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Chris has been at it again, haunting the floor of any games show careless enough to leave an air vent accessible from the outside. Recently he was at EGX, putting his hands on any- and everything he could. Here, he reports back.

The Room Three by Fireproof Studios

The first two The Room games set the mobile platforms alight as they were games that not only did not feature a match-three mechanic but were also not free-to-play. Many of Fireproof Studio's contemporaries scoffed at the notion of making a game that doesn't leech money from the player on a regular basis as they attempted to play through it. Despite this The Room and The Room Two were so successful that Fireproof Studios has now embarked on the third outing of the series, cryptically titled The Room Three.

Making its debut at EGX 2014, The Room Three has a number of key features that set it apart from the previous two games. The first being that there is someone else in the rooms that the player traverses through. This was quite unsettling when I saw it during the 10 minute demo I played as I always regarded The Room games as a solitary experience, so to find someone else into the environment was quite unexpected. There is no indication of what or who this person is, or if the player interacts with them in any way, but their presence is very much felt.

Toryans by Holyfingers

But let's focus on what Toryans is about before we go plunging into too much detail. Set in a contemporary environment, the main protagonist is a woman who is the midst of questioning the very foundations of her life and her beliefs. One day she follows a stranger after a train journey she takes home from work every day and things start to unravel from there.

The demo does an excellent job of explaining how the interface in Toryans works. Using a reactive icon system, as the player moves the mouse pointer across the screen an icon appears indicating how they can interact with it. Sometimes an item (a key, for example) is needed in order for the action to be successful. In the demo there are number of areas the player can explore and items they can pick up and use in combination with one another in order to complete a task and eventually solve a puzzle. Items in the player's inventory can also be combined to make new items, which of course is nothing new, but an important mechanic that Toryans uses frequently.

In order for the pass to be retrieved the woman must somehow get it from the locked room to her so that she can use it on the lift. Travelling around the office is an automated vacuum cleaner, which is diligently clearing anything up that drops to the floor. By using the shredded paper that the woman collected from the office shredder, she is able to get the robotic cleaner to have the pass lodged onto its lid. The next task is to get the pass from the top of the cleaner; but I won't go into that for fear of spoiling things.

Toryans is set to appear on Windows PC, Mac and Linux sometime in the future; probably when it's done.

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Police said a man was making counterfeit credit cards in a Beaverton motel room and then using those cards to buy prepaid gift cards.

The Beaverton Police Department's investigation began when officers checking out a suspicious car with California license plates at the motel determined the man who was driving it was using a fake driver's license to rent the room.

Detectives determined the man stole the identity of someone in California and using that identity obtained a $40,000 loan to buy the car, a 2007 Mercedes CL 550.

When officers arrested 40-year-old Thomas Geter of California on Sunday, they found he was running a counterfeit credit card operation out of the hotel room.

Detectives said they confiscated fake credit cards, devices to make those cards, more than $13,000 in prepaid gift cards, about $1,800 in cash and other evidence.

Detectives said it appeared Geter bought the gift cards from numerous stores, including Home Depot, Safeway, Albertsons, Walgreens and Rite-Aid.

Police said Geter was the only one involved in the counterfeit operation at the hotel room but he might have been working with someone in California.

He was arraigned Monday on charges of identity theft and unlawful use of a vehicle.

He is due back in court Nov. 24.

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In addition to processing passport requests, the Hunterdon County Clerks office will open the Search Room for public use on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Search Room is in in the Hall of Records, 71 Main St., Flemington.

County Clerk Mary Melfi noted that both the Spring and Fall Searching the Search Room workshops that were a part of the this years Tricentennial celebration were sold out.

Recognizing the searching the history of your property can be a time-consuming task, we are pleased to offer the Saturday hours to the public to finish their project or to start a new project, she said.

Staff members will be on hand to assist with the locating of documents. Call the Clerks Office at 908-788-1214 for further information.

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Gary Tabor of Bowling Green was grateful to have a place to sleep Monday night at Crossland Community Church.

With what Ive been through, I have trouble finding the right words for it, he said. Its an incredible feeling to have people that actually welcome you.

Crossland hosted Tabor and three other guests during the first night of Bowling Greens Room in the Inn, a programin which churches offer shelter to homeless people during winter months.

Im excited that we got that opportunity to host the first night, said Leeza Glisson, executive pastor of Crossland. Were honored to do the first night.

She and her husband stayed with the guests overnight, while other volunteers helped prepare dinner for the group, including Donna Baker.

Baker and her husband volunteered for the Room in the Inn program in Charlotte, N.C., so when they moved to Bowling Green and joined Crossland, they were excited to see the program begin here.

I just saw how important it was for them to have a warm meal and a warm place to sleep, Baker said.... To be able to sit down and talk with them while eating dinner, it just reinforces how blessed we all are and how we take so much for granted. Some of their stories, it could happen to any of us.

Eleven churches in Warren County will take turns hosting up to 12 homeless guests each night through March 15, providing people with a home-cooked dinner, a mattress or cot to sleep on and breakfast in the morning.

Brita Austin,coordinator of Room in the Inn in Bowling Green, said she expected the number of guests to be small the first night.

Im very happy that we had that amount, she said. Its a brand new program, and while we did pass out fliers, we didnt know if we would have any guests the first night. They are really taking a leap of faith. It was really phenomenal that we had four. Thats beyond what we expected.

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Officials plan to nearly double the size of Baltimore's rat-fighting crew in the coming weeks, a move they say will cut in half the time it takes exterminators to blanket the city and give them a chance to keep up with the rapid reproductive cycle of the prolific creatures.

Expanding the "Rat Rubout" program from eight workers to 15 will allow them to visit each of the city's 12,250 alleyways once every 20 days. That's often enough to catch young rodents before they are old enough to reproduce.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake directed the city's Public Works Department to re-evaluate its rat abatement program during budget talks this year. She is expected to announce the expansion on Wednesday.

"I have been in elected office since 1995, and there has never been a time in my experience when the citizens were pleased with rat abatement," she said.

"It just hit me. I was like, 'Wait a minute. We can keep doing what we're doing, but is there a better way?'"

Officials have no estimate for the number of rats currently slinking along Baltimore's streets and tunneling under its yards. But a review of recent complaints shows hot spots on the city's east and west sides, with high activity in Sandtown-Winchester, Edmondson and Broadway East.

The new crew members will start in those neighborhoods before moving to a regular citywide inspection schedule, officials said. Valentina Ukwuoma, head of the city's solid waste division, said the city is shifting its approach from responding to 311 complaints to ongoing, systematic pest control.

The new strategy is expected to increase the number of inspections the crews make from 33,000 per year to 110,000, Ukwuoma said. The regular inspections began last month, she said; the new crew members are expected to join the program by the end of the year.

The new strategy isn't expected to cost any more money, officials said, because the new crew members will be shifted from other jobs in public works.

The city budgeted about $620,000 for rat control this year, down from about $665,000 last year.

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Operations at Coventrys University Hospital were cancelled after a rat was spotted in a corridor.

The day surgery unit at the Walsgrave hospital was shut off on Friday and about 30 patients had their surgery postponed.

Pest control experts were called in after the alarm was raised.

The unit, which is used for performing minor procedures, has since reopened and a spokesman for the hospital stated that the incident was incredibly rare.

The spokesman said: The day surgery unit at University Hospital in Coventry was temporarily closed as a precautionary measure on Friday November 14 after a rat was seen in a corridor near the unit at 7am before any surgery had taken place.

A pest control team were called in and have worked over the weekend to resolve the problem. The problem is contained and the day surgery unit, which performs minor surgical procedures, has now been reopened and services are being delivered normally.

We can confirm that rat droppings were not found in any of the theatres and catering has not been affected, although we have been working with environmental health as a precaution.

This affected less than 30 patients and we would like to apologise unreservedly to them for being affected by this incredibly rare incident.

The news comes just days after the Telegraph revealed that rat catchers have been called out almost 1,600 times in Coventry so far this year.

The citys pest control experts received 1,596 calls to remove rats from homes and streets in the first nine months of 2014.

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Anyone worried about Im A Celebrity-style creepy crawlies overrunning their homes can turn to a new company formed from two independent pest control firms in Kent.

A unified business has been created after Safeguard Pest Control in Westerham and Arrowguard Environmental Services in Ryarsh, near West Malling, joined forces last week.

The merger retains both company identities, to cause no disruption to customers and suppliers.

Two Kent companies have merged to form a new pest control business. Picture: iStock.com

Boths firms services will be brought together to improve support for their clients, offering wider protection to offices, schools, hospitals, housing, commercial estates and the construction industry.

A statement on the merger was issued by Arrowhead managing director Ken Hazeltine and Safeguard directors Tim Sheehan and Paul Butterick.

It said: This integration of two successful, long-standing companies allows all our customers to obtain the benefits of additional shared resources to guarantee a fast service response and high delivery standards.

This is an exciting opportunity to set higher industry standards and develop long term employment opportunities for our existing staff and prospective new employees.

The companies were advised by consultancy Strategic Management Partners.

Founder Clive Bonny said: This strategic merger of two successful owner-managed companies enables both to now provide a wider range of cost-effective services to commercial facilities managers.

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Posted on November 18, 2014

Elm seed bugs have infested a south Kennewick neighborhood, marking the pest's first appearance in Washington and second in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of GenTek Pest Control, Treasure Valley, Idaho)

Drew Foster Tri-City Herald

KENNEWICK The interlopers arrived in mid-July.

They would cluster around outside walls, bask on windowsills and wander into bedrooms and bathrooms. They posed no harm, but smelled a little funky.

Paul Krupin didnt recognize the uninvited guests at first glance they had never before visited his south Kennewick home. He and his wife, Nancy, leafed through books trying to identify the visitors. They formed theories and consulted experts. The interlopers were positively identified in October.

They were elm seed bugs, and they had never before been found in Washington.

Specimens provided by Krupin, 62, to a local Washington State University Extension office proved to be the first evidence of the nuisance bugs presence in the state and just the second report in the nation. The bugs were first found in 2012 in the Treasure Valley region of western Idaho and eastern Oregon. They are native to south-central Europe and likely entered the U.S. accidentally.

We suspect that they may have tried to overwinter in cargo, said Mike Bush, an entomologist with WSUs Yakima extension office.

Bush said elm seed bugs have likely established themselves in Krupins south Kennewick neighborhood, meaning they wont be leaving. During the hot summer months, Krupin said thousands would congregate around his home and penetrate the building through the smallest of openings.

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