School roundup: Lions golf clinches C&I title

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OSTERVILLE ? Brian O'Donnell and Justin Smith swept their No. 1 and 2 matches, leading Pope John Paul II golf over Sturgis East, 38?-15?, to clinch the Cape & Islands League title at Wianno Club on Tuesday.

O'Donnell was the medalist on the day as the Lions improved to 11-4-1, 9-1 in the league, winning the C&I for the first time.

The Lions also got wins from Blake Waters, Seamus McArdle and Blake Detterman.

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Pope John Paul II 3, Sturgis West 2: The Lions used a strong passing game to outlast the Navigators in Cape & Islands League play at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center.

Pope John Paul II (7-9, 4-1 C&I) survived Sturgis West (6-3, 3-2 C&I) 25-22, 25-14, 24-26, 21-25, 15-11 on the strength of Maria Mazzola's 21 assists and Kate Conway's 18 assists.

Corey Lopes had 17 digs for the Lions while Brianne Kondratowicz added eight digs.

Emily Langdon led the Navigators from a five-point deficit to a two-point lead with a seven-point service run in the Game 3 win. Langdon had three aces on the match.

Maryssa McKoul (seven blocks) and Becca Rowe (seven kills) keyed Sturgis West's Game 4 victory with strong play up front.

Sturgis East 3, Cape Tech 0: The Storm got an all-around team effort in moving above the .500 mark with the three-game sweep in Harwich.

Sturgis East (6-5, 3-2 C&I) prevailed 25-15, 25-7 and 25-8 with Haley Meaden's ace wrapping it up.

Laura Sirhal and Cat Cameron excelled from the service line for the Storm while Hannah Newcomb and Gwen Walsh starred defensively.

South Shore Voke 3, Upper Cape 0: The Rams played the Vikings tough, but came up just a few points short in all three games in Hanover.

South Shore Voke won 25-20, 25-20 and 25-22 over Upper Cape (3-9).

Rebecca Wolf (seven assists) and Sabrina Carboneau (two tips) combined for 17 service points. Gina-Marie Baxter added 17 of her own service points and three digs.

FIELD HOCKEY

Barnstable 1, Nantucket 1: Both teams had their chances but the hard-fought match ended in a tie on Nantucket.

The Red Raiders dominated the first half and the Whalers came out hot in the second half.

The Whalers finally punched through in the 21st minute, but Barnstable responded when Callie Rogorzenski scored off a corner from Amanda Piknick.

Barnstable (7-4-2) will travel to Dennis-Yarmouth on Friday.

Source: http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131009/SPORTS/310090306/-1/rss06

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How mobile changed bricks-and-mortar shopping ? for better or worse

Scott Forshay is senior strategist at Mutual Mobile

By Scott Forshay

Remember approximately ten years ago when consumers would go on the hunt for a particular electronic device or appliance? Rather than spending hours traveling from store to store, comparing prices and product specs, they would oftentimes settle for a well-known brand purchased through a store they trusted.

Thanks to today?s mobile-heavy environment, that traditional idea of the consumer shopping experience is as good as gone.

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A 2013 report by Pew Research shows that 56 percent of U.S. consumers own a smartphone, giving them instant access to the Internet and every product that can be found online.

With that kind of accessibility to pricing, product specs and customer reviews, mobile devices have created the showrooming effect ? a phenomenon where bricks-and-mortar stores become glorified showrooms for huge online retailers such as Amazon, providing a place for consumers to look at a potential purchase before buying it elsewhere for less.

Mobile has turned products into commodities and online incentives such as home delivery and next-day shipping have taken away any incentive for a consumer to purchase a product in-store, creating an environment where shopping is no longer about the store loyalty, or the in-store experience, but about price, convenience and customer benefit.

However, this shift towards online retail does not spell the end of traditional bricks-and-mortar commerce.

If anything, mobile?s immersion in our everyday lives actually provides retailers a valuable opportunity to embrace mobile as an asset and use it to foster the biggest advantage a bricks-and-mortar store has to offer: personalized, superior-level customer service.

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With the explosion of mobile, retailers have been forced to rethink how they do business at a store level, and effectively compete with online retailers.

Through this process, many bricks-and-mortar shops have returned to their roots, cultivating an environment of exceptional customer service and providing a greater degree of efficiency to customers? lives, which in turn tilts the customers? ?What?s in it for me? scenario in favor of in-store retailers.

These retailers can also use mobile to their advantage. Here are three ways are bringing success to bricks-and-mortar locations:

? Social retailing. Some stores have found ways to make in-store shopping a more social experience and connect it to a consumer?s digital world.

Macy?s is a fantastic example of this. As a way to connect with its digital-savvy customers, Macy?s developed a ?Magic Fitting Room? that made it possible for in-store customers to virtually try on the latest styles on Macy?s Hot List and share their favorite looks to their social channels instantly.

In just six weeks, Macy?s saw more customers in-store, with more than 16,000 customers participating in this social retailing experience

? In-store pickup. One way to provide efficiency and utility to a consumer?s life is by allowing her to make purchases online while at the office or running errands and pick-up in store. This is something Walmart has been doing for a long time, and with immense success.

? Just-in-time advertising. Once a customer enters the store, whether to showroom or shop, mobile gives retailers a way to keep her there.

Through CRM tools, retailers have the ability to recognize customers with an affinity for their brand ? perhaps they have downloaded your mobile application ? and use targeted special offers to drive positive purchase intent in the store.

WHAT IT BOILS down to is what your bricks-and-mortar store can offer a potential customer that an online retailer cannot, and how you can use the existing tools that customers have at hand to your store?s advantage.

My advice: make mobile your friend rather than your enemy.

Embrace the changing shopping model and mold it to your benefit, but never forget to maintain strong customer relationships through service and personalization.

Through this, you may just find your customers embracing a loyalty to your brand that mobile almost made them forget.

Scott Forshay is senior strategist at Mutual Mobile, Austin, TX. Reach him at scott.forshay@mutualmobile.com.

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T-Mobile Takes Aim At Rival Carriers With Free, Unlimited International Data

T-Mobile USA just loves to crow about how different it is from the rest of its carrier rivals, it decided to show off the latest of its "Uncarrier" moves at a packed concert/press event in New York City's Bryant Park. Here's the gist of it: if you're a T-Mobile customer on one of their Simple Choice plans, you can now use unlimited data in 100+ countries totally free of charge.

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New funding for Camplyobacter coli research

Public release date: 8-Oct-2013
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Campylobacter bacteria are a leading cause of food poisoning in the UK, causing at least 500,000 infections each year. Although these cases are rarely fatal, there's a clear need to reduce illness and its associated costs caused by these bacteria.

The major source of infection is through eating undercooked poultry meat, but other sources, such as farm animals and water also contribute to the large number of infections. A concerted effort is underway to tackle the problem, from farm to the plate. Organisations including the Food Standards Agency, Defra and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council are co-funding research to better understand how Campylobacter infects chickens, and how it persists in the food chain.

Much of this research is focused on a better understanding of the bacteria and how they survive in different environments. One complication is that Campylobacter illness is caused by at least 20 different species of Campylobacter bacteria. Whilst the vast majority of infections are down to one well studied species, Campylobacter jejuni, an estimated 10% of cases are caused by a different species, Campylobacter coli. Much less is known about the biology of Campylobacter coli including where it resides in the environment and how it infects us.

To address this, the Food Standards Agency has given a Strategic Research grant to a consortium led by Dr Arnoud van Vliet of the Institute of Food Research, to develop new tools to understand Campylobacter coli at the molecular and genetic level. In collaboration with The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) and the University of East Anglia, partners with IFR on the Norwich Research Park, and scientists at the University of Swansea, University of Liverpool and Public Health England, the researchers will carry out next generation genome sequencing of 500 genomes from Campylobacter coli strains. These strains will be collected from a wide range of sources including animals, foods, humans and a range of different environments.

When these genomes are analysed and compared, it should be possible to pick out genetic markers that identify strains from particular environmental niches, and possibly even predict why these strains prefer a particular environment.

These markers and other information that can be obtained from the first in depth look at the genome of C. coli will be invaluable tools for researchers studying these bacteria. They will help answer questions about what the main sources of C. coli infection are. Some research suggests that game, tripe and recreational swimming may be significant sources of infection a major difference to Campylobacter jejuni. The knowledge obtained from this two-year study could be used to develop diagnostic tools to help confirm diagnose and track sources of C. coli contamination a tool we don't currently have.

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Contact: Andrew Chapple
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Norwich BioScience Institutes

Campylobacter bacteria are a leading cause of food poisoning in the UK, causing at least 500,000 infections each year. Although these cases are rarely fatal, there's a clear need to reduce illness and its associated costs caused by these bacteria.

The major source of infection is through eating undercooked poultry meat, but other sources, such as farm animals and water also contribute to the large number of infections. A concerted effort is underway to tackle the problem, from farm to the plate. Organisations including the Food Standards Agency, Defra and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council are co-funding research to better understand how Campylobacter infects chickens, and how it persists in the food chain.

Much of this research is focused on a better understanding of the bacteria and how they survive in different environments. One complication is that Campylobacter illness is caused by at least 20 different species of Campylobacter bacteria. Whilst the vast majority of infections are down to one well studied species, Campylobacter jejuni, an estimated 10% of cases are caused by a different species, Campylobacter coli. Much less is known about the biology of Campylobacter coli including where it resides in the environment and how it infects us.

To address this, the Food Standards Agency has given a Strategic Research grant to a consortium led by Dr Arnoud van Vliet of the Institute of Food Research, to develop new tools to understand Campylobacter coli at the molecular and genetic level. In collaboration with The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) and the University of East Anglia, partners with IFR on the Norwich Research Park, and scientists at the University of Swansea, University of Liverpool and Public Health England, the researchers will carry out next generation genome sequencing of 500 genomes from Campylobacter coli strains. These strains will be collected from a wide range of sources including animals, foods, humans and a range of different environments.

When these genomes are analysed and compared, it should be possible to pick out genetic markers that identify strains from particular environmental niches, and possibly even predict why these strains prefer a particular environment.

These markers and other information that can be obtained from the first in depth look at the genome of C. coli will be invaluable tools for researchers studying these bacteria. They will help answer questions about what the main sources of C. coli infection are. Some research suggests that game, tripe and recreational swimming may be significant sources of infection a major difference to Campylobacter jejuni. The knowledge obtained from this two-year study could be used to develop diagnostic tools to help confirm diagnose and track sources of C. coli contamination a tool we don't currently have.

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US?s largest creditor China ?concerned about developments in US fiscal cliff?

A senior Chinese official has warned that the ?clock is ticking? to avoid a US default that could hurt China?s interests and the global economy.
China, the US?s largest creditor, is ?naturally concerned about developments in the US fiscal cliff?, Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said.

Washington must agree a deal to raise its borrowing limit by 17 October, or risk being unable to pay its bills.

He asked that ?the US earnestly take steps to resolve? the issue.

US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said that unless Congress agrees an increase in the debt ceiling by 17 October, Washington will be left with about $30 billion (?18.6 billion) in cash to meet its obligations ? about half the $60 billion-a-day needed.

For many governments and investors the approaching deadlock over the debt ceiling is far more critical than the current impasse over the federal shutdown caused by Congress?s failure to agree a new budget.

On Sunday Republican House Speaker John Boehner reiterated that Republican lawmakers would not agree to raise the debt ceiling unless it included measures to rein in public spending.

Zhu said that China and the US are ?inseparable?. Beijing is a huge investor in US Treasury bonds.

?The executive branch of the US government has to take decisive and credible steps to avoid a default on its Treasury bonds,? he said.

?It is important for the US economy as well as the global economy.?

?We hope the United States fully understands the lessons of history,? Zhu said, referring to a similar deadlock in 2011 that led to a downgrade of the US ?AAA? credit rating.

That deadlock ended with an eleventh-hour agreement.

Source: http://inserbia.info/news/2013/10/uss-largest-creditor-china-concerned-about-developments-in-us-fiscal-cliff/

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Popular CBS app finally to launch on Android and Windows 8 devices

"Hawaii Five-0" is one of the more popular shows on CBS's new app, which is rolling out to Android and Windows devices.

Hey, Android and Windows phone users, CBS loves you too. Just not as much as iPhone users. CBS Interactive announced that it has finally rolled out its app on Android and Windows 8-connected devices. BlackBerry users, if you're still out there, you'll have to wait until Christmas.

CBS's app allows its users to watch every episode of new and continuing primetime shows eight days after the initial broadcast. Viewers can access daytime and late-night shows within 24 hours. Shows from CBS's vault are also available through the app, including "Star Trek" and "Perry Mason." CBS Interactive also uses the app to engage users with a second screen, allowing viewers to watch the show on their TV and use the app for behind-the-scenes info or games that tie into the programming.

Released in March, the app was only available on Apple's iOS but proved to be very popular. The app was downloaded 4 million times. CBS shows that have interested social viewers the most so far include ?Criminal Minds,? ?CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,? ?Hawaii Five-0,? ?NCIS: Los Angeles,? ?The Bold and the Beautiful,? ?Survivor? and ?The Mentalist."

Now that Nielsen is counting views up to three days after the initial broadcast, it's more important than ever that networks entice viewers to use apps to boost the networks' numbers. The more users watch via the apps, the better the networks' numbers will be for advertisers.

?When we launched on iOS, we promised fans we would bring the CBS App to all major platforms by fall premieres. Today we are doing exactly that,? Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive, said in a statement. ?We've seen a tremendous response to the app to date, and we'll continue to innovate on behalf of CBS fans in the weeks and months ahead.?

Gina Hall is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer with more than 10 years experience in television, documentary and feature film production. She is a graduate of USC?s School of Cinematic Arts and blogs for the Huffington Post at huffingtonpost.com/gina-hall

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