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After loving Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers, I wanted to read more from the author. He only had one other published novel, so I bought a copy of Ablutions and set to reading. I won't deny how happy I was to see that the book was very short. Not even 200 pages! This was going to be an easy read. And while the prose was certainly easy and enjoyable, the content was dark and difficult. It took getting through the whole book to come to terms with wether deWitt had gone too far in his dark depictions of debauchery and apathy. Click to read more.
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I'm a fan of a light read. Books that feel like work are often rewarding, but being a movie buff makes me slightly impatient. Sometimes all I need is to sit back and devour a really simple-to-read book. I would never claim that The Da Vinci Code is well-written, or even that it's particularly good, but I still read it in the space of hours in a single night. One rare occasions I stumble upon that wonderful gift, a book that has the artistic heft of a difficult read and the light prose of a J.K. Rowling. Such is the case with Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers, a revisionist Western of sorts that I managed to read in the space of a day. Click to read more.
Such a disappointment. I'd heard this book pimped by so many cinephiles, including the guys on Filmspotting. How could it possibly not live up? Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is Peter Biskind's book about the New Hollywood of the late-60s and 70s. It promised to run through everything. All the little details. A journalistic look at how the era came about and eventually faltered. Unfortunately I wasn't told that the journalism was less New Yorker, more People Magazine. Click to read more.
Another Mark Kermode book! Only this time I actually read it. No audiobook crap on this one. Amazingly, I could pretty much hear Kermode's voice in my head as I read it, so it wasn't too unlike the pleasures of an audiobook. It's Only a Movie is essentially a memoir. Kermode talks about growing up, falling in love with movies, becoming a journalist, doing journalist things, and watching Werner Herzog get shot. Click to read more.
I love me some Mark Kermode. LOVE HIM! For those of you who may not be familiar with The Good Doctor, Mark Kermode PhD is a film critic for BBC radio. His show is available on iTunes as a podcast called Kermode and Mayo Film Review. Go listen to it. It's great.
Anyway, Mark Kermode is one of the most entertaining and erudite critics around. He also knows how to string a damn good sentence together. He's passionate and loud and funny and loves to rant. Basically the perfect guy to write a book about the state of film in the modern era. But here's the rub: I didn't actually "read" his latest book, The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex. Instead, since he's a great guy to listen to on the radio, I opted for the audiobook version. Kermode reads his book and brings so much passion in his voice that I can't recommend "reading" it any other way. Click to read more.
Two books down. My choice for the second book of my 50 Book Pledge was Cormac McCarthy's seminal Blood Meridian. Given how much I loved the Coen brothers' adaptation of No Country for Old Men, and how great McCarthy's novel The Road was, my excitement was pretty high. Sadly, I can't say I enjoyed Blood Meridian very much. Click to read more.
One book down! Yay!
Look, I'm a bit of an idiot. I got a late start on this #50BookPledge business, but then on top of that I decided my first book would be an 850 page fantasy opus. I'm just lucky the prose wasn't as heavy as War and Peace or else my pledge would have been over before it even started.
Anyway, on to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It's a book by one Susanna Clarke, released some years ago to a fair bit of acclaim and a nice spot on a number of bestsellers lists. It's an interesting book in that it's not exactly easy to fit it into a box. On the one hand it's a fantasy book. No doubt about it. It's got magicians who can do real magic, fairies, naval armadas made out of rain, all that jazz. But it's also something of an alternate history tale, except the "alternate" in this case is that it's an 19th Century England in which magic once existed and is now being restored. And then on top of this, the book is written in a style highly reminiscent of the works of Jane Austen, mixed with a little Charles Dickens.
If all this sounds like it might be up your alley, then you should probably just stop reading now and go pick up a copy of the book. Click to read more.
This week I learned about something called The 50 Book Pledge. The idea comes from the site, The Savvy Reader, and I think it's a great one. What does the pledge entail? Well, it's as simple as it sounds.
I hereby pledge to read 50 books during the calendar year 2012.
Okay, fine, I'll be honest with you. I am very bad with these sorts of pledges. Very bad. I usually bail out super fast. A pledge that relates specifically to books is even harder for me. I enjoy reading, but I'm not the fastest reader, and my reading habits are terrible. Sometimes I can read a book in two days. Sometimes it takes me five months.
So here's how this will work. My pledge is going to be a bit more maleable. I'm going to hedge myself. My aim is to get to 50 books. Heck, maybe I'll try for more than 50. But I don't think the idea behind the pledge is to stress people out about reaching any particular number. It's a way to get people like myself to read more. That's all. So here's the altered version of my pledge.
I hereby pledge to attempt to read 50 books during the calendar year 2012.
It's a slight change, but it makes a huge difference. No longer is my pledge about the number, it's about the attempt. It's about the idea of the pledge in the first place. I'm going to try to read as much as possible. I'm going to mix it up with fiction and non-fiction. I'm going to aim for the stars (50) and hopefully I'll reach them, but if I only get to the moon at least I'll have gotten somewhere.
So here goes My (50) Book Pledge. The first book on the docket? Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
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I decided to show you the most obvious use of the above mentioned method. This young lady wore a blouse which was made in two layers of fabric: solid yellow and sheer black. I painted the lower yellow layer first. When that was dry, I painted the shear black layer, and while still wet, I scratched back to reveal the yellow and shape the folds (hog bristle brushes scratch nicely). When the black layer dried, I applied a scumble of a blue-white tint to represent the lit side of the folds in the shear black fabric. This method is used all over this painting, as well as many others, but because the colors in most passages are often similar, I doubt you would see the distinct layers in a computer image. However, check this detail from the Child's Portrait, and see if you can identify the separate gauzy layers from bottom to top in the rendering of skin.
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What can be so purifying, what so ennobling to every mental power, as its unselfish exercise. If not in any other cause yet surely in that of Religion, petty jealousies and unseemly vanities must in a measure vanish, and the very action of the imagination take place in a pure atmosphere. The mere desire to do our best is enough. (Not to do better than others but our own best for ourselves. The deep trouble and disgrace of envy destroys the creature's powers: a man may desire to do well, and labour with all his might, and he will not do what he might have done if his purpose be to eclipse another. It must be a calm, humble, happy ambition that will carry us on. We might as well think to get the reflection of a fair landscape in troubled water as a great range of imaginative power in an envious mind. But the will to do the best possible is far different. Art is hard enough when we have this will, but she laughs to scorn our insincere efforts without it. We must begin with the conception the aim at perfection. But the will to do the best possible, and that for the sake of some other cause than ourselves, is the very temper in which the greatest things are done) ; and it is exactly this which is the consequence of the Spirit of Sacrifice. For while that Spirit leaves to every man's conscience the amount of his gift it dictates positively the single condition that it shall be of his best. And let this condition be as positively observed. Let nothing that is not as good as it can be ever be made a part of church architecture. Whatever stone we build with must be the best stone of the kind ; we may not be able to afford marble, then let it be Caen or Portland, but the best bed of either. We may not be able to afford stone ; build of brick, but of the best brick, do not let it be said ' cheaper material will do in this part or in that part'; it may answer its purpose as material, but it will not answer its purpose as an offering. So in the ornamentation, we may not be able to afford much, but let what is given be beautiful and as far carried as may be. Do not dot the ceilings or finish the leads with wretched, half-worked, blunt-edged, sickly-faced bosses and gargoyles : do not put up miserable imitations of mediaeval statuary ; we are foolish and weak if we are pleased with such things, they unfit us for feeling the nobility of their prototypes, they are a thousand-fold worse than plain vaults and walls, they are insults alike to religion and common sense, and we are none of us such good architects nor sculptors neither as to be able with impunity to work habitually beneath our strength, and, being able to do little, stop short of that little.
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1. How come you are in New Zealand at the moment?
I'm the guest of Software Education who is celebrating their 20th anniversary, which is no mean feat, staying in business that long means they are doing something right. And I'd like to think they are doing something right by having me down to speak for a couple of client engagements.
2. One of the things that often puzzles some of our some of our viewers at InfoQ is the resistance to modeling or the value of modeling. Why should we do modeling, especially in what is called the Agile World today?
Actually you've probably got about three or four questions in there. Let me just go back to beginning. You talked about the resistance to modeling. I think this comes about because so often the modeling that we're exposed to is done at what I would call the specification level. For instance, in the field of data modeling, when people are shown a data model, what they are actually shown is a graphic of a physical database design. In the business process modeling world, especially with the emergence of BPMN, if we see a full blown process model, it's not so much something digestible or consumable by a business person, but something that is designed for specifying and automated workflow - an SAP workflow or MQ Series workflow or some tool like that.
I think this happens because the tools that have been developed for modeling purposes largely exist to support construction, as opposed to supporting analysis or even planning. This has led to a lot of resistance. I could go on and on about that, but I think you asked a couple of other questions in there as well, such as: Why should we do modeling? - We should do modeling if we're dealing with a subject matter that can't be observed directly. So it's better to build an iconic or a symbolic model of it, so we can come to agreement on what it is we're discussing. Maybe we can manipulate the model like manipulating a model of a process instead of moving around the people who are part of that process.
Any time you've got some important factor that you are working with, that you can't observe directly, then modeling is appropriate. I can see you poised to ask me one more question, but let me just go a little bit further. A business process, which is where I do a lot of modeling, is something that can't necessarily be viewed directly. Not all at once, especially if it involves people in multiple geographic locations. In that case, a simple but complete model is invaluable. Much less valuable if you are talking about a group of people doing some work in a tightly scoped departmental set of activities, for instance.
3. Isn't this whole concept of building complex models contradictory to the Agile "Do the simplest thing possible"?
Yes, it is. Building complex models is definitely contradictory to what Agile is all about, but building simple models isn't. Let me give you an example. If I have a list of user stories in my backlog posted on the wall in my war room, that's a model. It's a textual model or I could have my user stories on some sort of a nicely shaped post-it, but it's a model. It's a model at what I would call the scope level of detail. I think we are going to get into this a little bit later, but any sort of modeling that I'm engaged in, whether it's process modeling, use case modeling, business service specification modeling or data modeling, can exist at three levels of detail: the scope level, the conceptual level and the detail or specification level.
Those detailed models that have enough content, enough rigor in them that you could actually build something from them, those specification level models, probably aren't very appropriate in an Agile environment. But a scope level model saying "Here is a list of processes or user stories that we're going to work on" or "Here is a very high level overall picture of our process flow" - those are entirely appropriate. And as the scope of your initiative goes up, they get more useful.
4. Can you explain a little bit further this concept of levels in your modeling?
Some of your viewers may be familiar with the Zachman framework. John Zachman was one of the pioneers in noting that when we model or discuss any subject matter, especially in his original article he was talking about information systems, there are these three perspectives. There are more than three, but the top three I'm concerned with. He called them "the planner's view", so very high level models that let us discuss scope, for instance what's in, what's out. That corresponds to what I call a scope level model. Then he talked about the owner's view and this was a model that the owner of the subject matter would be comfortable with.
That's like a conceptual model in my terms. Simple symbols, boxes and lines, not a lot of syntactic rules, but terrific for establishing communication among multiple audiences. Then we get down to what John called the designer's view, which is models that are detailed enough that you could actually build something from them. John's original article described these in terms of a building analogy, but I use it and so do millions of other people around the world to talk about business and systems constructs. I could go a little bit further. If we took say process - again, that's where I spend a lot of work- a scope level process model would be a very simple block diagram illustrating perhaps a family, a related set of business processes, like customer relationship management.
And maybe depicting the individual processes within that area, such as acquiring a customer, completing a customer communication, resolving a customer's service issue - that sort of thing. Maybe even going down to the pieces of those processes, but a very simple block diagram so people can point to some of those boxes and say "This is in scope and the other ones are out of scope." Again, nobody needs any training of any sort or even special tools to be able to understand or create models like that. Then, in the process context, if we were looking at a conceptual level process model, that could take the form of a swim lane diagram, could take the form of a decomposition.
But we'll stick with the swim lane diagram where there are lanes illustrating the different participants in the process and basically boxes and lines showing the activities performed by the different actors and the overall flow amongst them. When I do those things, it's simply boxes and lines, not even our old friend the decision diamond. There is no symbolic overload, there is nothing that would put off any business person from feeling quite comfortable reviewing that model. That's fine for getting a shared understanding of the overall flow or the process. By the way, those are very useful in an Agile environment where the individual steps might correspond to a user story.
Within that there is an awful lot of dialogue and maybe a lot of rules and logic happening, but we don't need to see that. We just need to see the overall flow, so people get the concept of the process. We can go finally down to the specification or the detail level and now we're at the level where there is a lot of logic maybe showing the different paths through the process put down at the level that it has enough specificity that you could implement this in some sort of a workflow engine. In other words you might have a very detailed BPMN model that would generate BPEL [Business Process Execution Language] which would then drive one of the commercial workflow tools.
5. This is where the heavyweight syntax of things such as BPMN comes in.
Absolutely. I get accused of being a BPMN basher from time to time, which frankly I am once in a while. But more what I object to is the misapplication of tools. If you're talking about a very detailed logical data model or a very detailed class diagram, there is syntax in there that is necessary at that level of detail, but it's not necessary at that conceptual level where we're working on a shared understanding.
6. I've heard you use the term that a tool such as BPMN is a visual programming language.
Yes. That's liable to get me in trouble with some people. I was looking at a very rich BPMN diagram once and I realized that it would be utterly incomprehensible to the business person who owned that process and it got me thinking. The parallel that came to my mind was 30 years ago I did APL programming and I don't know if your viewers are familiar with APL, but if you go and Google it you'll find that APL stands for A Programming Language. It was a language that was constructed of all these Greek symbols - Rhos and Taus and Omegas and things like that. Each one of them was a matrix operation that was incredibly powerful and you'd string these together ideally into the famous one-liner we liked to write APL programs that had many of these symbols but they all lived in one line.
They could do wonderful things and they are still in use, say in insurance, in some underwriting areas. Anyway, the underwriter could look at one of these and find it absolutely indecipherable, but it did represent something important to their business. We could even draw comparisons with COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). You don't want to expose necessarily your business person to the logic that's expressed in a COBOL program, but it is important. Anyway, BPMN is the same thing. It's just like APL, just like COBOL, it's a programming language. One of the things I object to is calling it a business process modeling language. I think it would be far more appropriate to call it an automated workflow specification language. If any of the BPMN fans see this, I'll have earned their ire.
7. To summarize things, how do these techniques of process modeling, the simple boxes and lines, apply in the world of software development? How do they apply in the world of Agile software development?
They may not. If we are dealing with something that is tightly constrained enough that there isn't any significant workflow, then they may not apply. In fact, in the book, which I think you generously plugged at the beginning at this interview, we asked the question "When should you do workflow modeling?" And our answer was "You should do workflow modeling when the work flows" - not surprisingly. If you have a complex order fulfillment process where the work flows from the customer to the sales desk, to the order management people, to logistics and so on, then a simple workflow can help.
Just so people understand "If I'm working on this user story here, what has happened before, what's happening afterwards?" Because in a complex process it can be pretty easy to get things out of sync, to do work that's unnecessary because it's already been done, or to fail to see a significant opportunity to improve or simplify the process. I think as long as we focus on keeping it useful, which is up at the appropriate level of detail - so we're not spending a lot of time on the modeling and we're not spending a lot of time on arguing about the right symbols to use in the right situation.
Then, I think it's extremely useful in an Agile environment in fact I've done a lot of work in the last few years and a lot of training for Agile teams who have found often much to their surprise that this scope and conceptual level modeling is very useful because it can constrain some of the detours that they might have otherwise taken and some simple conceptual modeling, whether it's process modeling or use case modeling or old favorite data modeling can improve communication and cut a few iteration cycles out of the process.
8. Thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us and good luck and enjoy the rest of your trip.
I'm here at one of the great parts of the world, just outside Wellington, New Zealand, so I am a happy fellow. Thank you for having me.
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I've been doing Agile for some years using only a model driven programming language. In fact, I think there is nothing else but advantages in doing so. The further you can go with models, the better. User stories become much more richer if you model them. And they are understood by a much broader audience than the single product owner defining it. i think they remove some of the ambiguity of a story. The model doesn't even need to be complete.
The OutSystems platform includes also a BPM layer on top of the application layer. Although this is an executable model, with all the details required for a full blown execution (forms, events, logic) it had been, in my case, enough to engage in the discussion of the stories that compose the process.
Regarding your note on the relation between a user story and a process model, I disagree with one minor detail. I believe one user story may be related to one activity in some cases but in most cases it is not. It is a small piece of a single activity, or it may even represent an entire process. It is usually reused across several activities (a user story that defines a feature to search customers by SSN may be part of all human activities in a process). The process defines the overall goal of the (sub)system and the orchestration of the several roles/systems in that process... That model is rich enough by itself. Every system should have one.
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I am trying to find a picture of this years temple, online, or even see a scetch of it, and can't find anything related to the temple, I know it's probably user error on my part, but could some one please steer me in the right direction? thanks
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Was thinking the same thing, thank you...last year as well as this I have not been able to go and I will say last year it was much easier to be there online..They had a lot more Art project video & had postcard from there that you could read with photos that breathed...and I wept for hours of how people felt of the temple...my beau sent me photos I have seen only a small number of them this year of the building progess..and not of the finished result. I entrusted my gift to the temple with my beloved.
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The temple was beautiful, and very powerful. I haven't seen one burn yet, since I've left before Sunday eve. I don't feel for myself that I need to see it burn, but I feel it's absolutely necessary to burn that thing and release the overwhelming amount of grief invested in it. I'm glad that has been accomplished.
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Our audience loves subsurface imagery. This includes seismic waves contour lines, and rock formations. Check our website to see what these images look like.
The logo needs be in our existing colors - red and white. However, it can be red gradients. Our existing logo can be seen at http://www.seismicmicro.com
The logo needs to prominently say SMT. It should NOT say our full name as we are moving to just the initials.
Ideally, the logo should also mention our product name - KINGDOM (always, in all caps).
The logo should be easy to display on trade show signs, web, and marketing collateral.
The logo should look very dynamic. I like the logos shown at this URL - especially the conceptual ones. http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/l…edictions/
I have uploaded logos of competitors and logos I liked from the logoblog. Paradigm, Seisware, and iHS are the competitor logos. I really like iHS look - simple, modern, and incorporates company name into the logo. I do not like Seisware. Paradigm is ok, but would be nice to incorporate the name into the logo instead of setting next to it.
In our case, we may need to have SMT in the logo picture, and KINGDOM written next to it.
One idea: Write the "S" using seismic waves. The 'M" can look like the subsurface block like the "M" here:http://www.seismicmicro.com/pdf/smt_kgeomodeling.pdf
The "T" - make it look high tech.
Don't know if that will look clean, just a thought.
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Bucking the strain of bucked shins
"Bucked shins are one of the most frustrating hurdles for Thoroughbred trainers to overcome," says Patty Hogan, VMD, DACVS, of Hogan Equine at Fair Winds Farm, Cream Ridge, N.J. "They're a natural phenomenon, as they occur due to the timing of bone development during early training of young racehorses. The natural way a bone adapts during training is at such an accelerated rate, it doesn't allow for the making of healthy bone."
Hogan says that older horses can sometimes develop a sequelae of this syndrome, although with deeper changes in the bone, leading to stress fractures. If, by chance, older horses (i.e., 3- or 4-year-olds) enter training for the first time, they may develop bucked shins, too.1According to Daniel J. Burba, DVM, DACVS, professor of veterinary surgery at Louisiana State University's School of Veterinary Medicine, 70 percent of young Thoroughbred racehorses in training develop the problem, usually during the first six months of their training. Although it can be treated fairly easily, 12 percent of horses that develop bucked shins go on to develop stress fractures later in their careers.
Make the diagnosis
Burba says it was thought that the periosteum of the bone is affected, resulting in a subperiosteal hematoma. It forms because the periosteum is torn away from the surface of the bone, resulting in microbleeding of the capillaries. As the periosteum is pulled away from the bone's surface, pain receptors in and along the bone surface are affected, resulting in a very painful event for the horse.
In a presentation at the American Association of Equine Practitioners in 2002, David Nunamaker, VMD, DACVS, countered that the classical hypothesis of subperiosteal hemorrhage and microfractures seems to be the wrong interpretation of the bone's morphology.1 "The high-strain events of bending of the MCIII (cannon bone) induce bone formation on the dorsal surface of the MCIII. Classical training will induce this bone on the dorsomedial surface," said Nunamaker. "Lamellar bone formation can accrue on surfaces up to 1 to 2 microns per day. Faster bone formation may occur using fiber bone that forms the periosteal new bone that is vascular and porous. This normal periosteal formation is interpreted by the clinician as bucked shin, and therefore disease."1
Although both forelimbs may be affected, it's often the left forelimb that contracts the condition first, since Thoroughbred racehorses in the United States race counterclockwise, thus incurring the stress of higher loading of the left leg while traversing the track's turns.
Nunamaker writes that if Wolff's law is strictly applied, it follows that a bone that adapts to a particular peak tensile strain may not be adequately prepared to resist far larger peak compressive strains in the same location.1
When an animal is breezing, its leg is at a much different angle than when the animal is jogging or even galloping, and the bone has to adapt to that to be structurally sound, according to Hogan. "Most horses are not trained to breeze frequently, and mentally it's very difficult to give a horse the right amount of breeze work to actually train the bone properly. Many horses have very long jogging regimens—many miles at a lesser speed—so bone is very strong for that," Hogan says. "But when then asked to do the fast work, the bone is radically affected—the angle is so different that it creates a stress concentration on the front of the cannon bone." Therefore, the horse develops a very painful reaction, subperiosteal inflammation, as the bone has not yet remodeled to withstand the demands.
Hogan compares good training to building a house of brick and mortar—both require a very slow process that builds sound structure. "If you want to build quickly, you use fiberboard," she says. "That's sort of what happens with bucked shins. It's the body's way of putting something down very fast to adapt to the request for strength and speed. Therefore, it lays down this 'fiberboard bone,' which is structurally not very sound."
That's when you see periosteal reaction on the front of the cannon bone: frail, linear bone vs. very strong, lamellar bone, Hogan says.


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Sweet Brown Has Her Voice Autotuned, Sues 'iTunes' And Others For $15 Million
from the not-likely-to-go-over-well dept
There was also an attempt at summary judgment that failed, when Brown failed to show that she had served "iTunes." Of course, even if that happens, Apple has plenty of reasonable defenses, as a third party service provider, for why it's not liable.
All that said, there is something about the video that feels exploitative. The Autotune the News guys made sure that Antoine Dodson got something out of his unexpected fame, and you can see why it might have made good general sense to have cut Brown in on any proceeds, even if the Bob Rivers show was not legally required to do so.


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Body Techniques, the same vendor that provides massage services on Tuesdays at Building 76, will now also be providing chair massage on Thursdays in the Reading Lounge. Thanks to EHS Health Services for negotiating with them and getting the new dates and times set up.
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Braves acquire Ayala from Orioles
Atlanta, GA – The Atlanta Braves acquired right-handed pitcher Luis Ayala from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for minor league pitcher Chris Jones.
Ayala was 1-0 with a 9.00 ERA in two relief appearances for Baltimore this season. He appeared in 66 games with the Orioles in 2012, when he posted a 5-5 mark and a 2.64 ERA.
In 497 career games with the Expos/Nationals (2003-08), Mets (2008), Twins (2009), Marlins (2009), Yankees (2011) and Orioles, Ayala is 37-46 with 19 saves and a 3.37 ERA. He has pitched in 50-or-more games in a season six times in his career.
Jones was with the Braves' Double-A Mississippi affiliate in 2012 and 2013. He was obtained by the Braves from the Cleveland Indians in October 2011 in exchange for pitcher Derek Lowe.


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Hield leads Oklahoma past Oklahoma State in bounceback win
STILLWATER, Okla. — Buddy Hield scored 22 points to help Oklahoma defeat Oklahoma State 77-74 on Saturday afternoon.
Oklahoma State's Markel Brown missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that would have forced overtime.
Frank Booker scored 15 points, Tyler Neal scored 13 and Ryan Spangler added 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Sooners (19-7, 8-5 Big 12), who were desperate for a win after losing three of their previous four. The Sooners were coming off a 68-60 loss to Texas Tech during which they posted a season-low point total.
Brown led Oklahoma State (16-9, 4-8) with 26 points. Phil Forte scored 16 points, Le'Bryan Nash scored 15 and Kamari Murphy had seven points and 13 rebounds for the Cowboys, who lost their sixth straight game. It was Oklahoma State's second game without Marcus Smart, the preseason All-America guard who was suspended for three games after shoving Texas Tech fan Jeff Orr.
Oklahoma led 71-68 in the final minute when Forte missed a 3-pointer. OU's Jordan Woodard made two free throws to make it a five-point game with 30.6 seconds left. Brown's 3-pointer got the lucky bounce and went in to trim the Sooners' lead to 73-71.
A pair of free throws by Je'lon Hornbeak made it 75-71, Sooners, with 18.6 seconds to play.
Forte's 3-pointer from the corner with 5.1 seconds remaining cut Oklahoma's lead to 75-74. Hornbeak was fouled again with 4.4 seconds left, and he made both free throws, forcing Oklahoma State to go for three. Brown dribbled upcourt and stopped at the 3-point line, but the shot missed to the left.
Oklahoma State jumped out to a quick 18-11 lead with help from eight points by Forte.
Oklahoma rallied as Neal made a 3-pointer, was fouled and made the free throw to put Oklahoma up 25-22. The Sooners extended their lead to six, but the Cowboys responded. Forte's 3-pointer with 14 seconds left in the first half cut Oklahoma's lead to 39-37, a score that stood at the break.
Forte scored 13 points and Brown added 10 in the first half. Neal and Hield each scored 11 points in the first half.
Oklahoma State hung in the game in part by outrebounding the Sooners 23-20 before the break.
The Cowboys finally regained the lead on a pair of free throws by Brown just over a minute into the second half. Brian Williams nearly brought the house down with a two-handed jam that put the Cowboys up 48-41, but Hield came right back with a three-point play and a layup to cut OSU's lead to two. The Sooners tied the game at 57 on a basket by Neal, and Frank Booker's 3-pointer with 6 minutes to go gave Oklahoma a 60-57 lead.
Oklahoma State followed with an 8-0 run. A layup and a jumper by Brown gave Oklahoma State a 65-60 edge.
OU's Hield hit back-to-back-3-pointers to give Oklahoma a 71-68 lead with just over a minute to play.


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Community Rights and Responsibilities is the official code of conduct outlining behavioral expectations for University at Albany students. The University has developed this code of standards and expectations, consistent with its purpose as an educational institution and requires that each student accept responsibility for his or her own behavior and consequences. These regulations and the procedures for their enforcement apply to all student conduct and behavior. Once a student is accepted as a member of the University community, they are responsible to uphold the standards in the code of conduct. As such, students should be familiar with Community Rights & Responsibilities. These specific regulations should not be viewed as a comprehensive code of desirable conduct; rather they describe the minimum standards.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law forced about 800,000 federal workers off the job, suspending all but essential services. The National Zoo's popular online "panda cam" went dark around 8 a.m.
The White House grounds cut back to a skeletal staff. The U.S. Capitol canceled tours not personally led by Congress members. With the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate at a stalemate, it was unclear how long a temporary bill needed to finance government activities would be stalled.
The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin of Illinois, called the failure to pass a budget "conduct unbefitting a responsible Congress" and said he hoped it could be resolved by the end of the day Tuesday.
"Most people in the body politic are taking a look at this and saying, 'A pox on both of your houses. It should never have reached this point,'" Durbin said Tuesday morning on CNN.
But in the House, conservative Rep. Marsha Blackburn predicted the standoff would drag on if Obama and Senate Democrats refused to negotiate over delaying a key part of the health care law. "You may see a partial shutdown for several days," Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Fox News. "People are going to realize they can live with a lot less government."
The health care law itself was unaffected as enrollment opened Tuesday for millions of people shopping for medical insurance. The shutdown, the first since the winter of 1995-96, closed national parks across the nation.
In Washington, the Smithsonian museums website displayed a red banner noting that "all Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are closed." Traffic was lighter and subways less crowded Tuesday morning. Panda mom Mei Xiang could be seen snuggling with her weeks-old cub through the morning, until the Washington zoo's online feed was cutoff around 8 a.m.
Care of the animals will continue. Agencies like NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency were being nearly shuttered. People classified as essential government employees - such as air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and most food inspectors - will continue to work.
The White House was operating with a skeletal staff, including household workers taking care of the first family's residence and presidential aides working in the West Wing. A groundskeeper working outside Tuesday morning at daybreak said he was doing the job normally handled by four workers.
Given the shutdown, White House officials were discussing whether President Barack Obama should change plans for a trip to Asia scheduled to begin Saturday. The military will be paid under legislation freshly signed by Obama, but paychecks for other federal workers will be withheld until the impasse is broken.
Federal workers were told to report to their jobs for a half-day but to perform only shutdown tasks like changing email greetings and closing down agencies' Internet sites. The self-funded Postal Service will continue to operate and the government will continue to pay Social Security benefits and Medicare and Medicaid fees to doctors on time. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers get to decide which of their staff members keep working and which are furloughed. Members of Congress will continue getting paid.
The Senate twice on Monday rejected House-passed bills that first sought to delay key portions of the 2010 "Obamacare" law, then to delay the law's requirement that millions of people buy medical insurance.
The House passed the last version again early Tuesday naming negotiators for a Senate-House conference on the bill; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the same fate awaits that measure when the Senate reconvenes Tuesday morning.
"You don't get to extract a ransom for doing your job, for doing what you're supposed to be doing anyway, or just because there's a law there that you don't like," Obama said Monday, delivering a similar message in private phone calls later to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and other lawmakers. Boehner said he didn't want a government shutdown, but added the health care law "is having a devastating impact. ... Something has to be done."
It wasn't clear how long the standoff would last, but it appeared that Obama and Reid had the upper hand. "We can't win," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., adding that "sooner or later" the House would have to agree to Democrats' demands for a simple, straightforward funding bill reopening the government. Another veteran Republican, Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, called the shutdown "a big mistake."
Interviewed on MSNBC, Cole called on House and Senate negotiations to end the impasse and insisted Democrats should yield on delaying the requirement that individual Americans have health coverage. The order directing federal agencies to "execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations" was issued by White House Budget Director Sylvia Burwell shortly before midnight Monday.
Around the same time, Obama appeared in a video message assuring members of the military they'll be paid under a law he just signed and telling civilian Defense Department employees that "you and your families deserve better than the dysfunction we're seeing in Congress." Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that Pentagon lawyers are trying to determine ways for some of the Defense Department's 400,000 furloughed civilians to continue working.
He bemoaned the standoff, telling reporters traveling with him in South Korea, "It does have an effect on our relationships around the world and it cuts straight to the obvious question: Can you rely on the United States as a reliable partner to fulfill its commitments to its allies?" The underlying spending bill would fund the government through Nov. 15 if the Senate gets its way or until Dec. 15 if the House does.
Until now, such bills have been routinely passed with bipartisan support, ever since a pair of shutdowns 17 years ago engineered by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich severely damaged Republican election prospects and revived then-President Bill Clinton's political standing.
Boehner had sought to avoid the shutdown and engineer passage of a "clean" temporary spending bill for averting a government shutdown. This time tea party activists mobilized by freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, mounted a campaign to seize the must-do measure in an effort to derail Obamacare. GOP leaders voiced reservations and many Republican lawmakers predicted it wouldn't work.
Some even labeled it "stupid." But the success of Cruz and other tea party-endorsed conservatives who upset establishment GOP candidates in 2010 and 2012 primaries was a lesson learned for many Republican lawmakers going into next year's election.


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Tomorrow, as we fire up our grills and crack open our beers, let us remember why we even have a July 4th holiday: to commemorate the greatest act of shared, selfless courage the world has ever seen.
Everybody should know that Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence. Most people know the names of a handful of the 56 men who signed it, such as John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and of course Jefferson himself. But few people seem to realize that when those men signed their names, they were committing what was considered an act of treason against the British crown, punishable by death. Those men were property owners who were successful in their lives and businesses. Their lives were comfortable and they stood to lose everything by signing the Declaration -- yet they chose to sign it anyway, because they knew that casting off the crown and forming a new government based on individual liberty was the right thing to do, not only for their own descendants but for all of humanity. And here is what happened to some of those men after they signed the Declaration:
Five of them became prisoners of war.
Nearly one-sixth of them died before the war ended.
British forces burned, and/or looted, the homes and properties of nearly one-third of them.
When the British did that to the property of William Floyd, he and his family fled and spent the next seven years living as refugees without income. His wife died two years before the war ended.
After being forced into the wilderness by British forces, John Hart struggled to make his way home. When he finally got there, he found that his wife was dead and his 13 children were missing. He died without ever seeing them again.
Richard Stockton was dragged from his bed and sent to prison while his property was ravaged. From the day of his release from prison until the day he died, he had to rely on charity from others to feed his family.
Francis Lewis's wife was imprisoned and beaten. Meanwhile, his wealth was plundered. His last years were spent as a widower living in poverty.
Thomas Nelson Jr.'s home was captured and occupied by British General Cornwallis, who used it as what we would now call an operations center. Therefore, Nelson ordered his troops to destroy his own home with cannon fire during the Battle of Yorktown. To assist in funding the war, he used his own credit to borrow 2 million dollars, which today would equal more than 25 billion dollars. Repaying that debt bankrupted him, and when he died he was buried in an unmarked grave.
It is a safe bet that fewer than one percent of our citizens have ever heard of these people, much less know anything about the devastating sacrifices they made so that future generations could have the freedom necessary to build the kind of upwardly-mobile, always-progressing society we would come to take for granted.
The Founding Fathers bequeathed us a wonderful gift called America, and we owe it to our children to make sure we don't allow that gift to be destroyed. We should never hear the words "Fourth of July" without feeling a skip in our heart and a tear in our eye.


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By JIM SAUNDERS
TALLAHASSEE - The House and Senate are ready to take up their dueling alternatives to expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act.
But a third possibility - call it "Beancare"- is all but dead.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan by Chairman Joe Negron, R-Stuart, to tap into billions of dollars in federal money to offer private health-insurance to low-income Floridians. The plan (SB 1816), which appears to have broad support in the Senate and the backing of Gov. Rick Scott, is now ready to go to the Senate floor.
But while the committee also approved a far-smaller health coverage proposal by Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, the bill (SB 1844) likely won't be heard again.
Senate Rules Chairman John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, said he doesn't see a need for the full Senate to take up the Bean proposal because it is similar to a House bill that is expected to go to the House floor later this week. That bill (HB 7169) would reject accepting federal money and would offer $2,000 state subsidies to help poor people get health coverage.
Bean, whose proposal would reject federal money and offer subsidies of $10 a month, had asked the Appropriations Committee to approve his bill to keep options open.
"This is an alternative, because who knows where we're going to go with expansion of health care for individuals?" he asked.
Similar questions are being asked throughout the Capitol as lawmakers speed toward the May 3 end of the legislative session. House and Senate Republican leaders have rejected the idea of a Medicaid expansion that was part of the Affordable Care Act.
But they have taken dramatically different positions as they seek to come up with an alternative to the Medicaid expansion. While the Senate is willing to use federal funds to offer private health insurance to roughly 1 million Floridians, House Republicans have repeatedly said they do not think the state should rely on money from Washington.
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said Tuesday it is "OK that we're in different places right now," and he hopes the House and Senate can reach an agreement by the end of the legislative session.
"But if we're not, that doesn't mean that the world comes to an end; it just means that we're going to have to continue to talk in the offseason and see if we can't find some middle ground later," Weatherford said.
Scott drew national headlines in February when he announced support for expanding Medicaid. But with that idea going nowhere in the Legislature, he reiterated his support Tuesday for the Negron alternative.
As a sign of how senators have lined up behind the Negron bill, there was almost no discussion before the Appropriations Committee approved it. Also, a wide range of interest groups - including AARP, the Service Employees International Union, the Florida Hospital Association and the Florida Association of Health Plans - simply signaled their support from the audience, instead of testifying on the bill.


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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 26 August 2011—Today marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive database of resources held in libraries around the globe.
On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items in OCLC member libraries worldwide.
"We congratulate the thousands of librarians and catalogers around the world who have helped to build WorldCat over the past 40 years keystroke by keystroke, record by record," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. "We who work at OCLC are proud to have been a part of this remarkable story, and I want to thank our member institutions and employees for the years of dedicated effort that helped build this unique resource. Fred Kilgour's vision—improving access to information through library cooperation—is every bit as vital today as it was in 1971. This anniversary is an important milestone in a shared journey that, I believe, will continue for many decades to come."
WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by OCLC libraries around the world. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. The institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogs, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work. Libraries contribute records for items not found in WorldCat using OCLC shared cataloging systems.
"In retrospect, I have to say that in those early days, I don't think we really understood the enormity of the system that we were embarking upon, much less did we consider what the future possibilities might be," said Lynne Lysiak, who had just started her career at Ohio University Libraries when WorldCat first went online, and is now retired. "As OCLC forges ahead now with WorldCat Local and cloud-computing developments, they are embarking on a new era and suite of services for libraries and their users. It's an exciting time."
"OCLC cataloging and resource sharing services and our library management systems continue to help libraries improve their productivity, save money and improve access to their collections," said Mr. Jordan. "Against a backdrop of continuous technological change, WorldCat and the OCLC cooperative have continued to grow."
Since 1971, 240 million records have been added to WorldCat, spanning more than 5,000 years of recorded knowledge, from about 3400 B.C. to the present. This unique collection of information encompasses records in a variety of formats—books, e-books, DVDs, digital resources, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, visual materials, mixed materials and computer files. Like the knowledge it describes, WorldCat grows steadily. Every second, library members add seven records to WorldCat.
Once records have been added to WorldCat, they are discoverable on the Web through popular search and partner sites, and through WorldCat.org.
Records entered into WorldCat since 1971 have been continuously migrated, reformatted and updated to conform to newly issued cataloging standards. They have been touched and enhanced hundreds of times by librarians around the world and by OCLC staff and automated systems.
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Find more about WorldCat on the OCLC website, and watch WorldCat grow as libraries around the world contribute to the database.
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Located in western Panama, the Chiriqui Province borders Costa Rica to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Because of the proximity to the ocean and the mountains, it has become a preferred outdoor adventure destination. Getting to Chiriqui is easy from other parts of Panama, as the Pan American Highway (the Pan Am will take you all the way to Costa Rica) runs through Chiriqui from east to west and the main city, David, has daily flights from Panama City. The capital of the Chiriqui Province is the city of David. It is not one of Panama's best city's for attractions. David is land locked in the lowlands, so it can get very hot. Visitors either head to the beaches, along the coast of the Gulf of Chiriqui and its many islands: (Isla Palenque, Isla Boca Brava, Isla Parida) and Islas Secas or to the mountain highlands where the weather is cool and the rainforests are lush: the mountain town of Boquete is located about 25 minutes from David. Eco-tours and Agro-Tourism (coffee tours, bird watching, cloud forest hiking, canopy zip lines) are a big reason why visitors come to Boquete.
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The Chiriquí Highlands: There is plenty of adventure to be had in the rolling mountains of Chiriquí's highlands. Travelers can venture down the Chiriquí River for the best kayaking in the country or they can meander up the mountains for bird watching or horseback riding.
Chiriquí Province lies in the southwestern part of Panamá with its capital in David. Chiricanos are like the Texans of Panamá, and are loud, outgoing, and very proud of their province. However, they really seem to have something to be proud of. Chiriquí arguably has the friendliest people and the best landscape in Panamá.
Offering the most varied scenery in this already diverse country, Chiriquí has an array of plant and animal species inhabiting the different ecosystems. Chiriquí's topography ranges from the tallest mountain in the country, Volcano Baru located in the highlands, to the more than 30 small islands in the archipelagos of the Gulf of Chiriquí near the coastal town of Boca Chica, known for its world-class sport fishing.
Less than 9 degrees north of the equator, Panamá's temperatures are fairly consistent year round, with daytime temperatures in the 90s and nighttimes around 70, although the Chiriquí highlands get considerably cooler in the mountains. Like most of Panamá, Chiriquí's lowlands have a rainy season from May through November and a dry season from December through April. During most of the rainy season, mornings and early afternoons are usually sunny while late afternoons and evenings have intermittent rainfall. Unlike most of the Caribbean, Mexico, and other Central American countries, Panamá does not experience hurricanes. The most popular time to travel to Panamáis December through March, when lack of humidity and nearly zero percent chance of rain make it ideal for travelers.
Nearly a third of Panamá residents speak English, partially due to the many North American expatriates living there and the growing tourism sector, but an attempt at communication in the country's native Spanish is always appreciated.
Get There
Chiriquí is fairly easy to get to from Panamá City. The most recommended form of travel is a 50 minute flight through Aeroperlas or Air Panamá who offer daily flights to David from Panamá's Albrook Regional Airport. Also located at the airport is the Albrook Bus Terminal where you can catch a bus to David leaving every 30 minutes. Or you can opt for a day's car ride from Panamá City via the Interamerican Highway touring small cities and villages along the way. If traveling to Panamá from Costa Rica, there are direct flights from San José to David or Panamá City. Air Panamá serves the Chiriquí area with flights every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Construction is in progress to expand David's airport into a larger international facility with direct regular flights from the U.S. and Canada. The international airport, currently receiving up to 1800 passengers per week, has recently added regular flights to Costa Rica and charter flights from the US. Current expansion will soon allow for increased international traffic and larger aircraft.
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No visas required! (duh ¬¬) Guests to Panamá may visit the area for up to 90 days with just a passport and a $5 tourist card, but it is recommended that you keep a copy of both the passport and tourist card with you at all times.
Get around
Several well known rental car agencies are present within David, making it easy to find transportation for a trip. However it must be noted that rental cars may not be taken across the Costa Rican border. For travel within David, there are also plenty of taxis for easy transportation throughout the sprawling city. Because of the area's growing tourism, Chiriquí has seen vast improvement of physical, economic, and social infrastructures in the region in recent years. Roads are being improved, new high quality health care facilities being built, and major retailers are coming to the area. Much of this activity is centered in David; improvements include David's airport, Enrique Malek International Airport, whose incipient acceptance of direct international flights should mark the tipping point for the area in terms of tourism and development.
Panamánian cuisine is a mix of several cultures. With Afro-Caribbean, French and Spanish influences, the dishes take on a complete life of their own. In the larger cities you can find all types of cuisine ranging from authentic Panamánian to sushi. Outside of David and Boquete, the selection is largely Panamánian with bountiful seafood and beef due to the abundance of cattle farms and the fantastic fishing in the area. Most dishes are served with coconut rice and beans and a type of squash or other native vegetable.
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GREENVILLE, Ill. – GC ace David Massengill worked seven stellar innings to help the Panthers earn a share of Monday afternoon's twinbill against Principia College. Greenville dropped the opener 5-2, but took game two 5-1.
Monday's SLIAC battle featured two of the conferences best arms with PC's senior Greg Ball getting the start in game one, and Greenville's top hurler Massengill at the helm in the nightcap. Both men rank in the top ten in opposing batting avg., strikeouts, hits allowed, runs allowed, and ERA, and were as good as advertised at Robert E. Smith Field in the week's kick off.
Ball went seven innings while allowing only four hits, two runs, and struck out four Panther batters in opening play of the double-header's sour 5-2 decision. Junior Derek Reckmann tossed three solid frames before the visiting bats of Principia came alive in the fourth and put the game out of reach. The Black and Orange suffered their first loss in six contests, but would quickly avenge the conference defeat.
Greenville immediately got back on track in game two, crushing the ball offensively and piling up runs in the first four innings of play. Massengill set the tone from the mound and helped the club earn the 5-1 win.
GC baseball moves to 10-15 (9-4 SLIAC) with the split and will return to the diamond on Wednesday, April 18 as they play host to Fontbonne University at 6:00 pm.


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Lookin' Good: Prints & Posters We Loved
In addition to our weekly On the Wall post featuring one terrific print, we round up wonderful prints and posters by theme throughout the year. After all, your kids' walls deserve good art as much as the rest of your home.
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Indiana Secretary of State Cautions Investors about Social Networking Fraud
Classic affinity fraud scheme updated to take advantage of popular internet communities and destinations.
INDIANAPOLIS (September 19, 2011) – As people increasingly turn to online social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to interact with one another, so have con artists who lurk in the virtual shadows with shady investment deals to pitch to unsuspecting investors, Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White said today.
The securities division of the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State is cautioning investors to make certain they know with whom they are doing business when considering investments pitched through "friends" on social networking sites.
"Just because someone has 'friended' you online does not mean that person is your friend when it comes to investing," said Indiana Securities Commissioner Chris Naylor. "The person behind the profile may be deliberately mimicking your likes and interests to lure you into a scam."
Naylor adds, "This is nothing we haven't seen before. Scammers are just upgrading their pitches to keep up with the times." Historically focused on traditional social networks, con artists' "affinity fraud" schemes have been around for years. Targeting community service groups, professional associations or faith-based organizations, scammers infiltrate groups of individuals connected through common interests, hobbies, lifestyles, professions or faith to establish strong bonds through face-to-face contact and sharing of personal interests before launching their schemes.
The securities division has investigated criminal fraud allegations originating with scams peddled over popular websites before. The office's Prosecution Assistance Unit helped Indiana State Police and the Johnson County Prosecutor bring charges against a woman using the popular online Craig's List classifieds to solicit investments and used her investors' credit histories to apply for loans and credit cards. Last summer, the unit helped Vanderburgh County authorities file charges against a Cincinnati man who coaxed a woman over the Match.com dating community to give him $10,000 with promises to turn it into $1 million in one year.
The rise in popularity of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eHarmony and other online social networks and communities has made it easier for con artists to quickly establish trust and credibility. Facebook alone boasts 750 million users averaging 130 "friends" apiece and spending over 700 billion minutes per month on the social network. "Crooks peddling scams increasingly are logging on to find investors and their money," Indiana Investor Education Coordinator Melanie Woods said. She notes that according to the company's website, Facebook users on average are connected to 80 community pages, groups and events – all of which are ripe for con artist abuse.
Woods travels the state on behalf of the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State's Indiana Investment Watch program in part to educate groups on the perils of this and other types of affinity fraud. Online social networking sites enable scammers to gain access to potential victims through their online profiles, which may contain sensitive personal information such as their dates or places of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, religious and political views, employment histories, and even personal photographs.
"A con artist can take advantage of how easily people share background and personal information online by using this information to make a highly targeted pitch to 'friends' within that social group," Woods said.
The securities division has issued an alert advising investors to watch for red flags common to online investment schemes, such as promises of high returns with no risk, operations based offshore and requests for payment through e-currency websites. The alert also offers tips on how to protect against fraud in social networking: protect your personal information; search the names of all persons and companies connected to the investment being offered; beware of the use of testimonials from "satisfied" investors; obtain a prospectus; don't take the word of a salesperson; and contact the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State's securities division to determine if the investment and the person recommending it are properly registered.
"Take time to check out the investment yourself, and remember: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," White said.
The alert and additional information on how to protect yourself from investment fraud is available on the Secretary of State's website at www.IndianaInvestmentWatch.com or by calling 1-800-223-8791.
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