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Rusin tosses no-hitter for Triple-A Iowa
By Carrie Muskat and Teddy Cahill / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- Left-hander Chris Rusin said he had never gone past the sixth inning of a game without giving up a hit. On Wednesday, he went all the way.
Rusin threw a no-hitter and helped himself by hitting a two-run single to lead Triple-A Iowa to a 3-0 victory over New Orleans.
Rusin struck out three and walked two for the win, throwing 118 pitches, 72 for strikes. It's the first no-no by an Iowa Cubs pitcher since Reggie Patterson did so in 1984.
"I was just trying to keep the ball down like I did all game," Rusin said. "I was going to keep pounding until they made an adjustment. I just kept doing what I wanted to do."
He received a congratulatory Gatorade shower from his teammates. Cubs pitching coach Chris Bosio said he called the lefty as well.
Three New Orleans players reached against Rusin, including Josh Rodriguez, who drew a one-out walk in the first and a leadoff walk in the seventh. Rusin was at 104 pitches through eight innings.
"I didn't know how many pitches I had," Rusin said. "I was going to keep pitching until the Cubs pulled me out."
Rodriguez made the last out of the game, htiting a pop fly to shallow center that Matt Szczur snared.
A fourth-round pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, Rusin, 27, made seven starts with the big league team in 2012, and another 13 starts last season. This year, he was called up as insurance for the bullpen, and pitched five innings in relief against the Cardinals on April 12. In that game, he gave up one run on three hits.
Samardzija says pitch count talk misguided
CHICAGO -- As far as Jeff Samardzija is concerned, throwing 126 pitches over nine innings, which he did Monday, is not a big deal. It's also not something the Cubs pitcher expects to do every outing, and he will keep discussions on the matter between himself, pitching coach Chris Bosio and manager Rick Renteria.
"If Ricky didn't like how many pitches I threw, he'll come up to me and tell me, 'Hey, Jeff, it might not happen again, so enjoy it while you can,' which I'm fine with," Samardzija said Wednesday. "That's something we need to talk about. I'm a grown up, I can handle news like that, saying, 'Hey, we're going to keep you to 85, 90 [pitches] the next time,' or anything like that. I trust Ricky and know he's a very honest man and he'll shoot me straight. That's all I ask for. If I don't feel good, I'll tell him."
On Tuesday, Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer said he doesn't like to see pitchers throw that many pitches.
"It's a number, and we don't have enough knowledge to know at what number things turn into danger and when they don't," Hoyer said. "We've tried to focus on pitch stress in the Minor Leagues. It's a lot different to throw pitches with the bases loaded, it's a lot different to throw pitches in high-leverage spots."
Samardzija said he talked to Renteria in Spring Training and made it clear he wanted to go deep in games as much as possible.
"I just asked that we have good communication between each other during the game and that's it," Samardzija said. "Bosio was outstanding [Monday]. We knew where we were at and felt great. That's what you want, confidence from the coaches."
Told that the front office may not encourage such outings, Samardzija said it's an "on-field issue for uniformed personnel."
"I'm a grown man at 29, not a prospect at 22," he said. "I feel good. I think I'm grown up enough and responsible enough to understand when I can go and can't go. I'm going to go off that. I've earned my right in athletics to understand my body and where I'm at."
White Sox starter Chris Sale threw 127 pitches on April 17, which was his fourth game this season over 100 pitches, and is now on the disabled list with a flexor muscle strain. Samardzija said it's unfair to compare because everyone is different.
"You don't bring kids up through the system and coach every kid the same," he said. "There's different things you do for different guys. Do I want to go out and throw 120 pitches every time? Absolutely not. There's times when it calls for it, and times when it needs to get done and someone has to do it.
"It's unfortunate that we're getting to a point in the game where this is becoming news because it shouldn't," he said. "It should be the other way around -- why did this guy throw 75 pitches and then come out of the game after five innings? What's that about? I think the light is in the wrong direction."
The Cubs and White Sox were tied at 1 through nine innings Monday, and Renteria wanted to keep Samardzija in the game as long as possible to try to get him a win. He ranks second in the National League with a 1.62 ERA, but is 0-3 in his seven starts.
"There's a lot of things you need to do to win a ballgame and that needs to happen," Samardzija said. "It is what it is. Does it always work in your favor? No. We're at where we're at, and we're going to keep going out and pitching and try to get that first win."
Strop on DL with strained groin; Rosscup recalled
CHICAGO -- The Cubs placed reliever Pedro Strop on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with a moderate left groin strain and recalled lefty Zac Rosscup from Triple-A Iowa.
Strop was pulled from Tuesday's game after facing five batters. He apparently injured his leg a few days ago while working out, but said he was ready to pitch. Cubs manager Rick Renteria said Strop was available.
"I didn't think [his leg] was an issue, quite frankly," Renteria said. "He'd been working and did fine in his flat ground. All indications were that he was fine."
Rosscup, 25, begins his third stint with the Cubs this season having thrown 2 2/3 scoreless innings in two relief appearances so far. He was the 26th man in the second game of a doubleheader on April 16 at Yankee Stadium. He was recalled once more on April 24, and threw a scoreless inning on April 29 in Cincinnati before he was optioned to Iowa on May 3.
Slumping Olt looks for jolt out of DH slot
CHICAGO -- Mike Olt is trying to relax, and maybe being the designated hitter for one game will help.
The Cubs third baseman was the DH for Wednesday's Interleague game against the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. He entered the day 2-for-23 in his last nine games. Cubs manager Rick Renteria has opted to platoon Olt with left-handed-hitting Luis Valbuena at third base, so not playing every day has been new.
"It's hard -- you could be struggling a little bit and tend to put a little more pressure on yourself, and that's what's been going on with me right now," Olt said. "I've had some talks with guys on the team and coaches and am going to go back to being relaxed. There's no excuse to say, 'Hey, I'm not playing, this is why I'm struggling.' It's more me putting too much pressure on myself. I'm going to go back to having fun."
He's been used as the designated hitter before, including Spring Training.
"I guess I used to not like it as much, and it's always something you have to get use to," Olt said. "In Spring Training, I did a good job of keeping myself focused more and staying in the game. I'm going to use what I learned in Spring Training and carry it over."
Players just want to play every day. It's that simple.
"You're mentality is always to play," Olt said. "One of the things I'm learning this season is how to adjust to different roles and making sure I can do whatever it takes to be ready for whatever role is called upon. It's still a learning process. I'm definitely getting better at it."
As for his hitting, he's not worried.
"I've been through way worse slumps than this," he said.
Olt delivered a solo home run in the fifth inning of the 8-3 loss, finishing 1-for-4 with two strikeouts.
Bryant homers twice for Double-A Tennessee
Third baseman Kris Bryant, the Cubs' No. 2 prospect, hit two home runs and drove in a career-high six runs Wednesday, leading Double-A Tennessee to a 12-1 victory against Birmingham. It was his first career multi-homer game.
Bryant, ranked as the No. 8 overall prospect by MLB.com, finished 3-for-4 with four runs, a double and a walk.
The Cubs selected Bryant with the second pick of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, and he has quickly found success as a professional. He hit .336 with nine home runs in 36 games at three levels after signing last summer. He finished the year in the Arizona Fall League, where he was named MVP.
Even a move up to Double-A hasn't slowed Bryant. In 32 games, he is hitting .313 with a 1.028 OPS and leads the Southern League with eight home runs.
One of the beneficiaries of Bryant's offensive outburst Wednesday was right-hander Arodys Vizcaino, the Cubs' No. 8 prospect. He struck out two batters in a perfect ninth inning.
Vizcaino was promoted to Tennessee on Wednesday. He missed the last two seasons after undergoing Tommy John surgery in early 2012, and the Cubs have been easing him back into a routine this season. He started the season with Class A Advanced Daytona, where he struck out 10 batters in nine innings.
Extra bases
• Triple-A Iowa's Tsuyoshi Wada and Class A Kane County's Will Remillard were named the Minor League Pitcher and Player of the Month for April, respectively, by the Cubs on Wednesday.
Wada, 33, went 3-1 with a Pacific Coast League-leading 0.68 ERA in four April starts for Iowa, walking three and striking out 29, good for an average of 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings pitched. His 0.65 WHIP led the league, while his .156 opponents' batting average ranked second.
In his first year since signing with the Cubs organization in January, Wada is 4-1 with a 1.21 ERA in six starts for Iowa. He has struck out 38 and walked six.
Remillard, 21, batted .373 (19-for-51) with six doubles, one home run and 15 RBIs in April, his first month in professional baseball since he was selected by the Cubs in the 19th round of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft. The right-handed batter finished with a 1.007 OPS, including a .458 on-base percentage and a .549 slugging mark.
A native of Cohoes, N.Y., Remillard is hitting .385 (25-for-65) with eight doubles, one home run and 21 RBIs in 19 games for Kane County this season. He is 9-for-18 off left-handed pitching and has a .340 average (16-for-47) against right-handers.
• Jorge Soler, who injured his right hamstring after his first at-bat April 3 for Double-A Tennessee, was activated from the disabled list on Wednesday. Soler is ranked No. 5 among the club's prospects according to MLB.com.
In addition, right-handed reliever Arodys Vizcaino has been transferred to Tennessee from Class A Daytona. He gave up one earned run over nine innings for Daytona. Vizcaino, acquired from the Braves in July 2012, has been rehabbing from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.
• The Smokies announced outfielder Zeke DeVoss has been transferred to Class A Boise. In 23 games for the Smokies, DeVoss was batting .120 (9-for-75) with a home run and six RBIs.
• The Cubs have released right-hander Ryan Searle. In nine appearances for Tennessee this year, the 24-year-old accumulated a 3-1 record and 6.63 ERA, giving up 14 earned runs over 19 innings.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. Teddy Cahill is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tedcahill. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Photographer's Note
This was the place, a very peaceful spot and one of the many ghats in Udaipur lake city - also known as a Jewel of Mewar - where I ended up after roaming the sight searching the scenes potential for the early morning. It was beautiful clear sky and everything clicked as the sun was pushing its glorious colours and golden light over the enchanting waterways. I saw a window of opportunity for making few quick shots when the tranquility of the water and its reflections was broken.
Capturing this, after an elderly gentleman had emersed from an early morning dip - his daily routine perhaps and possibly his fav spot who seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself. I tried my very best to make myself as invisible as I could as not the intrude his privacy, however my presence was eventually sensed when shutter was released. Be respectful and sensitive to local culture & way of life, I strongly believe goes a long way and to my great relief he seemed so relax..
Candid daily life photography can be fun actually and always people are most natural when they are not being observed and it's all about spontaneous grabbing the moment' precisely as the 'moment' tends to only occur once. There is nothing like stealing a moment which is just fragments of their lives and that very moment of the subject first catching us is quite telling but extremely real and the results are very true to life and faithful to reality.
and that's the joy of documenting daily life....
danos, papagolf21, nedasepanloo, mirosu, holmertz, ourania, shevchenko, jhm, adramad, RhodieIke, CLODO, Angshu, COSTANTINO, Kielia, ikeharel has marked this note useful
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Apurba20 (984) 2014-02-17 1:49
Hi abmdsudi
This is a riot of colors.
Too beautiful for words.
danos (106203) 2014-02-17 2:13
Hi Abmdsudi,
nice the snapshot with your candid camera to capture this beautiful event.I like the great play of the light and the colour management as the beauty of the place that looks like so charmy and unique.
papagolf21 (120824) 2014-02-17 2:35
Bonjour, cher Abmdsudi,
Beauté de l'instant très joliment mis en valeur et fort bien photographié.
J'aime beaucoup l'ambiance générale dégagée.
lousat (104523) 2014-02-17 2:47
This is truly great!! Needs great class to think and do a pic like this,you play in a fantastic way with colors and reflections,lights and shadows,to create a magnificent catch-eye,i like it! Have a nice day and thanks,Luciano
nedasepanloo (234) 2014-02-17 2:57
quite smart shut.beautiful bright colors.remains a lot of thing for imagination .
Fis2 (117153) 2014-02-17 3:20
Witaj Abmdsudi!
Interesting POV and super colors.
I like light and shadow.
Person add savor of photo.
Have a nice evening
Subhogen (4067) 2014-02-17 4:44
Hello Abmdsudi,
Nice DL shot from the shores of Udaipur lake. Like the way the tree shadow is cutting through the bright green algae. The ripples in the silky water is also very attractive. The lone bather adds life to your composition. Good shot with great clarity and natural colours. Thanks for sharing.
mirosu (16313) 2014-02-17 4:57
Hello Abmdsudi,
Excellent light, shadow and color play. Superb reflections. I'd say beautiful photo artwork. Nice to see the person near the water, adding some life to the scene.
Very well done
Wish you a very nice week.
Sergiom (98718) 2014-02-17 5:05
Bonjour Abmdsudi
Une très belle composition matinale. La plus belle heure pour la photo. Le baigneur est bien placé et laisse tout l'espace à l'ombre de l'arbre sur le vert qui est l'élément le plus intéressant.
SNOOP_Chan (4377) 2014-02-17 7:05
Hello my friend, very nice image here. I guess it's one of those moments where you think immediately to get the camera out a get a shot. Amazing colors on the composition and good sharpness. Well done.
Oceania (5202) 2014-02-17 7:11
Hi abmdsudi,
So you switched topic to India. The composition is very artful, excellently and beautiful done. The picture is perfectly mix with lights and shadows. It's so wonderful.
rychem (50979) 2014-02-17 8:32
Great patchwork of colors, shapes, shadows and light. Really a peaceful atmosphere, I like such picturesque placesRegards
holmertz (66108) 2014-02-17 10:17
Hello Abmdsudi,
This is an unusual photo that I at first thought was mainly an almost abtract composition of colours and shapes. Then little by little I noticed the man, the rounded steps, the reflections of buildings and the shadow of a tree in the waterplants. So in the end it became a fully understandable, but still quite original, composition.
Kind regards,
jurek1951 (42198) 2014-02-17 11:20
a beautiful nostalgic atmosphere with nice composition, attractive lights and details, the POV is very nice, too.
No_One (4) 2014-02-17 12:16
hi Abmdsudi,
What an unusual image. I look at the shadow of the tree trunk to the left, and with the green algae in the water, it looks like a 2D vision of a tree growing in the water! I have to say, that is what caught my eye first, its a fascinating effect. I love the green too, so lush and vibrant (and I'm Irish, attracted to anything green.). A very interesting contrast of colors and light and shade here, I like this a lot!
Silvio1953 (164611) 2014-02-17 12:33
Ciao Abmdsudi, lovely composition with fascinating reflections, wonderful colors and splendid light, very well done my friend, ciao Silvio
ourania (51103) 2014-02-17 13:00
Hello Abmdsudi,
both you and the gentleman enjoyed this place and its atmosphere so much but it's very interesting and amusing to think how similar and how different your perceptions of it were. You saw a great scene with a discreet but interesting hero and a marvellous, poetic ambiance. The shadows are fascinating and you've captured an extraordinary palette of colours. The note you wrote describing the tranquil scene and your creative work, is exciting. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a great day,
shevchenko (20560) 2014-02-18 0:26
Hi Abmdsusi,
Good frame to show a beautiful corner that comprises sunlight, shading, greenery floating plants, wave of water and reflection, creative shot, lovely nature view, distinct photo, well done.
jhm (169706) 2014-02-18 3:42
Hello Abmdsudi,
You play wonderful with light and shadows, also very pleasant is the ridges in water, these make a nice around game.
Lovely green area with a very quiet feeling.
Very well composition, light and colours are excellent taken.
Nice done, TFS.
Have a nice day,
claudeD (43448) 2014-02-18 6:27
very fine idea to show us this morning impressions from Udaipur. Very fine fresh colors and excellent contrasts. Very good light managment.I like the view very much.TFS.
With regards from Luxembourg
adramad (53430) 2014-02-18 12:57
Hello Abmdsudi.
A superb exhibition chromatic, with this abundance of colors in the river, shadows and lights, also play an important asset in the success of this picture, the lone bather early riser, is ideal, exposed in the sunshine.
Very good brightness and sharpness.
Well seen and done better. I love it.
Have a good day.
Best wishes.
RhodieIke (11744) 2014-02-18 23:32
Hi abmdsudi,
What a super image you have captured so well, at first glance it appears the tree is growing in the water with it reflection trunk on to the floating weed.
Wonderful colours, well managed.
The guy adds life to the scene in a calm way.
Cheers, Iain.
Hi Abmdsudi
I was first attracted by the vivid splash of colors, green vs orange and bdeep blue in the middle, but when opening the picture, we discover the heavy shades and a small human presence well lighted by the sun. good management of the light to present us the indian daily life.
adidas5nb (5743) 2014-02-19 4:28
this is such an artistic pic,with a rare circular pov with the stairs and the ripples.great green patch with the shadow of the tree.
Cricri (135354) 2014-02-20 6:13
Hi Abmdsudi
Une image fait de contraste de la lumière aux couleurs et de sublime reflets, très jolie réalisation
Belle journée
eldancer1 (36343) 2014-02-22 7:21
Photography is about lighting and being at the right place at the right time, you achieve both with this beautiful capture of this scene. I like the half lighted person. Good lighting balance and nice details with wonderful colors. Well done, tfs.
Angshu (56760) 2014-02-28 0:55
Salam Abmdsudi
I think the brighness of the green algae and the shadow of the tree on the algae is so overbearing that we can hardly see the man bathing. The blue of the water contrasts well with the green. Indeed even if the man was not there, this would have made a fine image (but your title had to change :-))
Best Regards
monimalistic shot truly great
your inspiration created a first class shot
perfectly executed
and according to your useful notes this
is a very peaceful spot and one of the
many ghats in Udaipur lake city
Kielia (24077) 2014-03-15 9:51
Hi Abmdsudi,
this is an amazing view indeed. The scenery is impressive and the composition wisely chosen. I really like the nicely contrasting colors and the fascinating light. And I enjoyed reading the interesting notes!
Warm regards
ikeharel (86428) 2014-09-29 7:22
A fabulous light and shadows over the pond, Abmdsudi, gave a magnificent enhancement to the green, and the rest is a nice reflection.
Small ripples over water surface, added wonderful texture.
Nicely spotted and well applied.
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- Copyright: abmdsudi abmdsudi (abmdsudi) (65297)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2008-01-12
- Categories: Daily Life
- Camera: Nikon D70s, TOKINA AT-X PRO 16-50 F2.8 DX, ISO 200 RAW, 77mm Cokin Circular Polarizer
- Exposure: f/10.0, 1/100 seconds
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The way I see it, the ideal helmet would be light, quite, safe and inexpensive. Visibility is important and I don't want it to fog. It would be great if it were easy to take on and off. I prefer a full face.
Ordering "On line" seems risky as the size varies from one vendor to the next but the variety makes this an option. Can I get what I want for less than $200 or will I need to spend more?


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Hernandez struggles in Minor League start
By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com
Pitching for Triple-A Columbus on Tuesday, Hernandez allowed five runs on nine hits over five innings. He ended with two strikeouts and two walks in an 83-pitch effort, during which he stayed around 89-93 mph with his fastball.
"The performance has nothing to do with it," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "We're not judging him on going over there and having to throw a no-hitter or a two-hitter every time he goes out. All we want to see is the type of shape he is in, how the ball is coming out of his hand, the stuff. That's all. He's just going down there to finish the rehab and be able to come over here."
Acta indicated that Hernandez will likely make his next Minor League start for Class A (low) Lake County on Sunday. Hernandez (formerly known as Fausto Carmona) is serving a three-week suspension and will be eligible to be activated from Major League Baseball's restricted list on Aug. 11.
Choo remains in Cleveland, looks to the future
KANSAS CITY -- Shin-Soo Choo tried not to focus too much on the rumors that swirled in recent days, but it was hard for the Indians right fielder not to consider the possibility that he might be dealt before Tuesday's non-waiver Trade Deadline.
Choo did not go anywhere.
"I wasn't really worried about it, but I was still thinking about it," Choo said on Tuesday afternoon. "Am I going? Will I stay here? But it didn't bother me. I don't have any control. My job is just to play every day and play hard and try to help the team win games."
Throughout Saturday and Sunday, multiple reports named the Pirates, Rangers, Dodgers and Reds as potential suitors for Choo, who is expected to test free agency after next season. Choo remains a key part of Cleveland's lineup, though, and has been one of the team's top performers this season.
Entering Tuesday's game against the Royals, the 30-year-old Choo was hitting .291 with 12 home runs, 32 doubles and 39 RBIs in 96 games. The right fielder has served mainly as a leadoff man for Cleveland, which headed into Tuesday's action five games off the White Sox's pace in the American League Central.
Choo said he still thinks the Indians -- swept over the weekend in Minnesota following an emotional series win at home against Detroit -- can make a push for the postseason.
"I still have very good confidence in this team," Choo said. "We had a winning series against Detroit and everybody had a lot of energy. It was exciting. We were closer to having a chance at the playoffs and then we lost three games against Minnesota. But that's part of the game, part of a season."
That said, Choo added that he would like to see the front office make a trade for some help.
"I hope so. Why not?" Choo said. "We knew in Spring Training our lineup was all left-handed hitters. We needed a right-handed power hitter and they were looking for it. And then starting pitchers. Next season, or maybe later [this season], you never know.
"I hope we bring somebody here to make it a better team. Why not?"
Herrmann remembers former college coach
KANSAS CITY -- Frank Herrmann will always remember Joe Walsh as a friend and a person who played a key role in his path to the big leagues. That is why the pitcher was incredibly saddened when he learned Tuesday that the Harvard baseball coach had passed away.
"He was awesome," said Herrmann, who pitched for the Indians the past two seasons and is now with Triple-A Columbus. "He always told me, every time I talked to him, how proud he was of me, that he could say he coached a guy in the Major Leagues. He was great. I was upset this morning and shocked."
Walsh, 58, died suddenly in his home on Tuesday morning. He spent 17 years as Harvard's baseball coach, leading the team to five Ivy League titles in his tenure. Herrmann, who became the 16th player from Harvard to reach the big leagues when he broke in with Cleveland in 2010, said Walsh was the reason he chose to attend the university.
"He took a chance on me," Herrmann said. "I'm a guy who didn't get any Division I scholarship offers. He committed to me early. It's the only school I applied to and a lot of that was him. Obviously, it was Harvard, but meeting him and getting to know him -- my dad and I went up for a visit -- I instantly loved Coach Walsh."
Herrmann said Walsh convinced the pitcher to hold tight to his dream of reaching the Majors.
"I remember my freshman year, I thought about hanging it up," Herrmann recalled. "I was thinking about hanging it up, and just going down the economics course and working on Wall Street. He told me he saw something in me and to keep plugging away. And then I remember my sophomore year, I was throwing a bullpen and he told me I just went from suspect to prospect."
"He was such a good guy and he meant a lot to me," he later added. "He was a one-of-a-kind guy. I think anyone that knows him would say that."
Smoke signals
With Tuesday's non-waiver Trade Deadline now in the rear-view mirror, Indians manager Manny Acta said he plans on discussing the rotation situation with general manager Chris Antonetti. Changes could be coming, but Acta was not ready to speculate on what decisions the team might make this week.
"I'm sure that tonight after the game or something," Acta said on Tuesday, "we'll touch on whatever we're going to do going forward. Those [front-office] guys were extremely busy and the only time I could catch up with them was when the were giving me some information with what was going on."
There has been a scoring change within Cleveland's 5-3 victory over the Tigers on Thursday. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis hit a soft line drive that glanced off the glove of shortstop Ramon Santiago. Kipnis was originally given a hit, but Major League Baseball has overturned the decision and has ruled it as an error on Santiago.
On Tuesday, the Indians named Triple-A Columbus outfielder Ezequiel Carrera the organization's Minor League Player of the Week for the period of July 22-28. During that span, Careera hit .515 (17-for-33) with two doubles, two triples, two home runs and 13 RBIs for the Clippers.
Quote to note
"You've got to make up five games that you're trailing in the standings. If you can't make up five games in 60 games, then you don't deserve to be in the playoffs."
--Indians manager Manny Acta
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Christine O'Donnell Is Hillary Clinton's Biggest Fan
Failed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell went on Good Morning America today to discuss politics with D.L. Hughley. Sure, why not? And apparently she loves Hillary Clinton enough to join the Democratic party and support her in a 2012 primary.
O'Donnell, who still exists, tweeted this beaut yesterday: "Some may cringe when I say this but Hillary-You Go Girl! She's no Reagan yet her verbal lashing against wikileak is tough- watch out Obama!" She's no Reagan — he's dead, after all — but who is? Go Hills!
She expanded today, with D.L. Hughley by her side:
"I hope she runs for president," O'Donnell said of the repeatedly denied whispers of what would surely be an epic Democratic struggle in the lead up to 2012. "I would love to see her take out Obama in the primary, I would even be tempted to change my registration so that I could vote for her in the Democratic primary."
Hillary Clinton will not be running in 2012 as she can not quite make clear enough. But if she did, she'd have Christine O'Donnell's endorsement, which would be powerful enough to coast her to victories in at least the next four presidential elections.
You can watch this strange news segment below. Oh, also? Christine O'Donnell says she supports Anne Hathaway as an Oscar co-host. Clinton/Hathaway '12? Works for us.


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Deep within one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, inside a warehouse complex formerly used to assemble furniture, grows an enormous archive of books. The volumes range from best-selling novels to rare poetry manuscripts. They are not intended to be read—at least not anytime soon. Each day, more books—to date totaling roughly 1.5 million and counting—are scanned, digitized and sealed inside flame-resistant shipping containers. The vast literary archive is growing at such a rate that it is on pace to become one of the largest collections in the world.
The archive's location was chosen for its microclimate. In the city of Richmond, ocean winds blast across the bay and converge in a vortex that maintains a nearly constant temperature. The windswept streets could belong to a whirling moonscape or a postapocalyptic wasteland. Crows drop copper bullets on the archive roof and fight viciously over squatting rights to the skylights. Around the corner, past a bakery, hookers duck in and out of unmarked buildings. Drug dealers keep watch under lowered baseball caps.
The morning I visit the archive, books arrive from the Boston Public Library. The shipment comes by semitruck—12 pallets' worth, totaling more than 10,000 volumes. No due dates are stamped inside. Like hundreds of cities around the country, Boston has paid to have its library's back holdings brought to Richmond because the books have been guaranteed to be stored safely and securely, under the crows, forever.
The driver pulls up to a loading dock. Situated across the street from a rail yard, the archive stretches across two interconnected warehouses that total more than 45,000 square feet. The driver steps out of the cab, wipes the sweat from his forehead and dodges a forklift that begins to scoop away his pallets of books. In less than an hour the truck is emptied, the driver sent on his way, the books shuttled into the shadows. Inside the warehouse a team of human scribes operates high-resolution scanners under booths of thick black curtains.
This gargantuan time capsule of books fulfills the dream of one of the world's most determined cultural archivists, Brewster Kahle. An MIT graduate and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Kahle has spent more than $3 million out of his nonprofit to buy and operate this facility. He devised the archive as a sort of data backup, apparently, to his online archive, which preserves web pages (150 billion and counting), concerts (including nearly 10,000 Grateful Dead recordings) and films (more than 500,000 of them)—all of which are available free to the public. You might say Kahle has a weakness for collecting things. You might also worry about ulterior motives. Regardless, his warehouse has quickly become the nation's largest repository of unsold, unwanted, secondhand, duplicate and deaccessioned library books—which suits him just fine. "We'll take everything," he claims. "Our goal is one copy of every book. Every book in every language. Every book in the world."
Each day brings more grim news for lovers of the printed word. Breakout sensations such as Fifty Shades of Grey occasionally revive the flagging publishing industry, but major publishers, after decades of consolidation, are declaring bankruptcy and shutting down. Brick-and-mortar bookstores are disappearing fast. Of the big booksellers, Amazon—an idea more than a place, a multitiered distribution center, like the internet itself—holds the lion's share of the market. Public libraries, faced with ever-tightening budgets, have reduced buying, shortened hours and converted their reading rooms into glorified computer terminals. Librarians used to help customers find physical books—now they spend most of their time thinning holdings and helping patrons get online.
If publishers are folding, bookstores closing and libraries decreasing their holdings, what is happening to all the books? Many are being sent to Kahle. After watching Boston's books disappear into his warehouse, I find the operational manager of the archive, Sean Fagan, in his office.
Fagan is a young, stubble-faced former scribe from Kahle's southern California operation. Not surprisingly, his office is full of books. He has built an ottoman out of volumes the archive already has in storage—a 1928 copy of Don Quixote, The Modern Music Series Primer and Practical German Grammar, to name just a few—glued into a cube, attached to a plywood base and outfitted with wheels. Against the wall of his office, from floor to ceiling, he has almost 400 copies of The Da Vinci Code.
"We get a couple of those a month," he says with a sneer. "I'm thinking of making a bench out of them."
"Which libraries send you books?"
"Carnegie, Penn State, universities all over the place. We get 10,000 to 15,000 books a week. All the state libraries give us stuff. California just gave us another shipment. Want to see what they sent?"
I follow Fagan down a long dusty corridor, back toward the loading dock. (Normally he gets around the place by foot scooter.) We keep walking, and every time I turn around I come up against more books. There are books spilling out of cylindrical containers, plastic crates and bankers' boxes, books stacked against water pipes, books jumbled in sorting bins and lying on the cement floor, their pages fluttering in the stable microclimate.
"As you can see, it's kind of an airport hub here," Fagan shouts as we arrive at the main warehouse. "We have the capacity for 3.5 million, but Brewster thinks we're going to need more room. Only four of us are here full-time." I ask him how he likes his job, but I don't think he hears. He's on his way to the shipment from the State of California. On the way we pass the archive forklift, temporarily at rest, followed by huge columns of shrink-wrapped books destined for "deep storage"—in other words, forever.
Kahle's archive has given libraries the opportunity to cut costs, perhaps at the expense of the reader. Research libraries must accept the "hard reality of off-site storage," Harvard library director Robert Darnton recently wrote. The main branch of the New York Public Library moved more than half its holdings—3 million volumes—to a storage facility in order to trim its budget and make room for a circulating library. These books may one day become available online. But does the average patron of a public library own a digital reading device? What will be the quality of their reading experiences? And how can people browse books that aren't physically there? Fagan and I arrive at a long row of boxes against the wall. California's books are waiting to be checked against the archive database for duplicates, given a bar code and digitized. I pull out a sample volume bound in cheap plastic. It looks as though it has never been opened: Measurement of Zooplankton Biomass by Carbon Analysis for Application in Sound Scattering Models. Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 1974.
I enjoy a good read, but I don't feel like tucking into this particular item. A few boxes down I notice antiquated large-format books bound in leather.
"It's too bad the state didn't have room for these," Fagan says, carefully opening one of the volumes. He gestures for me to come nearer. "Look, it's the London Times."
There they are, real newspapers, beautifully bound and tariff-stamped with the names of the reading rooms they were originally meant for. ("Smoking Room" is my favorite.) They date back to 1833. For years these newspapers would have told the readers of California the news from London just as it appeared to the Londoners themselves. The pages are thick and crisp, lovely to behold. They have ads for London-specific businesses. I want to take one of the volumes to a leather chair, pour myself a single malt and browse. The events of March 4, 1833 are chronicled in black ink, still dark and legible, printed in the original Times Roman typeface:
"Charge of Child Murder: Jane, the wife of Joseph Hague, age 20, indicted for casting her child into a certain privy.…"
"Hunting Appointments: His Majesty's staghounds, Monday, at Ascot Heath.…"
"A review of the Rossini opera Matilde di Shabran at the King's Theatre: As a production, this opera far outdoes in extravagance and absurdity anything we have seen. Fine music ought not to be bestowed on such subjects; it is unfitting to the living and the dead.…"
"I think we're building a special scanner for these books," Fagan says somewhat doubtfully. His name is called over the loudspeaker. "Hang on a sec. Another shipment's just come in."
"More books?"
"More books," he says. He starts off toward the loading dock.
"Why is Brewster doing it?"
Fagan looks at me in surprise. "He wants to create the next Library of Alexandria."
"But this isn't exactly a reading room. Can't he donate these books after scanning them? He wouldn't have to pay for storage."
"You'll have to ask him that yourself," he says and takes off at a sprint. The forklift operator is running too. They look like a couple of excited kids.
I linger at the edge of the book islands that dot the warehouse floor. A metal ladder rises to a storage platform where more books stand on pallets, ready to be turned into time capsules. Literary treasure sits inside those boxes—Shakespeare plays and forgotten classics, official maps and obscure drawings, Bibles and pulp, science and fiction, dog-eared poems and wine-stained prose. "Every word was once a poem," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. Maybe this is where all words are destined to retire, the city of Richmond. Whole libraries are being buried like Egyptian mummies.
As I wait for Fagan I hear a strange warble, like an Arabic ululation. It's the circular exhaust fans, whirring in odd intervals, creating an otherworldly atonal fugue. I wonder if any crows are up there, dropping bullets. Fagan told me he doesn't know why the birds do this or where they find the casings. He told me a scanning engineer became so entranced by the archive that he stayed here day and night, by himself, for months. Along the metal rafters, computerized climate monitors measure my body's impact on the humidity. Suddenly I am uneasy being in the warehouse alone. I worry the forklift operator might mistake me for a book.
I wander around, looking for Fagan. I walk past an open box of women's shoes. Another box holds rotary telephones. (As people learn about Kahle's penchant for collecting, his repository has become something of a dumping ground for dead people's attics.) The shipping containers tower in the center of the facility—30 of them, with a further 28 on order—certified by the Port of Oakland, primed, painted gray, treated with sealants to protect against everything from fire to dry rot. I notice one has its door open. I cross the loading dock and step inside.
It's cold inside a shipping container. All sensations—colors, smells, sounds—are collapsed into a dark void. A shipping container feels as though it might preserve something, anything at all, until the end of time. I make out endless rows of cardboard boxes. Near the front is a box overflowing with reels. The shipping label reads Penn State Film Archive. Titles include Across the Silence Barrier and The Year of the Wildebeest.
Someone taps me on the shoulder, and I wheel. It's only Fagan. He looks tired from his journey across the warehouse floor, and as he glances down at the films at our feet, he's still panting. "We're supposed to watch these, one of these days," he says. "Put up a projector. See what it is we've got."
I take a cab over the Bay Bridge. I want to meet Brewster Kahle, the man behind the books. It's a sunny afternoon, and I'm grateful to be moving through open air. As my driver hurtles into San Francisco, down into this glittering city of pioneers and radicals and offbeat billionaires, I think of all those books back in their shipping containers. What in the world is Kahle doing?
Public libraries first appeared in Victorian England. A component of British social policies aimed at "mutual benefit," libraries grew out of the belief that people without education needed the means to learn. For a small fee, circulating libraries lent out music scores, songbooks, folios of caricatures, even instruments. Not everyone thought positively of expanding public literacy. Thomas Goulding's polemical pamphlet "An Essay Against Too Much Reading" argued, "'Tis not drinking and whoring, as your old sots attribute it to, that invigorates the spirits, and causes quick flights; they run to the libraries, which confounds all again." Libraries have always encountered various forms of hostility—mostly due to the tax burden on the public—but for many people they remain places of refuge to sit down, without charge, and read.
It has been reported that Kahle is building his ark to guard against a "digital disaster" like an electromagnetic pulse. A burst of radiation from a solar flare or a nuclear attack has the capacity to burn microchips and circuitry; experts contend data loss can be minimized with countermeasures. Others suggest Kahle is inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in arctic Norway, which houses the seeds of almost every plant on earth. But the Svalbard vault is designed to avert a global food crisis. Does anyone worry about the scarcity of physical books? Even Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz writes, "Most people don't spend two or three hours thinking or reading. Books seem to be artifacts from a slower time."
My driver tears across the city. He barrels down Geary, runs a red light and narrowly avoids an elderly man coming out of a restaurant. Finally he pulls up outside what looks like a temple—a hulking, chalk-white edifice with ornate neoclassical columns overlooking the cypress trees of Golden Gate Park.
"Here we be," the cabbie says, pushing back his cap. I remain in the backseat, deciphering his words of existential wisdom.
The headquarters of Kahle's Internet Archive occupy a former Christian Science church. In the annex next door, where the church's reading room used to be, a team of full-time scribes digitizes cultural ephemera. The day I visit there are 12 scribes, mostly young and surprisingly healthy looking, despite what must be the physically taxing job of scanning book after book, page by page, together with organizing the thousands of films, texts and audio recordings downloaded each day onto Kahle's rapidly growing archive. (Kahle's scribes operate in 21 locations in six countries, at a rate of 1,000 books a day. He even has a team inside the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.)
In the former reading room a female scribe is digitizing a squeaky film reel of someone's home movie of the Grand Canyon, summer of 1952. On the screen, a family waves at the camera from a picnic table. One man is shirtless. The frames of the film judder across his sunburned chest as he smokes his cigarette. Did this anonymous American have any idea, back then, that his family trip to Arizona would one day be placed onto a database for the world to peruse? Her face expressionless, the scribe keeps one hand on her mouse and another on the reel. On the wall above her chair a whiteboard notes equipment issues: "broken lightbulb," "dongle not recognized," "scribe lower pedal malfunction."
I leave the reading room and climb the marble steps to the giant columns of the church. I'm apprehensive—this is the control room of a repository much greater in kind than the Richmond facility, a place whose parameters I can't define, let alone escape.
An attractive assistant appears in the lobby. She shows me into an open office area where fresh-faced young professionals perch in ergonomic chairs within a white, sun-drenched room. I recline in a leather armchair. A Labrador pads over and falls asleep near my feet.
Soon an excitable man with a smile comes bounding over in blue jeans and a Hawaiian shirt. He sticks out his hand and laughs in a scratchy, high-pitched voice. "How many words they give you?" he asks, raising his bushy eyebrows above his eyeglasses. "What kind of angle you going to take?"
"I'm just trying to figure this place out," I confess.
He sits beside me and pets the dog. "We're building an integration of machines, knowledge and people. It's the opportunity of our generation."
Kahle resembles a singer from a Beach Boys cover band. The 52-year-old silver-haired archivist sprinkles words such as rad and cool into scientific jargon. His impish eyes often make him look caught, like a boy with his hand in the cookie jar, a boy who tries to convince you the jar is his. Kahle studied under legendary mathematics genius Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. (After graduating, Kahle got rich from his inventions. In one transaction alone he made a quarter of a billion dollars selling a search engine to Amazon.) I don't understand his motives. I ask why he dedicates so much time to archiving web pages.
"We want to create a valid historical record," he replies, waving his hands around the church. "We have a special role outside of commerce: preservation and access."
"Preservation of the web? What for?"
"George Orwell said something like 'Don't lose the past as you catapult yourself into the future.' You never know what people might need to look back at. We've already had an effect on transparency. We've changed White House press releases."
The motto of the Internet Archive is not short on ambition: "Universal access to all knowledge." The yearly operating budget of $10 million comes mainly from libraries and foundations paying to have materials archived. Kahle says his ultimate goal is to build a library of the future. The entity will function as a kind of "world brain" that "removes barriers between humans and intellects." Kahle doesn't think anyone, or any group, should monopolize information or own too much culture. He speaks glowingly of Napster, the music-sharing website credited with changing the industry before it was shut down for copyright violations.
"What about privacy? What if someone doesn't want their website uploaded to your database?"
"If it's in the public domain, we want it. But the world is shifting. In 25 years, it's going to be pretty uncomfortable for people like me. We respect people's requests. We remove things from the archive if people want us to, using robots."
A young man with spiky blond hair comes over and quietly asks Kahle to loan him $5 for lunch. I recognize him as one of the scribes from the reading room. "This is my son Caslon," Kahle says, taking out his wallet. "We named him after Benjamin Franklin's favorite typeface."
Caslon nods hello. He waits while his dad fishes out a five. Kahle recommends what to order at the Chinese restaurant and tells his son what time he wants him back at work.
"You named your kid after a font?" I ask after Caslon has left.
"I love books."
"Is that why you're storing them? Are you really worried about an electromagnetic pulse?"
"No. Only a little. I'm worried about data being wiped out by the stroke of a pen. If you look at the history of libraries, they're burned. And they're burned by governments."
"But surely people could be reading those books. They were once on shelves in a library, and now they're destined for deep storage."
"Libraries are throwing away books at a high velocity. We need a backup in case someone comes along and says, 'You didn't digitize that page accurately.' We e-loan our new books to the blind and the learning disabled. Also, we lend books to the Chinese."
"The Chinese government?"
"Yeah, their department of education pays us for large-scale loans, 100,000 or so at a time. They scan the books into their own digital library and send them back in good condition."
I try to fathom the logic of shipping bound copies of printed paper to China, 6,000 miles away, so that further digital copies can be made of books already scanned onto a public database. (Kahle also has a team of his own scribes in China, scanning their books onto his database. The reciprocal scanning arrangement provides additional revenue.)
"Come on," Kahle says, rising from his chair, "I'll show you the Great Room."
He hurries through the lobby, throws open a set of double doors and guides me into an enormous auditorium with a domed ceiling and stained-glass windows. Wooden pews stretch from the altar to the back wall.
"Look," he says, grinning. He points to two rectangular black boxes standing upright in the corner, flashing with blue lights. "That's two and a half petabytes right there—the primary copy of the archive."
"What are the blue lights?"
"Each time someone uploads or downloads something. We average 2 million a day."
I try to picture what 2 million "visitors" to this place, none of whom leave their physical homes, look like. Down near the altar are people, or what I think are people, sitting in the pews. I want to get away for a moment, to escape Kahle's manic enthusiasm for his peta boxes and collect my thoughts. I wander down the aisle, only to discover the people in the pews aren't moving. They sit rigidly, their faces turned toward the altar, mouths frozen into oddly painted smiles.
Kahle is right behind me. "What do you think of my statues? Aren't they rad?"
I look at their faces more closely. I recognize Sean from the Richmond warehouse—his stubbly face, his childlike eyes.
Kahle throws his head back in a laugh. "You work for me three years, you get a statue of yourself. Check it out—they're made of terra-cotta, just like the Chinese soldiers in Xi'an."
I had officially entered Kahle's virtual world. I must have looked a little pale. He places his hand on my shoulder and says it's time we had lunch. He reassures me that we'll have real food from a real restaurant and that it will taste better than I can imagine.
Maybe Brewster Kahle is just concerned about our cultural heritage. He distrusts the behemoth of the book-scanning world, Google Books. (As of March 2012, Google had scanned more than 20 million books with the cooperation of the world's most prestigious libraries, including Harvard's Widener Library. Many remain skeptical about Google's data mining, its supposed adherence to privacy and copyright laws and what it intends to do with our electronic reading trails.)
"They're locking up the public domain," Kahle tells me. "All the early press was that this would be open to all, but it's obviously not the case. We don't want central points of control—we want to scan every book beautifully and make them available to everyone."
I e-mail Danny Hillis, an inventor of the parallel supercomputer, to ask what he thinks of Kahle's archiving. He claims Kahle is a "rare visionary" whose collections have "created a priceless human resource that would otherwise have been lost to history." Kahle came up with the concept of the Rosetta Disk, stainless steel encrypted with 1,500 language exemplars embedded in nanoscale. Many of the world's languages are dying without a trace, so Kahle wants to bury the disk "somewhere in the desert" with a target reader of someone alive 3,000 to 5,000 years from now.
Even if Kahle's motives are selfless, why is he keeping all the books he scans? Is there any basis for his concerns about government book burning? I need advice. I fly to Los Angeles to meet a radical librarian. I call my friend Tony. He's a highly paid information specialist for one of the biggest law firms in the city. He can find information on almost anyone, anywhere. (Recently a junior partner in the firm awarded Tony a $25,000 bonus for uncovering little-known facts about the layout of a certain celebrity's mansion to fight a lawsuit. The junior partner won the case.)
Tony is an information revolutionary, medical marijuana aficionado and occasional associate of the hacker group Anonymous. He wants us to meet in his tiny one-bedroom apartment between the movie studios of Culver City and the east side of Venice. The neighborhood gives him a perfect place to smoke, hack and read.
"The preservation of books is a realistic pursuit," Tony tells me. He gestures for me to come inside, and he locks the door. "It has to be done, the physical part. Good librarians are obsessed with preservation. Believe me, it's both madness and logical."
I've brought him a gift of Russian vodka. I pour out a couple of ice-filled tumblers. I join him on the sofa and watch him load high-grade medical marijuana into one of his 14 designer bongs—an "unbreakable" tempered-glass number, specially made in Germany to fit the exact contours of his palm.
"But why is he storing all these books himself?" I ask. "Why not just let the Library of Congress do it?"
"You think the guy's being paranoid?" Tony leans over and laughs in my face, bathing me in the remnants of his weed. "You need to read up, fool. Read the history of libraries and book burning."
He scribbles down the books I need to check out. I look across the carpet. Beside the TV stands an extensive collection of video games, most of them violent. On top of the game cartridges sits his stoned cat, staring at me with glassy eyes.
"There's this data bank in Arizona," Tony says, "and another one in Nevada. I used to use them all the time for work, and now they've gone dark. It's the government shutting them down, intercepting e-mails, phone calls, shutting down websites. People need to guard against this shit. If Kahle is collecting millions of books, he has his reasons."
I leave Tony's and take a drive. It's just before sunset, and before the night comes I want to visit my favorite reading room in the Pasadena Public Library, where I can browse in peace under the soft green lamplight. When I get off the freeway and hit what's left of the orange trees, the humidity slowly climbs.
Maybe it's the vodka and maybe it's the weed. Maybe the terra-cotta statues have frightened me into submission. I start to think Kahle could be a good guy. Recently he traveled to Bali to present to the islanders, free of charge, a digital record of their entire written culture—a record that until now had been moldering on the backs of palm fronds. The number of hours required for that kind of curatorial work must have been staggering.
The Pasadena Public Library reading room is wood-paneled and furnished with leather armchairs. On the shelves you can find printed newspapers from around the world. There is a satisfying crinkle of paper pages slowly being turned. I find the books Tony recommends and bring them to an empty chair.
It turns out Kahle is right. Here in my favorite reading room I am on dangerous ground. The history of libraries is also the history of libraries being burned. Kahle doesn't want to protect our books from a natural disaster—he wants to protect them from ourselves.
The city of Alexandria in Egypt, home of the papyrus industry, was the hub of the Mediterranean book trade for more than 500 years. Ancient sources claim that Aristotle's private library furnished the seed collection from which the legendary library grew. It's said that more than 700,000 scrolls were kept in one building alone. Then in 641 A.D. Caliph Omar allegedly instructed his generals, "If what is written…agrees with the Book of God, the scrolls are not required; if it disagrees, they are not desired. Destroy them therefore." Omar's men packed up the holdings and carried them to the city's hot baths, where the ancient civilization's books fueled the furnaces for six months.
The Library of Alexandria's fate is not unique. Emperor Shi Huangdi, after connecting the stone fortifications that make up the Great Wall of China, decided to destroy all written texts that dated before his dynasty. Chroniclers say he ordered the largest book burning in history. Before the invention of paper, books in ancient China were composed of handwritten characters on strips of bamboo, sewn together with silk thread like Venetian blinds. The emperor burned them all, then rounded up more than 460 "masters"—scholars, physicians, writers—and buried them alive. (Shi Huangdi died returning from a campaign against peasant uprisings; the terra-cotta warriors buried in modern-day Xi'an supposedly guard his remains.)
The Spanish conquerors of Mexico, as they introduced the Bible, destroyed all the painted Nahuatl books they could find—invaluable codices that included the only written information on the very people they wished to assimilate. The Aztecs were probably not surprised by this tactic. Their ruler Itzcóatl ordered the burning of the books of the peoples he conquered, the nomadic tribes of Mexica. Even the book-collecting Romans, worried about Druidic prophecies, burned thousands of Druid texts. Their burning didn't help them avoid their own biblioclasms: Cicero's fabled Palatine Library, copied and maintained by educated Greek slaves, mysteriously burned to ashes, as did the Octavian Library built by the Emperor Augustus. The Library of Congress was burned by the British during the War of 1812. (It burned again on Christmas Eve 1851, destroying nearly two thirds of its collection.) More recently, the Nazis bombed and burned libraries (such as Louvain), as did the Taliban (in Kabul), and—regardless of the official explanation—U.S. forces incinerated dozens of copies of the Koran. State-funded libraries such as Pasadena's are under constant threat. As Harvard scholar Matthew Battles writes, "Much of what comes down to us from antiquity…was held in small private libraries tucked away in obscure backwaters in the ancient world, where it was more likely to escape the notice of zealots as well as princes."
Brewster Kahle may be right to hedge our bets. With his odd obsession for time capsules, he may be the only sane pack rat with the resources necessary to safeguard the written word. Tomorrow's invaders will probably ignore his warehouse in Richmond as they go about burning our cultural treasures—and if the Library of Congress falls under the torch, Kahle's shipping containers, sealed in their windswept wasteland, may just survive. BOOKS OF TOMORROW
How a new breed of publisher cranks out books the public wants to read
Roaming the dark corners of the internet are thousands of odd books with such titles as Unique Vacations, Vol. 2: Sex Tourism and Where to Get Laid in the Philippines, Thailand, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and Everywhere Else and Celebrities Who Fuck Hookers—Allegedly: Charlie Sheen, Gene Simmons, Tommy Lee, George Michael and More. These tomes are composed entirely of Wikipedia articles repackaged as print-on-demand books that sell from $19.75 to $55. They are largely the work of Project Webster, a currently defunct offshoot of BiblioLabs, which specialized in books from "the vast body of public domain (governmental) and open source (creative commons licensed) articles in existence." Project Webster offers a dystopian vision of publishing's future. The online description of each work begins with a modest disclaimer that "the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia," followed by copy such as (from The Celebrity Rumor Mill: Celebrities Who Might Be Lesbians Like Tyra Banks, Kelly Clarkson, Oprah and More) "The world loves lesbians, especially when two beautiful women get together. It makes men go wild with fantasies and other women are just glad that there are two more women out of the neverending quest to find a man." Such titles claim to offer "the convenience and utility of a real book," and it's possible someone would buy one knowing it's nothing but Wikipedia articles. But Project Webster trades on ignorance, with convoluted titles from an SEO wet dream. Stranger still, these volumes are more expensive than traditional paperbacks, perhaps on the theory that people value books, like wine, according to price. Degenerate publishers have always preyed on unsuspecting readers; the web merely accelerates this. What distinguishes schemes such as Project Webster is that they aren't electronic; they trade on the value of the book as object. A mystique still surrounds a physical book: It seems more "true" than a website. Project Webster turned this on its head, bestowing that mystique on crap to make a quick buck. BiblioLabs has since suspended Project Webster, but in its wake imitators continue to spring up. Print-on-demand spam won't be going away anytime soon. In the future, the book as object may continue to develop more, not less, cachet—though not always in positive ways.—Colin Dickey


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27.0687 "Cents-off" representation.Cite as [A.S.A.C. § 27.0687]
(a) The term "cents-off representation" means any printed matter consisting of the words "cents off' or words of similar import, placed upon any consumer package or placed upon any label affixed or adjacent to such package, stating or representing by implication that it is being offered far sale at a price lower than the ordinary and customary retail sale price.
(b) Except as set forth in 27.0688, the packager or labeler of a consumer commodity shall not have imprinted thereon a "cents-off' representation unless:
(1) the commodity has been sold at an ordinary and customary price in the most recent and regular course of business where the "cents- off" promotion is made;
(2) the commodity so labeled is sold at a reduction from the ordinary and customary price, which reduction is at least equal to the amount of the "cents-off' representation imprinted on the commodity package or label;
(3) each "cents-off" representation imprinted on the package or label is limited to a phrase which reflects that the price marked by the retailer represents the savings in the amount of the "cents-off' the retailer's regular price, e.g., "Price Marked ........................ ¢ Off the Regular Price"; "price Marked is.......... Cents off the Regular Price of This Package"; provided, that the package or label may, in addition, bear in the usual pricing spot a form reflecting a space for the regular price, the represented "cents-off', and a space for the price to be paid by the consumer;
(4) the commodity at retail presents the regular price, designated as the "regular price", clearly and conspicuously on the package or label of the commodity or on a sign, placard, or shelf marker placed in a position contiguous to the retail display of the "cents-off" marked commodity;
(5) not more than 3 "cents-off' promotions of any single size commodity may be initiated in the same trade area within a l2-month period; at least 30 days must lapse between "cents-off" promotions of any particular size packaged or labeled commodity in a specific trade area; and any single-size commodity so labeled may not be sold in a trade area for a duration in excess of 6 months within any l2-month period;
(6) sales of any single-size commodity so labeled in a trade area do not exceed in volume 50% of the total volume of sales of such size commodity in the same trade area during any 12-month period. The l2-month period may be the calendar, fiscal, or market year, provided that the identical period is applied in this paragraph and (b)(5) of this section. Volume limits may be calculated on the basis of projections for the current year but shall not exceed 50% of the sales for the preceding year in the event actual sales are less than the projection for the current year.
(c) No "cents-off" promotion shall be made available in any circumstances where it is known or there is reason to know that it will be used as an instrumentality for deception or for frustration of value comparison; e.g., where the retailer charges a price which does not fully pass on to the consumers the represented price reduction or where the retailer fails to display the regular price in the display area of the "cents-off" marked product.
(d) The sponsor of a "cents-off' promotion shall prepare and maintain invoices or other records showing compliance with this section. The invoices or other records required by this section shall be open to inspection and shall be retained for a period of 1 year subsequent to the end of the year (calendar, fiscal, or market) in which the "cents-off" promotion occurs.History: Rule 6-76. eff 19 Oct 76, § 73.


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Nice to be here and can't wait to get to know you all.
I am from Calif originally and moved here to PA Nov 98.
I am married and we have a son age 18 born with special needs.
My screen name is Dreamcatcher due to my Native American ancestory on my Mom's side. I am currently looking for more information on thsi and what tribe.
I collect Dreamcatchers too and also angels, bears and crosses. I love yard sales, reading (So far Eclipse and new moon are my two fave books in the series.)
My fave charcter is Jacob and Billy (tie). Jacob I can see my son in him and I will post his photo at some time, and also Billy I admire for his strong family traditions. PLus Gil is a nice looking man and would love to talk with him about his Native culture.
My fave minor charcter is Alice as I would love to have had her as a friend in HIgh Sch. I may have even liked it then.
Well I hope that's enough for today so I will be posting here.


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OK, before I start, yeah, this is for a game, but the reason I posted the question in here is because it's a tool I want to use in a game and has nothing to do with the actual game.
So here's the problem: I have lots of 3D points which are actually a series of struct's containing three floats: x,y and z. I also have a file which contains the information on these points.
Suppose I already have all these points in a big array (BIG means in the order of tens of thousands).
each "frame", which is actually about 1/30th of a second (at worst), I have another 3D position with two vectors defining direction and roll , all these actually make the viewer's position.
what I want to do is to know what points are useful for me to process (there are a lot of operations in here), which are actually defined by the 3D position, direction and roll of the viewer, and a clipping distance (the maximud distance I want to show), but I don't want to make lots of calculations for each point in order to see if it's of my interest EACH FRAME!, it would be really slow!
I want to find a way to find all these points without sacrificing game time (I'm willing to sacrifice loading time (like hashing, or something like that), but not game time)
does anybody know a way to do this, or at least enhance the "stupid" method?


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We have a writer on the ground of music's most epic summer concert: Lollapalooza!
I knew [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Tinie Tempah[/lastfm] was going to be one of the biggest things to happen to hip hop the second he walked into AMP Radio's studios late last year.
It wasn't just his charm, accent and stellar good looks but the fact that he had that magic that truly successful artists have. Tinie Tempah had the IT factor.
And that IT factor was on fire at Lollapalooza's 20th Anniversary Celebration when he emerged on the Google+ stage as the sunset.
I've seen Tinie Tempah perform multiple times this year, including at Southern California's biggest music festival, "Coachella" and there was always a newness about him.
But at Lollapalooza, the 22-year-old seemed like a seasoned veteran, taking the stage and dictating not only the stage, but the crowd.
Tempah performed songs off his debut album Disc-overy while raining merchandise & t-shirts while the crowd went wild for a tiny bit of the Brit. Clearly, this time next year, Tempah will have a chance to romance his fans on one of the main stages.
Spin wasn't kidding when they said Tempah was a "must see" at this years Lollapalooza, but I already knew that. Let's hope you do too and don't pass up a chance to see him perform his hit "Written In The Stars" while he's still touring stateside.


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Bill would make Vermont 1st state to drop oil stocks
To state Treasurer Beth Pearce, the best course is for Vermont to stay invested in those companies, to "keep its seat at the table and push for change from within."
It's a debate prompted by bills pending in the state House and Senate that would have Vermont's public employee pension funds - those covering state employees, teachers and municipal employees - sell off their investments in "any company which has as a principal business the extraction, production, or manufacture of fossil fuels."
Pollina explained it this way: "If in fact as a state we have a commitment to combatting climate change, and if we have a commitment to moving toward renewable energy ... it's very contradictory that we would then be investing our dollars in fossil fuel industries that actually lead toward climate change."
The push for divestiture by institutional investors is being led by an arm of 350.org. The international group was founded by Bill McKibben, a Ripton resident, scholar at Middlebury College and well-known environmental activist and writer.
So far, the campaign has succeeded in persuading several colleges, including Green Mountain and Sterling colleges in Vermont, as well as cities and towns from Provincetown, Mass., to San Francisco, to push toward divestment from fossil fuel companies.
But in Vermont, the legislation's prospects look uncertain at best, in no small part because Gov. Peter Shumlin, who would have to sign such a measure into law, is cool to the idea.
Shumlin said in an email from his office that he is "extremely concerned about the impact of climate change, which I believe is the single greatest long-term challenge to our world and our state.
"At the same time, like the Treasurer, I believe that by keeping a seat at the table and by encouraging smart investments, we can make progress towards a cleaner, greener economy while still meeting our obligations to pay for the retirement of hard working municipal and state workers, as well as our state municipal and education workers, in the most responsible way for taxpayers."
The idea of trying to use investment decisions to influence political outcomes around the world is not new.
The current divestment push mirrors those launched in Vermont and elsewhere against companies doing business with the apartheid regime in South Africa during the 1980s. In 1989, the Legislature directed the pension funds to ensure that, if they were invested in companies doing business in Northern Ireland, there were assurances those companies were dedicated to eliminating religious discrimination in that country's workplaces.
In its 1997-1998 session, the Legislature called on the retirement funds to divest from tobacco companies. In 2006, the Vermont Pension Investment Committee forbade investments in nations "identified as State Sponsors of Terrorism by the U.S. State Department."
Pearce, who oversees administration of the state's pension funds, said she sympathizes with those concerned about climate change. But she said she would stop short of divestment.
"I have concerns about the methodology," she said. If the state maintains its role as a shareholder in a company, its pension fund managers can vote on issues of corporate governance. By selling those investments, "we give up our seat at the table and we may be replaced by shareholders that don't have those values," which, for example, would push energy companies to move toward more renewable sources.
Withdrawal of climate activists from their ranks of investors "gives them less incentive to change," she said, adding that she prefers a posture of "constructive engagement."
She noted Vermont has been active in efforts to get companies to think about the risks posed by climate change. The state has been working for a decade with CERES, a Boston-based nonprofit trying to get companies to focus on risks posed by climate change, water scarcity and other environmental issues.
McKibben argued in an email exchange with The Associated Press that Pearce's idea of working within the system has not worked.
"The big fossil fuel companies have five times as much carbon in their reserves as any scientist says it would be safe to burn, and yet their business plan calls for them to burn it," McKibben wrote. "There's been no sign, over the last twenty five years, of them bending from this path, despite lots of appeals from people like (Pearce). I think, given the timing of climate change, many have decided it's time to actually act."
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Town Square
Fatal bike accident on Foothill?
Original post made by Al, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Jun 9, 2013
Comments (17)
a resident of Bridle Creek
on Jun 9, 2013 at 2:57 pm
I'm sure Staceleen will be along any minute to tell us that the bike rider is responsible for her own death, that secret statistics show that more than half the time it is the victim's fault, and that we must write to Sacramento to outlaw bicycles on streets. Because we're a community of compassion.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 9, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Here is the story:
Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 9, 2013 at 10:10 pm
This is terrible. The city of Pleasanton has no bike lanes or sidewalks in that area around Castlewood to Golden Eagle. There is no shoulder at all on the east side of the road. It winds around and there is little to no visibility. At the new Callippe golf course, there are no sidewalks. If you walk the trail around the course, you have to walk in traffic on the road to get back.
All work on new streets has to stop so that this can be fixed.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 7:41 am
The location she was hit I do believe had a bike lane... she as very close to Golden Eagle. I too am wondering what happened exactly.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 9:07 am
Emergency stop and fix...really ??? This is nothing new. Every tri-valley resident knows Foothill. I think about it even when driving through there, but it is the most charming road IN the tri-valley. Better to be killed by the texters on our tri-valley streets. Choices, which route to take. A classmate of my son at Amador in 1976 was killed on the infamous 'turn'. Generations are aware and drive, ride, and choose accordingly.
a resident of Foothill Knolls
on Jun 10, 2013 at 11:01 am
Footill High School kid drunk and taken to Santa Rita.
a resident of Bonde Ranch
on Jun 10, 2013 at 11:05 am
Don't believe everything that is posted here. People just start rumors. I hope the kid was not drunk and it was just a bad accident otherwise it will be a very sad day for the kids who have waited 4 years to graduate to see their friend be in a situation like this.
Grad parties are happening daily so I hope kids will be more aware of what they are doing, parents watch over them they are always your responsibility no matter what.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 11:23 am
@Foothill, a resident of Foothill Knolls:
no proof of him being arrested or booked at Santa Rita
Web Link
Check your facts
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 12:04 pm
The kid's name and details starting emerging almost immediately after the incident yesterday through texts, facebook, etc. Yes, some of us DO know some of the facts. It did not sound good for this kid who was only days away from graduation. Let's wait for the official police report to come out. I am sure his family is hurting as are so many others - this is a horrible tragedy that will effect many lives. Thoughts and prayers go out to all the families involved.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 12:58 pm
@concerned parent
we have heard the name and details as well, although not that he had been arrested. I know, through my kids, his peers at FHS, that there is an speed issue with him and his cars. This is a terrible tragedy that affects both victim and suspects families. We say this after tragedy like this strikes: "maybe others (i.e. his friends and classmates) will learn from this". Like Every 15 Minutes.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm
@ptwn resident
Yes, we can only hope others will learn from this. My daughter did say that the seniors especially, are taking this pretty hard today. It's getting everyone to remember this kind of incident, not just today, or tomorrow, but forever going forward so that we ALL might be just a little more cautious as we drive and go about our daily routines. It only takes a second for tragedy to strike and often consequences that last a lifetime. Good opportunity for parents to speak with their children about safety and responsibility behind the wheel. I know I did.....
a resident of Mohr Elementary School
on Jun 10, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Bonde Ranch person...the high school kid was drunk. And of cource dont "believe everything that is posted here".
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on Jun 10, 2013 at 7:05 pm
It doesn't matter if the driver was drunk or not since he's at fault (all parties traveling in the same direction, overtaking vehicle causes the collision). This could have been caused by distracted driving or unsafe speed which are just as bad as DUI. Those posting that he was drunk have no way of knowing that plus they are wrong. The driver was not arrested on scene.
A tragedy for all involved. The "kid" will likely be going to jail and probably prison. If there is a pattern of reckless behavior then his family could be hit with huge civil penalties, even if he is 18. The families of both the victim and the driver will be left with their shattered lives.
a resident of another community
on Jun 26, 2013 at 8:12 pm
I have an idea that anybody caught driving dangerously fast should, if or when still allowed to drive, be required to drive with an always on when driving GPS unit recording there trips in real time. Kind of like sexual offenders may be required to wear radio beacons.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 26, 2013 at 10:08 pm
Two and a half weeks since the fatal accident; still not enough time for lab results?
a resident of Castlewood
on Jun 28, 2013 at 10:08 am
What is the hurry? We don't want to ruin the kids summer now do we?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 9, 2013 at 3:46 pm
awe posted: "What is the hurry? We don't want to ruin the kids summer now do we?"
Sure is beginning to seem that way...
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