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Baseball Capsules
CLEVELAND (AP) — Justin Masterson found the strike zone after a rocky start and pitched seven scoreless innings as the Cleveland Indians ended Boston's seven-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory over the Red Sox on Monday night.
Masterson (3-4) walked four in the first three innings, but settled in and won for the first time in five starts. He allowed just three singles and struck out a season-high 10.
Lonnie Chisenhall hit a two-run single in the first off John Lackey (6-4) as the Indians won their fourth straight.
Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run homer in the Boston eighth off Bryan Shaw. Cody Allen worked the ninth for his fourth save.
Red Sox shortstop Stephen Drew went 0 for 2 with a walk in his season debut. He re-signed as a free agent last month.
Boston outfielder Grady Sizemore went 0 for 4 — he popped up for the final out — in his return to Cleveland. He was a three-time All-Star in nearly eight seasons with the Indians.
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Seager homered, tripled twice and doubled, leading Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners past the New York Yankees.
Hernandez (8-1) tied a career high by winning his fifth straight start.
Robinson Cano again got booed by Yankees fans in this makeup of an April 30 rainout. Out four games with a bruised left hand, the former Yankees star was 1 for 3 with two walks. He drew a mocking cheer when he was picked off by David Phelps (1-3).
Seattle won its third in a row.
Seager became the first major leaguer to hit two triples and at least one homer and one double since Hal Breeden for Montreal in 1973, STATS said.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wilmer Flores hit a grand slam and drove in a career-high six runs, Bartolo Colon threw seven-plus sharp innings and New York beat Philadelphia in a makeup from an April rainout.
After playing 39 innings in the three previous games, the teams finally didn't go extras. The Mets took four of five from the Phillies and are 9-1 in Citizens Bank Park, dating to last season.
Colon (5-5) allowed two runs and six hits to win his third straight decision. The 41-year-old righty has a 1.61 ERA in his last three outings.
The last-place Phillies went 4-7 on an 11-game homestand, their longest of the season. They're a season-worst seven games under .500 and barely resemble the team that won five consecutive NL East titles from 2007-11.
Roberto Hernandez (2-3) failed to pitch six innings for the sixth time in 10 starts.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jordy Mercer homered and matched a career high with four of Pittsburgh's 16 hits in a romp over San Diego.
Neil Walker added three hits and three RBIs, and Josh Harrison also had three hits to help the Pirates win for the ninth time in 13 games.
Charlie Morton (2-7) tied a career best with nine strikeouts in five innings. He allowed two runs in winning for the first time in five road starts this year.
Three relievers finished the five-hitter after 4 hours, 4 minutes — the longest nine-inning game in Padres history.
Mercer scored four times from the No. 8 spot in the batting order and went 4 for 5 to raise his average 20 points to .219. He entered with one home run and seven RBIs in 146 at-bats.
Tim Stauffer (2-2) lasted only 2 2-3 innings, his second consecutive disappointing start since being inserted into the rotation because of elbow injuries to Andrew Cashner and Robbie Erlin.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw shrugged off a two-run homer by Jose Abreu in the rookie's return from the disabled list, pitching Los Angeles past Chicago for his first home win of the season.
Justin Turner's two-run single keyed a five-run sixth inning in which all the Dodgers' runs were unearned.
Kershaw (4-2) allowed four hits over eight innings, striking out nine and walking none. Kenley Jansen got three outs for his 17th save.
Jose Quintana (3-5) gave up six hits through six innings and was charged with all five unearned runs.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Matt Garza took a shutout into the seventh inning and Mark Reynolds hit a two-run homer, sending Milwaukee past Minnesota.
Garza (3-4) scattered six hits over 6 1-3 scoreless innings against the team that brought him to the big leagues in 2006. The right-hander, signed to a $50 million, four-year deal as a free agent in the offseason, struck out eight and walked two for his first win since May 5.
Jonathan Lucroy homered and hit an RBI single.
Kyle Gibson (4-5) allowed four runs and six hits in six innings. He has won just one of his last eight starts after winning his first three.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Danny Duffy worked six innings of one-hit ball and Alex Gordon homered to start a three-run seventh for Kansas City in a victory over suddenly punchless St. Louis.
The Royals had just two singles off Shelby Miller (6-5) in a scoreless game before they opened the seventh with four straight hits. Gordon's fifth homer ended a 15-inning scoreless drought and Mike Moustakas capped the rally with a two-run double.
Matt Holliday had two singles and a walk for the Cardinals, who have been shut out in consecutive games.
Duffy (3-5) struck out five and walked one, rebounding from consecutive losses in which he allowed 10 earned runs in 10 innings. Three relievers completed a three-hitter.
MIAMI (AP) — Randy Wolf pitched six innings for his first victory since 2012, and Miami handed Tampa Bay its seventh consecutive loss.
The 37-year-old Wolf (1-1), making a comeback from the second Tommy John surgery of his career, allowed three hits and one run. He struck out seven, walked one and won for the first time since he pitched Baltimore past Tampa Bay on Sept. 13, 2012.
The Rays fell to 0-7 on their eight-game trip. They're 12 games below .500 for the first time since 2007, and their record (23-35) is the worst in the American League.
Four Miami relievers completed the six-hitter, and Steve Cishek pitched a perfect ninth for his 12th save in 13 chances. The Marlins snapped a streak of four consecutive home losses as they started a four-game home-and-home series against their intrastate rivals.
The Rays went 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position. They've scored six runs in their past five games.
Alex Cobb (1-3) paid dearly for a rocky start. The Marlins scored three times in the first, when their first four batters reached. Casey McGehee hit a two-run single, and a bases-loaded double play scored another run.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Regents of the University of California and the San Diego Association of Governments filed lawsuits in federal courts on Tuesday against more than 20 current and former financial institutions, alleging that they manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate.
The suits allege financial damages linked to deception regarding the benchmark LIBOR interest rate, said Nanci Nishimura, a partner at the law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy working both lawsuits.
"They all colluded behind our backs and agreed with each other that they would lie and report a different rate," Nishimura said.
"Hard working taxpayers got cheated," Nishimura said. "If they were getting a lower interest rate, they were getting less money than they should have. If they were involved with an instrument where the interest rate was inflated then they could have been paying too much."
According to the UC Regents complaint, the financial institutions acted "in concert to knowingly overstate and understate their true borrowing costs," causing LIBOR to be calculated artificially and they "reaped hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in illegitimate gains."
Nishimura said it is too early to gauge the damages her firm's clients suffered.
The Cotchett firm filed similar lawsuits in January against the financial institutions on behalf of the East Bay Municipal Utility District, County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Joint Powers Financing Authority, City of Richmond, City of Riverside, the Riverside Public Financing Authority and the County of San Diego.
The UC Regents filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The San Diego-area association filed its lawsuit in U.S. District court in San Diego.
The two suits allege violations of U.S. and California antitrust laws and name the following institutions as defendants:
Bank of America Corp;
Bank of America NA;
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd;
Barclays Bank Plc;
Citigroup Inc;
Citibank NA;
Cooperatieve Central Raiffseisen-Boerenleenbank BA;
Credit Suisse Group AG;
Deutsche Bank AG;
HSBC Bank Plc;
HSBC Holdings Plc;
JPMorgan Chase & Co;
JPMorgan Chase Bank NA;
Lloyds Banking Group Plc;
HBOS Plc;
Royal Bank of Canada;
The Norinchukin Bank;
Societe Generale SA;
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc;
Portigon AG;
WestDeutsche ImmobilienBank AG.
Reporting by Jim Christie; editing by Christopher Wilson

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The penultimate conference session today is called Case Studies and Success Stories and is chaired by Kristján Már.
Óli Kr Ólafsson from Nordic eMarketing takes the podium first. He talks about an example of an Icelandic car dealership which tried not to shoot a small bird with a cannon. More targeted approach is cheaper and better.
Nordic ePR'ed the site with great effect. But simultaneously to the rise in traffic was a great increase in return visitors too.
The ePRs from the car company appeared on Nordic's own news website which was experiencing a huge jump in traffic due to the banking crisis. It's a case of using negative attention to push positing information.
The landing page being ePRed got 14,000 visitors in the first few days, and this is a great number for a brand new website with a great deal of competition on search phrases (even though the product was unique at the time).
It was a successful result that the targeted countries reacted best to the ePR, despite the fact that they were not the main visiting countries to the news website generally. Google results often ranked the ePR higher than the customer; but the customer is linked to in the ePR.
This was overall a small and targeted intelligent campaign that meant very few cars had to be sold to cover the costs.
Internet marketing should never be a cannon shot in the dark. Choose your pebble wisely and throw it with precision.
Next up is Rand Fiskin. Rand is talking about the fundamentals of SEO tools. Which all begins with self analysis, and then competitive analysis: where do we sit among our competitors?
Link building comes next. Targeted links that are a means to an end and not done for linking's sake.
Link acquisition is often about search ranking more than it is about direct sales.
SEOmoz created its own domain rank software because it got frustrated by the lack of information they were able to get from the search engines. Among other things this tool allows the user to see what people are actually saying about you when they link to you.
When it comes to competitive analysis, it's more interesting to see how you compare than just to know your score in an isolated way. When looking at links, it's great to know that you have links from a variety of places, and not just lots from a few places.
Yahoo even allows you to find all the times you've been mentioned without linking to you. You can then contact them and ask for a link.
Similarly you can isolate all the pages that link to two of your competitors but not to you.
Link building is inherently a human art. The automated approach is just a waste of money and pretty much just spam. So avoid it.
Track and record your link counts over time, not just a single snapshot. That's far more useful. Tracking rankings over time is also important, if tedious.
How much do links really matter? The answer is that they answer a tonne. The engines care about link popularity way above content and URL. Although, remember that good content earns the links in the first place…
Kristján then shows us the importance of links by Googling 'click here'. Because millions of sites link to Adobe with those words, Adobe ranks top. Despite not saying 'click here' anywhere on their own site.


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Meet Hanibal. Hanibal is a rat terrier mix. He's about 2 or 3 years old. He loves to play and be held. Hanibal is neutered, microchipped and up to date on vaccinations. You can meet Hanibal Monday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. at the Palmetto Animal League Adoption Center in Riverwalk Business Park. For more information, call 645-1725 or go to www.palmettoanimalleague.org.
Meet Stinky. Stinky is about 4 years old. He loves to sleep in the sun and does not miss any meals. Stinky is neutered, microchipped, and up-to-date on vaccinations. You can meet Stinky Monday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. at the Palmetto Animal League Adoption Center in Riverwalk Business Park. For more information, call 645-1725 or go to www.palmettoanimalleague.org.
Maverick is a gentle giant who loves kids, cats, dogs and people. He thinks he is a lap dog despite his 70-plus pounds. He is 9 months old, so he is full of puppy love and energy. To adopt him, call Brooke's Haven Animal Rescue at 757-7387.
Chelsea is seemingly a "Labbit Hound." This endearing dynamo takes everything in stride and wiggles all the while. Chelsea would make a great companion for an outdoor enthusiast who is looking to own a one of a kind canine. To adopt her, call Brooke's Haven Animal Rescue at 757-7387.
Archie is available for adoption at Jasper Animal Rescue Mission. He would probably be best suited in a home with out children, and where he wouldn't have to be kenneled very long. In the right home, he will be devoted to his 'person' and bring much happiness to him/her. For more information on Archie, call 726-7799 or go to www.JARMission.
Jolene is a short-legged, young female spaniel mix. She's very affectionate and loyal. Meet her at Maranatha Farm by calling 843-816-6676 or go to www.maranathafarm.org.
Dreamer came to us from another rescue. She is a gorgeous red Retriever mix. She loves water and loves people and other dogs. She is dreaming of a forever home where she can join in all the fun! Dreamer was adopted from HHHA but her new family could not keep her. She is still a sweet girl who loves everyone. She would probably do well with older children. For more information on Dreamer or any of the animals at the Hilton Head Humane Association, call 681-8686 or go to www.hhhumane.org.
Bentley is a wonderful 2-year-old Shar-Pei mix that has been burned all across the top of his back and he also was diagnosed with Tetanus. We took care of all his medical needs and he is now ready for adoption. He loves people and gets along great with all animals. He is very energetic and we prefer for him a home without small children. He is house- and crate trained, vaccinated, neutered, microchipped and heartworm negative. Call Noah's Arks Rescue at 843-540-6755 for more information.
Java is a 2-year-old pitbull. He was very emaciated when we took him into our care. Java gets along well with other medium and large dogs. He loves children and people. He is very energetic and needs lots of exercise. He would fit perfect in an active household. He is vaccinated, neutered, house and crate trained, microchipped and heartworm negative. Call Noah's Arks Rescue at 843-540-6755 for more information.
Diesel is a wonderful 3- to 4-year-old brindle Lab mix that was picked up as a stray and was in horrible condition. It appears he had gasoline poured on him and then caught on fire. He is a big goofy guy that loves other dogs, people and children. He has a prey drive so he shouldn't be in a home with small animals. He is vaccinated, neutered, house- and crate trained, microchipped and heartworm negative. Call Noah's Arks Rescue at 843-540-6755 for more information.
Belle is a 7-year-old beautiful pitbull that was hit by a car. She had some back injury but can walk and run just fine. Belle is a pain free, all happy small girl that gives smiles and kisses all day long. She also gets along well with other larger, balanced dogs. She loves people and children. She is vaccinated, spayed, house- and crate trained, micro chipped, heartworm negative. Call Noah's Arks Rescue at 843-540-6755 for more information.
Dutchie is a 10-month-old adorable, brindle pitbull mix that has had a terrible start in life. She is now a healthy and happy young dog. Dutchie loves everyone. She will make a wonderful member of the family for anyone. She is house- and crate trained, vaccinated, spayed, micro chipped and heartworm negative. Call Noah's Arks Rescue at 843-540-6755 for more information.
Beaufort TDI therapy dog test Nov. 3
Beaufort Chapter No. 229 of Therapy Dogs International will host a therapy dog test at 10 a.m. Nov. 3 at BayView Manor LLC, 11 S. Todd Drive, in Beaufort.
For information on TDI and on what is included in the test, go to www.tdi-dog.org. Only dogs that are being tested should attend this event.
For more information, call Chapter 229 Director Dick Hoagland at 522-2073 or email Merle Hoagland at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Palmetto Animal League charity golf tournament
Palmetto Animal League's Putt for PAL charity golf tournament will be held at noon Dec. 3 at Belfair's Fazio West Course.
The $150 fee includes a buffet lunch, golf, prizes and appetizers/wine/beer after play. The format will be a four-person shamble.
All proceeds will be used to fund programs at PAL's Adoption Center in the Riverwalk Business Park.
Register online to play or to purchase a hole sponsorship "in memory of" a beloved pet at www.palgolf.golfreg.com, email email@example.com, or call Wendy Schlegel at 843-815-3011 or Bob Elliott at 843-706-9015.
For more information on Palmetto Animal League, go to its website at www.palmettoanimalleague.org or visit its Facebook page.
PAL Thrift store needs volunteers
Palmetto Animal League Thrift supports the animals waiting for homes at the PAL Adoption Center in Okatie. The PAL Thrift is recruiting volunteers to manage inventory, cashier, merchandising and assisting customers.
PAL Thrift is open six days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. PAL Thrift is always in need of donations. Call for your furniture pick-up. To volunteer or for more information, contact the store at 837-6369.


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One PUNCH!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Now you need to tackle the perspective problem: the "camera" angle on Mai's pic is from above and slightly angled. You need to make the grass mimic what it would look like from that angle. I suggest tilting it up slightly and stretching it out some until it looks natural (I suggest tilting the grass until it reaches the bottom of Mai's ribbon).
|2007-01-13, 14:05
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Tell me who I am.
Join Date: Oct 2006
I made my first episode 15 wallpaper.
I've got a couple of more ideas for wallpapers from this episode, so this is just a start.
Edit: Just thinking of what I've got planned for the next one scares me. I don't know if I can pull it off.
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|2007-01-14, 15:53
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Tsuruya Cultist
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Larger (5403x3489, 3.1 MB) version here:
|2007-01-14, 20:51
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My name? But my name is..
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Germany
Yes, that's what I meant. I wonder whether the division line between the two parts has to be exactly vertical; both heads are bending a bit to the right, perhaps the division line could to the same? ("H / M" instead of "H | M")
|2007-01-14, 23:11
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Tell me who I am.
Join Date: Oct 2006
My third Mai wallpaper(that's straight out Mai, not young Mai, not Mai's mother, just Mai).
It was a better idea in my head then it is in execution. These outline-of-Mai wallpapers don't really turn out that well.
Well that's it for the ideas I got from watching episode 15. Anybody got ideas I can use for new wallpapers, or suggestions for how to improve my previous ones?
|2007-01-15, 02:15
|Link #373
Tell me who I am.
Join Date: Oct 2006
You mean like this?
I just basically took my old Mai wallpapers' vectors, traced a third, and put them all together. I originally had black on white, but I decided to invert it for some reason. I still don't know why, and I still don't know which one looks better.
|2007-01-15, 02:50
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
aye.. that's it.. it also makes it easier for me to "paintbucket" different shades (nothing against the result but I like to use muted tones for wallpaper otherwise I'm losing the icons in the glare )
I think this one ties for my favorite with the "star-filled" Mai
|2007-01-15, 03:07
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Join Date: Oct 2006
My Mai Hope wallpaper is my current favourite. Doesn't mean much because my favourite is usually the latest one I do, but there's a bunch of things I like about it that I didn't realise until it was done. There's Hope's mature and confident smile contrasting Mai's eyes that are filled with child-like wonder. Seeing them back-to-back like that I think works very well.
|2007-01-15, 03:23
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Just as a piece to look at or a nice screensaver pic, the Mai/Hope one is indeed the best... its just that what works for stellar piece of art doesn't always fly well as a desktop (too busy, color choice, etc) for me.
My favorite pics get put into my screensaver pic folder where they rotate in display.
|2007-01-15, 03:34
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Join Date: Oct 2006
After the disaster that was my desktop on a previous computer, I keep my desktop now pretty clean with only a few icons on it. So wallpapers are just a nice thing to look at whenever I happen to minimize all of my windows, which happens every now and then.
Maybe I'll work on making the wallpapers more icon-friendly then.
This is a little technique I use for when the colour is a little busy. Usually, I just use it to overlay text in a way that makes it readable while keeping what's underneath still visible. Hopefully the same can help for wallpapers.
This doesn't work too well on my Mac(or rather it doesn't look too well) because the top part is cut off a bit. Hopefully it'll look better in Windows.
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|2007-01-15, 03:47
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I don't keep too many icons .... usually I just have the "most used" on the left or right of the screen and the rest go into a couple of desktop folders.
My sons both have severe icon-itus on their screens.. I have no idea why they bother with wallpaper
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Two Color Crescent Shawl
Pattern Type: Knit
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Sizes Included: Diamond version - 64"x22" blocked, Leaf Version - 64"x22" blocked
Yarn Lines: Stroll Sock Yarn
Yardage: 400
Needles/Hooks Suggested: Size 8 (5.0mm): 24"-32" circular
Fiber Type: Wool & Blends
Weight: Fingering
This is a crescent shaped shawl that is made using a solid and a variegated yarn. The yarns are not cut, but carried up the side of the shawl. Each color is used for 2 rows, the solid color is done as a garter ridge to give a little extra pop of texture to the design. The color combo possibilities are endless. Although I used a slow variegating yarn for my Main Color, I am sure that it would look great to do the opposite. I have, also, done this shawl using 2 solid colored yarns.
There are two versions in this pattern, one is a Leaf Version, the other is a Diamond version. They are both worked the same until you get to the edging.
The instructions include charts and written instructions for both.
Finished Size: Unblocked 46" wide by 15" deep, blocked 64" wide by 22" deep.
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The story of the game is central to its gameplay, rather than being some optional adjunct to the action, so I wont spoil it by recapping too much here. Nevertheless, some scene-setting is necessary, and the basic premise is that a flying island has arrived in Earths sky and has been floating there for some time, but appears uninhabited. You, as the central character of the game, are female, and the initial impetus to get your character into the game setting is that your best friend, whos "like a sister" to you, has gone missing and her spirit has somehow called out for help. So its your bounden duty to go and find her, and rescue her if necessary. Without giving too much away, this also involves saving all the inhabitants of Inbetween Land.
I mention that the player character is female not because it matters as such to the game, but to underline the fact that this is a game that appears designed to appeal to female players. That isnt especially obvious from the title or description, and it ought not to matter to the game content; most of these adventure-puzzle games could appeal to either sex without discrimination. However, in this instance, Im afraid that I found Inbetween Lands story, well… just a bit wet, frankly. As a sci-fi-loving male, I was hoping for something that lived up to the floating sky city premise in engaging science fiction terms. As it turned out, though, the game actually involves talking to spirits and locating crystals for them. Its fairly implausible even within its own sci-fi context.
The major focus of the game is exploring the fifty-plus locations, finding useful items to add to your inventory in order to progress. Along the way you will also have to solve a series of one-off mini-game-style puzzles. I counted 18 such mini-games, though the games blurb says there are 19, so maybe I overlooked one (Or maybe the hidden-object-style scenes count as another type of mini-game). Anyway, theres a great deal of variety in them, though each puzzle is of a style thats well represented elsewhere; Id imagine that most players will have encountered a good proportion of the puzzle types previously.
For example, the first mini-game is a typical extract the sliding block game in which you must slide pieces (some of which move only horizontally and the others only vertically) to allow a special golden block to be slid out through a hole at the side of the board (see the Gallery). Weve all seen many puzzles of this type in recent times, Im sure. Curiously, I have to say that this first mini-game is one of the most difficult in the game. Even given its familiarity, it isnt one of the easiest layouts to solve, and I considered it the second-hardest of all the mini-games (second only to the final puzzle, which is really quite tricky). The cynic in me suspects a ploy on the part of the developers to make the time-limited demo version seem more of a challenge, because in truth I found the vast majority of the mini-games extremely easy.
OK, Im quite experienced with puzzles, and if this game is intended for younger players (as it may well be), then the difficulty level may be about right. The puzzles arent completely trivial, and theyre all enjoyable to play; but compared with other adventure games of this basic style, I found the puzzles in this one to be much easier than normal. The only one that I felt presented a real challenge was the final one: a tangram-style puzzle where you have to fit a selection of shapes into a cross-shaped hole (see the Gallery). Even this puzzle isnt too challenging, though. For one thing, theres a trick which, once spotted, gives you a good start. More importantly, theres an achievement for every mini-game, and the icon of the achievement for this final puzzle actually shows its solution! The icon is shaded dark before the achievement is won, but even so, the solution can clearly be seen if you examine it closely.
This is typical of this game in that everything is on the easy side, and theres plenty of help and guidance along the way. Although you can roam the landscape freely (once youve unlocked locations as necessary), there generally arent too many adventure-type problems going on at once; the whole thing is fairly linear and the problems mostly quite sequential. The game has three difficulty levels: Casual, Normal and Expert. However, these settings only affect the availability of hints and puzzle-skips (with no hints or skips at Expert level). The game content remains the same in all cases. The adventure itself involves some occasional combining of objects and the need to work out what to do where, but again, this is generally pretty obvious. This is one game in which I never got stuck or had to seek help.
All in all, the adventure itself is a pleasurable but easy point-and-click affair. There are few challenges of any significance, and the game is most likely to be enjoyed by players who prefer to just advance through a story with some mild interaction, rather than those who really want to scratch their heads about how to progress. As for the mini-games, theyre all very nicely presented and enjoyable to play, and theres plenty of variety in them, but in all but a couple of cases the level of challenge they present is fairly minimal.


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MIAMI VALLEY, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) - Homeowners have never seen anything like it: large chunks of yellow ice on their roofs.
"We were here watching tv, the cat was on the couch with us, all the sudden we hear a big loud thud on the roof," Pat Edwards said.
Pat and Chuck Edwards darted outside Monday afternoon, checking the roof of their Vandalia home.
"She says, 'Oh my god, what's that on my roof'," Chuck said.
It was yellow ice, which was confusing to say the least.
"There's no big enough animal to get on that roof and do that," Pat said.
So, where did it come from?
"I thought it was something that fell from a plane since we're right by the airport," Pat said.
20 miles away in Kettering, it happened at another house.
"Honestly I thought it was a big tree branch, it was loud," Kathy said.
Her neighbors also heard something hit their homes.
Kathy called a roofer, who says the ice may have come from a furnace chimney.
So FOX 45 asked Logan's A/C and heat services to check the Edwards house. Bob Conry said the vents can cause condensation and form ice, but nothing like the chunks.
"As far as the yellow ice, I've never seen yellow ice or been called for yellow ice," Conry said.
Next FOX 45's Nathan Edwards called local police, but got the same answer.
What about the plane theory?
The FAA is investigating a similar case in Chicago. The Dayton Airport and Wright Patt said there's no proof the ice came from aircraft.
So we called airline experts, who are also stumped.
"We can chalk this up as an unsolved mystery," Conry said.
There's got to be an answer right?
What about the weather?
"To be honest with you, I don't know the possibilities are endless," FOX 45's Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson said.
The Edwards family remain curious, but won't lose sleep over the mystery.
"When have you ever seen yellow ice on a roof, you just don't see that," Pat said.
FOX 45 is going to take this yellow ice to a testing lab, hoping they can help us solve the mystery.


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Orji enjoyed a national championship for the second year in a row, although the junior from
Orji also competed in the shot put. Although he failed to equal his record-breaking toss from last season, Orji offered his second-best throw of the season (56'3.75") to finish fourth overall and earn five more points for the Engineers. Orji's mark in the shot fell shy of third place by one centimeter.
Nate Ball capped the scoring for MIT with a seventh-place effort in the pole vault. Ball re-set his Institute record after vaulting 16'1.25" on his second attempt at that height. Ball had three chances at 16'5.25", but fell short in his bid to move up in the standings.
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This year, Halloween falls on a Monday, a date that is sure to put a wrinkle in the plans of many families, given the rush of dinnertime/trick-or-treating/candy consumption as night falls… and everyone has to get up the next day for school and work. But, one Connecticut lawmaker wants to throw tradition to the wind and has proposed that Halloween be changed from October 31st to the last Saturday in October, reports the Hartford Courant.
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State Rep. Tim Larson explains that he wants to change the traditional Oct. 31 date of Halloween to the last Saturday in the month in order to make the holiday easier on working parents, safer for trick-or-treaters, and better for the economy. Larson explained that celebrating Halloween on a Saturday would allow for earlier trick-or-treating with more daylight available and might allow for more Halloween celebrations—meaning more Halloween spending.
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Sure, everyone looks forward to Halloween a bit more when it falls on the weekend, but does that mean it needs to be on a Saturday every single year? Most parents and schools have found ways to work around the date dilemma, choosing to celebrate at weekend costume parties or midday school assemblies. And for kids, Halloween is still one of their favorite days of the year, whether it falls on a Tuesday or Sunday (candy tastes sweet anytime!).
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Viking New Tech students at Huntington North High School will join with the Rescue Mission of Fort Wayne to collect backpacks and supplies for distribution to those in need.
The students are working with the Backpacks of Hope program, established in memory of Huntington resident John Zachery Septer.
The students will accept donations on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Door 3 of HNHS.
The students will be accepting donations of new backpacks along with the items that will be placed in each backpack. Those items include a blanket, hat, gloves, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, razor, soap or body wash, lotion, foot powder, water, nonperishable food items and socks.
Cash donations are also accepted. They can be dropped off at PNC Bank, designated for Backpacks of Hope, or mailed to HNHS Viking New Tech, 450 MacGahan St., Huntington, IN 46750. Checks should be made out to Backpacks of Hope.
Septer, who was 21 when he died on Dec. 2, 2011, had spent the year prior to his death living among and befriending homeless people in Fort Wayne. In his memory, his family collected about 50 backpacks and filled them with items that people in need could use during the winter.
The backpacks, along with coats and food, were distributed at the Rescue Mission of Fort Wayne just before Christmas last year. More than 200 people showed up to request one of the 50 backpacks.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Summer Reading for my son and me
In middle school, he finally started to read books for school that were exciting to me. I was thrilled to read along with old favorites (The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird), and to have him experience serious books (Night, by Elie Wiesel, Romeo and Juliet).
And this summer he's required to read two books that I haven't read, but I'm interested in. For English he's reading William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and for History he's reading Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, about Thomas More and Henry VIII. My son likes history, so this should be interesting to him (I hope).
How great, I can kill two birds with one stone--I can read two things that I somehow missed along the way, and I can help my son prepare for the school year. I'm a little optimistic thinking we're going to make a cozy little book group of two, and have lovely discussions about the book. But I will force him to talk about them, if it kills me!
I was happy (and surprised) when he asked me the other day if he could get a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Perfect, I think, for the teenager that he is. I can't wait to hear what he thinks.
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- Jeane said...
I liked Lord of the Flies when I read it in high school, although a lot of my classmates seemed to hate it! Catcher in the Rye is really good, too. It'll be interesting to see how both you and your son like them.
- July 1, 2010 at 2:08 PM
- Kathleen said...
A book club with your son sounds fun! I've done something similar with my son when he does his summer reading. This summer he's reading Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black, Like me. Last summer we both struggled through the Aenid. We both loved Lord of the Flies when he read it a few years ago. I look forward to hearing what you think. It seems to be a book that people either love or hate.
- July 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- litlove said...
I love that you're reading along with him. No chance of my son asking for Catcher in the Rye still, but I just finished Cheaper by the Dozen by the two Galbraith's (not sure of that spelling), and that was a funny book that might well come on holiday with us for family reading aloud.
- July 2, 2010 at 12:17 AM
- Spangle said...
'Lord of the Flies' was one of the only books, that I had to read whilst at school, which I enjoyed.
I hope you enjoy both books!
- July 2, 2010 at 1:03 AM
I haven't read either of those. I know Lord of the Flies is a must read, but I simply haven't read it yet. And I love history, so I'm interested in "A Man For All Seasons". I love the idea of you reading together with your son :).
- July 2, 2010 at 2:26 AM
- Ti said...
Lord of the Flies is great. There is so much to dicuss with that one.
My son has a summer reading list for junior high but he swears that if he reads them now, he won't remember them. So he is waiting until the last few weeks. Isn't that a lame excuse? He's not a reader, I know but really.
- July 2, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Gentle Reader said...
Jeane--Lord of the Flies seems to be one of those books that people either love or hate--I'm looking forward to reading it. If I have time I'll tackle Catcher in the Rye, too. I read it as a teenager, but I'll bet I'll have a different reaction now!
Kathleen--I'm looking forward to discussions with my son--I just don't know if he's looking forward to them! I think Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Like Me would be great for discussion with young people! I struggled through the Odyssey with my other son last year, so I hear you on The Aeneid!
litlove--now if I can just get him to discuss the books! Right now his communication skills at home are lacking, to say the least. My husband says he's entered the caveman stage of the teenage years--he mostly just grunts at us! I think Cheaper By The Dozen sounds like a great family read-aloud--I'll have to look for a copy!
Spangle--That's encouraging--I hope my son likes Lord of the Flies, too. There's nothing worse than assigned reading you have to slog through!
irisonbooks--I love history, too, and so I'm looking forward to A Man For All Seasons (more than my son is, I'm afraid!). I've also got Hilary Mantel's book Wolf Hall on my bedside table, and I hear it covers some of the same historical territory, so I should start it!
Ti--LOL, I love your son's rationale. He's not exactly wrong, either--infuriating, isn't it?
- July 2, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Amy said...
They grow so fast! I hope your reading time together is wonderful. Lord of the Flies is a great choice, especially for a boy. My 17 year old did Uncle Tom's Cabin last year, and it was eye-opening to say the least. He's ended up with tastes for Cormac McCarthy, Sebastian Junger, and Hampton Sides.
Enjoy the time together...
- July 3, 2010 at 6:25 PM
J. loved Catcher in the Rye. I'm sure she will give you her insights when you see her. Cheaper By The Dozen is also one of her all time faves.
- July 6, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Gentle Reader said...
Amy--Sounds like your 17-year-old is a reader...what a great thing! I'll bet my son would like Junger's writing, too.
Liz--I'm going to have to get a copy of Cheaper By The Dozen. I loved the old movie (the new ones, not so much). I read Catcher in the Rye so long ago, I barely remember it. I'll have to read it again so I can discuss it with J. and B. Looking forward to seeing you all in August!
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House lawmakers plan to move forward with legislation this week to increase oil and gas supplies, with measures that would expand the nation's refining capacity and open up new offshore areas to natural gas exploration. But some House members, including Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), say the auto industry needs to do its part as well. During today's OnPoint, Bartlett explains why his bill to boost fuel economy standards could see more support in Congress this time around, and how the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) might affect the Republican agenda on Capitol Hill. Plus, Bartlett describes a recent conference he held on peak oil, and his own attempts to educate President Bush on that subject. This episode of OnPoint taped on September 28, 2005.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT rifle team took on the U.S. Coast Guard Academy over the weekend in its final match of the season before the Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championship in three weeks. The Engineers swept the host Bears in both guns, winning 2216-2191 in smallbore to go along with a 2252-2215 decision in air rifle.
Junior Emily Houston was Tech's most impressive shooter on the day. Houston posted the high score of the day with the air rifle with a 577. Her score of 563 in the smallbore category was just one point behind Coast Guard's Charles Ressel's top mark.
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Workplace Psychologists Provide Edge to Business Organizationsby GDN Shared Post March 26, 2009
Industrial-organizational psychology is a specialized science that is finding its way into corporate decision-making. As business organizations struggle in today's troubled economy, which has led to declining revenues, weakened customer bases, layoffs, operational cutbacks and other drastic measures, many firms are relying on industrial-organizational psychologists to help them navigate through difficult times and position themselves for better days ahead.
I-O psychology is a relatively small field that has enjoyed steady growth in recent years as more employers face the need to recruit, develop and retain the best employees. In fact, I-O psychologists are becoming strategic HR partners in meeting real business demands, especially during these lean economic times.
"No other profession knows how to help leaders in industry galvanize and energize their workforce as much as organizational psychologists do," said Gary Latham, president of the more than 7,800-member Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a faculty member in the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto.
Latham will be presiding over SIOP's 24th annual conference April 2-4 in New Orleans. The conference will have more than 800 presentations on a wide variety of workplace topics and will attract more than 3,800 people, including some of the world's top workplace psychologists.
Michael Beer, professor emeritus at the Harvard Business School and co-founder of the Burlington, MA-based consulting firm Truepoint, said "I-O-trained people can provide different levels of analysis and can advise management to think broadly about their actions and effects on the organization's human assets."
These scientists possess a well-schooled understanding of workplace behavior. In many ways, they are the odds-setters of the human capital domain, said Greg Barnett of Hogan Assessment Systems in Tulsa, OK.
"They build tools and processes that improve organizations' odds of making better people decisions, the likelihood of improving people's performance while on the job, and the retention of valued talent. We can provide the means to significantly stack the human capital deck in favor of the organization," he said.
As progressive organizations seek to build their talent pool, even during the current slow economy, I-O psychologists are being called upon to build and implement better solutions for identifying and developing critical talent.
"We are being asked to design, build, and support mission critical activities like global recruitment strategies, succession planning, executive selection, high potential identification and bench strength analyses," Barnett said.
There is a great deal of evidence that if companies go about these decisions in the right way they can make a rapid recovery, Beer added.
"One doesn't have to look further than the preponderance of highly visible executive failures to know the costs businesses and shareholders incur when bad people decisions are made. Failures in executive selection are certainly very public and are one of the clearest examples where I-O psychologists can add significant value to businesses. Whether we are discussing the hiring of a chief executive officer, the development of middle managers, or the entire selection system for customer service representatives, I-O psychologists' work has a measurable impact on the success of an organization," said Barnett.
Many business experts agree that despite the downturn in the economy, organizations should be working hard to develop their talent so they will be well positioned when things get better, said Stephanie Tarant, director of talent management at R.H. Donnelly. "It's like a race when the yellow flag is out. Those behind can use that opportunity to catch up to the leaders and position themselves to possibly take the lead when the flag turns green," she said.
Management teams need to recognize that the critical choices they make should protect their key assets (employees). Shortsighted personnel decisions can adversely affect the organization. Too many executives get caught up in the moment and make rash decisions, said Beer.
When businesses are strained as they are now, corporate restructuring, downsizing and mergers and acquisitions are an inevitable consequence; actions which result in a stressed and apprehensive workforce.
"We know from research on the effects of mergers/acquisitions and corporate restructuring that success hinges on the organization's ability to maintain employee engagement and not allowing it to erode," said Seymour Adler, senior vice president of talent solutions consulting at Aon Corp.
The people side of the deal is an extremely important consideration and one with which I-O psychologists have the knowledge and expertise to provide valuable assistance. There is clearly a need to focus a great deal on engagement, said Adler.
Employees need to be kept engaged in their work, Tarant said. "Highly engaged employees are a positive influence on the work force and that is what organizations should be striving for," she added.
There is a lot of literature and research showing high engagement leads to better attitudes and more production. "It would seem to be a no-brainer for an organization to want to cultivate and development highly engaged workers," Tarant said.
Accurate information is vital for senior executives when faced with making tough business decisions, and I-O psychologists, because of their training in gathering reliable and credible data, are in a good position to assist, said Jennifer Deal, senior research scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership. "If the data are unreliable, then the results are going to be unreliable, and therefore not useful to leaders. Unreliable information can cause leaders to move in the wrong direction and to focus on the wrong areas," she said.
I-O psychologists can produce results that are rigorous, accurate and defensible and which will provide the organization with credible information. Accurate results aren't always what leaders want to hear, but it is the best way of determining the direction to take, Deal said.
"A lot of business decisions are based upon educated guesswork. The information people use to make those guesses is critical; it is important that leaders rely on solid information as much as they on their experience, especially in today's rocky economy," said Deal.
Ultimately some business decisions lead to workforce reductions. The choices can fall between making cuts based upon seniority, by performance or somewhere between. Whatever the choice, it must be done carefully.
'When it comes to the difficulties inherent in layoffs, organizational psychologists specialize in ways to increase feelings of fairness and mitigate survivor guilt syndrome," Latham said. "They do this by helping people understand the process that was developed and used to implement the layoffs so leaders are not only fair but also are seen as fair by employees."
Decisions involving people can sometimes lead to costly litigation. Making reductions based upon seniority (last in, first out) is often the easy way of making cuts and seemingly objective, but may not be rational as it often does not identify those least capable of sustaining and growing the business and can lead to law suits, Adler said. Organizations that conduct regular employee performance and competency assessments greatly limit the risk of litigation and I-O psychologists who are assessment experts can provide key information in making reduction decisions based upon performance.
Organizations able to hold on to customers will recover more quickly, Adler said. "Some companies cut back on customer service during tough times and which is exactly the wrong time to do it. They do it to save money and that often is not a wise decision. That's a moment of truth for customers who will remember the cuts and move on to someone else because there are lots of choices for them," he said.
Customer loyalty is taking a beating and organizations must take measures to keep those customers. It is much more costly to acquire new customers than it is to retain current customers, said Adler.
The smart firms are creating a new emphasis upon the customer because with the poor economy, they must retain their customer base. Any erosion of that base weakens the entire organization, Adler noted.
I-O psychologists are impacting businesses in many ways. Some are HR generalists, others work in organizational development, many support recruitment and selection while others serve as coaches and trainers. They also are internal and external consultants and many follow academic career paths. Regardless, of the role, position or proximity to the organization, I-O psychologists are having a measurable impact upon the success of business organizations.
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is an international group of more than 7,800 industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists whose members study and apply scientific principles concerning workplace productivity, motivation, leadership and engagement. SIOP's mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice and teaching of I-O psychology. For more information about SIOP, including a Media Resources service that lists nearly 2,000 experts in more than 100 topic areas, visit www.siop.org.


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Those days, apparently, are long gone.
On Wednesday, Charles D. Baker, a Republican who is running for governor for the second time, became the latest candidate to launch his campaign by releasing a carefully crafted Web video, with no public events or interviews with the media. Aides said he was spending the day at his home in Swamspcott, with his family.
That has become the standard approach for candidates of both parties, allowing them to bypass the media and control their messages, at least in the crucial early hours of their campaigns.
Democrat Juliette N. Kayyem, a onetime homeland security official and former Boston Globe columnist who is running for governor, announced her campaign with a Web video last month, as did Republican Gabriel E. Gomez when he ran for the Senate this year.
"If this were 1962, you would go to a rally and get drunk with a bunch of reporters, but that's not the way politics works anymore," said Mike Murphy, a Republican consultant who worked on Romney's 2002 campaign. "This is a smarter model. You look at it not as an announcement, but as an announcement period. You can go several days and several news cycles long."
A video kickoff can generate $500,000 of free advertising, because it provides the only clips initially available for the news media, Murphy said. Candidates can then hold public events "for color and optics later on," he said.
"It's a great way to get an unfiltered message out," Murphy said, likening the prolonged rollout to a "three-course meal instead of a fast-food hamburger."
The remote video launch also spares candidates who are just beginning their campaigns from having to find enough supporters to fill a hotel ballroom and then from having to contend with protesters, reporters, and other nuisances who can unsettle them just as they are entering the spotlight.
No wonder it is a strategy beloved by political consultants.
"You move past all of those considerations and, quite frankly, burdens, and you can talk directly to voters," said Kevin Madden, a Republican political adviser.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat, helped pioneer the intimate video announcement when she launched her presidential bid in 2007.
"I'm in," she said, sitting on a sofa in her video, adding, "So let's talk. Let's chat. Let's start a dialogue about your ideas and mine."
Her onetime rival, Barack Obama, borrowed the technique in 2012 when he announced his reelection campaign.
His Web video, however, followed the lines of a more traditional ad, and featured voters from around the country.
Baker, who launched his first campaign for governor at Babson College, plans to speak to the media Thursday. His campaign would not say when he will hold his first encounter with voters.
For decades, candidates for governor in Massachusetts almost invariably kicked off their races at a downtown Boston hotel or restaurant, and then made stops in places like Worcester and Springfield.
But those events were free-wheeling and unpredictable.
When Governor Francis W. Sargent launched his reelection campaign in 1974, he did so at a luncheon with 43 members of the Republican State Committee at Anthony's Pier 4 on the South Boston Waterfront.
Committee members who backed a more conservative candidate for governor reacted angrily, and newspaper coverage from that day included quotes from some of them blasting Sargent.
By relying on a two-minute Web video, Baker avoids such potential indignities.
Dressed casually in jeans and a blue shirt with no tie, he sheds the outraged tone he struck in his 2010 campaign, and describes himself as a loving family man with deep roots in Massachusetts.
"I care about being a good husband to my wife, Lauren, and a loving and responsible father to our three children," Baker says in the clip, which is filled with warm music. "I care about our community where we've raised our family and being a good son and brother. And, as corny as that may sound, that's exactly why I want to be your governor."
Baker, who was the budget chief in the administrations of governors Weld and Paul Cellucci, never mentions that he is a Republican in the video. Instead, he says he wants to provide "bipartisan leadership focused on growing our economy," and, if elected in 2014, will promote small businesses, and work to improve schools and public safety.
His tone marks a sharp contrast from 2010, when he ran on the slogan, "Had Enough?" and tried to tap into voter anger about scandals on Beacon Hill and a slumping economy. Aides said the hard-edge rhetoric was a stretch for Baker, a former health insurance executive known for delving into policy details and spinning out ideas.
"Last time, he felt it was a grind," said a spokesman, Tim Buckley, who added that Baker is "excited" about his new positive, and personal message. And with his Web video, Baker gets the final word, without interruption from a curious voter or skeptical reporter.
"Let's aim high," he says, debuting his upbeat catchphrase. "Let's be great, Massachusetts."Michael Levenson can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @mlevenson.


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Antibiotic Resistance and Hospital Infections
In Germany, an estimated 400,000 to 600,000 patients suffer a hospital acquired infection each year; 10,000 to 15,000 of them die. Typical problems for health care providers are surgical site infections, urinary tract infections and pneumonia.
Since the early 1990s, bacteria resistant to antibiotics (and therefore difficult to treat) play an increasing role in hospital acquired infections. At the Robert Koch Institute, scientists investigate the molecular-genetic properties of the resistant microorganisms. Moreover, they analyse how resistant pathogens spread and provide data on antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use online. Regularly updated guidelines are published on how hospital infections can be avoided with hygiene measures.
Date: 17.08.2017


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Liberty University Athletics is committed to conducting an athletics department that maintains compliance with Title IX. Since 2009, we have added three women's sports programs: Women's Lacrosse (2009-2010), Women's Swimming (2010-2011) and Women's Field Hockey (2011-2012). These additions have allowed for 61 new female participation opportunities and by 2013-2014, the growth in the programs will have allowed for a total of 80 new female participation opportunities.
To assist us in maintaining Title IX compliance, the Athletics Department will continue to take the following steps:
• Publicize our procedure for club teams or individuals to request varsity status for their sport of interest. An announcement will be made, annually, on the Splash page and the procedures and Sport Request form will be readily available on the athletics webpage.
• Conduct an interests and abilities survey, every 2 years, with the female student population.
• Annually assess the female state championship sports from the top 10 states that make up our general student population.
• Annually assess for any emerging female sports within our competitive region.
Procedure for Requesting the Addition of a New Intercollegiate Sport:
Any student who desires that a new intercollegiate sport be added to the intercollegiate athletics program at Liberty University may make such a request by petitioning the Department of Athletics using the Sport Request Form. The use of this form will assist in generating the information needed for the University to make a decision regarding the requested addition to the athletics program.
The person desiring the addition of a new intercollegiate sport should identify themselves on the form as the "contact person" so that authorities within the Department of Athletics will know who to contact for follow-up on the request. The contact person should, to the extent possible, identify persons who are interested in that additional intercollegiate sport and who are also willing to participate. It is important that this student information be as accurate and complete as possible because this will be very helpful in enabling the University to assess the request. Additional forms are available in the office of the Director of Athletics upon request. It is important to list the Division I Colleges and Universities within our area that sponsor the requested sport, if known by the requesting person. Such Colleges and Universities should be within our competitive region (between 0-400 miles from Lynchburg, VA).
After completing the Sport Request form, the contact person should return the form to the office of the Director of Athletics. The request will then be evaluated by the Director of Athletics and other senior administrators in the Department of Athletics. These persons shall conduct a hearing at which all interested persons may appear and present their point of view with respect to the desirability of adding the intercollegiate sport. The University officials participating in the hearing shall consider such factors as availability of competition, number of students interested in participating in the sport, as well as the skill level they possess, availability of practice and game facilities, and costs to the University in making a determination on the request. Officials of the Department of Athletics may also confer with other administrative officials of the University for additional information pertinent to the request.
After a determination is made, all interested persons whose names and addresses are presented on the Request for Sport Form will be notified of the determination by the Department of Athletics. In the event that the request is granted and a recommendation is made for the addition of the sport, the office of the Director of Athletics will assume responsibility for keeping the interested parties informed as to the progress being made in funding and establishing the new intercollegiate sport.


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David Jensen, chief communications officer, Rotary International
David Jensen has been named chief communications officer at Rotary International. Jensen will direct all internal and external communications operations at the humanitarian service organization's international headquarters in Evanston. He will oversee a staff of 115 covering areas such as public relations, Rotary's website, the Rotarian magazine, language services and other functions. Major projects under the position include Rotary's brand revitalization initiative and the coordination of internal and external communication functions linked to the rollout of Rotary's new strategic plan, which identifies enhancing Rotary's image as a top priority. Jensen comes to Rotary from GE Capital International Services (now Genpact), where held various positions including vice president for corporate communications. Before that, he worked more than five years for the global public relations firm Ketchum, including a stint as general manager of the company's Hong Kong operations. He also held communications positions at Boeing, Raytheon and Ampex. Jensen has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University.
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CES 2013 - Samsung T900 Smart Fridge
Published on Jan 11, 2013
The Samsung T900 Smart Fridge is a whopping 32 cubic feet and has a flexible zone that converts from fridge to freezer and back again at the touch of a button. The 10" touchscreen control panel on the front can not only be used to control the fridge itself, but there are a number of integrated social apps. So now you can tweet from your fridge!
The panel also allows users to record what is in the fridge, when it is set to expire, and it will remind you when an item's sell-by-date is approaching. With a built-in inspirational recipe finder app, Epicurious, you can cook to your hearts content. And who knows, you could become the next Nigella or Heston.


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I last wrote about my grandmother's scrapbook and I've been looking forward to blogging about the discoveries as I find them. But I've had an exciting find this week that I just have to share.
My mother's parents divorced when she was about 10 and she was never much of a part of her father's life. In fact, even though we received gifts from him every Christmas, I only met him once growing up and I really don't have much memory of him. And since my mother wasn't a part of his life, either, she didn't seem to have any pictures of him. Try as she might, she just couldn't seem to come up with one.
Until last weekend. I was home for my high school reunion and was able to spend some time with Mom. When I arrived at her house, she said she remembered a box that her step mother had sent to her upon her father's death and she thought she knew where it was. Of course I jumped at the opportunity and was quickly on a step stool rumaging through her hall closet. And guess what I found? Yep, some photos of my grandfather! I wish there were more but hey, I'll take what I can get. At least now if I run across some unknown photos I'll have something to go by to try to identify him.
And here he is!
|Earle Laurence Martin
Geraldine Martin (my mother)
|Earle and Gerry Martin
|Clara Fitzgerald Martin
Earle Martin
Geraldine Martin
Frances Maria Brooks Martin
circa 1931
While I'm not sure that the older lady is Frances Brooks Martin, my mother believes that it is. Which means I got a two-fer as Frances was my great grandmother!
I just love when you find something when you least expect it. And boy am I happy that I finally have an idea of what my grandfather looked like!
Now back to the scrapbook.......


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Second half Stetson surge proved too much
MACON, Ga. (March 6, 2013) – Offensive inefficiency from the Lady Bucs and improved offensive output from the Hatters in the second half doomed No. 7 ETSU as No. 2 Stetson was able to accumulate a 14-point lead late and hung on to defeat the Blue and Gold, 66-55, on Wednesday evening inside Hawkins Arena in the Atlantic Sun Championship quarterfinals.
With the loss, ETSU ends the season with an 8-18 overall record, including 6-12 in Atlantic Sun action, while Stetson improves its overall record to 22-8, including 14-14 in league play.
"My young ladies played really hard," ETSU head coach Karen Kemp said. "I was proud of the effort. We had a stretch there to start the second half where we really struggled from the field and Stetson was hitting their three-pointers. I thought we had good looks but we were just not able to knock them down. Stetson is a really good basketball team, but I am proud of my young ladies too."
The Lady Bucs came out fired up for the Atlantic Sun Championship and scored the first six points of the contest before the first media timeout at the 15:50 mark. Stetson responded with its first points of the game with a three-pointer at the 15:11 mark to snap the ETSU spurt. This triple was part of a 9-0 run for the Hatters from the 15:19 to the 13:15 marks to put the Hatters on top, 9-6. Shots started to fall for SU, while the Lady Bucs began turning the ball over which gave Stetson more opportunities to score as it increased its lead to as many as many as nine points with 8:30 left. Back-to-back baskets from Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) with 6:30 remaining allowed ETSU to take back the lead, 21-20, but the Hatters fired back to regain the advantage, 22-21. The two squads traded baskets the remainder of the half before Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) attacked the basket on the Lady Bucs' final possession, earning a trip to the free throw line. Randall nailed both free throws to send ETSU into the break with a 29-28 advantage.
ETSU got a quick bucket on its first possession of the second half off of a perfectly executed back-cut layup by Serena Clark (Stone Mountain, Ga.), but Stetson answered with an 8-2 burst over the next four minutes to take a 38-33 lead with 15:23 remaining. After frigid shooting from behind the arc in the first half, the Hatters found their groove from the outside and hit three trifectas in the first eight minutes of the second stanza. In addition, the Blue and Gold struggled on the offensive end and continued to turn the ball over which allowed SU to build up its lead to as many as 14 points with 3:57 remaining. The Lady Bucs did not quit though and battled back to cut their deficit to five on a Cara Bowling (Elizabethton, Tenn.) three with 1:22 left, but the Hatters were able to hang on for the duration of the game and dropped ETSU, 66-55.
Stetson was led by a pair of 18-point scorers in Shanasa Sanders and Sasha Sims. Sanders also added four steals and two assists. Meanwhile, ETSU got a game-high 23 points from Destiny Mitchell, including 15 in the first half, but had only one additional double-digit scorer with Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.) adding 11 points and five rebounds. The Lady Bucs did get a solid, all-around effort from Cara Bowling with eight points, six rebounds and five steals as well.
The Hatters shot a strong 44 percent from the field, including 32 percent from three-point range after draining only 18 percent of its attempts in the first half. SU also shot 65 percent from the free throw line and racked up 13 assists on 24 made field goals.
Meanwhile, the Lady Bucs shot a sub-standard 30 percent from the floor and again struggled from behind the arc at only 17 percent. The Blue and Gold did make the most of their opportunities from the charity stripe though, knocking down 82 percent of its tries. Once again, ETSU outrebounded its opponent, this time 41-35, and managed 14 second chance points off of 17 offensive rebounds. The Lady Bucs also held advantages in points in the paint (28-20) and bench points (12-9), but allowed Stetson to cash in with 16 points off of their 18 turnovers.
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A look at the new lead actor choice for Doctor Who, and how the fans react.
What is Doctor Who? (For those not familiar with the Who-niverse)
Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television show...ever. The BBC series began in 1963 starring William Hartnell as The Doctor, a timelord who runs around having crazy adventures and saving lives with granddaughter Susan and two of her teachers Ian and Barbara as his travelling companions. It was introduced that the Doctor came with an amazing spaceship/time travel machine--the TARDIS, a ship able to shift into any possible shape to blend into any environment...and it was permanently stuck as a blue Police Box from the 1960s. This kind of adventurism and ironic humor would carry on throughout the show's lifetime.
When Hartnell's health became an issue, he and the showrunners made the bold decision to replace him. Patrick Troughton took on the lead, and a new idea was introduced into the series for the first time. The Time Lords, when faced with a potentially fatal outcome, could "regenerate" and essentially become someone new. Their outward appearance and personality would change, but the new regeneration would retain all of the Doctor's memories. And so the designation of "First Doctor, Second Doctor" marked to fans which incarnation of the Doctor they were talking about.
Doctor Who has a long and complicated history, went through the usual bumpy roads that all long lasting series suffer, and was eventually cancelled in 1989. It was finally brought back for a TV movie in 1996.
It took until 2005 for the "new series" starting wwith the 9th Doctor to take place. Christopher Eccleston had one season as the Doctor, and then was replaced by David Tennant for three more seasons and a set of specials. After Tennant, Matt Smith took the helm as Doctor #11, and after a 50th Anniversary special happening in November of this year, he'll be replaced by the new guy.
Now that you're caught up...
The new Doctor has just been announced, fans are having their opinions heard, plus they wasted no time at all doctoring-up photos (pun intended) of new guy Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.
Some fans are not pleased that Smith is almost done. Some fans are outright displeased with the new choice, calling Capaldi too old to play the Doctor. The Doctor, with all his regenerations, is between 900 and 1100 years old. Age of the actor shouldn't matter. And, as some point out, Capaldi is the same age that William Hartnell (1st Doctor) was when he began: 55.
Part of the reason for the age complaint was New Who's tendency to have younger and younger actors playing the part. Eccleston as 9th was 41, Tennant 34, and Matt Smith was 26. In fact, Matt Smith's announcement as the 11th Doctor years ago was mocked because he was too young! A few seasons later, most fans are tearfully anticipating his leave.
Another reason for the age complaint was another tendency of the new series putting emphasis on relationships and romance. But dear fans, romance isn't just for the young. The Doctor is suaver and smarter than Bond. The ladies will be interested no matter what.
Why the big deal?
Doctor Who is a unique series. Fans become attached to a particular Doctor. The internet is practically a battlefield between Who fans to point out which one is better. Ironic since they're all the same person. Don't even get me started on the debates over the companions who travel with the Doctor. That's a whole 'nother story.
What we can look forward to
There probably won't be as much emphasis on the romance angle with Peter Capaldi's Doctor, which could be a good thing. We've seen companions flinging themselves on him. We don't need it anymore. I've seen predictions that the show will become more hard science fiction, and I'm cool with that. We can also predict a more serious, worldlier Doctor compared to the young Matt Smith.
We'll see soon enough how it all pans out.


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"Nature's Healing Power"
This episode features stories of Idahoans who have found strength and solace in nature as they confront illness and injury. It also shines a spotlight on four Idaho nonprofits that offer outdoor retreats for cancer survivors and disabled veterans - and the dedication of their volunteers. G
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If you think you know where this photo was taken, call 508-591-6619 or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reporters travel all over Plymouth each week in search of stories. In their travels, they pass many well-known places and many that are not so well known.
See if you can guess where in Plymouth they are this week. If you think you know where this photo was taken, call 508-591-6619 or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
NOTE: If you submit your answer by email and do not include your name in the body of the email, your name will not be published, just your answer, followed by "Name not provided."
The names of those who offer correct answers before the newspaper's deadline will be published in the Old Colony the following week.
This week's hint: Shorely someone was born to find this.
Last week's answers:
" 'Where in Plymouth' this week is the plant place on the top of Summer Street and has plants and all that, on Summer Street." – Carrie Walker
"This was taken at Crystal Lake Garden center/Happy Hound Day Care." – Kevin Deardon
"This week's 'Where in Plymouth' is actually a nursery or a flower garden located on Summer Street. The name of the business is Crystal Lake nursery. Wonderful people. I've been in there many times before. Great staff to work with, they're well-educated." – Luigi Anoli
"Crystal Lake on Summer Street. A lovely garden center!" – Angela Gray
"That is at the Crystal Garden garden center on Summer Street." – Janice Maciejewicz


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Open Source Poses "Huge Risk" To Organisations: A chief information officer for engineering giant General Electric (GE) has said that open source software is only suited for internal "playground" applications and that businesses that use it for mission critical infrastructure are taking a huge risk. Responding to a question from eWEEK Europe UK on the first day of the Central and Eastern European IT Leaders Summit & Expo, in Budapest, Peter Gyorgy, chief information officer of GE's Consumer and Industrial division in Europe, said non-proprietary code presents a significant risk to companies.
Would You Accept Google's Free Netbook?: People seem underwhelmed by Chromium OS, but maybe Google has a bigger plan: how about producing a netbook running Chromium OS, and giving it away? The small hardware costs would be covered by advertising *in the Web apps*. Would you use one?
Microsoft and Murdoch teaming up against Google?: For months, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of global media giant News Corp, has been complaining about his publications' content showing up in Google searches. Now Microsoft is reportedly offering to pay publishers, including News Corp, to block Google searches in favor of Bing listings.
Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web: Are the fights that matter just the ones between giant companies? Doesn't the health of the Net and the Web matter more than any commercial battles? These questions came to mind when I read How Murdoch Can Really Hurt Google And Shift The Balance Of Power In Search in TechCrunch recently. In that piece Mike Arrington supported Jason Calacanis' suggestion that Murdoch stick it to Google by cutting an exclusive search deal with rival search engine Bing. Even Jay Rosen took the same side. (Though perhaps in jest.)
Microsoft to get exclusive access to News Corp's content: Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch have joined forces against a common enemy. For months Mr Murdoch has been railing against the search engine Google and Microsoft wants to transform its own puny search engine Bing into a true competitor to Google. The impetus for the discussions between Microsoft and News Corporation came from News Corp. The talks have arrived at a proposed deal that will likely attract the attention of anti-trust lawyers. Under the agreement Microsoft, with its available huge war chest to fight Google, would pay News Corporation to remove its content from the Google search index.
iPhone & HTML5 bring "streaming Silverlight content" to Linux: Microsoft worked together with Apple to bring Silverlight video to the iPhone. What this solution basically does is take a video at the server side, cut it in parts and convert the parts to separate H.264 streams. Then stream those files to end users with IIS Media services. These have .ts extensions, a format mplayer understands.
The Un-Scary Screwdriver: One early spring day as we were walking home from the bakery on the corner, we passed by a neighbor and struck up a conversation. He complained about his desktop being constantly attacked by viruses. We suggested Ubuntu. A professional man in his 50s, he said he wanted to try installing a Linux distribution on his desktop but that, "it looks too complicated. I probably couldn't install Ubuntu. I don't want the hassle." My little five year old daughter had been snuggled in my arms while I was talking to this neighbor. She had been listening closely. When we got home, she said, "Mom, I can install Ubuntu. I bet I can. Can I try? Can I try?"
Transparently uploading and accessing encrypted files and directories to a Cloud Service: The idea is to store ones files on a cloud (Ubuntu One), so that they remain private, using encryption, but so that they can be transparently uploaded and downloaded and accessed, as if they are unencrypted files.
How to Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer: Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting cr@pware. For this guide, we're going to do a bit of assuming. We're assuming the relative with the busted computer is running a Windows system, and has an internet connection that works when the computer does. We're assuming all the physical pieces of the computer work—hard drive, memory, disc drives, and anything else that's crucial. We'll also assume the computer's in one of two states: Failing to boot and needing an OS re-installation, laden with unnecessary system tray/startup applications and/or spy/mal/ad-ware, or just needing a little optimization.
When Open Source Meets Closed Minds: Me: "How could you tell they'd hacked it?" Caller: "Well, when it booted, it didn't say Windows or Microsoft or anything! It said something about Deviant Linux, I think, and the main screen looked nothing like my good, legal Windows screen at home! I think they hacked that, too!"


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