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PINEROLO, Italy -- Canada joined two other high-profile teams in a tad of trouble in men's curling yesterday.
Brad Gushue's Newfoundland rink, skipped by Russ Howard went down to a second loss of the Olympic tournament and fell to 4-2 to put themselves in at least mild do-do.
But three-time world champion Peja Lindholm of Sweden and defending Olympic champion Pal Trulsen of Norway are in deep do-do.
Gushue and Howard felt their 8-7 loss to Markku Uusipaavelniemi of Finland last night put them where they didn't want to be.
"If we won that game, we were probably through to the playoffs,'' said Howard.
"Now we're in a little danger.''
Lindholm lost a fourth game of the tournament, this one to David Murdoch of Great Britain, to virtually eliminate himself from a playoff position while Trulsen sits at 3-3.
Murdoch leads at 5-1, with Canada and Finland tied with the USA with 4-2 records and Trulsen's Norwegians, the Italians and Switzerland hanging on at 3-3.
Today the Canadian men have a date with the Italian team which is one of the best stories of the Olympics, with five million people watching them on Italian TV and two million watching them play on replay the next morning.
The Italian team, featuring 22-year-old skip Joel Retornaz, defeated New Zealand 6-5 here last night to go 3-3. Canada also must play 4-2 USA and winless New Zealand, a team which had a hot world championships last year in Victoria but has yet to win a game at the Olympics.
M-15, as Uusipaavelniemi is known for his 15-letter last name was Can't Miss M-15 here last night.
Uusipaavelniemi hit the Canadians with a four-ender on the seventh to swing the game.
"We were looking at stealing two and Markku made a shot which left Brad drawing against four,'' said Howard."It was a very dangerous call he made. But he made it.''
Gushue, too, gave him credit.
"He played a difficult shot and he made it. He was brave enough to try it and good enough to make it.''
Gushue was more upset with the loss than Howard, who said he felt the Canadians played well and lost to a skip and a third who shot the lights out.
"We lost a couple of points because we had good looking shots that didn't get the right calls to put the rocks in the right place,'' said Gushue.
He said the four-ender was one of those calls.
"We sweep that two more inches and we're fine.''


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China said Tuesday sanctions were not the answer to the Iranian nuclear crisis, denting US President Barack Obama's hopes of sealing a deal to punish Tehran. Chinese President Hu Jintao met on Monday with the American leader to discuss the issue.
According to the AP, a top White House official said Obama and Hu agreed their delegations would work together at the United Nations on a push to impose sanctions against Iran.
However, China undercut hopes for a consensus when it said sanctions were not a solution. "China always believes that dialog and negotiation are the best way out for the issue. Pressure and sanctions cannot fundamentally solve it," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
Jiang said China backs a "dual-track strategy" -- continued dialog with Tehran while considering the possibility of sanctions if that fails to halt sensitive nuclear work.
Iran also denied any suggestion that China was now backing the US stance. "We have a different understanding than yours of the comments made after the meeting of US and Chinese officials," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in Tehran when asked to react to US claims of a breakthrough.

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CELEBRITY Big Brother winner Rylan Clark had fun casting his eye over this elephant statue in Corringham Town Park.
And he will be now decorating the blank canvas model before entering it into a national tour at Lakeside Shopping Centre.
The X Factor star, 25, from Stanford-le-Hope, will see his decorated elephant join dozens of others to launch a 90-day online auction to raise funds for the Asian Elephant Foundation, an international conservation charity.
People will be able to bid on a tour elephant or make a pledge to the Asian Elephant Foundation.
Last week, judges - including Gazette editor Gary Pearson - went to St Thomas of Canterbury school to choose the winner from hundreds of elephant designs submitted by pupils.
Karis Barlow, nine, a pupil at St Thomas, was one of those whose colourful entry was picked out as a winner. She, along with a pupil from both Aveley Primary and Herringham Primary Academy, will now get the chance to paint their very own elephant statues - just like Rylan.
Their elephant designs are currently standing alongside his at Lakeside as part of the national tour which stopped off at the shopping centre on Monday [May 5].
Their designs will be on show at the centre for four weeks.
Izzie Peskett, marketing manager for intu Lakeside, said: "It was incredibly difficult to pick our winners from the hundreds of fantastic entries we received but we can't wait to see the winner's completed elephant statues."
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"The time is coming," declares the Lord, "WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt…" (Jeremiah, 31:31-32)
The reference in this extract from the Book of Jeremiah in the Torah to "a new agreement," or, to put it another way, "a new covenant" is clearly not a reference to Christianity. With the idea of the Trinity, Christianity moved away from monotheism and followed a line that is displeasing to Allah. It is therefore easy to say that this reference does not indicate Christianity and the Gospel.
It therefore appears that this new agreement the people of Israel will make in the future will be with Muslims, not with Christians. The new covenant is the Qur'an. Allah knows the truth.
"No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' BECAUSE THEY WILL ALL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST OF THEM TO THE GREATEST," declares the Lord. "FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR WICKEDNESS AND WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE." (Jeremiah, 31:34)
The term "BECAUSE THEY WILL ALL KNOW ME" in this passage from the Book of Jeremiah indicates a time in which the people of Israel will believe en masse. This is the End Times, the tidings of which are imparted by our Prophet (saas). In the hadith, our Prophet (saas) reveals that all Jews will come to believe in the End Times, and that they will all become Muslims. In addition, the term "No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord'," also refers to a feature of the End Times. Because when the appointed time comes, all Jews will become Muslims, of their own free will and with no pressure being put on them. The reference in the next part of the passage, "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more," also supports the idea that the Jews will become Muslims. Indeed, the concept of Allah forgiving one's sins if one has faith and does good works is also one that exists in Islam.
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Alvarez 'pretty comfortable' in first-base debut
PITTSBURGH -- Pedro Alvarez took the field by jogging to the right corner of the infield on Monday, opposite of where the lifelong third baseman was used to starting.
Less than two weeks after the Pirates decided to have Alvarez start taking practice at first base, he made his first career appearance there, starting against the Braves. Alvarez noted the speed of a game cannot be replicated during infield drills, but he said he felt "pretty comfortable" in his new role.
"It felt new. The first time out there, it takes some getting used to," he said. "It's a different angle, it's a different point of view and different responsibilities come with the position. It's just foreign."
The 27-year-old dealt with a number of routine plays in his first-base debut and had a few others that stood out.
Alvarez moved to his right to field a chopper by Jason Heyward in the fourth inning. He scooped the ball and underhanded it to pitcher Vance Worley at first, but it was not in time to nab the Braves' leadoff hitter. In the sixth inning, shortstop Josh Harrison made a throw a bit wide of Alvarez, who was not able to catch the ball. Harrison was charged with an error.
"I don't want to start critiquing him after one game," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of Alvarez. "We'll just get with him and share our thoughts with him."
It was Alvarez's own throwing issues that caused the team to try him out on the other side of the infield.
Alvarez's arm has been among the most unreliable in the Majors. He leads all players with 25 errors this season, 24 of which are throwing errors. The latest came Sunday when he floated a ball over the head of catcher Russell Martin while trying to cut off a runner at home.
Alvarez had been taking more fielding practice at first of late and said he was not surprised that he saw live action there so soon.
"We've been practicing over there pretty vigorously with the intention of trying to get game ready as quickly as possible," he said. "I was eager and anxious to get out there."
As Alvarez tries to find a place on the field, he is also trying to regain footing in the batter's box. Due to the throwing issues, Alvarez has been out of the lineup more often lately, cutting down his at-bats. He went 0-for-4 with a strikeout on Monday, lowering his average to .230.
Stephen Pianovich is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hi, Can i ask, is it possible in web or does PHP can do the same like the windows that can show Balloon pop-ups in the Sys Tray?..is this possible to achieve ?
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To get anything to interact with the operating system, you will need to use an application language like (but not limited to) C, C++, Java, or C#.
Thank you forceflow :)..can i ask is it possible PHP can communicate to other language like C# or Java ?
Yes, through Services. You can either make a PHP Restful Service and your C#/Java Application can interact with that service.
The desktop application needs to be the one that initiates the interaction, right?It'd be scary if a website can trigger something to happen on my desktop!
Yes, the desktop application would call out to the Restful service as needed.
Here are a few resources to get you started (the first one is a bit outdated but the second one was published last year)http://www.sitepoint.com/own-web-service-php-xml-rpc/http://phpmaster.com/series/creating-web-services-with-php-and-soap/
and another one:http://phpmaster.com/writing-a-restful-web-service-with-slim/
Hi cpradio, Thank you for this links...i will write back if i get in trouble,
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Public relations is an important function for a small business. It can help bring in new customers, recruit talented employees, entice investors, and more, but actually finding time to do it is a constant challenge. Here are some basics to help get you started:
Making News
The story you tell has to be newsworthy. Make note of what's being covered in the newspapers and magazines you would target to help you decide what stories to tell. You'll find that these news stories will include novelty, visual impact, a tie to the local community, and/or a human touch (e.g., charity, humor, kids).
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Now that you have news, you'll need to decide who best to tell it to. The kind of story it is will help you determine who to send it to. Ask yourself: Is it news, a feature, an opinion? Is it relevant to a local, national or international audience? It is of interest to the general public or specific to your industry?
Create a comprehensive list of all the news outlets in your area, including newspapers, business journals, radio and TV broadcast. For national news, add trade magazines and websites and subject-relevant columns in national newspapers.
To withstand changes both at your business and the publication, include as much information about your business as possible: news outlet name, phone, fax and email for multiple contacts, outlet's main phone and fax number, the street address, format/frequency (print, broadcast, weekly, monthly, etc.), deadlines, and details of each interaction you've had with the publication.
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But in the lead-up to Christmas, and with the hope of another drop in interest rates, consumers are said to be looking to spend up this year.
The eighth edition of the Recommended Retail Practice report from AMP Capital Shopping Centres and researcher Directional Insights shows clothes and shoes are back in favour.
AMP Capital Shopping Centres managing director Bryan Hynes said the report asked people whether they preferred to shop online, in-store, or a combination of the two. ''In the majority of categories, the number of Australians planning to shop 'in-store only' remained stable or increased, with shoppers preferring to visit stores when looking for everyday fashion, big-ticket furniture and electrical items, and household goods,'' Mr Hynes said.
''This indicates there is an opportunity for bricks-and-mortar retailers to retain and broaden their customer base provided they offer a superior in-store experience.
''Retailers must not view a return to shops as a licence to continue 'business as usual'. While online retail is often convenient for certain items, there are signs of shoppers returning to stores that can give them an in-store experience.'' Mr Hynes said people still wanted to shop, but retailers and landlords had to make it more enjoyable. It was like putting the ''theatre'' back into shopping.
If retailers do not adapt, they will perish, according to the head of retail at Colliers International, Michael Bate. Retailers least affected by the current trading environment have been food and beverage outlets, since these are hard to sell online. ''But food outlets, such as supermarkets, have also been smart enough to adapt to new technology by allowing customers to pre-order goods online and pick them up later,'' Mr Bate says in his latest report, Talking Shop.
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Google released Android 4.2.2 for the Nexus 4, 7 and 10 this week. Some devices have already received over-the-air updates. Compared to Android 4.2.1, is there really anything important in this incremental release? With Google's annual developer's conference Google IO scheduled just 82 days from now, when Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie is anticipated to be announced, why would Google interrupt its course for an incremental release? Who should care?
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While owners of other Android devices who don't get this update won't feel slighted, developers extending Android's reach into entertainment, peer-to-peer networking, and better spectrum utilization will care about this release. Though this release has many nice features, like download status notifications and improved quick settings, most of these features could wait for the Key Lime Pie update.
Google's Nexus-branded products and Motorola Mobility-branded products are being used to advance the Android community and lead innovation by demonstrating new software and hardware features. This provides a large platform for advanced development testing in anticipation of the adoption of these features. These communications-related improvements in Android 4.2.2 are intended to enable the progress of a set of innovators whose project timeline can't wait for the next release.
Android 4.2.2 enables developers who are building the next family hearth in the rapidly evolving and intensely competitive smart TV market. Samsung, LG, Sony and other smart TV manufacturers are working feverishly to avoid becoming just display companies whose products can't compete with devices that stream content. Also competing is Apple's Airplay, which lets iOS and Leopard users stream high-definition (HD) audio and video content to HDTVs connected with Apple TV. Intel, with its wireless display standard WiDi, does the same for certain processors and some new LG and Toshiba HDTV models or any HDTV with a WiDi adapter.
Android's open approach to streaming HD content to HDTVs incorporates the WiFi Alliance's Miracast standard, which is fully compatible with Intel's WiDi. Android 4.2.2 includes a stable Miracast feature that enables users to stream HD content from a smartphone or tablet on a HDTV equipped with an adapter. This is an important development for both the Android enthusiast and the Android entertainment developer. But, for the time being, it is just an appealing idea, another step toward the wonderful future in which TV and movies and other content can be selected from Hulu or Netflix smartphone apps and streamed to a large HDTV, for lean-back consumption by the entire family.
Android 4.2.2 includes enhancements and stability to WiFi Direct, an open source peer-to-peer WiFi project that enables direct communication between WiFi devices intended to let smart connected devices communicate directly with one another. Like Miracast, WiFi Direct eliminates a router to establish and control the communication. Tablets, smartphones, cameras, printers, PCs, and gaming devices that support WiFi Direct can communicate with one another, and developers of cool apps such as Smart Phone Ad-Hoc Networks (SPAN) can be deployed on unrooted Android 4.2.2 devices that support WiFi Direct.
Faster captive portal detection is included with this Android version. On one hand, this feature just reduces the time and frustration of agreeing to terms and conditions just to connect to a WiFi network. This is not only important to help data-hungry users avoid surcharges for 3G and 4G data plan usage above carrier limits, but also for the spectrum-limited mobile carriers. Mobile carriers are increasingly switching from 3G and 4G to WiFi wherever possible, using advanced technology from Devicescape. Devicescape has woven millions of amenity WiFi networks into a single virtual network. Its sophisticated captive portal detection and navigation software automatically and seamlessly switches mobile devices from 3G and 4G data communications to local free WiFi. This frees up carrier data transmission bandwidth. Faster captive portal detection means quicker handoffs to WiFi networks and better 3G and 4G utilization.
Android 4.2.2 is not a critical update for many smartphone and tablet owners. For the time being, it's just for Nexus smartphones and tablets, and will debut as an update to newer mobile devices from companies such as Samsung, Sony and LG that also have a stake in the HDTV business and want a consistent consumer experience using branded mobile devices and HDTVs. In time, these important features will be insulated from the general Android user's experience with intuitive apps.


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Do any of you know where to find good grammars (online) for these languages, especially strong verb conjugation?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had this idea. The Scandinavian languages are so similar that I like to think about them as dialects of the same language. So why shouldn't it be possible to merge them into one? It's only a matter of standardization, shouldn't be that hard. So I started:
Writing and pronunciation
* Spelling would not be 100% phonetic, but once you know the rules, you would know how to pronounce and write every word.
* Dansih/Norwegian <æ> and <ø> instead of Swedish <ä> and <ö>
* Swedish and Norwegian double consonants (<takk> instead of <tak>)
* <c>, <q>, <w>, <x> and <z> not used, even in loan words (<komp(j)uter> instead of <computer>, <kvasi> instead of <quasi>, <eksamen> instead of <examen>)
* There would be one "standard" pronunciation, but many accepted unofficial ones, depending on your native language/dialect (<jeg> could be (not IPA, but you get the point) /jæj/, /eg/, /je/, /jag/, /æ/, etc.)
* I never settled on <ei> vs. <e> (<bein> vs. <ben) and <au> vs. <ø> (<draum(m)e vs. drøm(m)e). I could write them as diphthongs and allow alternative pronunciations, but then I would have to name the articles <ein> and <eit> and use <heite> instead of <hete>, which is very nynorsk-favoring. If not writing them as diphthongs, some words would be weird for Danes and Norwegians, e.g. <rese> instead of <reise>. It would also make it less similar to German. (Don't know whether that's a good or a bad thing.)
* I also thought about using accents. <o> can be both /u:/ and /o/ and <u> can be both /ʉ:/ and /u/; the short pronunciations are used when followed by double-consonant. I could either make this completely regular (<tror>, <trudde>) or mark the exceptions with an accent (either <tror>, <tródde>) (both pronunced /tru:r/ and /trude/). I found the latter one more aesthetically pleasing, but accents are easier to forget.
I settled on two genders; common and neuter.
c1: en dag - dagen - dager - dagene
c1*: en fot - foten - føt(t)er - føt(t)ene
c2: en ting - tingen - ting - tingene
c2*: en mann - mannen - menn - mennene
n1: et eple - eplet - epler - eplene
n2: et hus - huset - hus - husene
* means ablaut
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c1: -en -er -ene
c2: -en -Ø -ene
n1: -et -er -ene
n2: -et -Ø -ene
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Common: -Ø
Neuter: -t
Plural/definite: -e
Comparative: -ere
Superlative indef: -est
Superlative def: -este
Should be pretty straightforward. Adjectives ending in -er, -el and -en are slightly different:
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Common: vakker
Neuter: vakkert
Plural/definite: vakre
Comparative: vakrere
Superlative indef: vakrest
Superlative def: vakreste
Superlative indef: vakrest
I divided verbs into four classes:
v1: root ending in two consonants, of which the first is neither a nasal nor a liquid (kaste)
v2a: root ending in a voiced consonant or a liquid/nasal and a voiced consonant (leve)
v2a: root ending in an unvoiced consonant or a liquid/nasal and an unvoiced consonant (tenke)
v3: root ending in a stressed vowel (bo)
v4: strong and irregular verbs (drikke)
The first three are conjugated like this:
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Inf. Pres. Past. Perf.
v1: -e -er -ede -et
v2a: -e -er -de -d
v2b: -e -er -te -t
v3: -Ø -r -dde -dd
When I came to the strong verbs, I pretty much gave up. I tried creating logical sub-groups for them. I compared to this.
The Old Norse 2nd group is realized like this in the Scandinavian languages/dialects:
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Bokmål, Danish, Swedish:
3 sg. pres. - 3 sg. past - 3 pl. past
skyte - skjøt - har skutt/skutit
Some dialects:
3 sg. pres. - 3 sg. past - 3 sg. past. subj.
skyte - skjøt - har skyti
3 sg. pres. - 3 sg. past. - past participle
skyte - skaut - har skote
So, I should obviously go for the first one, even though Nynorsk is the most logical one. Well, it's not that easy; there are some weird overlaps:
The word "fly/flyga/flyve/" is one of them:
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fly(ve) - fløy/fjøj - fløyet
flyga - flög - flugit
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flyte/flyde - fløt/flød - flytt/flydt
flyta - flöt - flutit
And many others. Swedish seems to be the more consequent of the three, but "flugit" and "flutit" sound really weird to Norwegian/Danish ears. Moreover, to keep regularity, it would have to be "fluget" and "flutet", which is even stranger.
I also studied this, but there were no Danish/Norwegian/Swedish examples, so I couldn't decide how to logically apply these groups without having any weird exceptions (except for the modal verbs, maybe, which would be an own group).
It kinda ends there. If I find any good grammar guides or something, I might continue this project. I would also have to divide the irregular nouns and adjectives into groups, so that one can logically decline 99% (or something) of all words when knowing which group they belong to. I might also have to balance it a bit - as it looks know, it's too similar to Danish/Norwegian. If I find a logical way to do this, I might add some -ar (and similar) endings to make it more Swedish/Nynorsk. I guess this could be added to the 1st verb group and maybe to some noun and adjective declensions. On the other hand, it's much easier with only -er.
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Anderson spins great outing, but forced to leave early with injury
DENVER -- Just when they seemed headed for another shake-your-head loss on Friday night, the Rockies put up seven runs -- three on a Josh Rutledge double, two on a Carlos Gonzalez homer -- in the seventh inning of an 8-1 victory over the Pirates at Coors Field in front of 38,487.
The Rockies led narrowly for six innings, but remember, they were swept three games by the Pirates at PNC Park last weekend in games they led by narrow margins until the late innings. The game had the hallmarks of a story that started so good, but ended so bad.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss issued a punitive benching to third baseman Nolan Arenado for not immediately running out a grounder to the box that the pitcher didn't handle cleanly. Then, starting pitcher Brett Anderson, who didn't yield a hit until the fifth and was rolling along, left with a blister on his pitching hand after issuing a walk with one out in the seventh.
But this time the Rockies flipped the script.
Anderson, who gave up two hits in 6 1/3 mostly-dominant innings, ended up with his first win in Purple Pinstripes. The sizzling Rutledge drove in four runs with two doubles, and has been hot since regular shortstop Troy Tulowitzki sustained a left hip flexor strain. Gonzalez, who had struggled since returning from surgery to remove a benign tumor from his left index finger, responded to being placed in the cleanup spot with his 10th homer of the season.
The Rockies have won consecutive games for just the second time since the middle of June. For a club that felt it could be a surprise contender before it was zapped by a rash of injuries, it was both a stinging reminder of what might've been and a reason to hope.
"It's hard to compete when you have your best players on the DL -- I spent a lot of time on the DL," Gonzalez said. "I haven't been myself. But this is baseball. Sometimes baseball will kick your butt, but you've got to stay focused, keep grinding and believe in yourself."
Rutledge is fast regaining his belief in himself, and being at his normal position could be part of it. He is 10-for-21 with four doubles, a triple and a homer since Tulowitzki's injury forced him into action.
It's shades of 2012, when Rutledge made 73 appearances at short with Tulowitzki out with a right groin injury and hit .274 with eight home runs and 37 RBIs. Rutledge began last year starting at second base, but soon found himself in Triple-A and finished the year at .235.
While Rutledge has learned to handle utility duty -- he's hitting .308 this season after spending time in Triple-A -- it seems everything comes together when he's at short.
"I'll always probably feel more natural over there -- I've been playing that position my whole life," Rutledge said. "It's definitely an adjustment going from one to the other. But once you get time at one position, you start feeling more comfortable, no matter what position it is."
Anderson held the Pirates to one run in seven innings Saturday at PNC Park and left with the lead, but the Rockies fell in 11 innings, 3-2. This time the club upheld his lead.
Anderson didn't give up a hit until the fifth, and was the reason the Rockies led, 1-0, while he was in the game. The seventh-inning rally assured him of his first win since last April 7 for the Athletics, before injuries marred his season. The Rockies believe Anderson can be a rotation leader, and Friday supported that belief.
"Whenever we play ballgames like this, you can see the positive things and how we started the season," Anderson said. "The season's not over by any stretch of the imagination. We can try to get on a roll here."
Righty reliever Tommy Kahnle replaced Anderson in the top of the seventh, forced a Jordy Mercer fly ball and struck out Pedro Alvarez to preserve a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the seventh, Ben Paulsen and Wilin Rosario doubled off Pirates starter Charlie Morton, with the latter hit driving in a run. DJ LeMahieu, who had tripled and scored in the third, chased Morton with a single.
Drew Stubbs and Charlie Blackmon singled off Pirates reliever Ernesto Frieri to load the bases for Rutledge, whose second double of the game cleared the bases and upped his RBI total to four.
Weiss placed Gonzalez in the cleanup spot Friday even though he entered 7-for-32 (.219) in his first eight games after returning from surgery to remove a benign tumor from his left index finger. Gonzalez was hitless in his first three at-bats Friday, but launched Frieri's 1-1 slider into the right-field bullpen for his 10th home run of the season for an 8-0 lead.
The Pirates scored their lone run in the ninth off struggling righty Matt Belisle, who has given up 16 hits, nine earned runs and five walks in his last seven innings.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved $2,545,249 in grants to pay for 10 boat ramp construction or repair projects across the state.
The funding receiving the commission's OK at its January 28 meeting is made possible by the State Boating Access Program authorized by the 64th Legislature in 1975. The program provides funding for the purchase, construction, renovation and maintenance of boat ramps, access roads and other related projects aimed at improving the recreational boater's access to public waters. The money for the program comes back to the states from the federal recreational boating gasoline tax and an excise tax on fishing tackle collected under the Federal Aid to Sport Fish Recreation Act.
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- Aransas County Navigation District — The Aransas County Navigation District will receive $215, 628 to expand the parking area at the boat ramp on the south side of Copano Bay, construct a walkway to improve access for people with disabilities, build covered picnic tables and provide signs.
- City of Bastrop — The City of Bastrop will receive $397,600 to replace an old boat ramp to provide better access to the Colorado River, do dredging and place bulkheads needed to prevent bank erosion. The money also will allow for construction of a parking area and a sidewalk to improve access for people with disabilities.
- Brazos River Authority — The Brazos River Authority will receive $82,500 for renovation and expansion of a boat ramp on Lake Granbury in Hood County that had been damaged and in danger of collapse. The grant also covers bulkheads, lighting and signs.
- City of Corpus Christi — The City of Corpus Christi will receive $500,000 to renovate and upgrade the heavily used Clem's Boat Ramp as well as the access road, parking area, utilities, courtesy dock, bulkhead and signs. The project, will improve access to the Laguna Madre and Intracoastal Waterway.
- Calhoun County — Calhoun County will receive $126,000 to build a rock jetty to protect an existing public boat ramp on Magnolia Beach and improve lighting and signage. The boat ramp affords public access to Lavaca Bay. The jetty will project against silting and wave damage and make it safer to launch or land at the ramp.
- City of Grapevine — The City of Grapevine will receive $198,750 for construction of a pavilion and restroom at the existing Meadowmere Park public boat ramp on Lake Grapevine in Tarrant County.
- Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority — The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority will receive $75,000 for renovation of a boat ramp at Lake Wood, plus a walkway and courtesy dock to improve access for people with disabilities, new bulkhead, lighting and signage.
- City of Jefferson — The City of Jefferson will receive $361,500 for construction of a boat ramp, parking area, access road, courtesy dock, lighting, a walkway to improve access for people with disabilities, and signage at Big Cypress Bayou in Marion County.
- City of Port Isabel — The City of Port Isabel will receive $388,330 to renovate and improve a boat ramp, parking area, bulkheads, restroom, utilities and lighting at Pompano Street on the Laguna Madre. The grant also will cover construction of a new courtesy dock and fish cleaning table.
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For those who prefer a shorter trail, St Fort offers the 1-hour Mushroom Rock Trail to a sandstone rock formation that time has sculpted into what looks like a large mushroom.
On the second night of the Bushman's Cave Trail near Clarens in the Free State you will sleep in a cave where, in times gone by, your bedfellows could have been either San, South Africa's 1st people, or the victims of cannibals.
The cave has distinct paintings depicting characteristic images in San rock art, such as an eland and a warrior wielding a spear.
The same cave is also said to have been the 'pantry' where the region's resident cannibals stored their victims. The cannibals moved to this area just under 200 years ago when they fled to this part of the Free State from what is now KwaZulu-Natal to avoid being massacred by Zulu King Shaka. Forced to abandon their land and their cattle, the refugees, headed by their leader, Letsoeana, turned to cannibalism in desperation, or so the story goes.
And so it is that cannibals, San paintings and exceptional scenery will fill your two-day hike on this green flag adventure in the eastern Free State. Its green flag status indicates that it is a pristine natural area, in the same way that the blue flag indicates a pristine beach.
The Bushman's Cave Trail is situated on St Fort Farm, a working farm with sheep, cattle, maize and wheat. It is 5km from Clarens, a popular little country town just outside the spectacular Golden Gate Highlands National Park.
A white footprint on a black background guides you along the trail (9km on the first day and 7km on the second). On the first night you either stay in a renovated milking shed with bunk beds, electricity and braai facilities, or one of eight restored ox wagons.
En route you will hike through mountains, along rivers, through forests and across boulders in this evocative region on the border between Lesotho and the eastern Free State.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Ernestine Goldblatt
Owner of St Fort farm
Tel: +27 (0)58 256 1345
How to get here
Directions from Johannesburg (about 3 hours to Clarens, and another 5 minutes to St Fort) - Take the N3 - Heidelberg/Durban road. - Directly after crossing the Vaal River (after the Engen One Stop before Villiers), take the slip-way to the left, which puts you onto the R26. - Follow the R26 to Frankfort. Just before Frankfort, turn right at the T-junction. - Pass Frankfort, and cross the Wilge River. - About 300m further, watch for a signboard - Reitz/Tweeling, and turn left. - Follow the R26. Pass Tweeling and Reitz. - Drive straight through Bethlehem on the Durban road - N5. - About 5km from Bethlehem, turn right onto the Clarens/Golden Gate road (R712). - Travel for about 35km to Clarens.
Best time to visit
All year round if you can take the cold as the nights in the mountains are severe. If you prefer milder weather, only do the trail in the summer months (September to April). It usually snows in this area in winter (May to August).
Around the area
Clarens is a popular country town. There are plenty of arts and crafts outlets, and sports and adventure activities in the area. You should definitely visit the spectacular Golden Gate Highlands National Park, which is close by. This national park is also good for hiking in.
What will it cost
The 2-day trail costs R200 per person. Food and drinks are for your own account.
Length of stay
Several days as there is so much to do in and around Clarens and after the trail you can base yourself at the comfortable St Fort farmhouse.
What to pack
Sleeping bag, pillow, backpack, bathing costume, hat, mosquito spray, food, water.
Where to stay
Accommodation is provided on the hike, including an overnight stay in an evocative cave. Rudimentary cooking utensils and ablution facilities are provided.


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By Susan Chadwick
Two faculty members at the Jones
Graduate School of Business are doing
cutting-edge research — from different
points of view — into paying attention
and how interpreting messages results
in professional success or failure, for
individuals or their organizations.
Erik Dane concentrates on how individuals focus or widen
their attention in the workplace to perform better. He calls
it "mindfulness" or "focusing on the present moment."
It's an old yet increasingly popular concept familiar to
anyone interested in Eastern philosophy and one of the
fastest growing research areas in psychology — and now
business management.
Annie Zavyalova investigates how the public, through the
media, pays attention to messages from organizations in
response to an episode of wrongdoing. She calls it "social
approval asset management."
Dane is an assistant professor of management in the
organizational behavior group. Mindfulness (and, more
broadly, attention) is one of three areas, including
expertise/experience and intuition/human judgment,
that interest Dane personally and as a scholar.
"I've always been interested in philosophical topics, in
Eastern thought and philosophy," he says in his office at
McNair Hall on a sunny winter day. Relaxed, personable,
and clearly focused on the present moment, Dane adds,
"There's an emerging body of academic literature that examines what mindfulness is and why it matters.
"For centuries, people have been talking about the fact that one of the keys to life is living in the here and now," says Dane. "And actually there is some hard evidence that focusing on the present moment enhances well-being and improves task performance."
Some of that new evidence comes from Dane's own research. He asks the question: does mindfulness in the workplace affect the bottom line?
Staying Focused When Everything Is Constantly Changing
In a paper published in January 2013 in the journal Organization Studies, Dane presents his findings on the role of attention in a dynamic work setting. In this case, the dynamic work setting was the courtroom and the subjects were trial lawyers.
The paper, titled "Things Seen and Unseen: Investigating Experience-Based Qualities of Attention in a Dynamic Work Setting," looks into these intriguing topics: How do people focus their attention in a dynamic work setting where they must constantly adapt to changing conditions in real time? And how is the ability to focus attention linked to work experience?
Dane, who's been teaching at the Jones School since 2007, observed three felony trials and interviewed 46 trial lawyers with a range of trial experience in three American cities. Comments about the stress level lawyers feel during trial included statements such as:
"I think my biggest hurdle in being a prosecutor was to remember to breathe and stop shaking."
"Fear, I think, can kind of shut down any kind of ability to — whatever it is — to kind of just be in the moment and pay attention to what's going on."
Dane found that more experienced trial lawyers both focus and widen their attention more effectively. He writes: "... my findings indicate that in accruing certain types of experience individuals attain two key qualities of attention. Specifically, they develop the capacity to attend to a wide range of events (attentional breadth) and learn how to opportunistically incorporate these events into the overall message they seek to convey (attentional integration)."
A key aspect of attention is interpretation: making sense of what we notice, says Dane. "We tend to view what has occurred as either good or bad. In reality there is considerable ambiguity surrounding the events we encounter. One person's threat is another
person's opportunity.
"That's an insight I gained from the lawyer study. As it turns out, experienced litigators are able to incorporate virtually any event into the overarching case they're presenting."
Avoiding mind wandering or disrupted attention while operating in a complex, dynamic environment appears to be the key to avoiding catastrophe for individuals — or an organization made up of responsible individuals. However, there are exceptions.
"Mindfulness is not a panacea," says Dane. "Some tasks may not call for mindfulness. And, in some cases, mindfulness may even prove distracting or a hindrance. For that matter, mind wandering may prove beneficial, as well — insofar as it is goal-directed.
"The mind is inherently a wandering creature and that's not always bad," he says. "The fact that the mind wanders can be useful" — as in planning for the future.
Managing Perceptions in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
But let's say that catastrophe does hit an organization. Somebody, or a series of somebodies, lets their eyes wander off the ball in a not useful way, and as a result, there's been a massive product recall.
That's where Zavyalova steps in with her research into how the actions of a business (toy manufacturers, in this case) or other organizations like universities or the Catholic church direct the attention of reporters and shape the perceptions of the public following a scandal.
"I'm interested in negative events in organizations," says Zavyalova with a smile. Her field, she says, is reputation or social approval asset management. And, like Dane, who is leading the pack in the emerging field of attention and task performance, Zavyalova is also mining new ground in organization theory research.
A bright-eyed, energetic assistant professor of strategic management fresh out of graduate school, Zavyalova has been teaching at the Jones School since the fall of 2012, having just received her doctorate in May of 2012 from the University of Maryland.
Her first paper, published in October 2012 in conjunction with Maryland and University of Georgia colleagues in the Academy of Management Journal, studied technical and ceremonial actions by firms following major recalls of toys and the impact of these actions on the tenor of
media coverage.The paper, which informed the research she'd done for her dissertation, is the first large-scale empirical investigation testing the influence of announcements of actions by a firm on media coverage. Titled "Managing The Message: The Effects of Firm Actions and Industry Spillovers On Media Coverage Following Wrongdoing," the paper is also looks at press releases and blogs as sources of information.
Zavyalova examined millions of recalled toys dating back to 1998. She found that it "helped guilty companies to issue a technical press release." But a merely ceremonial press release, a window-dressing announcement that failed to address technical issues or planned changes in response to a problem, actually hurt a guilty company. The public was not persuaded; they knew the problem had not been solved. "Information is so easily available today," explains Zavyalova.
Can A Good Reputation Be Too Good?
Surprisingly, Zavyalova has found evidence that "it can be a bad thing" for a company "to be too well known." In her current research focusing on athletic scandals in NCAA schools, she will propose that "it may be actually a good strategic decision to stay away from the media spotlight in general." The reason: "People attribute wrongdoing to reputable organizations" because they confuse a better known business with a lesser known business that is actually the guilty party.
"Having a good reputation can be a double-edged sword," she says. "The media pays more attention" and "tend to cover the top fifty schools a lot more."
But Zavyalova found that alumni are loyal to their schools. Ironically, athletic scandals tend to increase alumni donations — up to a certain point.
A school, she points out, "is part of who you are, part of your identity." And if an event "reflects negatively on you — you try to help your school."
However, "if there are too many scandals, then alumni withdraw their support." And what was the limit? "We found that it was six violations [of NCAA rules] or more."
A third timely paper, also in progress, focuses on the child sex abuse scandal that has been rocking the Catholic church for decades. Also an empirical study, this paper looks at the handling of cases of alleged pedophile priests in some 340 parishes in the archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1970 to 2010.
Like the research paper on athletic scandals, which measures what it takes for devoted alumni to give up on their alma mater, this new research calculates the point at which "even dedicated people stop supporting" their church.
"Faith is an even bigger part of your existence than your school," Zavyalova observes. "Detaching your faith from who you are is much more difficult" than detaching your identity from a school and sports team.
Zavyalova's research in Philadelphia also uncovered some potentially explosive patterns in the way pedophile priests were moved around by church authorities.
"It was not random."Staying Focused When Your Ship is Drifting
Zavyalova was asked her thoughts on Carnival Cruise Lines's public handling of the stranding at sea of the Carnival Triumph. The Galveston-based ship lost power in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine room fire on February 10 and was towed to Mobile, Alabama, on February 14. Reports from some of the 3,000-plus passengers described extremely unpleasant conditions on board, largely from lack of toilets and failed sewage systems, as well as lack of food and air-conditioning.
"It helped that [Carnival President] Gerry Cahill personally appeared to greet the passengers [when they arrived in Mobile] and apologized to them," Zavyalova writes in a follow-up email. "But what Carnival should have done as soon as they could is find out why the fire started and whether it could have been prevented."
The Triumph, she points out, was not the first Carnival cruise ship to have this same problem. "This will be the most difficult issue to address when reassuring customers that the ship quality on Carnival is not jeopardized." CNN reports that "four of the company's 23 ships have had problems in recent months."
And there's no point now to an expensive publicity campaign. "At this time, as my study suggests, it may hurt the company to spend money on TV advertising or other high-cost PR efforts, as customers and the public in general will be more likely to condemn Carnival for misallocating their resources."
No doubt the 1,000-plus Carnival Triumph crew members were faced with an extremely dynamic and changing workplace situation as systems and routines broke down on the ship. And, according to Dane, they would have been helped by being mindful or by having mindfulness training. An increasing number of corporations, including General Mills, Google and Target, are offering their employees training in mindfulness to improve decision-making, efficiency, and cooperation.
"Unexpected events—things going haywire—that's part of what constitutes a dynamic environment," says Dane.
Dane has been studying the relationship between mindfulness and task performance in a similar service industry—the restaurant industry. He asked employees at seven different restaurants to report on how mindful they are at work and found that the way they answered correlated significantly with their job performance, as evaluated by their supervisors. Employees who reported focusing attention on the present moment performed their work better than those who reported lower levels of mindfulness.
"We're not a very mindful society," says Dane. But he notes that mindfulness, meditation, and yoga programs are increasingly popular, especially in the business world.
Carnival CEO Micky Arison was roundly criticized in the press for attending and visibly enjoying a Miami Heat basketball game while more than 4,000 miserable people drifted at sea aboard one of his cruise ships. Maybe he shouldn't have let his attention wander. Says Dane, "The overarching question is: where is the mind and what
are the implications for behavior in
the workplace?"
This article is from the Spring 2013 issue of Jones Journal


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California's push to crack down on livestock theft has been signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.
According to the Sierra Sun Times, now that it has been signed, the bill (Assembly Bill 924) will become law next year.
"In California, there has been a rise in livestock theft resulting in significant costs to California's ranchers. AB 924 is intended to discourage criminals from these costly crimes," said Republican Assemblyman Frank Bigelow, author of the bill. "AB 924 ensures that criminals will be prosecuted and the roadmap to prosecution is the law is violated. This bill is a win for rural California and California's Agricultural Industry."
AB 924 establishes a fine of up to $5,000 for anyone convicted of livestock theft. It also allows local officials to track statistics of those convicted of stealing livestock. All proceeds collected from the fine will go to the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Bureau of Livestock Identification to help bring closure to current open cases and to help combat future livestock theft.
Bigelow 's initial bill included a provision that would have allowed prosecutors to seek jail time for repeat offenders, but state lawmakers quickly water-down the bill. However, even without potential jail time, Justin Oldfield, the California Cattlemen's Association Vice President of Government Relations, believes that the bill still "does do something very beneficial."
"The Bureau of Livestock Identification is fee-based," he said. "This would be an additional resource they can use. Even if it's only $50,000 a year, that's still money in their pockets for them to go out and investigate cases of theft. Ultimately, the bureau works with law enforcement on this stuff."
Read, "Calif. livestock theft bill gains momentum."
Last year, more than 1,000 head of cattle were stolen from the state's farms and ranches, and in July, more than two dozen Jersey calves were stolen from a Stanislaus County, Calif., dairy. Click here to read more.


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