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Luka Rocco Magnotta, Canada's most-wanted fugitive, was arrested in Berlin on Monday, less than a week after international police launched a worldwide manhunt for the alleged killer from Montreal.
A Berlin police spokesman told The Canadian Press that Magnotta was arrested at about 2 p.m. local time in or near an Internet cafe in the German capital. Montreal police later confirmed his capture.
"He tried at first giving fake names but in the end he just said: 'you got me,''' said police spokesperson Guido Busch said. "He didn't resist.''
The owner of the cafe, in Berlin's working-class Neukoelln district, told The Associated Press that Magnotta had come in to read news reports about himself when one of his employees recognized him.
"A colleague recognized him from his photo, because he'd just read the newspaper,'' said the owner, who spoke on condition that he not be identified by name.
Magnotta, 29, is facing five charges in Montreal, including first-degree murder, in the brutal slaying and dismemberment of Jun Lin, a Chinese national who was studying at Concordia University.
Lin's torso was found packed inside a suitcase on a Montreal curb outside Magnotta's apartment building last Tuesday. Other body parts, including a hand and foot, were mailed to the offices of political parties in Ottawa.
Montreal police said Magnotta fled Canada for France about a day after Lin's death, which is believed to have occurred sometime overnight between May 24 and May 25.
Police confirmed Magnotta was seen in Paris over the weekend.
On Monday, authorities in Berlin — more than 1,000 kilometres from Paris — said officers caught up with the fugitive.
Redlich said Magnotta was taken to a prison and is expected to see a judge Tuesday. He said German federal police will contact Canadian authorities to determine how to proceed with Magnotta's extradition.
The grisly case has grabbed significant international attention and media abroad have dubbed Magnotta the "Canadian Psycho'' and the "Carver from Montreal.''
Interpol issued an international alert for Magnotta, who was born Eric Clinton Newman and has also used the name Vladimir Romanov.
Magnotta is also facing other charges in Canada, including corrupting morals; causing an indignity to a body; using the mail system to deliver "obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous'' material; and harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Some of the charges come in connection with an incident that saw a package containing a severed foot delivered to the Conservative party's Ottawa headquarters. A parcel containing a hand was also addressed to the Liberal party, but it was intercepted by Canada Post workers before delivery.
Harper commended police Monday for catching Magnotta.
"Well, I'm obviously pleased that the suspect has been arrested, and I just want to congratulate the police forces on their good work,'' the prime minister said in London, where he is attending the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Police say Lin's gruesome death, which has shocked people in Canada and around the world, was videotaped and posted online.
In the video, a person repeatedly stabbed a young man with an ice pick. While both killer and victim lay naked, he dismembered the corpse and committed sexual and cannibalistic acts on it.
Police allege the depraved events took place in Magnotta's cramped bachelor apartment in a gritty building in west-end Montreal.
Magnotta, who has worked as a model and a low-budget porn actor, has maintained a prolific presence in the darkest corners of the Internet.
For nearly two years, he has been a notorious figure among animal-rights activists who have been looking for a man who tortured and killed cats and then posted videos of the acts online.
The native of Scarborough, Ont., has also been romantically linked to sex-killer Karla Homolka _ a rumour he has vehemently repudiated and others have shrugged off.
A Facebook page belonging to a self-described model with the same name lists a variety of personal heroes. They include pop star Madonna and two Russian leaders: Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin.
Magnotta has also been an avid author on the Internet.
One online article he wrote in 2009 was titled: ``How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found.'' It shares a six-step process for escaping and shedding one's identity.
But his time on the lam came to an end Monday after he left heavy scent on his European getaway trail.
Over the weekend, numerous reports linked Magnotta to Paris, with sightings and evidence found at various places.
French media reported Sunday that personal belongings believed to be Magnotta's were found in a hotel in a city suburb. Those reports said police discovered pornographic magazines as well as air sickness bags from the airplane he took to Paris from Montreal.
He remained in France until at least Friday, Montreal police confirmed. There were reports that Magnotta had boarded a bus for Berlin late last week.
Shockwaves from Lin's death were also felt far beyond Europe.
Lin's slaying prompted the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa to issue a statement advising Chinese visitors to Canada to take safety precautions.
With a file from Steve Rennie in London and the Associated Press
BELOW: People enter the internet cafe where Luka Rocco Magnottahe was recognized in the district of Neukoelln in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 4, 2012. Kadir Anlayisli who works in the internet cafe, called police about a man outside the shop, whom he recognized as Magnotta, wanted by Canadian authorities on first-degree murder and other charges. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Obama defends Plan B appeal
President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration's decision to appeal a judge's ruling that the Plan B morning-after pill should be available to women and girls of all ages, saying he was "very comfortable" with the Food and Drug Administration's current rule.
Obama said the agency was likely to conduct an additional review, but would go forward with the appeal nonetheless.
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"I'm very comfortable with the decision they've made right now based on solid scientific evidence for girls 15 and older," Obama said at a Mexico City press conference with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Yet Obama sought a middle ground between satisfying women's groups supportive of expanding contraceptive options to women and the political risk of appearing to move too quickly on an issue that continues to draw a strong reaction from some abortion opponents. He couched the FDA ruling as not within his purview, placing responsibility for the original decision with the FDA and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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"It's not my decision to make," Obama said. "The first time around, where there were no age restrictions, Secretary Sebelius expressed concerns and I supported those concerns and I gave voice to them."
He also gave a nod to jurisdictional questions that could be a motivating factor in the Justice Department's decision to take action. "My understanding is part of it has to do with the precedent, and the way in which the judge handled that case" that resulted in this week's ruling.
Obama also reiterated his caution on Syria, saying his administration will continue to evaluate the situation before deciding if, when and how to support rebels fighting embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
Obama acknowledged that other countries, which he left unnamed, are funding and arming Assad's government in the civil war.
"We also know that the Assad regime is getting not just lethal aid but training and support from countries outside of Syria," Obama said.
Obama said he will continue to be careful before taking action on Syria.

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Trial begins for woman accused of killing wife
Cara Rintala charged with killing Annamarie Cochrane Rintala
A prosecutor has said his opening trial statement that a Granby woman killed her wife in 2010 because of continuing financial stress and arguments.
But Cara Rintala's defense lawyer said Wednesday the couple's disagreements have been exaggerated, and prosecutors focused on his client because they have no better ideas who killed her wife.
Rintala is accused of strangling and beating Annamarie Cochrane Rintala, who was found dead in the basement of their home in 2010.
The women, both paramedics, had been married for two years and were raising a child.
Prosecutor Steven Gagne said they had filed divorce papers and restraining orders against each other but withdrawn them.
Defense lawyer David Hoose said they were learning how to deal with their problems and kept their finances separate.
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Bam Margera -- I Spent a Night in Jail FOR NOTHING
Bam Margera I Spent a Night in Jail FOR NOTHING
Bam Margera still has no idea why he was arrested Monday in New Orleans -- telling TMZ Live, he was hauled to jail ... spent the night behind bars ... but was NEVER booked for a crime.
TMZ broke the story ... Bam was cuffed in the French Quarter after a Mardi Gras party -- when he jumped in to a pool, fully clothed.
But Bam insists, he didn't break the law -- and when he asked why he was brought in to the station in handcuffs, the cops couldn't give him an answer.
When he was released the next morning, Bam says he never received a ticket OR an explanation -- nothing. He's still stumped.
For the record -- we called police in New Orleans, and they didn't have any record of Bam in their system ... meaning he really wasn't booked for anything.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A Republican-led energy committee said the clock is ticking and it's time for U.S. President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee put Obama on a "Keystone Clock," noting it's been more than 1,600 days since pipeline company TransCanada submitted a construction application to the U.S. State Department.
Keystone XL would deliver Canadian crude oil to southern U.S. refineries. Supporters say it would ensure North American energy independence and provide more jobs while detractors say the environmental risks are too great.
TransCanada had to reconsider its plans through Nebraska to allay environmental concerns before the state gave its consent. The U.S. government has the ultimate say, however, because the pipeline would cross the U.S.-Canadian border.
"Despite the nation's economy contracting last quarter, the president is still having difficulty saying 'yes' to $7 billion in private investment that will jumpstart the economy and boost the middle class," a committee statement read.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a decision on the project was expected soon.


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VOORHEES, N.J. - After a couple of unfortunate mishaps Tuesday night left the Flyers a little punch drunk on the ice against the Detroit Red Wings, they're hoping today to make their recovery from that game complete.
After Jakub Voracek and Jaromir Jagr went out midway through the game, the Flyers were able to rally around their surviving forwards and ride goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, holding on for a 3-2 win over the Wings.
Now, with the Florida Panthers visiting the Wells Fargo Center tonight, there is some hope and much uncertainty over whether Voracek and Jagr can return right away.
Voracek received several upper-lip stitches after getting hit with a blind check to the face courtesy of Detroit nice guy Niklas Kronwell. Though it's agreed the result of the impact could have been worse, Voracek is still unsure of his status pending possible concussion testing today.
'We'll see what happens,' he said Wednesday after an optional practice at the Skate Zone. 'It can change every day. I don't want to say I feel too good. Every day is different; hopefully I can get back as soon as possible.'
While word leaked from the league rather early Wednesday that there would be no disciplinary review of Kronwell's hit, it seemed clear upon further review Tuesday night that the hit was within legal bounds … whatever they are. He did hit Voracek in the head area, but he also hit him with a full and seemingly clean body check.
'He probably let Jake think that he was not going to pressure him, then he goes and finishes his hit,' Max Talbot said. 'The head was probably the first point of contact, but after that he hits the whole body. So, it's tough. It happens fast but it's obviously never fun to see guys go down.'
And if anyone had any doubts - like the thousands of Flyers fans on Twitter - Voracek said, 'I think it was clean.'
Then he pled guilty to an offense Eric Lindros made famous here some 10-plus years ago.
'I had my head down,' Voracek said. 'I have to be aware that Kronwell is standing on the blue line.
I looked up and he was standing on the blue line, then I started focusing on the puck … he's very good at it. I was kind of naÏve. I thought he was going to back up.'
Nearby observers said Kronwell fooled Voracek into thinking that.
'He kind of faked that he was going to move back,' Jagr said. 'When Jake put his head down, (Kronwell) just had him.'
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
'I think it's hockey,' Jagr said, 'and if you take those hits away, it's basketball. Before, there were a lot more hits like that. I got hit many times like that; it's part of the game. Probably some people think, oh, we have to take it out (of the game). You just have to be careful.'
Speaking of which, Jagr almost found himself in a bad spot during the game. On a play in which Braydon Coburn hit Detroit's Valtteri Filppula, the Red Wings forward fell into Jagr - who had his skate locked and loaded with his knee in a vulnerable spot.
But Jagr said he moved the leg just in time, though with an awkward twist of the hip.
He might have strained the hip or knee, and was kept out of the rest of the game. But it could have been a lot worse.
'If I wouldn't have moved my leg I think it would have blown my knee out,' Jagr said. 'I have to wait to see … I'll try to skate (this morning), I guess. It was more my knee and hip, but I was lucky I moved my knee away. It was the last second.'
While Jagr has left the possibility of playing tonight open, Flyers GM Paul Holmgren said later that Jagr 'is fairly sore and probably not available' for the Panthers game.
As for Voracek, his issue might be more in his head. He was given a quick exam during the Detroit game looking for concussion symptoms, and is preliminarily scheduled to undergo baseline testing today.
'If I feel good we'll do the concussion testing,' he said. 'But I don't want to talk about it because I don't really know right now where I am.'
He does, however, recall the hit that put him in this position: 'It was a tough hit to take,' Voracek said, 'but I think it was a clean hit. It was my bad.'
NOTES: In addition to the possible absences of Jagr and Voracek, Holmgren also said defensemen Andrej Meszaros (groin) and Kimmo Timonen (lower back) will miss their second straight game. … Expect a couple of forwards to be recalled today from the Phantoms just in case.


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The other day, I was chatting with my friend, who happens to be an interior designer, and I remarked that it must be pretty easy to get work doing what he does. He stared at me and then started laughing. After he had quit cackling, he explained to me that interior design work wasn't as glamorous as the TV shows made it sound. There's a lot of real work involved, and even when you are excellent at what you do, you won't always have people banging down your door to get you to design their houses and workspaces. By taking a quick look at some of the marketing tips for interior designers that my friend passed on to me, and taking a look at what I've figured out my own, you'll soon see that there are some things that are essential.
First, you will need a professionally designed web page. Because people are going to be looking at you to design their living spaces and their work spaces, you'll find that you need to grab them with your design aesthetic the moment they get to your page. Of course, a well-designed web space has nothing to do with how good you are at your job, but it's all about presentation and awareness. If you have a web page that's dark, cramped, poorly designed and ugly, you'll find that no matter what your portfolio looks like that people will assume that's how your design works. If you are not a professional at web design, it's worth the money that you spend to hire someone who is.
Many good marketing tips for interior designers will be associated with how you can make people remember you. Whenever you finish a job, offer your client a way to get in touch with you. Whether you decide that you want to do this in the form of a magnet or some sort of client gift like a pen or an umbrella or gift basket, you'll find that by leaving something of yourself in their home, you'll make yourself accessible to anyone who comes in, whether they are guests or family. My friend suggests something like a magnet or a calender, because it is useful and people will always keep it handy.
Finally, remember to keep records of all of your work. You should always be able to give samples of what you can do and how you got there. The more progression shots that you can show online, the more you'll be able to tell prospective customers how you are going to work some magic on their spaces. While of course you should have these pictures up on your website, you'll find that having a hard copy that you keep to show clients in your office is another thing you can do.
My friend had a lot to say about marketing tips for interior designers but most of it could be summed up by saying "don't let them forget you." Remember that networking is a big deal, and that you have do a fair amount of it to get to where you want to be!


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New execution date set for Nevada death row inmate
CARSON CITY – An Aug. 12 execution date was scheduled Friday for Terry Jess Dennis, convicted of strangling a woman during a March 1999 vodka-and-beer binge in a Reno motel room.
Dennis, 57, was scheduled to get a lethal injection this week, but the execution was delayed when Washoe District Judge Janet Berry last week ruled the initial execution warrant was flawed.
Berry on Tuesday signed a new order setting the execution at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City for the week of Aug. 9. State Prison Director Jackie Crawford followed up by scheduling Aug. 12 as the date.
Dennis was convicted of killing Ilona Strumanis, 51, an Eastern bloc immigrant who he had recently met. He told police he strangled Strumanis with a belt after she made fun of him for being unable to perform sexually and questioned his claim that he killed enemy soldiers while serving as an Air Force clerk in Saigon.
Dennis, who has a history of alcoholism, mental illness and failed suicide attempts, has withdrawn all his appeals and said he'd rather die then spend the rest of his life behind bars. A psychiatrist's report said depression and self-hatred prompted Dennis to refuse any more appeals.
Michael Pescetta, assistant federal public defender, has filed a next-friend appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which plans to hear arguments on the case on Monday.
In a brief filed with the court, Pescetta argued the execution would amount to state assisted suicide given Dennis' previous failed efforts on his own. But the attorney general's office countered that Dennis has been found mentally competent by the courts, and his past mental illness is irrelevant.
Dennis, raised in Washington state, has been described by former classmates and friends as a nice person who sang in his high school choir but who also got hooked on drugs and alcohol as a teenager.
Court records state Dennis claimed he had been drinking since he was 13 or 14 years old, had been jailed at age 14 for marijuana use, and had made his first of as many as a dozen suicide attempts in 1966.
Dennis was convicted in 1979 in Snohomish County Superior Court, Wash., for assault and also had a 1984 conviction in the same court for arson and assault, and spent about 2 1/2 years in prison before moving to Reno in 1995.
Dennis' execution would be the second this year in Nevada. His close friend on death row, Lawrence Colwell Jr., 35, was executed March 26 for the 1994 strangling of an elderly tourist in Las Vegas.


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Diaspora Ugandans Launch Anti-nodding Disease Campaign
She added: "We call upon all people of goodwill in Uganda and around the world to join us in the fight against this monstrous nodding disease that is threatening to wipe out an entire generation of future leaders.â€
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A cross section of gravely concerned Ugandans based in the United Kingdom who say they are dissatisfied with the government's lukewarm response to tackling the so-called "nodding disease" are launching a humanitarian fundraising drive to support victims of the disease.
The inaugural fundraising event is scheduled to take place on Saturday 3, March 2012 from 2.30pm till late at St. Gertrude's RCCH Social Club, Corbett's Lane London SE16 2BQ, Surrey Quays.
The fundraising initiative is meant to mobilise funds from sympathisers in the U.K., in Uganda, in other African countries, and across the globe to fund further research into the cause and possible treatment for the alien disease that has attacked children in wide areas in parts of the northern part of Uganda since 2008. An estimated 3,000 children in the Ugandan districts of Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader have so far been affected and nearly 2,000 have since died from the debilitating disease.
At present, there is no treatment or cure for the disease. Part of the funds raised, the organisers say, will go towards supporting social care demands faced by families affected by the disease. The campaign's other key objective is raise awareness within the global scientific community in the hope that some epidemiologists will pick interest and sacrifice their time towards finding the cause, treatment, or cure for the disease.
A team of UK based Doctors and Acoli Community Open Forum (ACOF) committee members are at the forefront of the fundraising campaign. "This is a non-partisan event," said Belinda Atim, noting that the campaign also does not favor any ethnic grouping. "We are driven purely by our God given instincts to empathise with and offer support to downtrodden children who clearly can't help themselves."
She added: "We call upon all people of goodwill in Uganda and around the world to join us in the fight against this monstrous nodding disease that is threatening to wipe out an entire generation of future leaders."
Lee Oryema, an ACOF spokesperson noted that the organising team has secured some wonderful art works by Ricardo Morgan and Christopher Lakony who are London-based artists that will be auctioned to raise funds towards the cause.
Ms Atim also added that Charles Okwir, the London-based Lawyer and author of "Portrait of a Despot" has offered copies of his book to be auctioned on the day to boost the fundraising drive.
Food will be free and drinks will be available for sale on the day of the event. There will be entertainment, with some live Nanga (Naa music) by Okot Malan followed by African dance music and traditional African-Acholi storytelling called "ododo".
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The sentence as written has, at best, marginal grammatical acceptability.
Standard usage would require 'Shop at E-bay...'
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In particular, what form/function does Ebay have/play? Adverb? Direct object noun phrase?
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The sentence as written has, at best, marginal grammatical acceptability.
Standard usage would require 'Shop at E-bay...'
I have no problem with the grammar. But I would use Reed-Kellogg. "Shop" is simply used as a transitive verb, of course in the imperative mode. Sorry but the following comes to mind, "Debbie, do Dallas" Apologies.
I don't believe that 'shop' has any currency in standard usage as a transitive verb. However, if you wish to spend time diagramming a grammatically substandard sentence, I suppose that is a matter of choice...
Yes, diagramming "substandard" or "nonstandard" sentences can really be fun. As long as they make sense, they can be diagrammed. And diagramming usuually shows exactly how they make sense. I know that it is sometimes used in a court of law to establish exactly what is meant. Actually, sentences don't really even need to make sense for diagramming. But there has to be an understandable syntax. Jabberwok???? talk or headlines from newspapers, or Jamaican can all be diagrammed.
I would have thought that the very concepts on which diagramming is based are grounded in the premise that relations between words in a sentence will be governed by laws of syntax. A nonstandard sentence, by definition, does not conform to one or more of those laws and thus does not seem, to my mind, to be logically capable of being diagrammed without first being corrected, any more than it could be meaningfully parsed.
Reactionary wet blanket as I'm sure I must be, I'm not entirely convinced by the 'fun' argument. Bungee-jumping (so I'm told) can be fun, but I would question its relevance or usefulness to the study of linguistics.
Perhaps what we call "usage" is part of the issue. Nonstandard usage often offends some ears, but it still carries meaning, eg. "The dish is broke." No problem with diagramming.
Also, I would add that language is ALWAYS drifting. There are so many examples of this when you look at old "Victorian" grammar books. "I will try and explain this". used to be much more offensive than it is now. I can still remember an English teacher of mine who raged over a popular song part of the text of which went... "try and paint a portrait of my love..."
Syntax does not drift nearly so fast. In fact I find it so interesting that Reed-Kellogg works fine for German or even Persian, as was shown earlier in this forum.
I DID think of an example for which Reed-Kellogg is unprepared, though. That is, the rare occurrence of an infix in English. "Oh so wunderful sittin' absobloominlutely still" from "My Fair Lady". Or "Cinderfuckinella" from "Pretty Woman".
I recommend the book "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog". That book tries to capture the fun.
The issue for me is, essentially, that by consenting to diagram/analyse nonstandard sentences without emendation, we are tacitly expressing our acceptance of them, and thereby ultimately doing our visitors here something of a disservice.
I think, therefore, that we'll have to agree to differ concerning the value of this exercise!
This has become quite an interesting thread for me. I realize that the visitors to this forum will be very well served to learn the most standard of English, but it would be a shame if they did not also appreciate how alive and changing (drifting) the language is.
I thought of another example of something that my one-time English teacher raged about. "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." At that time the word "like" was completely disallowed from being a subordinating conjunction and could only be a preposition. Since then, I believe, that usage has been somewhat accepted. Hypercorrectness can become a problem. Speaking of cigarette commercials, at about the same age, I delighted in the compound prepositions of "... filters the smoke over, under, around, and through tiny...). One does not often get to diagram such a sentence part.
A very current example of a shift (drift) in part of speech is the word "listen". When I heard Gayane Chichakyan on Russian Television say "Take a listen", I knew that "listen" had successfully become a noun. And why not? One can take a look, or take a taste, or take a smell, or take a feel. why not take a listen. But that has been new within the last few years. "Listen" was a noun ready to happen. So...why shouldn't "shop" be allowed to drift into "transitiveness"?
I wouldn't say this is a nonstandard use of the verb "shop". I come across it frequently in Standard English, and it's found in several online dictionaries, including M-W, AHD and Dictionary.com, none of which mark it as nonstandard.


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Cristo Rey Hands Over Letters for Pope Francis
Detroit Cristo Rey High School held an assembly Dec. 2 to hand over dozens of letters written by students encouraging Pope Francis to visit Detroit during his U.S. trip in September 2015. There to collect the letters to deliver to Pope Francis was Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, English language assistant to the Holy See Press Office and CEO of Canada's Salt + Light Television Network. (Photos by Mike Stechschulte, The Michigan Catholic)Read More


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Ramakrishna, T and Vatsala, S and Shobi, V and Sreekumaran, E and Madhav, TR and Ramesh, J and Easwaran, KRK (1998) Betaine reverses toxic effects of aluminium: Implications in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-like pathology. In: Current Science, 75 (11). pp. 1153-1161.
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Mike Scappa was named the fourth York College baseball coach in the 44 years of the program's history in July of 2011. Scappa replaced long-time head coach Paul Saikia, who had served as the Spartans' leader since 1998. Saikia was named the Spartans' Assistant Dean for Athletics and Recreation in late spring of 2011.
Scappa's first year at the helm of the program saw the Spartans notch a record of 22-20. After a rough start to the campaign, York rallied to win 10 of their final 14 games with a young and talented roster that is primed for very good 2013 season. The Spartans were very close to having a much different record in 2012 as the Spartans lost nine one-run decisions.
The Spartans had a strong 2014 season as the Spartans went 29-14 with a regular season Capital Athletic Conference championship. The Spartans went a blistering 14-2 in the league as they hosted the 2014 CAC championships at Jaquet Field. Scappa earned the CAC Coach of the Year award while freshman righthander Elliot Mortimer was named the league's Rookie of the Year. Six Spartans earned All-CAC honors under Scappa's guideance including four first-teamers. Senior catcher Colbe Herr became Scappa's first NABC All-American as he earned a third team berth. Herr, Brad Wenzel, Andrew Hershey and Derek Pitzer were All-South Region honorees for the season.
The Spartans are 135-146-2 in seven seasons under Scappa while they are 62-59 in Capital Athletic Conference play during the same stretch.
Scappa is entering his 21st season as a part of the Spartans' baseball program. He was a four-year letter winner for the Green and White before joining Saikia's staff as an assistant coach. He had spent 13 years coaching the hitters and catchers in addition to being involved in the recruiting process for the Spartans.
Scappa has recruited and coached eight players who have earned first-team All-CAC honors while he has had seven players earn a combined nine second-team All-CAC awards. He has coached three CAC Rookies of the Year (Mortimer, Dan Gurganus, and Jack Barry), six All-Region selections and one All-American.
Scappa was a four-year starter as a switch-hitting catcher from 1995-1998. While wearing the Green and White of York College, Scappa accomplished as much as any team leader in program history. A two-time captain of the team, Scappa hit for a career average of .305 and was twice named to the All-CAC squad. He made two trips to the NCAA Tournament and won one CAC championship.
Scappa has accumulated a wealth of baseball knowledge during his playing career that included high school baseball at tradition-filled Gloucester Catholic High School in southern New Jersey. He played summer ball for the Brooklawn American Legion that is perennially considered one of the best in the nation.
Scappa graduated from York College in 1998 with his bachelor's degree in history. He earned his master's degree in educational leadership from York College in 2007. Scappa resides in York with his wife, Heather, and their two sons.
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CM4all Sites is designed to meet the complex demands of OEMs and boost ARPU for any business model. CM4all's carrier-grade solution can be deeply customized to precisely target specific audiences.
Thanks to continuous product updates, CM4all partners also enjoy the benefits of staying with a single solution, thereby saving a tremendous amount of money and effort while keeping customers happy.
CM4all Sites offers agency-grade web design in an easy-to-use site builder.
CM4all Sites provides suitable website designs for all relevant industry sectors.
Our premium site builder provides a wealth of features for online success.
CM4all Sites delivers responsive websites for optimum display on all devices.
Thanks to endless content and design customization options, no two websites are the same.
OEM partners can add custom design templates to CM4all Sites' built-in catalog.
CM4all's unique architecture and powerful technology make it easy for anyone to successfully manage their business online with an eye-catching and effective professional website.
Whether your customers need an online business card, a feature-rich online store, or visually striking galleries, we provide all the features they need to build an attractive and successful online presence that reflects their brand.
Best of all, everything is mobile-ready right from the start.
Our streamlined design and ease of use guarantee a quick, easy and code-free experience.
Unlimited design capabilities as well as our vast selection of widgets enable your clients to build a website as unique as their business–without any technical expertise.
In addition, our site builder is BIFM ready and enables you to improve your margins by offering additional website creation services.
Browse through the industry-leading selection of widgets that will instantly benefit your customers. Creating a feature-rich website has never been easier!
Our developer interface 'CM4all DEVs' enables continuous and easy expansion.
Our widget technology allows users to conveniently drag and drop all website elements to configure them any way they want and easily add complex functions.
Use the CM4all widget platform to quickly and efficiently fulfill customer requests for new applications, and uniquely position your company to tap the mass market and specialized vertical markets for substantial new sources of revenue!
Our open-platform Widget Developer Network simplifies the widget development process for everyone involved. Leverage this powerful network to customize your CM4all Sites installation's widget catalog for your specific target markets and customer segments!
The possibilities are endless, since our open widget API also supports the integration of other VAS products like stand-alone online stores and external business applications.
Our partners help hundreds of thousands of SMBs get online every year – and their top priority is usually a solid e-commerce solution. We have partnered with e-commerce specialists to offer built-in connectors to major online shopping solutions.
Enable even inexperienced users to easily create professional sites and ensure their online sales success! Our seamless integration also provides opportunities for creating extra revenue streams from e-commerce subscriptions.
Whether you sell DIY products or fully managed services, bundles or all-inclusive website packages, we have the right product license for your business model. With our try-before-you-buy licenses, customers can test your new site builder for up to 30 days free of charge.
Upgrades to the full version are possible any time – even after the trial period has ended – without users losing their websites. Leverage this risk-free opportunity and reach your sales goals with ease!
CM4all Sites allows OEM partners and end users alike to flexibly configure features within a product package. We assign feature points to our widgets based on their complexity and value.
Using our feature point model, you can create easy-to-manage product bundles that align with your sales strategy and encourage customers to upgrade. End users are free to add and remove features from their websites within their point limit.
Our technology is designed to be compact and efficient, and to grow as our OEM partners expand. After more than 17 years of successful software integration with the world's leading telcos, ISPs, verticals and hosters, our experience in mass-market content management engineering is second to none.
With CM4all Sites, you can choose from field-tested configurations including single-server solutions, installations with two redundant servers, and cluster systems for endless scalability. Mature administrative APIs and proven hardware architecture guarantee maximum connectivity and reliability.
We believe our product should adapt to your marketing and sales strategy – not the other way around. That's why we offer comprehensive product customization, so your new site builder blends seamlessly with your brand and is tailored precisely to your customers' needs. CM4all Sites' brandable user interface is available in a variety of languages. You can easily expand the widget and design template catalog – or leave that to a third-party developer.
Pair our custom website categories with your own default content to offer each of your customers the perfect product! Of course, these options can be applied to all of your brands and resellers.
Our rigorous QA process delivers the results you need. Testing and QA does not stop at achieving superior software functionality: We also conduct comprehensive installation and upgrade testing on multiple platforms to ensure a seamless user experience. Cross-functional teams ensure that our premium site building software runs smoothly, even in the largest industry scenarios.
You benefit directly from our extensive expertise through your dedicated key account manager – whether we are managing your day-to-day system upgrades or providing support for custom account migration in a dynamic marketplace.
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Flexibly integrating CM4all Sites into existing workflows, security protocols and databases is easy.
Thanks to our API, plugins and APS package, we support seamless integration with all leading platforms such as Odin (APS 1.2 and 2.1) as well as cPanel, WHMCS and more.
Our integration team has unmatched experience, and your personal key account manager will work side-by-side with you on the project.
Since 1999, we have been building successful long-term partnerships providing leading telcos, ISPs, verticals and hosters worldwide with software solutions in more than 25 languages.
We deliver the right solution – from single-server setups to cluster scenarios securely running in your data center – to all of our partners, from small hosting providers to global telcos.
Our software is designed to be fully customizable to align with your brands, support your sales strategies, fit your markets and cater to your customers – both now and in the future.
We customize our software for you, install it in your data center and update it continuously. Availability is safeguarded with 24/7 support, satisfying even the most demanding telco-grade SLAs so you can focus solely on marketing.
Business Models
Our software is designed for business models from DIY to BIFM to fully managed services, and supports automated bulk website creation. Boost your sales with the unrivaled flexibility of our built-in multi-tier reseller capabilities.
As a top creator of web-based applications since 1999, we proudly build on milestones like our unique widget technology and true mobile capability when developing our website builders.
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We do things right or not at all. Backed by thorough in-house QA, key account managers seamlessly manage projects for a truly German-engineered premium software experience.
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Someone makes part A. Someone else makes part B. Both parts are made to spec. Parts A and B are components that, when put together, create mechanism C.
So, given what you know about parts A and B, what can you assume about mechanism C?
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Probably that mechanism C will probably work as designed. After all, the components were made to spec.
But according to Robert R. Ryan, president and COO of Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI), that assumption may be a faulty one. In fact, it probably is incorrect. As he puts it, "You can't make two perfect parts and expect that the sum of the two will be great. There are interactions that occur." And it is the interactions that the software developed by Mechanical Dynamics has been created to analyze.
The software is called ADAMS. There is a specific auto vehicle simulation package, ADAMS/Car, that was developed by Mechanical Dynamics along with a consortium of automakers; the original consortium included Audi, BMW, Renault, and Volvo. The software is capable of providing information about suspension, vehicle dynamics, engine, powertrain, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), handling and ride, tire-roadway interaction and more in a fraction of the amount of time that it would take to obtain this by using more traditional methods. Not only is it faster to create models in software on a workstation or PC than it is to create a physical prototype in a model shop, it is a whole lot more inexpensive.
Ryan says that by building "virtual prototypes" in place of some of the physical models (he recognizes that there is still a desire to have something you can hold in your hands in addition to something you can view on a screen in all of its animated glory), companies can expect to realize shorter development times, higher quality, lower costs, and the ability to deal with more complex systems.
CAE Meets CAD & PDM
Fundamentally, the ADAMS/Car computer-aided engineering (CAE) software makes use of the digital information that is already, undoubtedly, stored within computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) systems. So it isn't necessary to start from scratch.
Generally, they're working at a subassembly level. What they are doing with this physics-based software package is determining how the subassembly will work given a set of parameters. It is not only simulating what the subassembly will look like, but it is also testing. By building up subassemblies into assemblies and further testing, it is not only possible to determine performance but to see where there are problems and what can be changed in order to resolve them. That is, when there are interactions between various parts, it may be possible to make an adjustment to something that is not immediately interacting with the area in question and thereby resolve the problem. The CAE software that Ryan's company offers permits this to happen.
More-effective Testing
Speaking of general practices in the physical prototyping world, Ryan says that often times, testing can't be used to its fullest extent because of time constraints. But with the computer-based approach, when the assembly is being tested while it is still in a digital form, it is much simpler to accommodate these changes. "We're not suggesting that physical testing be eliminated. But we are making it more effective." At the very least, some problems can be solved before the prototypes are fabricated. Then the testing can be used to more closely optimize the product before its design is released for build. "Engineers can use the information they obtain with confidence," Ryan comments.
According to Ryan, companies that are using the software are realizing huge savings. Not only does it help create better products, but there are significant savings in manufacturing costs, as well. For one thing, since the simulation catches problems early in the development cycle, it is less likely that there will be engineering change orders coming down—after the tooling has been produced.
Ryan says that there are fundamentally five phases of auto design. First, it was a matter of building vehicles, then taking them out hither and yon and seeing how (or if) they'd perform under various conditions. Next, to do away with some of this expense in time and travel, proving grounds were built. These were bolstered by the construction of corporate test labs. Companies are now in the fourth stage: computer simulation and virtual prototyping. What's to come? "Immersive design," Ryan answers. This means virtual reality prototyping.
In the closer-term, Ryan says they're looking at Java—which could put the CAE product on the web so that there can be far-flung collaborative virtual prototyping among engineers.
Designing Seats the PLM Way
The only back-seat driver in designing automotive seats and trim covers is PLM. That's a good thing.
What you see in PRODUCT VISUALIZATION is what you get
Visualization is an affordable technology for quickly and realistically depicting data visually. Besides being great for marketing, visualization saves prototyping time and expense, and it lets users see physical conditions not obvious in 2D or 2 1/2 D.
What Makes Automotive CAD/CAM Systems So Special?
The high-end automotive CAD/CAM systems do a whole lot more than their name implies. In addition to design and manufacturing, they have the ability to support analysis, product data management, and more.


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Pride Rainbow
Pride Rainbow
If you enjoy pampering you precious pup, these bow tie and sailor bow collars will have them dressed up in no time for any special occasion.
Designed for modern dog parents, the bows easily slip off so you can use the collar for day-to-day walks. There are two styles of bows: try the sailor bow for a delicate, feminine look or go with the classic bow tie.
100% cotton fabric for a soft, comfortable fit.
Double layered bow for the perfect amount of structure.
Two attachment points from bow to collar to ensure it never sits lopsided.
Adjustable collar to fit growing puppies.
The bow is removable so that it can stay pristine for special occasions.
Heavy-duty nylon webbing to ensure the collar is strong and durable.
Metal ring on collar for tags + leash to attach
Please click here or scroll to the bottom of the page to our sizing chart.
Measure the circumference of your pet's neck using a soft tape measure. Leave enough room to slip two fingers between your pet's neck and the tape measure.
When you order a set, your collar will be paired with a corresponding bow size. For example, a M collar will be paired with a M bow when you order a set. A different bow size may be substituted with no extra charge.
XXXS Collar, available in 3/8" width
5-8" circumference
hardware: plastic only
XXS Collar, available in 3/8" width
6-9" circumference
hardware: plastic only
XS Collar, available in 3/8" or 5/8" widths
7-10" circumference
hardware: plastic in 3/8" width or plastic, gold or rose gold metal in 5/8" width
S Collar, available in 5/8" or 3/4" widths
8-12" circumference
hardware: plastic, gold metal or rose gold metal
M Collar, available in 3/4" or 1" widths
12-18" circumference
ardware: plastic, gold metal or rose gold metal
L Collar, available in 1" width
15-23" circumference
ardware: plastic, gold metal or rose gold metal
Product Care
- Spot clean small stains immediately with a warm wet cloth
- Hand-wash warm with gentle detergent, air dry
- Plastic hardware collars are machine washable
- Machine washing is not recommend for metal hardware as the hardware may be scratched, and the metal hardware may damage your washer. If necessary, place within a garment bag before washing in a gentle cold cycle
- Remove the bow tie and sailor bow when it is not in use to ensure it remains structured and has greater longevity
- Every item is handcrafted to order. Please allow 3-5 business days for us to create and perfect your product with the care that it deserves.
- Worldwide shipping available. For detailed shipping times to your country, click here.
Custom Orders
We offer custom orders for circumferences 23". Please contact us at email@example.com.


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ROCKLEDGE, FL - During an emergency, one of the most precious things you can't afford to waste is time. When you or a loved one needs emergency care, you want to know how quickly that help will be available. If you're heading to an Emergency Room (ER), you want to know how long you will have to wait before the injuries or illness is assessed.
Until now, however, you would have no way of knowing how long the wait might be until you arrived at an ER. And without actually visiting more than one Brevard ER, you would have no way of knowing if the wait at one particular hospital might be shorter than others. It seems like it should be easy enough to get that kind of information. After all, if restaurants can tell you how long a wait you can expect before you arrive, why shouldn't Brevard ERs be able to do the same?
The answer is that now you can quickly get ER Wait Times for all four of Health First's hospitals simultaneously at www.BrevardERs.org. As the largest local healthcare provider (operating twice as many hospitals on the Space Coast than any other provider), Health First has just launched its new real-time instantaneous wait times for all four of its hospitals. The new service is intended to make it easier for residents to know what to expect if they need to visit one of Health First's ERs at Cape Canaveral Hospital, Holmes Regional Medical Center, Palm Bay Hospital, or Viera Hospital. With a click of the mouse, you can know immediately which hospital has the shortest wait time to enter patients into ER triage.
The ER Wait Times for all of Health First's ERs are now updated online at the new website. Health First is the only hospital system in the area offering the ER Wait Times to patients.
"The four Health First hospitals are the only ones in this area providing this service in real time to our patients," said Health First spokesman Elliot Cohen. "We're the only locally-headquartered multi-hospital system, and we know that many of life's emergencies will involve our own friends or neighbors. We want to provide as much information as we can to help them and their families. We think www.BrevardERs.org does just that. We also want to dispel the myth that it always takes hours to be seen in an ER."
The new website is updated around the clock, and shows how long it will take to be seen by a qualified healthcare professional in triage. But the reality is that you may be seen even faster than the posted time, depending on the type of emergency. More serious cases will always be treated in an ER faster than less life-threatening cases based on a professional's assessment during triage.
Starting in the fall, patients will also be able to send a text message to BrevardERs.org and have the ER Wait Times for all Health First hospitals sent directly to their Smart Phones. By clicking on the ER they want to visit, any GPS-enabled Smart Phone will receive a map and driving directions.
Another great advantage of the new website is that you can make a more informed decision concerning whether an ER is the best place to take your loved one. Some less-serious, non-life-threatening injuries or illnesses can be treated at a walk-in clinic instead of an ER. Health First's QuickCare Clinic located on the South end of Holmes Regional Medical Center, as well as the Health First Physicians Cocoa Beach Walk-in Clinic just off A1A on North Banana River Boulevard can treat many less-serious injuries that don't require the type of emergency care provided in an ER.
*Please note this service is not intended for urgent life-threatening situations which require 9-1-1 response.


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if this tests out, it would be a great improvement / addition to the standard lib.
if this tests out, it would be a great improvement / addition to the standard lib.
Any chance of getting this to work with the 24LC256 I2C eeprom?
void writeFloat(unsigned int address, float value){ writeBlock(address, &value , sizeof(float));}
#include <avr/eeprom.h>int ex EEMEM;...eeprom_write_word(&ex, 42);...int x = (int) eeprom_read_word(&ex);
int ex EEMEM = 42;
if you change the order in which you 'declare' the variables you mess it up


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David Reviews
Gramercy Park Studios are understandably chuffed after appointing Javier Santaella as Head of Motion Graphics.
Nice Biscuits founder Russell Shaw loves a challenge, especially a technological one... we find out how he's made it his company's USP.
Scandinavian production company New Land are UK-bound as they announce the launch of their new London office.
The LIA's decision to spring Ted Royer upon an unsuspecting audience of young creatives was a toxic misjudgment.
Plark? Is that how real people say it?


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Active development for Pano2QTVR has stopped in 2007. Please have a look at Pano2VR and Object2VR instead.
A real promising Windows project by Thomas Rauscher to convert equirectangular and cylindrical panos to QuickTime cubic movies and link them together to virtual tours. Since version 0.9.8 it is also possible to create single and multi row Quicktime VR Object Movies
Features for the free version (for non-commercial usage):
- graphical userinterface
- converting equirectangular and cylindiric images to QTVR (.mov files).
- converting equirectangular to single cube face files (either JPEG or TIFF)
- assembling single cube face files into a QTVR (.mov file) to allow retouching of the cubefaces
- setting of PTStitcher interpolator and interpolator gamma for cube face creation
- usage of the internal or the PanoTools remapper
- supported image formats: everything that ImageMagick can handle f.e JPEG, JPEG-2000, TIFF (8- an 16bit), PSD, BMP, PNG, GIF,...
- creating hotspots in an internal hotspot editor using various forms (round, elliptic, rectangle, rounded rectangle, polygon)
- setting of most (if not all?) QTVR parameters like f.e. pan, tilt and Field of View defaults and limits, title, description, author, date and time, copyright, source, comment...
- subtiles of cube faces for progressive download
- optimizer to rearrange the tiles depending on the viewing direction. more
- spot the initial viewing parameters and grab this position
- high quality is enabled by default. more
- droplets for batch processing
- individual JPEG quality for each cubeface
- option for compressed headers and protection to disallow further editing with Quicktime.
Additional Features for the pro version:
- Object Movies (single- and multi row)
- import up to 10 sprite-tracks, soundfiles, images, Flash movies,...
- background sound for panoramas
- import autorotate sprite for panoramas
- create thumbnails from the source image (GIF, TIFF and PNG with correct alpha channel)
- create HTML files for Quicktime, DevalVR and PTViewer
- create vertical Image strips for SPi-V and Immervision PurePlayer
- use the output files for commercial purposes
Features specially for Object Movies:
- Specify animation and autoplay speed with rotation or ping-pong
- Unlimited viewstates and animations
- Different contollers like grabber, joystick and absolute position
Pano2QTVR download page: http://ggnome.com/pano2qtvr
The interface is no-frills and easy to grasp in a single sitting. I was able to put together a 7 image tour with multiple links in under 30 minutes, and that was the first time using the program. See it here: http://www.add360.com/archangels/virtual_tours/tour-quicktime/image2.mov
The software offers links to internal images, external webpages and tooltips.


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Christian Worldview
Teaching Series by R.C. Sproul
Twelve 23-Minute Messages. Over 4 Hours of Teaching. Everyone has a worldview, a framework through which they interpret reality and answer life's ultimate questions. Many people, however, are unaware of the view they embrace. In this series, Dr. R.C. Sproul … Learn MoreDVD $48.00 $43.20 Add to Cart
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Worldviews in Conflict
Teaching Series by R.C. Sproul
In this series, Dr. R.C. Sproul provides a brief survey of five belief systems that have influenced the thinking of modern man. He refutes the assumptions of worldviews such as secularism, hedonism, humanism, existentialism, and pragmatism. Learn MoreCD $17.00 $15.30 Add to Cart
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If you drive up the East Coast long enough, you'll find the little town of Perry, Maine. Nine hundred forty-three people call it home, and it's a place where you're just as likely to see a moose as you are a neighbor. Right off Route 1, across from the New Friendly Restaurant, sits the Quoddy Wigwam—world headquarters of Quoddy Inc.
Quoddy makes shoes, and they've been doing it the same way for more than 100 years: by hand, with a piece or two of leather, hand-stitched with a flexible sole.
"The people, the machines, the special shoe lathes just for moccasin construction, the suppliers — the only place we can do it is here," Quoddy President John Andreliunas said. "How we make stuff defines who we are. And where we make stuff defines who we are."
Almost 600 miles away, in New York, Quoddy shoes are stocked on the shelves of J.Crew store in Rockefeller Center—and in Chicago—and even across the country in Los Angeles. They're also sold on J.Crew's website and in the 40 million catalogs it prints every year.
"They helped legitimize us as one of the premiere heritage brands in the U.S.," Andreliunas said. "You can't put a price or a figure on that."
Quoddy is just one of more than 100 brands that have partnered with J.Crew to create products for the specialty retailer. It began, like many partnerships, with a little bit of luck. Jenna Lyons, J.Crew's president and executive creative director, happened to come across a pair of Quoddy's sheepskin-lined ring boots in a store in New York.
"It was serendipity," said Andreliunas. "She just got in touch with me out of the blue."
The timing couldn't have been better. J.Crew was ramping up "In Good Company," a collection composed solely of partnerships with outside brands handpicked by its design team. Started in 2007, "In Good Company" brands range from the well-known — like Sperry and Timex — to heritage products, like Red Wing shoes and Barbour jackets — to the up-and-coming lines like Nili Lotan and Edith A. Miller.
"[It] makes it more interesting to the customer," J.Crew CEO Mickey Drexler said. "How do we ever do a Nike or a New Balance vintage sneaker that's unique and special? Or a Crockett and Jones from England? People love it."
But retail analyst Eric Beder says bringing in outside brands goes against traditional specialty retailer thinking.
"I think it's part ego," said Beder, a managing director at Brean Murray, Carret & Co. "It just isn't really done. I think the thought process is that our customer is coming in for us, for this brand. I think for J.Crew they're coming in for a lifestyle — that's the difference."
Ego or not, there are a steady stream of retailers from H&M to Levis forging partnerships with outside brands and designers. Some of the most high profile collaborations have come from the aisles of Target , where the company has been partnering with designers since 1999.
"It's all about differentiation," Target spokeswoman Jessica Carlson said. "We're really looking to find and bring guests that affordable, accessible design that sets us apart from the competition."
That accessible design can turn quite a profit. In August 2003, Target debuted its collaboration with Isaac Mizrahi. According to The New York Times, it earned up to $300 million a year —raking in as much as $1.5 billion during its five-year run.
Last fall, Target struck gold again, launching a high-low collection with Italian fashion house Missoni of 400 limited-edition items across the store. It was so popular, the website crashed in a matter of hours, and shelves were empty within minutes of the doors opening. It was, in short, a media sensation — which was exactly the point, said Erin Armendinger, managing director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
"That's about making a splash," she said. "You walk into the store when one of these huge rollouts is going on and they strategically place merchandise all around the store. They're more to drive traffic, to drive media, to drive attention."
Earlier this month, Target launched a new variation on its typical partnership: "The Shops at Target," which, similar to the J.Crew model, focuses on curating and partners the chain with small boutiques and specialty shops. However, while Target's will last a few weeks, J.Crew partners with brands for years.
"It's really nice to deal with small, creative companies who sometimes don't get an easy shot selling other stores," Drexler said, "especially big stores who might not nurture them the way we would. And we're not usually their biggest business, but we're a nice part of their business."
For Quoddy, J.Crew is its biggest business — it has tripled its sales over the past three years, which Andreliunas says is in large part due to the partnership.
With collaborations, smaller brands such as Quoddy gain advantages like exposure and a wider distribution. However, partnership collections aren't without risks, and their success is up for debate; most companies don't break out their numbers to account for collaborations.
"I'm sure if you look through the cemetery of partnerships, you would find many, many, many." Armendinger said. "Look at GO International at Target. It was an incredibly successful program for a really long time until it wasn't. The customer got used to the idea."
"It's not a simple equation for any of our design partnerships," said Target's Carlson. "It's about looking at what's hot, what's on trend, what we think our guest is going to want next."
Distribution can also be tricky when larger retailers work with smaller ones, according to Andreliunas.
"I always say you don't really understand Quoddy until you actually come up and walk in here," he said. "Mickey [Drexler] knows what we're about because he's been here. They make an effort to realize they're dealing with smaller companies that don't have endless supplies of people and resources and cash."
Like a good marriage, partnerships have to work for both parties.
"People like that — they like our outside designers," Drexler said. "If it's exciting, if it's good, and if it makes our customers more excited to shop with us, we're going to do that. And also, it's fun."


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NEW YORK — Pivot is the name of a TV channel aimed at 15- to 34-year-olds who want to change the world.
In the process, they could help Pivot change the television business.
Announced in December, the new venture was officially unveiled Wednesday at a news conference disclosing program and distribution details as well as its name and Aug. 1 sign-on date. It initially will be available in more than 40 million homes.
Pivot is a division of Participant Media, founded in 2004 by entrepreneur-philanthropist Jeff Skoll, who helped mastermind eBay. Since then, Participant has produced more than 40 fiction and nonfiction films (with seven Academy Award wins and 35 nominations) that include "The Help," "Charlie Wilson's War," "Food, Inc.," "An Inconvenient Truth" and Steven Spielberg's recent "Lincoln."
The company is dedicated "to creating lasting sustainable change through the power of storytelling," said Pivot president Evan Shapiro, "and now we're bringing that to TV.
"The mandate of Pivot is entertainment that inspires social change and our target is millennials, but other than that, we are a general entertainment network with all types of content: drama, comedy, talk and documentaries," said Shapiro, who before joining Participant served as president of IFC and Sundance Channel, and executive-produced such documentaries and series as "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" and the Peabody Award-winning "Brick City" and "Portlandia."
Pivot will offer programming around the clock (no long-form infomercials padding fringe periods). Documentaries will fill much of the schedule, including those from the Participant library, film festivals and world premieres.
Acquired series include "Friday Night Lights," the inspiring high school football drama, and "Farscape," a cult classic previously aired on the Sci-Fi Channel about a diverse group of passengers of a space vessel forced to work together to survive.
Pivot also will introduce its viewers to "Little Mosque on the Prairie," a long-running Canadian sitcom focused on a Muslim community in a fictional Saskatchewan prairie town. "It has never been seen in the United States because the word 'mosque' is in the title," Shapiro said.
Pivot plans 300 hours of new programming its first year.
New series will include an audience-collaborated variety show produced and hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a talk-reality show with Meghan McCain (daughter of former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain), and, from writer Craig Pearce ("Moulin Rouge" and the upcoming "The Great Gatsby"), a fanciful drama titled "Will," about a young, as-yet-unproven William Shakespeare that mashes up his era with modern times (and is billed as a blend of "Deadwood," "8 Mile" and "Shakespeare in Love").
"Jersey Strong" is a docu-series from the producers of "Brick City" that focuses on two unconventional families in Newark, N.J. — a man and woman raising children and mentoring young people who themselves are members of two rival gangs, and two women in a same-sex relationship who run a law firm.
Each night the network will air "TakePart Live," a talk show whose topics will be chosen earlier in the day by viewers going online to TakePart.com, Participant Media's social action hub.
Pivot is entering into a programming and marketing relationship with Rolling Stone magazine, and will co-produce 10 documentaries with Univision, which will air each film in Spanish while Pivot airs the film in English.
A slogan of Pivot is "It's Your Turn," which addresses the 27 million-member audience segment the network has dubbed "passionate millennials."
Not only is the new network gearing its programs to this group, it's also tailoring its distribution strategy to how they consume media, Shapiro said.
Reports are rampant that younger audiences are shunning traditional TV in favor of YouTube videos on the Internet, and that they are "cutting the cord" of cable programming as a moneysaving move or because they deem TV an outmoded way to watch.
Pivot's research has found otherwise.
"There is no such thing as a cord-cutter," Shapiro said. "They all have broadband — and it's bringing them everything they want, including video. So we decided to reframe the conversation."
Pivot has identified two main groups within its prospective audience: cable TV subscribers who watch "television" across multiple platforms, and viewers who subscribe only to broadband.
Pivot will accommodate both groups.
"It's the first channel that's available both through traditional pay-television bundling, and via your broadband provider as a stand-alone (service)," he said. For an extra monthly fee (described as less than the cost of a cup of diner coffee) through the Pivot app on any device, "subscribers will be able to take this channel, both live streaming and on-demand, with you wherever you go in the world."
Online features will include a "Take Action" button to access information about social issues touched on in each program, customized to the viewer's locale and interests.
Shapiro believes this dual source could be a game-changer for the TV industry, making a "television" channel available to any viewer regardless of the chosen delivery device. Pivot could be the first of many "a la carte" broadband channels offered to subscribers weary of paying for whole tiers of cable-TV networks.
Such an arrangement meets the demands of younger viewers, said Shapiro, as overwhelmingly expressed in Pivot's research: "I want to watch what I want where I want when I want."
How will Pivot be greeted by this demanding audience?
"The market is a gauge of our success. But social change is an equally important, if not more important, gauge." Together, said Shapiro, they're what the company refers to as its "double bottom line."


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Job Description:
Req/Job ID: 977831BR
Employing Entity: Transform SR LLC
Employment Category: Regular, Full-time
Job Function: Automotive
Store ID: 06703: Sears Auto Center
In partnership with the Auto Center Manager, this position is responsible for assisting with the management of the Auto Center and Associates in centers with a volume between $1.1 million and $2.19 million. The Assistant Manager ensures consistent, timely, and accurate service delivery to customers by building, supervising, and training a high performance selling and service team. The Assistant Manager works closely with the Auto Center Manager as well as the District Service Manager to ensure achievement of business goals and great customer service on a daily basis. This includes, but is not limited to, management of Associates analyses and driving of sales volume, customer service, profitability and performance identification and solution of business problems creation and implementation of competitive strategies managing productivity standards and other responsibilities as assigned by the Auto Center Manager or the District Service Manager. The Assistant Manager personally provides professional, timely and courteous service by listening carefully to customers, presenting Sears Automotive products clearly, and teaming with technicians.
The Assistant Auto Center Manager assists in the daily operation of the Auto Center in partnership with the Auto Center Manager. The Assistant Manager is expected to spend most of his/her time on management duties on a daily and weekly basis. In the absence of the Auto Center Manager, the Assistant Manager assumes all management duties and responsibilities for the Auto Center. The Assistant Manager occasionally spends some of his/her time directly selling to customers and addressing their needs.
Job Requirements
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
Assists in planning and strategy to lead Auto Center to ensure achievement of business goals in sales and service.
Teaches, Manages and provides positive and constructive feedback.
Plans, directs and supervises the work and productivity levels of Associates to ensure standards are met or exceeded.
Recognizes, encourages and acknowledges excellent customer service.
Performs as the Customer Experience Manager on duty.
Ensures delivery of speed and expertise to the customer through assistance in management of day to day business processes and programs.
Responsible for determining appropriate outcomes to customer issues and concerns by making sound business decisions.
Achieves personal sales and service goals and helps team in achieving the same.
Delivers speed and expertise to the customer through daily execution of business processes and programs.
Miscellaneous duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
Must have a valid Driver's License
Supervisory Experience
Preferred Skills:
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Sure, Jennifer Siebel-Newsom is married to one of the most powerful politicians in California. But she's a powerhouse in her own right.
She is up for an Academy Award for her work on the film, "The Invisible War." The film exposes the epidemic of rape in the U.S. military and questions the role of the Department of Defense.
According to the film, about a half million women have been sexually assaulted while serving.
Siebel-Newsom of Marin is one the film's executive producers. She also happens to be the pregnant wife of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, expecting their third child - to soon be the newest sibling of Montana and Hunter. Gavin Newsom used to be mayor of San Francisco; the couple now lives in Marin County.
"I feel strongly because I think this film has put the Department of Defense in a position where they had to really take action," Siebel-Newsom said. "If we can prevent sexual assault in the military, I believe we can reduce it in our larger culture. And that's why we wanted to be a part of this film."
Siebel-Newsom is not new to film. She wrote, directed, and produced her first film in 2001, "Miss Representation," which explores the under-representation of women in positions of power in America.
Now, that the Academy Awards is around the corner - on Feb. 24 - Siebel-Newsom is hoping to bring home an Oscar. But she insists she's not in it for the gold.
"I want other girls to see that I'm challenging myself intellectually," she said, "and that I am getting behind important causes."


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When leashed, it was so loose I know you understood
A leather tether, that was never meant for strain.
The tether was often a welcomed sight for those we walked by, and so often you looked up and gave me a knowing "smile."
My children you tended as they were ours, countless times I grinned when out of sight I heard you sigh. The boys have endless memories in antics you shared, in so many ways they went closer to your heart than I. How often you protected and comforted them we can never know.
Words spoken by friends have life, words you heard from us went to your soul.
When I found you in your endless sleep I felt a farewell, I sat with you in peace as time stood still. I saw you as a pup comically leaping to see over the tall grass. I saw you searching for that lost ball. I strained to hear your warning bark so now dearly missed.
A part of me is gone, but a part of you remains.
You laid at our feet with dignity one last time.


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Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts
by Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael.
Foreword by Hon. Monique Bégin,
Former Minister of National Health & Welfare of Canada and
Member of WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
Published in May 2010. ISBN 978-0-9683484-1-3 – 62 pp.
Toronto: York University School of Health Policy and Management.
[Download "Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts" PDF, 4 Mb]
[Download the press release]
Available in French:
Déterminants sociaux de la santé : les réalités canadiennes (2011)
Maintenant disponible en français. [Plus d'informations sur le rapport]
[Télécharger le rapport, PDF, 8 Mo] [Télécharger le dépliant, PDF]
The primary factors that shape the health of Canadians are not medical treatments or lifestyle choices but rather the living conditions they experience. These conditions have come to be known as the social determinants of health. This information – based on decades of research and hundreds of studies in Canada and elsewhere – is unfamiliar to most Canadians.
Canadians are largely unaware that our health is shaped by how income and wealth is distributed, whether or not we are employed and if so, the working conditions we experience. Our health is also determined by the health and social services we receive, and our ability to obtain quality education, food and housing, among other factors. And contrary to the assumption that Canadians have personal control over these factors, in most cases these living conditions are – for better or worse – imposed upon us by the quality of the communities, housing situations, work settings, health and social service agencies, and educational institutions with which we interact.
Improving the health of Canadians requires we think about health and its determinants in a more sophisticated manner than has been the case to date. Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts considers 14 social determinants of health:
1. Income and Income Distribution
2. Education
3. Unemployment and Job Security
4. Employment and Working Conditions
5. Early Childhood Development
6. Food Insecurity
7. Housing
8. Social Exclusion
9. Social Safety Network
10. Health Services
11. Aboriginal Status
12. Gender
13. Race
14. Disability
The publication outlines why they are important; how Canada is doing in addressing them; and what can be done to improve their quality. The purpose of the document is to provide promote greater awareness of the social determinants of health and the development and implementation of public policies that improve their quality.


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If you recall back in November of last year, Apple hired a new general counsel to replace Nancy Heinen, who had left after the stock options backdating scandal began. Donald Rosenberg was tapped as the new general counsel, due in part to his intellectual property experience. But just 10 months after his appointment, Rosenberg is also leaving Apple, leading to Apple and two other companies to play a game of musical chairs with their general counsels.
Rosenberg will be moving to the general counsel position at Qualcomm, which needs someone to help with ongoing patent and antitrust lawsuits. As usual, Apple hasn't been forthcoming with any particular reason for Rosenberg's departure. Steve Jobs has publicly thanked him for his work, so I doubt it's anything nefarious. Maybe he's just sick of hearing about the iPhone.
The new Apple general counsel as of November 1 will be Daniel Cooperman, who has been serving as Oracle's general counsel since 1997. Jobs has already described him as "an excellent addition to the team," and likely had Cooperman recommend to him by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. To all of us outside the company, things should remain business as usual, with a steady stream of lawsuits involving Apple. Cooperman has a great deal of general counsel experience—hopefully Jobs won't burn him out after 10 months.


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ATHERTON — It's a new year for the Menlo School volleyball team, a year in which all the pieces appear to be in place for the Knights to make the transition from being a good team to being one of the section's elite.
Menlo took a step in that direction Thursday with a 3-1 win over St. Francis (25-21, 25-20, 20-25, 25-20).
"That was a great win," said Menlo's first-year coach Steve Cavella. "St. Francis is a great program, very well-coached."
Menlo (5-2) used its strength at the net with Lida Vandermeer and Morgan Dressel to great advantage. But the turning point in the match may have come from a different source.
Menlo won the first game 25-20, but St. Francis got off to a strong start in the second game, building a 10-6 lead. The Lancers were up 12-9 when Menlo went on an 11-3 run to take a 20-15 lead. The Knights held on for a 25-20 win and a 2-0 lead.
"I thought we passed the ball well in game two," Cavella said. "Our setter, Elisa Merten, made some good decisions."
The Knights got off to a 10-4 lead in the third game and it looked as though a sweep could be in the offing. But St. Francis responded with a rush, scoring the next seven points to take the lead behind some strong blocking and hitting of its own by Jenna Adams and Taylor Poncetta. The Lancers were in control the rest of the way in a 25-20 victory.
"We're still working hard on serving," St. Francis coach Leahi Hall said. "The girls are committed to learning and change. I'm very proud of our rhythm and the way we played."
Menlo jumped out to an 8-4 lead in the fourth game, weathered a St. Francis rally that saw the Lancers take a 14-12 lead and pulled away down the stretch.
"Last year we lost to St. Francis," said Menlo outside hitter Maddie Huber. "This year we've come out strong and we're meshing well. We have a lot of really good players who all play club. We're all working hard. I'm excited to see what we can do."
"We're coming together and jelling well," Vandermeer said. "We have a really deep bench and we're all really good friends."


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The Supreme Court's much-awaited decision on affirmative action in the Fisher v. University of Texas case could be handed down as soon as this Tuesday, May 28. The court – and the public – have heard a host of arguments both for and against the practice. One opposing argument in particular has been more specious than many of the others.
For nearly a decade, UCLA Law professor Richard Sander has demanded an overhaul of affirmative action practices at colleges and universities, citing his own research on the "mismatch" theory. According to Mr. Sander's theory, affirmative action harms blacks and Latinos because it pushes them into situations (elite universities) where their peers outmatch them in standardized test scores. This "mismatch," Sander claims, leads to underperformance, which then leads to the students' failure to achieve their ultimate goals.
Scholars have been quick to point out holes in the mismatch argument. For example, scholars have highlighted how Sander's research fails to capture the complexities of admissions decisionmaking, which is not simply based on test scores, but instead involves holistic reviews of the many well-qualified students who are vying for limited seats at competitive institutions.
Scholars also have noted how Sander's analysis does not adequately take into account the impact of hostile racial environments (at elite institutions) on student performance. They have further noted how the mismatch theory improperly rests on one narrow view of merit, failing to acknowledge the many ways in which different students may be mismatched against one another. Other research shows that students who enter elite institutions under affirmative action policies excel – even more than their white peers.
Indeed, as anyone who has attended college will tell you, there are a plethora of factors that determine a student's success or struggle in college. And my own experiences as a parent have taught me that, when children are "outmatched," they often grow the most both in confidence and ability.
Recently, my 10-year-old daughter reminded me of this very point when she engaged in actions that demonstrated exactly why Sander's mismatch theory fails in many instances. Unlike most girls, my daughter has maintained an interest in math, robotics, and numerous other things that her physics professor father is geekily proud of and, more important, that boys seem to dominate even at the tender age of 10.
This year, my daughter joined the chess club. Having never played chess before and having parents who were not chess players, she was initially "outmatched" by her peers, most of whom had been playing for years. However, over time and with training and the constant challenge of being "outmatched," she has become one of the stronger players in her group.
Like thousands of college students who have benefited from affirmative action programs over the past three decades, my daughter possessed the native intelligence and skill for the program she was joining. Having the additional challenge of being outmatched brought out the best in her and pushed her to excel. As my former colleague Alan Brownstein from the University of California, Davis School of Law once said to me, "Mismatch is what we want for our kids."
Indeed, those of us who are parents tell our children to seek mismatches all the time. When our children want to improve their basketball skills, we do not tell them, "Play basketball with kids who play just at your level or lower." Instead, we say, "Find the best players because playing with them will improve your skills. It will make you better, stronger, wiser."
Of course, as parents, we know that there are limits to what our children can achieve. Some kids may not be able to make the varsity team or the honor society. Still, they also cannot know their own limits until they confront challenges that test their capabilities and their determination. If they have the fortitude and the raw talent to take on these challenges, we should not slam the door in their faces and tell them that we are so sure they will fail that we refuse to even give them the opportunity to prove us wrong.
In their book "The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions," William Bowen and Derek Bok, former presidents of Princeton University and Harvard University, respectively, confirmed that our parental instinct to encourage mismatches is on the mark. The book's data revealed that racial minority students who benefited from affirmative action at elite schools graduated at higher rates than those at less selective institutions. And they earned advanced degrees at rates similar to their white peers.
The data that Mr. Bowen and Mr. Bok highlight also show that such students contributed to civic and community activities after college more than their white counterparts and made significant achievements in business and government upon graduation.
These findings are further affirmed by the work featured in the book "Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities" by Bowen; Matthew Chingos, a Brookings Institution fellow; and Michael S. McPherson, a former president of Macalester College.
"Crossing the Finish Line" revealed that students who are "undermatched" – meaning students who attended a college that was less selective than their credentials would have allowed them to attend (and thus should have been easier for them) – graduated at a lower rate than those students who "matched" – meaning students who attended a college that was as selective as their credentials would have allowed them to attend.
As this research shows, success in college, and later in life, is about more than just numbers; it is about resources, support of intellectual development, environment, networks, and numerous other factors.
In fact, as many of our parenting experiences have taught us, mismatches are not just good for the "outmatched," but also for the "overmatched" – meaning those students at elite institutions with ample qualifications and privileged backgrounds. Much like Justice Sandra Day O' Connor highlighted in Grutter v. the University of Michigan Law School, the "overmatched" benefit just as greatly from their diverse surroundings in elite institutions as the "outmatched."
After all, through interactions with a diverse student body, they learn about different life experiences, the importance of working with others, and the strength that can come through diversity within teams.
Instead of bemoaning mismatches (and affirmative action policies), we should be striving to foster them.
Angela Onwuachi-Willig is the Charles and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. She teaches and writes in the fields of anti-discrimination law and critical race theory. Her forthcoming book, "According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family" (Yale University Press), will be released in June.


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We are alive and well......and always busy.
This is one reason we've been so occupied.
Is he not adorable?
This is Snickers. He is our daughter's new Yorkie-poo and is 7 weeks old.
He is 1 1/2 pounds of trouble, let me tell you.
At first he had some health issues but after a weekend of hourly feedings and medicine, I'm happy to report that Snickers is doing great.
He's running around here jumping and growling at our feet.
Hopefully I'll get back to regular posting - I miss it so much.
Hope everyone is having a great Spring so far!


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This is about family history research in Queensland, Australia. There are articles about sources, problem-solving research techniques, interesting items at Qld State Archives and elsewhere, and specific individuals (some of whom are mentioned in very unexpected sources). Explore the options in the tabs below, in the sidebar and at the bottom of the page, and visit my main Web site.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Thrifty Thursday: Lifeline Bookfest
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Lifeline Bookfest
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I've had great success with visiting estate sales. So often, the surviving family members place little value on "old books," and they are often sold by the box load for a paltry sum.ReplyDelete
Lifeline also hold regular bookfairs in Sydney. My local Vinnies store http://www.vinnies.org.au/vinnies-centres-national?link=192 has a great book section where I often pick up bargains too.
I hoped someone would offer tips for other towns and cities, so thanks very much for your comment, Jill.ReplyDelete
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CONWAY, Ark. – Birmingham-Southern scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to take a 6-3 Southern Athletic Association win over Hendrix College Friday at UCA's Bear Stadium.
The Panthers won their fifth straight game while improving to 16-7 and 7-0 in the Southern Athletic Association. Hendrix fell to 9-14 overall and 3-7 in the conference.
Trailing 3-2 with one out in the ninth, Jacob Mayfield reached on a dropped fly ball and ended up at second base on the play. Tanner McGill was hit by a pitch and Brandon Perry Walk to load the bases with two outs. Zach Wagner singled through left side to bring home Perry and McGill and Mayfield trotted home on an error by the left fielder. Jake Campbell followed with an RBI single to score Casey Lambert for a 6-3 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth.
Hendrix got on the board first with a two run fourth inning to take a 2-0 lead only to see BSC score twice in the fifth to tie the game. Perry walked and scored on a Campbell triple and Campbell later scored on a Stephen Denton bunt single.
The Warriors took a 3-2 lead in the fifth on a Jacob Pershke RBI single.
Miles Nordgren picked up the win on the mound to improve to 2-0. Nordgren pitched a scoreless eighth inning with a strikeout and Blake Yance closed things out in the ninth with a strikeout to record his fourth save.
Campbell had three hits and Taylor McCracken followed with two hits to lead BSC. Allmon, Wagner, and Denton had a hit apiece.
Starter Ted Smoyer was the pitcher of record for the Warriors to drop to 2-2. Smoyer gave up six runs on seven hits with four strikeouts in 8.2 innings.
Saturday's game between BSC and Hendrix ahas been changed to a 12 p.m. start and moves back to the Hendrix College campus. Sunday's time is now listed as to be announced.