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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Dodgers Top Cardinals 3-0, Cut NLCS Deficit To 2-1
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Led by a pair of precocious rookies, the Los Angeles Dodgers got themselves right back into the NL championship series.
Hyun-Jin Ryu outpitched Adam Wainwright with seven innings of three-hit ball, and Yasiel Puig tripled home a run to help Los Angeles beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 on Monday night in Game 3.
Adrian Gonzalez's RBI double ended a 1-for-17 drought for the Dodgers with runners in scoring position. An ailing Hanley Ramirez added a run-scoring hit of his own as Los Angeles handed Wainwright his first postseason loss and trimmed its deficit to 2-1 in the best-of-seven series.
Game 4 is Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, with Ricky Nolasco scheduled to start against St. Louis right-hander Lance Lynn.
Los Angeles got Ramirez and center fielder Andre Ethier back in the lineup after both proved in batting practice they were healthy enough to play. Ramirez wore a lightweight flak jacket to protect his broken left rib — having been hit by a pitch from Joe Kelly in Game 1 — while Ethier has been bothered by shin splints.
"What can I say? It couldn't be better," Ramirez said. "Really happy we got the first win. Just come back tomorrow and even up the series."
Ramirez singled his first time up off Wainwright and then helped the Dodgers extend their lead to 3-0 in the eighth.
Ramirez hit a soft single off Seth Maness over the head of new second baseman Kolten Wong to score Carl Crawford. The speedy Crawford, on second base after a one-out single, rounded third and never stopped running when the throw from the outfield went to second base.
On a close play at the plate, Crawford barely beat the tag by catcher Yadier Molina.
During the rally, retired Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda, whose 1988 team won the franchise's last World Series title, stood up and waved his white rally towel to raucous applause.
Ryu and Wainwright were nearly even through the first three scoreless innings, with Wainwright giving up one hit. Ryu, who struggled in his first career postseason start in the division series against Atlanta, retired 12 of his first 13 batters, yielding only a walk.
Ryu was much improved after lasting just three innings as the first South Korean pitcher to start a playoff game last week against Atlanta. He allowed four runs on six hits for a no-decision in a game the Dodgers won.
The left-hander didn't allow a Cardinals runner past second base. David Freese's single to right leading off the fifth was their first hit of the game.
Freese was replaced by a pinch-runner in the fifth because of tightness in his right calf. He is day to day.
Ryu struck out four and walked one.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly came out to the mound accompanied by a translator with two outs in the seventh. Ryu responded by striking out Matt Adams to end the inning as catcher A.J. Ellis pumped his right arm in the air. Fans waved South Korean flags in support of Ryu.
Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth for a save.
Wainwright gave up two runs and six hits in seven innings. The right-hander struck out five and walked none in his first career postseason loss.
Puig's RBI triple in the fourth snapped an 0-for-11 skid in the series.
After the first two games in St. Louis were decided by one run, the Dodgers got to Wainwright in the fourth and took a 2-0 lead.
Gonzalez's double down the right-field line scored Mark Ellis, who doubled leading off. With two outs, Puig tripled off the wall in right, scoring Gonzalez.
Puig had struck out seven times before getting his first hit against the Cardinals. He raised his arms and watched the ball sail toward right before starting to charge harder when he realized it wasn't going to be a home run. He ran into third base and clapped his hands before raising them again as the sellout crowd of 53,940 cheered.
"He brings unbelievable energy every day," Ramirez said. "When we spoke to him, he told me, 'I got it today,' and he did. He's a great player."
Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay was involved in an apparent miscommunication when the ball hit by Mark Ellis dropped between him and right fielder Carlos Beltran. The Dodgers' first hit, a single by Ramirez to shallow center in the first, dropped between Jay and second baseman Matt Carpenter.
NOTES: Ethier was 0 for 4 with a strikeout. ... Dusty Baker, Reggie Smith, Ron Cey and Steve Garvey — baseball's first 30-homer quartet in 1977 — tossed ceremonial first pitches. That Dodgers team won the NL pennant before losing to the Yankees in six games in the World Series. ... Neither team has hit a home run through the first three games. ... Among the famous faces in attendance were Dustin Hoffman and Ice Cube.
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Court nixes ruling delaying Activision deal
DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a judge's ruling that delayed the $8.2 billion sale of Vivendi's majority stake in Activision Blizzard Inc. back to the video game maker and an investor group led by CEO Bobby Kotick and co-chairman Brian Kelly.
The ruling clears the way for the deal to proceed before Tuesday's deadline.
Barely an hour after the court heard oral arguments, Chief Justice Myron Steele announced that the court had unanimously determined that the deal does not require the approval of Activision's minority shareholders, as a Court of Chancery judge had ruled last month.
"The stock purchase agreement here contested is not a merger, business combination or similar transaction," Steele said, using disputed language from Activision's corporate charter that was at the heart of the legal fight.
Activision shares closed up 77 cents, or 4.7 percent, at $17.05 Thursday. The stock price has risen by more than 50 percent over the past year, reaching a 52-week high of $18.43 in July shortly after the deal was announced.
Vivendi SA, a French media conglomerate that owns 61 percent of Activision, announced in July that it would sell most of its stake in the video game company, the maker of "World of Warcraft" and "Call of Duty," in an effort to improve Vivendi's balance sheet.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision would buy $5.83 billion worth of its shares at $13.60 apiece, while the investor group led by Kotick and Kelly would purchase another $2.34 billion worth.
The deal would leave Vivendi with a 12 percent stake in Activision, while the investor group would control 24.9 percent. The rest of the shares would be traded on the stock market.
The proposed transaction, which carries an Oct. 15 termination date, was derailed after a lone Activision shareholder filed a last-minute, class-action complaint last month, asking for a temporary restraining order and arguing that minority shareholders should be allowed to vote on the deal because it amounted to a business combination or similar transaction involving Vivendi.
"This is a complicated transaction," shareholder attorney Michael Hanrahan argued Thursday. He noted that the stock purchase agreement involves a shell holding company and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks known as net operating loss carry forwards, making it far more complicated than a straight share repurchase by Activision.
But attorneys for Activision and Vivendi argued that the Chancery Court judge erred in ruling that the deal fell within the scope of language in Activision's charter calling for a minority shareholder vote on certain transactions involving the company and Vivendi. They also said the judge was wrong to convert the shareholder's motion for a temporary restraining order into a request for a preliminary injunction, which he then granted.
"The lower court order has stopped this deal in its tracks," said attorney William Savitt, arguing Thursday that the deal was little more than a share repurchase by Activision.
Attorneys for Activision and Vivendi had warned that the deal could fall apart after Tuesday's deadline, even though financing for the transaction remains in place through mid-December.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Going Home: Is Sony's social experiment fit for PlayStation 4?
Home is a loaded word. When you think of home, you think of familiarity. It should be some place of comfort, somewhere you want to go back to. It shouldn't feel like a glorified billboard. The latter is the case with Sony's heavily tauted but oft-forgotten feature, PlayStation Home, leading to a sour taste in my mouth and very few visitations. However, DLB Network provided visual evidence as early as August that Home may be returning for PlayStation 4. I felt that it was time to go back and see if it has a place on the next-generation console.
The initial reintroduction proved to be rather clumsy. After creating my character, I was forced into a mini-tutorial. 'Mini' is the operative word as, for the most part, players are thrown into the world, and have to resort to in-built help guides if they want to know how to fully interact with it. It's as if the developers didn't have the enthusiasm to add detailed tips in-game.
My displeasure was somewhat tempered by the pleasant surprise of Home's visuals and audio. Your starting apartment and the surroundings are gorgeous, and the audio seems to consistently be of high quality. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of the rest of the world to the same degree as your apartment, though, as it is often too cluttered.
The clutter comes from the array of advertising, with the world of Home disappointingly keen to show you that it isn't a social hub or an MMO. Home seems to be an advertising platform, with areas dedicated to various product; your only place of solitude from this barrage of product placement is your apartment. Really, though, that isn't an escape from commercialism, as in order to spruce up your place you'll need to make microtransactions.
The reasonably active community should be an escape from all that, but design choices make getting used to conversing a clunky exercise, as it isn't made particularly clear how to engage in conversation with specific people. The various hubs aren't massively populated, but the community is rather conversational and I was keen to get involved. Home would be a decent place to hang out with friends, though you'd want a keypad; the tedium of typing using the DualShock is maddening.
The main redeeming feature of Home is the now-sizeable games catalogue. The games are by no means innovative, but are genuinely enjoyable and cover a variety of genres. It makes Home feel like a great starting point for new PlayStation 3 owners, who might only have a couple of purchases to play. Sure, the quality varies, but it's hard to complain when the games are fun and mostly free, bar some such as the arcade cabinets in the GAME hub.
Where the games fall down, and Home in general, is the lack of immersion. It doesn't feel enough like a real-world place, with the quick travel system and no clarity provided as to what this world is. Neither do the games convey the feeling of being in a fantasy world; the suspension of disbelief is somewhat taken away when your character is wearing jeans and a shirt aboard a spaceship.
There is a division in quality between games, with some feeling rather half-hearted. For instance, top-down spaceship shooter Nova Prime has decent voice acting, helping to involve you in the game, whilst action-RPG Marcia thrusts you into the world with little lore and written speech, somewhat reducing its epicness.
Gaming Capacity pointed out one serious issue that undermines Home's attempts to create a virtual home: the loading times. If, as it envisages, Home is brought to us by Gaikai, the cloud-gaming service that can stream games, the feature will become much more inviting. I would gladly dip into a much faster Home to meet friends in order to, say, decide what game we're going to play.
Home just doesn't feel totally cohesive, which makes it easy to understand why the experience is still in beta. The only chance Home has of success is to recognize that sales will come from living up to the name it bears. It's frustrating that Sony hasn't fulfilled the mode's full potential five years after ... (continued on next page) related articles
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Wall Street mixed on data, China
AAP, with a staff reporter
United States stocks are mixed but mostly higher after several leading companies bested earnings estimates and as investors welcomed news that China may enact new economic stimulus policies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 42.69 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 15,588.24 points.
The broad-based S&P 500 was flat, up 0.67 points, or 0.04 per cent, to 1,696.20 points.
The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 3.78 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 3,596.60 points.
Several leading companies, including Dow components DuPont, United Technologies and Travellers, reported profits that exceeded analyst expectations, even if revenues in some cases lagged forecasts.
Global markets were also cheered after Chinese state media quoted Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as saying economic growth must stay above the "bottom line" of seven per cent. Analysts saw the remarks as implying more economic stimulus was forthcoming.
Concerns about a Chinese economic slowdown have crimped investor sentiment worldwide. Several leading European and Asian stock indices rose following Li's remarks.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
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LGBT group OneTable finds acceptance at evangelical college in Pasadena, Calif.
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Source: miamiherald.typepad.com --- Sunday, July 14, 2013BY SARAH PARVINI, ASSOCIATED PRESS PASADENA, Calif. -- Nick Palacios struggled to get his conservative Pentecostal parents to accept him as a gay evangelical Christian for nearly a decade before his family found a common ground through faith. Now, as an openly gay seminarian, the 29-year-old hopes to carve out a similar acceptance for other gays in the broader evangelical community through his role as president of the nation's first LGBT student club sanctioned by a major evangelical seminary. The group, called OneTable, formed last fall at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, one of the world's largest multi-denominational seminaries, and has attracted about three dozen students. "It quickly became apparent to me that I was going to be OK and that I wasn't going to have to forsake my faith for my sexuality," Palacios said of his struggle for acceptance. "I really hope that people will see Fuller and OneTable as a model of what the body of the church is supposed to do in this situation." Fuller's stance has created ripples in the larger world of Christian colleges and seminaries, where a growing number of gay evangelical students are asserting their dual identities with underground clubs and nascent political activism. Last year, for example, a group called the Biola Queer Underground was quashed by Biola University, a small, conservative Christian school in nearby Orange County. This fall, the LGBT group plans on staging ral ...
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