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A Look at Google Multi-Channel Sales Funnels
August 26, 2011 by Eric Leuenberger
Filed under Website Analytics
You cannot manage what you do not measure.
This single phrase simply can't be ignored. Without measurement there is no gauge on progress and it becomes virtually impossible to determine if your efforts are effective at building your business and reaching your goals.
Despite this, I find it incredibly stunning how many business do not take full advantage of the analytic suites available to them. They install what they call 'tracking' when in fact, the information they are recording means little to maximizing the effectiveness of there overall objectives.
More specifically, determining how effective a particular channel of the business is often requires tracking visitors through what is called a funnel. In a funnel, the visitor enters at a specific point and is guided toward an end objective. That objective can be anything; a download, a contact us request, or in ecommerce—ideally a sale.
However, a visitor seldom follows a perfect liner path to a conversion. More often they start at one point, go through a series of channels along the way called micro-conversions, go back to a few earlier channels (or find new channels), then complete the final objective—the macro conversion. Each of the micro conversions play a role in the macro conversion, without them, the macro conversion doesn't happen.
Understanding what micro conversions—or points along the way—they took to complete the objective is critical in fine tuning your marketing efforts at each step. Tracking only the last contact point of the funnel (i.e. the last page or ad the user clicked before they reached the site which in turn lead to the conversion) vs. tracking every point along the way is ineffective and leaves a lot on the table.
Let me illustrate using the following example. A visitor clicks your PPC ad but then after arriving at your site leaves at some point and does not complete the sale. They come across your Facebook page a week later, look over that, then take an offer you had on the page to download more information about a specific product via an email optin—and they leave again.
A week after that they read over the info about the product and click a bookmark they had made of your site upon one of their initial visits. This time they decide to make the purchase.
If you were only tracking from the final entry point to the end conversion you would believe that this conversion originated from a 'direct referral' such as a bookmark, by directly tying it into the address bar, or by another similar method—and that is true to a certain extent. The conversion did come after the directly linked to the site, but that was not where the funnel truly started.
You see, the way your customers interact with your entire sales channel, not just part of it, leads to what happens in the end. If you knew exactly which channels they interacted with before they reached the final point leading to a conversion, you could setup more fine tuned marketing efforts at each stop along the way.
Thanks to Google's introduction of multi-channel sales funnels, the landscape has changed and we are now able to see a more complete representation of the exact path—and even timeframe—taken to a given conversion (in our example 3 weeks from beginning to end.)
Multi-channel sales funnels include tracking for but not limited to:
- Paid and organic search (for all search engines)
- Referral sites
- Affiliates
- Social networks
- Email newsletters
- Display ads
- Custom campaigns that you've created, including offline campaigns that send traffic to vanity URLs
- And more …
With this new information in front of you it is now possible to see that in fact the first contact with this new customer in our example came through your PPC advertising and not through the direct link alone—and this was approximately 3 weeks prior to the actual conversion occurring. Although initial visit did not produce a sale, it did get them interested enough to get to know your company further (through your Facebook page) and in turn, the information they downloaded after opting in to your email was what might have finally pushed them to come back (through the bookmark) and eventually buy.
Armed with this detail, you can now see that without the PPC they likely would not have started the process, and without the information you presented them with for download, they may have gone elsewhere. So each step in the process was an integral part of them making a purchase.
How do you setup and use the multi-channel sales funnels?
You don't really need to setup multi-channel sales funnels in Google Analytics—they are a set of reports. However, although you do not need to setup anything in particular that directly relates to the reports, you do need a few things active within your Analytics account for the reports to be made available to you.
- You must have either Goals, or Ecommerce Tracking turned on for your website.
- You must be using the new version of Google Analytics (click the "New Version" link from your Analytics dashboard to activate it.)
- Once you've got those two items in place, you should now see a new tab called "My Conversions" at the top of your page within Google Analytics. Use that tab to navigate to the multi-channel funnels area.
- For even more detailed information about your advertising campaigns make sure you link your AdWords account to your Analytics account.
More often than not, those who become customers don't simply follow a straight line path to a resulting conversion. With the various channels available to them today they may click an ad, visit one of your social media pages, follow your tweets, read your emails, and more. If you knew precisely the route they took to generate the final conversion you have more power to optimize your marketing at each point along the way—increasing your opportunity of closing more sales. That's what multi-channel sales funnels do for your business.
Image Search Keyword Tracking With Google Analytics
March 25, 2011 by Eric Leuenberger
Filed under Website Analytics
I recently had a question from a user of my Simple Google Analytics zen cart module about how to differentiate between searches and keywords that come from Google Image Search vs. those that come from other Google search channels. As of this writing, Google will automatically log referrers from its image search engine; however, it lumps all keywords into one lump source as '(not_set').
To get a more detailed keyword breakdown you need to customize the code you use within your Google Analytics tracking script.
The method I will describe here works for anyone using Google Analytics on their site regardless of how it is implemented.
The first thing you have to do in order to get this to work is to be running either the ga.js or the Asychronous version of the tracking script.
Depending on which version of the tracking script you have chosen you'll then need to customize it with one of the following snippets, adding it to what you already have. Be aware that the order and placement of this code within the original tracking script is very important.
If you are using the ga.js version of the tracking script you'll need to add the following lines of code (highlighted in bold) to that.
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxxx-x']);
var ref = document.referrer;
if (ref.search(/images.google/) != -1 && ref.search(/prev/) != -1) {
var regex = new RegExp("images.google.([^\/]+).*&prev=([^&]+)");
var match = regex.exec(ref);
_gaq.push(['_setReferrerOverride', 'http://images.google.'+match[1]+unescape(match[2])]);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
If you are using the ga.js tracking script your additions would look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxxxx-x");
var ref = document.referrer;
if (ref.search(/images.google/) != -1 && ref.search(/prev/) != -1) {
var regex = new RegExp("images.google.([^\/]+).*&prev=([^&]+)");
var match = regex.exec(ref);
pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google."+ match[1],"q");
pageTracker._setReferrerOverride("http://images.google." + match[1] + unescape(match[2]));
Doing this should breakout the individual searches by keyword so you have a more complete picture of what is happening with regard to the traffic that comes from Google Image Search.
Google help also offers more information on customizing search engines and referral traffic with your analytics tracking script.
Have you tried this method or have another way of doing it? I'd love to hear it. Post a comment below to join the discussion.
The Future of Analytic Tracking in Jeopardy
January 31, 2011 by Eric Leuenberger
Filed under Website Analytics
First it was Microsoft IE (starting with IE version 9 which will include 'Tracking Protection Lists') that announced they will include a new 'easier' setting to block unwanted tracking by websites you visit.
Now Firefox just announced that version 4.1 of their browser will prevent it (they are calling it 'Do Not Track') as well and Google Chrome recently building in features that enable blocking (dubbed 'Keep My Opt-Outs Out').
Yes, it is true, any user who wanted to block tracking in the past could do it by adjusting a few setting indicating not to accept cookie from certain sites. But this information was largely 'hidden from view' (not easily accessible if you didn't know where to find it first). It was possible, but the majority of non-techies did not do it.
The new changes are going to make the ability to do this a lot easier going forward, and once you make the changes they are going to 'stick' this time (settings are permanent and deleting cookies will have no impact on the preferred status.)
These new changes come in response to a December 2010 Federal Trade Commission recommendation that all Web browsers add do not track features to enhance online surfer privacy.
Firefox's 'Do Not Track' feature will attempt to use headers passed by the browser to alert potential sites of a visitors request to be eliminated from any tracking that could be used for OBA (Online Behavioral Advertising.) One caveat to both the Google and Firefox's tracking blocking tools at the moment is that they only pertain to advertising companies that offer opt-out options, and advertisers have been slow to add such options themselves. IE9 is different and is said to allow the user to block any and all tracking no matter the opt-in / opt-out policy of the site in question.
The addition of such systems will no doubt have an impact on what sites begin to see from an analytical perspective, and this could mean big changes in the way you track the effectiveness of your business online. In fact, some lawmakers worry such laws could hurt the economy of the Internet. With little ability to track visits, it will become difficult to determine what works to generate the best return for a company and even harder for them to present their message accurately to the most targeted audience.
Going forward and with privacy laws getting stricter it looks like the ability to 'opt out' of tracking will be not only simple, but—although not currently—could be the default setting on a browser in the future (meaning that it would not require any interaction on the part of the client to stop the tracking—rather, it would be the norm and they would have to 'turn it on' if they wanted to be tracked.)
I understand giving users the freedom to elect whether to be tracked or not. We do that now however to some degree. Maybe making it easier to do that isn't the answer. Couldn't we just do better at explaining to them how to prevent it within their current browsers? Just a thought.
How these changes will affect things going forward like PPC advertising, split testing, and more is yet to be determined and only time will reveal that answer.
What are your thoughts on the ability to easily block tracking on websites using these upcoming tools? I would love to hear them.


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St. Petersburg Sunken GardensJanuary 15, 2012
Last modified: June 22, 2017St. Petersburg Sunken Gardens, its history goes back to the early 1900s, when George Turner bought the four acres of land it resides on.
St. Petersburg Sunken Gardens
Although the city of St. Petersburg only recently purchased this botanical paradise, known as the St. Petersburg Sunken Gardens, its history goes back to the early 1900s, when George Turner, an enthusiastic gardener, bought the four acres of land it resides on. He used the basin of a lake he drained (thus the name Sunken Gardens) for the rich soil needed to cultivate striking flora and fauna from all around the world. He innovatively built the exhibits to thrive in their native environments by utilizing outdoor heaters during the winter months. With the addition of fruits such as papaya and other citrus fruits, he started selling both plants and food. This was one of the area's first roadside attractions, as it is situated in the heart of the city on a state highway, and lies close to the interstate.
What began as a personal endeavor to create something of beauty, blossomed into a commercial family business. By 1935, Turner had decided to put a fence around the entire garden and charge a 25¢ fee for admission. Due to his addition of wildlife from all over the world in the 1950s, the Sunken Gardens became one of the top ten attractions in the entire state of Florida.
Hard times in the 1990s saw the closing of the Garden. It was added to the state historical landmark registry in 1998, and was purchased by the city the following year, which reopened and expanded the majestic tribute to nature and now manages the ongoing care and maintenance.
A stroll through this magnificent nature facility, while in and of itself is worth the admission price, is only one in a long list of the garden's offerings. The Wedding Lawn has been host to the ceremonies since 1935. From the Garden Room banquet hall's wall of glass can be seen enough floral beauty to do away with the tradition of lining the nuptial room itself with flowers. A bridge runs over a flowing stream, which serves as the bridal aisle, and cascading waterfalls lend to the romance of a garden wedding.
Horticultural Programs and Workshops are presented on a wide range of topics throughout the year. The Annual Orchid Festival and Butterfly Gardening in March are among the top attended events. Registering for the free St. Petersburg E-News will give you a weekly list of scheduled programs, as well as other events in the city.
Sunken Gardens also offers Rental Facilities for banquets, seminars, meetings, luncheons, and private parties, both corporately and individually hosted.
Membership Programs are available and vary to include more than just free admission for a year. One of the best benefits is the American Horticultural Society Reciprocal Admission Program, which allows free admission to the other garden, arboreta, and conservatory members' facilities. An annual brochure is available, listing each of the participating members.
Physically separated from the garden to preserve the relaxing natural environment, and adjoining the gift shop, is the Great Explorations Children's Museum. Entrance to this museum can be included in a membership program purchase.

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You've Got Mail: "The Finest Collection of 19th Century Drawings in Private Hands"
Houghton Library Blog 2013-04-05
Last month Houghton Library acquired a small group of letters and postcards from Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) & Charles Shannon (1863-1937) to the Irish artist and collector Cecil French (1879-1953). These letters were acquired with the Louis Appell Jr. Fund for British Civilization because they are full of current affairs, news and gossip in the world of British art. These letters are now Houghton Library MS Eng 1738.
Ricketts and Shannon were artists and designers and founders of the Vale Press, one of the English private presses inspired by William Morris's Kelmscott Press; Shannon's portrait of William Butler Yeats hangs in the Houghton Library Reading Room.
On 23 March 1928 Ricketts wrote to French about his recent trip to New York:
When in America I was shown the finest collection of 19th century drawings in private hands, where Shannon & I hang with Rossetti, Burne Jones, Orpen, John. There were 10 Ricketts! The glory of the collection was a room full of Blakes, Job series, over flow of the Dante Series, some 20 stupendous Ingres which had cost an average of £1,000 a piece, 5 water colours by Gustave Moreau, stupendous Daumiers, important Menzels, Puvis [de Chavannes], Degas, Chasserieau, Keen, nearly all Beardsley – Salome set- and a small room given over to B[urne]J[ones]'s Pan & Psyche – one of the loveliest designs in the world – Dawn, Night, Rossetti's Blue Closet, the Morris watercolour etc. etc. I regret to say hundreds of Sargents, Beardsley's, Rops but on the whole the best things in the right place and knocking the modern stuff to bits.
Ricketts does not name the American collector, but from his description we know that it belonged to Grenville Winthrop (1864-1943), Harvard Class of 1886. Winthrop bequeathed his collection to the Fogg Museum and it was and is as truly spectacular as Ricketts description indicates. Winthrop's bequest remains the largest single gift of its kind to any university. It had a transformative effect on the Fogg and on teaching and learning about art at Harvard. Ricketts description of the collection 15 years before it came to Harvard gives us an indication of its prominent role in the world of contemporary collecting as "on the whole the best things in the right place and knocking the modern stuff to bits."
This post is part of a feature on the Houghton Library blog, "You've Got Mail," based on letters in Houghton Library. A Houghton staff member selects a letter from the diverse collections in the Library and puts that letter into context. All posts associated with this series may be viewed by clicking on the You'veGotMail tag.
[Thanks to William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, for contributing this post.]


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Cultural competence is a developmental process that occurs along a continuum and evolves over an extended period. It broadly represents knowledge and skills necessary to communicate and interact effectively with people regardless of differences, helping to ensure that the needs of all people and communities are met in a respectful and responsive way in an effort to decrease health disparities and lead to health equity. Becoming culturally competent is an ongoing and fluid process.
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Cultural competence is "a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or amongst professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations."3
MCH professionals exhibit cultural (including linguistic) competence through interpersonal interactions and through the design of interventions, programs, and research studies that recognize, respect, and address differences. These differences can include experiences and perspectives related to abilities (physical and mental), age, culture, education, ethnicity, gender identity, geography, historical experiences, language and literacy, profession, race, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and values.
MCH leaders will demonstrate a working knowledge of:
Foundational. At a foundational level, MCH leaders will:
(3) Cross, T., Bazron, B., Dennis, K., & Isaacs, M. (1989). Towards A Culturally Competent System of Care, Volume I. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, CASSP Technical Assistance Center. Available at files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED330171.pdf
(4) Adapted from National Center for Cultural Competence, Conceptual Frameworks. Available at nccc.georgetown.edu/foundations/framework.php
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Mr. Samuel Childs is from Mobile, Alabama and graduated from Mobile Christian School (MCS) in 2006. At Mobile Christian, Mr. Childs started piano in 2nd grade and wrote his first composition in 5th grade. He began playing the alto sax in 5th grade, and joined choir in 9th grade. Along with participating in honor bands, he made district honor band every year from 8th-12th grade and participated in the 2006 Alabama All-State Festival as a member of the Blue Band. Mr. Childs also attended honor choirs and was a member of the 2004 and 2006 Alabama All-State STAB Choir. Outside of music, Mr. Childs was a part of the baseball and basketball teams at Mobile Christian starting in the 7th grade. Mr. Childs received Mr. MCS his senior year.
Mr. Childs attended college at Auburn University from the fall of 2006 through the spring of 2011. While at Auburn, he majored in piano studying under Dr. Roy Wylie and Dr. Jeremy Samolesky and minored in saxophone studying under Dr. Shane Dickerson and Dr. Ann Knipschild. During his time at Auburn, Mr. Childs was a member of the Auburn University Marching Band, the Auburn University Jazz Band, the Auburn University Campus Band, the Auburn University Symphonic Band, the Auburn University Chamber Choir, and the Auburn University Singers. He also arranged several pieces for the Auburn University Singers and continues to arrange for several high schools across the state today.
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Mr. Childs is a member of the Alabama Music Educators Association (AMEA), the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Mr. Childs composes and arranges choir and band music and has some original piano & vocal compositions on iTunes and other online music stores. Mr. Childs is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and can usually be found with his side-kick dog, Watson.


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Dr Nancy Zarse is a forensic psychologist and full professor in the Forensic Department at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is lead faculty for Violence & Risk Assessment, Psychology of Terrorism, Hostage Negotiation, Psychology of Law Enforcement, and the Evaluation & Treatment of the Adult Offender. Dr. Zarse developed a class on Israel, focusing on terrorism, trauma, and resilience; she has led the 14-week course, which culminates in a 10-day study abroad trip, for 8 years. Dr. Zarse is a member of the FBI's TLOC (law enforcement counterterrorism). She was appointed Sector Chief of Academia for the FBI's InfraGard (private sector counterterrorism). Dr. Zarse serves as consultant to the FBI's Countering Violent Extremism section, with Secret Clearance. She is one of three experts on a team awarded a $190k grant, by the Department of Homeland Security, for Countering Violent Extremism.
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Scott Tillema is a rising thought leader in crisis and hostage negotiations. He is invited to speak at many hostage negotiation conferences across the US, and is viewed by his peers as a reference in difficult negotiations. For 7 years, Scott conducted negotiations for the largest multi-jurisdictional municipal SWAT team in the US. Currently, Scott is a Lieutenant with a Chicago area police department and has 17 years of police service. His experience and knowledge in hostage negotiations is sought after by police negotiators and universities alike.
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How to Gain Natural and Valuable Links From UniversitiesBlog Post: May 29, 2012
OK, first off I congratulate you for your efforts and taking the time to post.
However, this is where I think we have our mindset backwards and can see why the label of "inbound marketing" has some value.
What was the ROI on that time and effort for that single link? To me it seemed like a lot of effort to get a single, non-keyworded homepage link, from a page that has 21 other outbound links on a page that has an SEOMoz Pa score of 3. This type of effort is simply not scalable.
Compare that time/effort to what it took to write this article and get submitted to SEOMoz. Admittedly, this page has zero search value at present unless your content gets promoted, shared and aged etc - but it's already been ranking and has been syndicated - http://goo.gl/Inu22
Link attraction is the future, Outreach is a mugs game.
P.S. doesn't it annoy you that they mis-spelled "presentation" above your link?
7 Achievable Steps For Great SEO After The Penguin UpdateBlog Post: May 20, 2012
Nick, you might want to read this then - http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/03/google-confirms-301-redirects-result-in-pagerank-loss.html - Matt Cutts confirming the "natural PageRank decay" that occurs with 301 redirects. Remember that every 301 redirect introduces latency caused by the server being instructed to look elsewhere.
50 of the Most Competitive SEO Keywords!Blog Post: March 14, 2012
I'm trying to think what the point of this post is (beyond showing that you know how to use Google's keyword tool)?
Who cares what the 50 most competitive SEO terms are...in Australia...less adult terms...less brands etc etc...
What value does this have to this audience - anyone could have run this report (or one similar)?
I'm not trying to be mean or dismissive, but I'd suggest that unless you're adding unique insights or methodologies, then i'd be predicting more downvotes :(
Advanced On-Page Optimization - Whiteboard FridayBlog Post: December 15, 2011
I'm sorry - "advanced" on-page optimization?
Talking about good content and linking practices and then throwing a couple of big words in front like "semantic connectivity" and "latent Dirichlet allocation" doesn't make this advanced!
I know I am going to get absolutely flamed here by the RandFans, and I applaud SEOMoz for targeting the n00bs and 2nd year "specialists", but as Vince Lin commented earlier 'So, follow the basic good SEO guidelines and write awesome content? That's it?'
A Theory About Google: Authenticity and Passion as Ranking SignalsBlog Post: August 02, 2011
Sorry - what? This bewilders people? Isn't this exactly what Google has been talking about for the last two years? Did no one read Amit's post on the Official Google Webmaster Central blog?
Run through that checklist of "What qualifies as a high quality site" and match it agains that example result:
- Would you trust the information presented in this article? - YES
- Is this article written by an expert or enthusiast who knows the topic well? - YES
- Does the site have duplicate, overlapping, or redundant articles on the same or similar topics with slightly different keyword variations? - NO
- Would you be comfortable giving your credit card information to this site? N/A
- Does this article have spelling, stylistic, or factual errors? - NO
- Are the topics driven by genuine interests of readers of the site, or does the site generate content by attempting to guess what might rank well in search engines? - GENUINE INTEREST
- Does the article provide original content or information, original reporting, original research, or original analysis? - YES
- Does the page provide substantial value when compared to other pages in search results? - YES
- How much quality control is done on content? - LOTS
- Does the article describe both sides of a story? - ???
- Is the site a recognized authority on its topic? -1 for this (probably why it's not #1)
- Is the content mass-produced by or outsourced to a large number of creators, or spread across a large network of sites, so that individual pages or sites don't get as much attention or care? - NO
- Was the article edited well, or does it appear sloppy or hastily produced? - EDITED WELL
- For a health related query, would you trust information from this site? N/A
- Would you recognize this site as an authoritative source when mentioned by name? - NO
- Does this article provide a complete or comprehensive description of the topic? - YES
- Does this article contain insightful analysis or interesting information that is beyond obvious? -YES
- Is this the sort of page you'd want to bookmark, share with a friend, or recommend? - YES
- Does this article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content? - NO
- Would you expect to see this article in a printed magazine, encyclopedia or book? - MAYBE
- Are the articles short, unsubstantial, or otherwise lacking in helpful specifics? - NO
- Are the pages produced with great care and attention to detail vs. less attention to detail? - YES
- Would users complain when they see pages from this site? - NO
So, only two slight negatives in that whole list - now is anyone surprised???


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Runs batted in or RBI is a statistic used in baseball and softball to credit a batter when the outcome of his at-bat results in a run being scored, except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play. The first team to track RBI was the Buffalo Bisons.
Common nicknames for RBI include "Ribby" and "Rib."
The official rulebook of Major League Baseball states in Rule 10.04:
(a) The official scorer shall credit the batter with a run batted in for every run that scores:
- (1) unaided by an error and as part of a play begun by the batter's safe hit (including the batter's home run), sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, infield out or fielder's choice, unless Rule 10.04(b) applies;
- (2) by reason of the batter becoming a runner with the bases full (because of a base on balls, an award of first base for being touched by a pitched ball or for interference or obstruction); or
- (3) when, before two are out, an error is made on a play on which a runner from third base ordinarily would score.
(b) The official scorer shall not credit a run batted in
- (1) when the batter grounds into a force double play or a reverse-force double play; or
- (2) when a fielder is charged with an error because the fielder muffs a throw at first base that would have completed a force double play.
(c) The official scorer's judgment must determine whether a run batted in shall be credited for a run that scores when a fielder holds the ball or throws to a wrong base. Ordinarily, if the runner keeps going, the official scorer should credit a run batted in; if the runner stops and takes off again when the runner notices the misplay, the official scorer should credit the run as scored on a fielder's choice.
The perceived significance of the RBI is displayed by the fact that it is one of the three categories that compose the triple crown. In addition, career RBI are often cited in debates over who should be elected to the Hall of Fame. However, critics, particularly within the field of sabermetrics, argue that RBI does a better job of measuring the quality of the lineup than it does the player himself since an RBI can only be credited to a player if one or more batters preceding him in the batting order reached base (the exception to this being a solo home run, in which the batter is credited with driving himself in).[1][2] This implies that better offensive teams—and therefore, the teams in which the most players get on base—tend to produce hitters with higher RBI totals than equivalent hitters on lesser-hitting team.[3]
Totals are current through the end of the 2009 season Active players in bold.
Ken Griffey, Jr. (1,829) has the most career RBI among active players, ranking 16th overall and needing just 5 more to move past Dave Winfield and just 32 more to move into 11th place all time.
12 - Jim
Bottomley (September 24, 1924), Mark Whiten (September 7, 1993)
11 - Wilbert Robinson (June 10, 1892), Tony Lazzeri (May 24, 1936), Phil Weintraub (April 30, 1944)
10 - by 12 major league players, most recently Garret Anderson (August 21, 2007)


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Kosovska Mitrovica
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Kosovska Mitrovica is a town in North Kosovo, Serbia. Over 71,601 people live in Kosovska Mitrovica, mostly in the south. The town used to be called Titova Mitrovica. Originally it was named after Saint Dimitrije.
There is the University of Pristina in Kosovska Mitrovica.
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Men's Cross Country Races Into Season
By John Zak, Contributing Writer
The Gettysburg College Men's Cross Country team officially started its 2017 season under the lights at the Galen Piper Invitational at Shippensburg University on Friday night.
The invitational was a competition between division II and division III colleges including Shippensburg University, Elizabethtown College, Dickinson College, York College, Frostburg State University, Hagerstown Community College, Pennsylvania State University – Mount Alto and Shippensburg alumni.
With 144 points, Gettysburg finished fifth of the seven in the competition.
First year Nick Rose of Meadville, Pennsylvania made his debut as a Bullet during the invitational, finishing 74th in a field of 108 runners, and 12th for the 19-man team, respectively.
"I felt a sense of amazement, I'm actually running in college and I wanted to do my best to win," said Rose.
The men ran a six-kilometer race Friday — one-kilometer longer than the typical high school race to which Rose was accustomed.
"I'm optimistic overall and looking forward to the progression of the season," said Rose.
The men will continue to increase their distance as the season progresses. The official length of the Centennial Conference meet is eight-kilometers.
Rose clocked a 22:15 for his first meet as a Bullet.
Crossing the line at 20:03, junior co-captain Alex Petrecca posted the best time of the Bullet runners. Petrecca finished 15th in the meet and 10th for collegiate athletes.
With Ben Taber graduated, Petrecca is expected to be a consistent top finisher for the men's squad.
A three-season runner, the Fairfield county junior has had impressive performances in the 800, 1500 and 5k on the track, while leaving his mark on the cross country season with a 191st out of 351 runner finish at last season's Division III Mid-East Regional meet.
Other notable placements from the men's cross country team were sophomore Samuel Sheldon's 23rd place finish at 20:19, and junior Matthew Robinson's 20:46 6k, worthy of 36th place. It is Sheldon's first season on the cross-country team.
Sheldon did not run cross-country in high school but has been a consistent track runner since his first year of high school. He runs the 200, 400, 800 and 1500-meter races for the track and field team.
The Bullets enter the season with much young talent in tow. Eight first-years and two sophomores constituted the running squad Friday night.
The new team additions allow for much pack running potential this season, which is a technique crucial to any running team's success.
During Friday's meet, the one through five split for runners for the Bullets, those whose points count towards the team score, was 53 seconds.
Junior Mike Miller, who recently returned to running from a stress facture that set him back in summer training, had a strong finish by coming in fourth for the Bullets and 47th overall.
First year Owen Crosby, from Wilmington, Delaware, placed 51st out the 108 participants in a time of 21:04.
While an impressive first performance, Crosby refuses to settle.
"I'm looking to get better with each race, particularly to reduce my time gap as the year goes on," said Crosby.
The physical act of running was not the only thing that motivated Crosby at the invitational.
"I felt like I was a part of something bigger," said Crosby. "The camaraderie throughout the sport is one of the most important things to me and what attracts me to the sport."
With four runners in recovery from summer injuries, it is the hope of the team that the full squad will soon be back together and the camaraderie may continue.
The Bullets return to the starting line this Friday, September 8, at 6PM in the 37th annual Little 3 meet at Dickinson College.


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Libraries In The [Not So] Contemporary Crisis
Something new at the LOC caught my eye. As part of the "Freedom's
Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953"
collection, there's a really neat speech by former Librarian Of Congress
Archibald MacLeish.
"clerks, businessmen, and laborers using the library
in an "ordinary good library town" amount altogether to less than a fifth of an
undetermined portion of 15 percent of the population. This figure, says Dr.
Munthe, "is amazingly low." One admires his restraint."
Though he wrote this in 1939 you'd never know it. MacLeish held his position from 1939 to 1944 when he left to become assistant
secretary of state. He seems like quite an
interesting fellow. The speech is below, or on the LOC Site.
ARCHIBALD MAcLEISH
Librarian of Congress
ON FOUNDERS' DAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939
I have known for some months
that I was going to have the honor of speaking to you this evening. But it was
not until 5 days ago that I learned what I was expected to say. Five days ago I
was sitting more or less comfortably at a luncheon table in an Annapolis hotel,
with my attention wholly given to the ice cream, when the learned and
distinguished gentleman on my left informed me that the new Librarian of
Congress was on the point of rising and delivering a speech. When I asked him
what the new Librarian of Congress was on the point of rising and delivering a
speech about, he said, "That's easy. There is only one thing these people want
to know about you. They want to know why on earth you did it.�
It is an interesting question.
Or rather, it is two interesting questions. The first is a question interesting
to that minority— an excessively small minority if the sales of my books are
correctly reported—which likes to read my verse. To these rare people—rare in
every sense of the term—the question means "Why on earth did you take a job as
librarian which will leave you little or no time for your own work?� The second
question is a question interesting apparently to a very much larger number of my
fellow citizens, but interesting in a somewhat different way. When the New York
Herald Tribune asked the new Librarian of Congress why on earth he did it, the
New York Herald Tribune was not concerned for the unwritten verse of A. Mac
Leish. The question as the Herald Tribune asked it meant, "Why on earth did you
take a job for which you are so patently unfitted?�
But interesting though the
question is I doubt if I shall attempt to answer it. There are two persuasive
reasons. As asked by the Herald Tribune the question is not answerable-and is
not meant to be. As asked by the readers of my books it is answer able only at
the cost of a personal history which you would find both long and dull.
There is, however, a question
under this question, or within this question, or behind this question, which I
should like to try to answer. It is a question addressed not to me but to all
men of responsibility. And it is a question which concerns not a particular
librarian but the librarians of the Nation.
If you object that I have been
a librarian for 2 weeks only and that I know nothing about libraries and that I
should therefore not attempt to talk about libraries, I can only reply that the
first statement is true, and that the second statement is true, but that the
third statement is not true. For some months the librarians of the country have
been talking quite freely about me without knowing anything about me. It is only
fair that I should reciprocate.
Moreover, ignorance has never
stopped the mouths of lecturers. On the contrary, American notions of American
poetry are almost wholly formed by people who, if they spoke only out of
knowledge, would not speak at all. For one Louis Untermeyer who will patiently
present to his audiences the important poetry of our generation in this
country—the poetry of Pound and Eliot and Sand burg and Frost and Cummings and
Crane—there are a hundred enlighteners of the people who not only do not
understand the greater part of the work of these poets but are not even certain,
of their own knowledge, that it exists.
There is no doubt that I am
ignorant of American libraries. American writers generally are unaware of
American libraries except as imposing frontages on important streets, and the
fault, I may add, is not altogether with the writers. But ignorant though I am,
I have several precedents for speech. And I have also a compelling reason—the
reason more compelling than any other—the reason of time.
Our age, as many men have
noticed, is an age characterized by the tyranny of time. Never more than at this
moment was that tyranny evident. Those of us who are concerned, for whatever
reason, with the preservation of the civilization and the inherited culture of
this Nation find ourselves in a situation in which time is running out not like
the sand in a glass but like the blood in an opened artery. There is still time
left to us. But we can fore see and foresee clearly the moment when there will
be none.
I do not like epigrammatic
condensations of history. I do not like analyses of life which present its
situations on the brutal balance of an "either� and an "or.� But it seems to me
no less than exact to say that the situation which now confronts us in this
country is a situation which must be expressed in just these terms.
We face a situation which has
an "either� and which has an "or,� and we will choose or fail or to choose
between them. Whichever we do, we will have chosen. For the failure to choose in
the world we live in is itself a choice.
The "either,� as I see it, is
the education of the people of this country. The "or� is fascism. We will either
educate the people of this Republic to know, and therefore to value and
therefore to preserve their own democratic culture, or we will watch the people
of this Republic trade their democratic culture for the nonculture, the
obscurantism, the superstition, the brutality, the tyranny which is overrunning
eastern and central and southern Europe.
Others, I will admit, see the
alternatives in different terms. Six and seven years ago at the bottom of the
depression, American intellectuals saw the American progress as a race between
economic reform and violent revolution. Economics, as you will recall, was then
the one, the true religion which explained everything. If you made the economic
machine operate, you made everything operate; if you didn't make the economic
machine operate, everything collapsed. The "either� in those days was economic
salvation; the "or� was social ruin. That, however, was before Herr Hitler had
demonstrated that men could be led against their economic interests as well as
against their spiritual interests if the propaganda were good enough.
Another and a still popular
definition of the American alternatives was, and is, the definition which puts
Americanism on one side and a conspiracy of evil on the other. The nature of the
conspiracy depends on the angle of observation. To certain good Americans the
conspirators are the Communists. There was, and there still is, some
disagreement as to what a Communist is (and some of the disagreement is honest),
but there is no disagreement as to the general theory. The theory is that
America is all right and the Americans are all right and everything else would
be all right if only the Communists could be prevented from spreading their
insidious propaganda and wrecking the country. It is not, I think you will agree
a very flattering picture of America despite the fact that it is a picture
offered by those who are loudest in their protestations of love for the country.
It implies that the American ism of the rest of the Americans is so shaky and
insecure, and the appeal to them of Communist dogma so seductive, that only by
stopping American ears with legal wax and strapping American arms with legal
thongs can American democracy be preserved. I for one have never been impressed
by the sincerity of those whose eagerness to save American democracy is so great
that they would gladly destroy all the American guaranties of freedom to ask,
freedom to answer, freedom to think, and freedom to speak, which make American
democracy democratic. I more than half suspect that it is not America but some
other institution, something very different, something very much smaller, very
much less admirable, these people really wish to save.
But the self-appointed
guardians of America have not been the only ones to see the American situation
as a conspiracy of the forces of evil. The people they hate most, the Communists
themselves, take exactly the same position. They take it, however, with this
difference: That the conspiracy as the Communists sees it is a conspiracy of
evil persons from the other end of the political rainbow. The Communist
conspirators are conspirators who meet in bankers' dens furnished with
black-leather armchairs and boxes of Habana stogies to plot the ruin of the
The shallowness and romanticism
of both these pictures of the contemporary crisis are obvious. No one of I
intelligence who really thinks about it believes for one moment that American
democracy is endangered by conspiracies—least of all by conspiracies like these.
If there is any danger in this direction, it is the danger introduced by those
who talk about these alleged conspiracies; not by those who theoretically take
part. For the only effect of such romantic talk is to distract the attention of
the citizens from the actual situation. Those who shout that America is
threatened by the "reds� prevent a certain number of their fellow citizens from
considering soberly and quietly what it is that really threatens America. And
those, on the other side, who attribute all our dangers to a Wall Street
conspiracy to corrupt the Army and take over the Government, divert the minds of
their listeners from the much less romantic but much more disturbing truth.
For the truth is that the
threat to free culture and democratic civilization in the United States is the
threat not of any person and not of any group of persons but of a condition.
Those who, like myself, assert that the threat to a free culture and a
democratic civilization in this country is the threat of fascism do not mean by
that word what the Communist Party meant by it, or pretended to mean by it,
before the Russo-German pact. Those who, like myself, assert that the threat to
democratic civilization in this country is the threat of fascism mean that the
culture of the Republic is threatened by the existence in the United States of
the kind of situation which has produced fascism elsewhere, and that that
situation in the United States has already given indications, human and other,
of developing in the known direction. In the same way those who say that the
alternative to fascism is education do not mean that democracy can be saved by
educating the people to see conspirators under the bed, but that democracy can
be saved by educating the people to value the kind of life democracy makes
The situation which has
produced fascism elsewhere, and which threatens to produce fascism here, is a
situation with which education can deal, because it is a situation which failure
of education has created. The situation which produced fascism in Germany and in
Italy, and which threatens to produce fascism here, is a situation the
historical background of which is clear enough. The industrial revolution, with
its need for specialized labor, created a new economic class, the so-called
lower middle class, above and distinct from the masses of the people who labor
with their hands. The capitalist money system, with its tendency to squeeze
society into pyramidal forms, froze this new-made class into the social order.
The result was to suspend a great mass of people in a kind of limbo just above
brute labor, just below comfort and decency and self-respect. Freed on the one
side from the discipline of labor by the hand, they were excluded on the other
from the discipline of labor by the head. Deprived on the one side of the
realism, the hard-headedness, the piety, the traditional human wisdom, the salt
sense, the kindness of those who labor the earth and the earth's metals with
their bodies, they were equally deprived on the other of that different
kindness, that different knowledge, that different wisdom of those whose life is
in the mind.
They were, in other words, a
class for which the old education of habit and custom had been broken, and for
which a new education of intelligence and reason had not been supplied. Fascism
is the image of that fact. When this class, driven to revolt by the failures of
the economic system which had created it, put forward its leaders—its Mussolinis
and its Hitlers—it conducted itself precisely as a class so deserted by the
culture of its society might be expected to conduct itself.
The reason why fascism is so
brutal, so vulgar, so envious, so superstitious, so childish, so shrewd, is that
these are the characteristics of a social class excluded from the moral and
emotional and intellectual traditions of its society. The reason why fascism
makes flags and parades its symbols is that no other symbols are moving to those
who have not been allowed to inherit the culture of their past. The reason why
makes war and hate its aim is that those out of whose misery fascism is created
are men incapable of imagining any other ends except the ends of hate and war.
But the fact, the evident fact,
the fact which must at all times be held in view in the United States, is the
fact that fascism is the image of a condition, not the invention of a man, and
that the condition which has created fascism in Europe may very easily create
fascism here, unless we act, and act now, to prevent it. And the question, the
always asking question, the question which history presents to us, and will
continue to present to us, no matter how we close our eyes or turn our minds
away, is the question how we shall act? Shall we turn our attention to the war
in Europe and do what we can to encourage those who are fighting fascism there?
Shall we organize patriotic displays at home and punish those who preach fascism
directly or indirectly here? Or shall we, as honestly as we can and as directly
as we can and as effectively as we can, attempt to change by education the
condition from which fascism results?
To my mind, there is no doubt
as to the answer we should give. I am aware, I think, of some, at least, of the
difficulties. I am aware that the immediate forces which drive the
intellectually and culturally dispossessed into fascism are economic forces and
that education is not an altogether adequate answer to those who ask for a
chance to work usefully and creatively and to fulfill their lives. I am aware
also that there are people in the United States who do not wish to admit that
there are large numbers of their fellow citizens who have been excluded from the
American tradition and the American culture. But I think, notwithstanding these
difficulties and objections and many others, that we have no choice but to make
use of the one effective weapon we know ourselves to possess. If we respect
prejudice because it calls itself patriotism, we are poor patriots. If we wait
for the economic restoration of a world at war, we will wait too long. As things
are, in the world as it is, we can either attempt to educate the people of this
country—all the people of this country—to the value of the democratic tradition
they have inherited, and so admit them to its enjoyment, or we can watch some of
the people of this country destroy that tradition for all the rest.
It is this issue, as I see it,
which is presented to American libraries, for it is upon American libraries that
the burden of this education must fall. It cannot fall upon the schools. There
is no longer time to await the education of a new generation which will come in
due course to a more enlightened maturity. It cannot be left to the newspapers
or the magazines, however earnest their protestations of honesty and
disinterestedness. There are honest publishers, but there are no disinterested
publishers and there never will be.
It cannot, even more obviously,
be left to the moving pictures or the radio. The radio's notion of
disinterestedness is equal time to both sides, regardless of the sides; the
moving picture's notion of disinterestedness is silence. But this burden can be
entrusted to the libraries. The libraries and the libraries alone can carry it.
The libraries alone are capable of acting directly upon the present adult
generation. The libraries alone are staffed by people whose disinterestedness is
beyond suspicion. And though there are occasional directors of libraries and
occasional boards of library trustees who will stoop to the exclusion of books
which offend their social or political or economic preconceptions—books, let us
say, like The Grapes of Wrath—the directors and trustees of libraries are in
general men with the highest sense of their duties to their institutions and
their country. The libraries, in brief, are the only institutions in the United
States capable of dealing with the con temporary crisis in American life in
terms and under conditions which give promise of success. They are the only
institutions in American life capable of opening to the citizens of the Republic
acknowledge of the wealth and richness of the culture which a century and a half
of democratic life has produced.
That fact is a fact which
should properly fill the librarians of this country with a sense of pride. But
it is a fact also which should fill them with a sense of responsibility. For at
the present moment, as librarians themselves have been the first to admit, they
are not opening that knowledge and that understanding to the citizens of the
Republic. The American Library Association has this year published a small but
most important, as well as most readable, study of American librarianship by
Wilhelm Munthe, director of the University Library at Oslo, in which the
achievements of American libraries in this direction are analyzed. According to
such studies and surveys as he found available, Dr. Munthe concludes that in "an
ordinary good library town� the library card holders comprise some 25 to 30
percent of the population; that half of these are school children; that of the
remaining adult card holders "a large portion never use their cards�; that of
the remainder of that remainder 50 percent are high-school students, 21 percent
are housewives, 2% percent are businessmen, 5 percent are clerks, 5 percent are
skilled labor, and 5 percent are unskilled labor. In other words, clerks,
businessmen, and laborers using the library in an "ordinary good library town�
amount altogether to less than a fifth of an undetermined portion of 15 percent
of the population. This figure, says Dr. Munthe, "is amazingly low.� One admires
his restraint.
The truth seems to be that
American libraries have executed magnificently the first half of their
assignment, as that assignment was defined some 50 years ago by my distinguished
predecessor in the Library of Congress. They have solved with great brilliance
the problem of getting books for readers. They have developed practices of
accession, of cataloging, of classification, which enable them to secure books
intelligently and to make them readily avail able to inquirers. But they have
not executed the second half of their assignment. They have not learned how to
get readers for books. The typical American library borrower can still be de
scribed by a friendly but informed and intelligent European in Dr. Munthe's
words: "A woman, of 23% years, with 3 years of high school, who borrows in the
course of a month four modern novels of no particular worth, one really good
novel, and one popular biography or entertaining travel account.� And who are
her authors As Dr. Munthe tells us: "We can safely say that they are not the
ones whose names will some day be cut in marble on the face of library
buildings. They are people like Berta Ruck, Zane Grey, and Kathleen Norris. * *
* Authors with trouble some or radical ideas are definitely avoided.�
If the learned doctor is right,
the libraries of America have a tremendous distance to go before they can feel
that they have found the readers their books deserve. But it is not a journey
they must make alone. Behind them, far back but still livingly there, are the
men who created the American library system—men like the man in whose memory
this day is celebrated. Beside them are the many still alive—writers, teachers,
lovers of American liberty—to whom the education of the people for the
preservation of their culture is the best and most hopeful undertaking open to
our time: The many who believe as I do that we can either educate the people of
this Republic to know and therefore to value and therefore to preserve their own
democratic culture, or we can watch the people of this Republic trade their
democratic culture for the ignorance and the prejudice and the hate of which the
just and proper name is fascism.
These are the alternatives our
time presents us. They are not alternatives which will remain forever open. We
may accept them now or lose them now. "History,� says Wystan Auden— "History to
the defeated May say Alas, but cannot help nor pardon."
History can say Alas to this
American civilization of ours as well as to any other. Unless we save it. Unless
we act, not only with our words but with our minds, to save it.


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My birthday is this week. One of the little girls in our church turns four today and is having a big birthday celebration. As a result, I've been thinking about gifts and children's toys. Considering I'm twenty years older than my little friend, I don't anticipate receiving the party and gifts like she will be.
The only gift I've received this year was a cute little notebook in the shape of a purse and two cute candle holders from my secret sister. Being the youngest in the whole thing, I tend to get gifts that, well, clearly point out that age difference. 🙂 But that's okay, it makes me smile inside every time, knowing that whoever my secret sister is understands I'm still just a kid in many ways.
Thinking about kids' gifts, though, I came to realize that there are two days in every typical child's year that tend to be much more tragic than any other day: the day after Christmas and the day after their birthday. Those are the days that most of their toys tend to break. That is, unless you have an extremely particular child who never breaks anything. (If you do, I'd like to meet your child because that's not normal.) Many even consider the day after Christmas National Whiner's Day due to this.
Last month, I had the privilege of watching two birthday children the day after their birthday party. By lunch time, a crown, a drumstick and a drum had busted. Who knows what other new toys I missed as they were dismembered while I was off making pb & j sandwiches for lunch? The mother of these kids likes to claim that they are "curiously destructive". I like that term.
That brings me to ask a few questions about children's toys:
(1) Why is it that the annoying ones are the ones that never seem to die and the other toys just fall apart within a day's time? I think toy makers intentionally do this to parents and childcare providers. Batteries seem to last longer on the obnoxious toys (and, thankfully, we can never seem to find replacements once they do). As for the trinket-type toys, they break by the end of the day from either being stepped on or torn apart by children who wonder why they don't make the same obnoxious noises as their other toys. I've decided that someone needs to make sturdy, non-obnoxious toys before I have kids.
(2) Why is it that people always think that they're giving kids something fun when they give them a cheap $.25 toy that's going to make them cry when they break it the next day? I have to confess, it's easy to do. You think to yourself, "Oh, little Johnny will like this" even though you're simultaneously thinking, "This toy is a piece of crap with a price tag." Sadly, it's too easy to let that sentimental side convince you that, while you know the toy is going to break soon after the child receives it, the smile on his or her face is worth that measly $.25. But is it really? Maybe, if you're not the one who has to deal with the broken toy later.
What do you think? Are toys made sturdy enough for kids? Or do we just buy the cheap ones because they're inexpensive?
Did you have a favorite toy when you were a kid? Was it prone to breakage, or did you know to keep it out of harm's way?


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STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford sophomore left-handed pitcher Kris Bubic struck out 11 batters over eight shutout innings and the Cardinal hit four home runs and scored in seven of eight innings in a 10-0 win on Thursday night in the NCAA Regional at Sunken Diamond.
The No. 1 seed in the region and No. 8 national seed, Stanford (41-14) advances to face No. 2-seed Cal State Fullerton on Friday night. Sacramento State (32-28) will play in an elimination game at 1 p.m. Friday against third-seeded BYU, which lost to Cal State Fullerton, 13-2, earlier Thursday.
"I thought Kris Bubic was outstanding tonight and had one of the best outings we've seen against us all year long," Sacramento State head coach Reggie Christiansen said. "I was proud of the way (Justin Dillon) kept us in the game but we just couldn't get going offensively. Really credit Stanford, they're rolling right now and they're going to be tough to beat."
Playing in their second ever Div. I NCAA Regional, Sacramento State saw its eight-game winning streak come to a close after winning its last four games of the regular season before sweeping four games to win the WAC Tournament. Stanford now has an eight-game winning streak and won for the 22nd time in its last 24 games.
Dillon, a senior making possibly his last start as a Hornet, allowed just six hits with no walks and five strikeouts over 5.2 innings but was tagged with five earned runs. Stanford scored single runs in the first, second, third, and fourth innings with a pair of solo home runs. Dillon retired the side in order in the fifth inning but in the sixth the Cardinal scored a run on a wild pitch before Dillon exited.
In his first NCAA Tournament game freshman Ricky Martinez was 2-for-3 with a double. Ian Dawkins, Vinny Esposito, and Andrew McWilliam all had singles, with Dawkins reaching base for the 23rd consecutive game. Senior Chad Perry pitched 1.1 innings of relief and became the first pitcher in Div. I program history to make 100 career pitching appearances.
The Hornets did have scoring chances against Bubic. After his double Martinez reached third with two away in the third inning but was stranded. In the fourth inning Esposito singled with one out and James Outman lined a shot to the left side of the infield but third baseman Jesse Kuet caught the ball and doubled off Esposito at first.
In the eighth inning singles by McWilliam and Martinez put runners on the corners with two away but Bubic got the final out to close his eight scoreless innings. Stanford added one run in the sixth, scored four times in the seventh, and once more in the eighth.
Bubic allowed just five hits and did not walk a batter. Quinn Brodey was 4-for-4 with two home runs, a double, 2 RBIs, and 4 runs scored. Matt Winaker and Jack Klein also homered for the Cardinal, who scored their 10 runs on just 13 hits and one walk.
Sacramento State and BYU have met just once before in the Div. I era, a 16-2 Hornet home win 2008. The Cougars won the West Coast Conference (WCC) title and are 37-20 this season.


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A cybersecurity czar who could control the shut down of everyone's computer network is in the works. Two U.S. senators have drafted a bill to establish such a position that would report directly to the White House.
Needless to say, several groups have concerns. Jim Dempsey, vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, thinks the legislation could force companies into a uniform model that would stifle creativity. Civil liberties are another concern.
Cybersecurity is currently a split bag–-the Pentagon and the National Security Agency watch over military networks, while private networks come under the jurisdiction of the recently established Homeland Security folks. Previously, most cybersecurity concerns have focused only on government and military computers.
This initiative would broaden the focus into the public community. It should also consolidate responsibility under one agency according to Dennis C. Blair, the director of National Intelligence. He acknowledged that any program they came up with had to make Americans feel that it was "not being used to gather private information."
Many of the proposals were based on recommendations from a study last year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. James A. Lewis spoke before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the US Senate about the effect of information technology on global economics. He voiced concerns then that the internet cannot be fully secured given how it is configured and governed right now.
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A Bit About Falsies
"Put these on" she told me, handing me a small pocket mirror. Deciding just to go along with it, I smeared the glue above my lashes and attempted to apply the line of synthetic hairs to my eyelid. After a good twenty minutes and a lot of help from Molly I had a set of full, lush, false eyelashes set on my face, right as it was my turn to get my photo taken. I'm sure they would have looked lovely too, if the flash hadn't made me scowl and nearly close my eyes.
False eyelashes have a very glamorous history, starting in Hollywood's silent film era. The American film director D.W. Griffith first dreamed up the idea of false lashes in 1916. He wanted actress Seena Owens in his film "Intolerance" to have eyelashes so long they would sweep across her cheeks. A wigmaker created these false lashes by weaving human hair through fine gauze, and then pasting them to Owen's eyelids. The film was not a hit, but Griffith's creations became a Hollywood standard in silent films.
As false eyelashes started becoming more popular they were made of fringe. They didn't look natural, only lasted a few hours, and were applied by a procedure in a salon so only those with enough money could afford them. Because of these factors, false eyelashes didn't catch on in popularity. It wasn't until the 1950s that they really started to boom. Hollywood starlets started regularly using false eyelashes made of synthetic materials. After the 50's, though, false eyelashes declined in popularity.
In the new millennium the material used for false eyelashes became more advanced, and as a result, 'falsies' have become easier to apply. They look much more natural, and celebrities have started wearing them more frequently. Some are even made of animal products. According to Brian Dakks of CBS, Oprah is said to have a pair made of mink, and Jennifer Lopez has a pair made of fox hair for special events. Models in photo shoots and on the runway use false eyelashes as well. Some celebrities use natural looking false lashes to enhance their own, while some pop divas such as Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, and Selena Gomez wear giant lashes in various bright colors for music videos and performances.
As false eyelash material became more advanced, they also became more accessible, affordable, and popular. Now they are not only worn by celebrities such as Madonna, Liza Minnelli, and Nicki Minaj, but can be worn as a fashion statement by anyone for any occasion: women on a night out, drag queens in a performance, or even teenage girls for a high school photo shoot.