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YANKEES: CC Sabathia leads way in win over Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- CC Sabathia came within one out of his second complete game in three starts, Alex Rodriguez hit a go-ahead two-run homer and Robinson Cano also went deep, leading the New York Yankees to a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night.
Rodriguez snapped a 1-all tie in the sixth with his 10th homer of the season and 623rd of his career, driving Ervin Santana's 1-1 pitch into the rock pile in left-center field after a leadoff walk to Curtis Granderson. The two RBIs increased A-Rod's total to 1,864, tying Mel Ott for ninth place on the all-time list. Next up is Willie Mays at 1,903.
Derek Jeter was 1 for 3 with a walk, tying Sam Rice for 28th on the career hit list.
Sabathia (7-3) allowed two runs on seven hits and one walk while striking out three. The 2007 AL Cy Young winner has won his last four starts, tying his longest career winning streak, and is 7-2 since April 23 after going 0-1 in his first four outings.
Angels rookie Peter Bourjos chased Sabathia with a two-out RBI single in the ninth and Mariano Rivera closed it out by retiring Erick Aybar on a first-pitch popup to shortstop for his 15th save in 18 chances. It was Rivera's 1,003rd career appearance, overtaking former Yankees Hall of Fame closer Goose Gossage for 14th place all-time.
Santana (3-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings, struck out three and walked three. The right-hander was moved up a day in the rotation after Dan Haren was scratched because of stiffness in his lower back.
Santana is 1-4 in his last seven starts against the Yankees after winning his first four.
Cano opened the scoring in the fourth with his 12th homer, driving a 3-2 pitch into the lower seats in the right-field corner. Torii Hunter, a nine-time Gold Glove winner, made a valiant attempt to catch the ball and went headfirst into the first row but emerged unscathed.
The Angels tied it in the bottom half with an unearned run after Jeter committed his fourth error of the season, just two fewer than he had all of last year.
The five-time Gold Glove shortstop booted a grounder toward the middle by Howie Kendrick following a leadoff double by switch-hitter Alberto Callaspo, who scored on Jeff Mathis' sacrifice fly. Callaspo's double was only the third extra-base hit by a left-handed hitter against Sabathia in his last 22 starts.
Notes: Saturday marked exactly three years since Jeter, the Yankees all-time hits leader, got his 2,146th career hit to pass Mickey Mantle for third place. ... Kendrick was reinstated from the DL after missing 14 games because of a right hamstring strain, and was 0 for 3 after getting hit by a pitch his first time up. OF Reggie Willits was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake. ... With Boston playing Vancouver in the Stanley Cup finals, Jeter's rooting interest should be with the Bruins. After all, his full name is Derek Sanderson Jeter. But his middle name has nothing to do with the former NHL player. Sanderson is his father's first name. In fact, Jeter doesn't even follow hockey -- but he did attend the 1999 NHL All-Star game in Tampa Bay, and recalled taking in one Rangers game during his rookie season. ... A ceremonial first pitch was thrown by Dean Chance, who was the Angels' first Cy Young winner in 1964. In five starts against the Yankees that season, he was 4-0 with a 0.18 ERA, four complete games and three shutouts. The Angels' only other Cy Young winner -- Bartolo Colon -- will face his former team in Sunday's series finale just five days after pitching his first shutout since July 5, 2006.


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Despite the Wii being available for almost four years now, it's still proving a tool worth buying to lure in unsuspecting kiddies. Not that we're recommending you do that, obviously.
Over in Taiwan a 46-year-old ex-monk (he's not an official monk anymore, but still dresses like one) used the Wii to attract young boys to his house, where he'd then rape them. Being dubbed the "Molester Monk" by Taiwanese media, he's claimed that the sex was consensual. Not according to the news report below! (Most likely made by the same production team as that Tiger Woods video). [Apple Daily via Sankaku Complex via Kotaku]

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Blumenthal calls for U.S. to increase humanitarian aid to Syria
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., back from a trip to the Middle East, says the United States should drastically increase humanitarian aid and send it directly to the Syrian Opposition Council to lessen the influence of jihadists and help our allies in Jordan and Turkey.
Last week Blumenthal visited a refugee camp in Jordan and met with the leadership of the Syrian opposition in Egypt, as well as other officials there and in Afghanistan and Israel.
In a press conference with four other Senate colleagues Tuesday in Washington, Blumenthal said the crisis in Syria is "accelerating and exploding" with 650,000 Syrians displaced and more than 60,000 killed in fighting between the rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces, an uprising that is now in its second year.
He said America "has a historic obligation and opportunity to match" the contributions that are now burdening Turkey and Jordan.
Blumenthal said Assad is using the Syrian Air Force "to slaughter and massacre his own people." The senior senator from Connecticut said he hoped the U.S. could do something to "disarm or deflect or diminish" that power, but he does not favor a no-fly zone or sending U.S. troops to the fight.
He said there may be other "feasible and cost effective" ways to help the Syrians, which should be reviewed by the U.S. military and executed as part of a coordinated effort with other countries.
Blumenthal, in an interview after the press conference, said there has been talk of allowing the Turks to use Patriot missiles to create a safety zone adjacent to their border with Syria. He said he is not endorsing any options, all of which should be part of a strategic review by the U.S.
The senator said the conditions for the 42,000 refugees in the Za'atri camp in Jordan were "very desolate and discouraging;" tents were flooded and sanitary facilities are rudimentary. He said the number of children vastly outnumbered the adults in the camp. Blumenthal said most had seen relatives killed, tortured or wounded by Assad's forces.
"Their future is indistinguishable from ours because they are the prey for extremists and jihadists who will eventually attack United States interests," Blumenthal said.
The kind of aid Blumenthal was talking about would include food, medical supplies, health care, clean water, blankets, and heaters for refugees in camps in Jordan and Turkey.
Also at the press conference were U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Christopher Coons, D-Del., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
McCain and Ayotte favor a no-fly zone and more direct military aid. Whitehouse said the Syrian opposition doesn't want help from the jihadists, but he said if they are the only ones providing tangible assistance they could acquire legitimacy. Coons said the Syrians were "deeply puzzled" by the lack of U.S. involvement, while McCain worried about "possible total state failure" and the security of chemical weapons.


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Wells Fargo has developed a free user-friendly program called Hands on Banking. This program includes informational materials, worksheets, calculators, self-assessments and interactive lessons to better manage your money. Modules beneficial to current homeowners include borrowing against your equity and protecting your home investment.
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The Hands on Banking Program provides the money skills and reference materials to help home owners manage their money to their best advantage. The program is free and is available on CD-ROM and at www.handsonbanking.org.


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Agree. But that's what he will get for money he has.
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While the corn crop is planted and emerged in most Illinois fields, damage from both standing water and dry soils are causing stress to the crop in places across the state, says University of Illinois Extension Agronomist Emerson Nafziger.
"Saturated soils cause both root damage and loss of nitrogen (N), meaning that plants are unable to take up enough N to keep healthy color," he says. "While pale leaves cannot photosynthesize as well as they should, pale color is mostly a symptom of the poorly functioning root system that results from low soil oxygen. In such cases, while supplemental N may provide some benefit, it will not do so until and unless soils dry enough to allow roots access to oxygen again."
Nafziger says several reports of "floppy" corn have also come in during the past two weeks from areas where soils had been dry for some time and plants were starting to grow rapidly.
"This is almost always a case where the nodal root system is trying, and failing, to grow out into the soil," he says. "This happens when surface soils are too dry to support root growth. In some cases a physical barrier, such as sidewall drying and hardening following no-till, also contributes."
Plants with this problem have outgrown the capacity of the seminal root system to support growth, and so they may fall over due both to lack of physical support and to lack of water, he says. They may also turn purple as sugars accumulate. These sugars accumulate because they aren't being used to support root growth or for top growth as water uptake declines. He says the only cure for this is to have the soil near the base of the stem get wet, thereby allowing roots to penetrate and grow.
"There are always concerns about how poor growing conditions or stress during early vegetative growth – V5-V8 or so – might result in permanent damage to yield potential," Nafziger says. "This concern arises from the knowledge that the ear starts to develop during this period, and the assumption that full potential can only be reached when conditions are ideal. While we would rather have the crop experience no stress during the entire season, there is little evidence to suggest that yields are often curtailed by what happens during vegetative growth."
He says it's difficult to do an experiment in "controlled stress" where researchers can actually test this. But observations, along with what experiments have been run, suggest that as long as the height and leaf area of the crop aren't compromised, crops that undergo some stress during early to mid-vegetative growth can yield very well.
"In part, the resistance of corn to stress during mid-vegetative growth or earlier to mild or moderate stress is related to counterbalancing, positive effects that accompany the stress," Nafziger says.
For example, dry June weather usually comes with a lot of sunshine, so daily photosynthetic rates may be high even though leaves curl some in late afternoon. High temperatures help speed crop development, even though they tend to favor top growth over root growth.
"Much of the stress tolerance of young corn plants stems from the fact that it's a crop of tropical origin," Nafziger says. "Corn is physiologically resilient and not easily damaged by the ups and downs of a typical growing season."
For more information on what the crops need now, read The Bulletin.


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Our Academic Sports Association (AZS) offers a lot excitement and challenge in the following disciplines: badminton, body-building, table tennis, volleyball, soccer or basketball.
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In the latest loader there is this line:
begin clkset #$FF 'switch to 80MHz (if pll, else 50MHz)
So... if I have a pll... does this stay the same?
together with these lines at the bottom:
waita long 25+12-6 '40+20-6
waitb long 25-6 '40-6
And... I just use the commented value.
SETQ/SETQ2 must immediately precede the instruction it's augmenting. Just like AUGx and ALTx.
Yes. I was thinking the same. Some other CPUs "extend" their single-opcode instruction space by introducing a prefix opcode followed by another opcode. Naturally they must stay together, and all assemblers I've seen will use a single mnemonic for that. So even though it's not exactly the same case I would say there's definitely precedence.
let's say that we have cog2 and cog3 doing nothing but waiting for a positive edge to occur on the same pin. When that occurs, the counter is recorded by each cog.
Whle the two cogs are in WAITEDG, we send a single positive transition to that pin. What will the difference be in the recorded counter values?
SETQ/SETQ2 must immediately precede the instruction it's augmenting. Just like AUGx and ALTx.
These must immediately precede the instruction it's augmenting opcodes scream for an Assembler support that takes all operands in one mnemonic.
That makes code clearer, more edit-safe and guarantees the must immediately precede condition is always met.
They work as they are now, so that ASM support can come later... (but not too much later )
Electrodude wrote: »Why {value}? That means block comment. How about [value] instead?
The raw AUGD/S, ALTDS, SETQ, and SETQ2 instructions should definitely still remain, even with them usually being implicit.


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AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think.
There was a period in my life where I became obsessed with Jim Morrison. I was about 18 at the time, and even though I wasn't a Doors fan, I gravitated toward Morrison because I was an impressionable moron. Mostly, his lyrics. In my ridiculously untapped mind, this guy was handed a megaphone from God. This is something only a dim-witted 18-year-old would think. Because after I started loading up chap-books of my own Morrison-esque rip-offs, I quickly began to realize that, wow, if I keep this up, I am destroying any possibility that I won't grow up to be an asshole.
But for a little while there, I felt a true sense of enlightenment. I grew my hair long. I wore homemade bracelets. I attended coffee house readings and was truly in awe of some of the pretentious cocks standing on stage "riffin'" about life and the pain of being a middle-class college student forced to take a part-time job. Some of them would do traditional rhyme scheme, using stilted merry-go-round metaphors and Tori Amos songs to convey the sense of empowered emptiness they've acquired since the break-up of a long-distance relationship. Other, more serious, kids would get up there, dressed in black, chronically sullen, and pull a napkin out of their back pockets and read their precious dashed-off musings about how life is like a ball of yarn or that the universe is one, big giant beating heart.
Thankfully, Stuart Scott ignored possible social disgrace and forged ahead anyway with his own scat-diddily nonsense during Wednesday night's mind-blowing "Poetry Jam" session. Can't knock him too hard, though — it's obvious he's blessed with more creative gifts than I realized. Hopefully, ESPN will not hold back anymore of their employees from showing off their artsy side during broadcasts. Perhaps John Buccigross can juggle flaming knives, or Neil Everett is an established concert bassoonist. Until ESPN gives them the same creative deference they did to Scott, we'll never know. For now, hopefully, we'll have more of Stu's electric verse. Stu rapping — no, preachin'— about life. Oh, and sports.
So this week, I'm gathering up all the Indians on dawn's highway bleeding, collecting all the ghosts that have crowded a young child's fragile, eggshell mind and placing odds on the next topics for Stu Scott's poetry jam.
Is everybody in? Is Everybody...IN?
(Best Stu Scott voice possibly required for column's full effect.)
"Holla, Torre": 3/1
Oh, old man with the gloomy eyes,
Your plump Italian nose, runny from the weeping,
Your pinstripes are fading, like the brave Navajo.
Cheer up, greasy man, you've got four rings.
And you will not be forgotten, by the Bronx's noisy roar
Suzyn Waldman, soul sister in arms, who charms,
her voice broken, shattered
Like her Jew hymen was so long ago.
Oh, old man with the gloomy eyes.
Should you find peace beyond The Game?
You will, dago brutha.
In your family, your friends, a warm cup of Mazacao tea,
Enjoy the newfound days,
before your bowels break,
like the levees in New Orleans,
And flood your shorts,
not with negroes,
but with the wilting turds of Yankee memories.
Spoken word...
"The Heroic Return of Allan Houston to the Knicks, Part VII": 2/1
Take heed, brother-man, they laughin' at-choo:
Your crumbling knees,
your steeze,
your dirty dungarees.
Look who's back, now?
The player, boy with 'tha shot, who's hot,
Like Trot, but not Nixon, he's Fix'n, for the
Aught. Oh. 7.
Have you ever been to Devin?
The castle, not the Hester,
Your three-ball's the molester,
of a baby, or a goat, or a
lady in a raincoat.
Be warned, in the East,
The A.H. 'bout to feast,
on yer scoreboard your overlord,
yer dirty ol' umbilical cord.
Chickens start Roostin',
Cuz it's the return of Houston.
Allan, you dig?
Spoken word...
"What up, Pats?": 2/1
Oh, little angry man, in the sweatshirt as gray
as mom-mom's groin hair,
Why don't you ever smile?
Your team is bound by nothing,
Just glory, unlike the sinewy slaves
who were shackled by chains and
whipped for stealing old meat from the farmhand's trash.
Yet, your wins don't come fast enough,
your patience, vanished,
Like the summer rainbows
or Catholic innocence
or Tedy Bruschi's vertebrae.
Dynasty Man!
You don't need sneaky Chinese cameras,
or a quarterback's arm,
or the other graceful panthers
on offense.
they're still just big-donged dummies
controlled by you.
This is your world, now.
Spoken word...
"Serena Williams, Girl, Let Me Swim in Your Skirt": 1/1
Lady, please, your serve so sweet, I'll love you if you
let me stroke your bulbous lumps of dark, dark ham.
Monkey woman, writhe with me,
and I'll clock your spot
with a with an 8-inch crotch rock
Yer pop's is calling,
but don't mind him, cuz
he's got no business
in our love souffle.
Shelf-set sista,
lemme pop that trunk
And spray your back
with my super silky
man meringue
Spoken word...


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More than two months after California regulators slapped a San Francisco car-service startup with a $20,000 fine, they appear to be changing their tune.
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer told Ars in November the California Public Utilities Commission's fine was misguided and he would appeal it. "We are not a charter-party carrier, we are a peer-to-peer carrier," he said. "I think it's clear to everyone that the current framework doesn't fit modern technology and possibilities."
The CPUC said today (PDF) it has entered into an agreement with Zimride, which operates the Lyft mobile app, so that it can continue to operate while the CPUC creates new rules about such services. The agreement suspends the cease-and-desist notice sent to Zimride, as well as the $20,000 fine.
Regulators said today they intend the new rules to include stringent safety requirements "that include continued proof of insurance, Department of Motor Vehicles checks, and national criminal background checks."
Update: Rival car service Uber has a blog post hailing the California decision.


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I apologize greatly if this is already common knowledge, but I recently found out that Nissan is giving a $10,000 rebate off the purchase of 2017 Nissan Leafs if you are a Georgia Power customer.
It is apparently as simple as bringing in the flyer in the link below along with a copy of your Georgia Power bill.
https://www.georgiapower.com/about-ener ... tGuide.pdf


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To help you make real connections with those closest to you during the Christmas period, and other times of course, Higby blocks your headphones so you can tune into real life. His heart covers your camera's eye, so you can see through your own two eyes. And Higby's arms hug your phone and your friend's phone together so there aren't any screen distractions when you're spending time together.
Higby is an experiment in using design and technology to make delightful, useful, and valuable new things possible for people.


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There was plenty of warning about the arrival of Hurricane Sandy before it hit Delaware County and the surrounding region Monday afternoon and Monday night.
But just because you know it's coming, doesn't lessen the impact a storm can have. Many county residents experienced that firsthand by either dealing with downed trees that damaged their property or the widespread power outages.
Bill Kobasa had to deal with both.
It was just before 10 p.m. Monday when Kobasa was preparing to call it a night in his Springfield home on Briarhill Road when he heard a loud crash.
It turned out the pine tree of neighbors Mark and Stacey Rosser fell on the back room of Kobasa's house. There were no injuries, but the tree snapped the power line that leads to his house, making his the only house on the block without power.
"I heard something happen and everybody came out," Kobasa said. "I was getting ready for bed and it made a lot of noise."
However, the pine tree which looked to be about 50 feet tall and was uprooted from the rain-softened ground by powerful winds wasn't the tree that either Kobasa or the Rossers had been concerned about.
"I'm more worried about this big poplar tree," Kobasa said, pointing to what looked to be a 75-foot tall tree in the back part of his yard.
The Rossers were concerned about a white birch tree in their backyard and were getting ready to sleep in their basement in case that tree was blown down.
"We weren't concerned about that one at all," Stacey Rosser said of the fallen pine. "This tree here though just really bends in the wind and that's why we were sleeping downstairs."
And was it just before bedtime for the Rossers and their two boys when they heard something outside.
"We felt a little rumble and that was it," she said. "We must have felt it come up out of the ground."
Stacey Rosser said they also had recently had their trees checked and the tall pine wasn't even considered to be removed.
"They said it has looked healthy and had lots of new growth," Stacey Rosser said. "I used to live across the street and Mark and my brother used to play in that tree when they were little."
Kobasa though seemed to take the incident in stride, being concerned about the Rossers' dog getting out and running out of the fence the tree smashed and being glad no one was injured, even though he's the one without power.
"That's why God made sweatshirts," he said.
Upper Darby firemen Vince Gasbarro was doing his share of sweating while on duty Monday night helping remove trees, downed wires and do other duties associated with the Hurricane Sandy.
But then he got a call and text-photo from his son, showing how a black oak tree, which looked to be about 100 feet tall, had snapped off about 10 feet high and smashed his wife's Saturn Vue at the residence on the corner of Providence Road.
"It's the kind of tree that is top heavy, especially when it gets hit by the wind like that," Gasbarro said. "I grew up in this neighborhood and have lived around here for 50 years. I've seen a lot of trees across the street (a wooded area owned by the Marines) fall, but this time none fell over there."
Haverford is an older community with a lot of large trees and when storms come, trees tend to fall there. But unlike late last August when Hurricane Irene hit and caused widespread power outages and widespread angst among residents, it's been different this year.
Not so much because the damage is less, but because the communication is better. Haverford Township Commissioner Dan Segal said he sent out five updates to let residents know the progress.
"We did not have good communication with PECO last year and we have worked very hard over that issue," Segal said. "It's not been great but they've done enough to let us know they are here. People are happy to have communication."
According to Segal, the power outages in Haverford went from more than 7,000 Tuesday morning and were down to just fewer than 4,300 by mid-afternoon.
"I'm really pleased with how we've coped," Segal said. "The winds have been brutal. The storm was pretty strong, but considering everything, we are in better shape than I would have ever imagined.
"There's going to be houses affected and overall it's not perfect. But the township was prepared."
Segal said the only road closed in the township Tuesday afternoon was Darby Road between Marple Road and College Avenue due to downed trees and wires.
"I've driven around and the roads are generally in better shape than I would have expected," Segal said. "Considering how difficult how hurricane Irene was, I think the township is faring much better now and as well as I could expect."
Another issue that occurred Tuesday was the rising of the Delaware River in Essington, which was threatening the Corinthian Yacht Club.


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Green Team Gardening Tuesdays
January 28 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Tuesday, repeating indefinitely
A club for people who like to get outside! Dig and dabble, potter and plant, grow your own and drink lots of tea in leafy Rotherhithe green spaces.
All ages and abilities. No experience necessary!
Every Tuesday 10am-1pm and Every Friday 1pm-4pm


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Our roundup of new security products on hand at this week's show.
The RSA Conference 2014 is drawing IT security vendors and their enterprise customers from around the world to San Francisco's Moscone Center, where there will be hundreds of sessions on security topics plus a large exhibit floor filled with the latest security products on display
Product Name: Authentify xFA
Key features: Turns mobile devices into personal authenticators by replacing passwords with a scan-and-speak interface which fronts digital certificate and biometric authentication. The Enterprise can control the number of Authentication factors required. More info.
Product name – Centrify Server Suite 2014
Key features – A cross-platform solution that protects mission-critical servers from identity-related insider risks and outside threats by centrally managing authentication, access controls, privileges, auditing, and regulatory compliance reporting.
Product name – IDS-6300v intelligent security virtual appliance
Key features – is industry's first Core IDS virtual appliance that combines behavioral analysis and advanced continuous database monitoring that alerts of attacks and database network behavioral anomalies in real-time.
Product name: The FileTrek Platform with Advanced Behavioral Analytics for Threat Detection
Key features: leverages a patent-pending behavioral analytics engine and detection algorithms to proactively surface attacks, alert managers and deliver immediate risk forensics. Available as a cloud or on-premise solution.
Product name: Sensitive Data Manager 7.5
Key features: helps enterprises focus security resources effectively and protect at-risk data. Discover, classify, remediate, monitor, and report on sensitive data to meet compliance goals, protect reputation, and facilitate business continuity.
Product Name: Marble Messenger
Key features: An enterprise secure messaging platform that authenticates senders and recipients of text messages, encrypts messages, and deletes them at pre-set times. Enables compliance with corporate, HIPAA, HITECH and Omnibus guidelines.
Product name – Safe-T Box
Key features– is a data exchange platform which includes a built-in ability to secure the data in dozens of leading business applications, data repositories and cloud services.
Product name: ThreatSecure
Key features: is an advanced malware protection platform that provides real-time detection and customized, automated remediation signatures. ThreatSecure enables the elimination of APTs, targeted attacks, and Zero-day threats.
Product name: VSS Monitoring System Software
Key features: provides a new capability enabling organizations to seamlessly plug-and-play multiple security and monitoring solutions in a Chaining-in-Series fashion.
Service Name: Zscaler SHIFT
Key features: advances Internet security with intelligent routing that automatically applies adaptive security and policy to dynamic Internet threats, enabling global protection and visibility in minutes through a cloud based service.
Product name: Unified Security Management (USM) 4.5
Key features: The AlienVault USM platform provides a way for organizations with limited security staff and budget to address compliance and threat management needs. USM provides unparalleled security visibility.
Product Name: CloudLink Encryption Platform
Key features: protects data in multi-tenant, hybrid cloud environments protecting four layers of the cloud stack- SecureVSA, SecureVM, SecureFILE and SecureAPP.
Product Name: CounterACT RemoteControl
Key features: Helps enterprises ensure remote employee and corporate-owned devices remain endpoint compliant when not attached to the corporate network, a highly sought after enterprise capability.
Product name: CloudLock Selective Encryption
Key features: is the world's first purely cloud-based, content-aware, intelligent AES 256-bit solution, allowing enterprises to protect sensitive data stored across multiple SaaS/public cloud platforms (Salesforce, Google Apps.)
Product name: CipherPost Pro App
Key features: lets businesses extend AppRiver's powerful cloud-based encryption service to Windows Phone 8. The app seamlessly integrates with the company's current Microsoft offerings, including hosted Exchange and Office 365, adding an important layer of security.
Product name –ThreadFix Enterprise (version 2.0) and ThreadFix Community (version 2.0)
Pricing – ThreadFix Enterprise 2.0 Licensing starts at $14,995/year, can manage up to 50 applications. ThreadFix Community 2.0 can be downloaded for free.
Key features – ThreadFix 2.0 is a vulnerability management system that includes Hybrid Analysis Mapping, Attack Surface Enumeration, IDE Integration, and Scan Orchestration (Scheduling.) These features enable developers to fix application vulnerabilities faster.
Product name: TILE-IQ NFV Offload
Key features: Accelerate and offload networking functions with Tilera's TILEncore-Gx Intelligent Application Adapters. 10Gbps - 40Gbps of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with zero impact to system throughput or loading on x86 servers.
Product name - DetectTA 2.0
Key features - includes a comprehensive case management system and interactive dashboard, enabling organizations to centralize fraud investigation processes within DetectTA, thereby improving fraud detection rates.
Product name: Tripwire SecureScan
Pricing: Free for up to 100 IP addresses on internal networks; Pricing starts at $29.26 per IP at the 101 IP level. ($2,955.26 a year for 101 IPs)
Key features: Cloud-based vulnerability management service, making a recognized security best practice among large corporations easily accessible to small and midsized businesses that may not have the resources for enterprise-grade security technology.
Product Name: Sumo Logic Enterprise Security Analytics
Key features: New security capabilities that rapidly uncover cyber-attacks, identify breaches and reduce compliance costs by identifying patterns and anomalies in log and other machine data using machine learning.
Product name: CA Layer 7 API Portal
Key features: Simplifies creation of a branded online interface for developers to easily access the design time resources needed to quickly discover and understand an API, create an application and track usage.
Product name: CA Mobile Application Management (CA MAM)
Key features: Secure, manage and control enterprise mobile apps with role-based, context-aware access control policies. Confidently deploy enterprise apps and data to corporate and personal devices using Smart Containerization powered by app wrapping.
Product name: CA Layer 7 Mobile Access Gateway
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STRANGE INVENTIONS used by Crooked Gamblers (Nov, 1933)
STRANGE INVENTIONS used by Crooked Gamblers
By Thomas M. Johnson
IT WAS after midnight at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Dark and silent, a large residence on a side street stood apparently deserted. Its shutters were closed, its blinds drawn. But, inside, were brilliant lights and the tense atmosphere of the gambling hall. Men and women leaned over green-topped tables and a tide of chips and currency ebbed and flowed according to the caprice of various games of chance.
At the far end of the room, a big man shoved his pile of colored chips to the center of the table.
"I'll bet the works, five grand more," he challenged. "Who'll cover my bet?"
There was an angry murmur of dissent.
"There you go!" growled another player. "Can'tcha remember there's a limit in this house?"
The big man pushed back his chair sharply.
"I'm sick of this piking place and its limit. I want action. I'll find some place where the sky's the limit!"
He strode angrily to the door, slammed it behind him. Another man followed him out.
"Say, friend," he said, "I'm as sick of this piker joint as you are Come on with me. I know a place where we can get real action."
Fifteen minutes later, they were playing in a hotel room, no limit and for cash, with two cordial, well-dressed strangers. Dawn found the big man several thousand dollars ahead. Sure, he said, he would play again tomorrow evening.
The next night, his luck started well, but changed. Sometimes he won, sometimes he lost. Whenever there was a big pot, he seemed to lose. Finally, he got an exceptionally good hand. Masking his eagerness to make a killing, he worked the bets up to $15,000, putting everything he had into the pot. Then he threw down his hand. Four kings! The player opposite spread his cards on the table. Four aces! The big man's mouth sagged open.
Suddenly a rending crash shattered the door. In the opening stood bulky figures, pistols drawn in a threatening manner.
"Put 'em up, you three," they commanded: "We're from New York Headquarters." Then to the big man: "Not you, buddy. You're just a sucker. Look up there and you'll understand."
High on the wall behind his seat, the big man beheld a tiny opening, just large enough for a peep hole. Leaning against the same wall on a side table, he had noticed an innocent-looking package. Now through its brown wrapping paper, he saw glowing in electric lights a horizontal row of four K's.
Another door burst open and a detective dragged in a stranger.
"Here's the guy that stood on the table in the next room, spotted your hand through the peep hole, and flashed the dope to his pals by that electric annunciator hidden in the fake package," the detective announced. He tore off the wrapper. "See how it's fixed? Four rows of lights, each representing a suit and each row having thirteen numbers and letters, one for each card, arranged like this: A23456789 10 J Q K. To signal his pals you had four kings, all he had to do was to flash the K for all four suits. If they couldn't have beaten that, they would have dropped out. But they could. So they let you bet your shirt. They always knew what you had. You couldn't win—unless they let you and that wouldn't be often."
Which climax, Lieut. Grover Brown, who engineered the arrest, caps with this statement:
"They worked that game not just at Saratoga, but at twenty-two different race track and resort towns. They had peep holes hidden in the walls of hotels in each place and they would make reservations for the doctored suites far in advance. The wired-up annunciator worked as well for bridge as for poker. Skipping around the country, they cleaned up a fortune—trimming suckers by electricity."
I learned recently from my friends among the police, signals flashed from packages by electricity is but one of many ways in which science is now used by crooked gamblers. With electromagnets controlling the roll of dice, with specially-compounded invisible ink marking the backs of cards, as well as with new adaptations of daub boxes and chink ink; tap dice and split coins, table bugs and glims, they are fleecing the unwary.
A sidelight upon the extent to which such gaming is carried on is the fact that one concern, devoted to the manufacture of crooked gambling equipment, has branch offices in Chicago, Ill., Detroit, Mich., Kansas City, Mo., and San Francisco, Calif., as well as headquarters in New York City. It employs expert chemists and machinists in a special research laboratory to develop new aids for the dishonest gambler. Purchasers order by code, "cube," for instance, standing for dice and "paint" for cards.
Another concern in the same business distributes its catalog through the mails under the guise of a book exposing the evils of gambling. Each crooked device described and illustrated is given a number. Accompanying the book, is a separate sheet. It lists the numbers with a price after each. Orders are sent in by telegraph, thus avoiding conflict with the postal laws.
Even so simple a gambling proposition as spinning or flipping a coin is made crooked by relatively common alterations now being made in underworld workshops. There are on the market coins with beveled edges sure to stop spinning and fall with the high side uppermost. Again, dollars are sometimes sawed in half and the two heads and the two tails sweated together in such a way that the line of joining is practically invisible. They are substituted for genuine coins by the cheaters during play. Whichever side comes up, the result is the same.
Not long ago, in a western city, police raided a gambling joint and confiscated, among other thmgs, a crap stick that had won thousands of dollars for the house. Such sticks, made of rattan and curved at the end, are used to rake the dice back after they have been thrown upon the table. When an officer accidentally twisted the handle of this stick, the secret of the players' ill luck at this table became apparent and very simple to explain to the victims.
Inside was a secret compartment just large enough to hold two pair of dice, one pair normal, the other loaded to roll as the operator of the game wished. By a slight pressure of the hand, he could push the dice he held in his fingers into the compartment and receive the other dice in his palm without making a movement that would betray him. By this ruse, whenever the time was ripe, he supplied the patrons of the game with dice by which it was impossible to throw a winning point.
Tap dice accomplish much the same result. They contain a small weight which can be made to shift to and from the center. Tap them on the table one way and they are loaded; tap them another way and they are honest. In this manner, the crook loads the dice for himself and unloads them for his opponent.
Another dodge of the dice manipulator, I learned, is to hollow out one side of the cube just enough to make it slightly concave. The suction thus produced is sufficient to throw the odds to the one who bets the dice will land with this side down. Again, special dice, known as horses or tops and bottoms, are made with the spots on two or more sides identical. As only three sides of the cube can be seen at a time, when it is on the table, the trick is not noticed and the odds are all with the cheater who substitutes horses for his throws.
Recently, underworld chemists have produced a new aid for the gyp dicer. It is a transparent, quick-drying dice fluid. With it, one side of the cube can be coated to increase its weight. This coating cannot be seen and it is so hard a fingernail will not dent it.
Of all these ruses for cheating at dice, the most elaborate is the electromagnetic table. Underneath it, are hidden small electromagnets that can be turned on or off by a knee or foot lever. When they are on, they attract bits of metal in the dice, causing them to stop as the player desires. He switches the magnets on and off according to whether he or his opponent is rolling.
Because non-metallic weights are put opposite the metal bits, the cubes are in perfect balance and will pass the common tests for loaded dice, spinning on one corner without wabbling and dropping into a long pitcher of water without having the same number come up repeatedly. However, a small pocket magnet will stick to the side containing the metal and will thus expose the electric dice.
A few years ago, the captain of a transatlantic liner became suspicious that marked cards were being used by certain players who were cleaning up in the smoking rooms. He put a detective on watch. As a result, one of the most carefully-planned gambling plots on record was exposed and the crooks arrested.
Frequently during play, the men would call for a fresh pack of cards. These were always supplied by the steward from those manufactured especially for the steamship line. There was no possibility of the cards having been marked on shipboard or after they were delivered to the players. Yet the men obviously were reading the hands of their opponents.
Sure of this, the captain had them locked in their rooms and questioned. Eventually, the secret of their winnings came out. It seems that the players were members of a ring operating exclusively on the liners of this one company. Posing as a manufacturer, the head of the ring had offered to supply the line with cards at one-half the price being paid. The purchasing agent had accepted without suspicion and the cards, which had secret marks placed in the designs on the back, were sold on all the liners. Only the ring members knew the marks and, by buying fresh packs direct , from the steward, they had completely disarmed the suspicions of their opponents who were being fleeced.
Almost every playing card on the market has an elaborate design stamped on the back. Altering such designs to mark cards has become a regular art. Special inks which do not upset the gloss of the card are now available. They are supplied in the exact shade and chemical composition to match the ink originally used in printing the cards. In other cases, after lines have been shaded or spaces altered, the cards are repolished with a fine grade of chamois skin and vaseline, ending with a final rubdown with powdered boric acid.
One company employs a dozen pen and ink experts to alter cards to order, to produce "readers" for its clientele. Another concern prints a complete line of imitations of popular brands of cards, with minute give-away variations in the designs on the backs. One such deck, on the market for the use of tricksters, is advertised as having a total of 12,000 combinations of secret markings in its design, which the initiated easily read.
Often professional card sharks work out private keys and secret codes for marking cards which would require hours for a suspicious opponent to decipher. Typical of the pains to which the crooked gambler goes in his efforts to defraud is a case reported from Chicago.
Here a sharper spent weeks in producing a "natural" deck of readers. Buying nearly 100 decks of a well-known brand of cards, having a diamond criss-cross design on the back, he sorted them over day after day, noting tiny variations along the top edge produced by the cutting knife at the factory varying up or down a fraction of an inch when it sliced across the design. In the end, he found enough differences to make a deck in which he could recognize any card. Throwing the rest away, he packed these pasteboards in a glas-sine wrapper and box and had a deck which could be examined under a microscope without rinding it altered in any way.
By cutting tiny strips off the tops of certain cards in the deck, the crooked player sometimes alters the upper-edge design of these cards so he can recognize them. Again, he may trim the corners so he can feel them in dealing. A variation of this trick is the production of humps and strippers. Humps are cards trimmed so they bulge slightly at the top and bottom; strippers so they bulge at the sides. Although these alterations are so small they cannot be seen, the practiced fingers of the sharper can feel the cards he wants and can cut or manipulate the deck so he will get the high-value cards.
"Slick ace decks" help the card cheater in much the same way. They are manufactured with the ace, or any other desired card, polished until it has less friction than the other cards, thus causing the deck to cut most easily at the place where the wanted card is located.
The oldest method of marking cards during play is "crimping the deck." By bending the corners of cards slightly up or down, denting the backs with his fingernail, or bending the pasteboards in the middle, the crook marks important cards as the play proceeds. Sometimes a special ring or thumb-prick is worn having a small raised point which can be pressed into the backs of cards, the position of the mark distinguishing them.
SOME years ago, a notorious master cheat in the east produced a "magic eye shade" which enabled him to trim suckers for several months before its secret was discovered. The shade was made in a special color while the backs of the cards were marked in invisible ink which could be seen only when looked at through a transparent substance tinted the hue of the eye shade. The other players looked at the cards and saw nothing. He looked at them and saw in glowing letters and numbers the marks that identified them all. Today, such shades, as well as tinted glasses, for the same purpose are on the market.
"Chink ink" and "Golden Glow Daub" are also available for marking cards by cheaters. The former is a special preparation that is placed under the fingernail and so transferred to the upper edge of a card, the position indicating its value. The daub comes in a tiny pot which can be sewed into the hem of a vest with a small slit opening outward. By rubbing his fingers over this slit, the crooked card player smears them with the fluid which leaves a delicate smoky smudge on a card and enables him to mark the deck while playing. Special pencils with colored lead that rubs off on the fingers, are sometimes employed.
In an eastern city, a few months ago, an ingenious vest button enabled a card shark to clean up several thousand dollars at stud poker before he was caught. The six buttons running down the front of his vest appeared to be all the same. But the one just below the level of the table was equipped with a sliding top and a tiny mirror inside. In dealing the cards, he held them at an angle which threw their reflections into the mirror and enabled him to know what his opponents held and to bet accordingly.
THIS artifice is a new variation of the old "shiner" or "glim" trick, in which little mirrors are secreted in rings, in match boxes, in piles of bills, or in the chewed end of a cigar, to show the crooked card dealer what his opponent gets. Highly-polished signet rings are sometimes employed as shiners without attracting attention. Recently, convex mirrors, which show the whole face of the card and which do not throw reflected light that would give away the fraud, are being adopted.
As this is written, police in a western city have reported the discovery of the latest in such devices, a "holdout glim." It is a convex mirror attached to a lazy-tongs arm which shoots out from under the player's vest when he pulls a wire by spreading his legs apart. The mirror is projected only when it is needed and is safely hidden out of sight during the rest of the game.
Such holdout mechanisms, strapped to the wrists with elastic bandages or hidden in the linings of coats and vests, are frequently used to switch cards or to supply kings and aces when they are needed by the crook gambler. The users are known as "machine men." The fact that they sometimes have to make unnatural or machine-like movements in operating their holdouts, usually gives them away sooner or later.
In one instance I heard of, a holdout worked too well. It was designed to operate without any tell-tale movement of the hands or legs, a wire about the chest projecting the lazy-tongs arm when the gambler took an especially deep breath. It worked without a slip for more than a week. Then, in the middle of a game the wearer had to sneeze. The sudden intake of breath operated the device and out popped an ace in full view of the other players!
Called "the coat spider," a small spring blade, with sharp prongs attached, is designed to hook on the underside of a coat sleeve, holding from one to six cards tightly against the cloth.
MANY of the latest holdouts are installed by experts at the factories where they are made, the gamblers sending in their coats or vests for the purpose. One device is advertised as being attached inside the lining in such a way that the coat can be taken off, turned wrong-side-out and shaken without danger of detection. Other silent smooth-working mechanisms of the kind are so perfectly constructed that they can be used even when the sharper takes off his coat and plays in his shirtsleeves.
The devices I have described are by no means all of those used in the realm of crooked gambling. New ones appear constantly. Nor are they the sporadic products of a few individual crooks. They are factory-made and widely distributed.
Anyone who gambles today, not only bucks the laws of chance but is likely as well to meet the chicanery of science-using crooks.


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Ulysses: 12 extra months of valuable science
In 2008, Ulysses was expected to cease functioning due to weakening power. But solid engineering know-how and on-the-fly innovation have eked out an additional year of important science returns, which came to an end today.
Ulysses, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter mission, finally ended today when ground controllers sent commands to shut down the satellite's communications. The event marks the conclusion of one of the longest and most successful space missions ever conducted.
Watch replay of Ulysses end-of-mission webcast here
The mission had been predicted to end in July 2008, when the satellite's weakened power supply was expected to fall below the minimum required to keep fuel lines from freezing, without which Ulysses would be uncontrollable. At that time, the ESA/NASA operations team planned to continue operating the spacecraft in a reduced capacity for a few more weeks.
However, through smart engineering and realtime innovation, controllers determined they could keep the lines from freezing by briefly firing the thrusters every few hours. In fact, Ulysses has continued gathering valuable scientific data throughout most of the past year - until today, after a decision was taken to end the mission due to continuing weak power and the unavailability of ground station time.
No further contact planned
Today's final communication pass via NASA's 70-m Deep Space Network started at 17:35 CEST and the satellite's radio communications switched into receive-only mode at 22:10 CEST. Last telemetry was received as expected at 22:15 CEST. No further contact with Ulysses is planned.
The joint ESA/NASA mission operations team under Nigel Angold, ESA Mission Operations Manager, monitored the final activity from the Ulysses Mission Support Area (MSA) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California, USA.
Launched by Space Shuttle Discovery on 6 October 1990, the 18-year, 8-month mission has returned a wealth of scientific data on the space environment above and below the poles of the Sun. The spacecraft and its suite of nine instruments had to be highly sensitive yet robust enough to withstand some of the most extreme conditions in the Solar System, including a close fly-by of the giant planet Jupiter.
Final ground station communication
During today's final activities, ESA and NASA mission controllers radioed up a series of instructions that progressively switched off systems on Ulysses, including:
- Switch off instrument high voltages
- Deschedule the 'Loss of Command' programme
- Perform a last Earth-pointing manoeuvre
- Switch on the redundant receiver
- Switch off the tape recorder
- Switch to the 64-bit-per-second communication rate
- Configure the S-band radio communications
- Switch off the transmitter
At the time of sending the last commands, Ulysses was located approximately 5.4 astronomical units from Earth and the one-way radio signal time was approximately 45 minutes.
An amazing adventure
"This has been an amazing adventure. Although we have said a sad farewell, Ulysses will remain a unique landmark in the exploration of space, something we can all be incredibly proud of," said Richard Marsden, ESA's Ulysses Project Scientist and Mission Manager.
During its life, Ulysses made nearly three complete orbits of the Sun. The probe revealed for the first time the three-dimensional character of galactic cosmic radiation, energetic particles produced in solar storms and the solar wind.
Not only has Ulysses allowed scientists to map constituents of the heliosphere in space, its longevity enabled the Sun to be observed over a longer period of time than ever before.
"The Sun's activity varies with an 11-year cycle, and now we have measurements covering almost two complete cycles," said Marsden. "This long observation has led to one of the mission's key discoveries, namely that the solar wind has grown progressively weaker during the mission and is currently at its weakest since the start of the Space Age."
First commands sent in 1990
Nigel Angold, ESA's Ulysses Mission Operations Manager, said that a lot has changed since the first commands were sent to Ulysses as it orbited the Earth inside Discovery's payload bay back in October 1990.
"But what's remarkable is that many of the people involved then are here today to send the last commands," he added. "A half-dozen of the team have worked on Ulysses for its entire life - this mission has been sufficiently challenging and inspiring for talented people to dedicate significant portions of their careers to it. Also, a number of those who have moved on to other jobs at JPL are joining us to celebrate the end of this unique mission."
Longest-running ESA-operated spacecraft
Earlier in June, the Ulysses Mission Team received a NASA Group Achievement Award. Another milestone was reached on 10 June when Ulysses, having operated for 18 years and 246 days, became the longest-running ESA-operated spacecraft, overtaking the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE).
Following today's shutdown, Ulysses flight data will be archived and available to future ESA and NASA mission teams for reference; the mission's scientific data are already being stored in the Ulysses science data archives at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre, and at NASA's National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
Notes for editors:
During its life, Ulysses was operated by a joint ESA/NASA team at NASA/JPL. ESA managed the mission operations and provided the spacecraft, built by Dornier Systems, Germany (now Astrium). NASA provided the Space Shuttle Discovery for launch and the inertial upper stage and payload-assist module to put Ulysses in its correct orbit. NASA also provided the radioisotope thermoelectric generator which powers the spacecraft and payload, and the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) was responsible for communicating with the satellite. Teams from universities and research institutes in Europe and the United States provided the nine science instruments.


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Can't a person just walk around the city dressed as Ultraseven without being questioned by the cops? Is that too much to ask? Guess so!
Since mid-2013, a person dressed as late-1960s superhero Ultraseven has been spotted around Tokyo. The Ultraseven has been seen numerous times at train stations, carrying a briefcase, as if commuting. Sometimes, the superhero is shopping.
In the past few years, the Japanese police have been known to stop folks in costume who wander the streets. I assume the police think they're "suspicious," especially if the cosplayer is completely encased in the outfit and carrying around a black bag.
Note the photos below are not from the same day, dating from last summer to last night during which the iconic superhero was questioned by the Tokyo police.
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Kidding! The above photo is from the Ultraseven series. The cosplayer seems to have only been questioned by the police.
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Hang in there, Ultraseven!
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But that's not all that had happened during my time back in KL from 21st June to 22nd June. The very next day, V (yes, V) and Prasad took me and SL out to have some 'celebrations' of sorts as well. V and Prasad had been asking for a lunchie or dinner for ages every time I got back to KL. This time around I could not disappoint them again 'cause I think it's the 4th time they are asking me out (a curse from my popularity? Hahaha, joking joking).
Anyway, we whisked away in Prasad's Vios and he took us for something that was SO unforgettably yummy and 'shiok'. It was bowls after bowls of 'chili pan-mee'. Yes, some of you might have already heard it or tasted it, but I haven't. The 'pan-mee' is kinda ordinary and is served dry with an egg on the side (served with the mee, so you gotta mash it all up abit). But the magic ingredient was the delicious concoction of dry chili paste (chili flakes, chili padi, chili whatever that you can think of) and you will have to scoop this onto your 'pan mee' and do your best twister impression to mix it all up. The amount of chilies is entirely up to you, but the more of it is deliciously much better. But be warned, the crowd can get huge at times and so the wait is kinda long. Also, be sure to wear something comfy and cool, 'cause the combination of huge crowds and bowls after bowls of 'chili pan mee' can get you all sweat up pretty darn good. This beats the gym any day in my opinion hahaha. Not sure exactly how much for one bowl as Prasad belanja all of us (and also for my treat as the birthday boy haha) but I think I saw a sign that said 'RM4.50 per bowl' somewhere. But it's around that price la I guess. In the meantime, feast your eyes on the photos before you eventually go there to try it all out:
The noodles before the storm. Looks plain now but....
....after you add these magical chili paste into the mix....
...you get this flaming bowl of spiced-up pan mee that will guarantee to make you sweat for more.
Wanna know where it is? Here's the address:
Restoran Kin Kin,
Jalan Dewan Sultan Sulaiman,
Kuala Lumpur.
Plain and simple address. But kinda confusing to find hehe....Good luck!!!
Anyway, after the flaming bowls of 'chili pan mee' (I had 2 bowls. And that was 10am in the morning) we headed off to a drink to cool off. This time we went for something slightly higher class instead, and headed off to Damansara Uptown's 'Starbucks' to try out their new (and seasonal, which means the drink will be no more after the season is over!!) 'Dark Mocha Frap'. Obviously if you love all things chocolate and chips, you are gonna love this. Cooling and not too overly-thick with chocolate, I think it's a nice addition to the family of frap drinks at Starbucks. No photos taken unfortunately, but I'm sure you all know how it looks like. Standard cup and green straw lah of course ;)
And with that drink, we headed back to my home and I went straight to the airport. Arrived back in Labuan at the same evening, I thoroughly had a wonderful time and it was another memorable weekend back in KL....


text: TAMPA — Marty St. Louis, the other day, tried to make the case that his pursuit of the NHL points title "is not worth talking about until it's actually there."The truth is, with one game left in a second straight nonplayoff season for the Lightning, it is the only thing to talk about.Even coach Jon Cooper said, "The one thing we have going is to hold on to that."By the end of tonight's season finale with the Panthers at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, we will know if St. Louis has earned the Art Ross Trophy.It would be his second, having also won in 2004. This time, though, the right wing, at 37, would be the oldest to win it.It could be close.St. Louis' 58 points, on 16 goals and 42 assists, are two ahead of teammate Steven Stamkos and Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby. He is three ahead of Chicago's Patrick Kane and four ahead of Washington's Alex Ovechkin, who play their regular-season finales tonight. Crosby is out of Pittsburgh's finale tonight with a broken jaw.With Stamkos in the mix — and that with 29 goals, he is three behind Ovechkin in the race for the Rocket Richard Trophy — you might see Stamkos and St. Louis, good friends as well as linemates, trying to get each other the puck.But, as St. Louis said, "You get in these situations, you just play the game, play the right way. That's the only way you can help each other out.""When you start forcing things and cheating," Stamkos said, "that's when you don't get rewarded."•••The biggest reward for St. Louis would be a return to the playoffs.He turns 38 in June, so his career clock is ticking, which might make you wonder if St. Louis would ask general manager Steve Yzerman to find him a home with a contender.No, St. Louis said, when asked if that was a consideration."I'm optimistic," he said about the direction of the team. "We have a lot of good things to be excited about."About Cooper, he said, "I like the way he wants us to play, the way he sees the game. It's puck possession. It's five (players) defending, five attacking, five in all zones. It's exciting."•••In the abstract, St. Louis is having his greatest offensive season. His 16 goals extrapolated over a normal 82-game schedule would give him 30. His 42 assists would give him a career-best 73. The combined 103 points also would be a career mark."As miserable as the season has been for us not being in the playoffs … I'm pretty fortunate to see him every day," Stamkos said, "to see how hard he works and tries to be the best player he can be, no matter what age he is.""It's inspiration," defenseman Radko Gudas said before he was reassigned to AHL Syracuse. "I'm trying to take as much as I can from him."What will St. Louis take from this season? "The way the team does is what's important," he said. "That's what you remember. Am I going to take myself off the hook because I had a good year? No, I have to be better."Better than perhaps earning a points championship?"Don't get me wrong, I'd be excited," St. Louis said of winning. "But those awards are never as fun when you're doing it in this kind of season as a team.""I like where we're going," he added, "but I want to get there." Damian Cristodero can be reached at email@example.com.


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I have trouble sleeping. Not just sleeping, but also staying awake. At times, I fall asleep with my head on my keyboard. I usually fall asleep in moving cars (fortunately only once while I was driving), and I tend to doze off when visiting people or sitting. The only time I don't fall asleep is at night.
Since my mother, age 88, has always gone to bed around four am and gotten up around six, I think this may be something in our DNA. She has been observed falling asleep twice while standing. Perhaps we were the watchmen/women for the tribe of cavemen we belonged to. It was up to us to keep sabre tooth tigers at bay. Now, all it gets me is angry snorts from the dog, who also refuses to move over when I finally am ready to sleep.
I was recently put on a CPap machine. (Officially, I wake up 7 1/2 times an hour and 80 times during REM sleep. And, we wondered why I remembered my strange dreams so well!) The machine really worked for about two days. Then, I turned the heat up for the water a notch and slept great for about four days. I'm up to five on the heated water thing and am thinking by 10 maybe it will just boil my lungs and I can sleep.
Anyway, here I sit, having reformatted my computer yesterday and with barely anything on it, but the internet, and I am learning so much. What did you learn, you ask! Oh, come on, pretend you care even a little bit.
- There is a reason people find these cute names for their blogs. Anyone who uses their real name eliminates all the fodder that their family gives them for blogging. I mean, when you name it Braindebris, you don't have to tell anyone who Braindebris is (It's my daughter by the way, but don't tell anyone.) But, naming your blog savanvleck, kind of ruins the anonimity you want for telling on your relatives.
- This is for the times when you realize that Facebook has educated you to the fact that you are staunchly liberal and the rest of your family loves Sarah Palin, and that if your sister asks you one more time, to declare your love for something, you are going to….. Frankly, I think I am exempt because I, obviously, was stolen from the Gypsies as a child.
- Why can't we have two Facebooks. One for people who want to stay in touch with other people and see pictures of their children and another for people who are looking for radishes for their imaginary farm?
- When you format your computer (and since I have done this like every three months this year, I should have known this, but, when you do, you lose your favorites and stay up till 3am searching for things like, "Librarian+Seattle+Blog" to try and replace the bloggers who must be your real family because they laugh at the same things you do.
- Of course, since it is 3:00am, after you have spent three hours searching, you realize that you blogged about the science teacher who blogs a fascinating science fact every day (Mr. Barlow's Blog) and have a link in your own blog to him. I imagine I might have realized that sooner at 3:pm.
- My computer, a Dell Inspiron 1545 (who before I trash talk Dell, I will say, has the most awesome customer service on the face of the earth) has many flaws. See numerous previous posts for those rantings. But, the most irritating one I was left with (warranty is now up) is that I type over 100 wpm and for some reason the cursor jumps around all on it's own. So, I will be typing away and realize that the cursor is now two lines above where it was and I am typing stuff in the middle of another sentence. Well, this format I did the smart thing and I downloaded new drivers for the touchpad, first thing. It has not done the jumping around thing all day. Fingers crossed!
- That I still do not remember how to post links well on WordPress.
- Well, folks, that wonderful little pill I took two hours ago is starting to work. I guess it is time to fight the Chihuahua for the bed. Sweet dreams in your REM sleep.


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Google has recently released some excellent commercials for its Nexus products and Google Now. Continuing this tradition, the company today released a new advert promoting its Nexus 10 tablet. The advertisement is so good, that it made me feel like buying the tablet at that very instant, even though I own an iPad.
The advertisement is about a couple who are expecting a baby, and how they use their Nexus 10 with its multi-user feature support to share their happiness with the world.
Google has done an excellent job with this commercial, and I cannot imagine Samsung coming up with such a brilliant commercial like this, even though they technically make the Nexus 10.
Apple has been known to come up with brilliant advertisements, and slowly and steadily, Google is also reaching that level with its Nexus series of commercials.


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Talk:Eastern Churches Council of Australia
Pre-Chalcedonian and Pre-Ephesian
The Antiochian Archdiocese, and the pre-Chalcedonian Churches, prefer the use of the term Pre-Chalcedonian in this article, and any article dealing with Eastern Hierarchs, or the Pre-Chalcedonian Churches themselves.
Non-Chalcedonian is a loaded term showing bias against those "who did not accept the truth decided by Chalcedon", as the obviously biased put it. Pre-Chalcedonian is a positive term acknowledging the common heritage of both divisions prior to Chalcedon.
The unbiased term Pre-Chalcedonian is needed to help Christians of good-will work towards healing the tearing of Christ's Church.
Similarly, the term Pre-Ephesian is preferred to describe those Churches erroneously referred to as "Nestorian", by so many in the Chalcedonian Churches and their offshoots.
To heal the wounds it is necessary to start from common ground and look at the circumstances and reasons for the divergences, and the semantics in the formularies of the divergences.
The terms Chalcedonian and Pre-Chalcedonian, and Ephesian and Pre-Ephesian, acknowledge the common ground prior to those Councils.
chrisg 2006-05-22-1441 EAST
- In the same way that the term 'traditionalist', used for "old calendarists", is objected to by "new calendarists" on the basis of a lack of tradition, for a similar reason is pre-chalcedonian objected to, as both Eastern and Oriental Orthodox (to use different descriptions) were pre-chalcedonian. The question is not whether the Oriental Orthodox (or the Easterns, for that matter) existed before or after Chalcedon, but whether the canons of the council were accepted. In acknowledgement of this, "Chalcedonian" and "Non-Chalcedonian" are the best descriptive terms we have. — by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 00:02, May 22, 2006 (CDT)
Chalcedonian Bias
Is there any way to get away from this Chalcedonian bias to a Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) applicable to all of Orthodoxy?
chrisg 2006-05-22-1803 EAST


text: There were many Studebakers driven on IDYSD in North Carolina because of the NCSDC Tri-State Meet in Maggie Valley NC. Following is video Part 2 of the participating Studebakers. There will be two other videos posted separately since for some reason the forum will only allow one video per post. Enjoy!