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November 21, 2011
Toys for Tots campaign kicks off for the holidays
Volunteers unload boxes of toys in the Bookstore at the close of last year's Toys for Tots campaign.
If you've noticed those big empty boxes in some offices around our campuses, the goal is to fill them up – with toys! Those boxes were placed there by Marine CWO2 John O'Keeffe, Staff Advisory Council members, and other volunteers as part of the second annual Columbus State Toys for Tots Drive.
O'Keeffe is a Columbus State graduate and works in office services at the Delaware Campus.
Toys for Tots began in 1947 when Major Bill Hendricks and a group of Marine Reservists collected thousands of toys for needy children in Los Angeles. Since then, the expanding program has collected more than 400 million toys that have been given to more than 188 million children.
Ohio State University has also joined in the local effort this year. Here at Columbus State, there are more than 30 of the collection boxes around the college – a 50% increase from last year. Please bring in your toys by Wednesday, December 14. All toys will be picked up that day and then taken to the Delaware Campus where they'll be presented to the Marine Corps the next day. Staff and students will be invited to that presentation.
If you have questions, contact Susan Thomas (SAC)firstname.lastname@example.com on the Downtown Campus or John O'Keeffe email@example.com or Abu Farah email@example.com on the Delaware Campus.
New certificate program starts Winter Quarter
Columbus State will begin offering an Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair Certificate Program at the Delaware Area Career Center (DACC) this Winter Quarter.
The unique partnership between Columbus State and DACC will allow students to put an automotive career in the "express lane," offering certification as entry-level technicians in 6-12 months.
The certificate also gives students a solid start to their associate degree. The program was developed at the request of national dealer groups to meet their shortage of properly trained maintenance and light repair technicians.
The credit classes are open to the public and the tuition is based on Columbus State's tuition rate of $79 per credit hour plus lab fees. Winter Quarter 2012 offerings will be Automotive Principles and Automotive Shop Orientation.
A winter choral concert to add to your holiday calendar!
Chorus Columbus State will perform their traditional Winter Quarter holiday concert on Sunday, December 4, at 3:00 p.m. in the Darby Court at the Columbus Museum of Art.
The Chorus, under the direction of Gordon Franklin, will perform traditional Christmas music as well as additional choral works during the hour-long concert. The concert is free and open to the public.
SBDC sweeps awards at statewide business conference
Showing off their top performance awards after the ceremony at the SBDC conference are, from left: SBDC Specialist Becky Rousseau (holding Ariana Ulloa-Olavarrieta's award), Michael Bowers, Randy Morgan, Nancy Stoll, David Rivers, and Jeff Schick.
At the annual Ohio Small Business Development Centers conference, held last week at the Crowne Plaza Dublin, the Columbus State SBDC team brought home an impressive number of awards! The conference was sponsored by the Department of Development Entrepreneurship and the Small Business Division.
Each year the top performers in the SBDC network are announced and honored at an evening reception:
Columbus State's winners were:
Michael Bowers, District Director, receiving the 2011 Innovation Award.
Jeff Shick, SBDC Manufacturing and Technology director, receiving the 2011 Advocacy Award.
Nancy Stoll, certified business advisor, receiving the Individual Performance Award for the second year in a row.
David Rivers, certified business advisor, receiving the Top 5 Advisors in State award for the second year in a row.
Randy Morgan, certified business advisor, also awarded for being among Top 5 Advisors in State.
Ariana Ulloa-Olavarrieta, certified business advisor, awarded for exceeding counseling hours.
At the conference, Bowers conducted two workshops to show how social media can not only be use to augment the limited marketing budgets of SBDC Centers in other regions and their clients, but why participating on the same social platforms as your customers is not only beneficial but vital. The workshops were titled "Social Media and Business: Leverage It or Get Left Behind."
Bowers then closed the conference with a session titled, "From the Idea to the Deal: How Private Equity Investing is Really Done." Bowers moderated a panel which included entrepreneur Patrick Murphy of www.brandthunder.com, attorney Thomas Washbush of www.beneschlaw.com, venture acceleration director Rick Coplin of www.TechColumbus.com and Jeff Shick of SBDC's Manufacturing and Technology center. The session covered the role of private equity funding in business development, sources of private equity funding, early-stage equity and growth capital and the legalities associated with private equity capital.


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Traveling Trunk Owned by Baron de la Roche, 1964.79.1
This beautiful traveling case was once owned by Baron de la Roche who was an aide de camp to Lafayette during the American Revolution. He was born in Treves, Germany in 1757 and raised there though his family was originally French. He attained the rank of officer in the American army and in 1790 de la Roche became an American citizen. Later he returned to Europe and was killed in the in the Battle of Austerlitz, one of Napoleon's greatest victories. At the time of his death in 1805, he was listed as a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, an order exclusive to former generals to Washington and their descendents.
Baron de la Roche's finely-made, veneered traveling case dates to the 1770s and may have been used during the Revolution. It is unusually well fitted-out and includes 2 traveling brass candlesticks, a covered silver powder box, a silver sponge box, a silver soap dish, a silver shaving pan, a silver shaving basin, five silver trays, a razor, razor strap, a wooden wig curler; 2 glass toilet bottles (one with liquid), an Anglo-Irish cut-glass dish, a glass funnel, a snuff box, needle case, pen case with quills, 2 French porcelain lidded jars, a tin kettle with a detachable handle for boiling water, large tin can for holding wig powder, a small tin box with wool batting, a large tooth comb, and an etched wine glass. The chest has a drawer with multiple compartments for letters and other documents. In addition, the razor strap bears the label of the Parisian retailer of the chest, firmly connecting it with de la Roche's time just before the Revolution. Taken together, these objects document not only de la Roche's high-style taste, but what one gentleman of position and rank regarded as necessities.
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When my oldest daughter was around 14 months, she could "read" picture books. She'd hold the book out in front of her, turn the pages and recite the story word for word. So bright, we thought. By two and a half, she was extremely verbal and very smiley but didn't seem able to hold eye contact for long. Typical for the age, we thought. At three she often came home from preschool with bumps and bruises. "She's a little clumsy," said the teacher. "Misses the chair when she goes to sit down." Overly energetic, we thought.
Somewhere in the back of my brain, these little facts joined hands and circled up, but with a nine-month-old on my hip, I convinced myself there was really nothing much to worry about with my older one. I'd like to think that if it had been something more important, more drastic, I would have noticed it sooner. But I cannot guarantee that is the truth.
When I first held my firstborn, the ties that bind quietly threaded us together forever. I wept, conquered by an intoxicating mixture of relief and bliss and fear. How would I survive this life of overwhelming love and all the worry that comes with it? I tended toward the anxious, but I didn't want to be that overbearing mother, the kind that frowned at every scratch and fretted over the timing of every milestone, the mom who hovered over homework and five daily servings of fruits and veggies. Whenever I felt that "what if?" twinge, I quietly calmed it away. After all, my daughter was right on course, a little ahead on some things even. She was fine – more than fine.
Wasn't she?
At my younger daughter's nine-month checkup, I asked the doctor to check my older girl too. She listened to her heart and her lungs, engaged her in chitchat, examined her ears and eyes. "Looks good," she said. I took the doctor at her word. Choosing to believe her was like letting out a long slow breath I'd been holding for years.
But a few months later, I noticed my girl squinting – a lot. She'd always been light sensitive so her squinting wasn't a new thing, but now I noticed it all the time. She squinted at the television. She squinted in search of me when I called her name. She squinted when we read books. I took her back to the doctor. "I think it's her eyes," I said. The doctor did a quick check and pronounced her "just fine." This time, I didn't believe her. I came back a few weeks later and insisted on a proper eye exam, the kind with a chart.
"We don't usually do that until their five-year check up," said the doctor.
"Okay, but can you do it anyway?" I asked.
Because my daughter couldn't yet identify all the letters in the alphabet, they used a chart with symbols: a house, a star, a heart. She stood a few yards away from the chart, waiting, wondering. When the doctor pointed at the house, my girl squinted hard, then looked at me "Tree?" she asked hopefully. The doctor pointed at a different symbol. My daughter hesitated. "A shoe?" By the fifth try, it was clear that for my daughter, the world was a blur.
I was furious and devastated and heartbroken. Why hadn't I seen it earlier? Why hadn't I pressed the doctor sooner, trusted my instincts? In my determination to be a reasonable, rational mother, I'd pushed away the possibility of harm and hurt and less-than. Because my love could not bear that worry, I'd created my own blind spot.
The truth is, there is nothing rational about love. It cannot exist without the worry, the possibility of loss, yet we crave it anyway. This is what parenting asks of us: to dive into the deep blue sea of love, hold our breaths and go under, trusting we'll make it to the surface and swim to shore.
A few weeks later, my daughter tried on her first pair of glasses. She looked at herself in the mirror, open-mouthed, wide-eyed, thrilled. It was the first time she'd ever seen herself clearly. Then she turned to me, searching my face with her big, blue eyes.
"Mama, you have freckles on your nose!"
From the moment they first come into the world, our children wrap themselves around our hearts squeezing equal amounts of love and worry out into our souls. We cannot know one without the other. Seeing my girl see me, my heart bloomed with that familiar maternal mix of relief and love, but this time without the fear. I blinked back my tears, ready to handle whatever worry this love would bring.
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Your hosts: Kristi Campbell (Finding Ninee) and April Grant (Finding Favor). This week's sentence thinker upper is Allie Smith (The LatchKey Mom).


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Dirk Nowitzki: Spotlight on Dallas Mavericks forward
Spotlight on… Dirk Nowitzki, F, Dallas
When: For coming through when his team has needed him most, Dallas' future Hall of Famer, Dirk Nowitzki is the Post's player of the week for the evaluation period of March 29-April 4.
What's up: Nowitzki was fantastic in four games for the Mavericks. They won three as he averaged 26.3 points, 9.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists. Nowitzki shot 61.9 percent from the field and 57.9 percent from 3-point range. He was a plus-9.0 for the week.
Background: The Mavericks are in the thick of the playoff hunt and Nowitzki continues to be a main reason why. As always. And they need his production. He started the season slow, but is finishing with a flourish at the right time.
Dempsey's take: Dallas is most dangerous when Nowitzki is playing his best. He's the best shooting 7-footer in the history of the NBA, and because he doesn't rely on a ton of athleticism it has kept him effective late into his career. Nowitzki has been one of my favorite players to watch for a long time and he continues to play at a high level.


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1) Large Stitch Marker - fits up to US size 10 needles or 6 mm - silver-plated closed ring
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Please keep out of reach of children and pets. (choking hazard!)
I recommend storing them in an airtight bag when not in use to prevent any silver-plated components from tarnishing.
Polymer clay is durable, but is a breakable plastic. Please handle with care.
The photos shown here were taken of the first batch created. While great care is taken to create as similar a product as possible to the photos, please know that they will all vary slightly in texture, size and color; this is the nature of handmade items and what makes them so special. Each charm is made and packaged with human hands, so please realize that small irregularities are expected and embraced. Each charm is a tiny, unique work of art. Yours will be one of a kind!
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All charms will be packaged either on a product card, enclosed in a cellophane bag or in a jewelry gift box. This largely depends on the number of charms ordered and/or the shapes. (Flat charms like pizza slices would be packaged on a card, while something more bulky, like a cupcake, might go in a box.) Please let me know if you have a preference or would like your charms each packaged individually.
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Production still from Jennifer Lyon Bell's short "Matinee"
Just this last week, Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification has refused to grant Jennifer Lyon Bell's erotic short Matinee a festival exemption to screen at the upcoming edition of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. By refusing to grant this exemption the OFLC has effectively banned Matinee from being screened in Australia, and banned DVDs of the film from being sold in nearly all states in the antipodal continent.
Matinee is the story of two actors, male and female, in a theater production that is not quite finding its voice, due in large measure to a failure of the two leads to find chemistry in a crucial love scene. I won't reveal more of the plot than that, but I will say that the sex in this film is consensual (both within the context of the narrative and the context of the production) and is undertaken with concern and safeguards for the physical and emotional safety of the actors—again, both within the narrative and the production. The result is a sexual encounter that leaves both the characters and the actors playing those characters satisfied that they have chosen to have sex with each other for the right reasons, and under conditions sufficiently cautious against the reality that sex is a consequential act.
The reason given by the OFLC for its decision is that Matinee contains actual depictions of sexuality. But in nearly the same week, the OFLC has chosen to grant a festival exemption to Antichrist, a film that also features actual sexual intercourse, but with a very different (and I would argue, in the cinematic tradition, hyper-normative) contex.
I have had my own run-ins with this sort of double standard for the treatment of sexuality in cinema. On the night the OFLC dispatched police to the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival to stop the screening of Ashley and Kisha, the notoriously sexually explicit Destricted was playing (with the OFLC's blessing) on the other side of Melbourne, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
One film claimed to be an exploration of the (purported) boundary between art and pornography. The other celebrated a loving relationship between two women.
One film contained (among other things) a depiction of utterly mercenary anal sex between two strangers orchestrated by the film's director. The other film contained footage of consensual, mutually pleasurable lovemaking between partners in a long-standing relationship.
One film found itself on the acceptable side of the Kinsey (medical)/Hardcore (pornography)/Briellat (art) taxonomy, and one film did not.
And now Jennifer Lyon Bell's film Matinee finds itself in similar contrasting relationship with Lars von Teir's Antichrist. (I do hope Lars, who has long fashioned himself a rebel, is suitably embarrassed to find himself in this instance on the side of The Man, and a tool of the status quo in Australia.)
There is nothing new about this medical/pornography/art taxonomy. My own namesake, Anthony Comstock, ultimately overreached in trying (and sometimes succeeding) in having medical textbooks with anatomical drawings of reproductive organs seized and destroyed. But out of this overreach, the idea that exploring and depicting sexuality in a medical context was, in fact, protected speech was born.
Neither is the idea that "art" is also sufficient justification for what would otherwise not be protected speech new, with Justice Woolsey's "intent to arouse" standing as a now nearly 80 year old dividing line between "art" and obscenity—observed with full legal force in some countries (UK, Australia) or with quasi-legal force in the the US ("Penetration is illegal in Utah.") See the previous TITA post: US vs. Ulysses: The origin of "intent to arouse" as legal doctrine.
What is new, is that where this taxonomy used to be enforced by human beings, and was subject to revision and modification, the medical/porn/art taxonomy is now increasingly becoming hard-coded into the algorithms that shape our digital world.
What that means is with the flick of a digital switch (errant or intentional) LGBT-oriented books with no sexually explicit content can virtually disappear off Amazon, as happened back in March of this year.
What that means that is that as far as Google is concerned, [clitoris] is not a "safe" search term; that "clitoris" is always a pornographic word, no matter what the context, along with "nude" and "bastard".
What it means is that anything that's categorized with words like "adult" or "NSFW" is algorithmically indistinguishable from the works of Max Hardcore (aka Paul Little, currently serving 10 years on obscenity charges.)
This "algorithmic indistinguishability" promotes a culture around sexuality that is at once more pranksterish (How much can we get away with and still be on YouTube?) and at the same time more cautious (Oprah's favorite "vajayjay" is a Google-friendly word, but clitoris is not.)
And whereas 10 years ago the internet offered the opportunity to skirt around bodies like the OFLC, today, Australia is undertaking a great experiment in nationwide, government enforced "content filtering"—which is simply a euphemism for algorithmic and complaint-driven censorship.
But it's not just the anti-erotic bias lurking in our culture driving this. Ask any IT professionals what their biggest headaches are, and on any given day it's likely that porn-spammers and CEO's who don't understand technology will be trading the number one and number two spots on their most-hated list. I regularly have important, non-erotic correspondences sucked into my spam folder (the last was from an eminent constitutional scholar on the history of blasphemy laws and symbolic speech in the US.) Without resorting to words like "vajayjay" and other coded language, even scholarly correspendence free from slang is frequently algorithmically indistinguishable from porn-spam.
Next up: Porn spammers: No shame about sex-or anything else.


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NEW HARTFORD — On Saturday, Aug. 19, members of the New Hartford Land Trust gathered to learn how to press and preserve flowers. The talk was led by board members Eloise Farmer and Karen Meares and took place at the home of a Land Trust member.
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Roberto Vittori
Seated in the middle behind the commander and pilot, Vittori will assist them during launch and reentry operations. The European astronaut will also operate the system that physically connects the Shuttle with the International Space Station after rendezvous and docking.
On Flight Day 4 Roberto manoeuvred the Shuttle's robotic arm to lift the 7-tonne AMS-02 up out of Endeavour's payload bay and transferred it to the Station.
There, the Station's Canadarm2 grabbed it, roll out to the main truss and put it down on its mount: an external module on the upper payload attach point (S3). Four astronauts were involved in this slow and careful manoeuvre.
Roberto was designated as the AR-1 astronaut, meaning that he was responsible for operating the Shuttle robotic arm. The complex sequence with the arm included berthing the Express Logistics Carrier (ELC-3), as well as verifying the integrity of all of Endeavour's thermal tiles during Flight Day 2.
Third ride to space
Roberto is an experienced space flier – he has logged nearly 20 days in space. Since he was assigned to this mission in August 2009, he trained hard at his home base of the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. Preparing for his first flight aboard the Space Shuttle, he also worked at the training facilities of NASA Johnson Space Center.
Before six new astronauts joined ESA, Roberto was the youngest member of the European Astronaut Corps. In 2002, at the age of 37, he made his maiden voyage to the International Space Station on his 'Marco Polo' mission, becoming the first Italian to fly on a Soyuz spacecraft to the Station and qualifiied as a Soyuz commander.
His second flight to the Station was also aboard a Soyuz in 2005, on his 'Eneide' mission. As flight engineer on both ascent and return, Roberto was active in piloting and docking the spacecraft. Onboard the Station for 8 days, Roberto performed an intensive series of experiments.
Roberto made his third flight as a result of the agreement between ASI and NASA under which the Italian agency provided NASA with three Multi-Purpose Logistics modules (MPLMs) for transporting cargo to and from the ISS. In exchange, ASI has received flight opportunities for Italian astronauts.
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Roberto has always found exploration highly motivating and a bridge to the future. In his own words, having ESA astronauts on the International Space Station "will allow us to concentrate upon maximising its utilisation. Europe is unity and diversity. In this sense, each of us can give a different flavour, a different perspective."
Roberto was born in the ancient city of Viterbo, in the central part of Italy. "When I was a kid I used to be in the woods and play soccer with the other children. Flying an aircraft, or even becoming an astronaut, was something that attracted my imagination, but I would not have ever thought that in the end, step-by-step, I would become one."
After high school he concentrated on studying physics. He holds a Masters in Aeronautical Sciences from the University of Naples, and a Masters in Physics from the University of Perugia.
However, flying has been his life: he graduated from Italy's Aeronautics Academy and went on to a career in the Italian Air Force, where he flew combat-ready Tornado GR-1 strike aircraft for three years. During that time, he qualified as a formation leader and was promoted Squadron Commander.
Roberto has logged nearly 2500 hours in over 40 different aircraft types. His notable flying skills led him to test pilot training in the United States – and that was when the ambition to become an astronaut first struck him.
Back in his native Italy, he spent several years busy with precision flying and technical studies across a range of test programmes, many of them associated with the new Eurofighter 2000.
"In 1998 I was flying from the test centre at Pratica di Mare, near Rome, when I heard that the Italian space agency was looking for astronauts. I had to apply."
In July 1998 he was selected as an astronaut by ASI and, one month later, he joined the European Astronaut Corps.
For his third mission to space, Roberto moved to the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, to continue his training. Married with three children, he also looks towards a mission to Mars. "That extraordinary journey will be for the next generation of astronauts. In a few years' time, spaceflight could be at least a little easier and much more accessible to people."


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RICHMOND, Va. – After falling in extra innings Friday, Virginia Commonwealth University recovered and picked up a doubleheader sweep against Fairfield University with wins of 7-6 and 3-2 on Saturday afternoon at The Diamond.
The Rams have won four of their first six games to start the year, while Fairfield drops to 1-2 after three games.
"I thought we had great production out of our starting pitching today and came up with some good stops defensively," said VCU Head Coach Paul Keyes. "But we have to stop walking guys late in the game. It's something we haven't done a very good job of and it led to a loss out here last night and it almost cost us again today.
"Every game we're getting a better feel for what we need to do as a coaching staff to get these guys ready to go. At this point in the season we are just trying to find the nine guys that want to go out there and compete. We have a much better feel of that after today."
VCU pressured the Stags the entire day as the Black & Gold had at least one batter reach safely in 11 of its 14 innings Saturday, including all eight trips to the plate in game one.
Greg Fujii drew a walk on four straight pitches to start the first contest before John Lenherr sent a charge into left field and nearly missed his first home run as a Ram but the ball landed just a few feet shy of the wall.
Richard Gonzalez continued with a single up the middle and stole second to put a pair of runners in scoring position with one out. Van Meter worked a full count but went down on strikes and Paul Nice contributed a two-RBI single into center to put the Rams on top early, 2-0.
Jason Rago laced a one-out double into the gap in left center and advanced to third on a wild pitch in the top of the second. Rago came home on a groundout by Marco Garamella to pull the Stags within 2-1.
Chris Horning was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out in the top of the fifth inning and Rago tied the score at 2-2 as he came home on a passed ball and Fairfield went ahead after an RBI-groundout by Ryan Furbeck. Rams' starter Blake Hauser struck out Rafferty in what would have ended the inning, but his offering slid past catcher Nate Furry and the Stags increased their lead to 4-2.
VCU cut Fairfield's advantage in half in the bottom of the fifth as starter Scott Gussaroff issued a pair of walks to begin the inning. With one out, Van Meter came through with his first hit of the afternoon, a double into left center and got the Rams within 4-3.
The Black and Gold loaded the bases as three straight batters reached with two outs in the seventh. Van Meter singled to left, Nice reached on a throwing error and Michael Cheatham was hit by a pitch. Taylor Perkins came off the bench and crushed a ball into the right center gap, which cleared the bases and VCU regained the lead at 6-4.
Van Meter, who made his first appearance on the mound and picked up a save after tossing the final two innings in game one, was among a furry of defensive changes for VCU in the eighth. The Rams picked up an insurance run in the bottom of the frame as Fujji got things started with a standup double to left field. He then scored on an RBI-single by Lenherr to make it 7-4.
Fairfield made it interesting late as seven consecutive batters reached to start the ninth but the Stags, who left the bases loaded to end the game, could only manage two runs on two hits and one VCU error.
Hauser picked up his first collegiate win for VCU going seven innings allowing four runs (one earned) on three hits with four strikeouts and no walks.
In game two, Rams' starter Michael Graham retired six straight and 12 of the first 13 batters he faced. Carmine DeVito was the only Stag to reach base during the first four frames as he doubled to center to lead off the third inning. Harring then popped up and Lenherr made a diving catch on a line drive to keep the streak going.
VCU took a 2-0 lead for the second time in as many games after plating two runs in the bottom of the second. Van Meter and Nice reached on a walk and hit by pitch, respectively, to start the inning. Nick Kime came through with his first collegiate hit to plate Van Meter before Nice scored after an RBI groundout by Perkins.
Lenherr contributed an RBI single to put VCU on top 3-0 in the third.
However, Fairfield got to Graham a bit in the fifth and scored a pair of runs. Anthony Hajjar singled to start the frame and Rago followed with a walk to put runners on first and second with no out. DeVito advanced the runners after tapping back to Graham, who allowed two runs on three hits in five innings of work to earn his first win of the year, and Haring got the Stags on the board and pulled within a run on a two-RBI singled to center.
For the third time in the series Fairfield would threaten in the final frame. After Hajjar struck out looking to start the seventh, Jonathan Watson issued back-to-back walks and a passed ball put runners in scoring position with one out. Watson settled down and struck out Harning before Aaron Morgan, who induced a fly ball for the final out, picked up his first save of the season and completed the Saturday sweep.
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Breville's high-tech electronic toaster anticipates your every preference, supplementing five precise toasting levels with a special function that provides a touch of extra browning at the end of the cycle.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by JackDaniels from Slim style We needed a toaster for a narrow cabinet and thus model fit perfectly. We've had ours for over 3 years with no problem.Date published: 2017-10-15Rated 1 out of 5 by SGBRJB from The original and the replacement were defective We registered for this toaster and were very excited to take it out of the box. The flashy electronic features made it seem more hi-tech than it actually was. IT WORKED TWICE, before the lights started flashing. We promptly returned it to WS and were given a replacement. Again, the toaster WORKED TWICE, before it also stopped working. The electronic features on this toaster have not been thoughtfully engineered. This toaster should still be in R&D and not on the market. Very disappointed, and will be skeptical of other Breville products going forward.Date published: 2016-12-21Rated 2 out of 5 by Bronson from Great idea but poor performance I loved this toaster for the two weeks it worked, great design and great features. However, it did stop working. The lights started flashing, made clicking noise and it would no longer function while toasting average piece of bread. It recovered twice after unplugging and waiting, but I didn't want to take the chance it would stop functioning again, or worse, so I returned it. I think it has some engineering defects.Date published: 2015-11-20Rated 5 out of 5 by Sue1356 from Nice toaster Works great love the features! Only wish they had the same toaster in stainless, other then that so far... a great buy.Date published: 2015-11-14Rated 5 out of 5 by Chazzee from Best Toaster EVER!!! I bought this for my husband, and he cannot stop talking about it! He absolutely is in love with it! It makes a perfect toast, and with the setup, it is a no brainer. Great purchase!Date published: 2015-10-18Rated 5 out of 5 by SalemSoxFan from Best toaster I've ever had I've had this toaster for several weeks, using it practically every day, and could not be more pleased. It toasts beautifully. It handles a variety of bread sizes and shapes. The "Just a bit more" feature is great for just a bit more toasting. And, it is attractively designed. Would recommend this unreservedly.Date published: 2015-09-03Rated 5 out of 5 by CookieL from Best Toaster Ever! I spent a lot of time looking at toasters and reading reviews. I settled on this option and am so pleased that I did. It is consistent in performance and toasts much more quickly than the last toaster we had. We are very satisfied. It is somewhat large and bulky for minimal counter space, however, the positives outweigh the size and design.Date published: 2015-03-18Rated 5 out of 5 by Pburk1 from Wish I Bought This Sooner! For forty years I have "made due" with cheap toasters. Finally broke down and bought the Breville. My daughter received one for a wedding gift, and I have wanted one ever since! Toasts quickly and evenly,push one button and toast slides down and then quietly beeps when done! Such a great toaster!Date published: 2015-01-19
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Survival of the fleetest.
Video game people, unlike real people, don't have a lot of hang-ups, personal traumas, or plain old common sense to get in the way of massacring villages of zombie folk or throwing down against giant monsters. That's part of the fantasy, after all. We dream that in a survival-horror pinch, we would calmly execute a headshot instead of the more probable and sensible "soil your pants, then hide" maneuver.
After years of S.T.A.R.S. bravado, I remember thinking how cool it would be to play a survival-horror game in which the lead character actually behaved like a normal, non-suicidal person. Would they constantly freak out, act jumpy, and crawl into dark corners to avoid confrontation instead of actively seek it out?
That's essentially the premise of Capcom's Haunting Ground, a survival-horror game that owes more to the unsung Clock Tower series than Resident Evil. But after playing for a while as an easily frightened, totally defenseless girl, I began to reconsider whether the run-like-hell paradigm was one with which I truly wanted to spend my time.
Despite the realistic tactics, the story and setting are completely unreal. Trapped in a run-of-the-mill evil castle, your character, Fiona, must work through the typical elaborate locks and puzzles (set by whom? why?) to escape the evil intentions of the mansion's four other inhabitants. Along the way, you'll discover a dark alchemical plot by an evil mastermind to sustain his life by ending yours.
While the story is okay, the setting is too formulaic. I've seen enough cathedral ceilings and spooky antechambers to know a cornice from a cupola, and I'm ready to move on. How about a haunted trailer park or something? Propane tanks might make for some pretty neat traps.
The big twist, if you want to call it that, is your canine companion, Hewey. You can command Hewey by using the right analog-stick, and his attack is your only real defense against bad guys. Hewey also sniffs up items and helps spring those pesky locks. However, Hewey also tends to wander off, disobey commands, and watch curiously while you get mauled. Stupid mutt. By praising and scolding Hewey at appropriate times, you are supposed to be able to "train" the dog. But while original in spirit, training Hewey gets old pretty quick: "Who's a good boy? Yes, you are a good boy. What a good doggie-woggie!" It's unclear whether any of it works. Plus, talking to fake dogs just doesn't do it for me. Maybe I'll think differently after Nintendogs.
I suppose that the dog is supposed to be the best bit in the game, but it turns out to be the most distracting. Hewey only helps with entirely scripted puzzles and his attacks can only slow down attackers, not kill them. For a dog raised in a mansion of horrors, he should have learned to go for the jugular.
Instead, what really deserves to be praised – "yes, you are a good game, [scratch behind ear]" – are the insanely cinematic graphics. While I object to the mansion on conceptual grounds, the grounds themselves look great. The character models, particularly the facial expressions, are spectacular. The minute tweaks needed to turn the sweet smile of a friend into the evil smirk of a robotic handmaid have never been so magisterially performed. Although Fiona's breasts seem to have gotten the virtual treatment so common these days, the over-sexualization of the character actually serves a purpose.
You see, each of the four bad guys you face (although one comes in several forms) has some nefarious designs on your, uh, reproductive organs. It is never specified quite exactly what they want, but such creepy pick-up lines as "Let me into your womb!" leave little room for misunderstanding. Instead of running and hiding from death, you seem to be running and hiding from sexual assault like a co-ed at a college football party.
But despite your lack of defenses, creepy surroundings, and violent effect on members of the opposite sex, the game doesn't get very scary. The bad guys, with one notable exception, all look pretty dopey and have a hard time hitting you as long as you're moving. You are supposed to hide; a few specified "hiding" places are provided for that purpose. However, if the bad guys see you hide – and they will – the game is up. This means you must gain at least a two-room lead on them before trying to hide, which means a lot of running. Often you will get yourself lost backtracking through the mansion, only to have to do it again when you finally get yourself righted.
When Fiona gets really scared, your control over her becomes erratic and the screen blurs. If she enters "Panic mode," she flips out, frequently falling down and into walls. It mimics what I imagine to be a more appropriate response to attempted homicide, but doesn't really affect the basic formula of run, run, run, hide.
Thankfully, there are no load times between rooms, so running through them doesn't take much time. Still, the running itself is a drag and the hiding is hardly ever effective. Sometimes animations are unforgivably slow, such as when Fiona opens and closes doors (does she really need to pause and line herself up perfectly with the door before touching the handle?). Even when you are caught, it is almost impossible to be killed. In a fit of frustration, I let Fiona get slashed repeatedly with a big shard of glass. A quick death? Hardly – it took nearly five agonizing minutes. Running backwards may be torture, but being tortured is, well, boring.
Encounters with bad guys are infrequent, so much of the game is spent wandering around the gorgeous areas solving inane puzzles. At best, the huge, vacant locales and speechless friendship makes the game reminiscent of ICO, working overtime to convey the sense of a small camaraderie within a large, unfriendly universe. But the puzzles and the baddies, basically the gameplay, ruin the sometimes perfect mood.
Haunting Ground sounds all right, even if there is almost too much attention paid to the atmospheric music. When the bad guys approach, the music stops; this means that your ear is always attuned to the slightest variation in sound. Unfortunately, remarks like "Good boy!" and "Go Hewey!" are repetitive, obtuse and never ending.
Well, that isn't entirely true, as the game itself ends after about 8 hours. There are multiple endings, multiple costumes and the requisite mini-game, but the mechanics of the running, hiding, and dodging never quite feel right, removing the more threatening aspects of being on your own as a babe in a prison full of sex offenders. Haunting Ground isn't much fun the first time through, isn't worth playing a second time, and doesn't need to be any longer despite its brevity.
While visually pleasing and moving in its best moments, the game is too slow for action gamers and too irritating for casual adventure fans. The plot is weird enough that some collectors and video game novelty-seekers might find it worth their money, but ultimately, nothing can save Haunting Ground from its own tedious gameplay. Run and hide, indeed.


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In an LA Times story about how the networks are desperate for young viewers CBS's head of scheduling Kelly Kahl said: "You can't read the next day's [ratings] numbers and take a real meaningful read from them anymore."
We have no axe to grind with Mr. Kahl. All he's ever done is entertain us on Twitter and schedule the only network that didn't have the Super Bowl with 18-49 ratings growth this season. Sure, technically that growth is a PR bonus born of statistics since through last Sunday, CBS's average number of 18-49 viewers in primetime was exactly the same as last yea. But because the Nielsen universe estimate for the number of TV viewing adults 18-49 shrank this season vs. last, CBS has eked out a small gain in terms of the rating.
Like any reasonable person trying to gauge the popularity of the show, I too agree that the daily ratings aren't very meaningful in gauging total popularity. But advertisers don't care about total popularity, they care how many people saw the commercials. From what we can tell, the daily program ratings usually track pretty closely, relatively speaking, with what advertisers actually care about.
So the question is "meaningful to what?" If it's to the total popularity of the show, nope, those numbers aren't very meaningful. But the daily ratings have consistently been useful to figuring our what a network's best and worst shows are and what shows will be renewed and canceled. That usefulness hardly seems coincidental so from that perspective useful = meaningful.
Do Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory add truckloads of viewers on DVR past the day they air? Of course they do. But we don't need to see those numbers to know they're their networks highest rated shows. Whether it's the next day or two to three weeks later when the Live+7 ratings come out, the result, relatively, is the same. Did CBS wait for the Live+7 numbers on How To Be a Gentleman came out before it canceled the show? Nope.
Unforgettable's Live+SD ratings rank it 59th out of 154 English language primetime broadcast shows this season. With the extra six days of DVR viewing, it rises to tied for 57th. But if CBS renews Unforgettable we might have to concede something mattered more than the daily ratings — even if it wasn't the DVR ratings.
Based on the daily ratings, we're very clearly not expecting Unforgettable to be renewed.


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A new Gallup poll indicates clearly, perhaps for the first time, that the GOP 2012 presidential race now consists of just three candidates – Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.
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Lower ground floor plan, "Tranquility Defined." (Click to view larger image.)
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