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R+H's CINDERELLA Begins Previews on Broadway Tonight!
The celebrated musical RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella, originally written for television in 1957 by the legendary musical theatre duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, will begin performances on Broadway on January 25, 2013 at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd Street). Directed by Mark Brokaw (CRY BABY, THE LYONS, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE), this new production has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a new book by four-time Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane (XANADU, SISTER ACT, LYSISTRATA JONES, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED), based on the original book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical has choreography by Josh Rhodes, and music adaptation, supervision and arrangements by David Chase. Opening Night is Sunday, March 3, 2013. Tickets to RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella are on sale now through Tele-charge and can be purchased by calling 212 239 6200 or online at www.telecharge.com.
RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella, one of their most popular titles, was written for television, debuting in 1957 starring Julie Andrews. Although stage adaptations have been performed worldwide since 1958, RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella, in fact, marks the Broadway premiere for the beloved romantic musical. Along with Cinderella, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's legendary musicals include OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, THE KING AND I, SOUTH PACIFIC and THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
Mr. Beane's book for RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN's Cinderella offers a new romantic twist on the ultimate makeover story of a maid-turned-princess, mixing fresh comedy and wit with the beloved tale's classic elements -- the pumpkin, glass slipper, masked ball and more. In addition to musical numbers from the original score, including "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible," "Ten Minutes Ago" and "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?," this Cinderella includes four additional songs from the Rodgers + Hammerstein "trunk."
Leading the cast of RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella are Laura Osnes (Tony nomination Award for Frank Wildhorn's BONNIE & CLYDE, SOUTH PACIFIC, ANYTHING GOES, GREASE) in the title role; Santino Fontana (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Drama Desk Award for BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS , OBIE Award for SONS OF THE PROPHET) as the Prince; Victoria Clark (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA) as Marie, the fairy godmother; Harriet Harris (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, TV's "Frasier" and "Desperate Housewives"); as Madame, Cinderella's stepmother; Ann Harada (AVENUE Q, 9 TO 5, "Smash") as stepsister Charlotte; Marla Mindelle (SISTER ACT, SOUTH PACIFIC) as stepsister Gabrielle; Peter Bartlett (THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) as Sebastian, Prince Topher's mentor and Lord Chancellor; Greg Hildreth (PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON) as the rebel Jean-Michel; and Phumzile Sojola (The Gershwin's PORGY & BESS) as Lord Pinkleton. Jill Abramovitz, Kristine Bendul, Drew Franklin, Heidi Giberson, Stephanie Gibson, Shonica Gooden, Kendal Hartse, Robert Hartwell, Laura Irion, Adam Jepsen, Andy Jones, Andy Mills, Linda Mugleston, Alessa Neeck, Peter Nelson, Nick Spangler, Kirstin Tucker, Cody Williams, Branch Woodman and Kevin Worley complete the cast.
RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella has scenic design by Anna Louizos (Tony nominee IN THE HEIGHTS, HIGH FIDELITY; also AVENUE Q, IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS); costume design by William Ivey Long (5-time Tony winner for HAIRSPRAY, THE PRODUCERS, GREY GARDENS, CRAZY FOR YOU, NINE); lighting design by Ken Posner (Tony winner THE COAST OF UTOPIA; also WICKED, HAIRSPRAY, OTHER DESERT CITIES); and sound design by Nevin Steinberg (The Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS, LA BOHEME; BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, HAIR, IN THE HEIGHTS). Andy Einhorn is music director and conductor.
RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella is presented on Broadway by Robyn Goodman, Jill Furman, Stephen Kocis, Edward Walson, Venetian Glass Productions, The Araca Group, Luigi and Rose Caiola, Roy Furman, Walter S. Grossman, Peter W. May/Sanford Robertson, Glass Slipper Productions LLC/Eric Schmidt, Ted Liebowitz/James Spry and Center Theatre Group. Lawrence C. Salameno is the associate producer.
RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella will be performed at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd Street). The schedule is as follows:
Friday, January 25 - Friday, February 9:
Monday - Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm;
Tuesday, February 12 - Sunday, February 17:
Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm;
Tuesday, February 19 - Sunday, February 24:
Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm, Sunday at 3pm;
Beginning Tuesday, February 26:
Tuesday at 7pm, Wed at 2pm and 7:30pm, Thurs at 7pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 3pm.
Tickets to RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella can be purchased by calling Tele-charge at 212 239 6200 or online at www.telecharge.com.
For more information please visit www.CinderellaOnBroadway.com


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On the official Microsoft Twitter account (which by the way only became active last month), the software giant has posted two "under construction" photos of two of its retail stores. The images clearly show some of the brands that Microsoft will be pushing in its retail effort: Windows 7, Xbox 360, Bing, Microsoft Office, and Zune.
It's also worth noting that both images have the Microsoft store retail logo. We're still waiting for photos of what the store will look like inside, though the prototypes and concepts that leaked last month give a good idea.
The first image is of the store being built in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the second is in Mission Viejo, California. Redmond announced the two locations in July 2009, refusing to give details on other retail locations, but disclosing that it had plans to open stores outside the US eventually.
Microsoft is actually still looking for employees, ranging from sales associates to trainers to technical advisors to customer service associates, for both stores. If you're job hunting in the neighborhood, check out the Microsoft Careers website. You can use keywords like "retail, mission viejo" or "retail, scottsdale", or just "retail" to find the listings and job descriptions.
In July 2009 it became clear that Microsoft was using Apple's former head of real estate to help it decide where to put its upcoming retail stores. Microsoft first confirmed the stores in February 2009, when the company announced it had hired David Porter as corporate vice president of Retail Stores.

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The cells of each of these diseases look different under a microscope. They also spread differently. Hodgkin tends to spread in a more predictable way and typically not as much as non-Hodgkin.
A fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a type of biopsy. A biopsy is a test to check for cancer. To do an FNA, the healthcare provider takes a small sample of cells from the tumor or suspicious place. For an FNA, the healthcare provider inserts a very thin, hollow needle into the tumor to collect cells. Then the cells are looked at under a microscope for cancer cells. With lymphoma, sometimes an FNA doesn't give the healthcare provider enough cells to look at for a clear diagnosis. Because of this, healthcare providers often prefer to use other types of biopsies to diagnose lymphoma.
An excisional biopsy is when a surgeon takes out the whole lymph node. An incisional biopsy is when a surgeon takes out only a part of the lymph node or tumor. In both cases, a specialized healthcare provider called a pathologist looks at the cells under a microscope to check for cancer cells. Both of these types of biopsies almost always give the pathologist enough tissue to confirm whether there is cancer, as well as what type it is.
One of the most common symptoms of lymphomas is swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, groin, and/or underarms. If the lymphoma is in other organs or tissues, you may have other symptoms, like headaches, cough, shortness of breath, swelling in the stomach, or nausea. You may also experience generalized symptoms, like fever, itchy skin, night sweats, and unexplained weight loss. People may have only some of these symptoms. It is important to remember that all of these symptoms can be caused by other medical problems. But if you have any of these, see your healthcare provider.
There are many different types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The treatment of any lymphoma depends on the type of lymphoma and on its stage, which is how far the cancer has spread. In a very early stage, radiation may be the main treatment. A combination of chemotherapy drugs is the most common treatment. There are many different regimens available. There's also immunotherapy. This uses drugs like monoclonal antibodies, as well as other drugs called targeted therapies. Often, several types of treatment are used together. In rare cases, a surgeon may take out a diseased spleen. In cases when treatment stops working, a healthcare provider may suggest high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation. This is also called bone marrow transplant.
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We wanted to let you know that in order to comply with federal law, Wikia is reviewing the way it handles communities that may be considered directed to people 12 years of age or younger.
This wiki has been flagged as falling into that category, and I wanted to let you know about it. While I am sure this wiki has many fans of all ages, it can also be especially appealing to the younger demographic for purposes of the newly revised Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The only change you will notice is that we will be turning anonymous editing and commenting off for wikis in this category. Your users will still be able to edit and participate. They just need to make sure that they are logged in first. We hope the impact on your community will be minimal.
We realize this might be an inconvenience, but this is a step Wikia has to take in order to make sure we are in compliance with federal law. You can find out more about COPPA here: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/12/coppa.shtm.
The changes to the law will be going into effect July 1st, 2013 although you may see some changes before then. Be sure to keep an eye on Community Central where e will be announcing these updates to the wider Wikia Community on Monday on the staff blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
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I enjoy making small gifts to give to the cleaning gals or my quilting guild or the helpful staff at a hotel I stay at a lot. This book provides me with so many ideas that I shouldn't run out for a couple of years! With 34 projects, there should be something for every type of stitcher. Quilter, embroiderer, cross stitcher, etc. should find a project or two that holds their interest. Yo-yo's, cording, felt, hexagons, diamonds and shapes are among the various objects to make items from. I am a quilter so I especially like the items made from fabric that I can sew. The patterns are clearly written with photos to help make sure you "get" the written instructions. Finished sizes and a materials list begin the pattern. It is followed by the written instruction. Between the photos and the writings, the patterns are easy to follow and none are overly hard, in my humble opinion. If you like making Christmas ornaments or need a small gift, this book is sure to help you out.


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The Works of Rigoberto Torres
7-May 3, 1995
Grace Under Pressure by Dan Cameron
Susan Hoeltzel
The Works of Rigoberto Torres provides the first mid-career view of an artist whose work has drawn its inspiration from the Bronx community. Seen and collected throughout the world, Torres' life-size figurative sculptures are rooted in a celebration of daily life in the South Bronx neighborhood where he grew up. His plaster and fiberglass life-casts, which have been described as humanistic naturalism, provide empathetic studies of real peoplefamily, friends, and the strangers he has met at public castings. His streetside events lend the work an element of performance art and create a bond between artist, subject, and audience. Four large scale public murals, produced in collaboration with John Ahearn, have been part of the Bronx landscape for over ten years.
Torres is known to the public in several roles that have been played simultaneously in relation to the artist John Ahearn that of collaborator, that of assistant, and that of an independent artist who has been influenced by Ahearn's casting technique and subject matter. For both artists the work is strongly identified with their South Bronx neighborhood which provided much of the subject matter and in which both lived until 1994. That neighborhood brings to mind many associations. It is known for its extreme poverty. It carries memories of burning buildings which appeared nightly on the evening news throughout the 1970's and early 1980's. Also known for its dynamic street culture since the 1970's the South Bronx has been the epicenter of hip hop, break dancing, graffiti and rapit is still influencing style into the 1990's. This was the time and the place where Torres' work beganin 1979, shortly after the eighteen year old was encouraged by his cousin Wally to drop by Fashion Moda, a newly founded alternative space in the South Bronx where Ahearn was making plaster body casts of people from the neighborhood. Torres became one of Ahearn's subjects. Torres' first works created at this time were exhibited at Fashion Moda along with Ahearn's work in 1979 under the exhibition title, South Bronx Hall of Fame. The Lehman exhibition includes Shirley (1979), one of the busts Torres produced for that exhibition.
Fashion Moda provided an infusion of energy to the art of that period by creating a place where an exchange of ideasfrom downtown artists working in the Bronx and street artists in the Bronxcould take place. The gallery, which began in founder Stefan Eins'' studio at 3 Mercer Street in Soho, moved to a storefront at Third Avenue near 147th Street in the South Bronx in 1978. There it provided a laboratory where untrained artists and those with art school backgrounds exchanged ideas, made art, and exhibited. Many graffiti artists made their transition from subways to canvas at Fashion Moda It was here that Jenny Holzer and Lady Pink collaborated. Fashion Moda was an early venue for many artists whose reputations were established in the 1980's including Tim Rollins + KOS, Crash Matos, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiki Smith, Christy Rupp, John Fekner, Justen Ladda, Tom Otterness, Daze, Joe Lewis, Jane Dickson, Lee Quinones, Futura 2000, and Rick Proi. The following year, 1980, both Ahearn and Torres were involved in the historic Times Square Show, which took place on several floors of an abandoned massage parlor arranged by Colab, an artists' collective.
During the Fashion Moda exhibition, Torres began casting works on the street outside his Walton Avenue apartment where he lived with his parents. In 1980 Ahearn moved to Walton Avenue at Torres' suggestion. Here much of the work of the two artists took place on the street, drawing the attention of the surrounding neighborhood and volunteers who submitted to the process of casting. Earlier castings were sometimes displayed on the wall of a building to announce the event which drew crowds of people to watch the artists at work. In the early 1980's the artists moved their studio to Dawson Street (later moving back to Walton Avenue in 1983) and again the street-side castings drew an audience and new subjects. It was in the Dawson Street studio that the public murals had their beginnings. Three of the murals, created with funding from HUD, through the Department of Cultural Affairs Community Development Program and the Bronx Council on the Arts, are on exterior walls of apartment buildings and are tied to the revitalization of the neighborhood. (Torres' works are also found in many homes throughout the Bronxit is his custom to give the subject a second version of the casting.)
In the early years Torres brought to the relationship with John Ahearn an introduction to people in his Walton Avenue neighborhood that was to become a major source for both artists' work. Torres also brought experience with plaster castinggained in his uncle Raul's shop, Paul's Statuary Co., which casts works ranging from saints for botanicas to famous reproductions from the history of art. It was Torres' uncle's technical advice on creating rubber molds and casting in fiberglass that made the exterior wall murals possible. Multiple castings were also facilitated with this technique. The artists' work expanded from busts to include full length figures and later figures in the round. From Ahearn's perspective Torres also brought to the relationship his detachment from the art world and a core personality that made the collaboration possible. It is impossible to discuss either artist's body of work without a consideration of the other. Ahearn and Torres continue to work together, assisting each other with casting.
Born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, in 1960, Torres moved to New York when he was four years oldfirst to upper Manhattan and then to the Bronx after being burned out of the Manhattan apartment building. Torres returned to Puerto Rico in 1990 where he produced twenty-two works over the course of a year. Ruth Fernandez ( 1991), a cast of the popular singer who has entertained generations of audiences, was among the works created during that year. It is a monumental work which combines the realism of traditional portraiture with the iconic presence of a devotional statue.
Torres explores subjects which are similar to Ahearn but he strays from the socially conscious underpinnings of the former. Torres is not an outside observermany of the larger tableaux include family membersfrequently his children. In some works the casting technique is used as a starting point to develop the imagined rather than to represent people as they actually are. Mermaid ( 1993) was cast from his two year old daughter and based on a small figurine in his uncle's statuary shop, and Fortune Teller (1995) was based on a casting of his sister-in-law. Both works are in sharp contrast to the more serious subjects Torres tackles in The Rescue ( 1993) which demonstrates a strong interest in narrative contentthe child in this scene is his daughter.
We are fortunate to include three works completed in 1995 following a year long interruption due to a severe asthma attack which prevented Torres from working. The exhibition also includes several early works which are rarely seen, Mice in the Pool (1984) and Jack and Jill (1985) as well as Fashion Logs (1985), sculpted from wood. Works cast during a return to 42nd Street as part of a project sponsored by Creative Time and the 42nd Street Development Project in the summer and fall of 1993, are also includedamong them Alex with Parrot (1993), which provides a lively character study of a figure from Times Square.
Torres' detailed works are vivid and bursting with life down to the texture of wrinkles and pores and yet they veer from the tromp l'oeil realism of Duane Hanson or the monochromatic tableaux of George Segal. Torres' richly colored figures seem as much about painting as about sculpture. In some work the serene countenance is almost reminiscent of the polychromed statues of the ancient world. The works of Rigoberto Torres with their sources so close to home provide a unique look at a contemporary art grounded in the Bronx community.
The combined efforts of many people made this exhibition possible. We are grateful to Rigoberto Torres for his generous contribution to the planning of all aspects of this project and for the helpful conversations with regard to the work. We would also like to thank John Ahearn for his advice and assistance with the installation and catalogue and for his enthusiasm for this project from its inception. The assistance of Brooke and Carolyn Alexander of Brooke Alexander, Inc., Ted Bonin, gallery director, as well as Rhea Anastas and Anne Duroe, provided very important support for the exhibition. We are also very pleased to include Dan Cameron's essay on the work of Rigoberto Torres as part of the catalogue. Once again we are fortunate to work with Leandros Patathanasiou of Athens Printing and as always his helpful guidance proved invaluable. We would also like to acknowledge and thank Ivan Dalla Tana, D. James Dee, and Martha Cooper for their photographs for the catalogue. We are very grateful to the lendersthe Lannan Foundation, Margaret Hutto and Jill Newmark, William and Norma Roth, John Ahearn, and the Gonzalez Familyfor their help in making the exhibition possible.
I am greatly indebted to the staff of Lehman College Art Gallery for their support in all phases of the projectto Skowmon Hastanan for her exceptional work in two rolesthat of registrar and that of graphic designer, to Christopher Anselmo Priore for his education programming for all age groups during the exhibition and to Mary Ann Siano for her development work which has allowed this project to happen. I would also like to thank Joel Holub and Dan Shure for their help with the photography for the catalogue.
Finally, I am extremely grateful to have the support of a board of trustees and a college administration committed to the arts. Both share the belief that arts programming is a significant part of education.
This exhibition has been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. The exhibition and education programs at the Lehman College Art Gallery are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Bronx Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum Services, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Herbert and Edith Lehman Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, The Travelers Foundation, J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust, AT&T, The New York Community Trust, Chemical Bank, Citibank, the Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, The Henry Luce Foundation, and Friends of Lehman College Art Gallery.
Susan Hoeltzel
Shirley, 1979
Mermaid, 1993
The Rescue, 1993
The Boxing Match, 1993
Jullissa, 1993
Orlando the Donut Man, 1987
Fortune Teller, 1995
Uncle Tito at the Liquor Store, 1983/1995
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- Develop a methodology to evaluate global CCM simulations using integrated in-situ observations from research aircraft.
- Improve online access to observational datasets that have been evaluated for quality and formatted for consistency to facilitate model-data intercomparison studies.
- Develop diagnostics to identify composite datasets with climatological value and provide these formatted datasets to the community.
- Report analyses on the CCMI Observations for model evaluation.
More information: Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI)
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NOAA WP-3D flights from chemically-instrumented field missions conducted from 1999 through 2010 in the contiguous United States and Alaska.
Altitude range: surface to 7 km.
NASA Tropospheric Chemistry data
NASA DC-8 and P-3B aircraft data from field missions conducted from 1987 through 2011.
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Surface to 7 km (P-3B).
Use NASA's Toolsets for Airborne Data (TAD) web application for accessing the data sets.
Data from DLR Falcon aircraft conducted from 2001 to 2012.
Altitude range: Surface to 12 km.
The HIPPO (HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations) study of the carbon cycle and greenhouse gases measured meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and aerosol constituents along transects from approximately pole-to-pole over the Pacific Ocean using the NSF/NCAR GV aircraft. Five missions took place in different seasons from 2009 through 2011.
Altitude range: Surface to 15 km.
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Altitude range: Surface to 8 km.
Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START08) studied the chemical and transport characteristics of the extratropical upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric region using the NSF/NCAR GV research aircraft. A total of 18 flights were conducted in the United States and Canada during April, May and June 2008.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Spring Sassaprass
Fun spring inspired print from Paula Prass' Flight of Fancy line, Michael Miller Fabrics was the inspiration for this skirt. Simple to make and definitely puts you in the mood for spring ~ that might be a few months off yet...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Sometimes simple is just better. If you have really lovely fabrics, you can let them do all the 'talking' and pull back on the design complexity factor. Case in point: Here's a simple tiered skirt, inspired by one a friend of mine made, (Debbie of la*tee*da*kids) and in this case just plain pretty because the fabrics work well together. One of my all-time favorite lines is Heather Bailey's freshcut, she really nailed the color palette on that line and hence all things made with Freshcut look fabulous. All I did was add a little scalloped eyelet edging because I thought the fabric could pull off that little bit extra, shabby chic kind of thing. Now I need a matching top - anyone know a great source for cotton batiste?
Then a little black and yellow action with this aptly named Taxi fabric from Timeless treasures. I have always liked this color combo and considering this is my second project using this fabric, I guess I like it alot. The dress is TINI from Farbenmix which is a very easily constructed peasant dress. Great for spring.
Meanwhile, there are new Valentines custom listings in the Trillium shoppe. I am remiss in not mentioning these before now - my apologies.
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Hairs, Fibers, Crime, and Evidence, Part 3, by Deedrick (Forensic Science Communications, July 2000)
July 2000 - Volume 2 - Number 3
Hairs, Fibers, Crime, and Evidence Part 3: Crime and Evidence
Douglas W. Deedrick
Unit Chief
Trace Evidence Unit
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, DC
Introduction | Crime Scene Search | Evidence Collection | Evidence Handling Procedures
Protocol for Evidence Processing in the FBI Laboratory
Examination Conclusions
The manner in which a crime scene is searched is determined by the type of crime, the location of the scene, details concerning events of the crime, the time of day, the number of people available for the search, and available equipment. Inasmuch as hair and fiber evidence can play a role in most cases involving violent crime, serious consideration should be given to collecting it properly. Once the crime has been committed, little time remains before hair and fiber evidence will be lost or contaminated. The importance of securing the crime scene cannot be overstated.
Crime Scene Search
When physical contact occurs between two individuals, objects, or individuals and objects, there is a likelihood of transfer of hair and fiber evidence. This likelihood is dependent on the nature of the contact, the duration of the contact, and the nature of the contacting surfaces. The direct transfer of hairs from the head of an individual to the clothing of another individual is called a primary transfer. When hairs have already been shed and are transferred to an individual, it is called secondary transfer. Fibers are transferred in a similar manner. When fibers are transferred from the fabric of an individual's clothing to the clothing of another individual, it is called a primary transfer. As these same fibers are transferred to other objects during subsequent contacts, secondary transfers are occurring.
It is important for crime scene investigators to understand the mechanisms of primary and secondary transfer. As trace evidence can be transferred during the commission of a crime, it can also be transferred during the search process. Hairs and fibers can not only be picked up inadvertently by investigators, they can be inadvertently deposited at the crime scene. The following are considerations at the crime scene:
- Elimination hair and/or fiber samples may need to be obtained from personnel conducting the search.
- Prioritize the order of evidence collection. Collect large items first and then proceed to the trace evidence. USE CAUTION WHEN WALKING THE CRIME SCENE.
- Once the trace evidence is collected via vacuuming, taping, or tweezing, take blood samples, remove bullets, dust for fingerprints, and so on.
- Processing the crime scene for fingerprints prior to trace evidence collection is not recommended because it can
- Inadvertently transfer trace evidence onto the clothing of the technicians,
- Move trace evidence, and/or
- Contaminate trace evidence with dusting powder.
- Inadvertently transfer trace evidence onto the clothing of the technicians,
Evidence Collection
The following are suggestions for collecting evidence from crime scenes such as houses, apartments, and vehicles:
- Photograph all evidence prior to removing it.
- Remove larger items or debris from carpeting or walk areas prior to other examinations. Consider wearing disposable booties.
- Collect large items, such as clothing, and place them in separate paper bags. Keep an accurate evidence log. One person should collect and bag the items while another person labels the bags and records the items in the log.
- Do not place all clothing items from a suspect in one paper bag, nor all items from a victim in another bag. Bag each item separately.
- Never put suspect items and victim items in contact with one another. The person collecting the suspect's items should not be the same person that collects the victim's items. If this must occur, personnel must change their clothing and collect the evidence at a different time to avoid contamination.
- Bedding should be carefully handled to avoid loss of hairs and fibers. Each item should be placed in a separate bag.
- Floor surfaces should be vacuumed for possible trace evidence. Some crime scene investigators use tape to secure trace evidence; however, tape is generally difficult to work with at the scene and in the laboratory. Smaller surfaces such as chairs and car seats can be taped or vacuumed.
- Ensure that carpet, pet hair, and other standards that might have transferred to a suspect or victim are collected.
- Always process for fingerprints after collecting trace evidence.
- Collect all possible known fiber samples from a vehicle. These may be obtained from the carpet, door panels, headliner, seats, floor mats, and trunk.
The following suggestions pertain to different types of items recovered at the crime scene:
|Package all hats in separate paper bags. Use care when collecting baseball-style caps with adjustable plastic headbands—the bands are an excellent source for fingerprints.
|Shoes are an excellent source of fiber evidence, blood stains, and shoe print comparisons. Shoes worn by a suspect can deposit fibers from a vehicle he or she exited at a crime scene and can also pick up fibers from the scene and then deposit them in another location.
|Socks worn by a homicide victim can provide invaluable fiber and hair evidence. Many times the victim is transported by vehicle. Contact with the interior surfaces of a vehicle can cause hairs and fibers to collect on the socks. It may be necessary to obtain elimination samples of the carpeting of the victim's car or residence to avoid the possibility of a coincidental match.
|Use care when scraping or clipping the fingernails of a victim or suspect. DNA on the hands or tools of the medical personnel can contaminate the material and influence the DNA results.
Hairs in the
|Hairs found in the hands of the victim usually belong to the victim. Rarely are the hairs similar to the suspect's known hairs; nevertheless, these must be collected and submitted for analysis.
Pubic and head
|Pubic and head hair combings should always be taken in violent crimes. Foreign hairs as well as fibers can be recovered from these samples. If a hat is recovered at the crime scene and a suspect is identified soon, it may be possible to find fibers similar to those in the hat in the suspect's hair.
Known hair
|Thorough random samples should be taken from the head and pubic regions of a suspect(s) and
victim(s). Twenty-five full-length hairs, pulled and combed from different areas of the head and pubic regions, are generally considered an adequate representation of an individual's hair characteristics.
|Weapons recovered at a crime scene should always be searched for trace evidence before processing for fingerprints.
Doors and
|Doors and windows should be searched for trace evidence if they are possible points of entry or exit.
Evidence Handling Procedures
Once the evidence has been collected, there are several recommendations or considerations when packaging it for transmittal to the laboratory. Clothing items must be packaged in separate sealed paper bags—not plastic. To avoid contamination, clothing items from the suspect should never be handled in the same area in which items from the victim are handled. All damp or blood-soaked items must be air-dried in a room away from air movement and traffic. Drying paper placed under damp clothing items should be submitted separately.
Submit individual hairs and fibers in clean paper or in an envelope with sealed corners. The primary paper or envelope should be placed inside a secondary sealed envelope with all corners taped. Many times individual hairs identified on items of clothing are not removed or secured. These hairs may move or be lost, so it is recommended that they be removed and placed in an envelope (first noting where they were removed).
If a floor surface is vacuumed, the debris should be placed on a white sheet of paper (8 x 11 inches) and folded at the corners. This paper should be placed in a heat-sealed or resealable plastic bag.
Protocol for Evidence Processing
in the FBI Laboratory
When evidence is received in the Trace Evidence Unit, the case is assigned to an examiner. The examiner will read the incoming communication to determine the nature of the offense, the names of the suspects and victims, and the types of requested examinations. It is important to have an understanding of the offense to help determine the course of action in the Laboratory. Contact between family members or friends would be treated differently, as the transfer of trace evidence would be more likely in these cases.
In the Unit, there are three processing rooms designed for debris collection. Debris is collected through a combination of picking, scraping, and sometimes taping. Whereas taping is considered by some laboratories to be a preferred technique, it can be time-consuming and tedious and can present a storage problem for the tape collections. Vacuuming is not recommended for clothing items. The clothing of a victim is processed in a room other than the room in which the suspect's clothing is processed. The collected debris is placed in pillboxes and examined with a stereobinocular microscope. Hairs and fibers are mounted on glass microscope slides for identification and comparison purposes.
Examination Conclusions
|When a questioned hair exhibits the same microscopic characteristics as the known hairs of an individual, the hair could have originated from that individual. If the questioned hair is microscopically dissimilar to the known hair standard, it cannot be associated with the individual. Different people generally have different hair characteristics, but differences in microscopic characteristics can also be the result of time and alteration. Known hair samples should be collected from individuals as soon as possible to the date of the crime. As time passes, microscopic characteristics can change, and the individual may alter the color with dyes.
If a fiber exhibits the same microscopic and optical properties as a known fabric, the fiber could have originated from that fabric. Although it is not possible to say that a fiber originated from a particular fabric, fiber matches are not insignificant. Because of the many different types of fibers and fabrics and the many different ways they can be colored, the likelihood of finding coincidental matches is low. It is possible, however, to positively say that a torn piece of fabric originated from another fabric if the torn edges match.
For more information about trace evidence and the recovery of evidence from crime scenes, see the Hairs and Fibers and Crime Scene Search sections of the Handbook of Forensic Services.


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I've always been a big proponent of trying to simplify your financial life when you have a chance. Cutting back on the number of accounts, automating savings and retirement contributions or even starting to get your bills sent to you via email or online.
Even for those of us who try to keep things simple, there can be times where we get a bit overwhelmed with all of the accounts that we have. Everything from utility bills, cell phone bills, credit cards, rewards programs, magazine subscriptions, cable TV subscriptions and more. That's a lot of stuff to keep track of!
A couple of months ago I was made aware of a newer site that proposes to simplify your online accounts, and aggregate them all in one place. This isn't another Mint.com or Adaptu.com clone, but instead it's a place where you can aggregate all your bills and statements from all of your accounts – not just your banking and retirement accounts. So today I want to do a review of Manilla.com.
Manilla: A Startup To Watch
Manilla.com only became a public product back in June of 2011, so it has only been live for a short time. In that time, however, they've gotten quite a bit of positive press, being named one of Time Inc's "10 NYC Startups To Watch" in addition to positive reviews on a variety of traditional media including the New York Times, USA Today and Cnet.
The aim of the site was to make people's financial lives less confusing by keeping all of their accounts, subscriptions and services all in one place. It also serves the purpose of being a clearinghouse and archive for your bills and statements just in case you need to go back to an old bill to check something out.
In addition, the site aims to partner with large companies in order to cut back on waste and expense made by sending out un-needed or unnecessary bills and statements every year.
According to the United States Postal Service's 2010 Annual Report, businesses in the United States send 48 billion account notices, statements and bills to customers each year. That's a lot of paper that ultimately ends up in garbage dumps and paper shredders.
The companies help shoulder the cost of the site because in the end it's helping them to save money. For us, that means the site is FREE.
Manilla's Free Signup Process
It's free to signup and use Manilla, and it only takes a short time. It took me literally like 5-10 minutes to enter all of my information.
- Go to Manilla.com and click on the link to sign up.
- Enter your name, zip, email, password and answers to 2 security questions.
- You'll then be asked to confirm your account via email.
- After the account is confirmed you can start adding new accounts to Manilla.
After signing up for the site it will ask you for details on the accounts you want to enter into their system, usually a username and password. For me I set the site up to track and receive my bills and statements for my mortgage company, my banks, my satellite TV provider, phone company, and wireless provider. You can also track magazine subscriptions, utility companies, Netflix subscriptions, loyalty programs, groupons and a variety of other things.
After you add your accounts to the system you can go to your accounts screen (shown in the screenshot above) and if necessary add any security questions or fix any problems with the accounts. I did have to go in a fix a couple.
There were a couple of accounts that I couldn't add to Manilla currently, including my Betterment account and our local utility provider for water and electricity. We'll see if they get added to the loop soon.
Manilla: What Does It Do?
So it's all fine and dandy that you can add all your accounts to Manilla, but what can you do once they're all in there? The main idea behind the software is to simplify your accounts, bills and statements. It will send out bill reminders every month, as well as allowing you to store your statements and bills online indefinitely – just in case. No more bulging filing cabinet!
Automate Your Accounts
Manilla makes it simpler to manage your accounts from utilities and cell phone bill to your magazine subscriptions and Netflix account. After you set it up you just need the one login in order to access all of those accounts, and you can go to one place to see if anything is coming due, or to see what you're paying for everything. If you want to, you can even initiate payment for your bills through your account, clicking on their handy "pay now" buttons next to each account bill.
You can see a listing of all your accounts in the dashboard, and you can quickly get more info by clicking on the company logo for whatever one you want.
Get Reminds To Pay Bills, Alerts
If you have bills coming due you can setup custom SMS alerts or emails to be sent when your bills are coming due. The alerts can be set to send 1, 3 or 7 days before the bill is due. If you have an overdue bill or an issue with an account it will send alerts for those things as well. It is fully customizable as well, so if you don't want alerts because you're using autopay or something along those lines, you can turn them off.
Something else I like with the account is that you can go into your reminders tab in the website and view your bills either in a list in order of when they're coming due, or in a calendar format. Having the calendar is nice because it gives people like me a more visual look at when I'm supposed to pay certain bills.
Archive Statements, Bills And Account Notices
One of the main reasons for Manilla was to help cut the clutter and paper from our lives. No more statements in the mail, instead you get them in your Manilla acount.
Want to look up that extra charge from 4 months ago so you can get it refunded? Go to your account and view the bills for that provider by filtering the bills on the mail tab. The statements are available to download, print or send via email at any time. You will also always have free storage for all of your virtual mail as long as you have an account.
Manilla Has Mobile Apps
If you've got a mobile phone either of the Apple variety or Android – you're set to go. Manilla has mobile apps for you to use on both platforms. I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, but I'm sure they work fine and mirror the functionality on the website if you want to give them a try.
How Manilla Has Helped Me Already
I've been using Manilla for a few months now and it has already come in useful for me several times. I have setup all my account bills and statements to get sent to Manilla, and I'm now receiving reminders when bills are coming due. While I have most things on autopay anyway, it's good to get reminds on the few things that aren't. It has saved me from a late fee at least once.
I also had an issue a month or two ago with my satellite TV provider. I was overcharged for the service and needed to get a copy of a bill from several months prior to help track down why it was happening. I just went to my Manilla.com account, filtered by Dish Network, and there was the bill ready for viewing. Very handy! I was able to get the bad charges reversed, and Manilla was extremely helpful in helping me track down the information I needed from the old bill – quickly and with no hassle.
Manilla.com provides a cool service, and the site is free to use. Because of that I'd highly recommend signing up for an account and at least trying it out to see if will be as helpful for you as it was for me. You can find out more details through the link below.
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The two top US officials in Iraq – Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker – are on Capitol Hill this week to report on the Iraq war, but expectations are low that US policy will change much before the end of the year and the arrival of America's next president.
That's not just because General Petraeus has indicated he will recommend against a further drawdown of US forces beyond the level they are programmed to hit at midsummer. It is also the case because, despite security gains of the past year, Iraq is expected to remain in a fragile state for the rest of President Bush's term.
Several factors could contribute in coming months to unstable conditions on the ground:
•Sunni disappointment with the US and the Shiite-dominated government over the rate at which Sunnis are being integrated into the Iraqi Army or being provided with other jobs.
•Power struggles among Iraq's dominant Shiite groups and militias, particularly in the south. Recent fighting in Basra is a case in point.
•Evidence that Iraqi security forces are not ready to take over military operations from the US and coalition forces.
•Intensifying political jockeying in the run-up to provincial elections set for fall.
•Signs that Al Qaeda in Iraq and affiliated Islamic extremists are establishing a last-stand stronghold in the north – as well as expectations that Al Qaeda in Iraq, especially, will try to make violent statements that coincide with the US elections.
•Questions about how Iran will use its considerable influence in Iraq as both Iraq and the US traverse electoral periods.
"We're definitely going to hear a lot from [Petraeus and Mr. Crocker] about what our military strategy has accomplished and how there still needs to be more political progress," says Judith Yaphe, an Iraq specialist at The National Defense University here. "But there's a lot of risk and uncertainty – for the Iraqis, for our role in Iraq, for our elections, so I don't see it as a period when we're going to see much change in the way of strategy."
The status quo may not sit well with Congress, but the Democrats, especially, may not have any more ability than they did last fall, after the last Petraeus-Crocker hearings, to force changes. Some Democratic strategists say little is expected of this week's Iraq hearings, as the focus is on the next administration.
But even if the economy has supplanted Iraq as Americans' top concern, a holding pattern for the next 10 months is not acceptable for US interests, for Iraq, for the region, or for the troops, some lawmakers insist.
"What is the policy from here?" asks Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee that will hear from Petraeus and Crocker Tuesday. "Is [the Bush administration] intending to bind the next administration? ... I truly believe the president's plan is to muddle through and to hand it off to the next president," he adds. "I don't think they know what to do."
The year-old surge of some 35,000 US troops points the way to what the US should do in Iraq, some experts say – protect civilians even more and wean them from militias, for example. But even those who oppose a further troop reduction in the near term note that the political climate in the US doesn't bode well for long-term involvement.
Ken Pollack, a former National Security Council Persian Gulf expert who's now at the Brookings Institution, says the US, having stabilized the Sunni Anbar Province and the north, should turn its attention to the south where Iraq's dominant Shiite communities are in great flux.
"The surge has actually encouraged a fair percentage of the Shia population," he says. "Quietly, the Shia communities have begun to come over and are saying, 'We don't really like' " the various political-party-affiliated militias that have divided them. If the US doesn't seize this moment with the Shiite population, he adds, it risks being associated with the very same powerful militias it is trying to weaken.
Any push into Iraq's south would bring the US into closer confrontation with Iran, whose influence there has been growing. The US would do well, some analysts say, to address that issue in a larger regional context. "If you want peace in Iraq, if you want America to be able to have an exit strategy, the road goes through Tehran," says Ms. Yaphe, a former CIA Middle East analyst.
Still, say other analysts, the surge was intended to facilitate political reconciliation in Iraq, and it has not done that.
For example, some 90,000 Sunnis may now be armed to help fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq, but the Shiite-led government has not integrated most of them into the Iraqi security forces. That failure could turn around and bite both the Iraqis and the US, some experts say.
"If you are on the fence as a tribal sheikh ..., wondering if you want to join in on this movement, what the government has been doing in terms of who they are and aren't taking into the security personnel has not been encouraging," says Wayne White, a former Iraq expert with the State Department Policy Planning Staff, now with the Middle East Institute.
Some Iraq experts argue that political reconciliation is occurring, though more at the provincial than the national level and not according to US "benchmarks."
But others say the fine points of political reconciliation, whether it's happening and how fast, are increasingly beside the point in the US political context.
"The realistic timetable for [stabilizing Iraq] may be 10 years, but the political timetable is 10 months," says Ivo Daalder, a US foreign-policy specialist at the Brookings Institution. He doesn't expect to see a determined congressional effort this year to alter Iraq policy.
"The political debate will no longer be on the Hill," says Mr. Daalder, "but what you do in '09."


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Evercore Partners's Ken Sena today reiterates an Overweight rating on shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) writing that investors shouldn't be worried about continued price competition in cloud computing services as the company battles Google (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT) and others, because, as he puts it, "the price cuts are manageable, that AWS's competitive position is secure, and the opportunity remains large."
Sena reviews the recent price chopping activity:
2014 has seen renewed efforts by AWS competitors to compete on the basis of price. For instance, earlier this year Google dropped its prices of compute and storage, 32%, 68%, respectively, for an average rate decrease of 50%. This compares to just 6% pricing cut by Google in 2013, according to Right Scale. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure also responded with a 50% cut to its prices, the first time we recall seeing GCE and Azure pricing cuts outpacing Amazon's, which we estimate to have decreased by closer to 40% across compute and storage.
For those of you playing at home, here's a visual guide to those cuts (click for larger image):
Sena also notes Google is adding capacity fast, outspending Amazon:
In addition to aggressive price cutting, Google has been building out raw capacity, as data center expansion is reported to be making up the majority of its recent capex spend acceleration. Specifically, capex as a percentage of Google's revenue has ticked up from 5.7% in 1Q12 to a peak of 23.6% as of 4Q13, though it did taper modestly in 1Q14 to 15%. Framing this in the context of y/y increases in spending on an absolute basis against Amazon, we see Google has had at least double the incremental spend in capital expenditures in every quarter since 1Q13. Moreover, incremental Capex spend for Google is running at least 2x Amazon's over the past five quarters.
Still, Amazon remains much larger than Google and the rest, by capacity:
When looked at on the basis of capacity (as opposed to revenues), Amazon has more than five times all the other cloud IaaS providers combined, which includes Microsoft, Google, IBM SoftLayer, Verizon Terremark, Rackspace, VMware, HP, GoGrid, Joyent, Dimension Data, CSC, Fujitsu, Virtustream, and CenturyLink (Gartner source). In addition, on the basis of revenues, AWS still has over three times the scale of Azure, Google, and Rackspace.
Sena sees Amazon having held share with its own price cuts:
AWS dropped prices on AWS 13 separate times over 2013, flat with 2012, but still equal to the number of reductions by Azure, Google, and Rackspace, combined. These continuous pricing cuts have helped Amazon stay a step ahead of their competition, allowing it to gain share in the marketplace. This has led to Amazon increasing share from 24% in 2010 to 39% of the IaaS market according to Gartner by 2013.
Amazon's leading in the market by more than just price, but also by quality of its service, he maintains, drawing on Evercore's discussions with customers at a reason symposium:
We also note that several AWS customers at Evercore's Vertical Cloud Symposium last week (hosted by Kirk Materne) cited AWS's security, support and deeper industry capabilities (e.g., compliance and regulation) as reasons to choose AWS over the competition. The day centered on the idea of industry verticalization within cloud, such that the ecosystem to support the infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Companies such as Infor cited AWS's ability to deliver beyond pricing in areas such as compliance and regulation so that Infor can focus more on the customer-facing aspects of its products. We see these elements as driving stickiness to AWS's platform well beyond the pricing of pure compute.
And Sena thinks Amazon can take a chunk out of traditional IT spending:
Finally, and most importantly, while Infrastructure-as-a-Service stands at about $9 billion as of last year according to Gartner, the broader marketplace in which AWS competes is closer to $172 billion, which encompasses app development, IT operations, security, and virtualization. Aggressive price cuts to bring more customers on board for infrastructure needs helps drive marketplace demand for software infrastructure and services through this channel, through which AWS is exceedingly well positioned.
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Scoreboard shows EU more innovative, but gap between countries widening
Innovation performance in the EU has improved year on year in spite of the continuing economic crisis, but the innovation divide between Member States is widening. This is the result of the European Commission Innovation Union Scoreboard 2013, a ranking of EU Member States. While the most innovative countries have further improved their performance, others have shown a lack of progress. The overall ranking within the EU remains relatively stable, with Sweden at the top, followed by Germany, Denmark and Finland. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are the countries that have most improved since last year. Drivers of innovation growth in the EU include SMEs and the commercialisation of innovations, together with excellent research systems. However the fall in business and venture capital investment over the years 2008-2012 has negatively influenced innovation performance.
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani, Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, said: "This year's results show that the economic crisis has negatively impacted innovation activity in some parts of Europe. Investment in innovation is crucial if we want to maintain our global competitiveness and restore growth in Europe. We need to encourage entrepreneurship as SMEs have been a key driver of innovation."
Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, responsible for Research, Innovation and Science, said: "Innovation should now be at the heart of all Member States' policy agendas. Our latest State of the Innovation Union report, also published today, shows we made progress in 2012 on some of the big ticket items like the Unitary Patent and new rules for venture capital funds, but we need to go further in order to avoid an innovation divide in Europe."
The European Commission has also today published a report complementary to the Scoreboard. The State of the Innovation Union report shows that the Commission has already largely delivered on the Innovation Union flagship commitments.
For individual summaries of the innovation performance of all 27 Member States, and other European countries: MEMO/13/274
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What makes innovation leaders successful?
The most innovative countries in the EU share a number of strengths in their national research and innovation systems, including a key role for business innovation efforts and those of the higher education sector. The business sectors of all innovation leaders perform very well in research & development (R&D) expenditure and patent applications. They also share a well-developed higher education sector and strong linkages between industry and science.
International comparisons with the EU
A comparison with other European countries confirms Switzerland's position as the overall innovation leader that continually outperforms all EU countries. This year's results also again show that South Korea, the US, and Japan have a performance lead over the EU.
South Korea's lead over the EU is increasing, but since 2008 the EU has been able to close almost half its gap with the US and Japan. The EU still lags considerably behind the global leaders notably in terms of business R&D expenditures, public-private co-publications, and patents, as well as in tertiary education. The EU continues to perform better than Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
This lead has been declining with China, remained stable with the other BRICS countries and has been increasing compared to Australia and Canada.
The 2013 Innovation Union Scoreboard draws currently on 24 indicators that are grouped into three main categories and 8 dimensions:
"Enablers", i.e. the basic building blocks which allow innovation to take place (Human resources, open, excellent and attractive research systems, and finance and support);
"Firm activities", which capture innovation efforts in European firms (firm investments, linkages & entrepreneurship, and intellectual assets); and
"Outputs" which show how this translates into benefits for the economy as a whole (innovators and economic effects, including employment).
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AIKEN, S.C. – With a series victory hanging in the balance, it took extra frames for the Georgia College baseball team (9-6, 2-1 PBC) to beat No. 29 USC Aiken 10-8 Sunday. Two runs in the top of the 12th and a scoreless bottom half gave the Bobcats a victory in their first Peach Belt Conference (PBC) series of 2012.
Tied 8-8 into the 12th inning, Josh Young (Lake Havasu City, Ariz.) led off with a single, advancing to second on a Pacer error. After a hit-batsman and a fielder's choice loaded the baseswith just one out, Heine Rivera (Fayetteville, Ga.) delivered with a single to right for a 9-8 lead. Another out later, a bases-loaded walk gave GC a big insurance run. Both Young and Rivera made the most of their lone hits of the contest.
Shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) had his first four-hit game of the young season, going 4-for-7 with two RBI and a run. Catcher Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) swatted two solo home runs, giving him a team-high five on the season, finishing 3-for-5.
Second baseman Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) was 2-for-4 with three RBI and a run. Bick had a double, while Funk added a pair.
The Bobcats nearly didn't need the extra frames, leading 8-1 going into the bottom of the eighth inning. The Pacers responded on their home turf for a seven-run outburst and an 8-8 tie at the end of regulation.
Bobcat reliever Matt LaMothe (Troy, Mich.) worked the final 4 1/3 strong innings, allowing three hits but no runs, fanning four in the win (2-0). Pacer reliever Jake Padgett took the loss (0-1). Aiken shortstop Stephen Carmon went 3-for-6 with a run.
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