Holiday Inn plans third hotel in Rome

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is planning its third Holiday Inn hotel in Rome, the Holiday Inn Rome ? Pisana.

Holiday Inn Rome ? Pisana is due to open in quarter four of 2013, following a conversion from an existing hotel brand to an IHG branded hotel, and will operate under a franchise agreement with Roma Ovest S.r.l., part of JSH Group.

Featuring 229 bedrooms, two restaurants and an elegant lounge bar, the Holiday Inn Rome ? Pisana is ideal for leisure travellers wanting to relax in a modern welcoming environment.? The hotel?s seven meeting rooms equipped with the latest audio and visual technologies, and the addition of free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel caters to the needs of business travellers frequenting the city of Rome.

IHG?s Director of Development for Italy, Domenico Magnati, said: ?The addition of this hotel to our portfolio of Holiday Inn properties in Rome is in line with our growth strategy for Europe. Our increased presence in this region will not only offer travellers a greater choice of hotels and improved flexibility, but will ensure we continue to anticipate the needs of our guests and respond to market demand.?

The hotel is located halfway between Rome City Centre and Rome Fiumicino Airport allowing easy travel to Rome?s impressive historical sites including the Vatican Museum, St. Peter?s Basilica, Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum.

IHG has 32 hotels (5, 026) rooms open in Italy, with another four in the pipeline that will open in the next three to five years.

The Holiday Inn brand is now the largest hotel brand in the world with over 400,000 rooms in over 100 countries.

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Iraq speaker warns of prison raid security fallout

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's parliament speaker warned Thursday that the escape this week of hundreds of inmates during al-Qaida-claimed raids on prisons outside Baghdad will make the country's rapidly deteriorating security even worse.

The warning came just hours after militants carried out a bold ambush on truckers north of the capital, killing 14 people.

The Sunday night attack on the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and another lock-up in Taji, both on the outskirts of Baghdad, underscored the extent of the challenges facing Iraqi authorities as they struggle to keep the country safe. More than 550 people have been killed in violent attacks so far this month.

Dozens of people, mainly members of the security forces and inmates, were killed in the attacks. Iraqi officials have yet to release a comprehensive account of the raids, but there is little dispute that several hundred inmates, including members of al-Qaida, escaped.

At a press conference Thursday in Baghdad, the parliament speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi, said the latest reports indicate that more than 500 prisoners escaped ? a figure similar to what other Iraqi officials have provided ? and noted that a parliamentary committee is investigating what happened.

"The situation is grave," said al-Nujaifi, a Sunni who has frequently criticized the Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "We don't know who they are and how dangerous they are, but this situation will be reflected negatively on the security situation."

Al-Qaida's Iraq branch claimed responsibility for the prison attacks Tuesday. Interpol issued its security alert Wednesday to warn counties in the region about the fugitives, calling the breakouts "a major threat to global security."

Many of the escaped prisoners were senior members of al-Qaida in Iraq, including some who were facing the death penalty, according to Interpol.

A new ambush targeting Shiites in northern Iraq highlighted the spiraling deterioration of security in the country.

Insurgents outside the village of Sarha launched mortar rounds at a nearby military base and bombed a communication tower to distract security forces. Then they quickly set up a fake checkpoint on a nearby highway to stop passing vehicles, said Col. Hussein Ali Rasheed, the police chief in nearby Tuz Khormato, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad.

The corpses of 14 drivers and passengers in a convoy of trucks caught at the checkpoint, all of them Shiites, were later found, each killed by gunshot wounds to the head, Rasheed said.

In the northern city of Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, militants shot and killed three off-duty soldiers as they were leaving a restaurant, provincial health official Raed Ibrahim said. The soldiers were on their way to Baghdad from Mosul.

And in the city of Kirkuk, a parked car bomb targeted a passing police patrol on Thursday morning, critically wounding six policemen, police Col. Salah Abdul-Qadir said. Kirkuk is 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad.

Also, police said gunmen using pistols fitted with silencers shot and killed four people, including two street cleaners, in three separate incidents in Baghdad.

Thursday night, a bomb exploded during a small wedding party held in a house in Baghdad's Amiriyah neighborhood, killing three people and wounding 16 others, including some women and children, police and hospital officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to journalists.

Insurgents in recent months have ramped up attacks on civilians and government forces throughout Iraq.

The violence has reached levels not seen since 2008, fueling worries of a return to the widespread sectarian killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. More than 3,000 people have been killed since April.

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Associated Press writers Adam Schreck and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.

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One Direction's 'This Is Us' Captures 'The Ups, The Downs' Of 1D

Producer Ben Winston opens up to MTV News about how 1D's reality beats out any movie script for the August 30 doc.
By Jocelyn Vena

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[NFL: New York Giants] - Preview Report: Tight Ends, O-line, and Rookies

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Sony NEX-3NL 16MP DSLR Camera Bundle for $410 + free shipping

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BuyDig offers the Sony NEX-3NL 16.1-Megapixel Interchangeable Lens Mirrorless Digital SLR Camera bundled with the Sony SELP1650 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens in Black, model no. NEX-3NL/B, and accessories for the in-cart price of $409.99 with free shipping . That's $39 under the lowest total price we could find for the camera and lens alone. It features a 180? tilting LCD, 1080p video recording, and face detection. The accessories include a 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC memory card, wireless shutter release remote control, cleaning kit, and screen protector 3-pack. [Read more] ? ? ? ? ...

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Heat Shield for NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Set for 2014 Test Flight

WILMINGTON, Mass. ? Work on the heat shield for NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle ? America's next-generation spacecraft that could transport astronauts on missions to Mars ? is on track toward an ambitious test launch in 2014.

Since spring, teams of engineers and technicians from Massachusetts-based Textron Defense Systems have been meticulously applying Avcoat, a proprietary thermal ablation and insulation material, to the heat shield, which will protect the Orion capsule and its crew from the extreme heat generated during high-speed re-entry into the atmosphere after a deep-space flight.

Two reporters for SPACE.com and other members of the media received a sneak peek of the heat shield on Wednesday (July 17) during a press viewing here at Textron's manufacturing plant. Officials and managers from NASA, Lockheed Martin (the prime contractor for the Orion program) and Textron were on hand to answer questions about the project from the nearly 100 people gathered at the plant. [See Photos of Orion's Heat Shield]

The Orion vehicle is scheduled for launch into space without a crew in September of 2014 as part of its Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). The maiden flight will evaluate the system design and performance of the spacecraft, which is intended to send humans on future explorations of an asteroid, the moon and, ultimately, Mars.

At 16.4 feet (5 meters) in diameter, the Orion heat shield is the largest and most advanced composite heat shield ever built. Textron originally developed the lightweight Avcoat ablative material in the 1960s for use on the Apollo command module.

Made of epoxy novolac resin in a fiberglass honeycomb matrix, Avcoat works by "burning off" as it heats up, dissipating thermal energy away from the capsule's structure. The material had a 100 percent success rate during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs, safely leading astronauts to 15 ocean splashdowns, and was thus chosen for the job of protecting Orion and its future crews as they head off to destinations never before visited by humans.

"Avcoat is the only man-rated ablative material that exists today that can handle the extreme temperatures of high-speed re-entry following a deep-space mission," Ian Walsh, Textron Defense System's senior vice president and general manager, told SPACE.com. "We are proud to provide this state-of-the-art technology to NASA and help the country push the boundary of space exploration to the next level with our thermal protection material."

After Textron completes applying the Avcoat, the shield will be flown down to Cape Canaveral, Fla., where it will be mated to the bottom of the Orion crew module for its 2014 orbital test flight.

During this mission, the Orion capsule will be boosted atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Base to a distance of nearly 3,700 miles (6,000 km) from Earth ? farther than any spacecraft built for humans has traveled since Apollo 17 in 1972.

After completing two orbits, Orion's heat shield will be put to the test as the spacecraft plunges back to Earth, reaching speeds of up to 20,000 miles per hour (32,000 km/h) ? faster than the space shuttle or any current spacecraft. The shield must be able to withstand temperatures up to 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3,300 degrees Celsius), more than half the surface temperature of the sun, as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

Unlike the space shuttle, which landed on a runway like a commercial jetliner, the Orion capsule will parachute back to Earth Apollo-style, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

If all tests go well, Orion's first full-scale but unmanned flight is expected to take place in 2017, during which the spacecraft will be launched on top of NASA's new Space Launch System.

Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre can't wait to watch the launch of Orion's first astronaut crew from Cape Canaveral in 2021. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.

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Scalp-Cooling Cap Could Prevent Hair Loss During Cancer Treatment

Hair loss can happen when chemotherapy drugs travel throughout the body to kill cancer cells. Some of the drugs damage the hair follicles. Radiation therapy to the head can also be a cause of hair loss. Most often, hair loss begins within 2 weeks of the start of treatment and gets worse 1 to 2 months after starting therapy.

It isn?t about vanity, says Miriam Lipton, 45, one of twenty participants in a clinical trial in San Francisco. It?s about feeling good about yourself. ?If you look OK on the outside, it can help you feel ?OK, this is manageable. I can get through this.? Ms. Lipton is a breast cancer survivor who lost her hair 2 weeks after beginning her first rounds of chemotherapy.

During Ms. Lipton?s second bout with the disease, researchers tested a scalp-cooling cap in an effort to prevent hair loss. The theory behind the DigniCap and others like it is that chilling the scalp to 41 degrees can reduce blood flow to the brain, thereby reducing the ability of the chemotherapy drugs to reach the hair follicles.

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Most of the clinical trial participants kept more than half their hair. Ms. Lipton says that hers thinned at the crown where the cap didn?t fit snugly, but overall she says ?It was easier. I felt normal much more quickly.? The most common side effect is headache from the cold.

Unfortunately, however, the caps may also interfere with the effectiveness of the treatment itself. To study this, Dr. Hope Rugo of the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Susan Melin of North Carolina?s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have recruited 110 early-stage breast cancer patients. Participants' hair will be photographed for experts to assess, and they'll be compared with a small group of similar patients who get chemo alone.

The researchers hope that their study will lead to FDA approval for the DigniCap to be used in the US. Currently patients can rent a similar product, called Penguin Cold Caps, from a British company for $455 per month.

"Do they work and are they safe? Those are the two big holes. We just don't know," said American Cancer Society spokeswoman Kimberly Stump-Sutliff, an oncology nurse who said studies abroad haven't settled those questions. "We need to know."

Hair-preserving approaches need good testing, adds Dr. Laura Esserman, a UCSF breast cancer specialist. "If it matters to our patients, it should matter to us," she said. "It's really not more complicated than that."

In the meantime, the American Cancer Society offers the following tips for cancer patients experiencing hair loss:
? If you think you might want a wig, buy it before treatment begins or at the very start of treatment when the shop can better match your color and texture. Try on several styles until you find one you really like. Keep in mind that synthetic wigs need less styling than human hair wigs which may be easier if you have low energy during treatment. Ask if the wig can be adjusted ? your wig size can shrink as you lose hair.
? Be sure to get a prescription from your doctor for the wig because it may be covered by insurance.
? Some people find wigs to be hot or itchy. In that case, turbans or scarves can be used instead of wigs. Cotton items tend to stay on your smooth scalp better than nylon or polyester.
? Hair loss can be somewhat reduced by avoiding too much brushing or pulling of hair and by avoiding heat (such as electric rollers, hair dryers, and curling irons). Be gentle when brushing or combing (use a wide-toothed comb). Avoid styles that pull on the hair such as braids or ponytails.
? Wear a hair net at night, or sleep on a satin pillowcase to keep hair from coming out in clumps.
? If you are bothered by hair falling out, you may choose to cut your hair very short or even shave your head.
? Wear a hat or scarf outdoors in cold weather to reduce the loss of body heat.
? Use sunscreen, sunblock, or a hat to protect your scalp from the sun.
? When new hair starts to grow, it may break easily at first. Avoid perms for the first few months. Keep hair short and easy to style.

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Bees 'betray' their flowers when pollinator species decline

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: their floral "sweethearts" produce significantly fewer seeds. The results show how reduced competition among pollinators disrupts floral fidelity, or specialization, among the remaining bees in the system, leading to less successful plant reproduction. The alarming trend suggests that global declines in pollinators could have a bigger impact on flowering plants and food crops than was previously realized.

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Adjunct Animal Science Instructor

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Posted: 07/21/2013 | Employer: Bismarck State College ADJUNCT Animal SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR(S)(Internal/External)SUMMARY OF POSITION: Opportunities exist for part-time, temporary Animal Science Instructor(s) to teach an introductory Animal Science lab and/or lecture offered on-campus. Lab times are Monday and Wednesday from 1 pm - 4pm.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Appropriate bachelor's degree in agriculture discipline. Ability to work cooperatively with diverse groups. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Good computer software skills - Microsoft Office Suite-Word, Excel, etc., Outlook E-mail and Calendar, and strong Internet familiarity. Valid ND driver's license with the ability to drive a 15 passenger van. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Appropriate master's degree. Teaching experience. Experience with non-traditional teaching methods such as facilitating group work, use of inquiry-based and other active learning pedagogies, and/or contextualized instruction.COMPENSATION: Competitive salary will be based on degree and credit hours taught.APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 5, 2013 or until filled. Applications must include the following: BSC faculty application, cover letter, resume, and transcripts (undergraduate and graduate). (NOTE: Incomplete applications will not be considered. Veterans preference does not apply to this position).STARTING DATE: August 26, 2013.For more information or assistance contact: Human Resour ...

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Anticipation for Pope Francis trip grows in Brazil

A sand sculpture that resembles Pope Francis sits on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday, July 21, 2013. Pope Francis, the 76-year-old Argentine who became the church's first pontiff from the Americas in March, will return Monday to the embrace of Latin America to preside over the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day festival.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A sand sculpture that resembles Pope Francis sits on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday, July 21, 2013. Pope Francis, the 76-year-old Argentine who became the church's first pontiff from the Americas in March, will return Monday to the embrace of Latin America to preside over the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day festival.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Pope Francis holds a bag at Rome's Fiumicino international airport, Monday, July 22, 2013. It's wheels up on Pope Francis' first trip abroad as pontiff. A special Alitalia flight carrying Francis, his entourage and journalists who will cover him on his week-long visit to Brazil took off 10 minutes behind schedule Monday from Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. Keeping to his example that the Catholic church must be humble, Francis carried his own black hand luggage. He even kept holding it with his left hand while he used his left to shake hands with some of the VIPs who turned out to wish him well and while he climbed the stairs to the jet's entrance. Among the dignitaries was Italian Premier Enrico Letta. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis holds a bag as he boards a plane at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci international airport, Monday, July 22, 2013. It's wheels up on Pope Francis' first trip abroad as pontiff. A special Alitalia flight carrying Francis, his entourage and journalists who will cover him on his week-long visit to Brazil took off 10 minutes behind schedule Monday from Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. Keeping to his example that the Catholic church must be humble, Francis carried his own black hand luggage. He even kept holding it with his left hand while he used his left to shake hands with some of the VIPs who turned out to wish him well and while he climbed the stairs to the jet's entrance. Among the dignitaries was Italian Premier Enrico Letta. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

A wooden cross, symbol of the World Youth Day given to young people of the church in 1983 by Pope John Paul II, is carried along Copacabana beach by pilgrims in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday July 21, 2013. Pope Francis, the 76-year-old Argentine who became the church's first pontiff from the Americas in March, will return Monday to the embrace of Latin America to preside over the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day festival. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentinian pilgrims takes pictutres in Rio de Janeiro Sunday July 21, 2013, with a giant television monitor erected for the papal visit in the background. Pope Francis arrives July 22 in Rio de Janeiro for the World Youth Day.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) ? Pope Francis flew toward the warm embrace of his home continent on Monday while expressing concern for a generation of youth growing up jobless as the world economy sputters.

The message during the pope's first international trip should resonate with the young people in the mammoth crowds expected at a papal Mass on Rio's Copacabana beach and other ceremonies during Francis' seven days in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation.

During his stay, the 76-year-old Argentine-born pontiff will meet with legions of young Catholics converging for the church's World Youth Festival in Rio, a seaside Sin city better known for hedonistic excess. More than 1 million people are expected to pack the white sands of Copacabana for the Mass celebrated by Francis. He will also visit a tiny chapel in a trash-strewn slum, and make a side trip to venerate Brazil's patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida.

The pontiff is expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) Monday.

During his flight from Rome, Francis warned about youth unemployment in some countries in the double digits, telling about 70 journalists aboard the papal plane that there is a "risk of having a generation that hasn't worked." He said, "Young people at this moment are in crisis."

He didn't specify any country or region, but much of Europe is seeing those gloomy youth joblessness numbers, especially in Greece, Spain and Italy. Brazil is in far better shape than European nations, with unemployment at an all-time low after a decade of economic expansion.

"I'm here for faith! I'm here for joy! And I'm here for the first Latino pope!" Ismael Diaz, a 27-year-old pilgrim wrapped in the flag of his native Paraguay, said as he bounded down the stone sidewalks of Copacabana hours ahead of Francis' arrival.

Diaz gave high fives to four fellow pilgrims, then turned toward local beachgoers who looked back at him while calmly sipping green coconut water and staring from behind dark sunglasses.

"I'm here because I have the force of God in me and want to make disciples of all. Arghhhhhhhhhh!" he yelled, lifting his head and howling into Rio's hot, humid air before flexing his arms and striking a bodybuilder's pose.

Alex Augusto, a 22-year-old seminarian dressed in the bright green official T-shirt for pilgrims, said Monday that he and five friends made the journey from Brazil's Sao Paulo state to "show that contrary to popular belief, the church isn't only made up of older people, it's full of young people. We want to show the real image of the church."

It would be easy for Francis if all Catholics shared the fervor of some of its younger members. But Diaz, Augusto and their fellow pilgrims are the exception in Brazil and much of Latin America, a region with more faithful than any other in the world but where millions have left the church for rival Pentecostal evangelical churches or secularism.

A poll from the respected Datafolha group published Sunday in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo said 57 percent of Brazilians age 16 and older call themselves Catholic, the lowest ever recorded. Six years ago, when Pope Benedict XVI visited, a poll by the same firm found 64 percent considered themselves among the faithful. In 1980, when Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Brazil, 89 percent listed themselves as Catholics, according to that year's census.

Pentecostal evangelicals stood at 19 percent of the population in the latest poll, rising from virtually nothing three decades ago by aggressively proselytizing in Brazil's slums.

There is also a huge gap in the level of participation in the different churches, a fervor factor that deeply troubles the Catholic Church. The Datafolha poll said 63 percent of Pentecostal evangelicals report going to church at least once a week, while only 28 percent of Catholics say they attend Mass weekly.

Datafolha interviewed 3,758 people across Brazil on June 6-7 and said the poll had a margin error of 2 percentage points.

During his flight to Brazil, Francis also expressed concern about the elderly, saying older people should not be isolated or "thrown away ... as if they had nothing to offer us."

"A people has a future if it goes forward with bridges: with the young people having the strength to bring it forward and the elderly because they have the wisdom of life," the pope said. The elderly have "the wisdom of history, the wisdom of a nation, the wisdom of a family, and we need this."

Francis has spoken often of the need for humility in the church, and he kept to that message Monday; the pope carried his own black hand luggage as he boarded a special Alitalia flight from Rome.

"Every pope is different, and Pope Francis is showing himself to be extremely charismatic, with a language that is simple and direct," Sao Paulo Cardinal Odilo Scherer said.

Playing out alongside the papal visit is political unrest in Brazil, where widespread anti-government protests that began last month have continued and are expected to occur outside Rio's Guanabara Palace, the seat of state power where Francis is to meet with President Dilma Rousseff on Monday evening.

With the exception of gay rights groups and others angered by the church's doctrine against abortion and same-sex marriages, the target of most protesters won't be Francis but the government and political corruption. The pontiff is said to support Brazilians peacefully taking to the streets, and when he was a cardinal in Buenos Aires he didn't shy from conflict with Argentina's leaders as he railed against corruption.

When Francis talks with Rousseff, they are likely to focus on the poor. Upon taking office, the Brazilian leader declared that eradicating extreme poverty was her top goal as president, and she has expanded a network of social welfare programs that have helped lift almost 30 million Brazilians out of poverty in the last decade.

"Unlike his predecessors, who had a theoretical understanding, Francis has a pastoral understanding honed by living and working in working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires," said Joseph Palacios, a sociologist at Georgetown University and former Catholic priest who has studied the church.

That's evident to Maria Nascimento, a 60-year-old Catholic living in the Varginha slum that Francis will visit this week.

"God chose wisely when he decided to send this humble man to lead the church," she said, standing in her kitchen where photos of grandchildren's baptisms were stuck to her refrigerator with magnets.

"There's going to be a huge impact on Brazil after he has come and left, after his feet have walked these streets in our slum. He's going to help the church in Brazil, the love here for him is growing so fast."

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Associated Press reporter Bradley Brooks reported from Rio de Janeiro. Jenny Barchfield contributed to this report.

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University Launches New Course On The Benefits of Art in Therapeutic Approaches

Bristol, UK (PRWEB UK) 20 July 2013

As of September 2013 Bristol University will be running a course to teach its students how to apply the creative arts including dance, drama, music, and art as part of a therapeutic treatment program. The field of art therapy has long been a contentious one, with holistic researches claiming benefits for everything from stress and depression to physical illness.

In Western society people tend to view artwork purely as a decorative fashion accessory, a way of displaying personality traits and tastes to the whole world. The typical approach to wellbeing is focused on scientific methods such as medication ? taking a tablet to cure a headache ? to stop the feeling of pain while the problem persists. Holistic art therapies focus on treating the body and mind as a whole, in the belief that a healthy mind will bring about a healthy body.

It has long been established that a beautiful piece of art is enjoyable to look at, and art in its various forms has been enjoyed for thousands of years. Today it is almost impossible to escape the influence of art from advertisements to graffiti, but how much attention do people really take, and how does it really affect the average person.

Studies on art in a therapeutic environment began to emerge in the late 1970/80?s with the groundwork set by Carl Jung, who in 1959, encouraged his patients to create a picture in their mind after having a bad dream in order to visualise their ?unfulfilled desire for growth?. This process ? of creating a picture in the mind to cure stress - was quickly adopted by others in the field.

By choosing the right piece of canvas art it is possible to test this theory in the home. For example many people dream of being far away on a desert island, or winning the lottery and buying a super car, make it happen. With huge online libraries of canvas prints to choose from at http://www.the-canvas-art-shop.co.uk it's easy to find that ideal piece, and make dreams a reality. It doesn?t necessarily require an original piece of art or painting; it can be something as simple as a photo printed onto canvas, to reinvigorate a tired room.

The other side to artistic therapy is the creation of artwork, using various materials and mediums to express feelings and emotions. This approach certainly has benefits regarding relaxation and well being, with participants reporting that such courses have aided them with personal relationships, coping with stress, and even some physical ailments.

By 1980 Dean Simonton published a study detailing work with terminally ill patients and the use of therapeutic imagery. Part of his research included patients being asked to visualize the laser beams attacking the cancer, Simonton found that repeated sessions actually boosted the body?s defenses and accelerated the effects of the cure.

This research continued with patients being asked to draw or paint the pain they were feeling, being able to ?see? the pain they were then asked to imagine this pain leaving their body. They concluded that using these drawings and focusing on being pain-free patients can ?experience a similar, but longer-lasting effect than derived from drugs.?

A therapeutic approach to art and imagery is not restricted purely to the medical profession though. There are many cases of art being used to revitalize public spaces and bring a fresh lease of life to run down communities. Street artists like Banksy work to create artwork that makes the area they live in more colourful, humorous, and occasionally provocative. The spaces we live in, and the art that resides in them shapes the way people feel and cope with the stress of the busy modern world.

For most people the holistic approach to art is limited to the effect on moods and day-to-day life rather than physical well being. Being able to draw or paint emotions is a great way of relieving those pressures however for most people a well-chosen print or poster can be the ideal solution to add some inspiration to dull surroundings. The picture on display in a living room or office could have a huge impact on the general mood of the space, and the atmosphere of a home or office space.

There are a few simple steps to choosing art for the home:

• ????Location ? that plain, dull wall in the office could be an inspiration
• ????Colour ? vibrant reds bring energy and vigour, pastel shades bring calm
• ????Size ? fill the space without taking over the room
• ????Subject ? inspiration, motivation, or just something fun

There is a multitude of ways to find the perfect picture of painting online or in an art gallery ? it?s all a matter of taste. For something more personal it may be a good idea to make artwork at home. Starting with a blank canvas and some paints it's easy to create a personal piece of art ? from abstract splashes of colour to scenic landscapes ? there's no limit to inspiration.

The course run by the City of Bristol College incorporates the whole range of arts as methods of treating mental health issues, substance abuse, special needs, and teaching children. The studies will include:

• ????Creative group work and performance skills
• ????Understanding the therapeutic process
• ????Creative expression with art materials
• ????Making creative arts projects

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The Director of National Intelligence Asks Why People Trust Facebook More Than the Governement

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At the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.,?Robert S. Litt, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, delivered a speech Friday morning, to?discuss the DNI's stance on?PRISM and FISA.

A veteran of ?FISA applications,?covert action reviews,"?computer security, and national security matters, Litt?spent 1993 to 1999?as a Deputy?to the Attorney General at the Department of Justice. He, better than most, has a deep?legal?understanding of how these data collection programs work.

?I want to make a few points about the Fourth Amendment,? said Litt, after launching an argument about??unlawful disclosures? of?government?spying?programs.

Litt explained that our expectation of privacy isn?t legally recognized by?the Supreme Court once we've offered it to a third party. Thus, sifting through third party data doesn?t qualify?on a constitutional level?as invasive to our personal privacy.

This he brought?to an interesting point about volunteered personal?data, and?social media habits. That our willingness to give our information to companies and?social networking websites is baffling to the ODNI.??Why is it that people are willing to expose large quantities of information to private parties but don?t want the Government to have the same information?," he asked.

Now, I'd hate to answer Litt's question so simply by?saying that consumers are extorted by their love of what they?consume,?but it's part of it. And trust in companies?that?give?us free things, that advance self-expression is an inalienable consumer right.?If?the government, theoretically, already knows everything there is to know?when we didn't directly?volunteer our information?it then provides momentum for a?rally cry. The?shame and?disgust?when?Edward Snowden pulled?back the curtain reverberates that?government by virtue is supposed to be more?clear, more?holistic, and an idealized?reflection of ourselves.?

Ironically, its often?the social media platform?that increases our awareness, and spreads?our angelic status updates. But Litt has a strong point here. We'll never forget the latent greed of corporations, but we'll continue to confide in them?as they?feed?our desires ever?more efficiently?than?bureaucrats ever could.

While Snowden's leaks have provoked Jimmy Carter into labeling this government a sham, and void of a functioning democracy, Litt presented how these wide data collection programs are in fact valued by our government, have legal justification, and all the necessary parameters.

Litt, echoing the president and his boss James Clapper, explained?thusly:

"We do not use?our foreign intelligence collection capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies in?order to give American companies a competitive advantage. We do not indiscriminately sweep?up and store the contents of the communications of Americans, or of the citizenry of any country.?We do not use our intelligence collection for the purpose of repressing the citizens of any?country because of their political, religious or other beliefs. We collect metadata?information?about communications?more broadly than we collect the actual content of communications, because it is less intrusive than collecting content and in fact can provide us information that helps us more narrowly focus our collection of content on appropriate targets. But it simply is not true that the United States Government is listening to everything said by every citizen of any country."

It's great that the U.S. government behaves better than comporations on privacy?too bad it trusts/subcontracts corporations to deal with that privacy?but it's an uncomfortable thing to even be in a position of having to compare the two. This is the point Litt misses, and it's not a fine one.

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Church considering split with Boy Scout troop

by Zach Maxwell
Staff Reporter Durant Daily Democrat

Durant Democrat photo: Zach Maxwell A Cub Scouts flag inside the M.E. Dobbins Scout Hut this week, with the shadow of First Baptist Church reflecting off the window.

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After nearly a century of history, Durant First Baptist Church is on the precipice of severing ties with a local Boy Scout troop.

A decision is expected in early August on whether the church will continue sponsorship of Boy Scout Troop 618. A church council is set to discuss First Baptist?s involvement with the Boy Scouts following a May decision by the National Council of Boy Scouts of America allowing openly gay boys to participate in the program.

Based on that declaration, First Baptist is on the verge of taking action. It wasn?t immediately known if other church-sponsored Boy Scout troops were facing similar decisions, although at least one troop affiliated with Durant First United Methodist Church appeared to be safe from such a transition.

?We talked about where that left us as a church,? said Jim Hodson, Minister to Children at First Baptist. ?Our committee decided that the (national) Scouts had walked away from where we are as a church. They have put us in a place where we cannot teach what we believe is true, through this program.?

Troop 618 Scoutmaster Gary Burleson says he has not heard back from First Baptist liaisons as of Thursday afternoon.

?I was hoping we could at least meet and talk so some things could be put at ease,? Burleson said. ?I understand their position, but they could have gone about it differently. We can look at this as a positive rather than a negative. They could use this as a mission to reach boys.?

Troop 618, the city?s oldest, stands to lose the most by uprooting from the M.E. Dobbins Scout Hut, a church-owned building which sits across the street from First Baptist. Burleson said the familiar ?618? number also must be retired.

?Troop 618 has been in Durant for 86 years, and we?re going to have to retire that number now,? he said. ?That kind of saddens me, but as a troop, we?ll be okay.?

Offers for troop sponsorship and meeting space have come from the local Elks Lodge, St. John?s Episcopal Church and other Durant churches. And the local Baptist church is already planning to offer an alternative, Southern Baptist-approved activity for boys (www.OnMyHonor.net).

This group, formed in early July in response to the Boy Scouts? decision, is open to ?biologically male children? under the age of 18. Durant First Baptist expects to affiliate with the group by this fall and possibly in time to start operations by the beginning of 2014 when the Boy Scouts inclusion ruling takes effect.

?In terms of sexual identification and behavior, we affirm that any sexual activity outside the context of the covenant of marriage between one man and one woman is sinful before God and therefore inconsistent with the values and principles of the program,? states the OnMyHonor web page. ?Within these limits, we grant membership to adults and youth who do not engage in or promote sexual immorality of any kind, or engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the program.?

Policing these sexual orientation issues, especially among young boys in close quarters and remote settings, is not the desire of either side, both Hodson and Burleson said.

?That?s the confusion that has now arisen,? Hodson said. ?We as Christians, we love everybody. But as Southern Baptists, we believe the homosexual lifestyle is wrong. If there is an individual who is confused about their gender, and if they choose to join or organization, that?s great because we can teach them what we believe is right.?

?We have no discussion of sex, period. That?s better left for parents,? said Burleson. ?This whole issue should be moot. We?re not even dealing with that issue.?

Burleson admitted it could be an issue for troops in other parts of the country.

?It?s not these boys? fault that someone up in a national office messed it up for them,? he said. ?But instead of shutting it down, (the church) could come talk to us.?

Hodson said First Baptist plans to ?maintain the legacy? established by M.E. Dobbins, the first Scoutmaster in Oklahoma with more than 100 Eagle Scouts to his troop?s credit.

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Jesse & the Rippers rock 'Fallon's' Smash Club

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It was 1992 again on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Friday as John Stamos reunited with his "Full House" band, Jesse and the Rippers.

The group, who's '92 cover of the Beach Boys' hit "Forever" topped the charts in Japan, played on a set made to look like the Smash Club, the music venue Stamos' character, Jesse Katsopolis, owned and operated on the sitcom.

But it was more than the band and the club that were revived on "Late Night": Stamos sported the same mullet he had on the show, as well as the popular red-shirt-and-black-leather-vest-and-pants ensemble. (Have mercy!) Jesse and the Rippers re-melted hearts by performing "Forever," Elvis Presley's "Little Sister," The Beatles' "Hippie Hippie Shake," and of course, the "Full House" theme song.

The night was almost a cast reunion, with Bob Saget, who played Danny Tanner, dancing in the audience as the Rippers performed. As the band wrapped up, Lori Loughlin, who played Jesse's wife Becky, walked out onto the stage and kissed her one-time onscreen love.

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Hunka hunka burnin' love! Stamos and Loughlin slipped right back into character as Jesse and Becky on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."

Dave Coulier, who played best friend Joey Gladstone, wasn't able to make it, but tweeted:

Stamos currently stars as Connor McClane on USA's "Necessary Roughness."

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Kerry wins step to resuming Mideast peace talks

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference at Queen Alia International Airport on Friday, July 19, 2013. Kerry says Israel and the Palestinians will meet soon in Washington to finalize an agreement on relaunching peace negotiations for the first time in five years. Kerry has told reporters that he and the two sides "reached an agreement that establishes a basis for direct final status negotiations," but he added that it is "still in the process of being formalized." The announcement Friday came at the end of a visit by Kerry to the region holding several days of talks with both sides. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, on Friday, July 19, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years.(AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

Chief Palesinian negotiator Saeeb Erakat, left, waits for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry before his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, July 19, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Fadi Arouri, Pool)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, July 19, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? After a rush of last-minute talks with Palestinian officials, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sealed a step toward relaunching the long-halted Mideast peace process, announcing Friday that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed on a basis for returning to negotiations.

The statement, which came in a press conference after a day in which Kerry shuttled between the Jordanian capital and the West Bank, reflected how painstakingly incremental movement in the process is. While it appeared deep differences over the groundwork of talks had been bridged, the two sides are to meet ? likely in the coming week ? to work out final details on actually resuming their negotiations on the toughest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Up to the last minute, the Palestinians had been reluctant to sign on to Kerry's formula for returning to the table with the Israelis, five years after talks broke down.

Late Thursday, the Palestinian leadership said it was sticking by its demand that any negotiations on final borders between Israel and a Palestinian state be based on the cease-fire line that held from 1949 until the 1967 war, when Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. Israel rejects preconditions on the talks.

Kerry held extended talks Friday morning with top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in Amman, then spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry then flew by helicopter to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah, although his departure was delayed by nearly three hours.

Returning to Amman, Kerry told reporters, "We have reached an agreement that establishes the basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis." He added, "This is a significant and welcome step forward."

Still, he said "the agreement is still in the process of being formalized" and the Israeli and Palestinian chief negotiators ? Tzipi Livni and Erekat ? would hold initial talks in Washington "within the next week or so."

Kerry would not give details on the agreement on the negotiations' basis. "The best way to give these negotiations a chance is to keep them private," he said. "We know that the challenges require some very tough choices in the days ahead. Today, however, I am hopeful."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended Kerry's efforts and the decision by the parties to return to the negotiating table, pledged U.N. support, and called on both sides "to show leadership, courage, and responsibility to sustain this effort towards achieving the two-state vision," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

Kerry has made winning a resumption of Mideast peace talks a priority, and this was his sixth visit to the region as secretary of state. He has been in the region since Monday, meeting in person with Abbas three times over the course of the week. By contrast, he did not see Netanyahu in person at all, but spoke to him numerous times by phone.

Netanyahu's office said it would not immediately comment on Kerry's announcement.

Hoping to push Israelis and Palestinians toward talks, President Barack Obama asked Netanyahu to work with Kerry "to resume negotiations with Palestinians as soon as possible," according to a statement released by the White House late Thursday.

Final status negotiations aim to reach a deal on the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including borders, the fate of Palestinian refugees and security arrangements. Talks ground to a halt five years ago, and previous efforts to revive them have stalled, particularly over Palestinian demands that Israel announce a freeze in construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which they claim as part of a future state along with Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and it is now ruled by the Hamas militant group, which rivals Abbas' Palestinian Authority.

Thursday night, the Palestinian leadership did not repeat the settlement freeze demand. But officials said they wanted guarantees the 1967 lines would be the basis for talks, saying that if Israel accepts that, it would make most of the settlements illegitimate.

Kerry's announcement suggested that the issue had been resolved. In a statement issued after Kerry spoke, Abbas said "lengthy talks ... have resulted in the Palestinians accepting the resumption of talks."

Abbas said "some details still need to be worked out," but that Israeli and Palestinian officials could be invited to Washington for talks in the coming days.

A senior State Department official said the two sides had agreed on the core elements that will allow direct talks to move forward, and that agreement was not reached until Friday afternoon.

Still to be worked out in the upcoming initial talks is the process of the final status negotiations, including the agenda, the official said. When the sides first meet, they will not be "sitting down to draw a line on the map," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the details.

One question still unanswered is whether the tentative agreement reached by Kerry involved Israel explicitly accepting a reference to the 1967 lines ? or if it involves the U.S. acting as guarantor that they will be the basis for negotiations.

Previous Israeli governments twice negotiated on the basis of the 1967 lines, with talks focusing on land exchanges. But besides disagreeing over how much land to trade and where, the two sides hit logjams on other key issues, including dividing Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees.

Netanyahu has given lukewarm endorsement to the idea of a Palestinian state but has not delineated his vision of boundaries, while demanding that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Palestinians reject that, concerned that it would undermine their claims that millions of refugees and their descendants have the right to return to their original homes, lost in the 1948-49 war surrounding Israel's creation. Israel has rejected that claim outright.

While Kerry has not publicized details of his plan, an Arab League decision Wednesday to endorse his proposal raised speculation that the Palestinians would agree. Abbas traditionally has sought the blessing of his Arab brethren before making any major diplomatic initiative.

Ahmed Majdalani, a Palestinian leader, said Kerry has proposed holding talks for six to nine months focusing on the key issues of borders and security arrangements.

He said Kerry would endorse the 1967 lines as the starting point of negotiations and assured the Palestinians that Israel would free some 350 prisoners gradually in the coming months. The prisoners would include some 100 men that Israel convicted of crimes committed before interim peace accords were signed in 1993. Israel has balked at freeing these prisoners in the past because many were convicted in deadly attacks.

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Daraghmeh reported from Ramallah, West Bank.

Associated Press

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6 current football players join O'Bannon lawsuit

By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Six college football players have been added as plaintiffs to a high-profile lawsuit that claims the NCAA owes billions of dollars to former players for allowing their likenesses to be used without compensation.

The players are: Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham; Clemson cornerback Darius Robinson; linebacker Jake Fischer and kicker Jake Smith from Arizona; and tight end Moses Alipate and wide receiver Victor Keise of Minnesota.

Former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon is the lead plaintiff in the long-running legal battle that could fundamentally alter how the NCAA operates.

A federal judge in Oakland, Calif., on July 5 allowed the attorneys to update their lawsuit to fix legal technicalities, including adding at least one active player to the lawsuit.

The judge is still mulling whether to turn the lawsuit into a class action.

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Ooooh, that smell! Odors rise with the temperature

By Sophia Rosenbaum, NBC News

Your nose doesn't lie - odors intensify in the warm summer months, be they of rotting garbage on the sidewalk or fragrant flowers blooming in a garden.

The combination of heat and humidity allows bacteria to grow faster and smells to travel farther, said Victoria Henshaw, who researches urban smells throughout the world.

?The air becomes a smelly soup that we all breathe in,? Henshaw said.

It's the worst heat wave of the summer season and people across the US are working hard to stay cool. NBC's Melissa Mollet reports.

Unfortunately, rotten aromas trump pleasant scents when it's hot, allowing the odor of pollution to travel further and overpower fruity smells or freshly cut grass.

Humid air traps smells and causes them to linger longer than they usually would, said Avert Gilbert, a smell psychologist. He said it?s not just an intensification of already-present odors like urine and garbage that makes summer?s stinkier.

?Stores open up, restaurants open their doors,? he said, ?There?s just more smells pouring into the streets than on a brisk fall day or a cold winter.?

That means when the fish market owner dumps the ice into the drain, it?s going to fill the air more in the summer than on a cooler, fall day.

Certain smells can fill a room, like cinnamon or popcorn.

?If someone?s mulling wine in your kitchen, it will fill the whole house,? Gilbert said. ?If you walk by a movie theater, the smell of popcorn surrounds you.?

Henshaw takes people on smell walks all across the world, where she said people are more willing to smell things they would normally turn their noses up to.

?With great gusto, people will go up and sniff the trash,? she said.

Human?s sense of smell evolves over their lifetimes. In fact, as babies, humans gravitate toward the smell of feces because it is something they are familiar with, Henshaw said. It isn?t until babies get older that they realize it?s not a good smell, she said.

Since smell is part of our olfactory senses, many people associate certain smells with people or areas. Henshaw said humans have the ability to remember a smell for more than 60 years.

?Our mind just takes us back to that space and time,? she said. ?That?s why smell has such an association with certain cities.?

Odor experts agree New York City is the most infamous for its summer stench, but other major cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco suffer from the same problem.

?It smells like a petting zoo carefully adorned with hot, wet garbage and the subtle hint of pee pee,? said New Yorker Stefania Orru of the city?s intense summer smells.

The city?s smells aren?t going anywhere soon, so Henshaw said she recommends embracing the smells and getting used to them. That, or buying a scented handkerchief drenched with your favorite perfume.

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Hanover Legion baseball Post 149 still in playoff hunt

The hunt is on for a playoff spot in Zone 10 and there is not much time left in the season.

The Hanover American Legion Baseball team is fighting for one of the eight playoff spots in Zone 10 and the regular season comes to an end this weekend.

?We are still in the hunt,? said Hanover coach David Liffers. ?We will need some luck. The schedule is favorable for us.?

?Post 149 has games with Duxbury, Plymouth, Kingston and Orleans to wrap up the season.

?Hanover knows it needs to get their offense in gear to make things happen for them. They have been able to get people on base, but they have not been effective in bringing them in.? In its game with Sandwich, Post 149 left the bases loaded in both the first and seventh innings in a 3-0 loss.

?They were able do just enough in their 2-0 win over Whitman at home.

??We are just missing,? said Liffers. ?We are just missing that clutch hit. We have not been able to get the hit with people in scoring position with one or two outs. If we have been able to do it we would have at least 10 games.?

Ryan Earle pitched a complete game for the 2-0 win over Whitman. He allowed three hits, struck out two and walked one and retired the final nine batters of the game. Scott Anderson and Ryan Kelleher both had solid defensive plays to help Earle finish up the game in style.

Dana Elkhill drove in runs in both the second and the fourth innings for Post 149. Rob Blakeslee and Ryan Kelleher scored the runs for Hanover.

??We were hitting the ball very well at the beginning of the season,? said Liffers. ?It seems like everyone got the book on us. We have not seen many fastball pitchers. We have seen more off speed pitching. We are making constant contact. We are not striking out that much.

?The balls that we have hit hard are not getting through. We had a ball that we hit hard the other night against the Hawkeye Athletic Club their shortstop made a fantastic diving stop of a grounder and threw out our hitter and took two runs away from us.?

Blakeslee had a two run triple in the first inning and Earle drove in a run with a single in the third inning against Hawkeye.

They had a 2-0 lead after an inning, but Hawkeye came back with a pair of five-run innings as they defeated Post 149 13-3 in a game called after six innings because of darkness.

?Blakeslee had two hits in the Sandwich game as Hanover left 10 runners on for the game in its 3-0 loss.

??We can?t get that big clutch hit,? said Liffers.

In most recent action, Post 149 lost 8-4 at Kingston, Monday night.

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Lenstag Registers Your Expensive Camera Gear in Case It Gets Stolen

Thieves are always on the lookout for camera equipment. Like jewelry, cameras and lenses are easy to resell, portable, and net a high price. Lenstag is a free service that aims to combat photography gear theft.

The service is essentially a camera gear registry. After signing up, enter the cameras and lenses you own, along with their serial numbers. You'll then need to verify you actually have this equipment by uploading a photo of the item with its serial number in clear view.

In the unfortunate case your camera is stolen, you can use Lensgear to report the theft, and the site will post the stolen item's serial number and model so it shows up in internet searches. Prospective buyers of possibly stolen camera equipment can be warned by looking up the serial number on Lenstag or just searching online.

Obviously, this will only work if people are concerned about possibly buying stolen equipment and bother to do the quick search, but it's a small step to solving this huge problem. You can also try other strategies to get a stolen camera back, but while your expensive gear is in hand, using Lenstag is kind of a no-brainer.

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American, National League starters named for MLB All-Star Game

Matt Harvey of the host New York Mets will be the starting pitcher for the NL, while Detroit's Max Scherzer will start for the AL Tuesday night.

By Ronald Blum,?Associated Press / July 15, 2013

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Detroit, Saturday, July 13, 2013.

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Mets ace Matt Harvey will start Tuesday night's All-Star game on his home mound at New York's Citi Field, and the Detroit Tigers' Max Scherzer will open for the American League.

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Harvey will be the first pitcher from the host team to start an All-Star game since Houston's Roger Clemens in 2004 and just the 11th overall.

NL manager Bruce Bochy's starting lineup announced Monday has Cincinnati second baseman Brandon Phillips leading off, followed by St. Louis right fielder Carlos Beltran, Reds first baseman Joey Votto, Mets third baseman David Wright, Colorado left fielder Carlos Gonzalez, Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado designated hitter Michael Cuddyer and Washington center fielder Bryce Harper.

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How Likely Is Death by iPhone Electrocution?

Horrifying news reports?suggest?that an iPhone electrocuted a Chinese woman?though it's very unclear if that happened at all and if the rest of the iPhone-owning public should worry about death by smartphone electrocution. The details from various media reports are murky, making it hard to reach any firm conclusions about the dangers of iPhones. It's unclear what model of Apple's popular cell phone the victim,?Ma Ailun, used, or if it even came from a legitimate Apple retailer or China's gray market. Her family insists that she used genuine Apple parts?and that the phone was under warranty still.?Apple is investigating the situation. Given how little we know about the incident, however, here are some possible ways she might have put herself in contact with a deadly electronic charge.?

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Did She Have Counterfeit Charger??The Wall Street Journal suggests she could have had an uncertified power charger, which may have contributed to the problem. In May, the Chinese Consumer Association?warned of a "flood" of uncertified chargers hitting the market that could turn an iPhone into a "pocket grenade." Counterfeit chargers, in general, present a safety hazard because they don't have to meet safety standards, according to a software engineer who tested dozens of phone chargers. While the family insists Ma Ailun had a genuine iPhone, the phone charger might have come from elsewhere. Third-party chargers, particularly, can get too hot, which may also have contributed to the electrocution.?

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Was She in the Bathtub??The family said she had left the bath to answer the phone. Generally, your body has enough resistance such that an iPhone charger, which has a current of 1 amp and also a voltage of 5 volts, will not electrocute a person. But, as Mythbusters showed, a bath lowers a person's resistance and can indeed zap a person. The lethal amount of electricity is 7 milliamps for three seconds, which, depending on the electronic and the consistency of the bath?salts increase the water's conductivity a ton?can kill a person. Ma Ailun, however, had gotten out of the bath. She would have had to be soaking-wet to get electrocuted. Also, more modern ground-fault circuit interrupter?outlets should protect from this sort of thing.?

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Is There Faulty Wiring in the House??It's possible that this had little to do with the iPhone, but more the wiring in the house, which could have caused a short circuit. It's also possible that some transient voltage from high-voltage wires nearby could have cause the shock. A?Yahoo news post, though, says that's highly unlikely.?

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As you can see, the likelihood of electrocution by iPhone is very, very low. It takes a lot of very particular circumstances that unfortunately transpired for Ma Ailun, which probably is why this is the first news report of this ever happening. iPhones have spontaneously exploded before, ?but death by iPhone electrocution is a first.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/likely-death-iphone-electrocution-134804757.html

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