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I'm not sure if we did one of these last year or not, but I thought it might be nice to resurrect them. I've gone for a more simple approach because genres and platforms etc doesn't really work anymore. So just post your nominations here and I'll collate a list.
Game of The Year
Biggest Surprise
Biggest Disappointment
Best not 2016 game of 2016
(A game you played for the first time this year that you really liked that didn't come out this year)
Honorable Mention
(Lets say three games that you also liked this year.)
Most Anticipated Game of 2017
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Assalamu Alaikum. I was recently reading a description of the physical characteristics of the Holy Prophet . I formed a picture in my mind. Then I saw in a dream, a man who looked like the picture formed in my mind. I do not clearly remember what he said, but I am afraid he might have said that some Muslim brothers who I love very much will see a dream with me in it. I committed a sin in their house before, and before this dream, I was always worrying that they might find out through a dream. How do I know for sure if I saw the Holy Prophet in this dream. This is worrying me very much. Also, I just saw a dream, where I thought it was the Holy Prophet again, during his last recitation of the Quran to Jibreel (AS) during Ramadan. Zaid (RA) was there, too, but also Hamzah (RA) was there in my dream. I know that Hamzah(RA) wasn't really there, because he was martyred at Uhud. So was this the Holy Prophet in this dream? How can we know for sure? Please answer as quickly as possibly. I Email is quicker, please do that. If posting it is quicker
Praise be to Allaah.
We will quote below a number of ahaadeeth which
describe the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). If what you
your dream is in accordance with this, then you did indeed see the Prophet
(peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him), because he said: "Whoever sees me in a dream has
really seen me, because Shaytaan cannot appear in my image." (Reported by
al-Bukhaari, 5729).
Rabee'ah ibn Abi 'Abd al-Rahmaan said: "I heard Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) describing the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). He said: 'He was of average height, not too tall and not too short, with a pinkish colour, not very white and not dark, and his hair was neither very curly nor very straight. The Revelation came to him when he was forty years old, and he stayed in Makkah for ten years after the Revelation came, then in Madeenah for ten years. When he died, there were no more than twenty white hairs on his head and in his beard." (al-Bukhaari, 3283).
Al-Baraa' ibn 'Aazib said: "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was broad shouldered and had thick hair coming down to his shoulders and earlobes. He was wearing red garments. I have never seen anything more beautiful than him." (Reported by Muslim, Kitaab al-Fadaa'il, Baab Sifat Sha'r al-Nabi (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), no. 2338).
'Ali said: "He was neither tall nor short, and had large hands and feet. He had a large head and was big-boned, and the thin line of hair (starting from his chest and extending to the navel) was long. When he walked, he would lean forward, as if he was walking downhill. I have never seen anyone like him, before or since." (Reported by al-Tirmidhi, 3570, who said this is a saheeh hasan hadeeth).
Jaabir ibn Samurah said: "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was dalee' al-fam, ashkal al-'ayn and manhoos al-'aqib." Shu'bah said: "I asked Maalik, 'What is dalee' al-fam?' He said: 'Wide-mouthed.' I asked, 'What is ashkal al-'ayn?' He said, 'Big-eyed.' I asked, 'What is manhoos al-'aqib?' He said, 'His heels were not fleshy.'" (Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab al-Fadaa'il, 2339).
As for the sin which you committed in the house of your brothers, repent to Allaah for this. If you took something that belongs to them, then give it back. And Allaah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

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Why Is ACTA Being Negotiated In Secret?
from the and-why-isn't-the-press-asking-about-it? dept
His latest post on the topic covers the fact that the entire process is happening in secret behind closed doors and the folks negotiating the treaty seem to think this is fine:
"A spokesperson of the European Commission confirmed that consultation with different stakeholders had been on the agenda and would happen over the coming month at the domestic level. Draft text proposals still have not been published, the source said. Several parties contacted pointed to confidentiality agreed on by the negotiating partners."Patry translates that paragraph accurately as really saying:
"Countries also discussed whether they should actually talk to those who would be affected by the agreement, and agreed that sometime they will, but everything we have done is super-secret because we agreed it would be super-secret."So why aren't stakeholders invited into the process? Why is the whole thing being negotiated in secret, using notes in discussion with entertainment industry lobbyists but no consumer groups or other business groups who aren't necessarily supporters of more restrictive copyright regimes? And why isn't the press asking these questions?


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Do Homeowners Realize Their Equity Position Has Changed?
June 28, 2016
Yesterday, we reported that according to CoreLogic's latest Equity Report, nearly 268,000 homeowners regained equity and are no longer underwater on their mortgage in the first quarter. Homes with negative equity have decreased by 21.5% year-over-year.
A study by Fannie Mae suggests that many homeowners are not aware of how their equity position has changed as their home has increased in value.
For example, their study showed that 23% of Americans still believe their home is in a negative equity position when, in actuality, CoreLogic's report shows that only 8% of homes are in that position.
The study also revealed that only 37% of Americans believe that they have "significant equity" (greater than 20%), when in actuality, 74% do!
This means that 37% of Americans with a mortgage fail to realize the opportune situation they are in. With a sizable equity position, many homeowners could easily move into a housing situation that better meets their current needs (moving to a larger home or downsizing).
Fannie Mae spoke out on this issue in their report:
"Homeowners who underestimate their homes' values not only underestimate their home equity, they also likely underestimate: 1) how large a down payment they could make with their home equity, 2) their chances of qualifying for mortgages, and, therefore, 3) their opportunities for selling their current homes and for buying different homes."
CoreLogic's report also revealed that if homes were to appreciate by an additional 5%, over 800,000 US households would regain positive equity.
Bottom Line
If you are one of the many homeowners who is unsure of your current equity situation and would like to know your options, contact a local real estate professional who can help.
Article provided courtesy of Keeping Current Matters.
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How People Talk with Robots: Designing Dialog to Reduce User Uncertainty
If human-robot interaction is mainly shaped by users' strategies to deal with their unfamiliar artificial com¬munication partner, as it is suggested here, robot dialog design should orient at reducing users' uncertainty about the affordances of the robot and the joint task. Two experiments are presented that investigate the impact of verbal robot utterances on users' behavior; results show that users react sensitively to subtle linguistic cues that may guide them into appropriate understandings of the robot. Furthermore, the role of user expectations and robot appearance are discussed in the light of the model presented.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v32i4.2377
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Gerard Butler once caused an airport security scare after officials flagged up special shoes he had worn for his Tomb Raider audition.
The Scottish actor was stopped by security guards who were suspicious of the boots he wore when he tried out for his role alongside Angelina Jolie in the 2003 blockbuster Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
He tells Shortlist magazine, "Just after the shoe bomber plot in 2001, I flew to London from Montreal to do a screen test for Lara Croft. They'd built this caged floor for the set but they couldn't hear my dialogue properly so they put felt on my boots.
"Straight after the audition I went back to the airport and as I walked through they went, 'OK, sir, show us your feet.' And then I remembered I had this roughly cut, half inch of felt stuck to the bottom of my soles."
Butler admits he struggled to explain why he had material taped to his shoes, adding, "The guy literally went, 'What the f**k is that? Security!' The next thing I know there are 10 people around me and I'm telling what sounds like the most far-fetched story ever about my audition with Angelina Jolie."


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The Walrus Says
The Jamestown Medical Fund is sponsoring the appearance as its major fundraiser for the year. Mark your calendar – it will take place on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. at the recreation center. This is a fundraiser that everyone can afford, tickets are only $20. There will be refreshments in the lobby at intermission and a raffle drawing at the end of the show.
Maryann Toppa, secretary for the JMF, said the show will offer new spoofs on Jersey Shore, budget cutbacks and the gubernatorial candidates.
"The Jersey Shore bit with "Shnipples" is not to be missed! Linc Chafee croons 'Nowhere Man,' Attorney General Patrick Lynch enters on stilts with Frank Caprio and we try to figure who the GOP contender is. Patrick consults with a nun, calls it quits and all of North America applies for his job. Plus, jabs at the Don Carcieri budget cuts, Steve Laffey's status, Lt. Governor Roberts, President Obama – even Tiger Woods! Check out the new R.I. GPS, 'go left where Rocky Point used to be.' There is a Rhody version of 'We Are The World,' titled 'We're Our Own World' that ends the show in spectacular fashion."
Maryann added, "We figure a 7 p.m. show will give people time for dinner before or after the show, making it a full evening for them."
The Jamestown Medical Fund helps islanders who do not have insurance or find that their insurance does not cover all their medical expenses.
Stay tuned!
*** Kyle Tiexiera's star birthday was on Sept. 21 when he turned 21. He was also 21 inches long at birth. Give him a big belated hug.
Peter Pemantell asks, "What was the name of Marshall Dillon's horse in the 'Gunsmoke' series?"
Victoria has come to the island. The three-month-old kitten has been adopted by Susan Piccerelli from the Potter League for Animals. The kitten had been abandoned and was found alongside the road. Macey, an 11-yearold German Shepherd – also from the Potter League – welcomed Victoria to the home. Susan said they are working on getting along. "They tolerate each other, Macey wants to play and Victoria just looks at him." Both get lots of love from daughter, Isabelle, 11, who picked out both animals from the league.
OUCH! Last week's column had a name misspelled, which is a real no-no in this business. How it got by three proofreaders is a mystery, but Thursday morning, I was greeted by the following email:
"Dear Jim...In this morning's Jamestown Press, Sept. 23, 2010, I was surprised that the Walrus had finally found me out! Subordinate, small-minded, insignifi- cant, with narrow interests and sympathies, according to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 1980...aside from the possibility that this is a typographic error, I really would like to be known as BETTY. Otherwise known as Elizabeth F. Purdum."
As a person whose last name is misspelled on a regular basis, I know your pain. My apologies, BETTY.
Note to JEMS: A LNG tanker can't explode.
Sam Bari, Barbara-Ann Mac- Intosh, Elizabeth Mancini, Bob Kinder, Patti Vandal and Peter Pemantell nailed B.J.'s poser as "September Song." Peter wrote, "Willie Nelson did a great job on this one, as he does with all his music, but the credit has to go to Jimmy Durante for his rendition." Patti said the song is from Kurt Weill's and Maxwell Anderson's 1938 "Knickerbocker Holiday."
Also from B.J.:
Like a song through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away.
It's not October yet, but the Halloween decorations are out on the lawns, stores are advertising costumes and candy is on the grocer's shelves. It's getting to be bigger than Christmas.
From John A. Murphy: "Last week, I watched this tableau unfold in Mackerel Cove: On a beautiful morning, a luxury yacht enters the cove, and drops anchor. It is so large that it makes the Cove look narrow. The anchoring takes place automatically, without crew appearing on the deck of the yacht. A large panel in the stern opens, and the yacht 'gives birth' to four jet skis. A helicopter suddenly appears and takes flight. Anyone living nearby might wonder whether attack was imminent.
"The thought occurs: We have lost Jamestown to the heathens."
Thanks, John…to the battlements!
Tot Wright will appear as the Royal Name Dropper and Trevette Kuester will play the chef in the Jamestown Community Theatre's production of Rogers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" in November. Laura Totten is handling publicity for the musical.
Get to know the candidates in November's election so you can vote your conscience.
If the NFL continues to make more rules restricting contact between players, they might as well play flag or touch football.
Kudos to the Cardi Corp. for a great job paving a northern section of North Main Road leading to the entrance to the dump. The trip north is now much smoother. The job was financed by the town.
The Jamestown library has installed an E-Zone download station that enables users to download best-selling audio books directly to a MP3 player, iPod, iPad or Zune.
*** Next Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m., the library will present a program on "Outsider Art and Its Artists." A showing of the film, "Outsider: the Life and Art of Judith Scott" by Betsy Bayha, will be introduced by Tom McAleer, administrator for "Top Drawer Art." Artists Katrina Cathcart and Emmet Estrada from Top Drawer will talk about their work and accomplishments. The Top Drawer Art Center is a nonprofit visual art center providing art programs for adults with developmental disabilities.
The cruise ship fleet scheduled to be in the East Passage this week includes the Poesia of MSC Cruises tomorrow, Norwegian Dawn of the Norwegian cruise line on Saturday and the Caribbean Princess of the Princess line on Sunday. Crown Princess of the Princess line will drop anchor on Wednesday.
*** Be true!
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Teen airlifted after crash near Providence Grove High School
Teen airlifted after crash near Providence Grove High School
A 17-year-old is recovering in the hospital following a crash shortly after he left Providence Grove High School on Monday.
William Roy Hicks was hurt in the crash around 5 p.m. at Highway 22 at Mack Lineberry Road. He was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center with serious injuries, though troopers said Hicks seemed to be doing better Tuesday.
Hicks had just left the school and was making a left turn when he pulled out in front of a Honda minivan, troopers said. The driver of the minivan, Teresa Dawn Caviness, 49, suffered minor injuries and was taken to Moses Cone Hospital.
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STILLPOINT Archive: last updated 05/06/2013
by Hilary Sherratt '12
Justin Topp, associate professor of biology, knows that getting students involved in biotech innovation calls for more than just having the latest equipment on campus—though that certainly matters. Topp, who has collaborated with local biotech companies to create a Google map of E. coli protein expression, is the College liaison to the recently formed North Shore Biotech Consortium, a network of colleges and universities that now also includes nonprofit and for-profit companies.
Although this collaboration is in the nascent stage, the hope is it (and others like it) will be horizon-expanding for students, who will benefit from increased opportunities for cross-registering at consortium schools for advanced training in microscopy, proteomics, NextGen sequencing, high content screenings, and bioengineering. And students from other colleges will be attracted to Gordon's resources in advanced microscopy and drug screening.
Beyond expanded course options, the Consortium will afford Gordon students significantly expanded internship opportunities, and essential experience with the "day-to-day of the biotech environment," Topp says.
With this kind of exposure and collaboration, students can go wherever their ideas lead.
Read more about contexts being broadened at Gordon College:
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After another wild season, after a boatload of injuries and a few player departures, after dramatic winning streaks and heartbreaking losses, the LSU football team had hoped to finish this season in the same place where next season begins: Arlington, Texas.
But that won't happen.
After the Cotton Bowl selected Texas A&M to play in its Jan. 4 game, the Tigers will settle for a trip to Atlanta to face Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. The game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 31 in the Georgia Dome on ESPN.
LSU last won the Chick-fil-A Bowl in 2008, defeating Georgia Tech 38-3.
A win would put a bow on the Tigers' third straight 10-win season, the second time coach Les Miles has accomplished that feat in his eight-year tenure in Baton Rouge. Criticized by some fans for anything and everything — from his in-game strategy to his zany news conferences and shaky command of the English language — Miles enjoyed another mostly successful season in 2012.
His Tigers came within a late touchdown of toppling Alabama and winning the Southeastern Conference Western Division. Had they done so, they might be playing for the BCS title.
Miles also grabbed another contract extension and pay raise, likely north of $4 million per year (details aren't yet final), after Arkansas approached the coach about its job opening last week. All in all, not a bad year for the Hatter.
Still, there was one college football force Miles couldn't overcome: the bowl system. The Tigers looked like a favorite for the Cotton Bowl as late as Sunday, but a series of shuffles ultimately sent LSU to Atlanta and the Chick-fil-A, a perceived step down from the Cotton.
"Right now what bowl game we play in doesn't matter," wide receiver Jarvis Landry tweeted. "All that matters is we keep a winning tradition. I'm just so happy to take the field."
LSU will indeed play in Arlington, Texas, but not until the 2013 season opener, when the Tigers face TCU in the Cowboys Classic.
While the Tigers prepare for their trip to Atlanta, the Sugar Bowl — historically among the nation's most prestigious games — is getting ready for a matchup between Florida and Louisville. Florida is making its first trip to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome since Tim Tebow wrapped up his stellar college career with a wipeout of Cincinnati at the end of the 2009 season. Louisville, the Big East champion, was bounced from the Orange Bowl by BCS-busting MAC champion Northern Illinois.
New Orleans also will host Louisiana-Lafayette for the second consecutive year. ULL, in its second season under coach Mark Hudspeth, accepted a bid last week to play in its second straight New Orleans Bowl. On Saturday, as the Ragin' Cajuns clinched back-to-back eight-win seasons with a victory over Florida Atlantic in their regular-season finale, they learned the identity of their opponent in New Orleans: East Carolina.
The bowl featured one of the most exciting postseason finishes last year: ULL defeated San Diego State on Dec. 17 when Brett Baer drilled a game-winning 50-yard field goal on the final play.
Louisiana-Lafayette defeated in-state rival Louisiana-Monroe earlier this season, but ULM had a year to remember as well. The Warhawks will play in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport against Ohio on Dec. 28. This is the first bowl appearance in school history for the school formerly known as Northeast Louisiana, which moved to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 1994.
The Independence Bowl will cap a season in which ULM stunned Arkansas 34-31, then followed with narrow losses to Auburn and Baylor. The Warhawks, in their third season under coach Todd Berry, won five games in a row before they suffered back-to-back losses. ULM closed the regular season with wins over North Texas and Florida International.
ULM might have faced Louisiana Tech in Shreveport — but in a stunning turn of events, one of the most memorable seasons in Louisiana Tech history will end without a bowl.
Louisiana Tech released a statement Sunday saying it had not been selected to play in a bowl. But according to several reports, the Bulldogs either turned down an Independence Bowl bid, or they asked for more time to consider the bid, and the Independence Bowl then moved on to Ohio.
Fans quickly took to Louisiana Tech's Facebook page, voicing their frustration over the moves.
The Bulldogs finished third in the Western Athletic Conference this season, a league with only one bowl tie-in. That went to Utah State, this year's WAC champion. San Jose State, which finished second, received an at-large bid to play in the Military Bowl last week.
According to the Louisiana Tech statement, the Liberty Bowl chose Iowa State instead of the Bulldogs.
One way or another, they're staying home instead of bowling.
That put a strange and somewhat fitting end to a wild day.


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Interest in collecting antique cobalt blue decorated salt glaze crocks and jugs was the inspiration to change the studio's pottery product line in early 1980. Rowe Pottery changed from it's original style of pottery to making museum quality reproductions of Early American salt glaze crocks and jugs. The value of early crockery was skyrocketing and quality adaptations of the early designs were not available.
Rowe Pottery, making salt glaze pottery for years, knew many of the secrets of this type of production. The American country home decorating movement provided an eager customer base to grow the studio into a viable business. Today, Rowe Pottery Works still makes several styles of pottery including the ever-popular salt glaze stoneware.
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Martyr Nunechia and those with her at Corinth - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 1
Let the godly-minded Quadratus, Anectus, Paul, Dionysius, Cyprian, and Crescens / Be praised with melodious hymns, / For as the six-fold choir of Christ's prize-winners, / They ceaselessly pray for us before the Trinity!
Kontakion — Tone 4
As you contested bravely in Corinth, O wise martyrs, / You appeared as a six-branched radiant lamp. / Illumining the way for Christ's faithful by the grace that was given you!


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The Guardian, seeking to appeal to a more international audience, recently changed its domain name from guardian.co.uk to theguardian.com.
It seems that the newspaper's traffic has dipped as a result of the migration, with some tools showing a drop in key metrics which affect its rankings.
We have first hand experience of this issue at Econsultancy, as we migrated our domain back in 2009, with a drop in referral traffic from Google being the consequence.
So, has The Guardian handled this migration correctly, or is there more that Google should have done to help such a massive site with the change?
The Guardian migration: drop in traffic?
The Telegraph recently reported that the domain name change has led to difficulties, with traffic dropping as a result. It also mentioned that 'senior executives were seeking urgent help from Google'.
The Guardian itself acknowledges this problem in a recent report on the latest digital ABC figures:
Guardian News & Media's website network reported a 5.83% month-on-month dip in daily browsers to 4,519,849, as a transition to a new global domain, theguardian.com, affected traffic. Monthly browser numbers fell 1.56% to 83,519,898.
Our research analyst Andrew Warren-Payne has been looking at the number in Majestic. This first chart shows the results for the old .co.uk domain:
You can see the difference when we look at guardian.com, with a big drop in the number of backlinks and referring domains:
There is a caveat here, as pointed out below, as the data reported by Majestic may not yet be fully up to date.
Joost de Valk, who has been helping with the migration, isn't too concerned:
We're not concerned about traffic at all, numbers are looking good and in fact, ahead of expectations. Migrations like these always take some time to settle in and may sometimes be a rough ride.
So far though, I can honestly say it's looking good and better than I've ever seen a migration of this size - if there ever was such a thing - turn out. Of course there are still things to fix, as there always will be on a site this size, but we're well aware of our issues and fixing those.
I've been asking search experts for their views on the migration, and whether Google should be making this easier for sites...
Are domain migrations such as this supposed to be easier now? Is it not possible to 'tell' Google what you are up to?
Kevin Gibbons, UK MD at BlueGlass Interactive:
There are more ways than ever of implementing site migrations, and the more signals you can send Google that your website has moved, the better. In theory at least!
However, in practice domain migrations are still always a risk and you have to accept that there will be short-term loses and unexpected problems. Even if you've done this hundreds of times before, Google is an unpredictable beast at the best of times!
You really have to make the decision having carefully balanced out your options and considered the short term loss vs the long term gain, which I'm sure is what happened in this case.
Dan Barker, E-Business Consultant:
Funnily enough, you can tell Google what you're up to. There is a 'change of address' tool within Webmaster Tools. Domain migrations don't always go entirely smoothly, but they are definitely far more reliable than they were 10 years ago.
Julia Logan, SEO consultant (better known as Irish Wonder):
In case of a large site it is totally up to Google how fast it would fully reindex the new site instead of the old one. Domain migrations of large sites have always been problematic due to sheer volume of the site.
Has the Guardian done something wrong? If so, what?
Kevin Gibbons:
Not necessarily. It's very difficult to judge from an external perspective especially at an early stage where progress is unclear, as there's always different methods, reasons and goals when implementing changes like this.
Yes, it does appear that the Guardian has lost significant UK organic visibility and market share since the domain migration:
However, it has started to make traction in the US which is important to remember as a key goal in the move:
I suspect that providing the UK improves back to where it was in the medium-term (rather than long) and the US organic traffic continues to rise, the short-term loss will be outweighed by the overall long-term gains.
Dan Barker:
I think it's actually done pretty well. The paper had four options really:
- Stick with the old .co.uk domain and try and make a go of it internationally.
- Launch global content on a different domain to the .co.uk, keeping the UK-centric content where it was.
- Relaunch on a more internationalised domain name.
- Launch sites for individual regions one at a time.
The Guardian had tried the fourth of those to an extent previously, and obviously decided now was the time to go big bang.
The timing couldn't have been better, as it had the enormous series of NSA/Prism splashes which drove both a lot of traffic (nullifying any loss in ad revenue that domain migration might cause), but also drove lots of social shares, links, etc. to help support organic search results in the longer term.
Quietly, it's also made the site adapt to the device you're viewing it from. Try loading the same URL on a phone and on your desktop to take a look.
There are a few odd bits and bobs in there, for example you can see there's piles of ancient stuff lying around still on guardian.co.uk with links that could have been redirected somewhere.
For example: http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2005, http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/quran/, and so on.
Lots of this is terribly old, legacy content, but it has all picked up valuable links over the years, and would be worth either moving and redirecting as-is, or killing off and redirecting the URLs to somewhere as appropriate as possible.
There are some really odd 302 redirects too. For example m.guardian.co.uk, which itself has a pile of links, 'temporarily' redirects to www.theguardian.com. That doesn't really make sense to me as they've standardised on 'www.' as far as I'm aware, but perhaps there is a logic to it I'm unaware of.
Another really odd one is http://witness.guardian.co.uk which is a fairly new project that's now being 'temporarily' redirected to http://witness.theguardian.com. Again, perhaps that project is being shelved or there's some other logic I'm unaware of.
Most of these temporary redirects are 302, but there are a couple of 303s among them. That usually either means someone's being really clever, or that a maverick developer has gone crazy.
Julia Logan:
I am not sure what it was trying to achieve but from what I see, the old domain still has more than 6million URLs in Google's index, mainly content on subdomains of the old site (e.g. blogs.guardian.co.uk, travel.guardian.co.uk, etc.).
Moreover, there is no reason for Google to deindex them as at least some of them are still alive and not redirecting to the new domain. From what I can see, only the main domain has been redirected but not all the subdomains.
Whether or not this has been the Guardian's goal, I have no idea but looks like it's not making things any easier.
All the links on the old subdomains that currently are alive still point to the old domain version, even for pages that have been moved to the new domain. That surely sends Google a dubious signal.
What, if anything, can the Guardian do to fix it?
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It would require knowing the goals from the domain migration. Is the Guardian happy with where things are at this stage?
I think it's clear that short-term there were certainly better options, one being to stick with guardian.co.uk for the UK site and then implementing an option such as 'hreflang' for additional territories or even canonical tags to run the UK content side by side.
This seems like a logical solution which places less risk on the UK and allows them to build domain authority on theguardian.com in the meantime, leaving the option to make the full switch in the future.
It has also applied a geo-detection redirect based on where you are accessing the site from, which can often be tricky to get right with SEO, but again this is very easy to say without an inside view, as there's always technological challenges and internal thought processes behind these decisions.
That may have worked before, however a roll-back at this stage seems very extreme and decisions like this aren't made on short-term gains, quite the opposite. Plus it's unlikely that this purely for SEO reasons, it's an online branding move in many ways too and allows them to enter new global territories, specifically the US.
So while the above option makes more SEO sense in my opinion, it may not have been practical in this scenario.
Obviously everyone always wants the best case scenario, but you also have to be prepared for the worst. If it has analysed the situation and is confident that the best decision has been made in the mid to long term, the answer is likely to be patience.
Dan Barker:
I'd be surprised if the Guardian isn't already on it, but it would be worth going through all those legacy subdomain.guardian.co.uk assets figuring out whether to ditch them, move them, or simply redirect the URLs to somewhere more appropriate.
It has a fairly small but excellent team over there, and the paper brought in @yoast to help out with the migration on top of the already excellent in-house/contract people.
To be honest, I'm not sure the Majestic data does tell us there's been an enormously big issue. It's tough to tell without actual webmaster tools or sitecatalyst access. If I remember right Majestic's fresh index covers a 90 day period, and The Guardian domain migration only happened a couple of months ago.
If you look at the link flow and citation flow metrics too, you'll notice those are actually higher for theguardian.com. Majestic SEO is a wonderful tool, one I pay for every month and would recommend to anyone, but I wouldn't take the two reports here as an indicator that the wheels have come off.
Some axle alignment would be useful, but, to overstretch an already tedious analogy, the car is still a mostly-valeted Dodge Ram with neon chassis lighting, a fresh christmas tree air freshener, and a tank 3/4 full of diesel.
As a side-note, if you take a look at the Doubleclick Display Ad Planner stats for theguardian.com you'll see it's listed at a fairly healthy 25-30million impressions a week vs. the rather tragic 500k-1million impressions thesun.co.uk shows following the erection of its paywall.
Julia Logan:
If the purpose has been to just move everything completely to the new domain, there is definitely a lot of work still remaining to be done.
Check everything that hasn't been redirected, redirect it, double check again. If, on the other hand, it did intend to leave some of the old subdomains alive, the paper needs to fix all the links from those pages to the content that has moved to the new domain.
Is domain migration a common problem? Could Google do more to help here?
Kevin Gibbons:
You have to appreciate that Google's in a very difficult position here. The easy answer is it can pass signals across from redirects quicker so that the new domains rank quicker.
The difficulty is that if it does that, SEOs will start to exploit it, meaning that people will overuse the tactic of redirecting purchased authority sites into new domains for SEO gains.
So actually what it is doing in making this difficult, whilst frustrating for legitimate redirects and brands such as The Guardian, does make sense.
You have to build a certain element of trust and reputation in your own right, as a new domain, in order to gain Google's full trust. Fortunately as a huge publisher, the Guardian is in about as strong a position as you can get in order to be able to recover from this.
It will certainly be interesting to see how this develops over the coming months, but personally despite what appears to be frustrating results, so far I wouldn't see a need for a kneejerk reaction.
Dan Barker:
It's less of an issue than it was years ago, but any big technical changes are always a risk. Bigger problems now are usually either site relaunches where URLs change with no direct one-to-one mapping, or internationalisation where suddenly a single-country site is split into different regions and languages.
Google has tools and notes on most of these areas, so much of the battle is simply knowing there's likely to be a problem, and knowing where to look to begin mitigating the risks.
Outside of that though, and perhaps a problem with knock-ons in other areas, is that social networks don't make it easy to retain social share history on domains.
For example, take a look at this article which has 2,700+ comments, but very low tweets and Facebook shares.
It's worth noting that the Google+ number has updated, indicating that it's taking a bit more interest in this area than Facebook, Twitter, and the other big social networks.
Julia Logan:
Google could certainly do better in terms of dropping pages no longer alive and switching to the new domain instead, if told so explicitly by the verified domain owner.
However, with large sites, there is a tremendous amount of crawling involved, so surely that takes time.
What do you think? Is The Guardian suffering unduly as a result of a standard domain name migration? Do you think Google should do more to assist? Let us know below...
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Thanks for publishing this, I really enjoyed reading everyone else's comments.
As a little note against this:
"Guardian News & Media's website network reported a 5.83% month-on-month dip in daily browsers to 4,519,849, as a transition to a new global domain, theguardian.com, affected traffic. Monthly browser numbers fell 1.56% to 83,519,898."
It's worth thinking about the timing of all of their NSA/PRISM traffic (June & July). It's not surprising at all that their traffic would take a month-on-month dip in August after that. Very wise to pin it entirely on the domain migration rather than say "oh, and we had less good stories this month".
The year-on-year 'Daily average browsers' number was somewhat more impressive: +18.43% !
http://www.similarweb.com/website/theguardian.com#/#guardian.co.uk Actually, I wouldn't call this a 'problem' in the first place...
It is clear that SEO isn't at the heart of this migration otherwise Joost de Valk would've had authorship running throughout the site to add extra credibility to authors posts - something that Matt Cutts kept speaking of in his Webmaster videos.
With a site that large it is unfortunately just a matter of waiting for Googlebot to crawl those pages. It would be interesting to see how Bing and Yahoo are reacting to the migration. Are the indexed url stats from the majestic report strictly Google indexed pages?
I don't think they need to worry too much, with a site as big as the Guardian, they will be back up the rankings of google in no time, my bet is that its a short term thing.
Willy Morrison
I have to agree with Randal Whitmore on this one. We must not forget search engines are businesses just like any other, and inevitably they want us to utilise their paid for services in order for you to be found..., hence why if we attempt to manipulate the search engines via the means of SEO we not only need to stick to the guidelines presented to us, but have to wait for the search engines to position us within their results pages, as opposed to using AdWords and having our website(s) appear almost instantly.
So, if we make certain changes to our websites such as a new domain or relaunch and ensure that we have done all of the required site optimisation and redirects... Google will pretty much cache the information within hours, however it will not place you back where you were for your keywords for a period of weeks/months, and i personally believe this is purely due to financial gain and if so, "so what," search engines as i said before are a business offering a free (and paid for) service which has brought the world together, the good, the bad and the ugly, has helped us find information from historical to medical to news..., helped individuals and businesses find one another and most importantly helped our everyday lives in one way or another, be it big or small.
With that in mind, then of course as a business owner it will have a costly effect in the short term until you bounce back within the search engines results pages, but where did you get your traffic from in the first place? Be grateful that it is only for a short period of time and that the Search Engines have helped you out up until now and will continue to do so!
Agree with Willy Morrison above.
Looking at the # of pages reportedly indexed in Google over time from guardian.co.uk, theguardian.com and guardiannews.com (their old international site, on the 2nd axis in the chart below), you can see that from launch there was a fairly rapid ramp up in terms of indexing the new site, and a steady (but spiky) decline in the old site.
There's missing data from the past month in the chart below, but interesting nonetheless:
Hopefully the high-level recrawl that a migration triggers will demote them fairly for their preference for SEO over journalism.
"We've got a business that makes money on referrals for cottage rental. Stick a story about cottages on the front page every day for a week so we get seen as an authority"
"Please go through unrelated stories and place optimised anchor text to internal categories"
A good piece but overall my thoughts are that the Guardian have handled the domain migration very well. I'm sure they have some great SEO brain power behind the change.
There's a great case study on "Surviving a domain migration" on Richard Baxter's site SEO Gadget here - http://seogadget.com/domain-migration/
Some good tips and what to look out for / planning etc


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Factcheck just released its analysis of last night's debate.
The last report showed that both candidates were wrong on some of their figures, and I was wondering before last night's debate took off whether or not the candidates would stick with those (wrong) figures, or correct themselves and use the correct ones. I guess it makes more sense to stick with the figures you used in the last debate, even though they were wrong, than using corrected figures and contradicting yourself. And that's exactly what happened.
Here's the analysis.


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A senior TV executive and his young daughter were killed by their out-of-control speedboat after he took the steering from his wife and accelerated, catapulting his family into the water, investigators found.
Nick Milligan, 51, the managing director of Sky's advertising sales division, Sky Media, died alongside eight-year-old Emily in the incident at Padstow, Cornwall, on May 5 last year.
An investigation by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) found that Mr Milligan, who had drunk some wine but was well below the drink-drive limit, had been steering "Milly" but swapped places with his wife Victoria.
She then took control without attaching the 'kill cord' and turned the boat to starboard to begin another run along the Camel Estuary.
Mr Milligan, who was sat next to his wife, reached across and took control of the helm with his right hand and grasped the throttle with his left in order to execute a tighter, higher-powered turn.
As he did so, Mr and Mrs Milligan and their four children, who were holidaying in Cornwall from their home in Wandsworth, south-west London, were thrown from the speedboat into the water.
Because the kill cord was not attached, the engine did not cut out and the boat circled at high speed out of control hitting the Milligan family, who were all in the water.
Mr Milligan and his daughter Emily died, while Mrs Milligan, 39, and the couple's other children, Amber, 12, Olivia, 10, and Kit, four, were injured.
The runaway boat went on to inflict other injuries on water users until waterskiing instructor Charlie Toogood leapt from his own boat into the craft to turn off its engine and prevent further harm. He was subsequently declared a hero for his actions.
The MAIB report stated: "The turn to starboard which led to the ejection was initiated by Mrs Milligan but Mr Milligan almost immediately reached across his wife and took control of the helm with his right hand and grasped the throttle with his left.
"It is likely that he did this because he thought that a tighter turn to starboard was required to keep Milly clear of the beach on the Padstow side of the estuary.
"The manner in which Mr Milligan took the helm appears to have been out of character as he was known to be a safety-conscious and prudent individual.
"It cannot be established whether the wine he had consumed about one-and-a-half hours earlier adversely affected his judgment or fine motor skills when he reached across and took the controls, but his alcohol levels were well below the drink-drive limit for UK roads."
Immediately after the accident the MAIB issued a safety bulletin warning of the "culture" in which a "significant proportion" of drivers do not attach the kill cord when the take the helm.
In a statement, the Milligan family said: "We are still coming to terms with this tragic accident which has left us without Nick, a loving husband, father, son and brother, and Emily, whose life was only just beginning.
"We sincerely hope that awareness of this accident will mean that another family does not have to go through anything similar."
The report stated that on the day of the accident it was the first time Mr Milligan had taken the 300hp rigid inflatable boat out in 2013.
Mr Milligan had the kill cord attached to his leg during a series of runs at 30 knots between Gun Point and St Saviour's Point. Everyone on the boat was wearing life jackets or buoyancy aids.
When the family stopped for a takeaway lunch at Padstow, Mr Milligan remained with the boat and drank some wine.
A post-mortem examination found he had 56 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his body at the time of his death. There are no regulations governing the drink-drive level for non-professional mariners.
Describing the accident, the report said: "Mr Milligan, who was in the co-driver position, suggested that they should turn to starboard for another run.
"Mrs Milligan was reluctant to do so as she did not consider there was sufficient space between the boat and the beach.
"However, due to encouragement from the children and Mr Milligan, she began a slow wide turn. Mr Milligan then reached across, in front of his wife, took the helm in his right hand and the throttle in his left, and then increased the engine throttle setting to full as he turned the helm to starboard.
"The boat immediately accelerated and heeled into the turn and then suddenly, and violently, rolled back to port and ejected all its occupants out over the port side and into the water. The boat then continued to circle under full power.
"The family were on the surface of the water, supported by their life jackets and buoyancy aids, and the boat circled back towards them, striking several of them."
The report said the most likely explanation for the kill cord not being attached was that Mrs Milligan was expecting to take the boat back to its mooring at Rock and not do a further run.
"The use of a kill cord is fundamental to the safe operation of small planing craft," the report said.
"The evidence of this and previous accidents would indicate that kill cord use is still sporadic, and that much more needs to be done to make fitting a kill cord second nature when taking over the helm of a powerboat.
"The MAIB has issued a safety bulletin to this effect but more needs to be done."
The MAIB said it had made recommendations to the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) to review its powerboat training scheme to provide additional advice on the potential hazards posed by high-powered craft.
Mr and Mrs Milligan had both received a familiarisation handover when they bought the boat in April 2012 and also attended the RYA level 2 powerboat handling courses.
"However, this training and experience did not provide them with a good understanding of how their boat would perform in a high-powered turn," the report said.
"The speed with which Milly accelerated into the pre-accident turn, and the resultant hook, not only caught all six occupants by surprise, but it also came as a shock to Mrs Milligan that the boat was capable of such performance.
"Post-accident trials of Milly showed it to have some undesirable handling characteristics in certain circumstances, which could be mitigated by design changes."
MAIB Chief Inspector Steve Clinch said: "This was a tragic accident and I hope that the lessons resulting from the MAIB's investigation will be learned to prevent further loss of life in the future.
"Avoiding an accident by knowing your boat's and your own capabilities and limitations is essential, as is ensuring that all on board are safely and securely seated whenever manoeuvring or travelling at speed.
"I am pleased that the Royal Yachting Association has agreed to produce further guidance on both these subjects as part of its powerboat scheme.
"Should the unexpected occur and the boat driver be thrown from the helm or even overboard, having a device that immediately stops the engine can help prevent a serious injury or fatality.
"The kill cord is an essential item of safety equipment, and I most strongly urge all powerboat drivers to ensure one is fitted and correctly worn at all times when under way, and to regularly check that it is functioning correctly."


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If they do, they should probably have a chat with their campaign chief Lynton Crosby.
Earlier this week Lynton's team launched a ham-fisted attempt to steal the Mayor of London's official twitter account.
This resulted in a full blown Twitter storm, official complaints and reports in those well known radical outlets The Daily Telegraph, major tech websites and even the local press.
After accusing the mayor's followers on Twitter of "hysteria" they backed down and deleted all references to the campaign from the official feed.
Next, for reasons best known to himself, Lynton decided to launch an attack on the strictly impartial MayorWatch website.
MayorWatch's crime? To politely request that Boris's campaign send them some press releases.
Rather than contact Mayorwatch and apologise for failing to send the releases he'd requested, Crosby instead took to Twitter.
This jibe was apparently based on the fact that Guardian Journalist Dave Hill had earlier highlighted Mayorwatch's request on Twitter.
Mayorwatch, who has been covering City Hall for over a decade, has since received messages of support and disbelief about Crosby's response from right across the political spectrum.
If Lynton wanted to have a crack at one of Boris's critics then he chose completely the wrong person.
Instead of engaging with an impartial and influential news outlet, Crosby has instead chosen to alienate them. Bizarre.
As if that wasn't enough, Boris's campaign have since been highlighting "Londoners" who have come out to wave placards at Ken on one of his campaign visits.
The thing is, if you want to pretend that something is coming from ordinary Londoners, it's probably best not to have the cameraman telling them to shout "louder."
It's probably also wise not to have previously posted pictures of these same ordinary Londoners wearing campaign t-shirts whilst sitting on a campaign bus:
Online campaigning has yet to be a major factor in winning UK elections.
If Crosby's attempts this week are anything to go by then it's unlikely to be so in this Mayoral election either.


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Cuomo, legislative leaders talk casinos, jobs
Unpredictable late session
New Yorkers could see huge, resort casinos upstate and an influx of new employers lured by the promise of tax-free operations for a decade under several deals in the works in Albany.
Or not.
Such is the unpredictability of the late-session rush in the Capitol, where a series of closed-door negotiations with two to four leaders can change the state's future or spoil a six-month legislative session. The session is scheduled to end Thursday.
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Many reasons to pick bowling over golf
In our short time on this Earth, we are faced with myriad decisions. The big ones — regarding jobs and homes, family and faith — are actually easier than they look, in Couch Slouch's opinion. It's the little ones people get wrong.
For instance, as a recreational pastime, should an individual go golfing or go bowling?
Far too many folks err making this simple choice:
No to golf.
Yes to bowling.
Bowling alleys — or "bowling centers," as they are now called by politically correct spare seekers — take up less space than golf courses; as it turns out, far fewer trees are cut down for 24 lanes than 18 holes.
To bowl, you just need a bowling ball and a pair of bowling shoes, and if you don't have either, they've got them at the alley; golfers need 14 clubs, a golf bag, golf shoes, golf balls and usually a membership to a country club.
You can bowl year-round, day or night, with weather never a factor. The only advantage to golf: You get to spend time outdoors, "in the fresh air." Hah! See how fresh that air feels on a muggy Washington, D.C., July weekend.
Bowling might set you back five bucks a game. Golf? Can you say 401(k) withdrawal?
Bowling alleys, with their bar and grill, video arcade and occasional pool table/air hockey/ foosball amenities, offer more varied, egalitarian culinary and non-culinary options than the overpriced clubhouse restaurant at most golf-club complexes.
You can bowl three games with a buddy in well under two hours; a round of golf will go at least four hours — up to seven if you're partnered with Kevin Na.
Bowlers don't have a false sense of their place in the world; golfers hold some high-brow, haughty vision of their game and, in turn, create endless faux literature celebrating their life-affirming and life-lesson-filled pursuit of par.
(If you combined the number of trees cut down when they build a golf course with the number of trees cut down when they publish golf books, you could double the size of the Brazilian rainforest.)
When you're bowling, you're always rolling frames with friends; in golf, you can be asked to fill out a foursome and spend an afternoon in the company of a hedge fund manager who once slept with your ex-wife.
In bowling, we encourage beer drinking between frames; in golf, they'd like to knock a few back but can't figure out how not to spill a gin-and-tonic while riding in the golf cart.
If you happen step over the foul line in bowling and your buddy sees it, he'll probably let it pass; in golf, complete strangers call in rules violations on PGA pros.
Bowlers don't knowingly cheat anyway; golfers routinely kick a golf ball to a better lie or misreport their score on a hole.
Ask a bowler how he did today and he'll tell you, "Rolled a 182" or "I bowled a 500 series." Ask a golfer how he did and he'll tell you, "Well, I hooked my drive on the first hole, laid up, hit a great approach shot to the green but then three-putted the son of a gun. Then on the second hole, I went with a 3-wood and..." Oh my goodness, someone crack my head open with a 5 -iron before this blowhard drains all the energy out of the rest of my natural life
Bowlers are regular people; golfers are people who regularly expect someone to carry their clubs.
It is next-to-impossible for an errant bowling ball to hit a fellow bowler or spectator in the head.
A bowling ball can last a lifetime; a golf ball might last until the first water hazard.
You can bowl until you're 90; you can also golf until you're 90, but, I'm telling you, eventually the greens fees will kill you.
Okay, so "Caddyshack" was better than "Kingpin." Score one for the duffers.
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Q: You lost all credibility when you left Jon Miller off your favorite announcer list. (C.R. Baldwin; Towson, Md.)
A: Since when do I have credibility? Miller is one of the best ever, but I was listing current national TV sportscasters. Because of space limitations, I also left out a lot of other sports voices I appreciate, like Greg Gumbel, Bob Ley, James Brown, Jim Kaat, Steve Kerr, Doris Burke, Paul Azinger, Tom Rinaldi, Troy Aikman and Mary Carillo. And see? You just made me leave out some others.
Q: You probably were not impressed that the Chicago Blackhawks scored two goals in 17 seconds to win the Stanley Cup — didn't you get married twice in less time than that? (George Anderson; Spokane, Wash.)
A: Pay the man, Shirley.
Q: If NBA free agents are so interested in winning, then why don't they all sign with the Globetrotters? (Joel Block; Arlington, Va.)
A: Pay the man, Shirley.
Q: Now that soccer referees are being beheaded in Brazil, will this increase viewership in the U.S.? (Jim O'Brien; Racine, Wis.)
A: Pay the man, Shirley.
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Study: Young Latinas are key decision makers, prefer English
Effectively communicating health messages to the Hispanic community requires one key thing: reaching Latinas between the ages of 25 and 35. That was among findings in a survey commissioned by Cultur Health, the Hispanic healthcare communications agency of vox collective and Cooney/Waters Group.
The 25-35-year-old female demographic is significant, the firm argues, not only because the vast majority (89%) were found to be insured through an employer or spouse, "increasing their purchasing power for healthcare products and services," according to a press release. Cultur said this population links messaging to the larger community or, in essence, forms the final part of a cultural feedback loop.
The sample size for the online survey included 501 Hispanic women in that age range (there are 50.5 million Hispanics living in the US as of the latest census).
For marketers that want to tap into it, English is the way to go. Notably, most respondents (76%) said they prefer their healthcare information in that language. "Younger, acculturated Latinos who handle their family's health needs consume the information in English, then 'translate' it for their older, Spanish-speaking relatives," explained Cultur Health.
This doesn't mean pharma should scuttle plans for Spanish-language marketing materials, cautioned Roberto Ramos, president of vox collective: "Healthcare communication programs need to speak to both generations, through both the message and the medium," he said.
Nor should marketers bypass everyone outside of the 25-35 age range. Instead, the study showed, even though these women are major influences in family health, their decisions are shaped by the input of the very people they take care of, and it's important to engage all relevant influencers.
In fact, reliance on social networks (the flesh-and-blood kind) is a hallmark of this group. For instance, "family, friends and neighbors" garnered the biggest response (64%) among respondents when asked to name influences on their decisions to buy OTC health products, followed by "pharmacist" at 52%; only 21% cited "advertising."
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Liverpool to sell Fabio Borini for £14m
Liverpool are set to sell striker Fabio Borini to Sunderland in a deal that could ultimately be worth 14 million pounds.
- Usher: Preseason means plenty to ponder
The Italy international will be allowed to travel to the north-east of England to discuss personal terms, sources have told ESPN FC.
Borini scored 10 goals as he spent last season on loan at Sunderland, with several of them coming in key victories.
He endeared himself to Black Cats fans by scoring in home and away derby league victories over Newcastle, as well as hitting three significant goals in their run to the Capital One Cup final, in which they were beaten by Manchester City.
Arguably his most significant goal of last season, though, was the penalty that sealed a 2-1 Premier League victory at Stamford Bridge in April -- effectively ending Chelsea's title challenge and going a long way to securing Sunderland's top-flight survival.
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers had indicated that he was ready to give the 23-year-old a chance at Anfield following his loan stint.
But the size of Sunderland's offer has persuaded Liverpool to sell, with Rodgers feeling that he can use the money to strengthen the squad. Borini was Rodgers' first signing as Reds manager, arriving for 10.5 million pounds from Roma in July 2012.
But the striker had a difficult season following his arrival, missing three months with a broken foot sustained in September 2012, before he was ruled out for another two-and-a-half months when he dislocated his shoulder in February 2013.
He scored only twice for Liverpool -- once in a 3-0 Europa League qualifying round victory over Belarusian side Gomel in August 2012, and again in a 6-0 Premier League victory at Newcastle the following April.
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The seeds of an agricultural revolution are taking root
in cities around the world—a movement that boosters say will
change the way that urbanites get their produce and solve
some of the world's biggest environmental problems along the
It's called vertical farming, and it's based on one simple
principle: Instead of trucking food from farms into cities,
grow it as close to home as possible—in urban greenhouses
that stretch upward instead of sprawling outward.
The idea is flowering in many forms. There's the 12-story
triangular building going up in Sweden, where plants will
travel on tracks from the top floor to the bottom to take
advantage of sunlight and make harvesting easier.
Then there's the onetime meatpacking plant in Chicago where
vegetables are grown on floating rafts, nourished by waste
from nearby fish tanks. And the farms dotted across the U.S.
that hang their crops in the air, spraying the roots with
nutrients, so they don't have to bring in soil or water
tanks for the plants.
However vertical farming is
implemented, advocates say the immediate benefits will be
easy to see. There won't be as many delivery trucks guzzling
fuel and belching out exhaust, and city dwellers will get
easier access to fresh, healthy food.
Looking further, proponents say vertical farming could bring
even bigger and more sweeping changes. Farming indoors could
reduce the use of pesticides and herbicides, which pollute
the environment in agricultural runoff. Preserving or
reclaiming more natural ecosystems like forests could help
slow climate change. And the more food we produce indoors,
the less susceptible we are to environmental crises that
disrupt crops and send prices skyrocketing, like the drought
that devastated this year's U.S. corn crop.
Dickson Despommier, a microbiology professor at Columbia
University who developed the idea of vertical farming with
students in 1999, thinks vertical farming will become more
and more attractive as climate change drives up the cost of
conventional farming and technological advances make
greenhouse farming cheaper. In fact, he hopes the world will
be able to produce half of its food in vertical farms in 50
Then "a significant portion of farmland could be abandoned,"
he says. "Ecosystem functions would rapidly improve, and the
rate of global warming would slow down."
An Idea on the Rise
A host of vertical farms are up and running in the U.S. and
overseas, and others are under construction. Some are backed
by nonprofits aiming to promote environmental causes or
local job creation. Others will be for-profit ventures meant
to meet demand for local produce. And some, like one in
South Korea, are being funded by governments looking for
ways to boost domestic food security.
So far, vertical farms are producing only a small amount of
food. Advocates are still developing different building
designs and growing techniques to boost the efficiency of
cultivating food indoors. And a proven business model based
on the concept has yet to emerge.
One ambitious project under construction is trying to
address all of those challenges at once. At 12 stories, the
triangular farm in Linköping, Sweden, will be one of the
tallest vertical farms in the world—most max out at several
stories—and will use innovative ways to generate revenue.
Not only will the company behind the farm, Sweden's
Plantagon, sell its produce at a local farmer's market, but
it also will lease out office space on most floors.
Another unique feature: Outside the office windows, on the
building's southern face, a mechanical track enclosed in its
own layer of glass will carry growing plants from the top of
the building to the bottom floor. The arrangement is meant
to give the plants even exposure to sunlight and allow
Plantagon to perform all of its planting and harvesting in
one place—on the ground floor. (After planting, a normal
vertical elevator takes the boxed plants to the top floor to
start their voyage down.) The company plans to produce 300
to 500 metric tons of leafy greens like bok choy a year.
Offsetting Costs
As for the price tag, "it's much more expensive, of course,
to build a greenhouse vertical than to build a normal
greenhouse," says Hans Hassle, Plantagon's chief executive.
But the planned revenue streams will help make up for that,
and energy costs will be lower because the setup will use
waste from various sources—such as heat from a nearby power
plant and biogas produced through conversion of the
building's own organic garbage. All told, the planned
energy-saving measures will reduce the building's energy use
by at least 30% to 50%, Mr. Hassle says.
Mr. Hassle says the company's next greenhouse will be either
a demonstration model in Shanghai or a research facility in
Singapore. These are good venues for the idea, he says,
because they're highly dense and urbanized societies that
already need to produce more food locally.
In the U.S., vertical farms are sprouting in urban areas
across the country, some in old buildings that have been
repurposed for agriculture. One operation called the Plant
is producing vegetables in a three-story former meatpacking
facility on Chicago's South Side.
The farm grows vegetables on small rafts floating on water,
which is filled with nutrients from waste produced by fish
in a separate tank—a setup called aquaponics. Light comes
from lamps designed to emit the proper wavelengths for plant
growth. The Plant is also designing a growing system in
which crops could grow sticking out at an upward angle from
vertical boards, with nutrients provided to the plant roots
by water dripping down a film from pipes near the ceiling.
The Plant was founded by John Edel, a 43-year-old Chicago
native who has led other projects to renovate and reuse
urban buildings. The facility currently rents out parts of
its space to tenants including three farmers and two
bakeries and plans to find more; it also intends to open a
shared retail area where the tenants can sell their goods.
Other farms around the country use different techniques
designed to save space, reduce water consumption and even
avoid the need for soil. Farms in warehouses and other
buildings in Seattle, Chicago, upstate New York and New
Jersey, among other places, use an aeroponics system from
AeroFarms of Ithaca, N.Y. The method involves growing plants
with their roots hanging in the air, where they can be
sprayed with water and nutrients.
Omega Garden Inc., of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia,
sells a planting device called Volksgarden, a rotating
cylinder four feet in diameter and two feet long. Plants
grow in a circle around the inside of the cylinder. As the
device rotates, their roots dip into a tray holding a liquid
solution that provides water and nutrients. A light runs
horizontally through the cylinder to nourish the crops.
Green Spirit Farms LLC is using the system in New Buffalo,
Mich., in a former plastics-injection facility. The farm
plans to fill the space with Volksgarden units stacked three
levels high, says Green Spirit site manager Ben Wiggins.
Simpler Solutions
Still, many agricultural experts aren't sold on the idea of
vertical farming. The core argument against it: Conventional
farms are the simplest and most efficient places to produce
food. Growing food indoors, using artificial lights and
other special equipment, means more effort and expense—and
cancels out any benefits of being close to customers,
critics say.
That's why George Monbiot, a writer and environmental
activist based in Oxford, England, says there's "no
prospect" that more complicated vertical-farming techniques
could contribute substantially to world food production. As
for those vertical farming systems that will consume extra
energy to power equipment like artificial lights, he says,
"Even if you are taking the energy from renewable sources,
there are better ways of using that renewable energy."
Likewise, R. Ford Denison, an adjunct professor of
agricultural ecology at the University of Minnesota, thinks
the energy use from vertical farms would cancel out any fuel
savings from transportation. "Food transport from farm to
store is a tiny fraction of total agricultural energy use,"
he says. So if vertical farms use even small amounts of
energy to run their systems, or if consumers have to use
extra fuel traveling to urban farmers' markets, it "would
swamp any energy savings in transporting food to the
Backers say the comparison between conventional and vertical
farming isn't apples to apples, since the government heavily
subsidizes expenses including crop insurance for traditional
agriculture, greatly reducing the costs involved and the
risks that farmers face from unpredictable weather
Food Security
But boosters say the equation will very likely change as
severe weather makes indoor farming a safer and more
reliable alternative to regular growing. Not only will the
rising cost of conventional farming make vertical farms look
better in comparison, they say, but vertical farms in some
places could end up getting subsidies.
"If we imagine that vertical farming is going to become part
of a nation's food-security program, then naturally this
part of the industry needs subsidies," Plantagon's Mr.
Hassle says.
Dr. Despommier, who is also an adviser to Plantagon,
acknowledges that energy use, particularly in artificial
lighting, remains a challenge for some vertical farms. But
he says the lighting industry has made significant progress
in recent years on reducing power consumption for
specialized lights to grow plants, and researchers continue
to work on the problem.
More broadly, he argues that the idea of vertical farming on
a large scale will seem increasingly realistic as techniques
evolve. He cites cellphones and plasma-screen televisions as
examples of innovations that were unimaginable before their
"You have to start small and you have to start at the
research level before you jump into the commercial aspect of
this thing, but that's the way all these ideas start," Dr.
Despommier says. "Everything we have in this world of ours
started out crazy."
May 2013
Courtesy: The Wall Street Journal
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Ferris State beats Colgate 1-0 in NCAA tourney
Ferris State beats Colgate 1-0 in NCAA tourney
Mar. 29, 2014
CINCINNATI (AP) — C.J. Motte got past his rough weekend with an NCAA tournament shutout.
The Ferris State junior goalie turned away 35 shots Friday, making Gerald Mayhew's power-play goal midway through the first period hold up for a 1-0 victory over Colgate in the NCAA tournament regional semifinals.
The second-seeded Bulldogs (29-10-3) advanced to the Midwest Regional final by pulling off their sixth shutout of the season, their fifth with Motte in goal. They'll play third-seeded North Dakota, which beat top-seeded Wisconsin 5-2 in the other semifinal.
The Bulldogs finished the season by giving up eight goals in two games at the WCHA Final Five championship last weekend. Coach Bob Daniels thought it had more to do with leaky defense in front of Motte than with the goalie himself.
Both were solid on Friday, repeatedly turning away a Colgate (20-14-5) team that had more shots on goal but couldn't get one to go in.
"He's always good," defenseman Scott Czarnowczan said of his goalie. "He might have been better today."
Motte made two impressive stops during a power play in the third period. He also made a glove save on Spiro Goulakos' slap shot with 1:37 to go. Colgate's Tyson Spink was called for cross-checking with 57.9 seconds left, allowing Ferris State to finish it off on a power play.
"We just didn't get a bounce tonight," Goulakos said.
The teams played three times during the regular season, with Colgate winning twice. The Raiders' 3-0 victory on Jan. 4 ended Ferris State's 16-game unbeaten streak and proved to be a turning point for a young team.
Freshman goaltender Charlie Finn grew during the second half of the season, helping the Raiders reach the tournament. Colgate had one of youngest teams in nation this season with 17 rookies and sophomores.
Finn was solid on Friday, stopping 26 shots. Mayhew flipped the puck over his leg from in front of the goal for the only score.
Mayhew, a freshman forward, had a pair of goals at the Final Five championship last weekend, including the game-winner during a 5-4 victory over Anchorage Alaska.
"He's played well as of late," Daniels said. "Gerald's got a very quick stick. You could see the chances coming more and more."
Once he scored, it was a matter of holding on.
"They played their game," Colgate coach Don Vaughan said. "They did a great job defending the lead when they got it."
Colgate got 11 shots at Motte in the final period, while Ferris State managed only four shots on goal. The Bulldogs' defenders helped Motte by diving in front of shots as the game wore down.
"This is playoff hockey," Czarnowczan said. "You get in front of it no matter what it takes."
Ferris State is making its third NCAA tournament appearance. The Bulldogs went in 2003 and in 2012, when they reached the title game and lost to Boston College 4-1.
Colgate controlled the opening minutes, getting off five shots. Motte made a glove save on an open shot by center Tyler Spink in front of the net.
Ferris State had trouble getting set up on offense and didn't even get a shot on goal for the first 7 minutes. During the first power play, Mayhew flipped the puck over Finn's leg.
Both goalies had some slick saves during the second period, which ended with a tussle. Finn made a save with 1.8 seconds left and players started shoving in the scrum in front of him. Two players from each team went to the penalty box for roughing and hitting after the whistle.


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Indiana University Timmy Global Health Executive Board wrote -Timmy Global Health at IU is dedicated to expanding access to health care for people in rural Guatemala. More than that, TGH also empowers students to make real changes for good and further develop their passion for service. On campus we hold several fundraising and advocacy events such as global dinners, the spring Glow Run, an annual benefit dinner and silent auction, the Global Health Symposium, and grocery drives for vitamins and medicine. The money we raise goes directly to our partner organization, Pop Wuj, which is a Spanish school that also runs a free health clinic in Guatemala. The yearlong efforts from our students help fund the clinic and provide it the necessary resources it needs to maintain itself. During spring break 20 IU students visit the clinic and the surrounding area to run a medical brigade. We recruit doctors, nurses, and pharmacists as well as gather the necessary materials to ensure a high standard of care for the patients. In the 2015-2016 academic school year, we expanded the number of fundraising events and raised almost $20,000. We are excited to continue our work here at Indiana University for Timmy Global Health and our community both home and abroad. Look and see what your donation can do: -$1,500 funds a surgery and follow up care for a damaged cornea -$350 funds a hernia operation for a patient referred by Timmy -$100 treats 200 patients for intestinal parasites -$50 ensures five patients get the x-rays they need -$32 provides prenatal care for an expecting mother Please consider donating for this wonderful cause. Our proceeds will go directly to support the patients we serve in rural Guatemala.