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Sunday, October 27, 2013

WORLD SERIES WATCH: Buchholz vs Lynn in Game 4

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A look at Game 4 of the World Series at Busch Stadium on Sunday night as the Boston Red Sox take on the St. Louis Cardinals:

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UNOBSTRUCTED: Now that everyone from umpires to rappers has weighed in on the obstruction rule, the World Series has resumed at Busch Stadium.

Game 4 is underway — Lance Lynn worked a 1-2-3 first inning for the Cardinals. He's facing Boston right-hander Clay Buchholz, trying to work through some weakness in his shoulder.

What a crazy finish that was last night, though. Tough to swallow for the Red Sox and their fans. But it seems as though, after some rule-book explanations from the experts, most people are realizing the correct call was made.

St. Louis leads 2-1 in the best-of-seven Series.

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SHANE SCRATCHED: Boston made a late lineup switch, pulling right fielder Shane Victorino and putting in Jonny Gomes.

The Red Sox say Victorino has stiffness in his lower back. The change came about 75 minutes before the first pitch.

Daniel Nava shifted from left field to right and moved into Victorino's No. 2 spot in the batting order. Gomes will hit fifth and play left.

Victorino and Gomes were both hitless in the Series at a combined 0 for 18.

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CRAIG READY: The Cardinals say Allen Craig will be ready if needed.

Craig re-injured his sprained left foot on a wild trip around the bases Saturday night, sliding into third base and home while scoring the winning on the obstruction call against Boston third baseman Will Middlebrooks in the ninth inning.

The first baseman and cleanup hitter had been out since Sept. 4 before returning for the World Series. Craig was the DH in Boston, and got a pinch-hit double in Game 3.

Manager Mike Matheny said X-rays showed no additional injury.

St. Louis had one lineup wrinkle for Game 4, with Daniel Descalso starting at shortstop in place of Pete Kozma. Descalso has plenty of starting experience in the middle infield.

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HALF THE DISTANCE: For the ceremonial first pitch, Hall of Famer Bob Gibson threw to Tim McCarver, who is in his final season as a broadcaster with Fox.

The pair also made up the battery for the Cardinals' 7-2 victory in Game 7 of the 1967 World Series at Fenway Park. However, Gibson's toss Sunday night was only from about 30 feet.

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WWE Hell in a Cell 2013 results

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Mavericks adds new AppleScript and Automator functions

The news isn't all bad for AppleScript users moving to Mavericks - while the new iWorks apps may be a step in the wrong direction, there's also some new functionality to talk about. iCloud Sync, Notifications and Libraries are just some of the features that get touched with new AppleScript support in Mavericks, according to TUAW.

Among the many improvements in Mavericks is much more thorough support for iCloud, which is really the glue that holds data together between iOS and OS X. So it makes sense that iCloud gets an AppleScript boost in this new release.

You can also use AppleScript and Automator to ping you through Notifications in Mavericks. Code can be kept in the Library directory where any AppleScript can access it, and develoeprs can now generate signed copies of applets and droplets - making it easier to distribute them to users whose Gatekeeper security restrictions might otherwise prevent them from running.

Complete OS X Mavericks review

Source: TUAW

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Chris Brown Busted For Felony Assault

Here We Go Again...

Posted by: Shannon on October 27, 2013|

Chris Brown seriously cannot stay out of trouble to save his life. Between his beefs with Drake and Frank Ocean, his issues with probation, oh and that whole public display of cheating with Rihanna and Karreuche, it’s been one helluva year for the singer. We are now learning that Chris reportedly attacked a man outside of his hotel in Washington D.C. last night, and has since been arrested. This time around he’s being charged with a felony assault, which is a huge deal (especially for someone still on probation). Click inside for more.

TMZ has the deets:

Chris Brown was arrested in Washington D.C. this morning for FELONY assault after allegedly attacking a man outside a hotel … TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Brown got into an argument with a man outside the W Hotel at 15th and K and allegedly began punching him. The incident occurred at about 4:30 AM.

Our law enforcement sources say Brown did not appear to be under the influence of anything at the time of the incident.

Brown is currently in custody. As for the other person, we’re told he’s being evaluated at a D.C. hospital.

Brown is still on probation in the Rihanna beating case and this could be grounds for violating his probation — which means he could be sentenced to prison for nearly 4 years … worst case scenario for him.

Like many celebrities who continuously break the law, Chris doesn’t seem to do much jail time at all but something tells me this scenario could be different. Back in August he got 1,000 hours added to his community service as a result of a hit-and-run charge (and also because there were questions about the validity of his other community service hours). Now that he’s about to be back in court, I hate to think that a judge could really be persuaded to give him another slap on the wrists.

Seriously. This is getting ridiculous.

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Oracle gears up to battle Salesforce.com, IBM with Eloqua update

Oracle is rolling out a series of new features for its Eloqua marketing automation suite, hoping to get a leg up on rivals like Salesforce.com and IBM in the red-hot software segment.

Now generally available is AdFocus, which provides marketers with tools for running multichannel advertising campaigns. A key feature is the ability to deliver targeted display ads to customers and prospects, while comparing their effectiveness to so-called "owned" and "earned" media, such as company websites and buzz on social networks, respectively.

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Another update concerns Eloqua Profiler, which like its name suggests, is used to build out profiles of prospects based on their interactions with "assets" tracked in Eloqua, such as emails and web pages. Now Profiler can also include asset activity that's occurring on properties the marketer's organization doesn't own, such as video content hosted on a third-party website.

Finally it's now possible to tap Facebook's custom audience feature from AdFocus, giving marketers the ability to target discrete blocks of users based on their social profile.

There's perhaps no hotter area of enterprise software these days than marketing automation, following a rash of consolidation as platform vendors attempt to build out broad product suites.

Last week, Oracle bought Compendium in order to bolster the capabilities of Eloqua, which it acquired in December for $871 million. Compendium provides software for creating different types of content that can be used to entice customers to visit a marketer's web site or other property, said John Stetic, vice president of products, Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud.

Among others, Salesforce.com has also invested heavily in marketing software, scooping up ExactTarget, Buddy Media and Radian6 for its own cloud-based suite.

Oracle gets an edge over the competition with Eloqua, as its always been "built by marketers, for marketers," Stetic said. "We allow for really advanced targeting throughout the entire buying process."

In addition, Oracle is taking a more open approach, offering a full suite but not forcing customers to use it all, he said. "Lots of vendors want to think they'll have this whole stack and own the world, but what I hear from customers is, I want choice."

Meanwhile, as online privacy concerns mount in the wake of revelations over surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency, marketers need to be mindful of the boundaries between themselves and customers, Stetic said.

"Ultimately what it comes down to things like government surveillance, people can't vote with their wallets on that, whereas in the commercial world if someone feels they're being overly tracked and overly monitored and not getting value out of it, they vote with their wallets," he said.

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Bridging the Gap: Film Review

The Bottom Line

Stylistic overreaching mars this often visually stunning look at the 500-year-old choir as they embark on a world tour.

Opens

Friday, Oct. 25

Director

Curt Faudon

Part promotional documentary, part travelogue and part hallucinatory music video, Bridging the Gap is a feature-length celebration of the venerable Vienna Boys Choir, founded more than 500 years ago as a choir to the Austrian Imperial Court. Director Curt Faudon, who previously dealt with the company in his 2008 film Silk Road, clearly is enamored of his subject. Presenting the choir as a sort of international emissary bridging the gap between disparate cultures, he applies an almost mystical approach that is as visually stunning as it is sometimes off-putting.

On one level, the film is a fairly straightforward depiction of the 100-member choir as it tours such disparate locations as New Zealand, Japan, Peru and India. Its members often collaborate with the locals they encounter, from Maori tribesmen to Indian schoolchildren, and their repertoire ranges from classical composers like Schubert, Hayden, Mozart and Bach to such exotica as a song composed by the Apache hero Goyaale, more familiarly known as Geronimo.

Along the way there is footage of an adorable young Japanese boy auditioning for the choir, as well as interview segments with many of the young boys, who hail from no fewer than 33 countries and range in age from 6 to 12. Asked what they want to be when they grow up, their responses range from pilot to electrician to opera singer, with one lad confessing, “I haven’t got a clue.”

The international segments are colorful enough. But the filmmaker ups the stylistic ante with music video-style interludes in which the boys are seen singing amid a variety of surreal backdrops, such as clouds moving in speeded-up fashion. One particularly arresting scene has several of them singing Schubert’s “The Trout” in a boat amid images of flooding and other environmental catastrophes.

It’s certainly an intriguing angle to take with this classical music troupe that hardly brings to mind the avant-garde. And the gorgeousness of the singing can hardly be denied. But both thematically and visually, the film overreaches. Just because the Vienna Boys Choir sings heavenly music doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re heaven-sent.

Production: Faudon Movies, Tradewind Pictures

Director: Curt Faudon

Screenwriters: Curt Faudon, Tina Breckwoldt

Producers: Curt Faudon, Patrick Faudon

Executive producer: Alfred Wall

Director of photography: Stephan Mussil

Editor: Tom Pohanka

Composers: Gerd Schuller, Gerald Wirth, James Ray Sung Hong

No rating, 86 minutes

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Sandy storm survivors' photos make up NYC exhibit

NEW YORK (AP) — With her home on Long Island's Long Beach swamped by Superstorm Sandy's unyielding surge, Christina Tisi-Kramer pointed her camera outside and captured an image that summed up her town's destruction — the beach boardwalk reduced to a jumble of sticks just steps from her door.

Tisi-Kramer's photo is one of 200 images of Sandy at an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. "Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy," which opens on the one-year anniversary of the storm Saturday, was culled from 10,000 submissions from New York, Long Island and New Jersey.

Some were taken by professionals like Tisi-Kramer; others by amateurs; and many by people who suffered personal loss.

The exhibition is arranged thematically: Storm, Destruction, Coping, Home, Relief and Not Over. There are images of anguished faces; houses teetering precariously; church pews filled with salvaged clothing; toll plazas under water; an aerial view of New York City's Breezy Point neighborhood, with rows upon rows of homes gutted by fire.

There is a poignant shot of a scribbled sign for two lost cats, a hopeful sign "NO retreat NOT NOW, NO Surrender NOT EVER," and a lone birth announcement amid the ruins of a fire in the devastated Belle Harbor section of Queens.

"We wanted pictures that showed the range of experience, from preparing for the storm to rebuilding ... what happened physically to the area and also the individual humanistic story," said Sean Corcoran, the museum's curator of photography.

Larry Racioppo, a retired photographer for the city Department of Housing and Preservation, created a large 22-page diary and album for his photographs from scrap plywood and orange "caution" tape. The materials were ubiquitous around his Belle Harbor home for months after the storm. He also constructed a crude stand to hold his account, beginning with the day of the storm and ending in early spring with portraits of workers repairing his basement.

Racioppo's house is one of six that sit just 20 feet from the beach. But he considers himself lucky. His was spared major damage when the house in front of his "took the brunt of the hit."

"Our home is pretty much back to normal, but several of my close neighbors are still rebuilding," he said.

And that's the story the exhibition tells, too, of those still struggling for some normalcy.

"A lot of people haven't even started to rebuild. The point is it's an ongoing thing a year later," Corcoran said.

Visitors will see how the storm dramatically altered parts of the landscape while leaving places just a few miles away unscathed. That was the case in Ocean Grove, N.J. The storm wiped out its famous pier but spared other parts of the charming Victorian town.

Bob Bowne, a carpenter and lifetime resident, captured the pier as a turbulent surge lashed against it. He perched himself high on a third-floor balcony of a grand home as the town evacuated. He says he's glad he stayed because that image "preserved the memory of the pier — not the destruction — but shows the ferociousness of the storm."

The exhibition runs through March 2.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sandy-storm-survivors-photos-nyc-exhibit-075256579.html
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