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I never thought I'd ever write about football. Need to bite tongue. For PLOS Sci-Ed I wrote about the Washington Redskins and their star, Robert Griffin III. I focused, however, on all the knee anatomy lessons we got from NFL.
The Redskins might not be doing so well anymore, but my team (FSU Seminoles) is #1. I'm hooked and may not stop so soon.
Here's the post (originally published Sep 23rd for PLOS Sci-Ed):
The star that night was not a quarterback, but his knee.
It was Monday Night Football and season opener for the Washington NFL team when I joined friends to watch the game at a sports bar. Between bites of chicken wings I saw one particular scene that amazed me. I'm not talking about a touchdown, but of a 3D animation with a Toy Story-like human in a hospital gown undergoing knee surgery. And I was not the only one surprised:
The game biggest star, quarterback Robert Griffin III (RGIII for the fans), suffered an injury earlier this year. Fans anxiously awaited his return and kept busy speculating about the athlete's medical treatment and recovery. So it was during the new season's opener, on the player's return to the field, that the surgery was explained in detail. With it, TV viewers also learned about the structure and anatomy of the knee. Apparently, NFL is in the business of teaching human anatomy lessons.
Most of what I write for this Sci-Ed column is about science outreach. How to bring science to the general public? I've covered museums and zoos, but I've also mentioned before that a lot of people (including children) don't have access or don't get exposed to these resources. I even talked about an initiative to place museum collections in shopping malls, but I haven't mentioned teaching science in a sports arena.
The graph above shows how Americans spend their free time. They spend around 6% of their time playing sports, but 56% of their free time watching TV. Can we take advantage of that TV-watching time and populate it with science tidbits? Or even capture that "computer leisure" time segment (8.6%) and instill it with some sports articles filled with anatomy information?
I'm not necessarily a sports fan (unless Brazil is playing the World Cup of soccer), so I'm late the game. The media (and Internet) sports coverage has been doing a good job in teaching human anatomy. It seems every football fan has now learned the intricate anatomy of the knee, elbow and shoulder. Anatomy teacher (and Sci-Ed contributing guest) John Romano told me that "It is amazing how I have conversations about this stuff with non-science friends and they have a good knowledge of anatomy due to sports."
With increased need to offer novelty (new commentators, experts, or visual aid) ESPN and online articles are turning to science. An article about another famous knee (Maurkice Pouncey's, who tore his ACL and MCL) is illustrated with knee anatomy diagrams; other expert articles replace diagrams with the real deal; and ESPN recruits doctors to speak live. Dr. Greg Wells created instructional videos based on sports. I even saw a field reporter hold a plastic skeleton foot to demonstrate where the metatarsus is (and it's relation to injury). In most cases, language is clear and straightforward. For example, consider this excerpt from author Dr. Dave Siebert: "Over the next months and years, a fascinating process called ligamentization takes place. During ligamentization, the body transforms the tendon into tissue more closely resembling the native ligament."
Let's get back to our initial star, Robert Griffin III's knee. In this clip (very similar to the one I saw during the game), Dr. Rahul uses a plastic model knee to explain the quarterback's injury, with great accessible language: "you have three straps holding your knee together, ok, there's the lateral strap, there's the inside strap which we call the MCL, and there's one down in the middle called the ACL". Robert Griffin's knee injury, surgery, and recovery have been under so much scrutiny that every football fan has become an expert. (In fact, this article comments that "the road to recovery has been […] over-covered [e]very story, half-story and morning Starbucks order was covered." Such is the irony of covering the over-coverage.) John Romano also observed this phenomenon in baseball fans, who "are becoming super involved in the shoulders of their favorite team's pitchers."
Is sports TV educating their viewers? Our resident medical expert Dr. Silvana Russo firmly believes "it is always fun to see science knowledge popularized." ESPN is perhaps making human anatomy as popular as other well-known scientific theories (e.g., the big bang theory, or evolution).
I asked my husband (a football fanatic) to spell out ACL. "Arterial something ligament", he said. It actually means "anterior cruciate ligament", but a non-scientist is not expected to know that. The abbreviation works just fine. I'm a scientist with some formal knowledge of anatomy 101 (which I described here), but I did not know what a Lisfranc injury was, unlike my husband who did. It seems a football enthusiast knows the geography and function of a knee or a foot better than I do.
The use of celebrities (or like Atif Kukaswadia said, "science heroes") won't hurt. There was a competition for attention on Robert Griffin's knee, and science education benefited from it. After that, I'm ready to name the Griffin (or his knee) the anatomy spokesperson of the year.


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Penn State partnership makes Texas youngsters excited for college
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- "We are Penn State" is a phrase often heard around Happy Valley during football season and THON weekend, and it has become synonymous with students' love for their school. But unbeknownst to many Penn Staters, there is a group of elementary school students in Texas chanting the same cheer.
One might not expect to find any blue and white fans 1,500 miles away from Penn State's University Park campus cheering for Penn State, but Penn State's impressive alumni network of more than 500,000 members across the globe raises the odds.
Penn State alumnus Steve Hinchman's daughter Alyssa Hinchman, recently added her class of first-graders at McFee Elementary School in Katy, Texas, a Houston suburb, to Penn State's fan base through the No Excuses University (NEU) program. NEU is a network that pairs colleges and universities with struggling elementary schools nationwide with the goal of providing support and encouragement for at-risk students and preparing them for secondary education opportunities. Many of these students struggle with poverty on a daily basis, raised in families by parents who never had the opportunity to attend college. NEU believes that despite the challenges faced by students in their network, receiving an education is not out of reach. Since its induction in 2009, the NEU network has grown to include a total of 150 schools in 14 states across the country. It supports more than 100,000 elementary, middle and high school students in their dreams of attending high school and eventually college.
When school started last fall, Hinchman needed a NEU partner for her first-graders; she chose Penn State. Based on her father's connection and her recognition of the University's commitment to academic excellence, Penn State was easily her first choice. "I believe the NEU program in connection with Penn State will expose the idea that a college education is an attainable goal for every student. Through this program, my students will be prepared to attend the college of their choice."
Hinchman contacted Colleen Swetland, assistant director of alumni relations in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, to investigate ways Penn State could partner with the school. The Penn State Alumni Association and Swetland both sent packages to Hinchman and her students containing Penn State memorabilia that they could use to decorate their classroom, as well as some basic information about Penn State that might resonate with the students.
The decorations are a constant reminder of Penn State's presence in the classroom. Now, Hinchman often uses the "We are!" chant to capture the attention of her students, who eagerly respond with a deafening "Penn State!"
"I taught them a little bit about how the chant came about, and they (the students) will tell you that saying 'We are, Penn State' means we are a family," she said. "Having Penn State in our classroom has certainly united us as a family, here in the classroom."
You could say Hinchman's students were more than grateful for the new goodies. The students responded with hand written thank-you notes describing how much they admired their new Penn State decorations and sharing what they learned about the University. The students summed up their feelings towards Penn State as "great, excited, surprised and proud."
Weeks later, another package arrived from Texas. This time, it contained handmade holiday cards from the students, all bundled inside a blue folder, with "We love you Penn State!" scrawled across the front. The various "Merry Christmas!" and "Happy Holidays!" cards inside were all decorated with a Penn State theme, some with pictures of the Nittany Lion.
Hinchman emphasized the student's love for the NEU program and Penn State.
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One card from a student named Allison reads: "Dear Penn State, Thank you for my shirt … Our class is proud of you."
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Zion Must Go Forth
1. The gospel in its glorious light
In latter days has been restored.
Now Zion must go forth in might
To testify of Christ the Lord.
Let Zion join to sing his praise,
And let the Saints in ev'ry land
Join with the Lamb of God to raise
A kingdom that will ever stand.
2. Tho' darkness reigned in ages past,
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A mighty ensign has unfurled.
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Arise and take his word abroad
For Zion must go forth with truth
Till all have heard the voice of God.
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After several attempts, I have managed to compile GNURadio on the Raspberry Pi. However, I am just not able to meet the prerequisites for the gnuradio build script on the Pandaboard (Linaro 12.04) or the BeagleBoard (Ubuntu 12.04)
This is what I see -
Failed to find package 'libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev' in known package repositories
Perhaps you need to add the Ubuntu universe or multiverse PPA?
see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
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Cindy Crawford's daughter modelled in an ad for Versace Kids. Click here for a refresher. Now Cindy says she's pulling back on the business. Here's her explanation:
"At this point, she's too young to pursue a career. There aren't even a handful of jobs for a 10-year-old girl." (source)
Quite right.
I tried not to be cynical about her rationale. I tried not to snort that the real reason is because of a lack of opportunity. I want to believe that this was just an excuse to not have to say that she doesn't want her daughter participating in a business that encourages one ideal and priorities what someone looks like. I would like to think that she gave her child a taste for it, had second thoughts, and would rather support her in other interests, allow her to have some perspective, before considering the options later on. So I will. This is the buffet choice I'll make on this story.
Because, ultimately, most parents, aside from the Lohans and the like, do want the best for their children, right?
I saw a dear friend yesterday who is raising a wonderful 14 year old girl. When I say wonderful I mean she's sensitive and smart and complicated and sometimes isn't liked by the other girls and sometimes is really popular and has issues with her body and hates gym class and reads The Hunger Games and loves Daniel Radcliffe and all the other horrible but exhilarating experiences associated with high school and now has a boyfriend. Her first boyfriend. So, you know, he comes over after school. They've found themselves alone on occasion. And the best part is, she's still able to share it with her mother. And together they set the boundaries, boundaries they could both live with. Sort of.
Ultimately mom makes the decision. And my friend, she said something to me that made me think of my own ma and all the conflict we had as I was growing up, even well past my 20s. She told me last night, very candidly, that:
"Of course I don't want my daughter to hate me. But if she has to hate me, if she does hate me, because of a decision I'm making for her own well being...I can live with that." Too many parents are afraid of living with that.
It goes back to Duana's article: sometimes you have to deny your children their dreams. So that they actually have a chance of achieving other ones later on. Click here to revisit that post.
Attached - Cindy and her husband Rande on Valentine's Day earlier this week.
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From time to time, I see ads on TV from attorneys advising people who may have experienced investment losses that suing their financial advisor may be a solution.
To be sure, some FAs deserve what they get. Criminal behavior is not unique to this or any industry. But there is another side of the dark coin. It's investors who would use the system to recover losses when they are not entitled, or just outright steal money from financial advisors.
Let's assume you have one such client in your book right now. Let's further assume your record-keeping has been sloppy. You, my friend, are at risk of losing your business.
How many bad-apple clients does it take to wreck a career? You know the answer, don't you? It's just that one. So protect yourself. In addition to the information in this article, I have created a "Save Your Business" page with important free resources for you at www.billgood.com/savegoodway.
Obviously, your best protection is doing the right thing, which means following sound investment principles and the ethical guidelines of the industry. But sadly, today, that's not enough. You can do the right thing and still lose everything.
Consider some possibilities: A client could allege you misrepresented something, perhaps the risk involved in an investment. Or a client's heirs could allege your recommendations were unsuitable.
What do your notes say about your discussion of risk factors? And what information do you have to back up your claim that the investment recommendations you made were suitable?
While you may have done the right things, if you can't prove it, your goose is as good as cooked and eaten.
If your first line of defense is doing the right thing, your second line is proving you did the right thing. Your primary tool is a disciplined contact management process.
Contact management is the process of capturing, recording and retrieving information about individuals and small groups one contact at a time. Here's "The Law" that's central to this discipline: Every contact and contact attempt with a client or prospect produces an updated record.
YOU: Bill, that's awfully severe. What if someone calls my assistant to wish him happy birthday? Should that generate an updated record? Suppose I run into a client at the grocery store. We chat a few minutes about the market and then go our separate ways. Should the supermarket contact produce an updated record? Isn't that going too far?
ME: Yes, yes and no. Yes, the birthday call should produce a note in your database. Yes, you should document the supermarket contact. And no, this is not going too far.
When you allow exceptions to "The Law," you will come up with other exceptions. When there are a bunch of exceptions, neither you nor anyone on your team can remember exactly what those exceptions are. Soon your documentation process has collapsed.
Note well: it's not just that you need to document every contact. You need to document every "no contact" as well.
Suppose your assessment of the risk of an investment has changed and you now believe a particular investment falls outside the risk profile of a given client.
You call six times. You leave six voice mail messages. The client does not call. Other things come up and he slips off the screen of our electronic to-do list. Some months later, you get a letter from the senior partner of Grabber, Holder and Headbuttem advising you that your "failure to communicate changed risk factors in that investment has caused our client a substantial loss." Without documentation that you made every reasonable effort to advise your client of the issue, you are heading down a two-year path to substantial legal bills or, worse, an abrupt change in career path.
Capture, Record, Retrieve
I have been doing a lot of experimentation lately on the best way to capture information. I have studied college note taking systems, and have developed extensive profiles and record update forms. I have concluded that "the good way" to capture information is:
A bound notebook. I buy mine at an office supply store. It goes where I go, and when I'm talking to a client or prospect, I'm taking notes. I file my notebooks in case anyone ever questions whether the conversation occurred. Hand-written documentation is part of your second line of defense.
Printed profile. This is your questionnaire consisting of multiple profiles — family, adult children, parent profiles, business interest profile, etc. etc. Sometimes you will take notes directly on the profile. Sometimes you will add the notes after a call.
A Record Update Form (RUF).Your RUF is a piece of paper on which you write new or changed contact information. It serves as a cheat sheet to remind you of the dozens of data points you can and should review after each contact. Sometimes I write on it. But sometimes the information I would put on it pops up in the middle of a conversation. In that case, I note it in my free form notes in my note book.
Now, let's talk about records. Your free form notes make sense immediately after a meeting or call. But in just hours or surely days, you will look at those notes and say, "Huh?"
While everything is fresh in mind, you need to review your notes and mark the different categories of information. This enables you to dictate straight through and instruct your computer operator what to do with each piece.
As I review my notes, I mark them with these codes.
C: new or changed contact info, such as phone, nickname, new email address.
F: fact. Who, what, where, when and how. "Bob and I met at our office. We reviewed his bond portfolio."
A: action. "He wants me to call him next month to set up education plan for grandkids."
S: vital sales info. This is information needed to push a sale forward. "Kids not savers. Wants to make sure grandkids get education."
P: vital personal info. "Bob is going to Mayo Clinic next month. Something's not right with lower back."
Pr: profile. Depending on your database, you may be able to keep profile info there or you may have to keep a printed profile that you update after each call or meeting.
F: family info. "Marge's Mom will be coming to visit next month."
G: goal. "Grandkids' education covered so they don't have to work."
With your notes reviewed and marked, you can now dictate them. Depending sometimes on my mood or other times on location, I will use either Dragon Naturally Speaking or Copytalk. In less than four minutes, I can dictate what happened and instruct my assistant what to do with the information. You will find information on both Copytalk and Dragon on my Save Your Business page.
No assistant? During non-optimum selling time, you become your own computer operator and enter the notes yourself. Think: save my business.
Key concept: you have to have places in your database for each type of information. If you just put everything in long notes, in a relatively short period of time, you will suffer from the most agonizing form of information overload imaginable. In five years, vital information could be buried in 50 different notes. Imagine you are a cook, and all your tools are put in one giant drawer. That's what happens when all your information is dumped into notes.
Given that you have categorized your information and always put similar information in the same place, it's a breeze to use the information to maintain your personal and sales conversations. The way my database is organized, I can come up to speed on a client in about 30 seconds.
I have a photo of them. I know where my sales information is, where to find any personal info, where to look for their profile.
Obviously, being able to retrieve useful info depends on properly capturing and recording it.
And one of these days, when a client says, "You never told me…." you can smile and say, "Oh yes I did." And then you can prove it.
Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing. His Gorilla CRM System helps advisors double their production or work half as much; visit www.billgood.com. His seminar program, "No More Pies," helps advisors manage ETF portfolios using technical analysis; see www.nomorepies.net. And his blog, financialadvisorsmarketing.net, has lots of useful information for advisors who need to beef up marketing. To preview Bill as a speaker, see his YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/BillGoodSpeaker.


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Hi All - welcome to the weekly Tech Wrap-Up. I just wanted to quickly address site stability over the last few weeks, and questions such as "Why the hell is Tech doing a server maintenance during the day?", "Why do the sites crash every time they do a maintenance?". A couple of weeks ago we had some hardware fail in our datacenter which exposed some flaws in our architecture, therefore we've been remedying them and running lots of tests. As to why we've been testing during the day, we need to have traffic on the servers to validate our failover is working, if we did it the middle of the night with little to no traffic everything would appear to be fine, thus setting us up for failure in the future.
The good news is that we found the source of a lot of errors and fixed them. We will however be doing more testing over the coming weeks, we appreciate your ongoing patience. I'll be setting up a Tech Slack channel in the next few days so you can make us aware of issues and vent your frustration.
- We fixed old links where the /+user feature was not working.
- Fixed a glitch where the reply button stopped working when switching between all view and the author chat.
- Resolved several recent image-related bugs (images displaying twice after copy/paste, unable to move image via copy/paste, image placeholders getting saved if image is still uploading when post is saved)
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- Working on improving the global navigation, which will create fixed toolbar at the top of the page with a clear login call to action. This will also greatly improve the navigation and menus on mobile and tablets.
- An improved sidebar design, which will integrate images into the left rail and ideally will remove the fade at the bottom of the stories list.
- Improvements to group chats.
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When you drive over Russia's ice-caked roads in winter with a camera mounted on your dash it's only a matter of time before you capture a crazy near-accident. Still, who could expect you'd snag something like this amazing Michael Bay-worthy near-miss that happened just last week.
What starts as a simple overtaking maneuver turns into something out of a Michael Bay film when the driver notices a truck on the other side of the narrow road trying to make a similar pass in the other direction. A quick correction on the truck driver's part leads to his tail wagging back at the camera after a near-jack-knife.
All the cameraman can do is sit there and pray he doesn't become a potato pancake. Which, amazingly, he doesn't.
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On July 11, 2010, an article titled "EHS Audits—Have We Lost Our Way?" was published in EHS Journal.[1] It has since elicited a number of quite thoughtful and extensive comments and much general discussion. The premise of the article was that perhaps environmental, health, and safety (EHS) audit programs have evolved, particularly in the United
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Discover how Chip Camden answers this member question: "Is there a special course you have to take to become an IT consultant, or does it depend on what computer skills you have?"
A TechRepublic member recently e-mailed me this question: "Is there a special course you have to take to become an IT consultant, or does it depend on what computer skills you have?"
The topic of education vs. experience comes up a lot in the TechRepublic Forums. I don't think there's one answer to this question; in my opinion, you need a good mix of book smarts and on-the-job knowledge in order to be an IT consultant -- with a dash of something else. I'll explain in more detail.
To my knowledge (and under the guidance of the Great Google), no institution of higher learning offers a specific course on how to become an IT consultant. The word consultant implies that you possess extraordinary knowledge and insight to share with your clients -- for a fee. Those assets are usually only acquired through the school of hard knocks.
Colleges and universities offer programs for studying aspects of IT, but they expect you to take that degree into the workforce and gain real-world experience before becoming an IT consultant. Various organizations offer seminars for consultants or certifications in specific IT disciplines.
A college education will undoubtedly introduce you to concepts, terminology, and techniques that will give you a head start on dealing with the real-life problems that you have to face in order to gain valuable experience. You'll also learn how to analyze problems and think about how to think about a solution, but I don't believe your degree has to be in Computer Science in order to derive that benefit from it. In fact, a degree in another discipline often provides a perspective that illuminates the tunnel down which everyone else is gazing.
I may be a bit biased; my degree isn't in Computer Science or any related field. I learned everything on the job, where I was an operator, a programmer, a researcher, a manager, and a director before striking out on my own as an IT consultant. My only computer-related course in school (Systems Analysis and Design) didn't teach me anything I didn't already know from working in the field.
When I think about what I would have learned if I had pursued a Computer Science degree, I see "structured programming" and working with the limited data structures available in the languages of that day: Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, ALGOL, and Assembly. I learned a lot about those topics from independent learning and from correcting students' programs -- although those skills were practically obsolete before the students graduated. Technology is advancing even more rapidly today. Now, when you google a programming language feature, if the information is more than a couple of months old, you make a mental note that it might not be up to date.
However, you can't become an IT consultant based solely on experience. There are plenty of IT consultants who have been doing things the same way for many years and haven't learned much. Self-education and self-improvement are extremely important; thanks to the Internet, this has become relatively easy to maintain. Back in the old days, you had to read book after book and subscribe to a monthly pile of trade magazines. I still like to read a book sometimes for deep knowledge in a specific topic, but for the majority of my learning, I do online searches and subscribe to blogs that target my areas of interest.But experience and knowledge still won't make you an IT consultant. You might be the next Niklaus Wirth or Paul Graham, but it ain't worth a damn until you build a reputation and potential clients find out about you. I'm lucky -- I landed my first big engagement before I quit my previous employer, and I've had a pretty steady stream of clients ever since. Most of these clients learned about me by word of mouth, although my Internet presence is increasingly drawing in new clients. But what if your reputation is nonexistent? How do you build one? I'll save that for a future post.


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Ding! David Lebovitz Chocolate Bread. I'm a huge fan of Lebovitz's fantastic recipes and entertaining writing, and have always been intrigued by his chocolate bread. What in the world would it taste like? Chocolate mixed into the bread itself? But how bready would it be? Yeasty at all? What about the sweetness level?
Lebovitz explains what to expect a bit, but of course, you never know until you try it.
Feeling extra saucy this week, I decided to mess with the recipe. Of course I didn't fuss with the bread itself since gluten structure is so vital to yeast bread and richer ingredients inhibit its development, but I did add coconut oil, one of my more exciting purchases, and figured, why not replace the milk with soy milk to make it dairy-free?
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Sharon Osbourne says she's quitting America's Got Talent because the network fired her son Jack from a new military-themed reality show after he disclosed that he has multiple sclerosis, the New York Post reports.
According to Osbourne, Jack was fired from Stars Earn Stripes by e-mail in June, two days before he was supposed to report to work and shortly after he publicly disclosed his MS diagnosis. But the show's producer, David Hurwitz, said at a news conference last month that, while the network had been "in talks" with Jack regarding the show since April, he had never officially been hired.
Sharon Osbourne Says She Hasn't Been Asked Back to America's Got Talent
According to the Post, all parties agree that the contract NBC sent to Jack was never signed. But Jack and Sharon Osbourne insist they were operating on good faith that Jack would be participating on the show — based in part on Sharon's own experience with America's Got Talent ("I was working without a signed contract right up until the live shows started," Sharon says. "Everything is done at the last minute.") and an e-mail Jack received from Vice President of Talent Relations Chuck LaBella in May. "We are looking forward to working with you," the e-mail read. "I am happy you are going to be in the NBC family."
Stars Earn Stripes, which premieres Monday, Aug. 13 at 9/8c on NBC, features celebrities competing against one another in military training activities. Hurwitz told the Post that the agreement with Jack fell through because "the rigors of the show were too intense for him." Jack claims that he offered to purchase his own insurance policy for the show and that the network declined.
After complaining to NBC executives about the handling of the situation, Osbourne ultimately decided she wouldn't return to America's Got Talent, despite the fact that she remains under contract for the show. "It's time to move on," she tells the Post. "I just can't be fake. ... They can't make me do something I don't want to do."
The network can, however, prevent Osbourne from being a judge on another network for five years, she claims. "Sharon has been a valuable part of the NBC family," an NBC representative told the Post. "We regret any misunderstanding and wish Jack well."
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Sharon Osbourne first made headlines last month when she sent an ominous Twitter message to her fellow Talent judge Howard Stern on Tuesday. "My darling @HowardStern, money is not the reason I'm not returning to @nbcagt, it's because..." Osbourne wrote, never tweeting the reason.


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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Thousands of protesters infuriated by efforts to dilute the power of organized labor swarmed the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday as Republicans voted to make financial support of unions voluntary.
Union members and their allies came from all corners of the state to express disgust at the right-to-work legislation. They filled the Capitol Rotunda, beat buckets as drums and loudly chanted pro-union slogans while House lawmakers put finishing touches on legislation. Tom Petty's 'I Won't Back Down' blared through the cold air.
Michigan State Police used pepper spray to subdue a protester outside the Capitol who tried to pull a female trooper into a crowd. There was no arrest in that incident, but two people were arrested nearby when they tried to get into a state building named for former Gov. George Romney, Capt. Harold Love said.
After the House voted, the crowds thinned out but thousands remained, mostly near the Romney building, where Gov. Rick Snyder has an office. Dozens of troopers joined by sheriff's deputies on horses moved shoulder-to-shoulder to sweep that area and build a buffer. Protesters bundled up against 30-degree temperatures shouted profanities at officers.
Elsewhere, a big tent erected on the Capitol grounds for supporters of the legislation collapsed with the help of pro-labor hands. There were no injuries, Love said.
The crowd, mostly people in their 30s or older, had teachers, retirees and blue-collar workers in hardhats. Signs said, 'What's Disgusting? Union Busting.' Inside, Republicans who control the Legislature sent the right-to-work legislation to Snyder, a fellow Republican.
Supporters said it would attract more business to Michigan and give workers freedom to skip the union. Opponents said it would lower wages and divide labor and management. They roared with approval when the Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the Capitol, offered encouragement and dropped to the floor with about 70 other people, temporarily blocking a path.
Sharon McMullen, a union member and staffer in the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, said the legislation would have an impact.
'A lot of people like to freeload, but we are required by law to represent everybody,' she said. 'A lot of people will use the system but not pay dues.'
Terry O'Sullivan, general president of the Labor International Union of North America, told a rally that lawmakers who vote in favor will be targeted.
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Edward DeRocher, a 50-year-old carpenter from Walled Lake, held a sign that said, 'One Tough Turd,' a commentary on Snyder's 2010 election slogan, 'One Tough Nerd.' Inflatable rats were displayed, poking fun at Snyder and GOP leaders.
'This is redistribution of wealth from us working-class people to the more fortunate,' DeRocher said.
Rick Sule, 58, a retired electrician and union member from Saginaw, said Republicans are in trouble in the next election.
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Television auteur David Chase has finally made the jump to the big screen with "Not Fade Away." Rachel Dodes has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
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It seems that even a talking head can have a heart. Superstar UVA politics professor and ubiquitous media "expert consultant," Larry Sabato delivered news of his own in the crowded Rotunda Dome Room on Friday, February 4.
"It's time to repay my beloved University," says Sabato, announcing his $1 million donation to UVA.
The gift represents the fulfillment of a promise Sabato, now 52, made during the final years of his undergraduate study. He says he made the promise some 30 years ago during a casual encounter with his mentor, University president Edgar Shannon.
"He just laughed," Sabato says, "because at the time I was making $14,000 a year."
The donation is connected to Sabato's expanding Center for Politics– as well as UVA's recent strides toward financial independence under the so-called "Charter University" initiative being debated in the General Assembly. "The golden age of state funding is over, and it's not coming back, no matter what we'd prefer," Sabato says.
UVA President John Casteen hopes that Sabato's gift will prove to be an auspicious beginning for his soon-to-be-launched $3 billion capital campaign, and will inspire other well-heeled graduates to give the University a little kickback.
"If a teacher can save and donate a large gift, thousands of other University alumni can do the same," says Sabato. "It's time for new people to step up to the plate– new people like me.
"The capital campaign is one of the two largest-running fund raising drives for any university in the country," he adds.
Luckily for Casteen, Sabato is running with the big dogs. The donation– the largest ever by an active UVA faculty member– is estimated to be one of the largest ever given by an active professor at any institution.
The money will be used to renovate the Birdwood Pavilion, an Ivy Road mansion built by gentleman farmer William Garth in 1819. UVA acquired the property in 1974. After announcing and then renouncing plans to build a residential complex there, the University surrounded the house with a golf course. Although the structure played host to University receptions through the 1990s, the University considers it decrepit.
But $8-10 million from now, the Pavilion will become a permanent home for Sabato's Center for Politics– with the ground floor reserved for University meetings and receptions. "It will be an extension of the Academical Village," says Center staff member Peter Jackson.
Casteen is undoubtedly somewhat giddy over the donation, and Sabato says he's already finding karmic benefits.
"It puts you on Cloud 14, not just Cloud 9," he says.
But euphoria wasn't an overnight sensation. "I started saving for this in 1974, but I started saving seriously in 1978, because between 1974 and 1978 I had no job," he laughs.
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Luau's Facebook Status today … 4 years ago I cried in a parking lot for 30 minutes because I had to pull my little one out of a ballet recital the day before the performance; 2 years later I had to pull her out of another ballet school because the school simply did not have to tools to accommodate her; today I cried because finally, FINALLY, someone get it, even better they get her! The little one is so excited for this; she did such a great job today. Thank you, THANK YOU, Boston Ballet. #NotTheOnlyCrierInTheFamilyToday
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Four years ago, we tried. We made it all the way to the recital. The teacher was wonderful. The other parents were supportive. But it just wasn't going to work. Running around the perimeter of the ballet studio during classes was one thing, but running around the stage in the middle of the auditorium during the very formal recital was another.
And for her. There were just too many moving parts for her. Waiting in a room with a hundred kids for hours on end while others performed. Standing on line – on line, Jesus, we'd barely just managed the *idea* of waiting on line – in a chaotic hallway in between shows, ballerinas running this way and that, teachers shouting directions at every angle. It was too much.
Luau made the decision. He was the one there. He had to. It nearly killed him.
He fussed over the video he'd made of the dress rehearsal. He made it every bit as special as the one he'd made for her big sister when she performed in her recital. And then he sat down and wept.
We never knew if she'd understood. We'd tried to explain. But how?
Two years ago, we tried again. A generous offer of support, accommodation at a local dance academy. It sounded too good to be true. Sadly, it was. She left there too.
She would ask, "When will I take my ballet class?" We had no answer. What the hell could we say?
A year ago, I spoke to the other parents in Brooke's class on back to school night. I told them that she was autistic. That their kids might have some questions about her or her behavior. That I wanted them to feel free to come to me or Luau. That we didn't have anything to hide. That we were proud of our girl.
One of the parents asked Luau if Brooke liked to dance. Luau nodded vaguely. "She does, but … "
"Boston Ballet has an adaptive dance program," she said. "You might want to look into it."
"Oh God, if only," we said to one another on the way home that night. "But why will this be any different than the last? Or the one before that? Why would this one not fall apart too? Why would this not hurt like hell again?"
It was too much. We said we'd think about it.
Earlier this summer, she asked for a ballerina dress. We took her to the dance shop. We bought the pony – the leotard, the tutu, the tights. The nice lady who helped us asked if she was getting ready to start a class. I stuttered. "No, she loves to dress up like a ballerina at home." It felt pathetic.
She asked for ballet outfits for her dolls. We clothed each and every one.
She'd dress up with her dolls and line them against her dresser. Together, they took a ballet class in her room. And it killed me.
Luau called.
"We'll try it," he said. We prayed that they knew what they were doing.
There was a lot of conversation ahead of time. They told Luau about their program for children with Down Syndrome and how they were seeking to create a similar program for autistic children. They told him that if we were to participate, we'd be asked to join periodic focus groups so that we could offer our input on how to make the program better. They told him that the first step would be a trial class, attended by a team who would assess Brooke in a number of areas and determine an appropriate placement. Among them would be the Occupational Therapist from Children's Hospital who started the adaptive program ten years ago.
I don't know that I've ever seen Brooke so outwardly excited. I do know that I haven't heard her say the words, "I'm so excited" so many times in a row.
The night before the class, she asked me to lay out her ballet clothes. With trembling fingers, I laid out the delicate pink pieces one by one. The tights, the leotard, the tutu, the brand new petal pink slippers we'd bought the day before.
Please God, let this work for my girl, I prayed. She can shine, God. You know she can shine. Please let this be the place.
When we walked in, I knew.
It was the way they welcomed her. The way they interacted with her. The way when she asked the teacher if there was an H in her name, she answered by saying, "There is! Which makes my name look closed and balanced like this –" and she turned her body into the letter H. Or the way when Brooke launched into a knock-knock joke, She laughed heartily then offered up one of her own. This was going to be it.
It was the way the OT – a 45 year veteran of Children's Hospital hugged me back when I stopped listening halfway through her explanation of why she started the program and said with tears in my eyes, "I'm sorry, but I really need to hug you."
It was the way that they so obviously RESPECTED my girl. The way they CELEBRATED her. The way they told me what a wonderful dancer she was. How much potential she had. The way their eyes lit up talking about how she'd get to go see a dress rehearsal of the Nutcracker. How they WANTED her there.
Above all, it was in the way they connected with my girl.
And in so doing, made magic.
My girl danced.
As we walked out of the studio she took my hand and said, "I'm a hungry ballerina."
Those words meant everything.
My girl knows she is a ballerina.
She *is* a ballerina.
She always was.
And now, she has a place to dance.
Ed note: I really did hug the OT. I also pulled the teacher – who also happens to be a ballerina with the company – into the studio to tell her just how much this all means to my girl, and to me and to Luau. I cried, of course, and eventually so did she.
I just have to say it again. THANK YOU. To Boston Ballet, to the teacher, to the OT, to the team of people who make this possible. There are no words big enough. THANK YOU.


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Polestar, the people who race these cars, claim 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and a top speed above 186 mph. If having a bright blue Volvo wasn't enough to tell you neighbors that you're weird, screeching out of the driveway at a zillion miles an hour should tip them off.
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Exhibition The Origins of Engravings in Northern Europe (1400-1470)
from October 17, 2013 to January 13, 2014
The advent of engraving in the Western world was of major importance in both general and art history. From 1400 on, artists and engravers experimented with various techniques enabling them to produce and circulate series of identical images made by pressing an engraved, inked matrix onto a support.
Engravings soon spread throughout Europe, but the Germanic regions were the hub of this activity long before Gutenberg applied the invention to text printing in around 1450.
The exhibition presents the advent of engraving with a focus on a 70-year period prior to the beginning of the career of German artist Martin Schongauer, who significantly enhanced the status of engraving among the arts. Two major collections have been brought together for the first time on this occasion—the reserve collection of the Department of Prints and Photographs in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Edmond de Rothschild collection from the Louvre's Department of Prints and Drawings. The exhibition spotlights the various stages in the development of engraving, introducing its key figures, modes of production, uses and connections with other art forms.
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From October 17, 2013 to January 13, 2014
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Above: Tweet from Kinect studio head, Shannon Loftis…
"Microsoft Makes Hacking Kinect Easier" @npratc…
The Kinect has been a big success for Microsoft's Xbox. It's a motion sensor that lets you play video games by moving your body — no controller of any kind necessary. Computer engineers and hobbyists have hacked it to do all sorts of amazing things: They're using the motion sensor to browse the Web without touching anything, navigate Google Earth with slight bodily movements, and even aid with physical rehabilitation. Perhaps soon, these innovations will let you wave a finger and bring up the Internet on your kitchen wall. Microsoft has just released a software development kit to make it easier for programmers to use the Kinect to control Windows computers, not just the Xbox. Many technologies surrounding bodily motion capture existed well before the Kinect. What is it about this game that has led to such a flowering of worldwide creativity?
Yes, it does seem the Microsoft PR machine & (new) Kinect studio team is trying to take credit for the open source "Kinect hacking" community and says they purposely "allowed" hacking – the report ignores the efforts from all the open source Kinect hackers out there and how this all happened. They also left out the threatening and intimidating when Johnny Lee, Limor "Ladyada" and myself first started the Kinect bounty and got the open source drivers out there with Hector. When then all watched an amazing open source community flourish. It's also a little confusing because Kinecthacks.net is not part of Microsoft in any way… WIRED has a full write up on the real story from the most recent issue.
Ms. SHANNON LOFTIS (Studio Manager, Microsoft Game Studios): And in less than a week, KinectHacks.net was up and everybody who had anything to do with Kinect in Microsoft was glued to that site every single day. And every single day, some new innovation got circulated and everybody kind of dropped their jaws in amazement.
SCHMIDT: Giving developers the wrenches to the Kinect was a calculated decision by Microsoft. They could have encrypted the system, but decided not to.
SCHMIDT: Microsoft's approach to the Kinect is part of a generational shift in the tech industry. Letting other people in to tinker with inner workings could become the default for big companies, rather than building old-fashioned walls for control.
The Microsoft Kinect studio head Shannon Loftis is on Twitter, I've asked for comment.
It's awesome Microsoft is embracing the open source efforts from Kinect hackers, I think that's a better story than this history re-write and it's also not fair to leave out the many many people in the Kinect hacking community that continues to create amazing works. Any way, I'm looking forward to Microsoft sticking to this philosophy regardless of how they got here. I'd love to see Microsoft do a big Kinect hacks section at Maker Faire.
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A popular restaurant owner in Westchester has died at age 47.
Robert "Robbie" John Luiso of Harrison, who owned and operated the Copacabanna Brazilian Steakhouse in Port Chester, died suddenly on Friday, March 30.
Born in Port Chester on Dec. 31, 1970, Luiso looked up to his father, who gave him his direction in life and was his shining star who he continuously admired.
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Luiso was the son of Joseph Luiso (wife Regina), brother of Trevor Luiso (wife Sonia), Tabatha Marraccini (husband Anthony), Amanda Mineo (husband Charles), Alexa Luiso, Ashley Luiso, Aly Luiso, Joie Luiso and John Luiso; he was the nephew of Angelo Luiso, Anthony Luiso and Isabelle Karakas.He was also the uncle of Anthony, Joseph, Philip, Gabriela, Adriana, Trevor, Michael, Nicholas and Christopher.
A wake has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 4 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Coxe & Graziano Funeral Home, 767 E. Boston Post Rd. in Mamaroneck.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. Thursday, April 5 at St. Gregory the Great R.C. Church, followed by burial at Ferncliff Cemetery.
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