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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Extended Edition Blu-ray
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Home Entertainment, Movies, Men, Teens, Under $100, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
We love to focus on great tech deals in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide as well, and that's why we are recommending The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-ray--it's currently available as an Amazon Gold Box special, and that makes it $43.49. That is a 64% discount off of Amazon's regular price, and makes a great gift for the movie lover in your life. The set includes the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King Extended Editions,) and has a bunch of footage that was left out of the theatrical releases of the films. Pick this set up today from Amazon before the price goes back up!
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Kinect Sesame Street TV
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Home Entertainment, Microsoft, Video Games, Family, Kids, Under $100, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
Next up in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide is Kinect Sesame Street TV, an educational title for the Xbox 360 geared towards young children. In the game kids are invited to experience the world of Sesame Street alongside their favorite characters, such as Big Bird, Grover, Cookie Monster and Elmo, like never before. With Kinect players to share in the experience through visual and physical interactions with characters of Sesame Street, placing them right in the Sesame Street experience.
Children can interact with their favorite Sesame Street characters on screen to help them with tasks, play in their world, and learn together. Full-body gestures and voice recognition are used to move from experience to experience, and go from passive watching to active participation, and the game even includes hundreds of clips from the Sesame Street archive. You can pick up Kinect Sesame Street TV for about $30 on Amazon.
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Cooking for Geeks cookbook
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We've hit you with a bunch of gadgets in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide this year, but don't think we forgot about the readers out there. One of the books that we recommend this year is Cooking for Geeks. Written by Jeff Potter, the book not only includes great tasting recipes, but it focuses on the science of cooking, and includes a bunch of kitchen hacks to actually teach cooking instead of just recipes to follow. It's loaded with info, and is worthy of being gifted to your favorite geek this hoiday season. It's available in paperback, as well as on Kindle. You can get it now from Amazon for $20.23, which is a 42% discount.
Honorable Mention: What Einstien Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Microsoft Touch Mouse
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This 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry is targeted at making computing a little more fun and futuristic - and we're even giving this one away! The Microsoft Touch Mouse is made exclusively for use with Windows 7. It's got a multitouch surface, allowing you to use natural touch gestures to perform common tasks. Basically, think of it as the Apple Magic Mouse, but for your Windows PC. It's got support for one-, two-, and three-findered gestures, and runs on 2 AA batteries. They sell for $79, but you can get one on Amazon now for $41, which is a whopping 48% discount.
Or, you can win one here! We are giving one of these Microsoft Touch Mouse prizes away as we continue our holiday giveaway series. Simply use the widget below to enter to win. We've got a lot of ways for you to enter, but don't check off any that you don't actually perform. If you do, you'll be eliminated:
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Desk Pets TankBot
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Here's a 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry aimed at the office workers in your life. We know that robotic helicopters and dinosaurs win all the points for flash, but we're here to tell you that the Desk Pets TankBot helps you conquer by force. You charge up the TankBot using its USB connection, and then you use your smartphone to control it. How cool is that? You can also set it to random, letting it wreak havoc on all your co-workers with its light-up eyes and sound effects. They're available in multiple colors, and you can get one for $50 on Amazon.
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: GeeksRiot Steve Jobs Tribute Shirt
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Apple, Wearables, Features, Techies, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
Steve Jobs will definitely be missed, and today's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry honors his memory, while also helping a great cause. What you see above is the GeeksRiot Steve Jobs Tribute t-shirt. All proceeds from the $25 purchase go towards Movember and the fight against cancer. Aside from all that, though, the shirt looks ridiculously cool. Seriously, we've seen 'em in person, and they're high quality. Go check them out, and grab a couple for the Apple fans in your life!
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Free 4G Android smartphones at Radio Shack
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Our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide tries to hit you with gift recommendations at all different price points, and this one may be the least expensive. Radio Shack is selling a bunch of 4G Android smartphones for free, with two-year contract, this holiday season. You can get devices like the Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon, Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T, and the HTC EVO Design 4G for Sprint. All of these devices support faster data speeds, and at a price of free, they're a tremendous deal.
2011 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Shenzhen 6-inch White Ceramic Chef's Knife
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We're giving away this next item featured in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, and it's a product that we weren't even sure we'd like at first, Take a look at the Shenzhen Knives White Ceramic 6-inch Chef's Knife. When we first looked at it, we thought it was gonna be a cheap, dull knife unworthy of any further attention. We were very, very wrong. In fact, it's become my daily go-to kitchen knife. The sharpness of the blade is more than capable of handling meats, hard fruits and vegetables, as well as softer items as well. Since it's ceramic, it stays sharper than a steel knife, and holds its edge longer. It also won't rust, and is resistant to acids, germs, and oils. The best part, though, is that they aren't even that expensive. You can get this knife on Amazon for $25.
Seriously, I've been using this knife almost exclusively for all my cooking over the past couple of weeks, and it has yet to let me down.
Okay, now on to the details of the giveaway. We've got a Shenzhen 6-inch White Ceramic Chef's Knife to give away,
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Dismember-Me Plush Zombie
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We've got another inexpensive, yet awesome, entry for our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, this one focusing on the undead. Do you know what happens when you take old broken plush toys and bury them in the woods by the light of the full moon while whistling the theme song from "Halloween"? Unfortunately nothing...which is why the skillful design monkeys over at ThinkGeek were forced to come-up with their own scary (but cute) zombie plush.
The Dismember-Me Plush Zombie begs to be torn limb from limb. After all he is a decaying re-animated corpse turned into irresistible cuddly plush. Rip off an arm... he doesn't mind. Tear him in half.. he'll barely notice. Pull off his legs... ok now he's getting a bit annoyed. Steal his brain... now you've really done it. Keep your teddy bears under close guard tonight because undead plush have come back from hell to walk the earth.
Grab yours now for $9.99, a 23% discount!
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Star Wars Chop Sabers
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How's this for a unique 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry? They're lightsabers, they're chopsticks, and they'll change the way you experience your favorite Asian foods. Grab these Japanese imports from ThinkGeek and deftly maneuver your food with the power of the Force. We're not sure if you know this, but Yoda has been known to carve his Thanksgiving turkey using his lightsaber.
Go forth, brave Jedi warriors, and use your chop sabers to mix just a little extra wasabi into your soy sauce. You can handle it. It is a known fact that eating sushi with chop sabers vastly strengthens your ability to ingest horseradish products. (By the way, did you know that researchers are trying to make a smoke alarm for the deaf using wasabi vapors? We're debating whether it would be more annoying to wake up to the sound of a fire alarm or the punch in the nose that only wasabi brings. What do you think?) Either way, wield your weapons and ready the way for a truly epic eating experience. You can get a pair of Chop Sabers for $9.99 (a 23% discount!)
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In our second week in London we visited the Garden Museum in London on Lambeth Palace Road.
Not too well known, it is in the church of St. Mary at Lambeth. King Hardicanute died at a wedding feast on the site of the church in 1042.
The first church was built by Countess Goda, sister of Edward the Confessor in 1062, and the church is mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. Richard Bancroft, the first of six Archbishops of Canterbury was buried in the church in 1610. John Tradescant was buried in a tomb outside the church in 1638.
He had introduced to England many of the plants taken for granted today.
The Tradescants traveled the world in search of new plants around the time of Elizabeth I.
The son followed his father as Royal Gardener and made several voyages to America. His home in Lambeth became the first museum open to the public. He was buried there in 1662.
Elias Ashmole was buried there in 1692. He acquired the Tradescant collection to form the Ashmolean Museum.
After World War II, the church was damaged and stripped of its furnishings and closed in 1972.
In 1977 the building was saved from destruction by the formation of the Tradescant Trust with the intention of establishing a Museum of Garden History.
The Trust's work repairing and converting the church into the world's first Museum of Garden History became a great architectural conservation project, and was completed in 1991.
I was amazed to find they leave the agaves outside all winter. The camellias were already in bloom and mine were too when I arrived back home.
Just behind the church/garden is Lambeth Palace, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The door to the garden was ajar and we peeped in and a warder showed up to talk to us and show us around the courtyard. He said the Archbishop is the fifth most important person in England. Who were we to argue?
That evening we went to meet Ann Green for drinks at the Rubens Hotel across from the Palace. Many Louisvillians know her as she was the head of the Royal Armoury at Leeds and an active partner at the Frazier Arms and History Museum in Louisville. It was great fun to see her.
Ann is now chairman of the company that was established to improve the visitor experience at Hadrian's Wall, all 130 miles of it as well as the economy of the entire World Heritage site! She has a daunting job ahead of her.
That evening we went to the Tower of London to witness the locking of the Tower. Few people are granted permission each evening to watch the "Ceremony of the Keys.†Ann had spoken to John Hammon, of the Tower, who arranged for us to see this ceremony that has been performed nightly for the last 740 years. It was COLD! But it was interesting and very impressive.
The next day was a day of fun.
Our hotel was across the street from the Victoria & Albert Museum, a decorative arts extravaganza and we spent the day there. Oh, such sheer bliss. The pottery, the furniture, the sculpture, how delicious.
That evening we stayed in and relaxed.
The next morning we met Paul Babb uptown at the Wallace Collection, another favorite of ours.
We like it that it is in the Wallace private mansion. They were an interesting family and it is too long to get into here.
The collection ranges from fine porcelains to Oriental armor. They have turned the enclosed stable yard into a restaurant with a glass roof. It is so elegant and it is right downtown.
Then we braved the crowds and the pigeons at Trafalgar Square to go to the National Gallery of Art.
That is always an experience. You get lost and see things you hadn't planned on seeing and then you find out that you like them.
But, then, some of the art is off-putting. I've forgotten the artist's name but there is one whole room of paintings by an Italian artist whose paintings look like he had an astigmatism. Or maybe it was me.
We went over to Pimlico to Bennison Fabrics to visit friends who are in the business of replicating historic fabric for stately homes, museums and such. It is so fascinating to look at their fabrics which are printed in 50 meter lengths. They are exquisite and averaging as high as 400 pounds sterling, or about $600 a meter.
That evening we were off with the Babbs to a popular fish restaurant in Mayfair. Mercy! They serve huge fish.
Yesterday we did what is left of the antique shops on Kensington Church Street.
So sad! There used to be dozens of shops but they are now down to a precious few. The only bright spot was having lunch at the Churchill Arms Pub.
It is famous for its scores of hanging baskets of flowers inside and outside and for its Thai food.
Our last day in London we met the Babbs and revisited Leighton House the incredible home of Sir Frederic Leighton, the only English artist ever to be made a peer.
The first floor of the house in Kensington is decorated in the Arab style with exquisite tiles from Damascus, Cairo and Rhodes, and others created by William de Morgan on the floors, walls and ceilings. One room has a pool and fountain in it. The second floor held his studio which overlooked his huge back yard. Definitely worth the visit.
Next we went to the Linley Sambourne House, the home of the Punch artist and political cartoonist from 1874 till his death in 1910.
It remained in his family until it was presented to the nation in 1980. It is virtually unchanged since the 1890's.
That evening as planned we had dinner at the home of Gary Woo.
He is an excellent cook and served six courses that were delicious and exquisitely presented. It was a great ending to a wonderful trip. It was the trip of a lifetime actually and the next morning we flew home.

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Self-cleaning function
The self-cleaning function is activated after the air conditioner is turned off and operates for 2 hours.
"Fuzzy" Automatic mode
The air conditioner automatically selects the operating mode and temperature by performing calculations based on the principles of fuzzy logic.
High Performance mode
The air conditioner works with maximum capacity for 15 minutes. This mode is convenient when you need to quickly reach the desired temperature.
Automatic mode
Based on the measured parameters, the air conditioner automatically selects the heating, cooling or drying mode.
Move the blinds up / down
During the movement of the blinds up / down, they can be fixed in any position - from horizontal to vertical.
Automatic operation of blinds
For each mode, the air conditioner selects the optimum version of the blinds.
Blind memory
When the air conditioner is turned on, the blinds automatically return to the position that was selected before it was turned off.
Choice of airflow direction
Using the airflow direction selection button, you can set the simultaneous supply of air through the top and bottom outlet holes simultaneously or only through the upper one (in case of using the wireless console).
Switch-on timer
The air conditioner turns on a bit earlier so that the set room temperature reaches the set parameters (cooling and heating modes) to the set time.
Timer, programmable for 24 hours
Combining the commands to turn the air conditioner on and off, you can set up to two events in one day.
Night mode
The air conditioner automatically controls the temperature at night, not allowing it to go down or go up.
Economy mode
Economical energy consumption does not affect the quality of air conditioning.
During operation in the cooling mode, the air conditioner dehumidifies incoming air.
OFF Timer
Turning off the air conditioner at the set time.
Night-Temperature reduction
In the cold season, the air conditioner maintains a temperature of 10 °C when the room is not in use.
Quiet mode
The noise level of the outdoor unit is at least 3 dB(A) below the nominal value.
Weekly Timerр
Available for up to four programs (ON timer / timer - OFF) for each day of the week. Maximum 28 programs per week.
Automatic defrosting
The air conditioner automatically removes the frost formed on the heat exchanger of the outdoor unit.
Removable indoor unit panel
The indoor unit panel is easy to open and close, making it easy to clean the filter. If necessary, it can also be removed.
Self-diagnosis function
In case of a failure of the air conditioner, the microcomputer automatically starts the self-diagnosis function, after which a fault code is displayed on the display.
Luminescent buttons
The control panel has luminescent buttons, which helps to find it in the dark and it is easy to control the operating modes of the air conditioner.
Automatic restart
The air conditioner automatically restarts if there is an accidental temporary power failure. In addition, this function allows you to resume working with the same parameters that were set before the power was turned off.
Optional switch
On the indoor unit there is an additional switch that can be used to turn on / off the air conditioner.
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Each and every one of us has a unique history—a set of beginnings and endings, of stories and accomplishments—that made us who we are today. History tells us that the past dictates the future, and as a Society, we are no different. Since its inception more than 30 years ago, Golden Key has been synonymous with excellence. The world's largest honor society, and the only one to be based on a foundation of Academics, Leadership and Service, Golden Key was founded 29 November 1977, at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Originally established as Golden Key National Honor Society, the name was later changed to reflect an international presence. And just as the name evolved, so did the Society. Since 1977, more than 2 million undergraduate and graduate students have joined and we have awarded more than $10 million in scholarships and grants. With over 400 chapters in eight countries, and a new focus on the three pillars, Golden Key continues to grow, while helping our members realize their potential.
Golden Key is founded at Georgia State University by Jim Lewis. More than 300 students from all fields of study are inducted into the Society.
Six chapters are established, including the University of Georgia—the longest continually active chapter—and the University of Florida.
The first Golden Key National Conference is held in Atlanta.
The first Golden Key Regional Conference is held at Michigan State University.
Golden Key surpasses the $100,000 mark in scholarships awarded on 29 November 1984, the seventh anniversary of the Society. The 50th Golden Key chapter is established at San Diego State University.
Formal dedication of the Society's first National Headquarters located in the Druid HIlls Historic District in Atlanta.
NCR and KMPG Peat Marwick become Golden Key's first corporate partners, contributing $70,000 in computer equipment and $40,000 toward scholarships and the National Conference, respectively.
In recognition of the success of Golden Key, Founder and Executive Director James W. Lewis receives a special honor when he is presented the American Eagle Award by the Invest-in-America Council in the U.S. Senate.
Stacie Brown, a Ball State University student, receives the first Golden Key Scholar Award.
The first chapters outside of the United States are established in Australia at the University of Queensland, University of Sydney, Macquarie University and RMIT. The 200th chapter of Golden Key is established at Southern University A&M.
The one-millionth dollar in scholarship support to students is awarded.
Golden Key National Conference is renamed Golden Key International Conference, and the first chapter at a service academy is chartered at the U.S. Naval Academy.
The first chapters in Malaysia and Canada are established, and Louisiana Tech becomes the 250th Golden Key chapter.
The Society's name is changed from Golden Key National Honor Society to Golden Key International Honour Society to reflect international presence.
Golden Key receives Make a Difference Day recognition and a $10,000 grant for community service. More than $4.5 million in scholarships have been awarded since Golden Key's inception.
Golden Key receives the Election Assistance Commission grant to support the 2008 elections in the United States. Incorporation of a service opportunity at the International Conference. Augusta State University becomes the 375th chapter.
International and Regional Conferences become International and Regional Summits. The Society introduces a new image family, officially adopting three pillars of Academics, Leadership and Service.
Golden Key reaches the 2 millionth member milestone.
Golden Key begins awarding $1 million in scholarships and awards each year. A tradition that would continue for the next four years. More than $12.5 million in scholarships had been awarded since Golden Key's inception.
Golden Key welcomes its 400th chapter.
Golden Key celebrates 35 years of business.
Golden Key officially launches SPARK a Change, our global service initiative to impact and improve the lives of at-risk youth through literacy, education and real-world preparedness.
Golden Key welcomes 100,000th member from Canada.
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For over a decade during the 1980s and 90s, I had the best job in the world. I was leading a team of researchers, and together we travelled the tropical islands of the southwest Pacific looking for marsupials, bats and rats found nowhere else on Earth. It was pioneering work. No summary of the mammal fauna of the region existed, so we had nothing to guide us apart from brief accounts scattered in the scientific literature. Many of the islands were a great blank, not having been visited by anyone interested in mammals since some pioneering naturalist dropped by during the age of sail.
Island biodiversity is exquisitely vulnerable to human disruption.
The fate of New Zealand's biodiversity is typical. Over a third of its land bird and bat species have become extinct since human settlement, and another third are threatened with extinction. Such figures made me wonder how the mammalian inhabitants of islands further north were faring in the face of introduced species and European colonization. Because nobody in recent times had gone to the islands to look, it was a question without an answer, and it became the raison d'être for our quest. It was possible, we knew, that some species had vanished before anyone even realized that they were endangered, making our adventures somewhat quixotic.
But it also seemed possible that a species or two existed among the network of islands, reefs and misty peaks that had evaded earlier visitors, and so awaited scientific discovery.
Planning for our expeditions was carried out in musty libraries and museums, for these were the days before the internet, and if one wished to consult the pages of the journal of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, or the obscure, Shanghai-published journal Memoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'Empire Chinois, one had to front up at a library that held the volumes—and oftentimes ask for help from a translator as well. But many important finds were not even mentioned in print. Perhaps their discoverer had died among the islands and his trove of treasures had been shipped home to find nobody knew enough, or cared enough, to publish an account of what was in them. And so we worked among often forgotten collections held in museums great and small, from London to Beijing, poring over stuffed skins of rats and bats for evidence. Many had somehow survived fire, war and penury, and as we chased down century-old clues to the existence of such bizarre creatures as giant rats, monkey-faced bats and piebald cuscuses, we stood in awe of those who had built the collections, as well as the curators who had tended them through decades or centuries of peril.
To open the drawer of an old museum cabinet and find the remains of a creature that lived on a distant tropic isle long since dramatically changed by European impact, and which had travelled halfway round the globe to reach its keeping place, is a magical experience—like travelling in time itself. That moth-eaten skin, or even fragment, may be all that remains of an entire species, tinting the thrill of seeing it with immense sadness. For here lies all, perhaps, that is knowable of a branch of life that may have gone its own way for a million years or more, a life form that once played an important role in an island ecosystem, but which had now winked out, never to be seen again.
Or had it? Who could really say whether it might still survive in the densest jungle or remotest peak of its island realm. The most elusive specimens lacked even a clear indication of where they'd been collected: their labels cited a whole island group, or even the voyage of discovery on which they'd been collected, rather than a precise island as their origin. Such species present a great challenge, but even the better known kinds presented us with a daunting quest. Where, and how, does one begin on an island the size of a European state to search for a fist-sized, nocturnal creature that has not been sighted for over a century? But we were young, and confident that we could make sense of the clues. Sometimes guided by no more than a single word on a specimen label, we found our way to unimagined places—to villages that had not seen a white face in living memory, or mountaintops crowned with surreal vegetation—and then we knew that the quest was at least as important as the goal.
As our work progressed, the high peaks of the Pacific Islands began to hold me in their thrall. From a biological perspective they are among the least known places on Earth, and even today some island peaks—which rival Australia's Mount Kosciusko in elevation—remain unvisited by Europeans. Often held sacred by the native people, these mist-wreathed summits are in some respects lost worlds—islands in the sky crowning islands in a tropical sea.
But reaching them was not easy. Local taboos, foul weather, dense jungle and sheer remoteness combine to make them some of the hardest places on earth in which to conduct biological research.
The great arc of islands between Sulawesi and Fiji was our stomping ground. Extending over 6000 kilometers, and crossing the Equator, it's a huge realm: stretching further than the distance from Paris to Montreal, and almost as far as Beijing to Cairo. But it's different from any similar-sized region in that it consists of thousands of islands, each distinctive in its geology, vegetation, shape, size and history of human colonization. From the picture-postcard Polynesian atoll, to some of the largest, highest, most rugged and ancient islands on Earth, the region truly is a version of the world writ small.
Among these varied lands are some that originated as slivers wrenched from ancient supercontinents a hundred million years ago. Others are continental chips torn more recently from the great island of New Guinea. Yet others formed as volcanoes that belched forth from the ocean depths, arriving above the waves as virginal lands innocent of life until drifting seeds, spores and insects arrived. Krakatoa, which blew itself apart in a paroxysm of volcanic activity in 1883 and then grew anew from the sea, gives us some idea of the process. First ferns and insects, then flowering plants, birds and lizards arrived to colonize their new-found land. Krakatoa is just a few tens of kilometers from Java and Sumatra, and less than a century old. Imagine a volcano surfacing a thousand kilometers from the nearest land, then receiving its pilgrims over a million years.
There are other ways, too, for islands to form. Some are simply heaved above the waves by the movements of continental plates, while others, known as land-bridge islands, were, just 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, attached to much larger landmasses by connections now drowned in a rising sea. Some islands originated as combinations of several of these processes. But all islands, regardless of their origins, have one thing in common: transience. True, some islands are longer-lived than others, but all, in the unfolding of geological time, are destined to sink beneath the waves or amalgamate with larger landmasses. Over just the past few centuries, dozens of islands have been born and have died, and like us ultimately all of them will die, even as new islands are born.
On islands, evolution can be slowed down or speeded up. It can also take unlikely directions, fashioning novel creatures adapted to the particular conditions of the island. Why do islands have such peculiar powers over the evolutionary process? Imagine taking a species from the complex, rich continental ecosystem in which it has evolved, then releasing one or two randomly chosen individuals on an island where nothing like it has previously existed. If they survive, the individuals that begat the island population will have just a small subset of the species' genetic diversity, and this alone will wield an influence. To understand how, just imagine choosing two humans—say a red-head and a very tall person—and leaving them on a desert isle, then returning in a million years to examine the characteristics of their descendants.
But genetics is only the start, for when any creature reaches an island, it has effectively been transplanted into a new world. Its predators, competitors, diseases and even favored foods may not exist in its new home, and, instead of the boundless habitat of a continent, it finds itself part of a tiny population hemmed in on each side by sea. Such circumstances can greatly speed the evolutionary process. In the beginning the species is likely to breed up rapidly, for in the absence of predators and disease there is no check on its rate of increase. But soon it faces overpopulation: most individuals will die and only those with a particular advantage will survive. Perhaps those lucky few can utilize some food inaccessible to the rest, or perhaps they can conserve energy because they don't fly much, or perhaps they are smaller than average and can subsist on the slender resources the island affords them. Because the population is small and the selection of the survivors so rigorous, the evolutionary process is greatly accelerated. The influence of such powerful evolutionary pressure can be profound. As we see in the dodo, sometimes it creates beings which don't appear to belong here on Earth. Hardly anybody studies mammals on islands: it's those able colonizers the birds that usually get the attention. Yet some island mammals have, like the dodo, been as remarkably transformed. On islands, bats have been known to take on some of the characteristics of apes, and rats those of badgers, shrews or possums. Even humans and their behaviors are shaped by island life, and as a result island cultures have become as varied and novel as any on Earth.
Not all island life is established by vagrants arriving by raft, wind or wing. Islands that originate as slices of continents, severed from the mainland by powerful geological forces, carry with them a subset of continental life. When that happens, entire ecosystems are set adrift to adjust over millions of years to life in a small, isolated sphere. Inevitably, some species become extinct, unable to adjust to the limited circumstances they find themselves in. At the same time new species, which evolved in other parts of the continent, are unable to invade the now-isolated island. The result, for the island survivors, is often a slowing of evolutionary change. Because competition drives evolution, fewer competing species means less change, and in these circumstances evolution can come to a near halt. So it is that islands can become arks full of 'living fossils'—species whose relatives elsewhere are long extinct or transformed by evolution into very different kinds of creatures.
Evolution on islands also plays with the size of creatures. The world's islands are (or rather were) full of giant rats and tortoises, and oversized flightless birds. But there are island dwarves too. Before humans arrived, elephants, mammoths and hippos the size of Shetland ponies abounded on some islands in the Mediterranean and Arctic. There was even a miniature hominid, the hobbit, on the island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago. Such gigantism among the tiny, and dwarfing of the great, means islands are great levellers, the species isolated on them converging on an ideal size.
Whatever their size or origins, the species and the ecosystems of islands are exquisitely sensitive to invasion. Whether arriving by themselves or by human agency, invaders can be fatal to the original inhabitants, and virtually no island survived into the last century unscathed. After humans the most common invaders are introduced rats—though cats, snakes and even snails have time and again devastated entire islands of unique species.
Why should the long-isolated islanders be so vulnerable? Island species often have only a limited range of predators, competitors and diseases. Under such circumstances, any species that invests too much energy in being able to flee swiftly or in producing toxins that deter predators will, prior to the arrival of new invaders, be outcompeted by those that put less effort into these faculties and more into reproduction. This is why so many island birds are flightless and why the nuts and leaves of so many island trees are edible, even without cooking—trees that invest in toxins where there are no predators, rather than making more nuts and fruit, are disadvantaged in the evolutionary race for survival. But island species also lose their fear. Fearful creatures use a great deal of energy in fleeing danger, both imagined and real. Where the danger is almost entirely imagined, evolution selects for individuals that conserve their energy for reproduction. Island birds have been known to sit on their nests even while being eaten alive by rats. Many will not flee from cat or human, even when attacked.
As colonial history has shown, the native cultures of islands are also vulnerable to change from outside. The power structures of Hawaii were transformed by a dozen or so iron blades fashioned by a ship's cooper during Captain Cook's voyage of discovery. So armed, the few fortunate chiefs who received them went on to forge empires. What is remarkable, however, is how much traditional island culture still survives in spite of the constant waves of challenge arriving from the larger world. Change may be integral to island life—as old as the first island and as pervasive as the sea that surrounds them all—but such examples convince me that, given half a chance, much that is unique to the islands can persist.
The continent of Australia has cast a long shadow over the extensive archipelago we explored—a shadow composed of living things that, over the aeons, have drifted, flown or made their way some other way to the islands. Among them are curious marsupials, unique birds of paradise and countless other life-forms which have their points of origin millions of years ago on the wide brown land. But what a sea change was wrought on their descendants as they settled into island living. Such species are utterly irresistible to biologists because their myriad modifications reveal the secret workings of evolution. When the animals' ancestors left, Australia's rainforests were extensive, and a vestige of ancestral forms long vanished from the larger landmasses can be found on some islands. Examining such plants and animals can reveal living clues to a now vanished and very different Australia.
We twentieth-century biologists travelled through the vast island realm that was our field of research by whatever means were at hand—sometimes by air, at others by ocean liner, interisland ferry or dugout canoe. Then we would set about collecting, documenting and exploring a world of nature that in some cases had never before been entered by a biologist. And the excitement of setting up a mist-net and laying a trap-line on an island which had not yielded a single record of a mammal was just about the most exciting thing you could do.
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Update: The story was exposed as a fraud, according to The Independent, which published the original report. The man calling himself U.S. Army Sgt. John Hartley Robertson is believed to be a Vietnamese citizen of French descent who has made a history out of claiming he is a U.S. Army veteran.
Original story: In 1968, U.S. Army Sgt. John Hartley Robertson fell into the jungle, his helicopter shot down over Laos in a top-secret mission during the Vietnam War. If Hollywood had its way with the script, the Green Beret would have been welcomed home a hero after a daring rescue. In reality, history presumed him slain, relegating his name to war memorials and funeral pamphlets.
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"The MIA story was pretty unbelievable, pretty grandiose," Jorgenson told the Daily Mail. "Tom went to meet him and was very skeptical, grilling this guy up and down, trying to get him to break."
Through a translator, the 76-year-old man tells his account: How the North Vietnamese captured him after his helicopter crash, how they trapped him in a bamboo cage and tortured him for years. Eventually, his captors released him, physically and mentally broken. A widowed woman found him lost in the jungle, nursed him back to health and eventually married him. Taking on his wife's late husband's identifying information, he registered as a French-Vietnamese citizen named Dan Tan Ngoc.
Another surprising twist about the supposed rediscovery is how the American family reacted. Instead of submitting to DNA testing, his sister says she's happy to simply assume this man is Robertson while the woman who's possibly his American wife inexplicably dropped out of participating in the documentary midway.
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Wow.. it's been almost 3 weeks since I posted last time. I have several WIPs happening but haven't got time to finish them due to my work commitment. I hope I can upload more soon though :)
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Metalformer Takes ERP to the Cloud
Metalformer E&E Manufacturing, Plymouth, MI, had an "ERP dilemma," says the company's chief financial officer Brian Swanson. During a 2010 review of its 2005-vintage ERP (enterprise resource planning) software solution, Swanson, along with Dan Liu, director of information technology, identified a host of concerns.
"Maintenance and licensing of our system (server-based) was based on the number of users," says Swanson, "and the company's growth had caused a rapid increase in the cost of our ERP system. Also, the system could only schedule primary stamping processes; secondary processes had to be scheduled manually. This proved to be inefficient and artificially limited our capacity."
Further, Swanson explains, the company's previous ERP system lacked functionality with respect to lot traceability—a critical function for managing quality and process flow for one of its primary product lines—drawn metal fasteners. As a result, inventory management and accuracy suffered.
Faced with either re-implementing its existing ERP system and upgrading to the newest release, or investing in a cloud-based solution, Swanson, Liu and the rest of the E&E IT team opted to take its ERP to the cloud. Its plant in Athens, TN, went live with the Plex Online cloud-based ERP system in November 2011; the firm took its main plant in Plymouth live with Plex Online in March 2012.
"We've experienced immediate cost savings as a result," summarizes Swanson.
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Explaining further why its aging ERP system had to either be upgraded or replaced, Swanson notes a few shortcomings that started to rear their ugly heads back in 2009 to 2010. "For starters, our ERP system at that time required a significant amount of manual effort to meet industry standards for lot traceability," he says. "We need to track batches of parts—particularly fasteners stamped by the hundreds of thousands—forward (into assemblies) or backward (to the original coil). Precise lot traceability holds the key to cost-effective and timely quarantine of defective, or possibly defective, parts.
"With Plex Online, we're able to track every packaged container related to each overall part lot," Swanson continues. "That's made our inventory tracking incredibly accurate—before Plex, we had come to expect annual inventory adjustments on the order of $70,000; in 2012 we had a nearly negligible inventory adjustment of just $15,000."
That type of improvement in inventory accountability allows E&E to better gauge and utilize manufacturing capacity, and to schedule its plants more efficiently.
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The overall measurable where improved lot traceability becomes most notable is cost of poor quality. From 2011 to 2012, E&E reduced its cost of poor quality by a whopping 42 percent. IT director Liu explains:
"We've been able to reduce our scrap rate because our operators on the plant floor red-flag quality issues instantaneously, using Plex-connected operator terminals. If, for example, the operator has a questionable part-quality measurement on the part-specific checksheets, the system automatically places the workstation in a hold status. He cannot return his workstation to production mode until a supervisor or the quality department makes a disposition."
This process, managed by Plex Online, drives accountability on the shop floor and creates real-time visibility that allows E&E's work teams to attack quality issues before they fester and become major sores. And, it is this new level of accountability and visibility throughout the company that helped optimize the Plex implementation process. Liu, noting that the company chose to roll out its new ERP system in a "big bang" rather than one module at a time, says that "the E&E Plex team had to sell the new system and the required process re-engineering to the employees. Typically, no one embraces this type of change. But with top-down management support and process ownership on the shop floor, we saw people embracing it quickly."
E&E operators, adds Swanson, have taken ownership of the ERP system, viewing it as theirs and E&E's and not a system that belongs to the IT or accounting departments. This real sense of ownership not only quickened implementation but also "has improved communication throughout the company, reinforced the need for disciplined business processes and helped managers at each level use data to make informed decisions," says Swanson.
Adds Liu: "The result has been improved throughput and efficiency and reduced costs. That's made us a more profitable company."
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Functional integration within Plex of business intelligence, quality management, supply-chain management (SCM), customer-relationship management (CRM) and other capabilities also has contributed mightily to E&E's overall satisfaction with its new ERP solution. "Our annual cost to maintain the incumbent system exceeded that for the cloud-based solution by $50,000," Swanson says, "due largely to ongoing software maintenance and required customization by an outside developer." Swanson also notes all of the add-on solutions in addition to its legacy ERP system that were previously required to manage functions such as human-relations records, time and attendance, SCM and CRM.
To initiate a work flow for purchasing, for example, an employee enters the requisition into Plex. Then the requisition is sent electronically to the next person or group of people responsible for the process, such as a purchasing agent.
"Using the work flow function, we can determine the number of steps in a process and assign those steps to people along the ," Liu says. "To continue the purchase-requisition example, after the purchasing agent cleans up and formalizes the initial requisition, the PO moves to accounting for account coding, to the account owner for budget approval, and so on up the line. This all occurs automatically, and each step in the work flow has its own deadline for completion. This ensures the process moves quickly and efficiently through the system, rather than stalling in someone's in-box for days or weeks. Any step that fails to occur on time triggers automatic e-mail alerts."
The impact of automating work flow on E&E's business has been significant. Purchase orders, for example, that used to take 10 days or more to complete now are finalized in 2 days or less, on average.
"We also plan to use the work-flow functionality to improve the APQP process. And, Plex includes an engineering-change rollout (ECR) system that uses work flow," says Swanson. "Using e-mail notifications throughout the ECR process will enhance internal communications, and we'll soon expand the Plex implementation to include customer and supplier PPAPs.
"This Phase II of the implementation," continues Swanson, "also will include supplier portals into the system, with the ability to create corrective actions. Using the customer PPAP module in Plex Online will help us eliminate repetitive actions in the process. Rather than creating control plans and FMEAs (failure mode and effect analyses) outside of the ERP system and entering them into the system for online checks, these documents will reside within the system from the beginning, centralized for everyone to view."
Plex on the Plant Floor
Walking the plant, we spied Plex terminals scattered throughout, where machine operators can check the system and immediately learn of all of the jobs scheduled for the day. They also can see how much raw material and incoming subcomponents are required, and what's available and where it's stored. If required, the operators then can call material handlers to ensure they have the materials needed to complete their work.
"In the past, operators had no access to the real-time production schedules, only the paper-based routers received at the beginning of each shift," says Swanson. "But schedules can change hourly, or more frequently in some cases. If they needed material for a new job, material handlers would scramble to find it and move it to the required work area. That often led to expedited shipping and made the customer-service rep's (CSR) job more difficult."
The enhanced material- and inventory-tracking capabilities and integrated labor reporting of Plex Online have, once again, made a significant and notable impact on the business. While E&E has grown by approximately 20 percent in the last few years, it has been able to consolidate positions and redeploy employees, reducing indirect labor costs.
For their part, material handlers use scanners mounted to their hi-los for access into Plex. This allows them to process inventory moves in real time, simply by scanning the serial numbers of any containers moved. They also can merge and split containers at the shipping docks when needed, and immediately update inventory records within Plex.
Emphasis on On-Time ChangeoversIn production, E&E's new ERP system has triggered an increase in manufacturing capacity, by helping to reduce job and tool changeover times. As a result, job start and end times have become more predictable.
"We set the ERP system up so that the standard changeover time for a given tool is finite," says Swanson. "And, we have established a set of standard downtime reasons—setup, machine or tool maintenance, waiting for materials, etc. In production, then, if changeover time exceeds the standard, Plex automatically switches the job from 'setup' to 'excess setup,' and the e-mails start to fly. Our operators have become more motivated to report setup issues, and the supervisors react more quickly and aggressively to ensure we get the right people addressing the issues as quickly as possible." MF
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text: Academics / Curriculum print Your First Year at Brooklyn Law School CourseDescriptions Coursesby Area ClinicalOfferings First-YearProgram UpperclassCurriculum JD DegreeRequirements LearningOutcomes The first-year program of instruction is designed to examine and foster an understanding of the processes by which law is made, the institutions that make law, and the analytical skills necessary in the professional use of case law and legislation. The first-year curriculum provides a general understanding of the American legal system, sharpens the student's analytical ability and lays the foundation of the basic working skills of a lawyer. Many first-year classes meet in large sections of approximately 80-125 students. In contrast, the Fundamentals of Law Practice course, which begins students' skills training with an emphasis on legal writing and research, meets in small sections of approximately 20 students. Additionally, all first-year standard and accelerated students enroll in a seminar section, comprised of approximately 40 students, as one of their fall term core courses. These smaller courses afford students the opportunity to learn in a more intimate and informal atmosphere. Many of the assignments in the seminars also provide training in skills such as negotiation, counseling, drafting, interviewing and oral argument. Instructor feedback is an important element of these seminars, and the students work closely with faculty on their assignments throughout the semester. All students are required to take courses in Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Fundamentals of Law Practice, Property, and Torts. Most of these courses are taught in intensive one-semester courses, but Fundamentals of Law Practice is taught in a two-semester sequence. For students pursuing their JD over four years, these required courses are scheduled over the first two years. Criminal Law is taken either during the summer between the first and second years or the summer prior to the first full year. One substantive course, generally Property, is taught in the second year. Sample course schedules are provided below. Full-Time Fall Semester Civil Procedure Criminal Law Fundamentals of Law Practice I Torts Spring Semester Constitutional Law Contracts Fundamentals of Law Practice II Property Part-Time Summer Semester Criminal Law Fall Semester Civil Procedure Fundamentals of Law Practice I Torts Spring Semester Constitutional Law Contracts Fundamentals of Law Practice II Second Year Property Students learn how to build and design a website in the library computer lab. Related Links: Apply Faculty Directory Law Journals Our Certificate Programs Descriptions & Requirements Certificate in Entrepreneurship Law Certificate in Business Law Certificate in Criminal Law Certificate in IP, Media, and Information Law Certificate in International Law Certificate in Real Estate Law Current Academic Calendar Previous Academic Calendar Why BLS? A wide-reaching curriculum with options for individual focus.


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Primera Liga: Barcelona could clinch their 22nd Spanish title this weekend
Barcelona could ease the pain of their Champions League humiliation this weekend by clinching their 22nd Spanish title.
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Barca's hopes of winning a fourth European Cup crown in eight years were left in tatters as Bayern followed up their 4-0 semi-final first leg victory with a similarly impressive triumph at the Nou Camp on Wednesday night to complete a 7-0 aggregate win.
Tito Vilanova's men will now be hoping to banish that painful memory as soon as they can and the Primera Division offers them the perfect chance to do just that.
They go into this weekend's fixtures lying 11 points clear of second-placed Real Madrid with five games remaining, knowing a victory at home to Real Betis on Sunday combined with a Madrid slip-up against Real Valladolid on Saturday will win them the title.
Barca midfielder Andres Iniesta said: "The league is very close. The other day I said a season couldn't be a bad one if you win the league. Hopefully we can win it as soon as possible to once again have the feeling of happiness."
On their Champions League exit, the Spain international added: "The reality hurts. It hurts us not to have been at the level we needed to be."
Barca could have claimed the Primera Division title last weekend if results had gone their way, but they were held 2-2 at Athletic Bilbao while Madrid subsequently trimmed the gap between the pair by two points with a 2-1 derby win at Atletico Madrid.
Jose Mourinho's men may be resigned to losing their league crown while their own Champions League bid ended in disappointment this week with defeat at the hands of Borussia Dortmund, but that does not mean they will be coasting through to the end of the season.
They still have the Copa del Rey final against Atletico to look forward while in La Liga they want to make Barca earn the title.
Goalkeeper Iker Casillas said: "We need to try and get as many points as possible in the league, for the club and for the team. And then fight for the Copa del Rey, which will be a different final, nice, at the Bernabeu, and we need to try and win it for the fans, who deserve some joy."
In the race for the final two Champions League spots, Atletico look to have third place sewn up as they travel to 17th-placed Deportivo La Coruna boasting a 10-point advantage over Real Sociedad in fourth.
Sociedad, who go to Getafe on Monday, are in turn five points clear of Malaga and Valencia in fifth and sixth as the Basque club seek a top-four finish in La Liga for the first time since 2003.
Malaga and Valencia both face teams battling relegation this weekend, taking on Granada and Osasuna respectively.
Granada and Osasuna are two of six clubs separated by five points at the foot of the table as the fight to avoid the drop reaches its climax.
Real Mallorca currently prop up the standings on 28 points but they host a Levante side this weekend who have suffered four successive defeats.
The other two teams in the bottom three, two points above Mallorca, are Real Zaragoza and Celta Vigo.
Zaragoza play host to eighth-placed Rayo Vallecano on Sunday while Celta, who have beaten Zaragoza and Levante in their last two matches, meet Athletic Bilbao on Friday night.
This weekend's other match pits Sevilla against mid-table rivals Espanyol.


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The next (and final) installment of the original Star Wars trilogies just upped the nostalgia factor: Billy Dee Williams, who appeared in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as Lando Calrissian, will be reprising his role.
Williams, now 81, has been confirmed to appear in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX, set to hit theatres on Dec. 20, 2019. This will be his first return to the franchise since Jedi, but Williams has voiced Calrissian for video games and several cartoon series.
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Rumours had been circulating that Williams would be back as Calrissian, and the flames were especially stoked when he recently had to cancel a sci-fi convention because of a movie schedule shooting conflict.
The Calrissian character has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, after actor Donald Glover's portrayal of the younger version in standalone Star Wars movie Solo became the prequel's bright spot.
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It makes sense at this juncture to bring Williams on board, since the majority of the existing original Star Wars characters have either died onscreen or in real life.
Episode IX is being directed by J.J. Abrams — who directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens — and it stars Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and John Boyega.Follow @CJancelewicz
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Some quick hits from Lane Kiffin's press briefing Tuesday on a 41-14 loss to the Denver Broncos before an on-line chat between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m.:
— Tackle-guard Paul McQuistan appears to be out for the season with a knee injury. Left tackle Kwame Harris (knee) was feeling better Tuesday morning and Kiffin wanted to see him on the field Wednesday.
— Kiffin said he anticipates running back Darren McFadden (stinger) would play against Kansas City, and that his injury, which aggravated a condition sustained earlier in the week in practice, was the result of a "cheap shot."
He praised the rookie for running hard and taking gains that were there, rather than trying to bounce everything outside "make everything a 50-yard run."
— Kiffin thought part of the Raiders trouble was players "trying to do too much" in an opening week game on national television and said he felt bad for the sellout crowd which was expecting much better.
"That place was electric. I havent been here very long, but it was different than any game I've been at before," Kiffin said.
As a result, players wanted to play "harder and faster" and may not have maintained their composure.
"Unfortunately we didn't play the way we needed for (the fans) to be involved in the game," Kiffin said. "We screwed that up."
— Kiffin said the effort level for the most part was good, but said there were a few instances where problems in that area would be addressed.
— When assessing the defense, Kiffin said he thought assignment and communication errors were a bigger issue than poor tackling. He admitted surprise in the Raiders having so much trouble defending the pass.
"I thought it would be a strength of ours, especially with Brandon Marshall out of the game," he said.
— Rather than be concerned about young players who were absorbing their first NFL blowout and the affect on their psyche, Kiffin was more worried about the veterans.
"Look at the guys that didn't play well, they werent young guys, they were veteran guys," Kiffin said. "Let's worry about those guys before the young guys."
— To blitz or not to blitz? It's pretty clear the Raiders chose the latter against Denver and it was an abysmal failure.
"We had 10 third downs, we had pressure one time," Kiffin said. "It's something we're looking at versus Kansas City this week and hopefully we'll do more of it."
— Kiffin exonerated DeAngelo Hall for the second of his consecutive unnecessary roughness penalties.
"I can't find it," he said.
— When asked if all the offseason turmoil had affected the Raiders on the field for Week 1, Kiffin said, "If it does I can't go back and change it. I don't know how that has to do with the penalties we had, the blown assigments, the missed coverages. I can't change it. All I can do is take it one day at a time . . . we've got to find ways to play better, coach better."
Have got to give Kiffin points for consistency. He has never once gone the "media fabrication" route and tried to sell the notion that there never were any offseason issues between himself and Al Davis.
— If you're expecting Kiffin to open things up for quarterback JaMarcus Russell against the Chiefs, guess again.
"I think it's pretty easy to look at something and say we should have passed more. Why did (Russell) play well? Because we were running, because of play-action, the threat of the run, the formations we used. It's easy to second-guess it," Kiffin said. "I don't have any proof except that the guy played well. If I had the chance to re-do it, I wouldn't."
The coached praised Russell's patience and resolve.
"You see a young quarterback in a game like that and things can get real ugly," Kiffin said, noting last year's Jacksonville blowout as an example. "He didnt try win game in one play. He didnt luck into things. He earned what what he got with some new players playing around him. He led last night, and when thing were going bad around him he didn't let it bother him."
— If there was a turning point in the blowout, Kiffin thought it came when Russell had his lone turnover, with the ball slipping out of his hands for a fumble which the coach said would have been a touchdown pass to McFadden on a screen pass.
"To go down and score after they scored would have been big," Kiffin said.
— Kiffin didn't want to form any concrete opinions based on one game, reasoning a win in Kansas City would dramatically change the landscape. He wanted to see a few games before determining team strengths and weaknesses.
"You see it every week in the NFL, all of a sudden someone is the new AFC or NFC champion one week, and the next they're the worst team in the league," Kiffin said.


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A moving, inspiring book about the brief yet exceptional life of a young woman, at once visionary and vulnerable, and her lasting legacy for teachers, students and scientists everywhere. — Chitra Divakaruni, best-selling author of Oleander Girl
I am among those who feel genuinely blessed to have known her. — Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Mission to Teach, released in May 2013, is the memoir of a courageous young woman who took on American science education reform against deeply-established practices. She suffered several tragedies along the way that only spurred her on to astonishing achievements in her all-too-short lifetime. The book is based on the life and work of New York University Professor Jhumki Basu. Dr. Basu developed ground-breaking teaching techniques that were rooted in her own experiences as a teacher in embattled inner-city schools. She co-founded a public school in underserved Crown Heights of Brooklyn, NY, which acted as one of the laboratories for her work. Here she demonstrated the dramatic benefits of including students' own experiences in their education, making learning science deeply engaging and fun for both students and teachers.
Incredibly, Dr. Basu realized her achievements as she battled breast cancer for seven years before it engulfed her in 2008 at age 31, but could not stop her legacy. Her work is carried on through the Sci-Ed Innovators movement that she inspired, and is supported by the Jhumki Basu Foundation, NYU, Columbia University, NYC Department of Education, NASA, Cisco, Carnegie Corporation, ExxonMobil, Ashoka, and other institutions. High school completion rates in the underserved institutions that she touched, and those touched by teachers who have followed her model, have risen from 30% to over 90% and endured. Kids, whom Dr. Basu and her followers worked for, were candidates for a lifetime of drugs and crime. They are today college graduates and on their way to careers of their dreams.
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Mr. Basu has spent much of his life employing technology in humanitarian missions worldwide. In 2006, he set up Anudip Foundation, a nonprofit company dedicated to improving livelihoods of poor rural people in developing countries, through training in information technology and entrepreneurship. He currently serves as Anudip's Chairman and CEO. In 2001 he founded and served as Executive Director of NetHope, a nonprofit technology alliance of the world's largest aid agencies, applying innovative high-tech solutions to aid operations in the world's impoverished, disaster-affected and war-torn regions. From 1995 to 2006, he held senior management positions in Product Management and Professional Services at Cisco Systems in San Jose. Prior to Cisco, he was a consultant to the Government of India, developing communications solutions for the country's steel, energy, banking, and hospitality sectors.
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Pope approves German lawyer to head embattled bank
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has signed off on one of the last major appointments of his papacy, approving a German lawyer to head the Vatican's embattled bank.
Ernst Von Freyberg has solid financial and Catholic credentials as a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, an ancient chivalrous order drawn from European nobility.
The appointment ends a nine-month search after the Institute of Religious Works ousted its previous president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, for incompetence. The ouster came just as the Vatican was submitting its finances to a review by a Council of Europe committee in a bid to join the list of financially transparent countries.
The Vatican said Von Freyberg had been appointed by the bank's commission of cardinals and that the pope had "expressed his full consent."
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On Poetry
Mad with Desire (Kind Of)By Henry Giardina
The peculiarly virginal hero of Orlando innamorato and Orlando furioso.
Love stories center on a problem—two people love each other, or one person loves another, and how are they going to get together? Sex is part of the solution, or usually is. There are, in literature, those strange cases where it isn't.
In the literature of antiquity, sex is almost a last resort for the expression of love, and it seldom ends well. It's the classic pitfall of the Old Testament. The transformations that compose the Metamorphoses are often brought about by sexual peril: Daphne turns into a tree to avoid having sex with Apollo. Syrinx turns into marsh reeds to escape pursuit by Pan. Io is turned into a cow as a bizarre result of having been raped by Zeus. Actaeon, the hunter, is famously turned into one of the very stags he hunts as punishment for seeing Diana naked, and is torn apart by his own dogs. The beautiful youth Hermaphroditus is so repulsed by the idea of erotic contact with a female nymph; she, obsessed, tries to take him by force. She wraps herself around him as he fights her off and prays to the gods to join them as one. And so one they become: a single two-sexed being.
In the realm of myth, sex is transformation, metaphor. Later on, in Arthurian and Carolingian romances, it is the concept of virginity that transforms—and not women's virginity, but men's. For the knights of Arthur's Round Table, undistracted by any real political conflict during the reign of peace, the pursuit of God in grail form is the definitive test of purity. Only the virginal knight Galahad can see the Holy Grail, because of his virginity. "I never felt the kiss of love, / Nor maiden's hand in mine," Tennyson has him admit.
Galahad finds his Carolingian counterpart in Orlando, the idealistic, probably virginal hero in the Matter of France. The fifteenth century's Orlando furioso (and its less-read predecessor, Orlando innamorato) revolves around the physical manifestation of Arthurian religious idealism: the religious wars between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Both stories concern Orlando's doomed pursuit of the seemingly nondenominational Angelica, a woman whose sexuality is so potent that to escape pursuit by nearly everyone she meets, she must turn invisible by the use of a magic ring not unlike Tolkien's. She is much closer to the template Ovid lays out in Metamorphoses, the stalked female relying on bodily transformation to escape abuse, though she is, ostensibly, the villain of the tale.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A young woman has been charged with the bizarre kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl from a Philadelphia elementary school.
After several hours of questioning, Christina Regusters, 19, was charged Thursday with kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy, KYW-TV, Philadelphia, reported.
Three other people brought in for questioning, including Reguster's aunt, were expected to be released, the report said.
Police released little information about the case Thursday. KYW reported sources in the police department said Regusters appeared to be the woman who -- dressed in a Muslim-style outfit that covered most of her body -- walked into the Bryant Elementary School Jan. 14 and left with the 5-year-old.
The little girl was found the next morning half-naked in a playground in Upper Darby, just outside Philadelphia.
She has been able to give investigators crucial evidence, police said.
The girl was able to identify the back of the house where Regusters lived, WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, reported.
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A macaw was seized from the house Thursday.
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