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By J.P. Hoornstra Staff Writer
One night many years ago, Emilio Nolasco was driving the familiar route from Dodger Stadium to his home in Rialto. His youngest son, Enrique - "Ricky," as the world would know him - was in the car. Ricky couldn't have been more than 2 years old.This was just like any other drive home after a Dodgers game, except that Emilio indulged a crazy thought. He thought about the name of the outfielder he'd been yelling all night.
"Right now it's Rick Monday. Maybe someday it'll be Ricky Nolasco."
Crazy, right?
Today, Nolasco will pitch at Dodger Stadium for the third time in his major-league career. For the first time, he will be wearing a Dodgers uniform.
"It's a dream come true," the elder Nolasco said.
When he was 25, Emilio Nolasco came to the United States from Mexico and found work with a sheet metal company in Los Angeles. He became a devout fan of the local baseball team, a passion that was enabled every time his boss gave out a portion of his season-ticket stash to Nolasco, his wife and his three children.
Emilio's dream had its origins even before Ricky, now 30, was born. It's caught on with a few people in the meantime.
Nolasco was acquired from the Miami Marlins in a July 6 trade for three minor-league pitchers and made his first start for the Dodgers on Tuesday.
About 40 local well-wishers sojourned to Phoenix for the occasion. It was roughly the same camp of 40 that drove or flew to see
Nolasco pitch every time the Marlins came to San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix or Los Angeles.The group includes Nolasco's parents, uncles, cousins, siblings and teammates from high school and Little League.
Sunday, the group will be larger, "in the few hundreds or so," Ricky Nolasco said.
Nolasco's older brother, David, lost count.
"It's nuts," David Nolasco said. "His phone hasn't stopped ringing since he's been traded. It's even to the point where some people he hasn't talked to in how long are asking for his number, for tickets."
The pitcher believes this is a great thing. He's already gotten the first game in a Dodgers uniform out of the way, and the team couldn't have asked for much more than the seven innings of four-hit ball Nolasco pitched in a 6-1 victory Tuesday.
"I'm an easy-going guy so I felt like I was able to use that (adrenaline) on the mound," Nolasco said. "It's the same game, just a different uniform."
Scott Russell, Nolasco's coach at Rialto High School, agrees.
"He'll be fine," Russell said. "I was glad to see his first start was in Arizona for that very reason - to get the jitters out. He's a big leaguer. He's an experienced pitcher. He knows how to keep his emotions in control. He'll be fine."
His brother isn't so sure.
David Nolasco says he's felt nervous before two of Ricky's games. One was April 5, 2006, when Ricky made his major-league debut in relief against the Houston Astros. The other was his 214th major-league game, Tuesday in Phoenix.
"I didn't want him to go out with a lot of emotions and let that take over," David Nolasco said. "Those times were probably the only times I was nervous. Probably Sunday will be the third time."
As a result, David has a policy.
"I told a lot of people that I don't want him worrying about a pass list, tickets, the first couple weeks," David Nolasco said. "I told them he's just going to leave a pass list for only a couple family and close friends. I don't want to take away from what he's doing on the mound. It kind of worries me because i know him as a person. He wants to help everybody and make sure everybody goes. I want him to focus on pitching. It's been a circus the last week."
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has seen it before, the hometown kid pitching for the first time with friends and family looking on. The atmosphere, he believes, either works for you or against you, with little room in between.
Heck, there was a time Mattingly himself wanted to play for either the Cincinnati Reds or St. Louis Cardinals, the teams he followed growing up.
(Maybe Mattingly is the only one who didn't always imagine himself playing in Yankee pinstripes.) That changed over time.
"You think about all the family you have to deal with, people coming out of the woodwork," he said. "`I remember playing against you in Little League.' You just want to do your job."
It's in the Dodgers' best interests that Nolasco feels right at home right away. While Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke and Hyun-Jin Ryu entered the weekend series against Colorado with a combined 22-10 record, their other starters were 8-18.
Nolasco, who had a 5-8 record and 3.85 earned-run average for the Marlins this season, is expected to restore some balance to the back end of the rotation.
"It's kind of a shot in the arm for the team," Mattingly said. "This helps."
General manager Ned Colletti said he's had his eye on Nolasco awhile but had to wait for him to become available.
"Ricky isn't someone who's going to lose his focus or competitiveness because he is pitching close to where he grew up," Colletti said. "If anything, in his case, it could make him better."
To Nolasco's family, the trade to the Dodgers was more than a shot in the arm. It's the wild fantasy Ricky wouldn't indulge while trade rumors circled in recent weeks.
Rather than imagine himself wearing Dodger blue, Ricky said, he always tried to stay even-keel.
His father did not.
"Always we wished that he could pitch for the Dodgers," Emilio Nolasco said. "He pitched in Dodger Stadium for the Marlins, but not for the Dodgers. I really wanted to see if the Dodgers could get him.
"When he called me and said `I've been traded to the Dodgers,' I was kind of screaming to myself. It was good news for me, for Ricky and for everyone in the family."
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DuckDuckGo's appeal lies in its privacy-first approach to search.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)It's not easy to compete in the world of search. Once you get past Google's juggernaut, you're still squaring off against Yahoo and Bing. But some of the smaller search engines are looking to attract people by offering what the others can't: peace of mind.
DuckDuckGo has skyrocketed to relative prominence as a Google alternative in the wake of National Security Agency spying allegations, initiated by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The search engine, founded in 2007 by Gabriel Weinberg, pulls in its results from numerous sources, but its best weapon is its pro-privacy stance.
"If you have a choice between great results, and great results and privacy," Weinberg said, "I think some people will choose the second one."
Weinberg has built and staked DuckDuckGo's reputation on its privacy policies. The search engine says that it "does not collect or share personal information," and it does not store IP addresses or "Unique User" numbers which many sites use to identify visitors by something other than a simple user name. It also doesn't share any of the data it does collect with third-party affiliates.
So how does DuckDuckGo get by in a search engine world that has learned to mine customer data for every possible nugget of information? It gets some venture capital funding, but the majority of its revenue comes from search ads -- no different from Google.
DuckDuckGo's business, Weinberg said, could be profitable -- if the company wanted it to be. It's made a lot of hires, he said, thanks to some funding from Union Square Ventures, but it hasn't been focused on making money.
"We have a sustainable business," he said, and emphasized getting "the big guys" to change their policies on search query privacy and instant answers.
While describing DuckDuckGo as "lean" but "not in danger of needing to raise money," he also admitted that the company could be more successful. But he was reluctant to define what success would mean to DuckDuckGo. "I don't think about it much," he said.
The company's long-term goal is to show up on ComScore market share reports, which it's a long way off from doing. But DuckDuckGo's privacy-focused marketing has helped rocket the search engine to more attention than ever before in the wake of the PRISM and NSA revelations.
It's getting more than 3 million searches per day now, up by about one-third since Snowden blew the whistle on the U.S. government. Search engine observer Danny Sullivan rightly points out that DuckDuckGo's 90 million monthly searches are practically invisible compared with Google's 13.3 billion monthly searches. But the sharp jump in DuckDuckGo traffic indicates anything but search engine apathy, argued Weinberg.
"If you assume only a few people know about us, then look at our growth," Weinberg said. "We're doing quite well."
Blekko's search results highlight categories for your query.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Search engine Blekko does even more global traffic than DuckDuckGo, at 5 million daily searches. Blekko Chief Technical Officer Greg Lindahl pointed to his engine's well-rounded approach to search as reasons for its success. "If you're into exploring the Web, instead of just getting a specific answer, you'll find us better," he said.
Blekko, Lindahl said, has been focused on retaining a robust, broader approach to search. Think more along the lines of the 1980s Coca-Cola formula change. Whereas "New Google" is all about tying your personal interests to your search results so your searches are contained in a filter bubble of your preferences, Blekko is more like "Google Classic."
"If you don't click on news stories on Google, they don't show you news," eventually reducing the diversity of results, Lindahl said. "It can take a long time to disabuse Google of the notion that you don't like news."
Blekko shows results relating to a wide range of possible intentions, he said. If you search for baby food, he suggested, Blekko will show categories for buying it, making it, and health concerns related to it.
Blekko shows results that make fewer assumptions of the user's intentions because it does its own indexing of the Web, Lindahl explained.
"We feel that to be successful we have to do more than show results from somebody else's index," he said. But "we don't think that we directly compete with any of the smaller options. Everybody competes with Google, and we have very friendly relations with all the alternatives."
Not unlike the alternative browser market, as the Web grows, the successful niche search engine doesn't necessarily have to peel millions of users away from the existing juggernauts. It simply has to convince enough people that privacy, or less presumptuous results, are the better way to do business.
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IEEE-USA, in a petition filed today with Federal Communications Commission, is asking the federal government to classify frequency spectrum above 95 GHz "a new technology or service."
Such a declaratory ruling, according to IEEE-USA, would spur capital investment and lead to long-term commercial opportunities. A similar ruling 28 years ago led to the development of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), a wireless technology that has transformed the way we live, work and communicate.
"The rules that led to Wi-Fi were adopted in 1985, and it took to about 2000 for Wi-Fi to hit the market," said Mike Marcus, chair of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy.
"We're asking the FCC to set the stage for technology development that could have a big impact on the economy."
No FCC service rules above 95 GHz leads to regulatory uncertainty and hesitancy on the part of venture capitalists and angel investors to invest in new technologies at that frequency spectrum. This deprives the public and private sectors of the potential benefits of innovative technologies.
"When you remove prohibitions to new technology, interesting things happen," Marcus said. "In radio regulation, there were anachronistic limits that made sense 30 years ago that don't make sense today. We are urging the FCC to start removing those barriers to innovation."
Marcus added that a positive ruling from the FCC would help U.S. wireless companies compete with international firms that have access to government funding. The petition cites a Singapore government-financed research laboratory announcement that its 135 GHz antenna technology can support wireless speeds more than three times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi today.
"Many foreign companies have near-zero risk because they work hand-in-glove with their government," he said. "So when they develop a product, they know they get market access and they know their government will support them on the international stage. In the United States, companies that deal in this don't work hand-in-glove with the U.S. government.
"We think our system is better, but unless all parts of it work together and get rid of barriers, we won't get investment in the technology, and foreign competitors will take the lead and reap the benefits."
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IEEE-USA, in a petition filed today with Federal Communications Commission, is asking the federal government to classify frequency spectrum above 95 GHz "a new technology or service."
Such a declaratory ruling, according to IEEE-USA, would spur capital investment and lead to long-term commercial opportunities. A similar ruling 28 years ago led to the development of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), a wireless technology that has transformed the way we live, work and communicate.
"The rules that led to Wi-Fi were adopted in 1985, and it took to about 2000 for Wi-Fi to hit the market," said Mike Marcus, chair of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy.
"We're asking the FCC to set the stage for technology development that could have a big impact on the economy."
No FCC service rules above 95 GHz leads to regulatory uncertainty and hesitancy on the part of venture capitalists and angel investors to invest in new technologies at that frequency spectrum. This deprives the public and private sectors of the potential benefits of innovative technologies.
"When you remove prohibitions to new technology, interesting things happen," Marcus said. "In radio regulation, there were anachronistic limits that made sense 30 years ago that don't make sense today. We are urging the FCC to start removing those barriers to innovation."
Marcus added that a positive ruling from the FCC would help U.S. wireless companies compete with international firms that have access to government funding. The petition cites a Singapore government-financed research laboratory announcement that its 135 GHz antenna technology can support wireless speeds more than three times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi today.
"Many foreign companies have near-zero risk because they work hand-in-glove with their government," he said. "So when they develop a product, they know they get market access and they know their government will support them on the international stage. In the United States, companies that deal in this don't work hand-in-glove with the U.S. government.
"We think our system is better, but unless all parts of it work together and get rid of barriers, we won't get investment in the technology, and foreign competitors will take the lead and reap the benefits."
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IEEE-USA's petition is available at http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/documents/FCCPetitionJuly2013.pdf.
IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 206,000 engineering, computing and technology professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE.
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And Google Glass’ slow march toward market readiness continues. The development team shared a few details about an upcoming update on the official Glass Google+ page, and it finally unlocks some oft-requested features for all those Glass Explorers to start mucking around with. The changelog is a pretty significant one — users will soon be able to initiate calls and send messages to Gmail contacts, and rather than having to navigate to the OK Glass launcher card before issuing a voice command, users can boss their headgear around without having to touch anything. But most importantly though, Google is now letting users view webpages through Glass. The post makes it seem as though the touchpad mounted on Glass’ right side will be responsible for most of the navigation — users can swipe forward and backward along the panel to scroll up and down, and there are multiple navigation schemes to fiddle with. Thankfully, there’s one tailor-made for those who generally feel impervious to embarrassment: users can pan around their favorite websites by touching two fingers to the touchpad and moving their heads to and fro. You know, nice and discreet. It’s a little hard to visualize, but current Glass Explorers won’t have to wait too long to see it for themselves as the update is slated to go live over the next few days. Frankly, it was only a matter of time before Google let those particular cats out of the bag — we’ve known that Glass had the ability to fire up a browser and listen to voice commands outside of that launcher card ever since an enterprising developer named Zhuowei Zhang uncovered a slew of so-called Glass Lab Experiments and shared them on GitHub. Naturally, there’s still plenty on that list that hasn’t been publicly implemented yet (think video stabilization and a Cliplet feature that records short snippets of video, to name a few), so expect a boatload of new updates between now and Glass’ tentative release date later this year.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lQVXI1CYAVA/
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Hundreds of local footballers turned out for the third annual Adam Peacock Memorial Trophy in South Shields.
Adam died of Motor Neurone Disease in November 2012 aged just 33.
Before his death he helped set up the fundraiser.
The seven aside football tournament raises money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
This year is the first year that Adam has not been there to take part in the event.
He was a keen sportsman who worked as a football coach in Greece in 2007 and was once asked to join Sunderland AFC.
He was struck down by the disease after mistaking the symptoms for a football injury.
He began to feel unwell but at first he assumed the symptoms were from a sporting injury.
But after medical tests Adam, who was just 31 at the time, was diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease.
It is a progressive neuro-degenerative condition that leads to weakness and wasting of muscles.
Adam, from South Shields in South Tyneside, fought his condition and battled to maintain his independence.
But he began to suffer breathing difficulties while on a family holiday in Cyprus in October.
The 33-year-old was taken to hospital, where he died with his family by his?bedside on November 1 2012.
The Adam Peacock Memorial Trophy is raising money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association: http://www.mndassociation.org/
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Scientists have detected one of the critical signs that the Voyager 1 is nearly in interstellar space. But this has happened before.
This artist's concept shows NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath.
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Spacecraft Voyager 1 is closer to being the first human-made object to leave the solar system ? but what exactly ?closer? means is still unknown.
Researchers are waiting for Voyager 1, launched some 35 years ago and now more than 11 billion miles away, to exit the heliosheath,?a region that extends past all the planets in our solar system by about 8 billion miles, into interstellar space. But ?about? is the critical word here, because the trouble is that scientists don?t know exactly how big that region is.?
Still, three papers, published in Science, report that scientists have observed one of the signs that they expect to see as Voyager 1 nears the solar system?s edge: the total disappearance of charged particles, known as termination shock particles, that had been steadily present for seven years.
That means Voyager 1 entered a previously unknown space region called the magnetic highway, or the depletion region, on August 25th, 2012, when the disappearance was observed. In that zone, the charged particles travel in and out of the heliosheath along a smooth magnetic field line. Scientists believe that it is the final zone through which the spacecraft must pass before it reaches the heliopause, the exact boundary between the heliosheath and interstellar space.?
?We entered an entirely new region on August 25th,? Ed Stone, lead project scientist for the Voyager spacecraft told the Monitor. ?We think this is the zone that connects to interstellar space.?
Scientists have not yet seen the critical third sign that would mark Voyager 1?s actual passage into interstellar space: a shift in the direction of the magnetic field. The heliosheath's queen is our sun, and the sun?s east-west magnetic field governs the zone. As the space probe exits the solar system, scientists would expect to see a magnetic shift as it enters a regional field with a completely different orientation.
Another sign that Voyager 1 is still in our solar system is that the cosmic rays the craft has begun to detect from interstellar space are traveling unevenly in multiple directions. In interstellar space, scientists expect those rays to be distributed uniformly, Stone said.
Voyager 1 was launched with its sibling, Voyager 2, in 1977, and both craft have already made tours of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune before veering toward interstellar space in 1990. Even though it was launched 15 days earlier, Voyager 2 is some 2 billion miles Voyager 1.
Voyager 1?s triumphant departure has been heralded before. In December 2004, the Voyager reached what is now known as the termination shock boundary, where particles blown outward from the sun suddenly slow down.?
Voyager 1 saw this solar wind hit a dead calm in April 2010, which again suggested that the craft was coming tantalizingly close to the edge of the solar system. That region is now known as the stagnation zone. At that time, the existence of the depletion zone up ahead was unknown.
Scientists aren?t being deliberately cruel by repeatedly announcing that Voyager 1 has departed. The heliosheath is a baffling, mysterious place, and information about its outer reaches is collected only as Voyager 1 continues its unprecedented journey.
So we don't know how long it will be before Voyager 1 leaves for good.
?It could be several more months, or it could also be several more years,? said Stone. ?There could be things we still don?t know about out there. Almost every day we?re learning something new.?
?That?s the nature of exploration ? you find out how nature really does things,? he said.
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