Red Lion's football pride runs deep

Past players and coaches stand behind the Lions' effort to win a historic District 3 Class AAAA title Saturday night.

York, PA - In its proud football history, Red Lion has never seen a game quite like this one.

It has seen teams like this one. Teams more dominant than this one. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Red Lion program produced some of the most successful squads York and Adams counties have ever seen.

But a game like this? Not quite.

"This thing they're in now is totally foreign to me," said former longtime Lions coach Don Dyke, who led the school to three-straight unbeaten seasons in the 1970s. "This is a whole different animal, I mean the playoffs."

When eighth-seeded Red Lion (10-3) steps onto the turf at Hersheypark Stadium tonight at 6 for its District 3 Class AAAA final with seventh-seeded Cumberland Valley (11-2), it will pen a new chapter in the long narrative of Lions football.

It will be Red Lion's first district championship game appearance since the playoffs were created in 1982.

With a win, Red Lion would become the YAIAA's first quad-A district football champion.

More than that, this Lions team could further cement a place in its program's own rich legacy, a tradition that dates back to the overpowering Red Lion teams of the mid-1960s.

"I just think it's great," said Sam Neff, a two-way standout on those 1960s squads. "I think this team wasn't expected to do quite as well as they did. To go to the district finals is something."

Neff, a former quarterback and defensive back, was an integral part of the Red Lion teams that won a staggering 37 straight games -- a streak that stretched from 1963 to 1967.

Red Lion piled up points those years. During the 1965 season, the Lions finished 10-0 and outscored opponents by a combined 439-60.

"We had great guys," said Ron Fitzkee Sr., 81, who coached those teams. "The one thing that I remember is the total involvement and interest and support from our entire Red Lion area community. I think that they were really a big part of our ability to succeed.

"We filled that stadium week in and week out."

And not just Red Lion's Horn Field, either. Neff, who went on to play football at Maryland, recalled how Lions fans followed their team all over the county.

"I remember that we had a preseason scrimmage (one year)," said Neff, 60, who now teaches at Red Lion. "And the coach I don't think wanted a lot of people to go there. So he kept it a secret.

"By the time we left that Friday morning, there were about 30 cars behind the bus following us."

A few years later, under Dyke's watch, Red Lion cobbled together a similar three-season unbeaten stretch, encompassing the 1972, 1973 and 1974 campaigns. Those teams produced some of most talent the school has ever seen; most notably Scott Fitzkee, Ron's son and a three-sport star, who went on to play football at Penn State.

"They were just an unbelievable group of kids," the 70-year-old Dyke said. "They just enjoyed each other's company."

But there were no district or state playoffs then. And so those teams never got a chance to test themselves beyond the league.

Not the case this year.

After struggling to replicate the successes of the 60s and 70s -- Red Lion hadn't won a district playoff game before this season -- the Lions have positioned themselves to make history, both for their program and for the YAIAA.

The community seems to have taken notice, too. On a typical gameday, Lions coach Pat Conrad said he gets between 10 and 20 text messages, mostly from past players.

"Just the sense from a lot of community members," Conrad said. "They're excited about where we are and where the program is in general."

Conrad was a first-year assistant at Red Lion in 1998 for one of the school's last notable teams. That squad finished 9-2 and lost in the District 3 semifinal to none other than Cumberland Valley.

Tonight, the Lions could produce perhaps the program's proudest moment to date. Many of Red Lion's past standouts, including Neff, Dyke and Ron Fitzkee, plan to be in attendance.

Already, they insist, Red Lion's run has been one its players won't soon forget.

"I still see (former teammates) today," Neff said. "Guys that didn't go to college and play football, but they talk about how special that time was.

"I think for this team, that's what they're going to remember. They're going to remember they went to the district finals, and maybe even won it. Who knows?"
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Fully-owned NBCUniversal boosts Comcast 2Q results

In this Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, photo, a Comcast logo is seen on a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

In this Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, photo, a Comcast logo is seen on a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The decision by Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, to buy General Electric out of the NBCUniversal business looks like a smart one, as the media conglomerate posted strong results for the second quarter.

It was the first quarter in which Philadelphia-based Comcast owned all of NBCUniversal, the parent of the NBC broadcast network and Universal Studios. Comcast bought control of NBCUniversal in 2011, with an agreement to buy the remaining GE stake over time. It sped up the schedule this year, buying out GE on March 28 for $16.7 billion.

NBCUniversal's results are more volatile than Comcast's slow-and-steady cable business. In the second quarter, it posted a 9 percent increase in revenue to $6 billion, well above analyst estimates at $5.75 billion, as polled by FactSet. Results were driven by the release of "Fast & Furious 6" and "Despicable Me 2" in theaters, and by ad sales for top-rated broadcast TV show "The Voice."

Coupled with continued strong performance in the Comcast cable business, NBCUniversal helped push overall results beyond Wall Street expectations.

Comcast earned $1.73 billion, or 73 cents per share, in the April to June period. That's up from $1.35 billion, or 50 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.

Overall revenue rose 7 percent to $16.3 billion from $15.2 billion.

Analysts had expected earnings of 63 cents per share on revenue of $16 billion.

Comcast shares rose $1.51, or 3.5 percent, to $44.22 in premarket trading.

Subscriber trends in the cable business were the best in five years for the seasonally weak second quarter. Cable companies routinely lose subscribers every quarter to satellite and phone-company TV services, but Comcast has been slowing down its losses, and saw a net of only 159,000 subscribers depart in the quarter.

On the broadband side, it added a net 187,000 subscribers in the quarter, the highest figure since 2008. Other Internet service providers are seeing drastically slowing recruitment, since most homes already have broadband.

Comcast is already the country's biggest Internet service provider, with nearly 20 million accounts

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Associated Press

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Social Media: Australia lagging behind | The Sauce | Bringing you ...

Posted on 30 July 2013. Tags: Australia

Australian organisations are lagging behind their international competitors on harnessing social media. According to a new report, many have banned it in their workplace due to inappropriate use and many wrongly perceive it as purely a branding tool.

Only a quarter of Australian companies are using social media for human resources and people management, and only half use it for work. The new report was produced by Deloitte pair Peter Williams and Jess Corbett.

The majority of employers restrict use of social media, 38?per cent ban staff from using it for personal use and one- third say they had been affected by employees inappropriately using social media.

The report was based on results of a survey by the Australian Human Resources Institute of 502 human resources practitioners working across a range of industries.

?Australian businesses are nearly four years behind the US and Britain in using social software,? Williams and Corbett argue in?Rethinking social media, adding employers are failing to grasp how social media can be used to help staff react to ?exceptional events?, which cannot be scripted but can absorb up to 70?per cent of workers? time. It can also be used to boost recruitment and staff engagement, they argue.

The report states those organisations that did have a social media policy or strategy (46?per cent) had largely focused it on employer branding, not organisational performance.

This reflects a poor understanding of the many other uses of social media, the authors say. There are some exceptions. LG Electronics, which has 82,000 staff globally, estimates the regular users of its internal social software save three hours a week finding faster answers to ?business exceptions?, the report finds. Westfield Australia is successfully using yammer to manage events that come out of the blue.

Telstra is also using an online platform ? CrowdSupport ? to crowdsource solutions to customer problems where their call centre staff do not yet have a script. And Williams tells The Australian Financial Review?that South Australia?s Department of Premier and Cabinet is an ?early adopter?, using social media to help prepare parliamentary briefings.

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http://www.afr.com/p/national/work_space/firms_too_slow_to_like_social_media_rgceWw7CsF3FlhnAY96V2N

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The End of Neuro-Nonsense

Medical MRI Image Showing Brain and Skull

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Brain-bashing, once an idle pastime of the science commentariat, went mainstream in June. At the beginning of the month, Slate contributor Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld published Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, a well-informed attack on the extravagances of ?neurocentrist? thought. We?re living in dangerous era, they warn in the book?s introduction. ?Na?ve media, slick neuroentrepreneurs, and even an occasional overzealous neuroscientist exaggerate the capacity of scans to reveal the contents of our minds, exalt brain physiology as inherently the most valuable level of explanation for understanding behavior, and rush to apply underdeveloped, if dazzling, science for commercial and forensic use.? In the United Kingdom, the neuro-gadfly Raymond Tallis?whose own attack on popular brain science, Aping Mankind, came out in 2011?added to the early-summer beat-down, complaining in the Observer that ?studies that locate irreducibly social phenomena ? in the function or dysfunction of bits of our brains are conceptually misconceived.?

By mid-June, these sharp rebukes made their way into the mind of David Brooks, a long-time dabbler in neural data who proposed not long ago that ?brain science helps fill the hole left by the atrophy of theology and philosophy.? Brooks read Brainwashed and became a convert to its cause: ?From personal experience, I can tell you that you get captivated by [neuroscience] and sometimes go off to extremes,? he wrote in a recent column with the headline ?Beyond the Brain.? Then he gave the following advice: ?The next time somebody tells you what a brain scan says, be a little skeptical. The brain is not the mind.?

His final point, that the brain is not the mind?and therefore maybe not so relevant to daily life?has provoked a fierce response in recent weeks. The fact that certain studies of the brain have been overhyped or poorly done has little bearing on the value of the field, say scientists whose work has been maligned. Nor does it in any way imply a central flaw in the project to understand the mind by looking at the brain. Satel and Lilienfeld agree: The principles of neuroscience can be applied to every form of subjective experience, they argue in Brainwashed, and even fMRI brain scans?the brightly colored icons of the neuro-priesthood they so abhor?have a useful role to play in biomedicine.

But in the ruckus of this back-and-forth, and the backlash to a backlash, I think the neuro-critics missed something important: The ?time of mindless neuroscience,? as Satel and Lilienfeld describe it, is already over. In the past few years, the brain has lost its influence; fMRI hucksters are on the run. I don?t mean to say that neuroscientists have given up?their field of study is as vibrant as it?s ever been, and it still exerts a massive influence on research funding. (President Obama recently announced a $100 million project to map the brain?s connections.) But as a cultural force?one capable of duping journalists and making money for ?slick neuroentrepreneurs??the brain is almost cooked.

I?ll even name the year when the public turned its back on neuro-hype: The woo commenced its quick decline in 2008. That was its inflection point, its production peak, the moment when pictures of the brain were tapped for all the easy headlines, strip-mined for credulous investors, and otherwise sucked dry of whatever dopey data they could provide. Five years ago the pop-neuroscience project began to wither.

Such things are hard to measure, of course, but I think there?s circumstantial backup for my claim. In Brainwashed, for example, many of the key examples of mindless neuroscience come from 2008 (or before). Chapter 1, on the fallibility of brain imaging, starts with an article from ?08 by Jeffrey Goldberg, for which he traveled to Los Angeles to find out how his cortex might respond to pictures of Jimmy Carter and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It?s a useful study in the practice and promotion of witless pseudoneuroscience, but at the time, Goldberg?s case was not unique: That election season saw a rush of like-minded (and like-mindless) political neuro-coverage. Brain-based marketing firms placed their spurious analyses of presidential candidates and potential voters in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and many other outlets; the neuropundits were running wild. But a lot has changed since then. Four years later, during the 2012 election, these sorts of stories were nowhere to be seen. At some point in Obama?s first White House term, interest in these political brain scans evaporated.

Chapter 2 of Brainwashed begins with another scene from 2008?the publication of the best-selling pop-neuroscience book, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy. Satel and Lilienfeld describe its author, Martin Lindstrom, as a leading member of ?an upstart generation of Mad Men known as neuromarketers.? But attempts to revolutionize the field of market research through the use of brain-imaging techniques haven?t gained much traction in the past 10 years. Though the marketing giant Nielsen purchased one of the neuromarketing startups in 2011, the industry at large has been (rightfully) suspicious of the concept. In January 2012 the industry-funded Advertising Research Foundation released a careful and quite critical assessment of the field. ?What our investigation made very, very clear,? an ARF executive told me, ?is that there is a gap between the science and the application and marketing.?

Last year the president of one neuromarketing firm told me that the business concept hadn?t really taken off. ?It?s a tough sell,? he said. ?I think that people are still reluctant to try it.? Another CEO mentioned that his company had abandoned the term neuromarketing altogether and rebranded its services as consumer neuroscience. Since the publication of Buyology, Lindstrom and his colleagues simply haven?t had much impact.

As for neuro-best-sellers, those too have been on the wane since 2008. I went through the archives of the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover books going back to 2001 and counted up the number of entries that included a mention of the word brain in either the title or the description. Eighty entries met my criteria, including those for Buyology, David Eagleman?s Incognito, Daniel Amen?s Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and Jill Bolte Taylor?s My Stroke of Insight. The results are shown below.

The neuro-self-help genre may be in winter, too. Jonah Lehrer, the reigning master of that category (and author of the Frontal Cortex blog) published his first two books, Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide, in 2007 and 2009. In the years since then, he has more or less renounced the brain. ?I write here about many scientific studies, but these are not studies of temporary chemistry or cortical folds,? he declared in the proposal for his newest work, on the science of love (which sold to Simon & Schuster in early June in spite of his professional disgrace). ?It?s not enough to simply describe the hormones of Romeo, or the fMRI results of Juliet. These scientific results are interesting, but mostly because of what they cannot explain, of all the reality they leave out.?

2008 may also have been the high point for critical neuroscience blogging. The excellent Neuroskeptic wrote his first posts that autumn, in the darkest moments of the neurobabble epidemic. Another sharp-eyed blogger, the Neurocritic, started up in 2006?and as of several weeks ago, he?s built a brand-new persona ?designed to counter gratuitous anti-neuroscience sentiment.? He calls this one the Neurocomplimenter. Meanwhile, my favorite neuroscience watchdog?the James S. McDonnell Foundation?s Neuro-Journalism Mill, dedicated to ?separating the wheat from the chaff in neurojournalism reporting??saw fit to shut its doors in October 2009.

If I?m right that ?peak neuro? has already come and gone, then the recent rash of brain science-bashing may be beside the point. Other, trendy modes of explanation have already started to emerge, with a brand-new set of jargon phrases?epigenetics, anyone??that carry out their own dangerous seductions.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/07/neuroscience_hype_is_brain_science_still_trendy.html

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More than 1,000 detainees escape Libyan prison near Benghazi, officials say

By Esam Mohamed, Associated Press

More than 1,000 detainees escaped from a prison near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in a massive jailbreak Saturday, officials said, as protesters stormed political party offices in Libya's main cities.

It wasn't immediately clear if the jailbreak at the Koyfiya prison came as part of the demonstrations. Protesters had massed across the country angry over the killing of an activist critical of the country's Muslim Brotherhood group.

Gunmen outside of the prison fired into the air as inmates inside began setting fires, suggesting the jailbreak was preplanned, a Benghazi-based security official said. Those who escaped either face or were convicted of serious charges, a security official at Koyfiya prison said.

The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists.

Special forces later arrested 18 of the escapees, while some returned on their own, said Mohammed Hejazi, a government security official in Benghazi. Three inmates were wounded in the jailbreak and were taken to a local hospital, he said.

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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks during a media conference Tripoli, Libya, 27 July 2013. The briefing focused on latest situation in Benghazi, after the assassination of an anti-Islamist rights activist in the eastern city of Benghazi.

There also was confusion initially about how many prisoners broke out, with numbers of escapees ranging as high as 1,200.

Benghazi's security situation is among the most precarious in post-revolution Libya. Last year, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in the city.

Meanwhile Saturday, hundreds gathered in the capital Tripoli after dawn prayers, denouncing the Friday shooting death of Abdul-Salam Al-Musmari. They set fire to tires in the street and demanded the dissolution of Islamist parties.

The two incidents highlighted Libya's precarious security situation and the challenges the North African country faces as it tries to restore security nearly two years after the ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

In Tripoli, protesters appeared to be inspired by events in neighboring Egypt, where millions took to the streets Friday to answer a call from the army chief, who said he wanted a mandate to stop "potential terrorism" by supporters of the country's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood.

"We don't want the Brotherhood, we want the army and the police," Libyan protesters chanted, repeating a slogan also used in Egypt. Libya's nascent security forces are struggling to control the country's militias, most of whom have roots in the rebel groups that overthrew Gadhafi in 2011.

Al-Musmari, who used to publicly criticize the Brotherhood, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Benghazi.

Some protesters stormed the headquarters of a Brotherhood-affiliated political party and another Islamist-allied party in the capital, destroying furniture. Witnesses say a Brotherhood party office was also stormed in Benghazi.

Protesters angry with the Libya's weak central government also targeted the liberal National Forces Alliance (NFA), ransacking its headquarters. The party came on top in Libya's first free parliamentary elections last year.

Security forces in Libya have been unable to impose their authority on the country since Gadhafi's ouster. Militias, many made up of former rebels who fought in the civil war that toppled Gadhafi, have grown in the strength and in many areas rival the security forces in their firepower and reach. The armed forces also rely on militias for help securing the country in some cases.

On Saturday, a colonel was killed by gunmen in Benghazi. Another three security members were killed a day earlier when gunmen opened fire on them.

Security members are frequently targets in the country.

In a press conference Saturday, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said that an investigation was launched into the circumstances around al-Musmari's slaying. He said a foreign criminal investigation team will join Libyan investigators in Tripoli and Benghazi on Monday. He did not offer further details.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch urged the Libyan government to "conduct a prompt and thorough investigation" of al-Musmari's death, believed to be the first targeted killing of a political activist.

"Libya's fragile transition is at stake if political killings go unpunished," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "This makes investigating al-Musmari's murder all the more urgent."

Libya's top religious figure, Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadeq al-Ghariani, warned his countrymen earlier in the week against copying Egypt and bringing down the Libyan government. Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, was ousted by the military on July 3 after millions took to the streets demanding his removal.

Al-Ghariani's warning was posted Wednesday on his official website against unspecified parties "trying to create crises in electricity and gas, and those taking advantage of tribal loyalties to the ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi." Long hours of blackouts and the severe shortage of fuel contributed to Morsi's unpopularity.

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Steve Ballmer Admits Microsoft?s iPad-Killer Is A Flop

The man, the myth, the sweaty legend: Steve Ballmer

It?s been no secret that Microsoft?s would-be iPad-killer has been a complete disappointment, but now its ever-optimistic CEO, Steve Ballmer, is admitting to employees that the Surface is a flop.

Ballmer held a ?rally the troops? event on Microsoft campus yesterday where they go over the company?s quarterly earnings and boost morale, but according to people at the event, Ballmer also dived into how disappointing it has been trying to make Surface a success.

The Verge reports that Ballmer told the group they ?built a few more devices than we could sell.? Later he also admitted that Windows 8 hasn?t been adopted as fast as he hoped and that Microsoft isn?t selling as many Windows devices as he wants either.

Microsoft has tried everything it can to sell the Surface, from a huge media campaign full of anti-iPad ads, to steep discounts on the hardware, but nothing has worked to convince consumers to choose the Surface over and iPad, or even the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD.

The future isn?t terribly bleak in Ballmdog?s eyes though. Despite the $900 million bath Microsoft took last quarter from Surface sales, he says they?re working super hard to convince Instagram to make an app for Windows Phone, and they?re already making plans for the next-generation Surface that might include the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor.

Via: The Verge

Source: Neowin

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Passing SESSION in URL with PHP & Android

we are passing the session id in the URL from android to PHP (Web-service).Php web-service will get the session id & create a session with that ID.

Here we have 2 scenario,

1. Dedicated Server
2. Shared Server

Dedicated Server : In dedicated server, session is created successfully with same id & session variables are accessible.(there is no loss)

Shared Server: In shared server, session is created but with different Id & session variables are lost.

do i need to configure anything with my shared hosting PHP settings?

Both Server : PHP Version 5.3.21

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Apple's smartphone market share slips

Associated Press

Posted on July 26, 2013 at 8:01 AM

Updated today at 9:07 AM

A new report shows that Apple's share of the global smartphone market fell during the second quarter to its lowest level in four years.

Apple had 13.1 percent of the worldwide market, ABI Research said Friday, down from 16.6 percent a year ago. That's the lowest level since the third quarter of 2009, two years after the launch of the first iPhone.

Apple sold 31.2 million iPhones in the April-to-June period, according to ABI, up from 26 million in the same period a year ago. But the company's sales growth isn't keeping pace with the overall smartphone market, which grew 52 percent from last year.

Samsung, the world's largest maker of smartphones, also saw a drop in market share.

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Good karma brewing in Canada as Tim Horton's customer starts trend for buying 500 coffees to give away

• Random act of kindness led to 5,435 cups being gifted at chain's branches
• Tim Horton's spokesman denies donations are part of marketing campaign
• Branch at a hospital treated twice on same day

By Jessica Jerreat

PUBLISHED: 18:27 EST, 26 July 2013 | UPDATED: 22:17 EST, 26 July 2013

What started as a random act of kindness in a branch of Tim Horton's has triggered a succession of coffee-buying kindness.

On Monday afternoon, a man in his 20s walked into an Edmonton branch of the coffee chain and ordered 500 cups of coffee, costing him $850.

As word spread of the generous gesture, others followed the anonymous donor's lead and soon rounds of coffee were being bought in several other Canadian towns by kind-hearted customers.

Cup of kindness: An anonymous customer in Edmonton sparked the trend when he bought 500 large coffees

By Friday, Tim Horton's staff, who said they were as surprised and thrilled about the trend as everyone else, sent a tweet stating: 'Eleven acts of kindness, 5,435 cups of coffee, one amazing week,'

The person who sparked the coffee-buying spree gave no reason for his large purchase to store manager Joanne Averion, and asked only that the drinks be handed out to the next 500 customers, according to the Huffington Post.

His generosity kept customers in free coffee until about 8.30am the following day.?

'That's pretty awesome just to know people are out there willing to just go "Hey, let's do something nice for somebody else",' one customer said.

What had appeared to be a one-off gesture however, soon became a chance to 'play it forward', with a customer in Calgary repeating the stunt in the Crowfoot Crossing branch on Wednesday.

Double order: Customers at the chain's branch in an Edmonton hospital were treated to free coffee twice in one day

Grateful: Monica Kavanaugh paid for 800 cups at the hospital to thank staff for looking after her father

On Thursday, word had spread, with people stopping for a coffee break in Red Deer and Ottawa, as well as those at a hospital, finding they had been treated to a free drink.

Staff at the Tim Horton's kiosk at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton said a man wearing hospital scrubs bought $500 of coffee in the morning and then a woman ordered 800 cups in the afternoon to thank staff for looking after her father.

One of the donors, Monica Kavanaugh, said: 'They've helped my father a lot and I just feel, why not give a little back to the hospital?'

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Hospital shift manager Brenda O'Connor told the Calgary Sun: 'It really picks up everyone?s morale. Some people get good and some get bad news and we see that.'

She added it was touching to see 'some of that stress gone just because there?s someone out there with a little generosity'.

As word of the coffee-buying trend spread, some started to speculate that it could be part of a marketing campaign by the coffee chain.

However, Tim Horton's spokesman Michelle Robichaud denied that was the case, telling CBC: 'We?re just as surprised and thrilled as our guests have been by these incredible random acts of kindness...our only role is really in pouring the cups of coffee.'

Brewing: The coffee-buying trend started in Edmonton, above, but was soon replicated in other branches, including ones in Red Deer, left, and Calgary, right

The kindness bug made sure another 500 customers got off on the right foot on Friday, after a regular at the Chestermere branch, near Calgary, treated his fellow customers at 6am.

Manager Valerie Bruce said the donor, who wanted to remain anonymous, was a regular customer and that his actions had touched the town's residents.

'They?re just touched that it happened here in Chestermere with one of our locals,' she said.

'He?s a wonderful, terrific, kindhearted man. He said that "I hope other people recognize this as a random act of kindness and they will pay it forward themselves for somebody".'

His wishes were fulfilled later in the day when a customer came in and ordered 20 cups of coffee to be given away.

A local radio station on Friday also encouraged early morning listeners to get involved, by getting them to call in and donate money to a fund, which resulted in 785 coffees being purchased

'This was all spur of the moment,' Rock 102 morning anchor Derek Watson told the Leader Post. 'The phones lit up.'

Thrilled: Tim Horton's was shocked and delighted by its customers' generosity

The station paid for 500 coffees at a Saskatoon branch, but a listener later went into the same branch and bought a further 285.

It is not the first time Tim Horton's customers have showed their kindness to fellow coffee lovers. In the run up to last Christmas a customer in Winnipeg offered to pay for the coffee of the next person in line, according to Oddee.

The simple act of kindness led to a chain of 228 customers treating the person next in line to free drinks, and was only broken when a man who had been given four free coffees broke the chain by not paying for the next person's drinks.

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Ford's Transit van factory in Southampton closes - @BBCNews

26 July 2013 Last updated at 01:12 ET

Staff at Ford's Transit van factory in Southampton have finished their final shifts as it prepares to close its doors later.

More than 500 workers were based at the Swaythling plant, which has produced two million Transits over 40 years.

Production is moving to Turkey, where costs are "significantly lower" than in western Europe, according to Ford.

Ford says its former factory workers have all taken redeployment, voluntary redundancy or early retirement.

A new ?12m vehicle distribution centre is being created at Southampton docks, while a vehicle refurbishment plant at the existing site will provide positions for 134 staff.

A further 750 jobs have been affected by the closure of the tool and stamping operation in Dagenham. They have also either accepted redundancy, early retirement or been redeployed within the company.

'Ghost town'

Unions had called the closures a "betrayal" when they were announced last year.

More than 4,000 people once worked at the Ford factory in Southampton

One worker said the backbone of Britain" had gone with the closure of the plant.

Mark Radcliffe, who has worked at the factory for nine years, will continue to work for Ford at its new site in Bridgend, despite being "Southampton born and bred".

He said: "It's a quite eerie feeling, it's all very quiet. It's like a ghost town in there now.

"It's the end of an era, but the future is bright for some and Ford will continue and I'm looking forward to the future with Ford Motor Company."

Alan Merritt, who is taking redundancy, said he believed the plant had been "earmarked for closure" for 15 years.

"I'm out of a job. They say it's voluntary redundancy but I don't see it being voluntary."

However, Rick Ranson, who is moving to the engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, after 25 years at the Southampton Transit factory, said he believed his co-workers taking redundancy "would be fine".

"It's quite sad really, people have been coming here day in, day out for 25 years, some of them 30 years.

"But, they're a good bunch of guys and I'm not worried for them at all."

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Extinct ancient ape did not walk like a human, study shows

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study has found that a 9- to 7-million-year-old ape from Italy did not, in fact, walk habitually on two legs. The findings refute a long body of evidence, suggesting that Oreopithecus had the capabilities for bipedal (moving on two legs) walking.

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Amanda Bynes' Parents Denied Initial Request To Control Her Affairs

Judge sets August 9 date to determine a conservatorship, and Bynes will appear with her attorney.
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BillGuard launches for iPhone to combat the ?$14bn? lost by credit card users to hidden-fees and errors

Launched?in the US back in April 2010,?BillGuard sells itself as the world?s first ?people-powered antivirus system for bills?.

In a nutshell, BillGuard?s predictive algorithms alert users of unexpected charges such as hidden fees, billing errors, scams and fraud on credit card bills. It also issues alerts when a similar dubious charge has been flagged by other users, or receives a complaint elsewhere on the Web. As such, the ?BillGuard brain? becomes more accurate over time.

However, BillGuard has thus far been a Web-based entity ? until today, that is.

The iPhone app was actually soft-launched back in March as a beta test to garner feedback, but was subsequently pulled from the App Store a few weeks ago when the beta-phase came to a close. From today though, the BillGuard app is live for anyone in the US.

How it works

When you first launch the app you?ll be prompted to log-in, or set up an account if you don?t already have one. You?ll also need to include a 4-digit passcode.

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Next, you?ll need to choose which cards and accounts you want to integrate if you?re setting things up for the first time.

Bear in mind this is a US-only service, and works with the likes of Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and so on. Though you can also add your American Express, PayPal and Amazon cards too. It supports 5,000 different accounts in total.

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You can see a basic at-a-glance overview of all your connected cards, including balances and total amount spent.

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Push notifications tell you whenever a transaction is made on one of your accounts, and you can dig deeper to see exactly what it was and, indeed, whether it?s kosher.

The ?smart inbox? lets you swipe through charges in an email-style interface, while you can also contact merchants directly through the app to resolve disputes.

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BillGuard says it?s looking to combat the billions of dollars lost by American cardholders each year to so-called grey charges ? basically deceptive or otherwise unexpected charges.

Indeed, to coincide with today?s launch, BillGuard is also releasing an industry report on grey charges, claiming that American cardholders were hit with $14.3 billion in deceptive or unexpected charges in 2012. The most prominent type of grey charge is ?free-to-paid?, for example when a consumer takes receipt of goods for a free trial period, but then is automatically charged a fee if they don?t return it within a specified timeframe.

BillGuard is a pretty ingenious idea for sure, insofar as users essentially help each other by flagging rogue charges, which help others recognize anything awry with their own accounts. When a charge is repeatedly disputed across the board, it is prioritized for all cardholders who can review it themselves.

?We have built the largest crowdsourced transaction monitoring community in the world,? says BillGuard co-founder and CTO Raphael Ouzan.

?As consumers ourselves, we realized early on that bill checking for most people is a long arduous task that most would prefer to avoid,? he continues. ?So we set out to develop a tool that would make bill checking fast, fun and exceptionally effective, with a little help from some very sophisticated algorithms and millions of fellow cardholders.?

We?re told that BillGuard has eked out more than $50m in grey charges so far and, as you?d expect, they?re keen to get everyone on board. ?Our data shows that if every American cardholder used the BillGuard iPhone app, the total annual savings in grey charges could top $7 billion,? adds Ouzan.

BillGuard actually added support for Apple?s Passbook application last year, before it even had an iOS app. So this has been a long-time coming.

Pricing

While BillGuard does have a free tier, the premium price for the full service costs $45/year, or $4.99/month, which gives access to more than two cards. Though, as part of the launch campaign, they?re offering premium access for a one-time fee of $9.99 until the end of August.

BillGuard for iOS is available to download now. And we?re told an Android version is currently in the works, with an expected launch some time in Q4.

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Russia says U.S. drive to arm Syria rebels hurts chances for peace

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of stalling chances for peace in Syria by pressing ahead with plans to arm rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

Russia is at loggerheads over the conflict with its U.N. Security Council partner, the United States, where President Barack Obama can now move forward with arming rebels after easing some congressional concerns.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference that Washington's plans would undermine joint efforts to organize an international peace conference on Syria that he agreed to with his U.S. counterpart, John Kerry, in May.

"If our American partners are now focusing on arming the opposition and are sharing plans... to strike Syrian government positions, then this, of course, runs against agreements to hold a conference," he said.

"That goes against our joint initiative."

The chances of bringing Syria's divided opposition and Assad's representatives to the negotiating table have faded in recent weeks, and help from Hezbollah has tilted the situation on the ground in Assad's favor.

More support from the United States could help the rebels push back. U.S. forces could help in various ways, the top U.S. military officer has said, from training to enforcing no-fly zones or conducting limited attacks on military targets.

(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; editing by Mike Collett-White)

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Spain Train Crash: Scores Killed After Locomotive Derails Near Santiago De Compostola (VIDEO/PHOTOS)

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, July 25 (Reuters) - A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters.
Bodies covered in blankets lay next to the overturned carriages as smoke billowed from the wreckage. Firefighters clambered over the twisted metal trying to get survivors out of the windows, while ambulances and fire engines surrounded the scene.
The government said it was working on the assumption the derailment, which occurred on the eve of the city's main religious festival, was an accident.
Sabotage or attack was unlikely to be involved, an official source said, though the devastation will have stirred memories of a train bombing in Madrid in 2004, carried out by Islamist extremists, that killed 191 people.
The Santiago de Compostela train operated by state rail company Renfe with 247 people on board derailed as the city prepared for the festival of Saint James, when thousands of Christian pilgrims from across the world pack the streets.
The city's tourism board said all festivities, including the traditional High Mass at the centuries-old cathedral, were cancelled as the city went into mourning following the crash.
"It was going so quickly. ... It seems that on a curve the train started to twist, and the wagons piled up one on top of the other," passenger Ricardo Montesco told Cadena Ser radio station.
"A lot of people were squashed on the bottom. We tried to squeeze out of the bottom of the wagons to get out and we realised the train was burning. ... I was in the second wagon and there was fire. ... I saw corpses," he added.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who was born in Santiago de Compostela, will visit the site on Thursday morning, his spokeswoman said.
"In the face of a tragedy such as just happened in Santiago de Compostela on the eve of its big day, I can only express my deepest sympathy as a Spaniard and a Galician," Rajoy said in a statement.

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El Pais newspaper cited sources close to the investigation as saying the train was travelling at over twice the speed limit on a sharp curve.
Both Renfe and state-owned Adif, which is in charge of the tracks, had opened an investigation into the cause of the derailment, Renfe said.
An official source said no statement would be made regarding the cause until the black boxes of the train were examined, but said it was most likely an accident.
"We are moving away from the hypothesis of sabotage or attack," he said.
Clinics in Santiago de Compostela were overwhelmed with people flocking to give blood, while hotels organised free rooms for relatives. Madrid sent forensic scientists and hospital staff to the region on special flights.
The death toll was 77, a spokeswoman for Galicia's Supreme Court said on Thursday morning, adding that the figures were still provisional. She said that 73 three people had died at the site of the derailment and four died in hospital.
Up to 131 people were injured, a Galicia-based spokeswoman for the office of the central government had earlier said.
"The scene is shocking, it's Dante-esque," said the head of the surrounding Galicia region, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, in a radio interview.
The eight-carriage train was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast when it derailed, Renfe said in a statement.
The disaster happened as Spain is struggling to emerge from a long-running recession marked by government-driven austerity to bring its finances into order. Firefighters called off a strike to help with the disaster, while hospital staff, many operating on reduced salaries because of spending cuts, worked overtime to tend the injured.
The city's main festival focuses on St James, one of Jesus' 12 disciples whose remains are said to rest there and who is patron saint of Galicia.
The apostle's shrine there is the destination of the famous El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, followed by Christians since the Middle Ages.
The derailment happened less than two weeks after six people died when a train came off the tracks and hit the platform at a station in central France.
That accident may have been caused by a loose steel plate at a junction, French train operator SNCF said.
Wednesday's derailment was one of the worst rail accidents in Europe over the past 25 years.
In November 2000, 155 people were killed when a fire in a tunnel engulfed a funicular train packed with skiers in Austria.
In Montenegro, up to 46 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in 2006 when a packed train derailed and plunged into a ravine outside the capital, Podgorica.
In Spain itself, 41 people were killed the same year when an underground train derailed and overturned in a tunnel just before entering the Jesus metro station in Valencia. (Reporting by Inmaculada Sanz, Sonya Dowsett, Sarah White, Andres Gonzalez, Blanca Rodriguez, Julien Toyer and Emma Pinedo; Writing by Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Julien Toyer, Peter Cooneya and John Stonestreet)

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Sky picks Twickenham for GPS team build | Mexia Communications

Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Twickenham Experience recently hosted the Sky Broadcast Services Operations team for two separate team days using the newly launched GPS treasure hunt team build package. Both events were attended by delegates from across the Broadcast Services Operations teams who between them are responsible for delivering all of Sky?s broadcast platforms, channels and scheduled programmes 24/7 365 days a year.? Hosting 80 people each day, the events were designed to promote inter-departmental collaboration, deliver key business updates, celebrate success as well as encourage a sense of fun and team building. The events utilised Twickenham?s Live Room tiered auditorium along with the GPS challenge activities around the venue which formed the core team building event for the final part of each day.

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Ainsley de Silva, Head of Sky Playout said: ?As a department who operate 24/7, we have to host two events each year to ensure everyone has an opportunity to attend. Twickenham was a great location with its incredible sporting history alongside the hospitality and great facility of The Live Room that we were provided with.? After each day, where the teams got the opportunity to hear and discuss some of the wider aspects of our business delivery and future plans at Sky, the GPS event provided the perfect interactive, slightly competitive and, most importantly, fun activity to close our team days.?

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Amir Vered, Head of Sales and Marketing commented: ?We are delighted to have hosted such a bespoke event for Sky. They are one of our many valued and loyal clients and we are proud to have helped make these events a great success.?

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Part of Twickenham?s newly launched 6-Pack for Active Meetings, Twickenham?s GPS treasure hunt packages provide an active incentive, in keeping with Twickenham?s focus on wellbeing as a leading national sporting venue. Designed to create an innovative team building experience, the package offers delegates the chance to break the ice and bond with fellow team members while enjoying a day of active challenges around the stadium.

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Ryan Braun and Baseball?s New Drug Era

On Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball suspended Ryan Braun, an outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers and winner of the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player award, for the rest of the season, which amounts to sixty-five games, and which would include the postseason, were the Brewers playing well enough to make it there. Braun will forfeit more than three million dollars in salary, but will be eligible to return, technically in good standing, for the beginning of next season. The suspension was essentially a plea deal between Braun and the M.L.B., stemming from his connection to the Biogenesis ?anti-aging? clinic in South Florida, which reportedly provided banned substances to several players and which, under the threat of legal action, began co?perating in June with the league?s investigation. More suspensions loom, including what is expected to be a lengthy one for the New York Yankees? Alex Rodriguez, who was supposed to be spending these later years chasing the all-time home-run record but, it now appears, may instead be chased out of the game.

Last night, after yet another day of discouraging baseball news, I put on a few minutes of the third installment of HBO?s ?When It Was a Game,? a lush and deeply comforting documentary series about baseball?s so-called glory days, dating from the Depression to the beginning of free agency, in the early nineteen-seventies. Part Three features fine archival film of the heroes of the sixties?Mantle, Mays, Koufax, Gibson?paired with remembrances from former players and usual-suspect baseball commentators, folks like Bob Costas and Billy Crystal. It?s in the Ken Burns mode?baseball as mostly peaceful national treasure, a symbol of America as it should be?but amid the home-movie nostalgia the film highlights the sixties as a contentious era in which the economics of the sport, which favored owners at the expense of players, finally became untenable. For years, thanks to the reserve clause in contracts, the rights to players were retained by their team, leaving the players little leverage to negotiate better salaries. Fans and writers liked the system because it led to years of stability among their favorite clubs: Mickey Mantle was a Yankee, plain and simple and forever. The players, meanwhile, mostly hated it, because it kept them under the thumbs of stingy owners. In the film, players recall signing paltry contracts as rookies, when the league minimum was about five grand, and working odd jobs every offseason for their whole careers. Curt Flood, an outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, challenged all this in 1969, torpedoing his career in the fight, and the reserve clause was finally eliminated in 1975, giving way to the modern free-agency system. It was a win for fairness, but something was lost?the sense of baseball, as in the film?s title, as ?a game? rather than a business. This is mostly bunk, of course. Baseball has always been a business, regardless of our collective childlike refusal to recognize it as such, but it was easier to ignore that fact when the owners were keeping the money side secret.

?When It Was a Game? is a reminder of an essential conflict in baseball: that fans, writers, and players each experience the game in their own ways, and want and expect different things from it. In practical terms, it emerges from our discrete roles: fans want their teams to win, writers act as worried guardians of the longer historical narratives of the sport (but are also hungry for a good story), and players want all kinds of things?to do well, to earn respect from their teammates, to make money, to stay healthy, to get home from time to time to see their kids. These roles mostly support each other, forming the foundation of what the writer Robert Lipsyte identified as ?SportsWorld,? the great national money-printing business. But there is a darker side to this conflict: as much as we venerate athletes in America, with attention and riches and the respect implicit in cultural capital, we are also deeply hostile toward them. We complain when players fail on the field or demand huge contracts in the offseason. And, having been sure all along that they were stupid and overpaid and not worthy of our respect, we take a kind of perverse thrill when their personal weaknesses are revealed, when they somehow go broke despite earning millions of dollars or run afoul of the law. It is envy, perhaps, but also a form of self-loathing?a shame about the amount of energy and time we devote to frivolous games with outcomes completely outside our control. This is the id of the sports fan in his living room, and of the talk-radio host barking in your car, and of the grizzled columnist writing the umpteenth article about how the latest generation of jocks is tarnishing the past. An open secret, in some ways: we love sports but kind of hate the players.

And so, in the past day, we have enjoyed the release of endorphins that comes with giving Ryan Braun exactly the kind of public tomato-pelting he deserves. He is the most irritating kind of cheater?a player who skirted a failed drug test, in 2011, on what appeared even at the time to be a technicality and then, rather than quietly thanking the fates, instead held a sanctimonious press conference, in which he said several variations of: ?I?ve tried to handle the entire situation with honor, with integrity, with class, with dignity, and with professionalism, because that?s who I am and that?s how I?ve always lived my life.? Later, he seemed to impugn the person who had collected his urine sample but failed to follow delivery protocol, saying, ?There were a lot of things that we learned about the collector, about the collection process, about the way that the entire thing worked that made us very concerned and very suspicious about what could have actually happened.? Perhaps he was just referring to flaws in the testing process, but those suggestions of nefariousness (?a lot of things that we learned about the collector?), in light of what amounts to his admission on Monday that he subsequently violated the league?s drug policies, seem especially scurrilous on Braun?s part. He is a diminished figure, and perhaps as ruined as a man who is guaranteed to earn a hundred and thirteen million dollars between now and 2020 can be.

In the past, the head-shaking and outrage directed at steroid and other P.E.D. users mostly came from fans, or from writers, to whom moralism comes naturally. Yet, over the past twenty-four hours, and in what may be a watershed moment, current players have elbowed in to express their anger at Braun. This is a new phenomenon: before, players would remain mostly mum about infractions by their peers; the antagonism between players and owners left over from the reserve clause has never fully disappeared. ?I think everybody?s frustrated, especially the players. I think we all feel a little bit cheated,? the Seattle Mariners pitcher Joe Saunders told the A.P., in an article that features a half-dozen such condemnations of Braun from around the league. (Some players, including members of the Brewers, have come to Braun?s defense and said that they accept his apology.) ESPN?s Buster Olney writes that recently a big-league pitcher threw at a suspected P.E.D. user as a form of inner-circle retribution. (Olney doesn?t name the pitcher, though, giving the whole thing the feeling of a parable.) More notably, the players? union has said that it will not defend players from drug suspensions if there is solid evidence against them. That?s not to say that the union is throwing its members to the dogs, but it does reflect an important policy shift. The union has decided that, at this stage of the drug era, the greater threat is not M.L.B. overreaching to investigate and punish players but rather the existence of cheaters among the ranks. This makes a lot of sense: drug users threaten the livelihood of clean players, and hurt the league?s reputation. The recognition that a clean sport benefits the players was one of the reasons that the union agreed to stricter drug-testing policies and stiffer penalties in the most recent collective-bargaining agreement.

Yet the way in which league executives have pursued the Biogenesis case may give some players pause. Ryan Braun is not accused of failing a drug test; neither is Alex Rodriguez or any of the other players who are likely to face suspensions. Instead, Braun was suspended for what the M.L.B. called, vaguely, ?violations of the Basic Agreement and its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.? As Tom Verducci, of Sports Illustrated, notes, the suspension was issued essentially at the sole discretion of league commissioner Bud Selig. Granted, Braun took the deal, and others connected to Biogenesis may choose to accept a similar arrangement, but while the clean players who are fed up with cheaters sharing their dugouts might be happy about that, it?s worth pausing a moment to consider some of the lessons of history, and the bargaining leverage with owners and league management that their forebears fought so hard to achieve. We?ve reached an unusual moment in which the desires of fans, writers, players, and owners seem to align: everyone wants a clean game. But now, as always, it?s the players who are held to the highest standards, who face the most scrutiny, and who have the most to lose.

Photograph by Marc Serota/Getty Images.

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WWII Exhibit Shows History in Photographs - New York Press

Students learn how to research and depict the story of the last ?good? war

Governors Island only became popular in the last 10 years since it was opened and renovated for public use?or so it seems to us present-day New Yorkers. In actuality, the floating arboretum in the middle of New York Harbor played a seminal role in protecting the everyday lives of New Yorkers back in the 1940s. Thanks to an original exhibition put on by the student historians of the New York Historical Society, visitors to Governors Island can journey back to a time when the verdant parkland was the military base standing between the Germans and the Atlantic seaboard.
When one hears New York and World War II in the same sentence, the landmarks that typically spring to mind are Columbia University, the site of the infamous Manhattan Project; or Times Square, the backdrop for the iconic LIFE photograph of the WWII sailor and nurse kissing; or the hundreds of buildings that were temporarily converted into American Red Cross units, including the New York Historical Society itself, which featured these and many more sites in its past exhibit on the Upper West Side, aptly called WWII & NYC, to present a fuller picture of New York?s role in the war.
Given the limitations of space in the exhibit, one landmark important to the war effort had to be left out and would have probably evaded notice completely if the museum?s education division had not passed on the job to its student historians, an accomplished group of high school students from all five boroughs ?with a passion for making history matter,? said Chelsea Frosini, managing director of the award-winning program. Working for more than six months on exhaustive object-based research and expert interviews with museum curators and other experts, the students were able to piece together Governors Island?s past reputation as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one of America?s foremost suppliers of ships, planes, equipment and soldiers to the Allied cause.

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?These kids came in and made their own WWII story. Some of the questions they were asking were ones I hadn?t even considered. It was very refreshing for me,? says Mike Thornton, a curatorial associate at New York Historical Society, who spent four to five hours one afternoon teaching students about the basics of curatorship.
Jonathan Brown, a student historian since 2011 from Frederick Douglass Academy on West 140th Street, picked up quite a lot of US history from his internship but admits, ?I never knew Governors Island was part of the WWII effort before, nor did [the other 12] people in my group, but that?s what motivated us to look into it.?
In the end, they decided to present their research in an offshoot exhibition of the original NYHS WWII installation that ended in May. Theirs would be a very different kind of exhibit.
The WWII & NYC (Part Two): Photographs and Propaganda is comprised exclusively of old black-and-white images from the era that have been blown up and hung, not in a museum, but in a pre-war mansion on Governors Island that was once used to house military soldiers. The exhibition brought the New York Historical Society not only to Governors Island for the first time, but out of its home on 170 Central Park West for the first time.
The relocation was not without its bumps and hurdles. The Trust for the Governors Island was very specific as to which building they could use, although the house they gave them ?was not a safe space but more a military ruin,? recalls Mike Thornton. ?My gut reaction was ?Why would you dare put people in there, let alone an installation.??
Yet, Victoria Greene, 17, an Upper West Side student historian who gives tours of the exhibition, along with fourteen other 17-year-olds, recognized early on that ?there is something special about showing the objects on the site that holds such a large piece of the WWII puzzle.?
Upon visiting House #18 now, you?ll recognize the same mustard color exterior and rusty door, but the inside has been completely transformed into a wall-to-wall gallery. ?It was very hands-on and very demanding work,? recalls Chelsea Frosini, ?but our teams of teens and staff all stepped up to the challenge and produced something unprecedented and very exciting!?
The exhibit was also unprecedented in its visitor count. On opening weekend alone, 792 people on Saturday and 832 people on Sunday dropped by to marvel at the sundry photographs, maps, propaganda posters, and advertisements that illustrate New York?s physical and moral transformation by the War.
?One poster I return to every time reads ?Americans always fight for liberty,? which really gives you a sense that this was the good war worth fighting for. It makes me proud to be an American,? said Brown, who will attend Johns Hopkins University in the fall.
For her part, Greene, a rising senior at Stuyvesant High School, finds herself drawn to the items featuring minority groups, such as a board about a Japanese woman whose nursing application was rejected based on her nationality, or one about an African American man who rose to a high-ranking Army position only to face continued discrimination.
Several of the visitors to the exhibition have been veterans or relatives of veterans with their own stories of the war. As they made their way around the exhibit, they occasionally let out exclamations of glee or sadness upon recognizing one of the photographs.
Thornton points out that, with veterans dying at the rate of 1,000 a day, we are at a ?critical cusp? in passing history from first-hand to second-hand knowledge. For this reason, the Student Historians tried to make the exhibit as ?educative and participatory? as possible, said Brown.
Visitors are welcome to stop by the exhibition every weekend from June 15 to Sept. 2 to observe the finished product.

Source: http://nypress.com/wwii-exhibit-shows-history-in-photographs/

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The deutz oil cooler presented from the oil cooler distributor could be divided in the vertical oil cooler china coupled with horizontal oil cooler. The vertical oil cooler is rather often used within the electricity program for cooling purpose, not to mention simultaneously, it can be also utilised for the circulating cooling within the lubricating oil, steam turbine oil, and then abrasive kerosene utilized in metallurgy business, chemical market, mining sector, gentle business, and so on. The kind for Cummins 6bt Gear china has the advantages of excellent cooling effect, easy servicing, straightforward construction, handy operation, modest volume, and many others. Consequently, it calls for little installation room, and additionally it can be very appropriate for use in the narrow room for oil cooling.

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The horizontal oil cooler presented through the oil cooler suppliers is made out of stainless steel, it's the qualities concerning high warmth transfer coefficient, massive heat dissipation region, higher heat transfer amount, sensible structure, and so on. The horizontal oil cooler is in a position to keep the temperature about oil stable, together with it's got good resistance to sudden temperature rise and also vibration. The kind connected with deutz oil cooler has trustworthy framework, together with it really is free of charge from the issue concerning cooling drinking water leakage. Additionally, the horizontal perkins oil cooler has the advantages of tiny stress drop, robust water effect resistance, etc. As a result, it is also extremely broadly employed in different fields.

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The 2 kinds connected with oil coolers from the Cummins Cylinder Block distributor will need to be correctly utilized to ensure they're able to offer good cooling effect. The pipelines associated with the oil cooler ought to be cleaned frequently to stop blockage connected with the cooling pipe. The air within the components of the oil cooler might be exhausted just before it really is employed in order that the heat transfer performance might be confirmed. In winter, the cooling drinking water must be dissipated following the cooler is utilised to prevent frost crack.

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Quick Stress Relief Tips Through Your 5 Senses | World of Psychology

Remember the show ?I Dream of Jeanie?? I often wish that with a twitch of my nose I could remove myself from a stressful situation. Too bad it?s not that easy.

Fortunately, we all possess the power to decrease the effects of stress in our lives in an instant. Once we learn to identify our stress and the way our body responds to stress we can develop our personalized plan for decreasing stress in stressful situations.

There are many relaxation techniques, but let?s be honest. It?s not very practical to strike a yoga pose when you?re dealing with a difficult customer or co-worker. It?s also probably not the best look to begin chanting or reciting mantras in the middle of a stressful meeting.

The best way to relieve stress is through our senses. Our five senses often hold the key to quick stress relief.

If you are a visual person, stimulated by the things you can see or visualize, you may want to engage this sense as a method of relieving stress. You can practice mindfulness and be completely aware of all the sights and colors that surround you. If you are unable to find soothing or relaxing images, use your imagination and visualize something that brings you calmness and peace.

If sounds such as music, soft tones, or sounds of nature bring you quick relief, experiment with different sounds to find what soothes you the most. With the current technology, there are tons of apps that provide relaxing music and tones for free. If you find yourself in a situation in which you can?t turn up the music or place your headphones on, try humming your own little tune.

Smells and scents can be very calming. Aromatherapy is a great method for stress relief. You can visit an aromatherapist or begin a search on your own. There are tons of great websites that provide information regarding what scents are good for specific emotions. Lavender is very calming, while eucalyptus and spearmint can be very uplifting.

There is nothing like a hot cup of tea, or a cold glass of water, or a nice piece of chocolate. At least those are my favorites. Whatever you enjoy, savor the flavor. We often inhale our food in a rush and neglect actually spending time to connect with layers of flavor and textures. I really enjoy food, so often when I?m stressed I turn to a hot cup of relaxing tea. When I?m not in the mood for tea, I?ll go for something I don?t treat myself to very often and become mindful of everything about it. It?s a great distraction and I get to eat in the process. For me it?s a win/win.

Some people are very tactile and find that touching or feeling different textures provide stress relief. This can include playing with stress relief balls or other toys, petting an animal, getting a massage, taking a hot bath, or holding an object that you find comfort in.

When trying out ways to manage stress in a quick manner, start small by testing the waters with small stressors. Try not to wait until you are at a 10 to try to quickly get back to a 1. If you try a stress relief technique and it doesn?t work, try something else. Eventually you will begin to learn what works for you in particular situations, but it takes a little experimenting at first. Don?t allow your search for quick stress relief to bring about more stress because that is not the intent. When we learn to handle one small stressor effectively, we are more likely to be able to handle the big stressors when they come.

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White, D. (2013). Quick Stress Relief Tips Through Your 5 Senses. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 24, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/07/23/quick-stress-relief-tips-through-your-5-senses/

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