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Mommy & Me: Jennifer Hudson and David?s Cool Backpacks
The singer and her 4-year-old are rocking Mad Pax backpacks while making their way through JFK in N.Y.C.
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Atlanta Braves Dispute Infield Fly Rule Call By Sam Holbrook In 6-3 Loss To Cardinals (VIDEO)
ATLANTA ? Just like last year, the Braves lost out on a spot in the NL division series to the St. Louis Cardinals. Only this time, Atlanta was knocked out with the help of what will be remembered as one of the most disputed infield fly calls in baseball history.
Trailing by three runs, the Braves would have had the bases loaded with one out in the eighth inning. Instead they had runners on second and third with two outs, didn't score again and lost 6-3 Friday night in baseball's first, one-and-done, wild-card playoff game.
Just like that, the focus shifted from Chipper Jones' impending retirement and the end of Kris Medlen's winning streak to a call that led to a 19-minute delay caused by enraged fans throwing debris and a protest by Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez.
"Ultimately I think that when we look back on this loss, we need to look at ourselves in the mirror," Jones said. "We put ourselves in that predicament, down 6-2. You know, that call right there is kind of a gray area. I don't know. But I'm not willing to say that that particular call cost us the ballgame. Ultimately, three errors cost us the ballgame, mine probably being the biggest."
Jones leaves with just one World Series title, in 1995.
"Today my heart is broken," he said. "Not for me, my heart is broken for my teammates and my coaching staff, and all these fans that have been so great to us this year."
Attention was on Andrelton Simmons' fly ball into shallow left field, which fell between shortstop Pete Kozma and left fielder Matt Holliday, sparking the furor. Just before the ball dropped, left field umpire Sam Holbrook raised his arm to signal an infield fly, meaning Simmons was out.
The call was later than is usual on an infield fly, a rule designed to prevent fielders from deliberately letting balls fall in attempts for a double play. This ball landed at least 50 feet beyond the infield.
Gonzalez ran onto the field and argued the call with Holbrook and other members of the umpire crew.
Holbrook, crew chief Jeff Kellogg and umpire supervisor Charlie Reliford defended the call as coming on a play in which Kozma could make the play with "ordinary effort."
Ordinary? At least 50 feet from the infield?
"Well, it's a judgment," Reliford said in a postgame news conference that included MLB executive vice president Joe Torre, a former manager of both the Braves and Cardinals.
"I think as you watch that tape, the guy was not only under it and clearly waving that he had it, I think he had reasonably stopped his momentum, and he was under it and it was clearly the correct call," Reliford said.
Asked about the timing of the call, Reliford said an infield fly call should not be made before the ball begins its descent.
Holbrook said he "absolutely" thought he made the right call after watching a replay.
"I saw the shortstop go back and get underneath the ball where he would have had ordinary effort and would have caught the baseball, and that's why I called the infield fly," Holbrook said.
Torre said he told Braves general manager Frank Wren and Gonzalez the protest "just didn't make sense" due to the lack of time before the division series begins on Sunday.
"I spoke to them, asked them what they were basing their protest on, and I ruled basically to disallow the protest based on the fact that it was umpire's judgment call," Torre said.
Torre said he was informed during the news conference that Wren dropped the protest.
Gonzalez scolded Braves fans for littering the field and putting players and umpires in danger.
"I think we have very passionate fans here in Atlanta, and I think I'm a little disappointed with the reaction of throwing bottles and beer cans and you name it," Gonzalez said. "For me, that's uncalled for.
"I understand the disappointment. But we can't do that. As Atlanta Braves and people from Georgia, it doesn't look good, and I'm a little disappointed in our fans from that point. You get people injured out there."
It was the same type of ending as last year, but different.
Last season, the Braves led St. Louis by 10 1/2 games in the wild-card race before play on Aug. 26 and still were up by 8 1/2 games on the morning of Sept. 6. Atlanta went 9-18 in September, ended with a five-game losing streak and finished a game behind the Cardinals, who went on to win the World Series.
This year, with a second wild card added, the Braves went 94-68 and the Cardinals 88-74, setting up the wild-card matchup in the expanded postseason.
Atlanta then played one of its worst games of the year, blowing a two-run lead, making three errors that led to four unearned runs and going 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position. The Braves had the fewest errors in the NL during the regular season.
One of the errors was by Jones, whose bad throw on a potential double-play grounder helped allow the Cardinals to score three runs in the third and go ahead for good. Second baseman Dan Uggla and shortstop Andrelton Simmons also made throwing errors in the seventh, helping the Cardinals add two runs.
The 40-year-old Jones was 1 for 5, reaching on an infield single in the ninth and ending his career stranded at third base when Uggla hit a game-ending groundout. Jones tipped his helmet before his final at-bat.
"I walk out of here knowing that I brought it every single day," Jones said. "When you know that, it makes it easier to walk away."
Even after the controversial call, Atlanta had a chance in the eighth. The Cardinals brought in closer Jason Motte, who loaded the bases with a walk to pinch-hitter Brian McCann before striking out Michael Bourn on a 3-2 pitch.
Atlanta had won a record 23 straight starts by Medlen, who was 9-0 with a 0.97 ERA in 12 starts this season. He had not lost as a starter since May 23, 2010, at Pittsburgh. In this one he allowed five runs ? two earned ? and three hits in 6 1-3 innings.
David Ross' two-run homer put the Braves ahead in the second, but after Jones' error the Cardinals went ahead on an RBI double by World Series star Allen Craig, Yadier Molina's run-scoring groundout and David Freese's sacrifice fly. Holliday homered in the sixth to make it 4-2.
After Uggla's error on Freese's leadoff grounder in the seventh, Simmons made his bad throw on a grounder by rookie Pete Kozma and Matt Carpenter hit a run-scoring infield single to the pitcher.
Bourn's RBI grounder in the seventh was the only other run the Braves could muster. Atlanta sent the tying run to the plate in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings.
And now the Braves have all winter to think about another season with a sour ending.
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WWE.com wins OMMA Award for Web Site Excellence
WWE.com has been honored as the best website in entertainment television, winning MediaPost's esteemed OMMA Award for Web Site Excellence in the Entertainment: TV (non-news) category. The awards, which officially recognize the best in online media, marketing and advertising, were presented Monday night, Oct. 1, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City?s Times Square.
The new WWE.com, launched in March 2012, beat out deserving finalists like NBCUniversal?s TelevisionWithoutPity.com and CBS?s The Young and The Restless to earn the prestigious award. ?
MediaPost ? an online resource for all advertising media professionals ? has announced its OMMA (Online Media, Marketing and Advertising) awards since 2006. This year, as part of the annual OMMA Global New York Conference and Expo, 65 awards were presented in three disciplines: Online Advertising Creativity, Integrated Online Campaign and Web Site Excellence. Other winners included companies such as Microsoft, Pepsi and Nissan.
For more information on the OMMA Awards, visit www.mediapost.com/ommaawards/.
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QR codes to the rescue : Postnoon
Rather than giving all the information in a brochure, the QR codes can be used to get more relevant information online.
With the increase in smartphone penetration in the country, the businesses are trying to exploit the smartness of the devices for a range of promotional activities. The QR codes are increasingly used by businesses in various marketing activities.
?They provide a convenient one-step process for directing users to a website, phone number, directions, promotions video or other information. The marketer can set goals for his campaign and design their codes to achieve them,? says Bhaskar Anand, MD and CEO, MavenClickZ
?There are humongous benefits that QR code creates to businesses across the segments. For instance, a consultant?s business card contains a QR code that links to a landing page with enthusiastic client testimonials. This creates confidence among the potential clients about the authenticity of the business or he can have a QR code for VCard to download contact information of the business,? he explains.
?It is also a branding tool for businesses and can be immensely exploited in retail platform. For instance, a company can have an advertisement with QR code in supermarkets. The new product samples can be distributed to the people, who scan QR codes. This helps businesses to reach its target customers rather than spending heavily on various media platforms during their product launch,? says Y Ravindranath, CEO, myvirtualplaza.com
?QR codes are eco-friendly. Businesses can make more efficient use of printed materials and reduce waste. Rather than giving all the information in the brochure by printing more number of pages, the QR codes can be used as extension of brochure to online for more relevant information, thereby reducing the usage of paper,? says Bhaskar
It doesn?t cost anything to generate QR codes. There are many sites online, which produce codes freely. ?The QR codes are device independent and one code can be used in range of smart devices. QR codes, as well as the landing pages they link to can be viewed on all smartphones and do not require any customised development for each of the platform. QR codes applications can be downloaded from the application store for a range of smart phone operating systems that include iOS and Google Play store,? he says.
Businesses can also find out the market trends for their products and services with analytics. ?Actions triggered via QR Codes can be traced with web analytics or other tools for marketing campaign measurement. The businesses can get information on usage patterns like total number of scans, unique scans, date and time of each scan. Geo-location information of the user can be found for each scan and the devices used in finding the information can also be known to the businesses,? he says.
?It also differentiates businesses from its competitors. Integrating QR Codes is still relatively new in the market, those who are among the first to employ them in their outreach campaigns will set themselves apart as leaders in strategic marketing,? he adds.
Functions
- View a mobile website or landing page
- Dial telephone number
- Send text message
- Send email
- View a message or special offer
- Download contact details (VCARD)
- View a Google maps Location
- View a social media Profile
- Demo video
Uses
- Link to donations for charity organisations
- Link to menu, reservations and directions for restaurants
- Product manual links to a how-to video with installation and maintenance instructions
- A political candidate posts a QR code that links to an audio file with a message from the?candidate
- Attendees can conveniently scan and save the vendor?s information as they pass by at various stalls in exhibitions
Category: Business, Business News
Source: http://postnoon.com/2012/10/01/qr-codes-to-the-rescue/76979
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Lunar phobic bats dodge moonlight
1 October 2012
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Moonlight scares bats into hiding in the shadows, new research suggests.
Scientists in Mexico collated studies of bat behaviour from all over the world and analysed them for evidence of "lunar phobia" or "fear of the moon".
The study found that the activity of bats in moonlit habitats decreased on bright nights compared with bats that live and forage in darker places.
This may be explained by a higher risk of predation and lack of feeding opportunities in moonlight, it found.
The findings are published in the journal Mammalian Biology and represent what scientists have called "the first reliable evaluation of the lunar phobia phenomenon".
The study brought together a wide range of research concerning how these nocturnal animals behave and interact with the light of the moon.
"Evidence that the activity of bats decreased with increasing intensity of moonlight was contradictory, so that's why we decided to conduct this research," said the study's lead author, Mr Romeo Saldana-Vazquez, a biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
"The effect of moonlight on the activity of bats had not been revised despite the existence of information accumulated over 20 years in different parts of the world," he said.
Drawing on data about 26 species from 11 studies, scientists modelled the activity of bats at different latitudes and in different habitats against the phases of the moon.
The analysis concluded that lunar phobia is "common among bats" and showed that the reduction in activity in moonlight differed depending on habitat type.
"Habitats where light enters more easily causes more bat-activity decreases compared with bats that forage in the darkest places," said Mr Saldana-Vazquez.
Species that forage over water and beneath the forest canopy showed considerably more lunar phobia than those in sheltered habitats, according to the study.
Scientists suggest that this may be because out in the open, the moonlight means these bats can be more easily spotted by predators.
Another factor could be that the bats' prey becomes more scarce when there is more light.
The scientists also linked bats that lived closer to the equator to a stronger form of lunar phobia, though this may have been caused by differences between bat species and their ecosystems, rather than the brightness of the moon in tropical regions.
One exception was found to be bats that fly above the treetops. These species did not tend to decrease their activity on brighter nights.
Mr Saldana-Vazquez said it is possible that this is because these bats tend to fly fast and live in temperate climates where bats have fewer predators.
"We think that this study will help to re-open the debate about the existence of a widespread pattern," added Mr Saldana-Vazquez. He now hopes that the questions raised by the study will be investigated further.
"For example assess[ing] the density of predators and prey in studies of bat foraging activity... could provide more insights into the mechanism behind the reduction in activity of bats, and the possible mechanisms behind the evolution of [these] behaviour patterns," he said.
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Death with Dignity: Why I Don't Want to Have to Starve Myself to ...
But in making this analogy, I believe we?re removing all context and logic from the decision behind wanting to end your own life because of a terminal illness. For the patient, it?s not about the act of suicide or ending their lives ? it?s about alleviating suffering from the disease and choosing one?s own way of dying with a little dignity. It?s about patient empowerment, human dignity and choice.
That?s why in the two states where it is legal for doctors to help patients with a terminal illness, it?s referred to as the Death with Dignity law.
Because the alternative takes much of the dignity out of dying in today?s modern medical system.
?Physicians have no more business helping patients kill themselves with lethal drugs than they do helping patients jump off bridges,? says Dr. Pies.
Most would agree physicians have little business helping a person jump to their death. But it appears that Dr. Pies undermines his own argument when he suggests it is perfectly okay for a physician to let his or her patient die of willful starvation and dehydration. His rationale? Death this way is solely in the patient?s hands, and isn?t as painful as we imagine it to be. He points to the scientific evidence, because there have been studies assessing patients? pain and suffering as they?re dying through starvation and dehydration. Well, no, not quite. The evidence he points to is a single study that surveyed ? not patients ? but hospice nurses.
Now while I have great respect for the work and opinions of hospice nurses, let?s not confuse their opinions with data that would be more helpful ? from the patients themselves. But there is no such data. So we don?t honestly know ? and can?t say ? whether a patient whose doctor is okay with letting them starve themselves to death is in greater or lesser pain than one whose doctor has voluntarily prescribed a medication to hasten a terminal patient?s death.
Dr. Pies seems to be splitting hairs here. His objection appears to be that patients can end their lives if done solely on their own, because physicians shouldn?t help patients along to their death ? especially with a prescription. Yet he?s okay with a patient starving themselves to death ? something no physician would ever be okay with in any other situation (such as a patient who had anorexia).?
Physicians of such starving patients don?t just leave at that point. They too actively help the patient starve themselves by alleviating the discomfort associated with starving and dehydration. Physicians do this by prescribing a sedative, a practice known as terminal sedation or palliative sedation.
It?s not that starving to death isn?t a painful process (it is) ? it?s because the patient has been prescribed drugs ? by a physician ? to make their ?natural? death less painful.
Last, Dr. Pies argues it is not a right to die with dignity at the end of our lives, in the time and manner of our choosing. But nobody is coercing physicians to comply with the proposed law in Massachusetts. Just as most physicians do not perform abortions, I suspect many physicians will also not be interested in prescribing drugs to help a person at the end of their life hasten their own death.
We need such a law not to compel physicians or mess with their moral code, but because government has determined that the people cannot be trusted to have access to certain medications. Because government has restricted our access to such drugs, it is necessary to seek access to them through the government- and guild-defined methods imposed.
If my liberty to purchase and administer such drugs wasn?t restricted in the first place, we wouldn?t need such laws. But since my liberty has been restricted, a law is needed. This law would not impose an obligation on physicians to prescribe such medications to any patient who asked, as it would be completely voluntary for physicians to participate:
(2) Participation in this chapter shall be voluntary. If a health care provider is unable or unwilling to carry out a patient?s request under this chapter, and the patient transfers his or her care to a new health care provider, the prior health care provider shall transfer, upon request, a copy of the patient?s relevant medical records to the new health care provider.
One of a physician?s primary purposes is to help alleviate suffering. Suggesting a patient starve themselves over a period of one to two weeks, while being prescribed and administered a sedative, hardly seems in the spirit of this purpose.
For me, it?s not about a physician?s rights ? it?s about a human being?s inalienable rights and having the right to choose. So I will be voting ?Yes? on Question 2 for the Death with Dignity Act in Massachusetts. Because I believe that people with a terminal illness have a right to die at a time and place of their own choosing ? with the dignity deserving of a human life.
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