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DENVER -- With hardly any time to digest the Rockies' five-run, ninth-inning rally from Game 1, the Reds came out of the gates blazing for the second act of Sunday's day-night doubleheader.
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DENVER -- With hardly any time to digest the Rockies' five-run, ninth-inning rally from Game 1, the Reds came out of the gates blazing for the second act of Sunday's day-night doubleheader.
But there would be no revenge, as the bullpen blew another large lead to seal the Reds' third straight series defeat with a 10-5 loss at Coors Field.View Full Game Coverage
The Rockies rallied for three in the seventh and five in the eighth, racking up five runs off right-hander Carlos Contreras across that span.
Sunday's devastating turn of events has the Reds 4 1/2 games out of the second National League Wild Card. It also had manager Bryan Price nearly speechless.
"I wish I had more for you," Price said. "I don't know what to say. The first one got away from us and the second one got away from us."
Although it wasn't quite the four-run advantage Aroldis Chapman and J.J. Hoover burned through in Game 1, Contreras came on in the seventh to hold the Reds' 5-2 lead.
After registering his first out in routine fashion, Contreras allowed the next two to reach, setting up an RBI single from Corey Dickerson. With the bases loaded following Michael Cuddyer's single, Contreras gave his defense a chance for a double play by coaxing Nolan Arenado into a ground ball right to Ramon Santiago at third.
Instead of going 5-4-3, Santiago chose to take the unassisted out at third, hustling to the bag to beat Dickerson. With not much time to force the off-balance throw to first, Santiago missed his mark by a large margin, allowing two runs to score as the ball ricocheted off the home dugout into no-man's land.
"I think if [Santiago] were to do it over again, he probably would have turned it at second base," said Price of the game-tying play.
Left-hander Manny Parra took over for Contreras in the eighth with two on and one out, but fared no better. Dickerson's double gave the Rockies two runs and the lead. Cuddyer's double gave the Rockies two more and gave him the second cycle of his career.
Just for good measure, Drew Stubbs, the Game 1 walk-off hero, added another with an RBI single before Parra could stop the bleeding.
While all the damage was going down, Price could do nothing but sit and watch in the aftermath of a Game 1 that left him with a three-man bullpen. Price was forced to dip into his relief corps earlier than expected earlier in the day with Mat Latos lasting just five innings. Chapman then compounded the situation by walking four in the ninth without an out.
"I know runs score here in a hurry, but we really did everything we could with our bullpen to get to the place where we had a chance to win that first game," Price said. "That's one we should have put away and we didn't. That left us vulnerable for Game 2. We didn't really get to match up. We just tried to run as far as we could with the guys that we had left in the bullpen. And it didn't work out."
The Reds jumped out to their largest lead in the sixth. In that inning, Ryan Ludwick made Rockies left-hander Yohan Flande pay for his leadoff walk by punishing a two-run shot to left-center. Two batters later, Brayan Pena's double over center fielder Brandon Barnes gave the Reds a 4-1 edge.
Billy Hamilton led off Game 2 with a double before coming around to score on Jay Bruce's groundout. Hamilton scored again in the seventh on Santagio's sacrifice fly. He also stole his 45th base of the season, beating right-hander Brooks Brown's pitchout by at least three steps in the seventh. He finished the doubleheader 5-for-9 with three doubles and four runs scored.
Barnes and Cuddyer each got to right-hander Dylan Axelrod for solo homers to left field. But outside of the long balls, Axelrod proved quite reliable in his first Major League start since Sept. 25, 2013, striking out seven across six innings.
"It's unfortunate the way both games turned out today, but I was happy with my performance," Axelrod said after filling in Homer Bailey.
The Reds head to St. Louis for a three-game series against the rival Cardinals, who own the first NL Wild Card. Even with a doubleheader on a getaway day, Price knows there's no time for jet lag or excuses.
"We're in a bad place right now," Price said. "But tomorrow, we're professionals, we have to come back to play. There's no excuse for hangover in this league. We're going to wear it. And we should."
Cody Ulm is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Former world champions Italy and Germany are among seven countries who could confirm their places in next year's World Cup soccer finals in Brazil when the qualifying tournament swings back into action after a three-month break.
The Netherlands, three times finalists, could also qualify from Europe with wins on both Friday and Tuesday while Switzerland and Bosnia could go through if they win and other results go their way.
The United States would seal the first qualifying place from the CONCACAF region with victories in Costa Rica and at home to Mexico while Argentina can guarantee a trip to neighboring Brazil if they beat Paraguay on Tuesday.
The former world champions, who top the South American standings, could even qualify before they face the bottom-placed Paraguayans if results go their way when they have a rest day on Friday.
With the opening match in Sao Paulo on June 12, just over nine months away, hosts Brazil and the four Asian qualifiers of Japan, Australia, Iran and South Korea are the only countries through so far.
On Friday, the seven nations who will join already-qualified Ivory Coast, Egypt and Algeria in the final African qualifying round will be known.
The 10 teams will be paired up and play each other home and away to decide Africa's five qualifiers for Brazil.
In Asia, Jordan and Uzbekistan, neither of whom have reached the finals before, will meet over two legs on Friday and Tuesday to decide who qualifies for a playoff against the eventual fifth-placed South American team for a World Cup place.
Italy, the European Group B leaders, face second-placed Bulgaria in Sicily knowing that victory, and a win against the Czech Republic on Tuesday, will give them a spot in the finals.
The main talking point in Italy has been who might succeed coach Cesare Prandelli if, as expected, he announces as soon as qualification is secured that he will leave the job after four years at the end of the finals.
The Italian players know what to expect in Brazil after their experience in the Confederations Cup in June when they reached the semi-finals before losing to Spain on penalties.
They will be missing five first-choice players against Bulgaria including the suspended Mario Balotelli, Riccardo Montolivo and Pablo Osvaldo, but the trio will return for the game against the unimpressive Czechs.
Germany are likely to secure their place sooner rather than later, with Group C matches against Austria on Friday and the Faroe Islands on Tuesday.
It would be the Germans' 16th successive appearance in the finals - the last one they missed was when the World Cup was held in Brazil in 1950 following World War Two.
Louis Van Gaal's Netherlands team are the only ones with a perfect record after winning their opening six matches and they are seven points clear of Hungary and eight clear of third-placed Romania.
The Dutch are likely to seal their place in the finals following a trip to Estonia on Friday and a visit to tiny Andorra on Tuesday. Anything other than two wins would be a major surprise.
World champions Spain should keep their grip on Group I, which they lead by one point from France.
Coach Vicente del Bosque is without several key players for Friday's tie against Finland. Finnish coach Mixu Paatelainen has described the game as "a David and Goliath situation", although Finland did hold Spain to a 1-1 draw in Gijon in March.
(This story is corrected to make clear Netherlands were finalists three times)
Editing by Clare Fallon

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Our sibling site, Android Central, has posted up a story about TeleNav making a turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for Google's Android G1:
The TeleNav software will include full color 3D graphics, speech recognition, one-click rerouting, traffic alerts, weather updates, gas prices, and restaurant reviews.
Sure, it's not all roses. After a 30-day free trial, you need to fork over $9.99 a month, $99 a year, or $249 for four years to keep the service, but at least they have the option.
So what's happening with the iPhone app? We asked, and this was what we got in response:
We have to stay mum at this point on an iPhone app other than to say that we're working on it. Please stay tuned!
If it's hard to stay mum, imagine how hard it is to "stay tuned" after months and month (and months) of waiting.
Dieter mentions that Apple, flush with success battering around the music industry and Google, may not know how to zip their lip and make nice with the map licensors. Could that be the hold up?
We won't ask if you want turn-by-turn GPS navigation -- we know you do -- so we'll just tell Apple and TeleNav to suck it up and get this done (before more people jailbreak just for xGPS), and we'll leave the comments open for you to do likewise...


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This will not come as a great shock to many readers, but it is of interest: "In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House." Rowan Scarborough reports:
The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive access to a range of high-level national security officials for a book that divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar on Iran's nuclear program, internal State Department emails show.
The information in the 2012 book by chief Washington correspondent David E. Sanger has been the subject of a yearlong Justice Department criminal investigation: The FBI is hunting for those who leaked details to Mr. Sanger about a U.S.-Israeli covert cyberoperation to infect Iran's nuclear facilities with a debilitating computer worm known as Stuxnet.
A New York Times story adapted from the book, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," quotes participants in secret White House meetings discussing plans to unleash Stuxnet on Iran.
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Welcome back to football, Joe Kinnear. The newly appointed Newcastle United director of football claims to have 'more knowledge than anyone' at the club about management, which comes as somewhat of surprise given he fails to recall being relegated with Luton in 2001.
Kinnear's appointment at St James' Park has attracted a mixture of dismay and ridicule, with the 66-year-old double-heart-attack sufferer placed in charge of Newcastle's transfer dealings, despite having signed only three players in the last nine years.
The former Wimbledon boss has already endured one farcical stint with Newcastle, which began with a stunning expletive-ridden diatribe directed at stunned journalists during his first press conference after assuming temporary charge following the departure of Kevin Keegan.
Kinnear's spell at the helm was ended by his second heart-attack in a decade and, until now, the ex-Republic of Ireland international has been without a job in football.
His recruitment is an extraordinary development at a club where the unexpected is often to be expected, and places the jurisdiction of manager Alan Pardew in serious doubt.
It is an appointment that many hope will fail, and is already being derided as one of the most bizarre in Premier League history and, given Kinnear's health problems in the past, one that has an elment of risk attached.
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Man charged with torching car after dispute with mother
A man sleeping in a friend's car Saturday morning was charged by police on a warrant with setting fire to his own car two years ago.
Eric B. Meindl, 24, was found around 9:30 a.m. Saturday sleeping in the back seat of a car parked at Tunxis Hill Park's lower lot. His friend was sleeping in the front seat. The car, which had Tennessee license plates, was running.
Meindl said they'd been there since 3 a.m., and when police patted down the men, they said they found he had a double-edged dirk knife in his possession. He told officers he had no form of identification, but police located his wallet under the front seat. A vaporizer and accessories used to smoke marijuana were found in the trunk, police said.
On Nov. 20, 2012, police said, Meindl used lighter fluid to light the front seat of his unregistered Honda Civic on fire. The car was parked in the driveway of a Melville Avenue home where he had lived with his mother until the previous night, when she kicked him out, according to the report. The car was parked about six feet from the home, and all the windows and doors were closed, police said. There was a strong odor of lighter fluid, and caps from lighter fluid cans were found on the ground, police said.
A day earlier, Meindl was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal mischief after he allegedly kicked in the door to his mother's room, which had been dead-bolted, police said. Meindl told police at the time that he had a burn on his arm and needed some burn cream. He was supposed to appear in court on Nov. 20, 2012, to answer those charges, but did not show up for court.
In addition to third-degree arson, Meindl was charged Saturday with having weapons in a motor vehicle, carrying a dangerous weapon, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to appear.
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Sioux Falls Parade of Lights Extra Special for One Family
The 22nd annual Parade of Lights is Friday (November 29) in downtown Sioux Falls. This year's parade is going to be extra special for the Lebahn family and Brandon native Ben Jackson.
Ben is the inspiration behind annual fan-favorite float "The Snowball Express". Back in 2002, Ben was 7-years old and was living with bone cancer. His uncles David, Merlon & Frederick Lebahn wanted Ben to be able to be in the Parade of Lights. So even though he was in a full body cast from his chest down to his toes, Ben was gently placed in the train so he could be in the parade!
The Snowball Express is now known as The Lebahn Family Railroad and will be making its 11 appearance in the annual Parade of Lights. It has also played a part in numerous weddings, 4th of July celebrations and community celebrations over the years.
But this year, Ben Jackson, who is now an 18-year old cancer survivor, will walk in his very first Parade of Lights!
Come celebrate 11 years of inspiration!
The annual Parade of Lights starts at 7:30pm this Friday, with Grand Marshal Kris Stanton.
The route goes from 14th to 5th Street on Phillips Ave. Vendors will be selling hot chocolate before and during the parade and will even fill up your reusable, insulated mugs, making it a "green" holiday!
Here are road closures to keep in mind when going downtown for the parade:
5:15pm Closure:
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Microsoft's Ted Kummert and Tom Casey are holding a public conference call this morning at 7:30AM Pacific time, where:
Microsoft Corp. is holding a teleconference with Senior Vice President Ted Kummert and General Manager of Business Intelligence Tom Casey, who will make an announcement related to Microsoft SQL Server. A replay will be available for 30 days beginning one hour after the end of the call.
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Tiger's 79th win proof he is the best
What defines an athlete as "the best of all time?" Is it the number of championship rings or trophies? What about the number of overall wins or pure dominance of a single superstar? While picking out the best baseball or football star may be hard to choose, Michael Jordan has the title in the NBA and Tiger Woods deserves it in the PGA.
Since winning his first few majors as a young professional, Woods has been compared to the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer. While some agree he is already the best to ever play, the critics still outweigh the opposition heavily.
Why is that? Especially after seeing what he did over the weekend. After shooting a second round 9-under 61 in the Bridgestone Invitational on his way to his 79th career tour win and eighth win at the event, Woods is still labeled as second best.
I'm not saying that one tournament defines a player at all. I am simply stating that not everything relies on majors in the world of golf. Yes, Jack has the record at 18, but Woods is still right there at 14 and is only 37-years old.
Woods' dominance of the competition this past weekend deserves to carry a lot more stock than what it's getting.
The stats don't lie either. In his career on the PGA Tour, Woods has won 26 percent of the events he has played. He has also finished in the top 10 in 60 percent of those events. Astonishing.
Compared to Jack, there is no comparison.
Jack played in 594 events and won just 73, a mark that Woods has surpassed already. That is a whopping 12-percent winning percentage.
When majors are brought into the conversation, Woods is still the better player percentage-wise, winning 22 percent of the tournaments entered. Jack won just 11 percent in his career. Just to throw another number in the mix, Woods has only missed 17 overall cuts IN HIS CAREER. Jack missed double that in majors alone.
On paper, the wins and losses get measured clearly by numbers and the length of courses, and strength of competition is not considered.
Augusta National Golf Course, home of the Masters, didn't reach a length of 7,000 yards until the 1980s when it went from 6,980 to 7,040. Since Woods has been pro, the course has gone from right under 7,000 to 7,435, making the course a whole hole harder compared to when Jack played.
Some courses, such as a couple St. Andrews links, have been taken off the PGA circuit because of the lengths being too short for players now. Some Pebble Beach courses have been axed as well.
And why is no one talking about Snead? The man only owns the record for most wins overall at 82. Should he not have some recognition as the best ever over Jack as well? Woods is set up to pass Snead this year for most wins ever and could potentially hold the all-time. The next closest golfer still playing is Phil Mickelson at 42 career wins, and the next after him is Davis Love III at 20.
Woods reached the mark of 79 six years sooner than Sneed.
The competition is so much more intense now than it was in Jack's day. Now there are 20-25 legitimate pros that could win any tournament any week. Jack competed with just a few that could really hang with him. The evolution of the game has changed so much over the years that a win deserves to be counted on a high standard than in the 60s and 70s.
My point is simple. Tiger Woods is the greatest to ever swing a club and should be recognized as just that.


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Stonington puts 'panic button' through paces
Stonington — One of the town's elementary schools is serving as a test site for a new security upgrade police hope will speed response time in a crisis.
The West Vine Street School is now equipped with a panic button system that not only sounds an alarm in the school but also simultaneously notifies emergency dispatchers, town police, fire and highway departments of a potential threat at the school. Buttons are installed throughout the school, including in classrooms.
Town officials said they think the system can serve as a model statewide as schools grapple with ways to enhance security in the wake of the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown.
In a demonstration at the school on Tuesday that included active shooter training, Stonington Police Capt. Jerry Desmond said officers would receive the alert in their cars and on portable radios while cameras already monitoring the schools focus on the school where the alert was activated. Doors in the school would close automatically.
"We're here to protect the most valuable assets in this community — our children," Desmond said.
The system, which costs about $10,000, eliminates the need for school staff to dial 911, saving precious seconds, maybe even minutes, he said.
"At a time when the state government can't offer much in the way of resources, those of us on the front line in towns and cities have to find a way to do all we can with what we have," Police Commission Chairman Scott Bates said.
School board Chairwoman Gail MacDonald said the town took a proactive approach to safety and is hoping to avoid suggestions or mandates from the state that may not be a good fit.
A cross-section of town departments worked collaboratively to develop and fund the new system.
Desmond said the town already was ahead of the curve in terms of safety when the shooting in Newtown occurred. Stonington schools use a card reader system that checks licenses of visitors against the sex offender registry. The school also uses a color-coded light alert system notifying students of a possible threat or evacuation.
After the Newtown shooting, police met with school officials, the fire department and the police commission to develop a plan that was backed by the school board. Response protocols were updated, and a police presence has been maintained at the schools.
Superintendent Van Riley said the new system is reassurance for staff that help in the event of a crisis is not far.
"My hope is that it works well and it can be expanded into other schools," Riley said.
Desmond said the system will continue to be tested through the start of the new school year.
The system is similar in ways to something Westerly police have been using for more than three decades to catch burglars, Westerly Police Chief Edward St. Clair said. The chief said an alert system is sometimes installed in a commercial building that has been targeted by thieves in order to get a quick response when the next break-in occurs.
"To use it for something like this is innovative," St. Clair said. "I'd like to see how it works."
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Alexandra Holliday '14 is a history major interning at The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, so it's a safe assumption that she's a history buff. But when the senior first arrived at Agnes Scott College, she says history had always seemed distant and cold before she took a course that changed her mind about history and her career aspirations.
"I didn't start out as a history lover … then I took Dr. Kennedy's course about World War II history and fell in love with memoirs," Holliday says. " I loved reading the stories of people who weren't well-known and who hadn't gotten a chance to tell their stories on a high platform. I loved their passion about what they'd experienced, much of it unpleasant … I loved the idea of finding purpose and meaning from the telling of those stories."
Holliday says the stories of Holocaust survivors in particular resonated deeply with her and sparked an interest in learning more about World War II and the Holocaust. In addition to studying the time period more seriously, Holliday also decided that she'd like to pursue an internship related to World War II or the Holocaust and approached the Breman Museum about interning.
Holliday dove right in to assisting with the museum's Holocaust education center, which provides resources and training to teachers and schools related to teaching the Holocaust. Holliday did many things for the center but was particularly adept at using her knowledge of technology to develop new ways to share resources with teachers and students. So when the museum received a grant to create an app, Holliday was tapped to head up the project.
"Many visitors to the museum are tourists. We wanted to find a way to make it convenient for them to find some of the wonderful Jewish history that lives here – that may have even been built over … the app was the best way of making that possible," says Aaron Berger, executive director of the Breman Museum. "We needed someone talented and dedicated to work on it, and Alex had proved herself many times over with her skill technologically."
Holliday says she was intimidated at first but came to realize that her knowledge of technology and how younger people communicate made her a good choice to develop the app and that she could be a valuable asset to museums hoping to reach a wider audience.
After getting over her apprehensions, Holliday became excited about sharing the history of the Jewish community in Atlanta, including the founding of Rich's department store by a Jewish, Russian immigrant in 1867 and the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915.
"The Jewish community played a role in the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement … its role in making Atlanta the city it is today cannot be overestimated," Holliday says.
The Breman Museum app alerts users when they're near a historic site or helps users find a particular site. Once there, the app provides historic photos and details about the historical significance of the site.
Holliday says her experiences at the Breman Museum have convinced her that she'd like to continue working at museums after graduation.
"My dream job is to work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.," Holliday says. "The work that they're doing is easily the standard for Holocaust research right now. They're keeping it relevant and present, and they're ensuring that people don't forget."


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The University of Sydney will this week co-host a Sydney Ideas forum calling for formal recognition of Australia's South Sea Island people.
Australian South Sea Islanders were brought to Australia from Vanuatu, Solomon and surrounding islands under the infamous 'Blackbirding' scheme which lasted from 1863 until 1906. Under the scheme an estimated 60,000 islanders worked as indentured labourers for the sugar cane, pastoral and maritime industries. Many have called 'Blackbirding' a new form of slavery.
In 1901 the Commonwealth - as part of its White Australia Policy - passed the Pacific Island Labourers Act, intended to deport South Sea Islanders to their country of origin. After an outcry, 1,500 were allowed to stay in Australia while another 1,000 people hid in the bush for a few years, resulting in what today is a culturally distinct population of about 40,000 people.
This week's The Call for Recognition of the Australian South Sea Islander Peoples: A Human Rights issue for a 'Forgotten People' will bring together historians, community members, politicians and other interested parties to discuss the need to acknowledge these people as a distinct group. It will be opened by Eddie Koiki Mabo's widow Bonita, patron of the event's co-host the national Australian Association of South Sea Islanders Port Jackson (ASSI.PJ).
"Often Australian South Sea Islanders are confused with modern migrants from Melanesian countries," says one of the forum's coordinators Matt Poll, an ASSI.PJ member and curator of the University's Indigenous collection at its Macleay Museum.
"Some have been here for six generations, often existing on the fringes of society. Restitution issues, such as unpaid wages from the Queensland government, dual citizenship and reunification with families remain unresolved."
"Consequently, many ASSI's suffer the same disadvantages as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and remain marginalised."
Lobbying by the ASSI community has resulted in some recognition: after a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report the ASSI community in 1994 were recognised by the Commonwealth as a disadvantaged ethnic group. However, subsequent political momentum has floundered as supportive politicians such as Prime Minister Paul Keating and NSW Premier Bob Carr left office.
Panel member Alex Greenwich MP will urge the NSW Parliament for a debate and motion to recognise the NSW ASSI community this Thursday 15 August.
"We are calling on the Commonwealth to remind it of its commitment to our community, made in 1994, for the rightful recognition of our forefathers and our future generations," says ASSI.PJ President Emelda Davis.
This week's forum is one of a host of events marking the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Blackbirding. Renowned ASSI historian Professor Clive Moore, human rights activist and former journalist Jeff McMullen, community member Shireen Malamoo, and Queensland representatives Paula Viti and Professor Gracelyn Smallwood will be among those who will discuss the need to give the ASSI people recognition.
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Cleaning commercial & domestic carpets, upholstery, curtains & floors across the area with protection, sanitisation & deodorisation services avaliable. PCV and caravan specialists. Established in the UK for over 40 years, Safeclean are the industry leaders in providing quality, professional services in carpet, upholstery & curtain cleaning, protection & sanitisation and comprehensive spot and stain removal from all furnishings. As highly trained, specialist technicians they use only the best techniques, products and equipment to provide outstanding results for each and every customer. The Safeclean promise ensures all customers are given an exceptional service from start to finish and what's more, their service don't stop at carpets and upholstery. Experts in their field, they use their knowledge, experience and state of the art equipment unlike standard value carpet & upholstery cleaners, they are able to go the extra mile with a full suite of specialist stain removal, sanitisation, odour control, deodorisation,& allergy control services, to ensure all of your carpets and furnishings can receive the same expertise. We cater for all domestic and commercial customers, and offer dedicated services to caravan and PCV (bus and coach) owners and operators, and the hospitality trades. A 24 hr emercency service is also offered..... Call us now on 07411279224, and see what we can do for you. Products & Services allergy control cleaning builders cleans carpets chewing gum removal services commercial cleaning curtain cleaners deep cleaning end of tenancy cleaning mattress cleaning office builders cleans rug cleaning sofa cleaning stain removal services Odour control & elimination
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We a small family run business based in Darlington we are friendly and reliable and provide a very professional and affordable sirvece. We do all types of cleaning and also removals. And pride our selfs in carrying out all jobs to a high standard.
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Vista FM LTD is a North East based cleaning & facilities company focusing on great service & exception value for money. We put our level of service first beyond all else striving to be the best in our field.
Revolution Carpet Cleaning
Revolution Carpet Cleaning is a professional family run business offering carpet cleaning services across Sunderland, Washington and County Durham.
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Carpet Cleaning In Washington with over 25 years Experience Home owners, Tenants and Landlords Washington Carpet Cleaning can provide a friendly, dedicated and high quality carpet cleaning service for both domestic (residential) and commercial circumstances, while always ensuring value for money. No job is too big or too small - we can either clean a single carpet or multiple carpets in your home, business or commercial premises (offices, restaurants, schools/nursery etc.). We also provide cleaning solutions for your rugs and upholstery. As a local single man operated business we are able to: Provide a flexible and professional carpet cleaning, hard floor and upholstery cleaning service that is specifically tailored to suit your individual requirements Provide both domestic carpet cleaning and commercial carpet cleaning Use only high quality industry leading products (Prochem) to ensure the best result everytime Clean carpets and upholstery to the highest standard in most circumstances however hard it may seem, including stain removal Offer extremely good value for money compared to our competitors Areas covered include Washington, Sunderland, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle and all of the North East.
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Carpet Care offer a fully insured, professional carpet and upholstery cleaning service to both residential and commercial sectors at an extremely competitive and affordable price. We utilise the most advanced equipment and bio-degradable products in order to achieve the very best results. Our customer testimonials can be found on our website and speak for themselves. Examples of our work can be viewed on the site and prices start from just £48. Commercial customers include Buy To Let Landlord portfolios, the NHS, Large multi storey legal firms, Dental Practises, Restaurants, Large Open Plan Offices and many more. For a FREE quote, just call us on our free-phone 0800 988 7252.
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Here at Fresh Carpet Cleaning we specialise in the full deep cleaning of carpets and upholstery. We don't just clean the surface we clean deep down into the fibres giving you the healthiest most hygienic clean using our top of the range machinery. We have also specialist training in cleaning leather furniture and can give protection to the leather surface. We give free survey/quotations before catrying out each job. We work domesticly and commercially throughout the Tyne and Wear area.
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Commercial premises
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A few specific carpet stains, Carpets in whole rooms, Hallways & landings
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5 rooms
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Dirt, Food stains, Oil / Grease stains
Who will move the furniture?
I would like the pro to move furniture
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Neither smokers nor pets
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I'm looking for guidance from the pro
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Private home or residence
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Hallways & landings, Stairs
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Whole property
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One set
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No stains
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There is no furniture to move
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Neither smokers nor pets
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Carpet shampooing
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Looking to move on 28/3 to the property so would like to complete the cleaning prior to that date.
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Commercial premises
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Carpets in whole rooms
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9 or more rooms
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Steam cleaning, Carpet protection and deodorizer
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Anny Havland needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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I like edgy & modern. Colors greys w/ either green, orange or rusty yellow (not all, just 1 choice w/ the grey) . Not huge into bubbly. A cool unique font would be nice to see, nothing cursive. Sometimes it's just within the name w/ individual font's that make it stand out.
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Planning Commission Canceled
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The Amazon Kindle Fire has arrived complete with its 16 million colour screen and all the backing of the enormous online retail platform that is Amazon itself. Big, but is bigger necessarily better?
There also happens to be a certain other massive player in the tablet market in the shape of the company who redefined it back in April 2010 with the arrival of the first iPad. So, now with the iPad 2 ruling the roost, how is Amazon going to compare with Apple in this space and, more importantly as far as your decision goes, how do their tablets match up? Here is the Amazon Kindle Fire vs iPad 2 to help you figure that one out.
Form Factor
- Tie: iPad 2
- 241.2 x 185.7 x 8.8mm, 613g
- Tie: Kindle Fire
- 190 x 120 x 11.4mm, 413g
It's not really fair comparing a 7-inch tab to a 9.7-inch one on form factor stats alone – the larger one is quite obviously going to be bigger and heavier. All the same, we're going to call it a tie this time around.
Yes, the Amazon Kindle Fire is made small enough and light enough to hold in one hand – and anyone who's tried to do the same in bed with an iPad 2 will know that that's not so easy – but what gets us a little concerned is that, despite its more pocketable (well, baggable) size, it's, well, a little bit fat. The similarly sized Blackberry PlayBook comes across a touch chunky and that's 9.7mm thick. So, the Kindle Fire, at 11.4mm, might not be as physically beautiful as the competition.
Engine Room
- Tie: Kindle Fire
- Tie: iPad 2
- Apple A4
In some ways, it's not hugely relevant to compare the power specs of these two tablets. Both are essentially designed as closed system devices and, as such, you can bet that they're designed to run their respective content with much aplomb. All the same, we may as well split open these systems-on-a-chip that run the two to find out what's inside.
On the RAM front, both the Apple A5 and OMAP 4430 contain the same 512MB complement. The CPUs are also identical. Each is a dual-core ARM Cortex-9 set to run at a clock speed of anywhere between 1-1.2GHz. In fact, the only thing that separates them is the GPU. The iPad 2 has a PowerVR SGX543 and the Kindle Fire has a PowerVR SGX540. For the sake of a 67 MPolygons per second vs 60 MPolygons, we're calling this one a tie to all intents and purposes. Those willing to nit pick may do so at the bottom.
- 1st: Kindle Fire
- 7-inch, 1024×600, 169ppi, IPS
- 2nd: iPad 2
- 9.7-inch, 1024x768px, 132ppi, IPS
There are some tiny differences between the Amazon Kindle Fire screen and that of the iPad 2 but they more or less balance each other out. Both are multitouch, both are based on LCD technology and both have IPS which gives them as wide a viewing angle as possible, just in case you're feeling generous enough to want to share your screen.
What you do get with the iPad 2 display is more of it but the advantage that the Amazon Kindle Fire has is that it maintains a similar resolution at slightly smaller size. So, you get a bit of a boost of pixel density for a snappier picture but at the expense of a little less screen real estate. The other advantage the Kindle Fire has is that the aspect ratio of the device is far closer to the film-friendly 16:9 rather than the more awkward 4:3 on the iPad 2. What might just tip the balance though is that the Kindle Fire screen has been chemically hardened to make it more durable. For whether or not this makes a physical difference, we'll have to wait and see.
At the end of the day though, this isn't a category that should encourage you to choose one over the other.
- 1st: iPad 2
- 16/32/64GB + iCloud
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- 8GB + USB + Amazon Cloud
Another close run category here. Neither of these devices has SD removable storage and if it were down to internal flash alone, then the iPad 2 would win with its choice of three storage sizes, all of which are bigger than the 8GB on offer in the Amazon Kindle Fire even if it does have a USB port to back it up.
The tricky part comes in because both devices also offer cloud storage. On the one hand you get iCloud with the iPad, and there's a couple of issues here. The first is that, at the time of writing, iOS 5 and iCloud are not available on the iPad 2. However, we are expecting that to change very shortly. The next problem with iCloud is that, so far, although there's been mention of TV shows and it doesn't look like you'll be able to sync them or films from the off while out and about.
So, the picture you get with the iPad 2 is that, over Wi-Fi, while at home, you're more or less covered but when out of range of your home library to sync with your options start to narrow a little. Once we're talking 3G coverage only, then there's a maximum file download size that kicks in which means no videos from iTunes at all and no big apps either.
The Amazon Kindle Fire, on the other hand, comes supported by the Amazon Cloud Storage system which promises to store as much of your Amazon bought content as you like, be it books, films, TV shows or whatever else digital that the retail giant sells. In fact, this is pretty much key to the entire model for them.
With that behind you, you can stream direct or download at the touch of a button, whatever you like. Now, that's all very well at home, work or even at a hotel but the problem is that, because the Kindle Fire doesn't support 3G, when you're on the move, you're at the mercy of whatever is sitting on that 8GB of internal memory alone. According to Amazon, that's around 10 films.
We're not saying that that isn't enough but what it does mean is that using a Kindle Fire does require a modicum of thought and preparation that the Apple iPad 2 doesn't, even if it's only with music and smaller files that you see the benefit.
- 1st: iPad 2
- Up to 10 hours video
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- Up to 7.5 hours video
OK. Nice and simple this time. You'll get more battery life out of the iPad 2 than the Amazon Kindle Fire. Naturally, the quoted specs are your classic "up to" figures which means that you'll need to turn off the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, possibly dim the screen and generally not touch the thing at all once you start watching your movies, but they should be just about be achievable nonetheless. Either way, it's the iPad 2 that will last longer.
- 1st: iPad 2
- Wi-Fi, BT, 3G, HDMI
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- Wi-Fi and USB
This isn't normally the strongest of categories for the iPad 2 but it still manages to get one over the Kindle Fire on connectivity. The fact that Amazon hasn't included that same free 3G that comes on the rest of the Kindle range is a bit of a bummer. It might be something that Amazon sorts out later but given that we're talking about transferring feature length video files rather than books, it might never happen.
All the same, paid or otherwise, not having a mobile internet connection of any kind is a bit of a loss. On the plus side, there is a USB slot that you don't get on the iPad 2 but it's not quite as useful as perhaps it was in the past. Its best function might be as a removable storage device.
The other downer is that there's no video-out socket in the way that the HDMI adapter provides for the iPad. So, this isn't something for taking round to your mate's and plugging into the back of their TV. When it comes to your TV, however, an Amazon app on your set linked to your Amazon account might remove the need for video-out. On top of that, who knows what Amazon may or may not let you do over wireless by the time this hits the shelves although it seems unlikely that users will get access to the DLNA certified apps like Skifta and Twonky.
However you look at it, there's quite a few ifs there and, ultimately, the iPad 2 is more flexible a device on this front for the moment.
OS Software
- 1st: iPad 2
- iOS
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- Android Gingerbread-based
We're all pretty familiar with iOS these days, whether its iOS 4 or iOS 5. What you get is a relatively closed system with a bunch of things that you can do but also a whole host of things that just aren't possible the way that are on Android. The plus points, of course, are that it works very well and it's very easy to use, even if it doesn't offer a high level of flexibility.
The Kindle Fire might run Android 2.3 Gingerbread but it's a highly customised and closed down version. The big killer is on the apps front, but more on that in a moment. From what we've seen so far, the experience, although very attractive, looks like it offers even less room for manoeuver than iOS with the main face of the Kindle Fire OS a series of carousels where you can purchase and sift through your Amazon books, music and videos.
The other interesting part of the platform is the Amazon Silk browser for the old surfing of the web over Wi-Fi. Silk is a tabbed browser set to be lightening quick because half the computational work is done off-device and up in the cloud in the Amazon servers. It's a feature known as split browsing. While it all sounds very good, the downside is that Amazon then knows all of your browsing habits. Now, naturally, this is something that your ISP probably knows anyway but a shop (Amazon) knowing all about your other shopping habits is some seriously valuable information for them. It's up to you how you feel about that. Fortunately, you can turn the split browsing off.
There's also Amazon's Whispersync technology to enjoy whereby your videos and books will pick up where you left them on other devices.
- 1st: iPad 2
- iTunes App Store (500,000+ apps)
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- Amazon App Store (3,800+ apps)
If there's one place where Amazon has got you buy the balls it's on the app front. The Amazon App Store is all you'll get access to on the Kindle Fire rather than the vast expanses of the Android Market. The Amazon version launched in March 2011 with 3,800 applications to choose from and you can bet that it won't include any services that interfere in any way with the company's selling of content and positioning of its tablet device. There's still plenty of big name games but don't expect many tools to wrestle control of the tablet back over to you.
On the other hand, the iPad 2 gives you access to the 0.5 million and more apps sitting on the best app store in the world. No contest.
Content Library
- 1st: Kindle Fire
- Amazon
- 2nd: iPad 2
- iTunes Store
This is where the Amazon Kindle Fire really comes into its own both for the user and for Amazon. The 7-inch tablet gives you access to the entire Amazon Instant Video collection of TV shows and films which amounts to a catalogue of over 100,000 possibilities. Each one can be bought and downloaded to the device or rented and streamed. What's more, anyone signed up to the £50/year Amazon Prime service can get over 10,000 of these rented for free. The comparison on iTunes is around 6,000 videos with nothing decent for free
Music is where you might expect Apple to do better and, indeed, there's around 14 millions songs on offer worldwide, but, again, Amazon offers more with 17 million on the MP3 Store which you can stream for your cloud space or download to the device. Beyond that, there's books, comics, newspapers, magazines and audiobooks and it's not even worth making comparisons here. This is Amazon's bread and butter. If it's access to buy content that you want, then read no further.
File support
- 1st: iPad 2
- Most things
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- Not everything
Again, this all comes down to what apps you'll be allowed to use but while there's just about every kind of player and converter to deal with those files that the native side of iOS cannot reach, that might not be possible with the Kindle Fire. Currently, the supported file format list by Amazon is:
Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
So, with no AVI, no EPUB and no FLAC support, it might be frustrating when it comes to playing your own library of films, books and music on the Kindle Fire.
- 1st: iPad 2
- Rear camera (VGA stills, 720p video)
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
- Nothing
Price & Availability
- 1st: Kindle Fire
- $199 (£127)
- 2nd: iPad 2
- Wi-Fi: £339/£479/£599, 3G: £499/£579/£659
The Amazon Kindle Fire is cheap. Really cheap. It's less than half the cost of even the most basic of the iPad 2 range and it's going to offer a good, entertaining tablet experience to more or less everyone, and that's hard to ignore.
It's available for pre-order now but there are currently no plans to take it outside of the US. Doubtless, those plans will turn up eventually but, with a lot of licensing and agreement paperwork to get through, don't expect anything in the UK for at least a year.
- 1st: iPad 2
- 2nd: Kindle Fire
It's a little churlish to talk about winners and losers in this comparison but, if you want a blanket "who would win in a fight" type result, then it's the iPad 2. Ultimately though, the reason we at Pocket-lint write these match-ups is to help you out with your buying decision, and to say that the iPad 2 is the tablet for everyone over the Amazon Kindle Fire would not be correct.
There are some differences worth noting. Yes, the iPad will last you a bit longer, it's a better looking piece of kit, it has 3G, a camera and it's more flexible in terms of what you can do with it. The real story, and where you need to think long and hard, is about what you want to do with it.
If a tablet, for you, is about watching movies and TV, and reading an enormous wealth of publications and periodicals, then it's definitely the Kindle Fire that's the one for you. If playing games, communicating, working and generally using a tablet as a tool is just as important, then it's the iPad 2 and that's where you need to be at. At least until the iPad 3 comes out.


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Catchfree necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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We will also be creating a badge based on this logo that websites such as Dropbox, Skype, Pandora, LogMeIn should be proud to display. This would be similar to Truste, BBB, McAfee Secure... The style of the Catchfree.com website is going through a redesign, so no need to try to match it. The most important requirement is it shouldn't suggest hype - no exclamation, capitalized FREE, etc. It should give people trust about the solutions being recommended.
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Street League 2011
March 23rd, 2011 Comments Off on Street League 2011 Posted in News
Street League just announced the 2011 schedule for their second season. Click Here to watch the official SL 2011 trailer. David and Luan are competing this year and you'll be able to watch them LIVE on ESPN/ESPN2. Also, make sure to look at the recently relaunched www.streetleague.com for all the info on dates, tickets, which pros are competing and more…


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Each week the Faber Center website will sponsor a reflection offered by a diverse group of friends and colleagues from around the Marquette community who come from different faith traditions and beliefs.
Week of May 3 Reflection
Dr. Sharon Chubbuck, associate professor in the College of Education, reflects on justice and faith as being part of the same fabric with community as the centerpiece that holds the two together and community as the reason we work for greater justice.
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Over the weekend I came across a web article detailing how the Metropolitan Museum of Art is attempting to surround the famous 21 by 12 foot painting with a replica of what is thought to be its original frame. You can see the Met's page regarding the painting here.
The picture I've included below (credit: Todd Heisler/The New York Times) shows how the painting has looked for decades as it hung in the Met's American wing. The web article goes on to state the process for recreating the frame should be completed by the end of March, but the frame would stay with the company commissioned to complete the job….Eli Wilner and Company…for about two years while the Met renovates the American wing…As work is done in the gallery space, the painting has been moved to another section in its second-floor home because it's too big to fit into an elevator. Rolling it up – as it was transported to the museum more than a century ago – would cause damage.
The scale of the painting's conservation and reframing…"is unprecedented in the history of the museum to my knowledge," said Dr. Carrie Rebora Barratt, curator of the restoration project, who is manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at the museum. Dr. Barratt also stated, "But it is still very much a research project."
It's that very research that I find intriguing. The reframing of the painting commenced after a photograph was found showing the painting in a frame that was not previously known about.
The New York Times article advises [sometime in 2006] Dr. Barratt, while studying an 1864 album of [Matthew] Brady's Art Exhibition photographs in the collection of the New York Historical Society, noticed an image of the Leutze painting in a dramatic gilded frame dominated by a 12-foot American-eagle crest at the top.
Yes, THAT Matthew Brady!
I've provided that very picture below (credit….Matthew Brady-The New York Historical Society)
What a great way to project students into future studies, and once we reach the Civil War….what a great way to spiral our talk back and reconnect to the American Revolution.