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Coach Jim Harbaugh insists Michael Crabtree is not expected to miss the full 2013 NFL season after undergoing Achilles tendon surgery. What can the San Francisco 49ers expect when he returns? More...

It's hard to say if there's a market yet for an all-in-one touchscreen PC that you can just pick up and carry around, but it seems that no Windows PC maker wants to be left out. Hot on the heels of Dell's XPS 18, Sony's VAIO Tap 20, and the Asus Transformer AIO, Hewlett-Packard has announced the Envy Rove 20. It's a tabletop PC with a 20-inch touchscreen, a four-hour battery, and a spring-loaded kickstand that folds flat into the frame. We got to check out the Rove 20 briefly at an HP event in San Francisco late last month, and we're not yet sure what to think. The 10-point capacitive touchscreen felt responsive, and the kickstand has a very satisfying action (you squeeze a button around back to release the lever as you set it down) but... Continue reading…

Stephen Strasburg's tenth start of the season began with a 31-pitch, 16-strike bottom of the first Tuesday night in AT&T Park in which he gave up two hits and two walks but no runs. The one run the San Francisco Giants did score on the Washington Nationals' 24-year-old starter came in a 13-pitch second. Gregor Blanco singled to left to start the inning and scored from second two outs later when Angel Pagan drove him in. The run got the home team within one after Ryan Zimmerman and Ian Desmond had given the visiting Nats a 2-0 lead in the top of the first against Giants' starter Matt Cain. Strasburg's catcher, Kurt Suzuki, caught Pagan stealing in the next at bat after the Giants' outfielder's RBI single, and the Nationals' starter retired 14 of the next 16 batters he faced, including ten straight to end his start after seven innings of work in which he gave up five hits, three walks and the one earned run while recording seven Ks. Strasburg threw 108 pitches overall, 77 over his final six innings of work after the long first, but the lead he handed the Nats' bullpen was blown in the ninth and the Nationals lost the fourth-straight game when Yunkesy Maya gave up a Pablo Sandoval walk-off blast in the bottom of the tenth. "Stras had a rough start and threw a lot of pitches early, but gave us a good strong seven innings and we were in a position to win that and we didn't win it. It's tough." - Davey Johnson on squandering Stephen Strasburg's strong outing "We didn't get the hits when we needed to," Davey Johnson told reporters after the loss. The Nationals had their chances to add to their lead throughout the game, but after scoring twice early, they failed to add on over the next nine innings in AT&T Park. "When we had the table set and had the right guys up there," the Nats' skipper said, "we just didn't get it done and then we didn't hold them. Stras had a rough start and threw a lot of pitches early, but gave us a good strong seven innings and we were in a position to win that and we didn't win it. It's tough." Had it not been for the long first, Johnson said afterwards, he might have let Strasburg go deeper into the game than he did. "If he hadn't struggled the first couple of innings," Johnson said, "I think he had over 40 pitches or something after two. I probably would have even gone further with him, but he pitched a great game, set up for our pen and our pen just didn't hold it." "His velocity was good, his stuff was good, he mixed and matched three plus pitches in the strike zone for the most part," Nats' GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.'s Holden Kushner and Danny Rouhier on Wednesday morning, "and really kept a hot-hitting, very good lineup in check and certainly gave us a chance to win the ballgame, which is what we expect our starting rotation to do each and every night out there. We just couldn't close the deal out for him, but it was good to see him in command of a ballgame, go deep into a game when we really needed it." "His velocity was good, his stuff was good, he mixed and matched three plus pitches in the strike zone for the most part, and really kept a hot-hitting, very good lineup in check." - Mike Rizzo on Stephen Strasburg vs the Giants Strasburg threw 29 two-seam fastballs (18 for strikes; 62.07%), 37 four-seam fastballs (23 for strikes; 61.26%), 23 changeups (13 for strikes; 56.52% w/ six swings and misses) and 19 curves (8 for strikes; 42.11%). The changeup was filthy, but the fastball command wasn't there early as both the Nats' GM and Strasburg discussed. "He was spraying his fastball a little bit," Rizzo said on The Mike Rizzo Show, "and [he] had to battle through some long, leverage pitch type of innings and got through it and really pitched extremely well for us. And like I said, he did exactly what we expected him to do, is give us a chance to win and we were set up to win the ballgame, we just couldn't close the deal out and we lost another tight one." Your br

For example, the after the 7:43 AM Daly City train leaves, the next Daly City trains leaves at 7:58 AM. Under the a short turn plan, an additional train the terminates at Montgomery will leave Dublin/Plesanton at 7:49 AM. This pattern would run throughout the AM peak commute hours. Trains coming back to Dublin/Pleasanton will leave Daly City every 15 minutes, and an extra train to Dublin/Pleasanton, originating at Montgomery, will run in between the two trains that originate at Daly City throughout the PM peak commute hours. Opinions?

Nats southpaw Gio Gonzalez pitched brilliantly in San Francisco on Wednesday, and the Nationals denied the Giants a sweep of their series, winning in ten innings off of an Ian Desmond single. The team needed a pick-up after Tuesday night’s now-controversial debacle, and Gonzalez provided it. Gonzalez gave up only four hits and struck out [...]

Whoever thinks that brains and beauty don't mix clearly hasn't heard about these 30 executives in the tech industry. They're intelligent, successful, and not bad to look at. Some of the people on this list are worth millions, or even billions of dollars. Others are just getting started in tech but are poised for greatness. Yoshikazu Tanaka Company: Gree Title: Founder and CEO Age: 35 Location: Japan Fun facts: Tanaka founded social gaming company Gree in his apartment back in 2004. Growing up, Tanaka played Nintendo games incessantly, and his parents thought that he was wasting time, according to Forbes. Now, Tanaka is Asia's youngest self-made billionaire. Debbie Landa Company: Dealmaker Media and GrowLab Title: Founder and CEO of Dealmaker, co-founder of GrowLab Age: Unknown Location: San Francisco, C.A. Fun facts: Before entering the startup world, Landa spent ten years working in the fashion industry. Now, she's organizing conferences to help spur growth in the startup community and connect entrepreneurs with potential partners. Chuck Phillips Company: Infor Title: CEO Age: Unknown Location: Fun facts: Charles Phillips is the former president at Oracle who resigned after news of his affair with another woman surfaced. See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.

SAN FRANCISCO — Washington Nationals trainer Lee Kuntz approached Davey Johnson in the ninth inning of a 1-1 game Wednesday, informing the manager that Bryce Harper’s left knee was sore. View full post on Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Washington Nationals News

I have a truckload of Dante at my home.  I have the authoritative Charles Singleton prose translation, the Dorothy Sayers verse translation with her copious notes, along with her two volumes of Dante essays, I have the overlooked Peter Dale translation, I even have the Longfellow translation, and Daniel Halpern‘s “Dante’s Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets,” including Seamus Heaney, Carolyn Forche, Deborah Digges, C.K. Williams, W.S. Merwin, and others. I have books on Dante by John Freccero and Mark Musa and R.W.B. Lewis, and William Anderson and heaven knows who else… that’s in addition to several translations of La Vita Nuova and De Monarchia. What more can be said?  Lots, it appears. San Francisco as Paradise. Dante Alighieri is in the news again … and how could it be otherwise with a new book from Dan Brown (of Da Vinci Code fame) called Inferno?  “For all its absurdities, Brown’s book is a comfort, because it proves that the Divine Comedy is still alive in our culture,” writes Joan Acocella in The New Yorker. Otherwise… As we saw in The Da Vinci Code, there is no thriller-plot convention, however well worn, that Brown doesn’t like. The hero has amnesia. He is up against a mad scientist with Nietzschean goals. He’s also up against a deadline: in less than twenty-four hours, he has been told, the madman’s black arts will be forcibly practiced upon the world. Though this book, unlike The Da Vinci Code and Brown’s Angels and Demons (2000), is not exactly an ecclesiastical thriller, it takes place largely in churches and, as the title indicates, it constantly imports imagery from the Western world’s most famous eschatological thriller, Dante’s Inferno. Wisely, Brown does not let himself get hog-tied by the sequence of events in Dante’s poem. Instead, he just inserts allusions whenever he feels that he needs them. There are screams; there is excrement. The walls of underground caverns ooze disgusting liquid. Through them run rivers of blood clogged with corpses. Bizarre figures come forward saying things like “I am life” and “I am death.” Sometimes the great poet is invoked directly. The book’s villain is a Dante fanatic and the owner of Dante’s death mask, on which he writes cryptic messages. Scolded by another character for his plans to disturb the universe, he replies, “The path to paradise passes directly through hell. Dante taught us that.” Acocella doesn’t stick with Brown, however. Most of her focus is on the new translations of The Divine Comedy by Clive James and Mary Jo Bang.  Both poets take a lot of liberties.  We’ve written about the latter translation here, and as for the James translation … it sounds like it’s worth a read.  But read Acocella’s whole review here. Acocella notes that “Translators are not the only ones drawn to Dante. Since 2006, Roberto Benigni has been touring a solo show about the Divine Comedy” – the we wrote about that here – “In 2010, Seymour Chwast rendered the poem as a graphic novel. There are Inferno movies and iPad apps and video games.” Ahhh, but she does not complete the list.  She neglected to mention San Francisco’s very own version of Dante (also on our shelves) by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders, which opens: About halfway through the course of my pathetic life, I woke up and found myself in a stupor in some dark place, I’m not sure how I ended up there; I guess I had taken a few wrong turns. Chris and her “Postcards from Hell” Meanwhile, a trip to the recent 46th International Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco, I met Chris Lowenstein, the “Chief Bibliophilic Officer” for  Book Hunter’s Holiday – who is so fond of Dante that she has a whole section of her website devoted to Dante books and artwork.  On this particular day, she showed me her “Postcards from Hell.” Only they weren’t.  Not a

Through the first 46 games of the season, including 11 games against the woeful Mets and Marlins, the Phillies had just one complete game shutout. On a team with Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay, and Cliff Lee, naturally that complete game shutout was recorded by none other than Kyle Kendrick. Cliff Lee rectified that situation today, with a three-hit masterpiece against the Marlins. For all but the second inning, Lee made it look easy. Even that inning wasn't too bad. After an infield single, a walk, and a hit batter (no balls leaving the infield), Lee got out of the jam with a double play and pop-up. After that, smooth sailing. For the second night in a row, the offense wasn't offensive. Delmon Young hit his third home run of the season to start the scoring off in the fourth. In the sixth, he had an infield single and then came around to score on Domonic Brown's triple. Freddy Galvis then knocked in Brown with a single. And that was it other than watching Lee mow down the Marlins. Baseball's inane accounting practices credit Lee with five wins on the season now. That's one less than he was credited with all of last year. In fact, the accounting system did not give Lee a fifth win last year until September 12. Of course, going into today's game (stats have not been updated), Lee's xFIP this year (3.58) is half a run higher than last year (3.06). That's conventional baseball statistics for you! The only other thing to note really is that Delmon Young can throw. We covered his Glennbo-esque throw in San Francisco several games ago. Tonight, Young did it again. He nailed Chris Coghlan trying to tag up from first on a long fly ball to right by Nick Green. Young caught the ball deep in right field and made the throw flat footed. It was a laser that hit Rollins on one hop, who easily tagged Coghlan out at least three feet short of the second-base bag. There are lots of reasons to hate Delmon Young's presence on this team, despite his two home runs over the past two days, but we are quickly learning that his arm is not one of them. Fangraph of keeping it up for the Nationals series: Source: FanGraphs

There will be a familiar face to NFL fans driving the pace car at this weekend's 2013 Indianapolis 500 and that face will be San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh will be driving a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and below is snippet of what Jim had to say about the unique honor: ''Really excited. I was really excited just even being considered when they told me that they were considering me,'' Harbaugh said. ''To actually be doing it, I've already had a couple of dreams about it. I know I'm going to be excited and nervous. I'm anticipating getting there and getting some practice in for it.'' Harbaugh won't try to bring the Corvette back to the Bay Area as his own. ''That car goes to the winner of the race,'' Harbaugh said. ''The winner of the race is always awarded the pace car at the Indy 500.'' (Courtesy of Yahoo Sports)