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JOHANNESBURG. 27 February 2014. South African Airways (SAA) has introduced another service for customers to enjoy sightseeing and entertainment activities at their destinations.
One of the strategic objectives of Gaining Altitude, the airline's Long-Term Turnaround Strategy (LTTS), is to provide excellent customer service.
In support of the strategy the airline has formed a partnership with DealBroker, the travel technology company serving the global travel and tourism industry whereby customers who book at the SAA website, www.flysaa.com, can make use of sightseeing and entertainment activities at their destinations.
"The introduction of this service offering is in line with our ongoing commitment to improve on our customer experience. Our partnership with DealBroker is yet another innovation where our aim is adding to the value we offer our customers," says Ria Wood, SAA Manager E-Commerce.
"By offering passengers the possibility to book travel activities and airport transfers directly, and the delivery of a fully customised promotional email a couple of days before departure, SAA proves their commitment to customer service," says Matthijs Muijser, CEO of DealBroker.
The service increases brand awareness and brand loyalty. Furthermore the airline can explore the option of other income streams. DealBroker has created the technology to integrate real-time, personalised offers into the existing SAA digital model.
How it works is that a few days before departure, travellers will receive an e-mail from SAA with offers from sightseeing and entertainment companies at their destination, such as guided tours, museums, zoos, mini cruises, restaurants and other local activities.
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About South African Airways
South African Airways (SAA), Africa's most awarded airline, operates to 40 destinations worldwide.
In its domestic market SAA has an extensive schedule operating 556 flights in total per week between Johannesburg – Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth, from its Johannesburg hub, as well as code-shared flights between Lanseria – Cape Town and Durban. SAA offers more frequencies than any other airline in South Africa.
Regionally, SAA offers 24 destinations across the African continent including Abidjan, Accra, Blantyre, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Entebbe, Harare, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lilongwe, Livingstone, Luanda, Lusaka, Maputo, Mauritius, Nairobi, Ndola, Pointe Noire, Victoria Falls and Windhoek.
SAA's international network creates links to all major continents from South Africa through 11 direct routes and code shares, with daily flights from Johannesburg to London (Heathrow), Frankfurt, Munich, Mumbai, Perth, Hong Kong, Beijing, New York, Washington, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. SAA has codes share agreements with 27 other airlines across the markets it serves. The airline has extended its code share agreement with Mango, its low cost operator, to also include coastal cities in South Africa (between Johannesburg and Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and George), as well as Johannesburg – Bloemfontein; Cape Town - Bloemfontein and Cape Town - Port Elizabeth.
SAA's core business is the provision of passenger airline and cargo transport services together with related services, which are provided through SAA and its four wholly owned subsidiaries: SAA Technical; Mango its low cost carrier; Air Chefs, the catering entity of SAA and South African Travel Centre (SATC).
SAA is a Star Alliance member which offers more than 21,900 daily flights to 1,328 airports in 195 countries. SAA is the winner of the 'Best Airline in Africa' Award in the regional category for eleven consecutive years. Mango and SAA hold the number one and number two successive spots as South Africa's most on-time airlines.
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The Forest Service plans to restore between 8,000 and 10,000 acres of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests in 2013 using prescribed burning, said Forest Supervisor Kristin Bail with the National Forests in North Carolina.
"Fire has been part of Southern Appalachian forests for thousands of years, and we've learned that putting out every fire creates a buildup of forest debris, putting communities at risk and threatening forest health," said Bail. "Using prescribed burns, we can mimic what would occur naturally and restore native trees and plants like table mountain pine and mountain golden heather, which are fire-tolerant."
By using low- to medium-intensity prescribed burns, Forest Service employees plan to reduce overgrown vegetation and woody debris that could cause high-intensity wildfires that threaten lives, homes and public infrastructure. Catastrophic wildfires degrade forest health by scorching soils and killing many mature trees and other desirable plant species. Prescribed burning will result in healthier forests that are less congested, more biologically diverse and more resilient to threats from invasive plants and pests, such as southern pine beetle.
"Prescribed burning is essential for restoring our forests that are adapted to fire," said Gordon Warburton, mountain ecoregion supervisor for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. "Fire creates habitats that provide sprouts and berries, which are important food sources for wildlife. We must also remember that fire is critical for maintaining many oak species that produce acorns for wildlife."
All prescribed burns are completed by trained wildand fire professionals in accordance with detailed plans, which include desired weather conditions and other strict safety parameters, as well as modeling to reduce the effects of smoke.
"Safety is the top priority of our prescribed burning program," said Bail. "We take the safety of neighbors and the health of our forests very seriously."
For more information on prescribed burning in the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests, visit www.fs.usda.gov/nfsnc and click on "Restoring Fire to the Mountains."
Prescribed burns planned for Pisgah
The Forest Service plans to restore between 8,000 and 10,000 acres of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests in 2013 using prescribed burning, said Forest Supervisor Kristin Bail with the National Forests in North Carolina.

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Verlander remains top pitcher in AL
Quick: Name the best starting pitcher in the American League. You said Justin Verlander, right? Please tell me you said Justin Verlander. Of course you said Justin Verlander. It's that easy. At this moment, Verlander is the best pitcher in the AL, and any counter to this claim seems to me to be inadmissible. Over the last three seasons, Verlander has the lowest ERA (2.79), the lowest Fielding Independent Pitching mark (3.01), the most strikeouts (708), the most wins (59) and the highest win percentage (.728) of any qualifying AL starter. In that span, he's made 75 quality starts, second only to Jered Weaver (76), and he's tossed 713 2/3 innings, second only to Felix Hernandez (715 1/3).
And anecdotally, the Verlander Factor -- i.e. the knowledge that he's looming in that Tigers' rotation and is going to be a nightmare if you're facing him in an upcoming series -- is, of course, incalculable. Now, in one sense, none of this has anything to do with the 2012 AL Cy Young Award race, because Cy Young Awards, which are handed out by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, are based on single seasons, supposedly independent of overall track record. And yet, this has everything to do with the 2012 AL Cy Young race, the winner of which will be announced Wednesday. Because until and unless somebody bumps Verlander from his pedestal, even in a six-month spurt, he remains the No. 1 amongst No. 1s. Verlander is the incumbent, and it is incumbent upon the rest of the field to prove he is not deserving of becoming the first back-to-back AL Cy Young winner since Pedro Martinez (1999-2000). This year's field didn't live up to the task. Not that the Rays' David Price and the Angels' Weaver, the two other finalists for the award, didn't have fantastic seasons, because they did. But those seasons simply weren't dramatically different or better than Verlander's in anything other than win total. Both Price and Weaver finished 20-5, while Verlander was 17-8. And yes, Price won the ERA crown, with Verlander finishing second. But looking at those three guys, the differences between their ERAs (2.56 for Price, 2.64 for Verlander and 2.81 for Weaver), their WHIPs (1.02 for Weaver, 1.06 for Verlander and 1.10 for Price) and their opponent OPS totals (.601 for Verlander, .602 for Price and .605 for Weaver) are negligible at best. So then you look at workload, and you note that Verlander threw 27 1/3 innings (or just more than three full games) more than Price and 49 2/3 innings (5 1/2 games) more than Weaver. You note that Verlander's performance was as good against winning teams (2.63 ERA) as it was against losing teams (2.66), and that he went 2-0 with a 1.69 ERA against the White Sox team the Tigers fended off for the AL Central crown. You note that Verlander was even better in the late innings (.194 average against, 5.30 strikeouts-to-walk ratio) than he was in the early innings (.216, 3.67). And if you're so inclined, you might also note that Verlander's WAR mark (7.6) was the best of any pitcher in baseball, according to Baseball-Reference.com. Those are the kinds of numbers that make Verlander such a bullpen-saving, awe-inspiring, game-changing force. An ace in every sense of the word, despite pitching in front of the most poorly rated defensive clubs in the game and getting the 15th-lowest run support average among 88 qualifying Major League starters. "The only thing that really kind of hurts me is the win total," Verlander said recently, when asked to assess his Cy Young chances, "but I think we've seen in recent years past that the voters have kind of started to look beyond win totals and really kind of dove into the numbers a little bit more. I think that might be beneficial towards me." Yes, they have. And yes, that is. Verlander might not have the MVP credentials he had a year ago, but his peripheral numbers retain his placement among the top of the class. Again, Verlander is the best pitcher in the AL, until and unless somebody proves otherwise. Nobody did that in 2012, and so Verlander has earned his second Cy Young.
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Mercy donation, large matching gift help meet fundraising goal
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma Christian University announced today the full endowment of the Rebecca Stafford Endowed Scholarship for Nursing.
A $10,000 gift from Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City helped meet the $50,000 fundraising goal, with a matching gift from an anonymous donor boosting the endowment to $100,000.
Rebecca Stafford, a former Oklahoma Christian University student, lost her three-year battle with cancer in March. After enrolling at OC in 2010, she was able to complete a number of classes despite moving in and out of remission, having countless infections, and undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
"Rebecca wanted to spend as much time as she could as a normal student. Students and people three or four times her age saw her and were inspired," OC president John deSteiguer said. "The Rebecca Stafford Endowed Scholarship at Oklahoma Christian University is a remarkable tribute to the donors, to the family, to Rebecca and to God. It shows how God can work, and we're grateful Rebecca's impact is going to go on long after this."
OC's nursing students and faculty rallied around Rebecca as she battled Ewing's Sarcoma. After she passed away on March 10 – two months shy of her 21st birthday – her family wanted to honor her and help more students earn their nursing degrees at Oklahoma Christian.
"During Rebecca's illness, nurses were family," said Rebecca's mother, Tonda Stafford. "This scholarship can work for the good after everything she went through. It's what we see is needed because good Christian nurses are amazing."
Rebecca's treatment began at Mercy after Dr. Frank Davis, the Staffords' longtime physican, diagnosed her cancer in 2009.
"We're honored to be able to contribute to this scholarship, which is close to our hearts for many reasons," said Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City president Jim Gebhart. "This scholarship keeps Rebecca's giving and loving spirit alive, provides a student with an incredible education at OC, and serves the community by educating and training future nurses – members of a profession we deeply respect and admire."
"God calls us to make a difference. Rebecca touched many lives with her beautiful spirit and her amazing heart full of grace, courage, kindness and faith. And we hope what we're doing will make a tremendous difference in helping others learn how to provide competent, compassionate care," said Rebecca's father, Barry Stafford.
Oklahoma Christian began its nursing degree program in 2006 to help address Oklahoma's nursing shortage. In 2007, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education fully accredited OC's nursing program.
In addition to the classroom curriculum and nursing clinicals at Oklahoma City metro-area hospitals, OC's nursing program helps prepare students with a four-hour course in health care missions and Christian service. Many students participate in OC's HonduraServe mission, a four-day trip to Honduras to see patients in various villages, clinics and hospitals.
OC nursing graduates frequently exceed the state and national averages on the National Council Licensure Examination, earning a 92 percent pass rate in 2012.
"Rebecca's courage throughout her battle with cancer reminded us all that all patients deserve to have someone there, by their side, as they face the medical challenges that come their way," said Linda Fly, OC's director of nursing. "This gift will allow OC's nursing program to train more Christian nurses to do just that."
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"I like to joke that I have a small brain that turns at high RPMs."
Don't let the easy-going, good ol' boy charm fool you. Yes, when not in the office, you'll find Mark Travis competitive skeet shooting or surfing waves off the Northeast-Florida coast. The Jacksonville-based money manager went to the University of Georgia, and loves SEC football and Tim Tebow (can this guy get anymore cliché?).
However, raise the topic of investment management, particularly the small-cap space, and the "aw shucks" attitude quickly fades. His command of the sector makes him deadly serious. He has to be, after all; to outperform in notoriously volatile small caps takes some doing. The fact that he focuses on fixed income tempers that volatility somewhat—but only somewhat.
Intrepid Capital Fund (ICMBX) has a one-year total return of 10.95%, a three-year total return of 9.79% and a five-year total return of 8.54% (as of Dec. 31, 2012), ranking it in the top percentile of its Morningstar category. The Intrepid Small Cap Fund (ICMAX), which he co-manages with Jayme Wiggins, has a five-year total return of 12.45% (as of Dec. 31, 2012).
"We run four '40 Act no-load mutual funds and a long/short partnership here," he explained when asked about the firm's philosophy and process. "We try to find the most undervalued equity and pair them off with very overvalued equity. That's largely been the retained earnings of this firm since we started."
By started he means 1994. Today, the firm has $1.4 billion in assets and 17 employees; half of them devoted to securities analysis and trading, and the other half to the firm's RIA and private client business.
"I feel the investment advisor's pain," he said. "The first decade of our existence we dealt with private clients, so I know the emotional roller coasters their clients go through."
Travis said he understands that clients don't care what happened between point A and point B. He knows they're prone to buying high and selling low, and tries to have a deliberate, disciplined process that's low in volatility to "wake up every day with a little bit more money."
"The process is not sexy; it's really a lot of reading," he noted. "It's going through the 10Ks and the 10Qs and trying to ascertain what the free cash flow is to the enterprise and what that valuation would be. Our estimate of value is more conservative than our peers. In deriving the valuation using the discounted cash flow calculation, we use a double-digit return for what you hope to earn coupled with a low assumption for growth rate. Therefore we tend to capitalize cash flows at a higher number and end up with a lower valuation. We think that should be double-digit; we think you need to be rewarded for taking less liquidity and smaller-business risk."
Ask him where he's currently finding alpha, and he wastes no time naming names, highlighting the energy sector.
"Particularly since the spring when natural gas prices hit $2 per McF (an abbreviation for a thousand cubic feet of natural gas)," Travis began, "I think the economics of it, at this point, don't make sense below $4 per McF for other companies. So one company is Bill Barrett Corp., an energy company whose core business is natural gas and oil exploration, which is trading in the high teens; we think we can get into the mid-30s."
Another name he's recently revisited is Patterson UTI, a company with "around 230 rigs. The beauty of their business is that the rigs are mobile. So as some of these producers decide, 'Hey, this is not economical at today's gas prices,' they can move that rig and begin drilling for oil instead."
Travis also likes the consulting space, and recently bought a company called FTI Consulting. It's had a hand in the PR for everything from the BP oil spill to forensic accounting for the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
"They have attractive cash flow margins," he added. "The shares are currently in the low 30s, but we've come up with a value in the low 40s."
As for the small-cap outlook in general for the next 12 to 18 months, Travis is (not surprisingly) optimistic, but cautious.
"As hard as it is to believe, you've had a pretty nice three-year run in equity prices in general," he said. "You've got margins that are at a peak and likely to get worse. We consider ourselves to be defensive portfolio managers by nature. When we buy businesses, we're thinking, 'What happens if …?' Most particularly, what happens if we go into another recession, or if Israel bombs Iran?"
For that reason, he's cash-heavy and generally finds prices to be fairly high. "We're still able to find a place to put money to work. It's just not an overly abundant list of new ideas."
When asked about what he does better than other managers, Travis took an almost paternalistic attitude toward the firm.
"One, it's my baby. Two, it's my net worth. And three, it's being a native of this part of Florida," he said. "I have a lot of—for lack of a better term—widowed mothers of lifelong friends of mine who are longtime clients and believe in our approach. And I have all their money."
Believing a large part of the industry flows through some type of consulting and ends up in a quasi-indexed product, Travis operates the firm "like a private equity buyer in the capital markets looking for an absolute rate of return."
"If we can't find something that trades at low enough valuation for us to acquire in equity or debt, we'll sit in cash until those prices appear," he explained.
Like almost everyone else, his corporate philosophy is to participate in up markets but preserve capital in down markets.
"One of my favorite Warren Buffett lines is 'You don't get to see who's swimming naked until the tide goes out,'" he said. "The tide went out quick and hard four years ago. We woke up and our best performing fund, the Intrepid Small Cap Fund, was down 7% in 2008 and the Intrepid Capital Fund was down 16% when most of the index-centric products were down 35% to 50%."
"It's one thing for me as a professional to lose my money," he emphatically stated. "It's a whole other one for me to lose someone else's money; money that they've earned and saved and paid taxes on. Nothing gets my blood pressure up quicker, harder and faster than doing something stupid with someone else's money."


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EU's Barnier Said to Urge U.S.'s Lew to Rethink Finance Laws
Michel Barnier, the European Union financial services chief, urged U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to seek changes to draft rules on swaps and the treatment of EU bank units, saying they may undermine efforts to clinch a trade pact, said two people familiar with the talks.
Barnier told Lew that EU and U.S. moves to begin negotiations on a free-trade deal made revising the measures more urgent, according to the people who asked not to be cited by name because the discussions are private. Lew and Barnier, meeting in Brussels today, agreed to further discussions on the measures, the people said.
The two agreed to "stay in close and regular contact and strengthen the U.S.-EU financial market and regulatory dialog," according to a joint statement issued by their offices. Lew raised concerns at the meeting that plans by some EU nations to implement a common tax on financial transactions would lead to charges being imposed on U.S.-based companies, the people said.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is under pressure from regulators in the EU and Japan to overhaul planned rules for derivative trading on concerns that the measures may leave companies outside the U.S. facing overlapping requirements. Global regulators said last year that nations should resolve the clash as it risks hampering efforts by investors and clearinghouses to comply with international standards.
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Lew and Barnier agreed both sides would keep working to ensure robust and convergent frameworks on derivatives and that prudential frameworks ensure financial institutions hold sufficient capital and are resolvable in an orderly manner, according to a Treasury official, who also asked not to be identified because the talks were private.
Barnier is also pushing back against proposals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that foreign lenders organize their U.S. units as subsidiaries and hold capital independently from their parent firms to make it easier for U.S. regulators to seize local assets in a crisis. The Fed is seeking views on the measures, which Barnier has warned could drive up costs for EU banks.
Lew met Barnier as part of a visit to Europe in which he saw European Union officials in Brussels and will meet central bankers in Frankfurt before heading to Berlin and Paris.
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The 2013 US Regional U/19 Trials
A Summary of Key Learnings
Chairman, USACA Youth Development Committee – Mr. Hemant Buch
The month of April 2013 was historical for USA youth cricket. Volunteers committed to youth cricket development in various Regions across America conducted U/19 youth trials in a fair, inclusive and very professional manner. The Selection Process was reviewed with ICC Americas development officers Mr. Andy Pick and Mr. Wendell Coppin and both of them providing input and positive feedback to the plan.
This was the first event of such a huge scale where we witnessed a burst of positive energy among organizers, players and parents. Well over 300 players participated in the 2013 Regional Under 19 trials, significantly more than ever before. I had an opportunity to talk to every Regional Coordinator and several volunteers and I am proud to say that everyone was determined to use the US U/19 trial platform to energize their youth cricket base.
The success from the trials as I see it was;
I am happy to report that several activities have been reported since the US Regional U/19 trials for Junior and Youth levels during summer 2013 including;
Central East Region
1) U/19 Memorial Day Champions Trophy. There will be awards.
2) Youth League (6 to 16) will start in June. They will play game amongst themselves.
South East Region
1) The Carolinas will commence a summer program in June and hope to have up to 200 players involved
2) The SE Regional U/17 Tournament will be held in September.
3) A girls' team is being developed in the Carolinas area.
Atlantic Region
Games are being arranged for Youth in the Region play and there are plans to play against NE and NY.
New York Region
The New York Region plans to participate in the Festival in Washington on Memorial Day
North West Region
1) The NWR has developed schedule for League games against those who attended trials, which will be double round robin format.
2) CCA U/15 National invitational tournament to be staged this summer with a Canadian team likely to attend.
3) CCA U/17 team IS visiting England in August for 7 games in 10 days
South West Region
1) A Youth Program started at Woodley Park with a professional coach.
2) Hosted visiting teams from Northern California
3) Plans are in place to take a U/15 team to Washington to play the Atlantic Region.
2013 US U/19 Regional Trials - Lessons learned
It would be unwise to say that US Regional U/19 Trials were perfect and that improvement cannot be made. The USACA Youth Committee held a review meeting on May 11th and discussed the trials are areas for improvement going forward. Some of the lessons learned were;
We Have Taken the First Step!
Since the selection of 24 players for Florida stage 2 of the trials, we have received some phone calls and emails from parents and even League officials about individual players who they believe should have been given a chance in USACA U/19 Combine.
National selectors travelled the country for the first time and visited various places to see almost 300 players. The process could not have been more objective as Selectors from outside the Region were flown in at USACA's cost to ensure that there was objectivity.
Selectors were provided with historical data from big match performances and had a good understanding of the player groups they were going to see in action. The fact is, selection comes down to being able to perform on the day and many players took that opportunity to 'shine'.
I thank all of the Regional Coordinators for their hard work, the USACA Youth Committee for their efforts, the US National Selectors who have worked so hard for so many months and of course our National body, USACA for their support and guidance.
Let's wish the guys well for a successful USACA U/19 Combine starting May 31st.
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Mike Scarborough has the solution.
"Our service will step in and act as a third-party asset manager within the plan; we're not taking the money out of the plan," Scarborough, president of the appropriately named Scarborough Capital Management, says. "The advisors, registered reps and RIAs work with the client and is the main point of contact, but we manage the trading, billing, reallocating, rebalancing and anything else the employee needs with regards to the portfolio."
So how does he do it? With a heavy emphasis on technology and scale of course, but also by "making a lot of money, spending a lot of money and spending the last 24 years making a lot of mistakes."
Yet four years ago, he felt confident enough to take the "Intel Chip" out of Scarborough Capital Management and market it to other advisors and plan sponsors.
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A lot of advisors will attempt to do individual financial planning for a client, he notes, but it's usually them scribbling an allocation on a statement; there's rarely a record of what was recommended.
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FS#736 - snap tool menu is shown before specifiv tool menu
Opened by Andreas Würl (awuerl) - Friday, 21 December 2012, 06:19 GMT+2
Last edited by Andrew (andrew) - Saturday, 12 January 2013, 12:53 GMT+2
When creating a new file, selecting the e. g. line tool at first opens the linemenu and the snap tool menu as expected. After clicking on the back button twice (going back to the main menu) and selecting the e. g. circle menu, the snap tool menu is shown instead of the circle menu. Instead the circle menu is shown after pressing the back button again.
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Revision [2659]
This is an old revision of howPuppyWorks made by Puppyite on 2009-10-23 08:03:45.
Note: some of this may be outdated, but Barry's link above should be good.
quickstart 1 pager: PuppyInAnutshell
One thing to understand is that Puppy is unique. Barry built Puppy from scratch, file by file, so the architecture is not based on any other distro.
puppy boot process
layout when the live-CD boots: vmlinuz, the Linux kernel, loads into RAM, followed by image.gz, which loads into a fast "ramdisk" . The file is ".gz"-compressed, so it is uncompressed into the ramdisk and then the ramdisk becomes the very basic Puppy filesystem, that is, designated "/" and called top or root directory together with all subdirectories /bin, /sbin, /lib, /dev, /tmp, etc.
A fundamental objective of Puppy is that everything should load into ramdisk, thus freeing up the CD drive so that you can use the CD drive for other purposes eject Also, if everything is in RAM, application startup and running speed is stunning. Besides, a computer without spinning media (CD, hd) is much more rugged for use in boats, offroad-cars asf..
When the power goes off, RAMdisk content is lost. To retain your settings, such as configuration changes, email, browser history asf Puppy during bootup looks for a suitable hard drive partition, and if one is found, creates a file on it called "pup001". I arbitrarily chose "pupxxx" where the "xxx" is three numeric digits. The three numeric digits have no particular meaning either, except we are currently using pup001 for the live-CD and pup100 for USB installations of Puppy.
pup001 is a single file (easy to backup), but internally is a complete ext2 filesystem. After creating this file, Puppy mounts it, by means a "loopback device", onto /root directory. This directory /root is your home directory -- all your personal stuff goes in there. Thus, when you shutdown, all will still be there next time you start Puppy.
I do need to explain the bootup steps properly -- Puppy first has to mount the hard drive partition onto /mnt/home. This must be done before Puppy can get access to pup001 and mount it on /root. So you can see two mount points in the diagram.
usr_cram.fs file
Most of the files in Puppy, in any Linux distro for that matter, are in /usr - furthermore there is normally no need to write to anything inside /usr (that is, no need to edit, create or delete files). So the entire content of /usr is compressed as a single file, named usr_cram.fs and mounted as-is on /usr, by means of a "loopback device" -- the actual technique is not the main issue here, but you need to be aware that all of /usr is really only a single file, containing a compressed and read-only filesystem. Utilizing union-fs, however, changes in /usr can be made at run-time while usr_cram.fs remains unchanged.
part of the diagram in an orange color to illustrate the different places where the file usr_cram.fs may be located. Those four numbers, 1, 2, 3, and 4, are the search order in case of booting off CD:
1. At bootup, Puppy will first look to see if usr_cram.fs∞ is at "/" in the ramdisk (which meant that it was inside image.gz originally)
2. failing that, Puppy will look in /root (that is, inside pup001)
3. else in /mnt/home (in the hard drive partition)
4. finally Puppy will look on the CD (the slowest media of these)
Even if Puppy falls through to option 4, it will do his best not to leave usr_cram.fs on the slow CD. We really want to copy it to the ramdisk, or failing that to pup001 in the hard drive. If we left it on the CD and just mounted it on /usr, Puppy will run slowly and the CD drive will not be available for other purposes. With enough RAM usr_cram.fs copies to "/" in the ramdisk, then mounts it on /usr.
How much RAM is "enough"? Puppy is happiest on a PC with at least 128M RAM. 128M is a good size -- it is enough for image.gz (uncompressed) and usr_cram.fs to both reside on ramdisk.
What if your PC has only 64M, 48M, or even only 32M RAM? Well, usr_cram.fs is not going to fit in the ramdisk. Just ball-park figures, image.gz uncompressed is about 10M, usr_cram.fs is about 50M.
Puppy does have a card up his sleeve, so to speak -- if the PC has a swap partition Puppy will automagically use that, to increase the virtual size of the ramdisk. If you have ever installed another Linux distro on the PC, chances are it created a swap partition, so it is already sitting there ready for Puppy to use. If your PC has 128M of RAM, Puppy will allocate 62M of that to ramdisk, however if the PC also has a 250M (for example) swap partition, then the effective size of the ramdisk becomes 62+250 = 312M!
However, I made a decision with the startup logic of Puppy, only to copy usr_cram.fs into ramdisk if there is at least 62M of physical RAM allocated to the ramdisk. So, for PCs with less physical RAM than 128M, usr_cram.fs will never be copied into ramdisk, even if there is a swap partition.
Another issue is the search order, those four numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. When you have booted up Puppy from the CD, if you copy usr_cram.fs from the CD or /, to /root (ie., inside pup001), that will be the second place Puppy looks next time he boots. Or, copy it onto "/" on the hard drive -- that's the 3rd place Puppy will look. So even on a PC with only 32M RAM, you can bootup from a live-CD and have the CD drive freed up for other purposes.
PCs with less than 128M really do need a swap partition for Puppy to work properly. Even though Puppy can boot up from live-CD on a PC with only 32M RAM, some of the applications are memory hogs -- Mozilla for example. Mozilla is not viable on a PC with less than 128M RAM. However, as mentioned above, a swap partition increases the effective size of the ramdisk, so you can get Mozilla to work on PCs with very little RAM, albeit slowly. It is also a good idea to add a swap file, if you have some spare space on the hard drive - and your partition tables allows it.
Think about that search order a bit more... #3 is interesting. Puppy looks on the hard drive for usr_cram.fs, but how would the file get there? You might have put it there manually or run the install-to-hard-drive-option-1 script.
However, when you boot a newer version of Puppy from CD, Puppy will find the old usr_cram.fs ! ...not so good. Or, an old usr_cram.fs if you put it in /root, for that matter.
To get around that problem Puppy has a technique for checking that usr_cram.fs is the correct version. Puppy checks this, and will ignore any usr_cram.fs files it finds that have the wrong version number. The technique used is when usr_cram.fs is created, its size, in bytes, is recorded in /etc/sizeusrcram, which can then be used to check against usr_cram.fs at boot-time.
with puppy 1.0.1+ it is often desirable to pursue the "everything on one piece of media" policy, but you may split puppy to overcome space limits on that media (CD-RW or USB stick).
Package installation
A key point about this architecture is that /usr is read-only. After downloading a .tar.gz "tarball" or RPM package you cannot install it into Puppy because most packages want to install part of themselves into /usr.
However, version 1.0.1 has revolutionised package management in Puppy by using UNIONFS to make /usr read-write. Any files written to /usr are actually stored in /root/.usr, but look as if they are in /usr to the RPM packs and such. A package manager with non-volatile installation, removal and dependency checking named PupGet is feasible thus !
PupGet offers the packages of the Puppy Unleashed package suite. All of these packages are available for download -- from the Puppy menu choose "Setup -> PupGet package manager", and follow the steps in the GUI.
The Unleashed packages are all on the Internet, and PupGet can download them individually to install them, however Linux developers can create their own live-CDs from the complete Unleashed package suite. The live-CD that you are using now was created from Puppy Unleashed.
Puppy Unleashed enables you to put together your own custom Puppy boot-CD from a choice of hundreds of packages (applications). For further information, see the Puppy Unleashed page.
Booting from USB
Flash technology
A 128M Flash drive matches perfectly with Puppy. Consider, Puppy is only about 50-60M, so will fit on a 128M USB drive leaving over 70M free for personal data. Yes, a complete portable operating system and personal data, all on the one tiny non-spinning noiseless device!
The downside to Flash technology is limited number of write-cycles. After so many times, the stick will collapse. I have seen figures as low as 50,000 writes - see FlashDetail .
Anyway, the good news is that Puppy is especially designed to have no writes to the Flash drive during a session, enormously extending its life span. Take a look at this diagram:
liveusb image
When Puppy boots from USB, the steps are much the same as for the live-CD. The kernel vmlinuz is loaded into RAM, image.gz is uncompressed and loaded into a ramdisk.
puppy boot from USB
Puppy then searches for usr_cram.fs, first looking in "/" in the ramdisk, then in "/" in the USB partition. The first case would only be if Puppy had been created with usr_cram.fs inside image.gz, which is not the normal situation. So it falls back to number 2. Puppy will find usr_cram.fs in the USB partition and will mount it on /usr.
Puppy will attempt an optimisation. If there is enough RAM, Puppy will copy usr_cram.fs into the ramdisk and then mount it on /usr. This takes a little while but improves running speed. However, even if Puppy does leave usr_cram.fs on the USB drive and mounts it from there onto /usr, that is not a problem as /usr is read-only. There will be no writes to /usr, so the lifetime of the Flash drive is not compromised (Puppy version 1.0.1 has UNIONFS which makes /usr read-write, but all writes actually go to /root/.usr, which is in the ramdisk, as described below).
The very first time that Puppy boots from USB, the file pup100 does not yet exist -- Puppy has to create it. Puppy creates it, and mounts it directly on /root - physically on the stick - by means of a loopback device. So far, the architecture is basically the same as for the live-CD.
The lifetime of the Flash device is compromised by writes to /root, that is, to pup100. This is your home directory, and applications store all kinds of stuff in it. A lot of writing will be happening to /root. The Linux kernel does cache the writes, but even so, the cache will be flushed frequently.
A significant difference occurs the second time that Puppy is booted from USB. If there is enough RAM (remembering that the ramdisk can also use a swap partition if it exists, so the available space is effectively the size of RAM plus size of the swap partition), then Puppy will mount pup100 onto /mnt/pupxxx directory in order to copy all the files from /mnt/pupxxx to /root.
Thus, a complete copy of pup100 is in /root, and no writing will occur to physical pup100 during a session. At shutdown, all the files in /root are copied back to /mnt/pupxxx, thus updating pup100. We could, in theory, backup to pup100 at regular intervals, rather than only at shutdown, but that is not implemented in the current version of Puppy -- quite frankly, I have very rarely had Puppy crash, and the only situation that would cause backup not to occur would be a power failure.
Puppy is highly intelligent, and the optimisations described above are only implemented if there is enough RAM (+swap). If there is not enough RAM, then obviously pup100 cannot be copied into /root in the ramdisk. During boot puppy tells you whether it manages to get all into RAM.
To give an idea of what is "enough" RAM, a PC with 256M RAM matches well with a 128M Flash drive. The pup100 file will be about 60M, and there's enough RAM for everything to load into ramdisk. On the otherhand, a 256M Flash drive would have a 180M pup100 file which would be too big. With a 256 flash-drive 512MB RAM are good to keep all in RAM. If the PC has a swap partition, Puppy will automatically use this to increase the effective maximum size of the ramdisk. Whatever the situation on your PC, Puppy will work out the best configuration, totally automatically.
Updating, archiving, configuring
As you can see, Puppy consists of only 4 files. (actually, it is possible to have usr_cram.fs inside image.gz, reducing Puppy down to just 3 files -- the web download sites may have that configuration available. It is convenient for booting off a network to have just the two files vmlinuz and image.gz to worry about)
To update to the latest version of Puppy, you just need to get the latest vmlinuz, image.gz and usr_cram.fs. Updating is so very simple, but with v0.9.8 I made it even simpler by building an update option into the installation scripts. That is, boot up the latest live-CD and run the install-to-USB, install-to-Zip or install-to-hard-drive script and choose "update" rather than "new installation".
It's so simple, you could do it manually if you wish.
Puppy does have a couple of archive programs, including one that I wrote that backs up only the changed files from /root each time. However, all your personal data, really, a snapshot of the entire the state of the system, is in the pup001 or pup100 file, so you can save a complete system snapshot just by making a copy of the pup001/100 file. Then compress it, like this (assuming the copy is named pup100-12dec04):
gzip pup100-12dec04
and you will have pup100-12dec04.gz. Archive that anywhere you want.
You can mount an archived pup100 file at any time, and view its contents:
losetup-FULL /dev/loop2 pup100-12dec04
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop2 /mnt/data
You can also view the contents of pup100-12dec04 from Windows, by using the Explore2fs (ViewPup001FromWindows) program. Having many pup100 e.g. on a DVD-RW makes sense to fully utilize all DVD space while maintaining the "1 media policy" and full "all-in-RAM speed" by keeping a moderately sized individual pup100. From the menu, pup001 on hd can be enlarged (you may know this word from your spam mail).
Booting steps
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Booting Puppy Linux (obsolete but educational)
Step 1
The first things that happen is the Linux kernel in file "vmlinuz" loads into RAM and file "image.gz" is uncompressed and loaded into /dev/ram0, a 11'264 K fixed-size ramdisk.
In the case of a "big image" Puppy, that is, with file usr_cram.fs inside image.gz, there has to be the kernel boot parameter "ramdisk_size=" to specify a suitable size to hold all of image.gz (uncompressed) and usr_cram.fs plus some spare space. For example:
For the "big image" situation, /dev/ram0 will be large, in the above example 63488 Kbytes.
Step 2
The program "/sbin/init" is executed. In the case of the "big image" Puppy, /sbin/init is just a link to /bin/busybox, as init is a program built-in to busybox. The normal situation though, is that /sbin/init is a shell script. Here it is:
#v0.9.8 booting up in /dev/ram0, move root / to tmpfs...
INITARGS="`echo -n "$@" | sed -e 's/\/dev\/ram0/tmpfs/g'`"
mount -t proc none /proc
mount -o remount,rw / #-n option not needed with busybox mount.
STARTUPFSSIZE=`cat /root0/.etc/ramdiskfssize` #currently set to 11264K (file gets updated below)
#specifying ram1 here as it isn't in use...
SIZERAMDISKM=`disktype /dev/ram1 | grep "Block device" | cut -f 4 -d " "`
SIZERAMDISKK=`expr $SIZERAMDISKM \* 1024`
#total ram, less any shared video...
PCRAMSIZE=`free | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | tr -s " " | cut -f 3 -d " "`
#...note, busybox free output format different from standard free program.
if [ $PCRAMSIZE -gt 220000 ];then #256M
SIZEFILLK=`expr $PCRAMSIZE \/ 2` #half of ram.
if [ $PCRAMSIZE -gt 117000 ];then #128M
if [ $PCRAMSIZE -gt 60000 ];then #64M
SIZEFILLK=16384 #leaves about 7M free in f.s.
SIZEFILLK=11264 #only about 2M free in f.s.
if [ $SIZEFILLK -lt $STARTUPFSSIZE ];then
#want to know if there is a swap partition available...
SWAPPART= SWAPINFO="`fdisk -l | grep "Linux swap" | head -n 1`" if [ ! "$SWAPINFO" = ];then
#we can make the ramdisk real big now...
SWAPPART="`echo "$SWAPINFO" | cut -f 1 -d " "`"
SWAPSIZE="`fdisk -s $SWAPPART`"
#SWAPSIZE=`expr $SWAPSIZE \/ 2` #let's use half of the swap partition.
#...nah, grab the whole lot. Puppy can create a swap file later if reqd.
SIZEFILLK=`expr $SIZEFILLK + $SWAPSIZE`
#0.9.8... but have to delay swapon until rc.sysinit running... see below...
mkdir /new_root
mount tmpfs /new_root -t tmpfs -o size=${SIZEFILLK}k;check_status $?
cp -a /bin /new_root/
cp -a /dev /new_root/
cp -a /etc /new_root/
cp -a /lib /new_root/
cp -a /mnt /new_root/
cp -a /root /new_root/
cp -a /root0 /new_root/
cp -a /sbin /new_root/
cp -a /usr /new_root/
cp -a /proc0 /new_root/proc
cp -a /var0 /new_root/var
mkdir /new_root/tmp
chmod 777 /new_root/tmp
#0.9.8R2 rc.sysinit will start the swap partition running...
if [ ! "$SWAPPART" = "" ];then
echo -n "$SWAPPART" > /new_root/root0/.etc/swappartition1
#i want to know the max size if not going to use the swap partition...
echo -n "$PHYSICALFILLK" > /new_root/root0/.etc/ramdiskphysicalfssize
echo -n "$SIZERAMDISKK" > /new_root/root0/.etc/ramdisksize
echo -n "$SIZEFILLK" > /new_root/root0/.etc/ramdiskfssize #size of f.s.
cat /etc/fstab | sed -e 's/\/dev\/ram0/tmpfs/g' > /new_root/etc/fstab
#if ever run install-to-hd script, /sbin/init must be normal symlink...
mv -f /new_root/sbin/init /new_root/sbin/init_ORIG
ln -s /bin/busybox /new_root/sbin/init
cd /new_root
mkdir old_root
umount /proc
#have code in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit which will umount /dev/ram0...
pivot_root . old_root
exec chroot . sh -c "exec /bin/busybox init $INITARGS" dev/console 2>&1
In a nutshell, what this script does is copy all of /dev/ram0 to a new tmpfs ramdisk, which has the advantage of variable size and it can use a swap partition to create a very large effective size for the ramdisk. After the swap, /dev/ram0 is no longer being used.
Notice the very last line of the script. After the swap-over (chroot), "/bin/busybox init" is executed. This causes the init program built into Busybox to execute, the same as if /sbin/init was a link to /bin/busybox and init had been executed.
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What does ART mean in Physiology?
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In A Doll's House, Nora Helmer returns home on Christmas Eve with a Christmas tree that must be hidden from the children until it is trimmed. Indeed, hiding is a major theme in this play. Later in the first act, Nora plays hide-and-seek with her children, and she hides the macaroons that her husband, Torvald, has forbidden her to eat. A more dangerous secret is the fact that, years earlier, she had borrowed a large amount of money to pay for the sojourn in Italy that enabled Torvald to recover from a serious illness. She had borrowed the money illegally from a usurer named Krogstad, and she has secretly been repaying the loan out of the small sums that she is able to earn by copying documents or to save from her household budget. To spare her dying father, who was to have been her cosigner, she even forged his signature on the contract.
That something is wrong with the Helmers' marriage quickly becomes evident in the first scene: Torvald treats Nora more like a favorite child than a wife, and to please him she seems perfectly willing to pretend to be his little "skylark" or his "squirrel." In other words, she is content to live in a dollhouse. Nora's old school friend, Mrs. Linde, is one of those Ibsen characters who has married for money, not for love. The man she did love—and jilted—was Krogstad. Now a penniless and childless widow, she would be very happy to settle down in a dollhouse, but necessity forces her to beg Nora to help her get a job in Torvald's bank.
The plot hinges upon Nora's ignorance of three important facts: Krogstad holds a minor position in the bank of which Torvald is shortly to become manager; Torvald is so embarrassed by Krogstad's presumptuous familiarity that he plans to fire him; and forgery, no matter what the motivation, is a serious crime. Ironically, Torvald fires Krogstad and promises his position to Mrs. Linde. This act prompts Krogstad, who is trying to regain his respectability, to use his knowledge of Nora's forgery to blackmail her: If he loses his job, he will expose her and ruin Torvald. Nora's attempt to persuade Torvald to retain Krogstad precipitates the crisis: Torvald angrily dispatches the letter of dismissal. Her situation worsens when Krogstad delivers an ultimatum and leaves a letter exposing her crime. In desperation, Nora tells Mrs. Linde about the incriminating letter now locked in the mailbox and urges her to use whatever power that she may still have over Krogstad to persuade him to ask for it back unread. By the end of the second act, Nora sees only two possible ways out of her dilemma: Either she will save her beloved husband's reputation by committing suicide, or what she calls "the miracle" will happen, and he will magnanimously assume full responsibility for her crime. In an interview with Krogstad, Mrs. Linde succeeds in reviving his love for her, but she precipitates the final crisis by forbidding him to retract his letter.
Torvald's explosive reaction to Krogstad's letter shows Nora that the man for whom she was willing to sacrifice her life, the man capable of "the miracle," is a fiction. Discovering that he is self-centered, petty, and unfeeling, she can no longer love him. To challenge his outmoded ideas about marriage, she becomes a rebel and informs him that she is leaving him and the children. When he admonishes her that she is duty bound to remain, she says that she has discovered a higher duty: her duty to herself. She exits, slamming the door on a bewildered Torvald.
Part of the play's effectiveness on stage depends on Ibsen's suggestive use of props, costumes, and activities (for example, the Christmas tree, the macaroons, the game of hide-and-seek) to illustrate psychological states or to underscore symbolic meanings. In its day, A Doll's House was extremely controversial. While many applauded Nora's determination to "be herself," many more condemned her as "unnatural" for deserting her children. More than a century later, the play still raises questions that stimulate readers and spectators.


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The modify stretch tool wants first and second corner, start and end point, then starts afresh. When I turn on restrict horizontally eg to align two points between start and end, the restriction sticks and I have to call restrict none, to be able to perform the next iteration, set the first corner then.
So, in the quest for a comfortable user interface, it was nice, if the modify stretch first/second corners parameter setting was not affected by current restrict/ortho etc. settings. Actually, that does not make any sense at all anyways, does it, a rectangle is defined by two degrees of freedom, isnt it?


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What does PN mean in Mathematics?
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- .pn is the Internet country code top-level domain for Pitcairn Islands. The top-level domain was the subject of a dispute in 2000, between islander Tom Christian, who had been delegated with management of the domain by ICANN, and the government of the island, which was resolved by ICANN ruling that the domain be re-delegated to the Island Council. Subdomains under various two-letter .pn domains are offered as free redirections by popnic.com. An official .pn domain costs $100/year from the registry. There are relatively few sites using these domains, but examples include ESPN, Appian Corporation and Groupon, which each use the domain for URL shortening services. The .pn domain was also used as part of marketing campaign promoting the The Hunger Games, presenting it as the "official" country code of the nation of Panem.
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This week, I went to the Stanford Shopping Center and noticed how close the Microsoft and Apple stores were in design — and physical proximity.
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In the clear glass window, Windows 8 was advertised. Even the Microsoft logo on top of the store resembled the Apple store's.
The first thing I noticed when I entered the Microsoft store was Surface, the new hybrid PC-tablet. There were also ultrabooks on the table on the left, along with other Microsoft products. It looked way too much like the Apple store, but there were no iPads or iPhones or Macbooks in sight. It felt a little strange to be honest. Much like the iPad Mini is on the clear glass walls of the Apple store, Microsoft used its latest products to lure in customers and keep them in there, hoping that by allowing them to touch the items, they'd buy them in the store.
This closeness is no coincidence. It's part of the retail game.
All Microsoft Stores are listed here.
All the Apple stores are listed here.
If you are undecided, there are several states where Microsoft stores are located conveniently close to Apple stores, usually in the same shopping center. But don't wait too long — many of the Microsoft stores are temporary seasonal stores open only for the holidays.
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Larry Seltzer, editor of BYTE, lives in New Jersey. He looked up stores near him. There are two permanent Microsoft stores in New Jersey, one in Bridgewater Commons and the other at the Freehold Raceway Mall. In Freehold the stores are very close. The Bridgewater's appear to be in adjacent "zones" of the mall.
It's an old retail practice. It's why you so often see a Lowe's so close to a Home Depot, why fast food restaurants so often cluster together. It tends to work better for all of them, although one supposes that in this case it works better for Microsoft than for Apple.
Clearly Microsoft seeks out locations very close to Apple stores.This also explains why there are no permanent Microsoft stores in Manhattan yet. They just haven't found the right real estate close enough to one of the three Apple stores.The one in Grand Central they'll never be able to do, although perhaps they could do one in Penn Station. The one on 5th Avenue near Central Park South is a real possibility.
I can't blame Microsoft for following Apple's retail strategy. Even Tesla set up shops modeled after Apple's design.


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Look to the AL West to spice up Hot Stove talks
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- At some point soon -- by the end of the winter, by the end of the week or maybe even by time you're done reading this article -- something big is bound to go down in the American League West. To date, the division generally regarded to be among baseball's best has leaned toward the quiet side of the winter activity. The Astros made the move from the National League Central, but that's one of the few major moves to go down.
The Angels added a couple arms to their bullpen in comeback closer candidate Ryan Madson and lefty Sean Burnett and a couple to their rotation in Tommy Hanson and Joe Blanton. The Rangers took a chance on two-time Tommy John recipient Joakim Soria, and the Mariners did likewise with Jason Bay. The A's brought outfielder Chris Young aboard in a trade with the D-backs. What we're waiting for -- and, frankly, what a number of teams are waiting for -- is some dynamic development on the free-agent or trade front, and the AL West is a big part of that picture. After all, this division features two clubs -- the Rangers and Angels -- armed with two of the largest local television contracts in the sport. We saw last winter, through the Yu Darvish, Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson deals, how quickly those contracts have reinvented the payroll possibilities in those two markets, and so you can't help but wonder what direction those two clubs will take after the frustrating way their 2012 seasons finished. The Rangers, as you well know, have kept open the possibility of bringing Josh Hamilton back. But if they don't get a deal done with their former MVP, they might have all the more incentive to complete the much-discussed discussions with the D-backs about Justin Upton. And if the Upton talks do, indeed, involve several other teams in a multi-trade proposal, as has been reported here and elsewhere, you see what a clog the unresolved Hamilton issue is causing as the Winter Meetings wind down. Same goes for the Zack Greinke derby, in which the Rangers join the Dodgers as the likely finalists. The Angels obviously have an interest in bringing Greinke back, but they are unlikely to do so if his deal is anywhere near the CC Sabathia territory of $161 million. And until Greinke finds a home, much of the starting market will remain unsettled. Look to the West, then, when wondering if baseball's winter bottleneck is about to break. And however this all unfolds, look to the West to once again be one of the game's more daunting divisions. What the A's accomplished last season, winning the West in the season's final week with a rousing sweep of the Rangers, is proof that the division's difficulties go well beyond its most moneyed members. "Good pitching usually will keep the hitting down," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "We feel like, as far as that goes, we're ahead of the game." And with the Mariners, who also possess some attractive pitching pieces, possibly getting more frisky on the offense acquisition front (thanks in no small part to the savings that come with having Ichiro Suzuki off the books and possibly the appeal of Safeco Field's less punitive new dimensions) you have another intriguing aspect of the West's offseason outlook. "You look at just everything that's happened here in my first two years versus maybe the way you looked upon this division five or six years ago, and it is different," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. "I mean, it is arguably the best division in baseball I think that that's a good thing. We're not looking to backdoor our way into anything. We want to face everybody head up, and we're doing this the right way. We're taking our time and making sure that we're patient, but yet we're steady and true as we move forward." Wedge's Mariners have been linked to names of all sorts. Hamilton is likely a stretch, unless he takes a shorter-term deal, but other bats -- from Michael Bourn to Nick Swisher to Raul Ibanez or perhaps even Upton -- are firmly on their radar. The radar of the Rangers is wide, as they have an enviable amount of flexibility in both payroll and roster makeup. They have enough depth of talent to pull off a significant swap for a dynamic lineup presence like Upton or a game-changing rotation piece like James Shields. And they have the money to be in on the likes of Greinke and Hamilton. For the Angels, that level of financial fortitude doesn't seem as likely, if only because so much was already committed to Pujols and Wilson last winter. But they could very well be in the final mix for the other impact starters -- Anibal Sanchez, Kyle Lohse, Edwin Jackson, Ryan Dempster and Brandon McCarthy -- available on the open market. The A's obviously have to operate from an entirely different financial perspective. But with Billy Beane and Co., the intrigue arises from the sheer shrewdness the organization has shown over the years, perhaps never more notably than 2012. It's the kind of shrewdness that Jeff Luhnow is going to have to apply if the rebuilding Astros are one day soon going to be counted as a factor in the wild, wild West. "What Oakland was able to do from their transformation, that makes you sit back and go, 'It is possible to do it without a $150 million payroll,'" new Astros manager Bo Porter said. "They have some very smart people over there, they made some good trades, they acquired the right players. Yes, they are young, but they also added the right veteran players to that young group, and that's something that we look at in Houston." For now, frankly, the attention is not on Houston. But much of it is directed at the West at large. It's a particularly difficult division. And in the coming days, the degree of difficulty could increase yet again.
Anthony Castrovince has been a reporter for MLB.com since 2004. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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|Crystal Langhorne had a productive weekend for Dynamo Moscow, managing a 22-point 16-rebound double-double
There was plenty to ponder in the Russian League over the weekend as Nadezhda were routed and fellow EuroLeague Women side UMMC Ekaterinburg had to work hard to preserve their unbeaten status.
Nadezhda travelled to face a Dynamo Moscow team who had suffered a disappointing one-point home loss to Tarbes in their EuroCup Women Eighth-Final first-leg last week, and the visitors from Orenburg felt the full backlash.
The home team produced a fantastic success, routing their opponents 88-68. Dinamo Moscow trashed Nadezhda 60-32 on the glass with Crystal Langhorne claiming 22 points and 16 rebounds to ensure guests suffered their second league loss of the campaign.
The result means both teams are locked with identical 5-2 records as part of a four-way tie with Dynamo Kursk and Sparta&K M.R Vidnoje.
Dynamo Kursk went into the weekend with only one loss, and were rightfully confident taking on the undefeated UMMC Ekaterinburg. But, despite a superb 35-point haul from Epiphanny Prince, Kursk couldn't avoid going down 77-66, with the visitors moving to their seventh win in seven games, as Diana Taurasi harvested 22 points and seven assists.
Sparta&K M.R. Vidnoje meanwhile had to come from behind at the end of the third quarter to claim a 79-72 home success against Chevakata
Sparta&K's EuroLeague Women rivals, Uni Gyor, suffered a disappointing domestic result over the weekend, losing 78-73 at Bacsbasket KFT to slip to a third loss in the Hungarian League. That gives complete control to UE Sopron who still have a perfect record of 13 wins from 13 games
Like UMMC Ekaterinburg, Fenerbahce are also yet to taste domestic defeat after an eighth consecutive success in the Turkish League, courtesy of a 78-55 win at Samsun. Polish star Agnieszka Bibrzycka top-scored for the Istanbul club with 19 points.
|Evanthia Maltsi's fine season continued for Kayseri Kaski spor at the weekend, as she picked up 26 points
Still waiting to pounce in the wings are both Galatasaray and Kayseri Kaski spor who both have a solitary loss. The former cruised to a 71-56 home win against Canik Belediye as Sancho Lyttle claimed a double-double in points and rebounds, whilst the latter also prevailed at home, with an 84-76 success against Antakya. Evanthia Maltsi continued her great season with 26 points, whilst Asjha Jones did well to corral 19 points and 13 rebounds against a strong Antakya frontcourt.
Tarsus Belediye are beginning to gather some momentum in the chasing pack, having dug out a tough and impressive 64-60 road win at Istanbul University to improve to moving to a 5-3 record, whilst Shavonte Zellous was the highest scorer of the weekend in Turkey with 34 points to help Mersin power to an 83-68 win at Edremit.
There was an exciting all-EuroLeague Women match-up in France as Bourges shrugged off the absence of Swedish shooting ace Frida Eldebrink to clinch a thrilling 60-59 home win against USO Mondeville. The visitors looked set to escape with an impressive victory but ended up fouling Endene Miyem in the last second, with Miyem going on to sink the free-throws which to decide the result. She also top-scored for the winning team with 16 points.
Frontrunners Basket Lattes Montpellier Agglomeration picked up their eleventh win in 12 games with a 61-52 win at home to high-flying Perpignan but there was the usual misery for both Arras and Hainaut Basket at the foot of the table.
Second-from-bottom Arras were undone 68-57 at Nantes Reze, but even more worrying was the way that Hainaut were dismantled 78-58 at Basket Landes as Carmen Guzman poured in 20 points for the hosts to leave the visitors looking up at everybody else with just one win from the first 12 games of the season.
There were few surprises in Liga Femenina over the weekend as all five home teams racked up wins, including the three top-placed clubs. Rivas Ecopolis coasted to a 63-42 success against CB Bembibre PDM with Anna Cruz adding 16 points, whilst Uni Girona also won comfortably, 66-53 against Ciudad De Burgos.
Perfumerias Avenida had to work the hardest of the trio, eventually seeing off Recreativo Conquero 74-66, but not before Joanna Walich had produced a magical 34-point performance for the visitors.


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Red Sox's system loaded with six Top 100 Prospects
BOSTON -- For Red Sox fans who wanted to see more star power added this winter, MLB.com has a half-dozen names that could fit the bill pretty soon.
The Red Sox have six players on MLB.com's Top 100 Prospects list for 2013, which was unveiled Tuesday night on MLB Network. That's two more players than the Sox had on the list a year ago and tied for most on the list with four other teams: the Marlins, Twins, Cardinals and Rangers.
Leading a trio in the Top 50 is a shortstop with a very advanced bat, Xander Bogaerts, who slots in at No. 20 -- which also happens to be his age. Twelve spots away, at No. 32, is center fielder Jackie Bradley, who's looked at as a likely replacement for free-agent-to-be Jacoby Ellsbury, if he's not a contributor sooner. Both should reach Triple-A Pawtucket in 2013.
At No. 38 is the team's leading pitching prospect, right-hander Matt Barnes. A Connecticut boy, Barnes was Boston's top pick in the 2011 Draft and should spend most of 2013 at Double-A.
In the second half of the list are two more arms, righty Allen Webster at No. 71 and lefty Henry Owens at No. 94, and one name who's already pretty familiar to Sox fans: shortstop Jose Iglesias, checking in at No. 96.
The annual ranking of baseball's biggest and brightest young talent is assembled by MLB.com's Draft and prospect expert Jonathan Mayo, who compiles input from industry sources, including scouts and scouting directors. It is based on analysis of players' skill sets, upsides, closeness to the Majors and potential immediate impact to their teams. The list, which is one of several prospect rankings on MLB.com's Prospect Watch, only includes players with rookie status in 2013.
Bogaerts is slated to be on a big stage before any of the rest as a participant in the World Baseball Classic, playing for the Netherlands.
Of the six Sox on the list, only one was outside the organization to start 2012: Webster. He was one of the top gets for Boston in the Adrian Gonzalez blockbuster with the Dodgers, and serves as a reminder that the Sox are bringing more young talent in these days than they're sending out.
But the other five are all original Boston farmhands, and three of them happen to be from the 2011 Draft: Barnes (No. 19 overall), Owens (No. 36) and Bradley (No. 40). It's not that the Red Sox's Minor League system didn't have talent a year ago this time, it's that a lot of that talent was farther down in the system.
Bogaerts made the list a year ago, at No. 76, so he's jumped more than 50 spots. He's the only repeat. Three other Sox made it in 2012: Will Middlebrooks at No. 56, Bryce Brentz at No. 64 and Ryan Lavarnway at No. 93.
Evan Drellich is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @EvanDrellich.