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Today was the day, the PS4 was revealed, and it was exciting, and games were shown, and it was undoubtedly next generation. This is a recap in my opinion and my thoughts on the reveal of the next generation of gaming.
First off the controller, not my favorite design, the difference in the analog sticks as well as the touch pad placement are confusing and needless. We do not need a touch pad, nor a new d-pad. The Dualshock 3 is FINE, but of course they wanna introduce new standards, make more money and have innovative offerings. Whatever. The light on the top of the controller is one of the most confusing changes, a share button I understand, a headphone jack (for packaged in headsets) all make sense, a LED light to better differentiate between players? No thank you. The new PS Eye that's now more Kinect than ever also appears to be a pack-in, bringing needless features and upping the price undoubtedly.
Tech demo's are interesting, and Quantic Dream paving the way in facial animation and emotions is exciting, due to their previous work Heavy Rain. It is true that emotional tales are what make games great, having recently played Walking Dead and crying at the finale, I knew my connection to that game was more than games I've spent more time with but lacked emotionally attachment to. People always seemed to speak of "how can the graphics get any better" yet we consistently think that every generational leap, despite being wrong. If it's true and the level of emotion and quality shown by Quantic Dream can be shown real time in any game, imagine what other fine details they can strengthen, bridging the gap between games and CGI masterpieces.
Knack was the first game shown, and the most underwhelming. However it served as a good lead in to many great points Sony made. In 2008 the PS3 had been out for 2 years and developers were complaining about how hard it was to develop for it. So Sony already looked ahead and started to think of how the next PlayStation could be super easy for developers to work with, paving the way for them to be the base console, instead of how Xbox was this generation, that way they secure 3rd party support, and continue to own the exclusives market. This is awesome. They showed that they know we want games, and so they wanted to make it easy for developers to do what they want. They said, "Hey we'll create this flexible system that you can totally do whatever you want with. Playstation 4!" And that's what makes your console great. Netflix is fun, and having it as a Blu-ray player is nice, but my PS3 is there to play games, and Sony has the games, 1st and 3rd party.
Speaking of games, Diablo III is now confirmed on PS3/4. A major win I believe for Sony. Blizzard said they are in a partnership with Sony, permitted by Activision no doubt, to bring Diablo III to the console gamers. People like me who know about Diablo, are intrigued by it, but don't have the money or time or know how to have a gaming PC for Diablo III. I've been very interested in Diablo III ever since it's release, and before, it was just something I would think about from afar, "hey maybe one day I can play that game…" NO MORE! Thanks to Sony I can now play it on my PS3, or PS4 if I so choose, by this time next year it appears!
The most exciting thing however, for me, was when Sony consistently said they want to have the fastest gaming network. They talked about how wtih 8GB of unified memory they can now have downloads in the background, digital day one games will become simpler, firmware will be a thing of the past, social interaction and sharing is so integrated there's a button for it on the controller.
Anyone with PSN knows how long downloads can be, and how we've become used to buying something and leaving the PS3 on overnight to download and install all of it as we sleep, but now, we can fulfill our impulses. Now we can see a game, click download, and while it downloads start playing it already. The developers also talked about wanting load times to be eliminated, to press the start button on the XMB and instantly be in the game. This is awesome, and backed by the 8GB of memory, trouble with big games like Skyrim will become a thing of the past. Now my firmware, game updates, and download times will be faster and done in the background. Another feature talked about was how you can now exit the game like you do on the Vita and go do other things and can jump right back into the game whenever you please. Which is something I am very happy to hear, as I very much enjoy that I can pause my Vita at any time, go onto twitter or the internet and go onto GameFAQs or tweet a recent screenshot I took of my progress in P4G. This adds onto the social factor they are going for.
Another social factor is the share button I touched upon earlier. As it was rumored, you can press the share button at any time, tag/save gameplay and save or upload it instantly without having the leave the game. This opens up more opportunities than people think. Game capturing used to be something only for those who wanted to put the time, money, and effort into it. However now I can hypothetically do it all with my PS4, just play Uncharted 4 (unconfirmed) find some treasures, press share and upload the video of me showing the location to (most likely) my YouTube account (unfortunately I don't think Tumblr will be linked in). Now more people can jump into guides and showing off humorous or talented sections of our games.
Something that NEEDS to be utilized is remote play. Vita is restricted right now with Remote Play with PS3, but Sony seems to want to remedy that thanks to Gaikai and the much more powerful PS4 system. As they stated, the PS3 came out in a transitional period, and it couldn't keep up with everything happening. They couldn't fully utilize remote play on the PSP, most likely for it's lack of power, but now with the very powerful (and lovely) Vita, they hope to imitate the Wii U and gamepad, however with next generation games, and hopefully no gimmicks attached. The hope is that every PS4 game is capable of being streamed to that beautiful OLED screen. Meaning I can play Watch Dogs or Diablo III in the living room as my family watches Glee or, of course, as I take a number 2. The Vita has a wonderful screen, and dual analog sticks should make for easy adaptability to controller games. This is one reason I believe the touchpad has been implemented to the controller, to imitate the Vita's touch screen interface (again, multi-touch, not one-touch like Wii U). This is also where Sony has the upper hand against Microsoft. Unless Microsoft somehow can make Halo controls work with touchscreens with the Smart Glass thing they have going, there is no way for them to imitate a remote play feature that the Wii U has and the PS4 hopefully has.
Killzone: Shadow Fall is shown and is not as dark and dreary as other Killzone games. Instead it's on Vekta again, where it all began, and this time in a skyscraper ridden city amidst shiny reflective glass and white foamed waterfalls. This is certainly not what you think when you think Killzone. The graphics are, however, up to par with what you have come to expect of Guerrilla Games, shiny, detailed, and pretty. It's an FPS, with a seemingly minimized UI, a gun that acts as assault rifle and Sniper (which reminded me very much of Star Wars Republic Commando's main weapon), climbing was shown, air assassination, and a slow-mo effect occured as well. The finale was underwhelming, hanging onto a rope off some flying APC and jumping off onto a small platform, but overall the demo impressed.
What it did not make me do however was scream. Infamous: Second Son did though.
Seeing the comic art style as a representative from Sucker Punch was on stage kept me guessing until they showed someone gaining powers, that's when I knew it. Their new logo appeared, and Seattle was shown, different from the psuedo-real cities of Empire City and New Marais. It's not about Cole anymore, and is instead 7 years after Infamous 2, which brings confusion as to which ending of Infamous 2 is canonical. Is Cole dead along with every other Conduit? Or is Cole still gathering Conduits, leading them on a revolution against the entire human population. Either way we have a new Infamous game, a series whose starting game I declared my favorite game this generation, and my favorite game of all time. His powers rely on smoke, so they say, which is pretty lame compared to Cole's electric powers. He really appears more like Nix with his style of combat, disappearing and reappearing, red smoke fireballs. It was a very short trailer but looked so good.
The creator of Braid came on to talk about a compact open world game, compared to an empty huge open world, that appears to be a explore and make the story your own. The narrative-less, yet still has a story theme to it has me intrigued. And it looks great too, though the puzzles shown confuse me, however he stated one of the themes if epiphany where you realize the solution in a sudden burst after a long time of being tricked. A game to keep tabs on for sure.
Media Molecule, while usually blowing us away with LittleBitPlanet, decided to just mess around with artsy stuff and show nothing really besides the potential, as well as bringing up that the PlayStation Move still exists. Moving on…
Capcom came on and said it wasn't Street Fighter, instead it was a Demon's Souls inspired trailer of western medieval knights fighting a dragon in a realistic dark gritty dungeon of sorts. Social messaging for group play was also included.
Square Enix showed the same trailer they did awhile ago for their next-gen graphics (WHAT ARE YOU DOING?) and then a man came and spoke terrible English reportedly saying to be excited for E3 cause they're going to talk about the next Final Fantasy game. If it's not Versus, FFVII remake, or Tactics II I don't care.
Watch Dogs was awesome. While some parts were confusing, especially the ending to the trailer, the gameplay looks so creative. I believe what was shown was a side mission of sorts, just something you can do if you so desire. Once again the game looks fantastic and is most likely optimized for next gen consoles, despite being released for current gen, and Wii U apparently. It looks better than GTAV honestly, and much deeper with the electronic world offering you the power to be a vigilante who is basically a tech god in that world. Very exciting stuff if they can pull it all together, which I believe they can. The only nervous part is when he looks at details on certain individuals, how many of them will be unique, and how many will be cut and paste copies. You can only have so many NPC's usually, and I don't know if they can take the time to creat unique backstories or details for a million people in a big city that you'll be in.
Activision came out last to talk about a huge franchise coming to PS4, while at first I thought they would reveal the next Call of Duty for the first time, instead it was something better, Bungie a former Microsoft exclusive, showing up to tell people Destiny, a game many are excited for despite a lack of gameplay. Exclusive PS3/4 content was promised and more concept footage and "gameplay" was shown, though only non-combative. It's clearly too early in production to have a good look at what it will play like, it's definitely something to keep your eyes on.
Some minor things, Sony showed a picture of all the 3rd party support they will get, Bethesda, Rockstar, Level 5, Atlus, 2K and Arc System Works. These are all publishers/developers that know PS4 and X720 are where the future of gaming is at. Developers want to push the limits of games, and they have been hard at work on creating engines specifically for next generation consoles. One thing I forgot to touch on earlier, is that PSN profiles will remain the same, trophy level and friends list was shown, as well as an uglier XMB, and an Avatar that was a picture he uploaded of himself, meaning finally we can personalize our avatars as we see fit instead of choosing form free and not so free avatars off the store. Basically people can abuse this with pictures of their junk, or people like me can upload my Number 8 Axel pic and be satisfied with that. Simple touches that just make everything so sweet. I hope they allow me to disconnect though, or turn these features for social connection off. Even now with the minimal interference of PSN, I sometimes log off so I can just play a game and not worry about missing a message or being interrupted Used games and always online were not mentioned, and I doubt they well be at E3. They may not even be real features at all. Stop bitching Internet. The final thing Sony left for us was "Coming Holiday 2013", basically meaning this is the year for next generation. Save up now, cause it's going to be awesome.
PlayStation 4 is real, and it's going to be awesome and bring what people expected of next gen consoles.


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The pricing game VS the noise
Note that I had to enable moderation for all comments as it seems my blog is the favorite target for spammers trying to sell stuff so given some time I'll approve all comments. Sorry about that.
I don't recall ever reading a PC game postmortem in which the price was set as a good or bad point. At no point have I seen a dev saying "our game didn't make well because it was priced too high". In fact many will tell you that a lower price results in less revenue so that appeal of selling something for cheap doesn't compensate for the revenue loss. While a higher price do result in possibly less sales the net revenue in the end is generally higher.
It's hard to really back this up with numbers as such stats are usually kept private and you can't expect much from a discussion about money with strangers on the Internet so you have to talk directly with devs about that. All there is to analyze for players is "this game sold X copies and is priced $Y" so from that you can make bogus conclusions all day long. The lack of real information brings the noise in the decision process of pricing and it can be easy to follow that noise when you don't have much experience in selling games.
The first thing the noise do is to compare games to each other based on the price. It can be as silly as "this game is 3D and cost $15 so that 2D game can't be sold for more than $10″. A quick visit to indie games Steam's forums will get you plenty of that. You can't blame players for wanting to pay as little as possible but just because someone complains it doesn't mean that you should listen to them. For all we know, someone who publicly claims he won't buy zombie shooter #354 because it cost too much might as well buy it the next week. Posting on a forum your refusal to buy a game doesn't create a legal contract that will be enforced …
What the noise does also is to tempt you to use pricing as some marketing/selling point. Statements like "I'd buy it if it was $5 but at $10 I have to pass" shouldn't put any pressure on devs to promote their game based on its price. There are plenty of games sold for cheap that still don't meet any success. Trying to remain in the "indie pricing range" doesn't bring any benefit to devs beside maybe avoiding reading someone complaining about the price of your game. Not much of a benefit I'd say …
It's similar to what we see or I should say what we used to see about demo. Not releasing a demo had the effect of people threatening to not buy your game and for a long time I guess devs believed the lack of demo would hurt sales. Well guess what! These days it seems you have more chances to be hit by lightning than finding a demo for some game you'd like to buy and devs are still doing just fine. The lack of demo is so common now that you rarely hear any complaints about it. Even I used to complain about that but now I have given up and don't care anymore. If I'm really on the fence I'll go watch some YouTube videos and that's it.
Just like higher prices, devs are now admitting more and more that not releasing a demo is actually better for sales or at least doesn't have any bad visible effect. In fact there's no need for a demo in a world full of bundles and Steam sales really … I have my own small experiment about this with Bret Airborne for which a demo is available. While it's far from a smashing success the number of sales are still gigantic compared to the number of time the demo has been downloaded. You would expect the opposite but the fact is most people who bought the game just went straight to the checkout page without bothering with the demo. It's not quite an incentive to release a demo for my next game I must say …
At this point the only reason one would want to release a demo would be to be on the front page of the demo page on Steam for several weeks since demo are so rare. If anyone check that page that is …
Some people have already figured that trying to conquer the world PC games with cheap prices just ain't worth it. Planetary Annihilation is currently sold for $60 and is still in alpha (if I remember well it was even sold for $90 at first). Prison Architect is sold for $30 and is still months from release I guess. Spacebase DF-9 is in early access phase for $25. Democracy 3 released at $25 without any release discount.
Sure people complained and will keep complaining but you don't see these devs panicking and suddenly dropping the price on their games. All we can guess from that is that people are still buying these games at that price and the devs don't let the noise distract them from running their business. I wouldn't be surprised to see more and more indie games get out of the $5-$15 range and hear that players didn't desert.
For more on the topic I invite you to check this post: Strategy games, pricing, and the enjoyment curve. Funny enough the first 2 comments so far are exactly what I was talking about when I was saying that devs must be careful to not get lost in the noise. These people may have valid points for their own situation but shouldn't be the anchor point of any dev when it comes to pricing a game.
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It's hard to get any usable comparison data for games pricing. It's rather like automobiles – two different cars may have the same features, but prices thousands of dollars variant.
Car ephemerals like the brand name (game equivalents being things like designer/company/license) will effect pricing.
Then one person's "tight" suspension is the next person's "rough and bumpy", or someone's "loose and wobbly" steering is another person's "forgiving". Head bob, field of view, mouse speed, default hotkey configuration, etc – all play into game experience. Some really great games have undersold due to bad interface, and some less than stellar games have had massive sales partially due to ease of use.
So even if statistics were released, finding apples to compare to apples would be extremely hard.
With a global marketplace scenario, you also lack the easy ability to segregate markets to release one product at two price points and see which price performs more successfully. Various online vendors (i.e. Steam) are all effectively 'opt in' memberships, so you couldn't compare between two and generate reasonable results.
Bottom line – I don't think testing of pricing is really possible at this junction.
That said, cheaper is not always better. Are some of those big price items you mentioned worth two+ other games? Most probably not, but I would bet money that they'll greatly profit from human psychology regarding high prices and perceived value.
Your TSR screenshots look very clean and professional – don't undervalue your product when you release it to market!
Would you like to buy a vacuum cleaner?
All jokes aside, as I sit here typing my comment I realize I don't have much to say. I guess one simply has to filter out the noise, considering there is an almost 0% possibility of folks telling you to raise the price. Price point shouldn't be an issue, if your going to buy a game are you going to buy it because of a 5 dollar difference?
When Battlefield 2 was nearly ready they released Gulf of Oman as a demo. I went with a bunch of friends in a computer gaming place and we played the map and we got hooked and bought the game later (after upgrading our computers of course). Otherwise I think I would have stuck longer with Battlefield 1942 and Desert Combat mod. I would say from a player's perspective: don't overlook the demo but just don't waste precious time on it. Bring it up before you relesae the game (or even after) because somebody could use it, love the game, buy the game. And like you said it could bring more exposure as well.


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In Honor Of National Orgasm Day: Meet The Man Who Orgasms To The Sound Of Brass Instruments
After suffering a stroke, one questionably lucky 45-year-old man noticed something different about how he felt while listening to the James Bond theme music. According to the UK's Daily Mail, the anonymous gentleman reported feeling "orgasmic sensations" and viewing "flashing blue lights" as though he were having an out of body experience.
Despite the fact that this sounds pretty awesome, the poor guy was terrified. Naturally, he thought that he was losing his mind because he never before had been aroused by the sound of high-pitched brass instruments. "It scared the hell out of me. I thought, 'this is how you lose your mind,"' he told the Daily Mail. "I was convinced I was going to go crazy."
It turns out, his orgasmic reaction to brass instruments is due to synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes people to observe one sense but experience it in several ways. For example, this man could also taste the color blue. Whoa, trippy, right? Since his diagnosis, the man has learned how to control his orgasms caused by 007, but perhaps today, National Orgasm Day, he might let one slide.
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1. Re: OC database question3sth3r_m Aug 1, 2012 5:07 AM (in response to Tim Reidy)yes, you see all the database processes, lots of them
yes, it's slower (until someone has something different to say)
I suppose you can get your DBA to do some database tuning, but these settings may be lost when you patch/upgrade the EC. The other option is to run a separate database on another server.
2. Re: OC database questionTim Reidy Aug 1, 2012 1:43 PM (in response to Tim Reidy)Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was concerned about the LOCAL=NO. I thought since the database is resident on the same machine, it would be LOCAL=YES.
I haven't done much oracle database work in many years and I'm not sure how things work these days.


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Maternal and newborn health
In 2004, the World Health Assembly adopted a strategy for reproductive health to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international goals and targets, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). All 53 Member States in the WHO European Region approved the strategy, of which improving maternal and newborn health is 1 of 5 core aspects.
Maternal, perinatal and newborn health matters to every person, society and country. The achievement of MDG 5 (for improved maternal health) is essential to that of MDG 4 (for reduced child mortality).
Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Perinatal health refers to health from 22 completed weeks of gestation until 7 completed days after birth. Newborn health refers to babies' first month of life. A healthy start during the perinatal period influences infancy, childhood and adulthood.
Health before pregnancy
Parents' overall health and lifestyle choices before pregnancy can affect fertility, maternal health and infants' probability of developing chronic conditions later in life. Such choices include: maintaining a healthy diet, being physically active and avoiding unhealthy behaviour (such as smoking, illicit drug use, alcohol consumption and unsafe sexual behaviour).
People contemplating pregnancy should be screened for health problems; these need to be diagnosed and managed for optimal maternal and newborn health.
During pregnancy, the dynamics of work and home life, as well as physiological and psychological needs, change in preparation for parenthood. A healthy environment and healthy lifestyle during the 40 weeks of pregnancy are important to optimize health in a woman's changing body.
In the 53 Member States in the WHO European Region, particular groups of women have a higher risk of adverse outcomes of pregnancy and birth, including: adolescents, migrants, Roma and women with low socioeconomic status or education level. (Poverty is strongly associated with poor reproductive health.) These groups often do not seek antenatal care, and experience violence during pregnancy. In 2008, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target 5B – "Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health" – was added to decrease inequality in the social determinants of sexual and reproductive health and reduce maternal mortality.
High-quality antenatal care (professional health care throughout pregnancy) is essential to monitor maternal, perinatal and newborn health, along with providing education and basic, easily understood information on health care to expectant parents. While most pregnancies are uneventful, high-quality antenatal care is needed to detect and manage the minority that has complications. Evidence shows that timely prevention, intervention and management reduce maternal, perinatal and newborn morbidity and mortality.
Delivery complications may require immediate professional care. That is why high-quality, evidenced-based emergency obstetric and neonatal care is one of WHO's highest priorities to reduce illness and death in mothers and their newborn babies.
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Breastfeeding is optimal for both maternal and child health, and crucial for a healthy start in life. Exclusive breastfeeding for six months provides just the nutrients that newborn babies need and promotes bonding with their mothers. For women, the benefits include a reduced risk of ovarian and breast cancer, and a quicker return to pre-pregnancy weight than with formula feeding.
Women who remain healthy during pregnancy and after birth are more likely to stay healthy later in life. The continuum of newborn, infant, child, adolescent, reproductive, maternal and perinatal health is part of a woman's life-course. All these stages are interrelated


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by ANONYMOUS
When I was 27 my parents split up. They took me to a local café, bought me a milkshake and told me my mum was moving out. I couldn't breathe.
I was only recently engaged and so at the highest high of my life, deliriously happy… I was forced to earth with the harshest of thuds.
The whole foundation of my life, my close-knit loving family, had been shattered. Irreversibly changed.
I'd seen it coming. But then again, I hadn't. They'd been married for more than 30 years, and I just thought after that long you get your shit together and sort it out.
For my whole life to that point I'd thought theirs was an idyllic relationship, the one I always dreamed of. They held hands, they kissed each other hello and goodbye every day, they travelled, they had good friends, they rarely fought. To me, it seemed like they were best friends. Where had it all gone wrong?
The problem with being an adult child of divorce is that you understand everything that's happening. You feel the very real and raw pain of your parents, every word that goes unsaid, and every awkwardly polite exchange.
In many ways, it's the worst kind of break-up because (unlike your girlfriends) you can't console one party by bitching about the other. You have to stay completely neutral, try not to lay blame and be on everyone's side. It's exhausting.
The thing is, no one seems to realise how hard it is. Most seem to think it's no big deal. So many times I've been told, "Well at least it didn't happen when you were young", and that's true. I don't live at home and I have my own life. But the reason I had the confidence to tackle the big wide world head-on was that I had that solid base to start from and return to if anything went wrong. Without that, I felt completely lost, as though the rug had been pulled right from under me.
It's not just my family going through this. Separation in couples over 50 is rapidly increasing. In fact it's doubled in 20 years, a phenomenon known as "The Grey Divorce". Most of those couples leave behind adult children, forced to navigate a new family dynamic, which can be incredibly tricky.
I do realise that whatever I'm going through is nothing compared with my parents. As much as it's changed my life – I still have my loving husband to go home to. They made it through the largest part of forever, only to have to start again.
But I'll admit it's forced me to ask myself, "How can I now believe in my own happy ever after?" The answer to that one is simple…I'm not my parents. And their experience has taught me you can never stop working on your relationship. Never take your eyes off the prize.
What I don't have the answer to is how this new-look family will work. I've spent all of my life having a stable family home. I have no idea how to cope with 'the team' divided. There's so much said about how parents should handle a divorce when children are involved, but I'll admit I'm completely lost with how adult children should handle their parents.
The author of this article is known to Mamamia but has chosen to remain anonymous.
Are your parents still together? Have you ever had an experience with 'grey divorce'?
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Harald Pietz, Acting Director, Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement Unit, CDC
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Friday, September 18, 2015 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM (EDT)
Harald Pietz, Acting Director
Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement Unit
Harald Pietz serves as the acting director for the Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement Unit in the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS). He previously served as branch chief for the Health Department and Systems Development Branch, Division of Public Health Performance Improvement, OSTLTS.
Pietz started with CDC in 1990. He has worked as a personnel generalist providing support to various CDC centers, institutes, and offices. Pietz was also an environmental protection specialist in the Office of Health and Safety (OHS), where he helped to establish and expand CDC's environmental compliance audit program, and lead CDC's pollution prevention and hazardous waste minimization efforts, among other projects.
Pietz moved from OHS and became a management analyst at the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Office of Policy, Evaluation and Legislation, where he was the team lead for strategic planning, project officer to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, worked on Healthy People 2010 and various special projects. Following the events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent anthrax attacks, Pietz became the principle deputy responsible for forming and developing NCEH's Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response Office.
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ACE Sam Bullas is keen for Swindon Wildcats to build up a head of steam to take them into the play-offs.
The Link Centre side host second-from-bottom Peterborough Phantoms tomorrow night before heading north to tackle EPL high-flyers Manchester Phoenix 24 hours later.
Following last weekend's 4-1 defeat at Guildford Flames, Bullas is well aware that the margin for error in cementing their place in the play-offs is getting smaller and smaller.
Just seven points separate Cats and the Phantoms going into tomorrow night's meeting, although Swindon have played three less matches.
Following some harsh words from coach Ryan Aldridge after the Flames loss, Bullas and his team-mates are looking to put the record straight.
The 23-year-old said: "No-one goes out there to lose, we all want to win.
"We know that we want to be higher in the table than we are and we have to make sure that we can get into the play-offs and go at full steam.
"This is my fifth year here and I would really like to push on and win some silverware."
Although Cats will go into the Phantom match as favourites, they beat the Peterborough side 7-1 when they last visited the Link Centre in January, the forward says that victory will not come easy.
"In years gone by, I think the league has been a little easier," Bullas said. "Now there no easy matches, it is a all about making sure that he are prepared right.
"You need to make sure you respect the opposition, not too much, because there have been a few upsets and it shows just how strong the league is."
Following the Phantoms clash, Cats head for the Altrincham Ice Dome to face-off against the team gunning for top spot, but despite this, the former Great Britain Under-20 international is keen to upset Manchester.
"It is never a nice place to go because it is a long bus journey," he said. "They are also having a great year.
"But having said that we have played some of our best hockey against them this year, so hopefully we can go there do our job and come back with the win."


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JERUSALEM (Dec. 25)
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol's visit to the United States, to confer with President Johnson, has been moved up by a month, and will take place in January, instead of February, as previously scheduled, it was announced here today. The announcement said the earlier date was set at the request of the White House, because of changes in the time-table of the U.S. Congress.
Mr. Eshkol is due to leave Israel January 5, and will arrive at New York's International Airport that day. He will stay in New York overnight, and will confer with President Johnson during the next two or three days. The place for the conference, it was indicated, has not yet been determined–it will be either in Washington or in Texas.


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An All-Star team for non-All-Stars
Finally, a way to recognize the deserving but unrecognized
By Lisa Winston / MLB.com | July 21, 2006 5:03 AM ET
That is how shocked I was when I read -- and re-read and re-read once again just to make sure I had read it right the first two times -- the roster for the California League squad at last month's Carolina-California League All-Star Game in Salem, Va.
The team had only 22 players representing 10 teams, so obviously, there were going to be some deserving players who were going to miss out on the chance to spend their All-Star break flying 2,500 miles from California to Virginia (oh, and the 2,500 miles back again).
But how was it possible that utilityman extraordinaire Mark Reynolds of the Lancaster JetHawks (Diamondbacks) didn't make the cut? Or JetHawks outfielder Carlos Gonzalez? Or JetHawks second baseman Emilio Bonifacio?
Reynolds, who was promoted to Double-A Tennessee on July 11, had been a legitimate contender for the California League Triple Crown for at least a month before his move up to the Southern League, ranking not only among Cal League leaders in home runs and RBIs but among the overall Minor League leaders in those categories. He was hitting .337 with 23 homers and 77 RBIs at the time of his promotion.
Gonzalez, the 20-year-old phenom who may be the best of a very deep crop of Arizona outfield prospects, was good enough to be named to the 2006 Futures Game World Team, representing his native Venezuela, but despite actually leading the Minors in RBIs for much of June, he, too, was overlooked for a spot on the Cal League squad. He remains at Lancaster, where he was hitting .315 with 15 homers, 78 RBIs (fourth in the Minors), 31 doubles (eighth), 49 extra-base hits (sixth) and 14 steals. The only knock on those stats might be his 24 errors. So they could have used him at DH.
Bonifacio, 21, is hitting .311 with 40 steals for the JetHawks. His 113 hits are among the Minor League leaders, and his 75 runs scored are second among all Minor Leaguers. One of the top stolen base threats in the system, he swiped 55 bases at Class A South Bend in 2005 while hitting .275.
And while I understood that southpaw Greg Smith, who was 9-0 with a league-leading ERA at the time (in fact, a month later, he still leads the league in ERA) had been promoted to Double-A Tennessee two days earlier, it might have been nice had he been named to the team and then replaced, if for no other reason so he could say he'd been a California League All-Star.
So I decided that even if Smith and several other deserving players can't say they were midseason All-Stars, they can officially say they were "Lisa's Midseason All-Stars Who Weren't All-Stars."
I am sure this will make them feel much better.
Mark Reynolds, Carlos Gonzalez, Emilio Bonifacio, Greg Smith, welcome to MY M-SA-SWWA-S Team. I'm afraid this honor does not come with any fireworks, home run derbies, lunch banquets, golf tournaments or other perks. But I felt it necessary to single out a few individuals who, for a variety of reasons (and in a few cases no evident reasons at all), were not named to any of the official midseason All-Star teams.
Like the three JetHawks mentioned above, there is no apparent reason for the glaring exclusion of Columbus Catfish (Dodgers) right fielder Sergio Pedroza from the South Atlantic League Southern Division All-Star team, since he was among the league leaders in homers and RBIs. So, Sergio, welcome to MY team. We are proud to have you and your .281 average, 21 homers and 75 RBIs at Columbus on our squad and congratulate you on your recent promotion to Class A Advanced Vero Beach.
Come on down, Portland Beavers (Padres) first baseman/DH Jon Knott. Your 21 homers rank seventh in the Minors and your 76 RBIs are tied for seventh overall, but you still managed to slip through the cracks when it came time to select the Triple-A Pacific Coast League squad.
Not every member of my Not-All-Star team was blatantly overlooked, however. Some, like Greg Smith, had the "misfortune" of being so darned good that they were promoted before their original league's All-Star Game and too late to have amassed enough stats or time to qualify for their new league's game.
For example, Cleveland Indians outfield prospect Ryan Goleski was on a Triple Crown pace at Class A Kinston with a .331 average, 10 homers and 43 RBIs before being promoted to Double-A Akron on May 27. There, he has hit .307 with nine more homers and 32 RBIs but no All-Star designation by his name.
In fact, we will compose our entire pitching rotation of players who fit that bill. Joining Smith on the mound are Detroit right-hander Humberto Sanchez, Oakland hurler Jason Windsor and another Arizona prospect, right-hander Micah Owings.
Sanchez has combined, between Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo, for 10 wins and a 2.50 ERA, and his 125 strikeouts between the two stops rank fifth in the Minors. He was on hand to enjoy the Triple-A All-Star Game festivities in Toledo anyway since he lives in an apartment across the street from Fifth Third Field. And even though he didn't make the Eastern or International League squads, he received the honor of being the starting pitcher for the World Team in the Futures Game at Pittsburgh's PNC Park.
Owings was 6-2 with a 2.91 ERA at Double-A Tennessee before moving up in early June to Triple-A Tucson, where he's gone 6-0 with a 3.92 ERA (combined 3.26). And his 12 wins between the two stops have him tied for second in the Minors.
And Windsor, who went 4-1 with a 2.97 ERA at Double-A Midland and 8-0 with a 4.07 at Triple-A Sacramento following an early May promotion, could probably care less about this incredible honor, because he got called up to the Majors earlier this week and made his big-league debut Monday night, allowing one earned run in five innings.
Lisa Winston is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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John Tortorella knows something about losing to the Boston Bruins in the postseason but talk about the 2011 Stanley Cup finals is off limits to him.
The Vancouver Canucks coach has chosen Roberto Luongo as his goalie Saturday night when the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins visit Rogers Arena for the first time since that series in a matchup of streaking teams.
Boston (22-8-2) has pleasant memories of its last game at Vancouver, winning 4-0 in Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals that set off rioting in the city.
Tortorella wasn't coaching the Canucks then, but his ill-fated tenure with the New York Rangers ended with a five-game loss in the Eastern Conference semifinals the last time he saw the Bruins last season.
The coach made clear his disdain for talking about that epic Canucks-Bruins series.
"That's all you guys talk about is Boston," said Tortorella after his team's 4-0 home win over Edmonton on Friday. "Didn't that happen about 20 years ago? We'll play the game hard. They'll play the game hard and we'll see what happens in 60 minutes."
Luongo will face Boston for the first time since he was one of the scapegoats for that Cup finals defeat with a 4.67 goals-against average in the final five games.
He made 19 saves for his 65th career shutout Friday - one behind Patrick Roy for 14th on the all-time list. This is the Canucks' seventh set of back-to-back games. Luongo has started both of them just once previously, beating Columbus on Nov. 22 and losing 2-1 to Chicago the next day on goals nine seconds apart in the third period.
"I think it's just a fun game to play in," said Luongo about Saturday's contest. "It's been a few years now and I think we've all moved on but that being said, there's a history there and those are the type of games you want to be playing in."
Vancouver (19-10-5) is one of the hottest teams in the NHL, seeking its first seven-game win streak since March 22-April 3, 2012. Boston is looking for its first five-game win streak and a four-game sweep of this Canadian road trip.
It's unclear if Tuukka Rask will start opposite Luongo after he sat out Thursday's 4-2 win at Edmonton due to the flu, with Chad Johnson taking his place.
The Bruins are also without injured players in Chris Kelly (broken leg), Loui Eriksson (concussion), Adam McQuaid (lower-body injury) and Dougie Hamilton (lower-body injury).
Boston also found out earlier Saturday that forward Shawn Thornton was suspended for 15 games without pay for punching and injuring unsuspecting Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik a week ago. Thornton has already served three games of the ban.
The short-handed club used a fast start to prevail against the Oilers, taking a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes. The Bruins were outshot 27-13 the rest of the way.
''It's a road win, and we have to be happy with it,'' said Brad Marchand, who had two goals and an assist in the Game 7 win. ''We know we are not going to put our best game on the ice every night, but we want to keep building. With all of the injuries we have right now, every win is huge.''
The Canucks have killed off all 17 penalties during their win streak while the Bruins are 3 for 7 on the power play on this trip.
The Sedin brothers combined for five points in the 2011 Stanley Cup finals and have totaled just one in the Canucks' last three games, but their coach isn't putting any extra emphasis on this one as Vancouver tries to sweep its five-game homestand.
"We respect Boston, it's a good hockey club but this is just another game in our schedule," Tortorella said. "We talked about this homestand, we've gotten four of them, now we've got to get ready to play another good team."


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1983 Halifax murder of pregnant woman remains unsolved
Posted May 25, 2014
Weldon, N.C. — More than three decades ago, a Halifax County family suffered a double loss. Susan Clary, then eight months pregnant, was found dead in her bed. Since then, her murder and that of her unborn child have remained a mystery.
Maurice Shearin, Clary's mother, remembers how her husband went to check on the mother-to-be.
"He went up there. The back door was open, and he went in and he found her laying on the bed, stark naked with a bra wrapped around her neck," Shearin said.
Investigators say Clary died of asphyxiation, yet the bra around her neck wasn't used to kill her.
"When I got there, they were bringing her out of the house, and her hand fell out from under the cover. And I realized then that she was gone," Shearin said. "You got an emptiness that you can't ever fill."
Clary was 19 years old. The baby she was carrying would be approaching a 31st birthday.
A strange set of circumstances have shrouded the case from the start. Two guns were found in the room, one next to the body, yet neither had been fired. Any fingerprints were wiped clean.
That alone is unusual, according to Major Bruce Temple, of the Halifax Sheriff's Office.
"If somebody spontaneously left those in those awkward positions, you would think that they wouldn't have wiped them clean. They would have just taken them typically," he said.
Clary's husband, Tim, said he left the home while his wife was still asleep. He said that was the last time he saw her alive.
Investigators have eliminated many suspects in the last three decades, but the case remains unsolved.
"We hope that after all these years this case will touch the heart of somebody, and they're going to be inclined to tell us something," Temple said.
Anyone with information about the murder of Susan Shearin Clary in Halifax County can call NC Wanted, toll free, at 1-866-439-2683 to report an anonymous tip.


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Gwendolyn Morgan Marlin, 69, formerly of Richmond, and wife of Dr. Franklin L. Marlin, died after a long illness on July 19, 2007, in their home in Oklahoma City, OK.
The daughter of Zachary Taylor and Alma Morgan, she was born on July 9, 1938, in Muskogee, OK. She and Franklin were high school sweethearts and married on May 3, 1958, also in Muskogee. She served with him in ministry for the United Methodist Church for 45 years.
She believed her mission on earth was to be the hands of God and she carried this out by participating in Volunteers in Mission in Belize and Costa Rica. She crafted banners that hang in churches in North and Central America and in Russia. She was the director of the Retired Senior Citizens Volunteer Program in Buchanan County, MO. She designed the paraments for the Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church in Missouri in 1991 and the stoles for the new elders of the Missouri West Conference. She was a social worker in the Missouri flood of 1993 and worked as a volunteer coordinator in the church for 12 years. She once served as the director of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program in Buchanan County. She will always be remembered for her ability to love others and forgive unconditionally, for her good humor and faithfulness in friendships, and above all, for being a completely devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister and aunt.
She is survived by: three daughters and two sons-in-law, Cheryl of Oklahoma City, Jana and husband, Jim Meeks of The Colony, Texas, Lisa and husband, Bill Moore of Hooper, CO; one son and daughter-in-law, Stephen and wife Lisa, Marlin of Warren, MI.; two brothers; a sister-in-law; a brother-in-law; 11 grandchildren; and numerous cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
Her parents preceded her in death.
The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Oklahoma County, Foundation Dept. 1107470, 3300 N.W. Expressway St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73112-9988; Volunteers in Mission, Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church, 1501 N.W. 24th St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73106-3635; or the University of Oklahoma Foundation, Willed Body Program, BSEB 100, P.O. Box 26901, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73190.
A Celebration Service of her life was held July 24, 2007, at Epworth United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.
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The corporate regulator's deputy chairman,
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission dealt the enforceable undertaking after a six-month investigation uncovered flaws in the group's risk management and compliance framework.
"This outcome should send a warning to securities dealers about the importance of having adequate compliance and governance standards," Ms Gibson said.
The action is the second enforceable undertaking ASIC has issued to the financial services operator this year. ASIC has also cancelled the Australian Financial Services Licence of four companies in the past three months.
In January, the regulator accepted an enforceable undertaking from
ASIC says Macquarie's advisers failed to demonstrate reasonable basis for the advice they provided and could not prove clients were sophisticated investors when placing them in risky products and strategies.
The regulator found Halifax was guilty of six main offences including failing to adequately monitor its authorised representatives, failing to ensure staff were properly trained and adhered to professional standards, and failing to have an adequate complaints assessment and handling process.
Under the enforceable undertaking, Halifax must also appoint an independent consultant to review its operations and come up with a plan to rectify the deficiencies within the next 12 months.
The independent expert will report regularly to ASIC on the implementation of the plan.
If the review finds that clients have been adversely impacted due to Halifax's misconduct, Halifax will be required to remediate the client where appropriate, Ms Gibson said.
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BLUSHING brides-to-be are spending more on beauty treatments than their
wedding dresses, new figures show.
A survey of 5,000 British brides revealed 80 per cent were splashing out on
pricey procedures including Botox, facial peels and even boob jobs to look
their best on their big day.
Half of the women quizzed by wedding website confetti.co.uk were having
teeth whitening treatments or veneers – at up to £1,000 per tooth.
Here LAUREN NAYLOR talks to three brides who are embracing the so-called
'bridalplasty' trend.
Louise Woollam, 47
Semi-permanent make-up – brows, £595 and lashes, £550
8 x slimming treatment – £750;
8 x eye bag reduction – £360
8 x facials – £300
Eyelash extensions – £130
ACCOUNTANT Louise will marry Matt Wallace, a business development manager,
37, in February. They live in Kensington, W London. Louise says:
I've bought my wedding dress on eBay, so I'll spend the money I've saved on
treatments. So far, I've had a slimming and toning treatment on my arms,
which is one of a course of eight for £750.
I've also booked courses of laser facials and eye bag treatments. And I've had
permanent make-up done by Tracie Giles, whose clients include Towie's Lauren
Goodger and Lydia Bright. I had a brow and lower lash definer. I'll get
eyelash extensions too.
As an older bride you wonder if people will look at your wrinkles, so if a
treatment can help, I'm all for it.
Emma Winders, 31
Hair removal – £500
Pigmentation treatment – £600
Teeth whitening – £60;
Facials – £2,200
Filler in hands – £550
Lip filler – £375
Botox – £200
BEAUTICIAN Emma, from Brentwood, Essex, married Phil, 37, a Royal Mail
manager, in Majorca this June. Emma says:
I spent 18 months trying out treatments before my wedding to make sure I
looked my absolute best. I had laser permanent hair removal, plus laser
treatment for pigmentation on my arms and face. I also found a great offer
on teeth whitening.
I had about 20 skin peels teamed with a facial light treatment, at £110 a
session. I wanted my hands to look amazing in the ring shots too, so I had
an injectable filler in them. I also had fillers in my lips and Botox in my
Some brides diet for their big day, I enhanced my looks. You just want
everything to be perfect.
Rachel Ford, 42
Botox – £200
Filler in cheeks – £1,000
Filler in lips – £250
SALES manager Rachel, from Chester, Cheshire, married second husband Peter,
47, a letting firm manager, last August. Rachel has two sons Sam, 19, and
Peter, 17, from a previous relationship and Peter has son Sam, 13. Rachel
The first time I married, I was 21 and it was all about the dress. This time
around I was more concerned about how I looked. I wanted to feel confident
walking down the aisle, so I had Botox and fillers to plump up my cheeks and
Seeing the results I feel it was money well spent. I actually felt more
confident than I did at my first wedding.
On your big day, all eyes are on you, so of course you want to look your best.
Every time I see the photos, I smile.
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More than half-a-million overseas Australian citizens will not vote in September's election having been taken off the rolls by the country's electoral laws.
Labor believes this missing electorate, heavily dominated by the young, could swing a close election to the left.
Liberal Party UK president Jason Groves said staying enrolled for Australians abroad was notoriously difficult.
"You've got to be particularly determined to vote if you're a longer term resident overseas and want to stay on the electoral roll," he said.
As a matter of practicality, voting when abroad is not compulsory. But if an Australian citizen fails to vote when overseas the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) may well remove them from the electoral role.
The AEC will also remove any elector who has been living away for more than six years and does not re-enroll every year.
This year overseas voters must enroll by Monday August 12 or face the possibility of being struck off.
According to the website of expatriate advocacy organisation the Southern Cross Group (SCG), being taken off the roll can mean future exclusion from Australian political life.
"The catch is that if you get wiped off, and it's more than three years since you moved overseas to live, you won't be able to re-enroll from abroad. If you can't enroll, you're effectively disenfranchised."
A person in this position must take up residency in Australia for at least one month before they can re-enroll.
SCG co-founder Anne MacGregor said she had received emails from people who were confused and upset to find they were no longer allowed to vote.
She said citizens abroad gave an enormous amount to their country: "The diaspora is part of Australia because it is Australia's big fleet of roaming ambassadors."
ALP Abroad president Paul Smith said the laws were created at a time when citizens abroad tended to lose immediate contact with their home country.
"It's just ridiculous in this age to base your laws on what was appropriate in the age of the sailing ship."
Now that communication and technology had made the world so much smaller, Smith questioned why eligible voters were excluded.
There are at least 650,000 Australians of voting age living abroad. In 2010 less than 75,000 of them voted.
The issue is of particular chagrin to Labor. Young people are heavily represented within the diaspora. The youth vote is traditionally fertile ground for the left.
In overseas polling, said Smith, Labor receives a two-to-one advantage over the Coalition after preferences.
"That's enough to swing a close election," he said.
According to Smith's figures, the issue could represent a net loss of more than 200,000 votes for Labor. With these extra votes Labor would have won the 2010 election by more than 1.5% of the two party preferred vote – perhaps avoiding minority government.
Smith said overseas citizens had pushed Labor over the line in the electorates of Hindmarsh and Solomon in 2004 and 2007 respectively.
As for changing the laws, he said electoral reform was traditionally the job of Labor governments.
"I think that the conservatives have always had an interest in restricting the franchise of people to vote," said Smith. "So I think it's up to Labor to ensure that every Australian has a right to vote."
Groves said the support for greater enfranchisement was bilateral and Smith's assumptions about the electorate were wrong.
He said people who were adversely affected by the electoral laws were those who had been away longer and were older, meaning a full overseas vote should be an even one.
MP reminds youth to have their say
Voters have until Monday evening to get on the electoral roll or miss out on voting for Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Christine Milne – or whoever.
Youth Minister Kate Ellis said the enrolment rate of young Australians was very low, with one in two of all 18-year-olds still not registered to vote.
She said enrolling was quick and easy in the digital age.Those wishing to get on to the electoral roll have until 8pm on Monday, when the roll closes.
To enrol to vote, go online to aec.gov.au/enrol.


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Penton v Winterbourne II.
Winterbourne II batted in the final game of the season with Gary Arnold (11) and Mike Turner (10). Bevon Joseph took a fine catch off Barry Kavanagh's bowling to dismiss Arnold and Neilon Liam Joseph bowled Turner shortly afterwards with the score on 26. Nathan McSweeney (4) was then caught by Paul Stanford off Kavanagh before Mick Hunter (35) and Chris Dickinson (30 no) produced a steadying partnership of 48 to boost the score up to 74. When Kavanagh caught a difficult high ball to dismiss Hunter, Winterbourne completed their innings on 116 -6.
Penton's opener Richard Jenson was caught early for six off Ghula Abbas, but John Hunter (32) and Huw Rouse (66) were able to take the score to 120-1 for Penton's tenth win out of 12 games this season to secure promotion to Regional Division 2 next year after seven years in Division 3. Special thanks go to retiring chairman and groundsman Paul Gibbs, who has been involved with the club since it was reformed in 1970, for all his unseen work on the pitch and organisation of the club.


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[EDITOR'S NOTE, March 3, 2011: This story was a follow-up to a piece that originally aired 10 years ago. At the time, reporter Colin Fogarty profiled an 8-year-old child named Anthony. His last name was withheld because he was a minor. NPR has now been informed by Friends of the Children that they made a major mistake: The Anthony Blackmon in the current story is not the same Anthony. Both Anthonys had the same mentor. The Anthony profiled in the original piece dropped out of the program and they have lost contact with him. NPR is looking into how Friends of the Children made the error and what happened to the young man from the original story.]
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Fifteen million troubled kids who could use a mentor don't have one. That's according to the Mentoring Group, which links troubled kids with responsible adults. One program in Portland, Oregon tries to bridge that gap with paid mentorships. It's called Friends of the Children. And it was created by millionaire turned social entrepreneur Duncan Campbell is the founder.
Mr. DUNCAN CAMPBELL (Founder, Friends of the Children): We go to the most difficult neighborhoods and the most difficult schools and ask for the child that they don't expect to finish grade school, let alone high school.
SIEGEL: More than 10 years ago on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, reporter Colin Fogarty introduced us to a boy enrolled in the program that Campbell started. This year, NPR is profiling social entrepreneurs. And as part of that series, we sent Fogarty back to find out if paying mentors actually worked.
COLIN FOGARTY: When Anthony Blackmon was 8 years old, he was smart and flashed a sweet smile. But his principal at the time, Joseph Malone, also remembers Anthony was...
Mr. JOSEPH MALONE (Principal, Portland Public Schools): Always getting into something. And he would get angry and he'd get upset. And when he got angry it took him a while to even calm down.
FOGARTY: Anthony's teachers worried if they didn't intervene early, he'd grow even angrier and eventually join a gang. That's why they recommended him for Friends of the Children.
(Soundbite of a basketball)
FOGARTY: Here's Anthony in 2000, shooting hoops with his mentor, Earl Fonville. The two hung out together and talked a lot about getting control of his behavior.
ANTHONY (Student): I learned to think positive and to be the best I can be. I just try to do the right thing. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This is not Anthony Blackmon speaking.]
FOGARTY: Anthony told Fonville he wanted to grow up to be a Christian hip-hop artist.
Mr. EARL FONVILLE (Mentor, Friends of the Children): I definitely believe that he can be those things that he wants to be if he makes good choices. And that's what I try to instill in him.
FOGARTY: Fonville's role was something of a social worker, friend, teacher and advisor - all rolled into one. Anthony's mother, Cheryl Blackmon, could see a difference early on.
Ms. CHERYL BLACKMON: Anthony, before he was in the program, was really -seemed to be really angry all the time. And since Earl has been around him and in his life, I've noticed that that's calmed down a whole lot.
FOGARTY: Most mentoring programs - like Big Brothers, Big Sisters - rely on volunteers. This one stands apart because its mentors work full-time for a salary. It's unclear whether that approach is more successful. One researcher at the University of Oregon has begun a long-term study to find out. Friends reports 85 percent of its students graduate from high school, whereas the U.S. Department of Education says the national average is 75 percent.
Friends' executive director Judy Stavisky says her program is successful because the mentors get intensive social work training and work with no more than eight kids at a time.
Ms. JUDITH STAVISKY (National Director, Friends of the Children): The role of the mentor is both an anchor and a sail for the kids, because these kids have very little of each. We provide that grounding experience for the kids. We also open their eyes to the universe of possibilities of the way they could behave and the way their lives can be.
FOGARTY: One of the first steps to succeeding is actually imagining yourself as a success. Stavisky says the key is sticking with those kids for the long haul, from first grade through the end of high school. That was the original vision from Friends founder Duncan Campbell. He grew up in the same rough Portland neighborhood as Anthony and faced challenges of his own; alcoholic parents, dad in prison.
Campbell made a fortune in timber investments. But he says measuring success as a social entrepreneur is a different calculation entirely.
Mr. CAMPBELL: Like in business, you know what you're doing monthly, yearly; and you see the outcome or you see the reward or the failure. Here, we don't even know for five to seven to eight years, let alone 12 years if we've made a real change in a child's life. It takes patience.
FOGARTY: After 18 years, Campbell's creation now spans six cities, including New York and Boston. These salaried mentorships are costly, about $9,000 per child per year. So was that expense worth it in the case of Anthony Blackmon?
(Soundbite of piano music)
FOGARTY: He's now 18, attending Benedict College all the way in South Carolina. The boy who wanted to be a Christian hip-hop artist is studying music. Here he is in the same gym in Portland where I met him 10 years ago, not shooting hoops, but playing one of his own songs.
(Soundbite of music)
FOGARTY: Anthony says Friends was one of the few constants in his life.
Mr. BLACKMON: I mean, there were some things going on at home. Plus, you know, I had problems at school. And so, it's like when I came to Friends, it was like my getaway.
(Soundbite of music)
FOGARTY: In fact, Anthony says it was hard to leave Friends. At a goodbye ceremony last May, his mentor...
Mr. BLACKMON: ...cried like a baby. And so... (Laughing) No, but, you know, I cried too. You know, we cried. We shared tears, you know? This place helped me get to a place in my mind, saying: I can do this. You know, I went through the fire. Now, I'm coming out as pure gold.
FOGARTY: Anthony says rather than be in the spotlight, his ambition is to be a music producer. That way, he says, he can help someone else succeed.
For NPR News, I'm Colin Fogarty in Portland.
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You have to make a start somewhere. For me this start was October the 25th in 2005. It was a day where I've dashed back and forth between Hillside and Portobello as I attempted to move, piece by piece, the contents of my flat.
But wait. No. This is not that sort of blog. I have one of those already, it lives on LiveJournal where I think blogs like that belong.
This blog should be a different animal. I work in search engine optimisation, a form of internet marketing, search engine marketing if you would like (and some people do prefer the term). Each day I try and find enough time to check what the popular search blogs are saying, I'm checking for official news from the search engines who maintain blogs themselves or what the industry gurus think. I suppose we're lucky that we have an industry where the gurus are so loud on their blogs, in this case blogging and opinion go hand in hand with the industry landscape. We still influence each other.
I am lucky. I work for one of the best SEO firms in the world. No doubt of that. At times I find it ironic that I'm so busy I rarely get to read what other blogs say. I might be being a bit daft in thinking that I have the time to write a blog of my own. I'll try. I want to. From time to time I just feel that an industry or search engine development needs a comment. Whereas this blog is not the place I spleen daily foo, this blog will be the personal-professional vent for search engine and search engine optimisation news and views.
Just as I find it ironic that some people seem to have 16 hours a day to crawl the forums and update their blogs I also find it worrying at how often I disagree with what's been said and how often cliques seem to perpetuate status and standing. I suspect I'll skirt with controversy here.
That said, let's get this important disclaimer in; this blog represents my views and not the views of the company I work for. Personal views, such as those you'll find in this blog, change, evolve, twist and change. I reserve the right to flip-flop, u-turn, reserve or bathe in sea changes.
I'm also new to Blogger. Here's my first discovery; the Firefox version of Google's toolbar does not spellcheck properly in the "Edit HTML" of the Posting screen. The input window turns blue but no errors are found and you need to click the ABC button to disable the effect (rather than being able to mouse-click on the form and select "Stop" from there.
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Trademark lawyers at Marks & Clerk have succeeded in the latest round of the so-called Bud Wars litigation by fending off attempts by a US brewery to ban Czech rival Budějovický Budvar from using the Budweiser name.
Partners Mark Blair and Kirsten Gilberthave acted for Budvar in the long-running case, with James Mellor QC of 8 New Square and Simon Malynicz of 3 New Square Chambers representing the client in the Court of Appeal (CoA).
This morning the CoA ruled against Anheuser-Busch InBev, makers of the US Budweiser beer, which wanted to deprive Budvar of the right to use the Budweiser name in the UK.
Anheuser-Busch instructed Macfarlanes partner Geoff Steward withMichael Bloch QC and Harris Bor, both of Wilberforce Chambers, representing the drinks giant in court.
The long history of the dispute in the high-value UK drinks market has included litigation back and forth between the brewers over the rights to the registered trademark, including accusations that Budvar was "passing off" its product by trading on the Budweiser brand.
Neither party was stopped from using the trademark until changes in the Trademarks Act. Despite both registering Budweiser on the same day, Anheuser-Busch tried to take advantage of the fact that it filed first – 1976 compared to 1989 – to apply to invalidate Budvar's trademark.
The case has been disputed through various UK courts and was heard by the CoA in May. Judges had sought guidance from the Court of Justice of the European Union on how to interpret its EU-wide trademark law before ruling.
Budvar's trademark rights remained in place during the lengthy litigation.
Today's judgment and the CoA's subsequent refusal to give Anheuser-Busch permission to appeal means that Anheuser-Busch will have to apply directly to the UK Supreme Court for the option to hear the case at the highest level. It is expected that the company will seek to do that.
A ruling in favour of the larger US Budweiser producer would have had huge financial implications for the smaller Czech brewer as it would likely have meant a Budvar withdrawal and product rebrand in the UK.
Marks & Clerk's Blair said: "This decision confirms what, in our opinion, is obvious following the favourable ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in September last year. That as a result of the decades-long honest use of the mark Budweiser by both Budvar and Anheuser-Busch in the UK, both parties should be entitled to a trademark registration.
"Today's judgment allows the trademark register to reflect the reality of the situation in the marketplace – that both brands co-exist and have done so for many years.
"It's a further example of how trademark law must be interpreted within its commercial context; that even in cases of so-called 'double identity' – where the same mark is used in respect of the same goods – it's still necessary to demonstrate an adverse effect on the ability of the trademark to function as an indication of origin."
A statement from Anheuser-Busch InBev said that the ruling was "disappointing", but insisted it did not impact on the company's "strong and unchallenged" UK trademark rights.


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Emma works on the parametrization of radiative transfer in the atmosphere.
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Emma is a scientist working in the Clouds and Radiation Group, a subset of the Atmospheric Processes and Parametrizations team. She works on radiation parametrization for the Unified Model and is involved in the development of the offline radiation code (SOCRATES). Currently, Emma is developing improvements for the UV index forecast.
Career background
Emma joined the Met Office in October 2015. Emma's PhD was undertaken at the University of Edinburgh with Simon Tett, and focused on evaluating spectral radiances simulated by the HadGEM2 global climate model using longwave satellite measurements. Following that, she worked as a post-doc on the SPECTRO-ICE project, a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey, that looked at the potential of applying detector technology developed for astronomy to atmospheric science at sub-millimetre/far infrared wavelengths.
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Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of Algoma District. The district seat is Gore Bay.
It comprises Manitoulin Island primarily, as well as a number of smaller islands surrounding it, such as Barrie, Cockburn, and Great La Cloche islands. Previously it included the municipality of Killarney on the mainland, until this was transferred to Sudbury District in the late 1990s. Subsequently, more mainland portions were added to Killarney and these, together with Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin District, were also transferred to Sudbury District in 2006, about in all.
The map of Manitoulin District circa 1951 from Ontario Archives locates the individual municipalities, townships, towns and villages of the district.
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The primary source for basic documents (vital statistics, land records, wills) for people who lived in the Province of Ontario is the Archives of Ontario, 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M7A 2C5.
Early Records
Civil registration did not begin in the province until 1869. Before then there may be church records of baptisms and burials. For the most part these are still held by the denomination who recorded them. Copies of marriage records made pre-1869 had to be sent by individual clergymen to the registrar of the county in which the marriage took place. These marriage records are available through Ontario Archives, on micorfilm through LDS libraries, and on paid and unpaid websites, but because they were copied at the registrars' offices, they cannot be considered a primary source.
Vital Records after 1869
Birth, marriage and death registrations are not open to the public until a specific number of years after the event occurred. Births to 1915 are now available [October 2014]; dates for marriages and deaths are later. Birth and death registration was not universally carried out in the early years after its adoption. Deaths were more apt to be reported than births for several years. The more rural the area, the less likely it would be that these happenings were reported to the authorities.
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Information on how to access land records and wills is best sought on the Archives of Ontario website. An ancestor's land holding might be found on Canadian County Atlas Digital Project if he was in occupancy circa 1878.
Association for the Preservation of Ontario Land Registry Office Documents (APOLROD). A list of Land Registry Offices for all Counties of Ontario.
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Denmark House is a Grade II listed holiday home in the picturesque village of Hunmanby near Filey. The property has recently been restored to an amazingly high standard. It combines many of its original features such as beamed ceilings, cast-iron fireplaces and a Victorian roll-top bath with contemporary features such as a woodburning stove, PS3, Sky TV and hot tub in the garden.
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WYRE Forest business owners say they have been given the chance to get on their feet, thanks to two district councilbacked schemes.
About 10 firms across Kidderminster, Stourport and Bewdley are benefiting from retail rate relief and refurbishment grants to help take their ventures forward and there is still plenty of money to be claimed.
The grant offers up to £4,000 for the refurbishment of empty buildings and the relief programme offers up to 100 per cent business rate relief for a year.
The schemes were introduced last year by Wyre Forest District Council as part of a £1 million town centres boost.
Council leader, Conservative John Campion, described the schemes as a "first step" in regenerating the area and added: "We are delighted with the results so far and encourage more applications."
Paul Haymes, owner of Haymes Butcher, York Street, Stourport, said his successful application for rate relief would "make a significant difference to whether or not I will last".
"I doubt very much we would be trading without this help so it is a real lift up to get you going that first 12 months," he added.
The grants helped Barbara Miller move her Bewdley business The Melting Pot into Load Street last year.
She said: "The schemes are brilliant and give you a chance to get on your feet."
Aliye Mullen, who runs Aliye Mullen Photography, said Wyre Forest town centres manager Peter Michael helped her apply for the grants when she was looking to rent a studio in Comberton Hill, Kidderminster, last November.
She aims to start photography workshops and provide a gallery space for local artists.
Independent councillor Helen Dyke, district council town centre champion, said her town team was "actively working" on helping managers who "have to consider urgently what they can do to help trade now".
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THERE is still plenty of money left in the pot for Wyre Forest business owners who need help getting off the ground.
Those who want to apply for Wyre Forest District Council's rate relief or empty shop refurbishment grant schemes should contact town centres manager Peter Michael.
There is no deadline for applying for either initiative but both have been allocated a specific amount of money, which will eventually run out.
Mr Michael said: "It is easy to apply and I will help people fill out the forms to make it as easy as possible."
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