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The parents of a 13-year-old boy brutally stabbed at the South Bay Galleria filed suit Monday against the Redondo Beach mall and its parent company, calling the shopping center a "cesspool of crime."
The lawsuit filed in Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles alleges the mall lacked enough security officers and surveillance cameras to prevent the Dec. 29 attack or, at least, help to catch the assailant, who remains unidentified and at large.
"We were under the assumption we were leaving our son in a safe place," said the boy's mother, Maria Williams. "Normally, we don't let our son go out on his own and we thought he would be in a safe place going to a mall to watch a movie. Obviously, he wasn't safe."
Said his father, Rich: "Had I known it was a cesspool of crime, I never would have done it."
Michael Alder, the family's attorney, said he spoke to an attorney for the mall's parent company, Forest City Enterprises in Cleveland, and asked that they work together to make the mall safer, but "unfortunately they've chosen not to do that."
Alder said mall officials in Redondo Beach and at Forest City have not contacted the boy's family to check on his condition, offered to pay the $300,000 in medical expenses incurred so far, or expressed any remorse about what happened.
"They basically told us to pound sand," Alder said. "As a lawyer, my solution is only to file suit."
Michael Flowers, an attorney for Forest City Enterprises, did not return a phone call. Mickey Marrafino, a spokeswoman for the Galleria, said she could not comment on litigation.
According to police, Ricky Williams was stabbed as he sat with a 13-year-old female friend after seeing "Red Dawn" at the AMC theaters on the third floor of the mall. Police said an assailant walked up to them and suddenly attacked them, stabbing both and disappearing into the mall crowd.
Detectives called it a random and unprovoked attack.
Ricky was stabbed in the heart, underwent open-heart surgery and is recovering. Ricky and the girl, who also underwent surgery, are back at school.
Unable to locate the attacker, police released snippets of video from store security cameras of the man walking near a Johnny Rockets restaurant and inside a Champs sporting goods store. So far, he has not been identified.
No mall security cameras were focused on the bench where the children were sitting, feet from the movie theaters. Alder said no security officers were in the area at the time, and no security guards witnessed the attack.
"We want the security presence to be increased," Alder said. "Surveillance cameras are a big deterrent. We don't understand why the stores would have surveillance, but the public areas would not."
Redondo Beach police detectives are continuing to examine and enhance the video in the hope they can identify a suspect. The FBI has offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Alder alleged that 128 crimes occurred at the Galleria in the three months leading up to the Dec. 29 attack. He acknowledged they were mostly petty thefts, but could not elaborate on what other crimes occurred there.
According to the Redondo Beach Police Department website, 146 crimes were reported during the last 90 days in the quarter-mile area surrounding and including the Galleria.
The crimes included 61 petty thefts and 14 burglaries. One attempted murder was reported.
The crimes included one robbery and one attempted robbery. The offenses otherwise included vandalism, disturbing the peace, drunk in public, driving under the influence, forgery, grand theft, drug possession, fighting, spousal abuse, identity theft, making terrorist threats and car repossession.
In addition to Forest City Enterprises, the lawsuit targets Andrews International Inc., the mall's security company. Attempts to reach someone at the company for comment were unsuccessful.
Rich Williams said he and his son do not talk much about the assault, but that Ricky could face another heart operation as he grows. He said his son and his friend were "just sitting there minding their own business" when they were stabbed.
In a new detail, he said the man might have laughed before lunging at his son.
"He's a tough kid," the father said. "He'll get through this."
Alder said he is investigating other crimes at the mall and has established a website - MakeSouthBayGalleriaSafe.com - to seek information from the public.
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Umrigar, Thrity. The Weight of Heaven
Each of us copes with loss in a different way. For Frank and Ellie Benton the sorrow is huge, occasioned by the death of their young son, Benny. As their marriage falters in the wake of the tragedy, Frank accepts a job offer in India, hoping that the change of scene will heal them. Once there the two face new challenges as Frank's company deals with labor unrest, and Frank forms a strong but problematic attachment to Ramesh, his cook's young son.
Soon Frank and Ellie have become surrogate parents to the boy, offering him everything from help with homework to weekend trips his parents could never afford. While Ellie is uneasy about Frank's fierce attachment to the boy, she is also reluctant to deprive him of the joy the relationship brings. As Umrigar says, a happy family is but an "earlier heaven."
As Frank seeks to recreate his earlier fatherhood through Ramesh, the villagers cope with losses of their own. Frank's company, Herbal Solutions, has blocked their access to the medicinal trees many use to earn their living. And, through her work at a local clinic, Ellie becomes increasingly aware of the hardships these families face.
Umrigar deftly sketches in the characters' past—their courtship and the tragedy that defines them as a couple—while exploring the personal and political ethics of their current situation. Umrigar's characters are carefully developed, and they face fascinating moral dilemmas. The paths they take as they negotiate these obstacles keep the plot twisting and turning right up until the final, dark resolution.


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I have a basic question about developing mobile sites for clients.
From what I understand, you can create a single site that's optimized for both desktop and mobile devices, using either a responsive design or some CSS tricks.
Or you can use a service like www.mobisitegalore.com or a WordPress plugin to convert the site on-the-fly for mobile devices.
Or you can create an entirely different mobile site.
Assuming I've got that right (please correct me, if not), what are the pros and cons of each and which do you prefer?
It's possible to create a responsive site that views well on a desktop, iPad, and smartphones. By using @media queries, you target screen sizes and adjust the content to fit. For instance, in one case I set it so the site shows two columns in the desktop and iPad, but the right column goes under the left column on a smartphone like the iPhone.
Using a Wordpress plugin is good if you are using a Wordpress site. Some free conversion sites, though, will limit what kind of pages, number of pages, or kind of content you can have in the conversion.
There's no need to create a mobile-only site unless your visitors are 100% mobile.
You can check out my links for a fluid site in the Mobile Makeover Guidelines section of this page:http://iphonedevlog.wordpress.com/phonegapcordova-crib-sheet/
Thanks for the explanation and the link. When you use @media queries, does that automatically redirect the user to the m. subdomain, if you've created one?
To redirect a user to a particular site based on their device, you would use a detection script. For instance, this script redirects to the appropriate iPhone or iPad landing page in an universal app made from HTML/CSS. I suppose you could replace the URLs for mobile-formatted URLs in your web site.
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">if(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i) || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) { window.location = "iPhone/index.html";}
if(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i)) { window.location = "iPad/index.html";}</script>
One nice way is to use www.jquerymobile.com framework which does your job 100%, You dont need to worry about device type, resolution and orientation.
If you size your graphics at 2000px for maximum impact for the iPad, then that'll be a problem for smartphones and cell phones - too much data. Separate files is better (if high-quality graphics warrant it). However, you can use the same code if the content is mostly text.
but will the smaller images not have an effect on the look and design of the website...
Can you clarify your question? The size of images will make a difference. Small images should not be scaled up too large or they'll be fuzzy.
Hi John,
The idea behind media queries is that you can layout one site that adapts to different devices, feeds different CSS (to not bloat css downloads on phones for example), present already scaled images and video to meet the size of a screen rather than scaling these assets as they typically will look bad when doing so, and move ADs to more prominent positions as device sizes change (advertisers get upset when a dynamic resizing pushes their right column AD to the bottom of a mobile screen. This does not provide ways to route you to m.domain.com, but the point is that you are not feeding a user a different site your are reformatting the layout of one site. In cases where you see m.domain.com they are most likely using browser/device detection like @StevenHu mentioned. Generally detection is a bad idea, as it needs to be updated frequently and there are quite a few things that can trip it up.
Hope this helps,Steve


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I've heard you talk about the free Microsoft OneDrive storage and how you can add it to your computer so it shows up just like another drive. How do I do that?
If you have a Windows 8.1 computer, OneDrive will already show up as an option by default when you save or open drives.
To add the OneDrive App to your Windows 7 computer click here to download the free app. You cannot add OneDrive to a Windows XP system. A copy of your OneDrive will be downloaded to your computer and will sync with your OneDrive. Changes to your OneDrive folder from any device will also be updated to your device. You can access OneDrive in your File Explorer to rename, delete, create or move files in your OneDrive folder. Changes will be applied to your OneDrive folder and to all of the other devices in Sync with your OneDrive.
To add OneDrive to mobile devices, go to the Google Play or iTunes store to download the app.
You can save photos of documents to your OneDrive Storage from your tablet or phone.
You can also use an app like ES File Explorer to add your OneDrive account to your device. Open the app.
Tap the menu button and then choose Cloud.
Then select the + sign at the bottom left of the screen.
You'll see a choice of cloud services. Select OneDrive. This is also how you can add other cloud services.
Log into your Microsoft account and agree to the app permissions and your OneDrive will be added as a destination on your device.
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The Belkin Screencast AV4 has come down a lot in price over the last 3-6 months at $150 (at Harvey Norman) and $140 at officeworks. Staticice can't find anything cheaper.
We got one for work the other day due to cables in walls getting a little lengthy and causing picture quality issues. It worked out cheaper than getting an electrician in again to make modifications or install amplifiers and probably shouldve been done in the first place.
It can take 4 HDMI inputs and send the signal wirelessly to a HDMI out (tv/projector). Works fine with computer, compatible with 3D 1080.
I tested it at either end of the office (30m~) with only glass in the way and it worked fine still. Even trying in different rooms it worked okay through the walls. It comes with a remote control extender so you can shoot your remote at the box at the tv, and have the output devices in another room receive the IR signal (though we are not using this as its all setup in one room).
Super simple set-up, plug in and click OK on a remote a few times and it just works. No more complicated than using an actual cable IMO. HDMI is sent over 5ghz.
Physically the receiver is about the size of a standard home router, and transmitter not much bigger.
I would recommend this to anyone who needs to get HDMI to different rooms (i.e. use a PC in another room as your HDTV), want to setup output devices at different part of room (tv on wall), or needs to setup cables running along a room (but doesn't like the mess).
Link: http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Networking/Networking-Accessories/BEF7D4515
Or: http://www.harveynorman.com.au/belkin-screencast-av4-hdmi.html
JB Hifi have it for $298 (could ask for price match using above): http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/computers-laptops/computer-accessories/belkin-screencast-av4-wireless-hdmi-adapter/664054
Show video (there are some reviews on there if you search):
Product video:
Note: There are two screencast versions, this one has the AV4 at the end. The other version only has a receiver box and uses Intel's WiDi for sending video from a computer over wireless without hooking a HDMI cable in - so no good for blueray, etc (unless they are compatible?). The Non-AV4 version is cheaper again.
Ive been tempted to get one of these, if i was playing my ps3 i'd hate to have any kind of delay.. :\
I'm about to look into installing an a/v setup at work, and I'm considering burying either HDMI or VGA cables in the walls... I dunno which way to go just yet.
How far were the HDMI cables being run in your case Jerry?
$140 seems like a good price. Is there any latency?
So the PC is in another room, how do you control stuff?
How far were the HDMI cables being run in your case Jerry?at a rough estimate about 15m - which could also be due to cable quality - either way it was cheaper to do this than to re-wire or otherwise
$140 seems like a good price. Is there any latency?I can run a fast paced test on it in about a week when im in the office next - there is this video on youtube i didnt watch fully but they were comparing it against a 60ghz system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXyhKMadKhc
see 6-8 minutes or watch from beginning.
they said they didnt notice any lag caused by these
So the PC is in another room, how do you control stuff?IR remote + IR extender.. or tablet/phone as wifi mouse/keyboard (plenty apps for this)
If you're going to run cables, run a few cat6 instead and use whatever adaptors you choose. This allows flexibility for when you want to change/add to your setup.
Good to see a Belkin product working well, they have definitely come a long way from when I used to work at harvey norman.
They used to look ugly and need power cycling every day or so.
I had these installed behind the tv's (one pointing upwards to the ceiling, and two paired on the same wall to run concealed wires between the tv and another device) and one behind my computer pointing upwards
haven't actually used them for anything yet though, but audio/video cables would be the thing.
Thermite, I wired up some wall plates with speaker wire (so instead of being an 'open to the wall cavity' type wall plate, it was the banana plug type) at my parents place.
Aside from crawling around in the roof cavity and the associated d*** around feeding cables down the wall space, it wasn't much work, and means a cable free lounge space.


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My 27th birthday party was yesterday. I picked the Mad Hatter's Tea Party theme because there's just so much fun you can have with it! It was a great success and I am even more grateful that I have Rose's Heavenly Cakes in my arsenal
For the 'eat me', we made tiny vanilla cupcakes with a lacquer glaze so that we could write on them.
My favourite on the day was the Two Fat Cats Whoopie Pie. If you haven't made this yet, you MUST. It is pure indulgence
I also made the fabulous Pumpkin Cheesecake - the caramel unfortunately started melting in the heat
And some Red Velvet Cupcakes with the Dreamy Creamy White Chocolate Frosting
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OK, can I have some suggestions - My dishwasher, at least once a day, sort of throws gritty chunks onto my dishes - it especially does it to the top shelf, and it also does it into the cups.
I can run it twice and it still happens.
And I am tired of taking them all out and having to hand wash it all.
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Support was added for the e200 into Kernal 2.6.20 so it should work out of the box.
i hope you can help me guys on this one??? i have a usb e220 modem connected to my system, backtrack knows its there , i just dont know how to configure it to dial and connect? i know i am a big gigantic neewbbbbbbb!!!, any help would great..thankyou anyone for your time...
Support was added for the e200 into Kernal 2.6.20 so it should work out of the box.
Have a look into WVDial or if your on the Vodafone network:
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sorry forgot to mention its not vodaphone? network 3....i have tried wvdialconf, it finds modem, but when i wvdial it states phone, username, password not found....i have googled it to solve the problem, its just actually executing the procedure? how do i edit gedit and transfer to the correct file,,,once again guys thanks for your help and time...
I am also trying to get e220 on BT.
I know you said your not on vf but here is an example of a wvdial.conf that can be used as a template things will need to be changed like Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","vfinternet.au" and other things. Hopfully this gives you something to work with.
~#nano /etc/wvdial.conf or wherever your wvdial.conf is.
navigate with arrow keys
save with ctrl+x Y enter.
I am having trouble installing wvdial. i have installed wvstreams-4.4.1.tar.gz and wvdial-1.60.tar.gz but when i try bt ~ # wvdialconf, i get error
wvdialconf: error while loading shared libraries: libwvstreams.so.4.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
I know where the libwvstreams.so.4.4 file is how can i show wvdial where it is, or does it need to be installed to somewhere particular?
What did you do to install wvdial on BT?
Australia - Vodafone - Hardy - wvdial.conf example
[Dialer 3g] this could also be [Dialer Defaults]
Init2 = ATZ
Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
username = username
Password = password
Dial Command = ATDT
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Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","vfinternet.au"
hey guys,
I have a eee 901 which has an huwaei e620 3.5G modem, built in,
Currently runs perfectly in my primary os, eeebuntu but i cannot get it to start in BT3
Just wondered if anyone else has had the same issue and how you may have resolved it.
NB. I am running BT3 from a SD Card and have not et up persistent changes.
I would be happy to install BT3 as long as the huwaei works as I need it for my travels.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
eee901 Atheros - Running Eeebuntu and 901 LZM'd BT3
In my bt3 don have wvdial, how to get or install wvdial?
Use umtsmon to dial up its very easy and convenient and it displays your signal strength etc.
I had troubles compiling umtsmon in bt3 so I'l also provide a link for a working binary...
you will have to disable "Replace default route" or something to get it working in bt3. Just setup a profile and untick "Replace Default Route" and your good to go
There was an old issue with 2.6.20 and those modems if I recall correctly as they have the memory card slot on the side old kernels pick them up as storage devices instead of a modem.
Check out this link for more info..
Hope this helps
I get connected but cannot ping any website. What i need to configure?
bt etc # wvdial celcom3g
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT?
+CGDCONT: 1,"IP","my3g","0.0.0.0",0,0
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Apr 10 13:54:53 2009
--> Pid of pppd: 3842
--> pppd: [10]
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: [10]
--> pppd: [10]
--> pppd: [10]
--> pppd: [10]
--> pppd: [10]
--> pppd: [10]
--> pppd: [10]
--> local IP address 10.141.171.238
--> pppd: [10]
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> pppd: [10]
--> primary DNS address 184.108.40.206
--> pppd: [10]
--> secondary DNS address 184.108.40.206
--> pppd: [10]
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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics bumber pads are no longer advised for use in baby cribs due to the increase in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.This recommendation has been in effect for over 5 years now. It is very irresponsible for you to be posting this pattern on your website.I would give it a -10 if I could
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With modest adjustments to the criminal code, pan flute players, people wearing too-trendy hats or talking on cellphones could be fined....
August 21, 2011, Sunday
Invasion of the Pop-Ups: Time for a Smackdown
The ubiquitous phenomenon of temporary business or cultural enterprises in New York has lost any guerrilla chic it might once have had....
August 14, 2011, Sunday
A Light Fantastic Could Illuminate New York
What if New York's eyeball-searing, headache-inducing glare were gone, replaced by lighting that actually flatters the city?...
August 7, 2011, Sunday
Got Briefs? This Run's for You
Attempting an underwear run in Central Park, in broad daylight no less, is not for the faint of heart....
July 31, 2011, Sunday
No Windmill, but Still a Cure for the Wicked
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July 24, 2011, Sunday
Please Don't Swat the Bug Tattoo
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July 17, 2011, Sunday
A Bridge Too Low and a Lesson for Visionaries
Public works planners need to be visionaries, but no one foresaw that the the Bayonne Bridge's height could cripple the port....
July 10, 2011, Sunday
A Welcome Mat? Not Always
Independence Day will bring visitors to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but some may leave without fully understanding the "island of tears" side to its history....
July 3, 2011, Sunday
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To test a new board game called "Be a Broadway Star!", Neil Genzlinger challenged several real Broadway performers to a match.
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Neil Genzlinger rides the four new attractions at Scream Zone located in Coney Island's Luna Park.
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PHILADELPHIA - Junior Alyssa Baron earned Big 5 Player of the Week honors as announced by the city conference on Monday night. Last week, Baron scored her 1,000th career point in a big way as the University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team topped La Salle in its Big 5 opener.
On Baron's historic night, Penn won its first Big 5 game in nearly two years. The Gulliver Prep product nearly had a double-double with 15 points and a career-high nine assists (La Salle had 10 as a team). Baron also had five rebounds, a steal, a block and just one turnover in 37 minutes of action.
Baron became the third-fastest Quaker to reach the 1,000-point mark (60 games) at an important juncture of Friday's Big 5 contest. The Explorers just completed a long comeback effort to take the lead, 46-44, with 9:03 to play. But on the next possession, Baron sunk her milestone basket with a go-ahead three-pointer that gave the Quakers momentum back. Penn never trailed again. Up 57-51 with 3:21 remaining, Baron blocked a three, was fouled in the race for the loose ball, and sunk two free throws. That all but sealed the game as the Quakers salted away the final few minutes.
Baron has now won four Big 5 Player of the Week awards in her career. She earned the honor twice as a freshman and after Penn's 2-0 start last season.
A pair of games in New York City await the Quakers - the first against St. Francis (N.Y.) on Wednesday at 7 p.m., and the next against LIU-Brooklyn on Sunday at 2 p.m.


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regarding new blood at the gym...
looking at my mates face book someone posted:
"Both mate, still wrestling and doing my bjj alongside 2-3 gym sesh's a week. Might go to the colleseum in leigh, the mma is meant to be a good workout in there, you should come too! otherwise everyone will be taking it in turns to batter me"
made me chuckle after reading this thread


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Sean 'Diddy' Combs to drop knowledge at Howard University commencement
Music mogul Sean Combs is set to deliver Howard University's commencement speech this year in Washington D.C.
The HBCU announced that Combs will be among five people who will receive honorary degrees as trailblazers in their fields.
Diddy credits Howard with kick starting his business hustle and entrepreneurial spirit when he was a student in the late 1980s. He will receive an honorary doctorate in the humanities. He went on to create his Puff Daddy persona and built his own business and brand. Last year he launched an all-music TV channel, Revolt, with the goal of creating the ESPN of music.
The university also will honor CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, transplant surgeon Clive Callender, jazz legend Benny Golson and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
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PHILADELPHIA - Freshman Sydney Stipanovich postedher second careerdouble-double and helped leadthe University of Pennsylvania women's basketball teamtoits largest comeback in program history in a 46-44 win overDrexel on Saturday. Her 14 points and 19 reboundsearned her Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week honors as announced bythe league office on Monday.
Stipanovich's19 rebounds were the most by any freshman in the nation this year against a Division I opponent and the most for a Penn player sinceJennifer Fleischer grabbed 21 against Columbia on Feb. 17, 2006. Stipanovich is the first Ivy rookie to record 19 rebounds in a single game since Penn's Diana Caramanico tallied 19 against Princeton on Jan. 3, 1998.
Stipanovich had a double-double in the second half alone (10 points and 12 rebounds) as the Quakers mounted a comeback from 19 points down.The St. Louis, Mo., nativewas 6-of-14 from the field and led the team in scoring, rebounding and blocks (two) in 34 minutes off the bench. Stipanovich tied the game with 1:31 left, then pulled down the defensive rebound on Drexel's final two possessions to lead to Alyssa Baron's game-winning jumper with 2.6 seconds left.
The 19-point comeback topped the program record set last year at St. Francis Brooklyn when Penn topped the Terriers, 61-60, after trailing by 18 with 7:29 to play on Dec. 5, 2012.
This is the second and third career Ivy honors for Stipanovich. She was also named Ivy League Rookie of the Week last Monday. This mark's Penn's second Ivy League Player of the Week accolade as Baron earned the distinction on Dec. 9).
At 5-2, Penn has now matched the best seven-game start in program history and has won five straight non-conference games for the first time in 13 years (the 2000-01 squad won seven in a row). Prior to the tenure of head coach Mike McLaughlin, Penn had never won five of its first seven games, but the Quakers have now done so in two of the last three years.
Following a week off for the holiday season, the Quakers will fly to Miami where they will bring in the New Year with a matchup against the Hurricanes. It will be Penn's first-ever visit to Coral Gables and the first all-time meeting with Miami (Fla.). Tip off is set for 2 p.m. on Jan. 1.


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Eight Distros a Week: gNewSense 1.1
[This is the fifth in an eight-part series on distros I use. These observations are based on distros running on one or more of the following hardware: Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop, an brandless Pentium III-based desktop, an IBM PL 300 Pentium II, an iMac G3 (Indigo) and an iBook G3. As the auto commercials say, your mileage may vary.]
A couple of Saturdays ago, I appeared as a guest on KUSP's GeekSpeak radio show to talk about Free Software, and about two-thirds of what I said on the radio was about gNewSense.
Truth in advertising: I was on with Richard Stallman, who the panelists really wanted to speak to (and rightfully so), and my total contribution to the hour-long radio show was three sentences. But two sentences out of three praising gNewSense isn't bad.
What I said on the show was that gNewSense was the only completely free-as-in-freedom distros I would recommend, and that I have already had one user converted from a proprietary OS to gNewSense.
The third sentence — I corrected the host on how to pronounce my name, I think.
Nevertheless, of all the distros providing true digital freedom, gNewSense stands out as probably the best performing and most stable distro available. To those for whom complete free-as-in-freedom programs with the distro is of vital importance, gNewSense provides suitable alternatives to other-than-free (for whatever reason) software; Burning Dog, for example, is the free (albeit domesticated?) replacement for Firefox as a Web browser. Rhythmbox works well on a PIII, as does Serpentine.
The KDE version of gNewSense, which I ran on the PIII desktop, ran through its paces flawlessly, although the caveat here is that I didn't have an Internet connection and couldn't put it through some on-line tests that I did with the laptop.
Whether you prefer GNOME or KDE — and I don't mean to start a flame war here, and past posts have outlined where my desktop loyalties lie — bear in mind that both desktops run the OS suitably and makes a strong argument for running completely free.
Further, Ireland is beginning to stand out as a digital leader in Europe — both gNewSense and Linux Mint (which we'll talk about tomorrow) are two testaments to how Eire is taking a lead in FOSS. So a toast with a pint of stout to the both Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley — and the rest of the developers of gNewSense on either side of the Atlantic — for providing a great distro.
Coming tomorrow: Linux Mint 4.0 Darnya Xfce
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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- AeroCalc
- AeroCalc is a python package that performs various aeronautical engineering calculations. Currently, it contains the following main modules:
- airspeed
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- Arvados
- Arvados enables you to quickly begin using cloud computing resources in your data science work. It allows you to track your methods and datasets, share them securely, and easily re-run analyses.
- Asymptote
- 'Asymptote' is a script-based vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. It provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text. It is a programming language, not just a graphics program, so it can use the best features of both scripts and GUIs. High-level graphics commands are implemented in the language itself, so they can be tailored to specific applications. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX for high-quality PostScript output.
- Avogadro
- Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.
- International: Translations into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and others, with more languages to come.
- Intuitive: Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.
- Fast: Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.
- Extensible: Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
- Flexible: Features include Open Babel import of chemical files, input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, crystallography, and biomolecules.
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- BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python. It is platform independent.
- BRL-CAD includes an interactive geometry editor, parallel ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools.
- Besssugo
- besssugo is a free computational tool specifically designed to aid a cognizant expert—i.e. you, whether an engineer, scientist, technician, geek, etc—to build videos showing the result of a certain scientific calculation or whatever data can be computed or storied in a digital computer. Technically speaking, it is a plugin for the computational tool wasora, which provides means to parse and understand a high-level plain-text input file containing algebraic expressions, data for function interpolation, differential equations and output instructions amongst other facilities. Therefore, any mathematical computation which can be done by wasora—i.e. solving systems of differential-algebraic equations, multidimensional interpolation of scattered data, numerical integration and differentiation, etc.—can be combined with the facilities that besssugo provides to create visual representations in the form of animations.
- Biskit
- Biskit is a python library for structural bioinformatics research. It simplifies the analysis of macromolecular structures, protein complexes, and molecular dynamics trajectories and offers a platform for the rapid integration of external programs.
- BlockCanvas
- The BlockCanvas project provides a visual environment for creating simulation experiments, where function and data are separated. Thus, you can define your simulation algorithm by visually connecting function blocks into a data flow network, and then run it with various data sets (known as "contexts"); likewise, you can use the same context in a different functional simulation. The project provides support for plotting, function searching and inspection, and optimization. It includes a stand-alone application that demonstrates the block-canvas environment, but the same functionality can be incorporated into other applications. The BlockCanvas project relies on included libraries that allow multiple data sets using Numeric arrays to be incorporated in a Traits-based model in a way that is simple, fast, efficient, and consistent.
- Bmrblib
- Bmrblib is a Python API abstracting the Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BioMagResBank or BMRB) NMR-STAR format (http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/). It allows the writing of NMR-STAR files for BMRB data deposition and the reading and easy extraction of data from files residing in the BMRB data bank, all without knowledge of the Self-Defining Text Archive and Retrieval (STAR) format.
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Sexy R&B singer Monica is due with a baby girl in a few weeks with NBA hubby Shannon Brown.
The 32-year-old singer and her Phoenix Suns husband hosted a private carnival-themed baby shower at none other than Jermaine Dupri's home in Atlanta over the weekend. And PEOPLE magazine for the exclusive, with the singer telling the magazine "It was very whimsical, just like a Disney princess movie and just as I had envisioned it. There was so much love in the room and everybody had a great time."
Guests at the event — there were 200! — included Ludacris, Nene and Greg Leakes and Keri Hilson.
And they already have a name picked out: her name will be Laiyah!
Congrats, Monica!


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What do success stories like Henry Ford, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? They all made their mark (and their millions) by coming up with a better idea and running with it. Starting a business is a proven path to wealth, and the best way to get there is to start small and scale up -- which usually means being bought out by a larger company, selling franchises or licensing your product.
An ambitious goal is critical if you want to expand your business, says Barbara Findlay Schenck, a small-business strategist and author of Selling Your Business for Dummies.
Before you apply for loans or sign up investors, polish your business plan. And don't overlook sources of free help. For example, you could tap your alma mater's alumni network for potential mentors. You can also get advice from more than 13,000 small-business volunteers through Score, a nonprofit organization supported by the Small Business Administration. (For more, see Six Steps to Starting Your Own Business.)
Risk level: Medium
Creating a product and licensing it or selling it through retailers is another route to making money from your good idea.
One of the biggest mistakes that aspiring inventors make is to create a product before they've determined whether there's a demand for it, says Sidnee Peck, who teaches classes in entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business. She encourages her students to talk to potential customers in person before they develop their products.
Nancy Tedeschi came up with the idea for SnapIt, an eyeglass-repair device, after her mother used an earring to jerry rig her broken glasses. Convinced that she could improve on the tiny tools contained in most eyeglass-repair kits, Tedeschi invented a small screw with a snap-off extension. Tedeschi got the attention of Walmart (WMT), the nation's largest retailer, by entering its "Get on the Shelf" contest, an "American Idol"-like competition for aspiring entrepreneurs. She was one of two runners-up, and her product is now available on Walmart.com.
Online surveys and social media provide an easy way to reach a lot of people, Peck says, "but you don't get to see people's eyes light up." Tedeschi also attended housewares and hardware trade shows, where she introduced her product to representatives of other big retailers. Those contacts helped her get SnapIt on the shelves at Walgreens (WAG) and Ace Hardware.
You can make a lot of money fixing up run-down houses and selling them for a quick profit, but you need cash to venture into this business. It's tough to get a mortgage for a property you plan to flip, but a home-equity line of credit against your primary home is a good source of funds for first-time flippers. Short-term bridge loans from private lenders, known as hard-money loans, are a higher-risk way to get the cash -- and charge higher interest rates.
Look for ugly ducklings in upscale neighborhoods where the market has picked up. Before buying a property, research recent sale prices for nearby homes to get an idea of what you can make, and find out how long the homes were on the market. Successful flippers usually sell their properties in 30 to 60 days, says Letitia Patterson, a real estate agent who has invested in properties in the Detroit area.
Don't forget to factor in the expenses you'll incur while you're holding the property, along with closing costs. Justin Pierce, a real estate investor who flips properties in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, says he starts by estimating the sale price of a fixed-up home. Once he comes up with that number, he subtracts buying and selling costs (typically 10% to 15%), a profit margin of 15% to 20%, and the cost of repairs. With those numbers in hand, he can determine how much he will offer.
The average interest rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage on a rental property is only about 4%, according to mortgage Web site LendingTree. That means your monthly rental income should cover the mortgage, which wasn't possible when rates were 7% or higher, says Michael Corbett, an adviser to the real estate Web site Trulia and author of Before You Buy! Plus, the National Association of Realtors projects that average apartment rents will increase 4.6% this year, following a 4.1% increase in 2012.
Once you've purchased your first property, you can use the equity to buy additional properties, typically through a cash-out refinancing, says Doug Lebda, chief executive officer of LendingTree. Most lenders won't let you take out more than 80% of the equity you have in the property.
Fayz Khan, a former auto engineer, ventured into the rental market in 2008 because he believed he could earn better returns in real estate than he could get from the stock market (see "What It Takes to Be a Landlord,"). He now owns eight rental properties in the Baltimore area, and the return on his investment has far exceeded his initial expectations. Khan and his business partners are exploring opportunities in North Dakota, where the oil boom has led to an acute housing shortage.
Risk level: Low
You don't need talent or money to cash in on YouTube. In fact, all you need is a camera, something unique to share and plenty of luck. "A lot of people make over six figures a year on YouTube," says Ross Ching, a commercial and music video director.
A good one-off viral video is under three minutes and it gets you hooked within the first ten seconds. But it's tough to be a one-hit wonder. A more reasonable goal for amateur filmmakers is to score viral fame with a YouTube channel. That means making a series of videos, each of which can run a little longer than three minutes. Try highlighting a specific skill or theme -- say, cooking or standup comedy. Your videos will drive traffic to one another while you perfect your craft and earn "subscribers."
Reach out to media outlets and bloggers with a link to your video. Don't expect your audience to find your video without some direction. A link-back on a popular site can skyrocket views.
You can earn cash with YouTube advertisements, which can run about $2 per 1,000 views. But the real money is in endorsements and product sales. Industry experts estimate that Korean pop star Psy earned about $8 million in 2012 from his addictive YouTube music video "Gangnam Style." As his video accumulates views, his single racks up iTunes downloads and he picks up lucrative contracts, such as his pistachio-promoting Super Bowl commercial.
If you can withstand 12-hour workdays on an oil rig in the North Sea or maintain your composure during military coups, you may be rewarded with free housing, a six-figure salary and the chance to see the world.
According to Rigzone, an oil and gas industry data provider, entry-level workers on a rig earn more than $68,000, on average; the pay ratchets up dramatically as you gain experience, which is easy to do in an industry that believes heavily in on-the-job training, says Rigzone president Paul Caplan. Drilling positions are most lucrative, with an average salary of $126,471.
If physical labor isn't your thing, you could get a gig with the State Department. The harsher the environment, the better the incentives: Foreign Service jobs add up to 70% of base salary for certain field positions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A bonus: Hardship posts in a remote locale afford few opportunities to spend -- so there's not much to do with your money but watch it grow.
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description: Many cities and farms took steps to cope in the summer of 2012 as the drought in the western United States deepened. During these tough periods, rivers often suffer, but an innovative water restoration helped save fish—as well as jobs—along the Yampa River in Colorado.

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Great American Rivers—like the Colorado—provide power… recreation… food and water to people and wildlife. But when demand outpaces supply… and drought hits… rivers are threatened.
Sandra Postel:
The Colorado River basin has suffered really badly from this drought. There has been very little snowpack this year, way below normal levels and the snowpack is what drives most of the flow in the rivers in the Colorado River basin.
In response to the drought, the Colorado Water Trust proposed an innovative method for restoring water to the State’s Rivers… a drought lease program that asks water users to loan water to rivers in need.
Quote Amy Beatie:
We look at the lease as opportunity for us to find willing participants in the program and match them up with rivers.
Responding to the call was the Upper Yampa Water District in Steamboat Springs… where the area’s world-famous snow feeds the town’s centerpiece… the Yampa River.
Upstream from the city, the Stagecoach Reservoir can augment the river’s flow… and during this difficult year the owners offered to lease some water…
Supported in part by funding from National Geographic and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation… the drought lease was purchased in June.
Kevin McBride:
Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District Manager
The drought lease was something that everyone was happy with. Our board was happy to put the water under contract and to release the water into the river, and the river has certainly benefited by the release of the water.
Throughout the summer, the reservoir continually released water into the river and kept the Yampa flowing at healthier levels.
Sandra Postel:
Striking that deal at the appropriate time and getting water back in the river was critical to preventing an ecological crash in the river, critical to making sure fish populations didn’t crash.
Both native and introduced fish populations occupy the Yampa River system… and for Aquatic Biologist Bill Atkinson drought years pose special challenges.
Bill must monitor the river frequently, checking conditions. … If low water levels result in conditions stressful to the fish …  tubing and even fly-fishing could be shut down to protect them.
Of greatest concern are the native mountain whitefish.  Negatively impacted by a 2002 drought…  critically low flow levels could do further damage to the population.
Bill also manages the introduced brown and rainbow trout populations, which support a robust sport fishing industry in Steamboat Springs.
Billy Atkinson
I have to look at the native fish components like the White Fish… but along with that I also have a created sport fishery that I sustain through stocking regimens.
The spectacular valley setting provides a peaceful retreat for fly fisherman…
And during the quiet times on the river, you might be lucky enough to observe other native fishers.
On another stretch of the river, groups of fun-seekers ride the water on tubes …
or the more adventurous
in kayaks…
In late June, low flows forced tubing operators to close business.
But the increased water from the lease helped them reopen sooner and get revenues flowing again.
Traveling down through the middle of town… enjoying a day on the river, you will also pass through farm country… a mainstay of this valley’s economy.
A drought year brings difficult choices to farmers like Lee Curby who may not be able to support their cattle or crops in these tough times.
Quote Lee Curby:
Our production numbers are down around 30-40 percent of what we’d normally produce.
Even though Curby’s ranch is located beyond the intended reach of the lease, his farm still received enough additional water to harvest a late season hay crop… and during a hard year this was a helpful economic boost.
As scientists warn that drought years will become more common in the West, we need innovative approaches to fresh water management.
Quote: Sandra Postel
This was a really important lease at the right time. What I love about it, it’s showing adaptability and we can be resilient during these times of drought and be sure rivers are not last in line to get help during a drought.
The lease purchase demonstrates new possibilities to balance the needs of humans and the health of our vital river systems...
It’s just one example of how people are working together to save the life-giving waters of America’s great river systems.


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38 Years Ago – Elton John Sells Out Two Dodger Stadium Shows
In 1975, Elton John performed two sold-out shows at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Imagine for a moment what it would be like if one of those was the first rock concert you ever went to. Now, meet our new friend Doug Fox, who was indeed just that lucky, and is here to tell us all about it:
Hit up any rock fan and you'll find that almost all of them still proudly wear their first concert like a badge of honor. As the veteran of hundreds of shows over the years, I'm certainly no exception — just fortunate enough to have initially plugged into a lifelong love of live music by attending one of rock's most historical concerts.
It was 38 years ago that Elton John performed the second of his back-to-back, career-defining sellout concerts at Dodger Stadium. Unless one actually lived through that time period, it's almost impossible to imagine just how big a phenomenon John was in 1975. He was littering the rock landscape with hit after hit en route to delivering a couple No. 1 albums per year. His concerts, complete with outrageous costumes and stage antics, were already the stuff of legend.
Similar to the scene in Cameron Crowe's rock biopic 'Almost Famous' where Frances McDormand's character nervously drops her young, sheltered son off at his first concert, so I recall my mother, with much trepidation, depositing our group of three off in front of Dodger Stadium — but not before reconfirming that we had enough change in our pockets to call her from a pay phone for a ride home following the show.
After opening sets by Emmylou Harris and the James Gang, which featured soon-to-be Eagle Joe Walsh, Elton took the stage in grand fashion. He opened the show with a soulful solo rendition of 'Your Song,' with the opening piano notes preceding the rise of the curtain, and his piano starting at the back left of the stage and slowly moving to the front as the song progressed.
After another solo number, 'I Need You to Turn To,' he was joined onstage by his band, which had recently been revamped from his classic lineup. He played a 10-song opening set that featured several album tracks before returning in a sequined Dodger uniform for a hit-laden second set that also heavily highlighted his No. 1 album from five months earlier, 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.'
There were special appearances by tennis star Billie Jean King (she sang backing vocals for 'Philadelphia Freedom') and John's partner-in-rhyme, lyricist Bernie Taupin, and 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' seemed perfectly timed with the sunset outside the stadium on that typically beautiful Southern California Sunday.
John ended up playing 31 songs in a three-hour-plus performance that spoiled me for years, naively assuming, as I did, that every artist must play for a similar length of time on such a grand scale. Obviously, that wide-eyed 15-year-old still had a lot to learn in the way of concerts. In the subsequent 37 years, I've had the opportunity to interview a couple members of Elton's core band and see him in concert seven additional times — but somehow none quite compare with that afternoon at Dodger Stadium.
Maybe it's a first-time thing.
You can read Doug's original account of this show, and see his handwritten set-lists, right here.
Elton John Dodger Stadium Oct. 26, 1975 Setlist:
First set
'Your Song'
'I Need You to Turn To'
'Border Song'
'Take Me to the Pilot'
'Dan Dare'
'Country Comfort'
'Rocket Man'
'Empty Sky'
Second set
'Funeral For a Friend'
'Love Lies Bleeding'
'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'
'Bennie and the Jets'
'Dixie Lily'
'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy'
'Bitter Fingers'
'Someone Saved My Life Tonight'
'The Bitch is Back'
'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me'
'Meal Ticket'
'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds'
'I Saw Her Standing There'
'Island Girl'
'Philadelphia Freedom'
'We All Fall in Love Sometimes'
'Tell Me When the Whistle Blows'
'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting'
'Pinball Wizard'


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A new startup company that combines the technology of the University of South Carolina's engineering researchers with the entrepreneurial know-how of the university's business school and seasoned executives exemplifies a new business model for Innovista.
The company, SysEDA Inc., is developing cloud-based collaborative engineering tools for power systems design and analysis. SysEDA's flagship product, Virtual Test Bed (VTB), is focused on the simulation of power systems for electric ships but is expected to have implication for other types of electric vehicles in the future. SysEDA VTB is based on technology developed by Dr. Roger Dougal, professor of electrical engineering at USC, and is licensed by the USC Research Foundation.
"This is quintessential Innovista," said Don Herriott, the director of Innovista Partnerships. "It's business people teaming with technical people to build innovative companies."
For more than 10 years, Dougal and his research assistants have worked with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop SysEDA VTB so that it can be used in system design, simulation and analysis of electric ships.
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"SysEDA represents a growing style of collaboration whereby researchers from the USC College of Engineering and Computing are paired with graduates of the Darla Moore School of Business and seasoned executives to get new companies quickly formed and positioned for success," Herriott said.
Kelly Truesdale, SysEDA's chief operating officer and a 2010 IMBA graduate, typifies this collaboration. He works with a proven entrepreneur/corporate executive team from Bang! Technologies Inc., which provides mentorship to the SysEDA team, in addition to being hands-on members of the SysEDA management team. This approach is considered a model to bring business grads together with scientist/engineering grads under the mentorship of proven executives and entrepreneurs to form the young entrepreneurial leadership teams of new Innovista companies exemplified by SysEDA.


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FIRST the good news. Third in the league – three points – a clean sheet – a perfect playing surface and the knowledge that crowds are up. All valid reasons to be cheerful.
Now the bad news – it was the worst game of the season. Rovers were poor especially in the first half. Fortunately Nuneaton (only one corner and one shot all match) were worse.
Manager Dave Hockaday readily accepted this stating he was performance driven and that what we had just witnessed was not good enough. No-one disagreed. Twenty minutes later I had a conversation with a senior player who made some very valid points. He mentioned the problems of playing into the low sun, as was the case in the first half, adding that for the first half-hour of the game the ball was very flat, making this difficult for the better fooballing side. Both those factors changed. The sun went down and the flat- football was replaced.
I must stress these facts were not offered as excuses, they were given as partial reasons for a poor display. More importantly he added that last year that is the sort of match we would have lost. Now a tight knit squad is more determined and resolute. They do not give up and there are match changers on the bench.
Selection is difficult for the manager with so many good players available. It must have been difficult to leave out Todd and Green and if Jamie Collins is fit that makes selecting midfield difficult, of course that is his job, and how much different it is now, selecting from quality players.
Able to see the players in training all week manager Dave makes selections that must be both accepted and respected by both the players and us. That does not mean that we should not query them. We all have our own opinions.
Why was James Norwood left on the bench? Many in the media thought it was Nors' silly comment regarding assistant Gary Seward in the match programme. Nors saw it as banter, but whilst not wanting to defend him, I think the programme editor should have omitted the comment.
However, the gaffer revealed that Nors was left out because he was in a rut, and perhaps needed a rest, adding that in the second half he showed he was back to his best.
Rut or not I would not have left him out. Nors, like Reece, who joined him on the bench, has the dash and devilment to unsettle defences. Reece had scored twice in the last two home games when he came on as substitute and had made a good case for starting. The players who replaced them are undoubtedly good footballers, but have yet to make the impact needed to win matches. Whatever team is selected Norwood or Styche should be in from the start. Surely the second half proved that.
Some points from the game- Racine gets better and better, as does Turley at right- back.
Man-of-the-match could have gone to either. Again corners were poor – there being twelve fruitless ones, we do miss the dead ball skills of Big Ben Wright. Finally, we must remember how easy a game it was for Sam Russell, so someone must have done something right.
The referee did get the sending off incident decisively dealt with. There was a discussion with the linesman and swift action taken.
An annoying aspect of games this season is the scuffles between players that occur immediately before corners or free- kicks. Too often these are ignored. On Saturday one player went too far, clearly striking Racine. The right thing happened. Well done officials. I hope others follow your example.
There was one problem for the media on Saturday. We were not issued with team sheets and were informed of the team courtesy of a visiting journalist who used twitter to find out who was playing.
That is the first time this has happened since I have been writing this column. I believe sheets were available elsewhere in the ground, but none came to us.
This is of course a small point and writing on Sunday I can refer to the NLP but I should not have to. Perhaps I am becoming grumpy and should refer back to my opening paragraph – three points and a clean sheet.
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With their 4 to 3 over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday, the Seattle Mariners got their first series sweep of the 2013 season and their first since last August 20 - 22 against the Cleveland Indians. The Angels are still under .500 themselves, but they came to Safeco having won 11 of their last 14 games before being handed three straight losses by the Mariners. And while Seattle enters the All-Star Break at 43-52, they do it not only fresh off of this sweep, but having won eight of their last 13 games and four of seven on a tough homestand against the Boston Red Sox and LA.
And while All-Stars Felix Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma both pitched twice during those seven games, the M's really did it with offense; they scored 48 runs during the seven games and have now scored 5.5 runs a game over their last 22 contests. In those 22 games the Mariners have four players -- Raul Ibanez (3rd, 1.172), Kyle Seager (7th, 1.035), Justin Smoak (12th, 1.005) and Kendrys Morales (17th, .917) -- that rank among the American League Leaders in OPS and the middle of the lineup, which has been much maligned for the last several years, is finally actually producing and looking like a legitimate Major League middle of the lineup.
Ibanez has to be considered the team's offensive MVP of the first half. The 41-year-old has already seen nearly 300 plate appearances -- probably about the number that most expected him to get for the entire year -- and has played 31 of his last 34 games as the team's starting left fielder. He has been out-homered by only three American League players and enters the break posting the best wOBA (.379) of his 18-year big league career. Ibanez's fountain of youth with the bat has been a huge boost for this club, and his veteran leadership, which we detailed before the season, is undoubtedly paying dividends, too.
Seager, a bit of a surprise as the club's top hitter a year ago, has improved his game this year as well. The third baseman is hitting .293/.359/.488 and has already collected 40 extra base hits while upping his walk rate and lowering his strikeout rate for the third straight season. Kyle was hitting just .243/.306/.420 at last year's break, and the 20 home runs from last year that many thought may have been an aberration now look like more of a sign of Kyle's true power, as he has 15 home runs at the break this season. His defense continues to improve, too, and he now ranks among the top half of third baseman according to the advanced defensive metrics.
Smoak has been a huge positive for the club, particularly since returning from his oblique strain. The 26-year-old switch-hitter, who many fans were ready to dump prior to this year, has hit .333/.416/.603 in 22 games since rejoining Seattle following his injury and enters the break with an almost unthinkable .272 AVG and .803 OPS. He's teased with stretches of solid offensive performance a few times before, but the difference this time is that the stretch consists of 68 games and none of them are in September. He continues to struggle against left-handed pitchers (.512 OPS in 76 PA), but he is killing the ball right now, even in Safeco, where it seemed in the past that no one was more affected (mentally) by the old dimensions, and he finally is looking like a player that was a worthy target in the Cliff Lee deal a few years back.
Morales has been probably about as good as the best-case-scenario crowd projected he would be at the time of the trade to acquire him for Jason Vargas went down; .280/.337/.463 with 22 doubles, 14 home runs and 54 RBI for the veteran switch-hitter has been huge. As was him holding down first base defensively (and hitting very well in the process) while Smoak was out. He's hit incredibly well against left-handers (.308/.376/.467) and has played in the 2nd most games (90) on the team, providing a steady, powerful force in the lineup.
While those four have been the day-to-day constants as the Mariners have seen their offense come to live, it simply can't be ignored that that life seems to have appeared exactly at the same time that some other moves were made. The recall of the young guys -- starting with Nick Franklin but followed shortly thereafter by the debuts of Mike Zunino and Brad Miller and the recall of the newly minted outfield version of Dustin Ackley -- and their immediate insertion into the starting lineup has brought a renewed since of energy to the club. Add in Michael Saunders rounding back into form and the complete overhaul to the club's athleticism is very apparent.
Hernandez and Iwakuma are headed to the All-Star game, and deservedly so, but Joe Saunders has been solid and Aaron Harang has turned in some very good starts, too. Erasmo Ramirez was recently recalled and he is the most talented pitcher that they have had pitch in the back end this season. In the bullpen, Tom Wilhelmsen had a painfully rough stretch that he seems to be coming out of now and with him, Oliver Perez, Charlie Furbush and Yoervis Medina at the end of games Seattle has a formidable group of arms to turn to.
All of that going on at the major league level while there is still top talent such as Taijuan Walker, Danny Hultzen, Brandon Maurer, James Paxton and Stefen Romero just a step away down in Triple-A Tacoma. We could see all of those five and more young prospects in the second half for Seattle still.
But the most encouraging signs that we should take away from this first half are the big improvement in the team offense and the big individual improvements from some of the young players who Seattle wants and needs to be their core. Smoak, Seager, Saunders, Ackley and Franklin are all seeing more pitchers per PA than the league average. Smoak's better command of the strike zone in particular has been huge in his ability to produce. He is posting the lowest O-Swing% (rate of swinging at pitches outside of the zone) of his career at 24.9% and is making contact on those pitches at the highest rate (66.7%) of his career, too. Seager's evolution into a true power source, with a 9.9% XBH rate and 140 OPS+, good for 9th in the AL, is a huge development for a guy that wasn't forecast to be such an impact player on offense just a few short seasons ago. Saunders, who made strides last season and has come on again of late, has improved his patience and chase rate, too and once again is showing pop in his bat lately. Miller and Franklin are shining at the top of the order with good on base skills and pop in their bats and look to be huge upgrades at their respective positions.
The Mariners of 2013 are showing a lot of signs of life on offense and they are finally starting to look like the team that we thought they should. And a big part of that life is coming from the young players -- the core. With that great 22 game stretch of performance helping their confidence and with some key players (Michael Morse, Stephen Pryor and possibly even Franklin Gutierrez) set to return to action early in the second half, the Mariners will be looking to build on the momentum they've created over the past three or four weeks when the second half kicks off on Friday.
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The machines would be installed in up to 38 arenas and other recreation complexes to help generate revenue for the city. Ottawa's request for proposal specifies that the machines could vend candy, healthy snacks, "trinkets" and hockey sports cards.
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