologists and audiologists. The parity law prohibits an insurer from excluding from coverage a service provided via telehealth if that service is otherwise covered in-person.
The law also provides for Medicaid reimbursement to providers for telehealth services, which is defined broadly to include real-time two-way electronic audio visual communications, asynchronous store and forward technology and remote patient monitoring. However, with the exception of remote patient monitoring, telehealth will not be reimbursed by Medicaid when the patient is located in their home. The New York Department of Health is expected to release telemedicine regulations later this year.
Similarly, Connecticut also recently passed a new telemedicine parity law that went into effect January 1, 2016. Under Connecticut's parity law, commercial insurers must provide coverage for services rendered via telemedicine under the same terms and conditions as would apply if that service was provided in-person. Connecticut broadly defines telehealth to include services performed by a telehealth provider at a distant site as well as synchronous interactions, asynchronous store and forward transfers and remote patient monitoring.
Notably, Connecticut went even farther than New York in its telehealth parity law by expressly preventing a health plan from excluding a service from coverage solely because the service is provided through telehealth and not in-person. In this way, a health plan cannot exclude a telehealth service, such as remote patient monitoring, simply because it does not lend itself to an in-person professional service.
Florida's Controlled Substance Teleprescription Law
Florida recently implemented a new rule to permit physicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine exclusively for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, effective March 4, 2016. Specifically, the amended regulation provides that controlled substances may not be prescribed through the use of telemedicine, "except for the treatment of psychiatric disorders."
However, after passing this new rule, the Florida Board of Medicine recognized that it is still restricted by the Federal Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008. The Ryan Haight Act narrowly permits the remote prescription of controlled substances for patients without an in-person evaluation so long as the patient is: (1) physically located in a hospital or clinic with a valid DEA registration; and (2) treated by a DEA registered practitioner in the usual course of professional practice and in accordance with state law. Accordingly, while Florida is expanding its telemedicine laws, the prescription of controlled substances via telemedicine will only be broadly permissible if the American Telemedicine Association, or other organizations, are successful in amending the Ryan Haight Act.
Newly Introduced Telemedicine Bills in New Jersey and Ohio
Various other states are also in the process of trying to pass telemedicine bills. For example, New Jersey recently introduced a bill on February 8, 2016, that would require private payors to provide coverage for telemedicine to the same extent that the services would be covered if they were provided through an in-person consultation.
Additionally, another NJ telemedicine bill was introduced on January 12, 2016, which would provide a mechanism for physicians and other health care providers to obtain reciprocal licenses to practice in New Jersey if the providers are licensed by another state in their particular specialty. The bill would also provide a parity law for telemedicine services to be reimbursed under NJ Medicaid. As a similar bill was proposed in 2015 and has now carried over into the 2016 session, the likelihood of its passing is even greater.
An Ohio legislative bill is also headed to the Senate that would allow patients to obtain prescriptions (for non-controlled substances) without an in-person exam or visit from a health care provider.
For more information on telehealth and telemedicine legal and regulatory considerations, continued legislative developments or related issues, please feel free to contact Daniel Meier or any member of our health care practice group for a further discussion.


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Learn what domain investing is and how buying and selling domains for profit works. For more information, see https://www.godaddy.com/domains/domain-investing
Wondering what domain investing is? Here's an overview to get you started.
Like all types of investing… in commodities, the stock market, art, real estate and so on… domain investing involves buying something, in this case a domain name, with the goal of eventually selling it for a profit.
But let's take a step back for a few seconds. To understand domain investing you must first be clear about what a domain name is and isn't.
It is NOT a website or an email account. Instead, it a numerical address turned into user-friendly text that is used to identify a resource on the Internet, such as a website, an email account, a hosting server, and the like.
Domain names are assigned to Internet resources for the same purpose street addresses are assigned to houses, office buildings, and other real estate – so they can be found.
Domain names must conform to the rules of, and be registered in, the Domain Name System, or DNS.
Every registered domain name is owned by a person or entity of some kind, such as a company, organization, or government. It is possible for registered domain names to exist but not be associated with any Internet resource.
This is where domain investing comes in.
When domain names are not in use, their owners have the option of selling them in what is called the "domain aftermarket."
Domain investors purchase them with the hope they will gain value over time.
Some domain investors also search for entirely new domains.
When they find an available name they think will gain in value, they register it and hold on to it until they feel they can sell if for a profit.
The prices of aftermarket domain names vary widely.
Determining the market value of a domain name is a complex process, similar to determining the market value of a piece of real estate.
In general, short, memorable, easy-to-spell names that end in .com tend to be the most valuable.
There are many ways to purchase domain names – from creating a brand new domain name and registering it, to bidding on existing names in aftermarket auctions.
Before you dive in to domain investing, wade around in a few good online resources.
There's a lot to know.
Check out GoDaddy.com/domains, NamePros.com and YouTube, just to name a few.
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~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~
I've done more reading than knitting lately. I talked about Bel Ria on Monday, and am still thinking warm thoughts about this book, despite having finished reading it days ago. The story really affected me, partially I'm sure because I am and always have been a lover of animals. The main character is an intelligent and loyal little dog named Bel Ria and I completely fell in love with him, and the humans who were part of his life.
I've also been reading and rereading the first issue of Kindred magazine. I bought from the second printing and received my issue a bit later than most people. I can honestly say that I am very impressed by this lovely compilation of essays, poetry and beautiful photographs all revolving around the theme of "Home." I saw myself and even members of my family (specifically my maternal grandmother!) in the words of some of the contributors and truly felt that I was reading the words of "kindred spirits." And I thought to myself that Amanda has done exactly what she set out to do with this magazine. I've just pre ordered issue two, and I can't wait to receive it!
Planning ahead for next winter, and continuing to knit through my stash, I started a little jacket for Silas. I was pretty excited when I came across this pattern (latte baby coat) and not only loved it, but had exactly one skein of Cascade Eco waiting in my stash for a project. You can't tell, but that is actually the beginning of the hood. Hopefully this will knit up quickly, unlike other projects that I won't name.


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Recently, one of our readers sent in this question to us that they have lost their Windows 7 CD and cannot find their product key, however they wanted to reinstall their system and could not do it without a product key.
First of all, Microsoft stores your Product Key or CD Key on your PC itself and it is not easy for a normal user to sift through the files and find it. However, there are software which do this job very well.
Just like our Office 2010 product key finder there is a tool which will allow you can also extract the product key of Windows 7 from your system. To do that, you have to install the Keyfinder tool from Jelly Bean (download link below).
Once you have download the Jelly Bean Keyfinder tool run it and it will display the CD Key to you along with the Product ID of your PC. You can then copy this information and use it to install Windows 7 on another OS.
Please make sure to store the Product/CD Key securely once you have extracted it from your OS. It will always come in handy later. If you have any questions like these, feel free to contact us and ask us about it.


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Ryan Reynolds to Star in R.I.P.D. (REST IN PEACE DEPARTMENT)
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Here's some zombie/comic/movie news for you. Ryan Reynolds is to star as a undead cop… That sounds positive. Based on the comic by Peter Lenkov. Synopsis: "It's about two cops, one recently dead and a gunslinger who's been dead for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…


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The National Trust guidebooks editors have just published a downloadable guide to the historic lighting at The Argory, Co Armagh. It was written by Maureen Dillon, the NT's adviser on historic lighting, and curator Frances Bailey.
The Argory has a rare collection of Victorian and Edwardian light fittings. They date from when the house was built by Walter McGeough Bond in the 1820s and from a modernisation in about 1900.
In 1906 a small acetylene gas plant was installed in a special building near the house in order to provide up-to-date lighting. Acetylene gas is released by exposing calcium carbide to water.
This kind of gas provision was considered ideal for country houses, as it was cheap and needed little maintenace. Gas lighting was in use at The Argory until 1983.
The acetylene-powered light fittings included table lamps, with a tube supplying the gas from a pipe in the wall, reminiscent of a modern-day electric socket.
When the house was first built in the 1820s lighting was provided by Argand oil lamps. Many of the original light fittings were later converted to gas.


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Saturday, August 28, 2010
The girls were excited and apprehensive at the same time. Ruths husband Liam, drove one of the 3 cars that we hired, to take us from Budapest, up to the Romanian Borders.
Dani and Kati Beri, the Pastors of the local village Church, recieved them with open arms and a very warm welcome. Hungarian hospitality is first class, and the girls enjoyed eating true Hungarian Goulash on their arrival.
On the way, I took the girls to Bag, to see Ishtvan and David, and the people in the little village under the mountain. There we did a little programme of singing and dancing, and head, shoulders, knees, and toes, went down great
The next stop was in Hadjunnanas, to meet my friend Balasz, who works with special needs children. They were camping in a park area, and we were asked to join them. There were children in wheel chairs, and some of the bigger children had autism, and all them from very poor homes. There were a lot of Romany children. The parents were not allowed in, and waited all day outside on the grass. No Roma allowed. Once again the girls did their, head shoulders, knees and toes. I did a sketch about 3 men with disabilities. We ate together, potatoes, and paprika, and onion, it was delicious(fenom).....washed down with peach juice.
The weather was extremely hot, and the air was void of oxygen, or so it seemed. We continued up to Nyirbeltek, where we arrived around about 8.30pm..
The Girls had their first experience of another world, and another culture, and of a people who love with passion, regardless of their financial status, and living conditions.


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Nationally Known Chef, TV Personality Coming to SUNY CantonThursday, November 4th, 2010
SUNY Canton students will get a taste of how to maintain healthy eating habits from chef and television personality "The Food Dude," Kevin T. Roberts.
The host of TLC's "BBQ PitMasters" will speak at the College at 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9 in the Richard W. Miller Campus Center's Kingston Theater.
Roberts is most recognized because of his top-ten finalist finish on "The Next Food Network Star." He has been on more than 100 national and local television shows, including "The Today Show," CBS' "The Early Show" and is a regular on "Better TV."
One of his two cookbooks, "Munchies," is geared towards college-aged students, young professionals and people looking for quick, simple and tasty alternatives to fast food. His recipes prove there is more to cooking than complex recipes and expensive ingredients. His second cookbook, "Kissing in the Kitchen," teaches a novice cook how to prepare a romantic dinner.
Roberts is owner and executive chef at San Diego's award-winning East Village Tavern and Bowl, one of the city's hottest new downtown urban sports bars. He owns three other sports bars in San Diego.
He tours colleges and universities across the country every year, talking about healthy eating habits, how to keep the 'Freshman Fifteen' off, what foods provide the most brain power during those late-night cram sessions, and how to make the best food for a party or event.
The event is sponsored by the College's College Activities Board and the Student Government Association. It is free and open to the public.
Media inquiries should be directed to Gregory Kie, Media Relations Coordinator, or call 315/386-7528.


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Report: Former state Rep. violates restraining order
Jose Santiago recently hired to take fired DPW worker's position
A former Massachusetts state representative and former police sergeant was arrested on Saturday after allegedly violating a restraining order.
The Eagle Tribune reported that Lawrence police took Jose Santiago, 53, into custody outside of a night club on Essex Street at 12:20 a.m. Santiago's ex-girlfriend had filed a restraining order on Wednesday, but Santiago allegedly violated that order Thursday night.
"It was requested by a former girlfriend he allegedly violated the restraining order and was arrested on a warrant," Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said.
Details of why the ex-girlfriend filed the restraining order are unclear.
According to the Eagle Tribune, Santiago was fired from the Methuen Police Department in 2004 for refusing to take a retraining course at his own expense. He was also a state representative in the 1990s.
On Nov. 26, Santiago was hired to replace Department of Public Works employee Tom Sapienza, 41, who said he was fired after taking unpaid leave to care for his dying wife.
Santiago is reportedly a political ally of Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua.
"The concern is the track record of favoritism with people close to the mayor," said City Councilor Marc LaPlante.
Lantigua could not be reached for comment.
"The mayor has a track record of hiring friends. There are cops who are indicted and are still being paid to the tune of $200,000," LaPlante said. "If you're not a friend, like Sapienza, and you're looking to get a job back, it's just not happening."


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SubCine is the best source for independent Latino film and video. We are an artist-run and artist-owned collective of Latino film and video makers.
Through SubCine, you'll find some of the most challenging, experimental, and progressive film and video work being done today. Works in our catalog have been screened on PBS, in the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and at the Sundance Film Festival, among others venues.
Read about SubCine in Soma Magazine!
Subcine announces the DVD release of Jim Mendiola's, COME AND TAKE IT DAY and SPEEDER KILLS now available for institutional use. To celebrate the release, Subcine will be offering the complete set of Mendiola's three films (including PRETTY VACANT) at a discounted price through January 1, 2011.
The films have been used in American Studies, Chicano/Latino/Mexican-American Studies, History, Critical Studies and have been featured in several academic books.
Mendiola's filmmaking style contains energy and enthusiasm to burn, brimming with attitude. - Variety
Director Alex Rivera's Sundance award-winning visionary sci-fi film SLEEP DEALER is now available on DVD!
A. O. Scott of the THE NEW YORK TIMES says:
"Exuberantly entertaining! A dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure. Mr. Rivera — a brilliant young director — takes his audience into a future of "aqua-terrorism" and cyberlabor that I wish I could dismiss as implausible." This truly unique film, packed with lush visuals, is the perfect conversation-starter for discussions about labor and immigration, technology and ethics, globalization and the environment."
Read an interview with director Alex Rivera at 'Foreign Policy in Focus.'
It's hard to put into words how thrilled we are for filmmaker Natalia Almada who was just named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
The New York Times article on the announcement, which features a discussion of Natalia's extraordinary body of work, is here.
It's a profound honor for SubCine to be the exclusive distributor of "Al Otro Lado (To The Other Side)," Natalia's first feature film.
Natalia's newest film, "El Velador" is being broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V.
Latinos account for almost fifty million people in the United States, and yet our presence in American film culture does not nearly reflect this reality.
Today, Natalia Almada received a much-deserved personal recognition, and the community of Latino filmmakers has taken a step into a brighter and more powerful future. Congratulations and felicidades to Natalia Almada.
Celebrating 40 years since the founding of the Young Lords...
¡PALANTE, SIEMPRE PALANTE! is now available on DVD!
"This is a powerful documentary and should be on every list for teaching about the Puerto Rican community and the 60s civil rights movement." Viewing Race
I'm thrilled about the launch of Subcine; as a programmer I've longed for a smart and exciting distribution source of Latino-themed work. Subcine's catalog features an eclectic group of works by some of the most innovative film and videomakers working today.
María Christina Villaseñor, curator, Guggenheim Museum


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It isn't often that a large city newspaper devotes half a page to an article on genealogy, so kudos to the San Francisco Chronicle and columnist Brenda Payton for yesterday's feature about Electra Kimble Price.
|Electra Kimble Price (right) at the CGS Black Family History program in February 2010.
In case you missed it, the opinion piece on African American Genealogy "Digging Deep to Uncover Roots" is a detailed look at Electra's life and work. The online version bears a slightly different title but Genealogist Digs Deep to Uncover Blacks' Roots includes every word of Brenda Payton's glowing profile and several more photographs of Price.
Electra has been a member of the California Genealogical Society since 1994. She is an Oakland native and a local legend among Bay Area genealogists. I had the pleasure of meeting her at her home a few years ago when she donated books to the CGS library.
Price was one of the founding members of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California (AAGSNC). She received the Distinguished Service Award of the Genealogical Society of Utah in 2000 in recognition of the countless hours she has devoted to helping family historians.
Many years ago Electra started an African-American genealogy research class (now taught by Judith Collins) at the Oakland California Family History Center. Price orchestrated a Black History Month event there this past Sunday where she was feted with another award and cake. Nicka Smith's report (and gorgeous photos) can be found on the AAGSNC blog Black Family History Day was a Success!
Congratulations Electra!
Photograph courtesy of Nicka Smith, 2/20/2010, Oakland, California.
Copyright © 2012 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library


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Sandwiched in between Fayette's Bullthistle Festival and the Fall Festival is one more community party.
On Aug. 16, the park board has scheduled what it hopes to be the first of an annual event: the Blues Fest.
Three bands are lined up to perform beginning at 5 p.m. on a stage that will be set up inside the track on Eagle Street. Food, beverages and plenty of music are expected to draw a crowd.
"We've kicked around the idea for years," said Jason Simon, but the plan never developed too far.
This year when the park board discussed fund raisers, Simon suggested giving the festival a try and planning got underway.
Bleachers will be set up to view the bands, but Simon suggests bringing lawn chairs for comfortable seating.
"Just kick back and relax," he said.
Johnny Reed and Houserockers of Toledo will open the show, followed by TC & the Roadmasters from Napoleon, Mich.
"TC has really been helping us organize the festival," Simon said.
He's offering his experience to suggest stage lighting and other facets of the show that park board members haven't had experience with.
Closing the night is the Front Street Blues Band from Detroit.
Guests are not allowed to bring in alcohol, but beer will be sold by a vendor inside the track.


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Fall 2016 Vol. 15 No. 4
Features include "Financial Foreclosures," "Fat Eggs or Fit Bodies," "God's Case for Sex," "Revisiting the Rationing of Medical Degrees in the United States," and "Activating Politics with Poetry and Spoken Word."
Features include "Wedding Cake Woes", "Serial Killers and Sex Workers", "Mental Health and Police Killings", and "Truth-Spots."


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Wintry mix begins to move into metro
Winter weather advisory issued for Saturday afternoon, early Sunday
Winter returns today not only with colder temperatures, but with a mixed bag of precipitation that will tell you for certain that we are still in January.
KMBC Chief Meteorologist Bryan Busby said some light now started falling Saturday afternoon. He said the bulk of the precipitation will be this evening into overnight.
Kansas City, Mo., snow crews began mobilizing at 3 p.m. for pretreatment and snow-removal operations. Just before 6 p.m., Cass County authorities said highways have become slick and that Interstate 49 was snow-covered south of Harrisonville.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for Saturday afternoon into early Sunday morning.
KMBC meteorologist Erin Little said the southeastern part of the Kansas City metro area was likely to see heavier snowfall.
She said she expected some areas to see as much as 3 inches of snow before sunrise on Sunday.
Cold sunshine returns on Sunday. Highs will struggle to warm into the upper 20s.
Stay with KMBC-TV and your FirstAlert Weather Team for the latest on this developing weather story.


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On Wednesday Hasselblad announced its newest medium-format digital SLR camera, the 200-megapixel H4D-200MS. The professional-grade camera costs around $45,000 (32,000 Euros), which comes out to about $225 per megapixel.
The H4D-200MS is not actually packing a single 200-megapixel sensor. Instead, the camera uses Hasselblad's multi-shot technology to combine six consecutive shots taken on the camera's 50-megapixel sensor into one higher-resolution final file. The sensor is moved in 1 or 1/5 pixel increments before each photograph in order to collect the maximum amount of information for a scene.
In addition to the six-shot mode, the camera can also shoot four-shot and single-shot photographs. The multi-shot technology is for still-life and studio shooting, as it requires and absolutely still scene and camera for up to thirty seconds. However, the single-shot mode can be used to capture live subjects outside of the studio.
Hasselblad is offering upgrades for H4D-50MS owners for about $9,800 (7,000 Euros). The camera will need to be shipped to the Hasselblad factory in Copenhagen, Denmark where its firmware and hardware will be updated to transform the camera into a H4D-200MS.


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Nurse Ratched actress can't stand 'Cukoo's Nest'
Louise Fletcher says she can't bear to watch "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because the Nurse Ratched character she won an Oscar for is so cruel.
"I find it too painful," said Fletcher, 78. "It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane."
Fletcher is returning this weekend to the institution where the movie was made in 1975, the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, the Statesman Journal reported ( https://stjr.nl/WjMOTJ ).
The hospital, long under fire for inadequate programs and crumbling facilities, has been rebuilt in recent years. Fletcher is attending the opening of its Museum of Mental Health.
The movie is based on the novel by Oregon writer Ken Kesey. It centers on the struggle between the steely Nurse Ratched and Jack Nicholson's scheming character, Randall McMurphy, who eventually gets a lobotomy for leading a rebellion among the prisoners on his ward.
"I was really shocked in those scenes where I was actually so cruel," Fletcher said.
In 1975, Dr. Dean Brooks, then the superintendent, opened the campus to the cast and crew. Fletcher said she was in the city 11 weeks, filming six days a week. He and Fletcher have stayed in touch - they talk by phone each July 22, their common birthday.
Brooks recalls the actress as being nothing like the character: "I have found her to be angelic."
Fletcher, whose parents are deaf, took time out from filming to visit students at the Oregon School for the Deaf, he said. He said he's admired how she doted on her parents and cared for them as they aged, and how she dropped everything to spend time with a dying friend in London.
Fletcher said better known actresses turned down the role, and it wasn't until she saw the film for the first time with an audience, in Chicago, that she was convinced she pulled it off.
In scene where McMurphy throws Nurse Ratched against the wall and chokes her in a fit of rage, she said, "they all stood up and cheered in the theater and were stomping their feet. That got to me. I realized, `Hey, I created a real villain here.'"
Information from: Statesman Journal, https://www.statesmanjournal.com


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The Olympics are often considered a great showcase for sports that really don't get any recognition in everyday life—like gymnastics. But what about the sports that don't even make the Olympics? When do Tchoukball and Fistball (which is the actual name of an actual sport) get to show the world what they can do? Josh Levin discusses in this week's excerpt from Slate's podcast Hang Up and Listen.
You can listen to the full podcast here or subscribe on iTunes.
For a handy master schedule of every Olympic event, click here.


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Well, there is now something new to celebrate. By the end of the month, the renovations of all of the galleries will be complete and open to the public. Bravo!
The American Friends of the Musee d'Orsay (AMFO) will host a gala event on November 12.
Guests of the gala will be given a private tour of the new galleries, mingle with other art lovers, and get a sneak peak of the redesigned Café de l'Horloge--the café is situated within a birds eye view of the iconic clock. The AMFO is planning to infuse a little Americana into the event by bringing in a New Orleans jazz trio. How fun!
I have always loved the museum's collection of Impressionists paintings and the actual building itself, which used to be an old train station. The Musee d'Orsay should be on everyone's lists of art visits when they come to Paris.
If you are interested in attending the gala, here are the details: Tickets: $125 for members and $200 for non-members. You must rsvp. The gala is limited to 300 guests, which I think is quite nice because it offers a personal and intimate evening inside the museum. The museum is located at 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur in the 7eme.


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Referrals fuel the financial services industry, and without them your client base could plateau and eventually dwindle. Getting referrals is a challenge advisors face daily. It is not a matter of simply asking a client if they know anyone needing your services.
While most advisors will tell you that they get most of their new clients through referrals, if you ask them what their referral process is, they may explain that they don't really feel comfortable proactively asking for referrals. Or they may tell you about their client/ask-a-friend events. Few will describe a systematic process whereby they explain to their clients their objectives for the business and for referrals.
Simply assuming that your clients know what types of clients you're looking for—or that you're even looking to bring in new clients—can be risky. For example, an advisor we spoke with recently discovered that in all the years he'd been hosting client/ask-a-friend events, his clients had no idea that his objective was to get referrals.
One of the best ways to learn how to comfortably approach the referral topic with each and every client is to do so in a dedicated meeting and not in conjunction with a client review meeting. It is during this separate meeting that you will be able to uncover how truly comfortable they are in referring you.
There are a number of benefits to a carefully planned, dedicated meeting. You can:
- Gain more business and referrals from existing clients
- Expand your business without an expensive marketing campaign
- Improve your clients' understanding of your business and services
- Utilize the expertise of your clients to improve your business
- Identify current service gaps and improve client satisfaction
- Improve client retention
- Improve your consultative sales, active listening and group facilitation skills
- Convert clients into advocates for your business
As you plan these meetings, there are five things you should keep in mind:
- Clients have to value your service and products enough to refer.
- Clients have to know all of your products and services.
- Clients have to know that you want to grow and who an ideal client would be.
- Clients have to have a comfortable plan when they meet someone.
- You have to know how to comfortably approach the topic with each and every client.
In these annual meetings, you'll be able to update clients on your products and resources as well as on your growth objectives and the ideal client profile. In addition, you'll be able to collect feedback on their experience and how you can make it even better than it is currently.
Meeting Planning and Implementation
While the idea of an additional meeting with your best clients may seem daunting, it is actually quite manageable. If you spend one hour with 50 clients over the course of the year, that's 50 hours; factor in an additional 20 hours of planning time for a total of 70 hours. When you consider the potential increase in good-fit referrals, it's an excellent use of your time.
Step 1. Develop Objectives
In our coaching work with advisors, we recommend a seven-step process. The first step is developing your objectives, both in terms of what you want to talk about and what you want to learn about. For example, your objectives could be stated as follows:
- Ensure my best clients have a clear understanding of my value proposition
- Ensure my best clients understand my growth objectives and ideal client profile
- Get feedback from key clients about their experience with my firm
- Learn how to improve key clients' experience with my firm
- Get insight into the best way to work with clients to gain more recommendations
Step 2. Select Clients
The next step is selecting clients to participate in the meetings. This involves taking a look at your relationship with the client, both in terms of quality and profitability, as well as identifying the client's sphere of influence. You'll also want to evaluate how likely the client would be to refer you and how effective an advocate he or she could be. Finally, be sure you know exactly what services or products you're providing to this client and whether he or she is aware of the full range of services you offer.
Step 3. Structure the Meeting
A rough structure for your client meeting looks like this:
Introduction (3–5 minutes): Share the purpose of the meeting, explain what you hope to accomplish and summarize the agenda.
Presentation (20–25 minutes): Provide a comprehensive overview of your business plan and business model. Reinforce the value you provide and describe the kind of clientele that can benefit most from your service.
Discussion (20–25 minutes): Engage in a candid dialogue with your clients, asking questions about what they value, ways to improve their experience with your business and how they would like to be approached about referrals.
Questionnaire (10 minutes): Ask your clients to complete a written questionnaire before they leave your office. This survey asks more targeted and specific questions that would be ineffective during the discussion section. You can use both open-ended questions and rating-scale questions such as:
- How can we improve communication?
- What is one topic or product you wish that you understood better?
- How would you explain your experience with us?
- How accessible do you feel we are to answer the questions that you have?
- When you contact our firm, how well do you feel we resolve any issues that you may face?
Step 4. Request the Meeting
Contact clients to request the meeting. Let them know why you are calling and get permission to explain further. Use language to show that you value them highly and have specifically chosen them to participate in a unique event. Explain the purpose of the meeting and the agenda, and let them know how long it will last. Be sure to differentiate this meeting from a client review meeting. This is a separate meeting with a unique purpose.
Step 5. Set the Stage
The next step is to set the stage. Select a meeting space free from distractions—no cell phones, no disturbances by office staff. By setting a professional, productive tone for the meeting, your clients will respond accordingly and give you their full attention. Prepare a take-away folder for them with the meeting agenda, a copy of your business plan documents and the written questionnaire.
Step 6. Conduct the Meeting
When your clients arrive for their meeting, greet them in person and direct them to the meeting location. Start the process quickly as you have a highly structured agenda and need to be productive with their time.
State your purpose, explaining your objectives and summarizing the agenda for the meeting. Transition into the presentation—this is your time to outline your business plan, services and goals for the future. Conclude this part by explaining the role of client feedback in shaping the future of your business.
Next, turn your focus to the discussion and shift your meeting role to that of the listener. This will be a focused discussion with your client about referrals. Ask your questions, give your client time to answer and allow for comfortable silence. Take notes and listen to your client's opinion. Be sure to leave about 10 minutes for the client to complete the questionnaire in private.
Step 7. Follow Up
Finally, the follow-up will involve taking time to analyze your meeting notes and the questionnaire responses. You're looking for insights into questions such as: What is my value? What can I improve? What opportunities may exist? These insights will help you create actionable items for improving your practice, improving the relationship with your client and growing your business.
When following up with your client, consider both a phone call and a letter. The letter can be a formal thank you to your client for taking the time to meet and participate in the meeting. On the call, you can address the feedback that your client provided as well as follow up on any opportunities that arose during the meeting.
Since clients are the best consultants for your business, you need a solid process for engaging them in your practice and its growth.


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Dame Helen Mirren was tickled pink at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards in London Sunday, debuting a new rose-hued hairstyle.
Mirren, 67, told Britain's Daily Mail that the new 'do was inspired by America's Next Top Model contestant Sophie Summer.
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"I just thought it would be fun to dye my hair pink," she told the newspaper. "I mean, honestly, I was watching America's Next Top Model and the season where there were the British girls. ... The British girl who won, she had pink hair, and I thought: 'That looks really pretty.' So I'm copying her, basically."
Mirren was nominated for Best Leading Actress at the BAFTAs for her role in Hitchcock, but she lost to Amour's Emmanuelle Riva.
What do you think of Mirren's new look?


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Application area
Driven unit handling conveying in the curve section, e.g. of cardboards, containers or tires. Suitable for implementing gravity or driven roller curves. Tight curve radii are possible if tapered elements with a conicity of 2.2° are used.
High reliability
This roller series has been proven millions of times. Contrary to conventional curve rollers, the elements are secured against shifting. This allows the roller to offer a very high degree of functional dependability.
The use of polyamide drive heads results in very quiet running.
Good running properties
The tapered elements made of polypropylene distinguish themselves with a low net weight so that good startup properties can be achieved.
Robust construction
Robust tapered elements are abrasion-proof, noise-reducing, impact-resistant and excel through a high weather-resistance.
Depending on the requirement, the curve rollers can be supplied with drive heads for PolyVee belts, round belts or chains.
Round belt drive head
With the round belt head, the drive section is separated from the conveying section, so that materials cannot be shifted due to batching belts. Since the drive head has a higher friction because of grooves in the metal tube, the result is a higher conveyance of the round belts. If the round belts should slip because of the application, then the wear of the belts on a round belt drive head is higher.
PolyVee drive head
Compared with a round belt, the use of a 2-rib belt allows transferring approximately twice the torque. Conveying and drive technology are physically separated. A groove must remain clear between two belts so that the belts cannot touch.