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Offense erupts to back Villanueva's solid start
Kalish leads charge with three RBIs on two extra-base hits
CHICAGO -- Carlos Villanueva knew it would be a good day Sunday because the cable guy showed up at his apartment that morning and got his connection to work.
Villanueva's good fortune continued as the Cubs' scored as many runs in two innings as they had in their five previous games, beating the Phillies, 8-3, to avoid being swept in the opening series.
"Offense is always contagious," said Ryan Kalish, who drove in three runs. "I know we haven't gotten off to the best start, but everyone is real close."
Kalish hit an RBI triple in a four-run first and added a two-run double in the sixth to back Villanueva, who picked up the win in his first start of the season and continued a nice trend for the Chicago starters, who now have a 1.93 ERA (eight runs over 37 1/3 innings) in the first six games.
This was Villanueva's third appearance after pitching in relief twice last week against the Pirates in extra-inning games. He took the loss in both, and manager Rick Renteria felt he had to give the right-hander a little pep talk.
"He really helped us out in a pinch in Pittsburgh," Renteria said. "I know that after the second game in Pittsburgh, I said, 'Don't worry about the outcome there, we really needed your help and you gave it to us.'"
"It shouldn't take him telling me that," Villanueva said. "It's definitely not easy and I wasn't happy [losing the games]. ... If that would've happened to me five, six years ago, I don't know how I would've handled it, and definitely different than I did.
"You have to forget about it. You want to do whatever you can to help the boys out and keep everybody happy. Today we took a good step toward that, and we have to keep going."
Villanueva had lots of "traffic" to deal with in the fourth and fifth. The Phillies loaded the bases with one out in the fourth, getting an assist when Starlin Castro made an error on a potential double-play ball. But Cody Asche hit a comebacker to Villanueva, who threw home for the force.
The Phillies had runners at second and third in the fifth, and scored a run on Chase Utley's groundout. Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg thought Utley was safe at first and challenged the call, but after review, the first at Wrigley Field, umpire CB Bucknor's call was confirmed. Ryan Howard then hit a liner to Emilio Bonifacio, who had shifted to shallow right, and he grabbed it with a perfectly timed leap and got the force at second.
"That went from a moment of head down to a very excited, 'I can't believe we had somebody play there,'" Villanueva said of Bonifacio's play in the fifth. "The inning before, we make an error, and the next inning, we have somebody there. It's a crazy game. Today it worked for us. Sometimes you're upset at the shift, sometimes nobody complains."
Villanueva took steps to assure Castro not to worry about his error.
"You have a choice there," Villanueva said. "You can decide to get upset and let it rattle you, or you pick him up. I know he's not trying to make an error. I've talked a lot to Starlin, and he's worked hard to improve his defense. The best thing I can do there is pick him up and make sure he understands I'm not upset. Hopefully, he gets another one to make him feel better."
Castro's message to Villanueva?
"'Give me another ground ball that I can make a double play on,'" Castro said. "I tried to make that play. If I don't make it, I have eight more guys to pick me up. That's why when other guys make errors, I'm there to pick them up, too."
Renteria gave Villanueva a bear hug in the dugout after the fifth.
"He's a big hugger," Villanueva said of the rookie manager. "He worked his magic on me."
The right-hander tried to talk Renteria into letting him go out for another inning, but that was it.
The Cubs began the day as the only Major League team to not score more than one run in an inning. They corrected that in the first. Castro was in the No. 6 spot in hopes of having him in position to drive in runs, and it worked. Bonifacio walked to lead off the first and scored on Kalish's triple to right-center. Phillies starter A.J. Burnett walked Anthony Rizzo, and Nate Schierholtz followed with a sacrifice fly. Luis Valbuena walked to set up Castro's RBI double and open a 3-0 lead. Ryan Sweeney added a sacrifice fly.
"[Renteria] told me, 'I put you there because you have great numbers against Burnett,'" Castro said. "I'm good. Whatever spot he tries to put me in where he thinks I can do a good job, I'm on it."
Center fielder Ben Revere couldn't get his glove on Sweeney's ball in the sixth, and the error led to four unearned runs. Bonifacio hit an RBI single, Kalish followed with his two-run double, and Rizzo added an RBI single for an 8-1 lead.
The Phillies made it interesting in the ninth against Jose Veras, adding two runs. Renteria said they wanted the closer to get some work before Monday's off-day and wasn't concerned about the outing. Pedro Strop got Howard to fly out to Kalish in left to end the game and let Renteria celebrate his first win at Wrigley Field.
"It's awesome," Castro said of the Cubs' offense waking up. "We've been waiting for that for a long time. Today was a really good day."
Just ask Villanueva.
"I knew it would be a good day when the cable guy shows up on Sunday morning," he said.


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Whatever you think of the tax and pension policy Gov. Jerry Brown is pursuing, he seems to be getting the politics right.
Recent polls show California voters warming to Brown's difficult-to-sell proposals on taxes (he wants to increase sales taxes and income taxes on individuals making $250,000 or more) and on pensions (he has a 12-point proposal that could rein in pension abuses, particularly at the local level).
A new PPIC poll found 60 percent of voters supporting Brown's initiative -- albeit after they were read a favorable and slightly misleading description of the tax initiative. (The initiative is framed as a budget balancing measure in the poll even though it's structured in a way that the money doesn't go directly to the budget). The same poll, and a recent poll from Field, show voters warming to the idea of pension changes -- and favorably disposed to Brown's package of changes.
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This support is an impressive political achievement. It is very, very difficult to win support for measures that take money away from people -- whether through higher taxes or less generous pensions.
The difficulty will be maintaining that support, in the face of the normal reaction against taxes or givebacks and in the face of criticism about flaws in both Brown proposals.
Can Brown pull it off? The odds are still probably against him. But he has an unusually good chance of making progress on both issues.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.

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The Chinese Consulate in New York says a Chinese national was among those killed in the marathon bombings in Boston, but did not identify the person. Boston University said the victim was one of its graduate students.
The Consulate also said in a statement Tuesday that another Chinese citizen was wounded and was in stable condition following surgery.
Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings, a Hong Kong-based broadcaster with ties to the Chinese government, said the deceased was a woman from the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang who was a graduate student in statistics at Boston University.
A team led by Deputy Consul General Ruiming Zhong was in Boston to investigate the situation and assist relatives of the victims, the consulate's statement said.
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that relatives have requested that the deceased not be identified.


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The theme of the Lithuania NHDR 1999 is globalization and human development. The Report's message is that the real challenge for Lithuania in entering the arena of global competition is not to pursue short-term advantages but to link the long-term competitiveness of the country in the global markets to living standards and the human development of the population. The Report finds that Lithuania has achieved tremendous success over the past decade of transition in opening up its economy and society to the world. However, in order to ensure that growth and EU integration is accompanied by increases in human development, the Report recommends that government policies should be carefully revised according to human development choices.


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Every summer, snow cone stands pop up, tourists arrive and seaweed and animals wash ashore almost like a Southern tradition.
Every summer, snow cone stands pop up, tourists arrive and seaweed and animals wash ashore almost like a Southern tradition.
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Jesse Green wasn�t expecting anything unusual when he took off his swim trunks Tuesday after a day at the beach, but he found a surprise.
The green algae, known locally as June grass, was something new for the Iowa man. To locals, though, it�s just a part of swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
�We had to turn them inside out to get it all out,� Renee Hynes, Green�s girlfriend, said the next day as they walked along the beach. �It�s a nice beach, though.�
Along the shoreline this week were bits of the bright green, filmy algae along with some sargasso,the clumpy, free-floating plant prevalent in the Gulf. Those plants find their way to local waters annually alongside with other plants and sea life.
�You can expect to see quite a bit throughout the summer because of the warmer weather,� said Alexis Janosik, a marine biologist at the University West of Florida. �The wind just blows the water, so a lot of these creatures are at the mercy of the sea.
�There�s a whole community in that seaweed that you could miss if you�re not looking,� she said.
Destin Beach Safety Coordinator Joe D�Agostino said seasonal plants and animals come with the warmer water.
�We get no wind in the morning and we get a southeastern trade wind in the afternoon, which brings a lot of this here,� D�Agostino. �There�s a lot of factors, though, so it�s hard to predict what will come.�
Warmer water brings in more food, which attracts animals such as cow-nose rays, a distant relative of the sting ray that has no stinger, which have been spotted already, Janosik said.
Jellyfish are relatively common, from small stinging nettles that look like plastic globs to the distinctive blue Portuguese man-of-war.
Beachgoers rarely encounter animals that are life-threatening, D�Agostino said.
�The real danger isn�t so much for everyone who comes to the beach, just those who are allergic to jellyfish, which are usually people who are also allergic to bees,� D�Agostino said. �We don�t really have anything deadly in the Gulf, just some things that can cause discomfort and annoy you.�
Tourists likely also will see a few sea turtles and dolphins, and perhaps some pale shelled sand fleas that bury themselves in the sand.
Dave Urie, manager of the Okaloosa Island Fishing Pier, said summers have brought manatees and even a whale.
�Some years we see a lot of sea life, some years we don�t,� he said. �The same goes for the June grass. Some years it�s very abundant, other years it�s hardly noticeable. It�s hard to tell.�
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Your destination tonight is Universal Studios Florida, as Total Nonstop Action (TNA) presents the Destination X PPV. This event had it all folks, so let's not waste any more time in getting to the details.
The main event featured Captain Charisma Christian Cage making his first NWA Heavyweight title defense against the Alpha Male Monty Brown.
Cage has his ribs wrapped in bandages, a direct result of Brown attacking the champ on a past episode of TNA Impact. Throughout the bout, Brown is making a conscious effort of attacking the ribs. Match goes to the outside early, with Brown stalking Cage into the crowd. Brown is hammering on Cage, who turns the tide and chases Brown back into the ring. Again, Brown dumps Cage to the outside, beating on the champ. Brown goes for a chair shot, but misses. Cage rolls Brown back into the ring and goes off the top turnbuckle for a double axe handle, but Brown intercepts with a shot to the gut. More brawling now on the edge of the ring, where Brown lifts Cage high into air and drops him to the outside floor. Far from being done, Brown drops Cage across the guardrail. The Alpha Male is going to work on the rib cage of the champ once again. Cage fights back and goes for a tornado DDT, but Brown sends him flying to the mat. Momentum swings back to Cage when he nails a spiked DDT on Brown, and follows up with a modified bulldog. Christian climbs to the top turnbuckle and goes for the frog splash, but Brown moves away. Brown now with a submission, but Cage is not giving up. Brown drops Cage across the top turnbuckle. Brown goes up after Cage, who fights off his opponent and sends him crashing to the mat. Back splash by Cage on Brown, Brown comes back with the alpha bomb, only a two count. F5 by Brown, again, only two. Brown lines up Cage for the pounce, but Cage stops it with a kick. Brown tries for the alpha bomb again, but Cage reverse and nails the unprettier. Clean three count, Cage retains the title.
After the bout, Jeff Jarrett comes down the ramp and demands his title shot now. Cage counteroffers by simply kicking Jarrett's ass. The two are brawling when the members of Jarrett's faction arrive for the beat down. Rhino comes to the rescue, but he too is overwhelmed. Crowd chanting for Sting, instead though, they get Steve Borden (aka Sting). He cleans house and is looking to take out Jarrett once and for all.
Enter Big Papa Pump � Scott Steiner.
Steiner proves to be trump card and the beat down ensues on Borden, Cage and Rhino as the show goes off the air.
Preliminary Match: Shannon "The Prince of Punk" Moore vs Cassidy Riley
Riley takes it to Moore at the beginning of this contest, with Moore turning things around and dominating his opponent for most of this one. Good array of wrestling from the self-proclaimed Prince of Punk. Riley mounts the comeback with a couple of clotheslines, followed by a very smooth springboard moonsault from the second rope. Moore turns it around and nails Riley with the twisting plancha off the top corner turnbuckle for the win. Nice opener.
Match Rating: 5/10
Preliminary Match: Diamonds in the Rough (David Young & Elix Skipper) vs Shark Boy & Norman Smiley
Simon Diamond accompanies his team to the ring and proceeds to rag on members of the St. Louis Cardinals in attendance. Diamond promises to prove that he is the greatest two sport athlete of all time. Now all we need is Bo Jackson to enter the fray!
TNA faithful give a rousing welcome for Norman Smiley and remain vocal for the master of the wiggle throughout this one. Speaking of wiggle, Smiley goes for it early, but Young breaks up the attempt. Action spills to the outside, where Skipper goes over the top rope and dives into Smiley. Action goes back into the ring, where Skipper and Young are hammering on Smiley. Young goes for the moonsault and misses. Smiley makes the hot tag to Shark Boy who cleans house, including his patented shark bite on Young. Smiley is back in the ring and finally gives what the crowd was wanting � the wiggle on Young. Simon Diamond interferes, allowing his team to hit their finisher on Smiley for the win. Fun while it lasted.
Match Rating: 5.5/10
Match One: Alex Shelley vs Jay Lethal
Crowd is firmly behind the 20-year-old Lethal in this match as both men lock up with some good mat work. Series of foot sweeps and pin attempts follow. Shelley gets taken to the outside via flying head scissors. Lethal follows up quickly with a suicide dive. In the ring now and Lethal is keeping Shelley on the mat, launching his comeback with a spinning heel kick. It's not Shelley who is keeping Lethal grounded and attempts the springboard moonsault from the second rope, but misses. Lethal with a couple of bridging pin attempts, only a two count. Both competitors are on the top turnbuckle where Shelley delivers a flying atomic drop on Lethal � awesome! Back and forth action once again, Lethal delivering a flying head butt from the top rope, two count once again. Shelley finally puts it away, nailing the Sliced Bread #2 on Lethal for the win.
Match Rating: 7/10
Match Two: Matt Bentley vs Lance Hoyt
Hoyt is looking for some payback after being attacked and busted open by Bentley on TNA's Impact show. Bentley ain't intimidated by the big man from Texas, starting things off with a series of punches. Hoyt quickly counters, tossing Bentley high into the air and outside of the ring. Bentley looking for some recoup time while Tracy Brooks distracts Hoyt. Bentley charges back with the sneak attack, but Hoyt is there to intercept the effort. Change of strategy now for Bentley who zeros in on his opponent's leg. Hoyt will have none of this and hits a power slam, followed up by the sidewalk slam. Bentley mounts the comeback, executing a nice looking neck breaker from the corner middle rope. Bentley continues to work over the neck, but goes airborne once again, compliments of a one arm flap jack by Hoyt. Bentley is draped across the top turnbuckle where Hoyt nails a field goal kick � it's good! Pump handle power slam by Hoyt, who goes upstairs for the top rope moonsault and misses (this PPV is setting record for most attempted moonsaults). Both men struggle to get to their feet. Bentley is the first to recover, but is distracted by paper flyers that are being dumped from the rafters by Eric Young (don't ask). Hoyt take advantage and nails the big boot on Bentley for the three count.
Match Rating: 6.5/10
Match Three: Team Canada (Bobby Roode & Eric Young) vs The Naturals
Match is underway with Roode hammering on Chase Stevens. Stevens fights back with a drop kick and side Russian leg sweep. Naturals are in control now with Andy Douglas isolating Young on the mat. Trip up by Roode on Douglas turns it around for the Canucks � Douglas now being isolated by his opponents. Hot tag made by Douglas, Stevens in the ring and cleaning house. Atomic drop delivered on Roode, then drop kicks Young off the top rope to the outside. Stevens flies outside to nail Young, but misses. Stevens is now being punished by Roode and Young in the ring now. Comeback arrives in the form of Stevens delivering an enziguiri on Young, launching the Canadian off the top turnbuckle to the matted floor below. Tag is made, Douglas nailing Roode with not one, but two variations of the DDT, but only gets two from the referee. All four men are in the ring now and a Tower of Doom suplex comes to pass, electrifying the live audience. Douglas is alone in the ring now and gets nailed in the head with the hockey stick from Young. Roode is there to score the pinfall.
Match Four: LAX (Machete, Homicide & Konnan) vs The James Gang (BG James, Kip James and Bullet Bob Armstrong)
The James Gang initially enters the ring and cleans house. It's BG James now, hammering on Machete. Fortune is reversed and Homicide is now taking apart the former Road Dog. LAX doing a good job of keeping BG James isolated in the ring with some crafty distractions. Tag is made to Kip who is whipping the floor with both Homicide and Machete. BG James dives to the outside of the ring and hammers on Homicide. Armstrong is also there, showing the crowd he can still deliver a beat down in his plus 60 years, pounding on Konnan as he lies prone on the announce table. Back in the ring and Homicide is going for the chair shot on BG James, but Armstrong is there to break it up. Homicide is dumped to the outside, leaving Machete alone in the ring. Kip James finishes Machete off and it's The James Gang coming out on top.
Match Five: Four-Way X Division Challenge � Puma vs Petey Williams vs Sonjay Dutt vs Chris Sabin
Trying to describe this one is like detailing every single item of swirling debris in a tornado. Puma is really winning over the fans with his Mach 3 speed and crisp execution � shades of the original Tiger Mask (Satoro Sayama) here folks. The action here is pretty much what you would expect: blind tags galore, followed by a series of lightning fast exchanges. All four athletes are really on the ball in this one. The contest really intensifies near the end with an over the top rope hurracana by Williams on Sabin. Puma follows up and dives over the top rope onto both Sabin and Williams. Not to be outdone, Dutt delivers a moonsault off the top rope to the outside � insane stuff here. The battle returns to the ring with a blinding array of high impact moves, pin attempts - each man hitting his finisher at one point. Eventually, it's Sabin who plants Puma into the mat with the Cradle Shock for the win. Amazing bout to say the least!
Match Rating: 8.5/10
Match Six: Eight Man Tag Team � America's Most Wanted, Abyss & Jeff Jarrett vs Rhino, Ron Killings & Team 3D
No brainer in how this one starts � all eight combatants are brawling all over the studio and the fans are just loving every moment of it. Order is actually restored, with all the wrestlers finding their way back to the ring where some semblance of an actual tag team bout is presented. Brother Devon is getting the beat down from the Jarrett faction, but comes back with a flying clothesline on James Storm of AMW. Tag is made to Brother Ray who takes on AMW single handedly. Rhino is brought in and Brother Ray launches The War Machine into the corner, goring the trapped members of AMW. Rhino presses the attack, getting some big moves on Jarrett. He sets himself up to plow Jarrett with the gore, but Gail Kim enters the fray for the distraction. It works � Abyss submarines Rhino. Jarrett's team keeps the pressure on, corralling Rhino. Despite taking a lot of punishment, Rhino finds the gap, tag is made to Killings. The Truth is a whirlwind of offence, clocking all four opponents with varied big time moves. Action gets chaotic again, with Jarrett in the ring with the guitar, referee out of visual range. Jarrett swings at Killings and misses, while Rhino does not miss and gores Jarrett. Abyss enters the fray and delivers the black hole slam on Rhino. Killings clothesline's Abyss over the top rope, both men go sailing to the floor. Brother Devon has Jarrett and holds his opponent's legs apart for Brother Ray's diving head butt from the top rope. Likewise, Jackie Gayda has Gail Kim the ring, legs apart for Killings to deliver a flying leg drop. Abyss is back with a double clothesline on Team 3-D who comeback and get the 3-D on Abyss. Super kick by James Storm on Brother Ray, AMW follows up with the death sentence on Brother Devon. Killings is there to break up the pin attempt. AMW try to handcuff Killings to the ring post, but it's Chris Harris who gets locked there, leaving Killings to nail his finisher on Storm. Count is being made, but Jarrett pulls the ref away out of position. Killings and Jarrett are battling it out, where Jarrett plants Killings into the mat with the stroke for the victory.
Match Rating: 7.5/10
Ultimate X Three Way � Christopher Daniels vs AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe (C)
All three would go on to deliver a flurry of action that only they can deliver when they get in the ring. It starts off with Joe trying to stop both Daniels and Styles from reaching the belt hanging above. With that, both men team up in attacking the Samoan Submission Machine. With Joe incapacitated Styles takes out Daniels with a drop kick. Both men go upstairs, dangling across the ropes towards the X Division belt. They collide and kick each other off, falling to the mat below. Joe collides into Daniels with the flying knee. It's Styles now fighting the Samoan, who back body drops Styles to the outside onto Daniels. Air Samoa Joe arrives over the top rope with a twisting plancha into both Daniels and Styles. It's Joe now trying to make his way across to the belt, but loses his grip. Daniels is back in the ring, attacking both Joe and Styles. Action moves to the top turnbuckle where Styles delivers a sunset power bomb from the top rope on Daniels � sick! Styles making his way across to the belt, but is intercept by Joe who brings Styles down into an atomic drop. Joe is on fire now, pounding on Styles. Joe has Daniels on the outside and lines him up for the ol� kick, but Styles intercepts from the air. Joe and Styles are back in the ring and the Samoan is looking to go for the muscle buster. Daniels comes and blows are exchanged with Joe. Daniels finds himself locked in the clutch from Joe in the corner, but Styles breaks it up with an enziguiri. Double muscle buster on Joe, Daniels and Styles left to face off. Styles wins the exchange with the Pel� kick. Again, Styles going for the belt, but Joe brings him down with a chair shot. Daniels with the drop kick and connects while Joe is holding the steel chair, driving it into Joe's head. Daniels climbs and snags the belt, your new X Division champion.
Match Rating: 8/10
Main Event � Monty Brown vs Christian Cage (c)
Winner: Christian Cage, Match Rating: 7/10
Destination X PPV overall rating: 7.5/10
Post PPV Thoughts
Once again, TNA delivers a PPV well worth your money. No stinkers to speak of and the X Division competitors really shined in this event. For whatever reason though, the endings to the Ultimate X match and the main event had an anti-climatic feel. It may be that the live audience in Orlando were somewhat burned out from the previous match ups and just didn't pop at the finishes. Having Cage win clean over Brown was a good move in building Captain Charisma as a legit champion who can overcome adversity. The loss does nothing to hurt Brown, who only continues to build his aura as a vicious wrecking machine that will keep coming back for the belt until he finally gets it.
Debate will now ensue about the future of Samoa Joe. Personally, I need a break from the trilogy that is Daniels, Joe and Styles. I'm also one those who feels that Joe should be elevated to the heavyweight title picture and now may be the right time to do just that, as Cage and Borden are going to need allies in their coming battle with Jarrett's faction. Smart move not to have Borden come out in his Sting face paint; it avoids rusting the shine of the crow gimmick. Now Borden has a crusade and he'll do it with the face paint, all to the delight of Sting fans everywhere
The debut of Scott Steiner will definitely intensify things up in the heavyweight title picture and offers TNA faithful the chance to see some first time match ups.
Overall, TNA is plotting a sound course for their big prime time debut come April and one can only expect more wrestling refugees to rally to their banner.
Great show TNA!


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Translation of Sefer Zikaron Czyzewo
Translation of Sefer Zikaron Czyzewo
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Published in Tel Aviv, former residents of Czyzewo in Israel and the USA, 1961
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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its RFIC simulation software, GoldenGate. This release represents an expansion in RFIC simulation coverage for wireless communications products, with 5x transient simulation speed improvements and new mixed-signal simulation capabilities, resulting in shorter product development times.
"RFIC designers have limited simulation coverage today - simulating a fraction of what they need to before the tape-out deadline," said Marc Petersen, product marketing manager with Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "They are missing design problems and incurring costly re-spins. GoldenGate 4.2 enables more simulation coverage with increased speed and capacity, and takes advantage of new ways to uncover RF/mixed-signal problems early in the design cycle."
In RFIC design, transient (SPICE) simulations provide time-domain results. GoldenGate 4.2 features improvements to transient simulations, achieving faster speeds of 2x to 4x on single-core computers and typically 5x for quad-core computers. The transient improvements also help speed up the frequency-domain simulation process. Faster simulations allow for more extensive use of statistical design throughout the RFIC design cycle, without compromising tight development schedules.
Digital State Sweeping (DSS), a new GoldenGate 4.2 feature, provides an automated solution to the problem of sweeping an RF design through its many digital control states. Performing the sweep manually is a tedious simulation task. DSS automates operational verification of the control states and provides interface and connectivity testing as well as digital-RF connectivity debugging, allowing digital and RF teams to work concurrently.
Agilent's GoldenGate 4.2 also includes:
the ability to perform mixed-signal simulations on a combination of RF and digital circuits represented by Verilog-AMS blocks;
new wireless sources from the Agilent Ptolemy simulator, including transmit/receive waveforms for 802.11(WiFi), 802.16 (WiMAX™/WiMAN), TDSCMDA, 3GPPFDD, and custom, user-defined wireless sources, and;
improved Monte Carlo algorithms (Latin Hypercube Sampling and Hammersley Sequence Sampling) for faster Monte Carlo coverage with 5-10x fewer trials.
Agilent's GoldenGate Release 4.2 is expected to be available in early May, with prices starting at approximately $42,000.


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Snap: Striped road for snow
Speak softly and carry... a lot of deicing compound that you can stripe on the roads. That seems to be the mantra of VDOT this time around. In anticipation of a snowstorm, this is how Route 29 looked at Polo Grounds Road Friday morning at 9:17am.
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How can that picture be from today? None of those cars has a trace of snow nor is there snow beyond the edges of the trees and no residue of ice or anything on the road. I mean I know the sun worked hard today, but it didn't make it all the way through the snow on the ground anywhere that I saw.
Oh wait!!! I just re-read the post and realized the pic is from Friday morning. Never mind.
This was also done before last storm. But didn't help much against 2 feet. Lets hope for better results with a lighter snowfall. The purpose is to make it easier to plow by not allowing the snow to freeze and bond to the highway as much.
Road striping ? I've never seen this before in these parts, is this something new ? Looks like all the negative press from the last storm made an impression on someone.


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Lena Dunham celebrated her first time hosting "Saturday Night Live" with a famous pal: Taylor Swift.
E! News can confirm that the "Girls" star and co-creator, along with the country superstar, attended an after-party at Asselina restaurant in Union Square. J. Crew's creative director, and Girls guest star, Jenna Lyons, Mean "Girls" star Daniel Franzese as well as "SNL" cast members Aidy Bryant, Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer, were also in attendance.
Luckily for us, Franzese added several snapshots from the bash to his Instagram account.
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"Live from New York it's the @nbcsnl after party with @girlshbo star @lenadunham and #meangirls homie #RajivSurendra and me @whatsupdanny!," he captioned one photograph with Dunham and his "Mean Girls" co-star Rajiv Surendra.
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He also posed with the "Red Singer" at the "best party ever."
Dunham gushed about her experience on "SNL" and tweeted, "Cannot overstate how joyful this experience has been. I have always loved you 'Saturday Night Live,' but now I am IN love with you."
What did you think about Dunham's appearance on SNL? Sound off in the comments!


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I was unable to install ubuntu 11.04 and 10.10 with WUBi, and also, I was unable to boot up my pc through 11.04 though I did it with Ubuntu 10.10 as a live session. when I try to install ubuntu (both version) alongside with Win7 , following massage is appearing when extracting the kernal ,
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"We are running 21st-century software — our knowledge — on hardware [our brains and bodies] that hasn't been upgraded for 50,000 years, and this lies at the core of many of our problems," Ronald Wright explains in Surviving Progress, the film loosely based on his book A Short History of Progress. (If you haven't seen the documentary yet, watch it here.)
From an overpopulated China to the depleted Amazon rainforest in Brazil, the documentary takes us across the globe, exploring how humans are single-handedly destroying the planet's finite resources. While these issues may seemingly be unrelated, their root causes are connected. Rapidly evolving technology — that which allows us to produce things quickly, cheaply, and at the detriment of the environment — is at the heart of many issues, but the more insidious reason for these destructive global circumstances is economic progress without consideration of the needs of future generations.
"Unlimited economic progress in a world of finite natural resources doesn't make sense," famed anthropologist Jane Goodall says in the film. "It's a pattern that is bound to collapse."
Do you agree? Do you think there is any hope for humanity given the damage that has already been done?
Possible Discussion Topics
1. Do you agree with the film's assessment that economics is destructively disconnected from reality?
2. Of the nearly two dozen interviewees in the documentary, there weren't really any opposing viewpoints. Do you think that may cause opponents of these theories, particularly the ones blaming the world's wealthy oligarchy, to view this film as propaganda?
3. Old civilizations used to forgive debts. Do you see this ever happening in our modern world? Would debt forgiveness be a viable economic solution?
4. Do you think there's any reason to feel optimistic about the world's future? Can we humans change our course? And is moral progress the solution?
5. Let's talk about algae. Is it the fuel of the future?
6. Do you think the film could have benefited from a discourse similar to the one between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich?
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If you want to monitor your server logs and also like them to be emailed then just Logwatch may not be sufficient. It sends you a mail but does not archive them, so head over to epylog
Name : epylog
Arch : noarch
Epoch : 0
Version : 1.0.7
Release : 9.fc22
Size : 151 k
Repo : fedora
Summary : New logs analyzer and parser
URL : https://fedorahosted.org/epylog/
License : GPLv2+
Description : Epylog is a new log notifier and parser which runs periodically out of
: cron, looks at your logs, processes the entries in order to present
: them in a more comprehensive format, and then provides you with the
: output. It is written specifically with large network clusters in mind
: where a lot of machines (around 50 and upwards) log to the same
: loghost using syslog or syslog-ng.
To install :
dnf install epylog
After this you need to configure the directory for the archiving and also the means of transport, that could be just File or File with email. In the second case, the reports are archived and email sent with link to the report.
Here is the sample configuration that I am using
cfgdir = /etc/epylog
tmpdir = /var/tmp
vardir = /var/lib/epylog
title = [Cron] ubu @@HOSTNAME@@ system events: @@LOCALTIME@@
template = /etc/epylog/report_template.html
include_unparsed = yes
publishers = file
method = mail
smtpserv = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
mailto = root
format = html
lynx = /usr/bin/lynx
include_rawlogs = no
rawlogs_limit = 200
# GPG encryption requires pygpgme installed
gpg_encrypt = no
# If gpg_keyringdir is omitted, we'll use the default ~/.gnupg for the
# user running epylog (/root/.gnupg, usually).
#gpg_keyringdir = /etc/epylog/gpg/
# List key ids, can be emails or fingerprints. If omitted, we'll
# encrypt to all keys found in the pubring.
#gpg_recipients = firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
# List key ids that we should use to sign the report.
# If omitted, the report will not be signed, only encrypted.
#gpg_signers = email@example.com
method = file
path = /var/www/epylog
dirmask = %Y-%b-%d_%a
filemask = %H%M
save_rawlogs = no
expire_in = 700
notify = root@localhost
smtpserv = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
pubroot = http://example.com/cgi-bin/pager.py?
After you are done, you might want to head over to Fedora Wiki for Epylog and then download the weed_local file and parser.py file. The weed local file is a file containing the regex for common errors that you do not want to see in reports. So, feel free to add yours. And parser.py file sets up a pager. Download that and put it in the cgi-bin directory and configure the epylog data directory, and you are done.


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- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 3/4 cup warm milk (110° to 115°)
- 1/2 cup mashed potatoes
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 to 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon maple flavoring
- 2 to 3 tablespoons milk
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the milk, potatoes, shortening, sugar, eggs, maple flavoring, salt and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- For filling, combine the sugar, pecans, cinnamon and maple flavoring; set aside. Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into thirds. Roll each portion into a 14-in. circle; place one circle on a greased baking sheet or 14-in. pizza pan.
- Spread with a third of the butter; sprinkle with a third of the filling. Top with a second circle of dough; spread with butter and top with filling. Repeat with remaining dough, butter and filling; pinch to seal.
- Carefully place a glass in the center of the circle. With scissors, cut from outside edge just to the glass, forming 16 wedges. Remove glass; twist each wedge five to six times. Pinch ends to seal and tuck under.
- Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.
- In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar and flavoring and enough milk to achieve desired consistency; set aside. Carefully remove bread from pan by running a metal spatula under it to loosen; transfer to a wire rack. Drizzle with glaze. Serve slightly warm or cool completely.
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1 piece: 341 calories, 14g fat (5g saturated fat), 40mg cholesterol, 150mg sodium, 47g carbohydrate (21g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g protein.


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"Even small children were adequate to the task. . ."
In the book that resulted from his expansive, ten-year investigation of the place tigers occupied in the Malay consciousness, Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600–1950, Peter Boomgaard suggests that there was a lot more to the macan bumi tribute than mere backwoods mumbo-jumbo. A tiger habituated into the role of a macan bumi was far less likely to carry off villagers or cattle. A village tiger was also understood to drive out other, unfamiliar tigers, especially saucy young males looking to establish their own home territories. That was the village tiger's part of the bargain, and should a tiger fail in its duties, and a new tiger showed up at a village, the local dignitaries would beseech the new animal to go away. A commentary on just such an event, observed on Sumatra, comes from no less a personage than Sophia Raffles, Sir Stamford Raffles's second wife: "When a tiger enters a village, the foolish people frequently prepare rice and fruits, and placing them at the entrance as an offering to the animal, conceive that, by giving him this hospitable reception, he will be pleased with their attention, and pass on without doing them harm." She does not report whether the villagers' entreaties had any effect.
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Eva Ho (Reel Asian's 2011 Festival Assistant) is casting for 4 roles for short film Exeunt. Shooting will take place March 2-4, 2012. Respond by February 28 if interested. Details below:
Production: Exeunt (short film)Location: Toronto
Employer: Ryerson University
Duration: 3 days (March 2-4)
Director: Stash Capar
Synopsis: In the future, euthanasia clinics are deregulated and privatized. It is a multi-million dollar industry, servicing both the low and high ends. In one particular clinic, customers can choose their exact method of exeunt – often with darkly comical results. But what happens when a customer is unsure of his method, or even if he should be there in the first place? At one point does assisted suicide become profit-driven murder?
4 breakdowns:
- GRAHAM: Male / 40-60 / White (Anglo-Saxon). LEAD MALE ROLE. Clear signs of stress and fatigue. An educated accent. Comfortable with some physical acting. A former big-time CEO is wanted for his actions have caused his company to collapse and thousands have lost their livelihoods. In our story, he is seeking refuge in the euthanasia clinic. He doesn't know if he wants to commit suicide, but he sure as hell can't return to the real world.
- WOMAN: Female / early-late 30s / Any Ethnicity. LEAD FEMALE ROLE. Slim, somewhat attractive. Poker face; a pure rationalist. Comfortable with some physical acting. She is the youngest of three partners at the euthanasia clinic, the other two being male. She fought her way through high-school and college and is a shrewd businesswoman, who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty, as long as there's a market for whatever it is she's doing.
- JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN: Male / late 30s-40s. BACKGROUND ACTOR. Stressed and tired. Needed for an important opening long shot sequence.
- ELDERLY MAN: Male / 60s / Caucasian. BACKGROUND ACTOR. Need an elderly man to play the "husband" of an old couple. Should be tired and sickly looking
If interested, apply to Eva Ho email@example.com. Deadline: February 28, 2012.


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Two years ago, Mark Guilarte signed up with Match.com in search of female companionship. He was emphatic about his hair-color preference. The 26-year-old flight instructor from Arizona wanted a brunette. "I'm very picky," he says. "I knew what I was looking for."
Then Match.com recommended Carmen Lopez, a 25-year-old blonde, who was a housing manager with a military contractor and ... bingo. They were married in February. Carmen finds it strange that the nation's online personals service seemed to understand that she and her husband were meant for each other regardless of his hair-color preference. "I've always wondered, 'How the hell did they know?'" Carmen says. "Excuse my language."
The Guilartes can thank Amarnath Thombre, Match.com's vice-president of strategy and the keeper of the site's matching algorithm. Thombre, 38, seems ill suited to play Cupid. He is a dour quant with engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona. Before he joined Match.com in 2008, he worked at i2 Technologies, a supply-chain software company. Thombre says the technology that helps people fall in love isn't so different from the kind that enables companies to whisk goods from warehouses to store shelves. "In both situations, you are trying to optimize data," he says with a shrug.
Bloomberg Businessweek: Cheating, incorporated
There must be something to Thombre's unromantic view of the human heart. On Apr. 26, IAC, the Internet conglomerate that owns Match.com, reported the company's number of subscribers hit 1.9 million in the first quarter of 2011, up 21 percent over the prior year. Its operating income climbed by 71 percent to $23 million. Mandy Ginsberg, president of Match.com's U.S. operation, says Thombre has played a large role in those gains. "He's brilliant," she says.
Thombre works out of Match.com's Dallas headquarters, where he oversees a staff of 12 mathematicians and analysts, including a chief statistician who met her boyfriend on the site. (Thombre met his wife offline in India.) Netflix, Amazon, and lots of other Internet companies use mathematics to recommend products based on user behavior. The big difference with Match.com: its subscribers are in a rush to find a paramour, and Thombre doesn't have much time to familiarize himself with their innermost desires. "I could make pretty accurate predictions about a woman who has been on the site for five years," Thombre says. "It's a lot harder when she's on the site for five days."
Bloomberg Businessweek: Online dating as honest as real life
When people first sign up on Match.com they fill out a questionnaire. That's where Thombre's biggest challenge arises: Bad data. Users exaggerate their IQs and lowball their waistlines. They frequently discard their stated preferences. Match.com has found that 49 percent of men who insist on a woman who wants children actually chase prospective mates who don't particularly care. "They will say, 'I'm only interested in guys between the ages of 18 and 30,'" Thombre sighs. "The next thing you know they are e-mailing a 38-year-old."
Thombre's algorithmic remedy: pay more attention to the choices users make on their site than what they say they want. He uses a hypothetical example: Monica, a woman from New York. She says she longs for a rock climber who lives in the city and isn't interested in anyone who's been married before. Then Monica e-mails a divorced Match.com customer. The algorithm's response: dial down marital history and send her more divorcés, especially rock climbers from New York.
Bloomberg Businessweek: States seek to make it safer to find love online
Thombre says the system speeds up the process by looking at any other men Monica contacted, and the other women who had targeted them. Presumably, they share similar tastes in men. "It's cluster mechanics," says Thombre proudly.
He admits he can't predict which customers will marry like the Guilartes. Match.com calls it a success when users exchange three e-mails. Of course, as in offline romance, these relationships often end in heartache; Match.com says that about half of its current subscribers are repeat customers. If nothing else, those returnees can take solace in this. Thombre is there for them, and so is his algorithm.
The bottom line: Match.com tweaks its algorithms based on whom a user e-mails or checks out. Behavior often conflicts with stated desires.
Copyright © 2012 Bloomberg L.P.All rights reserved.


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The British Museum, in conjunction with its exhibit on Pompeii and Herculaneum, has released an iOS App for the iPhone ($2.99) and the iPad ($5.99). The application allows users to explores the cities via interactive maps, view objects in high resolution and contextual detail, an in depth timeline, and the aftermath of the eruption (including the city's later discovery and excavation). The application draws from archaeological discoveries, the remains at the cite, historical sources (specifically the account of Pliny the Younger).
Right now, the application is limited to iOS devices but an Android version is planned to be released in May 2013.
For more information on the exhibit and its resources, be sure to check out the British Museum's online exhibition website.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. —
Stephen Maxwell scored 17 points to lead a balanced offensive effort and Cal State Northridge defeated UC Riverside 69-53 on Saturday night.
Brandon Perry scored 12 points and Josh Greene added 10 for Cal State Northridge (12-11, 3-8 Big West).
Tre Hale-Edmerson helped Cal State Northridge build a 36-27 rebounding advantage with 10.
Cal State Northridge also had a 28-10 scoring edge in the paint, 11-4 edge in second-chance points and 25-13 margin in points off the bench.
UC Riverside (5-17, 2-8) had a 5-point lead early in the first half, but that quickly faded, and the team trailed by 7 at halftime.
Chris Harriel led UC Riverside with 16 points and Chris Patton had 11.


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Vol. 24, No. 1: Announcing
Denouncing announcing
Did you ever notice, as Andy Rooney would say, that companies, organizations and politicians are always announcing things? They never seem to simply say or assert or state anything.
We hereby announce that in heralding such announcements we should try to avoid the overused and overformal announced as much as possible. Matt Murray, deputy ME, says, "Almost always, said is better, plainer, less officialese."
In general, he adds, we allow too much bureaucratic verbiage from press releases to appear in our copy.


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Calm Your Hormones: Man Touches A Female Officer's Boo-tay While Waiting On Line In Dallas!
4 reports " Police have arrested a man for pinching a Dallas police officer – in full uniform – inside a local store. Sgt. Marcia Trejo said she thought Saturday would be just another routine day on the job. She spent all morning patrolling her division in southeast Dallas. Then she stopped by a clothing store to buy Christmas gifts for children in need. But while she stood in line to pay for her items something unexpected happened."
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Over the past few months I have had lots of ideas, thoughts & comments swirling around in my head about gluten-free food & companies. I think back to where the gluten-free food market was when I first went gluten-free in January 2006 and cringe. There are so many more options now and those options are much easier to get your hands on than they used to be. I can do all of my grocery shopping in a mainstream grocery store, including specialty items like bread, pasta & flours, for the most part. Yes, I still frequent the health food store, Trader Joe's & Whole foods, but mainly because I like options and I have an addiction to those stores & can't help myself! LOL! My point is that I don't have to if I don't want to.
Many companies make it very easy to buy their products by either having a blanket statement that they will call out any gluten ingredients on their labels; gluten will not be hidden under "natural flavors" or any other ingredient. You can find a list of those companies here. One company that I have just gotten an update from is Campbell's. Previously you had to email them to get their GF list. Now it is listed right on their website! I love this!! I will absolutely support a company by repeatedly purchasing their products when they make my life easier. If I don't have to track down information on the GF status of their food, things are much easier for me. I have a list of links down the right side of my blog with lots of gluten-free product information. ————–>
There are also many services out there that do a lot of the legwork for you. There is Clan Thompson, with lists available for purchase. There is also Zeer, an online database that has over 30,000 food products (and 500 new ones added every week! The cost for Zeer Select is $15/month. I had the opportunity to try out Zeer Select, the upgraded version of Zeer, and it is amazing! Even if there isn't a clear cut answer, the ingredients are still listed on the site, as well as the manufacturer's contact info.
Then you have other companies who make it very difficult for you to buy & eat their products. I currently have an email out to Emerald regarding the GF status of their Cocoa Roasted Almonds. I sent the email over a week ago and still haven't received a response. Additionally, I have been unsuccessful at locating a phone number to call them. I purchased the almonds because they were on sale, but won't touch them until I can verify. They may end up being eaten my my husband if I can't get an answer. So, if anyone out there knows, please let me know! 😉
Restaurants are another area in the gluten-free food market that has come a long way. I don't feel like I am nearly as restricted as I was in the beginning. I have options all over, even when I travel. Usually I pack my food for long trips, but that is based on personal preference, not the fact that I don't have any options. I have a list of gluten-free restaurant links down the right side of my blog with a lot more specific information. ————>
Quick Notes:
From now until August 15th when buying Pure Bars from the Pure Bar website enter the Promotional code "PURESUMMER" and receive 30% off your order AND free shipping on any variety and any size order. Yes, I was sucked in. I couldn't help myself. I ordered a variety pack, because as I mentioned yesterday, I need to try the other flavors. The total for 12 bars was $20.29 with free shipping!
Also, speaking of the lovely Pure Bar, don't forget to check out Kristin's giveaway. You have until midnight tomorrow night (the 5th) to enter.
I have some fun plans tonight that I can't wait to share tomorrow! 🙂
Hope you all have a great Tuesday!
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It's an iPhone/iPad crime wave! At least, that's according to an essay in the Wall Street Journal where Rolfe Winkler writes about chasing down an iPhone thief (and his subsequent broken jaw.)
However, it's unknown just how big the iCrime wave is, but the piece does say that out of 26,000 electronics thefts in New York City in 2011, 81 percent involved mobile phones, according to the Wall Street Journal. There are other statistics from Washington, D.C., that say that cellphone robberies jumped 54 percent from 2007 to 2011 -- but doesn't that also say something about cellphone use in general? Those numbers can also be because of the proliferation of mobile phones and not just simply rising crime.
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence of violent iPhone muggings, but the meat of the article is in the middle: the wireless industry is now fighting this mobile phone and tablet crime. Once a smartphone is reported stolen, an ID number goes into a database. When someone else tries to use the phone, it pops up on an industry blacklist and the carrier denies service.
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Sprint and Verizon have done blacklisting for a while, but not AT&T and T-Mobile. However in April, both AT&T and T-Mobile will start a blacklist, and carriers promise to build a unified database by next year. Europe, Latin America and Australia already have such a database in place.


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How Is Tim Cook Not Livid When Apple Steals From Children?
Nov 8, 2012 5:00 AM PT
I cannot believe that Apple, my favorite company in the whole world, still has its head stuck in the sand over deceptive in-app purchases in games targeted at small children.
Sure, I heard the horror stories about Smurfs and zoo animals and buying food and supplies with children tap, tap, tapping their way to hundreds or thousands of dollars of in-app purchases. Sure, I was irritated, but I figured Apple would get the problem under control. Seriously.
If any of my customers somehow spent thousands of dollars on little blue cartoon creatures, even if they were poorly supervised children, I'd be hopping mad. If I were a CEO, I'd be livid that any of my underlings let it happen. I mean really, Steve Jobs was hell-bent on putting a "dent in the universe" and instead he creates a system that only dents the bank accounts of busy, struggling parents?
No way I'd let that happen.
I believed in Steve Jobs, and I believed in Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Here's What Happened
So when my young son managed to spend more than US$50 on just two in-app purchases in less than two minutes with a brand-new free game, I was livid. I was angry at the developer, of course, and mad at myself that I let my attention leave the child who was sitting right next to me on the couch. More to the point, I was angry at Apple. I haven't felt so let down and quite so betrayed in ages. Usually I feel betrayed by my bank or the finance industry as they constantly change terms, not Apple. I've been promised a refund -- more on that later -- but that's beside the point.
Let's think through this. Apple gets 30 percent of in-app purchases, and boom, in just a couple of minutes, Apple processed and took $15 from one its most loyal customers. Heck, I'm so loyal, I write about Apple and share the Apple love with millions of other people every week. Now, from everything I can tell, it seems like Tim Cook is a quality human being. A smart, driven, astoundingly strategic and also tactical guy. Definitely not some dude on the street selling snake oil.
So how is Tim Cook not absolutely livid about this?
The Responsible Parent Argument
As I tell the story of how this can still happen, let's go through the irresponsible parent excuse. For starters, if you don't have small children or have never been responsible for small children for long periods of time, you probably don't understand the dynamics of the parental situation. Some of you think the parents are just irresponsible -- or that they are technical idiots and therefore it's their fault.
Maybe you can imagine it, but I, for example, have never found myself under fire in hostile enemy territory with real live ammunition whizzing by my head and explosions of shrapnel all around me. Sure, I can say I'd keep it together and that I could actually look down the sights of my rifle and make nice clean shots at men trying to kill me, but how do I know for sure? I don't.
I can imagine, but my imagination will be a far cry from the true reality of the situation. So, yeah, I respect soldiers. I know they've been deep in it in ways I haven't. And parents of triplets? Yup, I have no real clue about what that's like, either.
So you start with that -- respect -- and go from there.
Doesn't Take Much
Still, here's an illustration of how a child can get sucked into an in-app purchase and a parent lets it happen -- and this is a tame, easy-to-imagine scenario for most any regular middle-class, mostly engaged parent: A child is sick, another is tired and hungry, and the pressure of your job is beating down around your head and shoulders. Who knows if you're going to lose your job or if your spouse is going to be laid off or if a whole division is going to be sold, scrapped, or rejiggered to meet a brand-new secret budget.
Suddenly, things that were safe and solid and predictable are the opposite of those things. Suddenly one child trips and falls into a coffee table, and boom, there's a trip to QuickCare for some professional-grade antiseptic and glue and creative hair-tying to seal up the wound. You feel lucky that's all it was and that it didn't require stitches or staples. Now you're out of milk, the soup is burning, and one child is begging not for attention -- because you already read nine books and played imagination dinosaur adventure all around the house -- but the child is begging for a new game on your old iPhone 3G.
Something to engage an active mind. Something fast and fun and anything new. A free racing game called "Top Monster Truck Racing -- A Real Fun Offroad Game by Pocket Legend Games" seems innocuous enough, right?
In less than a minute, while trying to play the game, your 5-year-old is getting frustrated. Something is wrong. "It won't go! It just won't go!" The old iPhone is handed to a parent who thinks maybe the child got stuck in an advertisement and instead sees a pop-up window asking if you want to buy the in-app purchase of some monster truck for $9.99. What? Heck, no!
Closer Inspection
So then the parent takes a closer look, and boom, wow, it really is easy to shop in the game, but now the parent is afraid to touch any of the trucks because it's not clear which truck is for sale and which you already own. How do you even start a race? In fact, the parent is now so confused and afraid to tap on anything that the iOS device is promptly confiscated.
By the time you can get to your Mac to log into iTunes to check your purchase history, you see that your 5-year-old somehow managed to buy a $29.99 in-app upgrade to get some sort of monster truck. Holy macaroni, you're pissed. You feel betrayed. You trusted Apple! How would Apple let something like this happen so easily -- so quickly? Like, in two minutes?
But it's worse, as you start trying to "report a problem" and get your breathing under control, your recent purchases screen refreshes in iTunes. There's another in-app purchase! For $19.99, plus tax! Suddenly, in just a couple minutes of game play, sitting right next to you on the couch, your 5-year-old child spent more than $50.
You can be the geekiest Apple-loving geek who owns every single iPod ever made and has a gazillion apps on your 64GB iPhone 5 and knows everything digital inside and out, but I'd hope you'd still see how letting this sort of scenario happen -- in 2012 -- is utterly wrong.
It should not happen.
Apple Makes Good? Not Exactly
Doesn't Apple have a process to deal with this sort of problem? Sort of. Within a few hours of my complaint to Apple, an Apple representative responded to my email, validated how I might be upset (nice tactic) and approved a refund while also noting that this situation warranted an exception to the "All Sales Are Final" terms and conditions of the App Store. In 5 to 7 business days, I should see the money credited back to my credit card. So that worked, but not as well as I might hope.
To get to this resolution, I opened iTunes on my Mac, logged into my account, then found recent purchases, then found the link to report a problem. That launched a Web browser page with a bunch of choices, none of which seemed particularly apt to my problem, which was, "parent feels cheated by crappy game developer and wants a refund as well as the game developer banned for life."
Instead, I selected "Other iTunes Store Topics," and hoped for a response, which I got. Still, I get the impression that Apple wants to help customers who experience this problem -- but they definitely do not, under any circumstances, want to draw any attention to the issue.
Issuing a refund is like giving a person with a head cold a dose of Vitamin C and saying, "You'll feel better in 5 to 7 business days." At best, it fixes the symptom. As for the underlying problem, it does nothing.
Not the Apple Way?
To me, this is a clear-cut issue. Nudity, for example, is full of shades of gray. How far is too far? Apple draws the line pretty quickly with anything potentially smutty -- but then allows game apps targeted at children that have nasty in-app purchase options that are so easy to click on that it's hard to play the game without making purchases. Seriously, my 5-year-old was upset because he couldn't get the "game to go" and he was tapping the pop-up windows just trying to make them go away so he could make the trucks move.
And he spent more than $50 doing it without ever getting to play the game.
So, two minutes sitting right next to me, and boom, I'm out $50. This is anti-Apple, is it not? This isn't what Apple is all about, is it? It can't be.
The County Fair Example
I was trying to put this into perspective, to understand the situation, to figure out how in the world this can happen in 2012. Take, for example, a county fair where they have carnival games.
If you go to a county fair and play the games, the adults all know they are rigged. The milk bottles are weighted at the bottom so that only a very hard and very perfect throw can possibly knock them all down to let you win the prize. Kids don't know this, but they see the stuffed gorillas and they want to try. It's just a buck or two, so you let it go as a learning experience. But then you come to the balloons-and-the-darts game, and think, "OK, here's a reasonably fair game, right? The balloons are surely not lined with dart-proof vests."
If this carnival game were an Apple iOS game, the rules would be a bit different. Sure, you can throw darts at the balloons for free, but it turns out the wall would be made up of differently sized balloons -- a few little teeny balloons and a lot of very large balloons.
Your child gets a beat-up old dart, and it turns out he needs to hit the very small balloons to play for free. Of course, no one but a dart olympian could hit the small balloons, and inevitably the dart hits a big balloon. There's a big satisfying pop and the carnival game runner hands your kid another dart and asks if he's sure he wants to throw again.
The kid throws again and of course taps (I mean hits) another big balloon. At this point, the carnival game runner hands your kid a fancy bundle of silvery darts and quietly takes $29.99 out of your pocket.
Seriously. This is essentially what is going on -- and Apple is supporting it.
If this happened to any kid I know in real life, in-person, every single dad I know would leap across the little ledge and start kicking butt and taking names. After the local cops pulled the dad off the carnival game runner, they'd drag the game runner off to jail and find the crying kid some cotton candy. Some things are clearly right and wrong, and this is one of those things.
If you deceptively rob someone in real life, there are consequences that could easily occur. So it doesn't happen all that often. But if you do it online with the blessing of Apple or a major corporation, somehow this turns into a shrug-your-shoulders kind of problem where it's your fault because you weren't aware that after you sign in and download an app, you can buy anything at all via the App Store from an in-app purchase within 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you have to enter in your Apple ID password again.
I'm 100 percent positive that a 5-year-old kid could never guess my password or accidentally figure it out without first failing so many times that he'd holler in frustration. Because I personally seem to have to enter my password every other time I use my iPhone, this little feature never even crossed my mind. Much less that it would be so easy to buy an in-app purchase that a kid could do it sitting right next to me in just a couple minutes of trying to race a truck.
Embarrassed to Be an Apple Fan
Me, right now I'm embarrassed to be an Apple fan. Why? Because Apple is better than this, far far better than this. Why? Because no parent that I know -- or can even imagine -- thinks in-app purchases for games targeted at small children are a good idea.
If Apple thinks this is too difficult to manage, it's not. I think Apple could easily crowdsource the approval of games to parents. Every parent I know or imagine -- well, I would trust them to make the call on what's deceptive or not. And all the parents I know would trust me to do it for them, too. It's not hard. If a game is about baiting a child into an in-app purchase, it's deceptive. It's bad. It should be rejected at best, and the developer should be lucky that a real physical dad doesn't meet him in a dark alley.
Actually, I'm willing to participate with Apple. I'd be happy to start yanking apps left and right. In no uncertain terms I'll tell the developers why: "Because you're trying to bait a child into buying something."
This is not hard, Apple. This is not hard at all. Cramming tiny little components into a super-slim iPad mini, yeah, that's hard. But in-app purchases for games targeted at children? Come on. You can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on finely crafted television commercials and then waste all that effort by letting developers play underhanded games with your best customers?
OK, Then, How About Parental Controls?
There are some parental controls. Obviously, I went around the house and collected every iOS device I could find, new and old, and started navigating to Settings, General, to Restrictions, then scrolled down to find a way to turn off In-App Purchases. Wow. It's great that I have a setting, but really, that's what I thought the constant bugging of my password was for. Not, it turns out, if you're in a 15-minute window, though.
Let's think about this. As an adult, have I ever bought an app or downloaded a free app and then, because I was so enamored with the in-app sales option, bought an in-app purchase within 15 minutes? Not once. This isn't something adult parents think about happening because they never experience it. They don't make willy-nilly in-app purchases right after downloading and installing apps, so they never run into the 15-minute window where you can do it.
Kids, though, that's another thing altogether.
Parents, too, can see that the "shop" button is strategically placed right where a kid's thumb is going to hit it, on purpose or not. Parents can avoid it, but kids can't.
So, is it the parent's fault? Maybe. Either way, if I were Tim Cook, I'd be hopping mad. There's no way I'd let any developer irritate my best customers who are actively introducing my next generation of loyal consumer to the Apple world. Tactically, at least I'd make sure that doesn't happen. Of course, as a man and a parent, any developer trying to pull this kind of move would get tossed from my playground and feel the full weight of an Apple glare that could stun a small rodent and burn the eyebrows off a normal man.
I get the impression Steve Jobs used to be able to glare like that, and I thought Tim Cook had similar tools.
However, right now, in 2012, Tim Cook is still enabling this kind of thing. In fact, of the $50 charged to me -- had I not noticed and not thrown a fit -- Apple would have pocketed 30 percent, $15.
How does that make me feel about Apple?
I'm just amazed and disappointed that this is still possible and that it's an issue at all. It should be physically embarrassing to Tim Cook. If I were CEO of Apple, I'd be pissed as hell, and I'd draw a line in the sand. The rule is easy:
If you create a game targeted to children and you enable in-app purchases, it better be freaking difficult to make an in-app purchase. If it seems too easy, if your placement of buttons makes it easy to accidentally tap, or if you make your in-app purchase buttons all pretty with cupcakes and sprinkles on them, you'll be rejected. If you seem to prey on small children, you'll be rejected. If we think you're doing it on purpose, rejection. Who will be the arbitrators, the judges for us? Parents. Parents will approve or reject our games. Keep that in mind. And if you don't like it? Take your games elsewhere because you're not going to destroy the trust that we've built with our busy, loyal customers.
So like I've said before, the iPhone 5, it looks like it was honed from a single, solid brick of magic. Love it. It's an amazing feat of engineering. But letting developers create and peddle games targeted at small children with deceptive in-app purchases?
It's the exact opposite of the iPhone 5.
Please, Mr. Cook, will you tell me that you're outraged that this is still going on in your store? And please, Mr. Cook, will you just fix the damn problem?


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Louisiana Criminalizes Abortion
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Misplaced Priorities Endanger Women's Health and Safety
WASHINGTON, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) denounced the Louisiana legislature for criminalizing abortion today. Demonstrating the misplaced priorities of politicians in Louisiana, the legislature passed a law that endangers women's health by criminalizing abortion at a time when the state is still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and scrambling to prepare for the start of the new hurricane season.
"This law puts extremist ideology above the health and safety of women," said PPFA President Cecile Richards. "Medically accurate sex education and access to contraception are proven tools to prevent unintended pregnancy — abortion bans are not."
An amended version of SB 33, the abortion ban, passed the Senate unopposed. The ban, which provides only an exception if the woman's life is in danger, would go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Across the country, hardline politicians are attempting to put roadblocks between women and reproductive health care. Following South Dakota's abortion ban, 11 other states introduced legislation this session aimed at criminalizing abortion. To stem the tide of legislation attacking women and families across the country, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has launched the Stand with the StatesSM Campaign. A major goal of the campaign is to give families access to the health care and medically accurate sex education they need to prevent unintended pregnancy.
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Two nominees for the best picture Oscar, "Gravity" and "Nebraska," are on DVD and Blu-ray this week.
The Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday evening, and "Gravity" is considered a strong contender for the best picture Oscar. So it's fitting that that film and another best picture nominee, "Nebraska," arrived on home video this week. "Gravity" (Warner/Blu-ray, 2013, PG-13, $35.99; Blu-ray, DVD, digital versions; featurettes, short film: "Aningaaq"). It's a thin story, really: two astronauts in peril outside their aircraft find themselves floating away into the nothingness of space, where human resourcefulness can be stretched only so far. But with that simple premise, filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron guides his actors, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, through a white-knuckle journey, ratcheting up the intensity step by step to an almost unbearable degree. This is bravura filmmaking and it demonstrates wonderfully the powerful potential of cinema to thrill and enthrall. It's also an actor's showcase, and Bullock is quite remarkable as a medical engineer who seems to have taken on this mission reluctantly, then finds she must apply every ounce of the determination and resilience that has brought her this far. (Also on 3D/Blu-ray, $44.95, and DVD, $28.98) "Nebraska" (Paramount/Blu-ray, 2013, R for some language; b/w, two discs, $39.99; Blu-ray, DVD, digital versions; featurette). This low-key character comedy-drama about an elderly father and his middle-aged son, and their desire for elusive redemption, is vivid and nicely modulated by director Alexander Payne. The alcoholic father (Bruce Dern) thinks he's won a million-dollar sweepstakes so he heads out to collect. Along the way, his son drives him to his old stomping grounds. Dern has justly been receiving all the accolades but June Squibb as his wife and Will Forte as their son are also excellent. (Also on DVD, $29.98) "Come Back, Africa: The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume 2" (Milestone, 1959-89, b/w and color, two discs, $34.95, introduction by Martin Scorsese, four films, featurettes, trailer). The main film is "Come Back, Africa," a sort of docudrama tragedy that explores apartheid in South Africa, filmed primarily in Sophiatown, a (now razed) black ghetto-cum-arts/music center, with non-actors essentially playing themselves (including Miriam Makeba, dropping by for a song or two). But how Rogosin managed to surreptitiously film there is equally fascinating, as documented by his son. This double-disc set also includes other films on related subjects, including Rogosin's celebrated "Black Roots." (Also on Blu-ray, $39.95) "The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale" (Sony/Blu-ray, 2014, PG, $26.99, sing-along music videos; tiara, Shutterfly photo book). Animation director Richard Rich, who worked for Disney before going independent, has created a number of straight-to-video works, many of them with religious themes. But he is best known for the theatrical cartoon "The Swan Princess" (1994), which has led to several video sequels, this being the latest. An orphaned girl adopted by Princess Odette and Prince Derek is kidnapped by evil forces attempting to lure them into a trap. (Also on DVD, $19.99) "You Will Be My Son" (Cohen/Blu-ray, 2013, R for sex and language, $34.98, in French with English subtitles, deleted scenes, featurette, trailer). Interesting soap opera about a passionate but abusive winery mogul who belittles his own son and wishes for someone else to whom he can leave his legacy. He gets his wish when the son of his estate manager shows up, which pits two sons and two fathers against each other. (Also on DVD, $24.98) "Twice Born" (eOne, 2013; R for violence, sex, nudity, language, drugs; $24.98, featurettes). Penelope Cruz is the reason to see this uneven adaptation of the European best seller by Margaret Mazzantini. Cruz gives a touching performance as a widow returning to Sarajevo with her son, where the boy's father (Emile Hirsch in flashbacks) died some 18 years earlier. "Pulling Strings" (Lionsgate, 2013, PG-13, $19.98, in Spanish with English subtitles). Amusing, albeit by-the-numbers comedy has Mexican stars Jaime Camil and Omar Chaparro as mariachi musicians trying to persuade an American embassy worker (Laura Ramsey) to change her mind and stamp a U.S. visa for Camil's daughter to visit her grandparents. Highly implausible but earnest. "Fists of Legend" (CJ/Blu-ray, 2013, not rated, $29.98, in Korean with English subtitles or dubbed English, featurettes). Sharp riff on fight films and reality TV shows has three former high school friends and mixed martial artists reunited some 25 years later, along with various streetfighters, for a TV elimination program. Lots of well-choreographed fights but the story takes awhile to get going. (Also on DVD, $26.98) "Lost in Thailand" (Well Go/Blu-ray, 2013, not rated, $29.98, in Mandarin with English subtitles, featurette, trailer). Over-the-top, silly Chinese comedy that may have American audiences unable to get into its rhythm, about rival managers fighting over control of the company trying to track down their boss at a Thai retreat. (Also on DVD, $24.98) "Mortal Enemies" (Lionsgate, 2014, R for violence, $26.98, English and Indonesian with English subtitles). Verdy and Sunny become blood brothers while living in an orphanage, then Verdy is adopted by a wealthy family. Years later, Verdy is a successful business man on vacation with his fiancée when he is kidnapped by a gang - and discovers Sunny is one of the thugs. "The Guide" (Monarch, 2013, not rated, $24.95). Complicated thriller about a hunting guide on the brink of madness who takes a client into the wilderness where he must confront his demons. He's also distracted by his estranged daughter's unfortunate conflict with a local drug dealer. Offbeat plotting and solid performances help this one. "Ice Soldiers" (Sony/Blu-ray, 2013, R for violence and nudity, $30.99). Routine action picture stars Dominic Purcell (TV's "Prison Break") as a scientist searching for three genetically modified Russian super soldiers that have literally been on ice since the 1960s. Of course, when they are awakened, before you can say "Captain America," they start killing everyone in sight. Michael Ironside co-stars, along with Adam Beach, who might have been better in the lead. (Also on DVD, $26.99) "Narco Cultura" (Cinedigm/Blu-ray, 2013; R for violence, drugs, language, nudity; $34.95, in English and Spanish with English subtitles, deleted scenes). 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