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The Kansas Library Card provides easy access to online resources.
Any Kansas public, school or college library can issue a Kansas Library Card. Kansans who live in the CKLS region, but not in a town with a library, can obtain cards from the CKLS Book-by-Mail Department at 800-362-2642.
So what is available with the Kansas Library Card?
Kansas statewide databases provides home access to millions of online articles from magazines and newspapers, US census from 1790 to 1930, lots of medical information, two encyclopedias and much, much more.
Kansas EZ Library, your online access to digital books- Audiobooks you listen to and eBooks, which you read on a screen.
Brought to you by the State Library of Kansas and your local Kansas library.
Sunflower eLibrary is provided by the Central Kansas Library System and your local library. Adult, teen and children's titles large to small publishers. A mix of ebooks, eAudiobooks, videos, and music.
Other services
What Kansas libraries own is shown in the Kansas Library Catalog.
Kansas regional library systems offer help in other areas outside the CKLS area.
Phone From Home
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|Holly Regan, Assistant
Ext. 147
Phone from Home services are directly available to rural residents of the seventeen Central Kansas Library System counties. Residents of communities without public libraries in those same counties are also eligible for the Services.
CKLS Phone from Home can function as these residents' "home library". By calling the toll-free number (800-362-2642) they may request materials or ask reference questions. The books, video, and audio materials requested will be sent directly to the patron's home and will include a postage-paid return label.
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The Technical Services Department orders, catalogs, and processes library materials for member libraries, as well as providing MARC records. We supply physical and bibliographical preparation of books so they are ready "shelf ready". We secure the best possible discounts from jobbers through volume buying and provide processing supplies to member libraries at quantity discount prices.
CKLS orders enough popular titles from Ingram to receive a 40% discount on most items. We can order from other sources as well, but discounts may not be as liberal.
Librarians wishing to purchase items themselves and wanting CKLS cataloging and processing can have items "dropped shipped" to us. This means the shipping address should say [Your library name] c/o Central Kansas Library System, 1409 Willams Street, Great Bend, KS. Billing address should specify your library.
CKLS member libraries are encouraged to provide access to their collections through standard cataloging (MARC standards) and quality bibliographic information. Member librarians are expected to enter new records and remove obsolete records from the statewide bibliographic database through either the CKLS Technical Services Department or another method approved by the State Library.
All CKLS cataloging provides MARC records to the library and places the cataloging record on the state's Kansas Library Catalog. Librarians wishing only cataloging for items should fill out "pink slips" for that item and mail them to Technical Services. If you need more "pink slips" contact our Department.
We also do original cataloging for all items that do not have MARC records from other sources.
Disc Cleaning
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Book Pockets
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Book jacket covers
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Interlibrary Loan
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Crystal Hutchinson,
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The Interlibrary Loan Department:
- Locates requested material and asks that the material be sent to the requesting library.
- Helps the staff of member libraries verify requests using appropriate technologies.
- Oversees training of new interlibrary loan personnel from member libraries and promotes adherence to the interlibrary loan protocols.
- Assists local librarians in securing the return of overdue interlibrary loan materials.
- Assesses interlibrary loan procedures annually and makes recommendations for improvements.
Through Interlibrary Loan Service any library in the state can offer patrons access to materials not available at the local library. Resource sharing among System libraries depends on a local commitment to interlibrary loan. System interlibrary loan services facilitate the transfer of library materials from one Kansas library to another in response to a specific patron request.
Interlibrary Loan Service is offered to all readers in the Central Kansas Library System area through the local public library, or, for rural residents, directly from CKLS by Phone-From-Home Service. Materials not available at the local public library may be requested on interlibrary loan through the local librarian. Rural residents may call CKLS directly for interlibrary loan assistance.
Photocopy requests of periodical articles or book sections may be sent to CKLS. If the request cannot be filled by CKLS resources, it is referred to another library which may charge a reproduction fee for the photocopy.
Librarians are encouraged to offer and promote interlibrary loan service to their patrons. Member libraries are encouraged to accept responsibility for training staff to handle interlibrary loan transactions and gather statistics as needed by the System or the State Library.
Interlibrary Loan Forms and Links
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Resource Access and Sharing is serious about obtaining the materials for library patrons in our Region, whether directly from CKLS or one of the member libraries.
Technical Services works with libraries to purchase, catalog, and process materials for patron use.
Interlibrary Loan borrows materials for patron use that are not owned by our libraries. We also lend materials around the world as part of our commitment to resource sharing.
Pathfinder Central is the online catalog that lists the materials owned by thirty-eight member libraries, as well as the Central Kansas Library System's professional collection.
Phone From Home extends library services to those that do not have a local library and makes materials and information available directly to these residents.


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There are reports in the global media today that 19 countries have refused invitations to attend the ceremony of a Peace Prize award to a Chinese dissident, and other reports that the Chinese government has called the members of the Norwegian Prize Committee "clowns." Reuters of South Africa reports that 44 foreign governments representatives will attend – out of 65 foreign embassies in Norway. The number of boycotting, then, seems to be 21 countries. But most importantly, the Chief of the United Nation Human Rights, Navi Pillay, declined to accept the invitation. And Pillay's shunning of the ceremony has been sending shock-waves across the world about "WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THE NORWEGIANS SEE, AND WHOSE THEY DON'T!
The whole brouhaha, therefore, is not about Pillay's attendance, but about the reputation of the Norwegian Nobel Committee's objectivity which has been declining quite rapidly! And it is becoming more and more apparent that they are a group of pro-American Norwegian politicians who take their ques from the U.S. State Department's Annual Human Rights Report, and then select a candidate that will either benefit the U.S. global position on human rights, or it will needle as inhuman a U.S. antagonistic state – like China, Iran, etc.
Here is an unequivocal truth that establishes the Nobel Peace Prize as a tool of the U.S. foreign policy that nobody will be able to dispute: Nelson Mandela. He was in prison for 27 years for fighting apartheid, but he did not receive a Nobel Peace Price -during his imprisonment. Worse yet, nobody in the U.S. knew him, even though there were concerts and fundraising events in Europe and Africa, and violent demonstrations in many European capitals demanding his release. But the U.S. supported the white apartheid regime in South Africa, and it was a hush-hush U.S. policy about Mandela, as was a hush-hush policy from media conglomerates controlled by Jewish interests. What the Jewish media had to do with Mandela? Israel had close relations with South Africa's apartheid regime, and it tested it first nuclear bomb in a South African dessert. And both the U.S. and Israel did not want to do anything to rock their friendly apartheid regime, and hence the Nobel Peace Prize Committee didn't want anything to do with Nelson Mandela. As far as the Norwegians were concerned, Nelson Mandela was "a NOBODY!"
Of course, apartheid couldn't last forever. And on February 11, 1990, then South African president F.W. de Klerk announced in the South African parliament: "The government of South Africa has made the decision to release Nelson Mandela unconditionally!" Then, the Nelson Mandela name exploded in the U.S. media because it was in the headlines all over the world, and the U.S. press could not stay out of that global phenomenon. And all of a sudden, the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee decided to share on this global Mandela celebration by awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to Nelson Mandela! Why didn't the Nobel Peace Prize Committee award Mandela the prize during the 27 years that he was rotting in the Robben Island South African prison? Because it would have been detrimental to the U.S. foreign policy interests at that time. And the Norwegian government who controls the appointments of the Nobel Committee members has always made sure to appoint members that will make the U.S. policy shine. And that is how Barack Obama received his Nobel [Of Shame] Peace Prize, by moving to the head of the line of Nobel Nominees in a flash, supposedly on a vision. But in last month's congressional election, even the Americans who voted for him before concluded that he wasn't worth their vote, and they trashed Obama's Democratic party !
Has any innocent prisoner who was tortured in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, or any of the 20.000 prisoners still held at the Bagram U.S. prison in Afghanistan, or any of the families of Afghans killed by U.S. troops "for sport" received a [violations of their human rights] Nobel – like Xiabo? Of course not. The Norwegian "clowns" unfortunately don't see what the rest of the world does. And that is a prerequisite to serve as a member of the Nobel Committee!
Was , then, the U.N. Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay's decision to shun the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony – along with 19 other countries- correct? Of course, it was. Pillay is from South Africa, and knows the Mandela story given above as others either don't, or have swept it under the rug for self-serving purposes. And as the stench of the rotten process of the Nobel Selections continue to rise, more and more countries will hold their noses and stay out of it!

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Monday Lineup: First trip to Camelback Ranch
Kansas City's offensive surge continued as the Royals defeated San Francisco 11-3 on Sunday. Today, the Royals make their first venture to Camelback Ranch in Glendale as they face the Chicago White Sox at 3:05 Central (1:05 local). The game can be heard on 610 Sports in Kansas City and on royals.com with a subscription to Gameday Audio. Here's your KC lineup:
Coco Crisp – CF
David DeJesus – LF
Alex Gordon – 3B
Ryan Shealy – DH
John Buck – C
Mark Teahen – RF
Ross Gload – 1B
Alberto Callaspo – 2B
Luis Hernandez – SS
Gil Meche – RHP
Available Pitchers:
Joel Peralta – RHP
Jamey Wright – RHP
Kyle Farnsworth – RHP


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Prerequisite: MATH 100 or higher-numbered mathematics course.
Statistical methods in education; graphs, charts, frequency distributions, central tendencies, dispersion, correlation, sampling errors, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
BER 450 Assessment of Classroom Learning. 3 hours.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, BEP 305, MATH 100, and CEE 320/CSE 390.
Corequisite: CEE 495/CSE 489.
Survey of teacher-made and standardized instruments for understanding students' achievement and evaluating teaching. Field practicum in the schools is required.


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The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) has issued a statement in response to an article posted on the Consumerist blog today, which alleged that canceling membership in the organization was difficult and overcomplicated.
GamePolitics is a publication of the ECA.
The response, from the President of the ECA, Hal Halpin, is unedited and after the jump:
We were disheartened to read some of the coverage and comments related to complaints regarding our member cancellation policies this morning. The issue seems to have begun following a guest article that I penned a few months ago, where I highlighted the various policy issues that gamers should be aware of – from Net Neutrality and Universal Broadband to Digital Rights Management (DRM) and End User License Agreements (EULAs). I concluded the piece by providing those who had taken the time to diligently read the article with a coupon code, encouraging them to sign up for a free trial membership… the logic being that we'd like to have readers who care about the issues among our ranks. For about four weeks following the publishing, we had a small bump in new member acquisition, but they were not coming from the article, unfortunately. These new members were coming from websites and forums that were solely promoting the coupon code, sans important reading.
Within a relatively short period of time, some of the new members found an exploit in one of our partners' promotional codes and spread the word. The partner tried to resolve the situation, during which time we removed any references to the program, but ultimately it was decided that the offer be terminated. We advised members as soon as we were aware and reassured them that we were working on additional offers with new partners. We updated our website during the same timeframe in a long planned for Content Management System upgrade and an inactive back-end feature became visible, which looked to give some members the option to opt-out of the association. We were alerted to the error and removed the non-functioning feature immediately. Because it was viewable and then removed, those same few members became concerned that it was a feature that had been live all along and was suddenly removed. We then attempted to explain the situation and allay their concerns.
There were then concerns about the auto-renew structure of our payment system and business model related to that same function. We explained that we are working on ramping up infrastructure to become more automated going forward, but due to a small but active number of members who were repeatedly joining, leaving and re-joining the organization – in an effort to exploit our member benefits and unduly take advantage of our partners' generous offers – we would require a mailed letter, as per our membership agreement. Needless to say, that incensed the exploiters who then contacted the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and their personal banks to report that we attained their membership under fraudulent conditions, in effect committing fraud themselves. Upon investigating the opened investigations, the respective banks and BBB all found ECA to be soundly reputable. We understand that several of the banks have since opened fraud investigations into their customers and that they take such matters very seriously.
Over the past few years, membership in the ECA has grown substantially, the primary reason for which is directly attributable to the important work done by the association, partnerships formed with coalitions, parallel trade associations and corporations, all eager to help defend the rights of game consumers. We have added many valuable benefits for members including discounts on games-related goods and services, purchases and rentals and a whole host of additional affinity benefits. We have several retail partners who offer significant promotions and several more, which are in the process of being finalized. It is important to note that the number of members who were/are involved in this unfortunate issue is very small and not representative of the organization as a whole. We sincerely thank the dedicated ECA members and the gaming community for their understanding and support on this matter and we look forward to continuing to grow the organization to suit the needs of the consumers.


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Netanyahu: Obama to discuss Iran, Syria and peace talks
President Obama's spring visit to Israel will focus on Iran, Syria and the Israel-Palestinian peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet Sunday.
"The president and I spoke about this visit and agreed that we would discuss three main issues," Netanyahu said, according to a Reuters report. "Iran's attempt to arm itself with nuclear weapons, the unstable situation in Syria ... and the efforts to advance the diplomatic process of peace between the Palestinians and us."
The White House has yet to confirm the dates of Obama's visit to Israel, which press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that Obama's trip will also take the president to the West Bank and Jordan.
"It is a very important visit that will emphasize the strong alliance between Israel and the United States," Netanyahu said.
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Babies On BoardBy SOD Posted: Jul 17, 2013
Dania Ramirez (Rosie, DEVIOUS MAIDS) tweeted the news, along with a sonogram, that she is expecting - twins: "I am proud 2 Announce our 2 NEW BUNDLES OF JOY! Yes, I'm having TWINS! & No They Do not Belong 2 Mr. Spence. Lol!" As DM fans know, Mr. Spence is Rosie's hunky employer on the sudser, played by Grant Show (ex-Jake, MP). The actress wed writer/director John Amos Beverly Land on February 16 of this year in the Dominican Republic. Congratulations!


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See which celebs went to your high school
Did a celebrity go to your high school? Chron.com's Michael Damante shows which superstars attended Houston-area high schools.
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Cyclones Cruise to 4-0 Win Over North Dakota
AMES, Iowa- Four different Cyclones scored as Iowa State cruised to a 4-0 win over North Dakota Sunday at the Cyclone Sports Complex to earn their fourth victory of the season.
Iowa State (4-2-0) controlled nearly the entire game taking a top-five school record 32 shots. The Cyclones held North Dakota (0-6-0) to just one shot, which came late in the second half.
"I thought we came out and executed what we needed to do," head coach Wendy Dillinger said. "We fixed some things from the game on Friday. We went with a lineup today to help keep the ball. The front players that we started with today are players that we know will keep the ball. I am pleased with our performance today."
Koree Willer started the Cyclones off in the third minute with a goal from 20 yards out on the right hand side. Her shot sailed just high the North Dakota goalkeeper's hands giving the Cyclones the early 1-0 lead.
Iowa State scored back-to-back goals in the 36th minute from Hayley Womack and Jennifer Dominguez. After passes from Jennifer Dominguez and Adalie Schmidt, Womack was left with a wide open goal and only needed to tap the ball in to put the Cyclones up 2-0. Dominguez scored with a header off of an assist from Hayley Womack just 34 seconds later.
Susie Potterveld scored the last goal for the Cyclones in the 55th minute. The junior put herself in position to have an open shot from 20 yards in front of the goal, which she drilled into the back of the net for the Cyclones last goal of the game.
Senior goalkeeper Maddie Jobe tied the school record for career shutouts with 16. Jobe recorded one save during the game bringing her career total to 223.
"Maddie has been a great addition to the program," Dillinger said. "She is solid and consistent, she has shown great maturity in understanding different philosophy's in the game. I am very happy for her that she hit that mark."
Iowa State returns to action Thursday when they head to California to take on Santa Clara at 9 p.m. The Cyclones will head to fourth-ranked Stanford on Sunday following Thursdays game to complete the two game road swing. Results will be available on Cyclones.com after the conclusion of the game.


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Zion National Park > Echo Canyon > Climber's Log
Echo Canyon Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|poor judgement
Date Climbed: Jan 3, 2013
|Solo with no experience or equipment in January. Nearly drowned...learned valuable lesson.
|Posted Dec 20, 2015 1:21 pm
|After Pine Creek
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2013
|Not as challenging as Pine Creek but still fun.
|Posted Jul 19, 2015 2:24 pm
|Lots of swimming and annoying 10 ft raps with weird starts.
|Posted Jan 19, 2013 4:10 pm
|Amazing in Ice
Date Climbed: Feb 10, 2008
|I've done this canyon four times with various groups. It is a great canyon, even down to the near 180 degree turn the canyon makes before the last rap, and the mini pothole right there. Also very accessible. Best trip, though, was before the snow melted and there were massive ice pillars flowing down into the canyon in multiple places. Be careful, the canyon bottom is covered with snow bridges that cave way into water filled pools (...treat it like a glacier with crevasses, etc), but its an awesome sight.
|Posted Dec 28, 2012 6:34 pm
|My 1st technical canyon
Date Climbed: May 27, 2002
|My first trip to Zion and my 1st canyoneering experience. It's been several years now since I've been to Zion, but it a great experience.
|Posted Sep 7, 2010 3:04 pm
|Middle Echo
Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2009
|This is mutipule short rappel canyon. The water is very cold. Its colder than another canyon. I could not stand in the water more than minutes even I wore wetsuit.
Last half of this canyon is very beautiful. I think this is one of the best slot canyon to hike.
|Posted Sep 10, 2009 1:21 am
|Day Hiker
|Middle Echo
Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2007
|With cp0915 and db0915. Some tall snow fins remained in the deep slot.
|Posted Jul 3, 2009 4:55 am
|good but stinky
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2008
|real pretty but a couple of the pools were rank, good fun though
|Posted Jan 27, 2009 9:26 pm
|Very pretty and VERY short. A fun 1/2 day. Cold water !
|Posted Oct 13, 2008 10:21 pm
|Fun day...
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2007
|Tanya and I went with Shane Burrows on our last trip through.
|Posted Dec 18, 2007 3:45 pm
|Echo Canyon
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2007
|This is actually a really fun canyon even though I hear little about it. The water is skunky though, but what's new in the canyons. Love the downclimbing parts.
|Posted Nov 30, 2007 1:45 pm
|Bruce Christensen
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2007
|I did my first canyoneering trip down Echo Canyon a couple weeks ago. We didn't take wetsuits, and I was teeth-chattering cold in a few places. The rappels were short (we brought a 20m rope) and easy. I could touch the bottom with my head above water at the base of all of the rappels.
More details are at http://blog.brucec.net/2007/09/echo-canyon.html, and I have pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/bruckie/EchoCanyon.
|Posted Sep 29, 2007 12:06 pm
|Loved It
Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2006
|Slot was bone dry in early September. It is a good slot for intermediates, or beginners learning the sport. The pothole was a fun obstacle that presented no problems when dry. It is about 8 feet deep, so if it is full you may want to throw a bag over the other edge to avoid treading water.
|Posted Jun 15, 2007 12:58 pm
|Cold, Middle Echo
Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2006
|Super cold water but otherwise my favorite time of year to be in Zion. NO other people and no shuttles. It had rained alot and the potholes were full of water.
|Posted Jun 14, 2007 8:04 am
|Middle Echo
|Descended this one a few years ago while on one of my many climbing/canyoneering weekends in Zion.
Also attempted a bottom-up Middle Echo in super-gnarly snow-ice conditions with Ram in early summer 2009. Super intense. Unsuccessful.
|Posted Jun 12, 2007 9:20 pm
|Fun Canyon
|This was my first canyon and it was very fun. Like Scott said it is well bolted, but for those who want to have fun in a slot canyon, this is it. We did it in September and it was dry compared to normal but still really full of water and wetsuits were needed. It takes only a few hours and I recommend it as a good time for people with moderate skills who want practice.
|Posted Jun 12, 2007 7:22 pm
|Did it
Date Climbed: May 19, 2007
|Did it on May 19. The rumored techical difficulties were missing so we were a bit disappointed. Still a nice hike.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Carmelo Anthony returned to the lineup just in
time to light up the Brooklyn Nets for 31 points and help the New York Knicks
cruise to a 100-86 victory at Madison Square Garden.
After splitting a pair of Battle of the Boroughs meetings at the Barclays
Center, the Knicks showed why they are currently the toast of the Big Apple.
J.R. Smith added 19 points and Tyson Chandler posted 16 points and 12 rebounds
for the Knicks, who committed just eight turnovers to Brooklyn's 14 and
allowed a mere 38 points in the second half to bounce back from their first
home loss of the season.
Joe Johnson paced the Nets with 17 points, while Brook Lopez and Deron
Williams each posted double-doubles. Lopez finished with 16 points and 10
boards and Williams chipped in 16 points and 10 assists.
After reeling off 11 wins in November, Brooklyn has gone 2-8 this month,
including a 100-97 setback to the Knicks on Dec. 11 that came down to the
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St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - The Tampa Bay Rays agreed to a
two-year deal with closer Grant Balfour on Thursday.
The pact, which was first reported by Fox Sports, is expected to pay the
former Oakland closer $12 million over two years.
Balfour, of course, reached an agreement on an apparent 2-year, $15 million
deal with Baltimore earlier this offseason, but they backed out of deal due to
issues with his throwing shoulder.
Balfour, who missed the entire 2006 season recovering from surgery to repair
a torn labrum recorded a career-high 38 saves for the A's last season and
went 1-3 with a 2.59 earned run average in 65 relief appearances.
Over three seasons in Oakland, the 35-year-old right-hander went 9-7 with a
2.53 ERA while racking up 64 of his 72 career saves. he also appeared in at
least 62 games in each of those seasons.
The Australian-born Balfour owns a career 28-17 record with a 3.27 ERA and 514
strikeouts in 463 games with one start over 10 seasons with Minnesota,
Milwaukee, Tampa Bay and Oakland.
Balfour was 14-7 with a 3.33 ERA in four seasons with the Rays from 2007-10.
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WELLSBURG - Kylie Smith won both the 100 Breastsroke (1:20.53) and the 200 IM (2:45.09) as Edison competed with Weir and Brooke in a tri-meet.
Sara Riggs picked up two victories for the Bruins in the 100 Butterfly (1:10.94) and the 100 Backstroke (1:09.65), while she joined Jessie Wayne, Morgan Zopp, and Hannah Cebula to win the 200 Freestyle Relay (1:58.36).
WELLSBURG - Jordan Harlan finished his night with two individual victories in the 100 Freestyle (55.61) and the 50 Freestyle (24.71) as Brooke competed with Edison and Weir in a tri meet.
Dante Rosso also won both his races as he recorded victories in the 100 Butterfly (1:06.79) and the 200 Freestyle (2:11.54).
The two Bruins then joined James Harrick and Zach Barnette to win the 200 Freestyle Relay (1:46.77) and the 200 Medley Relay (2:01.43).


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Environment | A thoughtful Danish author says the Gore stress on global warming is not the way to help poor people
As the 38th annual Earth Day approaches on April 22, many who care about both the poor and the environment are listening to calls for radical measures. The fear is that flooding in coastal regions could displace millions, mostly the poor; heat waves could kill many who are elderly or diseased; and decreased crop yields could lead to starvation in developing nations.
So does compassion require the federal government to require immediate and drastic cuts in CO2 emissions? Enter Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish academic, author, and founder of the Copenhagen Consensus, a group devoted to economic analysis of policy proposals to solve the world's toughest problems. Lomborg's congressional testimony last month systematically deconstructed the much-hyped testimony by former vice president Al Gore.
Lomborg argued that the high economic costs of emissions-cutting proposals would deliver meager global benefits compared to what such funds could accomplish elsewhere. He cited his organization's global priority list (see table), a ranking of the world's most cost-effective opportunities to improve the human situation. A panel of top-tier economists, including four Nobel Laureates, constructed the table in 2004 based on their analysis of areas where the most good could result from the least economic harm.
The panel ranked various measures to control the spread of disease and alleviate food and water shortages as top priorities. Climate-change solutions, such as carbon taxes or the Kyoto Protocol, scored at the very bottom, delivering minimal gains relative to their costs.
Lomborg elaborated to Congress: "To put it very bluntly, the Kyoto Protocol would likely cost at least $180 billion a year and do little good. UNICEF estimates that just $70-80 billion a year could give all Third World inhabitants access to the basics like health, education, water, and sanitation. More important still is the fact that if we could muster such a massive investment in the present-day developing countries, this would also give them a much better future position in terms of resources and infrastructure from which to manage a future global warming. What would we rather do first?"
That question, and the approach it underscores, debunks stereotypes of global warming skeptics and moderates. Lomborg is not some heartless free-market conservative in the pocket of "big oil." He readily affirms that climate change is occurring and that human industry is contributing to it-but he explains that addressing other global issues first will prevent more deaths and improve more lives.
Nevertheless, his decision to break rank from global-warming orthodoxy has garnered him considerable scorn. Lomborg's first book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press, 2001), provoked accusations of scientific dishonesty. His forthcoming work, Cool It (Knopf Publishing Group), will likely draw similar charges when it debuts early next year.
In an interview with WORLD, the controversial author said he is neither surprised nor upset by such attacks: "I've had people call me a species traitor, which I don't even know quite what that means. But I'm sure it's bad."
Lomborg has made conciliatory efforts, opening his congressional testimony with praise for Gore's accomplishment of "making global warming cool again." Though unconvinced that climate change represents a planetary crisis, Lomborg considers it a serious concern worthy of attention and public discussion. His appeals against CO2 restrictions stem from the same heart of compassion that those who advocate emissions cuts claim. The difference: math.
Lomborg calculates that Gore's call for a Kyoto-like tax on greenhouse-gas emissions would cost the U.S. economy about $160 billion per year and would reduce national emissions by half. That may seem a reasonable investment, but the real-world impact on global temperatures proves otherwise. Such drastic cuts in U.S. emissions would foster a reduction in warming of only one-tenth of a degree Celsius over the next 90 years. (One Celsius, or centigrade, degree equals 1.8 Fahrenheit degrees.)
That miniscule temperature difference is irrelevant and cannot justify the accompanying economic burden. Similarly, the Kyoto Protocol, even with the United States and Australia joining its ranks, would decrease temperature rise by just 1 degree Celsius at annual costs of $180 billion if extended out to the end of the century. The European Union's latest promise to cut emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 fares no better when extended out 90 years, costing $90 billion per year for a difference of less than one-tenth of a degree Celsius.
Such numbers result from projections that developing countries like China and India will soon pass the West as the world's greatest emitters of carbon dioxide. Gore argues that the United States must set an example for those emerging economies, no matter how costly or impotent the U.S. carbon-cutting actions may be in controlling actual temperature rise.
But Douglass C. North, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and advisor to Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus, explains that "while China is growing at an enormous rate, it's also still very poor. The Chinese say, 'Well, our priority is still economic growth and not worrying too much about the environment.'"
Whether China and India choose to change their attitudes presents a far greater determinant of future warming than any emissions-cutting policies in Europe or the United States ever could. North told WORLD that such uncertainties push global problems other than climate change to the top of the priority list. Furthermore, he explained, unfettered economic growth around the world may do more to ease the consequences of global warming than actually lessening the rise in temperature: "Most of the serious effects of climate change are going to be well off in the future, 50 or 60 years from now. At that time, all of the world is going to be so much richer than it is today that it won't be nearly as serious a problem as it would be if it happened overnight."
The latest summary report from the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that much of the predicted sting from a warming planet will fall on people too poor to adapt-and Lomborg responds, "If poor people are going to suffer the most, that should indicate to everyone that maybe we should try to make them not poor. That means focusing on things like cutting agricultural subsidies and allowing for free trade in general, which would undoubtedly make the world amazingly richer."
Greater wealth in Third World nations would also contribute to fighting problems more pressing than climate change-namely, the spread of disease, malnutrition, and clean water shortages. Unlike the projected consequences of global warming, these issues claim lives now and could be greatly alleviated at a comparatively low price.
Take malaria, a topic featured in Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The film argues that rising temperatures will drive mosquitoes into new cities and spread the disease among new populations. Lomborg agrees but contends that the mosquito surge will increase the number of people at risk by only 3.2 percent-and that attacking the malaria issue with climate-change policy is highly inefficient.
Instead, Lomborg proposes offering assistance to developing economies and building health infrastructures in nations with a high incidence of malaria, measures that would require about $3 billion per year-2 percent the cost of Kyoto. For that low price, studies indicate that malaria infections could decrease 50 percent by 2015. "If we really care about malaria victims, we should focus first on much more efficient policies and strategies that actually help deal with malaria," Lomborg said.
But if global warming truly threatens the earth's habitability, as Gore claims, then even 100 percent malaria relief is of no consequence. Such a scenario would require the unmitigated abandonment of all other concerns and complete focus of all planetary resources on stopping climate change.
The IPCC predicts no such scenario. In fact, the projected harms of its latest summary report stem from a hypothetical analysis that assumes no change in human behavior-an unlikely outcome that inflates impacts from their likely real-world levels.
Still, Lomborg does not advocate that nations ignore the problem of global warming. He wants smarter solutions, those that deliver significant bang for the buck-and he wants to see those develop, instead of settling for inferior choices. Research and development into new technologies offer far greater promise for a comprehensive and effective long-term strategy.
Supporters of immediate and drastic emissions-cutting policies such as a cap-and-trade program believe governmental controls will force rapid innovation. Technologies will spring up, they say, because the costs of buying the right to emit CO2 will demand it.
But such high hopes have not materialized in Europe, where companies have turned to short-term tricks and tactics to avoid the oppressive restraints of Kyoto. The high costs of innovation have become a luxury that few strapped energy or manufacturing plants can afford.
The Washington Post recently reported on several European factories in dire financial straits due to emissions restrictions. A silicon carbide manufacturer in the Netherlands uses the latest pollution-reducing equipment but has had to lay off 40 of 130 employees and must shut down for hours each day to manage the ballooning cost of electricity. Other companies are losing clients to foreign providers that have no emissions restrictions to drive up their price points.
Such problems create an environment of emissions outsourcing and can push businesses to relocate abroad. Lomborg believes that government-funded research and development presents a vastly superior alternative. He proposes that nations cease the bureaucratic morass of reducing emissions and start investing in whatever low-carbon-emitting technologies or techniques they consider prudent-conservation, renewable energies, fusion, fission, carbon capture, or some novel idea yet unknown.
The current cost of cutting CO2 emissions is about $20 per ton, a significant burden for wealthy nations but an impossible hurdle for poorer countries like China and India. New technology and ideas could change that. "If we could cut carbon-cutting costs to say $2 per ton instead of $20, then the chance is much better of getting more countries on board," Lomborg explained.
Whether such arguments resonated with Congress enough to trump the political muscle behind Gore's vision will play out in the coming months as legislators consider bills to restrict greenhouse gases. Between the IPCC's projection of harms and a recent Supreme Court decision giving the EPA power to set CO2 standards for automakers, many environmentalists believe the momentum toward a self-imposed American-style Kyoto is unstoppable.
Ben Lieberman, a senior environmental policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, disagrees: "This still is more of a fashionable cause than a populist cause. There is some momentum in the direction of action, but the specter of politically unacceptable high costs is always going to be there until we develop more greenhouse-friendly technology-and that takes time."
Gore and his disciples contend that time is running out, that we are just 10 years away from a disastrous tipping point and the unrelenting disdain of our children and grandchildren. Lomborg, too, fears such future contempt-though for entirely different reasons: "Everyone in this debate wants to be able to look squarely into the eyes of the next generation and say, 'We did the best we could.' To go off on one particular concern and invest everything we can there, when most of the evidence tells us that will be a poor investment, is unlikely to impress future generations."


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ALBANY, Ga. – Daniel Andersen's 43 yard field goal with 3:15 remaining in the game proved to be the game winner as No. 12 Valdosta State upset No. 6 Albany State in non-conference football action at ASU Coliseum Saturday evening.
Albany State (2-1) had two chances to regain the lead after Andersen's field goal, but saw both attempts come to naught. The ensuing drive after the field goal saw the Golden Rams turn the ball over on downs and, after a VSU turn over on downs, Stanley Jennings was intercepted by Harrison Dreiling, allowing Valdosta State (3-0) to run out the clock.
Valdsota State jumped out to an early lead as the Blazers scored a pair of first quarter touchdowns. After forcing a punt on the first ASU possession of the game, Valdosta State took over on its own 40 and needed just five plays to score the first points of the game. Austen Roberts completed all three of his passes on the drive for 47 yards, including the final 13 on a pass to Quin Roberson for the 7-0 Blazer lead.
After Albany State was forced to again punt, Valdosta State marched 85 yards on six plays to up its advantage to 14-0. Roberts completed four of his five passes on the drive, including a 55-yarder to Theseus Jackson on a third-and-11 screen pass that moved the ball to the ASU 18. On the next drive, David Bailey took a hand-off and spun out of a tackle at the line of scrimmage before racing untouched the rest of the way to the end zone.
The Golden Rams closed to within 14-6 just seconds into the second quarter as it took advantage of VSU's first turnover of the year. After a Roberts pass was intercepted and returned to the VSU 36, ASU used nine plays to get to the five. After a pass interference call in the end zone gave Albany State a first-and-goal from the Blazer 2, Nathan Hoyte scored on a rush. The extra point was blocked to set a 14-6 lead.
Daniel Andersen kicked field goals of 32 and 36 yards for Valdosta State on the next two Blazer possessions while Jennings connected with Darius Nelson on a four-yard touchdown pass with 2:12 remaining in the half, but had a two-point conversion pass fail, to establish a 20-12 VSU lead at the half.
The two teams traded touchdowns in the third quarter, with Albany State scoring on an 81-yard pass from Jennings to Octavius Stanton on its first drive of the quarter. A two-point point conversion pass tied the game at 20-20, but Roberts connected with Seantavious Jones for a 63-yard touchdown pass to put VSU back in front by a touchdown.
Albany State marched 62 yards on 11 plays on a drive that covered the closing minutes of the third quarter and the first minute of the fourth to once again even the game at 27-27.
Valdosta State tallied 432 yards of total offense, including 289 passing and 143 on the ground. Roberts passed for 275 yards and ran for another 60 while 10 different Blazers caught a pass. Chris Pope led the VSU defense with nine tackles.
Albany State tallied finished the game with 303 yards, 245 of which came through the air. Stanton caught five passes for 115 yards while Bruce Ryals and Demonte Queen finished with seven tackles each.
Valdosta State returns home to Bazemore-Hyder Stadium next Saturday when the Blazers host Southern Arkansas in a non-conference game at 7:00 p.m.


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ATLANTA -- Atlanta police have arrested two men who they believe are responsible for shooting a 35-year-old man to death in an apartment last month.
Demario Franklin, 27, and Jamal Chandler, 28, have been charged with murder in the death of Randy Menefee.
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The shooting happened Jan. 26 at around 11:30 p.m. at the Allen Hills Apartments on Allen Temple Court in northwest Atlanta.
Atlanta Police said Franklin and Chandler were let into the apartment. A fight broke out and Menefee was fatally shot.
Three children were inside the apartment at the time. They were not hurt.
Both suspects ran after the shooting. The Atlanta Police Fugitive Unit tracked down and arrested Franklin on Feb. 6. Chandler was arrested a day later.
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DETROIT, Michigan - National experts on municipal bankruptcy and public bond ratings will participate in a highly anticipated panel discussion during the Michigan Municipal League's 2013 Convention in downtown Detroit, Sept. 17-20, 2013.The panel discussion, which is part of the Convention closing session 8:30-11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 20, will feature national municipal bankruptcy expert Frank Shafroth, of George Mason University; Douglas Bernstein, managing partner of Plunkett Cooney's Banking, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group; and Jane Hudson Ridley, senior director in U.S. Public Finance for Standard & Poor's Rating Services; as well as Dr. Eric Scorsone, advisor to Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and Detroit City Council President Saunteel Jenkins. The panel discussion will be moderated by Flint Mayor Dayne Walling.Just this week the League received confirmation that Gary A. Brown will also participate in the panel. Brown, former Detroit City Council President Pro Tem, was appointed by Orr July 1 as chief operations officer to the City of Detroit. His duties and responsibilities include the oversight, management and restructuring of multiple city agencies.This bankruptcy session was added to the Convention lineup earlier this summer immediately following news of Detroit's bankruptcy.The session will emphasize that the bankruptcy is of a concern to all communities across Michigan and the nation. They will also discuss the impact on the state itself, any long-term financial and governmental ramifications that might result, and if this could be the start of a serious discussion to fix a broken municipal finance system. News articles this week about additional Michigan communities of Royal Oak Township and Highland Park possibly needing emergency managers, adds to the building evidence that the state's municipal finance system needs an overhaul.Hundreds of city and village leaders from throughout Michigan are expected to attend the 2013 Michigan Municipal League Convention at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. The League's annual conference dates back to 1899 and draws municipal leaders from Ironwood to Monroe and every place in between.Media are welcome to attend any portion of the League's 2013 Convention in Detroit. Click here to view the full Convention schedule. Go here to view the speakers scheduled to attend. Those interested are asked to contact the League's Matt Bach, director of media relations, at firstname.lastname@example.com and (734) 669-6317.
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Journey with us on the Way of the Yakuza!
Organizations initially created for the protection of their communities, the Yakuza have evolved into a unique culture fiercely loyal to their traditions. Easily identified by their colorful tattoos, Yakuza brethren are a hard, violent lot given to drink, gambling and lechery. They practice extortion, engage in smuggling, sell powerful narcotics, and regularly force women into prostitution. Yet, despite their numerous faults, they view themselves as folk heroes, warriors fighting for the common man against the dangers of the world.
Way of the Yakuza presents a wealth of information for players and Game Masters alike. This 36 page PDF contains an extensive overview of the Yakuza culture, Yakuza character options (including archetypes, traits, feats, spells, enchanted tattoos and more), and a new method for creating unique Yakuza-gang stat blocks. Additionally, for GMs looking for a quick adventure, there is even a Yakuza-controlled mountain village, complete with map and adventure seeds. Whether you want a Yakuza centric campaign, or just want to add flavor to your setting, this book has something for you.
Author: Jonathan McAnulty
Cover Illustration: John Wigley
Cartography: Michael K. Tumey (aka GP)
Pages: 34
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High Point, NC -- Police are continuing their investigation of an incident where a car hit a 4-year-old girl Monday afternoon.
Investigators said child died on Tuesday while at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center where she was being treated.
According to police, 4 year-old Tryonna English was hit by a car while playing in the driveway of her house around 5:01pm. Someone at the home drove Tryonna to High Point Regional in their private car. Because of her injuries, the hospital moved the child to Baptist Medical Center.
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ATHENS, Ga. -- Harang Lee, Sammi Lee and Mary Ellen Shuman all signed letters-of-intent to play golf collegiately for the University of Georgia during the weeklong NCAA early signing period, which concluded Wednesday. The trio comprises the first recruiting class for head coach Josh Brewer and assistant coach Lindsay Hulwick, who are in their initial season with the Bulldogs.
"We're very excited about our first recruiting class as coaches at Georgia," Brewer said. "We think these golfers provide a great foundation of student-athletes as we try to build our program. I'm confident they'll represent the University of Georgia very well. Each has a wealth of tournament experience and success, which is key when you're trying to build a team."
Harang Lee is a native of Castro Uridales, Spain, and is currently No. 61 in the world amateur rankings. Lee won both the 2012 Spanish International Stroke Play Championship and the 2011 European Young Master's and also represented Europe in the 2012 Junior Ryder Cup. She helped Spain to a third-place and runner-up showings at the 2011 and 2012 European Girls Team Championships, respectively.
"Harang is one of the best junior golfers in Europe," Brewer said. "She's played a lot of team golf representing Spain, which is important when you're transitioning to college golf. She should step right in and help us immediately."
Sammi Lee has recorded nine top-10 finishes in American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) events during her junior career, headlined by winning the 2011 Lockton Kansas City Junior. The Winter Park, Fla., native also posted four top-5 showings at Florida State Golf Association tournaments during 2011 and tied for eighth at the 2012 Annika Invitational.
"Sammi loves golf and she loves the University of Georgia, which is the combination we're looking for," Brewer said. "She's also won competitively at the national level, which is very important on the golfing side. We're excited to have her coming to Athens."
Shuman is a two-sport standout at Frederica Academy in St. Simons Island, Ga. She captured medalist honors at the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) Class AA State Golf Tournament in both 2010 and 2012 and is a five-time winner on the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour (SJGT). Shuman also earned All-Region recognition in basketball as a junior.
"We think Mary Ellen is the sleeper of this class," Brewer said. "She plays basketball six months out of the year and still dominates local golf tournaments. We think she can bring that competitive fire and improve a great deal when she concentrates on golf 12 months of the year instead of just six."
Georgia has long been one of the nation's premier women's golf programs. The Bulldogs won the 2001 NCAA Championship and boast 25 top-25 and 20 top-10 finishes at the national championships over the past 34 seasons. Three Georgia golfers have captured individual national titles - Terri Moody in 1981, Cindy Schreyer in 1984 and Vicki Goetze in 1992.
Georgia is set to host the 2013 NCAA Championships next May 21-24 at the University of Georgia Golf Course. It will mark the fifih time the UGA course has hosted the women's golf national championships, following 1972, 1981, 1983 and 1993.
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Regional pay-television company Austar United Communications Ltd has again attracted the attention of pay-TV company Foxtel, with billionaire James Packer and Foxtel chief Kim Williams behind the push, according to a report in The Australian.
Austar's majority-owner, the US-based pay-TV and broadband company Liberty Global, last year said a tie-up with Foxtel made good strategic sense, but Foxtel's "relatively convoluted" ownership structure muddied the waters.
Foxtel is half-owned by Telstra Corporation Ltd, while News Corporation and the Packer-backed Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd each hold a 25 per cent stake.
According to The Australian, all three Foxtel shareholders are open to an Austar deal, and preliminary talks are underway.
Austar made news yesterday for selling its wireless spectrum to NBN Co, the company behind the broadband network.
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Greensboro, NC -- Police are investigating a robbery at a local beauty salon Saturday.
Employees at Jenny Beauty Salon, on Farmington Drive, called police just after 6 p.m., saying their store had been robbed. They told detectives the suspect covered his face with a gray shirt and carried a gun during the robbery.
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but my god.
yes these refs are horrible
I agree that was bad. Hopefully they replay and try and learn from this.
i've never seen such biased officiating
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
I agree! To me that first TD was defiantly offensive pass interference, but Steele pulled it out for us again.
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I agree that was bad. Hopefully they replay and try and learn from this.
If you are that bad of a ref then you stopped caring along time ago
UCON players could have brought a bat on the field and beat our players with it and these refs wouldn't have called it.
You can't die. That would upset the equilibrium in the Cave.
Prohman Empire.
I am not impressed at all.
Anyone have the stat line for penalties? I know for UCONN it was a whopping 1/5.
OSU 2011 Game Thread
Seriously, it doesn't matter who is playing, the final penalties should never be
10 for 86 yards for one team
1 for 5 yards for the other team
Most biased refs since the 2000 Michigan St B-ball game.
No crap. We get a personal foul as the guy was still falling down...they hit steel AFTER he was well on the ground (and it looked pretty intentional) and get NOTHING!!!
Money is chucked 10 yards down the field clear out of bounds and no ******* penalty
Its one thing to miss numerous calls. Its another thing to be lazy and miss numerous calls. These were lazy bad refs.
Originally Posted by cyman05
Most biased refs since the 2000 Michigan St B-ball game.
Yeah, but i doubt I'll ever see anything worse that that bball game...
i think this is a sign that the Big 12 is trying to keep ISU down
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That question is, when using the Migration Wizard for Exchange all emails are converted to plaintext format. If this is the proper behavior for the Wizard can it be changed?
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Document capture improves customers' experience at the bank
These days customers expect their branch banking experience to be like their other retail activities - quick, efficient, and seamlessly interwoven into the smart phone-based tempo of their lives. To stay competitive, a bank must deliver a snappy, iPhone-like experience, even in the context of a walk-in customer. While walking into a bank branch is not the same thing as using an on-demand service from Google and Facebook, many bank customers, particularly the younger ones that banks are always seeking to attract, expect immediate and accurate responses to their requests.
Since documents - like loan and new account applications, signature cards, and changes of address - are central to bank operations, the ability to process those documents quickly and accurately is key to meeting today's consumer expectations. And meeting or exceeding those expectations is the route to a happy customer experience.
Here's how a European bank made their customers much happier
I've recently worked with one of our banking customers in Europe. When I first met with them a year and a half ago, they were determined to improve their customers' in-branch experience, particularly when the customer would come in for a paper document-related transaction (as opposed to simply depositing or removing money).
Before Datacap, the customer would sit with a bank officer who would review the documents for completeness, thank them, and instruct them to come back the next day. Then the officer would type content from the documents into the relevant bank system, as well as faxing or sending the physical documents to a central location.
Now the process has been revolutionized. The paper documents are still there, the customer is still sitting with the bank officer, but once the officer takes a quick look at the document, they drop them into a document scanner at their desk. Then they wait (see my blog about that wait and why it is important and a challenge!). The goal is a turn around time of around 15 seconds, but at peak times it might take a minute.
While the bank officer and the customer are having a quick chat, a lot is happening in the background:
- document images are sent from the branch to central servers
- OCR and ICR, document classification, image enhancement, data validations all take place
- the results are sent back to the branch
Then the officer can review the electronic document, sign off and complete the transaction.
Speed doesn't help if the data being capture is riddled with errors. A mistake on a loan application can be devastating - a denied loan and a potentially desperate search for alternative financing. The manual process of entering data has always been a weak link in banking transactions. Automated data extraction using optical character recognition and related techniques and technologies can reduce errors, particularly when those technologies are paired with skilled workers, such as a bank officer, who reviews the results of automated recognition.
Accuracy is improved because the software will flag problem fields for review. So the bank officer looks only at fields with suspected problems. Worse case scenario: they review every field and it takes as long as it would to do manually. Either way, accuracy is improved because you have one pass of automated data entry and one pass of review by an experienced human.
Fast and accurate transaction make for happier customers
Document capture helps make sure the customer's high expectations are speedily met, so they can leave feeling good and maybe even with some additional money in their pocket! Happier customers make for happier banks who can more easily acquire new customers more easily and retain their existing ones.
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By Mike Bush
Chesterfield, MO (KSDK) - On the highway of life, there's nothing quite like smooth pavement when you can see so many bumps in your rear view mirror.
Fifteen-year-old Connor Walsh is a sophomore in high school with big dreams
"I like video games, so I could be a video game designer," said Walsh.
There's nothing wrong with thinking about the future, especially when he almost didn't have one.
When Connor was born, he wasn't like his older brother and sister.
"I just knew he was different," said Connor's mom, Judy Walsh.
He struggled more than most to stand up, then to walk. By the time, he was in kindergarten his parents were nervous to put him on the bus every day.
"He'd be in school and be walking down the hallway and you know how kids are," said Connor's dad, Joe Walsh. "They're running and moving at high speed down the hallway and just a stiff wind would knock him over."
It took test after test but when Connor was 6-years-old doctors finally had a diagnosis. He had Congenital Muscular Dystrophy.
"Actually we were kind of relieved because I knew it was something," says Judy Walsh.
Congenital MD causes weak muscles, spine stiffness, and in some cases, respiratory problems. What it didn't affect was Connor's attitude.
"He knew what he had and sort of dealt with it all along," explained Judy Walsh.
Then, one day two years ago he woke up one morning with a cough.
"I'm a daughter of a doctor," she said, "and you usually say, we'll see how you are tomorrow. But something told me take him to the doctor."
He ended up at St. Louis Children's Hospital where in the middle of that night, with his father by his side, Connor stopped breathing.
"All of a sudden there's eight doctors and nurses in the room working on him trying to revive him," recalled Joe Walsh.
He was revived, but at that point doctors couldn't make any guarantees.
"It was hard," he said through tears.
It turns out that Connor was infected with the H1N1 virus that swept the globe in 2009. That flu is dangerous for anyone, but especially for someone with MD. Connor was in a coma for several days and in the hospital for eight months.
"It felt great to get back home," said Connor.
After spending last year being home schooled, Connor finally returned to classes at Lafayette High School just a few weeks ago.
Through it all, from the diagnosis to those frightening months at Children's, the Walsh's said they got through it with support from friends, family and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
"They make you feel like you're not alone," said Judy.
The MDA believes that they're on the road to a cure, and with the courage of young people like Connor Walsh, they can't help but be inspired to go the extra mile.


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A look back on some of Hollywood's most memorable moments.
1969: The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed its last British concert at London's Royal Albert Hall before breaking up.
1976: The Eagles' "Greatest Hits" album became the first album in the U.S. to be certified platinum, for at least one million copies sold. The new award was conceived because high sales meant too many artists were winning gold records.
1988: Alice Cooper announced he was running for governor of Arizona.
1991: Country star Webb Pierce died. He was 65. On that same day, comedian George Gobel passed away at a southern California hospital at the age of 71. Gobel is probably best known as a regular on the "Hollywood Squares" game show.
1992: Actress Tracy Gold went back to work on the set of the TV sitcom "Growing Pains." She had left the show to battle anorexia.
1992: Singer Kurt Cobain of Nirvana married singer Courtney Love of Hole in Hawaii.
1993: Eric Clapton won six Grammy Awards, including song and record of the year for "Tears In Heaven," the song inspired by his late son.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Abe Vigoda is 93. Actor Steven Hill ("Law and Order") is 92. Actor Dominic Chianese (kee-uh-NAY'-see) ("The Sopranos") is 83. Movie composer Michel Legrand is 82. Actor Barry Bostwick is 69. Singer-producer Rupert Holmes is 67. Actor Edward James Olmos is 67. Musician George Thorogood is 64. Actress Debra Jo Rupp ("That '70s Show") is 63. Actress Helen Shaver ("The Color of Money") is 63. News correspondent Paula Zahn is 58. Country singer Sammy Kershaw is 56. Actor Mark Moses ("Desperate Housewives") is 56. Singer Michelle Shocked is 52. Actor Billy Zane is 48. Actress Bonnie Somerville ("NYPD Blue") is 40. R&B singer Brandon Brown of Mista is 31. Drummer Matt McGinley of Gym Class Heroes is 31.


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Air cargo stats suggest sustained recovery
July 28, 2010
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced international scheduled traffic statistics for June, showing continued strong demand growth as the industry recovers from the impact of the global financial crisis. Compared to June 2009, international scheduled freight traffic showed a 26.5 percent improvement.
Capacity increased only slightly above demand improvements during the month, keeping load factors in line with historical highs of 53.8 percent for freight.
"The industry continues to recover faster than expected, but with sharp regional differences. Europe is recovering at half the speed of Asia," said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA's Director General and CEO.
Outside of Europe, all regions reported double-digit growth in air cargo.
"The question is how long can the industry maintain the double-digit momentum. Business confidence remains high and there is no indication that the recovery will stall any time soon. But, with government stimulus packages tailing off and restocking largely completed, we do expect some slowing over the months ahead," said Bisignani.
International freight demand grew 26.5 percent in June 2010, down from the 34.0 percent recorded in May 2010. May was exceptionally high as some interrupted traffic from April's ash crisis shifted to May. Volumes remain 6 percent above the pre-recession peak in early 2008.
Freight demand continues to follow economic recovery and trade patterns with airlines in Asia-Pacific (+29.8 percent), Middle East (+39.6 percent), Latin America (+44.9 percent) and Africa (+54.0 percent) growing the fastest. Carriers in North America (+24.2 percent) occupy the middle ground. Europe (15.3 percent) is growing at half the rate of the fastest growing regions based on
slower economic growth.
This trend is particularly evident in Europe which is the only region still 5-6 percent below the pre-recession peak. The low value of the Euro will be a
help to the region's exporters and eventually drive up freight volumes.
"We remain cautiously optimistic. A clear indication of the growing confidence is the over 400 aircraft orders announced at the Farnborough Air Show. This is good news that will bring environmental benefits through improved fuel efficiency. But it will also make the challenge of matching capacity to demand much more difficult," said Bisignani.
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Tampa, Florida -- It's early on a hot summer day and Alex is ready to shift into high gear.
We are at Grand Prix in Tampa and Alex can't wait to get going.
Alex is an ambitious 17-year-old who has a killer smile. We also find out that he has a need for speed as he zips around the race track.
He is soft spoken, but very clear when it comes to the kind of forever family he is hoping to find. Alex has a heart of gold that is matched by his ability to tackle challenges.
When he was younger he learned how to ride his bike without training wheels.
Click on the video link to hear why he insisted on learning how to ride that way.
To learn more about this incredible teen call Connie Going at 866-271-4705.