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Springside School and Penn Charter have been among the Northwest Philly women's basketball programs seeking a new head coach, but the first area institution to make its decision was Chestnut Hill College, a member of NCAA Division II.
Last month the college announced the arrival of Laura Pruitt, who comes from Long Island's Dowling College with impressive credentials as a former player and as an assistant coach at the Division II level. She graduated from Dowling in 2005 and most recently had been Associate Head Coach for the Golden Lions women's basketball team.
"Looking at what she'd done at Dowling, we saw that she displayed a lot of growth and success," commented Chestnut Hill College Athletic Director Lynn Tubman. "It was clear that she was someone who was really ready to be a head coach at this level."
In a statement released upon her hiring, Pruitt said, "I look forward to the challenge of leading a wonderful group of young ladies into next season and beginning the process of building a very successful Division II basketball program. I am truly thrilled to be a member of the Chestnut Hill College family."
In three seasons at CHC, Pruitt's predecessor complied a record of 18-62 overall and 13-43 within the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. The Griffins' new skipper was heavily involved in recruiting activities at Dowling, which was an important consideration for the search committee at Chestnut Hill.
"She impressed us with her understanding of the importance of recruiting, and doing that within the context of the mission of the college," Tubman pointed out. "We want to attract talent that 'fits,' on the team and in the student body as a whole."
Pruitt helped Dowling bring in players from Long Island and the greater New York area, and also from farther afield.
"It was definitely a plus that she'd helped them recruit in the Philadelphia area and had some familiarity with the basketball scene here," said Tubman, pointing out that the Golden Lions' 2010-2011 roster included freshmen from Cheltenham and Lower Merion High Schools.
During Pruitt's playing career, Dowling won the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference championship and reached the NCAA tournament. She ranks sixth among the school's all-time leading scorers with 1146 career points, and holds Dowling's career record for three-point field goals (227) as well as single-game records for three-pointers (eight) and total points scored (33). She was a first team all-conference pick as a senior.
Next, she helped her alma mater succeed in a coaching role. The 2010-11 team's record of 17-12 came on the heels of back-to-back 20-win seasons, and last winter the Golden Lions finished first in Division II in field goal defense, only allowing opponents to make 32 percent of their shots from the floor.
"She's already been down here and has gone out recruiting," related the Griffins' Tubman. "She's coming in with a lot of energy and she just makes you feel excited about the future of the program."


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Anyone wanna start earlier tomorrow 8 or 8:30am ?
Are you dumping me? hahaha
I could start earlier and get some singles in before she shows up. A 4th would still be good at 9, too.
cool. 8am ok?
Sure. see you then.
Hey Nhien. Sent you a text....I'm up for 3pm
HI Rock and everyone! Just got some demos of the Prince EXO3 Tour that I want to try out tomorrow morning Thursday Sept 13 before work for an hour or so - anyone want to meet up and hit? I am thinking around 9am - good chance for you guys to try out these racquets too. They feel pretty great so far!
i am playing both sat and sunday - sunday meetup at 3pm if you want to join? so you switched to the tour 16x19 for good?
I will try to make the sunday meetup. I switch because the wilson I was using was hurting my arm. So far so good.
great news I found a pair on Ebay with a leather grip selling for $210 in the right grip size so it should be here next week :) I know I need to add lead tape cuz i can really feel a difference from the EXO3 and my Prince graphite in stableness. Probably go very low in tension too so i can get more power. Thanks for the advice Nhein!
Hi Phillip,
Where do you want to hit? How about San Marino High? Can you also bring your Prue Drive racket? I am thinking of getting the plus.
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Suppose that $\epsilon_1,\epsilon_2,\ldots$ are IID random variables with the Bernoulli distribution $\mathbb{P}(\epsilon_n=\pm1)=1/2$, and $a_1,a_2,\ldots$ is a real sequence with $\sum_na_n^2=1$. Letting $S=\sum_n\epsilon_na_n$, the question is whether there exists a constant $c > 0$, independent of the choice of $a$, with $$ \mathbb{P}(\vert S\vert\ge1)\ge c.\qquad\qquad{\rm(1)} $$ That is, I am interested in finding a bound on the probability of the sum being within one standard deviation of its mean. If true, this represents a particularly sharp version of the $L^0$ Khintchine inequality. Considering the example with $a_1=1$ and all other $a_i$ set to zero, for which $\mathbb{P}(\vert S\vert > 1)=0$, it is necessary that the inequality inside the probability in (1) is not strict. Also, considering the example with $(a_1,a_2,a_3)=(1/\sqrt2,1/2,1/2)$, it can be seen that $c\le1/4$. I wonder if it is possible to construct further examples showing that $c$ must, in fact, be zero?
For any $0 < u < 1$, it is easy to find a bound $$ \mathbb{P}(\vert S\vert > u)\ge c_u $$ for $c_u > 0$ a constant independent of $a$. Considering the case with $a_1=a_2=1/\sqrt{2}$ and all other $a_i$ set to zero, it is clear that $c_u \le 1/2$. In fact, it can be shown that $c_u=(1-u^2)^2/3$ will suffice (see my answer to this other MO question), but $c_u$ decreases to zero as $u$ goes to $1$, so this does not help with (1). Combining the Paley-Zygmund inequality with the optimal constants in the $L^p$-versions of the Khintchine inequality for $p > 0$ (see ref. 1 or 2) it is possible to give improved values for $c_u$, but it still tends to zero as $u$ goes to 1.
My apologies if this is either obvious or some well-known fact that I have missed, but I could not find any reference for it. This question is something that I originally thought about while writing up some notes on stochastic integration (posted on my blog), as the $L^0$-version of the Khintchine inequality can be used to prove the existence of the stochastic integral. However, it is not necessary to have something as strong as (1) in that case. More recently, it came up again while answering this MO question.
- Haagerup, The best constants in the Khintchine inequality, Studia Math., 70 (3) (1982), 231-283.
- Nazarov & Podkorytov, Ball, Haagerup, and distribution functions, Preprint (1997). Available from Fedja Nazarov's homepage.


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A Belgian sociologist, writer and one of the most active members of the World Social Forum, Father Houtart is also the founder of the Tri-Continental Centre (known as Cetri), a nongovernmental organization he established in 1976. Based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Cetri studies the development of North-South relations. Since 1968, Father Houtart has been a frequent traveler to Vietnam. During a recent visit to America, he described the dramatic changes that have been taking place in the country since the end of the Vietnam War.
For all the success Vietnam has achieved in the area of individual material progress, Father Houtart said serious problems remain as the country attempts to absorb elements of the capitalist market system without abandoning its ideals of promoting the collective good. The country currently is working toward its goal of becoming a semi-industrialized nation by 2020. However, Father Houtart thinks the introduction of a capitalist market economy—while reducing poverty for some—also has threatened the environment and widened the gap between rich and poor.
Five years ago, the Institute of Sociology in Vietnam asked Father Houtart to come and revise the study of a rural commune in the Red River Delta that he had directed in the 1970s. "The idea was to measure the economic and social changes that have taken place in Vietnam because of the introduction in Vietnam of the market economy," Father Houtart said. And there are many. "The current situation is one of spectacular growth, especially in the big cities like Hanoi, but also to some degree even in the countryside," he said.
Poverty in Vietnam before the advent of market forces was very different from poverty in some other parts of the developing world because it was poverty with dignity, Father Houtart explained. In general, "everyone had the necessities of life in terms of basics like free education and health care, so a minimum standard of living was assured." He noted that this was made possible by the socialist system that was already in place in North Vietnam. "But now, with North and South Vietnam united and a primarily market economy, besides the spectacular growth of a minority of the population and the relative economic growth of a substantial part of the population, you increasingly have a new and deeper kind of poverty."
Father Houtart observed that the Communist government believed that after the introduction of a market economy, it could control the market forces—both those from within and others from outside in the form of foreign investors and multinational companies. "But when you look at what has happened," he said, "you realize that in great measure…the market is largely controlling the political scene."
The commerce of Vietnam is booming, Father Houtart said: "Everyone is buying and selling, with new construction visible everywhere, particularly in and around the big cities." He described the level of construction near Hanoi as so intense that "it amounts to what is almost the rising of another city because of all the new buildings" in what were once sparsely populated outskirts.
In some rural areas, the more fortunate Vietnamese have built brick houses, a sign of their higher standard of living. The government has established public credit institutions that make low-interest loans to small farmers who organize crop initiatives. Such initiatives are seldom found in Africa and Latin America where the poverty is harsher. Even among the peasants, there is a tradition of self-organizing to collect funds to assist families in need.
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At the same time, Father Houtart said the "logic of the market" has caused negative repercussions affecting matters like health care. "Before, effective medications were produced locally and sold at low cost in village workshops," he said. "But, now, multinational pharmaceutical companies are bringing their products to the villages, where they are sold at much higher cost. There is less possibility for traditional medicine." Such an outcome is a reflection of the increasing social distance between portions of the population, a distance caused by the market economy.
Education in Vietnam, especially higher education, also has changed. Father Houtart said the system has become partly privatized, as Western universities and schools establish themselves in the area and cater only to those whose families can afford the tuition. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has several thousand students at its school in Hanoi, all of the courses are taught in English. Such an education is available only to students from families that have succeeded in the new economic system. Father Houtart spoke of a colleague at the Institute of Sociology whose son won a scholarship to the University of Maine in the United States. "When he came back [to Vietnam] on vacation and visited his high school classmates who were at M.I.T. and other [Vietnamese] institutions of higher education of North American origin, he was shocked to find them speaking English even among themselves," Father Houtart said. English had become their preferred language.
But foreign influence does not come only from the West. Father Houtart noted that 60 percent of the burgeoning foreign investments in Vietnam are from Asia. Many Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean entrepreneurs have taken advantage of Vietnam's cheap labor force. But since these entrepreneurs import some of the raw materials they need—steel, plastic and the like—and even manufacture some of what they export, such economic activity is of relatively little value to the Vietnamese economy.
Despite the government's efforts, corruption among those in authority is rampant. Father Houtart said, "With bribes to the right people, you can construct buildings that may not conform to the required city planning norms." Another form of corruption is exemplified by the growing presence of foreign intermediaries who are gaining influence, not least in land appropriation, he said: "Officially, the state owns all the land in Vietnam, but a peasant has a right to its use for a period of years on a contractual basis with the government, perhaps four or five acres; he can even pass it on to his descendants." But, Father Houtart added, a peasant also can sell his right to the use of the land for a number of years specified in the contract. As a city expands, private companies can purchase a peasant's land rights.
Peasants who choose to sell ordinarily receive little financial compensation, only enough to live on for a few years, but the private companies can sell and resell the land at great profit. After exhausting the money they have received, the peasants face the increasingly widespread problem of unemployment that besets Vietnam. Some start work in the new factories, the chemicals from which are creating land and water pollution. "Not long ago, in the southern part of the country, the water pollution killed the fish, and the peasants, in protest, occupied the factory, but little changed," Father Houtart said. "All the rivers of the Red Delta are polluted now, and the fish are diminishing in number."
During his travels, Father Houtart observed the ways in which climate change is beginning to affect Vietnam. The country has 3,000 kilometers of coast and is losing land as the waters rise. The remaining land is damaged by the salt water. Both factors negatively affect rice production. If this continues, it is estimated that by 2020 the loss will be so great that the country will have to stop exporting rice entirely. Currently, Vietnam is the biggest exporter of rice in the world.
For many companies, disregard for the environment is matched only by disregard for their workers. Father Houtart said that when factory owners (mostly Asians) learn of a movement among workers for higher wages or hear threats of a strike, they attempt to find the leaders and dismiss them.
Yet some labor efforts have succeeded. "In the Province of Vinh Phuc that I visited this past summer," he said, "its vice president told me of a conversation he recently had with the director of a Toyota plant, who spoke of hearing that the workers were preparing to strike for higher wages. Toyota was making big profits because of the low wages. 'But we respect the laws of Vietnam and pay the minimum wage,' the director said to him. The vice president of the province replied, 'It is not possible to live on the minimum wage.' So the director said later that he would increase the pay by 20 percent."
The give-and-take between employers and workers, the rich and the poor, is indicative of Vietnam's struggles as a whole. New solutions give rise to new and different challenges. Vietnam's reactions to these challenges will define the nation it becomes, a nation whose future, for now, remains unclear.
View a slideshow depicting the life of the church in Vietnam today.
It is difficult for me to follow a portion of Fr. Houtard's logic here. He quotes the World Bank as having hailed the Vietnamese economy as a success for having cut in half the number of its impoverished citizens living on less than $2 a day, yet goes on to express that the country is in danger of losing the ideal of the collective good. For validation he quotes that some are benefitting far more than others, are in fact getting wealthy. So the problem seems to be the great majority of the citizens have had their economic situation considerably improved, but that some have improved far more, creating a larger disparity between the rich and the poor than previously existed. So the capitalist free market economy has improved the situation of the poorest, but it has sadly improved the condition of some to a far greater extent. The alternative being for the great majority to remain poorer and worse off under the old socialist economy? The problem that the far better off may resent the even better off now that the country is wealthier as a result of the efficiencies of a free market?


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Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,
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Size: To fit newborn to 3 months
8 inches in length from shoulder to bottom edge
16½ inches chest circumference
Yarn:Spud & Chloë Sweater (55% superwash wool, 45% organic cotton; 160 yards/100 grams), 2 hanks in Igloo #7517 for the cardigan and 1 hank (or a small amount) in Toast #7506 for the edging
Needles: US size 7 needles, 24-inch circular and a set of 4 double-pointed needles or size to obtain gauge
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Gauge: 5 stitches per inch in stockinette stitch
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The Situation sat down with MTV News for his first interview since voluntarily seeking treatment for an addiction to prescription medication at the tony Cirque Lodge in Utah. Sitch says that he was strictly addicted to pain killers for the energy they provided him—"It's a pain killer, you're not tired anymore" (is that even possible?)—denying that he had any issues with cocaine, despite the photos and video of him using the drug circulating around the internet. He also said that he does not have a problem with alcohol. He also told an incredulous Sway that he will, indeed, be returning to Karma and Bamboo and probably Headliners, too, when he resumes filming the new season of Jersey Shore this summer. While he definitely is sober in the interview, his sentiments and vagueness don't really sound like the musings of someone who is serious about recovery.
Snooki, on the other hand, recognizes the Jersey Shore house as an unhealthy environment, and will not be living with her roommates this summer. The reality star, who will be in her third trimester during filming, will live in a private residence nearby.
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This is the wiki's master application list for the Openmoko smartphones.
How to register new applications ?
This list can not be exhaustive, as new things are showing up every week. This page is here to help spreading awareness about applications. Here are instructions on how to add a specific application to this list. There are many ways to go
Method 1 (preferred):
- Register your application at http://opkg.org. You will get a package number there, for example 33.
- Notify the community mailing list.
- Come back here, click on "edit" next to the appropriate section title, then add a line like:
* {{opkg.org|33|Application name}} A short description
Method 2: Just link to wherever the application is hosted.
- Click on "edit" next to the appropriate section title, add a line like:
* [http://your.host.domain/the/path/to/app/page.html Application name] A short description
Method 3: Create a new page in this wiki.
- Click on "edit" next to the appropriate section title, then add a line like:
* [[Application name]] A short description
- The application name will appear in red, click on it to create and edit the new page.
- Bright Player - Fast, lightweight and easy random music player.
- Dictator - Record mic, incoming GSM-sound, or a whole Phonecall
- ePiano - epiano is going to be a virtual piano
- Fingertier - minimal and finger friendly music player
- Fourier- Realtime frequency analysis of sound data.
- Guitartune - Tune musical Instruments.
- GTick - GTick is a metronome application written for GNU/Linux
- Intone - Elementary based mplayer frontend (for audio files).
- Mokoko- Play music.
- MokoPod - Retrieve and listen to podcasts
- Neoqplayer - Renamed as GorshPlayer: a multimedia player written in Qt4: play and retreive podcasts feeds, more reactive interface, now able to play videos ( in svn ).
- omShuffle - Inspired by Bright Player with volume control. Needs mplayer to work.
- Openmoko-mediaplayer2 - Play music and video (mp3...)
- Openmokast - Play audio stream and slideshow stream
- Pythm - Audio player GUI using mplayer and mpd as backend.
- PyRok - Audio player which uses Gstreamer for playback and Pygame for GUI.
- Satan - Create your own music!
- Streamtuner - Listen to Internet Radio Stations
- Streamripper - Record from Internet Radio Stations
- Voicenote - Voicenote is a script which allows to record any sound from the microphone into a wav file. It can play the created files too. It is intended to be an easy and quick way to do so.
- boxar - Touchscreen as a finger friendly piano -- User:RzR
- JaMoko Jamoko is a Jamendo player for OpenMoko.
- Coypu - Utility for send file via BlueTooth
- Games/Om 2007.2 - Many small games on Om 2007.2
- Om 2008.8 Sudoku - Number placement based puzzle game
- Moko-sudoku - Another sudoku puzzle game.
- ScummVM (Wiki) Virtual Machine for several classic graphical point-and-click adventure games
- Kobodeluxe - A top-view space shooter, available from 2008.8 repositories.
- Pingus - Pingus is a lemmings clone with penguins.
- Duke Nukem 3D - Legendary First Person Shooter.
- Numptyphysics - A drawing puzzle game.
- Gnuboy - An emulator for the handheld gaming all-time bestseller.
- XBill - Little action game to stop Bill from installing Windows(tm) on computers.
- Xlogical-A puzzle based game where you turn spinners to move balls around.
- Liquid War-Liquid War is a truly original multiplayer wargame.
- DOOM- Classic FPS. Freerunner/1973
- MBAC- MBAC is "Moko Bulls and Cows", a classic game for openmoko written in pygtk similar to mastermind.
- OpenVibe - The first opensource vibrator.
- OpenTTD - OpenTransportTycoonDeluxe, ported to openmoko, using only GPLed datafiles.
- Pong progresses- This is a little pong game for the openmoko freerunner. The screen is devided in halves, so you can touch the right half to move the paddle right and the left half to move it left.
- OpenMooCow - OpenMooCow reads information out of your accelerometers. Now, if you turn the phone upside down and back again, it "moos" like one of the little toys.
- Freerunner LightSaber-Application as iphone LightSaber.
- CellHunter - A game you earn points by collecting cells (in english now).
- XSkat - XSkat lets you play the card game Skat defined by the official Skat Order.
- OpenMiaoCat OpenMiaoCat, like OpenMooCow, makes your phone became a cat!
- I'm Rich I'm Rich application
- Mokomaze Ball-in-the-labyrinth game
- Acceleroids Shoot-the-asteroids game
- Black Sheep Fight insomnia!
- Advanced Geocaching Tool for Linux - "Towards paperless geocaching" - User Manual
- Simple Geocaching Tool for Linux - A geocaching application which shows you the direction.
- GPS Sight - Display GPS information, location, tracks, etc, without maps.
- Gpsdrive - Car (bike, etc) navigation system
- Om 2008.8 Locations - (aka Splinter) - Location sharing based on GPS and SMS
- Navit - Car navigation system with routing engine
- TangoGPS - Display map (OSM..), record GPS tracks...
- Pyroute - Pyroute is a routing program written in Python. It features mobile phone GUI for maps, GPS, and routing.
- mumpot - Display map (OSM), routing, OSM editing, a bit of live editing
- QMapControl - Display maps (OSM..) and add points, lines...
- Qpegps - Display map with current position
- Idle Hands - Give a task to you based on your location
- Gtkaddpoi - Utility for add a POI to TangoGPS using address or coordinates and export to Navit or to .kml file.
- Gpsdcontrol-A simple python script for start or stop gpsd daemon with a button on the desktop.
- OpenBmap-a free and open map of wireless communicating objects (e.g. cellular antenna, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth). It provides tools to mutualize data, create and access this map.
- gvSIG Mobile - This is an unofficial port of gvSIG Mobile (http://www.gvsig.gva.es/) to the Openmoko platform. gvSIG Mobile for Openmoko is currently a GPS-enabled projection-aware map viewer. Homepage.
- BikeAtor - Like TangoGPS BikeAtor can display OSM Maps. The Speedometer displays the most interesting values of the trip.
- bicirutas - This application looks for mtb routes in www.bicirutas.net (routes in Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany). It gets the current position from the gps system and downloads nearby routes. Then you can follow them with tangogps application.
- omgps - High performance, UBX binary or ogpsd as GPS data provider, layered maps, AGPS online, track replay, scratch on map, ruler and lat/lon grid, basic sounding. etc.
- Travel Diary - a simple application to save little diary entries to a csv file and send this to a server (that can generate a .kml file or show a map or do whatever...)
- QNavitCtl - send coordinates to Navit via dbus (position, destination, map center)
- a-gps GUI - uses cellhunter data to locate you, then uses u-blox a-gps to initialize your GPS chip
- sms-sentry - locate a lost or stolen phone
- bicirutas - download bicycle routes
- Orrery - Displays the night sky
- OMView - Image viewer
- PyPenNotes - Write notes using pen and touchscreen
- Gpe-scap - Take screenshots
- Gnash-Play flash file on Neo
- Neon - Image viewer
Web browsers
- Dillo - Multiplatform fast and small web browser (.ipk).
- fennec
- Midori - Webkit based web browser
- Minimo - Mozilla based web browser
- netsurf-A new browser for Neo FreeRunner.
- Openmoko-browser2 - The original Openmoko web browser
- pyqt-browser - modified the sample code from python-pyqt4 and changed it to use webkit for web browsing.
- woosh
Email clients
- Openmoko Mail - E-mail client
- claws-mail email client available in shr-unstable
- Qtmail - Default mail program on Om 2008.8
Offline wikipedia
- Mokopedia - Read small Wikipedia dumps offline
- Offline Wikipedia reader - store the entire content of wikipedia (single-language, excluding images), on a single 8GB microSD card
- evopedia
- Pidgin - Instant messaging client (ICQ, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and more.)
- CenterIM - Instant messaging client (terminal-based).
- Openmokast - Play audio stream and slideshow stream
- PyFeedRead - RSS feed reader
- TwitterMoko - A Twitter client for Openmoko
- ettercap-ng DEAD LINK
- GPRSModem - Converts your neo in a GPRS modem.
- dates - a simple calendar
- e-tasks - An elementary task manager
- Epdfview - PDF reader.
- Evince - Document reader for PDF, PS, DJVU and more.
- FBReader - E-book reader program (TXT, FB2, HTML and more)
- GPE contacts
- Gutenflash - Fast text reader by scrolling text
- OMoney - A bookkeeping application
- PISI - PISI is synchronizing (PIM) information
- Mofi - Wifi setup tool
- Mokonnect - Connection manager
- Lint-wifi - Wifi setup tool
- KnjMokoWifi - Wifi setup tool
- KnjMokoOPKG - A graphical frontend to OPKG.
- Om 2008.8 Installer - Graphical software installer
- Opkg - Command line software installer
- Sephora - Settings manager
- SettingsGUI - Edit various settings
- Wicd - Wifi setup tool
- ZOMG! - A graphical package manager (opkg frontend -> should work on any distro)
- tzdata- Customise your time zone setting.
- momtools - an application to control Wifi, gprs and some other stuff
- Wlan - Wlan is an application to manage wireless connection on the Freerunner
- Aphasia - A system built on Erlang and a vertical application for people with apahasia.
- AUIMD - AUIMD is a PyQt graphical user interface for mobile devices.
- Auxlaunch - Finger-friendly app launcher and window switcher
- Display Locker - Screen lock
- Gwaterpas - levelling tool using accelerometer
- Gestures - Detect movement and display information, rotate screen
- Keychain - SSH keys
- MokoFEM - Monitors GSM information
- Mokostat - Monitors battery
- ReMoko - Control stuff via BlueTooth
- Rotate - Rotate screen when phone is rotated
- Vala-terminal - Command prompt with tabs
- Ts calibrate - Calibrates touchscreen
- Zedlock - Screen locker
- fso-control - Popup Power menu to shutdown/suspend/reboot.
- omkeys_functions - Remap AUX key bindings
- Siglaunchd - A daemon that listens to dbus signals and launches appliactions upon arrival.
- Pexpect-a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output.
- libaxel - Library for easy use accelerometer.
- Dialer/2007.2 - The dialer application in Om 2007.2
- Openmoko SMS Middleware- SMS middleware is a Openmoko middleware software for additional features related to SMS. Plugin architecture and Python based code gives this project lots of flexibility and enchancebility.
- Paroli -Paroli is an integrated phone application based on Tichy (and so also written in python).
- Litephone Easy to use, single window phone application written in Qt.
- Unison - Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It determines all differences between two directory trees and lets the user decide, how to proceed with every differing file.
- HP48 Series RPN Calculator - Calculator with many functions
- qwo- An alternative input method.
- fido - fido is a todo list\note manager written with elementary
- The Lightsaber. Pre-alpha starwaresque orphanware.
- NeoTool NeoTool is a bash script for your desktop system to provide a friendly GUI frontend to some common management tasks.
- NeoCon - neocon is a handy serial console utility (not only) for u-boot. The main feature of neocon is actually that you can give it a list of devices and it will pick one that works.
- usbmode-a quick pygtk program.
- Enotes - Enotes is the implementation of a TODOlist manager written with elementary to appear better with distribution that use illume, like SHR.
- LED clock - When an Openmoko is sitting unused at night, turn it into an alarm clock with large 7-segment digits on a black background in landscape mode.
- MokoGeocaching - Utility for add a POI to TangoGPS using geocaching.com
- Wrench - Modual used utility enlightenment_remote.
- Yaouh! - Yet Another OSM Updater H.
- ShortOm - Graphical launcher for shell or application, with editable config file, and log result page.
- Pimlico-Pimlico is a suite of lightweight Personal Information Management (PIM) applications designed primarily for handheld and mobile devices
- OTP4Neo One time password generator
- FFAlarm is a program to set multiple alarms a day using a finger friendly user interface
- OpenWrt-basic support for the Openmoko "Freerunner"! Kernel (2.6.28) is building and booting.
- Enscribi-a handwriting recognition input method for Linux. It's mainly developed for the Openmoko Freerunner smartphone.
- GridPad-GridPad is an alternative input method for entering text with your finger, a Simple Character Recognizer Software.
- sortdesk sort your om-desktop in categories
- Mokometeo is a widget which fetches the weather forecast from yahoo, for a list of cities
- CoovaChilli - It turns your phone's WiFi network into an Ad-Hoc Hotspot!
- DWDWetter Fetches weather information from dwd (First Register at dwd!)
- QSuunto-Lite display dive log information from Suunto Dive computers (that work with divetools-ab)
- Literki - alternative keyboard
Setting Application
- Wmiconfig- wmiconfig is a tool written by Atheros Communications Inc to configure the Ar6k WIFI chip used in the Neo Freerunner. This is a standalone C executable, released under GPL v2.
- GTA02 sysfs- sysfs is a filesystem that is mounted on /sys which contains various fake "files" that are actually filled by a variety of drivers and other kernel subsystems. You can use it to change settings and behaviours of the kernel and drivers dynamically.
- Video Player - Using Mplayer on Openmoko smartphones.
- Quasar - a mplayer frontend for X11.
- PyPhonelog - daemon uses the framework to track and log all the calls made to and from the moko.
- Lscd - LSC library/daemon on Linux System.
The pages linked above are all maintained manually. We also maintain an automatic categorization system by tagging wiki pages. Here is the list of application-related pages in this wiki. Normally, every page listed below should be also listed above in the same category. The converse is false: there are applications without a wiki page.
Where to find more applications?
At opkg.org !
Not all Openmoko apps are listed on this wiki - there are much more projects at the Openmoko GForge than the wiki can list, not to mention self-hosted applications on their own websites. Actually the phones can run most Linux based Free Software, using for example the Debian distribution. The mobile phones section of Freshmeat may be a interesting place to look.
Note also that there are many packages in the repository that are not installed by default. If what you want is a classic, chances are that it is already packaged. Suppose you want to install Perl:
opkg list|grep perl opkg install perl
More application download related pages:
Where to find full distributions ?
- Download: for complete system downloads
The usual warnings
- Some of these software are developed by Openmoko Inc. and some are contributed by the community. Any problems with community contributed software should be reported to the individual software developer rather than the Openmoko core team.
- Most programs listed here are not mature/stable, but only useable/beta.
- Many programs listed here are not yet packaged for your distribution and integrated in its repositories. Whichever it is.
- Installing experimental software from the internet is certain to break things. Running it as root is a very insecure thing to do. Kown that you will be burned, have backups, and be ready to apologize to everybody in your phone contact list in case they receive strange SMSs...
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"It is certainly true that our congregations have, at times compromised the radical requirements of discipleship prescribed by Christ, and you may find yourself put off by the church because of its failure to be faithful to his teachings. But I would urge you to consider this fully, and to think about the words of St. Augustine: "The church is a whore, but she's my mother." That statement brilliantly conveys how I feel about church. It is easy for me, like so many of the young Evangelicals I know, to note the ways the church been unfaithful as the bride of Christ... Unquestionably, the church too often has socialized our young people into adopting culturally established values of success, rather than calling them into the kind of countercultural nonconformity that Scripture requires of Christ's followers (Romans 12:1-2).
Why, then, do I encourage you to participate in organized religion and commit yourself to a specific local congregation? Because, as Augustine made clear, the church is still your mother. It is she who taught you about Jesus. I want you to remember that the Bible teaches that Christ loves the church and gave himself for it (Ephesians 5:25). That's a preeminent reason why you dare not decide that you don't need the church. Christ's church is called his bride (11 Con 11:2), and his love for her makes him faithful to her even when she is not faithful to him.
These are excerpts from Campolo's book, Letters To A Young Evangelical (I kind of wish I would have read this book 1 1/2 years ago when I was walking some slippery slopes. I turned out alright, but I suppose it's never too late.)Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us. It is the church's witness that has kept the world aware that Christ is alive today, offering help and strength to those who trust in him. The story of Christ would have been lost during the Dark Ages if the church had not sustained it in monasteries where the Scriptures were laboriously hand-copied while barbarians were tearing down the rest of Western civilization. Church councils have protected Christianity from heresies by examining new theologies. Today, it is against two thousand years of church tradition that our modern-day interpretations of Scripture are tested. In short, it is the church that has preserved the Gospel and delivered it into our hands."


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Mike McCulley is looking forward to the day he can bring his boat back to the Hancock Creek Marina.
Mike McCulley is looking forward to the day he can bring his boat back to the Hancock Creek Marina.
After a seven-month construction period, the marina located at Cherry Point air station is scheduled to reopen on Sept. 25.
�We�re definitely looking forward to coming back. We�re anxious to get a decent slip,� said McCulley, the treasurer of the 50-member Hancock Yacht Club. �We�re looking forward to coming back to Hancock. It�s a lot more convenient for us.�
Club members had to remove their boats in February for the construction, the majority of which should be completed by the Sept. 25 opening.
�We may have some odds and ends to do but nothing that would keep the boats from using the piers and boaters from using the parking lot,� said Danny Fornes, an engineering tech with NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic.
Trade Construction Company is the prime contractor with subcontracting work being done by T.D. Eure Construction and Technical Foundations.
The $3.4 million project has involved more than 22,000 man hours, Fornes said. The work included tearing out half-century old docks.
�It was old, dilapidated and falling down. It was a mess,� Fornes said.
Workers replaced the docks and installed concrete reinforced bulkheads and several hundred marine-grade pilings.
The old Tiki Bar was removed from the shore and was not rebuilt.
�Everything out there is new construction,� Fornes said. �All the decking on the boardwalk is synthetic, one-inch-thick composite boards.�
More than 800 feet of new 40-foot-long steel sheet piles had to be vibrated into place with a hydraulic hammer to make up the shoreline. Each of the boat slips will have water and electricity.
�It�s a big improvement,� Fornes said. �This will be here forever.�
Adjacent to the boat docks, a new fishing pier was built where the old one was located. The gravel parking lot has been replaced with a paved one with 28 spaces, and the boat ramp has been redone with wing walls to curtail erosion.
A marina basin has been outfitted with a new reinforced concrete bulkhead, and a new paved trailer and boat storage area have been created.
�This will be lovely to come down here to,� Fornes said. �It will be much better and so much safer.�
Members of the Hancock Yacht Club are the largest users of the facility. The club, which is older than the marina, skipped its annual Hancock Creek Regatta this July due to the construction going on.
�There was no way to really host people for a regatta but we�ll definitely hold one next year,� McCulley said.
Drew C. Wilson is a reporter for the Havelock News.


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Richard Stockton - 78, Farmingdale State - 58
Pomona, N.J. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team fell 78-58 to Richard Stockton in the Championship game of the Stockton Tip-Off Tournament in Pomona, N.J. The Rams had advanced to the championship game with yesterday's 5-point victory over Neumann.
Leading 22-17 with 9:37 remaining in the first half, an 8-0 Ospreys run increased the advantage to 13 until senior guard Ryan Davis (Flushing, N.Y.) connected on a 3-pointer for Farmingdale State (1-0). Richard Stockton (2-0) scored the final 11 points of the half and took a 41-20 lead into the break.
The Ospreys increased the lead to 54-29 with 13:07 left to play, until a 12-2 Rams run over the next 3:32 cut the deficit to 56-41. After trading baskets, back-to-back 3-pointers by junior guard Rich Suhr (Toms River, N.J.) extended Richard Stockton's lead to 64-43. The Ospreys held a double-digit advantage for the remainder en route to the 78-58 victory.
Senior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.), who was named to the All-Tournament Team, led Farmingdale State 20 points, nine rebounds and four blocks. Davis added 11 points and six assists, while sophomore guard Justin Bailey (Jamaica, N.Y.) scored seven points.
Sophomore forward Josh Blamon (Cinnaminson, N.J.) scored a team-high 20 points for Richard Stockton, while Suhr and senior guard Darnell McCargo (Woodlynne, N.J.) each had 16 points.
The Rams next will travel to Medgar Evers for a non-conference game on Wednesday, November 21 at 7:00 p.m.


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WASHINGTON -- A lot of players will wait a decade for their shot at free agency, after being drafted and signing as an amateur, and then playing some years in the minors before accruing the six years of service time that makes them eligible to test the open market. Along the way, some have worked through injuries, had failures along with the successes and have seen their service time manipulated by teams looking to maximize their investment.
Reaching free agency, then, is a big deal, a right that the players like Curt Flood fought for. Some players never get to free agency because they're not good enough or because they choose to sign as a very young player, and some, like Albert Pujols, get there only once.
For a lot of those players set to become free agents in another two months, the hope of spring training has been washed away. For others, the hope has been realized.
Here are 10 would-be free agents who have helped themselves so far in 2013:
1. Ervin Santana, P, Royals
At the time that Kansas City traded for him last fall, there was a lot of surprise within the industry that the Royals had been so aggressive, given Santana's diminished velocity and brutal 2012 performance for the Angels. But Santana bounced back in a big way, lowering his ERA by almost two full runs. Now he's 30 years old and is in position to get paid.


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This is a vintage denim shirt which has been re-made and re constructed for a modern fit and to be in keeping with to days "vintage grunge" fashions.
The shirt is alight blue denim which has been dip dyed in bleach giving a speckled effect (the colours may vary from monitor to monitor)
There are 7 gold spikes hanging from the collar as a design fetcher.
the sleeves have been removed and the hem has been cut leaving a raw fraying edge along with distressing of the fabric giving a worn in look.
in the style of urban outfitters renewal
This shirt is one of a kind and is a truly unique vintage revival piece.
the shirt is designed to be over sized but typically fits between size 8 and 12
This product is for sale
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As customers become more reliant on the Web for everyday tasks and companies use internal networks to power more operations, businesses are reminded more than ever how costly an online outage can be, especially around the high-traffic holiday season.
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This year alone, denial of service cyber attacks downed the consumer web sites of major U.S. banks like Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), while glitches in internal software caused erroneous trades at Knight Capital (NYSE:KCG) and the Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and disrupted travel plans at United Continental (NYSE:UAL).
Whether it's cyber attacks or internal glitches, an outage can be damaging, causing significant monetary harm and tarnishing a company's reputation even if a site or network falls for just a few minutes.
Last week, an outage in United's Unimatic software used to control its ground operations delayed flights nationwide, causing a furry of passenger backlash a week before the busy Thanksgiving travel weekend and denting the No. 1 U.S. carrier's image.
"The cost of an event like this is just staggering," said Dave Laurello, the CEO of server and software solutions company Stratus Technologies.
"The wake created from nearly two hours of downtime will ripple through the economy for days, the negative impact on the airline's reputation will persist much longer than that," he said.
It has become a critical issue in an increasingly mobile world and is pressuring companies to adopt better Internet security protocols and software to ensure their systems are up and running as often as possible.
"It's a boardroom level discussion because the risks are so great and rewards are so high," said Keith Stewart, senior director of product management at Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD), one of the world's largest networking companies.
For retailers like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) that rely on their website for sales, and payments processors like Visa (NYSE:V) and eBay's (NASDAQ:EBAY) PayPal, having secure networks in place can be vital to protecting their bottom line, especially during the holiday season.
To put this in perspective, a network that is up and running 99.5% of the time risks being down 43.92 hours of the year, equating to $440,000 in annual losses at an hourly rate of $10,000 per hour, according to data compiled by Stratus.
Companies like MasterCard (NYSE:MA) and other credit card processors that lose even more money per second risk losing as much as $1.1 million annually at the same success rate, according to Stratus.
Monitoring clients' internal networks and offering temporary solutions while fixing outages, Stratus last year boasted average annual downtime of just 81 seconds across all of its customers.
"Not being able to catch your flight because of a system outage is absolutely preventable," Laurello said. "The technology exists to prevent downtime."
Outages become even more of a threat as consumers become more reliant on the Internet for daily activities, from banking and shopping to directions and communication.
Cyber Monday, for example, has become the busiest online shopping day of the year with sales in 2011 reaching $1.3 billion and Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) forecasting sales will grow 18% this year to $2 billion, marking the most lucrative online shopping day in history.
As retailers prepare for the rapidly approaching Black Friday weekend, having mechanisms in place to prepare for an influx in traffic as well as tightening security to help fend off third-party cyber crimes might mean the difference between success and failure not only this holiday season but in the future as well.
"Our customers look at downtime as something that will impact their future business and revenue stream," Laurello said.
In a recent survey of 2,400 U.S. adults commissioned by Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), 89% of participants said they would stop shopping on a particular web site if they had a poor experience, while 79% said the overall site experience is "absolutely essential" when choosing where to shop. At the same time, positive experiences lend to brand loyalty, according to the study conducted by Harris Interactive (NASDAQ:HPOL), with 84% of participating U.S. adults saying they would revisit a brand online if they had a good digital shopping experience.
Since the web is becoming companies' primary communication vehicle with customers, new pressures and demands have been placed on how fresh networks and infrastructure are built.
Companies are focusing on identifying hypothetical scenarios where servers are overloaded or attacked by hackers and either building a system internally to manage that or outsourcing a site's infrastructure to experts.
On the traffic side, the ability to expand and contract on an as-needed basis is critical to handling drastic and rapid changes in web site traffic. Companies like Brocade that build cloud-based networking systems provide retailers the elasticity to ensure traffic influxes don't temporarily knock a site offline or translate to excruciatingly slow response times.
"The direct financial impact of an outage is certainly something to care about," Stewart said. "But the long term effects of reputational damage haunt you for a long time."


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Superman turns 74 this month, so it's not a bad time to assess the place of the Man of Steel in our collective consciousness. My own affection for him stems from the 1952 television series "Adventures of Superman," starring George Reeves, which I watched as after-school reruns even before I went to school.
In my mind the hero is inextricably linked to the Sears Wish Book. That aptly named digest of dreams arrived every October, allowing plenty of time before Christmas to peruse its promised delights. Therein my 5-year-old self saw, and immediately had to have, the Superman costume that is still being marketed.
Why did I have to have it? Was it simply that I had grown tired of running around the neighborhood with my friends, each of us with a towel tied around his neck? Not at all. It involves an early theological error on my part.
The Power
I knew that Superman's cape made the wearer impervious to bullets because, like the rest of his costume, it had been sewn by Ma Kent from the swaddling clothes in which the baby Kal-el had arrived, packed in the space-capsule sent from the planet Krypton. The costume offered invulnerability to whoever would wear it.
My error lay in thinking that the cape allowed one to fly. Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of Superman knows that his flying ability comes, like his other superpowers, from his being in the lighter gravitational field of Earth's yellow sun. He was born under the much heavier red sun of Krypton.
Silly me! I thought: Get the costume, get the powers. Several months of delighted daydreaming passed before that memorable Christmas Eve when I tore open the package, ran to the bedroom my brother and I shared to put it on and announced that I had to go outside. My parents vetoed that; it was cold. I didn't explain that I planned to jump off our roof because I wanted to see for myself the cape's abilities before displaying such marvelous power in front of the entire family. Several leaps into the air on my own had not yet produced the desired effect. I had to settle for jumping repeatedly off my bed, wondering if Sears had sent a defective costume.
I had put such hope in Superman. But then, our visitor had come from Krypton for that very reason, to instill hope.
Several individuals can claim credit for the creation of Superman. Frederick Nietzsche first used the term in 1883, when he wrote, in German of course, "Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Superman, a rope over an abyss." DC (Detective Comics) had recently changed its name from National Comics, when one of its contributors in Cleveland, Jerry Siegel, a young man fascinated by science fiction, convinced an artist friend, Joe Shuster, to draw the Man of Steel. His first incarnation appeared in a 1933 prose story with illustrations, "The Reign of the Superman."
The Hope
It is no coincidence that Superman, and the Messianic hope that he instilled, appeared when America needed him most, in the midst of the Great Depression, with war looming abroad. Superman would go on to become a great battler of Nazis. Both Siegel and Shuster were children of Jewish immigrants, as were many DC editors.
If Superman can be seen as a messianic figure, his claim to that title, from a Jewish perspective, is stronger than that of Jesus. Jesus was executed, but Superman triumphs as the mighty one who fights constantly for a reign of peace and justice, and "the American way." He is, after all, an American Messiah. And his origins are replete with Mosaic pedigree. Like Moses, Superman was sent off alone by his mother to save him from destruction. Moses sailed away through the bulrushes in a basket, Superman in a rocket from the doomed planet Krypton.
I am embarrassed to admit that, in praying and pondering my way into the priesthood, I associated that vocation with superhero Messianism—as when Superman rises above earthly passions, even his love for Lois Lane.
A theologian would want to point out that Superman's Christological aspect comes from the dramatic tension created by his ability to suffer on our behalf. He is vulnerable to Kryptonite, pieces of his doomed planet that made their way to earth.
Yet we tend to see only the human persona that Superman assumes in Clark Kent. Even as a child I never understood how simply putting on glasses made it impossible for Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen to recognize Superman. Yet our own inability to discern Christ among us is shown with poignancy by this analogy: Lois Lane falls for the Man of Steel even as she continues to rebuff the "mild mannered" Clark Kent. We are all Lois Lanes when it comes to Christ. We want the hero; we eschew the humility and the humanity.
Our attraction to superheroes has other manifestations. Posters of Barack Obama dressed as Superman appeared during the 2008 presidential campaign. Caroline Kennedy explained her endorsement of the president by saying, "Over the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today." Has President Obama disappointed more than the left wing of the Democratic Party? Or is disappointment a predictable human response to any messiah? We seem to repudiate anyone who does not immediately usher in the kingdom on our terms.
Perhaps that's a subtle danger of any Superman/messiah figure, that being of nondivine origin, he can turn into a deluded warrior who simply smashes whatever he mistakenly and arrogantly judges to be evil and recklessly champions whatever he thinks is "truth, justice, and the American way."
It is still a question whether George Reeves, the actor whom I first associated with Superman, committed suicide or was murdered. Messianism is a millstone.
The late Christopher Reeve, who portrayed Superman in three blockbuster movies during the 1970s and '80s, offers a better incarnation of the Man of Steel. Reeve became a quadriplegic after a tragic fall from a horse, but he went on to show the world what grace in the face of suffering can accomplish. His was a fall, not from Krypton to Earth, but from the heights of Hollywood into our own suffering humanity.
Did we follow his wheelchair-bound odyssey with the devotion that we lavish on the Man of Steel? No. A man of suffering garners no glow. And there is the Christological rub. In our hearts, we remain Lois Lanes, blind to the love revealed in our midst.
Childhood disappointments usually dissipate quickly. The disappointment I felt over my inability to fly vanished when I wore the Superman costume to kindergarten and became the envy of every boy there. Mrs. Baughman even suggested that we put on a Superman play, since we already had the costume. You can guess who got to play the Man of Steel. It was, after all, my Wish Book costume.


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St. Louis, Mo., October 5, 2013 – The Washington University in St. Louis football team ran for a season-high 276 yards in a 44-7 win over Berry College Saturday at Francis Field in St. Louis. Washington U. had a 508-149 advantage in total offense and scored a season-high 44 points in the win.
The Bears picked up its second-straight victory to improve its overall record to 3-2, while Berry falls to 0-4.
Junior running back Zach Lonneman ran for a career-high 148 yards on 23 carries, while sophomore running back Cody Ratermann picked up a career-best 75 yards on 15 carries and his first career touchdown.
After a scoreless first quarter, Washington U. put together a 14-play, 98-yard drive early in the second quarter to get on the scoreboard first. Senior quarterback Eric Daginella found sophomore tight end Max Elliott across the middle for a 13-yard TD to make it 7-0. The touchdown for Elliott was the first of his career.
A 42-yard punt by sophomore Alec Stankepinned Berry on its five-yard line, and two plays later freshman defensive linemanJosiah Situmeang recorded a safety after tackling Jonathan Lewis in the end zone. The safety for Washington U. was its first since November 19, 2009, at Case Western Reserve University.
The Bears offense continued to grind the clock behind the running back tandem of Lonneman and Ratermann. Daginella orchestrated a 14-play, 65-yard drive that resulted in a three-yard TD run by Ratermann to make it 16-0 just before half. Washington U. had a 235-28 advantage in total offense in the first half, as the Bears' offense had the ball for 21:17 of the 30 minutes. Washington U. ran for 174 yards in the first half, highlighted by 79 yards by Lonneman and 62 yards by Ratermann.
Washington University put the game out of reach early in the third quarter on its first possession of the second half after a 45-yard TD run by Lonneman. Junior wide receiver Ryan Lubatkin added a 26-yard touchdown reception on 4th-and-6 from Daginella to extend the lead to 30-0 after three quarters. Lubatkin would leave the game in the fourth quarter with an injury.
Freshman backup quarterback J.J. Tomlin added a 35-yard touchdown pass to freshman wide receiver Kevin Hammarlund and a 21-yard TD pass to junior wide receiver Tim Bartholomew in the fourth quarter to round out the scoring for the Bears. Berry scored its lone TD of game with 5:14 to play when Dale Jackson found Will Chomskis for a 37-yard TD reception.
The Bears' defense limited Berry to 149 yards of total offense, including 36 rushing yards on 28 carries. Washington U. forced three turnovers in the win, forced six punts and had 10 tackles for loss in the win. Sophomore linebacker Matt Goad led the defensive unit with six tackles, three tackles for loss, a sack and a fumble recovery, while senior linebacker Peter Loweryadded four stops and a tackle for loss. Junior defensive back Ryan Bednar added an interception, the eighth of his career.
Daginella was 14-of-245 for 127 yards and two touchdowns, while Tomlin was 7-for-7 for 92 yards and two TD. Bartholomew (six catches, 54 yards, TD), Hammarlund (five catches, 65 yards, TD) and Lubatkin (four catches, 52 yards, TD) led the receiving corps for Washington U.
Washington U. opens a three-game road tip Saturday, Oct. 12 at Hendrix College. Game time is set for 1 p.m. (CT) in Conway, Ark. Hendrix suffered a 47-38 loss at Millsaps College Saturday to drop its record to 2-2.
Bear Notebook: This was the first meeting in school history between the two teams … Washington U. has won 22-straight games dating back to the 2007 season when scoring 21 or more points … Head coach Larry Kindbom picked up the 179th win of his career, sixth most by an active NCAA Division III coach … The Bears had a 40:03-19:57 advantage in time of possession … Washington U. was 10-of-18 on third down and 4-of-5 on fourth down.