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In the holiday spirit
Warning: Before I launch into another blog that will outline what I would like for Christmas — not what I would like personally (an early '70s vintage Porsche 911 would be nice, if you're listening, Santa) so much as what I'd like to see for the holiday and the future in the FOSS realm — I wanted to point out a couple of things that have come across the ol' radar lately. Like
It's "kim-o," not "chemo": I had a discussion on world history's biggest time sink — I mean, on Facebook — about the kids' distro Qimo, and someone chimed in that it's unfortunate that it's a homonym for the shortened version of "chemotherapy." Well, that's wrong: Actually, Qimo is pronounced "kim-o," not "chemo," and is pronounced like the last two syllables of "eskimo." As the story goes, courtesy of the FAQ, the developer's son is Quinn and, if you're over 50, you'll immediately identify that name with the Bob Dylan song "Quinn the Eskimo" made popular in the '60s by Manfred Mann. You'll not see nothing like this mighty distro.
Get your paper in? Well, the deadline extension that wasn't, but really was (thanks in large part to an overzealous co-chair of the publicity committee who will remain nameless), is finally over for the Call for Presentations for the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 9X. The deadline passed at midnight last night, so if you submitted, we look forward to reviewing your submittal. If you didn't, we look forward to seeing your proposal next year.
Mark your calendars: I haven't gotten to this yet, but with more Linux events slated for 2011, it's now going to require keeping track of them on a scheduler instead of the way I normally do (i.e., remembering which is which and when they are).
Now to work on that list mentioned above.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
December 20, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Quinn the Eskimo, I think I remember my grandparents talking about that song. Larry, of the thousands of readers of this blog, you and the Colonel may be the only two to know what the heck you are talking about. And that is fine from my side.
That list will be a great thing, I'll do my part to see that it is disseminated as widely as possible. Another great idea from LtFSG.
The Mighty Quinn, I miss him.


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Vodoun 2008 -MP3-
February 5th 2008
Voodoo originates from Benin and neighboring Togo.
The correct french spelling would be "Vodoun".
Why is this blog called "Voodoo Funk" and not "Vodoun Funk"?
Since the language of Fon was never meant to be written in French nor in English, "Voodoo" would be just as right or wrong as "Vodoun".
"Vodoun Funk" would also cause serious pronunciation problems with the English speaking majority of visitors to this blog.
I'm sure that my French friends will forgive me this willful ignorance.
What follows here is a number of photos from our stay around coastal Benin, the traditional stronghold of Voodoo culture during the week surrounding the big annual Vodoun celebration on January 10th.
I put together a little soundtrack to view these images.
This is traditional music from Benin which is all deeply rooted in Voodoo.
Some of the bands like Poly Rythmo, Picoby Band, Super Star de Ouidah may use non-traditional instruments on these recordings, however this remains folklore music and further illustrates how much western Pop music owes to African culture.
The pictures will take you on a little journey:
First stop is Abomey, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey where Mr. Babah performed a ritual for us to help us find many, many records...
A few days later, we took a fishing boat over the border into Togo in order to get to the village of a particularly powerful Voodoo priest who I wanted to ask for the support of a close associate.
Then came January the 10th.
The main festivities this year were held at Porto Novo.
We decided to go to the "Point De Non-Retour" at Ouidah instead, where local Voodoo ministers were holding speeches (it really is some sort of parallel government) and dances were held. We hung out for a bit but didn't really get into the mood, probably due to the presence of grim-looking bouncers who wanted to make us buy over-priced ID cards in order to be able to take pictures.
Luckily, we were with local friends who introduced us to Vodoun priest Dossou Gbeto who invited us to check out the celebrations in his village just outside of Ouidah. So off we took and things got pretty wild from there on... I don't want to tell too much, just go ahead and enjoy the pictures.
Click on the image below for the soundtrack!
06:14 El Rego -e ma non tinme
11:05 Super Star de Ouidah -gogofiogo
13:41 Honore Avolonto -setche weda
19:03 Billedey Guissey -papa zibote
24:21 Picoby Band -do ai towe te
29:40 Ezim Gangnon -memeton hede hede
34:56 Agbehounkpan -hohoton vo
38:44 Soclub Toba Hanye Sezonmon -n'na ho so bo ha
44:55 Leonaerd Tamegnon -do koun on se nou
49:15 Hoonon Houlovo -lenoude we un an
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Thank you, Chairman Jarin and members Marie Conley Lammando and Guido Pichini of the Pennsylvania State System Higher Education Board of Governors, Chancellor John Cavanaugh, members of the Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees, President Jerilyn McIntyre, President Emerita Jessica Kozloff, my fellow PASSHE presidents, alumni, delegates, honored guests and, of course, the Bloomsburg University faculty, staff and students. Thank you all for participating in this inaugural ceremony, for the kind and supportive words from many of you, and for you commitment to our wonderful university, Bloomsburg University.
I would like to recognize members of my family who are here today and some who cannot be here:
I would like to recognize a few good friends in the audience:
An inauguration is a rare event in the life of a university. Today is my formal inauguration as the 18th president of Bloomsburg University, but it is much more than that. This ceremony and the many activities of the week are a celebration of the past, present and future of our university and the achievements of the students, faculty and staff.
I thank you and take pride in the privilege of leading this great university into the future. I am fortunate to come to this presidency when our foundation is firm. That is particularly important in these uncertain times. Thank you, President Kozloff, Trustees, faculty and staff for that gift.
I have devoted my entire career of over 30 years in higher education to public comprehensive universities and the students we serve. These universities educate more students than any other sector of higher education and are committed to the core values of: access, inclusion, opportunity, excellence, success and value.
Our university, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, exemplifies these six values. And that is why BU is a university of choice for students, faculty and staff.
First, we are a university of access. Not open access, but access to the wide range of students who are intellectually capable and academically prepared to take full advantage of the educational and intellectual opportunities we offer in the classroom, in living and learning communities, through faculty-mentored research, internships and civic engagement and through many other co-curricular activities.
We are proud that our fall freshman classes have consistently shown increases in SAT scores and class rankings. We are equally proud that we have large cohorts of Act 101 students and summer freshman who take college preparation and academic courses to enhance their skills and demonstrate their readiness for college. We now have 26 percent of our freshman in living and learning communities (LLC) that range in focus from business and education to the helping professions, civic engagement and international studies. I am committed to expanding the number and scope of the living and learning communities so that every freshman has the opportunity to participate and to continue to live on campus in an LLC throughout college.
We provide access to qualified students from the region, the state, the nation and the world. Most of our students are from Pennsylvania, with about half coming from the more rural areas of central and northeastern Pennsylvania and 25 percent from the greater Philadelphia area. About 10 percent of our students are from out-of-state. Our international students are from over 30 different countries, ranging from Bangladesh and Brazil to Vietnam and Zambia, with the greatest number coming from China and Russia. We are committed to increasing that number to enhance the cultural and intellectual diversity of our campus and to prepare all of our students for life in a multicultural world and a global economy.
Our mission provides access to first-generation college students, with over 40 percent of our students being the first in their family to go to college. We are also delighted to be graduating the second, third and, even, fourth generations of area families as Bloomsburg University alumni.
Providing access to this wide variety of students from all socioeconomic levels and all regions of this state, the nation and the world brings a great diversity to our campus: diversity of people, cultures, languages, ideas, life experiences and learning styles that enriches the educational experience for all and prepares our students for the world of the 21st century.
Access to regional public comprehensive universities provides the opportunities for students to pursue higher education and to excel. Bloomsburg University has a long history of fulfilling this important role.
If we look at history, our students were the daughters and sons of the ethnically diverse coal regions, agricultural communities and small industrial towns along the Susquehanna River in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. This university, founded in 1839 and chartered in 1856, gave local families their first opportunity to send their children to college and to expand their opportunities in life.
I have heard the stories from so many alumni of different ages of how Bloomsburg gave them the opportunity to go to college at an affordable price and how they received a high-quality education from a dedicated faculty that prepared them well for their careers. They speak of the small classes, the high expectations and the opportunities to interact with their professors outside of the classroom as important enhancements to their learning experiences and preparation for their careers.
They speak of the camaraderie that developed in the dormitories, such as the beloved "long porch" or old Waller Hall, where so many alumni met or courted their future spouses. All of this adds up to the tremendous sense of community at our university that has become so apparent to me.
We are proud of these traditions and will enhance the learning opportunities for all students at Bloomsburg. I am also convinced that we can keep Bloomsburg University at the right size of no more than 10,000 students while fulfilling our obligation and mission to provide excellent educational opportunities to the diverse citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Access and the opportunities it provides contribute to a vibrant and inclusive society where critical thinking, tolerance and wise decision-making prevail. Bloomsburg University has been and always will be an institution of inclusion. First, it was a literary institute and normal school providing teacher preparation for local women and a few men. Today, we prepare students from throughout the world in the full range of academic disciplines for life and work in the global economy.
The end of World War II resulted in the inclusion of another student population and the beginning of the transformation from Bloomsburg State Teachers College to Bloomsburg State College with its broader mission and liberal arts core curriculum. During the five years after the war, returning veterans made up 60 percent of the student body and stabilized the enrollment. Their ability to receive a high-quality college education at Bloomsburg allowed them to successfully pursue the American Dream after disrupting their lives to serve our country.
Bloomsburg led the way in fostering inclusion in K-12 education through our special education teacher training program that developed rapidly in the 1950s and led to the establishment of the Department of Special Education in the 1960s. That department has transformed into our Department of Exceptionality Programs, which prepares teachers for inclusive classrooms and for work with the widest possible range of learning abilities and exceptionalities including developmentally disabled, gifted and talented, American Sign Language/English interpreting, and deaf and hard of hearing education.
Last spring, we celebrated the opening of the Jones Center for Special Education Excellence, founded by the family of Dr. Bill Jones, the first department chair. The first institute, "Building Partnerships for Individuals with Autism," was a tremendous success. This is an outstanding example of an area of distinction at Bloomsburg University. I intend to build on the area of distinction concept as we leverage our greatest strengths to better serve the region and the commonwealth.
As we move toward the end of the first decade of the 21st century, we are delighted that our fall 2008 freshman class is the largest, most diverse and best prepared academically. The number of historically underrepresented students at BU has more than doubled since 2001 and they now represent 10.1 percent of our student body, but there is still much work to be done. I commit us to continuing this growth in diversity of our student body, and of our faculty and staff.
The BU Multicultural Center has a wide array of programs and activities designed to increase multicultural awareness and understanding at BU and in our community. We must and will do more to expand the impact of our center and to infuse multicultural perspectives into our curriculum. To further these efforts, I intend to establish an External Diversity Council to assist me and the university in building on our successes in reaching out to diverse communities and meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse student body. Such a council has been of great value to my mentor and friend President McIntyre at Central Washington University.
The Bloomsburg University faculty are dedicated teacher-scholars who have chosen an academic career with a primary focus on excellence in undergraduate education and who use their scholarship to inform their teaching.
Our undergraduates are encouraged to enhance and expand their learning experience and become better informed and productive citizens through civic engagement and internships. This wide array of faculty-mentored undergraduate experiences is another example of an area of distinction at Bloomsburg University and as such is an area that we must nurture. We will identify resources and other incentives that facilitate faculty involvement in mentoring as we expand these opportunities so that all students can participate in co-curricular experiences that broaden their perspectives. To document student participation in these important aspects of their education, we have developed an optional co-curricular transcript. This is an opportunity that should be a part of every BU undergraduate student's portfolio.
Let me highlight a few recent examples of faculty and student excellence in scholarship and civic engagement and other co-curricular and extracurricular activities that provide our students with that breadth of education that is a hallmark of Bloomsburg University:
BU has a long tradition of success for our student athletes:
The environment of student and faculty excellence here at Bloomsburg University attracts a diversity of qualified students and provides an inclusive community of scholars that sustains high achievement. Our measures of student learning outcomes and success are, and consistently have been, very good, but we can do even better. Our strong support and retention programs would be improved by increased integration and coordination. We are exploring strategies that have the potential to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of student academic support units to further improve student success.
I often speak of the high value of a Bloomsburg University degree. We offer a great value in higher education because of our reasonable cost and high quality. We offer a value-added education because of the great academic growth that our students demonstrate. And our degrees are especially valuable because they qualify our graduates for employment in the multicultural, knowledge workforce.
The cost of attending Bloomsburg University and the 13 other universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is a still bargain. It is not the bargain it once was because state resources have steadily decreased to only 36 percent of the university budget. The balance is made up by tuition and fees. As a consequence, we must strive to maintain the quality of the Bloomsburg University degrees while keeping tuition affordable and our university accessible. We must look to private donors to make up the funding gap. One of my highest priorities is to substantially raise our scholarship endowments.
Bloomsburg University exemplifies the six core values of access, opportunity, inclusion, excellence, success and value in so many ways. Where do we go from here? We build on our successes to make Bloomsburg University even more of a university of choice and to increase our high student success as we prepare our students for careers in the global economy of the 21st century.
Today, I want to discuss some of the key ways we will approach our future.
We will begin a new strategic planning process this semester with a stakeholder survey. I will personally review all of the responses, summarize the data and use the information, perceptions and impressions gathered to frame the strategic planning effort. A summary report of the survey results will be presented to the campus community early in the spring semester.
Our strategic planning effort will be informed by our Middle States reaccreditation review this spring and, of course, linked to our new chancellor's system planning efforts. We will be reviewing and revising the university's mission statement. The strategic plan will have the academic master plan at its core. And we will provide the opportunity for input from all members of the university community and the greater Bloomsburg community.
I anticipate that the strategic planning process will lead to the identification of several areas of distinction for Bloomsburg University and from these will emerge a few centers of excellence. One of my role model presidents, Bob Maxson, liked to say in his vernacular way: "Our university needs to water the green spots!" Using that approach, President Maxson led the advancement of University of Nevada Las Vegas and then California State University Long Beach to much higher levels of academic achievement and national recognition. We will be "watering the green spots" at BU.
The academic plan, the enrollment management plan and the strategic plan will drive the next phase of our facilities master plan. As you have seen, we have an absolutely beautiful campus. Under the leadership of President Kozloff, the university completed phase one of an ambitious facilities master plan with completion of the Academic Quadrangle last fall.
Where will the next phase of our facilities master plan take us? We will continue to upgrade the infrastructure of our instructional building and modernize classrooms and laboratories for today's more collaborative and interactive approaches to teaching and learning. One exciting possibility is that Old Science, or its successor, could become an administration building and Waller Administration Building could become an academic building, resulting in all instructional building being on or adjacent to the Academic Quadrangle.
BU has strong programs in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) including, and perhaps most important of all, science and mathematics teacher preparation for pre-K through 12. Students with highly valued degrees in the STEM and STEM education disciplines are and will continue to be in great demand in the knowledge economy of the 21st century. As Bloomsburg University grows as a center for STEM disciplines, we will be producing a workforce that can attract more science- and technology-based industries to northeastern Pennsylvania and the Central Susquehanna Valley.
As I mentioned earlier, our $600,000 NSF STEM grant recruits and retains students, links us to high schools and colleges throughout the regions and will increase our graduates in these disciplines.
Our electrical engineering technology program was recently accredited by ABET, joining our computer science and health physics programs as programs certified by ABET to fully meet professional quality standards. All such STEM discipline degree programs at BU are accredited.
National data clearly demonstrates that children and particularly girls become "turned off" to math and science in middle school. We now have the opportunity through the revisions of Chapter 49-2 of the Education Code to develop a new elementary/middle level certificate that has the required content knowledge and, therefore, will produce teachers who stimulate and excite these young minds and keep them from turning away from these core disciplines early in their education.
We must use innovation and agility in higher education, as well as in business and industry. New jobs and professions are emerging at an increasing rate, and Bloomsburg University must be ready to prepare our students for them. One approach that is underway is the development of professional science master's degrees. As defined by the Council of Graduate Schools, the Professional Science Master's (PSM) is an innovative, new graduate degree designed to allow students to pursue advanced training in science or mathematics, while simultaneously developing workplace skills highly valued by employers. PSM programs consist of education in an emerging or interdisciplinary area, along with a professional component that may include internships and "cross-training" in business and communications. These degrees are developed in concert with industry and are designed to dovetail into present and future professional career opportunities.
Another long-standing area of distinction at BU is our health science programs at the undergraduate, master's and, in the case of audiology, the doctoral levels. We have leveraged our relationships with the Geisinger Medical System and Bloomsburg Hospital to offer outstanding clinical preparation in our health science programs, such as nursing, audiology and speech pathology, exercise science and medical imaging. Geisinger employs over 350 of our alumni, and our graduates in the health sciences have 100 percent employment rate in their profession. We must continue to find innovative ways to expand our offering and produce more graduates in these high-demand fields. Just this week, we had the accreditation site visit for our new nurse anesthetist MSN program that is a collaborative effort with Geisinger designed to meet a critical regional need.
We are continually looking at ways to expand our health science programs and to develop the synergies and partnerships that keep them strong and innovative. We are also talking about consolidating the health science degree programs that are now scattered in five departments in three colleges into a School of Health Sciences.
Bloomsburg University is proud of our College of Liberal Arts with its strong majors and prominent role in our core general education curriculum. We are reviewing our general education curriculum. I am committed to using innovation to keep these core academic areas strong and vibrant. One such effort that is underway is the possible merging of several departments and programs into a Department of Performing Arts with the eventual goal of developing a School of Performing Arts.
The College of Liberal Arts will have the lead role in internationalizing the curriculum. We must establish a process to infuse international studies and global education throughout our degree programs. We need a more robust international exchange program that both provides many more of our students with study abroad opportunities and brings students from many nations to our campus to enhance the diversity and multicultural perspective that all of our students must have to be the global citizens they will need to be.
Another important question for Bloomsburg University to ask and answer is how do we assist the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in educating more people to higher levels? And how do we do so while maintaining the values and environment of a residential university in the Town of Bloomsburg.
For the commonwealth to thrive and prosper in the 21st century, more of its citizens must obtain post-secondary education to provide the workforce for the knowledge- and technology-based economy. We know that the current demographics will result in a statewide decline in the number of high school graduates beginning in the next couple of years. We also know that more of the graduates will come from populations that are historically underrepresented in higher education. Many of these students, our potential students, will be time- and place-bound by their jobs and family obligations. And many will be non-traditional in age as well as they return to college to improve their ability to prosper in the knowledge-base economy.
How will we serve all of these potential students with their wide range of preparation for college and their differing needs for services?
We must continue to increase our offering of courses by distance and multimodal education. And very importantly, we will expand our degree-completion programs in partnership with regional community colleges. We currently offer our elementary education degree on the campuses of two of our community college partners. The demand is there to expand and offer several other applied and professional degrees. These approaches to higher education will greatly increase our ability to serve time- and place-bound, non-traditional students. And they will assist us in educating more citizens to higher levels while maintaining Bloomsburg as a residential university at the right size of approximately 10,000 students.
We are also engaged in preliminary discussions of another exciting approach to meeting these goals. There is a possibility of establishing a branch campus of Bloomsburg University in the Sunbury area. Another option that is on the table is the establishment of a new community college with which we would partner. The next step in this process will be to conduct a feasibility study that looks carefully at the demographics and the current and future post-secondary and workforce needs of the area. These are exciting possibilities, but they also need to be carefully considered by both the Bloomsburg University community, the regional business and economic development communities and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Today I have talked about how Bloomsburg University exemplifies the six core values of public comprehensive universities and about some of the exciting approaches we will take toward our future.
How do we pay for all of this and advance Bloomsburg University further into the 21st century as a great public university that even better exemplifies the six core values? And how do we do so in the face of a steady decline in state support of higher education and an economic downturn of potentially unprecedented scope and unknown duration?
Bloomsburg University must look more to private donors to make up the gap between available funds and the true needs of the campus. After extensive discussions, I am restructuring the division of University Advancement and its relationship with the Bloomsburg University Foundation. Once the restructuring is completed, we will begin our comprehensive campaign in 2009.
We are moving forward with some major development activities during the organizational restructuring. The BU Foundation is conducting a feasibility study for a campaign focused on our outstanding College of Business that has AACSB-accredited undergraduate and MBA programs and a highly successful dual degree program with the Academy of Finance in Moscow. This campaign will fund enhancement of the renovation and expansion of Sutliff Hall that was built in 1952 as a science building. It will also fund much-needed scholarships.
Last week, the James E. Morgan Trust gave the BU Foundation a second $100,000 for immediate use for scholarships and an additional $500,000 to begin the endowment of their scholarship program for students from Schuylkill County. We thank the trust for providing higher education opportunities for many coal region students who would not have access without their generosity. We are delighted that they have chosen Bloomsburg University because of our partnership with the Tamaqua campus of Lehigh Carbon Community College.
In closing, I want to say again that I am truly privileged to have the opportunity to lead Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania forward to deal effectively with the opportunities and challenges of these uncertain but promising times. We have a strong base in our excellent faculty and staff and our well-prepared and motivated students. In his book "Good to Great," Jim Collins states: "Everyone would like to be the best, but most organizations lack the discipline to figure out with egoless clarity what they can be the best at and the will to do whatever it takes to turn the potential into reality." With your advice, assistance, support and friendship, we cannot fail to turn our potential into reality and to move Bloomsburg University from being a very good institution to being a great public comprehensive university.
Thank you!


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Matt Reynolds, a Mets second-round pick in last year's Draft, had probably the best game of his short career Thursday, and he wasn't the only one in the Class A Advanced St. Lucie lineup having a big day.
Reynolds went 3-for-5 with two doubles, a triple, two runs scored and a career-best five RBIs as part of a 16-hit, 17-run outburst for the Mets in a 17-1 romp over Palm Beach.
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"That was unbelievable, everyone contributed, it was a whole team effort," said Reynolds. "Just unbelievable to be a part of that. We just wanted to keep adding on, didn't want to get complacent, wanted to have a threat every inning and we kept adding pressure throughout the whole game."
It was the second three-hit effort of the season for New York's No. 18 prospect. It marked a halt to a stretch that had seen him hitting .220 (11-for-50) in the 14 games since he produced his last three-game effort against Charlotte on April 20.
"I've been in kind of a slump so far, and to have a game like that definitely boosts your confidence, gets the momentum rolling. It's huge for me," he said. "I've been working my butt off in the cages before the game every day, getting to the field around 12 o'clock to talk with my hitting coach [Benny Distefano], watching video of my swing, just to get out of this little slump. Tonight it felt good to finally see some results from that."
After Reynolds was taken out of the University of Arkansas last year by the Mets, he bypassed Rookie-level and short-season ball to play out the year with Class A Savannah. The native of Tulsa, Okla. hit .259/.335/.367 in 42 games for the Sand Gnats after batting .323 with a .427 on-base percentage in his junior season with the Razorbacks.
Reynolds was again rapidly advanced this offseason to the Florida State League, where after Thursday's output, he now sports a .277/.356/.412 line in 31 games for St. Lucie.
"I was recognizing pitches a lot better, my swing felt a lot shorter and quicker and more compact. Those are the things I've been working on," he said. "I feel like that was one of my most complete games. I pulled a ball down the left-field line, hit a ball into left center, hit the triple to right center and lined out another time to right field, so I was using all the parts of the field. My swing felt great."
The top and bottom of the St. Lucie order did much of the damage, with Reynolds slotted into the second spot in the lineup behind second baseman Robbie Shields, who went 3-for-5 with a double, a walk, three runs scored and two RBIs.
Cam Maron, hitting eighth, went 2-for-4 with a double, a walk, three RBIs and two runs and Gilbert Gomez, batting ninth, went 3-for-4 with a double, a walk, two RBIs and two runs.
Third-ranked Mets prospect Noah Syndergaard (2-1) also starred in the contest, holding Palm Beach to one run on four hits and a walk with seven strikeouts in seven innings.
The right-hander has allowed just two earned runs over 26 innings through his last four starts, and for the season, he has a 2.61 ERA in 38 innings with 38 strikeouts and 13 walks.
"[Syndergaard] looked great, he's a fun pitcher to play shortstop behind," said Reynolds. "He goes after hitters, attacks them with his fastball. He was commanding all his pitches to any part of the plate, and when a pitcher's doing that, it's a lot of fun to watch."
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I live in L.A. where potholes are ubiquitous. I hit a big one a few weeks ago (with my previous ride, a 07 335i w/sport pkg) and 2 days ago, my flat tire warning light came on. This happened before and it was just sensor error so I continued my commute to work (about 25 miles). A couple hours later, after the tires had a chance to cool, I drove to a gas station to take a cold temp read. When I got there, I noticed there was about a 2-3 inch tear on my right front tire. I drove to a tire shop and it took $360 and about 3 hours (they didn't have the tire in stock and had to get it from a warehouse) before I was out of there.
I guess the lesson to be learned was I should always pull over right away if the tire warning light comes on and next time I hit a pothole, I'm going to pull over and take a picture of it. That way if I get another flat, city of LA can refund me.
Run flats are a safety feature. BMW's philosophy is that if you get a puncture you are able to keep driving to safety or to the nearest garage. This example holds most true during freeway driving where being on the side of the road changing a spare can be dangerous. Also think of it as a convenience tool. If you have a job that requires travel without interruption or as limited interruption as possible, run flats can be an amazing tool.
This is why I think I'll carry a small compressor and temporary plug kit for out of town trips. I figure if I can keep the tire inflated and off the sidewall I give myself more time and options.
Anyone have experience using a temporary plug (mushroom or string) and the BMW tire/wheel warranty?
My experience with a flat with a run flat was under quite different circumstances than most people will experience.
We did Euro Delivery on my wife's 335is Coupe in May 2011 and spent 14 days driving the car through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. Pickup was on Thursday, 5/12. On Saturday, 5/21, we were driving into Trier, Germany and had just exited the Autobahn when the Tire Pressure Monitor warning went off, both in the instrument cluster and on the iDrive. We pulled over and got out to look and sure enough, our run flat tire was about as flat as a run flat tire can be:
We were on a main thoroughfare coming into Trier, so we used the Navigation and looked for the closest BMW service location, Auto Orth, which was just a couple of kilometers away. This was at 16:35 on a Saturday afternoon in Germany, which means that any service-related business is closed. When we picked up the car at BMW Welt we were given a packet of information including a toll-free number to call if we had any problems. We called the number, and long story short, were told that there was nothing that could be done until Monday morning, so BMW put us up in a local hotel for two nights. (This is all part of the comprehensive insurance and trip coverage that is included with European Delivery.) They told us to drive to the hotel and then drive to the BMW service location on Monday morning and call them back. On Monday morning we drove to Auto Orth, less than a kilomoter from the hotel, they put the car on a lift and found a screw embedded in the middle of the tread of the right rear tire:
They don't patch tires in Germany so the tire had to be replaced. The rear tire is a Michelin PS2, 255/35ZR18. Apparently this tire is fairly rare in Germany and we were initially told that it would take 24 hours to get a new tire. Auto Orth did some more searching and found a tire about an hour away, so someone was dispatched to get the tire. Bottom line, the tire was procured, replaced, and we were on our way again around 14:30. The worst part was that we had to pay for the tire, since tires are the only part of the car not covered by the no-deductible all comprehensive insurance by Allianz, provided as part of BMW's Euro Delivery option. The charge that came through on our credit card statement was $580 for the tire, mounting, and balancing.
Our plan had been to spend a few hours in Trier then drive to Cologne where we had a hotel reservation for Saturday night. On Sunday morning we were going to get up and drive to the Nurburgring Norschleife for a full day of Touristenfahrten. We had planned to buy a four-lap ticket, two for me and two for my wife. After that we were going to drive to Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where we were going to spend Sunday night, all day Monday, Monday night, and then head back to Munich on Tuesday where we had a reservation for Tuesday night, and our return flight on Wednesday morning.
So how did having run flat tires affect us in this circumstance? Because it happened in Germany on a Saturday afternoon, even if we had a mini-spare, there was really nothing different that could have been done and a new tire still couldn't have been found until Monday morning. Cologne would have been too far to drive on a mini-spare, particularly on the Autobahn. Since the whole purpose of driving north was to drive at Nurburgring, we wouldn't have done that on a mini-spare anyway. A full-size spare would have been the only way that our trip could have continued uninterrupted. But our car has a staggered setup with 225/40ZR18 tires in the front. So what size should the spare be? If it were the 255/35ZR18 rear size then having a flat front tire would result in having a mismatched front set. If the spare were the 225/40ZR18 front size, then having a flat rear tire would result in a mismatched rear set. Bottom line, there were no other alternatives that would have resulted in a better outcome.
If this had happened to us on a Saturday morning on our way to Costco, then the outcome would have been much different. We would have called BMW Assist (BTW, BMW Assist isn't enabled in Europe, different radio frequencies), the car would have been flat-bedded to a local BMW dealer. If the service department was still open and if they had the tire in stock, it would have been replaced and we would be on our way. If not, then we would have been give a loaner, we would have gone on our way, then returned to the dealer on Monday afternoon to pick up our car with a new tire. If we had a mini-spare then I would have had to change the tire, possibly on the side of a freeway, and a visit to the tire store would have followed. Alternately, call AAA and either have them replace the tire or flat-bed the car to a tire store. Bottom line, a flat tire is a bummer, and interrupts your plans, and regardless of whether you have a run-flat tire or a mini-spare, it will result in a trip to either the BMW dealer or a tire store.
Now, about the run-flat tire itself and the screw that caused it to go flat. From the time that we exited the Autobahn until we got the warning was less than a kilometer. We drove less than two kilometers to Auto Orth, only to find it closed, then less than a kilometer to the hotel and less than a kilometer back to Auto Orth on Monday morning. Take a good look at the screw in the tire (the pictures don't do it justice, the head of the screw had been ground completely flat). Do you think that the screw would have been that damaged with only a few kilometers on it, in other words, did we pick up that screw after exiting the Autobahn or did we pick up the screw on the Autobahn or before we got on the Autobahn? Prior to the exit we had been driving for several hours at speeds of 110-120 MPH (not KPH!) and had a brief run at 145 MPH. When my wife saw the screw in the tire she said she sure hoped that we had picked up that screw after we got off the Autobahn. My reaction was the opposite, I said that I hoped that we had picked it up and driven on the Autobahn like that, because that would be a huge testament to the safety of run flat tires.
Different circumstances result in different outcomes, but this was our circumstance and our outcome. I don't think the outcome would have been any different, regardless of the type of tire and flat tire remedy.
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I really have a great experience with run flats, we have an E90, F25 and E70 with run flats all, on the E90 my wife got punched tires a lot and she never had to stop or wasting time on them, just after the flat tire light comes on she just go to the tire repair center and she is on her way on minutes on day light and a save place, same thing happened with the F25 she smashed some glass piece and got a severe damage on a dangerous zone in the capital the flat tire light comes on right away but she could drove almost 4 Kms away until a safe place, then some weird sounds came from the tranny, the tire was totally destroyed and the morning after dealer told us that when one of the wheels has too different RPMS due the reduced circunference fromm the flat wheel the tranny start to do that sound and block it itself to avoid damage, the tire was replaced, but the tire has sufficient capacity to get my family away from that place... $300 for a tire and get your family safe back......bargain!!!!
Run Flats
New to the Forum but have had several experiences with Run Flats on various BMW products.
I recommend keeping a good quality plug kit and compressor in the trunk. You can't fix a damaged sidewall but you can fix a nail, screw, or other tread surface puncture. Most major tire shops in the US will not repair even a nail puncture in a RFT due to perceived liability issues. From experience, BMW roadside assist will only cover the towing of your vehicle to the dealer for tire replacement. If it is a Sunday and the dealer is closed---the tow is on your dime!
Driving a distance on a deflated RFT will ruin the sidewalls just as on any tire. The key is catching the deflation early before the tire is damaged beyond repair!
Based on 22,000 miles of experience with our 2011 X3 equipped with the Pirelli P7 All Season RFTs, I suspect things may have changed in the RFT arena over the past few years. Our tires are quiet and not at all harsh but they are certainly heavy and expensive! Perhaps some of this is due to improved RFT construction and some to better suspension tuning. We havent yet had a flat however and I appreciate the fact that one may be stuck waiting for a replacement tire. It seems that BMW is doing their best to push RFT usage. With improvements in noise/harshness, perhaps RFTs will become more common over time.
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I've thought about runflats ever since I got my BMW a few months ago. I am preparing to get a full sized spare. I already have a new wheel and a used tire that I might mount on it.
Some have pointed out the dangers of changing a flat on the highway. Some highways have wide shoulders but some don't. With run flats, you could drive to the next exit.
Runflats do have distance limitations. They say 50 miles at 50 mph. If you are driving between cities, there might not be a suitable replacement in between cities and within 50 miles. You might find the right size but have to buy a different model, which would mean having to eventually buy another replacement.
If you have snow tires, you could carry the out of season tire as a spare. I don't plan to get snow tires for another 4 years or so because I have another car with new snow tires.
My proposed spare tire is the wrong size. It's 0.5 inches too short, so it would be like driving on a flat. I'm looking for a different spare to mount on the wheel.
I wonder what is the incidence of flat tires? Looking back at my experience and my parents', I can think of only three times in decades where a flat tire was too flat to drive. I can think of a few more times where the leak was slow.
I'm strongly thinking of keeping the run flats and carrying a spare only if I drive to another city. After the stock tires are worn, I'll have to decide whether to replace them with run flats or not.
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Hartmann's attorneys filed the lawsuit Thursday in Harris County District Court. It doesn't name the Texans, but includes past comments critical of the stadium's surface by nose tackle Shaun Cody, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and former Indianapolis coach Tony Dungy.
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I've worked in personal injury. There's a pretty good chance that the Texans will end up having to change their field maintenance/construction. This won't go to trial -- it will settle out of court. While it's doubtful that there was actual negligence in the piecing together of the field, Hartmann's attorney is going to argue that the structure of the field in and of itself is negligent. An investigator and an engineer will do things like contact Wes Welker, measure the gaps between the pieces in the field and calculate how much "average wear and tear" throughout a game could increase the spaces of the seams; they'll collect a few affidavits and settle for a few hundred thousand dollars out of court.
The problem is that the field maintenance company, if any settlement comes out of this, is going to feel pressure from their insurance company for having to pay out. I don't know how much is on a policy like this and how many incidents are covered, but unless this is outright dismissed... Reliant's field may get put together differently as soon as next season.
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Gotta love a marginal college punter like Hartmann who jacks himself up on roids in a lockout to make an NFL team, gets hurt, gets caught using roids TWICE then loses his job pointing the finger at the turf as the source of his problem. Maybe Brad Maynard should sue him for stealing his job by cheating. Maybe the Texans should sue him for wasted salary the final 6 weeks, send a bill for what is cost to sign Matt Turk to finish the season, the "injury settlement" required to cut him this offseason, not to mention damaging our brand by tainting us further with PED linkages. I guess Hartmann realizes that his 12 games of "fame" are over, as I doubt many NFL teams will want to hire a guy 1 dirty test away from a season long suspension not to mention a football player who essentially sues the fan base since we are the one's who pay the taxes he wants a piece of via lawsuit.
BTW - Please don't buy the "ADD medication" spin. That may have worked for him the first time around, but you don't get a second PED suspension in a matter of months without blatantly violating the policy (presumably if you got busted taking adderall without league approval you would then get that approval). Remember, the NFL can't comment on the substance they test positive for due to the CBA (and HIPAA), but "Hitman" Hartmann's uncontrollable on-field demeanor, out of nowhere leap in ability, and WWE physique made him amongst the most obvious users in a league where some people still think it is merely diet and genetics that allowed Clay Matthews to pack on 80lbs of muscle between his Junior year of High School and the NFL Draft. Unfortunately HGH doesn't make you kick farther, you need the old fashioned baseball "hit farther, throw harder" stuff for that.
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I really liked him when he was here too. Hate that guy.
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Glancing over the areas high school playoffs and reliant is scheduled for like 5 game this weekend. I know we don't play at home til Dec. 16 but why!
I know the Dynamo made the championship game, but i thought that's what their stadium was meant for, to play high school games!
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PHILADELPHIA – Friday night brings with it a new season of sprint football at the University of Pennsylvania as the Quakers head to West Point to take on Army (7 p.m.) as the Red and Blue will look to knock off the defending Collegiate Sprint Football League champions.
The Quakers return 14 players who earned All-CSFL honors last season, including first-team All-CSFL running back Mike Beamish. The leading rusher in the CSFL, Beamish carried the ball 169 times for 725 yards last season. Over his two seasons with the Red and Blue, Beamish is averaging 4.9 yards-per-carry and has scored five touchdowns. In the backfield, Joe Raso also returns after a solid freshman season. Last year as a rookie, he averaged 5.3 yards-per-carry for 175 yards and a touchdown.
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MONTREAL -- There always seemed to be something on the line when the Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts met this season, and now they're locked in their biggest must-win game of the year.
The victor in the CFL East Division final at Olympic Stadium today earns a trip to the Grey Cup game.
"I don't get caught up with people talking about rivalries," Montreal quarterback Anthony Calvillo said Saturday. "It's going to be a tough game whether you like the other team or not."
The Alouettes won two of three meetings with Toronto this season to claim first place in the division, but that was before quarterback Ricky Ray and the Argonauts offence jelled for an impressive finish to the season.
Toronto won their first meeting of the year with Montreal 23-20 on July 27 with Ray behind centre, but he was hurt in the first quarter of their next match-up on Sept. 23, a 31-10 victory the Alouettes needed to avoid losing the season series to the Double Blue.
Jarious Jackson was in for the injured Ray as Montreal secured first place with a 24-12 win in Toronto on Oct. 14.
In three games since returning from injury, including a 42-26 victory over Ray's former team Edmonton in the East semifinal last Sunday, the veteran has completed 67 of 93 passes, a 72 per cent clip, for 922 yards and 10 touchdowns.
"Everyone's playing a lot better," said Ray, Toronto's prize pick-up in a trade last winter. "Offensively, guys are starting to understand what we're doing.
"This was all new for everybody. People understand their roles. Guys aren't thinking as much. We're just playing good football."
Ray has faced the Alouettes four times in the playoffs with Edmonton, winning Grey Cup games in 2003 and 2005, losing a Grey Cup at home soil 2002, and dropping a 36-26 decision in the East final at the Big O in 2008.
He knows it will be deafening in the domed stadium, where a crowd approaching 50,000 is expected.
"The biggest challenge for us is the crowd noise," Ray said. "We've just got to communicate really well. It's every road team's goal to get off to a good start and quiet the crowd."
These are teams that know one another better than most.
The Argos' first-year head coach Scott Milanovich was Montreal boss Marc Trestman's offensive co-ordinator last season. Defensive co-ordinator Chris Jones and offensive line coach Steve McAdoo also once coached in Montreal. Quarterbacks coach Jason Maas was once one of Calvillo's back-ups.
Among the Argonauts who once played for Montreal are star receiver and kick returner Chad Owens, safety Etienne Boulay and tackle Chris Van Zeyl.
"We had some success when I was with this (Montreal) organization, but our team is anxious and hungry to come out here and take that next step that we've been building toward all year," said Milanovich. "It's nice to be back, but it doesn't feel the same when you're on the other side."
Montreal has won six of 10 meetings with Toronto in division finals, including the last three.
The latest was in 2010, when the Alouettes crushed them 48-17.
Belli played for the Argos in that game. The Toronto native came out of retirement near the end of the season to help shore up the defensive line.
"My last professional game was here before I retired," he said. "I've got a sour taste in my mouth, losing against the Birds here.
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For Milanovich, the key to victory is turnovers. The Argos led the CFL in give-away, take-away differential this season at plus-10, but Montreal was third at plus-7.
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Once the Clippers remembered who they are and what the Knicks have become, it turned into a routine victory.
It took a little longer to get there than anyone might have expected, but the Clippers eventually got the double-digit victory they coveted by slicing and dicing the nicked-up Knicks in a pivotal third quarter and then securing a 93-80 win.
"We got the result we wanted," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "A solid win for us. Obviously, they have players out. It's a different complexion game. They're doing different things right now.
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DeAndre Jordan provided a highlight-reel dunk in the first half, completing a fast break with a windmill slam. Blake Griffin added one of his own in the second, off a lob pass from Chris Paul that had everyone in a sellout crowd of 19,412 at Staples Center on their feet.
Paul scored 20 points, grabbed four rebounds and added eight assists. Caron Butler added 14 points on 5-of-9 shooting in his first game back in the starting lineup after sitting out Wednesday's loss to the Memphis Grizzlies because of a strained left elbow.
Griffin added 12 points and 12 rebounds and Chauncey Billups had 12 points and five assists. Jamal Crawford scored 12 points in a reserve role and held his own with New York's J.R. Smith in a battle of NBA Sixth Man of the Year candidates.
Smith scored 17 points on 4-of-20 shooting to lead the depleted Knicks.
Raymond Felton added 16 points and nine assists, Chris Copeland scored 13 points and Jason Kidd had 11 points in a reserve role for New York, which lost its fourth consecutive game.
The Knicks played without injured standouts Carmelo Anthony (right knee), Tyson Chandler (left knee), Amare Stoudemire (right knee) and Rasheed Wallace (left foot), so the Clippers seemed unsure what to make of their replacements at the start Sunday.
The Clippers had 10 turnovers during a tentative first half in which they played in fits and starts and never led by more than seven points. The Knicks led by as many as eight points and seemed content to walk the ball down the court.
"We talked about pace and watched a few video clips of us walking the ball up the court, and coach Del Negro wasn't pleased with that," Griffin said.
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The Clippers outscored the Knicks 28-23 in the third quarter, committed only one turnover and built a lead that swelled to as many as 19 points.
Butler and Griffin scored eight points apiece in the quarter and Paul scored seven points and added four assists.
Despite a few lackluster moments in the fourth quarter, the Clippers (46-21) kept the Knicks (38-26) at arm's length and then turned their attention to recapturing the kind of free-flowing game that vaulted them among the Western Conference's elite teams.
There are only 15 regular-season games remaining, and the Clippers hope to cement a place as one of the West's top three seeded teams. They also want to play at a higher level than they have during a recent stretch of games in which they lost the snap, crackle and pop of their game.
"I expect us to," Del Negro said of playing better down the stretch. "It's a long process. It's a long season. We see where we are in the standings right now and we have to play good, solid basketball. If we do that, we'll get as high a seed as possible.
"But I'm more interesting in us playing at a high level, getting everybody back healthy and, hopefully, continuing to improve as we get down to the last 15 games or so."
Eric Bledsoe, the Clippers' energetic backup guard, couldn't play because of a sore left calf and sat out for the third consecutive game. He averaged nine points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.2 assists in a little more than 21 minutes per game before he was injured.
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