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PORTLAND - MaineLine, a nonprofit coalition of diverse Maine businesses founded in 2010 to provide a direct response to disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, is hosting its first annual celebrity golf tournament - Do Good with Your Game - on Monday, Sept. 13, at Nonesuch River Golf Club in Scarborough.

All proceeds will directly benefit rebuilding efforts in Haiti. Celebrities involved include local radio and television personalities, business leaders and politicians.

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For a foursome, tournament fees are $500; for an individual $125 and includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, a commemorative shirt, lunch and photo opportunities with celebrities.

MaineLine is made up of almost 40 Maine companies and small businesses. The group is working to expand coalition membership to increase business participation throughout the state. Membership is open to any Maine company regardless of size and industry.

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Mainers make final preparation

ELLSWORTH - Hurricane Earl continued to march north Thursday, setting coastal residents on edge from North Carolina to Maine and prompting federal officials to warn the public to make contingency plans as soon as possible.

"This is a day of action," Craig Fugate, administrator of Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Thursday morning during a telephone conference with reporters. "Conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly along the East Coast tonight and tomorrow."

Hurricane warnings for the Category 2 storm, which Thursday evening had estimated sustained winds of 110 mph, had been established for coastal North Carolina, Cape Cod and southeast Massachusetts, while all of the Maine coast was under a tropical storm watch. At about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the center of the storm was located roughly 160 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C.

The storm is expected to roar into the Gulf of Maine tonight and to pass into Canadian waters Saturday morning.

Gov. John Baldacci met with federal, state and county emergency response officials in Augusta on Thursday afternoon to assess the storm's damage potential. According to Baldacci, Hancock most comfortable sandals in the world and Washington counties likely will experience the highest winds, which could range between 39 and 73 mph.

In a prepared statement, he said Earl's effects may range from high waves and moderately high winds and rain to a potentially heavier impact statewide if it moves farther west.

"The state is coordinating information and resource needs to protect people in Maine," Baldacci said in the statement. "We've been through storms before, and we have been preparing for many days with our public and private partners. We have emergency personnel in Augusta and on the ground across the state ready for this storm no matter what track it takes."

The National Weather Service has indicated that regardless of the eventual track of Hurricane Earl, high waves and strong rip currents are likely along the entire coastline of Maine, according to Baldacci.

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Officials in Acadia National Park, where a 7-year-old girl died last year when a wave generated by Hurricane Bill dragged her and several others into the water, have said they plan to monitor weather conditions and to restrict access to some parts of the park if they become severe enough. These restrictions could include closing the park's Seawall and Blackwoods campgrounds, which are located on Mount Desert Island near the shore, they have said.

Bill Read, director of the National Hurricane Center, said Thursday that the storm is expected to weaken but remain relatively strong as it moves north. The storm's center likely will pass just east of Nantucket Island, immediately south of Cape Cod.

"The [hurricane's] eye is going to be huge by then" Read said.

He said the storm is expected to grow in size, though not necessarily in strength, during an eyewall replacement cycle, but when this might occur he was not sure. An eyewall replacement cycle is when a small, tight eye - the calm center of a hurricane around which the storm's winds swirl - collapses and is replaced by a larger eye, he said. This could spread the hurricane's winds out over a greater storm diameter, Read said.

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Ohio's prisons director said the amount of sexual abuse of inmates in the system is too high, but the numbers of allegations have been dropping steadily from 2006 to 2009.

Ernie Moore of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said Friday, Aug. 27, that the number of Rolex Watches inmate allegations of sexual abuse by guards and other inmates declined in the state's 31 prisons from 205 in 2006 to 133 last year.

"That's a good sign for us," he said. "We're moving in the right direction."

However, a study released Thursday by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that in three of five Ohio prisons surveyed, inmates reported more sexual misconduct than the national average. A fourth prison exactly mirrored the average. The Correctional Reception Center was well below the average, but most inmates are there fairly briefly and sent to other prisons.

The bureau surveyed more than 81,000 inmates at 463 prisons and jails nationwide between October 2008 and December 2009, and estimated that 64,500 prison inmates and 24,000 in jails were sexually assaulted within the previous 12 months. That's a rate of 4.4 percent in prison and 3.1 percent in jails.

Of the five Ohio prisons surveyed, the rate was 5.6 percent for Lebanon Correctional Institution, 7.7 percent for the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville, 5.3 percent for Southeastern Correctional Institution at Lancaster, 4.4 percent for Mansfield Correctional Institution and 1.1 percent for the Correctional Reception Center.

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Moore said the reception center's low number is encouraging because the survey indicated that many inmates are sexually abused in the first 24 hours of their incarcerations.

"We have zero tolerance for it, and that's our goal: to have zero incidents of sexual victimization," he said.

The study showed that prisons for women had a higher percentage of reported inmate-against-inmate sexual abuse than in male prisons, and the Ohio Reformatory for Women followed the trend.

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"Exactly what is going on at ORW is an issue we'll be looking into," said Corrections spokeswoman Julie Walburn.

She said officials are still analyzing the survey, but "there seems to be a correlation" between the survey numbers and the numbers of incidents reported to prison officials. She said that indicates that large numbers of abuse cases aren't going unreported.

Moore and Walburn said the prisons have enacted improvements in recent years such as extra training for investigators, victim advocates and chaplains, and a hotline to report abuse. They've increased orientation for offenders on how to foresee and report sexual abuse, and screening for inmates likely to be either vulnerable or predatory.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2264 or tbeyerlein@Dayton DailyNews.com.

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Marshall not a Beast yet, but

Brandon Marshall has yet to score a touchdown in his first exhibition season with the Miami Dolphins and he's even having a little trouble hanging onto the ball at times. Anybody want to give him back to Denver?

Of course not.

Even on a fractured Friday night at Sun Life Stadium, when nearly half the seats looked empty and most of Miami's offensive schemes smelled half-baked, Marshall made this 16-6 exhibition loss to Atlanta worth watching.

Would Chad Henne ever find him? There were times you had to wonder in the first half when the young quarterback and the wondrous wide receiver were so mixed up that they seemed to be working out of different playbooks.

One pass missed Marshall by 5 feet, so at odds were the rhythm of the route and the timing of the delivery.

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Another Henne ball to Marshall seemed tucked away on a potential third-down conversion until Falcons cornerback Christopher Owens chopped it loose.

Yet another sailed out of bounds and into the Atlanta bench, which turned out to be the safest place for it because Marshall hadn't even turned to look for the ball.

"Henne has a progression he goes through," Marshall said when the post-game questioning steered toward the possibility of a disconnect between the two. "It's not just me on the field. If the ball is supposed to go to Davone Bess, that's where it's going to go.

"He's just throwing it where it's supposed to go."

Again and again, eight times in all, the pass went in Marshall's direction, more than any other Miami receiver. Only three of those eight were caught, a pattern that continued with the Dolphins dismal 2-for-13 success rate on third- and fourth-down plays.

As sharp as the first offensive unit was last week at Jacksonville, it was that bad and more against the Falcons. Yet, and here's the good part, there always was the possibility, the expectancy, that the Beast might take a couple big bites of yardage for his own.

It happened twice in a matter of moments Friday after a Yeremiah Bell interception gave the Dolphins a midfield gift of a possession with a minute to play in the first half.

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Magically, casually, Marshall pulled in a looping, 26-yard pass from Henne and tapped both feet down just inside the sideline like he was stomping out a fire.

Three plays later, 5-foot-11 Atlanta cornerback Chevis Jackson took another stomping. Marshall, a 6-4 titan of a target, easily got inside position on a slant pass and reached up for what probably would have been a leaping miss by Ted Ginn, Jr.

Marshall, Miami's new and improved No. 19, stretched with two hands to snag the 20-yard gainer for a first-and-goal opportunity. Clearly, Marshall's got stilts he hasn't even used here, and roman- candle moves.

That's what you get from a 100-catch receiver, which Marshall has been for three NFL seasons in a row. Skills, skills and more skills. We'll see them all once the regular season gets started Sept. 12 at Buffalo.

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HUNTINGTON - Here is yet another example of the perils of handicapping a class of freshman recruits.

Who will be the most accomplished of those wearing red-striped helmets in Marshall's preseason camp?

Justin Haig? Could be, if he can beat out Tyler Warner for placekicking duties.

Eddie Sullivan? Vaulting to No. 2 quarterback isn't a cheap feat, and it puts him on the verge of great opportunity, perhaps sooner than later.

Brian Robinson? The safety may have carried four stars to Huntington, but injury continues to cost him valuable practice time.

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Trevor Black? Coming out of Hargrave Military Academy, he also has a spring under his belt and is getting quality reps. But he isn't the freshman linebacker turning heads these days.

That youngster is T.J. Ross, who isn't looking or acting the part of a rookie. The 6-foot, 215-pound native of Durham, N.C., took some first-team reps at middle linebacker Tuesday, and spent the entire morning practice Wednesday with the first string.

Keep in mind that incumbent starter Kellen Harris is still rehabilitating a hamstring pull, and fellow junior Tyson Gale isn't going to take a demotion lying down. But Ross' work ethic and athletic ability has perked up teammates and coaches.

"He plays hard, and in this program they have no choice but to play hard," said coach Doc Holliday. "We can tolerate mistakes to a point, but we can't tolerate a lack of effort. I'm not saying we're not getting effort; we are. But he's just a guy, from day one, who stepped on campus and has given us great effort.

"He's just a great kid. He's a sharp kid that picks things up and I'm glad he's here."

Ross' recruitment wasn't done in the same haste as most of the 2010 recruiting class. North Carolina is the prime territory of assistant coach Phil Ratliff, one of two holdovers from the staff of previous head coach Mark Snyder, and Ratliff noticed Ross in his junior year.

Ross said he heard from Wake Forest, Duke, Clemson and Mississippi State, but Ratliff thought the field could have been tougher.

"First of all, he's a great character," Ratliff said. "I knew he was strong for his size, a little short but strong for his size, and he can run. The more I got to watch him, I saw his tape, he played with great passion and I continued to stay on him.

"The whole time I'm thinking, 'Why has this kid not gotten more scholarship offers?' That's recruiting for you - you can't get caught up in who has offered him, who's recruiting him."

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Much quicker than most freshmen, Ross has grasped the higher speed of the game and the necessity of never "taking a play off." Those points were driven home a little harder Wednesday.

"My first day with the ones, the first two plays I was, 'Whoa. What's going on?' " Ross said. "I had to catch up. I had to step it up a whole two levels, two more notches."

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The trend for higher education institutions offering online courses is increasing, a report by the Sloan Consortium shows. But anybody with any knowledge of technology, education or general trends could tell you that.

The report's surprising finding: More public institutions offer a greater number of online courses than private schools.

Sloan Consortium Executive Director John Bourne said it all comes down to different missions: Public schools are charged to serve the populations of a state or certain area, and private institutions are all about the face-to-face, intimate environment.

"State schools' missions are to provide more and better access, and online education offers that capability," Bourne said. "Many privates capitalize on so-called high-touch education. ... That kind of experience is hard to replicate on online education."

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The Sloan Consortium helps higher education institutions integrate online and distance education into their curriculums, like Babson College in Massachusetts, where Bourne also teaches MBA courses. His online class has a unique aspect: It takes place virtually in Second Life, an online mass multiplayer virtual reality. Many universities across the country and world have set up private "islands" in the Second Life universe, where they host classes and forums using avatars. Bourne brings in a guest speaker from New Zealand once a week to address the virtual class, an opportunity not possible with traditional classes.

Second Life classes are the extreme side of online learning. But the trend still shows most Oklahoma universities and colleges increasingly offer some sort of online option for a number of their classes. Ben Hardcastle of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education said state Replica Watches colleges reported increases between 5 percent and double digits in the last year.

The experts have differing opinions on whether offering online courses is economically positive or negative for a university. Jeff Seaman, director of the Babson Survey Research Group that helped prepare the Sloan report, said the perceptions have shifted: When schools started to offer classes online, experts thought the institutions would save money because no classroom space was needed. Then, he said, they began to think the costs of training teachers and purchasing necessary software would actually cause the universities to lose money.

"Now, we think it's settled - it now costs about the same to offer an online course," Seaman said.

According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a Texas higher education panel is recommending that students be required to complete at least 10 percent of their degrees outside the classroom through options like online courses, with saving money through minimizing schools' construction needs listed as a reason.

About 3 percent of Oklahoma City University's courses are online only. With only a gradual increase in offerings over the past couple of years, Assistant Director of Campus Technology Todd Rust said the university hasn't lost any money, despite the upfront costs of training faculty and purchasing software. But Seaman said developing an online course can be either more expensive or equal to the costs of a traditional class.

"Nobody out there is telling us it's a lot cheaper," he said.

Training is a large part of the cost, Seaman said.

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HOSPITALS in Lincolnshire were urged to improve in several areas, including safeguarding people from abuse.

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The Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates health and adult social care, will make the calls in a report published today.

The formal review follows an unannounced inspection at Lincoln County Hospital in June, which assessed whether the trust was designer shoes jimmy adhering to new quality and safety standards that came into effect on April 1.

Inspectors said although there were examples of good quality care, the trust was not fully meeting four standards relating to safeguarding people from abuse, respecting and involving people who use service, medicine management and supporting workers.

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Although the breaches were not deemed as "immediate risks" to safety, the CQC said the trust must improve in the four areas.

For more details of the report, see Wednesday's Echo.

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George Vaughan racked up a middle-distance double in M&M's latest Southern Men's League fixture at the weekend.

The 15-year-old ignored the heat to win the 800 in a shade more than two minutes - Josh Nice was first in the B string - and also recorded a PB in his 1500 victory.

He later ran a leg of the 4x400 as well, but was not by any means the busiest M&M.

That distinction belonged, as is often the case, to Martin Brockman. The giant decathlete won three of the six events he took part in and registered a new personal best in the shot.

Nick Slade didn't get too much rest at Norman Park, Bromley, either. He was in action five times.

Two impressive field-event performances came in the long jump. Josh Brown and Steve Lake were the winners and in each case they cleared six metres.

It was hard work, because of the heat, for those who ran 5000.

Veteran Gareth Williams and Under-20 Josh Elderfield were slower than 18 minutes in their race of just over three miles, but it says much for Replica Vacheron Constantin Watches the younger athlete's recovery, enthusiasm and grit that he later ran the steeplechase.

With one match remaining, M&M are ninth of 16 in Division 3 South.

100: 2 Dan Gill 11.7, 2 James Davies 12.07; 200: 3 Gill 24.8, 2 Davies 24.7; 400: 4 Josh Nice 57.7, 4 Nick Slade 64.4; 800: 1 George Vaughan 2:02.8, 1 Nice 2:05.2; 1500: 1 Vaughan 4:26.3, 4 Slade 5:00.7; 5000: 4 Gareth Williams 18:01.4, 4 Josh Elderfield 18:12.07; 110H: 3 Andrew Lamport 22.4, 2 Slade 30.9; 400H: 3 Slade 74.3, 2 Lamport 74.3; 3000SC: 3 Slade 11:33.2, 3 Elderfield 13:16.1; HJ: 1 Martin Brockman 2.00, 2 Lamport 1.50; LJ: 1 Josh Brown 6.51, 1 Steve Lake 6.05; TJ: 2 Brown 13.36, 2 Lake 11.79; PV: 2 Lamport 2.20, 3 Steve Hesketh 1.10; SP: 1 Brockman 13.02, 3 Hesketh 6.92; DT: 1 Brockman 38.72, 3 Hesketh 16.22; HT: 4 Hesketh 16.35, 3 Brockman 15.92; JT: 2 Brockman 47.11, 2 Lamport 30.63; 4x100: 2nd 53.0 (Davies, Lake, Brown, Gill); 4x400: 2nd 3:55.5 (Vaughan, Nice, Slade, Brockman).

Match: 1 Bracknell 101; 2 M&M 92.5; 3 Epsom & Ewell 83; 4 Paddock Wood 72.5

MEDWAY and Maidstone athletes have rarely come away empty-handed when representing Kent at the English Schools' Championships, but that was the case this year.

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Annie Waghorn, M&M's only female selected for the two day meeting in Birmingham, for instance, found the pace a little too hot in the intermediate girls 300 and did not progress beyond her heat. She does have a PB of 41.05, but as a demonstration of the quality shown at the Alexander Stadium all eight finalists bettered that - six of them inside 40 seconds.

For James West it just didn't happen in the junior boys 1500. He, too, exited after a heat, while Adam Gilbert left the senior boys 800 at the same stage.

Oliver Woodham, who was throwing the javelin beyond 40 metres a month ago, could only manage 38.80 in the junior age-group, and James Alcock, the sole senior athlete from the club at the event they call "The Kid's Olympics" succumbed to a hamstring problem which has hindered him recently and withdrew after two rounds of the long jump.

Both of Alcock's efforts had, in any, case been given red flags and it was sad ending to the school career of an athlete who won bronze as an intermediate at Gateshead two years ago.

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