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Web 2.0 isn't all about rounded corners and social software – there are real benefits to leveraging the Web 2.0 philosophy and technologies in business, but the key is selecting the right entry points to start conversations with your customers, and then to grow from there, using the community you've developed as your sounding board.
There are many ways to look at Web 2.0, and it strikes me that within the UK business sector there is either a reticence to get started, or people simply don't know how and where to start. It seems that for the most part, the business community is dismissive of the change that is happening on the web as we speak, why I don't really know.
When you dissect the promise that Web 2.0 holds, it really becomes about interactions – where people are interacting with each other not a machine – and therefore conversations. About what doesn't really matter, the point is that we're moving away from the static top-down web sites of old to more dynamic web applications with encourage user participation of any sort.
Dion Hinchcliffe has written a great piece, which talks about the techniques enterprises can use to reinvent their customer relationships.
In summary, he encourages business to lower the experience barrier, make it easy for people to contribute, foster community growth, think open platforms and create customised interactions for the individual when needed (or automated when not).
Now that seems like an easy enough thing to do, but in reality it's not that easy logistically and technically, and generally no-one wants to start a white elephant, so where does that leave us?
Start by asking people / your users / your customers / your stakeholders what they want out of your business, and get them to participate in discussions which anyone potentially can participate in (the most natural method for this would be a blog). Make sure that when there is interaction it's followed through by someone in your organisation.
It's far more valuable to ask people what they want and then to deliver it to them as a result of a conversation, than it is to assume that you know what people want and hope that they will take to it – again, this re-iterates the focus of Web 2.0 as bottom-up and not top-down.
Perhaps the most important aspect of this is the idea of a self-regulating community, where the community has visibility into your organisation because they have a stake in it (they buy your products, they consume your services, they are your employees).
A community is only going to be of value if it's nurtured and expanded (and will be far more valuable than no community at all, whatever the size). Remember that your community must be able to converse with your organisation easily. And that a conversation is a two-way street.
As for the technology, Tim O'Reilly published a Web 2.0 meme map which should give you plenty to think about and discuss internally.
The best way to start leveraging Web 2.0 in your business is to start with something small and easy to manage, where you're interacting with a relatively small test user group, and where you're only using a few key value offerings to stimulate conversation and feedback. Fairly soon you'll know whether your ideas have merit and whether you can open them up to a larger user group.


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DETROIT — Bruce Bochy's office off a hallway in the visitors' clubhouse at Comerica Park overflowed with people at 1 a.m. Monday. The man who preceded Bochy as manager of the San Francisco Giants, Felipe Alou, stood in the doorway, smiling. The World Series trophy, secured less than two hours before, rested on a small table in the corner. Visitors, holding beers and soaked in champagne, ducked in and out.
On Sunday night into Monday, everybody wanted to be a Giant. "I'm numb, really, the fact that we've won two World Series in the last three years," Bochy said after his team swept away the Detroit Tigers. Given his stumbling answers to fawning questions about his own place in the game — more championships than Bobby Cox or Davey Johnson, the only active manager besides Terry Francona with two — numb sounded about right.
But baseball has now woken up to the Giants. One title can be an aberration, and the 2010 championship — with unforeseeable contributions from unpredictable sources — could have seemed so. It meant everything to the city of San Francisco, which hadn't won a World Series since the franchise moved from New York in 1958. The rest of baseball, though, could logically say, "That won't happen again."
Now, it has. The Giants finished their season on a seven-game winning streak that showed not only the bond they built this fall, but the franchise they have built for the future. No one in the clubhouse was predicting more titles in coming years. "In this game, a couple injuries here and there, and that's the end of it," pitching coach Dave Righetti said. But there was and is a quiet confidence about what just transpired, and what might come next.
"You never know what's going to happen, performance from year to year," said General Manager Brian Sabean, standing just outside Bochy's office. "How you start or finish the season, or injuries or what-not. We're happy that a lot of these guys are going to go forward with us. We'll certainly try to get some of the free agents to be back. We're sitting in a good spot."
He said it not brashly, but almost sheepishly. That appears to be the Giants' way. Quiet is just fine, though it might not be realistic in the future.
"I don't think we're off the radar anymore, which will present its obstacles," catcher Buster Posey said. "But I think it's a challenge that we're all looking forward to."
The challenge will be met by a group of players who figure to be around awhile. The Giants completed their sweep of the Tigers when Marco Scutaro hit a two-out single that scored Ryan Theriot in the top of the 10th inning on Sunday night. Both of those players, infielders, are free agents. Veteran reliever Jeremy Affeldt, who recorded five key outs in Game 4, is also unsigned for next year, as is fellow reliever Guillermo Mota and starting center fielder Angel Pagan.
But there is so much else in place. Posey is 25, the presumptive National League most valuable player after he won a batting title, and has won two World Series in his first three years in the majors. No central character has done that since Derek Jeter in 1996 and '98. And he did it while handling a pitching staff that became the backbone of the seven straight wins to close the season.
"Nobody talked about how Buster put down the right fingers," Sabean said. "There weren't many times when he was shaken off. There weren't many visits to the mound. He's an offensive player. Obviously, he's a batting champ and maybe an MVP. This young man, to do it as a catcher, is amazing."
Posey was the starting catcher in the All-Star Game. The starting pitcher was right-hander Matt Cain, who also started Game 4 of the World Series. Cain is 28 and signed through 2017, with a team option for the following season. Madison Bumgarner, who started and won Game 2, is 23 and already signed through 2017 as well, with two option years. Pablo Sandoval, the Series MVP, is just 26 and is now beginning to understand what he can do if he keeps his weight under control. Shortstop Brandon Crawford and first baseman Brandon Belt are coming off promising rookie seasons, just 25 and 24, respectively. Right fielder Hunter Pence, 29, is signed for at least one more year.
Even Barry Zito and Ryan Vogelsong, the older men in the rotation, are locked up. Tim Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young winner who dominated out of the bullpen in the postseason, will return to the rotation and try to right himself in 2013, the last year of his contract. But they'll all be together — again.
"The whole organization's been built on continuity," Sabean said. "We have a mutual respect. As crazy as it sounds, we enjoy pulling on the same rope, and the journey.
"At the end of the day we've got full support of the ownership group. We have a great working relationship with the manager and the coaches. There is no division in any shape or form. The players really feel at ease knowing that they're the focal point. We're going to put them in positions to have success."
And leading the way will be Bochy, once cast off by San Diego, now embraced by San Francisco.
"He's a Hall of Fame manager," Sabean said. "Enough said."
Bochy wasn't comfortable with such assessments after the win. "I count my blessings," he said. Among them, now, are that he has a stable organization supported by rabid fans with good, young players who know what it takes, and what it feels like, to win.
"After you get that first one, you want to go through that whole experience again," Posey said. "You want to feel the pressure situations. You want to feel the excitement when you come out on top. It only drives you to keep working harder."
That's the feeling the Giants had two years ago. It's the feeing they had Sunday night, into Monday morning. And now, all of baseball realizes, it's the feeling they'll have in 2013, when they'll be back for more.

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Baden-Clay witness 'explains' scream
A last-minute defence witness in the murder trial of Gerard Baden-Clay has offered a possible explanation for shouts and screams heard the night his wife vanished.
A former neighbour of the Baden-Clays testified on Thursday about shouts and a scream she said she and her teenage daughter made on the night of April 19, 2012.
The new testimony of Stephanie Apps in Baden-Clay's murder trial came as the court heard that weeks before Allison Baden-Clay vanished, her husband contacted his local state MP in distress to ask for a $300,000 loan.
And day seven of the trial also heard from forensic experts who testified that marks seen on Baden-Clay's face the morning he reported his wife missing were highly unlikely to be shaving cuts.
Ms Apps told the Brisbane Supreme Court how her daughter screamed in fright after apparently running into a spider's web outside their house just before 10pm on April 19, 2012.
She said she and her teenaged son and daughter had just arrived home in the car and she was shouting at them to stop fighting.
"She (my daughter) screamed and she had apparently run into a spider's web so it was quite a loud scream," she said.
"I was actually cringing because the neighbourhood was very quiet."
Last week, several neighbours told the trial they heard suspicious noises coming from the Baden-Clays' home late at night on or about April 19, 2012, including a loud exclamation, yells, and high-pitched screams.
Ms Apps said she reported what happened at her house to police but was never asked to make a statement.
She said a private detective came to her house on Sunday and then Baden-Clay's defence asked her to make a statement.
In other evidence, a friend of Moggill MP Bruce Flegg told the court she rang Baden-Clay at Dr Flegg's request in March 2012.
Sue Heath said the real estate agent, who she knew through Dr Flegg, said he was having financial trouble and asked if the politician could lend him about $300,000.
"He was normally very confident and he was genuinely really quite distressed," she said.
Meanwhile, three forensic experts told the court that scratches on Baden-Clay's face and body seen after he reported his wife missing looked like fingernail marks and not shaving cuts.
The court has heard that Baden-Clay said the facial injuries were shaving cuts.
"I find it extremely implausible," forensic doctor Robert Hoskins said.
"Whilst we all know that people can cut themselves shaving, typically those are small cuts which are one or two millimetres in size and not broad and of the character seen here."
The experts said red marks on Baden-Clay's neck also looked like fingernail scratches through clothes while other red marks on his chest were difficult to explain.
Jurors in the trial were told that on Monday they will visit the Baden-Clays' former home and the scene where Mrs Baden-Clay's body was found to help them better understand the evidence.


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- Young fashion designers from across the world are gathering in Paris for the Autumn-Winter collection show.
- Three start-up designers share their story about how did they make their own way in the capital of fashion.
As Paris wraps up its prêt-à-porter shows for the Autumn-Winter 2014/15 collection, young designers from across the globe are hoping to make it up one more rung of a desperately steep ladder.
Tradition, quality materials, creativity and global exposure make Paris the ultimate and most desired platform for young and established designers alike.
International buyers and the press tend to stay in the city longer than in New York or London and have time to visit the showrooms and recent platforms that have been created to showcase young designers, such as Designers Apartment, Tranoï or PREMIERE CLASSE.
Acknowledging how little help young designers are afforded, several important prizes with varying degrees of funding have been created within the industry, the most recent and most generous being the LVMH Young Fashion Designer Prize and prizes for young fashion school graduates. Others include the ANDAM fashion award, and the International Talent Support awards (ITS).
Still, it takes a combination of artistry, an awareness of the business, psychological and physical resilience to survive the challenging obstacle course to Paris. Most of all, say designers, it takes passion.
Oriane Leclercq
"You have to stay passionate," said Oriane Leclercq, a young Belgian designer who graduated from the Brussels-based La Cambre school of visual arts in 2010. "I was ready for the [grueling] lifestyle because school was so difficult that I didn't have a life outside of fashion then either."
Hired 15 months ago by Maison Martin Margiela, the 26-year old said that her selection as a finalist in the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères helped her budding career immeasurably.
With leading fashion companies sponsoring the festival each year, and jury members including designers Raf Simons and Proenza Schouler, and former New York Times fashion journalist Cathy Horyn, Hyères has enormous cachet and "accelerates the process," said Leclercq, who presented a collection in synthetic materials with touches of leopard spots and fringes in 2011.
"But I didn't get here right away—I worked at Lutz, a microstructure in Paris, and then at Balenciaga. It's important to understand how things work, both in smaller structures where you work with financial constraints and you have to manage everything, and then in larger luxury structures where money is not a problem."
What is critical, said Leclercq, is to find work immediately after graduation:
"It's a field where things move very fast and it gets harder and harder when you don't begin right away."
Thomasine Barnekow
32-year-old glove maker Thomasine Barnekow is from southern Sweden, studied in the Netherlands and has been based in Paris since 2010, launching her own brand, Thomasine, 18 months ago.
Her sculptural gloves in materials such as leather from Icelandic salmon, hand-painted python or stingray have been included in haute couture and prêt-à-porter shows and this is her second year exhibiting independently at the PREMIERE CLASSE salon.
At the Design Academy in Eindhoven she specialized in textiles and accessories, and developed the idea of working on gloves. During an internship with a luxury textile house in Paris, she came across a brochure from the federation of glove factories. After writing to every company in the brochure, Barnekow found one that helped her produce her final project at school.
In 2007 she was selected as a "talent" in the ITS competition, and was introduced to the French glove maker, Agnelle, who commissioned a collection from her just before the financial crisis.
Barnekow slowly made her way towards Paris, "which gives you a feeling of being close to inspiration," as well as being in a country with a heritage of glove making where gloves are being rediscovered as an accessory.
After creating gloves for various designers, Barnekow decided to strike out on her own. Her strategy is to grow slowly, so for example she manages her own PR for the moment, lending her gloves to young photographers in exchange for photographs.
She works mostly with leather from Italy and France and has her gloves made in a factory in Hungary, which will work with small orders. Because she does everything herself, "from design, book-keeping, production, sales, PR, trade fairs, material research etc. in the end I only have maybe 15% time for design during the whole year.
I am lucky that I am both very sociable and was very good at mathematics as a student."
Valentina Brugnatelli
Although Geneva-based jewelry designer Valentina Brugnatelli has been working in luxury fashion since 1990, she launched her own brand in 2012, working in collaboration with two Barcelona-based designers in a collective.
She had been thinking about setting up on her own for a while, and had a number of independent clients for whom she made one-off creations, but was so busy that she kept putting it off.
While working at Kenzo she met the two designers with whom she set up the collective because "it's not easy to work alone. We each have our own distinctive brand, but we put our strengths together. We pick a theme and then interpret it in our own way."
Brugnatelli combines semi-precious stones with wood, brass, resin and enamel to make her innovative jewelry, often inspired by nature. With her own brand now, she says she has learned more in two years than during her entire time working for fashion houses. "You need to have a scope of 360 degrees, you have to control everything—marketing, PR, pricing, all of a sudden you have be an accountant as well."
Salons like PREMIERE CLASSE are a good way to meet people, says Brugnatelli, who will rent a space there for her summer collection.
"They organize parties and you can meet other designers. We can share our struggles with each other, which is reassuring since everyone puts so much passion and love into what they are doing and yet it's easy to have doubts. It's really a psychological and financial rollercoaster. You have to have energy and believe in yourself."


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Pervasive Computing: Are You Ready?
Uncharted Waters for Everyone in the Ecosystem
By Karen Savala, president, SEMI Americas
Pervasive computing is changing the landscape of the microelectronics industry, fragmenting the future of both Moore's Law and More-than-Moore technologies. At the leading edge, we have FinFETs versus FD-SOI; in memory, every roadmap involves novel devices and novel material sets; in 3D stacking, we have foundries, OSATs and IDMs developing alternative paths. In markets, the smart phone and tablet boom is moderating, China and India are cooling, but new markets, such as the all-connected Internet of Things, have the potential to create an entire new ecosystem of buyers, technologies and business models.
Pervasive Computing will be the theme for this year's Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) held on January 12-14, 2014 in Half Moon Bay, California. You will want to register early (www.semi.org/iss) to take advantage of discount pricing and ensure yourself a seat and what is sure to be a sold-out event.
Already we are seeing some dramatic responses to this new frontier of technologies, applications, markets, and business models. Mega-mergers, massive supply chain investments by manufacturers and governments, new consortia and collaboration models, to name a few, are changing the rules for everyone in the ecosystem. These are uncharted waters without the benefit of a GPS system.
Underscoring the new collaboration and partnership environment, ISS will feature one of the most impressive line-up of device manufacturer and industry leader participants in its 30 year history. From chip companies, speakers from IBM, Intel, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Qualcomm, Micron, Nvidia, Samsung, and Xilinx will give their perspectives on the emerging markets, technology challenges, and opportunities at the edge. Technology leaders, including Mike Splinter, executive chairman of Applied Materials, Rick Wallace, chairman and CEO of KLA-Tencor, Terry Brewer, chairman and CEO of Brewer Science, and Paul Farrar, general manager of G450C, will discuss the near-, mid-, and long- term prospects for the industry. No other event in the world brings together a more senior group of executives or more comprehensive participation from device makers, technology companies and supply chain leaders. To see this impressive agenda in detail, please visit the website at www.semi.org/iss
ISS will also feature a comprehensive economic outlook from leading analysts including Dr. Robert C. Fry from DuPont; Matthew Gertken, Ph.D., senior East Asia Analyst from Stratfor; Bill McClean, IC Insights; Bob Johnson, Gartner; Mark Thirsk, Linx Consulting; Dr. Handel Jones, International Business Strategies, and Dale Ford, IHS. Dan Hutchinson will moderate a CEO panel and, finally, ISS will have thought-provoking presentations on location-based services, the coming transformation on public displays, wearable computing, and more.
The proven format for ISS — macro-economic outlook, industry outlook, key trends and inflexion points — has probably never been more valuable than today. While the industry is consolidating, many technologies and business opportunities are fragmenting. Strategic decision-making, and establishing strong relationships with industry leaders, have never been more important and more complex. The ISS organizing committee, led by co-chairs Hamid Zarringhalam of Nikon Precision and Gene Karwacki from Air Products & Chemicals, has done a great job of assembling one of the best agendas in ISS history. I'm looking forward to seeing you there.
For more information on ISS and to register, please visit www.semi.org/iss


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Watch a Monkey Kiss Justin Bieber!
Selena Gomez has a rival! Well, not really. Justin Bieber smooched a monkey backstage at an event, getting a cute little peck on the cheek from the simian.
The Biebs shared the video on Viddy and it's all of 15 seconds, but we can see him work up the courage to let the primate lay one on his cheek. It's almost like working up the nerve to kiss a girl.
It's easily one of the cutest things we've ever seen. The monkey, seated on its trainer's shoulder, leans forward to plant one on the 'As Long as You Love Me' singer's famous cheek. You know how many millions of young girls would sell an ovary to trade places with the monkey? It's innumerable.
The Biebs' ever-present manager and career guider Scooter Braun is in the background having a giggle at his client's public smooch with a animal. It's like one of those skits that you see on late night talk shows.
Even a monkey has Bieber Fever. It can't be denied and it crosses species.
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Any suggestion is appreciated to help solve this problem :
1) Compiling and running with AMD Sempron CPU:
testing_Xgesv_gpu, with N not an integer multiple of 4, yields the relative compute error of about 5x10^-3, irregardless of X=z/d/c/s. (All have appropriate error 10^-17 or 10^-8 when N is a multiple of 4.) I added an lapack sgesv solution to the testing code and found that the sgesv_gpu solution differs substantially from the lapack sgesv solution when N not a multiple of 4 - thus the 5x10^-3 relative error.
My clMAGMA build is detailed in this post: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=727
2) Compiling and running with Intel Celeron CPU (otherwise everything else supposedly the same):
testing_Xgesvd (X=z,c,d,s) all run fine, with relative compute error 10^-16 (z/d) or 10^-7 (c/s).
"testing_zgesv_gpu.exe -N n -R r", with n = 1, 2, 4, 6, 8...30, 32, or 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc, runs fine, with relative compute error 10^-16.
But, "testing_zgesv_gpu.exe -N n -R r", with n = 3, 5, 7, 9...33, or 34-63, or 65-127, or 129-511, etc, yields relative compute error of 1.#Re+000 (non-printable).
"testing_Xgesv_gpu.exe -N n -R r", with X=c/d/s with n = 1, 2, or 3 all yield appropriate 10^-8/-17/-8 , but with n > 3 report relative compute error "1.#Re+000". I added some diagnostics to the testing_sgesv_gpu prog, and it appears that only the 4th row of x (Ax=b) is transferred from the GPU back to the host when N from 4 to 7, or only the 8th row when N from 8 to 11, etc. There's a pattern there. When only one row of the solution matrix has valid data, the final result including the entire solution matrix is nonsense and the result unprintable (1.#Re+000).
"testing_zgetrf_gpu.exe -M m -N n", with any m and n, yield relative compute error 3e-2, but
"testing_Xgetrf_gpu.exe -M m -N n", with X=c/d/s, and any m and n, yield good relative compute error 10^-9/-18/-9, or zero.
Also, all "testing_Xpotrf_gpu.exe -N n", with any n, and X=z/d/c/s, all yield relative compute error from about 1 to 100 to QNAN. (Might be the same problem mentioned above of data transfer of the gpu solution back from GPU to host.)
My clMAGMA build is detailed in this post: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=727
Update Sept 2013:
I resolve the problems with above mentioned "z" routines by doing the following three things: 1) Replaced the missing "|" symbol (bitwise OR) from line 43 in ztranspose2.cpp. [This also applies to all Xtranspose2.cpp files.] 2) In ztranspose-v2.cl [also all other X types as well] I limited the nesting of the IF statements to no more than four deep: It was five deep. (This may be a hardware dependent issue: it mattered when compiling the OpenCL on a system with Intel CPU but not another with AMD CPU.) 3) In ztranspose.cl I found that on some systems (Intel ) the use of integer multiplication in OpenCL in the determination of the array indices appears to be the cause of corrupt memory references: Instead of "A[ 24 * lda ]" I used "lda8 = lda * 8 ; lda16 = lda8 * 2; lda24= lda16 + lda8;" followed by use of A[ lda24 ], and a similar replacement for A[ 16 * lda ]. Strange, but it works.
I've traced the problems with the "s" routines to an apparent bug in the clAmdBlas STRSM routine, which sgetrf_gpu.cpp and sgetrs_gpu.cpp call via magma_strsm(), which is a wrapper for clAmdBlasStrsmEx(). I've posted my observations on the AMD Developer Central forum: http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1299829#1299829
clMAGMA v1.0 problem with testing_Xgesv_gpu ?
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Confronting Iran, Syria's conjoined twin
September 11th, 2013HERNDON, Va., Sept. 10 (UPI) — As U.S. President Barack Obama seeks congressional support authorizing military action against Syria for using chemical weapons against its own people, he ignores a lesson of the April 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Oil spewing from a leak on the ocean floor following the explosion of a drilling rig killed marine life and damaged the pristine gulf shoreline. While recognizing responsibility to clean up the environmental mess it caused, BP focused first on capping the well to prevent further damage, taking 87 days to do so.
No matter how devastating the environmental damage, BP's priority was to fix the problem at its source first. Had it failed to do so, oil still would be spewing into the gulf today.
In proposing military action against Syria, Obama fails to focus upon the source of the Syria problem.
This problem's source lies not in Damascus, but in Tehran. Not only does Iran play the role of puppet master to Syria's puppet President Bashar Assad, it plays similar roles in Iraq and Lebanon. Most regional turmoil today was triggered with the assent of Tehran's mullahs to power in 1979.
Since then, seven men have served as Iranian president — labeled variously by the West as moderates or conservatives. During the same 37-year timeframe, only two supreme leaders have served. Approved in advance by the supreme leaders, the seven presidents were subservient to them.
The supreme leaders manipulated their support of a presidential candidate, assessed by the West either as "moderate" or "conservative," based on what was needed to give false hope change was in the wind.
Thus, most recently, a perceived moderate by the West, President Hassan Rouhani, was needed to follow "conservative" President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to provide such hope as Iran's nuclear weapons program heads toward completion.
As the names of Iran's presidents have changed, the goals of its two supreme leaders remained constant. The supreme leader calls the shots and when a president, such as Ahmadinejad, bucked clerical authority, he suffered the wrath of the country's religious leaders.
Various U.S. administrations endeavor to understand the mindset of each new Iranian administration, failing to recognize it remains constant as both supreme leaders pursued the same goal.
That goal is set forth in the country's constitution — Tehran being the only member of the international community to memorialize in its constitution its intention to affect every other member country by spreading the Islamic revolution globally. Tehran believes this revolution will trigger an eschatological prophecy — the return, from a state of occultation entered in the ninth century, of the 12th Imam (or "Mahdi") who ultimately will establish a world caliphate entirely ruled by Shariah law. The constitution provides upon this "superhero's" return, he replaces the supreme leader.
A critical step in triggering this return is world chaos. Thus, both supreme leaders have sought to develop nuclear weapons.
As Tehran does all it can to keep Assad in power, it continues to move full speed ahead in developing these weapons. With so-called "moderate" Rouhani sounding much less antagonistic than his predecessor and agreeing to another round of nuclear talks, the new president moves forward to achieve the supreme leader's goal under a false flag of change.
Delaying military action against Syria to obtain congressional approval denies Obama the element of surprise, allowing Assad's forces to take up hiding positions among the civilian population.
It is probably unnecessary as Obama has also lost the advantage of keeping Assad guessing as to U.S. attack plans. Obama foolishly clarified this by saying he seeks no disruption in the balance of power between government and rebel forces.
Just as Obama naively provided an incentive to the Taliban to stay the course in Afghanistan by accompanying his announcement of a U.S. troop surge with an acknowledgement it would only be temporary, he naively incentivizes Assad to stay the course of killing his own people.
Iran has been responsible for more U.S. deaths than any other country since the Vietnam War. It has been a catalyst in numerous violent acts against U.S. assets, beginning in 1983 with the Beirut bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks as a test of American resolve.
Encouraged by no U.S. response, Iran played a role in other attacks, including 9/11. It has provided improvised explosive devices to anti-U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan responsible for most U.S. casualties in those wars.
Iran clearly is at war with an America in denial. Based on Tehran's violent acts against the United States, no formal declaration of war against it is required.
Assad fails to make any move without Tehran's approval. Thus, it is Iran that approved introducing chemical weapons onto the Syrian battlefield. Regardless of what military action the United States takes against Syria, or fails to take, Iran's war against the United States and its role as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world will continue, as will its quest for nuclear weapons.
Obama views Syria in a vacuum. He fails to recognize Syria and Iran are conjoined twins with but one controlling head — situated in Tehran.
Iran relishes the successful forward movement of its agenda as its twin gets blamed, possibly suffering a hand slap from the United States as punishment but resolution of regional violence — both present and future — demands confronting the controlling twin.
For Obama to focus solely on military action against Syria is time, money, effort and possibly more U.S. lives wasted.
Why look to Damascus when Tehran controls that flow, one which will only increase if not stopped now before Iran is nuclear armed?
BP clearly recognized the futility of not focusing first on capping the source of the problem. Obama and Congress must now do the same.
(A retired U.S. Marine, Lt. Col. James Zumwalt served in the Vietnam War, the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He has written "Bare Feet, Iron Will — Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields," "Living the Juche Lie: North Korea's Kim Dynasty" and "Doomsday: Iran — The Clock is Ticking.")
(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.)
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Investigators have been trying to find the cause of an explosion that destroyed a house near Pittsburgh, and led to drug charges against a neighbor after authorities found marijuana plants in the aftermath of the blast.
Forty-seven-year-old Shawn Landa remained in serious condition Monday with burns and other injuries at UPMC Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh. Authorities say neighbors found Landa buried in the rubble after his Moon Township home exploded about 6:45 p.m. Saturday. Although Columbia Gas officials say they found no leaks outside the home, investigators haven't ruled out a leak inside the house or problems with gas appliances as possible causes.
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Minnesota Wild Start Preseason This Week
The Minnesota Wild will start their Preseason this Wednesday against the St. Louis Blues at the Xcel Energy Center. The offseason moved quickly and it's hard to believe that the hockey season is right around the corner. The Minnesota Wild will get some looks at some young faces for the preseason that have a chance to make the team. Those faces include Marco Scandella, Tyler Cuma, Nate Prosser, and Casey Wellman. The Minnesota Wild will hope for an injury-free preseason.
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by Richard Bowdon, SSP Executive Director
SOCORRO, N.M., June 19, 2007 -- On Sunday three dozen of the world's top high school science students from 19 states plus Singapore converged on New Mexico Tech for the Summer Science Program (SSP). For the next six weeks they will spend their days in college-level lectures, and their nights imaging and measuring the speck of light from a distant asteroid.
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Michael Zehl; via email@example.com: I recently read the EFI test article in the Mar. '14 issue of Car Craft. I found the article incredibly informative. I am planning an EFI swap on my '78 Trans Am barn find. I had been struggling with which one to choose. I am left with one question your article did not cover: How well does each of these units fit underneath a stock air cleaner? My TA with a shaker scoop leaves no room for any spacers of any kind. It is currently running a Pontiac 400 with a mild cam, Edelbrock Performer manifold, and a Q-jet carb. It fits the height of my hood perfectly. I think your article covered the systems very well, except on this part, and I was very happy to read it. If you have any information that may guide me in my selection process, it would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Smith: Great question, Michael—had we thought of it, we would have given you the specs. We still have all these systems, so we measured each throttle body from the base where it bolts to the intake manifold to the ring that mounts the air cleaner. First, we started with a standard square-flange Holley carburetor, a Rochester Q-jet, and then all of the EFI throttle bodies, including the Professional Products unit. As you can see, nearly all the throttle bodies will probably work, with the possible exception of the FAST EZ-EFI 2.0, although 0.060 inch is probably not going to cause a major problem. We used a drop-style, air-cleaner base on our big-block test Nova to help clear the stock hood, and none of the throttle bodies caused any fitment problems, although the EZ-EFI 2.0 was a little tight to the air-cleaner base in one spot. In the past, we have had fitment issues with a short throttle body where the throttle linkage hit the base of the air cleaner at roughly three-quarter throttle, but we minimized this problem with an extra gasket between the throttle body and the air-cleaner base.
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Holley Performance Products; 270/781-9741; Holley.com
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Brody Malsom; via firstname.lastname@example.com: Hey guys, great mag. I've been reading and learning so much from your articles in the past five years I've been subscribing. I'm 18 and in my senior year in high school, and my buddy and I bought a '66 GMC pickup together. We are going to ditch the tired V6 for a 383 stroker. As of now, the block has been bored 0.030 inch, and we have a Scat series 9000 stroker kit on the way for it. My question is what cylinder heads would be the best for us since we're not trying to make a butt ton of power and not spend an arm and a leg on this build. I have experience with rebuilding engines, but as for this stroker combo, I have no idea where to start when it comes to looking for heads that will make decent power. Also, I was wondering about the cam—again, I have no idea where to even begin. I appreciate your time and look forward to your advice. Thanks for all the great info and knowledge.
Jeff Smith: We always try to help out the younger readers, since they are going to be the ones to continue our hobby/sport, so let's take a shot at your question, Brody. Assuming that you purchased the entire Scat 9000 rotating assembly, you didn't mention what piston came with the system. We looked at prices at SummitRacing.com, and we'll also guess that since you are a high school student that you went with the least-expensive kit that features a hypereutectic flat-top piston with 5cc piston valve reliefs. While the longer 3.75-inch stroke creates additional displacement, it also has a direct effect on increasing compression ratio, assuming all other components remain the same. As an example, with a 355ci engine with a 3.48-inch stroke, a flat-top piston with 5cc valve reliefs, a 64cc combustion chamber, 0.041-inch-thick head gasket, and a 0.015-inch piston-to-deck height will deliver a 10.0:1 compression ratio. But change the stroke to 3.75 inches (all other specs remaining the same) and compression jumps to 10.7:1. So the piston style has a significant effect on what we can now suggest for a cylinder head.
Let's assume that you went with the less-expensive flat-top piston kit. This means we need to look for a cylinder head with a minimum 70cc chamber to keep the compression pump-gas friendly. Because this will be a street truck, we should also keep the cam timing conservative. This will work better with a budget cylinder head, but short intake duration numbers also affect the compression. As you can see, all these factors are interrelated. We really need to keep the compression around 9.5:1 so the motor is still snappy and responsive, yet doesn't build excessive cylinder pressure so that it detonates. Let's first take a look at the cylinder heads because once we select a head, this will help determine the cam timing.
Cylinder heads are the big determiner of power. A stock replacement iron head will be the cheapest, but frankly this will limit both torque and horsepower. I found an interesting 72cc combustion chamber iron head from Summit Racing. This is more of a stock replacement head with a 165cc intake port, 2.02-/1.60-inch valves and screw-in, 3⁄8-inch studs with stock 1.25-inch-diameter single valvesprings. I don't know much about these heads, except that they are certainly priced attractively at $635 for the pair. You really can't properly rebuild a set of used stock iron castings for much less than that. With a 72cc chamber and a flat-top 5cc piston, this would place static compression at 9.84:1, which is a bit high but still workable. This assumes the piston is 0.015 inch below the deck surface.
If by chance you are using a dished piston, then a 64cc combustion chamber is a better way to go since that will keep the compression in the neighborhood of 9.5:1 to 9.8:1 with a 13cc dish. If that's the case, then the Chevy iron Vortec head is a great selection. This is the best-flowing production iron head for the small-block Chevy, developed for truck engines from 1996 through 2000. It has good port flow for a small production head, but the exhaust port is its Achilles' heel. But it will still make excellent torque and decent horsepower on a 383. Back in the Dec. '04 issue ("Torque Tales"), we built a 383 with Vortec heads and an Isky 221/232 cam with 0.496-/0.517-inch lift. We used a set of conical Pioneer springs to allow that much lift (the stock heads are limited to a maximum of 0.450 inch lift), but the engine responded with 444 lb-ft of torque at 3,600 and 375 hp at 5,400 using a 1.6:1 rocker to help the lift. This was with headers, an Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap Vortec manifold, and a 750-cfm carburetor. Remember that the Vortec requires its own specific intake manifold bolt pattern. A stock Chevy bolt-pattern intake will not fit the Vortec heads. The Vortec head means added expense for a Vortec-style manifold.
If you have a little bit more money to spend on a set of aluminum cylinder heads, we tested the Speedway Motors aluminum heads as part of Car Craft's budget cylinder head test in the Sept. '12 issue—you can find that complete story on Car Craft's website. The Speedway heads made 381 hp on our Saturday Night Slayer test 355. We also tested the iron Vortecs on that engine, and they made 378 hp and 408 lb-ft of torque. The aluminum Speedway heads got the nod for average horsepower per dollar, where we took the price of the heads and divided it by our test engine's average horsepower. When we tested these heads, they sold for $739.98 for the pair and were the least expensive heads that still made decent power. This, however, is also a 64cc chamber head. Looking at larger chamber heads, we found a set of 70cc chamber Edelbrock E-Street aluminum heads on Scoggin-Dickey's website that we also tested in our head comparison. These heads made 395 hp on our 355 Slayer engine and offer the virtue of being cast and machined in America. Our original price as tested in the story was $909, but our latest search found the price actually lower at Scoggin-Dickey at $854, which was a nice surprise. This is an outstanding price for a quality head.
We alluded to cam timing in the Vortec head previous test example, and the cam we employed in our cylinder-head test is also relevant. The cam we chose was a Summit brand hydraulic flat-tappet cam measuring 224/234 degrees at 0.050 with 0.465/0.485 lift, but we enhanced it with a set of 1.6 roller rockers to bump the lift up to 0.496 and 0.517. This cam has a lobe-separation angle (LSA) of 114 degrees that reduces the overlap and calms the idle characteristics. Since you are young and probably want a little bit more lump to the idle, you might look for a cam with a tighter LSA angle. What this refers to is the amount of time (in degrees of duration) the closing exhaust valve and the opening intake valve are simultaneously open. A tighter LSA angle of 110 degrees means the exhaust valve closes a little bit later and the intake valve opens a little bit earlier, which increases the overlap. This directly impacts idle quality by decreasing intake manifold vacuum. This makes the idle a little lumpier. This also tends to bleed off a little cylinder pressure at low engine speeds, which can make the engine a little less sensitive to changes in ignition timing. This allows you to run a little more timing at low speeds to improve throttle response and low-speed torque.
Note that the cam we chose was what's called a dual-pattern cam. This means the cam includes more duration on the exhaust lobe than on the intake lobe. This is important, especially when using stock or stock-type cylinder heads. The small-block Chevy generally has a somewhat weak exhaust port relative to intake port flow. Even below 6,000 rpm, that peak horsepower is affected by the exhaust port's inability to scavenge the cylinder of most of the combusted material. This leaves some exhaust gas remaining in the cylinder, which does a great job of reducing net power in the next four-stroke cycle. By increasing the duration on the exhaust side, this gives the exhaust port a little more time (degrees of duration) to vent more of the remaining exhaust gas out of the cylinder. This usually results in making a little more peak horsepower. So look for a cam with around 220–226 degrees of duration at 0.050 with a little more duration (230–236 degrees) on the exhaust side. This will be a good cam timing package for a mild street engine with compression around 9.5:1. Be sure to use high-quality break-in oil when you start the engine for the first time. We did a specific camshaft break-in story that you can find online at CarCraft.com that goes into specific recommendations that will help you with the initial fire-up so that you don't lose a cam lobe due to improper lubrication.
More Info
Edelbrock; 310/781-2222; Edelbrock.com
Scat Enterprises; 310/370-5501;ScatEnterprises.com
Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center; 800/456-0211; SDParts.com
Speedway Motors; 800/979-0122; SpeedwayMotors.com
Summit Racing; 800/230-3030; SummitRacing.com
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Red Wings shut down Blackhawks to win Game 3by Corey Masisak
DETROIT -- A furious six-minute stretch and a world-class shot. Put those two things together and you have the recipe for a Detroit Red Wings victory.
The Red Wings received highlight-reel goals from rookie Gustav Nyquist and veteran Pavel Datsyuk, some valiant hard work from Drew Miller and 39 saves from Jimmy Howard in a 3-1 triumph in Game 3 on Monday night at Joe Louis Arena -- and suddenly the seventh-seeded club from Detroit has seized control of this Western Conference Semifinal series against the Presidents' Trophy-winning Chicago Blackhawks.
It was only the ninth regulation loss in 56 games this season for the Blackhawks -- and only the third time they have dropped two straight in regulation. Game 4 is Thursday night at Joe Louis Arena (8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, RDS2).
"I thought we had close games with them all year, they just came out on top," said Detroit forward Patrick Eaves, who assisted on the game-winning goal. "I feel like we can play with these guys. We know they're a great team and we have to respect that, respect their skill. But we've been getting better. As long as we keep getting better on a nightly basis I think that's all we can worry about."
Nyquist opened the scoring at 7:49 of the second period. After a faceoff in the Red Wings' end, Damien Brunner chipped the puck over Chicago defenseman Nick Leddy and Nyquist tracked it down near the Blackhawks' blue line. He cut to the middle of the ice and past defenseman Brent Seabrook before waiting out goalie Corey Crawford for one of the best goals of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs to this point.
It was Nyquist's second goal of the postseason -- his first was an overtime winner in the opening round against the Anaheim Ducks. Brunner has four goals and eight points, second on the team in scoring to captain Henrik Zetterberg.
"Aw, that is a great goal," said Joakim Andersson, the third member of Detroit's "Kid Line." "Brunner just made sure that he gets the puck out. With Nyquist's speed, I've seen that a lot in the American [Hockey] League. He can make his guy [miss], and the goalie -- I think the goalie was a little surprised that was so fast coming in there."
Said Seabrook: "[Nyquist] made a good play. I thought the puck was bouncing. I thought he'd stay on the wall and I could ride him out, but he made a nice deke and a nice play."
Miller made it 2-0 just 31 seconds later. Chicago defenseman Michal Rozsival's outlet pass was picked off by Cory Emmerton. He fed Eaves, who put two shots on Crawford, and the second trickled behind him. Blackhawks defenseman Jonny Oduya reached for the puck to try and keep it off the goal line, but Miller dove headfirst toward the net and was able to push it over the goal line for his first goal of the playoffs.
Chicago had a power play early in the second period and ended up hemming Detroit in its own zone for more than a minute after the advantage expired. The Blackhawks dominated territorially for the opening six minutes of the period, but it didn't lead to many shots on net.
"We've still got to find a way to get [to the net]," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "We've got to be willing to find a way to get to the net. You find a way through there, you get rewarded. It's not easy to penetrate, but you've got to be willing and you've got to be committed to doing that. You've got to find a way."
Shortly after that spell, the Red Wings took control of the contest with a stunning six-minute display of their own. After not having any shots on goal in the first 6:33 of the period, Detroit had 13 in the next 5:23 and grabbed its two-goal lead.
Chicago dominated the start of the third period as well, and the Blackhawks thought they had tied the contest with two quick goals.
Patrick Kane scored on a breakaway at 4:35 to cut the lead in half. He was able to control a long, bouncing pass from defenseman Duncan Keith and snap a shot through Howard's pads for his second of the series. Detroit's Johan Franzen was still down on the ice at the other end at the time of the goal. It may have been a boarding infraction on Chicago's Niklas Hjalmarsson that wasn't called -- but fans at The Joe were also upset because early in the game the officials stopped play when the puck was in the Blackhawks end of the ice because Viktor Stalberg was injured behind the Red Wings' net.
The Blackhawks thought they had tied the game 67 seconds later, but referee Brad Watson immediately waived off what would have been a Stalberg goal because Andrew Shaw was in the crease, even though Shaw did not appear to make significant contact with Howard.
"[It is] one of those things I think maybe they can call it but most of the time, they're going to let that one go, especially when you get pushed in there and he doesn't even touch the goalie," Stalberg said. "If he trips the goalie or makes contact or anything, I think that's an easier call. But that's a tough one, no doubt about it, especially [one] that would tie the game up, then they're coming right back and scoring on us. It's obviously a big shift."
Of the call, Crawford said, "I think that's the first time that I've seen 'in the crease' called since about 2000."
Just as the Blackhawks were in the process of making a big push, Datsyuk electrified the crowd with an incredible shot to make it 3-1. As he did in Game 6 against the Ducks, Datsyuk had the puck on the left wing and ripped a shot under the crossbar that hit inside of the net and bounced back out in a hurry.
"What an unbelievable shot," Andersson said. "You don't even see that it goes in."
These two teams split the first two games of the series at United Center as they took turns controlling the play and eventually forcing the other to submit.
Chicago dominated the second and start of the third periods in Game 1 before finally breaking through with three goals in the final 12 minutes to secure a 4-1 victory. Detroit trailed 1-0 after the first period in Game 2, but four unanswered goals earned the Red Wings a win against the rival Blackhawks for the first time in nine tries including regular-season contests.
For the first time in what has been a magical season, Chicago finds itself in a hole going into Game 4.
"It takes something like this to slap you in the face, so to speak, to really understand what adversity is and how tough the playoffs can be," Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "A lot of guys in this room have been in tough positions before in the playoffs, and that's never stopped us. We know this is a long series and we're going to be fighting until the end."


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Towson State rallied from a 28-0 deficit in the fourth quarter to tie the game with 30 seconds remaining, but St. John's quarterback Jeff Norman threw a 58-yard pass to halfback Jim Roeder and kicked a 19-yard field goal on the final play of the game for the victory.
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Bolstered by my success in baking White Mountain Bread, I finally had the time and the flour to attempt the second recipe in Beth Hensperger's Bread Bible, French bread, or Pain Ordinaire.
Things began auspiciously enough with a beautifully smelling, light, spongy and almost fluffy slurry.
Since I proofed the yeast in a glass prep bowl, I actually ended up adding the slurry to the two cups of bread flower and salt (as opposed to adding the flour to the slurry; I guess Mom was right about me never following instructions). This didn't seem to ruin anything, however, and I proceeded to mix the batter into a dough using my trusty and deceptively strong wooden baking spoon.
Just when I thought my arm would tire, (I always mix by hand, partially because using my hands is my favorite part of baking bread, and partially because I use the kneading and mixing process as a way to justify putting melting pads of butter on the warm, oven-fresh bread I've baked. All that mixing has to burn off some calories, right?), the "shaggy dough" Hensperger described seemed to form.
I found, however, that I only needed to use 2 ½ cups of all-purposed flour (which I should add here is bleached, though this doesn't seem to make too much of a difference in taste or texture).
With that, I rolled the dough into a ball and tucked it into an olive-oil shmeared bowl to rise.
I was happy to see that it did, though I worried about the lumpiness of the post-risen dough.
With that, I deflated the dough by gently turning it out on to the table. It let out a satisfying little pphht sound and gently exhaled upon hitting the surface. Knowing I have a tendency to over-work dough (which has resulted in an almost too-tight and compact sponge in the past), I resisted the temptation to sink my fingers into the dough and start kneading.
Instead, I grabbed my dough slicer (super handy with inch measurements on the side) and did my best to create three equal portions. Since I don't have a food scale, this always gets a little tricky, but I thought I did pretty well.
Covering the hopeful little dough boules with some plastic wrap, I put them back in the laundry closet on top of the dryer to rise.
Forty minutes later, I saw that—clearly—I had not done as well of a job creating equal boules as I would've liked.
Still, they looked and smelled delicious, the oven and stone were preheated, and I had loving brushed on the nice egg glaze.
I used the whole egg with two tablespoons of water, even though in the introduction Hensperger does suggest just egg whites for French breads.
It was time for one of the most difficult parts of bread baking: The Transfer.
And naturally, this is where things went a little awry. Despite having sprinkled my peel with what I thought was a liberal amount of cornmeal, the boules stubbornly clung to the wood. I shaked, and shimmied, I scotched the peel, terrified of collapsing the three boules I had worked so hard to shape until finally, worried about the heat escaping from the oven, I nudged the boules in with my thumb.
While the boules didn't collapse, one of them did seem to crack on the side (see below, on upper left-hand side) as a result.
But, all in all, they looked gorgeous and smelled even better. We gave one to our new neighbors, who seemed to enjoy it, froze one (using both plastic and foil, which I have to admit, does seem to keep it tasting a bit fresher after thawing), and made it through the third in two days. Which is why I don't have any pictures of the crumb. It was even, uniform, light and fluffy.


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Jan. 1, 2011
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Bob Vazquez, Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations, offers his monthly insights on the accomplishments on the teams, coaches and student-athletes who compete for Cal State Northridge ... The monthly report includes upcoming key games, and a report on what other activities are happening in the Matador Athletic Department ... This month, coaching a basketball game on your 25th wedding anniversary!!!
Anniversary Analysis ...
When you work as a coach or an administrator in college athletics, there is no such thing as a 9-to-5 job. The schedule always dictates where-and-when you play. Already this year, the men's basketball team spent their Thanksgiving in a hotel at the 76 Classic Tournament while the women's basketball team hosted the Holiday Inn Classic at Cal State Northridge.
Now, we're not complaining, just stating a fact. On Dec. 7, 2010, Matador head basketball coach Bobby Braswell spent his 25th wedding anniversary coaching the Matadors to a 77-52 victory over Cal Lutheran at The Matadome. In fact, CSUN has played on Braswell's wedding anniversary (Dec. 7) the past two seasons.
Now, Braswell is not complaining ... That's just the way the basketball schedule worked out this year, and his 25th wedding anniversary ended with a Matador victory.
Braswell and his wife, Penny, were childhood friends as far back as third grade classmates at LaSalle Elementary School in Los Angeles. Braswell still has the elementary school picture of the two of them.
"Penny told me she used to call me at home but always hung up because she was too shy to talk. She was after me since the third grade," laughs Braswell.
Braswell and Penny didn't date until after their senior year in high school. The couple dated for five years, and then one night at a restaurant in Marina Del Rey, Braswell popped the question ... "Will you marry me?" ... Penny, of course said yes, and they planned their wedding date (Dec. 7, 1985) around the Cleveland High School basketball schedule where Braswell was the head coach. Their honeymoon was a weekend in Santa Barbara because Braswell's high school team did not have a game.
Fast forward, 25 years later, and Bobby and Penny Braswell are still very much in love. Penny Braswell hardly misses a game. She's the one sitting near the top row behind the team bench, cheering the Matadors to victory or sometimes giving the referees an earful.
"Penny and I were made for each other," says Braswell. "We're soul mates. We've been married for 25 years and I'm looking forward to another 25 years. It's been awesome. She is so supportive and has been with me since we started dating back in 1980. She's my MVP ... Most Valuable Penny."
Soccer Stuff ...
It's not very often that a defending NCAA champion visits Cal State Northridge ... The most recent NCAA champions have been in men's volleyball where UC Irvine (2007, 2009), UCLA (2006) and Pepperdine (2005) played the following seasons at CSUN ... In baseball, Cal State Fullerton played at CSUN following their 2004 NCAA title campaign ... In the Fall of 2010, CSUN men's soccer head coach Terry Davila has lined up 2010 NCAA champion Arkron to play at Matador Soccer Field in a four-team Labor Day weekend tournament which also includes UNLV and Cal State Fullerton ... The specific details still need to be worked out but CSUN will play the national champion Zips either on Sept. 2 or 4 ... Back in mid-December, Akron captured its first NCAA title in men's soccer with an impressive 1-0 victory over previously unbeaten Louisville in the College Cup at UC Santa Barbara ... Nearly 10,000 fans witnessed the game at UCSB's Harder Stadium ... With Akron making a West Coast appearance at CSUN, look for a record crowd to witness this exciting match at CSUN's home pitch!!! ... In the Spring of 2011, Stanford University, which won the 2010 NCAA championship in men's volleyball, will play CSUN at The Matadome.
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Creese named Capital One Academic All-American
Creese named Capital One Academic All-American
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Sophomore Robby Creese (Mount Airy, Md.) has been named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America Team, announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on June 27. Creese, who was a two-time USTFCCCA All-American on the track this year, was selected to the Capital One Academic All-America Third Team, to become Penn State's seventh Academic All-America honoree this year alone, as well as the Nittany Lions' 182nd selection all time - the third-highest total among Division I programs.
A sophomore with a 3.59 GPA in mathematics, Creese had another year for the record books in 2013, highlighted by All-America finishes at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Indoors, the sophomore anchored the Nittany Lions' NCAA runner up distance medley relay, and followed up with a sixth-place finish, individually, in the 1500-meters at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Creese was on fire throughout the indoor season, beginning with a school-record run of 3:57.11 for the mile at the Husky Classic at the University of Washington. The sophomore would go on to help the Nittany Lions to a sizzling Penn State record 9:26.60 for the DMR at the Alex Wilson Last Chance at Notre Dame. The performance, which included teammates Brannon Kidder (Lancaster, Ohio), Brandon Bennett-Green (Philadelphia, Pa.), and Za'Von Watkins (Liverpool, N.Y.) is the second-fastest ever run by a collegiate foursome indoors. The Mount Airy, Md., native also enjoyed outstanding success at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, taking home an individual title in the mile, to go along with Penn State's second-straight victory in the DMR.
Outdoors, Creese was once again one of the Nittany Lions' most reliable relay legs, helping his team to a pair of "Championship of America" victories at the prestigious Penn Relays Carnival. The sophomore anchored the winning DMR, which clocked a school-record 9:24.68, and led off the victorious 4x800-meter relay. On the Big Ten level, Creese finished second in the 1500. Creese would also clock a career-best 3:41.03 in the event at the NCAA Eastern Preliminary Round - the fourth-fastest effort in school history.
Creese was also a member of the Capital One All-District Academic Team, along with current sophomore Lauren Kenney (State College, Pa.).
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