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For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its history. From the unique perspective of paleoecology-the study of ancient environments-Burney has focused his investigations on the dramatic ecological changes that began after the arrival of humans one thousand years ago, detailing not only the environmental degradation they introduced but also asking how and why this destruction occurred and, most significantly, what might happen in the future. Using Kaua'i as an ecological prototype and drawing on the author's adventures in Madagascar, Mauritius, and other exciting locales, Burney examines highly pertinent theories about current threats to endangered species, restoration of ecosystems, and how people can work together to repair environmental damage elsewhere on the planet. Intriguing illustrations, including a reconstruction of the ancient ecological landscape of Kaua'i by the artist Julian Hume, offer an engaging window into the ecological marvels of another time. A fascinating adventure story of one man's life in paleoecology, Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i reveals the excitement-and occasional frustrations-of a career spent exploring what the past can tell us about the future.
David A. Burney is the director of conservation at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 to write this book on his work at Makauwahi Cave on Kaua'i. He currently lives in Kalaheo, Hawaii.
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In this course we investigate central texts in literary theory from the Greeks to early nineteenth-century Europe, with attention to key critical terms and concepts. Topics of discussion include the nature and origin of literary creation, socio-political ideas about the function of poetry and the poet, mimetic models of literature, the roles of art and nature, literature in relation to its audience, theories of genre, defenses of poetry, allegorical interpretation, the idea of the sublime, definitions of the imagination, poetic language, and the application of critical theory to particular texts. Readings include selections from: Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Dante, Augustine, Sidney, Corneille, Dryden, Pope, De Stael, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley. Requirements include 5 short papers and a final exam. Not open to first-year students.
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You and Senator Kerry have said that the war in Iraq is the wrong war at the wrong time. Does that mean that if you had been president and vice president that Saddam Hussein would still be in power?
"Our point in this is not complicated: We were attacked by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. We went into Afghanistan and very quickly the administration made a decision to divert attention from that and instead began to plan for the invasion of Iraq. ...Listen carefully to what the vice president is saying. Because there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11th -- period."
"The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.
"And the point is that that's the place where you're most likely to see the terrorists come together with weapons of mass destruction, the deadly technologies that Saddam Hussein had developed and used over the years."
What is a global test if it's not a global veto?
"John Kerry will never give up control over the security of the United States of America to any other country. We will not outsource our responsibility to keep this country safe. ...For America to lead, for America to do what it's done for 50 years before this president and vice president came into office, it is critical that we be credible."
"Your rhetoric, Senator, would be a lot more credible if there was a record to back it up. There isn't. And you cannot use "talk tough" during the course of a 90-minute debate in a presidential campaign to obscure a 30-year record in the United States Senate and, prior to that by John Kerry, who has consistently come down on the wrong side of all the major defense issues that he's faced as a public official."
Part of what you have said and Senator Kerry has said that you are going to do in order to get us out of the problems in Iraq is to internationalize the effort. Yet French and German officials have both said they have no intention even if John Kerry is elected of sending any troops into Iraq for any peacekeeping effort. Does that make your effort or your plan to internationalize this effort seem kind of naive?
"What we know is that the president and the vice president have not done the work to build the coalition that we need -- dramatically different than the first Gulf War. We know that they haven't done it, and we know they can't do it."
"You talk about internationalizing the effort. They don't have a plan. Basically, it's an echo. ...It's hard, after John Kerry referred to our allies as a coalition of the coerced and the bribed, to go out and persuade people to send troops and to participate in this process."
Mr. Vice President, in June of 2000 when you were still CEO of Halliburton, you said that U.S. businesses should be allowed to do business with Iran because, I quote, "Unilateral sanctions almost never work." After four years as vice presient now, and with Iran having been declared by your administration as part of the "Axis of Evil," do you still believe that we should lift sanctions on Iran? [Cheney's answer to the question is given during the following question.]
"While he was CEO of Halliburton, they paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false information on their company, just like Enron and Ken Lay. They did business with Libya and Iran, two sworn enemies of the United States. They're now under investigation for having bribed foreign officials during that period of time."
"The reason they keep trying to attack Halliburton is because they want to obscure their own record." "And Senator, frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished. You've missed 33 out of 36 meetings in the Judiciary Committee, almost 70 percent of the meetings of the Intelligence Committee."
Mr. Vice President, the Census Bureau ranked Cleveland as the biggest poor city in the country, 31 percent jobless rate. You two gentlemen are pretty well off. You did well for yourselves in the private sector. What can you tell the people of Cleveland, or people of cities like Cleveland, that your administration will do to better their lives?
"I think probably the most successful thing we can do with respect to ending poverty is to get people jobs. There's no better antidote to poverty than a good, well-paying job that allows somebody to take care of their own family."
"The administration says over and over that the outsourcing of millions of American jobs is good. We're against it....We want to get rid of tax cuts for companies sending jobs overseas. We want to balance this budget, get back to fiscal responsibility. And we want to invest in the creative, innovative jobs of the future."
"Senator Kerry said in a recent interview that he absolutely will not raise taxes on anyone under -- who earns under $200,000 a year. How can he guarantee that and also cut the deficit in half, as he's promised?"
"Roll back tax cuts for people who make over $200,000 a year; we will do that. We want to keep the tax cuts that are in place for people who make less than $200,000 a year and give additional tax cuts to those middle-class families, tax cuts for health care, tax cuts to help families pay for their college tuition, tax cuts for child care."
"There's a fundamental philosophical difference here between the president and myself, who believe that we ought to let the American people keep more of what they earn and we ought to empower them to have more control over their own lives -- I think the Kerry-Edwards approach basically is to raise taxes and to give government more control over the lives of individual citizens."
I want to read something you said four years ago at this very setting: "Freedom means freedom for everybody." You said it again recently when you were asked about legalizing same-sex unions. And you used your family's experience as a context for your remarks. Can you describe then your administration's support for a constitutional ban on same-sex unions?
"People ought to be free to choose any arrangement they want. It's really no one else's business. That's a separate question from the issue of whether or not government should sanction or approve or give some sort of authorization, if you will, to these relationships. Traditionally, that's been an issue for the states. States have regulated marriage, if you will. That would be my preference."
"I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and so does John Kerry. I also believe that there should be partnership benefits for gay and lesbian couples in long-term, committed relationships. But we should not use the Constitution to divide this country. No state for the last 200 years has ever had to recognize another state's marriage. This is using the Constitution as a political tool, and it's wrong."
Ten men and women have been nominees of their parties since 1976 to be vice president. Out of those ten, you have the least governmental experience of any of them. What qualifies you to be a heartbeat away?
"I don't claim to have the long political resume that Vice President Cheney has. That's just the truth, and the American people know that and deserve to know it. But what we know from this administration is that a long resume does not equal good judgment."
"It's a very significant responsibility when you consider that at a moment's notice you may have to take over as president of the United States and make all of those decisions. It's happened several times in our history. And I think that probably is the most important consideration in picking a vice president, somebody who could take over."
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A state lawmaker who described homosexuality as a greater threat to the United States than terrorism will face a transgendered attorney in her next race for the state House.
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Members of the Indianapolis Colts organization are among 200 volunteers building a new playground for an Indianapolis charter school. The facility at Paramount School of Excellence will be the third built by national non-profit organization KaBOOM! and Colts partners. The playground's design is based on drawings created by children.
Source: Inside INdiana Business
September 27, 2010
News Release
WHAT: More than 200 volunteers from the Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Products, National Starch LLC, Unique Home Solutions and the Paramount School of Excellence, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the community will join forces on Tuesday, Sept. 28 to build a new, safe playground at the school. The new playground's design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in July.
WHY: The new playground will provide nearly 600 children who attend Paramount with a great place to play. The first green school in the state of Indiana, Paramount opened this fall, but did not have a playground for children to enjoy. Now, with the help of the Colts and their partners, these students will have a playspace to call their own.
This project is a part of the Colts ongoing efforts to encourage young people to be active at least 60 minutes each day through the NFL's PLAY 60 Campaign. The playground will give children the opportunity to have access to something they personally helped create, and is another example of the Colts, Lucas Oil Products, National Starch and Unique Home Solutions' ongoing investment in the Indianapolis community.
The playspace is the third built by KaBOOM! and Colts partners, and one of more than 180 builds KaBOOM! will lead across the country in 2010 in an effort to provide a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 28
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Kick off ceremony and volunteer deployment
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Best viewing of playground construction
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Final construction phase and adjustments
2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate new play area
(Note: all times approximate)
WHERE: Paramount School of Excellence
3020 Nowland Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46201
WHO: Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard;
Indianapolis Colts Vice President Kalen Irsay;
Indianapolis Colts QB Tom Brandstater, DE Keyunta Dawson, TE Brody Elridge, WR Pierre Garcon, DE Jerry Hughes, DT Ricardo Mathews, DT Fili Moala, DT Dan Muir and DB Mike Newton;*
Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders and Blue;
National Starch mascot Korny;
Hundreds of volunteers from the community
*Players listed are subject to change and will be participating at various times throughout the day
VISUALS: Before and after shots of the site
Volunteers assembling brightly colored playground equipment
Volunteers moving 48,600 square feet of safety surfacing by hand
Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the playground
Indianapolis Colts
The franchise has won four World Championships. Since relocating to Indianapolis, the Colts have won eight division titles, including five consecutive AFC South crowns from 2003-07. The Colts are the only NFL team to have 12+ victories in seven consecutive seasons. The Colts won 115 regular-season games from 2000-09, the highest decade total in NFL history, and the team's 23 consecutive regular-season wins (2008-09) set another NFL record. The club won Super Bowl XLI following the 2006 season, and the Colts reached Super Bowl XLIV after winning the AFC title during the 2009 season.
The Indianapolis Colts take great pride in playing an active role in the community and are committed to corporate citizenship throughout Indiana. Leading by example, we hope to encourage and inspire our fellow Hoosiers to participate in the practice of giving back. Our goal is to create lasting philanthropic partnerships and maximize those relationships for the betterment of our community, thus, building a legacy of goodwill as we share the heart behind the horseshoe.
Lucas Oil Products
The owners and employees of Indiana-based Lucas Oil Products are proud and privileged to take part in the 2010 Playground Build to benefit the Paramount School of Excellence near downtown Indianapolis.
Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, President/CEO and Vice President of Lucas Oil Products Inc., respectively, prioritize their philanthropic initiatives to benefit many great communities in the state of Indiana. The Lucas and their numerous employees throughout the state pride themselves on maintaining a hard-working culture and an unwavering commitment to strengthen the future of all Indiana natives.
The Lucas attended the 2009 Playground Build and witnessed first-hand the results of everyone's hard work.
"It was great to see the community come together and build something like this," Forrest Lucas said. "The outcome was truly amazing."
Added Charlotte Lucas, "The children in that community formed lifelong relationships with one another as well as a really positive sense of community," she said. "Hopefully they will hopefully pay these efforts forward someday."
Professional drag racer Morgan Lucas, the youngest son of Forrest and Charlotte, took part in the 2009 Playground Build and plans to be back for this year's event.
"We're all really excited to come out and take part in the 2010 Playground Build spearheaded by our great friends and business partners with the Indianapolis Colts," Morgan Lucas said. "This event is by far one of the most rewarding efforts we partake in on an annual basis and I'm ready to get back out there and see this year's build come together.
"On behalf of my mom and dad and the rest of the extended Lucas Oil family, I can say without question that this is a very proud moment for our company. It's a real privilege to work with the great people with the Paramount School of Excellence."
National Starch LLC
National Starch LLC is a leading global supplier of specialty starches and is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The company develops, makes and markets nature-based, functional and nutritional ingredients and systems which are used to create desirable attributes in many types of foods and beverages. Its industrial products help increase the productivity and sustainability of paper manufacturers and improve the quality of paper products. Its specialty products also deliver sensory, performance and process benefits in a wide array of consumer goods and industrial applications. For more information on National Starch's businesses, please visit www.foodinnovation.com or www.papermakinginnovation.com. National Starch has operated its flagship starch milling and modification operation in Indianapolis for 140 years and employs over 470 people at the facility.
Unique Home Solutions
Unique Home Solutions is Central Indiana's largest home remodeling company specializing in interior and exterior remodeling. Unique is an award-winning company, proud to have served over 25,000 satisfied customers in our 27 years in business. As an employee owned and operated company, Unique is proud to serve Indiana homeowners with custom designed energy efficient solutions from the top of the roof to the basement floor. For more information on Unique Home Solutions, products or services visit www.UniqueHomeSolutions.org.
Unique Home Solutions is honored to participate in the 2010 Playground Build for Paramount Elementary School. Our involvement in this project reflects our dedication to building healthy and beautiful communities around Indiana. We could not ask for a better opportunity to show our gratitude to those who have given so much to us during our 27 years in business than by building a playground that will give our future men and women a safe place to play, learn and form lasting memories.
Paramount School of Excellence
Paramount is a kindergarten through 8th grade urban charter school with innovative technology and state-of-the-art educational practices. PSoE offers a unique vision for developing students as caring young adults that respect themselves, their environment and learn as independent thinkers. With features such as wind turbines (the only school with a wind farm in the nation), life sized robots and a give forward garden, students will receive a broad palette of integrated subject matter, giving them a solid foundation for real world problem solving. http://www.paramountschool.org
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! is a national non-profit organization dedicated to saving play. Through community building, the organization is focused on giving every child in America a great place to play within walking distance. Since 1996, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct more than 1,800 new playgrounds, skate parks, sports fields and ice rinks across North America. KaBOOM! also offers a variety of resources, including an online community, free online trainings, grants, publications and the KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play, which includes Playful City USA and Playmakers – a national network of individual advocates for play. KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago and San Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
Source: Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Products, National Starch LLC, KaBOOM!, Paramount School of Excellence


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LONDON (AlertNet) – Chad, again on the brink of a food crisis, will keep lurching from one emergency to another unless donors overcome their "repetitive amnesia" on the country and tackle chronic malnutrition there, International Medical Corps (IMC) warns.
Aid groups have warned that hunger threatens between 5 and 9 million people in countries in Africa's Sahel region just below the Sahara including Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Mali.
IMC country director Benoit Delsarte said Chad's annual lean season, the period between harvests that normally starts in May or June, could begin as early as next month.
"People are praying for assistance. They are desperate," he told AlertNet, during a trip to London to raise awareness of the impending emergency.
The crisis, due to low rainfall, poor harvests, lack of pasture and high food prices, has been compounded by last year's turmoil in neighbouring Libya which forced hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to return to Chad and Niger. Many had been supporting large families with the wages they sent home.
The Sahel's continuing struggle to feed its population has also been overshadowed this year by the crisis in the Horn of Africa, which has left more than 13 million people at risk of starvation in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti.
The last severe food shortage in the region in 2010 affected about 10 million people.
IMC, which runs health centres and mobile clinics, is scaling up its work in eastern Chad and planning to extend its operations to the lake region in the west.
Even in an average year 450,000 children in Chad need treatment for acute malnutrition, but the number will increase dramatically this year, Delsarte warned.
However he stressed donors must do more than just provide food aid. Diarrhoea is a major cause of malnutrition, particularly in young children, so improving water and sanitation is also crucial.
U.N. figures show donors respond well to appeals for food aid in Chad, but water and sanitation is usually less than 50-percent funded.
Delsarte said changing local attitudes to breastfeeding is also crucial to tackling malnutrition in Chad where a child has a one-in-five chance of dying before her or his fifth birthday.
Many mothers give their babies water, increasing the risk of diarrhoea. They also discard their colostrum, the thick nutritious milk produced just after birth which is rich in antibodies and protein.
A major problem in Chad is the lack of healthcare. People often have to walk up to two days to get to a health centre and three days to get to hospital.
Delsarte said traditional healers were an important part of the solution and that IMC was training them about harmful traditional practices, the benefits of breastfeeding and the importance of referring people to clinics when they are sick.
Chad has an acute shortage of skilled local healthworkers. Most are concentrated in the richer south and do not want to work in poorer regions.
IMC has started an initiative to pay for rural women in the east to train at nursing school in the capital N'Djamena in southwestern Chad. The aid agency also hopes to introduce nutrition into the curriculum in nursing schools.
Delsarte said that because Chad and Niger faced repeated emergencies the focus was always on responding to crises rather than preventing them.
"If we just carry on like this I know that in two or three years we will have exactly the same situation again. And in the long term it's more expensive. We need to build more resilience in the population so we need some longer-term commitments," he said.
Delsarte said treating a child with acute malnutrition might cost $200-250.
"Maybe for half that price we could prevent it in many more children and build resilience so that it doesn't happen again," he added.
He called for emergency responses and long-term development to be better integrated and for donors to think about development from the start of an emergency.
(Editing by Rebekah Curtis)


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|Leonard Goldberg
January 24, 1934
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Leonard J. Goldberg (born January 24, 1934, in New York City) is an American film producer and television producer.[1] He has his own production company, Mandy Films. He served as head of programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. Goldberg is currently executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, and Bridget Moynahan.
As a television producer he is known for producing several highly acclaimed television films, including the Peabody Award-winning Brian's Song (1971) and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976); the latter helping to launch John Travolta's movie career. He also produced a string of hit television series while in partnership with Aaron Spelling; the best-known being Charlie's Angels, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, and Family. He produced the Oscar-nominated movie WarGames as well as the comedy The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.[2]
He also produced the Emmy-winning television film Something About Amelia, which aired on ABC in 1984. It was one of the highest-rated television films, watched by around 60–70 million people.
Goldberg served as president of 20th Century Fox, where under his aegis the studio produced such critically acclaimed hit films as Broadcast News, Big, Die Hard, Wall Street, and Working Girl. Under his own banner, Leonard Goldberg produced the successful motion picture features WarGames, Sleeping with the Enemy, Double Jeopardy, and Charlie's Angels. Most recently, he produced Unknown, starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, and Frank Langella, released in theaters in February 2011.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard and was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2007.
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The Dancing With the Stars pro and Season 14 champ was seen at The Grove in LA yesterday (September 18), promoting cycling and exercise with Extra host Mario Lopez. The two TV personalities were spotted lifting small weights and laughing together on their bikes.
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The rumors about the now canceled BlackBerry Storm3 described an amazing device. The Storm3 9570 that was leaked and then canceled by BlackBerry maker Research In Motin (RIM) was definitely not the device the rumors were talking about. Being a simple Storm2 refresh designed to allow BlackBerry OS 6 to run on Verizon's CDMA network, it kept everything we hated about the Storm series and barely updated the specs.
The good news about the Storm 9570 being canceled is that the BlackBerry PlayBook is real. Don't follow? The PlayBook is a huge change from what RIM has offered its customers. With its high-end specs and brand new BlackBerry Tablet OS that RIM's recently acquired QNX Software Systems is building, it is a BlackBerry that can possibly directly compete against the iPad and the coming Android tablets. While it might be geared towards business customers, so was the entire line of BlackBerry smartphones at one time. Then RIM realized that the rest of us wanted one too.
Since RIM has already hinted several times that future BlackBerry smartphones could end up running the new operating system and the original Storm3 rumors all described a LTE (long term evolution or 4G) capable touchscreen quite unlike the leaked and canceled Storm 9570, this could mean a mini PlayBook or Storm3 sharing quite a bit of the PlayBook's OS and design might just be on the horizon. We will have to wait to see if this actually materializes, it would not surprise me.
The current BlackBerry OS 6 is not what RIM wants to power its smartphones in the future and the company is starting to think that the QNX Tablet OS for the PlayBook might be just the ticket. What's to stop them from scaling it down for Verizon and putting in a LTE radio? Future PlayBook models will have cellular connections so you know someone is going to try to use it as as phone anyway.
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It's tough for a teenaged prospect to hit Texas' campus for a mini-camp, get tutored by a Texas assistant coach and not come away impressed. Just ask Kennedy Estelle, an offensive lineman who gave his commitment to the Longhorns this weekend after experiencing just that.
Estelle, a highly regarded 6-foot-7, 300-pound tackle out of Dawson (Pearland, Texas), is a consensus four-star prospect and is the school's 17th commitment. His reported scholarship offer list is impressive—Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oregon, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and USC, among others.
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Sporting News' Matt Hayes picks the 10 best games of the weekend and throws in his upset pick of the week as a bonus.
Georgia (1-0) at South Carolina (1-0), ESPN2, 12 p.m.
You may be selling that South Carolina's Stephen Garcia is a changed player, but I'm not buying it. Especially in big SEC games.
Georgia 28, South Carolina 17
Georgia Tech (1-0) at Kansas (0-1), 12 p.m., FSN
The Jayhawks will play better after an embarrassing season opener but still can't stop the GT spread option.
Georgia Tech 27, Kansas 17
South Florida (1-0) at Florida (1-0), 12:21 p.m., SEC Network
A thought for Florida offensive coordinator Steve Addazio: a passing game is more effective when the ball is thrown beyond the line of scrimmage.
Florida 30, USF 13
Florida State (1-0) at Oklahoma (1-0), 3:30 p.m., ABC or ESPN2
If you're shocked at how poorly OU played on defense against Utah State, wait until you see the Sooners try to deal with FSU QB Christian Ponder.
Oklahoma 38, Florida State 35
Iowa State (1-0) at Iowa (1-0), 3:30 p.m., ABC or ESPN2
Usually, I'll take the better quarterback. In this case, I'll take one of the top three defensive lines in the game—and that should be enough to eventually slow down ISU's Austen Arnaud.
Iowa 17, Iowa State 13
Michigan (1-0) at Notre Dame (1-0), 3:30 p.m., NBC
Michigan has significantly improved its play at quarterback with Denard Robinson; Notre Dame's Dayne Crist—while very talented—isn't Jimmy Clausen.
Michigan 33, Notre Dame 27
Colorado (1-0) at California (1-0), 3:30 p.m., FSN
A win for either team sets up a likely 3-0 start heading into critical games: Cal at Arizona; Colorado vs. Georgia.
California 27, Colorado 23
Penn State (1-0) at Alabama (1-0), 7 p.m., ESPN
It's way too early for Penn State freshman QB Robert Bolden to win in this type of environment, but the experience will be invaluable for Big Ten road games.
Alabama 27, Penn State 14
Oregon (1-0) at Tennessee (1-0), 7 p.m., ESPN2
Star TB LaMichael James returns for Oregon (replacing backup Kenjon Barner, who scored 5 TDs last week), and that means Tennessee has yet another problem to deal with.
Oregon 33, Tennessee 17
Stanford (1-0) at UCLA (0-1), 10:30 p.m., ESPN
The Bruins had problems last week with one-dimensional K-State; what happens this week against Stanford's balanced offense?
Stanford 30, UCLA 20
Underdog of the week
Miami (1-0) at Ohio State (1-0), 3:40 p.m., ESPN
Yes, I know, it's blasphemous. But I'm saying it, anyway: Miami's Jacory Harris will be the best quarterback on the field. And Ohio State is 1-5 in its last six games vs. ranked nonconference opponents (losses: USC twice, Florida, Texas, LSU).
Miami 24, Ohio State 23
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Strangely, the guild reward that players seem most excited about in the early days of Cataclysm is not the Kor'kron Annihilator or Golden King but the Armadillo Pup. We all have a long way to go to earn the mounts, after all, but we can all help earn the pup whether we're running Heroics at 85 or leveling a new character. This noncombat pet is unlocked by earning the achievement Critter Kill Squad and getting exalted with your guild. Ending the carefree lives of 50,000 critters seems like a monumental task, but smart guilds can take advantage of some special tactics to earn this achievement in no time.
Let's take a look at how you can earn this adorable pet for your guild.
Squad up!
The achievement says "squad" for a reason: Grouping up multiplies the amount of critters you kill. Bring a friend to get double credit. Bring a 40-man raid to get a whopping 40 kills for every eviscerated ewe. It's not yet clear whether this is intended. Some people believe this "cheat" will be hotfixed, but considering some of the other issues Blizzard is dealing with right now, I doubt this is riding on top of the priority list.
Target density is key
Some areas are more critter-rich than others. Here are a few of the denser population centers:
- Terrorweb Tunnel This cavern in Eastern Plaguelands is chock-full of creepy crawlies.
- Zul'Gurub Now a questing area in Northern Stranglethorn for characters of level 30-35, this subzone has convenient clusters of snakes.
- Northrend icebergs Around the coastal areas of Northrend are icebergs full of helpless penguins. The southern coasts around Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord have the biggest concentrations. You can also find some in the hills around the Argent Tournament.
- Akhenet Fields In central Uldum, there is a small farm with four flocks of sheep. Each flock has about 10 sheep, and they are so close together that you can blow them all up with one spell. It's probably not the best place to camp critters, but the location makes it an ideal spot to chalk up a few dozen more kills in mere seconds as you pass by it.
- Stonecore This dungeon is accessible once you can enter Deepholm at level 82. Shale hatchlings are so rampant that you can't help but squash a few on every run. If you target them on purpose, however, you can really rack up the score here.
- Capital cities Orgrimmar 2.0 is swarming with critters. Bored waiting for your dungeon finder queue? Why not step on some lizards? For Alliance, the Deeprun Tram is swarming with rats that respawn quickly.
Capitol cities are great areas for passive critter extermination. That's right -- passive! Believe it or not, there are two ways you can extinguish the fragile lives of bunnies and chipmunks while completely AFK. The first is PvC: pet versus critter combat. At least four noncombat pets will target and eliminate nearby critters:
Snacks of doom
Not content with Lil' Ragnaros' kill rate? Snack on some Stormchops for extra AFK death. The recipe is available via the daily cooking quests offered by The Rokk in Shattrath City. Making them requires Clefthoof Meat, which you can farm from the various clefthooves of Nagrand and Terokkar, and Lightning Eel, which can be fished up most frequently from certain areas of open water between noon and 6 p.m. server time. Chow down and park yourself in a critter-friendly area for some free splats.
Knee-deep in murder
Sorry, Horde -- this one is for Alliance only. I haven't tested this myself, but I've seen reports of a quest in the Worgen starting area where you are supposed to repel a horde of ravenous spiders and rats with a torch. If you murder them instead, you can rack up a huge critter score. You must be a Worgen phased in to the quest Knee-Deep in order to see the critters. Anyone else who visits the area won't see them.
Beware, though -- these critters do pack a punch in numbers, so warriors or druids (in bear form) may have the easiest time with it. Just make sure you get invited to the guild prior to the slaughter!
What's not a critter?
Some NPCs that seem like critters may not actually count toward the achievement. These include:
- Muddy Crawfish in Orgrimmar
- Serpentbloom Snakes in Wailing Caverns
- Fanged Pit Vipers in Gundrak
- Sunchaser Gazelles in Uldum
- Rustberg Gulls in Tol Barad (oddly enough, the aggroable -- and plentiful! -- Darkwood Hatchlings are critters)
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This is a 1999-2000 DW kit, so it's DW shells, there is no vertical grain visible on the inside of the drums, which I believe means these are standard shells and not VLT shells. It's a black finishply with chrome hardware. There are some cosmetic issues, as with any used kit. There is pedal rash on the hoops, and some discoloration on the kick drum hoop wood. The two rack toms have some definite snare rash and the kit in general has some kniks and dings that I would assume is because it was used as a live kit previously. A couple of the air vent grommets are also missing, but I ordered those replacement parts already. Obviously the heads need to be replaced, I already had some 24" kick heads, so those were already swapped, but the toms came with some beat up heads on them and will need to be replaced as well.
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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where James pulls up beside Gordon, studio equipment is visible in the top portion of the screen.
Visible crew/equipment: As Peter Sam passes Skarloey and Rheneas, a camera shadow is seen.
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James and the Trouble with Trees - S5-E5
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Other mistake: In two shots shown at the beginning, Henry is wearing Gordon's upset face mask.
Other mistake: After Toby breaks down, James pushes him directly to Knapford Station, not to the Works as it is said.
Other mistake: When Percy meets Thomas at Elsbridge Station, he has a water line across his boiler, even though the water only came up to his footplate.
Horrid Lorry - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: When Lorry 1 returns after falling into the sea, he is covered in algae and seaweed even though he wasn't submerged. He gains some more of it when Thomas sees him.
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Continuity mistake: When George crashes, the Fat Controller falls into the ditch head first, but in the following shot he is sinking feet first.
Factual error: The dam was built concaved from the water it holds back, but it would have been built convex in order to do so.
Continuity mistake: When Toby comes up to the junction, the lever to the points isn't actually there. It is only seen in this episode in the shot showing where his fireman switches them.
Other mistake: Edward is wearing James' sad face mask when he approaches the water column.
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Earlier this week, I wrote how the changing nature of malware is making Macintosh users more of a target. That blog entry keyed off posts by ZDNet Windows blogger Ed Bott and security expert Brian Krebs, who each wrote about a new, do-it-yourself software kit for making Mac malware. As I mentioned in my entry, […] [Read More]


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planetFear Store Vacancies Remainingadded Feb/2010, see all PlanetFear news & reviews
announcement by PlanetFear
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We are delighted to announce that the new planetFear store, opening this summer will be located in KESWICK in the Lake District. We are still looking for a number of key individuals to fill the remaining vacancies on the team.
Store Manager
If you are an experienced retail professional with a passion for some or all of the planetFear core sports (climbing, mountain biking and adventure racing), this might be the job for you.
If you expect high standards, and know how to make sure your team delivers them, we would be keen to hear from you.
In return we can offer a job in the Lake District, with a package which will reflect your success.
Bike Mechanic / Salesperson
We are looking for an experienced, qualified mechanic to service our hire fleet and customer bikes.
The ability to work on the shop side selling bikes and accessories would be a major advantage.
Bike and Run Category Manager
Based in Lancaster, we are still looking for the right person to head up our Bike and Run offering. The ideal candidate would be someone with experience of the buying side of the bike trade, with sufficient written English skills to contribute towards the editorial side of the site. Experience of running/adventure racing would be a distinct advantage.
If you are interested in any of the above positions, please email a C.V. along with a covering letter including salary expectations, to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Harvard Public Health Review
Spring 2006
Helping Kids and Families Eat Right and Keep FitHSPH supporters take on the childhood obesity epidemic
When it comes to kids, parents have plenty to worry about--sex, drinking, drugs, grades, peer pressure. Add to those another concern: children are gaining weight. In the United States, too much TV, poor eating habits, and lack of exercise mean that 17 percent of kids ages 6-19 are overweight or obese, and consequently at risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other debilitating chronic diseases.
Supporters of the Harvard School of Public Health hope to change how America's kids live, eat, and play, particularly in impoverished urban areas. In February, Harvard College alumna Penny Pritzker '81 and her husband, Bryan Traubert--the parents of two healthy, active adolescents--pledged $5 million to launch the rigorous scientific evaluation of an after-school exercise and nutrition program developed by HSPH researchers and piloted, since 2004, at YMCAs around the country. The Y is the single largest provider of after-school care for public school students in the United States. YMCAs serve nearly 400,000 school-age children each year, many of them from urban, low-income, and minority populations, in which obesity rates are rising fastest.
Pritzker and Traubert's gift will also create student scholarships and a junior professorship in obesity-prevention oriented, fitness-promoting research at HSPH. Collectively, the couple's efforts are known as the Donald and Sue Pritzker Nutrition and Fitness Initiative, in honor of Pritzker's parents.
The initiative's co-directors are HSPH's Steve Gortmaker, professor of the practice of health sociology in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, and Frank Hu, associate professor in the departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology.
HSPH's researchers aim to measure the impact on health of YMCA after-school programs by documenting physical, behavioral, and biological changes in kids over time. Changes in height and weight, energy expenditure and heart rate, blood pressure, food intake, diabetes risk factors, and other data will be recorded. Within approximately three years, the researchers will compare results in youngsters from participating YMCAs with results in a control group.
The YMCA is ideally positioned to bring about healthful changes in kids' and families' lives, according to project leader Jean Wiecha, a senior research scientist in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at HSPH. "The YMCAs have both the will and the infrastructure to make important changes that reach millions of people," she says, adding that the organization's reach is broad. About 9,000 YMCAs serve more than 20 million Americans in approximately 10,000 communities across the country.
HSPH's research team, which includes Gortmaker and Hu, will enroll 2,000 children from grades K-6 at YMCAs in up to 20 U.S. cities. The team will test a set of behavior-changing principles and activities derived from their successful middle-school curriculum Planet Health. Used by more than 100 Massachusetts schools, Planet Health has been proven to decrease obesity and eating disorders among girls. The obesity effect among girls appears to be due mainly to a reduction in television viewing, which was also noted in boys. Planet Health stresses four simple messages: reduce television viewing, increase fruit and vegetable intake, reduce intake of unhealthy fat, and increase physical activity.
Developed with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Planet Health was updated and retooled for the Y with a generous gift from another set of philanthropic-minded parents: Mary Finnegan and her husband, Paul, AB '75, MBA '82, a member of the HSPH Leadership Council. In choosing to fund this effort, the couple cited the School's "impressive ability to leverage its expertise for maximum impact" in the fight against childhood obesity.
The hope is that children and families who volunteer for the new YMCA research study will embrace healthier habits: Eat more fruits and vegetables, and less saturated and trans fats. Drink fewer sugar-sweetened drinks. Turn off the TV. And experience the joy of movement while burning calories.
Force for Change
The YMCA after-school evaluation by HSPH researchers is just one part of an ambitious YMCA organizational improvement effort led by Activate America, a project of YMCA of the USA. As one member of a team of leaders, Wiecha has been chairing this effort since 2004.
Fitness has always been part of the YMCA's
credo--the sport of basketball was invented and popularized through YMCAs
by the late James Naismith, a staff training director. The organization
aims to "take it up a notch" by becoming "a force to combat
the epidemic of obesity in the United States," according to Lynne
Vaughan, director of the Gulick Collaborative, an organizational improvement
effort focused on fitness and health, and named for a visionary Y director
who championed physical health as vital to total well-being.
Says Kenneth Gladish, president and chief executive officer of YMCA of the USA: "For decades, YMCAs have been building kids strong in spirit, mind, and body. Our YMCA Activate America initiative is taking this commitment to a whole new level by incorporating and modeling health habits in all facets of our after-school programs." The aim, Gladish says, is "to make real change in the lives of children in America's most under-resourced neighborhoods, where the compounding effects of poverty on our children's health are most devastating."
The gift from Pritzker, who for Harvard College co-chairs 25th Class Reunion Giving, and Traubert, a member of HSPH's Visiting Committee, will enable HSPH to seed the emerging field of obesity research with talented scholars. In addition to allocating $1 million of the total to scholarships over five years, the couple directed $1.5 million to a junior professorship, which will pass from one outstanding young faculty member to another, every three years. Recruited at the assistant and associate levels in disciplines from nutrition to social and behavioral sciences to biostatistics to laboratory science, these rising stars will work to slow and reverse the global rise in children's weight and a constellation of disorders known as the metabolic syndrome. (This syndrome, characterized by overweight and elevated blood pressure, blood sugars, and blood fats, carries a heightened risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.)
Says HSPH Dean Barry Bloom: "The childhood obesity problem in the U.S. is a growing epidemic, particularly among minorities and the socio-economically disadvantaged, whom YMCAs serve in significant numbers. We at Harvard are enormously gratified by our generous supporters' strong commitment to partnering with us in this effort."
For children, poor nutrition and physical inactivity have weighty consequences.
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in the U.S. who are obese
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in the U.S., past 25 years
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eat fast food on a given day
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of childhood diabetes, last 20 years
Percent increase in soft drink
consumption per capita, 1950s to today
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obesity risk from one additional soft drink per day
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added to children's diets for every
one-hour increase in TV viewing
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dollar spent on food eaten outside the home
(includes take-out items)
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use of
TV, videos, music, video games, computers, movies, and print media
Whether a person is overweight or obese is determined by the ratio of weight to height, or the body-mass index (BMI). A healthy weight is one that equates to a BMI of less than 25. From 25 to 29.9, a person is considered overweight; and a person with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lancet, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Tufts University/Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Karin Kiewra is editor of the Review and associate director of Development Communications at HSPH.
This page is maintained by Development Communications in the Office of Resource
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Visiting artist helps mold Scarborough ceramics students
SCARBOROUGH — For some of Lisa Ruhman's students, taking a ceramics class at Scarborough High School was just a way to fit in a fine arts credit.
At least before they began the semester.
Now, regardless of their level of artistic talent, most agree the course has a lot more to offer than simply fulfilling a graduation requirement.
"We found out it's really interesting," junior Jordannah Saunders said.
"You'll be having a really bad day and every individual in this class makes you feel happier," freshman Tasean Lewis said. "I don't feel it's like school; it's a gathering of friends."
This week, the "gathering" welcomed visiting artist Kari Radasch, a professional, full-time potter whose presence was made possible by a grant from the Maine Community Foundation. Ruhman said she specifically wanted Radasch when she applied for the grant because of the techniques the Westbrook artist uses in her work and her success in imparting information to others. In addition, Ruhman said she wanted her students to know that it is possible for professional artists to make a living from their creations.
"I wanted to bring in someone from the community to the school community," Ruhman said. "We're all the same; it moves full circle."
Though Radasch earns a living from her work, she supplements her income by teaching and flies all over the country teaching courses for art centers, she said.
Radasch crafts 65 to 70 percent of her pots using bisque molds, as opposed to a potter's wheel, and she brought in many of her molds for the high school students to use. After each student flattened their block of clay with a rolling pin, they shaped the slabs over a mold, added bases and let it all dry.
By mid-week, one table in the large, airy art room was strewn with pots of all shapes, the bare clay waiting to be clothed with decorations and colors.
Radasch spent much of Wednesday's class demonstrating different methods for adding designs and textures with tools and colored clay, called slip, to embellish the pots. Working with simple things like newspaper, and makeshift scraping tools, she turned the clay tiles she used for teaching into spotted, polkadotted or striped pre-masterpieces, ready for their first, "bisque firing" in the kiln.
Once the first firing is completed, the pieces are brushed with glaze before a final firing, called a "glaze firing," at upwards of 2,000 degrees.
Radasch's own work, viewable on her Web site, KariRadasch.com, reflects some of the techniques she taught the students this week. The playful, whimsical dishes, cake stands and flower vases, with their vibrant colors and quirky designs, evoke fun and happiness. And in sharing her skills, she has encouraged Ruhman's students to find their own style as they seek to stamp their personality on their work.
In her 10 years of teaching at the high school, Ruhman said about one student a year goes on to major in art. But even though many of these students may never again feel the cold, giving clay in their hands, or work it into shape, or squeeze it until it oozes out from between their fingers, their concentration and effort on Wednesday proved ceramics class was far more than just another credit.


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OQO and OS X?
Hi, I'm new here, but since I'm sick and tired of Apple's socalled "service" and lack of QC, here in Europe, I was wondering what to do. I already thought of getting a thinkpad and put OS X on it (and I will be doing that soon enough), but I also wonder if anyone has tried putting OS X on the OQO?
Does anyone have any idea if it's possible?
P.S. Not sure if this is the right place to put this thread, but here's to hoping [lifts the long tube of crystal in his right hand]
You won't be able to put OSX on a ThinkPad or the OQO.
I am pretty sure that it is possible to get OS X to work on a thinkpad (or some other PC), but what about the OQO? Why wouldn't I be able to get it to run on there?
Before you or anyone else decides to reply otherwise, keep in mind that you would have to do some serious hacking which would constitue piracy and illegal activity, which if you read the Forum Rules, you would know that is not open for discussion here.
Ah, okay then. Hacking isn't exactly up my alley anyways. Looks like I will be going with linux instead then.
I just hope I can get a good audio (editor) programme to run in linux :(
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Learning is acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves. Learning is not compulsory, it is contextual. It does not happen all at once, but builds upon and is shaped by what we already know. To that end, learning may be viewed as a process,rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge.
Questions having the learning tag regards the Cognitive Science aspects of learning.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning