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A Salt Lake City-based company called Amendment II that makes armored backpacks and child-sized protective wear has seen its sales skyrocket in the aftermath of last week's horrifying Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
At $300, the Ballistic Backpack may seem a bit pricey, but the carbon nanotube technology that makes it light and effective is cutting edge, according to company president Richard Craig.
"If you took Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum with hollow point bullets and put your muzzle up to the fabric, it would stop the bullet," Craig tells Parenting. "Carbon nanotubes are lighter than air and stronger than diamonds and flexible as rubber."
With four star generals on its board, Amendment II bills itself as a provider for military and police organizations first. But in the wake of Friday's shooting, Craig says his company has been overwhelmed with requests from parents and is currently unable to keep up with demand.
"On Saturday and Sunday all of our sales were not to police officers or adults. They were parents bringing their kids backpacks to our venue, asking 'can you please armor these?'" Craig says. "We've been saying that students should consider having armor in high risk areas. But we were thinking colleges and high schools, not babies."
Plus: Should You Tell Your Kids about the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting?
Whether you find the idea of an armored backpack depressing, inspired or opportunistic, sales of the Ballistic Backpack quadrupled on the day after the shooting, according to Craig, and has gone up every day since. A New York-based investment company plunged $3 million in funds into the company over the weekend.
According to the website: "Our ballistic backpack provides built-in ballistic protection in a backpack that weighs just ounces more than a non-armored backpack … Sewn into the rear of the pack, you can always be confident that the armor hasn't been accidentally left at home and that you or your child are protected in case of the unthinkable. The backpack can be quickly brought to the front as a shield or can serve as center of mass protection while fleeing the scene of the shooting."
Amendment II, which was looking into going public as recently as two months ago, had been valued at $29 million. Today that figure stands at $100 million, according to Craig.
"We've decided as a company that we're not going to make a red cent off the backs of children," he adds. "We're going to pull funds from our investor groups, and increase our costs on military and police products to offset the loss we'll take."
Craig then excused himself, phones still ringing in the background, to leave the office for his son's school Christmas party.


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In the final presidential debate, when explaining why the Navy has fewer ships than in 1916, President Obama famously quipped that the United States also has "fewer horses and bayonets," setting off a debate over quality versus quantity. In the Arctic — an increasingly important part of the world — the situation is simpler. When it comes to patrolling and securing the Arctic, the United States has neither quality nor quantity.
The rapid melting of the Arctic sea ice is opening up previously unnavigable areas to shipping and drilling. Many scientists predict that by 2030, the Arctic Ocean will experience ice-free conditions during the summer. The Northwest Passage — the once-mythical sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific near the top of the world that explorers spent centuries searching for — is fast becoming a reality. Already, the maritime area in which the U.S. Coast Guard is responsible for safety, security and environmental protection missions is experiencing a significant increase in traffic.
To meet this challenge, the Coast Guard has three Arctic-capable icebreakers: two heavy-duty icebreakers — both of which were commissioned in the mid-1970s — and a more modern medium-duty icebreaker, the Healy. Were all three operational, the United States would lag behind several other Arctic nations in capabilities; in fact, only one — the Healy — is currently operational. According to a Coast Guard study, it will need at least six heavy-duty and four medium icebreakers just to meet mission requirements.

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More Faith in the Taliban than in the Government?
It is certainly not an enviable task. Zemarai Baschari is spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of the Interior in Kabul. While everyone else who is responsible for security issues in Afghanistan has become camera-shy of late, Baschari has no choice but to go on answering the journalists' questions.
Almost every day now for over a year, Baschari has been questioned about the number of victims in various combat zones or about the people behind the most recent suicide bomb attack in the country. The security situation in Afghanistan is anything but satisfactory.
The Taliban and its supporters are now active nationwide. Explosions, suicide bombers, and attacks on teachers, police officers, and assumed government informers are just as much part of their repertoire as attacks on military bases and district governments.
A steady stream of denials
Baschari has been doing this for so long that he has a quiverful of standard answers for the many annoying questions about all the things that are happening in his native country. He talks of the 'enemies of the Afghan people', of misinformation, of misunderstandings, and of journalists who exaggerate everything and are purposefully talking up a security crisis in Afghanistan. He usually concludes by saying that the situation is not half as bad as it is generally assumed to be.
When asked about the most recent incident, where 13 police officers in the south-western province of Farah were said to have defected to the Taliban and brought their equipment and weapons with them, his answer sounded remarkably familiar. It was all a big misunderstanding; the police officers had not defected to the Taliban at all; they had just taken some leave and driven to their homes with their vehicles and weapons, he explained. They were later ordered to return to their posts by their commanders.
The agencies tell a completely different story. Even the officer responsible for the south-western provinces considers the explanation given by Baschiri to be implausible. After all, he explains, this would not be the first time that police officers and soldiers had defected to the Taliban.
Afghan security forces are badly paid and poorly equipped. Between 50 and 100 dollars a month is obviously no longer enough to motivate them to face up to an enemy who is getting stronger and more brutal by the day.
The situation is aggravated by the fact that their salaries are not paid on time. Like everyone else, police officers have to pay the rent on time and look after their families. But how? An increasing number of officers have obviously decided to try less legal methods of earning money by lining their pockets with the money of the citizens they are supposed to be protecting.
Sometimes members of the security forces supplement their incomes by doing business with criminal gangs and drug smugglers. This, at least, is how Afghanistan expert Fahim Dashti sees things.
Massive loss of trust
The population has long since lost its faith in the official security forces and the government authorities. "In some regions, if there is a dispute, they prefer to turn to the Taliban fighters and their mullahs than to the official forces," says Dashti, "because they know that the civil servants will decide in favour of the person capable of paying the larger baksheesh."
The government in Kabul, however, categorically denies such stories. It prefers to ignore the reality of life in Afghanistan. According to Dashti, the people in charge in Kabul assume that nothing can happen to them as long as they have the backing of the West.
These politicians consider themselves to be the natural partner of the USA – a partner the West cannot afford to lose in view of the chaos in the region. And so they operate according to the principle that it is better to have happy Americans than happy Afghans.
The people of Afghanistan don't feel as if they are being taken seriously and feel let down by their own government. Many of them no longer believe that the government is in a position to solve the problem of the Taliban.
The creeping victory of the Taliban
Earlier this week, tribal leaders in Afghanistan's eight southern provinces once again called on the government to negotiate with the Taliban about co-operation.
The government has not yet responded to these demands. Fahim Dashti warns against underestimating the growing strength of the Taliban. He is convinced that if the government and the states that support it do not change their strategy and come up with sensible concepts for the development of the country soon, it is highly likely that the Taliban will overrun the entire country within a year or two at the latest.
It goes without saying that Zemarai Baschari, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of the Interior, sees things very differently.
Ratbil Shamel
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (Saturday, February 25, 2012) – The Colorado Rapids captured a 1-0 win over Melbourne Heart in the Consolation Match of the Hawaiian Islands Invitational on Saturday evening, with the winning goal coming from rookie Tony Cascio. The Rapids' first round selection in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft scored on a rocket in the 30th minute, and also hit the crossbar and the post with shots later in the match.
The Rapids started the game with a lineup that had just two changes from Thursday's match against Yokohama F.C., with Steward Ceus replacing Matt Pickens in goal, and Quincy Amarikwa starting up top for Omar Cummings, who left Hawaii to join the Jamaican National Team for a friendly match at New Zealand next Wednesday.
After dominating the opening stages, it was Cascio that finally broke the deadlock when he found space on the left wing, dribbled inside, and lashed a low, right-footed shot into the corner of the near post after 30 minutes. The rookie continued his strong play, hitting the crossbar from distance before the half. The only dark spot on the first half was when captain Pablo Mastroeni left the match after 40 minutes, taking a knock to the head. He will be evaluated further upon the team's return to Denver.
The second half saw more of the same for the Rapids, though the team made several substitutions throughout and brought in younger players. Cascio hit the post from 20 yards with a blast on a free kick, and Amarikwa also had several chances. The Rapids were again denied by the crossbar when Andre Akpan hit the beam with a header just moments after entering the game. Another new Rapids player, Kohei Yamada, made his debut, entering the match in minute 75 for Jaime Castrillón. Colorado outshot Melbourne by a final tally of 15-3.
With the result, the Rapids earned third place in the inaugural Hawaiian Islands Invitational, having lost their opening match to Yokohama F.C. by a 2-1 score on Thursday. The team will leave Hawaii on Sunday night and land in Denver on Monday morning, resuming training later in the week ahead of the team's MLS regular season debut on March 10 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
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COL – Tony Cascio (Jaime Castrillón) 30
Colorado Rapids – Steward Ceus, Luis Zapata (Scott Palguta 57), Drew Moor (Tyrone Marshall 46), Marvell Wynne, Kosuke Kimura, Jeff Larentowicz (Joseph Nane 46), Pablo Mastroeni (Ross LaBauex 42), Jaime Castrillón (Kohei Yamada 75), Tony Cascio (Andre Akpan 81), Quincy Amarikwa, Brian Mullan
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KENT, N.Y. – Richard Light realizes it is time to sell the Kent home that has been owned by members of his family for the last 99 years. Reluctantly, he is doing so.
"It's a charmer,'' said Light, who has lived in the farmhouse with his family since 1961. "It's a little bit of heaven right here."
The four-bedroom, two-bath home at 581 Ludingtonville Road was built in 1863, and his great aunt purchased the home in 1915. Light lived on another home nearby before moving to the home with his parents and sister in 1961. His parents died within the past four years, and the home and property is too much for Light and his sister to maintain. "I hate to let it go,'' Light said, "but it has to be done."
The home has 1,894 square feet and 1.1 acres. It is being listed by Coldwell Banker agent Margot Friedlander for $229,500. Complete details are available online .
The home has been updated several times over the years. "It was first modernized in 1961,'' Light said. "There were no indoor bathrooms or running water. Prior to that we had to use an outhouse. That was a great improvement. My great aunt couldn't get over it. There was also a rock basement."
Light and his family have continually renovated the home, which features beautiful hardwood floors throughout the house. The first floor has a kitchen, family room, guest room/office, dining room and sun porch. There are four large bedrooms upstairs.
Light said the buyer will find surprises throughout the house. "There are secret cubbyholes my great uncle incorporated into the place,'' Light said. "The stairwell is very unique. It's a winding staircase with two landings. You'll look down and see a little door that opens up underneath the stairs for storage. The first stair was a 'secret stair.' It's where he kept his shoe repairing supplies. There's a 'little attic' with a storage area in the whole backside of the house. There are cabinets built into the walls upstairs with shelving. I haven't seen that in any other place."
The charming interior features are complimented by a private and landscaped exterior. Light promises the buyer will enjoy the sun porch off the dining room and the wildlife that abounds in the area. "There's every kind of bird you can imagine,'' he said. "You'll see rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels and even the occasional skunk. I think the wildlife is the thing I'm going to miss the most."
For all of its privacy, the home is close to Interstate 84 and offers easy commutability to southern Westchester, western Fairfield County and Dutchess County. "I remember when they put 84 through,'' Light said. "It's an easy commute to wherever you want to go. It's convenient to shopping."
Light said he also enjoyed the neighborhood, where people respected each other's privacy. "They don't bother you,'' he said. "But if you need something, they're right there."
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The visitors took a surprise lead shortly before half-time through Alberto Botia, but second-half goals from David Villa and Lionel Messi were enough for the league leaders to take the three points.
However, speaking to journalists after the game, the Andalusian outfit's trainer declared that he was happy with the performance his team delivered at Camp Nou.
"I am satisfied," the 41-year-old Spaniard told a post-match press conference.
"A defeat always leaves a bad taste, but we have to look at the positives. We have taken an important step in building something that will help us in the future."
The loss saw Sevilla slip into the bottom half of the table but Emery maintained that there was no need for alarm.
"We had opportunities to draw the game but we just couldn't do the little things well enough," the former Valencia and Spartak Moscow boss added.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. – The No. 19/20-ranked Florida State women's basketball team fell on the road to Virginia Tech 71-52 on Sunday at Cassell Coliseum.
The Seminoles were led by Morgan Toles (13 points), but couldn't contain Hokies Monet Tellier (24 points) and Uju Ugoka (21 points, 12 rebounds).
The Seminoles (20-7, 10-6 in the ACC) shot just 33 percent and dished a season-low six assists.
"Credit Virginia Tech," Florida State head coach Sue Semrau said. "They played harder than us. They rebounded the ball exceptionally well. We let our lack of offense dictate how we played defensively. We got to 20 wins and relaxed. Anytime you relax against an ACC opponent, you are going to get beat."
FSU led 13-9 when Alexa Deluzio hit a step-back three-pointer at the 14:45 mark in the first half.
Tellier answered by scoring seven consecutive points to put the Hokies in front 16-13. She made four of her first five shot attempts and had 12 points in the first eight minutes.
Virginia Tech went on a 14-0 run midway through the first half as FSU went cold. The Seminoles didn't score a point for an eight-and-a-half minute stretch as the Hokies built a 23-13 lead.
Deluizo ended the drought with an off-balance jumper at the 6:08 mark in the first half, but Virginia Tech made back-to-back buckets to swell its lead to 27-15.
Tellier had 16 points in the first half, including a halftime buzzer-beater that gave the Hokies a 33-22 lead.
Led by Toles and Natasha Howard, FSU cut the deficit to 7 early in the second half after Howard rebounded her own miss and made a layup to make the score 37-30.
The Hokies used a 9-2 run to regain control, however. Alyssa Fenyn's three with 13 minutes left put Virginia Tech in front, 46-32.
Tellier's pull-up jumper with nine minutes left extended the VT advantage to 52-35.
The Hokes improved to 9-18 overall and 3-13 in the ACC.
The Seminoles return to action for "Senior Night" on Thursday against No. 8 Maryland at 7 p.m. in Tallahassee before wrapping up the regular season at Virginia next Sunday.
For more information on Florida State women's basketball, follow the Seminoles on Twitter @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page.


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This week's installment of The Bachelor was the much-anticipated 'Women Tell All' (except where it comes to violating your non-disclosure agreement) special, and the ladies finally got their chance to make Courtney Robertson cry. They called her out for lying, accused her of being a stripper, and in general, piled on her like a bunch of ravenous wolves, jealous that they didn't have the skills to lock the Flajnik down.
In his People.com blog, Ben is over the women's treatment of Courtney and believes that she is sorry. He writes, "I appreciate what she did by coming on Women Tell All and apologizing for her actions, it seemed genuine to me."
Whether or not he believes it or needs to pretend to support her in order to make his bosses at the network happy and keep the facade rolling until the final rose ceremony, is anyone's guess. Ben has defended Courtney in his blogs all season, and continues to claim that she's a good person, and that we just don't know her like he does.
He explains, "To see an emotional side of this woman was a good thing and it makes her feel like she is human, and a softer, sweeter side is shown. It's a side that I saw throughout the journey that no one else did."
With the season almost at a close, it's time to crank up the rumor mill and speculate on who will be the next lucky man to have a televised open relationship! The current rumor belongs to football player and Christian sensation, Tim Tebow.
The rumor originated due to an interview Tim did with Bachelor host Chris Harrison on Access Hollywood. In an interview with CBS Sports, Harrison reveals that "He did say yes… but he would never do it," he has a little job called quarterback at least for another year." He was also quick to point out that celebrities "always say yes" when Chris asks them about the show, but obviously, none have ever actually done it.
It's highly doubtful Tim would have participated anyway, due to the huge time commitment, and more importantly, I'm guessing hooking up with multiple women conflicts with Tim's devout Christian beliefs.
He cleared up the rumor via his Twitter, writing ""Haha rumors can be crazy! Even though I've watched the show before, I'm definitely not gonna be on the Bachelor. #JessePalmer."


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Mutualistic relationships between vertebrates and plants apart from the pollen and seed-dispersal syndromes are rare. At first view, carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes seem to be highly unlikely candidates for mutualistic interactions with animals, as they form dimorphic terrestrial and aerial pitchers that trap arthropods and small vertebrates. Surprisingly, however, the aerial pitchers of Nepenthes rafflesiana variety elongata are poor insect traps, with low amounts of insect-attractive volatile compounds and low amounts of digestive fluid. Here, we show that N. rafflesiana elongata gains an estimated 33.8 per cent of the total foliar nitrogen from the faeces of Hardwicke's woolly bats (Kerivoula hardwickii hardwickii) that exclusively roost in its aerial pitchers. This is the first case in which the faeces-trapping syndrome has been documented in a pitcher plant that attracts bats and only the second case of a mutualistic association between a carnivorous plant and a mammal to date.
1. Introduction
Carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes grow in nutrient-poor soils and rely on trapping arthropods to acquire sufficient nitrogen [1–3]. In many pitcher plant species, pitcher morphology, fluid viscoelastic properties, extent of epicuticular wax crystals and peristome design predict, to a large extent, prey composition (e.g. [4,5]). In Borneo, Nepenthes rafflesiana has five distinct growth forms, one of which is extraordinary in several ways. Nepenthes rafflesiana elongata (figure 1a) possesses aerial pitchers that, compared with the typical variety Nepenthes rafflesiana typica, are up to four times longer, produce fewer human-perceptible fragrances, exhibit a unique UV light absorption spectrum and capture insects at rates up to seven times lower [6,7]. Surprisingly, we regularly found woolly bats (Kerivoula hardwickii hardwickii [8]) roosting above the digestive fluid in the aerial pitchers of N. r. elongata, and hypothesized that pitcher plants entice bats to roost in their pitchers in return for nitrogen that they sequester from bat faeces or urine. Other bat species use a variety of daytime roosts, including furled leaves and bamboo culms [9], but none are known to roost in pitcher plants. The aim of this study was to quantify pitcher use by woolly bats and to determine how much nitrogen the plant derives from woolly bat faeces. We hypothesized that a mutualistic relationship exists between Hardwicke's woolly bats and N. r. elongata.
2. Material and methods
From 14 June to 30 July 2009, Hardwicke's woolly bats were caught by daily patrols of 423 pitchers of N. r. elongata in a peat swamp forest in Brunei Darussalam (4°35′16.80″ N, 114°30′48.80″ E). Using skinbond adhesive (Manfred Sauer GmbH), we fixed transmitters (Holohil Systems Ltd; weight: 0.4 g) onto bats' backs, which fall off after 3–12 days. To localize the bats, we used a TRX-1000S Wildlife Materials receiver (Carbondale, IL, USA).
We compared the isotopic signature of leaf blades from pitchers used as roosts with those from control pitchers that were never occupied, which had been monitored daily since they had opened. Occupied (n = 38) and control pitchers (n = 17) and their associated leaf blades were collected after three to six weeks of daily monitoring, for analysis of total nitrogen and stable isotope ratios of 15N/14N (δ15N). The contribution from bats to total foliar nitrogen was estimated using a two-member isotopic mixing model [10] using mean δ15N values for leaf blades of bat-occupied aerial pitchers (n = 38), aerial leaf blades without faecal input (n = 17) and woolly bat faeces (n = 3, see details of the model in the electronic supplementary material).
For the analysis of total N and δ15N, samples were sent to the Cornell isotope laboratory (COIL; Ithaca, NY, USA), which used a Thermo Delta V isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) interfaced to an NC2500 elemental analyser. The primary reference scale for δ15N was atmospheric air. An internal standard (s.d. = 0.09‰ for δ15N) was analysed after every 10 samples to ensure accuracy. We measured pitcher length and fluid levels in N. r. elongata and N. r. typica to evaluate the available roosting space. Means and s.d. are given as descriptive statistics.
3. Results
We found 14 male and 18 female Hardwicke's woolly bats roosting in aerial pitchers of N. r. elongata in 2008 and 2009 (figure 1b). Of these, we radio-tracked 17 males and females over an average of 6.1 ± 3.3 days (range 1–12 days) and found that each tagged individual exclusively used pitchers of N. r. elongata as daytime roosts, despite the widespread abundance of other potential roosting sites (furled leaves, hollow trees and other Nepenthes (N. r. typica, N. bicalcarata, N. ampullaria)). During our 6.5 week study period in 2009, 87 (20.8%) of 418 monitored N. r. elongata pitchers were occupied by a total of 25 bats. In total, 64 plants (out of 223) harboured at least one bat in one of its pitchers. Thus, the incidence of plant occupancy was 28.7 per cent over the total study period of 6.5 weeks, compared with a 20.8 per cent pitcher occupancy rate. On average, 1.30 ± 0.70% of the 423 monitored pitchers was occupied on a single day. On two separate occasions, a juvenile bat (one male, one female) shared the same pitcher with their mother.
The elongated pitcher in N. r. elongata provided bats ample room to roost. The distance between the lower rim of the peristome and the pitcher fluid was 151.4 ± 37.8 mm (n = 58; range: 49.7–228.5 mm). With the bats' body length averaging 36.6 ± 0.8 mm (n = 4), most N. r. elongata aerial pitchers provided enough roosting space for two bats stacked above each other. In contrast, N. r. typica aerial pitchers, which were not occupied by bats, provided significantly less roosting space (t-test, t = −912, d.f. = 68, p < 0.001) with average distances of only 50.5 ± 12.3 mm (n = 12, range: 31.6–67.7 mm) between peristome and fluid (figure 1c). Fluid levels were significantly lower in N. r. elongata (25.0 ± 23.7 mm) than in N. r. typica (54.0 ± 12.0 mm; t-test, t = 4.12, d.f. = 68, p < 0.001).
To test the hypothesis that pitcher plants sequester nitrogen from bat faeces or urine, we compared the total nitrogen and 15N/14N (δ15N) stable isotopic signature of leaf blades from pitchers used as roosts with those of leaf blades from pitchers never occupied by bats. We found that total foliar nitrogen was significantly higher in leaf blades of pitchers in which bats had been found roosting (1.48 ± 0.31%) than in control leaf blades (1.31 ± 0.19%; Mann–Whitney U-test, U = 208, n1 = 38, n2 = 17, p < 0.05; figure 2a). Moreover, foliar δ15N, used to infer the nitrogen source (i.e. its trophic level; [11]), was significantly higher when pitchers harboured bats (1.30 ± 1.53‰) than when they did not (0.51 ± 1.09‰; Mann–Whitney U-test, U = 181.5, n1 = 38, n2 = 17, p < 0.01; figure 2b). Using a two-member mixing model [10], we estimate that between 11 and 56 per cent (95% CI; n = 38) or on average 33.8 per cent of foliar nitrogen in N. r. elongata is derived from woolly bat faeces.
4. Discussion
The results of the radio-telemetry and the stable isotope analyses suggest a resource–service relationship between a bat and a carnivorous pitcher plant, with clear benefits to both mutualistic partners. The woolly bats (K. h. hardwickii) that we observed solely used aerial pitchers of N. r. elongata as daytime roosts, providing the plant with nitrogen in an nitrogen-deprived environment. This is an unusual case of an animal–plant mutualism in which nutrients are supplied by the animal and not vice versa [12].
Both morphological and physiological characters of N. r. elongata aerial pitchers facilitate bat roosting. Bats depend on shelter for survival, reproduction and protection from predators [13]. The morphology of the N. r. elongata pitchers offers protection for K. hardwickii (figure 1b). Bats are hardly visible through the pitcher wall and they are safe from rain or direct solar radiation. Moreover, the elongated form of the pitchers, which distinguishes them from the typical form [1,7,6], ensures that not only single bats but also mother–juvenile pairs comfortably fit into the pitchers. This might be a critical feature, as mothers and juveniles in many bat species remain associated for several weeks to months [14]. Another conspicuous feature of N. r. elongata aerial pitchers is that they taper distinctly after a lignified 'girdle' in the lower half of the pitcher. Woolly bats were usually wedged head first in the pitcher with their heads below the girdle, suggesting that this girdle in combination with the slender pitcher form obviates the need for bats to cling to the slippery pitcher wall or peristome. Moreover, fluid levels are much reduced in aerial pitchers of N. r. elongata compared with its terrestrial pitchers or those of the typical form (own observations), suggesting that physiological modifications regulating fluid production are in place to accommodate bats.
Our findings show that the enigma of N. r. elongata's lower arthropod capture rate compared with the typical form [7] is solved when the role of bats is considered. Attracting bats appears to be facilitated by both pitcher morphology and physiology: narrow and cylindrical aerial pitchers in combination with reduced liquid levels. Bat faecal pellets can provide high rewards, with an estimated 33.8 per cent of the total foliar nitrogen provided suggesting that trapping faeces in N. r. elongata has been successful and might even be superior to trapping insects in areas in which bats are abundant.
Recently, it has been suggested that several large montane Nepenthes also have reduced abilities to catch arthropod prey and obtain most of their nitrogen critical for growth from treeshrew (Tupaia montana) faeces [15,16]. Our study shows that the faeces-trapping syndrome occurs not only in montane Nepenthes but also in pitcher plants growing in lowland forests, suggesting that low arthropod densities at mountain sites cannot be the sole factor responsible for the origin and maintenance of this nitrogen acquisition strategy. Our study supports recent evidence that simple modifications of pitcher morphology and levels of digestive fluid can open up novel nitrogen acquisition strategies [15]. However, giving up the insect-capturing strategy completely may be risky from an evolutionary perspective, since the probability of attracting a bat to a particular individual aerial pitcher was only 22.8 per cent in our study area. Instead, it should be beneficial for pitcher plants to pursue a dual strategy by retaining the ability to trap insects, especially if bats are absent from some habitat patches. Such conditional asymmetries in interspecific interactions are common.
Our study shows that the interaction is mutualistic, with the bat possibly more dependent on the pitcher plant than vice versa. This mutualistic relationship seems to be restricted to Borneo, involving one particular subspecies of K. hardwickii and one variety of N. rafflesiana. Our study shows that woolly bats consistently use pitchers as daytime roosts. However, since woolly bats in other areas of Borneo make occasional use of other pitcher plant species (N. bicalcarata and N. ampullaria) that are clearly less well suited as roosts (own observations and A.-M. Seibert 2010, personal communication), Nepenthes–woolly bat associations are prime candidate models to study the evolution of mutualistic relationships with opportunities to investigate varying degrees of exploitation.
We thank L. Othman, C. Schwitzke and M. Dahmen for assistance in the field, and M. Struebig for introducing us to the bats of Borneo. D. W. Davidson, D. S. Edwards, L. Gaume, T. H. Kunz, P. M. Narins and three anonymous referees kindly reviewed the manuscript. The University of Brunei Darussalam (RG/1(105) & RG/1(137)) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) funded this project; the Forestry Department of Brunei Darussalam granted permits to work in the field.
- Received November 30, 2010.
- Accepted January 4, 2011.
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A western Iowa man already convicted on federal fraud charges has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for selling his pain pills for candy.
Donald Washburn of Marion was given the sentence earlier this week in Cedar Rapids. The time will run concurrently to his separate sentence of more than 11 years in prison on various federal fraud charges.
Prosecutors said the 63-year-old sold his prescription oxycodone medication to other inmates for candy bars while he was held in the Linn County Jail awaiting sentencing on the investment fraud case.
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Larry Dierker, Alan Ashby, and Steve Sparks have been linked to the vacancies in the broadcasting booth for 2013, according to David Barron - who says the booth will have at least one player with major league experience.
Ashby works for the Blue Jays, and Steve Sparks has a full-time job in mortgages (take a second and let that sink in) in addition to work with the company formerly known as Fox Sports Houston.
Dierker, however, that's an interesting one. Take it away, David Barron:
Dierker, whose tenure with the ballclub dates to the Colt .45s as player, manager and broadcaster, could be a candidate if it works within the team's budget.
If it works within the team's budget. The team's. Budget. To take the wording of Barron's article quite literally, the team whose largest financial commitment for 2013 is $5m to the Pirates for Wandy Rodriguez might not have the financial flexibility to hire a color analyst.
We also find out in that article that Milo will be calling "a few games" each year.
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Steve Sparks is horrible on the TV stuff. The thought of him taking over color duties on the radio makes me sad.
- October 6, 2012 at 6:42 AM
I'd rather Sparks be hired as a minor league pitching coach than as a radio announcer. Preferably as a special instructor that just teaches 1 or 2 guys the knuckleball.
- October 6, 2012 at 9:52 AM
- Cockroach said...
I'm pissed that they let Brett & Dave go, but I was even more pissed when they let Ashby go a few years ago, so I'd be thrilled if they are in fact bringing him back.
I wonder, what about Morgan Ensberg? Admittedly I've never heard one of his broadcasts, so I don't know how good he is, but he's made no secret on Twitter of his desire to join the Astros broadcast team.
- October 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM
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ROCKFORD, Ill. – The Maranatha football team defeated Rockford College 14-6 for its first win of the season. The Crusaders conclude the season 1-9, 1-6 in Northern Athletics Conference play.
The victory was a long time coming. Prior to Saturday's win, the Crusaders had lost 33 consecutive games with their last victory coming against Principia on Sept. 29, 2007. Only four Crusaders on the current roster played in that game.
Even though the Crusaders were outgained 280-182, the defense came up with big plays to earn the victory. The Crusader defense intercepted four passes in the fourth quarter and returned one for a touchdown preserving the victory.
In a scoreless first half, the Regents advanced the ball inside the Crusaders' 20-yard line twice, but the Crusader defense held strong and forced incompletions on two fourth down attempts by the Regents.
A quality play by the Crusaders' special teams in the third quarter led to the Crusaders' first score. Sophomore punter/linebacker/running back Ethan Lane (Cartersville, Ga.) pinned the Regents at their own eight-yard line with a 43-yard punt.
After a defensive stop, the Crusaders regained the ball with great field position at their own 47-yard line. The offense marched the ball 53 yards on nine plays and scored on a pass from senior quarterback Phil Littrell (Valrico, Fla.) to Lane for a 20-yard touchdown pass on the last play of the third quarter.
The Crusader defense then stopped the Regents' next four drives with interceptions inside the Crusaders' 20-yard line. Senior free safety Evan Dexter (Missoula, Mont.) intercepted the Regents' quarterback at the Crusader 7-yard line in the Regents' first possession of the fourth quarter.
After a fumble by the Crusader offense, the Regents regained the ball at the Crusader 20-yard line, but two plays later, senior defensive end Josh Stein (Watertown, Wis.) stopped the Regents' drive with an interception at the 17-yard line.
On the next possession, junior defensive back Jason Garrison (Watertown, Wis.) intercepted the ball in the end zone.
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The Regents then added a touchdown as time expired to cap off the scoring.
Freshman strong safety Josiah Brendemuehl (Mishicot, Wis.) continued his solid play on defense with 10 total tackles and two pass break-ups. Lane finished with 59 yards rushing, 20 yards receiving, and nine total tackles. Both Brendemuehl and Lane ended the season with 100 tackles.


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League of legends is this free game where you fight each other RPG style in teams in a battle arena. Each game session lasts for a about 30minutes. I'm one of the developers working on it.
If you've tried it?
What do you think?
I've always appreciated good feedback.
If you haven't played it yet you can download and play it here: https://signup.leagueoflegends.com/
Thanks Hohums,
I downloaded and played this game 3 hours ago, I can't stop playing it . Pretty awesome! I can't believe I haven't heard about it before. I played Hon and DotA but this at least for now seems fresh.
I love this game, I play it all damn day. It's ridiculously addicting and fun. I of course played DotA, and I tried out HoN... but HoN is way too much an exact clone of DotA, I believe League of Legends is the true successor (especially because it has Pendragon as CR and Guinsoo working on it) to DotA. It's an evolution, not just a clone.
HoN may have some badass graphics, and LoL may be a little cartoony (almost Warcraft style), but it's gameplay that matters, right?
Also, Hohums, what exactly do you do for Riot Games? I'm having a little difficulty believing you are involved in development, especially if you assume games last 30 minutes on average. I'd say they're generally 45-50 minutes long, unless you stomp the enemy team early and they surrender at 25 minutes in, which isn't rare only in the situation that your team is 'premade'.
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Thanks eulogy1337 and Matple,
I'm glad you like our game.
I'm a game engineer / programmer, I do most of the stuff that is inside the actual game. I'm very active on the league of legends forums and in the game. If you would like we could play a game together on the weekend. My nick is Hohums.
As to the lengths of games; from the stats I can see is that most games are between 30 and 45 minutes for 5v5 and 25-30 minutes for twisted tree line (3v3) in the game (not including things like joining etc...). We've recently made more balance changes to reduce the amount of time a game takes. We are going to keep balancing around that.
hmmm interesting I suppose it's worth giving it a try!
I remember checking the trailer and everything. But what I don't remember is if I have to pay like a monthly fee to play the game.
dota copy
Its not really a copy, its made from the developers of DOTA all stars. Its quite good from what i've played, and matches can get addicting especially if your on a kill streak, and its always glorious to crowstorm an group of people as fidlesticks or gate to kill a wounded enemy champ as twisted fate. The only bad part is that their arent many levels, currently only three and one is basically a reskin of another map. If they can start making more maps itll be even better.
As one of the former top 500~ players in LoL, I have some comments about the game that I will share with you guys.
League of legends certainly have some good aspects compared to other games.
1. Its very competitive.
2. Money does NOT help you become stronger. Money is used to buy "skins", which do not affect your gameplay
3. The game is very much skill based.
4. The max level is 30, which is reached very easily. And basically, you cannot get stronger afterwards; its pure skill
5. A lot of teamwork, a lot of characters, a lot of roles and different play styles you can tryout.
Bad parts:
1. The most awful part about the game is the issue of balancing the 43+ characters. Now, now, its not the "issue of time" that will balance the characters. The balancers are VERY awful at balancing. For example, they buff weak characters to a state of being the most OP ( happened many times..), and nerf characters to a state thats overshadowed and very much UP. The cycle continues on and on...
Why does the cycle keep on continuing? The main "balancer" is pretty much biased and make too many hasty decisions. We have seen times in which she would rant on a character being OP during her livestream, and nerf the character afterwards, even if the majority and the top players disagree.
When the most community called for a nerf on her favorite character. She nerfed the character "indirectly". There are different "builds" for a character. She nerfed the build that she never even uses... therefore not affecting her gameplay.
She is pretty much a crappy balancer by playing mostly only 1 character. She doesn't even know how much to buff a character or which characters really needs a nerf.
2. At High ELO, the matches get to repetitive by facing the same people over and over again with the SAME characters. There is a limited amount of characters that can do good at High ELO.... Too much overshadowed characters....
3. Season 1 still have not started yet even though the game has been released for 7+ months now.
The World Ends with You~
I've tried it and I didn't like it because you can't do solo mission and I find that really annoying.
Riot messes up their servers every patch GG free ip boosts.
i think i wanna play it now my bf says it's a great game
Sumtimes pips.. wat u write n ur abt me isn't hu u r i find out after talking 2u
Such a fun game, and since dota costs this is the free version, LOL must play!
League of Legends is just too awesome for words. It MUST be played, but don't think of this as an MMORPG because it's NOT. It's an RTS, but with automatic units that fight for you and your only selected champion among 5 or 10 other players. For now, it's only Twisted Treeline and Summoner's Rift, but they've released art of the new stuff. New champions get added quite frequently (as of this post, new champions: Miss Fortune, Sona, Swain, and up and coming Lux), but some of the champions can be a little too OP (try taking on Master Yi sometime). I'm an Annie, the dark child user. She's got fire, Tibbers, and a whole lotta spunk.
It is very very sexy.
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I'm just going to say what no one seems willing to admit. 2011 is going to go down as one of the greatest vintages for Oregon wine in history. A brief history, true, but the point is the same. And apparently controversial.
I think I can finally say this with a straight face because I have most of my 2011 wines sold. Don't accuse me of shilling to move wines from an allegedly substandard vintage. I finally feel like I can say what I really think, not that I haven't before. I can just do it without opening myself to accusations of only being positive about things because I have wines to sell. Happily that's not an issue.
The weather in 2011 was cold all spring and summer long. Then unusually dry, mild weather through October into November allowed for a historically late harvest under relatively nice conditions. The fruit in the winery was riper tasting than the sugar measurements might have suggested. The acidity was stellar, with terrific energy propelling the fruit flavors to a long aftertaste.
And yet the vintage immediately received bad press because of the late harvest, as if the summer couldn't possibly have yielded something worthwhile, much less anything made to last.
For producers who want to make big, rich wines, ok, the year was a challenge. You won't find goopy, top heavy wines full of dense fruit and lumber flavors in 2011. Likewise, you may find some underripe, hard, mean little wines that taste best in the rearview mirror, especially with the rich, opulent 2012s waiting in the wings.
Taste before you buy, but be open to what's truly special and exceptional about this year - the subtlety. What I think you will find are some of the most nervy, energetic and delicate wines I've ever had from this fair state. Wines of low alcohol, light color, intense perfume and lacy, fragile flavors with way more tensile strength than you might expect.
And that's the key. Great wine is not synonymous with ageworthy wine. But the most truly ageworthy wines are great, are what we most want from our wines, and I expect many top notch ageworthy wines will come from the 2011 vintage in Oregon.
Can I prove it? No. We won't know how things turn out until time passes. And yes, many wines from 2011 taste really shut down right now, essentially not generous in the way a cut flower doesn't smell as it will after a few days in a vase. These delicate things take time. They demand your patience.
What I do know is this - the beauty that has emerged from the roller coaster 2011 vintage is there. It's not always easy to see, certainly not what will be there over time. But the greatness is there, the beauty that will win out over time if it's not already apparent.
And I'm betting an extra large amount of library wines that this is the vintage to hold in the cellar. I want more of this vintage than any other to pour at future dinners and special events, to sell years later to customers who prize the delicacy of fine aged wine, and of course to share with my sweet at home. Our home.


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Looking for my biological grandfather's side of the family. All I know is that he was married to Lillian Curtis and the had 4-5 children. My biological father was MICHAEL JOSEPH COMERFORD, their son and then they had 3-4 daughters. I think their names were: MARY, JEAN, LILLIAN. I never met that side of the family cause my parents divorced when I was young. I just recently this past year found info on my biological father and since have met 2 of my half sisters that live in Chicago. There is one more sister to meet but all I have is that she was born in CHICAGO AROUND MAY/JUNE OF 1986 and her mother's name was Connie. I would appreciate any info anyone has.
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Gave this one another try. I think bullets go much, much faster than the first time I played the game- enemy bullets seem basically impossible to dodge now if they were spawned at the same height as you off-screen, which feels pretty frustrating. Other than that the game seemed pretty playable.
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The University of Rochester will recognize the recipients of the Goergen Awards for Contributions to Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering during the College's annual Convocation on Friday, Sept. 5.
Presented since 1997, the awards acknowledge excellence by faculty and staff in supporting undergraduates and their learning in and outside the classroom. They are named for and sponsored by alumnus, trustee, and former board chairman Robert B. Goergen and his wife, Pamela. The Goergen Awards recognize quality teaching, programs that improve the environment for undergraduates, and committees or individuals who have made substantial contributions to the University.
This year's recipients of the Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching are Fred Cohen, professor of mathematics; Robert Foster, professor of anthropology; and James Longenbach, professor of English. Nigel Maister will accept the Goergen Award for Curricular Achievement in Undergraduate Education on behalf of the University of Rochester International Theatre Program. In the final category, Jane Possee, associate director of athletics and recreation, will receive the Goergen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Learning.
Fred Cohen is a prolific researcher whose interests include topology with connections to other areas, such as classical homotopy theory, braid groups, configuration spaces, modular forms as the cohomology of certain configuration spaces, and cohomology of groups. Admired as a teacher and advisor, Cohen has supervised eight doctoral students since his arrival to the University in 1989. Described by students as "dedicated and caring," an "excellent communicator," and a teacher who ensures each student leaves class with a clear understanding of the course work and deeper appreciation for the beauty of mathematics. Cohen graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Brandeis University and holds a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
A three-time nominee for the Student Association's Professor the Year Award, Robert Foster's reputation as an outstanding educator was proved when he was named the Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor. A core faculty member in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies and current chair of the anthropology department, Foster has done intensive field research in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea. His current research interests include nationalism, globalization, mass media, material culture and mass consumption. Creating lectures and selecting topics that will engage students, Foster asks them to draw upon their own experiences as a way to better understand the subject matter. As one student wrote, Foster teaches "from text and from life" and has the "natural ability to inspire the best from his students." Foster received a master of arts degree from Columbia University, a diploma in social anthropology from Oxford University, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago.
As the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English, James Longenbach teaches courses in modern and contemporary American poetry, British and American modernism, James Joyce, Shakespeare, and creative writing. Former students recall his classrooms as "intimate settings that were built on trust and mutual respect." Longenbach is a two-time Student Association Professor of the Year and directs the Plutzik Reading Series, working with colleagues to bring distinguished writers to campus. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College and earned his master and doctoral degrees at Princeton University.
As a part of the English department, the University of Rochester International Theatre Program provides opportunities for students with an interest in the dramatic arts to create quality productions, enhance their performance technique and technical theatre knowledge while adding to the general education of the University and Rochester communities who attend the performances. The International Theatre Program offers courses in acting, directing, stage management, technical theatre, and playwriting and consistently draws international theater professionals who work, create, and help guide and train students. In addition, the program supports internships in various capacities from stage management to public relations. The International Theatre Program enhances the cultural climate of the University by attracting students from all academic disciplines to participate in its classes and productions.
Jane Possee has served the University of Rochester for 33 years as a coach of several women's varsity teams, including field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse. Her nomination letters shared examples of how she has taught patience, respect for others, teamwork, and self-confidence to the University's student athletes. Possee transitioned from coaching to administration in 1992 and currently oversees the operation of the Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center and all the recreational programs sponsored by the department of athletics and recreation. In this capacity, she enhances the college experience of every student who takes advantage of the intramural programs, club sports, aquatics, and daily fitness classes offered.
The Convocation ceremony celebrates the start of the academic year and begins at noon on Dandelion Square. It will be followed by a picnic for students, faculty, and staff in the College.


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In his absence, the Trunk asked me to re-post a series of comments he did, back when we were just starting out, on one of the famous libel trials of modern times, Irving v. Penguin Books, and Richard Evans' account of the trial, in which he was an expert witness. Evans' book is titled Lying About Hitler. The trial, and Evans' book, shed considerable light on the peculiar phenomenon of Holocaust denial. What follows is the text of Posts 1 and 2 on Lying About Hitler. I'm leaving for Dallas in a few minutes and will post the remaining two when I return Thursday night. In the meantime, Deacon, over to you.
In 1895 Oscar Wilde brought his infamous defamation lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry, alleging that he had been defamed by imputations of homosexuality made by the Marquess. The libel was of course true; the Marquess had taken after Wilde to deter Wilde from continuing his homosexual relationship with his son, Lord Alfred Douglas. For Wilde the lawsuit was a monumental act of self-destruction. When the Marquess proved the truth of his defamatory statements regarding Wilde, and Wilde was in turn prosecuted for sodomy, Wilde was convicted and imprisoned in Reading Gaol until 1898. He never recovered from the experience of prison and from the humiliation he had foolishly inflicted on himself. As a result of his incarceration he wrote "De Produndis," a kind of apologia for his life, and the poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," the last worthwhile works that Wilde published.
Now comes Professor Richard Evans, professor of German history at Cambridge University, to tell the story of the second most foolish defamation lawsuit of all time: David Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. Professor Evans was retained as an expert witness to testify at trial on behalf of the defendants. Professor Evans has written a book, Lying About Hitler, recounting the story of Irving's claims as well as Evans's experience as a witness at the trial. The book has was published in paperback in early 2002 and makes for great summer reading.
David Irving is a fairly well known British historian of WWII from the German side. His book Hitler's War may be his most well known, but he has also written other highly regarded books such as a biographies of Rommel and Goebbels. Irving is a professional historian in the sense that he has made his living writing these books; he has no college education and holds no university post.
Deborah Lipstadt is an American historian specializing in Jewish studies at Emory University. In 1993 Lipstadt published her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Lipstadt's book gave an account of the phenomenon of Holocaust denial and described Irving as a holocaust denier consistent with the themes developed in her book. The topic is not one calculated to be of interest to a large audience, and when the book was published in England by Penguin it sold a meager 3,000 copies. Irving brought his lawsuit against Lipstadt and Penguin claiming that the book defamed him by calling him a Holocaust denier.
Upon his retention as an expert witness by the defense Evans set out to read the corpus of Irving's work. Evans also tracked down the reviews Irving's books had received from professional historians as they were published over the years. Evans traces his efforts to evaluate Irving's use of archival sources in connection with some of the most notorious claims in his books, such as the claim that Hitler was unaware of the systematic extermination of Jews undertaken by the Nazis and the claim that the number of victims exterminated by the Nazis has been grossly exaggerated. Evans painstakingly documents the fact that Irving's renowned skills in using previously undiscovered archival sources are themselves grossly inflated and that Irving's use of such sources has been deliberately dishonest in every critical respect he examined.
But the most interesting part of the book is Evans's evaluation of Lipstadt's charge that Irving is a Holocaust denier. In my next two posts I will explore that part of the book and return to the comparison with Oscar Wilde's lawsuit.
HINDROCKET adds: One more thing–the subject of Holocaust denial has recently come back in the form of an academic controversy at a university in New Zealand. The issues in that controversy are remarkably similar to the ones in the Irving case. I will post links to stories about the New Zealand controversy along with the last two installments of Trunk's commentary when I return.
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OK Sox fans . . . here's a DVR (or VCR) alert if you have the MLB Network on your cable system or get it via satellite.
The MLB Network does a show called "Baseball's Seasons" where they take an in-depth look back at the memorable moments in a given year. Like most of the programming on the network, the show is extremely well-done.
Well tonight – Wednesday, February 10th – they look back at the 2004 season.
You may remember it.
Ichiro Suzuki broke the single-season record for hits. Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 500th home run. Greg Maddux won his 300th game. 40-year-old Randy Johnson threw a perfect game.
Oh yea, and the Red Sox pulled off the greatest comeback in postseason history and ended an 86-year-old drought.
So, if you want to relive "The Steal," "The Bloody Sock," and Big Papi's Game 4 and Game 5 walk-off heroics, tune in tonight at 8:00. Better yet – record it. You'll be glad you did.
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In my opinion, the best sports documentaries ever made are called "America's Game." It's a series done by the NFL Network that looks back at the first 43 Super Bowl winners (the New Orleans Saints will eventually be featured in episode 44).
Each episode is narrated by a celebrity and features three members of the team talking directly to the camera. NFL Films does an incredible job of finding previously unseen footage, and the players and coaches featured are all extremely well-spoken.
About a year ago after seeing a couple of episodes on the NFL Network, I started shopping online for the entire series on DVD (perfect for PawSox road trips) but didn't take the plunge after seeing how expensive the box set was.
I'm thrilled that I didn't buy them because now you can watch every episode on your computer for free at Hulu.com.
Here's a link. If you're a Patriots fan and you've never seen the "America's Game" episodes devoted to the 2001, 2003, and 2004 Super Bowl champs, I strongly encourage you to check them out. Start with 2001 and work your way up. You'll thank me later.
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2001 – Narrated by Martin Sheen and featuring Tom Brady, Lawyer Milloy, and Adam Vinatieri.
2003 – Narrated by Tom Selleck and featuring Charlie Weis, Rodney Harrison, and Willie McGinest.
2004 – Narrated by Laurence Fishburne and featuring Troy Brown, Bill Belichick, and Tedy Bruschi.
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|QuestsFu Version History
2.0.26925 - Hide the details pane when you press escape. Display notifications when people in your party advance a quest objective. esES localization updated by shiftos. deDE localization updated by gamefaq.
2.0.26806 - Account for showing multiple quests in the tooltip for a mob. Quest text hilighting improved by ckknight. Tracker should now be much easier to drag.
2.0.26245 - Remember the location of questgivers and display it in the detail panel. Hilight proper nouns and numbers in the objective and description in the detail panel. Stop the detail panel from jumping around when dragged.
2.0.25613 - Add a quest details panel to replace the standard questlog! (It's sort of beta -- feel free to disable it through the menu if it's still too unpolished for you.) Add Spanish translation by Shiftos. Some performance optimizations. Reputation quests should be slightly more robust for those in a locale with gendered language. Update TOC for 20003.
2.0.21398 - Fix the nil error on line 275.
2.0.21372 - Large rewrite of the options code to be less clunky. Get rid of the "stale hooks" error. Add deDE translation by gamefaq. General libs update. Add a check for old-style watched quests and convert them. (Also a fix for a weird Blizzard-bug with the zones for the expansion quests.)
2.0.19850 - Add some more fine-grained options for coloring the quest level, title, and zone.
2.0.19509 - Fix those party bugs people have been having. (Would have put this up on Wednesday, but I haven't been able to reach WoWI since Tuesday night...)
2.0.19335 - Update to account for a small way in which 2.0.1 is different from 2.0.2, where I was testing, and which coincidentally broke everything!
2.0.19240 - Final updates for WoW2.0. Add party quest completion: if you're grouping with someone else who is using an addon which embeds the Quixote library you'll see the completion status of their quests.
2.0.18641 - Showing quest levels in the official quest log will work in 2.0 again. Fixed the bug which would show bits of text after the tag.
2.0.18578 - Account for some changes to the QuestLog API in the 2.0 patch. Add a zhCN translation that yhwh provided. Light changes to how the tracker works, including no longer having a hardcoded default position. This will almost certainly make your tracker disappear if you've adjusted its position. Either delete your savedvariables or reset it by typing: "/script QuestsFu.db.profile.tracker_data = {}" into the chat editbox and then reload your UI.
2.0.16054 - Made the new tracker always show objectives, regardless of your QuestsFu tooltip settings.
2.0.16018 - Better hiding of the default quest tracker. Better handling of checkmarks for watched quests.
2.0.16010 - Better Burning Crusade compatibility. Account for some unusual quest objectives. Prettier default appearance for the new tracker. Change how watched quests are remembered. If you had watched quests before installing this update, weird things will happen. To stop weird things happening, type: "/script QuestsFu.db.char.watchedQuests = {}" in the editbox (without the quotes).
2.0.15973 - Fix another glitch, and improve the enabling/disabling of the tracker.
2.0.15971 - Fix glitch with the options menu/slashcommand being able to tell whether the new quests tracker is enabled.
2.0.15966 - Fix glitch with new tooltip handling.
2.0.15964 - Added an option to replace the default quest tracker with a miniature version of the standard QuestsFu tooltip. Quest item info should appear on a lot more tooltips. Split out the quest-scanning bits into a library. Various other library updates. QuestsFu's panel display should now work properly with the increased quest limit in the Burning Crusade. New zhTW localization from Kayin.
2.0.12321 - Add a koKR localization from fenlis. Made FuBar an optional dependency.
2.0.10107 - Fix a typo that caused an error when displaying NPC dialog with available quests.
2.0.10042 - Spread out "show levels" options; can now choose individually to show them in the game, in the tooltip, and for the zones in the tooltip. Added option to toggle quest title wrapping. Made quest levels appear in more NPC dialogs.
2.0.9908b - Replaced the libraries with slightly older versions, until AceLocale stops giving people errors.
2.0.9908 - The "show levels" setting will now cause levels to appear in the Blizzard quest log, and when talking to NPCs. Control-shift-click will now paste quest objectives and their status to the chatbox. For consistency, pasting the quest title to the chatbox is now shift-click instead of control-click. Quest titles in the tooltip will now be wrapped if they're too long. Added some checks to automatically fix up the showText breakage.
2.0.9777 - Regressed to AceLocale-2.0.
2.0.9316 - TOC to 1.12. Fix the issue with text not appearing (you may need to delete QuestFu's saved variables from your profile directory before things will work).
2.0.7516 - Updated for FuBar 2.0. Added display of the number of party members within range who share a quest with you. Improvements to watched-quest loading.
1.2.3276 - Watched quests weren't being saved if you added them from anything but QuestFu. Hooked the Add and Remove functions, to make sure that they won't be missed.
1.2.3169 - A few glitches from 3123 fixed. Registered for ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA - a detached tooltip that is only showing descriptions for the current area should update properly now. Watched quests will have a checkmark.
1.2.3123 - Updated TOC for 1.11. Switched quest tags to being localized variables. Merged in a patch from Gordon Tyler to save watched quests, and make many improvements to the zone-names-hidden view.
1.2.1755 - Added options to hide "impossible" (red) quests and to show class quests even when only showing the current area. Fixed the "don't show area headers" option, which had been broken since the update to the 1.2 API. Change the initial value of self.allowedToUpdate to make sure that the quest log will be scanned when the addon is enabled after login.
1.2.1687 - Updated for changes in FuBar 1.2's API. Made it harder for the last-quest-message to pick up things like fishing events. (I had forgotten that some things, like collapsing zones in the quest log and zoning, fire QUEST_LOG_UPDATE.) Fixed a nil error when pasting quests without a tag to the chat.
1.1.1465 - Brought my version number into line with FuBar's, to make it easier to tell what versions will work together. Some updates for changes in FuBar's 1.2 API. Made the "(done)" and "(failed)" text for quests colored. Pasting quests to the chatbox now includes their level.
0.9.1171 - Updated to FuBar's new 1.2 API. Class quest "areas" are now colored with the proper class color. Nicer indentation in the tooltip. Marginally better resource usage.
0.9.1 - Fixed a glitch with TouristLib integration and quests that aren't in a zone (i.e. class quests), or are in a capital.
0.9.0 - Reworked the text-display options. Added an option to display the last quest status message on the bar. If TouristLib is installed (it's included in FuBar - LocationFu), display the zone levels and difficulty.
0.2.5 - Changed how I handle QUEST_LOG_UPDATE to stop a crash that people were having (GetQuestLogLeaderBoard() would fire a QUEST_LOG_UPDATE if it was called before the item/monstercache was loaded, leading to an infinite loop which consumed the system - thanks to Mirvlix of #wowi-lounge for working out what was happening).
0.2.4 - Some tweaks to resource usage. Updated for FuBar 0.9.99.
0.2.3 - Enabled the new detachable tooltip feature in FuBar. Added checkboxes to the category headings to make the collapsing feature more obvious.
0.2.2 - Added alt-clicking on quests to copy their name to the chatbox, ctrl-clicking on quests to share them with the party. Reworked some data structures for easier extensibility in the future. Removed the whole "scanning..." thing, on suspicion that it was causing crashes for some.
0.2.1 - Renamed to QuestsFu, due to the BossPanel rename! (Can now be shortened to "FuQ", I suppose. Remains to be seen whether this is a positive development.) Added an option for the panel text to be "quests completed / current quests". Fixed sorting of areas in tooltip. Fixed the toggling-quest-check glitch.
0.2.0 - Alas, TheFly's patches are (largely) gone: BossPanel 0.9.8 has (very nicely) incorporated clickable tooltips, for addons such as this. So I've stopped generating my own tooltip (as a bonus, BossPanel - Quests will now inhereit font sizing from BossPanel). Also, discovered reputation quests, and updated to display reasonably well.
0.1.6 - Another patch from TheFly, updating the tooltip to use the new-in-1.10 dynamic frame creation (this means that in most cases memory use should be reduced). Made left-clicking on quests in the tooltip scroll the quest log to that quest. Fixed a bug that stopped quest objectives from displaying in item/monster tooltips (and made it much more efficient).
0.1.5.3 - Fixed a condition where BossPanel - Quests wouldn't register the QUEST_LOG_UPDATE event (meaning that it wouldn't notice when you completed a quest).
0.1.5.2 - Added a delay for scanning the quest log on load. (Previously it could scan the log too early, and this would mess things up.)
0.1.5.1 - Tweaked formatting of the new tooltip. Fixed a bug which was causing errors when a "monster" quest had a non-standard objective. (E.g. "Find Mankrik's Wife: 0/1".)
0.1.5a - Tiny bugfix release. (Quest difficulty colors were messed up.)
0.1.5 - Updated for 1.10. Integrated a patch from TheFly which makes the tooltip spiffier: can left-click on quests to open them in the quest log, and shift-left-click on quests to add them to Blizzard's quest-tracker, and areas are collapseable by left-clicking on their header. This is much work which I do not have to work out how to do for myself, so I am quite grateful. (Still to do: make collapsed areas persist across logins.)
0.1.4 - Added an option to hide completed objectives. Added an option to *not* color objectives by completeness. Fixed up color handling. Fixed an error that could happen if an item tooltip with an empty line appeared.
0.1.3: Added an option to display quest objective completion in the tooltips for quest-related monsters and items.
0.1.2: Added an icon. Made numerical quest objectives colored based on how complete they are.
0.1.1: Added an option to only display quest descriptions/objectives for the current area. Discovered that tooltips are limited to 40 lines, and caused options to be automatically toggled to trim down the tooltip if it would be cut off. (This can be disabled or turned into an option when WoW1.10 is released.)
0.1.0: Initial release.