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Important Information! The Target store has issued a warning that debit and credit cards used in their stores could have been compromised due to a data breach. Here are the facts so far: sometime in the weeks following Thanksgiving, Target suffered a data breach that could affect millions of shoppers who used debit or credit cards to pay for their purchases. So, if you used a card to shop at Target over the past couple of weeks, don't panic! PFCU advises you to keep an eye on your account and report any suspicious activity to us right away. And, if any further action is required, such as replacing cards that may have been compromised, we will let you know. Please make sure PFCU has your current phone number, including your mobile number, as well as your current email address in the event we need to contact you for any reason.
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Posted by Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on March 18, 2014
Are you looking for a vendor or vendors to support your voice of the customer (VoC) program? Or are you reviewing your current VoC vendor(s)?
Selecting the right vendor or vendors can be hard! Why? The VoC vendor landscape is hard to decipher. There are many but relatively small vendors, and they rely on an interconnected network of partners, acquire each other at an impressive rate, and regularly expand into new spaces. And companies often already have a number of vendors they work with. In my recent webinar about VoC, most of the attendees had from three to five vendors that supported their VoC program in some shape or form.
But there are a few beacons to help orient you in your quest:
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on April 12, 2013
Voice of the customer (VoC) data is alluring. Once you start to collect customer feedback, there's always something more you could be gathering. You think: What else can I learn? What else are customers saying and thinking? Where else are they saying it? You want to know more.
But collecting the data — listening — isn't enough.
At Forrester, we describe the continuous cycle of activities that make up VoC programs as: listen, interpret, react, and monitor. "Listen" is all the customer feedback you're collecting via listening posts like surveys, emails, calls, and comment cards. "Interpret" is the analysis you do on that feedback (and other related data) to understand what it all means. "React" is what you do to fix the experience based on the analysis you've done, and "monitor" is how you make sure that whatever you did to react is actually working.
It's critical to go through the full cycle with whatever data you're already collecting. Because here's the hard truth: You get no ROI from listening or interpreting. None. Zero. Zip. You only get business results from actually improving the experience.
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on March 15, 2013
There's no question that executive support can make or break a voice of the customer (VoC) program. With an executive (or several) onboard, VoC teams can get the funding and tools that they need to succeed. And VoC leaders from Forrester's 2012 Voice Of The Customer Awards almost unanimously gave others the advice to build executive support.
If you're struggling to get your program off the ground, heed their wise advice. Appeal to executives with evidence (metrics, business results) and with compelling stories about what might be going wrong for customers and how they've been delighted by the experience. Ask for execs to support you in collecting feedback from customers, analyzing that feedback, taking on projects to improve the experience, and monitoring to make sure that those projects are working.
But executives aren't the only key to a successful program. Top-down support is important, but it has to be balanced with bottom-up support, too. What happens when execs mandate that everyone cares about customer feedback? People don't really care. It feels like a fad. Employees have to feel some ownership and control — or they just won't buy in.
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on February 15, 2013
I was flipping through the 2012 Forrester Voice of the Customer Award nomination forms the other day, and I realized that I've been unwittingly holding on to an valuable resource — all the advice that we asked nominees to impart on other voice of the customer programs. The very last of the six questions on our nomination form is, "What advice would you give to other organizations to make their programs successful?" We got some great answers from the 40 or so nominated companies, so I pulled together the top 10 pieces of advice. If you're looking for some inspiration for your own VoC program, look no further than the advice of your peers.
1. Build executive support. The majority of nominees offered this advice, and it's consistent with Forrester's own research showing that executive support builds a foundation for VoC success. Executive support helps CX pros put key building blocks in place, such as adequate tools to collect and analyze data and processes to systematically act on it. How do you build support? Prove the value of the program by demonstrating tangible business value. Track the results of service recovery efforts to save unhappy customers and aggregate the results of improvement projects initiated by VoC-collected data.
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on January 25, 2013
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Allow us to paint a vision of the future for you: After interactions with your favorite companies, no one asks you how you liked those interactions. Your email inbox contains no requests for a few minutes of your time. No one asks you to wait on the phone line to answer a few questions. The word "survey" has vanished from your vocabulary.
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on November 9, 2012
You just bought something at your favorite store. You walk out with a skip in your step thinking about when you might wear this new purchase. You give into your compulsion to check your email on your smartphone, and there, waiting for you, is a survey from that very company asking about your experience. You groan, but you click on the link. The survey isn't formatted for your phone, so you have to pinch to zoom in and out. You don't understand the first question. Or the second one. Frankly, you don't really care. You close your browser window, curse the company and every other company that has ever asked you to complete a survey, and vow never to shop anywhere ever again.
I'm no doctor, but I'm confident in my diagnosis: You are suffering from survey fatigue.
You're not alone. Survey fatigue has even made it into pop-culture as a known malady, thanks to articles like this one in USA Today. It's no surprise that consumers are irked; most companies' customer experience measurement programs and voice of the customer programs rely on surveys for the necessary data. As a result, consumers are getting barraged with requests for feedback, and, really, it's just because companies have good intentions. They want to know how they're doing and how they can improve the experience.
If you're one of these survey-reliant companies, what can you do? I'm working on some research right now on that very topic with our new analyst, Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian. We're exploring indicators of survey fatigue to help you spot the problem as well as best practices for reducing any fatigue that does exist.
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on September 28, 2012
Many of the conversations I have with clients about voice of the customer (VoC) programs center on ways the programs can improve and best practices they can adopt. What I think is really underlying these discussions, though, is the question, "How does my program compare with all the others that are out there?" Or, more succinctly, "How am I doing?"
My anecdotal conversations, though frequent, do not make for a quantitative study. So I did just that: I surveyed our Global Customer Experience Peer Research Panel about their VoC programs. The results will be published shortly in a Forrester report called, "The State Of VoC Programs, 2012," but in the meantime, I'd like to give you a sneak peak.
Our most important finding was that customer experience professionals aren't getting the value they could be from their programs. Specifically, we asked how valuable their programs were in improving customers' experiences and how valuable they were in delivering financial results. It turns out that VoC programs help companies improve the customer experience; we saw more respondents getting that kind of value. But firms struggle to connect the dots to financial value.
So why the gap? It turns out that customer experience value is pretty easy to recognize. Respondents told us that the feedback data they collect helps them identify problems with the experience that need to be fixed. It also helps them prioritize what to fix because they can take the input from their customers into account when looking at all the various improvement project opportunities. The resulting projects make the experience better.
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on June 12, 2012
Where will you be at 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26th? I know where I'll be: announcing the winners of Forrester's annual Voice Of The Customer Awards at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum in NYC!
We've read through the incredible submissions, graded them, picked our finalists, and picked our winners. And I've been busy for the past few weeks organizing everything for the big announcement on June 26th and the Forum track session panel featuring the three winners that's happening on Wednesday, June 27th, at 1:20 p.m.
Yes, you heard right. This year I'm not just announcing the winners on Day 1; I'm also moderating a track session where you can hear more about the winning programs. First, the companies' representatives are going to describe the types of improvements they've made and the business results associated with those improvements, and then I'm going to open up the floor to Q&A. This is your chance to ask the burning questions about what makes these programs so successful.
So, sign up for the event, and stay tuned on my blog for the big announcement in two weeks!
Posted by Adele Sage on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on February 21, 2012
It's that time of year again. We're already in the midst of planning our annual Customer Experience Forum, and now we're gearing up to collect and evaluate nominations for our Voice Of The Customer Awards — which we'll present at the Forum.
If you're new to the awards, here's some background: Forrester's annual Voice Of The Customer Awards recognize organizations that excel in collecting, analyzing, and acting on feedback from their customers, incorporating customer insights into everyday decisions. We conduct the awards for three basic reasons: 1) to emphasize the importance of voice of the customer (VoC) programs; 2) to celebrate organizations that are leading the way; and 3) to highlight best practices.
If you (or, if you're a vendor, your clients) have a strong VoC program, we encourage you to participate. It's free and it offers a great opportunity to earn some solid PR while sharing your wisdom with other customer experience pros. Also, we only reveal the names of the finalists and winners, so the potential downside is limited.
You can find all of the information you need on our VoC Award home page. The 2012 nomination form will become available there on March 5th. In the meantime, you can review this year's timeline, get answers to FAQs, and check out information about past winners.
Posted by Harley Manning on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on May 23, 2011
Over the past few weeks, I've been part of a group that picked the winners of Forrester's Voice Of The Customer Awards for 2011. I can't yet tell you the names of the three winners — those companies will be announced on June 21 at our Customer Experience Forum in New York, along with the other seven entrants that made up our top 10. But I can share some insight into what separated the winners from the contenders.
At one end of the spectrum, the clarity with which entrants described their programs didn't create much differentiation. With very few exceptions, descriptions ranged from very clear to extremely clear and "please stop with the detail already, my eyes are starting to bleed" clear.
At the other end of the spectrum, the business benefits that companies derived from their voice of the customer (VoC) programs provided diamond-hard clarity as to which companies were great and which were just good.
To understand why that is, consider the question in the awards submission form that asks about business benefits. It was worded exactly like this:
"How has this activity improved your organization's business results? Please be as specific as possible about business benefits like increased revenue, decreased cost, increased customer satisfaction, or decreased customer complaints. Please specify how you measure those benefits."
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The Mountaineers will play 13 non-conference contests, including home games against Virginia Tech, VMI, Oakland, Radford and Eastern Kentucky.
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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III has received the news he has been hoping for since suffering a torn ACL at the end of last season. According to none other than RG3 himself, doctors have medically cleared the former No. 2 overall pick to resume practicing. He will be suited up for the team's training camp and ready to work towards returning to the field to start the season at 100 percent.
Griffin announced the news on Twitter:
Doctors cleared me to practice. Coach is going to ease me in. Thank you for your support & See you in Richmond
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) July 22, 2013
Griffin is still set to meet with Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday to determine the extent that he can return to practice, so let's not get ahead of ourselves and think that he will be returning to the practice field without any restriction.
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Police announced Friday the arrest of pistol packing suspects accused in a wave of carjackings throughout Metro Atlanta.
21-year old Ladarious Gibbs, Brandon Washington and Ronald Washington, 24-year-old Andre Clark and Rapheal Banks, and Derek Turner,19, are all charged with robbery and carjacking.
Police said the 6 are accused of at least six carjackings in Atlanta and investigators believe they may be responsible for more.
"The biggest message here is that we have taken several violent offenders off our streets," said Atlanta Police Chief George Turner.
Investigators are also looking at the possibility that the six may be involved in armed pedestrian robberies as well.
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Police said the men face additional charges in Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties.
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3 February 2009 at 10:12am
Hi I'm new to SilverStripe and I haven't kept my coding up to date so I'm pretty damn rusty. Anyhow. I want to show an embedded video from youtube on my home page. Having looked through the first two tutorials I figured I could add a new HTMLVarchar DBField to my HomePage and then simply copy paste the embed snippet from youtube.
That didn't work. Firefox says: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed and Safari says something about an EntityRef. As most of you already know this is due to the & in the embed code. And replacing & with & solves the problem.
However, manually replacing & with & isn't an option. So I thought maybe I could use PHP and simply replace & with & but after digging around for a while I learnt that you can't pass variables to the controller functions. So now I'm stuck. And would appreciate any help on where to begin. Can I get to the data before it is loaded into the DataObjects and place the PHP function there or what would be the correct way of doing this seemingly simple operation.
PS. By the looks of it silverstripe seems like a CMS I will use a lot if I get back into developing.
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Hi reekrd,
i just took a look on the documentations.
"Class HTMLVarchar represents a variable-length string of up to 255 characters"
The youtube enbedd-code should contain more than 255 charcters, so i guess this should not work for you. This is typical youtube enbedd.code:
<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F8mZGDFDceU&hl=de&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F8mZGDFDceU&hl=de&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">
What i would try to do is just to store the video-url into a database-field.
Then you should create an youtube.ss file into your themes/mytheme/templates/includes folder. Just copy the complete embedd-code into this file and replace src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F8mZGDFDceU&hl=de&fs=1" with src="$yourURLvar". Finaly you should be able to include this youtube.ss file into HomePage.ss by.
<% include youtube %>
Just some idea, i dont know if this will work. But thats the way i would try to do it.
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4 February 2009 at 3:01am
Hi MrHyde,
I was actually using HTMLText and not HTMLVarchar in the database. So the embed code is all there. The error I get is related to the & in the address part of the embed code. If & sign are not escaped & you will get an error. If you just put an & sign in any of your .ss files you will get the same error. Make that into an HTML Entity & and you wont get an error.
Showing someone how to copy and paste the embed code from youtube and into this field in the CMS isn't to hard. But having to have them manually change things in the embed code is, in this case, to much to ask for. Also they would lose the ability to customize the embedded player.
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To help celebrate the first anniversary of Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan hosting "Live with Kelly & Michael," the show has picked its biggest fan to have the vacation of a lifetime.
Kenneth Cox, from Riverside, was selected as the show's biggest fan Thursday, Sept. 12 eight-day vacation for two to the Yasawa Island Resort in Fiji. The prize is valued at $10,000.
Fans were asked to submit creative entries (Cox's entry seen above) and then the finalists were asked trivia questions.
Cox made a splash on the "Kelly & Michael" Facebook page. People commented on the post about his win with things like "Glad he won, he should have just by the picture alone. Lol" and "Loved his michael jackson moves!!!!!!!"


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Hillsborough County school bus driver Bonnie Dukes is hopeful that a meeting Monday night will result in changes that will create a safer environment for children.
"You don't provide the necessary training. You may have one but no follow ups," is one concern that Dukes will voice.
"We are not allowed to let the kindergarteners off without a parent being at the bus stop. On a daily basis you have parents sitting in cars," said Duke.
She says moral is low among transportation workers and student safety is at risk unless there are policy changes. Those are some of the concerns she will voice Monday night at a community town hall meeting hosted by school board member April Griffin.
Dukes says it's important for board members like Griffin to hear transportation employee concerns.
Transportation employees were able to speak out about problems when they participated in focus groups initiated by the superintendent in March.
"We were going to have eight meetings, we ended up having many more than that," said Steve Hegarty.
That information will be complied into a report that will be released next month.
This is the latest in many meetings about transportation. In January, an investigation began after four employees wrote a letter suggesting the district didn't resolve problems that surfaced after two special-needs students died in 2012.
"Being that the focus groups are in house, I doubt that anything would come from it. So I'm glad that the school board members decided to do their own," said Duke.
"She needs to be patient and see exactly what comes out of it and I think we are going to prove her wrong," added Hegarty.
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Knox: Ordeal 'could have happened to anyone'
Amanda Knox has claimed that what happened to her when she went on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy could have happened to anyone.
In an interview on American TV, Miss Knox, who once more faces claims that she was involved in the killing in Perugia, said she wants the truth to come out and for her to be "reconsidered as a person".
"What happened to me was surreal but it could have happened to anyone," she said.
Asked about what it was like to be called a "she-devil with an angel face" and "sphinx of Perugia" after being accused of Miss Kercher's murder, Miss Knox told ABC's Diane Sawyer:
"They're wrong. I was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. I mean it's one thing to be called certain things in the media and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom fighting for your life when people are calling you a devil.
"For all intents and purposes I was a murderer, whether I was or not. And I had to live with the idea that that would be my life."
The full interview is due to be broadcast tonight, while Miss Knox's book Waiting To Be Heard is published in the United States today.


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The audition process is well-known to be a nervous and exciting one for performers, bringing that familiar feeling of nerves and anticipation that can be so addictive (and dreaded) for those on the stage.
However, to share a little secret, it's pretty much the same way on the other side of that table, too. Performers feel the stress and tension of putting themselves out there, but directors, producers, choreographers, stage managers and the others on the other side of that table feel similar things, because they want so badly for performers to do well, to be what they want them to be.
A great audition process is one that is not only professional, pleasant, well-organized, and brisk, but one which also garners you a healthy turnout and the casting choices you need for a successful production. But don't despair -- for a smoother, more streamlined audition process, check out my steps for smoother, more successful auditions from first to last:
Step 1. Secure an audition space that fits your needs. If you're casting the next big thing, you may need to accommodate hundreds of auditioners. But if you're familiar with your market and are just expecting a few dozen people, then a local music room or practice space will also do just fine. If you're not using a traditional auditorium, which separates you from the performers naturally through the stage, backstage, and house areas, then make sure to allocate two separate areas for your auditions. These will include the room in which auditioners will wait, preferably outfitted with enough seating for at least a dozen or more people at a time, and then a private area with a table and chairs, at which you and your associates can confer.
Step 2. Make a list of the most important roles to be cast, along with their age ranges, genders, and other potentially helpful info, however don't let yourself be boxed in here creatively. Don't just be color-blind when casting, but where possible, be gender-blind as well. Get rid of your preset ideas about character and see what you get in the audition process -- you may be pleasantly surprised!
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McMinnville residents attempt to stop growth of landfill
What began as a small disposal site in 1982, dedicated to serving primarily local users, has been sold several times and is now owned by Texas-based Waste Management, Inc., the world's largest waste handling company and the 196th largest company overall. It was previously scheduled to be closed and the land returned to farming in 20 years
Today, Riverbend Landfill serves as a regional dump for Portland and several other areas around Yamhill County. Out of 640,000 tons of garbage per year, only about 25 percent comes from Yamhill County.
"That's what most citizens object to," said Ramsey McPhillips, an established farmer whose land shares a border with Riverbend Landfill. "Yamhill County is getting paid $1.25 per ton for storing other people's garbage."
McPhillips is one of the founders of a movement to stop the landfill from expanding. The Stop the Dump Coalition is a collection of businesses and environmental groups who want the landfill to close in 2014, as it had been scheduled to do, instead of expanding. Currently, Waste Management, Inc. is trying to obtain a permit to build a mechanically stabilized earthen
berm around the perimeter of the landfill. The proposed berm would rise as high as 40 feet and expand the landfill's capacity from its current 13.3 million to 16.2 million cubic yards.
In the past, WM has submitted permit requests to expand horizontally onto neighboring farmland, like McPhillips' farm, but the Stop the Dump Coalition has fought WM in court and has so far managed to prevent the conversion of farmland to landfill. According to McPhillips, the group's main method
of fighting the landfill's expansion is to prevent WM from obtaining a permit for any kind of expansion.
Besides loss of prime farmland and the storage of other counties' garbage, the Stop the Dump Coalition is also worried about leaks. According to the group's website, stopthedumpcoalition.org, Riverbend Landfill began collecting garbage before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented rules regarding gas management and the use of liners, so several sections of the landfill are not lined properly and have been leaking volatile organic compounds into the groundwater around the dump.
"I don't use my irrigation anymore," McPhillips said. "The only things we're growing are things not consumed by humans."
According to McPhillips, the soils beneath the landfill are loose, sandy and saturated. In the event of an earthquake, the soil has a high chance of losing its structure and its strength through soil liquefaction, and the landfill would be destroyed, letting roughly 15 stories of trash spill into the South Yamhill River.
"If the landfill was destroyed in an earthquake, there would be a huge amount of toxins going into the river," McPhillips said. "There are other landfills in Oregon that are not on a river and don't have this danger of liquefaction. There's no need for this one."
Waste Not of Landfill County is an organization that is "the official arm of the Stop the Dump Coalition" according to the coalition's website. Waste Not formed in 2009 and has been opposing the expansion of Riverbend Landfill ever since. Other partners of the Stop the Dump Coalition include local wineries, restaurants, farms and vineyards.
McPhillips said although he helped found the Stop the Dump Coalition, he is no longer part of the group.
"I need to be able to get in people's faces," McPhillips said. "I need to be able to be waving signs on the side of the road."
Read more about Riverbend Landfill at riverbend.wm.com, the Stop the Dump Coalition at http://stopthedumpcoalition.org and Waste Not of Yamhill County at http://www.wastenotofyamhillcounty.net.
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The horse named Krish
"See we can do horse riding".. the girls screamed. I try to ignore them as I step out of our taxi at Khajjiar.. Fat men and horses don't go too well was what was going on in my mind. As the girls went racing to negotiate with the horsemen, Tony and I were happy walking towards the green meadows. With every breath the fresh air seems to calm one.. it...
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"Our forces have arrested seven members of an Al-Qaeda cell who confessed to kidnapping a seven-year-old girl in Yarmouk (western Baghdad neighbourhood) because her father, a teacher, had refused to pay ransom for her," Qassim Atta said.
In video confessions of two of the suspects shown to journalists, they both claimed to have killed dozens of police officers using silenced guns.
On statements posted on the Honein Islamist forum, Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for more than 60 attacks in Iraq over the past two months, primarily targeting the military.
It has also said that 12 prisoners who escaped from prison in January in the southern city of Basra had been killed last month in a suicide attack on a police station in the southern city.
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq also said it carried out last month's double car bombing outside the governor's home in the central city of Diwaniyah in which 26 people were killed, but the official escaped unharmed.
Atta cautioned people to "move away from the scene of an attack" because insurgents often explode a second bomb after people gather in an order to ramp up the number of casualties.


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If you're planning to attend any of the RBC Heritage golf
tournament on Hilton Head Island this week, prepare for more security, and one
big change when it comes to getting into the tournament.
Spectators must have their ID's and tickets to get onto the golf
Spectators said they love the change. The lines are longer, and
there are a lot more restrictions, but most of the patrons said safety is most
"We've been coming for about 20 years now, and we thoroughly enjoy
it," said patron Linda Dicus.
Dicus remembers the first year she came, there were fewer people,
and the spectators were given free champagne. But things have changed.
There are thousands more people, no more free champagne and much
more security and restrictions.
"First of all, coming in, my ticket was turned this way and they
asked me to turn it around, so they could see indeed it was a ticket for this
year," Dicus said. "I've noticed check points in areas that I've never noticed
before, and I also received a letter in my packet with lots of new things."
Included in that packed was a list of restricted items.
Guests coming to the Heritage this year can no longer bring
backpacks. They can bring chairs, but not the bag it comes in. They can bring
binoculars, but not the bag, and women can bring their purses, but only small
ones or clear ones.
A lot of those items were already restricted, but this year they're
really enforcing the rules.
"There's 12 different agencies participating in the security this
year," said Toby McSwain, head of security for Sea Pines. "At any given time we
have 100 law enforcement represented on the golf course. We have a mixture of
county, state and federal agencies that are here."
"I do appreciate all of the extra security and the people who are
there to help us make this a safe tournament," said Dicus.
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With the austere Shravan/Aadi season coming to an end and rains lashing parts of the country, egg prices are set for a spike on hopes of a rebound in consumption.
Egg price this week rose by 5 paise to Rs 3.09 a piece, crossing the Rs 3 mark for the third time in 2012. The National Egg Coordination Committee of Namakkal zone has decided to hike the floor price steadily. Egg prices have already been hiked in Delhi, Barwala and Kolkata — major consuming markets in the North.Moreover, soaring feed costs, too, are prompting the industry to raise prices. Prices of soyameal, a key ingredient in poultry feed, has more than doubled this year to Rs 41,000-41,500 a tonne from last year. Maize prices, too, are up 2 per cent at Rs 1,500 a quintal. Oil and oilmeal prices, too, are way high, making feed an expensive commodity for poultry industry.
The broiler price has been hiked by Rs 7 a kg to Rs 58 owing to pick-up in demand. Layer birds are ruling flat at Rs 45 as farmers stopped selling birds, since the egg rate has been increasing pushing up bird rates. Farmers are not ready to sell their chicken as they expect egg to climb further, said an NECC spokesperson.


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Whites shot in Bed-Stuy; media cover up?
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Vann is affronted by the entire notion of out-of-towners having the gall to think they could walk into the neighborhood and bring in drugs.
"I'm really upset that the perception of Bed-Stuy is that there is such a need for drugs that white boys from Rhode Island can roll up and just start selling drugs here," said Vann. "I don't want people from our community selling drugs, and I am insulted and troubled that they would think they can do this."
"The NYPD is in panic mode over the reported rise in crime," determined retired detective Marq Claxton. "Along with their usual manipulation of crime statistics, they will increase targeted enforcement, which will result in increased summonsing, quality of life arrests and stop and frisks. The NYPD will use the increased enforcement numbers to give the appearance that they won't let the city go back to the '80s."
Claxton, the founder of the Black Law Enforcement Alliance, concluded, "It is classic smoke and mirrors, along with the classic Giuliani move of selective release of actual crime in the city."
"It's interesting that when three white guys get shot allegedly dealing with drugs, you don't see it any where in the major media," said Barron. "What about these three wilding white kids trying to come into our community trying to sell drugs? How come we don't hear about this? How come we don't hear from the police commissioner, Ray Kelly? If it were Black kids, they'd be plastered all over the news, paraded in handcuffs in a perp walk, with Mayor Bloomberg calling them wilding, drug-dealing animals. He was quick to talk about 'wilding' and those Black youth in Times Square recently. Where is he on this?"
Bloomberg's office did not respond to an AmNews request for comment on the case.
"I still can't believe that the story didn't get more coverage," said Vann. "It's kind of weird. I don't know what kind of conspiracy that could be."
Vann said that he had commanders in his office from the 77th, 79th and 81st precincts and he recently hosted a jam-packed public meeting, where Bed-Stuy residents voiced concerns about crime, among other hot button issues.
The Putnam Avenue shooting was hot news on the street for a hot minute, but now "people have moved on. Regrettably, it takes a lot to get people involved and organized," noted Vann. "That's our challenge. Basically, that's what we are going to try to do--get more block associations involved on the issues."


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The Spurs blow a 17-point lead and lose a heart-breaker in triple overtime.
The Summer Spurs look to make it past the round of eight and into the semi-finals as they take on the Summer Wizards.
The summer Spurs get set to take on the 4th-seed Wizards in the quarter-finals of the LVSL tournament.
It's time for the second game of the tournament where the Summer Spurs take on the Summer Jazz in Las Vegas.
Giving recognition to the endless hustle of JaMychal Green, of the Spurs Las Vegas Summer League squad.
Spurs win and will advance in the tournament to take on the Utah Jazz on Thursday.
The previous three games were just to determine the seeding for the tournament that starts today.
Over the first couple of games of the Las Vegas Summer League, Austin Daye has had a frustrating time shooting the ball, but can use the remaining games to get his groove back.
A closer look at Kyle Anderson's first Summer League game is taken, as well as some notes on Jeff Ayers and Austin Daye from the win against Sacramento.
The Las Vegas Summer League's most exciting teams typically feature current and former lottery picks trying to get a feel for their new team's system and approach. For the Spurs, it was about...
An extended trip to Las Vegas isn't supposed to be normal, I'd guess. The very "lose yourself in it" mentality of the typical Sin City excursion precludes it from being so. And even while "on...
Yesterday, two of the remaining eight teams still alive in Vegas squared off. The Miami Heat's victory was never in doubt, but Cavaliers made the final score respectable. A number of prospects made...
The NBA summer league tournament was back on Saturday for the quarterfinals, after taking Friday off for the consolation round.
It was hard for teams to play with purpose on the most meaningless day of Summer League but there were some fun performances in Knicks-Clippers and Kings-Hawks.
The Spurs ended the week 3-2 but in Summer League, results don't really matter.
Day Two of the Summer League Tournament featured contests between the Cavliers & Spurs, Raptors & Nuggets, Suns & Trail Blazers, and Warriors & Mavericks.
It's July Madness out in Las Vegas for the NBA summer league, and not because of the heat. the first ever NBA summer league tournament kicks off today.
Deshaun Thomas, the 58th pick in the draft, is proving to be a great scorer in Summer League. But does it mean he can find a role with the Spurs?
Day 5 of summer league was pure madness; involving games with inconsequential scores, clutch jeans, and even ninjas.
There's no Spurs game today, but there's still plenty of league-wide action to see in Las Vegas.
Day 4 at NBA's Las Vegas Summer League was a fast-paced day, filled with impressive performances, hellish defense, and even a buzzer beater.
The Spurs took on the Hawks on Monday night, and won 96-87 behind strong performances from DeShaun Thomas, Nando De Colo and Aron Baynes.
It's Game 3 for the Spurs in Vegas. Join in the fun.
Here's a look on what to watch for in Monday's Summer League action. (Hint: Concentrate on the point guards!)
Sunday's games: Clippers vs the D-League Select team, Lakers vs Blazers, Cavaliers vs Grizzlies and Spurs vs Raptors. Here's the low down on all of these games from our man in Vegas who's showing...
The San Antonio Spurs faced off against the Toronto Raptors in their second summer league game, which the Raptors won, 82-76.
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Juice, soft drink, and milk consumption are investigated using a sample of children and adolescents from the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals. Full-information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimator and a parsimonious quasi maximum likelihood (QML) alternative are used to estimate a censored system of beverage equations. The QML estimator is found to be an acceptable alternative to the FIML estimator for the empirical application considered. We find displacement of milk and juice by soft drinks as a child or adolescent grows older. Income, TV watching, gender, race, and other demographic variables are also found to play significant roles in determining beverage consumption.
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Police are investigating after an animal shelter was broken into at Branyan last night.
Initial investigations indicate the Doblo Street shelter was broken into after 5pm with animals released from cages and property stolen from an office area.
Police are also investigating reports that a group of juveniles attempted to sell a number of animals to surrounding residents.
All of the animals have been recovered unharmed except for one cat which is still missing.
Investigations are continuing.
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The political science students from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology brought in Constitution Day with a lecture from their own president Dr. Heather Wilson.
The former Congresswoman said that though she opposed the mandatory observance of Constitution Day it is still important to educate youth about the government system.
Wilson said, "I do think we should teach civics and teach young people, teach our students about their role in a self governing country"
The lecture titled "A Self-Governing Republic" featured constitution inspired games and activities for students.


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Florida State (18-6, 6-3 ACC) won two out of three games in conference play this past weekend. This would ordinarily be fine and well except that when a less-than-impressive Wake Forest (8-15, 3-6 ACC) team comes to Tallahassee, you hope to pull off the sweep and pad your division lead. However, that wasn't how the weekend played out.
The Seminoles started off very well and won Friday night's game handily by a score of 12-4. FSU benefitted from another good start by pitcher Sean Gilmartin (6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K) and Jayce Boyd's first career grand slam, which came in the first inning. Mike McGee, Sherman Johnson and Justin Gonzalez all had two hits apiece. Friday night also saw the return of Stuart Tapley to left field where he started the season before a hamstring injury relegated him to designated hitting duties. He started in left all weekend. Also notable was that Florida State used three relievers not named Daniel Bennett or Mack Waugh to finish out the game. Those three were Peter Miller, Robby Scott and Connor Nolan. Miller struggled, pitching two-thirds of an inning and giving up 3 walks, 3 runs (1 earned) with a few wild pitches thrown in for spice.
Saturday's game was a different story altogether however. Wake Forest's Saturday starter Tim Cooney smoked a juggled Seminole lineup with 7.2 innings of 5-hit baseball that featured 11 strikeouts (four of which rung up Mike McGee) and only a single walk. Combined with a poor start from FSU's Scott Sitz (1.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 4 K) who only faced 14 batters before being lifted for Brian Busch, Wake Forest jumped out to an early 5-0 lead and won the game 8-0. Mike Martin apparently felt the need to shake things up Saturday night as the Seminole batting order featured Rafael Lopez second as the designated hitter and Sherman Johnson dropped to sixth spot. Tapley batted down a spot at eighth and Parker Brunelle started at catcher and batted ninth. But it didn't really matter as Cooney just dominated the Seminoles on a night that saw him throw 129 pitches.
FSU bounced right back on Sunday though with an 11-2 win that extended their Sunday winning streak to 24 games. FSU scored three runs in the first inning with back-to-back home runs by Mike McGee and James Ramsey and added five more in the second (four of which came with 2 outs) to stake starter Gary Merians to an 8-1 lead. Ramsey finished 2-for-4 with 3 RBI and Justin Gonzalez also added two hits including his fourth home run of the season. Despite the fact Florida State had three home runs and a double through the first 1.1 innings of the game, Mike Martin had Lopez, Tapley, Easterling, Travis and Boyd all attempt to bunt early in their first at-bats. In the case of Boyd, he bunted foul and then hit a 2-run single on the very next pitch. Merians (6 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K) improved his record to 4-1 with a solid start after getting through a shaky first inning that saw Wake Forest score one of their two runs on a throwing error by Sherman Johnson after Merians surrendered a walk and a single earlier in the inning. Robby Scott, Robert Benincasa and Daniel Bennett each pitched a scoreless inning in relief to secure the victory.
Tonight, Florida State travels to Jacksonville for the third of their four meetings with the Florida Gators. Florida State has won the last three games against Florida played in Jacksonville. The Gators are ranked 4th in this week's Baseball America poll, falling from the top spot after losing two of three games to SEC East rival South Carolina. It was Florida's first series loss at home in nearly two years. Florida State will
send junior righty Hunter Scantling (1-0, 1.04 ERA) to the mound to start against Florida junior right-hander Anthony DeSclafani (3-0, 1.12 ERA, 3 saves). Scantling appeared to start strong in the last meeting between the two teams, striking out four Gator batters in his first trip through the lineup. Florida quickly caught up to him though and he didn't make it through a second time as Mike Martin lifted him in favor of Robert Benincasa in the first of what would be a bizarre string of eight pitching substitutions. FSU would end up blowing a 4-0 lead and lose the game 5-4 in ten innings.
DeSclafani has pitched 3.2 innings (including the final two of the game in Gainesville) against FSU this year. He's given up no hits, only one walk and struck out three of the fourteen Seminole batters he's faced. He is an experienced starter, but he's become more of a reliever over the last season and a half with 11 of his 17 career starts coming in his freshman season.
Join Tomahawk Nation tonight for a live game thread as Florida State looks to claim their second win of the season against the rival Gators.
Game time: 7:00pm ET
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Sometimes stats lie.
Case in point, the following from TrueHoop (note the excellent point-spread-stat comment from Chadeous while you're there):
TrueHoop reader Daniel finds a certain kind of perfection in the Western Conference standings. In the early going, the Jazz have been fantastically average:
- They have two wins. They have two losses.
- They have won one game at home. They have lost one game at home.
- They have won one game on the road. They have lost one game on the road.
- They have won one game in their division. They have lost one game in their division.
- They have scored 106.8 points per game. They have allowed 106.8 points per game.
Let me say first that I realize that neither Daniel nor Mr. Abbott's intent was to say that the Utah Jazz are an average team, and that that is an amazing set of circumstances. Good eye, Daniel! (Does Daniel tweet? I'll follow)
However, I'd hate for "average" fan to let that tell 'em the story of the Jazz's season thus far. For the true story is something else entirely, and it goes something like this...
A long time ago...
Okay, not really, but it sure seems like another lifetime now that the Jazz were channeling their inner Timberwolf. After two games the Jazz sat squarely in the cellar on both offense (27th) and defense (28th).
The last two games have seen Utah looking a lot more California and feeling a lot less Minnesota, soundly trouncing the NBA's new darling OKC Thunder whom most picked to win the NBA's Northwest Division along the way.
Through two the Jazz had:
Won only 1 of 8 quarters
An average points spread -19
In the two games since the Jazz have:
Lost only 1 of 8 quarters
An average point spread of +19
The initial numbers suggest that the Jazz are stuck squarely in the middle NBA's stat sandwich, while in fact the opposite is true.
It's simply a tale of two teams to this point in the story of the season. Chapters one and two were slow and uninspired, but the plot picked up for Jazz fan in chapters three and four as Utah keyed their offense with energy focused from the defensive end of the floor.
Since finding their stride Utah has dominated for 6 of 8 quarters, faltering only in the 3rd period of each of the last two games.
These 3rd quarter anomalies in the last two games are a bit troubling, but when they are factored out of the equation Utah is winning quarters on their current streak to the tune of plus-six a period, holding opponents to an anemic 22.7 pts-per.
If the Jazz were to play defense for four quarters instead of three they'd be keeping 'em down to 90.8 pts-per-game, good enough for the 4th-stingiest defense in the league to go along with their already-leapfrogging offense (11th-best).
The Jazz are gelling far faster than most had anticipated.
While Utah lost two quarters by double-digits (and almost another at -9) through two games, they've since won three of 'em by double-digits. It's the difference between night and day. Yin and Yang. Offense and defense. Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson.
It's the difference between losing and winning.
The difference between "average" and "outstanding."


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This Crack is located on North Butte, just above the old truck cab in Red's Canyon. You can barely see the crack from the road. It's very light colored sandstone, but is in the whiter area of rock. The approach is a burly hike. This one is wide, mostly off-width and overhung. The crack is dirty inside, but on solid rock. Would probably go free at 5.11d, but I haven't had a chance to try the red point again.
North Butte, Reds Canyon just past Tomsich Butte. A burly approach a day keeps the climbing hoards away!
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She undresses slowly in front of the camera demonstrating titties, ass, legs and pussy and then feels strong temptation to get couple of strong orgasms. Cutie touches sensitive clitoris first of all to make loving hole very wet and then takes big dildo to play with it.
After it this naughty teen spreads legs wide open and stands in doggie pushing this sex toy deeper and deeper inside of her vagina and moving it faster and faster in and out of her loving hole moaning from great enjoyment.


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Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott lamented not having South Division winner USC in Friday's championship game. "Had there not been a postseason ban for USC, we'd have two top-10 teams in this game," Scott said. "Of course it's disappointing when such a strong team like USC is not allowed to participate."
USC is not eligible for the postseason, putting South Division runner-up UCLA in Friday's Pac-12 championship game. "UCLA earned their spot," commissioner Larry Scott said Friday. "It'll still be a great showcase and we're expecting a full house and an electric atmosphere, and there's an awful lot on the line."
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Rather than contacting Kriz directly via email, I figured it'd be easier to just post a couple questions to get it started and when she has the chance can come in and answer. So I have 3 questions for you:
1) Have you ever been to El Junque Rainforest and if so what is the coolest thing you saw while there?
2) Dinner with 3 Pistons players or coaches past or present, who would you pick?
3) What is the average air speed velocity of an unladen Swallow?
Now your thoughts.


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Home-grown scholarship program now helps hundreds
Original post made on Jul 5, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, July 5, 2012, 9:50 AM
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Hat off to Jerry and Dick for such a fantastic contribution toward the education of these special students.
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Jerry is a Smith College graduate and exemplifies the best in quiet leadership. Amazing achievement.
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VERY cool. From small seeds big oaks grow. Thanks to the Bigwoods!


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Daniel Bannon, M.S. in Civil Engineering, has worked on the manufacturing and testing of an innovative bridge technology utilizing a rigidified inflatable composite arch design. Arches which Dan manufactured were used in the construction of a Maine DOT highway bridge.
Anthony Viselli, Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering, explains features of a composite secure shipping container to visitors from the US Department of Homeland Security. Anthony has taken a central role in the development of this shipping container. As laboratory manager of this multi-million dollar project, he manages all aspects of the project including direction of a crew of undergraduate students and staff and is a principal in the spin-off company Maine Secure Composites.
Ashley Tower, M.S. student in Civil Engineering, has worked on a project developing ballistic panels for the protection of soldiers in Army tents. These panels have been extensively tested both in the lab and in the field. Here, Ashley is pictured setting up for field testing of the ballistic panels at Fort Polk, LA.


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Vergians, I found myself in my local Apple Store recently, on my semi-annual quest to decide on my new notebook, okay, okay... I know, unless I want a MacBook Air, I'm wasting my time, but having had MacBook Airs for the past three years, I find myself hankering for a little more poke.
There. I said it. I miss my PowerBook G4, the 12-Inch, 1.33GHz with the Radeon 9200 graphics... Sure, by today's standard, it's proper poo, but I still miss it. When the 11-Inch MBA hit the shelves, I was there, eager to snap it up, it was the closest Apple had gotten to the golden 12-Inch form factor, and, having hated the bulk on the MacBook Pro, I had to have it. And, for a time, all was shiny, then, last year, those wonderful guys in cupertino crafted the rMBP 13.
After witnessing it's truly dreadful GPU first hand, I went off and bought my most recent MBA 13. I needed a decent amount of screen real-estate, and 1440x900 is better than a sharper 1280x800, in my book. But I wont lie, I still covet that machine, the display is lovely, yes, but the construction is beautiful, when they said it was the future of the notebook, I couldn't agree more.
So, what is my dream? The haswell refresh? Kinda, and no. People have been waxing lyrical about putting a retina display into the MacBook Air - no. way. The guys in cupertino have just established the MBA as their entry level portable, with a focus on that portability and with it, battery life. There is way they'd throw that away with a a power gobbling retina display.
Rather, I think folks should be asking for an entry level rMBP, like the 12-Inch PowerBook of old, a small, fairly light machine, with solid internals, and a decent battery life. The reason the that 13-Inch rMBP sucks is its GPU, it's trying to be a pro machine without the grunt, and it shows. Compared to the 15-Inch, it certainly isn't as 'Pro' as they'd like us to believe. An 11-Inch rMB, not P would address this. With a 2732 x 1536 display, dual thunderbolt connectors and HDMI, it would effectively be a suped-up MBA, but without the suggestion of it being a 'Pro' product (both it's size and omission of the 'Pro' suffix. Being powered by a 4258U with Iris 5100 graphics, and a 2.40 GHz clock speed (2.90 GHz Turbo Mode), the TDP is 28W which, granted is bit more than the 15W in the new MBA, would be a good move, this would deliver a chip with a little more ompf in the graphics department, without cannibalising the draw of the all-day battery of the MBA.
I know I want this super tiny, well functioning device, I with it would be a kick up the bum for the ultra-book market, which seems content on cloning the MBA and just upping the pixel density with each new model. Apple could lead the way in a powerful, new category of 'performance ultra-books', that have the clout for more than the average user, but in a diminutive form factor that won them the love of many creative professionals back in the days of the trusty old 12-Inch PowerBook.
What do you guys think? - Am I a madman with a bizarre wishlist for an impossible product? Or do think that it's more likely than a retina display in the MacBook Air? More importantly, am I the only guy still missing the 12-Inch PowerBook?


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The Corona Centennial boys basketball team has moved up one spot, to No. 5 overall, in the latest CalHiSports.com state rankings, which were released Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Centennial remained undefeated in Big VIII League play with a 74-63 victory Tuesday night over neighborhood rival Corona Santiago. The Huskies (20-1 overall record) will continue its league schedule Thursday, Jan. 24, when they play host to Corona.
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Harald Schmidl, Victor J. Milenkovic, "A Fast Impulsive Contact Suite for Rigid Body Simulation," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 189-197, March/April, 2004.
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Abstract—A suite of algorithms is presented for contact resolution in rigid body simulation under the Coulomb friction model: Given a set of rigid bodies with many contacts among them, resolve dynamic contacts (collisions) and static (persistent) contacts. The suite consists of four algorithms: 1) partial sequential collision resolution, 2) final resolution of collisions through the solution of a single convex QP (positive semidefinite quadratic program), 3) resolution of static contacts through the solution of a single convex QP, 4) freezing of "stationary" bodies. This suite can generate realistic-looking results for simple examples yet, for the first time, can also tractably resolve contacts for a simulation as large as 1,000 cubes in an "hourglass." Freezing speeds up this simulation by more than 25 times. Thanks to excellent commercial QP technology, the contact resolution suite is simple to implement and can be "plugged into" any simulation algorithm to provide fast and realistic-looking animations of rigid bodies.
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