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The acronym Moodle stands for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.
Moodle is the service where courses and events are displayed for associated Stevens students and faculty. This will replace Elearn by the Fall 2011 semester.
Getting Started Moodle Orientation
Getting Started Moodle Orientation webinars will be available to instructors throughout the Summer and Fall terms. Getting Started Moodle Orientation webinars will be broken up into two 2-hour online sessions and will cover all basic features of using Moodle.
Once an orientation has been completed, its recording will be posted as a Link in the Archive column.
Archived Training
Designing In Moodle (approx 2:00 hours): Wimba (approx 2:00 hours): MP4 |
Teaching In Moodle (approx 1:00 hour): Wimba(approx 1:00 hour): MP4 |
Note If you are watching in the Wimba format, there is no username or password for these sessions, just type your name in the Participant Login box. Be sure to run the Set-Up Wizard before initiating your Wimba session.If you have any questions or comments about the Moodle training archives, please contact the Helpdesk at http://www.stevens.edu/helpdesk |
How To Attend An Orientation
To attend a Moodle webinar session, select the following Wimba link: www.stevens.edu/it/elearningtrainingroom
Note: A username or password is not required for these sessions, just type your name in the Participant Login box. Be sure to access the session 5-10 minutes early to run the Set-Up wizard to make sure your machine is running an optimized Wimba session.
Accessing Moodle
1. Open a web browser and go to www.stevens.edu/mystevens. Log in with your myStevens credentials.
2. Click the Moodle link located in the Campus Services section. This will open up the Moodle page and automatically log you in.
Alternatively, you can go directly to www.stevens.edu/moodle and log in using your myStevens username and password.
Browser Support
The current list of Moodle supported browsers:
- Internet Explorer (v7, v8)
- Mozilla Firefox (all versions)
- Safari (v3, v4)
General Moodle Account Tutorials
Name | Description | Links |
Profile and Account Settings | Explains how to change your external email address and set up forwarding. Also explains how to configure your account to navigate Moodle in more efficient ways for the user. | Link |
Student Tutorials
Name | Description | Links |
Moodle Walk-through | A basic walk-through of a Moodle course from the students perspective. | MP4 Link |
Viewing Grades | How to generally view grades in your course. Your course instructor may be using another avenue, if so please contact your instructor on their method of communicating grades. | Link |
Using Forums | A general tutorial on how forums are run. Your instructor may be using some additional settings which may cause your forums to behave differently. | Link |
Understanding the Blocks Interface | How a basic course should generally look. Your instructor can move, delete, and add blocks, so your course may look different. This helps for a basic understanding of the block driven Moodle interface. | Link |
Participant Tutorials | Moodlerooms' participation tutorial resource page hosts a variety of video and text tutorials for course participants. | Link |
Instructor Tutorials
Name | Description | Links |
Using Edit Mode | Explains how to enable Edit Mode in Moodle, and do basic manipulation of links on your course homepage, such as: moving, indenting, hiding, deleting, and updating links. This also shows how to use some of the icons for each Week/Topic section. | Link |
Create and Download Backup | Explains how to create and download backups for a Moodle course. | Link |
Restoring a Backup Into a New Course | Explains how to restore a Moodle backup into a new course. This is the preferred method of bringing all course content from one term to another. Note 1: Wimba archives can not be brought over using Backup/Restore from term to term. If you want to bring archives from term to term you must convert your archives into web links using the Wimba Guest Access link per archive.
Note 2: If you try to backup and restore your Turn It In assignments from one course to another, your Restore process will fail, You can backup and restore TII Assignments from one course to another. |
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Moodle eMail Block | How to use the Moodle eMail Block which is the preferred tool to send formal email to users in your course. | Link |
Creating Groups and Separate Group Forums | How to put students into groups and create private group forum areas where students can communicate privately. | Link |
Course Format and Settings | How to adjust the weeks/topics amount and change the course interface. | Link |
Adding Files and Weblinks | How to upload files and add web links to your course. | Link |
Activity Locking | Explains how to control the access of content in your course based on: what the student has already accessed, if they've posted in a forum, and what grade they received on an activity. Allows the instructor to create a more controlled learning path in the course. | Link |
News Forum Announcements | How to push course announcements to students. | Link |
Linking to Folder/Directory of Files | How to link students to a folder of files in the Files area. | Link |
Adding Labels and Editing Summaries | How to adjust all summaries on the weeks/topics and how to insert labels/headings in each week/topic. | Link |
Importing Content | How to move files and activities from one course to another using the Import link under the Administration block. | Link |
Assignments - Single File Upload | How to create a single file upload assignment in Moodle, which allows students to submit one file to the instructor for grading and text feedback. | Link |
Assignments - Advanced Uploading of Files | How to create an advanced uploading of files assignment in Moodle, allowing students to upload multiple files, as well as the instructor to submit a response file back to the students. This assignment also allows to automatically hide the assignment description before the available date. | Link |
Creating Text or HTML Pages | Locally creating text or HTML pages in Moodle, so students can open content instantaneously regardless of their browser or machine OS restrictions. | Link |
Creating and Using Chat Rooms | How to set up synchronous text communication chat rooms between the instructor and students. | Link |
Managing Files | How to use the Moodle Files link under the Administration Block. | Link |
Assignment Types | Understanding the different Assignment types you can create in Moodle. | Link |
Filter Gradebook by Groups | How to filter your Gradebook based on groups for viewing via student groups or if you are breaking up your combined section and want to view the child section enrollments separately in the Gradebook. | Link |
Adding Grades and Feedback to the Gradebook | How to add grades and feedback to the Gradebook. | Link |
Adding Grade Items to the Gradebook | How to add different grade items to your Gradebook either manually or how they are created via activities. | Link |
Adding Grade Categories of Grade Items/Columns | Shows the ability to break up your gradebook into categories with sub category totals that automatically group types of grade items together and calculate subtotals. This also shows how you can create weights which feed into the Course Total column. | Link |
Reset Quiz Attempts | The ability to reset a students quiz attempt to allow them to re-take a quiz. | Link |
Grading Assignments | How to grade assignment submissions from the students. | Link |
Grading Quizzes | How to use the Results interface and view student Quiz submissions and grade them manually as well as viewing reports about the quiz questions. | Link |
Exporting and Importing Questions | How to export Quiz questions to a file and import exported questions into another course. Exported Quiz questions can be freely shared from course to course. | Link |
Letter Grade Boundaries | This highlights how to set up letter grade boundaries so your numeric grades translate to the intended letter grade of your course. This tutorial is particularly useful if you plan on transporting your Midterm or Final grades into our Student information System. | Link |
Manual Column Grade Exchange from Moodle to SIS | This video highlights the method of creating a manul grade item in the Gradebook and having those grades be automatically transported into our Student Information System. | Link |
Download All Assignment Submissions | This highlights the process of downloading all assignment submissions for a particular assignment in the Assignment activity. | Link |
Instructor Tutorials | Moodlerooms' instructor tutorial resource page hosts a variety of video and text tutorials course instructors. | Link |
For additional information on Moodle, please see Moodle's corresponding Wikipedia Page.
More information will be added to this page in the future. |


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A beloved local tradition around the holiday, New Orleans restaurants and their Reveillon dinners have been gearing up throughout the month of December in preparation of Christmas and New Year's. From the French word for "awakening," Reveillon dinners were historically held after Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and again on New Year's Eve as families and friends gathered to celebrate the holidays. Due to the city's strong French heritage and love of tradition, New Orleanians continue to revel in the Reveillon dinners every holiday season.
In New Orleans, 47 restaurants across the city will continue this tradition by hosting their own unique Reveillon dinner throughout this month. Original Reveillon menus generally consisted of Creole delicacies, various egg dishes, and sweets, but these local restaurants have developed unique variations of the meal to reflect their house specialties and their take on the spirit of the season.

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Strike Up the Band
Strike Up the Band may refer to:
Strike Up the Band (musical), a 1927 Broadway musical with music by George and Ira Gershwin
"Strike Up the Band" (song), a song from the musical
Strike Up the Band (film), a 1940 musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
Strike Up the Band (album), an album by Tony Bennett with Count Basie and his Orchestra
"Strike Up the Band", a song by Poison from Native Tongue
Strike up the Band, because it may be time for a celebration soon. Right?
FUSE HD???? They actually play music (as opposed to MTV/VH1)?
I would love Fuse HD, but I would hope DIY HD comes at the same time or close to it as well. That's my #1 wish.
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While we don't have a crystal ball to predict this year's economic outlook, Chicago has Mesirow Financial's Chief Economist Diane Swonk to give us her predictions based on research, hard evidence and intellectual thought. "This is the hardest outlook I've ever had to write," she admits. "It's going to be very interesting." So, here are Ms. Swonk's thoughts: the good, the bad and the ugly.
Why is 2013 the most difficult outlook to write?
Because of political uncertainty and fiscal policy. We have a choice to get on a more sustainable, long-term growth path that could actually raise potential growth by not only being more fiscally responsible, but also by changing the tax code, gaining efficiencies, and changing the way entitlements are done. We have two extremes in parties that are both willing, for political gain, to risk 'Economic Armageddon.' The fact that people think there's something to be politically gained by doing that is unconscionable to me.
What can you say about the economy in recent years?
We nearly wiped out all of our capitol in our economy. We're lucky we didn't go into another Great Depression, and we can thank the Federal Reserve Bank and the Troubled Asset Relief Program for that. Decisions were being made within hours. Not all of them were perfect, but the system was falling apart quite rapidly. We also don't have credit because a large part of our capitol system was wiped out.
We've got subpar growth with an increased level of uncertainly and hesitation. Corporations were hesitating and you don't want that hesitation to become a full contraction. Hesitation as it is presses growth, but then you add on top of it an actual pullback, which causes a shattering of confidence. Consumer confidence meets up with corporate confidence, and they both go down because you start cutting jobs. What we'd rather see is that we have certainty and a roadmap. We need a more sustainable fiscal path and sustainable economic path to maintain influence over the rest of the world. This is not out of our reach.
And the economy now?
I think 2013 could be a real tipping point. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy for equities or market gains. There's going to be a lot of uncertainty in the first six months of the year. We only hope they can find the light. Many people argue that it takes a crisis to get these things done. Well, we're pretty close to a (self-made) crisis. I hope they are right, and I hope it doesn't come down to a game of chicken at the beginning of the year. Even letting it go unresolved and letting the tax situation kick in, the IRS will probably step in and say until something is done, keep up with the current withholding rates. Corporations make adjustments. You can't have holding rates and you can't just all-of-a-sudden not know what the tax rates are going to be. You tend to have much more tax fraud in that environment. There is a lot of opportunity for distortions in the economy that are unproductive. The crisis in confidence could be a self-fulfilling prophecy if they play a game of chicken. It's international and national. I'm working on a piece that indicates domestic policy is foreign policy. Corporations do have an impact because they have jobs, and at the end of the day jobs are what really matter. Finally, corporate America is a think tank. The dirt is always in the details.
Describe the situation in Illinois.
Illinois had the benefit of being in the manufacturing sector and was benefiting from exports picking up. Investments really matter to Illinois. The state makes heavy equipment and construction equipment. The housing market coming back would be an important offset to the exports not doing as well. Mexico is doing extremely well and is a great trading partner of the U.S., which also has great influence in Illinois because here's a high population of Mexicans.
Will any particular markets rise?
Real estate. The housing market is starting to stabilize and improve unevenly, from a low level, but prices going up instead of down is a game changer. The National Association for Realtors has estimated that we restored some $790 billion dollars in equity in homes, which is only a small dent in what we lost. However, moving in that direction has raised consumer confidence and the willingness for people to remodel. They are now willing to list their home and upgrade what they've got, where before they weren't willing to put anything into it. It's a game changer in terms of momentum and the economy.
Any investing advice?
There's no shame in asking for help. I get help in choosing my stocks. As an economist, I have more influence in choosing my stocks because I put my money where my mouth is. The hard part right now is not knowing where the economy is going. Understanding policy is key to understanding the economy. Also, it's important you invest early and young.


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Bobcats Select Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
MKG is not a great range shooter, but one who will drives hard to the basket and earn those hard points. He will only improve his shooting in the pros. A great defender and rebounder forward who would be a huge upgrade for us over guys like Derrick Brown, Thomas, Moon, Najera, and White. He will be someone who could defend guys like Lebron and Wade in the future. Many people think we need a big man or so, but HELL! every position is a need for us. We need help at every position. Can't go wrong taking a guy like MKG. Gilchrist should be our first priority to building a championship team for the future. He shows up every game with his intensity and never give up mentality. Will only help Kemba and Biyombo grows.
Gilchrist has been compared to guys like Gerald Wallace, Andre Iguodala, and Scottie Pippen.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Kentucky - Freshman (Born 1993)
Small Forward
6'8" 228lbs
The Good:
- great size for the small forward position
- 6'10" wingspan
- elite defender who is good/big/long/athletic enough to guard multiple positions in the NBA
- relentless driver who is terrific at getting to the hoop and finishing
- extremely hardworking, intense player
- always gives 100% effort on both ends of the floor
- big game experience
- terrific rebounder for his position
- is a great scorer in transition which should translate well to the pros
The Bad:
- poor outside shooter - will need to improve his shooting range to keep NBA defenders honest
- still extremely young (won't turn 19 until September) so might not be ready to contribute immediately
- needs to work on his ball-handling
- probably doesn't project to be a "superstar"
NBA Comparison:
*Andrei Iguodala/Gerald Wallace* - both in terms of playing style (do-it-all) and level of play (All-Star)
The Skinny:
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is probably the player who did the most to improve his draft stock this season (at least among the elite prospects). He now has a legitimate shot at being the second name called by David Stern in June. While he might not project to be a NBA superstar, he does look like an All-Star level player and a mainstay on the NBA's All-Defensive Team.
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:: beforeIt fits with what Dunlap is looking for more than you guys realize. If you've listened to anything he's had to say since becoming coach this pick is easy to understand.
Dunlap outright, pointblank, plain-as-day stated that he wants a good 3-point shooting team. What in the hell are you slobbing about?
Next year Shabazz, Noel, Zeller, or JMM? Probably finish worst and get the 4th pick.
this wasnt dunlaps choice. this had the scrub cho/mj written all over it. bad bad pick
You are surprisingly negative for a guy with a Bright Eyes avatar. Chin up. Sunrise, Sunset, and all of that.
Dunlap outright, pointblank, plain-as-day stated that he wants a good 3-point shooting team. What in the hell are you slobbing about?
I'm slobbing about the fact that he's spent more time talking about changing the culture of the locker room and focusing on the physicality of the game than he has 3 point shooting. We didn't hire Mike Dantoni, and it damn sure more important to add physicality and leadership than it is to add a three point shooter.
Dunlap outright, pointblank, plain-as-day stated that he wants a good 3-point shooting team. What in the hell are you slobbing about?
He also said he wanted high energy guys that will tenaciously defend and hit the floor for loose balls every night. It's almost like we'll need multiple players to turn this team around.
"From the owner on down, we're executing a plan here in Charlotte"
Let's go cats, I'm pumped about this pick. If we keep getting high picks for the next couple years- we could be a young dangerous team in a couple seasons.
- The LA Clippers the past 10 years
- The LA Clippers the past 10 years
- The Seattle Supersonics... Oh wait i was gonna defend OP but i just realized something...
It fits with what Dunlap is looking for more than you guys realize. If you've listened to anything he's had to say since becoming coach this pick is easy to understand.
Yup and a defender like what Dunlap really like.
Congrats chuck got what you wanted you idiot!!!! Glad we have a defender so we can hold teams to 80 while we score 60
So what? We get Thomas Robinson or Barnes and it's playoffs city? We had several holes to fill and 1 impact pick.
Again. Its about long term. Don't just draft a scorer and watch him struggle on a bad team when you can get a guy like MKG to be hopefully the final piece of the foundation.
Stop explaining basket ball to idiots.
Yeah dont draft someone like kd and watch him struggle on a bad team. Never works for anyone. Fools.
The team was going to struggle regardless moron.
- Love this pick
- Barnes sucks btw
no poo that doesnt mean you draft a defensive guy when you have NOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCORERS
He played on a team with 4 1st round picks. How do you know he can't score in the Nba Idiot?
MKG will be a 15pt scorer everyone is way too worried. he will be able to score
and folks wonder why people take jabs at Jordan and his franchise.


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Strengths: Most of the sunscreens offer sufficient UVA protection; a unique lip balm; impressive foundations; good loose powder, blush, and eyeshadows; their most expensive mascara provides beautifully defined results.
Weaknesses: Exceedingly expensive, and the prices are not justified; several products contain irritating plant extracts or fragrant oils, most of which have no substantiated proof of benefit for skin; no AHA or BHA products; no products to address acne or oily skin (at least without causing irritation); jar packaging; poor concealer; standard eyeliner and brow options (at Sisley's prices, they should raise the bar); mostly average lipsticks.
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Here are some of the more far-fetched claims this company makes, with my responses in parentheses. "The Botanical Floral Mist can help skin sustain the effects of the sun." (No way, it doesn't even contain appreciable amounts of antioxidants.) Another claim is that their All Day All Year moisturizer, which carries a paltry SPF 8 rating, blocks "90% of UVA and UVB rays for 8 hours." Another is that their sunscreen products protect skin while allowing a tan to develop "gently and gradually." (We guess they don't know or won't acknowledge that any amount of a tan is a sign of skin damage and isn't the least bit healthy.)
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Dish AutoHop vs Networks Commercial Skipping Discussion
Posted 26 July 2012 - 01:53 PM
"Belligerent and numerous."
Sometimes I update the Dish Network FAQ
AT200, Hopper & 360 via HDMI to Onkyo 505 to basement 42" Westy, Hopper via Comp-over-Cat5 to living room 42" Vizio with a Roku 3, Joey to Toshiba 32" LCD with a Logitech Revue. You want fries with that? Pull up to the 2nd window.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 06:18 AM
"Belligerent and numerous."
Sometimes I update the Dish Network FAQ
AT200, Hopper & 360 via HDMI to Onkyo 505 to basement 42" Westy, Hopper via Comp-over-Cat5 to living room 42" Vizio with a Roku 3, Joey to Toshiba 32" LCD with a Logitech Revue. You want fries with that? Pull up to the 2nd window.
Posted 27 July 2012 - 06:21 AM
IANAL so can't ...
Unless you need a Proctologist, what are you talking about?
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 03:26 PM
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Take Your Cue From Moonves: Skip Dish
All broadcasters should follow the lead of CBS's Leslie Moonves and threaten to use their retrans clout to come down hard on Dish Network and the Auto Hop commercial-skipping feature of its Hopper DVR. Allowing subscribers to skip all spots in recorded programs at the touch of a button is a broadcasting killer.
Entire article: http://www.tvnewsche...s And Skip Dish
CBS appears to be ready to drop Dish as a distributor come contract time and is urging the three others to do the same.
(If this has already been started, please point me there, thanks!)
Posted 14 September 2012 - 04:34 PM
On a related note.
I'm surprised (and maybe they already have) the networks wouldn't make a big deal out of AutoHop ONLY working for the "big 4" ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX....
If you read Dish's reasoning that they believe people should be able to watch TV however they want... then why didn't Dish make AutoHop work for ALL commercial channels?
The fact that they are singling out the "big 4" shows that Dish isn't really on the customer's side in this... they are just leveraging against the traditional OTA channels.
That is bound to come up in the courts if this thing goes very long.
-- Respect the S.H.I.E.L.D.
Posted 15 September 2012 - 10:28 AM
The most Autohop has saved me is a few button presses on the rare occasion that I find a show that I actually care about on a channel that is supposed to be free but yet I have to pay a monthly fee for. The networks execs can stick their lawsuit where the sun does not shine!
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 03:57 PM
I have noticed that Auto-Hop is becoming available earlier in the evening. I have Auto-Hopped programs recorded at 8pm or 9pm before 11pm. This places more value on the function ... and likely ticks off OTA broadcasters more.
Let them get ticked - if they weren't shoving nearly 1/3 of the programming time with ads, it wouldn't be an issue.
IMO, anyway...
Posted 16 September 2012 - 11:05 AM
Let them get ticked - if they weren't shoving nearly 1/3 of the programming time with ads, it wouldn't be an issue.
IMO, anyway...
Yep, and they keep pushing the envelope. What was 45 minutes (or more) of programming is now 42 minutes (or less), obnoxious and distracting lower third graphics, over the top product placement with obvious, inane scripting, and on and on. The auto-hop feature ought to be instantaneous and expanded to more channels. The networks started it, not Dish.
Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada, 1993 - 2003.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 05:06 AM
Posted 17 September 2012 - 09:10 AM
Going back to the earliest days of TV, it was corporate sponsors that made broadcast TV possible.
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:25 PM
That explains what I saw during the RNC & DNC on FNC. When commercials were shown there was a PIP window with the live action at the podium. At the time I thought what's up with that? After reading this thread I now understand why that PIP window was used. (if someone else commented earlier I apologize - I skipped ahead 28 pages, this is the first day I paid attention to this thread).Also, ESPN has done something kind of cool that I wish other networks and shows would try... If you watch Around the Horn or Pardon the Interruption... during their commercial breaks they throw in some behind the scenes clips and things that happen between takes... and if you skip commercials you miss those. I thought it was ingenious to throw in those things because I want to watch them, so I don't skip the commercials during those shows.
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The pace at which sustainability has been adopted as a sound business imperative is impressive. A few years ago, most companies would have put it in a silo, where a small portion of profits would be dedicated to "greening" along with other community outreach. Today, many business leaders discuss sustainability as an essential part of the company, with terms such as payback periods, rising utility costs, meeting customer demand as well as being a good corporate citizen. Here are five local companies from diverse industries that are demonstrating the way to greener pastures.
Merriman's restaurants helped pioneer Hawaii Regional Cuisine, which spurred the movement to eat local. When Peter Merriman founded the first Merriman's in Waimea on Hawaii Island in 1988, agriculture in the state was still dominated by sugar cane and pineapple plantations, and finding local produce was difficult. Merriman worked with and encouraged farmers to cultivate more local vegetables and fruits, which he purchased and used in his restaurant, because he thought food tasted best when it was fresh.
"Diners loved the flavors of super-fresh food," Merriman says. "Items unique to the tropics of Hawaii such as white pineapple, hearts of palm and apple bananas added to the sense of discovery."
About 90 percent of the food eaten in Hawaii is imported from the mainland and elsewhere, and that requires a lot of energy and other resources to package. A Hawaii Department of Agriculture report published in 2008 showed that shifting our consumption of local versus imported food by 10 percentage points would pump an additional $313 million into the state economy every year.
Merriman is all for that. He famously told local growers who were among the pioneers supplying his first restaurant, "I want to see you guys drive up in a Mercedes one day."
Merriman's says its six restaurants on the Neighbor Islands, including two new Monkeypod Kitchen locations, source 90 percent of their ingredients locally, and use organically grown products whenever possible to encourage local growers to eliminate the use of agricultural chemicals that can harm water supplies and soil.
Though Hawaii Regional Cuisine has gained popularity since its founding in 1991, and many restaurants and stores trumpet their locally produced food, a state Department of Agriculture report showed that, from 1994 to 2005, Hawaii actually increased its dependence on food imports. Merriman acknowledges the higher price of local produce, but focuses on its better quality. "We always expect to pay more for the best-tasting ingredients," he says. "Food grown in Hawaii tastes better. That's really what we sell, great taste and a great experience."
Ko Olina says it has worked hard to incorporate sustainability and community outreach across its many resident companies, which include Disney's Aulani, Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club, residences, restaurants and a golf course.
For Ko Olina, sustainability may be more important as a good neighbor policy than a way to connect with customers or cut costs. With its proximity to the Waianae Coast and the rest of Leeward Oahu, it has crafted policies friendly to the local community. These include sourcing local food, art and other products. A program called, "The Spirit of Ko Olina: How to Give Back" sponsors local nonprofits, including MAO Organic Farms' social-entrepreneurship programs, Makaha Studios, Waianae High School's Searider Productions, the Native Hawaiian Traditional Healing Center, the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, the Junior Lifeguard Program and the Kalaeloa Heritage & Legacy Foundation. Learn more about Ko Olina Charity.
Sustainability is evident throughout the Ko Olina grounds. Ko Olina says all businesses at the resort agreed voluntarily to phase out plastic bags; LED light bulbs are used in all street lighting; resort staff and security use electric vehicles; and only nonpotable water is used to irrigate the golf course and resort areas. In the near future, says Leilei Shih, environmental director of Ko Olina Resort & Marina, the resort is planning a service where guests can rent electric and hybrid cars by the hour, LEED building developments and increasing its solar PV installations.
Ko Olina has a powerful reason to support efforts such as waste reduction and green-waste reduction: In 2011, the nearby Waimanalo Gulch landfill overflowed, and medical waste and other debris washed up on the Ko Olina beaches. Shih says the people who work at Ko Olina share the commitment to sustainability.
"Sustainable living is a way of life for the Ko Olina community and its guests," she says. "All of the employees I've talked to are very excited about the current and future sustainability initiatives. I often have employees sharing ideas about how to become even more sustainable."
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November 13, 2012, 12:00 AM
By Scott Raab
Cliff Watts
Published in the December 2012 issue
Early evening, David O. Russell's office in Los Angeles. Cooper and Russell have been meeting about their next film.
SCOTT RAAB: Yo!
BRADLEY COOPER: Whatup!
SR: With all the time and location changes for our interview, I thought I might wind up meeting Anderson Cooper at midnight in Bakersfield. And I mean that as a compliment. Thanks for meeting with me.
BC: Are you kiddin'?
SR: Good meeting with Russell?
BC: Yeah. Hopefully David will come in and talk to us.
SR: Are you ready to go?
BC: Let's go. You want some water?
SR: Thanks. You're very kind. It seems that you have been pretty successful from the very beginning of your career. Was there any dues paying?
BC: No. I mean, it depends on how you define "dues." I worked through grad school, and I got this job hosting Treks [in a Wild World], which was incredible. I went to Croatia, the Kornati Islands. They wanted a guy with experience with extreme travel but who has extreme sensibilities. I had never even camped before.
SR: Come on.
BC: Never been in a tent. Didn't grow up like that.
SR: In an interview about that Trek show, you say you learned that the body "self-cleans," so you don't wear deodorant. Maybe your body self-cleans, but mine doesn't.
BC: I think you have to define "self-cleans." But yeah, I don't use deodorant really anymore. I do take a lot of showers, so maybe that helps.
SR: Multiple daily showers?
BC: In the morning and then at night. And after I work out, I'll take a shower. So maybe three a day. Anyway, with Alias, I moved to L. A. and paid off my student loans. One of the major driving forces was my dad went from here to here. And I wanted to go from here to here.
SR: You've talked about your father a lot in interviews.
BC: My father was viciously smart and intellectually curious. We lived across the street from a movie theater. And he would always talk about all these movies, and when I was at the age of being able to appreciate them, he just started throwin' 'em my way. He was a huge Tom Courtenay fan. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was one of the first ones he showed me. And The Dresser. And Under the Volcano. He loved Albert Finney.
SR: Have you read that novel?
BC: No. Is it great?
SR: Harrowing. One of the great raging toxic-drunk novels of all time.
BC: What a character.
SR: You mentioned grad school. Not a lot of actors at your level have gone to grad school. You started out at Villanova?
BC: Right. Where my pop went. But I didn't really want to go to Villanova. I applied to Georgetown outta high school. I still remember on the pay phone, calling my dad in the office, and he said, "You got the letter, and you got rejected." It really floored me. It gutted me. Eventually I said, "Dad, I'm gonna reapply," and he said, "Do it." We took the train together from Philly to D. C., and we met with this guy, Father Knoth, the associate dean. And we went in and we had an interview for about three hours. My dad and the father were both smoking and talking about being Irish and growing up in the neighborhood. A month later, I get a call, and he said, "Bradley, it's Father Knoth. Well, you got in, pal." When I hung up, I was crying. It was a big deal.
SR: It is a big deal.
BC: College is a big fucking deal.
SR: From everything I've read, you're a dutiful, loving son.
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Baseball December 22nd, 2009
Sometimes I wonder why I even watch this god awful sport. The World Series champion New York Yankees, the richest team in any sport that have a value almost 5x that of the Milwaukee Brewers, have stolen another one from the poor, stupid teams like us. Mike Rivera has signed with the New York Yankees and I think we all know what this one was about. These stupid baseball players, all they care about is money! You know it's not enough to offer a major league job and a nice city to play in, these greedy a-holes want more. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY! Why do I even bother to follow this team? Why do I even write this stupid blog? I mean, it's not like the players care! Nooooooo, they just go to whoever offers them the most money. Mike Rivera doesn't care if I get diagnosed with a life threatening disease and the only thing that can cure me is him re-signing with the Brewers, all he cares about is padding his wallet! NEW YORK NEW YORK! THE CITY THAT NEVER F'N SLEEPS! WHERE MONEY RAINS FROM THE SKY AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR DRIVER'S TEST IN 400 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Man, screw New York. Seriously, New York you can f right off.
It's just sad, you know, that a small market team like the Brewers can't compete dollar for dollar with a team like the Yankees. Kids grow up rooting for their heroes, but as soon as their heroes become free agents they leave the kids behind. (It's just like my parents divorce really.) Whatever. CONGRATULATIONS MIKE RIVERA I hope you are happy to know that you have ruined my Christmas with your evil, greedy ways. The Mike Rivera jersey I got from Santa is now kindling in my fire! Thanks for nothing, JERK!
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Risk Stratification Of Upper GI Bleeding Patients In the Emergency Room With "Real Time" Capsule Endoscopy – A Pilot Study
M. Rubin, MD; S. Hussain, MD; R. Cortes, MD; A. Shalomov, MD; N. Brodsky, MD; K. Somnay, MD; S. Kim, MD.
Background: Simple and accurate identification of stigmata of hemorrhage in emergency room (ER) patients with suspected acute upper GI bleeding (UGIB) with Real Time (Live) capsule endoscopy (CE) may facilitate proper triage and early therapeutic endoscopy. Historically, triage of these patients was based on the assessment of clinical parameters with or without the placement of a nasogastric tube (NGT).
Objective: In a pilot study we evaluated the feasibility, capability and accuracy of live view Pillcam Eso in patients with UGIB.
Methods: 20 patients (10 male, 10 female, mean age 65) with a history UGIB within 48 hours of admission to the ER were randomized to undergo live CE vs. standard clinical assessment. All patients were studied within 5 hours of arrival to the ER. Intravenous Metoclopromide was administered within 10 minutes of CE ingestion. CE was read real-time at the bedside and reviewed after download. Positive CE findings included coffee grounds, blood clot, red blood, or a bleeding lesion. Patients with positive live view CE findings underwent EGD within 6 hrs. Control patients and CE patients without bleeding underwent EGD within 24 hrs.
Results: 7/10 CE patients had positive findings. All 7 had stigmata of hemorrhage on endoscopy and underwent therapeutic intervention. 4/10 control patients had stigmata and therapeutic intervention. In 5/10 CE patients the actual lesion was identified on CE and confirmed at EGD. 3/10 study patients had a negative CE, 2 had no stigmata at EGD and 1 was not endoscoped due to co-morbidities. Time to endoscopy was 5.31 hours shorter in the study group. One capsule was retained in a strictured, ulcerated esophagus and was retrieved. There was no mortality. Blood transfusion requirement and length of stay were not significantly different in the 2 groups.
Conclusion: "Real Time" CE accurately identified high-risk ER patients with UGIB and facilitated appropriate triage. Use of CE could obviate the need for NGT passage and standardize the assessment of patients with UGIB. However, further study with a larger cohort will be required to validate these findings and assess outcomes data.


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(Attica, OH) Stop out this weekend to see several winged warriors of the 410 & 305 Sprint Car Divisions and UMP Late Models that plan to tear up the clay at Attica Raceway Park and other tracks around 'The Buckeye State' in 2009. Over 30 beautiful race cars & karts are on display this weekend at this free event inside the Tiffin Mall in Tiffin, Ohio. Steve "Scoop" Hartzel enters his 7th year of promoting the Northern Ohio Sprint Car Show and hasn't disappointed the loyal racing community with this year's edition.
Fans can stop by the Attica Raceway Park display and talked with Rex LeJeune about the upcoming season and pick up a copy of the action packed 2009 schedule.
Several big events are on tap for Saturday, March 28th including a Bean Bag Tournament presented by Hoserville Ohio at 10 am. The afternoon is capped off with the 6th Annual Hoserville Ohio Benefit Auction at 2 pm. All the proceeds from these events go towards the Hoserville Ohio Injuried Drivers Benevolent Fund. Also get behind the wheel of one of Tim's Dirt Track Simulators and compete against others in a weekend tournament with a championship showdown slated for Sunday. The awards ceremony honoring the best in show for the race cars will take place on Sunday, March 29th at 4:30 pm.
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Clerical error? | Iranian officials say coed attendance remains possible, despite sharia' ban
The reply from the Iranian Sport and Recreation Organization, written in Farsi and received Nov 18. Queries were submitted to Ahmadinejad's website on Apr 26.
Tehran, Iran | With translation help from Portland, Oreg.-based writer and radio host Goudarz Eghtedari, we learn from Iran's sporting authority that preparations are being made to facilitate coed attendance at football matches despite an ongoing ban by clerics.
Acknowledging that the "presence of women and all sections of the society at sport events will have some positive psychological impact on athletes," the Iranian Sport and Recreation Organization writes in reply to questions submitted by the Global Game in April that "measures are in process to make sport complexes physically ready for this coed attendance."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instructed the sporting authority on Apr 24 to lift a ban on women's attendance at men's football, part of a broader gender segregation in place since the 1979 Islamic revolution. "Certain prejudices against women have nothing to do with Islam," Ahmadinejad said at the time. "Unfortunately, whenever there is talk of social corruption, fingers are pointed at women. Shouldn't men be blamed for the problems, too?" Clerics, however, who are the ultimate authority in Iranian political life, within two weeks had reversed Ahmadinejad's action.
In the reply to the Global Game's queries, the sporting authority did not specify how stadia would be modified to accommodate women. The plan in April, according to media reports, was to offer separate seating areas by gender.
Women's participation in sport, including football, has not been in question. "There is no prohibition for women's participation in any lawful sport in Iran," writes the sport organization. A national women's team competes in regional tournaments, including the West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship in the fall of 2005. The team, however, is not recognized by FIFA. The preferred form of the sport, since women's soccer was introduced in Iran in 1998, is futsal (see 7 Oct 05).
Eghtedari, host of "Voices of the Middle East" on KBOO-FM 90.7 in Portland, writes that "segregation is the problem for female athletes, and that they are not allowed to take part in international matches with males in the audience limits their potential for advancement."
A still from Panahi's feature Offside shows one of the girls detained after trying to sneak into Azadi Stadium. Jasper Rees of the Daily Telegraph calls Offside "one of the most compelling films about ordinary football fans ever made" ("Barred from the Game They Love," 2 Jun 06).
Women's rights activist Mahboubeh Abbass-Gholizadeh, whose leg was broken in Jun 05 as part of a demonstration among women seeking entry to a World Cup qualifier, concurs in an April interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Under the current conditions—in which a woman who wants to travel needs her husband's permission, in which academic places, universities, scientific locations, and recreational places like coffee shops are segregated—women or young girls cannot easily gain access to public places. And this segregation shows that we cannot say that women and men use public places equally.
Abbass-Gholizadeh sees the admission of women to football matches as a stepping-stone to other reforms. Sport seems a potent area for challenge of cultural and political norms. Women have participated in large public celebrations after Iran's World Cup successes in 1998 and 2006. Rally car driver Laleh Seddigh—called "the little Schumacher"—has implicitly challenged the male ruling establishment through her victories. In October, the 2004 national champion was barred from participating in a race. Organizers cited "security problems."
Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film Offside has been touring the festival circuit to acclaim. The quasi-documentary about women trying to sneak inside Azadi Stadium to see Iran's World Cup qualifier—art imitating life—has been banned from public theaters in Iran (see a clip concerning one of the women, who are detained, trying to take a halftime toilet break). To Panahi, in an interview with website Open Democracy ("Offside Rules: An Interview with Jafar Panahi," 6 Jul 06), restrictions on women's attendance are an "unwritten law"; there is no written ban. As women have done in Iran in order to experience aspects of life denied to them, Panahi's protagonists must disguise themselves as boys in order to sneak past a security detail.
I believe that it is the greatest insult to women that they have to deny their identity as women and have to dress as men to take part in society. So yes, there is humour, but it is bitter humour. You may laugh at it, but nevertheless you feel very sad that women have to deny their femininity to take part in a function where men can take part.
While women continue their campaign to watch football, the state as of Feb 07 has cracked down on women playing rugby, according to Radio Farda. Hamid Tehrani of Global Voices, who translates an online report, says seven teams had been organized into a national competition (see pictures). The government, however, has banned the sport on the premise that only male coaches are available.