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Up Close with the 13.3-inch 2560 x 1440 Panel on Next-Gen Ultrabooksby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2013 9:05 PM EST
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xTRICKYxx - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkI think the days of 1366x768 Displays are behind us! Reply
hypopraxia - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkI sure hope. Reply
Gigaplex - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkThey'll still be around for years and years at the low end of the market. Hopefully they'll soon vanish completely from the mid range gear. Reply
tipoo - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkYet Apple still uses 1280x800 on laptops over 1000 dollars :/ Reply
Guspaz - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkApple does not ship any laptops that cost more (by default) than their retina equivalents. There are still trade-offs to high resolution displays, cost being one of them (power being the other). I suspect Apple will migrate all their notebooks to high DPI displays when they can (as costs go down and power efficiency goes up), but Haswell is the first generation that makes a high DPI ultrabook (or mac air) feasible.
In fact, much like Haswell has lead to some high DPI Ultrabook announcements, I suspect it will lead to Apple pushing their migration to retina displays a bit further. They may introduce a 13-inch retina Air (the 11 inch is a lot less likely at this point for cost/power reasons), or they may complete the migration of one of the Pro notebooks by discontinuing the non-retina version. Reply
gochichi - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkPC manufacturers will follow Apple off a cliff like idiot lemmings. 13" 1080P is enough if not more than enough, but Apple (a premium brand, "the premium brand") decides to distinguish itself with 1600P on 13" and that's completely fine for them to do. But why oh why would lost, fragmented PC makers follow? It's ridiculous, who's making these decisions?... I swear the majority of your readers could advise these companies straight to the top. Super pixel density is already claimed, Apple claimed it (good for them, it's neat, it's great). Let Apple have that and claim all that is obvious, practical, useful and unclaimed... 15" 1920x1200, 15" 2560x1440, 17" 2560x1440. I'm typing this on a 13" 1080P glossy screen and I want more brightness and that's all I want, otherwise it's freaking "perfect". I'm not a manufacturing genius, but I have to imagine that doing a screen like this one but 17" and 1440P can't be that hard. What am I missing? Why do we as customers/users have to live in constant frustration from the horrid company choices? Reply
jaroche - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkBut finally PC makers are shipping IPS high resolution displays, thanks to the Retina Display BS. Reply
pixelstuff - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkThe goal should be 300 dpi displays and an OS that can draw the interface based in standard world dimensions (like inches or centimeters) instead of pixels. I'm all for higher dpi displays. Reply
Guspaz - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIt's not a simple problem to solve; if you standardize on real-world measurements ("this dialog box is 3 inches wide"), then something that works well on a 27" screen will be a horrible experience on a 11" screen.
A better solution may be to decouple render resolution and display resolution entirely. Instead of varying the display resolution, vary the render resolution. So if your display is 2560x1440, your backbuffer that you render to might be anything from 2560x1440 to 5120x2880, but a dialog box might always be 200 pixels wide. By varying the resolution of the backbuffer, you can change the size of the dialog box on-screen without losing detail (because you're always downscaling for display).
I believe Apple took an approach similar to this, and I hope Microsoft does as well. Reply
inighthawki - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkJust because you're downscaling doesn't mean it will always look good. Even at a perfect 1/2 scale you will get awkward looking text and images that still need to apply filtering. That and rendering at something like 5120x2880 just for the purpose of downscaling later is a huge waste in gpu performance and screen composition. Reply
Guspaz - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkWell, you give up hinting for antialiasing, but Apple doesn't do AA hinting on text anyhow. If you're doing pure supersampling, stuff is generally going to look good at these pixel densities regardless of the supersample ratio.
In terms of rendering at higher resolution being a waste of composition power, I'd argue that it's not that burdensome (remember we're not talking about rendering 3D graphics at that resolution, but doing 2D composition), it's exactly what Apple is doing in OS X, and it seems to work quite well... They're using a GF 650M in the 15" retina, which is only a bit faster than the fastest Haswell chips, and they're using an HD 4000 in the 13" retina, which is a great deal slower than the fastest Haswell chips, and things seem to be working out for them.
I think they should be given some credit for being the first company to pull off a consumer operating system with resolution-independent rendering... As a primarily PC user, I would have really liked to have something like that years ago, to deal with high res notebook displays. Windows DPI scaling never worked very well, however. Reply
vegemeister - Monday, August 05, 2013 - linkRendering oversized frames and rescaling them means you have to move a lot more data around in memory. This wastes energy, because high-bandwidth off-chip buses are power hogs. Also, it messes up subpixel AA unless the text rendering library knows what the native resolution of the screen is so it can offset 1/3 of a native resolution pixel, instead of 1/3 of a fake framebuffer pixel.
>I think they should be given some credit for being the first company to pull off a consumer operating system with resolution-independent rendering...
Resampling the entire desktop is not resolution-independent rendering. Reply
MikhailT - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkHave you ever looked at the Retina displays? If you did, you'd understand it's not about the resolution but the pixel density. The 13" retina MacBook Pro screen is actually a "1280x800" screen in the default Retina mode. It's less space than your 13" 1080P screen but it is twice as sharp (not exactly twice but feels like it).
More pixel density at the same *virtual* resolution means text becomes much shaper without making them smaller. Folks who tried Retina display could not go back to the older 1080P 13" because the text are now blurry to them.
For an example, 15" resolution: 2880x1800 panel but in Retina mode it is 1440x900, that's how much space we have on 15". Yes, we could switch it to use more space but it's not as sharp. Reply
MikhailT - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThe point I'm trying to make is that many folks actually want HiDPI screens because it's that easier on their eyes and it's more useful than having higher resolution with everything smaller.
Many of my Windows friends are waiting for these HiDPI screens. Reply
Cold Fussion - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIf you're not an expert, then why would you bother saying it is easy? The manufacturing defects of these devices is probabilistic, the larger the size the greater the chance of manufacturing defects. Clearly manufacturing these high density displays is difficult at the best of times, and judging by much even tablet size screens have lagged behind phone screens in pixel density is a clear indication that manufacturing defects are a serious problem, now imagine that same defect rate on a screen with ~3.5x the area (10" to 17") or 5.75x (10" to 24"). Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThe higher the DPI, the better scaled resolutions look. On 1080p or 900p screens, running a 768p resolution to play a game (because the iGPU can only run it at that resolution with good frame rates) looks pretty bad. But by increasing the DPI, you make those resolutions look okay to good again. Also, in the case of 1440p/1600p, you can just run the game at 720p/800p and have perfect scaling. And this will force MS and other developers to put some thought into good scaling for their OS/programs. Reply
MrSpadge - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIf games rendered the UI at native resolution and everything else at whatever-the-GPU-can-handle we wouldn't have such problems at all. Wouldn't sell new GPUs, though. Reply
Torrijos - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkFirst of all there are physics in play here...
For someone with perfect eyesight (not everybody but still a good benchmark) they should be able to distinguish 2 pixels in a 13" retMBP under 38cm (15") that is a good working distance for a laptop.
Higher densities would be probably useless, deciding factor being how often do you work closer to your display than the definition distance.
For old displays (1440x900 13.3") that distance becomes 68cm (27"). Reply
JDG1980 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkHave you ever actually used an Apple "retina display"? Once you try an iPad 4, the text on PC screens looks fuzzy and indistinct in comparison. Text rendering at HiDPI resolutions is really beautiful.
And from a technical point of view, HiDPI will eventually let us phase out hacks like hinting and antialiasing on fonts. None of this is done on printers (300-1200 DPI) - it's purely to allow acceptable results at the shamefully low resolutions we currently suffer through on our monitors. Reply
vegemeister - Monday, August 05, 2013 - linkWe already can phase out hinting (as we should, because it looks terrible). To phase out antialiasing, you'd have to render at a resolution so high that the spatial bandwidth cutoff of the human eye becomes the AA filter in most of the populace (99th percentile would probably be good). That would look only marginally better than using a lower resolution (say, 60th percentile) and using AA, and you'd have to shuffle much bigger buffers around, and use significantly brighter backlights. This wastes power. Reply
Meaker10 - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkYou catch the msi 3k edition? 15.6 inch with 2880x1620 matched with 780m and 4930mx. Reply
jaroche - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - link> "Windows has traditionally done a terrible job of DPI scaling on the desktop"
How exactly is this a Windows fault? Applications need to tell they're DPI aware, and propertly support it. Windows tries to upscale low resolution icons, but its application's fault if it looks bad at High DPI. It's like complaining that Chrome looks bad (and IE10 doesn't). Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkWhat about even basic system UI elements? I don't think those scale well either. Reply
Klimax - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThey do. At minimum since XP... Reply
Spoony - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIt's really a mixed bag. I have a rMBP and I use Windows on it often. Windows 7 scales poorly. Even the base OS is full of ugly. It is usable, but it's a long way from working properly (Win7x64 is also still retarded about its expectations at boot time).
Windows 8 is significantly better in all respects. Metro is all just fine. When you go to the desktop layer much has been fixed. There's glitches here and there but overall I would say the improvement is significant. Very usable.
Programs are where things fall apart. Office 365 seems to do a pretty good job, as do some of the flagship Win8 Microsoft bundled applications (IE). However, outside of that it's the wild west. 3rd party programs are almost universally horrible, and all of Microsoft's unconverted software is equally lame. Unsurprisingly games are commonly the most compatible, able to select and use the very high resolutions (although sometimes the U/I assets are half size). Reply
JDG1980 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkAs these HiDPI screens become more popular, the application vendors will have to fix their products. Reply
JDG1980 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkSince Vista, the way DPI scaling works in Windows is this: If the underlying app says "I'm DPI-aware" in the manifest, then the OS trusts it and lets it display the way it wants. If that flag is absent, then the window is drawn at standard DPI to an offscreen buffer and then upscaled to the correct DPI setting during rendering. It will look fuzzy, but should not have any out-of-place or missing elements (as the XP scaling method sometimes did).
Unfortunately, there's nothing stopping an application from saying "I'm DPI-aware!" when it's really not. This is where most of the errors come from.
Currently, Adobe has fixed Lightroom to work with HiDPI settings properly, but Photoshop hasn't been done yet. They say it will be done soon, but who knows if that will be ported to CS6 or if you'll have to shell out the monthly "cloud" fee to get this basic fix. Acrobat hasn't been fixed to support HiDPI either.
Firefox 21 doesn't properly support HiDPI, but Firefox 22 will. Reply
pixelstuff - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkStill doing the 16:9 ratio I see. I still wish they would move back toward the taller displays. If someone would offer the Chromebook Pixel hardware with Windows on it, I sure would like to try it. In my opinion 16:10 is the minimum height. 4:3 might be taller than needed.
I would like to directly compare 16:10 with 3:2 to see which is better. Reply
mjz - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkthats why i get apple laptops.. taller displays than the typical PC laptops Reply
eallan - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkGoogle Pixel?? Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkGood comment. Chromebook Pixel has the best screen of the lot. A refreshing taller ratio. 16:9 on PCs needs to be sidelined. Reply
Vi0cT - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkHey it's me or no one here is going to talk about the Fujitsu Lifebook UH90? it got a 3200 x 1800 14" display. Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkYou're right, damn, that's one hell of a resolution.. Reply
Taracta - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkAnand, do you ever look at these magnified images of the screen and say to yourself that they could make even higher PPI/DPI screens but they are choosing not to? Well we know that they can have it up in the 400s but I believe that they have the capability to go even much higher but are choosing not to. Just thinking about Moores law and how it would have applied to LCDs. Over a decade ago we had at the cutting edge 200 PPI/DPI 22" LCDs, now we are barely over 100! Ridiculous! Reply
MrSpadge - Friday, June 07, 2013 - link400+ ppi? Increasig cost and power consumption for no good reason other than "to have the higher pixels"? Yay, sign me up! Reply
Taracta - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkYou do realize that those 400+ PPI/DPI screens are used on cell phones where power consumption is a very important consideration so why would it all of a sudden start consuming lots of power when scaled up to 20+"? As for cost, if they already have to technology to build 400+ PPI/DPI screens most to the cost are already sunk so only the up-scaling cost is left for the manufacturer.
The only "cost" is to us, the consumers, who are being suckered into believing that the exorbitant cost they are going to try selling this technology at is justified because "they have to keep the runaway power consumption down and it's expensive to do." I hope there are more companies like Seiki to burst the bubble. Reply
Azurael - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkI can't see the difference between a 720p 4.7" screen and a 1080p one, to be honest. It's all marketing. Well, on LCDs anyway. On OLEDs, the shrunken subpixels means they finally don't look jarringly horrid. Reply
roltzje - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - linkI plan on getting a 1080p 12-13" touchscreen for my next laptop.. praying that 8.1 fixes the scaling issues! Reply


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Casino operator Echo Entertainment has forecast a solid profit rise as it gears up to battle for a second Brisbane casino licence.
Shares in Echo, which owns Brisbane's Treasury Casino and The Star in Sydney, soared seven per cent after it flagged its annual profit could rise by about a fifth this year.
Chief executive Matt Bekier believes Echo is well placed for future growth despite competition heating up in the next five to seven years.
"The reality is we have long-dated licences," Mr Bekier told AAP on Monday.
"We've got another 50 years in Brisbane.
"We will have to maximise earnings from all of our assets and I think we're well placed."
The Queensland government has shortlisted four bidders for a second casino in Brisbane, including Echo, rival Crown, Chinese property developer Greenland, and Chinese consortium Shun Tak/Far East.
Mr Bekier said as the incumbent operator in Brisbane, Echo took the opportunity to bid for a second licence seriously.
"I don't want to be overly confident when you see what has happened in other markets," he said.
"We know Brisbane really, really well and we'll try to leverage that but I can't really talk to what we're putting to the government."
Echo expects its normalised annual net profit to rise to between $150 million and $153 million, from $126.9 million in 2012/13.
It also expects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to rise to between $430 million and $435 million, from $372.9 million.
However its final EBITDA result could be affected by volatility, win rates and turnover at its VIP Rebate businesses.
While Echo's earnings look promising, analysts are concerned about its medium to long-term prospects as it prepares to bid against rival Crown and Chinese interests later this year.
Tyndall Asset Management analyst James Nguyen said Echo's upgraded earnings guidance was encouraging but there were still some major uncertainties.
"Operationally things are going much better and it shows they're getting traction in both Sydney and Queensland but we're still concerned about the medium to long-term," he said.
Investors were worried about Crown's Barangaroo high rollers operation coming online in 2019 and a potential second casino in Brisbane next door to Echo's Treasury casino.
Morningstar analyst Brian Han said Echo had the financial capacity to bid for a second casino in Brisbane.
"Despite the sluggish consumer environment they look like they're getting their act together," he said.
He said Echo needed to bid against Crown in Brisbane to protect its interests.

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VERMILLION (AP) -- An author who has extensive knowledge of the Hutterite communities in South Dakota is presenting at the University of South Dakota on Tuesday.
Joanita Kant will present "Hutterite Communities of South Dakota" at 5 p.m. at the campus' Andrew E. Lee Memorial Medicine & Science Building.
Kant has had contact with the communities since 1976 and has published several articles and books on the Hutterite culture. Her speech will cover a variety of topics about the communities, including their clothing, food customs and history.
The event is free and open to the public.


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In the 46th annual Congress of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), 35 thousand Muslims got together in Congress Hall in Washington, the capital of the United States.
On the second day of the activities in the Congress Hall in Washington, with participation of the Chairwoman of ISNA, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Hamza Yusuf, Yusuf Islam and Imam Zeyd Sakir, a causerie has been held about "Life, Freedom and the right for searching happiness''. Yusuf Islam, the legendary musician, whose music video of his song "Roadsinger" has been shown from his latest album; announced; "Life is Love''. And, Hamza Yusuf added that searching for happiness described well in Islam and said; "In this meaning, the happiest humanbeing ever is Hazrat Muhammad (saas)".
President Obama's Religious Affairs Advisor was also present at the Congress.
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WASHINGTON - Conceding "this will be difficult," President Barack Obama urged a reluctant Congress on Wednesday to require background checks for all gun sales and ban both military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines in an emotion-laden plea to curb gun violence in America.
The president's sweeping, $500 million plan, coming one month after the school massacre in Connecticut, marks the most comprehensive effort to tighten gun laws in nearly two decades. But his proposals, most of which are opposed by the National Rifle Association, face a doubtful future in a divided Congress where Republicans control the House.
Seeking to circumvent at least some opposition, Obama signed 23 executive actions on Wednesday, including orders to make more federal data available for background checks and end a freeze on government research on gun violence. But he acknowledged that the steps he took on his own would have less impact than the broad measures requiring approval from Capitol Hill.
"To make a real and lasting difference, Congress, too, must act," Obama said, speaking at a White House ceremony with school children and their parents. "And Congress must act soon."
The president's announcements capped a swift and wide-ranging effort, led by Vice President Joe Biden, to respond to the deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But Obama's gun control proposals set him up for a tough political fight with Congress as he starts his second term, when he'll need Republican support to meet three looming fiscal deadlines and pass comprehensive immigration reform.
"I will put everything I've got into this, and so will Joe," the president said. "But I tell you, the only way we can change is if the American people demand it."
Key congressional leaders were tepid in their response to the White House proposals.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner's office signaled no urgency to act, with spokesman Michael Steel saying only that "House committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations. And if the Senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was committed to ensuring that the Senate will consider gun violence legislation "early this year." But he did not endorse any of Obama's specific proposals.
The president vowed to use "whatever weight this office holds" to fight for his recommendations. He's likely to travel around the country in the coming weeks to rally public support and could engage his still-active presidential campaign operation in the effort. But he'll have to overcome a well-financed counter-effort by the NRA.
"This will be difficult," Obama acknowledged. "There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty -- not because that's true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves."
The president, speaking in front of an audience that included families of some of those killed in Newtown, said 900 Americans had lost their lives to gun violence in the four weeks since the school shootings.
"We can't put this off any longer," Obama declared. "Every day we wait, the number will keep growing."
Many Democrats say an assault weapons ban faces the toughest road in Congress. Obama wants lawmakers to reinstate the expired 1994 ban on the high-grade weapons, and strengthen the measure to prevent manufacturers from circumventing the prohibition by making cosmetic changes to banned guns.
The president is also likely to face opposition to his call for Congress to limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
But Democrats are hopeful they can build consensus around the president's call for universal background checks. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says 40 percent of gun sales are conducted with no criminal background checks, such as in some instances at gun shows or by private sellers over the Internet or through classified ads.
The NRA is opposed to all three measures. In a statement Wednesday, the gun lobby said, "Only honest, law-abiding gun owners will be affected" by Obama's efforts and the nation's children "will remain vulnerable to the inevitability of more tragedy."
And on the eve of Obama's announcement, the NRA released an online video accusing him of being an "elitist hypocrite" for sending his daughters to school with armed Secret Service agents while opposing having guards with guns at all U.S. schools.
White House spokesman Jay Carney called the video "repugnant and cowardly."
The president's proposals did include a $150 million request to Congress that would allow schools to hire 1,000 new police officers, counselors and psychologists. The White House plan also includes legislative and executive action to increase mental health services, including boosting funding for training aimed at getting young people into treatment more quickly.
A lopsided 84 percent of Americans back broader background checks, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Nearly six in 10 Americans want stricter gun laws, the same poll showed, with majorities favoring a nationwide ban on military-style weapons and limits on gun violence depicted in video games, movies and TV shows.
The NRA and pro-gun lawmakers have long suggested that violent images in video games and entertainment are more to blame for mass shootings than the availability of guns. But Obama's proposals do little to address that concern, other than calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research links between violent images and gun attacks.
Government scientists have been prohibited from researching the causes and prevention of gun violence since 1996, when a budget amendment was passed that barred researchers from spending taxpayer money on such studies.
The administration is calling on Congress to provide $10 million for expanded research.
Obama also wants lawmakers to ban armor-piercing ammunition, except for use by the military and law enforcement. And he's asking them to create stiffer penalties for gun trafficking, to provide $14 million to help train police officers and others to respond to shootings, and to approve his nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
One of the president's executive actions on Wednesday was to nominate B. Todd Jones to head the ATF, which has been without a permanent director since 2006. Jones has served as the bureau's acting director since 2011.
Other steps Obama took through his presidential powers include:
-- Ordering tougher penalties for people who lie on background checks.
-- Requiring federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
-- Ordering a review of safety standards for gun locks and gun safes.
Local and State Reaction
A state representative from The Woodlands said he would push to make a law banning semiautomatic weapons unenforceable in Texas.
"Our rights are enumerated in the Constitution and they cannot be infringed upon, and they should not be infringed upon," state Rep. Steve Toth said.
Houston attorney Dan Cogdell said Toth wouldn't have a leg to stand on, pointing to the supremacy clause in the Constitution.
"If there's a conflict between a federal law and a state law, the judge must follow the federal law," Codgell said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry stood firm in his opposition to the president's plan.
"The Vice President's committee was appointed in response to the tragedy at Newtown, but very few of his recommendations have anything to do with what happened there. Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons and no gun law could have saved the children in Sandy Hook Elementary from his terror. There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. As a free people, let us choose what kind of people we will be. Laws, the only redoubt of secularism, will not suffice. Let us all return to our places of worship and pray for help. Above all, let us pray for our children. In fact, the piling on by the political left, and their cohorts in the media, to use the massacre of little children to advance a pre-existing political agenda that would not have saved those children, disgusts me, personally. The second amendment to the Constitution is a basic right of free people and cannot be nor will it be abridged by the executive power of this or any other president," Perry said in a statement.
Some Houstonians also do not want stricter gun control measures.
"I think it's kind of silly. Most of those assault rifles aren't assault rifles. It's generally just the look of the rifle and those features aren't going to stop someone from committing a crime," Scott Jackson said.
"Even if you do have some type of psychological issue, you're going to be able to access a gun plain and simple from someone on the street. You're going to be able to access a gun," Patty Granados said.
"It's not the honest people who are doing it. It's the criminals. You get rid of the weapons, criminals are still going to have it," Greg Deal said.
Some Houstonians said they hope stricter laws could help curb violent crimes.
"I think an assault weapons ban is definitely something we should consider," Rachel Lombardo said. "I don't think weapons should be banned completely, but I don't think a civilian should have a semi automatic assault rifle."
"Every little bit is going to help, whether we catch everything, someone is going to fall through the crack," Ron Pipes said. "But if we can report something and catch one incident before it happens, you'll save a life."
Copyright 2013 by Click2Houston.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Park Officials Block Effort to Name Lawn For Slain Photojournalist Chris Hondros
Posted by Holly Hughes on Monday March 11, 2013 | Photojournalism
Posted by Holly Hughes on Monday March 11, 2013 | Photojournalism
A campaign to get Brooklyn Bridge Park to name a lawn after photojournalist Chris Hondros, a Brooklyn resident who was killed in Libya in April 2011, is being blocked by Park authorities who now say they will not accept proper names submitted to its Name That Lawn contest. (*March 13, 2013: See Update to this story, below.)
In February, Brooklyn Bridge Park, a city-run park, announced on its website that it was running a Name That Lawn contest to solicit names for a stretch of green on a recently repurposed pier. Patrick Whelan, photo editor at the Wall Street Journal, suggested it be named for Hondros, a New York native and winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal. Soon dozens of friends and colleagues of the late photographer had spread the word via social media, and news about the campaign ran run on the websites of DNAInfo and a local CBS news affiliate.
On March 9, however, several people who had submitted Hondros's name received an email signed by Nancy Webster of Brooklyn Bridge Park, saying the Park was looking only for names that described aspects of the park. Acknowledging the volume of emails suggesting Hondros's name, Webster's email added, "While we very much appreciate the desire to honor Chris's memory, we are also keenly aware that there are so very many deserving and special Brooklyn residents to memorialize and pay tribute to. And as such, the naming of one lawn for one person does not seem fully inclusive of the
larger community."
Webster noted that the rule change had been added to the contest page of the Park's website. It now reads, "We are looking specifically for a name that reflects the geography or features of the park, so no proper names please."
Photographer Alan Chin, an early promoter of Whalen's idea, called Webster's email "disingenuous." "All kinds of parks and parts of parks are named for all kinds of people. In my own neighborhood of Red Hook here, there's the 'Louis J. Valentino Park' named for a local firefighter who died in a burning building in 1996. Wouldn't the 'Chris Hondros Meadow' be in exactly the same spirit?" (Among city-run parks in Brooklyn alone, Chin might have added McCarren Park, Maria Hernandez Park, J.J. Byrne Playground, or the Lt. Federico Narvarez Tot Lot, which were named for a state senator, a city council member, a Building Department clerk and a New York police lieutenant who died in 1996.)
He said that the Park's "backtracking" on the rules of its own contest "is graceless and insulting in the extreme."
Webster's email claims that the Park would contact the Chris Hondros Fund, the non-profit foundation created after his death to support photography education and photojournalism projects, "to explore other ways to honor his memory."
Christina Piaia, president of the Chris Hondros Fund did not say whether the Park had been in touch, but sent PDN the following statement: "We feel humbled by the outpouring of love and support evident in the notes shared with us, and, in the spirit of Chris, this serves as a testament to the incredible life he led and legacy he leaves behind in each of us."
Whalen says the Park's decision is "disappointing," but he hopes that supporters of the campaign will rally around another effort to create a place named for Hondros where friends and colleagues could meet or talk about his work. "Next month will be the second anniversary of our loss as well as Chris' birthday. I feel the time is right and the support is there to make this happen."
* Update, March 13, 2013: Four days after the Brooklyn Bridge Park changed the rules of the contest; the Park has responded to criticism of its change by calling the contest off, The New York Times reports today.
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Surgeons tried unsuccessfully for two hours to revive the kidney, which was removed from a Toledo man and meant for his older sister, the Toledo Blade reported.
University of Toledo Medical Center officials said "human error" rendered the kidney "unusable," but have declined to go into further detail.
However, Toledo-Lucas County health commissioner David Grossman and other sources confirmed to the Blade that the kidney was accidentally disposed of by a nurse.
Two nurses have been placed on administrative leave while the hospital reviews the incident, The Associated Press reported.
The hospital has since voluntarily suspended its kidney transplant program, according to the New York Daily News.
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The Black Hawks are at the Garden tonight, but I won't be. Byfuglien.
Oh, Byfuglien won't be there, but, ah, never mind.
Something came up with my, you know, other job, so I'm probably going to be unable to make it to the city in time for the game.
Hey, did you guys notice fewer Trick-Or-Treaters last night. We had three — the neighbor's kid, and two other kids who were going house to house in their parents' car. Then we had a bunch of jackwagons ring the doorbell and set off some of those whistling bottle-rocket things on the front lawn. And that was it. So we were left with a giant basket of candy. And I can't eat candy. Double byfuglien.
I also have another Halloween/Rangers story for you, but it's way too long to try to tell on a game day. So somebody remind me when we have one of those stretches of two or three days with no games.
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NEW YORK RANGERS vs. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
Monday, Nov. 1, 7:00 p.m.
Madison Square Garden • New York, NY
Rangers: 5-4-1 (11 pts)
Blackhawks: 7-5-1 (15 pts)
* All information through NHL games on Oct. 30
The Rangers will play their fourth game in six nights when they will face-off against the defending Stanley Cup Champions, the Chicago Blackhawks, at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m.), in an Original Six match-up. The Rangers enter the contest having defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-0, on Saturday at Air Canada Centre, and are now 5-4-1 (11 pts) on the season. The Blackhawks enter the contest with a 7-5-1 (15 pts) record, following a 3-1 win on Saturday at Minnesota. Following the contest, the Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Wells Fargo Center (7:00 p.m.), in the first game of a back-to-back set against Atlantic Division opponents.
TV: MSG Network
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Al Trautwig and Mike Keenan
7:00 p.m. – Rangers vs. Blackhawks
Broadcasters: Sam Rosen (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst), John Giannone (In-Game Reporter)
Radio: 970 The Apple
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game with Don LaGreca
7:00 p.m. – Rangers vs. Blackhawks
Broadcasters: Kenny Albert (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. BLACKHAWKS:
* All-Time: The Rangers are 235-241-98-2 all-time against the Blackhawks: 119-113-55-0 at home and 116-128-43-2 on the road.
* 2010-11: Tonight's contest marks the first and only meeting between the Rangers and Blackhawks this season.
* Last Season: New York was 0-0-1 against Chicago in 2009-10 after falling to the Blackhawks, 2-1, in overtime on Dec. 9 at the United Center.
* The Rangers have won their last two contests vs. the Blackhawks at Madison Square Garden, out-scoring Chicago, 6-3, during the stretch. The Blueshirts last home loss to the Blackhawks was on Dec. 11, 2002 (3-4).
* Henrik Lundqvist posted a record of 0-0-1 with a 1.88 goals against average and .951 save percentage in one contest vs. Chicago last season, and is now 3-0-2 with a 1.76 goals against average in five career games against the Blackhawks.
* Alex Frolov has registered a team-high, eight goals, 11 assists and 19 points in 26 career regular season contests vs. Chicago; Brandon Dubinsky has recorded four points (two goals, two assists) in two career games vs. the Blackhawks
* Frolov posted a career-high, five points (two goals, three assists) vs. Chicago on Jan. 1, 2008.
* New York lists one former Blackhawk on their roster: Todd White (1997-98 – 1999-00)
* Chicago lists no former Rangers on their roster
* Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in one power play opportunity (2:00) on Saturday at Toronto, and are now 4-20 with the man advantage over the last five games for a 20.0% success rate. New York ranks 17th in the NHL with a 15.4% (6-39) success rate, and are tied for 20th at home with a 13.0% (3-23) success rate at MSG. The Rangers did not convert on one five-on-three chance (0:30) on Oct. 9 at HSBC Arena, and are now 0-1 on five-on-three attempts (0:30). New York is 0-1 (1:05) with a four-on-three advantage this season. Shorthanded goals allowed (0).
* Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Maple Leafs scoreless in three shorthanded situations (5:29) on Saturday at Toronto, and now rank 26th in the NHL with a 77.3% (34-44) success rate. The Rangers held the Maple Leafs scoreless in one, three-on-five situation (0:31) on Saturday at Toronto, and are 4-6 on three-on-fives (5:08) this season. The Blueshirts yielded one goal in three, three-on-four situations on Oct. 15, and are now 2-3 (1:10) in those situations this season. Shorthanded goals for (1): 10/9 at BUF (Dubinsky).
* Four-on-Four: New York did not skate in a four-on-four situation on Saturday at Toronto, and are now even in eight, four-on-four situations (11:28) this season. Four-on-four goals for (1): 10/18 vs. COL (Frolov). Four-on-four goals allowed (1): 10/15 vs. TOR (Kessel).
New York has posted a record of 41-20-12 (94 pts) against Original Six opponents since the 2005-06 season, including a 3-0-2 mark vs. Chicago over the span. The Rangers' .644 winning percentage ranks second, trailing Detroit (.721%, 35-12-5) and ahead of Montreal (.619%, 57-33-11), Boston (.525%, 46-41-15), Toronto (.519%, 45-41-18), and Chicago (.445%, 21-27-7).
The Blueshirts currently lead the NHL in blocked shots per game, averaging 19.0 blocked shots per contest, and rank second with 190 blocked shots on the season. Dan Girardi leads the team and ranks second in the league with 35 blocked shots, and Ryan Callahan is tied for fourth among NHL forwards with 14 blocked shots. New York registered a season-high, 35 blocked shots on Saturday at Toronto, and have now recorded 65 blocked shots in their last two contests at the Air Canada Centre after posting 30 blocked shots on Oct. 21 at Toronto.
Henrik Lundqvist posted his first shutout of the season with a 36-save performance on Saturday at Toronto and, in the process, passed Mike Richter, Chuck Rayner and Lorne Worsley for fourth on the Rangers' all-time regular season shutouts list with 25 career regular season shutouts.
* Ryan Callahan enters tonight's contest with a six-game scoring streak (four goals, five assists over the span), including a goal in each of the last four contests and multiple-point efforts in three of the last four
* Henrik Lundqvist is 3-1-0 in his last four starts, registering a 1.78 goals against average, .951 save percentage and one shutout over the span
* Brandon Dubinsky has registered five points (two goals, three assists) in the last five games
* Brian Boyle has notched two goals in the last three games
* The Rangers have tallied four power play goals in the last five games, registering a 20.0% (4-20) success rate over the span
* Michal Rozsival has registered five points (one goal, four assists) in the last six games
* Artem Anisimov has tallied four points (two goals, two assists) in the last six games, including three assists in the last four
* Ruslan Fedotenko has recorded five points (one goal, four assists) in the last eight games
* Sean Avery has tallied three points (one goal, two assists) in the last four games
Derek Stepan (three goals) and Alex Frolov (one assist) both registered their first point as a Ranger in the 6-3 season-opening win on Oct. 9 at Buffalo. Three new Blueshirts tallied their first point as a Ranger in home opener on Oct. 15 vs. Toronto, with Ruslan Fedotenko, Derek Boogaard andSteve Eminger each recording one assist in the contest. In addition, Sean Avery registered two assists in the game to record his 100th point as a Ranger. On Oct. 18 vs. Colorado, Frolov notched his first goal as a Ranger with a four-on-four tally assisted by Stepan, who picked up his first career assist on the play. Fedotenko tallied his first goal as a Ranger to open the game's scoring on Oct. 21 at Toronto, and Martin Biron backstopped the Blueshirts to a 2-1 win in the contest with a 24-save performance to record his first win as a Ranger in his first appearance with the team. Rookie Evgeny Grachev made his NHL and Rangers debut on Friday vs. Carolina, after being recalled from Hartford (AHL) on Thursday.
Based on opening day rosters, the Rangers have the ninth youngest team in the NHL with an average age of 27 years and 44 days, and the second youngest defensive corp in the league, trailing only Los Angeles with an average age of 25 years and 51 days.
* Sean Avery: 1 game from 500 NHL career
* Michael Sauer: 1st career NHL assist/point (10/23 at BOS)
* Ryan Callahan: 100th career NHL point (10/23 at BOS)
* Evgeny Grachev: 1st career NHL game (10/29 vs. CAR)
* Vinny Prospal (IR on Sept. 24/knee surgery on Oct. 18, 6-8 weeks) – 10
* Marian Gaborik (IR – separated shoulder on Oct. 15, 2-4 weeks) – 7
* Chris Drury (IR – fractured finger on Oct. 15, 6 weeks) – 7
Total Man-Games Lost: 29
* Oct. 24: Recalled forward Jeremy Williams from Hartford
* Oct. 25: Assigned forward Jeremy Williams to Hartford
* Oct. 28: Recalled forward Evgeny Grachev from Hartford


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- "I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," he said. Referencing a public-housing project he once saw in North Las Vegas, he continued: "In front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids—and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch—they didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do."
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German people eagerly visited the mosques to hear about Islam and Muslims.
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MORE than 200 local Manitoba history books are only a mouse click away, thanks to a project headed by the Manitoba Library Consortium and Manitoba Historical Society, with funding from the Winnipeg Foundation.
The local histories, covering Manitoba communities from Altona to Zbaraz, bring 100,000 pages' worth of digitized Manitoba history to the website manitobia.ca.
Also included on the site, designed as a resource for students, teachers and researchers, are digital copies of dozens of Manitoba newspapers going back to 1871, as well as historical photos and maps.
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The American online literary magazine The Millions has produced millions of words on great art.
But for its first foray into the ebook business, the magazine has decided to look in the opposite direction. Epic Fail, by Dublin-based staff writer Mark O'Connell, examines viral fame and the surprising, and surprisingly old, allure of terrible art.
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A British anarchist bookstore co-founded in the 19th century by Peter Kropotkin -- and connected in the 20th century to George Orwell and Emma Goldman -- was damaged Feb. 1 in a fire bombing.
Freedom Press, which also houses a variety of leftist activist groups, had protective shutters on the windows following a firebombing in the 1990s carried out by a neo-fascist group, notes The Guardian newspaper.
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A lecture series honouring Saskatchewan poet Anne Szumigalski -- who wrote a play, two memoirs and a dozen books of poetry after emigrating from Britain to the Canadian Prairies -- is bringing another acclaimed Saskatchewan poet to Winnipeg.
Robert Currie, a former poet laureate of Riderland and author of nine books of poetry and fiction, will deliver the Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture at the University of Winnipeg Friday, Feb. 15, at 2:30 p.m.
He will be joined that evening at 7 p.m. by Brandon's Di Brandt and Winnipeg's Sue Sorensen at McNally Robinson.
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Winnipeg poet Jennifer Still is the first Manitoban to win Prairie Fire magazine's Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award.
In addition to winning a $1,250 cash prize, next fall at the Thin Air literary festival she will receive a replica of a ring worn by Carman, an important Canadian poet of the 20th century.
Winning entries in the literary competition, which also included short fiction and literary non-fiction categories, also sponsored by McNally Robinson, will be published in the July 2013 issue of Prairie Fire.


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text: Shortly after I was called to serve as Wheaton's next president, one of Chicago's leading choral conductors happened to be staying with our next-door neighbor in Philadelphia. We chatted over the backyard fence, and when he learned that I was going to Wheaton, he immediately started raving about the quality of our choral program. He had heard our ensembles, he knew some of our graduates, and he was impressed with our Conservatory of Music. This encouraging conversation mirrors my own assessment of our music program. We are blessed with exceptional leadership through the ministry of Dean Michael Wilder. Recent hires in composition, conducting, and instrumental instruction have sustained and even strengthened our excellent faculty. A good number of our students are going on to top graduate programs across the country, or investing their gifts in the lives of young people through music teaching and ministry. Last year, our Symphony Orchestra competed for the American Prize in Orchestral Performance. Under the direction of maestro Daniel Sommerville, our musicians came in third place, behind the University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and the University of Denver's Lamont Symphony Orchestra. We continue our long-standing commitment to having non-music majors participate in all of our major ensembles. Nearly half of the students who sing in one of our choirs or play with either the Symphony Orchestra or the Symphonic Band come from academic departments throughout the College. We do have one major limitation, however. Wheaton may have the worst facilities of any serious music school in the country. I do not say this lightly, but on the basis of reports from the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) over the past several decades (including, most recently, last year). The quality of our music buildings is far below the standard of our program. McAlister Hall was designed to house a Conservatory only half as large as our present population of 200 music majors. Most practice rooms are too small to meet current standards for the auditory health of our musicians. Sound bleed is a major problem. A recent woodwind recital I attended in Pierce Chapel was interrupted intermittently by the unmistakable sound of brass instruments wafting in from some nearby practice room. We have tried to do what we can. Improvements made to Edman Chapel through the Promise of Wheaton campaign are making a difference. So are the modest renovations we made to Pierce Chapel last summer. But due primarily to cost, our longstanding hope for a new conservatory building has yet to materialize. Happily, the dream has not died. In fact, we are working together with architects and acousticians to assess our needs, determine a location, draw up architectural plans, and study the feasibility of raising sufficient funds for a new Conservatory of Music. Ideally, a new building would include not only a small recital hall (we host well over a hundred recitals each year), but also a concert hall that would seat audiences of 600 or more. These would be the first facilities at Wheaton College specifically designed for music performance. Accomplishing these ambitious goals will require a major investment from people who believe that music is a vital part of a liberal arts education and who want to make a kingdom investment in young people who will make music for the glory of God. We do not presume upon God's extraordinary provision, but we do pray for it, and we invite the wider Wheaton community to do the same. Wheaton magazine online >


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P.K. Yonge softball rolls after rainout
Published: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 10:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 11:44 p.m.
OVIEDO — After being rained out in its first attempt to play in the Class 3A, Region 1 semifinals, the P.K. Yonge softball team needed little dramatics to earn an 18-5 win against The Master's Academy on Wednesday.
As play resumed in the top of the first inning, sophomore Nikki Santiago ripped a two-RBI double to extend the Blue Wave's 3-0 lead entering the suspended game. Santiago compiled two of P.K. Yonge's 15 total hits and was one of five multiple hitters for the Blue Wave.
In sloppy conditions featuring 10 combined errors, junior pitcher Kalen McGill earned her 24th win of the season after tossing all five innings with six strikeouts. McGill also did her part at the plate on 2-for-4 hitting with a run and two RBIs.
Both Kassidy Kenard and Sara Hendrix had three hits apiece for the Blue Wave.
P.K. Yonge (27-2) advances to host Jacksonville Bishop Snyder — ranked No. 3 in Class 3A by Miracle Sports — in Friday's regional finals at 7 p.m. A year ago, the fourth-ranked Blue Wave lost 6-2 to the Cardinals in the state semifinals.
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You may have seen this guy Colt Prattes in Pink's music video for 'Try,' and you may have asked yourself, "Self, just who is this sexy dude?"
Well, that's what we're here for.
In the clip for 'Try,' he and Pink engage in some one-on-one MMA fighting business all sexed up like a dance routine. If you haven't seen it, it's included below. And SPOILER: It's hot.
But his dancing resume doesn't just include tussling around with rock stars — before that, he toured nationally in musicals and on Broadway in shows like 'West Side Story' and alongside Daniel Radcliffe in 'How to Succeed in Business.'
Prattes recently told the L.A. Times that he got into this whole dancing thing for one simple reason, and it's one you'll read and be like, well, derp: "I kind of got into it to meet girls."
There you have it, ladies. He got into it to meet you. YOU. Oh, but wait, he's taken — as the Times article notes, "Colt is engaged to Angelina Mullins, with whom he shares two dogs and a fitness company on the side called Ripped Together." We'd like to get ripped together with him, if you know what we're saying. HEY-OH! (Shut up.)
But anyway, this guy is fiercely attractive. We have some pics from his Facebook and Twitter pages below and — as promised — we've also included the 'Try' video just for good measure.
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UPDATE, 6:42 p.m.: Johan Santana (12-7, 2.64) vs. Kyle Kendrick (11-7, 4.87).
Here's what Jerry Manuel had to say earlier about trying to bounce back:
"Once the guy says play ball today it's all behind us. As long as we entertain it in here, in the clubhouse, it'll be there. But once this game starts tonight we have to move forward. That's the way baseball is. You'll have some tough, tough nights, but you have to endure that. As difficult as tough losses are, in some sense it toughens you. You have to endure some tough things if you want to be a good team.â€
I'll have more to say during the game, including updates on Al Reyes, Ricardo Rincon and Billy Wagner, three more members of reliever row. Check back in a bit…
UPDATE, 7:23 p.m.: That's 114 first-inning runs for the Mets, who still lead baseball.
Since you're thinking "What's wrong with these guys? Why can't they play like this late in games?" I'll give you Manuel's quote about the late-game struggles with the bats:
"We are trying to address that," he said. "That's a good question, that's kind of an issue that we have that we're trying to figure out different ways why we're having that problem. It's just one of those things that hopefully at some point, it might be better to reverse that.â€
A wishy-washy answer to be sure. Problem is, it's not really something they can address. He said perhaps they can improve upon the quality at-bats. Other than that, does anyone have other suggestions?
UPDATE, 7:51 p.m.: This was bound to happen to Santana, who has thrown a lot of pitches in recent starts because the games have been close. We'll see how well he can buckle down. The Mets still need him to go six or seven, even if he must reach deep.
The bullpen tossed eight innings last night and Manuel said both Aaron Heilman and Scott Schoeneweis were unavailable tonight. Can the offense bail them all out for once?
UPDATE, 8:04 p.m.: Daniel Murphy is now 0 for his last 14.
Also, I don't know what Jose Reyes was doing there. Sure, he ran on the pitch, but he hadn't reached second base and it was clear Shane Victorino had it. Rather than stop and run back to first, Reyes rounded the base and then jogged back to first. Not his best effort.
UPDATE, 8:32 p.m.: Here are a few updates, courtesy of Omar Minaya and Mets PR czar Jay Horwitz:
— Billy Wagner has returned to New York. He saw a doctor yesterday and told Minaya the swelling had subsided. What's that mean? I don't know if it means much. Wagner is still throwing off flat ground (playing catch) and has no timetable as to when he'll return to a mound. That'll be the big step. If he feels pain throwing off a mound? "That would probably be it, similar to John Maine,†Minaya said.
So there you have it. There's no timetable on Wagner. Not great news, even it he does feel better.
— Marlon Anderson will start in LF tonight for Port St. Lucie.
— Al Reyes pitched another scoreless inning last night. He had two K's. Minaya said he looks good, but he's still working on getting his arm strength back. I asked if Reyes could be promoted before Sept. 1 and Minaya said probably not.
— The team activated Ricardo Rincon today and shipped him to New Orleans. Rincon had been on loan to the Mexico City Reds of the Mexican League. The Reds won the championship, in case anyone cares. Rincon, a lefty who hasn't pitched in the bigs since 2006, is another candidate come Sept. 1.
— The Mets still haven't named a starter for Sunday. Knowing Pedro, it'll probably be up to him.
UPDATE, 9:05 p.m.: Here's the real question: With Dan Murphy 0 for his last 15 and taking poor routes to fly balls in LF (he looked like an old Hideki Matsui chasing that ball hit by Pat Burrell), I'm surprised Jerry Manuel didn't pinch-hit Fernando Tatis for him in the top of the sixth.
I know it's hindsight, but Tatis may be the best option in LF right now no matter who's pitching.
Burrell, by the way, had been 0 for 9 with 10 LOB in the series before hitting that leadoff double.
UPDATE, 9:18 p.m.: That's all we'll see from Santana, who was good over six innings but not as good as the Mets needed him to be: 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 6 K (106 pitches).
As I said before, they keep asking him to bail out the bullpen and a slumbering late-game offense. He's done it for six weeks, just not quite today.
UPDATE, 9:50 p.m.: Who would've thought it? Carlos Delgado with 30 home runs.
He has truly been a monster, 19 HRs and 58 RBI since June 27th. … That's now the 11th time Delgado has hit 30 HRs in a season.


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In case you needed any confirmation that those young people you see tethered to their mobile devices everyday use them a lot, well... they really do! Cisco's latest research has unearthed some startling findings regarding Gen Y - students and workers aged 18 to 30 - and their smartphones: they sleep together!
Ninety percent of those 1,800 whippersnappers Cisco surveyed say they check their smartphones for updates in email, texts and social media sites, often before they get out of bed. And 75% use them in bed! Forty percent say they would feel like a part of them was missing if they couldn't use their smartphone.
If only marriages were so committed... Note to AT&T: you're breaking up some relationships that should be lasting.
Gen Y even brings their significant electronic others to work. Over 25% say they mainly use mobile applications for work. And smartphones have surpassed desktop computers as the preferred workplace device - they were rated twice as popular as a desktop PC and three times as popular as a tablet.
Laptops are a formidable romantic rival, though. Even though the commitment to smartphones is strong, only one-third of Gen Y prefers a smartphone over a laptop if they had to choose only one mobile mate. Over one-third say their attentions would wander towards laptops.
All of which makes it particularly awkward for the IT guy. Even though they'd perhaps prefer to look the other way while all of this affection is wafting about, they best not: the Cisco survey found that while IT professionals know that many employees don't follow the rules, they don't understand how prevalent it is - 71% of Gen Yers say they don't always obey company policies forbidding use of company-issued devices for non-work activities. Two-thirds of them feel that employers have no business tracking employees' online activities.
Meanwhile, over half of IT professionals think their employees obey corporate device/personal use policies. Do they know they are sleeping with their smartphones?
Hell hath no fury like an IT administrator scorned. And yet they, too, are smitten.
Cisco found that 40% of IT professionals check their smartphones at least every 10 minutes, and almost one-third check them "continuously." That's nothing compared to Gen Y: 60% "subconsciously or compulsively" check their smartphones for emails, texts or social media updates, Cisco says, and 29% say they check their smartphones so constantly that they lose count.
And who's doing all the running around? Eighty-five percent of those compulsively checking their smartphone are women, compared to 63% of men.
Caught with your SIM card down!
All of this, of course, plays into Cisco's new "Internet of Everything" marketing campaign in which enormous amounts of data being generated daily by smartphones, sensors, video cameras, monitors and other connected devices. And as more people, processes, data and "things" connect and interact, it creates an "Internet of Everything" where the potential value of all that data grows exponentially, the company claims.
The findings are part of Cisco's 2012 Connected World Technology Report, which queried Gen Yers and IT professionals in 18 countries - 100 respondents per country. The survey was conducted by InsightExpress, an independent market research firm based in the U. S.
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EDC 625 - Academic Development
Credits: 3
This course provides the student with strategies to support academic success of children in schools. It includes the acquisition of skill in decision-making, problem solving and goal setting, critical thinking, logical reasoning, and interpersonal communication with an emphasis on small group counseling. At least 20 supervised practicum hours must be completed to support academic development. Prerequisite: EDC 621.


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Southern California's largest gun show opens today at the Ontario Convention Center, the first event locally since the massacre at a Connecticut school spawned calls for greater gun control in the United States.
A number of gun shows throughout the U.S. have limited the types of weapons to be offered while others have cancelled them entirely.
But as Crossroads of the West Gun Shows appears poised to open to record turnout, a local councilman said he doesn't believe tighter bans on firearms would be the answer to the question of what can be done to a stop rampage shootings.
"Legislation in and of itself isn't really the answer. There's a point and time when the government has got to stop marching on our constitutional rights," said Ontario Councilman Jim Bowman, who owns guns himself.
A gun show like Crossroads of the West has been banned at Fairplex in Pomona and other venues owned by the Los Angeles County government since supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky, Gloria Molina and Yvonne Burke voted to ban gun shows from county property in 1999.
Yaroslavsky spokesman Joel Bellman said the supervisor did not think it was right for the county to make money from a gun show when he was simultaneously supporting stricter gun control laws.
"We can't be involved in gun trafficking, even if indirectly," Bellman said.
However, Bowman said he doesn't consider himself a gun advocate and does not favor gun control. He does, however, believe the right to bear arms is a constitutional right.
"I respect it, I really do. The majority of folks are good law-abiding citizen," he said.
Unfortunately, Bowman said there are individuals who abuse that privilege.
"We sympathize with those who have lost loved ones but it's been at the hands of someone who was suffering at other issues," he said.
Ontario's Convention Center hosted the annual gun show three times last year, said Michael Krouse, president and CEO of the Convention Center and Visitors Bureau.
With each show "drawing larger and larger attendance and visitation from outside our city, it is anticipated that this year's show will break previous attendance records," he said.
At gun shows throughout the nation, operators report sizeable crowds, apparently motivated by President Obama's re-election and the fear of future limits on gun sales.
In Saratoga Springs, N.Y., show organizers, facing pressure, agreed to bar the display and sale of AR-15 military-style semiautomatic weapons and their large-clip magazines, similar to a weapons used at Newtown, Conn.
"The majority of people wanted these guns out of the city," said Chris Mathiesen, Saratoga Springs' public safety commissioner.
"They don't want them sold in our city, and I agree. Newtown, Conn., is not that far away."
At the same time, the mayor of Barre, Vt., wants a ban on military-style assault weapons being sold at an annual gun show in February.
The police chief in Waterbury, Conn., just a few miles from Newtown, has halted permits for gun shows, saying he was concerned about firearms changing hands that might one day be used in a mass shooting.
In New York's suburban Westchester County, officials decided against hosting a gun show next month at the county center in White Plains.
County Executive Rob Astorino had brought back the show in 2010 after a ban of more than a decade following the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, but he said the show would be inappropriate now.
Three additional shows in New York's Hudson Valley and Danbury, Conn., were listed as cancelled on the website for Big Al's Gun Shows.
In Saratoga Springs, show organizer David Petronis, of New Eastcoast Arms Collectors Associates, agreed to the limit.
"I don't think it's fair that we're taking the brunt of the problem," Petronis said, "but I can understand the reaction of people in doing so."
He said his group is a "nice, clean family-oriented ... arms fair" that brings in thousands of visitors and a lot of money for the city.
Other organizers say the gun shows are doing significant volumes.
"The gun sales have been crazy. They are going through the roof," said Joel Koehler, a gun dealer who operates shows in Pennsylvania. While a few dealers have dropped out of this weekend's show in the Pocono Mountains, Koehler said, it's "because they have nothing to sell. They are out of inventory."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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I'd be inclined to have Ondrusek finish it out now.
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
Ninth Symphony.
They need to use Ludwick as a DH in NL games too.
"What would your feelings be, seriously, if your cat or your dog began to talk to you, and to dispute with you in human accents? You would be overwhelmed with horror. I am sure of it. And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad." --Arthur Machen
Awwwwriight! Breathing room. Beethoven found that exit. Now at .207
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
Frazier strikes out looking. 5-2 Reds mid 9th.
Chapman in to pitch.
Swisher, Chavez and Wise due up
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
Valdez in to play 3rd. Chapman requesting some mound work.
Swisher up first will be followed by Mark Texiera.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The committee choosing the artist to create a Holocaust memorial on the Ohio Statehouse grounds has narrowed the list to three semifinalists.
They're Ann Hamilton of Columbus, Daniel Libeskind (LEE'-bih-skihnd) of New York and Jaume (JAW'-may) Plensa, a Spanish artist with representation in Chicago. They'll visit the planned memorial site and then have about six weeks to prepare proposals before presenting them to the panel for a decision.
The executive director of the Ohio Arts Council says the semifinalists were chosen Thursday from among about 80 applicants. The selection panel includes representatives from government, the arts and the Jewish community.
Private donations will fund the $2 million project pushed by Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik). It's expected to be the first Holocaust memorial at any statehouse in the nation.


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STAFFORD, Texas - Police are investigating a shooting at a Stafford car wash that left three people dead.
Stafford Police Sgt. James Leedom said officers were called out to the car wash around 10:15 a.m. Sunday. When they arrived, they found three shooting victims.
One of them died at the scene. Family members told Local 2 Dunta Borem just graduated from Dulles High School last spring, and was working at the car wash to support a 1-year-old daughter.
Stafford police have not released a lot of details, but according to the medical examiner, two others died after they were rushed to the hospital.
Borem's uncle, Steve Acklen, said the owner of the business was a long-time friend. He said his friend, nephew and another worker ended up losing their lives all because this friend was trying to help someone else.
"We were just having a conversation, trying to come up and help, like help the other guys to show them that there is a better way versus the street, but a lot of guys get envious and jealous and whatever and things like this happen," said Acklen.
Witnesses and family members told Local 2 that the suspect in this case apparently was terminated from the car wash and then went out to get a gun in his car; but that has not yet been confirmed by Stafford police, who should be releasing more information on Monday.
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RWANDA Defence Force soldiers provided direct support to M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo who last month captured the eastern city of Goma near the countries' border, according to the UN Group of Experts.
Rwanda's General Emmanuel Ruvusha and the M23 commander, Sultani Makenga, ''jointly led the Goma offensive'', according to a November 27 letter from the experts group to the United Nations Security Council. As many as 1000 Rwandan troops crossed the border to support operations in the village of Kibumba, according to the letter, obtained by Bloomberg News.
The letter offers an account of the Rwandan military's involvement in the offensive, citing former Rwandan officers and senior Congolese commanders. It also includes seven photos that show the crossing points and mortars supplied by Rwanda, along with uniforms worn by Rwandan officers and M23 rebels that are either identical or virtually indistinguishable.
''When the M23 began its offensive on Goma, it benefited from direct RDF support during combat on the front lines at the village of Kibumba,'' the UN Experts Group on the Democratic Republic of Congo said in its three-page letter. As rebels advanced towards Goma on Nov. 19, Rwandan forces ''operated alongside M23 in combat at the airport and close to one of Goma's border posts into Rwanda.''
After controlling the city for two weeks, M23 fighters withdrew from Goma on December 1 in anticipation of direct negotiations with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila. The rebels have remained in a ring around the city, within a 20-kilometre neutral zone they had agreed to leave, according to Brigadier-General Bansi Ponnappa, the commander of the UN's North Kivu brigade.
Congo and Rwanda have fought directly or by proxy since the late 1990s. At stake in the eastern part of Congo bordering Rwanda and Uganda are deposits of tin ore, gold, tungsten and coltan, a mineral used in laptops and mobile phones. The fighting in Africa's second-largest country has left civilians without protection and created a security vacuum.
Armed groups, including the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, a mainly Hutu militia that opposes the Rwandan government, have thrived in eastern Congo's hills for more than a decade.
Rwanda has consistently rejected the findings of the UN Group of Experts monitoring an arms embargo on Congo. The letter is in addition to a 44-page report that said Rwandan officials have commanded the seven-month rebellion. Uganda also helped the M23 militia with ''logistics,'' the UN experts said.
The UN Security Council has so far shied away from directly naming Rwanda as taking a key role in commanding the M23.
The 15-member body last month demanded ''that any and all outside support to the M23 as well as other armed groups cease immediately''. That language is indirectly aimed at neighbouring Rwanda, accused by the Congolese government and a UN panel of experts of providing support for the M23 insurgents.BLOOMBERG


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