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Food chains and food websBlack-crowned night-heron. This predator is adapted to hunt at night. In the French Guiana this is one of the major night heron species with its cousin the Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax violacea). Feeds mainly on aquatic animals, including fish, amphibians and insects. Coastal swamps.
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Every plant and animal species, no matter how big or small, depends to some extent on another plant or animal species for its survival. It could be bees taking pollen from a flower, photosynthesis of plants, deer eating shrub leaves or lions eating the deer.
A food chain shows how energy is transferred from one living organism to another via food. It is important for us to understand how the food chain works so that we know what are the important living organisms that make up the food chain and how the ecology is balanced.
Photosynthesis is only the beginning of the food chain. There are many types of animals that will eat the products of the photosynthesis process. Examples are deer eating shrub leaves, rabbits eating carrots, or worms eating grass. When these animals eat these plant products, food energy and organic compounds are transferred from the plants to the animals.
These animals are in turn eaten by other animals, again transferring energy and organic compounds from one animal to another. So for how many levels does this go on? To follow the food chain to its different levels and know how it works go to this site.
The page also contains names and definitions of terms used to describe the 'players' in the food chain- producers, consumers, herbivores. You can also refer to the diagrammatic representations of food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids.
A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem. At the basic level there are plants that produce the energy, then it moves up to higher-level organisms like herbivores. After that when carnivores eat the herbivores, energy is transferred from one to the other. To understand how this happens visit the link.
In the food chain, energy is transferred from one living organism through another in the form of food. There are primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and decomposers- all part of the food chain. Follow this link for a good introduction to how food chains work. There are links to types of energy and also simple explanations to how photosynthesis is the starting point of the food chain. This site also tells us that because of our eating habits, we are in two food chains- marine and land.
Plants that have photosynthesis are supplying us with the first product of the food chain. Not only that, they are the source for oxygen, the food we eat, our clothes, and even our furniture, among other things. Plants also remove greenhouse gas from the air, provide habitat to many animals.
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In typical grassland, for example, the plants outnumber all other levels in the pyramid combined. However in the forests, other living organisms compete for space with plants. But a balance is maintained in the ecosystem.
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Artopia: May 2005 Archives
My East Village
Not that I want to give any secrets away, but I live in the East Village. To be even more specific, our tenement digs -- in light-hearted moments we call it our jewelbox pied-a-terre -- is in the heart of a small and growing smaller Ukrainian enclave. This Little Ukraine is also, judging by my building, peppered with Poles, and at least one half-Pole, namely John Urzendowski Perreault.
Nevertheless, this storied Ukrainian neighborhood can also be seen as one big N.Y.U. dormitory or Generation Zero launching pad. This is Manhattan, this is New York. Five-hundred-square-foot walkups now go for a few thousand a month; youths huddle inside them in multiples, unconsciously imitating the familial nesting of immigrants from Kiev and Bialystok who were trying to escape the Cossacks, the Commissars, or just plain poverty. Now youth in Prada comes to the East Village, not to escape Pravda, but to escape boredom, or merely parental oppression. Some actually hang out in a bar called KGB.
Then, of course, there is the street fair twice a year, catering to suburbanized, bridge-and-tunnel Ukrainians and everyone else in the market for kielbasi, stuffed cabbage, and Ukrainian Easter eggs. The stuffed cabbage always calls out to me: John Urzendowski Perreault, we call to you; eat; get indigestion. Your Slavic roots call out. And although, of course, these are not as good as Polish stuffed cabbage -- too sweet! -- I gobble them up from a paper plate, feeling guilty of some sort of ethnic betrayal.
Fortunately, on these special street-fare days everyone is Ukrainian, in much the same way that on St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish. On March 17, the jocks and their jock-bunnies line up to get into McSorley's Old Ale House (est. 1854) across from the 1976 St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church. Neighborhoods are not exclusive; neighborhoods are layered.
East of McSorley's is Village Mingula Burmese Cuisine; and west is Surma, The Ukrainian Shop where you can buy all the Easter eggs and embroidered shirts you want. Elsewhere there's the Ukrainian Home and various Ukrainian restaurants; not the least of which, having passed into the realm of poets and actors, is the 24-hour Veselka on Second Avenue and 10th. While eating your pirogis or your BLT, you can play the game of trying to guess who is the poet, who is the actor, as if someone couldn't be both.
Ukrainian Museum
Nota 50 Pound Easter Egg
But the good news is this: now we have the Ukrainian Museum (222 E. 6 St., between Second and The Bowery), the next block over from the Ukrainian Church. One of those N.Y. "mystery streets" joins 7th and 6th: Taras Shevhenko Place, named after the Ukrainian national poet. NYU, the university that owns the East Village, wanted the name changed; NYU lost.
Just in time to celebrate the new, nonpuppet regime in Ukraine we have the possibility of an up-to-date take on that beleaguered nation's long-threatened culture. The Ukrainian Museum, formerly hidden in plain sight on Second Avenue, is now ina brand-new building on the site of a former wholesale meat-butchering establishment on 6th Street.
Here is a partial list of storefront shops still in place on East 6th Street between Second Avenue and The Bowery:
DecaDance (records), VIP Unisex (hair), Ruby (hair), Martin (dresses), fumi (dresses); and since everything seems to come in pairs: Finyl Vinyl (records). There is, however, only one Laundrobot and only one museum. I switched to Launderama around the corner on the Crazy Green of Second Avenue (the title of a book of poems by Frank O'Hara) after too many lost socks at what I began to call Laundroboot.
The Bowery, The Bronx, The Ukraine. A Japanese student once stopped me on Astor Place to ask where Bowery Street was. I pointed him to St. Marks Place where Third Avenue turns into The Bowery, but could not have explained why it is The Bowery and not Bowery Street or Avenue or Place or Lane. Where does that funny "The" come from? Does it signify an area not quite codified, definitely uncivilized, wild and untrampled like the outback, the veld?
The Ukraine?
We are now encouraged to say Ukraine, although aside from two brief moments, this nation without a country did not become independent until 1991. In ancient times,there were the Sythian hordes swarming through; then the Rus, who were invited in to keep order andwere actually Scandinavian. Then this flat and fertile land was tossed back and forth between its European neighbor to the West, Poland, and its runaway, out-of-control daughter, Russia, to the East. Butam I forgetting the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Hitler's occupation? Ukraine, according to journalist Anna Reid's horrific Borderland (Westview Press), means just that. But border between what and what? Not just between Poland and Russia. Between bad karma and the K.G.B.?
And, by the way, what is a nation? Is it defined by place or language? Or culture? Is it a people? Borders are unstable. Identity is unstable.
But in the flatlands, the suffering went on and on until Viktor Yushchenko's recent Orange Revolution, during which I knew my neighborhood was still Ukrainian because of the orange ribbons tied to every tree, parking meter, and lamp post. Handsome Yushchenko had been poisoned, his face forever pocked. Orange, of course, means something very different to the Irish, who used to be in attendance at McSorley's before women were allowed.
Now Ukraine under Yushchenko's orange leadership looks firmly to Europe, turning away from Stalin's purges and his artificial famine that killed seven million farmers who were resisting "collectivization." Away from the Cossack massacres of Jews.Away from pogroms.Away from the Chernobyl disaster (by the way, only 50 miles from Kiev). Away from the past.
The new building housing the Ukrainian Museum is open, welcoming, clean-cut, straightforward. It seems almost Scandinavian in its use of wood and light. Is this a veiled reference to the little-known Viking heritage of Ukrainians?
At last there is something really topnotch to represent Ukrainian culture, something other than the street fair. It was as if all we had been allowedto know about Italian culture were filtered through the San Gennaro street fair in Little Italy.
And what is the first exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum at its sparkling new site? Easter Eggs? Embroidered shirts?
Alexander Archipenko!
Archipenko, Woman Combing Her Hair, 1915
Torsos in Space; Plexiglas and Bakelite, Too
Archipenko (1887-1964) made amazing and very early contributions to Cubism. Who does not know, at least from textbook pictures, his sculpture, the 1915 Woman Combing Her Hair? Here we are treated to a rare and informative survey of this Ukrainian-born artist's entire career (through September 4). The reliefs and free-standing sculptures are serenely displayed and lit in perfectly designed galleries. The wall texts are in English and Ukrainian, a language we rarely see.
Much of Archipenko's early work has been lost; so for the reliefs we have to make do with his bronze and varicolored, variously patinated remakes of the pioneering mixed-media pieces. Then there's Juggler (1912-1914) and Dancer (1913-1914), inspired by the Parisian Cirque Médrano. Dancer, although in the Guggenheim collection, was too fragile to move, and is represented by a projected computerized rendering, showing the sculptures moving arm. Archipenko, it seems, was a bit of a Futurist too. His Changeable Display Apparatus or, as patented, his Archipentura painting machine of 1927, is here represented by graphics; apparently slats could be manipulated to create a variety of configurations.
Archipentura, 1927 (lost?)
After he had moved to the U.S., Archipenko, ever enamored of materials,in the late '40s experimented with Plexiglas, inventing a special device to carve blocks of the stuff. Several of the innovative Plexi sculptures, with his specially designed light-bases, are included here.
Cubist painting translates three dimensions -- some maintain four dimensions -- into two dimensions, utilizing multiple points of view. Does it really make sense then to translate the translations back into three dimensions? This is the built-in paradox of Cubist sculpture.
Archipenko attemptedto translate Picasso's Cubisminto three-dimensions: first on the wall, then off the wall. And then, with a touch of genius, he put holes in his figures. Faces are depicted by voids. Or, as he proclaimed: "It is not exactly the presence of a thing but rather the absence of it that becomes the cause and impulse for creative innovation."
These signature voids I take to signify three things: an update of the Greco-Roman headless statue construed as essentialization of the body; loss of identity because of mass culture and the facelessness of radical urbanization;and/or how we see ourselves without benefit of mirrors or photography. In terms of the latter, I may see all other parts of the front of my body, but I cannot see my own face.
The metaphysics of art starts with the physical. To whom the body belongs and where it is, in space and time, is particularly important for sculpture. The body, not just the eyes, looks at art.
You can evaluate an artist by how he or she adds to or subtracts from the past or, as is true with Archipenko, his present. Archipenko added voids to Cubist sculpture. You can also place some value on influence, for good or even for bad. Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth have never been among my favorites, but one cannot help think they got the holes in their sculptures from Archipenko's holes. I could call this the banality of influence.
Then I noticed all of Archipenko's sculptures, even the Plexiglas ones,are frontal. They have fronts and backs. Good sides and bad sides. They "face" forward. They may be seen, fittingly, as reliefs in the round. Is this because Archipenko's sculptures developed out of his reliefs, or because he remained throughout his career committed to the body as a subject?
In terms of sculptural values (truly modernist ones), the figure in any shape or forms or degree of abstraction is a betrayal, not because of the sin of representation, but because of the unavoidable frontality that the figure imposes. One side or another is always favored. Thus -- if you can deal with these apparent paradoxes -- a table or a stool is more modern than a chair or a desk. A vase is more modern than a dress, a shirt, or a coat. Flagpoles, obelisks, pyramids but not houses are extremely or fully three-dimensional.
Torso, 1936. Terra-cotta.
There are other revelations. It turns out that Archipenko's best works after Woman Combing Her Hair are his several Torso in Space sculptures. Three are included here on the second floor of the museum; Torso in Space (1935) is bronze with a rich green patina; another Torso in Spaceof the same yearin cast aluminum; and the best and largest of all, Torso in Space (1936) made of terra-cotta "metalized with bronze." The headless, almost-but-not-quite-totally-abstract "figures" recline and float in a way you can feel with your entire body. These great works should be in every sculpture textbook; every history of modern art, along withWoman Combing Her Hair.
And then there are the late reliefs. My favorite is Cleopatra (1957), made of wood, Bakelite (!), beads, a found bracelet, and paint, too. Oh, that Archipenko, he certainly had a way with materials.
How have I managed never to have seen these Bakelite reliefs before? Where were they hiding? Where was I hiding?
Cleopatra, 1957
The Future of Ukrainian Futurism
Now that the Ukrainian Museum is up and running, what will be forthcoming? Can we ever expect a survey of the Ukrainian/Jewish-American Janet Sobel, born in Kiev, who showeddrip-paintings at Peggy Guggenheim's Art-of-This-Century gallery before Jackson Pollock became famous for his? Does Malevich, who was born just outside Kiev, count as Ukrainian?
And I'd really like to see an exhibition of Ukrainian Futurism and Panfuturism ("The liquidation of art is our art!") led by the sensational, relentless and fearless poet Mykhail Semenko (1892-1937), martyred by one of Stalin's firing squads.
In the Ukrainian Museum's gift shop, I purchased Oleh Ilnytzkyj's Urkrainian Futurism (Harvard University Press, 1997) and found hidden history, information, analysis, and also some illustrative Semenko fragments:
The All-Ukrainian
It's coming - it's coming at us
Shame and disgrace -
(eyes bulging)
not a moron
but a poet -
businessman, ---
* * * * * * * *
"Give us [...]
your ideas!"
Mouth foaming
legs wobbling
And the snout of a pig [...]
The all-Ukrainian gut
its toothless gullet...
Or from the late twenties:
Subway, Metro, Untergrund, Underground -
what wonderous monsters---plus a thousand-tone crane!
This is not just urbanism, but some kind of industrial hysterics
meant for our Soviet yokels.
Or in 1925:
Moscow, Moscow,
you spilled blood
and you sucked blood,
not once nor twice.
Since the East Village, because of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, is the poetry neighborhood as well as the Ukrainian neighborhood, wouldn't it be fitting to arrange for some bilingual readings of Semenko's futurist poems: his rants and cable-poems? He even invented poem-paintings and poem-posters and the first readymade poem ever, consisting of the names for the days of the week.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its final match before spring break, the nationally-ranked No. 14 MIT men's volleyball team defeated local rival Emmanuel College, 25-19, 31-33, 25-20, 25-18, on Thursday night. The Engineers extended their winning streak to seven while improving to 19-11 on the year. The Saints, meanwhile, saw their ledger lower to 9-12 for the season.
Strong serving by senior Matt Hohenberger (St. Louis, Mo.) along with a trio of assisted blocks by sophomore Andrew Busse (Mount Prospect, Ill.), two with classmate Alex Klein (San Diego, Calif.) and another with junior Ken Siebert (St. Louis, Mo.), helped MIT establish an 8-4 lead in the first set. A kill by Emmanuel sophomore Zach Whitermore (Whitehall, Pa.) off the Engineers' block ended the run and kept it within striking distance as a service error narrowed the gap to 15-12. MIT rattled off the next three points to double its cushion before eventually going up 23-17. Back-to-back kills from sophomore Ashanti Jackson (Sacramento, Calif.) kept the Saints alive, but a strike by Hohenberger and an error gave the Engineers the win.
The second stanza was a back-and-forth affair as it featured 21 ties and eight lead changes. With the score knotted at 14, MIT put together a 5-2 spurt that was capped by a Siebert kill. A strike by Jackson followed by a pair of errors evened the score at 19 for the Saints. An exchange of points ensued until Emmanuel went in front, 23-22, and forced the Engineers to call a timeout. Following the break, Busse registered a kill while Siebert and senior Patrick Vatterott (St. Louis, Mo.) collaborated on a block that resulted in set point.
After a timeout by the Saints, another kill from Jackson in addition to a MIT hitting error gave the Saints a 25-24 edge. A serving error tied the set and led to alternating side-outs until a hitting error and a kill from Klein made the score, 29-28. Jackson recorded the equalizer on his next hitting attempt; however, both squads traded points as Jackson's kill moved the score to 31-all. Emmanuel captured the lead courtesy of a block by senior Nick Updike (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and sophomore Wyatt Cooper (Ridgefield, Conn.) before clinching the victory on a Jackson blast.
The tight play continued into the third set as it produced 14 ties and six lead changes. Trailing 17-16, a Vatterott kill and an Emmanuel miscue gave the Engineers a lead they would not relinquish. A strike by freshman Barrett Wingard (Dallastown, Pa.) tied the set at 18, but MIT responded with a 7-2 run to close out the frame.
The Engineers jumped out to a 6-2 lead in the final set but the Saints battled back, cutting their deficit to two on three occasions, the last at 9-7. MIT replied by scoring six of the next seven points and maintained a comfortable margin all the way to set point. Emmanuel used a pair of miscues and a kill from freshman Drew Jordan (Braintree, Mass.) to extend the match; however, the late rally was thwarted on a tip by Vatterott.
Hohenberger finished with a team-high 17 kills to go along with two blocks while Busse posted 14 kills, a .650 hitting performance, and seven blocks. Siebert tallied 12 kills, 11 digs, four aces, and three blocks as Klein registered nine kills and two blocks. Vatterott rounded out the front row with seven digs, six kills, and two blocks. Freshman Brendan Chang (Laytonsville, Md.) collected 12 digs, helping him surpass the previous Institute record for digs in a season which was 357 set by Ryan Dean '08 during his senior year. Junior Paul Syta (Fairport, N.Y.) amassed 56 assists, nine digs, six kills, and three blocks for the Engineers.
MIT returns to action on Friday, April 5 as it will host the two-day MIT Scramble Tournament. Next up for Emmanuel is a trip to Johnson & Wales University where it will also square off with Lasell College in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference tri-match on Saturday, March 23.


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Blizzard has spawned a new Zerg strain for StarCraft II, the race's biggest and most brutal, the legendary Brutalisk. So what is this giant monstrosity? And what does it do?
Well, as those of you who may have read the spoiler-laden version of our StarCraft II single-player preview may already know, the Brutalisk doesn't do much more than intimidate... and die. It's one of a handful of non-playable unit types that StarCraft II brings to the table, a powerful, well armoured beast that is best avoided while hunting fresh vespene geysers.
This "surprise custom unit", as Blizzard calls it, shouldn't be a multiplayer balance concern. But maybe someday we'll see more of it in one of those StarCraft II expansions coming... way, way in the future.


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Assad Warns of Retaliation for US Strike on Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad is warning there will be retaliation against the U. S. for any military strike launched in response to a chemical weapons attack.
In an interview broadcast Monday on CBS' "This Morning," Assad says, quote, "You should expect everything."
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Gnocchi and Panzanella" Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make foolproof Gnocchi at Home. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reveals her top pick for rotary graters. Then, Chris discusses with science expert Guy Crosby the science of soil and its effect on the taste of tomatoes. D
4:30 pm
Passport to Adventure "Rocky Mountain Parks of Alberta, Canada" Landing in Edmonton, we step directly into Canada's railroad history before embarking on the scenic train ride to Jasper. Touring the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, we stalk elk with our lenses, ride the "Sno Coach" onto a glacier, hike, canoe and learn about the early adventurers that made this area a renowned mountaineering center, and a mecca for nature lovers from around the globe. D
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Globe Trekker "Globe Trekker Special: The Making of Globe Trekker" Cameras turn on a GLOBE TREKKER crew on the road to capture how the series is filmed.G
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The National Christmas Tree Lighting 2012 The White House tradition celebrates its 90th year with a musical program, a presidential message, and throwing the switch for lighting on the 28-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce from Virginia. Singer James Taylor headlines the performances that include Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Colbie Caillat and Phillip Phillips.G
7:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Monsters of Folk" The five musical monsters - each a songwriter and each an acclaimed musician in his own right - pack the set with Americana-infused folk ballads and raucous Southern rock romps. Much of it is from the collaborative songs of their debut self-titled release.G
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Live From Lincoln Center "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala" The Richard Tucker Music Foundation features its 2012 award winner, soprano Ailyn Perez, joined by baritones Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Gerald Finley, mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, tenors Stephen Costello and Marcello Giordani, bass Ildar Abdrazakov, bass-baritone Erwin Schrott and others onstage in a program of favorite arias and ensembles, including selections by Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Mascagni, Handel and Wagner. Maestro Patrick Summers, artistic and music director of Houston Grand Opera, leads the lineup of luminaries, supported by members of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Choral Society. The broadcast will include a feature on Perez, as well as backstage interviews with the artists. D
10:00 pm
Song of the Mountains Corklickers; Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder; Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road. D
11:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Monsters of Folk" The five musical monsters - each a songwriter and each an acclaimed musician in his own right - pack the set with Americana-infused folk ballads and raucous Southern rock romps. Much of it is from the collaborative songs of their debut self-titled release.G


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DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuettesays he won't derail the proposed overhaul of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, but wants a more detailed financial review of the state's largest health insurer before giving the deal his blessing.
Schuette told The Associated Press Wednesday the independent review that examines whether the deal is fair to Michigan residents is "not adequate." Schuette seeks a broader financial evaluation before the insurer converts from a charitable trust to a customer-owned nonprofit.
The conversion proposed by fellow Republican Gov. Rick Snyder requires Blue Cross to contribute about $1.5 billion over 18 years to a nonprofit entity aimed at improving public health care and access, and pay about $100 million in taxes.
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This is the third season in a row that the Pilgrim girls' soccer team is one of the favorites to claim the Division II title, and they're hoping that the third time's the charm.
Traditionally, fairy tales follow the rule of three, where everything comes in sets of three. For Pilgrim to get its fairy tale, though, it's going to need to buck that trend.
You see, being designated as a "contender" in the past has brought heartbreak along with it for the Pats, as they were eliminated from the playoffs the past two years without winning a single game.
They lost to sixth-seeded Mount St. Charles in 2010 and sixth-seeded Mt. Hope in 2011.
Never, though, have things lined up quite this favorably for success, which could put an end to the rule of three.
Here's what I mean – since rising toward the top of the division two years ago, the Pats haven't ever been in as solid a position as they're in right now to walk away with a championship.
The last two years, they had chance. This year, they have a better chance.
Based on both their regular season play and their postseason draw, the Pats could finally make the history they've wanted to make over this three-season stretch.
Let's look at the regular season. Pilgrim went 11-1-2, and claimed the No. 2 seed in Division II. Though the schedule was shortened this season and the Pats didn't play as many games as year's past, they had their best regular season over the three years. In 2010, they went 13-2-3. In 2011, they were 14-4. Both years, they were the No. 3 seed.
This season, they enter the postseason on a 13-game point streak, in which they've won 11 games and tied two. Their only loss was in their season opener – nearly two months ago.
"I think that as the season has been going along we've been getting better and better," Pilgrim head coach Mike Weber said last week. "That's what you want to do – you want to work to peak."
That's a new trend for Pilgrim. As recently as last year, it lost its final game of the season.
Back to this year though. After losing to North Smithfield to begin the year, Pilgrim's only non-wins (ties) came against Exeter-West Greenwich and Lincoln – the No. 1 and No. 3 seeds, respectively.
EWG and Lincoln have also played in the last two D-II finals, with EWG winning both times.
If winning a championship goes through those two teams, then the Pats have proved they can play with both of them.
But it gets better. The Pats played EWG in the third-to-last game of the season, and – like I said – they tied the Scarlet Knights 2-2. That tie is the only blemish on EWG's resume, as it finished the season 13-0-1.
In fact, since EWG won the 2010 title and then went 18-0 last year en route to another title, the tie against Pilgrim was the first non-victory for the Scarlet Knights since the middle of 2010. Just last year, EWG beat Pilgrim twice by a combined seven goals.
After this year's game, EWG coach Kevin Fraser was pretty impressed with Pilgrim.
"The good news," Fraser said, "is that it would be – if both teams make it to the finals – a heck of a final."
Translation: We're two best two teams in the division, and their isn't all that much separating us. Pilgrim is much closer to us this year than they were last year.
As far as the playoffs go, the Pats have every reason to be optimistic. By virtue of getting the No. 2 seed, they don't have EWG on their side of the draw and couldn't play them again until the finals.
Pilgrim also won't have to deal with North Smithfield – the one team it lost to this year – as North Smithfield is on the other side of the draw as well.
Since Division II changed its format this year to 12 playoff teams instead of eight, there are four first-round byes, and Pilgrim has one of those. The Pats haven't had that extra rest each of the last two years.
Pilgrim won't open the postseason until Nov. 5, when it will take on either 10th-seeded Narragansett or 7th-seeded Westerly.
That means that the Pats won't have to play against a No. 6 seed, which has been a problem each of the last two years (for what that's worth).
And look at the Pats' track record against Narragansett and
Westerly: During the regular season, Pilgrim beat Westerly 1-0 and beat Narragansett 7-1.
A win in that game would put the Pats in the semifinals, where they would play either Lincoln, Tiverton or Burrillville.
You know that they tied Lincoln during the season. Against Burrillville, they won 8-4, and against Tiverton they won 4-3.
Winning that semifinal game would put Pilgrim in the finals, most likely against EWG – who they played tougher than any team has in over two full years.
See? It all lines up.
Two years ago, Pilgrim head coach Mike Weber threw a lot of sophomores into the mix, making them essentially learn on the fly.
Well now those sophomores are seniors – 11 of them. It's not now or never for Pilgrim to win a title, as the Pats do have plenty of talented underclassmen, but this is the year that Pilgrim has had its eye on for three seasons.
The Pats are tired of fairly tales that follow the rule of three.
Oh, if they did win the whole thing? It would be their third championship in school history.
That can't be a coincidence.
Kevin Pomeroy is the assistant sports editor for the Warwick Beacon. He can be reached at 732-3100 and firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Openness? Transparency? Not When Biden Gets To Hang With Entertainment Industry Lobbyists: Press Kicked Out
from the gotta-keep-that-on-the-down-low dept
So it started out just great. And then? Well, then the press got kicked out. Seriously. Isn't this the Obama administration that's supposed to be all about openness and transparency and not giving in to industry lobbyists? So it gathers up a bunch of the highest ranking government officials, (and doesn't invite any consumer advocates or tech industry representatives) puts those politicians in a room with industry bosses and lobbyists, claims that "all stakeholders" are present (seriously, that's what Biden's press release said), has those government officials make a few blatantly false or misleading claims, and then kicks out the press. Yikes. Update: Reilly has now published his article on the event, which includes a list of attendees.


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Rehab on hold for Ollie
As indicated on "Countdown to Bisons Baseball" last night, Oliver Perez will not continue his MLB rehab assignment in Buffalo. Following a visit with team doctors in New York City yesterday, he will stay on the disabled list in Port St. Lucie, FL.
Oliver Perez made his first rehabilitation start on May 26 vs. Lehigh Valley working 4.1 innings, allowed three hits, one run, earned, with five walks, and five strikeouts. He tossed 88 pitches, 48 for strikes and retired seven of the last eight batters he faced.
The lefthander threw 5.0 innings on May 21st in an extended spring training game in Port St. Lucie, FL. Also threw 56 pitches in 3.0 scoreless and hitless innings with four walks and seven strikeouts on May 16th in an extended spring game.


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Christina "With Gratitude" It's time to count our blessings and celebrate with our loved ones gathered around us. But in a season dedicated to stuffing something, it need not be you! In this class, we'll create a feast that will win hearts and minds.and waistlines, making us all grateful we don't have to spend additional time on the treadmill to un-do the damage. D
10:30 am
Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Steaming" Steaming is one of the fastest and healthiest ways to cook - and it's not just for vegetables. In this lesson, Martha demonstrates a variety of steaming techniques and tools that allow you to make complete meals in just minutes. She'll show you how to cook chicken breasts in parchment paper for moist, flavorful meat, as well as how to clean and steam mussels. D
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Austin City Limits "Mumford and Sons/Flogging Molly" Contemporary folk rock is featured first with Mumford & Sons, who perform cuts from their album Sigh No More and new tunes, then by Flogging Molly featuring career highlights.G
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "Princess Show" Abby, Rosita and a penguin are going to play princesses. First, they decide to dance. Rosita leaps high into the air. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "Beating The Heat/Flowers for Mom" Beating the Heat - Buddy and Tiny travel to the Jurassic to make a new friend, Morris Stegosaurus, and discover how this huge dinosaur keeps cool in the heat. Flowers for Mom - The kids go to the Big Pond to look for flowers to give to Mom on her special Mothers Day. They find many different flowers while following a very busy bee. D
1:30 pm
Super Why! "Around The World Adventure" With the help of their teacher, Whyatt and his friends have contacted a girl from another school over the computer but they wonder where she lives. The super readers take a trip around the world with a wacky explorer name Wigglesbottom who is on the hunt for his friend Sophie. Will they be able to help Wigglesbottom find his friend, or will they be destined to travel the globe indefinitely? Educational Objectives: To learn about Geography. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Amazing Eyes/Water Walkers" Amazing Eyes - Sally and Nick are trying to guess which game Harvey the guinea pig might like to play with them. The Cat takes them to meet his friend Katie the Cavy, a wild guinea pig. But when they try to ask her, she playfully runs off! With the help of three different animals with very different ways of seeing, they finally find Katie and discover a guinea pig's favourite game - hide and seek! Water Walkers - Nick and Sally are waiting for Mom to come back so they can play in the pool. D
2:30 pm
Wild Kratts "Raptor Roundup" Martin and Chris challenge themselves to ID as many hawks, eagles, owls, falcons and vultures as they can. But the evil endangered species chef, Gaston Gourmand has his own plan for the raptors and has been capturing them all in his quest to find the tastiest bird wing. Will the Wild Kratts team succeed in rescuing the raptors before they become Gourmand's next gourmet delicacy? They'll have to use everything they know about classification and birds of prey - to round up the raptors and return them to where they belong - living free and in the wild!. D
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Dialogue for Kids "Dinosaurs" They once roamed the Earth, but they eventually went extinct. Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientist. David Varricchio, associate professor of paleontology at Montana State University, answer students' questions about dinosaurs. They also take a tour of one of his dinosaur digs and discuss his team's recent finds.G
3:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Istanbul" Rick loses his way in the Grand Bazaar, munches through the famously fragrant Spice Market and follows the fall of the ancient capital of Byzantium and the rise of Islam at the city's wall.G
4:00 pm
Song of the Mountains Slice of Bluegrass; Patent Pending; Skeeter & the Skidmarks. D
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My Hero "How Green Was My Ollie" Thermoman finds his popularity fading as he is held responsible for global warming. With a mob on his back, he is forced to take drastic measures.G
6:29 pm
Are You Being Served? "Sit Out" With sales slow, staff members are asked to take a 10 percent salary cut. This leads to a rooftop protest.G
7:00 pm
As Time Goes By "Welcome News" Jean and Lionel hear unexpected but welcome news from Lionel's father, Rocky, and his wife, Madge.G
7:30 pm
Ladies of Letters Vera is shocked to hear Irene was both injured and arrested at a demonstration against a nuclear fuel dump.G
8:00 pm
The Red Green Show "Angel" Red and the boys argue about the existence of angels. Mike volunteers to produce one. Red makes a bread maker out of an automatic washing machine.G
8:30 pm
Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Skis" Hyacinth, determined to give Richard a pair of skis, tells him to strap them atop the car to cultivate the correct image without ever having to step onto them.G
9:00 pm
The Thin Blue Line "Alternative Culture" Rick finds evidence of the proud Norwegian spirit in the country's capital - from Viking ships to a sleek new opera house, from World War II tales of terrorism to the constant festival at the thriving harbor. He takes in major art pieces and sails with friends in a fjord.G
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Outnumbered There is a lot to discuss during an evening with Ben's parents, including muggers, dangerous chemicals and reenactments of the Great Plague. Mum is still suspicious Jake is hiding something and Karen decides which of the world's great religions to lead.G
10:00 pm
My Family "It's Training Men" Ben insults a patient, who storms out. Roger tells Ben their employer is using an undercover patient to evaluate customer service skills and he must attend a weekend of retraining where clips of the incident are used in class.G
10:30 pm
My Hero "How Green Was My Ollie" Thermoman finds his popularity fading as he is held responsible for global warming. With a mob on his back, he is forced to take drastic measures.G
11:00 pm
Are You Being Served? "Sit Out" With sales slow, staff members are asked to take a 10 percent salary cut. This leads to a rooftop protest.G
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As Time Goes By "Welcome News" Jean and Lionel hear unexpected but welcome news from Lionel's father, Rocky, and his wife, Madge.G


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Couple Sues Airline Over Cockroach-Infested Flight [VIDEO]
With delays, baggage fees and overbooking, flying already has the potential to be a miserable experience. But imagine if you had to share your flight with cockroaches. According to Harry Marsh and Kaitlin Rush, that's exactly what happened to them. They're now suing carrier AirTran for emotional distress and more than $100,000 as a result.
The engaged couple alleges that cockroaches crawled out of air vents and storage areas on a flight from North Carolina to Texas. When they complained about the infestation, flight attendants simply ignored their requests. Where's 'Snakes on a Plane' star Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? (Or a can of Raid.)
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Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad... Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response
from the wow dept
After determining that the music had been used tens of millions of times in such an unauthorized manner, he contacted the local music collection agency, Buma/Stemra, asking them to seek somewhere around $1.3 million owed from BREIN. Buma/Stemra ignored him. Eventually, however, apparently a Buma/Stemra board member, Jochem Gerrits, reached out, and said he could help Rietveldt get paid... but with some questionable conditions. According to TorrentFreak:
In order for the deal to work out the composer had to assign the track in question to the music publishing catalogue of the Gerrits, who owns High Fashion Music. In addition to this, the music boss demanded 33% of all the money set to be recouped as a result of his efforts.This is apparently making news across the Netherlands, and Gerrits has resigned. As for BREIN, it's insisting that the whole thing is "a contractual issue" and that it is "not involved."
The conversation between Gerrits and the composer's financial advisor was recorded by Pownews, and during the conversation the financial advisor confronts Gerrits with his unconventional proposal.
"Why do you have to earn money?" he asks, as usually all of the money goes directly to the artists.
"It could be because a lot of people in the industry know that they are in trouble when I get involved," Gerrits responds, adding that he can bring up the topic immediately in a board meeting next week.
Once again trying to find confirmation for the proposal, the composer's advisor later asks if the music boss indeed wants one-third of the money.
"Yes, that's the case, but then [the composer] would make 660,000 euros and now he has nothing," Gerrits responds calmly.


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Nusa Tenggara ("Southeast Islands"), also known as the Lesser Sunda Islands, is a major region of Indonesia.
The Lesser Sundas are administratively divided into two provinces:
While Bali is geographically a part of the archipelago, it is covered in a separate article.
Other destinations
Nusa Tenggara is one of the least developed and least visited parts of Indonesia. While the islands of Lombok and Sumbawa are solidly Muslim, the vast majority (90%) of the rest is Christian, with a smattering of animist belief. Partly thanks to this clean division, Nusa Tenggara has been largely spared the religious conflicts of nearby Sulawesi and Maluku.
Get in
Being a vast archipelago, the main means of transport are by plane and by ship.
By plane
The main airports, with frequent flights from the Javanese mainland and Denpasar (Bali), are Mataram (Lombok), Maumere (Flores) and Kupang (West Timor). The only direct international connection from anywhere outside Indonesia directly to the islands is on SilkAir from Singapore a few times a week to Mataram.
A few flights a week also go from Denpasar, Bali to both Waingapu, Sumba (eastern part of the island) and Waikabubak (western part, near where the Pasolas are held annually).
By boat
There are frequent ferry services from Bali to Lombok. Connections between Nusa Tenggara and Indonesia's other islands, though, are limited to the occasional PELNI ferry sailing between Makassar (South Sulawesi) to Flores and, if you really want to get away from it all, from various ports in Papua via Tual and Saumlaki, Maluku to Kalabahi, Alor and onward to Flores.
Get around
From Bali in the west to Timor in the east, the classic island-hopping backpacker trail across Nusa Tenggara runs something like this:
Popular detours include visiting the 3 Gili Islands lying a few km of the western coast of Lombok and Komodo north of Flores. Less popular options include going via Sumba instead of Flores.
A night time ferry also runs, sometimes, from Waingapu, Sumba to Ende, Flores, taking about 11 hours.
Jus pokat (avocado juice), often including a swirl of chocolate, is generally very good.
Stay safe
Komodo Dragons, at up to 3 m (10 ft) in length, are more than capable of killing a man with ease, although human predation isn't very common. The main problem is the dragon's diseased-filled bite from the rampant bacteria residing in their mouths. The dragon usually bites a larger animal and then waits for the infection to kill it. So, despite the fact that being actually eaten is unlikely, the bite itself can be deadly. Keep at a considerable distance and never enter dragon territory alone. If you use basic common sense you should have a wonderful time viewing these magnificent animals. The absence of crocodiles on Komodo Island (due in part to a lack of suitable habitat) leave the Komodo Dragons with no natural predators.
Saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) also reside in most of this area, however they are not found on Komodo. The saltwater crocodile is the largest of all living crocodilians and the average size for an adult male is 5.2 m (17 ft) (although the largest saltwater crocodile on record was 8.8 m (29 ft) in length, from northern Queensland). They are known throughout their range as man-eaters and account for many human deaths every year. This can all be avoided by using basic common sense. Never swim in the ocean near a river mouth, in swamps or in large rivers. Never clean fish near the water or frequent the same spot at a river over a prolonged period of time, saltwater crocodiles are known to memorize a potential prey item's patterns for days or weeks at a time before attacking.


text: iPad Screenshots: (click to enlarge) Rollercoaster Extreme HD Barclaycard's Rollercoaster Extreme is now even more exciting and is available on the iPad. It also includes new multipl… Free Buy Now Watch Media DetailsBarclaycard's Rollercoaster Extreme is now even more exciting and is available on the iPad. It also includes new multiplayer and ghost racing game functionality. Brought to you by Barclaycard, makers of the top-rated Waterslide Extreme app. Barclaycard Rollercoaster Extreme HD sees you riding the rails of eight individual rollercoaster tracks in the suburbs of New York City. Race the clock and unlock new areas in Chinatown, Central Park, Upper West Side and Downtown New York. New features include Multiplayer functionality that uses Bluetooth to let you race your friends or challenge complete strangers. And ghost racing that pits you against our best Barclaycard Rollercoaster Extreme track times. If you can beat the best you'll set new world records of your own. Playing is easy. The faster you go, the higher your score. Tilt your iPad left and right to dodge obstacles and grab energisers for extra speed boosts around the track. Look out for diversions that test your rider skills and collect all our badges at each level to prove that you're a real extreme rollercoaster rider. It's harder than you think. Key features- Race around a 3D New York City - Unlock new areas in the game- Interact with the game environment on every ride- Tilt the screen to dodge obstacles or grab speed boosting energisers- Collect special Rollercoaster Extreme rider badges at every level- NEW. Multiplayer functionality, challenge the person next to you on all eight tracks- NEW. Ghost racing mode, try to beat the times of our top racers all over the worldHave you got Barclaycard Rollercoaster Extreme for your iPhone yet?This new game is inspired by our Barclaycard Rollercoaster TV ad. If you missed it, you can check it out at http://bit.ly/rollercoaster-extreme. You'll also find a demo of game there, so you can see just how fun it is. Information Seller: Genre:Action, Racing Release:Sep 01, 2010 Updated:Nov 30, -0001 Version: Size:0.0 TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating:Unrated Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. Yes, my password is: Forgot your password? Stay logged in


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Author Notes: Several years ago I threw an Oscar party, with dishes inspired by each of the Best Pictures nominees, I had tapas, for Gladiator, dim sum for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, an 8-ball for Blow, just kidding, no really, I had a pile of powdered sugar on a mirror next to a dish of berries, and for Chocolat I splurged on a box of Vosges exotic truffles.
Amazingly there were chocolates left over (in retrospect, maybe I hid them from my guests and put out a plate of Mallomars or something instead), anyway I had surveyed them, as one does, mentally tallying which ones i'd most like to eat and which ones I would allow others to have, and one of those was the milk chocolate curry truffle. Meh, I thought, not a huge milk chocolate fan, not a huge curry fan. Milk chocolate was always too sweet, I mean I'd eat it if there was no other chocolate to be had, it wasn't total aversion, just preference.
However late one evening, when I snuck out of bed in the dark night, unable to sleep knowing there were truffles in the house I accidentally popped the milk chocolate curry one in my mouth. Whoa, as it slowly melted the sweet sweet creaminess mixed with the spice and that curry funk, great glory hallejuiah, I have seen the light!
So I have adapted that experience into a small warm bowl of chocolate, creaminess perfect for an intimate dessert for two, I'm not going to tell you how to handle your love life, but trust me its best sipped in a dark room with your loved one. I usually get somewhat itchy when people when people say this, but it is very sensuous, very sexy.
Of course depending on what you're into it can be doubled even tripled, and if you are lactose intolerant or a vegan you can substitute coconut milk.
Since this involves a pre-made spice mix, I urge you to find a good spice store (or order on line from Kalustayans) one with lots of turnover and buy a freshly made mix, the Madras Curry powder that has been sitting on the shelf in the corner store for 18 years will not have the same effect. Likewise if you have access to good quality farm fresh cream it will make all the difference.
Serves: 2
tablespoons Best Quality, Freshest Madras Curry Powder
Half Split Vanilla Bean
2 1/2
cups Light Cream, or Heavy Cream
tablespoons Coconut Milk, not the kind that is fake milk, but the full creamy version, the rest will freeze
cup Chopped HIGH Quality Milk Chocolate
cup Chopped High Quality Semi Sweet Chocolate
- In a medium saucepan heat the curry powder and the vanilla bean over a low flame until fragrant, this takes almost no time, so stick with it, if it burns throw it out start again
- Add the Cream & Coconut milk and bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat and let sit at least an hour, or longer you can do this a day ahead
- Place chocolates in bowl of food processor or blender
- Bring cream mixture up to a near boil
- Remove cream mixture form heat and strain
- With food processor/blender running, pour hot cream mixture into chocolate
- Pour in to small bowls or teacups for sipping in a candle lit bedroom or bathtub (vanilla bean can be dried and stuck in a jar of sugar for vanilla sugar)
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chocolate & Spice
More Great Recipes:
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About the tags [RCAio] and [TOSio]
These are to do with the physical connector rather than the protocol being used.
(We don't call analog connections "XLR" "RCA" "3mm-jack")
I'd suggest a more descriptive tag would be Matrix:Tag-SPDIFio
For instance many AudioScience cards support software selectable AESEBU or SPDIF for digital I/O. The connectors are XLR. They don't have RCA connectors.
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The Escondido owner of a science-fiction collection worth millions of dollars has decided to donate most of it to San Diego State University, which plans to put the material on public display.
University officials are touting Edward Marsh's collection as one of the largest in the world, and an independent appraiser has estimated the value at $10 million to $12 million.
The first portion of what SDSU has received is worth more than $2.25 million, said Gale Etschmaier, the school's dean of library and information access. It includes first-edition items, memorabilia and artwork, much of it from the "golden age" of science fiction between 1937 and the early 1950s. The gift will be exhibited in a room created specifically for it, and students and researchers will be able to review the holdings.
"I want the golden age to be preserved, and the kids today have no idea it even existed," Marsh, 61, said Friday at his home. "They've never seen a pulp magazine with these lurid covers. And all the movies they see come from stories written by the golden age guys."
Marsh grew up in San Diego and attended SDSU for two semesters in 1969. He began collecting science-fiction works in earnest in 2004 and has spent years and millions of dollars turning a guest house on his property into the 2,000-square-foot Marsh Library. Walls are adorned with original works of art that were used as book covers, and individual volumes are meticulously kept in custom book boxes that line floor-to-ceiling shelves in three rooms.
Several vanloads of material have been moved to San Diego State, and Marsh said he plans to make more donations to the university in the next few years. Etschmaier said Marsh has amassed "an incredibly significant collection" that will be prized by researchers in many fields including science, technology, politics, religion, philosophy, journalism and theater and film.
There are writings by noted authors such as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, L. Sprague de Camp and Kevin Anderson, as well as classic science fiction by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Most of the books in Marsh's collection — there are thousands of volumes, he estimates — are signed first editions. The converted guest house also holds autographed photos, busts of authors, movie props, literary contracts and portraits. And there are works by great minds such as Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, George Orwell, Will Durant, Winston Churchill, Ian Fleming and William Burroughs.
"It is not so much the quantity but the quality of this collection," Etschmaier said. "It includes things like pulp magazines where these very famous science-fiction authors were appearing."
Besides his gift to SDSU, Marsh has donated materials to other organizations including the University of California Riverside, which houses The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the largest publicly accessible collection of science fiction and fantasy literature in the world.
Melissa Conway, head of special collections and archives at that campus, has visited the Marsh Library and said the owner's level of organization and attention to detail are astounding.
"I work with collectors all the time. I work with some really dedicated collectors," Conway said. "When I walked into (his library), I said, 'I love you,'" she joked.
Marsh said he had donated to the SDSU library in the past and decided about three years ago that it would eventually get most of his collection.
"The university said they will keep it in fine shape and honor the authors in perpetuity," he said. "I haven't been collecting this so it could be sold off on eBay by a grandson or something. It was a no-brainer."
He hopes future science-fiction writers will be inspired and stimulated by the "brilliant minds" in his collection. "Good science fiction is awesome because it forecasts possibilities" and heralds the future of what can be, he added.
Marsh said one of his most prized possessions is a watch that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, wore while typing "Dianetics."
Marsh worked 10 years for the church before going into the real estate and mortgage industries. His collection reflects his fascination with Hubbard, who got his start writing pulp fiction in the 1930s and '40s, and includes the writings of those who influenced Hubbard or who were influenced by him. One entire room is dedicated to Hubbard material.
"It is not all about Hubbard, but it all links into him," Marsh said.
Library officials at San Diego State are determining how they might reconfigure their library space so perhaps the special-collections area, which includes Marsh's donations, can occupy a more central spot.
"We are looking to incorporate it in a more meaningful way so people know about it and they use it," Etschmaier said. She predicted that Marsh's gift will draw many people to the library in the future.
San Diego already is a center of great science-fiction activity, from the annual Comic-Con convention to scholarly work and writers' workshops held at the University of California San Diego, which has generated many contemporary science fiction writers, said Seth Lerer, the university's dean for the division of arts and humanities.
"Any resource in the area that would enhance all of this work would benefit everybody," Lerer said. "So having this collection go to (San Diego) State, we hope would be of great benefit to our future writers, our students and our faculty."


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Amid partisan questioning from both sides in former Sen. Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing last week, a major opportunity was lost.
Hagel's fellow Republicans grilled the Defense secretary nominee on past statements about Israel and his opposition to President George W. Bush's 2007 surge in Iraq. Democrats, defending their president's choice, tossed him softballs.
What Hagel wasn't asked about in any depth was Afghanistan, where about 66,000 U.S. troops are still risking their lives for a mission that no longer seems clear.
It will be the next Defense secretary's job not only to bring most of those men and women home, ending an era of big-footprint U.S. combat in the Muslim world, but also to help reimagine the fight against terrorists for an era of belt-tightening.


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Opinion: GOP's Electoral College Gambit
Villanova University professor Lara Brown on Republican efforts in Pennsylvania and other GOP-controlled swing states to change the allocation of electoral votes from winner-take-all. Photo: Associated Press
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Blaney retires as longtime UConn coach
STORRS -- After 12 years on the University of Connecticut men's basketball coaching staff and 43 years overall as a college basketball coach, George Blaney has announced his retirement.
Blaney, 73, served as UConn's associate head coach under former coach Jim Calhoun and also as an assistant coach for Calhoun and last year for first-year head coach Kevin Ollie. He is currently a special assistant/advisor to Ollie.
"I always said I would know when it would be the right time to go," said Blaney, who stepped in for Calhoun many times when the head coach was out of action. "I have thoroughly enjoyed my years at UConn, but I think for me, this is the right time.
"Coaching with Jim has been so special for me. We have always been such great friends and that just made for a wonderful working relationship. His passion for the game, for the kids, and for UConn is what made him such a special coach."
Blaney, however, hung around for another season after Calhoun retired, serving as a mentor for Ollie last season. The Huskies faced a Big East and NCAA tournament ban because of poor academics, but the program -- with a strong perimeter game but a challenged frontcourt -- still went 20-10 in the regular season.
"I am just so excited about Kevin," Blaney said. "I said right from the get-go that Kevin Ollie is a superstar coach and he certainly showed it last year. And I think this year's team is going to be terrific."
When Blaney joined the UConn staff before the 2001-02 season, he was already a coaching veteran. He had made stops at Stonehill, Dartmouth, Seton Hall, Rhode Island, and for 22 years as head coach at his alma mater, Holy Cross.
"Coach Blaney is just a great basketball coach ... just the way he puts basketball and life in perspective," Ollie said. "He's been somebody I can confide in, no matter what the situation. Not only was coach Blaney a great help to me last year through the transition to head coach, but he helped me when I was an assistant, helped me in my whole path to becoming a college coach. And of course, his decades of coaching experience have been invaluable to me on the bench."
"He is a gentleman of the game," UConn athletic director Warde Manuel said, "and the respect that he has among his peers is unmatched. All of us at UConn wish George, his wife Maryellen and the entire Blaney family much happiness in the future."
During Blaney's 12 years at UConn, the Huskies have compiled a 298-112 overall record. He helped guide them to two national championships and six Big East titles.
"I've known George for 40-plus years, and he is not only one of the best basketball coaches, but also one of the finest people I've ever been around," Calhoun said. "When he joined me at UConn, I think it was a great marriage of perhaps two very different personalities, but two people who were very similar in our feelings about the game of basketball and the kids who played for us.
"George had an awful lot to do with all that we were able to accomplish here, and I will cherish the time we had working together. He will always be very special to me and I'm proud to call him my friend."
Blaney coached numerous future NBA players while at UConn, including Caron Butler, Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor, Rudy Gay, Kemba Walker and Andre Drummond, as well as current UConn stars Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright.
Blaney, a 2003 inductee into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, has a lifetime head coaching record of 461-383 in more than 30 years as a head coach, including 357 wins and eight postseason appearances as head coach at Holy Cross.
Blaney, a native of Jersey City, N.J., and wife Maryellen are parents to daughters Annmarie and Tricia and sons Terry, Kevin, and Brian, who is an assistant men's basketball coach at Providence College. They also have seven grandchildren.
"Of course, we will miss Coach Blaney tremendously," Ollie said, "both on the bench and in our staff meetings, but I know he'll always be there if I need him for advice. He might be teeing it up on Cape Cod, but he'll be there for me."


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Thu, 08 January 2009 at 4:51 pm
Brad Pitt: My Motorcycle Helmet is My Anonymity
Brad Pitt keeps semi-hidden while riding around his motorcycle in Hollywood on Thursday (January 8).
In the latest issue of W, the 45-year-old actor said that his motorcycle helmet was his way of protecting his identity.
"This is my anonymity," Brad told the mag. "With it, I'm just another a–hole on the streets."
Looks like the helmet didn't help him any this time!
If you haven't already, check out this photo spread: Brad Pitt – "W" February 2009.
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The Hedgebrook Cookbook: Celebrating Radical Hospitality by Denise Barr and Julie Rosten
Hedgebrook is a retreat center for women writers located on Whidbey Island in Washington, not too far from Seattle. Their purpose is to offer women a quiet, beautiful space, surrounded by nature, so they can direct their energies towards their writing. Called radical hospitality, the staff is dedicated to providing an atmosphere that nourishes and supports the creative process. Of course, part of the deal is that delicious, straight-from-the-garden meals are cooked from scratch and served up at a large, communal table every evening. Sigh.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Denise Barr and Julie Rosten
• Who published it: She Writes Press
• Number of recipes: over 90
• Recipes for right now: Tuscan Kale and Apple Salad; Roast Chicken with Carrots; Ginger Pumpkin or Vegan Pumpkin Bread; Ginger Broth with Sweet Potatoes; Lamb Curry; Lemon Polenta Cake.
• Other highlights: The Hedgebrook Cookbook is a collection of recipes from the Hedgebrook kitchen. Along with gorgeous color photographs and short essays from authors such as Ruth Ozeki, Dorothy Allison, Gail Tsukiyama, and Nassim Assefi, the book offers crowd-friendly, comforting recipes. From snacks to brunch dishes to soups, salads, mains and desserts, there is something here for everyone.
The beauty of this cookbook is that these recipes are tried and true, tested over the years on hundreds of guests and staff at Hedgebrook. They know what works, they know what makes people happy, for they cook for a diverse and ever changing population. The pictures and essays are very inspiring, encouraging us to offer radical (or I would say warm and attentive) hospitality from our own homes.
The Hedgebrook Cookbook is a paperback, with a sturdy cover and glossy pages. It has the usual table of contents and index and lots of pictures of not only of the food but of the people and gardens of Hedgebrook as well. I can imagine it dotted with post-its and splattered with olive oil as this is one of those cookbooks you will return to again and again.
• Who would enjoy this book? I'm sure that this cookbook will go home with anyone who has visited and eaten a meal at Hedgebrook. But even if you haven't been there, it's worth checking out. If you have a big kitchen or dining room table and nothing makes you happier than seeing it filled with well-fed, happy people, then the Hedgebrook cookbook just might be for you.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Hedgebrook Cookbook: Celebrating Radical Hospitality by Denise Barr and Julie Rosten
• Visit the website: Hedgebrook
Apartment Therapy Media makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.
(Images: Dana Velden)


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Hacking the Hyperlinked Heart
After a string of digital dating disasters, Amy Webb dug into the data…and found her husband
I was 30 years old, just out of a long-term relationship and no longer interested in playing the field. It was time to settle down with the right man, get married and start a family. At the urging of several friends (and my worried mother), a strategy was settled upon: I joined Match.com and JDate, a website for Jewish singles.
What followed was a series of bad dates worthy of a romantic comedy: stupid sexual remarks, too much alcohol consumed (by them). A surprising number of men high-fived me, for reasons that remain unclear....