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MINNEAPOLIS -- The White Sox have a theft prevention problem.
Carl Pavano kept up his recent surge with a complete-game six-hitter for Minnesota in a 4-1 victory over the White Sox on Wednesday night, fueled in part by five stolen bases by the Twins.
Pavano (4-5) walked three, struck out five and recorded six one-pitch outs against the free-swinging White Sox, who had won nine of their previous 13 games. The right-hander is 2-0 with a 1.44 ERA over his last three starts, and the Twins have won 10 of their last 12 games.
Delmon Young's two-run single capped a three-run second inning against Gavin Floyd (6-6), who also went the distance but again struggled to keep runners in their place. Floyd has been on the mound for 15 steals this season, third-most in the majors.
"I think I'm pretty much trying as much as possible to keep them at first," Floyd said. "They just pick the right spots. It's just the way it is."
The White Sox, as a team, have also yielded the third-most stolen bases in baseball with 61.
"Everyone knows where we stand," catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. "It's just part of the game."
The White Sox have allowed at least one steal in four straight games and 10 in their last six games.
Michael Cuddyer had a career-high three steals. Floyd tried a slide-step move each time a runner took off, but it didn't work.
"Unfortunately, those guys know how to run the bases," White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. "They are pretty fast. Nothing you can do about it."
The Twins also twice bunted for singles, the kind of scrappy approach they strayed from last season -- the style that has long drawn the respect and annoyance of Guillen and their rivals.
"They are after you no matter what and not afraid to play," Guillen said. "That's the reason they're in the pennant race every year."
Juan Pierre led off the ninth inning with an infield single, and Alexei Ramirez followed with a double. But Pavano struck out Carlos Quentin and made a quick grab of Paul Konerko's right-back-at-him line drive before Pierzynski grounded out to end the game.
Pavano needed only 96 pitches.
"You've got to tip your hat when he does that," Pierzynski said.
The series opener was wiped out by heavy rain and a thunderstorm on Tuesday, pushing starts back by one day for Floyd and Pavano. Batting practice was cut short by a downpour before this game, too, but the sky cleared and a rainbow appeared above the ballpark to set the stage for a beautiful -- if a bit cool -- early summer evening.
That's the kind of break the Twins have been enjoying lately, in contrast to all the struggles they endured in the first two months of the season. The White Sox hit the ball on the sweet spot several times, but it went right at the defense almost all night.
Konerko is still playing at an All-Star level, but the prize addition to this year's team, Adam Dunn, has disappointed so far. Alex Rios, another expensive, important part of the lineup, has been in a season-long slump, too.
"I feel our team knows the strike zone pretty well, and they're not afraid to turn it loose," Dunn said. "It's just kind of one of those things: If we're getting hits right there, it's not being brought up."
Dunn drilled a leadoff double in the third inning, but Pavano deftly recovered with three straight groundouts to strand the big slugger on base. That was Dunn's first double since May 18, and he had only three extra-base hits, all homers, in that 25-game span before this one. He's batting .183.
"I feel good. I'm seeing the ball good, which is a big key for me," Dunn said. "Tomorrow's a new day, and we'll see what happens, but I've been feeling good for a week or so."
Floyd, who fell to 4-9 in his career against the Twins with a 5.10 ERA, pitched his first complete game this season. He gave up an RBI double to Danny Valencia in the eighth that padded the home team's lead. Floyd walked two and struck out six, allowing 11 hits.
Notes: White Sox RHP Jake Peavy is scheduled to start Thursday for Triple-A Charlotte on a rehab assignment for his strained right groin. Guillen said Peavy would be evaluated after that game to determine his readiness to rejoin the team -- or if he needs another turn. "It's up to how he feels, how many pitches he throws, how hard it was for him to go through it," Guillen said. ... Asked what he needs most if the White Sox turn into buyers at the trade deadline, Guillen said, "I need Rios and Dunn to start hitting." ... Konerko's 13-game hitting streak, the longest active run in the AL, ended.


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Ice Cube's Ride Along film earned $14.4 million in its first day of release yesterday (January 17) and is expected to earn about $40 million during the four-day weekend, variety.com reports.
Ride Along, which also stars Kevin Hart, is expected to be the #1 movie at the box office this weekend, variety.com's story says.
If Ride Along hits $40 million during the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, it would be the second-highest opening film during the holiday, after 2008's Cloverfield, which opened with $46.1 million.
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There are so many caring, kindhearted and generous people out there concerned about the plight of the honey bee.
From little girls who share their monthly allowance and birthday gifts, to all the schools, organizations and businesses who donate to the honey bee research fund at the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, the cry to "Save the Honey Bees" is resounding throughout the world.
In particular, the response to the Häagen-Dazs' educational Web site, www.helpthehoneybees.com has been overwhelming.
Häagen-Dazs stepped forward in February of 2008 to help save the honey bees. They launched a national campaign, established a scientific advisory group, created the Web site and a new Vanilla Honey Bee flavor, and donated a total of $250,000 toward honey bee research at UC Davis and Pennsylvania State. They're also working to help fund a honey bee haven at UC Davis.
Approximately 50 percent of the Häagen-Dazs flavors are directly attributed to honey bee pollination. In fact, one-third of all we eat (fruits, vegetables and nuts) is pollinated by bees.
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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, June 25
Picks of the day
James Loney, 1B, Dodgers
- .452 AVG during 11-game hit streak
- 1-for-2 vs. CWS RHP Gavin Floyd
- .431 AVG during 15-game hit streak
- 1-for-2 vs. WSH RHP Tim Redding
Top 5 current leaders
1. spooky93, 39 games
2. jmc51966, 35 games
3. coreycoxon55, 30 games
4. ljhomesinc, 27 games
5. tnelson003, 26 games
Season leader: jerrymohr, spooky93, 39 games
Yesterday's results
Spooky93's success in Beat the Streak is becoming … well, spooky.
The BTS leader extended his run to 39 games thanks to a 1-for-2 day from Vladimir Guerrero, tying him for the longest streak posted by a fan this season. Last year, 14 participants reached the 40-game plateau, with the winner topping out at 49 in a row.
The second-place fan extended his own lengthy streak to 35 games with a 1-for-5 day from Ian Kinsler, while the 30-game club got a new member thanks to a two-hit performance from Lance Berkman.
There was one notable fall from the top ranks as Jeff Landgraf, Monday's fan of the day, saw his 32-game streak come to an end.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Alex Rodriguez (NYY): 6.7%, 0-for-5
2. Hideki Matsui (NYY): 5.0%, 0-for-0
3. Chipper Jones (ATL): 3.9%, 1-for-1
4. Derek Jeter (NYY): 3.8%, 1-for-4
5. Lance Berkman (HOU): 3.8%, 2-for-3
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When I looked after the deadline, spooky93 had No Selection . Does he get to pick after the deadline?
This is spooky. How does Spooky93 manage to pick after the 6:55PM cut off time. It clearly stated next to his name all night yesterday "No Selection".
If Spooky93 was allowed to make his selection after the cut off time for any reason, MLB.com owes rest of us contestants a good explanation.
I am glad someone else saw the page. Did he pick after Vladimir Guerrero got his hit? makes you wonder.
I bet all of the people in top 25 are wondering that right now. They all thought Spooky93 was elimineated and probably breathed sigh of relief.
What I want to know is whether he was allowed to make the selection after 6:55PM. Even one second after the cut off is unfair to other contestants. If he was allowed to do so, for what reason. I remember oone of the leaders rly i the season was eliminated because he didn't make the pick for the day.
I am sure JERRYMOHR who had the highest streak of 39 up to yesterday is wondering the same. He could have walked away with consolation prize if nobody passed him.
I think MLB.com needs to make a public announcement has to what exactly happened. Things like can easily get the class action lawyers salivating.
The Angels game started at 7:pm eastern time.Guerrero got a base hit in the top of the first inning.To pick the hitter who gets a hit that early is very lucky.? He picked the same hitter the day before, but not today.
I wish I were eligible to win this thing because I definitely would get 57 straight. Is someone going to win the million from us this summer? It looks like our leaders are pushing 40 now, we're past the Benito Santiago/Luis Castillo range and starting to get up to Molly numbers. It would happen by the All-Star Game. It is so easy to play this game it's ridiculous.
If you work for MLB.com, you should look into this. Spooky93 did NOT pick anyone by the cut off time at 6:55PM last night. Magically, he has somehow picked V. Guerrero and survived another day when I checked the standings this morning. How is this possible?
And if SPOOKy93 found a way to enter the selection after the cut off time and the games have started already, that is CHEATING. And isn't it convenient that V. Guerrero got the hit right with 10 minutes of 6:55PM.
Where can I report this to? I already wrote to firstname.lastname@example.com but got no reply back.
I still had a window open to yesterday's leaderboard,
so can confirm that spooky93 had NO SELECTION.
Strangely enough, there were three other players
whose picks changed between that window and when
I look today:
p.perlman: from Placido Polanco to James Loney;
beanbag2004: from Derek Jeter to Manny Ramirez;
bfitzg01: from Hanley Ramirez to Chone Figgins.
Since Polanco, Jeter, and Ramirez all got hits, it
doesn't seem like switching just because their picks
didn't get a hit.
MLB should definitely figure out what's going in and
owes us an explanation.
Thanks for pointing that out. I think why why that happened. These guys are cheating. Those hitter they initially chose did not get hits right away. So they CHANGED to the ones they did. CHEATERS!!
(p.perlman) Derek Jeter did not get the hit until 7th inning. Luckily James Loney did during the second inning. The Dodgers game did not start until 10PM.
(bfitzg01) Polanco did not get his first hit until 6th inning. Luckily Manny Ramirez did on his first at bat.
Hanley Ramirez did get a in the first inning so change to Figgins who did not get his hit until 4th inning does not make sense. Was there a delay in the Florida game?
This is just like last year with CNN Million Dollar stock challenge. All of the top finishers cheated because they found a loophole in a system that allowed them to change their picks. It had something to do with leaving your browser open and something.
I'm not quite ready to believe it's malicious yet, though I do think MLB needs to investigate for a possible bug.
I think the key will be to keep an eye on these players and some screenshots, if necessary.
And at least for p.perlman, we'll know more tomorrow – he/she picked Matt Holliday (at least when I opened the standings earlier tonight), so if he/she somehow has something different, then I think there could be reason to suspect cheating.
There was a minor page caching issue on Tuesday night that caused some display issues. Spooky93 picked Vlad Guerrero at 9:09 AM on Tuesday, 10 hours before the deadline. The Standings page on Tuesday night was showing all user's picks as of 4 AM Tuesday morning, which is why it appeared that no pick had been made.
The display issue was fixed around 9:45 PM and all proper picks displayed then, at which point the correct pick of Vlad Guerrero appeared. Hope that helps clear up any confusion.
– MLB.com
Screenshots is one way, but a better way is to go to files, save as and save the file on your computer. You can rename each days file anything you want. I use bts+date .htm
i always write down the top players picks so i can look at the scoreboard and games in progress. I, too, saw NO SELECTION beside Spooky's name as late as 7 30 Central time Tuesday evening.
im not so sure im buying the excuse of a page cache problem. im betting he DIDNT pick
I don't buy that he didn't make a pick.
When you're playing for a million dollars, you don't just forget, especially when you made successful picks on time for the past 38 days.
I know I've told my friends sometimes that I can't play ball because I have to do picks and I never got more than a 22-game hit streak.
Also, why are people assuming he will win the contest? He's only at 41 now and we've never had anyone break into the 50's in 7+ years of the contest?
All it takes is another 0 for 7 from Cristian Guzman to end it. Damn you Guzman!
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Q&A with Nancy Thayer
In A Nantucket Christmas, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer explores the complexities of family relationships and the ultimate love that the holiday brings.
Told from the twinkling, magical, winter-white setting of Nantucket in December, this heartwarming novel follows Nicole, a Nantucket newbie who recently wed a former lawyer with a home on the island, as she struggles to bring Christmas cheer to her new household, much to the dismay of a less-than-enthused stepdaughter. Thayer, author of beach read faves like Island Girls and Summer Breeze (and a longtime Nantucket resident!), masterfully paints a picture of her hometown around the holidays. Here, she chats with us about her own Christmas traditions, her decorating philosophy, and her secret cocktail recipe that's sure to kick off any holiday party with a bang.
What inspired you to write a novel that explores family tensions around the holidays?
Nancy Thayer: I believe that families are the heart of the world and the people who love us are our light in the darkness. I've explored family life in all my novels, because families are endlessly varied and fascinating. To me a family is not just a core of one idealized set, but all the blended relatives, step- and half- relatives, and even the animals who keep us sane when the humans drive us crazy, or the best friend who celebrates with us when we are alone. The holidays present a perfect time for family conflict, family love, and family memories.
You are a longtime Nantucket resident. What makes the island so magical around the holidays?
NT: Nantucket is a small community isolated in the middle of the dark ocean. When the gale force winds blow, our three lighthouses flash their beacons, reminding us that we are a place of shelter, warmth, and safety. The shops are modern, but the streets are cobblestone, the harbor only a few blocks away, and Santa and Mrs. Santa arrive on a Coast Guard boat. A four story tall Christmas tree stands at the head of Main Street and the town streets are lined with small, lighted, decorated Christmas trees. Many islanders leave after the new year to go south for the winter, so many goodbye parties are held, and much weight is gained! During the Christmas Stroll—a wonderful weekend of festivities I write about in A Nantucket Christmas—carolers dressed in Victorian costume sing on the streets and everyone, including the dogs, wear reindeer antlers and Christmas clothes. And on a clear night, there is no better place in the world to see the stars.
Can you tell us what Christmas is like for you and your family on Nantucket?
NT: I've been told I'm a rather exuberant decorator at Christmas—I love red candles, stockings hanging from thefireplace, heirloom porcelain candlesticks my grandparents used, silly singing animals (toys!) our relatives have sent us, and the biggest tree we can fitinto our house. We always hold a Christmas Eve party at our house with friends of all ages enjoying food, drink, and laughter. Later, our family walks to St. Paul's church for the midnight service, my daughter and I wearing holiday coats and hats…our one moment of the year to dress like "Little Women."
Now our two children are adults. For many years they came here for Christmas—in fact, our son-in-law proposed to our daughter on Christmas morning in front of all of us! (I thought I'd explode with joy.) Now we have three grandchildren, ages 7, 5, and 3, so we go to our daughter's house for Christmas (because Santa goes there, of course). But I still decorate the house and our celebration takesplace over several days, whenever friends are in town or can visit. My husband and I always give each other gifts (usually books) and our two ancient cats receive, each year, fresh catnip-filled, furry, long-tailed mice.
What are you serving this year at your Christmas table?
NT: This year, we're going to our grandchildren's for Christmas, but I'd love to share my favorite party recipe, which I learned from a neighbor long ago. It's quite, um, stimulating, and very pretty in a cut-glass punch bowl.
Nancy Thayer's Christmas Bowl Punch
1 package frozen peaches
1 cup brandy
1 bottle champagne
3 bottles Liebfraumilch wine
Soak a package of frozen peaches in a cup of brandy in the refrigerator overnight. Place the brandy-soaked peaches in the punch bowl. Add a mixture of cold champagne and Liebfraumilch wine, one bottle of champagne to three bottles of wine. Liebfraumilch is a sweet wine, so use the driest champagne you can afford. (A good Prosecco can be substituted.) Be sure when you ladle the cups to include a piece of peach for people to eat after they've sipped the wine. After that, they'll find the peaches themselves! It's best to triple this recipe for a party of 12 or more.


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General Motors and eBay Inc. are expected to announce Monday that hundreds of the auto maker's California dealers will let consumers haggle over the prices of new cars and trucks through the on line marketplace, as part of a previously disclosed trial.
The proposal was first announced in a small trial about a month ago.
GM embraced the Internet, and tested a new partnership with the Silicon Valley on line auction giant. While dealers already list used cars for sale on eBay, GM dealers will now list new cars on eBay, where the customer can bid on them at auction or buy at a fixed price.
People have been buying cars on eBay for years. But GM, which has become synonymous for "slow to change," is at least showing that it understands how people shop for cars these days. With eBay's "Buy It Now" format, car buyers can go for a no-haggling price, or chance it in an auction.
The question is, will the transparency of the Internet cut into the profits of GM dealers. The month trial must have shown some promise, because it is now being expanded.
The best news about this partnership is that the consumer wins. If you don't get the deal you want on the lot, go on line and see what you can find. Maybe, instead of feeling beaten up by your local car dealer, you can wield the auction hammer yourself.
About 225 of California's 250 GM dealers are now set to take part in the program, which will officially expand on Tuesday. They will be selling Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Pontiac vehicles on co-branded Web sites through eBay's on line auto marketplace, eBay Motors, until Sept. 8. The cars will also be searchable through eBay Motors and eBay's main site.
Although expanded, the trial is still part of Detroit-based GM's turnaround plan, making more official a practice some of its dealers had already participated in on their own. It expands an existing partnership covering GM certified used vehicles sold through eBay.
It also marks a shift for eBay, since most of the vehicles sold on eBay Motors -- a site that sells various types of vehicles and auto parts -- have traditionally been used.
Starting Tuesday, eBay visitors will be able to visit Web pages like gm.ebay.com and chevy.ebay.com, where they can browse new 2008 and 2009 vehicles, ask dealers questions and figure out financing.
The co-branded sites will also include a Web tool currently on eBay Motors that helps shoppers determine if they're qualified to trade in their old car for money toward a new one under the government's just-refilled "cash-for-clunkers" stimulus program.
Car buyers will be able to choose between the two standard options currently offered on eBay Motors: Negotiating a price with a dealer through the site or purchasing right then at a fixed price. Cars will be picked up at the dealerships.
EBay Motors Vice President Rob Chesney said the companies decided to run the trial in California because there are many tech-savvy consumers there. EBay users who live outside California can contact dealers to see if they're willing to sell and ship vehicles to them, he said.
The test comes a month after GM made an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection with ambitions of becoming profitable and building cars people are eager to buy. Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, new GM is now leaner, cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without additional federal loans.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson said in July that the company was working on an experiment that would let eBay users in California bid on vehicles or buy them at a fixed price. Dealers were to distribute the cars. At the time, no deal had been completed, though.
Mark LaNeve, GM's vice president of U.S. sales, believes that getting the auto maker directly involved in new on line sales will give customers a larger sense of security about buying a car on the Web. Currently, many consumers research new cars on line, but most still go down to a dealer to make the actual purchase.
He's hoping it generates more interest in GM vehicles in California -- a market he said the company needs to improve in.
For eBay, the program fits in with its strategy of growing its market for goods that are still new but not necessarily the latest models. It's also a chance to get more people interested in making new, large purchases on a site whose past is steeped in the sale of hard-to-find collectibles. The sale of used cars on eBay is already proof that consumers are getting more and more comfortable buying higher-priced items on line, Chesney said.
"New cars are like the next frontier of that," he said.
The companies would not give financial details of the deal, but GM spokesman John McDonald said it is an arrangement that they think will be profitable for both firms.
If the companies feel the trial is successful, they want to expand it across the country. Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay marketplaces, said eBay may eventually try doing the same thing with other auto makers, too.
Inder Dosanjh, a Dublin, Calif.-based dealer who owns four GM dealerships and currently sells used cars on eBay, said the program shows GM is trying to step outside the box and find new ways to sell cars. He plans to list all his new inventory on eBay this week.
"I think they should have done this a long time ago," he said.


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Tragic. Today an 88-year-old white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. and killed a 39-year-old security guard before being fired on by other guards. The killer was known to hate Jews, Catholics, and African-Americans and on the radar of those who study fringe extremists who devote their lives to hatred. He wrote a book denying the Holocaust and praising Hitler. He spent more than five years in prison for the 1983 conviction on charges of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board with a hunting knife, revolver, and 12-gauge shotgun. He even invoked others to kill people who threatened what he saw as the supremacy of white people.
These kind of people terrify me more than any Taliban or jihadist. These are people living on our own soil who at any moment in any location and without provocation can take someone's life…or many lives. These people walk amongst us. They look like us. They may be our grandfather, our son, our uncle, our boss. We usually don't have a clue as to the level of depravity and hatred they harbor. Their souls are dark places where light never enters.
And yet people like Palin, Limbaugh, Cheney, O'Reilly, Beck, and Hannity fuel the flames that burn in these in-grown terroists' hearts. These very public people tell lies and make insinuations that inflame the ignorant, the uninformed, the uncurious, and the gun-toting racists. They speak with seemingly innocent irresponsibility and then act surprised and are in denial when their words produce predictable results.
I am disgusted with the talk of these people and the talk of any person who promotes hatred. I am alarmed and saddened by the results of their hate talk.
Stephen Tyrone Johns was the man killed. He had worked as a security guard at the Holocaust Museum for six years. He was doing his job to protect the school children and others who come to the museum to remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. He didn't deserve to die.
The other news today? Carrie Prejean, Miss California, was fired by Donald Trump. She is the contestant in the Miss USA pageant who spoke out against gay marriage and preached intolerance toward gay people. Is it any accident that these two incidents headline the news in the same day? I think not. They, along with the killing last week of the abortion doctor by a right-wing extremist, speak of intolerance, of people claiming their way is the only right way, of excluding others who are not like you.
We need healing, love, and inclusion. These are what President Obama is practicing and teaching. Why are these positive principles so threatening to those who hate? We must hold the light and shine that light into the dark corners of the extremist corners of the dark hearts in our society. Our country, its citizens, and the citizens of the world need our light.
Here's "This Little Light of Mine" sung by the African Children's Choir. I heard them sing in Austin a few months ago. These children shine light and love into our hearts with their singing, dancing, and ebullient spirits. We can learn a lot from children…they remind us to be about joy and love.


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The profane, not-for-children-to-see-or-your-boss-to-read name of the hardest difficulty mode in the next Matt Hazard video game can by abbreviated as FTS.
That stands for "F—k This Shit!"
One-hit kills (except for grenade splash damage). No continues.
The middle level of difficulty is called "Dame This Is Hard." The easy level is called "Wussy".
The early 2010 downloadable game Matt Hazard: Blood Bath And Beyond has that sense of humour. I played it yesterday and can confirm that it's a game that was made to reproduce the frustrations (and joys) of old-school games while laughing at them.
Both games put players in control of Matt Hazard, a self-aware video game character who has seen his star fade as he was (fictionally) made to star in increasingly lame games. He was a badass action star reduced to kart racing, of all things.
In Blood Bath and Beyond, Hazard is sent back into games he (again, fictionally) starred in in the early 90s as he hunts down Neutronov, the villain who has stolen Matt's 8-bit self. A second player can join as Dexter Dare, Matt's '90s sidekick.
Contra fans would recognise the gameplay. The left stick moves the character across a scrolling battlefield full of angry enemies. One button makes the player's character jump. One button fires his gun. Holding a shoulder button locks Matt or Dexter in place so they can easily fire from all angles. A pull of one of the triggers allows Matt or Dexter to shoot into the background. Weapon upgrades fall from the sky, providing temporary access to machine guns, rocket launchers, flame-throwers and guns that shoot a tall spray of bullets.
The levels are ripped from a fictional version of Hazards' '90s games, though you might need to be told that. While they play like a '90s Contra, they have the more polished look of a modern game and sometimes riff on products from a few decades. For example, 2007's BioShock gets a send-up in this level called Hate Boat:
I watched a Vicious Cycle developer play through a pirate level based on a fake game called Chest of the Pirate Queen. Pirate skeletons ran in from the sides of the screen. Some parts of the level, on a boat, swayed with the motion of the sea. Then I tried a more cutesy level with demented Pokemon-style trainers spawning colourful monsters I needed to eliminate. Another reporter and I shot our way up several floors of a big house that was full of fighters, snakes and these Pokemon-like creatures. The level felt like it was ripped, amusingly, from what I believe was the 80s Kung-Fu game I long ago played on my friend's Nintendo Entertainment System. Surprisingly, though, it ended with a boss battle against a large mechanical rhino who had a long health bar. The fight against him was as pattern-based and tough as a lot of old-school gaming fights, the kind of thing that will make one gamer laugh, one gamer relish the throwback challenge and another run away.
Publisher D3 of America has no price to announce yet for the new Matt Hazard, but the creators promise about two to three hours of first-time play through on lesser difficulty levels, with support for local co-op, online leaderboards, and of course, that hard difficulty mode.
Want to laugh at how people used to play games? Then this one's for you.


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- Front tires: 225/45YR18.0
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- Rear tires: 225/45YR18.0
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- Wheel size: 18"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 2
- AM/FM radio: SiriusXM
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- Satellite radio trial duration with new vehicle purchase (months): 12
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- Speakers: 8
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- Rear seats: bench
- Rear seats Folding position: fold forward seatback
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- Compressor: intercooled turbo
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By JJK on Saturday, October 05, 2019I bought this car new in 2017 and having owned a lot of performance vehicles, its been one of the most unique I've ever had. Having exercised the gremlins from the electronics over the first year of ownership, I've come to accept this car for what it is, a truly exceptional, unique and overall beautiful vehicle. I love the fact that its rare to see the QV Clover on the road and knowing you're driving something a little special. It's generally understated, not a "look at me" car unless you have a real gear head following you who knows what the quad exhaust, flared arches and carbon fiber reflect. A love affair with some old school Ferrari engineers who gave Alfa a "shot in the arm" to give this car a soul. Performance wise, it can out smart almost anything in its weight class even those costing 2X its price tag. Fit & finish is not this car's forte. It's not going to be as polished as a Porsche, BMW or Audi in the cabin. The infotainment system is terrible & the drive-by-wire brakes are annoying. But if that's what you're seeking this car isn't for you. I used to compare the Alfa to my prior BMW M3 (E92) which was predictable and super reliable…that was a mistake on my part. If you want German resilience, don't buy this car. If you want something that is emotional and you can forgive the faults for the sake of the drive whether on a regular cruise (surprisingly comfortable btw) or blasting down back roads saying to yourself "I cannot believe it can do this!" then you may want to consider the QV. I think this is a special car and for that reason, I hope Alfa sticks around!
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Alec Baldwin's President Donald Trump sat down for an exclusive interview with Michael Che's Lester Holt for this week's "Saturday Night Live" cold open, mirroring the real interview that took place on NBC Thursday.
Baldwin's Trump spoke candidly about the real reason he decided to dismiss former FBI Director James Comey.
"I fired him because of Russia," he said. "I thought, 'He is investigating Russia. I don't like that. I should fire him.'"
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The "Nightly News" anchor looked stunned at Trump's blunt confession to obstructing justice.
"Wait, so, did I get him? Is this all over?" Holt asked to someone off-camera. "Oh, no I didn't? Nothing matters, absolutely nothing matters anymore?"
Holt went on to ask if he ever secretly taped Comey, because the real Trump hinted about it on Twitter.
"Listen Keenan, I don't know, okay? Probably," Trump said. "I tape a lot of people, I tape whoever I want, whatever I want. Some people have called me a 'serial tapist' and it's true, I am. When you're president, they let you do it."
In explaining how he is different from former President Richard Nixon, Trump repeated Nixon's infamous line: "I am nothing like Nixon because I am not a crook."
Melissa McCarthy hosted the anticipated episode of "SNL," which was her fifth time as host, and reprised her fan-favorite role as White House press secretary Sean Spicer. But "Spicey" didn't start at the podium — instead, the press secretary was hiding in bushes, a riff on reports of the real Spicer's recent attempt to elude reporters following Comey's dismissal.
Aidy Bryant's Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the hiding a "naval exercise" before Spicer pushed her out of the way to take over the press briefing.
"That's right — Spicey's back. Sarah's out," McCarthy said.
Reporters grilled Spicer on Trump's sudden decision to fire Comey. But "Spicey" stood by the president.
"Alright, let me just put this whole Russia thing to bed, once and for all," the press secretary said. "Trump is innocent. How do we know? Because he told us so. Period."
However, reporters pushed back against Spicer, asking if Trump had lied to his staff and was purposely making Spicer look like a fool at each briefing.
"But he wouldn't do that," Spicer said, looking unsure. "He's my friend."
Spicer, in a crisis of conscience, abruptly ended the press briefing to look for Trump in New York City.
McCarthy as Spicer then rolled her lectern into the streets of Manhattan as Simon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York" played in the background, a taped stunt that went viral Friday. In the scene, Spicer promises to "talk better" if given another chance.
After finding Trump at a golf course in New Jersey, Spicer asked if Trump has ever made him lie to the public.
"Only since you started working here," Trump said.
Spicer then asked if the rumors about getting fired are true. The president responded with an attempt to give Spicer the "kiss of death."
Colin Jost and Michael Che kicked off "Weekend Update" with Comey's dismissal.
"Trump said he decided to fire Comey himself because Comey quote 'wasn't doing a good job,' adding, 'For example, I'm still president,'" Jost said.
Jost said that Trump firing Comey while under investigation is the equivalent of shooting an approaching drug-sniffing dog at the airport.
"People would really wonder what's in that bag. Or, they would just assume you work for United," he said.
"Everything Trump does sounds like the trailer of a wacky movie," Che added. "The next headline should come with a record scratch and a fun song."
Haim was this week's musical guest. The group performed two songs, "Want You Back" and "Little of Your Love."


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The Red Sox are Coming! The Red Sox are Coming!
You think that you have problems? Take a look for a moment at the Bobby Valentine Red Sox.
Although they just swept a three-game series from the Twins, the Bosox stand at 7-10 and are in the basement of the A.L. East as they invade the Cell starting tonight for a four-game series. And I'm sure they haven't forgotten last Saturday's debacle when they blew a 9-0 lead to the Yankees and lost to their bitter rivals, 15-9.
If that weren't enough, they've lost two-thirds of their regular outfield with serious injuries to Carl Crawford and Jacoby Ellsbury, have a decimated bullpen that was severely weakened by an injury to new closer Andrew Bailey on the eve of Opening Day and the starting staff has been far from stellar. Add a little bit of smugness and unfortunate rhetoric from their new skipper and you have a team, as presently constituted, that will have trouble contending with the likes of the Yankees, Rays and even Blue Jays. That said, it will be interesting to see how the sweep in Minnesota has lifted their spirits.
Our Sox come in at 10-8 and in a virtual tie with the Tribe for the division lead after a 4-2 road trip to Seattle and Oakland. It'll Philip Humber on the mound tonight, fresh off of his perfect game. He'll be facing promising youngster Felix Doubront.
Friday night it will be John Danks vs. converted reliever Daniel Bard, unbeaten Jake Peavy vs. Jon Lester on Saturday and Gavin Floyd vs. Josh Beckett on Sunday.
It wasn't an oversight: No, I didn't overlook yesterday's 14-inning loss to Oakland. Just didn't have the heart to revisit the bad memories.


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The Entire D6 Interview With Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer (5 of 6)
We're posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.
Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).
But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety over the next few weeks in this column.
Here's Part 5 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference's opening night.
(I will be posting one video part of the Gates/Ballmer interview every day this week, including Saturday.)
In this video, Gates and Ballmer talk about Apple (AAPL) and the mobile market and also answers questions from AllThingsD readers sent via the Internet about healthcare and whether Microsoft's (MSFT) hostile bid for Yahoo (YHOO) has tarnished its reputation.


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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Indeed. Those attending the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Saturday, Feb. 2, will see them--and see them feeding.
The Bohart Museum of Entomology is one of six museums or educational centers on the UC Davis campus holding an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. This is the second annual campuswide Biodiversity Museum Day, aka "Super Science Saturday," as it's the day before the Super Bowl. The other five are the Botanical Conservatory, Center for Plant Diversity, the Geology Museum, the Anthropology Museum, and the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology. Maps will be available at each site. The event is free and open to the public.
Now, back to the bed bugs.
Danielle Wishon, an undergraduate student majoring in entomology, will be feeding her bed bug colony at 2 p.m. at the Bohart Museum, which is located in 1124 Academic Surge on Crocker Lane. Wishon is rearing a colony, now approaching 100 bed bugs, in a research lab in Briggs Hall.
"Aside from the fact that I find them visually adorable, I am interested in the current public panic over their current increase in population around the United States," said Wishon, who took control of the colony in October 2012. "The idea that several little animals will crawl up to you while you sleep and feed on your blood really disturbs most people, despite the fact that they do not transmit any disease."
Wishon, who studies with forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey and works in the Bohart Museum with director Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology, loves entomology. She's is a past president of the UC Davis Entomology Club and recipient of the department's 2011 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award.
"I think the general public would be very interested to see them feeding," Wishon said. "There is a lot of misinformation on the Internet about them, so it would also be a good opportunity for Q and A."
And speaking of Q and A, be sure to access the Entomological Society of America's bed bug resource page. You'll find information on "the menace in the mattress" (Cimex lectularlu) from all over the country, including right here at UC Davis. The UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program's Pest Note says:
"A single feeding may take up to 10 minutes, and feels like a pin prick, but because feeding usually occurs at night when people are asleep they are not aware they have been bitten until afterwards. However, saliva injected during the feeding can later produce large swellings on the skin that itch and may become irritated and infected when scratched. Swelling may not develop until a day or more after feeding, and some people do not show symptoms. Bed bugs currently are not considered to be disease carriers."
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
There's an "alarming resurgence in the population of bedbugs" in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The exact cause is not known, but the CDC says it could be linked to "increased resistance of bed bugs to available pesticides, greater international and domestic travel, lack of knowledge regarding control of bed bugs due to their prolonged absence, and the continuing decline or elimination of effective vector/pest control programs at state and local public health agencies."
The Los Angeles Times warned in a Dec. 4 headline: L. A.'s Slow Trickle of Bedbugs May Turn Into a Flood.
That's a big "bah-humbug" for the holidays.
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Huntington;s disease is a chronic, hereditary disease of the nervous system that results in progressive involuntary choreiform (dance-like) movements and dementia. Researchers believe that glutamine abnormally collects in certain brain cell nuclei, causing cell death. Huntington's disease affects men and women of all races. It is transmitted as an autosomal dominant genetic disorder. Each child […]Read more


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Eleventh-hour Santa Claus
When Dec. 20 rolls around and you haven't even begun your shopping, you are officially an eleventh-hour Santa.
Or, possibly, someone who doesn't value his marriage.
There are people, though, who wait until the last minute every year to do their Christmas shopping. They believe there will be unheard of bargains. Their theory is merchants will be so desperate to get rid of Christmas stock they will be able to name their own prices.
Our theory is they are going to have their choice of everything nobody else wanted.
But, there are folks who get a thrill out of this, people who like to live on the edge. So, here are our tips for those of you who are beginning your shopping today or tomorrow:
1) Accept the fact that your child's teddy bear is going to arrive under the tree with one ear. Most children's stuffed toys have two ears for at least the first three or four hours of ownership.
2) Do not assume that just because that last electronic goodie from Phil's House of Pods, Pads and Players has an On/Off switch that said switch will turn the machine both On AND Off. Practice taking the batteries out of it to get it to stop playing "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree."
3) Never, ever buy a toy with a tag that boasts "Less lead paint than last year's model!"
4) Keep telling yourself — and your wife — that robes with a sleeve-and-a-half are stylish.
5) Even though the sales rep kept referring to your new computer as a "Peach," he didn't mean the manufacturer was an Apple subsidiary.
Possibly the best thing about purchasing all those items that "were not quite up to snuff" or "last-minute bargains" is you don't have to worry about keeping the receipts. Nobody is going to take them back — they can't believe you bought them in the first place.
Returns are a thing of the past if you buy a really shoddy gift.
So, good luck to all you bargain hunting elves. May the Ghost of Christmas Present take pity on you and guide you past the land of one-eared bears and lingerie seconds.
(A version of this editorial has appeared previously in The Maui News.)
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A bill before the California Senate may change a small but important part of the redistricting process.
The California constitution says that the state should count prison inmates for the purpose of redistricting where they live, not where they're incarcerated.
But that's not been what's happening, said California Assemblyman Mike Davis.
"Unfortunately, California has been counting prisoners for the purpose of redistricting where they are incarcerated," Davis said.
Davis argues the practice has the effect of improperly inflating the population count in some districts and that affects how district lines are drawn.
The unintended consequence, said Davis, is that districts have some individuals who represent large numbers of prisoners that are not in their communities, are not their constituents, and don't vote.
"In one of our Assembly Districts, we have one individual that represents 40,000 prisoners," Davis said.
Assembly Bill 420 would change that, Davis said, and "makes it what California's constitution says it ought to be."
The bill is supported by a number of organizations including the NAACP, the Latino Coalition of Los Angeles, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.
Redistricting Bill Would Change How Prisoners Are Counted
A bill before the California Senate may change a small but important part of the redistricting process.


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Kisai 3D Unlimited is the fifth concept to become reality from the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog. The concept was originally featured on the blog in March 2010.
Thanks to your votes, Kisai 3D Unlimited has become reality and is now available to buy here in a choice of seven color variations.
The concept design was voted as one of the most popular designs by fans on the blog and was developed based on feedback provided. Thanks to your votes, Kisai 3D Unlimited has become reality and is available to buy now, exclusively at Tokyoflash Japan.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thanks to Chris Capozzola!
Thank you to Chris Capozzola for a great stint as a guest blogger during the past month, with posts on everything from grant writing and book reviewing advice, recommendations of scholarship in Asian legal history, news about the OAH meeting, and more. Chris can usually be found at the History Department at MIT. If you have not yet read his great new book, Uncle Sam Wants You:World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen, it can be found here and here.
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Chris--great visit. Hope you come back soon.
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Bit late on the release of this months mix, but I'm sure you'll agree it was worth it. Starting off deep and minimal, bulding up into some Hi Hat old skool Plus 8 fun, slipping into some heavy bass rumbling noise and finishing off with a bit of Booka Shade. You can't ask for better.
Also on this mix is a track from Barem which you can download for free from Unfound.
01. Barem 'Undo' [Unfound]
02. Paco Osuna 'Cretine' [Plus 8 Digital]
03. Radio Slave 'Screaming Hands' [Rekids]
04. Mike Shannon 'Whats Your Pleasure' [Wagon Repair]
05. The Chemical Brothers 'Do It Again (Audion Remix)' [Freestyle Dust]
06. Alex Under 'Distanes' [Plus 8]
07. Lemon 8 'Model 8' [Plus 8]
08. Spektre 'Minimal Machinist' [Dance Electric]
09. Lazy Fat People 'Pixel Girl (Carl Craig Remix)' [Planet E]
10. Stephan Bodzin 'Daytona Beach' [Spiel-Zeug Schallplatten]
11. Booka Shade 'Darko (Le Grand Noir Mix)' [Get Physical]
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FORTRAN II General Information Manual and
IBM 7090/7094 Programming Systems: FORTRAN II Programming
are two IBM manuals of 1963 describing the FORTRAN II language.
IBM 7090/7094 Programming Systems: FORTRAN IV Language, 1963, and
IBM System 360 and System 370 FORTRAN IV Language, 1974.
FORTRAN IV was next to the ANSI standard of 1966 for long time the reference language for Fortran as used by legions of scientists and engineers.
ANSI Fortran66 and Fortran77 standards, obsoleted by the Fortran90 and Fortran95 standards, but still handy for reading legacy code.
But what you should really study is the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60, here in a rendition of the Algol Manual der ALCOR Gruppe, together with a report for a subset of the language and the describtion of basic input/output procedures. There is also an online HTML version of the revised report.
Note: The IFIP working group WG2.1 on Algol decided early on that they will keep the copyright and that the Algol 60 report shall be free to copy and distribute, independent of some publisher. That was in 1960, long before any word of open source was voiced. It was just proper scientific procedure for such a document. If only standard bodies of today would show such an attitude!
Algol 68 Report with the attachment sheet listing the metanotions of the two-level-grammar for your convenience.
The first usable Algol 68 system was a subset by the british RRE (Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern), called Algol68-R for the ICL1900 and ICL2900 series machines.
Algol 68 Revised Report reformatted and crossreferenced by W. B. Kloke. There is also an official sublanguage of the revised Algol 68 by Peter Hibbard, and an official report on the hardware representation, which makes good reading for the problems of that time with available peripheral equipment and the use of stropping conventions to indicate the kind of symbols in the program text.
This was further helped by Pascal-S, a subset for running student jobs in a quick turn-around batch system. This report contains the whole compiler, written in Pascal, of course.
Whereas Wirth's Pascal was a practical compromise for teaching structured programming of reasonably small programs in a batch environment, a number of derivates appeared rather soon, often very specific to the needs of the various operating environment, and loaded with features, the best known being Turbo-Pascal by Borland. As a reaction to that, there are two ISO standards on Pascal, ISO/IEC 7185:1990 Pascal, and ISO/IEC 10206:1990 Extended Pascal.
Any discussion of Pascal would however be incomplete without Brian Kernighan's critique Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language.
A team at Digital and Olivetti defined a worthy successor: Modula-3 Report (Revised), DEC SRC, november 89, but as usually the case, the actual use and feel of a language is largely determined by available libraries: Some Useful Modula-3 Interfaces, DEC SRC, december 93. The language evolved further and is described on a web page and a pdf snapshot thereof. More recent stuff is found on www.m3.org.
After PL360 there have been a number of similar languages, mostly forgotten today.
Programming and Software Systems
Metcalfe's famous sketch may not be missing here. And then there is of course the joint ethernet specification by Digital, Intel, and Xerox (V1 of Sept. 1980, and V2 of Nov. 1982). Later ethernet specs are IEEE standards in the 802 series.


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When a proud mother uploaded a short video of her baby dancing to YouTube in 2007, she probably didn't expect it to become a lightning rod for copyright law.
Stephanie Lenz's children were just jamming out to Prince, a harmless representation of proud motherhood. Universal Music Group saw it as something different — using their music without paying for the rights.
The Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" was playing on a stereo in the background of the short clip. Universal Music Group sent YouTube a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), claiming that the family video infringed the copyright in Prince's song. EFF sued Universal on Lenz's behalf, arguing that Universal abused the DMCA by improperly targeting a lawful fair use.
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that copyright holders like Universal must consider fair use before trying to remove content from the Internet. It also rejected Universal's claim that a victim of takedown abuse cannot vindicate her rights if she cannot show actual monetary loss.
Basically the Ninth Circuit court told copyright holders to slow their roll with all of the cease and desist notices that have plagued YouTube videos. The opinion states reminds these hyper lawyers that there is a legal doctrine called 'fair use' which allows the usage of copyrighted material without paying for the license for things like research, teaching, news reporting and sharing a video of your cute kids dancing to a song.
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Tragic testimony in the manslaughter case of Michael Jackson's former doctor revealed that the singer's children were present as their father drew his last breaths.
Jackson died in June, 2009, of an overdose of propofol, a powerful anesthetic he used as a cure for insomnia. Conrad Murray, who was Jackson's $150,000-per-month personal phhysician and was at the singer's mansion when he died, is on facing a trial for involuntary manslaughter.
Yesterday, a former Jackson employee testified that as Murray tried in vain to revive Jackson, the singer's children Paris, then 11, and Prince, then 12, entered his bedroom.
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"Paris screamed, 'Daddy,' and she started crying," Alberto Alvarez, a logistics director for Jackson, recalled.
Yesterday's revelations came during Day 2 of a hearing that will allow the judge to determine whether there's enough evidence for a trial for Murray, 57.
Alvarez said Murray, who had been giving Jackson mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, shouted, "Get them out! Get them out! Don't let them see their father like this."
Jackson, 50, was later declared dead at the hospital.
If he goes to trial, Murray plans to claim Jackson gave himself the lethal dose, according to Reuters.


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Fly to Kuala Lumpur with Qatar Airways to discover an enigmatic city, from the sights and sounds of the Old Town, to the skyscrapers of the Golden Triangle. In Malay, Kuala Lumpur means "muddy confluence", which speaks a lot about this city's humble beginnings as a tin-mining settlement established by Chinese prospectors. Today, Malaysia's capital is a bustling multicultural metropolis, where you'll find one of Southeast Asia's most vibrant culinary scenes.
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Eat your way around the globe in Kuala Lumpur, where the culinary options are as diverse as the urban attractions.
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Your trip to Kuala Lumpur wouldn't be complete without seeing the manmade spectacle of the Petronas Towers. These twin skyscrapers were the tallest buildings in the world at the turn of the 21st century, and although that lofty title is no longer valid, they remain a popular attraction with awe-inspiring views from the 86th floor and the sky bridge on the 41st floor. The nearby KL Tower is another skyscraper in the Golden Triangle that is popular with tourists who have a head for heights.
Despite the abundance of concrete and glass that pervades the Malaysian capital, it is still possible to enjoy more natural attractions while you're there. Aquaria KLCC features a large aquarium and underwater tunnel, while the KL Bird Park is home to more than 200 species of birds from around Asia. If you're travelling with children, the Berjaya Times Square Theme Park is the place to go. This attraction is one of the largest indoor theme parks in Asia, featuring various rides for all ages.
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In recent decades, Kuala Lumpur has developed an impressive range of activities to be enjoyed by both locals and tourists. You can hire paddling boats in picturesque natural surroundings at Lake Titiwangsa or go for an outdoor swim at the Chin Woo Stadium.
Many people travel to Kuala Lumpur to relax in luxury, as the city is home to many spas and relatively affordable five-star hotels. You might also consider learning how to cook Malaysian cuisine, or rolling out your yoga mat for some meditation courses during your trip.
In Kuala Lumpur, you can explore the food of Malaysia without blowing your holiday budget, although there are also high-end restaurants available in the Golden Triangle, Heritage Row and elsewhere throughout the city.
As with other locations in Southeast Asia, there's plenty of street food to enjoy in Kuala Lumpur, and the standards of hygiene are generally quite good. Popular local delicacies include rendang curry, nasi lemak (fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf), nasi goreng (stir-fried rice with chicken and prawns) and roti canai, a doughy breakfast dish.
For some, travelling to Kuala Lumpur is all about shopping, and with good reason. The city is Malaysia's main centre of commerce and retail, and has more than 60 shopping centres covering a range of budgets. Suria KLCC is one of the most popular shopping centres, with more than 400 shops located at the Petronas Towers. Berjaya Times Square, one of the largest shopping malls in the world, offers 12 floors of retail experience.
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Taking Aim at Trypanosomes
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In two studies published Nov. 11 in the online edition of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, NCGC researchers, along with collaborators from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), identified a group of compounds with the potential to inhibit parasitic Trypanosoma microbes and unveiled a public dataset that will aid the entire field of drug discovery.
Though microscopic in size, Trypanosoma take a very large toll on the health of people in the developing world. Spread by blood-sucking bugs, T. cruzi causes American trypanosomiasis, commonly called Chagas disease. About 16 million people, primarily in Latin America, are infected with the parasite. The chronic form of Chagas' disease can damage the heart, esophagus and peripheral nervous system. T. brucei, which is transmitted by tsetse flies, causes African trypanosomiasis, or African sleeping sickness. If untreated, the parasite migrates to the central nervous system, causing seizures, mental disorders and, ultimately, death. As many as 70,000 people are infected in Central and East Africa.
Current anti-trypanosomal therapies use two drugs, both of which can cause severe side effects and work only in the acute phase of the infection. The limited window for treatment, along with concerns about the development of drug-resistant parasites, has heightened the urgency for discovery of safe, effective and economical new drugs.
To help address the need for better drugs, the NCGC-USCF team designed an automated, high-throughput screen to search for chemical compounds that block cysteine proteases, a key group of enzymes that Trypanosoma microbes need to survive and reproduce. Specifically, the researchers screened NCGC's public catalog of 200,000 organic chemical compounds, dubbed small molecules, for previously unidentified inhibitors of the cruzain enzyme in T. cruzi and rhodesain and cathepsin B-like protease enzymes in T. brucei.
After analysis and validation of data, one class of compounds, triazine nitriles, stood out as possessing novel activity against the Trypanosoma cysteine proteases. In an effort to maximize this inhibitory power, medicinal chemists tweaked the chemical structure of these triazine nitriles, including swapping out a triazine with a purine in the compounds' core scaffolds. The result? A series of compounds with up to 350 times more power to inhibit key Trypanosoma enzymes in biochemical assays than the original triazine nitriles. In addition, the modified compounds demonstrated greater activity against live T. brucei parasites grown in laboratory culture.
"These novel and potent small molecule inhibitors represent an attractive starting point for the development of new drugs to help the millions of people around the globe who suffer from these devastating parasitic diseases," said NCGC Director Christopher Austin, M.D., a co-author of the papers and an associate investigator in NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research.
Along with the paper describing the identification of potential new drug candidates for American and African trypanosomiasis, the researchers published a companion paper detailing important lessons learned during the screening and analysis process. "This comprehensive and publically available profile of screening artifacts and interferences is the first of its kind for high-throughput screening. It will serve as an important dataset to guide interpretation of future screening results by all researchers in the drug development field," said Dr. Austin.
NCGC is an ultra-high-throughput screening and chemistry center, located in Rockville, Md., that discovers chemical probes of gene and cell functions to be used as biomedical research tools, or as starting points in the development of new therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases. NCGC collaborates with more than 100 researchers from academic, foundation and biopharmaceutical laboratories throughout the world. For more about NCGC, visit their Web site at www.ncgc.nih.gov.


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HOLIDAY SPENDING: TransUnion says an uptick in the auto loan delinquency rate typically occurs in the last three months of the year, a time when some borrowers' financial obligations temporarily take a backseat to spending on holiday shopping.
BIGGER BALANCES: Bank auto debt per borrower rose 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter to $13,747.


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The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit today supporting the fight to overturn gay marriage bans in Utah and Oklahoma and continuing its now 13-month effort to highlight the overwhelming body of social science research that confirms "children fare just as well" when same-sex or heterosexual parents raise them. The 10th Circuit is scheduled to consider the lawsuits challenging the bans in the next several months.
The majority of young women and men today would prefer an egalitarian relationship in which work and family responsibilities are shared equally between partners if that possibility were available to them, according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California-Santa Barbara.
People whose sexual identities changed toward same-sex attraction in early adulthood reported more symptoms of depression in a nationwide survey than those whose sexual orientations did not change or changed in the opposite direction, according to a new study by a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) sociologist.
Romantic opportunities appear to influence women's sexual identities — but not men's, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
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Why do unmarried women tend to be more liberal and Democratic than their married counterparts? A key reason is because unmarried women — those who have never been married and those who are divorced — are more concerned about the status of women as a collective group, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
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This article investigates whether men's sexual behavior is influenced by the sex of their firstborn children and, if so, at what stage of firstborns' development this occurs. Using standardized data from 37 Demographic and Health Surveys (N = 61,801), I compare the sexual activities, sexually transmitted infection symptoms, and sexual ideologies of fathers with firstborn sons and fathers with firstborn daughters. I also explore whether fathers' attitudes mediate the effects of firstborn sex.


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In his message of 25 Feb 97 ( "Arabidopsis name"), Fernando Migliaccio asks whether we should or should not capitalize "arabidopsis." He writes that "..= . the ISPMB established that the name arabidopsis is vulgar, like tomato and sunflower, and thus it should not be written capitalized and in italics." Migliaccio shouldn't blame the ISPMB; it's my fault. As Editor of the PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER, I wrote a series of editorials on scientific writing; one of these was "To Italicize or Not?" An ASCII version, sans ital= ics, appears below. I still think it makes sense. So in the REPORTER "arabidopsis" will remain l= ower case and roman, at least while I remain Editor (capitalized, roman). Carl Price Editor, PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER Waksman Institute Piscataway, NJ 08855-0759, USA price at mbcl.rutgers.edu fax: 1-908-445-5735 TO ITALICIZE OR NOT? Anyone exposed to introductory biology knows that Latin binomials are italicized, the first letter of the genus capitalized and the species lower case: Escherichia coli, Drosophila melanogaster, Arabidopsis thaliana =8A We= find increasingly in scientific journals, however, the unitalicized terms "Drosophila" or "Arabidopsis." It is clear from the context that writers are= not referring to the genus as a whole, but to their familiar species, D. melanogaster or A. thaliana. What is happening? The favorite weed of molecular biologists has become so commonplace in scien= ce writing that the Latin formalism can be discarded. "A. thaliana" doesn't rol= l off the tongue as smoothly as "E. coli," so "arabidopsis" has simply been incorporated into ordinary English--at least, ordinary scientific English. Other than for taxonomy, the rule is that foreign words are italicized in English: Weltanschauung, de gustibus, nom de plume, =8A There is ample prece= dent, however, for the incorporation of foreign words into English, whereupon ital= ics melt into plain roman: alter ego, chic, honcho, pizza, siesta, troika =8A We need not look beyond the world of plants for more examples: Starting with= A, we have abelia, acacia, agapanthus, ajuga, aloe, alyssum, amaranthus, amaryl= lis, anemone, aster =8A Each of these flowers are known by ordinary English= words, each borrowed from the genus, and each familiar to every gardener. All English speakers are equally familiar with gladiolus, iris, and zinnia. Scientists (= and most gardeners) know, however, that a reference to genus and species still g= ets the full treatment: as in Gladiolus nanus, Iris danfordiae, and Zinnia elega= ns. It is equally appropriate, therefore, to write "petunia" or "Petunia hybrida= ," but note that "petunia" in ordinary English is in lower case; it is not "Petunia." Welcoming our favorite weed into scientific English, the REPORTER henceforth will print its name as "arabidopsis." On the advice of our consultant in Gre= ek, we offer no recommendations on its pronunciation. --C.A.P. PMBR 12(4):300-301 (1994)