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OS X: Do not remove or modify the SyncServices folder
As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder. Removing or modifying anything in the SyncServices folder - or in any subfolders within it - may cause unexpected issues.
The SyncServices folder is located in the Application Support folder, in the Library folder of your Home folder. It stores information related to synchronizing data such as contacts and calendars across devices and computers. Deleting or modifying things in the SyncServices folder may cause unexpected results such as:
- Duplicate contacts in Address Book or appointments in iCal.
- Data loss in Address Book or iCal.
Important: Any lost or duplicate data could propagate to other devices and computers you sync with. This means data could be lost on other computers and devices.
Additional Information
If you are attempting to troubleshoot an issue that involves this folder in OS X Mountain Lion or earlier, try resetting sync services instead.
If resetting SyncServices does not resolve the issue, try advanced Sync Services troubleshooting steps instead.
Note: OS X Mavericks does not use Sync Services. Instead, Mavericks supports sharing your information using several network-based and cloud-based solutions. If you want to sync your information across multiple devices and computers, you should use one or more of these methods. These include iCloud, CardDAV servers, CalDAV servers, or servers that use the Exchange ActiveSync protocol.


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(Wakefield, MA) – Rick Ciolino of Gloucester has joined First Financial Trust, N.A., a fully owned subsidiary of The Savings Bank, as an Investment Officer in the Bank's Main Office at 351 Main Street in Wakefield. First Financial Trust, headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with offices in Wakefield and Leominster, Massachusetts, specializes in investment management, financial planning, trust administration, and corporate profit sharing plans.
Rick joined First Financial Trust with more than 25 years of experience within the investment management and banking industries, most recently with People's United Bank Wealth Management in Beverly where he was Vice President and Portfolio Manager. In this position, he was primarily responsible for managing private-client and nonprofit investment portfolios. Prior to that, Rick was a Trust Investment Officer at the Cape Ann Savings Bank in Gloucester where he managed the private-client and nonprofit investment portfolios for the bank's Trust and Investment Division. He also worked for Derby Capital Management in Newton as an Investment Analyst and Assistant Portfolio Manager.
Rick received his Master's degree in Business Education from Suffolk University and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Framingham State University. He received his NASD Series 7 and Series 66 certificates and has completed Level II of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam.
His professional affiliations and associations include membership in the Essex County Estate and Planning Council, Beverly Rotary Club, Board of Directors of the Cape Ann YMCA where he served as President, and the AGH Citizens Fund.
"I am pleased to welcome Rick Ciolino to The Savings Bank as an Investment Officer," Brian D. McCoubrey, President and Chief Executive Officer said. "He has many years of investment management within the banking industry which will be an asset to the Bank and its customers."

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It didn't take long for Anders, age 14, Tate, age 11, and Gus, age 9, to all agree on what their mom does to embarrass them most: "When she sings in the car!" Mom Cathie, does admit that she belts it out in the car on a regular basis, and whether they have friends in the car or not. In fact, she finds it annoying that her boys hold her to a double standard of embarrassment, "I let them listen to cool music. They should be impressed that I know a lot of the lyrics!"
Kellan, age 3, also has some choice words about the music choices of his mom, Katie. As they were driving home recently, Kellan said to her, "Mom, this is old music. Can you change it?" Although, it seems that Kellan's music choices are just as embarrassing for his parents. Katie says, "Kellan seems to have Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' on repeat in his head, so his taste in music is obviously horrible."
This wouldn't be a list of things that moms do to embarrass their kids without one of these. Erin confesses that she is guilty, all too often, of the thing that embarrasses her 12-year-old son, Sky, most — kissing him goodbye and shouting "I love you!" after him as he walks into school or practice. "He tolerates it," Erin admits, "But, I can tell from the look on his face and the wave [as] he rushes inside that it drives him crazy."
While the point might be lost in asking 3-year-old Harper, straight out, what her mom does that's embarrassing, the concept is certainly not lost on this little one.
Mom Chelsea reports that Harper recently stopped her from walking out the door, telling her, "Hey! Hey, Mom. Your hair is crazy."
Nothing like your child calling you out on going out in public looking like, as Chelsea says, "a hot mess," to cue the embarrassing mom alarm!
Ben, age 9, was smart enough to leave his mom, Carilyn, thinking when she asked him what she does to embarrass him. Ben's response was priceless, as he casually looked up from his homework, "Nothing really... anymore."
Angela, Mom to 5-year-old daughter, Abbey, thought she was off the hook, when she asked Abbey if she does anything to embarrass her. Until Abbey started to understand what being embarrassed meant... then, she didn't hold back.
"Oh, you mean the things you do that are silly that I wish you wouldn't do so much? Well, maybe sometimes in the car? Or at home during our dance parties? You don't have to do the singing part, in case people hear you." Abbey was kind enough to throw her poor mom a bone, however, "But, you can still do the dancing. You're not so terrible at dancing."
Naturally, when it comes to being an 8-year-old, embarrassing mom moments often involve your friends. Janie admitted that her mom (sigh, that's me), embarrasses her by calling her friends "sweetie" and "honey" when they are over for play dates.
And -- just like Abbey -- my 5-year-old, Meg, went to town listing the embarrassing things I do, once she understood exactly what I was going for. The one that burned the most? "You know those shoes you have, Mommy? The blue ones? I don't like it when you wear those to take me to school." Ouch!
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It saddens me to hear that your mom did not love you Steve. All children should be embraced and cherished. Love begets love. I hope now as a man you have someone who says they love you and do express it to you. Here's a ((((hug)))) for you. peace and love
Poor kid! His mom said "I love you" right out loud! Try growing up with a mom who NEVER said I love you because she didn't, and made no secret of it!
Try growing up in a family who makes it plain, pretty much every day of your life, that you are unwelcome and unwanted. Perhaps this comment will give you kids a little perspective.


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With the NFL draft just a few weeks away, Former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu is making the rounds of pro football teams. He's reportedly in Arizona today and will be in Cincinnati Monday, making his case to team officials in a suit and tie.
USA Today columnist Jarrett Bell notes that Mathieu has repeatedly stated he's been clean since an arrest in October for marijuana possession and then adds these details…
During one visit, Mathieu was asked how many drug tests he failed before he was suspended in college.
According to an assistant coach for the team, Mathieu responded: "I quit counting at 10. I really don't know."
The coach, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to comment about the evaluation, doesn't dump all of the blame on Mathieu. He points a finger at LSU.
"If he flunked 10 tests before they suspended him, it shows that he got no kind of help," the coach said.
Mathieu was dismissed from the LSU team in August. He received a one-game suspension back in 2011 after a drug test revealed synthetic marijuana in his system. He's considered a likely third-round pick in the draft but could go in the second-round.
Update: LSU spokesman says the school denies the charge and will issue a statement later today.


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CeBIT 2010: Debian with BSD Kernel
Debian developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl presented Debian GNU/kFreeBSD at the Open Source Forum at CeBIT. The FreeBSD port should become an official part of the upcoming Debian version 6.0 free distro.
The new architectures kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 will become a part of Debian's new offerings. The "k" in the name, Reichle-Schmehl indicates, is only that the FreeBSD kernel is involved and not the C libraries, for example. The FreeBSD kernel currently in use is version 7.2, with an update to 8.0 possible. The operating system should provide the "best of both worlds," the stable BSD kernel and Debian's package management and infrastructure.
Benchmarks for Linux and BSD kernel performance aren't yet established, Reichle-Schmehl admits, but there are other benefits: the BSD kernel is developed in clearer structures and has more stable interfaces, such as for the device files. Then also are features not available with Linux, such as the Pf BSD package filter, the ZFS filesystem from Sun, dtrace and BSD Jails. Even the NDIS driver is now in the kernel. A downside is that some Linux-specific software won't run, such as requires INOTIFY or ALSA. As usual, the Debian project removes firmware binaries from the kernel that don't strictly fit its free software guidelines.
What's still missing from GNU/kFreeBSD as a complete operating system? ZFS and Fuse are not yet available as binary packages and IPv6 integration is missing for the route command and others (currently only IPv4 is supported). Also still in the works is a compability layer for the Linux kernel's INOTIFY interface. At present 15% of the Debian package archives don't work with the BSD port.
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is currently available for download and testing from the port's homepage. A mailing list can provide help. Debian's system can be seen at the Univention booth at CeBIT in Hall 2 B36.
Why Bother?Seems to defeat the point of BSD. BSD fans will tell you the difference between Linux and BSD is that BSD is an integrated whole, not a collection of mix-and-match bits.
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There is no developed boat access area, but car-toppers can be launched along the southeast corner of the lake. There is ample shoreline access and a fishing dock along the highway. Access and rest rooms are also available at Thornton A. Sullivan Park (City of Everett) on the west shore.
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John Considine was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1966, the son of an academic and a poet. He grew up in England, and was educated at a fee-paying boys school called Bedford Modern School, and at Oxford. He has lived and worked in Canada since 1996, returning annually to England, where he spends most of his time in hill country or at the edge of the sea.
I first met Dr. Considine as a student in his class on Etymology. Although I was there to learn about word origins, I couldn't help but spend some of my class time growing more and more curious about Dr. Considine's style: a mix of bowties, tweed jackets, waistcoats and, every so often, a kilt. Here, he talks to WORN about well-dressed literary figures, fashion-related etymologies and what makes a good tie.
How did you dress as a university student?
I think I wobbled rather from attempts at grandeur to hopeless shabbiness: jacket-and-tie shabbiness, of the sort which one sees on some of the people who spend their afternoons in pubs in England. I remember once walking through a quadrangle in Oxford, in a dinner jacket (I mean the whole suit, what you'd call a tuxedo, with the trousers and black bow tie) and a new pair of dress shoes with hard leather soles, and being very happy at the way that the clattering of my footsteps echoed within the stone walls. I remember also dining with the Principal of my college, a mathematician called Sir Christopher Zeeman, and looking at his clean shirt cuffs and golden cuff links, and comparing them with my own shirtcuffs, which were not as clean as they should have been, and hoping that Sir Christopher hadn't noticed.


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Spencer Badia doubled, singles and drove in a run for Bellaire (5-1).


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It was certain that the NYC Ballet dancers that weren't dancing on Friday night, were likely in orchestra seating, cheering on their fellow company member turned choreographer. And, the rest in the crowd that weren't former dancers, ballet lovers or regular show go'ers were in for a treat. Because, well, this was an experience to be enjoyed by all, a welcome riff from traditional ballet presentations to say the very least.


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Luca di Montezemolo doubts a cost cap would work in Formula One as teams - including Ferrari - could "cheat."
Recently it was confirmed that in 2015 a cost cap would be introduced in a bid to ensure not only the survival of the existing teams but to persuade another to join.
And although the Ferrari president concedes that rising costs are hurting the sport, forcing teams to turn to pay drivers, he is worried that a cost cap is not the right move.
"For the first time it has been said that we have to define a [cost] cap. You know why I have doubts about the cap - because it is very easy to cheat - particularly for [manufacturer] teams. And Ferrari could be one," he told Autosport.
"I could go to Chrysler in Detroit to ask them to do something for us. Mercedes could ask their company.
"We have to find something that is credible but the cost is the problem number one."
He added: "If we look at the teams today, in my whole career of F1, I have never seen teams survive with the money of the drivers.
"This year all the movements of the drivers has been basically based - except for [Kimi] Raikkonen to Ferrari - based on what money drivers can give to the teams.
"This is for Force India, for Sauber, for Lotus and for Williams. It is not healthy..."
The Italian added that should a cap be implemented that it must be up to the FIA to decide what things should cost.
"The cost cannot be decided by the technicians - because if so we will never achieve it.
"The only way to approach this is to say to the FIA that all the teams are unanimous in agreement to cut the costs. Do whatever you want - come back to us with a proposal that for sure can decrease the costs in a heavy, heavy way. Then we adjust ourselves.
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- Jesse Phillips '14
- Hometown: Norwalk, Ohio
- Major: English: Writing
I love the options at Mount Union. Even if you have little to no vision of your future plans, and you keep an open heart and open mind, you can find something that interests you.
- Dan Goswick '15
- Hometown: Amherst, Ohio
- Major: Marketing
Writing Learning Objectives
Upon graduation, student who major ion Writing will be able to:
Write Like Writers
- Recognize and respond to a variety of audiences, contexts, and purposes
- Craft sophisticated print and digital texts in a variety of genres, both creative and professional
- Demonstrate growth as a writer by producing a professional-quality portfolio
- Evaluate the appropriateness of rhetorical choices in own and others' texts
- Arrange the organization of texts appropriate to the rhetorical situation
- Recognize and self-edit errors in written discourse
- Produce complex texts with correctness in syntax, grammar, usage, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling
- Demonstrate an advanced sense of coherence and cohesion in written discourse
- Consider, apply, and control stylistic options (prose style, figurative language, voice, register, tone, word choice, etc.)
Think Like Writers
- Talk and write about their writing and consciously synthesize and integrate insights from one project into another
- Articulate a statement of identity as a writer (including style, voice, and ethos)
- Use multiple research methods (both primary and secondary), utilizing and documenting their research in their writing
- Develop a sophisticated vocabulary for thinking, talking, and writing about their own and others process of writing and the texts they produce
- Assess and respond to other writers, paying attention to the choices writers make, the reasons for those choices, and the effect those choices have on an audience
- Recognize and gear writing towards a pluralistic and diverse world
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- Demonstrate an understanding that writing emerges from an existing conversation and be able to join that existing conversation
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36 inch Aerobic rebounder is fun and an effective way of exercise. Combines the benefits of strength training and cardiovascular exercise training making it suitable for all ages. a perfect way to increase cardiovascular fitness, strength and vitality, improving co-ordination and balance, reducing stress and tension in the body and improving the body's circulation and blood flow.


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- "Ecologists and oceanographers will ask what whales can reveal about Arctic melting, doctors will speculate on the future of nanomedicine, and cosmologists will examine the nature of time."
World Science Festival; Cicada Songs; Coffee, Deconstructed
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- "Food and science have gone together since before Isaac Newton, so it's no surprise that several sessions are devoted to food at the World Science Festival."
Front Burner—"To Learn: It's O.K. to Play With Your Food"
The New York Times (May 28, 2013)
- "Comparing walrus and warthog teeth, coding a computer game and making music with cicadas are among the unusual children's activities at this annual festival, whose investigations range from below the earth to distant galaxies."
Spare Times for Children for May 31-June 6
The New York Times (May 30, 2013)
- "There are a few acts of nature, such as the passage of Halley's comet or the transit of Venus, that are so rare and so dramatic as to seem like metaphors for the virtues of patience itself…the arrival of the 17-year cicadas may be the grossest."
An Invasion of 17-Year-Olds, Loud, Lusty and Six-Legged
The New York Times (June 7, 2013)
- "As it happens, Koch, McGinn, and I will be discussing these questions at the World Science Festival at N.Y.U., the site of one of Woody Allen's most famous stand-up lines: 'I was thrown out of N.Y.U. in my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics exam,' he says, because 'I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.'"
The Riddle of Consciousness
The New Yorker (May 28, 2013)
- "Maxime Bilet's 'Noble Roots' dish contained roasted, caramelized and glazed roots, pressure-cooked seeds and aromatic carotene oil."
A Meeting of Food and Science Minds
The Wall Street Journal (June 2, 2013)
- "The event was the first dinner of its kind for the World Science Festival, now in its sixth year, attracting celebrities including 'Modern Family' star Sofía Vergara and 'Chopped' host Ted Allen."
Testing and Tasting the Science of Food
The Wall Street Journal (June 2, 2013)
- "We boarded a ferry bound for that distant fifth borough…Hosted by the Staten Island Museum, the evening promised insect-themed beverages and a thorough education on the 17-year cicadas' mysterious breeding habits."
Insects Party: How Cicadas Get Their Freak On
New York Observer (June 4, 2013)
- "Shhh: Your kids might actually learn something while having fun at this five‐day educational celebration."
World Science Festival
Time Out New York Kids (April 22, 2013)
- "The Ultimate Science Street Fair…turns Washington Square Park into an interactive outdoor laboratory…the one day of the year where even the artsiest wee ones can become astrophysicists- and archaeologists-in-training."
Best things to do at the World Science Festival 2013
Time Out New York Kids (May 29, 2013)
- "Young scientists-in-training came out in droves for the Ultimate Science Street Fair on Sunday, June 2, in Washington Square Park…Kids of all ages flexed their scientific muscles with hands-on experiments and games like anti-gravity simulations and a make-your-own perfume project."
See photos from the Ultimate Science Street Fair
Time Out New York Kids (June 3, 2013)
- "The World Science Festival gives kids a chance to get hands-on experience with science…. This year's event featured nine workshops that allowed kids to interact with scientists and learn more about what they do."
Spotlight on Science
Time for Kids (June 7, 2013)
- "The nature of time, like the nature of a flame, is easy to experience but tricky to explain scientifically — and that's exactly why the Flame Challenge took on time as the subject of its second annual contest for explanations that would make sense to 11-year-olds."
'What is time?' These grade-school explanations take the prize
NBC News (June 3, 2013)
- "'Spooky Action…' is Brian Greene's entrancing journey through the history of the elusive and apparently hyperkinetic electron particle from 1897 to the present. Greene has a knack for explaining complex theories in plain language."
Star Physicist's Spooky Drama; Malkovich's Casanova: Review
Bloomberg Businessweek (May 31, 2013)
- "Let out your inner geek—Brian Greene's 6th Annual World Science Festival is underway, bringing together experts in such varied fields as quantum mechanics, nanomedicine, infinity and consciousness."
NYC Weekend: Malkovich's Casanova, Billy Idol, Lang Lang
Bloomberg Businessweek (May 31, 2013)
- "The once-every-17-years arrival of these Magicicadas is a rare and beautiful event, something that above all must be experienced to be understood."
Tuning In to the Music of Cicadas
The Huffington Post (May 24, 2013)
- "I have the honor of moderating an incredible panel discussion at the NY Historical Society as part of the World Science Festival. We will be looking at the progress that has been made to understand AIDS, how that was accomplished, and what it will take to finally end the AIDS epidemic."
30 Years in the Fight Against AIDS
The Huffington Post (May 30, 2013)
- "Is science literature an essential tool for democratizing research, or is it a relic of a pre-internet age? During the excellent World Science Festival…I sensed this unspoken question percolating ...and I was intrigued."
Lunch Date Dilemma: Little Black Book of Scientists or Little Colorful Book of Sci-lit?
The Huffington Post (June 25, 2013)
- "We got a chance to taste some re-created ancient brews at The Bell House thanks to the World Science Festival….They recreate ancient beers based on molecular analysis of containers found at archaeological sites."
Here's What 9,000-Year-Old Beers Taste Like
Business Insider (June 4, 2013)
- "One day, we might sue our grandparents for their bad habits. Journalist Bill Blakemore and three scientists gathered to discuss this emerging field of research—called epigenetics—at the World Science Festival."
Everything We Do Is Reprogramming Our Genome
Business Insider (June 7, 2013)
- "A new world of science is emerging — one where average people are encouraged to participate, relying on help from a web-based community of amateur and professional scientists to initiate and build their own science projects online."
The Coolest Projects We Saw At NYC's First Science Hack Day
Business Insider (June 8, 2013)
- "Thousands of years before Germany laid down its beer law, humans in every great civilization were experimenting with booze and letting their inebriated imaginations soar."
Getting Drunk Like the Ancients Did
Popular Mechanics (May 31, 2013)
- "Infinity: The word itself belies the immensity of the concept that philosophers, mathematicians, theologians, and physicists have grappled with for thousands of years…At the World Science Festival in New York, a panel of experts tried to grapple with this slippery concept."
A Brief History of Infinities
Popular Mechanics (June 3, 2013)
- "A panel of experts at the World Science Festival here in New York parsed through challenges such undertakings pose for science and technology."
4 Hurdles to Making a Digital Human Brain
Live Science (June 1, 2013)
- "Someday soon, judgments of guilt or innocence in a courtroom might be determined from a brain scan…But how reliable is the science, and should it determine criminal fate? A panel of scientists and legal experts discussed these issues at the World Science Festival."
Brain Images Could Reveal Guilt
Discovery (June 4, 2013)
- "Fans of Brian Greene's NOVA programs…will no doubt enjoy what amounts to a 90-minute live episode. Kicking off the 2013 World Science Festival, the show…provides an entertaining and thought-provoking journey through the strange reality of quantum mechanics."
Spooky Action on Broadway: A Quantum Drama by Brian Greene
Scientific American (May 30, 2013)
- "If you happen to be in New York this week, check out the World Science Festival co-founded by Brian Greene!"
On The Verge with 'The Elegant Universe' author Brian Greene
The Verge (May 29, 2013)
- "Actor Alan Alda has been a strong proponent of science and science education. He returned to Good Day NY on Friday along with scientist Brian Greene to talk about the 6th Annual World Science Festival underway across New York City."
World Science Festival
Good Day New York (May 29, 2013)
- "It's not easy to popularize theoretical physics, but Brian Greene, one of the world's best-known scientists, has managed to do just that. Greene, a best-selling author, co-founded the World Science Festival, an annual event to inspire and engage the public in scientific research."
Science education is failing to inspire students, says physicist Brian Greene
MPR News (May 29, 2013)
- "A night of nanospectacular wonders, hosted by Robert Krulwich, live from the World Science Festival…Watch below, and join two Radiolab producers for a live chat."
Live video and chat: Cellular Surgeons
Radiolab (May 30, 2013)
- "Watch an interdisciplinary group of thinkers grapple with the meaning of infinity in this World Science Festival event from New York University."
Does Infinity Really Exist?
Scientific American (May 31, 2013)
2012 Press
- "My experience as a scientist is that, in order to push the boundaries of knowledge, you need to go where people tell you not to go."
My Father's Day wish: Curious children
CNN (June 13, 2012)
- "What we usually think about when we think about vaccines is our own immunity. But what we need to think about is vaccines as a global immune system."
Researchers at Annual Science Fest Hail Universal Vaccines
Forbes (June 5, 2012)
- "For all of Google's intelligence, it is still simply learning by rote - just recalling and matching patterns in the information pumped into it."
Why Google is nowhere near as clever as a rat - but one day, even your smartphone will be smarter than you
Daily Mail (June 5, 2012)
- "In terms of computational ability, even the most-powerful computers in the world are just approaching that of an insect."
A Rat is Smarter Than Google
Yahoo! News (June 4, 2012)
- "I would be happy in my lifetime to build a machine as intelligent as a rat."
Is a rat smarter than Google? That's what two AI experts say
MSNBC.com (June 4, 2012)
- "Science can be fun and exciting, right? Well, when you explain it like experts at the World Science Festival do, children say it can be amazing."
NYC Plays Host To World Science Festival
NY1 (June 2, 2012)
- "The Foundation's mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future."
Alan Alda and Dr. Harold Varmus on the World Science Festival
The Leonard Lopate Show (June 1, 2012)
- "What new technological and cultural forms will we need to acquire to cope with a water-scarce future?"
'Surface Tension' Show At Eyebeam NYC Gallery Spotlights Water, Design
The Huffington Post (June 2, 2012)
- "How do you get what's known through science to be understood by the public?"
World Science Festival
Good Day NY (June 1, 2012)
- "We sometimes think issues with water shortage is just something we just see in the developing world or sub-Saharan Africa but actually there are a lot of those issues a lot closer to home"
Chelsea Exhibit Floods Viewers With New Uses For Water
NY 1 (May 31, 2012)
- "The evening's host Alan Alda had spent an hour juggling presentations from Debra Monk, physicist Brian Greene, the MOMIX modern dance company, LeVar Burton and others."
The 2012 World Science Festival Gala: Our Alternate Universe Questions for LeVar Burton and Alan Alda
The New York Observer (May 31, 2012)
- "Alda has challenged scientists to explain a flame to an eleven year old, with a 6,000 eleven-year-olds worldwide serving as judges for the best explanatio"
Alan Alda Talks Science With Stephen Colbert
The Huffington Post (May 31, 2012)
- "Actor Alan Alda discusses good business models, the World Science Festival and his international Flame Challenge."
Alan Alda
The Colbert Report (May 30, 2012)
- "Alan Alda talks about The Flame Challenge from the 5th Annual World Science Festival."
Joan Hamburg Show
WOR Radio (May 30, 2012)
- "Guests included LeVar Burton, Boaz Almog, Debra Monk and Alan Alda"
2012 World Science Festival: 5th Anniversay Gala Celebration "A Performing Arts Salute to Science"
Guest of a Guest (May 30, 2012)
- "Lab skills were the hot social currency Tuesday night at a gala for this year's World Science Festival."
Revenge of the Nerds at World Science Festival
The Wall Street Journal (May 30, 2012)
- "We have the most important scientists and the best communicators making science available to the public in an exciting way."
Alan Alda on the World Science Festival
The Joan Hamburg Show (May 30, 2012)
- "The kids, when they were judging [Alan Alda's Flame Challenge], weren't judging it based on what was the most entertaining answer, but what would they learn from it."
Alan Alda discusses the World Science Festival with Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report (May 30, 2012)
- "Performers included Joshua Bell, Paige Faure, Drew Gehling, Rose Hemingway, Debra Monk, Eryn Murman, James Naughton, Abbey O'Brien, Teal Wicks, and Yasmine Lee and Steven Ezra Marshall of Momix."
PHOTO FLASH: Alan Alda, Joshua Bell, LeVar Burton, Debra Monk at World Science Festival Gala
Theater Mania (May 29, 2012)
- "Robots are invading New York, and that's not all!"
World Science Festival in NYC
PIX 11 (May 29, 2012)
- "We want to shift science to the cultural center."
Getting your 'geek' on with the World Science Festival – physicist Brian Greene on the importance of making science 'cool'
CNN (May 29, 2012)
- "If the robot is taking care of your dad when he's old, are you being irresponsible?"
New Sci-Fi Movie Creates Future Where Robots Are Servants
NY1 (May 29, 2012)
- "Time to get your geek on!"
Festival Aims to Make Science 'Cool'
CNN (May 29, 2012)
- "It's a Greek tragedy of scientific proportions."
World Science Festival To Open With Re-Invention Of Icarus Tale
NY1 (May 25, 2012)
- "Dr. Greene wants you to know just how bizarre reality became in the last century."
When Science Seems Like Magic
The New York Times (May 24, 2012)
- "The 2012 World Science Festival, running May 30-June 3, presents more than 50 events, performances, lectures and special exhibitions, at venues throughout New York City."
Alan Alda, Joshua Bell, James Naughton, Debra Monk Set for World Science Festival Gala
Theater Mania (May 22, 2012)
- "The festival seeks to attract leading scientific minds, renowned artists and influential thinkers to present science in novel ways, attracting a broad audience from music lovers to science geeks."
'Icarus at the Edge of Time' Opens the 2012 World Science Festival
MetroFocus (May 21, 2012)
2011 Press
- "We're the victims of our own tendency to expect that a series that looks satisfyingly random to us"
A primer on probability and chance
Ars Technica (June 8, 2011)
- "Watson's creator gathered with other computer scientists"
Man-Made Machines showcased at the 2011 World Science Festival
Popular Mechanics (June 8, 2011)
- "I've been thinking about jazz not so much as a destination but as a process"
When the Melody Takes a Detour, the Science Begins
NY Times (June 6, 2011)
- "...a society that decides it will only support applied science and not waste money on pure science is likely to wind up with neither."
Steven Weinberg calls on Americans to support research
Science (June 6, 2011)
- "At New York's World Science Festival, experts dissected how science can arrest aging, extend human life, and erase traumatic memories"
An in-depth look at some of the 2011 Festival events
The Daily Beast (June 5, 2011)
- "Inquiring Minds on Governors Island"
Children of all ages discover the world around them
NY Times (June 5, 2011)
- "In Love With Marie"
Alan Alda's op-ed that discusses his inspiration for "Radiance"
The Huffington Post (May 31, 2011)
- "Alan Alda Shares His Passion"
Interview with Alan Alda about "Radiance" and the World Science Festival
Theater Mania (May 31, 2011)
- "World Science Festival: Dark Matter, Cryptography and Getting Old"
Information about the World Science Festival and quotes from Brian Greene
WNYC Culture (May 30, 2011)
- "This Week in New York: World Science Festival"
"A series of smarty-pants seminars takes the geeky discipline outside of the laboratory. Fill up on facts at six of the best events."
Time Out New York (May 24, 2011)
- "World Science Festival: BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body"
Post detailing the "Biorhythm" event
NYC Kids Arts (May 23, 2011)
- "World Science Festival: Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe"
Post detailing the "Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe" event
NYC Arts (May 23, 2011)
- "Scent events at NYC World Science Festival on 4th and 5th June"
Article details the scent-related events at the Festival
Basenotes (May 21, 2011)
- "World Science Festival 2011—Spotlight: Women in Science"
Blog post on the "Spotlight: Women in Science" event
RENeW (May 20, 2011)
- "Andrew Dawson, Pat Metheny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, MOMIX, et al. Set for World Science Festival"
Article highlights WSF performances "Radiance" and "Articulate Hand"
TheaterMania (May 19, 2011)
- "Maggie Gyllenhaal to Replace Streep in Reading of Play About Marie Curie"
Article featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal's involment in "Radiance"
NYTimes.com Arts Beat (May 18, 2011)
- "Is Space-Time an Elaborate Illusion?"
Article references George Musser's blog post on the "Hologram" program
Big Think (May 18, 2011)
- "Maggie Gyllenhaal to Play Marie Curie at World Science Festival, 6/1"
"Award-winning screen and stage actress Maggie Gyllenhaal steps into the role of history's most famous woman scientist for a special reading of "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie."
TreeHugger.com (May 18, 2011)
- "The art of storytelling at the World Science Festival
Carl Zimmer writes about the Science & Story Events
Discover (May 18, 2011)
2010 Press
- "Standing on the shoulders of science"
Stephen Hawking Honored at NY Science and Arts Gala
USA Today (June 3, 2010)
- "A multimedia masterpiece"
Icarus Myth Adapted as Multimedia Masterpiece
ABC News (June 2, 2010)
- "The beauty of tiny brains"
A Conversation With Jeremy Niven: Insects as Model Animals
The New York Times (July 13, 2010)
- "Why Bonobos don't kill each other"
A Conversation with Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: Why Bonobos Don't Kill Each Other
The New York Times (July 5, 2010)
- "Modern cosmology has synthesized Einstein's theories of relativity"
Brian Greene: Putting emotion back into science
New Scientist (June 16, 2010)
- "Something, not nothing"
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Why there is something, not nothing
National Post (June 10, 2010)
- "Science will win"
Stephen Hawking: Science Will Win Battle With Religion
Opposing Views (June 9, 2010)
- "I'd be surprised if we weren't surprised"
World Science Festival: Untangling String Theory
Discover Blog (June 9, 2010)
- "We're not that special"
World Science Festival: Surprising Smarts in the Animal Kingdom
Discover Blog (June 8, 2010)
- "It's as if we're fish who have suddenly discovered we're in water"
World Science Festival: What if Physicists Don't Find the Higgs Boson?
Discover Blog (June 8, 2010)
- "Chaos ensues"
World Science Festival: Will Scientists Ever Know Everything?
Discover Blog (June 8, 2010)
- "More is known about the moon's surface than the ocean depths"
World's Oceans Remain Largely Mysterious
Live Science (June 07, 2010)
- "Day 4 Recap"
World Science Festival: Day 4 + Recap
Script PhD (June 8, 2010)
- "Want to know if time travel or warp speed is possible?"
The Science of 'Star Trek': How Close Are We?
ABC News (June 7, 2010)
- "From the mysteries of the universe to the definition of God. "
The Conversation: Stephen and Lucy Hawking
ABC News (June 8, 2010)
- "Space can be warped to bring two points closer together"
World Science Festival: The Science of Star Trek
Discover Blog (June 7, 2010)
- "Gravity waves remain the last piece of his theory of general relativity that no scientist has observed directly"
World Science Festival: Waiting for Einstein's Gravity Waves
Discover Blog (June 07, 2010)
- "The brain is basically a pattern-recognition machine. We are desperate to find patterns"
World Science Festival: Listening to Illusions of Sound
Discover Blog (June 07, 2010)
- "Telling Scary Stories of Strangelets "
World Science Festival: Telling Scary Stories of Strangelets
Discover Blog (June 07, 2010)
- "Genetic predisposition and neurochemistry should affect how the legal system deals with violent offenders"
Laws Might Change as the Science of Violence Is Explained
Live Science (June 07, 2010)
- "There were people dressed up as dinosaurs and robot wars"
The World Science Festival: Highlights and 'Hi, WTF?'
Village Voice (June 07, 2010)
- "Show them the money"
Huge Mirrors, DNA Robots, & Brain Communication Win 2010 Kavli Prizes
Discover Blog (June 04, 2010)
- "It all ended in applause"
Good Stories, Well-Told
The Beautiful Brain (June 04, 2010)
- "Prosopagnosia, or "Face Blindness," can be a devastating affliction"
The Country of the Face-Blind
The Beautiful Brain (June 06, 2010)
- "Day 3 Recap"
World Science Festival: Day 3
Script PhD (June 06, 2010)
- "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunks 2012 Armageddon "
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunks 2012 Armageddon
Tom Paine's Ghost (June 07, 2010)
- "A trip through the cosmos "at the speed of art""
Salute of the Stars, Cosmic and Otherwise
The New York Times (June 03, 2010)
- "The World Science Festival has landed in New York City"
This Weekend: Charlie Kaufman and a Happy Ending for Icarus
The Wall Street Journal's Metropolis Blog (June 04, 2010)
- "These are buoyant times among alien enthusiasts"
The Hopeful Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The Atlantic (June 04, 2010)
- "If you yearn to know whether we're alone in the universe, it's a hell of a time to be alive."
World Science Festival: The 4 Ways to Find E.T.
Discover Blog (June 04, 2010)
- "A Little Quantum Science to Go Along With the Leotards and Point Shoes "
A Little Quantum Science to Go Along With the Leotards and Point Shoes
The New York Times (June 04, 2010)
- "The effectiveness of simple line-based representations "wasn't invented; it was discovered by artists,""
Why so many artists have lazy eyes, and other things art can teach us about the brain
Scientific American (June 04, 2010)
- "Opening Gala + Day 2 Recap"
World Science Festival: Opening Gala + Day 2
Script PhD (June 04, 2010)
- "Through music the mind is able to find order among a deluge of sensory information where no obvious order is apparent"
Marvin Minsky and Tod Machover talk music and the mind
Smart Planet (June 04, 2010)
- "Are we alone?"
World Science Festival 2010 report: The Search for Life in the Universe
TED Prize (June 04, 2010)
- "8 Scientists Share $3 Million in Prizes "
8 Scientists Share $3 Million in Prizes
The New York Times (June 03, 2010)
- "Ocean exploration and the effects of the BP oil spill on ocean life"
Ocean Science
WNYC (June 03, 2010)
- "Erotic is not a word usually associated with physics"
On Dance: A Physics Lesson From Karole Armitage
The New York Times (June 03, 2010)
- "Alan Alda welcomed the audience and emphasized the importance of fusing science with art"
World Science Festival Kicks Off With Tribute to Stephen Hawking
The Wall Street Journal's Speak Easy Blog (June 03, 2010)
- "Hawking will be honored at the opening night gala tonight"
Stephen Hawking Coming to World Science Festival
NBC New York (June 02, 2010)
- "Get a load of NASA's newest star: the James Webb Space Telescope"
NASA's new toy, the James Webb Space Telescope, reaches for the stars
New York Daily News (June 02, 2010)
- "Greene has devoted his career to making the mysteries of science accessible to the non-expert public"
A Scientist's Quest to Make Us Care About the Cosmos
The Atlantic (June 02, 2010)
- "Measuring 80-feet long, 37-feet wide and nearly 40-feet high, the model is a replica of the one being launched in 2014, to observe the most distant objects in the universe"
World Science Festival Kicks Off In NYC
New York 1 (June 01, 2010)
- "By looking deep into space, it will collect light and images that have been traveling since nearly the beginning of the universe"
To Take Baby Pictures of the Universe, Click Here
The New York Times (June 01, 2010)
- "Next generation space telescope"
NASA's Next Big Telescope Kicks Off NY Science Fest
Space.com (June 01, 2010)
- "A black hole rolls toward New York"
The Cosmos and the Culture Converge at a Science Festival
May 30, 2010 (May 30, 2010)
- "We may all be holograms "
At NYC Sci Fest, Asking 'What If We're Holograms?'
ABC News (May 29, 2010)
- "Alan Alda Explains Joys Of Upcoming World Science Festival "
Alan Alda Explains Joys Of Upcoming World Science Festival
New York 1 (May 26, 2010)
- "It will be vaudeville such as never seen before, at least in this galaxy"
World Science Festival to Start With a Big Bang
The New York Times (May 20, 2010)
- "The world premiere of Icarus at the Edge of Time"
Philip Glass, Brian Greene and David Henry Hwang's Icarus at the Edge of Time a Highlight of World Science Festival
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The 'Africa' of dominant popular imagination is indexed in multiple sources and cliches that, over time, have fashioned evocative vocabularies, epistemological straitjackets, and pernicious iconography. Anchored in early explorer tales, missionary accounts, colonialist anthropology, ethnography, memoirs, propaganda, these, largely, depreciatory representations of Africa, irrespective of 'globalization', certain cultural, political, and technological shifts, find berths in powerful cultural institutions like museums, schools, the media, and various arenas of Western cultural production. In creating an 'instant Africa', the continent's ostensibly intractable peculiarities are underscored and animated, facts seamlessly merge with fiction, overwrought naturalistic discourses prevail, and the continent's ostensible realities become hostage to formulaic regurgitations of myths and incarceratory reference points. Not surprising, this conjectural 'Africa', marked by fixity and lacks (usually of law, order, civilization, 'progress'), generates a sense of intriguing wonderment, ambivalent systems of identification, and, crucially, paradoxes.
Jude G. Akudinobi, PhD, teaches in the Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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CORNELL - Catherine Ann Bedard and Chad Arthur Carlson were united in marriage on Aug. 25 at Central United Methodist Church in Escanaba. Rev. Scott Harmon presided over the ceremony.
Kayla VanDamme, a friend of the bride, served as maid of honor. Paula Trapani, sister of the bride, served as matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Emily Bedard, sister of the bride, and Rachel Simonsen and Heidi Denesha, both friends of the bride.
Luke Maulding, a friend of the groom, stood as best man. Groomsmen were Pete Trapani, brother-in-law of the bride, and Darrell Cass, Adam Simonsen and TJ Micheau, all friends of the groom.
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A large majority of Americans want Congress to substantially increase the minimum wage as part of an effort to reduce the nation's expanding economic inequality, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
As a growing share of the country's income flows to the very wealthiest, the poll found that 57 percent of Americans say lawmakers should pursue policies aimed at balancing an economic system they think is out of whack. Nearly two in three say federal policy is tilted toward helping the rich over Americans who are less well-off, according to the survey.
The findings come as President Barack Obama has moved to refocus national attention on the problems of inequality and decreasing social mobility. Earlier this month, he called confronting the twin issues "the defining challenge of our time." He added that "making sure our economy works for every working American" will be a central task of his remaining time in office.
Obama recently came out in favor of rasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour — a much larger increase than he had proposed in his State of the Union address in February, when he advocated raising it to $9 an hour.
Increasing the minimum wage, which has stood at $7.25 an hour since 2009, is one of the chief policy tools economists recommend to address inequality. It is also popular among everyday Americans: About two in three say the wage floor should be lifted, and the average wage suggested is $9.41 an hour.
The idea of using public policy to combat inequality is much more popular among Democrats and independents than it is among Republicans. Three in four Democrats and 58 percent of independents say Washington should pursue policies to address inequality, a sentiment that was shared by just two in five Republicans.
A similar divide is evident when it comes to the minimum wage. Eighty-five percent of Democrats support raising the wage, while Republicans are split 50-45 on the issue, the poll found.
Republicans support a lower wage floor than Democrats, when asked separately about their preferred dollar amount. On average, Democrats favor a minimum wage of just over $10, while Republicans want it to be about $8.60 an hour. Independents fall in between, supporting an average minimum wage of about $9.40 an hour. All three groups set their preferred minimum wage higher than the current $7.25, but far below a $15 wage sought by some worker advocates.
Although partisans disagree about what should be done about inequality, economists say the issue has reached dimensions not seen since the years preceding the Great Depression.
Whether calculated by comparing the growth in wages of the highest-income Americans with the lowest, or the proportion of wealth controlled by the richest Americans, or the ratio of wages for production workers to those of chief executives, inequality has grown. Americans have consistently called for government to aim policies at shrinking the gap.
Two years ago, when the Occupy Wall Street movement helped move the issue into the mainstream of political debate, a Post-ABC poll found that more than six in 10 perceived a widening wealth gap and 60 percent wanted Washington to pursue policy to address it, similar to today's 57 percent mark. In the fall of 2012, 52 percent of registered voters shared that sentiment.
Although some policymakers point to minimum-wage increases, more widespread unionization, better education opportunities and bolstering income-support programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit as possible remedies, enacting those policies has always proved difficult.
"A majority of the public might favor some policies that the minority that has the most influence is less enthusiastic about," said Martin Gilens, a politics professor at Princeton University. "On some policies, there is ambivalence among the public. While there is strong support for opportunity-enhancing policies to reduce inequality, there is less support for directly redistributive policies."
Obama has periodically invoked inequality as a problem and promised to address it. Yet economic inequality has only widened on his watch.
Between 2009 and 2012, the incomes of the top 1 percent of earners grew by more than 31 percent, according to Emmanuel Saez, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent expanded by just 0.4 percent.
"He's got a Republican House and even members of the Democratic Party who are strongly aligned with business interest, who are at best ambivalent about some of these policies that certainly are not popular among business interests that have to foot the bill," Gilens said. "When you have divided government and multiple veto points, policies that even a majority of people support can be difficult to adopt."
The new Post-ABC poll was conducted Dec. 12-15 among a random national sample of 1,005 adults, including interviews on land lines and with cellphone-only respondents. The overall margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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Hair Treatments and Highlights During Pregnancy
Proceed with caution when it comes to hair treatments and highlights during pregnancy
Thinking about a perm or body wave to restore some body, or a straightening treatment to calm those curls? Think again. Not only is there the possibility that your hormone-infused locks will respond oddly to the chemicals (you might end up with a ball of frizz instead of a crown of ringlets), but there's a slight possibility that the substances can be absorbed through the scalp and into your bloodstream. Though there's only a theoretical problem there (no link has been established between these chemicals and pregnancy problems), most cautious doctors (and stylists) advise against them, especially in the first trimester.
You'll probably want to proceed with caution when it comes to coloring too. Highlights are considered safe by most practitioners since the product isn't applied as close to the scalp; so are milder color treatments (all-vegetable dyes, or no-ammonia blends), so chances are you'll be able to hide that gray or bring out (or create) those gold tones with no problem. To find out where your practitioner stands on the color issue, just ask; many will recommend keeping your roots waiting until the fourth month, and the ultracautious may recommend against any chemical processing until after your baby is born.
And if your eyelashes could use some beefing up, stick to mascara. Eyelash growing treatments, like Latisse and a host of OTC products, haven't been tested for safety during pregnancy, so it's best to stay away.


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LINCOLN — Taylor Martinez grinned, waved and even found himself coaxed into blowing a goofy kiss to the crowd.
The quarterback had broken Nebraska's record for career passing yards earlier in the game, and the public address announcer found a quiet moment in the fourth quarter to honor it.
Quiet. Fourth quarter. Nebraska. Yes, those words belonged together. In harmony.
After two months of nail-biters, the No. 14 Huskers finally found their Big Ten breather, rolling Minnesota 38-14 Saturday to keep the lead in the Legends Division. Martinez didn't play a down in the final quarter.
"It was awesome," Martinez said of his brief respite from late-game heroics. "We started fast."
Indeed. Playing hare instead of tortoise, NU broke its sweat early and led 24-0 at halftime by winning all of the wide receiver-secondary battles on both sides of the ball. Martinez jabbed Minnesota's top-10 pass defense with quick screens to the flat before throwing over the Gophers for big gains while the Huskers' defensive backs put UM receivers on ice with suffocating coverage.
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Martinez completed 21 of 29 passes for 308 yards and two touchdowns. Minnesota quarterbacks completed 10 of 28 for 90 yards and two interceptions. The story of the score can end there.
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Here: The Huskers (9-2, 6-1 Big Ten) gained 444 yards, gave up 177, forced 11 punts, scored a defensive touchdown and, perhaps paramount on Senior Day, gave coach Bo Pelini a chance to empty his bench for the first time since a Sept. 22 romp against Idaho State.
By the time cornerback Stanley Jean-Baptiste intercepted a ricocheted pass and returned it 48 yards for a touchdown to make it 38-0 late in the third quarter, most of the 85,330 in Memorial Stadium were transferring their emotions to periodic video tributes to retiring Athletic Director Tom Osborne and reserves getting their final chance to play on Senior Day.
"That was our goal," safety P.J. Smith said. "To start off fast and dominate in the beginning and get all the other guys in. That's exactly what we did."
Pelini asked Osborne — the legendary coach-turned-A.D. who retires Jan. 1 — to help lead the Huskers through the pregame Tunnel Walk. Osborne, Pelini said, tried to turn down the offer. Pelini insisted, holding up the arm of the man who hired him to the crowd before the team ran to its sideline.
"That's the way it should be," Pelini said. "Not just for us, but I think the fans wanted to see him walk out of there one last time."
Said running backs coach Ron Brown, who was originally hired by Osborne in 1987: "It broke me. It broke me a little bit seeing him come out with the team early on. ... He's kind of seen me grow up a little."
Kenny Bell thought it was fitting.
"He's done so much and influenced our lives in such ways," the receiver said. "We were really thankful to have him lead us on the field. I mean, that's a big deal. The Tunnel Walk is a sacred thing."
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The offense wasted little time showing its gratitude. For the first time in weeks, Bell said, Minnesota's defense on film actually matched what it did on the field. The Gophers (6-5, 2-5) packed the box to stop the run. Offensive coordinator Tim Beck and Martinez responded with a no-huddle offense spiked with passes.
Martinez completed his first six throws. The last of that stretch was a 36-yard touchdown to Bell that gave Nebraska a 10-0 lead. Two drives later, he hit Bell on the same post pattern for a 29-yard gain. Imani Cross scored a touchdown on the next play. On the next drive, Martinez floated a pass over UM corner Michael Carter to Quincy Enunwa for another 29-yard gain. Cross finished that drive, too, with a short touchdown plunge.
Just before halftime, Cross was stuffed at the goal line, 1 yard short of finishing an otherwise perfectly executed two-minute drill from Martinez, the first quarterback to throw for 300 yards on Minnesota this year. Martinez consistently checked in and out of plays, moving his running backs and wide receivers to spots based on the Gophers' defensive look.
"He knows their offense inside and out," UM coach Jerry Kill said of Martinez. "I have coached this game for 30 years, and I watched him last year, and I think the coaches had a lot to do with it. But I think he is doing a lot on the line of scrimmage on his own."
The Husker defense clogged any running lanes for the Gophers, who turned early and often to the pass as a counter. Nickel Ciante Evans said Nebraska was a little surprised, but adjusted quickly, overplaying the short slant and hook routes while forcing Minnesota freshman quarterback Philip Nelson to hit deep passes against single coverage. He couldn't. Cue the blowout and the fifth win in Pelini's "win out" challenge delivered to his team after the loss at Ohio State.
Iowa is the final game on Pelini's list. The Hawkeyes lost any hope of a bowl bid Saturday in a 42-17 loss to Michigan and can now merely spoil the Huskers' run at a Big Ten title.
Iowa will have the advantage of playing a morning game at home in a short week. Pelini said NU coaches must "get everything down in a three-day span" because of Thanksgiving and the Friday kickoff.
"You can do it," Pelini said. "It's just going to require a little bit greater attention to detail all through our practice schedule. We'll get ready."
Defensive end Eric Martin already is. He got his breather Saturday.
"I'm not even tired," Martin said, smiling. "I want to go play again."
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With a computer-generated tiger at the center of the upcoming "Life of Pi," a controversy over live animals is brewing on a different holiday release.
With a computer-generated tiger at the center of the upcoming "Life of Pi," a controversy over live animals is brewing on a different holiday release.
Wranglers in New Zealand have complained that as many as 27 animals have died as a result of conditions on the set of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," according to the Associated Press.
The wranglers said that a series of sinkholes and other perils on farms made the conditions a "death trap" for the animals.
A spokesman for director Peter Jackson has confirmed an unspecified number of deaths related to conditions on a Wellington farm. Horses, goats and sheep were among the casualties, he told the AP. He said that when production supervisors learned of the conditions they quickly moved to fix them.
Still, the animal-rights group PETA said that as a result of the news it will protest several premieres of the film, produced by New Line and released by Warner Bros. around the world.
Though the American Humane Assn. gave the "Hobbit" production a clean bill of health, it generally monitors only on-set activities, not the living quarters of animals used in filming.
[Updated, Nov. 19, 12:07 p.m.: Filmmakers are denying any responsibility for the animals' deaths, according to a statement appearing in Variety and elsewhere.
"The producers completely reject the accusations that 27 animals died due to mistreatment during the making of the films," read the statement in part. "Extraordinary measures were taken to make sure that animals were not used during action sequences or any other sequence that might create undue stress for the animals involved.
"Over 55% of all shots using animals in The Hobbit are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars, and wolves," it continued. Though it noted the American Humane Assn. monitored production, the statement did not address the wranglers' main allegations that the animals had died as a result of their off-set living conditions.
It was also unclear which producers had signed the statement; a New Line spokeswoman did not immediately reply to a request seeking clarification. "Hobbit" is being produced by Jackson, Fran Walsh and Carolynne Cunningham.]
The news comes just ahead of the film's December opening, when it is expected to do blockbuster business. Two more "Hobbit" films have been shot as part of the same overall production.
The Peter Jackson franchise, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's bestselling book, uses a large number of special effects but also integrated real animals into some scenes.
Activists have in the past year sought to call more attention to poor conditions for animals at the Hollywood productions of "Water for Elephants," "The Zookeeper" and "Dolphin Tale." Earlier in the year HBO decided to halt production on its horse racing show "Luck" in part because three horses had died during production.
Matt Rossell, campaign director for the U.S. branch of the nonprofit animal-rights group ADI, told The Times last year that he was startled to find that so many live animals continued to be used on Hollywood productions. "I think it's very disturbing, the trend that we're seeing of more and more animals appearing in movies, and I think we should be moving in the other direction with the technology we have. We're calling on these studios to really take a good, hard look" at their use of animals in fictional entertainment, he said.
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SABMiller plc Trading Update
15 October 2007SABMiller plc today provided an update regarding trading during the six-month period to 30 September 2007, which is the first half of its financial year. The calculation of the organic growth rates included below excludes volumes for acquired businesses for the first 12 months after an acquisition. As communicated on 24 September 2007 SABMiller has continued its strong start to the year, with organic growth in lager volumes of 11% for the six months ended 30 September 2007. The growth in revenue has been partially offset by higher input costs and increased investment across the business whilst financial performance for the six months remains in line with management's expectations. In Latin America, lager volumes rose by 8%. Whilst South America has enjoyed a period of high volume growth during the initial implementation of the group's plans, this growth has moderated in recent months as expected. In Colombia, lager volumes have grown more than 7% in the half year. Slower growth was recorded in the latter part of the period, off a high base in the prior year. The Colombia operation continues with the major restructuring of its route to market network and the phased relaunch of the market leading Aguila brand. In Peru, volumes are up 10% in a market which remains highly competitive. The business continues its significant investments across the region in route to market, brand building and merchandising which are expected to constrain margins in the short term. Europe achieved organic growth in lager volumes of 12%. Sales in the first two months of the half year were particularly strong, assisted by warm weather, but volumes moderated somewhat in the later months. Poland achieved growth of 13% across its portfolio, notwithstanding challenging comparatives. Volumes in Russia were up by 18% with all brands contributing to this growth. Romania grew by 37%, boosted by the increased capacity introduced in the prior year and driven by the ongoing success of the Timisoreana brand and its new PET packaging. In the Czech Republic good volume growth of 3% was achieved. In North America, Miller's domestic sales to retailers (STRs) increased by 5.9% over the prior year, and were up 1.4% on an organic basis (excluding Sparks and Steel Reserve, acquired in August 2006), with Miller Lite STRs up by 2.1%. Miller's strategy to grow Miller Lite and to migrate its brand portfolio to higher margin segments has contributed to an increase of 3.9% in domestic net revenue per barrel. Miller Chill, the company's new 'chelada style' light beer, continues to trade above expectations whilst volumes of the group's international worthmore brand Peroni Nastro Azzurro and craft beer Leinenkugel's are up by strong double digit percentages. SABMiller's Africa & Asia operations have again grown rapidly and achieved organic growth of some 20% in lager volumes, driven by China where volumes have increased by 22%. In Africa (excluding Zimbabwe), lager volumes grew by 6% on an organic basis, with 11% volume growth in Botswana after two difficult years and very good performances achieved in Tanzania and Mozambique. In South Africa, our lager volumes were up 2% with stronger growth in the mainstream segment and following the successful launch of our premium brand, Hanza Marzen Gold, in early May. Recently volume performance has been somewhat constrained due to a combination of local supply shortages and reduced flexibility during new brand and pack introductions including the implementation of our mainstream renovation programme. Soft drink volumes grew by 9% reflecting favourable weather conditions and trade restocking in earlier months following some supply shortages at the end of the prior year. Ends About SABMiller plcSABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers with brewing interests or distribution agreements in over 60 countries across six continents. The group's brands include premium international beers such as Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Pilsner Urquell, as well as an exceptional range of market leading local brands. Outside the USA, SABMiller plc is also one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products in the world.
In the year ended 31 March 2007, the group reported US$3,154 million adjusted pre-tax profit and revenue of US$18,620 million. SABMiller plc is listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. This announcement is available on the company website: www.sabmiller.com High resolution images are available for the media to view and download free of charge from www.sabmiller.com or www.newscast.co.uk
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